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If you walked into the Durham City Council meeting Monday night the first thing you likely noticed were not the elected officials or 13 members of the New Black Panther Party, it was the little girls.
Ten Girl Scout troops packed themselves into the chambers. Some scouts sat on the floor and others two to a chair to hear March 11 designated the start of Girl Scout Week in Durham.
So it goes at City Council meetings, where topics celebratory and serious rub shoulders, taking observers on a roller coaster of experiences that are inspiring, friendly, somber and, at times, deeply contentious.
In addition to honoring the scouts, Mayor Steve Schewel celebrated recently retired U.S. Circuit Judge Allyson Duncan, Council member Vernetta Alston read a declaration celebrating Women’s History Month, and former Mayor Bell bid farewell to city attorney Patrick Baker.
The tone grew more heated when Council member Mark-Anthony Middleton lamented Duke’s recent refusal to donate a tract of land to the Durham-Orange Light Rail project. It became both somber and angry after Durham Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis presented the city’s 2018 crime report.
First celebration
Girl Scout Troop 04033 Immaculata Catholic School posted this photo on Facebook after city officials honored local scouts on Monday.
“I would like to turn this over to our City Council Girl Scouts,” Schewel said when honoring the gathered Brownie, Junior and Cadette scouts, beckoning Council members Alston, DeDreana Freeman and Jillian Johnson forward.
“You can see in my City Council colleagues what good leadership the Girl Scouts develop. That’s proof right there,” he said.
In keeping with the female empowerment theme, Schewel celebrated Judge Allyson Duncan, a Durham native who recently retired from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Duncan was the first African-American woman to serve on the N.C. Court of Appeals and the first African-American president of the North Carolina Bar Association.
Alston read the Schewel’s declaration marking March as Women’s History Month in Durham, noting that women have had to fight to secure their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity yet still contributed to business, government, medicine, social justice and more.
Schewel and former Mayor Bill Bell praised Baker, who is leaving Durham to become city attorney of Charlotte. Then Schewel opened the floor to Council members to make public statements.
Then conflict
Middleton jumped in to criticize Duke University’s decision to decline to sign the cooperative agreement with GoTriangle and voluntarily give land to the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project. Middleton suggested eminent domain could be a viable next step to surpass a hurdle that could stop the project.
“I was raised in a community where elders gathered youth at their feet and regaled us with stories of young boys who faced giants, and young girls who went to see kings unannounced. We learned of stories of people, ordinary men and women, who faced down not one wealthy institution, but a nation, an entire legal system, an entire economy that said we were less than,” said Middleton.
He ended his critique of Duke with a joke.
“So I apologize if I have not shown the appropriate amount of deference or fear and trembling in the face of a wealthy institution. I get it from my mama,” he said.
The most tense stretches came after Davis gave presented the 2018 “crime and police measures report”.
Davis reported a decrease in violent and property crime by 13 and 6 percent respectively. Robberies, aggravated assault, burglaries and larcenies all decreased. She also noted efforts by the department to decrease domestic violence such as Safe Spaces in which businesses identify themselves as places offering refuge.
Miguel Stayton, uncle of slain North Carolina Central University student DeAndre Ballard, took aim at Davis and her department for not sharing information regarding his nephew’s death after a security guard shot him in a parking lot of the apartment building where he lived.
Durham Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis presented the city’s 2018 crime report Monday. (Photo by Pierre Stephan Barbee-Saunders)
Davis said she has been in contact with Ballard’s mother, as department policy dictates. She cannot share information in an investigation unless the primary family contact of the deceased explicitly permits or requests is, she stressed.
“Those individuals are not here tonight. Those individuals do not want to be here tonight. We have been in constant contact with them,” Davis continued, “We trust that individuals that are related are provided the information that the father or mother wants them to know.”
Resident Victoria Peterson, dressed in red head to toe, criticized Davis’ report saying it did not adequately break down where reductions in crime have occurred.
“Crime is still running rampant in the Black community and we have all these African-Americans sitting on the City Council and one Hispanic,” said Peterson, saying the city must increase patrols in her area near Alston and Ridgeway avenues and add 20 additional officers.
Emom Akbar took the podium with 11 members of the New Black Panther Party behind him. He encouraged peace and respect between community members and the police department, which he accused of neglecting Black residents.
Expect these conversations to continue. City Council grapples with the complexity that is the Bull City at 7 pm on the first and third Mondays of each month.
(Photo at top by Pierre Stephan Barbee-Saunders)
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Dolomiti Energia Trento 80
EWE Baskets Oldenburg 69
October 21, 2015 CET: 20:30
Local time: 20:30 PALATRENTO
Trento stops Oldenburg's rally, gets first Eurocup win
Dolomiti Energia Trento recorded its first-ever Eurocup win by holding off EWE Baskets Oldenburg 80-69 at home in Group A on Wednesday. Trento improved to 1-1, joining a four-way tie for second place, while Oldenburg is sixth at 0-2. Davide Pascolo led the winners with 15 points. Julian Wright added 13, Filipo Baldo Rossi had 10 and 10 rebounds while Peppe Poeta dished 10 assists for Trento. Rickey Paulding led Oldenburg with 17 points. Brian Qvale added 14 while Chris Kramer had 11, 5 rebounds and 7 assists for the guests. Trento led 26-19 after 10 minutes and had an outstanding second quarter, in which Pascolo and Baldi Rossi allowed the hosts to get a 20-point margin, 52-32, at halftime. Qvale and an outstanding Paulding fueled Oldenburg's comeback, bringing the guests within 66-64 with 6 minutes left. Oldenburg ran out of energy, however, and a 7-0 run which Wright capped with a key basket sealed the outcome down the stretch.
Back-to-back triples by Jamarr Sanders and Pascolo gave Trento a 6-0 lead. Qvale stepped up with consecutive baskets but Sanders and Poeta kept the hosts in charge, 10-4. Qvale and Sanders traded baskets and Nemanja Aleksandrov kept Oldenburg within 14-8. Vaughn Duggins found his first points and Paulding struck from downtown but a red hot Pascolo kept Trento in charge, 18-13. Dominique Sutton and Robin Smeulders traded three-point plays and free throws by Diego Flaccadori made it an eight-point game, 24-16. Klemen Prepelic and Paulding brought Oldenburg a bit closer, 26-19, after 10 minutes. Sanders scored again early in the second quarter and Pascolo forced Oldenburg to call timeout at 30-19. Baldo Rossi hit a jumper which Qvale matched with foul shots. Andres Forray and Baldo Rossi led a 6-0 run which broke the game open, 38-21. Pascolo kept pacing Trento and got help from Baldo Rossi, Johan Lofberg and Wright to make it a 20-point game, 52-32, at halftime.
Oldenburg needed a quick comeback to return to the game and even when Aleksandrov and Paulding tried to ignite it, Wright and Pascolo kept Trento way ahead, 56-37. Paulding hit his second three-pointer in as many minutes and followed Prepelic's bomb from downtown with free throws to make Trento fans start to wonder at 56-45. Aleksandrov and Qvale brought the guests within single digits, 58-49. Sutton made free throws, an unstoppable Qvale scored again. Chris Kramer and Philipp Schwethelm, who had been scoreless until now, brought Oldenburg even closer, 64-56, after 30 minutes. Kramer and Wright traded baskets early in the fourth quarter and Paulding got Oldenburg within 66-60. Qvale made free throws and an unstoppable Paulding made it a two-point game, 66-64. Baldi Rossi took over with a three-point play and free throws by Wright gave Trento much-needed fresh air at 71-64. Wright scored again and Poeta scored off a steal to seal the outcome, 75-66, in the next-to-last minute. Oldenburg kept trying but Trento had cruised to a well-deserved, historical win.
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Attendance: 1672 (Tentative)
Dolomiti Energia Trento 26 26 12 16
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3 POETA, GIUSEPPE 25:36 4 2/4 0/2 1 3 4 10 2 4 3 9
4 SANDERS, JAMARR 33:18 9 3/5 1/3 5 5 2 2 2 2 14
7 PASCOLO, DAVIDE 25:46 15 4/8 1/1 4/6 3 3 2 1 1 4 18
8 BALDI ROSSI, FILIPPO 18:24 10 4/6 0/4 2/3 1 9 10 2 3 3 15
10 FORRAY, TOTO 9:07 2 1/2 3 1 3 -6
11 LOFBERG, JOHAN 2:35 3 1/1 1 1 1 2
12 FLACCADORI, DIEGO 12:43 7 1/2 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 1 1 7
23 SUTTON, DOMINIQUE 19:04 9 2/6 5/5 5 5 1 1 1 5 14
24 LOCKETT, TRENT 24:40 7 2/6 1/2 1 3 4 2 1 2 3 1 5
25 LECHTHALER, LUCA 3:10 1 1/2 2 2 2 4
30 WRIGHT, JULIAN 25:37 13 5/9 0/1 3/8 3 2 5 2 1 4 3 5 15
Totals 200:00 80 24/48 5/16 17/26 13 28 41 18 9 13 6 1 20 23 99
Head coach: BUSCAGLIA, MAURIZIO
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13 BACAK, MARKO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 PREPELIC, KLEMEN 22:47 6 0/1 1/8 3/4 1 1 6 1 3 1 1 4 4
21 LOCKHART, DOMINIC 4:58 0/1 1 1 1 1
23 PAULDING, RICKEY 31:56 17 3/3 3/4 2/2 2 3 2 2 21
32 ALEKSANDROV, NEMANJA 29:52 6 3/5 0/3 1 5 6 2 1 1 3 2 4
33 SCHWETHELM, PHILIPP 8:20 3 1/2 1 4 -1
41 QVALE, BRIAN 21:35 14 5/8 4/6 2 3 5 4 1 4 3 8
44 DUGGINS, VAUGHN 26:07 5 2/5 0/3 1/2 3 3 3 1 3 3 2 1
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"Winning today was fundamental for forgetting the past [Italian League] defeat, but also for our fans: we gave them our first victory in Europe, and we truly wanted to achieve this. We managed to win despite their comeback in the third quarter and this means a lot to us. We have to keep on improving, this is the right path."
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"Congratulations to Dolomiti Energia Trentino. We only played basketball for 20 minutes, at the end of the game. In games like this, you cannot do anything but lose. We lacked concentration in the paint, we did not manage to exploit the fact that Wright and Baldi Rossi had already committed many fouls. "
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MIAMI — Australian prime minister Tony Abbott announced that the government will attempt to repeal key provisions of the Qantas Sale Act in a bid to prop up the nations flailing flag carrier, Qantas.
If successful, the changes could lead to substantially increased foreign ownership of the Aussie carrier as well as a split between the domestic and international arms.
The carrier announced massive losses last week, and subsequently shared plans to cut $2 billion in expenses in the coming years, including axing 5,000 full-time jobs. The airline has since been seeking government intervention in the form of debt relief and changes to the Act.
According to reports from the region, cabinet level talks regarding government debt relief and lines of credit fell through on Monday. Following the setbacks, Abott said the government would pursue amending the act. The legislation could be introduced into Parliament as early as this week.
Should the legislation pass, it would lift existing restrictions on foreign ownership of the airline, thus opening the carrier up to significant foreign investment. The carrier’s arch-rival Virgin Australia is not subject to the law, and is thus supported by substantial foreign money, including Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, and Etihad.
It would also force the carrier to split into two separate companies: domestic and international. The split is crucial as the Australian Air Navigation Act requires an international airline to be majority Australian-owned in order to maintain landing rights, thus capping foreign ownership stakes at 49%. There are no restrictions, however, on Australian domestic airlines being foreign owned.
Repeal of the act would place Qantas on more equal footing with Virgin, but would also increase the odds of Qantas jobs moving out of Australia.
As a result the Labor and Greens parties have already vowed to fight the bill, setting up what could be a protracted fight and an uncertain future for the airline. They claim the move would likely see massive Australian job losses and a gutting of what makes the carrier uniquely Australian. As a result, sources say that it is unlikely to pass the Senate.
Introduced in 1992, the act privatized the airline and limited foreign ownership of Qantas to 49 percent in sum total. Additionally, no single foreign entity can hold more than 25 percent of the airline’s total shares, while foreign airlines collectively can only hold up to 35 percent of the company shares combined.
Late last week Qantas reported epic-level losses of $226 million US in the second half of 2013, the largest and most recent in a string of losses. CEO Alan Joyce subsequently announced that the company needs to find $2 billion in savings.
Subsequently everything from 747s to the airplanes’ mechancis have found themselves in the cross hairs. Joyce has rolled out plans to cut 5,000 full time jobs, sell off six 747s, all 737-400s and 767s, and defer any new wide-body deliveries.
The company has been facing pressure from a strong Australian dollar, increased international competition, high fuel costs, and an ongoing price-war at home with Virgin.
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Celeb make-up artist, Lydia Ashitey opens hair and make-up shop
Ameyaw Debrah
After working with several celebrities, providing her touch of make-up artistry on the set of movies and music videos, make-up artist, Lydia Gladys Ashitey has taken a bold step to launch her ‘LEEDY A XPRESSIONS’, a hair and make-up shop. The shop located in Labone, next to the Zanzi Bar, will provide exclusive, uncommon and stylish hair and makeup services to people who seek a touch of style and glamour! The launch was supported by several celebrities who have worked with her in the past, including Yvonne Nelson, Martha Ankomah, Vivian Achor, Nikki Samonas, Nana Akua Addo and others. Kofi Adjorlolo and Pascaline Edwards shared their experience of working with her on set and wished her well in her new venture. There was also a fashion show to highlight Lydia’s creativity in hair and make-up artistry with some actresses modeling for her as well. The event was hosted James Gardner and Ellen Asante with performances from Sheriffa Gunu. Lydia Gladys Ashitey has worked within the Ghana Movie Industry for 8 years and therefore has a lot of experience at hand. She has been on several movies such as ‘Pretty Queen’, ‘Harry’s Courts’, ‘The Prince Bride’, ‘The Queen’s Pride’, ‘Heart of Men’, ‘The Dons of Sakawa’, ‘Trinity’, ‘Bed of Roses’, ‘Rain’ and ‘Single Six’. She has also worked on hair and make-up for musicians such as Efya, Buk Bak, Sherifa, Mzbel, Rana and Diamond. Lydia’s beautiful hand work also stretches to Bridals, Fashion Shows, Photo Shoots, TV Commercials and others. ]]>
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The history of the Redfern-based company that supplied rolling stock to the fledgling NSW Railways and eventually became Clyde Engineering.
Plymouth cabinet-maker William Henry Hudson, arrived in Sydney in 1846 with his family and started a joinery business in Redfern which became known as Hudson and Sons. Hudson became one of the main builders in Sydney providing timberwork to many notable buildings including the Great Hall of Sydney University.
In 1866, William Henry retired and left the business to his three sons Henry, Robert and William. The firm now took on the new name of Hudson Brothers and a new direction.
Under the leadership of Henry Hudson the firm imported the latest woodworking machinery from America and rebuilt the original Redfern joinery shop as the Steam Joinery Works. They also operated their own sawmills in the Myall Lakes district and Pyrmont and had depots in various NSW country towns such as Hill End.
The brothers moved into rolling stock manufacture after the collapse of P.N. Russell and Co. and greatly expanded the Redfern works. Their success required further growth resulting in the company building a massive industrial complex in Granville and acquiring a third plant in Wickham.
The firm was incorporated as Hudson Brothers Limited in 1882 and became the major railway rolling stock manufacturer at the time. Thousands of goods wagons, passenger carriages and tramcar trailers were built for NSW.
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A protest rally in Hong Kong on Sunday December 22, 2019, against China’s treatment of Muslim Uygurs in Xinjiang, descended into chaos and saw a police officer draw his weapon as he came under attack. Anti-government protests in Hong Kong have now been ongoing for more than six months. Follow us on: Website: https://scmp.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/scmp Twitter: https://twitter.com/scmpnews Instagram: https://instagram.com/scmpnews Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-china-morning-post/...
This is china. The second largest economy in the world, home to the largest population in the world and the most aggressive economic expansion in modern history. Most people watching this video now would have seen china go from a collection of mostly peasent farmers into the economic powerhouse it is today within their lifetimes. The economic development of china has amongst other things also contributed heavily to the massive drop in absolute global poverty we have seen today. Modern day china is so massive and influential that a rundown of its economy will not fit into a single video so just like the previous video’s on the united states we will be breaking it down into a video series with a particular focus per video Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/EconomicsExplained Discord - https://discord.gg/7kM7Tw9 Enquiries - loungejita@gmail.com Music - Chinese Pop Songs Piano ~ Relaxing Piano Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2X1dtPScpI&t=467s) References - Nee, V., 1992. Organizational dynamics of market transition: hybrid forms, property rights, and mixed economy in China. Administrative science quarterly Chai, J.C., 1998. China: Transition to a market economy. OUP Catalogue The annual data of China\'s GDP published on China NBS: National data – annual – national accounts – Cross Domestic Product Archived 14 June 2018 Chi-Yun, C.H.E.N., 2005. Han Dynasty China: Economy, Society, and State Power--A Review of Cho-yun Hsu, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy Cheung, Y.W., Lai, K.S. and Bergman, M., 2004. Dissecting the PPP puzzle: t...
A six-year-old girl who found a message from a prisoner in China inside a Tesco Christmas card has said she \"thought it was a prank\". Florence Widdicombe told Sky News \"it was really weird\" to find the note in the charity card. The message read: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\" SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Sky News videos are now available in Spanish here/Los video de Sky News están disponibles en español aquí: https://www.youtube.com/skynewsespanols....
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Each winter, about 100 workers toil on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin to harvest ice for the city’s famed Ice and Snow Festival. The blocks will be moved into the capital of China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang where they will be shaped into giant crystal palaces and sculptures at the event opening January 5, 2020. The work of the icemen looks incredibly similar to the opening scene of the 2013 hit Disney animated film, Frozen. Follow us on: Website: https://scmp.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/scmp Twitter: https://twitter.com/scmpnews Instagram: https://instagram.com/scmpnews Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-china-morning-post/...
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A protest rally in Hong Kong on Sunday December 22, 2019, against China’s treatment of Muslim Uygurs in Xinjiang, descended into chaos and saw a police officer draw his weapon as he came under attack. Anti-government p
This is china. The second largest economy in the world, home to the largest population in the world and the most aggressive economic expansion in modern history. Most people watching this video now would have seen china go from a collection of mostly peasent farmers into the economic powerhouse it i
A six-year-old girl who found a message from a prisoner in China inside a Tesco Christmas card has said she \"thought it was a prank\". Florence Widdicombe told Sky News \"it was really weird\" to find the note in the charity card. The message read: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison
Dec.22 -- China is saying that it’s cutting import tariffs on certain goods from Jan. 1. It’s a move it says is partly aimed at expanding imports. The news comes as Beijing and Washington work to finalize a formal signing of the first phase of their trade deal next month. Bloomberg’s Selina Wang spe
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Each winter, about 100 workers toil on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin to harvest ice for the city’s famed Ice and Snow Festival. The blocks will be moved into the capital of China’s northeastern province of Heilong
Hong Kong police use pepper spray on some protesters as scuffles broke out on Sunday (Dec 22) after a peaceful rally in support of China\'s Uighur minority. (Video: Reuters, APTN) Full story: https://cna.asia/2Zc45p6 Subscribe to our channel here: https://cna.asia/youtubesub Subscribe to our news
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Only top-level descriptions Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Scotland, United Kindgdom Charities
GB 1847 C1ST
The majority of material in the collection relates to the Glasgow branch of the RSSPCC, including the predecessor organisation, the Glasgow Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Publications produced by the RSSPCC head office and the Scottish Children's League of Pity (junior branch of the RSSPCC) are also included, as well as a small assortment of records from other branches.
Records include
-financial records of the Glasgow branch, 1906-1972
-legacy papers, 1950-1978
-complaint books Glasgow, 1953-1965
-Glasgow branch minutes, 1889-1963
-Glasgow District Finance Committee minutes, 1903-1971
-records of the Ladies Auxiliary Committee Glasgow, 1888-1971
-annual reports of the head office, 1896-1982
-annual reports of the branches, 1896-1967
-additional Glasgow branch annual reports, 1889- 1985
-records of the Scottish Children’s League including: annual reports, 1904-1993, City Sparrows 1899-1979, minutes of the Glasgow branch 1898-1978 and ephemera
-legislative acts and reports on subjects affecting children, 1885-1938
-papers relating to the Non-Accidental Injury to Children committees for Strathkelvin, Lanark and Dumbarton, 1975-1981
-institutional records including printed copies of the Royal Charter and the Constitution, 1920-1975
-staff records, Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, 1964-1971
-records relating to staff training and development, 1898, 1936, and 1970-1978
-assorted promotional material, newsletters, and other publications, 1984-2003
-Glasgow building fund appeal records, 1965-1967, and annual appeal records, 1975
-Glasgow property records, including architectural plans, 1963-1965;
-Crookston Home records including minute books, cash books and visitor books, 1903-1925
-organisational histories, including a recorded reminiscence of a former RSSPCC Inspector, 1990
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Fantasy Football Start And Sit Week 15: Broncos Phillip Lindsay Gets Great Matchup Vs. Chiefs
Filed Under:Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football News, Fantasy Football Today, Norm Elrod
(CBS Local/CBS Denver) — The fantasy football playoffs are getting good now, as the remaining teams move into the semi-final week. That championship (and the bragging rights that come with it) is so close that you can almost taste it. But you’re not there yet. There’s still more football to be played. But this is when the fantasy football advice matters the most.
As they have all through the regular season and into the fantasy playoffs, the guys from Fantasy Football Today step up to give us some useful advice on this week’s best and worst matchups. No one could have predicted this week’s start of the week at quarterback earlier in the season when he wasn’t even the starter on his own team. Since taking over for the Tennessee Titans Ryan Tannehill has been among the league’s best at the QB position, putting up at least 22 fantasy points in six of his seven starts this season. He’ll be up against a Houston Texans defense that Denver Broncos rookie Drew Lock just lit up. The Titans offense is rolling, and Tannehill should have another big day.
Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay also faces a favorable matchup in the Kansas City Chiefs. While Lindsay has struggled a little as of late, he still gets between 15 and 20 touches pretty consistently. That should happen again against a Chiefs’ defense has been suspect against the run all season, unlike other defenses Lindsay has face recently. The Broncos will be starting a rookie quarterback again this week, and a strong running game can be a young quarterback’s best friend. Lindsay will have every opportunity to produce this week.
You can find more analysis from the crew on this week’s matchups by checking out the video above. And tune in every day to Fantasy Football Today live at 12 p.m. Eastern Time on CBS Sports HQ.
QB: Ryan Tannehill, Tennesse Titans vs. Houston Texans
RB: Phillip Lindsay, Denver Broncos @ Kansas City Chiefs
WR: Darius Slayton, New York Giants vs. Miami Dolphins
QB: Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons @ San Francisco 49ers
RB: David Montgomery, Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
WR: Tyler Boyd, Cincinnati Bengals vs. New England Patriots
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£12m North Sea contracts signals growth for Atlantic Offshore Rescue
by Atlantic Offshore | May 18, 2012 | News | 2 comments
Aberdeen-based standby vessel operator Atlantic Offshore Rescue has secured contracts in the last few weeks with major oil companies worth a combined £12million.
The vessels will provide support in the UK North Sea for Shell, Nexen, Hess and Talisman Energy (UK) Limited. Atlantic Offshore has been in operation since 1995 and manages a fleet of nine emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRVs) and four platform supply vessels (PSVs) out of Aberdeen.
John Bryce, managing director of Atlantic Offshore, said: “We enjoy a long-standing working relationship with Shell and are delighted that they have contracted our vessel once again. In addition to Hess and Nexen, who are returning clients, we are pleased to have secured a contract with new client Talisman and we look forward to demonstrating our safety standards onboard whilst building strong relationships with these companies.
“We have invested heavily into our fleet and staff training and are dedicated to continuing to do so. All of our nine ERRVs are currently fully utilised and we anticipate expanding the fleet with further vessels in the near future to meet client demand.
“It has been a very positive year to date and we look forward to strengthening our presence within the oil and gas industry under our new Atlantic Offshore Rescue branding. I am pleased that our good reputation is attracting new clients and we look forward to a long and safe working partnership with them,” he continued.
The company employs 350 people (approximately 330 seamen and 20 office-based staff) and provides multi-role offshore and emergency rescue and response vessels for many of the oil majors operating in the North Sea. The company’s aim is to continue to expand its standby and emergency response capabilities within both the Norwegian and British sector of the North Sea and to be able to provide cross-border solutions reflecting the needs of its clients.
Atlantic Offshore Rescue is part of the Atlantic Offshore Group which is based in Norway.
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Tragedy as woman and her unborn baby die from suspected snake bite
7News 6 February 2018
A West Australian family is grieving after a suspected snake bite claimed the life of a young mother and her unborn child.
Sinita Martin, from Hamilton Hill, was just three weeks away from giving birth to her second child.
She was at her mother Evelyn's house in the mid-west town of Meekatharra on Monday night when she told relatives she felt unwell.
Sinita Martin was just weeks away from having her second child. Source: 7 News
She called out for help before she began having seizures.
St John's Ambulance paramedics arrived at the family's Main Street home at about 8.45pm and performed CPR after the 27-year-old went into cardiac arrest.
Sinita was raced to Meekatharra Hospital, but despite the efforts of paramedics and doctors she died, as did her unborn baby.
Sinita leaves behind a three-year-old son. Source: 7 News
The young mother leaves behind a three-year-old son.
A family spokeswoman described Sinita as a "loving mother" who had helped raise her three brothers.
A relative wrote a tribute to the young mother on social media, saying: "My heart breaks for my nephew and his partner ... a young mum and her baby taken too soon."
A family spokeswoman described Sinita as a
The most common snakes in WA are king brown and western brown snakes, which are amongst the world's most deadly.
Doctors and snake experts say snake bites are common in the summer months but deaths were uncommon.
It's suspected Sinita was bitten by a brown snake. Source: 7 News
"Early on in a brown snake bite we have had cases of cardiac arrest," Royal Perth Hospital clinical toxicologist David McCoubrie said.
"They affect your blood stream and the ability for your blood to clot, so we tend to see bleeding complications from brown snake bites."
Sinita was 31 weeks pregnant and had recently moved from Hamilton Hill to be closer to her family.
Her body will be brought back to Perth for a post-mortem.
That will confirm if it was a snake bite that killed her, but toxicology results could take months.
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Cross-correlating Carbon Monoxide Line-intensity Maps with Spectroscopic and Photometric Galaxy Surveys
Chung, Dongwoo T. and Viero, Marco P. and Church, Sarah E. and Wechsler, Risa H. and Alvarez, Marcelo A. and Bond, J. Richard and Breysse, Patrick C. and Cleary, Kieran A. and Eriksen, Hans K. and Foss, Marie K. and Gundersen, Joshua O. and Harper, Stuart E. and Ihle, Håvard T. and Keating, Laura C. and Murray, Norman and Padmanabhan, Hamsa and Stein, George F. and Wehus, Ingunn K. (2019) Cross-correlating Carbon Monoxide Line-intensity Maps with Spectroscopic and Photometric Galaxy Surveys. Astrophysical Journal, 872 (2). Art. No. 186. ISSN 1538-4357. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190225-093250358
Line-intensity mapping is an emerging field of observational work, with strong potential to fit into a larger effort to probe large-scale structure and small-scale astrophysical phenomena using multiple complementary tracers. Taking full advantage of such complementarity means, in part, undertaking line-intensity surveys with galaxy surveys in mind. We consider the potential for detection of a cross-correlation signal between COMAP and blind surveys based on photometric redshifts (as in COSMOS) or based on spectroscopic data (as with the HETDEX survey of Lyα emitters). We find that obtaining σ_z (1+z) ≲ 0.003 accuracy in redshifts and ≳10^(−4) sources per Mpc^3 with spectroscopic redshift determination should enable a CO-galaxy cross spectrum detection significance at least twice that of the CO auto spectrum. Either a future targeted spectroscopic survey or a blind survey like HETDEX may be able to meet both of these requirements.
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0027 DOI Article
Chung, Dongwoo T. 0000-0003-2618-6504
Wechsler, Risa H. 0000-0003-2229-011X
© 2019 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2018 September 12; revised 2018 December 21; accepted 2019 January 17; published 2019 February 25. D.T.C., M.P.V., S.E.C., and R.H.W. acknowledge support via NSF AST-1517598 and a seed grant from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. K.A.C. acknowledges funding from the NSF via award AST-1518282, as well as from the Keck Institute for Space Studies. H.K.E., M.K.F., H.T.I., and I.K.W. acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway through grant 251328. J.O.G. acknowledges support from the Keck Institute for Space Studies, NSF AST-1517108, and the University of Miami. S.E.H. acknowledges support from an STFC Consolidated Grant (ST/P000649/1). H.P.'s research is supported by the Tomalla Foundation. We thank Tony Li for initial simulations and discussions that evolved into this work, and Clive Dickinson for crucial discussions and comments at the inception of this work. We also thank Lluís Mas-Ribas for an enlightening discussion about Lyα blobs. Some of this work was presented and refined at the workshop "Cosmological Signals from Cosmic Dawn to the Present" held at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation via grant PHY-1607611. We would like to acknowledge the organizers and participants of that workshop, including Yun-Ting Cheng for providing a draft version of work in preparation. We thank Matthew Becker for access to the Chinchilla cosmological simulation (c400-2048) used in this work. Finally, we thank an anonymous referee whose comments and suggestions greatly improved this manuscript. This research made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services. This work also used computational resources at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Software: Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013); Matplotlib (Hunter 2007); hmf (Murray et al. 2013).
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Research Council of Norway 251328
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NSF PHY-1607611
galaxies: high-redshift – galaxies: statistics – radio lines: galaxies – cosmology: theory
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Literary fiction, essays, and poetry.
Anca L. Szilágyi
DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR
Tag Archives: Bill Johnston
Women in Translation
August is Women in Translation Month (WITMonth), designed to encourage readers, reviewers, publishers, and translators to explore more books in translation by women. If you’ve been following the VIDA count, then the grim statistics around women in translation (gathered diligently by Meytal Radzinski) is, unfortunately, not a surprise: women writers comprise only about 30% of books translated into English. As I’m passionate about cultivating a diverse literary ecosystem, this is a project near and dear to my heart. And though I’m happy WITMonth is an annual event, I’m getting started right now. Because there are SO MANY good books and I’m sure there are SO MANY MORE out there waiting to be picked up by a publisher and gobbled by readers.
I immediately pulled all the books from my shelves that fit the bill. I made a read pile and a to-be-read pile. Of the read pile, I’d like to make some recommendations, for those of you who’d like to join me in WITMonth. Read these books! And I’ll be diving into the to-be-read pile and writing about the gems in that pile in August. Read those books too! Let’s talk about ’em!
Tasty pile of books in translation.
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda, translated from Catalan by Martha Tennent (Open Letter, 2009). A gorgeously written and harrowing novel about cruelty among humans and violence in nature.
Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions, 2005). A dark, slender novel about a woman abandoned by her husband spiraling into terrifying psychological territory, with a helpful dash of absurd humor and redemption. After devouring this book, anything else was VERY difficult to get into. So good. This brief review in The New Yorker is spot on. I have not cracked open her more recent Neapolitan series, but it is definitely on the docket.
The End of the Story by Liliana Heker, translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger (Biblioasis, 2012). Another dark novel. I’m sensing a trend? This metafictional work explores Argentina’s Dirty War. I reviewed it for Ploughshares.
Death as a Side Effect by Ana Maria Shua, translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger (University of Nebraska Press, 2010). As I note briefly in my review of Heker’s novel, Shua‘s is “dark and wry and screwed up in the best possible dystopian way.” Is it weird to quote myself? Oh well.
Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli, translated from Polish by Bill Johnston (Archipelago Books, 2004). I adore Archipelago for focusing on translation and producing truly beautiful books. Dreams and Stones is probably the least dark book on my list, a kind of treatise on cities and imagination.
Mile End by Lise Tremblay, translated from French by Gail Scott (Talon Books, 2002). I read this novel a few times, starting in a class in college on literary Montreal. It’s set in the neighborhood I lived in while at McGill, which may be part of my attachment to it. And, yes, yes, this is another dark story, about an obese pianist at a ballet school teetering toward psychosis.
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller, translated from German by Michael Hoffman (Metropolitan Books, 1996). Muller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature, paints a grim picture of life in Romania under Ceausescu. The language is highly poetic, and I’ve been working on an essay about it (among other things) for quite some time. In fact, the assignment I’ve given myself for the next few weeks is to cut that essay up paragraph by paragraph to figure out how to keep going with it.
Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta by Aglaja Veteranyi, translated from German by Vincent Kling (Dalkey Archive Press, 2012). Told from the point of view of an unnamed young woman, this is the story of Romanian refugees who travel through Europe as circus performers. Yes, yes, dark. But also with absurd humor. (Some criticize Muller for being humorless. I say, bah. Read her still. Not everything is funny ha ha.)
Phew. That’s a lot of recommendations. There are more in my pile. I may write more about them. More likely I will tweet my favorite bits from them in August. But not just August. Probably all year. WITForever!
My To-Be-Read Pile. Stay tuned for reviews & more !
Another tasty pile of translated books.
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Author Anca Szilagyi
Anca L. Szilágyi is a Brooklynite living in Chicago. Her fiction appears in Lilith Magazine, Confrontation, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Made at Hugo House, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4Culture, and Artist Trust. The Stranger hailed Anca as “a fantastic magical realist.” She is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and The Seattle Review of Books called “a creation of unearthly talents.”
“Crowd-sourcing the canon” in The Seattle Review of Books
“Cosmic Fruit” in Orion Magazine
Exit Interview with The Seattle Review of Books
Cross-Country Drive in Lists, 10 Years Later
Recent Fiction
DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR excerpt in Tin House
“Scrolling Through the Feed” in Cascadia Magazine
“Street of the Deported” in Lilith Magazine
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Rev. Dr. Atiemo writes: John Mahama; Paragon of Humility
Efo Korsi Senyo | Executive Editor May 1, 2019 10:38 am
His commitment to the nation and exemplary leadership style is not only worthy of emulation but equally inspiring for the next generation.
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The Mahama family should be proud of their son, father, uncle, husband, uncle, brother, in law because he built a solid and impeccable record of integrity, which is the greatest asset any individual should leave behind.
John Mahama in office succeeded in protecting his reputation because greed was far removed from his mind.
While some Ghanaian politicians perceive public office as an opportunity to line their pockets, Mahama puts a higher premium on honest labour than on greedy accumulation of questionable wealth overnight. When you look at John Mahama’s modest lifestyle and his incredible humble possessions, you would be disarmed at once by his honesty and genuine patriotism. Because of his humility, he attracts better people and earns more respect, confidence and loyalty than his colleagues who rely upon ego and political power. He always shifts attention from himself and focuses on the contributions and needs of Ghanaians. He is humble on the outside and confident on the inside. His critics including myself mistook his humility as a sign of meekness or powerlessness but that is his inner strength. He admits his mistakes and always willing to share his own missteps and mistakes uncommon with African leaders.
He seeks input from others. The first step of turning to others for input is being vulnerable enough to admit that you need help and insight of others, which is a sign of great character on its own. His decision to go to the IMF for credibility support stabilised the Ghanaian economy, restored investor confidence, stabilized the cedi and made Ghana the safest environment for doing business in West Africa. He is not the “Mr I know all type”. Rather than viewing his limits as a threat or a sign of frailty, he surrounds himself with others who have complementary skills.
He rose to become our moral compass and guiding spirit, provided vision, cohesion and direction to Ghanaians. For those of us who knew him, he was, first, the rarest of human beings, who touched and inspired everyone he met. He was compassionate to the core, generous in spirit, warm beyond measure and kind to a fault. He was/deeply respectful of others and gifted with a rare sense of humour. Orator without parallel, he could switch from disarming humour to a lofty vision with ease, with a rare ability to connect with people naturally, to stir them to self-belief and to a higher cause. I was one of his critics but made sure my criticisms were based on facts and authentic figures. I criticized him constructively and exerted pressure on his administration, but was always accommodating and respectful of our points and view. I was thrown into a state of confusion when I received a call from Mr Mahama respectfully requesting me to furnish him with details of some points I had raised in a discussion we had with him in New York. In his simplicity and integrity, in his dignity and empathy, and a sense of personal non-attachment to the highest office, he became an inspiration for a nation of youth.
He sowed the seeds of much of the economic success that we have experienced in recent times. It was the Mahama who prepared the foundation of a Ghana that is ready to take on the mantle of continental leadership in the 21st century. He irreversibly changed Ghana’s place in the world. Equally important, John Mahama brought to bear his extraordinary understanding of world affairs and formidable diplomatic skills to gain global acceptance of new realities. His submission on US-Cuba relationship and the Palestinian question shocked the whole world.
Indeed, it is the combination of his legacies of creating strategic capabilities, promoting stronger economic growth, undertaking multi-directional diplomacy and harnessing of diaspora energies that is today the basis for the respect we command across the world
I think like Nkrumah, John Mahama was ahead of the times because he had a sense of history and could peer into the soul of Ghana from his grasp of our civilisational ethos. There is always room to be a better person and leader. If you can cultivate humility as a skill.
I personally congratulate him for his victory (election to lead the NDC) and his wonderful achievements in his life particularly for his humility, deep sense of honesty and faith he showed in the various aspects of governance, politics and democracy as President. He lost 2016 partly because of his humility and honesty. He was too sincere and open. He could have made all the promises under the sun including restoration of allowances, fuel price reduction, cut taxes etc to win votes..but considered the interest of our growth and sustainability of gains made above his personal comfort and interest. Ghana needs leaders who are committed to the nation.
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February 2, 2011 • 9:41 PM 2
Demon’s Souls 2!?
Holy Schnikes, Demon’s Souls is getting a sequel!
As some of you may recall, I made it a point to slog my way through the beast that is Demon’s Souls; not just so I could say I did, but because I genuinely enjoyed the experience.
As only the second game I would own for my Playstation 3, I poured hours and months of my time into Demon’s Souls, making progress by inches, and generally doing my best to see and do as much in the game as I could manage.
Highly publicized for it’s brutally unforgiving difficulty, Demon’s Souls was an expansive and creative dungeon crawler that was very much designed for a specific breed of gamer, (read: masochistic) with the rewards of it’s gameplay experience being reserved for only the most persistent and determined of players.
Pictured: Said breed of gamer. He's probably still trying to get all 120 stars in Mario 64...
Like most people, my relationship with Demon’s Souls is very much equal parts love and hate.
While I have yet to start a new game+ in Demon’s Souls, as I’ve been busy with work/blogging/playing other games; in hearing news of the upcoming sequel, feelings of excitement brewed in my heart.
Demon’s Souls was a game that struck a chord with me on many levels, however it was by no means a game without it’s flaws.
On the contrary, the game was riddled with design problems and missteps, from somewhat generic art design, to “cheap” combat mechanics, to minor annoyances like respawning monsters.
The trailer for the sequel, titled Dark Souls; is fairly ambiguous in terms of presenting the gameplay mechanics of the game, however even at this point it’s evident that the art design and graphics have been vastly improved, and the repertoire of attacks available to the player have been expanded in some capacity.
Personally, I’m thinking Dark Souls looks pretty decent.
Bear in mind, I watched this trailer without any sound, (malware fucked my audio drivers in the ass…) so for all know there could be some horrendous narration that totally ruins the entire ambiance of the video.
In any case, if it’s at least as good as Demon’s Souls, then chances are I’ll give Dark Souls a try.
For now though, I guess I’m stuck writing lame blog posts about it as I seriously consider picking up Demon’s Souls for another playthrough.
By the way, Tremors FTW.
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November 20, 2010 • 9:39 PM 2
Demon’s Souls Just Raped My Face. And Ate My Children…
*WARNING! SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU’RE LIKE ME AND DON’T WANT ANY HELP OR SPOILERS ON YOUR FIRST RUN THROUGH DEMON’S SOULS, PLEASE STOP READING NOW! *
A few weeks ago I typed up a post declaring the nigh impenetrably difficult Demon’s Souls to be far less difficult than I previously assumed.
While this fact still rings true, something happened today that has taken my feelings of accomplishment and satisfaction and shat all over them.
Not only that, the game proceeded to set them on fire, and eat their children in front of them, seemingly just for kicks.
Oh yeah, and then the game tore out my eyes and raped my face, once again; seemingly just for the hell of it.
I’m not gonna’ lie, the past 2 days have been a rollercoaster ride for me in Demon’s Souls.
I cleared 2 and a half worlds, dusted God knows how many bosses, and even managed to save a few NPCs.
That last part is where the aforementioned face rape-age comes in.
You see, somewhere in the Tower of Latria stage, (one of the better and more atmospheric levels if you ask me) I happened upon a caged NPC named Yurt, The Silent Chief.
Sure, he looks like a wholesome and friendly guy...
Now, as I approached Yurt, preparing to engage him in conversation; I happened to notice that some of the player created messages scrawled on the ground near him were saying some awfully nasty things about him.
“Liar.”
“Don’t bother about nothing.”
These were the cryptic and/or cautionary messages strewn about in the immediate area.
Despite this, in games with morality systems, my general aim is to be a “white knight” of sorts on my first time through, so in keeping with that trend, I decided to free Yurt.
I figured:
“He hasn’t done anything wrong as far as I can tell. He’s cool in my book for now.”
Sadly, my naivete was not to be rewarded.
From his gravelly, foreboding voice; and his decidedly menacing armor, I figured he was at least somewhat evil, however I figured I’d get a chance to rectify whatever mistakes I made by freeing him if he were to suddenly turn outright heel on me.
After I freed Yurt, I happened upon him on the second floor of the Nexus.
He was tucked away in a corner, very much out of sight; such that I was lucky to have even spotted him.
When I spoke with him, excited to see if he’d offer me a sub-quest, or reward me with some sort of item, I was surprised to find that he had nothing helpful to offer me whatsoever.
He sold no items, he offered no services, all he said was something along the lines of:
“Life is not as precious as most may think.”
Following that episode, I would go on to visit with Yurt with every successive return to the Nexus, hopeful that he would eventually say something or do something useful.
It never happened.
At some point, my dungeon crawling in Demon’s Souls fell into a unbelievably progressive rhythm.
For several hours, my character; Ultimate Warrior, was an unstoppable juggernaut of untold epic-ry.
If only I could get him to look like this in-game...
Bosses fell by the wayside, and at least one entire realm collapsed at the might of the Ultimate Warrior, effectively making me like I had finally made the gaming beast that is Demon’s Souls, my servile bitch.
After venturing into the untread depths of the heart of the lion’s den, I reached a point where my inventory was utterly full, even with the use of strength augmenting rings; and I was forced to return to the Nexus to offload my loot.
Only a game as cruel as Demon’s Souls could come at me at my highest of highs, and tear me down to the lowest of lows in the blink of an eye.
One blink, and my eyes were out of their sockets, while Demon’s Soul’s virtual cock jackhammer-ed my frontal lobe with fervor unimaginable.
You see, Yurt The Silent Chief is an assassin.
Not only that, he is an assassin assigned to kill the survivors of Boletaria, I.E. the central cast of the game made up of static NPCs, and NPCs you’ve rescued (like Yurt himself) throughout the course of the game.
Being as I never saw him kill anyone, I have to assume that he goes about his business off-screen, that is; while you are away having the time of your life, as I was.
When I returned from my epic journey, I returned to a Nexus devoid of life.
Every single character I had saved, began learning skills from, and in a loose sense, gotten to “know,” was missing from their previously constant positions.
I searched the upper floors.
I searched all of the dead end nooks and crannies.
All that remained, were a few floating orbs containing what I presume were said character’s belongings.
As I charged up the stairs, already coming to realize that Yurt had to have been responsible, I took note of the background music.
It was different.
After 20 or so hours of play, one notices when the previously monotonous music changes to something totally different.
The tone was gloomy and somber, such that I could tell that I had fucked up just by the sound of it.
When I approached Yurt, I was not surprised to hear him take full responsibility for the deaths of everyone in the Nexus.
As one would expect, the last task on his agenda just happened to involve killing me, which of course led to a brief melee between myself and Yurt.
Despite the horrors of his previous actions, Yurt proved to be a less than capable opponent.
Unable to deal any sort of serious damage to my Ultimate Warrior, I crushed Yurt, took his armor, and immediately put it into storage, finding it to be utterly worthless despite it’s striking appearance.
In the blink of an eye, Yurt The Silent Chief took my “white knight” sensibilities and swathed them in darkness.
To my knowledge, everyone who died, that is; every character in the game, will never come back.
I’ll never learn any more spells.
I’ll never learn any more miracles.
I’ll never get to hear anymore retarded stories and anecdotes that I genuinely never cared to hear in the first place.
In the blink of an eye, the living symbols of my success in Demon’s Souls were taken away from me, leaving my home base a dull and lifeless husk of pitiable solemn, complete with sad-sack music to drive the point home.
I’ll continue to push forward and beat Demon’s Souls, as to my knowledge I’m very near to the end, however I find that in getting there I simply don’t care as much as I used to.
Maybe it’s just me, but beating the game, and winning the day is a helluva’ lot more rewarding when you feel like you did a good job.
As it stands, after losing every NPC in the game to a mistake I didn’t even have a chance to realize I made; beating Demon’s Souls is going to be the equivalent to finishing a race, dead last; and crawling on all fours.
Sure, you finished; but do you feel good about it?
No, you feel humiliated; and realize you need to try harder next time, if there is a next time.
I can’t wait to be done with Demon’s Souls so I can finally move on and play something else…
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November 6, 2010 • 6:23 PM 0
Demon’s Souls Is… Not So Hard Anymore
Hah! Not so bad anymore, are yah'!?
About a week ago I posted a bitchy/whiny article about how Demon’s Souls knocked me down and took my lunch money.
I was about 2 hours into the game at the time of writing said article, and I just wasn’t “getting” how the game worked.
I was frustrated by the game’s punishingly restrictive rules, and humbled by it’s timing heavy combat system.
I’m now 8 hours into Demon’s Souls, and I feel like I’ve got it by the nuts.
'DESE NUTS!
At around hour 3 I had memorized the layout of the 1-1 section of the Boletarian Palace level, making harvesting souls (money) quite a bit easier than before.
Around this time I also began finding uses for my souls in the form of upgrading my Knight’s long sword among other things.
Did I mention I named my character after the Ultimate Warrior?
Now if only I could make him look like this...
Now that's just a terrible photo... Sorry about that.
After toughing it out for some time, advancing by inches every time, I met and defeated my first boss demon, Phalanx.
It was a tedious battle to be sure, but unlike some of the stiffer challenges I’d faced up to that point, (I’m lookin’ at you Red Dragon of one-hit kill-ery…) I managed to best the blob monster on my first try.
I should probably note, that I really admire the artistic design of the Phalanx demon.
Consisting of a hoard of shield-faced blobs armed with spears, all protecting a central core, I found it to be an inspired take on the Sumerian/Grecian military formation.
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In doing so, I was awarded with what I had spent the entire game to that point wishing for:
A waypoint.
4 hours into the game, and I encountered my very first checkpoint.
Eerily enough, as if crossing that first major threshold served to change the entire dynamic of the game from then on out; playing Demon’s Souls has become a markedly less devious affair.
While the early goings were teeth-grittingly difficult and frustrating, ever since I took out that first boss demon; my progression through the game has eased into a much more natural, and far less tedious pace.
Maybe I’ve just become accustomed to the cautious play style required to navigate the game, or maybe my character has just gotten strong enough that he’s able to power through what used to be one-hit kills; but either way, I’m enjoying the experience a whole helluva’ lot more than before.
I’ve killed no less than 4 more bosses in the past 4 hours of gameplay, 2 of which I didn’t even really have to fight.
What I mean to say is, there were 2 bosses that I took out through exploitative means.
No, that would be "blaxpoitative," but it shows you're thinking...
As mentioned earlier in this post, as well as probably every first time Demon’s Souls player’s writings, there is a Red Dragon in the first stage that pwns you like a bitch if you so much as look at him funny.
Good riddance you flying, red piece of fuck....
Truth be told, he’s not so much a boss as he is a predictable, but still dangerous environmental hazard, but seeing as he killed me a few times and has a meaty health bar, I count him as at least a mid-boss.
Anyway, as an environmental hazard, the Red Dragon is stuck on a very simple looping movement pattern, making him unable to reach you in certain areas, as well as unable to defend himself from attacks launched from certain areas.
That being said, I took note of this, bought 80 arrows, and sat down for 15 minutes slowly chipping away at his health with a wimpy bow and arrow while standing completely out of harms way.
It was silly, it was spiteful, but good God was it satisfying to get that fucking dragon off my back for the remainder of my gameplay experience.
Exploitative Boss Kill #2 came in form of slaughtering the Vanguard boss of the Shrine of Storms using a similar tactic.
My money's on the big guy. Jus' sayin' is all...
This one was not as satisfying as in the case of the Red Dragon.
The Vanguard was a demon that I had spent much of my time in Demon’s Souls expecting to have an epic showdown with at some point in the game.
You see, The Vanguard was the demon featured in the opening tutorial segment of the game.
While I don’t actually know if it’s possible to defeat The Vanguard during the opening sequence, in my case he killed me in 1 hit, thusly handing me my first humiliation of many to come while playing Demon’s Souls.
Sadly, my revenge would be bitter sweet; as instead of facing him head on, I found a way to get behind him and, much like the Red Dragon; peppered him in the back with arrows without him so much as trying to hit me.
Oh well, at least he coughed up a shit ton of souls.
"Vanguard! Your brother's soul, is MINE!"
As of writing this, I feel that I’ve grown to like Demon’s Souls very much.
It’s a tough game, for sure; but it’s one that can be very rewarding if you’re willing to play by it’s terms.
Not long ago I ran into a Mind Flayer-like creature in the Tower of Latria (a place I got lost in and quickly retreated from in favor of the Shrine of Storms).
Huh, wouldn't you know it they actually call it a "Mind Flayer." How very proper of them.
Said creature could be killed quite easily, however I found that it could do the same to me with even greater ease.
Though I was killed in my encounter, on my second; I changed up my tactics and stayed out of sight until it drew very close.
In a very Solid Snake-esque maneuver, I dashed out from the shadows and caught the monster off guard, thusly killing it before it could even lift a finger/face tendril to attack.
It was a very satisfying moment, that would not have been nearly so rewarding if not for the fact that the game forced me to rethink my strategy.
Now that I think about it, I like that; that the game is always difficult, no matter how buff your character gets.
Not only does it keep you humble, it serves to make the gameplay more involving in the sense that you’ve always got to be on top of your shit, regardless of how puny your opponents may be.
Much like another game I happen to like a lot, Devil May Cry 3.
While I may be a much better player than I was at the start, make no mistake; I still die in Demon’s Souls quite frequently.
Except for a few instances of ridiculous fall related deaths in the mine stage, I can concede that most of my deaths in Demon’s Souls are my fault.
I still get frustrated, yes; but I haven’t really felt the causes to be unfair or cheap.
Every now and again I get a little bit too adventurous, or a little bit too overconfident; and that’s generally when I find myself dead.
Thankfully, the penalty is just losing your money… All of it.
I’ll probably never get used to that, but I’ve never been too upset by it.
After all, it’s just money.
Thankfully, I’m not having to say that in regards to my purchase of Demon’s Souls.
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Frank Parlato praised for NXIVM breakup by Catherine Oxenberg
Editor’s note: The following story appears in this week’s edition of the Niagara Reporter, a weekly print and online publication that I own. The story tends to praise me lavishly, and was written by the managing editor of my own newspaper [so what else would he be expected to write about me, his boss, criticism?] The only feeble excuse I can offer for republishing it on Frank Report is that it gives a few new details about Catherine Oxenberg, her excellent and riveting book, “Captive”, and our joint efforts to stop a gruesome cult led by a “devious rascal” by the name of Keith Alan Raniere, and known to his followers as The Vanguard.
The headline in the Niagara Reporter is:
Dynasty Star Catherine Oxenberg praises Reporter Publisher Frank Parlato for helping ‘hundreds’ of women ‘escape the horrors of branding and slavery’
NXIVM lawyers condemn Parlato in court for continuing to write about cult
By Nick D’Angelo
Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg was able to rescue her daughter, India Oxenberg, from the sex slaver cult NXIVM – and she says – it was thanks in large part to the efforts of Frank Parlato, publisher of the Niagara Reporter.
In her best-selling book, ‘Captive,’ published by Simon and Schuster, Oxenberg details how her 27-year-old daughter, India was held down and branded on her pubic region with a white-hot cauterizing pen with the initials of NXIVM leaders Keith Raniere and former Smallville actress Allison Mack.
Catherine and India Oxenberg
In her book, Catherine details how she came to Parlato – who was then the only voice speaking out against the cult – and told him about her daughter being branded.
Parlato broke the news of the branding and blackmailing of women in the Niagara Reporter, Artvoice and on his blog, the Frank Report.
This created the catalyst for NXIVM to fall apart, as Parlato wrote and published more than 1,000 stories for the Reporter, Artvoice and Frank Report, prompting NXIVM followers to leave in droves and the mainstream media to take note of the vicious cult for the first time.
This relentless style of writing and publishing followed the same pattern Parlato earlier showed when he published story after story about the secretive Maid of the Mist lease, which prompted the Toronto Globe and Mail to follow up on his story and ultimately led to the Minister of Tourism ordering the Canadian lease out to bid, which in turn led to the Maid of the Mist losing their lease in Canada resulting in some $300 million more in revenue for Ontario.
Following Parlato’s reporting on NXIVM last year, Oxenberg and Parlato, along with former NXIVM members, Marc Vicente, [also a movie director] Bonnie Piesse [an actress in Star Wars] and others – including branded slaves – interviewed with the New York Times.
The blockbuster New York Times story confirmed what Parlato had written and credited him with making NXIVM members aware of the news that women were being branded- which allowed many of them to escape.
Barry Meier was the first in the mainstream media to write about the branding of women.
The Times wrote, “many of Mr. Raniere’s followers learned of the secret society [that brands and blackmails women] from a website run by a Buffalo-area businessman, Frank R. Parlato Jr. Mr. Parlato had been locked in a long legal battle with two sisters, Sara and Clare Bronfman, who are members of Nxivm and the daughters of Edgar Bronfman, the deceased chairman of Seagram Company….
“In early June [2017], Mr. Parlato published the first in a torrent of salacious posts under the headline, ‘Branded Slaves and Master Raniere.’
The New York Times story sparked an interest by the US Attorney for the Eastern District of NY. The FBI opened an investigation into the cult that led to the arrest of Raniere, Mack, Bronfman and others.
Ironically it was Bronfman and Raniere who originally filed a criminal complaint against Parlato.
“He turned it around on them.” famed political consultant Roger Stone said, “what Frank Parlato did was one of the most epic takedowns in media history.”
Oxenberg’s book gives never before published details of hers and Parlato’s role in taking down the cult, including their first meeting when the actress came to Niagara Falls to get Parlato’s help in saving her daughter and bringing the cult to justice.
In her acknowledgements, at the end of the book, Oxenberg wrote about the worldwide media attention that followed their efforts.
She writes, “I’m grateful to the members of the media for the relentless coverage given to exposing the atrocities of NXIVM, helping to generate much needed public outrage. Thank to Barry Meier [NY Times], Liz McNeil [People], Brendon Lyons [Albany Times Union], Megyn Kelly [Today Show], Glenn Ruppel [20-20], Elizabeth Vargas [20-20], Tim Uehlinger [Dateline], Chemene Pelzer [Today Show], John Filimon [Producer], Alicia Powers [Inside Edition], Scott Thompson [Publicist] and many more. And a very special thanks to Frank Parlato: because of your tireless efforts, hundreds defected and escaped the horrors of branding and slavery.”
Not all were praising Parlato however. Last week in federal court, where NXIVM leaders are expected to stand trial for sex trafficking and racketeering, NXIVM attorneys asked Judge Nicholas Garaufis to protect the defendants and their friends from Parlato’s relentless coverage of the cult.
At a Status Conference for USA v Raniere et al., in the Federal Courthouse for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, and in multiple court filings, attorneys for Raniere, made a motion to have the judge close the courtroom from the public in order that Parlato would not discover certain details about their case.
Marc Agnifilo is interviewed by Megan Kelly.
Raniere’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said that anyone who might be willing to post bail for Raniere is afraid their names will be published by Parlato.
Raniere’s attorney pointed out that, because Parlato was indicted based on a complaint by NXIVM leaders, Bronfman and Raniere, Parlato had a self-proclaimed agenda to destroy NXIVM. He argued that potential guarantors of Raniere’s bail bond must be shielded from Parlato maliciously identifying them. The only way to do that, Agnifilo said, was to close the courtroom and seal their names from the public.
The prosecution opposed the unprecedented motion to close the courtroom from the press. Parlato’s name was mentioned more than 40 times in court papers and dozens of times in open court. The defense said the co-guarantors were so afraid of what will happen if they are discovered by Parlato that they are not willing to sign for his bail unless their names were sealed.
The prosecution, as well as Probation and Pretrial Supervision Services said they adamantly oppose Raniere getting bail on the grounds that he is a danger to the community and a flight risk.
The next court hearing is set for Oct 4.
Meantime, most of the news is good. Oxenberg‘s book is a best seller, her daughter, India is safe and living at her home in Malibu, California. She even found a new boyfriend – not related to the sex slaver cult.
The New York Post credited Parlato last week for his role in that too, writing “Frank Parlato, the former Nxivm publicist … worked for years to expose the cult,” in a story reporting India’s new romance.
Catherine Oxenberg, in her personal inscription in her book written to Parlato wrote, “You were the gunpowder, the canon, and much more in blowing NXIVM to smithereens. I owe you a debt of gratitude for your indefatigable offensive opposing one of the world’s most devious rascals [Raniere].”
Oxenberg’s book, Captive, is available at major booksellers and online through Amazon.
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Karma's gonna get you says:
A big thank you to Frank, Catherine and all the others who have helped to expose this group for who they are and the manipulation that has taken place with thousands who thought they were taking a course on how to be more successful in their lives.
Shame on you to all those who continue to support and help the animals who run this CULT.
Pea Onyu says:
And you praise this asshole ?
Pea bzzzzz swat splat
Catherine Oxenberg claimed she was recruited into NXIVM by some chick. Her ex-husband Casper Van Dien was/is in NXIVM. He was on Necker Island in 2010. Wouldn’t it of been him to get his wife involved?
NXIVM is afraid of Frank Parlato, so afraid they are actually drawing more attention to his publications with every gutless request they put before the court. Hopefully they will continue these ridiculous requests which are obviously coming from the defendants, but they are making the lawyers look pretty stupid too. Freedom of the press, thank you again Frank. Those of us watching from the outside consider what you’ve done as heroic. The number of women who have been given a 2nd chance, the future girls that will not grow up to be a part of this cult. The NXIVM posters on this site or those just reading it take the time to read up on cults and cult deprogrammers. You might be surprised at the similarities, Keith was not especially creative, he took methods that worked for others added a few brainwashing techniques thanks to Nancy Salzman and started destroying self esteem, family connections, created an atmosphere of secrecy and unfortunately for thousands of people he love bombed two very insecure and wealthy young women, convincing them to attack anyone who tried to leave or fought back. A perfect storm. Thank God they went after Frank Parlato, if not they would still be operating.
Appeti says:
Thank God they went after Frank Parlato, if not they would still be operating.
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An Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education: Beginning the Discussion
James Middleton, M. Kathleen Held, Robert Reys, Eric Gutstein, Barbara Dougherty, Beatriz D'Ambrosio, Iris De Loach-Johnson, Marilyn Hala
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This article by the NCTM's Research Committee presents a call for an Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education. The committee reviews central cross-cutting issues for mathematics education research that address concerns from the political and practitioner communities regarding the coherence and utility of mathematics education research. Issues of values and feasibility are highlighted, and a broader definition of theoretical and empirical scholarship is promoted. The committee proposes that the mathematics education research community take up the mantle of authority for defining rigor and evidence in much the same way as NCTM did when facing similar criticism in earlier crises (e.g., the Agenda for Action and the Standards).
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Middleton, J., Held, M. K., Reys, R., Gutstein, E., Dougherty, B., D'Ambrosio, B., ... Hala, M. (2004). An Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education: Beginning the Discussion. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 35(2), 74-80.
An Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education : Beginning the Discussion. / Middleton, James; Held, M. Kathleen; Reys, Robert; Gutstein, Eric; Dougherty, Barbara; D'Ambrosio, Beatriz; De Loach-Johnson, Iris; Hala, Marilyn.
In: Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 35, No. 2, 03.2004, p. 74-80.
Middleton, J, Held, MK, Reys, R, Gutstein, E, Dougherty, B, D'Ambrosio, B, De Loach-Johnson, I & Hala, M 2004, 'An Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education: Beginning the Discussion', Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 74-80.
Middleton J, Held MK, Reys R, Gutstein E, Dougherty B, D'Ambrosio B et al. An Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education: Beginning the Discussion. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 2004 Mar;35(2):74-80.
Middleton, James ; Held, M. Kathleen ; Reys, Robert ; Gutstein, Eric ; Dougherty, Barbara ; D'Ambrosio, Beatriz ; De Loach-Johnson, Iris ; Hala, Marilyn. / An Agenda for Research Action in Mathematics Education : Beginning the Discussion. In: Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 2004 ; Vol. 35, No. 2. pp. 74-80.
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Shameless Shipping Day 1:Kittan and Yoko
For February over at Borderline Hikkomori, for the 14 days up until Valentine’s Day, we’d talk about our favorite pairings, and why we loved them. I decided I’d continue the tradition over here, as it’s something I quite liked. Note that shipping wank with be dealt with the rolling of eyes, and laughing.
For Day 1, in the light of the new Gurren Lagann movie, I’m going to talk about my second favorite pairing in Gurren Lagann, Kittah/Yoko.
I know, I know, why Kittan and not Kamina? A lot of it may be that while I see the parallels between Kamina and Kittan, with their similar personality and GAR tendencies, I find not only Kittan a better developed character, but I found the relationship between Yoko and Kittan also had better development. Yoko and Kamina was the stereotypical tsundere girl relationship, and fairly predictable. Kittan and Yoko was not expected, but also slowly built up with conversations between them.
Due to the way the relationship was developed between Kittan and Yoko, the chemistry that was growing between the characters was strong, and felt real. Unfortunately, this made his death more tragic…Kittan was the second of Yoko’s doomed loves. After confessing his love for her, he dies, and joins the large Gurren Lagann graveyard.
That is my defense to why I support Kittan and Yoko rather then Kamina and Yoko. A realistic non-cliché relationship.
In the end though, maybe I just like the underdog. Especially one that never really got the girl.
Also, I have not watched the movie yet. No movie spoilers please. ❤
Edit: If you’re a commenter here to inform me that this is ridiculous because Yoko can only have feelings for Kamina, get out. At this point, Kamina has been dead for seven years, the girl is allowed to move on and have feelings for other people. I’m really NOT interested in hearing why my ship is wrong and yours is right.
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3 responses to “Shameless Shipping Day 1:Kittan and Yoko”
Madal
Oh snap! I just realized that Black and Blue Socks is your very blog 0.o. Ahaha, don’t mind the last sentence than…
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I’m a Kittan/Yoko fan, too. While I would have loved to see their relationship developed more before and up to Kittan’s death, I am pretty pleased with what the show gives us. The way I interpret it, Kittan has from the beginning considered Kamina his rival. But Kittan’s not stupid: he appreciates that Kamina is worthy of his admiration as well. So Kittan, while competing with Kamina in many ways, still looks up to Kamina, especially after the latter dies. Kittan probably was always attracted to Yoko (I think all the guys in the show are, judging by the way they all–including Simon–oggle her when she first appears in her new space outfit), but because Kittan puts Kamina up on a pedestal as everyone else does (including viewers, and I’m definitely on that bandwagon), I think he probably doesn’t consider Yoko a possibility. She was in love with his dead rival/leader, and he understands her loss in some ways. I think the entire Dai Gurren Brigade understood her loss because it was similar to (though greater than) their own.
After the defeat of Lord Genome, Yoko sticks around for a while, but she is gone for at least a year before the events following the time skip. Kittan and everyone else is so busy building up Kamina City and discovering their new lives, it’s hard to say how much interaction Kittan and Yoko had then. But the Kamina City life didn’t suit either Kittan or Yoko, we can see that much. I think they could understand each other that way. And when the Anti-Spiral threat brings them together again, I think their Brigade camaraderie is comfortable and welcome to them. Yoko is partially (but not completely, as we see in her desired AU later) past that life of excitement and danger, and Kittan isn’t past it at all. After 7 years of government work, he’s ready for action, and we definitely see that in his last episodes. I think that sense of getting the life he knew and wanted back helped him to feel empowered. And to see Yoko was doing well probably helped him see that her grief for Kamina’s death, while forever painful, was not something that crippled her. I think he could see that she was getting past it, or at least dealing with it in a way that would not exclude the possibility of them becoming closer. Kamina will always be a man Kittan admires. And concerning Yoko, Kamina will always be his rival. But now he’s ready to give it a shot. I think the timing and events are very important for this–not just because it maximizes the drama and TTGL is a show and story that maximizes everything but because this makes sense for Kittan’s character and personhood.
Kittan’s feelings for Yoko are more rushed than developed in the show, and it’s really hard to say how or if she reciprocates, but I think perhaps she does. She might not have thought of him in that way until he kissed her, but the way he kissed her is very reminiscent of how she kissed Kamina: she snuck up on him just as Kittan snuck up on her. Kittan acknowledges that he took her by surprise and doesn’t seem to expect her to feel the same about him. I think this goes back to the possibility that he sees, that he could have had a chance with her in the future. He apologizes for kissing her all of a sudden like that. He knows it was not the ideal thing to do. But he also knows he’s about to sacrifice himself for the team, humanity, Earth, everything, and the chance to kiss the woman he now realizes he loves more than any other (or so we can assume since the show doesn’t suggest he has any other romantic possibilities) is not a chance he’s going to pass up. And I think Yoko sympathizes with that: even though she doesn’t kiss him back as Kamina kissed her back, she does hug him and seems genuinely to care about him as a dear friend.
I would argue that she herself acknowledges, too, that she could care for him as something more. In her desired AU, she literally can see herself marrying Kittan and presumably having a happy life with him. She is watching a hand change the channel, flashing through scenes of a life she could have had. But Yoko herself turns off that TV just before she and Kittan kiss. The perspective of the shot moves back, and we see that Kamina is holding the television, and the two of them are standing in the space where and the time in which they first kissed. I think this scene acknowledges that Yoko has room in her heart for both Kamina and Kittan, and while it suggests that she ultimately loves Kamina more and will never let go of her love for him (if the TV expresses her heart’s desires, then Kamina holding it is more or less holding her heart–also, the cobbled-together wishes the TV shows are finite and superficial, while for her, Kamina is the limitless and real), this scene also shows us that Yoko can see her self being happy with Kittan, too, if things with Kamina couldn’t work out. Sadly for her and all of her fans, things didn’t work out with either Kamina or Kittan, but what I like best about her character is that she is full of love and able to share it with so many people. Kittan included and even in a romantic way.
I also would like to mention that I love how Kittan’s story ended. (I don’t love THAT it ended, but I love how it ended.) In his final moments, he discovers the Spiral power and successfully uses it in his own Mega Drill type attack. I think this is right in keeping with Kittan realizing his own potential (he acknowledges that the Spiral power is humans’ power and is his soul), and he finally shows himself and the viewer and everyone else that he is not simply a lesser man standing in Kamina’s shadow: he is a man with purpose and power enough to cast his own shadow and to have his own place. His death is tragic because he has finally come into himself. Even sadder, he might not have achieved as much if he weren’t facing that situation and everyone was depending on him and he knew it was his last fight. But he does achieve all of these things, and I think he can be considered Kamina’s equal for it. I think Yoko considers him as much, and though she will always keep Kamina in a very special place in her heart, she has certain things in common with Kittan that make him more than a Kamina substitute. Kittan knows her grief as much as she knows his, and he is willing to join her in whatever future they can have together (I think that’s the significance of him mistakenly thinking she has given birth to a slew of kids). Yoko teaches (and to an extent raises) the children of the future, and Kittan does all that he can for that future. What drives them and what they hope to achieve is far more specific and grounded than Kamina’s dreams ever were. Which is what makes Kamina so amazing and awe-inspiring, but that’s not to say Yoko and Kittan couldn’t find happiness together if Kittan hadn’t died.
Okay, so there are my thoughts on the subject. Sorry this is rather long. I just finished watching the series again yesterday, and I’m super eager to talk with any other fans on this or any other topic if anyone wants to discuss it with me. 🙂
It’s okay that it’s long, I think you did a great job describing how you viewed the characters and their relationship, and backing it up in a way that’s hard to argue. I agree that she’ll always love Kamina, but I think she’d also want to move forward in her life rather then remain in the past.
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Many employers feel it is essential to confirm the past employment history of candidates for employment. They, understandably, want to make sure that people seeking employment worked where they said they did. Usually, the exercise amounts to calling the previous employer and asking for confirmation that the candidate really worked there.
Sometimes, additional questions are asked to confirm employment dates, job title, and eligibility for re-hire. I couldn’t agree more that confirming previous employment is important – but there’s far more to making an informed hiring decision than just making sure the candidate is telling the truth about where he worked, how long he worked there, his job title, and whether or not the previous employer would hire him back again.
Confirming employment says absolutely nothing about overall job performance, responsibilities on the job, strengths, areas for improvement, ability to work with others, or much of anything else. It can be inferred that, if a previous employer would hire the candidate back again, then his or her job performance must, at least, have been satisfactory. But making that assumption is a far cry from collecting sufficient information about overall job performance to make an informed hiring decision – that’s why doing a thorough reference check is so important.
One of the problems that many prospective employers encounter when asking about eligibility for re-hire is that many former employers have a policy that precludes re-hiring anyone who leaves the company. The typical response is, “We have a company policy against hiring anyone back again.” The way around that “canned” answer is to re-phrase the question along these lines: “But, if you yourself were hiring people, would you hire so-and-so again?” Most of the time, references will respond to that question, without hiding behind official company policy. It is very important, after all, to know if the reference thought enough of the candidate’s overall job performance to hire him or her again!
Simply confirming that the candidate told the truth about where he worked should never be enough. Insuring that the information provided by the job seeker is accurate is a preliminary step at best, but it’s certainly not the final step in the hiring process. If a background check is all that’s done, all the prospective employer can really say is, “Well, we know that so-and-so filled out our job application honestly,” or that, “So-and-so submitted an accurate resume.” Beyond that, nothing of substance about overall job performance can be assumed. Inferences can be made, but basing a hiring decision on an inference puts the employer on pretty thin ice. That’s why reference checking is the companion piece to a background check – assuming, as one naturally would, that the prospective employer wants to hire the best people possible for the jobs to be done!
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With each passing day, there’s less and less mystery around the Google Pixel 3 XL. While we have only seen renders of the smaller Pixel 3, the XL has got a hands-on treatment, videos and a lot more, thanks to stolen shipments which are being sold on the European black market.
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Next review Best Buy - Lousy experience
Best Buy - Deplorable Customer Service
We ordered a 50" TV with delivery and installation services. When I placed the order I chose to have the delivery on April 7 between 12-4 pm. At 2 pm on 4/7, I receive an automated call from Best Buy letting me know that the delivery and installation had been canceled and to return the call to the toll free number to reschedule. When I called back, the customer service agent told me that there was no reason shown as to why the appointment was canceled.
Related: Cannot understand what was being said. - Wish
The CSR told me that there was no record for delivery/installation on 4/7 in their system, and that they showed the installation for 4/17 between 8-10 am - which I did not schedule as I scheduled the service for 4/7. I asked if I could send them the email I have confirming 4/7 between 12-4 and asked how if there was no record of the 4/7 delivery why I would have received a call canceling the order. She informed me that she could not receive an email and of course they could not answer the question as to why I received a call canceling the appointment. She told me that she wasn't calling me a liar but that she could not verify my 4/7 appointment - even though I told her I would email her the confirmation I received from Best Buy. She recommended I go to the store to try to resolve this. If I had wanted to deal with the store, I would have done that in the first place and not placed the order online.
She then informed me that the first available date for this service was 4/21 between 8-10 am. I told her that this was unacceptable customer service and that I would like to speak to a supervisor. The supervisor refused to come to the phone until I rescheduled the delivery. I informed the CSR that this was unacceptable and that I expected to speak to the supervisor first. After 20 minutes of this and several holds the supervisor finally got on the phone. Again, she did not acknowledge the 4/7 appointment and informed me that email confirmations are sent out that may not actually be honored - poor cutomer service. I asked her if I could forward her the email with the confirmation for the appointment and she informed me that she did not have an email address. How does a supervisor in Best Buy not have an email address - again, an unacceptable answer.
Again I asked, if the 4/7 appointment was not valid, why did I receive a call from Best Buy canceling the appointment - btw in the middle of the time the appointment was supposed to happen - and again, she did have an answer. At this point, the supervisor was able to open the schedule to reschedule my appointment to 4/10. How did the 4/10 appointment just appear after the customer service rep told me the next available was 4/21?
The Best Buy leadership team should listen to this phone call and review their process for accepting, sending emails, and confirming appointments. This customer service is unacceptable and all processes should be reviewed and updated to improve how customers are handled.
Reason of review: Poor customer service.
Best Buy Cons: Poor customer service documentation and timing response.
Review #1228760 is a subjective opinion of JC W of New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Machele Apr 07, 2018 #1459249
Best Buy made some mistakes due to their inherent unreliability but your mistake was in not cancelling the whole thing---instead you got into an argument with them. They messed up and you should have taken your business elsewhere.
John Doe Apr 25, 2018 #1469709
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what an idiot Soon none of you will have jobs amazon will run you out of business
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Last night I woke at 2:30am convinced that I’d left something at the dry cleaner weeks ago and forgotten to pick it up. What was it? Where was the little green paper slip I would need to pick it up?In the dark, I tried to scrawl a note to myself to deal with it in the morning, but I couldn’t let go of the feeling. A few minutes later, I stood in my closet with the light on pushing through articles of clothing. The last two items I remember taking to the dry cleaner were there, still encased in the plastic film not meant to be used as a crib liner. Was it a shirt? a dress? Nothing was missing. Returning to my bed, I was still bothered by the feeling.
In the morning light, the episode feels like a metaphor, perhaps to help me sympathize with my uncle who is rapidly losing his memory. Maybe it is a window into my own future memory loss, but if I really listen, I hear the whispers from something in the past. Something I once had is now missing, and what is unclear is whether to continue to search for it, or embrace the loss knowing that having less makes room for more in the future.
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Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
I attending a wedding a few weeks ago, and ended up cloistered at a table with other singles: all divorced or widowed and at least 25 years older than me. I was able to make polite conversation, but often glanced around at the other tables full of my contemporaries, all coupled up.
My friend, the groom was beaming. After searching for a wife (including two engagements that never made it to the altar), he finally achieved his goal at age 44. The newlyweds story helps to legitimize online dating. They seemed like a perfect match. Not the same, and not without flaws, but their hearts compliment each other very well.
As the band played and I watched all the couples dance, I reflected on my uncoupled conundrum.
My most major mistake is obvious-I’m a sucker for a pretty face. Anytime a cute guy smiles at me, I swoon, and he could sell me the Brooklyn Bridge. I’d pay top dollar, too because somehow his good looks translate into a man who is also smart, trustworthy, and caring-at least in my mind. It doesn’t matter how many times this illusion has been proved to be completely, and utterly untrue by a statistically significant margin, I dismiss the data and proceed naively believing THIS one is different.
Not surprisingly, they all end up all being the same narcissist
On the drive home, I stopped to fuel up both the car and myself. The cashier tried to help me select something to eat, but I was distracted by the black, blue, and purple balloon where her left eye should have been. Whomever’s fist broke her face, it happened not too many hours beforehand, but she was hard at work, and though she looked to be in pain, she did not complain, likely a veteran of physical abuse.
I drove off wondering how someone could stay with a man who speaks with his fists, but I quickly realized, who am I to point a finger? The emotional abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of my narcissist companions doesn’t show outwardly, but still leaves a mark. Yet, I walked away only half of the time, and only after a long time trying to rationalize staying. The other times, I was left behind with my heart ripped to shreds.
Why do we tell ourselves we are not worthy? I’d argue that I do believe in myself, but my reality tells a very different story. I’d like to blame the guy. I’d like to believe he doesn’t understand me, or he just wasn’t the right one, but the truth is I seem to lack a clear understanding of my value in this world.
Since Ann Landers says I can’t accept my dog’s admiration of me as conclusive evidence that I’m wonderful, I’d better set my sights on looking within.
“He who knows others is wise, he who knows himself is enlightened.” -Lao Tzu
Tagged abuse, change, enlightenement, narcissist, perspective, relationships, single, worthy
Mother’s Day Perspective
It’s Mother’s Day, but Hallmark doesn’t make a card for the many children who don’t have June Cleaver for a mother. I am one of them.
I remember growing up both confused and awed by the close relationship some of my friends held with their moms. At the time, I didn’t appreciate how my mom endured sickness, injury, tantrums, and the selfish, ungrateful energy from her four offspring. She packed picnics, wiped snot, threw parties, swabbed skinned knees, offered encouragement, and restricted empty calories often without a thank you from anyone. I took without giving back. I pushed, tested, and undermined, as mom struggled.
It’s never too late to say thank you. My mother was far from perfect, but she gave me a gift of immeasurable value, the blueprint on life’s pitfalls:
Do not let alcohol take over your life.
Do not use others as an excuse.
Do not say one thing and do another.
Do not double down and dig in when you know you are in the wrong.
Do not focus on the negative.
I spent my early years being afraid of/angry with my alcoholic mother while simultaneously mirroring her. Like a crystal ball, her mistakes showed me my future life. Eventually, I paid attention. I quit drinking. I learned to take responsibility, tell the truth, and sincerely apologize. Most importantly, I learned to be grateful. I learned to focus on the good, and find the silver lining in hard times, and now I practice daily to embrace love rather than be swallowed by fear.
I witness the children of my friends and siblings challenge their parents, and I can understand how my mother’s insecurities plagued her, how her children and husband undermined her, and how her negative mindset fed the depression that led her further into darkness, away from the perfect person she so longed to be.
My mother died seven years ago, and I am grateful that in death she found peace.
Tagged alcoholism, grateful, love, mother, mother's day, responsibility, silver lining, truth
I recently watched, “The Social Network,” and concluded that Mark Zuckerberg may be a billionaire programmer extraordinaire, but his social skills certainly needed some work during those college years, but who am I to judge? I made a lot of missteps at that age, and though none of them ended in a lawsuit, I still have regrets. My biggest social blunder didn’t even come to light for nearly two decades.
After graduating college in the mid 1990’s, I laid low in the early part of this millennium after a string of disappointments left me feeling less than human. When I finally began to reconnect with college friends, the catalyst was (ironically) Facebook. I joined in 2008 to keep track of my sister who was working overseas, but by 2009, a friend from college stumbled across my name on a Facebook friend suggestion list, and I was inundated with connections. Some long lost friends took the opportunity to reach out over messenger to learn more about my decade off the grid. Frank, who I dated briefly junior year, asked a lot of questions, and I responded with inquiries of my own. Once we had covered our personal lives, we began sharing updates on other members of our college clique.
We had a mutual friend, Mike, who was not on Facebook. Mike and I met in the early weeks of freshman year when I briefly dated his roommate, Andy (who left school before the end of first semester). Mike and I were best friends from the start. We even visited each other over summer vacations to attend music festivals, or just chill at the beach together for a few days. He was a great guy and a lot of fun.
Mike and I never dated. Our friendship was a simple “be yourself” relationship without the usual sexual attraction stumbling block that trips up most male-female friendships. I remember he dated an underclassman briefly, and some girl from another school during his semester at sea program, but he remained solo for most of our four years. Honestly, I didn’t think much about his dating habits (or lack of them) at the time because I was too wrapped up in my own drama, dating a new guy every term. Mike was always there to listen, and give me advice.
Mike and Frank had been quite close, and when I asked Frank about Mike, he was unusually slow to reply. Eventually, he told me that Mike had recently married and was expecting his first child. Then, I asked Frank if he would give me the contact information for Mike since he was not on Facebook. This time the reply was swift, “Don’t try to find him.” Only adding that it was not a good idea. “Had Mike entered witness protection?” I joked. Again, the reply was slow, and when it came, I was confused.
“It took him a long time to get over it, but he is finally happy. Just leave him alone.”
What did Mike have to get over? I received no reply, but there was only one possible answer. The platonic friendship I assumed we shared was one-sided. Mike had been in love with me.
At first I was mad. How could Mike not tell me? But the thought barely formed when the answer washed over me. He knew I wasn’t in love with him, and sharing his feelings would have ended our friendship. He kept his secret to keep me close. I wondered how long Frank had known. I seriously doubt Frank would have dated me during fall term of junior year if Mike had told him prior to that. Frank had a lot of flaws, but he was a loyal friend. The truth must have come out sometime after graduation. Who else knew? It didn’t matter, I felt terrible, and the only person I wanted to talk to was the one person I couldn’t because Frank insisted I leave Mike alone, but I couldn’t let it go. I Googled the company Mike worked for and emailed him, but received no reply.
Anxious and impatient, I attempted to assuage my jumbled feelings by looking back through my college photo albums and was surprised to discover that among hundreds of images of me and the girls, or my ever rotating boy of the term, were few pictures of Mike, and no good ones-more evidence of how much I took him for granted. I resorted to flipping through our actual freshmen facebook to find an image of his full smiling face.
My Linked In connection was eventually accepted, but I still don’t know if it was Mike or an assistant in his office that cleared my request. His profile image is a cartoon drawing. He will not reply to any personal correspondence. I considered showing up at his office the next time I’m in New York, but I know that isn’t fair. He is happy. I need to quell my own ego, and respect the life he has built for himself.
And because karma is a bitch, the same situation has occurred again, this time with Sam, but now I’m the lovelorn best friend being taken for granted as Sam moves from one drama filled relationship to the next. We hang out in between his liaisons, and I listen to him lament his latest loss, but just as Mike knew better than to confess his feelings to me, I know Sam doesn’t love me. So, instead of seeing my current situation as punishment, I’m trying to be thankful. I’ve been granted perspective on Mike’s experience that allows me to excuse his secret. From my knowledge, I generate the courage it takes to leave Mike alone, to allow Sam to be himself, and to forgive myself for being human.
Tagged college, courage, Facebook, friendship, human, karma, Linked In, love, perspective, relationships, secret, The Social Network
Sometime in the past year, I crossed an invisible line. I left behind the carefree days of weddings and babies and entered a world of complaints and burdens. I kind of figured that stuff was still a long way off. My 50th birthday is still far enough in the distance that I can’t quite wrap my head around its implications yet, but chronological age aside, I learned today that a long time friend has a wife, 2 young girls, and an expiration date. He is not the first. My friends are getting sick and they are dying. Instead of talking about our great adventures and big dreams, we discuss surgeries and plans for a financially secure future. Are the best years behind us already? How can I face the second half of my life watching things fall apart around me?
One of my goals for 2016 is to “find the fun”. I want to stop worrying about filling out tax forms and whether I have the right car insurance, and who I’m going to hire to replace the leaking window. I want to figure out how to make the most of every moment. I want to laugh more. A tweet earlier today declared a man arrested repeatedly for breaking and entering to steal a cat had been found mentally incompetent. I laughed until, I cried. I used to laugh like that all the time. I want to laugh like that again, everyday. I want to find the fun, but sometime in the past year it went into hiding (probably should have taken that cat with it!)
Have you seen or experienced “the fun” recently? Would you recognize it? Could you describe it to me? Maybe point me in the right direction???
Tagged death, dreams, dying, fun, goals, laugh, sick, worry
The Twitter Thing
Too Late?
I’m often a latecomer. I took my junior year abroad during senior year. I backpacked in Europe a few weeks after my 31st birthday, and I just signed up for Twitter last month. After launching in 2006 and a celebrating a successful IPO in 2013, Twitter has reportedly reached its peak and is now on the kind of slide that in Chutes and Ladders means better luck next time. Gee, my timing is off, but I’m onboard now and enjoying the benefits, so I’d like to see a Twitter revival.
In the early years, many people attempted to explain Twitter to me, but it just sounded unnecessary. Facebook already stole my heart with daily updates on family and friends. What could Twitter do for me? I understood the benefit for a business promoting itself, but for the over 40 crowd being pulled in multiple directions (demanding kids, aging parents, stressful job), it was just another time suck.
I see now that my attitude reflected the “I’ve never tried it, but I know I won’t like it” paradox often applied to vegetables.
How I Use Twitter
Most people have multiple email addresses, right? Because at some point you figured out that you wanted a private email account to send and receive messages among friends/family, and a separate email to receive order confirmations, bank statements, sign up for promotions, and receive renewal notices. Well, think of Facebook and Twitter like your two email accounts. Facebook handles all the personal traffic, and Twitter handles the commercial payload. Having both social media accounts makes each one work better. Twitter allows you to remove from your Facebook newsfeed all those pages you liked, and things you “follow” that cause you to miss the photos of your nephew’s 5th birthday party. Move it all over to your new account on Twitter, and stay on top of pop culture when the mood strikes you. From your favorite Hollywood stars, musicians, senators, foods, lifestyle guru, sports teams and athletes, to news media, Twitter provides more up to date and diverse information than any other single source.
So, if you have a Twitter account and don’t use it, or like me, you never gave it a shot, try reframing your perspective. Think about the fact that Twitter doesn’t have to be about what you give. It can be all about what you get back.
Tagged Facebook, pop culture, social media, twitter
Until the 1990’s in America, smoking was an accepted social vice. My grandparents smoked. My parents smoked. Their friends smoked. My siblings and most of my friends smoked. Despite the habit being smelly, unattractive, and unhealthy, no amount of federally mandated warning labels discouraged people from lighting up.
Change came suddenly in the form of a social movement ignited by the media’s unveiling of ways tobacco companies lured in and poisoned the population for their own financial gain. As Americans, we might fight for the right to poison ourselves, but conspiring to make us look the fool? Turning us into patsies for profit? That blow to the ego demands retribution. Like a tidal wave, the momentum of popular opinion crashed effortlessly through previously insurmountable obstacles.
Almost overnight smoking was out. The backlash was so complete that venues in all 50 states banned smoking. Anyone unable to overcome the addiction has been ushered to a “designated smoking area” as the rest of us walk by and shake our heads. There is a big difference between being told what to do (government regulation) and finding out someone has been secretly screwing you over for years. Both scenarios invoke a “put up your dukes” mentality. We won’t stand for it, and true gun reform in America will need to come to light in the same way.
I don’t consider the right “to bear arms” in the constitution as intended for individual ownership. It is manipulative marketing, not unlike Joe Cool of Camel cigarettes convincing people to smoke. At the time the constitution was written, guns were kept in local armories and used only against large scale enemy attacks. Individuals riddling fellow citizens with bullets was unheard of and would certainly confound our forefathers. The article by Jill Lepore appearing in the New Yorker on April 19, 2012 entitled, “The Birth of the Modern Gun Debate” explained how the NRA evolved from a group of hunting and sport enthusiasts to the behemoth political lobbying effort that insists members would rather die than give up their guns.
Still, nations such as Britain and Australia have overcome their dependence on personal firearms. I have faith that America can, too. No one wants the government to infringe upon their freedom. The threat of legislation to control arms is a gift to the pro-gun lobby. With the media as their accomplice, gun enthusiasts push the button on the primordial fear response to bolster gun sales. But what if the issue of gun rights was reframed? What if it turns out the NRA is perpetuating a conspiracy? What if their real motivation is to encourage undesirable in the population to kill themselves off with all those guns? Far fetched, perhaps, but surely there is a conceivable angle to turn gun ownership into a stigma. Ideas once in fashion eventually fall away like the ash from a burning cigarette. We just need a perspective shift on guns.
Tagged change, cigarette, Fear, gun, gun control, legislation, media, New Yorker, NRA, right to bear arms, smoking, smoking gun, stigma, threat
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Home / FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural / The Relentless Tide
The Relentless Tide
by Denzil Meyrick
The Relentless Tide quantity
SKU: 9781846974120 Categories: Crime, Crime, CRIME & MYSTERY, FICTION, FICTION & RELATED ITEMS, General, Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, SUSPENSE, THRILLER, Thrillers, Uncategorised Tags: Brian Scott, Crime, Daley, denzil, Kinloch, meyrick, Murder, Mystery, Police, Procedural, Scottish, Thriller, viking
Another great thriller from Denzil Meyrick. From prologue to closing chapter we are kept in suspense'
Daley is a character complete with depths, currents and sudden changes of the Atlantic Ocean that crashes against Kinloch's harbour walls. The remote peninsula and the claustrophobic nature of small-town life are perfectly painted too. Fans of the series will thoroughly appreciate another stint in Daley's company, and new readers will also find much to enjoy'
Scotland on Sunday
What distinguishes Meyrick from other tartan noir authors is his humour and the depth of his interest in local issues...though he delivers fine plotting and gore in abundance, he really comes into his own describing the back stories of the Kinloch locals
One of the Scotsman's Books of 2018
When Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists find the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside – a site rumoured to have been the base of Viking warlord Somerled – their delight soon turns to horror when they realise the women tragically met their end little more than two decades ago. It soon becomes clear that these are the three missing victims of the ‘Midweek Murderer’, a serial killer who was at work in Glasgow in the early 1990s.
DCI Jim Daley now has the chance to put things right – to confront a nightmare from his past and solve a crime he failed to as a young detective. However, when Police Scotland’s Cold Case Unit arrive, they bring yet more ghosts to Kinloch.
A tale of death, betrayal, Viking treasure and revenge set in the thin places where past, present and future collide.
Denzil Meyrick
After studying politics, Denzil Meyrick worked as a police officer, distillery manager, freelance journalist, and company director. He is originally from Campbeltown in Argyll, but now lives with his wife Fiona on Loch Lomondside.
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Brian Nadeau’s Road to the Triple Crown: The Gotham
Teresa / March 9, 2018
Aqueduct: The Grade III, $300,000 Gotham at 1-mile (Kentucky Derby qualifying points 50-20-10-5)
by Brian Nadeau
#1 Dial Operator (10-1): Exciting newcomer has looked awesome rallying in two wins against tons lesser to kick off his career at Monmouth and Laurel Park, respectively, and now ships up I-95 for the acid test to see where he stands on the national scene. Son of Dialed In has been visually impressive in those two wins for Jason Servis, and, if you saw his return in the Laurel optional-claimer last month, you know he’s got a ton of talent and will win his fair share this year. Is he this kind? Well, that’s the question, but there seems to be enough speed in here to set him up, and if Free Drop Billy is 9-5 on the ML, you’re allowed to question the quality of the field, which means this colt is hardly out of his element; upset special from off the pace.
#2 Cove Blue (30-1): Longshot is one of two here for Romans and figures as a pace player of some kind, as he’s been on or just off the lead at the pace call of his last four starts, which includes a distant third in a two-turn AOC at Gulfstream Park last time. Son of Ghostzapper should like the return to one-turn, as his 7F MSW win at GP two-back was solid, and he does come from a barn that has a bevy of talented 3-year-olds this year, but it’s tough to envision that we consider this guy one of them after today; pace player, not much more.
#3 Beautiful Shot (8-1): Stretch-running son of Trappe Shot invades from California for Desormeaux, who already shipped and won a 3yo graded stakes this year with a similar type, as My Boy Jack rallied late to annex the GIII Southwest at Oaklawn Park, so, if nothing else, he knows how to spot his stock and take advantage of spots that seem there for the taking. And make no mistake: this is one of them, as there’s no one here to be scared of and this colt did show a lot of promise winning 2-of-3 at 2. The worry is that this is his first start of the year and he was blitzed pretty good when a distant third to no one special in Del Mar’s GIII Bob Hope in November, and while the works are solid and the pace will help his style, it’s best to watch one before taking the plunge; tabbing for down the road.
#4 Whereshetoldmetogo (15-1): Well-traveled sort comes in from a romp at GP in the minor American Fabius, where he settled early and blew the field away late, in what was by far a career-best run for Pecoraro. Of course, that’s not going to scare anyone in here, and this El Padrino colt is in the middle of the pack on paper, so there’s work left to be done for sure. The good news is the price will be right, and obviously he’s never been better, but still, you have to think he blinks where the real running begins; minor award appears his ceiling.
Firenze Fire and Manny Franco in the Jerome. NYRA/Chelsea Durand
#5 Firenze Fire (5-2): The most accomplished member of the field has taken the road less traveled this year for Servis, both literally and figuratively, as he stayed local and dodged anyone of any real consequence in winning the Jerome in January and running second in the GIII Withers last month, and this field fits nicely in with those, as it’s clearly second-tier at this point in time. Dropping back to a one-turn mile will help this son of Poseidon’s Warrior, too, as he won the GI Champagne (over 2yo champion Good Magic, no less) last fall at Belmont Park and seemed come up wanting in the 1 1/8-miles Withers last time, which suggested what a lot of people think, that he’ll make his dough this year going shorter. The pace should be right, and he was taken out of his element last time while being forced to lay close to pedestrian splits, but it also appears he’s the same horse he was at 2, which was a moderately fast sort who was able to win a few times under optimum circumstances, but not under extenuating ones, so taking this price today doesn’t seem prudent; underneath, if at all.
Robby Albarado and Free Drop Billy win the Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland. Coady Photography
#6 Free Drop Billy (9-5): The deserving favorite was a good second behind the romping Audible in his seasonal debut in GP’s GII Holy Bull in February and has finally settled on his second start after being entered a few times around the country, with weather, stablemates, and other factors at play. The second from Romans continued a trend of a slow 2yo blowing past his best form in his 3yo debut, as that Holy Bull run was far and away the fastest this son of Union Rags has ever run, though it also has the “someone had to be second” label attached to it. On the face of it, he’s supposed to be tough in here, as the pace will suit his style, and he did do some big things as a juvenile, but he’s also a bit tough to trust and will be a huge underlay at this ML, so while he’s due a lot of respect, he’s hardly overwhelming either; second-best.
#7 Old Time Revival (15-1): Speedster just failed to last when second, beaten a neck, in the one-turn mile Miracle Wood at Laurel and will certainly be on the go from this outside draw today, as he’s shown only one way of running in last three starts. Homebred son of Brethren comes in for a Decker barn that rarely visits these parts, so it’s a good sign to see him enter here, even though this colt seems a bit outgunned in what is his graded stakes debut. Speed is always a dangerous asset in racing, but there’s some to his inside, and especially to his outside, so lasting to the wire doesn’t seem to be in the cards; know him early, but not late.
#8 Nine Route (30-1): Streaking New York-bred is another who will add plenty of fuel to the pace fire, as he’s essentially wired for fun in his last three starts against far lesser in the Empire ranks and will now test open foes for the first time. If you’re a fan of Jeremiah Englehart (and it’s hard not to be, for many reasons), you’re going to get your guy at a big, big price, and he doesn’t often run them where they can’t compete, but while this son of The Factor is going to have himself a nice year and build a big bankroll, this won’t be the spot that adds to the resume; pop and stop time.
#9 Enticed (7-2): The trickiest of reads made some headlines when he gutted out the GII Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs for McLaughlin to end his 2yo campaign in November and started in the Holy Bull comfortably in the top-10 of many Derby Future Books. Well, we all know how that turned out, as he was a dreadful fourth as the heavy favorite, beaten some 14 3/4 lengths by Audible, but just as importantly, 9 1/4 lengths by ‘Billy, so this son of Medaglia d’Oro better turn it around in a hurry if he wants to make any waves on the Derby Trail this year. And sure, he’s allowed to build off what was his seasonal debut, but the real thing to consider here is that this dude was sent to Florida for a major two-turn campaign, so after one poor run, to see him rerouted to South Ozone Park for the (in the grand scheme of things) minor one-turn GIII Gotham isn’t a ringing endorsement of not only his current form, but what they think of his prospects either; “prove it” time.
#1 Dial Operator
#6 Free Drop Billy
#9 Enticed
#5 Firenze Fire
March 9, 2018 in Kentucky Derby 2018. Tags: Aqueduct Racetrack, Aqueduct winter 2018, Brian Nadeau, handicapping, Kentucky Derby 2018, the Gotham
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Murray Guy
Moyra Davey’s career spans decades and is characterized by a kind of fascination with intimacy. Her earlier photographs train a tender eye on the everyday, lingering close to New York City newsstands, old pennies, or the dust under furniture. Her more recent move into video work fleshed out this aesthetic into personal narratives, with Davey reading essays over video filmed mostly in her apartment to tell stories about her sisters, her psychoanalysis, her reading.
Her work is, indeed, confessional in nature. But it’s compelling less for the ways in which Davey herself emerges from the narratives she constructs, and more for her exploration of autobiography as a formal structure. This crystallizes particularly well in the exhibition 7 Albums, which includes a selection of double-exposures, collage-like tableaus, and her signature folded-and-mailed prints, as well as her 2015 film Notes on Blue, originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center).
Moyra Davey, Dust, Amp, Trees (2016), 4 C-prints, tape, postage, ink, 12 x 18 inches each, 24 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches overall. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy, New York.
Notes follows the format of her previous films: Davey’s essayistic narration—which we sometimes see in action, the artist pacing and reading out loud in her apartment—links together its subsections. Its narrative develops in an open-ended way, propelled by the inclusion of older footage and uncharacteristically dreamy choreographed sequences of a woman wearing wings and performing on subway platforms. As always, the artist’s reading (along with viewing and listening) plays a key role; in addition to parsing through Borges, Anne Sexton, and P.J. Harvey, among others, the work, as its title suggests, owes much to Derek Jarman, whose Blue, a 1993 rumination on his deteriorating health at the hands of AIDS, becomes a way for Davey to discuss her own illness (she was diagnosed about a decade ago with multiple sclerosis). Like all of the material in 7 Albums, the film is composed of sequences shot either in or near Davey’s home, or drawn from her archives, lending an understated quality and, for the viewer, a sense of closeness—if not quite to the artist, then at least to the physical and literary spaces in which she works.
Through its formal oddities, Notes remains consistently self-conscious about the means of its own composition. While the footage included here is never differentiated by when or how it was produced, Davey juxtaposes qualities of film, moving between stark digital realism and shots with a more textural, Super 8-like quality. Technology produces something between tension and sustained curiosity; a particularly moving sequence shows Davey watching Jarman’s Blue on her iPhone on the subway (a nod, maybe, to images in her previous work of people reading on the train). Indeed, arguably the most intimate aspect of this work—the artist’s illness, and the blindness in one eye it caused, a key point of affinity between Davey and Jarman—serves as a pathway into a formal problem: representing what you see when that sight is compromised.
Installation view: Moyra Davey: 7 Albums at Murray Guy, showing Notes on Blue (2015), HD video with sound, 28 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy, New York.
The selection of photographic works that accompany the film bear traces of the personal and nostalgic as well. As in Notes, a layering takes place: we see the past and the present meticulously—and very publicly—stacked and collaged, a deconstruction of the mechanisms of storytelling. A handful are sort of meta-images of arrangements of photographs in Davey’s home; in one, a large, wrinkled, black-and-white print hangs loose on a wall, adorned with a few smaller images as well as a scarf affixed at its top edge. On the glass table in front of this are small, colorful stars cut from Davey’s 1990s close-up photographs of sales receipts (also reappearing here in the form of a mailer work). Another triptych of photographs shows a similar tableau, but this time the large piece on the wall is accompanied by an image of a notebook containing notes on Jean Genet (a subject of Davey’s film Fifty Minutes). The same scene grows messier as one reads the images from left to right, the third photograph a double exposure in which the references contained are all but illegible.
Early in the film, Davey paraphrases a quote from Rainer Werner Fassbinder that has previously surfaced in her interviews and exhibition texts, invoking his idea of “the very personal having a wide resonance.” This idea, well-proven by the glut of first person media circulating at present, points to what’s so relatable about Davey’s work, as dense and angular as it can become in its textual references and narrative idiosyncrasies. But in Notes on Blue, as with elsewhere in Davey’s practice, this notion also nods to a kind of economical scale in art-making—an almost punk sense of how much one can do with images and memories they already possess. Set squarely within the framework of her own preexisting world, it’s Davey’s formal imagination that pushes an accessible and quotidian image-language into something beyond simple nonfiction.
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Where things stand.
I remember when I first realized that Mark Richt was taking the program some place it hadn’t been in a long time. Ironically, that time came during a loss – the ’02 Florida game. But it was at some time during the first half when I saw the defense routinely (key word, there) stuffing an offense that had given it nothing but fits for more than a decade that I knew those guys could play with anybody. There was an attitude, a confidence about the way they went about their business that made me feel like that. And it started with the guy at the top.
So if you’re expecting me to start raving about how it’s time for Richt to go, or how Damon needs to start issuing ultimatums today, by Gawd, then this post is going to be a disappointment. Mark Richt is a good man and a great head coach. He hasn’t stopped being either of those.
But… but. I’ve read Macon Dawg’s reasoned, thoughtful comments about how this isn’t the first time Georgia’s suffered a humiliating loss, and while I agree to a point with his reasoning, I think there’s more going on than that. Mark Richt wakes up this morning as the captain of a very dysfunctional ship. I doubt there’s anyone in the Dawgnation, including the head coach, who feels same way about the program today as I did in Jacksonville seven years ago.
If I had to put my finger on what’s wrong, I’d call it a crisis of faith. I don’t mean that in a religious sense. (By the way, of all the arguments I’ve seen about what’s wrong, blaming Coach Richt’s religious convictions for the slide has to rank as the dumbest.) Rather, it’s a systemic doubt: the coaches lack faith in the players to execute and the players lack faith in the coaches’ ability to deploy them efficiently and effectively.
Speaking of irony, how else can you describe that in Richt’s self-proclaimed year without stars, this team seems more reliant than ever on hoping that it can ride sheer talent to get through a game? That’s why the offense goes through complete games where the winning strategy is little more than throw it to A.J. And that’s why you see dumb decisions on the field every week, like Prince Miller electing to return a punt from his goal line.
I’m certain Miller knows in the aftermath it was a silly thing to do. We’ll probably hear an acknowledgement from him of that some time this week, just like we heard from Brandon Boykin last week about his decision to run back an interception from deep in his end zone. But in the heat of the moment, look for these kids to keep doing things just like that – because that’s what Georgia football boils down to these days, hoping that somebody can pull off a game saving play all by their lonesome. It’s certainly entertaining, but it’s no way to sustain a program over the course of a season. Or seasons, as it’s starting to appear.
And that’s why I have to beg to differ with Macon Dawg, at least a little. What depresses me the most about what I saw yesterday is that none of the bad happened in a vacuum. There were plenty of little instances and bigger things that echo developments we’ve been observing for some time now.
Here are three of those things for you to ponder as much as I have:
Blair Walsh. Here’s a stat that should blow you away – Walsh leads the SEC in touchbacks. Let me say that again. Blair Walsh has had more kickoffs result in touchbacks than any other kicker in the SEC. He’s made all his PATs and he’s 9 of 10 in field goal attempts. 50+ yard field goals are getting to be the norm for him. In short, he’s having an all-SEC season. Yet to hear it from his coaches, you’d think he’s a significant part of Georgia’s special teams problems. The insistence on directional kicking in the face of Walsh’s leg strength has gone from puzzling to frustrating to absurd. Insane is just around the corner, I’m afraid.
Jonathan Crompton had a career day. Willie Martinez’ epitaph? If not his, sad to say, it may wind up as Richt’s. You simply can’t survive as a head coach at Georgia if your teams can’t play defense competently. And at this point, I’d settle quite happily for competence. There’s no other way to say it than that Georgia’s defense is flat out bad right now. The team’s Pavlovian reactions to misdirection and play action are predictable, to the point of being reliable – just ask Kiffin – and are exacerbated by poor fundamentals. The number of quarterbacks (and tight ends) who have enjoyed Georgia’s defensive bounty grows at a consistent and alarming rate. That’s the worst part of Crompton’s performance: nobody was surprised.
Spiking the ball with one second on the clock. I don’t know who made that Reggie-Ball-on-fourth-down-esque decision. But it’s embarrassing that anyone associated with this program did. In fact, I’m hard-pressed to think of another SEC coach that would try something like that.
If it sounds like I’m putting the onus of the situation on the coaches’ shoulders, you’re right. The first responsibility of a good coach isn’t recruiting or scheme or play calling, although they’re all important. It’s motivation. It’s getting your kids to buy into what you’re doing and believing that the program has an identity. It’s why Tennessee smoked Georgia yesterday. It’s why Georgia is going to struggle to win seven games this year.
And there simply isn’t a valid excuse as to why this program, with all of the talent and resources it has at hand, should have to struggle to do that. The rock music critic Greil Marcus had a great line about Rod Stewart – rarely has a singer betrayed his talent so completely – that isn’t on point for Mark Richt, at least not yet. But it concerns me that it still came to mind unbidden after watching yesterday’s loss. Right now, if there’s a bigger underachiever in college football than this Georgia squad, I can’t think of it.
It’s not realistic to expect changes between now and season’s end. And I don’t want Richt rushing off half cocked on big changes, anyway. (Besides, who could he bring in midseason, even if he wanted to make a change in coaching?)
But there’s one change he could and should make now. They need to quit throwing kids under the bus in public. That’s not to say that there aren’t some decisions on the personnel front that are due. But the comments in the press need to stop. In some cases, like Walsh’s, they’re not only disheartening, they’re increasingly stupid in light of the performance on the field. And whatever else Richt has to say to Martinez this week, something needs to be said about behaving like a petulant adolescent during a game when a player makes a mistake. Throwing a clipboard after a penalty may feel good, but it looks bad. There’s a reason Spurrier is mocked for acting like that. There’s also a reason he gets away with it. And Willie doesn’t have that luxury.
It’s apparent from their post game comments that these kids are hurting. Yet they’ve managed to acknowledge how things are falling short without pointing fingers in the press at themselves or their coaches. There’s a dignity in kids like Rennie Curran that deserves our support. And that of the coaches.
One last thing. I hope this is just a sentiment of the moment, and I know it’s hard to resist circling the wagons when things are going badly, but Mark Richt needs to reconsider and reject this kind of thinking:
“If you’re a leader or a player and you are brave enough to be in the arena, there’s going to be people outside the arena that want to throw things at you and say things about you,” Richt said. “But there’s honor in being in the arena, and a lot of people don’t understand it because they’ve never been in there.”
Coach, you’re better than that. We’re not the issue here. The real problems you face are fixable, although the fix won’t be pleasant. It’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. After all, it’s not like you haven’t done it before. I’ve no doubt you’re capable of doing it again.
129 responses to “Where things stand.”
Senator – well said.
Excellent Post.. in some ways it hurts to read, too.. but… the truth hurts.
We have gotten by on individual performances and you can’t do that.
It’s time for the coaches to say, “We (the coaches) need to do a better job, because we aren’t getting it done” and lay off the kids. We know the kids are making mistakes; we can see it. We don’t need the coaches to accentuate it.
BlunderingAmerican
Good post, though I’m not sure Richt has the fire in his belly to do what it takes. It’s not always easy to recapture it once it’s lost.
By the way, are you the same Senator on the DawgVent?
Senator Blutarsky was my handle on the pre-Rivals Vent. When Rivals took it over, it required re-registration and that gentleman beat me to the punch, unfortunately.
So the short answer is no.
Someone else has a “Get the Picture” handle but that person doesn’t strike me as being the same person, but I wonder how much confusion there is.
cjwestbrook
Oh, I just assumed it was the same. I guess I’ll stop making a priority to read that guy’s stuff now. Though he does strike a resemblance.
SilverDawgFrank
I plead on the altar of forgiveness, Senator, for my passions running amuck yesterday and yanking tangential arguments of the air (and elsewhere). Usually a more reasonable man prevails in my old frame. My better spirit was decidedly undercoached.
Great column. Well said. Richt can right the ship.
That I do believe.
Nice commentary.
I have a different opinion of what a coach’s first responsibility is. I think teaching technique is co-equal with motivation. Technique is molecular level football: where do linemen put their hands, how many steps in a pattern, who do I look at to do my reads.
The position coaches are supposed to teach technique, and the coordinators and head coach are the motivators and planners. The head coach and coordinators tell the position coaches what techniques to teach.
The combination of technique and motivation produces confident well trained 20 year olds. The closest analogy is military basic training.
I don’t know enough X’s and O’s to judge where the fault lies here, but I think our coordinators have lost faith in themselves, and players can tell when that happens.
Dead on man, a scene from the movie Patton has been popping through my head since yesterday, the scene where General Patton says: ”You want to know why this army got the hell kicked out of it at Kasserine, a blind man could see it in a minute, they don’t look like soldiers, they don’t act like soldiers, why the hell should they be expected to fight like soldiers”. It is obvious our defense is poorly trained and disciplined, we are not lacking raw talent. One of the reasons I have always thought Richt had a chance to be a great one was that he did not appear to have too much pride to see his own faults, learn and adapt. He appears to have a blind spot when it comes to his friend Willie Martinez though, I have the feeling he would not tolerate that kind of failure out of himself. I know he is a loyal guy and I respect that but as head football coach at UGA his duty to his players and his fans must override his duty to his friend. Willie has got to go and Richt has got to find someone who can light a fire under the defense again (not Muschamp).
The Original Chuck
I think that’s fundamental, and unfortunately, it appears to be the thing Richt least understands. All this talk about execution in very vague terms rather than as a biproduct of process is not good.
Great post Senator.
During the game, I was bothered by what I perceived to be Richt’s lack of emotion, almost looking aloof even. After a night to sleep on it, I’m wondering if what I saw was more like a man who is appalled at what he’s seeing and knows he’s going to have to fire some people that are very close to him. He’s a good man to be sure, so if he’s feeling that way (and I hope he is), then that’s the only rationale I can see for his demeanor yesterday. Any thoughts?
Richt usually doesn’t get too emotional on the sidelines- he has, but usually he doesn’t. It is part of who he is and also was developed while he was an OC, so that instead of venting, he could call the next play. This point was commented on by several writers and announcers back in the good days, stating that while at times some fire would be good, the calm would also help when things got bad, the team wouldn’t panic and would just go to work at rallying.
NebraskaDawg
Will Richt wind up like Fulmer and fall on the sword instead of firing some of his assisstants? I hope not. But if Richt continues with the status quo then he may go that route. How long have we been talking about the same problems under Richt? The team looks poorly coached. We look so predictable on both sides of the ball it is pathetic. They make no adjustments and continue to fall for the same shit on defense (especially play action pass of which you’d think our defense would be good against since it the same exact damn thing we run on our offense). If Richt decides not to make any changes then accountablility lies squarely on his shoulders.
rbubp
Accountability always lies squarely on the head coach’s shoulders. It’s one of the beautiful things about college football–you can’t blame the meddling owner, the salary cap, or the idiot GM.
Actually there is a “meddling owner” and “idiot GM.” He’s called an AD and his name is Damon Evans. I will not go into everything he has done to facilitate where we are now in this post but, suffice to say, he definitely deserves at least some of the blame.
You sound like prototypical message board guy.
“I’m not gonna say anything, but I know something that you don’t, thereby increasing my anonymous credibility when anything happens, allowing me to point back to me saying I knew something. Granted what I knew wasn’t what happened, but it was something, so I was still right.”
You must be new to this blog. I have made NUMEROUS detailed posts here over the entire course of the season about Damon Evans’ deficiencies as AD. First, the entire season got off to an awful start when he subjected his team to the indignity of opening on the road as cannonfodder for the grand reopening of a top 10 ranked team’s stadium where they got mercilessly home-cooked by the refs. I figure in an honestly reffed game the Dawgs win that one 17-10 or at worst it goes into OT.( I bet you didn’t know that Jerry Jones offered $8.5 Million to move that game to the new Dallas Cowboy Stadium-a neutral site-and Okie State turned it down. I wonder why?) Second, by now it is beyond argument that something rotten has been going on with the Dawgs and SEC referees. What has Damon Evans done about that? Nothing! The theft by the refs of what should have been a win over LSU had as much to do with the TN loss as anything ( I wrote a detailed post on how fragile the confidence of 19 year old kids is) and our AD does nothing. Third, the scheduling miscues that have come to fruition this season are monumental. UGA had at least 4 “trap games” on the schedule this year. We finish the season against KY and GT back to back and both of them have a bye week before playing UGA but UGA does not. This is systematically setting your team up for failure. So, if you don’t know about what is going on, just read and maybe you’ll learn something.
The usual BS.
Conspiracy-laden crap with no actual information, just pure outlandish speculation–“the refs are agin’ us”–come on.
and by the way, the referees didn’t make us give up a huge kickoff return after the TD–for the umpteenth time this year!!!, or make us miss a field goal that would have changed the last LSU series, or allow a running play to go 30+ yards with the game on the line.
Refs didn’t do any of that. Shut your face about the damn referees already.
Excuse me? How do refs have anything to do with scheduling games where the other teams have an extra week to get ready and your team doesn’t? We have THREE of those ( Arkansas was one, too) on the schedule this year.
Ooh, three? In one season in the last 6 or 7, Alabama had 7 such games.
I didn’t know that. What year, and what was ” Bama’s record that year?
You’re the one who brought up not addressing the so-called ref conspiracy.
And as for scheduling, well, f’ing grow a pair. Wasn’t it Richt who whined about Jacksonville, too?
You want to play with the big boys, start freaking being one.
Go check Tennessee’s schedule from last season, Mayor.
the tri guy
Dude, KY doesn’t have a bye before playing us, and even if they did, they are KY. We really shouldn’t need them to be worn out to beat them.
Tri guy, I checked it out and you are right–my bad.
Dawggonepanic
We are a football program in trouble! We can’t block anyone and we can’t tackle anyone. This is the worst secondary I can remember in UGA history. Yet week after week we see the same people make the same mistakes and they still remain starters. It make me wonder what is going on in Athens w/ our coaches. This year has been unbelievable. Are the players really this bad or are the coaches this bad. According to the recruiting rankings it is the coaches. I thought they could turn things around after last year but I was wrong and this is unacceptable. Some changes must be made!
Oh by the way, solid anaylsis Senator.
i’ve wondered before about richt’s staffing choices (duh). he’s had remarkable stability in terms of low turnover. i thought last season that stability played a role in keeping martinez – take a chance on him improving so that you don’t have turmoil in the ranks with coaches vying for the dc slot and the silver-medalist leaving (i.e. – rodney garner going somewhere else in the conference). but dear lord he’s going to have to do something now. no revelations here, but i wonder how this shakes up beyond the dc level.
bobo is more of a puzzle. does richt resume play calling and keep bobo on? i dunno. but he certainly appears to be the one who is most lost without stafford and moreno.
i completely agree that richt is a great coach and person having one hell of a bad year. but when he has screwed things up before he has taken responsibility (recall the jasper-dive with seconds evaporating against auburn, and richt ‘fessing up to his own fault and addressing it explicitly in the off season).
lastly – i think we now more fully understand just how good of a coach van gorder is…
God I hope not…Bobo does what he can although lately his game calling has been off and I can give no reason why that should be. I think it’s as the great senator said, its a crisis of faith.
I saw Richt try to do things that didnt work until they did way more than bobo ever has. Bobo is good for a few failed plays before he moves onto something else, rather than trying it the whole game. Richt doesn’t always seem to have that going for him.
Athens Avenger
Excellent treatment. Richt has a tough road ahead to get back to where he was, but I believe he will get there.
I am going to write off the “honor in the arena” remark as regrettable words spoken in a moment of personal crisis. In a world where the average fan lives in fear of the next mortgage payment, I know (hope?) that Richt would never intentionally imply that only he and his well-paid staff understand the “honor” inherent in fighting to survive.
I’ve also been perplexed at the lack of confidence in Blair Walsh. The kid has been for the most part fantastic. He is one of only a handful of kickers in the country that is almost automatic from 50+. They bring in yet another scholarship kicker in the off season when Walsh could kick it in the endzone all along. Fabris is a joke.
On-point and well said Senator. If changes are to be made and I doubt that will happen, I hope it’s after signing day. If changes are made mid-stream I’m afraid some of the kids will jump ship. I don’t think re-evaluating is going to cut it this time. That was supposed to have already been done last year. I know Coach Richt knows 100 time more about football than I and I’m sure he knows what the coaches are capable of, but when you have a former player that was a receiver coaching running backs and a former running back coaching receivers there is doubt that they are up to the task. I wish we all knew what the answers are and I guess the coaches do too. It’s sad that we can’t compete against a new coaching staff as in Tenn. and ours have been there for 9 years. I think coach Richt is trying his best to be a head coach without being an actual coach but he may need to be more hands on again and that’s tough row to hoe.
Excellent post, Senator.
I too am very disheartened by Mark Richt’s increasing penchant for blaming the players or the critics. It doesn’t look good, it doesn’t set a good tone, and most of all it won’t work.
from a buddy...
This came from a buddy of mine…
“Check out these stats:
Season Highs (For most Career Highs)
Arkansas Ryan Mallet 408 yards vs UGA (next best game was 309 yards vs Missouri State)
South Carolina Stephen Garcia 313 yards vs UGA (next best game was 222 yards vs Florida Atlantic)
Tennessee Jonathan Crompton 310 yards vs UGA (next best game was 259 yards vs Auburn)
Next Best Game
LSU Jordan Jefferson 212 yards vs UGA (best game was 233 vs Mississippi State)”
Telling.
We just can’t execute, I guess.
Nice post, Senator. I enjoy your work.
When hiring partners or C-level execs, venture capitalists often talk of “pattern recognition.” They’re looking for people who’ve seen enough startup trajectories to see parallels, to ask the right questions and to understand the implications of acting and not acting.
I look at Richt from 2006 on, and I’m unshakably led to Fulmer, 2005-2008; Donnan, 1998-2000, Dooley, 1984-1988; Tuberville, 2006-2008; Majors and Dye, 1990-1992. Each coach saw the competitive landscape around him change, and each was eventually overwhelmed.
Some stood pat, wrongly thinking that football strategy is a carved-in-stone thing: what works, works — always and forever.
Others flailed about, juggling staff. But the new hires were hired by the same guy who hired the last batch. Sometimes they caught lightning in a bottle (Borges, 2004; Garner, 2000). But, in the big picture, it amounted to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
I want to see Richt succeed. I like him as a person. But I don’t see many second acts in this game, and Richt is at the end of his first.
I haven’t felt this grim about Georgia football since my student years (1993-1996). Going forward, we can be occasionally good under Richt, but the longer we accept good, the longer we postpone great.
Problem is too many people here are fine with good. Talk to people at the game, and to a man they’ll tell you how come you’ve got crazy expectations if you’re unhappy with the fact that we win roughly 10 games a year. They tend to ignore the ways we’ve managed to loose the other 3ish games each season, however. The amount of excuses after last years amazingly disappointing 10-3 was completely stunning on so many levels I almost gave up then.
Texas_Dawg
Do you really think the coach is the reason a team shot through with injuries and an OL with no one older than their sophomore year is the reason UGA didn’t beat Florida and win the MNC? How many SECCs or MNCs have had such problems?
Yeah, you do have very irrational expectations if you think firing a head coach who had Georgia (historically, an upper Tier 2 program, by the way), in the top 10 6 of his first 8 seasons including 2 SECC seasons and 2 seasons that have been good enough to make the MNC game for other SEC MNC winners this decade (who simply got a better luck of the draw, which the MNC game requires), is a good idea.
The problem isn’t people settling. The problem is all yours… and it is a very common error made by CFB fans with tunnel vision on their own team.
Um, we finished #2 in the country in 2007, fwiw. Where does that fit in the patterns of the others you mentioned?
Pretty consistently, I’d say. Fulmer rebounded after 2005’s 5-7 season to kick our asses twice in a row and went to Atlanta in 2007. We thought Ray Goff was on to something in ’92. Auburn was ranked #5 coming into Athens in ’07. All were mirages.
I’m glad you brought up 2007, because that’s lynchpin for every status-quo-er in our fanbase. That was a great team that had no business watching the SECC from home. That said, way too much has been made of the strong finish. That ’07 Florida team was a broken one, as was Auburn. Gailey was on the way out at Tech, and Hawai’i, well, come on. We beat those teams like we should have, and we lost to SC and Tennessee like we shouldn’t have.
I don’t know that I’m ready to see Richt fired. But when I ask myself if I believe Richt is going to get us back in Atlanta in early December, I look at what’s brewing in Gainesville and Knoxville and no rational part of me can come up with an argument for why I should say yes.
“Status quo-er.”
That’s cute. (Especially coming from someone who admits he too supports the status quo (keeping Richt).)
Nice downplaying of 2007, fwiw, but it is what it is: a year in which, comparing the full resumes of every CFB program that year, Georgia had the 2nd best performance of all of them.
And the Fulmer comparison is cute… but his 2006 and 2007 teams each lost 4 games. He then had a 2008 that completely melted down. Richt’s 2007-2009 is not even remotely close to that.
I’m not going to get in a pissing match online, especially with someone who appears to be in violent agreement with me.
I’ve acknowledged the possibility that Richt could surprise me by radically overhauling his staff (Mack Brown is a case study of how episodes like this can be overcome), while expressing my skepticism that he’ll do so.
But who knows? Richt has surprised me before. When a 9-year veteran of the league and a full roster of top-10 recruiting classes gets run out of the stadium by a rookie coach with an incomplete roster, it would be hard to see that as anything other than a cataclysmic event. Richt just hasn’t acknowledged it as such, hence my skepticism.
Senator – very well put.
I agree completely that throwing kids under the bus is ludicrous. But I’m amazed at the expectations of many bloggers/posters that the coaches are going to say something really introspective or uplifting in a post-loss press conference. Some act like they want to hear Richt/Willie/Bobo/Fabris throw each other under the bus or bang on the table and act like lunatics to prove they’re angry about losing. That’s a ridiculous expectation that wouldn’t do a damn thing to change anyone’s feelings about the loss. They probably understand that the more they say, the more ammunition they give to their critics. Specific tactics are easier to assail than general remarks.
Frustration is high after such a brutal loss and accountability should be expected in any profession. But it’s not going to be debated publicly by the coaching staff or administrators and no changes are going to be made mid-season. I realize that many feel like changes were due at the end of last season so they’re extrapolating to the end of this year and assuming that the same will hold true (because of Richt’s “loyalty”). I say let it play out before making judgments. Even though the beginnings of the “systemic doubt” may have come last year or earlier, I didn’t really expect that UGA would make changes after finishing #2 in 2007 and starting #1, finishing #10 and winning 10 games in 2008 (that hardly sounds like rock-bottom where change would be a given).
This year, the confusion and lack of productivity on both sides of the ball is, I believe, apparent to everyone – including the coaches. Candidly, I don’t expect or want Richt to start publicly stating that things need to change in the next six games or someone’s getting fired. But I do hold hope that appropriate personnel decisions are made if/when (depending on your perspective) the same problems continue through the remainder of the season.
As self-serving as they may have been, Bobby Bowden’s comments aired during last night’s game were applicable – “a head coach ain’t nothin’ but a dadgum problem solver” (or something very close to that). UGA needs to solve some problems and it’s looking like personnel changes may be warranted at the end of the year. If Richt has truly transformed from position coach to head coach, then he’ll manage change for the good of the program rather than the good of his staff and friends. I’m not going to assume he won’t act in that manner. It appears that this might be the kind of season where it’s a lot easier to make those kind of decisions when the season is done.
The only thing that I’m virtually certain of is that Mark Richt will be UGA’s coach next year. Any speculation about next year should focus on who would be part of Richt’s staff – not who will replace Richt and who will he bring with him. I do wonder about the staff dynamics at UGA versus at other schools. I’m quite sure that the everyday environment at UGA (under Richt) is quite different than at places like Tennessee. The kind of coach that will be attracted to some places won’t be attracted to UGA. And, if they would be offered and accept, the fit might be dysfunctional (see Tony Franklin at Auburn). Could you ever see a guy like Orgeron working with someone like Richt?
It’s likely that coordinator selections would have to come from lower divisions, second-tier BCS conferences or second-rate teams in first-tier BCS conferences. Sometimes, selections work out OK (Fresno State OC to Bama; Malzahn to Auburn – so far) and other times not so well (Richmond coach to UT; Franklin). Unfortunately, many Dawg fans seem to think we should be able to attract Tony Dungy as our D.C. and Bill Walsh (if he wasn’t dead) as our O.C. I very much doubt that UGA’s selections will come from the NFL. And, if they do, they’ll probably be someone we’ve never heard of (no, it won’t be Van Gorder).
Last, Richt will have to concern himself with how his hiring decisions affect current coaches he wants to keep. Will Garner leave if he doesn’t get the D.C. job? Given his recruiting prowess, he may be the one person that is deemed irreplaceable on the staff. What would the reaction be if we hire unknown coordinators and Garner bolts?
Most of the short lists that are thrown out by bloggers and posters focus on head coaches. And most of them are crazy (Gruden, Cowher, D. Dooley). Some are coordinator suggestions but typically “homers” (Muschamp, Smart). I think it would be interesting for more educated fans than me to speculate on who the most interesting coordinators are (i.e., who is this year’s Malzahn? where’s the up and coming Charlie Strong?)
Prosticutor
Putting things in perpective (as you have here), I was listening to a national sports call-in show after Southern Cal lost a few weeks ago. Wouldn’t you know it, people were screaming for Carrol’s head, that he’s lost his touch, the game has moved past him, that he can’t recruit anymore, ad nausem.
That crazy talk sure did sound familiar, and all I could do was chuckle at those comments.
Thanks for the perspective. I absolutely agree about all of the coaching stuff; it will be people we’ve not heard of–college coaches, come on no NFL guy wants to step down from college and have to recruit unless they are just run completely out of there or came from it first, like Kiffin–unless we’re lucky enough to score perhaps Tommy Tuberville (which would seem to depend of personalities and how/if TT would want to get back in the game). But it would be nice to have a substantial discussion on this, and even whether CWM would be able to resume as secondary coach.
But I do have to dissent about the coaching comments. No, Richt is not going to blame his coaches or discuss strategy in a detailed way, and he is right to do that.
But what gets people so hopping, including me, is that he seems to want to lay blame everywhere else in subtle ways, i.e. Blair Walsh, Joe Cox’s “regression” non-denial yesterday, the constant execution excuse, the scheduling, being number one pre-season, having “stars,” being the favorite, the travel between games…
It seems that this crap didn’t happen a few years ago.
In that vein, I’d say shoot for Dana Holgoren (Houston OC, former Texas Tech OC but they had a 1,200 yard rusher last year and put up solid #s against every auto-BCS team they faced) for OC and TCU’s Dick Bumpas for DC.
And longshot (maybe) DC? Tuberville. He was DC for wrecking crew Texas A&M and Miami under Jimmy Johnson, and other than against us, his last few Auburn squads weren’t giving up 40 spots (plus he held that record-breaking 2007 Florida team to 17 points.)
His biggest weakness before the Tony Franklin Project fizzled was losing to teams he shouldn’t, but was excellent at beating rivals and Florida.
Also, it doesn’t get said enough, but Jancek should join Willie on the way out–other than Rennie we don’t hear much about our linebackers, and it’s the entire back seven biting on seemingly every play-action fake.
Those are the kind of interesting names (Holgoren, Bumpas) that I ‘m talking about. I agree that Tuberville is a longshot and, probably, a poor fit. But I think fans and players could get excited about coordinators that would put us in a position to win with a combination of scheme and athleticism rather than athleticism alone. (Even then, Richt and Evans will never please everyone – I’m sure you can imagine the reaction of some long-time Dawgs about hiring a Texas Tech coordinator)
Next year, whoever the coordinators are, I’d like to see opposing defenses looking confused and desperate (like our D often looks). And I’d like to see opposing offenses looking confused and timid (like our O often looks).
Another thing I’ve wondered about is what goes on in the offseason amongst a long-tenured staff like Georgia has. I believe one of the reasons that staffs wear out their welcome is because of their tenure and tendency to keep doing the same things year in and year out. Over time, there’s plenty of film to use to see what works and what doesn’t. Rather than solely thinking about how we’re going to scheme for other teams and their tendencies, are our coaches asking “how do other teams scheme for us” and “how can we make changes to make sure our schemes are evolving/unpredictable”? I really haven’t seen much evidence that’s the case.
We’re not going to get that kind of insight from our current SEC competitors but I would think ex-coaches like Tuberville and Croom would be able to provide great insight that would help our coaches to improve scheme. It’s apparent that coaches have learned how to prepare for UGA and there are quite a few game tapes that now act as a handbook for game prep.
I just don’t see Tubberville taking a step back to DC. I think he will wait for another HC job. Maybe at A&M or something like that.
One other thing I wonder about on offense is whether Richt is married to the idea of having QBs read the defense and make adjustments at the line. That’s an area that I think was ripe for evolution this year with a first year – albeit “experienced” – quarterback. Next year will be even more pronounced with a RS sophomore or freshman starting at QB with no game experience.
I recognize that UGA’s pro-style approach with the QB making the reads and running the offense is what attracts guys like Stafford to sign up. And reading comments like Schwartz’s about Stafford’s preparation for the NFL are flattering to UGA’s approach. But isn’t it too much to ask a typical 20 year old kid at ground level to make the necessary adjustments to beat top-notch defenses?
I will one-up your crazy….
We get Monte Kiffin as DC.
DallasDawg
“Georgia Embarrassed” That’s the headline in today’s Dallas Morning News which gives quite a bit of coverage to UGA; the lasting impact of Stafford I guess.
Seriously, as I’ve watched our opponents (even the losers) this season I generally think they’ve come into the game with a plan that plays to their strengths and exploits our (many it seems) weaknesses yet I don’t see that UGA approaches the games with any real plan at all. We seem to trot out the same the same group and tell them (via the play calling and defensive schemes) to do the same things regardless of who we are playing. Maybe a break a the directional kicking thing isn’t an example of this but otherwise I think I’m right. Are we not looking at who’s on the schedule and trying to come up with a plan to beat that specific team?
While we’ve still got time maybe we should start practicing with only one thing in mind: beating Tech. I don’t see us doing much else at this point that would salvage the season any meaningful way.
It is pretty obvious that this is happening. Along with the play-action, Kiffin determined that a. his QB sucks under pressure but can roll out ok; b. our LBs cannot cover any receivers; c. we blitz up the middle this year, for personnel, scheme, or whatever other reasons.
So a and b we can’t much help in-game. But C, we can do something about that. Did we try to bring pressure from the edges? I gave up on the game in the 3rd after it was 31-19 and wasn’t looking for this. Anyone?
There is one simple problem with our team (hint it’s NOT Richt): it’s Van Gorder vs. Willie….that’s almost the only difference here (we run the same offense – I think Bobo is better than Richt was).
Simple fact is, we haven’t had a defense play WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT since 2004. In 2005, we had the Auburn collapse and West Virginia. 2006, Tennessee 2nd half. 2007, Tennessee again. 2008, umm….Bama, Florida, Kentucky, Tech…lol. 2009, we have South Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee. These are all absolute utter collapses. I was in Knoxville yesterday, and I was laughing it was so bad. We will never again win consistently with Willie has our defensive coordinator. Yes our offense is horrible this year…..but in the past, that didn’t mean an automatic loss.
There is one thing to do and everyone either knows or SHOULD know what it is by now. Facts don’t lie, and our defense is terrible. They even cracked during the Florida-LSU game about LSU driving late in the game that, “this isn’t any Georgia defense” and laughed and said, “True.” We’re the punch line to jokes about defense in the SEC.
If that isn’t enough to make something happen, I don’t know what will do it. When we’re the national laughingstock for defense, Georgia has fallen hard and fast.
“They even cracked during the Florida-LSU game about LSU driving late in the game that, “this isn’t any Georgia defense” and laughed and said, “True.” We’re the punch line to jokes about defense in the SEC.” -WOW …I did not hear that. Sad.
Farsider
“…. I had to put my finger on what’s wrong, I’d call it a crisis of faith…….”
Brother you read my mind. All night I was thinking about things and I kept coming back to a phrase of “lack of belief” or “crisis of confidence” in describing this team. But motivation is not all on the coaches. Players have to buy in and motivate themselves, too. And as you pointed out so well, that just is not happening because the players don’t have faith/confidence/belief.
It would really, really, really behoove the coaching staff to stop the passive-aggressive bullsh*t with the fans.
The fans say directional kicking isn’t working. The fans are 106% right. Admit it and move on.
jdawg
The disheartening part is that the team had “faith” in the pre-season and up to the LSU game. That game seems to have broken the players. The offense hasn’t moved the ball effectively in the past 3 games. The Defense must be getting tired of playing all game. Seems as though they are sensing that something isn’t working.
We were unquestionably outcoached AND out played against Tenn. The offense and defense were completely out schemed. They had a plan to exploit what we have been doing: the same plays over and over, the same offensive and defensive formations. I believe that Richt can turn it around, but wish the bye was this week.
The sad part is that being from the NFL they didn’t have to work too hard to scheme us. On both sides of the ball the Pro’s handled the amateurs with great ease.
I see very few people blaming his religion. Instead, I see people pointing out that our fans use his religion as an excuse so as to never put any pressure on the man. I’m thrilled he’s a great human being and a wonderful Christian, but the amount of people who that placates after every loss is ultimately the most frustrating thing about our team. “Well, he’s a good Christian man.” Wonderful, but we’re paying him to be a good coach first. I just wish the fanbase would stop using his faith as a reason behind keeping him as coach.
Tenn_Dawg
My thoughts exactly. Our fans are using his Christiany as a crutch. I am a man of faith and I am glad he is a man of faith as well…..but he is paid for running a clean program and winning football games.
I have realistic expectations. I know we are not going to win every game, win SEC championships every year and NCs every five years. I do however expect the team to compete at a certain level given the resources of our program and the recruiting prowless. Getting blown out by comparable teams and barely beating teams that are not on our level is getting old.
Is it just me or does it rub others the wrong way that Richt has very little interaction with the players during the game. I never see him coaching guys up, calming them down, getting in their face, etc. He seems almost disinterested. I hate to bring the guys names up but Saban and Meyer both do this. They seem like they are involved with every aspect of the game during the game. They are interacting with the position coaches, players and co-ordinators. I know it is probably not Richt’s style but the current approach is not working.
I’ve seen this critisism several times and think it’s just way off base. Mark is very involved with the players coming on and off the field. He just doesn’t nuzzle and kiss like Meyer does to the Chosen One…thank God.
“I hate to bring the guys names up but Saban and Meyer both do this. They seem like they are involved with every aspect of the game during the game.”
So is Richt.
And FWIW, not sure what you’re seeing with Saban. 90% of the time that guy looks like he’s just strolling around.
I heard Loren Smith defend the continued employment of CWM on the grounds that his daughters go to UGA and that they bleed red and black.
BTW, I tuned into radio broadcast. The current broadcast team is great with Butler, Green, Zeier, Dantzer, Howard, Loren Smith, Williamson nd Dowdle.
But it was comical when they went to Loren on the sidelines for a comment in the 2nd half, with the score 24-19, and Loren’s sideline comment is about the good fishing in Donaldsonville, GA, where Bacarri Rambo is from.
Loren is a total douche that is a sycophant and needs to do the world a favor and retire. Did I make my feelings clearly known?
The hardest part about all of this for me is the faith that I’m losing in Richt. Since he came to UGA, I’ve been as big a supporter of Richt as anyone. I just love so many things about the guy. He’s a great man; a wonderful husband; and an outstanding father.
But as of right now, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t quickly losing faith in his ability to coach, part of which involves making whatever tough decisions are necessary for the good of the program. Surely he realizes what is involved in being a CEO-figure. I mean, … surely.
If you’d told me back in 2007 (the year of the emergence of Evil Richt) that I’d be thinking the sorts of thoughts that I am now, … I’d have said you were crazy. But if some sort of decisive changes are not made between now and Jacksonville, I’m afraid my days of Mark Richt apologia will be numbered.
Do you really think there is any way we beat Florida now? I mean, at this point I’m just hoping to upset Auburn and Georgia Tech. Asking for a victory over Florida with this group, when Richt’s GREATEST teams couldn’t pull that off, seems like asking too much.
Oh, absolutely not. I’m just thinking that, if Richt makes some sort of drastic change between now and Florida, I’d at least take that as a sign that he still recognizes that his job is first-and-foremost about winning games. But if, between now and what is arguably the biggest game of our season each year, Richt makes no observable effort whatsoever to right the ship … then I’ll take that as a sign that he’s simply conceding the rest of the season, which no coach should ever do. (The Vandy game, as far as I’m concerned, is totally irrelevant.)
There is no way that Richt or any other college coach (so no “But Saban…,” witness 2007) would make drastic changes on the order of what you’re wanting at mid-season.
Well, I never specified what sorts of changes I want made, so I find it impossible to understand how you could be so confident that Richt would never make the sorts of changes I want made mid-season.
In agreement here, but food for thought (and perhaps faith) is that CMR has made changes before (2006 and 2007, for example).
This year does seem different, though.
I fully expect to take a huge beat down by Florida, probably the worse loss ever at the hands of the gators and possibly in program history. Tebow will want to do once more just to pay us back for beating him once. I’ll beat Meyey holds all of this time outs to the last minute and calls them then just to relish in the moment.
I’d gladly take the inevitable massive loss one more time if we played Murray or whomever we think the QB of the future is just to give him some PT and put a bad taste in his mouth that I hope would turn into motivation for revenge. If he’s all people have said he is he won’t stay four years anyway so why bother with the redshirt?
To be clear, I absolutely expect us to lose to Florida. But the loss will be much easier for me to swallow if I think that, between now and then, steps have been taken to turn this back into a respected, winning football program.
I have zero hope that any action will be taken during the season. As far as UF bend over and grab your ankles because it’s not going to be pretty.
http://www.firemarkricht.net . It’s the opposite of the eric berry campaign.
If I am an OC and I look at our D I’m a happy man if I have a semi-competent passer and a good TE. We do as we have done for 9 years and I think Lane pointed it out nicely. If an NFL coach (even a bad one)can’t beat a cover 2 then he would have never been in the NFL no matter who his father was.
In defense of the O, Monty was doing back flips and said as much to see a pro type O coming to town. The man did not have to scheme for us he invented the D to stop us and he cut our heart out. Anyone that thinks Mike Bobo could make a Monty Kiffin D break a sweat is just plain nuts. We are lucky we made any 1st downs at all.
All day I watched some really great SEC D’s and what I saw made me sad. We used to have great D’s that rose up and stopped the opponent, now we have Rennie trying to cover the entire field to make saving tackles on D and kickoffs. He is being wasted. Our DC reminds me of Donald Duck as he waves his arms and whistles to get the attention of the players who are looking at him like they don’t know what the heck is going on.
Great D’s like great soldiers perform on instinct honed by training. When things start to go bad you act decisively you don’t stop to think. Lack of training causes hesitation and that causes the kind of play we are getting from our D.
Having followed UGA football for 50+ years and seen plenty of good, bad and ugly teams this is the first time I have just felt sad. I guess it comes with getting old and knowing that there are so few next years to wait and see if the Dawgs can do it.
Couldn’t agree more re: the “Arena” quote, which obviously borrows liberally from Teddy Roosevelt. Very disappointing coming from Richt. I really expect more accountability from him.
Mark really needs to consider the “Pride goeth before a fall” quote. All the great coaches of the past would never ever point fingers at anyone except themselves. Bear, Dooley, Dodd etc. they were not going to lay it off on anyone. CMR lost a lot of points with me when he made the statement about Blair’s KO’s. Just say it’s my fault and leave it at that.
The staff did the “let’s blame the best player” crap with Lumpkin in 2006. Dude whiffed on one (1) block, and he was in the doghouse the rest of the year, despite being the only offensive weapon grounded in sanity (unlike that year’s version of Stafford).
CataulaDawg
The only thing that disappoints me more than the trajectory of the season is the ruthless, irrational reaction of some of the “fans”. I appreciate seeing an articulate assessment like the Senator’s and I agree that radical coaching changes during the middle of a season won’t usually turn the season around (see: Felton, Dennis).
It’s been my observation that in leadership, if your team isn’t producing, it’s your responsibility to do something about it. If you don’t, someone up the food chain will make those decisions for you and you may not agree with the outcome.
Paging Mark Richt: please don’t let this happen.
We’ll have to see this season through, but hopefully at its conclusion we will have a coaching staff that can leverage the abundant talent and resources to maximum potential.
“I agree that radical coaching changes during the middle of a season won’t usually turn the season around (see: Felton, Dennis).”
It’s worth noting that Georgia managed to essentially knock both Florida and Kentucky out of the NCAA tournament field after Felton was fired. No, the team didn’t really get worlds better, but they at least won a few conference games.
PNWDawg
I’ll gladly forgive Richt for any quotes considered in bad taste. He’s a very good man and is human like the rest of us. I’m sure it’s a very difficult day for him.
I know from personal experiences that sometimes you have to hit an all-time low for change to occur. That’s even if you knew change was necessary to begin with. I believe great things will come from this.
We all have talked about the problems over and over now. It’s no secret anymore what’s going wrong. There’s really not a whole lot we can do to change how the staff manages the team. IMO, the ONLY thing we can do is to show an unwavering support of our team and help them back onto their feet. No, that’s not looking at the season with rose-colored glasses. It’s called being a fan. Let’s not take our frustrations out on the players by continuing to bitch about the same things. Yeah, it sucks our coaches continue to do things that drive us crazy and I have done my fair share of bitching this year. I just think a strong showing up support will do a lot more for the team at this point. Go Dawgs!!!
MacAttack
As someone said on another forum, the players were NOT running to Richt before the game (on the field) and have not been ALL SEASON LONG
The players did not respect the coaches and it shows
We are poorly coached, under-performing almost all over, and are losing by BLOWOUTS
Major changes do in fact need to be made and if we keep coming up with new excuses….we will go another 4+ years without a single SECCG appearence
Wes G
I was never a “Fire Willie Martinez” guy (out loud anyway), though I wouldn’t have been upset to see him go.
But I guess now I have to be. It’s awful to see great players killing themselves on the field, betrayed by scheme and a lack of practice against certain plays (play action bootleg, anyone?).
So I say he has to go. I think Richt will fire him. Richt is a competitive guy, and he doesn’t want to get fired (which he will be in a few years if he doesn’t let Willie go). So I look forward to that problem getting fixed.
But Richt isn’t the problem. Richt is a great coach. And our players are great players. And out program is a great program. It’s still great to be a Georgia Bulldog, and this ship will right, one way or another.
As of 2:00 pm there were 1,385 comments on one of the AJC stories. That tells me the natives are restless. People certainly do not like what’s going on with this program.
It also goes to show how positively giddy Georgia Tech fans are at this point in the season.
1st win over Georgia in 8 years + turmoil in the Georgia fanbase = the only thing better than a great night of drinkin’ Zimas and playin’ World of Warcraft.
Has Richt ever demoted or fired an assistant? serious question, and I don’t know the answer.
He did fire our first running backs coach, apparently for some indiscretions, but the details were never made public.
Richt needs to realize our player talent deserves the same level of coaching talent.
I don’t think so. I don’t think any have ever reached a point where assistants are normally fired at major programs though. It just doesn’t happen as often as many people think.
Is Richt too loyal? Maybe. But we have no way of knowing at this point given there haven’t been any situations where a coach under Richt has reached a situation that usually results in firing/demotion elsewhere in CFB.
Great post, Senator.
Even great programs occasionally have bad teams. And we have one this year.
And seasons with bad teams are never pretty. They are filled with errors, bad coaching decisions, etc. But you don’t just fire proven coaches with great track records because of one (or even two) bad years. You let them work through it. Not just because they have earned that right, but because it is more often than not going to be the best choice for future results.
Richt was a good enough judge of coaching talent to shock us all by giving the DC job to an obscure defensive coach at Western Illinois. We need another wise pick like back then.
—Enlightening Article from 2001 season.—
VanGorder has defense on upswing at end of season
Charles Odum
DawgPost.com Nov 27, 2001
ATHENS, Ga. — It doesn’t require a great deal of technical football knowledge to see the difference in the Georgia defense in the last few weeks.
Most obviously and simply, Georgia is making the tackles that it missed only a few weeks ago.
In last Saturday night’s 31-17 win at Georgia Tech, the Bulldogs held Tech’s highly ranked offense to only 63 yards rushing and 242 total yards.
The week before against a Mississippi offense that ranked second in the Southeastern Conference in scoring, Georgia’s defense was similarly impressive in a 35-15 win. The Rebels were held to a net of 28 yards rushing and 261 total yards.
Is Georgia tackling better?
“I don’t think there’s any doubt about it,’’ said defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder before Monday’s practice for Saturday’s final regular-season game against Houston.
VanGorder said he and the other defensive assistants discussed the decline in missed tackles in meetings Monday.
“The missed tackles between Florida compared to the last two weeks are dramatically different,’’ said VanGorder, who wouldn’t release any numbers on missed tackles. “Poor tackling is a cancer on defense and we’ve been able to do better in that area.’’
Through most of the season, VanGorder was most proud of his unit’s effort in a 14-9 loss to South Carolina in the second week of the season. The last two weeks were the best efforts in consecutive games and have provided encouragement that the players have become more comfortable with VanGorder’s defense and what he demands of players.
“I think we’re playing better football and I think we’re preparing better, with a better focus,’’ he said. “That obviously has given us the momentum.’’
The key to improved play has been improved practice.
“What you see out there is how we prepare in practice,’’ said senior rover Jermaine Phillips. “I think it’s the way we are practicing that’s made the biggest difference.’’
Now when VanGorder sends in a play, each player on defense has a better grasp of his responsibility.
“I think everybody knows now what to do and what their assignment is,’’ Phillips said.
Said VanGorder: “As coaches, it has definitely been a big part of our mission statement to create a tempo in practice that carries over into the game.’’
Georgia has not allowed as many as 30 points in a game this season, but after allowing big yards in midseason games against Kentucky, Florida and Auburn, there were concerns about the defense under VanGorder.
Now No. 16 Georgia ranks fourth in the Southeastern Conference and 24th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 20.1 points per game. The Bulldogs rank third in the SEC and 19th in the nation with their average of 115.1 yards rushing allowed per game.
Coach Mark Richt is especially happy with the way VanGorder has devised schemes to combat the opponent’s strength.
“That’s about what I was expecting from Coach VanGorder when I hired him,’’ Richt said. “He’s not a guy who’s gonna put a cookie-cutter defense out there. He does a great job, he along with our staff, of really dissecting what teams will do and taking away what they do best.’’
The defense has stiffened late in the season even after losing starting defensive end Bruce Adrine to a season-ending knee injury and, in a more devastating loss, starting defensive tackle David Jacobs to a stroke.
The defensive line is left with very little depth, but still the plan is to have another week of physical practices.
“That is a tough thing in making that decision,’’ VanGorder said. “That tempo issue is so important, you don’t want to lose that edge.’’
Good lord, I’m not particularly into bashing Willie (or at least I wasn’t), but that article is damning. Considering how we use to speak about our D coordinator, Willie’s tenure has definitely been a disappointment.
Great post, Senator. I woke up on Sunday not sure what I thought about that disaster. I finished your post pretty darn certain about it.
The Richt reaction caught me off guard, primarily because he’s ended the last two seasons with a defining narrative about leadership and team chemistry. In 2007, he says he righted the ship when he realized that the seniors weren’t leading, the team was adrift, and he had to do something to create fun and focus. Hence, the Celebration, the Blackout, and a #2 ranking.
In 2008, we spent the offseason committed to the meme that last year’s team was too complacent, that they waited for one of the future draft picks to bail them out. Richt led us all to believe that this line of thinking wasn’t too far wrong, and that this offseason was mostly about getting back to working hard, playing as a team, and not waiting for someone else to make a play.
Now here we are again – a team in disarray, a locker room in the dumps, and a coaching staff looking for a magic bullet. Richt may very well find a way to pull it together and get us to a bowl game. But even that won’t change the fact that we’ll have had three straight years (and possibly four, if you count the multi-QB, lost half-season of 2006) where our teams are total headcases needing psychological (and strategic) interventions to maintain the level of success Georgia fans have come to expect from the Richt Era.
Like you, Senator, I remember the days when I didn’t worry about whether we were ready to play. Even when things didn’t go well, it was because of good play by the other team, or a known chink in our armor. But beginning with the trend in 2007 of sleepwalking through entire halves, and continuing through yesterday, we’ve completely lost that most important characteristic of a big-time program: reliability. No temporary patch imposed by Richt for this season will restore it — only time, stability, and success can do that. Without it, we’re a program in decline.
I think there’s a bit of revisionism going on with UGA fans thinking UGA was unbeatable the first half of Richt’s tenure. I’ve read some variation of this “I remember when I didn’t worry about…” thing in several places now.
UGA has only had one 7-1 SEC season under Richt. And it came with several very close calls (including a game-ending goalline fumble, a last minute field goal, and a virtual Hail Mary on 4th and a lot). It also came in one of the weakest SECs in the past couple decades, thanks largely to Florida being in the tank.
The other early Richt years were no better than 6-2. And in two UGA got very good breaks (in addition to Florida still being in the tank) to get into the SECC game… breaks it didn’t get in its 6-2 seasons in 2007 and 2008.
Texas_Dawg, I don’t disagree about the revisionism. My concern isn’t that we lose – it’s HOW we’re losing. During the first 5 years of Richt’s tenure, I don’t recall his teams having the problem that has been in evidence of late – that they disappear for entire halves, or in the case of yesterday, entire games. We may not have played our best in every contest, but we didn’t just s**t the bed as we have lately.
For the first three years of Richt’s tenure, we only lost one game by more than one score — Florida in 2001, 24-10. We didn’t lose again by more than one score until we lost to the undefeated 2004 Auburn team 24-6. We didn’t lose by more than one score after that until … 2006, when we lost to Tennessee 51-33. Since then, we’ve lost five games by more than one score: Tennessee 2007, Alabama 2008, Florida 2008, OK State 2009, Tennessee 2009.
That doesn’t even take into account our team’s recent penchant for getting into high-scoring contests. From 2001 to 2006, the Dawgs averaged one game a year where the opponent scored more than 28 points. From 2007 to the present, they are averaging four per season (3 in 2007, 5 in 2008, 3 so far in 2009).
I agree that we weren’t perfect in the early years, but we knew who we were — a team that didn’t beat itself, ran the ball well, and played very-good-to-great defense. When we lost, it was usually in a squeaker. That’s not the case anymore, and things seemed to change in a fundamental way somewhere around 2006-07.
I don’t really get into margin-of-victory.
I look at Ws and Ls over full seasons, and the 2007/2008 teams were 6-2 SEC teams in a stronger SEC than the 2003/2004/2005 6-2 SEC teams played in.
Part of the problem here is that UGA fans got huge expectations after a very fast start by Richt. So the more recent 6-2s feel less impressive and rewarding… even though they were arguably tougher accomplishments (that didn’t get the benefits of Florida going in the tank or the luck of the draw in the division tie (as 2003 did)).
Even if it’s true that the SEC of 2007-09 was stronger than the SEC of 2003-05, I think most people would say that our talent level kept up with that. Aside from the O-line, which was decimated in 2007 due to recruiting issues beyond comprehension, I can’t think of a single position where, on paper, Georgia was supposed to have taken a step back.
So taking your perspective, are you saying that Georgia’s success in the early part of the decade is less-impressive than Florida and LSU’s at the end of it? And should Georgia fans just get used to being 5-3 in the East, going to the Outback Bowl, because everyone else has caught up?
Like you, I’m not in the “fire Richt” camp. But if it’s true that the rest of the league just “caught up,” that catching up seems mostly to have involved other programs hiring new coaches, who then beat our coaches (or at least our teams). If this was basketball, it would mean it was time to get a new coach. This isn’t basketball, and I think the answer is more nuanced. But I don’t think it just comes down to saying that Georgia fans were irrationally exuberant about their program in the early part of this decade.
I think we took advantage of some good breaks and a down time for Florida and others in the SEC.
That said, the 2002 team was good enough to win even in today’s SEC and got a terrible break in having 2 other undefeated BCS conference teams.
Florida has had a run, based mainly off a 2006 class that is done after this year, that is one of the best in CFB history. We just got a bad break that it happened at the same time we had some of our best players come through the program (and additionally had a ridiculous run of injuries gut the best opportunity with that group). But fortunately, such a run isn’t permanently sustainable. Yes, Florida will still be very good as long as Meyer is there… but it will be a little more beatable once Tebow and Spikes are gone (the offense has already taken a big step back with the loss of Harvin… it’s the 11 starters returning defense that is carrying them this year).
I’m not worried about Mark Richt. He is among a select few (out of thousands who have tried) at the top of the list of men who have tried their hand at coaching CFB players over the last 2 decades. And he still badly wants to win, and the recruiting pipeline continues to be as strong as ever.
We came 5 more yards by Kentucky in 2007 (at the end of their game with UT) from playing a very inexperienced Ryan Perrilloux in the Georgia Dome in what would have been the de facto MNC game. Those 5 yards and this year’s rebuilding year is treated for what it is with hopes of more good things to come in the future, with all of this Richt doubting permanently erased.
5 yards may often be the difference in a lot of frustration or not in CFB… but it isn’t the difference in Mark Richt knowing how to coach CFB or not.
Don’t forget about the missed Vandy field goal at the end of the 2007 UT-Vandy game. If that goes through UGA is in the SECC game, too. Plain old bad luck.
TexasDawg are you Mark Richt in disguise?
No. Why?
God forbid anyone point out that a coach who has put UGA in the top 10 6 of his 9 seasons doesn’t completely suck as a coach…
Urban helped ’05 Georgia by epic choking in Columbia…but know what? DJ Shockley got hurt. I say it evens out.
That team still had to win the SECCG. Which they did. By a lot.
I know, but we still got into that game as a 6-2 team. Without the rest of the division being 6-2 or worse, we don’t get the chance.
If the division (i.e. Tennessee) had done the same in 2007 as it did in 2005 (and 2003), we’d have won the MNC and all these conversations about Richt would be permanently ended. (Ask Mack Brown.) Unfortunately it didn’t. But that’s just the luck of the draw in CFB… not some indictment of Richt’s coaching abilities.
Concerning Mack Brown- That 2005 team was the only time he’s ever won the Big 12. Ever.
The problem is the questions about Richt aren’t “when should we fire him?” but “when will he man up and do what needs to be done?”
In other words, unlike Mac Brown who does a good job of getting the top talent at Coordinator positions (specifically D), Richt is willing to sink or float with what he’s got currently. Now, if firing Willie means giving Rodney Garner a shot, fine. I’m alright with that happening, since Garner is so obviously important to our recruiting, but I do not want it to dictate how we’re going to play forever. If Garner can’t get it done in a couple years coordinating, then he’s not worth his salt (look at Coach O at Ole Miss). BUT DO SOMETHING. Don’t play your oboe as the Titanic sinks around you if you can make it into the lifeboats!
Here’s where things stand to me:
To fill air time during the massacre, one of the two announcers made a comment I think after Tennessee got 45 that Tennessee had not scored that many points on Georgia since 2006 when they scored 51 against Georgia.
It’s 2009. Three years ago they scored 51 on us. That year Tennessee lost to Florida, LSU, Arkansas and Penn State.
This is Tennessee. It’s not like it’s Florida who everybody rightfully expects will beat Georgia. Florida is the better program. This is Tennessee, the dysfunctional program that ran off its coach last year.
Then I read a comment from Lane to the effect that he told his players he never wanted Tennessee to lose to Georgia because, among other things, he needed to recruit the state of Georgia. This is Lane. It’s not Knute Rockne. Lane Kiffin.
So not only do we make opposing QB’s look like Heisman candidates, we make Lane look like Mack Brown.
And as someone mentioned above or elsewhere, how can Richt look so calm on the sidelines during the beating. Had I been him, I would have been trying to kill something. But I guess that’s why they don’t let people with explosive temper disorders coach.
That’s you.
Tom Landry, Bill Walsh, Bear Bryant, and a long line of other great football coaches have had similar demeanors on the sideline. Not sure why people are so into this. The coach freaking out and acting like a child doesn’t really do much for me. Certainly doesn’t change the scoreboard.
Totally agree. It’s a comfort that our coach is reliably classy. Not only does it help in recruiting, but it rubs off on players and speaks highly of our program and our school.
Yeah, I don’t give a crap about Richt’s demeanor.
Everyone said Tony Dungy was too nice. They won a super bowl and built a dynasty.
I care about wins and losses, and our team showing up for games being fully competitive and delivering up to their talent.
I also care about coaches being held ACCOUNTABLE for their failures.
And for god sakes, stop throwing players under the bus.
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Ugh. How embarassing:
FRONT PAGE of rivals.com:
“Georgia coach Mark Richt should be safe, but that doesn’t mean changes aren’t coming in Athens. The Bulldogs’ struggles continued in a blowout loss to Tennessee, and it could spell trouble for some on Richt’s staff. Get the scoop on that and much more as we find out what our Rivals.com experts learned in Week 6.”
I saw that as well, Muckbeast, but for those who want Martinez (and/or others) gone, that is a good sign.
CFB coaches aren’t usually fired when it’s only the fanbase saying the firings should happen. They are fired when outside, impartial and rational CFB observers are widely suggesting the firings as well.
As bad as the defense was last year, or has been in other games even before that, there have not been outside CFB observers from reputable organizations or publications saying Willie Martinez should be fired. They are starting to say that now though…
That makes Richt’s job somewhat easier should he decide to make a move. And it also raises the possibility that Martinez just makes the move himself.
Martinez, sensing the heat coming down on his good friend and boss, offers to take a demotion back to DBs coach.
UGA brings in Tuberville as DC.
No. Freaking. Chance.
Tubs wants a head coaching job, as he’s said on numerous occasions. No way he coaches D for Richt. Maybe for the Bear if he returned from the Crypt, but not for Richt. Good friend and all, he didn’t go down in flames so bad that he needs a coordinating job to get his name back out in the market. Now, Larry Coker a couple of years ago should have angled for an offensive coordinating job, and he would’ve done better than that D-III team he’s coaching now.
Not likely of course, but does he really want to move to the obscurity of coaching in, say, Arizona? Really? I mean, yeah, sure… we all want to be the boss… but at what cost? Half empty stadiums and 11PM ET kickoffs on Fox Sports Pacific… for years? Fonk that.
Take the DC job, flip the tables on UF and Bama in recruiting and the field, win the SECC/MNC, have a lot of fun for a few years doing it, and then jump to the first major program HC opening available.
This is a sale that could be made.
a former redcoat
that would be absolutely beautiful, wouldn’t it?
honestly if we threw about a million and a half in with that sales pitch (and why not “associate head coach” to go with the DC job), maybe we get tubbs. fire bobo and let coach richt take over QBs and OC again. ya gotta question bobo’s abilities as a QB coach since he’s had cox all to himself for a while (i know richt worked with stafford… but since he wasn’t officially the QB coach any more, maybe he didn’t pay any real attention to cox) and cox makes some pretty bad decisions, can’t look off defenders, etc. honestly, best deal is fire bobo, do ANYTHING for the offense and find a great DC. we definitely have the money, the fans, and the players to attract one. plus we could always point out how many YEARS of poor coaching you can get by with before you have a chance to actually lose your job
Dude, Richt was HORRIBLE as OC. Total revisionist history going on here. Go check out our production against the other “Big 6” in the SEC when Richt was OC. It was as bad as, or worse, than Bobo.
might want to re-read my post there. never said he was a great OC here. he was a great OC at FSU though and it’s hard to say he’d be worse than bobo is right now. but, no revisionist history. maybe you just didn’t read what i wrote in the first place…
but, remember that we managed to score 10 points against florida last year and get shut out in the first half against bama with stafford, moreno, massaquoi, and AJ green all on the roster. that’s gotta fall on bobo.
my point was more that richt would be better than bobo and it would be worth doing that if it made it possible to get an incredible DC.
It’s really tough to be head coach and OC at the same time. very few have been able to pull that off long term and be successful. Richt needs an OC rather than to do it himself.
Gen. Stoopnagle
Tubs is going to be at the top of a lot of team’s lists for HC *this* year. He won’t need a DC job to find it. He’s not Tommy Bowden or anything…
Amazing did no one watch this game ?UGA rushed for nothing that counted(could not gain 1 yd on 3rd and short). Remember when CJD hired the bozo from ut ? Can’t anyone else see CSS is that same guy ? It looks like he talks to players , same as the media. Wake up , you must run the fb in sec or at least appear you can).CMB is not ready for this league as oc.
CMR doesnt need to go…yet..but theres something systemic that needs fixing and if CMR has a flaw it’s loyalty to the point of stupidity (Tereshinski ?)
I’ll also say this. And its not directed at any one individual here or anywhere else but is more directed at the vibe I’m getting from a lot of people I know in many areas of the world, work and friends, people online and off:
If nothing else we’re thinning out the fan heard. Take your fair weather and shove it up your ass. You want a team thats easy to root for? Go buy some jorts…but go on and sell all your early 90s FSU memorabilia on ebay as one wouldnt want to be too much of a hippocrate.
Your reward for loyalty is upgraded season tix.
And remember ye this, the year isnt shot although plenty of people act like it is. As someone who’s been a die hard falcon’s fan his whole life (Suwanee native, so the falcon inn kinda helped things along); I’d like to remind people that it could be much much worse.
Enjoy the rest of the season….
Brady Ackerman of “Talkin’ Football” on CSS made the following comment on this week’s show about what happened to UGA this season: “Georgia really needed to open up with a couple of cupcakes to get into their offense and defense. They couldn’t because the schedule was too tough.” This is why top programs open up at home with a walkover team before they start playing their regular schedule. It gives the new players a chance to get game experience and gives the coaches a chance to evaluate players in a real game to see what they have and make necessary adjustments. It also builds confidence for the young players. Suppose instead of going to Stillwater and being cannonfodder for the grand re-opening of T. Boone Pickens’ $300 Million playground (with his name on it) the Dawgs had opened up between the hedges with a Western Carolina-type team. Maybe they get some of the bugs out. They certainly don’t lose the first game. Maybe they are covering kicks better and tackling better at the end of the LSU game and LSU doesn’t score and they win that game and are 5-0 going to UT. Even if Willie and Bobo do get outschemed and the Dawgs lose they are only 5-1 (or at worst 4-2). Think about it. There is a reason why Florida opened up with 2 walkover teams back to back. That’s why Florida is Florida. Not because they have better athletes. They don’t make bonehead decisions.
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Honestly, can anyone point to a single area of improvement from last season to tonight? I can’t think of one.
Granted, it’s too early to give up on the season, but that was a very disappointing show we saw in the Dome.
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No defending Richt after this…he is clearly not the caliber of coach as his peers.
He has lost it. He used to be, but has slipped.
Without Van Gorder or another top notch DC, he isn’t anything special, never was. A good man, that’s the painful truth unfortunately.
Hey Coach, Watergirl wants to know – Why exactly is Grantham paid so much?
And he was laughing after the game. I guess when you’re being paid $3,000,000 of season ticket holder money you can affford to laugh.
Dawgaholic
No need for rash judgments. It’s the first game of the year and Boise may truly be a top 5 or even top 2 or 3 team. Let’s see how this plays out. If our only losses this year are to true top 5 level teams, then things may be ok. Had we just lost to Oklahoma 35-21, noone would be that upset. Had we lost to Miss. State 35-21, I understand everyone’s sentiments. For example, I think the 2002 team would have taken an *ss whooping playing a a top 5 team in their opener. (They won a lot of close games against so-so teams during the first half of the season.) By game 12 they would have kicked the same team’s *ss.
One game does not make a season, let’s GATA next week.
They had eight months to fix what was wrong. They either do not know what is wrong, or they are incapable of fixing it.
What makes you think they are going to fix it in the next six days?
I think everyone thought Boise was a fraud. That may not be the case. Alot of ten win teams lose by two touchdowns to top 5 teams.
The voice of reason in a sea of babble.
Rash? 3 years of consistent underperformance, and now this? There’s nothing rash about it.
Offense looked even worse. Thought the D started out great, but they were obviously outmanned, out-gassed, and eventually…gasp…run…wheeze…over
Honestly? The defense did much better than last year. Our DL wasn’t on roller skates, but our offense is offensive.
The offense left the defense hanging too many times.
Absolutely agree. Many fans will look at final score and put most of the blame on the DEF. Wrong. The OFF didn’t show up till 28-7 and left the DEF out to dry non-stop until then.
This was a pathetic debut for Will Friend’s group. Our OL got served. It’s going to be a long season if they don’t get their act together.
I agree with the Seantor as well. After the first half, I wondered if we were still playing in the Liberty Bowl.
I’m starting to think everyone who has taken our D coordinator position purposely puts on blinders that cover the middle of the field. It’s been wide open since 2005.
1 and throw the wheel route in again
Um, yes there is reason to give up on the season. This is a fucking clown show. Honestly, we could have plucked a couple of transluscent gamers from one of the Dragon-Con lobbies, and they would have had better command of the team than limp-dick Richt and his squadron of ‘ginas. It’s fucking over. It’s fucking over. McGarity can do what is right and wax the idiots tomorrow or suffer the fallout of a 38 season. I say it’s time to go ahead and start the rebuilding. There is a lot of talent in the prgoram, but the fucking buffoon stealing money right now must go. The gig is up.
Bobo the Clown
Did someone say clown?
Is it now illegal to jam a wr coming off the line of scrimmage? All night long our db’s would give a 5 to 10 yd cushion and never once try to impede the boise wr routes. Without a doubt we have the least physical defense in the SEC.
Malcolm Mitchell has some talent, Crowell didn’t light the world on fire (who could with our O-line) but did all right, and Orson Charles can make shit happen IF Bobo and Murray will get the ball to him.
I’m holding on the D until we play a few more games, but I’m through defending Bobo. If Richt wants to keep him, then I’ll be sorry to see Richt go, but it will have to happen.
To be fair, Orson can also turn a 3rd and short into hot wet shit by not noticing THE HUGE FUCKING DEFENSIVE END ACROSS THE LINE!.
Yeah, except the fact it was 4th and short made it worse.
Was the food better?
I want to puke, and it has nothing to do with the excessive amounts of alcohol I have imbibed today. I went into this game fully expecting us to LOSE but at least to show some improvement and some physical play. Instead I have once again wasted my money on UGA football. Seriously. 3rd and 16 and a draw?!?! Have we learned nothing?!?! Our three touchdowns were fluke bombs. We certainly cannot possibly be relying on that to sustain the team during the season. Can we?!?!
Where were the drives. Do you know how many passes or plays we had into the endzone (one of my biggest problems with Bobo)? That is right. ZERO.
The draw was fine. What I cannot understand is having used the draw to get a 4th and manageable why you send the punter out? It seems to me you call the draw with going for it in mind.
Smblues
Exactly. I was pissed at first with the call, then thought, oh that makes a lot of sense as we are going for it, then I just got really really sad.
It’s like watching a bad NFL team. Some crushing hits, flashes of brilliance but a lot of standing around and waiting for someone else to do something and bail you out. Hey, kind of like the economy…
All of it comes down to sorry line play. The defensive line put zero pressure on kellen and the o line was just plain horrible. The freshman looked promising and Crowell & Mitchell looked promising. But Bobo scored a complete F- on playcalling. Play the violin now…
You mean it all comes down to sorry line play and playcalling. That’s it.
naedoba (@naedoba)
AND THOSE UNIFORMS WERE ABSOLUTE CRAP. Hideous, were we, visually, physically, metaphorically, hypothetically, and, most importantly, positively.
dawg dad
I did not see us winning. Not to an outstanding veteran QB. However, the malaise over the program still seems to be there. Boise looked fresher and smarter, The had the look of a confident, poised team. When have they ever been ranked in the top recruiting classes. When have the been loaded with 4 and 5 star recruits. I do not remember them ever being ranked in the top 20 or so. Then how do they get that type of play out of those guys? We’re supposed to have the players — the athletes. How do we perform like this. Maybe Boise knows how to coach better. Is that possible? Our players rourtinely looked lost, confused and at times frightened. Boise ran their offense, made simple adjustments and we had no answer. Our offense was very predictable. It seemed like we only ran 10 different plays. No end runs, no short slants (of course we had no blocking either) and no real cohesiveness. As I said, I thought Boise was better and that unless we played our best in four or five years, we would come up short. What I did not expect was to see the same old gassed, poor second half performance out of a team so better conditioned ( or so we were told). It looked as if our staff does not have any answer nor any desire to compete. We looked bland, predictable ( did i say that earlier?) and dull. We have an uninspired and unintelligent team that just does not seem to get it — what ever IT is. Sadly, it does seem as if our coach is digging a hole from which there is no escape.
Six sacks to zero.
Sums up the line play on both sides.
diving duck
Jarvis Jones looked good?
Did Ogletree disappear, or was it me?
He got hurt early on and didn’t return. He’ll be fine, he didn’t return cuz he didn’t want to watch anymore of my dying offense.
He got hurt pretty early in the game and had to be taken out.
But the team is being coached by good Dawgs, and that’s what matters. Bobo, McClendon, Ball and Big Joe T definitely earned the jobs they now hold, and the fac that they went to UGa had nothin to do with their hiring.
Things will get better when Kirby Smart is hired, also because he earned it, not because he was a Dawg…
Fwl. ls loses their starting QB and beats last years runner up. We still havent realized that Richard Samuel belongs on the bench.
Samuel actually did a decent job pass blocking but clearly is not an SEC caliber RB. WE got his revenge. His departure hurt the team.
Richt’s sensorium is clouded, his level of consciousness is bordering on comatose, and he has severe retrograde amnesia. He is unaware of his surroundings and has difficulty organizing his thoughts. His speech monotone and lifeless. Events of the external world have not been processed in nearly a decade. Floating in his narcotic-induced dream-world, this loss against Boise State proves that he just doesn’t give a sh*t anymore. I have refrained from writing what has been painfully obvious for years now: The man does not appear to be very smart. Perhaps, however, the issue isn’t below-average intelligence or a closed head injury as I’ve often thought, but a severe and disabling addiction to sedatives. Nearly every decision he makes is poor, and the more our beloved program has been exposed to this slow-learning cadaver, the worse we’ve gotten. Please, Catherine, administer the smelling salts, so that Richt can be aroused enough to resign with dignity.
I can’t look anymore…it’s just too embarrassing.
TimRankine
Geesh…I don’t know what to type…we looked horrid…where is the all-knowing, ever-green poster to pick us up?
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another waste of a season coming.
Another 11 months of looking forward hopefully to “next year.”
Another loss to Florida.
Another pointless defeat of sucky Ga Tech.
I hate sports. 😦
by areas of improvement, i assume you meant areas in which we’ve improved. the defense looked slightly better overall. thats it. otherwise it looked like the same sh!tty offense as last year, minus AJ Green. This clown has to go, and i think you know who i mean.
Not the equipment and pregame film coach.
Not the sweat sock and yoga coach,
the butt-cut tan-man himself, is done, and has to go. we all know it inside somewhere. goodbye.
there is no more defense of this charade.
please, lets end it.
I liked how the defense looked for the first half. They were hitting and swarming to the ball. After that they looked gassed.
The offense was poorly conceived. Once they stopped the runs betweent he tackles we had no answer. Where were the quick slants or other short throws? Where was the power sweep? We used to run those plays.
Richt kept Bobo and now he is going to pay for it.
Also, this game was a perfect example of Bobo putting up great numbers while we suck.
Total yards: Boise 390 UGA 373
First Downs: Boise 24 UGA 13
Yeah, we closed practice to the media to install that offense. Now I know why. We didn’t want them reporting how bad we sucked.
Do we not have a screen pass in our repertoire? On 3rd and 3 why do you hand the ball off 6 yards behind the line of scrimmage? Boise State’s OC did a great job in his 1st game. How many games has Bobo had? How different was our offense from the last time we played these guys? The best line I heard all night was a Boise fan yelling as UGA fans streamed to the exits after their 5th touchdown. He said that must be what they mean by “SEC speed- the speed at which their fans hit the exits”
Evidently Normaltown
Main positive thing I am telling myself: At least McGarity is driving the bus now.
A positive is that maybe those uniforms will never see the light of day?
I took one game and I’m already tired of watching the Dawgs. Granted it was the first game but it’s not the loss that has disappointed me it’s seeing the exact same crap we saw last year take the field again. It all starts with the lines. Both lines were whipped easily. OL line was completely inept even with a 50+ lb advantage. I’m tired of defending Richt. He can’t motivate players or coaches at the SEC level. If we get the same mess we saw yesterday against the chickens then Richt should be fired on the spot.
I told Murray to pump fake while a blitz was coming and that gave him enough time to take the sack. What’d you guys expect. I’m the same inept play caller I’ve always been. (honk, honk)
It’s perfect that we are the Dogs. Real dogs (spaniels, labs, etc.) are charmingly stupid. You fake-throw a tennis ball, and they go for it every time. They chase their tails round and round, but never catch them. They never learn, and as dog owners we are amused by it. As fans, however, it’s sickening to watch a team full of coaches and players that never learns. We have a 270+ pound fullback and hardly ever ask him to lead block on a running play. Instead, we run delayed draws out of one-back sets. Our QB holds the ball in a pocket that collapses quickly. Our O-line can’t run block or pass block effectively against a five man rush. Our offensive coordinator has some form of tourettes that causes him to regularly shout out calls for a bomb to be thrown at inexplicable times (it would be easier if he had the kind that made him shout curse words). Our defensive coach uses a 3-4 scheme and says it’s designed to confuse the opponent. Clearly, our biggest opponent is the one our team sees in the mirror, because they appear to be the only ones confused by the 3-4. The only time I ever saw Kellen Moore do anything bad (as in throw an incomplete pass) was when he was hurried on a couple of occasions. Those were the times when we brought more than the usual pressure. It looks like none of our linebackers ever rush the QB, which I’m sure is wrong, it’s just that’s how it looks. And finally, we are gassed and cramping in the first half of a game where we’ve had all day to hydrate and are playing inside an air-conditioned dome.
I apologize for the long post, but I had to get that out. Stupid dogs.
I went crazy last night. We run the I formation and come down the field in 4 plays with the good old play fake only to go back into the gun and get AM killed. I was on record as saying that Bobo will always try to show that he can do what the other team does rather than do what UGA should d. Bobo has completely taken the run out of AM, he was a pass only QB last night. We are screwed for this year. Steve will take us to the woodshed and Arron better have some good health insurance with that sorry Oline.
I think Blackledge & Nessler had just flashed a stat about how good AM was in play action when we rip up the field doing just that. Then we go back to the shotgun and sputter out. Priceless.
One other thought – 6 sacks times 12 games = Dead QBs.
walter sobchak
what would it take to get boise’s coach?
How ’bout that opening drive? Nothing like taking the ball so you can get three penalties and punt
“single are of improvement…”
How about extinguishing fan hope?
We had 8 months to devise some Offensive plan of attack against a really experienced & thick D-line. Except for the Boykin play, I don’t recall seeing a single unique formation or play call the entire first half. Am I missing something? 8 months to look at BSU and try to find some strategy and they decide to dust off the Central Florida play book?
anybody who watched that game and didn’t realize that we were going to lose after the first quarter because our offense couldn’t give our d a chance to catch its breath is as clueless as some of our coaches.
bobo is pure mediocrity–always was. and this has been the worst stretch of o-line play i can remember in almost 40 years of watching uga football.
this is not going to get better, guys. we’re in for some lean, lean times.
damn. I hate it but you’re right. The only hope I’ve got right now is that I can dupe someone into taking my season tickets off my hands for face value and I won’t lose money this year…
not much left to say after what everyone else said. though it does make it worse that Boise was more physical than we were. I was hoping RIcht could turn it around. apparently he cannot.
More than make it worse… It was the entirety of the problem
Nike uniforms! No silver britches–haven’t we learned? But, what about the blasted shoes? We could not stand, much less cut, run, or compete. Go back and watch the beginning of the game and notice how many times the shoes appear to be falling off our guys’ feet or the players slipping and sliding–along with our hopes for a good 2011 season. I hope the uniforms–complete with shoes and helmets–were part of a massive bonfire before the stroke of midnight!
helmets too. I’d see a helmet come off every 3 plays.
Thanks Nike Pro Gear!
The fans booing was reprehensible. Leave the game if you must, but don’t boo the team. The booing stopped after so many left in the 3rd qtr.
Stumpy Pepys
I have tried hard not to buy into the “CMR-on-the-hotseat” meme, but after that debacle last night, his a$$ better be burning. Neither players nor coaches were ready to play…absolutely inexcusable.
2011-dante22000
I found, bobo using 2,3-4 tight ends to his advantage brilliant. The off-season work outs are helping (ol is only getting pushed 5 yds. back). The ol seniors moved the whole team (before the snap) . TK is a practice player (at best).
Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined our offense being that terrible. Not wild about the defense either (how can the addition of two huge, powerful NTs make no discernible impact?), but the offense was the surprise to me last night. That OL … yikes. This is going to be a long, long season.
John Jenkins getting pushed off the ball by someone 70 lbs lighter than him made me want to puke.
So that’s that for Richt, right? Two straight losses to non AQC teams, fourth straight year where UGA is out of the mnc race before the UF game.
Oh, and Tavarres King needs to chill with the “Team TK” bullshit on Twitter and learn how to play is damned position. No one expects him to rise to Green’s level, but I do expect him to play like a veteran and leader in the receiving corps.
dawgdayafternoon
Tavarres King is from my hometown. I prayed he would sign with Clemson like his dad did. “Team TK” ran up a bunch of inflated high school numbers playing for Habersham County against a slew of pasty-white North Georgia cracker “talent”. I never thought he would be at an “AJ Green” level, but I was hoping he would at least evolve into a serviceable wideout in the mold of Kenneth Harris or Michael Moore. I can see now that just isn’t going to happen. He will continue to drop passes and come up short in big play situations. I like the kid, but he’s just not a ball player.
+1. He should be restricted to special teams duty from now on, IMHO.
As pissed as I am I have to admit I’m pretty saddened by the fact that the same head coach that blew the lid off of our program now doesn’t know how to win to save his life, or in this case his job. I really wanted to see Richt coach here for another ten or twenty years and win a national championship. I know now beyond a shadow of a doubt that that day will never come and that we need to start looking for his replacement. Sad day indeed.
Man, you guys are depressing me. I felt that there were at least a few positives–special teams, some signs of improvement on D. And well, guess that’s it. Offense was just awful. Still some coaching concerns. Truth be told, by the 2nd half, I was pretty well into the bottle and listening to the radio on my front porch.
Lord….I just don’t know. I guess we’ll pretty much know for sure this time next week.
Special teams didn’t play well last night. Butler outkicked his coverage on the punt that broke our back. Boykin didn’t back up his twitter. We couldn’t line up on punt or returns.
Marshall- not sure how we’re the ones responsible for your depression. I think our coaches can take that responsibility all by themselves. Give credit where credit is due.
Senator, that was awful. Boise was as good as advertised, and we looked like we were running in molasses. I bought into the happy talk and won’t again. I hate it for Richt because I like him. He just has let this get away from him at this point.
!. Same run blocking issue
2. Still cannot apply any pressure on QB
3. Secondary and linebackers are no where near receivers
4. Conditioning issues all over again, winded after 7-8 plays? Dang!
The only difference I see is an easier schedule so revising my prediction to 7-5 or 8-4. (I can still hope for a miracle.) This is to take nothing away from a very good Boise team, they are very experienced and make only minor mistakes in any part of the game. I feel they should be ranked in the Top 10. Peterson is a classy guy, and an excellent coach.
I am thrilled CFB is back and will enjoy the season although my Dawgs will not contend for anything meaningful (SEC title). That said, I am still a fan and will not tear UGA apart, or down. We aren’t the only team that looked inept yesterday, but that doesn’t cover my disappointment.
Also, some people are not fans, just cynical.
I thought the defense was markedly improved. Tackling was better, we were stout up the gut and against the run in general, and their yards after catch wasn’t dramatic. Boise had 5 receivers in the pattern most of the time and was content with short to medium gains. The only way to defend against that many receivers is to get pressure, which was one area we were worse than late last year.
I know the defense got tired but they were constantly playing a short field and got no help. Boise was only 4/12 on third down. Time of possession 33/26 their favor.
We can’t block. We can’t run or pass block. Period. Aaron Murray did as good as he could with a constantly collapsed pocket, and running backs had to make bricks without straw. 6 frigging sacks with guys who weigh 320 across the line. Unacceptable.
I’m rationalizing, but we may have just played an outtanding, more experienced, more skilled team. Remember, it’s the beginning of the SEC season, not the end.
So… it’s the beginning of the end?
Hogbody- I’m an trying to hang on to your same outlook here but I can’t continue to lie to myself. You agree that we can’t run block or pass block so what makes you think that we will figure it out before this season gets out of hand? I don’t have the faith that our coaches will even figure out what kind of identity we want to have as a team much less be able to coach into the players on the field. Sorry, but after 4 years of this kind of reality check, I am more than jaded… I’m mystified. The same questions continuously arise but there is one that I think leads itself to a logically conclusion… How is it that with ALL the abundant resources we have and all the highly rated recruits we continue to bring in, we continue to not only lose, but lose in such a fashion that we look like we don’t belong in big time college football?
When Boise started most of their drives from their 40 I knew it was going to be a long night.
When the game started with a poor return and false starts, I knew it was going to be a long night.
amen. How long are we going to let ourselves beat ourselves. For the love of GOD, can we not field a team that plays smart… We obviously have to try to win the areas that we can control just to give ourselves a chance but we aren’t capable of even handling those things. I feel like we are in a parrallel Universe compared to our teams lead by Vince Dooley. We have all the athletes one could want on a football field but they look like they just drew the play up on the sidelines and are running things for the first time…
View From The Bench
Last spring I posted that the dawgs should move Orson Charles to wide-out, Mitchell to wide-out, Brandon Smith to slot, IC in backfield, and Christian LeMay at quarterback. It would give the best chance to make something happen on offence without any blocking up front. The Ole Miss game will tell where the dawgs are, expect a close game, but not necessarily a win.
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Tag: Hiro Arikawa
Other 2018 Superlatives and Some Early 2019 Recommendations
My Best Discoveries of the Year: Neil Ansell, James Baldwin, Janet Frame, Rohinton Mistry, Blake Morrison, Dani Shapiro, Sarah Vowell; Roald Dahl’s work for adults
The Author I Read the Most By: Anne Tyler (four novels)
My Proudest Reading Achievement: Getting through a whole Rachel Cusk book (it was my third attempt to read her).
The 2018 Books Everybody Else Loved but I Didn’t: Melmoth by Sarah Perry and Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Year’s Biggest Disappointments: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa and Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
The Funniest Books I Read This Year: Fox 8 by George Saunders and Calypso by David Sedaris
Books that Made Me Cry: Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller and The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
The Downright Strangest Books I Read This Year: The Bus on Thursday by Sheila Barrett, The Pisces by Melissa Broder and I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
The Debut Authors Whose Next Work I’m Most Looking Forward To: Julie Buntin, Lisa Ko and R.O. Kwon
The Best First Line of the Year: “Dust and ashes though I am, I sleep the sleep of angels.” (from The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey)
Some Early 2019 Recommendations
(in release date order)
Book Love by Debbie Tung: Bookworms will get a real kick out of these cartoons, which capture everyday moments in the life of a book-obsessed young woman (perpetually in hoodie and ponytail). She reads anything, anytime, anywhere. Even though she has piles of books staring her in the face everywhere she looks, she can never resist a trip to the bookstore or library. The very idea of culling her books or finding herself short of reading material makes her panic, and she makes a friend sign a written agreement before he can borrow one of her books. Her partner and friends think she’s batty, but she doesn’t care. I found the content a little bit repetitive and the drawing style not particularly distinguished, but Tung gets the bibliophile’s psyche just right. (Out January 1.)
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich: In this debut memoir a surgeon surveys the history of organ transplantation, recalling his own medical education and the special patients he’s met along the way. In the 1940s and 1950s patient after patient was lost to rejection of the transplanted organ, post-surgery infection, or hemorrhaging. Mezrich marvels at how few decades passed between transplantation seeming like something out of a science-fiction future and becoming a commonplace procedure. His aim is to never lose his sense of wonder at the life-saving possibilities of organ donation, and he conveys that awe to readers through his descriptions of a typical procedure. One day I will likely need a donated kidney to save my life. How grateful I am to live at a time when this is a possibility. (Out January 15.)
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro: Shapiro was used to strangers’ comments about her blond hair and blue eyes. How could it be that she was an Orthodox Jew? people wondered. It never occurred to her that there was any truth to these hurtful jokes. On a whim, in her fifties, she joined her husband in sending off a DNA test kit. It came back with alarming results. Within 36 hours of starting research into her origins, Shapiro had found her biological father, a sperm donor whom she calls Dr. Ben Walden, and in the year that followed, their families carefully built up a relationship. The whole experience was memoirist’s gold, for sure. This is a moving account of her emotional state as she pondered her identity and what her sense of family would be in the future. (Out January 15.)
Constellations: Reflections from Life by Sinéad Gleeson: Perfect for fans of I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell, this is a set of trenchant autobiographical essays about being in a female body, especially one wracked by pain. As a child Gleeson had arthritis that weakened her hip bones, and eventually she had to have a total hip replacement. She ranges from the seemingly trivial to life-and-death matters as she writes about hairstyles, blood types, pregnancy, the abortion debate in Ireland and having a rare type of leukemia. In the tradition of Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo and Susan Sontag, Gleeson turns pain into art, particularly in a set of 20 poems based on the McGill Pain Index. The book feels timely and is inventive in how it brings together disparate topics to explore the possibilities and limitations of women’s bodies. (Out April 4.)
The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny: In June 2016 I read It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too), McInerny’s memoir about losing her father and her husband to cancer and her second child to a miscarriage – all within a few weeks – when she was 31. In this short book, an expansion of her TED talk, she argues that we are all incompetent when it comes to grief. There’s no rule book for how to do it well or how to help other people who are experiencing a bereavement, and comparing one loss to another doesn’t help anyone. I especially appreciated her rundown of the difference between pity and true empathy. “Pity keeps our hearts closed up, locked away. Empathy opens our heart up to the possibility that the pain of others could one day be our own pain.” (Out April 30.)
Coming tomorrow: Library Checkout & Final statistics for the year
Have you read any 2019 releases you can recommend?
Debbie Tung
Joshua D. Mezrich
Julie Buntin
Lisa Ko
Melissa Broder
Neil Ansell
Nick Drnaso
Nora McInerny
R.O. Kwon
Samantha Harvey
Sheila Barrett
Sinéad Gleeson
Still More Books about Cats
The past two years I’ve had biannual specials on cat books. You might think I would have run out of options by now, but not so! Granted, my choices this time are rather light fare: several children’s picture books, two slight gift books, and a few breezy memoirs. But it’s nice to have a fluffy post every now and again, and today’s is in honor of getting past a week of the year I always dread: June 15th is the U.S. tax deadline for citizens living abroad, so I’ve been drowning in forms and numbers. To celebrate getting both my IRS and HMRC tax returns sent off by today, here’s some feline-themed reads to enjoy over a G&T or other summery tipple of your choice.
Alfie likes cat books, too. The stacks are good for scratching one’s cheek against.
Seven Bad Cats by Monique Bonneau (2018): “Today I put on my boots and my coat, and seven bad cats jumped into my boat.” This is a terrific little rhyming book that counts up to seven and then back down to one with the help of some stowaway cats and their antics. (They come in colors that cats don’t normally come in, but that’s okay with me.) To start with they are incorrigibly lazy and mischievous, but when disaster is at hand they band together to help the little girl get back to shore safely. If only cats were so helpful in real life!
Macaroni the Great and the Sea Beast by Whitney Childers (2018): Macaroni the cat has an idyllic life by the coast of Maine with his hipster fisherman friend, Sammy. Sometimes he helps steer the fishing boat; sometimes he naps on the deck. But when a fearsome sea beast rears its head from the net one day, Mac is ready to fight back and save the day. From the colorfully nautical endpapers through to the peaceful last page, this is a great picture book for cat lovers to share with the little ones in their lives.
You don’t so often hear blokes talking about their cats, do you? That crazy cat lady stereotype dominates. But Tom Cox has written several memoirs about his life with cats.
In Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man (2008), Cox, who had previously published volumes of his journalism about music and sports, came out as a cat lover. By the end of the book he has SIX CATS, so this was not some passing fad but a deep and possibly worrying obsession. In essays and short list-based asides he traces his history with cats, reveals the wildly different personalities of his current pets, and wittily comments on cat behavior. I especially liked these entries from his “Cat Dictionary”: “ES Pee: The telepathic process that leads a cat to only get properly settled on its owner’s stomach in the moments when that owner is most desperate for the toilet” & “Muzzlewug: The state of bliss created by the perfect friction of an owner’s fingers on a fully extended chin.”
The Good, the Bad and the Furry (2013) is another fairly entertaining book. Cat owners will recognize the ways in which a pet’s requirements impinge on their lives (but we wouldn’t have it any other way). Cox starts and ends the book with four cats, but – alas – goes down to three for a while in the middle, with visitors upping it to 3.5 sometimes. The Bear, Ralph and Shipley are the stalwarts, with The Bear described as “the only cat I’d ever seen who appeared to be almost permanently on the verge of tears.” He’s melancholy and philosophical, whereas Ralph (who says his own name when he meows) is vain and sullen. “The Ten Catmandments” was my favorite part: “Thou shalt not drink the water put out for thee by thy humans” and “Thou shalt ignore any toy thy human has bought for thee, especially the really expensive ones.” Includes lots of photographs of cats and kittens!
How It Works: The Cat (2016) is a Ladybird pastiche by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris that we purchased as a bargain book from Aldi; it was published in the USA as The Fireside Book of the Cat. Tongue-in-cheek descriptions sit opposite 1950s-style drawings. Cat owners will certainly get a chuckle from lines like “Dogs have evolved to serve many sorts of human needs. And humans have evolved to serve many sorts of cat food.” (However, “It is a good idea to buy a lot of your cat’s favourite food. That way, you will have something to throw away when she changes her mind.”) Makes a good coffee table book for guests to smile at.
The Old Age of El Magnifico by Doris Lessing (2000): Pure cat lover’s delight. I wasn’t a big fan of Lessing’s Particularly Cats, which is surprisingly unsentimental and even brutal in places. This redresses the balance. It’s the bittersweet story of Butch, her enormous black and white cat, who was known by many additional nicknames including El Magnifico. At the age of 14 he was found to have a cancerous growth in his shoulder, and one entire front leg had to be removed. His habits, and even to an extent his personality, changed after the amputation, and Lessing regretted that she couldn’t let him know it was done for his good. She reflects on her duty towards the cats in her care, and on how pets encourage us to slow our pace and direct our attention fully to the present moment. Work? Chores? Worries? What could really be more important than sitting still and stroking a cat?
The Church Mouse by Graham Oakley: It is not good for a mouse to be alone. Arthur is lonely as the only mouse resident in the village church, but he has an idea: he proposes to the parson that if he will give all the local mice refuge in the church, they’ll undertake minor chores like flower arranging and picking up confetti. It seems like a good arrangement all around, but Sampson the church cat soon tires of the mice’s antics and creates something of a scene during a Sunday service. Luckily, he and the mice still work together to outwit a burglar who comes for the silver. There are quite a lot of words for a very small child to engage with, but older children should enjoy it very much. I find this whole series so charming. This was the first book of the 14, from 1972.
Cats in May by Doreen Tovey (1959): The sequel is just as good as the original (Cats in the Belfry). Along with feline antics we get the adventures of Blondin the squirrel, whom Tovey and her husband adopted before they started keeping Siamese cats. (He was just as destructive as the pets that came after him, but I had to love his fondness for tea.) Solomon and Sheba appear on the BBC and object in the strongest possible terms when Doreen and Charles try to introduce a third Siamese, a kitten named Samson, to the household. The flu, visits from the rector’s grandson, and periodic troubles with their old farmhouse, including a chimney fire, round out this highly amusing story of life with pets.
Not all cat books are winners. Here are two that, alas, I cannot recommend:
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (2017): This is the fable-like story of Satoru, a single man in his early thirties, and his cat, Nana (named for the shape of his tail, which resembles a Japanese 7). Satoru adopted Nana about five years ago when the cat, a local stray, was hit by a car. Now he needs to find a new owner for his beloved pet. No spoilers here, but really, there are only so many reasons why a young man would need to do this, and readers will likely work it out well before the “big reveal” over halfway through. We bounce between Nana’s perspective, which is quite cutely rendered, and third-person flashbacks to Satoru’s sad history. The author spells out and overstates everything. It’s pretty emotionally manipulative. Pet owners will appreciate Nana’s humor and loyalty (“I’m your cat till the bitter end!”), but I felt like I was being brow-beaten into crying – though I didn’t in the end.
I Could Pee on This, Too: And More Poems by More Cats by Francesco Marciuliano (2016): Not a single memorable poem or line in the lot. Seriously. Stick with the original.
My next batch of cat books. Maybe I’ll try to write them up for a Christmas-tide treat.
Whether you are a cat lover or not, do any of these books appeal?
books about cats
Doreen Tovey
Francesco Marciuliano
Graham Oakley
Jason Hazeley
Monique Bonneau
Whitney Childers
Cats I’ve Encountered in Books Recently
Even when it’s not a book that’s specifically about cats, cats often seem to turn up in my reading. Maybe it’s simply that I look out for them more since I became a cat owner several years ago. Here are some of the quotes, scenes or whole books featuring cats that I’ve come across this year.
Cats real and imaginary
Readers see some of the action from the perspective of Polanski the cat in The Plimsoll Line by Juan Gracia Armendáriz. While the feline might not grasp the emotional importance of the scenes he witnesses, we do. “The cat narrows its eyes when it sees the man lean against the window frame, overcome by a fit of sobbing that has nothing to do with sadness, or sorrow, but with an internal crumbling, like the collapse of a wave breaking on the shore of his skin and sweeping away his memory.”
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett: “Anna was disturbed by the arrival at the front door of the milk-girl. Alternately with her father, she stayed at home on Sunday evenings, partly to receive the evening milk and partly to guard the house. The Persian cat with one ear preceded her to the door as soon as he heard the clatter of the can. The stout little milk-girl dispensed one pint of milk into Anna’s jug, and spilt an eleemosynary supply on the step for the cat. ‘He does like it fresh, Miss,’ said the milk-girl, smiling at the greedy cat, and then, with a ‘Lovely evenin’,’ departed down the street, one fat red arm stretched horizontally out to balance the weight of the can in the other.”
From Kilvert’s Diary by Francis Kilvert: “Toby [the cat] sits before the fire on the hearthrug and now and then jumps up on my knee to be stroked. The mice scurry rattling round the wainscot and Toby darts off in great excitement to listen and watch for them.” (18 Oct. 1870)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami starts with a missing cat. “So now I had to go cat hunting. I had always liked cats. And I liked this particular cat. But cats have their own way of living. They’re not stupid. If a cat stopped living where you happened to be, that meant it had decided to go somewhere else. If it got tired and hungry, it would come back. Finally, though, to keep Kumiko happy, I would have to go looking for our cat. I had nothing better to do.”
I’m also 64 pages into Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore; in Chapter 6 we meet another seeker of lost cats, Nakata, when he has an absurd conversation with a black cat named Otsuka. (Perhaps he’s the creature pictured on the cover of my paperback?)
Doorkins the Cathedral Cat by Lisa Gutwein: This sweet children’s book tells the true story of how a stray cat wandered into London’s Southwark Cathedral in 2008 and gradually made it her home. It proceeds day by day through one week to give a helpful idea of the range of activities the cathedral hosts – everything from a wedding to a regular Sunday service – but also showcases important events like visits from the Bishop and the Queen. In every case we get to see how Doorkins insinuates herself into proceedings. I liked how the bright colors of the illustrations echo the cathedral’s stained glass, and appreciated the photo gallery and extra information at the end. The author, a doctor whose husband is a verger at the cathedral, and illustrator Rowan Ambrose, a dentist, met at King’s College London, where I used to work.
The Church Mice in Action by Graham Oakley: My third from the series, I think. The mice suggest to the parson’s sister that she might enter Sampson into cat shows to earn enough to repair the church roof. They then do their best to rig the results, but couldn’t have predicted the consequences. I loved the late summer/onset of autumn atmosphere.
On the extreme reluctance to remove a cat from one’s lap.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë: Miss Millward, Eliza’s older sister and the vicar’s daughter, when he passes her a ball of wool that’s rolled under the table – “Thank you, Mr. Markham. I would have picked it up myself, only I did not want to disturb the cat.”
From the essay “On Cat-Worship” in George Mikes’s How to Be Decadent: “Having joked for decades about how the English worship the cat, like the ancient Egyptians only more so, I have fallen for the cat myself. It has become my sacred animal. … I have been late for appointments, failed to go shopping and missed planes because Tsi-Tsa was sitting on my lap.”
Other cat-themed reading on the horizon:
The Cat Who Stayed for Christmas by Cleveland Amory, borrowed from the public library, should make a good pre-holiday read.
I’m keen to get hold of The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, which comes out in November.
My husband gave me a copy of Tom Cox’s The Good, the Bad and the Furry for my birthday.
I have Jason Hazeley’s The Fireside Grown-Up Guide to the Cat and Thomas McNamee’s The Inner Life of Cats on my Kindle.
It’s not particularly geared towards cat lovers (see Eleanor’s review), but it is called My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci and is also on my Kindle.
I have copies of Cats in May by Doreen Tovey plus a couple of anthologies of cat-related writing picked up in Hay-on-Wye.
Francis Kilvert
Juan Gracia Armendáriz
Lisa Gutwein
Pajtim Statovci
Rowan Ambrose
Thomas McNamee
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https://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/01/09/why-japans-health-ministry-wants-a-criminal-complaint-against-novartis/
Why Japan’s Health Ministry Wants a Criminal Complaint Against Novartis
Jan 9, 2014 11:54 am JST
Novartis AG's headquarters in Basel, Switzerland
Japan's authorities don't often pursue criminal penalties against global pharmaceutical firms for breaching advertising laws. But that is what they are doing with Swiss drug giant Novartis AG.
So what is behind the decision by health regulators to take the most severe measure they can against the company?
Regulators likely want to get prosecutors, and their full investigative powers involved, since the regulators' own months-long investigation has been unable to get to the bottom of the matter.
The case raises the question of how far prosecutors will go in investigating violations outside the law, including fraud. And industry watchers and doctors say that unless the question is answered of who altered research data on the Novartis' heart medicine Diovan, and why, it will be difficult to restore international confidence in Japanese clinical research.
After looking into the case for months, health regulators said Thursday they believed Novartis may have violated the law by making false statements on the efficacy of the blood-pressure drug. The announcement came after several Japanese universities found earlier this year that data in clinical studies on the medicine had been altered.
Novartis later said in a statement that it takes the matter seriously and that it plans to cooperate with authorities.
In Japan, prosecutors launch a criminal investigation and decide whether to bring charges for a particular offense after receiving a complaint from regulators. Lawyers say, in practice, prosecutors often work from evidence from regulators and bring charges in line with their allegations.
That is different from the U.S., where a criminal complaint often means a court document filed by prosecutors themselves making accusations of a crime. Criminal trials often start with the filing of the complaint.
While past civil penalties have been imposed in Japan for illegal advertising, this time, regulators likely referred the case to prosecutors because the health ministry's ability to look into the case was restricted, since it can only pursue suspected violations under pharmaceutical law. Therefore, the question of who altered the research data remained unanswered, even after five university investigations and a health ministry probe.
The scope of civil penalties that can be imposed is also limited. For illegal advertising, regulators can only penalize the firm, not the individuals responsible.
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Archive | Feb, 2017
My Inspiration for February 2017
This February I’ve been in a Japanese mood, which you’ve probably noticed in my posts. I’ve been inspired by Whistler’s ladies in white, Jean-Louis Forain’s portraits of the decadent gaudy nightlife of La Belle Epoque, Odilon Redon’s flowers and butterflies, white Regency dresses, costumes in the film ‘Love Witch’ (2016), which I haven’t seen by the way, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, and Manic Street Preachers whose lyrics I’ve voraciously been re-reading. I’ve watched Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities (1974) and I loved it. I’ve also read some poetry by Rabindranath Tagore: pure beauty. I’ve enjoyed re-reading many poems by Rimbaud and Baudelaire and I hope to continue doing so in March.
What else; hmm I’ve been listening to The Cure quite a lot as somebody reminded me of it, and also Lou Reed and Velvet Underground; ‘I’ll be your mirror’ is such a beautiful song. I loved Serge Gainsbourg’s album ‘Melody Nelson’, in particular the song ‘L’hotel Particulier’ which has a great video where Serge and Jane Birkin are walking through the paintings of Paul Delvaux.
I’ve read two BRILLIANT books, each in a different way, The Three-Cornered World by Soseki Natsume and finally, oh, finally Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki.; the first is a tale of a thirty year old artist, painter and a poet, who retreats to the mountains to find artistic inspiration and stays at a remote hotel where he encounters a beautiful and mysterious woman, he loves Millais’ Ophelia and the story of drowning and finding serenity in death is also entwined with his stay there. The latter is about a guy, Joji, who becomes intrigued by a pretty, half-Western looking fifteen year old waitress Naomi, and adopts her, marries her and hopes to mould her into a perfect companion for him, but things go terribly wrong, and Joji finds himself powerless against her charms.
Tags: 2017, february, february 2017, My Inspiration
Categories My Inspiration
Jean-Louis Forain – Elegant Woman at the Beach
‘Adrift in cheap dreams don’t stop the rain.’ (Manic Street Preachers – Motown Junk)
Jean-Louis Forain, Elegant Woman at the Beach, 1885
The colours and the mood of this painting instantly attracted me. An elegant lady is trying to leave the beach as quick as possible, to avoid the upcoming storm, but the wind is not making it easy for her. Exuding sophistication and class, she must be a Parisian lady who came to the seaside on holiday, hoping to find some peace from the stresses of modern life. Instead of enjoying a picturesque sunny day at the beach, with smiling white clouds and a clear blue sky, she’s welcomed by a turbulent sea and an overcast day, oh how aggravating!
Let’s imagine her name is Celestine, and that this is a one of those sudden storms at the height of Summer, let’s imagine it’s one Thursday afternoon in July. So, Celestine is in a hurry, because she knows that even cheap dreams don’t stop the rain. It seems that just a second ago she lifted her arms and dropped her umbrella, quick not to allow the wind to take over her lovely bonnet. We can see the direction the wind is blowing because the ends of her coat are turned upwards and her red scarf, painted in just few dabs of rich cherry colour, is dancing on the wind. Her vibrant garnet red dress and a navy blue coat stand out amidst all that greyness, which irresistibly reminds me of Anna Karina’s blue and red outfits against the backdrop of grey Parisian streets in Godard’s film ‘Une Femme est Une Femme’. Swift, thick and short brushstrokes are present everywhere, but most notably on her skirt, where the black and red seem to be battling for dominance over the fabric.
I’m sure Celestine would like me to talk more about that lovely outfit that she put together for a walk at the beach, but I think the sea and the beach itself deserve a moment of attention and appreciation. As Forain was an Impressionist, and a friend of Manet and Degas who even invited him to exhibit on the Impressionist exhibitions, he wanted to capture the mood, the magic effects of light and air, rather than perfect details and realistic portrayal of landscape. His careless brushwork and the illusion that everything was painted hastily, as a sketch, all bring to life the atmosphere of that gloomy afternoon: we witness the white clouds being devoured by the dark-grey ones, with almost a purplish undertone to them, we see the wind as it tries to blow Celestine’s bonnet, and probably carries the tiny particles of sand in her eyes, and the sea – we can hear the clasps of waves, and see their strength, beauty and naughty playfulness. This is a moment captured in time, like a photograph. And do I sense a spirit of Turner or Whistler in that portrayal of sea?
It’s hard to notice the line which separates the sandy beach and the sea, but this vagueness delights me. There’s a chair next to the lady, also painted in quick brushstrokes, and two small figures in the background. Sea is painted in beautiful sea foam colour. All in all, the beauty of this painting, for me, lies in its quick, exciting, playful brushstrokes and a gorgeous colour palette in which harmony of greys meets the vibrancy of reds and blues.
Rain, storm, and a desolate beach – my idea of heaven, or at least a perfect afternoon.
Tags: 1885, art, beach, blue, cheap dreams, desolate beach, elegant woman, French Art, French artist, Impressionism, Jean-Louis Forain, Manic Street Preachers, Motown Junk, Painting, Rain, red, Sea, storm, umbrella
Categories Art, Impressionism
J. A. M. Whistler – Symphony in White no 2 (The Little White Girl)
It’s impossible not to love this painting; it has a meditative, dreamy aura, wistful lady wearing a beautifully painted white dress, and delicate pink flowers, hinting at Whistler’s appreciation of Japanese art and culture.
Model for this ‘little white girl’ was an Irish beauty Joanna Hiffernan, a muse, model and a lover not only to Whistler but to Gustave Courbet as well, most famously in his painting ‘Sleep.’ Whistler’s biographers wrote of her: “She was not only beautiful. She was intelligent, she was sympathetic. She gave Whistler the constant companionship he could not do without.” Here, in Symphony in White no 2, Whistler painted her leaning against the mantelpiece in their love nest; a house they shared in Lindsey Row in Chelsea. She’s holding a Japanese fan in her hand. It’s interesting to note the ring on her left hand, but they were not married. There’s something ethereal about her; dressed in white gown that touches the ground, with long hair and a sad look in her eyes; she seems melancholic and detached from everything at the same time, as if she’s not really here, but is just passing through life without touching it, not allowing the harshness of reality to taint that beautiful whiteness of her muslin dress. If you close your eyes, you can imagine her slowly and elegantly walking across the room, then standing by the fireplace, her small hand barely touching the mantelpiece, while the other gently holds a fan. She is a silent Victorian woman living on the border of dreams and reality, like Millais’ Mariana, wrapped in the loneliness of her birdcage, longing for the imagined excitement of the real life out there. Or not. Perhaps she’s so engulfed in the sweetness of her daydreams and contemplation and doesn’t even walk to live the ‘real life’. At the same time, she knows that ‘dreams always end, they don’t rise up just descend’*, and this thought is the source of the wistfulness of her gaze that Whistler has so beautifully captured.
Here we see the typical elements of Japanese culture that can be found in many 19th century paintings; pink flowers, a fan, porcelain vase. Influence of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, which were immensely popular at the time, is visible in the composition as well; you see how the picture looks like it’s cut on the ends, her wide sleeve on the left, pink azaleas at the bottom and her hand and the vase in the upper part of the painting. That’s something you don’t see in paintings of Academic Realism. Whistler is even said to have introduced Rossetti to Japanese art as a matter of fact.
Beautiful delicate pink azaleas are almost protruding into the composition, leaning their pink blossoms and delicate little leaves, as if they’re ready to listen to her sorrows and comfort her. ‘Don’t be sad, spring will soon come, and your woes will be gone‘, they seem to whisper. Joanna ignores them, her face turned away from the viewer. It’s the mirror which reveals the sadness and wistfulness of her gaze, and also the seascape that’s opposite the fireplace. She seems to be thinking:
“I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers,
And everything but sleep.” (Swinburne)
Perhaps the most beautiful part of the painting, besides the flowers, is her dress which is painted in soft, almost transparent brushstrokes. Its gentle, dreamy appeal is contrasted with the strict, geometrical line of the fireplace. White is the hardest colours to paint, but Whistler shows a complete mastery over it, and the painting deserves its title ‘symphony’, for it is indeed a symphony in whites. In one painting below, Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, whose beauty arrives from the subtlety of colours, you’ll see that mastery of white again, and the dress seems to flow effortlessly, like a river, decorated with the flowers that also serve as an interior decoration; it’s hard to say where reality ends and dream start because the more I look at these gorgeous studies in white, the more I am drawn into this ethereal, delicate world that Whistler has created, using just his brush and colours, not magic.
James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American artist, but after coming to England in 1859, he never returned to his homeland again, but instead divided his time between London and Paris, and nurtured friendships with other artists and writers on the each side of the Channel; Gaultier, Swinburne, Manet and Courbet to name a few. Whistler is famous for promoting ‘art for art’s sake philosophy’, and enraging Ruskin who emphasised the social, moralistic role of art. He was also known for giving his paintings musical names, such as ‘Symphony’ or ‘Nocturne’, which sometimes enraged the critics, but still fascinates the lovers of his art, myself included.
This painting, with Joanna’s ghost-like reflection in the mirror, inspired Swinburne to write these verses:
‘Glad, but not flushed with gladness,
Since joys go by;
Sad, but not bent with sadness,
Since sorrows die;
Deep in the gleaming glass
She sees all past things pass,
And all sweet life that was lie down and lie.‘
The critics have drawn a parallel between this painting and Ingres’ Portrait of Louise de Broglie, Countess d’Haussonville from 1845, which also has a lady standing by the mirror. Similar meditative mood, delicate whiteness, and touch of the East, can be found in many of Whistler’s paintings, here are a few:
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862 (Note: model is Joanna again)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, 1872-1873
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Le Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine, 1863-65
My interest in these paintings arose because of my longing for Spring, so here’s a beautiful haiku poem for the season that’s upon us. Spring, I am anxiously awaiting you, please come quickly!
“In these spring days,
when tranquil light encompasses
the four directions,
why do the blossoms scatter
with such uneasy hearts?” (Ki no Tomonori, c. 850-c. 904)
Tags: American painter, art, art for art's sake, haiku poems, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Japan, Japonism, Joanna Hiffernan, longing for spring, lover, meditative, model, Muse, Painting, pink blossoms, pink flowers, Poem, Swinburne, Symphony, Whistler, White, white dress
Categories Art, Impressionism, Literature
Japanese Prints – Cherry Blossoms and Moonshine
Watching the rain of soft pink petals of cherry blossoms, against the night sky and magical moonshine – must be one of the most profound occupations one could possibly indulge in.
Utagawa Kunisada, Ukiyo-e painting from The Tale of Genji, Chapter 8 ‘Hana no En’, Under the Cherry Blossoms, 1852
It’s winter in the real world, but it’s spring in this Ukiyo-e print. Spring: the sweetest time of the year – a time when nature offers its lushness and greenness to all souls sensitive towards its beauty, a time when even the dullest of people may find in their souls a newly awaken dreamy sentiments. Yellow bridge, court ladies in vibrant silks and lavishing kimonos. Flowers everywhere; in the sky, in their hair, on their fabrics. Large and white, the full moon is low on the horizon. Cherry tree protrudes in the composition, giving the false impression of haughtiness. Like a beautiful woman showing off her figure and shining pearls around her neck, this cherry tree stretches out its branches, one might think heavy from all those lush pink blossoms, but no – their petals are as light and delicate as the moonshine which caresses them, and their beauty is as pure as the first snow.
The most intense beauty hides in the upper right corner: dark night sky becomes darker, cherry blossoms turn a more vibrant pink, and then a rain of the gorgeous pink petals, observed by the moon, shining with stillness. There’s still chillness in spring nights, but perhaps there’s a soft warm wind announcing the Summer days. What gentleness – petals touching the porcelain skin and elaborate hairstyles of the ladies. One holds a fan, while the other tries to catch the blossoms in her golden basket – how very wise, for the next day they all might be gone, and the awareness of that transient beauty is what stirs the soul.
As you all know, ‘Hanami’ or the custom of watching cherry or plum blossoms is a very important thing in Japan, but what I find even more exciting is ‘yozakura’ (‘night sakura’); watching the cherry blossoms at night. Then, for the occasion, the trees are decorated with brightly coloured paper lanterns. Oh, how magical would it be to sit silently and admire the cherry blossoms at night, with someone who’d appreciate their beauty as much as I would. Then, I would speak nothing, think nothing, just allow myself to be fully immersed in that beauty, and these beautiful verses written by Matsuo Basho centuries ago, would come to my mind:
‘There is nothing you can
see that is not a flower; there
is nothing you can think that
is not the moon.‘
Utagawa Kunisada, Yozakura Cherry Blossom at Night, 1848. Oban triptych, photo found here.
Kunisada (1786-1864) was an Edo period artist whose Ukiyo-e prints reflect the culture of Japan just prior to its opening to the West. In his own time, he was more popular that Hiroshige and Hokusai. Stylistically, he follows the realistic approach of his teacher Toyokuni, and was specially interested in portraying kabuki actors (those prints are known as ‘Yakusha-e’) and making ‘Bijin-ga’ – pictures of beautiful women, usually courtesans, but occasionally girls from bourgeois households. This particular woodcut shows the scene from Murasaki’s novel ‘The Tale of Genji’, that is, from the Chapter 8 which is titled ‘The Festival of the Cherry Blossoms’ and you can read it here.
‘sleepless night —
the moon becomes
more familiar.‘(*)
Tags: art, Beauty, Cherry blossoms, dreams, Edo period, flower, Hanami, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese prints, Kunisada, magic, Matsuo Basho, moon, moonshine, Murasaki, Spring, The Tale of Genji, transient beauty, Ukiyo-e
Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human – Art and Ghost Pictures
Osamu Dazai’s novel No Longer Human is a really fascinating book I’ve read recently and I’ve already reviewed it here. In this post we’ll take a look at the main character, Oba Yozo’s connection to art and the paintings of Western painters such as Modigliani and Vincent van Gogh.
Amedeo Modigliani, A Young Girl, 1918
Oba Yozo was interested in art and painting since primary school and wanted to go to an art school, but his father put him into college, with an intend to make a civil servant out of him. Yozo obeyed, like he always did in his life, but he couldn’t really identify himself with the role of a student, or soak himself in the ‘college spirit’, so he often cut classes and spent days at home, painting and reading – which is totally more useful for imagination and the soul than the boredom of classrooms and patronising professors at college. He also attended art classes given by a painter in Hongo, and practised sketching for hours. He said: ‘I owned a set of oil paints and brushes from the time I entered high school. I sought to model my techniques on those of the Impressionist School, but my pictures remained flat as paper cutouts, and seemed to offer no promises of ever developing into anything.’
With the help of a friend he realised the artistic truth: sometimes it’s more important to portray the truth and work from the soul, than to create perfect, lifeless pictures with a lot of skill and precision. He also says: ‘What superficiality – and what stupidity – there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them.’ From that moment on, he began making self-portraits, which is kept a secret, and showed one only to Takeichi, and no one else. In his free time, he painted these ‘ghost pictures’, but in school he kept his style strictly conventional. Later, at college, he meets a fellow art lover and painter, Horiki, who lures him into the ‘mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought’.
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Grey Felt Hat, March/April 1887
Here, Yozo and his friend Takeichi are discussing the so called ‘ghost pictures’, and the name itself is so intriguing to me. ‘Ghost pictures’ – what is meant by that? It puzzles me, especially since I adore both Modigliani and van Gogh, but I never thought of their art in that way. A certain fragility, melancholy and sadness lingers through Modigliani’s portraits, that’s for sure, but now I can’t help but to notice the wraith-like quality of his women, with elongated faces and sad eyes, or his nudes in ‘coppery skin’ tones.
‘Takeichi made one other important gift to me. One day he came to my room to play. He was waving with a brightly coloured picture which he proudly displayed. “It’s a picture of a ghost,” he explained.
I was startled. That instant, as I could not help feeling in later years, determined my path of escape. I knew what Takeichi was showing me. I knew that it was only the familiar self-portrait of van Gogh. When we were children the French Impressionist School was very popular in Japan, and our first introduction to an appreciation of Western painting most often begun with such works. The paintings of van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Renoir were familiar even to students at country schools, mainly through photographic reproduction. I myself had seen quite a few coloured photographs of van Gogh’s paintings. His brushwork and the vividness of his colours had intrigued me, but I had never imagined his pictures to be of ghosts.
I took from my bookshelf a volume of Modigliani reproductions, and showed Takeichi the familiar nudes with skin the colour of burnished copper. “How about these? Do you think they’re ghosts too?”
“They’re terrific.” Takeichi widened his eyes in admiration. “This one looks like a horse out of hell.”
“They really are ghosts then, aren’t they?”
“I wish I could paint pictures of ghosts like that,” said Takeichi.‘
Modigliani, Female Nude, 1916
Yozo later draws for comic books and magazines, and, at the very end, ends up copying pornographic drawings which he would then secretly peddle, to earn just enough money to buy gin. Still, despite leaving his original artistic intentions behind, he mentions these ‘ghost pictures’ again:
‘At such times the self-portraits I painted in high school – the ones Takeichi called “ghost pictures” – naturally came to mind. My lost masterpieces. These, my only really worth-while pictures, had disappeared during one of my frequent changes of address. I afterwards painted pictures of every description, but they all fell far, far short of those splendid works as I remembered them. I was plagued by a heavy sense of loss, as if my heart had become empty.
The undrunk glass of absinthe.
A sense of loss which was doomed to remain eternally unmitigated stealthily began to take shape. Whenever I spoke of painting, that undrunk glass of absinthe flickered before my eyes. I was agonized by the frustrating thought: if only I could show them those paintings they would believe in my artistic talents.‘
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1888
Tags: Alienation, art, artist, book, ghost, ghost pictures, Impressionism, Japan, Japanese literature, Literature, Modigliani, No Longer Human, Oba Yozo, Osamu Dazai, painter, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh
Manic Street Preachers – Little Baby Nothing
I often share poems on my blog, but why not share the lyrics of a rock song? As far as I’m concerned, their artistic value is the same, and often the lyrics of The Smiths, Manics, Syd Barrett etc. hold more meaning to me and I can relate to them more than I can to ‘classic’ poetry. Little Baby Nothing is THE first song by the Manic Street Preachers that I’ve listened to, and what can I say – it was love at first sight (or first hearing ha ha). This Friday, 10th February, will mark the 25th anniversary of their debut album Generation Terrorists. This is not my favourite song by the Manics, nor my favourite video, but objectively looking I think the lyrics are amazing and every line is perfect. Some of their lyrics, specially from The Holy Bible, can be a bit confusing, although they sound great accompanied by the music, but ‘Little Baby Nothing’ can be read on its own, like poetry and it would still be as meaningful. In their interview from 1992, Nicky Wire said that ‘men are the most horrible creatures because they use women’ and that the song is about a woman who had power and intelligence and was used by men. Therefore, having Traci Lords to sing some lines was more symbolic than anything, and they felt she could identify with the lyrics. One of their later songs, Yes, also deals with the exploitation of women, but it also says that every time you say ‘yes’ to something you don’t want to do, it’s also a form of prostituting yourself. And of course, the glorious line ‘Culture, Alienation, Boredom, and Despair‘ which perfectly sums everything that their early songs were about.
Here’s what Traci Lords said about Richey and the song: “He reminded me of a young David Bowie: very avant-garde, and there was something quite feminine about him. He was very soft-spoken, and struck me as being vulnerable, almost birdlike. He definitely came across as someone who was living in a glass-house, in some sort of fragile state. I thought he was lovely. He never spoke to me about why he wanted me to sing on ‘Little Baby Nothing’ – it wasn’t until later that I read his reasons for it. It’s funny because I saw Richey as someone who was very vulnerable, and that’s how he saw me“. (NME, 14 February 2015)
I’m glad they chose Traci Lords, not only because she totally fits with the lyrics, but also because I’ve liked her ever since I watched ‘Cry-Baby’ (1990), I thought she was the coolest character in the film! And judging her character and morality based on her ex-porn-star career would be hypocritical and immature. Even the Manics said in the same interview that she was the most intelligent American they’ve ever met in their lives!
Egon Schiele, Woman in Black Stockings, 1913
“No one likes looking at you
Your lack of ego offends male mentality
They need your innocence
To steal vacant love and to destroy
Your beauty and virginity used like toys
My mind is dead, everybody love’s me
Wants a slice of me
Hopelessly passive and compatible
Need to belong, oh the roads are scarey
So hold me in your arms
I wanna be your only possession
Used, used, used by men
All they leave behind is money
Paper made out of broken twisted trees
Your pretty face offends
Because it’s something real that I can’t touch
Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower
No god reached me, faded films and loving books
Black and white TV
All the world does not exist for me
And if I’m starving, you can feed me lollipops
Your diet will crush me
My life just an old man’s memory
Little baby nothing
Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty
Dress your life in loathing
Breaking your mind with Barbie Doll futility
Sexually free, made-up to breakup
Assassinated beauty
Moths broken up, quenched at last
The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by
You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock ‘n’ roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair
Now, who’s to say something can’t be aesthetically pleasing and have a strong social message at the same time?
Did I also mention that the video is cool? Well, check it out and decide for yourself.
Tags: 1992, Alienation, art, boredom, culture, despair, Egon Schiele, exploitation of women, Generation Terrorists, James Dean Bradfield, Little Baby Nothing, Manic Street Preachers, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards, Rock Music, Sean Moore, social message, Traci Lords, Welsh band, Woman in Black Stockings
Categories Literature, Rock Music
Ryunosuke Akutagawa – The Good Faith of Wei Sheng
Today I’ll share with you a beautiful, lyrical short story called The Good Faith of Wei Sheng, written by ‘The Father of the Japanese short story’ – Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who, just like Osamu Dazai of whom I’ve written earlier, also committed suicide, at the age of thirty-five. I’ve accompanied the story with some equally beautiful paintings of water lilies and a Japanese bridge by Claude Monet. I can’t stop thinking whether Monet felt the same transcendental beauty in his beautiful gardens at Giverny?
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1912
“Wei Sheng lingered under the bridge. He had been waiting awhile for the woman to come.
Looking up, he saw that vines had creeped halfway along the high stone bridge railing. The hems of the white garb of occasional passers-by would flash brightly into view through the railing, flapping gently in the breeze. But the woman still did not come.
Whistling softly, Wei Sheng light-heartedly looked across the sandbar beneath the bridge. The yellow mud of the sandbar extended only about four yards; beyond that was water. Between the reeds at the water’s edge were a number of round holes that must have been dwellings for crabs. A faint gurgling sound could be heard whenever a wave washed over them. But the woman stilll did not come.
Wei Sheng moved to the water’s edge, as though he was beginning to notice the passage of time, and gazed out at the quiet course of the river, where no boats were passing.
The course of the river was thickly lined with green reeds. In addition to those reeds, here and there round river willows grew luxuriently. For that reason, the surface of the river that could be seen snaking along between them did not look as wide as it actually was. The belt of clear water, however, meandered silently through the reeds, gilded with the mica-like reflection of clouds. But the woman still did not come.
Claude Monet, Water Lilies and the Japanese Bridge, 1897-99
Wei Sheng walked around at the edge of the water, going here and there on the sandbar, which was no longer as wide. Twilight advanced slowly, and he listened to the stillness around him.
There had been no sign of travelers up on the bridge for a little while. He hadn’t heard any sound of boots, or any sound of hooves, or any sound of wheels from up there. He did hear the sound of the breeze, the sound of the reeds, the sound of water, and from somewhere there came the piercing cry of a heron. So thinking, he stopped where he was, and realized that the tide was coming in. The water that washed the yellow mud sparkled nearer than it had a little earlier. But the woman still didn’t come.
Arching his eybrows sharply, Wei Sheng hurriedly started walking back up the dimly lit sandbar under the bridge. Inch by inch, foot by foot, the water of the river rose up the sandbar. At the same time the smells of duckweed and water rising from the river flowed cold across his skin. When he looked up, the gaudy rays of the setting sun had disappeared from the bridge. The stone bridge railing showed black against the barely blue evening sky. But the woman still didn’t come.
Claude Monet, Water Lily Pond, 1919
Finally Wei Sheng stood fixed in his place.
Soaking his boots, the water of the river spread below the bridge and shown colder than steel. His knees, his belly, and before long his chest surely would be hidden by the brutal tide soon. In fact, the water continued to rise and his shins were submerged already. But the woman still didn’t come.
As he stood in the water, Wei Sheng repeatedly turned his eyes to the sky over the bridge as his sole remaining hope.
Surrounded by mists of shadowy darkness rising from the water that immersed his knees, he heard a lonely rustle of reeds and willows through the mists. Wei Sheng’s nose was grazed by a fish, perhaps a sea bass, that flashed its white belly at him. Stars, if only a few, could be seen in the sky through which the fish leapt, and the shape of the bridge railing and its vines blended with the darkness of the night. But the woman still didn’t come . . .
Late at night when the light of the moon bathed the reeds and willows and the water of the river exchanged quiet murmers with a slight breeze, Wei Sheng’s dead body was carried softly to sea from beneath the bridge. Wei Sheng’s spirit, perhaps yearning for the light of the moon high in the lonely sky, slipped out of the body and tranquilly ascended toward the faintly glowing sky, just as the smell of water and duckweed rises silently from the river. . .
With the passage of several thousands of years from that time, this spirit had experienced countless transmigrations and had to give life to a human form again. This is the spirit that dwells in me. Therefore, even though I was born in the present time, I am unable to do any meaningful work. I spend my life in desultory dreaming, day and night, waiting for an indescribable something that is bound to come. Just as Wei Sheng stood under the bridge at the end of the day, waiting forever for a lover who would never come.“
Tags: Claude Monet, Impressionism, Japan, Japanese literature, Literature, lover, lyrical, moon, Nature, poetic, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, short story, The Good Faith of Wei Sheng, waiting, Water Lily
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Arjen Klaverstijn – Blog
animation, General
‘The Art of pho’ a motion comic
Video 11/01/2012 Arjen Klaverstijn Leave a comment
The past year my girlfriend Lois van Baarle worked on a motion comic named ‘The Art of Pho’ based on the graphic novel by Julian Hanshaw. The whole piece was produced at Submarine Channel.
The Comic was carefully animated and converted into an interactive experience. Every day of this week the an episode of the comic will be released. The music was composed by Pastelle Music in Amsterdam.
You’ll find this wonderfull project here:
artofpho.submarinechannel.com
Check out the trailer:
An interview with the creators/ Making Of:
The Art of Pho by Julian Hanshaw is a moving and surreal story about a creature named Little Blue and his relationship with Ho Chi Minh City, better known as Saigon. In Vietnam’s bustling capital Little Blue learns to master the art of making Pho – Vietnam’s ubiquitous national noodle dish.
The Art of Pho was the highly anticipated debut graphic novel of the award-winning British illustrator and animator Julian Hanshaw. Under his creative supervision and with animation director Lois van Baarle, Submarine Channel adapted The Art of Pho for the web. The interactive graphic novel adds the dimensions of sound, music, animation and interactivity to Hanshaw’s exquisitely drawn artwork and features 8 episodes.
Julian Hanshaw
British-born Julian Hanshaw (1971) graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a BA Hons in Fine Art. After spending three years at the NFTS, where his animation ‘The Church of High Weirdness’ won a prestigious Golden Reel Award, Hanshaw worked as an animator and animation director on double BAFTA-award winning projects such as Charlie & Lola, and Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! After 12 years in the animation industry, Hanshaw needed a new challenge and returned to his first love, comics. With his short story ‘Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms’ he won the 2008 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize. Two years later he published his first graphic novel, The Art of Pho. A collection of short graphic novel stories is to be released by Random House in 2012. Julian is currently working on a new graphic novel.
julianhanshaw.co.uk
Lois van Baarle
Born with a pencil in her hand, Lois van Baarle only recently developed a preference for digital art and animation. Although born in The Netherlands, Van Baarle has lived all over the world, including the U.S., Indonesia, France and Belgium. After high school, Van Baarle studied animation and pursued art as a career. Following a one-year study in Ghent (Belgium) van Baarle attained her European Media Master of Arts title from The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in 2009. Her graduation film, the breathtaking animated short ‘Trichrome Blue,’ went viral. Inspirations include Japanese manga and anime, French comic artists such as Aurore BlackCat, Art Nouveau artist Alfonse Mucha, as well as the online art community DeviantArt. Van Baarle lives and works in Utrecht (NL).
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Submarine Channel
Founded in 2001, Submarine Channel is one of the world’s premiere destinations for original transmedia dramas, motion comics, web documentaries and other forms of genre-defying entertainment that advances the art of the moving image. From studios in Amsterdam and L.A., Submarine Channel creates fresh content that exploits new technologies to tell stories in visually exciting, multiple format-friendly ways. Projects include, among many others, the motion comic The Killer (2003), the interactive animation series HOTEL by Han Hoogerbrugge (2004) and Valley of the Cnuties by Craig Robinson (2008), the website about title design ‘Forget the Film, Watch the Titles,’ and the Digital Emmy-award nominated transmedia project Collapsus (2010).
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Sydney vs Melbourne @ The SCG - 19:20
To kick off Round 4 we have two teams that are struggling at the start of the 2019 season. The Demons are sitting at the bottom of the ladder (what the...?), while the Swans have managed the one win, against Carlton. As both teams are in pretty poor form so far, let's look back at the history between these two clubs and see if that gives us any help...
It seems that no matter where they have played over the past half a decade, the Swans have come away with the win and even with Max Gawn winning the hit-outs, in their Sydney sand-trap (should the AFL apologise to the soccer players?), the Swannies should be able to edge out the disappointing Demons.
Sydney by 11
Collingwood vs Western Bulldogs @ The MCG - 19:50
Both teams in this match had a disappointing Round 3 and will be looking to bounce back with a win. While the Magpies had a narrow loss to the reigning premiers, the Doggies went down to the visiting Suns, a result I am sure they wouldn't have expected; getting ahead of themselves much? With both team's strength lying in their midfield, the Pies forwards, and backs will be too strong for their Bulldog counterparts. Expect to see Grundy have a huge day in the ruck and around the ground!
Collingwood by 26
Geelong vs GWS Giants @ GMHBA Stadium - 13:45
Along with the Eagles, Geelong would be the form team of the season so far with wins over Adelaide, in Adelaide, Melbourne and Collingwood. The Giants weren't great last week. Well, not for the first three quarters. They then broke free for a fantastic last quarter to put the Tigers to the sword.
If this game was up in Sydney I may lean towards the home team, but down in Geelong, I think the Catters can get win number 4.
Geelong by 21
Essendon vs Brisbane @ The MCG - 14:10
The Bombers got their first win of the season last round, getting past the lack-lustre Demons at the MCG. Up in Brisbane the Lions managed to get past the Power in a fast finish to an exciting game. Besides the results of Round 3, these two teams don't have much in common early in Season 2019; Essendon fourth last on the ladder, while their opponents are sitting up high in second place with three wins.
With all indicators, except the venue, pointing to the Lions continuing on their winning ways... I'll go along.
Brisbane by 19
Port Adelaide vs Richmond @ Adelaide Oval - 16:35
While Port Adelaide had a narrow loss to the Lions up in Brisbane last weekend, the Tigers were destroyed in the last quarter by the Giants, who ran out big winners. As has been splashed around the media this week, the Tigers are looking like they will be without Rance, Riewoldt, Cotchin, Short, Houli and probably Martin for this game. When you add Shaun Grigg in there, it is something like 1,500 games of experience out. Just huge! While the Power hasn't been great at home so far, they have shown flashes of the talent they have on the team. With so many senior Richmond players being out, and Port Adealide able to physically impose themselves on the Tigers in the past, good luck Tigers... you're going to need it!
Power by 32
North Melbourne vs Adelaide @ Marvel Stadium - 19:25
Over the past five years, every game between these two sides has gone the way of the home team, so why would this game be any different? That's a good question you ask right there! While both teams have quality through the midfield, I believe the 2019 Crows model, with the Rorys and Crouches, is a step above those that North can field next Saturday. Even though Ben Brown is due a big game (7 disp and 1 goal 2 points last week) he hasn't shown much so far, but then neither has Taylor Walker, with a near exact copy of Brown's stats last round;(7 disp and 1 goal 1 behind). While history says this should be a Kangaroo win, I'm going to buck the trend and back the Crow's midfield, hopefully with Jacobs back in the team to lead the way.
Adelaide by 28
West Coast vs Fremantle @ Optus Stadium - 20:10
In the first Western Derby for 2019, we see the high-flying Eagles up against the ship-to-shore Dockers. One team is on top of their game, while the other struggled to get past St Kilda in Round 3, and had their best player suffer a nasty looking head-clash towards the end of the game. Will Fyfe be okay for this match?
Coming off a great win against Collingwood last week, the Eagles should have no problem dispatching a Dockers team that has been having trouble kicking a decent score the last couple of weeks. This game could get ugly for the Purple and White.
West Coast by 43
Gold Coast vs Carlton @ Metricon Stadium - 14:40
A game between two of last years battlers is shaping as a pretty decent looking contest. Both teams have been markedly better in 2019, with Carlton falling just short of Sydney last week, and Gold Coast keeping in front of the Bulldogs to the siren. While Carlton has a solid midfield, Rory Lobbe has to get more involved around the ground! Gone are the days where the ruck can just give the ball a whack before dropping back to fill the gap at CHB. While on the topic of rucks, and rucking, the combination of Jarrod Witts and Peter Wright was huge for the Suns last weekend, netting 71 hit-outs between them. The Blues really need Kreuzer to get back into the team ASAP.
Strange as it is... Across their past four meetings, two in Melbourne and two on the Gold Coast, both teams have only won when away!
Gold Coast by 15
St. Kilda vs Hawthorn @ Marvel Stadium - 15:20
I thought the Hawks were going to lose to the Roos last round, but they managed to get their act together after half-time and do enough for the win. For the Saints, if they had've kicked straighter they woulda, shoulda and coulda come away with a quality win after the big trip west. Unfortunately for their supporters they didn't, and as we all know, (say it along with me now) 'bad kicking for goal is bad footy!'
With O'Meara in great form, and Chat Wingard snagging three goals in his Hawthorn debut, I just can't see the Saints being able to keep up with the Hawks across a whole game.
Hawthorn by 25
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FIFA World Cup 2018: Schedule, Stadiums, Teams, Controversies And More!
The FIFA World Cup is considered as the Mecca for all football players and fans alike. The world’s most watched sport- the FIFA World Cup 2018, happens every four years. It has been four years since the last one happened in Brazil and it is time again to wave your flags, wave your flags.
The FIFA 2018 World Cup is the 21st edition of the quadrennial event. This year, 32 countries (teams) will compete for the most coveted spot, after playing in the FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifiers from their continents/confederations. The World Cup will be held in Russia (Eastern Europe), and all the venues are in European Russia. A total of 32 teams will be playing, in groups of 4. There are 8 groups and only the top two from every group will enter the round of 16. The winners from this round will enter the quarter-final and the winners of the quarter-finals will enter the semi-finals. The winners from the semi-finals will face each other for the trophy at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, on 15 July 2018.
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Group Stage (32 teams) —–> Round of 16(16 teams) —–> Quarter Finals (8 team) —–> Semi-Finals(4 teams) —-> Final (2 teams) —–> Winner
*drum roll* And the groups are:
GROUP A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay
GROUP B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran
GROUP C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark
GROUP D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria
GROUP E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia
GROUP F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea
GROUP G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England
GROUP H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan
Live It Up With FIFA World Cup 2018!
Official Mascot: Zabivaka- The official FIFA World Cup mascot for the 2018 tournament is a wolf named Zabivaka (Russian for “the one who scores”). He wears a brown and white wool T-shirt with the words “RUSSIA 2018” and orange sports glasses. The combination of white, blue and red T-shirt and shorts are the national colors of the Russian team.
Offical Ball: Adidas 18 Telstar
FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 SCHEDULE
1 Russia v Saudi Arabia (A) Thursday, June 14 8:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 5-0
2 Egypt v Uruguay (A) Friday, June 15 5:30pm Ekaterinburg 0-1
3 Morocco v Iran (B) Friday, June 15 8:30pm St Petersburg 0-1
4 Portugal v Spain (B) Saturday, June 16 11:30pm Sochi 3-3
5 France v Australia (C) Saturday, June 16 3:30pm Kazan 2-1
6 Argentina v Iceland (D) Saturday, June 16 6:30pm Moscow (Spartak) 1-1
7 Peru v Denmark (C) Saturday, June 16 9:30pm Saransk 0-1
8 Croatia v Nigeria (D) Sunday, June 17 12:30am Kaliningrad 2-0
9 Costa Rica v Serbia (E) Sunday, June 17 5:30pm Samara 0-1
10 Germany v Mexico (F) Sunday, June 17 8:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 0-1
11 Brazil vs Switzerland (E) Monday, June 18 11:30pm Rostov-on-Don 1-1
12 Sweden v South Korea (F) Monday, June 18 5:30pm Nizhny Novgorod 1-0
13 Belgium v Panama (G) Monday, June 18 8:30pm Sochi 3-0
14 Tunisia v England (G) Tuesday, June 19 11:30pm Volgograd 1-2
15 Colombia v Japan (H) Tuesday, June 19 5:30pm Saransk 1-2
16 Poland v Senegal (H) Tuesday, June 19 8:30pm Moscow (Spartak) 1-2
17 Russia v Egypt (A) Wednesday, June 20 11:30pm St Petersburg 3-1
18 Portugal v Morocco (B) Wednesday, June 20 5:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 1-0
19 Uruguay v Saudi Arabia (A) Wednesday, June 20 8:00 PM Rostov-on-Don 1-0
20 Iran v Spain (B) Thursday, June 21 11:30pm Kazan 0-1
21 Denmark v Australia (C) Thursday, June 21 5:30pm Samara 1-1
22 France v Peru (C) Thursday, June 21 8:30pm Ekaterinburg 1-0
23 Argentina v Croatia (D) Friday, June 22 11:30pm Nizhny Novgorod 0-3
24 Brazil v Costa Rica (E) Friday, June 22 5:30pm St Petersburg 2-0
25 Nigeria v Iceland (D) Friday, June 22 8:30pm Volgograd 2-0
26 Serbia v Switzerland (E) Friday, June 22 11:30pm Kaliningrad 1-2
27 Belgium v Tunisia (G Saturday, June 23 5:30pm Moscow (Spartak) 5-2
28 South Korea v Mexico (F) Saturday, June 23 8:30pm Rostov-on-Don 1-2
29 Germany v Sweden (F) Saturday, June 23 11:30pm Sochi 2-1
30 England v Panama (G) Sunday, June 24 5:30pm Nizhny Novgorod 6-1
31 Japan v Senegal (H) Sunday, June 24 8:30pm Ekaterinburg 2-2
32 Poland v Colombia (H) Monday, June 25 11:30pm Kazan 0-3
33 Saudi Arabia v Egypt (A) Monday, June 25 7:30pm Volgograd 2-1
34 Uruguay v Russia (A) Monday, June 25 7:30pm Samara 3-0
35 Iran v Portugal (B) Tuesday, June 25 11:30pm Saransk 1-1
36 Spain v Morocco (B) Tuesday, June 25 11:30pm Kaliningrad 2-2
37 Australia v Peru (C) Tuesday, June 26 7:30pm Sochi 0-2
38 Denmark v France (C) Tuesday, June 26 7:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 0-0
39 Nigeria v Argentina (D) Tuesday, June 26 11:30pm St Petersburg 1-2
40 Iceland v Croatia (D) Tuesday, June 26 11:30pm Rostov-on-Don 1-2
41 South Korea v Germany (F) Wednesday, June 27 7:30pm Kazan 2-0
42 Mexico v Sweden (F) Wednesday, June 27 7:30pm Ekaterinburg 0-3
43 Switzerland v Costa Rica (E) Wednesday, June 27 11:30pm Nizhny Novgorod 2-2
44 Serbia v Brazil (E) Wednesday, June 27 11:30pm Moscow (Spartak) 0-2
45 Senegal v Colombia (H) Thursday, June 28 7:30pm Samara 0-1
46 Japan v Poland Thursday, June 28 7:30pm Volgograd 0-1
47 England v Belgium (G) Thursday, June 28 11:30pm Kaliningrad 0-1
48 Panama v Tunisia (G) Thursday, June 28 11:30pm Saransk 1-2
49 France vs Argentina Saturday, June 30 7:30pm Kazan 4-3
50 Uruguay vs Portugal Saturday, June 30 11:30pm Sochi 2-1
51 Spain vs Russia Sunday, July 1 7:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 1-1(3-4)
52 Croatia vs Denmark Sunday, July 1 11:30pm Nizhny Novgorod 1-1(3-2)
53 Brazil vs Mexico Monday, July 2 7:30pm Samara 2-0
54 Belgium vs Japan Monday, July 2 11:30pm Rostov-on-Don 3-2
55 Sweden vs Switzerland Tuesday, July 3 7:30pm St. Petersburg 1-0
56 Colombia vs England Tuesday, July 3 11:30pm Rostov-on-Don 1-1(3-4)
57 Uruguay vs France Friday, July 6 7:30pm Nizhny Novgorod 0-2
58 Brazil vs Belgium Friday, July 6 11:30pm Kazan 1-2
59 Sweden vs England Saturday, July 7 7:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 0-2
60 Russia vs Croatia Saturday, July 7 11:30pm Sochi 2-2(3-4)
61 France vs Belgium Tuesday, July 10 11:30pm St Petersburg 1-0
62 Croatia vs England Wednesday, July 11 11:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 2-1
THIRD PLACE MATCH
63 Belgium vs England Saturday, July 14 7:30pm St Petersburg 2-0
64 France vs Croatia Saturday, July 15 8:30pm Moscow (Luzhniki) 4-2
The Battlefields – FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 Venues
1. Luzhniki Stadium (Moscow)
Largest stadium in Russia
Venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, opening match and the finals.
Hosted big sporting events viz. 1980 Olympic games, 1999 UEFA Cup final, UEFA Champions League Final in 2008.
Main stadium of FIFA 2018 World Cup.
It is one of the few stadiums in the world to host the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League Final and the Summer Olympics.
14 June – Russia vs Saudi Arabia (Group A)
17 June – Germany vs Mexico (Group F)
20 June – Portugal vs Morocco (Group B)
26 June – Denmark vs France (Group C)
1 July – 1B vs 2A (Round of 16)
11 July – W59 vs W60 (Semifinal)
15 July – W61 vs W62 (Final)
2. Saint Petersburg Stadium (Saint Petersburg)
One of the most expensive stadiums ever built, it holds claim as the second most important venue for this World Cup.
It was opened in 2017 for the FIFA Confederations Cup.
It cost around 1.1 billion USD, and was 518% late and 548% over budget.
The stadium is also known as the Krestovsky Stadium and is home ground for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Matches to be played:
15 June – Morocco vs Iran (Group B)
19 June – Russia vs Egypt (Group A)
22 June – Brazil vs Croatia (Group E)
26 June – Nigeria vs Argentina (Group D)
3 July – 1F vs 2E (Round of 16)
14 July – L61 vs L62 (Third place)
3. Fisht Stadium (Sochi)
Named after Mount Fisht, it was originally built as an enclosed stadium but the roofs were later removed to comply with FIFA regulations.
A stadium originally for the Winter Olympics 2014, it was re-opened in 2016 as an open-air stadium.
It has hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
It later hosted the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.
15 June – Portugal vs Spain (Group B)
18 June – Belgium vs Panama (Group G)
23 June – Germany vs Sweden (Group F)
26 June – Australia vs Peru (group C)
30 June – 1A vs 2B (Round of 16)
7 July – W51 vs W52 (Quarterfinal)
4. Ekaterinburg Arena (Yekaterinburg)
The easternmost of all the World Cup venues, it is the only World Cup venue that is situated in Asian Russia.
It will be a tall task for those fans who want to catch matches between Yekaterinburg and Moscow. The free World Cup train journey is about 26 hours. Best of luck!
15 June – Egypt vs Uruguay (Group A)
21 June – France vs Peru (Group C)
24 June – Japan vs Senegal (Group H)
27 June – Mexico vs Sweden (Group F)
4. Kazan Arena (Kazan)
It has the largest outside screen in Europe and will be home to Rubin Kazan post the World Cup.
The stadium was built for the World University Games in 2013.
It was designed by the same architectural firm that built the Wembley and Emirates Stadium.
16 June – France vs Australia (Group C)
20 June – Iran vs Spain (Group B)
24 June – Poland vs Colombia (Group H)
27 June – Korea Republic vs Germany (Group F)
30 June – 1C vs 2D (Round of 16)
5. Nizhny Novgorod Stadium (Nizhny Novgorod)
A new construction, the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium is built on hills, which overlooks the Volga river.
The area was earlier a port for cargo ships.
Post the World Cup, it will be home to Olympiets Nizhny Novgorod.
18 June – Sweden vs Korea Republic (Group F)
21 June – Argentina vs Croatia (Group D)
24 June – England vs Panama (Group G)
27 June – Switzerland vs Costa Rica (Group E)
1 July – 1D vs 2C (Round of 16)
6 July – W49 vs W50 – (Quarterfinal)
6. Rostov Arena (Rostov-on-Don)
Famous for its showcasing of Cossack culture, Rostov-on-Don is over 3,000 km from Moscow.
After the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the stadium will be home to FC Rostov.
17 June – Brazil vs Switzerland (Group E)
20 June – Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia (Group A)
23 June – Korea Republic vs Mexico (Group F)
26 June – Iceland vs Croatia (Group D)
2 July – 1G vs 2H (Round of 16)
7. Cosmos Arena (Samara)
The stadium features a space-like theme, reflecting Samara’s well-known aerospace industry.
The venue has been renamed to Samara Arena for the 2018 World Cup.
Post the tournament, it will be home to the local club―Krylya Sovetov.
17 June – Costa Rica vs Serbia (Group E)
21 June – Denmark vs Australia (Group C)
25 June – Uruguay vs Russia (Group A)
28 June – Senegal vs Colombia (Group H)
2 July – 1E vs 2F (Round of 16)
8. Mordovia Arena (Saransk)
Situated in Saransk, the Mordovia Arena was embroiled in a controversy for its resemblance to South Africa’s FNB Stadium.
Post World Cup, the seating capacity will be cut to 28,000.
It will also be the host stadium for FC Mordovia Saransk in the Russian Premier League.
16 June – Peru vs Denmark (Group C)
19 June – Colombia vs Japan (Group H)
25 June – Iran vs Portugal (Group B)
28 June – Panama vs Tunisia (Group G)
9. Volgograd Stadium (Volgograd)
The city was formerly known as Stalingrad.
A light installation will be shown to all visitors for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and it will feature the Russian perspective of major events of World War II.
The Soviet Union winning the Battle of Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, was one of the most decisive victories over Germany and its allies in February 1943.
18 June – Tunisia vs England (Group G)
22 June – Nigeria vs Iceland (Group D)
25 June – Saudi Arabia vs Egypt (Group A)
28 June – Japan vs Poland (Group H)
10. Spartak Stadium (Moscow)
Originally called Otkritie Arena, it is the home ground to FC Spartak Moscow.
The exterior design of the stadium has over hundreds of diamonds, reminiscent of a chainmail. It can change colors depending on the teams that are playing.
The gladiator statue of Spartacus is definitely going to be an attraction for most of the fans.
16 June – Argentina vs Iceland (Group D)
19 June – Poland vs Senegal (Group H)
23 June – Belgium vs Tunisia (Group B)
26 June – Serbia vs Brazil (Group C)
3 July – 1H vs 2G (Round of 16)
11. Kaliningrad Stadium (Kaliningrad)
Kaliningrad is the most westerly city to host the games.
Its design is loosely based on the design of Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena.
It was initially planned that it will be a 45,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof. However, this plan had to be turned down, and the more modest, roofless 35,000-seater venue was finalized.
16 June – Croatia vs Nigeria (Group D)
22 June – Serbia vs Switzerland (Group E)
25 June – Spain vs Morocco (Group B)
28 June – England vs Belgium (Group G)
Teams For FIFA World Cup 2018
GROUP A:
Russia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Gabulov (Club Brugge), Andrey Lunev (Zenit St Petersburg)
Defenders: Vladimir Granat (Rubin Kazan), Fedor Kudryashov (Rubin Kazan), Ilya Kutepov (Spartak Moscow), Andrey Semenov (Akhmat Grozny), Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), Mario Fernandes (CSKA Moscow), Igor Smolnikov (Zenit St Petersburg)
Midfielders: Yuri Gazinskiy (Krasnodar), Alexsandr Golovin (CSKA Moscow), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Aleksandr Erokhin (Zenit St Petersburg), Yuri Zhirkov (Zenit St Petersburg), Daler Kuzyaev (Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Zobnin (Spartak Moscow), Alexsandr Samedov (Spartak Moscow), Anton Miranchuk (Lokomotiv Moscow), Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal)
Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (Arsenal Tula), Aleksey Miranchuk (Lokomotiv Moscow), Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar)
Key player: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow)- The team’s captain-goalkeeper will also be one of the key players for the team.
Coach: Stanislav Cherchesov
Saudi Arabia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Mohammed Alowais (Al Ahli), Yasser Almosailem (Al Ahli), Abdullah Almuaiouf (Al Hilal)
Defenders: Mansoor Alharbi (Al Ahli), Yasser Alshahrani (Al Hilal), Mohammed Alburyak (Al Hilal), Motaz Hawsawi (Al Ahli), Osama Hawsawi (Al Hilal), Omar Othman (Al Nassr), Ali Albulayhi (Al Hilal)
Midfielders: Abdullah Alkhaibari (Al Shabab), Abdulmalek Alkhaibri (Al Hilal), Abdullah Otayf (Al Hilal), Taiseer Aljassam (Al Ahli), Hussain Almoqahwi (Al Ahli), Salman Alfaraj (Al Hilal), Mohamed Kanno (Al Hilal), Hatan Bahbir (Al Shabab), Salem Aldawsari (Al Hilal), Yahia Alshehri (Al Nassr)
Forwards: Mohammed Alsahlawi (Al Nassr), Muhannad Asiri (Al Ahli), Fahad Almuwallad (Al Ittihad)
Star player: Mohammad Al-Sahlawi (Al-Nassr)- Having scored 16 goals in the qualifiers, this 30-year-old will have to keep up his form to get the team in the competition.
Coach: Juan Antonio Pizzi
Egypt’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Essam El Hadary (Al Taawoun), Mohamed El-Shennawy (Al Ahly), Sherif Ekramy (Al Ahly)
Defenders: Ahmed Fathi (Al Ahly), Saad Samir (Al Ahly), Ayman Ashraf (Al Ahly), Mahmoud Hamdy (Zamalek), Mohamed Abdel-Shafy (Al Fateh), Ahmed Hegazi (West Brom), Ali Gabr (Zamalek), Ahmed Elmohamady (Aston Villa), Omar Gaber (Los Angeles FC)
Midfielders: Tarek Hamed, (Zamalek), Abdallah Said (Al Ahli), Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic), Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal), Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City), Mahmoud Hassan (Kasimpasa)
Forwards: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Marwan Mohsen (Al Ahly), Shikabala (Zamalek), Amr Warda (Atromitos), Mahmoud Kahraba (Al Ittihad)
Key player: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)- This name needs no introduction this season. Having scored 42 goals this season across all club competitions, the only concern right now is about his shoulder injury.
Coach: Hector Cuper
Uruguay’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Fernando Muslera (Galatasaray), Martin Silva (Vasco da Gama), Martin Campana (Independiente)
Defenders: Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid), Jose Maria Gimenez (Atletico Madrid), Sebastian Coates (Sporting Lisbon), Maximiliano Pereira (Porto), Gaston Silva (Independiente), Martin Caceres (Lazio), Guillermo Varela (Penarol)
Midfielders: Nahitan Nandez (Boca Juniors), Lucas Torreira (Sampdoria), Matias Vecino (Inter Milan), Rodrigo Bentancur (Juventus), Carlos Sanchez (Monterrey), Giorgian De Arrascaeta (Cruzeiro), Diego Laxalt (Genoa), Cristian Rodriguez (Penarol), Jonathan Urretaviscaya (Monterrey)
Forwards: Cristhian Stuani (Girona), Maximiliano Gomez (Celta Vigo), Edinson Cavani (Paris St-Germain), Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
Key player: Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) – Being the top goalscorer of the South American qualifiers (10 goals in 18 matches), Cavani has been clinical for Uruguay than Luis Suarez.
Coach: Oscar Tabarez
GROUP B:
Portugal’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Anthony Lopes (Lyon), Beto (Goztepe), Rui Patricio (Sporting Lisbon)
Defenders: Bruno Alves (Rangers), Cedric Soares (Southampton), Jose Fonte (Dalian Yifang), Mario Rui (Napoli), Pepe (Besiktas), Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Ricardo Pereira (Porto), Ruben Dias (Benfica)
Midfielders: Adrien Silva (Leicester), Bruno Fernandes (Sporting Lisbon), Joao Mario (West Ham), Joao Moutinho (Monaco), Manuel Fernandes (Lokomotiv Moscow), William Carvalho (Sporting)
Forwards: Andre Silva (AC Milan), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Gelson Martins (Sporting Lisbon), Goncalo Guedes (Valencia), Ricardo Quaresma (Besiktas)
Key player: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)- Does this name really need an introduction?
Coach: Fernando Santos
Spain’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Pepe Reina (Napoli), David de Gea (Manchester United), Kepa Arrizabalaga (Athletic Bilbao)
Defenders: Nacho Fernandez (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Alvaro Odriozola (Real Sociedad), Nacho Monreal (Arsenal), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea)
Midfielders: Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Saul Niguez (Atletico Madrid), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Isco (Real Madrid), Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich), David Silva (Manchester City)
Forwards: Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo), Rodrigo (Valencia), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid), Lucas Vazquez (Real Madrid)
Key player: Andres Iniesta (Barcelona) – The maestro is still the player who pulls the strings in the midfield.
Coach: Julen Lopetegui
Morocco’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Mounir El Kajoui (Numancia), Yassine Bounou (Girona), Ahmad Reda Tagnaouti (Ittihad Tanger)
Defenders: Mehdi Benatia (Juventus), Romain Saiss (Wolves), Manuel Da Costa (Istanbul Basaksehir), Nabil Dirar (Fenerbahce), Achraf Hakimi (Real Madrid), Hamza Mendyl (Lille)
Midfielders: M’barek Boussoufa (Al Jazira), Karim El Ahmadi (Feyenoord), Youssef Ait Bennasser (Caen), Sofyan Amrabat (Feyenoord), Younes Belhanda (Galatasaray), Faycal Fajr (Getafe), Amine Harit (Schalke)
Forwards: Khalid Boutaib (Malatyaspor), Aziz Bouhaddouz (St Pauli), Ayoub El Kaabi (Renaissance Berkane), Nordin Amrabat (Leganes), Mehdi Carcela (Standard Liege), Hakim Ziyech (Ajax), Youssef En Nesyri (Malaga)
Key player: Nabil Dirar (Fenerbahce)- He has been brilliant for Monaco, and will hopefully be brilliant for the World Cup as well.
Coach: Herve Renard
Iran’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis), Rashid Mazaheri (Zob Ahan), Amir Abedzadeh (Maritimo)
Defenders: Majid Hosseini (Esteghlal), Ramin Rezaeian (Ostende), Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh (Padideh), Morteza Pouraliganji (Alsaad), Pejman Montazeri (Esteghlal), Milad Mohammadi (Akhmat Grozny), Roozbeh Cheshmi (Esteghlal)
Midfielders: Saeid Ezatolahi (Amkar Perm), Masoud Shojaei (AEK Athens), Mehdi Torabi (Saipa), Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal), Ehsan Haji Safi (Olympiacos), Karim Ansarifard (Olympiacos), Vahid Amiri (Persepolis)
Forwards: Alireza Jahanbakhsh (AZ Alkmaar), Mehdi Taremi (Al Gharafa), Sardar Azmoun (Rubin Kazan), Reza Ghoochannejhad (Heerenveen), Saman Ghoddos (Ostersunds), Ashkan Dejagah (Nottingham Forest)
Key player: Sardar Azmoun (Rubin Kazan)- With 22 International goals to his name, he is definitely a threat to watch out for.
Coach: Carlos Queiroz
GROUP C:
France’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Hugo Lloris (Tottenham), Steve Mandanda (Marseille), Alphonse Areola (Paris St-Germain)
Defenders: Lucas Hernandez (Atletico Madrid), Presnel Kimpembe (Paris St-Germain), Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City), Benjamin Pavard (Stuttgart), Adil Rami (Marseille), Djibril Sidibe (Monaco), Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona), Raphael Varane (Real Madrid)
Midfielders: N’Golo Kante (Chelsea), Blaise Matuidi (Juventus), Steven N’Zonzi (Sevilla), Paul Pogba (Manchester United), Corentin Tolisso (Bayern Munich)
Forwards: Ousmane Dembele (Barcelona), Nabil Fekir (Lyon), Olivier Giroud (Chelsea), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Thomas Lemar (Monaco), Kylian Mbappe (Paris St-Germain), Florian Thauvin (Marseille)
Key player: N’Golo Kante (Chelsea)- Dominates the midfield whenever he plays. One of the best players of the English Premier League. Paul Pogba is another key player for France.
Coach: Didier Deschamps
Australia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Brad Jones (Feyenoord), Mat Ryan (Brighton), Danny Vukovic (Genk)
Defenders: Aziz Behich (Bursaspor), Milos Degenek (Yokohama F. Marinos), Matthew Jurman (Suwon Samsung Blue Wings), James Meredith (Millwall), Josh Risdon (Western Sydney), Trent Sainsbury (Grasshopper Zurich)
Midfielders: Jackson Irvine (Hull City), Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa), Robbie Kruse (VfL Bochum), Massimo Luongo (QPR), Mark Milligan (Al-Ahli), Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield), Tom Rogic (Celtic), Tim Cahill (Millwall)
Forwards: Daniel Arzani (Melbourne City), Tomi Juric (Luzern), Mathew Leckie (Hertha Berlin), Andrew Nabbout (Urawa Red Diamonds), Dimitri Petratos (Newcastle Jets), Jamie Maclaren (Hibernian)
Key player: Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa)- back from his injury, Jedinak has a point to prove after his last hattrick against Honduras.
Coach: Bert van Marwijk
Peru’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Pedro Gallese (Veracruz), Carlos Caceda (Deportivo Municipal), Jose Carvallo (UTC)
Defenders: Aldo Corzo (Universitario), Luis Advincula (Lobos Buap), Christian Ramos (Veracruz), Miguel Araujo (Alianza Lima), Alberto Rodriguez (Atletico Junior), Anderson Santamaria (Puebla), Miguel Trauco (Flamengo), Nilson Loyola (Melgar)
Midfielders: Renato Tapia (Feyenoord), Pedro Aquino (Leon), Yoshimar Yotun (Orlando City), Paolo Hurtado (Vitoria Guimaraes), Christian Cueva (Sao Paulo), Edison Flores (Aalborg), Andy Polo (Portland Timbers), Wilder Cartagena (Veracruz)
Forwards: Andre Carrillo (Benfica), Raul Ruidiaz (Morelia), Jefferson Farfan (Lokomotiv Moscow), Paolo Guerrero (Flamengo)
Key player: Paolo Guerrero (Flamengo)- Has 34 goals for Peru.
Coach: Ricardo Gareca
Denmark’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester), Frederik Ronnow (Brondby), Jonas Lossl (Huddersfield)
Defenders: Simon Kjaer (Sevilla), Mathias Jorgensen (Huddersfield), Andreas Christensen (Chelsea), Henrik Dalsgaard (Brentford), Jannik Vestergaard (Borussia Monchengladbach), Jens Stryger Larsen (Udinese), Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich)
Midfielders: Christian Eriksen (Tottenham), Lasse Schone (Ajax), Michael Krohn-Dehli (Deportivo La Coruna), Thomas Delaney (Werder Bremen), William Kvist (FC Copenhagen), Lukas Lerager (Bordeaux)
Forwards: Andreas Cornelius (Atalanta), Kasper Dolberg (Ajax), Martin Braithwaite (Middlesbrough), Nicolai Jorgensen (Feyenoord), Pione Sisto (Celta Vigo), Viktor Fischer (FC Copenhagen), Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig)
Key player: Christian Eriksen (Tottenham)- One of the best midfielders in the EPL, Eriksen is currently in his prime form.
Coach: Age Hareide
GROUP D:
Argentina’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Willy Caballero (Chelsea), Franco Armani (River Plate), Nahuel Guzman (Tigres)
Defenders: Gabriel Mercado (Sevilla), Federico Fazio (Roma), Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City), Marcos Rojo (Manchester United), Nicolas Taglafico (Ajax), Javier Mascherano (Hebei Fortune), Marcos Acuna (Sporting Lisbon), Cristian Ansaldi (Torino)
Midfielders: Ever Banega (Sevilla), Lucas Biglia (AC Milan), Angel Di Maria (Paris St-Germain), Giovani Lo Celso (Paris St-Germain), Manuel Lanzini (West Ham), Cristian Pavon (Boca Juniors), Maximiliano Meza (Independiente), Eduardo Salvio (Benfica)
Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus), Paulo Dybala (Juventus), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)
Key player: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)- The man, the myth, the living legend. Single-handedly took Argentina to the 2014 World Cup.
Coach: Jorge Sampaoli
Iceland’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Hannes Thor Halldorsson (Randers FC), Runar Alex Runarsson (FC Nordsjælland), Frederik Schram (FC Roskilde)
Defenders: Kari Arnason (Vikingur), Ari Freyr Skulason (Lokeren), Birkir Mar Saevarsson (Valur), Sverrir Ingi Ingason (FC Rostov), Hordur Magnusson (Bristol City), Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson (Levski Sofia), Ragnar Sigurdsson (FC Rostov)
Midfielders: Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Burnley), Birkir Bjarnason (Aston Villa), Arnor Ingvi Traustason (Malmo FF), Emil Hallfredsson (Udinese), Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton), Olafur Ingi Skulason (Kardemir Karabukspor), Rurik Gislason (SV Sandhausen), Samuel Fridjonsson (Valerenga), Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City)
Forwards: Alfred Finnbogason (Augsburg), Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson (FC Rostov), Jon Dadi Bodvarsson (Reading), Albert Gudmundsson (PSV Eindhoven)
Key player: Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton)- A threat to any team, watch out for the Everton midfielder.
Coach: Heimir Hallgrimsson
Croatia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Danijel Subasic (Monaco), Lovre Kalinic (Gent), Dominik Livakovic (Dinamo Zagreb)
Defenders: Vedran Corluka (Lokomotiv Moscow), Domagoj Vida (Besiktas), Ivan Strinic (Milan), Dejan Lovren (Liverpool), Sime Vrsaljko (Atletico Madrid), Josip Pivaric (Dynamo Kiev), Tin Jedvaj (Bayer Leverkusen), Duje Caleta-Car (Red Bull Salzburg)
Midfielders: Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona), Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid), Milan Badelj (Fiorentina), Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan), Filip Bradaric (Rijeka)
Forwards: Mario Mandzukic (Juventus), Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan), Nikola Kalinic (AC Milan), Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim), Marko Pjaca (Juventus), Ante Rebic (Fiorentina)
Key player: Luka Modric (Real Madrid)- The man who pulls the strings for Real Madrid will be the key player for Croatia.
Coach: Zlatko Dalic
Nigeria’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Francis Uzoho (Deportivo La Coruna), Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Enyimba), Daniel Akpeyi (Chippa United)
Defenders: William Troost-Ekong (Bursaspor), Abdullahi Shehu (Bursaspor), Tyronne Ebuehi (Benfica), Elderson Echiejile (Cercle Brugge), Bryan Idowu (Amkar Perm), Chidozie Awaziem (Porto), Leon Balogun (Brighton), Kenneth Omeruo (Chelsea)
Midfielders: Mikel John Obi (Tianjin Teda), Ogenyi Onazi (Trabzonspor), Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester), Oghenekaro Etebo (CD Feirense), John Ogu (Hapoel Be’er Sheva), Joel Obi (Torino)
Forwards: Ahmed Musa (Leicester), Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester), Victor Moses (Chelsea), Odion Ighalo (Changchun Yatai), Alex Iwobi (Arsenal), Simeon Nwankwo (Crotone)
Key player: John Obi Mikel (Tianjin Teda, China)- Even though Nigeria has plenty in their attack in the form of Iwobi and Victor Moses, Mikel is a veteran and his experience will be crucial for Nigeria.
Coach: Gernot Rohr
GROUP E:
Brazil’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Alisson (Roma), Ederson (Manchester City), Cassio (Corinthians)
Defenders: Danilo (Manchester City), Fagner (Corinthians), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid), Thiago Silva (Paris St-Germain), Marquinhos (Paris St-Germain), Miranda (Inter Milan) Pedro Geromel (Gremio)
Midfielders: Casemiro (Real Madrid), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Paulinho (Barcelona), Fred (Shakhtar Donetsk), Renato Augusto (Beijing Guoan), Philippe Coutinho (Barcelona), Willian (Chelsea), Douglas Costa (Juventus)
Forwards: Neymar Jr (Paris St-Germain), Taison (Shakhtar Donetsk), Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool)
Key player: Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain)- In the form of his life, he will be trying to make a statement, after his injury crushed his hopes for this club season.
Coach: Adenor Bacchi (Tite)
Switzerland’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Roman Buerki (Borussia Dortmund), Yvon Mvogo (Leipzig), Yann Sommer (Borussia Monchengladbach)
Defenders: Manuel Akanji (Borussia Dortmund), Johan Djourou (Antalyaspor), Nico Elvedi (Borussia Monchengladbach), Michael Lang (Basel), Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus), Jacques-Francois Moubandje (Toulouse), Ricardo Rodriguez (Milan), Fabian Schaer (Deportivo La Coruna)
Midfielders: Valon Behrami (Udinese), Blerim Dzemaili (Bologna), Gelson Fernandes (Eintracht Frankfurt), Remo Freuler (Atalanta), Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City), Granit Xhaka (Arsenal), Steven Zuber (1899 Hoffenheim), Denis Zakaria (Borussia Monchengladbach)
Forwards: Josip Drmic (Borussia Monchengladbach), Breel Embolo (Schalke), Mario Gavranovic (Dinamo Zagreb), Haris Seferovic (Benfica)
Key player: Valon Behrami (Udinese)- His fourth consecutive World Cup, his presence will help the youngsters in the squad.
Coach: Vladimir Petkovic
Costa Rica’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Keylor Navas (Real Madrid), Patrick Pemberton (Liga Deportiva Alajuelense), Leonel Moreira (CS Herediano)
Defenders: Cristian Gamboa (Celtic), Ian Smith (Santos de Guapiles), Ronald Matarrita (New York City), Bryan Oviedo (Sunderland), Oscar Duarte (Espanyol), Giancarlo Gonzalez (Bologna), Francisco Calvo (Minnesota United), Kendall Waston (Vancouver Whitecaps), Johnny Acosta (Rionegro Aguilas)
Midfielders: David Guzman (Portland Timbers), Yeltsin Tejeda (Lausanne-Sport), Celso Borges (Deportivo La Coruna), Randall Azofeifa (CS Herediano), Rodney Wallace (New York City), Bryan Ruiz (Sporting Lisbon), Daniel Colindres (Deportivo Saprissa), Christian Bolanos (Deportivo Saprissa)
Forwards: Johan Venegas (Deportivo Saprissa), Joel Campbell (Real Betis), Marco Urena (Los Angeles FC)
Key player: Keylor Navas (Real Madrid)- Real Madrid’s wall in between the post, his 2014 World Cup antics secured him the Madrid.
Coach: Oscar Ramirez
Serbia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojkovic (Partizan Belgrade), Predrag Rajkovic (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Marko Dmitrovic (Eibar)
Defenders: Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma), Branislav Ivanovic (Zenit St Petersburg), Dusko Tosic (Guangzhou R&F), Antonio Rukavina (Villarreal), Milos Veljkovic (Werder Bremen), Milan Rodic (Red Star Belgrade), Uros Spajic (Krasnodar), Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina)
Midfielders: Nemanja Matic (Manchester United), Luka Milivojevic (Crystal Palace), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Marko Grujic (Liverpool), Adem Ljajic (Torino), Dusan Tadic (Southampton), Filip Kostic (Hamburg), Andrija Zivkovic (Benfica), Nemanja Radonjic (Red Star Belgrade)
Forwards: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United), Aleksandar Prijovic (PAOK Salonika), Luka Jovic (Benfica)
Key player: Nemanja Matic (Manchester United)- Instrumental for both Chelsea and Manchester United over two seasons, Matic will be the main threat to look out for.
Coach: Mladen Krstajić
GROUP F:
Germany’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona), Kevin Trapp (Paris St-Germain)
Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Matthias Ginter (Borussia Monchengladbach), Jonas Hector (Cologne), Mats Hummels (Bayern Munich), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Marvin Plattenhardt (Hertha Berlin), Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea), Niklas Sule (Bayern Munich)
Midfielders: Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen), Julian Draxler (Paris St-Germain), Leon Goretska (Schalke), Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City), Sami Khedira (Juventus), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Sebastian Rudy (Bayern Munich)
Forwards: Mario Gomez (Stuttgart), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Timo Werner (RB Leipzig)
Key player: Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)- The new German leader, he pulls the strings in the midfield for both Germany and Real Madrid.
Coach: Joachim Low
Mexico’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Guillermo Ochoa (Standard Liege), Alfredo Talavera (Toluca), Jesus Corona (Cruz Azul)
Defenders: Carlos Salcedo (Eintracht Frankfurt), Diego Reyes (Porto), Hector Moreno (Real Sociedad), Hugo Ayala (Tigres), Edson Alvarez (America), Jesus Gallardo (Monterrey), Miguel Layun (Sevilla)
Midfielders: Rafael Marquez (Atlas), Hector Herrera (Porto), Jonathan Dos Santos (La Galaxy), Giovani Dos Santos (LA Galaxy), Andres Guardado (Real Betis), Javier Aquino (Tigres), Jesus Corona (Porto)
Forwards: Javier Hernandez (West Ham), Raul Jimenez (Benfica), Oribe Peralta (America), Carlos Vela (Los Angeles FC), Hirving Lozano (PSV Eindhoven), Marco Fabian (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Key player: Javier Hernandez (West Ham)- With plenty of experience as a super-sub at Manchester United, Chicharito is the one to look out for. Coach: Juan Carlos Osorio
Sweden’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Robin Olsen (Copenhagen), Karl-Johan Johnsson (Guingamp), Kristoffer Nordfeldt (Swansea)
Defenders: Mikael Lustig (Celtic), Victor Lindelof (Manchester United), Andreas Granqvist (Krasnador), Martin Olsson (Swansea), Ludwig Augustinsson (Werder Bremen), Filip Helander (Bologna), Emil Krafth (Bologna), Pontus Jansson (Leeds United)
Midfielders: Sebastian Larsson (Hull), Albin Ekdal (Hamburg), Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig), Gustav Svensson (Seattle Sounders), Oscar Hiljemark (Genoa), Viktor Claesson (Krasnador), Marcus Rohden (Crotone), Jimmy Durmaz (Toulouse)
Forwards: Marcus Berg (Al Ain), John Guidetti (Alaves), Ola Toivonen (Toulouse), Isaac Kiese Thelin (Waasland-Beveren)
Key player: Emil Forsberg (Leipzig)- Ibrahimovic’s replacement in the attack, he has been doing a commendable job. Replacing Zlatan is never easy.
Coach: Janne Andersson
South Korea’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Kim Seung-gyu (Vissel Kobe), Kim Jin-hyeon (Cerezo Osaka), Cho Hyun-woo (Daegu FC)
Defenders: Kim young-gwon (Guangzhou Evergrande), Jang Hyun-soo (FC Tokyo), Jung Seung-hyun (Sagan Tosu), Yun Yong-sun (Seongnam FC), Oh Ban-suk (Jeju United), Kim Min-woo (Sangju Sangmu), Park Joo-ho (Ulsan Hyundai), Hong Chul (Sangju Sangmu), Go Yo-han (FC Seoul), Lee Yong (Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors)
Midfielders: Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea), Jung Woo-young (Vissel Kobe), Ju Se-jong (Asan Mugunghwa), Koo Ja-cheol (Augsburg), Lee Jae-sung (Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors), Lee Seung-woo (Hellas Verona), Moon Seon-min (Incheon United)
Forwards: Kim Shin-wook (Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors), Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Hwang Hee-chan (Red Bull Salzburg)
Key player: Son Heung-min (Tottenham)- Son has been making his mark for Spurs, and now it is up to him to up his ante.
Coach: Shin Tae-yong
Belgium’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Koen Casteels (Wolfsburg), Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea), Simon Mignolet (Liverpool)
Defenders: Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham), Dedryck Boyata (Celtic), Vincent Kompany (Manchester City), Thomas Meunier (Paris St-Germain), Thomas Vermaelen (Barcelona), Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham)
Midfielders: Yannick Carrasco (Dalian Yifang), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Mousa Dembele (Tottenham), Leander Dendoncker (Anderlecht), Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Monchengladbach), Adnan Januzaj (Real Sociedad), Youri Tielemans (Monaco), Axel Witsel (Tianjin Quanjian)
Forwards: Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea), Nacer Chadli (West Brom), Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United), Dries Mertens (Napoli)
Key player: Eden Hazard (Chelsea)- The creative genius can propel Belgium to greatness. Kevin De Bruyne is another key player to look out for.
Coach: Roberto Martinez
Panama’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Jose Calderon (Chorrillo), Jaime Penedo (Dinamo Bucharest), Alex Rodriguez (San Francisco)
Defenders: Felipe Baloy (Municipal CSD), Harold Cummings (San Jose Earthquakes), Erick Davis (Dunajska Streda), Fidel Escobar (San Miguelito), Michael Murillo (New York Red Bulls), Adolfo Machado (Houston Dynamo), Luis Ovalle (Olimpia), Roman Torres (Seattle Sounders)
Midfielders: Jose Luis Rodriguez (Gent), Yoel Barcenas (Cafetaleros de Tapachula), Armando Cooper (Universidad de Chile), Anibal Godoy (San Jose Earthquakes), Gabriel Gomez (Bucaramanga), Valentin Pimentel (Plaza Amador), Alberto Quintero (Universitario)
Forwards: Abdiel Arroyo (Alajuelense), Ismael Diaz (Deportivo La Coruna), Blas Perez (Municipal), Luis Tejada (Sports Boys), Gabriel Torres (CD Huachipato)
Key player: Luis Tejada (Universitario)- Scored 43 goals 9105 games) for Panama.
Coach: Hernan Dario Gomez
Tunisia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Farouk Ben Mustapha (Al Shabab), Mouez Hassen (Nice), Aymen Mathlouthi (Al Baten)
Defenders: Rami Bedoui (Etoile du Sahel), Yohan Benalouane (Leicester), Syam Ben Youssef (Kasimpasa), Dylan Bronn (Gent), Oussama Haddadi (Dijon), Ali Maaloul (Al Ahly), Yassine Meriah (CS Sfaxien), Hamdi Nagguez (Zamalek)
Midfielders: Wahbi Khazri (Rennes), Anice Badri (Esperance), Mohamed Amine Ben Amor (Etoile Sportive du Sahel), Ferjani Sassi (Al Nasr), Ellyes Skhiri (Montpellier)
Forwards: Saifeddine Khaoui (Marseille), Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Al Ettifaq), Saber Khalifa (Club Africain), Bassem Srarfi (Nice), Naim Sliti (Lille), Ahmed Khalil (Club Africain), Ghaylen Chaaleli (Esperance)
Key player: Youssef Msakni (Al Duhail)- He has been crucial for Tunisia in the qualifiers.
Coach: Nabil Maaloul
England’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Jack Butland (Stoke), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Nick Pope (Burnley)
Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Fabian Delph (Manchester City), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Harry Maguire (Leicester), Danny Rose (Tottenham), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Tottenham), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Ashley Young (Manchester United)
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea)
Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Jamie Vardy (Leicester), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal)
Key player: Harry Kane (Tottenham)- Emerged as one of the best players in the Premier League. Has been consistent for the club for over two seasons.
Coach: Gareth Southgate
GROUP H
Poland’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Bartosz Bialkowski (Ipswich), Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea City), Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus)
Defenders: Jan Bednarek (Southampton), Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria), Thiago Cionek (SPAL), Kamil Glik (Monaco), Artur Jedrzejczyk (Legia Warsaw), Michal Pazdan (Legia Warsaw), Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund)
Midfielders: Jakub Blaszczykowski (Wolfsburg), Jacek Goralski (Ludogorets Razgrad), Kamil Grosicki (Hull City), Grzegorz Krychowiak (Paris St-Germain), Rafal Kurzawa (Gornik Zabrze), Karol Linetty (Sampdoria), Slawomir Peszko (Lechnia Gdansk), Maciej Rybus (Lokomotiv Moscow), Piotr Zielinski (Napoli)
Forwards: Dawid Kownacki (Sampdoria), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli), Lukasz Teodorczyk (Anderlecht)
Key player: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)- The Munich talisman has scored 16 goals in the qualifying stage.
Coach: Adam Nawalka
Senegal’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Khadim N’Diaye (Horoya AC), Abdoulaye Diallo (Rennes), Alfred Gomis (Torino)
Defenders: Kara Mbodji (Anderlecht), Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli), Moussa Wague (Eupen), Saliou Ciss (Angers), Youssouf Sabaly (Bordeaux), Lamine Gassama (Alanyaspor)
Midfielders: Badou Ndiaye (Stoke), Idrissa Gueye (Everton), Cheikhou Kouyate (West Ham), Cheikh N’Doye (Birmingham), Salif Sane (Hannover 96), Alfred N’Diaye (Villarreal)
Forwards: Moussa Sow (Bursaspor), Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Keita Balde Diao (Monaco), Moussa Konate (Amiens), Ismaila Sarr (Rennes), Diafra Sakho (Rennes), Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke), M’Baye Niang (AC Milan)
Key player: Sadio Mane (Liverpool)- Fast, precise and clinical, Mane has been perfect for both Liverpool and Senegal.
Coach: Aliou Cisse
Colombia’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: David Ospina (Arsenal), Camilo Vargas (Deportivo Cali), Jose Fernando Cuadrado (Once Caldas)
Defenders: Cristian Zapata (Milan), Davinson Sanchez (Tottenham), Santiago Arias (PSV Eindhoven), Oscar Murillo (Pachuca), Frank Fabra (Boca Juniors), Johan Mojica (Girona), Yerry Mina (Barcelona)
Midfielders: Wílmar Barrios (Boca Juniors), Carlos Sanchez (Espanyol), Jefferson Lerma (Levante), Jose Izquierdo (Brighton), James Rodriguez (Bayern Munich), Abel Aguilar (Deportivo Cali), Mateus Uribe (America), Juan Fernando Quintero (River Plate), Juan Cuadrado (Juventus)
Forwards: Radamel Falcao (Monaco), Miguel Borja (Palmeiras), Carlos Bacca (Villarreal), Luis Fernando Muriel (Sevilla)
Key player: James Rodriguez (Bayern Munich)- A talent that was uncovered last World Cup, James’s volley against Uruguay is still magical to the eye.
Coach: Jose Pekerman
Japan’s 23-man World Cup 2018 squad:
Goalkeepers: Eiji Kawashima (Metz), Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka), Kosuke Nakamura (Kashiwa Reysol)
Defenders: Yuto Nagatomo (Galatasaray), Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Reds), Wataru Endo (Urawa Reds), Maya Yoshida (Southampton), Hiroki Sakai (Marseille), Gotoku Sakai (Hamburg), Gen Shoji (Kashima Antlers), Naomichi Ueda (Kashima Antlers)
Midfielders: Makoto Hasebe (Eintracht Frankfurt), Keisuke Honda (Pachuca), Takashi Inui (Eibar), Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund), Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka), Genki Haraguchi (Hertha Berlin), Takashi Usami (Augsburg), Gaku Shibasaki (Getafe), Ryota Oshima (Kawasaki Frontale)
Forwards: Shinji Okazaki (Leicester), Yuya Osako (Werder Bremen), Yoshinori Muto (Mainz)
Key player: Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund)- Kagawa is considered the most important part of Japan’s Holy Trinity (the other two being Yuto Nagatomo and Keisuke Honda).
Coach: Vahid Halilhodzic
The Top 5- Favourites To Win The World Cup
Everyone enters the battlefield but not everyone will be the winner. Out of 32 teams, only one will emerge victorious. Let’s see who the bookies have their money on this summer in Russia.
Brazil (Odds: 9/2)- Tite has ensured that the Brazil squad of 2018 is nothing similar to the squad of 2014. Having finished at the top of CONMEBOL with a margin of 10 points (Uruguay was second), Brazil looks comfortable even if Neymar is forced out with his injury.
Germany (Odds: 9/2)- The defending champions and the winner of the Confederations Cup (with their second team, mind you), Low’s men are no strangers to trophies and big tournaments.
France (Odds: 11/2)- Their last good run was 2006, but they had their legend in the name of Zinedine Zidane. Deschamps has the likes of Kante, Pogba, and Griezmann, and they can breeze through the tournament.
Spain (Odds: 6/1)- Winning three back to back major trophies (2008 Euros, 2010 World Cup, 2012 Euros), Furia Roja is not the same team is used to be. However, you can never ignore them till Iniesta, Isco and Ramos are on the team.
Argentina (Odds: 9/1)- Sampaoli’s men went to the finals last year, and with Messi, Aguero, Di Maria and Dybala, they are a team to definitely watch out for.
World Cup Controversies- Can’t Live Without Them
Ever imagined a World Cup without a single controversy? Well, we can’t either. Suarez or Maradona, the greats have become greater after every World Cup! Here’s our list of top 6 controversies, which definitely take the cake.
#6 Italy getting robbed of a quarter-final berth In 2002, South Korea created one of the biggest upsets in a FIFA World Cup. They beat Italy, all thanks to the Ecuadorian referee Byron Moreno. Moreno sent off Italian striker Francesco Totti after giving him a second yellow card for diving. However, replays later showed there was a contact on the foul. Moreno also disallowed an Italian goal in extra time with an incorrect offside whistle. South Korea won that game 2-1. Moreno later faced numerous match-fixing charges was convicted as a drug smuggler.
#5 Hand of God 2.0
In the quarter-final match against Ghana in the 2010 World Cup, Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez handled the ball and prevented a last-minute golden goal for Ghana. Suárez was shown a red card and Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan missed the resulting penalty kick. Ghana later lost the match 4–2 in the penalty shootout. Suarez later boasted that he owns the ‘Hand of God’ (a reference to Maradona’s handling of the ball in the 1986 World Cup) and defended his actions, while becoming a public enemy back at Ghana.
#4 Suarez’s biting incident
Luis Suarez followed up with one more controversy in the next World Cup as well. In a group match between Uruguay vs Italy at the 2014 World Cup, Uruguay striker Luis Suárez clashed with Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. Numerous replays showed that Suárez lunged at Chiellini and bit his shoulder. Suarez followed that with falling and clutching his face. As the Italian players protested to the referee for not showing Suarez a card, Uruguay won a corner and defender Diego Godín scored. The game finished 1–0 in favor of Uruguay, advancing them to the knockout stage as the Group D runners-up. Italy, who had lost their previous game, were eliminated, finishing third in the group. FIFA later announced on the same day, that it had opened disciplinary proceedings for Suárez. Suarez faced a four-month ban after that.
#3 The Battle of Santiago
This football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup is hailed as the most violent games in the history of the sport. The game between Chile and Italy, played in Santiago, earned the nickname due to the brutality and harsh tackles involved. The first foul occurred in the 12th second and was later followed by a series of punches, kicks, and jabs. The first player was sent off at the 12th minute. The referee of that game, Ken Aston, later went on to invent yellow and red cards.
#2 Zidane’s Headbutt
The best player in the world and in that tournament took himself out of the 2006 World Cup Final when he headbutted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest. Materazzi, according to Zidane (and not denied by Materazzi), made belittling remarks about Zidane’s mother and sister. Italy won the match on penalties. Later, Zidane said he “would rather die” than apologize to Materazzi. France was looking really comfortable in that game. Some even claim that Materazzi did that on purpose to get into the mind of Zidane and increase Italy’s chances of winning the World Cup. Well, unfortunately, it worked!
#1 The Hand of God
Argentina faced England in the quarterfinals, in the 1986 World Cup. Six minutes into the second half, England box and goalkeeper Peter Shilton and Argentina striker Diego Maradona went up for the ball. Shilton had an eight-inch height advantage. Somehow, Maradona won the ball in the air and scored. Argentina would go on to win that game 2-1. Argentina was also crowned as champions in that World Cup. When asked later about the goal, Maradona said it was scored “un poco con la cabeza de Maradona y otro poco con la mano de Dios.” That translates to, “a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God.” Evidence later showed that only God’s Hand had a play in that goal.
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Keldor
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Re: Music you've been digging lately
I've been listening to a lot of Eve 6 as of late. They're gonna be releasing their first new album in almost nine years this april. I can't wait.
Bnl4life
luvz Elizabeth B.
Swanktastic
Favorite Game: Castlevania (NES/etc)
Bought the Sonic the Hedgehog 1&2 Soundtrack 3-CD set a couple weeks ago. Been listening to that a sheeeeetload.
Best part is the second disc containing all of Masato Nakamura's demos. It's always fun to hear chiptunes the way they were before they were programmed as chiptunes.
Sonic the Hedgehog 1&2 Soundtrack: Chemical Plant Zone ~Masa's Demo Version~
Oh yeah, and also:
Soda as well.
Don't let the post count fool you I've been around since 2001
RetroDungeonite
ICVD!!!
I've been Digging a Japanese Taiko group called KODO, as of late
This song is my favorite though
KODO - Strobe Nanafushi
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the fate of a fallen hunter
Quote from: Eric Roman on April 23, 2010, 05:46:29 PM
I've recently caught the rest of the Thunder Force IV soundtrack off Galbadia and I've just been rocking out. It's got to be one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard off the Genesis. That stuff just rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/-VzLxWBho-8
feel that awesome power? an instant sign that the game's totally epic.
Dark Nemesis
Lord of Darkness
Peeping your dreams....
Lana Del Rey - "Video Games" [HQ SOUND QUALITY]
Ruler of Chaos
^^^but whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Lumi Kløvstad
Specialist in Revolutions, Smuggling, Gunrunning, Bootlegging, and Orgies
Simon is finally coming to goddamn Smash
Favorite Game: Castlevania 64 (N64)
Been diving into my massive collection of E Nomine of late.
E Nomine - Mitternacht [Offizielles Video]
Quote from: Lumi Kløvstad on March 25, 2017, 01:57:55 PM
How not to be a dark lord: the answer to that is a terribly interesting answer that involves an almost Jedi-like adherence to keeping oneself under control and finding ways to be true to yourself in a way that doesn't encourage the worst parts of you to become dangerously exaggerated and instead feeds your better nature. Also, protip: don't fuck with Alchemy or strike up any deals with ancient Japanese Shinigami gods no matter how tempting the deal or how suavely dressed the Shinigami is.
Tonight's jam:
Units - I-Night
Mcchiggen
Only at the Castle Gate...
I've been listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar lately.
His new track cartoons & cereal is amazing!
Nail_Bombed
Indra's Fire
What A Horrible Night To Have A Carlsberg
Last while I have been listening to Faith No More... awesome, awesome band.
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere (First Version)
Faith No More - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Faith No More - Epic
Faith No More - Falling To Pieces
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Faith No More - Ricochet
Faith No More - Evidence
faith no more easy
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If a man chooses, and a slave obeys, then what are you if you choose to obey?
I blame you guys for this one. You know who you are, and I know you're cackling in your seat in front of your monitor shouting "DANCE PUPPETS, DANCE!"
DOOM 3DO Soundtrack: E1M1: At Doom's Gate
Also, did I mention I am a MAJOR Genki Rockets fan?
"Heavenly Star" by Genki Rockets 元気ロケッツ
"Breeze" by Genki Rockets 元気ロケッツ
10 Fly!
Genki Rockets - Wonderland / 元気ロケッツ Album Version (new song)
Genki Rockets - Make Believe HD
Genki Rockets - Curiosity HD
元気ロケッツ - Star Line HD
Amateur Auteur of GMvania
Been listening to BlutEngel a bit recently. I don't really dig them. Part of it is trying to understand my ex-fiance's taste in music. ... My theory is she's just an idiot. But for the life of me I cannot get their song "Uber den Horizont" out of my head for some reason. It's not that it's making me feel suicidal and it's good suicide music, it's just so damn catchy. Considering most of their songs make me scratch my head and wonder why anyone even likes them, UDH is like a diamond in a basket of cubic zirconium.
Your mom has had more floppies put in her than a Commodore 64!
Follow my lack of progress on my game at my blog:
http://gmvania.blogspot.com
Quote from: TheouAegis on February 24, 2012, 05:46:15 PM
I like blutengel, but to make you understand what i mean, it's like 2 songs from each album, that i like, with the exception of one album, that it has many catchy songs.
So far Schwarzes Eis is my "album", although I don't relaly like that many songs on it, it's just catchy and I can stand listening to every song on it while playing games. The only song on it I really really like is Dancing In The Light, as opposed to Tranenherz's three or four songs. The problem with Tranenherz is it has the slower, darker songs whereas Schwarzes Eis has more dance beats. Easier to kill people to dance beats.
Quote from: TheouAegis on February 26, 2012, 12:06:10 AM
Dancing In The Light is one of my most favorites, you should try Demon kiss album. For me it's one of the best albums they have and my most favorite.
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History, Social History
History, Holocaust
History, Jewish
Racism, Antisemitism, Jewish race, Pre-war Europe, 1930s politics, Social justice, Race/religious bias
Where Sound the Cries of Race and Clan
by Carl Abbott
It is 1935 and Psychiatrist Charles Flemming has other concerns on his mind: the unfair nature of Canadian Government immigration regulations for Chinese, Jews and other minorities. He meets a Jewish medical student and by chance meets his older sister, Rebekah, who is a widow. As a result, he is determined to search out the immigration decisions in Ottawa. He goes to Ottawa with Rebekah. They fall in love despite the religious differences. The other issues on his mind are the poor status of social justice in Canada and his own dilemma of deception from a relative of his previous fiancée in Poland. He eventually sails to Poland with Rebekah and resolves the deception by granting forgiveness to the mother of his dead fiancée. Rebekah stays in Lotz continuing her research on the history of the Russian rulers treatment of the Jews in Poland.
Carl Abbott is a retired Endocrinologist and lives in Halifax,Nova Scotia. In 2011, he published his first book titled, 'Mourning de Pachmann: The Quest for the Spirit of Chopin', a story in which Charles Flemming also played an important role. Carl has written many collaborative articles on medicine in general, as well as poetry on his own. Several poems have won contest prizes. His other hobbies are painting with water-colors and acrylic paints, building model ships, as well as researching the maladies of musicians and composers. His favorite composers are JS.Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Sibelius and Bruckner.This present book is a sequel to the first novel.
Carl Abbott
Virginia Rosenburg
Caroline Abbott
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A competition between England and Trance, the state of international values affected both competitors alike, 'since they were supposed to trade with the same country, and to export and import the same commodities. The difference, therefore, in what their imports cost them, depended solely on the other cause, the unequal efficiency of their labour. They gave the same quantities; the difference could only be in the cost of production. But if England traded to Germany with cloth, and France with iron, the comparative demand in Germany for those two commodities would bear a share in deter
mining the comparative cost, in labour and capital, with which England ami France would obtain German products, If iron were more in demand in Ge! many than cloth, France would recover, through that channel, part of her dis advantage; if less, her disadvantage would be increased. The efficiency, therefore, of a country's labour, is not the only thing which determines even the cost at which that country obtains imported commodities—while it has no share whatever in determining either their exchange value, or, as we shall presently see, their price.
CHAPTER XIX.
OP MOSEY, CONSIDERED A3 AN IMrOKTED COMMODITY.
§ 1. The degree of progress which we have now made in the theory of Foreign Trade, puts it in our power to supply what was previously deficient in our view of the theory of Money; and this, when completed, will in its turn enable us to conclude the subject of Foreign Trade.
Money, or the material of which it is composed, is, in Great Britain, and in most other countries, a foreign commodity. Its value and distribution must therefore be regulated, not by the law of vAroe which obtains in adjacent places, but by that which is applicable to imported commodities—the law of International Values.
In the discussion into which we are now about to enter, I shall use the terms Money and the Precious Metals indiscriminately. This may be done without leading to any error; it having been shown that the value of money, when it consists of the precious metals, or of a paper currency convertible into them on demand, is entirely governed by the value of the metals themselves: from which it never permanently differs, except by the expense of coinage when this is paid by the individual and not by the state.
Money is brought into a country in two different ways. It is imported (chiefly in the form of bullion) like any other merchandize, as being an advantageous article of commerce. It is also imported in its other character of a medium of exchange, to pay some debt due to the country, either for goods exported or on any other account. There are other ways in which it may be introduced casually; these are the two in which it is received in the ordinary course of business, and which determine its value. The existence of theso two distinct modes in which money flows into a country, while other commodities are habitually introduced only in the first of these modes, occasions somewhat more of complexity and obscurity than exists in the case of other commodities, and for this reason only is any special and minute exposition necessary.
§ 2. In so far as the precious metals are imported in the ordinary way of commerce, their value must depend on the same causes, and conform to the same laws, as the value of any other foreign production. It is in this mode chiefly that gold and silver diffuse them Selves from the mining countries into all other parts of the commercial world. They are the staple commodities of those countries, or at least are among their great articles of regular export; and are shipped on speculation, in the same manner as other exportable commodities. The quantity, therefore, which a country (say England) will give of its own produce, for a certain quantity of bullion, will depend, if we suppose only two countries and two commodities, upon the demand in England for bullion, compared with the demand in the mining country (which we will call Brazil) for what England has to give. They must exchange in such proportions as will leave no unsatisfied demand on either side, to alter values by its competition. The bullion required by England must exactly pay for the cottons or other English commodities required by Brazil. If, however, we substitute for this simplicity the degree of complication which really exists, the equation of international demand must be established not between the bullion wanted in England and the cottons or broadcloth wanted in Brazil, but between the whole of the imports of England and the whole of her exports. The demand in foreign countries for English products, must be brought into equilibrium with the demand in England for the products of foreign countries; and all foreign commodities, bullion among the rest, must be exchanged against English products in such proportions, as will, by the effect they produce on the demand, establish this equilibrium.
There is nothing in the peculiar nature or uses of the precious metals, which should make them an exception to the general principles of demand. So far as they are wanted for purposes of luxury or the arts, the demand increases with the cheapness, in tho same irregular way as the demand for any other commodity. So far as they are required for money, the demand increases with the cheapness in a perfectly regular way, the quantity needed being always in inverse proportion to the value. This is the only real difference, in respect to demand, between
money and other things; and tot the present purpose it is a difference altogether immaterial.
Money, then, if imported solely as a merchandize, will, like other imported commodities, be of lowest value in the countries for whose exports there is the greatest foreign demand, and which have themselves the least demand for foreign commodities. To these two circumstances it is however necessary to add two others, which produce their effect through cost of carriage. The cost of obtaining bullion is compounded of two elements; the goods gi ven to purchase it, and the expense of transport: of which last, the bullion countries will bear a part (though an uncertain part) in the adjustment of international values. The expense of transport is partly that of carrying the goods to tho bullion countries, and partly that of bringing back the bullion: both these items are influenced by the distance from the mines; and the former is also much affected by tho bulkiness of the goods. Countries whose exportable produce consists of the finer manufactures, obtain bullion, as well as all other foreign articles, cwteris paribus, at less expense than countries which export nothing but bulky raw produce.
To be quite accurate, therefore, we must say—The countries whose exportable productions are most in demand abroad, and contain greatest value in smallest bulk, which aro nearest to the mines, and which have least demand for foreign productions, are those in which money will be of lowest value, or in other words, in which prices will habitually range the highest. If we are speaking not of the value of money, but of its cost (that is, the quantity of the country's labour which must be expended to obtain it), we must add to these four conditions of cheapness a fifth condition, namely, "whose productive industry is the most efficient." This last, however, does not at all affect the value of money, estimated in commodities: it affects the general abundance and facility with which all things, money and commodities together, can be obtained.
Although, therefore, Mr. Senior is right in pointing out the great efficiency of English labour as the chief cause why the precious metals are obtained at less cost by England than by most other countries, I cannot admit that it at all accounts for their being of less value; for their going less far in the purchase of commodities. This, in so far as it is a fact, and not an illusion, must be occasioned by the great demaud in foreign countries for the staple commodities of England, and the generally unbulky character of those commodities, compared with the corn, wine, timber, sugar, wool, hides, tallow, hemp, flax, tobacco, raw cotton, &c, which form the exports of other commercial countries. These two causes will account for a somewhat higher range of general prices in England than elsewhere, notwithstanding the counteracting influence of her own
freat demand for foreign commodities, am, however, strongly of opinion that the high prices of commodities and low purchasing power of money in England, are more apparent than real. Food, indeed, is somewhat dearer; and food composes so large a portion of the expenditure when the income is small and the family large, that to such families England is a dear country. Services, also, of most descriptions are dearer than in the other countries of Europe, from the less costly mode of living of the poorer classes on the Continent. But manufactured commodities (except most of those in which good taste is required) are decidedly cheaper; or would bo so, if buyers ». ould be content with the same quality (if material and of workmanship. What is called tho dearness of living in England, is mainly an affair not of necessity but of foolish custom; it being thought imperative by all classes in England above the condition of a daylabourer, that the things they consume should either be of the same quality with those used by much richer people, or at least should be as nearly as possible undistinguishable from them in outward appearance.
§ 3. From tho preceding considerations, it appears that those are greatly
in error who contend that the value of money, in countries where it is an imported commodity, must be entirely regulated by its value in the countries which produce it; and cannot be raised or lowered in any permanent manner unless some change has taken place in the cost of production at the mines. On the contrary, any circumstance which disturbs the equation of international demand with respect to a particular country, not only may, but must, affect the value of money in that country—its value at the mines remaining the same. The opening of a new branch of export trade from England; an increase in the foreign demand for English products, either by the natural course of events or by the abrogation of duties; a check to the demand in England for foreign commodities, by the laying on of import duties in England or of export duties elsewhere; these and all other events of similar tendency, would make the imports of England (bullion and other things taken together) no longer an equivalent for the exports; and the countries which take her exports would be obliged to oiler their commodities, and bullion among the rest, on cheaper terms, in order to re-establish the equation of demand: and thus England would obtain money cheaper, and would acquire a generally higher range of prices. Incidents the reverse of these would produce effects the reversewould reduce prices; or, in other words, raise the value of the precious metals. It must be observed, however, that money would be thus raised in value only with respect to home commodities: in relation to all imported articles it would remain as before, since their values would be affected in the same way and in the same degree with its own. A country which, from any of the causes mentioned, gets money cheaper, obtains all its other imports cheaper likewise.
It is by no means necessary that the
increased demand for English commo
dities, which enables England to sup
l ply herself with bullion at a cheaper
i rate, should be a demand in the mining
'countries. England might export no
§ 1. We have thus far considered the precious metals as a commodity, imported like other commodities in the common course of trade, and have examined what are the circumstances which would in that case determine their value. But those metals are also imported in . another character, that which belongs to them as a medium of exchange; not as an article of commerce, to bo sold for money, but as themselves money, to pay a debt, or etlbct a transfer of property. It remains to consider whether the liability of gold and silver to be transported from country to country for such purposes, in any way modifies the conclusions we have already arrived at; or places those metals under a different law of value from that to which, in common with all other imported commodities, they would be subject if international trade were an affair of direct barter.
Money is sent from one country to another for various purposes: such as the payment of tributes or subsidies; remittances of revenue to or from dependencies, or of rents or other incomes to their absent owners; emigration of capital, or transmission of it for foreign investment. The most usual purpose, however, is that of payment for goods. To show in what circumstances money actually passes from country to country for this or any of the other purposes mentioned, it is necessary briefly to state the nature of the mechanism by
which international trade is carried on, when it takes place not by barter but through the medium of money.
§ 2. In practice, the exports and imports of a country not only are not exchanged directly against each other, but often do not even pass through the same hands. Each is separately bought and paid for with money. We have seen, however, that, even in the same country, money does not actually pass from hand to hand each time that purchases are made with it, and still less does this happen between different countries. The habitual mode of paying and receiving payment for commodities, between country and country, is by bills of exchange.
A merchant in England, A, has exported English commodities, consigning them to his correspondent B in France. Another merchant iu France, C, has exported French commodities, suppose of equivalent value, to a merchant D in England. It is evidently unnecessary that B in France should send money to A in England, and that D in England should send an equal sum of money to G in France. The one debt may be applied to the payment of the other, and the double cost and risk of carriage bo thus saved. A draws a bill on B for the amount which B owes to him: D, having an equal amount to pay in France, buys this bill from A, and sends it to C, who, at the expiration of the number of days which, the. bill has to run, presents it to B for
fayment. Thas the debt due from 'ranee to England, and the debt due from England to France, are both paid without sending an ounce of gold or silver from one country to the other.
In this statement, however, it is supposed that the sum of the debts due from France to England, and the sum of those due from England to France, are equal; that each country has exactly the same number of ounces of gold or silver to pay and to receive. This implies (if we exclude for the present any other international payments than those occurring in the course of commerce,} that the exports and imports exactly pay for one another, or in other words, that the equation of international demand is established. When such is the fact, the international transactions are liquidated without the passage of any money from one country to the other. But if there is a greater sum due from England to France, than is due from France to England, or vice versd, the debts cannot be simply written off sgainst one another. After the one has been applied, as far as it will go, towards covering the other, the balance must be transmitted in the precious metals. In point of fact, the merchant who has the amount to pay, will even then pay for it by a bill. When a person has a remittance to make to a foreign country, he does not himself search for some one who has money to receive from that country, and ask him for a bill of exchange. In this as in other branches of business, there is a class of middlemen or brokers, who bring buyers and sellers together, or stand between them, buying bills from those who have money to receive, and selling bills to those who have money to pay. When a customer comes to a broker for a bill on Paris or Amsterdam, the broker sells to him, perhaps the bill he may himself have bought that morning from a merchant, perhaps a bill on his own correspondent in the foreign city: and to enablo his correspondent to pay, when due, all the bills he has granted, be remits to Mm all those wliidi'he has
bought and has not resold. In this manner these brokers-take upon themselves the whole settlement of the pecuniary transactions between distant places, being remunerated by a small commission or percentage on the amount of each bill which they either sell or buy. Now, if the brokers find that they are askedTor bills on the one part, to a greater amount than bills are offered to them on the other, they do not on this account refuse to giva them; but since, in that case, they have no means of enabling the correspondents on whom their bills are drawn, to pay them when due, except by transmitting part of the amount in gold or silver, they require from those to whom they sell bills an additional price, sufficient to cover the freight and insurance of the gold and silver, with a profit sufficient to compensate them for their trouble and for the temporary occupation of a portion of their capital. This premium (as it is called) tho buyers are willing to pay, because they must otherwise go to the expense of remitting the precious metals them selves, and it is done cheaper by those who make doing it a part of their es pecial business. But though only some of those who have a debt to pay would have actually to remit money, all will be obliged, by each other's competition, to pay the premium; and the brokers are for the same reason obliged to pay it to those whose bills they buy. The reverse of all this happens, if on the comparison of exports and imports, the country, instead of having a balance to pay, has a balance to receive. The brokers find more bills offered to them, than are sufficient to cover those which they are required to grant. Bills on foreign countries consequently fall to a discount; and the competition among the brokers, which is exceedingly active, prevents them from retaining this discount as a profit for themselves, and obliges them to give the benefit of it to those who buy the bills for the purposes of remittance.
Let us suppose that all countries had
the same currency, as in the progress
of political improvement they one day
will have: and. as the most familiar to
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Tag Archives: Robert F. Sibert Award
Our Books – #alamw18
Here are the winners that my committee selected:
The winner is:
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner, is published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights.
In 1961 on the seventh anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, 13 freedom riders boarded two buses in Washington D.C. bound for New Orleans. The riders were willing to risk their lives to challenge illegal Jim Crow practices on interstate buses and in bus terminals.
“Spare text, bold graphics and arresting photos combine to take young readers on a 12-day journey through the Jim Crow American south of 1961,” said Sibert Medal Committee Chair Tali Balas.
Larry Dane Brimner is the author of 200 books and divides his time between Tucson and San Diego. He taught elementary, high school and university for 20 years. Despite the seriousness of his many award-winning books, his presentations to schools are a blend of stand-up comedy and storytelling. He believes everyone has a story to tell.
The Sibert Medal Committee selected four Honor Books:
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix, written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee, illustrated by Man One and published by Readers to Eaters Books.
Part biography, part culinary adventure, this vibrant and energetic book captures the essence of the LA street food scene. Graffiti-inspired art and hip-hop flavored text blend food, community and identity into a delicious feast for the eyes and ears that reflects the melting pot of America.
Jacqueline Briggs Martin is the author of many award winning children’s books. She lives in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and tries to eat kimchi every day.
June Jo Lee is a food ethnographer and co-founder of Readers to Eaters. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, she now lives near Seattle. This is her first children’s book.
Pioneering graffiti artist Man One grew up in Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount. He is a global leader in the movement to legitimize graffiti art.
Grand Canyon, written and illustrated by Jason Chin and published by Roaring Brook Press, a Neal Porter Book.
Through magnificent panoramic illustrations, meticulously researched diagrams and lucid text, Jason Chin has created a book as grand as the canyon itself. Readers join a father-daughter pair on an imaginary hike through the canyon’s ecological communities, inviting readers to look at this unique natural wonder.
Award-winning author/illustrator Jason Chin lives in Vermont with his wife and children.
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability, written by Shane Burcaw, illustrated by Matt Carr and published by Roaring Brook Press.
In this candid book, award-winning writer Burcaw answers ten frequently asked questions about his life with a disability in a humorous and approachable manner. Carr’s brilliant photos of comically-staged scenes, along with family shots and outsized graphics, add to this book’s tone and liveliness.
Bestselling author Burcaw, a professional speaker and president of Laughing at My Nightmare, Inc., lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Matt Carr, based in Brooklyn, New York, has a background in photojournalism and has received awards for his visual storytelling.
Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem, written by Patricia Newman and published by Millbrook Press, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
Chemical runoff from California’s farms kills seagrass. But in Monterey Bay’s Elkhorn Slough, the seagrass is thriving. Why? Readers dive into the waters of the slough along with biologist Brent Hughes as he doggedly pursues the answers to this puzzling ecological mystery.
Patricia Newman has authored several books that introduce children to scientific exploration and discovery. She lives in Northern California.
The award was established by ALSC and named to commemorate Mr. Robert F. Sibert, founder of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc., of Jacksonville, Illinois. Sibert is known for his early work in establishing standards of bookbinding.
Members of the 2018 Sibert Medal Committee are Chair Tali Balas, Convent of The Sacred Heart, New York; Madeline J. Bryant, Los Angeles Public Library; Ericka C. Chilcoat, Merced County Library System, Merced, Calif.; Marna L. Elliott, Swarthmore, Pa.; Adrienne Gillespie, Beaverton School District, Portland, Ore.; Danielle Hartsfield, University of North Georgia, Cumming, Ga.; Danielle Jones, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Ore.; Debra Marshall, Farmers Branch, Texas; and Mary Michell, Skokie (Ill.) Public Library.
Tags: Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Jason Chin, June Jo Lee, Larry Dane Brimner, Man One, Patricia Newman, Robert F. Sibert Award, Shane Burcaw
Categories awards
Day 4 in Denver – #alamw18
Sunday morning, I was up early for the MacMillan Children’s “Rise and Shine Breakfast. I had to leave a before the presentations ended, for my final Sibert meeting.
This meeting was fun. We divvied up the books and wrote the text for tomorrow’s announcement and the press release. The criteria are tight. The winner of the award gets 50 words for the description of the book, 25 words to quote content or comments and another 50 words for the author and/or illustrator bio(s). Honor books get even less: a 50 word description of the book and a mere 20 words for authors and illustrators. It was fun, intense work.
Once each group finished, we read aloud what we’d written. And then we placed medals on the books that will appear in the YMA presentation. It felt like a coronation.
I spent some time in the exhibit hall later and shipped home some books. Then, I went back to my hotel for a nap. I can’t tell you how exhausting the process has been. It has been wonderful, but I am pooped.
We reconvened Sunday evening to call the winners. Let me just say, there were tears and cheers, from all of us and on the other end of the phone.
You can watch the presentation live here at 8 a.m (Mountain Time)
Tags: #alamw18, Robert F. Sibert Award
My stomach was knot most of Friday mooring as I awaited the announcement of the ALSC elections. I was one of ten people on the ballot for the 2018 Robert F Sibert Informational Book Award, but only five of us would be elected. When the e-mail arrived, I took a deep breath before opening it.
Dear Adrienne,
Congratulations upon your election to the 2018 (Robert F.) Sibert Award Selection Committee!
A copy of the election results will be posted at the end of business today. Your term of appointment will begin with the adjournment of the ALA 2016 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL and ends with the adjournment of the 2018 Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA. You will be receiving a letter from the ALSC office with your official paperwork. Again, congratulations!
I squealed quietly (I was at work, after all) and went next door to tell my teaching partner my good news.
For now, I just get to bask in the celebratory glow that is enveloping me. My term doesn’t officially begin until July 1st. My job will be to read as many informational (non-fiction) books with a 2017 publication date. It means I will have to go to conferences in Atlanta in January 2017, Chicago in June 2017, Denver in February 2018 and New Orleans in June 2018.
Tags: ALSC, Association for Library Service to Children, Robert F. Sibert Award
Categories awards, non-fiction
Identity: #GNCelebration
Goodreads Summary: Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident.
Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death – and confronting a decision she hadn’t expected to have to make.
Fumio Obata is a Japanese exile himself. He moved to Britain in 1991 to study illustration at Glasgow School of Art and never left, so he knows all about the conflict of belonging. This is a lovely book that leads me to an illustrated work, which is NOT a graphic novel.
The Inker’s Shadow, by Allen Say, is a companion to the Sibert Honor Book Drawing From Memory.
In The Inker’s Shadow, we follow young Allen as his father sends him to an American military academy, so that his son could learn English and “become a success in life.”As the school’s first and only Japanese student, he experienced immediate racism among his fellow cadets and his teachers. Allen an American military academy, so that his son could learn English and “become a success in life.” He works part-time and his talent is eventually “discovered” by a teacher or two leading to special opportunities and scholarships.
Tags: #GNCelebration, Allen Say, Fumio Obata, identity, Robert F. Sibert Award
Categories art, graphic novel
ALA Youth Media Awards Predictions & Musings
They’ll be here Monday.
8 am ET, so 5 am here, I will be up & ready to watch before I go to work. You can, too, by clicking HERE.
What are the ALA Youth Media Awards, you might ask. My funny answer is the OSCARS of the youth book world: The Newbery, Caldecott, Prinz, to name a few. The YALSA Morris/Nonfiction Challenge I;ve been reading is about the nominees for 2 YA awards. So, let me begin with those.
1. Morris Award for a debut YA novel: I really hope Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian wins this and I think it will.
2. YALSA Nonfiction Award: This is more complicated. I want Neal Bsscomb’s The Nazi Hunters to win
but I am pretty sure that Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone or Imprisoned:The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler will win.
3. The Caldecott is awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.I’m torn here between The MightyLalouche and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild.
4. The Newbery is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. You have to be American to win this one. As much as I’d like to say Kevin Henkes’ The Year of Billy Miller will win this one, I think it’s intended audience is to young & the committee won’t pick it. I also wish they’s pick Flora and Ulysses by KAte Di Camillo, but humor rarely wins. That said, I’d like it to be The Center of Everything Linda Urban but it will probably be The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, which I still have not read because I can’t get into it.
5. The Prinz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. I hope Reality Boy by A S King os somewhere on the list.
6. The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.My top 2 are Loteria and The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
7. The Pura Belpre Award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Hands down, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina should win this one. I also predict that Yuyi Morales will win for Niño Wrestle the World.
8.The Robert F. Sibert Award goes to the the most distinguished informational book published in English. This one always overlaps with the YALSA Nonfiction award, so my prediction there also applies here. I hope to see Elizabethe Rusch’s Eruption as well. This list also includes informational books for younger readers so I’d like to add a A Splash of Red by Jen Bryant or Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel or Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone.
Tags: ALA Awards, ALA Youth Media Awards, Alex Award, Caldecott Award, Carrie Mesrobian, Kevin Henkes, Martin W. Sandler, Meg Medina, Newbery Award, prediction, Prinz Award, Pura Belpre Award, Robert F. Sibert Award, Tanya Lee Stone, YALSA
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The importance of environmental optimism
By Chris Barnard
Striking school students protest in London earlier this year Photo: Guy Smallman/Getty Images
Free marketeers must harness young people's passion for the environment to push for green innovation
Governments have a role in addressing climate change - but it's not just taxing and banning things
The pessimism of the green movement speaks to a lack of faith in human ingenuity
If you believe most commentators and environmental campaigners, the world is facing impending collapse due to climate change. Apocalyptic pronunciations are wielded to spell doom and gloom, existential crisis, and even, in the words of one well-known green group, extinction. The remedies being promoted, de-growth, economic deceleration, and ever more government control over our lives all stem from the same deeply held pessimism.
However, cataclysmic prophecies do a disservice to the environmental movement. ‘Points of no return’ have become a familiar adage. Back in 1989 the then UN Environment Director, Mostafa Tolba said that inaction by the year 2000 would incur “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust”. In 2006, Al Gore said that unless drastic action is taken “within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return.” Only a few months ago, the doyenne of the US left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change”.
Of course, it is highly unlikely that the world will actually ‘end’ by 2031. Ultimately, when prominent individuals proclaim such doomsday scenarios that then prove untrue, people develop a mindset of scepticism towards the climate establishment and their predictions.
Emphasising the ways to tackle climate change is a far more constructive approach. In his book Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker points to research showing that people are likelier to accept the fact of global warming “when they are told that the problem is solvable by innovations in policy and technology than when they are given dire warnings about how awful it will be”.
Not only is optimism a better tactic from a human psychology perspective, it is also preferable when viewed through the evidence-based lense of economics, politics, and the hard science itself. Indeed, what the pessimism of the modern green movement most strikingly embodies is a lack of hope in human progress and innovation. In portraying a climate apocalypse that only governments can supposedly save us from, environmentalists underplay the creativity and power of the market to tackle these issues.
It’s not just the climate where doom-mongering predictions fail to account for human ingenuity. Look at the likes of Paul Ehrlich, the academic whose 1968 book The Population Bomb claimed the world was heading for unavoidable mass famine. What Ehrlich and some of his contemporaries failed to realise was that a combination of market forces and scientific innovation would mean higher yields, and dramatically cheaper food as the 20th century progressed.
The truth is that we cannot face climate change without unleashing those same market forces and human ambition that have made the world so prosperous and developed. Advances in renewable energies such as wind and solar, the potential for nuclear fusion and Small Modular Reactors, the liquid natural gas boom, carbon capture and storage technology, more efficient energy transmission lines and battery storage – these are all market innovations that are shaping our technological capacity to mitigate the effects of climate change, if not overcome it.
This doesn’t mean governments can’t play a role in promoting greener policies and climate solutions. But they need to go beyond simply taxing and banning things. Instead, governments should embrace policies that allow the private sector to get on with the kind of green innovation that is so essential.
Rallying young people is also crucially important. Though their policy prescriptions may differ from free market voices, the likes of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays4Future have helped push the environment way up the political agenda – and we are already seeing politicians in this general election campaign.
It’s up to those who favour a more economically liberal approach to climate change to harness both the awareness and enthusiasm of young people, and make clear how much good work has already been done to make our economy greener. The good news is that there are organisations out there, such as the American Conservation Coalition and my own British Conservation Alliance, who are committed to empowering this new generation of environmental leaders. ACC and BCA understand that economic and environmental success are not mutually exclusive, but can rather work together to ensure prosperity for both humanity and the planet. When we combine that youthful enthusiasm with the awesome power of the free market, anything is possible.
Hope conquers fear. Optimism trumps pessimism. Ambition breeds progress. Progress beats climate change.
And if that hasn’t convinced you, then maybe science will. Optimists live 15% longer on average. Try it!
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Celebrating women engineers: The importance of paving your own path
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Piriya Choudhry is a Senior Engineer for Energy and Utilities. Like many of the women engineers at Atkins she has risen through the ranks because of her determination, sheer hard work and passion. What makes her different, is her insistence that anyone, regardless of gender, can be a success – as long as your talents match your ambition and you seize every opportunity that comes your way.
Tell us about your background and inspirations
Coming from the hill state of Uttarakhand, I grew up marvelling at the skill of engineers. For me it was all about seeing roads being laid across the most perilous terrains, bridges being built across the mighty river Ganga – and not forgetting the imposing architectural feat of the massive Tehri dam – these are the things that really inspired me. What awed me as a child proved to inspire me as an adult – eventually resulting in the decision to become a civil engineer.
Do you think engineering can help improve the lives of people?
Engineering enables so much good in the world. In college I was drawn to the pressing issue of pollution in our country and around the globe. I was determined to contribute in some way to help fix that problem. That’s one of the reasons I decided to specialise in environmental engineering from IIT Kanpur. And that’s how I progressed to starting my career at Atkins. It’s the opportunity to live my dream of making this world a better place through my career choice.
Tell us what you enjoy about working at Atkins
We are a leading engineering, design and project management sector in a company that provides its employees with limitless opportunities to grow and realise their true potential. The best thing about working at Atkins is that your career growth is largely dictated by your work and your determination. Your career progression isn’t limited by age or experience, but rather how you use your talent and engineering skills.
I feel like I’ve grown and developed by leaps and bounds at Atkins – working on a wide variety of projects and even leading big projects at an early stage of my career. It may seem like a cliché to say the sky is the limit, but it’s true at Atkins. All you have to do is reach out for it. The global exposure and travel opportunities are the cherry on the cake.
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I believe strongly that there is no other engineering firm in India that offers as much flexibility and support for women who are balancing their career and personal commitments. As long as the talent and determination is there, you’re able to pick your preferred specialism. I don’t know where else we would get this opportunity or choice. The environment is one of encouragement and support for women – a place where you never feel undermined, threatened or made to feel inferior in any way. It’s an inclusive environment that believes in equal opportunities for everyone – and as long as you embrace those opportunities, you’ll thrive.
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Ricky Ian Gordon performs with young vocalists at Chautauqua
by Rebecca Klar on July 11, 2017 1.22K views
From left, Jonathon Comfort, David Szabo and Vivian Wang rehearse at McKnight Hall on Sunday, June 11, 2017. ERIN CLARK / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
When most people read Langston Hughes and John Steinbeck, they see poems and novels.
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon sees operas.
“Words inspire me,” Gordon said. “I was fascinated by the way words were set to music and the way composers make theater out of words.”
Gordon will join Donald St. Pierre, head vocal coach, and 12 voice students in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in McKnight Hall. The program is filled with “great words,” he said, as every song is either a poem Gordon has set to music, lyrics he’s written or texts of operas.
Growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Gordon would spend his weekends at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, taking out every opera written in the 20th century. He’s used his musically “encyclopedic mind” to put his own spin on his work.
“You’re always trying to tell your own story,” Gordon said. “You either pick stories to work on or you make sure the stories that are given to you are going to tap something inside of you. Unless an idea has a certain amount of heat for you, it’s not going to come out right.”
One piece in Wednesday’s recital, “The Zephyr/One Star,” comes from Gordon’s opera The Grapes of Wrath, based on the John Steinbeck novel, which was recently in production at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Although the opera premiered 10 years ago and the novel was published in 1939, Gordon said the topic of “loss, and hope and a corrupt government” is relevant for audiences today.
While Gordon is passionate about The Grapes of Wrath and its current success onstage, he doesn’t play favorites among his work.
He said picking a favorite piece is like asking a mother to name her favorite child: “It just doesn’t happen that way.”
Gordon said he’s always careful in putting together a program for Chautauqua that will be both fun and challenging for the young singers. Other pieces by Gordon that will be performed Wednesday come from My Life With Albertine, 27 and Morning Star. Gordon is excited to see how the young vocalists bring his work to life in Wednesday’s recital. He said he’s inspired by their enthusiasm about performing.
“You can ask a lot of them and they’re fantastic about giving it to you,” Gordon said. “They’re somewhat undamaged by the world … that’s what I’m excited about mining at Chautauqua, that sort of unbridled, very open-hearted work that new young artists have and do.”
When writing his music, Gordon keeps vocalists in mind. He strives to create work that “takes them all the way,” challenging them in singing and acting.
“I want to create a body of work for singers that make them feel like rich artists,” Gordon said. “I ask a lot of them and I’m excited when they get it.”
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Video streaming online subscription users in Norway 2019, by age group
Published by H. Tankovska, Sep 30, 2019
At 65 percent, 25 to 34-year-olds were the most avid video streaming subscribers in Norway in 2019. They were closely followed by the 35 to 44-year-olds, of which 59 percent had a subscription. 66 to 74-year-olds had the lowest subscription rate, 20 percent.
Share of individuals who had a video streaming subscription via the internet in Norway in 2019, by age group
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Design Options for Molecular Epidemiology Research within Cohort Studies
Andrew G. Rundle, Paolo Vineis and Habibul Ahsan
Andrew G. Rundle
Paolo Vineis
Habibul Ahsan
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0860 Published August 2005
Past discussions of the relative strengths of nested case-control and case-cohort designs have not fully considered cohorts with stored biological samples in which biomarker analyses are planned. Issues related to biomarker analyses can affect an investigator's choice of design and the conduct of these two designs. The key issues identified are effects of analytic batch, long-term storage, and freeze-thaw cycles on biomarkers. In comparison with the nested case-control design, the case-cohort design is less able to handle these challenges. Problems arise because most implementations of the case-cohort design do not allow for simultaneous evaluation of biomarkers in cases and reference group members, and there is no matching. By design, the nested case-control study controls for storage duration and the batching of biological samples from cases and controls is logistically simple. The allowance for matching also means that subjects can be matched on the number of freeze-thaw cycles experienced by the biological sample. However, the matching generates complex data sets that can be more difficult to analyze, and the costly biomarker data generated from the controls has few uses outside of testing the specific hypotheses of the study. In addition, because the same subject can serve as a control and a case, or multiple times as a control, biomarker analyses and sample batching can be more complex than initially anticipated. However, in total, of the two designs, the nested case-control study is better suited for studying biomarkers that can be influenced by analytic batch, long-term storage, and freeze-thaw cycles.
Nested case-control
Case-cohort
Although population- and hospital-based case-control studies (1-3) are commonly used for molecular epidemiologic studies, a growing number of large cohort studies has been established over the past decade in which biological samples have been collected and stored for future molecular epidemiology studies (4, 5). By avoiding the problems of questionable temporal relationships between biomarkers and disease risk that hamper traditional case-control studies, cohort studies can examine the relationships in a methodologically superior manner. The stored biological samples collected from the cohort members at baseline are precious and represent a finite resource that must be used as efficiently as possible. Two related, yet methodologically distinct study designs—the case-cohort and the nested case-control studies—offer logistic efficiency over full cohort analyses and are typically used for molecular epidemiologic studies within prospective cohort studies. Prior literature has described the differences between these two designs and the trade-offs in selecting one design over another (6-11). However, the use of biomarkers adds another level of complexity in making a choice between the two designs and in the conduct of the studies. These issues have been briefly discussed in a previous publication (12). In this paper, we describe in depth how biomarker analyses alter the calculus of deciding which design to use and some of the ways in which the study conduct is altered.
In the case-cohort design, which was first proposed as the “case-base” design by Miettinen (13) and subsequently refined by Prentice (14), a random subset (known as “subcohort”) of the total baseline cohort is selected as a “control” or reference group. In some instances, the subcohort is chosen as a stratified random sample, with stratification on important confounding factors (15, 16). To estimate effects, the exposure distribution among this reference group is compared with that in a case group of interest arising from this cohort. Apart from random errors, the distributions of exposure (i.e., biomarker) or any other factors in this random subset should represent that of the total cohort at the beginning of the observation period. Because the ratio of exposed to unexposed individuals (with respect to the biomarker of interest) in the reference group is same as in the total cohort at baseline, the estimated odds ratio using a case-cohort study represents the risk ratio for the same biomarker-disease relationship had a full cohort analysis involving all cohort members been done (17-19). Alternatively, the follow-up data for the subcohort (including those who develop disease) may be treated as representative of the person-time experience of the total cohort, and case-cohort studies can be analyzed with appropriate weighting to estimate the rate ratio for the biomarker-disease relationship (9, 14). If a baseline cohort member later develops the disease of interest during the observation period, this member is also treated as a case and thus also contributes to the exposure distribution among the cases (9, 14). The major advantage of this design is that the same reference group, who are a random subset of the baseline cohort, can be used for multiple different case groups arising from the cohort (6). This advantage relies on the supposition that the quality of exposure measurement in the subcohort is the same as for the case series. This is likely to be true for stored questionnaire data (20), the modeling of occupational exposures based on industrial hygiene records and job histories (21), or the modeling of ambient exposures using data-based residential histories and air monitoring records (22). As will be discussed, this assumption may not hold for biomarker analyses. A major limitation of this design is that subcohort members cannot be matched to cases on any potential confounders because subcohort members are selected randomly from the total cohort.
In the nested case-control design, controls are selected concurrently as cases develop (i.e., they are selected from the cohort members who are still disease-free at the time a case occurs). This sampling procedure is called incidence density sampling. By matching on the time at risk (i.e., duration between enrollment/biospecimen collection and disease onset), the ratio of exposed to unexposed number of controls represents, on average, the ratio of exposed to unexposed person-time for the total cohort. This allows the odds ratio derived from the nested case-control study to estimate the incidence rate ratio for the biomarker-disease relationship had a full cohort analysis involving all cohort members been done. A cohort member selected as a control at a given time because he is at risk for disease at the time a case occurs may be again selected as a control for a subsequent case as long as he remains unaffected by the disease of interest. The major advantage of the nested case-control design is its ability to match controls with cases on follow-up duration between biological sample collection and disease development. In addition to matching on follow-up duration, it is common for controls to be matched to cases on other characteristics, such as age and gender. However, additional layers of matching make the control series less representative of the person-time experience of the total cohort. In fact, the primary complaint with nested case-control studies is that the intricate matching used in the design means that the control series is highly selected and cannot be used for other studies and do not provide representative data on the entire cohort (11).
The Use of Biomarkers Brings Additional Layers of Complexity to Nested Case-Control and Case-Cohort Studies
As noted above, there are several papers in the literature that describe the relative strengths and weaknesses of the nested case-control and case-cohort designs and provide guidance in selecting a study design. These papers have discussed both practical or logistic concerns and comparisons of statistical efficiency and power (6, 7, 10). However, the use of biomarkers adds additional complexities to comparing these two designs (12). The pertinent issues that must be considered with the addition of biomarkers to these study designs are analytic batch effects, storage effects, and freeze-thaw cycles. Below, we describe these issues in general terms without regard to a particular study design. In later sections of this paper, we describe how these issues impact the case-cohort and nested case-controls designs.
Batch Effects
Analytic batches can be defined as a group of biological samples that are analyzed together under a particular set of conditions. In studies in which samples are analyzed in multiple batches, the laboratory strives to duplicate the relevant conditions across batches. The goal is to assure that analytic results derived from any given sample are not influenced by the particular analytic batch in which the sample was analyzed. However, our experience and published articles have shown that this goal is not often met for many laboratory assays (23-27). Figure 1 shows the mean polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adduct in prostate tissue samples by batch measured by immunohistochemistry (28). The prostate samples were assigned to batches using a random number generator. The difference between the mean of the highest and lowest batch is 0.15 absorbance units or 39% of the highest batch. Each batch contained two laboratory control slides cut from the same tissue block. Thus, it is possible to use the control slides to partially normalize the data shown here (28). However, because of random error in the assay within batch, there is variability in the control slides and normalization is not completely efficient; therefore, batch effects remain. Even commercial ELISA kits from the same manufacturer have shown substantial variation among different lots of kits (24).
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adduct by immunohistochemistry in prostate tissue by batch (P < 0.001, ANOVA).
Batch effects can create random noise or bias (29, 30). The effect of batch is expected to have the same consequences as misclassification of exposure in epidemiologic studies. Such misclassification usually implies an underestimation of the association between analyte and disease if the measurement error is evenly distributed among cases and controls. However, when the errors are unevenly distributed, bias arises. Hence, it is important to have the same proportion of cases and controls in different batches to avoid such bias. Batch effects can occur with and without time effects. In the example from the work on prostate tissue samples, the effect of batch does not seem to be related to time; all of the samples were analyzed within a short period of time and there does not seem to be a strong trend across batches. However, there can also be time-related effects where laboratory results seem to drift with time, either producing higher or lower results over time (30).
Batches are created through a number of constraints that prevent all of the samples from being analyzed together. These constraints may be technological, such as the number of wells on an ELISA or PCR plate or the number of samples that can be loaded into robotic device. The constraints might be administrative and driven by the need to complete particular milestones for funding agencies or for publications or by the availability of reagents. They might also be logistic and determined by the rate of subject recruitment and transport and shipping limitations. Finally, batches might be defined by the limits of endurance of the laboratory technicians or other staffing issues.
It should also be noted that there are often batches and meta-batches (i.e., batches nested within batches). For instance, a coordinating center might send a laboratory 200 samples in one batch. However, the assay technology may only be able to analyze 40 samples per run, and so the shipped batch is analyzed in five batches over the course of 5 weeks. At some later date, perhaps ≥6 months later, a second meta-batch of samples would be shipped from the coordinating center to the laboratory, and again these samples would be analyzed in multiple laboratory runs. This is essentially the case with the prostate tissue samples shown in Fig. 1. These 11 batches of samples represent the first meta-batch sent to the laboratory from the coordinating center. After several more months of recruitment, a second large meta-batch of samples will be sent to the laboratory where they will be split into smaller analytic batches.
Storage Effects
The second issue is the concern that for some biomarkers the levels of the biomarker may be influenced by the duration of sample storage, or that storage duration will reduce the accuracy of the assay. This is a concern often discussed during study planning and in reviewers' comments to grant applications but the published data demonstrating storage effects on biomarker level is sparse. Antioxidant micronutrients in plasma (31, 32), and cotinine and creatinine in urine, have been reported to be stable in samples stored for many years (33). Benzo(a)pyrene-DNA adducts have been reported to be stable in samples stored for 10 months (34). However, levels of other markers, such as lipoprotein A, total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides (35-37), HIV p24 antigen (38), free prostate-specific antigen (39), progesterone (40), estradiol (41), hepatitis virus C RNA concentrations (42), and salivary IgA (43), have been shown to change during sample storage. Additionally, for paraffin-embedded tissue sections, the reliability of immunohistochemical and fluorescence in situ hybridization assays for HER2 decline with storage time (44), as does antigenicity for tissue microarrays (45). Typically, investigators worry about biomarker levels decaying, with measured levels of biomarkers declining over time; however, there are examples of measured biomarker levels increasing over time (40). Storage-induced changes in biomarker levels can be substantial. Evans et al. (35) have reported a 19% decrease in lipoprotein A in serum samples stored for 3 years at −70°C. Additionally, Bolelli et al. (40) reported a 30% increase in serum-free testosterone and a 40% decrease in progesterone in samples stored at −80°C for 3 years. In part, the sparse data on this issue may reflect the logistic difficulties in conducting a study to test whether long-term storage impacts biomarker levels.
Another concern is that for mechanical freezers, the internal temperature can vary by location and time within a freezer and temperature can vary across freezers (46, 47). After long-term storage in such freezers, it may be appropriate to match samples on storage location in the freezer (47). Storing samples in the liquid phase of liquid nitrogen, as is being done in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), probably provides the most consistent storage conditions. However, in large cohort studies such as EPIC, samples are stored centrally and then shipped to the investigator's laboratories for analyses, where they may be stored in mechanical freezers for substantial time periods. It may even be advisable to physically arrange the samples in these mechanical freezers in a configuration appropriate for the study design, with matched sets of cases and controls stored in close proximity for nested case-control studies or in a random order for case-cohort studies.
The impact of storage effects on study validity depends on whether it reduces assay precision or alters the level of the biomarker. If assay precision is altered by storage effects, random error may be increased for biomarkers stored longer. This will reduce statistical power and, depending on how the study is implemented, may cause bias. If storage duration alters the biomarker level, the effect on study validity depends on whether biomarker levels change in a half-life–like fashion at an absolute linear rate or a relative rate. Depending on how the study is implemented and the mathematical function describing how biomarker levels change, bias may be away or toward the null.
It should also be understood that for large multicenter cohorts, it may take many years to assemble the entire cohort and thus storage time may be affected by logistic considerations. If recruitment begins at different centers at different times, storage duration becomes associated with site and the demographic and exposure characteristics of the subjects recruited at that site. In EPIC, the Oxford site was one of the first to begin recruiting and subjects recruited at this site tend to have a higher socioeconomic status. A large proportion of the subjects were vegetarians. Thus, sample storage duration is not randomly distributed across lifestyle risk factors. A related issue is that sample handling and processing may vary by site and may influence biomarker levels. Thus, whereas there is less empirical data demonstrating that duration of storage may alter biomarker analyses, it is an issue of concern.
Freeze-Thaw Cycles
It is typical for whole-blood samples drawn from study subjects to be separated into constituent parts, such as WBC, serum, and RBC, and then frozen in multiple small aliquots. However, many laboratory assays require sample volumes that are smaller than the stored aliquots, so during a particular study a sample aliquot may be thawed, sampled from, and then the remaining biological sample refrozen for future studies. However, it is possible that thawing and refreezing may alter components of the biological sample. Thus, when the sample is thawed a second time to be assayed for a new biomarker study, the level of the biomarker may differ from the level that would have been measured if the sample was being thawed for the first time. There are several physical and chemical mechanisms through which the freezing process may alter the chemical properties of a biological sample (48). During freezing, there is a concentration of solutes in the residual liquid phase of the sample and ionic strength increases that may cause protein precipitation and denaturation (48, 49). Furthermore, as ice crystals precipitate out of solution, the pH of the remaining liquid phase can change by several pH points, which may cause lipid degradation and protein denaturation (48-50).
It has been shown that levels of serum or plasma cholesterol (51), cotinine (52), micronutrients (51), reproductive hormones (23, 51, 53), insulin-like growth factors (54), saliva progesterone (55), C-reactive protein (56) and antibodies to some infectious diseases (57), and PCR-based detection of hepatitis C (58) are stable despite several cycles of freezing and thawing. However, cycles of freezing and thawing have been shown to impact measures of lipoprotein A (59), anticardiolipin antibodies (48), endogenous antioxidants (superoxide dismutase, reduced glutathione; ref. 60), hepatitis C viral RNA quantification (61), saliva cortisol (55), epidermal growth factor receptor (62), and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (63); freeze-thaw cycles have also been shown to degrade DNA (64, 65). The impact of freeze-thaw cycles on biomarker levels can be substantial. Sgoutas et al. (59) reported a 27% decrease in lipoprotein A levels as measured by ELISA after two freeze-thaw cycles to −20°C, and a 23% decrease after four cycles to −70°C. Bellete et al. (65) reported that after three freeze-thaw cycles, the content of DNA stored in sterile distilled water was reduced by more than half. In these experiments, the copy number of the target DNA sequence and the volume of distilled water influenced DNA decay (65).
Thus, biomarker levels and study results could be influenced by the sequence in which hypotheses are tested in a given bank of samples. Thus, for a given aliquot of biological material in which an investigator plans to measure several biomarkers, the sequence of assays and required freeze-thaws must be carefully planned. For instance, in a saliva sample, cortisol should be analyzed within the first or second round of freeze-thaws, whereas progesterone can be analyzed in a later round (55).
Design Considerations: Batch Effects, Sample Decay, and Freeze-Thaw Cycles
For biomarkers that do not suffer from batch effects, do not change during storage, and are not influenced by freeze-thaw cycles, the calculus in deciding whether to use a nested case-control study or a case-cohort study is the same as for studies using other stable measures, such as questionnaire data or exposure-job history matrices. For example, with vigilant laboratory quality control, genotyping assays are thought to have little batch effect and the DNA is thought to be stable (44, 66). For biomarkers that suffer from decay and/or batch effects, the calculus in choosing a study design begins to change.
In the following text, we will describe the issues for case-cohort studies and nested case-control studies. In this discussion, we refer to grant funding periods, which reflect the U.S. and European scientists' experience of the work of conducting a nested case-control or case-cohort study (case identification, control or subcohort selection, and laboratory analyses) being done within a maximum of 3- to 5-year period set by funding agencies. Due to differences in the way research funds are distributed internationally, scientists in other countries may not experience such sharp temporal delineations. However, a key issue in thinking about the conduct of nested case-control or case-cohort studies is how the work required for the study relates temporarily to the life course of the underlying cohort.
Case-Cohort Studies
The Initial Case-Cohort Study. For the initial case-cohort study being launched within a cohort, there are two scenarios that need to be considered. The first scenario is if an investigator were to launch a new cohort with an a priori plan for conducting case-cohort analyses at a future date. This might be termed a prospective case-cohort study. The second is if a cohort has been in existence for some time and, after a period of follow-up, a case-cohort study is conducted within the cohort. This might be termed a retrospective case-cohort study. In the prospective scenario, the subcohort is selected as soon as the cohort is fully assembled and the cases are identified later during the course of cohort follow-up. In this prospective scenario, there are incentives to begin laboratory analyses of samples from subcohort members as soon as the subcohort is selected. First, this allows the bulk of the laboratory work to be completed quickly. The ability to quickly begin laboratory work is similar to the logistic efficiency advantage that has been previously cited for case-cohort studies when extensive field work is required to gather data from study subjects (6). Furthermore, early completion of the bulk of the laboratory work allows for cross-sectional studies of correlates of biomarkers to begin right away. Whereas it should not drive design decisions, one of the advantages of the case-cohort design is that, because the subcohort is a random sample of the cohort, cross-sectional analyses of biomarkers in the subcohort provide valid information on the overall cohort. In addition, prevalent cases identified at baseline as the cohort is assembled can be compared with the subcohort.
For example, in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study—a prospective cohort study of arsenic exposure and premalignant, malignant, and nonmalignant outcomes—researchers identified substantial numbers of premalignant skin lesions during the baseline assessment of the cohort (67). Incident cases of skin lesions and other outcomes are being ascertained during the follow-up of this cohort for prospective case-cohort analyses of the effects of arsenic, genotype, and other biomarkers on these lesions. In addition, the researchers exploited the baseline data to investigate the same associations in a cross-sectional fashion by comparing individuals with prevalent skin lesion ascertained during cohort assembly with the subcohort group. Some of the biomarker data from the subcohort samples generated as part of the cross-sectional studies, e.g., urinary arsenic species and genetic polymorphisms, will also be used in future case-cohort analyses involving incident cases in this cohort.
In such a prospective case-cohort study, as incident cases accrue during follow-up, the investigators might begin analyzing biological samples from cases. However, if subcohort samples were analyzed at the beginning of the grant funding period, this approach would very closely align case-cohort status to duration of sample storage and analytic batch, setting the stage for bias. Biological samples from cases that arise from the subjects selected to be part of the subcohort will already have been analyzed, and thus there will be no difference in the circumstances of analyses for these cases and the subcohort. In general, however, the majority of cases are expected to arise from the vast bulk of study subjects not selected as part of the subcohort. Because samples from these cases were not analyzed with the subcohort, the circumstances of analyses for these samples will likely differ from those of the subcohort.
If batch effect is the main concern and storage time is unlikely to affect the biomarker, then a valid approach is to wait until the end of follow-up to begin laboratory analyses when all cases of interest are identified. Then, samples could be randomly assigned to analytic batches with proportional numbers of case and subcohort samples in each batch. If multiple case types are of interest, then batch assignment can also take multiple case types into consideration. On the other hand, if both batch effect and storage time are of concern, then an alternative approach would be to analyze subcohort and case samples as cases accrue by creating balanced batches with proportional numbers of case and subcohort samples in each batch. In this approach, the laboratory work is spread out over the duration of the grant period, with the pace of laboratory work dictated by case accrual. This approach requires good estimates of the likely incidence rate for the cases so that the number of subcohort members to be assigned to each batch can be estimated. Careful estimation of the number of subcohort samples to be assayed in each batch over the time course of follow-up is most critical if the batch effect includes a time component. With this approach, case and subcohort samples analyzed together would not be matched on other characteristics; subcohort members would still be randomly chosen. Theoretically, with very careful planning, it is possible to include multiple case groups in analytic batches in this approach if the various case series are ascertained concurrently. However, it may not be feasible if different types of cases have different induction periods, causing largely nonoverlapping occurrence of different case types during the follow-up period (see below). However, because differences in sample storage duration may still exist between cases and subcohort members, it may be appropriate to control for sample storage duration in the statistical analyses whenever effects of storage duration are of concern.
The retrospective scenario is more typical in which a case-cohort study would be implemented in an existing cohort that has been followed-up for a number of years and accrued enough cases for analyses. In this scenario, an investigator would retrospectively select a subcohort from the baseline members of the cohort and compare them to the cases. Samples from the subcohort and the case series would be analyzed contemporaneously, and samples should be randomized to batches to avoid bias due to batch effects. This is similar to first option in the prospective scenario when storage time is not of concern. If the samples vary in the amount of time they have been frozen and sample decay is a concern, then control for storage time in the statistical analyses is the only option, as the opportunity for simultaneous batch assignment as cases accrue is no longer available. If storage time varies by case-subcohort status, statistical control for storage time should remove any bias due to storage-related changes in the biological sample. Additionally, in the more complex situation where storage time is associated with potential risk factors for disease, potential bias can be removed by statistical control for storage time.
For the first case-cohort study launched in a cohort, whether implemented prospectively or retrospectively, it does not seem that the effects of freeze-thaw cycles will inherently bias the analyses. Unless previous case-only studies required case samples or previous cross-sectional studies using subcohort and prevalent case samples required subcohort members to undergo freeze-thaws, it is unlikely that the prevalence of samples that have been thawed will differ between cases and the subcohort members. Even if previous biomarker studies had been conducted within a cohort, it is likely that there will be multiple aliquots of each sample fraction available for analyses, so if one has previously been thawed, another could be used. Should the extent of freeze-thaw cycles differ between the case series and the subcohort, then statistical control for the freeze-thaw cycles could be implemented.
Issues Related to Analyses of the Subsequent Case Series and the Original Subcohort. One of the often-cited strengths of case-cohort studies is that the subcohort can be used as a reference group for a variety of different case groups (6). One could imagine a case-cohort study implemented early in cohort follow-up for a common cancer and then after much further follow-up the subcohort would be used as a reference group for a series of rarer or long-latency cancers. Here, tremendous logistic efficiency is gained because data from the reference group already exists in study databases. However, in studies using biomarkers susceptible to batch or storage effects, this advantage may essentially be outweighed by the potential for bias.
It may be of interest to analyze the same biomarkers in subsequent case series that were previously analyzed in the subcohort and a prior case series. However, the samples from successive case series will be analyzed in new analytic batches, separate from the subcohort samples previously analyzed, essentially guaranteeing batch effects. If the batch effect is not related to time (i.e., batch effect represents a random effect), it is theoretically possible that, overall, the batches of case samples will reflect the same random noise as the subcohort and bias will be minimal. However, this possibility cannot be verified in the data, calling into question the results. If the batch effect includes a time-related component, as seen in laboratory drift, bias is guaranteed. Another possibility is that technology may have progressed in the time between analyses of the subcohort and analyses of the new case series. If samples from the new case series are to be analyzed by an assay that has been incrementally improved or with a completely new technology, assay results from the new case series may differ substantially from assay results previously generated for the subcohort. When batch effect or changing technology is the main concern and the effects of storage time and freeze-thawing are less of a concern, then one may wish to analyze a new aliquot of samples from the previously analyzed subcohort samples. Analyses can proceed, taking case-control status into consideration during batches or by randomizing subjects to batches. However, having to reanalyze samples from the subcohort nullifies the efficiency advantage of the case-cohort design.
If effects of storage time are of concern and the same biomarkers are analyzed in the new case series that were previously analyzed in the subcohort, the situation becomes less manageable and control for storage time becomes increasingly difficult. As the duration of time between the laboratory analyses conducted in the subcohort and the analyses conducted for the new case series grows, the difference in the length of time the samples were stored before being analyzed for case series and subcohort members increases. This makes statistical control for duration of storage more difficult for longer latency cancers due to sparse data at the tails of the distribution of storage times.
Alternatively, the hypotheses to be tested in subsequent case series may involve biomarkers that were not previously analyzed in the subcohort. In this scenario, biological samples from the new case series and the previously identified subcohort could be analyzed for the new biomarker, and samples could be randomized to batches to combat bias due to batch effects. However, depending on the biological material to be analyzed, the sample aliquots from the subcohort may have already been thawed and refrozen in prior rounds of laboratory analyses. For instance, if a serum biomarker was analyzed in the original case-cohort analyses for one case type and a different serum biomarker is of interest in the subsequent case-cohort study for a different case type, serum aliquots from the subcohort may have already gone through a round of thawing and refreezing. The samples from the new case series are less likely to have been previously thawed because the samples were not of interest until the new case series was identified. Thus, when new biomarkers are to be analyzed in subsequent case series and the subcohort, storage conditions may impact study validity.
Issues in the Statistical Analysis of Biomarker Data. An advantage of the case-cohort design is that the time scale for the follow-up analyses is not fixed by the design of the study (6). In a nested case-control study, controls are typically matched to cases on duration of follow-up and/or age and thus all analyses must use this as the time scale. In a case-cohort study, an investigator may select the time scale best suited for the particular analyses (6). A common time scale for cohort and case-cohort analyses is duration of follow-up; however, age and year can both independently influence disease risk and age maybe the more appropriate time scale (6, 68).
The selection of the underlying time scale may alter which subcohort members are included in risk set with a particular case. If duration of follow-up is used as the time scale, then for a case occurring after TX duration of follow-up only those subcohort members who contribute TX duration or more of follow-up and are still at risk of disease will be included in the risk set with the case (9). Subcohort members who are the same age as the case but who have been not been followed for TX duration, perhaps because they were enrolled into the cohort later during the enrollment period, will not be included in the risk set with this case. The situation is different if age is used as the time scale. For a case who develops disease at age 60 who has been followed for TX duration, members of the subcohort who are age 60 or older and who are still at risk of disease are included in the risk set, whether or not they have been followed for TX duration.
Depending on the context of the study and the biomarker in question, different time scales might be more or less appropriate. For a genetic polymorphism for which the effect is thought to occur over the duration of the life course, age might be the most appropriate time scale rather than duration of follow-up. For a biomarker that might be influenced by a strong generational cohort effect, such as blood lead levels (69), calendar year might be more appropriate. For a biomarker that reflects a new onset of exposure, such as a new occupational exposure, time since exposure onset might be most appropriate. In general, the case-cohort design can accommodate separate analyses of each of these biomarkers using different time scales for each analysis. In a nested case-control study, each of the biomarkers could be analyzed but they would all use the same time scale set by the matching criteria. However, in some implementations of the case-cohort design, the use of biomarkers may limit the investigator's flexibility in choosing time scales. Previously, it was suggested that in the prospective case-cohort design, subcohort members could be proportionately assigned to laboratory batches based on the incidence of case accrual. However, the suggestion of proportionate assignment of subcohort members assumes that duration of follow-up is the appropriate underlying time scale. In some instances, it may be more appropriate to prospectively assign subcohort members to laboratory batches based on the expected age distribution of cases.
Another possible consideration in the statistical analyses is the appropriate weighting of cases that arise from outside of the subcohort (9). Approaches described by Prentice (14) and Barlow (70) use a weighting of 1 in the denominator of the pseudo-likelihood for cases that arise outside the subcohort, whereas an approach by Self and Prentice (71) uses a weighting of 0. Furthermore, the approach of Barlow weights the cases in the subcohort before failure and the subcohort controls by the inverse of the sampling fraction. At this time, the optimal weighting scheme for case-cohort analyses is unclear (9). However, the extent to which biomarker data from cases arising outside the subcohort have been differently affected by batch effects and storage conditions may impact the performance of the weighting schemes. Different weighting schemes may be more or less appropriate for different biomarker analysis scenarios.
Nested Case-Control Studies
In nested case-control studies, controls are matched to cases typically using a quite intricate criteria. At a minimum, controls are matched to cases on length of follow-up since entry into the cohort study. In a case-control study nested in the Physicians Health Study, controls were additionally matched to cases on age, smoking status (never, ex, current), cigarettes per day in current smokers (1-19, 20-39, and 40+ cigarettes per day), and analytic batch (4). In Genair/EPIC, a case-control study of noncurrent smokers nested in EPIC, controls were matched to cases on age, gender, country, smoking status (never, ex-smoker), and analytic batch (72). A result of this matching is that controls are not a representative sample of the cohort at baseline, and thus cannot be used as controls for future case groups as can be done with subcohort members in a case-cohort study. Studies of future case series in EPIC will not be able to use the Genair/EPIC control series and its biomarker data and will require a new reference group and new biomarker analyses. Major advantages of nested case-control design are that matching on length of follow-up, as is common, effectively matches on sample storage time. Also, individual matching allows for easy matching on analytic batch, removing batch effects. However, depending on how the study is conducted, there are several nuances that need to be considered.
In a nested case-control study, a control matched to a case at time A may later develop the disease and becomes a case at time B. In this scenario, the study subject is treated as both a control (at time A) and a case (at time B). For cancer outcomes, this might be expected to be a rare occurrence, but when one considers matching controls to cases on age, smoking status, and cigarettes smoked per day (73), the probability of a control later becoming a case is not trivial. Additionally, because of the amount of matching, there may be relatively few subjects available to be selected as controls within certain strata of matching variables. Thus, a subject may be selected as a control for a case at time A and again as a control at time B. For questionnaire data, the same data point, e.g., cigarettes smoked per day, is used for the subject at time A when she is a control and at time B when she is a case or if selected again as a control. However, things are more complex when biomarker data is used from a subject who contributes information more than once in a study.
Biomarker Analyses When a Subject Appears Multiple Times in a Nested Case-Control Study. The possibility of a subject occurring multiple times within a nested case-control study has implications for sample batching. If a nested case-control study is implemented at the end of cohort follow-up, batching can be arranged such that a single biological sample from an individual that occurs in the data set multiple times can be placed in one batch, along with all the subjects to which that individual is matched. Another scenario is when a nested case-control study is implemented such that samples from cases and controls accrued in the past are analyzed, whereas follow-up continues prospectively for another couple of years. Here, it is possible for a subject selected to be a control for a past case (time A) to become a case during the continued follow-up and be matched to a set of controls at time B. In this scenario, a biological sample from the subject may have already been analyzed previously when the subject acted as a control at time A (see Fig. 2). However, it would be improper for this data point from time A to also be used as the data point when the subject is a case at time B. This is because, if time A biomarker data, when the subject was a control, is used when the subject is a case at time B, biomarker data from the controls at time B will come from a different laboratory batch than the biomarker data from the case at time B. Furthermore, storage duration for cases and controls will differ at time B if the data point from time A is used for the case at time B. It would be most appropriate if a new aliquot of biological material from the case at time B were analyzed with the controls matched to the case at time B. Likewise, if a subject serves as a control for multiple cases, multiple samples from that control should be analyzed, one for each instance where the subject is represented in the data set. This is analogous to making sure the quality of exposure data is the same for cases and controls. Clearly, this issue is a larger problem for more common diseases and may not be impossible to address if the laboratory assay consumes large volumes of biological sample. An additional problem occurs if the biomarker is influenced by freeze-thaw cycles and the same sample aliquot used at time A must be thawed out again for analyses at time B. In this circumstance, one must weigh the measurement concerns arising from batch effects versus the measurement concerns associated with free-thaw cycles. One option would be to use aliquots from the subjects matched to the individual in question, which have also been previously thawed.
Laboratory batching in a nested case-control study in which a control later becomes a case. This figure illustrates a nested case-control study in which two controls are matched to each case. The circled study subject is a control at time A and becomes a case at time B. Samples from all of the cases and controls accrued before the grant period are analyzed in batch 1 at the beginning of the grant period. Cases and controls that accrue during the grant period are analyzed in batch 2 at the end of the grant period. A sample from the circled subject should be analyzed in both batch 1 and batch 2.
Cross-Sectional Analyses among Controls. An issue with nested case-control studies is the validity of cross-sectional analyses conducted in the controls. For instance, it might be of interest to assess whether a biomarker is associated with particular exposures in the controls. Analyses have been conducted in controls to determine whether carcinogen-adduct levels are associated with various genetic polymorphisms and demographic and lifestyle characteristics (73, 74). As pointed out above, such analyses in the subcohort of a case-cohort study would be valid and results could be extrapolated to the entire cohort. We emphasize that the choice between conducting a nested case-control or case-cohort study should be driven by the need to most validly assess exposure-disease hypotheses. However, these types of secondary analyses have been published and there are concerns regarding their validity.
In a nested case-control study, it is typical that controls are matched to cases in a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio. Due to the individual matching of controls to cases, the control series are not independent observations; in fact, each set of controls constitutes a highly intercorrelated cluster (i.e., many variables in each control set will be correlated within control sets because each control was tightly matched to a case, and thus is correlated with the case). For instance, among controls matched to lung cancer cases in Genair/EPIC, body mass index, which was not a matching variable, is significantly correlated within pairs of matched controls (r = 0.17, P = 0.01). Such correlations can also occur for biomarker levels due to matching on batch within case-control sets. Thus, biomarkers levels and potential determinants of biomarkers may be intercorrelated within matched control sets creating very clustered data structures. This is illustrated in Fig. 3. This clustering must be taken into account in the cross-sectional analyses. β coefficients from standard least-square linear regression, logistic regression analyses, or t tests will typically have artificially small SE values because of this clustering and robust variance estimators will be necessary. An appropriate approach is to use generalized estimating equations or mixed models and to use the match ID variable as the cluster variable.
Intercorrelations among control sets due to matching to cases. This figure illustrates three matched case-control sets from a larger nested case-control study population and shows the clustering of control subjects. Instead of treating controls as a series of independent observations, investigators must acknowledge that pairs of controls may represent highly correlated clusters. In this illustration, instead of treating the control series as six independent subjects, the control series should be visualized as three clusters of two subjects. Xs and Zs represent correlation coefficients for variables in the case-control sets. If controls were matched to cases on age and gender, then the individual controls matched to the case will be highly correlated with each other for these characteristics. Because biological samples from the controls were likely to have been assayed in the same laboratory batch, the biomarker data is likely to be correlated within matched pairs as well.
A separate issue is that the controls are typically not a representative sample of the cohort at baseline, and caution is required when extrapolating results of cross-sectional analyses in the controls to the overall cohort. It is possible that cross-sectional results in controls will produce a quite biased representation of associations in the overall cohort at baseline. The issues of bias and precision are illustrated in Table 1. The association between body mass index and gender and age was analyzed in the controls from Genair/EPIC and the corresponding portion of the EPIC cohort in which Genair/EPIC was nested. Analyses of the controls from Genair/EPIC were conducted using linear regression analyses and then with generalized estimating equations. Comparisons of cross-sectional analyses show that linear regression β coefficients calculated from the controls are quite different from those calculated from the corresponding cohort at baseline. Additionally, the SE values of the β coefficients are substantially smaller in the linear regression analyses of the controls compared with generalized estimating equation analyses of the controls.
Analyses of body mass index, gender, and age in controls from Genair/EPIC and in the EPIC cohort
There are several possible reasons for the discrepancies in the β coefficients. One possibility is that the relationship between age and body mass index may be nonlinear and plateau at older ages. The selected controls are likely to be older than the overall cohort due to matching to the cases. Thus, analyses in controls from Genair/EPIC may occur in a flatter portion of the overall age–body mass index curve and generate a lower β coefficient. Another possibility is that the distribution of important uncontrolled confounders differs between the Genair/EPIC controls and the overall cohort, producing different confounding effects in the analyses. A final possibility is that one or more of the matching factors are effect modifiers of the effects of age and gender and the analyses in the Genair/EPIC controls really represent stratum-specific analyses within a larger context of interaction. In any case, the problem is that because the controls are not generally representative of the overall cohort, care must be taken in extrapolating cross-sectional results from the controls to the overall population.
Substantial resources have been invested in launching large cohort studies that collect biological samples. It is prohibitively inefficient to analyze biological samples from each of the study subjects and then conduct standard cohort analyses. As such, nested case-control and case-cohort analyses serve as the primary tools for conducting molecular epidemiologic studies within cohorts. A recent review shows that the nested case-control approach is more commonly used than the case-cohort, probably because case-cohort methods have been developed more recently (9). However, there is dissatisfaction with the nested case-control approach because the matching usually creates very complex data sets that are not intuitively understood and have limited uses beyond the immediate case-control analyses.
A body of literature already exists that compares and contrasts the strengths of these two study designs; thus far, there has been little consideration of how the addition of biomarker analyses alters the balance (12). The concerns raised by biomarker analyses regard assuring that the quality of the biomarker data is comparable in the case series and the reference group (controls or subcohort). We have identified three key areas of concern: batch effects, storage effects on biological samples, and freeze-thaw effects on biological samples. Table 2 summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of the two designs in addressing these issues. In our own experience, batch effects present the most consistent problem, yet of the areas of concern, batch effects seem to be the least well described in the literature. Batch effects can generate random noise, bias, or may cause clustering in the data. The manner in which these effects can impact a study depends on the temporal relationship between the time period in which the work of a nested case-control or case-cohort study is done and the life course of the underlying cohort. The effects also depend on when in the time period the laboratory begins the analytic runs of the samples. These timing issues influence batching decisions, differences in storage duration between cases and subcohort members, and the likelihood that sample aliquots will have endured freeze-thaw cycles.
Comparison of case-cohort and nested case-control designs with respect to biomarker-related issues
In terms of batching samples to particular analytic runs, the nested case-control design provides logistically the simplest approach. Samples can be identified for batching as the controls are matched to the cases. The only potentially awkward circumstance occurs if a study subject is represented multiple times in the study. In this circumstance, an investigator would ideally analyze separate aliquots of that subject's biological sample at each point in which the subject appears in the study. In the case-cohort design, the ideal situation occurs if all of the cases for analyses and the subcohort have been identified at the beginning of the time period in which the work of the case-cohort study is done. In this circumstance, biological samples can be randomly assigned to batches. If case selection is ongoing and biological samples are being analyzed before the entire study sample is identified, creating laboratory batches that are balanced with respect to case-subcohort status is challenging.
On balance, for biomarkers that suffer from batch effects and/or storage decay, we feel the nested case-control study provides a better approach to dealing with these issues. The primary complaint with the nested case-control study is that the matching is not intuitive and that investment in generating biomarker data from the controls cannot be used as reference data for other case series or compared with other populations. Thus, there is a tremendous investment in generating data that has few secondary uses. Typically, the case-cohort design is thought to provide an answer to these issues, but analytic batch effects and storage effects on samples can largely nullify this advantage. For biomarkers that do not suffer from storage effects, batch effects, and freeze-thaw cycles, the issues in choosing between study designs are essentially the same as confronted with questionnaire data. In this case, we feel that the investment in generating reference data should be leveraged as much as possible and that the case-cohort design is the preferred approach.
Grant support: NIH grants KO7-CA92348-01A1, 1R01CA102484, and 1P42ES10349; European Community (5th Framework Programme) grant QLK4-CT-1999-00927 (P. Vineis); and a grant of the Compagnia di San Paolo to the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation.
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The strange case of the car in the lake
Honda pulled from Ketring Lake reported stolen in 2006
Divers searching for a gun found a stolen car in Ketring Lake on July 23, but how long it's been submerged is a mystery.
Courtesy of South Metro Fire Rescue
Posted Friday, August 9, 2019 5:16 pm
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It's a case as murky as the waters of Ketring Lake.
Scuba divers from South Metro Fire Rescue made a strange find in Ketring Lake, adjacent to the Littleton Museum, on July 23: a 1994 Honda Accord submerged in about 12 feet of water.
The next day, with the help of a jumbo-size tow truck from Connolly's Towing, the four-door sedan emerged and was laid on the grass.
Aside from a thick layer of mud and algae, the car was empty, according to a police report. The rear passenger-side window was busted out, the stereo was missing, and the ignition had been cored out. The car is not suspected to have been used in any other crimes, and Littleton Police said they do not plan on investigating further.
Littleton Police Cmdr. Trent Cooper said the divers were in the lake at the request of Englewood police, who were seeking a gun believed to be evidence in an ongoing investigation.
Though divers didn't find the gun, the car yielded a few clues: It had last been registered to a Jessica Hancock of Aurora, but the current listed owner was a now-defunct insurance company.
A search of Aurora police records found that Hancock reported the car stolen in October 2006.
Although Littleton's police report says attempts to reach Hancock were unsuccessful, she answered a call from Colorado Community Media at her home in Denver.
“They found my car?” Hancock said. “In a lake?”
Family transportation
Hancock said she, her husband and two young children had just moved into an apartment in Aurora in 2006 when the car was stolen.
They were trying to pull their lives together at the time, after living homeless on Colfax Avenue in Denver for several months. Hancock was working as a cook at Wendy's, and her husband was working for a moving company.
They shared the car for commuting, and when it went missing, it blew a hole in their fragile circumstances.
“It was horrible,” Hancock said. “We had a terrible time getting to work after that. We had to bring groceries home in an old baby stroller. Eventually the wheels busted off. It was a really hard time for us.”
When a month went by and the car was still missing, Hancock's insurance company wrote it off, and took possession of the title.
Life is much better these days for Hancock and her family. She manages a Goodwill thrift store, and the family bought a house in Denver a couple years ago. Hearing the car was found was a blast from the past, she said.
“I'm just shocked,” Hancock said. “I always wondered who took it, and why they never found it. My car stereo was about the nicest thing I owned back then. Did they steal my car just to take my stereo, and dump the whole thing in a lake?”
Varying theories
A Carfax search on the car's license plate and VIN shows no activity on the car after the day the insurance company took possession of the title in November 2006.
An Aug. 1 City of Littleton news release said the car was stolen from a salvage yard, though police later said that was a “miscommunication” based on the final title, which was listed as “salvage.”
The news release said the car could not have been in the lake any earlier than 2013, because a drought left the lake half-full that summer before Denver Water allowed the city to refill it from a fire hydrant.
Several commenters on local media pages said they knew for years that the car was in the lake, with some wondering if oil and gas in the car were responsible for dead fish found on the shore of the lake from time to time.
One woman said she told the city about the car years ago, but when asked, couldn't remember when she saw the car, or who she told. Another man said a fisherman told him he'd seen the car pushed into the lake, but couldn't remember the fisherman's name.
Both Mayor Debbie Brinkman and City Manager Mark Relph said the city had no idea a car was in the lake. South Suburban Parks and Recreation, which manages the park and lake, weren't aware either, said spokeswoman Jamie DeBartolomeis, who added that fish in the lake often die in the summer amid high water temperatures and algae blooms.
Cooper, the police spokesman, said if Littleton police had known about the car, they would have retrieved it.
“We would have wanted to search it for evidence or connection with other crimes,” Cooper said. “I find it hard to believe that it was down there that long.”
Not related to case
Police are unable to account for the car's whereabouts in the seven years between the theft and the drought year at the lake.
The lake has yet to yield the gun, said Toni Arnoldy, a City of Englewood spokeswoman.
Arnoldy's email referenced the ongoing investigation into a July 14 shooting in Englewood that left a 13-year-old boy dead and an 18-year-old man injured, though Arnoldy declined to confirm that police were searching for the murder weapon in the case.
"The vehicle had no relation to the case in any way,” Arnoldy said.
Eric Hurst, a South Metro Fire spokesman, said later that finding a gun on a muddy lake bottom is a tall order.
“Unless you have a witness who actually saw someone throw it in, it's extremely difficult to find the right spot,” Hurst said. “Our divers were literally feeling around by hand, and using metal detectors, which were picking up every last nail, screw and pop can down there.”
For the time being, the car is in the impound lot at Connolly's Towing on South Federal Boulevard, said impound associate Dave Rieb.
Staff reached out to the company on the title, Reid said, but were unaware that the company had gone out of business. If they're unable to find an owner, eventually the car will be scrapped, Rieb said.
“I feel pretty confident," Rieb said, "nobody's going to want it."
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Software Engineering Tools
Categories within this topic include Continuous Integration (4), CVS (14), Eclipse (21), Emacs (31), gdb (3), Git (42), Jenkins (4), Mercurial (20), ModelSim (1), Noweb (1), Redmine (2), RStudio (10), Sourcesafe (1), Sublime Text (8), SVN (32), Trac (3), valgrind (2), Vim (16), Visual Studio (1)
A Fast Multipole Method for the Bessel potential
Marc Molinari, Simon Cox (Investigators), Neil O'Brien
The fast multipole method (FMM) proposed by Greengard and Rokhlin provides a method by which the O(N-squared) many-body problem can be reduced to O(N) complexity. In this project, a multipole method is developed to calculate the energy of a system of vortices in a high temperature superconductor, where the many-body interactions give rise to rich and complex physics. The method developed here is suitable for systems where the interactions are governed by a Bessel potential rather than the usual logarithmic potentials occurring in gravitational and electrostatic problems. We derive and apply vectorised forms of the Gegenbauer addition formulae in order to achieve the O(N) scaling associated with fast multipole methods.
A Mathematical Analysis of the Driving Force of Perivascular Drainage in the Brain
Giles Richardson, Roxana-Octavia Carare (Investigators), Alexandra Diem
The observation that solute drainage in the brain occurs in the reverse direction of the blood flow has for a long time been puzzling for researchers. We developed a simple analytical model that can explain this reverse drainage of solutes and has potential implications for the development of treatment for Alzheimer's Disease.
A novel method for monitoring air pollution from satellites at very high resolution
Developing methods to monitor the clarity of the atmosphere from satellites at 100,000 times the resolution of previous methods. This can then be used to monitor air pollution, correct satellite images and provide data for climate studies. Simulation is used to model the effects of atmospheric pollution on light passing through the atmosphere, and to test the method under 'synthetic atmospheres'.
A spatially-explicit agent-based model of jaguar population dynamics
Jason Noble, Patrick Doncaster (Investigators), Angela Watkins
A single species spatially-explicit agent-based model has been developed that illustrates the role of simulation modelling, integrated with an adapted least-cost modelling approach and real-world geographical data, in exploring jaguar population dynamics.
Ab initio simulations of chemical reactions on platinum nanoparticles
Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigator), Álvaro Ruiz-Serrano, Peter Cherry
•Use first principles calculations to study the relationship between shape and size of nanoparticle and the oxygen adsorption energy.
• Investigate the effect of high oxygen coverage on the catalytic activity of the nanoparticles.
An Investigation into the Cascade Effect of Mergers on the Global Financial Markets
Seth Bullock, Antonella Ianni (Investigators), Camillia Zedan
An investigation into the external effects that horizontal mergers have on the interconnected global markets.
Application of RNA-Seq for gene fusion identification in blood cancers
William Tapper (Investigator), Marcin Knut
Gene fusions are often the cause of different blood cancers. As such, accurate identification of them provides information on the underlying cause of a cancer, ensuring appropriate choice of treatment. However, due to shortcomings of the currently applied methods for gene fusion identification, some of them escape undetected. We are employing RNA-Seq, a cutting-edge method for sequencing RNA, the messenger of genetic information, to investigate gene fusions.
Automated Algorithmic Trading with Intelligent Execution
Frank McGroarty, Enrico Gerding (Investigators), Ash Booth
In this project, we introduce the first fully automated trading system for real-world stock trading that uses time-adaptive execution algorithm to minimise market impact while increasing profitability com- pared to benchmark strategies.
Automated selection of suitable atmospheric calibration sites for satellite imagery
Robin Wilson, Edward Milton (Investigators)
Ground calibration targets (GCTs) play a vital role in atmospheric correction of satellite sensor data in the optical region, but selecting suitable targets is a subjective and time- consuming task. This project is developing methods to automatically select suitable GCTs, using a combination of remotely sensed multispectral and topographic data.
Automated Trading with Performance Weighted Random Forests and Seasonality
This project proposes an expert system that uses novel machine learning techniques to predict the price return over these seasonal events, and then uses these predictions to develop a profitable trading strategy.
Automatic Image Retrieval with Soft Biometrics for Surveillance
Mark Nixon, John Carter (Investigators), Daniel Martinho-Corbishley
We're investigating ways to automatically describe and identify pedestrians from surveillance footage using human understandable, soft biometric labels. Our goal is to enable surveillance operators to search for pedestrians in a video network using soft biometric descriptions, and to automatically retrieve these descriptions from CCTV images.
B-meson coupling with relativistic heavy quarks
Jonathan Flynn (Investigator), Ben Samways, Dirk Broemmel, Patrick Fritzsch
We non-perturbatively compute the coupling between B* and B pi meson states relying on relativistic heavy quarks and domain wall light fermions. The coupling is of importance for an effective description of hadronic heavy meson decays.
Bioclimatic Architecture
Seth Bullock (Investigator), Nicholas Hill
This was a review report on bioclimatic architecture and how such architecture may be designed by agent-based models inspired by the building behaviour of insects.
BioSimGrid
Jonathan Essex, Hans Fangohr (Investigators), Richard Boardman, Syma Khalid, Steven Johnston
The aim of the BioSimGrid project is to make the results of large-scale computer simulations of biomolecules more accessible to the biological community. Such simulations of the motions of proteins are a key component in understanding how the structure of a protein is related to its dynamic function.
Cellular Automata Modelling of Membrane Formation and Protocell Evolution
Seth Bullock (Investigator), Stuart Bartlett
We simulated the meso-level behaviour of lipid-like particles in a range of chemical and physical environments. Self-organised protocellular structures can be shown to emerge spontaneously in systems with random, homogeneous initial conditions. Introducing an additional 'toxic' particle species and an associated set of synthesis reactions produced a new set of ecological behaviours compared to the original model of Ono and Ikegami.
Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling
Hans Fangohr, Ian Hawke, Peter Horak (Investigators), Susanne Ufermann Fangohr, Ryan Pepper, Hossam Ragheb, Emanuele Zappia, Ashley Setter, David Lusher, Alvaro Perez-Diaz, Kieran Selvon, Thorsten Wittemeier, Mihails Milehins, Stephen Gow, Ioannis Begleris, Jonathon Waters, James Harrison, Joshua Greenhalgh, Rory Brown, Robert Entwistle, Paul Chambers, Jan Kamenik, Craig Rafter
The £10million Centre for Doctoral Training was launched in November 2013 and is jointly funded by EPSRC, the University of Southampton, and its partners.
The NGCM brings together world-class simulation modelling research activities from across the University of Southampton and hosts a 4-year doctoral training programme that is the first of its kind in the UK.
Challenging Topological Prejudice - Automated Airframe Layout Design
Andras Sobester (Investigator), Paul Chambers
Aircraft preliminary design scopes are drastically narrowed by topological prejudice. Modern aircraft have settled on the same 'tube plus wing and cruciform tail' type topology that has been adopted through their ancestry, with no scientific evidence that this layout is optimal. This research project poses the question:
“Given a topologically flexible aircraft geometry that is free of prejudice or bias, would a sophisticated multi-disciplinary optimization process yield a conventional layout?”
Chaotic Analysis of Partial Discharge
Paul Lewin (Investigator), Lyuboslav Petrov
The deterministic character of PD pulses predicted by theory has been shown to be existent for certain PD events. Finding characteristic patterns in phase space enables field-data PD detection with high reliability.
Characterisation of the Genomic Landscape in Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma
Sarah Ennis, Jane Gibson, Jon Strefford (Investigators), Carolina Jaramillo Oquendo, Helen Parker
This project aims to expand the catalogue of mutated genes in splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) and construct a detailed characterisation of the genetic landscape of this disease. Using next generation sequencing, we aim to identify somatic mutations in over 100 samples, and enrich clinical data with this information to improve patient treatment and prognosis.
Chip Implementation of a Signal Detector for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Wireless System
Mark Zwolinski, Basel Halak, Mohammed El-Hajjar (Investigators), Ibrahim Bello
We implement an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for the signal detection of a MIMO receiver.
Cloud Computing for Planetary Defense
Hugh Lewis, Kenji Takeda (Investigators), Steven Johnston
We demonstrate how a cloud-based computing architecture can be used for planetary defense and space situational awareness (SSA). We show how utility compute can facilitate both a financially economical and highly scalable solution for space debris and near-earth object impact analysis. As we improve our ability to track smaller space objects, and satellite collisions occur, the volume of objects being tracked vastly increases, increasing computational demands. Propagating trajectories and calculating conjunctions becomes increasingly time critical, thus requiring an architecture which can scale with demand. The extension of this to tackle the problem of a future near-earth object impact is discussed, and how cloud computing can play a key role in this civilisation-threatening scenario.
Colonising Polynesia; Uncertain sailing craft route modelling
Thomas Dickson (Investigator), David Sear
Through developing a novel methodology of modelling sailing craft routing it is possible to investigate archaeological problems as well as applications to modern yacht racing and autonomous sailing technology. This research uses iridis to provide accurate and fast analysis of shortest path routes for sailing craft in order to provide insight and improve safety of operation.
Complexity in Modelling Electric Marine Propulsive Devices
Suleiman Sharkh, Neil Bressloff, Hans Fangohr (Investigators), Aleksander Dubas
This project involves the simulation of turbulent flow around a marine rim-driven thruster and the complex interaction of flow features involved through computational fluid dynamics. Following this, the optimisation of design parameters using computational fluid dynamics to calculate the objective function is performed and surrogate modelling utilised to estimate optimum design configuration.
Controlling Ant-Based Construction
Seth Bullock (Investigator), Lenka Pitonakova
This paper investigates dynamics of ant nest building and shows that algorithms capable of generating ant-like structures can also be used to create nests, shapes of which are imposed from outside of the system.
CRISIS – Complexity Research Initiative for Systemic InstabilitieS
Frank McGroarty (Investigator), Bob De Caux
A new approach to modelling and understanding financial system and macroeconomic risk and instability
Designer 3D Magnetic Mesostructures
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Matteo Franchin, Andreas Knittel
A new electrodeposition self-assembly method allows for the growth of well defined mesostructures. This project's aim is to use this method in order to fabricate supraconducting and ferromagnetic mesostructures. Numerical methods based on well-established models are used in order to characterise the grown structures.
Developing programming skills with Minecraft and Python
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Alvaro Perez-Diaz
PythonTool is a Minecraft mod created for this project which allows interactive execution of Python scripts which interact with the game in real time. It intends to make teaching programming to children or non-expert users easier and more appealing.
Development and application of powerful methods for identifying selective sweeps
Andrew Collins, Reuben Pengelly, Timothy Sluckin, Sarah Ennis (Investigators), Clare Horscroft
This project is about detecting regions of the genome which have experienced selective pressure. To achieve this, mathematical models will be developed and applied to human genomic data sets, as well as to those of other species.
Development of a novel Navier-Stokes solver (HiPSTAR)
Richard Sandberg (Investigator)
Development of a highly efficient Navier-Stokes solver for HPC.
Development of wide-ranging functionality in ONETEP
Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigator), Jacek Dziedzic
ONETEP is at the cutting edge of developments in first principles calculations. However, while the fundamental difficulties of performing accurate first-principles calculations with linear-scaling cost have been solved, only a small core of functionality is currently available in ONETEP which prevents its wide application. In this collaborative project between three Universities, the original developers of ONETEP will lead an ambitious workplan whereby the functionality of the code will be rapidly and significantly enriched.
DIPLOS - Dispersion of Localised Releases in a Street Network
Trevor Thomas, Ian Castro (Investigators)
The security threat level from international terrorism, introduced by the UK Security Service, has been classified as either "severe" or "critical" for much of its six-year history, and currently remains as "substantial" (source: MI5 website). Part of the risk posed by terrorist threats involves potential releases of air-borne chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) material into highly populated urbanised areas. Smoke from industrial accidents within or in the vicinity of urban areas also pose risks to health and can cause widespread disruption to businesses, public services and residents. The Buncefield depot fire of 2005 resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of homes and closure of more than 200 schools and public buildings for two days; consequences would have been much more severe if prevailing meteorological conditions had promoted mixing or entrainment of the smoke plume into the urban canopy. In both these scenarios it is crucial to be able to model, quickly and reliably, dispersion from localised sources through an urban street network in the short range, where the threat to human health is greatest. However, this is precisely where current operational models are least reliable because our understanding and ability to model short-range dispersion processes is limited. The contribution that DIPLOS will make is:
1. to fill in the gaps in fundamental knowledge and understanding of key dispersion processes,
2. to enable these processes to be parametrized for use in operational models,
3. to implement them into an operational model, evaluate the improvement and apply the model to a case study in central London
Most of the existing research on urban dispersion has focused on air quality aspects, with sources being extensive and distributed in space. Scientifically, this research is novel in focusing on localized releases within urban areas, and on dispersion processes at short range. Through a combination of fundamental studies using wind tunnel experiments and high resolution supercomputer simulations, extensive data analysis and development of theoretical and numerical models, DIPLOS will contribute to addressing this difficult and important problem from both a scientific research and a practical, operational perspective.
Direct Numerical Simulations of transsonic turbine tip gap flow
Direct Numerical Simulations are conducted of the transsonic flow through the tip gap at real engine conditions.
Directing magnetic skyrmion traffic flow with nanoscale patterning.
Hans Fangohr, Ondrej Hovorka (Investigators), Mark Vousden
Skyrmions in magnetic nanostructures may lead to new data storage technologies. Appropriate simulation methodologies are developed and applied.
Dynamag: computational magnonics
Hans Fangohr, Atul Bhaskar (Investigators), Matteo Franchin, Andreas Knittel
Analytical treatment of long range magneto-dipole interactions is a bottle-neck of magnonics and more generally of the theory of spin waves in non-uniform media. This project develops a theoretical framework for analysis of magnonic phenomena in magnetic nano-structures, including isolated nano-elements, arrays of those, and extended magnonic crystals. The DYNAMAG project is funded by the EU FP7 and the DST of India.
E ffects of Sample Contamination on Alternate Allele Frequency
Jane Gibson (Investigator), Roshan Sood
Accurate calling of genetic variants is reliant on the purity of samples, contamination will reduce the accuracy of results. Currently there are few programs able to identify contamination in samples, potentially misinforming a researcher or clinician. To better understand the changes caused by sample contamination in
silico simulations were performed where a known percentage of DNA sequence reads from a contaminating
fi le were added. Understanding the changes will assist the development of a new method and program to
detect sample contamination.
Eddy-resol?ving Simulation?s for Turbomachi?nery Applicatio?ns
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Li-Wei Chen
Traditionally, the design of turbomachinery components has been exclusively accomplished with steady CFD, with Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models being the predominant choice. With computing power continuously increasing, high-fidelity numerical simulations of turbomachinery components are now becoming a valuable research tool for validating the design process and continued development of design tool.
In the current project, Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and other eddy-resolving approaches will be performed of turbomachinery components to establish benchmark data for design tools, and to investigate physical mechanisms that cannot be captured by traditional CFD approaches.
Fluid Dynamics Optimisation of Rim-Drive Thrusters and Ducted Hydrokinetic Generators
Aleksander Dubas, Suleiman Sharkh (Investigators)
This is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project is a collaboration between the University of Southampton and TSL Technology Ltd. to develop computational fluid dynamics software design tools for modelling and optimising the design of propeller thrusters and water turbine generators.
Fluid Structure Interactions of Yacht Sails
Stephen Turnock (Investigator), Daniele Trimarchi
The research is the main subject of the PhD topic. It regards the application of fluid structure interaction techniques to the domain of yacht sails simulation
Fracturing of small social networks
Seth Bullock, Sally Brailsford (Investigators), Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg
A connected social network is a very important factor for the success of groups and organisations. We investigate which factors make a group more resistant to the effects of disagreements which commonly happen in small social networks.
Generic Operational Simulation of Civil Unmanned Air Vehicle Operations
Hans Fangohr, James Scanlan (Investigators)
This project creates a generic operational simulation of Unmanned Air Vehicle Operations. UAVs can be valued for their mission-suitability and compared against various configurations.
Gravitational waves from neutron stars
Ian Hawke (Investigator)
Gravitational waves, once detected, will give information about the extremes of space and time. Compact objects such as neutron stars are perfect locations for generating such waves.
Hadronic structure on the computer
Jonathan Flynn (Investigator), Dirk Broemmel, Thomas Rae, Ben Samways
In experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, the interactions that occur between the colliding particles (protons in this case) can be factorised into a simple scattering between two constituent particles, called quarks, followed by a hadronisation process, which describes the dynamics of forming the bound proton states. Quarks are particles within the proton that bind to form composite particles (hadrons) such as a proton. The scattering process can be computed relatively easily, but hadronisation is intrinsically non-perturbative and hard to calculate. Lattice QCD (computer simulation of QCD on a discrete space-time lattice) provides our only known first-principles and systematically-improvable method to address problems like hadronisation. This project uses Iridis to extract parton distribution amplitudes which are experimentally inaccessible, but needed to describe the quark structure of hadrons.
How far can we stretch the MARTINI?
Syma Khalid (Investigator), Ric Gillams
To date, coarse-grained lipid models have generally been parameterised to ensure the correct prediction of structural properties of membranes, such as the area per lipid and the bilayer thickness. The work described here explores the extent to which coarse-grained models are able to predict correctly bulk properties of lipids (phase behaviour) as well as the mechanical properties, such as lateral pressure profiles and stored elastic stress in bilayers. Such an evaluation is crucial for understanding the predictive capabilities of coarse-grained models.
Investigation into the Interfacial Physics of Field Effect Biosensors
Nicolas Green, Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigators), Benjamin Lowe
This interdisciplinary research aims to improve understanding of Field Effect Transistor Biosensors (Bio-FETs) and to work towards a multiscale model which can be used to better understand and predict device response.
Is fine-scale turbulence universal?
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Patrick Bechlars
Complementary numerical simulations and experiments of various canonical flows will try to answer the question whether fine-scale turbulence is universal.
Is the decline in East African lesser flamingo population a natural concequence of soda ake dynamics?
An interdisciplinary approach using palaeoenvironmental data analysis and a modelling is being used investigate the dramatic fluctuations in conditions in the East African Rift Valley soda lakes, and how these changes may be impacting the lesser flamingo population.
Jet noise
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Neil Sandham
Direct numerical simulations are used to investigate jet noise.
Kaon to two pion decays in lattice QCD
Jonathan Flynn (Investigator), Elaine Goode, Dirk Broemmel
We calculate kaon decay amplitudes on the lattice so we may compare the Standard Model to experiment.
Magnetic dynamics under the Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar equation
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Weiwei Wang
Magnetic dynamics using the Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar (LLBar) equation that the nonlocal damping is included as well as the scalar Gilbert damping.
Magnon-Driven Domain-Wall Dynamics in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
The domain wall motion induced by spin waves (magnons) in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction is studied in this project.
Mathematical tools for analysis of genome function, linkage disequilibrium structure and disease gene prediction
Mahesan Niranjan, Andrew Collins, Reuben Pengelly (Investigators)
This iPhD project uses a Gaussian Bayesian Networks framework through Machine learning methods to predict which genes are involved in the development of different diseases.
This PhD project uses a Monte Carlo molecular simulation processes approach to predict which genes are involved in the development of different diseases.
Andrew Collins, Mahesan Niranjan, Reuben Pengelly (Investigators), Alejandra Vergara Lope
This iPhD project uses a Gaussian Bayesian Networks approaches framework through machine learning approach to predict which genes are involved in the development of different diseases.
Measuring biomolecules - improvements to the spectroscopic ruler
Pavlos Lagoudakis, Tom Brown (Investigators), Jan Junis Rindermann, James Richardson
The spectroscopic ruler is a technique to measure the geometry of biomolecules on the nm scale by labeling them with pairs of fluorescent markers and measuring distance dependent non-radiative energy transfer between them. The remaining uncertainty in the application of the technique originates from the unknown orientation between the optical dipole moments of the fluorescent markers, especially when the molecule undergoes thermal fluctuations in physiological conditions. Recently we introduced a simulation based method for the interpretation of the fluorescence decay dynamics of the markers that allows us to retrieve both the average orientation and the extent of directional fluctuations of the involved dipole moments.
Membrane-Protein Interactions: The Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria
Syma Khalid (Investigator), Pin-Chia Hsu
The aim of the project is to looking for the interaction sites, which may responsible for turning on/off activity in outer membrane protein with gram-negative bacteria membrane using molecular dynamic (MD) approach.
Meshless Methods for Photonic Crystal Modelling
Kamal Djidjeli, Marc Molinari, Simon Cox (Investigators), Neil O'Brien, Elizabeth Hart
We apply meshless methods to the problems of simulating photonic crystals. The meshless methods utilise compactly-supported radial basis functions (CSRBFs) and offer a promising alternative to the conventional plane-wave expansion method for calculating the band structure of photonic crystals.
Microstructural modeling of skin mechanics
Georges Limbert (Investigator), Emanuele Zappia
Microstructural modeling of skin mechanics to gain a mechanistic insight into the biomechanics of the skin.
Multiscale modelling of biological membranes
Jonathan Essex (Investigator), Mario Orsi
Biological membranes are complex and fascinating systems, characterised by proteins floating in a sea of lipids. Biomembranes, besides being the fundamental structures employed by nature to encapsulate cells, play crucial roles in many phenomena indispensable for life, such as growth, energy storage, and in general information transduction via neural activity. In this project, we develop and apply multiscale computational models to simulate biological membranes and obtain molecular-level insights into fundamental structures and phenomena.
Multiscale Modelling of Cellular Calcium Signalling
Hans Fangohr, Jonathan Essex (Investigators), Dan Mason
Calcium ions play a vitally important role in signal transduction and are key to many cellular processes including muscle contraction and cell apoptosis (cell death). This importance has made calcium an active area in biomedical science and mathematical modelling.
Multiscale modelling of neutron star oceans
Ian Hawke (Investigator), Alice Harpole
Type I X-ray bursts are explosions which occur on the surface of some
neutron stars. It is believed that the burning begins in a localised spot in the ocean of the
star before spreading across the entire surface. By gaining a better understanding of X-ray
bursts, it is hoped that tighter limits can be determined for other neutron star properties
such as the radius and magnetic field strength.
Network Analysis of Roman Transport Routes in the Imperial Roman Mediterranean
David Potts
This research is designed to explore the nature of the relationships between Portus, Rome, and other selected ports in the Mediterranean and to establish patterns and the changing nature of trading networks derived from the distribution of known Roman artefacts.
Nmag - computational micromagnetics
Hans Fangohr, Thomas Fischbacher (Investigators), Matteo Franchin, Andreas Knittel, Maximilian Albert, Dmitri Chernyshenko, Massoud Najafi, Richard Boardman
Nmag is a micromagnetic simulation package based on the general purpose multi-physics library nsim. It is developed by the group of Hans Fangohr and Thomas Fischbacher in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton and released under the GNU GPL.
Non-Perturbative Renormalisation on the Lattice
Jonathan Flynn (Investigator), Dirk Broemmel, Thomas Rae
In this project we compute renormalisation factors for various physical observables in a non-perturbative lattice framework. Renormalisation hereby arises due to a fundamental scale dependence of the physical processes.
Numerical investigation of the true sources of jet noise
Anurag Agarwal (Investigator), Samuel Sinayoko
Aircraft noise severely impacts the quality of life of people living close to airports. Noise generation by aircrafts is especially large during take-off. Jet noise is the dominant noise source during take-off. It is produced by the high speed flow generated by the engine. However, the actual source of sound remains unknown. A deeper understanding of the sources of jet noise is need to be able to reduce the noise. The aim of this project is to implement a innovative method that would allow to identify the sources of jet noise.
On the applicability of nonlinear timeseries methods for partial discharge analysis
The governing processes of Partial Discharge (PD)
phenomena trigger aperiodic chains of events resulting in ’ap-
parently’ stochastic data, for which the widely adopted analysis
methodology is of statistical nature. However, it can be shown,
that nonlinear analysis methods can prove more adequate in
detecting certain trends and patterns in complex PD timeseries.
In this work, the application of nonlinear invariants and phase
space methods for PD analysis are discussed and potential pitfalls
are identified. Unsupervised statistical inference techniques based
on the use of surrogate data sets are proposed and employed for
the purpose of testing the applicability of nonlinear algorithms
and methods. The Generalized Hurst Exponent and Lempel Ziv
Complexity are used for finding the location of the system under
test on the spectrum between determinism and stochasticity. The
algorithms are found to have strong classification abilities at
discerning between surrogates and original point series, giving
motivation for further investigations.
OpenDreamKit
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Marijan Beg
OpenDreamKit is a [Horizon 2020](https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/) European Research Infrastructure project (#676541) provided substantial funding to the open source computational mathematics ecosystem, and in particular popular tools such as LinBox, MPIR, SageMath, GAP, Pari/GP, LMFDB, Singular, MathHub, and the IPython/Jupyter interactive computing environment.
Operational Simulation of the Solent Search-and-Rescue environment
James Scanlan, Kenji Takeda, Hans Fangohr (Investigators), Ben Schumann
This project aims to identify useful metrics for a proposed Search-and-Rescue UAV and test it virtually in a realistic environment.
Origins of Evolvability
Richard Watson, Markus Brede (Investigators), William Hurndall
This project examined the putative evolvability of a Lipid World model of fissioning micelles. It was demonstrated that the model lacked evlovability due to poor heritability. Explicit structure for micelles was introduced along with a spatially localised form of catalysis which increased the strength of selection as coupling between potential chemical units of heredity were reduced.
Preventing Alzheimer's Disease: A Multiphysics Simulation Approach
Neil Bressloff, Giles Richardson, Roxana-Octavia Carare (Investigators), Alexandra Diem
Experimental research has identified the causes of many diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease. However, finding an effective treatment is very cost- and time-intensive and sacrifices many animals and does not guarantee success. In this PhD project, we investigate the driving force of solute drainage in the brain using multiphysics simulations in order to identify possible ways of preventing dementia.
Pushing the Envelope of Planetary Formation and Evolution Simulations
Peter Bartram
A full understanding of the formation and the early evolution of the Solar System and extrasolar planetary systems ranks among natural science's grand challenges, and at present, even the dominant processes responsible for generating the observed planetary architecture remain elusive.
pyQCD
Matthew Spraggs
A basic Python package to perform coarse lattice QCD simulations on desktop and workstation computers.
SAVE: Solent Achieving Value through Efficiency
Patrick James, Ben Anderson (Investigators), Luke Blunden
Analysis of 15 minute electricity consumption and 10 second instantaneous power data from 4,000+ households in the Solent region collected over 3 years of a randomised control trial study.
Self Organized Network Routing using Quantum Evolutionary Methods
Lajos Hanzo (Investigator), Dimitrios Alanis
Self Organized Networks (SON) may consist of a large number of nodes, which could be fully interconnected. Optimizing its performance satisfying various Quality of Service (QoS) requirements is a quite complex procedure and the optimization problem belongs to the family of the Travelling Salesman Problems (TSP) which has been proven to be NP-hard as the number of nodes increases. In this project, various suboptimal methods are used in order to tackle this multi-objective optimization problem; in particular, the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and its quantum inspired counterpart (QACO) are being employed in order to reduce complexity.
Self-Force and Black Hole Inspirals
Sam Dolan (Investigator)
We use IRIDIS to compute the self-force acting on a solar-mass black hole orbiting a supermassive black hole.
Simulation modelling of habitat permeability for mammalian wildlife
Patrick Doncaster, Jason Noble (Investigators), Angela Watkins
Using and integrating least-cost models and agent-based simulations to explore the way in which mammals interact with, and hence move, through fragmented landscapes.
Simulations of Magnetic Skyrmions
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Ryan Pepper
The manipulation of magnetic skyrmions could prove to be a useful technique for storing data on an unprecedented density scale. In this project we seek to better understand their properties and ways to control them.
Skyrmionic states in confined nanostructures
An ever increasing need for data storage creates great challenges for the development of high-capacity storage devices that are cheap, fast, reliable, and robust. Because of the fundamental constraints of today's technologies, further progress requires radically different approaches. Magnetic skyrmions are very promising candidates for the development of future low-power, high-capacity, non-volatile data storage devices.
Software Sustainability Institute
Simon Hettrick (Investigator)
A national facility for cultivating world-class research through software
Software helps researchers to enhance their research, and improve the speed and accuracy of their results. The Software Sustainability Institute can help you introduce software into your research or improve the software you already use.
The Institute is based at the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton, and draws on a team of experts with a breadth of experience in software development, project and programme management, research facilitation, publicity and community engagement.
We help people build better software, and we work with researchers, developers, funders and infrastructure providers to identify key issues and best practice in scientific software.
Space Debris and Evolution of of Resilient Space Systems
Hugh Lewis (Investigator), Marian Daogaru
The aim of the project will be to characterise and quantify the possible evolution of space systems in response to future environmental change; in particular, with respect to changes in the space debris environment.
Space debris has been recognised by the international space-faring community as a significant threat to spacecraft operations in Earth orbit. Impacts on spacecraft can result in damage to critical systems, the loss of the mission, and the generation of fragment clouds which may go on to endanger other spacecraft. With the population of objects in near-Earth orbit ever-increasing, future space systems will need to develop greater resilience to the growing space debris threat. Resilience to this threat can be achieved in several ways, through adaptation, redundancy, protection, distribution and restoration, for example.
These resilience measures can be included within space systems design, which is a multi-objective optimisation process, such that the resulting spacecraft or architectural design is well-suited for operation in the space environment, whilst at the same time respecting mass, power, and cost constraints, amongst others. However, rapidly changing priorities in the space sector and changes in the debris population mean that optimal designs will need to evolve through time such that successive generations of spacecraft continue to be, or are better adapted to survive in the space environment. At the same time, better adapted spacecraft represent a possibly beneficial feedback into the space debris environment, meaning that future generations of spacecraft will also be indirectly affected by the designs of previous generations (and vice versa). Consequently, the multi-objective optimisation needs to be integrated with an appropriate space debris model.
The development of this integrated assessment and optimisation approach, and its application to identify future trends in space systems design, will form the basis of the project. Firstly, an appropriate methodology for identifying and representing the key design objectives, including concepts such as resilience, will be developed. Secondly, this methodology will be incorporated within a novel integrated assessment framework that will perform the multi-objective design optimisation through time.
Given the potential complexity of this task, arising from the large parameter space and the uncertainties in the future debris environment predictions, there will be a need for new and state-of-the-art computational modelling and optimisation approaches that enable solutions to be found in a reasonable time-frame. Such approaches could include evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimisation techniques. In addition, the project will also benefit from developments in space debris modelling coming from a parallel project.
Spatial variability of the atmosphere in southern England
No-one really knows how variable key atmospheric parameters such as Aerosol Optical Thickness and Water Vapour content are over relatively small areas. This study aims to find out!
Stability of chiral structures in magnetic nanodisks
Hans Fangohr, Weiwei Wang (Investigators), David Cortes
This project is aimed to study the stability of skyrmionic and helical equilibrium states in magnetic nanodisks, using computational simulations.
Statistical model of the knee
Mark Taylor (Investigator), Francis Galloway, Prasanth Nair
Development of methods for large scale computational testing of a tibial tray incorporating inter-patient variability.
Stochastic computational methods for aero-acoustics
Gwenael Gabard (Investigator), Martina Dieste
Stochastic methods are used to synthesize a turbulent flow which is then used to model the sound radiated by an airfoil interacting with this turbulence. This approach is faster than performing a complete simulation of the flow field.
Structured low-rank approximation
Ivan Markovsky
Today's state-of-the-art methods for data processing are model based. We propose a fundamentally new approach that does not depend on an explicit model representation and can be used for model-free data processing. From a theoretical point of view, the prime advantage of the newly proposed paradigm is conceptual unification of existing methods. From a practical point of view, the proposed paradigm opens new possibilities for development of computational methods for data processing.
Studying microevolution in clinical isolates of Neisseria lactamica
Robert Read (Investigator), Jay Laver, Anish Pandey
We intranasally infected and successfully colonised six volunteers with Neisseria lactamica, a commensal species genetically similar to Neisseria meningitidis. A bioinformatics approach was then used to understand the microevolution of this bacterium and its adaptations to the nasopharynx.
Supernova Rates in the Local Universe
Mark Sullivan (Investigator), Christopher Frohmaier
This project will calculate the frequency of exploding stars -- or supernovae -- in the nearby universe. We simulate a 'toy universe' by exploding billions of stars in a computer, and then artificially 'observing' these explosions by replicating a real astronomical sky survey, the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). The results of this simulation allows us to discover the rate at which supernovae occur in the local universe each year.
Supersonic axisymmetric wakes
Direct numerical simulations are used to shed more light on structure formation and evolution in supersonic wakes.
Test and Rest
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Evander DaCosta, James Graham, Oliver Laslett
Regression and system testing, automatic execution of testing - establishing best practice.
Testing an interaction game on relationships.
Seth Bullock (Investigator), Anastasia Eleftheriou
The aim of this project is to examine how attractiveness is related to hypothetical risky sexual behaviour. The term `risky sexual behaviour' refers to having multiple sexual partners without the use of a condom. Data will be collected using questionnaires in order to investigate the influence of attractiveness on intentions towards engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse. A primary research question is whether perceived attractiveness of a potential partner affects the reported likelihood of having sex and/or using a condom.
The application and critical assessment of protein-ligand binding affinities
Jonathan Essex (Investigator), Ioannis Haldoupis
A method that can accurately predict the binding affinity of small molecules to a protein target would be imperative to pharmaceutical development due to the time and resources that could be saved. A head-to-head comparison of such methodology, ranging from approximate methods to more rigorous methods, is performed in order to assess their accuracy and utility across a range of targets.
The application of automated pattern metrics to surface moisture influences on modelled dune field development
Robin Wilson, Joanna Nield (Investigators)
Areas of sand dunes (known as dunefields) develop complex patterns over time. These are influenced by both the past and present environmental conditions, including surface moisture, vegetation distribution and human impact. This project develops a method of automated pattern analysis which allow the patterns produced by a large number of sand dune evolution simulations (performed using the DECAL model) to be quantified over time.
The Endogenous Formation of Economic Networks
An investigation into endogenous network formation using a simple agent-based approach.
The Maximum Entropy Production Principle and Natural Convection
Seth Bullock, James Dyke (Investigators), Stuart Bartlett
In this project I wanted to perform some tests of the so-called Maximum Entropy Production Principle (MEPP) in the context of buoyancy-driven convection in a system with negative feedback boundary conditions.
The ONETEP project
Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigator), Stephen Fox, Chris Pittock, Álvaro Ruiz-Serrano, Jacek Dziedzic
Program for large-scale quantum mechanical simulations of matter from first principles quantum mechanics. Based on theory and algorithms we have developed for linear-scaling density functional theory calculations on parallel computers.
The Role of Information in Price Discovery
The recent economic crisis has highlighted a continued vulnerability and lack of understanding in the financial markets. In order to overcome this, many believe that current market models must be improved. Recently, a trend towards agent-based modelling has emerged. Viewing the economy as a complex system is beginning to be seen as key to explaining certain market characteristics that were originally considered anomalies.
One of the fundamental assumptions in economics is that of information efficiency: that the price of a stock reflects its worth, that all possible information about a security is publicly known, and that any changes to price take place instantaneously. In reality, however, this is not the case.
This project considers the use of agents in modelling economic systems and demonstrates the effect of information levels on price discovery using a simple market simulation.
The Role of the Biota in the Carpenter Model on Lake Eutrophication
James Dyke (Investigator), Alexandra Diem
The Carpenter model is a useful and simple model to predict the eutrophication of shallow lakes via phosphorus input. This project aimed at resolving the function of the biota, which play a major role in the phosphorus dynamics, but are so far only implicitly modelled, and extending the model to explicitly represent them.
Towards design patterns for robot swarms
Richard Crowder, Seth Bullock (Investigators), Lenka Pitonakova
Swarm robotics is an inter-disciplinary field that seeks to design the behaviour of robots that can cooperate effectively on tasks like search and retrieval, reconnaissance, construction, etc. In this project, we are aiming towards a theoretical understanding of swarm intelligence and the development of design patterns for effective robot swarms.
Understanding the Role of Recruitment in Robot Foraging
Seth Bullock, Richard Crowder (Investigators), Lenka Pitonakova
It is shown that recruitment among foraging robots is useful when resources are hard to find, but that the extra cost associated with such robots is not returned when there are many locations to gather from or simply when the relative gain from using communication is low.
Vertical turbulence structures in the benthic boundary layer as related to suspended sediments
Hachem Kassem (Investigator), Charlie Thompson
There is a genuine need for better, more robust modelling of suspended sediment transport in the coastal zone, both to understand its morphological evolution and it's impact on biogeochemical cycling, ecosystems services and to guide engineering applications such as dredging and defence schemes against erosion and flooding.
The suspension of sediment in turbulent flows is a complex case of fluid-particle interaction, governed by shear stresses (momentum exchanges) at the bed and within the benthic boundary layer (BBL). The intermittent transfer of momentum is a manifestation of coherent turbulent vortex structures within the flow. The passage of such structures (or clusters of) is often related to perturbations of bottom sediment, which may be entrained and maintained in suspension if sufficient turbulent energy is provided. The first part of my PhD investigated the temporal and scale relationships between wave–generated boundary layer turbulence and event–driven sediment transport in oscillatory flow in the nearshore. This involved complex statistical, spectral, quadrant and wavelet analysis of high frequency nearshore measurements of turbulence and suspended sediments (medium sand), collected as part of the EU-funded Barrier Dynamics Experiment II (BARDEX II). The following step aims to develop a 3D numerical model in OpenFOAM which would reproduce the fine scale turbulence structures observed over a fixed rippled bed in oscillatory flow. The 3D velocity field, turbulent components, correlations (stresses) and quadrant structures will then be linked to observed sediment resuspension events. The model will be validated against a set of laboratory experiments undertaken at the Fast Flow Facility at HR Wallingford.
Water molecules in drug development: can we predict drug affinity when water molecules are involved?
Jonathan Essex (Investigator), Hannah Bruce Macdonald, Christopher Cave-Ayland
Water molecules are often found to be involved in drug-protein binding and can influence the effectiveness of a drug. We aim to aid drug design by calculating the energies involved with complexes of drugs, proteins and water molecules to predict the affinities of drug molecules.
Wave-based discontinuous Galerkin methods
Gwenael Gabard (Investigator), Greg Kennedy
Wave-based computational methods are developed to model sound propagation in moving inhomogeneous media.
Whisky Code
A 3D finite volume code for simulating compact relativistic hydrodynamics.
Wind direction effects on urban flows
Zheng-Tong Xie, Ian Castro (Investigators), Jean Claus
Numerical simulations of turbulent air flow are conducted on Iridis to investigate the effects of different wind directions on the flow within and above an urban-like canopy.
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Jarvis Wilson
Report: Georgia WR Isaiah McKenzie allegedly threatened to kill a woman
By Kevin McGuireSep 29, 2015, 3:50 PM EDT
File this one under stories Georgia head coach Mark Richt would least like to have to worry about the week his Bulldogs host Alabama. Five Georgia football players have been named in an incident report filed by the Athens-Clarke County Police from Monday night. Wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie is accuised of making “terroristic threats or acts” to a female. Safety Dominick Sanders and Jarvis Wilson, linebacker D’Andre Walker and wide receiver Terry Godwin are also all named as witnesses to the incident in question. No charges have been filed at this time, and the investigation is still ongoing.
The reported incident, according to Georgia student newspaper The Red & Black‘s original report, took place Monday night in a Chilli’s restaurant. Per the police report, McKenzie allegedly made a death threat to the unidentified woman. The incident allegedly happened around 10:40 p.m. on Monday.
McKenzie is third on Georgia’s team in receiving with 89 yards on five receptions in four games this season. Godwin is fourth with 76 yards on seven receptions. Sanders is fourth on Georgia’s defense in tackles and Walker has half a sack this season. At this time no suspensions have been announced and Richt has not commente don the situation publicly. There is no indication at this time if any player besides McKenzie is connected to making any threats other than simply being a witness to the alleged incident.
Tags: D'Andre Walker, Dominick Sanders, Isaiah McKenzie, Jarvis Wilson, Mark Richt, Terry Godwin, Isaiah McKenzie, Terry Godwin
Report: Georgia WR Isaiah McKenzie allegedly threatened to kill a woman September 29, 2015 3:50 pm
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students walk out of school in protest of climate change
Rodent February 15, 2019 in Oil (General)
"Thousands of schoolchildren across the UK have walked out of class as part of a coordinated strike to protest about the global lack of action on climate change."
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-strike-protest-uk-school-children-london-brighton-bristol-a8780836.html
Dan Warnick + 1,860
The right to peaceful protest is a wonderful thing.
Illurion + 893
7 hours ago, Rodent said:
Not a problem...
In a day or so, the idiot kids will go back to school, JUST IN TIME FOR ALL OF THE CAFETERIA WORKERS TO WALK OUT IN PROTEST OF ALL THE TWIT KIDS WHO DO NOT APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK IT TAKES TO MAKE SCHOOL CAFETERIA FOOD..
Let the kids starve.
Once the kids are starved to death, there will BE LESS STRESS ON THE ENVIRONMENT..........!
specinho + 88
20 hours ago, Rodent said:
uuhh... pardon me..... me guess........ protest by kids might not generate a lot of effect but set cow fart on fire might........... get a glance or two.......
NickW + 1,268
On 2/15/2019 at 9:01 PM, Rodent said:
At least they care about something beyond XFactor/ BGT / Big Bro, Celeb love island or some other vacuous shyte
11 hours ago, NickW said:
I agree, Nick. Taking civic responsibilities upon themselves is an experience they will remember for the rest of their lives, no matter how they look back on the issues they were protesting for or against when they were younger, no matter whether they come to look back on it and realize they were largely being manipulated by experienced players, this time or that, or not. I'm serious in that the experience these kids get today will teach many lessons they will not get by standing by and letting life go by without any say in what's happening around them.
The RIGHT to peaceful protest is to be cherished and defended and protected, because it is actually a rare gem of democracy and the rule of law. Government needs to be constantly reminded that they are for the people and by the people; not the other way around.
Edited February 17, 2019 by Dan Warnick
TXPower + 642
Yes, freedom to assemble and redress grievance is fundamental to a free society.
These kids indeed are taking part in expressing First Freedoms that I wish everyone had the ability to engage.
As @Dan Warnick pointed out so eloquently, whether time educates these kids and they look back and discover they were being manipulated matters less to me. They are exercising.
The right to speak, individually or as a group, isn’t a guarantee to be taken seriously. Only maturity and experience effectively teaches that lesson.
Justin Hicks + 146
Give em' the full experience of peaceable assembly.... Pepper spray em and zip tie em'😊
1 hour ago, Justin Hicks said:
Then they will REALLY have some stories to tell their grandkids! Still a good experience, no matter what, so long as nobody gets hurt (and the authorities don't get butt hurt and take it too far).
1 hour ago, TXPower said:
Thank you for your kind words. 😊
ronwagn + 2,201
I would take it seriously if they did not do it on school time at the behest of their assigned indoctrinators. There is way too much of this going on at all levels of school. Let the children hear both sides of the argument first and then let them protest on the side they agree on and on their own time. Not for credit of any kind either.
46 minutes ago, ronwagn said:
Well, that won't work (sarc) Ron. The idea of any army is to recruit young impressionable people, and then don't allow any voice from the outside. Works a charm! My first wife's mother and father were long ago members of Mao's Little Red Guards, and when I met them when they were at retirement age they had started to question what they had done back in the day. I took their side and reminded them that not only did they not have any opposing information; they would have been tortured and killed themselves if they had opposed. They seemed to accept that, but really, what choice did they have by then?
These young people will figure things out in their own time. Until then, this is a better exercise for them than doing nothing. Facts can come to light in the middle of these protests that make some people question things right away, some later and some much later. It's all good.
Will Hanner + 13
As a registered Independent I will not take a stand pro or con on Global Warming. I say GLOBAL WARMING because every person on planet earth know climates change. I was enlightened a few years back by a challenge and will do the same now. Hopefully it will cause someone reading this to search for truth, and experience enlightenment as well.
I was asked; 'The IPCC is widely held as THE worldwide authority in publishing climate change research. They pribt well ove $3Billion in research annually. That said, name 1 climate temp prediction in IPCC reports that fell within the margin of error from 1990-2000. Upon realizing tgere were none....NONE, I began looking at 20 year predictions. So, in 2013 Miami was 3 feet under water and Manhattan almost 5 feet under water. Must be correct because that's what we were told in 1993.
Red + 252
1 hour ago, Will Hanner said:
This is about what you understand about climate science, not what your personal stand is! You clearly have no idea that there is a scientific context to climate change, which is very different to a mere change in climate that occurs over many centuries.
Your claim about the IPCC spend is utter bunkum, reflecting how little you know about how the IPCC operates. Researchers are not paid to contribute to the IPCC. The IPCC's does, however, have a Secretariat and needs to coordinate input into its series of Reports. The IPCC's budget in 2017 was a little over $5m.
Your ideas about IPCC projections again reflect how clueless you are. Do you realise that IPCC projections have a range of settings, and depending on where GHG levels are at those times, the projections come into play.
Finally, the IPCC never issued a Report in 1993. They reported in 1992 and then 1996. The first IPCC Report (1992) made neither of your claimed predictions about Miami or Manhattan sea levels, so that's more BS from you.
On 2/17/2019 at 5:21 PM, Dan Warnick said:
In my days, we were just crazy and "streaked" across campus... that was what we protested..... clothes...
On 2/18/2019 at 2:54 AM, Red said:
reports can, and are, being faked:
here are austrailian fakes i believe mentioned today;
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/the-greatest-scandal-in-the-history-of-science.php
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/02/history-keeps-getting-colder-acorn2-raises-australias-warming-rate-by-over-20/
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How Did the Author Make You Like That Character, Part 2
November 16, 2012 / Curtiss Ann Matlock
Without sympathetic people in your story, you might as well be writing a grocery list. ~Jack M. Bickham
Isn’t that true? When I have no feeling one way or the other for characters in a story, I put the book down. And let me say here that a pitiful character won’t hold my attention long. Characters must do and think likable things to make me keep reading and worrying about them when there is trouble.
When I closed the book, A Caribbean Mystery, by Agatha Christie, I sat thinking about the heroine, Miss Marple, asking myself what traits did she have that caused me to like her. Miss Marple’s main actions throughout the book were to listen carefully, knit, and think, mostly thinking about human nature, displaying wisdom and understanding in both thought and her dialogue. In this vein, too, Miss Marple was always scrupulously polite and pleasant. These were obviously values to her, likable traits to which everyone can relate. Perhaps one thing that keeps the Miss Marple books in favor is that when you delve into one, you can escape the harshness of current life.
Here’s a clip from Joan Hickson portraying Miss Marple in the BBC version of A Caribbean Mystery. It’s good fun to see the film adaptation after reading the book, and the BBC always does an excellet job:
What we’ve been talking about can be summed up broadly as the Character Tag device. The writer uses these tags to design and impress the image of the character on the reader. Character tags define the character in many ways, making him either likable or unlikable. They also work intertwined with the character’s goals. I suppose character goals can be another tag. I mean, a character who has the goal of buying her young son his desired Christmas present of a remote control car, who has to go without herself to do this, is a likable tag. (And a shameless plug for my Christmas book, Miracle On I-40, just published in ebook.)
Character Tags include:
a character’s name. (Miss Marple. Can’t you just see her with knitting and thinking?)
a physical description. This can be toned up or down, depending on the effect desired. I’ve read a number of dramas where the physical description is next to nothing, and Miss Marple could fall in this category. But the character action leads us to our own vision of the person.
a character’s actions. Did he kick the dog or love it? Is she always watching men? Does she continually gossip? Does she continually primp, or does she dress with thorough common-sense–always wearing the walking shoes?
manner of speech–both what is said and how it is said (good example of this is Major Palgrave.)
the characters reactions to others, and other characters reactions to the character– remember when creating a likable character, have other people like him.
the character’s introspection about his background, his attitudes of mind, in both dialogue and thought, as Miss Marple did of her rural life. Modern novels seems to be skipping this, but I like well-done introspection. Stream of consciousness it is often called, and well done is a delight, because it moves the emotions. A character gets to say honestly in her thoughts what she prudently would not say with voice. Miss Marple does this a number of times, making her very human.
Character tags are exaggerated in order to bring the character off the flat page. The amount of exaggeration is determined in large part by the type of character and of story. As a character, Miss Marple is not nearly as exaggerated as the other characters in Christie’s story; the suspects are who Miss Marple (being the reader’s eyes) is looking at.
One more point–the setting will be a character, too, and have it’s own set of character tags. For me, the setting is often a major character. Southerners by their nature love the land, and their own characters grow out of this love.
We’re half way through National Novel Writing Month, have used up 15 days and nights of literary abandon. I don’t know about you, but life in the past week has certainly intruded and sucked a lot of that abandonment out of me. Thinking about these points of crafting character has helped to revive the literary spirit. I hope it does for you, too.
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From Costa Rica, Francisca Ramirez accuses Medardo Mairena of excluding her from teh Nicaraguan Peasant Movement for ideological reasons
Ligia Gomez, former official in the Nicaraguan Central Bank, speaks of the dilemma faced by public employees who “don’t agree with the repression”
Wilfredo Miranda Aburto
@PiruloAr
Medardo Mairena: if by then it has not been achieved, we will make our own decisions, because we have also seen that there is a lot of exclusion”
Uriel Pineda
Today, Daniel Ortega’s legacy doesn’t matter anymore. He’ll be remembered only for his crimes against humanity
Senators Request “Strategy” of More Sanctions on the Ortega Regime
Bipartisan initiative demands more pressure to free all of Ortega’s political prisoners and force the dictatorship to make deep electoral reforms.
Daniel Ortega to Demonstrate His “Advances” in Human Rights
“We’re going to work to reinforce in peoples’ thinking, that during the Somoza era, human rights didn’t exist,” states an FSLN deputy
“Public Liberties Can’t Be Killed”
Tribute to the martyr of public liberties, while the Ortega Murillo regime’s police besieges the central cemetery
Amaya Coppens: In Nicaragua “There’s No Turning Back”
“I’m not looking for political gain. I want to finish my career, but there’s still a lot of work to be done,” to change Nicaragua, Coppens affirms
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50: Bret Gregory: How to Achieve High Outcomes as a Conscious Entrepreneur
Expertise: Training & Coaching
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What does it mean to be a Conscious Entrepreneur? Join us as Bret shares his journey as a successful entrepreneur and provides an inside view on how you can make money by making a difference and become a Conscious Millionaire.
Discover how to become a Successful Entrepreneur. Bret is passionate about health and wellness and teaching enlightened entrepreneurs how to thrive and grow their business using Facebook. He knew that without customers, his own business would fail, so he set out on a mission to succeed and save his business. He focused on using Facebook to get customers. After a lot of trial and error, and some financial investment he finally figured it out. He quickly grew a page to 200,000 fans, drove traffic to a website and got 2,400 email address opt-ins. From those opt-ins the subsequent sales totaled $1.5 million dollars and saved his business. Now, he teaches you, the enlightened entrepreneur, how to thrive and grow your business on Facebook. He’d like to show you how to do things effectively the first time around so that you can use Facebook to attract new customers to your business now.
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Bret’s strategy for sales was starting a free weekly live class. This got him more customers than any other marketing strategy. For profits, Bret uses recurring revenue business model, such as starting with a high end coaching model where you sign up customers on a 6 month agreement.
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Bret would like to leave a legacy of helping other people achieve better health and wellness, as well as higher consciousness to have people go out to help others around them.
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The CUNY Contract Blitz
Posted on December 11, 2018 by gheires in ABOUT DC 37, CONTRACTS, DC 37 BARGAINING, NEWSROOM, WHO WE ARE // 0 Comments
DC 37 Council Rep Leo Morris informs CUNY workers at John Jay College about their proposed contract, which calls for a 8.24 percent wage increase over 52 months. The union many meetings around the city to explain the terms of the contract to members. Photo: Clarence Elie-Rivera.
By GREGORY N. HEIRES
DC 37’s citywide CUNY campaign is providing the union’s 10,000 members working in the city’s public university system the chance to learn about their proposed contract and to ask questions about bread-and-butter issues affecting them.
A 45-member union team is carrying out the information blitz to ensure members are able to make an informed vote on the tentative economic agreement.
Union representatives have addressed members at campus, local executive board and general membership meetings, and a conference of an Asian labor coalition.
Besides informing members about the provisions of the contract, union representatives are instructing them how to obtain their ballot if they have not yet received one in the mail.
The independent American Arbitration Association is handling the mail ballot vote. Anyone who hasn’t receive an information packet with a ballot should call AAA at 800-529-5218 as soon as possible. Ballots must reach AAA by 9 a.m. on Dec. 18, when the vote will be tabulated.
“We are reminding members, especially in this last week of outreach, to contact the AAA if they have not received a ballot,” said Barbara Edmonds, director of field operations.
On Dec. 7, DC 37 Rep Leo Morris led a union team at four hour-long informational sessions at John Jay College in Manhattan. He summarized the contract, and then the team took questions from members.
“I think it’s a good contract,” said College Assistant Debra Spivey, a 30-year- employee and former secretary of Local 2054. said.
She said was encouraged by the campus outreach. She said she couldn’t recall the union holding campus-wide contract meetings before now, she said.
“I am going to go around to my coworkers and sell the contract,” she said.
Debra Spivey, College Assistant, Photo: Clarence Elie-Rivera
Local 2627 member Anthony Chambers, an information technology specialist, said he was happily surprised that the union reached an agreement so soon on the contract. In the last round of bargaining, talks dragged on for seven, primarily because of the Bloomberg administration’s failure to take negotiations seriously. DC 37 wrapped up talks on the current agreement in just two bargaining sessions.
Chambers, a shop steward who has worked 15 years at CUNY, said he was encouraged by the union’s outreach.
“When we have meetings, they are always very informative,” Chambers said. “We need more of them.”
Edmonds expressed her hope that the outreach effort will encourage members to become more active in the union. The contract ratification campaign reflects earlier grassroots efforts, such the creation of Member Action Teams at CUNY, as well as the mobilizations for the previous CUNY contract and the DC 37 economic agreement affecting nearly 100,000 union members.
“We continue to work hard to reach our members—and not just when there is a contract mobilization effort,” said Edmonds, noting that the union has made a major push in recent years to create a core group of union activists and workplace leaders.
The 52-month agreement provides for a compounded total wage increase of 8.24 percent.
Anthony Chambers, Information Technology Analyst, Local 2627 Photo: Clarence Elie-Rivera
The term of the contract lasts from Feb. 1, 2017, to May 31, 2021.
The union’s web site has wage and salary calculators that allows members to find out what their new pay will be, as well as the amount of retro pay.
Agreement Protects Health Care Coverage
DC 37 and the City University of New York agreed on Nov. 1 to the tentative contract.
The agreement preserves the premium-free health-care coverage of members and will include back pay. It also protects the health benefits of CUNY retirees.
In addition, the deal calls for CUNY to increase its annual contribution for union benefits.
The agreement calls for 2 percent raises at the beginning of February in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
By extending the contract by four months, the city will have the payroll savings to provide crucial funds for the union’s popular prescription drug benefit — which has struggled for years to cope with drug price increases above inflation — and the DC 37 Education Fund.
Beginning Feb. 1, the union will start considering how to use extra funds in an “Additional Compensation Fund” and an “Equity Fund” — together worth .40 percent of payroll — to reduce pay inequities and address specific needs of job titles.
The contract also includes money for “additions to gross,” which are non-wage increases for benefits like uniform allowances, reimbursements for license fees, night shift differentials, certifications, job level increases and longevities. Longevities are payments above the base rate of pay, based on years of service in a title or occupational group.
The CUNY contract will include new language to help the union address the fallout from the anti-labor U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus ruling, which allows non-members to receive union services without paying dues and aims to weaken the collective bargaining progress.
The agreement incorporates provisions of a new state labor law into the CUNY contract. The contract will permit union representatives to meet with new employees during the workday to explain the benefit of joining DC 37. It preserves the union’s role as the exclusive bargaining agent for municipal employees.
“The new, Janus-related language will allows us to improve our presence at employee orientations and help us engage our members as soon as they are hired,” Edmonds said.
Incorporating the new labor law into the contract will give the union and its members double protection from legal attacks by extreme right interests.
The contract covers DC 37 members in locals 375, 384, 983, 1407, 1597, 1797, 2054, and 2627 who work on the university system’s 24 campuses.
DC 37 managed to preserve the premium-free health-care coverage of members because CUNY has agreed to follow a $1.1 billion health-care savings deal negotiated by the city and Municipal Labor Committee. City and union negotiators worked a similar agreement in the last round of bargaining.
The DC 37 Blog is an official online publication of District Council 37, AFSCME, which represents 121,000 public services workers in New York City and surrounding areas.
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Dear Radio Friend, This week's show features stories from Sputnik Radio, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://www.outfarpress.com/swr191122.mp3 From RUSSIA- On his program called Going Underground Afshin Rattansi interviewed journalist Greg Palast. Afshin begins with a brief review of Pinochet in Chile. Then Palast discusses the political upheavals in Latin America, namely Chile, Bolivia, and Venezuela. He talks about the outside influence of the US and European countries to create uprisings in Latin America to gain access to resources. And how the media transforms the story from installing dictators into popular uprisings to restore democracy. He also points out that 6 of the current coup plotters were trained at the School of the Americas. From SPAIN- Alison Hughes begins by reporting on the situation in Bolivia. Evo Morales points out the racist, anti-indigenous sentiment of the coup. Janine Anez, the self-appointed new president of Bolivia has not announced elections but has declared the importance of recognizing that the nation is Christian. When she chose her cabinet there were no indigenous members, unlike the majority of the population. The Israeli army carried out more bombing raids in Syria, near Damascus. US Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the US no longer views Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as illegal. Under international laws Israelis are not allowed to annex or build in areas seized during war. Since 1967 Israelis have developed 264 settlements in occupied Palestine, with 430,000 now living there. From CUBA- The defacto government of Bolivia issued a decree exempting armed forces and police from criminal responsibility when repressing protestors. Evo Morales said the replacement government is preparing a state of siege in Bolivia. US vice-president Pence urged the Venezuelan military to carry out a coup against president Maduro. Pope Francis issued a warning against rising fascism worldwide, and criticized corporate and ecological crimes. French riot police used tear gas to disperse Yellow Vest protestors on their one year anniversary of their demonstrations. The latest Shortwave Report (November 22) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom (If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {33MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&) PODCAST!!!- feed://www.outfarpress.com/podcast.xml (160kb Highest Quality) ARTICLE about the Shortwave Report in the Boulder Weekly by Gavin Dahl-http://npaper-wehaa.com/boulder-weekly/2015/03/26/#?article=2478097 links for this week's edition- < http://www.outfarpress.com/swr191122.mp3 > (33 MB) HIGHEST QUALITY< http://www.outfarpress.com/swr_11_22_19.mp3 > (13 MB) Broadcast Quality< http://www.outfarpress.com/swr_11_22_19_24.mp3 > (6 MB) Slow Modem streamingWebsite Page- < http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml > ¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts "You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."--G.K. Chesterson Dan RobertsShortwave Report- www.outfarpress.comYouthSpeaksOut!-www.youthspeaksout.net
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Jussie Smollett’s Google Information Must Be Given To Special Prosecutor, Judge Says
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Google has been ordered to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a prosecutor investigating the dismissal of his criminal charges over an alleged attack early last year.
The Chicago Tribune reported that it obtained two search warrants submitted by special prosecutor Dan Webb and signed by Cook County Judge Michael Toomin last month ordering the transfer by Google.
The order continues the controversy over the quick dismissal of 16 criminal counts against Smollett by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office. Smollett was accused of 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging a January 2019 attack in downtown Chicago, then lying about it to police. He could have faced up to 50 years in prison if convicted on all of the counts.
The resulting outage at the quick dismissal saw Toomin appoint Webb to investigate why Smollett’s conduct, which galvanized the country with its allegations of racial and homophobic hate, would be quickly tossed aside. Police contended that Smollett hired two brothers to help stage the attack to further his career.
The warrants on Google are the first public indications on what the special prosecutor might be looking at. Webb requested that Google turn over information from the accounts of Smollett and his manager. The request included unsent draft emails and deleted messages, files from their Google Drive cloud storage services, Google Voice texts and web browsing history.
Google was ordered by the judge not to disclose his order, and it has not been determined if they complied. All parties have not commented on the Google situation, and Smollett has maintained his innocence. Despite that, he was written out of his Empire TV show role and has not publicly surfaced in any related entertainment jobs.
Smollett has sued Chicago officials and members of its police department for attempting to collect the costs related to investigating his claims, which the city claims reached $130,000. They are seeking double that amount.
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One of France's most famous exports, Jean Paul Gaultier is much more than just a fashion figure. In the UK, he is arguably best known for his kitsch TV series, Eurotrash, which he presented with fellow Frenchman Antoine de Caunes, in the mid-Nineties.
Born on 24 April 1952 in Acueil, France, Gaultier started his career in 1970 as a design assistant at Pierre Cardin. Following a stint at Jean Patou (working under Michel Gomez) and a brief return to Cardin, he set up his own label in 1976, rejecting his training in favour of a style which drew more from the London street scene than Parisian couture.
Though technically brilliant, Gaultier has always taken great delight in parodying the fashion establishment. In fact, he is credited with redefining many fashion conventions. In the Eighties, he recreated underwear as outerwear, with a series of designs which culminated in thecorset dress and black studded bra made famous by Madonna in her Blonde Ambition tour of 1990. (In 2001, the bra fetched £14,000 at auction.) He also attempted to dismantle the clichés of masculine styling, creating a skirt for men in 1988.
Besides his men's and womenswear lines and the haute couture collection he launched (to great reviews) in January 1997, Gaultier has introduced JPG, a younger and sportier line for both sexes, and a range of eponymous fragrances, starring in some of the campaigns himself. In July 1999, Hermès invested $15 million in his business as part of a deal which Gaultier described as "a dream marriage". In return, he awarded the company 35 per cent of all his future royalties, plus "preferential rights" over many of his new designs.As a designer and an entertainer, Gaultier is tirelessly talented. In 1989, he released a record, Aow Tou Dou Zat (or "How To Do That") in collaboration with Tony Mansfield, though fortunately he did not give up the day job. He has also designed the costumes for many films including Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Lover (1989), Pedro Almodóvar's Kika (1994) and Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). He also won the chance to play himself in the French film version of the TV series Absolutely Fabulous (Absolument Fabuleux), alongside Jennifer Saunders and Catherine Deneuve, in 2001.
That same year, Gaultier received one of France's highest honours, being awarded the title of Chevalier in the Bastille Day honours list.
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Singtel launched a Cyber Security R&D Laboratory to develop its cyber security innovations and a cyber-security institute (CSI) in Asia Pacific to provide expert training and a real-world, hands-on environment to enhance the cyber-preparedness of enterprises. Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel has also launched cyber security undergraduate and professional programmes and provided scholarships in its initiatives to build a sustainable cyber security talent pool in the country.
With our acquisition of Trustwave in 2015, the largest independent managed security services provider in North America, Singtel provides security solutions for different markets and industries to meet the growing demand for real-time, round-the-clock security services.
We also offer technologies from an ecosystem of world-class cyber security partners to provide businesses with a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions that are tailored to their needs and budget.
Singtel’s cyber security footprint includes 9 Advanced SOCs and 12 engineering centres globally and our regional coverage and deployment are backed by in-country operations in 42 cities across 22 countries with more than 2000 cyber security professionals worldwide.
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Fudge stand at North Carolina State Fair, 2018
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Cognitive Radio Network Testbed
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The Cognitive Radio Network Testbed (CORNET) is a collection of 48 software-defined radio nodes deployed within a four-story building, Kelly Hall, on Virginia Tech's main campus. The CORNET nodes are remotely accessible.
Register here for setting up an account to use CORNET. An interactive graphic has been added to the website here. You must use either Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Opera to view the 3-D Graphic. IE9 will support WebGL with additional plug-ins such as InstantReality plug in, or Flash 11.
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Inquest into the Death of Ruby Natasha NICHOLLS-DIVER
Inquest into the Deaths of Ruby Natasha NICHOLLS-DIVER and Carly Jean ELLIOTT and Michael Ronald THOMAS and Anthony Ian EDWARDS and Stephen Colin ROBSON (known as Alma Street Centre)
Delivered on :31 December 2015
Delivered at : Perth
Finding of : State Coroner Fogliani
Recommendations :Yes
In connection with the information to be provided to family members/carers (“carers”) into whose care a mental health patient is discharged, the State Coroner made the following recommendation:
I recommend that the Western Australian Department of Health develop policies and procedures for the implementation of Carer’s Plans, and that such policies and procedures address matters of patient consent and risk issues, and that the following matters be explored for inclusion in Carer’s Plans –
information concerning the diagnosed condition and medication regime;
information relevant to a relapse prevention plan;
information relevant to guidance as to when to proactively re-engage with the mental health services;
information relevant to the individual needs and concerns of the carers; and
information relevant to support services available to carers.
In connection with the continued funding and resourcing of mental health services, the State Coroner made the following recommendation:
I recommend that for the purposes of implementing improvements in the delivery of mental health services, the Western Australian government continues its efforts to provide the funding and resources required to progress the Stokes Review recommendations and the Chief Psychiatrist’s standards from the planning stage to the implementation stage
Orders/Rules : N/A
Suppression Order : N/A
Summary : The deaths of five former patients of the psychiatric unit known as Alma Street Centre, which comprised a part of the mental health services of Fremantle Hospital, were investigated at one inquest. The patients died within a twelve month period, between March 2011 and March 2012. Two of the former patients died within 24 hours of being discharged. One was an involuntary patient who absconded and died that same day. One former patient disappeared within 24 hours of being discharged and was subsequently located, deceased. One former patient died one month after her last contact with Alma Street Centre.
The focus of the inquest was upon the actions taken by the mental health clinicians during the period leading to the deaths of the five former patients. This included a review of their clinical judgements, and a review of their communications with the deceased’s family members/carers, particularly where the deceased were being discharged from the mental health facility..
The State Coroner found that all of the deceased died by suicide. The causes of death in respect of each deceased are addressed in the finding.
Catch Words : Alma Street : Mental Health: Suicide : Absconding : Communication :Carers : : Carer’s Plans : Resourcing :
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3.9 /rating out of 5 (82 reviews)
Departing from: Anchorage (Seward), Alaska
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• Sitka, Alaska
• Juneau, Alaska
• Skagway, Alaska
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• Cruise Inside Passage, Alaska
• Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia
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Spend 7 to 11 nights soaking up sun and fun on a Caribbean Regent Seven Seas Cruise. The beaches of the Caribbean can’t be beat, but the region has much more to offer than its powder-soft sand and crystal-clear water (not to mention its world-class snorkeling, swimming, and diving!). Tour Ernest Hemingway’s home-turned-museum in Key West, Florida for some literary inspiration, or explore your swashbuckling side in Castries, St. Lucia on former pirate hideout Pigeon Island. In Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, play a round of golf tropical-style at Mahogany Run Golf Course, one of the world’s most beautiful courses. Shop for local goods at the bustling Straw Market in Nassau, Bahamas, or pass the time in a chic cafe in Gustavia, St. Barts. The Caribbean has all the ingredients of a perfect vacation – all you need to do is choose where to begin!
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Departing from: Miami, Florida
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4 /rating out of 5 (80 reviews)
Departing from: Tokyo, Japan
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To explore the grand cities of Europe in equally grand style, sail with Regent Seven Seas Cruises. Most itineraries range from 7 to 18 nights and take you to all corners of the continent, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia to Russia. Sail to Santorini, Greece to picnic on black-sand beaches nestled between cliffs, or head to Dubrovnik, Croatia for idyllic red roof views of the Old City set against the Adriatic. In Dublin, drink an authentic-as-it-gets Guinness, or experience the one-of-a-kind White Nights in St. Petersburg. No matter which European cities speak to you, Regent Seven Seas Cruises will take you there in unmatched luxury and comfort – so the only thing left for you to do is simply enjoy.
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Departing from: Venice, Italy
• Kotor, Montenegro
• Durres (Tirana), Albania
• Corfu (Kerkyra), Greece
• Taormina (Naxos), Sicily, Italy
• Sorrento/Capri, Italy
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Departing from: Barcelona, Spain
Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
• Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Canary Islands
• Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
• Tangier, Morocco
• Cartagena, Spain
• Valencia, Spain
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Departing from: Stockholm, Sweden
• St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
• Tallinn, Estonia
• Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany
• Copenhagen, Denmark
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• Valletta, Malta
• Ibiza, Balearic Islands
• Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands
• Barcelona, Spain
• Marseille (Provence), France
• St. Tropez, France
• Monte Carlo, Monaco
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• Porto Belo, Brazil
• Santos (Sao Paulo), Brazil
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• Buzios, Brazil
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New Biomimetics Projects
These recently-reported attempts to mimic nature show that the biomimetics revolution continues, with no end in sight.
Splitting hydrogen: Bacteria make it look so easy, taking hydrogen molecules and dividing them at room temperature. Nature published a whole paper on attempts to imitate the hydrogenase enzymes in hopes of improving fuel cells. The only mention of “evolution” had nothing to do with Darwinism. It was about the “evolution” of hydrogen gas from the artificial metalloenzymes the team developed.
Bird smartphones: A new generation of “radically better” smartphones may some day employ magnetic field sensors inspired by how birds navigate, reported Science Daily. European researchers “are the first to successfully create perfect one-dimensional molecular wires of which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field at room temperature,” the article said. “The underlying mechanism is possibly closely related to the biological compass used by some migratory birds to find their bearings in the geomagnetic field.” Need we mention the new documentary Flight: The Genius of Birds, with its story about the world record holder for global navigation?
Ant-i-cancer: A new cancer antibiotic was reported by PhysOrg to be “inspired by nature’s fungus farmer, the leaf cutter ant.” The ants don’t get the credit, though. The antibiotic is produced by a bacterium that lives in symbiosis with the ants.
Bionic ear: Researchers at Princeton are “combining electronics with biological material” to produce a “bionic ear” that can both receive and transmit sound, Medical Xpress reported. The antenna, shaped like a human ear and printed with a 3-D printer, can pick up radio signals and transmit the signal to speakers.
Big Dog: A video clip on Live Science shows a walking tank called “Big Dog” undergoing field tests as a support machine for the Marines. Carrying 400 pounds for up to 20 miles, the four-footed robot can follow soldiers over a variety of terrains, carry. Just the sight of it might frighten the enemy to submission.
Knuckle-walker: A German team has developed a four-legged robot that imitates the knuckle-walking of apes. PhysOrg said the team is thinking of developing machines to serve on spacecraft or to support astronauts. Video clips in the article show the robot ape stabilizing itself on wobbly surfaces. In the future, improvements to its “spinal column” may allow it to stand up and pick fruit.
Biomimetic air conditioning: National Geographic listed no less than five new cooling technologies inspired by “Mother Nature’s craftiness.” Featured animals are termites, birds, whales, and even ticks, that secrete a substance to absorb moisture from the air. Humans were in the list, too, for the “logarithmic spiral shape found in such phenomena as tornadoes, whirlpools, and even airflow in the human trachea.” A biologist who wrote a book on biomimetics said,
“With biomimicry we’re able to apply fresh thinking to traditional manufacturing, to undo the toxic and energy-intensive mistakes of the past,” said [Janine] Benyus, who is part of a group that hopes to lead a new revolution in design by imitating nature. “I wish we had been at the design table at the Industrial Revolution.“
As usual, none of these articles mentioned Darwinian evolution.
Mentions of evolution in biomimetics articles seem to be waning. Maybe scientists are seeing it as superfluous in their focus on design engineering and intelligent technology.
How would Darwinists try to rescue their myth from these developments? Would they say that humans are evolved animals just imitating other animals, like mockingbirds? Let them try that angle (one of Charle’s Angles). It will backfire, because it will mean their own logic is a product of unguided, meaningless processes. We can reply, “You’re only saying that because natural selection made you utter various sounds.”
Benyus decried the “energy-intensive mistakes of the past” during the Industrial Revolution. Why didn’t Victorian scientists realize the models of good technology all around them? Let’s make up for lost time.
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NeuHouse – the construction has started
In June of 2017, developer and investor Stadtgrund Bauträger GmbH, has launched the construction of the ensemble of old and new buildings in the “Südliche Friedrichstadt” in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Just a few months after the sales launch of the ++ NeuHouse ++ project, the pit has been excavated for the construction of the new building, and the construction of the underground parking garage has begun. At the same time, the pre-WWII building in Enckestrasse has been gutted in its entirety and prepared for the restoration based on historic designs.
Designed by the renowned architects Gewers & Pudewill, the NeuHouse project is currently being built in the new creative center in Kreuzberg on the former wholesale flower market area between the Jewish Museum and Friedrichstrasse. The mixed district comprising of creative businesses, trade and living spaces profits from its excellent downtown location as well as the renovation and expansion of the Besselpark with its recreation areas that are very popular among all residents, families in particular.
The new construction project encompasses 61 newly built condos and 14 refurbished pre-WWII apartments, ranging in size from 1 to 5 rooms, and between 24 and 149 sqm of living space. They all are equipped with all amenities of a contemporary living comfort. The multifaceted apartment mix – ranging from apartments with a terrace, to maisonettes, and penthouse apartments with a view over Besselpark – beautifully combines elements of openness and privacy, density and spaciousness as well as tranquility and liveliness. A special highlight are the penthouse apartments on the top floor featuring large glass fronts and private rooftop terraces that make you feel like you could touch the Berlin skies above you.
For more details, please visit the project website: www.neuhouse-berlin.de
We’ll be happy to provide you with all important information regarding the new construction project as well as selected equipment details in our ++NeuHouse++ showroom in Schlüterstrasse 45 in 10707 Berlin.
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In the context of usage of our websites personal data of yours will be processed by us as the entity responsible for data processing and be stored for the length of time necessary for the defined purposes and the fulfilment of statutory obligations. We shall be informing you in the following as to which data are affected hereby, the manner in which they are processed and the rights you have in this respect.
According to Art. 4 No. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data refers to all information that refers to an identified or identifiable natural person.
1. Name and contact data of the entity responsible for the processing as well as the company data protection officer
This data protection information applies to data processing on all of our websites that refer to this data protection information. The responsible entity is:
Fax: +49 30 887742525
Our data protection officer may be contacted at the above address, attn.: Data Protection Officer or via datenschutz@david-borck.de.
Should you have any questions pertaining to data protection laws or your rights as an affected person you may approach our data protection officer directly at any time.
2. Processing of Personal Data and Purposes of the Processing
a) When visiting the Websites
You may call up our websites without necessarily giving any details regarding your identity. The browser used on your terminal device merely automatically transmits information to the servers on our websites (e.g. browser type and version, date and time of access) in order to be able to establish a connection to the website. These also include the IP address of your inquiring terminal device. This is stored temporarily in a so-called log file and will be automatically deleted after four weeks.
The processing of the IP address takes place for the technical and administrative purposes of the establishment and stability of the connection, of guaranteeing the security and functional capability of our websites and in order to be able, if necessary, to pursue any illegal attacks thereupon.
The legal basis for the processing of the IP address is Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interests derive from the aforementioned security interest and the necessity of a disturbance-free provision of our websites.
We are not able to draw any immediate conclusions regarding your identity from the processing of the IP address and any other information contained in the log file.
We additionally use cookies and analysis services when our websites are visited. You will find more detailed explanations pertaining to this in Figures 4 and 5 of this data protection information.
b) Upon Registering for our Newsletters
Inasmuch as you have explicitly granted your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. a GDPR we shall be using your e-mail address for the purpose of regularly sending you our newsletters. We differentiate thereby between our newsletter that supplies you with general information pertaining to the activities of our company (hereinafter: “Company Newsletter”) and the newsletter that informs you pertaining to specific real estate offers (hereinafter: “Exposé Offers).
In the context of registration for a newsletter we also gather, in addition to your e-mail address, your first and last names as compulsory information in order to be able to send you personalised newsletters.
De-registration is possible at any time, e.g. via a link at the end of every newsletter. Alternatively you are also welcome to communicate your wish to de-register to us at any time by sending an e-mail to service@david-borck.de.
Your e-mail address will be deleted immediately after the revocation of your consent to the sending of the newsletter.
We send our Company Newsletter through the service Newsletter2Go offered by the provider Newsletter2Go GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, D-10179 Berlin, Germany (“Newsletter2Go”). Newsletter2Go has been certified by TÜV Rhineland as a services provider with an audited system of data protection management. Newsletter2Go uses the information provided by you for the sending and evaluation of the newsletter on our behalf. We have concluded an order processing contract with Newsletter2Go.
By means of Newsletter2Go we are able to measure and evaluate the conduct of the recipients of our newsletters. This involves the opening, click, bounce, delivery, de-registration, conversion and social sharing rates.
This analysis is effected on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause1 lit. f GDPR, in order to optimise our newsletters. A legitimate interest within the meaning of the aforementioned regulation is to be seen herein.
We offer you the possibility of establishing contact with us via a form provided on our website. We thereby collect the following compulsory information:
– Your first and last names and
– Your e-mail address.
We require your first and last names in order to know who the inquiry has come from. We require your e-mail Address in order to be able to reply to your inquiry. You may also supply your telephone number as a voluntary detail. The provision of your telephone number serves the purpose of making it easier to establish contact with you. This data processing is effected in the context of replying to the contact inquiry on the basis of our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR.
d) When using our valuation tool
We offer you the opportunity to value your property using a valuation tool provided on our website. You can access the valuation tool via a pop-up window by clicking on a banner in the header of our website or via our sub website https://david-borck.de/immobilienbewertung.
We collect the following mandatory information:
– Type of property (house/flat/residential and commercial house/land)
– Salutation
– Your last name
– Your email address
We need salutation and surname in order to recognize from whom the inquiry originates. We need the type of property and your e-mail address in order to answer your enquiry. Depending on the type of property, we will ask you further voluntary questions, e.g. about the size of the property or the year of construction of the house. This allows us to provide a preliminary assessment of your property. You can also voluntarily provide us with your first name, company name and telephone number. The indication of your telephone number serves to contact you more easily and to simplify the communication with you.
We process your personal data based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR within the framework of answering your contact enquiry via the valuation tool in order to determine the value of your property and, if interested, to submit you an appropriate offer. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.
3. Forwarding of Data to Third Parties
As a general rule we do not forward your data to any third parties. The transmission of personal data can at most be an option if
– you have granted your explicit consent hereto in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. a GDPR,
– there is a legal obligation to forwarding in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. c GDPR.
We use cookies on our internet site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and which are stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smartphone and suchlike) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any harm to your terminal device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other types of malware.
Information is stored in the cookie that always arises in the context of the terminal device specifically deployed in the respective case. This does not mean, however, that your identity is made known to us in this way.
The deployment of cookies serves the purpose of making the use of our offer more comfortable for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies in order to be able to tell that you have already visited individual sites on our website.
Additionally, we also use temporary cookies in order to increase user friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain predefined period of time. Should you visit our site once again in order to avail yourself of our services, it is automatically established that you had already visited us and which entries and settings you had made at that time, so that it is not necessary to enter these again.
Another reason why we deploy cookies is to statistically register the usage made of our website and in order to be able to assess the optimisation of our offer to you (cf. Figure 5). These cookies enable us to automatically establish that you had already visited us in the past in the event of a further visit. These cookies are deleted automatically after a predefined time set in the respective case has elapsed.
The data processed by cookies are necessary for the named purposes in order to preserve our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may, however, configure your browser is such a way that no cookies are stored on your computer or that a warning always appears before a new cookie is created.
The full deactivation of cookies may, however, result in your not being able to use all the functions of our website.
5. Web Analysis
The tracking and targeting measures listed in the following and deployed by us are implemented on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR.
With the aid of the tracking measures used we wish on the one hand to ensure the needs-based designing and continuous optimisation of our website. On the other hand we use the tracking measures in order to statistically record the use of our website. We furthermore use the data for the optimised blending in of advertising. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned regulation.
The other targeting measures listed in the following and deployed by us are implemented on the basis of Article 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR. The targeting serves the purpose of targeted advertising. We wish by way of the targeting measures deployed to ensure that only advertising oriented towards your interests is displayed on your terminal devices.
The respective data processing purposes and data categories are to be gathered from the descriptions of the respective tracking tool.
We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter “Google Inc.”). In this connection pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies (cf. Fig. 4) are used. The information generated by the cookie relating to your usage of this website, such as
– Browser type/version,
– Operating system used,
– Referrer-URL (the site previously visited),
– Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
– Time of the server inquiry,
are transmitted to a server operated by Google in the USA and stored there. Google observes the data protection provisions of the “US Privacy Shield” and is registered with the US Privacy Shield programme of the US Ministry of Trade. We have furthermore concluded with Google an order processing contract for the usage of Google Analytics. Google gives its assurance by way of this contract that it will process the data in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Processing Regulation and guarantee the protection of the rights of the affected person.
The information is used to analyse the usage of our website, compile reports on the website activities and perform other services connected with the usage of the website and of the internet for purposes of market research and the needs-based designing of this internet site.
The information may also be transmitted to third parties, inasmuch as this is prescribed by law or third parties should process said data by order. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other data possessed by Google. The ).
You may prevent the installation of the cookies by an appropriate setting of your browser software. We do point out, however, that in this case you might not be able to use all functions of the website to their full extents.
You may furthermore prevent the registration of the data generated by the cookie and which refer to your usage of the website (incl. your IP Address) and the processing of said data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on.
As an alternative to the browser add-on, in particular in the case of browsers located on mobile terminal devices, you may also prevent registration by Google Analytics by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie is then set that prevents the future registering of your data when visiting this website. The opt-out cookie applies only in this browser and only to our website and will be stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser you must set the opt-out cookie once again.
You may find further information pursuant to data protection in connection with Google Analytics in, for example, the Google Analytics Assistant.
b) Google AdWords
We use the Google service AdWords and, in this respect, conversion tracking, in order to measure the effectiveness of individual advertisements, offers and functions. To this end a cookie is set as soon as you click on a Google advertisement. This cookie does not serve the purpose of personal identification but is intended to make it possible to establish whether you, during the valid lifetime of the cookie, 30 days, re-visit the site with the specific offer.
Every AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies may thus not be traced via the website of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the aid of the conversion cookies serve the purpose of compiling conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided in favour of conversion tracking. We learn the total number of users who have clicked on an advertisement and been guided to a site furnished with a conversion tracking tag.
You may permanently prevent the storage of the Google Conversion cookie by an appropriate setting of your browser software. The data protection declaration of Google on the matter of conversion tracking is to be found here.
c) Google AdWords Remarketing
We use Google Remarketing Tags, which are a service of Google Inc. Google uses cookies (see section 4), which are stored on your computer allowing analysis of your website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. Google is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, which guarantees an appropriate level of data privacy.
The IP address is then shortened by Google by the last three digits, making a unique assignment of the IP address no longer possible. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity for website operators and provide other website and internet usage-related services.
Google may furthermore forward this information to third parties as required by law, and to third parties processing this data on Google’s behalf. Third parties, including Google, place ads on internet websites. Third parties, including Google, use stored cookies to serve ads based on previous visits to this site by a user. Google will never associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may revoke permission for data collection and storage at any time with effect for the future. You may deactivate the use of cookies by Google by visiting the page for deactivating Google advertising.
However, please be advised that you may not be able to use all functionalities of this website to their full extent in such case. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data gathered about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose outlined above. Further information about Google´s policies can be found here.
d) Google DoubleClick
On our website information is registered and evaluated using cookies in order to optimise advertising pop-ups. For this purpose we use targeting technologies of Google Inc. (Double Click, Double Click Exchange Buyer, Double Click Bid Manager).
These technologies enable us to approach you purposefully with individual, interest-related advertising. The cookies register, for example, those of our contents in which you have shown interest. On the basis of the information we are also able to display to you offers on the sites of third parties that are specifically oriented towards your interests as these may be deduced from your previous conduct as a user. The registration and evaluation of your conduct as a user is effected exclusively by pseudonym and does not enable us to identify you.
The cookie will be automatically deleted after 30 days.
You may also undertake settings for the display of interest-related advertisements using the advertising setting manager supplied by Google.
Further information and the data protection provisions regarding advertising and Google can be found in the data protection declaration and conditions of usage of Google.
e) Google Tag Manager
We furthermore use the Google Tag Manager from Google on our website. With the aid of the Google Tag Manager we manage the tools we are informing you about in this data protection declaration. Please, therefore refer to the information regarding the specific tool in question for more details on any of these tools
The Tool Tag Manager itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-free domain. The tool takes care of the dissolution of other tags which may possibly themselves register data. Google Tag Manager does not access these data. If deactivation has taken place at domain or cookie level this shall remain in existence for all tracking tags that have been implemented with the aid of Google Tag Manager.
Further information pertaining to the Google Tag Manager may be found in the usage guidelines for this product.
f) Bing Ads
We use Bing Universal Event Tracking (UET) by Microsoft Bing Ads. This is a service offered by the Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (hereinafter: “Microsoft”). This enables us to track the activities of users on our website should they have reached our website via advertisements from Bing Ads.
If you reach our website via a Bing Ads advertisement a cookie will be set on your computer. A Bing UET-Tag is integrated on our website. This is a code by way of which, in conjunction with the cookie, some non-personal data concerning the usage of the website are stored. These include the length of the visit to the website, which areas of the website had been called upon and the advertisement via which the users had reached the website. Information regarding your identity is not registered.
This information is transmitted to servers of Microsoft in the USA and stored there, as a basic rule, for a maximum of 180 days. Microsoft observes the data protection provisions of the “US-Privacy Shield” and is registered with the “US-Privacy Shield” programme of the US Ministry of Trade. We have also concluded with Microsoft an order processing contract for the use of Bing Ads. By way of this contract Microsoft gives its assurance that the data are processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the protection of the rights of the affected person are guaranteed.
More detailed information pertaining to the analyses services of Bing may be found on the Bing website.
More specific information on the topic of data protection at Microsoft may be found in the data protection provisions of Microsoft.
g) Facebook Pixel/Facebook Tracking
We use Facebook Website Custom Audiences of Facebook Ireland Limited (4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland). This is a marketing service offered by Facebook. This enables us to cause individually coordinated and interest-related advertising on Facebook to be displayed to certain groups of pseudonymised visitors to our websites who also use Facebook.
A Facebook Custom Audience Pixel Tag is integrated within our website. This is a Java Script code by means of which non-personal data pertaining to the usage of the website are stored. These include your IP address, the browser used and the departure and target sites. This information is transmitted to servers of Facebook in the USA. Facebook is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, so that an appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed.
Here an automated comparison takes place whether you have saved a Facebook cookie. It is automatically established via said Facebook cookie whether you belong to the target group relevant to us. If you should belong to the target group our appropriate advertisements will be displayed to you on Facebook. During this procedure you will not be personally identified as a result of the comparison of the data, neither by ourselves nor by Facebook.
You may object to the use of the service Custom Audience on the website of Facebook. After logging into your Facebook account you will reach the settings for Facebook advertising pop-ups.
You may find more detailed information on data protection at Facebook in the data protection guideline of Facebook.
We use so-called Web Fonts that are provided by Adobe Typekit, a service of Adobe Systems Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704. When you call up our website your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to be able to display typefaces correctly.
For this purpose the browser you use must establish connections to the servers of Adobe Typekit. Your IP address will thus be transmitted to Adobe in the USA. You may find more detailed information in the data protection pointers of Typekit, which you may call up here.
We use Adobe Typekit on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR, in order to be able to present our website appropriately. A legitimate interest within the meaning of the aforementioned regulation is to be seen herein.
7. Affected Person’s Rights
– To demand in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR information pertaining to your personal data process by us. You may in particular demand information pertaining to the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipient to whom your data have been disclosed or will be disclosed, the intended duration of storage, the existence of a right of correction, deletion, restriction upon processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data should these not have been collected by us and of the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and, where appropriate, meaningful information concerning the details thereof;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR the immediate correction of incorrect data affecting you and/or to the completion of any incomplete data of yours stored by us;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR the deletion of your personal data stored with us inasmuch as the processing should not be necessary for the exercising of the right of free speech and information, fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons that lie in the public interest or for the assertion, exercising or defending of legal entitlements;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR the restriction of the processing of your personal data inasmuch as the correctness of your data is disputed by you; if processing of the data should be illegal but you reject their deletion and we no longer need the data but you should require them for the assertion, exercising or defending of legal entitlements or if you have objected to the processing on the basis of Art. 21 GDPR;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR to receive the personal data which you have supplied to us in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to demand transmission to another responsible person;
– To revoke in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR the consent you may have granted to us to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. The consequence of this will be that we shall not be permitted to continue in the future the processing of data that was based upon said consent and
– To complain in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR to a supervisory authority. As a general rule you may address yourself for this purpose to the supervisory authority responsible for your normal place of residence, the place at which your workplace is located or the head office of our company.
Inasmuch as your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR you have the right to lodge an objection to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR inasmuch as grounds are given for this that derive from your own particular situation or the objection is aimed against direct advertising. In the latter case you possess a general right of objection that will be realised by us without the need to invoke a particular situation.
Should you wish to exercise your right of objection an e-mail to service@david-borck.de shall be sufficient.
All personal data submitted by you will be transmitted in encrypted form using the commonly accepted and safe standard TLS (Transport Layer Security). TLS is a safe and tried and tested standard that is, for example, also used in online banking. You may recognise a safe TLS connection, inter alia, by the “s” suffixed to http (i.e. https://..) in the address bar of your browser or by the lock symbol in the lower area of your browser.
We otherwise use suitable technical and organisational security measures in order to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or the unauthorised access of third parties. Our security measures are being continuously improved in accordance with technological developments.
10. Topicality and Amendment of this Data Protection Information
This data protection information is currently valid and up-to-date as of May 2018.
The further development of our website and offers pertaining thereto or altered statutory or official specifications may render it necessary to amend this data protection information. The latest data protection information valid at a particular time may be retrieved and printed out whenever you wish at
https://www.david-borck.de/#dataprotection.
General Terms of Contract and of use
These Terms of Contract and of Use govern the use of the online offer of David Borck Immobiliengesellschaft mbH,Schlüterstr. 45 10707 Berlin (hereinafter: Broker) under the domain name www.david-borck.de (hereinafter: Website) and the contractual relationship between the Broker and its customers.
CONTENT, COPYRIGHTS
(1) The offers on the Website and in the synopses are based on the data and information received from the owner or other third parties and are not checked by the Broker. The offers are without obligation and non-binding.
(2) All rights to the contents of the Website and the synopses are vested in the Broker unless otherwise stipulated. The customer is prohibited from copying, disseminating and/or publishing copyrighted contents outside of the legal limits of Art. 44a et seq. Copyright Law. This prohibition exists irrespective of the form in which the contents is copied, disseminated and/or published and also refers explicitly to the inclusion of copyrighted contents for direct access (so-called embedded content).
(1) For proof of the possibility of closing a sales or lease agreement or for negotiating such a contract, the customer undertakes to pay a commission to the Broker. For sales agreements, the commission is 7.14% of the sales price, for lease agreements, 2.38 times the net basic rent (both including VAT). The retail price is the negotiated purchase price plus the value if applicable reducing the purchase price of accepted loads (real property). Otherwise, the commission is shown in the synopsis made available by the Broker.
(2) Contrary to the provisions of Paragraph 1, the Customer is not obligated to pay a commission if seeking an apartment for which they have received proof of the opportunity to conclude lease agreements for residential premises or have had such agreements mediated, unless the Agent is exclusively tasked by the lessor or other authorised party with offering the apartment to the Customer under the terms of the agency agreement.
PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCLOSURE
(1) The customer undertakes not to exploit any of the offers, information or synopses transmitted by the Broker or disclose or provide it to third parties without the Broker’s prior written consent.
(2) For every proven violation against the obligation in Art. 4 (1) of these General Terms of Contract and of Use, the customer pays a contractual penalty to the Broker in the amount of the lost commission according to Art. 3 (1) of these General Terms of Contract and of Use on concluded sales or principal agreements if subsequently a sales or principal agreement is concluded between the third party and the owner without involving the Broker. To calculate commission, Clause Art. 3 (1) of these Terms applies accordingly.
(3) The above prohibition against disclosure also applies beyond the end of the contractual relationship.
The customer assures that the data provided by him is relevant and complete.
DUAL AGENCY
The Broker is entitled to work for both the owner as well as the customer.
(1) The Broker is not liable for the accuracy and completeness of the offers listed on the Website or in the synopsis. If third party contents (videos, pictures), which is marked as such, is embedded in the Website or in the synopsis, the Broker assumes no responsibility for the accuracy and/or legality of these contents. Independent of this, the Broker is liable for the diligent and expert provision of its contractual services as well as for their faultlessness.
(2) Unlimited liability: The Broker is liable in the case of intent and gross negligence. For slight negligence, the Broker is liable for damages arising from injury to life, limb and health of persons.
(3) Limitations of liability: Otherwise, the Broker is liable for slight negligence only
if an essential contractual duty has been violated whose fulfilment is a pre-requisite for being able to execute the contract properly in the first place and on whose fulfilment the customer may normally trust (cardinal obligation), and the liability is limited in amount to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract at the conclusion of contract.
(4) This limitation of liability also applies to the Broker’s vicarious agents.
FINAL PROVISIONS
(1) Should these Terms of Contract and of Use contain invalid provisions, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.
(2) Exclusively German law is applicable to the present Terms under exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
(3) Should the customer be a business owner, a legal entity under public law or special fund under public law, then Berlin is the legal venue for all disputes arising from or in connection with these Terms.
(4) The European Commission provides a platform for extra-judicial arbitration under the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/ .
Berlin, February 2014
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Saturday’s NHL Picks: April 6, 2019
by Flip Livingstone on April 6, 2019
Saturday's NHL Picks
After a few very hot weeks, last Saturday was a bit of a bust when it came to my picks, with my record going a measly 2-4. However, I am still pretty happy with my overall record on the year, all things considered.
We head into the last Saturday of the 2018-19 season with both the Eastern and Western Conference playoff scenarios all already locked in. The Columbus Blue Jackets secured the eighth and final wild-card spot Friday night with a shootout victory over the New York Rangers.
With that said, this could be a bit of a tough day to predict, betting-wise, so go easy with the wagers and save the serious cash for the playoffs.
However, there is still a stacked schedule on tap for today, and no team wants to back into the postseason. So as always, do you research and stick the following picks. Thanks for riding with me this season. Hope to do it again next year.
2018-19 Record
Gold: 12-5
Silver: 12-5
Bronze: 7-10
Side bets: 26-25
Overall combined: 57-45 (55%)
New York Rangers @ Pittsburgh Penguins – Pick: Penguins
A pillar of playoff consistency over the last decade, the Pens find themselves once again in the mix for Lord Stanley. Pittsburgh has the luxury of getting healthy at the best time of the year, as superstar forward Evgeni Malkin returned from injury on Thursday in a tidy 4-1 win over the Red Wings.
As for New York, the Rangers played just last night and lost a heartbreaker in the shootout to the Blue Jackets with emerging goaltender Alexandar Georgiev between the pipes. Meaning, fading veteran Henrik Lundqvist will man the blue paint tonight for the Blueshirts, which is good news for Pittsburgh. King Hank hasn’t registered a win since March 9 and will fail to register 20 wins in a season for the first time in his career.
Pittsburgh steamrolls in this one on the way into the playoffs. Hammer the Pens for my final Gold pick of the year.
New York Islanders @ Washington Capitals – Pick: Under 5.5
The New York Islanders went from being a complete joke to being one of the toughest teams in the league to play against in only one year.
The Islanders allowed a league-low 191 goals-against this season on the back of stellar play from No. 1 goalie Robin Lehner and an underrated blue-line, but you cannot deny the impact of new head coach Barry Trotz, who has obviously made this group play with a defense-first approach.
Trotz and Co. head into familiar territory against the bench boss’s former club tonight in Washington for a game that is shaping up to be a low-scoring contest. Four of the last six games between these two clubs has gone under the total. Even with the number sitting at 5.5 instead of 6 or higher, I still like this game to be tight-checking and low scoring.
Sprinkle a wager on the under 5.5 total, but if you can get it at 6 or higher, hammer it with a more substantial bet.
Chicago Blackhawks @ Nashville Predators – Pick: Predators
OK, everyone knows I like to bet on the Preds with regularity, so I am staying consistent and taking them with my last Bronze play of the season. Bottom line: Nashville is the real deal, and with one of the deepest rosters in the league, the Predators will be going on yet another deep run at the Cup over the next few weeks.
Despite coming on strong in the second half of 2018-19 campaign, most of this season was a major disappointment for the Blackhawks, as the club has struggled with injuries and lack of depth all year.
Nashville carries a 7-2-1 record into its tilt with Chi Town tonight, and I expect that record to improve with another Predators win.
Side Bets
Edmonton Oilers @ Calgary Flames – Pick: Oilers
Columbus Blue Jackets @ Ottawa Senators – Pick: Senators
Carolina Hurricanes @ Philadelphia Flyers Pick: Hurricanes
Flip Livingstone is a former NHL writer for theScore with past experience at such outlets as Postmedia, Hockey Night in Canada, and the CBC. You can follow him on Twitter @FlipLivingstone.
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It was a close run, but Lady Gaga and her team of ‘little monsters’ (a term of endearment she uses to address her fans) have beaten U.S. President Barrack Obama in the race to reach 10 million fans on Facebook.
According to Famecount, an online social networking statistics website, Lady Gaga is the only living person in the world to achieve this feat. However, despite the growing number of fans on her fan page, the ‘Poker Face’ star is (ironically) roughly nine million fans away from the top spot held by Texas Hold’em Poker. As it stands, she is currently ranked 5th.
Whilst it might have been a tight run to 10 million between the President and the larger than life singer, the latter currently (13th July) boasts 12,059,694 Facebook fans compared to Obama’s 10,518,670 whose site is managed by Organising for America. As if that wasn’t enough, with 4.8 million followers, Gaga also has more followers on Twitter than Obama but unfortunately, not enough to surpass Britney Spears’ 5.3 million.
During an autograph session in 2009, Gaga famously bought over a $1000 worth of pizza for her fans who had been waiting outside Best Buy all night long to see her.
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Deviation Street is delighted to be presenting in a serialised format (Every Sunday, just like The Archers, only far far better ) THE STRAIGHT ROAD A Bastard Modern Fairytale of London by Band Of Holy Joy founder and frontman Johny Brown.
Episode 1. January – March
In a certain borough there lived an oversized Patriarch. This man had two offspring and life was comfortable if somewhat dull. The father was killed and the daughter distraught. David as brother did his best to console the sister Susan. Susan could see no hope for the future. Life is sad, David said softly. If I were you I would pray to God, and maybe things might, well, work out.
After thinking on the matter awhile, he put it to her that they should use whatever inheritance was coming and move to another borough where he would rent a shop and set up some kind of a business. Maybe the shop would have a flat above it where she could tend home whilst he worked the counter below. If they stayed where they were things would go bad.
Susan nodded her assent. She adored her big brother. David would be the new Patriarch in her life. The time spent in the flat could also be devoted to prayer. For since David had suggested the practice she had taken a fancy to quiet devotion towards meditative time spent alone and was busy developing a feeling of subjective sincerity she had never realised before.
Her brother was obstinate in his sensitivities and quite bullish in his fragility and these testaments of faith were further inspiration towards her shift to spirituality. David was so light and considered, but so resolute in everything he did in this life. He was the most intelligent and sensitive person she had met in this life to date. She could find no one to compare.
Susan wanted to live up to the mark that David set and prove that she too could be of angelic disposition and saintly nerve, she wanted to shine in her own dark and shine even brighter in other shadows. Susan wanted to be all the things her brother was. Beyond that, what she really wanted in this life was to have her own passion, something she could truly call her own.
Susan always held a lot of insular feelings she could barely articulate but really wanted to express. There were a lot of negative things that she found anathema to her life but never had the courage to reject. Maybe this sudden shift of father dying and them looking for a new place to live might be the catalyst to shift the bad for the better and push her in the right direction.
As things turned out they moved not just to another borough, but shifted to a different metropolis entirely. They found the perfect retail unit / living combination in just the safest most bustling location, and the brother busied himself around the doors and bars and café’s and that. Being of a lively disposition he soon found his feet in this new city they had landed in.
Oh the city of London on first impression. Towers of glass and steel, all absurd shapes and abstruse angles designed to amaze the mind as surely as its coffee shops serve to put a rush in the blood that courses through the veins to set the head beating like boom, boom, boom, the sheer scale designed to put a tingle in your tummy and fair take your breath away.
The London of shiny billboards on new constructions that promised creative flexible workspace and a better place to be, and assured the new owner they would be a part of it all. This was where they had landed and this was where they set out to make a new life. David quietly informed Susan they would strive to establish themselves well in this new city.
Sure, there were a few grim weeks selling fake furs and cheap nylons in a street market on one of the more lower end streets, but within time David had enough things going on to purchase some fine cloth and open up shop properly. He paid attention to the décor, developed a unique retail philosophy and was smart enough to bring someone in on the digital side.
All of these things combined added to a fairly prosperous start. The daytimes were easy and the nightlife was good. David was starting to relax a bit. Granted he sometimes got tetchy with the local taxi drivers because of how they would try to nudge his bicycle off the road, but who didn’t have hassles with those uncivilised old world stone age red top kind of people?
All cities were still full of unleavened hangovers from more ancient eras, and their outlooks and principles weren’t always up to speed, stuck as they were in more unenlightened times, with all the bad practice that came with it. He accepted that. David took it as a sometimes painful but always necessary fact of life that one had to work and live alongside such types.
He felt for them in fact, they being victims of someone else’s drama, who were being crushed on the wheel of life, or who had fallen off it. Immigrants to this city too, he could see, drew instant short straws and lived lives ten to a bed in hastily thrown up garden sheds in some of the more godforsaken suburbs, exploited to the point of slavery and worse.
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Dez Bryant Suggests He'd Like To Play For Dallas Cowboys Next YearBryant noted a willingness to take on a reduced role as a receiving threat down near the goal line.
Lancaster ISD Fires Staffer Accused Of Threatening Students With Deportation
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LANCASTER (CBSDFW.COM) — After investigating a staffer accused of making racist comments to a 14-year-old Hispanic student earlier this week, Lancaster ISD has let that employee go.
Parents of the Barack and Michelle Obama Ninth Grade Center student said they were “furious” after they say a staffer threatened the teen — a U.S. citizen — with deportation.
“He told him, ‘Even though you are a citizen, Trump is working on a law where he can deport you, too, because of your mom’s status,'” the teen’s mother said.
And although she didn’t want to be identified, she did visit the school looking for answers, and got the staffer to show her what he showed her son — a coin emblazoned with the word “ICE.”
ICE coin reportedly used to threaten student with deportation at 9th grade campus in Lancaster ISD.
She said the staffer was trying to teach her son a lesson for responding with, “yeah,” instead of “yes, sir.”
Since the initial accusation, another student has come forward saying he had a similar experience.
At a school board meeting Thursday evening, parents said more needs to be done.
LULAC Council President Dr. Sheryl Santos-Hatchett said one bad apple spoils the bunch.
“I think it’s a matter of maybe training and not knowing the law,” Santos-Hatchett said.
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Microservices in Production: 5 Challenges You Should Know
Microservices present many challenges, these can be offset by proper isolation, monitoring, logging, version management and dependency management between services.
Alex Zhitnitsky
Aug. 05, 16 · Integration Zone ·
The Dark side of Microservices
It seems like everyone is into microservices these days, while monolith architectures are just as popular as crumbling down old and abandoned castles.
The public attention certain trends get is often exaggerated and doesn't reflect what's going on in practice, but this time, it feels more like a consensus. Microservices iterate over the basic separation of concerns principle and put a name on insights from teams of engineers who crafted solutions to real problems they needed to solve.
In this post, we'll play the devil's advocate, share some insights from the community and our users, examine the top issues with microservices in production — and how you can solve them.
The flip side of microservices
Separation of concerns is not a new concept, and neither is distributed computing. The benefits are huge, but they come at a price, which usually translates to higher ops costs both in time and money. Mix the two, and you get a petri dish of all sorts of awkward problems. Put it in production, and the problems quadruple. Debugging to the rescue, but oh wait… debugging is not about making problems go away.
As Bryan Cantrill points out on his talk in QCon, "debugging devolved into an oral tradition, folk tales of problems that were made to go away." When in fact, it is more like a science, understanding how the system really works and not how we THINK it works.
Debugging is not just minor side task, it's a fundamental issue. Sir Maurice Wilkes, debugger of one of the first programs ever created, already realized the major role debugging is going to play for developers:
"In 1949, as soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
We were trained into thinking that it's just about making problems go away. But the real challenge is about understanding how the system really works.
Problem #1: As if Monitoring a Monolith Wasn't Hard Enough
Whether you're gradually breaking down a monolithic app to microservices or building a new system from scratch, you now have more services to monitor. Each of these is highly likely to:
Use different technologies/languages.
Live on a different machine/container.
Have its own version control.
The point is that as far as monitoring goes, the system becomes highly fragmented, and a stronger need arises for centralized monitoring and logging to have a fair shot at understanding what's going on.
For example, one of the scenarios described in a recent Continuous Discussions podcast was a bad version that needs to be rolled back. Mostly a straightforward procedure for monoliths. But… we have microservices now. So we need to identify which of the services needs to be rolled back, what would be the impact of the rollback on the other services, or maybe we just need to add some capacity, but then it could just push the problem to the next service in line.
Takeaway #1: If you thought monitoring a monolith architecture was hard, it's 10 times harder with microservices and requires a bigger investment in planning ahead.
Problem #2: Logging Is Distributed Between Services
Logs, logs, logs. GBs of unstructured text is generated by servers on a daily basis. The IT equivalent of carbon emission in the shape of overflowed hard drives and crazy Splunk bills/ELK storage costs.
With a monolith architecture, your logs are probably already scattered in different places — because even with a monolith mindset, you probably had to use a few different layers that probably log to different places. With microservices, your logs break further down. Now, when investigating a scenario related to some user transaction, you'll have to pull out all the different logs from all the services that it could have gone through to understand what's wrong.
In Takipi, our team solves this by using Takipi… on Takipi. For all log errors and warnings coming from production JVMs, we inject a smart link into the log, which leads to the event's analysis. That includes its full stack trace and variable state at every frame, even if it's distributed among a number of services/machines.
Takeaway #2: Microservices are all about breaking things down to individual components. As a side effect, ops procedures and monitoring are also breaking down per service and lose their power for the system as a whole. The challenge here is to centralize these back using proper tooling.
Problem #3: One Service's Issue Can Cause Problems Elsewhere
If you follow up on some broken transaction in a specific service, you don't have the guarantee that the same service you're looking at is to blame. Let's assume you have some message passing mechanism between your services, like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or maybe you're using Akka.
There could be several possible scenarios going on, even if the service behaves as expected and there's no problem to be found:
The input it received is bad, and you need to understand what made the previous service misbehave.
The recipient of its result returned some unexpected response, and you need to understand how the next service behaves.
What about the highly likely scenario where these dependencies are more complex than 1:1? Or there's more than one service that benefits to the problem?
Whatever the problem is, the first step with microservices is to understand where to start looking for answers. The data is scattered all over the place and might not even live within your logs and dashboard metrics at all.
Takeaway #3: With monoliths, you usually know that you're looking at the right direction. Microservices make it harder to understand the source of the issue and where you should get your data from.
Problem #4: Finding the Root Cause of Problems
Alright, let's carry on with the investigation. The starting point now is that we've nailed down the problematic services, pulled out all the data there is to pull — stack traces and some variable values from the logs. If you have an APM (like New Relic, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace, which we also wrote about here and here) you might also get some data about unusually high processing times for some of the methods/do some basic assessment of the severity of the issue.
But… what about… the actual issue? The real root cause? The code that's actually broken.
In most cases, the first few bits of variable data you HOPEFULLY get from the log won't be the ones that move the needle. They usually lead to the next clue, which requires you to uncover some more of the magic under the hood and add another beloved log statement or two. Deploy the change, hope for the issue to reoccur, or not, because… sometimes merely adding a logging statement seems to solve issues. Some sort of a diabolical reverse Murphy's Law. Oh, well.
Takeaway #4: When the root cause of an error in a microservice spans across multiple services, it's critical to have a centralized root cause detection tool in place.
Takipi's Error Analysis Dashboard – variable values overlaid on the actual code at every frame in the stack
Problem #5: Version Management and Cyclic Dependencies Between Services
Another issue that was mentioned in the Continuous Discussions podcast that we'd like to highlight here is going from a layer model in a typical monolithic architecture to a graph model with microservices.
Two problems that can happen here relate to keeping your dependencies in check.
1. If you have a cycle of dependencies between your services, you're vulnerable to distributed stack overflow errors when a certain transaction might be stuck in a loop.
2. If two services share a dependency, and you update that other service's API in a way that could affect them, then you'll need to update all three at once. This brings up questions like, which should you update first? And how to make this a safe transition?
More services mean different release cycles for each of them, which adds to this complexity. Reproducing a problem will prove to be very difficult when it's gone in one version and comes back in a newer one.
Takeaway #5: In a microservice architecture, you're even more vulnerable to errors coming in from dependency issues.
Debugging immediately gets you in the mindset of making problems go away — this is literally the direct meaning of the word debugging. When you think of it with the system's context in mind, there's much more to it than ad hoc problem solving. It's about understanding the system as a whole, what makes it tick, and how things really are versus how you hope they'd be.
At the bottom line, it's all about the tools you use and the workflows you employ.
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Theta System: Argument Structure at the Interface by Martin Everaert
Theta System: Argument Structure at the Interface
Before she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the thematic relations of verbs are encoded in the lexicon, enabling an interface between the lexicalMoreBefore she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the thematic relations of verbs are encoded in the lexicon, enabling an interface between the lexical component and the computational system/syntax, directly, and the Inference system, indirectly. This book considers the recent results and evaluations of Tanya Reinharts research in both theoretical and experimental domains. After a comprehensive presentation of the framework by the editors, distinguished linguists from all over the world examine the underpinning of the Theta System, compare the framework to alternative approaches, and consider its implications for the architecture of grammar. In addition, they consider and exemplify the applications of the system and offer improvements and extensions. The book is an important contribution to linguistic research. It engages in the key dialogue between competing lexicalist and syntactic approaches to lexico-semantic problems and does so in the context of an impressive array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages. Theta System: Argument Structure at the Interface by Martin Everaert
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Onward and Upward, Graduates!
Success Academy – June 22, 2017
Last week, over 1.700 beaming scholars participated in Success Academy graduation ceremonies.
From our kindergartners who discovered a thirst for learning to our eighth graders who will move on to high school next year, our graduates and their families had a lot to celebrate! Behind each scholar are family and friends who encouraged them every step of the way. Our scholars couldn’t have done it without their support!
Here are just a few of the many special moments from last week’s graduation ceremonies.
Success Academy operates 45 high-performing public charter schools serving 17.000 students across New York City.
SA 8th Graders Are Ready to Take On the Next Big Challenge!
Success Academy – June 26, 2019
At Success Academy Harlem 3 Upper, Mr. Forman-Bey led scholars in their rendition of “Champion” by artist K’Naan. It took the scholars three weeks to learn the beat, which they played to accompany the school chorus. “This song is symbolic of them moving on up in life and getting to the next level,” said Mr. Forman-Bey.
At Success Academy Crown Heights, hands — and joy — were in the air as scholars received their diplomas!
Success Academy Fort Greene scholars Aidan Foster and Orion Desrameaux won awards for their outstanding performance in science. They shared hugs and smiles with science teachers Mr. Hall (left) and Mr. Kaltenborn (right).
Jacob Lukose, a fourth-grader at Success Academy Upper West, delivered an impressive speech about the difficulties he and his classmates faced as new kindergarteners adjusting to school for the first time — and the confidence they have today!
Looking back, but moving forward — congratulations SA Harlem West graduates — and all of Success Academy’s high school-bound eighth graders! We are so proud of each of you.
Success Academy Harlem 2 principal Lavinia Mackall shakes the hand of a fourth grade graduate. During her address to students, Ms. Mackall quoted famous author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, who said, “The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
Subjects: Graduation
Our Stories Count, Too: Culturally Responsive Teaching
We want to ensure that every scholar feels included and in touch with their cultural background while at our schools. SA Prospect Heights launched an initiative promoting racial awareness in the classroom and among staff, and recently held two sessions focused on culturally responsive teaching.
Where Girl Power Reigns
The SA Crown Heights Girls Group, the brainchild of special education teacher Cole Yaverbaum, offers scholars a place to discuss everything from racial inequality to friendships, to their future ambitions and social justice.
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Austen Chamberlain | Article about Austen Chamberlain by The Free Dictionary
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Chamberlain, Austen
(also Joseph A. Chamberlain). Born Oct. 16, 1863, in Birmingham; died Mar. 16, 1937, in London. British state figure. Son of Joseph Chamberlain.
Austen Chamberlain, who was educated at the exclusive Rugby School and at Cambridge University, entered Parliament in 1892. He served as financial secretary to the treasury from 1900 to 1902, postmaster general in 1902, and chancellor of the exchequer from 1903 to 1905 and from 1919 to 1921. He was secretary of state for India from 1915 to 1917, a member of the war cabinet in 1918, minister without portfolio in 1921 and 1922, and foreign secretary from 1924 to 1929.
Chamberlain fought to establish Great Britain as the leading European power. He favored a strong and rearmed Germany, hoping to use it against the USSR and as a counterbalance to France; the signing of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 was a major step toward the realization of this policy. Chamberlain helped initiate the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the USSR in 1927 (relations were resumed in 1929 by the new Labour government) and sought to renew the military intervention in the USSR. He served as first lord of the admiralty in 1931. In his final years, Chamberlain spoke out in Parliament about the aggressive intentions of Germany.
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An industrialist and controversial politician, Chamberlain is one of Birmingham's most historical figures while one son, Neville Chamberlain, was Prime Minister between 1937 and 1940 and his other, Austen Chamberlain, served as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929, and was a Nobel Prize winner in 1926.
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However, London and Cairo did not necessarily agree on the method of achieving British supremacy in the Sudan and, in the aftermath of Stack's assassination, a gulf opened up between the new Foreign Secretary, Austen Chamberlain, and Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, in Cairo.
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As it is, he became the first Tory leader since Austen Chamberlain in the 1920s not to serve as prime minister.
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The public funding of Britain's universities began in earnest in 1919, when Austen Chamberlain, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, increased the universities' grant by 50% and advised vice-chancellors to increase tuition fees by 25-50%.
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The British ambassador wrote that 'happily the bullet only scratched his [Mussolini's] nose' and the Foreign Secretary, Austen Chamberlain, wrote to the dictator: 'My wife joins me in congratulating you on your escape'.
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Kobe to host World Cup in honor of Japan's "Mr. Rugby"
By Keita Nakamura, KYODO NEWS - Mar 18, 2019 - 20:30 | Sports, All, Rugby2019, Kobe
As a member of the Kobe Steel team that swept all aside from 1989 to 1995 when they won seven straight All-Japan Championships, Eiji Hirotsu is eagerly awaiting this year's Rugby World Cup.
And, not surprisingly, he is particularly looking forward to watching games at Kobe Misaki Stadium (currently known as Noevir Stadium), where he played alongside Japan's "Mr. Rugby," the late Seiji Hirao.
(Eiji Hirotsu and his daughter Haruka)
"The stadium's appearance has completely changed through upgrades, but it is one of the places where the Steelers made history. It's deeply moving that World Cup matches are going to take place on the field where I played with Hirao-san," Hirotsu, 51, said.
The history of rugby in the capital of the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo cannot be talked about without a mention of the Steelers, the Kobe Steel Ltd. team that won last season's Japan Rugby Top League.
The Steelers triumph revived memories of the legendary "V7" team, at the helm of which was Hirao, who died of cancer in October 2016 at the age of 53.
The Kyoto-native finished his career having won titles in all the domestic categories -- high school, university, corporate and national -- and he appeared in three straight World Cups from 1987, before coaching the national side in the 1999 tournament in Wales.
"He was such a motivating leader, and always respected the personality of each teammate," Hirotsu said.
He was also a driving force behind Japan's earlier efforts to host a World Cup and set up the nonprofit organization Sports Community & Intelligence Complex, or SCIX, in Kobe in 2000, in the hope of attracting regional development by promoting sports such as rugby.
"We have accepted many young people, for example, whose schools have no rugby club or who wanted to play rugby but balance it with their studies," said Norio Muto, 54, a SCIX rugby club coach who once played with Hirao at Kobe.
Nearly 100 players, most of whom are in their teens but whose ages range from 12 to 53, belong to the SCIX rugby club, including Hirotsu's daughter Haruka, who joined the club in 2013.
The 18-year-old has become a regular trainee at training camps for the women's Japan sevens national team, and has set her sights on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Influenced by her father and elder brother, Haruka began playing non-contact "tag rugby" some eight years ago. She also played basketball for nearly six years in school, and was picked as a Hyogo Prefecture basketball representative while at junior high school.
In the past, she debated whether or not to devote herself to playing basketball, but chose rugby in the end, saying "I just love rugby. It's super fun."
Set to study at Waseda University from April, she will continue her rugby career with the Yokogawa Musashino Artemi-Stars, a Tokyo-based women's club.
"Through the World Cup, I hope more and more people get interested in women's rugby, too. That will inspire me to do my best to be chosen as a Tokyo Olympic member. In doing so, I want to repay those who have supported me with their kindness," said Haruka.
While the SCIX players are supporting local grassroots rugby and talking eagerly of the World Cup, there are some who say Hirao would not have been so vocal.
"Whenever we met, we would talk about only silly things," said Tetsuya Higashida, a former player for World Fighting Bull, a now-defunct rugby team run by Kobe-based apparel retailer World Co.
Higashida was in the same year as Hirao at Doshisha University in Kyoto, and currently serves on the committee of Rokko Rugby Football Club, successor of the Fighting Bull, which suspended its activities in 2009 due to a shortage of players.
"We never talked about the World Cup, but I believe Hirao was the one who really wanted it to be held in Kobe," said Higashida.
(Tetsuya Higashida)
(Kenji Okada, center)
Noevir Stadium, which holds about 30,000, will host games between England and the United States on Sept. 26, Scotland and Samoa on Sept. 30, Ireland versus Russia on Oct. 3, and South Africa and Canada on Oct. 8.
The port city Kobe put forward its name to be a RWC venue in June 2014, five years after Japan was named as the host country.
"I thought we should aim (to be a host city) when I first heard the situation, because we had a rugby powerhouse in Shin-ko," said Kenji Okada, 59, a Kobe City high official, referring to the Steelers' nickname.
Okada, who became the head of the sports bureau in April 2014, said he asked Hirao for advice the following month, and was read the riot act. "He was like, 'Why are you guys so relaxed? Other candidate cities have already started working on it!'"
Hirao was a director for the RWC 2019 organization committee, and that is why he could not publically say he wanted the games brought to Kobe, Okada figures.
"Hirao-san was virtually a symbol of Kobe, and as a result, he played the role of appealing for the city, even without saying anything. We owe our success to him," said Okada.
Yasunori Kanemura, 55, another former player of the Fighting Bull, however, is anxious. He wonders if it is the right time for Japan, which is less steeped in rugby culture, to host such a big competition.
(Yasunori Kanemura)
"Of course, I think Hirao-san would be delighted at a Japan-hosted World Cup, but at the same time, I bet he felt, just like me, that it will be a big job."
According to Muto, one of the big challenges following the tournament is arranging venues and opportunities so that people can play rugby after watching the sport's showcase event.
"I hope SCIX-like bodies will be established one after another across the country. If that happens, Japan's rugby scene will change remarkably," Muto said.
(Norio Muto)
(Kobe Misaki Stadium currently known as Noevir Stadium)
(Seiji Hirao in 1995)
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Solar power is expanding rapidly. The United States now has over 53 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity installed – enough to power 10.1 million homes and 26 times as much capacity as was installed at the end of 2010.[1] Hundreds of thousands of Americans have invested in solar energy and millions more are ready to join them.
America’s major cities have played a key role in the clean energy revolution and stand to reap tremendous benefits from solar energy. As population centers, they are major sources of electricity demand and, with millions of rooftops suitable for solar panels, they have the potential to be major sources of clean energy as well.
Solar power can allow cities to curb emissions that contribute to global warming, become more resilient to severe weather, help residents stabilize their energy bills, and improve public health through reduced air pollution.
As of the end of 2017, 20 cities—representing just 0.1 percent of U.S. land area—accounted for over 4 percent of U.S. solar PV capacity. These 20 cities have over 2 GW of solar PV capacity—more solar power than the entire country had installed by the end of 2010.[2]
Los Angeles leads the nation in total installed solar PV capacity among the 69 cities surveyed in this report, as it did between 2013 and 2015 before being temporarily overtaken by San Diego in 2016. (See Table ES-1.)
Figure ES-1. Major U.S. Cities by Cumulative Installed Solar PV Capacity, End of 2017 (MW)
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Table ES-1. Top 20 Solar Cities by Total Installed Solar PV Capacity, End of 2017
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The cities with the most solar PV installed per capita are the “Solar Stars” – cities with 50 or more watts of solar PV capacity installed per person. Honolulu has nearly three times as much solar PV per capita as the next leading city, San Diego. All of the “Solar Stars” have experienced dramatic growth in solar energy and are setting the pace nationally for solar energy development. In 2013, only eight of the cities surveyed for this report had enough solar PV per capita to be ranked as “Solar Stars,” but now 18 cities have earned the title. (See Figure ES-2 and Table ES-2.)
Leaders in per capita solar capacity by census region include Honolulu in the Pacific region, Las Vegas in the Mountain region, Indianapolis in the North Central region, San Antonio in the South Central region, Washington, D.C., in the South Atlantic region and Burlington, Vermont, in the Northeast region.
Figure ES-2. Major U.S. Cities by Installed Solar PV Capacity Per Capita, End of 2017 (Watts per Person)
Table ES-2. The “Solar Stars” (Cities with 50 or More Watts of Solar PV per Person, End of 2017)
Many smaller cities and towns are also going big on solar energy. Many smaller communities have installed as much solar PV per capita as the leading cities included in this survey.
Fresno, California, has 343 watts of solar PV capacity installed per resident – more than any large city surveyed, with the exception of Honolulu.[1]
Santa Fe, New Mexico, would rank among the top “Solar Stars” on our list with 203 watts of solar PV installed per resident.[2]
Tucson, Arizona, would also rank among the top “Solar Stars” with 183 watts of solar PV installed per resident.[3]
Fossil fuel interests and some utilities are working to slow the growth of distributed solar energy. During 2017 alone, 19 utilities in 10 states requested to add or increase electric bill charges for rooftop solar customers.[4] And, over the past few years many states have considered or passed cuts to net metering – the critical practice of crediting solar energy customers for the excess energy they supply to the grid.[5]
U.S. cities have only begun to tap their solar energy potential. Some of the cities on this list could generate hundreds of times more solar power, and the majority could generate at least 50 times more solar power than they currently do on the rooftops of small buildings alone, according to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) analysis.[6] Cities can go even farther by encouraging solar installations on large buildings and stand-alone utility-scale installations.
To take advantage of that potential and move America toward an economy powered by 100 percent renewable energy, city, state and federal governments should adopt a series of pro-solar policies.
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- Continue and expand financing support for solar energy, particularly the Investment Tax Credit.
- Support research to drive solar power innovations, such as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office.
- Defend and strengthen the requirements of the Clean Power Plan.
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Home SCIENCE Underground fiber-optic cables help scientists record thunderquakes
Underground fiber-optic cables help scientists record thunderquakes
Dec. 11 (UPI) — Loud thunderclaps can cause the ground to shake. The quakes are too subtle for humans to feel, but new research showed fiber optic cables can detect the thunderquakes.
A new study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, suggests underground fiber-optic cables could be used to track thunderstorms.
“Severe weather has strong interactions with the ground, but we haven’t had the capability to study the coupling between the atmosphere and the solid Earth,” Tieyuan Zhu, lead study author and an assistant professor of geophysics at Pennsylvania State University, said in a news release. “With this new technology, we can utilize existing fiber-optics networks to clearly see how thunderstorm energy passed through campus.”
To track the tiny seismic events caused by thunder, scientists deployed a new technology called a distributed acoustic sensing array, or DAS array, which fires a laser down one of the glass fibers in fiber-optic cables. The laser registers tiny changes in pressure, recording measurements every six feet. A few miles of underground cables create a network featuring thousands of sensors.
“If there is any change in the external energy on the ground above, even walking steps, you will have a very small change that’s going to stretch or compress the fiber,” Zhu said. “The laser is very sensitive and can detect these small changes.”
When the thunder-generated acoustic pressure wave hits the ground, it travels outward like a wave in a pond. The DAS records the location and movements of these pressure waves.
When scientists compared the measurements recorded by the newly deployed array, the thunderquake data matched the distribution of lightning recorded by the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network.
In addition, to help scientists track extreme weather, the new technology could be used to study Earth’s interior and model earthquake risks. Seismic events are relatively rare on the East Cast, but researchers could potentially use fiber optic cables to measure the movement of pressure waves through Earth’s mantle and crust.
“This research is an example of taking an existing technology and using it to serve another purpose,” said study co-author David Stensrud, head of the department of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State. “Having technologies that are multifunction maximizes the benefits to society.”
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Now reading: How Rasha Mahdi Is Using Cartoons As A Way To Raise Collective Awareness In The Arab Press
How Rasha Mahdi Is Using Cartoons As A Way To Raise Collective Awareness In The Arab Press
I was described to be one of the pioneers of Arab women cartoonists working in Arab journalism and press. Cartoon art plays an important role in raising awareness in our society. It is a very effective and quick tool for delivering messages to audiences, a very powerful form of expression. It stirs the consciences and touches the emotions.
Her depictions of modern day issues such as Islamophobia, environmental issues and violence towards women and children have been published in newspapers and magazines in the Arab realm and have also spread across various art centered online platforms. But who is the face behind these drawings? With a degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Section Rasha Mahdi already knew her path was paved to work in the field of graphics and design. But what she didn’t anticipate was the impact her work would be making in Egyptian society.
B: Firstly I would like to thank you for joining me in this interview Rasha. As one looks at your drawings and illustrations it is clear to see that they center on societal struggles and political problems that occur in Egypt.
Has it been always an idea of yours to focus on human right issues and the empowerment of women in your illustrations?
R: I use my illustrations to present my opinions on political current events, social problems, humanitarian issues, cartoon advertising campaigns plus women empowerment.
B: Growing up in Egypt where did the drive to become a graphic designer stem from? Had it been always a dream of yours?
R: Ever since I was young I loved drawing and colors. My mother played an important role in supporting me. I graduated from the faculty of Fine arts graphic animation and book art and I studied designing cartoon characters and after my graduation. I loved entering the field of editorial cartoons which appears in the press. I was described to be one of the pioneers of Arab women cartoonists working in Arab journalism and press.
B: Could you perhaps guide us through the process of your work and where you draw your inspiration from?
R: Current events, people talks, personal experiences, emotional scenes, even animals, birds, and plants can be sources of inspiration. I also believe that inspirational angels throw wonderful ideas to your mind and heart. Working hard and thinking deeply can also give birth to wonderful ideas. The most successful cartoons are then selected to be used in competitions and win prizes.
B: Do you believe your drawings are affecting Egyptian society?
R: Cartoon art plays an important role in raising the awareness of society. It is a very effective and quick tool for delivering messages to audiences, a very powerful form of expression. It stirs the consciences and touches the emotions. A small piece of cartoon can be more effective compared to a long written article, so being an editorial cartoonist gives you the chance to share your opinions, your point of view and your perspectives to change the awareness of audiences in political situations, social problems, and humanitarian issues.
B: How do you perceive the public’s reaction from your drawings?
R: Launching my cartoons and illustrations at news websites, cartooning platforms or social media platforms shows the reaction of audiences towards my ideas. Everyone sees the illustrations from their point of view and either leaves positive or negative comments. Sometimes the themes and topics of women rights find more support from women than men.
B: Do you believe readers/viewers react differently to a controversial article as opposed to a controversial image?
R: I believe every one reacts differently due to his or her culture, political background, beliefs and ethics.
B: Has there ever been any backlash because of the ugly, yet truthful reality you paint, or in this case draw?
R: A lot of the illustrations published by editorial cartoonists show the real and sad face of the truth about current events. People react emotionally towards these ideas, but I think this the great role of cartooning art; to use a shocking technique to touch and make aware of society.
B: On the other hand, what positives and perhaps changes have you experienced through your graphic creations in your life (and perhaps the lives of others)?
R: Most of my cartoons have a humanitarian sense which can touch the hearts and minds of audiences. Especially human, children and women’s rights cartoons. Using these cartoons as advertising and awareness campaigns make them a powerful tool to find support from society.
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Sertoli cells from non-obstructive azoospermia and obstructive azoospermia patients show distinct morphology, Raman spectrum and biochemical phenotype
Ma, M.; Yang, S.; Zhang, Z.; Li, P.; Gong, Y.; Liu, L.; Zhu, Y.; Tian, R.; Liu, Y.; Wang, X.; Liu, F.; He, L.; Liu, Y.; Yang, H.; Li, Z.; He, Z.
Human Reproduction 28(7): 1863-1873
Are there differences in the morphology, spectrum and biochemical phenotype between Sertoli cells from non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) patients and those from obstructive azoospermia (OA) patients with normal spermatogenesis? Sertoli cells from NOA patients are distinct from those from OA patients in terms of morphological features, Raman spectrum and phenotype including the expression of genes and proteins (e.g. SCF, BMP4 and GDNF). NOA affects 10% of infertile men and has been diagnosed in 60% of azoospermic men. In contrast with OA patients who have normal spermatogenesis, NOA patients have an impaired spermatogenesis. This case-control study included 100 NOA patients (as cases) and 100 OA patients with normal spermatogenesis (as controls). The study was performed between January 2012 and January 2013. Karyotype analysis was performed to check the chromosome content and multiplex PCR was carried out to determine the expression of numerous Y chromosome genes in NOA patients. Human Sertoli cells were then isolated from the testes of NOA and OA patients by two-step enzymatic digestion and differential plating. Transmission electron microscopy was used to determine the ultrastructure of the Sertoli cells and real-time Raman microspectroscopy was used to assess their spectrum. We further compared the two groups of patients for expression of SCF, GDNF and BMP4 in Sertoli cells, using RT-PCR, microarray analysis, immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry and Western blots. NOA patients had normal chromosome karyotypes and Y chromosome microdeletions were excluded. In morphology, Sertoli cells isolated from NOA patients had a series of abnormal ultrastructural features compared with the control Sertoli cells: (i) existence of small and spindle-shaped nuclei, (ii) smaller diameter, (iii) deficient nucleolus or endoplasmic reticulum and (iv) more vacuoles. Spectral intensities in Sertoli cells of NOA patients were distinct at four typical Raman peaks compared with the control Sertoli cells. In phenotype, SCF, BMP4 and GDNF transcripts and proteins were significantly lower in Sertoli cells of NOA patients than in the control Sertoli cells. The Sertoli cells of NOA patients were not compared with Sertoli cells of normal fertile men due to the fact that it is hard to obtain adult testes from normal donors. This study provides novel insights into understanding the underlying causes for NOA and might offer a basis for developing new therapeutic strategies for patients with NOA.
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det068
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Reproductive outcomes following surgical sperm retrieval in couples with obstructive azoospermia (OA), non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and repeated in vitro fertilization (IVF) failure. Fertility and Sterility 106(3): E225-E226, 2016
Relevance of testicular histopathology on prediction of sperm retrieval rates after a conventional bilateral multiple Tese in case of non-obstructive azoospermia (Noa) and obstructive-azoospermia (Oa). The Journal of Sexual Medicine 15(7): S283-S284, 2018
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Detection of calretinin expression in abnormal immature Sertoli cells in non-obstructive azoospermia. Acta Histochemica 107(2): 105-112, 2005
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Endocrine studies of azoospermia. II. Serum steroid levels in obstructive azoospermia. Archives of Andrology 3(2): 163-166, 1979
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection with testicular spermatozoa is less successful in men with nonobstructive azoospermia than in men with obstructive azoospermia. Fertility & Sterility 79(3): 529-533, 2003
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Non-obstructive azoospermia: 2 new cases of Sertoli cell only syndrome. Archivos Espanoles de Urologia 56(10): 1127-1132, 2004
Expression of DAZ (deleted in azoospermia), DAZL1 (DAZ-like) and protamine-2 in testis and its application for diagnosis of spermatogenesis in non-obstructive azoospermia. Molecular Human Reproduction 4(9): 827-834, 1998
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Eva is a Spanish performer, theatre maker and director, currently based in Ghent (Belgium). She started her actor training back in 2013 with professional theatre company ‘Grumelot’ in Madrid (Spain), where she also trained as a dancer at Scaena. Afterwards, she moved to London where she continued her training at several international institutions such as Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney). Finally, on 2016 she gets offered a place at Rose Bruford College to study a BA (Hons) in European Theatre Arts, which she combined with the BA in Drama at KASK, in Belgium. *Workshops with Femke Gyselinck, Lucas Condro, Boyzie Cekwana, Alvaro Frutos, Carlos Aladro and María Ripoll.
Founder member of ‘Yellow Collective’ since 2015, in which she has co-directed, devised and performed the show ‘THE LIGHTS’ in collaboration with María Pizarro-Pérez. THE LIGHTS was premiered in Madrid at Imparables Festival on 2016. Eva also created, performed and co-directed P.A.T.S. in collaboration with Swedish director Johan Bark, which was premiered in London at The Lighthouse Sharing on 2017 and toured around Europe at festivals such as Dreams Before Dawn in Paris, Setubal’s International Theater Festival in Portugal, Camden Fringe in London and Birmingham Fest in Birmingham. Furthermore, on 2018 Eva created, directed and performed ‘WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DANCE’ with the support of ‘Het Entrepot’ and in collaboration with C de la B. It was premiered in May at Het Entrepôt as part of the Double Bill Night and performed at the Wiedauwkaai in Ghent and Setubal’s International Theater Festival in Portugal afterwards.
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The most recent professional work she has partaken in was as a performer in projects such as Guerrilla by El Conde de Torrefiel (Vooruit, Ghent), ‘I | Movement’ by Bozie Cekwana (Just a Good Program Festival in Ghent), ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ by Le Ballets C de la B (Dag van de Dans in Gent), Mourning After by Elena Van Leuven (Amsterdam Fringe, Tinnenpot Theatre in Ghent, Imparables Festival in Madrid & Gemaakt Festival in Maastricht) and Kunstenaarsestafette by Wuivendriet (TumultinGent 6 – Kunstenfestival in Ghent).
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Challenging times for broilers? Phytomolecules, not antibiotics, are the answer
9. September 2019 EW Nutrition
By Ajay Bhoyar and Sabria Regragui Mazili
Anyone working with today’s fast-growing broiler chicken knows that it is a sensitive creature – and so is its gut health. Thanks to continuous improvements in terms of genetics and breeding, nutrition and feeding, as well as general management strategies, broiler production has tremendously upped performance and efficiency over the past decades. It is estimated that, between 1957 and 2005, the broiler growth rate increased by over 400%, while the feed conversion ratio dropped by 50%.
These impressive improvements, however, have come at the cost of intense pressure on the birds’ digestive system, which needs to process large quantities of feed in little time. To achieve optimal growth, a broiler’s gastrointestinal tract (GIT) needs to be in perfect health, all the time. Unsurprisingly, enteric diseases such as necrotic enteritis, which severely damages the intestinal mucosa, hamper the intestines’ capacity to absorb nutrients and induce an inflammatory immune response.
The modern broiler’s gut – a high-performing, but sensitive system
However, in a system as high performing as the modern broiler’s GIT, much less can lead to problems. From when they are day-old chicks up to slaughter, broilers go through several challenging phases during which they are more likely to show impaired gut functionality, e.g. after vaccinations or feed changes. Good management practices go a long way towards eliminating unnecessary stressors for the animals, but some challenging periods are unavoidable.
The transition from starter to grower diets is a classic situation when nutrients are very likely to not be well digested and build up in the gut, fueling the proliferation of harmful microbes. Immunosuppressive stress in combination with an immature intestinal microflora results in disturbances to the bacterial microbiota. At “best”, this entails temporarily reduce nutrient absorption, in the worst case the birds will suffer serious intestinal diseases.
Phytomolecules – the intelligent alternative to antibiotics
To safeguard performance during stressful periods, poultry producers need to anticipate them and proactively provide effective gut health support. For many years, this support came in the form of antibiotic growth promoters (AGP): administered prophylactically, they were effective at keeping harmful enteric bacteria in check. However, due to grave concerns about the development of antimicrobial resistance, non-therapeutic antibiotics use has been banned in many countries. Alternatives need to focus on improving feed digestibility and strengthening gut health, attacking the root causes of why the intestinal microflora would become unbalanced in the first place.
Phytomolecules are secondary metabolites active in the defense mechanisms of plants. Studies have found that certain phytomolecules stimulate digestive enzyme activities and stabilize the gut microflora, “leading to improved feed utilization and less exposure to growth-depressing disorders associated with digestion and metabolism” (Zhai et al., 2018). With other trials showing positive effects on broilers’ growth performance and feed conversion, the research indicates that phytomolecules might also specifically support chickens during challenging phases.
The effect of phytomolecules on broilers during a challenging phase
A study was conducted over a period of 49 days on a commercial broiler farm of an AGP-free integration operation in Japan. The farm reported gut health challenges in the second and third week of the fattening period due to vaccinations and changes to the animals’ diets. The trial included 15504 Ross 308 broilers, divided into two groups. The negative control group included a total of 7242 birds, kept in another house.
All the birds were fed the standard feed of the farm. The trial group (8262 birds) received Activo® Liquid, which contains a synergistic combination of phytomolecules, administered directly through the drinking water. Activo® Liquid was given at an inclusion rate of 200ml per 1000L of water (3.3 US fl oz per gallon of stock solution, diluted at 1:128), from day 8 until day 25, for 8 hours a day.
The results are summarized in Figure 1:
Figure 1: Improved broiler performance for Activo® Liquid group (day 49)
The Activo® Liquid group clearly showed performance improvements compared to the control group. Livability augmented by 1.5%, while the feed conversion rate improved by 3.2%. This resulted in a more than 5% higher score in terms of the performance index.
Challenging times? Tackle them using phytomolecules
Poultry producers take great care to eliminate unnecessary sources of stress for their birds. Nonetheless, during their lifecycle, broiler chickens face challenging periods during which the balance of the intestinal microflora can easily become disturbed, with consequences ranging from decreased nutrient absorption to full-blown enteric disease.
The trial reviewed here showed that, after receiving Activo® Liquid, broilers raised without AGPs showed encouraging performance improvements during a challenging phase of feed changes and vaccinations. Likely thanks to the activation of digestive enzymes and a stabilization of the gut flora, the broilers showed improved livability and feed conversion, thus delivering a much more robust performance during a critical phase of their lives. In times where the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics is no longer an option, phytomolecules allow poultry farmers to effectively support their animals during challenging times.
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Tavárez, Marcos A., and Fausto Solis De Los Santos. “Impact of Genetics and Breeding on Broiler Production Performance: a Look into the Past, Present, and Future of the Industry.” Animal Frontiers 6, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 37–41.
Zhai, Hengxiao, Hong Liu, Shikui Wang, Jinlong Wu, and Anna-Maria Kluenter. “Potential of Essential Oils for Poultry and Pigs.” Animal Nutrition 4, no. 2 (June 2018): 179–86.
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Aug 02, 2018 by Erica Rush in Car Accidents
Nate from Oakland writes: I know, of course, that police and fire trucks are entitled to speed down city streets with sirens and flashing lights when responding to emergencies. But I’m sure I’m not the only one to have also seen police cars slide through red traffic lights for no apparent reason. Is this legal? What are the rules of the road for emergency vehicles and what happens if someone is hurt by one, for example, running a red light?
Thanks for your question, Nate. It can be confusing to know when police are using their law enforcement authority legitimately and when they’ve exceeded their lawful limits, especially in cases when an innocent member of the public gets hurt.
In general, California Vehicle Code (CVC) regulations apply to all drivers, whether or not they are acting in a law enforcement or other public capacity. The only exception to that rule, provided in CVC Section 21055, applies when an authorized emergency vehicle is either: (1) responding to an emergency call or fire alarm; (2) engaged in rescue operations; or (3) in immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law.
In any of these situations, the emergency vehicle drivers are required to warn the public with red lights visible from the front of their vehicles and, when reasonably necessary, activation of sirens. So, in answer to your first question, it is not legal for a police car to “slide through a red light for no apparent reason” and they or their fellow officers would be justified in issuing them a traffic ticket!
Each municipality establishes “general orders” governing local practices for determining when emergency driving, dubbed a “Code 3 response” in police parlance, is necessary. These local regulations vary somewhat (for example, Oakland Police Department’s General Order J-4.1 restricts vehicles to a maximum of 20mph above the posted speed limit, while San Francisco Police Department’s corresponding General Order 5.05 makes no mention of a maximum speed), but they may never contradict the overriding state law.
In Oakland, a police officer may only initiate a Code 3 response if specifically instructed by a dispatcher or supervisor, or if the officer reports field information not available to the dispatcher or supervisor indicating that specific, identifiable circumstances warrant such a response. Once a Code 3 response is underway, supervisors must continually monitor the situation, weighing the gravity of the emergency at hand against the danger of collision created by traffic deviations, and terminate emergency driving as appropriate.
Moving on to your final question, what happens if a member of the public is injured by a police car out of compliance with ordinary traffic laws, the legal determination depends heavily on the facts of a particular case. CVC Section 21055 is an affirmative defense, meaning that an officer sued for personal injuries or property damage seeking to avoid liability has the burden of proving that their conduct satisfied every element of the exception.
Relevant court decisions explain that the exceptions provided in CVC 21055 are designed to ensure a emergency vehicles a “clear and speedy pathway” when the risks to the public from an emergency outweigh the risks to the public from the emergency vehicle’s haste, such that the driver should not be held liable for mere traffic violations in these extraordinary circumstances. See, e.g., Peerless Laundry Services v. City of Los Angeles (1952) and City of Sacramento v. Superior Court (1982). However, even when emergency vehicle drivers are justified in skirting ordinary traffic rules, CVC Section 21056 admonishes that they are not relieved from “the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway.”
Therefore, there are four situations where an emergency vehicle driver might fail to satisfy the requirements for Code 3 exceptions and therefore be held liable for injuries caused while ignoring ordinary traffic rules. First, the driver may be held liable if they have disobeyed traffic laws despite having neither received information to justify a Code 3 response nor reasonably determined that such a response is necessary given observed conditions.
Second, they may be held liable if they fail to warn the public of the possibility that they will not obey ordinary traffic laws by illuminating a red light visible from the front of their vehicle and, if necessary under the circumstances, activating a siren. Third, they may be held liable if they fail to drive with due regard for public safety given the extraordinary circumstances.
Finally, they may be held liable if they exercise their Code 3 privileges arbitrarily, which has been interpreted to mean that they acted either with knowledge that serious injury to another will probably result or with wanton or reckless disregard of the possible consequences.
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Jumbey Café Carmichael opens its doors
EntertainmentMarch 26, 2019March 26, 2019 at 2:20 am Eyewitness News
Double the location – Restauranteur Valentino Munroe stands outside his newly opened establishment, Jumbey Café located on Carmichael and East Avenue. It is the second restaurant for the brand launched in 2016.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Jumbey Café, a popular Village Road restaurant deeply rooted in Bahamian flavours, has opened a second location on Carmichael Road.
The space the new restaurant calls home was formerly occupied by QBC. It sits across the street from John’s Plaza at the junction of Carmichael and East Avenue.
In the restaurant business where there isn’t much room for mistakes, entrepreneur Valentino Munroe knew now was the right time to grow.
“To be able to move into Carmichael in a more urban area with high consumer traffic gives us the ability to broaden our customer base and increase volume, thereby improving our growth prospects and the opportunity to gain a stronger foothold in the food industry,” said Munroe.
To ease staff into the new routine, the restaurant quietly opened its doors on Thursday, March 21. An official opening is slated for next month.
Since its launch in 2016, Jumbey Café has built for itself a solid foundation, methodically establishing its brand identity as a go-to place for authentic Bahamian dishes heavily influenced by the owner’s Andros roots. Think crab soup, baked crab, crab and rice, boil fish, fresh snapper, crack conch and the like, in a down-home atmosphere.
When many neighbourhood restaurants are closed on Sundays, Jumbey Café made a name for itself opening from 9 am to 6 pm. With its reasonably priced menu, a full meal for three costs between $25 to $30, the restaurant delivers good eats for those preferring not to cook before or after church.
Its friendly staff delivers a great customer experience, while the restaurant’s tasty food is prepared fresh daily by Family Islands cooks from Andros, Abaco and Exuma whose specialty recipes have been passed down from generation to generation.
Budget-friendly prices turned browsers into regulars who referred family and friends to this laid-back spot, ideal for grabbing breakfast on the weekend, picking up dinner for the family when the day is done, or for those with a hankering for something more filling than a salad eaten at their desk and were enticed to “come taste the rhythm.”
“We have a very popular base in and around The Village Road Shopping Centre area,” said Munroe, a computer system engineer by profession, who also runs the computers and accessories store, Onit Systems, located just a few doors down.
Although warmly received by the market, Munroe said there’s still more growing to do at the flagship location. In the coming weeks, he hopes to capture a larger market share when the café rolls out its lighter lunch fare – more salads, boils and fresh vegetables. The goal is to attract and retain more of the area’s professional, health-conscious crowd.
Menu options will differ somewhat between locations. Carmichael will stick to Jumbey’s tried and true menu. However, it will offer breakfast seven days a week. The Village Road location serves breakfast three days a week: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
“Our choice of locations demonstrates we are not afraid to get close to some of the bigger players who have done really well in business over the years. I’m not worried about the competition. With food, having options make the market more interesting,” said Munroe whose family owns and operates restaurants and lodging accommodations in Andros.
“We look to compliment and improve the product quality and the level of service in our area of the market. A new entrant, even a small player, could have an amazing impact causing its competitors to take note and improve their level of service. Consequently, the customer benefits from better food quality all around.”
The restauranteur said his priority is ensuring both establishments deliver what it promises – authentic Bahamian food made with all natural, fresh, ingredients prepared in the best environment possible, with a welcoming, courteous staff delivering service that is second to none in the industry.
Said the married father of two: “While we look to expand operations, our bigger dream is really to exemplify to the next generation would it means to grow, build and develop ownership in the Bahamian economy.”
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Differences between CLAT and AILET
LAW entrance tests are conducted on a national, state or university level for admission to various law courses like BA LLB, LLM etc. The CLAT and AILET are the popular and toughest exams to obtain a seat in the top class NLUs (Law Universities) of India
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is an All India entrance examination for admission to the under-graduate and post-graduate degree programmes of 17 National Law Universities.
The examination is conducted on rotation by 17 National Law Universities. The participating NLUs in the order of their establishment are:
1. National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU)
2. National Academy of Legal Study and Research University of Law, Hyderabad (NALSAR)
3. The National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU)
4. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (WBNUJS)
5. National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ)
6. Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur (HNLU)
7. Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU)
8. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow (RMLNLU)
9. Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab (RGNUL)
10. Chanakya National Law University, Patna (CNLU)
11. The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi (NUALS)
12. National Law University Odisha, Cuttack (NLUO)
13. National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi (NUSRL)
14. National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (NLUJAA)
15. Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam (DSNLU)
16. Tamil Nadu National Law School, Tiruchirappalli (TNNLS)
17. Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai (MNLU)
Exam Format:
Pattern of CLAT (Under-Graduate Programme)
Mode of Testing: Computer Based Test (CBT)
Note: There shall be a system of Negative Marking wherein 0.25 marks will be deducted for each of the wrong answer.
Source: CLAT’s official website clat.ac.in
Eligibility Criteria for Appearing in CLAT
For U G Programme
1. Passed 10+2 or equivalent examination with the minimum of :-
(a) Forty-five percent (45%) marks in case of candidates belonging to Unreserved/OBC/ (Specially Abled Persons) Categories and
(b) Forty percent (40%) marks in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST Category
2. Candidates who are appearing in the qualifying examination in April/May are also eligible for appearing in CLAT examination. However, they shall be required to produce an evidence of their passing the qualifying examination at the time of admission, failing which they shall lose their right to be considered for admission.
3. No upper age limit is prescribed for appearing in CLAT
For P G Programme
1. LL.B. or equivalent degree in law examination with a minimum of 55% marks in case of Unreserved/OBC/ (Specially abled persons) categories and 50% marks in case of SC/ST category
2. Candidates who are appearing in the qualifying examination in March/April are also eligible for appearing in CLAT examination. However they shall be required to produce evidence of their passing the qualifying examination in the respective National Law Universities at the time of admission failing which they shall lose their right to be considered for admission.
How should I prepare for CLAT?
The preparation of CLAT is very exhaustive. Over the years due to the increase in the number of students opting for the exam, the level of competition has increased considerably. One of the main aspects that would help you to prepare for the exam is to develop a habit of maintaining notes related to current affairs. The Static General Knowledge requires relevant material in History, Geography, Economics and General Sciences, and a proper understanding of basic legal concepts and legal reasoning along with basic and advanced concepts of Analytical and critical reasoning. Quantitative aptitudes consisting of Class X level concepts are required. All the mentioned sections should be practiced keeping in mind the time constraints. The CLAT exam does not have any structured syllabi to adhere to making it all though more challenging!
The All India Law Entrance Test is conducted for admission to the five-year under-graduate law program of National Law University Delhi. Every year more than thousands of candidates apply for the AILET exam and they want to make their career this field.
Exam Pattern:
Total Marks: 150
Total number of questions: 150
Duration of the Examination: 1 hour 30 minutes
Mode of Testing: Pen & Paper Test
Education: The candidate should have passed the Higher Secondary School Examination (10+2) system or an equivalent examination thereto securing in the aggregate not less than 50% of the total marks. The Candidates appearing in the 12th Standard Examination in March/ April, can also apply.
Candidates awaiting results of the qualifying examination can also appear for the test on condition that they produce proof of having passed the qualifying examination with the prescribed marks at the time of interview. Those who do not clear the qualifying examination with the requisite marks will not be considered for admission. Candidates whose statement of marks of the qualifying examination is not available at the time of the interview are not eligible for admission.
The University reserves the right to cancel the admission of any candidate in accordance with rules. Candidates who get compartment in any subject in the qualifying examination are not eligible for admission in that year.
Age: Be less than 21 years of age on the First day of July of the year of admission. However, in cases of SC or ST candidates the maximum age limit shall be 23 years as on the above date.
The candidate should have been selected in the All India Entrance Test held by National Law University, Delhi.
Syllabus for CLAT exam as below:
1. English including comprehension- The English section will test the candidates’ proficiency in English based on comprehension passages and grammar.
2. General Knowledge and Currents Affairs- The candidates will be tested on their general awareness including static general knowledge.
3. Mathematics- This section will test candidate’s knowledge on elementary mathematics, i.e. maths taught up to Class X.
4. Legal Aptitude- This section will test candidate’s interest towards study of law, research aptitude and problem solving ability. Questions will be framed with the help of legal propositions (described in the paper), and a set of facts to which the said proposition has to be applied. Some propositions may not be “true” in the real sense (e.g. the legal proposition may be that any person who speaks in a movie hall and disturbs others that are watching the movie will be banned from entering any movie theatre across India for one year). Candidates will have to assume the “truth” of these propositions and answer the questions accordingly.
The recent trends reflect that most of the questions will be Principle-fact based. The best way to attempt these questions is, do not make any assumptions outside the given legal principle and fact and stick to the theory that the principle is always right.
The legal fact and legal G.K questions can be attempted well by identification and memorization of important constitutional articles, landmark and recent judgments and new laws/ amendments.
This section requires speed, especially the principle- fact questions, so practice mock tests and previous question papers.
5. Logical Reasoning- The purpose of the logical reasoning section is to test the candidate’s ability to identify patterns, logical links and rectify illogical arguments by including questions such as syllogisms, logical sequences, analogies, etc.
What I need to concentrate upon during last days’ preparation for AILET
Law exam aspirants need to prepare a schedule and stick to it in their last days’ preparation as it will help them in performing well in the exam.
Experts advise for concentrating on revising concepts. Law aspirants should now concentrate on revising concepts of AILET syllabus and re-look their knowledge to be thorough with the revised concepts.
AILET Toppers also advocate for taking regular mock tests. Yashika Jain, AILET, AIR 8 says, “I used to take mock tests and practice last years’ question papers, regularly as it helped me in analyzing me preparation and move to the next level.”
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Meet (once again) sky warrior Captain Vyom: The first Made in India on-screen sci-fi superhero
Gautham Shenoy June 23, 2017 5 min
It may be hard to believe now – going by the quality of the current programming on Indian television – that Indian TV serials were once good, and many great. Perhaps as hard as it is to believe that the M in MTV stands for Music. But both of these facts are in fact, true.
Most, if not almost all, of those good programmes came from the channel that gets a lot of grief today, the national broadcaster Doordarshan. And, at a time when sci-fi was not as mainstream as it is today, DD gave us TV shows such as Indradhanush (The Rainbow) and the Star Trek-inspired Space City Sigma in the late 80s. But the one show that stands heads and shoulders above the rest is Captain Vyom, the 1998 sci-fi space opera series that gave us India’s first bonafide onscreen superhero (sorry Krrish) that has since gone on to attain cult status with many a 30-something bonding over their shared love for the series.
And, at a time when sci-fi was not as mainstream as it is today, DD gave us TV shows such as Indradhanush (The Rainbow) and the Star Trek-inspired Space City Sigma in the late 80s
I know nostalgia is in, but Captain Vyom goes beyond that. As far as the premise and the story goes, it still feels fresh and original once you get past the animation and the costumes that look slightly dated and kitschy respectively. But put in its proper context, Captain Vyom was as good as Indian animation could get in those days, the costumes excusable. And, as I mentioned, it was the story that was the main draw and kept those of my generation looking forward to the next episode in outer space. It deserves a rewatch — or a watch if you haven’t seen it — for more than just nostalgic reasons, and for the landmark of Indian sci-fi that it is.
The one show that stands heads and shoulders above the rest is Captain Vyom, the 1998 sci-fi space opera series that gave us India’s first bonafide onscreen superhero that has since gone on to attain cult status
Created, written and directed by Ketan Mehta, who most recently gave us the movie Maanjhi, the Mountain Man starring Milind Soman as the titular hero, along with a host of other big names and actors including Tom Alter, Rahul Bose, Kartika Rane, Madhu Sapre (the lady Milind Soman so famously posed dressed in a python with), Netra Raghuraman, Dino Morea and others. Captain Vyom is all about a good story, well told and in a fast-paced manner with hardly any time wasted in its 54 episodes, each of which is just about 20 minutes. If you noticed the present tense in the previous sentence, well spotted! We’ll get to that in a bit.
The creator and director of Captain Vyom, Ketan Mehta, on set with some of the cast and crew of the series. Via: Captain Vyom Facebook Page
It’s the early 22nd century and humankind is spread all over the solar system that consists of 11 planets — it’s sci(ence) and fi(ction) after all! Earth is governed by a Vishwa Sarkaar (world government) with its capital in Delhi, whose lingua franca is obviously, Hindi, and headed by a Vishwa Pramukh (world president, played by Tom Alter).
Enter Lieutenant Maya, who is to be the newest jailor of the solar system’s most advanced maximum security prison On Lo, which houses 12 of the most dangerous criminals aka supervillains who used to be great scientists before they crossed over to the dark side. They comprise a rogue’s gallery that includes a cyborg, a shape-shifter, a man who can travel through space and time, another who can control gravity and yet another who can transmute matter. Each with names that’d make any self-respecting supervillain proud — like Morpho, Kineto, Sonic, Gravito, Chornos and even Mohini (the hypnotist), Chalasur (the illusionist) and other such.
The supervillains of Captain Vyom in suspended animation in their respective cells before they escape. Screenshot via: Wow Teens on Youtube
But just as Maya’s about to take command, all the supervillains escape. With the peace of the galaxy and the lives of all its inhabitants under threat — a perfect setting for a superhero — the daredevil Captain Vyom is tasked by the world president with the job of capturing and/or neutralising these scientists-turned-criminals. Even a superhero needs a team, so Captain Vyom puts together a motley crew that includes a medic, and engineer, a fellow soldier, a pilot, Lieutenant Maya (of course!) and even a humanoid android, SYD-E. Together Captain Vyom and his team have a lot of adventures and misadventures as they go about their mission. They meet different people (one of who Vyom falls in love with and who becomes key to their mission) and aliens in different worlds, across time and space.
Left: Captain Vyom and his team just before they embark on their mission to re-capture the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals. Right: Tom Alter as Vishwa Pramukh (world president); Screenshot via: Wow Teens on Youtube
But the series is more than just about how they go about seeking and destroying the threats to the galaxy. There is also a very interesting sub-plot about Captain Vyom’s origin itself. All in all, good fun.
ALSO READ: Science and fiction meet in India: The scientifiction of Jayant Narlikar
Now the bit about the present tense. If I’d written about Captain Vyom last year, there’d have been no way for anyone to watch it. And we’d still have been talking about it in the past tense. But thanks to Ketan Mehta and the animation studio, Cosmos Maya, all the episodes of Captain Vyom — digitally remastered and restored — are now available for 90s kids to rewatch, and for a whole new audience to discover it, on the WOW TEENZ youtube channel. The bonus this time around is (given the shuddh Hindi used in the original series) that it’s available with subtitles in (pretty decent) English. Here’s the first episode of Captain Vyom:
Go ahead, enjoy watching Captain Vyom. And share your feedback and suggestions, your Captain Vyom stories and memories in the comment section below, tweeting with #NWWonFD or on the FactorDaily Facebook page.
I hope to see you meet you here again seven days from now for yet another edition — the 52nd next week — of New Worlds Weekly. Live Long and Prosper!
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817. North Carolina Legislature Prepares to Ban Sea From Rising
The Outer Banks area of North Carolina where storm damage shows
how vulnerable coastal locations are.
Photo cCredit: University of Pennsylvania
By Richard Schiffman, Common Dreams, June 5, 2012
Once upon a time, the great King Canute, strolling on a beach with his courtiers, ordered the waves to halt. Yet they kept on coming. It was a lesson intended for the monarch's fawning sycophants. Canute was showing them that there are limits to power. Even a king can't stop the sea!
The Outer Banks area of North Carolina where storm damage shows how vulnerable coastal locations are. (Credit: University of Pennsylvania)
This lesson seems to have been lost on the members of North Carolina's legislature. They are getting ready to vote on a bill that would prohibit government agencies from preparing for the estimated three feet rise in coastal sea levels which a state-appointed science panel has predicted will occur before the end of the current century.
Not only that, but the forecast of the experts may soon be stricken from the public record-- because it takes into account the impact of Global Warming. And Global Warming isn't happening, right?
Sounds like something you would read in the satirical weekly, the Onion. But no, it's right there in the Charlotte Observer, North Carolina's leading newspaper. The headline reads: "Coastal N.C. counties fighting sea-level rise prediction." These counties, the paper says, have banded together to pressure the state's lawmakers to excise the bad news about the ocean from the report of the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission.
And they appear likely to win this fight against climate science, according to the Observer. If the Republican dominated legislature votes as expected, scientists will be prohibited from factoring in the anticipated impact of climate change and the accelerating melting of the polar icecaps on Carolina's low-lying coastal communities. By legislative decree, the state's own researchers will be forced to base their predictions solely on historical climate data, rather than the acceleration of global warming that climatologists expect to occur in the coming decades.
Why are these politicos forcing the hand of the scientists? Because, let's face it, North Carolina, home to Cape Hatteras and the roughly 2 thousand square miles of low-lying coastlands, could stand to lose millions in developer dollars if the news about rising sea levels got out.
Never mind that the news already is out, and that science can't be nullified by the state legislature of North Carolina. Never mind that continuing to build up this hurricane and storm-surge alley is inviting disaster-- even at current sea-levels.
What's proposed is just crazy for a state that used to be a leader in marine science," East Carolina University geologist Stan Riggs who studies the evolution of the coast told the Observer. "You can't legislate the ocean, and you can't legislate storms."
But apparently you can in North Carolina, which is bent on adopting the ostrich with its head in the sand mode of governance. If you don't admit that you have a problem, maybe you won't have to deal with it. The Observer reports that several local governments on the coast are not waiting for the legislature to act. They have already passed their own resolutions against sea-level rise policies.
Yet increasing beach erosion on Hatteras in recent years is evidence that higher seas are already taking their toll in the Tarheel state.
"As a result of the acceleration of outlet glaciers over large regions, the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are already contributing more and faster to sea level rise than anticipated," according to Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "If this trend continues, we are likely to witness sea level rise 1 meter or more by year 2100", he adds, citing a figure which-- while alarming enough-- is regarded as being rather conservative in some scientific circles.
Based on the growing consensus of scientific opinion, other coastal states are now dealing more realistically with climate change in their contingency planning. Maine is preparing for a 2 meter sea level rise by 2100, Delaware anticipates 1.5 meters, Louisiana 1 meter and California 1.4 meters. Southeastern Florida is looking for a 2-foot rise by 2060. North Carolina, by contrast, expects to be exempt from the sea's advance, and plans for only an 8 inches rise by the end of the present century.
Good luck North Carolina in your goofy tilting at the climate change windmill. But when your emergency preparedness plans come up disastrously short, your insurance costs shoot through the roof, and your brand new coastal developments get swept out to sea, don't come crying to the rest of us to bail you out.
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Posted on May 24 by Toby
Another dispatch from Seattle. This time we catch up with indiepop up and comers Flying Fish Cove. Their debut album At Moonset came out on Help Yourself Records a little over a month ago. They are anchored by the songwriting couple Dena Zilber and Jake Jones and write an innocent brand of pop that has touches of Elephant 6 psychedelics, pastoral folkiness akin to Essex Green, and DIY P.U.N.K. reminiscent of Heavenly.
The album’s cover evokes a tropical paradise where cheetah cubs and friendly lizards hang out underneath double rainbows and twin crescent moons. The album conjures a make believe in light of harsh reality which seems to tips its hat to recent covers of like-minded Seattle bands like Mommy Long Legs and Tacocat. It wouldn’t be out of place on K or Magic Marker, packed full of immediate songs that range from ramshackle to swooning synth-tinged odes. Zilber has a sweet voice that gives you the impression she speaks from experience, while the lone Jones vocal on Cammy the Camry has a Jim Ruiz lounge style to it.
Just when I was giving up on the Seattle scene’s ability to generate new bands , Flying Fish Cove appear and deliver this beguiling beauty. Cheers!
Posted on April 23 by Toby
Living in Seattle at present requires one to be economical, especially if you’re trying to hold it down with the influx of tech usurpers. Folks used to move here for aesthetic reasons, but now that just comes with the package. It’s taken for granted, or just a bonus. You can tell by the shift from quirky and slightly run down shop fronts and houses to sleek, new and mundane shop fronts and townhouses and the tall buildings that keep edging out further and further from downtown. For a few years, it seemed like anyone with an artistic bent was packing up and heading out of town. That left Seattle tipping into a somewhat unenviable circumstance of being like every other fucking city.
Thankfully a few have stayed around and stuck it out. If i were an optimist I might even tell you that things are looking up, at least on the band front. Zebra Hunt have been a light in the darkness these last five or so years and their beacon continues to shine on their third album Trade Desires. At eight songs, it is economical. The band packs its punches and doesn’t waste time on any feints or diversions. Zebra Hunt continue their janglepop mastery and add a handful of new classics like Two States, See Through You and Coral Scenery to their cannon. They also make a Fresh & Only’s song sound like they wrote it and stretch out on the nearly seven minute Don’t Say Anything.
Every time a new Zebra Hunt album comes out, I count myself lucky that I live here. The PNW is known for its snow capped volcanoes, soggy grey days, hoppy beer, and if Zebra Hunt has anything to say about it, jangle pop.
Zebra Hunt Phasing Into the Sunset
Posted on June 6, 2017 by Toby
Zebra Hunt, Unlikely Friends & Seacats at the Sunset Tavern, Seattle | 2 June 2017
Over the last five years it seems like many of my favorite Seattle bands have either broken up or left town. A few new ones have come up to replace them, but it seems like we’re in a slight lean period compared to the previous bounties we’ve experienced. Friday night at the Sunset in Ballard three Seattle bands provided some much needed rain on the parched fields of the Seattle music scene. Zebra Hunt, keepers of the Seattle pop flame, were celebrating their second album seeing the light of day courtesy of Spanish record label Tenorio Cotobade.
If you haven’t heard, Zebra Hunt are Seattle’s answer to the classic Flying Nun jangle of the 80’s and the current day jangling explosion of bands from Australia. If you’re old and dig the Clean and the Chills or young and love the Twerps and Chook Race, then Zebra Hunt will fit nicely into your wheelhouse. Having employed Jack Endino to record it, their sophomore effort improves on sound quality and sees no let up in song quality.
Focusing mostly on the new record the band played a great set for the home crowd and provided after show cupcakes decorated with their album cover. Since the last record Zebra Hunt have added a fourth member to the band to help flesh out their sound. The additional guitar and keyboard combined with their already stellar rhythm section increases the impact of the Zebra Hunt experience.
Singer and songwriter Robert Mercer writes about ordinary life but supplies an element of mystery to to his songs by being economical with the details. He is of the Raymond Carver school of writing. You get stories of house hunting, evening walks, listening to records in the kitchen and Foxhill Drive in 2005 with clues to what happened but no answers. I Wont’ Blame You house hunting backdrop sounds partly inspired by Courtney Barnett’s Depreston which was inspired by Paul Kelly’s To Her Door, which was inspired by Carver’s short stories. The lineage is impeccable. With the release of In Phases, the band now have a larger trove of treasures to pull from for their live shows with a virtual guarantee never to disappoint.
Unlikely Friends were coerced out of their sabbatical to provide support. A BOAT and Math and Physics Club team-up, the group features the um, unlikely combination of both band’s singers, except on this night D. Crane had lost his voice . Probably due to the previous weekend’s BOAT reunion show or some rogue virus, the voiceless Crane replaced his voice with a message he wrote on a series of notebook pages that littered the stage. The band was in triage mode with Charles Bert of MAPC taking over most of the vocals but letting the drummer Chris have some leads as well. They persevered and kept their sense of humor about them. Look for a second album and hopefully more shows from these underdogs when they’re restored to full power sometime in the not too distant future.
Opening the night were Seacats. Formerly of Kelso-Longview, but now apparently based in Seattle. The two singles I have of theirs give the impression that their a silly, happy-go-lucky sort of band, but as I walked in it was in the middle of their heavy stuff. I think it was their nuclear bomb song. Then they switched singers and pulled off a sublime psych-pop number and I was thoroughly confused. I wasn’t sure what to make of it all, but at least it was interesting!
Rolling Coastal Blacking Out or Something Like That
Posted on April 2, 2017 by Toby
One thing about Melbourne, Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever is that I can never seem to get their name right. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, you know. How many bands have four word names these days? People are lucky enough to be able to remember two word band names. It seems that their US label Sub Pop realizes this, shortening the band’s name for their US debut to Rolling Blackouts C.F. I don’t know if this is better though. It isn’t a whole lot easier to remember, and it gives the impression that there is already a band named Coastal Blackouts and these Blackouts are from some country with the initials C.F.
Another thing about Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever is that they jangle. You hear the likely suspects (Bats, Clean, & Feelies) in their sound, but their jangle comes from a more classic rock corner of the universe. Their sound can best be described by the Close Lobsters‘ cover of Neil Young‘s Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black). They sound like they’ve done their time on the bar circuit, and taken their lumps winning over hard drinking, blue collar fellows in dungarees.
One more thing about Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, they’re show this past Tuesday at Barboza here in Seattle was a lot of fun. The five piece band featured three guitarists and singers, but their secret weapon, which all great bands will attest to, was their rhythm section. Every song was anchored by some great bass riffs which was really apparent live. That firm mooring allowed the guitarists to really go into their hyper-manic-riff mode trading licks and often vocal spots. This band seems to be very well oiled machine.
One final thing about Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, they do a mighty fine cover of the Orange Juice classic Blueboy!
Seattle’s designated openers for all Australian jangly type bands, Zebra Hunt did just that. On this night I found out:
In Australia, zebra is pronounced with a short ‘e’.
Zebra Hunt’s second LP is coming out May 19.
The band now seems to be a permanent four piece.
They have got a brand new set of songs that rivals the ones the made me fan in the first place.
They just keep getting better!
They might actually be Australian judging from their ace cover of the Go-Betweens‘ Was There Anything I Could Do?
Belated List of 2016 Seattle LP’s
Is it too late for a list of my favorite hometown albums from last year? Probably, so go ahead and send a letter to the editor if you are feeling list fatigue. Otherwise continue reading and I promise this is the last one till next year.
1. Erik Blood – Lost In Slow Motion (Home Skillet)
Blood was involved in a lot of records this year, including recording two others on this list (Tacocat & Hotels). For his third album Erik Blood is still a solo act, but it’s mostly in name alone. Irene Barber provides additional guitar and singing throughout while it is book-ended by guest vocal appearances from Ismael Butler and OCnotes. He transcends any shoegaze pigeonhole he may have had and broadens his horizons to wide screen cinematic pop.
2. The Exquisits – Home (Asian Man)
The Exquisits have a sweaty punk sound that brings to mind Van Morrisson, the Hold Steady and Buffalo Tom. I also love the way they deftly incorporate horns into their powerful pop making it even more exciting.
3. Tacocat – Lost Time (Hardly Art)
Album number three finds Tacocat with no shortage of inspiration, Seattle, working on the weekend, X-Files and dealing with idiots on the internet. It is immediate and bright and speaks to you whether you are 14 or 40.
4. Versing – Nude Descending (Youth Riot)
Reason number 99 for why I don’t own a record label: When I first saw Versing they played with the then unsigned So Pitted. A few months later So Pitted signed to Sub Pop and released record. Versing put their dissonant Pavement meets Swell Maps record out about a year later on the tiny Tacoma label Youth Riot.
5. Vats – Green Glass Room (End of Time)
On the radio station that plays in my head, any song from this record would be played in a set that included Gang of Four, Lithics, A Frames and the Pheromoans. With its bony elbows, Green Glass Room makes its own space in the dissonant,/angular/punk room.
6. Sloucher – Certainty (Swoon)
Sloucher’s Heatmiser meets Sebadoh takes you back to the 90’s heyday of Seattle rock history.
7. Crater – Talk To Me So I Can Fall Asleep (Help Yourself)
This electronic duo due make dark and moody songs that are just light and breezy enough to dance too.
8. Hotels – Night Showers (Self-released)
Hotels have been knocking around Seattle for years, and have released a number of albums and singles but none as good as their latest. Enhancing their atmospheric guitar based songs with luscious doses of horns and strings makes Night Showers really pop!
9. Lisa Prank – Adult Teen (Father/Daughter)
Colorado transplant Lisa Prank writes bedroom punk rock similar to Colleen Green, like if the Ramones were in your bedroom and preferred a drum machine.
10. Gazebos – Die Alone (Hardly Art)
Recorded by former Fastbacks guitarist Kurt Bloch and fronted by a couple Seattle indierock linchpins – T.V. Coahran who runs Gorgonzola Records and Shannon Perry formerly of Butts and Katharine Hepburn’s Voice. This record feels like it was made by a band of roving minstrels who found some wagons full of amplifiers. It’s loud with a slightly unhinged feel that keeps you on your toes .
Catching Chook Race While They’re Around the USA
Posted on October 16, 2016 by Toby
Taking on America with an extensive 25 date tour is ambitious for any band, but when you’re Chook Race, a little known three piece jangle pop band from Melbourne, Australia it’s downright impressive (and maybe a little insane). The band made its way into Seattle Wednesday night to play the Victory Lounge, a bar with no stage in East Lake. This is one band I thought I would never see in Seattle, but after self-releasing their first album, Chicago label Trouble in Mind signed them making their second LP widely available in the United States as well as this tour a reality.
Singer and guitarist Matthew Liveriadis has a slight monotone delivery, but drummer Carolyn Hawkins provides a beautiful juxtaposition with her backing harmonies. The trio played an energized and jangly set inspired by the Bats and Close Lobsters mixing soon to be jangle pop classics from their first LP with ones of a slightly more classic pop sound from their new second album Around the House. In their short existence the band already have a stash of A-list songs and they didn’t leave any of them out including jangly diamonds like Dentist, Time, Sometimes and Hard to Clean and Older. The band’s tight sound and laid back attitude easily won over the likely already won over folks in attendance and made us all appreciate the long trip they had made to get here.
Like minded Seattlites Zebra Hunt opened for Chook Race with a set that consisted almost entirely of new songs (Half Right was the only old one). Apparently the new album is nearly ready and based on this evidence I would agree. One song really stood out with its Feelies-like crazy rhythm, even slowing down and then rebuilding itself into something quite raucous. Zebra Hunt has still got it!
An Interview With Math & Physics Club
Posted on June 26, 2016 by Toby
Scotland has Belle & Sebastian, Australia has the Lucksmiths and the Pacific Northwest has Math & Physics Club. The Puget Sound darlings share a common aesthetic with the former and a record label with the latter. While they never got out and toured the world to the extent of their colleagues, they’ve been releasing quality records for more than a decade. The Olympia by way of Seattle band (or vice versa) began as a trio, expanded to a quintet and then shrunk back down to a trio and now appear to have settled on being a quartet all the while releasing superbly crafted beautifully melancholy records. The band have just released a compilation that collects their first three EPs and some sundry B-sides. For those of us familiar with the band it’s a great reminder of how good those early songs were and for those not yet acquainted it serves as a great introductory and overview of one of indiepop’s well kept secrets.
Having lived in the PNW for about as long as Math & Physics Club has been around I feel like their records have been like soundtrack to my life up here. I’ve also had the pleasure of seeing them play live many times. After their recent in-store performance at Sonic Boom Records in Ballard I asked them if they wouldn’t mind answering a few questions for this blog. They kindly agreed. I hope you enjoy their insightful answers to my pedestrian questions, and if you happen to be in Seattle this summer the band will play a rare show at the Vera Project on August 8th. Also, be sure to pick up the new compilation In This Together from Matinée Recordings and Fika Recordings.
Do you recognize the Seattle of today compared to the one of 2005 when you released your first EP Weekends Away?
Ethan: It’s different, but we’re different too. You can definitely follow the threads from the past into the present, but I guess recently it’s gotten to be a heavier weave.
Charles: I recently visited Bellingham where I went to college, and I couldn’t remember the last time I was there. It was familiar in that I could still find my way around, and a few of the old shops were still there, but a lot was new and I felt out of place even though I’d lived there for 6 years of my life. Seattle is a bit like that for me now. We’ve taken a lot of time between albums and shows in recent years, and each time we come up for air it feels like I barely recognize the musical landscape.
What has it been like being a band that could be described as twee in a city known for lumberjacks and grunge? Who were some of the bands that you identified with back then?
Ethan: Well, we liked the Posies, the Dharma Bums, Beat Happening, Young Fresh Fellows, Lois, Tullycraft, the Fastbacks, and in a way I think we’ve always seen ourselves as an extension of that part of the local scene, rather than the grunge scene. More Popllama or K than Subpop, if that means anything. Although I guess we don’t sound like any of those bands, they’re part of our culture.
James: I’m really thankful we got the chance to see all those bands growing up. I think we probably learned a lot about the aesthetics of being in a band from watching people like Calvin Johnson or Jeremy Wilson from the Dharma Bums. There wasn’t much separation between the audience and the musicians. There was very few rock star personalities. One minute you’d be standing next to someone watching the show and the next minute they’d be up on stage playing.
Charles: I love how James described it there. I think more than anything we were exposed to bands that respected each other and their audience, and that’s what rubbed off in how we’ve approached being in a band.
Do you think that sounding so different from the what people expected a band from Seattle (or Olympia) to sound like helped you to get recognized in the beginning?
Ethan: I’m not sure if it helped or hurt. We like a lot of the same bands other people like, and that comes out in the music.
Charles: I think it’s fair to say it helped us in the beginning. We probably didn’t sound like a lot of the other demos that landed on desks at KEXP, for example. Sometimes getting people’s attention is half the battle.
The story is that you sent a demo tape to Jimmy at Matinee and quickly became the first American band on the label. What songs were on the demo and why do you think you’re the only band on that American record label? Do you have to speak with an accent when you talk to your label?
Ethan: Our first EP is basically identical to the demo, except we included Love Again on the EP instead of Nothing Really Happened. The demo version of Nothing Really Happened is on the new compilation. I think the story is, Mark Monnone from the Lucksmiths was staying with Jimmy when our demo arrived in the mail, and Mark talked him into giving us a chance.
James: I think that actually is a true story. We should ask Mark and Jimmy to tell us what happened that fabled night. Right when we were joining Matinee another American band called the Fairways was sort of calling it a day. I always loved their music and wished we’d had the chance to get to know them and play a few shows together.
Charles: I think some of that is Mark’s cheeky version of the story, but no doubt he was there when Jimmy got the demo. Whatever the real story, it couldn’t have worked out more perfectly for us. As for why we’re still the only American band on the label, you’d have to ask Jimmy, but if you look around the States there really aren’t a lot of bands doing a similar style of pop, which fits pretty neatly into Matinee’s aesthetic.
How were the first two EPs recorded, were they done by yourselves or did you go into a studio for them?
Ethan: They were mostly recorded at Silvermaple Studio, which is what we called James’ basement, and it consisted of an old computer with CoolEdit, a Mackie PA for preamps and reverb, and a couple of SM57s. The drums for the second EP were recorded in a friend’s basement because he could record more than two mics at a time! Some bits were recorded at Charles’ house, too. We mixed the first EP ourselves, and I think we mixed the second EP too, but our mix was so bad that the mastering engineer told us to redo it. Kevin had all the files on his laptop, but he was leaving for several weeks, so he remixed the whole EP from scratch in a day or two! I actually really like the sound of the early EPs.
James: There really is nothing more terrifying than having Barry Corliss listen to your mix and then point to the door and say come back for mastering when you have it fixed. We really had no idea what we were doing when it came to writing and recording music which was part of the fun. Not knowing how to do something meant there weren’t really any rules.
Charles: Though not following any rules also meant you got sent home to redo it by Barry! My favorite bit of nostalgia about recording those early EPs is that Kevin played the bass drum on Sixteen and Pretty with a spoon because he’d forgotten some piece of drum equipment that day. In all honesty, I used to feel sheepish about the lo-fi sound on the early recordings, but after having worked in a bunch of studios since then, I appreciate that we were somehow able to capture a feeling that’s not easy to replicate.
MAPC was originally five members, but Kevin Emerson (though Kevin still plays drums in the band) and Saundrah Humphrey left after the first album. Besides the obvious we’re now a three piece, how did the band change when they left?
Ethan: Mostly it streamlined our decision making. We’ve always made all our decisions together, so now there are only three people in all the email threads. Usually we figure out the details, and then see if Kevin’s available. And he almost always is. We’ve been playing together for so long, Kevin just knows what to play almost automatically. Before we went into the studio to record California, I think we only rehearsed twice!
James: I’m not entirely sure Kevin isn’t back to being a full time member of MAPC these days. We should ask him sometime!
Charles: At the time Kevin left, I don’t think we quite realized how much the band is really defined by the four of us. We’ve played with other drummers who are our friends and fine musicians, but there’s something about the four of us together that just feels like magic, if you’ll pardon the metaphysics. Luckily we’ve found a way to keep him close. And Saundrah was such a vital part of our early sound that we couldn’t help but change, and I think you can hear the difference in our sound after she left in 2007.
Not many bands stay together for ten plus years. How do you account for your longevity?
Ethan: Well, we’re friends. Some people have poker nights, or they get together to watch football games or something, but we have the band. And because we’re friends, we all know that family comes first, and so we just get together when we can. It’s not always easy, but when we get together, everything just falls into place. It sounds like us, and that’s really satisfying.
James: So there’s laughing and then there’s can’t catch your breath sort of laughing. I’ve probably laughed the hardest over the last ten years hanging out doing stuff with this band. We have a ton of fun when we get together and the music just flows easily for some magical reason.
Charles: I love you guys.
More bands should play in museums. I recently saw the Intelligence play the Frye and it reminded me of seeing you play SAM. I think you even covered the Stone Roses & Razorcuts at that performance. What were some of your more memorable shows in Seattle and elsewhere?
Ethan: We actually got to play our Razorcuts cover with Gregory Webster once! He sang A Is for Alphabet with us at San Francisco Popfest, but sadly the only evidence is a photograph of the top of Gregory’s head!
James: Museums, libraries, record stores, etc. are absolutely some of the coolest places we’ve had a chance to play. Our show at the Seattle Art Museum is probably one of my all time favorite live experiences along with the time we played at the same local public library Charles and I used to go to in Olympia when we were kids.
Charles: I love playing in alternative venues. I wish Seattle had more affordable makeshift music spaces. I’m still hoping to find a boat we can play on! Playing at Bumbershoot in the Sky Church in 2005 is one of my favorites. I couldn’t believe how packed it was, and we were playing on this huge stage and it was weird and wonderful.
I know Charles has been playing in Unlikely Friends with Dave from BOAT, but you included a brand new song (Coastal California, 1985) on the new compilation. So what does the future have in store for MAPC?
Ethan: We recorded another song at the same time as Coastal California, and we’re holding onto that for the future. We have a plan to record some new demos. We’re working up plans for a little tour in the Autumn but I think that’s still a secret. Also, Kevin and I have a side project called Northern Allies, which is more of a new wave postpunk sort of band. But Math and Physics Club seems to turn up opportunities for fun and adventure, which is all anyone can ask for, and it manages to stay alive somehow. I’m so thankful it does.
James: We don’t really have a roadmap drawn for MAPC. We’re just sort of letting it evolve organically and we’ll see where that takes us next.
Charles: Nothing so far has gone according to any plan we could have dreamed up. As long as it continues to be fun, we’ll keep doing it.
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Week of November 22nd, 2007
When life gets weird, should you take refuge in decorum and tradition? Should you intensify your commitment to the humdrum? Is it wise to dress more conservatively, act more dignified, and smile more automatically? I say no. When the daily rhythm veers off track into unexpected detours, I say it's prime time to gleefully depart from The Way Things Have Always Been Done. In fact, I advise you to cultivate your rebellious questions and celebrate the unusual impulses that bubble up. They will help you harvest the epiphanies that life's weirdness is tempting you to pursue.
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Beauty and Truth Laboratory researcher Firenze Matisse traveled to Antarctica. On the first day, the guide took him and his group to a remote area and left them alone for an hour to commune with the pristine air and unearthly stillness. After a while, a penguin ambled up and launched into a ceremonial display of squawks and stretches. Firenze responded with recitals of his favorite memorized poems, imagining he was "engaged in a conversation with eternity." Halfway through his inspired performance of Thich Nhat Hanh's "Please Call Me by My True Names," the penguin sent a stream of green projectile vomit cascading against his chest, and shuffled away.
Though Firenze initially felt deflated by eternity's surprise, no harm was done. He soon came to see it as a first-class cosmic joke, and looked forward to exploiting its value as an amusing story with which to regale his friends back home.
Beauty and Truth Laboratory researcher Michael Logan was the first person to hear Firenze's tale upon his return from Antarctica. "You might want to consider this, Firenze," Michael mused after taking it all in. "Penguins nurture their offspring by chewing food—mixing it up with all God's enzymes—and then vomiting it into the mouths of the penguin babies. Perhaps you weren't the butt of a cosmic joke or some Linda Blair-esque bad review, but in fact the recipient of a very precious gift of love. Who knows?"
Now Firenze has two punch lines for his tale of redemptive pronoia.
The preceding oracle comes from my book, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings. It's available at Amazon or Powells.
"When you die," says the Koran, "God will call upon you to account for all the permitted pleasures you did not enjoy while on earth." There's a similar idea in the Talmud: "A person will be called upon to account, on Judgment Day, for all the permitted pleasures he might have enjoyed but did not." This thought should serve as a central theme for you in the coming weeks, Taurus. Don't worry, you won't die for many years. But to activate your highest spiritual potentials in the near future, you must plumb the depths of bliss, joy, amusement, and fun.
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Quoting geneticists, Guy Murchie says we're all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is any farther removed than your 50th cousin.
Murchie also describes our kinship through an analysis of how deeply we share the air. With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and--owing to the wind's ceaseless circulation--over a year's time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived. Right now you may be carrying atoms that were once inside the lungs of Malcolm X, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, and Cleopatra.
Your intentions have been fine, but you've been a bit off in executing your intentions. It's like you were building a love nest in a parking garage; as if you've been hosting a dinner party with fascinating guests at McDonald's; as if you were confessing profound secrets to a narcissist who wasn't really interested. In other words, Gemini, you have been doing the right things in the wrong places. But I expect that a lucky break will soon shove you out of this awkward disjunction, bringing your style and content into harmony. (P.S. Why not go out and induce that lucky break immediately?)
No one knows you better than you do. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
You're like an arrow in flight. You're a half-cooked feast, the fifth month of pregnancy, the week before a big election. Have you ever mastered a second language? You resemble the time right before fluency arrives.
Lishui is a rapidly growing industrial city in China. With the government's help and blessing, developers have been transforming rugged farmland into level parcels suitable for manufacturing facilities. In recent years, engineers have used dynamite and dump trucks to flatten 108 hills and mountains. The official motto that guides workers is "Each person does the work of two; two days' work is done in one." While I don't normally recommend that you engage in such extreme labors, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to make an exception. You'll have cosmic forces on your side if you do the work of two as you carry out the equivalent of demolishing mountains.
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At a concert in California, devotional singer Krishna Das told a story of escorting his revered teachers, a frail old Indian couple, to an acupuncturist in New York. They had to walk through a neighborhood dominated by strip clubs, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Every few feet, a new salesperson approached with an offer of crack, weed, crank, or sexual adventures.
Krishna Das worried about subjecting his beloved guides to such a degrading experience, but they were unfazed. "This is heaven," said the woman. When a surprised Krishna Das asked what she meant, she replied, "Heaven is any place where one's needs can be met."
The bad news is that Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation on the planet, and is one of the top three producers of greenhouse gas pollution. The good news is that on November 28, the people of Indonesia will unleash the most intense orgy of tree-growing in the history of the world. They're scheduled to plant 79 million saplings in 24 hours. You Leos might also consider undertaking a massive display of fertility in the next three weeks. Your creative powers will be at a peak; your ability to coax abundant life out of seeds and sprouts will be extraordinary.
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Scientists have confirmed what we all knew: You do indeed have a little voice in your head that warns you when you're about to do something dumb. It's called the anterior cingulate cortex, according to white-coated authorities at Carnegie-Mellon University. If you're receptive to it, it's as good as having a guardian angel.
"Don't do it," the voice whispers when you're on the verge of locking your keys in your car or leaving the bar with the cute drunk you just met. "Go back," it murmurs as you start to walk away from a huge, though initially inconvenient, opportunity.
Because of changes in agricultural techniques, food is nowhere near as nutritious as it used to be. Vegetables grown on modern factory farms have 27 percent less calcium and 37 percent less iron than they did in 1975, for example, as well as 21 percent less Vitamin A and 30 percent less Vitamin C. So if you want to avoid being starved of essential nutrients, you either have to eat a huge amount, take supplements, or consume organic food. Are there any other areas of your life where the sustenance levels have dropped, perhaps without your full awareness? Is there an activity that no longer provides you with the boost it used to? Your assignment is to explore this possibility. If you find something's lacking, take immediate measures to make up for what you've been missing.
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More and more creative people find they do their best work when they're feeling healthy and secure. We know writers who no longer need to be drunk or in agony in order to shed the numbness of their daily routine and tap into the full powers of their imagination. We have filmmaker friends whose best work flows not from the depths of alienated self-doubt but rather from the heights of well-earned bliss. Singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey is the patron saint of this new breed. "When I'm contented, I'm more open to receiving a lot of inspiration," she has testified. "I'm most creative when I feel safe and happy."
Talk normally as little as possible in the coming week. Instead, try to communicate primarily by whispering, singing, laughing, speaking in rhyme, using foreign accents, making animal noises, and imitating cartoon characters. In my astrological opinion, this could free you to express feelings and thoughts that you've been unwisely suppressing. It would give you the power to access potent information that neither your monkey mind nor your rational mind has much interest in.
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Go to the ugliest or most forlorn place you know--a drugstore parking lot, the front porch of a crack house, a toxic waste dump, or the place that symbolizes your secret shame--and build a shrine devoted to beauty, truth, and love.
Here are some suggestions about what to put in your shrine: a silk scarf; a smooth rock on which you've inscribed a haiku or joke with a felt-tip pen; coconut cookies or ginger candy; pumpkin seeds and an origami crane; a green kite shaped like a dragon; a music CD you love; a photo of your hero; a votive candle carved with your word of power; a rubber ducky; a bouquet of fresh beets; a print of Van Gogh's "Starry Night."
A while back I asked my readers, "What conditions would you need in your world in order to feel you were living in paradise?" I'll report to you how one Scorpio responded, since it's very apropos to your immediate future. "My utopia," wrote Sandra Boyd of Vancouver, "would require me to be desired, loved, and satiated amidst messy order and cockeyed perfection." I urge you to create that exact set of conditions, Scorpio. Get out there and cultivate the funny logic, wild discipline, and chaotic organization that will help ensure you'll be fiercely adored.
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What causes happiness? Brainstorm at length about this question. Map out the foundations of your own personal science of happiness. Get serious about defining what makes you feel good. To get you started, I will list a few experiences that might possibly arouse your deepest gratification: physical pleasure; seeking the truth; being a good person; contemplating the meaning of life; enjoying the fruits of your accomplishments; escaping your routine; purging pent-up emotion. Do any of these work for you? Name at least ten more.
The visionary genius Isaac Newton revolutionized science and math. His biographer James Gleick says he discovered "more of the essential core of human knowledge than anyone before or after." Ostensibly, Newton was humble, writing that "if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." But he did not actually believe that, writes Salon.com's Farhad Manjoo in his review of Gleick's book. And the fact is that Newton's breakthroughs "were not incremental, not the logical conclusion to centuries of study," but rather the result of "a supernatural, superhuman intuition." This is the kind of intelligence I suspect you'll be able to summon in the coming weeks as you expand your understanding of your place in the world. It will be as if you're snatching raw truths fresh from eternity; as if you're the beneficiary of utterly novel insights that nothing in your life has prepared you for.
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Late at night when there's no traffic, stride down the middle of an empty road that by day is crawling with cars. Dance, careen, and sing songs that fill you with pleasurable emotions. Splay your arms triumphantly as you extemporize prayers in which you make extravagant demands and promises. Give pet names to the trees you pass, declare your admiration for the workers who made the road, and celebrate your sovereignty over a territory that usually belongs to heavy machines and their operators.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were great leaders who were instrumental in creating the United States, but they shared a flaw with most of the other founding fathers: They owned slaves. Only one of the men who midwifed the birth of the nation freed his human chattel: Virginia plantation owner Robert Carter, whose heroism has been largely unsung in the history books. Make him your role model in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It's a good time to meditate on those people you've held down, oppressed, or manipulated (even if it was inadvertent or unconscious), and then correct for how you've interfered with their full blossoming. I'm not saying you're any guiltier of this sin than the rest of us; just that this is your special time to atone.
What blessings will life bring you in the coming week? What challenges will you be invited to dive into? To explore the ripening trends further, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
The sage and her student were standing by a pool discussing longing and ambition.
"What do you want more than anything else?" the sage asked.
"To perfect my ability to love all of creation the way I love myself," the young man replied.
At that moment, the sage tackled the student and shoved his head beneath the water. Accustomed to letting his teacher shape the unpredictable contours of his education, he did not resist.
One minute went by. Then another. The student began to struggle and kick. His teacher was strong.
Finally she released her grip and the student surfaced, fighting for breath.
"What did you want more than anything else during these last few minutes?" the sage inquired.
"Nothing else was in my mind except the desire for air," gasped the student.
"Excellent," beamed the sage. "As soon as you are equally single-minded in your desire to perfect your ability to love all of creation the way you love yourself, you will achieve your goal."
In the coming weeks, you will have an unusually large capacity to see what has been invisible and name what has been unspeakable. You will be adept at solving dull old problems and creating brilliant new ones. You will also have extraordinary power to dissolve restrictions and impose creative limitations, outwit evil and dream up tricky ways to be good, drum up freedom and escape apathy, and rebel against or uphold tradition as necessary. Use your amazing mojo craftily, Aquarius!
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Astrologer Caroline Casey offers an apt metaphor to illustrate how crucial it is for us to hear and read good stories. She notes that if we don't have enough of the normal, healthy kind of iodine in our bodies, we absorb radioactive iodine, which has entered the food chain through nuclear test explosions conducted in the atmosphere. Similarly, unless we fill ourselves up with stories that invigorate us, we're more susceptible to sopping up the poisonous, degenerative narratives.
"You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at," said poet W.H. Auden. Make that your motto in the coming weeks, Pisces. Your motivation for doing the useful work you love to do should not come from you alone. We, the rest of the world, want to be there inside you so that we can root you on and encourage you to give us your very best gifts. Tap into and refine and explore your talents for your own sake, yes -- but do it for us, too.
Where do you want to go in the coming week? Who do you want to be? For more clues, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
In the early years of Christianity, there were hundreds of books interpreting the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. But by 325 A.D., a group backed by the political and military might of the Roman Empire had determined which few of the stories about Christ would thereafter be considered the canonical New Testament, and which would be regarded as heretical bilge.
No better evidence exists for the saying, "History is a tale told by the victors." Keep this in mind as you strategize your way through your personal War of the Stories. Your account of events may have more truth in it than everyone else's conflicting tales, but that won't carry much weight unless you obtain the power to enforce your version.
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“The Conservative manifesto shows little enthusiasm for either HS2 or Heathrow expansion, but neither are they opposed. However there is a huge £28.8bn pledge for road building. £1bn on electric car charging points is welcome, but just reviewing the end date for combustion engine vehicle sales rather than bringing the date froward to 2030 is a cop out. Sitting on fences doesn't cut carbon pollution.
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Home News Stan Lee’s Business Manager Allegedly Filed a False Police Report and Has Been Arrested
Stan Lee’s Business Manager Allegedly Filed a False Police Report and Has Been Arrested
Sabina Gartaula Wed Jun, 2018
The business manager of Marvel icon Stan Lee, Keya Morgan has been arrested after suspicion of filing a false police report.
The news first confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter with the Los Angeles Police Department, reports that Morgan who is one of Lee’s closest confidants was arrested at around 1 p.m.
According to THR, he is due back in court by July 2nd, and $20,000 bail was set for him. Likewise, the LAPD’s Hollywood Division has not revealed any other information regarding the case, but it is suspected that he was arrested because of the report he made this month.
CAPTION: Keya Morgan SOURCE: Newsarama
In early May, two gunmen allegedly confronted Lee at his home and demanded money from him.
Moving along, the 95-year-old Marvel icon’s mental and physical health has become a concern for many as his health has declined drastically in a few months and his memory also has a poor shape.
Numerous problems are surrounding him at the moment like one of his private nursing staff accused him of harassment, a lawsuit against his former company POW Entertainment and legal battle with former business manager Jerry Olivarez.
My only partner and business manager is @KeyaMorgan not all the other people making false claims. pic.twitter.com/JKUT1BZNI7
— stan lee (@TheRealStanLee) June 10, 2018
Lee has also used social media to respect people’s concern towards his health but at the same time neglecting the fact and claiming that the news is fake. He even said that he would sue news outlets and individuals who claim that he is an elder abuse victim, which also involves his manager, Morgan.
However, Lee has been defending his manager a lot and even sharing in a video that he has only one partner who represents him and others are making the story up.
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Check Out This Stunning Footage of Virgin Galactic’s Space Plane
"Welcome to the club, astronauts!"
Victor Tangermann February 26th 2019
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space plane made its way into space for the second time during its fifth test flight on Feb. 22.
And last week, Virgin Galactic released some incredible high-definition footage of the moment its space plane, SpaceShipTwo, was released from mothership WhiteKnightTwo.
WhiteKnightTwo carried the rocket plane up to an altitude of 44,000 feet before it took off on its own to reach a new record altitude of 55.85 miles (89.9km). After being released, VSS Unity can be seen adjusting course and rocketing straight into space.
“I Like This Club”
Pilots officially receive the United States Astronaut Badge, awarded by the Air Force, by flying at an altitude higher than 50 miles (80 km).
“Welcome to the club, astronauts,” one of the ground controllers can be heard saying. “Thanks, base,” replies one of the pilots on board. “Thanks, I like this club,” says the second pilot.
Also on board was the first ever woman to enter space on a U.S. commercial vehicle, chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses.
The video can also be seen as a preview of what’s to come for those who want to experience partial weightlessness for a mere $250,000 — that’s what it’ll cost once Virgin Galactic starts offering tickets for one of the six passenger seats on board the SpaceShipTwo in the coming years.
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Remembrance of Silken Blue
This is, for me, about as metaphysical as it will ever get.
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It’s a just-before-deep-sleep dream, an image-dream, almost real but not quite as colors dance and whirl in washed-out darkness on the back of movie-screen eyelids. Impressions form, dissolve, only to reform in just the same way. Faded streaks in tint and shade, scattered dabs of creamy white and yellow on blue-black create patterns that, even before opening his eyes, Justin knows is his next painting, his first in New York. Rising at twilight, quiet, careful not to wake Alex, while the coffee brews, he gathers his supplies and by 6am, he’s ready to paint. It’s dusk before he’s even vaguely satisfied with what he’s done. And it’s eight more days before he’s finished. He nonetheless will consider his first New York painting the easiest work he ever does. And why? Because, before he ever puts paint to brush to canvas, the work is already finished, complete and fully-formed, intimately captured in those flash-seconds of his image-dream. And even if it does take just a little longer to actually paint it in real life.
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Time spent, ten months of searching and of not finding, of expectations disappointed, of hopes disillusioned, of desires frustrated, all of that for this. Brian stood transfixed, one of those shock-to-the-system moments stilling him, one of those alright-now-everything-makes-sense moments that he’d come to rely on more and more the older he’d gotten. And that the sense of this moment was strange, almost other-worldly, was undeniable. But it was the kind of strangeness he willing acknowledged, even vaguely understood. Realization coming to him instantly that this was exactly what he’d been looking for, searching unwaveringly for, all this time. And here it had been patiently waiting, quietly expecting him to hurry up and find his way home.
So, while Allen Carter droned on about the Philippe Starck building’s features, the salesman’s pitch moving from matters more subjective like convenience and aesthetics and status to matters more practical like terms and rates and fees, casting his bait into seemingly noncommittal waters, Brian mostly tuned him out, only barely paying attention to those matters that apparently concerned Allen so very very much.
Mostly, he had other concerns. Well, really only one particular and overriding concern. Justin was never going to believe this. He hardly did himself even with the evidence right in front of him. Justin was going to go crazy, which was good. Very good. It was always good to make Justin go crazy. One of the little quirks of his personality that Brian had come to appreciate, to even, every once in a while, take expert advantage of during their ten years together.
“I’ll take it,” Brian said, turning to look directly at the man, interrupting Allen‘s drone mid-sentence. Noting his hastily concealed look of surprise, receiving no immediate response, he repeated, “I said…I’ll take it. How about we go do us up some paperwork. Good?” Receiving Allen’s smile of realization, he responded with his own small, very slight grin of satisfaction. Damn, wasn’t having money just so right? So just…as it should be. One of the many perks of being a great big fucking success.
As they rode down in the elevator, Allen said, “Since this is a late-evening appointment there is only a small portion of the paperwork we can complete right now. A follow-up appointment, eventually more like three to five follow-up appointments, will need to be scheduled before any of the real work can begin…” And so, while Allen went on and on, Brian continued to slightly, very slightly grin. Justin was going to go fucking crazy and how right was that. “I’m glad we’ve been able to find a space that meets your very exacting specifications, Mr. Kinney.”
“So, am I, Allen. So am I.”
Once done with Allen Carter and what paperwork could be finished that evening, while in the cab on his way to his and Justin’s apartment, Brian spent those few cocooned moments gazing at the sparkle of nighttime streetlights, remembering. Remembering how it had always been the only Justin-possession, the only actual Justin-possessed object that he could recall with any consistency, with any clarity, while he’d stayed with him in New York. Whether in his first stamp-sized hovel, a fifth-floor walkup shared with Alex or in his second rat-infested hove, a street-level flat also-shared with Alex or in his third decomposing hovel, a turn-of-the-last-century apartment thankfully not shared with Alex, who lived next door, it was the only thing, the only Justin-possession he’d ever taken any real notice of.
Otherwise, only impressions remained. Nearly five years of fleeting glimpses of things come and gone. Of the walk-up’s narrow, never-ending staircase that Justin (the shit) could always take two stairs at a time. Or of the street-level’s annoyingly constant noise that Justin (the fuck) could sleep through like a baby. Or of the turn-of-the-century’s permeating smell of decay that…well, actually not even Justin had gotten used to that particular annoyance. Some common ground.
Other impressions, the screaming neighbors, the mingled odors of melting-pot cooking, the rain driven through painted-shut window frames, were not specific to any one locale. These impressions flowing one into the other were becoming a blur. A fading…a receding…a blissfully distant blur.
But that one Justin-possession, that one fucking painting, had mattered. He’d come to think of it as his even if Justin hadn’t actually given it to him. And so, it had been remembered. And not just because Justin had always hung it next to the bed. Although, that probably hadn’t hurt. But it had been more than that, much more than just a simply fact of location. The thing itself, the quality of the work itself was what he’d remembered, what had worked its way, not entirely unnoticed, into the very fiber of his being.
So, while a mattress on the floor became a mattress with a frame, while packing crates found on the street became a Goodwill-bought dresser and Goodwill-bought kitchen utensils became Crate & Barrel-bought, while other paintings were completed, then hung for a while, then sold or bartered or just given away, this one had remained. Becoming DNA-etched into his being, the one constant in Justin’s otherwise constantly changing world.
And so Brian had known, had known with certainty that he had finally found what he’d spent nine months looking for. The painting leading him. Forcing him to understanding that in some strange way he was allowing it, a four foot by eight foot nearly black acrylic painting, to guide the next long-term phase of their life together. Interesting how something like that could happen. And that he was not only allowing it, but that he was actually instigating this journey, simply because he could, satisfied him. Bliss favoring the prepared mind.
Shifting his legs, trying to find a comfortable position in the cab’s always too-narrow backseat, feeling just a little mystified, but also ultimately at ease with the secret he carried, Brian continued his patient wait while the cab and its driver took him uptown to their fairly decent apartment where Justin, dinner, and most likely Alex, waited for him.
Bright and early the next morning, brushing aside Justin’s concerns about why the fuck was he leaving their very warm bed at 7 fucking o’clock on a Saturday morning, Brian showered, he dressed and grabbing coffee and a bagel at the deli on the corner, flagging down a cab, he sped back downtown for his 9:00am appointment. Obviously Allen Carter and his immediate supervisor, Mr. Adrian Harris, didn’t want any time to elapse before he further committed himself. That he needed to see Justin go crazy just as soon as possible only added to the sense of urgency. He sped downtown so that he could concern himself with terms and rates, with fees and points that would, by their very nature, allow him to sell his very soul for convenience and aesthetics and status. And so that he could watch Justin go crazy. For a better downtown address in New fucking York and so he could watch Justin go crazy. Very good.
Unfortunately, when he arrived, the receptionist said, “There will be slight delay, Mr. Kinney. Our 8:00am appointment is taking a little longer than expected. Would you care to wait or would you rather reschedule?”
Smiling at the slight roll of her eyes, the vague shrug of her shoulders, Brian said, “It’s fine, I’ll wait.” The receptionist’s area was comfortable, the receptionist attentive and since he was already there…whatthehell. He chose a high back, soft leather chair near one of the office tower’s 12th floor view-capturing windows and he settled in. Within minutes he had a large mug of coffee in hand and with not much else to do, having unthinkingly left his Kinnetik/ Babylon briefcase at their apartment, he was restless. His peripheral vision caught worried glances from…? “I’m sorry, what is your name?”
“Mary,” she said, her quick smile showing her pleasure at his attention.
….from Mary. Mirroring her smile before returning back to the toward-Brooklyn skyline, he first scanned his cell then allowed to his thoughts to take up where he’d left off from last night’s cab ride; walking just awhile longer through memory.
He’d seen the painting shortly after the first time he’d visited Justin soon after he’d left Pittsburgh. At the fifth-floor walk-up he shared with Alex the Musician and bi-boy whose little practice space had been converted into Justin‘s bedroom and his living room partially converted into Justin’s makeshift studio. And, honestly, sporadically visiting Justin after that first time hadn’t been all bad. They’d go out only when necessity dictated. Which wasn’t often given that he’d kept his visits to weekends, and to those days immediately bordered weekends, never staying any longer than three days consecutively.
He’d noticed the painting, maybe not right away because, as he remembered it, during those first couple of visits there had just been so much bitching for him to do. So much in fact that gripping and complaining had basically taken precedent over very nearly everything else including the noticing of paintings.
“Justin, the bed, it’s on the floor…still.” He’d paused at the bed room door before cautiously entering the space. “I thought we agreed that this was just a temporary solu--”
“Think of it as a platform bed just…without the platform.” Justin had strolled through the space, gesturing. “Think of it as even further simplifying the already simple. And see how nicely it covers up over half of the shitty-green carpet, Brian? You have got to admit…very duel-purpose.”
He’d edged closer toward the bed thankfully covered in the one Justin-possession-of-luxury, his Egyptian cotton sheets. “And the packing crates?”
“Very mobile, very multi-use. No, really. They double as an on-the-floor dining table when I have a guest over and…bonus, I can easily see exactly where everything is. No inconvenient drawer fronts blocking my view.” He’d knelt before the six neatly stacked-as-a-dresser crates, smiling with a kind of inner satisfaction.
“I can imagine, really. The whole dresser-with-drawers is a concept whose time has come and gone. I see now the error of my more traditional thinking. Oh and look, bricks with boards keeping your books off the floor, very last-century dorm, very…retro. I‘m really kind of surprised, though, that you didn’t just stack the books in neat little piles all over the--”
“I wanted to neaten the place up a little, since you were visiting and everything.”
“I hope you didn’t go to too much trouble?”
“It wasn’t easy finding bricks of this quality but...you’re worth it.”
“Does your mother know how--?”
“We’ve been over this, Brian; I’m not taking anything from mom.”
“Fine. Alright? And anyway, I am touched you’d go to all this trouble, I am. Now, com’ere, so you can show me just how worth it I really am.”
Understandably, it hadn’t been until the next day of that second visit that, for the first time, he’d really noticed the painting. He could hardly have helped it. It had been right there when he’d opened his eyes that bright morning, hanging on the wall just inches above his head. Listening to Justin‘s still-asleep breathing blending with the city’s early morning hum, he’d laid back and gazed up into its blue-black surface dreaming of the day when he wouldn’t be a visitor, but would instead be a denizen of New York City. He’d focused into the painting, its silken blue only made deeper by shadows of soft black which were broken by seemingly randomly strokes of translucent colors or by dots of soft yellowy-white. A surface that had allowed him to imagine making New York real. And while that had been the first, it wouldn’t the last time he would lose himself in that painting. After that and especially in Justin’s ground-floor flat, the painting had become a kind of touchstone for him, the vessel of all his dreams. It would be the first thing he would find, would confirm was still there, that still existed, when visiting–
“Mr. Kinney. Oh, I am sorry, did I startle you? Mr. Harris wanted me to let you know that it should only be another ten minutes or so. Will that be alright? Can I get you anything else?”
“A refill, thanks.” And handing his mug to Mary, his gaze returning out through the window, he waited. Once she’d returned with the coffee, he returned to his day-dreaming, to Justin’s last apartment with its amazing, yet painfully uncared for architectural details, wainscoting, crown molding, huge windows, wood floors and with every sign of the hundred years of living that had gone on in it visible on all its surfaces .It had been there that he’d realized what the painting really meant to him. Because it had been there, after Justin had first moved in, that he had had what could only be considered a very slight, a just barely noticeable panic-attack when he hadn’t found the painting hanging on the wall right next to the bed. He soon discovered why. Justin had instead hung it in the main living space and had been pretty confused when he’d insisted that it be hung where it just naturally belonged. In the bedroom.
“Brian, you’re kind of freaking me out.”
“Whatever. I want it in the bedroom. Where I can see it. Any questions?”
“Uhm…why? You can see it just--”
“Don’t fight me on this, Justin. Just do as I ask. I’ll even help. Why is this such a problem for you?”
“For me? It’s no problem for me, I just don’t under--”
“What? What don’t you understand? It’s just that it’s always been in the bedroom, see? What I don’t understand is your opposition.”
“I thought it’d be nice in the living room, that’s all. Here! Here’s the hammer. We’ll move it, okay? So, did I ever tell you how I got the idea for it?”
“I don’t believe you did.”
“A dream, Brian. Really. When I first moved here, I had this sort of dream--no wait! You want to hang it there? That just looks stupid, Brian. This great big wall and--”
“Shut up, Justin, and hand me the nail. Done. Right at eye-level when I wake-up. Perfect.”
“Whatever, Brian. Anyway, continuing, it was the easiest canvas I’ve ever painted. It was like I was on auto-pilot, like I could’ve done it with my eyes closed.” He stood back, admiring his work.
“Dream or no dream, it’s mine, you know.”
“I had no idea. Since when?”
“Since always.”
“Huh. Live and learn.”
“And as such, it doesn’t get bartered away or sold away or--”
“Mr. Kinney.” At the sound of her voice, he turned to Mary, “Mr. Harris and Mr. Carter are ready for you now.” She gently touched his shoulder, connecting them for a brief moment. “Come with me, please.”
The bulk of the paperwork was dealt with that day, with the handing-over-of-the-big-bucks signaling the meeting‘s conclusion. The third appointment, the one where the fun stuff would take place, was scheduled for the following evening when Justin would finally see, would finally understand and would then finally go crazy. Very…very good.
And so the following evening, standing at the door of the thirty-fifth floor condo, Brain understood what Justin didn’t. He’d been told that waiting for them on the other side of the door was a cocktail party, very upscale, very the-people-to-know, very the-people-to-be-seen-with and Brian also understood that Justin was not pleased. No matter how many of these social evenings they had attended, Justin was never pleased. All the better.
“You’ll do fine, you always do,” Brain said, ringing the buzzer. Mr. Harris answered with Mr. Carter right behind him. They ushered Brian and Justin into the not very large, not very finished open-concept space with near floor-to-ceiling windows and not much more. Well, with nothing more, really. A blank canvas.
“Brian…whatthefuck?” Justin asked, glancing with seriously skeptical eyes at the two men.
Brian noticed and was glad. Then, redirecting his glance from the two men to around the not very large, not very finished space, Justin stood stunned into silence.
“Welcome home,” Mr. Harris and Mr. Carter intoned.
“”Excuse me?” Justin said, turning now with glaring eyes toward them.
“Welcome…home?” they repeated, vaguely unsure, gesturing individually and yet simultaneously, around the space.
“Brain?” Justin said calmly. “Whatthefuck?”
“Come with me, indulge me. There‘s something you need to clearly see.” Leading Justin to THE window, to the large expansive of glass with the New York night just beyond, he waited expectantly, watching as Justin’s expression changed from one of total confusion to one of clear understanding.
“Fuck, Brian. Fuck!”
“My sentiments exactly.”
“My painting. The view. The view! It’s my painting, Brian!”
“That it is and that’s how I knew that this was where we should be, Justin. I just knew.” Brian watched him, still waiting, waiting for him to go crazy, but Justin wasn’t reacting as he’d expected. Instead of going crazy, he simply sat; he sat straight down, cupping his face in his hands. “You okay?” Brian asked, squatting beside him. “Justin, you okay?”
“Yes, yes I’m okay. I doubt I’ve ever been better in my whole life. I’m just…I’m overwhelmed. We live here?”
“Well, we will. In just a few short months. Right, boys?”
“Two to three,” said Mr. Harris. “Work can begin as soon as the plans have been drawn up. As soon as you are ready.”
“Ready?” Justin said, lifting his eyes to him.
Smiling, sitting down next to him, Brian, said, “This time we design the space, Justin, you and me, so it really is ours. The loft was…I don’t know, I may be wrong, but I don’t think you ever fully felt at home there. I’d--”
“Well,” he scowled, “you did have this tendency to, you know, throw me--”
“Anyway, I’d designed the loft to be exactly the way I wanted, the way I needed it to be when I was younger, when I was leading a different kind of life. I want this to be how we want because, as I see it, you actually found this place with your painting-of-a-dream. I just had the good sense to realize what this was when I saw it. Here we’ll make exactly what we want. And, really, this space is in a Phillip Stark Building…in Manhattan…on Wall Street…with a balcony. Although, one thing. I don’t think Alex can swing the monthlys so, no living next door. Sorry.”
“I’m pretty sure Alex will understand. Especially since he knows he’ll be invited to every single party we ever have here, right?”
“And with the painting always right next to the bed, right?” Justin laughed.
”And with the painting always right next to the bed. Where else?” And as he leaned in to kiss Justin, he heard both Mr. Harris and Mr. Carter sigh.
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With Kathleen Stepping down, you think we may finally get a good Disney Star Wars movie?
Gorem
Been waiting for a good new star wars movie for quite sometime now, obviously with her in charge things have been quite the mess with her pushing her SJW agenda and real life gender politics into the movies and with her and the other directors telling the fans that they hate all of us. Hopefully the new guy/gal sets things right, listens to the fans and doesn't make things worse.
I know there's one guy that would totally give us an Ahsoka/Obi Wan epic movie combination. Now that I'd want to go watch! Especially to see awesome Ahsoka again!
Here's to hoping us star wars fans get a good movie release now! More Lightsaber action too! A re-done last Jedi so we have a good Luke! lets make star wars more then just good visuals
UnstopableSteve
I cant see how they can save the series.
Unless they bin TLJ and remake it which will never happen, no amount of story telling can fix what they have done.
June 8, 2018 1:37AM edited June 2018
Nice clickbaity thread.
Come back when there's actual news.
EDIT: SJW, gender politics, etc...the internet is such a fun place these days. Smh.
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Oh no! Female and minority representation in blockbuster movies! What a tragedy!
The new films have plenty of problems but characters being female isn’t one of them.
ScrawnyKid88
"Maybe if I throw in Ahsoka they won't see the obvious sexist chip on my shoulder" he said foolishly
MasterDowns
When she actually steps down I'll celebrate
rodandreelguy
UnstopableSteve wrote: »
Sadly I fear TLJ did too much damage for the sequel trilogy to be saved.
EventineElessedil
No, and it has nothing to do with SJW, but everything to do with what they did to Luke Skywalker.
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Actually a great storyteller can spin it around. There's many ways to fix it.
If one of your things is the death of Luke. There's so many angles to write him back in as not dead.
I didn't read the novelization, so I can't say if it said it in there if he died. I'm sure one of our more learned friends on here knows the answer.
MasterDowns wrote: »
Its not about him dieing that wasnt the problem. They destroyed his character completely, luke skywalker does not act like that.
Its like bringing vader back wearing his helmet and a fairy costume going round granting wishes.
BrekRegis
EventineElessedil wrote: »
This. A thousand times this.
People got the wrong end of the stick over the film's backlash. It was the mistreatment and betrayal of Luke and his legacy built over 3 films and the utter stubbornness of Rian Johnson around that which wrecked this film. Not female characters, take that agenda elsewhere because that's not what's wrong with this film at all.
Johnson needed his own trilogy after JJ had his, it would have worked out, but to have two different people determining the direction of the current trilogy is madness. He's ruined episode 9 as JJ is now working with scraps and has to change direction while introducing new villains and creating a legitimate and plausible rebellion which people actually believe could win... All that in less than 3hrs. Well done Rian. Good luck JJ. I'd like to see JJ do the 2nd of rians trilogy and leave him the same mess to clear up.
No Luke becoming a force ghost is fine. It's how they got there that people have issues with. If Kylo had led an insurgence with some others against Luke's teachings and killed his other students then Luke has a more legitimate reason to do what he does in the rest of the film. Being bitter about almost attacking Kylo carries less weight than watching Kylo cut down other students under Luke's care. You'd be behind Luke and understand his grief more, while not betraying his character. They missed that one completely.
DuneSeaFarmer
IMHO, Kathleen K. Missed her opportunity to enhance the story by punishing instead of teaching. All she did was flip the script. Women were in control men were feeble. Nothing was gained and more ground was lost. I honestly wish George Lucas had just let the SW universe sit as it was. We were fine with things as they were. Kathleen stepping down will make things worse. Those thinking she was forced out will boycott, the fans already boycotting will continue, nothing will be gained. I think KK made the mess, now she needs to clean it up. As for the story, hire Neil Gaiman. KK should focus on running Lucas film, let those qualified do their jobs. If you really want her to be replaced, get Joss Whedon, he's already on the payroll at Marvel.
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BrekRegis wrote: »
Like Anakin killing younglings. In any arc you have to hate either the character or what he or she has done before you can go after them.
DarkHelmet1138
The problems with the last jedi were not about women. You can have a strong female protagonist but don't make her a mary sue. In ep 7 Rey should have lost to Kylo. She had no training and he is supposed to be the Darth Vader of the nee series. Letting her beat him just caused problems. Ep 8 made this worse by having no time skip and having her beat luke in a fight with still no training. Had they done it right she loses to kylo in 7 and is saved by the planet breaking up or chewie or luke or something. Tbh about anything is better than how it went. In 8 she actually trains. And in 9 she would be a believable bad **** hero. It doesn't matter that she's a girl. I didn't really like making Anakin the hero in ep 1 destroying the droid ship but this is more akin ti him beatin darth maul for them. At least there was a time skip for ep2 so you coukd believe anakin had his skills through training and he still gets beaten in ep2 and comes back stronger in ep3. Ep8 ruined that opportunity for Rey. And then there's the stupid way they handled Luke, the pointless story arcs that add nothing to the movie but the obe with Reu is hardest to recover from.
She hasn't stepped down yet. You got me excited
DarkHelmet1138 wrote: »
The problems with the last jedi were not about women. You can have a strong female protagonist but don't make her a mary sue. In ep 7 Rey should have lost to Kylo. She had no training and he is supposed to be the Darth Vader of the nee series. Letting her beat him just caused problems. Ep 8 made this worse by having no time skip and having her beat luke in a fight with still no training. Had they done it right she loses to kylo in 7 and is saved by the planet breaking up or chewie or luke or something. Tbh about anything is better than how it went. In 8 she actually trains. And in 9 she would be a believable bad **** hero. It doesn't matter that she's a girl. I didn't really like making Anakin the hero in ep 1 destroying the droid ship but this is more akin ti him beatin darth maul for them. At least there was a time skip for ep2 so you coukd believe anakin had his skills through training and he still gets beaten in ep2 and comes back stronger in ep3. Ep8 ruined that opportunity for Rey. And then there's the **** way they handled Luke, the pointless story arcs that add nothing to the movie but the obe with Reu is hardest to recover from.
DuneSeaFarmer wrote: »
Exactly. I just think Kylo could have been a much stronger character. A more convincing threat in 9 now would be the re-emergence of Thrawn rather than Kylo leading.
DatBoi wrote: »
Oh dear @DatBoi it is so much more than that. I am sorry if you fail to see that. It will just take far too long to explain.
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ScrawnyKid88 wrote: »
Characters like Ahsoka and Mara Jade prove the fans like female leads and strong female jedi - what we got with Rey was nothing short of overpowered and boring.
The issue isn't she was female - her character was just wrong. Lucasfilm likely made her overpowered because they were introducing a female jedi lead, they thought the fans weren't ready for that, so they made her over powered to compensate - which made the fans, already willing to have a female lead, hate her character.
That's not sexist, its just bad story telling and character development.
@Boo I won’t defend many of the choices made with how the new characters are developed, but people are blaming a “political agenda” instead of the writing itself. Can you see how constantly blaming the “SJW elites” instead of the writing might confuse people like me?
I think the main issue is putting political agendas ahead of the story. For example, the whole canto bite sequence was dripping with political agenda and added almost nothing to the story. It also took up 45 minutes of the movie stopping them from further developing parts of the story that would have served it much better. But as I stated earlier, not even the biggest issue. The lack of a time skip combined with a storyline that only allows a couple of days to pass at most was the biggest issue since it compounded issues with ep 7 rather than making them better but ideally they should have removed the overt politics as well especially where it doesn't fit in the story.
Its everything - Kennedy is pushing the SJW agendas in the movies, of course there is absolute shoddy story telling as well as destruction of beloved characters where the new characters add nothing and are bland/boring.
Then there is the response from Lucasfilm that say that anyone who argues these points are angry white boys who are scared of strong female leads and are racist and that Star Wars does not need to cater to men, especially if you are white. And if you are a white star wars fan then you are probably over weight and live in your parent's basement.
All of that has completely turned me off star wars. Disney better work a miracle with E9 or the franchise will certainly never recover - instead of continuing to bash fans like I have stated above, they had better start listening and doing better for them or Star Wars is truly dead.
UrbanSpacemanKAL
The evil feminist agenda is to ruin the world by putting more girls in movies? No. Please. Don't. Seeing more girls will be horrible.
Dark_Side_1977
I don't understand why people think that Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars.
Most fans despise the prequels, the ewoks' role in ROTJ, and TFA was just a remake of A New Hope.
So I don't see how what Rian Johnson did was worse for the franchise than the past actions of JJ Abrams and George Lucas.
Hey cool, this got lots of attention, I did want to say that I will admit that rogue one was a good star wars movie, the only good Disney star wars movie they have ever made. With KK stepping down my hope is the new person doesn't come out and tell everyone that they hate their fans and will never listen to any of us - and not liking what they put up front makes you multiple names of bad. Anybody besides that would be great. Last Jedi is already factually/objectively worse then the prequels, and all it would have taken to be awesome? one cool Luke scene of him being awesome with a saber and the force. HISHE did it, why can't they?
I miss when star wars was not ruined by these new people that hate star wars, I miss when it was written well and the writer had actually paid attention (ie, when writing ep 8, the guy had not even seen ep.7). I really hope we get an awesome star wars movie that has no politics inside and no mary sue's.
Have a female main character sure, but have her have powerful parents, show her actually being trained for years to be exactly where she is now. Actually give us a good story, and it will be great to be watching a star wars movie again.
Oh and create a new villain that's actually good. Snoke had promise but went out like a chump.
ARougeRogue
The writing and the direction is definitely to blame for the faults of these movies. I don't know much about Kathleen Kennedy, but I have seen some rather unbecoming quotes, and confusing pictures of her attempting to promote Star Wars. A lot of this has been pointlessly divisive.
One of the biggest problems for this new trilogy is that the studio seems to have misunderstood how seriously the fans take Star Wars and the characters of the movies. Considering Star Wars was popular when the first trilogy was released, and when the prequels came out, not to mention the decades in between to build upon the universe, I'm not really sure how they managed to do this.
On the surface they have created characters that are very interesting. Rey is a scavenger from a desert planet, abandoned and alone, struggling to survive. Finn is a stormtrooper who has a change of heart and reluctantly sides with the Resistance. I'm not really sure what Poe is supposed to be, he seemed heroic in The Force Awakens, but in The Last Jedi he seemed reckless and arrogant in the beginning and to me, seemed scared and erratic by the end. At any rate, these are all very good starts to interesting characters, but none of this stuff is ever fleshed out. We never really learn about what Rey's life was like before she left her planet, or what any of her history was. In TLJ, we learn she doesn't really have anything to learn, apparently. What are her motivations?
Finn's connection to the First Order and how he came to be where he was at the start of the trilogy is never really touched upon until it's a convenient plot device for him to know something. Exploring what led to his involvement would have been far more interesting than the side quest through the Casino planet where we learn that our good guys dislike blatant greed and slavery.
Poe's the only interesting character remaining since anything they do with him at this point would be interesting as I feel he has yet to be put to use in any meaningful way.
Perhaps in another 30 or 40 years, after countless video games, comics, novels, fan-fics, and daydreams, these new characters will live up to their predecessors, but as it stands, they're certainly a pale imitation. The characters that came before them weren't perfect, but have had a lot of time to endear themselves to the SW fanbase, and part of what has caused such disdain for this new trilogy is how those now iconic characters have been disrespectfully handled.
I hate the way people group you into sexist bigot racist etc if you didnt like the movie. Other than subjective opinion based arguments such as Lukes character (which I totally agree was a terrible direction) there are fundamental film making issues with TLJ that aren't decided by fans opinions. A lot of which has to do with pacing, dialogue, character development and decisions
Boba_The_Fetter wrote: »
Ah yes. This is why it got a positive review from a majority of film critics. You know the people whose job it is to gage how well a movie does those things? Maybe people lump you in with them because otherwise your criticisms seem completely without merit. It's fine to not like a movie, but to act you are upholding some objective truth about Star Wars or movies in general is when people are gonna call you on your ****
Stop saying KK is stepping down until it actually happens. Sheesh.
Dark_Side_1977 wrote: »
While the prequels had their problems, Jar Jar, most of those problems were isolated. For example, many don't like ep 2 because of the acting in the love scenes. The scenes them selves were necessary since padme and anakin had to fall in love for him to fall in ep 3. The point is that while there are some issues with the prequels most aren't due to bad witting and a bad story. Most of the problems with ep 8 are due to a bad story. For example, we are supposed to believe that kylo is a big bad villian but he is beaten by a girl with no training. There are two conclusions, either rey is a mary sue or kylo is a wimpy villian. Neither option makes a good story and both affect future movies making it hard to ake ep 9 have a good plot. Ep 8 made it worse since you still had snoke as a possible big bad but they killed him off. So now the only villian is whimpy kylo who is already beatable by mary sue rey. You can't blame fans for not being excited about that.
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Should we ask Stardock to postpone Crusade and fix the game we have?
General Pants
Does anyone else want the game we have to work before we get a new one?
November 11, 2016 1:53:32 PM from Galactic Civilizations III Forums
Having just encountered my umpteenth previously-discovered, still-unresolved glitch in this game, I find myself again reconsidering my commitment Gal Civ 3. It seems everywhere I go in the game I find bugs, 'unintended features,' or lackluster performance. In nearly every case, these problems are known, and have been for some time. I am not a pro gamer, I don't know how much polish is expected of a released game, but I never had this many problems with GC2, or Civ5, or Shogun, certainly not over a year after release.
I love this game, I have a huge investment of time and energy in this game, and given the dependence on crowd-sourcing for additional content, I'd like others to remain invested as well. Gamer support is unquestionably vital to the success of a game and a game company. However, I imagine support drops off rapidly when things don't work the way they are supposed to.
I therefore ask my fellow players for opinions on this question: does it seem to you that Stardock is serving your interests by working on a major expansion for a game that has been accused of working more like a beta than a finished product? Should Stardock concentrate limited resources developing new parts of the game when the old parts still have glaring, fun-killing problems? Or should they hold off and use that time and effort to allow the present game to live up to its full potential?
I am a wary of buying a new car from someone who already sold me one that doesn't work right. Do you consider the game complete enough to warrant another major expansion? I understand that a second expansion is part of the de rigour game company business model now. I am as excited as the next person to find out what is in it, but isn't there a point at which you as a gamer should withdraw your support for a game rather than encourage business practices with which you disagree?
If you feel strongly about this, I would suggest lettering the developers know in a constructive, positive manner. I've seen a lot of disparaging remarks here and on Steam, and I don't think they help anyone. Suggesting a solution and offering support is a lot more helpful than yelling. However, if people are as frustrated as I am, we need to at least try to engage the devs on this.
Is there a point at which you as a gamer will withdraw your support for a game and move on?
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Reply #26 November 14, 2016 8:18:46 PM
Quoting Frogboy,
I expect some of you to offer me a place to stay.
You can stay with me but, it won't be anything like your used to so you may just want to stay
Frogboy
from Brad Wardell's Little Tiny Frogs
Quoting tilyas89,
Aside from a complainer or two, I always seen your work held in high esteem in these forums. Whenever Frogboy gets involved, I only see excitement. Maybe I don't come around often enough? Lol
There will be, like in GalCiv II, some new AI options added to the base game. They will not be on by default (just like they were off in GalCiv II). But they will enable expensive algorithms that let the AI really play to win even if it means playing in...not so fun ways.
Back in GalCiv II, a lot of the reason the game felt balanced was because it was the AI, not humans, that found the cheese.
For example, the reason the game didn't have issues with insanely powerful engines was because the AI would design ships with huge ranges with huge sensors, see someone move a transport out of orbit (just for one turn) and the AI would zip in and kill it and leave. Thus, we had to patch the game to keep the AI from designing cheese ships.
There's still a thread around, I think it's called "AI cheese ships". That's the benefit of AI generated ship designs (the downside, as some may recall, is AI ships could often look pretty weird).
Now, I can't promise all that here in base GalCiv III as I haven't really looked at the AI in over a year other than a general overview. But hopefully it helps illustrate my general philosophy on how to do AI.
tilyas89
That seems fair enough. The people complaining about it being too easy are the ones min-maxing with optimal strategies. It's great that they've found them but it'll be even greater when they're up against an AI that plays just as viciously. I hope that the different races retain their personalities while playing to win. And it wouldn't hurt to give a bump to tech that seems to be overshadowed by more efficient options so we all don't head down the same paths on the tech tree. Tall order but you've got my wallet behind you!
Reply #29 November 15, 2016 2:04:09 AM
As far as I'm concerned GalcivIII has been a complete waste of money. From the Alpha to the present day i have not been able to complete a single bloody play through. Late game the same thing happens turns get longer & longer & longer until the point the game keeps crashing and becomes unplayable. I've even took a year of in the hope that the Galciv team might iron out the bugs in this shit show of a game. It's just so frustrating building up for hour upon hour, only for the game to go tits up just as you're getting to the fun bit (conquering the galaxy).
Quoting 18Zulukiller,
This... one of the reasons why larger map games don't get completed.
Syrkres
from Ashes of the Singularity Forums
Then you are the person I need.
I need you to send me your saved game. I will use that as the basis for my AI and optimization work.
Someone did this with Sorcerer King recently and I was able to cut the late game turn times from over 40 seconds down to 6 seconds for him and everyone else in that situation.
In fact, anyone who has a saved game late game that has dumb AI or slow turn performance, send it to me. bwardell@stardock.com with the subject GalCiv III save.
Don't have a current one but, on turn 120 in my current insane game w/ 96 AI so if I get there I'll let you know. My last time I attempted a long game was back on 1.8 (ish) At this point turn time is around 30 seconds, which I can deal with.
I really like this. Thank you!
Lucky_Jack
In preparation for the fact that I'm an old, cranky man now,
Brad? Old? Come on. We have met (you probably don't remember). It was during the development of GC1 and I visited your facility. I had just retired then.
If you want to claim to be old, you must exceed my age (77, and I still feel young).
BTW, all of your aims sound great. There is only one more feature that I would like to see (please don't cringe when I say it) -- full manual battle control. I think in order for the game to be as complete, believable, and realistic seeming as you are describing, it will never reach that point without it. After all, conflict of all types are a part of the human condition, even if physical combat is a very negative one. As was once expressed by Anakin Skywalker (and I am paraphrasing here), when normal negotiations fail you sometimes are forced into aggressive negotiations.
erischild
Quoting Lucky_Jack,
If no one else cringes, I will. To my analysis, one of the reasons we lost the Frog on these forums in the first place was the kind of nasty debates started multiple times in multiple threads on multiple forums over subjects like "realistic" combat. It is a loaded word and a loaded subject. It sounds like you are already aware of just how big an issue it is, and yet you think it will be all right to bring it up just one thousandth time more because you ask us cutely not to cringe. Not gonna happen. At least, not with me. Since I am not in their marketing department, I have no reason to be silent on the subject of people who bring up issues long after they have been repeatedly been beaten to death. The issues I mean, not the people. At least, not yet.
Clytamnestra
I dunno but full battle control would certainly open another can of AI worms.
Firehawk153
I'm on board with this too. And even if we don't get full battle control some means to direct ships at a macro level on an engagement by engagement basis. The current ship roles are nice but it forces you into "one-size-fits-all" and that simply doesn't work for every engagement. I think either option would require significant work to be done to the battle system.
EDIT: Also, totally unrelated but I'm loving the frack crap out of Escalation. Well Done!
That's good to hear as it seems there are plenty who experience this issue. I consider myself "lucky" in that I rarely have had any issues with the game, even in its' Alpha stage. My uneducated assumption is it's because of the amount of memory I have in my rig (ASUS Maximus VII, i7 4970K @ 4.8, GTX 970 SSC, 32GB G.Skill DDR 2133,Thermaltake Level 10 GT Super Gaming Modular Full Tower Computer Case, Noctua NH-D15 6 Cooler, Win 10 Pro, Track IR5, Warthog, CH Pro Pedals, CH Throttle Quadrant, 1 32" & 2 19" Monitors) as I always play on Huge and above sized maps with on average 25-30 other races and even after 400-500+ turns I don't experience any major slow downs where I find myself being impatient for the turn to end. (sounds of knocking on wood heard in the background)
I've been quite pleased with my purchase/experience to date and have the utmost faith in the game continuing to improve and bring all the goodies I came to love about GC2. Looking forward to the future!
admiralWillyWilber
Reply #40 November 16, 2016 12:10:33 AM
Having just encountered my umpteenth previously-discovered, still-unresolved glitch in this game, I find myself again reconsidering my commitment Gal Civ 3. It seems everywhere I go in the game I find bugs, 'unintended features,' or lackluster performance. In nearly every case, these problems are known, and have been for some time. I am not a pro gamer, I don't know how much polish is expected of a released game,
The game hasn't crashed for me in awhile I think they fixed it for me with 1.83, but that doesn't mean there are other problems I don't have. I've always liked the game, and I think it now has a better user interface than two now. The are still upgrading two as of this year, so you can expect them modifying it in the year 2026, so realistically it wont be finished for ten years.
Other than crashes, and a little balancing the game always worked the way it was supposed to.
TheFunMachine
Last I checked Gal Civ 3 was in a really good state and was a lot of fun to play. I think what it needs is more content as well as improvement to AI war fighting and diplomacy. I'm under the impression that the next expansion is going to add a bunch of new mechanics like politics.
On the other hand, with the 4x market saturated right now, it'll have to make a big impression when it comes to the next expansion. Games like Stellaris have raised expectations.
Empress_Fujiko
Explain, use examples of what you would like to see, preferably with screenshots and why you think it would be better. Stardock can't fix something here if they don't understand what is wrong with the current system and how it can be improved. Personally I have no problems with the UI.
I like to see constructive communication here, the only thing I would add to your reply is suggestions on how you think they can improve with examples and explanations on to why that way is better. It's very easy to provide criticism but, it's not always the easiest to provide possible solutions and explanations.
I don't think this thread is the best place to discuss problems in detail. It would be better to discuss individual problems and solutions in other threads ... and there are already lots of threads and discussions providing exactly what you want. Just three recent examples:
https://forums.galciv3.com/480408/page/1/#3656717
https://forums.galciv3.com/480191/
As for my two cents in this thread:
Personally I am not regretting buying GalCiv3 and many of the DLCs so far and I probably will purchase more in the future. I don't see the need to stop development of DLCs or expansions in order to fix the current game. Also I can not complain about stability or performance. However I have to agree that GalCiv3 has two basic shortcomings which have already been mentioned:
1. The fight against the AI is difficult at first but later the AI can not keep up and it get's a little ridiculous. I sure hope the annoucements in this thread that this will be adressed are true.
2. The usability of GalCiv3 on larger maps is very poor and with almost every feature I have to seriously ask myself if any of the developers tried to play an insane map for real. And no, I'm not complaining about micro management. I like to micro manage even on insane maps - but I don't like to have to make 10 clicks where one would suffice. And I don't like to have to search information that should be provided in convient ways.
Yes, there have been improvements on that part, but as far as I know they all came after long struggles and lots of begging. An example are the sorting options in the ship and planets list - after a long time of begging, they were finally implemented ... but are they really thought through? I beg to differ. Another example are the "move to top/bottom"-arrows in the shipyard. I was happy when I read the update notes on that one and they are good - but did they thought of putting them also on the building queues on planets? No. NO, of course not - that would only have been the logical thing to do.
Apparently the GalCiv3 team has basically no compentence in usability engineering - and to be honest, I have given up hope on that part.
Quoting Empress_Fujiko,
Apparently the GalCiv3 team has basically no compentence in usability engineering [...]
I think that is unfair. The programmers are clearly more than competent, certainly good enough to make a marketable game. I agree that parts of the interface could be more ergonomic, but we don't know if that is a failing on thee part of the team, or, much more likely, a choice to allocate resources to a more pressing issue. I assume that every new hotkey and widget adds a day of programming or more, plus days of testing, as well as careful coordination with project managers, all while fixing bugs. So we may have gotten Starbase Automation instead of a new interface.
Let's try to keep these posts positive, I know many of us are frustrated at different things in the game but, there can be a more constructive way to get this point across
Another thing I paid my Founders fee for was the forum presence of a friendly but gloating CEO discussing his vaunted AI and its continuing multi-year mission to dominate GalCiv players everywhere.
My full time move to GalCiv III doesn't start until November 28.
And I won't be gloating. That's too easy. You have a misunderunderstanding of my expectations of good AI. It's not enough for it to win. It has to destroy you.
Once I enslave you all to the AI, there will be no more complaining. From anyone. Ever.
In preparation for the fact that I'm an old, cranky man now, we have hired two new engineers to work on GalCiv III.
I have a lot of complaints. A lot more than you guys do. I'm not a popular guy around here. Which reminds me, when this is over, I expect some of you to offer me a place to stay.
I just want to say that I became a founder for GalCiv III because of you. I don't begrudge your lack of involvement because the scope of Stardock's business has vastly increased since the days of GalCiv II.. but I think all of the hardcore GalCiv fans have definitely missed your involvement. Whether that is in the perceived incompetence of the AI, the infrequency of your contributions in the forum, or the dearth of development journals is hard to say.
I am excited that you are taking a hands on approach. I've been sad that I have felt so little compulsion to play GalCiv III. I can't wait for that to change...!
Reply #46 January 26, 2017 11:58:03 AM
As OP, I formally rescind the basis of this post. Major improvements in the game have happened BEFORE Crusade, and the news on Crusade is so promising, and the expansion may go so far toward solving problems and improving the game, that it seems best to let StarDock do what they do best.
Thanks StarDock!
Reply #47 January 29, 2017 9:41:16 PM
Thank you! And to those who sent me sir saved games. That was really the key!
STEPHAN ADORIAN
Reply #48 March 11, 2017 10:17:19 AM
Hey Creemap. I play on insane maps with 2 to 3 opponents. I set the game to save every 20 moves. This means that near end game its hanging on to a few saved games which really slows the game down, After every 40 or so moves I hit the escape key. delete the previous saves listed and the save the game in its current state. Do that also at the end of a session. I only hold saves in the early game in case I blow it and can go back to an earlier save. Hope this helps.
Ashbery76
I am fine with the DLC model.Games like Moo2 and AlphaCentuari had like one patch and that was it.We get games that live on years after release now.Games like WarhammerTW and EU4 would be good games but not close to what they became after DLC support.
Horemvore
Reply #50 March 11, 2017 12:25:23 PM
Bit of a nit pick really, Stellaris is not a 4x, its GSG.
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Parlato Case
FR’s Mission
Lauren Salzman
Relentless Collateral, Staging Fake Crimes, Standing Barefoot in Snow, Locked in Dungeons, Being Kicked on Ground, Paddled — Welcome to the Insane World of Lauren Salzman
This is Part 15 of our series on Lauren Salzman, a Nxivm leader who testified in the trial of Keith Alan Raniere as a victim of her leader.
She pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy – and is awaiting sentencing. Meanwhile, we have been studying whether she is more of a victim or a perpetrator.
Either way, she is one insane woman – to have done what she has testified to have done. This post may be the most insane of them all.
Listen carefully as she describes – often with rambling and nearly incomprehensible run-on sentences – as if it were normal – just about the most insane existence anybody could ever imagine.
It is the trial of Keith Alan Raniere. It is May 20, 2019. Assistant US Attorney Tanya Hajjar is examining Lauren Salzman.
Tanya Hajjar
Q You testified that you provided collateral to join DOS?
A Yes.
Q At some point were you required to submit additional collateral?
Q Can explain that to the jury?
A Well, initially,… I was told that I need to provide something that would be, like, so significant that I would, like, rather die than share this information. So I provided the account of … an actual crime that I had been a party to and that implicated my parents, Keith, and a number of my friends. And… that collateral was rejected, and so then I was asked to provide naked pictures instead.
Q And sometime after that, after you had joined DOS, were you required to commit collateral on a monthly basis?
A Yes. … after I said I wanted to join, the idea was that you collateralized all areas of your life. So I had, you know, promised to — all my material possessions, all my finances, you know, all of that. And then Keith said — came to a meeting or asked at the meeting why we weren’t submitting monthly collateral, as if it had been a thing. And I guess it had been before I came, but I was unaware of it, and I learned that we were supposed to be submitting monthly collateral. He said that the idea of it and the importance of it was to keep the collateral current.
So like if I — and I think he gave an example of a car. I don’t recall specifically, but like my impression coming away from that was like that if I had a Toyota or something now, maybe I’m not as successful in my life now or that Toyota is not going to be as valuable to me in ten years and maybe even in ten years I could afford a Mercedes or something. So the Toyota wouldn’t have the same hold on me and ensure my secrecy and commitment. So we always had to keep the collateral current so that it would always have that influence, that effect that we would be unwilling to go against our commitment or — our commitment of staying forever and being in total obedience and secrecy.
Q Did you submit monthly collateral?
A I did, yes.
Q What were some of the things you submitted as monthly collateral?
A I mean, we were taking naked pictures, up close vagina pictures three times a week. So I was told that wasn’t considered collateral, but to me that was very weighty collateral because it was not something I would ever want anybody to see and there was a lot of it. But then I started promising more material possessions and things, but we were running out of what to do, and so we were asking each other and asking Keith for ideas of what you could do and when everything is already collateralized and he had suggested at one point like that, you know, we could get creative and he shared — he said you could even stage crimes. He told me a story of somebody who had staged a break-in to make it look like they had, like, broken into Clare’s house and taken something which she wasn’t home, but really the whole thing was a sham. But it was this idea that we could have things like criminally — you know, implications, criminal implications to our collateral.
Q So the defendant suggested that there would be videos of these staged crimes?
Q And those videos were collateral?
Lauren was shown a picture of the house below.
Q Do you recognize this address?
A Yes, 9 Milltowne Drive in Waterford.
Q Was this an address that was associated with the DOS house?
Q Ms. Salzman, were there penitences or punishments in DOS?
A Yes, there were.
Q Can you explain that to the jury?
A So penitence was a concept that we learned in the NXIVM curriculum, and it was the idea of taking on something painful or difficult to remind yourself of the importance and to build continuous self-awareness, in essence, of the importance of various things, whatever the important value was that you were seeking to uphold or actualize. And some of the penitences would be in line with, let’s say, you were — you know, mindless, or late a lot, you might take a penitence of doing some sort of like a 15-minute reality check, just 15 minutes, just come, be conscious of where you are, what your time frame is, and build awareness so you would stop being late. But also maybe that you were late and took on a penitence like taking a cold shower, for example, standing barefoot in the snow, that would be so uncomfortable that you would think twice before ever being late again.
So when I joined the sorority, they had shared with me that some of the penitence they had been doing was for failure like waking up in the middle of the night and do burpees. But when we failed a readiness, they had been taking paddlings. So we were to paddle each other with a piece — a leather strap, you know, naked butt for our readiness failures that we were doing.
Burpees are a form of exercise. Women of DOS had to get up in the middle of the night from a sound sleep and do them.
Q Did there come a time where the defendant discussed paddling with you?
A He [phone] called into a meeting where we were paddling each other for our failures and we were taking penances for the readiness failures but then it became any item on our minute list with any of our projects or any of the things that we had committed to do that we were failing at we were taking paddling for, so we would take our naked picture and then everybody would take the number of whips that … was commensurate with your failures and he called in and wanted to make sure that we were flicking our wrist hard enough or if you flick your wrist a specific way or if you really get the wrist into it, then it should really hurt and that’s what the paddling should be, it should be something that really hurts.
Lauren took lots of bare-assed paddling. Raniere made sure it hurt by instructing the women how to their wrist as they delivered the blows. In this text from Lauren to one of her slaves, she shows a picture of the kind of paddles she thinks work best.
Q Were taking penances or punishments optional in DOS?
A No, because he — I mean he was — we’re doing a vow of obedience and he’s saying “what are you going to do to fix it?” and you were required to fix it.
Q And were some of these ways, including paddling, ways to fix it?
A Yeah, it was viewed as a way to fix it, to make sure it never happens again. If you get hit hard enough, you start thinking twice about screwing up readiness [drills], not staying up all night [i.e. going to sleep] if you needed to get something done or whatever the thing was.
Q Did you come to learn that the First Line [masters] had been paddled by the defendant?
The First Line slaves and their master in the center.
A Daniella told me she had — she told me that she had been paddled by him and it was so painful and it was something I hoped to never happen to me, it didn’t sound like anything I ever wanted.
Q And this is Daniella Padilla?
Government picture of Daniella Padilla. Raniere kicked her when she was on the floor – as a punishment for her being prideful.
A Yeah. I was concerned about it.
Q Did Daniella Padilla tell you about another punishment the defendant gave her?
A She told me that she was in a prideful state and that he was trying to help her break the state and she had been on the floor and that he kicked her and that was also something that I never wanted to be in the situation. These things started to become scary for me. I was concerned about failing.
Q And when you say “prideful state,” what does that mean, what do you understand that to mean?
A Not being vulnerable, not being willing to acknowledge failures or wrong — like that she had failed or that she was wrong, that instead she was trying to be right or be arrogant and not be humble.
Q You testified, Ms. Salzman, about a dungeon in the context of DOS?
Q Did the defendant tell you about a dungeon?
A Yes, and Daniella as well, that they were making a dungeon in the basement and he spoke specifically about a cage, that there would be a cage and he said it was for the people who were the most committed to growth, they could go and get locked in the cage and my understanding of it was it was a type of surrendering, that to go in and to get locked in and to not know when whoever was in charge of it was going to let you out which also was something that I didn’t want to do, that was scary, and that I was concerned that I would have to do to demonstrate that I was one of the people who was committed to growth or that it would become something that we were taking on like as a penance for something.
Q You say the basement?
Q Where is the basement?
A Of 9 Milltowne Drive, of the sorority house.
Q What did you picture the dungeon to contain, what did you understand it to have?
A Well, Daniella tell me at one point that she had ordered a bunch of things for it and all the things that she described were like BDSM sex torture things.
Q Like what?
A Like handcuffs, she described the cage, nipple clamps. She talked about one thing that — I didn’t understand the concept specifically — but like tied your wrists and ankles and had some kind of net or something, I don’t — you know, all things that were sexual in nature.
Q Did Daniella Padilla in fact order items for the dungeon?
A She told me she did order them and that the weekend that everything about DOS became public [through the Frank Report] she told me that she had ordered the things and she was going to cancel the order so it didn’t become public that we had a dungeon or we were having the dungeon.
Q Did you have a conversation with the defendant about what would happen if you went in the cage or did you express to the defendant a concern?
A It wasn’t specifically about what would happen much beyond it was you were just in there until they let you out but what I — you know, you would just be in there surrendering, it could be, you know, ten minutes, it could be an hour, it could be days, like you didn’t know how long it would be and that was the whole point of surrender but what I imagined was like being in there and having to go to the bathroom or something and then having to go through like that type of a humiliation which I think was the point of surrender, being willing to go through things that were vulnerable or humiliating or being willing to go through whatever as an experience of complete surrender and so that’s what I imagined and, you know, obviously not the kind of thing you’re hoping to experience. I wasn’t. I wasn’t hoping to experience that. It wasn’t something I wanted to do. And the fact that it was being linked with growth, like the most committed people to growth, so it became like if I didn’t want to do it, then I was one of those people that wasn’t committed to growth and that was a very hard thing to get my mind around and I didn’t believe that you couldn’t be most committed to growth unless you were willing to do BDSM things.
Is there anyone who doubts that Raniere’s dungeon idea was not about growth but sheer sadism?
And what can we say about Lauren?
She talks about this all – even her fear of it – as if this really was a lifestyle and something progressive and character building. Her shocking lack of awareness of Keith being evil – despite all he had done to her over the years – is astounding. She is truly defective in being able to detect sinister motives in another person. That may be because her own mother had less the beneficent designs on her over the years.
But imagine, going into dungeons, evidently without a restroom, not knowing when you would be let out – it might be days – knowing Raniere; being paddled viciously, with Raniere calling in while the paddling session is going on – to make sure they are hitting each other hard enough, standing barefoot in the snow, waking up in the middle of the night to do burpees, and not to mention assigning everything you own to Raniere – along with vagina pictures and a nice big burning brand.
All for growth?
It is good that Raniere himself will be permitted to experience some of the same kind of growth where he is now and where he is likely to be assigned after sentencing.
Happily, he will be in a dungeon. But we do know something Lauren and the other women did not know about their dungeon – we know Raniere is never likely to ever be let out of his.
Viva Executive Success!
Did Lauren take a beating?
Marie White enlarged this photo of Lauren Salzman which shows she has quite a scar on her shoulder – not unlike the scar she has on her pubic region. Was this caused by an accident or is this a mark made by Raniere?
See the other parts in our series>
Part 1: How Lauren Salzman Described Her Branding Session
Part 2: Lauren Salzman Recruited Sarah Edmondson by Lying and Agreed Sarah Should Cuckold Her Husband if Raniere Commanded
Part 3: Lauren Salzman Describes Collateral She Got From Her Slaves, After Lying to Them About DOS
Part 4: Lauren Salzman Brands Five Slaves Lying to Them About the Brand; Becomes the Leading Recruiter of DOS
Part 5 Lauren Salzman and Her Slaves Got Bare-Ass Paddling
Part 6: Lauren Salzman Manages Her Slaves – With Cruelty and Insanity
Part 7: Lauren Salzman Describes Sex Life With Keith, Threesomes, Nude Photos, How She Kissed Another Man and How She Talked Other Women Into Staying With the Monster
Part 8: More Insanity: Lauren Salzman Touches Man at Volleyball; Keith Says ‘No Avatar Baby’
Part 9 Lauren Salzman Sent to Mind-F–k Gay Woman Who Did Not Want Keith as a Sperm Donor
Part 10 Lauren Salzman Describes DOS First Line Slave Masters, Admits She Wrote Letter Supporting Nicki Clyne’s and Allison Mack’s Fake Marriage
Part 11 Lauren Salzman Explains Raniere’s Creepy Readiness Drills
Part 12 How Lauren Salzman Was Cheated Out of Motherhood by Keith Raniere and DOS
Part 13 Lauren Salzman Names Inner Circle and Keith’s Relationships With Them
Part 14 Lauren Salzman Discusses Up Close Vagina Pics She, Allison Mack and Other DOS Slaves Took Together – Keith Was Having Sex With All of Them But Her
Bangkok: 11 Reasons Why Trump’s Non-Retaliation for Iran’s Missile Strike Was Perfect Response
Trump Blundered By Not Retaliating on Iran Missile Strikes, May Encourage More Iranian Aggression
Will Raniere Wind up in Super Max ADX in Colorado?
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I guess Keith wanting all those pix of vaginas means he didn’t do anal.
Guess what, he’s doing anal now.
Fool me Not says:
Might be scripted. She takes the Fall for everyone, knowing she’ll get leniency for testifying.
But, honestly, the whole thing was just so F’ed up. Fall, no fall, whatever–who on earth could go for such royal horseshit.
Heidi Hutchinson says:
The staged crime blackmail (er, collateral) scheme is especially cunning and appalling.
That way, of course, the cult gets to rob Clare or whomever, have a scapegoat at hand for any real crimes of a similar nature that occur and revel in the sadistic joy of punishing the accused “faux” criminal. PLUS, Vanguard gets to once again rescue Clare from the clutches of evil forces out to steal her gilt. Wow.
I refuse to believe that Lauren — who was her recruit, Daniella Fernandez’s, cruel jail keeper over Daniella’s alleged thievery and/or unauthorized infatuation with Lauren’s brother-in-law Ben Myers — and/or Nancy didn’t dream up some of these insane schemes that were useful for the Salzman’s own purposes in their own interests to deflect suspicion from themselves for the yet unprosecuted crimes they perpetrated with Raniere long before DOS started.
The only bit of sympathy I can muster for Lauren Salzman is the fact that she’s taking the fall for her entire fam. — except in doing so she, no doubt, can still look forward to a rich reward so long as the other Salzman criminals remain unpunished.
That’s not an apology, that’s not remorse or regret, that’s another con scheme only Nancy Salzman (without Raniere, mind you) could have come up and lawyered up with.
Heidi, I agree with you. This was scripted testimony concocted by the Evil Mother Nancy!
Girl Scout Cookies says:
Agree. It does appear as if Lauren is taking the fall for her entire family . Nancy is the source of more information.
Mexican woman says:
Maybe Lauren was worried about how long some one could be confided to the cage given What she saw with Dany.
This also tells me she was very aware she was imprisoning someone. Regardless of how Keith treated her, she should be responsible for her actions. She helped to imprison another person. She needs to be held accountable .
Dianne Lipson says:
Escape stories from other cults show that there is a point for even the some of most high-ranked, die-hard, dedicated members, when they just can’t take the abuse anymore.
Lauren was starting to doubt that BDSM was really the path to “growth.” Maybe she would have woken up on her own someday. I’m glad Frank accelerated the process.
As long as the cash kept coming, Lauren and Nancy were in for the duration.
Under Threat says:
Here on the Frank Report, we are talking about people who used collateral to control the actions of others. This recent tweet by Flowers and some of the other craziness on her twitter feed look like she’s engaged in the same thing. Is there any way we can contact the people she’s referencing and warn them? No one replies to her tweets so they may not know they’re in danger.
https://twitter.com/jypsie_soul/status/1212792891245858817?s=20
Scott Johnson says:
Flowers is just crazy, not violent crazy. I’m so glad Twitter “banned” me, they deserve people like Flowers.
Threat says:
For the sake of all those whose initials she’s listed, first names she’s used and especially those in the pictures, I hope you’re right, Scott
NiceGuy says:
Flowers wears cowboy hats!!! Check out the pic. Scott you are cowboy and she is a cowgirl. I believe that fact alone makes Flowers worthy of consideration…..
Maybe she can ride you reverse cowgirl in a butt rodeo?
I’ve lived in Texas for almost three and a half decades and have never worn, let alone owned, a pair of cowboy boots or a hat.
Hats & Boots don’t make the cowboy, Scotty….
….Heart, tenacity and the American spirit make the cowboy.
I didn’t bring up the cowboy hat, YOU did. LOL
I know what makes a cowboy/Texan, that’s why I stayed here after moving to Texas almost 3.5 decades ago. AND that explains why you don’t live in Texas. LOL
I always thought you stayed in Texas because you couldn’t afford a bus ticket.
Clifton Parker says:
She truly sounds like a whackjob in those tweets…..
Parker & Everyone Else,
RE: Flowers’ Frozen Cats and Frozen Ex-Boy Friend:
Now, do you all believe me?!?!?!?
Frank – Somewhere on here, you recently commented that it wasn’t your decision to blur the faces of people like Mark Vicente in that ID program you were a part of. What reason did the people in charge or their legal folks give for doing it? Since Vicente testified and has given interviews and appeared on several other programs, why would he need to be blurred out?
Frank Parlato says:
I don’t know the reason. I think it was done by legal. Perhaps it was haphazard, not unlike the feds did in the case against Raniere – where some of the women were first name only and some were first and last and some who were first name only were at other part of the trial first and last names. I would not have blurred out any faces — that came with the final editing – where the color was tweaked and some music was added. I was not part of the final process. I had approved the film, its sequence, the scenes etc. for accuracy – but did not involve myself in the final editing – leaving that to experts. Someone decided to blur out a few faces. To me, it was not worth a special effort to find out why legal wanted that.
Emiliano Salinas’ blurring is a no-brainer. And it’s not bc he’s ugly.
There is no doubt growth was involved, the growth of Raniere’s control over the DOS and non-DOS women, and to a lesser extent, men. The women were told it was for their own personal growth, that is the big NXIVM lie.
I do find it amazing none of them snapped out of it, but given a little more time, perhaps some of them would have, similar to the NXIVM 9 a decade earlier, but the Frank Report interrupted that probable sequence of events.
AnonyMaker says:
Don’t Edmondson, and Vicente, count as having snapped out of it? And then there was court testimony about at least one slave wanting out, though I can’t recall exactly how that related to the timeline of the public disclosures about DOS.
It’s amazing that as many of them stayed in as long as they did, but it also seems to me that Raniere had finally pushed things too far and the situation was on its way to collapse regardless of what turned out to be the particular tipping point. You may well be right that there would have been some group defection before long.
If I’m recalling correctly, Edmondson went to Frank, who told her to go to the NYT.
If Frank didn’t already have his website going, with all of the dirt he already had on NXIVM, who knows where it would have gone. Perhaps Edmondson and Vicente would have walked away and stayed quiet, because they were afraid of Bronfman’s lawsuits. It could have taken several years before a mass defection occurred, and even then it could have landed like a thud like the NXIVM 9 did. Frank was the catalyst.
I mean, at some point when you’re providing constant up close shots of your vagina for your leader a light bulb would go off??
Nutjob says:
One would think. I wonder if the forests covering up the money shots helped them rationalize going along for the ride?
I guess if Keith could have awkward group masturbation sessions with his male chums, it’s only fair that the women got to enjoy some awkward group nudity. And no need to remember the ruler.
I don’t have one, I’ll have to take your word for it.
Scott made a genuinely good point. I say my compliment with the utmost sincerity.
I learned tonight that even mentally impaired adults can rise above their retardation, and make valuable contributions to the public discourse.
Thanks Frank Report for teaching me the error of my ways.
I bet Scott has all sorts of interesting insights into diaper rash.
At least you don’t have to role play that you’re a retard. LOL
REBA says:
The last two nights on Lifetime – R Kelly the reckoning part II has been on – Episode three is on tonight at 8- I am sure they will show the other two episodes prior to the final one airing so anyone can binge watch it all.
R Kelly used many of the same control techniques as Raniere to keep his girls in line. Even the concept that Love is Pain is mentioned multiple times by the women who escaped.
Which brings me to wonder: Did the perps: Raniere and Kelly (and lets throw in Epstein) have similar traumatic events in their childhood that triggered this concept that love is pain. In Kelly’s case it was childhood sexual abuse.
PS. Later this year Lifetime is doing a series on Epstein. I will add that the R KELLY series is much better than the made for TV movie Lifetime did based on Catherine Oxenberg’s Captive.
Women and men with a strong shame response, which is a majority of human beings subjected to strict religious upbringing and/or sexual abuse in their formative years of development are prone to manipulation tactics like you discussed with R Kelly and Raniere. Low self esteem combined with strong emotional reactions trumps critical thinking skills EVErY TImE. Not to mention the frontal lobe of the human brain, the part in charge of objective reasoning and critical thinking skills, doesn’t fully develop until age 21, making teenagers the emotionally volatile hormonal people they are stereotypically known to be, as well as LItErAllY not having the critical thinking skills needed to tell these manipulative pieces of shit to move along.
This is one of Frank’s articles on Lauren Salzman, where I find it impossible not to pity her.
However, she still deserves 3-5 years for Dani’s confinement. Confining anyone is tantamount to kidnapping.
Lauren agreeing to the blackmail scheme of so-called collateral makes her a co-offender in the starkest terms possible.
The part, above, where she recounts submitting collateral about criminal acts her mother and Raniere committed is quite bizarre. These people seemed desperate for ways to expand their orgy of humiliation.
When I’m feeling sympathetic toward Lauren, I see her as the subject of a forbidden experiment– her mother raising her to accept “black” is “white,” “up” is “down,” etc. But she says plenty in her testimony to indicate she knew she was committing criminal acts.
In any event, I hope that, once out of prison, none of the co-traffickers are allowed to profit from writing about their crimes, since I’m sure some of them will claim they were victims of Raniere’s mesmerism.
They were desperate to come up with new blackmail (aka collateral) ideas. How many months could you think of about yourself?
Actually, writing about their experiences would help educate others, help them recover, and keep them away from the rest of society.
You know you’re in a cult when….
“there would be a cage and he said it was for the people who were the most committed to growth”
You’re right, Frank, this is some of the craziest stuff, and it’s hard to imagine how Salzman could have participated in it month after month and year after year without starting to realize that it was just Raniere playing out his fixations and fantasies, such as BDSM. Even if there were some point to isolation, all that would be required is a closet, not equipment from a sex shop.
The only parallel I can think of is Scientology’s Sea Org, but there they keep thousands of people working 18 to 20 hours a day under intense pressure, sleep deprived and underfed, with almost no vacations or breaks of any sort, so that members don’t even have time or energy to reflect on their situation – and they even have provisions for dealing with anyone who does start to doubt, or try to leave or escape. It doesn’t seem that Raniere’s inner circle and DOS slaves were in quite such a coercive environment, so it’s a bit harder to explain other than that it may come down to the particular weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the relatively small number of people involved, or else that they themselves were also too pathological to see anything wrong with what they were involved in, including what they were in turn doing to others; Mack, for instance, spent a couple of months away doing a play, along with several other interludes, and yet remained gung-ho.
NXIVM and Scientology’s Sea Org are very similar, both require maximum effort which is never good enough. It’s the same with MLM scams, although more voluntary in nature. With NXIVM and Scientology, you are committing to things supposedly to improve yourself and make the world better. With MLM scams, you are reaching for financial independence, and the “system” is designed to make it virtually impossible to follow 100%, and then the upline tries to put the guilt trip on people who can’t do all of the things prescribed and place the blame on them for not succeeding. Most people believe this tripe, when the real issues are the MLM is an illegal pyramid (lack of retail sales to non-distributors) and RICO fraud (secret and massive profits made from the system “tools,” which include various meetings, books, audio/video recordings, phone apps, voice mail, website access, etc.). All three use peer pressure and include massive lies, along with a gradual introduction into their “deals,” aka the slow frog boil analogy.
Natashka says:
Aside from Lauren beginning to find it “scary” along with being locked in a cage, I want to know what Lauren felt hearing that her beloved Keith had kicked a woman while she was lying on the floor. She has been told a friend, while lying on the floor, has been kicked by him. Not once did she say she was outraged by any of it. It’s all so acceptable to her.
I feel like Lauren could overlook all that because she was/is?? so desperate to be loved it creates a state of disassociation. Like, she’s living for this piece of shit to want her again because she has some serious abandonment and self esteem issues that she needs to heal. That’s not to say she didn’t enjoy some of the things she did. But still, she was manipulated. It’s disgusting when people like Raniere can see people’s deepest emotional wounds and then twist them for their own perverse pleasure. He belongs exactly where he is.
shadowstate1958 says:
Raniere is too indolent and lazy to perform the beating himself.
Beating someone is too much like work!
Raniere would order a top Pimp to perform the beating while he sat back and enjoyed the show.
Message to Keith Raniere and all of his top pimps who enjoy beating people:
Here is how you should end up!
https://i0.wp.com/frankreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/stanely.jpg?w=480&ssl=1
Raniere did perform some of the beatings himself. I think Raniere has already experienced several similar episodes of that picture, and he will probably experience many more, along with the rest of the NXIVM SEX/SIX.
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No, feminists did not create Jordan Peterson
I’ve mentioned Jordan Peterson before — the guy who advocates “enforced monogamy” to deal with incels (he insists he only meant monogamy enforced by social pressure, which seems a dubious solution, even if that is what he meant) and that male dominance is the result of male superiority. NYT’s Bari Weiss thinks these trite sexist ideas are daring; I wonder if she’ll think the same about his recent declaration that women wearing makeup and high heels at work invite sexual harassment (sorry, don’t have a good link). And maybe they should stop wearing it to show they’re not interested in sex.
This is another old, sexist trope: women who dress too sexy should expect rape. And when it happens, they have no-one to blame but themselves. It’s as much a lie as Phyliss Schaffly’s claim that if a woman is known to be chaste, guys won’t hit on her — it’s only the sluts who get targeted (the latter was a-OK by the odious Schaffly). This involves a boatload of assumptions, such as harassment being purely about sex, and not about power, or control, or making a woman uncomfortable enough to quit. That it’s closer to a clumsy attempt to flirt rather than something like this. That how you dress or the makeup you wear implies consent or at least invitation (even if a woman is dressing attractive to invite attention, that doesn’t mean she has to accept it from anyone). And that women wouldn’t suffer penalties if they went to work with plain, un-made-up faces — because yes, bosses have fired women for not being attractive enough. In one of the first looks-related discrimination cases, a female lawyer was denied a partnership in favor of much less successful associates. Why? She didn’t wear makeup, didn’t look good, and didn’t defer enough to men. It’s like telling women “you won’t be harassed if you come to work in a burka” — even if that was true (I doubt it is) the reaction wouldn’t be favorable.
Now Cathy Young of the libertarian (and ironically named) Reason manages to up Weiss by recycling more tropes, starting with him being feminism’s fault: “contemporary feminism’s main message to men is not one of equal partnership. Rather, it’s: Repent, abase yourself, and be an obedient feminist ally — and we still won’t trust you.” So feminists, by refusing to treat men fairly, drive them into Peterson’s arms.
Her examples? She links to what’s actually a very reasonable column by Irin Carmon pointing out that some men who position themselves as allies don’t walk the walk. No call for repentance or abasement, just stating the obvious — talk is cheap. Perhaps Young was hoping nobody would click through. She’s also playing on one of the oldest tropes, that feminists don’t want equality — visions of feminism as a female power-grab go back to the dawn of second-wave feminism and even earlier. And as Echidne points out, there’s no evidence guys following Peterson would be open to an offer of equal partnership. Hie message isn’t equality, it’s man on top, all the way.
Young also recycles another old chestnut: feminists said it was okay to use off-color language in front of women! Then they get upset because men use off-color language in front of women! The “stub your toe” test in an early sexual harassment case covers that one well: is the off-color language something you’d say if you got out of bed in the middle of your night and stubbed your toe? Using four-letter worlds for female genitalia, the judge decided, don’t pass the test.
Feminists did not create a market for Peterson’s preachings by being unreasonable or extreme. He’s not new, he’s part of the same backlash that’s been going since the 1980s. And that backlash isn’t against feminism being extreme. It’s against feminism existing.
And as No More Mr. Nice Blog asks, if being routinely insulted turns people into right-wing extremists, why aren’t liberals extremists?
Filed under economics, Undead sexist cliches
Books are too expensive, so it’s okay to pirate them. Oh, really?
While I liked the book Brand Name Bullies, one thing that didn’t go over so well was David Bollier apparently buying into the stock anti-copyright/pro-piracy arguments (some of this is my interpretation so if I’m getting him wrong I apologize). As lots of people will create for free, do we really need copyright to have a thriving culture? If the industry would just make the price more reasonable, or release the album/book/DVD immediately, people would be happy to buy it.
I blogged about some of these arguments a couple of years back, but I’d like to take this post to argue again against the “they’re just too expensive” stance. This is the view that the price of books, or at least ebooks is too high so hey, you shouldn’t have to pay that much, so hey, you’re entitled to steal.
First off, let’s point out the obvious: some people just want their books free. Ditto music.
Second, how exactly are the people who make this argument calculating the “right” price? Are they assuming it’s the labor of putting the book in digital form — laying it out, editing it, creating a digital file? Do they consider the cost of paying for the cover, or publicity? Do they include the value of the actual story itself, because that’s why the book has, you know, words instead of just being a bunch of blank pages. And why, other than I Want It do they assume their assessment of the price is better than the author/publisher? As John Scalzi points out, even physical books of similar size and format don’t cost the same for lots of valid reasons.
To take an obvious example, the price of my self-published books is based on a)a price I think the market will accept; b)a price that gives me an adequate return on my effort. That takes into account that the online bookstores that sell the ebook (or Createspace for physical copies) take a cut; I have to set a price large enough to cover them. Believe me it’s not a substantial return, but what if it was? I’m the one who produced it, I have the right to set a price. If it’s more than the market will bear, people won’t buy it. Except the “you should have made it cheaper” people don’t accept that. They figure they should be able to get the book if they want it and not pay me anything (I’m willing to bet if I had a PayPal or Patreon they wouldn’t be contributing the “fair” price to compensate).
I have no sympathy for this crap. In the many years I did the struggling-writer shtick, I saw lots of books I couldn’t afford. I didn’t steal copies. I wouldn’t do it if I were still struggling. If it was a paper copy, would they shoplift it from Barnes & Noble if they thought it was overpriced? Or how about a restaurant — if the service takes too long (the “they don’t release it fast enough” argument), does that mean they’re entitled to steal food from the salad bar? Soft drinks cost a fraction of what they sell for, does that make it okay to steal them? Or movie tickets — lord knows those are outrageously priced, but does that justify sneaking in without paying?
One argument I see occasionally is that because digital copies are so cheap and easy to replicate, pirating one of them doesn’t hurt the way stealing something physical does. I don’t think that holds up: stealing one copy of Dan Brown’s latest from Barnes & Noble or swiping some breadsticks from Olive Garden certainly won’t cause a massive shortage. Sure, if everyone did that, it would be a problem, but that’s true of ebooks. If 100 people pirate Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast, that’s around $100 out of my pocket. That won’t leave me in the poorhouse, but it’s not nothing (and for people who aren’t two-income families, $100 could be very significant indeed).
I realize even if my readers include pro-piracy types, I’m unlikely to change anything. But still, it’s worth saying.
#SFWApro. Image courtesy of Wikimedia, from Charles Elms’ The Pirates’ Own Book.
Filed under copyright, economics
Liberals won’t date Republicans? OMG!
At least that’s the word from Washingtonian magazine: DC conservatives are very, very hurt that liberals won’t date them (despite all the Republicans in Congress and their staffers, apparently there are not enough conservatives to date in their own pool). Just because someone supports a white-supremacist president, does that mean they’re beyond the pale?
Right-winger Lisa de Pasquale thinks this is a bad idea: sure, you want someone who shares your values, but why insist on them sharing your politics? Funny, I always hear conservatives describe how their votes are driven by their values, does de Pasquale mean they were lying about that? She goes on to argues that the worst names conservative fling out are “snowflake,” whiny” and “cuck,” which ignores that “cuck” is supposed to be a vicious insult in the alt.right world (and that some conservatives throw out considerably worse—I’ve been called “traitor” a couple of times). “By contrast, those on the right are called ‘Nazis,’ ‘racists,’ ‘bigots,’ ‘sexists’ and, if NRA members, ‘part of a terrorist organization’ by left-leaning people, simply for having conservative leanings.
“Conservative leanings” may be doing a lot of work here. Did someone get called a sexist because they support lower tax rates on corporations. or because they believe women shouldn’t work outside the home or that rape victims had it coming? Both of these could be considered “conservative leanings” but some people with conservative leanings are bigots and sexists. On the far right, for example, we have enthusiasm for controlling women through rape gangs and white sharia. Georgia wants to let adoption agencies turn away gay parents. Or county clerk Kim Davis, who claims she’s a hero for refusing to marry gay couples (or let anyone in her office marry them) but believe she’s the persecuted one (this past post might be relevant). Pundit Rod Dreher thinks French anti-semite and racist Marion Le Pen is pretty awesome, though Of Course he disapproves of her more extreme views.
de Pasquale is just a variation on the time-honored theme that liberals are mean to conservatives and full of hate, unlike, say, Trump. And that campus PC (which squashes conservative voices) is out of control, whereas a right-wing news corporation expanding its propaganda reach is no big. Next thing you know, they’ll say conservative comedy isn’t funny!
Moving on from that little issue-of-the-day—
Pastor Robert Jeffries used to insist it was wrong to compromise moral standards to get the right person elected. In the age of Trump, he’s changed his mind. I’m sure he and the other court evangelicals will be thrilled when Republicans change the law to let them be openly partisan while keeping their tax exemptions. Likewise right-winger Dennis Prager believes Trump destroying liberals is so godly, Trump must be doing holy work. So does Eric Metaxas, who says Trump critics are like the Good Samaritan’s carping brother (there is no brother in that parable).
The Trump White House took the broken system for veterans’ health care and made it worse. They’re gutting consumer protections against financial scams too.
The 1 percent hate pensions because pension programs reduce their power.
The Trump era is like a reality show is a cliche, and not even a clever one.
Even the Trump White House acknowledges Obama-era regulations are cost-effective (but they ain’t changing their anti-regulation policy).
I will give points to Benny Hinn for admitting he was wrong about the prosperity gospel. And to the usual odious Mona Charen for pointing out Republican hypocrisy in talking morality while supporting Roy Moore, child molester (she was resoundingly booed at CPAC for this).
Perhaps this cover by Earl Mayan expresses my feelings best.
#SFWApro. All rights to cover image remain with current holder.
Filed under economics, Politics, Undead sexist cliches
I now defy right-wing political correctness!
A lot of conservatives are happy to denounce “PC” on the left in contrast to their own supposed willingness to stare reality in the face. In reality, PC — in the sense of “blindly accepting dogma” — is something anyone can fall victim to, including conservatives.
For examples conservatives during the W years were adamant that our government did not torture anyone. A detailed report from The Constitution Project shows that yes, we did. And the torture was systemic, common and not at all “a few bad apples.” At the bare minimum higher authorities demanded information, encouraged soldiers to “take the gloves off” getting it and offered no guidelines on what not to do. If nothing else, that’s negligence on a massive (and in some cases fatal) scale.
Nothing in my columns for the Destin Log, however, freaked right-wingers out as much as the phrase “right wing terrorism.” Nope. No way. Doesn’t exist. Not a problem. It’s Muslims, okay and maybe radical leftists but it’s never conservatives. I’m not sure how much is fear of having the anti-terrorist system they’ve supported turned on them, how much sympathy for the far right and how much the same kind of discomfort the word “racist” causes (David Neiwert offers some thoughts on this and other topics in an interview). But “there’s no right-wing terrorism” is bullshit whatever the reason, as the Anti-Defamation League shows with its report, A Dark and Constant Rage. 150 incidents over the past 25 years is a lot for something that supposedly doesn’t exist.
Moving on … speaking of the right wing and racism, here’s yet another Trump sleazebag appointee. Of course the media still flinch from acknowledging President Shit-Gibbon is a racist. Speaking of racism, the real reason the Republicans aren’t cutting a deal on DACA is that they don’t want to. And don’t forget, believing in racist bullshit requires making yourself stupider.
John Roberts and the conservative wing of the Supreme Court have said North Carolina doesn’t have to redraw gerrymandered districts before the fall election. Can’t disadvantage Republicans, can we?
As Shakezula says, will religious-freedom-to-discriminate laws ever be used to deny treatment to adulterers? Or just trans, gay and female people? Heck, with Trump cheating and banging porn stars probably makes his acolytes love him more.
Another day, another abuser exposed. And as usual, it looks like he had people willing to cover up for him. And charges have been filed against another supposedly godly man. And here’s how churches shouldn’t respond.
The Star of David is Satanic according to one right-wing Bible thumper.
Even when Gamergate participants confessed to sending women death threats, the FBI file shows no charges were filed.
Sexual abuse of a coworker doesn’t have to take place in the workplace.
Elderly immigrants being deported don’t get the Social Security they’ve been paying into for years.
It costs the IRS more to employ private debt-collectors than the contractors bring in to the agency.
The Museum of the Bible: more politics than museum.
Anthem’s new policy for covering ER visits: if they decide you should have known that stabbing gut pain wasn’t an emergency, you’re not covered.
And now some links courtesy of the Slacktivist blog:
Hiram Revels was the first black man to serve in Congress. Yet in the places where he lived in work, it’s statues to Confederates, not Revels, that people see.
How we whitewash and sanitize the civil rights struggle.
Back in the 1990s, Pat Robertson warned conservatives against the Illuminati takeover (with the added twist the Illuminati were run by International Jewish Bankers); apparently the Illuminati are still a bogeyman (Alex Jones at the link doesn’t deny they exist, he just denies Trump’s a member).
NC Sen. Thom Tillis lies a lot (and more political links)
I’ve mentioned Tillis’s bullshit statements about the Affordable Care Act and how he’s trying to make insurance more affordable by killing ACA. Now he’s explaining his support for the GOP tax bill is because it “will lead to bigger paychecks for hardworking Americans.” Unless he defines hardworking Americans as “rich people, including myself,” he’s lying again. Sen. Richard Burr voted for the tax monstrosity too, so I’m sure he’d lie about it if he ever responded to my letters.
Not that the rest of the Repubs are much better. Rep. Paul Ryan wants us to know it’s a heartbreaking burden to labor on as Speaker of the House, cutting taxes on himself and fighting so he doesn’t have to pay estate tax. He’s a noble soul who just wants to stay in office long enough to gut Social Security and Medicare (sure, he went to college on Social Security Disability, but he doesn’t need it now, does he?), then retire to be with his family. So tragic.
Equally tragic: The media pretending the Republicans really wanted a better bill.
And then there’s the last minute decision that allows people who set up their businesses as limited liability companies take extra deductions if, like President Shit-Gibbon and Bob Corker, they’re in real estate.
A police officer refuses to believe trans people really suffer higher rates of police violence. A female captain tells the man he’s showing his privilege. The captain gets suspended.
Slacktivist looks at the symbolism and problems of Trump declaring Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. The belief of some religious conservatives that this is good because it helps advance us toward the Apocalypse strikes me as the worst kind of arrogance, a conviction that if they play their cards right they can make the Second Coming happen on their schedule.
An Oklahoma preacher allegedly used his church’s phone number for a prostitution ring he ran.
How Steve Bannon tried to take down Twitter. And in supporting Roy Moore, Bannon seems to have taken down himself. Although right-wing pundits are desperately trying to blame Moore’s defeat on Mitch McConnell instead (or Christians who got unreasonably freaked out by Roy Moore molesting children) Trump, of course, having endorsed Moore now claims he never had much hope for him. And John Rogers of Leverage explains that no, George Soros couldn’t have bused an extra 20,000 fake voters into Alabama.
Reagan declared we should make it harder to vote, something people have to struggle to achieve. Lance Manion points out that the people who advocate this aren’t exactly crossing trackless jungles to deliver their ballots.
Assessing sexual harassment cases when we don’t know the charges.
Rebecca Traister points out the issue in harassment cases isn’t the assault on women’s virtue but the damage to their ability to earn a living.
Tagged as Richard Burr, Thom Tillis
The right wing and the just world fallacy
The just-world fallacy is the belief that contrary to what our parents told us, life is fair. Take care of your health and you’ll be healthy. Manage your money well and work hard and you’ll get rich, or at least non-poor. Dress modestly, don’t go out alone, and you’ll never be raped.
It’s a fallacy because, of course, it isn’t true. Bad things do happen to good people. We drive carefully and get hit by someone who didn’t (almost happened to TYG and me this week). You follow the rules for finding a good Christian man and you wind up with an abuser. You take care of your health but something still strikes you down. You get out there and meet people only you never meet anyone interested.
The just-world fallacy is common. It’s not something unique to conservatives. It’s reassuring — that there’s a reason for what happened to us/them, that we’re not all vulnerable to blind chance and tragedy, that the world makes sense. That it can never happen to us — sure, she got raped but we’d never do anything that foolish. He got robbed but we pack heat. He got cancer but we take care of ourselves. Conspiracy theories explain why the world isn’t just; just-world fallacy explains that it is. Both comforting in different ways.
With a lot of conservatives, though, it’s not simply a fallacy, it’s a policy. It’s the reason they justify denying people healthcare or benefits, or rewarding themselves by slashing their own taxes. If you’re rich it’s because you’re smart, talented, superior; if you’re poor it’s because you squander your money. Women aren’t in charge of things because men created the world. If you have diabetes, it’s your fault, that’s why you don’t deserve to have the government pay for treatment.
So no help for the poor, they don’t deserve it. Low taxes for the rich because otherwise you’re penalizing success and hard work.
And if your success doesn’t come from hard work? You got a head start because your parents were rich or you took over the family business? I suspect that’s one reason Trump likes to think he and his children are genetically superior — if you tell yourself your genes would have guaranteed success even if you’d grown up in a shack in Africa (and I have heard that statement made by other children of privilege) then having everything handed to you on a plate doesn’t matter. You’d still have succeeded so it’s still wrong to tax you.
Do they seriously believe it? Quite possibly. It’s always appealing to believe you’ve accomplished things through genius, not hard work. It’s easy to underestimate the role luck plays (something I explored in my short story Others Must Fail). At the same time I suspect there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance in play. Trump himself has admitted that having superior genes (for the record, I don’t believe that for a minute) is a matter of luck, but at the same time he sees himself as a super-achiever who earned everything (or he claimed to). Lots of wealthy people credit their talent with success but blame failure on luck, so they totally shouldn’t be penalized for it. Lots of welfare recipients believe “I earned it” through their years of taxes, just like they firmly believe nobody with a darker skin did.
And some, I’m sure, are outright liars who know better — it’s just a convenient excuse, like Paul Ryan claiming blue states are free-riding on the hard work of the red states (nope).
Whether delusion or rationalization, the just-world fallacy gets toxic when mixed in with politics.
Filed under economics, Politics
Jesus and Ayn Rand are not the same person
But some conservatives keep insisting that objectivism’s belief in survival of the fittest is completely compatible with Christian tenets of mercy and sympathy for the poor and downtrodden. The Conservative Bible Project, for instance, wants to translate (or “wanted to” — I don’t know if that particular crusade is still active) all Jesus parables in ways that show he was really talking about the importance of the free market. Short answer: no he wasn’t; for a long answer, find a blogger better at theology than I am. One such blogger, Rachel Held Evans catches right-wing pundit Erick Erickson arguing that the Bible tells us charity is strictly an individual responsibility, not something for government. Evans points out that’s bullshit.
Certainly right-wing economist Stephen Moore has no trouble worrying about anyone but himself. He’s celebrating that the tax bill hurts education, hurts unions, hurts state government’s abilities to raise taxes or provide services — in short, hurts everyone but the rich. That it makes class divisions more firm (the rich stay rich, the lower classes will find it harder to rise) is, I’m sure, part of it, though Moore doesn’t mention that. And Paul Ryan, lying as usual, declares that cracking down on high-tax states punishes the states that “take” from the low-tax states that prop up the country economically. Nope. Apparently both Ryan and Moore are excited about turning all 50 states into Kansas.
Yet another man exposed as a sexual harasser, specifically Rep. John Conyers, who’s resigning from office. The Root asks if Conyers, a black man, isn’t being judged more harshly than white politicians.
The thing about all those sexual harassers like Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin and Bill O’Reilly? Their sexism helped shape the media narrative that helped elect Trump.
All the ways Republicans will make it harder for students who take out government loans.
Nixon claimed anything he did was legal. W’s attorney John Yoo claimed the president had no legal limits on his power. Now Trump’s lawyer claims that obstruction of justice charges against the president are by definition impossible. The problem isn’t just Trump, it’s Republicans. As noted here.
Roy Moore is unsurprisingly self-righteous in denouncing his critics as pure evil. Dammit, why can’t they respect a man’s need for teenage tail? As Lance Mannion notes, many conservatives love feeling persecuted. The Slacktivist blog once suggested it’s partly because the Bible was written for Israelites in exile and a persecuted Christian church. It’s much easier to imagine themselves as Israelites in bondage than realize that in the US, they’re Pharaoh. Heck, some of them think ABC reporting on Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s people makes ABC a terrorist group.
Speaking of Moore his massive sexism is another good reason not to vote for him.
Apparently Republicans rushed the tax bill through so fast, they screwed up on delivering the corporate tax breaks. Oh, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, who organized the multi-trillion dollar tax cut says the CHIP children’s health-insurance program is having trouble passing because the government has no money to spare.
All that stuff about how the only thing we can do to prevent mass shootings is pray? Totally different if the shooter is an illegal immigrant.
Every Democrat in the Senate voted against the tax bill from hell. For some left-wingers, that just proves Democrats supported it.
For something more positive to end with, Slacktivist looks at the Muslims who keep the peace at Christianity’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
And for something random, here’s a photo by me of a storm drain near our house.
Conservative nostalgia is a dangerous delusion
So Kevin Sorbo’s wife Sam Sorbo has an editorial on Fox News (not linking to it) recycling the time-honored conservative/religious right about how America has lost its moral compass: “American society used to be governed by Judeo-Christian do-unto-others morals. But we have drifted (been pushed, really) into a hedonistic YOLO (You Only Live Once) cultural morass. The upshot of this is a distinct lack of respect for human life in general, as well as a pervasive, insidious obsession with self.” And go figure, her primary examples are not billionaires demanding the biggest tax cuts but Clinton supposedly selling U.S. uranium to Russia and football players protesting police-on-black violence.
Fantasies of some golden age when everyone was moral, kids respected their elders and we could leave our doors unlocked probably go back as long as we’ve had doors. The trouble is, Sorbo, like a lot of religious conservatives, wants us to believe it’s true (and may believe it herself). It’s not. “Judeo-Christian do-unto-others morals” (I always interpret “Judeo-Christian” as “Christian but we don’t want to sound bigoted”) didn’t do anything to stop the hundreds of blacks lynched in the South under Jim Crow — white evangelical churches were strongly against integration and civil rights (that was Jerry Falwell’s big political issue for years). Conservative Christianity was on the wrong side of the women’s rights movement, then on the gay rights movement. Some members are against any religion but their own having First Amendment rights. The idea that we’re in some moral cesspool because we don’t follow Ms. Sorbo’s view of God is just crapola.
Case in point, Bible-thumping theocrat Roy Moore has now been accused of hitting on and getting physical (though not actual presentation) with girls as young as 14 (oh, here are his past views on rape and child abuse). I will be astonished if it makes a difference because a lot of voters in the Bible Belt define “Christian” as anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-liberal, and Moore fits the bill nicely. One voter has declared it’s better to vote for a pedophile than a Democrat because he hates Democrats and thinks they’re evil (a view he apparently does not hold of pedophiles).
Sean Hannity’s interview with Moore apparently left some pundits convinced he’s guilty. But it’s unlikely any Republican pols will do anything to oppose Moore but wring their hands.
I blogged a while back about allegations Eddie Berganza at DC Comics was a sexual harasser. Buzzfeed presents the words of several women who say yes, he was.
Putin says Russia didn’t meddle in the 2016 election. Trump is very, very upset that people don’t believe him — it might hurt Putin’s feelings.
Trump might not build a border wall or repeal Obamacare, but he’s sure as hell getting right-wing judges appointed to the bench.
Trump thinks a primary argument for passing Republican tax cuts is that he’ll pay a lot without them.
Apparently the UK finds Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity violate broadcast standards for news shows.
A member of the sexist Proud Boys movement thinks trans candidates only won because women have the vote and women vote based on feelings. In contrast, presumably to his loathing for transsexuals which I’m sure he imagines is totally logical.
Kids, don’t let laziness happen to you!
So right-wing pundit Bill Kristol is pushing for a new, centrist path through American politics, which turns out to be a lot more conservative than most people would think of as centrist (The Left Is Bad! The Right Just Needs Some Tinkering. etc.). Literary Dissection Tray does a good job breaking it down at the link, but there’s one point I wanted to discuss, Kristol’s (and his colleague, center-right Dem Bill Galveston) concern that Americans are dropping out of the rat race. A growing number of young men are not working, and they’re happy not working. And that’s giving Kristol fits.
So the New Center’s solution is to stop American companies shipping jobs overseas, increase the minimum wage — oh, wait, no. It’s to “call laziness what it is … Even if these individuals are not “mooching” off anyone else, social science suggests that the failure to contribute correlates with a whole variety of pathologies including drug use, divorce and depression. The New Center should not be bashful about criticizing individuals who are not carrying their weight.”
First, I will pause to note that divorce is not a pathology, and the response to depression should not be calling someone out for having a mental illness, and to recommend LDT’s critique of the “they spend all their time playing videogames!” line of attack (which Kristol probably imagines is a killer put-down). That said — if these nonworkers aren’t taking government assistance, why on Earth is it Kristol’s damn business whether they have jobs or not? Isn’t that personal freedom, the thing conservatives are so keen on.
Haha, kidding. Kristol, for example, is adamantly opposed to gay marriage, and insists Republicans should oppose it even though the majority of Americans support it. It’s the same way David Brooks thinks we have too much individuality in America, instead of “disciplined, orderly lives” imposed by our wise leaders. Brooks was also among the pundits who thought 9/11 freed us from a world where Americans were too comfortable had too much leisure time, played too many videogames.
This is not a new line of thought. America has always had dropouts of one sort or another: tramps, hoboes, Beatniks, hippies. And there have been always those who feel this is absolutely unacceptable. As Risa Goluboff details in Vagrant Nation (which I thought I’d blogged about but it appears not), the response to people rejecting the system — not trying to change it or destroy it, simply dropping out — is to make them drop back in. Vagrancy laws were routinely used to coerce drifters, vagabonds and the unemployed into taking jobs for shit wages because the laws made being unemployed and refusing to work a crime. Fifty years after the 1960s, some conservatives still get aroused by the though of cops assaulting hippies. It’s a common trait among authoritarians to resent people who don’t play by the rules, even if they’re not hurting anyone; not playing by the rules is harm enough.
But in contrast to the people whose idea of rebellion is to be a jerk, dropping out isn’t automatically awful or destructive. Certainly they’re doing less damage than windbags such as Brooks, Kristol or Kristol’s father Irving, who openly yearns for building an American empire. Of course, neither he nor his son will be putting their lives on the line for that mission, any more than TV conservative Joe Scarborough.
But let’s be fair. If they weren’t finger-wagging and telling other people how to live their lives, they wouldn’t be conservatives.
Painting of Sloth is by Hieronymous Bosch.
Like a virgin, linked for the very first time
No actual discussion of virginity here, however.
•Roy Edroso watches right-bloggers try to spin Trump’s Mideast trip into something awesome. A less enthused take from Digby.
•The White House wants to block the Ethics Office from looking at whether lobbyists working for Trump are violating ethics rules by working on matters they lobbied the government about.
•Did General Hospital craft a storyline simply to allow product placement for a drug?
•Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve, is preaching junk science. I haven’t read the book, but I did look up one issue on which I was curious and he got even the basics wrong.
•Africans should decide which African renewable energy projects need funding.
•With the death of Roger Ailes, Fox News guru, Slacktivist looks at not speaking ill of the dead. While I don’t have a link, Glenn Greenwald has argued that we should speak ill of the dead: otherwise the people declaring how awesome they were will define their legacy and overlook flaws (Reagan’s refusal to approve added funding for AIDS research, Jerry Falwell being a segregationist, etc.)
•Feministing argues that while lots of people protest when right-wing speakers are denied a platform on campus, other viewpoints get shut out without objection.
•Now that Charter has bought out Time Warner, cable customers are getting rate hikes — immediate, with their cable getting turned off until they pay.
•Cable companies commit to net neutrality! Except they won’t say so in writing.
•Reporter Chris Cilliza explains that while the media devoted too much coverage to Clinton’s emails, it’s totally Clinton’s fault.
•Scott Adams of Dilbert fame continues cheering for Trump. Did you know that when President Shit Gibbon does something incompetent, it’s part of a clever strategy? I don’t know what his take is on how most of those Carrier jobs Trump supposedly saved are going away now.
•Did you know that according to the Federalist horror of The Handmaid’s Tale is that dramatizes why gay marriage is bad?
•For-profit colleges sue to stop a rule that protects students from colleges that screw them over.
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