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‘Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’ Review: A Monster Loony ‘Toon
It doesn’t have the cache of a Pixar production, or even the billion dollar grosses of the Despicable Me series, but the Hotel Transylvania franchise has quietly become one of the more dependable brands in modern movie animation. Its humble reputation could have something to do with its relatively modest aims; these charming, silly, and dynamically illustrated cartoons harken back to an earlier age dominated by the Looney Tunes and their brand of physical comedy and squash and stretch animation. These films aim straight for kids (and the eternally immature) and largely hit the mark for their target audience.
The Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation cast is largely the same from the previous installments; the setting is the primary difference this time. Mavis (Selena Gomez) the 126-year-old daughter of Count Dracula (Adam Sandler), decides her father is overworked at the family’s hotel for monsters and needs a vacation. So the whole extended family — including Mavis’ human husband Johnny (Andy Samberg), their son Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), and Drac’s friends Frankenstein (Kevin James), Murray the Mummy (Keegan-Michael Key), Wayne the Werewolf (Steve Buscemi), and Griffin the Invisible Man (David Spade) — decamp to a special monster cruise to the lost city of Atlantis through the Bermuda Triangle.
The main obstacle to their happiness is Ericka Van Helsing (Kathryn Hahn), the captain of the cruise. Unbeknownst to the monsters, Van Helsing carries on her family’s legacy of vampire hunting, and her attempts to seduce Dracula are actually part of a plan to lure him into a trap and finally avenge her great-grandfather, Abraham Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan).
Co-writer/director Genndy Tartakovsky, who also directed on both of the previous Hotel Transylvania movies, supposedly drew inspiration for his screenplay (written with Austin Powers’ Michael McCullers) from a real cruise vacation, and while I assume some of the incidents here are fiction (like the giant dog who sneaks onto the ship by disguising himself with a hat and trenchcoat), the frustrations and pleasures of a real family outing are embedded in the film’s incidents. I responded very strongly to Buscemi and Molly Shannon’s overworked, glassy-eyed werewolf parents, who dump their dozens of children off in the ship’s Kids Club” and are too exhausted from the rigors of werewolf rearing to do anything but mumble “We can do whatever we want!” over and over.
Tartakovsky’s high-energy visual style, honed over decades working on series like Dexter’s Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack, is also in ample evidence in Hotel Transylvania 3, particularly in the movements of Dracula, who bends, leans, shrugs, and dances like a living rubber band that’s moved beyond mortal concerns like physics and gravity (as a vampire, I guess he has). There’s something refreshingly old school about his wacky body language, which is in stark contrast to the more realistic, less hyperbolic style of most 3-D movie animation in 2018.
Sandler’s silly Dracula voice, a combination of Bela Lugosi and his pal (and former Hotel Transylvania writer) Robert Smigel’s Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, is funny too. It’s also nice to learn after 20 years of watching Sandler that his trademark brand of gibberish is, in fact, Transylvanian. (Whenever Drac makes goo-goo eyes at Ericka, he can’t help but talk in, uh, “Transylvanian.”)
The’re not a lot of momentum to Hotel Transylvania 3; this is a children’s film after all. But the character and location designs are inventive and appealing, and there are several memorable set pieces, including a wordless scuba diving sequence that draws heavy inspiration from classic Warner Bros. cartoons. (I also enjoyed Chris Parnell’s droll talking fish with human feet — there’s no other way to describe him — who serves a variety of tasks on the cruise ship.) And while the ending of the film is obvious, the method Dracula and his family use to defeat the Van Helsings is surprising to say the least. Throughout, the stakes are as low as a pleasant and uncomplicated family vacation. In this case, that feels right.
Additional Thoughts:
-The first Hotel Transylvania had Frankenstein fart jokes. This one has Dracula fart jokes. (Garlic doesn’t agree with his stomach!) Your reaction to that concept will predict whether or not you’ll enjoy this film as a whole.
-I took my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to the screening with me and now, three days later, she will only acknowledge my presence when I talk like Adam Sandler’s Dracula. So thanks a lot Hotel Transylvania 3. In fact, ignore the rating below: 0/10 would not watch again because you’ve ruined my life.
The Best Voice Performances in Animated History
Source: ‘Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’ Review: A Monster Loony ‘Toon
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Neri dos Santos Silva, center, watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
August 25, 2019 - 10:17 am
Fund backed by DiCaprio pledges $5M to Amazon amid fires
NEW YORK (AP) — A new environmental foundation backed by Leonardo DiCaprio is pledging $5 million in aid to the Amazon, which has been swept by wildfires . Earth Alliance was created last month by DiCaprio and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth. On Sunday, it launched the Amazon...
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, Harvey Weinstein enters State Supreme Court in New York. Weinstein’s lawyers want the trial over the sexual assault case against the disgraced movie mogul moved from New York City to Long Island or upstate New York because of a blizzard of pretrial publicity. An appeals court could rule on the request as early as Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Legal questions loom as Harvey Weinstein case nears trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Can Harvey Weinstein get a fair trial in the world's media capital? That's among the questions looming over the sexual assault case against the disgraced movie mogul with jury selection set for early next month. Weinstein's lawyers want the trial moved from New York City to Long...
FILE - In this March 10, 2018, file photo, Spain's former monarch King Juan Carlos waves upon his arrival to the Academia Diplomatica de Chile, in Santiago where he met with President-elect Sebastian Pinera. Spain's former monarch, Juan Carlos I, has been admitted to hospital for a heart operation. The 81-year-old king emeritus will undergo the operation Saturday Aug. 24, 2019 in Madrid's Quiron clinic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
Spain's ex-king Juan Carlos I recovers after heart surgery
MADRID (AP) — Doctors at the hospital where Spain's former monarch Juan Carlos I underwent heart surgery say he is making a satisfactory recovery almost 24 hours after the operation. Lucía Alonso, the managing director of Madrid's Quironsalud University Hospital, said Sunday the 81-year-old king...
Spanish ex-king Juan Carlos I has successful heart surgery
MADRID (AP) — Spain's former monarch Juan Carlos I underwent heart surgery Saturday and the hospital said the operation was a success. A statement issued by Madrid's Quironsalud University Hospital said the 81-year-old king emeritus had a triple bypass procedure without any complications. The...
Britain's Prince Andrew, the Duke of York leaves Crathie Kirk, after a Sunday morning church service, in Crathie, Scotland, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
Britain's Prince Andrew denies knowledge of Epstein's crimes
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince Andrew has denied any knowledge of criminal behavior by one-time friend Jeffrey Epstein who killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The Duke of York said in a statement Saturday that "at no stage during the limited time I...
Actor Robert Downey Jr. poses during his handprint ceremony at the Disney Legends press line during the 2019 D23 Expo, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Disney Legends honor prompts Robert Downey Jr. pot story
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. is recalling a wild Disneyland ride from his younger days. The "Iron Man" star, among those honored Friday as Disney Legends, says his first visit to the Southern California resort included a brief detention for "smoking pot in a gondola." Downey said he...
FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, Dave Chappelle speaks at the press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Chappelle plans to host a special block party and benefit concert in southwest Ohio for those affected by the recent mass shooting. Chappelle will be among national and local entertainers planned for the main stage at the “Gem City Shine” event in Dayton on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019.(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Dave Chappelle set to host benefit concert for Ohio shooting
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle plans to host a special block party and benefit concert in Ohio for those affected by the recent mass shooting. Chappelle will be among national and local entertainers planned for the main stage at the "Gem City Shine" event in Dayton on Sunday. WDTN-TV...
Men arrested after using open houses to rob celeb's homes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say two men in Los Angeles were arrested after using open houses to rob homes of celebrities, including singers Usher and Adam Lambert. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Thursday that 32-year-old realtor Jason Emil Yaselli and 33-year-old Benjamin...
Manslaughter case continues against Mexican actor Pablo Lyle
MIAMI (AP) — A manslaughter case against Mexican actor Pablo Lyle will move forward after a Florida judge refused to dismiss it under the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law. The Miami Herald reports that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alan Fine made his ruling Thursday, meaning the case will be...
Weinstein to be rearraigned as DA seeks actress's testimony
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are bringing a new indictment against Harvey Weinstein in an attempt to bolster their case with testimony from an actress who says he raped her in 1993 . The disgraced movie mogul is set to be arraigned Monday on the revised charges, which Weinstein's lawyers called an...
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GRAMMY Awards: Best Pop Vocal Album
Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons and Lana Del Rey are all nominated.
Camila Cabello Shares Heartfelt Thanks to Fans on Album Release Day
"You guys love me in the most innocent and pure and genuine way you can love a person, and I feel so lucky I get to have people in my life that care about me so much."
Seal Clarifies Inspiration Behind Oprah/Weinstein Social Media Meme
"I have an enormous amount of respect for everything that Oprah has achieved and contributed in her life."
Mary J. Blige Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
“I’m so grateful for this star right now because I’ve earned it probably three times," she said.
Katy Perry to Present Minnie Mouse Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
"After 90 years of serving L--KS & smiles as the polka dot queen, it's time she got that recognition ----!" Perry tweeted.
Taylor Swift Debuts 'End Game' Video Featuring Ed Sheeran & Future
The collaborative track from Swift's most recent album 'Reputation' gets a visual treatment.
John Mayer Wants to Be Your New Pen Pal
Not an email message or blog post, but an actual ink and paper letter.
Bon Jovi Announce Spring Tour Dates
The tour launches on March 14 in Denver, CO.
Seal Calls Oprah Winfrey Part of the Problem After Golden Globes Speech
The singer posted a photo of the Winfrey socializing with Harvey Weinstein.
Jennifer Lopez to Cameo on 'Will & Grace'
It was revealed that the multi-talented J-Lo will play herself, as well as her 'Shades of Blue' character Detective Harlee Santos.
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So, What Did Gordon Ramsay Actually Do For Caneda’s White Rooster?
Toby Canham/Getty Images
Gordon Ramsay had a whirlwind few days at the Shore, and he's not even done! His production crew has been spotted at Blend in Manasquan. Before he headed north, he took a moment to surprise a fan at school (and donate $10,000 to her medical expenses as she battles cancer).
Now that the dust has settled on his time in Toms River, you may be wondering "what exactly did he do for The White Rooster?" If you've seen his show, you know it's a crash course in renovation, whipping a floundering restaurant back into shape in just one day.
Owner Patty Caneda took to Facebook for a live video to answer questions, and give details on what Chef Ramsay did to help.
Sorry - the video has been removed, but we'll try to fill in some of the details below!
Caneda said Ramsay's changes include a new interior design, a menu highlighting Cuban flavors, friendlier price points, a new bar and a bright blue exterior.
The White Rooster is serving a limited menu of the new dishes until Tuesday, when the new menu will be unveiled. Caneda said the episode of "24 Hours to Hell and Back" should air some time in February.
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Kutscher
Request for Comments: 7778 F. Mir
Category: Informational R. Winter
ISSN: 2070-1721 NEC
S. Krishnan
Y. Zhang
CJ. Bernardos
Mobile Communication Congestion Exposure Scenario
This memo describes a mobile communications use case for congestion
exposure (ConEx) with a particular focus on those mobile
communication networks that are architecturally similar to the 3GPP
Evolved Packet System (EPS). This memo provides a brief overview of
the architecture of these networks (both access and core networks)
and current QoS mechanisms and then discusses how congestion exposure
concepts could be applied. Based on this discussion, this memo
suggests a set of requirements for ConEx mechanisms that particularly
apply to these mobile networks.
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Kutscher, et al. Informational [Page 1]
RFC 7778 ConEx Mobile Scenario March 2016
document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to
BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF
Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the
date of publication of this document. Please review these documents
to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. ConEx Use Cases in Mobile Communication Networks . . . . . . 4
2.1. ConEx as a Basis for Traffic Management . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2. ConEx to Incentivize Scavenger Transports . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Accounting for Congestion Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. Partial vs. Full Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3. ConEx in the EPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Possible Deployment Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Implementing ConEx Functions in the EPS . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.1. ConEx Protocol Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2.2. ConEx Functions in the Mobile Network . . . . . . . . 15
4. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Appendix A. Overview of 3GPP's EPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Mobile data traffic continues to grow rapidly. The challenge
wireless operators face is to support more subscribers with an
increasing bandwidth demand. To meet these bandwidth requirements,
there is a need for new technologies that assist the operators in
efficiently utilizing the available network resources. Two specific
areas where such new technologies could be deemed useful are resource
allocation and flow management.
Analysis of data traffic in cellular networks has shown that most
flows are short lived and low volume, but a comparatively small
number of high-volume flows constitute a large fraction of the
overall traffic volume [lte-sigcomm2013]. That means that
potentially a small fraction of users is responsible for the majority
of traffic in cellular networks. In view of such highly skewed user
behavior and limited and expensive resources (e.g., the wireless
spectrum), resource allocation and usage accountability are two
important issues for operators to solve in order to achieve both a
better network resource utilization and fair resource sharing.
ConEx, as described in [RFC6789], is a technology that can be used to
achieve these goals.
The ConEx mechanism is designed to be a general technology that could
be applied as a key element of congestion management solutions for a
variety of use cases. In particular, use cases that are of interest
for initial deployment are those in which the end hosts and the
network that contains the destination end hosts are ConEx-enabled but
other networks need not be.
A specific example of such a use case can be a mobile communication
network such as a 3GPP EPS networks where UEs (User Equipment) (i.e.,
mobile end hosts), servers and caches, the access network, and
possibly an operator's core network can be ConEx-enabled; that is,
hosts support the ConEx mechanisms, and the network provides
policing/auditing functions at its edges.
This document provides a brief overview of the architecture of such
networks (access and core networks) and current QoS mechanisms. It
further discusses how such networks can benefit from congestion
exposure concepts and how they should be applied. Using this use
case as a basis, a set of requirements for ConEx mechanisms are
described.
1.1. Acronyms
In this section, we expand some acronyms that are used throughout the
text. Most are explained and put in a system context in Appendix A
and the 3GPP, ECN, and ConEx specifications referenced there.
Evolved NodeB: LTE base station
Home Subscriber Server
S-GW
Serving Gateway: mobility anchor and tunnel endpoint
P-GW
Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway: tunnel endpoint for user-plane
and control-plane protocols -- typically the GW to the Internet or
an operator's service network
User Equipment: mobile terminals
GPRS Tunneling Protocol [TS29060]
GTP-U
GTP User Data Tunneling [TS29060]
GTP-C
GTP Control [TS29060]
2. ConEx Use Cases in Mobile Communication Networks
In general, quality of service and good network resource utilization
are important requirements for mobile communication network
operators. Radio access and backhaul capacity are considered scarce
resources, and bandwidth (and radio resource) demand is difficult to
predict precisely due to user mobility, radio propagation effects,
etc. Hence, today's architectures and protocols go to significant
lengths in order to provide network-controlled quality of service.
These efforts often lead to complexity and cost. ConEx could be a
simpler and more capable approach to efficient resource sharing in
these networks.
In the following sections, we discuss ways that congestion exposure
could be beneficial for supporting resource management in such mobile
communication networks. [RFC6789] describes fundamental congestion
exposure concepts and a set of use cases for applying congestion
exposure mechanisms to realize different traffic management functions
such as flow policy-based traffic management or traffic offloading.
Readers that are not familiar with the 3GPP EPS should refer to
Appendix A first.
2.1. ConEx as a Basis for Traffic Management
Traffic management is a very important function in mobile
communication networks. Since wireless resources are considered
scarce and since user mobility and shared bandwidth in the wireless
access create certain dynamics with respect to available bandwidth,
commercially operated mobile networks provide mechanisms for tight
resource management (admission control for bearer establishment).
However, sometimes these mechanisms are not easily applicable to IP-
and HTTP-dominated traffic mixes; for example, most Internet traffic
in today's mobile network is transmitted over the (best-effort)
default bearer.
Given the above, and in the light of the significant increase of
overall data volume in 3G networks, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is
often considered a desirable function to have in the Evolved Packet
Core (EPC) -- despite its cost and complexity. However, with the
increase of encrypted data traffic, traffic management using DPI
alone will become even more challenging.
Congestion exposure can be employed to address resource management
requirements in different ways:
1. It can enable or enhance flow policy-based traffic management.
At present, DPI-based resource management is often used to
prioritize certain application classes with respect to others in
overload situations, so that more users can be served effectively
on the network. In overload situations, operators use DPI to
identify dispensable flows and make them yield to other flows (of
different application classes) through policing. Such traffic
management is thus based on operator decisions, using partly
static configuration and some estimation about the future per-
flow bandwidth demand. With congestion exposure, it would be
possible to assess the contribution to congestion of individual
flows. This information can then be used as input to a policer
that can optimize network utilization more accurately and
dynamically. By using ConEx congestion contribution as a metric,
such policers would not need to be aware of specific link loads
(e.g., in wireless base stations) or flow application types.
2. It can reduce the need for complex DPI by allowing for a bulk
packet traffic management system that does not have to consider
either the application classes flows belong to or the individual
sessions. Instead, traffic management would be based on the
current cost (contribution to congestion) incurred by different
flows and enable operators to apply policing/accounting depending
on their preference. Such traffic management would be simpler
and more robust (no real-time flow application type
identification required, no static configuration of application
classes); it would also perform better as decisions can be made
based on real-time actual cost contribution. With ConEx,
accurate downstream path information would be visible to ingress
network operators, which can respond to incipient congestion in
time. This can be equivalent to offering different levels of
QoS, e.g., premium service with zero congestion response. For
that, ConEx could be used in two different ways:
A. as additional information to assist network functions to
impose different QoS for different application sessions; and
B. as a tool to let applications decide on their response to
congestion notification while incentivizing them to react (in
general) appropriately, e.g., by enforcing overall limits for
congestion contribution or by accounting and charging for
such congestion contribution. Note that this level of
responsiveness would be on a different level than, say,
application-layer responsiveness in protocols such as Dynamic
Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) [dash]; however, it could
interwork with such protocols, for example, by triggering
earlier responses.
3. It can further be used to more effectively trigger the offload of
selected traffic to a non-3GPP network. Nowadays, it is common
that users are equipped with dual-mode mobile phones (e.g.,
integrating third/fourth generation cellular and Wi-Fi radio
devices) capable of attaching to available networks either
sequentially or simultaneously. With this scenario in mind, 3GPP
is currently looking at mechanisms to seamlessly and selectively
switch over a single IP flow (e.g., user application) to a
different radio access while keeping all other ongoing
connections untouched. The decision on when and which IP flows
move is typically based on statically configured rules, whereas
the use of ConEx mechanisms could also factor real-time
congestion information into the decision.
In summary, it can be said that traffic management in the 3GPP EPS
and other mobile communication architectures is very important.
Currently, more static approaches based on admission control and
static QoS are in use, but recently, there has been a perceived need
for more dynamic mechanisms based on DPI. Introducing ConEx could
make these mechanisms more efficient or even remove the need for some
of the DPI functions deployed today.
2.2. ConEx to Incentivize Scavenger Transports
3G and LTE networks are turning into universal access networks that
are shared between mobile (smart) phone users, mobile users with
laptop PCs, home users with LTE access, and others. Capacity sharing
among different users and application flows becomes increasingly
important in these mobile communication networks.
Most of this traffic is likely to be classified as best-effort
traffic without differentiating, for example, periodic OS updates and
application store downloads from web-based (i.e., browser-based)
communication or other real-time communication. For many of the bulk
data transfers, completion times are not important within certain
bounds; therefore, if scavenger transports (or transports that are
less than best effort) such as Low Extra Delay Background Transport
(LEDBAT) [RFC6817] were used, it would improve the overall utility of
the network. The use of these transports by the end user, however,
needs to be incentivized. ConEx could be used to build an incentive
scheme, e.g., by giving a larger bandwidth allowance to users that
contribute less to congestion or lowering the next monthly
subscription fee. In principle, this would be possible to implement
with current specifications.
2.3. Accounting for Congestion Volume
3G and LTE networks provide extensive support for accounting and
charging already, for example, see the Policy Charging Control (PCC)
architecture [TS23203]. In fact, most operators today account
transmitted data volume on a very fine granular basis and either
correlate monthly charging to the exact number of packets/bytes
transmitted or employ some form of flat rate (or flexible flat rate),
often with a so-called fair-use policy. With such policies, users
are typically limited to an administratively configured maximum
bandwidth limit after they have used up their contractual data volume
budget for the charging period.
Changing this data from volume-based accounting to congestion-based
accounting would be possible in principle, especially since there
already is an elaborate per-user accounting system available. Also,
an operator-provided mobile communication network can be seen as a
network domain that would allow for such congestion volume
accounting. This would not require any support from the global
Internet, especially since the typical scarce resources such as the
wireless access and the mobile backhaul are all within this domain.
Traffic normally leaves/enters the operator's network via well-
defined egress/ingress points that would be ideal candidates for
policing functions. Moreover, in most commercially operated
networks, accounting is performed for both received and sent data,
which would facilitate congestion volume accounting as well.
With respect to the current Path Computation Client (PCC) framework,
accounting for congestion volume could be added as another feature to
the "Usage Monitoring Control" capability that is currently based on
data volume. This would not require a new interface (reference
points) at all.
2.4. Partial vs. Full Deployment
In general, ConEx lends itself to partial deployment as the mechanism
does not require all routers and hosts to support congestion
exposure. Moreover, assuming a policing infrastructure has been put
in place, it is not required to modify all hosts. Since ConEx is
about senders exposing congestion contribution to the network,
senders need to be made ConEx-aware (assuming a congestion
notification mechanism such as Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
is in place).
When moving towards full deployment in a specific operator's network,
different ways for introducing ConEx support on UEs are feasible.
Since mobile communication networks are multi-vendor networks,
standardizing ConEx support on UEs (e.g., in 3GPP specifications)
appears useful. Still, not all UEs would have to support ConEx, and
operators would be free to choose their policing approach in such
deployment scenarios. Leveraging existing PCC architectures, 3GPP
network operators could, for example, decide policing/accounting
approaches per UE -- i.e., apply fixed volume caps for non-ConEx UEs
and more flexible schemes for ConEx-enabled UEs.
Moreover, it should be noted that network support for ConEx is a
feature that some operators may choose to deploy if they wish, but it
is not required that all operators (or all other networks) do so.
Depending on the extent of ConEx support, specific aspects such as
roaming have to be taken into account, i.e., what happens when a user
is roaming in a ConEx-enabled network but their UE is not ConEx-
enabled and vice versa. Although these may not be fundamental
problems, they need to be considered. For supporting mobility in
general, it can be required to shift users' policing state during a
handover. There is existing work on distributed rate limiting (see
[raghavan2007]) and on specific optimizations (see [nec.euronf-2011])
for congestion exposure and policing in mobility scenarios.
Another aspect to consider is the addition of Selected IP Traffic
Offload (SIPTO) and Local IP Access (LIPA) [TR23829]), i.e., the idea
that some traffic such as high-volume Internet traffic is actually
not passed through the EPC but is offloaded at a "break-out point"
closer to (or in) the access network. On the other hand, ConEx can
also enable more dynamic decisions on what traffic to actually
offload by considering congestion exposure in bulk traffic
aggregates, thus making traffic offload more effective.
In summary, the 3GPP EPS is a system architecture that can benefit
from congestion exposure in multiple ways. Dynamic traffic and
congestion management is an acknowledged and important requirement
for the EPS; this is also illustrated by the current DPI-related work
for EPS.
Moreover, networks such as an EPS mobile communication network would
be quite amenable for deploying ConEx as a mechanism, since they
represent clearly defined and well-separated operational domains in
which local ConEx deployment would be possible. Aside from roaming
(which needs to be considered for a specific solution), such a
deployment is fully under the control of a single operator, which can
enable operator-local enhancement without the need for major changes
to the architecture.
In 3GPP EPS, interfaces between all elements of the architecture are
subject to standardization, including UE interfaces and eNB
interfaces, so that a more general approach, involving more than a
single operator's network, can be feasible as well.
3. ConEx in the EPS
In this section, we discuss a few options for how such a mechanism
(and possibly additional policing functions) could eventually be
deployed in the 3GPP EPS. Note that this description of options is
not intended to be a complete set of possible approaches; it merely
discusses the most promising options.
3.1. Possible Deployment Scenarios
There are different possible ways for how ConEx functions on hosts
and network elements can be used. For example, ConEx could be used
for a limited part of the network only (e.g., for the access
network), congestion exposure and sender adaptation could involve the
mobile nodes or not, or, finally, the ConEx feedback loop could
extend beyond a single operator's domain or not.
We present four different deployment scenarios for congestion
exposure in the figures below:
1. In Figure 1, ConEx is supported by servers for sending data (web
servers in the Internet and caches in an operator's network) but
not by UEs (neither for receiving nor sending). An operator who
chooses to run a policing function on the network ingress, e.g.,
on the P-GW, can still benefit from congestion exposure without
requiring any change on UEs.
2. ConEx is universally employed between operators (as depicted in
Figure 2) with an end-to-end ConEx feedback loop. Here,
operators could still employ local policies, congestion
accounting schemes, etc., and they could use information about
congestion contribution for determining interconnection
agreements. This deployment scenario would imply the willingness
of operators to expose congestion to each other.
3. For Isolated ConEx domains as depicted in Figure 3, ConEx is
solely applied locally in the operator network, and there is no
end-to-end congestion exposure. This could be the case when
ConEx is only implemented in a few networks or when operators
decide to not expose ECN and account for congestion for inter-
domain traffic. Independent of the actual scenario, it is likely
that there will be border gateways (as in today's deployments)
that are associated with policing and accounting functions.
4. [conex-lite] describes an approach called "ConEx Lite" for mobile
networks that is intended for initial deployment of congestion
exposure concepts in LTE, specifically in the backhaul and core
network segments. As depicted in Figure 4, ConEx Lite allows a
tunnel receiver to monitor the volume of bytes that has been
lost, dropped, or ECN-CE (Congestion Experienced) marked between
the tunnel sender and receiver. For that purpose, a new field
called the Byte Sequence Marker (BSN) is introduced to the tunnel
header to identify the byte in the flow of data from the tunnel
sender to the tunnel receiver. A policer at the tunnel sender is
expected to react according to the tunnel congestion volume (see
[conex-lite] for details).
Kutscher, et al. Informational [Page 10]
| Web server |
| w/ ConEx |
| Internet | |
--------------------------------------------|--------
| +-----------+ |
| | Web cache | |
| | w/ ConEx | |
| +----+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ |
| | UE |=====| eNB |=====| S-GW |=====| P-GW | |
| Operator A |
Figure 1: ConEx Support on Servers and Caches
| Operator A | |
| Internet |
| Operator B |
Figure 2: ConEx Deployment across Operator Domains
| |--- ConEx path ---| |
| v v |
Figure 3: ConEx Deployment in a Single Operator Domain
Backhaul Network Core Network
+---------------+ +--------------+
| BSN or ECN-CE | | |
| marked | | |
| packets | | |
| <--- | | |
+----+ +-------+ +----------+ +-------+ +--------+
| | | | GTP-U | | GTP-U | | | |
| UE |=====| eNB |=======| S-GW |=======| P-GW |==|Internet|
| | | | Tunnel| | Tunnel| | | |
| ---> | | |
| User/control | | User/control |
| packets with | | packet with |
| DL congestion | | DL congestion|
| vol counters | | vol counters |
Figure 4: ConEx Lite Deployment
Note: DL stands for "downlink".
3.2. Implementing ConEx Functions in the EPS
We expect a ConEx solution to consist of different functions that
should be considered when implementing congestion exposure in the
3GPP EPS. [RFC7713] describes the following congestion exposure
o Modified senders that send congestion exposure information in
response to congestion feedback.
o Receivers that generate congestion feedback (leveraging existing
behavior or requiring new functions).
o Audit functions that audit ConEx signals against actual
congestion, e.g., by monitoring flows or aggregate of flows.
o Policy devices that monitor congestion exposure information and
act on the flows according to the operator's policy.
Two aspects are important to consider: 1) how the ConEx protocol
mechanisms would be implemented and what modifications to existing
networks would be required, and 2) where ConEx functional entities
would be placed best (to allow for a non-invasive addition). We
discuss these two aspects in the following sections.
3.2.1. ConEx Protocol Mechanisms
The most important step in introducing ConEx (initially) is adding
the congestion exposure functionality to senders. For an initial
deployment, no further modification to senders and receivers would be
required. Specifically, there is no fundamental dependency on ECN,
i.e., ConEx can be introduced without requiring ECN to be
Congestion exposure information for IPv6 [CONEX-DESTOPT] is contained
in a destination option header field, which requires minimal changes
at senders and nodes that want to assess path congestion. The
destination option header field does not affect non-ConEx nodes in a
In 3GPP networks, IP tunneling is used intensively, i.e., using
either IP-in-GTP-U or Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) (i.e., IP-in-IP)
tunnels. In general, the ConEx destination option of encapsulated
packets should be made available for network nodes on the tunnel
path, i.e., a tunnel ingress should copy the ConEx destination option
field to the outer header.
For effective and efficient capacity sharing, we envisage the
deployment of ECN in conjunction with ConEx so that ECN-enabled
receivers and senders get more accurate and more timely information
about the congestion contribution of their flows. ECN is already
partially introduced into 3GPP networks: Section 11.6 in [TS36300]
specifies the usage of ECN for congestion notification on the radio
link (between eNB and UE), and [TS26114] specifies how this can be
leveraged for voice codec adaptation. A complete, end-to-end support
of ECN would require specification of tunneling behaviour, which
should be based on [RFC6040] (for IP-in-IP tunnels). Specifically, a
specification for tunneling ECN in GTP-U will be needed.
3.2.2. ConEx Functions in the Mobile Network
In this section, we discuss some possible placement strategies for
ConEx functional entities (addressing both policing and auditing
functions) in the EPS and for possible optimizations for both the
uplink and the downlink.
In general, ConEx information (exposed congestion) is declared by a
sender and remains unchanged on the path; hence, reading ConEx
information (e.g., by policing functions) is placement-agnostic.
Auditing ConEx normally requires assessing declared congestion
contribution and current actual congestion. If the latter is, for
example, done using ECN, such a function would best be placed at the
end of the path.
In order to provide a comprehensive ConEx-based capacity management
framework for the EPS, it would be advantageous to consider user
contribution to congestion for both the radio access and the core
network. For a non-invasive introduction of ConEx, it can be
beneficial to combine ConEx functions with existing logical EPS
entities. For example, potential places for ConEx policing and
auditing functions would then be eNBs, S-GWs, or the P-GWs. Operator
deployments may, of course, still provide additional intermediary
ConEx-enabled IP network elements.
For a more specific discussion, it will be beneficial to distinguish
downlink and uplink traffic directions (also see [nec.globecom2010]
for a more detailed discussion). In today's networks and usage
models, downlink traffic is dominating (also reflected by the
asymmetric capacity provided by the LTE radio interface). That does
not, however, imply that uplink congestion is not an issue, since the
asymmetric maximum bandwidth configuration can create a smaller
bottleneck for uplink traffic. There are, of course, backhaul links,
gateways, etc., that could be overloaded as well.
For managing downlink traffic (e.g., in scenarios such as the one
depicted in Figure 1), operators can have different requirements for
policing traffic. Although policing is, in principle, location-
agnostic, it is important to consider requirements related to the EPS
architecture (Figure 5) such as tunneling between P-GWs and eNBs.
Policing can require access to subscriber information (e.g.,
congestion contribution quota) or user-specific accounting, which
suggests that the ConEx function could be co-located with the P-GW
that already has an interface towards the Policy and Charging Rule
Function (PCRF).
Still, policing can serve different purposes. For example, if the
objective is to police bulk traffic induced by peer networks,
additional monitoring functions can be placed directly at
corresponding ingress points to monitor traffic and possibly drive
out-of-band functions such as triggering border contract penalties.
The auditing function, which should be placed at the end of the path
(at least after/at the last bottleneck), would likely be placed best
on the eNB (wireless base station).
For the uplink direction, there are naturally different options for
designing monitoring and policy enforcement functions. A likely
approach can be to monitor congestion exposure on central gateway
nodes (such as P-GWs) that provide the required interfaces to the
PCRF but to perform policing actions in the access network (i.e., in
eNBs). For example, the traffic is policed at the ingress before it
reaches concentration points in the core network.
Such a setup would enable all the ConEx use cases described in
Section 2 without requiring significant changes to the EPS
architecture. It would also enable operators to re-use existing
infrastructure, specifically wireless base stations, PCRF, and Home
Subscriber Server (HSS) systems.
For ConEx functions on elements such as the S-GWs and P-GWs, it is
important to consider mobility and tunneling protocol requirements.
LTE provides two alternative approaches: PMIPv6 [TS23402] and the
GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP). For the propagation of congestion
information (responses), tunneling considerations are therefore very
In general, policing will be done based on per-user (per-subscriber)
information such as congestion quota, current quota usage, etc., and
network operator policies, e.g., specifying how to react to
persistent congestion contribution. In the EPS, per-user information
is normally part of the user profile (stored in the HSS) that would
be accessed by PCC entities such as the PCRF for dynamic updates,
enforcement, etc.
We have shown how congestion exposure can be useful for efficient
resource management in mobile communication networks. The premise
for this discussion was the observation that data communication,
specifically best-effort bulk data transmission, is becoming a
commodity service, whereas resources are obviously still limited.
This calls for efficient, scalable, and yet effective capacity
sharing in such networks.
ConEx can be a mechanism that enables such capacity sharing while
allowing operators to apply these mechanisms in different ways, e.g.,
for implementing different use cases as described in Section 2. It
is important to note that ConEx is fundamentally a mechanism that can
be applied in different ways to realize the policies of different
operators.
ConEx may also be used to complement 3GPP-based mechanisms for
congestion management that are currently under development, such as
in the User Plane Congestion Management (UPCON) work item described
in [TR23705].
We have described a few possibilities for adding ConEx as a mechanism
to 3GPP LTE-based networks and have shown how this could be done
incrementally (starting with partial deployment). It is quite
feasible that such partial deployments be done on a per-operator-
domain basis without requiring changes to standard 3GPP interfaces.
For network-wide deployment, e.g., with congestion exposure between
operators, more considerations might be needed.
We have also identified a few implications/requirements that should
be taken into consideration when enabling congestion exposure in such
Performance: In mobile communication networks with more expensive
resources and more stringent QoS requirements, the feasibility of
applying ConEx as well as its performance and deployment scenarios
need to be examined closer. For instance, a mobile communication
network may encounter longer delay and higher loss rates, which
can impose specific requirements on the timeliness and accuracy of
congestion exposure information.
Mobility: One of the unique characteristics of cellular networks
when compared to wired networks is the presence of user mobility.
As the user location changes, the same device can be connected to
the network via different base stations (eNBs) or even go through
switching gateways. Thus, the ConEx scheme must to be able to
carry the latest congestion information per user/flow across
multiple network nodes in real time.
Multi-access: In cellular networks, multiple access technologies can
co-exist. In such cases, a user can use multiple access
technologies for multiple applications or even a single
application simultaneously. If the congestion policies are set
based on each user, then ConEx should have the capability to
enable information exchange across multiple access domains.
Tunneling: Both 3G and LTE networks make extensive usage of
tunneling. The ConEx mechanism should be designed in a way to
support usage with different tunneling protocols such as PMIPv6
and GTP. For ECN-based congestion notification, [RFC6040]
specifies how the ECN field of the IP header should be constructed
on entry and exit from IP-in-IP tunnels.
Roaming: Independent of the specific architecture, mobile
communication networks typically differentiate between non-roaming
and roaming scenarios. Roaming scenarios are typically more
demanding regarding implementing operator policies, charging, etc.
It can be expected that this would also hold for deploying ConEx.
A more detailed analysis of this problem will be provided in a
future revision of this document.
It is important to note that ConEx is intended to be used as a
supplement and not a replacement to the existing QoS mechanisms in
mobile networks. For example, ConEx deployed in 3GPP mobile networks
can provide useful input to the existing 3GPP PCC mechanisms by
supplying more dynamic network information to supplement the fairly
static information used by the PCC. This would enable the mobile
network to make better policy control decisions than is possible with
only static information.
For any ConEx deployment, it is important to apply appropriate
mechanisms to preclude applications and senders from misstating their
congestion contribution. [RFC7713] discusses this problem in detail
and introduces the ConEx auditing concept. ConEx auditing can be
performed in different ways -- for example, flows can be constantly
audited or only audited on demand when network operators decide to do
so. Also, coarse-grained auditing may operate on flow aggregates for
efficiency reasons, whereas fine-grained auditing would inspect
individual flows. In mobile networks, there may be deployment
strategies that favor efficiency over very exact auditing. It is
important to understand the trade-offs and to apply ConEx auditing
appropriately.
The ConEx protocol specifications [CONEX-DESTOPT] and [TCP-MOD]
discuss additional security considerations that would also apply to
mobile network deployments.
6. Informative References
[CONEX-DESTOPT]
Krishnan, S., Kuehlewind, M., Briscoe, B., and C. Ralli,
"IPv6 Destination Option for Congestion Exposure (ConEx)",
Work in Progress, draft-ietf-conex-destopt-12, January
[conex-lite]
Baillargeon, S. and I. Johansson, "ConEx Lite for Mobile
Networks", In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCOMM Capacity
Sharing Workshop, DOI 10.1145/2630088.2630091, August
[dash] ISO/IEC, "Information Technology -- Dynamic Adaptive
Streaming over HTTP (DASH) -- Part 1: Media presentation
description and segment formats", ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014,
May 2014.
[lte-sigcomm2013]
Huang, J., Qian, F., Guo, Y., Zhou, Y., Xu, Q., Mao, Z.,
Sen, S., and O. Spatscheck, "An In-depth Study of LTE:
Effect of Network Protocol and Application Behavior on
Performance", In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCOMM
Conference, DOI 10.1145/2486001.2486006, August 2013.
[nec.euronf-2011]
Mir, F., Kutscher, D., and M. Brunner, "Congestion
Exposure in Mobility Scenarios", In Proceedings of the 7th
Euro-NF Conference on Next Generation Internet (NGI),
DOI 10.1109/NGI.2011.5985948, June 2011.
[nec.globecom2010]
Kutscher, D., Lundqvist, H., and F. Mir, "Congestion
Exposure in Mobile Wireless Communications", In
Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications
Conference (GLOBECOM), DOI 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684362,
[raghavan2007]
Raghavan, B., Vishwanath, K., Ramabhadran, S., Yocum, K.,
and A. Snoeren, "Cloud Control with Distributed Rate
Limiting", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review,
DOI 10.1145/1282427.1282419, October 2007.
[RFC6040] Briscoe, B., "Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion
Notification", RFC 6040, DOI 10.17487/RFC6040, November
2010, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6040>.
[RFC6789] Briscoe, B., Ed., Woundy, R., Ed., and A. Cooper, Ed.,
"Congestion Exposure (ConEx) Concepts and Use Cases",
RFC 6789, DOI 10.17487/RFC6789, December 2012,
[RFC6817] Shalunov, S., Hazel, G., Iyengar, J., and M. Kuehlewind,
"Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)", RFC 6817,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6817, December 2012,
[RFC7713] Mathis, M. and B. Briscoe, "Congestion Exposure (ConEx)
Concepts, Abstract Mechanism, and Requirements", RFC 7713,
[TCP-MOD] Kuehlewind, M. and R. Scheffenegger, "TCP modifications
for Congestion Exposure", Work in Progress, draft-ietf-
conex-tcp-modifications-10, October 2015.
[TR23705] 3GPP, "System Enhancements for User Plane Congestion
Management", 3GPP TR 23.705 13.0.0, December 2015.
[TR23829] 3GPP, "Local IP Access and Selected IP Traffic Offload
(LIPA-SIPTO)", 3GPP TR 23.829 10.0.1, October 2011.
[TS23203] 3GPP, "Policy and charging control architecture", 3GPP
TS 23.203 13.6.0, December 2015.
[TS23401] 3GPP, "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements
for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
(E-UTRAN) access", 3GPP TS 23.401 13.5.0, December 2015.
[TS23402] 3GPP, "Architecture enhancements for non-3GPP accesses",
3GPP TS 23.402 13.4.0, December 2015.
[TS26114] 3GPP, "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Multimedia
telephony; Media handling and interaction", 3GPP TS 26.114
13.2.0, December 2015.
[TS29060] 3GPP, "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); GPRS
Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) across the Gn and Gp interface",
[TS29274] 3GPP, "3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS); Evolved General
Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol for
Control plane (GTPv2-C); Stage 3", 3GPP TS 29.274 13.4.0,
[TS36300] 3GPP, "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)
and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
(E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2", 3GPP TS 36.300
13.2.0, January 2016.
Appendix A. Overview of 3GPP's EPS
This section provides an overview of the 3GPP "Evolved Packet System"
(EPS [TS36300] [TS23401]) as a specific example of a mobile
communication architecture. Of course, other architectures exist,
but the EPS is used as one example to demonstrate the applicability
of congestion exposure concepts and mechanisms.
The EPS architecture and some of its standardized interfaces are
depicted in Figure 5. The EPS provides IP connectivity to UE (i.e.,
mobile nodes) and access to operator services, such as global
Internet access and voice communications. The EPS comprises the
radio access network called Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio
Access Network (E-UTRAN) and the core network called the Evolved
Packet Core (EPC). QoS is supported through an EPS bearer concept,
providing bindings to resource reservation within the network.
+-------+
+-------+ | PCRF |
| HSS | /+-------+\
+-------+ Gx/ \Rx
| / \
| +-------+ SGi +-------+
| | P-GW |=========| AF |
| +-------+ +-------+
HPLMN | |
------------------------------|--------------|----------------------
VPLMN | |
+-------+ |
| MME | |
/+-------+\ |S8
S1-MME / \ |
/ \S11 |
/ \ |
+-----------+ \ |
+----+ LTE-Uu | | \ |
| UE |========| | S1-U +-------+
+----+ | E-UTRAN |==============| S-GW |
| (eNBs) | +-------+
+-----------+
Figure 5: EPS Architecture Overview (Roaming Case)
HPLMN - Home Public Land Mobile Network
VPLMN - Visited Public Land Mobile Network
AF - Application Function
SGi - Service Gateway Interface
LTE-Uu - LTE Radio Interface
The Evolved NodeB (eNB), the LTE base station, is part of the access
network that provides radio resource management, header compression,
security, and connectivity to the core network through the S1
interface. In an LTE network, the control-plane signaling traffic
and the data traffic are handled separately. The eNBs transmit the
control traffic and data traffic separately via two logically
separate interfaces.
The Home Subscriber Server (HSS) is a database that contains user
subscriptions and QoS profiles. The Mobility Management Entity (MME)
is responsible for mobility management, user authentication, bearer
establishment and modification, and maintenance of the UE context.
The Serving Gateway (S-GW) is the mobility anchor and manages the
user-plane data tunnels during the inter-eNB handovers. It tunnels
all user data packets and buffers downlink IP packets destined for
UEs that happen to be in idle mode.
The PDN Gateway (P-GW) is responsible for IP address allocation to
the UE and is a tunnel endpoint for user-plane and control-plane
protocols. It is also responsible for charging, packet filtering,
and policy-based control of flows. It interconnects the mobile
network to external IP networks, e.g., the Internet.
In this architecture, data packets are not sent directly on an IP
network between the eNB and the gateways. Instead, every packet is
tunneled over a tunneling protocol -- the GPRS Tunneling Protocol
(GTP) [TS29060] over UDP/IP. A GTP path is identified in each node
with the IP address and a UDP port number on the eNB/gateways. The
GTP protocol carries both the data traffic (GTP-U tunnels) and the
control traffic (GTP-C tunnels [TS29274]). Alternatively, PMIPv6 is
used on the S5 interface between S-GW and P-GW.
The above is very different from an end-to-end path on the Internet
where the packet forwarding is performed at the IP level.
Importantly, we observe that these tunneling protocols give the
operator a large degree of flexibility to control the congestion
mechanism incorporated with the GTP/PMIPv6 protocols.
We would like to thank Bob Briscoe and Ingemar Johansson for their
support in shaping the overall idea and in improving the document by
providing constructive comments. We would also like to thank Andreas
Maeder and Dirk Staehle for reviewing the document and for providing
helpful comments.
Dirk Kutscher
Kurfuersten-Anlage 36
Email: kutscher@neclab.eu
Faisal Ghias Mir
Email: faisal.mir@gmail.com
Rolf Winter
Email: rolf.winter@neclab.eu
Suresh Krishnan
8400 Blvd Decarie
Town of Mount Royal, Quebec
Email: suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com
Ying Zhang
3000 Hannover Street
Email: ying.zhang13@hp.com
Carlos J. Bernardos
Av. Universidad, 30
Leganes, Madrid 28911
Email: cjbc@it.uc3m.es
URI: http://www.it.uc3m.es/cjbc/
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Opinion polls ahead of November’s presidential election contest in the United States of America have generally tended to be relatively favourable in recent weeks for Barack Obama with these polls putting him a few per cent ahead in head-to-head contests with his most likely opponents, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, and holding a significant poll lead over the other candidates for the Republican Party nomination. But it will not be the candidate who wins the most votes that wins this election (as proved to be the case in the controversial 2000 contest) but the candidate who wins the most Electoral College votes. Each of the states in the USA (and the District of Columbia) have a certain number of Electoral College votes attached to them, with this number based on the number of Senators (always two) and members of the House of Congress (a function of a state’s population level, but each state has at least one representative) representing the state. As such, the number of Electoral College votes assigned to different states is shaped somewhat by states’ population levels but with a bias towards the states with the smaller population levels as they will always be guaranteed three Electoral College votes
The proportion of Electoral College votes won by candidates in the presidential election does not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference vote. The disproportional nature of this electoral system is down to the fact that all the Electoral College votes on offer in a state are assigned to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state on a “winner takes all” basis. In some cases the level of difference/bias can be quite significant where winning candidates’ share of the Electoral College votes have been seen to far exceed their share of the popular vote in a number of past contests – ironically the 2000 contest was probably one of the most proportional contests in this regard. In order to assess how support levels evident in opinion polls might translate into Electoral College vote numbers, I attempt to estimate what the candidates’ first preference votes would be in the different states, assuming similar (proportional) change in party vote shares in all states along the lines of the constituency-level analysis of opinion polls model as covered in a number of posts on the politicalreform.ie website. How does this work? Well, for instance, on the basis of average trends across recent polls the Barack Obama vote in different states is now estimated to stand at 0.93 times the level of support he won in those states in 2008, while the Romney support levels is estimated to stand at 0.95 times the level of support John McCain won in those states in 2008.
This of course is a very rough model, and ignores the fact that changing support levels between elections tend to vary geographically, even within regions. In addition to this, the geography of support for the Republican and Democrat party candidates will in turn be dependent somewhat on the part of the USA that their different candidates hail from – running a presidential candidate from a certain region would probably see an increase the party’s share of the vote in that region.
Looking at recent opinion poll trends for a potential head-to-head contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney (based on the realclearpolitics.com website’s averaging out of recent opinion poll trends which currently estimates Obama to be leading Romney by 49.1% to 43.4%), the following would be my estimates as to the number of votes that would be won by the candidates in the different states (and the District of Columbia), the destination of Electoral College votes and the margin of victory for the winning candidate:
State Obama Romney Margin (%) Dem_EV Rep_EV
Alabama 755,528 1,205,377 -21.4% 0 9
Alaska 114,789 184,479 -21.4% 0 3
Arizona 960,996 1,170,702 -9.1% 0 11
Arkansas 392,225 607,204 -19.8% 0 6
California 7,685,012 4,769,734 21.5% 55 0
Colorado 1,196,833 1,021,777 7.3% 9 0
Connecticut 926,693 599,029 19.9% 7 0
Delaware 237,260 145,015 22.4% 3 0
D. C. 228,290 16,528 79.7% 3 0
Florida 3,977,298 3,850,804 1.5% 29 0
Georgia 1,712,751 1,949,813 -6.0% 0 16
Hawaii 302,656 114,743 41.4% 4 0
Idaho 219,596 383,548 -24.9% 0 4
Illinois 3,175,759 1,933,082 22.5% 20 0
Indiana 1,276,155 1,280,659 -0.2% 0 11
Iowa 769,888 649,423 7.8% 6 0
Kansas 478,094 665,865 -15.2% 0 6
Kentucky 698,415 997,826 -16.4% 0 8
Louisiana 727,210 1,092,818 -18.6% 0 8
Maine 391,866 281,013 15.2% 4 0
Maryland 1,513,386 913,505 22.8% 10 0
Massachusetts 1,768,453 1,055,301 23.1% 11 0
Michigan 2,667,941 1,949,699 14.3% 16 0
Minnesota 1,461,271 1,213,812 8.5% 10 0
Mississippi 515,149 689,602 -13.5% 0 6
Missouri 1,339,191 1,375,987 -1.3% 0 10
Montana 215,620 232,104 -3.3% 0 3
Nebraska 309,574 431,102 -15.2% 0 5
Nevada 495,713 392,889 10.6% 6 0
New Hampshire 357,412 301,247 7.9% 4 0
New Jersey 2,057,599 1,535,296 13.5% 14 0
New Mexico 438,767 330,082 13.1% 5 0
New York 4,462,648 2,619,824 24.1% 29 0
North Carolina 1,990,012 2,025,678 -0.8% 0 15
North Dakota 131,330 160,730 -9.3% 0 3
Ohio 2,730,600 2,548,493 3.2% 18 0
Oklahoma 466,699 913,793 -30.6% 0 7
Oregon 963,396 702,810 14.3% 7 0
Pennsylvania 3,042,960 2,527,617 8.6% 20 0
Rhode Island 275,444 157,403 25.0% 4 0
South Carolina 801,009 984,915 -9.6% 0 9
South Dakota 158,748 193,247 -9.0% 0 3
Tennessee 1,009,970 1,407,740 -15.3% 0 11
Texas 3,277,259 4,262,996 -12.2% 0 38
Utah 304,327 567,244 -27.5% 0 6
Vermont 203,642 94,194 33.7% 3 0
Virginia 1,819,938 1,641,695 4.8% 13 0
Washington 1,626,120 1,169,850 14.9% 12 0
West Virginia 282,211 378,270 -13.4% 0 5
Wisconsin 1,557,729 1,201,425 11.9% 10 0
Wyoming 76,965 156,991 -31.4% 0 3
Total 64,548,395 57,054,980 5.7% 332 206
The degree of disproportionality associated with the Electoral College vote system is readily evident here – while Obama would be estimated to be 5.7% ahead of Romney based on the popular vote levels in recent opinion polls, the analysis suggest that this would translate into a 23.4% margin of victory for the Obama campaign in terms of the number of Electoral College votes won.
While this analysis suggests that Barack Obama would have a clear win in terms of Electoral College vote numbers (winning by around one hundred and twenty five Electoral College votes an inspection of the state level figures points to a number of narrow victories in the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, which would narrow the Obama win down to just six Electoral college votes should these states fall to Romney instead. In this case, attention would be pointed towards the “next most marginal” states which could ultimately prove to be the crucial battlegrounds in a close contest – Colarado, New Hampshire and Iowa, as well as Pennsylvania and Minnesota.
This can be seen if a situation in which there was practically a dead heat in terms of the share of the popular vote won by Obama and whoever the Republican candidate would be, with the two candidates each estimated to win 49.23% of the popular vote based on the share of the vote for Other candidates (1.54%) in the 2008 contest. It is interesting to noted that in this instance, Obama would be predicted to win the Electoral College vote by six votes on the basis of a more efficient geography of support with fewer votes being wasted in terms of big wins in his safe seats and narrow losses in the marginal seats as would be the case for the Republican candidate. However, these figures show that the presidency could be won or lost on the basis of a narrow swing to the Republican in one (or two)of the following key swing states – Colarado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Minnesota. (That said, a similar level of a swing from the Republican candidate to Obama in Ohio and Virginia would see Obama take those states.)
State Obama Republican Margin (%) Dem_EV Rep_EV
Arizona 963,624 1,328,079 -15.8% 0 11
Florida 3,988,172 4,368,466 -4.5% 0 29
Georgia 1,717,433 2,211,925 -12.6% 0 16
Kentucky 700,324 1,131,963 -23.6% 0 8
Maryland 1,517,524 1,036,307 18.3% 10 0
Michigan 2,675,235 2,211,796 9.2% 16 0
Nevada 497,069 445,705 5.3% 6 0
New Jersey 2,063,224 1,741,685 8.3% 14 0
New Mexico 439,967 374,454 7.9% 5 0
North Dakota 131,689 182,337 -15.9% 0 3
Ohio 2,738,066 2,891,086 -2.7% 0 18
Oklahoma 467,975 1,036,634 -38.9% 0 7
Oregon 966,030 797,288 9.2% 7 0
South Carolina 803,200 1,117,317 -16.4% 0 9
South Dakota 159,182 219,226 -15.7% 0 3
Vermont 204,199 106,856 29.9% 3 0
Virginia 1,824,914 1,862,387 -1.0% 0 13
Washington 1,630,566 1,327,113 9.9% 12 0
Wisconsin 1,561,988 1,362,932 6.7% 10 0
As a point of contrast with the Romney analysis, carrying out a similar analysis based on a comparison of Obama and Santorum poll figures which currently estimate a Obama lead over Santorum by 49.7% to 43.3% would suggest that Obama would win in a presidential election contest by a larger margin over Santorum in terms of his Electoral College vote tally, as he would also be predicted to win narrowly in Indiana based on these poll numbers in addition to the states he would be predicted to win in a contest with Romney as outlined above.
State Obama Santorum Margin (%) Dem_EV Rep_EV
Indiana 1,291,749 1,277,708 0.5% 11 0
Again, the level of disproportionality associated with this electoral system is evident, with Obama estimated to win the Electoral College vote by a margin of 27.5% as against his much narrower lead over Santorum in the popular vote. Similar analyses based on poll figures for head to heads between Obama and Paul and between Obama and Gingrich suggest Electoral College vote wins for Obama by 368-170 over Paul and by 387-154 over Gingrich.
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4 Responses to “Estimating the US Presidential election result based on recent opinion poll levels”
Dennis Pringle Says:
Another factor to consider is who the successful Republican candidate selects as their running mate. Sarah Palin only delivered 3 electoral college votes last time from Alaska, but a running mate from a large marginal state could make a significant difference.
Adrian Kavanagh Says:
That’s a very good point!
Estimating the US Presidential election: applying national opinion poll levels to the state-level contests | Irish Elections: Geography, Facts and Analyses Says:
[…] The degree of disproportionality associated with the Electoral College vote system is somewhat evident here – while Obama would be estimated to be just 0.1% ahead of Romney based on the popular vote levels in recent national opinion polls, the analysis suggest that this would translate into a 1.2% margin of victory for the Obama campaign in terms of the number of Electoral College votes won. Such levels of disproportionality are likely to become more evident should the gap between the candidates widen during the course of the election, as evident in the 2008 result when Obama was ahead of McCain in the popular vote by 7.38% but was ahead of McCain by 35.72% in terms of the proportion of electoral college votes won by both candidates. (And also look at the levels of the electoral college vote victories predicted for Obama on the basis of more favourable national polls some months ago, as detailed in an earlier version of this analysis on the Adrian Kavanagh commentary site.) […]
US Presidential Election: Could Romney win the popular vote but lose the election? | Irish Elections: Geography, Facts and Analyses Says:
[…] The degree of disproportionality associated with the Electoral College vote system is somewhat evident here – while Obama would be estimated to be 1.5 percentage points behind Romney based on the popular vote levels in recent national opinion polls, the analysis suggest that this would translate into a 1.2% margin of victory for the Obama campaign in terms of the number of Electoral College votes won. Such a level of disproportionality may well become more evident should the gap between the candidates widen during the course of the election – as evident in the 2008 result when Obama was ahead of McCain in the popular vote by 7.38% but was ahead of McCain by 35.72% in terms of the proportion of electoral college votes won by both candidates. However a slight increase in Romney’s popular vote share would probably edge him into an electoral college vote lead and produce a more proportional result in this instance, as this would edge to victories in states such as Colarado, Iowa and New Hampshire where the above model has him narrowly losing out to Obama in. (Also look at the levels of the electoral college vote victories predicted for Obama on the basis of more favourable national polls some months ago, as detailed in an earlier version of this analysis on the Adrian Kavanagh commentary site.) […]
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MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene Expression
Spenser S Smith, Neha S Dole, Tiziana Franceschetti, Henry C Hrdlicka, Anne M Delany
Serum glucocorticoids play a critical role in synchronizing circadian rhythm in peripheral tissues, and multiple mechanisms regulate tissue sensitivity to glucocorticoids. In the skeleton, circadian rhythm helps coordinate bone formation and resorption. Circadian rhythm is regulated through transcriptional and post-transcriptional feedback loops that include microRNAs. How microRNAs regulate circadian rhythm in bone is unexplored. We show that in mouse calvaria, miR-433 displays robust circadian rhythm, peaking just after dark. In C3H/10T1/2 cells synchronized with a pulse of dexamethasone, inhibition of miR-433 using a tough decoy altered the period and amplitude of Per2 gene expression, suggesting that miR-433 regulates rhythm. Although miR-433 does not directly target the Per2 3 'UTR, it does target 2 rhythmically expressed genes in calvaria, Igf1 and Hif1α;. miR-433 can target the glucocorticoid receptor; however glucocorticoid receptor protein abundance was unaffected in miR-433 decoy cells. Rather, miR-433 inhibition dramatically enhanced glucocorticoid signaling due to increased nuclear receptor translocation, activating glucocorticoid receptor transcriptional targets. Lastly, in calvaria of transgenic mice expressing a miR-433 decoy in osteoblastic cells (Col3.6 promoter), the amplitude of Per2 and Bmal1 mRNA rhythm was increased, confirming that miR-433 regulates circadian rhythm. miR-433 was previously shown to target Runx2, and mRNA for Runx2 and its downstream target, osteocalcin were also increased in miR-433 decoy mouse calvaria. We hypothesize that miR-433 helps maintain circadian rhythm in osteoblasts by regulating sensitivity to glucocorticoid receptor signaling.
https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.737890
Published - 7 Oct 2016
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Smith, S. S., Dole, N. S., Franceschetti, T., Hrdlicka, H. C., & Delany, A. M. (2016). MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene Expression. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(41), 21717-21728. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.737890
MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene Expression. / Smith, Spenser S; Dole, Neha S; Franceschetti, Tiziana; Hrdlicka, Henry C; Delany, Anne M.
In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 291, No. 41, 07.10.2016, p. 21717-21728.
Smith, SS, Dole, NS, Franceschetti, T, Hrdlicka, HC & Delany, AM 2016, 'MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene Expression', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 291, no. 41, pp. 21717-21728. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.737890
Smith SS, Dole NS, Franceschetti T, Hrdlicka HC, Delany AM. MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene Expression. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2016 Oct 7;291(41):21717-21728. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.737890
Smith, Spenser S ; Dole, Neha S ; Franceschetti, Tiziana ; Hrdlicka, Henry C ; Delany, Anne M. / MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene Expression. In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2016 ; Vol. 291, No. 41. pp. 21717-21728.
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AU - Hrdlicka, Henry C
AU - Delany, Anne M
N1 - FUNDING This work was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health [AR44877]; the National Institutes for Dental and Craniofacial Research [5T90DE21989]; a Grant-in-Aid award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research; the UConn Health Center Research Advisory council; and the Center for Molecular Medicine at UConn Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
N2 - Serum glucocorticoids play a critical role in synchronizing circadian rhythm in peripheral tissues, and multiple mechanisms regulate tissue sensitivity to glucocorticoids. In the skeleton, circadian rhythm helps coordinate bone formation and resorption. Circadian rhythm is regulated through transcriptional and post-transcriptional feedback loops that include microRNAs. How microRNAs regulate circadian rhythm in bone is unexplored. We show that in mouse calvaria, miR-433 displays robust circadian rhythm, peaking just after dark. In C3H/10T1/2 cells synchronized with a pulse of dexamethasone, inhibition of miR-433 using a tough decoy altered the period and amplitude of Per2 gene expression, suggesting that miR-433 regulates rhythm. Although miR-433 does not directly target the Per2 3 'UTR, it does target 2 rhythmically expressed genes in calvaria, Igf1 and Hif1α;. miR-433 can target the glucocorticoid receptor; however glucocorticoid receptor protein abundance was unaffected in miR-433 decoy cells. Rather, miR-433 inhibition dramatically enhanced glucocorticoid signaling due to increased nuclear receptor translocation, activating glucocorticoid receptor transcriptional targets. Lastly, in calvaria of transgenic mice expressing a miR-433 decoy in osteoblastic cells (Col3.6 promoter), the amplitude of Per2 and Bmal1 mRNA rhythm was increased, confirming that miR-433 regulates circadian rhythm. miR-433 was previously shown to target Runx2, and mRNA for Runx2 and its downstream target, osteocalcin were also increased in miR-433 decoy mouse calvaria. We hypothesize that miR-433 helps maintain circadian rhythm in osteoblasts by regulating sensitivity to glucocorticoid receptor signaling.
AB - Serum glucocorticoids play a critical role in synchronizing circadian rhythm in peripheral tissues, and multiple mechanisms regulate tissue sensitivity to glucocorticoids. In the skeleton, circadian rhythm helps coordinate bone formation and resorption. Circadian rhythm is regulated through transcriptional and post-transcriptional feedback loops that include microRNAs. How microRNAs regulate circadian rhythm in bone is unexplored. We show that in mouse calvaria, miR-433 displays robust circadian rhythm, peaking just after dark. In C3H/10T1/2 cells synchronized with a pulse of dexamethasone, inhibition of miR-433 using a tough decoy altered the period and amplitude of Per2 gene expression, suggesting that miR-433 regulates rhythm. Although miR-433 does not directly target the Per2 3 'UTR, it does target 2 rhythmically expressed genes in calvaria, Igf1 and Hif1α;. miR-433 can target the glucocorticoid receptor; however glucocorticoid receptor protein abundance was unaffected in miR-433 decoy cells. Rather, miR-433 inhibition dramatically enhanced glucocorticoid signaling due to increased nuclear receptor translocation, activating glucocorticoid receptor transcriptional targets. Lastly, in calvaria of transgenic mice expressing a miR-433 decoy in osteoblastic cells (Col3.6 promoter), the amplitude of Per2 and Bmal1 mRNA rhythm was increased, confirming that miR-433 regulates circadian rhythm. miR-433 was previously shown to target Runx2, and mRNA for Runx2 and its downstream target, osteocalcin were also increased in miR-433 decoy mouse calvaria. We hypothesize that miR-433 helps maintain circadian rhythm in osteoblasts by regulating sensitivity to glucocorticoid receptor signaling.
KW - circadian
KW - circadian rhythm
KW - glucocorticoid receptor
KW - microRNA (miRNA)
KW - microRNA mechanism
KW - osteoblast
KW - post-transcriptional regulation
U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M116.737890
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M116.737890
SP - 21717
EP - 21728
JO - The Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - The Journal of Biological Chemistry
10.1074/jbc.M116.737890Licence: Unspecified
MicroRNA-433 Dampens Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling, Impacting Circadian Rhythm and Osteoblastic Gene ExpressionFinal published version, 3.01 MBLicence: Unspecified
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Tag Archives: Video Previews
Fated to Love You Releases Long Preview
Drama Previews, Korean Dramas and Movies July 1, 2014 Comments: 4
I was so happy to have woken up to find the a long preview for Fated to Love You pop up on my newsfeed. Time sure does fly quick because before we know it, FTLY will be premiering tomorrow on MBC in the timeslot that was previously occupied by A New Leaf! The cast of FTLY held a press conference yesterday and also released a long preview. The preview is sweet and I just really love the vibes that it is channelling from the original. It looks spot on in taking elements from the original but it has enough of its own touch to stand out from being merely a remake. I like that aspect of it because even though this is a remake, I don’t want to watch something that is a carbon-copy of its sister. The preview sums up the events that will happen in the first ep and things get steamy between the OTP Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara. Despite coming from different socio-economic statuses, each have their reasons for being in Macau but both get a bit topsy-turvy and end up having a one-night-stand. As fate would ensure, a pregnancy happens and the OTP begin their relationship, except in quite the reverse order. Even though I have already seen the original one and know what will ensure, I am very excited to see how this remake will unfold. If things are as good as the preview shows then I will be very happy indeed. Continue reading →
New Teasers and Posters for Fated to Love You Draws on the Fluffy Side
Drama Previews, Korean Dramas and Movies June 29, 2014 Comments: 2
MBC recently rolled out two new teasers and official posters for the upcoming rom-com Fated to Love You and it has really put on a big smile on my face and I really do hope that it will continue to do so! I am loving what I am seeing! I really hope that these are signs that drama will be great. Continue reading →
Fated to Love You Drops Cutesy Teaser and New Stills
Drama Previews, Korean Dramas and Movies June 20, 2014 Leave a comment
I don’t think I have been this excited about an upcoming drama for quite long while. The very first teaser for Fated to Love You and the official website with never-before-seen stills dropped today and that has just pumped up my excitation levels. The teaser is more like a CF than a teaser because this is a far cry from the drama’s storyline. The teaser features leads Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara sharing a cute bubbly picnic date which is just oh-too-cute for the eyes. He plays the guitar for her and rallies her for a romantic hug on the bridge which is filled with loads of electric energy passing between each other. It’s very cheesy but I really like it for it’s upbeat atmosphere. Continue reading →
Extended Trailer for You Light Up My Star
Drama Previews, Taiwanese Dramas and Movies May 31, 2014 Comments: 4
You Light Up My Star is premiering tomorrow night and there has been an overflow of promotion materials this past week. I highly anticipate this drama because has some big stars and is directed by one of the most respected directors in Taiwanese dramas, Director Winnie. Director Winnie’s last drama was the critically acclaimed In Time With You which I wholeheartedly loved right from the beginning. His dramas are always a treat to watch and I’m sure that this will be the same with YFAS.
An extended trailer and BTS intro was recently released and I am loving what I am seeing. YFAS is something I look forward to mainly because of the different genre that it is conveying. It’s a romance story at heart but shaped around it is much more than that; it is about the character’s step to reach the position they are in and I am sure there is going to be lots of heartfelt background stories that will unfold. YFAS is also not going to be short on kisses with a dozen or so kisses between the OTP in just this trailer alone! Plus, there’s lots chemistry that I see flying! Continue reading →
Director Winnie’s You Light Up My Star Starring Joe Cheng and Janine Chang Amps Up for Premiere
Director Winnie is a critically acclaimed Taiwanese director and his works always stir up lots of talk. He is back with a new drama, You Light Up My Star, starring Joe Cheng and Janine Chang. This is Joe’s comeback drama after serving his mandatory military service and this marks Janine’s return to home soil after having developed her career in mainland China for the past few years.This isn’t the first time that Janine and Joe have worked, having previously starred opposite each other as leads in 2008’s Honey and Clover. This drama is looking to be a hit because not only does have a star-studded cast and award-winning director but it is also penned by the the screenwriters behind the hit dramas They Kiss Again and A Good Wife etc. YFAS has got it all on and off screens. It premieres in two days time (Sunday) on FTV and will air for 20 eps. I’d love to check it out but life is so busy right now I’ll have to save this for some marathon-watching later on in the year. Continue reading →
Upcoming Friday Drama Love Myself or You Releases Scrumptious Teasers
Now that the every so beautiful drama In A Good Way is over and out, it is time for Love Myself or You to take over its timeslot. Starring Puff Guo of Dream Girls, Liu Yi Hao/Jasper Liu, Lee Shao Xiang/Sean Lee and Lene Lai, LMOY is reverting back to the typical idol-drama territory but at least this one seems like it is going to work unlike the Sunday night idol drama Fall in Love with Me starring fellow Dream Girls member Tia Li and Aaron Yan. That drama is just plot-less and chemistry-less and I really do not know what I am even watching it save for the occasional naked Aaron scenes. LMOY, on the other hand, seems to have a much more interesting premises and there is actually a plot to it.
SETTV idol dramas are known to have the word “love” in their titles and it continues that route with this drama. However, the Chinese title extends to a much deeper meaning that I feel is sort of lost with the English title. It’s Chinese title is 喜歡‧一個人 which can be interpreting in several ways. Its literal title is “Like. One Person” which can be seen as either to like a person (i.e. “Like A Person”) or to like alone (i.e. “Like. Alone”). It’s very creative and what’s better is that it really fits in with plot. Puff’s character is a sous chef who enjoys a solidarity life where she can fixate on food whether that be cooking it or eating it and reading manga. Jasper’s character then enters her life and she can’t help but fall for him. So I guess the title reflects how the drama is going to play out, which is pretty neat if you ask me. Continue reading →
Emotional Video Previews for In A Good Way Episode 26 as We Prepare to Bid Farewell
Drama Previews, Taiwanese Dramas and Movies May 15, 2014 1 Comment
Be prepared to have your tissues out for the final ep because there will definitely be lots of tears from both the characters and us having to say our final goodbyes to this wonderful drama. In A Good Way has been such a wonderful watch and such a rare gem to find in this drama industry which is filled with clichéd plots and chemistry-less leads. IAGW is anything but. It is a heart-warming story told with sincerity and never did it once deviate from what it initially planned out to do. Freedom has been the core of this story right from the very start and it continues to remain prevalent right throughout the drama. Sometimes, I get carried away with the time setting of IAGW but you have to remember that it is set in the late 1990’s when technology and freedom back then is not as we know it today. Freedom was something that came with a hefty fine and was not an easy journey to embark on. It was something that required immense determination as well as stamina. You had to fight for it if you wanted it and this is something that has been very nicely portrayed here. IAGW might be glossed over with uni life but beneath that is the chase for freedom. Each of the characters chase for it one way or an another and with each step they take forward, the closer this freedom becomes for them. But the word “freedom” does not mean the same thing for them all. “Freedom” is something that comes through based on personal experiences and influences and these have been something that we have witnessed each of the characters face. It has now come down to the final page and the biggest question will be “are you free?”. I sure hope so! Continue reading →
In A Good Way Episode 25 Video Preview and Lorene Ren and Lego Lee Team Up for Fluffy 7-Eleven Rilakkuma CF
Drama Previews, Entertainment News, Taiwanese Dramas and Movies May 8, 2014 Comments: 4
It is so heartbreaking to see Liu Chuan locking himself up and falling to pieces. He is a very strong guy but now he is just all broken and shattered. I just want to give him a cuddle and tell him that everything will be all right. But alas, that’s not my job to do because he has Jia En by his side who will remain by his side whether it be a tornado or earthquake that comes. It doesn’t matter what happens because she will remain by his side forever just like she promised. Liu Chuan is so lucky to have lots of supportive people who he can count on to help pick him up. It doesn’t matter who is he or what his family background is because the friend they have come to known is Liu Chuan and not Liu Chuan whose father is Liu Song Heng. Him being Liu Chuan is what matters to them. So regardless of what path he decides to take, they will be there supporting him just as he has supported them. Continue reading →
In A Good Way Episode 24 Video Preview
Drama Previews, Taiwanese Dramas and Movies May 1, 2014 Leave a comment
Holidays are over for me and that means lots of homework and back to my hectic days. 😦 Luckily I have dramas right by my side to keep me sane and seeing the In A Good Way gang just always manages to bring a smile on my face. IAGW is set to end sometime soon but its episode count keeps getting readjusted. It is now currently set to end at 26 eps but last time I checked it was 25 eps. As much as I would love for IAGW to go on forever, it is evident that IAGW is slowly deviating off into a different direction and slowing down in its pacing. Its been an amazing drama and one thing that I do not want it to do is fall backwards when it is so close to the finish line. Continue reading →
In A Good Way Episode 23 Video Previews and a Very Warm Episode 22 BTS
Drama Previews, Taiwanese Dramas and Movies April 25, 2014 Leave a comment
The ending is nearing and the cast have been wrapping up their last scenes one at a time. It is now finalised for 25 eps, which I am pretty sure is on par with Office Girls being the longest running prime-time idol drama, with the last ep to air on the 9th of May. It’s a sad acknowledgement that has to be made but In A Good Way is coming to an end as do all good things. The past twenty-something weeks that I have spent with it has been nothing short of being splendid. I loved every second of it to bits and pieces. Never once did I think that IAGW would be as good as it is but it certainly blew me away. It is such a rare encounter to meet something like IAGW that is so well written and true to the heart. More than that, it is such a rarity to meet a drama that touches base with life. Never did IAGW stray away from what it had in mind to bring across a reflective, true to life story even once throughout the course of its run. It’s an amazing achievement in its own but what’s more valuable than that is the tight-friendships that it has helped created. It is just so warm and fuzzy and always sends happiness down my heart seeing how close they are. These friendships will last a lifetime and is something that cannot be bought with money. It’s a sad closure but this is only the beginning of a new journey that will be filled of laughter and lots of love.
I have no idea how the ending will turn out to be but I am sure that regardless of what happens, each and every single one of the characters will be happy. But I am assure you that IAGW will give us a very real ending that reflects who the characters are. IAGW is a drama all about the journey to freedom and I think it has captured this sense in a very sentimental way. I’ve fallen in love with it without it even having to try and capture my heart. Simple is best and this drama has stuck to simplicity. I’m so glad to have walked on this journey with the characters but it pains me to have to start the countdown to the ending. This will be one drama that I look back on and remember all the beauty that it is engraved with. Continue reading →
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Ag Industry Brief: Agsolver Gets Acquired, Danforth Working on Biofuel for DOE, Walmart Moves into Same-day Delivery, more
Emma Cosgrove
EFC Systems Acquires Monsanto Portfolio Co. AgSolver
Texas-based agricultural software provider EFC Systems, Inc. has purchased the assets of AgSolver, a software and analytics systems company for sustainable land management, valuation, and business planning. EFC Systems will gain 12 staff as part of the acquisition to form a new agronomic planning and sustainability department. Agsolver raised an undisclosed Series A round led by Monsanto Growth Ventures in 2014. More here.
U.S. Department of Energy Awards Danforth Center $16M to Enhance Sorghum for Bioenergy
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, In St. Louis, MO, has received a five-year $16 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to identify new genes and pathways that contribute to photosynthesis and enhanced water efficiency in sorghum for use in energy production. According to a press release, the DOE is looking to Danforth scientists to develop a low input, environmentally-safe, and highly-productive sorghum germplasm to help establish a dry matter-based energy economy. More here.
Walmart Acquires Brooklyn Logistics Startup Parcel To Offer Same-Day Delivery
Walmart will soon begin offering same-day delivery to New York City after acquiring Brooklyn-based delivery startup, Parcel. Founded in 2013, Parcel raised just $2 million from investors. The company pivoted from a consumer-facing startup to a business-to-business logistics provider in 2015. This acquisition comes after the retail giant acquired e-commerce startup Jet.com in August 2016. More here.
Israeli Startup Roots to List on ASX
Roots Sustainable Agtech Technologies has lodged a prospectus to raise $5 million and list on Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Roots develops and produces commercializing technologies that improve crop yields in severe weather conditions by improving plant root temperatures, increasing the ability to grow crops in weather extremes and with water shortages. More here.
Kelloggs Names New CEO
John A. Bryant is out at Kellogg’s and former CEO of supplement company, Nature’s Bounty Co. Steven A. Cahillane is the company’s new CEO. In his seven-year tenure as CEO, Bryant shifted the company toward snack foods, acquiring Pringles, but overall sales did not respond. Previously, Cahillane was president of Coca Cola’s Americas division. More here.
Inocucor Appoints VP of Product R&D
Laura McIntosh is the new VP of product R&D at Inocucor Technologies, a Canadian agricultural products company. McIntosh was most recently VP, translational research, at Caprion Biosciences Inc. in Montreal. She previously held senior management and product development positions at Osprey Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Advanced Research Technologies Inc. and Argose Inc.
Land O’Lakes Crop Inputs Business Opens New Lab
The WinField United Innovation Center, the research facility for Land O’ Lakes’ crop input research arm, is open in River Falls, Wisconsin. The 55,000-square-foot facility replaces the 6,000 square-foot WinField Product Development Center and Spray Analysis System. WinField United has committed $50 million in annual research commitment to helping farmers grow food more sustainably. The center features a spray application laboratory with some of the most advanced capabilities in the world, according to a press release, including a wind tunnel, to evaluate the entire application process. More here.
Aussie startup AgUnity wins international Agtech challenge
AgUnity has won the Tech4Farmers Asia Challenge 2.0, held in Bangkok, with the purpose of promoting AgTech innovation in Asia, according to a press release. The USAID-sponsored event is a shark-tank style competition. AgUnity’s application uses blockchain technology to allow farmers to work together in cooperatives to securely record transactions, plan farming activities, coordinate the sharing of farming equipment and manage their incomes in a digital wallet. More here.
More News that’s Fit to Chew
Researchers in Spain are close to creating a wheat without gluten using gene-editing, reports Quartz.
Australia’s aquaculture industry is expected to reach $2 billion with new government strategy, according to the International Business Times.
The head of investment themes at UBS named agriculture a major opportunity for investors in an interview with Business Insider.
One in five food safety complaints in manufacturing facilities goes ignored by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and most cases are met with voluntary requests for improvments, reports The Washington Post.
Accepting electronic Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits boosted fruit and vegetable purchases at mobile markets in The Bronx borough of New York City says an NYU study covered by PBS Newshour.
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Thanks to Collette for her three words (time, true, temptation. I have just noticed an error in that I’ve used the word truth instead of true. I’m sorry about the mix-up. I’m also sorry that this isn’t really my best work.
I ummed and erred about posting this piece because I don’t think it’s that good. Then I remembered why I’d started doing the three-word challenge and blog and that was to give me a focus and to get better at writing.
I’ve read no end of get-better-at-blogging posts telling me to only post quality material but if I did that then 1) my site probably wouldn’t have much content and 2) it wouldn’t be a true reflection of my journey to becoming and wordsmithing wizardess. So here it is, in all its naked honesty….
Mike turned and ran away from the loud bangs and screams, others joined him, not knowing what they were running from or where they were running to. A tide of panicked people appeared from a side street, rounding the corner they too ran in the direction Mike was heading.
As Mike approached the corner a woman stumbled then fell. Someone stood on her leg as they followed the throng. She yelled out in pain. The temptation to carry on running was strong but when he saw several other people jump to avoid her, he knew he had to help.
‘‘Can you stand?” Mike looked down into a pair of beautiful brown eyes and further down to her pregnant belly.
“My ankle, I twisted it.”
“C’mon, I’ll help you. I don’t know what’s happening but I do know it’s not safe.” Mike bent low, in one swift and manly move Mike hauled the woman to her feet. He put her arm over his shoulder and held her hand. His right hand slipped around her waist and pulled her close. The scent of a wildflower meadow filled his nostrils like he was in a laundry detergent advert.
“Terrorists! It’s terrorists. Run!” Shouted some guy as he rounded the corner and narrowly missed knocking into the pair.
More bangs echoed off the buildings around them. Screams followed and fear spread. People were running faster now, or maybe it only seemed that way because Mike was now going slower.
“What’s your name?” He asked.
“Natalie, Nat, people call me Nat.”
“I’m Mike.”
Silence befell them as both concentrated their efforts on escaping. Sirens blared out, flashes of blue light struck windows as police cars headed against the flow of the stampede. A green door opened and a woman called out to them.
”In here, come on, bring her in here! You’ll be safe in here.” She yelled. “Come on, there’s no time!”
Mike and Nat looked at each other, both knew that danger was right behind them, both knew the woman was right. Mike gave the last ounce of his strength getting Nat over the threshold and into the woman’s house. They slid past the woman and she slammed the door behind them.
“Straight on down there, into the kitchen, it’ll be safer at the back.” The woman commanded. “I’m Cordelia by the way.”
“I’m Mike, this is Nat.” That sentence felt more familiar on his tongue than he cared to admit. He helped Nat on to a chair next to the dining table. She sat quietly, her head down low. Mike knelt down in front of her and swept her mousey hair away from her face. Her doe eyes met his. She smiled, Mike smiled, she threw up on his shoes.
“Oh God, I’m so sorry, Mike. Sorry. Sorry, Cordelia.” Nat looked from one to the other and to the puddle of vomit.
“Don’t worry dear, no harm done,” Cordelia said, nipping off into the kitchen and reappearing with some kitchen towels and a bowl. “In case there’s any more…” she added, proffering the bowl to Nat.
Mike cleaned the vomit off his shoes and trouser leg, the smell of vomit always made him wretch but he tried to hide from Nat. “Water? Do you want some water?” He asked.
Nat nodded, her face was buried in the bowl balanced on her baby bump. Cordelia headed back to the kitchen, they heard the swoosh of the tap. Mike noticed he was squeezing Nat’s knee, an act that felt natural. He wondered if she felt the same, he hoped that she did, despite her circumstances.
“Grrr, arrrgghh, arrgghh.” Came a muffled sound from the front room. Nat looked up, Mike wasn’t sure where to look.
“Here’s you water dear. Excuse me for a moment.” Cordelia swept past them and into the front room. Mike strained to hear anything that would give them a clue as to what had made the noise. He was annoyed at how loud his breathing was, he could only hear his heart pounding. He was beginning to regret accepting the help of a stranger as he suddenly noted a creepy vibe to the place. Everything seemed normal enough but now, that sound, the perfect placement of ornaments, pictures perfectly square on the wall. Not a speck of dust. Mike began to feel nervous. Something wasn’t quite right.
“We shouldn’t have come here, Nat. I don’t think it’s safe.”
“It’s safer than the violence outside!”
“Maybe, maybe not.”
“Mike, I can’t go anywhere. I think I’m in labour.”
“What? You can’t, not here, not now!” Mike looked up as Cordelia appeared next to him.
“Is everything thing ok? You still look peeky dear.”
Mike flashed a wide-eyed, subtle shake of his head to Natalie.
”I’m starting to feel a little better, I think,” Nat replied.
“Oh, good. I just need to pop down to the cellar.” Cordelia headed to a cupboard under the stairs and disappeared into it.
“Oh shit, she’s up to something, I don’t like it, Nat!” Mike became twitchy, he loosened his tie and his shirt. “I’ve got to see what was in that room.”
”Mike! You’re being ridiculous. She’s a perfectly nice lady.”
A thud followed by a dragging noise came from below them.
“Shit! Did you hear that! She’s getting ready to chop us up! Oh, shit!” Mike was pacing around the little dining room. “I’m going to have a look in the front room. Cough if she comes back up.” He ducked out the room the way they’d come in.
Nat clutched the table as another contraction took hold. She was unable to cough when Cordelia reappeared dusting herself down.
Cordelia saw that Mike had gone and headed out to the hallway. Mike was frozen in the doorway to the lounge.
“Come on dear. Come away from that.” She said, gently, but firmly, putting her hands over his shoulders and guided him back to the dining room.
“She’s got a…she’s a…there’s a, a…m-m-man i-i-in…She’s going to kill us!” Mike leapt towards Nat and tried to heave her to her feet. Cordelia laughed, the trouble was, it was a maniacal laugh and that made the situation worse, for Mike anyway.
“You’re not going anywhere, she’s definitely not, that wee bun in the oven ain’t gonna be in there for much longer. Am I right lass?”
Nat nodded. Mike gripped Nat like he was having a contraction himself.
”You’re a killer! You’re torturing that man and I’m calling the police.”
“Call the police if you like! Half of ’em come ‘ere anyway for a bit of fun with old Cordy.” She took pity on the young man. “Look, I’m no killer you silly boy. The truth is I’m a well-respected dominatrix. That man in there’s a paying, consenting customer! Now, by my reckoning, the emergency services have got their hands tied and it could be a while till they get to our lass here. I’ve made up a bed in the basement, it ain’t much but it’s the best I can do in the circumstances. You can stay here, or you can risk it out there?”
”We’ll stay.” Managed Nat, clutching Mike’s hand.
“Fine, but I’m calling an ambulance and the police so that they know we’re here, just don’t you try anything, lady,” Mike said in his best manly voice.
Cordelia nodded and smiled. If only he knew the wicked things she’d like to do him. All in good time, all in good time, she reassured herself as she locked the pair in her cellar.
This piece started out as an attempt at writing a romance story but I’m not sure what it is as it doesn’t seem to have a proper ending. The thing I’ve learned from this is either my head wasn’t in it this week or that writing romance is not really my forte- in fact, both of those statements may not be entirely mutually exclusive!
I wouldn’t blame you for unfollowing me but if you have any stories about bad writing days I’d love to hear about them!
Soundarya Sriram says
9th July 2018 at 3:24 am
I enjoyed this so much 🙂
Ah, thank you. You’re too kind 🙂
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Original Research |16 January 2018
Comparison of Five Major Guidelines for Statin Use in Primary Prevention in a Contemporary General Population
Martin Bødtker Mortensen, MD, PhD; Børge Grønne Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc
Martin Bødtker Mortensen, MD, PhD
From Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, and Herlev and Gentofte Hospital and Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Børge Grønne Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc
This article was published at Annals.org on 2 January 2018.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank the staff and participants of the CGPS for their contributions.
Financial Support: By Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Aarhus University, and the Copenhagen County Foundation.
Disclosures: Authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M17-0681.
Editors' Disclosures: Christine Laine, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, reports that she has no financial relationships or interests to disclose. Darren B. Taichman, MD, PhD, Executive Deputy Editor, reports that he has no financial relationships or interests to disclose. Cynthia D. Mulrow, MD, MSc, Senior Deputy Editor, reports that she has no relationships or interests to disclose. Deborah Cotton, MD, MPH, Deputy Editor, reports that she has no financial relationships or interest to disclose. Jaya K. Rao, MD, MHS, Deputy Editor, reports that she has stock holdings/options in Eli Lilly and Pfizer. Sankey V. Williams, MD, Deputy Editor, reports that he has no financial relationships or interests to disclose. Catharine B. Stack, PhD, MS, Deputy Editor for Statistics, reports that she has stock holdings in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol: Not available. Statistical code: Available from Dr. Mortensen (e-mail, Martin.bodtker.mortensen@clin.au.dk). Data set: Not available, because this is not allowed by the Danish Data Protection Agency.
Requests for Single Reprints: Børge G. Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730 Herlev, Denmark; e-mail, boerge.nordestgaard@regionh.dk.
Current Author Addresses: Dr. Mortensen: Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
Dr. Nordestgaard: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730 Herlev, Denmark.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: M.B. Mortensen, B.G. Nordestgaard.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: M.B. Mortensen, B.G. Nordestgaard.
Drafting of the article: M.B. Mortensen.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: M.B. Mortensen, B.G. Nordestgaard.
Final approval of the article: M.B. Mortensen, B.G. Nordestgaard.
Provision of study materials or patients: B.G. Nordestgaard.
Statistical expertise: M.B. Mortensen, B.G. Nordestgaard.
Obtaining of funding: B.G. Nordestgaard.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: B.G. Nordestgaard.
Collection and assembly of data: M.B. Mortensen, B.G. Nordestgaard.
Five major organizations recently published guidelines for using statins to prevent atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD): in 2013, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA); in 2014, the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); and in 2016, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and the European Society of Cardiology/European Atherosclerosis Society (ESC/EAS).
To compare the utility of these guidelines for primary prevention of ASCVD.
Observational study of actual ASCVD events during 10 years, followed by a modeling study to estimate the effectiveness of different guidelines.
The Copenhagen General Population Study.
45 750 Danish persons aged 40 to 75 years who did not use statins and did not have ASCVD at baseline.
The number of participants eligible to use statins according to each guideline and the estimated number of ASCVD events that statins could have prevented.
The percentage of participants eligible for statins was 44% by the CCS guideline, 42% by ACC/AHA, 40% by NICE, 31% by USPSTF, and 15% by ESC/EAS. The estimated percentage of ASCVD events that could have been prevented by using statins for 10 years was 34% for CCS, 34% for ACC/AHA, 32% for NICE, 27% for USPSTF, and 13% for ESC/EAS.
Limitation:
This study was limited to primary prevention in white Europeans.
Guidelines recommending that more persons use statins for primary prevention of ASCVD should prevent more events than guidelines recommending use by fewer persons.
Primary Funding Source:
Copenhagen University Hospital.
Mortensen MB, Nordestgaard BG. Comparison of Five Major Guidelines for Statin Use in Primary Prevention in a Contemporary General Population. Ann Intern Med. 2018;168:85–92. [Epub ahead of print 2 January 2018]. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/M17-0681
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2018;168(2):85-92.
DOI: 10.7326/M17-0681
Published at www.annals.org on 2 January 2018
2018 American College of Physicians
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Comparison of Five Major Guidelines for Statin Use in Primary Prevention
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In primary prevention, the ACC/AHA risk-based approach predicted ASCVD better than trial-based or hybrid approaches
Update in Women's Health: Evidence Published in 2016
ACC/AHA guidelines determining statin eligibility better predicted CVD than ATP-III guidelines
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Evolocumab reduced CV events in patients with atherosclerotic CV disease taking high- or moderate-intensity statins
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Grayling Spawns Again – more Cod.
by Anna Raccoon on May 9, 2014
Inmates place their bets on the unscathed survival of the latest pupil at Grayling’s ‘School for Scandal’.
The Criminal Justice Bill has attracted a lot of attention – not least because of the provisions to amend that most favoured of current charges – the possession of extreme pornographic images. There are other sections of the Bill, however, listed under ‘and for connected purposes’. Hidden in there is a provision so breathtaking in its stupidity that I thought I must be dreaming.
Whilst our media are consumed with the dangers the world might hold for young women, our new Head of the CPS crows that the CPS is now comprised of 60% women, presumably suitably indoctrinated in the dark arts of prosecuting elderly celebrities, and television companies vie with each other to turn damaged middle aged women into light entertainment – Chris Grayling has his own ideas on how to create a society safe from abuse for young girls – in an ‘economically efficient manner’.
Crying ‘Eureka’ from his bath tub, he has reinvented the wheel first thought of by Professor W O Bell in the 60s – the key to helping young offenders is to help them back into education! Duncroft, Ms Jones and Professor Bell, stand up and take a bow – ’tis only on this blog that you will get any credit for having put this revolutionary idea into practice 40 years ago. Grayling thinks it is all his own work…
It does work – and many of us have emerged from Duncroft to live long and useful lives – but I wouldn’t fancy our chances had we had to endure Grayling’s version of this ‘enlightenment’. Read on MacDuff – and prepare to be amazed.
He doesn’t say what his brilliant idea will cost – “we have not provided monetised estimates of costs and benefits where doing so would prejudice the effectiveness of a competition for the delivery of services”. Apparently every area of the costing would be so prejudicial to the free market, but he is certain that it will be more ‘economically efficient’. Estimates of the cost from outside sources suggest around £85 million, and plans are obviously fairly advanced even without the legislation because it is planned to be up and running in 2017.
He is to build a new ‘secure college’ in the East Midlands for young offenders. I like the terminology – ’tis what used to be called an approved school – but most unlike Duncroft.
This one will house 320 children. Whilst you might recognise the 5% of young future female inmates of 12 – 15 year old girls as being ‘children’ – you would have a tough job establishing which were staff and which were inmates amongst the 290 odd 96% of young offenders who are fully grown, 17 year old males.
This particular group of young males have a 76% chance of reoffending on release – they are not ‘all angels’! Throwing 30 12 year old girls into this mix is a recipe for disaster – though I note that Schedule 4, (8(c)) and (10) plans to allow for ‘reasonable force’ [according to rules which have not yet been published] to be used in order to restrain them…in 2008, the Court of Appeal [R (on the application of C) (a minor) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWCA Civ 882] ruled that using force (Pindown) to maintain ‘good order and discipline’ amongst young offenders was ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’ and contravened Article 3 of the ECHR. Quite how he plans to keep all those hormonally challenged 17 year old males off the 12 year old girls without using force remains to be seen.
Since Grayling is so concerned about not affecting the ‘free market of competition for services’ I am assuming that this hell hole will be privately run and staffed – yet there is no mention in the Bill of minimum training levels or qualifications. These things will be established by Ministerial order once he has got his Bill through parliament. You know, whilst we are no longer looking…worryingly, Grayling says he want providers to ‘innovate’ in the running of this establishment.
Logic dictates that if 95% of the inmates are tough young males, then the regime will cater to their needs, and they will dominate the atmosphere.
Is this really where the millions expended on ‘child protection’ and the pursuit of elderly celebrities has led us? A couple of cheap television programmes, a new ‘King’ of the ‘kiss and tell’, or more prosaically the ‘kiss and felled by Yewtree’ these days, risen to take Max Clifford’s place, and our response is to throw a handful of young girls into a massive new prison filled with young men and say ’tis OK, they are being educated’?
Does anybody care?
Tagged as: Child Abuse, child protection, Chris Grayling, Criminal Justice Bill, Duncroft, Pindown, Secure Colleges
IlovetheBBC
He’s insane. Have they learnt nothing? He is reinventing the wheel, but it’s square.
This could only be a more modern Britain solution if they set up CCTV everywhere & sold the viewing rights to Channel Five…
Are you sure they won’t?
Haven’t they already?
acoustic village
I think it’s an excellent idea.
G. Glitter
Politicians don’t really run the show. They’re just there to catch and market the bananas that are to be sold to the rest of the population.
There would be little different in that, or any of this, if the SoS were Labour, LibDem, Green, SNP, BNP, Save the Whale, or even UKIP
All Parliament will do is sit there, a bit like Canute, but up to their necks, saying to the public, “OK, you’re drowning. So what?”
With their fingers in the dykes no doubt.
Not all female guards are that way
Some are like lock gates–they swing both ways.
A large part of what seems now to be our post liberal democracy appears to being run behind the scenes by the Agatha Trunchbull brigade, so would it be all that surprising?
I was surprised to learn yesterday that Alison Saunders is married, indeed has been impregnated twice…..brave man, Neil.
I had checked that some months ago myself. LOL
However ‘Daresay’s’ cautionary tale from yesterday’s comments comes to mind :-/
I imagine that with only 40% men around, the CPS gets quite fruity.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-431884/Anti-terror-peer-dumps-boring-wife-glamorous-barrister.html
Speaking in general terms, I can never quite understand how two married people, deceiving their partners, breaking their word, destroying their families stability, seems to somehow command less public opprobium than a couple of 15 year olds who, hormones raging in post pubescent adulthood, get carried away a bit further than they might have intended when having a kiss and a cuddle on getting home late afternoon
Of course, I really do understand it. The cesspit of hypocrisy into which people will wallow and sink has no bottom
To be fair they generally get more aerated about a 45 yr-old and a 15-yr-old, although I have seen reports of 19 yr-olds getting clink. Perhaps the cut-off is 18? There would be a sot of logic there but they need to make the law much clearer in my opinion. Criminalising teens was foreseen in 2003 when they passed these muddy laws but Blunkett said everyone would apply the spirit of the law in an appropriate manner. Blind leading the blind I guess.
I guess that’s maybe all you can expect from a Manfred Mann fan
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MegdMhdseuI
If you see what I mean
I worked in a State of Florida school cum psych hospital and the boys and girls never saw or heard each other, except when they shared transport when escorted to outside doctor’s appointments. It depends entirely how the campus is set up. Teachers can, of course, teach in different classrooms and you can have more than one football pitch or chapel.
I would think that segregation would be a near certainty – cue loud jeering from the windows as the girlies are led out for their daily exercise. A wonderful atmosphere to ‘heal’ in. If you are going to set up a facility where neither gender sees or hears of each other – then why not a few miles apart? What is the point of having them all under the same roof?
Surely the prevailing historical sex abuse cases scandal reveals the dangers of single-sex establishments for the boys. They need the girls around to help keep the boys safe….
Indeed, otherwise they may grow up to be politicians…
Economies of scale, shared facilities like libraries and teaching resources, sports facilities, administrative staff, medical department, specialist teachers. You can have back-to-back buildings that do not overlook each other, but allow access through security entrances for staff. Also shared kitchens, catering.
A high proportion of children in prison have complex needs, including problems with mental and physical health, speech and language, drug and alcohol, and histories of abuse and family breakdown. Small secure units, such as secure children’s homes (SCHs), with well-trained and highly qualified staff, and high staff to child ratios, are able to provide intensive support for these children. They are safest and have the best outcomes for detained children.
‘They helped me, they supported me’: achieving outcomes and value for money in Secure Children’s Homes (2014)
I know everything American is the biggest and the best – but good things come in small packages.
I don’t think we make them walk around in pink jumpsuits either
Something on the wireless today saying that there is also a proposal to grant all “child criminals” lifelong anonymity. Given that child criminals who are now aged between 25 and 60 are filling up the news media as well as the courts these days, and they already have anonymity anyway (until they sell their stories to the papers) it all seems like a bureaucracy gone mad.
Wasn’t there a decision in the CA recently which said there was no reason why they couldn’t be named as soon as they hit 18? Sent them all into a panic!
What you say is very true and children coming into a total care environment would have a variety of complex needs, and on admission would need to be assessed for psychiatric, medical, psychological, educational, dietary, social, religious, and recreational needs and probably other things that I have forgotten about.
While I would also agree that children thrive best in smaller, personalised residential units with staff they know and trust, I think the smaller units can still be provided within the framework of a larger unit, with the added benefit that if a staff member is out sick, you have others available to step in. If you have a number of small regional secure schools, the difficulty of recruiting and maintaining such a highly trained and specialized staff is much greater.
I am not so sure about pink jump suits, but I am not opposed to some kind of school uniform and restrictions on the wearing of nose rings, tongue piercings, extreme hair styles, display of offensive tattoos, and so on.
There is nothing wrong with coeducation of the sexes as a general principle, but I think that with this particular population the downside probably outweighs the benefits. You will get homosexual activity, but at least that has the benefit of not leading to issues related to pregnancy, abortion, paternity suits, etc.
Bear in mind that there is ample evidence that males confined in single sex environments, particularly when of already poor moral character, turn to homosexual rape.
The issue of pregnancy is, frankly, a minor issue regarding rape. The issue of rape is the commission of violence and subsequent traumatisation. Arguably, sodomisation is somewhat worse than PIV rape, since it is doing something to someone they would not choose to do under any circumstances and the anus is not a natural sexual organ. Forcibly sodomising a woman is probably worser than PIV rape. Imagine the psychological effects on a 12 year old boy of being buggered by other boys.
Large institutions are far less controllable in this respect than small ones.
I don’t know. In my experience there was a lot more sexual activity among the girls than among the boys. Remember that since the 2000s closed circuit TV with recording has been ubiquitous. Girls would do stuff like working together on a jigsaw on the floor while the lower half of their bodies were blocked from camera view by an armchair, but rapey actions with unwilling boys would have been much harder to carry off.
One possible explanation was that nearly all of the girls had been highly sexually active prior to incarceration, often exchanging sex for drugs and perhaps had developed a sexual habit too. The boys maybe less so.
In practical terms in an institution you have to deal with liability issues like pregnancy, HIV, and other diseases like herpes, rather than hypothetical psychological factors that cannot be quantified.
I can think of three women I have known who suffered sexual assault when young, but outcomes vary wildly.
# 1 about 40 years ago was the subject of attempted rape by her alcoholic father while her mother was dying of cancer in the next room. She was about 17 at the time, and a virgin. She eventually had abortions, mental hospital admissions and multiple marriages, but when I looked up her Facebook page just now it appears she is happy and prosperous, has grandchildren, and is building a new home.
#2 was raped at the age of 7 by an adult neighbour. I met her when she was in her 40s. She became a teenage prostitute, married one of her johns and stayed with him for over 20 years, then divorced. She says she had an orgasm at the time of the rape, but has never, ever orgasmed in intercourse since, though she enjoys other sexual activity. She inherited a citrus farm and is living peacefully in small town Florida with her two dogs. She never had children.
#3 was raped by an adult neighbor at the age of 9. At 30 she remains childless when all her peers have babies, although she married, got pregnant via an extramarital affair, then aborted the baby. However she had a much-loved chihuahua puppy. She prefers oral sex to intercourse.
@Johnathan I admit to not being entirely clear what your first paragraph describes, but it seems to me to be describing a mixed sex institution, and that the girls were deliberately indulging in sexual activity with the boys and “masking” it from CCTV. Were the boys hiding behind the armchairs doing the deed, or were the girls sexually active with each other, or am I confused here?
The correlation between homosexual activity and rape among otherwise heterosexual males seem to occur in single sex environments (schools, prisons, notoriously). There does seem to be some significant evidence that it’s in the absence of females that this phenomenon exists, particularly in prisons where abused low status males are deliberately degraded as “subsititute women”.
Sorry for any ambiguity. No, sexual activity between girls shielded from the cameras. In modern facilities of this type it is highly unlikely you would have boys and girls together.
People forget that if a new large scale school of this type is built, it would surely incorporate all the latest correctional technology, surveillance, etc. Surely you have to give planners credit for trying to avoid the errors of the past and not recreating Flashman’s Rugby, Keri’s Duncroft, or Malfoy’s Hogwarts.
Regarding how people react to rape or early sexual experience, as Barbara Hewson pointed out, end results may be entirely different in different individuals.
It seems to me that adverse effects on victims are built into the process. The reason why it is illegal for an adult man to have sex with a girl of 15 (in the UK) is that in that jurisdiction it is widely believed to be harmful to her. One does not need to define exactly how or why it is harmful. It is illegal and that is that.
So when Jeremy Forrest has sex with a girl of 15 and Max Clifford has sex with a girl of 15, the only difference in sentencing ought to be according to aggravating factors. Forrest had a massive one (aggravating factor), that he was a teacher in her school and he got 6 years, but Clifford got a longer sentence. Why? Sentencing remarks paraphrased: “You put her hand on your penis–two years–then you put your penis in her mouth–two more years–then you touched her privates–two more years–then you touched her breasts (you beast!)–so that is another two more years. Let’s see, that adds up to eight years. Take him down and set him to breaking rocks!”
This approach to justice is a joke and even Judge Judy could have done better. Even the fact that Clifford had an orgasm was considered an aggravating factor, though again I would have thought that was included in to the idea of having sex with someone.
If Forrest had been sentenced under the new laws by the same methodology of adding up sex acts, he might have got forty years in prison.
The law on historical sex offending was clearly never designed to deal with the question of rich and famous men, or men who later became rich and famous, having casual sexual relationships decades ago with women who may or may not have been under the age of consent at the time they first met the offender–relationships that eventually went sour when the women realised that the successful men had no intention of sharing their success with some sexual partners.
The law should stop worrying about what the women concerned claim about their suffering, and just stick to applying the tariff according to measurable factors, like the age of the woman when the sex first took place, because very little else is verifiable.
Thanks for the clarification Jonathan. But I don’t get this sentence-
“The reason why it is illegal for an adult man to have sex with a girl of 15 (in the UK) is that in that jurisdiction it is widely believed to be harmful to her. One does not need to define exactly how or why it is harmful. It is illegal and that is that.”
This is circularly true, but in that sense meaningless. 40 years ago we’d have said, “The reason why it is illegal for an adult man to have sex with a another man (in the UK) is that in that jurisdiction it is widely believed to be harmful to them. One does not need to define exactly how or why it is harmful. It is illegal and that is that.”
The question is whether it is harmful, and why it is harmful, none of which is answered by saying “it is widely believed to be harmful”. It seems apparent from the Forrest case that the only “harm” occurred when the law got involved. Whether or not it is desirable e.g. for reasons of institutional discipline is another matter. If I were running a school I might insist that teachers and pupils not have relationships. On the same basis, if I were running a company I might demand the same of my staff (which might not be very popular, but I might say that office romances destablise the work environment, etc). But either way, that doesn’t demonstrate a criminal harm.
And that’s the problem really. Clifford was at least a sleazy git running a bargain basement casting couch. The Forrest case was never any more than two people who fancied each other, and that’s what should have made it a peppercorn sentence rather than the draconian ruination that the court inflicted.
You’d undoubtably need a mosque, too.
If you are going to jail everyone carrying a knife – most definitely. Where does that leave Sikhs – or will there be a religious exemption?
Ever been to Japan? The knives you can see in shop windows there would give these people the vapours
When I was a lad, I had a pen knife. Can I still be charged if I return to the UK?
One major challenge for Grayling will be to keep refreshing the stock of young girls – no doubt he’s already spotted the opportunity to outsource this aspect to Boko Haram Inc.
Did you notice that no sooner had Gordon Brown emerged to talk about the plight of those girls, using the stock phrases of ‘sex trafficking’, child abuse, forced marriage etc – than Boko Haram came out with their statement that they were going to sell them into slavery…..
This morning, Good Luck Jonathan was reported by the trusty World service as saying there would be nowhere to hide.
Unfortunately for all of them, Africa is a bit bigger than Auchtermuchty.
Woman on a Raft
Do you think we could persuade Gordon to do one of those gestures where he offers to take the place of the girls so that BH can hold him instead as a very valuable and much-loved hostage?
Shsshh. Quiet at the back.
I am sure that if a consortium of wealthy retired UK entertainers were to advertise an interest in bidding on these poor children, there would no shortage of offers, and indeed the number produced might exceed the total originally thought to have been kidnapped.
The fame must have gone to their heads after Whiter Shade of Pale.
Mike-the-PUNK
Big LOL. Good one.
Yes. And would have been even simpler if in Tillietudlem (BTW, for proper effect, you have to say that very quickly, and pronounce it as Tilly_tood_elum: (sighs) it’s not how you tell them, it’s how you have to explain them LOL)
Drat. As you might have worked out, that was for Moor’s benefit
Were he of the roe-for-brains to produce, as a result of this Swiftian cauldron, the first ever existence of genuinely widespread systemic sexual abuse, few of us here would be surprised.
In 2041 there will be a rash of 90 year olds claiming they were sexually abused by the inmates. You can be sure of it. That and the continuing inability of the female judiciary to understand the role of menstruation in capping paedophilia.
Funny I thought they used to have these places out in the sticks in big old houses like Duncroft. Then someone started stories of ‘child abuse’ and they all disappeared to be replaced by disturbed 15 year old lads grossly misbehaving in the classroom and putting classmates into a lifetime of flashbacks of when a beloved teacher expired in front of them. Just bring the little darlings up proper. Love them nourish them. Keep them safe. Try to cope when the hormones take over. Don’t bale out of the partnership in their mid teens, just when they need you most, although they pretend they hate you. Then maybe these places not needed and allegations years later not needed either.
Ahh, the voice of reason – thank you Ms Mildred.
Well, as I’ve said before I think, we are now in a full-blown re-run of the Victorian Era. What else would the child savers thus do, than resurrect their marvelllous old idea of corrective imprisonment of the delinquent?
Sigh. It seems every stupid idea will be tried again once sufficient time has passed for people to forget why it didn’t work last time.
Jerry Hatrick
Never thought I’d be so pleased to be 64 and a non-celebrity.
A British solution to a British problem – as you say cod – or codology. Grayling has a degree in this.
If you think that is scary, wait until you see what he is doing with the Probation Service!!
Following his ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ and the reshuffle of staff to ensure all of the new (and unneeded proceedures) are put in place, caseloads have doubled and the narrative from management when you complain that you REALLY need to do some work with Joe Bloggs as he has beat his wife up for the third time this month is ‘just quickly see him and turn him round’. I shit you not.
Read about this and many other scary (but sadly true) tales here:http://probationmatters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/lifers-and-open-prison.html#comment-form.
We’re all fooked, however, it will get MUCH better when the likes of G4S take over.
They get Max Clifford in to do their PR?
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/05/07/prison-governors-grayling-s-regime-is-driving-us-to-tipping
‘full blown rerun of the Victorian era’. I would say all the result of 30 years of mayhem in Europe. Destroying a societal system that had come about over a couple of centuries. International transport/travel/ drugs/ pop culture/ womens lib/feminism/ American influences/TV/ computers/ internet/European Union and bossy rule from Brussels/uman rites/political fuzziness/minority group pressures. Leading to you dare not say or do anything out of turn, because one word or action can destroy all the good work in your life because you have upset a minority group…….breathless after that. The tail has long been wagging the dog for some time past. It is not Victorian, it is a nauseous 20th century scrambled up mess of unintended consequences and muddled good intentions. We bloggers on this thread are a minority group swimming against a tide of blatant nonsense and legalistic trickery. It is a full blown rerun of the inquisition, would be more appropriate. Look up how poor old Gallileo was got at in 17th century, you might see what I mean. Can’t say this. Or talk about that without being hammered by a load of overdressed idiots, full of their own importance, re jigging stupid laws/edicts as they go along. There I feel better after that!
Have a stiff drink Ms Mildred, you deserve it after that!
You are right too.
Jim Bates
Bravo Ms Mildred,
Keep swimming with the rest of us though.
I’d guess that blogs like this are beginning to make a difference.
Ted Treen
Arr, Jim Lad! No doubt they are, old son.
Doesn’t stop me from wanting to introduce the élite to long big things with a very pointy end, applied in a suppository configuration.
Possibly cruel, but I believe it would be both satisfying to we plebs/hoi polloi and remarkably effective pour encourager les autres.
DerekW
JohnR
¨One major challenge for Grayling will be to keep refreshing the stock of young girls¨
So back to academies and free schools then…..all those ¨disturbed¨ young ladies will be sent away for ¨training¨
As for the boys, they couldn´t be safer if looked after by priests:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/time-vatican-releases-wide-raning-statistics-priests-defrocked-rape-child-abuse-article-1.1781825
Which brings us back to the ¨faith¨ schools…
Makes all those celebrities look almost chaste!
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Anne Bonny #bookReview Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke #AmericanNoir #CrimeFiction #Thriller #Literary #NewRelease @SerpentsTail @atticalocke
Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
Review Copy ~ Ebook ~ Netgalley
Synopsis ~
Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness of Caddo Lake. A sudden noise –
and all goes dark.
Ranger Darren Matthews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who’s never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she’s not above a little blackmail to press her advantage.
An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town. With Texas already suffering a new wave of racial violence in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, a black man is a suspect in the possible murder of a missing white boy: the son of an Aryan Brotherhood captain.
In deep country where the rule of law only goes so far, Darren has to battle centuries-old prejudices as he races to save not only Levi King, but himself.
My Review ~
I am a HUGE fan of Attica Locke (check out my review of Bluebird Bluebird and Q&A). I think she brings something so unique to the genre. Her novel are diverse, they are intelligent and she is certainly NOT afraid to tackle any form of prejudice (I salute you). I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the second novel in the Highway 59 series. So here are my thoughts on Heaven, My Home…
The novel opens in Texas 2016 in Marion County. We are introduced to Levi King’s family. Mother Marnie, sister Dana, her boyf Rory Pitkin and his mother’s lover Gil. I took an instant dislike to this white trash family, but taking a moment to step back, it is not the children’s fault who raises them and therefore, I was intrigued to see how the story/family would develop. The novel will revolve around the disappearance of 9yur old Levi King. But who would take him and why?
The novel is ruthless is its tackling of the tensions caused by the 2016 election of he whom shall not be named. I applaud Attica Locke for saying what we are all thinking.
‘After Obama, it was forgiveness betrayed’
The King family dynamics hit further complexity as Levi’s father Bill ‘big kill’ King is an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT). He is currently 6yrs into a 20yr sentence for drug offences. In an unlikely twist of events, it is Bill that reaches out for help from Darren…
‘I’m begging you, sir. Find my boy’
The location and setting of the novel is fully explored. This really helps UK readers or NON-America readers such as myself. You get a feel for the town everyone and everywhere forgot….
‘It was a town that time had passed by’
There is also brutally honest descriptions of the family of the missing child…
‘Everything In Hopetown looked as mean and underfed as Marnie King’
The characterisation of the novel is outstanding and the author’s creation of ranger Darren Matthews is one she should be exceptionally proud of. He is just so perfect to carry a series. Almost like a diverse ranger version of Harry Bosch!
WE NEED MORE BOOKS IN THIS SERIES!
The family and namely Bill’s mother through in their two cents of theories into how the boy went missing. Almost no one apart from his incarcerated father seems to care where he is or if he is even alive. Darren does not give up that easily. Not even on a family who despise him…
‘Darren wasn’t sure Gil Thompson knew who Hitler was, let alone could explain the significant of the seminal text of Mein Kampf that was in his trailer’
This is a deeply layered exploration of racial hatred, the need for collaboration as citzens of the same county and politics when divides us all. 4.5*
I cannot wait to read what Attica Locke writes next!
Attica Locke
My review of Bluebird Bluebird and Q&A with the author
November 19, 2019 November 19, 2019 #Literary, 4.5*, 4.5* Reads, 4.5* Review, @atticalocke, @serpentstail, American Noir, Attica Locke, Book Review, Crime fiction, Heaven My Home, New Released, ThrillerLeave a comment
Anne Bonny #BookReview The Photographer Of The Lost by Caroline Scott @CScottBooks 4* #NewRelease #Historical #Fiction #Literary @simonschusterUK @WmMorrowBooks
1921. The Great War is over and families are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many survivors have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis has not come home. He was declared ‘missing, believed killed’ during the war, but when Edie receives a mysterious photograph in the post, taken by Francis, hope flares. And so she begins to search.
Francis’s brother, Harry, is also searching. Hired by grieving families to photograph gravesites, he has returned to the Western Front. As Harry travels through battle-scarred France, gathering news for British wives and mothers, he longs for Francis to be alive, so they can forgive each other for the last conversation they ever had.
And as Harry and Edie’s paths converge, they begin to get closer to a startling truth.
An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history, The Photographer of the Lost tells the story of the thousands of soldiers who were lost amid the chaos and ruins, and the even greater number of men and women desperate to find them again.
Caroline Scott is a freelance writer and historian specializing in WWI and women’s history. The Photographer of the Lost is partially inspired by her family history.
As Previously stated on my blog, I am a huge fan of ww2 fiction and fiction around The Great War. My husband is a military veteran of 15yrs service (airborne Para) and I have various family members that have served. My great-grandfather committed suicide after The Great War and it is only know at 36yrs old I fully understand the horror of that conflict. There is also a monument in Belgium to my Great-Uncle my grandmother’s favourite uncle. Which I nor anyone in my family has visited (unfortunately).
So the moment I read the synopsis for this title, it grabbed my interest.
‘A small matter of a war rather got I n the way’
The prologue opens in Lancashire (my home town shire) May 1921 when Edie receives a letter from France. a photo of her husband Francis. Bu how can this be? Francis has been missing presumed dead for 4 yrs.
The novel then details Harry (Francis’s brother) in the years 1921 and the past since 1915. You have to pay attention to not muddle the timelines and brothers up.
Harry’s job is to visit the various special hospitals and locate the graves of the perished. It is his hope that providing the family members with images of the burial site or monuments it may bring them some peace/closure or heal there grief.
The novel also covers the spiritualists and psychics that are out to make a fast buck. spinning stories of the ‘souls of lost men’. I found this quite disturbing. But on the other hand you really feel for Edie and her sense of emptiness, mourning and emotional pain as she searches for her lost love. Are these scammers taking advantage or are they attempting to offer comfort to the grieving?
The relationship of the brother’s and the potential love triangle that it causes is first and foremost the running mystery. Does Harry want Edie for himself? Will Edie now turn to Harry, now all hope is lost with Francis? Is all hope lost with Francis? or is he alive?
The novel details the tortured minds of the soldiers of The Great War. It is a beautiful novel, with a stunning cover and exceptional writing. Slightly reminiscent of the writing of Patrick Gale in A Place Called Winter.
I highly recommend this title, it would make the perfect Christmas gift, also for book groups and simply to treat yourself. I only wish I had got round to writing this review earlier because it would have made a poignant gift to mark remembrance day. 4* 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Caroline Scott
*At time of posting the Hardback book was available at just £7 on Amazon*
November 18, 2019 November 18, 2019 #Literary, 4*, 4* Reads, 4* review, @CScottBooks, @simonschusterUK, @WmMorrowBooks, Armed Forces Day, Book Review, Caroline Scott, fiction, historical, historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary reads, November 11th, remembrance, review, Simon and Schuster UK, The Photographer Of The Lost, Veterans Day, William Morrow BooksLeave a comment
Anne Bonny #BookReview Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer 5* Genius #LiteraryFiction @headlinepg @KelRimmerWrites
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
Your sister or her baby. Who do you choose?
A moving page-turner with a heart-pounding dilemma. Fans of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes will love Kelly Rimmer.
As children, Lexie and Annie were incredibly close. Bonded by the death of their beloved father, they weathered the storms of life together. When Lexie leaves home to follow her dream, Annie is forced to turn to her leather-bound journal as the only place she can confide her deepest secrets and fears…
As adults, sisters Lexie and Annie could not be more different. Lexie is a successful doctor and happily engaged. Annie is an addict – a thief, a liar and unable to remain clean. When Annie’s new-born baby is in danger of being placed in foster care, Annie picks up the phone to beg her sister for help. Will Lexie agree to take in her young niece? And how will Annie survive, losing the only thing in her life worth living for?
Before I let You Go, is another novel that is emotional and hard hitting, that I have read recently. It covers the theme of sisterhood and also the darker theme of drug addiction. It is so much more literary than you would guess from the cover of the novel.
The title opens with older sister Lexie receiving a call at 2am. She instantly knows WHO the call will be from. The distant drug addicted sister she hasn’t spoken to in 2yrs. But nothing can prepare her for what is about to be revealed. . .
‘You have to help me – I think I’m dying’ – Annie
With those few words, Annie comes railroading back into Lexie’s neat and perfect little life.
Lexie is a GP, she has worked very hard to drag herself up from her lonely start to adult life. With a dead father and no real mother figure Lexie has done her best to raise Annie until she could no longer manage life at their home, in the ‘community’.
Annie is a down on her luck drug addict and by that; I mean this girl has had one hell of a rough life. She was 12yrs old when Lexie left the community to pursue her own education and career in medicine. With Annie not able to escape until a few years later.
The sisters haven’t spoken since Annie’s theft nearly got Lexie fired from her medical practice.
The sister’s relationship is better explored in the novel. But it is incredibly deep; and I found myself moved to tears numerous times. I am the oldest of eight siblings, I am the oldest girl and when my mum died in 2005. I felt an overwhelming urge to mother my siblings especially my sister’s; much to their delight, I am sure.
Lexie arrives at the trailer park in the dead of night with her fellow doctor partner Sam in tow. She is horrified at the sight of her sister who more resembles a pregnant corpse than a live human being.
‘I’m not seeing my sister – I’m seeing a wasteland after war’
That being said the novel does go on to humanise the impact of drug addiction and especially on the expectant mother and new-born baby. The medical/legal details are fully explained to the reader. As we read on in shock and also largely in hope.
I have never rooted for a character as much as I rooted for these sisters and the unborn baby.
Personally, I am lucky enough to have never had to watch someone I love, go through the sheer hell of drug addiction. Something I felt very lucky for, as I read on. It also became quite clear, how it is based more upon luck and life experiences; than personal choice and disregard for one’s own health.
I think this novel should be made available in all schools/colleges and university settings. It is also perfect for book groups.
An incredible novel and I am HUGELY impressed with this author. 5* Genius
‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Do you know how loved you are?
In the morning.
In the night.
I’ll love you with all my might.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star. . .’
November 17, 2019 November 17, 2019 #Literary, 5*, 5* Genius, 5* Genius Reads, 5* reads, 5* review, @headlinepg, @KelRimmerWrites, Before I Let You Go, Contempoary Womens Fiction, Headline, Kelly Rimmer, Literary Fiction3 Comments
Anne Bonny #BookReview Resin by @AuthorAneRiel #NewRelease #Literary #Thriller @TransworldBooks Protected Treasured Trapped . . .
Resin by Ane Riel
The multi-award-winning international bestseller.
Suspenseful and heart-breaking, Resin is the story of what can happen when you love someone too much – when your desire to keep them safe becomes the thing that could irrevocably harm them.
Liv died when she was just six years old. At least, that’s what the authorities think.
Her father knew he was the only one who could keep her safe in this world. So one evening he left the isolated house his little family called home, he pushed their boat out to sea and watched it ruin on the rocks. Then he walked the long way into town to report his only child missing.
But behind the boxes and the baskets crowding her Dad’s workshop, Liv was hiding. This way her Dad had said, she’d never have to go to school; this way, she’d never have to leave her parents.
This way, Liv would be safe.
WOW! Where to start with this one!!!!!!
The whole novel can be summarised with one word: disturbing!
Which I do not mean in a derogatory manner. The novel focuses around one of possibly the most disturbing families I have ever read! Straight from the opening sentence, you know you’re in for a treat with this one. . . .
‘The white room was completely dark when my dad killed my granny’ – Liv
Meet Liv, your strange, awkward child protagonist. She tells us about the home-made Christmas presents and family hoarding. Even her granny being smothered, set alight and buried is all too nonchalant for Liv. . .
‘After all, none of us is meant to suffer’
The family live on ‘The Head’ a small isolated island, which is linked to the larger island Korsted. But the family are the only occupants at The Head. They steal what they need from others and this is a routine father/daughter night time activity.
‘In time I learned we weren’t like other people’ – Liv
Throughout the novel there are a series of letters from Liv’s mother written to Liv. To be completely honest, they only add to the whole strange/weirdo vibe of the whole family. . .
‘I don’t know whether to call our life a family story or horror story’ – Mum
Even further alarming with words like. . . ‘He may kill me’
This is a family in desperate need of some social services involvement. Immediately!
Liv’s father is Jen Horder and through the novel we learn his backstory and family history. Prepare yourselves!
We also learn how he met and fell in love with Liv’s mother. His mother Else wasn’t too keen on the union between the pair and considering she dies in the opening scenes, I don’t think she was far from wrong!
When Granny Else plans to take Liv away to the mainland for schooling. A premeditated plan is hatched.
One that will see Liv disappear!
‘Live knew that not being seen was a mater of life and death’
This novel is dark, disturbing and yet I could NOT look away from the pages. The scene for which the title gets its name, is beyond my understanding. The last 20/30 pages make for intense reading! I am absolutely HOOKED!
Brilliantly disturbing 4.5*
Ane Riel
August 31, 2018 August 31, 2018 #Literary, 4.5*, @AuthorAneRiel, @TransworldBooks, Ane Riel, Book Review, Literary Thriller, new release, Protected Treasured Trapped, Resin, review, Thriller8 Comments
Anne Bonny #BlogTour #BookReview Testament by @kimtsherwood #Literary #ww2Fiction #NewRelease @riverrunbooks #Testament
Testament by Kim Sherwood
WINNER OF THE BATH NOVEL AWARD
Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was closest to her grandfather: a charismatic painter – and a keeper of secrets. So when he dies, she’s hit by a greater loss – of the questions he never answered, and the past he never shared.
It’s then she finds the letter from the Jewish Museum in Berlin. They have uncovered the testimony he gave after his forced labour service in Hungary, which took him to the death camps and then to England as a refugee. This is how he survived.
But there is a deeper story that Eva will unravel – of how her grandfather learnt to live afterwards. As she confronts the lies that have haunted her family, their identity shifts and her own takes shape. The testament is in her hands.
Kim Sherwood’s extraordinary first novel is a powerful statement of intent. Beautifully written, moving and hopeful, it crosses the tidemark where the third generation meets the first, finding a new language to express love, legacy and our place within history.
‘Everything I knew about Silk’s life began in London 1945’
Testament is a tender novel, it explores the relationship between grandfather and granddaughter. The desire for the granddaughter to know more about her grandfather’s history and the journey of discovery this take her upon.
Eva is present at the death of her grandfather Joseph. She has to inform her father and it is then that we learn the relationship between the two is far from perfect. Eva has grown up close to her grandfather and they have shared a close relationship.
One she has not shared with her own father.
When Eva receives a letter from Dr Felix Gershel from the Judisches museum in Berlin, it sets her on a course of discovery about her grandfather and his complex history.
The Testament is the story of Joseph’s time in the labour camps of ww2. Something Eva believes is everything he wouldn’t want the world to see. It was never his desire to be defined by his experiences in the Holocaust.
This is a moving story that fully covers the true horror of being a survivor of the Holocaust. The refugee aftermath and attempting to locate one’s family members. It really puts you in the place of Joseph and we see life through his eyes.
‘You do not know if you will ever see
your family again.
He cries himself to sleep’
It is also very moving in the exploration of father/daughter and grandfather/granddaughter relationships and family roles. Eva has a turbulent relationship with her father, which is fully explored within the novel. But the grief at the loss of her grandfather forces her to search for understanding, to ease her pain.
‘Vengeance is not Jewish’
Personally, I found the tender and emotional bond between Eva and Joseph very touching. I was very close to my own grandfather, before he passed away in 2001. It reminded me, of some of the conversations we had shared and how entirely different our lives were. Yet we are of the same family.
Testament is slow-paced and very literary in its content.
But it is written with such emotional intelligence. 4*
Kim Sherwood
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Green Oscars: Anne Brummer wins Animal Hero Award 2018
Anne Brummer, trustee and founder of Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue and CEO of Dr Brian May's Save Me Trust receives a national award for Services to Wildlife. Congratulations to our CEO, Anne Brummer who has won the prestigious Animal Hero Award 2018 for services to wildlife. Dr Brian May said: I can’t give you a full impression of what Anne Brummer does in a few moments. All I can say is that she has benefitted wildlife in this country for a few years now” Anne and Brian’s dynamic partnership began with the release of foxes and Badgers on the grounds of Brian’s estate - that has now become a forever home for wildlife. The chance discovery of a hedgehog trapped in wire fencing has led to radical changes in the life of Anne Brummer and the thousands of wild animals she now helps heal and get back to the wild every year.
Anne Brummer was one of 50 of Surrey’s unsung heroes, recognised for their “incredible work”
Anne was recognised for their “incredible work” at an event staged by Surrey County Council Chairman Sally Marks. The event in Dorking saw volunteers given a certificate and a specially commissioned chairman’s medal that was struck at Pobjoy Mint. Among those receiving awards included Charles Connell, who delivers meals on wheels three days a week, Edward Hickman a war veteran who walked to raise funds for charity after losing all his toes in battle, and Penny Shoubridge, who has been involved with the Scouts, Brownies and Cubs for more than 30 years in Charlwood. Mrs Marks said: “It was great to be able to thank so many wonderful volunteers for their incredible work in their communities. I was moved to hear so many examples of selfless dedication and amazed to learn just how long some of the volunteers had been serving.
Observer Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year
Queen guitarist and animal campaigner Dr Brian May has picked up the Observer Ethical Campaigner of the year award for the highly successful Team Badger and Save Me campaigns run this year to protect the badger from the unethical, unscientific and flawed badger cull. The Observer is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, part of the Guardian Media Group. The Observer Ethical Awards were founded nine years ago to celebrate individuals, teams and companies fighting for environmental and social justice in the UK. They have been dubbed the 'green oscars'. Previous winners include Joanna Lumley, David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, James Lovelock and Malala Yousafzai.
The Campaigner of the year category recognises the public-facing campaigner who has made the biggest difference to Observer readers and put ethical issues on the global agenda.
IFAW Animal heroes Award for Anne Brummer
Animal heroes from around the UK to receive Awards. Monday, October 17, 2011 London. WILDLIFE RESCUE AWARD: ANNE BRUMMER. Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue is run by Anne Brummer (45) from Camberley in Surrey. Her work with wildlife started 25 years ago with the care of a hedgehog. In subsequent years she has dedicated more and more time to rescuing animals and in 1998 set up her rescue centre, which is supported by Queen’s Brian May. Last year it cared for more than 1,600 animals and is dedicated to helping injured and orphaned wild animals and birds, nurturing them back to health then releasing them back into the wild.
Surrey Life Community Heroes 2016
Surrey Life Community Heroes 2016 - who really makes a difference to life in your town or village? 07:35 24 February 2016 Celebrating the inspiring people who are really making a difference in Surrey’s town and village communities, here we bring you the annual Surrey Life Community Heroes lists: the charity volunteers, lifesavers and other proactive people - all recommended via surreylife.co.uk - who you feel make an impression on the quality of life in Surrey
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Select a blog entry South Sudan peace activist Peter Biar Ajak freed from prison Dalberg Advisors Elects Edwin Macharia as Global Managing Partner Fellow appointed by the United Nations to coordinate economic development in Namibia First cohort of AGCO Agribusiness Qualification fellows graduate from Strathmore Two Fellows in New African's 100 Most Influential Africans of 2019 Digital Dictatorship versus Digital Democracy Fellow to head communications at Mastercard Foundation Fellow joins board of directors of African financial services group, Ecsponent. Letter from a CSO Apologist to a CSO Skeptic Tanzanian Government gags press freedom event on international journalists' day Documentary examines the politics of pesticides Fellow makes BBC 2019 100 Women list If Swaziland is to achieve gender equality then women must reclaim their Being-ness. Fellow Elected Vice President of National Chess Federation Fellow wins top awards for advancing African Skincare Technology Tutu Fellow's company wins Nigerian Impact Investing Award Fellow is an Apple Music African album chart topper Tutu Fellow on the front line of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC Fellow's malaria project wins US State Department Award 2007 Fellow featured for agribusiness finance Two Fellows on 2019's 100 Most Influential Young Africans list AFLI voices at the UN General Assembly Tutu Fellow joins the Board of the Skoll Foundation Fellow's tech accelerator creates multinational African incubator Fellow joins advisory board for university institute with focus on development issues Fellow appointed to UN group fighting malnutrition The 2019 Oxford University and London Workshop 2019 Fellow tweets about his Tutu programme experience Fellow releases book featuring dynamic African entrepreneurs Fellow launches NGO to fight for the people in Zambia From soil and toil to a new education hub On leadership: lessons from Fact, Fiction and Fantasy Fellow takes over the helm at Zambian Breweries The challenge of leadership in Africa 2035: The future of trust & its implications for Africa Two Fellows on 2019 list of 100 Most Influential African Women Fellow now Executive Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at JP Morgan Fellow Appointed as Human Capital Advocate Tutu Fellow appointed as Chief of Staff to the Governor of Kaduna State Fellow appointed to CAF Governance and Ethics Committee Fellow wins prestigious awards for investigative journalism Fellow elected as CEO of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Fellows rally support for a Mrs South Africa entrant Tutu Fellow appointed as Chairperson of the Board at Eduloan Zimbabwe Fellow joins South African Future of Work Task team Fellow appointed to the board of Stanbic Bank Fellow publishes his first novel Fellow wins prestigious 2019 African Banker award Fellow appointed as turnaround CEO for Ghanaian company 2013 Fellow Ifeoma Malo joins two Boards in Nigeria
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South Sudan peace activist Peter Biar Ajak freed from prison
Norman Smit
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The detention of 2016 Tutu Fellow, Peter Biar Ajak, has ended. His wife Nyathon Hoth Mai confirmed in a Facebook post that he had been released. His release came several days after his pardon was first announced by South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir.
The peace advocate was detained without trial by the South Sudan National Security Service on 28 July and held for almost a year. When he was finally brought to trial on unsubstantiated charges, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment. President Kiir issued a decree of pardon on 01 January to 30 people, most for minor offenses. Kiir's list also included two critics of his regime - Peter, and Keribino Agok Wol. Both were detained in 2018.
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Dalberg Advisors Elects Edwin Macharia as Global Managing Partner
2010 Tutu Fellow Edwin Macharia has been elected by Dalberg's equity partners to serve a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2020 as their Global Managing Partner. He will be the fourth Global Managing Partner since Dalberg’s founding in 2001. Dalberg Advisors is a leading global consulting firm and social impact group specializing in inclusive and sustainable business, policy, and investment strategy. Edwin succeeds Yana Kakar who was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2016, serving the maximum of two terms.
Edwin has been with Dalberg for a little more than a decade, during which time he has served in a range of leadership roles.
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Fellow appointed by the United Nations to coordinate economic development in Namibia
Charles Sidambe
2008 Fellow and policy expert, Eunice Ajambo, has been appointed by the United Nations as the Development Coordination Officer/Economist(Namibia) effective January 2020.
Since March 2015, Eunice has been the Economic Affairs Officer with the Macroeconomics and Governance Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she coordinated cooperation and analysis on public-private partnerships.
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First cohort of AGCO Agribusiness Qualification fellows graduate from Strathmore
Martin Mbaya
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This December saw a day of celebration as a group of 20 pioneering Strathmore University graduates from Kenya and Nigeria marked an important milestone at the innovative AGCO Agribusiness Qualification (AAQ). To commemorate the milestone, a lively graduation ceremony was held at Strathmore University’s campus in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was keynoted by Nuradin Osman, Vice President and General Manager of AGCO for Africa - and a 2013 Tutu Fellow.
In his remarks at a celebratory dinner, Nuradin shared with the gathering how the programme started from a simple conversation he and I held during a November 2016 alumni reunion of the Tutu Fellows at Nirox in South Africa.
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Two Fellows in New African's 100 Most Influential Africans of 2019
2019 Fellows, Sangu Delle and Marcia Ashong, are both listed on New African Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Africans of 2019.
The two Fellows share the accolade with notables such as the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed - Ethiopia's Prime Minister - and Alaa Salah, the 22 year-old Sudanese protester and architectural student popularly referred to as ‘Lady Liberty’, who became the face of the people’s revolution in Sudan.
Two sporting heroes, Siya Kolisi, the first black captain of South Africa’s national rugby team that won the Rugby World Championship in November 2019; and Kenyan distance runner and world record breaker, Eliud Kipchoge, the marathon runner also made the list.
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Digital Dictatorship versus Digital Democracy
2019 Tutu Fellow Ronak Gopaldas has had a paper, Digital Dictatorship versus Digital Democracy in Africa, published by SAIIA – the South African Institute of International Affairs. The paper kicks off with a quote from writer Umair Haque, ‘Twitter could have been a town square. But now it’s more like a drunken, heaving mosh pit.’ The quote illustrates the gap between the potential of social media and the internet, and its dark side.
Not that long ago, social media fueled the Arab Spring, bringing down governments. Since then, though, bots, trolls and disinformation campaigns pushing trending algorithms have subverted campaigns such as Brexit and the 2016 US elections and how smartphones and privacy have blurred the line between engagement and surveillance.
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Fellow to head communications at Mastercard Foundation
2012 Tutu Fellow, TV Host and Media Executive, Julie Gichuru, has joined the Mastercard Foundation as Head of Public Affairs and Communications. Julie has a 19-year career that spans the fields of broadcast, print, and digital media. Following the 2007 violent Kenyan elections, Julie’s peace specials resonated with viewers. In the last decade, she has focused primarily on driving conversations with African and global leaders, through a pan-African television show, Africa Leadership Dialogues and her media company Arimus Media Limited.
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Fellow joins board of directors of African financial services group, Ecsponent.
2011 Fellow Shaka Sisulu has been appointed as an independent non-executive director to the board of directors of African financial services group, Ecsponent, with effect from 1 January 2020. Ecsponent, a JSE-listed African financial services group, acquired a 49% stake in Shaka's Truth Digital Group (Pty) Ltd, a 100% black-owned media group. Shaka has said he aims to create the largest diverse, dynamic, black-owned digital marketing group on the African Continent.
His joining the board of Ecsponent was announced in a statement released by the financial services group on 27 November 2019.
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Letter from a CSO Apologist to a CSO Skeptic
Aidan Eyakuze
The basic freedoms of expression, association and assembly have come under unprecedented attack in Tanzania in recent years. New laws have been passed and are being enthusiastically enforced to discourage dissent or views critical or alternative to the official narrative. Journalists have been detained, charged, imprisoned or disappeared and feared dead. Individual citizens have been harassed, arrested, charged and fined for expressing themselves on social media.
Opposition political party activity has been severely curtailed – rallies are banned, leaders are tied up in court on charges of incitement. Apolitical civil society organizations, especially those working in governance and human rights face significant additional scrutiny presumably to encourage their obedience to the government’s agenda.
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Tanzanian Government gags press freedom event on international journalists' day
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The following post is by Aidan Eyakuze, a 2006 Tutu Fellow and the Executive Director of Twaweza, and it describes how the Tanzanian government silenced an event on press freedoms in East Africa on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists ~ AFLI
Twaweza in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda joined the media community to call for an end to the intimidation, violence and murder of journalists on November 2, which is the day the world marked the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. On November 1, 2019 at 10.00am, a regional press conference was planned to share these data and insights.
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Documentary examines the politics of pesticides
Award-winning journalist John-Allen Namu's production company has released a new documentary series, Bitter Harvest. The 2017 Tutu Fellow examines the growing negative impact of pesticides on food being grown in Kenya.
Released on World Food Day, the series notes that importation of agrochemicals increased by 144% over the course of the past four years into Kenya. Many of these are pesticides and herbicides linked to cancer and being used by small-scale farmers. Additionally, protective gear is frequently not used and workers are dying from exposure to these products.
The series is broken into three chapters.
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Fellow makes BBC 2019 100 Women list
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2009 Fellow Julie Makani has been included in the British Broadcast Corporation's list of 100 Women of 2019. The 2019 global list, compiled by the BBC, comprises 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world. Julie, a senior lecturer in haematology and blood transfusion at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, shares the stage with climate change activist Greta Thunberg, and trans woman Nisha Ayu,b who was put into a male prison aged 21.
All on the list are considered to be driving change for women everywhere.
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If Swaziland is to achieve gender equality then women must reclaim their Being-ness.
Ntombenhle Khathwane
I took a few weeks ruminating what the struggle for gender equality should look like in Swaziland. When I finally settled on an idea I wasn’t sure how to bring a seemingly esoteric argument to what is usually a rational discussion.
My idea percolated clearly in my mind; women must reclaim their being-ness if we are to move any further in the struggle for gender equality. “Being-ness” is defined as “the act or state of being. Being is more than just existing. Being is who we are at the very core of life, the way we were created, established and called to live. Who we are before being influenced by family history, economics, personality conflicts, consequences of choices made, or pressures we have allowed others to place of us such as culture and religion.”
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Fellow Elected Vice President of National Chess Federation
2011 Fellow Mucha Mkanganwi has been elected as Vice President of the Zimbabwe Chess Federation (ZCF). The announcement was made on the federation's Facebook page on 18 October 2019.
Mucha is the CEO and founder of Pulse Pharmaceuticals, is a passionate chess player and is the founder and chairperson of the Chessmates Chess Academy, a model chess school situated in Mount Pleasant, Harare. He started playing chess at school and developed his love for the game at a young age.
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Fellow wins top awards for advancing African Skincare Technology
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Products from an African skin care line started just two years ago by 2009 Tutu Fellow Dr Theo Mothoa-Frendo did well against big brands in the marketplace in the 2019 Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics New Product Competition Awards which is run by the SA Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Review.
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September 26, 2019 Lonely in a Hyper-Connected World
Part 8 of 8: Do We Really Want to Bowl Alone?
At the turn of the Millennium, author Robert Putnam warned us that American culture was shifting in fundamental ways. In his book, “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Renewal of American Community”, he documented our fraying social connections and in the twenty years since its publication, indicators point to a further decline in our associational lives, those relationships outside our families. I hope this series has sensitized you to the problem of loneliness in the U.S. and helped you see that it’s seeds are in all of us. Our need for social connection is more subtle that it was long ago, so we deny or neglect it, leaning on our strong desire for freedom. But freedom isn’t free, as the saying goes. The price is emotional, cognitive, and actually physical.
Five habits of mind and lifestyle put all of us at risk and half of us sometimes or always feel left out or alone. I hope you caught the important takeaways I shared. Recognize that time spent making and maintaining friendships is as vital to your well-being as exercise and sleep. It’s not frivolous. Watch your digital life so that it doesn’t sideline real life relationships. Try to limit the use of the computer in your pocket when with others. Learn to ask for help and learn to offer it. Stop leaning on your busyness as a means of avoiding commitments. And look for people to relate to because our friendships aren’t static and as people leave your life you must bring new friends into it in order to maintain a community around you.
If you are very lonely, see a counselor and ask for help. There are therapies that can get you moving, get you taking risks, help you to dip back into human connection knowing that you have a caring coach for support. And church is an awesome place to connect with new people. Connection is one of our four pillars, after all.
Watch for more content on the All Saints website this program year as we launch the Loneliness in America Project. Over time, you’ll find content there for all ages and much to share with the larger community. If you belong to a group that should hear this information, email me because I will be sharing it with churches, small groups, and organizations around the state in the season to come. If you want more reading, check out “The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century” by doctors Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz. If the article about men concerned you, look for “Lonely at the Top: The High Cost of Men’s Success” by Dr. Thomas Joiner. We don’t need to bowl alone, you know, and having you tribe starts with recognizing that you need one.
September 19, 2019 Lonely in a Hyper-Connect World
Part 7 of 8: The Unique Challenge for Men
“Having no one starts out as having everything.” says psychologist Thomas Joiner, an expert in suicide and men’s mental health. All the dynamics we’ve been discussing over the last six weeks are especially troublesome for men in our culture, and statistics about men’s well-being are sobering. Men die by suicide 3.5 times more often than women and men die from all causes, at all ages, more than women. By midlife, men are also statistically much lonelier than women and as we saw earlier in this series, loneliness is a set up for physical, mental, and social dis-ease. Of course these are broad characterizations and, individually, there are plenty of healthy, socially connected men, but the fact is that our culture does make it more difficult for them.
They are taught to suppress emotion and value independence at an early age, even in today’s progressive environment. Boys have close friends when they are young, but with adolescence comes a pulling away from emotional relationships, and a move toward competitiveness. They develop a ‘don’t tread on me’ attitude and start to have trouble trusting and reaching out for help. Young men are happier than older men, but, over the years, the readymade friendships of high school and college fall away and they gradually lose contact with extended family. When they partner, men often put all their social eggs in the spouse’s basket. As they move into their earning years, men are encouraged to focus on career and providing for their families, and friendships can be seen as rather frivolous.
They are at risk of becoming “alone but clueless”, a term Dr. Joiner uses to describe a phenomenon whereby a man has no close relationships outside the immediate family, but doesn’t actually recognize his own aloneness. If his marriage or health fails with age, or even just when his children leave the home and his wife moves into her own activities, a man who did not build close male friendships can be left feeling bereft and without purpose. The forces that fostered his self-reliance and independence at the cost of a social network leave him lonely and completely confused as to how he got there. But it’s never too late to rebuild a tribe, and that will be our topic next week.
Part 6 of 8: The Technology in My Pocket
You’re going to think I’m just being opinionated, but it’s actually in the research. Our phone and social media usage is definitely a two edged sword. It gives us access to the information of everything and to loved ones on the other side of the globe, but it affects our mood, behavior, social patterns, and even brain wiring. It is, in part, responsible for the explosion of loneliness.
Professors Norman Nie and Lutz Erbring of Stanford found that “the more time people spend on the internet, the less time they spend with real people.” It’s an hour for hour exchange. Sociologist Jean Twenge found that teens who spend more time on their screens tend to be unhappier than teens who don’t. “There’s not a single exception.” Sociologist Sherry Turkle found that phones on a restaurant table negatively affect the quality of conversations. People don’t feel as invested in each other because they’re likely to be interrupted. “Even a silent phone disconnects us.” Dr. Ethan Kross found that Facebook use predicts declines in well-being and other authors have noted that frequent Facebook use tends to make us feel worse about our lives. Compared to my friend’s awesome vacation, cute as a button grandkids, and big family get togethers my world seems boring and depressing. What we don’t realize is that we’re comparing other peoples curated highlight reels to our real, and sometimes painful, actual lives.
Social media is not really an actual kinship network and most of those friends aren’t actually going to show up at our bedsides. We need real life tribes. On a biological level, our brains and bodies were designed to read social cues in body language and voice, in in-person interactions. Phone use across the culture is eroding our social skills and sense of empathy, particularly among young users. And the click bait nature of the internet is reducing our attentions spans and making us more impatient, also most dramatically seen in those who are young and still developing permanent brain wiring. For people who feel loved and well-connected, these tools can be a reassuring extension of our social networks, but it is not a replacement. Consider how much time you spend on the technology in your pocket and maybe take a break once in a while. Pause the Googling. After all, someone may want to talk to you.
August 29, 2019 Part 5 of 8: The Nature of Modern Work
Work is where we really do ourselves in these days. Particularly for younger Americans, there is a strong belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but is the centerpiece of one’s identity. It’s even got a name, workism. Despite having been socialized to find their passion in their careers, younger workers, burdened with student debt, struggle to gain financial security. So they buy fewer homes and fewer diamonds, postponing or passing on marriage and family, key elements of most people’s networks. Between managing their professional images via Linked In and working endless hours in what is now know as the “hustle culture”, younger workers have limited will to forge lasting friendships and a recent study noted that millennials are currently the loneliness generation. Writer Anne Peterson describes the distress this way, “Why am I burned out? Because I have internalized the idea that I should be working all the time. Why have I internalized that idea? Because everything and everyone in my life has reinforced it explicitly and implicitly since I was young.”
For workers of all ages, the office isn’t the social hub it used to be. We are siloed at our computers and talk to each other via text, online chat, and email. Many workers are alone, telecommuting from home or working as independent contractors. The gig economy is a huge part of the job market, offering independence and flexibility, but it is crippling in its lack of social contact with coworkers. Former Surgeon General Vivek Murphy worries that the chronic lack of real connection in the workplace leads to stress and a writer for Forbes Magazine noted that “if workplace technology continues on its current trend, we can expect progressive disengagement among employees.”
For older workers another distraction is pulling us from our associational lives, caregiving. The average US caregiver is a 49 year old woman with a full time job who spends nearly 20 hours a week providing unpaid care. Nearly one in four middle aged workers are family caregivers, moving from an isolating workplace to parent care. In short, for all generations, work is not the place anymore where we’re likely to form lifelong bonds of friendship. The trend has crept up on us slowly, but undermines our well-being and requires an active counter strategy if we are to stay socially engaged.
Lonely in a Hyper-Connected World
Part 4 of 8: Our Busyness
As you saw last week, our independence and self-reliance works against social connectedness. The same is true of our extreme busyness. We are too busy to answer the phone and many of us don’t even leave voice mails because so few people check them. When did texting become the default mode of communication? We are too busy to get together and we assume that others are too busy to do the same so we don’t bother them. Haven’t seen a neighbor in a while? I bet they’re just busy. So we don’t ask them for anything, help them with anything, check on them, or do the other small actions that build relationship.
Productively and busyness are signs of success in the US and when we ask how someone is doing the common answer is, “So busy!” The average two parent family works 15 hours a day between work and home and at times appears to be frayed and fracturing. In the olden days, the social calendar was the wife’s responsibility, but these days it is no one’s. So exhausted families just cocoon into themselves on the weekend, and the problem with this isolation is that the healthiest families have friends and relatives in and out of the household, observers and advisors. This practice, common in other counties, reduces domestic and child abuse and strengthens marriages.
The most interesting of these tendencies is our proclivity for pacing ourselves with an on-off switch. I’m here, working a mile a minute, then I’m off. Out of the office. Out of touch. Our relaxation time is often spent somewhere other than our communities and neighborhoods; cruise ships, vacation homes, beaches, anywhere where we can disconnect to rest. But where is the time to make and nurture friendships, one of the basic building blocks of human well-being? It takes commitment to arrange get togethers and remember to check in by phone. It takes cognitive bandwidth to remember someone’s birthday, surgery date, or just that they’re going through a tough time. Friendships don’t sustain themselves and when we’re just too busy they fall by the wayside. Food for thought as you move through your busy week.
Part 3 of 8: Our Independence and Self-Reliance
Are you hanging in there with me so far? We talked about how prevalent loneliness is in America and the toll on our wellbeing. We explored how misunderstood it is and maybe you took a self-assessment test. Over the next four columns we’re going to look at the four habits of mind and lifestyle that make us particularly vulnerable to loneliness compared to people in other cultures. I hope you will see small ways in which you might be contributing to your own self-isolation, whether you really feel lonely or not, and my hope is that that awareness will prompt you to make small changes that enrich, rather than impoverish, your social network.
Our first unhelpful belief is in our own our self-sufficiency and independence. In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville, visited America and noted that “they form the habit of thinking of themselves in isolation and imagine that their destiny is in their own hands.” Little has changed since then. Our iconic heroes are the John Waynes and Jason Bournes. All loners who save the day. Our business leaders are self-made men and women and the best politician is the scrappy outsider. Our country was populated by immigrants who left the family home and ventured out over an ocean and our Arizona story is of self-sufficient pioneers. It’s in our DNA, but it’s neither true nor helpful, because there are many things we can’t accomplish alone. One bad diagnosis will teach you that quickly.
We also have come to cherish our individualism. A trip to the toothpaste aisle makes that self-evident as there are about 1000 options. “Sixty years of a hyper-individualistic culture have weakened the bonds between people.” says writer David Brooks. There are countless versions of the lives we can live so we hesitate to commit anywhere, and our biggest dream may be of the unconstrained life where we can live our passion, whatever that is, and keep our options open. Kids have their own rooms, toys, and trophies, and adults have individualized iPhone cases and news feeds. But I’d respectfully say that this leaves us spoiled in some ways. I’m not going to commit to a Monday night meeting at church, or a dinner with a friend because I may want to do something else when the time comes. Each decision to keep options open tends to leave us more alone in the end because the independent and self-reliant life comes at an obvious price--social connection.
Lonely in a Hyperconnected World, Part 2 of 8
The Personal Consequences
Loneliness is a serious health problem. Lonely people are literally more at risk of dying in any given year than socially connected people, 50% more likely. This is equivalent to the impact of smoking 15 cigarettes per day. Can you believe it? Lonely people also have a higher likelihood of Alzheimer’s Disease, high blood pressure, abnormal white blood cell production, stroke, heart disease, immune system malfunction, and insomnia. Their health is much worse in all ways and in old age lonely people have more problems with activities of daily living, such as walking and getting up and down from chairs.
The physical toll of loneliness is astonishing, and it’s all because the body interprets loneliness as a serious threat. In primitive times, when we lived in small groups in a daily fight with nature, a lonely human was soon a dead human, so our body’s fight or flight response is triggered when we feel chronically isolated. This chronic physical arousal is deadly because it hijacks all our normal physiological processes.
The mind is also affected by this warning system and the way we process information changes for the worse when we are lonely. Because we feel under threat, we focus on survival. We have a harder time focusing, soothing ourselves in healthy ways, planning and organizing tasks, controlling our impulses, making thoughtful decisions, and interpreting others’ behavior.
Mentally, the chronic fight or flight has us looking out for threats and finding them in ordinary situations. We start to feel left out and believe that other people are rejecting us. This causes us to self-isolate more and makes it harder to step into socialization the next time. Feeling left out ultimately makes us more aggressive and self-defeating. It causes us to quit tasks sooner and makes us apathetic about our own best interests and our own care. We see people as critical, unwelcoming, and judgmental, and because we are so challenging to live with, we really do end up alone more often when we are chronically lonely, with more divorce, interpersonal violence, and family estrangement in our history. It’s a vicious cycle that goes nowhere good.
God designed us for group support and science has proven conclusively that our well-being is threatened by chronic loneliness. It’s so much more than just a bad feeling. Here is a link to the UCLA Loneliness Scale. I encourage you to take a minute and take the test. Are you one of the 40% of Americans struggling with this problem?
The Centers for Disease Control recently labeled loneliness as the next American epidemic. In my work life with those facing aging or serious illness I saw profound loneliness all the time, and as a survivor of spousal suicide, my family was on the receiving end of its gravest consequences. Fighting loneliness is my passion. I will describe American loneliness in this series of articles, and I encourage you to share them with others. During the series, you will have a chance to take the UCLA Loneliness Scale, a self-assessment tool. And this Fall I will lead a Writing to Reconnect small group gathering on Thursday mornings as a place to have fun with creative writing and make new connections here at church. So, join me on the journey to awareness. Church can be such a healer in our hyperconnected world.
Almost 43 million adults are chronically lonely, and Cigna Healthcare conducted a study last year and found that 18-22-year olds are the loneliest age group. That study also found that almost half of us sometimes or always feel alone or left out and don’t have meaningful in-person interactions on a daily basis. 30% of us feel like people don’t really understand us and 40% of us sometimes or always feel isolated and believe that our relationships aren’t meaningful. These are stunning statistics, if you think about them, and says that something is genuinely wrong.
Census data tells us that our lifestyles are contributing because more and more we are physically alone. 25% of households have only one person, 50% of the population is unmarried, marriage rates and number of children per household have declined and divorce is up among those 50 and older. Unfortunately, suicide is also up in this age group, 30% since 1999. Among middle aged men, it is up a staggering 50%.
There are powerful, but silent, social forces driving all this isolation and distress and we will explore them together. It’s my hope to get you motivated to action, then to work beside you to build a sanctuary against loneliness here at church, a place where we understand and respect our biological need for connection, choose to fight against the cultural influences that isolate us from each other, bring the lonely among us back into the loving arms of community, and enrich the social fabric of each parishioner’s life.
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Regis women's and men's basketball programs flourish on and off the court
By Allyson Manchester
Potos By Kathleen Dooher
Regis Today Spring 2017
Several days before Ademola Afonja ’19 suited up for his first game on the Regis men’s basketball team, he arrived to practice expecting to work on some last-minute dribbling, passing, and shooting. Instead, Coach Nate Hager handed him a detailed sheet of names and statistics.
The sheet was a scouting report, an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of individual players on the opposing team.
“I looked at the report and felt like I was about to take a math test,” recalls Afonja, a long and lean athlete who stands at 6’5”. “I was so confused because I had never seen anything like it before. On my team back in high school, we just had to worry about playing defense and scoring.”
Before every game, Hager conducts meticulous research of opposing teams and reviews film of his own players. His office, a tiny room above the gym, has walls lined with stacks of books and binders. “Hager is brilliant,” says Afonja. “He will sit in his office and analyze film for several hours at a time.”
While Hager’s studiousness certainly prepares his team for games, it has also helped to fortify a culture of academic excellence within the basketball program. The players view their coach as a model of a successful student-athlete.
Hager is the first and only coach of men’s basketball—he began in the team’s inaugural season when Regis went coed in 2007. Since then, Hager has focused on establishing a winning program in order to recruit high-quality student-athletes.
“Basketball is an extension of the classroom,” Hager explains. “It is my responsibility to create an environment of learning that enables all of us to reach our full potential.”
Jaiwon Martin ’17, a forward from Coral Springs, Florida, has thrived in the environment of learning that Hager describes. “Our coaches always check in to make sure that we are meeting our academic goals,” he says. “And my teammates help to point me in the right direction when I’m struggling on a subject.”
The coaches hold mandatory study halls for players who have a GPA lower than 3.0. But attending study hall has become a rewarding experience rather than an obligation.
“I have a 3.3 GPA and I still attend study hall,” says Afonja. “I believe that going to the study hall is what got me the 3.3 in the first place, and I don’t want to lose it.”
Of course, Hager and the team leave time to relax after school and practice. The players participate in team building events and dinners after Saturday home games. Additionally, Hager invested in an Xbox gaming system “to see what the guys were talking about in the video game world.”
Women’s Winning Streak
In the 2015-2016 season, the Regis women’s basketball team was the NCAA Division III women’s basketball statistical champion at Rebound Margin at 16.0 for the season. NCAA consecutive regular season wins began February 8, 2011, with a win over Western New England University. The streak includes the final four Commonwealth Coast Conference games—and every NECC game played (108–0)—bringing the current streak to 112. The previous NCAA record was 92, and was broken February 16, 2016, against Lesley University (122–52).
Trailblazing Women
Just across Higgins Court, Coach Angela Santa Fe (affectionately known as “Coach A”) leads the student-athletes on the women’s basketball team. The team is truly a force to be reckoned with. In February, the women clinched their fifth straight championship title in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC). Explosive offense from Shannon Hayes ’18 and Brittany Stone ’18, as well as several impressive assists by Amanda Hawkesworth ’17, powered the Pride to a 92–49 win over number two seed Elms College. Still, their coach would argue that the victory had its roots in the classroom.
When Santa Fe first stepped into the Regis basketball program in 2013, her team had a cumulative GPA of 2.7. She now coaches a team with a cumulative GPA on the cusp of 3.4. This is no small feat, especially considering that the players balance their academics with eight hours of practice and two to three games each week.
“Our players have really bought into our focus on academics and post-graduation careers,” Santa Fe says. “I believe that in order to perform your best on the basketball court, you need to put in the effort to be your best at everything else that is important in life.”
Santa Fe keeps a watchful eye on the academic success of her team. She holds individual academic meetings several times each season; she monitors attendance; she asks to see semester grades as soon as they are published.
“Coach A holds us to a high standard,” explains Hayes, a guard from Billerica, Massachusetts.
The women on the basketball team respond well to this standard because Santa Fe knows how to balance rigidity and encouragement. “Coach A is your biggest fan and your biggest critic all at the same time,” says Stone, who has earned recent honors as a 1,000-point scorer and also the NECC Tournament Most Valuable Player.
1,000-point
Janaya Bradley ’15
Caitlin Connolly ’05
Stephanie Crawford ’12
Helen Dinan ’03
Samantha Dutily ’97
Jen Erickson ’95
Lynne Erickson ’97
Amanda Hawkesworth ’17
Kim Mariotti ’09
Emilee Marro ’15
Jessica Page ’10*
Claire Ramonas ’14
Julie Rando ’94
Jen Romano ’95
Laura Sears ’09
Brittany Stone ’18
Jen Thompson ’00
Phil Alibrandi ’11
Ryan Chambers ’14*
Sam Jean-Gilles ’17
Derrick Neal ’11
*Page and Chambers (pictured above) are the current career-scoring leaders at Regis.
Special Assists
In a pre-practice ritual known as “Something Good,” Santa Fe calls the players to a huddle and encourages them to share positive moments from their day. Good grades are the most frequent contribution.
“When someone shares a good grade, the entire team cheers for her and Coach A gives her a high-five,” says Hayes. “The extra support from Coach A and the team makes us feel really good. Our course load at Regis is challenging, but when you know that other people are happy about your success, it just encourages you to keep going.”
Even in the off-season when the team does not practice, the players often text Santa Fe when they receive positive paper grades or test scores. “I love it when that happens,” she says. “They are remarkable young women.”
Just as Hager and Santa Fe serve as inspiring mentors, the players on both Regis basketball teams have taken on mentorship roles in the community. Throughout the year, players organize fundraisers for the American Cancer Society and work with children in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and at the Mission Grammar School in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Jessica Page ’10—who currently holds the women’s record of career-scoring leader—remembers mentoring young female athletes as one of the most fulfilling experiences of her Regis career. “Through basketball, we were able to instill confidence in the young girls. I loved sharing my own story with them. I let them know that, like me, they will fail in life. But how they respond to the failure will make a difference.”
One of the most successful basketball service projects involves participation in Coaches vs. Cancer, a nationwide collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Men’s career-scoring leader Ryan Chambers ’14, who Hager remembers as “the hardest working guy in the gym,” enjoyed combining the physical rewards of basketball with the emotional rewards of developing empathy and reaching out to the community.
“As part of Coaches vs. Cancer, we ran a 5K and played a game where all proceeds were donated to charity,” Chambers recalls. “This was important because it brought a little perspective to all of our lives.”
Additionally, the basketball program hosts a nine-team Special Olympics basketball tournament at Higgins Court every winter. Members of both the women’s and men’s teams help to run the scoreboard, referee games, and cheer on the athletes.
“When we did the Special Olympics, I really felt that I was part of something larger than a college basketball team,” says Hayes. “The players there knew nothing about us and we knew nothing about them, but our love for the game connected us to each other.”
From writing scouting reports to hosting the Special Olympics, the Pride players and coaches have become a powerful support system for each other and for the community. Their talents to be “part of something larger” truly reach beyond a college basketball team.
with the coaches
Angela Santa Fe + Nate Hager
Do you have any pre-game superstitions? Santa Fe: I am not superstitious, but I do clean and organize everything possible in the office before each game. Hager: I will keep certain ties or suits going during win streaks.
What is your favorite saying that you use to motivate players? Santa Fe: “Control the controllables.” Hager: “Get better every day.”
When is the most challenging point of a basketball game for you? Santa Fe: The most challenging part for me is my communication with the players in our post-game. I know this dictates how we will begin our next practice and our next game. Hager: The warm-ups. At that time, I can usually tell whether or not our players are focused.
Who is your favorite professional basketball player or team? Santa Fe: Diana Taurasi [Phoenix Mercury]. Hager: Boston Celtics—I’m loving Jaylen Brown right now!
Where is your favorite place to play basketball? Santa Fe: I love going back to my alumni game and playing at my alma mater, the University of Southern Maine. There is a strong nostalgic feeling I get when I enter that gym that I know will never fade. As far as coaching, in my four years we have lost five games at home, so I would say my favorite is definitely a home game at Higgins Court! Hager: Miller Sibley Courts in Franklin, Pennsylvania.
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Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit
wyrmhole wrote:
The m/s gained from the carrier craft is pretty inconsequential compared to the target velocity, yeah The altitude as a fraction of target altitude is basically irrelevant though; the altitude only matters as a proxy for atmospheric density, and skipping the densest 50k ft of atmosphere is definitely not insignificant.
I understand that the difficulties in reaching typical altitudes for LEO are significantly lesser than attaining the necessary velocity, I was merely just pointing out the huge discrepancy between the speeds and altitudes common airliners fly at (ok, I used WK2 for altitude figures) and that which objects in orbit "fly" at. I really don't know what the figures are for common rocket launches regarding velocity at 40-50k feet, but I imagine that drag is still substantial at altitudes >100k feet for an object travelling at hypersonic speeds. It would be interesting to see figures for the loss in delta V due to drag in these two regimes.
I don't know if they ever could have actually achieved their re-usability and cost goals, but what I'm sure of is that any prayer of that happening went out the window as soon as they asked the Air Force to help them fund it. Oh well. *raises glass* For what might have been, and what may yet be.
I'd like to be optimistic and assume the problems with the air-launched concepts weren't insurmountable, at least with enough funding. But there's certainly no denying that the Air Force completely butchered the Space Shuttle to the point where any previous hopes for cost effectiveness were lit on fire and thrown out the 100th floor window.
edzieba
Another foible of air-launching your rockets is they need to survive being air-launched. You can't have a nice vertical stack that only ever gets significant loading in one axis. The rocket needs to survive being fully fuelled horizontally, with minimal external support (as much as an aircraft can provide, not something like SpaceX's Strongback). It then needs to survive being dropped horizontally from that support, and THEN surviving engine ignition while horizontal, and THEN being able to survive the pitch-up to vertical (you still nee to climb out of the rest of the atmosphere) while accelerating.
Your rocket ends up having to be a lot beefier, which generally offsets the gain from avoiding the dense lower atmosphere. This is far more of a problem for large rockets than smaller ones lie the Pegasus.
Christopher James Huff
Registered: Jun 9, 2008
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:53 am
edzieba wrote:
Right, and rockets really don't scale down well. The cross section and surface area (and thus drag) scales with the square of size, while volume squares with the cube, so the aerodynamic drag that is insignificant for large launchers becomes a major obstacle for small rockets. Similarly, scaling down reduces propellant volume faster than it does structural mass, and there's a limit to how thin and delicate you can make the structure and still have something that can be worked with. Air launch provides some compensation for the inefficiencies that come with small rockets, but is also limited to those small rockets.
Orbital's rockets provide a pretty good comparison: the Pegasus uses a 23130 kg air-launched rocket to deliver 443 kg to orbit. The Minotaur-C is essentially a Pegasus that uses an additional stage instead of an aircraft, and being a rocket, this stage can do a lot more, so it uses a 73000 kg rocket to deliver 1320 kg to orbit, almost the same payload mass ratio with a much simpler pad-based launch. (Also, a Pegasus launch now costs nearly as much as a Falcon 9 launch...NASA just ordered a launch for $56.3 million. Could not find prices for the Minotaur-C.)
There's another point in there...air launch does give you an initial horizontal velocity, but it's at far too low of an altitude to make use of it. You've got an awkward situation where the rocket has to drop from the aircraft, the two have to separate to a safe distance, and then the rocket has to ignite and quickly pitch upward to climb out of the atmosphere.
This particularly complicates liquid fueled rockets, putting stress on the tanks and internal anti-slosh baffles and starting propellant motions that may cause problems later...recall one of SpaceX's early Falcon 1 launches, where the first stage bumped the engine bell and set up propellant sloshing that grew into an uncontrollable swirl due to the engine's attempts to compensate via gimbaling. Hardly an insurmountable problem, but it's better to avoid the disturbance in the first place.
wyrmhole
Christopher James Huff wrote:
aerodynamic losses are ~50-100 m/s.
Damn, really?
Obviously there are lots of tradeoffs with an air launch, mostly ones that mean they will only ever get so big (Pegasus launches ~400kg of payload), but I thought that in that regime they at least had something going for them.
Is the flexibility that using an aircraft brings actually worth enough to justify this, or is it really the case that Orbital Sciences are a bunch of tards who don't understand spaceflight well enough to realize this before designing, building, and operating such a stupid design?
markaeric wrote:
Well, originally NASA wanted to just light their hopes on fire and throw them out the window, but then the Air Force told them that they needed hyper-sonic high-altitude hope-dashing capability and costs ballooned.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index. ... #msg189860
The Saturn V had aerodynamic losses of around 40 m/s, the Titan IV/Centaur had 156 m/s. Gravity losses are roughly an order of magnitude higher. Launching at higher altitudes does let you reduce gravity losses by accelerating harder (provided your payload and vehicle can take it), as it reduces the need to limit aerodynamic forces while in the dense atmosphere, and you can use nozzles that expand more to increase specific impulse, but Orbital starts with a handicap in that area by using solid motors, and staging greatly reduces the problem.
Orbital builds what sells. This isn't necessarily what's optimal. Look at how long we hobbled along with the Shuttle when we could have been doing stuff like the COTS program that resulted in SpaceX's vehicles, and how people are still complaining that the Shuttles are gone and we've gone "backwards" to capsules, ignoring the fact that those capsules are cheaper, more efficient, and capable of use beyond low Earth orbit.
Orbital builds what sells. This isn't necessarily what's optimal.
Okay, sure, but who was specifically wanting air-launched vehicles such that Orbital would deliberately choose to make a sub-optimal vehicle? Their first customer was themselves, so why would they have said "Self? I will buy this even if it sucks and is dumb, so make it even though it sucks and is dumb and we could just as easily do it another way"? When simple math shows there's no advantage, I don't understand why they would do it.
Look at how long we hobbled along with the Shuttle when we could have been doing stuff like the COTS program that resulted in SpaceX's vehicles, and how people are still complaining that the Shuttles are gone and we've gone "backwards" to capsules, ignoring the fact that those capsules are cheaper, more efficient, and capable of use beyond low Earth orbit.
Right, and the Shuttle came into being in the form it did because of all the extra capabilities demanded by the Air Force. While those capabilities were seriously ridiculous, not to mention rarely or never used, it at least makes sense why the Air Force wanted them. It remained in use because it was what we had and nobody wanted to fund development of a replacement when we had a *cough* just fine vehicle right there. So that explains how we got the Shuttle, and locked into using it for decades.
Why did Orbital build the Pegasus that way? Flexibility of launch site (and not needing a pad) are the only capabilities it has I can think of that could justify doing something otherwise obviously inferior. Just like the Shuttle team never would have mounted the orbiter on the side if the Air Force's demands for the orbiter hadn't made it impossible to put it on top like a sane person would. But I don't see why that capability is so critical.
From what I can tell, you're right about the reasons why the Pegasus is air-launched. This was Orbital's own launch system and since they likely didn't have their own launch pad, the flexibility of launch location and the lower initial cost of a launch plane rather than building a new pad (not to mention the elimination of a lot of red tape) was likely seen as being the most economical way to at least get the wheels turning. Orbital really does charge a lot of money for those launches, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had a nice fat profit margin on them. I guess we'll see if they start cutting costs.
Jimbo57
Wow, sounds cool— for a countable number of dollars you could put a constellation of teeny tiny satellites into LEO and have your own communications network.
But is anyone else concerned about trying to launch the NEXT rocket past that web of 1 lb. space bullets? Who keeps track of all the junk in space, anyway? And how will they do it if hundreds of rockets are taking up thousands of payloads each?
cerberusTI
sketchy9 wrote:
Dilbert wrote:
Hauling up that pressurized helium and pumping it requires its own separate set of tanks and pumps and valves and control systems, which in turn means more complexity and, worse, more weight.
To add to this: the majority of SpaceX's launch scrubs thus far have been due to problems with the Helium systems, mainly leaking valves. Helium escapes from the majority of materials, so keeping it in one place until you need it, then getting it to where you need it (and keeping it away from places you don't) is a nontrivial problem.
Yes. Falcon 9 helium tanks are located inside the fuel tanks. That makes it all the more perilous when there's a leak. Helium molecules are small and helium is notoriously hard to keep contained.
Would a heavier noble gas be easier to deal with, such as xenon?
Boiling point of oxygen = -183C
Boiling point of xenon = -108C
It does change with pressure, but it is still a no (at least for the LOX tank.)
For reference the boiling point of helium is -268 C.
Registered: Jan 28, 2005
THT wrote:
LtWiggledworth wrote:
Buran wrote:
dbright wrote:
very cool article... and i love the idea of new space,, however i have to wonder... "the ossified "old space" model of multi-decade government contract work and hidebound development and accounting practices "
seems a bit much considering the situation of Virgin Galactic...
Virgin Galactic's not any kind of space, new or old. Their actual space plans still are all talk.
I wouldn't call an active program doing active test flights with a variation of a proven design "all talk". The SpaceShipOne/Two design works. There was a crash caused by pilot error. The systems will be revised to make that particular error impossible in the future, and things move on.
We don't, after all, decide to trash the entire Dreamliner program when problems crop up. We revise the design and move on. The Dreamliner remains in service today.
I hope Firefly gets off the ground, as it were, and doesn't fade away as, say, Armadillo did.
Well putting aside the fact that a single pilot error (deploying a lever a couple of seconds early) was enough to completely destroy their craft ( which brings up doubts about Rutan's philosophy that reducing automation increases safety), I believe his point was that VG and SS2 only reach "space" by the very broadest definition of "space". Their original plan was to pop over the karman line briefly, but even that has been refined down and now their aim is to reach 50mi, which is only relevant as the USAF decided in the 60's to give astronaut wings to people who went over that line.
And the previous maximum attitude that SS2 has reached is only 22,000m, after a release at 14,000m.
I wouldn't say SS1 reached space. Heck, if I was the X-Prize foundation, I would have tried to find a way to not give it to Scaled because they squeezed through by the letter of the law, not the spirit.
The spirit of the X-Prize was well-described by the letter, and was not dependent on which definition of "space" anyone decided to use as it was explicitly specified what would qualify.
Yes. I agree and mea culpa. I do not speak for the X-Prize foundation and what they felt was fair or not.
And the X-Prize aside, while you can use whatever definition of space (or any other word) you want in theory, defining "in space" as the same as "in orbit" is silly. Location and trajectory are different concepts. Saying that the ISS is in space because it's in orbit but a sounding rocket that travels to an altitude three times higher isn't in space because it's sub-orbital is just confusing. And right there we see that there's already perfectly clear and appropriate terminology for the distinction you're making: Orbital vs sub-orbital.
Whether 100km is really a good choice for the arbitrary boundary of "space" is of course a fair question. But redefining the concept so that two objects at the same physical coordinates are not necessarily both "in space" isn't an improvement.
In space, objects have more than physical coordinates. They have a velocity vector. On Earth, it's a fine assumption to not include velocity vector as the velocities involved are small. In space, it is not.
You and I agree that we want terms to be communicable and clear. I don't think it is silly to contest what is defined as space vis a vis X-Prize and SS1. You do. Not sure where we move from there.
The genesis of my argument here is to use terms to communicate what it means to be in space. I don't want to leave people with the impression that moving from point A to point B is a simple straight line. I don't want to leave people with the impression that moving in space is effortless like it is in the movies or TV.
Papewaio wrote:
mycroftxxx wrote:
"Space" isn't an altitude. It's a velocity. SS1 and SS2 get to about 3000 fps. To get to LEO you need about 25000 fps and to get beyond that faster still. That's 8x faster than the SS1 and SS2 get too. That 8x faster is a literally tons and tons and tons of difference in getting SS1 to orbit. Are there actual plans from Scaled and VG to get to LEO?
You, sir or madam, are full of shit. :-)
SS1 reached space by the accepted definition: it achieved a geometric altitude of at least 100 km (the so-called Karman line). You are trying to distinguish between orbit and suborbital, and the X-Prize explicitly did not care about that.
Yes, I too get peeved when ignoramuses don't get the difference between getting to space vs getting to orbit, but you are committing a similar error by claiming that if it ain't in orbit, it ain't in space.
How about I'm full of difference in opinion. ;-) I don't have to accept the accepted definition, no? Maybe that makes me a crazy nut, but in the end, SS1 got to ~100 km with basically very little velocity (apogee). It wasn't going anywhere by straight back down. It wasn't gong to scale to much more than that.
To stay in space, it needed to 8x more velocity.
[Deletia as Wyrmhole had the same comments here]
I take it you are one of these people still sore that Pluto was defined as a dwarf planet.
Nope. I like the redefinition of Pluto to dwarf planet. It communicates what it is better than before.
I'm all for using terms that are more communicable. So I view the people who define 100 km altitude as "space" as the people who are still sore that Pluto was defined as a dwarf planet.
Maury Markowitz
It's a little better than that, but only a little: you could cut out the opposing engine/injector... And the resulting disruption to the plume may cause greater loss of efficiency than you'd expect.
It's that last one. Losing one engine is bad, but losing two basically means your plume is useless for compensation. It's all-or-nothing, which is one of the big reasons that NASA thought SERV was some sort of joke.
Janderson70
Smack-Fu Master, in training
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:53 am
Good luck with this, id like to see how much money they waste on trying to develop a functional cryogenic composite tank that is also a vehicle structure. NASA & companies such as Microcosom burnt up millions on this & still haven't flown a composite propellant tank through a full launch vehicle flight regime. Until this happens I think these companies are taking a huge technical gamble that isn't even needed..
Also autogeneous pressurization is far from a high preforming or reliable method to deliver propellant, besides the very low pressure curve of the these propellants, you also have the issue of dual phase injector flow to mitigate. By the time you compensate for the the mass of propellant vapors needed to pressurize the propellant tanks (around 20% of the liquid mass), and the additional tank volume requirements. Id be pretty sure a heated helium pressure feed system would work better than this self-pressure model. Besides lightweight high pressure composite cylinders are a common item these days & could probably be secured COTS for this program.
It seems to me all new space launch efforts keep making the choice to use cryogenic LOX and then trying to wrap everything around that choice, then end up find out using LOX is costly from an engineering perspective. Its why we keep getting no big breakthrough in launch vehicle cost reduction, and attempting to solve this by attempt to develop new technologies in composites will just burn up any small companies funds before they even get a rocket to the pad..
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YOU ASSHOLE! WHY DID YOU BUMP THIS?!
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The Wyly Gala
by Jerome Weeks 15 Oct 2009
Bruce Willis easily played the easy-going host — funny, how the role suited him — for several hundred high-paying theatergoers Wednesday night at the Wyly Theatre’s opening gala, the first of several galas this week at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Audience members included Mayor Tom Leppert, Jerry Jones and the architects themselves, Rem Koolhaas […]
Bruce Willis easily played the easy-going host — funny, how the role suited him — for several hundred high-paying theatergoers Wednesday night at the Wyly Theatre’s opening gala, the first of several galas this week at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Audience members included Mayor Tom Leppert, Jerry Jones and the architects themselves, Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus. Willis extolled their “technologically — ah, technically un-comprehensible” new theater and introduced the performers.
The Wyly was set up in its most conventional layout (proscenium) and because there was amplified music all night, the performers were miked (except, at one point, hip-hop theater artist Will Power). So it was hard to determine what the acoustics would be like for a typical Dallas Theater Center performance. When Will Power eventually ditched the headset mike that had slipped off repeatedly during his very physical set, he delivered a touching, funny rap about his grandmother’s feet — electronically unaided. He could certainly be heard, but then he was chanting/singing, not simply speaking.
In one respect, the theater’s acoustics are a little too clear. Because of the lack of sound-softening carpeting and because of the hard-edged steel and concrete surfaces everywhere, anytime an audience member dropped a purse (bang) or a program (thud) or kicked a champagne flute (crash – crash – crash), it sounded as loud as a gunshot. Willis commented on this after intermission when a metallic clang from one part of the balcony led him to ask if any theatergoers were working out up there. It sounded as though we were “clanking iron.”
If there was a star of the evening, it was Broadway regular and SMU grad Debra Monk (above), who played Mrs. Elva Miller in James Lapine’s New York-bound comedy, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing. Mrs. Miller was a one-joke novelty singing act in 1966, when Capitol Records released an album of this sunny, clueless, church-choir lady attempting to apply her best operatic trills to a number of pop hits like “These Boots Are Made for Walking” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” To give you some idea of the middle-aged housewife vs. the go-go-booted, hipster humor of the period: Garry Owens, the future Laugh-In announcer, used Mrs. Miller’s singing for promos on his KPMC station. Needless to say,celebrity status took Mrs. Miller by surprise, and part of the joke was that she never appeared to be in on the joke. She didn’t realize singing styles — indeed, the entire culture — had undergone a tectonic shift, but she seemingly approached all the trappings of stardom (look, there’s Mr. Ed Sullivan) with happy naivete.
Monk can most certainly sing — she’s been doing it ever since Pump Boys and Dinettes — but whenever Mrs. Miller got caught up (or lagged far behind) the spirit of the times, Monk would uncork a funny, soaring, vibrating head voice that sounded like Margaret Dumont being goosed.
Lapine’s song-filled play was reduced to only one act for tthe gala evening. But Monk returned in the second half to sing (straight-facedly) with Hollywood composer Alan Menken for a couple of numbers from Little Shop of Horrors, Menkin’s first big hit show. Menken was the evening finale. He’s a little bit like Elton John: He’s written so many blockbuster Disney-flavored Oscar-winners that his music has become the very air around us. He was an effortless, crowd-pleasing jukebox as he went through The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas, finishing with a number from his musical version of A Christmas Carol — which prompted a full-cast singalong, including a candlelit walk-on from the Greater Dallas Children’s Chorus.
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the guru July 17, 2013 January 4, 2017
Osho a “no show” (with 90 Rolls Royces)
In collaboration with J. Sri Bhagovwid (who I do custom graphics for, for free, and snippets of wisdom).
J. Sri Bhagovwid is highly critical of OSHO, claiming, “The most amazing thing about OSHO is the miracle of persuading people he is anything but a clown. He has had armed guards, fleets of cars, and inspected his female followers breasts and “chakras”. The worst thing about him is he took advantage of naive people seeking a better, more spiritual life. His corruption destroyed the lives of many of his followers, which is not hard to imagine when one considers he got all of their money, acted as a dictator over them in his Ashram, and even molested some of the females. His Ashram poisoned the public in Oregon by deliberately contaminating salad bars with a liquid containing Salmonella, resulting in over 700 documented cases of acute food poisoning. He was a grotesque caricature of an evil villain of a guru. In fiction he would be seen as too unrealistic to be believable, yet in real life he is accepted as genuine. THAT is a miracle!”
Charity for the richest! [graphic by EK]
When it came to enlightenment, Osho was a “no show”.
Let me get this out of the way right quick – spirituality for the rich only is like a diet for the thin only. This doesn’t mean that the rich are spiritual, far from it, but just that they are much less likely to need a way out of suffering when they are being pampered in a life of luxury. The Buddha didn’t seek a way out of suffering for humankind until after he left his father’s palace grounds. Osho offers relief only to those who reside within the equivalent of today’s palace grounds, and who are just looking for a placebo to assuage their guilty consciences. Deep down, they know they have far more than they need while others truly suffer, and they seek even more, and at the expense of others. Who better to help them self-delude than a guru who does the same thing: exults in ridiculous luxury while demanding his followers live a meager existence.
Osho is a whopping cliché, and that of the worst possible, most corrupt guru. His picture is essentially in the encyclopedia next to the definition of fake guru. You can find a lengthy examination of him and his crimes in Wikipedia.
Imagine that you honestly wanted to become a better person, and traveled off to an ashram to meditate and seek spirituality. What kinds of deeds might a guru do to thoroughly put you off and shake any confidence you might have that he’s a real saint? How about he has sex with his young female seekers, and boasts of having had hundreds of them? How about he demands his followers give him large amounts of money, often their life savings, and he uses it to buy a fleet of Rolls Royces and other outlandish luxuries for himself? This is all well documented, and anyone can find out about it simply by visiting Wikipedia.
Do you still think he’s an enlightened saint, like the Buddha or Christ?
He claims he can perform miracles, but it is beneath himself to do so?
Claims to have been reincarnated many times and to have had an illustrious past as a series of enlightened masters.
Takes sleeping pills, Valium, and heroic doses of nitrous oxide (laughing gas).
Praises Hitler and denounces Gandhi.
Loves and praises money.
Looks down upon the poor and discriminates against them.
Is openly homophobic.
His ashram in Oregon orchestrated a bio-terror attack by deliberately spreading poison in salad bars to effect county elections.
His ashram plotted to assassinate politicians in Oregon who got in its way.
Some of his books were written for him by others.
His material was largely taken from other sources.
Just some of Osho’s Rolls Royce collection. [graphic by me]
Osho is not even his real name. He was born Chandra Mohan Jain, then he renamed himself Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally resurrected himself as Osho in 1989. People are entranced by the name OSHO. It sounds like a mantra, or meditative breathing. It sounds ZEN, and like “ocean”. So hypnotized by him are people that his books adorn the shelves of international youth hostels around the world (I saw one in a restaurant a couple weeks ago). People blithely share his quotes on facebook, and don’t know that he boasted having 90 Rolls Royces.
Here, look at him bragging about them in this video (at 2 minutes and 24 seconds):
And what’s with that getup? He looks like he’s not just “the rich man’s guru” but also “the Ashtar Galactic Command’s guru”. Is that his $1,000,000 watch?
Osho is lying in this video about his Rolls Royces. He says his people, followers, or “sanyasins” want him to have 360 Rolls Royces. It’s Osho who wants them for himself. When he had his commune in Oregon “Rajneeshpuram”, he pressured his staff to secure more Rolls Royces because he wanted to break the record for how many anyone had. This was costing his commune $200,000 per month. Meanwhile, much of this money was coming from his followers, many of whom sold off all of their worldly possession and donated all of their wealth to Rajneeshpuram. The guru also wanted a million dollar watch to wear, and told his second in command to divert money from the commune’s needs, if necessary, to secure this luxury for himself.
People don’t know that he said, “as a homosexual, you are not even a human being.” They don’t know his statement, “living in poverty is far more dangerous, far more suffering than dying in a beautifully, scientifically managed gas chamber in Germany. Within a second you are smoke, holy smoke, rather than suffering for millions of years.“ They don’t know that he called himself, “the rich man’s guru” and said “the beggar can not come to me.” Not only is Osho a fraud, he’s an obvious one who has taken himself way out on a limb and made a complete fool of himself. A preacher of antisemitism and homophobia is not enlightened in any sense of the word, and that’s just scratching the surface of his legacy of mammoth egotism and opportunism.
Osho is the inverse of enlightened. He’s a megalomaniac. Nevertheless, and despite his having died over 20 years ago, his fan page on Facebook has over 1,800,000 followers, and over 1,400 people use his “quote + photo” app per month on Facebook. When you quote OSHO, you are unwittingly announcing you are one of the duped.
OSHO is a business, and the customers are being suckered.
Quote your favorite megalomaniacal, homophobic, classist, and antisemitic guru.
Nisargadatta Maharaj didn’t own a luxury automobile, and he gave free talks in his home. Ramana Maharshi had a squirrel. What need does a guru have for luxury? If he is as happy with a stone as with a throne, he’s not going to bother about a throne, let alone 90 of them.
True gurus have no need or desire for Rolls Royces, luxury in general, or fashionable intergalactic garb. They are humble and selfless. Note: public Facebook pages for these two gurus combined have 11% as many followers as OSHO. [graphic by EK]
So, when someone asked me what I thought about Osho, I said, “Osho?! Oh shit!”
Caricature of OSHO by Eric Kuns.
Defenders of OSHO, of which there are many (I wonder how many of them are invested in the business of OSHO) will try to sideline his more outrageously offensive and inhumane statements, but they stand as a testament to his delusional personality, the gaping holes in his education, and a radical departure from reality. And, no, what he says isn’t any less ridiculous “in context”. Here are some more choice quotes:
“Do you want me to support AIDS. Supporting homosexuality means exactly that – supporting AIDS.” ~ OSHO.
Wow! Homosexuality = AIDS. Is this guy a guru or a knee-jerk conservative radio talk show host? He says that he “condemns homosexuality” because it is “unnatural.” Talk about compassion and empathy. If you got AIDS, it was because you were a pervert. I’m not putting words in his mouth, he claimed that “Walt Whitman is the only American to talk of these heights, but he also missed. He missed when he was just on the verge, he was hindered by his homosexuality,” and “Homosexuality is a perversion, a perversion of one’s own body chemistry.” Just for the gay followers of Osho, it’s time to reject him as he rejects you.
“In fact, a man shaving his beard looks like a woman — it is ugly. As far as women are concerned, they love beards. You can ask my women here. A man without a beard and a mustache is just half man.” ~ OSHO
Whack job.
Questioner: HOW WOULD YOU JUDGE HITLER MORALLY AND POLITICALLY?
OSHO: Morally, he was as moral as Mahatma Gandhi.
Questioner: AS MAHATMA GANDHI?
OSHO: Yes, because I consider both absolutely immoral. In fact, he was more a Hindu than Mahatma Gandhi himself…
Hitler is a better Hindu than Gandhi. Fantastic! If you were poor (not rich), Jewish, or gay, Osho had no time for you and/or condemned you outright. So, before you start wearing OSHO on your lapel, find out a little about who the guy really was. Osho was probably short for “OSHOLE”.
Aside from Osho’s own statements, preserved in self-damning videos, his commune in Oregon, which he tried to build into a city, was guilty of poisoning the local community, arson, and attempts to murder local officials who stood in the way of establishing and expanding the commune. These murder plots included poison, and even gunning down the U.S. Attorney for Oregon. Some like to say that Osho (then going by the name Rahjneesh) didn’t know what was going on in his own commune, but he has been recorded in one meeting concerning radical tactics to preserve the commune as saying, “if 10,000 have to die to save one enlightened master, so be it”.
He also had massive troubles with the law (cause he was above it).
Finally, If it isn’t painfully obvious why you can’t have a fabulously wealthy guru with 90 Rolls Royces, who claims to be only for a rich audience, I can clear this up. Let’s just go back to the one guy that, if anyone, was really enlightened = the Buddha. He grew up, so they say, in a kind of palace, and was completely sheltered from the rough world outside. When he finally did venture out he was so struck by poverty, aging, illness, and vulnerability/mortality in general, that he needed to find a way out. Suffering, he saw, was inevitable. But there must be a way to not simply be crushed. So he sought a way to overcome the suffering of the world, and this led him to test himself and undergo self-deprivation before finally finding his middle-way path. So, for the sake of argument, let’s just agree that there is such a thing as enlightenment. The people who need it most are those who are actually suffering and/or most at risk.
The enlightened person, so it is claimed, accepts reality as it unfolds without resistance, and has no preference or need for luxury. This ability to completely accept whatever comes is how he or she overcomes suffering. One is no longer a separate individual in a hostile world and vulnerable to devastation from outside. As an indivisible part of the whole of reality, one no longer views the eventual tragic circumstances we all must face as separate or alien. Since the individual is an illusion, he cannot be destroyed. The entirety remains. So goes the philosophy.
If the path of enlightenment is the way to overcome suffering in this world, indulging in luxuries doesn’t really show either a capacity to deal with real suffering, or a lack of preference for pleasure. Osho does the equivalent of showing that the way to overcome alcohol addiction is to drink oneself to death. The guru who needs to break the world record for Roll’s Royce ownership, sacrifices his followers’ basic needs to adorn himself with a million dollar watch, and thinks the lives of tens of thousands are not worth as much as his own, is not enlightened, but megalomaniacally rooted in the nether recesses of the selfish ego. If enlightenment is a possibility, and there are or ever were real enlightened people or saints, Osho helps shatter any confidence that any of that may be real. He does, however, appeal to a certain brand of person who likes to think of himself as enlightened, but also absolved of any sin or crime, no matter how selfish, cruel, or petty, because he transcends the Earthly, terrestrial morality and law.
To those that worship Osho, and think he’s merely being provocative and that it takes countless lives to understand him, I suggest you find a new guru. There is a miracle surrounding the name of Osho, and it is that so many are still purchasing Osho products.
If you’ve read this far, and are about to post an angry and insulting comment, consider why you want to defend Osho and attack us for criticizing him. Is it because you think he is an enlightened being and a great spiritual teacher, and thus can do no wrong, and therefore everything he does must be valid and useful for some reason beyond the morality and rational understanding of normal mortals? We see it the other way around. Because of his bad actions, selfishness, egotism, and lack of self control, he cannot be a great spiritual teacher. But he was smart to realize that people worship celebrity, royalty, and divinity. If he could persuade people that he was intrinsically different, than he would be above all criticism. This is a common technique, and why the fake gurus often employ cheap magic tricks, such as when Sai Baba would materialize gold watches to give to his followers. Osho is a huckster selling snake oil to gullible yokels who want to believe a miracle.
Written by J. Sri Bhagovwid, and edited by me .
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249 replies on “Osho a “no show” (with 90 Rolls Royces)”
Manu Deon says:
Man, I would like to have a finer conversation with such a High Tech Sri… Please check your p.m. on FB… Cheers !
You completely missed the point. Osho is saying that you can’t preach spirituality to someone who’s hungry. They need food, not God. He’s not saying to run after money. He’s saying don’t run after it OR avoid it. Either way you are a slave.
And seconded – nothing about this post came off as funny, or in any way enlightening. Thanks anyway.
Eric Wayne says:
He’s saying “don’t run after money” because I’m taking it from you at breakneck speed in order to break a record for most Rolls Royces. That’s funny AND enlightening. You just need to let go of your prejudices and conditioned thinking and laugh.
Let the others do what they want to do even those weak naive Osho followers who believe with this so called Guru they can find themselves. You are an individual and your best friend is yourself thus you can only find yourself with yourself and not the Osho Profit Industry. Also Osho’s statements about relationships & love are so ridiculous especially when he describes this as a temporary dance. If you really love yourself you find and love your Partner forever. My Ex Boyfriend is also a Osho Follower and went of with a naive Osho Follower Girl by saying to me that he might dance with me in the future again on a deeper level. Certainly I do not want such a fool back. I wish all Osho Followers Good Luck though.
you are all degrading to the human race , a hoax , all phonies , that’s why when somebody like osho is real and direct , all you can donus ridicule him . He us not for lowlifes , so leave him alone plz 🤗💐
The problem isn’t that he’s too real and direct for us, the problem is that he’s a snake oil salesman and an amateur magician. Fools the gullible who want to be fooled, but anyone with a hunger for the real or direct loses patience with his act very quickly.
Saksham says:
Well sorry brother, you haven’t understood him and that’s normal. When he says god only listens to rich people, he means that all that people are made as kings by the god and not as beggars. I’ve heard him say that he doesn’t care if people forget him. He said everything must end or keep changing. He is the only hope for moksh right now.
“When he says god only listens to rich people, he means that all that people are made as kings by the god and not as beggars.”
No he doesn’t. Watch the video. He says they beggars can’t come to him because they are not sophisticated or refined enough. He says he is the rich man’s guru. He does NOT say that all men are kings, and thus there are no beggars. He specifically addresses the poor as an extant group of people who are not elevated enough to be worth his trouble (not rich enough). He is not the only hope of anyone, but rather an awful impediment.
Well the thing is, a lot of us do understand him, and understand that he;s full of shit.
Gnieba says:
You don’t understand nothging about this guy, yet you’re blaming him. :))) You can listen carefully what’s he saying, but even then you won’t understand not even 1%.
No, the problem is that I understand all too well, and can’t be fooled by imposters.
OSHO was unlucky…. he missed a few facts and messed big time.
There are multi-millionaire gurus in India today…
http://www.oshonews.com/2013/07/19/indias-super-rich-gurus/
If you are a multi-millionaire guru, you most assuredly are NOT unlucky. If you are any kind of multi-millionaire you are among the the slimmest margin of the wealthiest who have ever lived among us. The word you are looking for is not “unlucky” but “corrupt”. Osho was corrupt, and you can’t be enlightened and corrupt in the most worldly, material, and egotistical ways at the same time. In other words, you can’t be selfless and a megalomaniac, as much as that might appeal to rich patrons of rich gurus. In the end it’s all fraud.
lfpessemier says:
next he’ll be running for president
He’s dead though.
Dead man since 27 years. But still relevant. Love Osho.
An enemy is a potential friend.
So soon you will love him eric. Be Awake
Dear knowing ardh satya that is half truth is a worst state of being
Keep ur mind free of all the prejudices and be a witness
More internet goons posturing as enlightened. Yaaawwwn.
Barnabé says:
A bit late to the party, but hey…i was looking for an illustration of the words “dirty rich” , stumbled upon the illustration of your post, and had to read it all (+ comments)
What strikes me the most is the vehement energy osho followers out in defending their “saint” ; if this guy was a buddha, what is a need for a defense? if they’re so enlightened by his mighty words, how come they’re so vindicative, and insulting? so on the defensive?
So…great job , your article helped reveal some pretty big flaws!
I tend to prefer the ideas/teachings of a Ramana Maharsi (or a Krishnamurti) a hundred times over the soup osho serves
(ps: on a side note, about rich, filthy, dirty gurus, nowadays there’s this freaking fraud, sri sri ravi shankar..would love to read the same kind of debunking article about him)
Thanks. My favorite is Nisargadatta Maharaj, who, like Ramana Maharshi, teaches Advaita Vedanta, which is the same think Eckhart Tolle teaches, but watered down and derivative.
Boban says:
You who wrote this article, you are an idiot! Osho was great enlightened master, if you are bit more intelligent you would recognize that. Don’t vomit your poison on others.
Thanks. I don’t even need to counter, because your statement is such an obvious self-indictment.
Humble_guy says:
I happened across a facebook quote of Osho today. And felt a need to query him online. To which I came across your article.
First, you are spot on with the logic you follow about criticizing him. Thank you.
I remember stories about him in his oregon center and just could not imagine thinking of him as anything but a twisted, partially enlightened criminal.
I read some of his concepts online and came to the conclusion that he probably was not utilizing the power of his god self because it didn’t sound like he had a firm grasp of the experience of his higher self. For example, saying positive thinking did more harm than good. Really?
Second, I am amazed people can look at his picture and not feel bad. his psychic energy is dreadful and this might be due to many reasons, never the less, all loving enlightened masters I’ve ever seen gave off a lovely radiance that made you glad to be around them. His energy makes me want to run.
I wish people had the discernment and insight to make better choices about the teachings and teachers they chose to gravitate towards.
You can read any of a dozen spiritual books, such as a course in miracles, the Bhagavad gita, or Patanjali’sYoga Sutras and compare the teachings to see if they fit with what sounds true. There are enough holes in Osho’s logic and interpretation of truth to make you question the amount of time spent on him.
Yes, and the thing that surprises me about those who defend him is that his effect on me is to cast serious doubt on all gurus, enlightenment, and Eastern mysticism/spirituality/wisdom traditions. It’s a bit like the pedophile priests. Doesn’t make me wanna’ go to church to get wisdom or direction. No thanks.
And, I actually agree with you, though it’s only an impression, that Osho strikes me as, well, sinister. He like to hiss his “s” sounds, and he’s practiced not blinking for effect.
The guru I like the most is Nisargadatta Maharaj. Is he really enlightened? I don’t know, but I do really like his message and his arguments. “I AM THAT” is my favorite spiritual text. Maharaj lived simply and gave lectures for free in his home. Echkart Tolle, who is a watered down, New Age disseminator of Advaita, charges for his videos and texts, and more importantly for his getaways for rich folk.
If one really is enlightened, he or she doesn’t really need a lot of money at all. If you need money, than, it’s pretty obvious, your ain’t high on life, so to speak.
Rizzythegod says:
Ur a fucking idiot read a book by Osho if u still feel like this u are retarded
That grammar tho!
I’m getting a real kick out of these comments. Tried to leave a single comment that I really dig the post but couldn’t find the button.
Right. By now the comments are better than the original article, which is around 5 years old, I think.
Osho’s Rolls Royces
Why do you like your Rolls Royces so much?
I have tried all kinds of cars; and even Rolls Royce has many types and I have tried them too. Their best is the Corniche, but it doesn’t suit me. It is a question of my back. I need a certain kind of chair—I use only this chair. It has been made by my sannyasins exactly to give support to my back, because doctors have said that they cannot do anything more.
Experts from England were called to India. They tried hard, and they said, “It is impossible. You will have to live with it.” It was just a coincidence that one of the models of Rolls Royce, Silver Spur, suited me. The driver’s seat in that car fits perfectly, gives me no trouble. Naturally, my people love….
They don’t belong to me, those cars—nothing belongs to me. I am the poorest man in the whole world, living the richest life possible. My people love me; they want to do something for me. All those cars belong to the commune. They have made them available to me for one hour each day. I don’t know which car they are bringing, but one thing is certain, that I can be comfortable only in a Silver Spur. And they love me so much that they are trying to have three hundred and sixty-five Rolls Royces, one for every day. And I say, “Why not? A great idea!”…
They have arranged ninety Rolls Royces, and I know they will be able to manage three hundred and sixty-five. last210
People are very much interested in your Rolls Royces. What do You want to prove with this, so many cars and so much luxury around You?
Why are people concerned? Then certainly they need it; then more Rolls Royces will be here. Until they stop asking me, more and more Rolls Royces are going to be here. Now it has to be seen that it is a challenge: the day nobody asks me about Rolls Royces, they will not be coming.
People’s interest in Rolls Royces shows their mind. They are not interested what is happening here. They don’t ask about meditation, they don’t ask about sannyas, they don’t ask about people’s life, love, the laughter that happens in this desert. They only ask about Rolls Royces. That means I have touched some painful nerve. And I will go on pressing it till they stop asking.
I am not a worshipper of poverty. That’s what those Rolls Royces prove. I respect wealth. Nobody before me had the guts to say it. The pope cannot say that he respects wealth, although he is the wealthiest man on the earth.
I am not a hypocrite. I am the poorest man on the earth. I don’t have a single cent with me. But I want to show these people what attracts their mind. If there were no Rolls Royces here, perhaps there would be nothing for the whole world ask about me, about you, about meditation, about initiation into sannyas, about love, about anything. It is for those idiots that I am keeping all those Rolls Royces, because they cannot move their eyes away from those Rolls Royces. And meanwhile I will go on pouring other things in their minds. Without those Rolls Royces they would not have asked a single question.
Those Rolls Royces are doing their work. Every idiot around the world is interested in them. And I want them to be somehow interested—in anything in Rajneeshpuram. Then we will manage about other things.
So tell those people—when anybody asks, tell them that “These Rolls Royces are for you idiots. Otherwise you are not interested in anything.” Once they stop asking about Rolls Royces, then I will have to think of something else, whether to have rockets which are going to the moon…. I will have to think of something else. last403
I received a letter from a bishop of Wasco County, who had been for almost five years condemning my Rolls Royces. In every Sunday sermon he was not preaching Jesus Christ, he was preaching me and my Rolls Royces. The day I was leaving he wrote a letter to me, “Now you are leaving, it will be great kindness on your part if you can donate one Rolls Royce to this church.” Now, this shows the man….
I informed him, “Would you like all ninety-three, or only one?”
And a letter came, “If you can give all ninety-three, that is just the right thing. You are really great. I’m very sorry that I condemned you for five years. You are a man to be worshiped.”
It is a very strange world if you understand people: whatever they are saying shows more about them than it shows about the person they are talking about. pilgr12
Just the other day Anando was showing me one book published against me in Australia by a couple who have been sannyasins for three years and have been in the commune. But just looking at their ideas, it seems they have never seen me. They are saying that they were working, working hard, and with their work I was purchasing Rolls Royces. You can see the absurdity: their work was not bringing any money. Their work was making their own houses to live in, the roads—which were needing money, not producing money. But in their mind—and for all those three years also—they must have been resentful.
Those Rolls Royces were not produced by the commune. They were presents from outside, from all over the world. And I was not their owner—I had given them to the commune. They were commune property, and I have not brought any of them with me; I have left them with the commune. Everything that I had has been left with the commune. I never owned anything. But there must have been the idea that they are earning money, and I am wasting money. That is their resentment.
What money were you earning? In fact you needed money to make houses, to make roads, to make a dam—a dam needed two and a half million dollars to make. You were contributing your labor, but we were not creating money out of it so that I could purchase Rolls Royces, so that I could purchase anything. I have not purchased anything from the money produced by the commune because the commune never produced any money. The commune was absorbing money.
In fact all my royalties, all my books, all their profits were going to the commune. The situation is just the opposite—that I had given everything to the commune. Now, four hundred books in different languages were bringing millions of dollars in royalties, and those royalties were going to the commune.
If I had wanted to purchase Roll Royces, I could have purchased my own Rolls Royces, as many as I wanted, just out of my royalties.
But the resentment, the anger, is blind. In the commune we invested two hundred million dollars. Those sannyasins perhaps think they had brought two hundred million dollars there! Without me and the people who love me around the world, those two hundred million dollars would not have been possible.
Sheer bullshit. How many people have bad backs and just use cushions or are perfectly fine with whatever car. And, what about his million dollars watches. Um, are those the only ones that, er, alleviate his arthritis?! You can’t be dumb enough to believe that mountain of bullshit.
I am more enlightened than OSHO, and I’m not enlightened. First off, Nisargadatta Maharaj gave lectures for free in his home, and people from all over the world came to hear them. No Roll Royces at all. But people were interested in enlightenment, meditation, the truth, a greater understanding, transcendence, what have you. And this includes me. I’ve bought and read several of the books which are transcriptions of Maharaj’s talks. Also Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Alan Watts, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (I went to a two day meditation seminar by him and practiced the techniques I learned), and others. I did a 10 day meditation retreat in a temple in Thailand, meditating on the floor 6 hours a day. No Rolls Royces necessary.
If you are enlightened, you don’t need luxuries and you don’t need a different car every day with a specific seat to drive you around your compound so people can worship you. That is for megalomaniacs. You don’t need to examine the chakras in the vaginas of your disciples. You accept reality as it is, without preference.
If you are enlightened, you don’t need anything.
OSHO is a liar, a scoundrel, a cheat, and a fraud. Those who insist on following him want to make excuses for megalomania, and to convince themselves they can be enlightened while also being selfish. Fuck Osho. If he is more spiritual than I am, than I am happy to die on the spot. FUCK OSHO. He is a menace and cruel individual.
Oh, and his stuff about how he doesn’t have a penny or “civit” while owning all those cars and watches and luxuries is like a pedophile priest saying, “I am the most celebate person in the world”.
The worst thing about OSHO is that he destroys people’s faith, or curiosity, or interest in Eastern philosophy, or the possibility of enlightenment. And that is his effect on me. He is another FAKE guru whose spirit is smaller than mine, proving that enlightenment is a fantasy and a business of selling snake oil. I still half believe in Maharaj and a couple others, but OSHO has made me really question them.
And if you believe in his spiritual power. I throw down this challenge. If he has a greater spirit than me let me die during my sleep tonight. I wish it. I welcome it. C’mon OSHO, show me what you got. Let’s go toe-to-toe in the spiritual octogon. I dare you. You coward.
You seem to have enlightenment all figured out.
That’s actually impossible. You can’t use the rational intellect to understand dit. But, I can figure out what is sheer bullshit. That’s possible. And OSHO is a fraud brimming over with heinous bullshit. As for enlightenment, I wouldn’t know any better than OSHO or YOU. None of us are enlightened. I’m probably closer than OSHO though, as he was a sinister manipulater and advantage taker of innocent people. That’s kinda’ the opposite of being enlightened.
hanysaadblog says:
FXXK YOU WHOEVER WROTE NONSENSE ABOUT OSHO, YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED ENOUGH TO JUDGE OR UNDERSTAND HIM .ANY MORE NONSENSE AGAINS HIM WILL THROW YOU IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR REST OF YOUR LIFE.
I wrote it and watch your own karma. I forgive your stupidity, but it’s not up go me.
You never heard what he didn’t say.
Your moralizing is precious.
“His corruption destroyed the lives of many of his followers.”
Whose lives?
That was the point.
I don’t know if you could be further from your heart if you tried.
Don’t judge anything or anyone.
It’s beyond words Fool.
Focus says:
“Capitalism is not an ideology; it is not imposed on the society, it is a natural growth.” Osho
I have to agree with you Eric. The man was a fraud. Real spirituality is not based personal, cancerous growth. Truth is within not by the authority of any guru. In the following is only conformity.
Not in anyway was he a fraud.
You never met yourself obviously, this you are repelled by the authentic.
Shrug, your loss and confusion.
Why do OSHO fans come off as more than slightly unhinged and aggressive?
It is always due to mental security that one clings to any idea or idol conclusively be it an ideology, religion, political or a guru. It is all conditioned thought at the core. When one’s security is threatened then one initiates anger in response. Authenticity does not require a teacher. Confusion is not dispelled by following another. We all want that peace inside while we create walls between us bound by thought. I seek no enemies here. I say what I feel is true and I don’t expect anything less from you Omega. Be what you are. You do have a very nice Website here Eric. The art is quite unique.
Cheers. I also agree with your general sentiments expressed in your comment, not that it matters really if I agree or not as you trust in your internal compass, as you should.
the old goat says:
I have no arguments with anyone nor wish harm in anyone. I know frauds, I was one and continue to be here behind my mask. Sometimes I take it off.
It’s pretty hard to not emulate being a human being. Maybe it’s impossible most of the time.
U are an idiot lol
Sam’s U Drive was here.
I wish you could understand him , At first I also thought that his is not good but his teachings have made my life really happy and made me a better person . I am not against your thought because you have right to tell your thoughts but first understand him with free heart and don’t judge the first thing directly, you have taken his one or two statement from his speech but they are in complete
Glad you like Meese and get something out of his philosophy. I liked some of his paintings at first, and then I saw a bunch that seemed slipshod and ugly. He hasn’t won me back over, and, like I said, it’s almost impossible to tell if he’s joking or not. But, not everyone likes the same art or music, and if you like it, than more enjoyment for you. I’m cool with that.
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Know them by their actions and less by their words.
These comments are absolutely priceless! I don’t have the best memory, but I had looked up Osho before when his name was floating around. And I was mortified by what I found. And yet, years later, I still see his books EVERYWHERE. Sometime during this period, I had forgotten the extent of his harm. I had convinced myself that he was just your typical New Agey charlatan. How else to reconcile that thought with his massive popularity?
Yes, and I don’t know why people still follow or believe in him. Honestly, as I said somewhere, and more than once, people like OSHO destroy any confidence I have that enlightenment is real, as do all the self-deluded people online that have convinced themselves that they too are enlightened. Eckhart Tolle says that HE is enlightened, but I’m not buying it especially because he’s selling it and making a mint off of it (that, and everything he says was said before, and better, by Nisagadatta Maharaj, who he has acknowledge ripping off somewhere).
What is the evidence someone is enlightened? What good goes it do for them or anyone else? Somehow, buying 90 Rolls Royces isn’t a “good” I can get behind.
anthro says:
Wow, the comments from Osho fanboys are pretty stunning. No matter what he said, they’ll find a way to interpret it so it says what they want it to say. Osho was smart, I’ll give him that. He understood how to say lots of random words without saying anything truly specific or linear enough to be able to state what exactly he believed. it makes it even easier for his fans to project their desires and dreams onto what he said instead of really investigating his work and life as a whole.
Actually.. this has just given me insight into the fanboys of Jordan Peterson. There is something quite similar. Hhmmm..
I’d hardly put Jordan Peterson in the same category as OSHO, though. On the other hand, I can’t speak for his fans. Some people may just like him blindly because he stands up to social justice warriors. But people are having a really, really hard time taking him down, and they are trying in one hit piece after another. He’s a clinical psychologist and veteran teacher who believes in objectivity. Sure, he’s on the conservative end of the spectrum, but he’s not an opportunistic predator like OSHO, not sleeping with his students, not deliberately misleading people.
Eye BlueLight says:
A blog full of misinformation about Osho 🙂 What’s nice, dear friend, is Osho has enough literature and Video content (a few terra bytes) all over the internet; for example oshosearch.net ‘s download section has over 500GB of Video Content. You can lie as much as you like, the reality is recorded on tape and everyone who wants can go and see for himself what Osho is really about.
Keep on lying, you’re not doing any harm to anybody, Those who choose to believe the lies instead of researching, need people like you. It’s a mutual psychological supplydemand game.
You haven’t even understood the name Osho. You don’t seem to understand even the most basic things. Shouting around random four letter words is not a criticism at all, what you’ve written here is not an objective presentation, it’s not even an informed opinion. It’s a subjective presentation, about yourself.
You should feel proud, what a beautiful article you’ve written about yourself! You have a mirror now to look at and see how you really are. :)) 🙂 🙂 🙂
You haven’t written anything about Osho. You haven’t even studied him, so how can you write about him? You can only write about yourself and about your imagination about a purely fictional character you’ve created in your mind. Make him a “bad” guy without bothering to read his books or at least 0.0001% of the books he read in his youth, and then feel good about yourself, that you’re the “good” and “smart” guy. Now, isn’t that brilliance?
Please write more such brilliant articles about yourself, they will help you make the mirror more clear.
The blog is not devoted to OSHO, nimrod. There are only a few articles about him from around 5 years ago out of over 500 articles.
Besides which, he’s a fraud and you are a gullible, fawning, tool. Go read a real guru, like Nisargadatta Maharaj, if you are interested in enlightenment.
Problem is that I see OSHO too clearly, and it’s not a pretty sight at all. He’s a snake oil salesman, and you are holding a bottle in your hand wishing it’s real.
“A blog full of misinformation about Osho”
Using direct quotations (primary source material I might add), and not taking anything out of context is misinformation now? Look up the meaning of that word because you’re using it wrong.
I used to find Osho’s monologues somewhat interesting but never delved much into his talks, if I had I’d have found the garbage he spewed that’s revealed here. I knew about the Rolls Royces and I heard some of the rumors about his personal behaviors but didn’t look into it until recently because before I started using my fucking brain like an adult, I’d just chalked it all up as him being eccentric. OSHO is a FRAUD and a CON-ARTIST, no different from so many shysters and phonies that have come before him who talk about God and have a way with words. The only people that still follow his bullshit do it out of either some financial incentive and/or truth and honesty have no meaning to them.
Forgot to mention: There’s a Netflix documentary that came out last year called “Wild Wild Country”, this documentary shows the REAL Osho. People like him, they’re no different from the slave owners in the Jim Crow south who used “God” to justify their inhumanity towards other human beings. I am not an atheist, nor am I religious. It’s sickening seeing people like these, using “God” or “spirituality” as a means of concealing their evil.
Lol !!! u missed it big time…so if there were no cars, no sex, no luxury would you consider him enlightened then?
Face plant!
No. He’s got a laundry list of bad characteristics. Those are just the most outrageous, and we’re not talking sex, we’re talking about taking advantage of female devotees.
That’s only half the problem. The other half is there’s nothing to indicate he is enlightened. You might as well say, if it weren’t for his ostentatious Rolls collection, would you consider him the world heavyweight champion at boxing?
The dude is kinda’ sinister, the way he hisses his s sounds and has cultivated not blinking. He’s a nasty sort of fraud.
Can’t quite fathom why people so desperately need to believe OSHO is enlightened, when there are much more persuasive gurus out there (though I’m not really sure any of them really are enlightened).
I didnt know Osho that much. I read your article and said myself osho is a scammer but then i aread his response about his actions afterward that you haven’t mentioned here.
And conclusion for me is he’s not a fraud. He just see the things from a different perspective that cant be seen by everyone.
Here is some of words:
“There was no need for ninety-six Rolls Royces. I could not use ninety-six Rolls Royces simultaneously – the same model, the same car. But I wanted to make it clear to you that you would be ready to drop all your desires for truth, for love, for spiritual growth to have a Rolls Royce. I was knowingly creating a situation in which you would feel jealous.”
“The function of a master is very strange. He has to help you come to an understanding of your inner structure of consciousness: it is full of jealousy.”
“…Those cars fulfilled their purpose. They created jealousy in the whole of America, in all the super-rich people. If they were intelligent enough, then rather than being my enemies they would have come to me to find a way to get rid of their jealousy, because it is their problem. Jealousy is a fire that burns you, and burns you badly.” (Beyond Psychology)
“Everything that I have done in my life has a purpose. It is a device to bring out something in you of which you are not aware.” …Osho
His justification, however, is utter tripe. I’m NOT jealous that he had 90 Rolls Royces, or even one, therefore I learn nothing about jealousy from him. He also wanted a millions dollar watch. It is typical of corrupt gurus that they live in opulence, and make any and all excuse for it, such as that normal mortals can’t understand their superior way of being.
Rather than try to trigger jealous people, why not just set a good example? What is the message we should take away? What do we really learn?
He merely perpetuates the notion that people need luxury. Why don’t yo look up Nisargadatta Maharaj, or Ramana Maharshi? When you are truly enlightened, you don’t need superficial luxuries to make you happy, you just are happy.
OSHO was a fraud, a user, and a blight on the spiritual quest. FUCK OSHO!
I used to be a hindu roots new age gnostic, now I’m with the Ruach ha’Qodesh
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Where did it all begin? I think it must have started in 1975.. a dear friend of mine, David Kapralik - now known by the name of "ilili" - threw the idea out in a casual conversation sitting in his Los Angeles home. He said, "I've had the idea lately that you ought to go to Egypt and record in the Great Pyramid. It's the only logical successor to your Inside album." It was just another sentence among countless sentences, yet it was destined to provide me with one of the greatest experiences of my life in the days to come. David has been one of those individuals who have been responsible for some major directions in my life. In 1969, he was the head of the A&R department of Epic Records and purchased the tape I had brought back from India of a live recording subsequently released as Inside The Taj Mahal.
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I began collecting books on Pyramids, such as Peter Tomkin's Secrets of the Great Pyramid; The Secret Power of Pyramids By Bill Schul and Ed Pettit; Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid by C. Staniland Wake; and A Search In Secret Egypt by Paul Brunton. In the short time remaining, wanted to expose myself to as much diversified knowledge as possible regarding the Pyramids of Gizeh. One day I received a call from Ben Pietsch from Santa Rosa, California. He introduced himself by saying he was a pyramidologist, and had lectured and written many articles on the Great Pyramid, including an unpublished book Voices In Stone (which he later sent me - a fascinating work). Somehow he had heard that I wasgoing to Egypt hoping to play my flute inside the Great Pyramid. He loved the idea and said that sound and vibrations were an integral part of the structure. In fact, he said that every room has a basic vibration to it and if we can find what it is and identify with it we become intuned with that particular space. I had never heard that theory, but it made sense to me. He went on to say that the main chamber in the Great Pyramid was the King's Chamber. In it is a hollow lidless coffer of solid granite. He said to strike this coffer and it will give off a tone. I should tune up to this note and I will be at one with, and in tune with this chamber! "And by the way," he said, "you'll find that note to be 'A' 438 (vibrations per second ... 'A' 440 is established pitch for tuning in the West).
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Dave Greene was going from Toronto to New York, where he was picking up a stereo Nagra tape recorder and then on to London for our rendezvous - if everything went according to plan. It did, and on May 3rd we came face to face for the first time since our phone conversation many months ago when all this was just a dream.
IN EGYPT
We arrived in Cairo at 10:15p.m. After the usual delays (customs and immigration), we arrived at the Manial Palace Hotel. It was after midnight and once in our rooms it was only a matter of minutes until oblivion set in. A few hours of sleep did wonders. Everyone was up early. The Hotel was situated in a fantastic setting of palm trees and Banyan trees amid desert landscaping, all within and surrounded by a huge stone wall. We found out this was once one of King Farouk's palaces. It certainly was palatial!
David, Roger, Maxine and I couldn't wait to see the pyramids, so while the others went sightseeing in Cairo, we got a cab and headed out to the Gizeh Plateau.
All of my apprehensions suddenly crystallized. After a 10,000-mile journey; the sudden realization that I'd never make the last 15 miles dawned on me. We were all going to be killed by this maniac cab driver. I've been on some wild cab rides before - Mexico, Italy, India, and Rio - but this took the cake. I closed my eyes and said my mantra a lot. When we finally came to a stop, I slowly opened my eyes, expecting to see the pearly gates. Happily instead, there stood the Great Pyramid in all of its magnificence. A miracle! We had survived the cab ride through Cairo!
A flock of guides, horsemen and camel drivers converged on us. Whether we wanted to or not, we were going on a tour of the whole plateau. Going inside of Cheops (The Great Pyramid) would have to wait for a little while longer. Actually, it was fun even in the 100°plus temperature. Our guide was informative, entertaining and protective (of his 'baksheesh'). We spent a couple of hours in the desert via horses, seeing smaller tombs and burial vaults, visiting the second and third-largest pyramids (Kephren and Mycerinus), and the Sphinx. We ended up where we started, at Cheops Pyramid. Maxine was running out of time - she had to go back to our hotel and meet the rest of the people on the tour for the afternoon's activities. David, Roger and I stayed, taking time to rest by the few remaining casing stones that at one time covered the entire pyramid in a mantle of mirror-like polished limestone.
INSIDE THE GREAT PYRAMID
The Great Pyramid of Gizeh, the largest, heaviest, oldest and most perfect structure created by human hands. We could wait no longer. Eagerly, we bounded up stairs in the rock to the entrance about twenty feet up. This was a forced entrance, created by a young caliph named Abdullah Al-Mamun in 820 AD. At that time the original secret entrance, 49 feet above the ground level, had not yet been discovered. I had seen diagrams of the inner passages and chambers, so I knew that once inside we we should be arriving shortly at what is called the "ascending passage". In about 100 feet we were there. It is a low, narrow passage (129' long, 3'5" wide, 3'11" high) and is quite steep, 26 degrees, 2 minutes and 30 seconds to be exact. There are now hand rails on each side and wooden slats covering the slick granite floor. The passage is well-lit, but still a difficult climb.
At the end, one enters an amazing passage called the "Grand Gallery" which is I57' long, ascending at the same angle. It is 6' 9" wide and 28' high, the sides of which are made from huge monolithic slabs of polished limestone - weighing up to 70 tons each. At this point, instead of continuing upward, one can follow a very low horizontal passage for 127', ending in a bare room approximately 18 feet square with a gabled ceiling (20'5" at its highest point). As the Arabs placed their women in tombs with gabled ceilings, it became known as the "Queen's Chamber". We decided to visit this room later, and continued on to the top of the Grand Gallery. Again, hand rails and wooden slats assist in the climb, which is culminated by mounting a huge rock three feet high, six feet wide and eight feet deep called the Great Step.
Looking down, we could see almost to the end of the 300 feet we had just climbed. Going ahead now, we had to stoop and pass through a horizontal passage about 28 feet long called the antechamber before entering at last the most famous and mysterious room of the Great Pyramid - the King's Chamber. It is 34 feet long, I7 feet wide and I9 feet high, the walls and ceiling of which are polished red granite. The 9 slabs comprising the ceiling are 70-ton monoliths. At one end stands the lid-less coffer or sarcophagus, carved out of one huge block of granite. One corner has been chipped awayover the years by souvenir hunters. Behind it and to one side is a big slab whose purpose is unknown, and against the north wall stands another big rock about three feet high, also a mystery. It seemed to to be an altar. Completing the room are two air vent holes on the north and south sides, both running through 200 feet of rock, emitting fresh air and keeping the room at an even 68F throughout the year.
The feeling of deep silence permeates everywhere. We sat on the floor propping our backs against the wall and relaxed. I meditated for a while. Gradually the perspiration stopped and it was very comfortable being there. We must have stayed for about an hour after which we began our descent, exploring the Queen's Chamber on the way. Its walls are built entirely of limestone which is badly chipped and peeling, besides being covered to a great extent with grafitti. There is an interesting niche in one wall; quite wide and gives the appearance of an entrance to a cave. Further exploration proved disappointing inasmuch as it ends suddenly some 20 or 30 feet back.
PLANS FOR THE WEEK
This was Tuesday, May 4th. Saturday was to be our last day in Cairo. That means I had four days left to find a means of getting permission to play and record in the Great Pyramid. We decided to ask Frank, our Egyptian tour guide for assistance. He seemed to know everyone in Cairo and was a very pleasant man. We didn't mention recording to him, but rather our desire to be alone in the Pyramid for a few hours to play the flute and meditate. It was a matter, as always, of finding the right person in authority for permission. He said he'd do his best. The pyramids are open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for tourists. After that, the iron doors and gates are padlocked. Even if we tried to play and record in the daytime, there were too many negative factors, a) the unlikelihood of the guards letting us in with all our equipment, b) tourists walking in and out, c) fluorescent lights "humming" in the Grand Gallery, and the King's and Queen's Chambers.
We asked our guide from yesterday and the guards what the possibility was of getting in after hours. The response was mostly negative. A few said it was possible but difficult. Permission had seldom been granted in the past and if it were to be arranged, it would be costly. I certainly was willing to pay, but to whom? Everyone had his hand out and no guarantees.
Back at the hotel that night we ran into Frank. Nothing had developed yet, but he said tomorrow afternoon he should have some word. We kept our fingers crossed all night, even during dinner!
The next morning Dave and I once again visited Cheops. Each time we went inside, it was feeling more and more comfortable and wondrous. What a fantastic treasure left to us by an ancient people. We wanted to stay all day but more important for now was to get back for our appointment with Frank. I was really getting anxious!
We dashed out of the cab and through the palace gates of King Farouk's ex-estate to the hotel office building. No Frank ...15 minutes, half an hour, 45 minutes! Finally he arrived apologizing for being late and all that. "Come on man, what's happening?" I said in a fit of impatience. He smiled and said, "You can go in the Great Pyramid for three hours tonight; from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. I'll be by to pick you up at 5:00." We showered him with hugs!
RECORDING IN THE GREAT PYRAMID
At 5:00 p.m. sharp, Frank picked us up and we were on our waythrough the evening rush hour traffic which, for lack of a more suitable description, I'll merely describe as utterly insane. On the way out, Frank filled us in on the details. He had managed to get permission from the main authority, the minister of Antiquities at the Cairo Museum, for just the two of us to spend three hours alone in the Great Pyramid. At 9:00 p.m. sharp we were to be out of there. Official permits were to be delivered to the authorities at the Plateau.
In half an hour we were at Gizeh. Some men were waiting for us in another car. Frank got out, some words were exchanged, and we all walked over to the police hut nearby. The permits were shown to them and everything was set. A guard with the keys joined Frank, Dave and me and the four of us walked over to the Pyramid. It was so much more peaceful in the area at this time of day. No tourists, no hustling, no cars, camels or horses. Just a warm gentle breeze and the setting sun over the vast desert. A magical beginning to a magical evening.
The guard opened the big iron gate at the entrance and threw a switch turning on all the lights. We told him that once we were in the King's Chamber and settled that we wanted all the lights out.
We figured 20 minutes should do it. Frank said goodbye and that he would be back to pick us up. The guard was going to wait below to throw the switch for the lights and then leave, locking us in for the designated time. Dave and I began the long climb. It would be hard this time since we had so much to carry and we didn't want to make two trips! I had my flutes in a bag over one shoulder and another bag with blank tapes and some extra things over the other shoulder. Dave had the tape recorder, mike, and all the cables to deal with. It was hard going, especially in the low ceilinged passage. We caught our breath for a few minutes at the bottom of the Grand Gallery before continuing on. We reached ,the King's Chamber-dripping wet and out of breath. I lit some candles and placed them at several points in the chamber and began to unpack my flutes.
Dave was setting·up his equipment in the ante-Chamber. In the middle of all this the lights suddenly went out. What a difference! The humming from the Fluorescent lights was gone and for the first time we felt the absolute stillness of the Pyramid... so quiet and peaceful. It was fantastic. We both hurried to finish settling up. When this was done, I lit some incense and performed a short ceremony called a "puja" which I had learned in India. I did this on the large stone by the north wall which I'd initially felt to be an altar at one time. This all happened spontaneously. Somehow I felt a strong spiritual force or energy permeating the atmosphere and responded to it. It was a simple way of expressing my gratitude for the privilege of being there and my respect for the sanctity of the King's Chamber and for whatever purpose it had served in the past. I innately felt that I was in a temple. After the ceremony I sat down cross-legged in front of the coffer and meditated. David also sat quietly and closed his eyes. In that deep, deep stillness I heard what seemed like voices far, far away. There was chanting, but so distant that I couldn't make out a specific melody like whispered chants from millenniums ago-so long ago. It wasvery beautiful and seemed to envelop me as did the whole room. I felt very warm and comfortable being there. Nothing spooky at all, as if the chamber had accepted me and welcomed my presence. I was very happy. After ten minutes or so I opened my eyes. David looked very comfortable, peaceful and relaxed. At first I wasn't going to say anything to him about the voices but it seemed so real that I thought I'd mention it. I said, "You know, as I was sitting here I heard what I thought were voices, like angels, softly chanting from far, far away."
After saying this I had almost wished I hadn't-it sounded pretty weird, David simply looked at me and said, "So did I."
The moment had arrived, it was time to play my flute, I thought of Ben Pietsch and his suggestion to strike the coffer, I leaned over and hit the inside with the fleshy part of the side of my fist. A beautiful round tone was imrnediately produced. What a resonance! I remember him also saying when you hear that tone you will be "poised in history that is ever present". I took the Korg Tuning Trainer I had brought along in one hand and struck the coffer again with the other and there it was - 'A' 438, just as Ben had predicted. I tuned up to this pitch and was ready to begin. (The album opens with these events so that you can hear all of these things for yourselves.)
Sitting on the floor in front of the coffer with the stereo mike in the centre of the room , I began to play, choosing the alto flute to begin with. The echo was wonderful, about eight seconds. The chamber responded to every note equally. I waited for the echo to decay and then played again.
Groups of notes would suspend and all come back as a chord. Sometimes certain notes would stick out more than others. It was always changing. I just listened and responded as if I were playing with another musician. I hadn't prepared anything specific to play. I was just opening myself to the moment and improvising. All of the music that evening was this way-totally improvised. Therefore, it is a true expression of the feelings that transpired. I became totally absorbed in the music. Each reel of tape lasts about 22 minutes and Dave would signal me with the flashlight about a minute before the end so I could bring my solo to a close.
I switched to 'C' flute for some time but the alto flute seemed more right for the room somehow. I've never sung before on a record, but I felt like trying it. The voice had a different resonance than the flutes and I must say was the most personal experience I had. I was the instrument resonating rather than the flutes and it was a great feeling. Two hours just flew by and with only one remaining of our precious time I thought we better move on to the Grand Gallery and Queen's Chamber, I was anxious to try the Grand Gallery since the "unusual echo" of that room is mentioned several times by Peter Tompkins in his book Secrets of the Great Pyramid. I stood at the top of the Grand Gallery and played a few notes. Much to my surprise there was no echo. In fact, it was very dead sounding.
There was an echo coming from someplace else though, and we discovered that it was the King's Chamber! The sound was going out in the Grand Gallery, bouncing off the walls and corning back through the ante-Chamber and into the King's Chamber.
We moved on quickly to the Queen's Chamber. Time was running out. I felt more inclined toward the lighter flutes in here and played the piccolo as well as the "C" flute. Whilst the room doesn't have the acoustical qualities of its own. I think the improvisations obviously reflect this difference.
David signaled the end of the tape. lt was 8:55 p.m. We started to pack up. At exactly 9:00 p.m., the lights went on. We hurriedly finished gathering everything and got down to the main entrance as quickly as possible.
I didn't want to take advantage of the great opportunity given to us.
The guard asked if everything was alright. I said "great". Dave and I strolled across the sand to the road a few hundred yards away and sat down on the curb to wait for Frank. We were both very quiet, just sitting there looking at the Pyramid and reflecting on what was now a thing of the past.
After a little while Dave put his arm around my shoulder and said, "You did it, man." I just looked at him and smiled. Thursday, May 6th 1976 would be an evening never to be forgotten.
The next day we saw Frank at the hotel. I had a thought in mind and decided to speak out. "What are our chances of getting in the other two Pyramids (Kephren and Mycerinus) after hours?" I expected some resistance, but instead he said. "The big one was the hardest. The other two should be no problem. I'll see what I can do." Roger and I spent several hours at the Plateau taking photos of the Great Pyramid inside and out. Later that evening Frank came by to say that everything was set for tomorrow night (Saturday). Same arrangement, three hours from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00p.m. He would be by at 5:00 p.m. to pick us up. I couldn't believe our good fortune.
At 5:00 p.m. the next afternoon we were once again on our way to Gizeh, only this time through a sandstorm. "Very unusual for this time of year", said Frank. It was pretty bad-the driver could hardly see the car in front of him. For once the traffic was moving along at a sane pace.
The official permits were once again handed to the police authorities and the car drove past the Great Pyramid to the entrance of Kephren about a half mile away. Since we had three hours to cover two pyramids, we asked the driver to please come and pick us up in an hour and a half and take us to the Mycerinus pyramid, another half mile or so away.
We entered a long low descending passage which led to the one main burial chamber of the Pyramid; supposedly the resting place of Kephren, the brother of Cheops for whom this pyramid is named. It was larger than the King's Chamber of Cheops (46 1/2' long by 16' wide) and had a gabled ceiling 22' high. An open granite sarcophagus was at one end with the lid placed behind it. More grafitti all over the walls. The sound was quite good-somewhere in between the King's and Queen's Chambers. The feeling was quite different though, sort of heavy arid oppressive. Dave and I both felt this. I lit some incense, gave a "puja" and meditated.
Afterwards, I began by tuning up to the room. This time I struck the lid of the sarcophagus and the tone turned out to be "G". I played the flutes and chanted again, improvising freely all the while. The time flew by and we were a little late for our 7:30 appointment. When we got outside the sandstorm had increased in intensity. The driver was apprehensive, but we urged him to take us over to the third pyramid-we had one hour left.
Once again we entered, all loaded down with equipment and bent over in the long, low descent. This pyramid had two subterranean chambers. One with an arched roof is smaller in size than the Queen's Chamber of Cheops and contains a sarcophagus. The second is a smaller adjacent room with a low flat ceiling containing six separate indented chambers, four on the east wall and two on the north. This is known as the children's burial chamber, for the children of Mycerinus, son of Cheops, whose burial place was next door and for whom this pyramid was named.
The ritual of incense and candles, "puja" and meditation were performed to set the atmosphere. No tuning this time, however since the coffer didn't produce a distinct tone.
Because of the smaller dimensions and low ceiling there is relatively little echo. I played and sang mostly in Mycerinus' chamber. We were running out of time and I recorded only one selection in the children's chamber.
There was a loud knock on the iron door, resounding throughout the passages, that had the ring of urgency about it. We packed and hurried up the narrow passageway. Our driver was getting panicky and almost left without us. The storm was very severe and his car was getting a terrible beating from the sand. As we got into town the wind subsided and he felt much better. At the hotel it was hugs and farewells and good wishes, from Dave and me to Frank. What a beautiful person. I realized for the first time that the main instrument these past nights in the Pyramids was not my flute but Frank. God bless him!
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Paul Horn: Alto Flute, C Flute, Piccolo, Vocals
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By Melanie Osborne on January 27, 2014 in EFX News
Meet the EFX décor experts…
Mike, Dan and Will are responsible for all the printing and engraving of our awards and trophies, including our laser printed acrylic awards and polished nickel plated trophies. Personalised awards and trophies are our forte and the new Print & Engraving Department, which we installed last year, is creating some amazing work with all its high-tech equipment. Unlike other areas of our manufacturing site, the print room is temperature controlled because of the high-tech equipment housed there – lucky chaps!
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EFX is able to digitally print detailed and precise artwork on many materials, such as precious metals, polished aluminium, acrylic, stone, wood, Perspex, glass, crystal and leather and we are always on the look-out for new innovations and materials. The special UV light makes the all-important text particularly long-lasting.
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Suspected arsonists burn down flock of prize-winning pigeon racer
May 16, 2016 Daily Kicker News 2 News, WORLD
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Arsonists have burned down flock belonging to prize-winning pigeon racer
A day earlier, thieves broke into his property, stealing most of his collection
Such attacks are not unusual in the pigeon racing community due to intense competition
A prize-winning pigeon collector has been left devastated after suspected arsonists burned down his three lofts that housed a flock of 20 birds.
The 71-year-old Stuart Russell, says he believes that jealous rivals were behind the arson attack as one of dirty tactics to force him out of the sport of bird racing, which he has engaged in for over 45 years.
Authorities estimate that damages caused by the fire has reached £9,000. A day earlier, however, thieves had already stolen most of his prized collection of pigeons from his rural compound near Glastonbury, Somerset in the United Kingdom.
Calling the culprits “parasites”, Russell bemoaned the intense competition in the pigeon racing community.
“This is not a coincidence. I’ve been dreading something like this since last year. I built up a family of pigeons and they became very successful and they want to stop me from winning. It’s happening throughout the UK. It’s happening all the time. You just don’t expect something like this to happen. These parasites just want to stop you from doing what you enjoy doing and from winning,” he told the Mirror.
Russell, who is nicknamed “Grandpa Pigeon”, also said that with the attacks on his farm, he has no birds left and will no longer join pigeon racing competitions fearing another attack in the future.
“I’ve got nothing left. Absolutely nothing. I spent a lot of time looking after them. It’s a seven days a week, 52 weeks a year job. I have no idea what I’m going to do now. I just haven’t got the heart for it any more. It is truly heartbreaking. I’m pretty certain someone would do this again. Someone is determined to stop me racing my birds,” he said.
The stiff competition among competitive pigeon racers have prompted a number of attacks over the years; putting a dark mark on an otherwise wholesome sport.
“It is a very competitive sport and obvious things like this do happen. If someone is doing very well and doing a lot of winning, there is money involved so people do get jealous and they want to be disruptive. Fortunately, 99 per cent of pigeon fanciers are genuine, honest people who enjoy the competition. It is a small minority of people doing this but this is happening around the country and we urge people to take all necessary precautions to protect their birds,” explains the editor of pigeon racing magazine British Homing World, Steve Richards.
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September 15, 2013 – The much awaited annual one-day event for the 2013 University Athletic Association of the Philippines Cheerdance Competition was held at the Mall of Asia Arena. Eight universities, (Far Eastern University, University […]
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Yan ang Presidente ko!
Rose Congayo
that’s our Mayor!,este president! Humble..
for the very first time, i will say it, proudly and with conviction, “THAT’S MY PRESIDENT”! he is being a leader, not a manager.
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God bless you our beloved Pres.Duterte.God be with you and bless you more years of victory with Philippines and its people.
I admired very much Pres. Duterte’s brand of humility. But, I would like somebody to tell and convinced the president that, although how much he wanted to be treated as a simple ordinary citizen, HE IS NOT BY VIRTUE OF HIS OFFICE. He should not compromise the hopes of the more than 100 million Filipinos by simply doing the ordinary. HE IS NOT AND CANNOT BE ANYMORE an ordinary person. By all means he should be preserved from any treats in order to accomplish his promises to the Filipino people before he was elected as president.
Tex Rex
There are no treats (or THREATS) inside Malacanang.
Ellie Aliasut
ganyan din ang ginagawa nya sa davao…. pero ganun pa man respetado pa rin siya ng mga tao
Matt Raguini
his acts should be emulated, a model in an upright society
ano_ny_mous
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SWS: Filipinos’ happiness hits record high in December 2016 after 20 years
March 27, 2017 DF Balita Philippine News, PHILIPPINES
A survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed that the number of Filipinos who are happy with life in general has hit a high record of happiness score not seen in two decades.
Based on the survey conducted from December 3 to 6, 2016 on a face-to-face interview, it showed 91 percent of the Filipinos were “very/fairly happy” with life; 46 percent very happy and 45 percent fairly happy.
“This is two points above the 89% very/fairly happy in June 2016, and the highest in 20 years since the record-high 92% in June 1996,” the SWS said.
However, seven percent responded that they were “not very happy,” while the two remaining percent were not happy at all.
It was since 1991 when SWS started the happiness surveys that December’s survey is the third time it has surpassed the 90 percent mark following June 1996, and March 2015.
Mindanao with 94 percent got the highest happiness score where respondents said they were happy with their lives in general.
It was followed by Metro Manila with 92 percent, Luzon 90 percent and Visayas 89 percent.
Happiness was noted to be higher for those with good economic status and more formal education as per SWS report.
Moreover, happiness is also highest in class ABC with 98 percent and college graduates with 93 percent.
With 1,500 adult respondents, national percentages has an error margin of ±3 percent while ±4 percent for Luzon and ±6 percent for Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.
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Home / Hand Embroidery Supplies / Goldwork Supplies / Goldwork Tools / Mellor
A mellor also known as a mellore or melor is a perfectly manufactured tool for metal thread embroidery.
The mellor is made out a soft smooth metal that is not abrasive.
The narrower end is used as a stiletto to widen a hole in the ground fabric to plunge a heavy twisted cord or metal thread to the back.
The round end is used to nudge and push metal threads into position and is gentler on the metal threads than using tweezers as the mellor has been polished and has smooth rounded edges so less likely to damage the metal thread.
Size: 2 7/8 inches (7 1/2 cm) long by 1/2 inch (1 1/4 cm) wide
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Rococco
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Rococco is made up of a fine metal wire wrapped around a fibre core. The wire is copper based with a gold or silver plating and will tarnish over time. Rococco has a wavy (kinked) serpentine appearance and has a more open wave than Check Thread.
Visit the Metal Thread Information page of my website for further information and pictures on how the thread can be used on an embroidery and FAQ about metal threads.
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Passing Thread
Passing thread is couched down singularly in the same colour sewing thread or a contrasting colour. Passing thread is often used for Or Nue (couching down the passing thread with different colour threads to create a design or pattern on the surface of the passing thread) and underside couching.
No. 13 Passing threads are synthetic and will not tarnish.
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Check thread is made up of a fine metal wire wrapped around a fibre core. The thread has a wavy (kinked) serpentine appearance and is similar to Rococco but has a closer wave.
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Goldwork Peacock Feather
The Goldwork Peacock Feather is an intermediate design.
The peacock feather is worked in Or Nue which is the method of couching down a metal thread with coloured threads to create a pattern. Each frond on the feather is couched down with silk or metallic threads to create the iridescent feather.
The fabric comes with the design hand painted on so you do not have to worry about transferring the design yourself and all the threads in the kit are clearly labelled.
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The mellor is made out a soft smooth metal that is non abrasive.
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The size 12 crewel embroidery needle can be used for fine surface embroidery techniques where one single strand of embroidery thread is used such as needle painting, goldwork and fine white work.
The needle has a long eye and a slender shaft and a sharp point to the needle so that the stitches can be worked close together and there is more control for the placement of the stitches.
I recommend using the size 12 crewel embroidery needles for sewing down down No. 8, No. 9 and No. 10 gold purl threads as the purl threads are a very narrow gold tube that other needles may not fit through.
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The Large Yazzii Craft Organizer is my favourite case to store my needlework supplies.
I use this case at home and whenever I go traveling to teach or on holiday as it holds a lot of supplies but is soft and stuff-able for the suitcase.
The case has 8 zippered compartments with durable see through panels.
Size: 9 1/2 inches by 7 inches by 3 1/4 inches (24 cm by 17 cm by 8 cm)
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Stretcher bars are inexpensive wooden embroidery frames in which the fabric can be pulled really tight. The end of the bars have teeth that you slot together to form a frame at any size that you require for your needlework. I recommend the stretcher bar frames to work my hand embroidery kits in because they are very quick to assemble and the fabric stays taught in the frame.
I highly recommend purchasing the brass thumb tacks which are stronger and sharper than office supplies thumb tacks or quilters thumb tacks.
Please visit the following webpage for instructions on how to assemble a stretcher bar frame and choosing the right size for your needlework: Stretcher Bar Frames Information
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The cranes on navy needle minder is a place to park your extra needles when you are working on your project. The decorative side of the minder has a magnet on the back and goes on the front of the fabric, another magnet is placed at the back of the fabric holding the minder in place.
Gingher Stork Scissors
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Gingher Stork 3 1/2 inch hand embroidery scissors are high quality precision embroidery scissors that are made in Italy. The scissors have smooth and comfortable handles with slender, sharp, yet strong blades and fine points which are excellent for fine hand embroidery and needlework techniques.
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EEF Blog: Introducing the EEF Families of Schools database
James Richardson Senior Analyst at the EEF discusses the new Families of Schools database.
Pick any measure of attainment – % 5A*-CEM, average points score, % 5A/A*, or value added – and the gap between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers is large. For the 5A*-CEM measure, the national gap is 28%. Such is the scale of the challenge in closing the national attainment gap, it can appear unattainable at times. But there are schools that are narrowing the gap year on year, with some schools having eliminated it and even reversing the attainment gap. Capturing what those schools do in an attempt to replicate it, is a source of eternal focus for policy makers.
Today, the EEF is publishing its Families of Schools database as a critical first step in helping school leaders identify the most effective schools at closing the attainment gap. The interactive tool puts schools into families of 50 based on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children with English as an additional language. The attainment of pupils on a range of measures can then be compared with similar schools. It allows schools to understand the size and nature of their attainment gap in relation to other similar institutions and provides a wealth of new information to help schools learn from the best performing institution in each family.
Challenge and support
The Families database is designed to do two things:
Provide manageable targets on the way to closing the national attainment gap
Identify schools that have similar challenges that can provide support and guidance
Taken together this approach provides a structure for schools to be challenged by the performance of similar schools and supported by them to improve. The challenge for a school lies in improving its results to the level of the ‘family average’, and other benchmarks on the way to closing the national attainment gap. For the highest performing schools, their expertise may be needed to support other schools in their family to improve their results.
A number of interactive features allow users to change attainment measures and reorder data to explore in detail how different schools compare. What is often striking is how changing the measure can reveal different strengths and weaknesses in schools in the same family. Even though the pupil characteristics in each family are similar, the variation in outcomes is wide, suggesting that schools develop expertise in particular areas over time. Harnessing and sharing this expertise between schools is where the Families database is designed to help school leaders.
Where does research evidence fit in?
The evidence compiled in the Teaching and Learning Toolkit identifies the most promising interventions and approaches to close the attainment gap. It is not a guaranteed formula for success, but it does provide a starting point for evidence-informed decision-making, and maps out promising routes for schools to consider.
The growing bank of EEF project evaluation reports is also an important resource. As the evidence-base develops, alongside our understanding of how sensitive specific interventions are to context, we intend to expand and develop the Families tool to provide more detailed guidance on which interventions and approaches are likely to hold most promise for specific characteristics of schools.
The Families of Schools database currently contains only secondary schools. Primary schools will be added later in 2015, along with additional tools to help teachers and school leaders apply evidence in context.
View the Families of Schools database here.
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The Jim Cornette Thread
Re: The Jim Cornette Thread
Post by Big Boss Man » Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:42 pm
Bandit wrote: ↑
Plus AEW is already more successful than TNA. TNA never had a buyrate even close to Double Or Nothing. I doubt they ever had as large of a venue sold out (maybe those UK shows were big, I don't remember. But they maxed out at like 2,000 tickets in the US. The one TNA show I went to didn't even have 1,000. It also sucked.)
Kurt Angle/Jeff Jarrett did 8,100 in 2009 at Wembley Arena which was their highest ever attendance. Domestically their highest was 6,700 in 2013 in San Antonio for Bully Ray/Jeff Hardy
http://oswreview.com/history/tna-attendance-records/
So yea the comparisons with TNA are really a moot point as Tony said they did 2000 WCW business with the PPV buys with Double or Nothing. There was (to my knowledge) no papering of the audience either (may have been some comps) so it was a legit sellout. All Out tickets sold out in record time too.
As for his argument regarding 18-34 males majority of their core audience right now is this demographic. Which of course was the same during the Attitude Era. Looking back at old Raws and PPVs you don't seen many if any families or older folks in the crowds either. But once AEW hits TNT and the audience grows you'll see a much wider range of ages etc. So I think it's Jim being negative and contrarian just for the sake of it and it keeps him relevant.
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Post by Matisfaction » Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:05 pm
MLW is good. But to act like AEW doesn't also have good talent is absurd.
Cornette has never said that, in fact he's put over a lot of the talent on the roster, some who also work for MLW.
In this week's experience, he put over a bunch of guys including Jungle Boy, Luchasaurus and even the Bucks.
It's people like "Jelly Janela", Joey Ryan and Orange Cassidy that he has a problem with, as he feels like it brings the rest of the show down.
I've said before that I think Cornette has a legit point, that Battle Royal was an embarrassment, especially as it's the kind of stuff that AEW fans give WWE grief for doing.
Dr. Zoidberg wrote: ↑
Did Corny & RF make a baby?
MJF also has a stable in MLW, they were involved in a ladder match and they find out that MJF is afraid of heights.. it's great stuff
Post by Bandit » Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:08 am
Well, that's good that he realized he was wrong about Luchasaurus. Although he really didn't have a choice after it was revealed Dusty co-created the gimmick.
The thing with Janela is that he's basically just a shorter Mick Foley. An out of shape guy who cuts good promos and will take any bump you ask of him. And Jim likes Foley matches so I don't get it. And I remember the older fans saying the exact same complaints about Foley in the mid-90s then they say about Janela now. "Oh he's a fat slob who just does stunts. This is kililng the business." I'm not saying Janela will be as big as Foley, since Mick was one of the biggest stars of the second most popular time in wrestling. But I think if you like one you have to like the other.
Ryan and Cassidy aren't even in AEW, so he shouldn't still be mad about Cassidy doing 30 seconds in a battle royal. I agree with his dislike of both, I hope they never come back. Pillman Jr. was the only good "guest star" in the battle royal. And I don't disagree the battle royal was bad, but they haven't brought back anybody he or the fans complained about. They highlighted MJF, Jungle Boy, Page, Spears and Luchasaurus in the match and Cornette likes them, so they appear to be doing what he wants. And that's the difference between AEW and WWE. AEW appears to have listened to the fans and Vince has had Baron Corbin in the main eventer tier for a year.
Post by Dr. Zoidberg » Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:27 pm
Post by Bandit » Tue Aug 20, 2019 3:51 am
Starr would fuck Cornette up. This isn't Joey Janela or the Young Bucks, David Starr is a legit shooter with credentials. And if he doesn't like David Starr then what does he actually like in 2019?
Post by Dr. Zoidberg » Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:35 am
Post by Bandit » Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:26 pm
That's an excellent point. I think Jim's perception is skewed by having grown up in the South, the region wrestling was always most respected, but especially in the 60s and 70s when he was a kid. If he'd grown up in the northeast where boxing was so much bigger and they'd laugh at the idea that Bruno was a legitimate fighter. I remember being a kid when Flair was at the peak of his career in the late 80s in a big territory for him, and if you think he was thought of as any different than wrestlers today to non-fans you're crazy. He was just as big of a joke with them saying the stuff Cornette says about Omega today.
Post by Bandit » Wed Aug 21, 2019 1:52 am
lol they're threatening Chris Dickinson? They're so ignorant about what they're supposed to be mad about. These Cornette fans are becoming worse than the idiot Russo fanboys.
Post by Big Boss Man » Wed Aug 21, 2019 2:48 am
Cornys is either deliberately trolling or he's trying so desperately hard to stay relevant by insulting anything and anyone he doesn't like because it's not in line with his antiquated views on 'wrasslin' and it's gone beyond a joke now.
I think he would actually be an asset as a historian/archivist with his collection of memorabilia but he comes across as a repugnant individual who has burnt any possible bridge to AEW, Impact etc because of how he acts. I can't see how anyone can defend him, no need for him to go at Jordyanne Grace. She was stating her opinion and had every right to. It's not the 1970s anymore and the talent are more than just wrestlers nowadays so she was actually stating facts. I don't think Jordyanne or anyone else he targets should give them a second of their time, just don't give him the attention he craves. Him challenging people to fights is the most ever, he's all hot air and as soon as someone steps to him he'd call the cops.
Cornette could probably beat up Joey Janela and Joey Ryan while fueled on his rage. But David Starr and Chris Dickinson would kill him. Plus he'd probably like both of them if he watched them. Both guys are old school grapplers and very good. They just haven't made it because they are short. But both have great matches and can also cut great promos. I don't know why AEW hasn't signed them.
He's a 57 year old man so no police officer will look favourably at the guy who does kick his ass, however much he runs his mouth and it's justified for them to do so. Cornys clearly got serious anger management issues, but again I think it's all just hot air. It's not like he's some legit tough guy either like Harley or Bruno, but they conducted themselves like gentleman. Jim Cornette's conduct is an embarrassment to be frank. Why doesn't he have a real fight with Vince Russo to squash their beef (I don't think Russo even cares) he might not be so angry then.
Post by Matisfaction » Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:19 am
Like I've said before, he's AEW's biggest heel, they even reference him on the shows.
It's funny looking at the smarks online blowing up over Cornette for "still thinking that wrestling is real".
Cornette doesn't need bookings, in fact he's turning stuff down these days. I honestly think that he enjoys fucking with the indie marks more than actually working shows at this point.
Post by Big Boss Man » Wed Aug 21, 2019 5:38 pm
Whats ironic about this is that if he was more progressive with his views on modern wrestling and didn't insult Kenny, The Bucks etc they'd no doubt brought him in. Him with MJF would have been cool, but he's burnt that bridge.
Did he have that same energy when he was with the WWF and they had Duke The Dumpster et al and in WCW with the Ding Dongs, Dynamic Dudes, Oz etc. I don't think he did, so I think his "gimmick" of hating modern wrestling is put on.
If he was a historian of the business he'd appreciate how great this years G1 was but doesn't he hate Kota Ibushi because he wrestled a blowup doll in DDT?. But he was in the WWF & WCW with the cartoony gimmicks and in Memphis they had a wrestling Mummy but
I actually doubt he's turning down bookings. If he was that hot property then he'd be back with WWE in some capacity. Fact of the matter is he's burnt every bridge (apart from MLW maybe) and insulted majority of today's talent and no one wants to do business with him. There's the real truth to the matter I believe. He's alienated himself with his obnoxious attitude and unless you're bringing in the Midnight Express for an indie shot he doesn't really serve a purpose.
What's a shame is if he had moved with the times and conducted himself professionally he'd actually be an asset to AEW, Impact, WWE etc. But I highly doubt any major promotion will hire him because of how he conducts himself. No one wants to associate with a guy who acts up like he does. He's 57 so it's embarrassing how he drops f bombs and acts like a troll on Twitter and his podcast, in actuality he should grow up and act his age.
Now Dutch is getting involved too
Post by Matisfaction » Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:44 pm
Big Boss Man wrote: ↑
I actually doubt he's turning down bookings. If he was that hot property then he'd be back with WWE in some capacity.
He still makes "selected" personal appearances and conventions, but as far as actual bookings, he's not interested. He hated working for the WWE in the late 90's, he'd hate it even more now.
Cornette does not need the money, I honestly believe that he's just getting a kick out of playing heel because it's practically impossible to generate any kind of genuine heat in a ring these days. Like I said before, he's AEW's biggest heel, he's got the fans and the actual AEW roster raging about him.
Post by Bandit » Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:37 pm
I agree with him on like 75% of what he says. I don't like dumb comedy stuff like magic dicks, invisible men, invisible grenades, etc. But he's just too over the top about it. None of that hurt the business, because everyone who saw it is a smark who watch wrestling for what it is. If WWE had Joey Ryan doing his dick spot with Roman Reigns that would be one thing. At Bar Wrestling or whatever Joey's promotion is called they draw 150 people and 90,000 people might see a clip on twitter. It doesn't mean they can never take wrestling seriously again. They're the ones spending the most money on it. They're the people coming to Wrestlemania Weekend and the AEW events.
For two reasons
1) WWE already made dumb comedy what wrestling is thought of 30 years ago. We've had world title feuds over a man being angry another man put laxatives in his burrito that made him shit his pants on television. We've had a manager murdered by having concrete poured over him. We've had celebrities beat pro wrestlers in matches. We've had Vince McMahon admit he jerked off in his limo on the way to a show and another time his limo exploded. So is a guy doing a comedy match with a blow up doll really worse than the shit Vince McMahon thinks is funny being put on international television? But Cornette rarely talks about WWE.
2) UFC forever killed the idea that pro wrestlers are legitimate fighters besides a few who did MMA or have amateur wrestling credentials. Nobody watches Seth Rollins and Kofi Kingston thinking they were the best fighters in the world. They watch them because they do cool things you can't do in a real fight. So wrestling has adapted to the world with MMA. That means more spots that aren't realistic at all because UFC fighters can't do a Shooting Star Press or a Spanish Fly. In old school wrestling when they'd trade punches for half of the match, you just can't do that now unless you want to stiff each other. MMA is on cable 24 hours a day to show what real punches are now. And that's where I disagree with Cornette the most, wrestling did the right thing by being what UFC can't be.
Post by Big Boss Man » Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:03 am
If he didn't hate on Kenny et al he could have turned up in AEW as MJFs mentor and he could have been their heel announcer so he could have got a good payday out of his heel work.
Tweeting out insults etc is what anyone can do and I don't think Twitters monetised like YouTube so it's actually him burning bridges for no reason. He might have saved his money and is comfortable enough to sit on the sidelines but my point was he still could be a big part of mainstream pro wrestling if he wasn't so highly strung. I used to listen to his podcast back in the day but now I just find it boring because he's hating on things for no logical reason and isn't interested in changing his point of view.
There is a place for comedy in wrestling, if it's done right and it's not overkill. Things like that NJ parody are hilarious just by looking at the pictures alone. Which is their goal to entertain and make folks laugh. That's the whole point of wrestling to begin with, to entertain. Has anyone ever quoted Roland Barthes to Corny?
I believe he wrote that back in 1957 and in my opinion that still stands true today. Wrestling is a spectacle and should be presented as such. It's much more a performance art than a sport.
Jims also contradictory in the sense that he says he is a big wrestling fan but hasn't watched the 7 star match between Kenny and Okada. Whereas if you love the sport of wrestling as much as he claims then in theory that would be top of the list of must see matches. It's like ranting about Hackenschmidt/Gotch being real wrestlers and not watching anything post that era. Or only listening to Robert Johnson as its real Delta Blues music and nothing beyond that. But there's no changing Jims mindset which is a shame because there's probably matches he would enjoy if he quit the gimmick for a hour or so.
Post by Bandit » Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:25 am
The thing with Corny is just that being raised on watching the Memphis territory warped his view on how many people believed it was real. That was a Southern thing and also exaggerated even then. Which is funny because Memphis had so much comedy compared to WWWF and Georgia. Memphis influenced Vince Jr. a lot. Vince Sr. wanted zero show biz, just presenting the champion as the ultimate tough guy who can't be beat, be it Bruno, Pedro or Backlund. Jarrett and Lawler were far more campy. And I'm not knocking them since a lot of Memphis stuff was great. But it inspired what you see today.
Post by Big Boss Man » Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:18 pm
Yea with wrestling in the South, a lot of fans bought into it as real so as soon as the more showbiz type product came around that disjointed their views on it. Nowadays with legit competition like MMA you can't really reinvent the wheel and present wrestling as a real sport because most non fans are smartened up that it's all a show. Unless they have UWF/UWFi style worked shoot bouts but there's no real place for that type of product since you can watch UFC, Bellator etc to see a legitimate contest.
Yea Memphis also influenced ECW through the Eddie Gilbert connection at first when it was the Tri State Wrestling Alliance if I'm correct. There was some hokey gimmicks in the Memphis territory but on the whole it's enjoyable and the CWA/Memphis library if they sort out the legal entanglements and ownership issues would be a solid addition to the WWE Network.
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Oklahoma Woman Claims Conditioner Bought From Dollar General Was Mixed With Hair Removal Cream
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Imagine washing your hair and going about your daily routine when suddenly your scalp starts burning and your hair starts falling out. That's the real-life nightmare Leeann Buxam, a mother of 10 from Heavener, OK experienced when she fell victim to an awful practical joke – one where a prankster added Nair, a hair removal product, to bottles of shampoo and conditioner at her local Dollar General.
According to 5NEWS, Buxam started to notice a problem with the shampoo and conditioner when her hair started falling out in chunks while she was taking a shower. "I felt like it was falling out so bad that I was going to have to have shave my head," she said, "I figured what was wrong was there was something inside of me making sick." What's even more terrifying is that she used the products on two of her daughters' hair as well.
Buxam, who is a cosmetology student, contacted her instructors to see if they could help her get to the bottom of what had happened. After examining the shampoo and conditioner and doing some research, they found that someone had put Nair into bottle of conditioner and that this was popular prank on the internet.
"I don't think they understand that Nair is what it is," said Buxam. "I don't think they understand that it can really hurt somebody."
Though hair removal products, like Nair, is generally safe to use, it can have potentially dangerous side effects if you have sensitive skin or allergies. Even if you aren't allergic to hair removal cream, you can still get a chemical burn from it if it is on your skin for too long.
Though the experience was clearly frustrating and traumatic, Buxam refuses to let it get the best of her. "There is so much worse...it's just hair," she told 5NEWS, "I have a bald spot here, a bald spot somewhere back here. This is just hair, and there is so much worse out there."
Buxam contacted both the Dollar General and local police to let them know of the incident, but she has no plans of taking legal action. The store manager said they will now keep their hair removal products behind the counter indefinitely.
In response to the situation, Dollar General released the following statement:
"Dollar Generals strie to provide excellent service and safe, quality products that meet our customers' needs. We are currently investigating the matter at our Heaver, Oklahoma store and have reached out to the customer for further discussion."
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended 39 people suspected of committing war crimes abroad in a nationwide operation called "No Safe Haven V."
The campaign lasted from August 27 through the 29; however, a press release disclosing its success was made public only today.
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“ICE will not allow war criminals and human rights abusers to use the U.S. as a safe haven,” acting ICE Director Matthew Albence said in a statement. “We will never stop looking for them and we will never cease seeking justice for the victims of their crimes.”
Among those arrested in No Safe Haven V were: 14 aliens from Central America involved in human rights abuses against civilians, including the arrest or transport of people who were beaten, electrocuted and killed; four “known or suspected” human rights abusers involved in forced abortions and sterilization in China; four aliens from West Africa connected to “civilian massacres, mutilations” and extrajudicial killings; and one European wanted for human rights abuses against political adversaries.
The agency made clear the arrests showcase to human rights abusers that they cannot escape their crimes by seeking refuge in the U.S.
Crimes these aliens allegedly committed did not stop once they entered U.S. territory. Of the 39 who authorities arrested during No Save Haven, 16 were convicted of crimes within the county, including robbery, theft, domestic violence, fraud, reckless endangerment, drug distribution and other crimes. The foreign nationals who authorities apprehended come from a range of countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua, Chile, Haiti, Jamaica, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Chad, the Ivory Coast, China and Cambodia.
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The cuts were reportedly made without a thorough review of the potential risks to national security.
The Trump administration quietly canceled several important national security programs, which were created after 9/11 to help protect Americans from weapons of mass destruction.
More than 30 current and former Department of Homeland Security employees said they did not know why the Trump administration stopped the programs. The employees warned the cuts could hinder the agency's ability to respond to a nuclear attack, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The programs cut over the past two years include training exercises for dealing with weapons of mass destruction at the state and local level. Another initiative that worked with foreign governments to prevent the smuggling of nuclear materials was also abandoned.
Additionally, more than 100 scientists and nuclear experts have been reassigned or have left the Department of Homeland Security, hurting the agency’s ability to protect Americans.
"The real thing could happen tomorrow with no warning," one former official told the Los Angeles Times. "And the only practice our defenders are going to have is through these 'red team' studies and actual exercises. That activity is necessary to ensure even basic competence."
The cuts are counter to what the Trump administration promised to do in a national security strategy report published in December 2017.
Trump officials promised to "augment measures to secure, eliminate and prevent the spread of WMD and related materials," according to the report. The administration also said it would make sure it retained the technology and knowledge to "reduce the chance" that weapons of mass destruction would "fall into the hands of hostile actors."
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BccList.com Mentioned in the Miami Herald
Posted on August 4, 2012 by "No Longer Mass Emailing"
The following is an interesting article by Frances Robles of the Miami Herald regarding “amateur sleuths” blogging about the George Zimmerman – Trayvon Martin shooting — I’m sincerely honored that BccList.com is mentioned…
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/trayvon-martin/article1941789.html
3 things worth noting…
1) Dan Linehan from Wagist.com insists Zimmerman was the person heard screaming for help in one of the 911 calls. There’s absolutely nothing credible to support this assertion.
Two independent forensics experts said it was Trayvon crying for help. (edit: One forensics expert said it was NOT Zimmerman screaming for help and one expert said it WAS Trayvon’s voice) And, the FBI only stated they couldn’t confirm with 100% certainty who was heard.
In fact, nobody has said it was accused murderer yelling for help other than Zimmerman (and his family). Zimmerman (and family), having already lied under oath, have also said his mouth was being covered by Trayvon during the scuffle. But, of course, there are no breaks heard in the screams for help leading up to the fatal gunshot. Keep in mind, as noted in evidence dump #2, Zimmerman’s ex-fiancée said the injunction he filed in response to her’s was basically a mirror image of what actually happened the night of their fight in 2005.
2) Did Trayvon Martin get denied a cigar at 7/11 and then have the hooded guys buy him one? It doesn’t matter – at all – to his murder later that night but…
After (possibly) being denied tobacco at the 3:02 mark of the below video, Trayvon pays for his snacks, leaves, 3 hooded guys come in complaining about the weather (6:26 mark), they ask for 3 and then 4 cigars, leave, and a figure (possibly Trayvon) is seen walking left to right past the store window at the 9:14 mark.
To clearly reiterate, Trayvon Martin (possibly) obtaining a cigar obviously doesn’t justify being murdered by a crazy armed vigilante.
3) Jeralyn Merritt from TalkLeft.com apparently believes harassment, assault, aggravated stalking, Murder 2 (I’ll add the possibility of a premeditated Murder 1 charge), etc. are legal.
Moreover, before accusing Trayvon Martin of doubling back, she may want to check out map 2 which explains the 2+ minute gap in Zimmerman’s statement and coordinates well with Brandy Green’s, Witness #8’s, and Witness #2’s statements:
https://bcclist.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-map-911-call-timing-v-2.jpg
Then again, debating George Zimmerman supporters is worthless.
Note: The comment section for this posting has been disabled. This BccList.com forum posting — see the comment section here — is where the conversation is continuing.
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137 thoughts on “BccList.com Mentioned in the Miami Herald”
question everything trust no one on August 4, 2012 at 11:41 pm said:
Congrats on getting in the Miami Herald!
"No Longer Mass Emailing" on August 4, 2012 at 11:43 pm said:
sdunn5 on August 6, 2012 at 1:45 am said:
Omg I think we should all raise our glasses to Frances Robles!! Note to GZ our so-called web sleuthing seem to have hit a sore spot… have noticed lately an uncanny attempt on their part to overcome what is being discussed here. Unlike GZ it might do him well to remember this….A lie travels all around the world before the truth gets up and puts it’s shoes on. The truth is awake…expect the search for it to continue.
2dogsonly on August 6, 2012 at 10:47 am said:
Yes, well earned!
But why do people always use “woman and multiple cats” to metaphorically describe a wacko? Why never a man and/or dogs? My 2 dogs feel very slighted by this…they believe any news is good news
Quote from article”:Some woman sitting behind her computer with nine cats knows more about the case than anybody” said by Jose Baez
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/04/v-fullstory/2933157/the-trayvon-martin-truth-squad.html#storylink=cpy
“My 2 dogs feel very slighted by this…they believe any news is good news.”
Hahah.
My favorite part of Baez’ cat comment is that it was included at the very end of article where Frances Robles’ reports most of the bloggers she interviewed were males. And, I will confirm that I have — and never will — own even a single cat.
2dogsonly on August 6, 2012 at 1:54 pm said:
Christopher, Christpher, Christopher, you are missing out on some wonderful experiences. Cats are as loving and varied in their ways as dogs. Dependent, loving lap sitters. My ex got our cats and I got pups but I miss those furry guys. In fact, on the the 2 dogs I call myself, one is a mean little toad who , in spite of not having any teeth, is dangerous to brush. She’s laying right beside me so I best end this tirade against Cujo the shihtzu.
The lady sitting at her computer w/ 2 dogs behind her
"No Longer Mass Emailing" on August 6, 2012 at 5:12 pm said:
My experiences — via friends & family — are limited to cats that spray everywhere, smell the place up like shiat/litter box, hide 24/7, put their a$$es in your face, and/or attack when when you walk within a few feet of them.
So, I will pass! Hahaha! 🙂
You mean like this kitty?Check out this video on YouTube:
Was So Interesting on August 6, 2012 at 6:32 pm said:
The nuthouse blog (is that the appropriate appellation?) seems to think that there’s really “…..an unknown woman with 9 cats who is destroying the legal universe by discussing the State Vs. Zimmerman.”
Of course, they’re bashing the article, but one of the commenters over there was glad of the “mention of AZ Watermelon (not ice tea) drink, TM interaction with 3 teens at 7-11….and purchase of a cigar…brings [their] comments out to mainstream viewership”
We’ve discussed here how the cigar is a non-issue, but I can understand how they’d try to make it an issue. What I don’t understand is the beef with the AZ watermelon drink versus ice tea? Of all the things to pick apart, why is this important? Can someone explain this to me?
I’m about to make my first visit over to the Conservative Treehouse — this is a sad, sad day. Neither a cigar or snacks matter — at all.
@NLME, you better take some antibacterial wipes with you if you’re going to TCTH, I always feel a bit icky after landing there.
What a worthless blog. It’s a bunch of people saying the “other side” is wrong without any examination of evidence.
Note: I only read a few Zimmerman related postings before giving up. So, maybe I missed something.
It is a worthless blog, I was just mentioning it as he has a posting “Blah…blah…blah…” on Aug. 5 responding specifically to the Miami Herald article for those interested or brave enough to venture over there. He claims that there were treepers that were contacted by Robles but that they refused her. And now they’re balking at the fact their “arguments” are not fairly presented in the media? Well make a logical, coherent argument and maybe it would be! Funny, I always see an ad on that blog for Luminosity.com that says “Improve your brain”. Guess the contributors over there never bother to do so.
Mention away — I def wasn’t criticizing you!
@NLME, Oh no, I didn’t take offense to that, I was just following up on my quest to let people know about the post as it related to the article. Your disgust with that site in general is totally understandable…..
@was so interesting
The nuthouse blog is jumping on the watermelon, skittles, cigar nonissue because watermelon drink, another fruit candy (but it isn’t Skittles-forget what the name is) and cough syrup ,otc DXM,make a drowsy mild drug called Lean. And the cigar is used to pack pot in. What they don’t mention is no cigar was found on him, skittles and drink weren’t open and he didn’t have the cough syrup. So they are trying to deflect the fact they don’t have an issue onto an unopened can of watermelon flavored tea and the wrong kind of unopened candy. Too bad, no cigar (for them)–couldn’t resist
I’ll ask them for the recipe so we can all make it and toast them, symbolically of course.
Good night all,
Granny- she of the harbourer of weird trite facts
@ 2dogsonly and @ everybody else who replied. Ohhhhh I see, thanks! I guess I should be glad I’m so sheltered I don’t know these things, or glad that I haven’t spent enough time on pro-GZ blogs to find this out. So if a hoodie, any kind of juice and any kind of fruit candy makes a thug, then I think I have a 5 year old thug living under my roof right now. Wow!
question everything trust no one on August 6, 2012 at 7:40 pm said:
@NLME
Your *first* trip over to TCTH? Tack on another beer (or ten) to the tally for viewing that. 🙂
Btw, by any chance, do you have Italian blood in ya?
"No Longer Mass Emailing" on August 7, 2012 at 1:22 am said:
I am definitely a mutt with some Italian in there.
jo on August 6, 2012 at 7:45 pm said:
WSO i saw that post, i went there specifically to look for a reaction because i knew they’d have their knickers in a twist. Stinks of jealousy to me. As if their readers declined to comment, i can’t imagine that ever happening, i think it’s more likely that they were not important or intelligent enough to get a mention. I hope Robles does a review on the disgusting racism and bigotry that this case has brought out. Most GZ supporters cry about the treatment whites have received by racist blacks. They also claim that they are not racist, but then in the next sentence vomit some of the most vile racist propaganda i’ve ever read….oh but they’re not racist. She could get a few interesting screen caps i’m sure.
Actually, I believe it is Sprite and Jolly Ranchers plus DXM that is supposed to make lean, but this is TCTH…if it doesn’t fit their narrative, god dammit, they will make it fit! Who cares if it’s, y’know, true or not. Let’s just go by the hacked social media sites and believe everything we read on them!
It must be a hard life for them being so damn stupid.
verafish on August 6, 2012 at 7:53 pm said:
The brand name of the drink Trayvon bought is Arizona Iced Tea. They’re saying that he bought the watermelon version of it – there are multiple flavors – and “intended” to mix it with skittles to make “lean”, as mentioned by 2dogsonly, below. It isn’t really important at all except to show that he has to have been a “thug” (therefore deserving of his fate).
Was So Interesting on August 7, 2012 at 11:01 am said:
If the argument is that TM is a habitual “lean” drinker and was already high (from drinking earlier and not with the unopened can and skittles he just bought), then wouldn’t it make him slow and uncoordinated (hence, walking leisurely), not a three armed mutant ninja that GZ can’t overcome? On the other hand, with no evidence that TM was high at the time, then it’s only about trying to carve out an unsavory image of the victim. Either way, I don’t see how either angle is going to help the defense.
CommonSenseForChange on August 7, 2012 at 5:40 pm said:
Hey.. Anybody here tried the beers that taste like margaritas? Very tasty I say.
whonoze on August 7, 2012 at 6:01 am said:
I believe Baez was describing not a wacko, but a crowd-sourced Miss Marple. He didn’t say the cat lady THINKS she knows. He said she KNOWS.
NLME: you need to convince a cat person friend to get a Maine Coon. They don’t hide, attack or exhibit other psycho-cat behavior. Friendly, sweet… of course they do put their butts in you face now and then – they ARE cats.
2dogsonly on August 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm said:
The sweetest cats. I rescued one who was knocking on heaven’s door. She was so bedraggled looking, my daughter wouldn’t touch her. She just became gorgeous! If she noticed I wasn’t in her sight, she would start meowing and searching for me. Drove my husband bonkers if I was out of town. He said he just had to carry her as she would start up again when he put her down. She wasn’t like that w/ me…just wanted to know where I was. She lived 13 yrs. after we found her.
She had zero animal hunting instinct. The other cat’s tail would twitch fast if he saw a bird. Not hers..one day it slightly moved like a really tiny twitch and stopped. She was done with that hunting ….time for a snack 🙂
Been gone for 5-6 yrs. still miss her
verafish on August 5, 2012 at 1:55 am said:
I’ve seen chatter all over the place about Trayvon’s purchase of a cigar (or the surrogate’s purchase) and can only reply, like you, “So what? That means it’s okay for him to have been killed by GZ??!” I don’t know of the law that punishes under-age smoking with death. It seems that Zimmerman’s supporters are desperate to find *some* reason for it to be okay that he shot a teenager with no cause.
Congratulations to both you and Tchoupi. It’s been some monstrous (read that: admirable) work from both of you. I’ve been lurking here since the first Zimmerman article but prefer to pack my brain with information, rather than comment.
Aside to NLME: please wave @TC for me. I assume it’s your home, given the review of 7 Monks. I’m in the southwest now, but spent many years there and still pine to throw my body in the water @East Bay. We don’t have water here. 😉
Thank you for checking out the blog and commenting — I truly appreciate it.
I definitely don’t understand why Zimmerman supporters would bring up (the possibility of) Trayvon having a cigar. Who knows if during the trial we’ll hear more about a cigar that Trayvon (possibly) obtained that night?
And, I wish I called Traverse City home — wonderful city even if it was just a mini vacation! 🙂 And, 7 Monks was definitely legit!
Was So Interesting on August 5, 2012 at 7:23 am said:
Good work everyone! No, smoking a cigar doesn’t matter. The defense would be wasting their time tracking down the three stooges.
I’m sure the defense wants to know if the “3 stooges” knew of Trayvon and/or communicated with him before they entered 7 Eleven. But, again, none of this matters.
At the “worst”, the defense would find out that TM asked them to buy a cigar. We already say “so what” to that. On the other hand, they could testify on TM’s demeaner at the time, that he wasn’t high (to emphasize what we already know from the toxicology report). However, would the stooges admit to an illegal act of buying tobacco for a minor? I actually hate smoking for the smell and health reasons and wouldn’t condone teenagers especially to do it, but in this case, I do hope that they got him a cigar and that he got to enjoy it on his last walk home….
“…I do hope that they got him a cigar and that he got to enjoy it on his last walk home….”
Also, is anyone else seeing the comments (and other stuff that’s usually not in italic) in italic? I know I didn’t drink that much to cause me to be seeing the text all slanty, LOL.
@qetno –
I am seeing the italics. I like it!
CommonSenseForChange on August 5, 2012 at 5:05 am said:
Awesome! Go NLME! I am reading it right now.
Given my attention span, the postings over the last 4 months definitely don’t exist without wonderful commenters like you. Thank you, again!
Great article! Gee NLME i was expecting to see just a mention but BccList was featured heavily, well done to you, Tchoupi and Whonoze. Good to see even a pro-Zim supporter even admitting GZ’s description of how he shot the bad guy is complete fiction. Well done, people are noticing your hard and fair work.
princss6 on August 5, 2012 at 5:32 pm said:
Filexican used to be a pro-Zimm supporter. He is not in the Pro-Trayvon camp.
Hi jo! Waving…been buried and need to get caught up in the other threads. 🙂
jo on August 6, 2012 at 6:10 am said:
hello!!!! 🙂
Thank you, jo!
Yes. Flexican is the anti-diwataman. Enjoyed his posts for a while. Wish he’d make his points without all that foul language, though.
how do you guys know about all these people, lol. I am feeling very sheltered from the world, i only come here to read what people i trust say and am insulated from the whack jobs on other sites haha. I’m to scared to venture out, i wish to remain here, in the fetal position, where i find comfort, haha.
Anybody else notice that the treepers weren’t mentioned in the Miami Herald’s article? Or did I miss that?
Where’s tchoupi?? He contacted them and got a great mention, too. Who knew he/she was an engineer with a Ph.D in physics to boot! Whonoze made it into the mentions, too. Congrats to all!
I feel honored to correspond with all y’all experts, media marketeers and now celebs! 🙂
This story truly made my day! I hope you all keep up the good work. It really is remarkable that so many people are interested in finding justice.
On another note, this reporter strikes me as one of the good ones. Maybe people with accurate info will feel more comfortable engaging her. If nothing more, because of our collective sentiment and willingness to use the web to vocalize our opinions, at least we can be grateful that there won’t be a Zimmerman copycat seeking to profit by killing a young black teen walking home from the candy store.
Again! Good job bcclist!
Regarding the three guys that came in after Trayvon Martin left the seven-eleven…
Why would Trayvon Martin’s hoodie be more intimidating to white people than the completely covered faces of the three guys entering the seven-eleven store with fully covered faces? Is a singular black teen in a hoodie with his face exposed really that scary??
What was the Oak Creek Sikh temple shooter wearing?
@CSFC, I have to admit that I picked up the name “3 stooges” for those three guys from the pro-GZ people. I’m using it because I don’t find it demeaning to them. In fact, I think it fits because they’re goofing around. They sound very casual with the clerk, so they might be regulars. Notice right before he left (at 8:42), the guy with the white hoodie cinched around his face pulled it down exposing his head, and put his cap back on. If it was true they bought the cigar for TM, he may have just been pretending to hide from the security camera for this “oh so illicit act”.
I agree. Those kids over TM would have got more of a look from me than TM would if I was in that store that night. They look like young kids acting like a bunch of silly fools. We’ve all been there!
Who cares if they bought TM a cigar? So far, no evidence that it was gutted to make a blunt…even if so, not an offense punishable by death!
Just because he may have had someone buy him a B&M does not mean he was high (tox doesn’t support that assertion) or intending to get high.
The only thing I ever wanted when I tried weed was a taco…or 5…and maybe some Doritos. 😛
I wish I had the answer to your first question. Nothing about TM in that video would have stood out to me if I were in that 7-11; I would probably give a look to the three hooded guys, though. Interesting that the clerk doesn’t seem particularly disturbed by these individuals.
I also say, “So what?” in regards to them possibly buying TM a B&M (or some other tobacco product). I don’t really give a f***! I may or may not condone it, but I’m not going to condemn him for it. TM has no verified/proven history of aggression or violence. GZ does. If TM was such a big, bad, black man then where are people like W9 for GZ making complaints about TM?
jo on August 5, 2012 at 11:32 pm said:
yes the cigar is not important unless Trayvon tried to beat GZ to death with it. Unfortunately any pro-zimmer thinks it proves Tray was a thug who deserved to get shot.
As for the 3 stooges, they were definately more intimidating looking imo, not that that makes them thugs either, but zim isn’t going to take on 3 kids when he could barely contain 1…and they were in a car so wouldn’t feel menaced by him creeping.
White skin and a shaved head. Seriously, though, I don’t know what he was wearing. He probably looked normal. The way someone looks only can tell us so much.
My heart goes out to the families and any affected by this shooting. When will people stop letting their ignorance and hate consume and control them? We don’t get to harm people simply because we don’t like them!
princss6 on August 6, 2012 at 10:44 am said:
Or the batman shooter? Or Timothy McVeigh?
@NLME –
“Moreover, before accusing Trayvon Martin of doubling back, she may want to check out map 2 which explains the 2+ minute gap in Zimmerman’s statement and coordinates well with Brandy Green’s, Witness #8′s, and Witness #2′s statements:”
To me, this is the most important distinction of all else said. What was the criminal doing for 2+ minutes? Why is Trayvon Martin’s 2+ minutes (while chatting up his girl/potential girl/long time friend) the initial focus of those who automatically need an accounting of the black teen’s time even though he wasn’t the one committing a crime.
I thank you for pushing this point forward! Eternally grateful!!!
Yeah, the part of TM “lingering” too long, which Jeralyn states might suggest TM was the one to attack. Really? Give me a break. We are not allowed to freely linger around an area where we are staying? If he was bored and wanted to take a walk, he couldn’t do that? He was supposed to read GZ’s mind? What?
GZ is the one who calls NEN. GZ is the one who states I was just looking for an address (HONEST!), and I just walked up and back down then he beat me up (waaah)! Except, we know for FACT that’s a LIELIELIE! So, we know GZ’s lying about what he did. There’s a missing gap of time that is not part of his story. And some want to question TM? LOL. That’s some stupid shit right there.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – U.S. Declaration of Independence
Why did TM have a time limit on how long he was allowed to linger? Who established this time limit?
Was So Interesting on August 5, 2012 at 10:59 pm said:
“Lingering” or “hiding” ? Has anyone posed the scenario that TM was stationary that whole time until GZ found him? Maybe he was hiding behind the divider between one of the townhomes after he rounded the corner at the top of the T and watched GZ go past and then come back. Notice there are short bushes next to the dividers. Hence the original “jumped out of the bushes” claim. Just because TM was the first to speak and says “What are you following me for” doesn’t mean that he was walking towards GZ. It just means that he was found and wants an answer from the creep. This would be consistent with DeeDee saying that the man was getting closer. Not that he was chasing from behind but that TM could see him getting closer to where he was hiding. This of course would discount the witness seeing shadows running, but her testimony was unclear and somebody had suggested that she could have seen Austin running after his dog.
yes Trayvon lived there. What is stranger, being in your own back yard or lingering in someone elses back yard? Zim deviated from the direction he was suppose to be heading, and deviated from the mode of transport he was taking, wandered into someone elses back yard, and “lingered” for over two minutes in the rain and the dark, with a torch and a gun, but that is more acceptable than a kid “lingering” in his own back yard.
Trayvon was doing nothing wrong. Nor did he just do anything wrong. Nor was he going someplace where he was planning to do wrong. He was where he was suppose to be. Zimmerman was where he was not suppose to be, for no reason other than to follow someone completely innocent of any wrong doing. If he just went straight to target, if he just walked straight back to his car etc etc. If Trayvon was lingering in GZ’s back yard it would be different, but GZ was in trayvons back yard, being a creep, with a gun.
Those blogs that make bullshit excuses for GZ are infuriating.
willisnewton on August 6, 2012 at 11:35 am said:
I’ve always tried to concentrate on what can be proven in court… that is what seems to matter in the end. But regarding where TM went, what evidence is there that he went ANYWHERE except to between where the tan bag and his cell phone were found? None.
IMO he rounded the corner of 2112 TTL and “ran out” his sprint to JohnW6’s backyard, and was right there in plain sight the whole time. There’s no evidence he went anywhere else. Dee Dee mentions walking but of course has no way to know if he walked anywhere or not.
As for GZ, the timing suggests he walked fast of jogged to the T and didn’t see TM (saying, “he ran”), but keep in mind he was facing east, traveling east, and in the dark once his headlights went off. TM was “behind” him in a sense if GZ faced mostly east. He probably looked down the sidewalk and didn’t see the teen and so assumed he did not go that way.
GZ likely stuck to the pavement and sidewalk, but TM would have already walked thru wet grass using the shortcut to enter the complex near 1400 RVC. The placement of the “debris field” and other aspects of the timing of the NE call make me think TM took this hard-to-see grass/dirt path to make the corner.
When GZ exits his vehicle, he muttered his famous “effin’ goons/punks/whatever” comment in regards to something -and I think that something was the timing of TM making the corner and getting out of GZ’s sightline. GZ may have been busy securing his car keys, gun, car door, flashlight(s), etc and not really seen TM round the corner. It seems clear he saw him heading into the cut thru path, but it’s speculative to think he saw which way he went, given his actions after.
All of this is speculative, but the timing fits almost exactly to the average speed of 5 feet per second that TM likely approximated in his walk from the mailbox kiosk to the start of the cut thru sidewalk. I tend to think this is where TM began to run, and of course elicited the comment from GZ of “sh*t, he’s running.” GZ is frustrated that he saw the kid run, and got out of his car ready to pursue but by the time he starts his fast walk/fat boy jog of around 7fps, he’s lost sight of his prey. He’s already said “these axxholes, they always get away” and now his self-fullfilling prophecy has come true. He’s let the youth “get away” and spends the next minutes trying to rectify that. The idea that he is looking for a street sign is hogwash and no jury is going to buy that.
So what are the actions of TM during the “missing minutes?” Again, I think the EVIDENCE and testimony of Dee Dee shows that he stood in John’s backyard and spoke on the phone to Dee Dee, and there is NO evidence that he did anything else.
If there was a punch to the nose, the testimony AND evidence seem to suggest it happened near where the fight was witnessed on the ground. Again, the “stumbling” just isn’t credible. The idea of a ~45 foot stagger seems ludicrous to me, especially given GZ’s many statements that say he was punched to the ground, essentially, not that he was hit and then staggered in straight line due south, while TM did nothing.
That’s why I think TM was never north of the tan bag, or south of his cell phone. There’s nothing besides speculation and the word of his admitted killer to put him anywhere else.
I think DeeDee’s statement could also be interpreted to show Trayvon was near Brandy Green’s porch when the second chase and subsequent confrontation occurred.
Remember — Zimmerman could have just as likely been facing west towards the clubhouse in his parked Ridgeline. If so, the back entrance is not east of his parked vehicle. It’s southeast. Twin Trees runs south and then east.
Did Trayvon take this route instead of running between the buildings? There are witness statements — including DeeDee’s — that make this route plausible.
This evidence dump/drip sucks. Is this typical of “high profile” court cases? When does all the evidence — like dashboard cam footage from the responding police vehicles — need to be submitted and released (as applicable) by?
tchoupi.caillou on August 6, 2012 at 3:29 pm said:
I really think you should give more consideration to DeeDee’s story. I can sum up her story like this.
1) TM starts running
2) He is out of breath when he hides. I don’t know what were his physical capabilities but it suggests that he ran some distance longer than 50feet. We know he was hiding as he lowered his voice and as GZ couldn’t even see TM’s shadow moving along the straight path.
3) He was still out of breath when he decides to walk again. He decided to walk again after he felt confident he lost GZ. He says he isn’t going to run because he is right by his father’s house.
4) A “couple” of minutes later GZ is back behind TM again. The couple minutes probably lasted less than 2 minutes. In any case, it probably was more than 30sec which would have allowed him to walk at least one townhouse block to the south.
5) She describes a chase where TM refuses to run since he still is out of breath and where GZ is getting real close. She also describes the heavy breath of GZ suggesting that he too was out of breath.
So, DeeDee describes a chase that covers about 4min from the “Shit, he’s running” in GZ’s NEN call to ~30sec before the 1st 911 call. That chase involves some running, some hiding, some walking home, some walking away from GZ. I really don’t see TM staying by JohnW6’s until GZ finds him again.
Pooh on August 7, 2012 at 4:56 am said:
Exactly. I don’t understand this “TM lingered too long” perspective. Was there a curfew? This is sort of like arguing “if that child hadn’t taken so long to cross the street, I wouldn’t have run her down with my car.”
Nope. No curfew. Just an accounting needed for the black teen who wasn’t breaking the law on the word of a vigilante who took advantage of his ability to “pass” for white.
Zimmerman’s insurmountable hurdles are definitely: Explaining the 2+ minute gap and how/why he was even one inch south of the T when the shot was fired.
verafish on August 6, 2012 at 10:19 am said:
Ohhh, that’s easy….he “may have stumbled”….fully 45 feet farther south, see? (As told during the re-enactment) This is – as someone before me has written – like “stumbling” from Home plate to first base. Uh-huh. ***nodding*** Plausible? I don’t think so.
Not that it matters but the distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet — so, Zimmerman said he stumbled half of that distance. This is still not believable.
Why doesn’t any sort of distance to the south of the T matter? In the unlikely event that Trayvon struck Zimmerman from behind coming from the south/south east as indicated in the reenactment video, the fight would have progressed north/north west.
verafish on August 6, 2012 at 12:37 pm said:
Point well taken. Not being a sports fan, I took someone else’s statement of the distance as accurate. I have to say that the very first time I watched the re-enactment, Zimmerman’s demonstration of where it all occurred struck me as odd. Even the investigator half-scowled and said “Here?” (or words to that effect) giving Zimmerman the opportunity to clarify/correct.
By this question, NLME, “Why doesn’t any sort of distance to the south of the T matter?”, are you saying that it doesn’t matter?
I did battle with an individual on a comment board who said “Bar-room brawls go all over the place…” to which I responded “But this wasn’t a “brawl” – Zimmerman states on several occasions that he went down immediately, right at this spot and was “pinned” by Trayvon, at which point he shot Trayvon. So either you trust Zimmerman’s version of events or you can safely discount large parts of his narrative. He does NOT want it known that he pursued Trayvon down that walk. That would make him the clear aggressor.
And yes, I agree that debris indicates the direction in which the the fight moved…and it wasn’t toward Zimmerman’s vehicle.
There are lots of injuries to the aggressor of a nasty bar room brawl, too. Trayvon had a small cut below one knuckle.
Yeah, I was saying the fight wouldn’t have moved towards the direction of the punch/”aggressor” unless Trayvon punched Zimmerman (highly unlikely) and started running (not skipping) home again.
I am not internet savvy at all and I don’t know how google works, but now all i have to do is type in bcclist and this site is the first one that shows…i use to have to search for it. I think that’s pretty cool.
question everything trust no one on August 6, 2012 at 4:15 am said:
Is that…is that…(*GASP*) A GRILL?!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/ryan-lochtes-parents-face_n_1743686.html
Whaaat, white people wear grills, too?! Get outta here! Is Lochte a thug for his like TM was for wearing one?
“Smile fo me daddy
(What you lookin at)
Lemme see ya grill
(Let you see my what)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill
(Rob da jewelry store and tell em make me a grill)
I want to see your grill
(You wanna see my what)
(Had a whole top diamonds and da bottom rows gold)”
Thanks Nelly and Paul Wall for this lyrical gem, LOL.
oh dear Nelly. I haven’t liked any of his music except that one “just a dream” which reminds me of trayvon and makes me cry like a girl. For some reason i just imagine Tray when i hear it.
“i was thinking bout her
thinking bout me
thinking bout us
what we gonna be
opened my eyes, yeah,
it was only just a dream
so i travelled back,
down that road,
will she come back,
i realised, yeah,
If you ever loved somebody put your hands up
and now they’re gone and you’re wishing you
could give them everything”…
Don’t know why, sometimes i think it’s a song he might listen to while imagining what is to come in the future, sometimes i imagine it from the point of view of loved ones that had their beloved son/brother taken too soon. I start crying at the music intro.
Damn you nelly, who knew you could be so deep.
Check this one out
http://www.buzzfeed.com/stacylambe/25-photos-of-ryan-lochtes-grills
CommonSenseForChange on August 6, 2012 at 11:28 pm said:
Haha! Since the jewels change, I’m assuming this is removable grills.
willisnewton on August 6, 2012 at 7:56 pm said:
tchoupi-
I can appreciate the scenario you posit, but where is any real evidence to say anything like that happened? GZ had all the time in the world to walk all around that end of the complex, but absent an eyewitness, some dropped objects, etc, there doesn’t seem to be any way to prove it.
Also, I just think Dee Dee wasn’t there, and so what she’s saying can fit a lot of scenarios, as we have seen with those who think Trayvon DID go home and then came back with different pants – but no baseball bat, etc. I tend to stick to the simplest explanations. IN then end, what either of us think won’t amount to much. It’s what a jury thinks that matters.
Here are some things GZ COULD have done in the “missing minutes” :
But in the end what matters in a court of law is what can be proven by the prosecution. Someone closed the gap. Was it the teen who ran away, or was it the guy who chased the teen down TTL with his car, jumped out when the kid ran away, and lied to investigators about where he was and when he went there?
I don’t see the point in trying to “prove” much about the missing minutes other than they passed, and that GZ is probably lying about how HE says he spent them – standing at RVC fiddling with his flashlight for the whole time.
And again, the scattered debris is the only real evidence that can’t be impeached in court. Eyewitnesses are unreliable, GZ is proven (IMO) to be pushing a false narrative, and a jury is going to have to deliberate based on a narrative the prosecution presents, versus GZ’s inconsistent and contradictory story.
The less speculative the prosecution’s story is, the better. I tend to think they are gong to leave it somewhat vague other than to say GZ is pushing a false narrative, the injuries don’t match and W2 and Dee Dee’s accounts differ from GZ’s.
If you want to speculate about what actually happened, the possibilities are endless. At the end of the day, someone closed a gap, and an unarmed kid is dead at the hands of a man who has zero credibility. I think a jury will draw the right conclusions. The crowd at TalkLeft seems to think that credibility isn’t an issue, but in my mind it’s the ONLY issue that counts when the other witness is dead.
Are you suggesting the missing 2+ minutes starts after Zimmerman leaves his truck parked west of the bend on Twin Trees? I think that’s what I’m seeing. I believe the missing 2+ minutes starts after the call is ended.
Also, not in a snarky tone, but you say with confidence there isn’t proof to support claim XYZ — by any chance, do you know when all the evidence will be released? Nobody seems to know this answer.
No, I don’t know when the rest of the discovery will be public… and it’s foolish to guess at what may or may not be in it.
What we do know is that the prosecution claims they have multiple witnesses to a chase. What we don’t know is, are they bluffing? Maybe Dee Dee and W2 are the plural witness. Maybe not – maybe witness 10 is a surprise witness, who knows? I tend to find Dee Dee quite credible myself, but who knows how a jury will react. W2 seems to have backed off her initial statement
But from what the prosecution has put forth in the “mini trials”t that the defense has tried to impose on preliminary proceedings, I’m catching the drift that they want to keep the story simple: GZ profiled, pursued and shot an unarmed teenager who was walking home, and his statements to police were contradictory, evolving and inconsistent.
I also think since the FBI has said it’s a wash for experts to say who was telling for help, the prosecution is going to put Trayvon’s mother on the stand and she’s going to say it was her son calling for help, and that’s going to influence the jury, regardless of who it actually was.
The FBI said they couldn’t confirm with 100% certainty who was screaming for help. Could they eliminate the possibility of Zimmerman crying for help though?
The FBI also concluded Zimmerman wasn’t racist in the opinion of the Sanford Police Department. I have a feeling we’ll be hearing more about the FBI’s specific opinion.
I listen to the screams and hear an adolescent boy whose voice is in the process of changing or recently changed. You only have to look at the recent photos of TM’s face to see the distinctive stage of development he is in. I think a reasonable jury will hear the same thing. I wonder what is the opinion of the people here regarding whose voice it is?
willisnewton on August 7, 2012 at 7:43 am said:
I don’t think a jury will all come to a unanimous conclusion about whose voice is calling for help. Therefore they are going to look elsewhere for elements of the case to make a final decision on, IMO. Is anyone here “certain beyond a reasonable doubt” as to who is calling for help? IMO the FBI’s determination makes it anyone’s guess.
Personally I tend to think it is GZ calling for help in illegally detaining the teen, but I can’t say I’m certain beyond a reasonable doubt that I am right in thinking so. It’s also possible that it’s TM and GZ claims it’s himself for the purposes of pushing a false narrative. He lacks a good witness to back him up.
If I were a jury member I’d concentrate on GZ’s credibility, myself. Someone who lies to investigators about simple things like where he was when he said “he ran,” is not someone whose self defense story I’d believe. GZ claims in the third and final interview on 2/29, when he is played the NEN call recording that he was all the way to RVC when that part of the call happened. He’s not “mistaken,” IMO, he is lying since he’s consistently tried to obscure the fact that he was following the teen. This “inconsistency” is part of a larger pattern if “inconsistencies” IMO and proof he pushed a false narrative to police, trying to obscure his pursuit of the teen, which is not in an of itself illegal, but certainly suspicious and the act of lying to investigators IS a crime.
Getting back to the “help” cries, there may be more than one voice on the 911 call, and that’s food for further confusion IMO. I think the FBI opened the door to competing subjective claims, but the prosecution might want to point out that ofc Tim Smith claims he heard GZ tell EMTs he called for help, but the EMTs themselves don’t seem to recall this statement.
I find T.Smith’s initial report to be suspicious but it’s difficult to impeach a police officer in a case without some very strong proof that he is acting improperly. Even if (speculation follows) Mark Osterman was the person GZ was speaking to, and he is somehow in cahoots with T Smith, and has been caught by investigators, charged with tampering with evidence (participating in moving the car, at least, or worse) and Osterman has turned state’s evidence, he’s hardly a credible witness himself given that he’s a disgraced former deputy who left his job under a cloud of scandal involving connection to fraud. If it were his word against T. Smith on a matter it may not be enough to impeach the testimony of Smith.
There’s more to this case than meets the eye I suspect but again think like a prosecutor and you will want to reduce it to what can be proven easily and and beyond a reasonable doubt in court. The rest may or may not be worth mentioning. If a jury is presented with the basic narrative that GZ saw TM, decided he was a “suspect” and not a subject, followed TM into the dark with a loaded gun and a flashlight, and admitted to dispatch that he was following, but later tried to deny this, that when he shot the kid he may not be telling the whole truth about the events surrounding the killing. The state still has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that GZ murdered the teen, but absent any credibility to GZ’s stories I think they can gain a conviction based on a few simple circumstantial matters like the superficial nature of the injuries, and testimony of those who heard a more vocal and lengthy struggle than GZ claims. He’s killed the other witness to the fight; that is a serious matter to consider when it can be proven he’s lied to investigators, which is a crime in and of itself.
@willisnewton –
I agree there’s definitely more to this case than meets the eye. I think this case is an eye-opener as to how the law is applied unevenly even before the cops and lawyers get involved. To me, it seems a crime committed based on knowing how to work stereotypes. Of course if I recognize how to do it, so do the criminals. Of course I understand also that this is what’s being fed to us in the media. I mean, after all, I should shirk in fear if a see anyone in a hoodie walking at 7pm in my neighborhood!
I’ll try one more time to convince you to consider DeeDee’s statement as her story isn’t compatible with what you’re claiming to be the closest to the evidences that is Trayvon being static by JohnW6’s backyard until GZ find’s him.
The evidences only suggest that TM & GZ dropped some of their items by the T and by JohnW6’s. All the rest is made of witness statements and conjectures.
DeeDee tells a story where for ~4min TM is running, then hiding, then walking home then being chased to finally being caught up and bumped in.
Suzanne Bahadoor tells a story of a chase from south to north.
Jennifer Lauer explains that the argument was moving south from the T.
JohnW6 & his now wife Amanda tell the story of an argument moving toward them.
It is more than one witness telling about a dynamic rather than a static event. I agree that most of them only witnessed what happened in their backyards. But, the simple fact that JohnW6 himself says that they were moving toward his backyard indicates that TM did not stay there idle for 4min. He ended up fighting there.
You read a lot into Dee Dee’s words. I do think she’s pretty sure Trayvon ran and was quite out of breath, but I don’t have any indication of how LONG he ran from her words.
Dee Dee: He was telling me like…like he a man watching him, so he like started walking.
BDLR: He, Trayvon, started walking?
Dee Dee: He goin’ start walking.
BDLR: OK.
Dee Dee: And then…the phone hung up. And I call him back again. And then, I say ‘What you doin’?’ and he say he walkin’ and he said this man still following him, behind the car. And I’m like…or like, he told me…he tell me..he put his hoodie on, so I like…
BDLR: He, Trayvon, put his hoodie on.
Dee Dee: Yeah.
BDLR: OK…
Dee Dee: Cause, he said it was startin’ a little bit dripping water….
BDLR: Uh huh.
Dee Dee: So he put his hoodie on. So I said, ‘What’s going on?’ He said this man is still watching him. Like in a car…so he about to run from the back. So then I told him, go to his dad house. Run to his Dad house.
BDLR: Go to what?
Dee Dee: Run to his dad house.
BDLR: To his dad’s house?
Dee Dee: So he say he about to run for the back cause its mo’ easier, he said. So, next thing I hear, he gettin’ run. And I can hear that the wind blowin’…
BDLR: So you could tell he was running at that time…
BDLR: OK, and then what happened?
Dee Dee: And then…he say he lost him.
BDLR: He lost..like…the man?
BDLR: So, was Trayvon at that time…you could tell he was like, out of breath, like excited…
Dee Dee: Yeah. . .
BDLR: …like, like…
Dee Dee: Then…
BDLR: Take your time; I know this is difficult for you
Dee Dee: He lost him; he was breathin’ hard. An…by the sound his voice…voice kinda change…
BDLR: Who? Trayvon?
BDLR: OK, what do you mean by that, his voice changed?
Dee Dee: [unintelligible] I know he was scare.
BDLR: I’m sorry?
Dee Dee: I know he was scare. He…
BDLR: How..how…could …tell…and I know what you’re trying to tell me, but if you could, describe to me how you could tell he was scared.
Dee Dee: Voice was getting kind of low…[unintelligible]…breathin’ har’…
BDLR: So, you could tell he was emotional like somebody who was like in fear?
Dee Dee: Yeah…he say he lost him…
BDLR: OK…he was breathing hard?
Dee Dee: He say he lost him…breathin’ har’, you know. And I like, he goin’…so he say he lost him. And then a couple…and then he say he right by his ass…he ru’, he go’ keep ru’ ’til hi’ dad house.
BDLR: OK, let me make sure I understand that he’s saying that he’s “right by his ass”…meaning the guy is right by Trayvon?
Dee Dee: No, he say he lost the guy…
Dee Dee: And then he ran from the back…
BDLR: Right.
Dee Dee: He say he lost him.
Dee Dee: He started walking back again…and I told him ‘Keep runnin’.’
BDLR: So Trayvon said he started walking because he thought he had lost the guy.
Dee Dee: I say, ‘Keep runnin’.’
Dee Dee: He say he ain’t goin’ run, cause he say he right by his father house…
Dee Dee: So, and in a couple minutes…he say the man followin’ him again, behin’ him. And I say, ‘RUN!’ You goin’ to run? He say he not goin’ run cause…I could have known he not going to run, cause he out of breath. and then, he told me, he say this guy getting’ close to him. I told him ‘RUN!’ And then, and then… I tol’ him ‘Keep runnin’.’ He not goin’ run. And then he say…I told him, ‘Why you not runnin’? He say, ‘I’m not go’ run,’ cause he tired, but I know he tired.
end excerpt
I see that as corroborating a move by TM from the mailboxes after the call died; on reconnect TM is walking down TTL, about to run away from the trailing car. He runs around the corner and stops running. Then yes, he says he will walk the rest of the way home. What actually happend after that is impossible to know.
GZ seems to pass heading east and TM notes it. Why move? The guy’s on the wrong trail. But yeah, then he comes back and they yella t one another as GZ seems to close the gap. What does it matter where they were? Dee Dee seems to know what she heard. Why do we need to know where this happened? What happened is that one or both parties closed a gap and a physical struggle ensued of some sort. It doesn’t SEEM to have happened where and how GZ says it did, that’s what I think is important.
I think the prosecution’s best strategy is to leave it at that, more or less. If they can suggest that there was a chase, do so. GZ’s ruined credibility, and the open question of who was calling for help will do the rest. I tend to think that by the time the prosecution is finished, GZ will have little choice but to either take the stand and have his credibility destroyed in person, or NOT take the stand and lose the case. If he swore on a stack of bibles that the sun rose in the east, I’d consult an almanac before I believed him.
He’s lied to investigators and it can easily be proven all the way up until he told NEN dispatcher Sean “he ran.” Whatever happened after that, I tend to think a jury will just look at what he says happened and assume it is also a lie. That’s what juries do.
The prosecution need only provide a vague narrative with circumstantial evidence to corroborate partially, just as GZ has a vague narrative and partial corroboration for his account. His just isn’t credible, is all.
I appreciate your work in trying to figure out what happened in the missing minutes, but IMO it’s all too vague and eyewitnesses are unreliable. I do think the “argument” likely was up by the T in the sense that GZ was once where his keychain flashlight was dropped. But I think he started the argument by spotlighting TM from a distance.
Then someone closed a gap. Dee Dee seems to say it was GZ who approached TM, which certainly seems more likely given the debris south of the T. The tan 7Eleven bag is as far north as TM can be PROVEN to have ever been. Yes ,people heard noises but no one SAW him there. They could have heard GZ there and TM by the bag. Who can say?
It seems clear the hit to the nose happened in John’s back yard – thats what GZ actually remembers consistently – a punch that knocked him to the ground and a wrestling match ensuing. How he got there is unknown.
I think a teenager who is on the phone ALL DAY stays put in one spot quite often. He seems to have been by the mailboxes for a long time. What’s so difficult about placing him in John’s back yard for ~4 minutes?
GZ’s tactic to cover his actions is to always obscure, omit and obfuscate his trailing actions. That he missed TM the first time he walked the cut thru seems likely to me. He has his dead tactical black flashlight at the T the first time, and I think he wandered to RVC as a natural move to run down the dead ends in the maze. Once he did that and didn’t find the boy, he returned.
Look at the map I’ve colored here:
The red line is faint, but I think GZ drew it and it leads right to the keychain flashlight.
here is the plain map, slightly enhanced for contrast:
I don’t understand why everyone ignores this map. What do you see in that map, and why hasn’t someone demanded a better copy?
sorry for the length. Cheers, tchoupi and keep up the good work.
I’m sorry that Susan Simpson didn’t get mentioned. http://viewfromll2.com/
She’s done some valuable work, as have a lot of people. I hope the prosecutor’s office is noticing, and not just MOM’s office.
I was over at the Herald’s website rather obsessively battling for the facts and common sense in the comments to the article. The racism finally got to be too much. Some Cubans were among the worst. One guy posted the 7-11 video about 10 times, as if just looking at a tall, skinny black teenager in baggy pants and a hood-up sweatshirt buying a drink and candy was proof that TM was a vicious thug. I hope that it persuaded people otherwise.
Me too. I loved Susan’s blog. I had to drop out mostly because I don’t understand “open thread” discussions. I’m too anal to work within or outside a box when the box is not defined.
I will say though, that her analysis and fact-based posts were very interesting to me and her dropping a lawyer’s perspective was very insightful. She’s busy and has a real job as an up and coming attorney at her firm, so I completely understand that she can’t “do this all day”. 🙂
Frances must have some sources or sleuthing ability herself if she was able to dig up Dan Linehan, who hasn’t been seen on the web in months. “Dig up” could be literal, since he doesn’t seem to be aware of anything in the evidence dumps, and has perhaps has had his head in the sand.
But, seriously NLME, I’d like to see bcclist to have higher standards, including proper attribution, and more accurate representation of the stuff the pro-GZ folks say, which is batcrap crazy enough on its own w/o spinning it even a little.
1. “Dan Linehart from Wagist.com insists Zimmerman was the person heard screaming for help in one of the 911 calls. There’s absolutely nothing credible to support this assertion…. In fact, nobody has said it was accused murderer yelling for help other than Zimmerman (and his family).”
It’s “Linehan”. pro-GZ folks believe GZ is credible. They believe RZ Sr. and Jr. are credible. They believe John W6 told the truth and has been intimidated into recanting by the agents of the Black Uprising or it’s race-traitor appeasers.
“Two independent forensics experts said it was Trayvon crying for help.” That’s not true. They both said it was NOT GZ. they did not say is WAS TM. And calling someone an expert doesn’t make them one. Ed Primeau is an utter bozo. Tom Owen has more credibility, but his “it’s not GZ” opinion was a ‘quick take,’ that did not employ proper scientific method, and could be easily discredited in court. There is other evidence it’s not GZ, including the fact the sound doesn’t fit his description of the struggle (as you noted), the proximity of the last cry to the gunshot, and the SPD’s ‘GZ scream re-enactment’ recording. (Anyone who hasn’t heard this MUST check it out: http://tinyurl.com/cwfmx2u)
2. “To clearly reiterate, Trayvon Martin (possibly) obtaining a cigar obviously doesn’t justify being murdered by a crazy armed vigilante.”
To be fair to the Zimmie-tards, we should be clear why they think the cigar is relevant, because the specifics tell us more about their twisted thought than just isolating the cigar and declaring it irrelevant.
GZ supporters believe his story that TM attacked him. They therefore believe TM was a thug. They believe the ‘liberal’ media have presented him as a squeeky- clean kid, and covered up all indications of his thuggishness. They do not focus on any one piece of counter-evidence, but have instead created a sort of compiled ‘thug-file’ they believe pieces together to show TM was a hoodlum, and thus the kind of person who could credibly been imagined to attack GZ. He was suspended from school (he must have done something BAD!). The Martin family’s assertion that the suspensions were for truancy is probably false. He had been found with a screwdriver in his possession (a BURGLARY tool!). A bag with trace amounts of MJ was found in his possession (he’s not just a pot-head, but a DRUG DEALER, and we all know how violent they are). He had a grill and flipped the bird to the camera. He’s on tape ‘refereeing’ a school fight (obviously he LOVES instigating violence). He wanted wanted the cigar to make a marijuana ‘blunt’ to get high. He bought watermelon Arizona to make “lean” to get high. So he’s a crazy drug-addled punk who looked suspicious to GZ because he WAS “on drugs or something”, and being under the influence he started an assault on the wrong ‘victim’ who bravely stood his ground.
Of course, from their POV, everything that contradicts their narrative is some form or liberal propaganda: a misreading, distortion, or outright lie.
So while the cigar seems ridiculous by itself, it’s actually consistent within the larger narrative of pro-GZ crowd, which is ridiculous at a macro-level. They see the whole TM / GZ case as a trope for race relations in the US. They believe that the dominant motive among black males under the age of 35 is to ‘put the hurt on whitey’, and the dominant motive for black males over the age of 35 is to cover for the young bucks ‘putting the hurt on whitey.’ They think the New Black Panther Party is a serious threat for major social violence, not a few media-hyped clowns. They believe Al Sharpton can cause mass rioting all over the country just by saying the word. They believe some kind of race war is imminent, that any white people who have not armed themselves are offering themselves up as sacrifice to the coming dark hordes… So, yeah, the whole deal for them is basically about hating Obama by proxy.
Cigar -> Blunt -> Marijuana -> Drugs -> Drug Dealer -> Thug -> Hatred of Whites -> Vicious Unprovoked Attacks against good upstanding citizens such as Mr. Zimmerman.
So, if you look at it that way, the cigar does connect to GZ’s ‘self-defense.’ It really doesn’t do justice to the situation to merely say the purchase of a cigar doesn’t justify a kid being shot. Better IMHO to note that the justification linking the cigar to the shooting is paranoid, hateful, irrational, dangerous, and accepted by way, way too many people.
@Whonoze: “Cigar -> Blunt -> Marijuana -> Drugs -> Drug Dealer -> Thug -> Hatred of Whites -> Vicious Unprovoked Attacks against good upstanding citizens such as Mr. Zimmerman. So, if you look at it that way, the cigar does connect to GZ’s ‘self-defense.’ ”
Do you really think this line of reasoning is going to be presented by O’Mara, IN COURT?
“Better IMHO to note that the justification linking the cigar to the shooting is paranoid, hateful, irrational, dangerous, and accepted by way, way too many people.”
Agree completely with this statement. But it comes after your long rant explaining the connections that the pro-GZ people are trying to make to paint him a thug. Yes, agree they are doing that, and I think that has been discussed in many posts here. Hence, the short cut to “It doesn’t matter” , because none of it so far matters as “hard evidence” that TM attacked GZ. This is a blog and still part of the court of public opinion. But by the high standard of a real court, does the cigar really matter???????
What cigar? There’s zero evidence that TM ever possessed a cigar, so… end of story. I agree that what can be presented in court is what matters.
@willis, And a blunt would only matter if he were a judoka in the Olympics. http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/06/sport/olympics-delpopolo-marijuana-makhloufi/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
“American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo has been thrown out of the Olympics after a failed drug test he blamed on inadvertently eating food that had been baked with marijuana.”
HUH??? I know it’s off topic, but I have another dumb look on my face. No need to explain this phenomenon to me. I should just crawl back into my happy little sheltered existence.
"No Longer Mass Emailing" on August 7, 2012 at 10:15 am said:
There’s zero evidence as of yet.
Exactly! He had no cigar on him.
2dogsonly on August 7, 2012 at 8:57 am said:
He had no cigar on him.
Yup. Wish I had a botmobile. It’d post all day everywhere…
“he had no cigar on him”
“his watermelon arizona can was unopened”
“his maryjane tests indicated no recent usage”
“Obama, Clinton and countless others experimented with mj and didn’t pop off black teens walking through their neighborhoods much like where zimmerman rented his home”
“Obama is not a muslim”
whonoze on August 7, 2012 at 4:35 pm said:
@WSI
Of course I don’t think O’Mara’s going to present anything like that in court. And AFAIK, TM not only didn’t have a cigar, but there’s no evidence he smoked anything on 2/26/2012. To reiterate, I was responding to NLME’s assertion, “Trayvon Martin (possibly) obtaining a cigar obviously doesn’t justify being murdered by a crazy armed vigilante.” The use of ‘obviously’ here is a misrepresentation of GZ supporters. It is not that they are so stupid as to miss the obvious. It is that they start from a world-view so skewed that their interpretations take them down convoluted and bizarre paths.
In any ‘debate’ it is extremely important to represent the positions of your opponents correctly, for a variety of reasons. I was not ranting. I was recounting (in a somewhat subdued fashion) the rants made by Team Z.
Getting your opponent’s argument right matters, even if it doesn’t pertain to trial, because some people believe it, and actual courts are NOT isolated from ‘the court of public opinion.’ Also, if you want to effectively rebut your opponent in a way that might actually be persuasive to someone who is not already firmly on ‘your side,’ you have to know how their position actually works in order to take it apart. You cannot simply dismiss it.
And if we were limiting bcclist to topics that matter as ‘hard evidence in a real court’, over 2/3rds of the posts here would have to be removed. There’s some pretty wacky stuff in these threads, starting with the assorted speculations that GZ went out on a trigger-happy ‘hunting expedition.’ Folks, the first thing he did after locating TM was park his car, pull out his phone and call the police. You don’t do that as part of some nefarious plan unless you’re some kind of “Mission Impossible” super-spy. And that’s just in the movies because I mean, really, Tom Cruise? (L. Ron Hubbard?) Oh I forgot, GZ is just following God’s plan, so God mapped it all out so Timothy Smith would arrive at the site of shooting less than 2 minutes after GZ decimated Trayvon Martin’s ventricle. So clever, that precise timing! I guess that’s why Jehovah is God, and I’m not.
@whonoze, thanks for clarifying. And sorry for mis-labeling the pro-GZ rant as your own. I absolutely agree with your points about needing to understand the other side, as it is entirely informative in an open debate. As you’ve seen here, we’ve at times questioned witness statements even when they “weaken” the prosecution’s side.
Regarding the cigar or cigar/blunt, it is not wholesale dismissal of the issue. But as you stated of the GZ supporters: “It is not that they are so stupid as to miss the obvious. It is that they start from a world-view so skewed that their interpretations take them down convoluted and bizarre paths.” Right on! We’ve considered it, and sometimes we don’t have the energy or patience to to follow those bizarre paths. True, we’ve got enough crazy ones of our own!
It is mainly the family’s wish not to have TM’s image “tarnished”, and their efforts to try and keep a good memory of their son cannot be faulted. You can fault MSM for mis-representations though. Seeming to “hide” anything about TM, relevant or not, adds fuel to the other side’s arguments. As in, look, they only gave us 12 year old pictures, but he’s actually 17 years old! OK, here’s a picture of the 17 year old, is he still big and scary? NLME is certainly not shy about hiding things, otherwise he wouldn’t have posted the 7-11 video.
Admittedly, we love GZ bashing here. I’m guilty of it. In the end, though, who has the burden to prove himself? TM or GZ? GZ is the one who took a life and has the burden to prove (to the court, and yeah his God) that he had no alternative but to do so. If his defense team (lawyers or treepers) decides to insinuate a cigar/blunt and potential lean drink (that has yet to be proven existed) constitute a motive behind the murderous rage that forced GZ to shoot, then good luck to them. But you’re right, prosecution has to prepare themselves for a jury to be swayed by such non-sensical arguments because the defense is just hoping to seed enough “doubt”, whether reasonable or not, into their minds so they can’t pass a guilty verdict.
BTW, glad to have your expertise here on the audio stuff. Those effing goon moments are maddening!
Thank you! I’ve made the edits to Dan’s name and noted that one expert has — as of right now — only concluded that the voice wasn’t Zimmerman’s. Note: The other expert said it was Trayvon yelling for help.
I won’t call anybody in the Zimmerman family credible until it’s proven they are. I definitely won’t cite Zimmerman supporters’ hateful reasoning behind Trayvon (possibly) obtaining/smoking a cigar.
I talked to Frances Robles for like over 2 hours. She seemed nice, reasonable, and disposed to the healthy skepticism toward actors in this case that old-school journalists are supposed to affect. She did quote me out of context though, and I wonder if readers knew what the heck i was talking about.
““You have a CSI phenomenon, where people think you can take a blurry video, focus it and find the truth,” said a blogger who goes by “whonoze.”
…On the other hand there are indisputable facts: the non-emergency call, Google maps and a clock. Stick those things together. People were not doing that, and were coming up with scenarios that were physically impossible.”
The first sentence is a reference to false belief that low-quality recording can be ‘enhanced’ to reveal previously hidden ‘truths,’ as evidenced mainly by the many interpretations of the surveillance vid of GZ arriving at SPD (all of said interpretations, proGZ or antiGZ, basically being full of crap.)
The second sentence refers not so much to the temporal impossibilities of squaring GZ’s statements and re-enactment with the NEN call, but to the early media coverage of the “no arrest scandal” that either implied GZ directly chased TM down, instigated a confrontation and shot him or explicitly presented that sort of scenario: for example a ‘walk-through’ created by Joy Anne Reid on theGrio.com, and used on a couple MSNBC shows.
The ‘people’ I was referring to were the mainstream press. I was expressing my disappointment that the press did not interrogate the physical evidence in a way that would led to more accurate reporting. Frances’ reply to this was basically, “that’s not my job.” And I know that to be true. So it’s more a critique of institutional values and standard practices, not a charge of negligence aimed at any specific reporter or media outlet.
Thanks for the clarification, and also thanks for having the patience to speak to a MSM reporter, knowing ahead of time what was likely to happen – being quoted out of context in a story that stays ” fair and balanced” ie, refuses to draw conclusions even in the face of proof of his lying to investigators.
Your point about comparing the NEN call to google maps and a clock may have been quoted out of context, but the larger implications are still there: some things are possible; GZ’s contradictory accounts are not possible.
The difference between bloggers and the MSM is obvious; but both worlds have strengths and weaknesses. Those who seek the truth would do well to avail themselves of both, keep an open mind, and draw their own conclusions.
The Lonesome Death of Trayvon Martin…almost too painful to listen to but do and notice additional police footage…has this “relaxing ” pose of GZ been shown before?
The song is heartbreaking and her voice is wrenching.
Please look at 3:19 on this video at GZ casually leaning against wall immediately upon entrance into police garage. Can’t screenshot for you’ll but someone please look at this picture showing GZ way too relaxed for someone whose just been arrested .
I took a look since you asked so nicely and said please. 🙂
He’s relaxed because he thinks everyone will see this as self defense/SYG; he expects to go in there and get a pat on the back and high five then sent on his way. Who would care about another young, black, “thug?”
@ question everything trust no one
“he’s relaxed because he expected to be high fived and released.”
Gz is quite chilled fully expecting that he would be believed, to the point of being so relaxed he leans against the wall as soon as he exits police car?
What would be the precipitating factor…the cops had some brief contact w/ him through NEN but only through a phone call or two. Yes, he said he was NW but they have experienced those folks in dicey behaviors so that in and of itself wouldn’t cause them to think “he’s one of us”
Mark Osterman was there. We know MO was a fed. officer. IMHO, MO flashed his Fed. ID to the cops, said GZ was his BFF and a good guy, told GZ everything will be all right, my man. I’m going to make sure you’re believed. Just tell the truth ( which is what he said he told GZ @ FBI interview).
So he actually is treated like a fellow good guy and released. MO’s proud as punch & his enormous ego prevents him from giving the only sane advice possible when they left police station ,i.e., You need to Get AN ATTORNEY. Instead he gives him some of the lamest advice possible..”told him to just tell the truth”
There is something odd going on there. GZ may naively think he can answer a few questions and everything will be hunky dory but MO was a cop and knows that never happens w/o legal council .
So my questions:
Why were bank vds subpoenaed ?
Why didn’t MO advise GZ to get an attorney before answering questions.
Thank you question everything trust no one!
@2dogsonly, I’m a hold-out on believing that it’s MO at the bank. If that’s NOT him, then the video was was only meant to show the weather conditions and change in lighting at dusk. GZ was awfully calm and not a basketcase after the shooting (from witness account), but I’m not sure how you would expect him to look in the survellience video. He has been arrested before, so having handcuffs on isn’t unfamiliar to him, but his leaning against the wall could also be attributed to his supposedly aching back (he did complain about that to the doctor the next day), which could be a chronic problem. (FYI, I’m playing a bit of a devil’s advocate here.)
@2dogsonly & @Was So Interesting
“…but his leaning against the wall could also be attributed to his supposedly aching back (he did complain about that to the doctor the next day), which could be a chronic problem. (FYI, I’m playing a bit of a devil’s advocate here.)”
I thought this, as well. I think it’s a little bit of column and and a little of column b. I believe he did have chronic back problems, in the 2nd evidence dump one of his (former?) coworkers mentioned GZ’s special chair for his back (I wish I had a page #, I REALLY suck at citing things I don’t have easily on hand, don’t hate me – haha).
I think there’s a number of reasons GZ was so relaxed and thought he could talk without a lawyer:
1. He truly believed TM was a criminal, and he was convinced that it was self defense.
2. He likely knows that many of his neighbors aren’t the type to look out or rush out if danger is present, so he may feel overly confident that no one heard or saw enough to point the finger at him.
3. He also knows his town has a history of racism. He also complained that the cops were lazy.
4. His buddy MO at the scene gave him a sense of confidence. Intentionally or unintentionally witnesses and evidence were likely tampered with/influenced/whatever by officers, GZ, MO/SZ.
5. TM was unidentified. None of the residents said they recognized him. The neighborhood had a bit of crime. GZ is the NW/resident. At first, they thought he was just walking about and got attacked. It is very likely they believed this was self defense while still on the scene. If he saw the police believed him right off the get go, he probably felt confident they would just continue to believe everything he says.
6. GZ’s been arrested before and is used to getting off.
7. The ONLY reason I can see him talking and not lawyering up is because he’s got friends in high places. Daddy or MO doesn’t think he needs to lawyer up. WHY?
8. Totally my own opinion, he’s a cocky motherf***er.
GZ’s vitals were completely normal after the shooting while still on scene. In his mind, this was self defense. He caught the bad guy. The bad guy’s dead. Everyone will see it his way (for reasons stated above). Why pay money for a lawyer when you’ve got ex-magistrate daddy, buddy MO, etc.? I think they all just thought it would go away. Too bad our noses got up in their business.
As to what’s on the video – I’m unsure if that’s MO. I have my doubts. I believe they wanted footage from any security cameras in the area. I do believe MO was with GZ and SZ that night. He tries way to hard in his interview to come up with a reason his buddy was there so quickly and why SZ moved the vehicle. No reason to do this unless there’s something to hide. There’s more, but I don’t what it is, YET…
whonoze on August 9, 2012 at 10:11 pm said:
Folks, he just leaned against a wall for a few seconds, which has no necessary meaning whatsoever. The Tree Nuts were saying he ‘staggered’ back into the wall, proving he was shaken by the beating he’d taken. No, he looks for the wall, then steps back to it. You do that when you’re uncomfortable standing. So maybe it was his back. Maybe it was his feet. Maybe he was just tired from running after TM. Maybe he was relaxed. Or maybe he was hiding his nervousness and his weak knees were about to give the game away. Or maybe the guy just likes walls. This is trivial. I shall risk arrogance by suggesting there might be more productive uses of your time. Like helping Screamin’ Jay with those transcripts…
Actually, there are even more productive uses of my time than theorizing/philosophizing/hallucinating about minutia of the GZ/TM case:
1) Scrub my bathtub.
2) Do stuff for my real job.
3) Organize my sock drawer.
4) Find the missing socks.
5) Tackle the spiderwebs in the basement
6) Re-paint the beige living room…beige.
7) Did I say scrub my bathtub?
8) Pull weeds in the yard.
9) Wash the car.
10) Teach my son to fly a kite.
By now, I think whonoze might want me to go fly that figurative kite, anybody wanna come?
question everything trust no one on August 10, 2012 at 4:30 am said:
I would come, but I might decide to take up other trivial things. I know! – Maybe I will take up watching Real Housewives of New Jersey; I might be better suited for that.
jo on August 10, 2012 at 5:24 am said:
hi 2dogs, yes i noticed this when the footage was released and made note of it (probably here on bcclist). I don’t care what anyone else says, he was looking pretty fucking nonchalant to me. Of course there were many things that indicated he didn’t give a fuck he just killed somebody, but more importantly he certainly did not look shaken like someone who thought they were going to die from a crazy person beating the shit out of them and verbally telling them they were going to die.
NLME posted video footage of a man who was followed by a woman and yelled at in a car park. There was nothing physical, just a woman with kids who followed this grown man in his car, and yelled at him when he stopped. His eyes were bugging out of his head, he was anxious, agitated, gesturing wildly when pleading his case, and all because some chick yelled at him for no reason. I imagine that even 40 minutes later he still would have been shaking his head and showing tension about what just transpired.
GZ looks like he just got arrested for jay-walking. His finding a comfy spot to prop himself against shows to me that there was no tension, no fear, no remorse or shock at taking a life and certainly no despair at the trauma he has supposedly just suffered. The way he chatted to Singleton about her being authorative and not having had to shoot someone, chatting about his wife and buddy, passing stress tests. Not at all like someone who was nearly beaten to death and had to take a life.
I agree, he looked way to fucking comfortable, and when he leaned back into that wall it told me that this man doesn’t give a shit about what just happened, so it certainly wasn’t the battle for life and death that he has described.
If my feet were sore after i had just been smashed to pieces and faced imminent death i think that would be the last of my worries, and he certainly looked spritely enough when they summoned him to come with them..bounced off that wall like a man without a worry in the world, or any pain in his feet or back.
gbrbsb on August 16, 2012 at 1:07 pm said:
… or too relaxed for someone who has just been punched, had his head slammed umpteen times on the concrete, and then almost suffocated to death’s door!
Paging WillisNewton…
Do you have a graphic depiction of Zimmerman’s markup of the map of RTL? Want to see where the ‘x’ was marked. Can’t find. Pretty sure it’s been mentioned before, but can’t find.
I relistened to interview #1 by SPD’s Singleton to get some of my questions answered.
How do these things square with your pic analysis?
Recording #1 – 2/26/12 – Det. Singleton interviewing George Zimmerman
– 10:05 — Zimmerman said burglars committing crimes know the neighborhood very well and they “cut in between buildings”.
– 12:00 — zimmerman said he rolled his window up as soon as he saw Martin approaching and he couldn’t hear anything Trayvon Martin may have said and “stayed on the phone with dispatch”.
– 12:10 – zimmerman said his car was running and his lights were on.
– 13:25 – zimmerman said he told the police where his car was and gave dispatch “the make and the model” (odd unprompted choice of words for this particular conversation).
– 13:50+ – zimmerman said he got punched in the nose, fell down, fell backward INTO THE GRASS (@14:18).
– 14:18 – zimmerman said he fell down/backward INTO THE GRASS.
– 14:50 – zimmerman admits he sees people looking.
– 15:20 – zimmerman mentions sign in description of head-banging (utility cover?).
– 15:35 – zimmerman said as Martin banged his head again, he just pulled out his firearm and shot him.
– 15:45 – zimmerman says Trayvon Martin fell off after zimmerman shot him. Singleton probed zimmerman’s other senses since zimmerman claimed his sight and smelling ability were impaired. Answered Singleton’s follow up question with an “I don’t remember” “my vision was blurry”. “can’t breathe”. zimmerman says on second follow up question by Singleton that Martin might have been pushed back after the shot.
– 16:25 – zimmerman says he holstered his fire arm after he shot Martin then jumped on top of Martin and held his hands out and told Martin to “stay down”; Martin “was still talking”. “Stay down. Don’t move.”
– 16:40 – zimmerman confirmed that witness (W13) asked if zimmerman needed him to call 9-1-1 and zimmerman told the witness that the police should already be on the way. zimmerman discouraged W13 from call 9-1-1.
– 17:10 – zimmerman told officer he shot “this guy” in response to the officer’s question and then “I immediately put my hands on top of my head” and “I told the police officer where my firearm was.”
– 17:28 – zimmerman was asked by Singleton if Martin said anything else after zimmerman got on top of him after the shot was fired. zimmerman replied that Martin said “ow ow”.
– 20:13 – zimmerman makes a distinction (corrects Singleton) between the phrases “betweeen two houses” and “behind the houses”. (listen again at 10:15 of same recording where describing Martin as suspicious is “between” — refers to unpaved cut-throughs?)
– 20:25 – zimmerman offers to draw a map of the neighborhood/crime scene.
– 21:19 – zimmerman said Trayvon Martin’s motive is that he was upset that zimmerman had called the police. HOW WOULD TRAYVON MARTIN KNOW ZIMMERMAN HAD CALLED THE POLICE??? Windows up!!
– 21:55 – zimmerman claims he had his cell phone in his hand when he is at the tee, but unsure if he actually retrieved the phone from his pocket when he was attempting to call 9-1-1 after he’d gotten punched in the nose (according to him). This is contrary to his previous claims to have put the cell phone in the wrong pocket near his gun.
– 24:33 – zimmerman again said he put his hands on his head. This time, he mentions that he turned his back to the officer, tells the officer he shot the victim and that he has his gun on his right side in his holster in his wasteband and the officer responds “I know you do, but I have to handcuff you first.” “He put[pulled] my arms out and then handcuffed me.”
25:27 – Singleton said “You say you’re in charge of the Neighborhood Watch?” zimmerman replied “Yes, ma’am”.
stuckindavie on August 7, 2012 at 8:58 pm said:
Hey guys, only my 3rd post here, but still following since the beginning. Congrats to NLME, Tchoupi, Whonoze, and everyone else that have dedicated so much time and effort analyzing data regarding this case. It’s so cool to see it recognized in the rest of the media. It’s been an amazing case so far. I’m hoping there is enough indisputable evidence in the end to convict GZ. Back to lurking.
My comments on the map are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeandodge/sets/72157630287389764/with/7571385584/
Where I think GZ made the X is here:
where I see various marks on his map is here:
It’s going to be long and somewhat boring for me to address some of the minor things you’ve listed here, but I’ll try to give my thoughts in another post.
I do think the FIRST interview with Singleton is important, and it shows the early cracks in his tale – he’s hoped he can omit the entire clubhouse to cut thru part of the story, and he does – but Singleton sees he’s leaving something out and goes and get a map. The FIRST time GZ says he was directed to move to keep an eye on the teen, he means when he got out of his car and followed on foot. But when SIngleton brings the map, he is confronted with the idea it doesn’t make sense for him to have driven so far past the clubhouse after just spotting TM near 1400 RVC. So IMO he invents the parking at the clubhouse parking lot then and there, and it all begins to slide downhill from there. Singleton has to tell him that TM would have to have passed him there at the clubhouse, and so GZ suddenly amends his tale to being directed to move to keep an eye on the youth to HERE as well, making the twisted interpretation of “he’s running, which way is he running?” have to be the SECOND time he’s “directed to move” and gumming up his whole false narrative. Now he has to insist that he was asked/told TWICE to move, and he’s screwed up the simple twist of the tale from TM passed me heading east to TM doubled back and circled me, a tale that sort of fits the NEN call so long as GZ was never on the line while he was up by the clubhouse. Too bad he insists he was, when played the recording.
(Imagine a 911 operator telling a caller, “We need you to go downstairs and see what that burglar is doing in your kitchen.” It’s a ludicrous idea. )
The movement from the clubhouse to the cut thru is EXTREMELY problematical for the defense since IMO GZ is caught lying to investigators and the only witness they can impeach to refute the lies is the defendant himself, one George Zimmerman. And the lies continue all the way up until he tells the dispatcher “he ran,” and possibly “have them call me (instead of meeting my by the mailboxes”. If I were the prosecution I’d make this the number one point to hammer in to a jury’s heads – that GZ lied to investigators as to where he was, why he moved and what it meant that he told these lies in a pattern of omissions regarding following the teen.
Circumstantial evidence suggests he continued to seek the teen until he found him, and of course there is that all important admission of “Are you following him?” “Yeah. ”
To me all the rest is just a cakewalk – the prosecution need only offer circumstantial evidence that backs a narrative that GZ did something other than what he’s claimed, and a jury will go along with quite a bit of what they suggest on faith since whatever the defense says will seem like more lies, even when they are telling the truth about little things here and there.
tchoupi.caillou on August 8, 2012 at 11:46 am said:
Willis: “The FIRST time GZ says he was directed to move to keep an eye on the teen, he means when he got out of his car and followed on foot. But when SIngleton brings the map, he is confronted with the idea it doesn’t make sense for him to have driven so far past the clubhouse after just spotting TM near 1400 RVC. So IMO he invents the parking at the clubhouse parking lot then and there, and it all begins to slide downhill from there.”
I agree 200%. To sum it up, he started with a narrative, then he had to fix it to match the floorplan when shown one, then he failed to match his NE call when confronted with it.
Thanks, tchoupi. Of course when I posted that same scenario on TalkLeft it was deleted by the host. So good luck over there. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
It’s almost impossible to get a straight answer to a straight question over there from the majority of regulars at TalkLeft forums. They suffer from groupthink IMO and cling to the idea that since GZ wasn’t a Klan member he’s been railroaded somehow, as if one “media circus” is somehow responsible for everything bad that happened to GZ, such as being investigated and put on trial with a decent lawyer and judge with a great reputation. Oh, the injustice of being called out on his shenanigans with the hidden money and hidden passport. Give me a break. But for the GPS, George left jail with the means, motive and opportunity to flee the USA and his date with justice, and he may have had a great head start, too, all the while collecting money from “supporters” who run the gamut from slightly ignorant gun owners to the scum of the earth hate groups.
The parents of the dead teenager hired an advocate in order to gain attention to the case and fight for justice because they felt their son was incapable of an attack on a stranger, and that the police and local prosecutor were not working the case right, or hard enough. I think they have been vindicated based on what we’ve learned about Norm Wolfinger, but of course we don’t really know what he felt or did – he’s not spoken to the press much at all, and there hasn’t been any credible investigation into SPD or Wolfinger’s actions. The SOA needs the cooperation of the SPD in order to get the conviction and can’t risk upsetting the power structure there by poking into the case too much.
But all you have to do is look at a map, (preferably the one GZ himself drew on) and listen to the NEN call and the interviews in chronological order with an open mind and it’s all plain as day – this guy is a liar, and he’s got a clear pattern to his made up narrative that is easily proven to be lies all the way up to his insisting he was at RVC when he told Sean the NEN dispatcher “he ran.” IMO this false narrative deliberately excludes a car to pedestrian chase down TTL that is the cause of TM’s running away, an activity GZ NEVER mentions unless first prompted to speak about it.
But for the NEN call recording, the SPD would never have known TM ran away. GZ left it out of his written statement and his first several tellings. It seems ludicrous to me to think TM ran away skipping for no discernible reason, only to “double back” and attack GZ, just as it’s obvious TM never teleported to the cut thru in order to give GZ time to drive from clubhouse parking lot to the cut thru parking spot he claims without ever being in motion and in sight of the teenager walking east on TTL. His story just doesn’t hold water, and if you look at it carefully you can see the patterns he employs when he lies – when it doubt, George leaves it out. (example: What did GZ do with his hands the whole time they struggled? He leaves this out, mostly.)
Getting back to how GZ fashioned his false narrative, I hope someday we learn who coached him and what they told him specifically, but to put on my speculation hat I’d say it was Osterman who advised him on the scene, as he waited in the back of a squad car, to insist he never “followed” the teen and was “jumped” instead and also never tried to detain the youth. Osterman need not have had more than 3-5 minute to put his two cents in for George and set the false narrative in motion. But that’s purely speculation. Maybe George knew enough about self-defense to make all this cr*pola up on his own. But we do know that Osterman tacitly admitted he spoke to both GZ and the cops that night, seemingly before GZ was interviewed by Singleton. To me there is a mountain of “smoke” there and where there is smoke there is usually fire.
If you are determined to give TalkLeft a go, be sure to prepare yourself for an exercise in futility for the most part, and read and understand the ever-flexible and changing “rules” for posting, and always keep a copy of what you write since it’s subject to deletion.
“common sense for change” –
Here is my specific replies to your notes. I wish I had taken more time to review the recording but honestly I didn’t. I hope however that I have answered your questions. GZ has a lot of problems with his inconsistent stories. He’s got bigger problems with the proven lies he told investigators.
I tend to think GZ never saw T M by Taaffe’s house, as Tchoupi’s analysis of the clubhouse videos suggest, but also because GZ continually conflates the earlier actions of a “goon” around Taaffe’s house with what are supposed to be his own recollections of the night – and his inconsistent placement of the teen, as seen on the map and in Singleton’s opinion of where he marked it, as seen in the video walk thru “re-enactment.” Her idea of where GZ told her he first saw the teen seems to differ from what GZ tells police during the video.
I have no opinion about this. I also don’t see the relevance other than of course this was the first chance GZ ignored to identify himself. I suppose it speaks to intent.
I don’t doubt that his car was running, and that his lights were on when he faced the cut thru, but I suspect his lights were off when he faced the mailboxes. He may have crept up to the mailboxes with them off from the cut thru corner where he seems to be seen making a u turn. IMO the timing of the NEN call recording shows that he had to be somewhere IN BETWEEN his town contradictory supposed positions of clubhouse parking lot and cut thru.
He gives directions that seem to be to TTL past the clubhouse. I have not heard the “make and model” part that some claim is stepped on by dispatch.
He says this many times. I think he recalls a blow to the nose and falling into the grass – just not where he claims it happened. It seems plain to me that IF this happened, it was in John’s backyard and possibly AFTER the standing struggle / argument that residents seem to have heard. GZ tells this “he punched, you fell” (as Serino puts it to him) story before being taken to the scene and understanding he needed to add the “stumble” to the tale. I once made a chart of all the ways GZ describes the start of the altercation, but I can’t find it just now. He’s pretty consistent on the blow that knocked him to the ground, except when he is there on the scene, when he tells it differently and adds the stumble but only moves around 26-28 feet to illustrate instead of the full ~45 feet.
We know at least JohnW6 looked and said something to him.
I have no idea what he meant by this. If the altercation did start near the keychain flashlight the two may have banged into the dog waste station, but I think that would have been in a standing position as GZ tried to detain the teen. It’s unimportant to the prosecution to sort this out.
GZ has some slight injuries to the back of his head. But of course this description differs from others, where the banging was first, then the smothering, and then the verbal death threat etc. It all adds up to an inconsistent tale that the prosecution can argue is evidence of his pushing a false narrative, and part of a pattern they can establish more fully in other areas.
no opinion on this.
Others seem to speak about an interlude and an admission that the gun was placed on the ground. GZ has a pattern to his troublesome actions: “when in doubt, leave it out.” I tend to doubt it will come up at trial. But if it does, it’s yet another “inconsistency.”
An ambulance should have been sent for at that time and was not. The prosecution can argue this speaks to intent, but I’m not sure how much “traction” they can get. What’s speaking to intent to me is the lack of actions by GZ to try to revive the teen personally and his supposed lack of understanding about Travon’s medical condition overall.
Probably true. Hard to say. I don’t trust either Smith or GZ at this point, and understand why TM’s family, esp Tracy Martin felt there was more to the case than the SPD was telling him. W13 should be questioned about these events, but that probably didn’t happen because the SAO needs all the cooperation it can get for the SPD and can’t “look a gift hours in the mouth.” It’s sad and verging on criminal that there has been no credible outside investigation into SPD and Norm Wolfinger’s actions surrounding the case. This to me is an even bigger outrage than the alleged murder itself.
again, this first interview is quite important to consider, as it happened quickly after the events. Looking at the interviews one always has to consider the chronology. At the least, this is another “inconsistency.” It might just be the truth as well. It seems unlikely that the fatally wounded teen would be able to say much with no air in his lungs and his heart shattered. I’m sure the prosecution can call an expert witness to speak to this issue. IANAD, however.
nice catch.
VITAL, but we need to see a decent copy of the google map he drew on later. See my flickr set for reams of speculation about this. This first map is just some squiggles most likely. It’s NOT the hand drawn map on pg 18 of the 284 pg 2nd pdf. That mao seems to be from a witness, likely the “distraught teacher” who lives at the top of the T.
If a teenager sees a lurker calling on a cell phone while he loiters, and that teenager is black, he could reasonably be expected to draw a conclusion that it was a resident calling the cops. Of course, the “Why are you following me” question Dee Dee recalls speaks to this issue. It’s an odd assertion but I don’t think the prosecution is going to get much traction here in refuting the assertion itself, but the alternative scenario is that GZ is grasping at straws, and trying to omit and obscure his pursuit.
GZ was at the Tee heading east while on the phone, even if a jury is to believe the impossible assertion that he had continued all the way to RVC when he is recorded saying “he ran'” without running to get there. more inconsistencies about the location of the phone exist, but the assertion of being at RVC when he said “he ran” is a provable lie. He lied to investigators and that’s a fact in this regard. Sure he could have been “mistaken,” but it’s a significant mistake moments before a fatal shooting. That’s never good for the defense to have to admit.
See above. Tim Smith is a person of interest in my book. But absent a credible outside investigation, we are unlikely to get to the bottom of what Smith did or didn’t do to falsely represent the events of the evening, if anything. I find it significant that he claims GZ told the EMTs about calling for help but the EMTs don’t seem to recall this. Osterman figures in here somewhere, possibly but again we don’t know yet.
speaks for itself. Has little or no bearing on the case, IMO however. His actions of the evening are what matters, and being on NW doesn’t speak to intent to me. He admits he was not “on patrol,” that night but claims he was going to a big box store for groceries.
“- 10:05 — Zimmerman said burglars committing crimes know the neighborhood very well and they “cut in between buildings”.
I do understand the conflation is suspicious. But I’m leaning towards Zimmerman observed first and then called dispatch. I actually think tchoupi’s analysis confirms this. The light show tchoupi made would not be evident from Taaffe’s house (I don’t think), but the light show would show what occurred after rounding the bend towards the clubhouse.
If anything, the piece of the light show that could confirm a drive-by/stop/slow down near Taaffe’s house would be shown on the *opposite view of the pool — not the lights from the TTL side. Maybe I need to study the light show some more.
“- 12:00 — zimmerman said he rolled his window up as soon as he saw Martin approaching and he couldn’t hear anything Trayvon Martin may have said and “stayed on the phone with dispatch”.
Exactly it goes to intent. Zimmerman was trying to paint Trayvon Martin as a criminal by suggesting Martin was angered by Zimmerman’s calling the police on him. HOW DOES TRAYVON MARTIN KNOW THIS IF THE WINDOWS WERE ROLLED UP? If Zimmerman couldn’t hear what Trayvon Martin was saying with the windows up, chances are real slim that Trayvon Martin could hear what Zimmerman was saying to dispatch.
Wrongly profiled by Zimmerman?
Totally agree here. Can’t wait for the trial so we can see evidence versus faxed and obscured pieces. Please repost your link when you get a chance. I thought I had bookmarked it, but I have so many bookmarks now that even my bookmarks are difficult to wade through.
Sorry I’ve only had quick looks at the awful grainy google map GZ drew on, but in the interrogation (2nd short one with Singleton on Axiom Amnesia site), he was asked to put X’s and the words “car” and 911 (maybe he corrected her and said non-emergency, so maybe he wrote NEN.) are these words on any of the maps you guys have?
CommonSenseForChange on August 15, 2012 at 3:41 pm said:
Excellent point. No. Those markings are not.
tchoupi.caillou on August 8, 2012 at 12:41 pm said:
After finally reading Frances’ article I want congratulate the whole team here.
I also wanted to run an experiment. That is, I made my first post on TalkLeft. I want to see how much apart we are and get challenged a little bit.
To do so, I picked a threat created by Unitron (I guess our Unitron) and dedicated to GZ as a witness. In there, I found an interesting post and replied to it. I copied it below for you to see. If I have time, I’ll post here some replies to show how people think in the Invader Zim Fan club.
[quote author=txantimedia link=topic=2037.msg100281#msg100281 date=1344348259]
Try to keep up. Z was going to the store. As he rounded the turn on RVC to turn left at the gate, he spotted Trayvon. He drove past him. Then Trayvon walked past his car, looking at him as he went by, and disappeared between two houses. Then Z moved his car over onto TTL and parked. Suddenly TM re-emerged out of the shadows and circled his car. Then he ran down the sidewalk and turned right on the T. At that point Z lost him again. As he exited his vehicle and headed toward the T, he looked to his right to see where TM had gone, but he couldn’t locate him.
Then he walked to RVC, got an address, reversed course and headed toward the T, where TM jumped him.
Clear now?
This is what I understood Z stated. What I don’t get is the timing and dispatcher requests claimed by Z.
Z spotted and passed TM by FT’s house. He calls NEN and, as he states in the reenactment, as he connected with dispatcher, he parked to the front of the clubhouse.
It took 42sec in the reenactment to go from FT’s to the parking spot at the clubhouse.
At typical walking speed, and TM was walking at typical to fast speed judging from the 7-11 videos, it takes about 1m & 44sec to swallow the same distance. So, TM would catch up with Z at about 1min in the NEN call.
This is about right as Z notices TM 42sec in his call and says “Now, he’s coming toward me” at the 1:03 mark. When pressed by Singleton on Feb. 29th, Z stressed that he was still in front of the clubhouse 1min in his call. So again, it fits well his narrative.
The “now” suggests TM stopped walking as he was staring at Z. So, at ~1min TM still is 20sec away from Z’s Ridgeline. Meaning he would pass by Z at ~1:20 in the NEN call. This is about when Z says “Something’s wrong with him. Yep, he’s coming to check me out. He’s got something in his hands. I don’t know what his deal is.”. This sounds very consistent at this point.
Z clearly says in the reenactment that TM walked by him while he was on the phone and made a right turn on TTL after what he lost sight on him.
This is when, according to Z, Dispatcher would have asked Z to move to a place where he would see TM.
That leads to the 1st remark: I can’t pin point in the NEN call when Dispatcher made that requested.
In any case, TM must have turned right on TTL and disappeared at or after the 1:20 mark in the NEN call.
Still pressed by Singleton on Feb. 29th, Z points to the background noise at 1:41 in his NEN call as the time he was parking on TTL.
So, it took ~21sec for Z to tell Dispatcher about loosing TM, get Dispatcher’s request that I can’ find, back off the parking spot, drive to the cut through on TTL and park. In the reenactment, just the driving part took 38sec.
2nd remark: Time looks short for Z to go from the clubhouse to the cut through on TTL
In the reenactment Z states that as he parked, he could see TM disappears in the darkness turning south at the T after noticing him.
To get to the T from the clubhouse, TM had to walk a distance of roughly 400ft.
Following Z’s statement, TM would have traveled the 400ft in roughly 21sec.
3rd remark: According to Z, TM must have traveled on foot at ~13MPH from the clubhouse to the T.
T reemerges from the darkness to circle Z’s Ridgeline.
4th remark: The circling is missing in the Feb. 29th interview when Z is asked to match his story to his NEN call. At least, i can’t pinpoint it.
In the reenactment, Z explains that a saw TM coming back from the T, walking to his truck, and circling it before running to disappear again at the T.
In his NEN cal Z says “Shit! He’s running” at the 2:07 mark. So, the walking-to-circling must have happen between the 1:41 & 2:07 marks.
In that period, Z talks about how to find his truck from the north gate.
5th remark: The circling is absent of the NEN call. It sounds like a pretty significant event, though.
Walking from the T and circling the truck covers roughly 250ft (including circling the truck). TM would have traveled ~250ft in ~26sec at a speed of ~9.6ft/sec. The average walking speed is 4.4ft/sec.
6th remark: TM was not running yet but managed to move at ~9.6ft/sec.
Z states that after TM disappeared, Dispatcher demanded the address he was parked at. So, he exited his truck to find that address.
7th remark: On the NEN call, Z is already out of his truck when dispatcher asks for an address.
Once he exited his truck, wind interference can be heard on the call. Dispatcher thinks Z is running after the suspect. Serino & Singleton think the same on Feb. 29th and press Z for an answer to whether he was running. Z claims he was not running and that the weather was windy.
Two weather stations, one 1.5Mi east of RATL & one 0.75 SSW of RATL show the weather was not windy. It was even not breezy. It was just calm but rainy.
The weather stations also show that whatever slow wind there was, it’s general direction was East or North-East meaning that probably Z should have have the wind blowing in his back.
Wind is measured 50ft-70ft above ground where it is faster.
The M&I Bank video located confirms the rain and the absence of wind (no visible rain angle).
8th remark: There was a very local wind at the cut through on TTL
Z states he exited his truck to walk to RVC where he could give an address to Dispatcher.
However, he never give that address. I don’t get the reasoning behind looking for an address away from where he is parked. It would have been easier for him to drive to a place he knows like any of the tow gates.
9th remark: I can’t find when in the NEN call he tells Dispatcher
10th remark: I don’t have the reasoning for going on foot looking for an address on RVC while parked on TTL.
Z claims he is at the RVC end of the dog walk when he ends his NEN call by agreeing to meet at his truck.
However, at the 3:49 mark of his call, he suddenly interrupts Dispatcher who was confirming the meeting at the mailboxes and asks to be called instead.
11th remark: Z sounds like he changed his mind about meeting at the mailboxes.
Z claims he walked back to his truck right after ending his NEN call and was attacked by TM 100ft from RVC.
The NEN call ends at 7:13:39 and the first 911 call by W11 starts at 7:16:11. W11 claims she promptly called 911 after she heard the argument turning into cryings.
Z claims there barely was no argument: 1) TM confronted him with “Do you have a problem/”. 2) Z answered with “I don’t have a problem”, 3) Z looked for his cellphone, 4) TM replied “You have a problem now”. ad punched Z in the nose.
12th remark: There is a 2min & 32sec gap that is not accounted for.
NLME said
In my opinion this is a stretch. Considering that TM had walked all the way to 7Eleven and back, he was “close to home” when he was at the clubhouse.
But sure, many things are physically possible. Arguing an alternative to what GZ claims is going to take witnesses. To me the important part is that someone closed a gap between the two people, regardless of where they were. TM ran away as GZ followed, as he told the dispatcher. Dee Dee seems to have heard GZ close the gap on a TM who was not in pursuit or doubling back to force a confrontation.
What’s NOT possible is that GZ’s contradictory stories are physically possible, either likely version when it comes to how he traveled from the vicinity of the clubhouse to the place he claims he parked on TTL by the cut thru. He’s lied to investigators to hide his relentless pursuit. The placement of the players is not as important as you seem to think. They were apart, they came together – the running away unarmed kid and the angry, lying, admitted killer who kept “following” as he also admitted.
I don’t care if they waltzed across Texas before ending up in JohnW6’s backyard. It’s not that important to “know” exactly where they stood or walked, other than to say they were clearly off the path to GZ’s truck and ON the path to TM’s home when it all ended. But if one has to know where they were, all that I can say for sure is that they seemed to be in the confines of the “debris field.” What evidence, not eyewitness testimony, but physical EVIDENCE is there that they were anywhere else?
Absent a CREDIBLE eyewitness who saw the start of the fight or the whole foot chase/ pursuit, whatever I doubt the prosecution is going to lead with “the went this way and then this way” anyhow. They are going to say “GZ is a proven liar about the move from the clubhouse, and his other statements are inconsistent with the physical evidence. We think he pursued the teen and shot him while trying to illegally detain him, as (partially) corroborated by W2, Dee Dee, and others who heard a different type of struggle and argument that GZ describes, and by the way, here’s TM’s MOM to say that’s him screaming for help, which cannot be scientifically disproven according to the FBI. That gets them at least to manslaughter. If they have more, they may get to Murder 2. I wouldn’t want to be George, left to wonder who among his friends and family may have turned state’s evidence already.
Sorry if I already asked this of you — especially if you’ve already answered it — but, is there a deadline for evidence/witness statements to be submitted by?
willisnewton on August 8, 2012 at 10:04 pm said:
damfino. IANAL. The standard I think is “timely” sharing of discovery, which of course means whatever lawyers chose that to mean. The defense has yet to share the results of its investigative work with the prosecution, so I’m guessing that there is still a lot to come.
We’ve not yet heard what Singleton told the FBI (in summary form) or the actual recordings of Serino’s interview with them either. No one seems to know who W10 is for certain. Who knows what else is out there. It’s in the interests of the prosecution to hold back anything that might indicate their strategy at trial, so It’s likely that they’ve saved the best for last in some regards.
The deadline as I understand it, is before trial starts. O’Mara keeps trying to hold “mini trials” partially as a means to probe the prosecution’s strategy. The other reason is that he can score some early points in the court of public opinion this way, since it’s possible he may not make it to trial. The majority of all cases in the USA end with a plea bargain. I’m not sure what the state might offer for a guilty plea to M2, but it’s likely to take the form of a sentence recommendation of some sort, I’d imagine. I don;t know if they would agree to a guilty plea to manslaughter or not. the ball seems to be in GZ’s court just now, in that it would be up to the defense to ask for a plea deal.
GZ’s ego seems strong, but that’s just the public face of it. Osterman may be under threat of a charge of tampering with evidence. Shellie, his own wife faces perjury charges. That’s his best friend/ bodyguard and his own wife, who are possibly about to turn state’s evidence on him, (if they have not already) for all he knows. Others in his inner circle may know things that are not good for his case, and may have been subject to wiretaps and electronic search warrants, who knows? GZ must know he’s lied to investigators and that his story has flaws in it. The state has been holding its cards close to the vest and claims they can prove Murder 2. Are they bluffing? It’s easy for his supporters to brag “they got nuthin'” but it’s not their arse on the line.
GZ has one thing to offer, that’s to spare the state the expense of a full blown trial if he chooses to plead guilty – assuming the state is willing to make a deal at all. Angela Corey seems to have political aspirations, and her own big ego to deal with. This may go all the way to a lengthy televised trial. Certainly the SYG hearing is not likely to result in an acquittal, IMO. The announcement that they want one may be a bluff in and of itself. There’s always more under the surface that what is visible.
Florida has strict minimum sentencing laws. Are you sure prosecutors in FL have the discretion to offer plea bargains for sentence reductions?
Not that I think the State would offer one anyway. Everyone would hate it — we all want to hear the end of the story. Too much political fallout for just turning off the tap in some kind of compromise. And somehow I don’t see GZ seeing himself pleading to homicide as part of God’s plan. If the Lord wants a trial, who are Mark O’Mara or Angela Corey to say otherwise?
probalance on August 8, 2012 at 7:20 pm said:
Guys please listen to these excerpts from Zims former lawyers questioning him about his inconsistencies during his police interrogation and his version of events. You’re going to love their obvious skepticism and are going to realize why George apparently jumped ship and why they really withdrew from the case. Hilarious :
@probalance. Among his many lies, his use of the word “homie” was quickly questioned by Serino. Since then, GZ has not used that word in his recount of events, so we know it’s not true. But for the sake of discussion, I’m going to show (again) my ignorance of slang and ask, in what context would you expect that word to be used? My quick search of the word usage brought this page up: http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/homie ???? Not useful.
But seriously, GZ was trying to make him sound as much like a thug as possible. Hence “WTF’s your problem, homie?”. Would a black teenager or even 20-something-year-old use the word homie if he’s wanting to challenge a strange hispanic/white man? Just wondering if GZ’s basketball buddies (hispanic or black) might have used that word, but in the context of it being among friends. Or is it just so outdated that no one under the age of 50 uses it, and GZ is pulling stuff out of his a$$?
I would bet that I’m probably the youngest person commenting on the case here (one of the youngest without a doubt). I’m in my mid, heading into late twenties. “Homie” was very popular and widely used predominately in the 90s. Typically, it was used between friends. I remember In Living Color and the phrase “homie don’t play that!”
It’s not a word I hear often, and definitely not one I hear the kids and tees of today using. It’s mostly used now by white people in a joking way sort of as a throw back to when we were younger.
Only my opinion, which may not be worth much, but GZ’s using slang from the time he grew up to put into TM’s mouth of how he thinks a black youth would talk.
Nice vid! I’m real interested in the clicking noise. I’m going back to my SPD version of the NEN call to see if I can hear this. If it’s there, case over and I’m re-forked! 🙂
@probalance says listen to excerpts from Zim’s former lawyers
Actually, it’s splices of walk through on 2/27, 1st interview w/ Serino & Singletary on 2/28′ & Hannity’s tv interview but not his lawyers. It’s a great find, though especially the clicks.
How Zimm didn’t become wary of Serino’s / Singletary tone, stop interview, & ask for an attorney is dumbfounding to me. Pretty sure he and wifey watch some CSI type shows.
So back to my question, why would MO toss him into this briar patch?MO knows when they called him back in for another interview on 2/28, they weren’t closing his case. This was not going to be any slam dunk. Rather, his bff needed attorney ASAP! MO is with him 2/26 till 3AM,then on walk thru next day, this interview, and then has Zimm & wifey move into his place while all hell breaks loose. Sticks to him like glue.
So, what is MO’s real motivation to give unwavering support and unwavering horrible advice?
Thank you, probalance.
Diaryofasuccessfulloser on August 8, 2012 at 8:12 pm said:
Just announced: THERE WILL BE A “STAND YOUR GROUND” HEARING.
Please post a link.
It is posted in the GZLC Facebook page. I can’t post a link from my iPad.
Oh. I figured out how: http://gzlegalcase.com/index.php/press-releases/42-there-will-be-a-stand-your-ground-hearing-in-the-george-zimmerman-case
This is going to go well for him. LOL. Mark O’Mara must really hate is client. Actually, he wants to test the waters. He knows this does not fit SYG…or self-defense.
Per the legal team: The SYG hearing is going to take the “same time and resources” as a trial. i.e., donations please.
Exactly, this is not an announcement of a filing of a motion to the court at all; it’s a plea for donations attached to nothing. Things must be going slow over at Peter Pan headquarters.
Pixs of buffalo jeans…type GZ wore 2/26
http:://www1.macys.com/search/results.ognc?sortOption=*&Keyword=buffalo%20jeans&resultsPerPage=24&Action=sd&attrs=Gender%3AGender%3AMens%7CDepartment%3ADepartment%3AJeans%7CMens+Waist+Size%3AMens+Waist+Size%3A38%7CColor%3AColor%3ABlue%7CBrand:Brand:Buffalo+David+Bitton
Lonnie Starr on August 15, 2012 at 4:45 am said:
No blunt was found on TM and the opportunity to smoke one did not present.
As far as communications between GZ and FT and others, I’m reading on other blogs that they used walkie talkies. In fact on Frederick Leatherman’s law blog someone cited Taaffe as having said that they do, I asked for a link to where he says this, but no reply.
Link please? This has been a major source of frustration for NLME as long as I’ve been posting here and I admit I’m curious about this, too.
Would love to see evidence that the Neighborhood Watch at that neighborhood (RTL) was using walkie talkies on their patrols to communicate. If there is evidence of the walkie-talkie use, did the HOA pay for the walkie-talkies? Did Zimmerman?
Was So Interesting on August 15, 2012 at 4:53 pm said:
I think it’s really dangerous to pick up things from blogs, others or even this one, without thoroughly reading the history of the discussion. As a regular reader, you’d know if something was just brought up or if there was a consensus. I really like QETNO’s pseudonym, Question Everything Trust No One. The walkie talkie theory was only put up as an explanation possibly of how GZ could have communicated with a potential partner in crime. It’s fine to theorize (as in, to fill in gaps) but now people are talking about it as if it was fact????? The other thing that has bothered me was the “keys are in my truck” and “keys are in my ignition”. I don’t hear it on the call, and those two phrases do not sound at all alike. Sounds like people are trying reaaallllyyyy hard to push a square peg through a round hole. Yet I just popped over to the Leatherman blog for the first time, and it seems like everyone over there is convinced of it. I throw out theories all the time, but I hope that people understand it when it’s a theory, and when I’m trying to present something that I believe to be more factual.
Lonnie Starr on August 15, 2012 at 7:10 pm said:
NLME first mentioned the possibility that they may have used cb radios, quite some time ago. My guess is that others have grabbed the ball and ran with it. So that now we’re hearing echoed assertions without any substance behind them.
As I said, the person who stated it on Leatherman’s blog was not let off unchallenged. I asked them to provide a link or a cite or anything else that might substantiate such a claim.
I’ll post any information I get, here as soon as I do. And yes, I have also speculated that they may have used walkie talkies, but I also said that was sheer speculation on my part and that I had no evidence to support such a claim, just as NLME said of his posit.
We posit things that appear to be indicated by the evidence, in hope that others will keep an eye out for things that might confirm it. Not to put the basis of rumor into the hands of the millers. Never-the-less it happens.
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/ Cory Doctorow / 12:46 pm Mon Nov 25, 2019
Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing
James Scott's 1998 classic Seeing Like a State describes how governments shoehorn the governed into countable, manageable ways of living and working so that they can be counted and steered by state bureaucracies. Political scientist Henry Farrell (previously) discusses how networked authoritarianism is touted by its advocates as a way of resolving the problems of state-like seeing, because if a state spies on people enough and allows machine-learning systems to incorporate their behavior and respond to it, it is possible to create "a more efficient competitor that can beat democracy at its home game" -- providing for everyone's needs better than a democracy could.
China is a good example of this: both its proponents and its detractors say that with machine learning and ubiquitous surveillance, China is creating a sustainable autocracy, capable of solving the "basic authoritarian dilemma": "gathering and collating information and being sufficiently responsive to its citizens’ needs to remain stable."
But Farrell speculates that this isn't actually what's happening -- China is actually incredibly unstable (wildcat strikes, seemingly unstoppable pro-democracy movements, concentration camps, debt bubbles, manufacturing collapse, routine kidnappings, massive corruption, etc).
If machine learning and surveillance are helping to stabilize China, it's not (merely, or primarily) by allowing for efficient allocations that diffuse anti-authoritarian sentiment -- it's by spying on people so that they can be arrested and sent to prison and have their organs harvested.
Pro-democracy theorists point out that political liberty is a stabilizing force because the "openness to contrary opinions and divergent perspectives" creates "countervailing tendencies to self-reinforcing biases" -- a means for the state to correct itself.
The theory of sustainable networked authoritarianism (Farrell suggests calling it "Aithoritarianism") is that surveillance and machine learning can root out "self-reinforcing biases" without giving dissidents any political space or legitimacy.
But there's lots of evidence that this isn't what's happening in China. Rather than scaling up Singapore's mix of authoritarianism and technocratic planning to 1.386b people, China could become "radically monstrous and more radically unstable."
Like all monotheoretic accounts, you should treat this post with some skepticism – political reality is always more complex and muddier than any abstraction. There are surely other effects (another, particularly interesting one for big countries such as China, is to relax the assumption that the state is a monolith, and to think about the intersection between machine learning and warring bureaucratic factions within the center, and between the center and periphery).Yet I think that it is plausible that it at least maps one significant set of causal relationships, that may push (in combination with, or against, other structural forces) towards very different outcomes than the conventional wisdom imagines. Comments, elaborations, qualifications and disagreements welcome.
Seeing Like a Finite State Machine [Henry Farrell/Crooked Timber]
(Image: Derzsi Elekes Andor , CC BY-SA, modified; Cryteria, CC BY, modified)
#hongkongprotests / Aithoritarianism / machine learning / networked authoritarianism / seeing like a state / surveillance authoritarianism / Xinjiang
The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble
Yesterday's column by John Naughton in the Observer revisited Nathan Myhrvold's 1997 prediction that when Moore's Law runs out -- that is, when processors stop doubling in speed every 18 months through an unbroken string of fundamental breakthroughs -- that programmers would have to return to the old disciplines of writing incredibly efficient code whose […]
Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating
Machine learning systems are notorious for cheating, and there's a whole menagerie of ways that these systems achieve their notional goals while subverting their own purpose, with names like "model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks."
Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change
Next month, I'm giving a keynote talk at The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI, an event at UC Irvine that features Bruce Sterling, Rose Eveleth, David Kaye, and many others!
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Film Review: ‘Fate of the Furious’!
by Gumbercules9000 on Apr 13th, 2017
We’re eight movies into this franchise, which would have you assume that these films would have lost steam, been remade, or have a completely new cast. That’s not the case at all with ‘Fate of the Furious‘ or the 8th installment of the ‘Fast and Furious‘ franchise, because there are no signs of this franchise slowing down, being remade, or losing any of its fun cast.
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Blu-ray Announcement and Pre-Order: ‘Moana’!
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The gang’s all here, almost. The cast for ‘Fast & Furious 8‘ reads like a who’s who in Hollywood with Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel leading the pack. F. Gary Gray (‘Straight Outta Compton‘) directed the latest in the ‘Fast and the Furious‘ line of films Additional cast includes Jordana Brewster, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Helen Mirren, and Kurt Russell. The film hits big screens on April 14, 2017.
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Gambol:
You think you can steal from us and just walk away?
The Joker:
The Dark Knight (2008) The Movie Quotes
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A LANCASHIRE MONASTIC WAY. 12. Grange to Cartmel and Cark.
Hampsfell Hospice.
There are brown signs off the motorway now for the Lakeland Penninsulars. What are they? – well, presumably Cartmel, Furness and Copeland. Lancashire previously hosted Furness and Cartmel and hence they are included in this walk. Today I’ll briefly cover the Cartmel Peninsula which I reached by train although travellers of old, on foot, would have taken the perilous crossing of the Kent Estuary. From the station at Grange, I walk into the bustling town, but only as far as S Cafe in one of the Victorian Arcades, opposite the duck pond. Once that coffee pleasantry was over a short walk up Windermere Road and I took a signed path into Eggerslack Woods. Hampsfield rather than Hampsfell though I hoped they would be the same. This is limestone country encircling the southern Lake District. For about a mile I followed a good path through trees; birch, holly and yew. I suspect that this area would have been heavily coppiced in the past perhaps for bobbins for the textile mills and for wood for charcoal burning,
Climbing a stile suddenly brings you out onto the open fell with paths going everywhere. I select a well-walked route that fortunately steers me directly to the Hospice on the summit. I kept looking behind as views over the Kent Estuary opened up with Arnside Knott dominating the coast. I was last here whilst exploring the ‘Wainwright Outlying Fells’ 4 years ago almost to the day so I won’t repeat all the information. For more history look here. The shelter was erected in 1846 by a vicar from Carmel for the benefit of walkers so is not a hospice in the traditional sense. From up here, I can see down into Cartmel with the Priory prominent and behind Mount Barnard where perhaps the first priory was established. That visit 4years ago also included an ascent of Cartmell Fell from a little church that happens to be a Chapel of Ease to today’s priory.
A steep descent brings you into the back of the village and directly to Cartmel Priory. As I entered through the graveyard I noticed that a large fenced off area of graves is grazed by sheep, unusual. The priory was established by William Marshall in 1188 and now all that remains is the church and a gatehouse. The Augustinians had allowed the locals to worship here and at Dissolution, the church was spared even if its roof was destroyed. A benefactor, George Preston of nearby Holker Hall, reroofed the church in the C17. The exterior of the priory is noted for the upper tower built diagonally on the Norman one.
Once inside the grandeur of the church is revealed – a massive nave with a dominant East Window containing medieval glass. The choir stalls from the C13 – 14 are famous for their mouldings and inventive misericords. The wood has an ancient feel to the touch.
Elsewhere is the elaborate tomb of Lord Harrington who may have slain the last wolf in the kingdom. at nearby Humphrey Head. There are graves to people lost in crossing the sands of Morecambe Bay. At one time the Priory was responsible for providing guides for those crossings. Skull and crossbones decoratives are on several graves.
In a corner of the church is an alcove with a loaf of bread bequeathed by Rowland Briggs in the C18 to the poor of the parish and the tradition is maintained to this day.
Completing the interest is Cromwell’s Door which shows bullet holes either fired by villagers on the Roundheads or by the visiting army itself.
The only other original remnant of the priory is the Gatehouse on the edge of the village square. Everywhere was busy with festive celebrations.
From the village square, with its ancient cross, I walked across the racecourse to join a track going all the way to Holker Hall. Holker Hall was closed and nothing can be seen of it from the road although the estate buildings are of interest. Down the road, I walked into Cark alongside the River Eea on its way from Cartmell to the Leven Estuary. The station at Cark was soon reached concluding a short but enjoyable stroll of considerable interest.
This entry was posted in Art and architecture., Lake District, Long Distance Walks., Walking. and tagged Art and architecture., Lake District., Lancashire Monastic Way., Long Distance Walks, Wainwright's Oulying Fells, Walking. on December 25, 2019 by bowlandclimber.
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2 thoughts on “A LANCASHIRE MONASTIC WAY. 12. Grange to Cartmel and Cark.”
George December 27, 2019 at 4:16 pm
Wonderful account. Great to follow your footsteps around my home turf and learn a thing or two in the process. I’ve climbed Hampsfell (or Hampsfield Fell to give it its full name) many times, but never via Eggerslack woods, as I live the other side of Cartmel. Must try this route as a variation.
Excuse my stepping into your territory.
The way up from Grange through Eggerslack Woods is perfect.
These are lakeland backwaters.
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Global Beat, KFAI 05/27/09
On today’s edition of Global Beat (sitting in for Doug Cain) we heard new music from Caetano Veloso, Ceu, Vieux Farka Toure, and an amazing group of street musicians from the Congo called Staff Benda Bilili who have just issued their first album on Crammed Discs. Plus, can I say it?: lots, lots more. The program is available for streaming for two weeks at the KFAI site here. Complete playlist follows the break.
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More Olga Lehmann
Olga Lehmann could have considered creating record covers for UK label Argo in the mid 50s as a sideline to her bustling career as a set designer for the stage, costume designer for film and book illustrator. It’s clear, however, that whenever she received an assignment from Argo it became an all-encompassing project: whether it was illustrating Dylan Thomas’ play for voices Under Milk Wood or music from Calypsonian Edric Connor (one example above), Lehmann took it upon herself to fit entire worlds into the 12 x 12″ format. No minimalist she.
Many thanks to Olga’s son Paul Huson for providing artwork for several of her LPs, and alerting me to the fact that her Wikipedia entry has been significantly upgraded and now includes a very detailed timeline of her marvelous career.
Tags:Argo Records, Calypso, Edric Connor & The Caribbeans, LP design, Olga Lehmann, Record Covers
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78 RPM Record Labels
Joel Slotnikoff of St. Louis, who curates one of the web’s first and still ongoing music sites, Blues World, has been putting together quarterly auctions of original pressings of jazz, blues, R&B, gospel and hillbilly 78s for 12 years running (his most recent just closed on Friday). A typical auction lists about 2,000 titles and of late Joel has been posting scans of some of the more rare and unusual labels, a small selection of which are shown above.
(related posts: 78 RPM Record Labels part 2, 78 RPM Record Labels part 3, Vintage Jazz Record Covers, More Vintage Jazz Record Covers, BYG Actuel Jazz LP Covers, Brazilian LP Covers, More Brazilian LP Covers, Reggae 45s, Reggae 45s Part 2, LP Cover Bonanza, Record Covers: Global Tour, Asian Pop Record Covers)
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The music of Chess Records from the 50s and 60s is some of the most incendiary in our history but very much of its time. People today may hear a Little Walter song or a Muddy Waters song and not be able to respond to it. The records were almost primally raw and really have no modern equivalent. The gift that Cadillac Records gives us is that it returns the context to this music. In an early scene when Muddy Waters and his band tear into 40 Days and 40 Nights it’s positively thrilling, just as it would have been in 1956.
Plenty of people on IMDb and elsewhere have complained about the historical inaccuracies in Cadillac Records. (In the entire history of movies I’d like to know which films “based on a true story” did not contain conflations of characters, chronological errors, and/or outright lies, in the interest of creating a saleable product… that’s right, there aren’t any.) Cadillac Records inevitably compresses events, gets details wrong, and does without some individuals (no Bo Diddley, no Phil Chess, no Marshall Chess). Yet writer and director Darnell Martin somehow is able to fit in the stories of five outsized personalities (Muddy, Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James), each a towering figure in American music, and remind us honestly why these people are important.
Musical biopics are an especially tricky business. Casting becomes ridiculously critical (who, I ask you, who is going to play James Brown? No one on earth is up to that. If it’s Spike Lee on the line, don’t pick up), and along with its beautiful set and costume design, Cadillac Records comes up a winner here pairing sure bets like Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright along with riskier picks like Beyonce and Mos Def. Everyone hits grace notes with their characters, including Columbus Short as the brilliant, doomed Little Walter. Having Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) as the narrative voice is spot on, and having Muddy Waters as the central thread of this story is not only inspired, but feels exactly right. Jeffrey Wright, asked to sing as well as act this titanic figure, plays him shrewdly, never pushing too hard, but always aware of his power. And miraculously, the rest of the cast rises to his level.
Tags:Adrien Brody, Cadillac Records, Chess Records, Chuck Berry, Darnell Martin, Etta James, Howlin' Wolf, Jeffrey Wright, Little Walter, Muddy Waters
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Asian Pop Record Covers
While I troll for reggae 45s by The Melodians on eBay, I’m regularly finding vibrant looking records from the prolific 60s Chinese pop group Maurice Patton and The Melodians. The covers are typically dynamic, colorful, and often feature pretty girls dancing “a go go.” Not the type of product you’d expect to see coming from the regime of Chairman Mao, the Melodians were based in swinging Hong Kong. Patton & The Melodians were just one facet of the massive world of 60’s Asian pop. For a far deeper taste, check out David Greenfield’s incredible gallery of Asian Pop Records, from which the covers shown here are but a small sample. Featuring meticulous scans of hundreds of rarities from Ismail Haron & The Guys, Agnes Chan (Will The Circle Game Be Unbroken in “Stereomono”), Chan Pao Chu, Chang Siao Ying, Lotus Liew (“Miss Singapore Runner Up 1967”) and many other artists from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Japan, the site is more evidence of the explosion of pop music around the globe in the 1960s.
(related posts: Vintage Jazz Record Covers, More Vintage Jazz Record Covers, BYG Actuel Jazz LP Covers, Brazilian LP Covers, More Brazilian LP Covers, Reggae 45s, Reggae 45s Part 2, LP Cover Bonanza, Record Covers: Global Tour)
Tags:Asian Pop record covers, Maurice Patton and The Melodians
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Lady Of The Night (1925), interrupted
Of course all praise to TCM for their early Monday morning series of silent movies. The recently aired Lady Of The Night features Norma Shearer in two roles: as the fortunate daughter (Florence) of the local judge who goes to an elite private school, and as an orphan (Molly) who is sent to reform school. They of course both grow up to resemble Norma Shearer (who is a powerhouse silent actress – I’d only previously seen her in talkies) and both fall in love with the same man, handsome young inventor David. (The ostensibly more naughty Molly struts around for most of the movie sporting one of the more absurd and impractical pieces of headwear ever seen in film, putting me in mind of Róisín Murphy’s sad/hilarious video from a couple of years ago.) David’s been seeing the streetwise Molly but when he presents his new safe-cracking invention to the judge (instead of crooks, at the behest of good-hearted Molly, and against the wishes of her squirrelly fiance “Chunky” Dunn) he falls for Florence. Inevitably Florence and Molly learn of each other (the scene in the car where they are both in the same frame still dazzles to this day) and Molly heroically surrenders David to the saintly Florence… at least that where it seems to end, but my DVR recording of it ended at the hour mark, a minute or two before the conclusion! Not available on DVD at this time, apparently I’ll have to wait until TCM gets around to showing this little charmer again and pad the timing by a few minutes. (Feel free to chime in with “spoilers” – knowing Hamlet’s going to die doesn’t ruin the play, after all.)
Tags:Lady Of The Night, Monta Bell, Norma Shearer, silent film
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Posts Tagged ‘Universal’
Bring horror back to the Beeb!
Posted: September 11, 2010 in FILM REVIEWS/COMMENTS
Tags: actress, bbc, BBC2, Beeb, Carnival of Souls, classic horror, dead people, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, dracula, entertainment, Film, film news, film preview, From Beyond the Grave, George A. Romero, Hammer Horror, Horror, horror film, horror news, ingrid Pitt, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, movies, Radio Times RKO, Scream Queen, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Ghoul, Universal, Vampire Lovers
Anyone that has listened my interviews over the years will know that I’m a fan of Hammer Horror films, but if I may add it’s in the oddest sense, they are not the greatest productions ever made but they have a Gothic, eerie, charm of their own with some fine performances, setting, sets, theatrical scores and things that go bump in the night.
I discussed this with the outlandish Scream Queen Ingrid Pitt, it became all to clear to me, having children of my own that Universal classics like ‘Dracula’, ‘The Wolfman’ and ‘Frankenstein’ may never be seen not just by British youngsters but US and the rest of worlds teens. That is unless they have some kind of horror influence in their lives and find stories, books , posters, of this genre of films intriguing to find out more. Young people haven’t or don’t get the opportunity to see the older horror movies or Hammer films that inspired me and others like The Reptile (1966), The Gorgon (1964) and Plague of the Zombies (1966) to others such as From Beyond the Grave, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors and The House That Dripped Blood. So when I heard about @cyberschizoid’s campaign (on Twitter) to bring back classic horror to BBC 2, I had to do my bit in joining in by telling you about my fantasy horror double bill.
Now while I could tell you about an array of UK productions from The Ghoul (1933) to Vampire Lovers(1970) and likes of 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein. Personally I’d love to see Dead People (1974) or Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) on the BBC 2 but I’ve chosen titles a possibly less obvious to most and not British. I believe they would make great first viewing and have the drawing power to intrigue, inspire and capture the imagination of new comers of the genre. So in true tradition of those BBC 2 days gone by here are my thoughts on an oldie black and white, followed by a colour film just like they were aired way back when…
BBC take note, I’d be happy to sit in a large leather chair in front of a log fire, in a drawing room and introduce these… And I’m a lot cheaper than Terry Wogan or Jonathan Ross. So turn that tuner, wait for the TV to heat up, this is my horror double bill…
Okay first up is Carnival of Souls (1962) and not a surprise to old school fans. A true horror classic Director Herk Harvey and writer John Clifford both waived their earnings in order to get the film made. Upon release in 1962 the film was a failure in the box office, thankfully its subsequent airings on late night television helped to gain it a strong cult following so Clifford and Herks work was not all in vain.
The delightful Candace Hilligoss is perfectly cast as the troubled woman that after surviving a traumatic car accident, that kills her two friends, becomes haunted by a frightening ghoul and drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival. It’s a shame that Hilligoss only acted in two features as she gives an impressive performance as Mary Henry.
The music is very creepy and a little too intrusive in places, however, for it’s time and budget it is a well crafted film. Carnival of Souls many not be as sleek and stylish as the Haunting (1963) but it is far more eerie. The zombies are not as imposing as in Night of the Living Dead, however, they are vastly creepier and macabre.
Oozing atmosphere it’s a creative and unnerving film that concludes with a common place twist but back in ’62 it was ahead of it’s time, a true cult classic.
And onto the next…
Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti” (original title) I know its Spanish/ Italian production but it’s set in England and feel very Brit.A crop dusting machine from the agricultural pest-control is emitting ultra-sonic waves that are re-animating corpses…
A lot have said this is underrated, granted it’s overlooked. It is Atmospheric with an ominous feel. It has great locations and is at times genuinely creepy. However, it’s shares more with Fulci than Romero. The acting is not aided by the bad dubbing. To its credit it has an eerie musical score by Giuliano Sorgini and a number of suspenseful sequences but it borrows many of its best sequences from Night of the Living Dead.
I watched director Jorge Grau’s offering under the title of ‘Let Sleeping Corpse Lie’ but whichever name you see the film under don’t be mistaken or mislead, it’s a solid zombie horror movie and of its time with fine cinematography from Francisco Sempere. It’s a lot better than the low budget DTV zombie films that there’s no shortage of at the moment.
For more information about the campaign visit cyberschizoid blog
and check out fellow supporter Amanda Norman’s blog
TERMINUS VAMPIRE FILM CLIPS
Posted: November 8, 2009 in Blood Hunger: Terminus
Tags: A.M. Esmonde, action, actress, adventure, alternative, assassin, Blood Hunger, bodies, Breathing Dead, bust, car, chiller, Clip, CLIPS, crazy, cult, dark, death, dread, dreadlocks, Drowning Pool, dying, Exculsive, Film, fox, full film, gloves, guns, guts, horor, Horror, InnerFace Films, Katherine DuBois, killer, leather, lions gate, long hair, machine, machinegun, merc, mgm, model, movie, NBC, new moon, novel, paramount, part, predator, preview, Previews, punk, rock, scene, Sean Parsons, sexy, shootup, straps, Terminus, thriller, twilight, Universal, vampire, vampires, woman, women, wounds
Exclusive, Clips on wordpress! Two Previews of Terminus Coming soon from Innerface Films Directed by Sean Parsons, Starring Katherine DuBois. Visit: http://www.terminusfilm.co.cc http://www.innerfacefilms.com Written by Sean Parsons losely based on an A.M. Esmonde Breathing Dead Novel.
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The Candy Crush Effect: How Apps for Boredom Monetized Mobile Addiction
Written by Amanda Zantal-Wiener
@amanda_zw
“I’m so bored.”
How many times a week do you utter that phrase? If it’s at least once, you’re in the same boat as roughly 63% of people. And according to the same report that drew that conclusion, how bored you are depends on several factors -- like location and other demographics. But chances are, we all have at least one common outlook on boredom: It can be remedied by the internet.
That often manifests itself via mobile, where 90% of our time is spent on apps. And under the app umbrella, here's how our time is broken down:
Messaging and social: 68%
Entertainment (which includes apps like YouTube): 44%
Gaming: 33%
To add further insight, 70% of that time on mobile social apps is spent consuming media. What do these factors indicate? All in all, we use our mobile devices to stay amused.
App developers are no dummies, either. The most strategic ones know that this boredom can be capitalized to earn revenue. But how does that work? Well, much of it has to do with psychology and -- we hate to say it -- how our brains are wired for addiction. We examined the research done in this area, and tracked down some of the apps that best monetized it.
The Psychology of Boredom
Why We Get Bored
A Chicken-and-Egg Scenario
Despite our use of mobile apps to relieve boredom, that might be what’s causing it in the first place. Researchers at Temple University have found that our increased attachment to mobile devices is making us less patient and more impulsive -- both of which can precede a lower tolerance for lack of stimulation. It’s harder for us to sit still, because the technology is always there for us to check and scroll. And the more we use it, the less time we can spend resisting it.
That’s corroborated by findings of cognitive neuroscientist James Danckert, whose research has led him to think of “boredom as a deficiency in self-regulation,” he explains. “It's a difficulty of engaging with tasks in your environment. The more self-control you have, the less likely you are to be bored.” And what’s another word for a lack of self-control? “Impulsive” -- a trait more of us seem to be experiencing with increased mobile use.
Why We Use Mobile to Alleviate Boredom Anyway
“People will work very hard to relieve boredom,” writes Maggie Koerth-Baker for Scientific American -- which is why, she says, we indulge in impulsive behavior, like binge-eating or other unhealthy activities, in order to alleviate it. But she goes on to explain that the answer to that often lies in novelty, using the example of an educational computer program designed for students with higher boredom levels, which insults the user every time a question is answered incorrectly.
Granted, we don’t spend all of our time on mobile devices being insulted -- despite that common nature of social media -- but it does provide a certain sense of novelty. It’s an instant remedy for inactivity that allows us to consume media, win games, and communicate with others. And our addiction to these devices -- which is rampant enough to have actually earned a name: Nomophobia -- works just like any other. We begin to need more of it in order to be satisfied.
And, in a nutshell, that’s how app developers monetize what they create -- by leveraging our addiction. But which apps did it best? Have a look at our top picks.
3 Apps for Boredom That Became Big Money Makers
1) Tinder
Source: World Vector Logo
When Time magazine profiled the founders of Tinder in 2014, author Laura Stampler summarized the dating app flawlessly:
Users are shown photos of nearby potential matches and can swipe right to ‘like’ and left for ‘nope.’ Mutual right swipes result in a match, followed by the prompt to either send a message or ‘keep playing.’ This ‘Keep playing! Keep playing!’ mantra has led to an epidemic of 500 million swipes (and 5 million matches) a day.”
Notice the language Stampler uses here: “Epidemic.” Even if you’re not particularly interested in dating, the swiping becomes addicting -- an inevitability to which I fell victim during my own days of singledom. I found myself swiping while standing on a subway platform, sitting in a waiting room, or even when watching mindless television. It became a way to occupy time, more than it was a way to meet people.
Perhaps that widespread behavior led to the unveiling of Tinder Plus: A paid version of the app with such premium features as being able to go back when you accidentally swiped the wrong way (“Rewind”), or being able to view potential matches outside of a certain local radius (“Passport”). Plus, it gives you the option to go ad-free. But there’s a catch -- Tinder Plus costs twice as much if you’re over 30, which has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
I can see how these features might be appealing, especially when my own swiping increased. Before I deleted the app -- which is a story for another day -- the more I used the it, the less intrigued I was becoming with my potential matches. I was becoming bored. But I was also addicted to it, under the false belief that the more I swiped, the more likely I was to have that boredom alleviated. It aligns with psychology explained above. If I hadn’t deleted the app, my boredom may have motivated me to pay up for the ability to expand my options.
Today, Tinder has 1.7 paid members, illustrating the willingness of people to pay for more novelty.
2) Pokémon GO
When I recently visited a friend out of town, I noticed that she would furiously go about business on her phone whenever we were walking somewhere. “Are you lost?” I asked her, assuming she was looking at a maps app.
“No,” she replied. “It’s Pokémon GO,” a game that allows people to “catch” game characters by traveling to real-life places, and reap the benefits online, via the app. It is, in its way, a form of VR.
I was surprised -- mostly because I thought that the Pokémon GO craze had passed by Halloween, and this visit took place several months later. Was my company that boring? Or had my friend become addicted to a game that she initially began using out of curiosity and boredom?
I wasn’t the only one asking those kinds of questions, which explains why numerous psychology publications set out to explain how our brains process apps like this one. In fact, Internet Gaming Disorder has officially been classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a type of addiction -- one that “prompts a neurological response that influences feelings of pleasure and reward, and the result, in the extreme, is manifested as addictive behavior.”
That aligns with research showing that people more prone to boredom are also more inclined to fall victim to drug and alcohol abuse. And while it could be argued that addiction to a mobile app might not be as severe, it still follows the same psychological process and path of usership -- more is required to reach satisfaction. That could be why the app experienced such monetary success when it began to provide in-app purchases, which ended up accounting for $2.3 million of revenue each day, and totaling $342 million by the end of 2016.
3) Candy Crush Saga
Source: Game Revolution
This example shows yet another instance of in-app purchases reaping huge financial rewards. Candy Crush Saga, owned by gaming giant King Digital, is a free app at first glance. It doesn’t cost anything to download, but its premium add-ons -- like extra lives and other features that allegedly help you reach a higher score -- are largely responsible for the app’s estimated $1,103,436 daily revenue.
But here’s the thing. When you win, reach a high score, or accomplish some other sort of game-playing feat -- it activates the same part of your brain that cocaine does. That research also indicates that these “winning” actions trigger the same signals of pleasure that are produced by substances like methamphetamine, and follows psychological circuit behavior that’s also observed in heroin addicts.
Are we starting to get the picture?
I won’t bother repeating myself about the pattern of addiction and its too-much-is-never-enough behavioral implications, because it’s clear by now -- $1,103,436 in daily revenue is not just the result of people trying to find something fun to do. It’s evidence of what happens when mobile addiction leads to humans becoming more easily bored, and how that boredom exacerbates compulsive digital habits.
Is It a Question of Ethics, Then?
Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to that question -- and perhaps it’s fodder for another blog post (let us know).
But it does go to show that marketers can capitalize on widespread boredom, even ethically. It’s an opportunity for SMBs and nonprofits, for example, to partner and raise awareness of each other. Perhaps, instead of in-app purchases, digital tools can be developed by these brands to promote in-app donations.
Let’s say a local real estate agency wants to try an initiative like this one. It could develop an app for listings and include a trivia game. Instead of asking people to pay for additional in-app features, it can encourage people to keep using the app by advertising a donation to a brand-relevant charity -- like Habitat for Humanity -- for every X number of downloads, or X number of users who receive a perfect score.
Boredom can be leveraged for good. It just requires a bit of creativity and strategy.
How have you addressed boredom with your mobile marketing? Let us know in the comments.
Originally published Mar 1, 2017 6:00:00 AM, updated July 28 2017
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Preservation, Road Trips
The Pyramids, an Indianapolis landmark on the Michigan Road
6 April 2016 Jim Greyarchitecture, highways, Indiana, Indianapolis, Michigan Road, roads 37 Comments
They’re an improbable sight as you drive the Michigan Road in northwest Indianapolis, these three towers of concrete and glass reflecting the sun. Impossible to miss as you drive by, The Pyramids are a true Indianapolis landmark.
In the mid 1960s, Indianapolis-based College Life Insurance Company of America had grown so much it needed a new headquarters. Anticipating strong ongoing growth, they wanted to be able to build onto their headquarters as needed.
They gave these requirements to well-known architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, who responded with this innovative semi-pyramidal design.
Under construction, Nov. 1970. Photo found at lostindiana.net
Each pyramid rises eleven stories, with an L-shaped concrete core facing the north and west, supporting each floor. The south and east faces are covered in reflective glass. The concrete sections contain elevators, restrooms, and limited office space. The floors themselves are open and airy, well lit through two wide walls of windows. To maintain the open feeling, low, open workstations were installed rather than subdividing the space into offices. It was open plan before open plan was cool.
Shortly after completion. Notice how the glass panes were originally smaller and more numerous. Photo found at f—yeahbrutalism.tumblr.com
The buildings are interconnected, with walkways at the second floor and underground.
These first three pyramids were completed in 1972. Plans called for six more, to create a three-by-three array. But plans changed. I hear that the coming of computerization played a role: as College Life increasingly stored records on computer, the company needed less space to store documents, and therefore didn’t need more pyramids as soon as expected. But what probably played the largest role in only three being built was that College Life merged with another insurance company and moved its headquarters out of state. The merged company is known by another name today.
Since then, The Pyramids have been leased to other corporate tenants. For a year or so in about 2000, I worked in Pyramid 2 (the middle one) on the second floor. I was excited by the prospect of working in these landmark buildings and was initially thrilled that the team that I led would get what I thought were prized workstations in the corner created by the two glass walls. We all thought it would be fabulous to directly enjoy all that light. But thanks to all that glass, those workstations were freezing cold all winter and boiling hot all summer. The climate-control system along the outer wall roared in futility most of the year trying to keep up, and we couldn’t concentrate for all the noise. Shortly we abandoned those workstations and moved inward. And none of us enjoyed the humidity and dank odor inside the concrete core. Here’s hoping the building’s owner has solved these quality-of-life problems since then.
Yet The Pyramids remain an arresting sight from the Michigan Road, an architectural marvel you need to see when you visit the city.
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37 thoughts on “The Pyramids, an Indianapolis landmark on the Michigan Road”
You hit a real key when you wrote College Life merged, and now under a different name. Great picture on your part from the perfect angle. I suspect they rent space in there to just about anyone these day. I went to a time-share event with my young daughter a few years ago in a Pyramid to back her up. I knew what to expect, and they did not like us much when we left. It opened my daughter’s eyes. I have a feeling, but no statistical proof, that Indianapolis wad headquarters to many life insurance companies in the past. I would see them in old Northside mansions, and dowtown buildings. Different names, but no more. I guess I should look at publications from Best Insurance because I don’t see Yellow Pages any longer. Another disappearing business are the many big printing companies. Most have disappeared.
6 April 2016 at 5:34 am Reply
I think there were lots of smaller insurance companies around the nation back in the day. Every business has to be big now, and they do it through merger.
hmunro says:
What an arresting sight that must be from the road! And how privileged you are to have actually worked inside one of those buildings. Although the experience sounds rather uncomfortable and disappointing, at least it allayed your curiosity about “what’s it like inside” — and this reader’s curiosity, too. Great post!
It is quite a sight! I work fairly close to them today, and meet friends for lunch in that office park from time to time, and enjoy all the angles I get on the building.
I have a business associate in one of the buildings…don’t forget to mention that the inside bottom floor is decorated with pictures and Tut and other “Egyptiana”, I loved them more when I saw that…
Hey wow, I don’t remember the Egyptian motif at all! Memory is such a tricky thing.
pesoto74 says:
I have seen these on visits to Indy and wondered about them. Thanks for letting me know what they are. I was surprised a while back to find that the open plan for office space goes back to at least the 1930’s. The original State Farm headquarters in downtown Bloomington IL used the idea. I don’t have any pictures hardy, however on the outside at least it is a lovely building.
6 April 2016 at 12:04 pm Reply
I’m in open plan at work right now and I’m not wild about it. But I have noise-canceling headphones, so when it gets noisy in here at least I have some refuge.
6 April 2016 at 1:28 pm Reply
Steve Miller says:
Couple other thoughts about these buildings and their practicality, or lack thereof. The first years after they were built, they lost LOTS of windows. Wind whistling by would just suck ’em out. And now that the windows stay in, drivers in the office park find themselves blinded on sunny mid-days.
But the buildings are a striking design, even though current tenants are allowed to put up large signs advertising their names on the west and north sides of the buildings.
I’ve heard about the window loss. I also heard that the original windows were so reflective that the sun would blind pilots flying nearby. I’ve personally been blinded by the current windows while driving through. I worked in The Quads (now Parkstone) across the street from the Pyramids for most of five years and just learned when to approach from the west rather than the south.
I wish the tenant logos hadn’t gone up on the buildings; it spoils the purity of the design. But it’s the trend today.
Signage is also a way to soak the tenants…
You would not believe how companies want this signage. It’s not required; companies seek it.
8 April 2016 at 11:13 am
The Trailhead says:
Back when I had a 19th floor office downtown, you could see these very clearly to the north.
I have a memory of seeing them from something tall Downtown too — was it the Monument? Or was it from the 17th floor of the Gold Building, where I worked for a while 20 years ago? I can’t be sure.
I bet it was the Gold Building. My recollection of the Monument is that the windows are so small it was difficult to see anything!
Christopher Smith says:
They sort of remind me of the sort of architecture from the film “Logan’s Run”
it’s a nice photo with great reflections.
Oh yeah, I totally see that!
christopherv says:
I graduated from North Central High in 84 and went to work for a company called AFR on the upper floor of the first pyramid. It did indeed have on open floor plan. The office walls were only about 9 feet tall, with a few feet of open space to the ceiling. ITT was in the building too. I didn’t realize it at the time, but my future father in law worked in the same building. I might’ve shared an elevator with him. The security office was in the concrete section on the first floor at that time.
I guess several tenants subdivided their floors with short walls. The company I worked for didn’t, but we did install cubicles.
7 April 2016 at 11:59 am Reply
J P Cavanaugh says:
As I was finishing law school, a friend got a non-legal job with a small company that had space there. In the mid 80s, the place had a vibe as high-end buildings. I don’t get the feeling that is true anymore. The HVAC is a mess with all the glass, as you learned. I think that their “form over function” design has sent them down into the realm of class B (if not C) office space much sooner than normal.
And yes, Indianapolis was home to a ton of small insurance companies. My first law firm was in a building at 36th and Meridian that had been built by Sun Life Insurance in the 50s.
All of College Park has tumbled downhill over the last 15 years or so. Lots of vacancies. It’s not as well maintained as it used to be.
Fascinating. Suitable as the HQ for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. perhaps.
Good reference! Yes! Can you imagine using this as a location shot in a spy flick?
Heather Terrell says:
I work in the building directly to the south and they are quite a sight on a nice day with the lake right there. Very pretty.
I’m sure that you get stunning views from the building you work in!
Bruce Jennings says:
They also had to replace the original windows. The way they were made and designed to reflect some of the sun caused problems. In early mornings the sun beams were actually reflecting so bad that they would actually blind pilots trying to land in Cincinnati. So the FAA made them use another type of glass.
I’d heard that, and wanted to include it in this post, but I couldn’t find a source to corroborate it!
Kathy Conflenti says:
I had the priveledge as a child to watch the fireworks downtown on July 4th from the roof top shortly after it was built. My god father, Bob Ehmer had something to do with its construction. The whole experience etched firmly in my mind.
Oh how cool is that! I bet you could see all the way to downtown from the roof!
Marcia Durham says:
Worked there during the 70’s and when they had lots of problems with leakage and cracked glass.I worked there for 16 years for College Life Insurance. I hope that somehow the pyramids are maintained because the design is a landmark. There was to be more built around the first ones, but they had so many problems with the first 3 that idea was cancelled.
Marcia, thanks for the first-hand experience report! Given my experience there in about 2000, I’m not surprised to hear of the challenges those buildings had in the ’70s.
Great post, excellent shots, something I never knew about!
10 April 2016 at 6:00 am Reply
There’s plenty of goodness in Indiana!
Those really are quite something! I liked Christopher’s comment about Logan’s Run – I knew there was something chiming at the back of my mind.
They do have a science-fictiony look about them, don’t they!
Nancy B says:
I worked in Building #1 in 1975-1976. I recall that during construction the windows in one building were installed backwards, you could see in but you couldn’t see out. Oops! #YouHadOneJob
Oh that’s hilarious!
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June 11, 2019 December 19, 2019 | by Cara Lui | No comments
8 Ball Pool’s Road to Success – From Casual Sports Game to Top Grossing App
Casual billiard game 8 Ball Pool has continuously been one of the top grossers among mobile games, earning hundreds of millions for its developer Miniclip. Let us look into some actual consumer data and see what makes this online ball pool game so addictive to players all around the globe.
According to MAI intelligence, the game manages to hold on to a large number of paying users compared with other casual titles. With its $20-above average user spending, the total amount of sales accumulated is impressive.
The super-easy game runs on in-app currencies, Pool Coins and Pool Cash. Players have to pay a compulsory entry fee through Pool Coins to join a tournament game, a large sum of coins would be gifted if they win. The currencies can be earned without paying (25 coins every hour, or watch short ads to earn additionally), or be bought through real money. Both Coins and Cash can be used to buy equipment such as cues and table frames. As shown in MAI’s statistics, “Stack of Coins” is the second-most popular item, while the top of the list belongs to “Golden Spin”, a lucky spin with prizes of good value.
The app brought variations to the ordinary billiard game. The ranking and award systems encourage players to continue playing in return for more and better rewards. The “Play with Friends” mode allows players to enjoy the game while socializing. These new features make 8 Ball Pool one of the best kill-time games. The more effort and time the players have invested, the more willing they are to compromise real money for an upgrade in gaming experiences.
According to MAI’s data, the game has the largest fan base in the US and Brazil in terms of paying users. Users from the two countries are accounted for 44.97% and 10.07% of total in-app purchase sales respectively. However, it seems that the game is not as popular in Asia, with Malaysia and Taiwan as the only 2 Asian regions placed in the top 10 fan bases.
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Home » HealthCalling » A Journey from Patient to Advocate for Prostate Health
A Journey from Patient to Advocate for Prostate Health
December 28, 2017 William Pearce, MD
A cancer diagnosis motivates one man to build awareness and frank conversation about prostate care.
The prostate isn’t usually the subject of casual conversation for most people, but then most people aren’t Jim Bowman.
“Within the last week or so, I had four guys come up to me and say they had their prostate checked,” says the 72-year-old Anaheim Hills resident.
People aren’t sharing their medical background with Bowman because he’s a doctor—he’s not—but because he’s a crusader for greater prostate health awareness, a cause he took on after his prostate cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
“I want men to feel comfortable talking openly about prostate cancer with friends or family,” Bowman says. “I’ve had people say they didn’t want to go to the doctor because they would be told they had prostate cancer or they didn’t want to go through the exam because they’d feel violated. But if we are more open, men will unlock that attitude of not wanting to talk about their prostate and will go to the doctor. It’s a simple goal for me.”
It’s a goal based on personal experience. Bowman went to the doctor because he was urinating more frequently at night. A rectal exam and other tests determined his prostate was slightly enlarged and irregularly shaped, and his primary care physician took a "watch and wait" approach, which is common. Then Bowman applied for new life insurance and was turned down because of his prostate. To get clearance for the insurance, he went back for a biopsy. In March of this year, William Pearce, MD, a board-certified urologist with St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group, told Bowman he had cancer.
“Fortunately we caught it early and all the cancer was located in the prostate; it hadn’t gone into other parts of the body,” Bowman says. “Dr. Pearce gave me options: wait and see if it gets worse, radiation or surgery. My wife, Kathi, and I made the decision in the office to choose surgery. That was a personal choice. I didn’t like cancer being in my body, period.”
Bowman underwent surgery at St. Joseph Hospital, Orange in April. “St. Joseph was absolutely outstanding—they were so supportive, so on point, so caring,” Bowman says. After a brief stay in the hospital, Bowman began convalescing at home, which wasn’t easy.
“Walking was tough, getting around wasn’t great, and my diet was more liquid than anything else. The real problem I had was the absence of the prostate; there was no way to control urine. So I had to go through physical therapy at St. Joseph. They taught me Kegel and other exercises and they were very supportive. While I was there I started thinking about how much I knew about the prostate and prostate cancer. My dad and uncle had it, I had friends who had it, but no one was talking about it. I made the decision that if I could get through this, I wanted to create awareness about prostate health.”
To do that, Bowman started bringing up the subject with friends. “I found out the more open I was, the more open they seemed to be,” he says. He also got information on prostate health from his physical therapist and the American Cancer Society.
“There’s a lot I didn’t know,” Bowman says. “The prostate is the size of a walnut and sits under the bladder. I didn’t know it controls semen and urine flow; I didn’t know the important part it plays in reproduction. I didn’t realize how important the prostate was.”
Bowman recently held his first awareness outreach event in partnership with his church, Second Baptist Church of Santa Ana, and plans to hold another one in the first quarter of 2018. “There were lots of questions, shared experiences, medical advice and valuable printed information that helped make the experience both rewarding and informative,” Bowman says.
Dr. Pearce commends his patient for his efforts. “Men are often unaware of the prostate function and risk factors for prostate cancers. It is important to educate them about those issues with programs like Mr. Bowman’s,” Dr. Pearce says. “He has been an excellent patient who has been actively involved and engaged in every step of his treatment. I am sure he will pass along his knowledge and experience to other patients.”
Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men aside from skin cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
Risk factors include advanced age, genetic mutation and family history of the disease.
Screening for prostate cancer includes a digital rectal exam and testing for elevated levels of prostate-specific antigens.
There are different opinions on when men should consider prostate cancer screening; for instance, the American Cancer Society suggests age 50 for men with no risks and between ages 40 and 45 for men with high risks.
If you have questions about your prostate health, talk about your health history and concerns with your doctor to develop a plan. If you are looking for a physician in your area, visit our Find a Doctor page.
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JoAnn Wagner
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Sir Pigglesworth's Adventures in San Juan, PR (Sir Pigglesworth Adventure Series, #7)
Sir Pigglesworth was invited to give the commencement speech at a prominent San Juan university. His family excitedly journeys to San Juan where Sir Pigglesworth is surprised by his good friends, Bill and JoAnn. Snorkeling and surfing are on his agenda, as well as exploring the island and meeting new friends. Come see what mischief this frisky young pig causes as he experiences the wonders of San Juan.
JoAnn Wagner is the award-winning author of the popular Sir Pigglesworth Adventure Series for children ages 6-9. Sir Pigglesworth has become an unstoppable life force since her first book was published in 2014. JoAnn has continued the piglet’s mission of sharing smiles around the world through a series of fun illustrated chapter books for children. She has published eight adventures so far, all of which won First Place in the Royal Dragonfly Awards for Children’s Chapter Series in 2016. She also won First Place for Children’s Series from the Texas Authors Association in 2017. Two weeks after Book 8 was released in July 2018, it won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. She and Sir Pigglesworth have a full itinerary of new travels and more exciting adventures coming soon. Website: www.joannwagner.com Email: joann.wagner@sirpigglesworth.com Facebook.com/sirpigglesworth Twitter: @AuthorJ_Wagner #214-476-1065
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Crazy Daze of Summer Don't Last Long
I remember like it was yesterday. I couldn’t wait for school to start…until the end of the first day that is. Reality hit as I walked home with a schoolbag loaded down with books that I had to get covered that first night. That was homework in itself! Sir Pigglesworth is only 5 years old so hasn’t been to school yet. In Book 7 I take Sir Pigglesworth to the classroom with me as I read to the kids. You’ll notice Academia San Jorge across the back of the illustration that shows me reading. I lived in San Juan back in the early ‘60’s and my school is still there! It’s a Catholic school and we had uniforms and nuns teaching us. It’s completely different today. There aren’t any nuns at the school and the children don’t wear uniforms. Our classes were in English and we had a Spanish class for those of us who didn’t speak Spanish. Now the classes are in Spanish and they have an English class for those who don’t speak English. The school’s layout was basically the same with the big courtyard in the middle but they had added two additions because of the number of students. Sir Pigglesworth loved going to school! Check out www.sirpigglesworth.com to purchase this entertaining book.
When Sir Pigglesworth regained his energy, they all rode a catamaran to a cove where everyone went snorkeling.
He finally got to see the coral and fish he had been dying to see since he arrived.
But his favorite part was the eel he saw swimming past him.
He put his arms at his sides and began swaying side to side, trying to swim like the eel.
He was trying so hard that he didn’t notice the large gray thing in front of him until he ran smack into it!
Sir Pigglesworth looked up at the ‘thing’ in front of him. All he saw was the color and he instantly panicked.
It’s the shark! He followed me! And now he’s going to eat me for dinner! Sir Pigglesworth thought as he swam away as fast as his flippers could move.
He quickly scrambled out of the water and up onto a rock.
“He’s here! He’s here! I taste awful! I won’t taste like steak at all!” he cried.
“What’s wrong?” Bill asked, sticking his head out of the water.
“That mean shark from Bermuda followed me here!”
Bill laughed. “That isn’t a shark,” he said. “It’s a rock.”
Sir Pigglesworth breathed a huge sigh of relief and dove back into the water.
“Where are you going?” Bill asked.
Sir Pigglesworth popped his head back up. “I’m going to show that rock that he doesn’t scare me,” he answered.
The next morning Sir Pigglesworth was eager to snorkel again.
There was a certain clown fish that had given him a funny look yesterday. He wanted to show him that he could make an even funnier face! But JoAnn had other plans.
“I’m going to read to the kids at the school I attended many years ago.”
“I want to donate some of the books I’ve written to them,” she explained.
“Well, I guess I could make funny faces at them instead,” Sir Pigglesworth said.
“What?” JoAnn asked.
“Oh, nothing,” he said with a grin.
“Let’s go, we don’t want to keep the kids waiting!”
Sir Pigglesworth enjoyed listening to JoAnn read so much that he forgot to make faces at the kids.
Instead, he squeezed into a seat with his new friend, Felipe. He nearly knocked him off the chair as he squirmed about trying to get comfortable.
When storytime was over, JoAnn asked Sir Pigglesworth and their teacher, Senorita Rossana, if they would help pass out the books she was donating to the class.
As Sir Pigglesworth handed a book to Ana Sofia, she smiled at him and said, “JoAnn’s a wonderful storyteller.”
Sir Pigglesworth beamed proudly. “She’s almost as good at reading as she is at scratching behind ears.”
His hoof thumped against the floor as he thought about it.
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For all the serious, highfalutin movies I watch, I do confess I have a weakness for the kung-fu flick. Action is fun to watch and as a guy it’s sometimes hard not to be fascinated by violence and destruction in movies. Watching a building collapse or a high speed car chase or dinosaurs fighting each other or Bruce Willis jumping off a roof with a fire-hose bungee cord is fun and exciting. Naturally the martial arts epic must enter one’s peripheries at some point. Ever since I saw a Jackie Chan marathon on TV as a kid I was hooked. The kung-fu movie gets a lot of flack sometimes for being fairly thin when it comes to plot, but the incredible athletes and personalities that have emerged from it are what draws us. Every move Bruce Lee does is astonishing to watch and there’s something eternally fascinating about using only your body as a weapon.
Still one of the best.
Recently, it seems, there has been a rebirth of kung-fu (for the west anyway). Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) reminded everybody that you could have a good mythical storyline alongside ballet-like violence. Then we got Jet Li in Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) and Stephen Chow gave us an incredibly zany Looney Tunes-esque action comedy in Kun Fu Hustle (2004). These films were all wonderful (maybe more wuxia than traditional martial arts) and had great action and stories, but they were more stylistic and employed more wire-fu and special effects than the traditional martial arts films from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Out of Thailand came action star Tony Jaa in Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003). The stunts were real and gritty once more and the action was great, but the story was now missing again. I am happy to report that another martial arts epic has come about and puts back good old-fashioned fights with a really decent story. Wilson Yip’s Ip Man (2008) stars Donnie Yen (The Iron Monkey, Shanghai Knights) as the legendary grandmaster of the Chinese martial arts technique known as Wing Chun, Yip Kai-man (1893-1972), and the man who would eventually train Bruce Lee and many others.
Donnie Yen.
I confess that as a westerner my actual knowledge of the history and meanings behind all the various styles of kung-fu is pretty minute, and admittedly I do not recall actually hearing of Ip Man before this movie, but it definitely filled me in…even if the movie is a rather loose treatment on the real man’s life. It’s also insanely nationalistic, but you can’t have everything.
The film takes place in Foshan, China in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation. Ip Man (Yen) is a leisured aristocrat and well respected member of the community. He has a loving wife (who does not exactly support his martial arts practice) and a young son who he realizes he must spend more time with. The citizens of Foshan regard Ip Man as a quiet but deadly master of Wing Chun, but he would honestly rather not fight anybody (reminded me of John Wayne in The Quiet Man). A foreign bully from the north (played by Fan Siu-wong of Riki-Oh: the Story of Ricky fame) arrives in town and, desiring to set up a martial arts club in Foshan, he viciously beats up every master in town save for Ip Man. The fight that follows is indeed wildly entertaining.
How embarrassing.
The story jumps ahead a few years after the town of Foshan is oppressed by Japanese occupation in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Ip Man has lost all of his possessions but maintains his dignity and lives in a rundown shack while his dedicated wife pawns everything to buy rice (kinda reminded me of Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago). To support his starving family he gets a job as a coolie shoveling coal in a filthy quarry. It is not long before a former Chinese friend has returned as the mouthpiece for the Japanese army and announces that the quarry workers can earn a bag of rice if they defeat Japanese karatekas for the amusement of General Miura (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), who is an obsessed karate master. Ip Man initially refuses but when a friend who volunteers never returns, he decides to go to defend the honor of his fallen brothers, avenge the death of countless Chinese, and reclaim the honor of Chinese martial arts.
Before entering the tournament, Ip Man witnesses another friend and kung-fu master doing battle on the mat surrounded by Japanese karatekas awaiting their turn to fight the Chinese workers. General Miura watches menacingly from the platform above. Ip Man then watches helplessly as his friend is shot through the head following the match (against Miura’s command). Ip Man requests to go next and further requests that he face not one but ten black-belts at once. If this fight does not pull you into the movie then nothing will. His prowess in Wing-Chun, although a bit rusty, is no match for the attacks of his enemies and he glides between them with grace and deadly accuracy as he systemically annihilates them all. He departs enraged and stoically defiant to the General’s questions (although the fearful translator disguises this fact).
The whole movie might still be worth it if this was the only fight.
Back in the wounded town, Ip Man is asked to defend an old friend’s cotton mill from bandits (led by the northern bully whom Ip Man defeated in battle earlier in the movie) who are stealing their product and demanding money and threatening violence. He graciously agrees to teach the workers Wing-Chun and the audience gets a kung-fu training montage (yep, they still do ‘em). When the bandits return a big battle is ignited as the workers fight back and the bandits up the ante by bringing out axes, but Ip Man shows up and throws down real good with the thugs and chases them off.
Ip Man’s incredible abilities have earned him respect and fascination in the mind of General Miura. Miura seeks to bring Ip Man back for more tournaments, but Ip Man is forced to take his family and hide when he beats up the Japanese soldiers who come for him and attempt to rape his wife. Desperate to find him, the soldiers attack the cotton mill and force Ip Man to show himself. With the soldier he beat up ready to shoot him and General Miura threatening to allow him to be shot unless he trains his Japanese soldiers, Ip Man challenges the General to a public match: a challenge the General’s ego will not allow him to decline. For the final battle all of the stakes are raised to the umpteenth level. A nasty Japanese soldier threatens to kill Ip Man if he wins and his wife and child are forced to flee and all of the town is gathered for the public spectacle…you could not ask for more suspense. All of China’s morale and pride rest in the fists of Ip Man. It is assured to be a match to remember and it will ultimately bring national shame to the losing party.
And people wonder why all the Asian countries still harbor animosity toward Japan.
Ip Man has all of the classic moves a good kung-fu movie should have and the fight scenes (choreographed by Spooky Encounters star Sammo Hung) are fantastic. The story builds and continues to create urgency, suspense, and danger up until the last scene. It’s a compelling plot about a man who has had his world torn apart and the only thing left to do is stuff his peaceful demeanor and kick butt. Donnie Yen and the rest of the cast give fine performances and the cinematography is also top notch. The story takes its liberties with the real Ip Man’s life, but it is perfectly forgivable when you consider how much fun the movie is as a whole. The kung-fu action movie is back, folks.
The sequel, Ip Man 2 (2010), brings the cast back and features Sammo Hung as a cantankerous martial arts master in Hong Kong and sees Ip Man fighting a cocky, belligerent (and rather obnoxious) British boxer (reminded of Mr. T in Rocky III). Although the stakes are never quite as high, more fights seem bloated or forced, there’s an influx of what appears to be some wire-fu, and the western boxing is never as interesting to watch as the kung-fu business, it is a fun sequel about restoring national pride through the unifying power of martial arts. For fans of the martial arts epic, Ip Man might be exactly what you’ve been waiting for.
The real guy alongside his student, Bruce Lee.
Originally published for “The Alternative Chronicle” Jan 12, 2011
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Amazon's end-of-the-year TV deals start now: Big price cuts on Samsung 4K smart TVs
Rudie Obias
Yahoo Lifestyle December 28, 2019
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You don’t have to wait until 2020 to get deep discounts because Amazon just rolled out a number of end-of-the-year deals on 4K TVs.
The online retailer just dropped prices on select Samsung 4K smart TVs in various shapes and sizes. Right now, you can save up to 44 percent on Series 7 and Series 8 models from 49 inches all the way up to 82 inches. In fact, these are the lowest prices we’ve seen all year, so if you’re looking for an impressive 4K TV ahead of the New Year, then shop the deals below:
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One of the best parts of this 4K TV is its immersive and wide viewing angles, which means you can sit just about anywhere in your TV room (including right next to the TV) and see a clear picture without losing any color quality or brightness. Also, it’s on sale for 40 percent off retail — which is a big draw too.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reportedly stopped Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, who just returned to its fold, from displaying posters during its forthcoming national convention.
Also barred, according to Daily Trust, are former governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido, his former Kano state counterpart, Ibrahim Shekarau, and Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state.
The report predicted that former Senate president, David Mark and Ahmed Makarfi could also have their posters flooding the event.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who chairs the partys convention planning committee, disclosed the warning to the would-be aspirants after the committees meeting in Abuja.
He also said the movement of some important personalities would be restricted.
The report quoted Okowa as saying the chairmanship and other aspirants would not be allowed to campaign on the convention ground.
“We need to make this announcement to all our party members and well-wishers that the convention is going to be for delegates and we are expecting a little less than 3000 delegates.
“And those delegates have been properly accredited by the accreditation committee.
“And for those our party members that are going to come are welcome to Abuja, but they will not be allowed to come to the eagle square and this is because we want to be sure that we are in a position to deliver a credible elective convention.
“We are trying to put all these processes in place so that we dont over crowd the venue.
I want to urge aspirants to the various positions to please, keep their campaigners away from the convention venue and we believe all campaigns would have stopped by Friday.
“I will not expect any aspirant, especially presidential aspirants to bring their campaign posters, campaigners, men or women to the venue because it will not be allowed.
“And we want to appeal to all of them campaigning to desist from doing that.
For those who want to campaign for future election, possibly the presidential aspirants this convention is not the place to display campaign posters or to display their intentions.
“I believe there will be an appropriate convention for that.
I want to urge them to cooperate with us as a committee, the governor reportedly said.
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Couch Groove Football Preview: The AFC North
It’s been not even a year and a half since the Pittsburgh Steelers eked out a win in Super Bowl XLIII over the Arizona Cardinals. Since leaving the warm confines of Tampa the following day, the Steelers have been befallen with misfortune and controversy. From Troy Polamalu‘s destroyed knee to Santonio Holmes‘ brushes with the law to Willie Colon’s recent injury to Mike Tomlin’s “Unleash Hell” proclamation that went nowhere, to, most importantly, Ben Roethlisberger’s public character assassination, the Pittsburgh Steelers are finding themselves tumbling out of control. What does it mean? It means the hierarchy up North has changes coming.
QUESTION ONE: IS ANQUAN BOLDIN THE ‘MISSING LINK’ IN BALTIMORE?
The Ravens defense has generally been their most dominant feature, but now the addition of a tested wide receiver in Boldin certainly gives the offense a deadly weapon. In fact, you could argue that in the fifteen seasons that the Ravens have flown in Baltimore, Boldin is the most impressive wide receiver to wear the purple and black. The offensive side has Derrick Mason and the troubled Donte Stallworth alongside Boldin, and the running game is accentuated by Ray Rice and Le’Ron McClain. Add Joe Flacco and Todd Heap, and for once Baltimore’s offense is as scary as the D.
QUESTION TWO: IS CARSON PALMER’S TIME UP?
Since Carson Palmer’s leg was wrecked in the 2005 AFC playoffs, he hasn’t been the effective signal caller that he was expected to be coming into the 2003 draft. The offense was largely carried by Chad Ochocinco and the departed TJ Houshmandzadeh. In 2008, the offense bottomed out as the worst in the league, and then climbed to a stagnant twenty-fourth the following season. If football is chess, the quarterback is king, and the Bengals are only as good as Palmer. He’s never made it to the elite tier that he perhaps should be on, and he’s not getting any younger.
QUESTION THREE: WILL BEN ROETHLISBERGER EVER BE THE SAME?
Ben Roethlisberger is the NFL equivalent of Linsday Lohan: on top of the world at a young age, but bad decisions and a lack of common sense have derailed his momentum and made him a laughingstock. Big Ben will miss anywhere from four to six games this season, which is a good time to see what over sized backup Dennis Dixon brings to the table. Pittsburgh may find it hard to cut ties with the man who helped them win their last two Super Bowls, but Santonio Holmes, a Super Bowl MVP, was dealt away to New York, so it’s possible.
QUESTION FOUR: WILL THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS BE BLOWN UP?
It was losing close games, not poor play, that cost the Steelers a shot at the playoffs to defend their crown. The offensive line has not been conducive to the team’s traditional power-run approach, and many of the team’s stars like Hines Ward, Troy Polamalu, James Farrior, and others are dealing with age and/or injuries. It seems that, if anything, Pittsburgh may be content to send Mike Tomlin on his way, even if the off-field issues aren’t his fault. The Steelers are a joke right now, and Dan Rooney, savvy owner that he is, won’t tolerate the garbage for long.
QUESTION FIVE: CAN JAKE DELHOMME BOUNCE BACK?
Jake Delhomme could be found chopped up in a dumpster for all that Panthers fans care. Throwing eight touchdowns against eighteen interceptions last season ended his unlikely run as the face of Carolina. Jake, however, has overcome plenty of adversity in his career, having worked as a truck driver and sitting as an antsy backup while waiting for his time. Perhaps the change of scenery will spark another improbable run for Delhomme. He’s now working for a team that has Mike Holmgren tinkering with offensive personnel, which works for Jake, a gritty Brett Favre clone. Well, stranger things have happened.
1. BALTIMORE RAVENS (13-3)
Really, how can you go against Baltimore here? With Ray Lewis still the barking voice of the ferocious defense, and with an offense that has improved by bringing in two class wide receivers in Anquan Boldin and Donte Stallworth, the division should be theirs for the taking. Of course, nothing’s guaranteed in football, and Herm Edwards said that you have to play the game to win it, but Baltimore’s more than capable. Joe Flacco has to do what Mark Sanchez is doing right now in New York: not screw up. If it works out that way, the Ravens have it.
2. CINCINNATI BENGALS (9-7)
Cincinnati’s hit a glass ceiling ever since Carson Palmer had his knee ripped out. Acquisitions like Antonio Bryant and Jermaine Gresham may serve to improve Palmer’s stats, but it comes down to the defense for the Bengals. Last year, nobody expected Mike Zimmer’s crew to do as well as they did, but Jonathan Joseph and Leon Hall have proven to be hard to throw over the top on. Add to that Dhani Jones as a great quarterback reader and a very pressuring line, and the Bengals have surprised many. A bigger surprise? Taking the division again by fending off Baltimore.
3. CLEVELAND BROWNS (6-10)
Nowhere to go but up for Eric Mangini’s crew. Mangini needs to show improvement now, since his job was barely spared by the philosophically-different Mike Holmgren this offseason. So, what to do? Mangini’s a defensive guy, and yet his team went thirty-first in the league last year in defense. A tough schedule can be made easier if additions like Scott Fujita and rookie Joe Haden step up early. Benjamin Watson as a target for Jake Delhomme has been overlooked, since nobody expects the Browns to do much. There’s still work to do, but it isn’t as bad as it looks.
4. PITTSBURGH STEELERS (6-10)
It almost doesn’t seem right. Pittsburgh last in the North? The team needs continuity, and they’ll get none when they play quarterback musical chairs early in the season. When they settle in there, there’s a declining offensive line to deal with, as well as a possibly-ineffective Troy Polamalu, who hurt his knee twice last season. If anything, the rest of the defense is in one piece, but it seems that the pressure’s going to be on their shoulders. If the team does go 6-10 as guessed here, Mike Tomlin might be the first one in line for the chopping block.
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Is the British state capable of Labour’s ‘Real Change’?
By Glen O'Hara @gsoh31
Big Ben in scaffolding; NurPhoto / Contributor
Labour's manifesto has some good ideas, but there's a fundamental problem - reality
The idea that the British state is equipped to carry out Corbyn's plans is laughable
Corbyn has no analysis of the state, only conspiracies about the wealthy and blame for the powerful
There’s a lot for voters to like in Labour’s new manifesto, and it will probably further boost their image after the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, fought the Prime Minister to a draw in their televised debate.
Public services are creaking after nearly a decade of austerity. This manifesto commits to returning much of the funding that has been lost. British capitalism, that strange blend of offshore financing and deindustrialisation, could literally profit from a more purposeful direction, boosting capital investment and rebuilding some of the country’s chronically underperforming infrastructure. Labour promises to do just that.
Britain feels demoralised, atomised and divided – especially between the generations. Labour has answers here too. More rights for private renters, which will help to move intergenerational transfers back towards the young. Better animal welfare. More participation and flexibility at work. Even more free-to-air sport. So far, so good.
But there is one glaring problem with all this, and it concerns the capacity of the British state.
It will not have escaped your notice that the state has struggled with the demands of preparing for Brexit – a crisis that has not gone away, despite Labour’s promises of a renegotiation and subsequent referendum. The command and control required for that would likely soak up any Labour government’s energies for most of 2020.
It is also clear that one of the costs of Labour governing as a minority (the most likely way they would get into power) will probably be another referendum on Scottish independence. This would be an existential threat to the United Kingdom that would divert any government’s limited attention further. Delivering Labour’s agenda on top of those two running emergencies is likely to prove bracing, to say the least.
Labour’s new radicalism brings with it two very dangerous rhetorical positions. The first is dismissing detail as of no account, as Corbyn’s answers to point-by-point questioning demonstrated at Labour’s manifesto launch. The second is a disavowal of the energies and costs of governing – as if civil servants, councillors, lawyers, economists, contractors engineers and builders have infinite time and attention just to pour out Labour’s priorities.
These two objections have proved hard to hear amid the white noise of an election campaign, but they should be deadly to Labour’s credibility. Take my own field of Higher Education. Yes, Labour can abolish fees, but what then do they do with the cost inflation that a demographic bulge and higher demand – not to say accelerating costs – will likely cause?
Put a cap on numbers reflecting the current spread of places and you risk bulging out the entry in the ‘elite’ Russell Group, potentially creating mass teaching institutions where governments want research powerhouses. But move the places ‘down’ the existing hierarchy and there is a danger of bankrupting some big-name institutions. No answers are ever offered to these absolutely critical questions.
Detail matters. On what basis is the new nationalised energy and power sector to work? Here a myriad of new ideas about local and regional generation seem to have been ignored in favour of an old-fashioned regional structure that will please nobody. How will a not-for-profit water sector hope to meet the infrastructure challenges of a drier and much more populous Britain in the mid-century? Incoming Labour Ministers might get a nasty surprise when they look at the cost pressures there. Costing the end of in-work poverty at £8.4bn seems like a gross underestimate, while the ‘National Education Service’ and ‘National Care Service’ are just some promises with a ‘National’ badge on them.
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Worse than this dearth of real plans is Labour’s second main problem: a lack of realism, a failing that afflicts the Conservatives just as much, if not more so. The key point here is that the British state has indeed been hollowed out at its core, as Labour correctly divines. But they cannot simply perform electric shock therapy on it, or attempt an emergency reconstruction in flight, while it struggles to deal with multiple transformations all at once.
Most Whitehall departments have seen middling and senior staff leave in their droves over the last few years, and some are struggling to fulfil core functions such as target monitoring and day-to-day management. To ask the Department for Education to create a single legal order for all schools, reintegrate Academies and Free Schools and lead a renaissance of Local Education Authorities is as absurd as asking the Department for Transport to take over micromanaging of the Train Operating Companies. This is a programme for two or three Parliaments, at least – not for one.
Even more worryingly, the construction industry is not ready to absorb Labour’s capital plans – £250bn over ten years in the Green Transformation Fund, and £150bn in five years for the Social Transformation Fund.
The construction industry is overheated, lacking labour and facing a dwindling, ageing workforce: as The Economist’s Duncan Weldon has pointed out, wage inflation in construction is running at 6%, as against 3.6% in the economy as a whole. A big uplift in council house building (100,000 more a year), expanding HS2 to Scotland, insulating all new and then existing homes: just some of the plans that will at one and the same time be very hard to assemble and to staff.
Labour is possessed of a strong analysis: the British state is too weak. But its remedies take no account of its own argument. If it is too weak, it is hardly likely to get up off its sick bed and put things right immediately. That will take time – perhaps a long time. Strangely for a party led by 1970s radicals, it is not Marxist enough. It has no analysis of the state, only conspiracies about the wealthy and blame for the powerful.
The Leninists in the Opposition Leader’s office have not absorbed the lessons of state capitalism deeply enough: structural transformation requires the state to be rewired first. Nor have they really learned from the hard constraints that can force Left governments to change tack: Greece’s Syriza government was forced to turn back in 2015, just as Mitterrand was as President of France in 1983. Labour is overpromising with every breath in its body. A good deal of what it is advocating will likely never happen. The populists and demagogues that then appear may be even more unpleasant than those we face now.
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Glen O’Hara is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of a number of books including 'From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain' (2007) and 'The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain' (2017).
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High society, women and the arts
Society is made of groups of people.
People with shared backgrounds and common values congregate together.
They join forces to achieve their political objectives.
As a voter you belong to a political class that’s defined by your socio-economic status.
Bosses and employers are ruled by the Sun.
The common people are ruled by the Moon.
Farmers and miners are ruled by Saturn.
And socialists are ruled by Neptune.
High society – the society element – is ruled by Venus.
It’s a socio-economic group composed of people who usually come from a privileged, wealthy background.
They’re usually well known in fashionable society.
They spend a significant amount of time attending social gatherings.
The social set is fond of social activities, entertainment and the arts.
They’re often patrons of the arts.
High society is less conspicuous in the 21st-century.
In the very liberated Age of Aquarius it’s more inclined to keep a less visible low profile.
Domestic servants are less common, but remote ski resorts are still popular for weekend get-a-ways.
Venus is the planet of women and women’s issues.
49.6% of the world’s population is female.
Women live, work and play in a male dominated world.
They’re underrepresented in politics and earn less than their male counterparts.
In the US women make up 51% of the population but only 19% of Congress.
They earn 80 cents for every $1 earned by men.
Forced marriage and child brides are Venus issues.
According the United Nations 40% of young women in South Asia and sub-Sahara Africa are married by age 18.
Arranged marriages involving children occur worldwide.
Countries where the practice takes place include Niger, Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Guinea, Afghanistan, Yemen and Pakistan.
According to Girls not Brides 650 million women alive today were married as children before they were 18.
Aquarius proclaims that every girl has the right to lead the life that she chooses.
In some countries the courts automatically grant custody rights to the father in divorce settlements.
Women are left without any means of support.
In some countries customary or religious law effectively prohibits women from owning land.
Women are 35% more likely to live in poverty than men.
This denies them educational opportunities and more than two thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women.
In America 1 in 6 women are victims of sexual violence and the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal in October 2017 revealed how those in positions of power exploit women for sexual advantage.
The most significant event involving women in recent times is the #metoo movement.
Most countries have never had a female leader.
The number of female heads of government fluctuates but in March 2017 there were 15.
Women are fighting for equal rights.
On August 22, 2017 the Indian Supreme Court ruled that an instant divorce law that allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives by saying the word ‘talaq’ three times was unconstitutional.
On June 24, 2018 the men in Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive.
Women’s issues suffer due to funding cutbacks by male policy makers.
Beauty, art and high fashion
Venus rules beauty, the beauty industry, art, art shows, social events, fashion, textiles, beauty contests, cosmetics, perfume, jewelry, confectionery, dolls, peace and peaceful relations.
The arts community has a common interest in painting, music, dance and the theater.
High fashion defines the expensive, fashionable clothes produced by the world’s leading fashion houses.
The fashion industry embraces the designing, making, and marketing of expensive, fashionable clothes.
The cosmetics industry is booming.
It sells magic potions that perform miracles.
The confectionery aisle at the supermarket is very popular.
Venus rules chocolate, sugar and all the sweet tasting foods.
Between 2017 and 2021 the global luxury perfume market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.33%.
Hundreds of beauty contests are held each year around the globe.
The major international, pageants are: Miss World, Miss Earth, Miss International and Miss Universe.
Individual countries hold their own national pageants.
Love, affection, joy and fun
Venus is that old devil called love.
According to Greta Garbo (in Ninotchka 1939) love is ‘a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process. A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.’
Now love’s gone digital.
Whatever… cuddles, romance, love-dancing and kissing are just Venus doing her thing.
Venus is the planet of social cohesion.
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Published by Raynor de Best, Nov 7, 2019
The market size of PC gaming in the Netherlands was slightly above 250 million euros in 2018, well behind revenues made in console gaming or app-based gaming. It is expected, however, that gaming on consoles will increase the most. The main driver behind this could be the success of Battle Royal games (a genre of video games where up to 100 players are pitted against each other in a fight for survival until only one player is left standing). PUBG (PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds), Apex Legends and especially Fortnite are the big frontrunners of this genre. Based on a ranking on the prize money earned by the leading eSporters in Fortnite from the Netherlands, 21-year-old Rojo (the gamer tag of Dave Jong) outperformed all other eSporters. This because of his second place on the Fortnite World Cup in July 2019, which won him one million U.S. dollars.
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Hanging out in the “Wolf” den with Scorsese and DiCaprio
Posted on January 31, 2014 by Brian Currin — 1 Comment
For Jonah Hill, the most daunting challenge of his role in Martin Scorsese’s financial depravity epic “The Wolf of Wall Street” wasn’t getting the part. “Leonardo DiCaprio basically co-signed for me,” Hill says of his co-star, who persuaded Scorsese to cast Hill after he enthused about the part during a chance meeting in Mexico.
…..the hardest part was simply making small talk on set with a director Hill calls “my favorite artist, of any form.”
“The initial rehearsals were about a month before we started shooting, and it was just Scorsese, Leo and myself. They were making their fifth film together, and had such a close, connected process, whereas I couldn’t believe I was there.
“But I was more socially scared. Because it’s one thing to talk about the movie or the character; Scorsese is so brilliant with actors that he doesn’t make it feel weird working with him. But what was more intimidating was when we were just eating lunch for the first couple of weeks, those moments when you weren’t talking about a scene. It was like, ‘what can I say that would possibly be interesting to this person?’ ”
Hill kept the conversational focus on film appreciation, and when he and Scorsese discovered a shared admiration for docu “Searching for Sugar Man”, all social awkwardness began to subside.
SEE MORE:From the December 17, 2013 issue of Variety
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Played saxophone back in 90s with Rodriguez in basement at sheridan court also did gig with him glad he got his recognition!
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For Georgia 2013, there’s two kinds of pessimism.
Bernie nicely skewers one of them, but here’s the one I fear a bit:
There is a chance a bad targeting call could end up deciding the SEC East. Georgia hopes it doesn’t. So does the SEC office. But it could happen.
In a season that’s seen its most recent manifestation of bad luck occur in the form of an ankle injury to Chris Conley on the last, completely meaningless play in a loss to Vanderbilt, of course that could happen. (And before any of you pessimists Booker addresses insist that if Georgia doesn’t go to the SECCG as a result of losing the tiebreaker, it won’t be because of the penalty calls, but because of special teams, Grantham’s incompetence, etc., well, you may be right, but I guarantee you it’ll get spun exactly the way Seth describes it.)
So, the process will start with Georgia winning out, which means that South Carolina will need to do the same. Then, either Missouri loses to a team in the West, creating a three-way tie at 6-2, which will be broken in the Tigers’ favor by virtue of having the best record in the division, or we’ll get an even more agonizing scenario:
If Missouri loses to Tennessee, Georgia could end up being the team that goes to Atlanta, because Georgia would be the only team that beat Tennessee. Really. This could all come down to each team’s record against Tennessee. Or Vanderbilt.
Why all this craziness? Because the fourth tiebreaker is:
Head-to-head competition vs. the team within the division with the best overall (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last.
Suddenly, the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game becomes critical. If Tennessee ends up ahead of Vanderbilt, then Georgia goes because it’s the only team that beat Tennessee. If Vanderbilt ends up ahead of Tennessee, then the Vanderbilt loss by Georgia knocks the Bulldogs out, and South Carolina goes based on the head-to-head with Missouri.
Before you scoff, harken back to 2007, when this stupid field goal would have been all it took for Georgia to play in the SEC title game:
Shit happens, Dawgnation.
46 responses to “For Georgia 2013, there’s two kinds of pessimism.”
Once we lose to Auburn will you finally open your eyes to reality?
These posts are embarrassing.
Lighten up, Francis.
It’s not a prediction, just a worry.
You just made the list, buddy.
Juan, why do you cheer for a team when you’re secretly hoping we lose so you can be proven ‘right’? I swear, i don’t understand the uga fan-base.
And I’m kind of sick of it. Get in the bus and cheer for our team.
Get on another team’s bandwagon. I don’t understand “fans” like this. Something is embarrassing here and it sure isn’t the Senator’s post.
To be clear, I was addressing Juan.
I believe Juan is already gone
http://juanflewoverthecuckoosnest.wordpress.com/
Is Juan spanish for loser?
DugLite
Juan is Spanglish for douche!
Among other things, our dawgs would have to win the rest of our conference games in order to make this tie-breaker scenario come in to play, right? I think we’ve got a decent shot of beating UF and I’d be somewhat surprised if we lose to Kentucky, but that Auburn game scares the crap out of me right now. Yeah I don’t think I’ll need to book tickets to Atlanta. That being said, I’d love to be proven wrong.
Only “somewhat surprised” by a loss to UK? Ho-kay.
I had originally typed “shocked” instead of “somewhat surprised”, but then I talked myself out of it, lol
I think “somewhat surprised” is legitimate seeing as how UK has won 2-of-7 and two of the others were scarily close.
So. IL Dawg
Everything hinges on Gurley. If healthy, our offense can keep the ball away from the Auburn offense. And they really don’t scare me. Gurley is the key!!
Auburn worries me a little bit this year, but it’s the longterm thing that’s so interesting to me for them. Malzahn’s doing fine with players he recruited when he was just the OC, but how will he handle the longterm stewardship of the program? He’s not an Auburn man (is he?), so if Bert doesn’t work out in Fayetteville, will he head home to Arkansas? Will he want to have a bigger job and a bigger profile than Auburn?
It’s so hard to tell after just one year; unfortunately, they’re clicking at the right time and we’re still going to be undermanned at that point. Even still, it’ll be pretty sweet to mess up their season.
I’d say a few bigger X-factors there are:
Micro: I think we’re letting the fact that Auburn outscored TAMU (when JFF did miss some time with an injury) color our perception of this team. They’ve got one of the easiest non-SEC schedules, avoid Florida, Sakerlina, and Missouri from the East, and were destroyed by LSU until making it close vs. backups.
Macro: I’d say Gus is a decent shot candidate for the Texas job, and wouldn’t put it past him to leave after one year with the Barn for it. Until Saban retires (and even after he does, historically) Auburn’s the little brother in-state. Why would Texas get him? Because Brieles turns them down, and they don’t want an NFL retread.
These words seem to imply that the targeting calls did not hand Vandy the game…”(And before any of you pessimists of the Booker kind insist that if Georgia doesn’t go to the SECCG as a result of losing the tiebreaker, it won’t be because of the penalty calls, but because of special teams, Grantham’s incompetence, etc., well, you may be right, but I guarantee you it’ll get spun exactly the way Seth describes it.)
Bug I Just can’t accept that it’s “spin”.. I think it’s reality. The reffs interjected themselves as participants. They were the police that helped rob the bank. Just because Georgia played a bad game, doesn’t mean they deserved to have what would have almost ceertainly been a very imortant win taken from them with shitty officiating. Yes, it’s hard for the refs tos screw you when your playing “lights out”, but when your playing borderline awful, bad calls cand (and did IMHO) cost you the game..and very possibly the SECE. I hate it when refs determine the winner and that’s exactly what happened in Nashville.
I agree. I generally avoid blaming the refs but that call completely changed the game. If the refs don’t blow that call, we win a sloppy game by two touchdowns.
Referee’s have been interjecting themselves into games as long as there have been referee’s. Its not new nor different. What is new is that we all now see the same video as the umpire in the booth. And we know some calls are overturned now.
The call on Wilson absolutely had an effect on the outcome, but it did not turn the game. Dawgs were merely competent out of the locker room, puzzled by halftime and beaten as the third quarter began. Flat, as in KY last year flat. GA loss at Vandy was a team loss, aided by two calls we don’t like and are still talking about.
At the risk of being called…er…what was it…ah hell, I fergit…..
I agree sniffer, by the end of the first quarter, I was texting my son to be worried….things were just….off.
But this view is not welcome with some of us.
The vibe at Vandy was no different from many other trips to Vandy. We regularly struggle there. Remember Hoague saving out butt with a fingertip pass deflection of a sure winning TD in ’83? The difference is one ill-timed blown call that empowered Vandy and seemed to cause us to wilt. Minus that call, we win another sloppy game.
Russ, I respectfully disagree. We were inconsistent seemly the whole game and could get nothing going in the second half. Vandy players came out for the second half dancing and bouncing and we were walking zombies. We had nothing for them.
The two penalties hurt, but neither took points off the board. The Wilson penalty kept them alive, but, good gosh, we had a chance to stop them and we couldn’t. That’s something to get upset about..
Actually, they stopped them on that drive. Twice.
Last I checked Allbarn was primarily a running team, our D currently ranks 3rd against the run.
Let’s worry about the Swamp Lizards first.
Senator, I didn’t mean to call you “bug”…it was supposed to be “But”.
My reply box bounces around and I cannot see what letters are actually being touched by my fat old fingers…thus all the typos.
And I don’t think that YOU are dismissing the depth of the crime, but, yes, some will read it that way.
This happens to me too (reply box not cooperating). Is it us or is it something on your end Senator?
The Senator makes a great point here. Those of our fanbase that wants to go on and on about how Vandy, Kentucky, etc. should never even be on the field with UGA and teams of “our caliber,” just look at the two plays that decided the overall outcome of the Dawgs season in 2007…this FG in a game between a mediocre UK team vs. a decent but not great UTK and the fumble we got to set up the game winning FG against VANDY. It happens. But winning narrow games on the road against these type teams is just part of what has to (sometimes) happen to make for a championship run.
Speaking of Vandy, they, too, missed a game-winning FG against the Vols in 2007. There may have been yet another by USC, if I’m not mistaken.
More generally, it’s hard to attribute outcomes in a dynamic situation to any one factor. The Wilson call in the Vandy game, while outrageous and novel, wasn’t really any different in impact from the bad PI and PF calls (or no-calls) that happen often in SEC games. I still think the atrocious ST play (which, unlike Bobo’s play-calling or the D’s spotty performance, probably had nothing to do w/ injuries) was the key, but we all have different takes.
There was. UT had a gigantic horseshoe up their ass that year. I think at least one miss was in OT too.
It’s definitely a good thing for the program that Georgia still has a chance to get to the Dome. I love Aaron Murray and I want to see him get a ring… a real one and not a division championship ring. Granted, beating Alabama is a pretty tall order and not something I see happening with the way our defense plays.
Still, I’m just sort of paying attention to hoping we beat our rivals. Once it gets into the realm of having to root for multiple teams to win in multiple games just to put you into a three way tie breaker scenario… let’s just go beat Florida, Dawgs. At this point, I certainly won’t be disappointed with a team that goes out there and faces the adversity and gets a third straight WLOCP win and beats Tech again and beats Auburn. If that could happen, I won’t be sad if all the other fantasies don’t come true.
Lorenzo Dawgriguez
I think we beat Florida. Mr Boom will be in for a rough week after that, aw too bad. If CTG relieves some of the confusion on D, as reported, we can stop the Gators with what we have. And after that, there is nothing better than ruining Awbuns year at their place.
Well, that, and ruining Tech’s bowl streak, while hoping that the angst of losing a 3rd in a row to us has the Gators so distracted that they, too, lose to Vandy.
1) If UGA has a shot to win the East for the third consecutive year… no matter what it takes for it to happen, and no matter the outcome when they get there… I will take it 100 times out of 100. Anybody that says they would not should ask themselves why they follow this team and this sport.
2) The bogus targeting calls played a very important role in determining the outcome of that game, and likely the SEC East race. They certainly weren’t the only factors that led to the loss, but they were factors, and that’s a shame. Those calls will be fresh on the minds of UGA fans long after this year is over like the AJ Green celebration call (5 years ago). If Missouri loses, and tiebreakers come into play, and UGA misses out because of the Vandy loss, the impact of the targeting call will be far greater than the AJ call, and probably will go down in Georgia lore as one of the biggest screw jobs in program history along side Jasper’s “fumble.”
Hey, what’s Mark Richt’s record versus Auburn? Just curious.
BEAT FLORIDA.
So much for all the possibilities, the lamenting of officials calls, and the injuries. Nothing is going to change now. What I want to see is better coaching, better game preparation, better game management, better / harder execution and play. If we do that I can live with a loss, but not like that fubar in Nashville.
Three days after tomorrow is another day?
…and don’t leave out better officiating. If it had been fair, Georgia has one SEC loss. You’re exactly right though, that “Nothing is going to change now”…including me being pissed off at getting ripped off.
The Dawgs didn’t play well in Nashville, but they win if treated fairly. If that doesn’t bother you then you won’t be able to see my point.
When the new targeting rule was announced and it was made clear that the TV review could reverse the ejection but not the 15 yards I KNEW then that Georgia would be the victim of that BS and it would cost us a game, probably a pivotal game. I know it sounds all “tinfoil hat” but I have been watching this sh!t for years. There is something going on against the University of Georgia that manifests itself on the field with bad calls at critical times by SEC game officials. I don’t know who is behind it or why. It could be as simple as the SEC refs are pissed off at CMR about the endzone stomping incident at the ’07 WLOCP, but I don’t really think that’s it because the cheating calls predate 2007. It could be the Jasper Sanks fumble/non-fumble against Georgia Tech that spawned the complaint from UGA AD Vince Dooley that got the crew of refs suspended from the post-season and the Referee of that crew, Al Ford, kicked out as a referee. That is more likely, but again, the crooked calls seem to predate that event, too. It could be as simple as alums of our most hated foes have permeated the ranks of SEC game officials, but I don’t really know if that is the answer, either. I don’t know, but have long suspected, that SEC refs are betting on games and I believe they are doing so in a manner that causes them to select UGA as a target for point-shaving and bad calls, probably because of some sort of grudge, and if they are going to fix a game, why not fix one that hurts a team you dislike. I do know this, though: As long as our chickensh!t AD and (God Bless him) our turn-the-other-cheek HC continue to just take it, it will not stop. If the SEC office won’t do anything to stop it and we can’t get a governmental body to conduct a grand jury investigation, the University itself should hire private investigators to get to the bottom of this.
Sadly +1000.
SEC Supervisors of Officiating:
1988 to 2006 – Bobby Gaston, Georgia Tech
2006 to 2010 – Rogers Redding, Georgia Tech
2011 to present – Steve Shaw, University of Alabama
Want a fair shake? Get one of our guys in there.
So THAT’s why every single targeting call against Bama has been reversed this season…
Got mine.
What do you do with doll who thinks she needs to show it off but still refuses to wear required headgear?
The really good football teams, aka Bama, never have to worry about bad calls changing the outcome of the game!
Exactly. Bama doesn’t get bad calls–their opponent does.
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← Stupid is as stupid does.
Those were the days, my friends. →
A “cannon shot”
Year of the Gamecock (n.) – an era currently spanning the period from the second week of January to about the middle of the month of October for the years 1992-2010.
— from the GTP Lexicon
One of the great pleasures I took from the Lou Holtz era in Columbia was the sincere delusion that came upon the ‘Cock faithful like clockwork every preseason that this would be the year their beloved team would storm into Atlanta and seize an SEC title on the way to world dominance, as well as some converted safety playing quarterback going on to win the Heisman Trophy triumphantly. Oh, the celebrations to come!
They never did.
Weirdly, that kind of talk simmered down during Spurrier’s run at South Carolina, even though he achieved more than Holtz and coached two players that were worthy of Heisman consideration without snickering.
Now it seems like Agent Muschamp, of all people, is inspiring a return to the good ‘ol days. I mentioned Tori Gurley’s prediction on Finebaum the other day; check out this bravado from The Big Spur, a South Carolina message board.
UGA’s staff knows that the talent margin is closing, that we are no longer a team with a couple of nice pieces – that we are getting deep. Sandridge was a cannon shot. A championship playoff run, at a position of need, and we still get the commitment – regardless of what is being written about currently (and make no mistake, it isn’t a coincidence).
It has been a long time since we’ve been this deep. On the staff and on the roster. It’s the middle of July and we are all in the same range of commitments and we are ahead of them. Pressure is all on them.
The ‘Cocky talk, she burns.
If I’m lucky, these guys can take up a significant portion of the slack created when Stingtalk went dark on us. A blogger can only hope.
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46 responses to “A “cannon shot””
How can they say with a straight face the talent gap is closing when we signed the #1 class in America (2nd all-time according to SB Nation) and they were #19 (7th in the SEC!)?
Cock delusion in July … just like the return of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano
Saxondawg
UGA: 14 5-stars, 48 4-stars.
SC: 0 5-stars, 4-stars. Rankings per Rivals.
They do have us on 3-stars, with 53 of those. We have only 24, so if we stage the battle using only 3-stars, they’ll indeed out-depth us.
I’m sure that’s what the chicken is talking about.
Edit: For SC, that should be 23 4-stars. Sorry. We have, with DRob, 63 blue-chip players (4 and 5-star) and they have 23, none of them high-end five-stars. UF and UT are about equal, with slightly more blue-chippers.
They probably think they rose higher than we did, but their 2017 class was rated #21 compared to our #3. Sax, math is hard for those from the Palmetto State.
They speak of Spurrier as if he actually won something at Sakerlina.
Spurrier would shoot them straight. It’s one thing I always sacrilegiously admired about Spurrier, he would be like “we suck” when it was true.
Also, who among our other last minute signers would we have told “sorry, we are full” to take Sandridge? Tyson Campbell? Quay Walker? Otis Reese? Tommy Bush? Any one of those guys would have been one of Sakerlina’s top 2-3 rated players.
Mark my word, Sandridge will be a bust.
the Year of Cock also features the Months of Seething – that period from the mid-October indignity of jousting with Kentucky for 4th place in the East, the annual loss to Clem Tech, through the triumphant defeat of Marshall or Ball State at the Poulan Weed-Eater Bowl in late December. One dare not speak of the commitment of Kevin Breedlove, Richard Seymour, or AJ Green during this period, lest one risk igniting a Grand Mal Cocky Hissyfit
Hey now, didn’t Sakerlina finish 2nd in the east and beat Michigan in their bowl game? I know it’s hard given their relative histories, but let’s not confuse the Cocks with Tennessee.
It’s fun to poke at the birds, but I still have a certain amount of respect for them after the 10’ 11’ amd 12 games. A couple of thise years we should have waxed them easily and we just shit the bed. I know we’re better at every position including 3rd string towel
boy, but until we shut down Sandstorm and make that damn bird a “Zaxbys Big three piece meal” I will just stay cautiously optimistic.
I suppose it’s my inner Munson
I will be playing Sandstorm as loud as my Bose system will crank as I leave Williams Brice after we crush their souls the evening of Sept 8
TMC DAWG
Who are these guys fooling? Themselves Right. We will be ready and focused. Remember Richt is not running this team anymore,, Dawgs by 14
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Hahahahahahahahhaa!!!
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
I’m not saying they won’t be good or a tough game or even beat us, but saying that the talent gap is closing is completely insane. Based on pure talent it is a simple fact that we are in fact widening the gap. Them getting one or two guys that we want doesn’t make up for the many (what, 16ish?) 5 stars we have that they don’t.
I am starting to think you are getting worried about this game. You are really reaching for some message board material. Quoting a former player on Finebaum and taking message boards as actual info? Go enjoy your summer, wait until the end of August to get scared.
Is this some kind of Gamecock mental jiu-jitsu? Ooh…
You know those quotes weren’t in any way taken as being substantive.
If you can’t have fun in the offseason, when can you?
It’s all fun. I’m not serious about much I write. I think we all know this game is a dogfight. 1/3 of sc’s roster will always come from the state of Georgia. This game feels right as an sec opener for both teams.
Seriously Sides? Scared? We aren’t scared of anyone, and shouldn’t be, but there is respect for many/most teams. You guys aren’t at the top of the list, but worthy of not being ridiculed, but to have your statement taken as legit you need to drop the silly stuff. What you might take from all this dialogue is that your HC seems as dumb with his mouth as he was at FU. One would think he had matured a little at this point but seems to be the same old Boom, the one that leads with his mouth. He should get some Ws on the field and stop with the stupid remarks, he is the one who doesn’t get respect from us, and he hasn’t earned any. Embarrassment to UGA that he received a degree in Athens.
We all have some delusional fans, SC has more than their fair share, but I wouldn’t have ever put you in that group until this comment. As the lexicon entry above states, this is the time for Cocks to crow so it does really indicate the silly season is upon us as we head into Media Days next week. Just didn’t see you as one who would lead the charge before this. See you in September, if our guys are through wetting the bed.
Boom=Chicken Shit.
All the pressure is on Georgia. It’s on the road. Senior running backs all went in the draft. It’s just your sophomore slump qb and a coach who averages 8 wins a season at Georgia.
Truth in the 1sr two sentences. Falls off sharply after that, 1) not everyone has a sophomore slump and, 2) 21 wins in two seasons averages to over 10 per season (and most allow a first season to be discounted for a new regime.) Talent gap grew over the winter. Our RB talent fell off, but we replaced with top drawer studs running behind a better OL. Kind of like two years ago, I don’t think we have to complete any passes to win. Biggest/only edge for SC is the home field, everything else favors us…by a decent margin. I am a “any given Saturday” guy in CFB but the timing hurts you, we have no one else to focus on early in the season, no chance we overlook you.
Cocks need to focus on beating Kentucky…for the first time in 5 years. It’s in Lexington so chances are the Cats will be favored to win again. When you’re getting owned by UK, best to keep the trash talk to a minimum.
That’s some quality trolling right there.
Do you really think the talent gap is closing? If so, please provide objective evidence. Over the last 3 recruiting cycles (which is also Muschump’s time in Columbia), Kirby has opened up a talent gulf (based on the 24/7 composite rankings) between the programs.
We got 13 5 stars.
The Yard Birds have ZERO.
Game over. There is nothing better than winning in March.
You would know, my friend.
We did go to the final four.
Our equestrian team is leaps and bounds better than yours.
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You could always apply for membership, Senator. 😏
“… there are a limited number of representatives from other schools we compete against).”
https://stingtalk.com/board/threads/stingtalk-primer-welcome-new-members-read-this-first.87273/
That fourth rule is doing some heavy lifting.
Ha! I am, however, finding the site to be currently open. Sooo… do your worst. 😉
Stingtalk is open again? How come nobody told me?
Membership has its privileges?
CKS just signed the best player from the state of Sackerlina in 2018, the kid was from Columbia. smh.
And he’s Bryan McClendon’s–who is now Carolina’s offensive coordinator-cousin, Really taking us to the woodshed.
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Boom’s bravado. What’s new?
Yup… Amusing, but getting old quickly. If we pick up what some think we will pick up (3 commitments) in the next few days, the potential is to jump as high #2, with 3 less commitments than Bama… Now that’s all speculation right now – but a very good chance that most, if not all of this could happen… I think that will be the Cannon Shot that hit’s the Gamecock right between the spurs…
Corch Irvin Meyers New WR Corch
And it just happened. Picked up 3 recruits tonight, and now we have the No. 2 class behind Bama with less commits so far… meaning much like last year, we’re poised to take over the No. 1 slot by the New Signing Day.
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Interviews with Non Executive Directors, industry leaders and trustees
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Learning from those who have been successful at finding Non-Executive Director or Trustee roles will be extremely useful as you develop your own career. Likewise, hearing from industry leaders will assist you in your thinking and help you connect with key people.
Over the last couple of years we have interviewed a wide range of successful people including senior executives, independent portfolio Non-Executive Directors (NED) and industry experts. These interviews give you the chance to learn from industry experts at the top of their game – allowing you to gain a better insight into sector trends, hot topics and insights that can help develop your own thinking and career development.
Wendy Cartwright (University of East London), Robert Cole (BT) and David Hodgkinson (KPMG) share why they sought to develop their careers by becoming Non-Executive Directors and /or Trustees.
Gerry Brown, Peter Miller-Smith and Simon Fanshawe are all portfolio Non-Executive Directors. Peter and Gerry were from a corporate background whilst Simon has always been self-employed.
Sharon Constançon is a Chartered Director Interviewer for the Institute of Directors, NED and Trustee, and Chris Spencer-Phillips runs a niche NED recruitment agency, so provides great insights from the recruitment perspective
Please note these interviews were conducted by The Non-Exec Hub which is now known as Smarter Networking Ltd.
Wendy Cartwright
Director of Corporate Services / HR at the University of East London and a Non-Executive Director with Defence People & Training Board UK Ministry of Defence.
Wendy talks about becoming a Non-Executive Director with Defence People & Training Board UK Ministry of Defence and the benefits HR professionals can bring to the boards.
Read more about Wendy Cartwright
As Wendy’s interview is comprehensive, we have divided it up into 7 shorter interviews so you can go directly to the subjects you are most interested in. Each question is the hyperlink to the corresponding video:
Can you tell us a little more about your background and the experience you bring to your new role?
Could you describe the recruitment process you went through before being appointed as an NED to the MOD?
What was your first board meeting like as an NED for the MOD?
What benefits do you think board diversity brings?
How important are personal brand, networking and previous experience when it comes to finding an NED role?
Tell us a little about the benefits which you believe HR professionals can bring to a board
Can you offer a final tip for anyone seeking to become an NED?
Robert is a full-time employee in BT’s Flexible Resource Unit working with BT Global Services in the Corporate and Public Sectors of the business. He has been a member of BT Scotland’s Management Board since 2009 and, as an enthusiastic BT volunteer, he is Vice Chair of the Scottish Mediation Network, a charity promoting alternative dispute resolution. He’s also co-founder and a trustee of SWAN (Scottish Workplace Area Networking) – a business network for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Read more about Robert Cole
Robert Cole talks about being a Vice Chair and Trustee:
Robert discusses how outside interests and experiences can really complement your day job and lead to new opportunities.
Robert’s links are here:
SWAN LGBT: http://www.swanlgbt.org.uk/
Scottish Mediation Network: http://www.scottishmediation.org.uk/
LGBT Youth: https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/
David Hodgkinson is the Head of Digital & Mobile, Customer & Growth Practice with KPMG.
In these interviews, David talks about becoming a Non-Executive Director of Rivers Coaching, which provides coaching for teachers and education professionals; he discusses how this benefits both them and his career.
Read more about David Hodgkinson
As David’s interview is comprehensive, we have divided it up into 5 shorter interviews so you can go directly to the subjects you are most interested in. Each question is the hyperlink to the corresponding video:
Why did you get involved with KPMG’s CSR Leadership Together programme?
What motivated you to become an NED when you are so busy at KPMG and have a young family?
Your journey with Rivers Coaching started as a mentor and then later as an NED. What does River Coaching do and what skills do you bring?
What tips would you give anyone looking to develop their skills outside their organisation?
Having become an NED with Rivers Coaching, how has this helped you in your career with KPMG?
Author of ‘The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director’s Guide to Effective Board Presence’.
Gerry Brown is the Chairman of NovaQuest Capital Management, a Board Mentor for Critical Eye and a Council Member of Exeter University.
Read more about Gerry Brown
Gerry Brown, the Chairman of NovaQuest Capital Management, a Board Mentor for Critical Eye and a Council Member of Exeter University, talks about:
His new book The Independent Director
The role of the Independent Director
Some of the major challenges facing Independent Directors
Questions all prospective Independent Directors should ask themselves
What Independent Directors should do when they join a Board
His favourite Independent Director job
His next project
Click here for the interview
Gerry Brown’s Links:
‘The Independent Director’ published by Macmillan www.theindependentdirector.co.uk
Peter Miller-Smith
Peter Miller-Smith is the Chair of the Board of Soha Housing, an Executive Coach, a Mentor and a Career Preparation Consultant.
In this interview, he discusses his experience of becoming a Non Executive Director and then a Chair, and shares his tips for those seeking a Non Executive Director or Trustee role.
Read more about Peter Miller-Smith
As Peter’s interview is comprehensive, we have divided it up into 7 shorter interviews so you can go directly to the subjects you are most interested in. Each question is the hyperlink to the corresponding video:
Can you tell us about first becoming a Non Executive Director?
Tell us about becoming the Chair of the Board of Soha Housing
What is the difference between being a Board member and chairing the Board?
How do you manage your time running a portfolio career with your commitment to the Board?
What is your advice to those seeking an NED / trustee role, and the skills they need to develop?
What challenges do you face?
What tips can you offer to those seeking their first NED / Trustee role?
Simon Fanshawe
Simon Fanshawe is a portfolio Non Executive Director, Trustee, broadcaster, journalist, trainer and advocacy on leadership, equality & diversity.
Simon discusses how he became a portfolio Non Executive Director and Trustee and how being middle class and gay has helped him offer more as a strategic board contributor.
Read more about Simon Fanshawe
As Simon’s interview is comprehensive, we have divided it up into 5 shorter interviews so you can go directly to the subjects you are most interested in. Each question is the hyperlink to the corresponding video:
How did you become a portfolio Non Executive Director?
What is your view on networking and how has your personal brand played a part in your success?
Thinking about 2020, what are the big issues facing companies, and is governance in crisis?
How to gain governance experience
How has being middle class and gay helped in your career?
About Simon Fanshawe
Simon co-founded Stonewall, which transformed the face of gay rights. Simon was an original member of the generation that transformed stand-up in the UK (and he won the Perrier Award). Simon led the team, which transformed Brighton from a declining seaside town to one of the UK’s creative brainpower capitals, as Chair of the successful city bid in 2000 and of the Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership, the city’s strategy body. And now Simon is working to transform the organisational performance of organisations in the public, private and third sectors (including FTSE companies, SMEs, Universities, Housing Associations and The Scouts!).
He is a formidable public speaker, a much in demand Chair of conferences and events, and a well-known broadcaster. For six years (2007 – 2013) he was The Chair of the Council of the University of Sussex. He is on the Board of the Brighton Dome and Festival, Housing 21 and English Touring Theatre. He recently co-authored a report for The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), with Dhanajayan Sriskandarajah, called “You Can’t Put Me In A Box”, which outlines the approach. The analysis is refreshing. Simon’s career has spanned live performance, broadcasting, journalism, training and advocacy on leadership and equality & diversity and as a non-exec. He has had several of his own series on Radio 4, Radio 5 and Talk Radio. He makes documentaries for the BBC on both Radio and TV. He is a regular on BBCBreakfast (BBC1). He has written extensively on the arts, politics, housing and equality & diversity for all the national newspapers. He has had columns in the Guardian, Sunday Times, and Time Out. He chairs and speaks at conferences and training programmes for a range of organisations both commercial and in public service. He has advised government on equalities, economic regeneration and the arts.
Sharon Constançon
Sharon is the CEO of Genius Methods Ltd, the Managing Director of Valufin Ltd, a Non Executive Director of a Buckinghamshire Building Society and a Chartered Director Interviewer for the Institute of Directors.
Sharon talks about securing a Non Executive Director role, the challenges faced by CEOs & Boards and some of the issues she covers when mentoring Chairpeople.
Read more about Sharon Constançon
As Sharon’s interview is comprehensive, we have divided it up into 10 shorter interviews so you can go directly to the subjects you are most interested in. Each question is the hyperlink to the corresponding video:
Sharon shares the depth of her knowledge about working with Boards and the Forex market.
Sharon shares her experiences of being a NED and a Chartered Interviewer.
Sharon talks about getting her first NED role with tips on how to give yourself the edge.
What key issues will Genius Methods focus on in 2015 relating to Board and Chair concerns?
What are the most common challenges facing CEOs, Boards and Chairs?
What advice do you have for corporate employees seeking their first NED role?
Sharon talks about how to be effective quickly in your first NED / Trustee role.
What is the Chairperson role and what governance issues should be covered?
When you mentor Chair people, what issues do you tend to cover?
What advice you would offer a CEO to help them work more closely with the Board?
Chris Spencer-Phillips
Chris Spencer-Phillips is the Managing Director of First Flight, a specialist provider of Chairs and Non-Executive Directors, offering a service to companies that ensures they get the most effective NEDs.
First Flight work across all sectors including AIM listed, FTSE SmallCap companies, unquoted companies, SMEs, UK subsidiaries of multinationals and Angel/VC/PE-backed companies.
Read more about Chris Spencer-Phillips
As Chris’ interview is comprehensive, we have divided it up into 6 shorter interviews so you can go directly to the subjects you are most interested in. Each question is the hyperlink to the corresponding video:
Chris explains why he started First Flight and the services they supply.
Chris talks about how the recruitment market for NEDs has changed, with the focus now being more on specific skills
Chris talks about the size of the NED market and the huge shift from recruiting ‘chums’ to 3 types of highly skilled professionals
Chris talks about the specs he receives from boards, and the need for board skill assessment before the board recruitment process should start
Chris offers his observations on first time NEDs vs. Portfolio NEDs, and getting your CV right
Chris talks about patterns and trends of skills of future NEDs, negative images of NEDs – and the pay!
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May 9, 2019 • by Jaclyn Trop • Apparel Retail
As traditional brick-and-mortar retailers fend against online rivals, loyalty programs are becoming crucial for meeting shoppers’ expectations and earning repeat business. Seeking to earn allegiance from customers who face a growing cornucopia of choices, today’s incentive programs are no longer focused solely on making the next sale. They aim to build a customer relationship for life.
In 2018 alone, nearly 15% of department stores launched or revamped their loyalty programs. Aiming to differentiate themselves by offering more than discounts or giveaways, more retailers are striving to create holistic experiences that resonate with their customer’s interests. The most creative programs – the ones below – look beyond the sale to influence their lives outside the store.
Here are CB4’s awards for the apparel loyalty programs that inspired us most this year and generated the most consumer buzz.
Most Strategic Loyalty Partnership: Abercrombie & Fitch’s “A&F Club”
Revamping its A&F Club to boost dragging sales, Abercrombie & Fitch capitalized on the millennial tendency that places high value on life experiences. By partnering with SBE, a company that operates 22 trendy hotels, multiple restaurants, and entertainment hubs, Abercrombie offers A&F Club members a unique experience with a memorable backdrop. The strategy allowed A&F Club to reach 5 million members in the first year after its relaunch. With A&F members spending nearly twice as much on average as non-members, the apparel retailer’s plan appears to be a success.
Popular perks of Abercrombie’s loyalty program include:
Exclusive Abercrombie events at partner SBE’s hotels, including the introduction of Abercrombie’s new denim connection showcased at the Mondrian Los Angeles.
Access to special pricing promotions and sales
Entry to contests to win special VIP access to events held by SBE and its strategic partners, including grand openings
Abercrombie & Fitch recognized an opportunity to combat slow sales by extending its brand reach. The retailer built a top loyalty program on the basis that engaged customers spend more and visit its stores more often.
Best Insider Perks: Van’s “Vans Family”
Inspired by 1960s skating culture, Vans has enjoyed continued success as a popular sneaker brand with cross-generational appeal. Teens love the retro style, and adults enjoy the nostalgic, vintage appeal. The retailer conceived its Vans Family loyalty program as a strategy to deepen the relationship between the customer and his or her experience. Customers earn points by purchasing products and engaging with the brand. A mobile app allows them to track points, redeem awards and access other lifestyle content.
Vans Family provides:
Members-only benefits including contests, previews to upcoming new releases, and insider information
Access to exclusive designs to customize footwear and accessories
An opportunity for customers to engage by posting their own experiences and sharing opinions
The sneaker retailer’s top loyalty program successfully meshes the brand’s trademark authenticity with a personal connection that appeals to customers. Social media-hungry teens gravitate toward programs that encourage them to share their lives and show off their creativity with custom designs. Meanwhile, the program allows adults to get in touch with their inner skater and enjoy a throwback to their younger days.
Most Personalized Loyalty Program: Nordstrom’s “Nordy Club”
Nordstrom decided to combat declining sales by revamping its customer loyalty program. By originally making loyalty rewards available to only those customers with Nordstrom’s credit cards, the retailer was missing an opportunity to reach the larger market. Now Nordy Club customers strive to unlock new benefits through a tiered points system. For card members, the rewards are even better.
The department store’s loyalty program allows members to:
Preview and purchase new brands and products before they become available to the public, attend free style and beauty workshops, free alterations, get curbside pickup service, and reserve items online to try on at the store.
Receive priority access to Nordstrom’s fashion shows, as well as their exclusive events (for higher-tiered members). They also earn early access to the “Clear the Rack” sale at Nordstrom Rack and receive an extra 25% discount on clearance items.
Book a stylist for an in-home consultation (top-tier members).
The Nordy Club’s success lies in its ability to reach and recognize a wide swath of customers. By offering benefits to both cardholders and general consumers, its tiered points system can engage more shoppers.
Most Out-of-the-Box Perks: Nike’s “NikePlus”
Nike knows its customers. Through the sportswear retailer’s mobile apps, Nike engages and rewards members who share their common passion to be the best. Customers accumulate points as they make purchases or complete workouts. The program has proven successful because customers who are engaged through the app tend to spend more money than those who are not.
With a focus on customer experience, Nike’s top loyalty program expanded to include:
New partnerships to bring more personalized and unique services to members. Rewards include free playlists through Apple Music, new workouts through ClassPass, and access to meditation content.
Customized promotions on workouts and sporting events by matching discounts to consumer preference.
Exclusive experiences. Members get early access to new products, a separate entrance to Nike’s Manhattan store, and a prototype vending machine in California that doles out free merchandise to members.
Nike successfully engages with their customers through a variety of channels. Partnering with related categories from music to meditation, the brand built a top loyalty program with more touchpoints to its customers’ lives.
Most Targeted Loyalty Program: Victoria’s Secret’s “Pink Nation”
Victoria’s Secret is using its Pink Nation loyalty program to counter a three-year consecutive plunge in same store sales. Although the retailer commands 63% of the lingerie market, its hold continues to weaken in the post-#MeToo era as women choose comfort over sex appeal. They’re betting that the solution is a new social platform that offers compelling content while weaving exclusive, members-only benefits to make Pink Nation more than just an app, but a way of life.
Aimed at college-aged clientele, the brand’s loyalty program offers:
Exclusive access to membership-only benefits
In-app games and relevant content to encourage continued engagement
A grass-roots sorority that engages young women to share their experiences
Targeting the tech-savvy Generation Z customer, Pink Nation aims to stand apart from the some-odd 80 apps gracing the average college student’s iPhone. By appealing to the younger generation’s thirst for technology, exclusivity and community, Victoria’s Secret is courting up-and-coming consumers who may stick with the brand throughout their adult lives.
Most Creative Way to Earn Points: Reebok’s “Reebok Unlocked”
Facing a slump in sales and a decline in brand awareness, Reebok designed its Unlocked loyalty program with a focus on brand interaction and customer engagement. Customers earn points when they shop, but the Unlocked program sets itself apart by rewarding them for interacting with the brand in other ways, such as leaving product reviews, sharing their Reebok experiences on social media, and attending events.
Rewards improve as customers progress through the program’s four tiers. Members receive:
free shipping, easy returns, and a gift on their birthday
direct access to a VIP customer phone number and surprise exclusive offers
exclusive access to Reebok products before they are released to the public
free training and workout plans at the Premier level
passes to exclusive product releases or events, a 30-day subscription for on-demand workouts, fitness certifications and access to limited edition Reebok merchandise
Reebok rewards customers for acting as influencers, touting the benefits of its merchandise to their friends and followers. Allowing users to earn points for actions beyond making purchases creates additional opportunity to build connection.
The Bigger Picture in Apparel Loyalty
Many retailers built or revamped their loyalty programs to fight flagging sales, but these initiatives are quickly becoming crucial even for bullish brands. Top loyalty programs engage shoppers beyond the purchase, inviting them to participate in a brand-based lifestyle. Customers thrive on this emotional connection, which drives them to spend nearly twice as much as the casual consumer.
Our winners’ programs provide access to a world within the brand, creating the community experience that today’s customer craves.
The trend will continue as retailers try to capture the next generation of customers. Savvy businesses are building their loyalty programs now to learn how to cater to younger consumers’ habits and preferences. Retailers who wait may find that their Gen Z shoppers have been claimed by the competition.
CB4 helps some of the top apparel retailers inspire loyalty by ensuring that their stores aren’t suffering from in-store issues that make beloved products hard to find. Implementation is easy and we can deliver a PoC in days. Interested in learning what CB4 could do for your business? Let’s connect.
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NZIFF Survivalist
10 August 2018 10 August 2018 devilstatedanLeave a comment
The Christchurch leg of the New Zealand International Film Festival is in full swing and there’s been some brilliant films on show thus far!
A particular favourite of mine has been ‘Arctic’ – a one-man powerhouse performance by Mads Mikkelsen. He’s a pilot that has crash-landed somewhere in the vast emptiness of the Arctic and from the beginning of the film it’s obvious that he’s already been there for some time. He has developed a routine and a set of behaviours that centres around:
a) keeping himself fed (luckily there’s fish right under his feet ready for the catching), and
b) giving himself the best possible chance of being rescued.
Without giving anything away, events occur that lead him to the decision to make a long trek to a possible permanent habitat due North. It’s a road movie, a survival piece, and a celebration of the resilience of humans in the face of insurmountable odds. Mads needs some serious recognition for this performance!
The survival-against-the-odds theme is not something new to us in storytelling and film making however. I myself am particularly drawn to those stories that pit an individual – often the survivor of some calamitous event, against the wilderness in whatever shape that takes. There are examples set in jungles, deserts, mountains and polar regions, there are even some set in space. Often the entire story is reliant on a single actor to shoulder the whole burden and when there’s nature involved it opens the way for cinematographers, costume designers, and music composers to help set the scene and drive the suspense. A good recent example is ‘All is Lost’ which sees Robert Redford give a riveting performance as a man lost at sea, adrift and endangered.
And here’s nine more, in a list…
List created by DevilStateDan
Films that showcase the stranded loner pitted against nature and against all the odds of surviving at all… From the jungle to the Arctic, from space, the open ocean, and the desert; all these environments are out to kill you! Could you do what it takes to survive…?!?
Into the Wild – The story of a young American man who sells up and hits the road heading all the way north into Alaska. He’s desiring to be closer to nature and to get away from humanity. He has only his wits and some very limited survival skills to negotiate the harsh and unpredictable environment. A great journey and a decent telling in this movie and a great performance from Emile Hirsch.
Cast Away – The classic tale of the “shipwrecked”. The sole survivor of a FedEx plane crash ends up on an isolated island and has to fend for himself. He’s there quite a long time and we get to see his transition from inept city-dweller to experienced survivalist. Great solo performance from Tom Hanks.
Gravity – Survival in space! A single astronaut survives a disaster in orbit around Earth. She’s got to use all her guile, instinct, and training to get back to the surface. Gripping story and amazing cinematography and a stellar performance from Sandra Bullock (and George Clooney for a bit too!).
Jungle – Based on real events, a young Israeli adventurer finds himself lost and alone in the jungle of South America. It’s a hostile environment and we follow his descent into desperation and madness. Another standout performance from Daniel Radcliffe.
127 Hours – Everyone knows the story – a mountain climber gets stuck and spends 127 hours locked in place when his arm becomes caught in a climbing mishap. He’s driven to some dark places in his mind and the most desperate option quickly becomes the only option. James Franco is very good in this!
The Martian – The movie of the super-popular novel of the same name. An astronaut is left behind on Mars after a minor disaster spoils the plans for the mission. The “castaway” is a biologist and he soon gets to work farming potatoes, and making plans for his rescue. Big budget, big names, big topic! Matt Damon delivers a pretty decent representation of the main character but this does get very “Hollywood” at times…. but then it’s set on Mars and it’s a survivalist story so what’s not to like!!
Life of Pi – An oceanic wilderness survival tale with a difference. Young Indian man Pi is adrift in the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat. Along for the ride are various wild animals from his family’s zoo business – one of them is a Bengal Tiger! Can he reach safety before he becomes lunch?? Good story told in retrospect and great work from the special effects department.
The Revenant – Not so much a sole-survivor tale but a good story of desperation, survival, and revenge! A member of a trapping party in the 1800’s is mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his party. With a little help along the way he manages to recover enough to navigate his way back to civilisation and onto avenge his betrayal. Dark and bloody and there’s a graphic bear attack. Leonardo DiCaprio does pretty well with what is a difficult role and the support cast are very good. I’d read the book by Michael Punke first though, it goes better than the film.
The Shallows – A tense thriller involving a young surfer and a homicidal shark! The girl is stranded annoyingly close to shore, but she’s in the Great White’s feeding ground and he’s got a taste for blood. The ocean is a scary place!
Many of these stories are based on books and some are true life tales of hardship and exposure, but for today we’re talking movies…
Happy viewing,
^DevilStateDan
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Read your way around the New Zealand International Film Festival 2018
26 July 2018 26 July 2018 DonnaLeave a comment
Let’s take a walk on the cinematic side! Here are the movie-related books from this year’s Christchurch leg of the New Zealand International Film Festival (it’s on from Thursday 2 August to Sunday 19 August):
Based on the short story ‘Border’ from his anthology Let the Old Dreams Die by Let the Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist, this genre-defying supernatural romantic thriller draws us into the mysterious life of a gifted outsider.
Actor Simon Baker’s directorial debut is an adaptation, with Top of the Lake writer Gerard Lee, of Tim Winton’s celebrated novel Breath.
A love triangle and mystery based on a Haruki Murakami short story ‘Barn burning’ in the book The Elephant Vanishes.
Set inside the conservative community of Orthodox Judaism, Sebastián Lelio’s graceful adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel Disobedience is a probing look at the illusion of freedom in both religious and secular life.
Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O’Dowd are perfectly cast in this romcom, based on Nick Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked about an indie rock obsession that leads to romance.
A profoundly moving account of life on the margins of America, based on Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin.
New Zealand actress Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie is mesmerising as 13-year-old Tom living off the grid with her war vet father. Based on the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock.
Chloë Grace Moretz delivers a heartbreaking and nuanced performance as a queer teen shipped off to a gay conversion camp in Desiree Akhavan’s touching drama based on the novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth.
A startling, nerve-shredding thriller about a brutal hitman contracted to save an abducted teen. Based on the novel You were never really here by Jonathan Ames.
NZIFF-related Books
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Find books and resources about actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr
Find books by New Zealand author and social commentator Celia Lashlie.
Music by – and books about – the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Kusama – Infinity
Books about the artist Yayoi Kusama.
McKellen: Playing the part
Books about actor Ian McKellen, and movies that star him, and more.
Books about designer Alexander McQueen.
Merata: How Mum decolonised the screen
Books and films by – and about – New Zealand filmmaker Merata Mita.
Paul Callaghan: Dancing with Atoms
Books by New Zealand scientist Paul Callaghan.
Books about Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Music by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
Books about – and by – fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.
and – of course, there is a movie about ONE OF US …
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
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Curate Your Own Personal Film Festival (from the Library DVD Collection)
28 June 2018 27 June 2018 DonnaLeave a comment
The Press reporter Charlie Gates wrote a fascinating article about the decline in DVD rental stores in Christchurch: Ghosts and survivors in fading DVD market. There may be fewer places to hire DVDs from, but you can still get ’em at your local library!
Browse our DVD collection
Because I am decidedly average at getting to the movies, the library DVD collection is there to rectify my movie fails. I watched The Last Jedi recently, re-watched the beautiful Japanese animated time-travel body swap movie Your Name, and am looking forward to watching Lady Bird and Phantom Thread.
DVDs at Matuku Takotako: Sumner Centre. Flickr Sumner-2017-08-18-DSC03137
This led me to make my own list of an imaginary Film Fest of recent(ish) NZ docos!
New Zealand Docos
No Ordinary Sheila
The story of this writer, illustrator, natural historian and outdoors adventurer Sheila Natusch.
Spookers
“Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern hemisphere’s largest scream park, situated in a former psychiatric hospital. Director Florian Habicht reveals the transformative and paradoxically lifesaving power of belonging to a community that celebrates fear. “
Poi E
“With humour, energy and emotion, the movie Poi e is the story of how that iconic song gave pride to generations of New Zealanders.”
My Year With Helen
“With unique access to high-ranking candidate Helen Clark, award-winning filmmaker Gaylene Preston casts a wry eye on proceedings as the United Nations turns itself inside-out choosing a new Secretary-General.”
The story of Formula One motor racing team originator Bruce McLaren “A fearless racing driver, a visionary and brilliant engineer”.
“Join members of the Christchurch Poultry, Bantam and Pigeon Club in the lead up to the NZ National Championships, as they battle history and each other in a quest for glory and for the love of their birds.”
Seven Rivers Walking
“With walkers, rafters, farmers and fishing folk, we journey the alpine to spring rivers of Canterbury. Exploring above and below the surfaces, uncovering ways through our current freshwater crisis. This lyrical documentary from New Zealand is an intimate portrait of the struggles around water – globally the most precious resource of our time. ”
“After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. “
The Art of Recovery
“As demolition gangs reduce ruins to rubble, a dynamic group of artists, innovators and entrepreneurs are bringing life back to the streets of post-quake Christchurch, empowering the people and creating a promising future for a dynamic new city. ”
“These Hip-hoppers may each be almost a century young, but for Kara (94), Maynie (95) and Terri (93), the journey to the Las Vegas World Hip Hop Dance Championships is just the beginning of a life’s journey. ”
Find New Zealand documentary films in our collection.
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Film and television – a mid-year review
31 May 2018 23 May 2018 devilstatedanLeave a comment
Seen anything good on the tele lately…?!?!
Me neither. That’s why I borrow films and tele series’ from the library! It’s a much better way of being in control of what you’re actually watching during screen time, and you can tailor your viewing to perfectly suit your taste and your timetable, WIN-WIN and, no more infomercials!!
And it’s really just about good old-fashioned storytelling isn’t it!? For me, film and television is a coming-together of multiple artforms that, when it’s done well, has the ability to move you at a level many other artforms might not individually.
So here’s a list of the best films and series’ that I’ve had the pleasure of viewing this year, so far – many more to come!
2018 – The Best of Film and Television
These are the best films and television series’ that I have explored throughout the year so far, all available to you through Christchurch City Libraries membership.
The fencer – Post WWII Estonia. The Germans are gone and the Russians are taking control. They’re especially interested in those Estonians that fought for the Germans and are systematically hunting them out. This story is about one such man, a world-class fencer who is concealing himself as a sports teacher for a country college. This is a stunning and heartfelt film about humanity, strength, and love.
Get Out – A gripping story of a young black man heading away for a weekend with his as-yet un-met in-laws… what comes after is a web of dark intrigue and something is definitely not right!
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch – Ever wanted to know more about the mysterious Hieronymus Bosch?!? Then get a load of this – it’s a part of the ‘Exhibition on Screen’ series that takes viewers on a tour of the works and life of some of history’s great artists. This one is all about Hieronymus Bosch and is surprising in its revelations about who he was and where his inspirations were drawn, plus you get up close with some of his most amazing works!
Chasing Trane – The latest telling of the life, love, and music of the great jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane. Rare footage and loads of interviews with music legends that were close to him. He was truly a musical visionary and died at such a young age from liver cancer, it begs the questions of how much more impact could he have had on contemporary music!? A must-watch for all music fans!
Saint Amour – An old man and his adult son go on a wine-tasting road trip around France in order to reconnect. Sounds normal, but this is French comedy and things get strange! Good story.
The Limehouse Golem – I really liked this film – a Victorian Whodunnit! I loved the Victorian era look of it, the clever direction, the story was weaving and uncertain – as it should be for a classic whodunnit! And the acting was solid and dramatic without being over the top. It’s a small shame that I picked the killer in the first 20mins but I still liked the story and enjoyed it to the end!
The Dinner – A family of privileged white Americans meet for a very posh dinner to discuss an incident that involved their children. The details slowly emerge as the film unfolds and explores the issues of parenting, mental health, social navigations etc. Great performances from the four lead actors.
Detectorists – A short series about the engrossing world of metal detecting in rural Britain. Written and directed by Mackenzie Crook (from the Office, and Pirates of the Caribbean), it’s full of pathos and at once hilarious, cringey-embarrassing, and full of heart. It’s about how even small lives are big and important and that everyone deserves to be happy. Highly recommended if you like British comedy.
Rellik – A dark and twisted crime series with an uniusual device; the story is told in reverse. We begin with the outcome of a police investiagtion into a series of acid-burn murders, from there we go back in increments of hours/days as the foundations are explored and new light begins to show on reasons for behaviours evident earlier/later… it’s a little confusing to explain so just watch it, it’s quality crime drama!
Swinging Safari – A gloriously retro look at family life in 1970’s Australia. Try to think of every brand name, in-safe parenting practice, cliché, and add a bit of over-styling and you’ve got it. Loosely wrapped as a coming-of-age story, it centres around 3 Aussie families living, loving, and loafing. Very funny film, especially if you’ve lived through some of these circumstances.
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Competition: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
18 April 2018 Library2 Comments
Charming. Quirky. Nostalgic.
All words that have been used to describe Mary Ann Shaffer’s bestselling novel, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. The historical WWII novel that Shaffer (a former librarian) wrote when her plans for a biography of Robert Falcon Scott’s widow, Kathleen Scott fell through, “Guernsey” was extremely popular when it was published ten years ago. An epistolary novel (one that is told through letters or other documents), it tells the tale of Guernsey island-life during German occupation and is filled with engaging characters. It’s very much a book for booklovers, capturing, as it does, the transformative magic of reading.
And now it’s a movie. Opening in New Zealand on 25 April, “Guernsey” the movie will be a must-see for fans of the book but also for those wishing Downton Abbey was still a going concern, with no less than four former Abbey-ers in the cast, including lead, Lily James.
Lily James as writer Juliet Ashton in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie. Image supplied.
If you’d like to read (or re-read) the book as well as see the movie we’ve got the competition for you! For your chance to win one of five double passes to the film and a paperback copy of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society answer our question about epistolary novels and enter your details in the entry form. Entries close 29 April and are open to Christchurch City Libraries members and winners will be announced on Monday 30 April.
Many thanks to StudioCanal for supplying the prize for this competition.
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The doctor (of horror) is in
2 March 2018 2 March 2018 Mo-moLeave a comment
Dr. Erin Harrington is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Canterbury. Her area of expertise? Monsters, murderers and all things sinister and unsettling – or more specifically, the horror genre.
Dr Erin Harrington, University of Canterbury. Image supplied.
Harrington is giving a free talk at the university next week on just this topic. Being something of a horror enthusiast myself I was keen to pick her brains (not literally), about why people are drawn to movies and stories that, superficially at least, should make us run a mile.
What is it about horror that appeals to you particularly, as opposed to other genres?
I ask myself this every day! I have always liked horror – I have fond memories of going to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland when I was 6 years old – so there’s something fundamental about the way that scary stories are able to communicate with us that really appeals to me, just as other people might respond to fantasy or westerns. I think I always liked how evocative and transgressive horror can be. It’s a place where boundaries can be pushed, and where we can think through big or challenging ideas, or explore frightening things in a secure space, much in the way that slumber party ghost stories can be both thrilling and safe. There’s a visceral pleasure to horror, as it can range from the horrifying or thrilling to the hilarious or gross. I also think I just like monsters a lot.
Does studying horror academically make it more difficult to enjoy as pure entertainment?
It can do. It’s harder to switch off, as you become really aware of the cinematic language that they are using, and a lot of films are quite derivative, but the best films will draw you in no matter what. Sometimes watching films can feel a bit like homework, which is frustrating. Weirdly, it has made me appreciate average or even quite bad films a bit more, as I can kinda see what they are trying to do, or how they connect to other films within the genre and subgenres, even if they fail spectacularly. Perhaps it’s like being an expert cheese taster – you eat enough of the stuff that you come away with an affection for even the stinkiest gloop.
I love horror but my partner does not. Which one of us is right? Or rather, why is it that some people love to be scared but others loathe it?
You are both right (sorry). We all have different tastes in terms of the sorts of stories we respond to, and this will include how those stories are told – their imagery, the way they sound, their pace and so on. Not all horror films are graphic, but people definitely have varying levels of tolerance for images of fictional violence. Additionally, all film plays with our emotions, but some make us have a more physical reaction than others – comedies make us laugh (hopefully), emotional films might make us feel sentimental or sad, and so on. The emotions and sensations that come up with horror can be quite complex, and some people are just more comfortable with uncertainty or ambiguous feelings. Fear, dread, terror and horror all play with a shift between tension and release that some people find more interesting and stimulating than others. For example, I get really frustrated with films that have a lot of jump scares, as I don’t like being startled, but I find films that are unsettling or disturbing, or that have provocative imagery, or that retell familiar stories in new ways both rewarding and challenging. Some of us just like stories about monsters.
What should horror-fans (or the horror-curious) expect from your free talk at University of Canterbury?
I’m going to talk about some of the reasons people get pleasure or satisfaction from horror, but I’ll also look at the unique ways that horror can tell stories. I hope this helps the horror-phobic better understand why they may not respond to these films well, and prompts horror lovers to think about their own reactions to films. Whether people are horror newbies or experts, I want them to come away with an appreciation for how broad and diverse the genre is, but also but also how entertaining it can be. A lot of horror is really funny, and I reckon there’s a horror film for everyone.
Which movies or books would you recommend for those wanting to indulge in some horror research of their own?
How to Survive a Horror Movie is a really fun guide to horror tropes, and it looks at a lot of the most notable horror films from the last few decades. It can be really helpful to understand how horror films have changed over time, how they’ve reflected their own era’s fears and anxieties, and how they have influenced later films. Horror Films of the 1990s and Shock Value both do a good job of exploring context while highlighting significant films and shifts in tastes and subgenres.
Oscar-nominated film Get Out is one of the best horror movies in years, and easily one of the best films of 2017 full stop. It’s a great gateway film for the horror-phobic. If you’re after some international horror, then moody Iranian supernatural horror Under the Shadow, Norwegian horror comedy Dead Snow and action-packed South Korean zombie film Train to Busan are all pretty nifty.
It’s not in the library catalogue, but Stephen King’s 1981 non-fiction book Danse Macabre is still one of the best books out on the history of literary horror, even though it’s close to 40 years old.
Anything else you want to say about anything horror-related?
Monsters can be your friends too!
Find out more (if you dare!)
Register to attend Horror for the faint-hearted, 7pm, Wednesday 7 March at University of Canterbury
Read Erin Harrington’s book, Women, monstrosity and horror film: Gynaehorror
Find Horror Films in the library catalogue
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And the nominees are…
24 January 2018 Mo-moLeave a comment
The nominees for the Academy awards have been announced for this year. For me the most notable inclusions are “genre” films in the Best Picture category. It’s unusual for genre films to get much love from the Academy in this category (Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King is so far the only fantasy film to ever win Best Picture) so it will be interesting to see if either Guillermo Del Toro‘s fairy tale fantasy (The shape of water) or Jordan Peele‘s modern gothic horror (Get out) will take the out the Oscar. They’re both up against more traditionally “Oscar-worthy” films in this category so it seems unlikely, in my opinion ( but if you’re interested in knowing more, may I direct you to this graph showing how the genre preferences of the Academy for Best Picture stack up)
Oscar nominated movies must have opened in the previous calendar year, which means that some (but not all) of these films are now available in New Zealand. Flicks has a useful list of where and how you can watch the 2018 Oscar-nominated movies locally.
As for the library collection, below are the 2018 Oscar-nominated films available for loan on DVD or with tie-in reading material. See how many you can watch/read ahead of the awards ceremony on Sunday, 4 March (Monday, 5 March here if you’re planning on watching live).
2018 Oscar nominated films available on DVD
Baby driver (film editing, sound editing, sound mixing)
Beauty and the beast (production design, costume design)
The big sick (writing – original screenplay)
Bladerunner 2049 (cinematography, visual effects, production design, sound editing, sound mixing)
The Boss Baby (animated feature film)
Dunkirk (best picture, directing, cinematography, production design, film editing, sound editing, sound mixing, original score)
Get out (best picture, directing, actor in a leading role, writing – original screenplay)
Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 2 (visual effects)
Kong: Skull Island (visual effects)
Logan (writing – adapted screenplay)
Victoria & Abdul (costume design, makeup and hairstyling)
War for the planet of the apes (visual effects)
Related books and soundtracks
A number of this year’s nominated films are either based on books or have tie-in titles or soundtracks, so you might want also want to check out:
The Breadwinner (film nominated for animated feature)
Call me by your name (film nominated for best picture, actor in a leading role, writing – adapted screenplay, original song)
Darkest hour (film nominated for best picture, actor in a leading role, cinematography, production design, costume design, makeup and hairstyling)
The disaster artist (film nominated for writing – adapted screenplay)
Logan (film loosely based on the Old Man Logan comic book series)
Molly’s game (film nominated for writing – adapted screenplay)
Mudbound (film nominated for actress in a supporting role, cinematography, writing – adapted screenplay, original song)
Revolting Rhymes (film nominated for animated short)
Star Wars: The last jedi (multiple tie-in books focusing on individual characters, design and vehicles – film nominated for visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing, original score)
The story of Ferdinand (film “Ferdinand” nominated for animated feature)
Weta Workshops presents the world of Kong: A natural history of Skull Island
Wonder (film nominated for makeup and hairstyling)
Academy Awards website
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Madwomen and attics – WORD Christchurch Shifting Points of View
11 September 2017 11 September 2017 bronnypopLeave a comment
It was a dark, but not a stormy, night at the Arts Centre last Wednesday, when four mysterious black-clad ladies entered the room. With flickering candles held aloft, they took their places on the stage for an evening of great hair, literary tropes and another chapter in the ongoing battle between Team Rochester and Team Heathcliff (*).
There was no attempt at cool professionalism, as our panellists to a man woman unashamedly confessed their enduring love for that most passionate of genres, the Gothic novel. And the audience was right there with them – many of us had been present earlier in the evening for an outstanding performance of Jane Eyre by Rebecca Vaughan of Dyad Productions.
With chair Rachael King guiding the discussion, we heard from an actor, a novelist and a librarian as they each confessed to teenage years spent wafting about in nighties and imagining themselves in the arms of a dark and brooding hero of uncertain temperament. Rebecca Vaughan had of course literally just come from her performance as Jane Eyre, while Karen Healey and Rachael King have both written novels with a strong Gothic flavour themselves (if you have not read Karen Healey’s Guardian of the Dead, or Rachael King’s Magpie Hall, I beseech you most strongly to do so at once). And our very own Moata Tamaira has never been afraid to profess herself as a fan of all things Gothic.
The evening’s discussion ranged from the literary – Gothic tropes in literature and film; to the awesomely ridiculous – a slideshow quiz where every answer was Wuthering Heights. We contemplated the various forms of Heathcliff in multiple movie castings (Tom Hardy a clear winner here, although this possibly was rigged by chair Rachael); and slipped sideways into a robust conversation about whether Wide Sargasso Sea had altered anyone’s perceptions of Mr Rochester (is it a true prequel? an early form of fan-fic homage? a completely separate stand-alone story?). I was waiting for someone to mention my own personal fave Jane Eyre “character” Thursday Next, from the Eyre Affair series, but perhaps that’s making things a little too tangled even for this panel and audience.
Finishing with a glorious set of illustrations from pulp fiction novels of the ’60s and ’70s, featuring women with great hair running from Gothic houses (credit to this magnificent blog), we were then sent out into the moonlit surrounds of the oh-so-Gothic Arts Centre, I think each with a new commitment to go back and re-read ALL our favourite Gothic novels. Possibly while dressed in wafty white nighties and floating about on the nearest moor.
(* Of COURSE it’s Team Rochester, all the way)
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New Zealand International Film Festival 2017
10 July 2017 DonnaLeave a comment
Today the Christchurch programme for the New Zealand International Film Festival was launched.
Every year the New Zealand International Film Festival screens a range of films. It’s Christchurch’s turn from 3 August to 20 August.
Literary films at the Festival
If you like movies based on books — or want to read the book before you see the movie — there are plenty of films for you at the 2017 Christchurch leg of the NZ International Film Festival. Thanks to the Film Festival organisers for providing us with some of the following information:
A story-telling monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) helps a sleeping boy with his waking-life nightmares in this adaptation of Patrick Ness’ novel, spectacularly realised with lavish CGI and painterly animations.
Based on the novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
A Woman’s Life (Une Vie)
A literary adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant styled with striking immediacy, Stéphane Brizé relates the tragedy of an adventurous young 19th-century noblewoman harshly judged for an unfortunate marriage.
Bill Direen: A Memory of Others
A documentary about New Zealand musician Bill Direen.
Find books and music by Bill Direen in our collection.
This gorgeous and moving adaptation of André Aciman’s acclaimed novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet as lovers in sun-kissed northern Italy.
Based on the book Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Citizen Jane
A documentary capturing the showdown in the 1950s between the activist Jane Jacobs and the trumpian urban planner Robert Moses: as she fights preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects.
Based on The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
This animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic memoir of his parents’ lives is both humble and profound, with gorgeous renderings of Briggs’ justly famous lines. Featuring the voices of Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn.
Based on the graphic novel memoir Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs
A catastrophic accident leaves one family in ruins and bestows another with precious hope in a hospital drama immeasurably enhanced by the delicate sensitivity of Katell Quillévéré’s script and the poetic force of her direction.
Based on Mend the living by Maylis de Kerangal
A documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, exploring the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin’s reminiscences of civil rights leaders.
Florence Pugh is mesmerising as she transmutes from nervous bride to femme fatale in this bracing British period drama based on the 19th-century Russian classic by Nikolai Leskov – Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
Charlie Hunnam makes a commanding flawed hero as British Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett in a sweeping giant screen epic, filmed with rare intelligence by writer/director James Gray. With Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson.
Based on the novel by David Grann, The Lost City of Z
A documentary exploring the life of New Zealand writer Sheila Natusch who has written over 30 books including Animals of New Zealand, The Cruise of Acheron, Hell and High Water and Wild Fare for Wilderness Forager. No Ordinary Sheila is a documentary about her life, times – and places.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 masterpiece, like his earlier Solaris, is a free and allegorical adaptation of a sci-fi novel, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic.
See also the book about the movie Stalker – Zona: A book about a film about a journey to a room by Geoff Dyer.
Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District (UK) sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons).
Based on the book Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
To Stay Alive: A Method
This Dutch documentary film is based on Michel Houellebecq’s 1991 essay To Stay Alive, about struggling artists, the role of the poet, and mental health problems. It features marginal artists as well as Houellebecq and the rock singer Iggy Pop.
Read books in our collection by Michel Houellebecq
A young woman arrives unexpectedly at an older man’s workplace looking for answers as to their shared past in an abusive sexual relationship.
Based on the play Blackbird by David Harrower
See the full Christchurch programme
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40 years ago in a galaxy not far away…
25 May 2017 25 May 2017 Mo-mo4 Comments
On a Wednesday in 1977 a phenomenon began. That phenomenon was Star Wars.
Released in only 32 cinemas in the US on 25 May of that year the sci-fi space opera broke all box-office records and changed the movie making business. Star Wars was one of the first films to generate “round the block queues” for screenings (the literal definition of a “blockbuster”).
George Lucas famously popped out for lunch with his wife on opening day, saw lines of people queuing outside Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, and only then realised he had a hit on his hands. He’d expected a flop. So much so that he had a bet with friend Steven Spielberg that Close Encounters of the Third Kind would beat Star Wars at the box office. And that’s why Spielberg still receives 2.5% of profits on the film.
At least some of Star Wars’ initial success was as a result of the canny work of marketing director Charles Lippincoat who, ahead of the film’s release, shopped the novelisation (ghost written by sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster) and Marvel tie-in comics at events like San Diego Comic-Con. This generated a buzz amongst sci-fi fans who were already primed by release date. This is now standard practice with genre films and franchises who put a lot of effort into creating hype ahead of release, but back in 1977 it was a “thinking outside the box” strategy.
Star Wars also invented movie merchandising. As you walk the aisles of your local toy store, the proliferation of movie tie-in toys and action figures is down to the phenomenal success of Star Wars in this area.
Merchandising was such a small part of the movie industry prior to Star Wars that, in 1973, before the film was made George Lucas exchanged $350,000 worth of directing salary for the merchandising rights and the rights to the sequels. Conventional wisdom at the time was that this was a good deal for 20th Century Fox. It eventually cost them billions.
Just some of the sweet merchandising $$$ that Fox never got. Star Wars display at South Library, 15 May 2017. File reference: 2017-05-15-IMG_5174
And of the movie itself? Well, I’m a fan and have been for as long as I can remember. I cannot recall the first time I saw the film. In the late 70s and early 80s you simply absorbed Star Wars from the atmosphere. You fenced with lightsabers of rolled up Christmas gift wrap, you hummed the theme music, you played with your cousin’s X-wing fighter toy.
I love the film, even despite its many flaws – a not exactly diverse cast, sometimes creaky acting, the occasional alien proboscis that looked like it was made out of cardboard, plot holes that you could fly a Corellian freighter through – but to me it’s still a vastly enjoyable tale.
George Lucas was inspired by the Flash Gordon type serials of his youth, the films of Akira Kurosawa, the special effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the “heroes journey” mythology of Frazer’s The golden bough. Star Wars is a cinematic melting pot of references and homages that distills them down to a classic “good vs evil” story. The kind that’s timeless in its appeal. Or at least I hope it is… because I’m planning on watching it for another 40 years.
We have over 350 Star Wars related items in our catalogue!
If that’s too much try my list of Star Wars related books, music and DVDs
After Star Wars fiction? Try Alina’s Star Wars reads list
Or how about my post about Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist
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We launched India's first School Voucher Project in Delhi on 28 March 2007 as part of our School Choice Campaign. To demonstrate the power of school choice, we awarded school vouchers worth up to INR 3600 per year to 408 students in 68 wards of Delhi.
In these 68 wards, more than 50 School Choice Activists reached out to more than 12 lakh parents. Campaign vans rolled along distributing voucher forms and making presentations. Over 1.2 lakh parents applied for CCS school vouchers.
The criteria for application were that the child should have been in a government school the previous academic session and should have been studying in class six or below. The voucher would be given for a minimum of 3 years. We would continue to support the students further if funds are available.
As a fair and transparent method of selecting students from more than one lakh applicants, we had a public lottery led by the local Ward Councillor to pick 12 students in each ward--6 for the first list and 6 for a buffer list, in case some of the students picked in the first list had eligibility or acceptance problems.
Those who did not win in the lottery, submitted petitions to their respective ward councilors demanding school vouchers from the government. More than 2.5 lakh parents submitted these petitions.
On July 26, the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, Gurcharan Das, Nafisa Ali, and T K Mathew awarded school vouchers to the winners.
Delhi Voucher Project First Assessment Report
Summary of the key findings of the DVP First Assessment Report
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Billy Bonkers
Just who is Billy Bonkers? Well – he’s a bouncy, bubbly, bonkers boy. And wherever he goes, off-the-wall adventures always seem to follow. He bounces so hard on his trampoline that he bounces up into space. He eats so much porridge his stomach puffs up and he floats into the garden tree (and gets stuck… until he burps). He takes a flight on a deflating lilo, and biffs an angry shark right on the nose. Along with his wacky dad, brainy sister and down-to-earth mum, Billy’s life is never boring – it’s bonkers!
“Lovely, frothy stuff. Kids will belly-laugh.” Guardian
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Did you know that Giles Andreae is one of the most successful children’s authors working today – and he’s the creator of the iconic Purple Ronnie character?
Giles Andreae’s awards include the Red House Children’s Book Award for The Lion Who Wanted to Love, the Booktrust Early Years Award for I Love My Mummy, the Red House and Stockport Schools Award for Pants and the 2010 Sheffield Children’s Book Award for Morris the Mankiest Monster.
Nick Sharratt is one of the country’s favourite illustrators, with over 100 books to his name.
Nick has won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children’s Book Award for A Cheese and Tomato Spider and the Nottingham Children’s Book Award for Elephant Wellyphant.
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Programming language – history and popular languages
May 17, 2017 PankajBasic programmingArticle, Programming, Programming Languages
The world of computer science, programming and software development starts here. Before I formally define programming language. Let’s dissect it. Programming language is made of two parts “programming” and “language”. We already learn't about what is programming. Here we will learn about language. Think for a while and try to define what language means.
What is language?
Language is a medium of interaction between two objects. It is a system of communication between any two objects either spoken or written.
Humans have invented thousands of spoken languages to interact with other human. Birds, animals, insects and every living creature interact in their own language. Likewise machine also interact with the other machines in the language of electrical signals. Computers internally interact in the language of low voltage and high voltage (known as binary).
Programming language is the language of computers. Through programming language, we can communicate with a computer system. Computers can only understand binary, but humans are not comfortable with binary number system. Humans cannot interact fluently with computers in the language of 0's and 1's. Programming language act as an interface between computers and humans.
Programming languages are used to create programs. A computer program is intended to perform some specific task through computer or to control the behavior of computer.
Using a programming language, we write instructions that the computer should perform. Instructions are usually written using characters, words, symbols and decimal. These instructions are later encoded to the computer understandable language i.e. binary language. So that the computer can understand the instructions given by human and can perform specified task.
Thousands of programming language have been created till date and many are still being developed every year. Every programming language is designed for some specific purpose. Such as FORTRAN, OCaml, Haskell are best suited for scientific and numerical computations. Whereas Java, C++, C# are best suited for designing server applications, games, desktop applications and many more.
History of programming language
Earlier when there was no concept of programming languages. Computer instructions are directly given to the computer in decimal or binary form. These instructions are given through punch cards, magnetic tapes or through switches.
Later on when computer started growing, more and more programs were written day-by-day. Writing programs completely in binary was cumbersome and error prone. Therefore, we developed various mnemonics for different instructions. These mnemonics are in human readable format. Such as ADD for adding values of two registers, JMP for conditional controls. Now, the programs were written using mnemonics and decimal values known as assembly language.
Mnemonics are short abbreviated English words used to specify a computer instruction. Each instruction in binary has a specific mnemonic. They are architecture dependent and there is a list of separate mnemonics for different computer architectures.
Mnemonics gave relief to the programmers from writing programs directly in binary language. However, it was still a tedious work to remember the complete list of mnemonics for various computer architectures.
During 1950's the first high-level programming language Plankalkül was written. As the computer started expanding from scientific to business and to many other fields. Many more high-level programming languages were written for various specific purposes. Unlike binary and assembly, programs in high-level languages are written in English like statements. High-level languages are programmer friendly, less error prone, easy to write and maintain.
High-level languages were like a magic wand to the programmers. However, they lack the facility to perform several low-level activities. Which gave the birth to several other programming languages with different paradigms. During 1960's to 1980's several popular programming languages were written for specific purposes. This was the phase when the programming languages were more influenced. Popular languages developed during this period was ALGOL, Lisp, C, Prolog etc. Languages that we use today are either directly or indirectly inherited from this period.
Modern programming languages provide rich support of security and error checking. They provide higher level of abstraction of hardware details.
Popular programming languages
There are thousands of programming languages and many more are being written every year. Here is a list of some popular programming languages and software’s written using them.
Suited for
Popular software’s developed
Java Server applications,
Desktop applications, Android apps development Netbeans,
OpenOffice,
Google (backend),
Facebook (backend)
C System softwares,
Device drivers,
Database packages,
Operating Systems UNIX,
C++ (Programming language)
Microsoft Windows (Some parts)
C++ Operating system,
Game development,
Server applications,
Desktop applications Microsoft Windows,
Apple OS-X,
Various popular games
Python Web development,
Network programming,
Mobile apps development Google,
YouTube,
Quora,
C# Windows Client applications,
Web applications development,
Mobile apps ,
Cloud apps development,
Enterprises application Microsoft Office,
Visual Studio,
Almost all Microsoft websites (ASP.NET),
PHP Web development Facebook,
Yahoo,
JavaScript Web development,
Apps development Almost all popular website uses JavaScript for client side activity.
SQL Database development,
Database Query Almost all software’s database uses SQL as query language.
Ruby Website development Twitter,
Life cycle of a computer program
Classification of programming languages
Program and Programming
Programming paradigm
Compiler vs Interpreter
Life cycle of a program
Language classification
Low level languages
High level languages
Low level vs High level language
Programming errors
Programming Tokens
Escape sequence characters
ASCII characters
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Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy
Joanne W.Y. Yau, MBBS1,
Sophie L. Rogers, MEPID1,
Ryo Kawasaki, PHD1,
Ecosse L. Lamoureux, PHD1,2,
Jonathan W. Kowalski, PHARMD3,
Toke Bek, PHD4,
Shih-Jen Chen, PHD5,
Jacqueline M. Dekker, PHD6,
Astrid Fletcher, PHD7,
Jakob Grauslund, MD8,
Steven Haffner, PHD9,
Richard F. Hamman, PHD10,
M. Kamran Ikram, PHD11,
Takamasa Kayama, MD12,
Barbara E.K. Klein, PHD13,
Ronald Klein, PHD13,
Sannapaneni Krishnaiah, MD14,
Korapat Mayurasakorn, MD15,
Joseph P. O’Hare, MD16,
Trevor J. Orchard, MD17,
Massimo Porta, PHD18,
Mohan Rema, MD19,
Monique S. Roy, MD20,
Tarun Sharma, MD21,
Jonathan Shaw, PHD22,
Hugh Taylor, AC23,
James M. Tielsch, PHD24,
Rohit Varma, MD25,
Jie Jin Wang, PHD26,
Ningli Wang, MD27,
Sheila West, PHD28,
Liang Xu, PHD29,
Miho Yasuda, PHD30,
Xinzhi Zhang, PHD31,
Paul Mitchell, PHD26,
Tien Y. Wong, PHD1,2,32⇓ and
for the Meta-Analysis for Eye Disease (META-EYE) Study Group*
1Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
3Global Health Outcomes Strategy and Research, Allergan Inc., Irvine, California
4Department of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
5Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
6Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
7Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, U.K.
8Department of Ophthalmology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
9Shavano Park, Texas
10Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado
11Departments of Epidemiology and Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
12National Cancer Center/Department of Neurosurgery, Advanced Molecular Epidemiology Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
13Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
14Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
15Department of Social Medicine, Samutsakhon General Hospital, Samutsakhon, Thailand
16Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
17Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
18Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
19Department of Ophthalmology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India
20Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
21Shri Bhagwan Mahavir Vitreoretinal Services, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
22Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
24Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
25Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
26Centre for Vision Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
27Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
28Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
29Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
30Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
31Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
32Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Corresponding author: Tien Y. Wong, ophwty{at}nus.edu.sg.
Diabetes Care 2012 Mar; 35(3): 556-564. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc11-1909
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OBJECTIVE To examine the global prevalence and major risk factors for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) among people with diabetes.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A pooled analysis using individual participant data from population-based studies around the world was performed. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify all population-based studies in general populations or individuals with diabetes who had ascertained DR from retinal photographs. Studies provided data for DR end points, including any DR, proliferative DR, diabetic macular edema, and VTDR, and also major systemic risk factors. Pooled prevalence estimates were directly age-standardized to the 2010 World Diabetes Population aged 20–79 years.
RESULTS A total of 35 studies (1980–2008) provided data from 22,896 individuals with diabetes. The overall prevalence was 34.6% (95% CI 34.5–34.8) for any DR, 6.96% (6.87–7.04) for proliferative DR, 6.81% (6.74–6.89) for diabetic macular edema, and 10.2% (10.1–10.3) for VTDR. All DR prevalence end points increased with diabetes duration, hemoglobin A1c, and blood pressure levels and were higher in people with type 1 compared with type 2 diabetes.
CONCLUSIONS There are approximately 93 million people with DR, 17 million with proliferative DR, 21 million with diabetic macular edema, and 28 million with VTDR worldwide. Longer diabetes duration and poorer glycemic and blood pressure control are strongly associated with DR. These data highlight the substantial worldwide public health burden of DR and the importance of modifiable risk factors in its occurrence. This study is limited by data pooled from studies at different time points, with different methodologies and population characteristics.
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among working-aged adults around the world (1). Despite the significance of this problem, and the rising prevalence of diabetes notably in emerging Asian countries such as India and China (2,3), there are few precise contemporary estimates of the worldwide prevalence of DR, particularly severe vision-threatening stages of the disease, including proliferative DR (PDR) and diabetic macular edema (DME).
Previous individual studies have shown considerable variability in DR prevalence estimates among individuals with both diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes, with rates ranging from 17.6% in a study in India (4) to 33.2% in a large U.S. study (5). Differences in study methodologies, population characteristics, and ascertainment and classification of DR have made direct comparisons between studies difficult. A meta-analysis summarized the U.S. prevalence of DR (6), but this study was limited to individuals with type 2 diabetes aged 40 years and older, and the data were largely derived from individuals of Caucasian background, with limited data on other racial groups. More important, this study did not include Asians, and an estimated 100 million people in China and 80 million in India have diabetes (2,3).
Although the major risk factors for DR (e.g., hyperglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia) have been examined in many epidemiologic studies and clinical trials (1), there is considerable variation in the consistency, pattern, and strength of these risk factors. This is particularly so with respect to severe stages of DR, because individual studies generally lack power to detect significant associations for PDR and DME. Thus, the importance of modifiable risk factors for these vision-threatening stages of DR remains unclear.
Generating a broader and more precise estimate of the prevalence of DR and its relationship with major modifiable risk factors, specifically for vision-threatening DR (VTDR), is crucial for guiding public health education and optimal clinical management of diabetes. We therefore conducted an individual participant analysis pooling population-based studies from the U.S., Australia, Europe, and Asia to determine the prevalence of DR and its sight-threatening end points (PDR and DME) as well as their relationship to key risk factors.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
Study selection and inclusion criteria
We first performed a systematic literature review to identify all population-based studies that had ascertained DR from fundus (retinal) photographs. English-language articles were retrieved using Medline, EMBASE, Current Contents, EBSCO, JSTOR, and Science Direct using the following search terms: “diabetes” and “retinopathy” or “diabetic macular edema” and “population.” We identified 3,539 citations identified to 10 February 2010. Irrelevant and duplicate citations were excluded after a review of the titles and abstracts. The full texts of the remaining articles were reviewed to ensure studies met inclusion and exclusion criteria. In addition, we manually reviewed bibliographies of included articles and consulted with colleagues to identify other potentially relevant population-based studies that had assessed DR from fundus photographs but which may not have published results or in which grading for DR was still ongoing.
Studies were excluded if they were not population-based and/or if fundus photographs were not undertaken to ascertain DR. Two investigators (J.Y., R.Kaw.) independently selected the studies for inclusion. Disagreements between the two were resolved by adjudication with two additional reviewers (S.R., T.Y.W.).
We identified 58 population-based studies in which fundus photographs were potentially assessed for DR. Principal investigators of these identified studies were then invited for collaboration in this individual participant meta-analysis. We requested individual participant data regarding presence and severity of DR, DME status, age, sex, ethnicity, diabetes type and duration, hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), systolic and diastolic blood pressure, lipid profile, cigarette smoking status, BMI, and current use of diabetes, antihypertensive, and lipid-lowering medications.
Investigators from 35 of the 58 identified studies provided data for this analysis (Table 1). Investigators of the remaining 23 studies could not or did not want to participate, or did not respond to repeated invitations. All studies had institutional board review approval and provided appropriately deidentified data for analysis.
Characteristics of diabetic participants in each study population (N = 35)
DR assessment and definition
Retinal photography was performed in all 35 studies according to standardized protocols. Most of the studies graded for DR using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Scale (ETDRS) and its modification or the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy Disease Severity Scale (Table 1).
DR severity was categorized as non-PDR (NPDR; level 20 through level 53) and PDR (level ≥60). DME was defined as absent or present. The four primary outcomes for this study were based on the severity in the worse eye or of the single eye that was photographed. Any DR was defined as the presence of NPDR, PDR, DME, or any combination thereof; and VTDR was defined as the presence of PDR and/or DME. These composite outcomes serve as the primary outcomes for this report, which respectively, indicate presence of any DR and severe DR likely to result in vision loss if left untreated.
Definition of diabetes and major risk factors
Not all studies reported information on diabetes type. If data on age at diagnosis of diabetes were available in these studies, participants were classified as type 1 if they were diagnosed before age 30 years and as type 2 if they were diagnosed with diabetes after age 30 years, as previously used in one study (7). Hypertension was defined in subjects with a blood pressure >140/90 or who reported being on treatment for hypertension. Serum cholesterol was categorized into levels <4.0 or ≥4.0 mmol/L.
Appraisal of study methodology and heterogeneity
Study methodology and heterogeneity were assessed independently by two investigators (J.Y., R.Kaw.). Any disagreement was settled by consensus or adjudication with a third reviewer (S.R.). Studies were assessed for a list of attributes as defined in Supplementary Table 1. Studies with similar methodologies and rigorous ophthalmologic definitions were defined as those with a score of ≥9 (maximum, 11).
Data from each study were checked for consistency in variable definition before pooling, and where appropriate, data were recategorized according to a common definition. Race/ethnicity was categorized as Caucasian (Europeans and those of European origin), Asian (Chinese, Chinese American, Japanese, Malay, Indian, or people of Asian origin), African American, and Hispanic (Mexican Americans). Asians were further subdivided into Chinese or Japanese origin, and South Asian (Indian, Malay, South Indian, Thai, etc). Study-specific and pooled-data estimates of the prevalence of any DR, PDR, DME, and VTDR were directly age-standardized to the 2010 world diabetes population aged 20–79 years (8) using age strata 20–39, 40–59, and 60–79 years. We calculated 95% CIs for standardized prevalence rates using a normal approximation and Breslow-Day standard errors, after being modified to use a binomial assumption for the variance of the crude stratum-specific rates (9).
Initial analyses included data from all 35 studies, and subsequent analyses were performed using only data from studies with similar methodologies and outcome definitions (i.e., studies with a score of ≥9). Results from the latter analyses are presented throughout this report because of their similar methodologies.
Poisson regression models with robust error variance were used to estimate relative risks for DR, PDR, DME, and VTDR by categories of risk factors (e.g., hypertension, duration), adjusting for age (continuous, from 20–79 years), race (five categories), hypertension (yes/no), HbA1c (four categories) and study, as appropriate. We also performed supplementary analyses on the interaction between diabetes type and duration, using people with type 2 diabetes for <10 years as the reference group. Including sex in regression models generally did not improve the model fit and did not appreciably alter the results.
Global estimates
The total number of patients with diabetes with DR aged between 20 and 79 years was estimated by multiplying the 2010 country-specific totals of people with diabetes (sourced from Diabetes Atlas) by our pooled racial group–specific rates of DR using the most predominant racial group per country; for example, in Brazil, where 53.7% of country is “white” (according to 2000 census results listed in Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook) (10), our pooled Caucasian rate was applied, and in countries where the predominant racial group did not easily align with our limited pooled racial groups (e.g., Melanesians in Papua New Guinea), the overall pooled world rate was applied.
All analyses were undertaken using Stata Intercooled 11.1 software (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX).
Data were collated from 22,896 individuals from 35 studies in the U.S., Australia, Europe, and Asia. Of these, 52% were female, 44.4% were Caucasian, 30.9% were Asian, 13.9% were Hispanic, and 8.9% were African American. The mean age was 58.1 years (range 3–97), median diabetes duration was 7.9 years (interquartile range [IQR] 3–16), and median HbA1c was 8.0% (6.7–9.9%). Summary characteristics of the diabetic participants from each of the included studies are presented in Table 1 and Supplementary Table 2.
Analyses of these 35 studies showed that the overall age-standardized prevalence of any DR was 34.6% (95% CI 34.5–34.8), PDR was 6.96% (6.87–7.04), DME was 6.81% (6.74–6.89), and VTDR was 10.2% (10.1–10.3; data not shown). Analyses confined to studies with similar methodologies and rigorous outcome definitions showed that the age-standardized prevalence was 35.4% (35.2–35.6) for any DR, 7.24% (7.15–7.33) for PDR, 7.48% (7.39–7.57) for DME, and 11.7% (11.6–11.8) for VTDR (Table 2). There was no discernible sex difference in the prevalence of any DR or for PDR, DME, or VTDR. Extrapolating these prevalence rates to the 2010 world diabetes population, we estimate that 92.6 million (91.2–94.0) adults had any DR, 17.2 million (16.6–17.7) had PDR, 20.6 million (19.6–21.6) had DME, and 28.4 million (27.6–29.2) had VTDR.
Age-standardized prevalence of DR in diabetic subjects aged 20–79 years, using studies with similar methodologies and ophthalmologic definitions
Table 3 reports the age-standardized prevalence of any DR by retinopathy risk factors and other subgroups of interest. The prevalence of any DR varied across ethnic groups and was highest among African Americans and lowest among Asians. The prevalence of any DR increased with diabetes duration (21.1 vs. 76.3%, comparing <10 with ≥20 years), HbA1c (18.0 vs. 51.2%, comparing levels ≤7.0 with >9.0%), and blood pressure (30.8 vs. 39.6%, comparing blood pressure ≤140/90 or >140/90), and was higher in people with type 1 than type 2 diabetes (77.3 vs. 25.2%). Similar relationships were also evident in the prevalence patterns of PDR, DME, and VTDR. There was a trend toward a higher prevalence of VTDR stages, but not any DR, in people with cholesterol levels ≥4.0 mmol/L. Analysis by year/period of fundus photography suggests a decline in the prevalence of any DR in the post-2000 era (Table 3).
Age-standardized prevalence of DR by subgroups of interest, in diabetic subjects aged 20–79 years, using studies with similar methodologies and ophthalmologic definitions
After adjusting for known risk factors, individuals with type 1 diabetes for ≥20 years were 2.7 times more likely to have any DR (relative risk 2.69 [96% CI 2.47–2.93]), 15 times more likely to have PDR (15.3 [11.3–20.8]), 5 times more likely to have DME (4.83 [3.71–6.30]), and 8.7 times more likely to have VTDR (8.69 [7.10–10.63]) compared with those with type 2 diabetes for <10 years (Table 4).
Age-standardized prevalence of DR by diabetes type and duration, in diabetic subjects aged 20–79 years, using studies with similar methodologies and ophthalmologic definitions
This study provides a global estimate of the prevalence of DR and the severe stages of DR (PDR, DME) using individual-level data from population-based studies worldwide. On the basis of the data from all 35 studies on more than 20,000 participants with diabetes, we estimated that among individuals with diabetes, the overall prevalence of any DR was 34.6%, PDR was 7.0%, DME was 6.8%, and VTDR was 10.2%. Analyses confined only to studies with similar methodologies and ophthalmologic definitions showed that the age-standardized prevalence of any DR was 35.4%, PDR was 7.2%, DME was 7.4%, and VTDR was 11.7%, among individuals with diabetes. The prevalence estimates of any DR and VTDR were similar in men and women and were highest in African Americans and lowest in Asians. Prevalence rates were substantially higher in those with type 1 diabetes and increased with duration of diabetes, and values for HbA1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Extrapolated to the world diabetes population in 2010, we estimate that approximately 93 million may have some DR, and 28 million may have sight-threatening stages of DR.
The prevalence of DR has been previously reported in a number of population-based samples (11–16). However, prevalence estimates varied considerably across some studies, depending on the population and study methodology. For example, variable prevalence rates were reported between populations of different ethnicities (e.g., 32.4% in an Australian Caucasian cohort (14) vs. 48.0% in a Mexican American cohort (15)) as well as between different populations of the same ethnicity (e.g., 35% in a U.S. Caucasian cohort (13) and 15.3% in a more recent Australian Caucasian cohort). More important, prevalence estimates for the more severe and vision-threatening end points, such as PDR and DME, are scarce, due to the small numbers of these cases from individual population-based studies. Published estimates for VTDR prevalence (17–20), for example, ranges widely, from 1.2 (17) to 32.2% (18). Our study provides the first precise estimates for these important clinical subgroups of DR.
The most comparable study to ours is the pooled analysis for prevalence of DR in the U.S. (6). On the basis of eight population studies derived from the U.S. and Australia, an overall prevalence of 40% for any DR and 8% for VTDR was reported (6). These estimates, however, represented findings limited to individuals aged older than 40 years and only with type 2 diabetes, were largely derived from individuals of Caucasian background, did not evaluate PDR and DME separately, and did not include studies from Asia. Ours is the first synthesis of individual-level data from all eligible population-based studies worldwide with a sufficiently large sample to allow a more precise estimation of the prevalence of PDR and DME.
Some of the differences in DR prevalence between individual studies may be partly attributed to the differing periods of the studies (Table 1 and Supplementary Table 3). Improvements in the management of DR and diabetes, and increased screening for diabetes, may have led to lower DR incidence and prevalence over time (21). Furthermore, DR susceptibility may also vary among ethnic groups. In support of the latter hypothesis, a number of multiethnic cohort studies have reported a higher DR prevalence among Mexican Americans than in non-Hispanic whites (5,22,23). Others, however, showed a similar or lower prevalence of DR in African Americans (18) and Mexican Americans (24) than in non-Hispanic whites. In some studies (5), after adjusting for putative DR risk factors, racial differences in the prevalence of DR was attributed to differing levels of risk factors for DR, but in others, the excess risk was unexplained (22,23,25). Differences in socioeconomic factors, including access to and the level of diabetes care, and possibly genetic susceptibility (26), may also possibly explain some of the disparities in rates and severity of DR in the different ethnic groups. In addition, racial differences in the effect of DR risk factors could also have accounted for some of these variations (23,27). Population-based studies incorporating host and environmental data are needed to further clarify the effect of race and ethnicity on DR prevalence.
We highlight several key points regarding the major risk factors for DR: First, we confirm the importance of the three major risk factors for DR—diabetes duration (17,19,28), HbA1c (17,28–32), and blood pressure (17,28,33)—and suggest that they apply broadly across the mild to vision-threatening stages of DR.
Second, we establish that higher total serum cholesterol was associated with a higher prevalence of DME, bringing clarity to previously conflicting reports about this risk factor (19). This is particularly relevant to recent reports from trials suggesting that fenofibrate, a lipid-altering agent, may slow the development and progression of DR (34). Fenofibrate, however, acts mostly on triglycerides, and its effects on retinopathy in those trials were independent of lipid levels achieved. Statins, however, did not affect DR severity in the few studies in which this was evaluated, although not as a primary outcome (35,36).
Third, we provide estimates of risk of DR by diabetes type, in which studies in individuals with type 1 diabetes are currently scarce. We showed that the prevalence of DR is substantially higher in type 1 than in type 2 diabetes (11,37), an outcome independent of diabetes duration. However, because we classified type of diabetes by age of onset (younger or older than age 30 years), in some studies there may be potential misclassification (e.g., some people with type 2 diabetes will be younger than 30 years).
The strengths of our study include a large sample size to determine prevalence and risk factor associations for sight-threatening end points (PDR, DME), the inclusion of diverse ethnic population samples from around the world, and studies that had used photographic documentation of DR.
Our study has limitations. Pooling of data from various sources introduces many potential sources of heterogeneity that could influence accuracy; thus, although our estimates are highly precise, their accuracy is unknown. Samples of different study designs could have considerably different inclusion criteria, sample selection, and study protocols. For example, population samples could have varied considerably between a cardiovascular disease study and an eye survey, or a study on diabetes complications.
There was also a range of methods used in ascertaining diabetes status. Studies in which diagnosis of diabetes was based on self-report, without confirmation from blood tests, could have resulted in an overestimate of DR prevalence rates because those with undiagnosed diabetes might have been erroneously excluded from the sample denominator.
Furthermore, there were differences in the methodologies used to detect and diagnose DR, such as the number of eyes photographed per subject, number of retinal fields examined per eye, and the grading protocols and definitions used. In studies that did not collect data on diabetes type, this information was defined on the basis of age of diagnosis, with a cutoff at age 30 years to use as many studies with detailed information other than types of diabetes. Misclassification could have occurred as a result of this assumption. This, however, would not have affected the overall prevalence estimates but could have had a small effect of attenuating the comparative estimates between the type 1 and type 2 diabetes groups. A few studies with large numbers of participants could have influenced our results. Finally, the absence of studies from the Middle East, Africa, or South America could also affect the accuracy of our findings.
In conclusion, our current study provides the first global estimate of DR and, more important, the two sight-threatening end points (PDR and DME), based on a pooled individual participant analysis of more than 20,000 participants from 35 studies around the world. Our study shows that 35% of people with diabetes had some form of DR, and that 7% had PDR, 7% had DME, and 10% were affected by these vision-threatening stages. We estimate that in 2010, approximately 93 million were affected by DR, and 28 million by VTDR. This suggests that DR has the potential to be the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness worldwide. We confirmed the importance and impact of three major modifiable risk factors—hyperglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia—on the risk of all DR end points, including for the first time, PDR and DME. These results highlight the substantial public health effect of diabetes, and thus, the need for effective screening and management of DR risk factors.
Funding for the data pooling analysis was provided by Global Health Outcomes Research, Allergan, Inc. (Irvine, CA). The National Institutes of Health grant EY-06594 (to B.E.K.K., R.Kle.) and, in part, by the Research to Prevent Blindness (to B.E.K.K., R.Kle., Senior Scientific Investigator Awards), New York, New York, provided funding for the entire study, including collection and analyses and of data.
Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study: Supported by grants from the Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, Hyderabad, India and Christoffel-Blindenmission, Bensheim, Germany. Funagata Study: Supported by Grant-in-Aid Global COE program of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. Blue Mountains Eye Study: Supported by grants from the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council. New Jersey 725 Study: Supported by grant R01-EY-09860 from the National Eye Institute. Samutsakon Study: Supported by grants provided by the Samutsakhon General Hospital. Rotterdam Study Ophthalmology: Swart van Essen, Rotterdam; Blindenpenning, Amsterdam; Blindenhulp, The Hague; Algemene Nederlandse Vereniging ter Voorkoming van Blindheid (ANVVB), Doorn; Stichting Oogfonds Nederland, Utrecht; Stichting Lijf en Leven, Krimpen aan de Lek; Rotterdamse Vereniging Blndenbelangen, Rotterdam; MD Fonds, Utrecht; Oogfonds Nederland, Utrecht; Laméris Ootech BV, Nieuwegein; Medical Workshop, de Meern; Topcon Europe BV, Capelle aan de IJssel, all in the Netherlands. No other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
J.W.Y.Y. researched the data and wrote and edited the manuscript. S.L.R. analyzed the data and reviewed and edited the manuscript. R.Kaw., E.L.L., J.W.K., T.B., S.-J.C., J.M.D., A.F., J.G., S.H., R.F.H., M.K.I., T.K., B.E.K.K., R.Kle., S.K., K.M., J.P.O., T.J.O., M.P., M.R., M.S.R., T.S., J.S., H.T., J.M.T., R.V., J.J.W., N.W., S.W., L.X., M.Y., X.Z., P.M., and T.Y.W. contributed to discussion and reviewed and edited the manuscript. The sponsors or funding organizations had no role in the design, conduct, analysis, or publication of this research. T.Y.W. is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/dc11-1909/-/DC1.
↵* A complete list of the study group can be found in the Supplementary Data online.
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the official views of the National Eye Institute or the National Institutes of Health. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Accepted December 5, 2011.
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By Meira Svirsky
Should Media Be Shut Down During a Terror Attack?
A woman makes a call on a cell phone at the site of the 2016 terror attack in the Brussels airport (Photo: KETEVAN KARDAVA/AFP/Getty Images)
A new law in Singapore has kicked up a controversy about powers given to authorities, free speech and terror attacks.
The law gives government officials the power to block all electronic communications at the scene of a “serious incident.” This means that in the event of a terrorist attack, for example, all news coverage at the scene, as well as cell phone communications, etc., would be shut down.
Essentially no photos, text or audio messages, emails or phone calls.
At first glance the law sounds logical for the following reasons:
Information reported live – whether by media outlets or private citizens – can inadvertently aid the terrorist(s)
Cell phones can be used to activate bombs, thus a primary attack can be used as the bait to lure more people to the site for a secondary and possibly more deadly attack
Safety and saving lives come first. Pushy media personnel in pursuit of a scoop and private citizens out for their five seconds of glory can impede the work of police and other authorities – including EMTs — at the scene of the attack, adding to injuries or even causing unnecessary deaths
What exactly is a “serious incident?” Authoritarian societies (which Singapore has been accused of being) can use such a designation to shut down coverage of peaceful protests and the like. Reporters Without Borders ranks Singapore 151st out of 180 countries in its World Press Freedom Index (with number-one being the best ranking).
Shutting down coverage is a convenient way to avoid publicizing politically-inconvenient truths – specifically Islamist terror attacks. We are already seeing this phenomenon in Europe, where jihadi attacks are often excused as mental illness or not reported at all (in the case of religiously-motivated rapes, etc.)
Coverage of terror attacks may actually save lives by warning people not to come near the affected area
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The IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030
With urgent need, I share the post of “in the shadow of the wolf”.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature reminds us that the emergency must be taken with extreme urgency.
The current crisis, without previous analogues, must absolutely lead us to launch immediate conservation laws so that the bio-diversity is also guaranteed in the future. The governments of the world have been called upon to intervene with the utmost urgency to avoid extinctions of endangered animals caused by man.
Con necessità impellente, condivido il post di “in the shadow of the wolf”.
L’Unione Internazionale per la Conservazione della Natura, afferma che l’attuale emergenza dev’essere presa con estrema urgenza.
La crisi nella quale ci troviamo non ha precedenti analoghi, ci deve assolutamente portare a varare immediate leggi di conservazione affinché la bio-diversità sia garantita anche in futuro. I Governi del mondo sono stati chiamati ad intervenire con la massima urgenza onde evitare estinzioni di animali in pericolo causate dall’uomo.
October 11, 2019 ~ intheshadowofthewolf
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2019 (IUCN)
– IUCN has issued an urgent call to massively scale up species conservation action in response to the escalating biodiversity crisis. The Abu Dhabi Call for Global Species Conservation Action appeals to the world’s governments, international agencies and the private sector to halt species decline and prevent human-driven extinctions by 2030, and to improve the conservation status of threatened species with a view to bringing about widespread recovery by 2050.
The Abu Dhabi Call, issued at this week’s IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Leaders’ Meeting, urges governments to take emergency measures to save those species at the highest risk of extinction and tackle key threats that are driving population declines and extinctions. These include the lack of incentives for landowners and managers to retain wild species and natural habitats; poor or abusive practices in agriculture, fisheries, and forestry; wildlife crime; emerging infectious diseases; the disruption of water flow; inadequate management of waste and discharges; invasive alien species; and increasingly, climate change and ocean acidification.
“With 2020 comes the opportunity to curb the escalating extinction crisis and invest in a more optimistic future. With this Call, IUCN stands ready to support governments and civil society, including young people, to work for a world in which species are preserved and valued for their intrinsic worth as well as the benefits they offer,” said IUCN Acting Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar. “The IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 will bring together states, civil society and indigenous peoples to work together towards halting species declines by 2030.”
The Call is the result of more than 300 SSC Leaders coming together in Abu Dhabi on the cusp of 2020, a year that will see critical decisions for the future of the planet taken by policy makers. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change will be reviewed, and the Convention on Biological Diversity will adopt the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. A new UN legal binding agreement on marine biodiversity in the High Seas is under negotiation. The IUCN World Conservation Congress will amplify this Call, which will then be addressed by the United Nations Heads of State Summit on Biodiversity.
“The Species Survival Commission is the world’s largest network of species scientists and a fundamental contributor to IUCN’s role as provider of the knowledge that underlies nature conservation. They devote their lives, generally on an entirely voluntary basis, to saving species. The high quality of the work of SSC Specialist Groups provides a strong scientific foundation for conservation action. We now appeal to governments to urgently respond to this Call by helping pull species back from the brink of extinction,” said Dr Jon Paul Rodríguez, Chair of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission.
A global Programme of Work on Species Conservation will be launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in June next year. IUCN calls on Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the other biodiversity-related conventions to respond by including this Programme in the post 2020 global biodiversity framework and follow up with urgent implementation. At the Congress, governments, civil society and indigenous peoples’ organisations will come together to drive conservation efforts for ‘a just world that values and conserves nature.
“Decisions made in 2020 will define the future of the planet,” said Dr Jane Smart, Global Director of the IUCN’s Biodiversity Conservation Group. “We face a nature emergency. Species are the primary source of income and resources for hundreds of millions of people around the globe; their aesthetic values and spiritual roles provide comfort and inspiration as well as recreation. At this critical moment, the world’s governments must accept responsibility for this emergency and act now to ensure we pass on a rich natural heritage to future generations. This is a unique opportunity to mobilise society and galvanise the necessary action to address the species crisis.”
IUCN also recalls that the global target to bring about the recovery of known threatened species adopted in Nagoya, Japan in 2010 is unlikely to be met, despite substantial efforts from conservationists worldwide. Looking forward, IUCN emphasises the importance of including clear, ambitious targets on species conservation in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
In recognition of the scale of transformative change that is needed, the Abu Dhabi Call for Species Conservation Action encourages governments and donor institutions to allocate substantial additional resources for conservation of species and their habitats.
The IUCN Species Survival Commission is the world’s largest network of species conservation experts with over 9,000 members globally. It is mandated by the Members of IUCN (governments, NGOs, and indigenous peoples’ organisations) to conserve species. This unique body includes biologists, ecologists, wildlife managers, health and social scientists, educators, community representatives, economists and government officials. The Call was developed by SSC Leaders meeting in Abu Dhabi with generous support from the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi.
The Species Survival Commission generates the knowledge for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of and animal, fungi and plant species. SSC experts have unique insight into the extent to which species are undergoing unprecedented and growing threats from unsustainable human activities, reflected in The IUCN Red List.
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Tokyo, IOC continue marathon spat
By Reuters For Citizen Digital
Published on: October 30, 2019 13:28 (EAT)
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike delivers a speech during a ceremony celebrating one year out from the start of the summer games in front of Tokyo Station in Tokyo, Japan July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files
Tokyo temperatures in July and August, when the city will host the Games, regularly exceed 30 degrees Celsius with high humidity adding to the discomfort
Coates added that he wanted to form a four-party group comprised of the IOC, the Tokyo government, national government and the 2020 Organizing Committee to work out the details of the change
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday it wants Tokyo to understand the reasons why it is switching the 2020 Games marathon to the northern city of Sapporo, a decision that has infuriated the capital’s governor Yuriko Koike.
The IOC announced a plan earlier this month to move the marathon and race walking events to the northern island of Hokkaido due to concerns about heat in Tokyo next summer.
John Coates, the IOC’s Coordination Commission chief for the Tokyo Games, said at the start of a regular Coordination Commission meeting that he did not want to leave at the end of the week without gaining the people of Tokyo’s understanding about the move.
“We owe it to the people of Tokyo to make sure they are fully briefed,” Coates said.
Coates cited the example of the athletics world championships in Doha where the heat and humidity forced many athletes to drop out of the race despite the marathon being held at midnight.
He said he had explained these reasons to Koike.
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Tokyo temperatures in July and August, when the city will host the Games, regularly exceed 30 degrees Celsius with high humidity adding to the discomfort.
Coates added that he wanted to form a four-party group comprised of the IOC, the Tokyo government, national government and the 2020 Organizing Committee to work out the details of the change.
Koike, speaking at the same coordination committee meeting, repeated her stance that the races should remain in Tokyo.
“We consider it an unprecedented turn of events to make such an abrupt proposal with no consultation or discussion whatsoever with the host city Tokyo,” Koike said.
Tokyo had invested a lot of time and money into preparing anti-heat measures and had even earned praise from IOC head Thomas Bach, she said.
While the safety of the athletes was important, organisers could not ignore that many of them had been training and preparing for the Tokyo climate.
“The Games will not succeed without our trust in each other,” she said.
Koike has said the capital was ready to make further adjustments, including changing the route and start time with some media reports saying to as early as 3:00 a.m.
The IOC has said temperatures in Sapporo, which will also host soccer games, are as much as five to six degrees cooler during the day.
Organisers earlier this year had already moved up the starting times to 6 a.m. for the marathon and 5:30 a.m. for the race walk to avoid the blistering midday sun.
When Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, they were held in October — an option no longer possible due to international sports schedules.
Next year’s Games are set to run from July 24 to Aug. 9, with the marathon to be held on the final day.
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Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 Character Designs Surface Online
By Nick Valdez - July 12, 2019 05:40 pm EDT
Neon Genesis Evangelion has been pushed back into the public consciousness due to its worldwide release on Netflix recently, but it's been on the back burner of many fans' minds ever since the series originally came to an end. Thanks to a series of films released after the anime series, fans have been hanging on for news for the fourth film in the franchise for a long, long time. But now it seems like everything is coming together.
Evangelion fans have seen a lot more of Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 in the last few weeks than they have in years, and now a new batch of character designs have popped up online. As spotted by @Spytrue on Twitter, fans now have a closer look at Ritsuko Akagi and Maya Ibuki in the new film. Check it out below!
Evangelion 3.0+1.0 character reference sheets. pic.twitter.com/osukttWLmS
— SPY (@Spytrue) July 11, 2019
This closer look at Ritsuko and Maya reveals a better look at their new plugsuit- esque get ups. This isn't too much of a surprise given that the recent 10 minute preview for the film shared during Japan Expo 2019 revealed that pretty much everyone in the crew is getting a plugsuit of their own as the conflict has seemingly reached new heights.
There's still no concrete release date for the new film outside of the vague 2020 release window, but seeing so much of the film has been entirely welcome from fans. The fourth film has seemingly been left in development limbo for a long time, and as recently as last year has finally started to kick production into high gear. Now that the film is proceeding along, fans have gotten the first teaser poster and an extended preview of the new work that certainly paints another dramatic adventure to come.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a psychological drama by way of giant monster versus mech anime. The franchise debuted as a television series in 1995-1996 with two films following in 1997. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth is an one-part drastically abridged retelling of the first 24 episodes of the television series, and one part new animation. The End of Evangelion, the second film, would incorporate some of Death & Rebirth’s original animation and offer an alternate take on the original series’ controversial final two episodes.
The series follows Shinji Ikari, who is recruited by his father to pilot the giant mech Evangelion in the fight against giant monsters known as Angels in the futuristic city of Tokyo-3. But Shinji is unwilling to bear this huge responsibility and is often conflicted about taking part in a war he was dragged into. This conflict of emotions leads to many introspective episodes that cover the range of religious, philosophical, and existential concepts.
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Zack Snyder's 'Army Of The Dead' For Netflix to Start Filming This Summer in New Mexico
By Charlie Ridgely - March 29, 2019 09:43 am EDT
Zack Snyder is hard at work on his first film since Justice League, Army of the Dead, the zombie movie he's making for Netflix. The project places a casino heist in the center of a zombie apocalypse, which could help make it one of the most original films in the overall genre. While not much else is known about Army of the Dead at this point, we can expect a lot of major updates sooner rather than later. It looks like Snyder will begin shooting the movie in New Mexico just a couple of months.
A new update from Production Weekly revealed that Army of the Dead is set to start production on July 15th in New Mexico, with Zack Snyder directing and the duo of Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller producing.
This places the start of filming in just over three months, so pre-production is in full swing. That means casting announcements and crew confirmations should be on the way at any point. Right now, no actors are attached to the project, though Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista has hinted that he has a role in the film. His involvement has yet to be officially confirmed.
Knowing the way Netflix has operated as a movie studio, it wouldn't come as a surprise if we learned almost nothing about this film throughout production. Most of Netflix's productions have kept details and leaks at a minimum, so outside of casting, there might be very little to see from Army of the Dead until the film eventually arrives.
Until then, all we've got is the synopsis, which you can read below.
"The adventure is set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted."
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Rapid Eye Interview with Luke Stone of Tenacious Comics
Posted on Jul 5, 2016 by Brian Barr in Features, Interviews, Small Press | 1 comment
Recently, Ian Yarington was able to review Rapid Eye, a comic from Tenacious Comics that is written by Bobby Torres. I was lucky enough to interview Luke Stone, who releases a number of titles from Rapid Eye to Worst Day Ever under his brand, Tenacious Comics.
Brian Barr: Are you one of the original creators of Tenacious Comics, and if not, when did you first get linked up with them and Bobby Torres? He seems like a great guy.
Luke Stone: Yes, Tenacious Comics is my brain child. The company came about after a year of planning. I had the book Worst Day Ever in production at the time and was looking to find a publisher for the title. Unfortunately, everyone that looked at the book at first glance thought it was the run of the mill zombie book and didn’t show interest. I really believed in the story that Westley Schomer had written for my concept and really wanted to make sure the story got told. From there, I went over several drafts of what a Creator Co-Op would like. I drew inspiration from my time in independent music and started by looking at some indie groups that we worked with how successful the power of the artist really was. After a long time developing the business model, I began seeking out artist who shared a similar tenacity. I had heard of Bobby through social media and was acquainted with his project Rapid Eye when he responded to a post we placed on ZWOL.ORG. From there, Bobby became a vital part of the team and hopefully we are writing history.
BB: Tell us about Rapid Eye. What’s the comic about?
Luke Stone: Rapid Eye is an amazing title! The team that Bobby has put together for this book is top notch. The story is a 5 issue mini-series that follows a CIA operative who has stumbled upon some information that could get him killed by his own agency. The twist is that the government has developed a way to jack into peoples dreams. At first glance, everyone wants to say it reminds them of “Inception”. I can understand that being that may be the only pop culture example of this kind of story telling people may know. If I were to describe the story so that the average person got an idea of what the books feel is, I would say it is Pulp Fiction meets Inception. It is a really smart story that gets you thinking. Bobby is an extremely talented writer that really has created a story with the potential to be way more than just a comic mini-series.
BB: What about your other comic projects, can you tell us about those as well?
Luke Stone: Of course! We have a lot of other titles in the works. The ones that are releasing this year are:
Augmented: This title is by Bill Stoddard and follows his main character Marcus Chambers. Marcus is an ex-MMA champ with a spotty past. He is given a second chance when a Fighter sponsor for the Augmented Fighting League approaches him and makes him an offer that he literally cannot refuse. We have a great team on that book. It is absolutely beautiful in it’s story telling and execution.
Worst Day Ever: This is the title that caused me to start TC. It is about a guy named Charlie who is unlucky in love, work, and life in general. Just imagine the worst day that you have ever had. Now add zombies. The threat of being eaten is not the main concern for Charlie in his world but it definitely a nuisance that must be dealt with.
Hybrids: The Sons of Gods: Another title that I have been working on for a very long time. This title dives into ancient texts for it’s inspiration. I have always been interested in angel lore and the story of the Nephilim. The idea is that the genetic code lost for thousands of years in the DNA of regular men and women is somehow awakened in it’s hosts. You can imagine the conflict this could create in an unstable culture.
Plus we have several titles in development like DOG. It is a story designed for kids. It is about a pound rescue named Rosco. A cute little pug puppy. We have a title called Saint in development as well that has a real dark and gritty story line. Alex Moya is working on his book Next Quest to release next year and Bobby Torres and I are working on a title called Atonement that we are both very excited about!
We are excited about our catalog so far and believe that our readers will only find that the work will get stronger.
BB: What is the collaboration process like with the other creators on your projects?
Luke Stone: We try to give each creator complete control of their creative teams. We do have a designated project editor that we recently added to the team. Jason Bennett helps make sure that each piece of work has a consistency in regards to quality. Besides that, we help each other in finding the right team members for the project and the budget. Besides this, we are currently working on a way to tie our individual worlds together in a shared TC universe. In all, the process is a really fun one. We talk about our stories, we help encourage and give critique to the work we do. It is a great group of guys to be part of.
BB: How long have you been writing comic books?
Luke Stone: Personally, I have not been officially writing long. I am primarily and artist and work closely with writers. I have had the pleasure of publishing a few titles. Most of that was part of a learning experience to better understand how the process works. I recently decided to write my own title. That is Hybrids. It is a story that I have been thinking on for a very long time and finally I am taking that step from artist to writer.
BB: Do you also write short stories, or novels?
Luke Stone: Most of my other writing is non-fiction commentaries. I have worked in ministry for many years and have produced work for that arena. I am finding new opportunities to work on comics and write more stories. I tend to just develop a concept and let real writers take on the scripts though.
BB: What is your favorite subject matter when it comes to writing stories?
Luke Stone: I prefer to write about the human condition. I like developing the characters. I feel it is important to connect with the individuals in the story. So no matter what I write, I try to focus on the things that connect us all like love, insecurity, family, internal struggles between the good in us and the bad in us. Those kinds of things.
BB: Who are your favorite comic book creators (writers or artists)?
Luke Stone: George Perez, Greg Capullo, Marc Silvestri
BB: Any plans for the future?
Luke Stone: Right now the future is Tenacious Comics. We are all working very hard to build that brand and draw attention to the titles we are putting out. The next coupe of years the plan is to get TC to be a recognizable name in INDIE comics.
BB: Thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Anything else you’d like to share with readers?
Luke Stone: Yes! We are going to have our titles shipping really soon. Right now our 4 flagship titles can be pre-ordered through our website. www.tenaciouscomics.com. We want to offer all of your readers a special discount. If they pop this code in, comicbooked1, they will get a 15% discount at checkout. Just a way to say thanks to all the fans out there!
Brian Barr 07/05/2016
Just want to make one correction! Bobby Torres is the writer of Rapid Eye. Sorry to anyone reading this article for the confusion!
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No popular options for repeal or replace
'Repeal and delay' just as unpopular as GOP health care bill
By Steve Koczela and Richard Parr Affordable Care Act, Obamacare 0 Comments Jul 18, 2017
WELL, THAT DIDN’T take long.
Less than 24 hours after conservative senators Jerry Moran and Mike Lee joined Rand Paul and Susan Collins in opposing the Senate’s “repeal and replace” health care bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “repeal and delay” plan B crashed almost before it got off the ground.
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The public polling suggest this outcome should not be too surprising. The various replacements proposals from the House and the Senate were unpopular from the get go. Support for them dipped into the teens and twenties. One analysis concluded the bill was the least popular piece of major legislation in decades.
And the latest polling showed that repeal and delay was just as unpopular. The July Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found just a quarter of Americans preferred repealing the bill and working out a replacement later. That’s even lower than the 37 percent who supported a simultaneous repeal and replacement.
One reason repeal (with or without a replacement) is so unpopular is that support for Obamacare among voters has been rising steadily for the last few years, and now outweighs opposition in most polls. When compared to the proposed replacements, Obamacare looks even better. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll found Americans preferred Obamacare over the GOP replacement by a 2-to-1 margin.
Individual parts of Obamacare are even more popular. An earlier Kaiser poll found majorities of Republicans in favor of most of Obamacare major provisions. That ranges from 82 percent of Republicans who support letting young adults stay on their parents’ health insurance, down to 63 percent who favor protections for patients with preexisting conditions. Two-thirds favor Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, and 63 percent support the taxes on higher earners to fund Medicaid. Repealing these last two items was perhaps the most talked about part of the Senate replacement.
Voters appear understandably reluctant to jettison a law they like without an alternative, especially when the alternatives offered so far do away with the very policies that have made Obamacare popular. Congress has so far shown no ability to create a replacement voters view as adequate.
Had it passed, the repeal-and-delay proposal may have offered some political advantages for Republicans down the road. Even if Democrats were to win back the House in 2018, they would not be able to reverse a repeal with Republicans controlling the White House and, most likely, the Senate. Democrats would have been forced to choose between a return to pre-Obamacare health insurance, or working with the Republicans on a replacement. In the interim, though, Republicans would have owned a very unpopular repeal of an increasingly popular law.
There’s always a chance that Republican leaders could decide to take another run at going it alone. Absent that, the other option left for fixing the problems in Obamacare is the one the public has wanted all along: bipartisan dealmaking. The most popular strategy Kaiser tested in its latest poll was for Republicans to work with Democrats to fix the current law. Seven in ten Americans favor that approach over pursuing the GOP bill, including nearly half of Republicans.
Meanwhile, President Trump says Obamacare should be allowed to fail, and sees possible deals with Democrats coming later. “We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We’ll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us,” he said this morning to reporters. Kaiser polling from April casts doubt on how blame would be assigned, finding that, by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans said they would blame Trump and the Republicans over Obama and Democrats if the existing law were to fail.
For now, it appears no major changes to the nation’s healthcare system are in the offing. If the proposals offered so far are indicative of others to come, most of the public is just fine with that.
Steve Koczela is president and Richard Parr is research director of the MassINC Polling Group, a subsidiary of MassINC, the parent of CommonWealth.
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About Steve Koczela
Steve Koczela is the President of The MassINC Polling Group, where he has grown the organization from its infancy to a nationally known and respected polling provider. During the 2014 election cycle, MPG conducted election polling for WBUR, the continuation of a three-year partnership. Koczela again led the endeavor, producing polls which came within one point of the margin in both the Massachusetts gubernatorial and U.S. Senate Elections. He was also lead writer for Poll Vault, WBUR’s political reporting section during the 2014 Election Cycle.
He has led survey research programs for the U.S. Department of State in Iraq, in key states for President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and has conducted surveys and polls on behalf of many private corporations. Koczela brings a deep understanding of the foundations of public opinion and a wide ranging methodological expertise. He earned U.S. Department of State recognition for his leading edge work on sample evaluation in post conflict areas using geospatial systems.
Koczela is frequent guest on WBUR as well as many other news and talk programs in Massachusetts and elsewhere. His polling analysis is often cited in local, state, and national media outlets. He currently serves as President of the New England Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NEAAPOR). Koczela holds a Master’s degree in Marketing Research from the University of Wisconsin and is a veteran of the war in Iraq.
Research director, MassINC Polling Group
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If You Watch One Video from GDC 2016 Watch the Tribute to Satoru Iwata
Jack Gardner posted an article in Gaming News
Satoru Iwata was a genius and a hero to many in the gaming industry. His passing last July left many, including myself, with heavy hearts and the feeling that someone we cared about was taken too soon. At this year's Game Developers Choice Awards, an animated short was shown to honor and remember the late president and CEO of Nintendo. It is a beautiful, touching three minutes that I think really captures how a lot of people felt about Iwata. He was a man who wanted nothing more than to use his skills to make new, beautiful, wonderful things to bring a bit of happiness to people's lives. That's a bit of an unsung goal, but Iwata really gave it everything he had. Thank you, Mr. Iwata for making the world a bit better for us all.
Gaming News:If You Watch One Video from GDC 2016 Watch the Tribute to Satoru Iwata
Jack Gardner posted a topic in Announcements
Satoru Iwata was a genius and a hero to many in the gaming industry. His passing last July left many, including myself, with heavy hearts and the feeling that someone we cared about was taken too soon. At this year's Game Developers Choice Awards, an animated short was shown to honor and remember the late president and CEO of Nintendo. It is a beautiful, touching three minutes that I think really captures how a lot of people felt about Iwata. He was a man who wanted nothing more than to use his skills to make new, beautiful, wonderful things to bring a bit of happiness to people's lives. That's a bit of an unsung goal, but Iwata really gave it everything he had. Thank you, Mr. Iwata for making the world a bit better for us all. View full article
Journey Takes Home the Game of the Year Award and Tim Schafer Reveals The Double Fine Adventure
The 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards took place on the 27th and Thatgamecompany’s Journey won in every category in which it was nominated, earning itself six GDC Awards, including the prestigious Game of the Year Award. The awards ceremony was hosted by Tim Schafer, founder of the developer Double Fine. Schafer took the opportunity after all the awards were given out to reveal the Kickstarter-backed game, Broken Age, which had previously only been referred to as The Double Fine Adventure. The full GDC Awards results can be seen below, the winners are italicized under each category. Game of the Year Winner Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts) The Walking Dead (Telltale Games) XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games) Innovation Award FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mark of the Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios) The Unfinished Swan (Giant Sparrow/Sony Computer Entertainment) ZombiU (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft) Best Audio Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios) Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games/Devolver Digital) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment) Best Debut Fireproof Games (The Room) Giant Sparrow (The Unfinished Swan) Humble Hearts (Dust: An Elysian Tail) Polytron Corporation (Fez) Subset Games (FTL: Faster Than Light) Best Downloadable Game Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios) Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull) The Walking Dead (Telltale Games) Trials: Evolution (RedLynx/Microsoft Studios) Best Game Design Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios) Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull) XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games) Best Handheld/Mobile Game Gravity Rush (SCE Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment) Hero Academy (Robot Entertainment) Kid Icarus: Uprising (Sora/Nintendo) Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment) The Room (Fireproof Games) Best Narrative Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts) Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment/2K Games) The Walking Dead (Telltale Games) Virtue's Last Reward (Chunsoft/Aksys Games) Best Technology Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Treyarch/Activision) Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios) PlanetSide 2 (Sony Online Entertainment) Best Visual Arts Borderlands 2 (Gearbox Software/2K Games) Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Lifetime Achievement Winner Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk Pioneer Award Winner Steve Russell Ambassador Award Winner Chris Melissinos Audience Award Winner Dishonored (Arkane Studios) If you are interested in watching the award ceremony for yourself, you can watch the recorded footage over at GameSpot. Congratulations to all the winners and we look forward to seeing what lies in store from them in the years to come. Maybe we'll be seeing Broken Age at next year's GDC Awards? What do you think?
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Gaming News:Journey Takes Home the Game of the Year Award and Tim Schafer Reveals The Double Fine Adventure
The 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards took place on the 27th and Thatgamecompany’s Journey won in every category in which it was nominated, earning itself six GDC Awards, including the prestigious Game of the Year Award. The awards ceremony was hosted by Tim Schafer, founder of the developer Double Fine. Schafer took the opportunity after all the awards were given out to reveal the Kickstarter-backed game, Broken Age, which had previously only been referred to as The Double Fine Adventure. The full GDC Awards results can be seen below, the winners are italicized under each category. Game of the Year Winner Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts) The Walking Dead (Telltale Games) XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games) Innovation Award FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mark of the Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios) The Unfinished Swan (Giant Sparrow/Sony Computer Entertainment) ZombiU (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft) Best Audio Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios) Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games/Devolver Digital) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment) Best Debut Fireproof Games (The Room) Giant Sparrow (The Unfinished Swan) Humble Hearts (Dust: An Elysian Tail) Polytron Corporation (Fez) Subset Games (FTL: Faster Than Light) Best Downloadable Game Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios) Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull) The Walking Dead (Telltale Games) Trials: Evolution (RedLynx/Microsoft Studios) Best Game Design Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios) Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull) XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games) Best Handheld/Mobile Game Gravity Rush (SCE Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment) Hero Academy (Robot Entertainment) Kid Icarus: Uprising (Sora/Nintendo) Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment) The Room (Fireproof Games) Best Narrative Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts) Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment/2K Games) The Walking Dead (Telltale Games) Virtue's Last Reward (Chunsoft/Aksys Games) Best Technology Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Treyarch/Activision) Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios) PlanetSide 2 (Sony Online Entertainment) Best Visual Arts Borderlands 2 (Gearbox Software/2K Games) Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks) Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft) Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios) Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment) Lifetime Achievement Winner Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk Pioneer Award Winner Steve Russell Ambassador Award Winner Chris Melissinos Audience Award Winner Dishonored (Arkane Studios) If you are interested in watching the award ceremony for yourself, you can watch the recorded footage over at GameSpot. Congratulations to all the winners and we look forward to seeing what lies in store from them in the years to come. Maybe we'll be seeing Broken Age at next year's GDC Awards? What do you think? View full article
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Revealed
Today, during the Kojima Productions talk at GDC, Hideo Kojima finally dropped the bomb that many had been expecting: The Phantom Pain teased during last year’s Spike Video Game Awards was really Metal Gear Solid V. What came as a bigger surprise was that another announced Metal Gear game, Ground Zeroes, was also Metal Gear Solid V. The developer then showed off a new trailer of the upcoming stealth-action title that was an expanded mash-up of the previous two trailers for The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes, which you can view below. I’m not sure how much information can be pulled out of the trailer, especially when things start going crazy about halfway in, but I’ll do my best. The game stars Big Boss as a protagonist after having been in a coma for 9 years and missing his left hand for unknown reasons. It is possible that some mission went terribly wrong involving Big Boss and Johnny “Akiba” Sasaki from MGS4, as he could be the sunglasses wearing person toward the beginning of the trailer. Someone or some organization wants him dead or out of the picture, which explains the images of soldiers storming a hospital and of Big Boss in a hospital gown. It also seems to imply some connection with MGS3 with the reintroduction of the FOX unit and the cryptic phrase, “From ‘FOX’ Two Phantoms were Born.” One of those phantoms is clearly Big Boss, but who the other phantom might be, is somewhat unclear as most of them seem to have perished in previous games. “FOX vs. XOF” flashes on screen for a brief second, suggesting that XOF is another group, possibly created by the mysterious survivor of the FOX unit, who will serve as Big Boss’ primary antagonist. The final scene of the trailer shows Big Boss astride a motorcycle wearing a leather jacket that says Diamond Dogs and a voiceover that says, “Do you see this? Diamond Dogs. Our new home.” Perhaps this means that Big Boss will become part of a new unit called the Diamond Dogs to fight the XOF? The last words before the trailer ends are, “V has come to,” said by a lady in a slight Russian accent. There are numerous strange things in the clips shown at GDC like the flaming unicorn-pegasus, the giant flying fire-whale, a stallion that gets struck by lightning, a man with a horribly burned face, and more. What does it all mean and what roles will these things play in the game? Your guess is as good as mine. Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Gaming News:Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Revealed
Today, during the Kojima Productions talk at GDC, Hideo Kojima finally dropped the bomb that many had been expecting: The Phantom Pain teased during last year’s Spike Video Game Awards was really Metal Gear Solid V. What came as a bigger surprise was that another announced Metal Gear game, Ground Zeroes, was also Metal Gear Solid V. The developer then showed off a new trailer of the upcoming stealth-action title that was an expanded mash-up of the previous two trailers for The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes, which you can view below. I’m not sure how much information can be pulled out of the trailer, especially when things start going crazy about halfway in, but I’ll do my best. The game stars Big Boss as a protagonist after having been in a coma for 9 years and missing his left hand for unknown reasons. It is possible that some mission went terribly wrong involving Big Boss and Johnny “Akiba” Sasaki from MGS4, as he could be the sunglasses wearing person toward the beginning of the trailer. Someone or some organization wants him dead or out of the picture, which explains the images of soldiers storming a hospital and of Big Boss in a hospital gown. It also seems to imply some connection with MGS3 with the reintroduction of the FOX unit and the cryptic phrase, “From ‘FOX’ Two Phantoms were Born.” One of those phantoms is clearly Big Boss, but who the other phantom might be, is somewhat unclear as most of them seem to have perished in previous games. “FOX vs. XOF” flashes on screen for a brief second, suggesting that XOF is another group, possibly created by the mysterious survivor of the FOX unit, who will serve as Big Boss’ primary antagonist. The final scene of the trailer shows Big Boss astride a motorcycle wearing a leather jacket that says Diamond Dogs and a voiceover that says, “Do you see this? Diamond Dogs. Our new home.” Perhaps this means that Big Boss will become part of a new unit called the Diamond Dogs to fight the XOF? The last words before the trailer ends are, “V has come to,” said by a lady in a slight Russian accent. There are numerous strange things in the clips shown at GDC like the flaming unicorn-pegasus, the giant flying fire-whale, a stallion that gets struck by lightning, a man with a horribly burned face, and more. What does it all mean and what roles will these things play in the game? Your guess is as good as mine. Let us know what you think in the comments! View full article
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Lizzo Twerks In A Thong Courtside At Lakers Game — See The Pics
posted by Peyton Blakemore - Dec 9, 2019
Lizzo was feeling "good as hell" at the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game Sunday night (December 8).
While she watched her "baby" Karl-Anthony Towns (we'll get to her love of the basketball player in a bit) take on the Lakers, she gifted the Staples Center audience a peak Lizzo moment as she got up and twerked to her jam "Juice" in a thong!
The audience got the booty-filled surprise when the jumbotron camera turned to the "Tempo" singer, who turned around and showed off her booty, which was covered in fishnet tights, as her black T-shirt dress was equipped with a booty cut-out.
At another point in the game, the 31-year-old singer/rapper spoke to FOX Sports and revealed who she was rooting for.
"Both teams are great. I'm personally cheering for No. 32," she said, referring to Timberwolves player Karl-Anthony Towns. "That's my baby!" However, when asked if she knew the 24-year-old basketball star, Lizzo hilariously responded "Nope!" before she perfectly remixed her hit "Truth Hurts" by singing, "New man on the Minnesota Timberwolves!"
As fans know, Lizzo is always in the mood to show what her mama gave her. Just last week, she shared nude photos from a risqué home photoshoot.
"Paint me like ya French b*tch 🎨," Lizzo captioned a series of pics that showed her posing in the buff with only her long hair covering her chest. She additionally shared a video of herself in the same nude look that showed her crawling on all fours while atop a velvet couch. "On my way!.... 😏," she cheekily captioned the post.
(See Lizzo's NSFW photos and video HERE and HERE)
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Published on November 19, 2015 November 20, 2015 by charlottedean
This is a true story. It was told to me by a friend about something that happened to another friend. Like a game of telephone. So it’s true…ish.
Pretty much everything has happened to Jenny. She’s broken most of the bones in her body at one point or another, sliced her foot open on a yacht, and had multiple back surgeries. So on a quiet Tuesday morning, when the car in front of her slammed on its brakes and she, in turn, slammed into it, she wasn’t terribly surprised. Just glad that she had already dropped her daughter off at school. Jenny rolled her neck around and sighed. Another round of physical therapy for sure.
She turned off her car and went to check on the guy she hit and to find out why he had stopped so suddenly. As she got closer, she saw another car in front of his, parked in the right lane. No wonder he had slammed on his brakes! How could this jerk be parked here? This street was practically the freeway. Jenny walked over to the parked car thinking of all the things she wanted to say. She could see someone climbing around inside. “Excuse me!” she called, as she tapped on the driver’s side window. The guy inside spun around and stared at her blankly “hey.”
Jenny glared at him for a moment. “Yeah. Hey. You can’t park here! You just caused an accident.” He turned his head around to look at the cars behind him. “Well,” he said, shrugging his shoulders, “I had no choice. I had to poop, so I pulled over and went in this bucket.” He gestured with his thumb to a bucket in the back seat. Jenny didn’t want to look, but she couldn’t help it. There were two large swirls of poop. She was speechless. After a minute she said, “Um… well, couldn’t you hold it in until you found a gas station? Or at least until you got off the road?” The guy shook his head “Nah. Nah. It was an emergency and I mean, what would you have me do? Poop in my pants? That’s nuts.” He started his car and drove away and all Jenny could do was stare after him. To this day, she lays in bed at night wondering where he is, knowing he’s out there somewhere, driving around with his bucket in the backseat.
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andrearossgreene says:
That’s bizarre. “Truth” is stranger than fiction. Yikes!
charlottedean says:
Can u believe that?! I don’t think I would have ever made that up.
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Rhythm Paradise Megamix
Nintendo Software Planning & Development
Rhythm and music games is a genre that has been very popular since titles like Guitar Hero hit the scene, but they’ve been around much longer than that. One of the best examples in recent memory is Rhythm Paradise Megamix which uses fun imagery and loads of cute, memorable characters to make simple rhythm games feel very engaging and interesting to experience.
The story is basically adorable; you have to help people get their ‘flow’ back so you can get your new afro-wearing friend Tibby to reach his home – Heaven World. Helping a range of zany characters get their flow back is as easy as completing a few different rhythm games, each to do with listening to music and using the right timing with the press of a button.
There are over 100 different rhythm games available overall and while on paper ‘tapping to the beat’ doesn’t sound like enough to justify a whole adventure, Rhythm Paradise Megamix gives every challenge its own unique, colourful style. From simple acts like catching fruit that bounces down stairs or a game of table tennis to more detailed efforts like a samurai saving a princess from demons or a scientist stopping a nasty virus from spreading, they are varied and often left me with a big goofy grin on my face as I was tapping away.
Each game will score you based on how successfully you time your button presses, which leaves a lot of room for replays for those players who want to try and get a perfect 100. Not only will you want to play games again and again on a scoring basis, you’ll want to play them again just because they’re so enjoyable. Much like you’ll want to listen to your favourite song again and again, several of the games had me eager to give them another go to try and get the tune out of my head.
There are some extras beyond the journey and progression of the story, including additional games, goat-feeding, StreetPass activities and other distractions. It’s an easy game to play in short bursts as all of the included rhythm games only taking two or three minutes to complete; it’s also genuinely funny in that wacky Japanese kind of way.
A group of dancing cats or a baseball player who is constantly changing his facial expression with each progressive swing of his bat shows off the ridiculous animations, and is reminiscent of WarioWare. If I was to complain, I’d say that essentially most of the rhythm games are similar and repetitive but that’s also part of its charm.
Catchy tunes
Loads of character
Incredibly simple...
...maybe a little too simple
Could be repetitive
Rhythm Paradise Megamix is the perfect game to unwind, have some fun with and not overthink what you’re doing. While the core gameplay is almost too simple for its own good, it engages in a way that other rhythm games don’t even bother due to its creativity and wacky sense of humour. It gives the repetitive action of tapping a button to the beat some real purpose. After all, finding your flow could very well be one of the most important things you’ll ever do.
Luke spends his time playing video games, binge-watching TV and hanging out with his German Shepherd, Ziggy and Bernese Mountain Dog Pandora.
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Dynasty Warriors 9 Review – A whole new world… or is it?
PS4, Xbox One, PC
Omega Force
The Dynasty Warriors franchise is certainly a divisive one. Starting life in 1997 as a standard fighter that pitted the likes of Ancient Chinese Generals such as Xiahou Dun, Guan Yu and Lu Bu in one on one fighting game—a genre that, at the time, was saturating the market. As such, when Dynasty Warriors 2 arrived three years later the series had completely reinvented itself into the battlefield hack and slash that spawned its own entire genre.
The Musou Warrior franchise has been picking up plenty of third party titles over the last 18 years, the likes of which have included Gundam, One Piece, Fire Emblem and The Legend of Zelda. With so many different takes on the genre the classic experience was being accused of being a little stale. So the question is… does Dynasty Warriors reinvent itself again with its 9th instalment or are we due for more of the same?
If you are new to the series ,Dynasty Warriors is an extremely “guilty pleasure” experience. With a cast of Chinese Generals, based on historical figures from the Han dynasty and beyond, you choose from an exceedingly large cast with powerful weapons, bombastic skills and a colour coded costume that would make the Power Rangers jealous.
Taking your characters you’ll find yourself dropped into the middle of a battlefield, once again taken from Chinese history. As your powerful general you’ll carve your way through swathes of nameless soldiers—easily racking up a kill count in the 1000’s. Making your way around the battlefield you’ll take control of key points and take down generals that require a little more skill than the peons beneath them.
From the 2nd to 8th title in the series the roster has expanded and the gameplay has made changes here and there. Now in Dynasty Warriors 9, the series is making its largest leap in the last 18 years. While in previous titles each battle would load as a seperate encounter on a large map, this time around the developers have chosen the tall order of creating a functioning open world.
There is no denying that this endeavour is ambitious.While still focusing on the battles you will play through a story mode that follows one of five factions. Each character has their own path that will travel across a small collection of chapters. Not every character is available from the beginning and playing through certain chapters will unlock where a particular character appears in the timeline. After playing through a characters handful of chapters you can choose to continue the timeline as a new character or go back to experience the events taking place from a different point of view.
As you play through the story, each chapter is made up of multiple main quests and underneath each main quest will be a collection of side quests. Some side quests will be immediately identifiable while others will remain unknown until you get closer—this is kind of defeated though when you can just select the question mark mission in the quest list and fast travel to the nearest point. To keep you busy there are also bases to take command of by wiping out the enemy holding them and from there you’ll start to find errands to complete which are very quick inconsequential missions. Pair this with hunting, fishing, material collection, treasure hunting and the game certainly looks like it has a lot to offer you.
The open world aspect was the big ticket item for Dynasty Warriors 9 and probably the hook to bring in lost fans. I love exploring open worlds, picking a direction and sprinting off the beaten track. I did not love exploring the ancient Chinese landscapes here though. The entire thing feels like an oversized map from previous games. Apart from a new mission taking you to a new location, I felt no draw to go exploring. The fact that you’ll return to a menu to select a character and campaign meant that the open world is not permanent, you won’t load in and experience the rest of the game from there. When dropped into the vast and expansive map it just felt like they took the boundaries off one of their previous battlegrounds. There is no excitement in the activities off the beaten track because they were essentially the same activities as the ones on the beaten track – just without progression.
When it comes down to it, the bread and butter of the game really hasn’t evolved. While performing side missions lowers the difficulty of the main missions the actual gameplay very rarely takes risks with only a small handful of occasions where I felt like I was dinging something new and interesting. Normally in an open world like this I would relish the chance to explore between missions but unfortunately I’ve yet to find a region interesting enough to drive me to look into. This is not at all helped by a muddy pallet, and some fairly dubious graphical integrity.
Trailers ahead of the games release showed a colourful pallet with high frame rates, however it becomes almost immediately obvious that this was not the game I would be playing in reality. The regions I were fighting in were a mix of bland colour pallets, murky browns from the years of 2008 returned to haunt me. Add to this graphical tearing, patchy draw distances, textures not loading and one of the worst frame rate drops I’ve ever seen in a game and this release does not represent what we were promised.
In defence of the game I did play this on the PS4 and not a Pro, but I’m not ready to excuse games for leaving what is still current generation behind for the 0.5 updated consoles. A quick search today has revealed that two patches should be coming soon but what they include has not been explained. Hopefully this can resolve the problems but it is more than just graphical errors.
Enemy AI has not been updated from previous titles, one of the series weakest points. Mobs will stand around and take hits while generals will bull rush you, but stop chasing if you move far enough away from their origin point. This paired with a myriad of bugs from your horse running in the opposite direction when using the “Auto Run” feature, lock-on refusing to recognise a general close enough to give a kiss, game crashes and possibly the most annoying bug, multiple quick travel locations that send you to the wrong location on the map—a concept mastered in games almost a decade ago.
“…possibly the most annoying bug, multiple quick travel locations that send you to the wrong location on the map—a concept mastered in games almost a decade ago.”
While all this might be resolved by a day one patch I don’t think it will resolve the poor writing and some very phoned-in voice performances that plague Dynasty Warriors 9. Nearly every cutscene is an exposition dump as characters awkwardly stand in a circle and deliver lines like this was the first cold read of the script, but they were each reading their parts with no one else from the cast nearby. Adding to this dissatisfaction is the fact that quite often there are five of these scenes one after the other, sometimes broken up with loading screen, others asking you to move your character from one base to another, with no actual gameplay between unless you deliberately go out of your way.
When you do finally make it into combat the combo’s you are familiar with are now gone. Instead you will have your standard attack button which will change the combo based on the state of the enemy, taking into account things like being knocked down, being stunned or being juggled in the air. Also in the mix is a heavy attack which also acts as a reaction attack, rushing unsuspecting enemies, countering attacks or delivering a final strike. Trigger attacks will let you chain your combos and change the state of the enemy, knocking them airborne, stunning the enemy or using your special attack. Lastly is the familiar Musou attack, you’ll build up your Musuo gauge as you deal damage and when used release a devastating attack that is specific to each character.
What all of this equates to is a rather messy combat system. No longer are you able to learn the best moves for each particular weapon and instead you are left at the whim of how the battle goes. The trigger attacks do allow a certain amount of control over the state of combat but it has muddied a combat system that created a much smoother flow. Thankfully weapons are not tied to specific characters; yes they will perform better with their preferred weapon, but if you always wanted to see Lu Bu sporting a lovely pair of elegant combat fans then fill ya boots.
I will admit that it was easy to get sucked into the gameplay and let the world fall away; that is what the Musou Warriors series has always done successfully. The unchallenging gameplay and cathartic feeling of wiping out the enemy means that the game is a great way to mentally switch off for some mindless button mashing. In this era of super hard games there is still a space for this kind of experience. However with all the bells and whistles tacked on to Dynasty Warriors 9 I get the feeling that it thinks it’s much more complicated than it is, when in reality its just a bit messier.
Action, Hack 'n' Slash
Big cast of characters to play
A fair amount of content to get through
Myriad of bugs and graphical glitches
Terrible writing and vocal performances
Too much added fluff and not enough solid reinvention of core gameplay
I was pretty excited by the idea of an open world Dynasty Warriors, I was a fan of the series and have given it a fair amount of leeway with how far I’d let it push me around. Unfortunately in this ambitious move forward the series feels less like a brand new direction for the title and more like adding things for the sake of adding things, the problem being that the missteps from previous titles are still there. Dynasty Warriors 9 is not an awful game, but it is a game that is behind the times, not ahead of them. The real pity is that I feel like this is the final straw for me with the Warriors Musou franchise. I don’t think I have any more free passes to give.
Cameron Honey-Swain
Playing video games, reading comics and expressing himself via reaction photos of D-Grade celebrities and drag queens is the easiest way to keep Cameron busy so that he'll stop bothering his cats for selfies.
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Creators & Stories
Afrofictionism According to Osborne Macharia
Kenyan born visual artist, Osborne Macharia tells powerful stories through a style of photography he calls ‘Afrofictionism’. We catch up with him to discuss his storytelling journey, the concept of Afrofictionism and more.
I am a self-taught commercial and advertising photographer born and based in Nairobi, Kenya. I studied Architecture in campus but halfway through my studies I discovered photography and it has been my passion and career ever since.
How did your photography journey begin?
Back when I was in campus I came across the work of photographer, Joey Lawrence. I came across his series from Ethiopia and that sparked a feeling in me that resonated with me till today. At first, I was shooting anything and everything but the urge to create my own style kicked in and I set out to do so. I’ve always been fascinated by lighting from the very start and this is evident from the work that I produce.
Explain the concept of Afrofictionism and how it inspires your work?
This is an independent narrative style of photography which highlights three key principles being Culture, Fiction and Identity through storytelling that borders between reality and fantasy. Through social inclusion, it creates a powerful platform to convey important messages on topics such as Gender Abuse, Ivory Poaching, FGM, Albinism, Dwarfism, Minority groups and care for the Elderly. I find that fiction best tells these stories as you have no restrictions in terms of your imagination. You can create characters and make them as mighty as you want them to be as opposed to how society has perceived them.
Are there specific topics that you think African creators should use their work to shed light on?
I do not believe that there are any topics that we should focus on in particular. Some want to create work purely for entertainment while others it’s to convey certain social issues. Whichever the direction taken it’s all based on the artist and what they feel they want to do.
Do you think African creators have it tougher than other creators in other continents (especially regarding recognition)?
To some extent I believe it is tougher for African creatives, right from purchasing equipment and shipping into the country, recognition and dealing with the all the common stereotype that ‘nothing good comes out of Africa’. For most of us we are constantly working hard to change what’s already been said about us by western media. It’s a tough road but worth it every single day.
If you could say one thing to other African creators what would it be?
Style. Creating your unique style is equivalent to having your unique voice. It’s easier said than done but once you find it everything else makes sense.
What are you currently working on?
We have 3 projects we hope to publish before the end of the year. I never go into detail lest I jinx them.
Word to the readers…
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Love & Hip Hop’s, Paris Phillips, lands her first movie role on BET’s “Fall Girls”
January 12, 2019 January 12, 2019 | CURVYSTA MAGAZINE
BET Networks will premiere their original comedy production “Fall Girls” on Saturday, January 12, 9PM ET/PT on BET and BET Her. The comedy, executive produced by Footage Films, features Paris Phillips of Love and Hip Hop Hollywood, Amara La Negra(Love and Hip Hop Miami), Tami Roman(Basketball Wives), Erica Hubbard, Erica Peeples and Joely Fisher. The light hearted comedy is set in San Francisco, where Paige Davis(Amara La Negra) is promoted and her boss Simone(Joely Fisher) invites her and friend Tyra(Erica Hubbard) to a weekend getaway. After a night of decadence, the two friends wake up to a dead boss and the comedy begins with the help of Paige’s friends, Tyra and Kiki(Paris Phillips). The hysterical group with very different personalities, try to get through the weekend without being accused of her death and attempt to find the real killer.
As you watch the short trailer, it is quite evident who will carry the “funny” in the movie, Ms. Paris Phillips. The Brooklynite dominates every scene she is in and pulls you further into the story. It’s why we had to find out how she became this confident, Curvy being and her natural flair in front of the camera.
Curvysta: “May I call you Ms. Phillips? “
Paris: “Girl you better call me Paris.”
Curvysta: “Where were you born and raised Ms. Paris?”
Paris: “I was born in Harlem, but I was raised in Brooklyn. I lived in Harlem until I was eight years old but Brooklyn is home.”
Curvysta: “As a child did you have aspirations to be in the entertainment industry? It’s so natural to you. You’re like a beam of light on camera. I love watching you.”
Paris: “ I just knew I always wanted to be on tv. I was that kid that always loved attention. My grandmother said when I was a little kid, I would copy people on the train. I was always the class clown. I’ve always been the kid that everybody loved. I knew I wanted to do something on TV”
Curvysta: “What was your first opportunity getting into the industry? Your foot in the door?”
Paris: “My first opportunity came through Keyshia Cole’s via Twitter. I never really tried to go after. I was going to get a city job but Twitter came around and you have access to real celebrities. Keyshia Cole followed me. She wasn’t following a lot of people. I was a fan but I wasn’t to the extreme. I said something back to her, that I didn’t agree with and she took a liking to me. She let me know she was coming to do Wendy Williams. I remember talking to a lot of her people behind the scenes and they must’ve let her know that “Paris was a cool girl…so she took a liking to me.”
She offered to fly me out to LA on her next album and I’d never been to LA before. She said don’t tell anyone I’m flying you out. I was in LA for ten days while she’s taking me to studios. I became cool with people behind the scenes, writer, engineers and show runners. They went on to become big executives. That’s why I tell people, when you meet people you never know how far they’ll go. They’ve gone on to become successful publicists and Grammy writers and so on. I was still working at Starbucks. I was on tour and I took advantage of being on tour.”
Curvysta: “There is a softness about you. I know you’re from Brooklyn but there is a kindness that comes across.”
Paris: “These celebrities like being around me because I’m real. Sometimes you want that realness around you. It feels like home.”
Curvysta: “How does the reality show differ from being on a movie set?”
Paris: “It’s a big difference. When you walk on set, I know what you’re walking into. When you walk onto Love and Hip Hop, you’re blindsided. You don’t know what you’re walking into. I know when I’m on a movie set, I know I’m going to be with this actress or that actress. It’s a big difference. You don’t know what’s expected on Love & Hip Hop.”
Curvysta: “So is it easier on the movie set, than the reality set?”
Paris: “Any set is easier than the Love & Hip Hop set. When people talk about the other reality show sets, we don’t get anything. A movie set is easy.”
Curvysta: “You’re voice is amazing. I love your tonality. You should be on radio. Your energy is so infectious, it comes across whether they are seeing you, visually or hearing you on the radio.”
Paris: “Yes, yes, yes! I want to do something like DJ Khaled. I want to do something like that. I know the people. I have the voice…Why can’t I be the next DJ Khaled? This is what I’m saying!”
Curvysta: “You’re a great example of a confident Curvy girl. You have this great confidence.”
Paris: “I’m not going to front. It’s hard to find clothes. I can’t be on Love and Hip Hop looking like a raggedy b*&(^. It’s hard.”
Curvysta: “I think you’re absolutely stunning.”
Paris: “I call myself ‘Peyonce”, They see me with the blonde wig and folks call me “Peyonce”. When I have my glam on and my hair laid I know I look beautiful. Some people have negative energy, so it makes you ugly. Once again, my energy is positive so it makes me more beautiful. It’s not about size. Good vibes overpower everything.”
Curvysta: “Sometimes you’re glam and sometimes you wear a grill. What is your style?”
Paris: “My style is TomBoy chic. Shout out to Fashion Nova Curves. They look out for me. You have to know what is flattering to your body. When you’re comfortable, you look comfortable. The reunion show was out of the box for me. That was my first time with blonde hair. I love the feedback from the people. Thanks to my friend, Lazell @zellswag, he styled me up for the reunion. He said “No, we are getting sexy, sexy.” Zell had a vision. I was nervous. Corset, titties up, blonde hair…that was a real 360 for me.”
Curvysta: “How was it working with Amara La Negra, Tami Roman…your reality show sisters?”
Paris: “Tami is my sister. She is my family. Amara, that was my first time meeting her. Amara is cool. She’s really nice but Tami is my sister.”
Curvysta: What do you have planned next?
Paris: “Keep doing auditions. I am going to continue taking acting classes. I want to continue taking my DJ classes. It’s a lot. Five years from now, God willing, call me Dana Jr(Queen Latifah) That is my aspiration.”
Curvysta: Is there anything you want to share about the movie?
Paris: Watch the movie BET 9PM. Watch it because they gave me a chance to be in it. Support it! Show love!
Follow Ms. Paris Phillips on Instagram @whoisparisphillips
Watch Paris, Amara La Negra, Tami Roman, Erica Hubbard and the rest of the cast this Saturday, 1/12/19 on BET/BET Her at 9PM
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UMass women’s soccer rallies to earn draw against VCU
By Jamie Cushman
(Judith Gibson-Okunieff/Daily Collegian)
Some key coaching moves helped power a comeback for the Massachusetts women’s soccer team Sunday as it overcame a 2-0 deficit in the second half to earn a much-needed point on the road against Virginia Commonwealth.
The Minutewomen salvaged a 2-2 draw Sunday against second place VCU to move to ninth place in the Atlantic 10 standings with two games left in the regular season.
The Rams (8-7-2, 6-1-1 A-10) utilized their home field advantage and jumped out to an early lead, pressuring UMass and tallying two goals off deflections in the first half. At halftime the Minutewomen (6-6-4, 3-3-2 A-10) switched to a 4-4-2 formation.
“We were hoping to put a little more pressure on VCU and energize our team, and it worked,” UMass coach Ed Matz said. “We came out and played incredibly well in the second half. I can’t be happier with the way we played in the second half.”
Another important halftime move was the insertion of freshman defender Paige Kozlowski into the lineup. Kozlowski was forced to play out of her normal position, moving up front in order to replace injured junior Megan Burke.
After sitting out the entire first half, Kozlowski’s presence was felt almost instantly as she scored the first Minutewomen goal of the day in the 48th minute, just over two minutes into the half.
After intercepting a VCU pass, Kozlowski dribbled a long distance before converting her breakaway into a goal for her first of her collegiate career.
Matz said he was pleased with Kozlowski’s instant energy as well as the poise the freshman showed following a lengthy run.
“Sometimes when you have that many yards to cover, you start to think about your shot a little bit too much, but Paige did a great job, just placed the ball right in the corner,” Matz said. “It was a very good, well-composed shot, especially for a freshman.”
Carried by the momentum of its first goal, a UMass set piece led to the game-tying goal just five minutes later in the 53rd minute, scored by senior Rebekka Sverrisdóttir who finished off a loose ball in front of the net.
In addition to a good delivery from junior Danielle Alvarez, junior Julia Weithofer made a nice save along the end line to give Sverrisdóttir a chance to score.
“It was set up by a very nice set piece by Danielle Alvarez and just a lot of heart and commitment by our players to finish it,” Matz said.
Sophomore goalkeeper Cassidy Babin was solid once again in net for the Minutewomen. Neither of VCU’s goals were easy save opportunities for Babin, as both shots were deflected in front of her, leaving her out of position to make a save.
Babin made a number of important saves in the second half, including a tough stop on junior Tori Burress coming just minutes after UMass tied the game.
Next week marks the end of regular season action, meaning spots in the conference tournament will be up for grabs. The Minutewomen enter the final week of play trailing George Mason and Duquesne by one point and La Salle by two.
The top eight teams in the conference will earn bids to the A-10 conference tournament, hosted by Davidson Nov. 5-8.
The Minutewomen will face two tough opponents next week as they try to clinch a spot. UMass will go on the road to face fourth-place Saint Joseph’s Thursday night before wrapping up the season at home Sunday afternoon against third-place Dayton.
“We’ve got to get some points in these last couple of games to ensure that we get into the A-10’s,” Matz said.
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A Brush with Design: 10 Designers Dish on Their First Design Encounter — Louise Kellerman
2 years ago by Lana Lopesi
In the lead up to DA’s 10th birthday celebrations in March 2019, A Brush With Design asks 10 designers who have been involved with DA at various times to nostalgically recount their first memory of encountering design. In this first iteration we spoke with Louise Kellerman, Design Assembly’s founder.
My love for graphic design was a gradual thing. I suppose my earliest memory of design is the monster crayon and dye painting I created in a class for kids “good at art” aged 6. Springing forward to my social studies class in third form I had an assignment which of course used titles from The Lettering Book, my first brush with typography and the power of heading treatments and hierarchy. The assignment was presented glued onto an actual sheep hide with the paper having authentic burnt edges – I can see that project so clearly in my mind today. At high school, I studied art and in my final year, graphic design. If I’m being honest, the attraction was that this was a career pathway that I could make a living from in comparison to art.
In trying to think of an early design memory that has influenced my design work, many memories come bubbling to the surface. I think back to Alessi product design which was sold at Askew in Ponsonby. I’d go in there and covet the product design, not being able to afford it. The design of the lava lamp also comes to mind, I remember getting one for my 16th birthday, which I still have and enjoy. I still remember the signage of the OXO tower which I saw on a holiday to London at the end of 1999. The typeface Meta was in huge use when I graduated and worked as a junior designer, I used it on pretty much everything designed for the first three years.
I left Auckland at the start of 2004 to live in London as a young designer, I was exposed to great designers and hearing them talk, something which didn’t exist too much here. Two talks which come to mind are one with Bob Gill and Alan Fletcher, founders of Pentagram; and another with Eric Spiekermann. I remember vividly one thing Spiekermann talked about where he likened design work to different restaurants that people choose. Something along the lines of, “some people want McDonalds and others want fine dining” in terms of the level of design work that different people are prepared to pay for, appreciate and enjoy. I also visited the Pentagram London offices for a talk on the night that Michael Bieurut launched the Design Observer.
But what really propelled my design work and love for design and typography was finding a senior female design mentor in the London studio I worked in. Like most mentoring relationships, ours was a mixed relationship, neither of us were that happy in the studio environment so we bonded over that experience together, she saw something in my work and pushed me way beyond my comfort zone and I’m always thankful to her for that push into a love of design and typography. So for me, it’s always really been about the people, the people I surround myself with and who influence me, support me, push me out of my comfort zone and drive me to new places.
Fresh from the Field — Victoria Spicer by Sea Change
This week’s Fresh from the Field features an identity for London-based set design Victoria Spicer by Sea Change. If you have new or recent work that you would like to share in Fresh from the Field email Lana for details. The Brief: Victoria Spicer is an up and coming London-based set designer. She describes her work as…
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Welcome to Hot New Things 2018 – an opportunity to profile a selection of the top design graduates coming out of our tertiary institutions. This week, we speak with Naomi Hadfield from Media Design School. Naomi Hadfield Media Design School You recently completed your full time studies, can you tell us what your final year’s project was about and…
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Springfield Mason Square C-3 Police and Community Initiative: Creating a Safer Community Together
Springfield, MA – – In March of 2015, Police Commissioner John Barbieri and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno unveiled plans to expand the C-3 Initiative and develop efforts in the South End, Forest Park, and Mason Square, with the common thread between the areas being the intensified levels of violence and street crime negatively impacting the quality of life for residents in those neighborhoods.
Commissioner Barbieri made it clear that the C-3 Initiative had two primary goals: to make Springfield a safer city, and to make the community active about reporting crime when they can. Fast forward to July 25, 2017 – the initiative is living up to expectations with crime down nearly 20% across the city.
The C-3 Policing model was created and developed by Michael M. Cutone, a senior NCO with the U.S. Army Special Forces who served with 10th, 19th, and 5th SFG, totaling 25 years with the Army Special Forces. Cutone is also a Massachusetts State Trooper.
In 2006, Cutone returned from a deployment in Avghani, Iraq, where his unit had used the principles of COIN to defeat insurgent networks. In October 2009, during the course of his patrol duties in Springfield, he determined that the COIN principals utilized in Iraq might also be implemented to detect, disrupt, degrade, and dismantle gang activity in the city's high-crime North End section. After implementing the concept, the initiative received accolades from the citizens of the North End section as well as local public officials. C-3 policing also received the support of the Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police.
Building off of the previous efforts started in 2013 by the Mason Square Initiative (which morphed into the Mason Square C-3), similarly worked with area residents and organizations to build a close relationship to identify problems. The weekly meetings are led by Community Organizers Tracye Whitfield, Richard Johnson, Mason Square C-3 Sergeant Devon Williams and the State Police. They work diligently every week with residents, non-profits, and business leaders to maintain a healthy relationship between the police and community.
Mayor Sarno stated, “The C-3 Policing Initiative is truly a grassroots partnership of mutual respect and accountability between our public safety officials, our residents, and our business community. My hat’s off to Commissioner Barbieri and our brave and dedicated men and women in blue and just as important, our community of Springfield coming together as one.”
The level of engagement has been very effective to the point that there are days when a resident would have to arrive very early to secure a seat at the meeting, many reaching capacity at the Mason Square Library meeting location. Mason Square C-3 meeting facilitator Tracye Whitfield added, “I love the work that we ‘C-3’ do as a community. There is so much support from the city residents, police, the Mayor’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office, the Sheriff’s Department and many community organizations. We laugh together, play together; we listen to public issues and explore the challenges and resolves TOGETHER. Residents have expressed openly how they can see the difference with crime being down nearly 20% in Springfield overall. It’s truly amazing what we can accomplish when we are in IT together.”
The latest meeting held on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 and attracted 58 participants with topics centering on the decrease in crime, positive relationships, and all affirmatively supported by numerous unsolicited resident testimonials. Denise Jordan, Chief of Staff for Mayor Sarno, also a regular at the weekly meeting stated, “The residents had so many nice things to say about the relationships between the police and residents. It shows that the purpose of the C-3 initiative is supported; the process in place is working and is a model of the city’s potential when residents and law enforcement work together to ensure its success.”
In March of 2015, Commissioner Barbieri was quoted by a local news outlet stating, “There are 33 square miles in Springfield – we can’t be on every block. We don’t have 700 police officers in the heyday of community policing. The residents are there 24/7. They know the people and addresses in their neighborhoods that are problems.” On that day, Commissioner Barbieri told the media that he hopes the C-3 initiative creates more trust between law enforcement and the community.
The Mason Square C3 is a clear indicator that with hard work and commitment to our residents, Springfield is indeed a city on the rise.
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Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond
The only archive reviewing every ECM album in existence.
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Marc Sinan: Hasretim – Journey to Anatolia (ECM 2330/31)
September 18, 2014 August 18, 2014 | Tyran Grillo
Marc Sinan
Hasretim – Journey to Anatolia
Marc Sinan music, guitars, idea, concept and production
Traditional musicians from Turkey
Mustafa Boztüy darbuka, framedrum
Güç Başar Gülle oud
Ömer Can Satır kaval
Onur Şentürk kemençe
Erdem Şimşek bağlama
Traditional musicians from Armenia
Araik Bartikian duduk, zurna
Vazgen Makaryan duduk, zurna
Andrea Molino arrangement, conductor (DVD only)
Jonathan Stockhammer conductor
Markus Rindt idea, concept and production
CD recorded live July 2011 at Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival by Volker Greve and Holger Schwark
“Prolog” recorded December 2012 at MIAM Istanbul by Can Karadogan
Mastering: Volker Greve
DVD recorded Ocobter 2010 at Festspielhaus Hellerau
An ECM Production
Classical guitarist Marc Sinan, born in 1976 to a Turkish-Armenian mother and a German father, has over the past two decades attracted increasing demand as a soloist and collaborator, and dedicates his output to softening divides between genres, eras, and cultures. Hasretim represents the most significant evolutionary leap in his career as a composer. The result of a commission by Hellerau – European Center for the Arts Dresden and the Dresdner Sinfoniker, this video-musical journey traces Sinan’s heritage along the Black Sea coast to the Armenian border. More than that, it’s an invaluable archive of life and song on the Anatolian plateau, which he explored together with Dresdner Sinfoniker artistic director Markus Rindt in 2010. During the trip, Sinan was saddened to find that the preservation of folk music so prevalent elsewhere (viz: the Baltic states, Hungary, and Greece) was lacking in Turkey. Consequently, he took Hellerau’s commission as an opportunity to address the discrepancy, pooling a storehouse of traditional musicians and incorporating their art into a large-scale, contemporary piece of his own design. “I was quite nervous,” writes Sinan of the recording process. “Unlike musical field research, our project demanded much more than simply documenting the current state of the Turkish musical tradition regardless of its artistic merit. We were on a treasure hunt and would only rest once we stumbled upon something truly special.” As connections grew, so too did the availability of choice musical talent and the opportunity to capture it for posterity. Once satisfied with his bank of original recordings, to them Sinan introduced what he calls “decisive, subjective elaborations” in the form of both through-composed and improvised material.
Hasretim was originally conceived as an installation piece, with videos of these unrecognized Turkish troubadours (many of whom must balance their musical lives with working ones) projected onto five towering vertical screens at stage rear. Before them plays an assembly of European classical musicians augmented by traditional specialists from Turkey and Armenia. The latter bring their expertise to a veritable portrait of Asia Minor in sound as the oud, kaval, kemençe, bağlama, duduk, zurna, and frame drum hold their own alongside strings and winds. It is to ECM’s credit that its release should encompass both the audio on CD and the visual on an accompanying DVD. For while the music stands alone as a welcoming experience, to see the musicians (live and recorded) in their element, along with segues of candid scenes from Istanbul and beyond, brings out the project’s reach in most immediate terms. Both versions feature essentially the same personnel, with the notable exception of conductors: Jonathan Stockhammer directs the CD version, recorded live at the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, while Andrea Molino, also the project’s musical arranger, handles the DVD performance, recorded at Festspielhaus Hellerau.
As indicated by the title, which means “I’m yearning” or “My desire,” Hasretim is a search for roots. Yet it’s also a spray of new foliage in the towering branches, nourished by Sinan’s unique ear for montage. The album is bookended by a “Prolog” and “Epilog.” One is a menagerie of harmonics, blips, and whispers that tightens like a spring, while the other pieces together footage of nearly all the recorded musicians in a chain of reprisals, ending as it began: with an attunement that spans multiple geographies.
Within this frame are five distinct “Tableaux,” each named after a Turkish city or, in the case of “Tableau II – Yayla,” for the mountain pastures where an old man (Haci Ömer Elibol) plays the end-blown kaval while his sheep animate the background. His call, for that is what it becomes in Sinan’s contextualization, inspires some upbeat interweaving. In contrast to the dark fiddling of “Tableau I – Ordu,” which details the face of singer Asiye Göl across all five screens, it more fully includes itself in the musical goings on.
Indeed, voices resound clearest throughout the program, even if certain instrumentalists do stand out for their charisma. There is Hüsseyin Altay on the tulum (Turkish bagpipe), joined by droning brass; the unforgettable Ismail Küçük, who sings and bows his kemençe in “Tableau III – Trabzon” from the back seat of a car, thus underscoring the film’s road movie feel; the duet of Ömer Parlak on kaval and Mesut Kurt (along with Göl, the youngest of those featured) on kemençe; and in “Tableau IV – Erzurum” the rhythmically savvy Aşik Eminoglu accompanying himself on the bağlama to invigorating effect. This same Tableau also cradles “In Memory of Vahide,” a 10-minute duduk duet that interpolates shadows into light. All of this buoys “Tableau V – Kars” as the most compositionally unified vision of live elements (especially in the percussion) and descriptive archival work.
In absence of any background information, one might never know that Sinan witnessed firsthand a loss of connection among contemporary Turkish musicians to their rich heritage, or that their art needed recovery in this regard. Neither was the counterpoint lost on him between the boisterous people and their peaceful, sometimes dreary, settings. Such contrast of medium and message informs every frame and staff of this multimedia treasure trove. Although awarded a special prize by the German Commission for UNESCO for its “inspiring and experimental confrontation between different cultures,” Hasretim is less about experiment than experience and anything but a confrontation. Rather, it is a book to which each new witness adds a page.
(See the article as it originally appeared in RootsWorld online magazine, where you may also hear samples.)
Posted in ECM Releases, Folk, World ECM RecordsFolk MusicMarc SinanWorld Music
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EPA’s national dialogue — a good start on government transparency
EPA's National Dialogue... how do you want environmental information
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has been innovative in using collaborative tools, has posted a National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information. You can find it — and participate — www.epa.gov/nationaldialogue.
Of course, I have been watching OMB and the National Academy of Public Administration’s National Dialogue on Health IT and privacy. As I mentioned earlier, we spoke to NAPA’s Lena Trudeau about how things were going. [Hear that interview here. MP3]
There are two reasons I’m following this closely.
First, these information sharing policies are so important. I am fascinated by programs that tap into existing data. In the end, there is a lot of data out there. The big problem is that we don’t share that information very effectively. So I’m fascinated by organizations that build platforms that enable people — you, me… whomever — to tap into that data. It is why I have been repeatedly fascinated by Virtual Alabama. The Alabama Homeland Security Department essentially built a platform that enabled people to tap into existing data. But you can see it in other frameworks. It is why I’m fascinated by Facebook, which also builds a platform that enables people to share information. Twitter, the microblogging platform, is a similar site — there are a proliferation of sites that tap into Twitter data feeds to pull information together. It is why I was fascinated by the Twitter Vote Report Web site — again, tapping into data and sharing it.
So my principle would be that the EPA as they look at how to share environmental data — free it. Let it go. Make it transparent. Let people use that data on maps and Twitter feeds andFacebook… and other ways that we can even begin to expect now.
The second reason I’m following these kinds of projects closely is because I think they demonstrate a real innovation in the way government reaches out to people — democratization of government. This will win me no friends, but… I have been frustrated by the Regulations.gov e-government initiative. I understand that it has won some awards, but… it just doesn’t do much for me. Regulations.gov was a good initial start, but I think there are many more effective ways to deal with soliciting public comment. I still find it way too hard to find the regulation that I am interested in… and find it way too hard to find the consensus on the regulation or how people would change it to make it better. Essentially, to me it seems like we have just put an electronic face on the old paper method — people still submit comments and they get published. To make sense of them, you have to click through them. In the end, it doesn’t build consensus or really involve people in the creation of rules and regulations. And in the end, it has the appearance of transparency, but doesn’t result in real transparency, which is enabling people to see what is going on.
I would love to see an agency experiment posting a regulation in a wiki and ask people to actually edit the document the way people can inWikipedia items. To be honest, I’m not sure Wikipedia has it just right yet — it isn’t simple enough for the average use. But it gives you an idea of the realm of the possible. If you’ve never done it before, go into the “discussion” tap ofWikipedia items. Take, for example, the Wikipedia item on e-government… and look in the discussion tab for what some people are watching… and the history tab for what has been changed. Again, I don’t think this is a perfect model — in the end, it is too complex. What I’d love to see is almost a way that you can see changes in the document and that would click through to who made them and a discussion in why those changes were made. This is somewhat complex, but it may also spur a change in how we make these rules and regulations. There are some people who will be able to make changes to broad principles, while others with more expertise will be able to suggest actual wording.
So… I think these national dialogues are fantastic ways of reaching out to more people. I can’t wait to hear the lessons learned on what works… and what didn’t work as well as they hoped.
Written by cdorobek
Posted in EGov, Government 2.0, Policy
Tagged with EPA
Too much good stuff for a Friday radio show
I don’t like to schedule too much good stuff for a Friday radio show because… well, let’s be honest, I think that we are all kind of tired on a Friday and do we really want tooooo much heavy lifting on the way home on a Friday afternoon?
That being said, it has been a big week and… we have lots of good stuff on Federal News Radio’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris this afternoon.
EPA’s Marcus Peacock: Peacock is a CJD-fav. A little known fact — Peacock was actually the first government official to host a public blog. But he is a political who has been in government for awhile. So this is going to be the first of our “exit interviews” — seeking to tap into some of the lessons learned from those who will be leaving office on Jan. 20. In particular, Peacock has led EPA into the government 2.0 rehlm. So… we’re going to talk to him about how difficult that change is… whehter it is all it is cracked up to be is it just a lot of hype… and the role of leadership. He is a very smart guy. One quick Peacock aside: When I was at Federal Computer Week, I ran the Government Leadership Summit, which is an intimate gathering of the best and the brightest to think about how they can do their jobs better. We did the first government 2.0 conference, thanks in large part to Paul McCloskey, the former FCW editor in chief who helped run the Summit. McCloskey, now editor of 1105 GovInfo’s Government Health IT magazine, has one of the keenest minds of anybody I know. It was at that Summit that I met the EPA CIO Molly O’Neill. She got a lot out of the Summit — and used what she had learned to push EPA to try out some of these Web 2.0 activities. At the next Summit, held earlier this year, Peacock attended. He didn’t come as a speaker. He came as an attendee because he wanted to learn even more. It still is just inspiring to me that the number two guy at EPA would take the time out to look at issues in a new way. It is why I am so impressed with EPA’s radon videos — they came from front line EPA members. It is a sign of transformation. So I’m excited to talk to Peacock today.
Microsoft’s Teresa Carlson: I told you earlier about the promotion for Microsoft’s Teresa Carlson to head up Microsoft Federal. We will have her first interview since that announcement this afternoon. We’ll ask her about her goals, what Microsoft can do for government, and how a company like Microsoft sees the government market these days.
OMB’s Karen Evans… I have been going on and on and on about the OMB CIO memo…. This afternoon, we’ll talk to Evans about the memo and why it matters.
SBA acting administrator… talking about how agencies are doing with small business requirements.
And, of course, you get to hear my Friday Fun Day Jazz Hands.
We just may have to come back and do a Saturday show! (KIDDING!)
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Tagged with CIO, EPA, OMB
DorobekInsider: Hear about EPA’s radon program for yourself
I’ve been telling you about EPA’s innovative program for eliciting radon public service announcements — a government 2.0 way of reaching out to folks. (Don’t know what radon is? EPA has info here.) I’ve mentioned the radon video program here… and here… and here… Add one more to this list…
Today on Federal News Radio’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris, we had Tom Kelly is Director of EPA’s Indoor Environments Division, and Jeremy Ames is with EPA’s Indoor Environments Division, who came up with the program. You can hear the interview here. [.mp3]
They both did a really great job.
Posted in Federal News Radio, Government 2.0
Tagged with EPA, Government 2.0, radon
DorobekInsider: RadonLeaders.org… a slight correction
I told you about EPA’s remarkable program where, rather then coming up with a message to tell people, have a competition for a public service announcement — and they got some remarkable results.
I said that EPA also “created a social network” where those involved in radon issues could come together.
As Jeremy Ames of EPA’s Indoor Environments Division, who came up with the video contest, noted in the comments section of that post that EPA did not come up with collaboration site radonleaders.org.
Thanks also for mentioning RadonLeaders.org project. One minor note, RadonLeaders.org is actually a partner website — basically sponsored by the state radon programs, with close collaboration from industry and EPA. I don’t want to take all the credit as it was truly a collaborative effort, and we’re really pleased with the results.
In a way, that makes this even more valuable because it is creating a platform where others can come together and work together and collaborate. In the end, it is the real wonderful — and power — thing about these tools: They empower others. It is the thing I love about Virtual Alabama. The Alabama Department of Homeland Security built the tool, but local communities and other state agencies are finding new ways to use the tool. Very powerful stuff.
The other part of EPA’s radon project that I really love: There were some senior leaders who didn’t know about it. To me, that says that it is an organization that hastruly moved beyond the top-down management approach. It is really transforming — and people are innovating and trying new ways of working across traditional boundaries.
Meanwhile, we will have folks from EPA talking about the radon videos on Federal News Radio’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris on Tuesday, Oct. 7. In DC, we’re on 1500 AM… or online anytime at federalnewsradio.com.
Posted in correction, Government 2.0, Web 2.0
Tagged with correction, EPA, Federal News Radio
DorobekInsider: More on EPA’s Radon government 2.0 experiment
Earlier, I told you about EPA’s wonderfully simple yet wonderfully innovative radon initiative. Rather then just having the EPA go out and make a public service announcement, they let users do it — and then selected the winner.
I have some additional information.
First off, I have posted the instructions and directions that were provided to people — it might make a good starting point for other agencies thinking about this kind of experiment.
On my previous post, I included the video that won, but you can also see the runners up.
The Unwanted Guest
A Radon Story
and Radon Information Video
It’s a great idea and EPA deserves a lot of credit for having the fortitude to give away some of their control and involve others.
Speaking personally, I now know a lot more about radon then I ever did.
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Tagged with EPA, Government 2.0
DorobekInsider: EPA ahead in govt 2.0 — again… this time it’s radon
Editor’s note: This is the first post on EPA’s radon video program. You can see other runner up videos here… and my correction to this post here.
The Environmental Protection Agency has really been at the forefront of testing out government 2.0 initiatives. I am a huge fan of EPA CIO Molly O’Neill, who is one of the best and most innovative IT leaders out there. But O’Neill has help — EPA’s Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock is one of the most forward looking senior leaders I’ve seen in government. And I think EPA is a wonderful model for precisely how to try these government 2.0 initiatives — you don’t jump into the deep end of the pool. You experiment. You empower the people who are excited by it and that excitement is infectious throughout the organization.
EPA, of course, has a unique challenge because they have to collaborate with so many people — within EPA, with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, with other government agencies, with environmental groups, with communities concerned about their particular environmental question. They need to be transparent.
They also depend on data from many different sources — state and local governments, other agencies, the private sector…
So the government 2.0 tools seem to be a great way of reaching out to all of these different organizations. (Read about EPA’s very inovative initiative dealing with Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. FCW’s story here… and the white paper that EPA wrote up about the project can be found here.
Well, EPA has another government 2.0 coup — this time, an initiative focusing on on radon. (EPA’s radon page here.)
The challenge: Educate a whole new generation about the dangers or radon.
So rather then just creating their own public service announcement, EPA featured a contest where people created content using sites like YouTube.
No shock here: It was a tough sell within the agency. I haven’t yet spoken to the brains behind this idea, Jeremy Ames of EPA’s Indoor Environments Division. But I have no doubt that there were concerns about giving up control of the message.
But by just about any measure, it has been an enormous success. The project was done on a shoestring budget — and got people involved. And, perhaps you will think about radon — maybe at least visit the EPA radon page — epa.gov/radon — so you really know what it is?
Here is the winning video:
Ames also created a social network where government, community, and citizens discuss radon. Find that at radonleaders.org. (My favorite headline on there right now: What happens in Las Vegas will not stay in Las Vegas.)
We’re working on getting Ames on Federal News Radio’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris. I’ll let you know when we get it nailed down.
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The Road to KDE 4: KDE PIM Libraries and Related Technologies
Submitted by Troy Unrau
KDE has a number of sub-projects that have blossomed into enormous projects of their own. A number of them, such as KOffice, or KDE-Edu get a lot of press in the open source world, while the KDE PIM project has been quietly gaining corporate acceptance as a suitable enterprise suite. Today's feature are the libraries that power the KDE PIM project, and specifically, what changes have taken place since KDE 3.5.x, wherein the KDE PIM project is one of the most successful and stable components of KDE. Read on for more details.
The KDE PIM (Personal Information Management) team has stability among their primary goals. As a result, the changes to KDE PIM are not as flashy as some of the other technologies going into the KDE 4 applications, and in fact, many of the KDE 4 PIM applications will initially appear to be direct ports of their KDE 3.x counterparts. However, much of the focus at this point has been future-proofing technologies, since the opportunity to introduce new APIs and break old ones does not come around very often. To that end, a number of new libraries have been developed, and old ones reworked.
Akonadi is KDE's new storage backend, named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana. It's not really a backend, rather a generic backend API, which can have any number of real storage solutions implemented, from flat files to complex groupware servers. It supports caching, so offline modes should be implicitly available regardless of how the data is actually stored and retrieved.
It is considered to be the replacement for the existing resources framework in KDE, but is also extensible to data types that were not available to KDE 3.x. For example, the Akonadi framework will obviously be useful for email, contacts, and calendars just as the old frameworks were, however it can be extended to a number of other useful types as well. Volker Krause, a prominent developer of Akonadi, suggests that Instant Messaging (IM) logs may be useful to support, as it could just as easily query your hard disk for stored logs as it could retrieve the logs from the browser-based GoogleTalk. Of course, being cached, it would still be able to query these logs without going directly through GoogleMail every time.
Additionally, Volker writes that "Akonadi uses a completely language/toolkit independent interface, based on D-Bus and an IMAP-like protocol, making it possible to use it from non-KDE software without linking to any KDE/Qt libs." Which means that you can write lightweight programs that take advantage of Akonadi without having to link to the whole set of KDE and Qt libraries. This D-Bus control should also make access to the data stored in Akonadi trivial for writing scripts for automation and similar tasks.
That said, there are parts of Akonadi that integrate very well with Qt and KDE. In particular, it has support for very smart copy/paste and drag/drop for applications that want to deal with data stored in Akonadi. If you drag the name of a contact, for example, into a text file, you'll get their name since that's the only format that a text file can understand. If you drag it into a calendar, the calendar can easily recognize that it is accepting a drop of a contact, and could conceivably ask you if you'd like to make an appointment with this contact, etc. The libraries support this level of integration, but it may take a while for the applications to take full advantage of it.
For storage, Akonadi is only limited to those plugins that have already been programmed. The default will be to store most data in flat files, much as it is done now, but handle things like the relationships between the data using an SQL database backend or similar. In the past, KMail, KNode, etc. each had to do their own implementations of the data relationships, often in an application-specific binary format. This data will now be able to be shared more easily. Additionally, Akonadi provides "persistent unique identifiers for every item as well as change notifications" which are required in order to implement effective metadata searching, such as that being provided by the NEPOMUK-KDE integration. The metadata indexing isn't done by Akonadi itself, but rather, it is written in such as way that it becomes trivial to hook an existing system into whatever storage backend is active.
Since Akonadi itself is "type neutral", additional libraries have to be implemented for each type supported. In some cases, these libraries have been rewritten from existing KDE 3.x libraries (contacts, for example), and in other cases, the existing libraries should work with a little coaxing (KCal, KMIME, etc.).
However, I will once again stress that while this library will be shipped with KDE 4.0, the KDE PIM applications will not necessarily have been fully adapted to take advantage of the new functionality. At this point it is simply laying the groundwork and ensuring that the API is complete so that it doesn't break between future KDE 4.x versions. I would consider the development of Akonadi to be the biggest change taking place in the KDE PIM circles, and probably the most important for the long term forward progress of KDE PIM.
Khalkhi
Khalkhi is designed to be the new contacts framework for KDE 4, which happens to be the Georgian word for "people" (it is pronounced in a way that I cannot properly describe using English, but Friedrich has attempted to do just that in his blog, which also happens to be a nice introduction to the technology). It features a number of new things that the existing KABC cannot do, for example:
It has a concept of groups, and relationships between people. People can belong to groups. Groups can belong to other groups. NEPOMUK may find the relationships between people to be useful as part of its searching and indexing.
Share properties between groups/persons. You can change the contact info for many people at once if you define them as sharing a mailing address, for example.
Plugin-based property types. You are no longer restricted only to the contact information that is hard-coded into KABC, such as email addresses. You can add contact information for new types simply by adding a plugin. For example, one could add fields corresponding to the user accounts at a number of online websites (such as Flickr photo sharing, or Last.fm music profiles) which would be automatically available to all programs using contacts.
Incremental Updates. In KABC, a program had to reload the entire contact list any time there was a change, which becomes inefficient especially for large contact lists. Khalkhi can do these changes incrementally, without reloading.
Khalkhi is a little behind the other libraries as far as integration goes, and will probably not be visible before KDE 4.1. If you are interested in this sort of technology, you can contact Friedrich Kossebau directly, or drop into the #kontact channel on IRC and lend a hand.
KitchenSync
No name change, though pretty much a new project. According to Cornelius Schumacher, "It's called KitchenSync. It doesn't share more than the name with the KDE 3 KitchenSync though."
KitchenSync used to be KDE's syncing library and GUI, which implemented ways to get data from various PDA's and similar devices. KitchenSync is now a framework that sits on top of the OpenSync infrastructure complete with ported UI from the old program. Plugins should be much more stable and maintained now that they live in the OpenSync project. This will benefit KDE and other projects in much the same way as the abstraction of the SANE libs did for scanners.
KDE PIM developer Tobias Koenig says that "now the plugins [are] coming from the OpenSync project, so we have a broader and better tested set of plugins. The only plugin which needs porting to Akonadi is the OpenSync kdepim-sync plugin. However that will be done [shortly]". OpenSync is GUI independent, and simply deals with the communications to and from the device, which means we still need dialogs to configure this connection. Fortunately, he writes: "To make the implementation easier, a current [Google Summer of Code] project is about creating abstract descriptions (XSD) for the plugin configuration settings, so that configuration dialogs can be created automatically."
KitchenSync is already functioning quite well for KDE 4, and with a little polish, should be ready for 4.0.
Mail Transport
This is a new library for KDE 4.0. It is essentially an integration library that shares email settings in a far superior way to KDE 3.x. In KDE 3.x, you had to set up your mail account in every application separately. Volker Krause describes it as: "A small library which takes care of configuring and sending mails. The really nice thing here is that it is used by KMail, KNode and Mailody and allows them to share the same settings (including live updates if you change them in one app, etc.). Something similar is planned for identities (might not be ready for KDE 4.0 though)."
This library should allow easier integration of email services into other applications, without each application having to be aware of how the email is being sent. It will show up in existing KDE applications for KDE 4.0, but the real strength here is for third party applications.
This new library takes the hassle out of handling a number of syndicated news formats, and presents an API for applications to get and use news feeds. It currently has support for the commonly used formats, Atom, RSS and RDF. Adding additional formats in the future are not especially difficult, and programs using syndication would automatically be aware of them. Many of the PIM developers consider this to be one of the most exciting additions to kdepimlibs for KDE 4.0.
There is a lot of new work going into the PIM Libraries for KDE 4.x, some of which won't be ready in time for 4.0. Expect that many of the KDE PIM applications are not yet updated for the new libraries when KDE 4.0 is released, but will still be using ported versions of the 3.x libraries. As I mentioned before, one of the main goals for KDE PIM is stability, and by using the older libraries for the 4.0 release, you can be assured that you will at least have a working PIM environment that is functionally equivalent to the 3.x applications. However, expect new and exciting things to come from KDE PIM beyond KDE 4.0. Also, as the KDE 4.0 release draws nearer, expect an article focusing on the PIM applications.
Lastly, I will leave you folks with a bit of gossip to chew on. This will be the last Road to KDE 4 article fully hosted by the dot as I am moving it to a new source where it will give KDE wider exposure within the tech world. I cannot reveal all of the details yet, but I will confirm that these articles will still be linked from the Dot, which is good since it has a fully open, unmoderated comments forum, and many of these articles have generated a great deal of constructive feedback for the developers. The next article will be on either Krita or Kate (haven't decided which one will go first).
This article was waiting in the dot queue for a short while being edited. While that was happening, events were set in motion and I can now reveal that this series will be moving to Ars Technica for future versions. Like I said, you'll still be able to find a link on the dot, but KDE will get wider exposure as a result. I'll also be covering a number of non-KDE topics while writing for them, but my personal focus will remain KDE.
Cheers folks.
By Troy Unrau at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: More details...
By Andreas at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
very cool news, troy =) congrats and all the best with your new post (excuse the pun ;). can't wait to see more kde articles on other sites ....
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Fantastic news. Ars Technica is one of my favorite news sites... unfortunately their Linux desktop coverage hardly ever touch on KDE.
By Navindra Umanee at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Can we get a link to this Ars Technica site? I've never heard of it :) Thanks yall :)
By link? at Fri, 2007/06/22 - 5:00am
sync between PCs
I was hoping that there will be some kind of program that will help getting the PIM-data synchronized between serveral PCs.
By Vincent at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: sync between PCs
Isn't there an OpenSync plugin to do just this? In which case you'll be able to access it via KitchenSync.
By Adrian Baugh at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Thanks for the overview, but it's kinda hard to understand how it all will come together. Maybe a simple graphical overview would be nice to see where each part is situated?
Thanks a lot for the series, keep it up!
By Tom Deblauwe at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: overview
You know, I was thinking about that as well, but the problem is that these technologies have a lot of 'technobabble' assocated with them that would make a really complex, but useless flow chart for most users. Anyway, Akonadi is the kingpin of the new tech, as things like khalkhi, nepomuk, etc. will be latching into it, and KMail and so forth will likely be storing their emails and such via Akonadi.
I try to rotate between libs and apps in my articles, with some eye candy things thrown in between them, so this is my libs article :)
On the Akonadi page at the pim.kde.org site (http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/) you have a graphic: http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/architecture.png
By superstoned at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: overview [Offtopic]
Completely offtopic, but how was that graphic created?
I am trying to create a radial chart for an astronomy application, and was wondering if there's an easy way to programmatically create such an image.
By Pharaoh at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
I would guess that it was done in Kivio. :)
By matt at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
At the last aKademy, one of the kdepim-developers had the tool for this graphic running in his presentation and he modified the graphic on the fly. It seems that it's an unreleased mini-program, and it had some strange German first name as name of the app. The likes of Nepomuk, you know. But I don't remember the exact title, sorry.
By Jakob Petsovits at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Few developers
Too bad kdepim lacks developers. This "sub-project" really deserves more active contributors.
By birdy at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
hope for change of data structure for contacts?
I badly need this structure, and many people I know do.
By markit at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: hope for change of data structure for contacts
I just read the bug report, and the idea of arbitraty data fields is a reasonable thing, and part of the reason that Khalkhi exists. However, the forms you suggest might take a little extra work - they appear to be a key & string storage system, similar to a dictionary or similar in python, which is really easy to implement in a simple sql table. The real question then becomes how to make the user interface something reasonable while still maintaining much of the existing functionality.
You can try hanging out in #kontact to see if anyone is interested. Try making more involved mockups and so forth if you cannot code. Just remember, almost everyone in there is a volunteer :)
Well done Troy for all these articles. You write well and with great (deserved) enthusiasm for KDE - 4.x will be great! Thanks!
By Kevin Colyer at Tue, 2007/06/19 - 5:00am
Krita or Kate for the next article?
I vote kate for next post :D
By alsuren at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
KitchenSync in KDE 3.5.7
The move to OpenSync actually also happened on the 3.5 branch and 3.5.7 uses OpenSync instead of its custom plugin framework.
By Kevin Kofler at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
KDEPIM is no enterprise material
I am passionate about KDE, but have to disagree that KDEPIM is a mature enterprise-ready set of applications. I have been testing them for years, currently on Suse 10.2 and they leave a lot to be desired.
Kmail is unusable for IMAP in its current incarnation. It has lots of nice features, some of them are even innovative, but it is unable to handle a 100-200MB IMAP account. It quickly becomes unbearably slow.
Integration and syncing with egrouwpare is also an area that needs lots of work. Egroupware is, in my mind, the easieset to install groupware server around and very feature complete. Kontact promises egroupware support but doesn't deliver: double entries for appointments and kontacts, and the syncing simply doesn't work.
You may say that all of these complaints belong in a bug report. I believe that bug reports are intended for things that are not immediately obvious upon fifteen minutes of using an application.
I have high hopes for KDEPIM (I am stubborn) and expect that one day it will join the large number of KDE outstanding apps (k3b, amarok, konqueror, konsole, tellico, kdissert, etc) but right now it is simply unsusable for me.
I understand that there might be a lack of manpower to really fix these issues that I mention, but the truth is that a properly working PIM suite is more important than Plasmoids to end users.
Thanks and sorry if this is a bit rantish. Looking forward to Akonadi and hoping that a wonderful KDEPIM finally materializes.
By KDERockandroller at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: KDEPIM is no enterprise material
There's an old saying; "One man's trash is another man's treasure." (Not to say that you called it trash) At the company I work for, we use KMail to collect mail from more than twenty POP3 accounts, filter it with rules, and redirect it to more than 100 people in a dozen or more groups. The machine that I have KMail doing this on runs 24/7 and flawlessly handles thousands of messages daily. The redirect feature is very cool as it preserves the address of the original sender so that the recipient can use his/her reply button as expected. It's saving me countless hours of headache and, I'm sure, lots of money. Also, I use Kontact daily for my POP3, Contact, and Calendaring needs, and have yet to find a showstopping problem. I won't argue with the IMAP deficiencies that you pointed out, but KDE PIM is definitely viable for (non-IMAP) business use.
By Louis at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
> but KDE PIM is definitely viable for (non-IMAP) business use.
The point here is that lots of companies use IMAP for their mail, not POP.
By Iñaki Baz at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
> I believe that bug reports are intended for things that are
> not immediately obvious upon fifteen minutes of using an application.
I disagree. Anything that's wrong with a piece of software is a good candidate for a bug report. If you have better real-world experience of an issue than the developers of a piece of software then you should feel free to speak out, but most importantly you should speak out in the way that is most helpful to the development of the software, and that is to file a descriptive bug report.
Filing a bug report means that the issue is tracked - developers are a bit less likely to forget about the issue; if the developer in charge of fixing the issue moves on, it is easy for someone else to pick up where they left off and see easily where work is required; plus for new/prospective users it's easy to get a broad overview of problems that might be encountered before running into them first-hand.
By Paul Eggleton at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Also, a huge amount of time and resources has been spend on bugfixing IMAP and other stuff lately... KDE 3.5.7 should do much better on IMAP.
By Jos Poortvliet at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
> PIM suite is more important than Plasmoids to end users
not sure i see the connection between those two things, tbh. there are a lot of things that need to be worked on ...
i agree that there are problems with the imap support in kde3; still it's more than adequate for many, while improving imap is one of the reasons for akonadi and its design from what i recall.
as for egroupware, maybe the egroupware folk could get more involved with what is one of the most used free software groupware apps and get themselves a few more users.
and of course, "unusable for you" doesn't mean it's not very ready for others =)
> Kontact promises egroupware support but doesn't deliver
your experience differs from mine here.
I use KMail on Opensuse 10.2 AMD 64
The mails are stored on a SUSE OPENEXCHANGE Server 4 and the imap accounts contain some 20.000 mails with a local mailbox size of some 50MB.
Local network connections are fast, remote connections - using a 2 MBit line - the startup of kmail is a bit slower but far away from being a noticeable problem.
About 1500 contacts are stored in a Kolab server using a slower (512) upload line. No problems either.
The only thing which is really much to slow is the "find message" functionality (not to be confused with the "search" function which only searches in some fields)
By ferdinand at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
For me the more serious problem with Kmail is the impossibility to reply to html formatted mails without destroying the format (kmail badly convert the mail into text).
This enhancement has been ask for years now. The problem is not only a lack of man power for but also philosophical one. There are many opponents against html formatted mail.
However html mail *are* used everyday by enterprises.
*All* my co-workers (thousands of them) use Outlook as mail client.
For example, consider the common situation where mails are sent to a group, each member of the group uses a different color in their reply. Its helps identifying who edited each part of the original message.
If I reply to their mails, I mess up everything with my reply.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation, but I may be one of the last to stick to kmail/kontact hoping that this will be solved some day. I simply hope this day will come before my boss force me to ditch kmail (and linux).
By jms at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
I totally agree with you. The problems you point out are not the only ones, though: There is a bug about multipart/related HTML mail display filed since ages and none of the contributors have found the time / seen the need to implement it. So, HTML mails are only displayed correctly if all images are referenced externally, and since those are viewed as "evil" because some of them are web bugs tracking your viewing of the mail, this perception of "evilness" has somehow leaked through to HTML display in general, which is why it recieves so little attention, IMHO.
By Robert at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Couldn't agree with you more! On top of that, there's also the very long request for rich-text sig's. My employer demands a corporate sig that can only be done using rich-text. I though it made it in 3.5.7, but I can't find it, so I guess it's not in. To bad.
By cossidhon at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
I'm 100% agree with you: KDE PIM is not enterprise-ready. I use Kontact at the work and at home for long time.
At the work I have configured a groupware server (just IMAP folders with contacts, calendar and so).
- Just impossible with IMAP, I must use DIMAP instead or it is inusable at all.
- Every day I start my KDE I get a warning of Kmail about the need of "creating the groupware folders", always!
- I don't have a public key, so I can't sign mails. But I should have teh possibility of encrypting mails with public key of the recipient, but I can't because a bug since 2004-11-17 that nobody fixes:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93436
- I tried to use a webdav calendar, but most time I added a task Kontact crashed. Could be related to this bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108424
- In Korganizer reading the entire subject of a task is impossible because this bug:
- The mail filters are applied "sometimes".
And of course, kontact crashes and crashes and crashes, at least 3 times each day.
I sincerely think KDE PIM is not suitable for businnes enviroments, or you must avoid IMAP, groupware, coorporative calendar and so.
Anyway I use Kontact because it "could" be great.... some day ;)
I must strongly disagree as within our company I access mail via IMAP (Courrier IMAP) and my mail account has well over 3.7 GB of mails and access via KMail 1.8.2 that came with KDE 3.4.2 in SUSE 10.0 is perfect. So I guess you must have some other difficulties in accessing your 100MB account.
By Janez at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
You are completely wrong about the IMAP performance limitation.
I am currently using Kontact / Kmail and have gigabytes of email. 3000 messages in a single folder? No problem - it displays instantly. Searching for
I suspect it is your backend IMAP server. Before we switched to an open source groupware solution that uses Cyrus, displaying folders with lots of email was slow.
If your eGroupware server uses the Courier IMAP server, try switching to Cyrus.
I do think Kmail is under par in some areas though. Editing of rich (HTML) mail leaves a lot to be desired, especially compared to Thunderbird which even has great table editing.
By Roger F at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
I'm noticing a common theme with respect to the stability of KMail and IMAP -- it seems those with positive reports are running OpenSUSE.
I'm on Ubuntu (Feisty), and it doesn't seem to like a large IMAP folder. Just hangs, eating 100% of the CPU. This going against either Courier imapd or Dovecot imapd. I may try Cyrus and see if that's any different.
KOrganizer is, IMO, one of the best things about KDE. The way in which it handles todo items is better than any PIM suite I have used.
Kudos to the developers.
By Matt Meola at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
My Maildir is almost 1 gigabyte and I have no issues whatsoever accessing it through IMAP. I too am running Ubuntu Feisty and I'm really perplexed by these comments criticizing Kmail for poor IMAP performance with large folders.
When exactly does it hang? I would love to help troubleshoot this.
By Joshua Lund at Sun, 2007/06/24 - 5:00am
It typically hangs when clicking on a message. After a while, it sometimes crashes.
By Matt Meola at Tue, 2007/06/26 - 5:00am
Same problem here with a disconnected cyrus and Kubuntu. Problems started about 3 weeks ago - I never had any problems before. The local folders are about 1.5 GB
By gonzo at Wed, 2007/07/25 - 5:00am
Akonadi + Telepathy = very good things.
Pervasive (system-wide, centralized) contact & messaging management + presence and collaboration services... I believe we are entering the Shangri-La. Good times indeed!
By Daniel at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Akonadi + Telepathy = very good things.
agreed; i think it'll take until 4.1 or even 4.2 to really get the most out of these features (and probably even longer before these creative people run out of interesting ideas on top of that =) but the foundation they are building seems very solid... go kdepim! =)
corporate acceptance
"the KDE PIM project has been quietly gaining corporate acceptance as a suitable enterprise suite."
Which corporations?
By Joe at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: corporate acceptance
What about Munich?!?
Ok, Munich isn't a corporation but public administrations have similar needs.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
i know of at least one fast food company in the u.s. that decided to go with kde because of kontact's ability to lock down users to their home dir for saving attachments so easily. (now -that- is an enterprise feature; i love how nobody whinges about these kinds of things, though, given how important html email evidently is ;)
i also know of companies in calgary here that, while not "enterprise" in size, also use kontact.
so, they do exist.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
For yet another nice article!
It is good to hear that KDE Pim is seeing some work done. I personally use Thunderbird for mail as it has served my needs better, but if Kontact/Kmail improves, I will certainly switch :)
It's also great that KDE is getting more exposure on Arstechnica - Gnome has gotten a lot more exposure there, maybe because of Ubuntu but still. I look forward to your next articles.
By Joergen Ramskov at Wed, 2007/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Thanks again!
Using Thunderbird as well. The reason is the html-Thing. I see no problem with using a layout language in a mail. I have a very lovely girlfriend, and she really likes it from time to time to recieve an "i love you" not just in plain text, but in red letters and with a heart-thingy next to it ... women ;-)
So i guess, the no-html-in-email-guys are
1. all male
2. without girlfriend at the time?
By Knutt at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
My guess would be more along the lines:
1. The feature are not that important, the developers prioritize things they find more important.
2. They prefer to communicate with their girlfriends by other means than email, see 1.
By Morty at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
Address book changes
I'm sure looking foward to the new address book - KABC is a bit of a pain. One thing i'd like to know is if you will be able to make global changes to the address book, like wether the first or last name comes first, instead of having to change it in every entry.
By Scott at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
Plugin in PIM application ?
Very good work, when all features will be integrated, it will be very powerfull !
I hope it will be easy also to write plugin for PIM application like Kmail to have a lot of plugins available, "a la firefox".
Plugin are easy to contribute and add extra feature.
By Nuscly at Thu, 2007/06/21 - 5:00am
Kontact improvements?
I was wondering, which new features are planned for Kontact?
By Darkelve at Fri, 2007/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: Kontact improvements?
Oh, and thanks for the article again, Troy :)
"I was wondering, which new features are planned for Kontact?"
Oops... should have mentioned; I mean the Calendaring part...
KitchenSync: WM5 Support
Hello KDE Development Team,
I am interested if KitchenSync will support WM5 Devices.
Known Problems so far:
- SynCE has only WM2003/2002 support and bad WM5 support (with a lot of Python hackage).
- OpenSync has absolutely no support at all, even their Plugins for Evolution etc. doesn't work correctly (knowing that they head forward to 0.30).
I really like to see my HTC Prophet (WM5) simply get connected and synchronized with KDE's PIM.
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Today, she’s going to share how Pinterest marketing can actually help you step away from your business and make more time for the things that truly count. Not to mention, she’s going to share a ton of current Pinterest marketing strategies that you can use to boost your Pinterest account and obviously to get more leads over to your Web site and into your product sales funnels.
How Cara Became a Pinterest Marketing Expert
Cara’s story is definitely unique. She started her first career as a special agent criminal investigator, and after 10 years decided to leave because she wanted more autonomy.
She ended up becoming the social media manager for the band Megadeth, and managed 13 million fans across 17 social media accounts. That was her first job in social media, and even though she thought it was really fun, she decided to leave that job for the same reason that she left her first career. She wanted more autonomy, so she decided to start her own business.
“When I started my own business, I did what I think we all do, which is all the things. I was doing Website building, and email marketing, and social media and blogging and pretty much anything that could fall under the digital marketing umbrella.”
After a few years, she started to realize what tasks she liked doing, and what she wasn’t as passionate about. She realized that Pinterest was really where she wanted to niche down because it was having the biggest ROI for her clients.
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Cara makes a good point, that she figured out as her business progressed. To achieve success, you don’t need to do all the things. Just do the one thing that you’re really good at.
Why You Should Be Using Pinterest to Help You Have More Free Time and Market Smarter
The biggest benefit to using Pinterest is that it allows you to repurpose your content and get off the content treadmill, says Cara.
What does she mean by “content treadmill”?
“When you're in the online entrepreneur space, we constantly have this pull of create more content, create more content, whether it's videos or blogs or podcasts or even just Instagram posts and posting in groups, and all of this stuff that takes up so much time. And then at the end of the week, you're left with, oh, I didn't really accomplish what I needed to accomplish because I was on this treadmill of post after post after post.”
Cara emphasizes that when you’re using Pinterest, you don’t need to constantly create more content. You just need to create more pins for the content that you already have. There are no limits to however many pins you want to do for a single piece of content.
Instead of needing to create high-quality content over and over, you can use Pinterest to help you save time and drive traffic to the content that you’ve already created.
You can create a bunch of different types of pins to draw different people in – a title pin, a description, what the reader is going to learn, quotes, infographics, and now it can be video. But all of those different things will lead back to the same piece of content you’ve already created. Pinterest sees all of those separate pins as the new content.
“It enables you to really step back and, you know, care more about the value of the content you're connecting pins to, instead of just kind of pumping it out because you're checking a box.”
Using Pinterest: The Basics of How Cara Uses the Platform to Maximize Her Traffic and Minimize the Time She’s Spending on it
Cara shared some of the basics of her Pinterest strategy. She’s spent a lot of time optimizing the amount of time she puts in to using the platform and the results that she sees.
How many pins should you strive to create per post?
Let’s say you have a new piece of content that you want to put on Pinterest. How many pins should you create per post?
Cara says that while you should always be testing your audience to see what works for them, she generally starts with five pins per piece of content, that are all different types of pins. Then she sees how they do from there.
If the pins start doing well and driving a lot of traffic, or your audience is showing a lot of interest in an older piece of content, you can create more pins for that piece of content.
Using Analytics to See What Content is Driving the Most Traffic
Cara says it’s important to not just start pumping out pins for content immediately. She uses Google and Pinterest analytics to see what’s driving the most traffic and what her audience wants to see, and then goes from there.
First, she goes into Google Analytics to see what traffic is coming from Pinterest specifically and where they’re landing.
“That might be, OK, this blog was one of my top three traffic drivers this month from Pinterest. So I'm going to go ahead and create three new pins this month for that piece of content, because that's obviously what people are clicking through to my site for.”
She also uses Pinterest analytics to see what pins are doing the best within Pinterest. When she sees a specific pin is doing really well, she tries to replicate the content or the graphics to see if she can make more pins that are equally as successful.
If she has a pin that’s driving a lot of traffic, Cara will often recreate that pin as a template to repurpose it across different content. “Pinterest is a visual search engine. So keywords get you found because it functions on keywords just like Google does or any other search engine. But the graphic is what actually gets people to look through.”
Content versus graphics: how to determine what is making your pin successful
Cara says that sometimes pins can be successful because of the graphics and sometimes because of the content that you’re offering to your audience. The best way to determine which one it is, she says, is through trial and error and split tests.
When Cara starts a promoted pin campaign for a new client, she’ll take the exact same pin graphic and do two different questions to test the keywords. She’ll also create pins with the same description, but two different graphics.
“There is a level of testing that's involved. But if you keep it really simple, like an a/b test, you're going to get that information really quickly.”
Pinning new content versus old content: What’s the ratio?
In a typical month, Cara will create five new pins for a new piece of content. That’s the sweet spot for her, because it doesn’t take too much time with the templates she’s created.
Then she goes back and looks at her pins that are successfully driving traffic. She usually will create one, two, or at most three pins for that content as well. That way she’s keeping up a mix of new posts and older content, to continue driving traffic to her website.
Crafting the Perfect Pin: Descriptions, Graphics and More
Creating the perfect pin isn’t easy, but Cara shares some of her tips and tricks that she uses to write the best descriptions that help people to find her pins and get them to click.
Are keywords important?
Picking the right keywords are absolutely essential if you want your pin to be found. Pinterest is a visual search engine, and keywords are what will make sure your pin pops up when people are searching different topics.
If you’re creating a pin on Pinterest, you’ll have to think very carefully about the title of your pin (this is what shows up in the different feeds) and the description (which will encourage people to click on your pin).
When writing a description, Cara says that you should lead with a strong call to action, or have an eye-catching topic, like “top tips” or “best way.” Then make sure you include your keyword phrases in the rest of the description.
Cara says you should be careful not to “keyword stuff,” which is when you just copy and paste a list of keywords into the description.
“You want to have two to three sentences that are conversational, like normal sentences, that you would say and speak that have your keywords in them.”
Hashtags: how many is enough?
In your description, Cara also says you want to include anywhere from one to three hashtags.
She usually includes three, the first one is usually a more general hashtag, like #entrepreneurship. The second one is more specific, like #pinterestmarketing. And then your third hashtag should be a branded hashtag, like #CaraChace.
Don’t forget to check your URL!
The purpose of Pinterest is to drive traffic away from its site. Unlike other social media platforms that want you to stay on their sites, Pinterest is the one digital marketing platform that redirects traffic away from it purposefully.
This means you want to make sure that the URL linked to your pin is the correct one and that it goes specifically to where you want it to.
“The problem that I see often with people as they'll make the mistake of they have a new blog, and instead of linking to the specific URL they'll accidentally link it to like the general blog page. And then what happens is someone clicks through and they're taken to the general blog page instead of the blog itself, and then they'll click right off.”
Using Pinterest to Drive Traffic: The Best Kinds of Pages to Create Pins For
Generally, you’ll convert better if you drive traffic to a blog post with a lead magnet or freebie or a content upgrade through Pinterest. However, you can also drive traffic to a landing page or an opt-in page without getting penalized.
But from Cara’s experience, the general Pinterest user will convert better on pages that contain a lot of information, because that’s what they’re looking for when they click through to your page. In general, blogs with strong lead magnets or a call to action is probably going to convert better.
This doesn’t mean you can’t use Pinterest to drive traffic to sales pages, though. “I have had good success with sales pages or landing pages that were almost like a blog, they had enough text or explanation in it.”
Pin Sharing Strategy: Up-to-date Pinterest Tips about the Best Way to Share Your Pins
Cara also has some specific strategies that she uses to make sure she’s sharing her content in the most effective way.
Tailwind is the most effective tool to share pins
Everything that Cara does on Pinterest, she does through Tailwind. “I could not do what I do for myself or my clients without using tailwind. They're a fantastic tool.”
After she creates new pins, she feeds them into her Tailwind smart schedule so they’re put out consistently. Setting up a Tailwind smart schedule ensures that you’re putting out content when your audience is on Pinterest.
How often should you pin per day?
Cara pins an average of 12 times per day, and her Tailwind smart schedule is optimized throughout the week to make sure that she’s pinning the most on days that her audience is on the platform.
She says it’s easy to set up your smart schedule with however many pins per day you want to set. That number is up to you, though she recommends thinking through how much valuable and informative content for your audience you can actually post per day.
“I know that there are people out there that recommend doing a huge number of pins per day… And whatever this gets into, like, is this really an ROI for you? in order to fill up 20, 30, 40, 50 slots per day in your smart schedule, you're going to be spending a whole lot of time on Pinterest filling up this queue.”
For Cara, taking up a lot of time to fill up a queue isn’t a great ROI for her, because it doesn’t make much of a difference based on how much content she puts out. 12-15 pins per day are optimal for her, because it gives her enough room to re-share the amount of content that she needs, in addition to her own content.
More is not always better on Pinterest, but you can play around with what settings work best for you. If you want to do more pins per day it’s easy to change that setting, but make sure what you’re posting is valuable.
“Pinterest knows what you're repinning. and if you are repinning stuff that goes to dead links or spam, it will penalize your profile.”
Repinning: Tailwind Tribes or group boards?
The entirety of Cara’s repinning strategy is with Tailwind Tribes, and it’s actually what drives the majority of her traffic.
Cara says that she sees a lot of people still using group boards, but it’s not as effective of a strategy as it was about a year ago.
“Pinterest actually came out and said, we don't want you using group boards for marketing, like stop ruining it for everyone marketers. That was not the intention for group boards. So they actually started penalizing group boards that were spammy, that were not engaging.”
Cara jumped off that bandwagon as soon as she heard that pinning in group boards would affect the performance of her profile in Tailwind Tribes, and hasn’t looked back.
When it comes to Tailwind Tribes, Cara recommends that you do a little research to find good ones that are engaging and have valuable content to share with your audience. She also says that her pins get shared much faster when she posts in Tailwind Tribes, because pins can sometimes take a while to get seeded in a newsfeed and start showing up.
“By submitting to Tailwind Tribes I start getting that traffic right away and Tailwind Tribes are reciprocal. I don't know of any Tailwind Tribe that doesn't have that in their rules. If you're going to submit, you need to share.”
How to Get Better Results on Pinterest while Spending Less Time
Using Tailwind has definitely saved Cara a lot of time. Aside from creating the graphics, when she goes in to create pins and feed them into her Tailwind queue, she can batch an entire month of content in about an hour and a half.
Is there a part of this process that you don’t feel comfortable with, or don’t want to spend your time doing? You can also outsource to save yourself a lot of time.
Cara says there are a lot of Pinterest virtual assistants (VAs) out there that you can hire to do some (or all) of this process for you. She herself uses VAs to help her with her business and clients.
There are many benefits to hiring someone who knows about Pinterest and its strategy. VAs can help you and make sure what you’re putting on the platform is consistent, content- and time-wise.
Cara says, “Pinterest has also said the number one thing they value is consistency.” Don’t let yourself get burned out, instead of pinning a lot sporadically, make sure you’re pinning consistently every day, even if it isn’t that much. Cara recommends starting out slow, figuring out the platform, and building up from there.
Pinterest Success: Using Pinterest Traffic Evidence to Build Your Business and Create Digital Products
Cara says that you can use analytics to your advantage to think about how to further develop your business.
Her lightbulb moment was during the first nine months of running her blog, when she would spend hours pumping out blog post after blog post.
Looking at her analytics, she realized “there was a single blog that was generating an incredible amount of traffic percentage-wise on my website. And that traffic was all coming from Pinterest.”
She decided to use this information to her advantage and went back to that blog post to repurpose that content. She put the information into a free e-book and put it behind an email gate. That freebie tripled her email list within six months.
“That's the magic of Pinterest. And that's not a pin that is ever going to die. It's still there. Whereas an Instagram post you got about 24 hours before that's you know, no one's ever gonna see that again. I wrote that blog in 2015 and it is still one of my top three traffic drivers every single month.”
This is what she wants to emphasize the most for business owners – you want to be making decisions that bring you the biggest ROI for your business instead of spending a lot of time on things that may not actually have results.
Manual Pinning: Should it be a Part of Your Strategy?
Even though there are a lot of sources out there that say you should spend some time regularly manually pinning, Cara says that when it comes to efficiency and productivity, manual pinning doesn’t do much for you.
“Every single minute that I'm doing something has to make sense for the ROI on my business. And manual pinning is not something that I want to sit and do. The difference in time that it would take me to manually pin fifteen pins a day, it's just not even comparable to sitting down and spending an hour and a half a month.”
Cara says that while this may have been a part of good Pinterest strategy in the past, it’s most likely the platform has changed. Manual pinning has zero impact on her personal marketing strategy.
Pinterest Will Get You More Traffic, Save You Time, and Help You Be a Smarter Business Owner
Cara loves Pinterest because it helps her be a smarter CEO.
“It lets me look at the hard data and the numbers and take action based on what I know is going to work instead of I hope I get enough likes on this Instagram photo. It's something that I can dive into and knock out and move on to other things that I want to do, whether that's personally or professionally. And I know it's going to work.”
Cara says the platform is great to help you be smart about your marketing and the time you spend on your business.
Wondering where you should start if you’ve never used Pinterest before?
Think smart marketing, and look at your analytics to find your top five blogs and start with those. Create graphics and templates and see where you go from there.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, just take it one step at a time and start with data. You don’t need to create pins for all of your content right away, instead create pins based on content that you already know works.
Resources for Entrepreneurs Wanting to Build Their Pinterest Strategy
Want to learn more about Pinterest, or understand what you need to do to build a top-notch Pinterest profile?
Cara has created a free resource called the 90-Day Pinterest Success Roadmap.
It’ll take you step-by-step through clicking over to make your profile a business account instead of personal, all the way through to your first promoted pin campaign. The resource covers how to find keywords, create a custom segment in Google Analytics just to find your top five traffic drivers, make sure your settings are correct, how to claim your website and more. Find that in the link below!
She’s also got a Pinterest marketing membership, called Pinterest power up. If you’re interested, follow the link to her website below.
//LINKS IN THE SHOW//
Check out Cara’s website here – https://www.carachace.com/
Find the free 90-Day Pinterest Success Roadmap here – https://www.edenfried.com/pin-success
Learn more about Cara's Pinterest Marketing Membership here – https://pinterestpowerup.com
Take a look at Cara's Pinterest page here – https://pinterest.com/carachace
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Schmutz, Claudia and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Jost, Marianne. (2019) Hepatitis A in Switzerland : an analysis of 29 years of surveillance data and contemporary challenges. Travel medicine and infectious disease, 27. pp. 53-63.
Larson, Anika and Hartinger, Stella Maria and Riveros, Maribel and Salmon-Mulanovich, Gabriela and Hattendorf, Jan and Verastegui, Hector and Huaylinos, Maria Luisa and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2019) Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in drinking water samples from rural Andean households in Cajamarca, Peru. American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 100 (6). pp. 1363-1368.
Tüshaus, Laura and Moreo, Monica and Zhang, Jia and Hartinger, Stella Maria and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Karlen, Walter. (2019) Physiologically driven, altitude-adaptive model for the interpretation of pediatric oxygen saturation at altitudes above 2,000 m a.s.l. Journal of Applied Physiology, 127 (3). pp. 847-857.
Zinsstag, Jakob and Crump, Lisa and Schelling, Esther and Hattendorf, Jan and Maidane, Yahya Osman and Ali, Kadra Osman and Muhummed, Abdifatah and Umer, Abdurezak Adem and Aliyi, Ferzua and Nooh, Faisal and Abdikadir, Mohammed Ibrahim and Ali, Seid Mohammed and Hartinger, Stella and Mäusezahl, Daniel and de White, Monica Berger Gonzalez and Cordon-Rosales, Celia and Castillo, Danilo Alvarez and McCracken, John and Abakar, Fayiz and Cercamondi, Colin and Emmenegger, Sandro and Maier, Edith and Karanja, Simon and Bolon, Isabelle and de Castañeda, Rafael Ruiz and Bonfoh, Bassirou and Tschopp, Rea and Probst-Hensch, Nicole and Cissé, Guéladio. (2018) Climate change and One Health. FEMS microbiology letters, 365 (11). fny085.
Schmutz, Claudia and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2018) The burden of gastroenteritis in Switzerland (BUGS) study: a research proposal for a 1-year, prospective cohort study. BMC research notes, 11 (1). p. 816.
Zhang, Jia and Tüshaus, Laura and Nuño Martínez, Néstor and Moreo, Monica and Verastegui, Hector and Hartinger, Stella M. and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Karlen, Walter. (2018) Data integrity based methodology and checklist for identifying implementation risks of physiological sensing in mHealth projects. Journal of medical internet research. Mhealth & uhealth, 6 (12). e11896.
Hartinger, Stella Maria and Lanata, Claudio Franco and Hattendorf, Jan and Wolf, Jennyfer and Gil, Ana Isabel and Obando, Mariela Ortiz and Noblega, Magaly and Verastegui, Hector and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2017) Impact of a child stimulation intervention on early child development in rural Peru : a cluster randomised trial using a reciprocal control design. Journal of epidemiology & community health, 71 (3). pp. 217-224.
Schmutz, C. and Mäusezahl, D. and Bless, P. J. and Hatz, C. and Schwenkglenks, M. and Urbinello, D.. (2017) Estimating healthcare costs of acute gastroenteritis and human campylobacteriosis in Switzerland. Epidemiology and infection, 145 (4). pp. 627-641.
Bless, Philipp Justus and Schmutz, Claudia and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2017) The recurrent campylobacteriosis epidemic over Christmas and New Year in European countries, 2006-2014. BMC research notes, 10. p. 266.
Wolf, Jennyfer and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Verastegui, Hector and Hartinger, Stella M.. (2017) Adoption of clean cookstoves after improved solid fuel stove programme exposure: a cross-sectional study in three Peruvian Andean regions. International journal of environmental research and public health, 14 (7). p. 745.
Bless, Philipp Justus and Schmutz, Claudia and Sartori, Kathrin and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2017) Time trends of positivity rates from foodborne pathogen testing in Switzerland, 2003 to 2012. Swiss medical weekly, 147. w14569.
Schmutz, Claudia and Bless, Philipp Justus and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Jost, Marianne and Mäusezahl-Feuz, Mirjam and Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network, . (2017) Acute gastroenteritis in primary care : a longitudinal study in the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network, Sentinella. Infection, 45 (6). pp. 811-824.
Schmutz, C. and Mäusezahl, D. and Jost, M. and Baumgartner, A. and Mäusezahl-Feuz, M.. (2016) Inverse trends of Campylobacter and Salmonella in Swiss surveillance data, 1988-2013. Eurosurveillance, 21 (6). p. 30130.
Bless, Philipp J. and Muela Ribera, Joan and Schmutz, Claudia and Zeller, Andreas and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2016) Acute Gastroenteritis and Campylobacteriosis in Swiss primary care: the viewpoint of general practitioners. PLoS ONE, 11 (9). e0161650.
Kiefer, S. and Kling, K. and Stephan, R. and Bratschi, M. W. and Jost, M. and Bless, P. and Schmutz, C. and Mäusezahl, D. and Wyss, K. and Mäusezahl-Feuz, D. and Hatz, C.. (2016) How can patients and their physicians contribute to an outbreak investigation? Experiences from a nationwide listeriosis outbreak in Switzerland. Swiss medical weekly, 146. w14366.
Li, Z. and Commodore, A. and Hartinger, S. and Lewin, M. and Sjödin, A. and Pittman, E. and Trinidad, D. and Hubbard, K. and Lanata, C. F. and Gil, A. I. and Mäusezahl, D. and Naeher, L. P.. (2016) Biomonitoring human exposure to household air pollution and association with self-reported health symptoms- a stove intervention study in Peru. Environment international, 97. pp. 195-203.
Hartinger, S. M. and Lanata, C. F. and Hattendorf, J. and Verastegui, H. and Gil, A. I. and Wolf, J. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2016) Improving household air, drinking water and hygiene in rural Peru : a community-randomized-controlled trial of an integrated environmental home-based intervention package to improve child health. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45 (6). pp. 2089-2099.
Sankoh, Osman and Indepth Network, . (2015) CHESS : an innovative concept for a new generation of population surveillance. Lancet. Global health, 3 (12). e742.
Gil, Ana I. and Lanata, Claudio F. and Hartinger, Stella M. and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Padilla, Beatriz and Ochoa, Theresa J. and Lozada, Michelle and Pineda, Ines and Verastegui, Hector. (2014) Fecal contamination of food, water, hands, and kitchen utensils at the household level in rural areas of Peru. Journal of environmental health, Vol. 76, H. 6. pp. 102-106.
Budge, Philip J. and Griffin, Marie R. and Edwards, Kathryn M. and Williams, John V. and Verastegui, Hector and Hartinger, Stella M. and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Johnson, Monika and Klemenc, Jennifer M. and Zhu, Yuwei and Gil, Ana I. and Lanata, Claudio F. and Grigalva, Carlos G. and Respira Peru Group, . (2014) Impact of home environment interventions on the risk of influenza-associated ARI in Andean children : observations from a prospective household-based cohort study. PLoS ONE, Vol. 9, H. 3 , e91247.
Bless, Philipp Justus and Schmutz, Claudia and Suter, Kathrin and Jost, Marianne and Hattendorf, Jan and Mäusezahl-Feuz, Mirjam and Mäusezahl, Daniel. (2014) A tradition and an epidemic : determinants of the campylobacteriosis winter peak in Switzerland. European journal of epidemiology, Vol. 29, H. 7. pp. 527-537.
Prüss-Ustün, Annette and Bartram, Jamie and Clasen, Thomas and Colford, John M. and Cumming, Oliver and Curtis, Valerie and Bonjour, Sophie and Dangour, Alan D. and De France, Jennifer and Fewtrell, Lorna and Freeman, Matthew C. and Gordon, Bruce and Hunter, Paul R. and Johnston, Richard B. and Mathers, Colin and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Medlicott, Kate and Neira, Maria and Stocks, Meredith and Wolf, Jennyfer and Cairncross, Sandy. (2014) Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings : a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries. Tropical medicine and international health, 19 (8). pp. 894-905.
Wolf, J. and Prüss-Ustün, A. and Cumming, O. and Bartram, J. and Bonjour, S. and Cairncross, S. and Clasen, T. and Colford, JM. and Curtis, V. and De France, J. and Fewtrell, L. and Freeman, M. C. and Gordon, B. and Hunter, P. R. and Jeandron, A. and Johnston, R. B. and Mäusezahl, D. and Mathers, C. and Neira, M. and Higgins, J. P. T.. (2014) Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings : systematic review and meta-regression. Tropical medicine and international health, 19 (8). pp. 928-942.
Commodore, Adwoa A. and Hartinger, Stella M. and Lanata, Claudio F. and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Gil, Ana I. and Hall, Daniel B. and Aguilar-Villalobos, Manuel and Butler, Corey J. and Naeher, Luke P.. (2013) Carbon monoxide exposures and kitchen concentrations from cookstove-related woodsmoke in San Marcos, Peru. International journal of occupational and environmental health, Vol. 19, H. 1. pp. 43-54.
Hartinger, S. M. and Commodore, A. A. and Hattendorf, J. and Lanata, C. F. and Gil, A. I. and Verastegui, H. and Aguilar-Villalobos, M. and Mäusezahl, D. and Naeher, L. P.. (2013) Chimney stoves modestly improved indoor air quality measurements compared with traditional open fire stoves : results from a small-scale intervention study in rural Peru. Indoor air : international journal of indoor environment and health, Vol. 23, H. 4. pp. 342-352.
Commodore, Adwoa A. and Zhang, Junfeng Jim and Chang, Yan and Hartinger, Stella M. and Lanata, Claudio F. and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Gil, Ana I. and Hall, Daniel B. and Aguilar-Villalobos, Manuel and Vena, John E. and Wang, Jia-Sheng and Naeher, Luke P.. (2013) Concentrations of urinary 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-isoprostane in women exposed to woodsmoke in a cookstove intervention study in San Marcos, Peru. Environment international : a journal of environmental science, risk and health, 60. pp. 112-122.
Commodore, A. A. and Hartinger, S. M. and Lanata, C. F. and Mäusezahl, D. and Gil, A. I. and Hall, D. B. and Aguilar-Villalobos, M. and Naeher, L. P.. (2013) A pilot study characterizing real time exposures to particulate matter and carbon monoxide from cookstove related woodsmoke in rural Peru. Atmospheric environment : research papers, review articles and preliminary communications, Vol. 79. pp. 380-384.
Schmutz, C. and Burki, D. and Frei, R. and Mäusezahl-Feuz, M. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2013) Testing for Chlamydia trachomatis : time trends in positivity rates in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. Epidemiology and infection, Vol. 141, H. 9. pp. 1953-1964.
Arnold, B. F. and Mäusezahl, D. and Schmidt, W. P. and Christen, A. and Colford, J. M.. (2012) Comment on randomized intervention study of solar disinfection of drinking water in the prevention of dysentery in Kenyan children aged under 5 years. Environmental science & technology, Vol. 46, H. 5. pp. 3031-3032.
Hartinger, S. M. and Lanata, C. F. and Gil, A. I. and Hattendorf, J. and Verastegui, H. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2012) Combining interventions : improved chimney stoves, kitchen sinks and solar disinfection of drinking water and kitchen clothes to improve home hygiene in rural Peru. Field actions science reports : the journal of field action, Special issue 6. pp. 1-10.
Ziegelbauer, K. and Speich, B. and Mäusezahl, D. and Bos, R. and Keiser, J. and Utzinger, J.. (2012) Effect of sanitation on soil-transmitted helminth infection : systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS medicine, Vol. 9, H. 1, e1001162.
Hartinger, S. M. and Lanata, C. F. and Hattendorf, J. and Gil, A. I. and Verastegui, H. and Ochoa, T. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2011) A community randomised controlled trial evaluating a home-based environmental intervention package of improved stoves, solar water disinfection and kitchen sinks in rural Peru: Rationale, trial design and baseline findings. Contemporary clinical trials : design, methods, and analysis, Vol. 32, H. 6. pp. 864-873.
Christen, A. and Duran Pacheco G., and Hattendorf, J. and Arnold, B. F. and Cevallos, M. and Indergand, S. and Colford, J. M. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2011) Factors associated with compliance among users of solar water disinfection in rural Bolivia. BMC public health, Vol. 11. p. 210.
Durán Pacheco G., and Christen, A. and Arnold, B. and Hattendorf, J. and Colford, J. M. and Smith, T. A. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2011) Reporting diarrhoea through a vernacular term in Quechua-speaking settings of rural Bolivia. Journal of health, population and nutrition, Vol. 29, H. 6. pp. 552-559.
Rufener, S. and Mäusezahl, D. and Mosler, H. J. and Weingartner, R.. (2010) Quality of drinking-water at source and point-of-consumption-drinking cup as a high potential recontamination risk : a field study in Bolivia. Journal of health, population and nutrition, Vol. 28, H. 1. pp. 34-41.
Christen, A. and Navarro, C. M. and Mäusezahl, D.. (2009) Safe drinking water and clean air: an experimental study evaluating the concept of combining household water treatment and indoor air improvement using the Water Disinfection Stove (WADIS). International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Vol. 212, H. 5. pp. 562-568.
Arnold, B. and Arana, B. and Mäusezahl, D. and Hubbard, A. and Colford, J. M.. (2009) Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala. International journal of epidemiology : official journal of the international epidemiological association, Vol. 38, H. 6. pp. 1651-1661.
Durán Pacheco G., and Hattendorf, J. and Colford, J. M. and Mäusezahl, D. and Smith, T.. (2009) Performance of analytical methods for overdispersed counts in cluster randomized trials: sample size, degree of clustering and imbalance. Statistics in medicine, Vol. 28, H. 24. pp. 2989-3011.
Mäusezahl, D. and Christen, A. and Duran Pacheco G., and Tellez, F. A. and Iriarte, M. and Zapata, M. E. and Cevallos, M. and Hattendorf, J. and Daigl Cattaneo M., and Arnold, B. and Smith, T. A. and Colford, J. M.. (2009) Solar drinking water disinfection (SODIS) to reduce childhood diarrhoea in rural Bolivia: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial. PLoS medicine, Vol. 6, H. 8 , e1000125.
de Savigny, Don and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Lo, Wilson. (2011) Bridging health systems strengthening and innovations for disease control. In: Implementation research for the control of infectious diseases of poverty: strengthening the evidence base for the access and delivery of new and improved tools, strategies and interventions. Geneva, pp. 55-62.
Mäusezahl, D.. (1 April 2016) Campylobacteriose - Zoonose und häufige Durchfallerkrankung in der Schweiz. Synapse. pp. 7-9.
Schmutz, C. and Bless, P. and Mäusezahl, D.. (1 August 2015) Gastro-entérite aiguë - résultats provisoires de l'enquête 2014. Sentinella-News. pp. 4-5.
Schmutz, C. and Bless, P. and Mäusezahl, D.. (1 August 2015) Akute Gastroenteritis - vorläufige Resultate der Erhebung 2014. Sentinella-News. pp. 4-5.
Mäusezahl, D. and Schmutz, C. and Bless, P.. (1 December 2014) Fondue Chinoise : ein Campylobacter-Risikofaktor. Schweizer Geflügelzeitung, (12). pp. 12-13.
Mäusezahl, D. and Schmutz, C. and Bless, P.. (1 December 2014) Fondue chinoise : un facteur de risque pour les campylobacters. Aviculture Suisse, (12). pp. 10-11.
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Ken Starr makes irony look easy
August 5, 2017 August 5, 2017 1 Comment
My hands are clean…
❝ On CNN’s “New Day” Friday morning, former independent counsel Ken Starr raised questions about whether current special counsel Bob Mueller might be over-stepping the bounds of his mandate in investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
❝ Here’s the key part:
“I think the gravamen of the original complaint was, was there collusion, to the extent you’re moving beyond collusion with Russian operatives or Russian interests or the Russian government itself, and into that which doesn’t seem to have a direct tie to Russia, then these questions are in fact raised. It becomes a litigable question that people are going to sidewalk about and disagree about it. I don’t think it’s clear one way or the other, but i do think it is a certainly a serious matter.”
❝ First of all, Ken Starr is the most prominent — and controversial — independent counsel ever. If you asked a person on the street to name an independent counsel not named Bob Mueller, Ken Starr would be the only one anyone would come up with…
Second, Starr is the reason that all presidents — Trump included — are extremely leery of independent or special prosecutors. He is the definitional example of an investigation starting small and growing huge.
❝ Remember that Starr took over the Whitewater investigation, an examination into an Arkansas land deal gone bad, in 1994. By the time Starr released the eponymous report of his findings on Sept. 11, 1998, his investigation had turned its focus to Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair with a White House intern. It took four years and cost roughly $40 million.
While Starr succeeded in initiating Clinton’s impeachment, he also knew [or should have] it wasn’t going to succeed. But, he managed to waste even more taxpayer dollar$ on his crusade against the Clintons. Fact-based legal decisions sometimes seem as rare as Trump keeping promises.
Cartoon: finance campaigns with tax dollars?
April 11, 2016 April 10, 2016 1 Comment
Oklahoma limits oil and gas wells to fight quakes
❝ Facing a six-year barrage of increasingly large earthquakes, Oklahoma regulators are effectively ordering the state’s powerful oil-and-gas industry to substantially cut back the underground disposal of industry wastes that have caused the tremors across the state.
…The state Corporation Commission asked well operators in a Connecticut-size patch of central Oklahoma to reduce by 40 percent the amount of oil and gas wastes they are injecting deep into the earth. The directive covers 411 injection wells in a rough circle that includes Oklahoma City and points northeast…
❝ The directives were phrased as requests, because the Corporation Commission’s legal authority to order cutbacks over such broad areas is unclear. The commission has come close to legal battles over the issue twice this year, and a third challenge would not be a surprise. The commission has pledged to take to court any operator that refuses to carry out the reductions…
The new orders come after three of the largest quakes in the state’s history, 4.7, 4.8 and 5.1-magnitude shocks that rocked a major oil field this year.
❝ In 2010, when the tremors began, Oklahoma recorded three earthquakes at or above a magnitude of 3. Last year, it had 907. So far in 2016, it has had nearly 160.
❝ Although critics contend that earthquakes have caused millions of dollars of damage, Oklahoma’s political leaders have long been reluctant to impose restrictions on an industry that dominates the state’s economy. Until last spring, Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, maintained that the cause of the tremors was unclear, and the state Legislature refused to consider legislation addressing the issue…
Seismologists have long warned that the rise in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma could presage a temblor that could cause extensive damage.
Corrupt politics still tend to be described in terms avoiding depicting the crooks and politicians involved as the source of corruption. Somehow, they create a milieu that mysteriously condemns a whole state to environmental disaster, an economic swamp wholly dependent on the profit system of a monoculture. Hogwash.
BTW, here’s another “feel sorry for the bastards who aren’t making millions this week” article from Bloomberg. We’re supposed to feel sorry for politicians who live in one of the posh communities now affected by the quakes. They bought those homes with their share of criminal profits. They condemned the state of Oklahoma to a monocultural economy — part of the swath of oil fiefdoms stretching from Louisiana to New Mexico.
They should be forced to take up pick and shovel and do the grunt work of sealing the wastewater wells. Do a little honest work for a change.
North Sea cod stocks back on the road to sustainability
June 11, 2013 June 11, 2013 1 Comment
North Sea cod stocks are on the road to sustainability, according to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) research.
The body, which certifies whether fish are caught through good practice, says it is too soon to tell exactly when the North Sea fishery will meet its mark.
But a spokesman said on current trends, it would be ready for certification within years rather than decades.
Stocks would still be in recovery then, James Simpson said, but they would have passed an acceptable level.
MSC certification is determined by the state of the stocks, the environmental impact of the fishery, and if there is a management system in place to maintain sustainability if circumstances change.
The latter two were already in place, Mr Simpson said…
The recovery was thanks to strict catch limits aided by a massive public campaign for sustainable fish, he said.
Barrie Deas, the chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, which represents fisherman in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, told Radio 4’s Today programme it was a “dramatic turnaround”.
“I think a major part of it is there are fewer vessels out there. There have been big decommissioning schemes.
“There’s also been a change in the mindset in the industry. We work very closely with the scientists now.”
The article adds in some blather of worries about overfishing alternative species. Any journalist who just discovered that possibility knows nothing about fishing – or consumers. Dealing with that additional problem was always pretty much inevitable.
Juror surfs for info beyond courtroom – gets 8 months to reflect
The first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet has been sentenced to eight months in jail.
Joanne Fraill, 40, admitted at London’s high court using Facebook to exchange messages with Jamie Sewart, 34, a defendant already acquitted in a multimillion-pound drug trial in Manchester last year.
Fraill, from Blackley, Manchester, also admitted conducting an internet search into Sewart’s boyfriend, Gary Knox, a co-defendant, while the jury was still deliberating…
When the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, announced her eight-month sentence, Fraill said “eight months!” and put her head on the table in front of her and cried…
Sentencing Fraill, the judge said in a written ruling: “Her conduct in visiting the internet repeatedly was directly contrary to her oath as a juror, and her contact with the acquitted defendant, as well as her repeated searches on the internet, constituted flagrant breaches of the orders made by the judge for the proper conduct of the trial…”
Knox, Sewart’s 35-year-old partner, is applying for his conviction to be overturned on the basis of alleged jury misconduct. He was jailed for six years after being found guilty of paying a police officer to disclose information on drug dealers…
Fraill admitted emailing Sewart while the jury was still deliberating in the drugs trail in August last year because she felt “empathetic” and saw “considerable parallels” between their lives…
The lord chief justice, discussing the reasons for the sentence in the high court, acknowledged that Fraill was “a woman of good character” and was not involved in an attempt to pervert the course of justice. But “misuse of the internet by a juror” was always “a most serious irregularity and contempt”.
He warned that a custodial sentence for any juror committing similar contempts “is virtually inevitable”.
He added: “The sentence is intended to ensure the continuing integrity of trial by jury.”
The solicitor general made the relevant point: “Long before social networks, the courts have been in no doubt that discussions inside the jury room must stay there. The internet doesn’t make judges’ warnings not to talk about a case or research it any less important.”
Google to cooperate with newspaper access limits
December 2, 2009 December 2, 2009 1 Comment
Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google.
The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.
Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites. Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages…
Google users may start seeing registration pages appear when they click for a sixth time on any given day at websites of publishers using the programme.
This will only affect websites that currently charge for content.
RTFA. Lots of woolgathering and foggy crystal ball-gazing. I think all the media sites have missed the point that Google just established:
They have further covered their buns against allegations of Restraint of Trade made by fogies like Rupert Murdoch. But, they allow the decision to cut off readers’ access to lie entirely within the decision-making apparatus put online by media publishers. It ain’t Google’s fault if you click a link to Financial Times and are greeted with a request to register and pay to read the whole article.
You can still press the Back Button and return to your original search page – and click on to another media site offering their own take on the same content, no charge!
Could sharing the catch save fisheries?
September 22, 2008 September 22, 2008 Leave a comment
Amid the collapse of once-rich fisheries around the world, policymakers, fishermen and environmentalists have been debating a controversial question: Can a fishery be saved by giving those who harvest the sea a guaranteed share of its bounty, rather than having them compete to see who can extract the most the fastest?
A study published in the journal Science, conducted by two economists and an ecologist, suggests that the answer is yes. The authors — two from the University of California at Santa Barbara and one from the University of Hawaii — surveyed 121 fisheries worldwide where individuals receive a predetermined portion of a fishery’s catch limit and found that they were half as likely to have collapsed as those without a “catch share” system. In addition, the researchers found that when a fishery that had relied on traditional methods — such as seasonal limits or overall catch restrictions — was converted to using catch shares, the change did not just slow the fishery’s decline; it stopped it.
Once people are given a fixed share in a fishery, said lead author Christopher Costello, they are less likely to overfish, because they have a financial interest in having the species thrive…
“We’ve moved well beyond theory into the realm of real experience and hard science that demonstrates the benefits” of an individual quota system, said James L. Connaughton… “This changes all the bad incentives to good incentives,” he added. “When fishermen own their share of the stock, they become partners in enforcement rather than bystanders.”
This is a problem I grew up with. The usual governmental response – when there is any response to good science at all – is to put all the energy into orders and telling fisherfolk what to do. Participation in regulation as well as harvesting is almost too sensible to believe that many governments will adopt the plan. I have a bit more faith in organized seafarers.
Saying that – this sounds like a sensible beginning.
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Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning Dwellers (2014), the novel Wounded Little Gods (2016), the graphic novel After Lambana (2016, a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo), and the science fiction novel-in-stories, Nightfall (2018). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several online and print publications, most recently in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, The Dark Magazine, Dark Regions Press’s Stranded: Lone Survivor Deserted Island Horror Stories, and The Apex Book of World SF Volume 5. Her work has won prizes in the Philippines’ top literary awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her one-act plays (written in Filipino) have been staged at the Virgin LabFest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Header image: detail from After Lambana, artwork by Mervin Malonzo.
She blogs (infrequently) at This Should Be Fun. Follow her on Instagram (@elizawritesanywhere) or Twitter (@elizawriteshere).
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Vanessa stumbles upon something unexpected in an apartment hundreds of floors above the ground: a dead body next to a single beeping monitor. In another part of the city, Criselda mulls preemptive violence after her Mod shuts down to show her a boy, a bird, a window. Is her Mod malfunctioning, or is she being manipulated? Set in a city of towers, where residents undergo biomodification in order to work more hours and earn more money, where living in the Upper Floors is the ultimate dream, Nightfall unfolds in a series of interconnected stories, exploring the lives of characters whose fates intersect and intertwine, revealing the paths they have taken to bring them to this dark night.
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What’s the difference between “are buying” and “will buy”? [duplicate]
How to say that you have plans to go to the movies tonight? (4 answers)
What’s the difference between the present progressive tense are buying and the simple future tense will buy as used here?
Next week we are buying a new car.
Next week we will buy a new car.
modal-verbs present-tense progressive-aspect
Mari-Lou A
Nikol LakinNikol Lakin
and what is the difference between - he comes late often, he is coming late often – Nikol Lakin Jan 10 '17 at 15:13
Related: 1. 'We are having a party this evening' - Why do we use the present continuous? 2. When to use “be going to” / present continuous in future? – Mari-Lou A Jan 10 '17 at 16:06
"We are buying a new car next week" means that you decided to buy it some time ago and you have arranged everything for that (made an appointment at the car lot, took a day off to go there, arranged with your wife of brother to accompany you, etc.). The Present Continuous in this sentence means not just plans but arrangements. 95% that it will happen.
If you say "We will buy a new car next week" that means that you only have such an intention. You did not do anything yet, you're just thinking it over. 50% that it will happen.
Marina ZnamenskayaMarina Znamenskaya
I think the difference is mainly in tense. "are buying" is present tense, as in you are definitely buying the car, it's been decided and you're, in fact, at the car lot writing out the check for payment. "will buy" implies a future purchase, one that you've decided on, but you're not at the car lot with your checkbook yet.
Kerissa SaveaKerissa Savea
Saying that you are buying a new card next week is also talking about an event in the future, just as the epistemic use of the modal auxiliary is. The difference is far more subtle here: both are future uses. – tchrist Jan 10 '17 at 15:06
i still dont understand, maybe im too stupid xD – Nikol Lakin Jan 10 '17 at 15:09
As Marina suggests, buying is a continuous process; partly why only crook-and-cop slang speaks of 'buys’ happening at specifics times. Both examples say ‘we have decided to buy…’ but the decision is not part of the process itself. "We are buying…” provides the extra meaning that beyond taking the decision, we have already accomplished some of the steps in Marina’s list. The process itself is already happening now. "We will buy…” means nothing more than taking the decision has yet been accomplished. The process itself is still wholly in the future. More… – Robbie Goodwin Jan 23 '17 at 21:20
… further, I think the suggested percentages have no place there. Of course in either case there’s a chance that something will go wrong but the statements take account only of intentions; not the probability that they will be fulfilled. – Robbie Goodwin Jan 23 '17 at 21:20
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Anne Boleyn – champion of free thinking
Although Anne is the mother of Elizabeth, for me – Elizabeth begat Anne.
When Elizabeth (1998) became my favourite film, I wondered who “your mother the whore” was, and gradually took a step back in time to the previous generation – and there found an equally, if not even more remarkable woman.
The first time I read about Anne Boleyn was in 2002 and I came to her almost in ignorance. I dismissed people in my lunch hour, saying I was in 1533 and not available. As I read Philippa Gregory’s novel about Anne’s sister, I suddenly remembered the rhyme about Henry’s wives and what was going to happen.
By the time Gregory’s venomous pen had done depicting this conniving, hard, brutal woman, I was willing Anne to be executed; but by the time I picked up Vercor’s book, I wanted to put flowers on her grave.
Vercors is a photographer’s pen name, whose novelised biography says that the evil, grasping concubine did not make sense; and that underneath the deliberately etched layers was a heroine – for women, for England – but most of all, free thinking believers. And strangely, it took a Frenchman trying to make sense of our independence from Hitler in the second world war to see it.
Just as Joan of Arc was resurrected at a time of resurgent nationalism in France, it seems Anne Boleyn is ripe for a similar rediscovery on many levels – yet she has not really been used.
The harsh view of Anne prevailed over four centuries, but there seemed to be a concurrent re-imagining in the 1980s. Professor Eric Ives, historic fiction writer Jean Plaidy, and Vercors all published in around the same year. Theirs was a different Anne to what had gone before – a maligned woman of sympathy, talent – though complex and potentially with a hard streak. And except for Philippa Gregory, books all have followed this portrayal since – whether they be fiction or academic – but not yet on the screen. Howard Brenton’s recent play is all about the debt that King James and his Bible owed to the supposed strumpet a hundred years earlier.
Joanna Denny’s focus is summed up by her idea that Anne was a neo-Esther, something Anne herself propagated by having her chaplain preach on this in front of the royal court. Likening Anne to Esther recalls not wicked grasping Jezebel but another Old Testament queen, chosen by the king, which gave her an opportunity to save her minority group of endangered religious people. Denny emphasises Anne’s controversial new beliefs and her daring work to use her position to promote them when such beliefs were persecuted. Denny sees Anne as wooed against her wishes and morals, and argues that the portrait (quite literally) was deliberately obscured by her enemies. The dark features, mole and sixth finger are traits attributed in the 16th C to diabolism which were invented to destroy the memory of this powerful woman.
Professor Ives and Joanna Denny write about her faith extensively, the latter making it Anne’s principle driving force.
I’ve read in fiction and academic sources of Anne’s forbidden religious book (The Obedience of a Christian Man by William Tyndale) being stolen by Wolsey and given to Henry. Anne uses this opportunity to discuss the book’s radical ‘New Learning’ contents with Henry, and so influence him with protestant beliefs.
Henry was not interested in reforming the church. After Luther pinned his 99 points on that church door, Henry wrote an impassioned, I think quite immature letter to defend the catholic church. It was his advisor Thomas Cromwell who is understood to have used Henry’s marriage and pope dilemma to allow divergence of belief to come openly and safely into England, and I believe that Anne and Cromwell initially worked together on this.
What Anne’s beliefs were and how to term them might need some clarification. She has been called evangelical. The term ‘evangelical’ – not quite as we understand it – was less radical than the Lollards, and not really heretical. It was not the same as being Protestant. The key features of evangelicalism, as today, were reading the bible for oneself; accessing God direct and not through a priest; being against superstition; and on one’s personal relationship with God – which are not unlike Unitarian principles. Anne is said to have exposed the fake miracle at Hailes abbey of Christ’s flowing blood (actually provided thought a duck’s blood dispensing machine). Anne has been spoken of as Lutheran .Yet Karen Lindsey and Ives claim that Anne’s faith was not wholly opposed to the established church, and that she had a confessor and took mass, and did not denounce transubstantiation – only its trappings.
It might occur to some that if Anne had a reformed faith, that scheming involving adultery, wealth and power are incompatible with it. Ives says that 16th C didn’t see God’s and personal glory as incompatible; as some people today feel wealth is part of their spirituality.
Something which is not readily emphasised about Anne is her moral household – and her generosity to the poor which went beyond the usual royal favour. She expected her ladies to sew for the poor, and was likely to be behind a poor reform bill of 1536. She was also a patron of schools and universalise, and rallied for her patronees. Being a reluctant focus of passion and harassment is very different to pursuing Henry purposely – and she did refuse to be his mistress.
Belief is a choice, and is ultimately, I believe what appeals rather than on argument and proof alone (that subject is another article). So I choose to see Anne as an Esther, a renaissance woman of power, taste and intellect, and I take particular interest in her reformed faith. Anne’s faith was of intellect and heart with practical outworking. And it allowed divergence into non conformism.
I therefore with others think that it was not Henry, and not really William Tyndale that caused the English reformation – but Queen Anne Boleyn of England, the Moost Happy [sic], who was crowned (depending on which calendar you use) this week, 480 years ago.
Filed under history, spirituality
Tagged as Anne Boleyn, anniversary, British history, Church of England, coronation, Eric Ives, evangelical, Henry VIII, Jean Plaidy, Joanna Denny, nonconformist, Reformation, The Other Boleyn Girl, Vercors
Anne Boleyn at the Globe
I am having a summer of Tudors. I have had many such summers as I have studied these over a period of 11 years, but I even when I spent a year studying their popular depictions, I have never seen so many plays on Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn in a few months.
I have just seen the production at the neo-Elizabethan Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, on its opening weekend – a new play which sold out last year, as was the performance to which I went.
In his introduction to his script, playwright Howard Brenton quotes the views of historians David Starkey and Antonia Fraser, reflecting the likely opinion of the public. He does not mention Prof Eric Ives and Joanna Denny whose prominent books depict a very much more positive Anne. Joanna especially – as does Karen Lindsey – writes of the systematic demonisation of Anne’s character. All three remind that our few historical contemporary sources are chiefly Anne’s enemies, none of whom featured in Brenton’s play. Books – both novels and academic – have been ahead by 30 years in showing Anne as a national heroine, but stage and screen still cast Anne as the ambitious, hard siren. Philippa Gregory’s 2002 novel and ensuing films have done much to reverse this positive literary view, which has become in vogue again with most recent publications.
Brenton’s 2010 play promised a view closer to the one I adopted: the Reformist queen, as Joanna Denny calls her: ‘Esther not Jezebel’ – a title I borrowed for my 2006 dissertation. American author Robin Maxwell had Queen Elizabeth reading her mother’s words in her novel The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn; Howard Brenton has King Authorised Bible James reading Anne’s annotated Christian book and realising his connection to the fallen queen of two generations ago who suffered the same fate as his mother. (I never use the phrase that the blurb does – his debt. As you’ll see from my Justice in Banking blog on this site, I have strong views against debt culture). Note too that being executed does not denote failure, but rather a brutal signal of mission accomplished.
I was interested that a play was picking up the religious theme, as often theology is seen as too heavy and dull for entertainment, particularly when we are a multi and often no faith society. But the themes of tolerance and violence and faith recur, and spirituality is again popular though not always in established, orthodox ways. And this 16/7th C period is a seminal one in our history in which the burgeoning of new beliefs is central.
I was drawn to the play because it was written by a man who evidently could see Anne’s merits, significant as I felt anne appealed most to women. But it was Eric Ives in 1986 who said that Anne was an appropriate vehicle for feminism – though few have picked up that gauntlet – and it’s women who have written many of the works which fuel popular imagination that recast her as Jezebel.
It may seem obvious given its performance setting, but I didn’t expect Howard’s play to feel so Shakespearean, in the rowdy audience, bawdy and earthy kind of way. The experience of the Globe merits a few lines – booking fees, standing without umbrella or stick for £5 or, of if you pay £15-37 for a seat, there’s charges for cushions (and the wooden seats have lips which I think are designed to make you need one – but I managed without);- and a foreign group behind me who whispered throughout (translating to a child who was too young to be there) and put their feet on the seats. The atmosphere was closer to comedy than serious theatre, though there were both elements in the play. King James romps in a dress with ‘interesting stains’ with a male courtier whom he kisses; the ghost of Anne brings her severed head out in a bag; and it ends with an all cast jig.
James (Garnon/Stuart) perhaps was the most charismatic character on the stage, his strong Scots accent mixed with a tick, his camp manner helped by his shoes and beard. While we’re on accents – I am infuriated that the country folk once again got that generic West Country which is insulting and ignorant. There are many Eastern and southern counties accents, all quite distinct, and they sounded no more convincing than the Worzel’s Combine Harvester song, which was at least meant to be comedic. It’s like getting all North American or Celtic accents muddled. Actors and dialect coaches, take note!
I was not pleased at Anne’s physical appearance. She is famous for being dark, though Joanna Denny believes this is part of the demonisaton programme as ‘swarthy’ skin was seen as a sign of diabolism – appalling as that notion is. Denny believes that Anne was dark auburn, as per the most likely genuine contemporary portrait of Anne – but nowhere have I heard of her as blonde. Couldn’t Miranda Raison have dyed her hair or worn a wig? And couldn’t Henry be red haired? And why did Cardinal Wolsey have a beard?
I did not like the gore lust of the opening but I did like that Anne begins by assuming the knowledge of her death – which we never see – and by establishing a rapport with the audience. I liked the originality and pertinence of linking her and King James and the amount of material covered in an engaging way. Anthony Howell made a positive King Henry, kind instead of raging over the birth of a girl; but the man who had so many butchered in his name is relieved of too much of his violent, cruel and inhuman side. My favourite Henry remains Ray Winstone, whose complex depiction was the first to show me a man whom I could weep for as well as despise. Sometimes in Howard’s version, earthy comments – such as what Henry really wishes to say in his letters to Anne – mar the real point – the vulnerability of Henry’s enduring, consuming passion which must extend further than his tights to have raged so long and moved so much to be with her.
The audience was too quick to laugh at anything. The person who called out ‘ah’ in sympathy with broken Cardinal Wolsey was more correct that those who giggled, but either response turned this into a panto rather than the moment of pathos. When an important theological tenet dawns on Henry – that he could be king and head of the church without need of the pope and thus have his new wife – again, there was laugher. But it wasn’t the point; it was the turning point of the play and British history. We spent too much of the play in Caliban mentality rather than the Prospero and Ferdinand.
My gripe had been til this weekend that no-one has explained Anne’s swift demise satisfactorily. Brenton shows something I have not found in my research or other books – I hope to discover where he found it. But if it is true, it does account for the scheme to scaffold that in 3 weeks had the most powerful woman in the kingdom’s head in a basket. If Anne knew that Cromwell was embezzling ex monastic funds meant for charity, she had the key in which to bring about his downfall as Wolsey and More. (No temperate, cuddly Mr Northam here; this [absent] More is a torturer). Cromwell would take his advice to Anne earlier in the play, and strike before struck. The charges of multiple adultery and incest – treason in themselves – seem ridiculous, but perhaps an insecure king who could love and hate in equal measure could be persuaded in a very intense period to sign the death warrant.
But the frustration is that Brenton potentially closes one mystery but leaves something else unsatisfactory. The villain we focus on, particularly after Wolsey leaves, is Thomas Cromwell. The slippery faced multi officed politician always features heavily in Tudor plots, and he is usually credited as being the man who brought Anne’s death about. I have not seen him before portrayed as a fellow in faith, aiding illicit Reformist texts and their author’s passage out of the country. Yet his secret Protestant beliefs clash with his vile practices of threats and spying. They also don’t prevent Cromwell’s clandestine bond with Anne turning sour very suddenly and without enough explanation. One moment, they are sharing a prayer; suddenly he’s arresting her, banning her from speaking to or seeing her husband, and making up charges against her. The play – as with many other stories – does not say that Cromwell is executed during Henry’s reign, rather less efficiently than Anne’s French swordsman.
The jaunty dance at the end ruined the power of the ending. It should have ended with the ghost of Anne taking James’ hand – a quiet, poignant gesture. Instead the 150 minutes is augmented by cheering stamping dances that aren’t even fitting, and those final moments are quickly forgotten in their wake.
Ultimately, I am a little disappointed, but that is because it didn’t show my Anne; but that is good, because it leaves the way open for me to do so myself.
Filed under history, theatre
Tagged as Anne Boleyn, Bible, British history, Globe Theatre, Henry VIII, Howard Brenton, King James, Protestant, Reformation, Shakespeare, Thomas Cromwell, Tudors
Wallis and Edward
It is strange how history parallels itself. Since the Royal Wedding, I have researched our current royal family, about whom I truly knew little. It became like the story of Elizabeth I: I kept hearing about the previous generation and how their actions had a clear impact on the current. In the Tudor story and film Elizabeth, I found that I must know who ‘the whore Anne Boleyn’ really was to understand why Elizabeth’s claim to the throne was arguably tenuous. Understanding Anne actually told me far more than that and introduced me to a woman every bit as fascinating and remarkable.
Reading about today’s royal family is exciting because it is the same kind of epic history, but still unfolding, with the possibility to interact with it. We don’t know the end of the story. I like to read history and books where I don’t know the end; it is a shame that classics and history are half known to the general public so that there is rarely the pleasure of complete discovery for the first time. We know the Titanic sinks and that Mr Rochester does marry Jane Eyre. We know that Elizabeth I doesn’t marry and that Anne Boleyn is executed. Those events are best discovered like a film that starts with the end and you have to learn why that end is arrived at.
Reading about Prince Charles – whose story is still being made and whose ending is not known – I kept coming up against warnings about being like Uncle David, whose regnant name was Edward. This seemed to be the ultimate threat, the most dreaded comparison. The shadow of Edward VIII’s abdication was and perhaps is still looming in the memory of the royal family, though many of them were born after that event and even after his lifetime. I previously knew only that Edward abdicated to marry; I knew nothing of to whom, except her name and that she was divorced. However – any books, films and perhaps people are quick to fill in my blank that this was a feckless, selfish couple; she, a crude, loud American siren. And brave old Bertie conquered his stammer and stepped into his shameful brothers’ shoes and gave us the current royal lineage, with the strong Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at his side, known to us today as the late Queen Mum.
This year, I have seen three films about that era: The King’s Speech, Bertie and Elizabeth, and Any Human Heart. They all add to what the biographies say. David/Edward says little in the films, and neither does Wallis Simpson, but their small parts are almost caricatured in not being flattering. Only in 2001’s Bertie and Elizabeth was there a hint that he carried on with his duties, despite being exiled and stripped of his title, and still had popularity when he met people.
Yesterday, I watched the 2005 film for television, Wallis and Edward. I wanted to hear their side of the story. My instinct had been to wonder if Edward and Wallis were really so dreadful and to feel sorry for Edward. Who else but royalty cannot reject the work our family lines up for us? You can refuse to be a doctor as your parents hoped or to carry on the family business, but this is one firm you cannot leave. I find his abdication speech very moving. He says he can’t be king and do the best for his people without the woman loves. I understand that. Who else has ministers and laws telling you whom you should marry? Why is the anti-Catholic law still in place? The prime minister has no such scrutiny, yet Baldwin felt he could manipulate his Sovereign on that matter. Easy to deal the duty card to someone else when it’s not your companion that’s being dictated.
Jean Brodie says “…Stanley Baldwin who got in as prime minister and out again ere long”. This has stuck with me – that it’s the headmistress, Miss Mackay, who admires Baldwin and has the slogan near his picture, ‘safety first’. The complex antiheroine loves truth, beauty, art, and esteemed Axis European leaders whose getting in and getting out caused immeasurable suffering. I think that regarding the Windsors, Stanley Baldwin can also be charged with suffering– not with the mass torture and execution of fascist dictators; but his prejudice fuelled pressure had an affect on the nation and his government as well as ripples of hurt and stress for the whole the royal family, Edward and Wallis especially.
I wish that Wallis and Edward had ended not with the end notes that they were ostracized for the rest of their lives and that Wallis died a recluse; but that Baldwin resigned and the sympathetic friend Churchill was who became our famous, perhaps iconic prime minister; and that their lives and duties had carried on beyond their wedding day.
Wallis and Edward is well written and the DVD’s interview with writer Sarah Williams is very illuminating. It’s her first made script, inspired by coming across a book on Wallis in America that perhaps indicated another light was possible on the woman so hated and decried over here. In Sarah’s telling, the Queen Mother comes across as scheming and controlling. King George V is not portrayed well in any of the films, always been bombastic and cold and autocratic, a negative force on both brothers. David/Edward is neither hero nor villain, but complicated. Wallis is not grasping at the English throne, but would rather see her love alone on it and lose him that cause constitutional crisis. She is always the one with caution, showing sadness and fear when things escalate. Rather than Wallis leaving yet another husband callously, it’s he who leaves her. She is willing to put her second husband before the king, but it is Ernest Simpson who asks for the divorce. There’s none of the crude, brash presumption in this Wallis, played by Joely Richardson. Joely’s an actress who plays symptheic protagonist roles and so this casting makes us willing to warm to her and suggests that’s what we are supposed to do.
It’s easy to see Anne Boleyn/Henry VIII parallels in that a man falls in love so passionately that he is prepared to go against his ministers and shake the constitution to do so. Henry, like many kings, took lovers of married women, and this was accepted. Edward VIII was advised to do the same, without marrying her, but this film has Edward refuse to take such a double standard and to marry his lover. Wallis, like Anne, is not aristocracy and her husband, like the men of Tudor paramours, angle their women towards the king to reap the benefits for themselves. Ernest Simpson is a nice partner who bravely confronts the King with his intentions – he does not want to leave Wallis unless she is well looked after.
The parallels with the current royal family are also powerful. Charles and Camilla’s wedding was announced during the filming of this drama. Had that happened earlier – or whilst Charles was king – a similar crisis could have emerged. I also recently saw the Channel 4 docudrama series, The Queen. It covers Charles and Diana’s break up and a parallel in living memory with Princess Margaret. Margaret wanted to marry a senior employee, Peter Townsend, but eventually gave him up for duty. I wonder how much of ‘Uncle David’ would have been behind that decision and the Queen’s views on both her sister and her son’s marriages. Being the daughter of the other brother, the one thrown into the limelight by the decision of the abdicator, one can surmise at how that affected Queen Elizabeth’s beliefs. A girl at the time, it may be that her parents influenced her ideas about it as she perhaps can remember little herself and I don’t think she had much contact with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as David/Edward and Wallis became.
I would like to do further research on Wallis and Edward, and am open to the more sympathetic view. Like Anne Boleyn, it seems she has been demonised, but it is better that she does not remain so for centuries if it not deserved.
Filed under history, society, television
Tagged as abdication, Anne Boleyn, constitution, Edward VIII, Henry VIII, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mother, Royal family, royalty, Sarah Williams, Stanley Baldwin, The King's Speech, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Queen, Wallis and Edward, Wallis Simpson, Windsor
Fallen In Love
A review of a new production on ‘Anne Boleyn’s secret heart’
I was very excited to see this new play by Ipswich based theatre company Red Rose Chain, who say they had people crossing the Atlantic to see it and reviewers from all the national papers. They quote historical biographer Alison Weir’s positive comments, although she is thanked in the acknowledgements as being a key part of the research.
I have been passionate about Anne for several years and she formed a major part of my research degree. I was interested in how popular contemporary sources portray her, and how things have entered the canon of knowledge -ie what is seen to be true at any one time.
The canon regarding Anne has changed since the 1980s. Her enemies’ vilification programme was successful for 4 centuries, until several independent researchers of different backgrounds realised that there was another Anne than the Jezebel-esque ruthless upstart. Film has been slower to catch up, still portraying her broadly this way, and Philippa Gregory’s novel and now movie have tipped popular perception for the initiated back towards negative.
This summer, I’ll see two new plays on Anne, hoping that they might offer more of the fresh perspective that sees her as a heroine as Jean Plaidy, Vercors, Joanna Denny and Eric Ives have done.
Fallen in Love was disappointing for its portrayal and its execution – and no, not the one at the end of the play.
It wasn’t that I could detect historical inaccuracy, but that the portrayal fitted the conventional old style view – Anne as perhaps complicated, perhaps with a sympathetic motive, but not even as Prof Ives said – someone one admires but not likes. Naive Anne suddenly becomes hard, and we miss that trajectory out due to a major shift in time. The naiveté is shown through silly voices and exaggerated running about and frivolity.
I confess that I have never warmed to George Boleyn, and it is a shame that he is such a part of this play. Writer and director Joanna Carrick gives him the best lines – making out that it is he (not Anne) who is the religious reformer, the one who hates corruption but can also see genuine faith in some of the monks who are being so horribly butchered. She even lets George say the wonderful alleged final speech that Anne wrote to Henry about being raised from Commoner in stages to the highest honour of all – martyr.
A story about Anne that does not feature Henry feels odd. Small casts are tricky, and this duo didn’t hold the necessary interest for me. I didn’t know that it would just be Anne and her brother, and when this became apparent, my enthusiasm sagged. I also didn’t like the casting of Anne – again, a personal matter, but she didn’t act in a way that made you understand why the most powerful monarch of the western world was so smitten with her that he took such great steps to be with her. And – why this woman was deemed so dangerous that she was killed swiftly and then demonised.
That last part is something I have never found to be satisfactorily explained.
Fallen in Love is not the strongest title, suggesting a chick lit appraisal of one of Europe’s great moments of history. I had expected, therefore, a love story – and presumed this would be one of the few that would show Anne in love with Henry: often the affair is portrayed as onesided. I believe one intended interpretation of the play’s title is, as Gregory and Warnicke alone suggest, that Anne’s incest charge was actually accurate, with which I and most other scholars vehemently disagree.
I have particular tastes in theatre, leaning towards physical theatre and cross media as ways to best use the stage as a way of telling a story powerfully. This was a very traditional talk continuously play with too little room to act physically; the set is designed round a bed which also holds up the tee pee. The epic story doesn’t work in a small tent with not much of set. The post death scene with feathers and dancing was the best -for theatricality and innovation, and a welcome break from over egged young thespian voices.
Practically, there were also problems. Passing trains and football in the park didn’t help the authenticity. The tickets are expensive for what they are – £15 to sit an a marquee on uncomfy chairs with poor toilets, and a simple kiosk for refreshments. They have 2 evening shows back to back, meaning you can’t get in the carpark until the previous show has gone. This contradicted the ticket’s advice of arriving at least 15 minutes early. It wasn’t clear from the crude map that the Hall is not accessible from Gypeswick park, although it seems logical to assume it is. Retracing steps, having found the prohibitive high fence, wastes several minutes.
There was a free short aftershow by a community theatre. As much as I wish to encourage people to find their artistic feet, I have to say that this was a painful experience. What jarred most was not poor acting quality, but the incessant swearing. Dramatically, to swear constantly means you have played your trump card until it has no meaning. There are no more organ stops to pull out when the tension rises. The director warned it may offend ‘sensitive’ people, but sensitivity and a dislike of foul language are not connected. The action and dialogue were lost under the cursing. Group penned Guiltless Ghost is a play about transposing Henry, Anne, George and Jane Parker to a group of four friends on a modern housing estate, all on mobile phones and in chav gear. It forgets the high born grandeur, religion and politics at the heart of the Tudor story, and that Anne Boleyn does not lend herself to a kind of Gavin and Stacey directed by Shane Meadows or Peter Mullan. The bit that made me scoff into my hands was the closing voiceover quote that gave the piece its name. Halting, with a very Ips-witch rising accent, it made what might have been an interesting idea into a farce.
Tagged as Anne Boleyn, canon of knowledge, community theatre, Fallen in Love, Guiltless Ghost, Ipswich, Philippa Gregory, Red Rose Chain, religion, royalty, The History Girls, Tudors
When I left my home to watch the nuptials at my local cinema, the city was quiet -much like any bank holiday. But I was surprised to see decorators and Big Issue sellers at work as normal. After the event, I stepped outside, hoping to hear local church bells ringing; I strained to hear a little chime distantly. Most shops were closed, but while the majority took the advantage of another bank holiday’s rest, few displayed anything in their windows about the event. One restaurant said it was closing due to ‘the wedding’ – the monarchical aspect was dropped. Others had triangular flags on strings but avoided the national tricolours. From one window dangled a Chelsea football flag – not even a local team – for the next day’s match.
I am among those who are proud of our monarchy and heritage. But I did note that the service used words which made me shudder – about the very negative church view of why we have marriage – to stop fornication and to have children. I noted with pleasure the lack of ‘obey’ in Kate (now Duchess)’s vows. The Guardian points out that the music was very imperial. I am proud, although most of the unfamilar pieces didn’t stick out, especially not the new piece composed by John Rutter. The choir descants spoiled favourite hymns as usual. And there was a heavy military feel to the day, which I struggled with as a pacifist.
I am bored by the silly media commentary and bitch comments about the attire of people I often have no interest in.
What does interest me is a parallel between the new princess (why does she have to have her husband’s first name?) and the one of the women I most admire in History. Although also not royal or aristocratic, Anne Boleyn did keep her first name when she became queen. Her wedding to Henry VIII was a private and secret affair – its date is not known – but her coronation is easier to compare to yesterday’s wedding. Anne Boleyn is a much maligned woman, whose enemies’ vilification programme has been successful for 400 years. She was not the grasping bitch whose reign was cut short by beheading; she was the real star of the Reformation who set up the kingdom ready for the successes that her daughter Elizabeth reaped. She was a woman who also knew that her costumes of public occasions spoke symbolically as statements, and used them well. Allegedly also dark (although Joanna Denny disagrees) and slim, Anne had to wait a similar time to Kate (possibly longer) before finally marrying into royalty. In contrast to choosing an established military uniform, Henry’s bridegroom outfits would have been as interesting to see as his wives’. I believe that Jonathan Rhys Myers commented on playing Henry in the Tudors TV series that this was the best dressed male in history. The costume designers for the show got a unique opportunity to make such splendid clothes for a male.
I wonder what the metropolitan police would have done to control the crowds who allegedly booed Anne and threw things on her two mile ride through the capital.
Which brings me on to the bitter aftertaste of yesterday’s affair. In reading the papers, what’s stuck in my mind was the heavy handed response of police. I chose contrasting papers; the more local and conservative one only briefly mentioned the arrests as a low number, instead quoting the police on the nice atmosphere in Westminster. The self aggrandised left wing one spent much time on the feelings of suppressed republicans who feel their right to an anti royalist view was curtailed by pre-emptive police. On the same page that OK magazine had its huge Royal Wedding special advert, this paper reported on Bristol anti Tesco protests being escalated by riot police – who then got what they dressed for. Also this month, I read of another recent time when British police had stepped in aggressively citing ‘breach of the peace’ before any had been caused. Rightly, complaints are being made at all these incidents. It’s the same month that I watched Stuart: A Life Backwards about two real men that met over protesting that managers of a shelter where drugs were dealt were arrested in a raid and then imprisoned.
Whilst some are angry at the public expenses of yesterday’s ceremony, the real bill comes from security. We didn’t pay for the Abbey or the reception or the dress; the uniting families met those costs. What the recession and cut weary nation did pay for was a multi-million police bill, involving stop and search on all those near the abbey as well as heavy handedness at republican parties. Security now spoils any large event, which are often full of peace, fun and neighbourliness to strangers. We’ve become obsessed with searching people and it really should not be tolerated. Yes, if we’re innocent we mind particularly. And this same police force, who we regularly pay our taxes towards, is rough handling other peaceful demonstrations against important matters and undermining our right to be a free country.
Vintage wartime posters are available to buy, and felt all the more appropriate with their crowned slogans in the light of our internationally followed royal wedding. The one that is most appropriate is ‘Your freedom is in peril – fight with all your might’. That doesn’t mean taking up arms – but it does mean the right to publish, speak publicly and privately, and hold up placards should never be curtailed.
Filed under society
Tagged as Anne Boleyn, Buckingham Palace, Catherine Middleton, freedom of speech, police, Prince William, protest, Royal family, Royal wedding, taxes, Tudors, Westminster Abbey
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The Test We Use to Detect Depression Is Designed for White People
March 12, 2019 tkapuya Health and Wellness, Health Inequities, healthcare, mental health
Depression looks different for young black Americans and our current screening is leaving many of them undiagnosed: The Test We Use to Detect Depression Is Designed for White People
sick woman theory
March 1, 2019 March 1, 2019 tkapuya Health and Wellness, Health Inequities, healthcare, mental health mental health
johanna hedva lives with chronic illness and their sick woman theory is for those who were never meant to survive but did.
Read on here: http://www.maskmagazine.com/not-again/struggle/sick-woman-theory
How Poverty Affects the Brain
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New research reveals the connection between stress, poverty and brain development in children.
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Experts say diversity and discrimination are subjects that need to be addressed with children.
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Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time | Greater Good
March 2, 2016 tkapuya College Counseling, empathy, faith and spirituality, Health and Wellness, Health Inequities, Human Development Department
The new book “The Happiness Track” explains how to use the science of happiness to preserve your energy and be more productive.
In The Happiness Track, Seppälä tries to untangle one of the knottiest problems of the modern age: our burned out, overscheduled lifestyle. We are stuck in a jumble of feeling overwhelmed yet never accomplishing enough, trussed up by the underlying assumptions that we hold about productivity:Success requires stress. We have to compete with others. We can’t cut ourselves any slack. “We have simply accepted overextension as a way of life,” she writes.
To combat this problem, the typical advice is to manage your time better: Prioritize. Make better to-do lists. Delegate unnecessary tasks. If that hasn’t worked for you, don’t be surprised; nature abhors a vacuum, and so do we. If we give ourselves an extra hour, we’ll find some task to fill it with. So time is not the commodity we should be tracking and managing, Seppälä argues. Instead, we need to manage our energy.
Seppälä outlines six qualities to cultivate that will contribute to both our productivity and our happiness. In effect, they’re also ways to boost energy without making big changes to our schedules.
Read about these six qualities here: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time | Greater Good
The fight over transgender rights in school restrooms intensifies | PBS NewsHour
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SAN FRANCISCO — In clashes over which restrooms and locker rooms transgender students should use, the U.S. Department of Education has warned public schools that a 1970s sex discrimination law makes it illegal to deny them access to the facilities of their choice.
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Analysis: How Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore are all connected – Houston Chronicle
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Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore — cities now inseparable from the national news stories centered there — became calamities for separate reasons. One was a natural disaster (made worse by human error), another a wholly man-made crisis. The two others began with police violence, but in disparate settings: the newly impoverished suburbs and the long-distraught inner city. Flint and New Orleans were failures of infrastructure, Baltimore and Ferguson a collapse of human relationships.
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Many typhoon victims unable to watch enthronement due to cleanup
KYODO NEWS - Oct 22, 2019 - 20:50 | All, Japan
Many people living in areas hit by a powerful typhoon earlier this month were unable to watch the live broadcast of Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony Tuesday as they continued to clean up after the disaster.
Some disaster victims who managed to watch the ceremony reacted positively, with one saying she was cheered up and another expressing hope that the ceremony would provide a lift to the world.
Yoshiyuki Niitsuma, 65, who lives in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, said, "There was no time (to watch the broadcast) as many people are tired and busy cleaning up their houses." Few people were seen watching the television at an evacuation center in the city.
Katashi Minato, a 91-year-old resident of Marumori in Miyagi Prefecture that was hit hard by Typhoon Hagibis, watched the news about the enthronement ceremony while cleaning his home damaged by a mudslide.
"Though I had an interest in it, I couldn't think about it as I had my hands full with cleaning work," Minato said. "The top priority is recovery, and then I would like to celebrate from my heart."
In some parts of the city of Nagano that were flooded by the typhoon, fresh evacuation orders were issued Tuesday amid further rain.
"I'd like people to pay attention to the present situation of the disaster-hit areas," said Shu Tsuchiya, 79, who evacuated to an elementary school designated as an evacuation center.
Yutaka Inoue, 50, who came to an evacuation center in the city to pick up aid supplies, said he had wanted to visit Tokyo to see the motorcade of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako but cancelled his plan following the disaster.
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The imperial couple's parade in the capital was initially scheduled for Tuesday following the ceremony, but the event was postponed to Nov. 10 in the wake of the typhoon that left more than 80 people dead.
"I wanted to see it firsthand," Inoue said.
Meanwhile, Mieko Hashimoto, 88, who watched the live broadcast at an evacuation center in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, said, "Though my prospects are unclear, I was encouraged a little."
Yoshiko Endo, 92, who is staying at another evacuation center in the city, said in tears, "It was so beautiful that I can't express it in words."
In Marumori, 40-year-old Kazuya Furukawa whose flower shop was flooded, said, "As there has been much gloomy and devastating news recently, I hope the world will be lifted" by the news of enthronement.
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Rugby: Jamie Joseph's game plan, decisions working to perfection
By Rich Freeman, KYODO NEWS - Oct 6, 2019 - 14:18 | Sports, Rugby2019, All
It was Samoa coach Vaeluaga Steve Jackson who mentioned poker in Saturday's post-match press conference, but if you were a gambling man, it is Japan coach Jamie Joseph who you would want to go to Las Vegas with.
For everything Joseph has predicted seems to have come true, so far, in this Rugby World Cup.
Ten days ago, Joseph said his team needed "to play the game of their lives to beat Ireland." And they did.
This week he said having experienced players such as Shota Horie, Fumiaki Tanaka and Kenki Fukuoka to call on from the bench would be essential if things were not working properly.
And sure enough it was the steadying influence of Tanaka and Horie and the speed of Fukuoka that eventually saw Japan make it three wins from three games in Pool A as they beat Samoa 38-19 and move ever closer to a first ever appearance in the quarterfinals.
"We showed incredible belief and worked to the very end," Joseph said. "The bench that came on in the second half had a massive impact. That's one of the reasons we were successful."
And of the veteran scrumhalf he said, "Fumi offers us experience, is clinical and understands what is going on and what needs to be done."
With Japan struggling to put the Samoans away, Tanaka not only directed traffic but put in one telling tackle that forced a turnover.
(Fumiaki Tanaka)
It was a moment that saw the crowd finally believe victory was on following an uncertain 70 minutes in which nerves seem to get to the hosts in the face of some battling and resilient opposition.
"We really had to earn the victory tonight," Joseph said.
The two sides were pretty much evenly matched in terms of possession and territory, as Japan opted to kick away much of the ball they won.
"We never wanted be on the receiving end of their physicality. We were intent on tiring them," said wing Kotaro Matsushima, whose 84th-minute try secured the bonus point.
Though as Matsushima and Joseph pointed out, there were times when the kicking game did not quite go to plan -- something they will need to rectify when they take on Scotland next Sunday in the pool finale.
(Kotaro Matsushima)
Fortunately on Saturday in Toyota, the much-improved Japan defense made sure the wayward kicks only resulted in one try to the Samoans, with locks Wimpie van der Walt and James Moore leading the way with 15 and 14 tackles, respectively.
And while the forwards were doing the tackles, it was the back three that were doing the carrying and running.
Man-of-the-match Lomano Lava Lemeki had 15 carries for 91 meters, Matsushima had 12 carries for 105 meters and fullback Ryohei Yamanaka seven carries for 88 meters.
As game captain Pieter Labuschagne commented after the game, it really was a team effort -- a team that has real self-belief and whose feet remain grounded despite the hype surrounding them.
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"No one thought we could beat Ireland and now they think we can win every game we play. That's how silly it is," said Joseph.
Not that he was criticizing the support.
"The Japanese public are really behind the team. That's what we knew would happen if we gave them test matches," he said.
"It gives the players -- I don't know if there's one word for it -- but it makes us very proud. Playing for 125 million people, and most of them don't normally support rugby. And they are behind us."
It was a view backed up by the players, including Keita Inagaki.
(Keita Inagaki (L))
"The crowd's cheering helped us," he said. "I feel after each and every game the cheering and support from the fans has been empowering us."
Japan's cause, it has to be said, was also helped by some decisions that went in their favor.
Samoa's decision to go for a scrum on their own line in the dying minutes rather than a quick tap-and-go backfired big time and saw Japan eventually pick up a bonus point that could prove so crucial given how tight Pool A is.
Referee Jaco Peyper also played a role, handing a yellow card to TJ Ioane, who consequently was sitting in the naughty chair when Timothy Lafaele scored Japan's first try.
While Jackson admitted the tackle was late, he was incensed at what he believed was a lack of consistency from the officials, after Tim Nanai-Williams was left concussed following a marginally late hit from Moore.
"I'm probably just as bewildered as most people" he said. "I agree TJ's (tackle) was late. But it was shoulder to the chest, then it is shoulder to the head (against Nanai-Williams) and we lose a player after the HIA. I don't take away anything from the Japan side but our players deserve better than that."
"Are the officials afraid to referee the game the way they see it? I think everybody here has seen it and seen the last few games -- you can play a game of poker with the amount of cards going around at the moment."
Fortunately, cards have not been an issue to Japan to date. And they will need more of the same discipline, or luck, next week as they look to beat Scotland for the first time ever in a full test match.
"Scotland are a very, very good team, with a lot of experience and a lot of X factor," Joseph said. "We saw how clinical they were beating Samoa last week. (It) was always going to come down to the final match if we did our job, and it's building up to be a real ripper."
"It's the first time Japan's ever got themselves in the position where they can top the pool, so it's new territory for us."
Hopefully for the home fans, Joseph still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Oct 6, 2019 | KYODO NEWS
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