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Propagation of Confederate Jasmine
Bell-shaped, yellow, fragrant flowers appear in late winter and spring on the slender vining stems of Confederate jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), also called Carolina jasmine or jessamine. Native to the southeastern U.S., Confederate jasmine grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 11. Best grown in full sun, use it on walls, fences and trellises. The vine is drought-tolerant and low-maintenance. Propagate plants from seed, cuttings and by layering.
A herald of springtime with its early bloom, Confederate jasmine flowers are 2 inches long and tubular, with five flaring petals for a diameter of about 1 inch. The cultivar "Margarita" has larger flowers than the species and is propagated by cuttings. Lance-shaped dark, glossy green leaves are evergreen in mild winters and deciduous in colder climates. All parts of the plant, even the nectar, are poisonous, containing strychnine-based compounds. The stem's milky sap can irritate skin.
Confederate jasmine is most commonly grown from softwood tip cuttings taken in summer. Cuttings preserve the characteristics of the parent plant, necessary for exact cultivar reproduction. Take about a 4-inch piece containing four to six pairs of leaves from the tip of a stem, removing the last two pairs of leaves. Dip the cutting into rooting hormone and put it in moist rooting medium of equal parts peat and perlite. Place the cutting under a plastic bag in bright indirect light where temperatures are around 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Mist the cutting at least twice daily, and keep the rooting medium moist but not soggy. Roots usually form after 10 to 12 weeks. To check for rooting, tug gently on the cutting. It will resist moving if roots are forming.
In layering, the branch forms roots while it is still attached to the parent plant. In summer, separate a single stem from the rest of the vine and extend it down to the ground. Leave a 6- to 8-inch-long tip past the area that touches the soil. Where the underside of the stem touches the soil surface make a slanting cut 1/4 to 1/2 of the way through the stem. Bend the stem to open the wound and coat it with rooting hormone. Place the opened wound in a 2-inch-deep furrow in the soil beside the parent vine, with the tip protruding from the soil. Water the buried part and put a rock over the area. Keep the soil moist but not soggy. Rooting usually occurs 10 to 12 weeks later. When the plant is firmly rooted, sever the new plant from its parent, dig it up and transplant it into a 4-inch pot, filling around it with potting soil and watering it well.
Confederate jasmine also grows from seed, but offspring will be variable. Collect the seed capsules in the fall, usually October and November. They should be brownish and contain mature brown seeds. Allow the capsules to air-dry for a few days before breaking them open to remove the winged seeds. Scarify the seeds by putting them in water that has been brought to a boil and removed from the heat. Let them soak in the water for 12 to 24 hours. Sow the seeds in pots filled with potting soil, covering them thinly with soil. Place the pots in bright light at 70 degrees Fahrenheit and keep the soil moist.
Arizona State University: Gelsemium Sempervirens
Floridata: Gelsemium Sempervirens
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Horticulture: Kentucky's Theodore Klein Plant Award 2011: Gelsemium Sempervirens "Margarita" - Margarita Carolina Jessamine (Jasmine)
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Gelsemium Sempervirens (L.) St. Hil.
Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service: Mist Propagation Systems and Humidity Chambers for the Nursery and Greenhouse
Melinda Myers: Plant Propagation: Layering Vines
Cathryn Chaney has worked as a gardening writer since 2002. Her horticultural experience working in the nursery industry informs her garden articles, especially those dealing with arid landscaping and drought-tolerant gardening. Chaney also writes poetry, which has appears in "Woman's World" magazine and elsewhere. Chaney graduated from the University of Arizona in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Chaney, Cathryn. "Propagation of Confederate Jasmine." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/propagation-confederate-jasmine-76676.html. Accessed 20 January 2020.
Chaney, Cathryn. (n.d.). Propagation of Confederate Jasmine. Home Guides | SF Gate. Retrieved from http://homeguides.sfgate.com/propagation-confederate-jasmine-76676.html
Chaney, Cathryn. "Propagation of Confederate Jasmine" accessed January 20, 2020. http://homeguides.sfgate.com/propagation-confederate-jasmine-76676.html
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MMP gives parties too much power and makes them impotent
MMP gives parties a lot of power in some ways but leaves them impotent in others.
They rank the lists which determines the order candidates get into parliament giving them a lot of control over candidates.
Once a minor party has a seat it has power far beyond its support base even, as both Jim Anderton and Peter Dunne prove, it is no longer effectively a party.
However, the system which gives parties a lot of power also leaves them powerless.
Labour doesn’t want Judith Tizard, Mark Burton, Mahara Okeroa, Martin Gallagher or Dave Hereora back in parliament but under the rules, they are the first five in line to get the seat vacated by Darren Hughes. Only if each in turn does not accept the offer can it be offered to Louisa Wall.
If any of those five returns to parliament we’ll be paying them 11 months salary and allowances which comes to a total of $162,020 to do what?
She or he will go to parliament, sit in the house and have select committee duties until parliament rises for the election in early October. S/he might be asked to be a buddy MP in an electorate but how hard s/he applies her/himself to the task will be entirely up to her/him.
Knowing s/he is only there as a stop-gap gives her/him nothing to lose as Judith Tizard has already made clear:
Goff’s other problem is Hughes’ vacant party list spot – it’s due to go to Judith Tizard.
He views her as a figure from the past and doesn’t want her back.
“It’s for seven months, for some that might be regarded as disruptive,” he says.
But Tizard is undecided – she’s got unfinished business.
“I’d love to make a valedictory speech,” she says.
And if she does – she really will be disruptive.
“The question is whether Phil Goff is the person to lead New Zealand and he’s got to capture New Zealand’s imagination and for New Zealand to see him as an alternative,” she says.
Labour is already unstable. Allowing a former MP to return when she makes it quite clear she isn’t loyal to the leader will only make that worse but the rules of MMP allow that to happen and there’s nothing the party can do about it.
14 Comments | politics | Tagged: Darren Hughes, Dave Hereora, Judith Tizard, Labour Party, Mahara Okeroa, Mark Burton, Martin Gallagher, MMP | Permalink
Labouring the list
Party lists are of great importance to the people on them.
That’s understandable for anyone not standing in an electorate, or standing with little or no chance of winning. But even those with safe seats often want a high place for ego’s sake if nothing else.
Those ranking the list labour over them trying to present a line-up which will appeal to voters without disrupting caucus and upsetting non-MP candidates which can be mutually exclusive goals.
But does anyone else, even political tragics, really pay much attention to them?
The lists are made public once they’ve been sorted but unless there is someone who is well known I’d be very surprised if many voters know, or care, about who is on them and in which order.
The only time after an election a list matters is if a list MP jumps or is pushed from parliament when the next person on the list is invited to take his or her place.
Sometimes, a party has second thoughts about the ranking as Keeping Stock reminds us the Green Party did when co-leader Russel Norman leapfrogged Catherine Delahunty and Mike Ward to get into parliament before the last election.
When the Labour list was ranked in 2008 the importance of not upsetting sitting MPs must have had at least some bearing but that is now causing them problems. The next person on the list is former MP Judith Tizard who must be offered the place vacated by Darren Hughes. If she turns it down it’s offered to Mark Burton, Mahara Okeroa, Martin Gallagher and Dave Hereora, all former MPs who, Labour president Andrew Little told Mary Wilson on Checkpoint, will not be on this year’s list.
The next one on the list is Louisa Wall another former MP but one who is standing again.
It is possible that the next five people on Labour’s list won’t want to disrupt their lives to return to parliament for a few months. But, has anyone asked them if they’d like to return for longer? The Labour list has yet to be ranked so if one of the five made the sacrifice they could be offered a place which has the potential to keep them in parliament for the next term.
But from what Little said last night, that isn’t a consideration. Instead it looks like five people will be expected to not take the place which they are entitled to by the law giving a whole new meaning to the term labouring (or should that be Labouring?) the list.
UPDATE: Kiwiblog notes that the five could-be MPs would be turning down 11 months salary if they decline the chance to return to parliament.
5 Comments | politics | Tagged: Andrew Little, Catherine Delahunty, Checkpoint, Darren Hughes, Dave Hereora, Keeping Stock, list ranking, Louisa Wall, Mahara Okeroa, Mark Burton, Martin Gallagher, Mary WIlson, Mike Ward, Russel Norman | Permalink
8 new names on Labour list, but where?
TV3, The Herald and Stuff all carry news that the Labour list had eight new faces who were promoted over some sitting MPs.
However, none have the whole list nor do they say where the newcomers are placed on it. The Labour website is paid for by parliamentary services so won’t mention candidates either.
On the running average of polls Labour is likely to have no more MPs after the election and may have fewer so Helen Clark will have the task of keeping disaffected MPs in line to add to her troubles.
The new people on the list are:
Rajen Prasad, former Race Relations Conciliator and Chief Families Commissioner; Jacinda Ardern, a senior policy adviser to British Home Secretary Sir Ronnie Flanagan; Raymond Huo a lawyer and writer; Phil Twyford, former global head of policy for Oxfam; Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont; Maori education advocate Kelvin Davis; Carmel Sepuloni, an equity manager at Auckland University; and Stuart Nash, who stood in Epsom last election and if memory serves me right conetested and lost the selection for Napier.
I wonder if the CTU will have the same problems with their secretary standing for Labour as the EPMU does with Shawn Tan standing for Act?
Update: I see on Keeping Stock that I should have checked Scoop which has the full list.
Exactly who gets in on the list depends on the party vote and which canidates further back on the list win seats because each seat won puts those in front of them on the list back a slot.
On current polling anyone past the mid 30s will be unlikely to get in unless they win a seat which could include some MPs.
Damien O’Connor at 37 followed by Judith Tizard, Mark Burton, Mahara Okeroa, Martin Gallagher, Dave Hereora to Louisa Wall at 43 will be unlikely to still be in parliament unless they win seats. Lesley Soper doesn’t have a show at 77 and unless she requested to be in a totally unelectable position it’s an insult to put a sitting MP so low.
5 Comments | politics | Tagged: Act, Carmel Sepuloni, Carol Beaumont, Council of Trade Unions, Damien O'Connor, Damien O'Connor at 37 followed by Judith Tizard, Dave Hereora, Dave Hereora to Louisa Wall at 43 will be unlikely to, Jacinda Ardern, Judith Tizard, Keeping Stock, Kelvin Davis, Labour, Lesley Soper, Louisa Wall, Mahara Okeroa, Mark Burton, Martin Gallagher, Phil Twyford, Rajen Prasad, Raymond Huo, Scoop, Shawn Tan, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, Stuart Nash | Permalink
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Parents as Teachers (PAT)®
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Last updated: October 2019
The information in this profile reflects feedback, if provided, from this model’s developer as of the above date. The description of the implementation of the model here, including any adaptations, may differ from how it was implemented in the studies reviewed to determine this model’s evidence of effectiveness. Inclusion in the implementation report does not mean the practices described meet the HHS criteria for evidence of effectiveness.
The Parents as Teachers National Center provides guidance, training, technical assistance, professional development opportunities, and a quality endorsement process for Parents as Teachers affiliates. The Parents as Teachers National Center also advocates at the state and national levels.
Twenty-four states and two countries have Parents as Teachers offices. Parents as Teachers state and country offices offer affiliates guidance, technical assistance, and implementation support. In addition, these offices provide oversight of the Parents as Teachers affiliates in their state or country.
The theory of change for the Parents as Teachers model is that affecting parenting knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and family well-being impacts the child’s developmental trajectory.
The overall Parents as Teachers model is grounded in Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Human Ecology Theory and Family Systems Theory. The home visits focus on three areas of emphasis—parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being. Parents as Teachers is informed by additional theories including developmental parenting, attribution theory, and self-efficacy theory.
The Parents as Teachers model serves families with high-needs characteristics. Parents as Teachers affiliates select the specific characteristics and eligibility criteria of the target population they plan to serve. Such eligibility criteria might include children with special needs, families at risk for child abuse, low-income families, teen parents, first-time parents, immigrant families, low-literate families, parents with mental health or substance use issues, or families experiencing homelessness or unstable housing.
The Parents as Teachers model is designed to serve families throughout pregnancy through kindergarten entry. Families can enroll at any point along this continuum. Curriculum materials provide resources to continue services through the kindergarten year if an affiliate chooses to do so.
The Parents as Teachers model aims to (1) increase parent knowledge of early childhood development and improve parenting practices, (2) provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, (3) prevent child abuse and neglect, and (4) increase children’s school readiness and school success.
The Parents as Teachers model has four components that all affiliates are required to provide.
(1) One-on-one home (or personal) visits, during which the home visitor (referred to as a parent educator) visits the family in its home or a mutually agreeable alternative location. The parent educator delivers the majority of visits in the home. The Parents as Teachers model refers to some visits as “personal” visits because they can take place in environments other than the home when it is unsafe or impossible to have visits in the home. For example, some families may be homeless or have unstable housing, may be experiencing intimate partner violence, or may have infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. To be receptive to these families’ needs, home visits can occur in transitional housing shelters, hospitals, or in a safe location outside of the home.
(2) Group connections, which are planned events, such as family activities, ongoing parenting groups, or presentations, facilitated by a parent educator to share information about parenting and child development. Group connections are also designed to encourage families to share common experiences and to foster peer learning.
(3) Health, hearing, vision, and developmental screenings for children.
(4) Linkages and connections for families to needed resources.
The Parents as Teachers model requires that affiliates offer a minimum of 12 home visits annually to families with one or no high-needs characteristics. Affiliates must offer a minimum of 24 home visits annually to families with two or more high-needs characteristics. Home visits last a minimum of 60 minutes.
The Parents as Teachers model requires that affiliates offer families at least 12 group connections (or meetings) annually.
Additionally, the affiliates are required to screen children for developmental, health, hearing, and vision problems each year.
Parents as Teachers affiliates must plan to offer services to enrolled families for at least two years. Affiliates may choose to focus services primarily on pregnant women and families with children from birth through age 3; others may offer services from pregnancy through kindergarten.
In some cases, visit frequency may be gradually decreased as the family transitions out of the Parents as Teachers program because of changing needs. For families transitioning out of Parents as Teachers, parent educators develop a transition plan to discuss the resources, supports, and services that are available to the family.
Parents as Teachers affiliates are located in 49 states and the District of Columbia, as well as four countries internationally.
Parents as Teachers permits affiliates to offer additional strategies (beyond the four core model components) or to make model adaptations that may be needed to best address families’ needs at the local level. For example, implementation may be modified to be culturally responsive, directed to special populations, or offered in conjunction with other early childhood programs as determined by community need.
Adaptations of the Parents as Teachers model are available for highly rural and/or indigenous populations such as aboriginal populations in Australia and Canada, and numerous American Indian tribes.
Examples of adaptations include:
Approaches that honor family and community values
People who are included in the visits
Addressing needs of low-literate or illiterate parents
Examples of model elements that can be adapted include:
Elements of training
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In New Zealand, the Ministry of Social Development’s Family and Community Services adapted Parents as Teachers into a program known in New Zealand as Parents as First Teachers (PAFT)*. The ministry contracted with community organizations to implement PAFT and managed, coordinated, and monitored the program. When developing the model, PAFT (New Zealand) negotiated with the Parents as Teachers National Center in the United States to adapt the Parents as Teachers model to meet the needs of New Zealand families, including Māori and Pasifika families, indigenous populations of New Zealand and the Pacific Island nations. Families with children from birth to age 3 who were at risk of poor educational outcomes were served by PAFT (New Zealand) through home visits, developmental screenings, linkages to other community services, and group meetings. PAFT (New Zealand) used two curricula: the Parents as Teachers’ Born to Learn curriculum and the Āhuru Mōwai curriculum. The latter was developed for PAFT (New Zealand) and was based on Māori traditional beliefs and child-rearing practices. PAFT (New Zealand) materials were available in English, Māori, and seven Pasifika languages.
Another adaptation of Parents as Teachers, called Baby Family and Child Education (Baby FACE), integrates Native language and culture into Parents as Teachers services for high-needs American Indian families from pregnancy through kindergarten. Baby FACE is the home visiting component of FACE, which is an early childhood family literacy model designed for American Indian families. In addition to home visits every one to two weeks, Baby FACE services include routine health and developmental screenings, monthly parent group meetings, and referrals to needed services. Baby FACE has been implemented in several reservations throughout the continental United States. Parent educators, typically members of the tribal community, must have a high school diploma or general equivalency degree (GED), and be actively working toward obtaining an associate’s degree in child development. Baby FACE uses the Parents as Teachers curriculum, adapted to each community’s culture.
*As of 2016, implementation support is no longer available for PAFT (New Zealand).
The information contained on this page was last updated in October 2019. Recommended Further Reading lists the sources for this information. In addition, the information contained in this profile was reviewed for accuracy by the Parents as Teachers National Center on May 6, 2019. HomVEE reserves the right to edit the profile for clarity and consistency.
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The 24 Heures Motos beckons Honda’s endurance teams
This weekend (20/21 April) the Circuit Bugatti in France hosts the second round of the 2018/2019 FIM Endurance World Championship, with the 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans. Reigning World Champions F.C.C. TSR Honda France will be looking to defend their title crown, while the Honda Endurance Racing team will be looking to return to the podium with the Fireblade.
Half a year has passed since the teams were last in action at the opening round of the 2018/2019 championship, last September at the legendary Bol d’Or. F.C.C. TSR Honda France celebrated after the race with riders Freddy Foray, Mike di Meglio and Josh Hook taking the win after 24 hours aboard the Honda Fireblade, and their sights will firmly be on the win again this weekend.
The Honda Endurance Racing team sees a refreshed rider line-up for Le Mans, as joining Sébastien Gimbert aboard the #111 Fireblade are former MotoGP riders Randy de Puniet and Yonny Hernandez. Having completed successful pre-season tests the Honda squad is confident ahead of the 24 hours.
Further Honda teams to challenge the grueling 24-hour event include National Motors, RAC 41 (STK) and SC-Project Paton Reparto Corse (STK).
Le Mans has proved a good hunting ground for the Fireblade in recent years with a Honda 1-2 at last year’s edition after F.C.C. TSR Honda France took the win and Honda Endurance Racing were runner-up in second place.
Endurance racing is a growing sport – not only in fan attendance, but also on track where 60 teams will make the start of the 24 Heures Motos this weekend. Racing is set to get underway on Saturday (20 April) at 1500hrs local time (BST+1) and will finish on Sunday (21 April) at 1500hrs local time (BST+1).
To keep up to date with Honda’s journey throughout the 24-hour race, follow Honda Pro Racing on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Rockford, Ill. – Breaking the tie for the fourth time was the charm for the Rockford IceHogs as they downed the Lake Erie Monsters 4-3 at the BMO Harris Bank Center on Friday, taking game one of a weekend back-to-back.
For the final time on the night, the IceHogs took the lead, this time on a Garret Ross tip in for the game-winner with just 2:23 remaining in regulation to set the final score at 4-3. Adam Clendening fired the shot from the blue line that Ross steered into the net.
It took until 19:43 of the first period, but the IceHogs notched the first marker of the game when the Broadhurst brothers connected. The younger, Alex Broadhurst, won the faceoff and the puck found his elder brother, Terry, who fired it past Sami Aittokallio to make the game 1-0.
Lake Erie’s Brett Clark tied the contest up with just two seconds left in the period on a laser that found its way past Kent Simpson for the 1-1 equalizer to end the first period.
With 12:17 remaining in the second stanza, Terry Broadhurst found Jeremy Morin above the left faceoff circle for a one-timer that Morin fired over Aittokallio’s shoulder to take back a 2-1 lead for Rockford.
Matt Hunwick of the Monsters tied the game once again at 13:42 of the sandwich frame on a feed from Mark Olver. The defenseman went top shelf on Simpson to knot the score, this time at 2-2.
The first and only power play tally came in the third period as Clendening put a shot on net that Drew LeBlanc got a piece of to guide past Aittokallio just 2:04 into the final period to take the IceHogs third lead of the night at 3-2.
Tying it up for the third time, Guillaume Desbiens was credited with the goal when a shot by Markus Lauridsen was helped through traffic by the winger with 6:37 remaining to set the score at 3-3.
Joakim Nordstrom saw his nine-game point streak come to an end on the night, tallying 12 points (4g-8a) in that span. Simpson earned his seventh win on the season by stopping 21 shots.
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Annihilation speaks, and I would only muddle the crystalline clarity in a retelling. Brilliant performances and gorgeous effects coalesce a fluid, telling, terrifying conclusion. In many ways, this film is a test of heart, demanding we orient ourselves against the universe, certain to be devoured. Deliberate, economic, and visionary, the volatile alien world excites and terrifies on the surface. That’s just the beginning.
Annihilation is a very dark and bizarrely beautiful sci-fi masterpiece, but I can also see why some don’t like it.
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Budget:$40,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend USA: $11,071,584, 25 February 2018, Wide Release
Gross USA: $32,732,301, 19 April 2018
Drawing on mythology and body horror, Annihilation is an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers. Sci-fi at its best. – Jonathan Pile Full review
Like all things this cosmic, it will certainly be snickered about as “trippy shit.” But I suspect a sizeable portion of the audience will see themselves there. – Emily Yoshida Full review
The new science fiction horror flick “Annihilation” from writer/director Alex Garland (who also performed both duties on 2014’s ‘EX MACHINA’). It’s about a biologist who volunteers to lead an expedition into a dangerous environmental zone after her husband comes out of the zone seriously injured and the sole survivor of his expedition. It’s based on the novel, of the same name, by Jeff VanderMeer. The film stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. It’s gotten nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics, but it also performed really poorly at a test screening (which prompted a Netflix release overseas, instead of a theatrical one). I think the film is a very dark and bizarrely beautiful sci-fi masterpiece, and I can also see why a lot of people won’t like it.
A year has passed since a team of soldiers entered an environmental disaster zone, and never returned. One soldier, named Kane (Isaac), suddenly reappears, much to the desperate relief of his biologist wife Lena (Portman), but he doesn’t remember where he’s been or how he got home. Then he has a sudden medical emergency and is rushed to a hospital. In an attempt to help him, Lena decides to join a team of all female scientists, on an expedition back into the environmental zone. Things, of course, don’t go as planned.
The movie is very hauntingly beautiful, and it’s especially highlighted by an awesomely haunting score and some breathtaking visuals. The story is interesting, but it’s definitely slow-paced, and the climax is much more of an intellectual payoff than a spectacular action scene (which many viewers might be hoping for). So I can definitely see why some people would hate this film, but I loved it. It’s one I definitely won’t forget anytime soon too, and it’s great to see Natalie Portman (my old favourite actress) back in top form!
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Meet Rajput Gauri Inspiring New Sensation from the TV
B-Town an ultimate dream for thousands of models and actors who want to prove their talent as an actor. We find many skills nowadays in India, and many are coming from outside India. Some are good in looks, and some are good in acting, but we rarely find a perfect combo of Beauty + Acting, and when we get such talent he/she noticed quickly in shows and then in the Silver screen.
We found one beauty who is stunning when it comes to looks, and she is ever more astonishing when we talk about her acting. Gauri Rajput and the perfect combo of Beauty and Acting, making her way from modelling to shows and now next destination is B-town.
Gauri Rajput hails from the small town of Chattisgarh's Raigarh. Gauri is blessed with tremendous talent, and she has proven that in her short career. Her journey started with modelling, and it took no time as her beauty get the first tag of Miss Chattisgarh in 2014. Her first step gave her confidence to continue to her dream toward B-Town, and that dream took her to Mumbai. Guess what her first step in Mumbai was a solid start as she became the face of Womensera which comes in the top five magazines of India.
From modelling her career started in acting slowly from small character roles in serials, she began to come in most TV shows from best TV channels like Colors, Star Plus, Star Bharat, Zee TV, Big Music and many more.
She is part top production house like Balaji, and she has shown her acting skills in TV shows like Savdhan India, Sethji, Bahu Humhari Rajnikanth, Crime Patrol, Pyar me Sawdhan, Shakti Peeth ke Bhairav, Udaan, Ishq me mar jawan, Laddoo 2, Savitri Devi College and Hospital, ye hain Mohabbat Mein, Ashoka, Raja Ranjeet Singh and many more shows. She has been part of a movie called "Bijlee".
As she was getting popular in the TV show, she started to receive top advertisements, and she is also associated with top brands like Flipkart, Snapdeal.
Other than she is also a famous social media influencer of our time, she runs the channel called Rajput Gauri on YouTube, where you can see her acting skills and her versatility. Due to her talent, she is becoming more and more popular on Social media like Instagram were her fan following is growing at Rocket speed.
Rajput Gauri is undoubtedly going to be the next big thing in the coming year as she is a stunning looking actress, and she can justify any role given to her.
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Portmanteau of terror
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Ash Tree by MR James
The Open Window by Saki
The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki
To be taken with a grain of salt – a ghost story by Charles Dickens
Madam Crowl’s Ghost by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
The Horla, or Modern Ghosts by Guy de Maupassant
To Let by BM Croker
The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford
The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs
The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford
The Haunted Dolls House by MR James
The Haunted Palace
~ History, Folkore and the Supernatural
Tag Archives: English history
With her head tucked underneath her arm…..
Posted by Lenora in General, Ghosts, History
Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn, Blicking Hall, Elizabeth I, English history, Hampton Court, Henry VIII, Hever Castle, Royal ghosts, Salle Church, Tower of London, Tudors, Witchcraft
A (very) brief history of Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, this is possibly the most famous image of Anne, and most likely closest likeness, however no contemporary images of Anne survive (this image dates from the late 16th century). Image: National Portrait Gallery.
I have always been a bit of a sucker when it comes to royal ghosts – the bloodier and more headless the better – and they don’t come more headless than Anne Boleyn. Strong willed, intelligent and beguiling, Anne Boleyn supplanted the popular Queen Katherine of Aragon and stole the heart of Henry VIII. She successfully held the amorous Henry at bay until he divorced his wife and broke with Rome – talk about a tease. Once queen she presided and flirted with a dazzling and talented young court, encouraged religious reform and was not afraid to go head to head with the King. Nevertheless she could also be ruthless – she passionately hated the Lady Mary, Katherine’s loyal daughter, to the point where Lady Mary became convinced that Anne was trying to poison her. She also made some very dangerous political enemies such as the equally ruthless Cromwell.
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I; locket ring worn by Elizabeth I until her death in 1603
In short, it would seem that the seeds of tragedy were planted early on in Anne’s relationship with Henry VIII. She was never a popular queen, and being an English commoner rather than a foreign princess she could not call on powerful alliances abroad to protect her when the kings love turned sour and the vultures began to circle. Eventually, having failed to produce a male heir, and successfully alienating a lot of powerful men around her, including the King her only protector, Anne was accused of adultery with several men of her inner circle, and incest with her brother George (and just for good measure witchcraft was also added to the litany of charges). Following the execution of many of those closest to her, on 19 May 1536 Anne Boleyn herself was executed by a French swordsman on Tower Green. The fickle Henry was canoodling with Jane Seymour as Anne’s head fell.
Although we might all think we are familiar with Anne Boleyn, thanks to the most recognisable image of her (reproduced here), no contemporary images of Anne survive. All we have are ghosts of her memory – initially created in the reign of her daughter Elizabeth I who, privately at least, did wish to keep the memory of her mother alive. It is a powerful reminder of how someone so famous, briefly so powerful and who held the most famous King of England in her thrall, so much so that he reshaped the English church in order to win her, was almost expunged from history after her fall. Only the whim of fate, which placed her daughter Elizabeth I on the throne, ensured that this most enticing of Tudor queen’s was not lost to history for ever. Sic transit gloria mundi indeed…
The Hauntings of Anne
Having just read Alison Weir’s fascinating account of the fall of Anne Boleyn, ‘The Lady in the Tower’, I was delighted to find a section in the appendices relating to the legends of hauntings related to Anne Boleyn. Weir brought the historian’s rigour to these colourful tales and cross-referencing the tales against Anne’s known movements, and attested connections with a place during her life, Weir was able(sadly) to debunk quite a few of these sightings. Well… at least to provide evidence that the spectre in question was not Anne Boleyn! From my point of view, the fact that we don’t really know what Anne looked like, does make identification of her spectre problematic! Nevertheless, here are a few tales of this royal revenants peregrinations…I will leave it to the reader to decide on their veracity…
Blickling Hall. Image by Lenora
Blickling Hall in Norfolk is one of my favourite stately homes. On a lush summers day it seems the quintessentially English ancestral pile with its dusty rose brick walls, mullioned windows and topiary garden….but on a dark night in May this rural idyll is rudely shattered by the unquiet souls of the dead.
Although the current hall was rebuilt in the early seventeenth century – well after Anne’s death – legend has it that Anne and her siblings were born at Blickling. The earlier hall had belonged to the Boleyn family in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. George and Mary were born there, and it seems likely Anne was too.
One local tale that was well established by the eighteenth century, according to Alison Weir, concerns Thomas Boleyn, Anne’s feckless father. Happy to benefit from Anne’s rise, Thomas nevertheless stood by and did nothing as his children Anne and George went to their bloody deaths on the scaffold. It is said that his tormented spirit is seen driving pell mell up the drive way of Blickling Hall in a carriage driven by a headless coachman and a team of headless horses, pursued by blue devils, and sometimes the headless corpse of George Boleyn. By 1850 Weir notes that this version had elaborated to say that the luckless Thomas was cursed for a thousand years to ride out on the anniversary of Anne’s death, crossing every bridge between Wroxham and Blickling, his gory head in his lap. (There is a slight flaw in this embellishment – Thomas died in bed, with his head fully attached).
As with many stories passed down in folk memory they are often elaborated and embellished with the telling, and by the nineteenth century versions of this tale had Anne as the occupant of the carriage – dressed in pure white but glowing red, and with her blood drenched head resting on her lap. Some versions have Thomas, her father as the coachman. The carriage drives right into the hall and disappears, or else stops to allow the gory Anne to descend and begin a nocturnal perambulation of the gloomy chambers of the Hall.
The lake at Blickling – does Anne’s ghost search in vain by its shores…? Image by Lenora
Sightings of Anne (and/or Thomas) and the carriage have been frequent and reported by witnesses of varying degrees of credibility. In 1979 an apparition supposed to be Anne was sighted in the library, in 1985 a former administrator of Blickling Hall was awoken by female footsteps in the night only to find no one there. Another sighting occured during world war II when a Butler accosted a mysterious lady by the lake. She was dressed in Grey and had a white lace collar and mob-cap. When asked what she was looking for she replied with the poignant words “That for which I search has long since gone.” It has been pointed out that the costume described sounds more seventeenth century than sixteenth, and that lace was extremely rare in the 1530’s, nevertheless adherents point out that Anne was beheaded in a very similar costume with a white-collar and coif.
Blickling Hall can even boast a lost chamber – no English country pile should be without one – associated with Anne Boleyn. It is said that there is a room at Blickling that had such an evil atmosphere it was walled up and its whereabouts lost – it was called ‘Old Bullen’s study’. Just as an aside, personally I don’t think some one as elegant and sophisticated as Anne would be as crass as to leave an evil atmosphere behind her, (intense perhaps – but surely not evil) perhaps Old Bullen could in fact be greedy, gutless Thomas!
The Tower of London from the Thames. Image from ‘London Attractions’ Tourist site.
Unsurprisingly there are many tales of Anne connected with the Tower of London – after all she was imprisoned here from April until her execution on 19 May 1536 and it was here that she watched as her brother and the men closest to her were brutally executed.
My favourite tales from the tower relate to the service that Anne has provided to countless soldiers, the first noted as being in 1864. A guardsman on duty one night saw the white-clad figure of woman emerging from the Queen’s House. Approaching to offer a challenge he got a clear look at the figure and was horrified to discover the lady was sans head! The soldier was found to have fainted and accused of being drunk on duty and court marshaled. One would not expect a hard-bitten military court to consider the appearance of a headless Tudor Queen as a mitigating factor in such dereliction of duty, however when two witnesses were produced the case was quietly dropped. Needless to say, the ‘Anne Boleyn defense’ was used more than once by soldiers down the years to explain abandoning their posts!
Other sightings include ‘bluish figure’ floating across the ground to the Queen’s House and in 1967 the case of one John Hawden who observed a strange glow coming from the windows of the White Tower, lighting a mysterious figure moving between the rooms. When he asked a fellow warden about the phenomenon he was told that it was probably the ghost of Anne Boleyn and that many wardens had witnessed it (although few spoke of it).
Hever Castle, Anne’s family seat in Kent. Image by The Giant Puffin via wikimedia.
Hever Castle was the Boleyn family seat in Kent and therefore has strong connections with Anne Boleyn. The most famous story relating to Hever takes place on Christmas Eve (always a perfect time for ghost stories) and relates to a bridge over the River Eden, close by the Castle. Anne is said to be seen crossing the bridge heading for home. In other instances her shimmering wraith-like form is seen lurking about the lawns. The Splatter blog (see sources) describes a chilling encounter with Anne on the bridge over the Eden.
In 1979 a member of the Society for Psychical Research set about capturing an image of Anne on the bridge. Staking out the bridge on the appointed day, he was not to be disappointed. On the stroke of midnight Anne duly appeared in the form of a white light. Delighted, he took his picture. Elation soon turned to fear though, when the white light came hurtling directly at him and passed right thorough him. As he turned he saw it disappear over the bridge towards Hever. The following day when he developed his film he found that the entire roll was exposed and not one image had been captured….
Hampton Court and other places
Hampton Court – does Anne’s restless spirit roam these corridors? Image by Lenora
Oddly enough there are not many sightings of Anne at Hampton Court – perhaps even her ghost finds it too painful to revisit the site of her greatest triumphs and her eventual fall. However in the late 19th Century she was sighted walking the corridors dressed in blue and looking rather sad.
Anne’s restless spirit is associated with more locations that can be covered in this post. Some other places she has been sighted at include Windsor Castle, Rochford Hall in Essex and Bollin Hall, Cheshire. One memorable sighting is recounted by Alison Weir and is based on an interview Nora Lofts conducted with the old sexton of Salle Church in Norfolk. This story links Anne with Witchcraft. Anne is said to walk at Salle Church on the anniversary of her death. Wanting to find the truth of the legend the old sexton sat vigil determined to catch the royal revenant. However, all he saw was a hare run a course about the church before disappearing……the hare being a symbol, particularly in East Anglia, of witchcraft. (NB. Why is it always an old Sexton in these stories…?)
Anne’s lasting memory
Some sightings of Anne’s ghost or imprint seem well attested by credible witnesses at sites with a verified connection with Anne’s life. Others have grown around received wisdom and when checked against the historical ‘facts’ cannot possibly relate to Anne (this is not to say that they are not bona-fide sightings – just not necessarily sightings of Anne). Whatever the truth of these tales, their continued popularity demonstrates how much Anne, with her glittering life and her cataclysmic fall from grace, has entered into the subconsciousness of a nation (and beyond). People WANT to see Anne Boleyn and to claim that connection with her enduring ‘glamour’ and her tragic end. Even now, vigils are held on the anniversary of her execution at Blickling Hall and other locations associated with Anne. This woman who might have vanished from history with out a trace as the discarded wife of a fickle King – still has the power to fascinate and captivate us.
Anne – among us still? Image by Lenora
So much has been written about Anne Boleyn, I would like to end by letting her speak for herself. The following poem has been attributed to Anne in the days before her execution…
O Death, O Death, rock me asleepe,
Bring me to quiet rest;
Let pass my weary guiltless ghost
Out of my careful breast.
Toll on, thou passing bell;
Ring out my doleful knell;
Thy sound my death abroad will tell,
For I must die,
There is no remedy.
My pains, my pains, who can express?
Alas, they are so strong!
My dolours will not suffer strength
My life for to prolong.
Alone, alone in prison strong
I wail my destiny:
Woe worth this cruel hap that I
Must taste this misery!
Farewell, farewell, my pleasures past!
Welcome, my present pain!
I feel my torment so increase
That life cannot remain.
Cease now, thou passing bell,
Ring out my doleful knoll,
For thou my death dost tell:
Lord, pity thou my soul!
Death doth draw nigh,
Sound dolefully:
For now I die,
I die, I die.
Read more: http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/resources/anne-boleyn-words/anne-boleyn-poems/#ixzz38hR6bntx
There are a lot of great books and websites out there devoted to Anne, her history and her ghost, here are a few that I found particularly useful in preparing this post:
http://marilynkaydennis.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/anne-boleyns-ghost/
http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/
http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/anne-boleyn-portraits-which-is-the-true-face-of-anne-boleyn/
Weir, Alison, The Lady in the Tower, Random House, 2009
Guilty Pleasures…Leech’s pictures from Punch Magazine
Posted by Lenora in Guilty Pleasures, History
Caricatures, comic sketches, English history, John Leech, Punch Magazine, Social History, Social Satire, Victorian
The cheap tailor and his workmen by Leech (detail) by John Leech
Just a short post today as I have been a bit busy this week. I haven’t posted any guilty pleasures for a while and one of my biggest guilty pleasures of all time is the purchase, acquisition and general obsession with books. Especially crusty old leather-bound tomes…
Finding a (rare) idle moment today I was perusing my book shelf and came across a book I had almost forgotten about… Leech’s Pictures.
Image by Simon Finch Books, Holt
I picked this book up in a wonderful dusty little bookshop in Holt, a beautiful little Georgian market town in Norfolk. The bookshop is in a rickety and maze-like seventeenth century building with crampt and winding staircases that require careful navigating – especially with a pile of books in your arms! When ever I visit Holt I make a beeline for this bookshop – there are so few independent booksellers left on the High Street these days, it’s always a treat to find a real Gem like this one.
John Leech – Caricaturist
John Leech, public domain image via Wikimedia
John Leech was born in London on 29th August 1817, his parents hailed from Ireland. Even as a child he was quick with his pencil and his talent was quickly recognised. He went to Charterhouse school and there became friends with William Makepeace Thackeray (famously the author of Barry Lyndon and Vanity Fair) – the two remained friends for life.
Although he had some medical training, by eighteen he had begun to focus on his art as a profession and published some comic character sketches under the name of Etchings and Sketchings by A. Pen, Esq. He then worked on a number of magazines and produced illustrations for Dickens novels such as A Christmas Carol.
He worked in Lithograph and Wood Engraving, the latter being his main method of illustration in Punch Magazine.
Mr Leech and Mr Punch
Mr Punch, himself
He began his long association with Punch satirical magazine in 1841 and this continued until his death in 1864. Leech’s style and technique quickly developed and by 1845 Ruskin was applauding Leech in fine style describing his work as:
“admittedly the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society, the kindest and subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways”
Leech’s satirical sketches mainly focus on mocking the social foibles of all classes, and he was also famous for his sporting scenes. Nevertheless his illustrations also sometimes have a keener edge. Leech was not afraid to look at some of the harsher truths of life in the Mid Victorian world and he seems to have had a keen sympathy for the plight of horses.
I find the sketches to be a fascinating window onto the world of Mid Victorian Britain: its mores, its aspirations, its foibles. Leech’s pictures help, literally, to illustrate some aspects of the Victorian mindset and world view. As such, his humour can take a somewhat hierarchical, patriarchical and ultimately imperialist tone (some of the depictions of other races in particular, can appear very distasteful to the modern eye). However as an overall barometer for his era they provide a valuable social commentary. Despite these flaws, many of his sketches show a keen eye for human nature, and even after nearly 150 years the humour remains evident in many of them.
Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character from the Collection of Mr Punch
Here are a few images from my copy of Leech’s pictures, they are from his Second Series and seem to date from the 1860’s – the book has clearly been read and re-read hence some of the images are a little, shall we say, crumpled! If you click on the images they come up full size so you can read the captions.
The topics covered range from social satire, to political comments; events such as Crystal Palace Exhibition, the Crimea and sea bathing as well as a look at the social mobility of the lower classes…ENJOY
My copy of Leech’s Pictures c1860’s
Frontispiece of Leech’s Pictures
Latest from Paris
The cheap tailor and his workmen
A Very Bad Way
‘You look quite wretched Frank’
‘Wretched, my boy! You may imagine how wretched I am when I tell you I don’t even care how my Twowsers are made!’
Managing Mama. ‘My goodness Ellen, how pale you look, for goodness’ sake bite your lips and rub your cheeks.’
Seaside – the bathing hour
New cricketing dress to protect all England against the present swift bowling.
Servantgalism. ‘Ousemaid from town ‘is Hann Jenkins at home?’
Suburban cook: ‘no; she has just gone to her milliners’
‘ousemaid ‘then give her my card, please, and tell her I ‘ope she got home safely from the ball’
dropped something madam?
The parliamentary female
The railway engine and the foxhunter – a prospective sketch
A country ball
The Beard and Moustache movement
Railway Guard ‘Now Ma’am, is this your luggage?’
Old lady (Who concludes she is attacked by brigands) ‘Oh yes! Gentlemen, it’s mine Take it-take all I have! But spare, oh, spare our lives!’
Further illustrations of the mining districts
First polite native: Who’s ‘im Bill?’
Second ditto ‘A stranger!’
First ditto ”eave a brick at ‘im’
Police wear beards and moustaches, panic among the street boys
Comments on the effectiveness of table tapping
The British Weather
New Christmas game for fox-hunters during a long frost.
Scene on the English coast
Young lady (inclining to embonpoint). ‘I shall want him again this afternoond – from two to four!’
The Great exhibition at Crystal Palace emptied the theatres
An early example of Goth fashion?
‘Well, Jack. Here’s good news from home. We’re to have a medal’
That’s very kind. Maybe one of these days we’ll have a coat to stick it on!’
A hint for the horseguards.
Showing how all the weight of our heavies might be preserved, and more fairly adjusted.
The peril of keeping ones gloves in ones hat.
Leech, John, Pictures from Life and Character From the Collection of Mr Punch, Second Series, published c1860 by Bradbury and Evans
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leech_%28caricaturist%29
Mother Shipton: Yorkshire’s Nostradamus
Posted by Lenora in General, History, Legends and Folklore, seventeenth century, Supernatural, Witchcraft
English history, history, Knaresborough, Mother Shipton, Nostradamus, Petrifying Well, seventeenth century, tourism, witches, Yorkshire
Old Mother Shipton
I visited Knaresborough in Yorkshire on a family holiday when I was a teenager. One of the things I remember most about the trip was a visit to Old Mother Shipton’s cave and the Dropping Well – famed for its petrifying properties (hang a teddy up and it will turn to stone in under five months).
The Dropping Well, Image by Chris (click image for copyright info)
For a start Old Mother Shipton looked like the archetypal witch, but more than that, she was credited with being Yorkshire’s answer to Nostradamus. She was a prophetess and seer who had predicted everything from the death of Cardinal Wolsey, the great fire of London, the building of Crystal Palace, the Crimean War, the train, the car, the telephone – you name it Mother Shipton had prophesied it! I was understandably impressed.
The legend is born
Sculpture of Mother Shipton in the cave where she was alleged to have been born. Image by Chris, click image for copyright info.
In 1488 Ursula Southeil was born out-of-wedlock to a fifteen year old girl called Agatha. Agatha steadfastly refused to name the father of her child and sought refuge in the cave by the dropping well on the banks of the River Nidd, here she gave birth to the remarkably ugly Ursula. Agatha either died in childbirth, or gave Ursula up for fostering when the child was two. Because strange happenings followed the child, people began to suspect her father was non other than Old Nick himself.
Tales of objects moving around or going missing and furniture shifting about were common. In one such tale, the foster-mother returns home to find baby Ursula gone, and a commotion in her cottage. Upon entering, she and her companions are set upon by imps disguised as monkey’s. Ursula is finally located swinging in her crib – up the chimney!
Ursula Southeil was noted for her startling appearance. One early source describes her thus:
“She was of an indifferent height, but very morose and big boned, her head very long, with very great goggling but sharp and fiery eyes; her nose of an incredible and improportionable length, having in it many crooks and turnings, adorned with many strange pimples of divers colours, as red, blue and mix’t..” (1)
When she married Toby Shipton at the age of 24, it was said she used a love potion to attract him (either that or else he just had very bad eyesight!).
Their home in Shipton soon became the focus for people seeking advice and her reputation for wisdom grew. She was particularly good at locating lost or stolen property.
She is most famous for her prophecies, many of which came true during her life time. She was also supposed to have predicted her own death, at the age of 73, in 1561.
A talent for prediction
Mother Shipton did not write down any of her prophecies. As a poor woman in the sixteenth century the chances of her being able to write would have been slim – nevertheless her biographers credit her with a sharp intelligence and inborn ability to read from a very early age.
Mother Shipton and Cardinal Wolsey, image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Her fame grew beyond her locality when her prophecies were published in 1641. ‘The Prophesie of Mother Shipton in the Raigne of King Henry the Eighth’ was printed in York and was composed of regional predictions and had only two prophetic verses, this version did not predict the end of the world (2).
A later version of her life and predictions ‘The Life and Death of Mother Shipton’ was published in 1684 by the unfortunately named Richard Head. It is likely that he invented most of the biographical details about her.
A still later version published by Charles Hindley in 1862 contains the famous rhyming couplets relating to Crystal Palace, cars trains, and the famous end of the world prediction (1881):
“Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
The world upside down shall be
And gold be found at the root of a tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse be at his side.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green;
Iron in the water shall float,
As easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In a land that’s now not known.
Fire and water shall wonders do,
England shall at last admit a foe.
The world to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.”
Sir Henry buys a well
In 1630 Sir Henry Slingsby, a local grandee, purchased some land around the River Nidd from King Charles I. The land contained the Dropping Well (now known as the Petrifying Well). The enterprising Sir Henry, seeing the potential in such an extraordinary geological feature quickly constructed an exhibition and began running tours.
Could it be co-incidence that only 11 years after he begins this commercial venture, a book of prophecy linked with the well is published? As Philip Coppens points out, having a famous prophetess linked to the miraculous well would be an added draw to reel in visitors.
Some believe that the well was feared and avoided by the locals during Mother Shipton’s life – supposedly believing that its petrifying properties would turn them to stone. However, this does not seem to have been the case with everyone. John Leyland, the Antiquary of Henry VIII visited the well during Mother Shipton’s lifetime – 1538. He remarked that the well was known for its healing properties and was regularly visited. He doesn’t seem to have mentioned Mother Shipton at all. All of which would point to Mother Shipton being a fabrication to bring in paying visitors.
And tourists did come – even the famous female traveller Celia Fiennes visited the cave in 1697 and noted the following in her journal:
‘and this water as it runns and where it lyes in the hollows of the rocks does turn moss and wood into Stone …I took Moss my self from thence which is all crisp’d and perfect Stone … the whole rock is continually dropping with water besides the showering from the top which ever runns, and this is called the dropping well’(3).
The Truth behind the legend…
So what is the truth behind the legend? Well, the historical evidence for the existence of Mother Shipton is as scarce as clear skin was on her nose. This is not necessarily proof she didn’t exist, but if Leyland visited the well during her lifetime and knew of the miraculous properties of the well, surely he would also have mentioned the presence of a noted seer so closely associated with it?
The links to the commercialisation of the well and the publication of the first prophecies are also suggestive of her tale being fabricated. Also, as Philip Coppens points out: it is quite a common historical feature to associate oracles with wells, caves and other subterranean features. Mother Shipton added a mythic dimension to the geological feature.
Mother Shipton working at her predictions, image public domain via Wikipedia Commons
There might even be a hint of intercontinental rivalry going on here as well – the French had Nostradamus, so maybe the English came up with Mother Shipton? It is notable that after the repeal of laws relating to witchcraft in 1736 Mother Shipton’s image began to transform from the archetypal witch, to a more benign prophetess, depicted with scrolls instead of familiars, and much less warty about the nose.
As for the predictions – the earliest are from 80 years after her death, and relate mainly to events that have already happened. The later versions seem to have embellished the prophecies. Charles Hindley author of the 1862 version (extract quoted above) later admitted to inventing the predictions he published.
A Folk-memory of a cunning woman?
For hundreds of years (and well into the nineteenth century) the cunning woman or cunning man was an integral part of village life in England. A local healer who could offer advice and assistance in the form charms and love potions.
I like to think that Mother Shipton falls into this category. That she did exist in the capacity of a local cunning woman, and that a folk-memory of her endured until Sir Henry’s day allowing him to appropriate her for his own purposes. The facts and details of her life that have come down to us may be total fabrication and her prophecies have certainly been elaborated down the centuries, but I think that there is a tiny grain of truth in the tale of Mother Shipton which has fixed her in to the very fabric of folk-memory and the landscape itself.
The Cave and Well are open to the public, you can find details of how to arrange a visit on the Museum website: http://www.mothershipton.co.uk/
River Nidd, Mother Shipton’s Museum just visible under the arches.
(1) Extract from ‘Yorkshire Legends and Traditions’ by Rev. Thomas Parkinson 1881, himself quoting from Richard Head’s 1684 account.
(2) Wikipedia/Mother Shipton
(3) Morris, Christopher (Ed), The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, Cresset Press, 1947.
http://www.ephemera-society.org.uk/articles/shipton.html
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/occult/mother-shipton.html
http://www.philipcoppens.com/mother_shipton.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Shipton
Wicked Jimmy Lowther: The Toadstool Earl
Posted by Lenora in Bizarre, eighteenth century, General, History, Macabre
Earl of Lonsdale, eighteenth century, english aristocrats, English Ghosts, English history, history, Lowther Castle, Toadstool Earl, Wicked Jimmy
Vincent Price, from Tales of Terror (Dir.Roger Corman 1962)
When I first found out about Wicked Jimmy, otherwise known as Sir James Lower 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1736 – 1802), my imagination ran wild with visions of Lon Chaney or Vincent Price skulking around in cobwebbed castles and dank dungeons getting up to suitably nefarious deeds. A little digging and I came up with more equally intriguing nick-names: Jemmy Grasp-all, The Gloomy Earl and most delicious of all The Toadstool Earl – just who was this man, and why did he end up with so many unflattering sobriquets?
Well, James Lowther was a very, very, very rich man. He inherited not one, not two, but THREE fortunes making him one of the Georgian era’s wealthiest individuals. One of his fortunes alone (Coal mines, harbour trade, and lots of lovely money) came to a quarter of annual British Exports at the time(1).
Sir James Lowther, by Thomas Hudson (Wordsworth Collection)
Despite being born with the proverbial silver spoon, it seems he may not have enjoyed a happy childhood. His first fortune was inherited from his father who died when James was only 9 years old. John Sharpe a Local Historian believes that his widowed mother pushed him into becoming ruthlessly ambitious – it would seem that Pushy Parents aren’t a new phenomena.
Sent away to boarding school he found himself the target for bullies – English Public Schools at the time could be brutal places. Nevertheless he soon graduated to the top of the pecking order and became a bully himself – a characteristic he seemed to have maintained all of his life.
How the Earl got his Ninepins
Despite his great wealth, Sir James’s lust for power set him on the path of politics. Politics in the eighteenth century was a shady business and Sir James seems to have had a natural flare for political skullduggery. He entered politics in 1757 in Cumberland, and soon proved adept at rigging elections and controlling boroughs. He also seems to have been good at spotting talent because he helped William Pitt the Younger to enter politics in the 1781 as MP for Appleby. Pitt then had a stellar political career and became Prime Minister at only 24 years of age. The Earl received lucrative kick-backs a plenty from his grateful prodigy including the Earldom of Lonsdale.
Chairing the Member, by William Hogarth [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Gloomy Earl ended up controlling 9 Parliamentary Boroughs in the North West of England and they became known as his ninepins.
The Toadstool Earl and the Mushroom Election
Wicked Jimmy was a name that seems to have attached to the Earl after his death, however The Earl of Toadstool was a name he picked up during his lifetime. The Earl decided to win the Carlisle seat for one of his relatives and to do so he manipulated the electorate by creating 1400 honorary freemen to vote in the election. The new freemen were made up of men who were subservient to the Earl – his tenants and workers – and could be relied upon to vote as directed. The election of 1786 became infamous as the ‘Mushroom election’ because of its mushrooming electorate.
Jemmy Grasp-All
It can often be observed that rich people stay rich by not spending their money – and the Earl was noted for being a fabulously wealthy skinflint. Unfortunately, one other way the rich stay so rich is by exploiting the masses and Sir James not only exploited his dependents in elections, but he also exploited them in the workplace. He was a mine owner and his lack of investment in making his mines at Whitehaven safe cost the lives of both workers and pit-ponies in 1791.
He also ensured that the Poet William Wordsworth grew up in poverty. Wordsworth’s father was agent to The Earl and he died in 1783 with the Earl owing him £5000 (a huge sum in the eighteenth century).
Madman, too influential to be confined(2)
Despite being known as the Gloomy Earl, he was also a fiery character and was not averse to riding 300 miles between Lowther and London and covering the distance in only 36 hours. He was also a bit of a speed freak and was notorious for driving at break-neck speed – regardless of whether he was passing through a village or not. I can’t imagine that he was popular in the locality.
Lowther Castle by Simon Ledingham, via Wikimedia Commons (click image for licence info)
The Earl was also fond of a good duel and in 1792 he and a Captain Cuthbertson seem to have had an early Road Rage incident which resulted loud words followed by pistols at dawn to satisfy honour.
Wicked Jimmy and a love that will last for ever….
Wicked Jimmy was a noted ladies man, just because he married the daughter of the Earl of Bute in 1761 didn’t mean he wouldn’t continue to keep mistresses. Such behaviour was hardly unusual amongst eighteenth century noblemen, and plenty of aristocratic women also took lovers as well (although if they got caught in the act the consequences were far harsher than for the men).
By Józef Simmler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
One of the more lurid stories that has attached itself to the Earl relates to the beautiful daughter of a tenant whom he seduced. Legend has it that the girl became his mistress and he kept her in great luxury. However the girl died young and the Earl was so distracted by grief that he refused to admit she was dead. When the servants complained about the smell, he is said to have dressed her corpse himself and often dined with her decaying body seated next to him. Eventually he is said to have had her placed her in a glass coffin. She was finally laid to rest 7 weeks after her death.
If this is true then one can only imagine what the girl’s family must have felt.
Ernest Jones, writing in 1931 in ‘On the Nightmare’ said that such necrophiliac behaviour was rooted in the idea that:
“The dead person who loves, will love forever and will never be weary of giving and receiving caresses.”
If this story is true, then perhaps at least some of the Earls bluster and bullying was a front for his own lack of self-esteem (he was, after-all, bullied as a child) or perhaps it was a consequence of the early loss of his father making him unable to cope with separation from someone he loved. Or perhaps he just couldn’t bare the thought that one of his ‘possessions’ had eluded him by dying.
Whatever the truth behind this very Gothic story, it certainly adds a very macabre twist to the legend of Wicked Jimmy Lowther.
The Earl died on 24 May 1802, and it is said that on the anniversary of his burial, if the moon is full, his spectre can be seen driving his carriage at break-neck speed through the grounds of Lowther Castle.
Lowther Castle is open to the public:
http://www.lowther.co.uk/index.php/visiting-lowther
1. http://www.lowther.co.uk/index.php/the-lowther-family/the-lowther-family
2. Carlyle, Alexander
http://www.lowther.co.uk/index.php/the-lowther-family/the-lowther-family
Sharpe, John, 2013, http://www.cwherald.com/archive/archive/%26%238220%3Bwicked-jimmy%26%238221%3B,-1st-earl-of-lonsdale-20130306405026.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lowther,_1st_Earl_of_Lonsdale
The Real Barry Lyndon – Stoney Bowes, a Georgian Sociopath
Posted by Lenora in eighteenth century, General, History
Bowes, eighteenth century, eighteenth century ireland, English history, Georgian, Gibside, history, Irish adventurers, Marriage, Mary Eleanor Bowes, North East, Sociopaths, Stoney Bowes
The Infamous Life of Stoney Bowes
Andrew Robinson Bowes, MP, by John Downman 1781 (Fitzwilliam Museum Cambs)
The tale of Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes came to the attention of William Thackeray direct from the grandson of one of ‘Stoney Bowes’ most famous victims -his unfortunate second wife Mary Eleanor Bowes – and became the inspiration for Thackeray’s picaresque and satirical novel ‘The Luck of Barry Lyndon’. Unusually, the fictional character is a much tamer version of the real man, for Stoney Bowes must rank as one of the eighteenth centuries most disturbing characters. Handsome, charming and deadly he was an adventurer, wife-beater and pathological liar with a victim complex.
His behaviour was often censured by contemporary society as being more extreme than was acceptable but was he just an over zealous eighteenth century male or was his behaviour that of a Georgian sociopath?
Andrew Robinson Stoney came from a genteel but impoverished Anglo-Irish family and was born in 1747 in Greyfort House, County Tipperary. Although he was a favorite son, his temperament and ambitions did not suit him to become a down at heel gentleman farmer on the family farm. Even as a young man he was hot-tempered and arrogant. By the 1760’s he was enlisted as an ensign in the British Army and following a misprint in a local newspaper promoted himself to the rank of Captain.
His army chums found him good company and his debauchery was well-known to his comrades. He had the sense to keep it under wraps in polite society where he cut a dashing figure with his good looks, athletic figure and charming Irish brogue – a natty red uniform must have helped too.
“His speech was soft, his height was more than five feet ten, his eyes were bright and small, he had perfect command of them, his large eye brows were low large and sandy, his hair light, and his complexion muddy, his smile was agreeable, his wit ready.” So said his friend and some-time henchman the Surgeon Jesse Foot.
The charming Irish adventurer was a staple feature of eighteenth century life and heiress hunting was practically a national pass-time for many an ambitious and penniless gentleman. This was Stoney’s special area of expertise. He had a way of gaining the loyalty of men, and the adoration of women. His first victim – for victim she most definitely was – was Hannah Newton. As a wealthy heiress from Burnopfield, County Durham, he soon targeted her as a lucrative marriage prospect and he began courting her in earnest.
Bagging his first heiress
18th Century Lady, Bowes Museum
From here the charming adventurer began to show his true colours as a manipulative and mercenary predator. He successfully inveigled his way into Hannah’s, and even her mother’s, affections by posing as a love-lorn and wealthy suitor. Very soon the young girl was besotted and Stoney pressed his advantage home – being so frequently in Hannah’s company he was effectively ensuring she would have to marry him in order to protect her reputation from scandal.
Nevertheless Hannah’s father had left a clause in his will to protect his daughter’s inheritance – any future husband must have at least £50 per year income and any interest in the Newton fortune would die with his wife unless a male heir was forthcoming. Stoney was aware – well aware – of this obstacle.
He considered elopement, but had rejected it as it would cost him Hannah’s fortune and all Hannah represented to him was cold hard cash. Instead he begged and bullied his family, writing by turns pleading and aggressive letters demanding they give him the money. At the same time he further manipulated Hannah and her mother by offering to release the besotted twenty year old from her obligations to him. He is quoted as cynically saying:
Detail from ‘Company at Play’, Thomas Rowlandson, Plate 8 from Comforts of Bath, 1798
“You may be assured I had no intention of going, for I well knew I would not be permitted. However, with the help of a few tears, I was prevailed to remain with her.”
His machinations were eventually successful, his family made him a settlement, and he was married to Hannah Newton and her twenty thousand pounds fortune on the 5th November 1768. They moved to her home at Cole Pike Hill in Durham. Stoney rejoined his regiment and resumed his debauched and violent lifestyle but now with ample funds to squander.
Hannah must have had a miserable marriage and was often at Bath for her health, Wendy Moore writing in ‘Wedlock’ thinks if not physically caused by Stoney, Hannah’s ill-health was exacerbated by his harsh treatment of her. He engaged in legal wrangles with the Trustees of her father’s will when he tried to exploit the ancient woodlands on her estates, and he forced her to make a £5000 settlement on him should she die childless. eventually Hannah did die, along with the child she had just given birth too. Stoney reluctantly gave up his grip on her fortune.
A second heiress comes along
£5000 in his bank account, Stoney left the North, and set out in search of another cash cow to wed. Anne Massingberd of Ormseby Hall was his next target and he soon had her eating out of his hand, his attentions were callously calculated to ruin her reputation and any alternative marriage prospects. However Stoney was in for a shock when he realised that Anne wasn’t quite as well off as she seemed and the liaison was soon over as far as he was concerned. Anne felt differently and does not seem to have gotten over being jilted by Stoney, writing many letters to him begging for him to return to her.
The Richest Woman in England in his sights
Mary Eleanor Bowes, by JC Dillman, 1800 copied from George Englehart (Bowes Museum)
Despite the fact that Stoney’s reputation for bad treatment of women seems to have been well-known it is a measure of his charm and charisma and sexual chemistry that so many women fell for him. True Hannah and Anne had led very sheltered lives, but his next victim Mary Eleanor Bowes was highly educated, a widow and had been living it up in a very scandalous manner since the death of her husband the Earl of Strathmore in 1776.
But in order to capture the largest fortune in England, Stoney would have to sink to very underhand and theatrical tactics and spin a web of deception and lies. in 1776 Mary Eleanor was already planning to marry her current lover, Nabob Gray, and had even gone so far as to draw up crucial legal papers protecting her inheritance from any future husband, when Stoney appeared on the scene. It is rumoured that he boasted openly that he was planning to go to London and marry the dowager Countess of Strathmore, such was his over-weaning confidence.
Duel Thomas Rowlandson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Still, it took a spy in her household, a rigged slander campaign in the Morning Post – where Stoney acted the part of both slanderer and saviour with equal relish – and a faked duel in a crampt and darkened room at the Adelphi Tavern to achieve his aim. He had already made advances towards Mary Eleanor, and when he offered to fight a duel with the editor of the Morning Post, Mr Bates, Mary Eleanor seems to have been caught up in the drama and romance of the situation, especially when Stoney was mortally wounded defending her honour.
Only, things weren’t quite what they seemed. Bates and Stoney were in cahoots, they met a year earlier in Bath, and may well have hatched the whole plot there and then. Stoney also roped in his friend and ally Jesse Foote, a surgeon, in order to authenticate his fatal wounds. Mary Eleanor didn’t stand a chance, at his apparent deathbed she agreed to his request that he be married to the woman whose honour he had defended. Thinking he would be dead soon anyway, Mary Eleanor made the biggest mistake of her life and agreed. On the 17 January 1777, Stoney was carried to the altar in a stretcher, and he married his second fortune and took on the name of Bowes in accordance with her fathers will.
Stoney made a rapid recovery and soon made his true nature know to Mary Eleanor. Finding out he was not in control of her fortune, and that prenuptial agreements had been put in place to limit the financial powers of any husband, he began a sustained and brutal campaign against her – eventually tricking her in to revoking the deed. She endured 8 years of beatings, starvation, humiliation and control at the hands of Stoney. She finally escaped his clutches in February 1785, when with the help of her brave maid Mary Morgan and some other equally brave servants, she made her getaway. Penniless, she set about getting a divorce and regaining her fortune. She won. But at a high price to her health and her reputation.
Divorce and abduction
Public opinion was initially with the Countess, the divorce made people aware of the brutal treatment she had suffered at the hands of Stoney Bowes. But Stoney ruthlessly began to slander her reputation, buying a newspaper for the purpose and commissioning cruel satirical prints against her. The Georgian public swiftly turned against her, a wife who had lived a scandalous life – he had forced her to write her highly damaging ‘confessions’ and he later published them. A wife, furthermore, who had tried to prevent her husband from his legal rights to her money and property. Many people at the time would see him as a man standing up for his rights and he swayed the public opinion in his favour. Even those people who thought he had gone to far, may have thought she was getting no better than she deserved.
However, when legal proceedings began to turn in favour of Mary Eleanor, and Stoney Bowes knew his case would be lost, he took things into his own hands. He had his wife abducted in broad daylight. Bundled into a carriage and dragged back up north. Threatened with rape and violence Mary Eleanor was then dragged on horseback on a desperate cross-country flight for weeks and in the depths of winter until she was finally rescued, and Stoney arrested.
Stoney Bowes at the Court of Kings Bench, James Gillray
Abduction was one step too far, and Stoney Bowes was given three years in prison for the abduction. The divorce was finally settled in 1789 but not before he had hammed up his own sense of victimisation as much as possible – as Gillray’s cartoon of his Court appearance shows.
Deprived of his wife’s fortune, lambasted in print (even as early as 1777 The Stoniad had accused him of domestic violence and financial abuse of his wife), Stoney Bowes spend the last years of his life in debtors prison – eventually dying in 1810.
Stoney Bowes via wikimedia
Yet, even in prison he wangled the best rooms, enticed young lawyers to take up his legal shenanigans, and spend his time seducing innocent girls. Polly Sutton fell into his clutches because her father was also in prison. By all accounts she was a lovely young girl with prospects when he met her – yet even in prison he was able to ensnare her. Stoney had several children with Polly and kept her locked up in a room he hired at the prison. She got the same treatment that all of his previous wives received – violence and abuse.
Typical Georgian Gent or Sociopath?
The eighteenth century, despite being a rather feminine century, was essentially a mans world. Men ran things and owned most of the property whilst women were in the power of their fathers, brothers or husbands for most of their lives. Men expected to own their wives as much as they owned the property their wife brought to the marriage. Society was also tolerant of some levels of domestic violence against women.
Stoney Bowes went much further than this. He was clearly charming and charismatic, but he bullied, cajoled, and manipulated male friends into becoming his accomplices, and women into becoming his victims. He was an extremely good liar, and appears to have had absolutely no conscience in relation to his dealings with women or empathy for the suffering he caused. He lived a parasitic lifestyle – to him, women were a meal-ticket, he manipulated their emotions then trapped them into violent abusive marriages. He was promiscuous, violent, controlling and showed no remorse for any of his actions. I’m certainly no expert on psychology, but I would say that Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes was quite likely a bona-fide Georgian Sociopath.
Arnold, Ralph, The Unhappy Countess, Constable, 1987 edition
Moore, Wendy, Wedlock, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2009
Parker, Derek, The Trampled Wife, Sutton, 2006
Thackeray, William, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Futura, 1974 edition
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Robinson_Stoney
Author unknown, Profile of the Sociopath, http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
St Mary’s Island…
Posted by Ingrid Hall in General, History
coast, England, English history, granny irene's guide to the afterlife, North East, smugglers, St Mary's Island, St Mary's Lighthouse
St Mary’s Island: A chequered past
St Mary’s Island at low tide. Image by Jim Blakeley.
Originally named Bates Island after Thomas Bates who owned it during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, St Mary’s Island is a quaint and peaceful little island situated off the North East Coast of England, between Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice. Neatly sitting opposite Curry’s point on the mainland, the island is accessible at low tide by causeway. Whilst a light has shone in some capacity on the island for centuries, the most prominent feature and tourist attraction is it’s lighthouse which was built in 1898, and decommissioned and turned into a visitor centre in 1984.
Back in the medieval days there was a chapel on the island, and right next to the chapel was a burial ground where the monks were buried. Unfortunately all traces of the chapel were destroyed when the lighthouse was built.
It’s difficult to imagine when you visit it now that such a small and tranquil little island could have such a dark and chequered history, however in it’s time the island has suffered from a plague of locusts, and is also the setting of a horrific and brutal murder; namely that of Anthony Mitchell, a local customs officer who was slain brutally by smugglers who in the year 1722 had been illegally hovering off the North East coast line, his body dumped in what became known as smugglers creek on the north of the island; the creek still being visible to visitors to the island today.
Smugglers by John Atkinson. Public domain via Wikimedia.
Then just a few years later in the year 1739, Michael Curry, a local glassworker, was found guilty of the murder of the landlord of the inn at Old Hartley. He was duly hanged for his crime in Newcastle, and as was customary in those days his body was hung on a gibbet in sight of his crime, at the spot which is now known as Curry’s point.
In 1799 a boat load of Russian Soldiers on their way to fight in the Napoleonic wars, were struck down with cholera and the island was used to quarantine them.
Then later, in the nineteenth century, a local couple obtained permission from the landlord Lord Hastings to open a public house on the island. The pub was known locally as the Square and Compass, and the family lived there peacefully doing a roaring trade for decades, until a dispute over their drunken customers brawling on neighbouring land, resulted in the somewhat ungainly eviction of the family and their pigs from the island that they loved.
St Mary’s island and it’s dark history features heavily in my novel Granny Irene’s Guide to the Afterlife, Revenge. You can find out further information at http://www.ingridhall.com
St Mary’s Island with tide coming in. Image by Jim Blakeley.
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary’s_Island,_Tyne_and_Wear
http://www.visitnorthtyneside.com/things-to-do/st-marys-island-P689091
northeasthistorytour.blogspot.com/…/stmarys-island-lighthouse-nz35375
The strange case of Sir Francis Bacon and the frozen chicken
Posted by Miss_Jessel in Bizarre, Ghosts, History, Supernatural
bizarre deaths, chickens, English history, Ghosts, history, science, seventeenth century
One of the strangest ghost stories that I have ever come across involves Sir Francis Bacon, empirical scientist and a frozen chicken.
Sir Francis Bacon, “The Queen’s Bastard”*
Sir Francis Bacon, by Paul van Somer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Francis Bacon (1st Viscount of St Albans), philosopher, jurist, statesman, author and scientist was born on 22 January 1561 at York House in London. At the age of twelve, Bacon was sent to study at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1579 he took up a residence in law at Gray’s Inn. Famous as a liberal-minded reformer he openly opposed feudal privileges and religious persecution. He was a favourite with Queen Elizabeth I as well as being a close advisor of the Earl of Essex. He also flourished under the reign of James I, under whom he was granted a knighthood in 1603. In 1618 he was appointed Lord Chancellor but his success did not last and three years later, after falling into debt, he was accused of twenty-three separate counts of corruption and thrown out of office. With the end of his public career, Sir Francis Bacon turned to the other great passion in his life, the philosophy of science. He believed that science should be used as tool for the betterment of humanity and espoused a new approach, one based on tangible proof achieved through experimentation, gathering of data and analysis. Alas his dedication to his beliefs eventually led to an experiment which effectively caused his death on the 9 April 1626 at the age of 65.
Bacon and the first frozen chicken
In the early part of 1626, Sir Francis Bacon whilst out in his carriage fell into an argument with his companion Dr Winterbourne. The cause of the disagreement was Dr Winterbourne’s scepticism over Bacon’s hypothesis that fresh meat could be preserved if frozen. In order to prove his theory he ordered his coachman to buy a chicken from the nearest source. According to John Aubrey in his book “Brief Lives”,
“They alighted out of the coach, and went into a poor woman’s house at the bottom of Highgate Hill, and bought a hen, and made the woman gut it, and then stuffed the body with snow, and my lord did help to do it himself.
After the chicken had been partially plucked, Bacon placed the chicken in a bag, packed some more snow around it and buried the carcass. Unfortunately according to Aubrey, Bacon caught a severe chill and was so ill he was unable make the distance to his own lodgings and instead was taken
“to the Earl of Arundel’s house at Highgate, where they put him into a good bed warmed with a pan, but it was a damp bed that had not been laid-in about a year before, which gave him such a cold that in two or three days, as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of suffocation.”
Death by chicken: Fact or fiction
It is difficult to tell how reliable Aubrey’s sources were. The main problem with his account is the time of the year. If Aubrey’s report is correct then London would have been suffering from snowy conditions in April 1626. According to contemporary evidence there is no record of snow in London at that time. This is not to say that Bacon did not conduct an experiment with a frozen chicken or that it wasn’t an experiment with refrigeration that led to Bacon’s illness. It could be that either two separate incidences were confused or that the illness that Bacon picked up earlier that year was a lingering one or even more likely that Bacon on returning to analysis the results of his experiment caught a chill in the damp, cold weather. In fact Bacon himself confirms the cause of his illness. In a letter written to his absent friend, Lord Arundel, he apologises for being a burden on his household and admits that it was whilst concluding an experiment in refrigeration that he caught a chill,
“My very good Lord,—I was likely to have had the fortune of Caius Plinius the elder, who lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of Mount Vesuvius; for I was also desirous to try an experiment or two touching the conservation and induration of bodies. As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well; but in the journey between London and Highgate, I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were the Stone, or some surfeit or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three”
Whatever the truth behind the story, the death of Sir Francis Bacon will always be linked with that of a frozen chicken,
“Against cold meats was he insured?
For frozen chickens he procured —
brought on the illness he endured,
and never was this Bacon cured.”**
The hauntings of Pond Square
In a bizarre twist to the story, Pond Square, believed to be the site of Bacon’s experiment, has developed a reputation for being haunted, not by Sir Francis Bacon as you would expect but by a ghostly chicken. Numerous sightings have been reported in the leafy suburb of Highgate (in 1864 the pond itself was filled in) during the winter months, and at least twenty of these were made in the twentieth century, most during the Second World War.
In December 1943, Aircraftman Terence Long was crossing the pond late one night, when he heard noises of what sounded like horses’ hooves and a carriage behind him. Turning around he was stunned to see something which looked like a half plucked, shivering chicken shrieking wildly and running around in circles until it eventually disappeared. Shocked he then met an Air Raid Precautions fireman to whom he recounted his visitation. The fireman told him that the bird was regularly seen in the area and that one ARP had chased it, hoping to catch it for dinner until it ran into a brick wall and disappeared.
Chicken Run; Parks & Lord; Dreamworks Pictures
Again during the Second World War, a Mrs J. Greenhill, a resident of the area, confirmed that she had seen the ghostly chicken on a number of occasions, describing it as a “large whitish bird”.
In the 1960s a motorist who had broken down, reported seeing a half plucked bird in a state of distress, squawking and running in circles. Going towards it, concerned that it was injured, he was startled when it suddenly vanished into thin air.
The last confirmed sighting of the poultry ghost was in 1970. The couple whilst kissing were rudely interrupted when a bird dropped out of the air next to them. They stated that the bird was squawking and running in circles and disappeared shortly afterwards.
Recently the sightings of the ghostly chicken have virtually ceased. Maybe the bird, distressed at its unorthodox demise has finally accepted its place in scientific history and come to terms with the circumstances of its death.
*Edward Coke (opponent of Sir Francis Bacon)
** Composed by the poet, Pip Wilson
Brief Lives, John Aubrey
Pond Square Chicken, Highgate http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/greater-london/hauntings/pond-square-chicken-highgate.html
The Ghost Chicken of Highgate, London http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A14042099
Highgate Chicken Ghost http://www.real-british-ghosts.com/highgate-chicken-ghost.html
The ghost of pond square http://www.unexplainedmysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3678
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, J.A. Cuddon
True Ghosts and Spooky Incidents, Vikas Khatri
Francis Bacon: Biography, http://www.biography.com/people/francis-bacon-9194632
The Ghosts of Felbrigg Hall
Posted by Lenora in Ghosts, History, Supernatural
English Ghosts, English history, Felbrigg Hall, Ghosts, history, Norfolk, phantoms, spectres, Stately Homes, William Windham
The Approach to Felbrigg Hall
Felbrigg Hall is situated amidst vast parklands in North Norfolk and is one of the finest houses in East Anglia. Originally the home of the Felbrigg family, the land and house was acquired in the fifteenth century by the Wyndham’s. Its Jacobean facade hides elegant Georgian interiors that speak of the Wyndham/Windham’s tastes and fancies over the centuries.
Although the last Wyndham died over 200 years ago and the home has been in the hands of the National Trust since the 1960’s, not all of its past residents seem eager to quit their former home.
Detail from Felbrigg Churchyard
One such tale tells of an elderly woman, once a parlour made in the Hall, recounting how she and other maids would find that their candles were mysteriously extinguished when ever they passed by a particular door. A female voice would beckon them to enter the chamber but the room was always found to be uninhabited…
By far the most famous spirit inhabiting the hall is that of William Windham III (1750 – 1810) known as ‘the fighting Windham’ for his sporting prowess.
William Windham III, image by Joshua Reynolds
William Windham was a noted orator and a prominent statesman for much of his life. His career spanned the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Colonial Wars of the early 19th Century; but the over-riding passion of his life, and the cause of his tragic death, was his love of books. The wonderful Gothic library at Felbrigg, designed by James Paine in the 1750’s, was filled with books both William II and William III each brought back from their Grand Tour.
The Gothic Library, Felbrigg; © National Trust Images/Nadia Mackenzie
William was to meet his fate one summer evening in 1809. As he returned to his home in Pall Mall, he noticed a fire had taken hold in a house on Conduit Street very close to the residence of his friend Robert North. Windham knew that his friend had a very valuable library and he immediately set about the rescue operation. He and three others succeeded in rescuing most of the valuable manuscripts. The rescue was not without its price though as William fell and bruised his hip. The bruise became a tumor and the tumour needed to be operated on. Operations in the early nineteenth century were brutal affairs, and William died as a result. His final words, addressed to his physician were:
Felbrigg Church, resting place of the Windham family
“I thank you; this is the last trouble I shall give you. You fight the battle well, but it will not do.”
His body was buried in the family vaults at Felbrigg Church a stones throw from the Hall…and the spectre of William Windham can occasionally be encountered in the dark and shadowy Gothic Library. He has oft been found standing by a table when his favourite volumes were laid out; or ensconced in an easy chair, by a roaring fire, engrossed in some favourite book. It would seem like a pleasant way to spend eternity.
Leaving the hall and walking about the grounds you soon find yourself amidst the dark woods of Felbrigg where oaks, sweet chestnuts and conifers hold sway. Here you may cross paths with ‘Mad Windham’ driving his phantom coach through the trees. And a spectral wind rising out of nowhere and disappearing as suddenly as it arose, may cause more than a whisper amongst the leaves….
Felbrigg woods
National Trust, http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/felbrigg-hall/
The Wicked Lady: folklore, fiction – fact?
Posted by Lenora in Films, General, Ghosts, History, Legends and Folklore, seventeenth century, Supernatural
civil war, English history, folk lore, Hertfordshire, highway women, highwaymen, history, Katherine Fanshawe, Lady Katherine Ferrers, legends, Markyate Cells, seventeenth century, The wicked lady
The Gentleman’s Magazine, Monday, 24 November 1735:
Margaret Lockwood as the Wicked Lady, 1945 Gainsborough Pictures.
“A Butcher was Robb’d in a very Gallant Manner by a Woman well mounted on a Side Saddle, &c. near Rumford in Essex. She presented a Pistol to him, and demanded his Money; he being amaz’d at her Behaviour told her, he did not know what she meant; when a Gentleman coming up, told him he was a Brute to deny the Lady’s request, and if he did not gratify her Desire immediately, he wou’d Shoot him thro’ the Head; so he gave her his Watch and 6 Guineas.”†
The term Highway Man entered the English Language in 1617, courtesy of one William Fennor in his work ‘The Counter’s Commonwealth’ and it did not take long for the female highway man to follow.
One of the most colourful and persistent legends of the female highwayman is that of The Wicked Lady. Her tale has entered both the local folk-lore of the Hertfordshire area and become well-known to the public at large through the 1944 novel by Magdalen King Hall and the 1945 Gainsborough film starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason. A later more frolicsome version was also produced by Michael Winner in 1983 and starring Faye Dunaway (although it is not to be forgotten that the 1945 version was considered extremely daring in its day because of the low decolletage of the ladies gowns).
The legend of the Wicked Lady
Both book and film contain most of the salient points of the legend, although they clearly embellish the account. King Hall names her protagonist Lady Barbara Skelton of Maryiott Cells (rather than Markyate Cell), her lover the notorious highwayman Captain Jackson. These versions of the tale have taken on an authority of their own in imparting the legend to a contemporary audience.
The main elements of the traditional tale are that a beautiful, young and bored noblewoman takes to dressing as a man and riding the countryside between Markyate Cells, Watling Street, Nomansland Common and Gustard Wood holding up travellers at gun point and stealing their goods. Her antics are unknown to her husband and retainers as she is able to exit Markyate Cells via a secret passageway.
She falls in love with a local farmer Ralph Chaplin and together they continue their reign of terror. Eventually Chaplin is hanged during a failed robbery on Finchley Common and in her grief the wicked lady terrorises the villagers around Markyate Cells burning their cottages as they sleep, killing livestock and even going as far as to kill the Constable of Caddington.
Faye Dunaway – the death of the Wicked Lady, from the Michael Winner film 1983
Despite her grief she continues to rob and plunder travellers until one night she attacks a lone waggoner on the remote and chillingly named Nomansland Common. Unbeknownst to her, he has comrades hidden in the waggon and she is shot and fatally wounded. Riding back to Markyate Cells she dies before she can reach her home and is found, in her highwayman’s garb, in the grounds by servants who under the cover of darkness convey her body for burial.
Spectral Sightings
It might be supposed that the death of The Wicked Lady would see the end of her antics. However, there was more to come, as Magdalen King Hall well knew. At least one-third of her novel deals with a fictionalised history of the sightings of the female highwayman’s ghost particularly in and around ‘Maryiott Cells’.
“Slow dragging footsteps could be heard across the floors and lights seen in windows of unoccupied rooms; where mysterious rappings, sighs and whispering disturbed the stillness of the night house.”
A trembling bishop at a garden party describes seeing a comely female form in male attire that chilled him to the bone:
“The expression on the face was malign, predatory, doleful and all together most disquieting”
Nomansland Common, image by Hogweard
Not so fanciful it would seem, as there are many real life accounts of the spectre of the Wicked Lady. The accounts seem to begin in the nineteenth century and include the somewhat surprising manifestation of the lady swinging from the branches of an old Sycamore tree in the grounds of Markyate Cell, terrifying a gang of workmen away from the location of her hidden treasure.
In 1840 Markyate Cell burned down and this was said to have been caused by the wicked lady – those fighting the fire are said to have felt very uneasy and many thought that their efforts were being watched from the woods by her baleful spirit.
In the late 19th Century the journal of August Hare records her presence at Markyate Cell – he apparently was not phased by sharing his home with a phantom and often bid her good night when he passed her on the staircase. One comical entry states he found her shade standing in a doorway. Calling to his wife, who was on the other side, they both ran forward arms outstretched to capture her but – of course – she was not there. I don’t believe Mr Hare’s journal notes whether he and his wife bumped noses as a result of this encounter!
In the early twentieth century one George Wood was travelling the road from Markyate to Kensworth and saw a female figure dressed as a man about half a mile away. The figure jumped into a ditch and when he reached the spot she was gone. Mr Wood was unaware of the legend, but a local woman interpreted his vision for him and decided it was clearly the famous highway woman herself.
In 1970, Doug Payne, owner of The Wicked Lady Pub in Wheathampstead, claimed that whilst dog walking on Nomansland Common one night he was startled by the sounds of hoof-beats fast approaching him – yet he saw no rider. The Wicked Lady pub was an inn in the seventeenth century and was thought to be one of her haunts.
More recently still, a woman returning to St Alban’s and stuck in a traffic jam was amazed to see a rider galloping in front of her car, pursued by a figure on foot who leaned on the car bonnet! The vision dissolved in front of her eyes.
Local legend has it that horses left out in the fields near Markyate Cell at night, have been found in the mornings foam-flecked and exhausted, as thought they had been ridden hard all night….
Who was the Wicked Lady?
Katherine Fanshawe – the wicked lady? Portrait currently in Valence House Museum
Such a rich legend has to be true, doesn’t it? There has to be a real woman behind this legend – right? Well many people have tried to identify the real historical woman behind the legend and by far the most popular candidate is Lady Katherine Ferrers (1634 – 1660).
Katherine Ferrers (sometimes spelled Catherine) was the daughter of Knighton Ferrers and his wife. Early in life she suffered the tragedy of losing her father and grandfather and brother which meant that by the age of 6 she was heiress to a vast fortune and extensive property and land. Her mother remarried in 1640 Simon Fanshawe (later Sir Simon) but died only two years later leaving the young Katherine to the mercenary mercies of her step-father.
The Fanshawes were another wealthy landowning family, and a match between the Ferrers and the Fanshawes would seem practical – both families needed to ensure an heir or die out, their lands were adjoining and both were of the same religion. Katherine was betrothed to Simon Fanshawe’s nephew Thomas. In 1648 when she was 14 and he was 16 they were married and their fortunes were united.
One cloud on the horizon for the young couple was the Civil War. It is likely that both families were royalist, but the Fanshawe’s were very actively so, and had suffered as a consequence. The Sequestration Act took one of their properties and unlike parliamentarians, royalists had to obtain funds for their cause through contributions (from willing contributors such as the Fanshawe’s and less willing contributors who were looted or taxed unfairly). Many of the Fanshawe’s fled abroad and others were often away fighting or in prison. All of this made the family short of ready money. Katherine’s inheritance was fair game and bit by bit her lands and properties were sold off for the cause. Even Markyate Cell, so integral to the legend was sold by her husband in 1655 to ‘3 Londoners’ then again in 1657 to Mr Coppins.
Did this sudden pressure on the Ferrers/Fanshawe coffers lead Katherine to a life of highway robbery? It was not unheard of – the Civil War left may noble and dashing young royalist without funds and a number of noble men (and even some noble women) were credited with taking to the highways and byways to replenish their wealth. Did the bored and beautiful young wife, neglected by her husband take up with the handsome Ralph Chaplin and seek a life of adventure and peril on the open road?
She certainly died young – only 26 years of age. She was not recorded as having any issue and was buried by night not in the Fanshawe family vault as might be expected, but at St Mary’s Church, Ware. With her early death, the Ferrers line died out.
Katherine Ferrers – Guilty or Innocent?
Putting aside any thought for what the real Katherine may have thought about her posthumous fame/infamy, I would love her to be the prototype for the Wicked Lady. A modern minx or proto feminist who just wouldn’t sit back and be the passive wife while her inheritance was frittered away by her neglectful husband, someone who took destiny by the throat, and even though she eventually lost, someone who died trying! I would like to think she had an exciting, if short, life. But I just don’t think the evidence holds up.
Markyate Cell, from The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1805
Yes, she was in the right place at the right time, and circumstances could have led her to seek her fortune on the road and her early death may hint at some violent end….but.
The legend sets her base as Markyate Cell, her ancestral home, yet it has never been proven that she actually lived there and in any-case the manor was sold well before her death. In addition to this, Markyate Cell would seem too far away from her alleged stomping ground on Nomansland Common to be practical (although Gustards Wood has been mooted as an alternative HQ).
The handsome Ralph Chaplin, who swept the bored young girl off her feet, appears no where in local records and seems as much a phantom as the unseen rider. Finchley Common, the site of his death, is also just a bit too far away to be likely.
Her early death, and burial by night can hardly be seen as uncommon in the seventeenth century. Insanitary conditions, even for the wealthy, and poor understanding of medicine would have led to many an untimely death. Burial in the evening was also a common practice at that time. Her choice to be buried in the Church at Ware may have been out of respect to her Ferrers heritage rather than a sign of disgrace.
A case of mistaken identity or folk-lore gone wild?
The female highwayman/soldier/sailor is a common folk motif in English tradition. And treasure – what good folk-tale or legend is repleat without lost treasure to keep the story alive!
“Near the Cell, there is a wellNear the well there is a tree
And under the tree the treasure be”
Ballads and folktales abound on this subject of cross-dressing highwaymen and lost treasure; and perhaps at a time of civil war when there was so much turmoil and unrest a female highwayman entering the local cannon of folk-lore might be expected. That Katherine Ferrers name has become associated with this local legend may be down to misidentification and coincidence.
In the 1820’s builders discovered a secret passage way at Markyate Cell. It ran from the Kitchen to a chamber above. The discovery excited local gossip about the legendary highway woman. In 1833 a poem called ‘Maude of Allinghame’ told of the exploits of a female highwayman. Coincidentally Katherine’s mother was related to a family called Allinghame.
Add to this the muddled memory of the Wicked Lord Ferrers, hanged at Tyburn in 1760 for murdering a faithful servant and it’s not to big a step to create a Wicked Lady Ferrers – the film versions have the wicked lady murdering a faithful old retainer so incorporate this element.
Overall, I am with John Barber and Marianne Gilchrist on this one and I believe that on balance, Katherine Ferrers probably wasn’t the Wicked Lady of folk legend; but that the strength of this legend in the popular consciousness was such that it appropriated a real person to validate it.
Certainly Anne Fanshawe writing the family history in the 1920’s had little to say of Katherine, and gossip at the time of her death did not attribute any scandal to her name.
She was, perhaps best described thus (despite the unfortunate emphasis on her fortune):
“A very great fortune and most excellent woman”§
Katherine Fanshawe
† Quote taken from http://www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com, http://www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com/gentmag.htm
§ Quote from ‘Dictionary of National Biography’, http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2001/ans-0021-wickedlady.htm
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Life is life and should be held sacred everywhere – and paranoia cannot become the basis for lethal action as a means to instill security by force.
Carl Zaisser April 22nd, 2009 7:31 pm ET
The question is not IF Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. Anyone with lucid intelligence who read and followed what went on (going back to 1947 and 1917, in fact) in Gaza would be an absolute fool to question the IF. The REAL QUESTION is when will the Western media, European democracies and the United States stop pretending there is even a question about these war crimes and human rights violations. This media and these governments are complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the genocidal strategy and acts committed in Gaza last December and January. Just kindly wake the hell up, will you?
frank April 22nd, 2009 7:32 pm ET
Isreal committed war crime and it has to pay for. this is not the time of saying " we are sorry".
Sam-from kenya April 22nd, 2009 7:33 pm ET
Yes and we all say it, they even killed innocent chicken!
Georges April 22nd, 2009 7:39 pm ET
crime is crime and this masive crime should not go with out spotting and addressing from the international community. We are evolving into a new era where Israel should be protected by limiting its negative behaviour before it is too late.
Georges (Switzerland)
laura April 22nd, 2009 7:44 pm ET
It is a crime and it is a crime to deny it. If we want history not to be source of future "terrorists" then we have to stop Israel now from killing under its justification of existing in this word. If it needs to exist then it needs to be clean and not a criminal. What it has done since 1948 is more than enough. and it will always be haunted be its crimes.
Laura (Geneve)
Alaine Apap Bologna April 22nd, 2009 7:44 pm ET
Your personal views on Israel have created a conflict of interest on what happened in Gaza. To me, this shows poor journalism- sorry!
Bushra K.H April 22nd, 2009 7:52 pm ET
No two thoughts about it. Israel didn't only commit war crimes, it has repeatedly committed crimes against humanity. About time they're taken to task for that.
Spiro April 22nd, 2009 7:52 pm ET
It is time to correct a historical error of giving Israel more than it deserves. Now it became a monster that influence the international community and change facts. We should wake up and create peace and equality just as we care about green environment and animal rights. Those are souls of inosent children which still alive and seek peace in heaven. For their sake we need to wake up.
Captain330 April 22nd, 2009 11:30 pm ET
I thought twice before posting, but the second time i thought whether or not i will post i noticed what the world led me to think ....
Today i have to think twice before saying something about isreal !!!!
Why ? Due to an overwhelming propaganda led by the israeli government to always remind people what happened in tha past to them ....
Feeling of compassion, i would say YES, what the jewish underwent in the past couldn't be forget, but to use this pretext to kill thousands of people and making them homeless, i say ENOUGH !!!!!! It has been done too much time in the past without saying a word !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1948 they came in an INHABITED land, and with the help of western power, they began their expansion !!!
They barely came that they began to start war with their neighboor (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon...), weakened by that and due to several agreement signed with isreal, arabs countries were unable to help palestinians, and it has kept on this way since today....
Do you think Israel committed “war crimes” in Gaza,
I'm laughing when i read such a question .... Is it necessary to ask it ??? Can't you see it !!!
Ahmedinejad was too excessive to say such things in such context, but there was nothing racial about what he said !!!! This is the true !!!
One day, i read an interview in the "Figaro" a french newspapers with shimon peres, it was during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of israel, and the reporter asked him if they were always thinking about exapansion, and peres declared it was something they didn't reject ....
It doesn't forebode better days ....
PS: excuse me for my rough english i'm french and you know, english and us make two ( french statement ^^ )
someone April 23rd, 2009 10:50 am ET
we all saw the pictures, no question Israel has committed war and human rights crimes in Gaza, I just wonder what other crimes in the past it has committed without the world taking notice to, but for my part I think that the whole idea of "Israel" is a crime.
Justice Now April 23rd, 2009 4:59 pm ET
Well, also try to ask whether Hamas firing indiscriminately into Israel with the intention to kill as many as possible, is not an act of war crime.
I don't think the world want to be honest about solving the issue of Israeli and Palestinians. When will the world also stand firm and call on all right thinking Moslems to stand up and denounce the use of Koran and Islam in the cause of evil?
When will the world demand that the Muslims world also live up to the demand of showing respect to other religion -Those they often disrespectfully refers to as ‘infidels’-, who gave them the right to call others infidel, when others are not even allowed to criticise the evils linked with Islam?
How come that all the conflicts and terror around the world are often carried out in the name of Islam and those perpetrating such evil often seal their evil with verses from the Koran and other Islamic citations to prove their point.
Think of the development around the world and see the difference in the action taken by the world community.
In Sudan, Muslims are freely and systematically massacring the African populations in their own land, the world refuse to call it what it is genocide
In Nigeria, Muslims are freely killing the Christians at will and without any provocation.
In Palestine, it’s about the Islamic Hamas having the agenda to wipe out Israel without compromise, this are just to mention but few.
The question is how long must the madness continue before the world question the ‘Peaceful’ nature of Islam. When will the world accept the fact that the current practice of Islam is complete opposite of what peace should be?
Unfortunately, the world seems to bulge for terror and do everything to pacify those that use it as a means of getting their way. The world was ready to attack Israel for mistreating Palestinians but not ready to recognise the independent struggle of the Tamils from Sri Lanka , the people of Eastern Nigeria (former Biafrans), the Southern Sudanese (Also Darfur), and so many others.
Israel has the right just as any other country to defend itself and to destroy any threat to its existence. Palestinians have had far more support than any other known independent struggling group, yet they have not show any serious sign that their intention of having their own state is not to go after the destruction of another nation, rather than to think constructively of building their own country and live in peace with their neighbours.
Bruce Allan April 23rd, 2009 5:02 pm ET
All the Palestinians had to do to stop the Israeli "invasion" was to stop firing rockets into Israel. How difficult is that to understand!!
Captain330 April 23rd, 2009 6:55 pm ET
Well, first try not to get confused with problems which come from coran which are mainly related to bad interpreting because this is an other matter ...
Then, I don't think that you need any kind of religion to react to an agression. So, from this point, i think we can talk without putting faith and religion in the subject !!
So,Justice Now, you're actually totally out of the matter...
We are always turning around the same point, there are those who think about current events without caring about the past and those who don't !
And the frustration and the violence which come from palestinians and other government like Iran is due to the memories of the past and refusal to accept things to go on the wrong way .
Bruce Allan, i just would like to reminsce you about the fact that these rockets were mainly landing in the middle of nowhere, and a so excessively equipped power like israel is widely able to intercep these rockets !!!
Hope April 23rd, 2009 7:08 pm ET
Is this a trick question? my goldfish can answer it...YES.
me April 23rd, 2009 7:32 pm ET
what bruce allane failed to mention above is that during the 6 months truce between hamas and israel before the massacre in gaza hamas did not fire any rocket, meanwhile israel continued to kill palestinian farmers and civilians on a daily bases and held a siege on gaza until there was no clean water to drink and even no electricity in gaza.
Sayah April 24th, 2009 10:42 pm ET
Let us just talk and avoid making new enemies.
I understand the right of Israel to defend itself for the simple reason that the “Jews” suffered a lot throughout history merely for being “Jews”. Auschwitz- Birkenau was the culminating point. Millions of innocent people were transported by trains from different cities in Europe to these concentration camps to be gassed, experimented on or left to die by illness, diseases and starvation. Of course, the majority of them were Jews, but there were also gypsies and coloured people.
However, what I do not understand is the European countries stubbornness to face the past; to assume their responsibility for not preventing that genocide. More than that, they have thrown their burden over the shoulders of the Palestinian people. And now, it is up to Gaza and Jericho to pay for Europe’s past wrong doings. It’s what we can call the theory of “Payer les Pots cassés”.
Sometimes it comes to mind and I start wondering whether the Palestinians have something to do with Auschwitz.
Justice Now; yes, but HOW and WHERE?!
Bruce Allan April 25th, 2009 3:10 pm ET
No one can deny that Israel massivley overreacted to the rocket firing by Hammas. What I find very difficult to understand is why the Hamas leadership allowed it to go on, if you take it to its logical conclusion, Hammas fires rockets and Kills 6 Israelis, Israel masscres 1000. How many times can this happen before the civilian population is completely masacred by Israel. I would place money on the fact that the Hammas leadership who allowed the firing of the rockets were safely ensconced in the Lebanon. The blame for all the innocent civilians killed can be equally shared by the Hammas leadership and Israel. Does nobody care about all the innocents? It would appear not.
Captain330 April 25th, 2009 5:59 pm ET
I'm totally in agreement with Sayah !!
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March 3, 2019 November 17, 2019 csdmcroberts
The United Methodist Church, which I have considered my church, succumbed to a ruthless and effective political strategy and to the meanness of human imagination. It fell because hearts failed, courage failed, and because too many of us cannot tell the difference between hate and love. It fell because we have relied too much on wealth, power and the prestige of our white American identity to sit at the heart of the church.
Living in faith community is always about living in the problem of hypocrisy and hope.
However, the United Methodist Church told me this week that I am no longer welcome at its tables, in its worship spaces, nor in its puffy cloud heaven. It said this hurtfully, harmfully and with the clear intent to destroy the souls of some within our gathered community.
Churches are very good at singling out people to group into unworthy villains that must be excluded even unto their death. In their history, the Methodists have been no different, as it was a Methodist minister who uttered the phrase “nits make lice” and blotted out the lives of ~148 people.
Since 1972, it has been pulling particular people out of its community and telling them to go stand in the corner. It put a name on a placard and placed that label around each person’s neck. It then started pointing its fingers and calling its names. The UMC aimed its hate, its fear, its aggression, its domination, and its control at those people-creating of them a targeted and vilified people group.
Some of us have held hope that this abuse and shame could be transformed and redressed in our lifetime and maybe even by our own hands. Repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and redemption are all church-y words we like to throw around, and more than that, they are tenets of faith some live by.
An act of repentance from me is to recognize that I never really had claim on that hope, and it takes a certain kind of hubris to believe that it is up to me to set anyone free. I have participated in joy with United Methodist faith communities and been treated as beloved, significant, and worthy. Many people have not. I failed to see them-I have failed to see you. I did not move soon enough, fast enough or with enough conviction into the corner where you have been kept.
I offer this confession into your hands.
If this kind of declaration matters to you: I am not a United Methodist. You don’t have to fear me in that way. I am not always safe, and I often don’t get anything right. But I am committed to an ethic of love, and to an active resistance to evil, injustice and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves, including when that form is what has been my church.
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Vali Lucifer
'High School DxD' Profile: Vali Lucifer
“ That’s fine. I don’t have any interest in living long. Just, I feel regret being born in this age. A world without God. —I wanted to try defeating God. ”
– Volume 4, Grigori. 1
ヴァーリ・ルシファー
Vāri Rushifā
Devil/Human Hybrid
Va (by Lavinia)
White Dragon Emperor (shared with Albion)
Vanishing Dragon (shared with Albion)
The Strongest White Dragon Emperor (by Azazel)
White Dragon Emperor of the Morning Star
White Dragon (shared with Albion)
True Lucifer (by Aži Dahāka)
Successor of the True Satan (by Aži Dahāka)
Butt Dragon Emperor (shared with Albion) (by Odin & also used in Oppai Dragon)
Lucidrago (by the members of the Slash Dog team)
Lucidra (by Kouki Samejima)
Light Silver
Dark Silver (Season 2-3)
Light Blue (Season 2-3)
Divine Dividing
Lucifer (Great-Grandfather) †
Lilith (Great-Grandmother)
Rizevim Livan Lucifer (Grandfather) †
Razevan Lucifer (Father) †
Unnamed Human Mother
Unnamed Half-Siblings
Unnamed Human Stepfather
Azazel (Surrogate Father)
Odin (Foster Father)
Thor (Eldest Foster Brother)
Baldur (Older Foster Brother)
Vidar (Older Foster Brother)
Khaos Brigade (Formerly)
Vali Team (Team White Dragon Emperor of the Morning Star) (Founder/Leader)
Azazel (Former Mentor)
Ultimate-Class Devil
High-Class Devil (Formerly)
Ryōta Ōsaka (Japanese)
Austin Tindle (English)
Vali Lucifer is the leader of the Vali Team that was previously affiliated with the Khaos Brigade. He is the remaining descendant of the original Lucifer and the possessor of the Vanishing Dragon, Albion; wielding the Sacred Gear Divine Dividing. As such, he is the direct rival of Issei Hyoudou and Ddraig.
Vali is a handsome young man with light silver hair (dark silver in seasons 2-3) and hazel eyes (light blue in seasons 2-3). He is often seen wearing a dark green V-neck shirt with a high-collared black leather jacket over it. He also wears burgundy jeans with a silver chain drooping down over them and black leather chaps with three bands encircling his right calf, and black shoes with black buckles. As with other Devils, Vali has black bat-like wings on his back. However, unlike other Devils, he possesses a total of eight. Vali also bears a great resemblance to his grandfather, Rizevim Livan Lucifer. Vali's height is 168 cm (5 feet 6 inches) and body weight is [60 kg].
While initially appearing to be a cold, arrogant, overconfident and ruthless person, Vali has a calm, noble, and caring side in him as he cares deeply for his comrades. Vali strongly believes in his own strength. Along with the Longinus "Divine Dividing" and his demonic powers, he refuses to use any other weapon besides the two.
He is known to be a prideful young man like his grandfather and a battle maniac, being obsessed in finding strong opponents, and having said that he would gladly welcome death if there was no one strong enough for him to fight. Additionally, Vali does take some pride in being the descendant of the original Lucifer, but not in the same arrogantly fanatic extent as the other Old Satan descendants. This is most likely due to his childhood where his father, whose fanatical pride as Lucifer's grandson, was one of the two factors that led him to abuse his own son due to having greater potential than himself. Unlike the other Old Satan descendants, Vali has absolutely no interest in supporting the world domination ideals of the Original Satans like Shalba, Creuserey, and Katerea.
Vali shows a proper attitude towards beings that deserve respect.
Vali does possess a more vulnerable side, a side that he almost never shows. This side of him comes from the extreme abuse and persecution that Vali suffered at his father's hand. While Vali never says it, Azazel has noted that Vali actually wanted to be raised in a happy family like Issei's, as well as being a normal person with no special lineage. This was shown in Volume 21 when Aži Dahāka pointed out that Vali's deepest desire is a family.
His painful childhood caused by his father and Rizevim also led him to learn and understand compassion, a trait that other descendants of the original Satans did not have. Vali has repeatedly done selfless acts of kindness such as saving Asia from being disintergrated by exposure to the Dimensional Gap as well as helping Rias to stop Issei's life threatening rampage when he went berserk from activating Juggernaut Drive though he openly demonstrated a neutral demeanor when doing so. The greatest sign of his compassion is that Vali cared immensely for his mother who was the only person in his tragic childhood to have shown him kindness, leading him to withstand his father's horrible abuse for the sake of protecting her. Vali's strong resolve to protect his mother also extends to his younger half-siblings. During his death match with Aži Dahāka, the safety and protection of his mother and half siblings became the driving force and determination that spurred Vali to attain victory against the Evil Dragon.
As a child, Vali was persecuted by his father who was afraid of him and viewed him as a monster due to Vali's ownership of a Longinus in addition to his heritage as Lucifer's descendant. This was later revealed to be a suggestion by his grandfather, Rizevim, who told his son to "bully" Vali if he was scared of him. Vali eventually ran away from his parents and was found by Azazel who took and raised him in Grigori where he trained himself with the intention of killing both his father and grandfather to avenge himself for their responsibility in the painful childhood he endured. At some point, the previous "Ouryuu" had been causing trouble for him and Tobio.
Vali first appeared in Volume 3 to defeat Kokabiel under Azazel's orders.
Vali and Issei fighting in their respective Scale Mail armors
He reappears in front of Kuoh Academy in Volume 4, mocking Issei for his weaknesses and his lack of strength. He later participated in the peace treaty between the Three Factions, fending off several magicians before betraying Azazel and revealing his allegiance with the Khaos Brigade. He then fought against Issei. While initially underestimating Issei due to his background, Vali became interested in him after Issei manages to overwhelm him due to Azazel saying that Vali would half the size of girls breasts, despite the fact he was not using his real strength. The battle, however, was ended abruptly by the sudden appearance of Bikou who asked Vali to retreat before he could use Juggernaut Drive.
In Volume 6, Vali and Bikou appeared in front of Issei after he had just finished his usual Devil work, warning Issei to be careful about Diodora Astaroth. Mil-tan then came passing them wearing Gothic-Lolita clothes and cat ears and were stunned as they couldn't sense his presence till he came closer, Vali asked Bikou if he was a Nekomata using Senjutsu, he pondered that he might be a type of Cat-Troll. The two then left with Bikou suggesting they try the rumored Noodle-shop on the way. He reappears along with Bikou and Arthur Pendragon, saving an unconscious Asia Argento from the Dimensional Gap and gave advice to the Occult Research Club on how to release Issei's incomplete Juggernaut Drive, which was something that could stimulate his heart, which Bikou suggests breasts. Irina then arrived with a device that projected Issei singing the Oppai Dragon Song that seemed to calm Issei down. Vali used his Balance Breaker to lower Issei's, allowing Rias to come in close for Issei to pock her breasts which instantly turned him back, Vali then questioned if Rias' breasts were like a control switch for Issei. After Issei woke up, he revealed his true purpose of being in the Underworld, which was to have a look at the True Red Dragon God Emperor, Great Red, as he reveals to Issei that his greatest desire is to defeat Great Red and become the True White Dragon God Emperor. He asked Issei if he wanted to defeat him, he admitted so as well as a few others, Vali also expressed the same objective and promised to fight again one day, Issei extended his fist in agreement to settle it their as he found it troubling if he were to shrink everyone's breasts, Vali simply found him amusing and told him to get stronger before he and his team left.
In Volume 7, Vali and his teammates cooperated with Azazel to help the Gremory group in their battle against Loki and Fenrir. As Vali and Issei has started to get along with each other, Odin joined their discussion asking him which women's body part does he likes. Vali irritably replied that he's no Oppai dragon, but he thinks that the line from their waist to their hip symbolizes the beauty of women, gaining the nickname Ketsuryūkō (Butt Dragon) from Odin, much to Albion's dismay. In the battle against Loki, Vali used his Juggernaut Drive to hold back Fenrir after they were transported by Kuroka to another location alongside Gleipnir, allowing Arthur to use his Excalibur Ruler to subjugate the giant wolf.
In Volume 9, Vali sends Le Fay Pendragon and Gogmagog to Kyoto to "repay" the Hero Faction for their surveillance on the Vali Team. After hearing Le Fay's report, Vali became interested in Issei's new power which differs from the usual Juggernaut Drive after Issei successfully persuaded two of the past possessors, but he claims that it is not his style to persuade the past possessors and that he will dominate them all instead.
In Volume 11, Vali sends Kuroka, Le Fay, and Fenrir to the Hyoudou Residence as Ophis's bodyguards, who at that time was interested to learn more about Issei. When Cao Cao and Georg attacked the Gremory Team, Vali switched places with Fenrir through a magic circle set up by Kuroka and Le Fay. During the battle, Vali, angered by Cao Cao mocking his past, attempted to activate his Juggernaut Drive but was stopped when Georg under Cao Cao's orders used Samael's poison on Vali, greatly weakening him.
Vali looking at a defeated Cao Cao
In Volume 12, Vali, still suffering from Samael's curse, hid inside the Gremory Palace while receiving treatment from the original Sun Wukong. He later fought against Pluto, revealing his Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive after sealing all of the past possessors' consciousness and halves Pluto into nothingness in one blast. After Issei defeats Cao Cao, Vali came to check on both on them, commenting on the fact that Cao Cao received Samael's curse and asking why the Truth Idea didn't work which after hearing Cao Cao's explanation, laughs at the latter. He tells Cao Cao that the one who will defeat Issei is him. He then promptly leaves the area with his team.
In Volume 14, though never showing up in person, Vali is mentioned several times, investigating extinct monsters, including Evil Dragons, while running into the Khaos Brigade. Near the end of Volume 14, Euclid Lucifuge received a report that Vali and his team were causing trouble and sent Grendel to deal with him.
In Volume 15, Vali appears along with Arthur, Bikou and Fenrir in Romania, to discuss with Azazel the re-emergence of the Evil Dragons, the Vampires, the Holy Grail and Euclid Lucifuge.
Vali angered at Grandfather Rizevim
In Volume 16, while Issei and the Occult Research Club members are being confronted by Crom Cruach, Vali arrived and said that he and Issei need to team up to deal with the strongest Evil Dragon since he doesn't want to expend more energy after fighting with the possessor of Incinerate Anthem and Euclid Lucifuge. Even though he, with his normal Balance Breaker, and Issei, with his Crimson Cardinal Promotion, teamed up, they weren't able to deal considerable damage to Crom Cruach with the latter stopping the fight after accomplishing his task to stall the group for ten minutes. Vali later met his Grandfather, Rizevim Livan Lucifer, and even though his anger for him was overflowing, he didn't attack him knowing that his grandfather possesses the Sacred Gear Canceller. After Rizevim teleported Vali and the Occult Research Club members to the Carmilla's castle town to witness personally the mayhem caused by the mass-produced Evil Dragon, Vali attacked Rizevim but wasn't able to inflict damage on him and was furious after the latter succeeded in escaping with Euclid and Lilith. After returning from Romania, Vali and the rest of the Vali Team participated in the meeting for the formation of D×D and he agreed to be Odin's adopted son.
In Volume 17, Vali and Issei were being trained by First-Gen Sun Wukong within a space below the Gremory territory to learn to properly use and not waste their power. While Issei was sparring with a Shikigami-like thing made from the old man's hair and Youjutsu, Vali was having a mock battle with Sun Wukong who had the upper hand in blocking his attacks.
In Volume 18, Vali came to Issei's house and watched AV videos with Issei on Azazel's suggestion. After watching Vali seriously trying to find ways to turn what he was watching into Dragon power, Issei became disillusioned with his hobby for a short while.
In Volume 19, he and his team appeared at the Hyoudou Residence underground pool where they witnessed Issei and Rias' new combination technique. While enjoying their time there Bikou wanted to ask Vali for a favor now that their past crimes are cleared but he replied that he wanted to spend his time on attacking Rizevim and the Evil Dragons, as well as training his own power and that he should ask for either Kuroka or Le Fay instead. Arthur then expressed his interests to Vali as he heard that members of the Church’s rebels were Holy Sword wielders, Vali further increased his interests by mentioning the possibility of legendary wielders of holy swords may also be arriving. Tobio joined in telling Vali not to cause any trouble for Azazel, Vali simply shrugged and told him that he'd like to have a fight with Tobio to settle the scores from the last time, but he retorted that his fight is with Issei instead of him. Hearing this, Vali laughed loudly, then turned around to leave as Tobio tried to advised him to at least listen to the planned schedule after today.
In Volume 20, Vali managed to locate where Rizevim had hidden Agreas. Right after Rizevim finished his dialogue with Issei, Vali burst into the room and began a brawl with his grandfather, in which he was easily overwhelmed due to the immense gap in strength, in addition to Rizevim's Sacred Gear Canceller. After Issei's parents learned of Issei's secret life as a Devil and continue to accept him, Vali watched on, confused by what he was seeing. After Issei defeated Rizevim, Vali complimented Issei, telling him he greatly admired the fact that Issei fought for his family.
Vali arrived at Rizevim's location shortly after Azi Dahaka and Apophis left, in which he chanted the chant for Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive. While ignoring Rizevim's pathetic attempts to beg for his life, Vali created a sword made purely from magic. Right as Azazel told Rizevim he would have the honor of dying at the hands of the two Heavenly Dragons, Vali disagreed with him, saying that Rizevim had been defeated by a normal family, saying that Issei possessed something he did not. When Rizevim tried to get Lilith to defend him, Vali persuaded Lilith to defect, after which Vali proceeded to mercilessly cut Rizevim's arm off, much to the latter's surprise and agony. Right as he was about to kill Rizevim, Vali stopped, noticing Fafnir's presence. He stood back and watched an injured Fafnir kill Rizevim. He then told the now-dead Rizevim that while Rizevim had soiled the name of Lucifer, Vali would takeover, declaring that he would not become like him.
Vali found the sleeping 666 with Azazel, then was shocked to learn that Rizevim had a fail-safe in play, in which he would use his soul's energy to forcibly breach the final seal on 666. However, the message was cut short, after which Apophis and Azi Dahaka declared war on D×D and taunted Vali, asking whether he would fight or not. Azi Dahaka chimed in, telling Vali to bring Issei along.
In Volume 21, a few days after the unsealing of 666, Vali was positioned in the Northern Europe region in preparation of the next attack of Qlippoth. Prior to the battle, Vali went to peek on his estranged mother, who had her memories of Vali removed from her by his father. Vali vows to protect his mother and his half-siblings. He later faces off against Aži Dahāka in a rematch as Vali initially struggles against the legendary Evil Dragon, trapping Vali in an illusion where he has a normal family. Vali eventually breaks through the illusion and through the help of Ophis, manages to gain the DxD L, fusing his powers into one as Vali continues his battle against Aži Dahāka and eventually overpowering the Evil Dragon. Before disappearing, Aži Dahāka makes a promise with Vali to return and fight again.
Exhausted from his battle with Aži Dahāka, Vali later had to watch his mentor and father figure Azazel, leave as Azazel, along with the other leaders sacrifice themselves by taking 666 into the Isolation Barrier Field, much to Vali's dismay as he was unable to voice out his plea towards Azazel. Vali was later confined to a hospital room with Issei to recover with Ophis and Lilith for company. When Issei wakes up, Vali tells him how Ophis adjusted the power borrowed from her thus curing him of his Dragon Deficiency. Vali also tells Issei how Azazel and the others Mythology leaders are gone, he notes with a trembling voice that they both have bodies able to survive a very long time and will await Azazel's return to complain to him.
In Volume 22, Vali and his team go fishing with the Occult Research Club and Issei's parents, with Vali tagging along with Issei to find a fishing spot. Vali tells Issei that he's been promoted into Ultimate-class, an offer he originally turned down, but accepted once he was told that his promotion was Azazel's wish. Vali then tells Issei he's going to participate in the Azazel Cup, which he finds the perfect opportunity to fight God-class beings without causing trouble to anyone.
Vali then participates in the opening ceremony and was pleased of Issei's arrival, in which he bumps fists with him. Issei tells Vali let's have a good battle as Heavenly Dragons.
In Volume 23, Vali and Saji were both invited by Issei to go fishing. While on their fishing trip, Issei revealed the purpose of it was to ask them that he wanted to know what reason he should have for himself to enjoy a simple battle without life or death consequences. The three are then paid a visit by Vali's adopted brothers; Vidar and Apollon, who informed them that they both became the leaders of their respected mythologies and are teammates under Typhon's leadership in the tournament. All of a sudden, their communication devices rang and they received news of Rias' match, the three dragon wielders then transported over to see it for themselves.
In Volume 24, Vali and his team faced off in their next match against Rias and her peerage at the Fafnir Stadium under the Board Collapse rules, where the field will begin to collapse starting from both ends. Right before the game would commence, Vali went to get a drink from a vending machine when to his surprise came across Lavinia who selected the drink for him knowing it was the one he takes before an important battle. She let him know that she would cheer for him but Vali paid no mind to it. When he had almost arrived back to the waiting room, Albion laughed lightly as he asked Vali does it feel to have his princess cheer for him, Vali continued to act as if none of his concern.
After the game had already started, Vali arrived wearing his Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive armor with Fenrir by his side to Gogmagog, Bikou and Arthurs location where they were having difficulty dealing with Vasco Strada. He asked the Church warrior what did Rias promise him to participate in her team, which Vasco demonstrated by taking a concoction that reverted him back to his fifties which he claimed to be his prime. Vali and his friends were easily overpowered by Vasco by what seemed to be with little ease, being able to cut through Vali's energy attack and even damaging his armor. Vali continued to fire off blasts of demonic energy from close range but Vasco evaded all of them with minimal movement. Vali then accelerated his speed to the point of seemingly vanishing to strike at him from behind, however Vasco predicted his moves and appeared even faster behind Vali instead. Vali was able to immediately move away from Vasco's counterattack, even the wave of holy aura from his sword that followed after reached him at high speeds was evaded. Vasco's next attack was his bare fist that had broken through Vali's armor and directly hit his abdomen, causing him to retreat backwards. Vasco unleashed another wave of holy aura while Vali could only block it with his crossed arm, the aftermath showed that Vasco's attack had completely shattered his armor. Arthur then stepped in wanting to take on Vasco himself and advised Vali to take Fenrir to Rias' and Crom Cruach's location, he recreated his Emperio armor and did so after being further urged by Bikou.
Vali flew to Rias' current location while carrying Fenrir and let him fight with her while he personally went up against the Evil Dragon; Crom Cruach. Crom made the first move as he charged straight at Vali with his right arm morphed into a dragon’s large claw coated in an unbelievably dense aura, Vali dodged with the smallest possible margin, the two engaged in a fierce melee battle in mid-air, exchanged blows at high speed with each blow generating immense vibrations and booms in the air that caused the entire atmosphere to tremble. Vali primarily focused on evading his attacks which Crom mocked him for, though Vali retorted by saying that he wanted to see all of the so-called strongest Evil Dragon attacks first as an appetizer. Crom then pulled back temporarily to express how proud he was that an evil Dragon like him could fight against a silvery-white dragon like Vali and that he had no regrets over it.
Their fight continued with Vali firing a bombardment of Demonic Energy this time but was repelled by Crom's fist, who deflected them towards the surrounding buildings. Crom Cruach then spewed forth flames which covered the entire sky, Vali attempted to counter them with his Compression Divider but proved unaffected as he was hit by the flames, Crom then dived into the scorching fires to continue to assault Vali amidst the inferno of searing flames. Vali used his silvery-white aura to blow away the flames but was still met with a melee assault from Crom Cruach, his armor had been melting from the flames and also cracked from the Evil Dragon's blows so he struck a blow of energy at Crom to momentarily retreat but the Dragon gripped onto him and transformed his other arm into a large Dragon's claw and thrust it straight across, Vali was forced to endure the attack with no means of escaping it which caused him to be propelled backwards through various skyscrapers. Despite being worn out gasping for air, Vali still flew immediately out of a collapsed building and came back to stand before Crom’s eyes, he also expressed how honored he felt to fight him before activating his DxD armor. Vali moved at an abnormal speed beyond perception but still received a hit from Crom Cruach's fist, he then immediately recomposed himself and moved at his incredible speed once again, only this time he unleashed attacks of his Lucifer aura that finally made Crom bleed. Even so, Crom was still able to deliver a punch towards Vali that sent him souring down and shattering the armor around at his abdomen, causing him to also spit out blood. Crom continued to pursue him. All Vali could do was gather aura to his arms to block, he asked the Evil Dragon how was he able to hit, to he simply replied Intuition.
Vali then asked Albion how he'd measure the difference between himself and Crom, the White Dragon answered that Vali had the upper hand in terms of skill, technique and speed but Crom Cruach was better in overall destructive power, Vali laughed out wildly as an opponent who could defeat him had appeared before his eyes. Crom then spewed out flames much fiercer then before, this time however Vali used his Satan Compression Divider that completely erased the flames, he then sent his Wyvern Fairies towards Crom to continuously use his Half Dimension on him which restricted his movements while attempting to advance forward but to Vali's surprise was able to break though and destroy the wyverns one after the other. Vali continuously bombarded him with his absolute aura, but Crom continued to fly straight towards him without signs of dodging as a massive explosion went off upon contact, Crom emerged from the smoke to thrust another punch at him and let loose a mouthful of flames as well. With clear resolution, Vali unleashed a blast of demonic energy directly at Crom’s abdomen causing another explosion, he then flew back augmenting their distance. Crom Cruach’s body was covered and dripping in blood but his fighting spirit hadn’t decreased at all, rather he had become even more motivated which made Vali laugh, they both made an oath to each other to continue fighting until the very end.
Although their fight had ended due to Rias' situation that forced her to surrender, leaving Vali and his team the winners. Both Vali and Crom were completely battered and upset that their battle had come to an abrupt end. Vali approached Crom and extended his hand out for a handshake, Crom smiled as he brushed Vali’s hand aside and flew over to Rias, Vali looked at his rejected handshake attempt and cheerfully laughed by himself. A few days had passed since the battle between him and the Gremory team, Vali and Issei felt a wave of inexplicable pressure from when meeting with Verrine and Balberith whom they claimed to be Super Devils, a statement that shocked everyone present. They soon left hoping to meet the Heavenly Dragons in a match. Not only Vali and Issei but also their Dragons were baffled by their existence.
In Volume 25, Vali and his team celebrated at the Hyoudou Residence along with their rival teams. Vali converses with Issei of how he aims to be the winner while Issei agrees but must face each other in a match as Heavenly Dragons.
Vali reappeared in the end of True Volume 1, appearing at the Agares territory with his team for the tournament to announce the next upcoming matches and reminded Issei not to lose until he faces him in the match.
Vali & Issei chatting together
In True Volume 2, Vali moved to Kuoh Town under the recommendation of Vidar and his own team members, with the help of Lavinia and Natsume. Vali became surprised to see Issei at his new apartment and was annoyed by Natsume as he told her that he can move things on his own and didn’t expect her to request from Issei, she playfully tapped his head as she told him that he should accept help from his destined rival. Vali became interested of hearing about Tobio arriving at his apartment to make noodles and Natsume started to talk about his past of loving noodles with Issei, much to his embarrassment. Vali and Issei started to converse about Ingvild when he took interest in their similarities and asked Issei if he plans to use her for the tournament, which he is unclear of. Vali asked Issei if he plans to hold back against Rias, which he clarified he doesn’t plan to lose, and Issei tells Vali not to lose against Sun Wukong. After he was finished unpacking, Vali gave Ingvild a white dragon plushie as gratitude for her help on her devil work.
Vali Lucifer’s Magic Circle
Immense Demonic Power: Being a descendant of the Original Satan, Lucifer, Vali has an impressive amount of demonic power. During the interrupted conference between the Three Factions, he stated that with his demonic power inherited from the original Lucifer and the power of Albion through Divine Dividing, he could be one of the strongest beings there is. This was somewhat proven when Azazel declared him as The Strongest White Dragon Emperor of all known history, past, present and future due to his unique heritage. His high demonic power helped him in controlling his Juggernaut Drive as he used it as an alternate source of energy instead of his life before gaining his Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive. In fact, the amount of Vali's demonic power is so large that he was able to stay alive and endure after getting hit by Samael's curse (though Sun Wukong had to save his life). He can also control his demonic power after he shoots it out. When combined with his Diabolos Dragon Lucifer armor, Vali's demonic power is drastically strengthened to the point that he can completely destroy a 5,000 meter-tall mountain in one attack. Vali has become a candidate for becoming a new Super Devil.
Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Trained by Azazel, Vali is a extremely proficient combatant, he is able to easily defeat Kokabiel, a Fallen Angel Cadre without using his full strength. In Volume 4, he easily overwhelmed Issei in his incomplete Balance Breaker Armor even with the latter using Ascalon. After training with Sun Wukong, Vali further improves his combat skills, being able to beat Aži Dahāka on his own, an enemy Vali previously fought against with his entire team and failed to defeat. When combined with his Diabolos Dragon Lucifer armor, Vali's skills allow him to fight on par with Crom Cruach.
Magic Talent: Vali has also shown to be extremely talented in using magic, capable of learning Norse Magic in a very short period of time and was able to immediately use it during his fight with Loki. He is capable of using teleportation magic, as well as defensive magic to protect himself and others from powerful attacks.
Immense Durability: Vali has an extreme tolerance to pain. This is seen where he has no problem enduring vicious wounds during his fights with Fenrir in Volume 7 and also to Cao Cao in Volume 12. Even after being viciously bitten by Aži Dahaka in a heavily exhausted state, he can still muster enough strength to use the Satan Lucifer Smasher. In Volume 24, Vali was durable enough to take punches from a Vasco in his physical prime. In the same fight, he was also able to endure vicious attacks from Crom Cruach.
Immense Speed: Vali is noted to be extremely fast. He was able to rip off Kokabiel's wings before Kokabiel could even react. During his fight with Kokabiel, Yuuto commented that Vali could move at the speed of light while using his Balance Breaker. While fighting against Loki, Vali was able to fly in a acrobatic-style, dodging Loki's attacks with ease with Loki himself acknowledging Vali's speed. During his fight against Prime Vasco Strada, Vali in his Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive was able to circle around him with nearly god-like speed to the point where his figure vanished from sight and while fighting against Crom Cruach, he was able to dodge Crom's attacks with relative ease. In his Diabolos Dragon Lucifer armor, he is able to move at godspeed that was beyond perception. Crom Cruach wasn't able to catch up with him or even perceive him, only managing to hit Vali due to his vast combat experience and battle intuition.
Immense Stamina: Vali possesses a great amount of stamina, being capable of maintaining his Balance Breaker for at least one month. In Volume 24, he was able to keep fighting even after being injured by Vasco, and then against Crom Cruach, the strongest Evil Dragon.
Flight: Being a half-Devil, Vali can fly using his 8 wings.
Vali flying with Divine Dividing
Divine Dividing (白龍皇の光翼ディバイン・ディバイディング, Dibain Dibaidingu): Vali's Sacred Gear and main and only weapon. The Divine Dividing is one of the 13 Longinus which holds the spirit of the Vanishing Dragon, the White Dragon Emperor, Albion, one of the Heavenly Dragons. Divine Dividing takes the form of a pair of wings on the users back that enables flight that can reach up to light-speed. These wings works in the opposite way of Issei's Boosted Gear, in which it has the ability to Divide the opponent's power in half after coming into physical contact with them every 10 seconds, the opponent's drained power is then added to himself and when he reaches his maximum limit, the excess power is then released through his wings. Later on, Vali gains the ability to Reflect, allowing him to redirect incoming attacks.
Divine Dividing: Scale Mail
Divine Dividing: Scale Mail (白龍皇の鎧ディバイン・ディバイディング・スケイルメイル, Dibain Dibaidingu: Sukeiru Meiru): Divine Dividing's Balance Breaker that creates a White Dragon Armor similar to Boosted Gear Scale Mail. In this form Vali is able to use Divide without the 10 second limit. The Divine Dividing also has the ability to halve the size of objects and living beings through the use of it's Half Dimension, the user does not need to make any contact with the target to use this ability.
Vali in his Juggernaut Drive
Juggernaut Drive (覇龍ジャガーノート・ドライヴ, Jagānōto Doraivu): A form unique to the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing. The Juggernaut Drive temporarily removes the seal placed on the Heavenly Dragons granting the user immense power. The Juggernaut Drive, however, causes the user to lose sanity while having their lives devoured by the power. However, Vali is able to avoid this using his large amount of demonic powers as an alternative source of power instead of his lifespan; however, if used for extended periods of time, it will eventually cause him to go berserk. Even after deactivation, Vali suffered from immense exhaustion.
Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive (白銀の極覇龍エンピレオ・ジャガーノート・オーバードライブ, Enpireo Jagānōto Ōbādoraibu): A new enhanced form that surpasses Juggernaut Drive. Vali obtained it after he successfully sealed all of the past possessors' consciousness. In this form, the color of his armor changes to silver. Like Issei's Cardinal Crimson Promotion, it does not consume his lifespan. When first introduced, Vali can only sustain this form for a short period of time before he must deactivate. By Volume 24, however, he is able to maintain this form for a much longer time.
Compression Divider: In this state, Vali can use an enhanced version of Half Dimension, which halves a specific target constantly until they vanish from existence. However, as stated by Sun Wukong, currently Vali can't maintain this form for very long. This ability is very powerful as it killed Pluto in just a second.
Diabolos Dragon Lucifer (魔王化－『D×D』・L－ディアボロス・ドラゴン・ルシファー, Diaborosu Doragon Rushifā): Vali's DxD form. This form is the combination of the White Dragon Emperor's power and the Lucifer power that Vali synced through Ophis' blessing. Similarly to the Diabolos Dragon God Issei possesses, the armor is a mix of silvery-white and jet-black, and also possesses the same organic characteristic. Vali gains twelve wings of Lucifer in this form, which can be ejected and turned into wyverns, similarly to the Dividing Wyvern Faeries that Issei is able to create. The power that Diabolos Dragon Lucifer possesses is enough to completely destroy a 5,000 meter-tall mountain in one attack and fight on par with Crom Cruach, the strongest Evil Dragon. Vali can only sustain this form for a short time.
Satan Compression Divider: Vali builds up his power and releases an ultimate blast of silvery-white and black demonic radiance that halves anything within its range until it vanishes from existence. Azi Dahaka notes that this is not an ability or a technique, but a simple release of light.
Satan Lucifer Smasher: Vali's own enhanced version of Longinus Smasher. Similarly to the Longinus Smasher, a cannon muzzle appears from the chest cavity which then fires a bombardment of silvery-white and black aura.
Dividing Wyvern Fairies: In this form, Vali can detach his wings which then form into small white Wyverns that can also use Divide and Reflect, as well as using Half Dimension. The Wyverns are able to change into cannons that fires out a powerful shot of Lucifer’s aura. The Wyverns are also able to use Albion's hidden technique Reduce, an ability that releases a deadly venom which could kill anyone as it cuts down not only their bodies but also their souls, however, this is ineffective towards Ophis, Great Red and Ddraig.
Crimson Gourd: One of the Five Treasured Tools of Taishang Laojun (The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord). It has the ability to suck in and imprisoned those who responds when they have their name called out. Vali borrowed it from the Golden Horned King and the Silver Horned King, so he can use it as a punishment for Bikou and Kuroka where they can reflect on their mistakes.
"I just want to fight eternally." (Volume 4, Life 5)
"I’m a descendant of the previous generation’s Maou Lucifer who died. However, I’m a child of mixed blood born from a father who was the old Maou’s grandson and a human mother. —I obtained the [Vanishing Dragon]’s Sacred Gear because I’m half-human. It was just by chance. However, I, who is a true blood relative of Lucifer and is also the [Vanishing Dragon], was born. If there really is such a thing as fate and miracles, I may be that. —Just joking." (Volume 4, Life 5)
"Like I thought, you are truly amusing. –Get stronger, Hyoudou Issei." (Volume 6, Life 5)
(To Cao Cao) "So that holy-spear chose Hyoudou Issei and not Cao Cao. That's why I told you remember? That you should take down me and Hyoudou Issei before we become out of control. And this is the result. An end which just seems dull. Like I thought, the person who has the right to defeat the Sekiryuutei who turned into a crimson colour is me." (Volume 12, Life 1)
“You’re wrong, Azazel. This guy — he was just defeated by a very ordinary human family. …The thing that I don’t possess, Hyoudou Issei does. …For this guy, that is where how he lost above.” (Volume 20, Last Life)
On a color illustration in light novel Volume 4 and the cover of Volume 21, Vali has hazel colored eyes. Though in Volume 4 and Volume 11 of the light novels, Vali is stated to have blue eyes.
Váli is the name of two characters in Norse mythology: the better known is a son of Odin, and the less known is a son of Loki.
Vali is also the name of a son of Indra. According to some sources, he had obtained a boon from the gods that would cause any opponent he met in single combat to lose half of their strength to him, mirroring Divine Dividing's ability.
Vali reveals in Volume 7 that he has a slight fetish for women's butts (contrasting with Issei's everlasting fetish for women's breasts, although it's more downplayed and he would still prefer fighting), resulting in Odin calling him (and in turn, Albion) the Butt Dragon Emperor (ケツ龍皇 Ketsuryūkō).
Vali is the first known descendant of the Four Great Satans who's not a pure-blooded Devil, the second being Ingvild Leviathan.
Vali is also one of the two last survivors among the descendants of the Four Great Satans along with Ingvild.
Vali's birthday is on June 6.[1]
The meaning of "empireo" is "heavenly and celestial".
Vali along with Issei have made another meaning for the title of the series that refers to themselves: "Diabolos (Devil) Dragon".
Vali's favorite food appears to be different types of noodles, as he would eat instant noodles when Le Fay is not around. His obsession with noodles may stem from his childhood, when his mother cooked pasta to comfort him from the abusive life with his father.
Vali means "governor" and is related to him being the leader of his own team, the meaning of governor is the British meaning which is "the person in authority".
As Lucifer means "light-bringer" and "morning star", Vali's full name means "governor light-bringer or morning star".
Interestingly, this meaning relates to Azazel who was the former Governor General of the Fallen Angels, as Vali was the surrogate son of him and both share the word governor albeit having different meanings related to themselves.
It would seem his prideful nature is hereditary, as his father, grandfather and even great-grandfather all had prideful personalities too.
Vali's name is written as "Vary" in the English translation of the manga.
Vali has a notebook filled with chuunibyou content that he wrote when he was younger, being preparation for meeting his rival according to Lavinia.
Four of the phrases he said to Issei in their first fight came from it.
↑ Ishibumi's twitter
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Iran, 1951–1954, Volume X
888.2553/6–2251: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom1
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Washington, June 22, 1951—noon.
6049. For Holmes.2 Request you seek opportunity soonest discuss Iran situation on secret basis with Morrison. Fol is suggested outline for oral review of recent developments. Its tone is designed to avoid unnecessary irritation to Brit at time of serious crisis to them.
1) Brit offer in Dept’s opinion was excellent and cld provide good basis to Iran for negot satis agreement. We were deeply disappointed that Iran rejected offer and terminated negots in manner which indicates no desire to solve problem on any reasonable basis.
Decisions of Brit Cabinet on June 20 with respect to Iran, of which we have seen summary, appear to reflect a rational approach to the problem.3 The difficulty with which we are confronted, however, is that a rational situation does not prevail in Iran at the moment.
2) While there obviously is little hope that an acceptable solution can be reached under present circumstances in Iran, Dept does not believe that this situation will prevail indefinitely and it is earnestly hoped that developments there soon will bring about an atmosphere in which better opportunity for negot is afforded.
3) Pending such a time the dangers of the situation in Iran are obvious. A complete breakdown of oil operations with its econ consequences including unemployment among thousands oil workers cld bring about immed threat to internal security and particularly to installations themselves. Shld this be precipitated by withdrawal Brit technicians and refusal to ship oil, blame undoubtedly wld be placed upon UK with possibility that, even if Iran saved from collapse, chances for successful negot with Brit firm in future wld be gravely diminished.
4) Although we are giving matter serious thought we are not prepared at this time to suggest long-range solution to dilemma. We do believe, however, that at least for time being it wld be highly advisable to find some way of maintaining oil production, refining and movement by tanker if this can be done without seriously endangering lives of Brit and other fon technicians in Iran. We are sure Brit will agree that keeping way open for negot wld be worth paying a rather high price. This shld be facilitated by leaving the present offer open and retaining in Iran at least one high-level negotiator.
5) We fully recognize great problem with which Brit Gov is confronted in Iran, and wish to do whatever we can to help them meet it. We, of course, do not have any clear idea of how Brit Gov thinks the AIOC may be extricated from its present situation. It wld be very helpful to us to know more of Brit thinking on how situation may be solved. If the Brit Gov wld like we are prepared immed to send a senior official to London to discuss complex issues involved or, if Brit wld prefer, we will outline our views in writing. In any event, however, because of our great mutual interest in a solution to this problem we hope that nothing precipitate will be done at this time which wld make a negotiated settlement impossible.
6) Dept does not wish offer gratuitous advice in matter of vital importance to Brit nor to give impression we are pressing for appeasement completely unjustified Iran conduct. It is hoped that future course can, however, be set after consultation between our two govts in view of far-reaching implications of any action which is taken.
Acheson
Drafted by Rountree, McGhee, and Ferguson (GTI); cleared by Perkins, Matthews, and Nitze; and signed by Secretary Acheson.↩
Ambassador Gifford was in Washington for consultations until June 25 when he returned to London. During his absence Holmes was Chargé.↩
According to an undated study prepared in the Department of State, entitled Account of the Iranian Oil Controversy, the British Embassy in Washington on June 21 gave the Department of State a copy of a summary of the British Cabinet decisions which were taken after consulting with the AIOC Delegation. Among the decisions summarized were the evacuation of dependents from the oil fields and Abadan, the use of force if necessary, the provision of military cover for the evacuation of British personnel, and the decision to allow the onus for the suspension of oil operations to fall on the Iranians. No copy of the summary has been found in Department of State files.
The Account of the Iranian Oil Controversy consists of three volumes. The first volume of this top secret study was prepared by Foreign Service Officer Oliver S. Crosby on assignment to the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs. It consists of a 179-page narrative history covering the years 1949–1952, a chronology, and three documentary appendixes. The citations in the text indicate that Crosby utilized files of the Department of State, and there are also frequent references to military attaché messages. Volumes II and III were prepared by Helen P. Gray of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, and cover the periods 1952–1953 and 1953–1954 respectively. All citations to the study in this compilation are to volume I. A copy of the study is in file 888.2553/7–1452.
Iran, 1952–1954
The question of economic assistance to Iran; United States interest in the settlement of the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute, January–December 1951 (Documents 1-138)
B. The formation of the Mosadeq government and the nationalization of the oil industry in Iran (Documents 9-40)
The question of military and economic assistance to Iran; interest of the United States in the settlement of the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute, 1952–1954 (Documents 139-508)
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Since the inception of the Hampstead SRA hoax in early 2015, parents, teachers, and clergy have lived with a terrifying possibility: that all the kidnapping and death threats spouted by promoters and followers of the hoax might take root and result in tragedy. “All it takes is one lunatic”, people have said—and with good reason.
Yesterday afternoon local time in Washington, D.C., police were called to Comet Ping Pong, the target of the “pizzagate” phony news story, where a gunman armed with an assault rifle was apprehended.
According to witnesses, the restaurant, popular with families, was full of customers at the time. Fortunately, no one was injured.
D.C. Police responding Sunday to a report of a gunman at a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington detained a man armed with an assault rifle, according to a police spokeswoman.
D.C. police Chief Peter Newsham said a lone suspect in his 20s walked into the front door of Comet Ping Pong with an assault rifle. Newsham said it appeared as if the suspect may have fired one or multiple shots into the ground. The man has not yet been identified and his motives were not clear.
But Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant on Connecticut Avenue with ping-pong tables that is popular with families, has been caught up in a wave of conspiracy theories and fake-news stories that spread during the presidential campaign that have prompted death threats to the restaurant and nearby businesses.
Startled patrons rushed out of the restaurant onto Connecticut Avenue, taking shelter in nearby businesses and remaining locked down for more than an hour.
Newsham said the license plates on the suspect’s car were not from D.C., Maryland or Virginia. Police said the man may have had an additional weapon, possibly handgun, in his car
Police received a call about a man with a weapon a just before 3 p.m., said Aquita Brown, a spokeswoman for the department.
She said there were no reports of injuries.
It’s not clear what motivated the suspect in Sunday’s incident. The restaurant, however, was swept up in the onslaught of fake news that was prevalent during the presidential campaign.The restaurant’s owner and employees were threatened on social media in the days before the election, the New York Times reported, after fake news stories circulated claiming that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a child sex ring from the restaurant’s back rooms. None of it was true, but the fake stories and threats persisted, some even aimed at the employees’ children. The restaurant’s owner was forced to contact the FBI, local police, Facebook and other social media platforms in an effort to remove the articles.
Within an hour of reports beginning to emerge, conspiracy theorists had started screaming “false flag!”, claiming that the reports were either untrue, or were part of (yet another) conspiracy to discredit the conspiracy theorists (following all that?).
On Sunday, Washington Post reporters involved in reporting on the story were the target of online threats shortly after it posted.
What does this mean for Hampstead?
We think the relevance to Hoaxtead is pretty self-evident. We’ve discussed how some of the Hoaxtead mobsters have desperately jumped aboard the “pizzagate” fake news story as they try to breathe new life into the dying Hampstead hoax, and we’re all too familiar with what an upsurge in the hoax could mean.
Death threats are just another fact of life for anyone who disagrees that a cult of baby-eating, child-raping Satanists run an industrial-scale baby import business out of a church and school in a busy North London neighbourhood.
Here are just a couple, taken from a video posted by Aaron Dover:
If you have the stomach for it, check out the Trolls page on this blog for a nice cross-section of death threats we’ve received in the year and a half since we took this blog online.
Now, imagine that someone like the Washington suspect reads one of those threats and decides to make good on it. Not a pretty thought, but it’s one the people of Hampstead cope with daily.
Yesterday’s gunman only serves to underline a point we’ve all been screaming from the rooftops since Ella and Sabine published the names and personal information of Hampstead residents online: all it takes is one crazy person with a weapon to tip this thing from madness into tragedy.
Update: Shooter identified
According to The Washington Post, the shooter has now been identified as 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C. He “walked in the front door of Comet Ping Pong and pointed a firearm in the direction of a restaurant employee. The employee was able to flee and notify police. Police said Welch proceeded to discharge the rifle inside the restaurant”.
“The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” an election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign”.
“Police said in addition to the assault rifle, they also recovered two firearms inside the restaurant; an additional weapon was recovered in Welch’s car. Bomb-sniffing dogs and at least one armored vehicle were present at the scene”.
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Guess being like most of your commenters, seeing hoaxstead for what it was early, our biggest fear was this type of scenario or worse. As Alex Jones is pushing that this is now “worldwide” Its going to cause a lot more chaos than Hampstead. However, we need be on our toes for how many are using Hampstead as substantial evidence to push this shite. This could get very serious over there. The comments of youtube are wild as hell. I truly hope no harm comes to anyone over there, and hope there are no repercussions for Hampstead.
I feel lucky enough to have once been one of these knee jerking conspiracy theorists and thankfully got to the other side.
Yes, I’m glad you were able to move past the knee-jerk conspiracy thing too—glad to have you here.
I do worry about violence in Hampstead, but as you say, even more about violence in the USA.
Naturally, this frightening development will prick Angie’s conscience and make her wind her neck in.
Oh wait…
This is terrible. Its probably done for some form of martyrdom. A joint investigation into nothing but speculation, breed from 4chan. Yet 4chan supports mayhem, suspect images of young teens, racism, and pushing teens to suicide (An hero) Yet this has become the source for this nonsense, joint investigation into complete hell for these business owners and politicians. I admit to first debating with some, but become easily jaded to the response that its “Well known” the elites are all up to this, as well as being cannibals. I can’t and won’t debate or argue with stupid. You cant win.
If anything is a false flag, its this whole Pizzagate. Creating useful idiots. However, she should acknowledge how dangerous this could and probably will get.
Hopefully this will throw pizzagate into the mainstream where it belongs.
On hols says:
Angela doesn’t care about any danger she causes to anyone. She just likes to create drama. Grooms youngish men and gets them in all sorts of trouble. Causes devastation in her wake.
Well that’s not surprising, whats surprising is nobody’s been killed yet.
Yes, I think 4chan has a great deal to answer for. At least Reddit had the common decency to shut down the “pizzagate” thread; but it has simply moved over to Voat, under the guise of “free speech”.
The problem is that most of the people who bleat about “free speech” don’t have the slightest idea what that term really means: it means, simply, that anyone can express dissenting views, free of government interference. It doesn’t mean “I can publicly accuse anyone I like of anything that takes my fancy”. That’s where slander, libel, defamation, and harassment laws come into play. And in the extreme, accusing someone of, say, running a paedophile ring in the back room of a family restaurant, and then exhorting people to “take action” and do something about it, takes it into the realm of hate speech and death threats.
If she admitted that this could get very dangerous very fast, she’d have to admit the same about Hoaxtead.
Yes, I think it’ll be useful to have the cold glare of public scrutiny turned on it.
The co-owner of a bookstore across the street from the restaurant says that the gunman came in “looking for the alleged tunnels” where children were supposedly hidden and tortured. He also said that many businesses in proximity to Comet Ping Pong have also received threats. All of this sounds dismally familiar.
She has already inspired an American to travel to London, financed him and urged others to do likewise.
The Jo Cox murder is the UK’s first casualty in this bizarre new war and many have posted congratulations on websites praising her killer.
Apparently the Ping Pong Pizza restaurant has been packed nightly with local supporters wanting to send a message they will not be intimidated by these creeps but that could have meant more innocents could have been hurt.
Other restaurants on the same Washington block have also had loyal customers flocking there but owners and staff have also received death threats just for being close-by.
We have a president-elect in the USA who seems happy to fan the flames of bigotry and conspiracy just for his advantage who is apparently clueless to the forces he has unleashed not just in the US but abroad.
As you can see with the appalling Angela Power-Disney there is simply no respite from their hysterical wickedness and nothing can divert them (such as facts) from their wicked crusades.
Authorities should have come down like a ton of bricks on these internet defamers and harassers – even here in Oz it is a criminal offense to use libel on the internet, by telephone and so on to cause fear in a person with a possible 5 year prison sentence but try getting police to actually do something- they barely knwo the law themselves. Same same UK. It will probably take another Jo Cox tragedy before they wake up.
I also think the Redit response was too little, too late just as Facebook, Youtube, Blogger etc allow this stuff to flourish.
I hope you’re wrong—that another innocent person won’t have to die to bring this message home to our law enforcers and courts. But I do think the police here ought to be paying extremely close attention to events in the USA right now. Yesterday’s Comet Ping Pong episode could have turned tragic very quickly, and the same could quite easily happen in the UK.
I agree with you that the primary Hoaxtead mobsters ought to have been arrested right away quick; I’m somewhat heartened by the recent spate of arrests, but frankly feel that they should have been made more than a year ago.
Yes, I agree. The fact that they allow it in the first place, and don’t shut it down the minute names and addresses start being bandied about, speaks volumes.
Angela can bite me.
Interesting that on Twitter right now, the main reaction seems to be “oh, here it comes, they’re going to start blaming everyone who participated in #pizzagate now, it’s just an excuse to try and make us look bad”.
Well yes, we are going to start blaming all the knuckleheads who participated in a witch hunt based on a bunch of pretend magic symbols and alleged super-dooper code words. We’ve seen it all before: people who put 2 and 2 together and get 9,485. Think of “researcher” Charlotte Ward and the mental midget Kris Costa, neither of whom can reason their way out of wet paper bags in a rainstorm: do we really want people like this encouraging the not-very-tightly-wrapped among us to commit acts of violence in the name of their crackpot theories?
I suppose the one positive thing about the “they’re just trying to make us look bad” whinge-fest over on Twitter is that at least a few of these numbskulls seem to realise that having some goon show up in a family restaurant carrying an assault rifle and a couple of other weapons is going to make the ninnies behind #pizzagate look very, very bad indeed. Yeah, they look bad now. They looked bad before; it’s just that no one knew about them. Now they’re out in the public view, and that’s a good thing. Watch them twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain this one.
D D'Coy says:
You mention Jo Cox; let’s not forget that her killing was very much a copy-cat crime. One that was encouraged over a decade ago by one of the most notable attention-seeking nutcases in Britain…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/1441452/Eurosceptic-hails-Lindh-murder.html
It took a dozen years for someone to take up the nutter’s clarion call, but taken up it was! And that same headcase is still around – somewhat depleted thanks to being exposed for being the fantasists he so surely is – but still out there abusing and terrorising people; making them fear for their safety etc. Immune, it seems, from the law of the land.
Hoaxtead is one issue.
These games have been played for decades and take many forms. It’s ridiculous and completely unacceptable that certain individuals seem untouchable, the Police and other authorities just don’t take these things seriously – even to the extent they’ve been known to fuel the fires with their inept (some say suspiciously so) bungling!
Hoaxtead happened – and let’s not forget that it real families have had their lives utterly disrupted; at least one has been uprooted from its home and forced to move to the opposite end of the British isles…
And what of the recent spate of arrests? Once wrists are gently slapped they’ll be back on the job. – Rupert Quaintance fully expects to be back in looneyland with his gun-toting mommy for Christmas. Oh, he’s quiet enough just now, but don’t expect that to last once he’s out of reach of the Bobbies.
Given that the Jo Cox tragedy was itself another Anna Lindh tragedy, how many lives need to be wrecked or destroyed before we get to a stage where the Police WILL get off their arses and do what they should be doing?
In my experience the situation is getting worse. – Phone the police about any common issue and you will probably find yourself talking to an operator whose main job is to find an excuse not to despatch officers…
I reported a burglary in progress the other night; the robbed family are STILL waiting on the Police to attend three days later; that’s just the way it is these days.
I also blame Wikileaks & Julian Assange for their blatant partisan campaign against Clinton. While they have every right to support politically who they want they knowingly allowed sensational emails to be published knowing there were 1000s of lunatics out there who would misinterpret them.
Many people are saying it was because a campaign had begun to accuse Assange of being a pedophile- a claim I don’t believe – but they have actively promoted this garbage knowing there are a million rednecks, armed to the teeth, who thrive on this stuff.
As for Assange, I believe he has gone mad and has completely blown any notion he may receive leniency from the US and it is becoming apparent as I argued with many who actually thought Trump may give him a pardon (although what for as he hasn’t been charged or convicted of any crime yet), the opposite is happening – anyone with half a brain could see Donald Trump is a person who will use you and dump you as soon as your usefulness has vanished. Now that Ecuador has cut of this internet access and I doubt they will restore it, I think Assange has become a millstone around their neck and may end up rotting in that Embassy for years to come.
## Wikileaks were repeatedly tweeting the false Podesta ‘Satanist’ claims and tweeting links to phony stories about then right up until the day of the US election. They have several million followers. If there are any tragedies that come out of all of this Wikileaks and Assange will wear it like a cross of thorns. And like true cowards they remain anonymous while they set out to destroy lives and pervert democratic elections.
### I still believe some sort of control of the internet is on the cards. The Bush government actively pursued the idea that access to the internet could be controlled by just a handful of internet providers who pay the US government $$millions for the privilege and then put ‘gates’ which price out the average consumer or condemn them to a frustrating slow service. Rupert Murdoch is an active proponent for this.
Yes, authorities and social media companies need to get a grip on this Pandora’s box.
It’s been neglected because let’s be honest they either don’t know how or don’t have the will to address it. IMO it’s quite shameful that innocent peoples’ rights to live free from persecution – surely a key role for the state – have not been defended. Since when did death threats start to become a daily fact of life for people? Is this the kind of society we have to accept? How long do people in this community or others for that matter have to live in fear?
Police seem to have been ill prepared for this. While likely they are decent and diligent they are overstretched and seem to lack the understanding, expertise and will to address this failing. Too little too late, I say!
Social media companies need to step up and take responsibility for the monster they have helped create. We all know this is not about free speech, laws are being broken. Present company accepted, it seems that deeply disturbing to me that people are losing sight of what’s decent, real or true anymore.
Julian Assange is a little creep who also happens to be wanted for sexually abusing two former colleagues, if he is innocent then he should turn himself in
A good analysis of how this fraud was perpetuated including the very first Tweet about it by an obvious phony “DavidGoldbergNY” – an apparent attempt to give credibility by using a Jewish name in New York with it’s huge Jewish population.
This has been a carefully planned plot and achieved it’s desired result.
Not sure how the members of Morons Are Us like Power-Disney feel about being played like a cheap violin.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fever-swamp-election?utm_term=.hyr57PZlrE#.soZRKDGk6M
How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind “Pizzagate” Was Spread
The Hampstead madness brought Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV to London from USA looking to break down doors and entertaining notions of having sex with children. All sleazy stories are going to motivate the mentally ill and deviants to act upon them.
Angie has set her epic fail silent rant to private so now only close allies can now bask in her masterclass of twattery.MK Devils are quick off the mark to preserve this timeless classic as a monument for the rest of humanity,lest we forget.
Failed human being Angie claims a fag shortage for her latest scurry into the undergrowth albeit the timing is uncanny with a fair bit of shit about to hit fans in the coming weeks.Angies boomerangs of shit are it seems coming home to roost 🙂
So-called ‘social media’ companies won’t take responsibility simply because it is not what they’re about. They make their money off social discord and conflict, and have no regard for the damage they cause. Nor will they ever until it starts hitting them in the pocket. – It’s the same thing with online selling platforms; they pay lip-service to consumer protection – but are quite happy to have systems that are obfuscatious and conflationary so as to make it difficult or impossible to uphold consumer protection laws…
The internet is a kind of ‘wild west’. Made all the worse by the fact that at local level there is no resource and no will to uphold the laws which theoretically protect people.
Sam has a point in that this will ultimately give those with an agenda to do so an excuse to try and restrict the internet; but the nature of the beast will render that all but impossible. And the real issue here is the reluctance to apply existing laws. This isn’t helped by the fact that civil remedies are practically impossible to access for the average person.
Excellent article (thank you!) and excellent, insightful comments by everyone.
Please let me share with you an experience that I’ve had, (and in some ways, that I’m still having).
In the fall of 2010, I sent the FBI a brief detailing my reasons for believing that unrestrained dissemination of paranoid conspiracy theories and fraudulent rumor-mongering, by political ‘outsiders’ in the US, was likely to incite mentally ‘confused’ and/or deluded persons to commit acts of violence, possibly including assassination attempts, against American political, judicial, military or law enforcement leadership or associated front-line personnel, and that specific academics and activists in certain fields might also be targeted.
I stated that I did not perceive a volitional conspiracy between these political outsiders, but rather a complex web of public communication connecting persons, groups and communities, with a variety of professed primary interests, many of whom would be unlikely to have personal knowledge of each other.
I stated that elements common to many of these conspiracy theories and rumor-panics included; fantasies & delusional beliefs about an international elite of predatory pedophiles in business, government, law enforcement and social institutions, who prey upon the children of less advantaged citizens through complex “ritual abuse” and “mind control” conspiracies, or fantasies & delusional beliefs about secret “brain-washing” programs run by national governments on behalf of an “Illuminati” or “New World Order”.
I named some individuals whom I had reason to believe were engaged in dissemination of such material with genuinely malicious intent, and some individuals who appeared to be targeted by campaigns to incite widedpread, indiscriminate hatred of them.
On January 8, 2011, a paranoid schizophrenic named Jared Lee Loughner attempted to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, near Tucson Arizona, killing 6 people and wounding 13 others.
I knew nothing of Loughner, he wasn’t ‘on my radar’ at all, but he was alleged to be obsessed with conspiracy theories promulgated by anti-government theorists. Gabriellle Giffords wasn’t on my lists either, but she was a victim of an apparent assassination attempt by a disturbed individual.
I was far beyond stunned, by this seemingly coincidental tragedy. I went around in a daze for weeks after. I became fearful, even paranoid, about people around me that I knew were sympathetic toward any of the above listed ideas. I probably had a wee ‘break-down’ going on.
Since that time, there have been multiple cases in the US and Canada, of police officers being assassinated by persons obsessed with anti-government conspiracy theories. My prediction continues to be validated, or my mind insists on interpreting events in this way. I sent a short follow-up to my brief, to various authorities, pointing out the apparent validation of my prediction. I’ve never received any replies, but I did become aware that some persons I named were advised by someone to tighten their personal security. I’ve been at a loss, what I could/should do since 2011. So, I do nothing. Just wait for more shoes to drop.
What is this old crow really on about? She must be in her 60s. Does she really think the Truther ‘movement’ is going to adopt her as a star? Clearly she can’t afford a hairdresser with that bleached mess on her head. She should remember that dumping pure bleach on the crown is what killed Jean Harlow as it rotted through to her brain.
You know I think her claim she has a place in Lanzarote is total bullshit. She may have been there for a holiday and posts snaps from that time but her looks do not match. You have to question every single thing this dame says- it’s all smoke and mirrors as she attempts to create a persona that is anything other than what she is- a washed up has-been who has drifted, conned and lied her way through life.
Yes, her goal isn’t to protect anyone’s interests but her own. Self-promotion is the name of her dirty game.
I’m now reading that some of the people who’ve been tapped for roles in said President-elect’s cabinet have actually sent out tweets supporting the pizzagate hoax. The apples don’t fall far from the tree, and all that.
Yes, Assange’s leaks were very conveniently timed, I thought. And yes, if tragedies result from Wikileaks and Assange’s actions, they will have a great deal to answer for.
When I began looking into Hoaxtead, one of the people I met in my internet travels was utterly convinced that the rationale behind the hoax was to justify a UK government clampdown on the internet. I still don’t completely buy this argument, for a couple of reasons—including the fact that the hoax itself, while we think of it as large and all-encompassing, is in fact tiny and obscure in internet terms.
However, I do think that ultimately the unfettered sewage that currently comprises a large part of the internet today will need to be dealt with, and I expect that various governments will begin looking for ways to stem the flow. How ironic that the behaviour of those who bellow and moan the loudest about “repression of free speech” will, in the end, have contributed to its demise online.
Ah, but you see, it’s all part of the stitch-up! (At least, that’s what he claims.)
Yes, those who claim “if what I’m saying is untrue, why haven’t I been sued for saying it?” are being disingenuous at best. The fact is that it costs a huge amount to launch a lawsuit, and while there are some lawyers willing to accept such cases on a “no-win/no-fee” basis, most people simply lack the resources to push ahead with lawsuits.
That’s not to say that none will result from Hoaxtead: we’ve talked about this in the past, and I can see a few glints of hope on the horizon.
But most people, when faced with harassment of this sort, will turn to the police for protection—in fact, the police urged many who were targetted by the Hoaxtead mob to do so! But the police are sadly under-equipped to cope with the flood of complaints; the laws exist, but it can take herculean efforts to ensure they’re enforced.
“When I began looking into Hoaxtead, one of the people I met in my internet travels was utterly convinced that the rationale behind the hoax was to justify a UK government clampdown on the internet. ”
There is quite a body of opinion – which includes some very credible people – that takes something similar to this line. And it does seem to be something of a pattern when the authorities seek to impose more power. i.e. some crisis that has been allowed to fester is cited that justifies some new impingement on our freedoms.
Some people really do seem absolutely immune to the law of the land, and the question that needs to be answered there is why? Who sanctions this? Then there is the reluctance to apply the law and/or bizarre actions taken by prosecuting authorities that leave more questions than answers. Something stinks.
As I said elsewhere, Hoaxtead is just one case. As you say it is tiny and insignificant in terms of the wider internet. But there does seem to be a pattern and almost a common cast with these things. Hoaxtead had its prototype did it not – the guy up north who abused his own daughter by getting her to repeat his sick fantasies into a mobile phone to frame her grandpa? Where does the storyline for pizzagate emerge from? A tiny insignificant corner of old London town perhaps?
Under-resourced certainly, and lacking in will. Too many take the line that this is all just ‘kids in the playground’ stuff. And certainly when you consider some of the misfits and scroungers involved I can see why there is a temptation to hang back and just let them carry on ‘bitchfighting’.
I obviously don’t know Julian Assange as well as you appear to but the point was that he didn’t trust that Sweden would not simply hand him over to the yanks. Frankly I don’t blame him.
He has stated that he would be happy to be questioned in the UK and I fail to see why that was an issue for Sweden. After 6 years Sweden finally got around to questioning him last month, they could have done that any time in that 6 years. They have left it so long that some of the charges are past statute of limitations, the prosecutor should be sacked for incompetency.
If Sweden wanted to keep him in the country then they shouldn’t have questioned him, closed the case and let him leave.
I have no opinion on the guy either way but this whole thing smells of some Swedish prosecutor on a fishing trip on behalf of the yanks.
It dosent work like that, when someone is accused of a crime (especially if more than one person accuses) the police arrest them, lock them up in a cell for a few hours and then question them, why should Assange be treated different? fact is Britain have an extradition treaty with the US that is much quicker than swedens. the point in arresting and questioning suspects in the nick is to take you out of your comfort zone
When Rupert peed on the church that really made my blood boil, if one of us did that in America we would be lucky to get home alive, even though its not my church I really wanted revenge.
I take your point, but I still cannot really get behind the idea that Hoaxtead, the gentleman you refer to up north, and “pizzagate” were all part of an elaborate ploy on the part of the Powers that Be to restrict internet freedoms. I do think that these small puzzle parts could become part of the basis for an argument that some sort of control is needed, and I suspect that whatever controls are put in place will benefit the corporations that now seem to “own” much of the internet’s prime real estate, rather than those of us who simply want to use it for our own purposes.
Fascinating timeline, GS. Thanks for sharing it. You’re right that it does look pre-planned, particularly given the way it started. And some of Trump’s minions are still trying to spread it around, surprise, surprise.
Yes, although I’m far from a religious person in the standard sense of the word, that act hit home for me as well. I feel the same way when I discover that mosques or synagogues have been desecrated by hoodlums. Something about the deliberate desecration of a sacred space, even if that space isn’t my own, really goes against the grain.
Thanks, Justin. The attempt on Gabrielle Gifford’s life, and the murder of six people and injury of 13, filled me with shock and horror at the time. I actually did not realise that Jared Lee Loughner was yet another conspiraloon—and it must have been a terrible feeling to know that you’d passed along warnings, but this one had slipped under the radar.
Similarly here: we have created briefs on any number of Hoaxtead mobsters, but the ones that concern us most are the ones we don’t know about…yet. We don’t know if/when some mentally disturbed person will decide to conduct what Kris Costa euphemistically calls “open source investigation”, possibly involving weaponry. We hope it won’t happen, but when people like Rupert show up outside Christ Church School bragging that they’re armed with a knife, they can expect a swift reaction from the community.
What I can confidently predict, however, is that if/when such a thing happens, the fruitcakes will argue that:
* It didn’t really happen.
* It was a false flag event designed to discredit the fruitloops.
* News reports are biased and unfair and waah waah waah ad infinitum.
* The person or persons involved were stitched up because they “knew too much”.
* The event in question was reported upon before it actually happened, because these morons don’t seem to grasp the concept of “time zones”.
Assange is also a borderline antisemite.
The pessimistic way of looking at this: oh shit, this is like Hoaxtead with guns.
The optimistic way of looking at this: thank fuck Hoaxteaders aren’t allowed guns.
Back before Angela completely changed her mind and decided that her parents had abused her 😀
You sure about that, Spiny?
How did this work out for you, Angie?:
Coyote said “…it must have been a terrible feeling to know that you’d passed along warnings, but this one had slipped under the radar” – yes, somewhat. More intense, I think, just sheer shock that my hypothetical scenario became a reality, and such a horrific one to boot. I actually caught myself wondering if I could have caused the tragedy by imagining similar scenarios – very irrational.
A friend did eventually help me to see, that the info I provided authorities was much too general for anyone to have acted on in any case. My belief that I was “sending a warning” was probably a tad delusional in itself.
In any case, the days of consequence-free misuse of this internet tool, created to facilitate the flow of beneficial knowledge originally, has to come to an abrupt end. Soon.
And the ridiculous assumption that “new technologies” can’t be harmful in themselves, only in how they are used, has to be confronted. You create a technological wonder, you better build into it some means to prevent its misuse. What if this guy had killed everyone in the pizza place? No one else could be held responsible? Grrrrr!
I don’t think Angie ever says “I love you” with complete honesty unless she is facing a mirror.
Very true. Nice positive reframe there. 🙂
The notion of an elaborate ploy implies that there is some sort of coherent forethought and planning. No, it’s not as clear as that – on the part of the authorities, it’s simply a failure or refusal to act and in some cases that appears to be quite deliberate. Nobody’s sitting in an office in Whitehall dreaming these things up.
The hoaxers themselves act quite organically IMHO… i.e. the idea for putting the kids on youtube via a mobile phone video was inspired by the failed Aberdeen hoax; didn’t they take that guy’s kid off him? . In turn pizzagate, or an element of it at least, seems to draw from Hoaxtead. The UK mob seem to be a relatively small inter-connected clique as far as I can see. And it’s not surprising that some across the pond would pick up on the ‘failed scripts’ from over here.
Ah..the alleged secret tunnels/secret rooms. A big favourite of the hoaxer conspiranoids.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were saying there’s a deliberate ploy to shut down internet freedom—more that this is a thing I’ve heard argued, and I don’t believe it.
I do think that the hoaxes tend to feed off one another, and that those who perpetrate them tend to try things their friends might recommend (like getting kids to do video clips about alleged abuse, “just like that other fellow did”).
Yes, if one’s mind were of a Freudian bent, one might really have a field day. 😉
I had a good laugh at one guy’s video who filmed inside Comet Ping Pong who was conspiratorially saying “There’s children going in and out of that back secret room.”
I had just watched another video of the owner of Comet Ping Pong showing another conspiranoid around the premises and happily showing him the back room which is the room the children and their families celebrate their Birthday parties.
Establishments like this have always had private rooms for family events such as Birthdays.,,,but oh no the conspiraloons don’t believe a family establishment celebrate children’s parties.. they “conduct paedophile activities and child trafficking!”…Sigh..
No, nothing is ever as it seems in the mind of the conspiranoid.
Angie likes to blag on that she is soooo well connected and has sources of “intel” from very high places including even a personal hotline to Mr God at Universe command HQ.
IMAGINE FOR 30 SECONDS Mr God cant be arsed with her whinging either and has given her the number to a premium intergalactic piss take line.Her phone bill will have been astronomical.
Sigh … You are probably right of course about social media companies. I think I have come, reluctantly, to realise this. I hope – rather than believe – that a tipping point will be reached where it will become socially unacceptable to be facilitating hate crime and disgusting hoaxes; where it will start to hit where it hurts for no-conscience corporations and where it is required that police are helped not hindered.
I also agree that the real issue is the reluctance to apply existing laws and we’ve seen this very clearly on the Hampstead case where numerous laws have been broken but not enforced. I think that as we see more attendant issues, law enforcement will be forced to address the post truth internet age. They will need to skill up significantly to do this!
Things getting desperate at CCN.Here Bigears brings up his ring after taking on board psychoactive frog juice.All of course in the name of making the world a better place.
Delivered courtesy of MK`s Devils.
WARNING:Bigears in his underpants.
OMG! HAHAHA!
Notwithstanding the Insanity of Bigi’s Shamanic Bathroom Habits and Fecal Channeling of Mel Ve’s Soul, this “hoax” harassment of innocent victims online has gotten very dangerous. That Jerad Miller guy in Nevada who killed two cops in CiCi’s pizza is another prime example. The people at Comet must have been terrified. The unmitigated Gall of these Bums is astounding! What can people do to curtail this criminal activity. The Sandy Hook Hoaxsters have encouraged crimes and perpetuated threats also. Imagine how the deceased children’s parents feel? Why no injunction for their sake? Baffling.
It doesn’t work like what? Did you read what I put? Sweden had already questioned him, closed the case and let him leave a free man.
Suddenly after the leaks they wanted to ask more questions and for 6 years he has been inviting them to pop over to the embassy and question him over tea and scones, no problem at all. The prosecutor didn’t want to but strangely now has after refusing to do it for 6 years.
All this doesn’t strike you as being a little odd? Why on Earth would you simply not jump on a plane to go and see the a guy and question him? British police go abroad to question people all the time so what’s the issue that you are on about? It is nothing unusual at all.
Do you really think it is a coincidence that after the leaks and the yanks wanting him, Sweden suddenly changes it’s mind and wants him back for a cosy chat in one of their cells?
Britain can’t extradite somebody under the protection of an embassy, so I fail to see the the point of extradition timescales as he would be in a Swedish cell and they can take as long as they wish.
You do believe in innocent until proven guilty, yes? If Sweden has a case then let them present it, it doesn’t appear to have been able to the first time around though, they closed it and let him go!
There are injunctions in place; the issue is getting them enforced.
I think the problem is a deeper one, and has to do with the unfettered ability for nutcases to share their deranged theories with others, especially when those theories involve targetting innocent people. We need to start looking into the way social media platforms and search engines aid and abet this victimisation, and they need to become subject to laws regarding defamation and harassment, just as any other corporations or individuals are, under the law.
I really don’t see any other way to get this thing under control, and I fear what could happen if it isn’t reined in as quickly as possible.
I wasn’t aware of any Sandy Hook Injunctions only Hampstead? Agree with your conclusion!
Oh, sorry, when you were mentioning injunctions I thought you were referring to Hoaxtead. You’re right, I’m not aware of any Sandy Hook injunctions.
Alex Jones has retracted research into Pizzagate now. He probably understands it’s a conduit for the fake news purge, which means infowars could fall victim to it.
Pizzagate won’t go anywhere – it’s not like they had testimonies from victims and medical reports showing evidence of sodomy, is it?
For some reason I find it hilarious that Jones would drop pizzagate like a hot coal once he realises that the dreaded MSM has figured out, and is telling a very interested general public, that it’s fake news. As you say, I think the fake news purge is currently building up to tsunami strength, and sites like Jones’ will be swept away. The thought makes me smile.
Let’s hope so EC!
After looking at that Aussie Cult he was raised in, he looks like “Lebensborn” too! lol I never trusted him or anything that has “wiki” in it’s name, especially “wikipoet”!! hahaha I’ll bet that idiot “Sands” is conducting a “tunnel search” like the “sandy hoaxers” in the defunct Fairfield Hills Mental Asylum!
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Interesting discussion. I have read that a man was recently arrested for threatening a Labour MP on social media. If the threat was credible and real, and not just stupid banter, then yes, he should be held to account for his actions. But making a threat is not the same as actually carrying it out.
Among other events, in the last twelve months, we have seen a political assassination – a brutal murder – take place on UK soil – the first in a quarter century to occur in the UK.
The man convicted of her murder, in spite of leaving a ‘trace’ (having a history of ordering far right magazines and the like) and also apparently having been photographed at least one extremist right wing political rally, apparently wasn’t on the radar screen of the intelligence services……so it seems to me that the vast complex of state intelligence failed to protect a democratically elected MP (regardless of your views on her personal politics – that is, or should be, irrelevant).
Why has May, and Cameron before her, not called in senior people from M15, M16, etc and read them the proverbial riot act? Why have senior people not resigned? Why, for that matter, have the mainstream media only given grudging coverage to the trial of her assassin?
Some posters want to see massive increases in resources for the police to, well, police pretty much everything on the net. But the UK is in (as far as I tell) ‘cost-cutting’ mode. I am not seeing how this circle can be squared. If you want more police, you should vote for parties that want to increase the size of the state sector, but the UK electorate largely votes for the Tories and UKIP that want to reduce, the size of the state sector, to lower taxes, and to, well, screw the poor, basically.
The actions of the idiots, nutters, and in some cases, criminals (whether deluded, reckless, or intentional) behind the Hoaxstead and Pizzagate hoaxes do seem to me to lend weight to those forces who wish to increase governmental controls on freedom of speech on the internet. On the other hand, the right wing gutter rags like the Mail and Sun will continue to ply their trade (they being part of the ‘mainstream’, ‘respectable’ media). El Coyote – unless I misread him/her, apologies if so – isn’t troubled by this potential outcome and seems to fully support it.
@Spiny Norman
Indeed. Restrictions on gun ownership in the UK are much stronger than in the US, particularly since the Michael Ryan case of the 1980s and the Dunblane murders in 1996.
” I still don’t completely buy this argument, for a couple of reasons—including the fact that the hoax itself, while we think of it as large and all-encompassing, is in fact tiny and obscure in internet terms. ”
IIRC, it was claimed that there were several million views for the footage of the kids talking to camera that was put on Youtube. I don’t know if these stats were ever validated, and if so was it made clear that it was several million discrete IP addresses, or a relatively small number of addresses repeatedly viewing the same Youtube video.
I’m actually not sure what the answer to this conundrum is, tdf. I am in favour of free speech as a principle, and don’t think it should be curtailed. However, to my mind there’s a difference between free speech and hate speech/harassment, and I’d be in favour of looking at ways to ensure that the latter could be policed more effectively. People need to understand that just because their words are “spoken” online, they don’t go into a huge void, never to be seen or heard again. As with any other form of publishing, the internet can be dangerous if misused. And people who misuse it need to face the consequences of their actions. How do we get from here to there, though? That’s a discussion we all need to have, and it goes far beyond the purview of this blog. I think these are important questions you raise, as they speak to the idea of checks and balances between freedom and responsibility, privacy and public safety. The question, as always, is where to draw the line, and who should draw it?
I don’t know if they were ever able to verify which it was, but in terms of the scope of the internet, a few million views is really just a drop in the bucket. That said, for those affected by the hoax, a thousand views of something vile with one’s child’s name on it is huge.
@Justin Sanity
The experiences you’ve shared here put me in mind of the experiences of people who warned the authorities of the developing bubbles and, in some cases, outright frauds in the years running up to the 2008/2009 financial crisis – specifically IIRC there was one financial analyst who repeatedly warned the authorities in relation to the Madoff funds.
@El Coyote
Yep I know what you mean. It’s a complicated conundrum, and my own thinking is in flux also.
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Volume 4 Supplement 2
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies (ICMAOI): Basic, Epidemiologic, and Clinical Research
Marijuana use and cervical HPV/neoplasia
G D'Souza1,
R Burk2,
Y Zhong2,
H Minkoff3,
LS Massad4,
K Anastos5,
A Levine6,
M Moxley7,
X Xue5,
J Palefsky8 &
HD Strickler2
Infectious Agents and Cancer volume 4, Article number: P15 (2009) Cite this article
Recent research suggests that marijuana use may be positively associated with risk of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal cancer, and the immunomodulatory effects of cannabinoids are considered a possible mechanism. Were marijuana to have systemic effects on HPV-associated tumorigenesis it would be of major concern, and might be especially harmful in immunologically susceptible populations such as HIV-positive women.
We studied the effect of marijuana use on cervical HPV natural history and cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a large prospective cohort study. HPV DNA testing by PCR and Pap smears were conducted semi-annually. Prevalent HPV and cervical SIL were analyzed using logistic regression with GEE. Persistence of HPV was analyzed using Cox regression.
Of the 3,499 women in the WIHS, 1,414 reported ever using marijuana. There were no associations between HPV prevalence and either current (OR = 0.98 95% CI = 0.90–1.07), frequent (current daily use: OR = 0.98 95 CI = 0.90–1.07), or sustained (daily use for more than 3 years: OR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.90–1.19) marijuana use, controlling for age, race, HIV status, CD4 cell count, number of sexual partners in the last 6 months, tobacco use and cervical treatment. Nor were there effects on prevalence of SIL, or on the persistence of cervical HPV infection. Results were similar among HIV-negative and HIV-positive women.
Our data do not support an effect of marijuana on cervical HPV infection, persistence or risk of cervical dysplasia. If there is an effect of marijuana use on oral HPV-associated tumorigenesis, it may be a local effect.
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
G D'Souza
Department of Epidemiology & Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
R Burk
, Y Zhong
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Maimonides Medical Center and SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA
H Minkoff
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA
LS Massad
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
K Anastos
& X Xue
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
A Levine
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC,, USA
M Moxley
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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D'Souza, G., Burk, R., Zhong, Y. et al. Marijuana use and cervical HPV/neoplasia. Infect Agents Cancer 4, P15 (2009) doi:10.1186/1750-9378-4-S2-P15
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Human papillomavirus is not associated to non-small cell lung cancer: data from a prospective cross-sectional study
Estela Maria Silva1 na1,
Vânia Sammartino Mariano ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-56761 na1,
Paula Roberta Aguiar Pastrez1,
Miguel Cordoba Pinto2,
Emily Montosa Nunes3,
Laura Sichero3,
Luisa Lina Villa3,4,
Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto1,5,
Kari Juhani Syrjanen5,6 &
Adhemar Longatto-Filho1,7,8,9,10
The pathogenesis of lung cancer is triggered by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, being the tobacco smoke the most important risk factor. Nevertheless, the incidence of lung cancer in non-smokers is gradually increasing, which demands the search for different other etiological factors such as occupational exposure, previous lung disease, diet among others. In the early 80’s a theory linked specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) to lung cancer due to morphological similarities of a subset of bronchial squamous cell carcinomas with other HPV-induced cancers. Since then, several studies revealed variable rates of HPV DNA detection. The current study aimed to provide accurate information on the prevalence of HPV DNA in lung cancer.
Biopsies were collected from 77 newly diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated at the Thoracic Oncology Department at Barretos Cancer Hospital. The samples were formalin fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE), histologic analysis was performed by an experienced pathologist. DNA was extracted from FFPE material using a commercial extraction kit and HPV DNA detection was evaluated by multiplex PCR and HPV16 specific real-time PCR.
HPV was not identified in any of the samples analysed (69).
Our data demonstrated a lack of HPV DNA in a series of NSCL cancers.
Lung cancer is the major cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) estimated 1.8 million new cases for 2016 [1]. Although the pathogenesis of lung cancer is complex and arises due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors [2], tobacco smoke is consensually assumed as the strongest factor associated to this disease development, worldwide [3]. However, epidemiologic data obtained from different geographical regions have revealed that approximately 25% of all cases of lung cancer are not attributable to tobacco use [4]. Other risk factors have attracted the attention of physicians because the incidence of this disease among non-smokers has increased in the past years [5,6,7]. Consequently, other etiological factors have been investigated including occupational exposure, previous lung disease, diet, among others [4, 8]. Additional, human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has emerged as a potential etiological agent for certain types of bronchogenic carcinomas. Syrjänen and col. (1979) [9] suggested in the early 80’s that oncogenic HPVs could be responsible for lung cancer pathogenesis [10] due to the morphological resemblances within a subset of bronchial squamous cell carcinomas compared with the clinical manifestations of HPVs in the female genital tract [9, 11, 12]. Since then, numerous studies have pointed out an inquisitive heterogeneity on HPV DNA detection rates in lung cancers, with the highest rates detected among Asians [13,14,15,16,17,18]. European studies reported low or no HPV prevalence (0–10%) compared with the 22% (4/18) of Asian study. In the latter, HPV16 and HPV18 prevalence were 11.6 and 8.8%, respectively. However, the authors suggested more attention to study design and laboratory detection methods for analyzing this theme [16].
Syrjanen (2012) [19] performed a systematic review and formal meta-analysis of the literature reporting on HPV detection in lung cancer using MEDLINE and Current Contents platforms and found that geographical origin, histopathological types of cancer and HPV detection methods were not significant co-variates accounting for the heterogeneity of the HPV prevalence in lung cancer. Related to HPV infection as risk for lung cancer development, in 3,083 cases and 4,328 controls in two retrospective case-control studies and, one prospective nested case-control study, no association was observed between HPV infections and lung cancer development; also, viral oncogenes, HPV antibodies and DNA HPV were not related to lung cancer survival [20].
HPV infection in lung tissue was evaluated by another meta-analysis using the search terms “lung cancer”, “human papillomavirus”, “HPV” and their combinations and, antagonistically, the results suggested that HPV infection in lung tissue have a strong association with lung cancer development [21]. Another meta-analysis based on PubMed, Ovid and Web of Science to identify case-control studies and cohort studies that detected HPV in lung carcinomas included 30 or more cases published before Feb 28, 2017 and corroborated that HPV16 and HPV18 infection significantly increase the risk of lung cancer [22].
Additionally, a Chinese a study developed to identify the association between HPV positive rate and smoking in lung cancer (LC) patients observed that HPV infections are associated with smoking in LC patients and the association may relate to different regions [23]. Lung cancer study of Brazilian patients, the presence of HPV was detected by PCR followed by genotyping, found HPV in 33 of the 63 samples, and HPV types 16 and 18 were detected with frequencies of 81% (27/33) and 19% (6/33), respectively. Also, the expression of the E6 and E7 oncoproteins HPV type specific, evaluated by immunohistochemical, was detected in 28/33 samples and 25/33 samples, respectively [24].
Due to discrepancies among the results across the world and previous work from our country, we aimed to provide detailed additional data on the HPV burden in lung cancer by evaluating the prevalence of HPV DNA in samples of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using a specific method for this. Furthermore, p16 expression was accessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) to further address if it’s immunoexpression could be considered as a surrogate marker of HPV activity in NSCLC specimens.
Samples were achieved from a prospective analysis of patients submitted to the bronchoscopy admitted at Barretos Cancer Hospital between 2013 and 2015. All biopsies were performed for diagnosis and all the patients (77) were naïve of treatment. Patients with NSCLC diagnosis that agreed to participate were included.
Written informed consent was provided by all patients and the study was approved by Barretos Cancer Hospital Ethic Committee (number 920.225).
All 77 patients were subjected to a detailed trained interviewer assisted interview for assessment of demographic, NSCLC risk factors and previous history of HPV infection variables.
Tumor samples
Tumor samples were obtained by endobronchial and transbronchial biopsies. Specimens were routinely processed for histological diagnosis, HPV testing and for immunohistochemical analysis of p16. Pathologic stages were determined according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) [25], and histological classification according to criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) [26].
DNA extraction
Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor tissue sections, previously evaluated and delimited by an expert pathologist (CSN), were deparaffinized, and using QIAamp DNA Micro kit (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany) DNA was extracted according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. Briefly, 4–6 10 μm FFPE sections were submitted to deparaffinization with 100% xylene, followed by washes of ethanol (100, 90, and 50%) and incubation with DNA extraction buffers overnight.
β-Globin polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
All 77 DNA samples were quantified by NanoDrop 2000 (ThermoScientific) and subjected to β-globin gene amplification using PCO3 (ACACAACTGTGTTCACTAGC 5′-3 ‘) and PCO4 (CAACTTCATCCACGTTCACC 5’-3′) primers. The amplification of a short fragment of 110 pair base of human β-globin gene indicates the integrity of DNA for subsequent analysis. Only β-globin positive samples (62) were used for HPV analysis.
HPV analysis
HPV DNA in lung tumors was independently assessed using two different techniques based on real-time PCR. The first one consisted of TaqMan singleplex based type-specific real-time PCR targeting the E7 region of HPV 16 type using specific TaqMan probe (5′- 6FAMCAAGCAGAACCGGACAG-MGBNFQ-3′) and primers (forward 5′-GATGAAATAGATGGTCCAGC-3′ and reverse 5′- GCTTTGTACGCACAACCGAAGC-3′) [27]. Among 77 lung samples, 62 were analyzed by this assay and the reaction mixture was prepared as follows: TaqMan Universal PCR Master Mix 1 x (Applied Biosystem, Inc., EUA), 400 nM of each primer, 200 nM TaqMan probe and DNAse/RNAse free water. PCR amplifications were carried out using 5 μL of template DNA in a final volume of 25 μL in an ABI Prism 7900HT Fast Real-Time PCR System (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). The amplification conditions were as follows: initial denaturation for 10 min at 95 °C, followed by 40 amplification cycles of 15 s each at 95 °C and 1 min at 60 °C (annealing-extension step). Each PCR reaction included a negative (water) and a positive control (DNA extracted from CaSki cell line). All samples and controls were tested in duplicate and were considered positive when both replicates amplified in a cycle < 38.
Additionally, 29 samples were randomly chosen for testing using a type-specific PCR bead-based multiplex genotyping assay that combine multiplex PCR and bead-based Luminex technology (Luminex Corp., Austin, TX, USA) that is able to identify 21 HPV types [28, 29], as previously described [28] and, based on available biological data [30]. Additionally, the assay has a positive control for the quality of the template DNA represented by β-globin gene primers. PCRs were performed with 10 μL of template DNA in a 96-well format in 25-μl/well final reaction volume. HPV multiplex PCR were performed using QIAGEN Multiplex PCR Kit (Qiagen, Dusseldorf, Germany), according to manufacturer’s instructions. Each reaction consisted of 45 cycles: 94 °C for 30 s, 63 °C for 3 min, and 72 °C for 90 s. The first cycle was preceded by incubation at 95 °C for 15 min and the last cycle was extended for 10 min at 72 °C. PCR negative control consisted of a reaction mix without DNA. Hybridizations were performed according to Schmitt et al. (2006) [31]. For each HPV type-specific probe, the mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) values obtained when no PCR product was added to the hybridization mixture was considered as background. The cutoffs were calculated by adding 5 MFI to 1.1 times the value of the median background. MFI values > 20 were considered positive.
Sections of 4 μm containing representative tumour areas were used for IHC, which was performed using Ventana Benchmark ULTRA automated system (Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., Tucson, AZ). Antigen retrieval was performed using cell conditioning 1 buffer (CC1) at 95 °C for 64 min. For detection of immune reaction we used the ultraView Universal DAB Detection Kit polymer amplification system (Ventana Medical Systems, Mannheim, Germany) according to manufacturer’s instructions. Mouse monoclonal anti-human antibody against p16INK4A protein, Clone E6H4™, ready for use (Ventana, USA) was used as primary antibody. Samples with strong and diffuse nuclear and cytoplasmic staining in more than 70% of the cells were considered positive [25, 26]. All slides were analyzed by two observers (CSN and ALF) who revised discordant cases for achieving consensus. A cervical adenocarcinoma was used as a positive control for p16 staining and negative controls were obtained by omitting the primary antibodies [32, 33].
Frequencies were obtained using the IBM® SPSS® Statistics 21.0 software for Windows (IBM Corporation, Somers, NY, USA).
Among 77 samples included in this study, 15 were excluded due to the lack of β-Globin amplification and 62 were suitable for further analysis: 41 (66.1%) squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and 21 (33.9%) adenocarcinomas. The SCC staging was as follow: 2 (3.4%) stage I, 4 (6.8%) stage II, 26 (44.1%) stage III and 27 (45.8%) stage IV. Additionally, 27 tissue samples (51.9%) were classified as well or moderately differentiated, and 25 (48.1%) as poorly differentiated. Most patients were male (n = 47, 75.8%), married (n = 40, 64.5%), and 54 (87.1%) have lived in rural area. As a consequence, 21 (33.9%) patients were farmer. Further characteristics of the patients included in this study are summarized in Table 1. The immunohistochemical staining of tumor for p16 and Ki-67 are illustrated in Figure 1.
Table 1 General Characteristics of NSCLC patients
Immunohistochemical staining of tumor for p16 expression. a Adenocarcinoma cervical used as positive control. b NSCLC sample scored as negative p16 expression. c NSCLC sample considered as positive p16 expression. As cell proliferation nuclear marker was used Ki-67. Magnification: × 20
None of the 62 NSCLC samples tested was positive for HPV using any of the techniques. Furthermore, p16 immunoreaction of all NSCLC was analyzed and it was observed positive expression in 10 (14,3%) cases. The analysis of positive cases for the expression of p16 (10/70) in relation to socio-demographic information, lifestyle and clinical-pathological findings showed no statistically significant correlation (Table 2).
Table 2 Characterization of the case group in relation to the expression of p16 and socio-demographic variables, lifestyle and clinical data. Cancer Hospital of Barretos, January/2013 to October/2015
The main goal of this study was to evaluate the presence of HPV DNA in NSCLC. Many contradictory results have been found among the reports published about this issue; the majority of discordances may likely be attributable to the differences in methodology used to identify HPV and the fact that many studies have no control regarding the quality of the samples preservation retrospectively selected for analysis. After all, it is not a surprise that an assertive attention about the real meaning of HPV in lung cancer is currently questionable. We did not find any NSCLC positive sample for HPV DNA among the samples we evaluated, despite the use of a very sensitive methodology we used to identify HPV, and the stringent conditions to preserve the samples prospectively collected, including rigorous control of quality in each step of the study. This final result is in agreement with some results obtained worldwide from different studies groups [34, 35]. Ywakawa et al. [36], e.g., analysed HPV-16, 18 and 33 DNA in 275 lung adenocarcinoma samples using 2 different methodologies (PCR multiplex and nested PCR) and also found no positive samples. Additionally, in another series [37] comprising 196 samples (100 adenocarcinoma and 96 squamous cell carcinoma), using in situ hybridization (ISH) capable of detecting high-risk HPV DNA (16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 68 and 70) no HPV DNA was observed. These data argue against the possible participation of HPV in NSCLC carcinogenesis [36, 37].
On the other hand, some studies have reported correlation between HPV and lung cancer [21]. Syrjänen et al. [38] detected HPV DNA in 4/77 (5.2%) NSCLC samples, three of which were positive for HPV-16 and one sample for HPV -6 / -16 coinfection, using multiplex PCR (Luminex®). Sarchianaki et al. [2] analysed 100 samples of NSCLC using real-time PCR methodology (GP5 + / GP6 +) and, 19 (19%) samples tested positive for HPV DNA. In order to genotype the positive samples, LINEAR ARRAY HPV Genotyping (Roche) capable of detecting 37 high and low risk HPV genotypes was also used, and 42.1% (8/19) of the positive samples were HPV-16 [2]. Moreover, Yu et al. [39] analysed 261 samples (107 squamous cell carcinoma, 63 adenocarcinoma and 91 non-tumour samples as control) by real-time PCR and INNO LIPA; 59.8% (64/107) in SCC, 17.5% (11/63) of the adenocarcinoma samples and 23.1% in the control samples were positive for HPV DNA. HPV-16 and / or 18 were found in 79.7% in SCC, 72.7% in adenocarcinoma and 14.3% in the control samples [39]. Together, these data indicate a wide rate of variation in the frequency of HPV among lung cancers with the highest frequency of virus being reported in East Asian countries, with a prevalence variation of 11.8–55.0% [16]. Finally, in a recent meta-analysis [40], 46 studies that demonstrated a higher prevalence of HPV in Asian countries (28.1%) when compared with European countries (8.4%) and countries from North and South America (21.3%), with regional differences between countries being observed. When the analysis was limited to HPV-16 and 18, which are the HPV types of higher oncogenic risk, a significant higher prevalence was observed in Asia (23.1%) in relation to Europe (4.4%) or the Americas (15.6%). This is interesting because some studies suggest that the heterogeneity in the prevalence of HPV in lung cancer is mainly due to the geographic differences, the different histological types analysed and the different detection methods used [19], besides the sample size, demographic composition of each study and host-specific factors [14, 16]. There is a consensus among most of the studies that it is necessary to investigate more cases to understand the real role (if any) of HPV in pulmonary carcinogenesis [14, 16, 20, 37, 40].
Still in an attempt to explore the relationship of HPV with NSCLC, IHC was performed in NSCLC paraffin samples to evaluate the expression of p16, a protein considered an indirect marker for HPV infection, since in SCC and adenocarcinoma of uterine cervix and, in a fraction of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas, the overexpression of p16 is strongly related to HPV infection [37]. However, the relationship between p16 expression and NSCLC is not well established [41] and our data were not able to demonstrate the presumed relationship. Chang et al. [37], in addition to the evaluating the presence of HPV DNA, also evaluated the expression of p16 on NSCLC by IHC, and as a result, no correlation between the HPV and p16 expression was determined. Other authors, such as van Boerdonk et al. [42], Bishop et al. [43] and Doxtader et al. [41], presented similar results, with 20 to 30% of NSCLC, both adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, positive for p16 and negative for HPV DNA. In addition, these authors concluded that IHQ for p16 cannot be considered a surrogate method for assessing the presence of HPV in lung cancer.
Our data shows lack of HPV infection in a series of NSCL cancers. The few p16-positive cases are therefore unrelated to HPV. Several reports evaluating the prevalence of HPV DNA are increasing and new evidences with the HPV infection and NSCL coexistence are emerging [40,41,42,43]. However, there is still a lack of robust evidences of the possible participation of HPV in NSCLC carcinogenesis [44].
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this manuscript.
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The authors thank the Endoscopy Department of Barretos Cancer Hospital where bronchoscopy were performed.
This work was funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tencnológico (CNPq) [Grants number 401775/2012–7 to ALF; 573799/2008–3 to LLV]; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) [Grants numbers 2014/23414–8 to EMS; 08/57889–1 to LLV].
Estela Maria Silva and Vânia Sammartino Mariano contributed equally to this work.
Teaching and Research Institute, Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital – Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Brazil
Estela Maria Silva
, Vânia Sammartino Mariano
, Paula Roberta Aguiar Pastrez
, Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto
& Adhemar Longatto-Filho
Department of Chest, Barretos Cancer Hospital - Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Brazil
Miguel Cordoba Pinto
Center for Translational Research in Oncology, Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo – ICESP, São Paulo, Brazil
Emily Montosa Nunes
, Laura Sichero
& Luisa Lina Villa
Department of Radiology and Oncology, School of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Luisa Lina Villa
Associate Researcher in COI Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto
& Kari Juhani Syrjanen
Department of Clinical Research - Biohit Oyj, Helsinki, Finland
Kari Juhani Syrjanen
Medical Laboratory of Medical Investigation (LIM) 14. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Adhemar Longatto-Filho
Research Institute of Life and Health Sciences (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
ICVS, 3B’s - Associated Laboratory to the Government of Portugal, Braga, Guimarães, Portugal
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VSM and ALF wrote the paper and discussed results; EMS, PRAP, MCP, VSM collected samples; CSN and ALF did the p16 reading and interpretation. EMS, PRAP and VSM isolated DNA; EMS, EMN, VSM and LS carried out HPV genotype detection; KJS and ALF designed the study; ALF supervised all experiments performed as principal investigator. LS and LLV discussed an interpreted HPV results and the final text of the manuscript. All participants contributed commentary on and corrected the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Adhemar Longatto-Filho.
Silva, E.M., Mariano, V.S., Pastrez, P.R.A. et al. Human papillomavirus is not associated to non-small cell lung cancer: data from a prospective cross-sectional study. Infect Agents Cancer 14, 18 (2019) doi:10.1186/s13027-019-0235-8
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Proof that officials in NY are worried about Ebola
As many government officials pretend as though the threat of an Ebola outbreak occurring in the United States somehow doesn’t exist, the quiet hiring of an Ebola task force in New York City suggests that, at least in some areas, authorities are starting to panic behind closed doors.
It recently came to our attention that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), in conjunction with its partner group Public Health Solutions, recently filled a temporary position for a “short-term project,” set to end in May 2020, that involves keeping track of the Ebola virus as it continues to spread around the world.
According to the job description for this position, Public Health Solutions had been looking for someone to “[s]upport the Ebola and special pathogen preparedness programming for healthcare partners including designated treatment centers, network coalitions, and partner agencies (e.g. FDNY), and special projects through deliverable-based contracts (7 Network Coalitions, 2 Designated Treatment Centers, FDNY, others).”
This hired candidate, the job description goes on to explain, will need to “support document development for assessing and supporting the preparedness needs of hospital networks and treatment centers for Ebola and special pathogens” – the implication being that New York City is expecting an outbreak of Ebola in the very near future.
New York City apparently has in store some “new initiatives to support communicable disease preparedness” that involve making sure that “deliverables” make it to hospitals and other facilities within their networks in anticipation of having to deal with a potential Ebola crisis.
As of this writing, the job listing in question is still available for viewing at Indeed.com, as well as at SimplyHired.com.
United Nations refuses to declare Ebola outbreak a global emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly expressed concerns about the spike in Ebola cases, particularly in the Mabalako and Mandima areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A recent announcement from the global agency indicated that expected new Ebola cases would likely bring the running total to nearly 3,000.
But the United Nations, of which the WHO is a part, has yet to issue its own warning, or even admit that Ebola is now a global health emergency. In fact, the U.N. is actually happy about the so-called “replacement migration” that’s now occurring in the United States, where refugees from the Congo who may be harboring Ebola are now being allowed entry into the country through San Antonio, Texas.
Meanwhile, at least three people are now being quarantined with a “mystery disease” at a private hospital in El Paso, Texas, that could turn out to be Ebola. And as for the rest of the Congolese migrants who’ve been let into the country in San Antonio, nobody really knows where they’ve ended up settling.
“There were some Congolese people caught crossing the border, it was suspected they had Ebola,” a medical professional at the border told Big League Politics. “In one facility there are three patients being held because they don’t know what they have.”
While this same individual admitted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been down to evaluate and assess the three quarantined patients, the agency has not been able to identify what they have.
“They are isolated, they only have certain specialists who can see them,” the medical professional added. “What scares me is, what happens if someone comes over here with Ebola. We only need one person, and there’s a pandemic.”
According to officials, some of the foreign invaders have also been identified as having mumps, which reportedly triggered a mumps outbreak at the border. Other diseases like influenza liver cirrhosis are also common, adding to the public health threat.
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A Timeline of Infometrix Developments
1978 — Infometrix was founded by University of Washington Professor Bruce Kowalski and Dr. Gerald Erickson to provide consulting service in the new field of chemometrics. The company’s primary software was ARTHUR, a system designed for DEC VAX minicomputers and mainframes. 1981 — A new commercial version of Arthur is released with formalized documentation. 1983 — Infometrix released its first microcomputer-based product, MCR-2, later named QuickRes, designed specifically for a single instrument system (Hewlett Packard’s 1040 diode array detector). By 1987, Infometrix had created six additional packages for HP; these software products spanned the HPLC, GC, GC/MS and UV/VIS lines.
1985 — Infometrix introduced Ein*Sight, its first general pattern recognition software for microcomputers. This software has the largest installed base of any similar product in the field through the 1980s. Customer comments and suggestions triggered the market study and algorithm development, which culminated in the release of the first version of Pirouette. 1986 — Journal of Chemometrics is launched and Infometrix is its first advertiser. 1989 — Beckman Instruments and Infometrix begin a joint working relationship to develop multivariate tools for the photodiode array detector. The first product of that relationship is a development of QuickRes curve resolution software for the Beckman System Gold diode array detector
1990 — Pirouette 1.0 is released, bringing chemometrics into a friendly graphical user interface. 1990 — MasterLink is launched to facilitate moving files out of the HP 9000 Series 300 computers and rapidly becomes the best selling Infometrix product. 1990 — Beckman Instruments introduced the 168 diode array detector which includes Infometrix’ Real Time Purity. This is the first implementation of chemometrics on a chip (in this case FIEFA, fixed interval evolving factor analysis).
1990 — Otsuka Electronics and Infometrix announce a strategic working relationship to develop multivariate tools for UV/VIS/NIR instruments. 1992 — Infometrix achieved FDA validation, the only chemometrics software company to date to do so. The release of Pirouette version 1.1 incorporates support for analytical instrument systems through direct file reads. 1993 — Array View, an interactive visualization package, is launched for the Beckman Diode Array detector
1993 — The release of InStep allowed true multivariate process control by coupling an expert system with Pirouette models. The combination of Pirouette and InStep is employed in dozens of applications ranging from tracking tuberculosis and 35 related bacterial infections, to assessing oil-oil correlations, to batch quality control in the pharmaceutical industry. 1995 — Infometrix returns somewhat to its origins in consulting by providing software customization services to end users so that they can take advantage of the technology without implementation risk or unnecessary delays. 1996 — Infometrix released a Windows NT/95 version of Pirouette (version 2.0) that has been the basis for all product development since that time. The sum total of development time applied to Pirouette now exceeds 50 man-years. Key in this version is a suite of commonly used chemometric algorithms which can be run in batch mode.
1997 — Work is completed on Flite-Trac software for DelNorte, a visualization package for evaluation of aircraft trajectories during aerial surveillance maneuvers. 1997 — Automation of chemometric predictions via the internet was completed. Ein*Sight 4.0 was released. All Pirouette documentation (~500 pages) is translated into Japanese; Pirouette attains the largest installed base in Japan by the end of 1998. 1997 — Release of Pirouette 2.03, a maintenance upgrade. A review of Pirouette in Analytical Chemistry calls it the best software package around.
1998 — Agilent (formerly Hewlett Packard) and Infometrix introduced the first integrated chemometrics instrument for routine laboratory quality control use: the HP 4440 ChemSensor headspace analysis system. This system is in its 2nd release, with sales and marketing now managed by Gerstel (the largest Agilent reseller). 1998 — The release of Pirouette 2.5 includes usability enhancements, including saving graphics as EMFs, new data transforms requested by spectroscopists, and dynamic interaction with prediction results. This is the first version with the entire user guide in a single PDF file. 1999 — Pirouette 2.7 is released as a family of products so that chemometrics solutions now exist spanning the $300 to $5,000 price range. It also includes several graphics and algorithm enhancements.
2000 — Pirouette 3.0 is released supporting network versions of all software. PerkinElmer standardizes on Pirouette for image analysis in their IR microscopy line. Transfer of calibration has been added for most algorithms, and the user interface is now internationalized. Language support has since been extended to include Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian. 2001 — With the release of Pirouette 3.02, support for ActiveX clients is enabled so that standardized chemometric technology can be integrated seamlessly into any instrument or process software. 2002 — InStep, now version 2.0, is totally rewritten as a Visual Basic client of Pirouette, exploiting its COM capabilities. With a watched folder approach, multivariate predictions can now be performed automatically and unattended.
2002 — Pirouette 3.1 adds the ability to apportion the sources for mixed sources in data. The system was proven using environmental and GC data, and the software can assess concentrations without knowing any end member. 2003 — Infometrix launches the LineUp product, which automatically corrects for retention time shift in chromatographic instrumentation. This increases the reliability of unattended interpretation for routine QC analysis, and can be used on-line. 2003 — Pirouette 3.11 expands the options in mixture analysis with the inclusion of the alternating least squares algorithm which allows unlimited sources. Title 21 CFR Section 11 compliance is now in place for electronic record keeping.
2005 — Press Release – Infometrix and Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX announce a reseller’s agreement. 2005 — LineUp 2.03 is enhanced to accommodate very early or late eluting peaks as well as very large peak shifts. 2005 — Infometrix releases its IPAK server, opening up all of the imbedded Pirouette technology into an ActiveX server. Using this server, Infometrix integrates pattern recognition and alignment technology into an on-line GC system for monitoring volatile organic compounds and starts the NeSSI GC initiative with the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry.
2006 — Press Release – Infometrix and Bio-Rad announce integration of Pirouette chemometrics technology for multivariate analysis into the KnowItAll Informatics System. Also announced are plans to release the KnowItAll Metabolomics Edition, integrating Infometrix’ Pirouette chemometrics application server with Bio-Rad’s KnowItAll platform, databases, and NMR tools. See video. 2006 — Press Release – A Washington Technology Center grant was awarded to support collaboration between the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry at the University of Washington and Infometrix for evaluation of software approaches in process gas chromatography. 2007 — Pirouette 4.0 is enhanced with new algorithms–PLS-DA, orthogonal signal correction for PCR, PLS and PLS-DA, plus sample and variable selection methods. Demo version enhanced to allow opening any supported data type, including Pirouette files with results.
2008 — Press Release – A Washington Technology Center Phase II grant was awarded to support collaboration between the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry at the University of Washington and Infometrix for evaluation of software approaches in process gas chromatography. 2008 — InStep 3.0 is released. This new version runs as a client to IPAK, using Pirouette models. Pirouette itself is not necessary to perform unattended real-time multivariate predictions. 2009 — Pirouette 4.0 rev 2 was released, with new features for handling data (missing value find; random selection) and for process users (Q statistic; contribution plots).
2009 — InStep 3.02 is released with support for more file types. Pirouette is used to make models for InStep but is not necessary to perform unattended real-time multivariate predictions. 2009 — LineUp 3.01 is enhanced to use the Infometrix algorithm widget. New support was added that allows LineUp to be called as part of an EZChrom Elite method and store results in an Elite file, automatically. 2009 — EZLineUp, an add-in to EZChrom Elite, was released. EZLineUp permits automatic alignment as part of an EZChrom method and fully integrates the aligned trace(s) into the EZChrom data file.
2010 — Press Release – Northwest Analytical releases a multivariate version (6.2) of their Quality Analyst statistical process control system. The MSPC software employs the IPAK multivariate engine and relies on models built by Pirouette. 2010 — Infometrix worked with Falcon Analytical to integrate the LineUp software into their newly-introduced, full line of ultrafast GC instruments. Our alignment software is shipped with every instrument, InStep is an option. 2011 — Pirouette 4.5 was released, with improved performance on the line plots, smarter retention of computed results and labeling of scores and loadings plots.
2011 — InStep 3.5 was released, with new several new report items for supporting the process industry, including Y min and max and confidence levels for outlier diagnostics. 2011 — LineUp 3.5 was released, which now offers a new graphical user interface for visualizing both raw and aligned chromatograms in a single window. 2011 — The suite of Infometrix products was enhanced to allow running on licenses embedded in a USB dongle. This permits users without internet access to license and run our products and to have the ability to carry the license to other computers without relicensing.
2012 — LineUp and InStep were integrated into ChromPerfect and with the 6.0.10 release, the products can be used for lab-based chromatographic instruments. There is also a process implementation, so alignment and pattern recognition can be applied at any level. 2012 — Enterprise users of EZChrom software (Agilent) can now employ LineUp in a fully-automated manner. Designed for quality control laboratories and process settings, a software utility called EZ2LineUp was created that embeds the software into the EZChrom system and is incorporated into the EZChrom user interface. 2012 — Bruce R. Kowalski, 7 Mar 1942 to 1 Dec 2012, Eulogy by Dave Duewer
2013 — Infometrix moved into a new facility in Bothell, expanding the space and adding a laboratory. 2014 — QFS software version 1.0 is released, a new product targeted at quality control of complex biologics, particularly for biopharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals and natural products. 2014 — Pirouette 4.5 rev 1 was released, with new tools to assist in finding the optimal number of factors (regression methods) or sources (ALS), and an implementation of Locally Weighted Regression.
2015 — Deploying customized instanced of Microsoft SQL Server, Infometrix launched a database service designed to track spectroscopy instrumentation in the field and manage calibrations for chemical companies and petroleum exploration. 2016 — Infometrix was awarded the International Society of Automation’s highest technology award: The Excellence in Analytical Technical Innovation for advancing the use of chemometrics in gas chromatography. 2018 — Infometrix launched Ai-Metrix to automate the handling of spectroscopic calibrations. The initial focus was on petroleum refineries in the application of gasoline blending. Expansion to other applications where optical spectroscopy is in use for quality controls is ongoing.
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General Election 2019: The Labour Manifesto
My third review of the party manifestos is a critique of Labour’s plans. Yet again we see scaremongering about rising violent crime, which, as I said about the Lib Dem manifesto, is a perennial problem, and I am disappointed that a comprehensive plan to address violence is missing.
One thing I do welcome is the proposal for a Royal Commission on substance misuse; we need to take a step back from a hundred years of criminalising drugs and this is a sensible way forward.
A presumption against short prison sentences is welcome, and I am pleased that Labour, which was considering making it only against sentences of up to three months, has moved to six months. But it is not enough; courts will find an excuse to use prison unless there is a ban. The evidence was published by the Ministry of Justice: short prison sentences trigger more crime and more victims so, by continuing to use them, courts and politicians are the guilty ones.
This is a mixed bag, not as radical as much of the other policies in the manifesto
It is good to see a commitment to invest in women’s centres and they are a Labour success story. I am sorry that Labour is holding on to the failed model of police and crime commissioners, as I know there is deep unease in the party about them.
There are some welcome commitments on increasing legal aid and a recognition that it is a fundamental right. And, of course, reunification of a public probation service, although the paragraph on this includes a worrying phrase about being ‘locally accountable’ and I would strongly oppose giving control to police and crime commissioners. Party politics in policing has been very damaging and introducing party politics into community supervision would be a disaster.
So a mixed bag. Not as radical as much of the other policies in the manifesto, so perhaps disappointing for that reason. It is time to be radical with justice, this isn’t.
Raymond Smith says:
It is disappointing that there is no commitment to scrap all IPPs which are all of course for cases pre 2012 and replace them with sentences that are equivalent to what would be received today. This cruel punishment that destroys hope and has had a shocking impact on those subject to them must be ended. Even Lord Blunkett has said they were inappropriately used by the courts.
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HireRight Appoints Jim Weber Chief Revenue Officer
IRVINE, Calif., July 9, 2015 – HireRight, a leading provider of on-demand employment background checks, drug and health screening, and electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Weber as chief revenue officer. Weber, who has more than 20 years of leadership experience in sales, account management, product marketing, and business development, most recently as head of sales for the Wealth Management Group at Thomson Reuters, will oversee HireRight’s go-to-market teams and drive global revenue growth.
“Our customers are everything and adding Jim to our executive team will accelerate our never- ending focus on our clients’ needs and requirements,” said John Fennelly, chief executive officer, HireRight. “Jim will provide the right leadership and focus to our go-to-market teams. He has a wealth of experience and a fantastic track record of delivering results. We’re delighted to have him as a key part of our growing global team.”
“HireRight has played a central role in the advancement of employment screening as a key source of business intelligence for employers around the world,” said Weber. “They’ve been first with virtually every technological innovation in the industry and today are driving the focus on enhanced candidate experience in all aspects of the hiring continuum. I’m excited to join the company to help further advance its operations and vision of helping people get hired.”
Prior to Thomson Reuters, Weber held sales, marketing, and finance roles at Barclays Global Investors, and product marketing and finance positions at California Federal Bank. Weber holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Cleveland State University and an MBA from Saint Mary’s College.
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When it comes to additives, there are many claims, many promises... and just as many disappointments. When I hear about a product that "actually works," I'm skeptical, but this time I put the product to the test so that the results can tell the story!
How to Prepare for Dyno Day
It's dyno day and therefore a happy day. The smell of exhaust and PCV vapour is in the air. The gurgle of V8 idle is music to the ears. Are you prepared to use this opportunity to improve your car's performance? See how dyno day can be both fun and productive!
Computer How-Tos & Tutorials
How to Maximize DOS Memory for Your Retro Computer
If the CPU is the brain of a computer then memory would undoubtedly be its heart. That's because back in the old days, every KB of memory you could free up made your computer faster and more capable. Here I will tell you exactly how to configure it for the best possible performance!
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If you grew up in the 80s and 90s and want to take a stroll down memory lane, a rebuilt 386 is the perfect vehicle to get you there. It seems like a daunting task - like starting a lawn mower that's been out in the rain all year. But don't worry. It'll all be worth it in the end!
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Car Modding, Car Tuning, and the Science of Horsepower: Running in Open Loop
When you're serious about tuning your hot rod, the factory fuel delivery algorithm isn't going to cut it anymore. Learn how to achieve the most stable and flexible fueling model for your power-adders that will put gasoline on tap, for when you need it most! OPEN LOOP MODE will get 'er done.
turbofuture.com
The Ultimate Arduino Tutorial
This Arduino tutorial will explain the benefits/features of the hardware, practical applications and how to use them in software. See why these simple boards are often better than their pricier kin!
The Nickel Cadmium Battery
The battery of choice when it just has to work! Even today, Ni-Cd batteries remain among the best that money can buy when you absolutely need something powerful, reliable and worry free.
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How to Play Roulette Properly
If you've been tearing your hair out looking for a way to beat Roulette, then you need to read this.
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Astronomy & Space Exploration
The Big Bang Model - A Timeline of Events Explained
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Abortion Issues
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Is abortion wrong? Should a woman have the right to choose the fate of her unborn baby? Here, I present 3 central arguments that are of great interest to the abortion issue and their implications.
Automotive Aftermarket Parts & Modifications
Car Modding, Car Tuning and the Science of Horsepower - Tuning Preparation and Clean Up
Before applying a basic tune to your car, which will net you more torque and horsepower, we need to prep the existing tune and make sure it's ready for prime time. For best results, follow this guide.
Car Modding, Car Tuning and the Science of Horsepower - Tuning Out Temperature Effects and Heat Soak
To make the most power, cars prefer a diet of cold air but sometimes we can't oblige. Rising temperatures reduce power and put your car in danger. Learn how to tune temperature out of the equation.
Redefining Atheism - What It Is And What It's Not
So frequent are our misunderstandings when we don't share a common ground for discussion. Any good debate should first establish key concepts and terms of interest. I hope to do just that!
Is Belief in God Logical? Is Belief in God Reasonable?
It is one thing to have a belief. It is quite another to assert that the belief is true. To be true it should be both logical and reasonable. How do theistic claims stack up to these litmus tests?
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God's word provides a set of rules by which we must abide. This is the moral code of a theist. Atheists have no such belief and live by a code of their own instead. Are atheists moral people?
The Awesome Benefits of Using a Supercharger and Nitrous Together
Superchargers, turbochargers and nitrous oxide systems are all well-known mods used in cars today but have you ever thought about combining them? Maybe you should. See why this is a fantastic idea.
R is for Rocket - Rocket Motors
Rocket motors are the heart of a rocket. They propel the rocket instead of leaving it an aesthetic decoration on the ground. It's very important that you take care to select the right one.
Car Modding, Car Tuning, and the Science of Horsepower: Nitrous Oxide
If you've seen Fast and the Furious, then you know all the cars have these buttons in them that make the cars go fast! That's nitrous, and it's one of the most exciting things you can do to a car!
The Best Car Performance Simulator Ever - CarTest
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Using Hubpages to Earn Passive Income
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Types of Car Insurance Coverage Explained
If car insurance quotes have you confused, you're probably tearing your hair out, looking for a simple explanation of what it all means and who to buy from. Insurance can be cryptic so read on.
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Model rocketry is all about making your rocket go as high as possible and the mass of your rocket is an important part of that. It's not as intuitive as you might think either. Come see what I mean.
Amnesia The Dark Descent: The Scariest Game You'll Ever Play
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A Man's Guide to BBQ and a Whole Lot of Drooling Over Meat
It's summer. The beer is cold, the sun is hot. Your friends are gathered around the BBQ. Flames leap up and lick the succulent pieces of meat searing on your brand new grill. Life is good...
Car Modding, Car Tuning, and the Science of Horsepower: Volumetric Efficiency
We continue our tuning education by having a look at one of the most fundamental parameters in the entire PCM, the VE table. We'll explore what VE is, why it's important and how to tune it!
R is for Rocket - Stability
Rocketry is awesome but not when the rocket won't fly straight. It's easier to make an unstable rocket than a stable one. Understanding stability will make your rocket fly right where you point it.
Movies & Movie Reviews
Gravity: The Movie That Wrote the Book on Failing
Gravity was a great movie and received many accolades... right? Well yes but it also fails at common sense and logic so often that anyone with a high school education has trouble focusing on the film.
StarCraft: A Game That Stands the Test of Time
StarCraft is a worldwide phenomenon and its sequel was one of the most highly anticipated video games of all time. Discover why this simple isometric strategy game gained so much popularity.
R is for Rocket - The Basics of Model Rocketry
Model rocketry is one of those few hobbies that knows no age. It's appropriate for everyone, from kids to seniors. It's an empowering hobby that rewards a person's ingenuity, creativity and drive!
The Best TI-89 (and some TI-83) Games Ever
Remember high school? Remember the graphing calculators they loaned out and how you used them to cheat on tests and play pixelated games instead of using them for graphing? Some things never change.
Star Fox For the SNES: A Trip Down Memory Lane
If you loved playing the SNES as a kid, chances are you either owned this game or wanted it. Star Fox is a winning title and with the Super FX chip, it's even more awesome. Let's relive the memory!
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"System Shock 2" Mods
"System Shock 2" is one of the best games of all time and it's just fine the way it is. Still, there are a ton of great fan-made mods out there too! Here's where you'll find the best, all in one place!
How to Fix a Dead Graphics Card
Did you think that video card that died on you the other day is ready for the recycle bin? Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I'll show you how to bring that card back from the dead better than ever! Best of all you have roughly a 30% chance of success, which is pretty good for a piece of garbage!
Children's Growth & Development
How to Deal With Toddler Tantrums the Right Way
You're in the mall and you notice a young child crying and making a scene about some ridiculous thing he can't have or do while the parents try to cheer him up, unsuccessfully. There's a better way!
Interviewing for a Job
How to Nail a Job Interview
Feeling nervous about your upcoming interview? Wondering about interview questions and whether you'll know what to say? Relax and be confident. I'll show you how to totally obliterate an interview.
A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin is an exciting new form of digital currency which is being used in more and more places to purchase goods and services and to trade as well. Learn how to make money by mining new bitcoins.
What is Aging and What is the Biggest Contributor to Life Expectancy?
With major advances in modern medicine, people are living longer than ever before but is there a limit to our life expectancy? Learn what mechanisms control aging and limit our life expenctancy.
Is a Vegan or Vegetarian Diet a Good Idea?
If you're thinking about becoming either a vegetarian or a vegan, you'll want to read here first! Understand what the pros and cons are and how your new lifestyle will affect your health.
The Top 15 Proven Techniques For Saving Fuel
Here I'm going to tell you 15 ways to improve the fuel economy of your car. None of these methods include scams of any kind. They just work. You'll get better mileage and pay less at the pump.
How to Build a Computer - The Complete Guide
How to build a computer, step by step. I'll go over the parts you'll need, compatibility, brands, cost, the works. I'll show you exactly how to build the cheapest, most powerful custom rig possible.
Personal Health Information & Self-Help
Alcohol Metabolism and How To Eliminate Hangovers
So you did it again... You partied a little too hard last night and now you're cursing the world as you stare up at your ceiling fan, wondering whether it's spinning or you. Learn about the hangover.
Do It Yourself Auto Repair
Diagnosing and Correcting Engine Knock
What is engine knock? What causes engine knocking? Don't misdiagnose the problem. Find out why your car's engine might be knocking and what you can do about it. Great for racing and commuting alike.
System Shock 1: Installation, Mods and Setup
This is perhaps the best pc game of all time so it totally deserves a hub of its own! Let me help you install, play and maybe even survive this classic PC game that started the cyberpunk revolution.
The Only Japan Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Japan is an outstanding place to visit, whether for business or pleasure but as I found out first hand, planning ahead is paramount to getting the most out of your trip. Let my wisdom be your guide.
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System Shock 2 is one of the best games of all time but it's about 14 years old now and playing it on a modern computer can be a bit... trying. The good news is, dedicated fans have not only fixed just about every bug and compatibility issue but have made the game more fun to play through...
Car Modding, Car Tuning and the Science of Horsepower - Electric Superchargers
In this installment we look at a more obscure type of mod... the electric supercharger. These interesting specimens don't get much attention and most of what they do get is negative. I'm here to set the records straight!
The Top 15 Most Awesome PC Games of All Time
Attention all PC gamers! Take a trip back in time with me as we re-live those nostalgic moments playing the best PC games that ever were. Here, we count down the top 15 that I've come across and dwell for a while in those precious moments when we first got our hands on these epic titles!
The Best Source of Income on the Internet
Want to earn some extra cash in your spare time without killing yourself? The answer might be right in front of your nose. There are several ways to draw an income from the internet. You just have to know where to look. Thankfully that's what this hub is all about. I'll point you in the right...
The Iterative Man - A System Shock Fan Fiction
A derelict space station harbors a form of insanity the universe has never known. Life evolves yet death litters the floor. One man tries to make sense of that which cannot be fully understood. The lines between reality and delusion blur, making perception a dangerous tool to rely on.
Gifts Men Should Buy For Women
Guys, if you're stuck wondering what to get that lady in your life, come on in and browse a few options. The atmosphere is light and the suggestions are tried and true. You can't miss with one of these. Ladies! This hub is off limits for your own good!
Car Modding, Car Tuning and the Science of Horsepower: The Mods
It's time for the fun stuff. Let's have a look at the awesome mods and power-adders that'll make your car a terror on wheels. Add some horsepower and have fun doing it!
Theism and Atheism Explained
In this article I take a deep dive into God, the natural world and the debate between theists and atheists as I try to shed more light on the arguements at hand. There are no winners or losers here. How you respond to the information is up to you! If you want to learn more and discuss this...
How to Play Awesome Volleyball
If you're good at volleyball, have played in a league before or even if you'd just like to try it out for the first time, joining a volleyball league is a great way to stay active and healthy while having fun. However, new teams need to grow and evolve before you have an unstoppable force on the...
Car Modding, Car Tuning, and the Science of Horsepower: Terms and Concepts
What you need to know to make your ride as fast, as powerful, and as awesome as possible. You will want to know the terms and concepts here because they'll come up again and again.
Unrest - A System Shock Fan Fiction
Unrest tells the story of a crewmember of Citadel Station, who's faced with traversing the bowels of the ship while trying to survive a rogue computer AI known as SHODAN and her minions. The protagonist provides his account of obstacles ahead while he faces off against some of his own personal...
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Tagged: #Magic #Superhero #Based On Comic #Sorcerer #Doctor #Neurosurgeon #Wizard #Aftercreditsstinger #Duringcreditsstinger #Marvel Cinematic Universe
Stargate Origins - Season 1
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Young Catherine Langford embarks on an unexpected adventure to unlock the mystery of what lies beyond the Stargate in order to save the Earth from darkness.
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The Legend of Hercules
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The origin story of the mythical Greek hero. Betrayed by his stepfather, the King, and exiled and sold into slavery because of a forbidden love, Hercules must..
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
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On his way to becoming an immortal demon, a gang leader orchestrates the murder of an ex-con and his girlfriend.
Director: Lance Mungia
Actor: David Boreanaz, Edward Furlong, Yuji Okumoto, Marcus Chong, Tito Ortiz, Tara Reid, Rosemberg Salgado, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Danny Trejo, Dennis Hopper
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When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Actor: Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Essie Davis, Joel Edgerton, Deborra-Lee Furness, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh
Fantastic Four HD
A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Director: Tim Story
Actor: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Hamish Linklater, Laurie Holden, David Parker, Kevin McNulty
Survivor HD
During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalypt..
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Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things..
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Dudes & Dragons
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When the powerful wizard, Lord Tensley, is jilted by Princess Ennogard, he vows to rid the land of love. He commands his fire-breathing dragon to destroy any ..
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Tomorrowland HD
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place so..
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Beyond the Edge HD
Contemporary Moscow. A talented gambler gathers a team of people with supernatural powers to win big at a casino. But they find a much stronger mystical rival.
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UK Filmmaker to Combat Hatred and Extremism
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A Muslim filmmaker who worked on a Star Wars film and has produced four short films for a £1.2m project to “tackle hatred, extremism and terrorism”.
Rizwan Wadan, 38, who lives in Luton (UK), is behind The Error in Terror project and wants to “give Muslims a voice”. He said “negativity” towards Muslims is “getting worse”. By taking skills learnt “stabilising cameras” in the industry, he wants to “stabilise the world”, he said. “Positive stories need to be highlighted,” he said, so he put in £70,000 of his own money to get the project off the ground along with funding from other investors. He has made four films that have been inspired by “tragic real life events”: Martyrs: a story about acts of far-right terrorism. Characters: a drama about making people to rethink their views. Terrorism Has No Religion: a film intended to deter acts of terrorism. The Bag Thief: a comedy short about conceptions of a Muslim with a bag
“There is so much negativity in films, drama, news and since 9/11. It’s getting worse and worse,” Wadan said. “If the visual image is dividing us, then it’s through the visual image we can bring people together.” Wadan is based at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire and he said he had ambitions to start a British Muslim Film Institute.
(Taken from BBC News)
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APRIL 2004 (VOL. 10, NO. 7)
M O N T H L Y
est. 1893 • K-12 college prep
F R O M
H A R K E R
Science Bowl Team Wins Regional, Heads to D.C.
since the team’s inception five years ago. “I have done this with three schools since 1991 and Harker is by far the best team. They’re not afraid to be wrong, and that’s the key – they are a very bright, confident group willing to push the buzzer.” Korin said their training has included weekly practice sessions at school and added that a few are also members of Harker’s Quiz Bowl team, and their participation on the popular “Quiz Kids” Peninsula-based TV game show (see story, pg. 13) has helped, as well.
US Quiz Bowl team makes it to championship ................... 13
Another successful year for annual Mentor Program for Juniors. ............................ 18 US Community Service update ....................................... 17
Photo courtesy of Dept. of Energy
JETS teams place first in Bay Area ................................ 16 BKN Destination Imagination teams rule ......................... 8
Harker’s US Science Bowl team won its first regional competition of the Department of Energy’s Annual Science Bowl held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Feb. 28 and will represent Nor thern California on an allexpense paid trip to the National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C. next month.
DAMN YANKEES The Harker Conservatory presents
The Harker team, comprised of Yi Sun, Anjali Vaidya, Mason Liang, Lev Pisarsky and Jasper Shau,
competed in this fast-paced Jeopardy-like competition against 16 Bay Area teams answering questions in a variety of academic disciplines including biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and computer and general science. “Harker was up against the traditional powerhouses of Homestead and Albany High and upset the contest with their sharp performance,” said Robbie Korin, US chemistry teacher and advisor
MS Publication Garners Silver Award April 15 - 17, 2004 8 p.m. Saratoga Gym April 17 BBQ Tailgate for Sat. show
for Gr. 3-8 families
See page 2 for ticket info and details!
Lee Trotter
PLUS! April 14 Preview Night
S C H O O L
Last spring’s MS literary publication, enlight’ning, was chosen earlier this year as a finalist in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Crown Award winners. Harker is one of only five middle/
junior high schools nationally to be selected (see story in Feb. 2004 edition). Stacie Newman, Gr. 7 expository writing teacher and club advisor, attended the March 2004 Scholastic Spring Convention in New York, where Harker was presented a silver award for its 2003 issue. Congratulations to those students (pictured) who worked so hard last year and
The competition, established in 1991 by the Department of Energy, encourages high school students from across the nation to excel in math and science and to pursue careers in those fields. In this year’s event, Harker defeated 16 other Bay Area high schools in the day-long competition, and team members each received medals, along with a trophy and banner for the school. Our congratulations to these students, and we wish them the best at the national competition to be held April 29 - May 3 in Wash., D.C.
earned this special recognition: Stephanie Benedict (not pictured), Ben Enlgert, Alice Liang, Shibani Mehta, Swapanthi Nagulpally, Erin Newton, Mansi Shah, Daniella Shulman, Allison Wong and Kimberly Wong. This year’s staff is currently editing and producing the latest edition, which will publish in mid-May:
Kristina Bither, Elizabeth Case, Sasha Desai, Christy Emery, Michelle Hong, Gracy Hudkins, Alice Liang, Callie Medin, Sophi Newman, Alison Palmintere, Natalie So, Tonia Sun and Nikki Woods.
A new Tradition for Senior Parents and Students!
april dates NOTE: Key vacation dates for the 2004-05 school year are now posted on the Web site. We will notify you when division calendars for the fall have been posted.
Apr. 20, 8 a.m. – Grandparents’ Day gift assembly, BKN staff lunchroom
■ Mon., Apr. 5, All Classes Resume. ■ Sat., Apr. 10, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Bucknall front circular loading zone Freshman Class Car Wash. $5 for cars and $7 for vans/trucks. Proceeds go to Class of ’07 to support class activities.
May 4-7, hours vary – Display and sales help during the BKN Book Fair May 4, 8 a.m. – Grandparents’ Day nametag preparation, STG Ledge
■ Wed., Apr. 21., 5 p.m., FDR - Cantilena /Guys’ Gig Spring Concert. Free admission.
May 7, beginning at 1 p.m. – Grandparents’ Day, BKN
■ Thurs., Apr 22 - 7p.m, BKN Gym - Full Orchestra Concert. Tickets $5 at tickets@harker.org
May 17, 11:30 a.m. – Senior Moms’ Tribute Luncheon, hosted by usMOMS, Manzanita Hall patio (see details, back page)
There are lots of other ways you can help – see the volunteer pages on the Web site for a complete list!
■ Sat., Apr. 24, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Bucknall front circular loading zone - Sophomore Class Car Wash. Cost range is $5 to $10 based on size of car. Proceeds go to Class of ’06 to support class activities.
Harker Archives
Ongoing – Harker Bookstore, STG campus – Parent volunteers needed Mon.-Fri to work a couple hours a day organizing shelves, assisting customers and helping with displays. Please contact Bob Benge at bobb@harker.org
Apr. 7, 8 a.m. – Grandparents’ Day invitation mailing
■ Sat., Apr. 10, 7:30 to 11p.m., BKN Gym - 2nd Annual Garbha. This parent- and student-organized event is to celebrate the Hindu festival Navratri. The entire K-12 Harker community is invited to enjoy food, fun and dancing - last year over 150 parents and students attended this event! Tickets: $5 for singles, $7 for couples. Purchase at the bookstore (after April 6) or at door. ■ Fri., Apr. 30, 7:00 p.m., Petit Trianon, San Jose - Senior Showcase. Annual Hammies (for students) immediately following show. For info contact jeffreyd@harker.org .
gotta laugh! My third period was filing into class for an exam with the all too familiar looks on their faces, ranging from apprehension to determination. John Ammatuna struts up to my desk oozing with confidence and belts out, “Mr. Walsh, I've got three words for you: BRING IT ON.” The class burst out laughing and John's good humor loosened everybody up for the test. Thank you, President Bush and Senator Kerry! — Pat Walsh, Teacher
correction The photo credit for the artwork for last month’s Artist of the Month feature should have been J. Gaston.
US Conservatory Presents Damn Yankees Thurs., Fri. and Sat., April 15 - 17: 8 p.m. SARATOGA GYM
PLUS! Preview Night: Wed., April 14, 5 p.m. For Gr. 3 - 8 Families Special Preview Night for Gr. 3-8 Harker families to learn about the US Performing Arts Dept. and have a chance to talk with the cast after the show. Optional pizza dinner offered at intermission (see prices below). BBQ Tailgate Event: Sat., April 17, 6 p.m. Enjoy a fun pre-show BBQ dinner and baseball-themed festivities and priority seating for the show. Ticket Prices: $15 reserved / $10 general / $5 seniors & students $5 Preview Show, plus $2 for optional pizza dinner at intermission $35 BBQ Tailgate Party (includes show ticket and priority seating) A family of four or more pays only $115. Children under 7 years of age eat free! Contact the Harker Bookstore at tickets@harker.org or 408.345.9226.
Mark your calendars for… Tues., April 6 from 6-10 p.m. in the Edge Senior parents will gather to create senior posters to honor the 2004 graduates, and all senior parents
Class of 2004 and/or seniors are welcome to participate in this new tradition. These posters, which are due April 19, will be displayed around the walls of the Harker gym for the entire month of May. Senior parent Alice Bracken, who is coordinating the effort with Chris Daren, US activities coordinator, offered these helpful tips: Think of a theme: Something that best captures your senior, such as hobbies, athletics, theater, and/or outside interests. Then gather photos, ribbons, awards, favorite music, photos or quotes from family, teachers and/or friends anything you want to include that will reflect the character of the senior. This collage can feature the senior’s entire life or just the high school years. Remember, this will be their keepsake so bring all items with you on April 6, and we will have a lot of fun celebrating and creating together. Things to bring: Scissors, double sided tape, glue sticks, exacto knife, a ruler, a cutting mat and colorful markers are a must! Memory book items, lettering, borders, color paper, stencils, ink stamps, dried flowers, CD covers or anything flat that will fit in a frame are optional. You can bring your own frame (20" x 30" maximum size) or you can e-mail Chris Daren (chrisda@harker.org) to purchase one for $34 from the bookstore to have that night. Bring all your photos, mementos and supplies with you April 6 and work side-by-side with other parents and seniors as they create these special posters. Light snacks and drinks will be served. Please RSVP asap and direct questions to Bracken at afumakb@aol.com or Chris Daren at chrisda@harker.org. Harker News — April 04
Important US Message from Harker Tech Department
All students are already required to have a current virus scanner running on their laptops. Beginning in mid-April, Symantec Anti-Virus for both Mac and Windows will be available as a free download for Saratoga students with laptops. All they will need to do is go to http:// students.harker.org and then to the Student Tech Help area for instructions. In addition, next year we will facilitate automatic updating of virus files by hosting the update packages and providing automatic update features on the Harker campus. Thanks to Jeffrey Niederauer and Andrew Hansen (Harker’s network co-managers) for making this possible. For further information contact Dan Hudkins, director of US instructional technology at danh@harker.org or 408.345.9631.
■ Attendance Reminder to US Parents US students are permitted TWO unexcused tardies per quarter per class without penalty. If a student is tardy a third time (per class per quarter), an hour of after-school detention will be assigned by the dean of students. Parents, please help your child avoid detention by ensuring a timely arrival well before their first academic class of the day. The campus opens at 7:15 a.m. daily. Please report all late arrivals or absences by calling 345-9247. ■ Affordable Teacher Housing Harker likes to assist teachers in finding affordable housing. If you own rental homes or apartments that can be offered at a reasonable rent, please contact Triona Coyne at tcoyne@harker.org with a brief description of the rental property, rental cost and contact information. ■ Kleenex Caper In an e-mail on March 9 we notified parents of a story in the San Jose Mercury News entitled “Extra Credit for Kleenex” about ways some schools are meeting their need for classroom supplies. A number of schools were interviewed for this article, which included a few quotes from a Harker teacher. We want to officially clarify the school’s policy on this. While Harker has always Harker News — April 04
welcomed and encouraged donations of tissues for classroom use from Harker families, the administration does not think it appropriate to offer extra academic credit for supplying tissues. Any extra credit awarded to students is to be based on academic work. While we’ve discovered a few harmless, well-intended tissue collection projects, we wish to reassure our families that whatever extra credit has been awarded for this in the past has been nominal, and the few extra credit projects for tissues are being phased out. Harker teachers submit a maintenance request to receive tissues for their classroom. Parents may still feel free to send tissues with their students to class - the donation is always appreciated! ■ Host Family Needed Lenka Pelakova, a senior from Bardejov, Slovakia, is interested in studying at Harker next year. Lenka has studied English for seven years and her interests include drawing and debate. For selected international students like Lenka, Harker covers all school costs including tuition, books and fees; the student provides her own medical insurance; the host family is responsible for her room and board. If interested, contact Bill Bost at billb@harker.org or 408.345.9656.
Lee Trotter-all lunch photos
As part of our continuing efforts to make laptop computing safe at Harker, we have renewed the school’s Symantec antivirus software package to include registered student-owned laptops used on the Saratoga campus. As many of you know, we lost significant time in the fall of 2003 when student laptops brought a worm and several viruses into our network. We are working to reduce that risk.
Luncheon Honors Volunteers About 70 parents attended an invitationonly luncheon to thank those volunteers who helped in the following areas this year: Parent Volunteer Leadership Councils, After-school Rec Art volunteers, January mailing helpers, Destination Imagination coaches and Fashion Show volunteers. Many thanks to this wonderful batch of volunteers!
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“Being a host at the fashion show gave me an exceptional opportunity to help raise money for Harker. It felt really good to support my school during my last year here and to know that what I did will help future Harker students.” —Thomas McMahon, Class of 2004
“Modeling in the fashion show was an incredible experience. It was fun to be with my peers doing something so unique and to step outside the box and dress in outfits that were so different from those I wear in my daily life. Best of all, it was for a good cause: Harker!” —Karla Bracken, Class of 2004
“This was Santana Row’s first time to be involved in a school fundraising event, and we could not have been more pleased with the innovative show, which perfectly complemented the style-defining fashions of Santana Row’s world-class boutiques and shops. Our collaboration in the event supports Santana Row’s mission to be a dynamic part of our local community, and we’re proud to know our efforts will directly benefit Harker’s students and teachers. Santana Row and Harker both truly places like no other!” —Billur Wallerich, Director of Marketing for Santana Row
“It was such a wild feeling watching the event and seeing all of our many months of planning and hard work come together. Working on the fashion show committee gave me a great opportunity to meet some truly wonderful people who are now my very good friends.” — Leslie Nielsen, Events Chair Assistant
“The show itself was an amazing production! Seeing everyone, especially the students, looking so sure and confident made me realize yet again what a wonder ful learning environment Harker is for our students. It really was worth all the hard work that so very many people put into making the show possible!” — Heather Wardenburg, Centerpiece Committee Chair
fund Lights, Camera…PASSION! Harker Fashion Show — A Celebration and a Look Back! The first-ever Harker Fashion Show, our new philanthropic event for the Harker community, has proven to be one of three pivotal annual fundraising activities that supports The Harker Fund. We thank you for giving generously and passionately for the benefit of our students and our community as a whole – it’s the many families, faculty, alumni, sponsors and volunteers who made this event such a success. Your continued support of this new event, as well as the annual Alumni and Family Picnic and the Annual Giving campaign, will ensure the success of the annual Harker Fund and the important programs this fund makes possible.
Celebration Santana Row generously hosted a thank-you event for the fashion show committee in the V Bar at the Hotel Valencia in March, where cochairs Christine Davis, Ellen Harris and Marcia Riedel announced the financial results of the show and thanked the committee. “We are very proud of everyone affiliated with the Fashion Show for all their
hard work and support. This premiere year was a lot of fun, but it also presented many challenges, and everyone rose to the occasion to make Lights, Camera…PASSION! a resounding success. We look forward to next year’s show, and many more years of expressing our passion for education. Thank you for helping to make Harker truly a place like no other!” They also announced that a plaque with the names of all the founding committee members will be installed on the Saratoga campus by the end of the year to honor the inaugural committee members.
We are delighted to announce that the net proceeds from the event totalled:
$201,769.23! All net proceeds directly benefit these valuable programs, resources and facilities necessary for the growth of our students and faculty: ■ Scholarship Fund – provides financial assistance to students schoolwide. The fashion show will provide six families with a total of $70,000 in financial support.
■ 250+ students, faculty, parents and alumni modeled, performed or volunteered ■ Over 1,400 guests attended the lunch and dinner events ■ We significantly raised awareness of the caliber of our students and programs in the greater community. News of the event ran in the Mercury News, Silicon Valley community newspapers and the April San Jose Magazine. ■ The overwhelming response has been that this new event was topnotch, memorable and worthy of being a new Harker tradition.
■ Teachers’ Fund – supports and encourages professional development among faculty. The fashion show proceeds will provide $65,000 for teachers to attend conferences and workshops this year. ■ Math, Science and Technology Complex – Funding of $65,000 of will go towards the construction of a brand new classroom in our new Math, Science and Technology Complex.
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Watch next month's edition for the announcement of the 2005 Fashion Show date!
Special Fundraising Event “An Enchanted Fall Evening” It’s a wonderful social opportunity for the Harker community! Join us for a romantic evening of fine dining and dancing under the stars hosted at the Doherty’s beautiful “Italian Country” home in Los Gatos on Sat., Oct. 2, 2004. The official guest list is filling up quickly, so reserve your spot now by emailing nancyr@harker.org (cost is $200 per couple and $100 per person). Harker News — April 04
Harker Goes to the Olympics - with this Summer’s Theme!
Annual Giving Update ■ Gr. K, 3 and 6 top the class participation chart with over 70%!
The recent spell of hot weather has reminded us all that summer is just around the corner. The summer offices at both campuses have been busy with registrations and are gearing up for this year’s Olympics theme. Get your registration in soon while spots are available!
■ 90% of $1 million in funds needed to support student programs this year has been received. ■ Spring Calls: Parent volunteers will contact families who have yet to participate – the campaign ends May 31!
We thought you’d all enjoy meeting some of these great Harker students and alumni who work in the Harker Summer Programs: Michael Leonard (’04) will spend his fourth summer as a lifeguard at the Bucknall pool this summer. “What makes me want to come back to work at camp is definitely the kids… because when you can make them smile, it’s all that matters,” said Leonard, who was a summer camper himself for many years.
■ Reminder: President’s Circle Celebration is Fri., April 23. We hope to see you there! —Bran-Dee Torres, Donor Relations Manager, brandeet@harker.org
William Waggoner (’06) was also a summer camper once and decided to return as a Counselor in Training (C.I.T.) last year. After a student’s first year in high school, he or she can apply for the five-week C.I.T. program, which teaches leadership skills and requires active participation with campers. Will comes back to work summers “because it’s a fun job in the sun, and much better than waiting tables.” Katie Ball (’05) recalls the fun she had “traveling from place to place on campus singing songs with the kids.” Harker freshmen are encouraged to apply, and two of this year’s applicants, Matt Wong (’07) and Ashley Morishige (’07), are also past
Your Generous Annual Giving Dollars at Work! Your gifts continue to provide Harker students and faculty with tools and resources to make so many of our schoolwide programs successful. In this issue we are proud to showcase the following: MS Literary Magazine wins silver award page 1 Annual Gr. 6 Production: “Free to Be You and Me” page 10 21st Annual Dance Production: “Let’s Show ’Em” page 6
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Class of 2004 Parents… Join these fellow senior families and honor your graduate with a special inscribed brick: Karla Bracken, Eric Berglund, LeAnn Duong, Anita Gupta, Laena Keyashian, Irina Khaimovich, Kathryn L. Lee, Jennifer Lin, Jessica Liu, Sergey Lossev, Jacinda Mein, Lisa Nakano, Thomas Polzin, Sumana Rao, Danna Rubin, Matthew Vucurevich, Wesley J. Wu. Contact Amalia Keyashian, Sr. Parent Committee member, at 408.345.0107.
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Some of our US students that you'll see working this summer!
campers. Morishige said of her days as a camper, “The overnights were awesome because we got to bond as a group. I especially remember the overnight with the first dance - Coach K taught us disco!” Current Harker students who worked last summer include: Mike Leonard (’04), Jacinda Mein (’04), Estelle Charlu (’05), William Waggoner (’06), Katie Ball (’05), Rachel Newman (’05), Roberta Wolfson (’05), Casey Near (’06), Casey Blair (’06), Shivani Bhargava (’06), Gavin Dutrow (’06), Rohini Venkatraman (’06), Michael Hammersly (’06), and Lauren Gutstein (’06). After the C.I.T. program, many students return as counselors and then group leaders. Three alumni, Lisa Bowman (MS ’95), Danielle Lawrence (MS ’95) and Ashley Sukovez (MS ’96), started in the C.I.T. program and have returned every summer since. They now hold positions on the camp’s administration team. Harker Summer Programs are widely known for the caliber and quality of their staff. With so many of our wonderful students and alumni participating in the summer programs, it comes as no surprise! See you at camp!
production ...Did Just That! and costumes were outstanding, and the show flowed through dancing styles from ballet to hip-hop. Once again, Laura Rae was the artistic director and choreographer and also assisted with the story concept. Her colleagues, dance instructor Adrian Bermudez and drama teacher Jeff Draper, also assisted with much of the show. New this year the show featured some of the work of student choreographers from the US Conservatory, Maya Hey and Kimberley Wong, who each choreographed a dance on their own. US students Sasha Stepanenko and Julia Havard also worked with lower school students, and Naeha Bhambhra assisted with the finale. In addition, special thanks go to the following Harker staff: Brian E. Larsen, Gail Palmer, Paul Vallerga, Natti Pierce-Thompson and Marc Hufnagl.
Chris Daren - all photos
The 21st annual Saratoga dance show involved over 200 students over three days of performances and weeks of rehearsals. This year the K-12 production storyline featured three main US actors who were working together to come up with a theme for a dance show: choreographer, Maya Hey; director, Jo Tsai; and visionary, Fiona Lundie. They paved the way for each dance number aided by two Gr. 3 actors, David Cutler as a videographer and his agent Sarah Coyne-Croft. The lights, sets, sound, props
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Put on Your Dancin’ Shoes for Harker’s History of Dance choreographed the leads as well as the large group numbers. At the same time, I started making up little routines for students to perform at the awards assemblies. The first dance routine was ‘Shake It Up’ by the Cars.” So impressive was the performance that dance performances soon became part of every school assembly, as well as the annual Holiday Show and Spring Musical. The after-school dance program began in 1983 with 50 students of various grade levels and skills. Dancers performed in a recital at the end of the school year. In the early years Dan Gelineau worked on sound, Mike Bassoni on lights, and Jack Bither was master of ceremonies. Within three years the program grew to include 150 students who participated in the after-school program, parent/ child dances and a faculty routine with a mother/ faculty dance. By the late ’80s, Harker Academy dancers had developed a solid base of skills. Parents helped build sets and costumes were ordered through professional catalogs. Dance became a hit at Harker! By now Rae was teaching dance full-time, and the dance program now included a required course in the K-8th grade
folk dancing. The dance curriculum was expanded to include clogging in the ’30s, which was thought to increase flexibility and a sense of rhythm. In the ’40s, creative, interpretive and social dancing were recognized as integral to the curriculum. As the Miss Harker School expanded to include K-12 in the 50s, dance was introduced into the primar y school curriculum. Kindergarteners practiced folk dancing every day, and additional dance instruction was available after school. Intermediate students learned interpretive dance, and the upper school students were exposed to a variety of dance traditions. Through the merger of the Palo Alto Military Academy with the Harker Day School in the early 1960s, dance was always part of the summer programs and of their annual Maypole celebrations. In the early days of Harker Academy, spring musicals provided the main venue for dance performances. However, when dance teacher Laura Rae came to Harker in 1982, the dance program really began to flourish! Laura’s earliest memories are of the spring musicals, in which all 7th and 8th graders participated, and each P.E. class selected dancers for specific routines. Rae recalls, “My first year the musical was the ‘Wizard of Oz,’ and I Harker News — April 04
Harker Archives - all photos
From our school’s earliest beginnings dance has played an important role at Harker. The 1903 catalog features dance instruction, offered to the girls for $20 per term. By the ’20s dance became part of the curriculum and one period a week was devoted to “natural [interpretive] dancing” and
P.E. program, the annual spring musical (required for MS students) and an after-school elective for performance in the dance show. Dance was taught in a small room which had an open dance deck attached (these rooms now function as Laura Lang-Ree’s room/Mr. Micek’s computer room). Rae remembers “first position feet” painted on the floor, flowers and a heater on the dance deck, and
being part of the life of the boarding students. She remembers, “Many of the boarders danced in the program, since we were just downstairs. This opened
the doors to ethnic dances and boys entering the program.” Student participation after school increased and Rae began to contract with outside choreographers to assist with the dance numbers. The annual show began to have standard routines that included jazz, ballet/lyrical, modern and a new style known as hip-hop. “At this point, I was still working with a phonograph and those big CDs known as vinyl records,” Rae laughed. “By the late ’80s I couldn’t keep up with the demand of student interest.” So the dance program further expanded in the 1990s as Gail Palmer came aboard. Rae and Palmer became a team that made the program what it is today. Rae said the program has flourished as a result of the creativity and support of many, and she feels a special indebtedness to Howard and Diana Nichols: “I am amazed that the dance program has become such an integral part of the Harker community. Howard and Diana have always been advocates of the per forming ar ts. To be able to work with wonder ful, bright students, hire outside choreographers and collaborate with the Per forming Arts staff has been a dream come true.” The tradition continues as we celebrated our 21st annual dance production, “Let’s Show ‘Em,” this year. Lucky indeed are the Harker dancers, who as part of their legacy have created lifelong memories for all and experienced the thrill of performing at Harker! —Sue Smith, Harker Archivist
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Imagination Rules with Harker DI Teams
Kate Shanahan
breaking many structures until their guesses were on the mark. Using their best GuessDImate, they told the appraisers how much weight their structure would hold BEFORE they loaded it up.
Harker teams have been preparing for months for the Desination Imagination (DI) regional finals held in early March, and they were once again very successful. Two Harker teams won the 1st and 2nd place spots and will be presenting at the State Finals in Clovis in April. The 1st place team was the Harker Brainstormers, consisting of Gr. 3 and 4 students Tyler Yeats, Saagar Sarin, Suchita Nety, Bradley Araki and Neha Kumar, coached by parent Nina Yeats. The team presented a challenge called GuessDImate where students built a structure of wood and glue and estimated how many pounds of weight it could hold. They gathered the data needed by building and
Lee Trotter - all lip sync photos
■ Valentine’s Day just wouldn’t feel right without the fifth grade’s annual Lip Sync Show, and the students did another fabulous job of selecting songs and preparing routines. There was a wide variety of acts, from a Beatles number performed by John Ammatuna, Molly Mandell and Allika Walvekar
The 2nd place spot went to the Harker Swingers, consisting of Gr. 5 students Sonali Mehta, Abhilasha Belani, Ajit Punj, Molly Mandell and Shreya Nathan, coached by parents Vinita Belani, Nimish Mehta and Anoo Nathan. This team presented the challenge called The Plot and the Pendulum, where students created a theatrical presentation that featured two original stories that began the same way, but each split along the way and had different endings. They were aided by their team-invented “plot diverter,” an actual pendulum that signaled the pivotal events that set the stories in motion. A 3rd place spot went to Challenge Busters, consisting of Gr. 3 and 4 students Sonia Chalaka, Sonia Gupta, Daniela Lapidous, Ben
Yang, Rishi Bhandia and Laura Pedrotti, coached by parents Ravi Chalaka, Chris Apap-Bologna and Anita Bhandia, who also presented the The Plot and the Pendulum challenge. Two other Harker teams competed at the regional tournament. The ‘DI’fference,consisting of Gr. 6 students Joanna Melbourne, Claire Bredenoord, Stefan Eckhardt, Scott Underwood, Amiti Uttarwar and Alysia Patel, coached by parents Carol Underwood and Liz Melbourne, also did the The Plot
Congratulations to all the teams for working so hard all winter and putting so much creativity, effort and energy into their challenges. “Remember, sometimes the journey IS the destination,” said parent Nina Yeats! —Kate Shanahan, Gr. 5 teacher
volunteer of the month Destination Imagination Coaches We want to put our monthly spotlight on this year’s Destination Imagination parent coaches: Chris Apap-Bologna, Vinita Belani, Ravi Chalaka, Nimish Mehta, Liz Melbourne, Anoo Nathan, Carol Underwood, Anita Bhandia, Nina Yeats and Ram Appalaraju. These volunteers are so dedicated! They organized team meetings, drove all over the Bay Area getting supplies for their teams’ challenges, dealt diplomatically with other parents, controlled, focused, taught, organized and motivated young people, juggled weekend meetings and managed to feed hungry hordes, lay awake at night wondering how on ear th their teams would ever be prepared sufficiently to compete, and were prepared to share the joy of winning (or the sadness of losing!) and the impor tance of TEAMWORK. Kate Shanahan, G5 teacher and DI coordinator extraordinaire, asks us all to give these patient and diligent volunteers a special thank you for their effor ts! —Nancy Reiley, Community Relations Director
Idol was hiding somewhere in the audience,” reported teacher Pat Walsh. The finale had the kids awestruck as teachers Walsh, Kristin Giammona, Kate Shanahan
to an Indian Remix featuring Ayesha Malik, Malika Mehrotra, Riya Parikh, Sonika Suri and Anisha Agarwal. Leo Funaki had the audience rocking out with his rendition of “Faint.” “At this point there was talk that a talent screener for American
and the Pendulum challenge. There was also a team working outside of Harker of Gr. 5 students Isaac Madan, Ambrish Amaranathan, Monisha Appalaraju, Nidhi Gandhi, Anisha Agrawal, coached by parent Ram Appalaraju.
and Rob Reagan came out singing and dancing to “One” from the Broadway musical, “A Chorus Line.” In addition to the above, other singers were Alice Loofburrow, Sheridan Jones, Miranda Gorman, David Wu, Peter Auvil, Naomi So, Tiffany Chang, Henna Mishra,
Priya Sadhev, Janisha Patel, Abhilasha Belani, Nidhi Gandhi, Sonali Mehta, Jacqui Salinas, Olivia Zhu and Erica Woolsey. ■ Cindy Proctor’s homeroom class enjoyed a busy week of celebrations the first week in March. They celebrated Dr. Seuss’ 100th birthday by making “Cat in the Hat” hats, singing Happy Birthday to him and reading many of his fantastic stories. They celebrated the Japanese holiday of Girl’s Day (aka Doll’s Day) by having all the students bring a special doll or stuffed animal to school. “After introducing their special friend to the class, they shared cookies with them,” said Proctor. That same week, all students in Gr. 1 saw the play, “Harr y the Dir ty Dog” at the Sunnyvale Theater of the Per forming Ar ts. ■ The American Heart Association arranged with teacher Pete Anderson to have children’s author and heart disease survivor J.T. Harker News — April 04
Kristin Giammona
■ Parent Peter Levy (Noah Levy) visited Kristin Giammona’s 5th period social studies class to share some interesting highlights about America’s most notorious traitor, Benedict Arnold. Levy grew up in Tappan, New York, where British officer Major Andre (Benedict
Arnold) was tried and hanged, and encouraged students to visit the related historical sites in New York if they ever were able to travel there. ■ Students in Jason Pergament’s science classes held a mini science Harker News — April 04
■ Linda Alexander reported that her Gr. 1 G+ Language Arts class “loves to write - they write every day in journals, word lists, sentences and stories!” She explained that recently the children composed their own stories based on a children’s book called “A Dinosaur Named After Me,” where the Brontosaurus in the book becomes a gentle Gillianasaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex becomes an even fiercer Ian-Rex. When the stories had been edited and all the mistakes corrected, the children copied them neatly on dinosaur-shaped stationery, drew pictures and made covers. “What a thrill it was for the children to learn what it means to be authors!” commented Alexander. “They took great pride in reading their books to each other. Now, quite a few of the children think it would be exciting to be authors when they grow up.” ■ Megumi Kozu, parent of Hiro Kozu, brought the tradition of the Japanese Doll Festival to Rita Stone’s first grade classroom in
Chloe Nielsen, Gr. 3 Chloe exhibits a quiet determination and a great dedication to her work. A consummate artist, she can often be found in the afterschool art program continuing her artistic explorations outside of class. Chloe’s work displays an elegant sense of design and mastery in handling materials. In her logos project, Chloe created a graphic and typographic symbol for her name that at once represents her and at the same time cleverly represents her love of cats. Alexandra Walker, Gr. 1 A bright young artist, Alexandra’s work exhibits her dexterity in handling many art media as well as a poetic sensibility towards her subject matter. In the unit of study on owls, Alexandra created two distinct projects - a mixed media drawing and a clay sculpture (pictured). Both projects convey her strong sense of form and understanding of texture and her command of these different materials. They also display how she translated the subject matter learned and created a convincing mood that relates to each piece individually. —Pilar Aguero-Esparza, LS Art Teacher
with how hard each student worked to improve their paper folding skills. It’s a lot tougher than it looks,” she added. Thanks to parent Karen Saunders (Awen) who assisted in the activities.
early March, explaining why this is such an important festival in Japan. Students had the chance to taste special festival foods and practice the ancient and challenging art of origami, or paper folding. “My class really enjoyed the sharing of another culture’s festival,” said Stone. “I was quite impressed
■ Kindergarten students in Eric Hoffman’s art class recently worked on a textured ceramic clay fish project. Sudents cut out fish using templates, used a variety of tools to create textures and then painted their fish with ceramic glazes. The fish were on display in the gym lobby this past month.
Cummins visit in February. He read aloud from his book, “Good Things to Share,” during his visit and had a short discussion about being kind, caring and loving. “The children welcomed him with Valentines and were quite excited about meeting a ‘real author,’” said Diann Chung, Gr. 1 teacher.
artists of the month
Nick Gassman
fair in February for other classes to view their science fair projects. Students were given an openended assignment to complete a geology-related science fair project. Each class chose a topic and then broke into focus groups to create a project of their choice. The topics included Earthquakes in California, Mt. St. Helens, the Hawaiian Volcanoes, Mt. Fuji, Mt. Everest and Mt. Vesuvius/Pompeii. “They came up with an amazing assortment of projects on these topics including short videos, exploding volcanoes, power point presentations, comparative models and rumbling fault lines,” said Pergament.
Pilar Aguero-Esparza - both photos
club of the month After-school Art
Lee Trotter-both photos
Students in Gr. 1-6 have the option of After-school Art as a drop-in activity, and there are usually between 25 to 30 students each day working on either teacher-led projects like clay, embossing, printing or
drawing, or on independent projects like peg knitting, painting and crayon melt. Recently students finished making Puzzling Picture Frames, a project using glue guns to adhere puzzle pieces to a frame, and Creative Construction, a project using Fimo polymer clay and colored toothpicks to make sculptures. “There are a wide variety of projects for the students, from making picnic aprons to candle centerpieces,” said Sylvia Beals, after-school art instructor. Alumni Dana Luri (‘82) assists Beals in this program. Grade 4-6 sports participants can also include one day a week of art if it is prearranged and on a regular schedule. See the art department for more details.
Bucknall Performing Arts Notes ■ Sixth Grade Event Celebrates Possibilities Students in Gr. 6 put on a fun and entertaining musical in March entitled, “Free To Be You and Me,” based on the classic best-selling children’s book by the same title. The play was a delightful collection of scenes and songs that reminded us how fun it is to be a kid. A group of boys and girls discover who they are, learn how to express their feelings and learn to respect each other’s individuality. It also reminds us that boys and girls have limitless possibilities and can be anything they choose. The 6th graders were split into two casts that performed on different nights. Though the stage adaptation was written to be performed by four actors, director Michael Pease divided the scenes up so that close to forty actors could be featured individually per cast. Every student had plenty to do, acting in at least one scene and singing at least five different songs.
■ Students in Pete Anderson’s Gr. 6 P.E. classes have been practicing the many arts of the circus, including diabolos, stilts, balance boards, scarves, club and ball juggling and plate spinning. “My students love it,” laughed Anderson!
Dancers in Gr. 1 through 6 are having a blast as they learn their routines for the 2004 Dance Concert at Bucknall. This year’s theme, Movie Madness, will have dance routines that represent favorite films of the Bucknall faculty and staff. Director Gail Palmer said that the 220 dancers are now asking, “When will we get our costumes?” Palmer wants to get the entire campus involved so each grade level recently had a lunchtime jam session. Three different songs were played, and the students voted on the one they wanted to be used for the finale. Many Bucknall students also submitted artwork to be considered for the show program cover. Three drawings will be selected to be the program cover, and the rest will be used to decorate the lobby. Plan to take a stroll down the red carpet on Fri., May 28 or Sat., May 29 at 7:00 p.m.! Nick Gassman
Lee Trotter - all circus photos
■ Bucknall Dance Concert – May 28 and 29
L. Sun, parent
■ 2004 BAMO – Harker’s Yi Sun, 2004 Grand Winner, Harker Earns Second Place Overall Ranking For the first time in the history of the Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO), a sophomore – Harker student Yi Sun – garnered the highest points in this 4-hour problem-solving competition taken by nine Harker students on Feb. 24. Sun’s achievement as the youngest Grand Winner was announced March 7 at the BAMO Awards Banquet held at the Faculty Club at the University of California Berkeley. BAMO consists of five open-ended
questions with 35 points as the highest possible score. Yi received a score of 33 points, with the next closest scores earned by three senior veteran contestants from the other schools with a score of 31 points. The following students also received Honorable Mention Awards: 11th-12th Category: Mason Liang, Gr. 11; Middle School Category: Spencer Liang, Gr. 8 and Thomas Wang, Gr. 7. The other high performing students from Harker were Justin Wu, Gr. 11; Ethan Karpel, Gr. 11; Ozan Demirlioglu, Gr. 11, and Justin Chin, Gr. 9. Arkajit Dey, Gr. 9, also participated in the contest. Because of the very high scores of our students, Harker received 2nd Place Overall in the Olympiad. ■ California Math League (CML) – Harker Still Ranked #1 After round 4 of the California Mathematics League, Harker is still ranked #1 with a perfect score of 120 points. In the individual round, the following Harker students have been ranked the highest scoring students (cumulative) by the CML: Yi Sun, Gr. 10 – 24 points, perfect score; Mason Liang, Gr. 11- 23 points; Justin Wu, Gr. 11 – 23 Harker News — April 04
points; Justin Chin, Gr. 9 – 22 points; and Jerry Hong, Gr. 11 – 20 points. Last school year Harker was the overall winner in the CML and hopes to get the same award again after the remaining two rounds. Interested readers can view contest results and other CML information at http://www.mathleague.com/ reports/2003_04/CA4.HTM. ■ Mandelbrot National Contest After Round 3 Harker is doing very well in this year’s Mandelbrot National Competition, sponsored by the Greater Testing Concepts of Cambridge, Massachusetts. After round 3, Harker is still part of the elite tier 1 of top per forming schools that have received a score of 223 points or higher in the competition. In round 3 alone, our team received a per fect score of 21 points, and so far Harker has a team score of 276 points. The Harker team members who helped achieve the perfect score in round 3 were Yi Sun, Gr. 10, and juniors Mason Liang, Lev Pisarsky, Jerry Hong and Justin Wu. In the individual category, as of round 3 the following students have been commended: Tier 1 - Yi Sun, Gr. 10 - 40 points; Tier 2 – juniors Lev Pisarsky - 26 points, Jerry Hong 26 points and Justin Wu - 25 points; Tier 3 – Thomas Wang, Gr. 7 - 22 points and Daniel Hung, Gr. 11 - 20 points. ■ 41st SCVMA - Harker Students Earn Awards; School 4th Overall On March 6 Harker participated in the 41st Annual Santa Clara Valley Math Association (SCVMA) Mathematics Field Day, one of the major annual projects of this association. There are seven divisions in the contest: Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Open (Precalculus), Calculus, Leapfrog Relay and Discovery Quest. To be eligible in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry or Open Competition, the students must be currently enrolled in that course this school year. Due to Harker’s mathematics curriculum and its tracking system, most of
our contestants were very young compared to the competitors from the other schools. In spite of the young age, Harker placed 4th overall in this tilt, due to the following individual awards: Algebra I: Jeanette Chin, Gr. 6 – 12th Place. Geometry: Thomas Wang, Gr. 7 – 4th place; Alex Fandrianto, Gr. 8 – 7th place; Richard Kwant, Gr. 9 – 14th place. Algebra II: Joseph Pei, Gr. 8 – 4th place; Jay Shah, Gr. 8 – 12th place. Calculus: Daniel Hung, Gr. 11 – 12th Place. Open (Precalculus) – Justin Chin, Gr. 9 – 6th place; Hailey Lam, Gr. 10 – 15th place. Leap Frog Relay Competition: Team of seniors Ozan Demirlioglu and Karthik Kailash – 7th place. Discovery Quest Contest: Yi Sun, Gr. 10 – 4th place. Vandana Kadam, MS math teacher, also accompanied the students on this competition.
Gr. 8; Victor Chen, Gr. 8; along with US student Tatsunori Hashimoto, Gr. 9. Despite their grade level disadvantage, these “mathletes” performed at par with their high school counterparts, and all four contestants from Harker were listed in their Web site. The salient results may be viewed at http:// sumo.stanford.edu/smt/2004.
■ Harker Students Receive JACL Awards On Jan. 17 Harker participated for the first time in the 37th Annual San Jose JACL Tokutomi Mathematics Contest, an annual event sponsored by the San Jose Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the California Mathematics Council Student Activity Trust, the Santa Clara Valley Mathematics Association and the Santa Teresa High School Mathematics Department. There were two divisions in the contest: the junior division open to students currently in grades 7-9, and the senior division for students in grades 10-12. The following students received awards in the competition: Junior Division Overall: Justin Chin, Gr. 9 – 5th place. 7th grade category: Thomas Wang – 2nd place. 8th grade category: Jay Shah – 3rd place. 9th grade category: Arkajit Dey – 2nd place. 10th grade category: Hailey Lam. 11th grade category: Lev Pisarsky – 5th place and Mason Liang – 1st place.
Gr. 12 – Ozan Demirlioglu, Anita Gupta, Karthik Kailash, Aaron Kleinsteiber, Simon Linder, Ravi Mishra, Akash Shah, Manu Srivastava, Sheena Vaswani, Wesley Wu. Gr. 11 – Gennady Erlikhman, Jerry Hong, Daniel Hung, Mason Liang, Kevin Park, Lev Pisarsky, Jeffrey Shih, Joel Wright, Justin Wu. Gr. 10 – Gregory Finkelstein, Michael Hammersley, Hailey Lam, Robert Li, Jacqueline Rousseau, Jasper Shau, Yi Sun, Eric Tzeng, Albert Wang, Victor Wang. Gr. 9 – Neil Chao, Justin Chin, Jay Han, Jessie Li, Tiffany June Lin. Gr. 8 – Rachel Fong. Gr. 7 –Thomas Wang. Final results will be known in April. 2004
■ Middle School students in Stanford Math Tournament for HS On Feb. 28 three different events were held on the same day - the JETS-TEAMS Competition, the Science Bowl and the Stanford Mathematics Tournament (SMT) – so Harker students were divided as to where to participate. Instead of backing out from the math competition, Harker fielded-in mostly MS students to the contest: Thomas Wang, Gr. 7; Rachel Fong,
■ Harker Students in Round 2 of the American Mathematics Competitions On Feb. 10 and Feb. 25 Harker participated in the National Mathematics Contest – the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC-A and AMC-B). The following students performed well on this test and were invited to participate in the next level of the contest, the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) to be given March 23:
■ International Math Competitions Two Harker students participated in the second round of the O-level and the A-level of The Russian International Tournament of Towns. It is based mainly in Moscow, Russia, and like other Mathematical Olympiads, it focuses on problem-solving rather than rapid mathematics. Sitting for 4 - 5 hours doing only mathematics may be tough for some, but not for two Harker students, Yi Sun and Justin Wu, who participated in both levels. The results will be known in midMay. Sun participated in another international Olympiad, the Asian Pacific Mathematical Olympiad (APMO) held for four hours at Harker on March 15. Sun is also on a 30-member team from the United States chosen by the American continued on pg. 12
Math Competitions (AMC) committee from among those who reached the last stage of the AMC last school year. Sun took the U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad last school year and further qualified to be in training for possible members of the U.S.A. team to the International Mathematical Olympiad. Results of the APMO will be known within a month. ■ Upcoming Competitions There are still a number of mathematics competitions in the next couple of months for interested students such as the Mathematics Field Day sponsored by Fresno State University, the Bay Area Mathematics Meet (BAMM) sponsored by the University of San Francisco, the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) and the Lawrence Livermore High School Math Challenge. Anyone who is interested in participating may contact Misael Fisico.
SPORTS Grades 4-8 The LS and MS were finishing up winter sports at press time and gearing up for spring sports. Watch for news of LS softball and baseball and MS swimming, tennis, soccer and boys’ volleyball in the next newsletter! —Theresa “Smitty” Smith, Gr. 4-8 Athletic Director
Upper School Spring sports are off and running with seven US spring sports for our
—Reported by Misael Fisico, US Math Teacher
Harker Math Event The third annual Harker Math Invitational for grades 6 to 8 held in March was another great success. About 200 contestants from 10 schools (Crocker Middle school, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillbrook School, Hyde Middle School, Menlo School, Miller Middle School, Redwood Middle School, Woodside Priory, Waldorf School of the Peninsula) joined Harker to take part in individual and team contests. The results were as follows. Individual Event: Gr. 6 – 1st, Nikhil Bhargava; 2nd, Victor Chen; 3rd, Jeanette Chin; and 5th, Amiti Uttarwar; Gr. 8 – 1st, Rachel Fong. Team Contest (there were 31 teams): Gr. 6 – 1st, Nikhil Bhargava, Vishesh Jain, Haran Sivakumar, Victor Chen, Jeanette Chin, Namrata Anand and Sanjeev Datta; Gr. 7 – 3rd, Aaron Lin, Jonathan Liu, Brian Chao, Andrew Chin, Adela Chang, Dominique Dabija and Tiffany Tseng. Congratulations to all the Harker math students who came out to par ticipate in this event, and many thanks to the parents and students who volunteered at this weekend event.
Eagle athletes - baseball, softball, volleyball, tennis, track and field, golf and swimming. Tennis is off to a good start, currently undefeated in PSAL league play, and sporting a 2-2 record overall. Coach Craig Pasqua is hopeful that his team will compete with the top teams in the league. Swimming hosted their first meet of the year, winning a tri meet with ISHS from San Francisco and Pinewood School. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams finished on top. Both teams began league meets in March, and they hope to finish in
briefs the upper halves, respectively.
Four Harker Teams Earn 2004 Scholastic Championship
Baseball notched some early season wins against St. Thomas More and Anzar HS. The varsity team is very young, with the four infield positions all manned by freshmen. They’ll face some tough teams in the PSAL and gain valuable experience that may not be evident until their upperclassmen years. Jason Martin, Greg Ringold, Mark Ollila and Chris Gudmundson make up the ‘fantastic frosh” class. The team has only two seniors and is led by junior pitcher Ben Shapiro. First year coach Jason Ryback is excited about working with such a young group as they prepare for the future.
Four Harker teams have earned recognition as the Central Coast Section (CCS) 2004 Winter Scholastic Championship Team winners. This award recognizes the CCS team with the highest grade point average (GPA) during the winter sports high school season. Congratulations to our outstanding Harker athletes and scholars: Girls’ Basketball 3.84 GPA; Boys’ Basketball 3.74 GPA; Boys’ Soccer 3.56 GPA; and Wrestling 3.65 GPA.
Softball began the season with a 21-4 thrashing of Mid Pen and barely missed knocking off St. Lawrence, losing a one run lead in the bottom of the 7th inning, a heartbreaking loss for coach Karen Caito’s squad.
Boys’ volleyball is off to an impressive 3-0 start, and coach Jason Reid is very excited about his team’s potential. Coming over from the hardwood, PSAL MVP basketball player and second team all league forward Adhir Ravipati
Golf is currently 2-0 with early season victories. Coach Z is confident that his squad will compete with the top teams in the league. Cooper Sivara and Jon Jenq have turned in their basketball sneakers for golf spikes to help lead the team thus far.
has added depth to the Eagle squad, led by senior setter Michael Leonard and senior outside hitter Vincent “hops” Yen.
Lee Trotter-all sports photos
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Track and Field has had one meet so far as they look to compete in the WBAL (girls) and the PSAL (boys). The team is working hard to continually improve their times and marks, and with a strong coaching staff assisting her, head coach Vonda Reid is confident many members will reach personal bests in their events this year. If you have never seen a track meet, come on out and cheer on the Eagles - they are exciting to watch! See you at the ballpark! —Jack Bither, US Athletic Director Harker News — April 04
Middle School/Upper School
■ Students in the Gr. 7 and 8 elective computer course focus on video and animation creation and editing. Teacher Michael Schmidt reported that this quarter students created numerous projects, including a music video and a 30-second commercial in which the student was the star. “Acting skills
■ Science and Technology Fair A number of Harker MS and US students joined over 50 other schools recently to participate in the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Fair held at the San Jose Convention Center. Among the student projects on display were the following Harker projects:
2. were not necessary, but each student was required to get in front of the camera and also control all the aspects from behind the camera,” said Schmidt. Using traditional and digital special effects, students appeared to fly, lift heavy objects or drive a car. “They’re also exposed to the real world of video creation and editing when they find that the average 30-second commercial has eighteen cuts,” added Schmidt. 1. Jennifer Scharre and Rachel Yuan are working together with the digital camera. They’re becoming familiar with the various functions and features and getting used to being on camera. 2. Scott Liao is extremely focused on his Adobe Premiere project and only had time to look for a moment before going back to his video editing. 3. Randy Chang is also becoming familiar with the digital camera, but it’s clear that he’s just as skilled in front of the camera as he is behind the camera.
MS students recently learned about environmental awareness, animal behavior and achieving personal goals from trainer Lorraine Temple who presented an assembly called “Dog Mushing in Alaska!” Temple brought along two of her dogs that trained for the Iditarod Race and a slide show about her life in Alaska training the dogs.
■ MS Students Go Above and Beyond MS students do good things around campus all the time, and the MS Above and Beyond program gives teachers an opportunity to recognize some of these good works. Teachers can drop the names of students they see going “above and beyond” to help others into a box each week, and then names are drawn and students are acknowledged weekly in the announcements. The following students recently had their names selected for prizes: Robert Oh - helped 7th and 8th graders to study Japanese during extra help; Daniel Nguyen - ran an errand for a teacher; Joseph Pei volunteered to help a teacher after school organize homework for students who had missed class; Steven Tran - helped a teacher find the owner of a cell phone; Spencer Lin - assisted a teacher with campus errands; Taylor Martin - helped the librarians set up a bulletin board. We commend all of our students who take the time to help others in the Harker community!
MS Spring Musical – May 14 and 15 MS students are busy rehearsing for the spring musical, “School House Rock,” with performances on May 14 and 15. Watch the May editions for more information about this show.
MS students, individual projects (Lorna Claerbout’s classes): Anik Debnath – The Effects of a Solar Storm on the Magnetosphere (Earth/Space Sciences); Spencer Lin – A Comparison of the Effect of the Wavelength of Light on the Rate of Photosynthesis in Shade and Sun Plants (Botany); Alexander Underwood –The Effect of Solutes on Boiling Water (Chemistry). US Bio-Research Club, group projects, all in the category of Biochemistry/ Microbiology: Structural Analysis of GFP and BFP – Pranab Barman, Deepa Mathew and Joshua Zloof; Screening and Detection of Genetically Modified Organisms in Food - Anita Gupta and Jessica Liu; Comparing the Mitochondrial DNA Sequences of Different Ethnicities at the Harker School – Jessica Wu and Justin Wu. The following US students also entered individual projects: Effect of Antioxidants on Tumefacien-induced Tumors (Botany) - Andrew Lee; Vortex Turbine (Engineering) - Siddarth Satish; Solving the Mysteries of Solubility (Chemistry) - Anton Sepetov. These US students entered individual projects and a paper: The Inhibition of Cyclooxygenase 1 Through Anti mRNA Sensing (Biochemistry/Microbiology and Biological Research) - Neha Bajwa; A Computer Simulated Study of the Effects of Mate Selection on Population Stability in Genetic Algorithms (Computers/Mathematics and Physical Research) - Aleksandr Segal; Calaveras Fault Trend vs. Radon Concentration Values (Earth/Space Sciences and Physical Research) - Vijay Swamy. Watch the next newsletter for details of this event which was being held at press time.
Quiz Bowl Team Buzzes to Championship Harker’s Quiz Bowl team soundly defeated Mountain View High School in a 330 – 170 match on Sat., Mar. 20, and they are now heading into the final championship match for a chance for the team to win an all-expenses paid trip to London. The “Bay Area Quiz Kids” show, which is taped in the studios of Peninsula TV in San Carlos and airs on KRON TV, pits Bay Area schools against each other in Jeopardy-like matches with questions on a variety of topics. This is Harker’s first year to participate. “There were some tense moments early on, but once again, our students really came through,” said Bradley Stoll, US math teacher and the team’s advisor. Congratulations to Yi Sun, Mason Liang and Vivek Bansal for the recent win, and good luck to the entire team, which also includes Lev Pisarsky, as they head into the championship – and final match – on Sat., March 27 at 1:45 p.m. against either Menlo or Half Moon Bay. Pam Dickinson
Stoll said that the quick thinking team members and enthusiastic support of the fans all contribute to the continuing success of the team. Watch for championship results in the next edition!
San Jose. Students prepared opening statements, closing arguments, witness questions and constitutional arguments intended to exclude evidence. “Over several months the students learned the basics of what attorneys do every day, mastering complicated rules of evidence such as the hearsay rule, successfully withstanding menacing cross examinations, and structuring complicated legal arguments on the spur of the moment,” said Jennifer Field, faculty advisor. “At the competition the attorney judges indicated that our students were more prepared than many real life attorneys they see in court,” added Fields. Our prosecution team included Pranab Barman, Arjun Naskar, Nilay Gandhi, Meghana Dhar, Shruthi Bhuma, Colleen Lee, Sean Turner, Rupan Bose and Urvashe Sameer. The defense team included Payom Pirahesh, Amira Valliani, Amulya Mandava, Mina Lee, Saloni Mathur, Shilpa Vadodaria, Nandini Datta, Stephanie Tung and Swathi Bhuma. ■ Novice Debate Championships: Harker debate coach Matt Brandstetter reported that students braved the cold temperatures of Iowa in mid-March to participate in the 10th Annual Novice Debate Championships at Iowa City West High School. Twenty-nine schools attended the tournament, and Brandstetter said Harker distinguished itself by advancing more teams to the elimination rounds than any other school. He added that Harker achieved 2nd and 3rd place finishes, missing 1st place by only one ballot in a very close decision to the Meadows School from Las Vegas, Nevada. TEAM RESULTS: Novice Champion Runners-Up - Tatsu Hashimoto & Nicholas Tan; Third Place - Jessica Lee & Swapanthi Nagulpally; Octafinalists - Arkajit Dey & Mina Lee. SPEAKER AWARDS: Ninth Place - Nicholas Tan; Tenth Place - Daniel Paik; Eleventh Place - Swapanthi Nagulpally. “This was the best showing ever for Harker at the Iowa City Championships,” said Brandstetter. Congratulations to the students for their hard earned victory. ■ Awards Ceremony: The 6th Annual Harker Speech and Debate Society Awards Ceremony will be held on Mon., April 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Saratoga Gym to celebrate the society's many achievements this year. Students should dress in tournament attire. R.S.V.P. to Donna Brandstetter at kittyfeet@sbcglobal.net.
Donna Brandstetter-all debate photos
■ Mock Trial: On March 18 US students playing the parts of attorneys and witnesses in a credit card fraud case participated in the annual Santa Clara County Mock Trial Competition held at the Superiour Court in
theme, DIS-respect. Students representing the following Harker groups attended the conference: Multicultural - Janine Carpenter, Sumedha Singh, Anshuman Gupta and Andrew Tran; GSA - Genna Erlikhman, Ashley Morishige and Kamilla Khaydarov; Student Council - Danyal Kothari, Adnan Haque and Amit Mukherjee. By the end of the day, Harker participants were ready to lead their schools in taking the DIS out of RESPECT. “I learned that the biggest obstacle to ending disrespect is that people’s kind words don’t necessarily mean they are respectful of others. Respect is a mindset, and respectful words should have respectful thoughts behind them,” said Ashley Morishige, Gr. 9. The students seemed to agree that, in addition to addressing the important issue of respect, they had a great time. “DYF was a blast!” said Amit Mukergee, Gr. 10. “The discussions were enlightening. They broadened my horizons on how to truly respect others, and I made a lot of new friends at schools around my area!” Janine Carpenter, Gr. 11, agreed: “I had so much fun meeting teenagers from around the Bay Area and hearing their opinions about diversity, respect and political correctness. At first I felt a little shy, but as soon as we broke into smaller groups, I felt comfortable voicing my opinions.”
■ Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Conference Sixteen students represented Harker in various business-related events at the annual Future Business Leaders of America’s (FBLA) Bay Area Leadership Conference in March. Faculty advisor Danae Romrel noted that there were “lots of outstanding performances,” and Harker’s FBLA club president Lekha Challa was particularly impacted by this year’s conference. “As my last section conference, it was very nostalgic. It just reminded me of where I started from and how far along I have come now. I genuinely wanted new members to experience the feel of a real conference complete with workshops, keynote speakers and, of course, competitions. At the end, it was members from Harker who gained valuable insight into business - and
Lekha Challa
■ Annual Diversity Youth Forum Ten US students represented Harker at the 6th annual Diversity Youth Forum, an event whose goal is for each participant to leave with a better appreciation and awareness of the many diverse and unique cultures found here in the Bay Area. Presented by the Chamber of Commerce Mountain View and hosted by Alza Corporation, the event was attended by over 100 students from various Bay Area schools to discuss this year’s
Debate Victories In Many Arenas
winning some awards! - that made my role of leading them a truly fulfilling one.” Congratulations to the following Harker students for their participation and recognition: Future
Business Leader Award: 2nd place Sanby Lee; 3rd place - Lekha Challa. Entrepreneurship, 4th place - Michael Tang, Manu Srivastava and Sridhar Chadalavada; Public Speaking II, 6th place - Linda Mohammadian; Public Speaking 1, 7th place - Mina Lee; Economics, Harker News — April 04
Makado Onakado
students studying Japanese. Students compete as teams and are asked questions regarding Japanese culture, grammar, writing systems, proverbs and onomatopoeic expressions. “This is the first year for all current Japanese students to participate in this event,” said Masako Onakado, Japanese teacher. Congratulations to all our participants and to the following students earning placements: Level 2: 3rd Place Eric Tzeng, Catherine Ho and Christine Hsueh; Level 3: 2nd place - Rubina Chuang, Tiffany Juliana Lin and Aneesha Nilakantan.
Masako Onakado
■ Hakone Gardens Richard Hartzell, US division head, and Diane Bick, US counselor, joined Japanese 2 students on a
field trip to Hakone Gardens in Saratoga to experience a Japanese tea ceremony. The group ate their Japanese lunchbox at a picnic site and took a walk in the gardens before learning the history of the tea ceremony from the tea master. The group then experienced the ceremony sitting on the tatami floor (traditional Japanese floor with straw mat) in a Japanese tearoom. “I was very impressed that all students sat on the floor in a formal way and most of them kept the sitting position throughout the ceremony which was about 30-40 minutes,” said Masako Onakado, Japanese teacher! ■ St. Bonaventure Programming Competition Four seniors, Ozan Demirlioglu, Matt Jones, Akash Shah and Peter Combs, traveled to St. Bonaventure University (about 75 miles south of Buffalo, New York) in Feb. to compete in the St. Bonaventure Programming Competition, along with 33 teams from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland and California. In this event each team has only one computer to work on and has only one chance to submit a correct solution to eight difficult programming problems in just three hours. “Attending this event for the first time, the Harker team did quite well, taking fourth place and missing first place by only an equals sign,” said Robb Cutler, faculty advisor and computer science teacher, adding that without the transcribing error of the equals sign, the Harker team would have tied for first place. He also noted that Harker had the
■ Japan Bowl Competition Students currently enrolled in Japanese 2 and 3 participated in the 2004 Northern California Regional Japan Bowl held in San Jose in March, a competition that tests the ability of high school
Human Genome Project Field Trip
8th place - Jeffrey Shih; Business Calculations, 9th place - Alfred See. Additionally, Mina Lee was elected to the office of Bay Section Public Relations Officer. Other Harker students participating in the events were Ankoor Shah, Samantha Jagannathan, Audrey Leung, Tiffany Lau, Priya Takiar, Mariam Rangwala and Stephanie Tung.
US students enrolled in the Human Genome Project (HGP) course recently had the rare opportunity to visit UCSC and listen to scientists directly involved in the conception and realization of the HGP. “The students learned the value of being engaged in research, even at an early stage in science education, and the importance of striving to look for answers to questions that are yet to be found in textbooks,” said Maria Diaz, the Harker biology teacher who arranged the trip. She added that the scientists who gave talks were very generous about sharing ideas. “I’m sure the students sensed their enthusiasm over the work, as well.” Some of the students who attended said the microarray robots were the “coolest” part of the tour.
satisfaction of being one of only two teams able to solve the hardest problem in the competition. Congratulations to these students on their achievement! ■ Junior State America Conference Harker’s Junior State America (JSA) members traveled to Sacramento in February for the winter JSA conference, Congress 2004. The keynote and closing speaker theme for this year’s event, which is a student-run model congressional session with about 56 schools represented and over 550 students, was the timely topic of gay marriage. Sophomores Amira Valliani and Tara Chandra both sponsored a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act in the House and Senate respectively and were successful in passing their bill. “The conference was an exciting peek into the world of our nation’s government,” said Valliani. “I only hope that in a few years, I’ll be able to participate in the real thing.” Harker’s JSA attendees were Senator & Vice Committee Chair - Natasha Sarin; Senators Tara Chandra, Sheena Tomar and Shilpa Vadodaria; Representative Student Delegation Leader - Anshu Das; Representatives - Shilpika Lahri, Jaya Pareek, Danyal Kothari,
Sahil Patel, Aalok Patel, Jason Gutstein and Amira Valliani. Faculty advisor Daniel Hudkins, US director of instructional technology, along with Mai Nguyen, US history teacher, chaperoned the student group during this President’s Week event. ■ Harker Students Perform Well at Annual Music Festival Congratulations to the 37 Harker music students who participated in the Area V California Music Educator Association’s (CMEA) Solo and Ensemble Festival held at San Jose State University in March. Harker had 25 different vocal and instrumental entries and earned 16 superior ratings. Nine of the entrants earned the second highest rating of excellent and the following six performances achieved the ultimate distinction of being invited to give command performances in the Recital Hall of the SJSU Music Building: Jessica and Justin Wu (Gr. 11) - Violin and Piano (Meditation from Thais by Jules Massenet); Sonya (Gr. 6) and Patricia Huang (Gr. 3), Vivian Huang (Gr. 6) and Shannon Tan (Gr. 9) - Baroque Trio Sonata (Rondeau by Jean Joseph Mouret); Audrey Kwong (Gr. 9) continued on pg. 16
“As I look back at the wonderful work of these students, I’m particularly struck by the rather young age of the contestants and the sophistication of the repertoire,” said music teacher Richard Frazier. Harker participants were coached by US music teachers Catherine Snider, Susan Nace and Richard Frazier. Congratulations to all student participants and to those who teach, coach and guide these fine performers!
■ US Spring Musical – May 14 to 17 (see date details on pg. 2) Rehearsals are underway for the US per forming arts’ spring show, “Damn Yankees,” which has over 45 students involved in the production. Many thanks to all those who auditioned for the show, and congratulations to the following students selected to perform in the play: Katie Ball, Neil Bhalerao, Naeha Bhambhra, Debanshi Bheda, Casey Blair, Steven Boyle, Kevin Busch, Tara Chandra, Estelle Charlu, Peter Combs, LeAnn Duong, Genna Erlickman, Whitney Graves, Erika Gudmundson, Jason Gutstein, Michael Hammersley, Lauren Harries, Julia Havard, Emma Hawley, Tommy Holford, Daphne Karpel, Jackie Laine, David
■ Enterprise Leadership Several US students attended the Rotary Club’s Enterprise Leadership Conference held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove (Reported in the Mar. 04 newsletter). “Enterprise Leadership Conference was one of those experiences that really helped me see that everything in life, from starting a business to being the CEO of a huge corporation, involves relationships, contacts and determination if it’s going to succeed. It was truly one of the most exciting experiences I have ever had, and I’m glad Harker provided me with such an inspirational opportunity to attend,” said Sheena Tomar, Gr. 11. Students were put in groups of 10 with other students from various schools to create, market and sell a product. Greg Perkin’s team was judged the winning team, based on their product concept, development and presentation. Perkins and his teammates reprised their presentation of TravelMate, the first product proposed by their company,
■ US English teacher Marc Hufnagl reported that sophomore Tara Chandra was recently awarded a Gold Key Award in the 2004 Scholastic Writing Awards, and her piece, “Autonomy,” has been advanced to the national level of competition. Chandra’s entry was one of only 271 manuscripts selected from
TravelTek, for the Rotary Club on Mar. 17 where Mayor Ron Gonzales finished his State of the City speech that was interrupted in January when he had a stoke. “Mayor Gonzales even addressed us during his speech, which followed our presentation,” said Perkins “As part of his talk focused on education in San Jose, he gave a nod to our group, telling us he hoped our company would be well established by 2006, since his term would be up then and we might need a government relations specialist. He said his resume is on the way,” Perkins added with a laugh.
Linder, Simon Linder, Anjali Menon, Ravi Mishra, Gail Nakano, Andrew Nasser, Casey Near, Molly Newman, Rachel Newman, Peter Obara, Tommy Polzin, Vani Pyda, Ivo Salemink, Natasha Sarin, Lisa Schwebke, Aseem Shukla, Sasha Stepanenko, Siobhan Stevenson, John Tepperman, Vyvy Trinh, Aditi Uttawar, Sean Weinstock, Roberta Wolfson and Kimmy Wong.
Violin Solo (Symphonie Espagnole by Edouard Lalo); Joseph Chen (Gr. 9), Glen Lee (Gr. 9), Tracy Chou (Gr. 9) and Justin Wu (Gr. 11) Baroque Trio Sonata (Sonata No. 4 in A Minor by Arcangelo Corelli); Joseph Chen (Gr. 9), Glen Lee (Gr. 9), Jessica Wu (Gr. 11), Nikhil Raghuram (Gr. 7) and Connie Tung (Gr. 9) - Baroque Three Part Canon with Ground Bass (Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel); Nikhil Deshmukh (Gr. 12) - Double Bass Solo (The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens).
more than 5,000 submitted to the judging panel, which consisted of graduate students and professors from the University of Iowa, the University of Alabama and Western Missouri State College, as well as New York City writers, editors and educators. Our congratulations, Tara!
On Mar. 18, 19 and 20 Harker Robotics traveled to Sacramento to compete in the Sacramento Robotics Regional, part of the nationwide FIRST Robotics competition. Despite intense opposition from over 30 other teams, the second-year Harker team and their robot, PHORCE, more than held their own, winning six games, losing three, and tying one. By the end of Saturday, the Robotics team made it all the way to the semifinals, eventually tying for 3rd place - congratulations to all!
Gerry Andeen
JETS Varsity and JV Place First in Annual Competition Harker’s varsity and JV Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) teams each took first place among the Bay Area teams in the annual Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) competition held in February at Stanford.
Judy James - both photos
“Our winning varsity team consisted entirely of members who have participated in previous years, winning national awards last year,” explained JETS advisor and math teacher Judy James. “Our winning JV team was an allnew team in training - so we thought - and an all freshman team, and they outscored other teams consisting of freshman through juniors.” James explained that scoring at the local level is based only on the multiple-choice portion of the test. High scores, like Harker’s, qualify the teams for national consideration where their free response answers are evaluated and teams are rated nationally. Those ratings usually are announced in late spring. Congratulations to our Harker teams for their accomplishment! Varsity: Alan Malek (captain), Jerry Hong, Sanby Lee, Pia Pal, Greg Perkins, Alex Segal, Joel Wright and Justin Wu. Junior Varsity: Aline Zorian (captain), Justin Chin, Danyal Kothari, Richard Kwant, Jessie Li, Tiffany June Lin, Daniel Paik and Jaqueline Rousseau.
US Community Service News —Reported by Jaja Hsuan, US Community Service Advisor ■ In February, US students visited Lytton Gardens Senior Communities to make a Valentine door hanger art project with the residents and help the seniors exercise their visual, verbal and
collected tickets. Nadine Malcolm, president of the orchestra board, was very thankful to have such a wonder ful group of volunteers contributing to the creation of this magical evening. “I want to thank all of you wonderful volunteers who…made things work at our soldout concert - it was an exceptional pleasure to work with all of you!” ■ The Key Club thanks all Harker friends and families for supporting their Dine Out Day at Chevy’s fundraiser last month. The turnout was much larger than expected.
Jaja Hsuan - all Community Service photos
■ Harker students Shruthi Bhuma, Swathi Bhuma, Emily Hsi, Jasper Shau, Shannon Tan, Ashley Yang and Aline Zorian helped create a special evening for couples and families on Valentine’s Day by volunteering at Le Petit Trianon for the Mission Chamber Orchestra’s Latin Romance concert. They welcomed guests, handed out brochures and
being judged. Many of the teams had funny names, like ‘green transportation’ or ‘funky monkeys.’ The kids were so energetic! And you could tell that they really benefited from a positive atmosphere because they had to learn to cooperate as a team.” ■ During the first two weeks of March, US students participated in a “penny war” for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), raising a total of $2,389. In addition, a poster
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club club of of the the month month New Harker Red Cross Club —Reported by Catherine Ho, Gr. 10
tactile senses. The seniors were also eager to compete for prizes and played several rounds of BINGO. As always, the residents especially enjoyed sharing stories with our students.
■ Many thanks to the following students who assisted at the annual Destination Imagination Regional Tournament: Alice Chi, Kristie Cu, Nilay Gandhi, Jason Han, Teddy Lee, Natasha Sarin, Jayasree Sundaram, Amira Valliani and Jennifer Whang. These students did a terrific job photographing the event, transmitting score sheets and verifying data. Junior Alice Chi enjoyed her experience as a volunteer. “I helped by carrying the scores back and forth from the scoring office to the rooms where the events were
created to honor our friends and family who have been touched by cancer is currently on display in the main hall on the service board. All
proceeds will be donated to the Society for Cancer Research and patient service programs. Congratulations to the Red Cross Club for organizing a successful fundraiser! And thank you to the Student Council for spreading the word. Erin Erickson, school and youth coordinator of LLS said, “The average school donation
The Harker Red Cross Club (HRCC), one of the newest additions to the Harker community, has been steadily expanding its horizons. Initiated at the beginning of the school year, the HRCC strives to respond to the community’s needs through service, education and leadership. For the past six months, this ambitious club has launched a series of activities and fundraisers dedicated to community outreach both in and out of the Harker community. One of the first actions the HRCC took was to invite all club members and officers to get certified for CPR for free at an event called CPR Saturday. Following this event, certified members were encouraged to attend a Safekids Instructor Training session, where they could get certified to teach children about first aid. During this time, the HRCC enlisted in a couple joint fundraisers with volunteers from Red Cross clubs all over Santa Clara. Yearning for a taste of independence, the HRCC embarked on its own fundraisers. Club members dedicated a lot of precious time baking on weeknights and selling after school to make the first fundraiser, the Bake Sale, a successful one. Reviving an old Harker tradition, the HRCC hosted its second and most recent fundraiser: Pennies for Patients. In this activity, classes competed to raise the most amount of money in pennies for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. US teacher Robb Cutler related his personal experience with leukemia at the kickoff of this event; his son Ethan has finished treatment for leukemia and is now a happy first-grader at the Bucknall campus. (Editor’s Note: see related story this page). This year, the HRCC has been primarily focusing on training all its members in Safekids. The club hopes to implement these skills next year by starting up Harker’s own Safekids program at the Bucknall campus where certified members of the club will teach students simple first aid, CPR, and disaster preparation skills.
STUDENT ■ In October, the HEART Club completed a San Jose Beautiful project by planting over 200 daffodil bulbs on the Saratoga campus. Spring is near and the flowers are here! The daffodils have added a beautiful color to the front gate parking lot and the outskirts of the library.
Juniors Explore Careers in Mentor Program —Joey Tyndall, Asst. to Exec. Dir. of Advancement and Mentor Program Coordinator Each year Harker’s US mentoring program provides an opportunity for juniors to learn firsthand from professionals in a wide variety of fields about possible careers and areas of study. This mentoring year
■ Twenty students volunteered for a day at RAFT (Resource Area For Teachers) in March, dedicating their
Gale/Mary Malysz and Suchitra Narayen sat in on an actual courtroom hearing. Arjun Naskar, Gr. 11, had this to say about his group’s outing to Agilent: “I loved our mentoring outing - it was the tour and all the information that made me realize that biotech is my
morning to sorting donated surplus material for educational use. They also had a chance to see how recycled materials are used for building learning kits. Volunteer director Mimi Cavanaugh said she was extremely impressed by how well - and how quickly - the students completed their tasks. ■ US students contributed their time once again to set up and proctor both the team and individual competitions at the annual K-6 Harker Math Invitational. Thank you to the following hardworking volunteers: Robert Cheng, Colleen Lee, Christopher Liang, Jasper Shau, Jayasaree Sundaram, Pamela Williams and Lung-Hao Yu.
Community Service Deadline – April 30 Reminder - all US community service hours must be completed by April 30. A total of 10 hours is required each year for all freshmen, sophomores and juniors. Students interested in learning about upcoming schoolsponsored service trips should visit http://faculty.harker.org/ JajaH/ or sign up with Ms. Hsuan as soon as possible. Space is limited for each trip.
has been an exciting one, and the mentors did an excellent job of not only showing the students their particular career field, but also making it fun! Doug and Linda Emery took their mentor group on visits to the Sharks’ Training Room and the Raiders’ Training Camp. “My mentoring sessions with the Emerys were really interesting and fun,” said Estelle Charlu, Gr. 11. “We were able to see the Sharks’ training room and Bay Sport’s facilities and gained invaluable knowledge about sports medicine in general. Thank you to the Emerys for making it all possible.” Peter and Diane Hurd took their Fashion/ Interior Design group on a unique half-day tour of Nordstrom. Sandy Davis’ group had the opportunity to visit NASA, Charles Perkins took his group to Nokia for the day, Rapson once again took his group of future architects to Berkeley for an all-day tour and the groups of both Peggy
you made for our students: Rajiv Ahuja - physician, Robert Bigler Animatics Corporation, Ajay Chopra Pinnacle Systems, Steve Darrow Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Sandy Davis - NASA Ames, Stan Dutrow - Sun Microsystems, Doug & Linda Emery - Bay Sport, Peggy Gale Law Office of Peggy Gale, Bruce Goeas - Air Force, Eric Gonzales Doll Capital Management, David Heslop - Preston Pipelines, Diane
“I loved our mentoring outing - it was the tour and all the information that made me realize that biotech is my future.”—Arjun Naskar future. Even though I didn’t know the specifics about the industry, Mr. Saunders reassured me that biotech was broad enough so that I can find my passion at any level.”
Hurd - West Valley College, Peter Hurd - Hurd Design, Raj Lad Genencor, James Lau - Network Appliance, Michael Malone FORBES Magazine, Mary Malysz McPharlin, Sprinkles & Thomas, LLP, Suchitra Narayen - Sun Microsystems, Charles Perkins Nokia, Rodney Rapson - City of San Jose, Gordon Ringold - Surromed, Krishna Saraswat - Stanford Univerisity, Barney Saunders Agilent Technologies, Dharshi Sivakumar - Stanford University Healthcare, Alexandra Swafford self-employed.
Peter Hurd, parent (and mentor!)
is $1,000, so the fact that you raised over $2,000 is amazing!”
Lee Trotter - both photos
On behalf of the students and the school, we warmly thank this year’s mentors for all the special arrangements Harker News — April 04
the scenes
Transportation and Security Keep Us Safe and On the Move! —Julia Gitis, ’03 (current freshman at UC Berkeley)
all Harker vehicles are properly licensed and insured and stays in close touch with faculty and staff to answer questions and help with scheduling. In addition to numerous field trips, including a recent second grade trip to Hidden Villa, every afternoon there are MS and US sporting event trips, especially in the spring with softball, baseball and track.
To most of us, Harker is the turf of pens, pencils and notebooks. It’s a
While the wheels of the buses go ‘round, those who stay on campus can feel safe while partaking in the many activities Harker has to offer. We owe this sense of security to you guessed it - the security staff! This group features five splendid security officers: veteran Larry Washington who’s been here since 1996; Eric Chemlis and J.D. Costa who have each been here since 1998; Tim Cantrell, since 2000; and Kevin Terakawa, since 2002.
place for teaching and a place for learning. Yet there is a realm behind the scenes that features traffic control, alarm maintenance and inter-campus shuttles. Who rules this paramount domain? The valiant troops of the Transportation / Security Department!
security has been key.” Keefer, whose office is across the Dobbins field next to the weight room, shares one anecdote from his job: “I was working one day in the little gate house at the front of the Saratoga campus. A family van pulled up, the driver held out a hundred dollar bill and told me he wanted four tickets to Great America. I told him he missed it by a few miles,” Keefer chuckled. A big thank-you goes to Keefer and his valuable staff members who keep us safe, sound and mobile all year long!
Recent professional workshops, courses, conferences and classroom-related outside activities and achievements of some of our faculty and staff.
Photos by Mark Tantrum and Lee Trotter
Leading these valorous efforts is Transportation/Security Manager Bob Keefer, who arrives on the Saratoga campus at 6:30 every morning to deactivate alarms, greet parents and help with traffic. Keefer is in charge of scheduling
This group, under the leadership of Keefer who has been at Harker since 1996, is responsible for chief security affairs and operating alarm systems on both campuses. The security officers also meet the hefty challenge of dealing with traffic during morning drop-offs, afternoon pickups and extracurricular activities, and Keefer said he’s witnessed drastic changes over the years. “With the student population more than doubling and the addition of the upper school, transporting students between campuses and augmenting off-site
■ MS Math teacher Leah Moll was recently named one of only 52 teachers nationwide who received the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished High School Mathematics Teaching. The award, administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), recognizes the excellence of teachers responsible for the success of the highest scoring teams in the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC 12) in the United States and Canada. Moll is the fourth Harker teacher to receive this honor. Previous winners have been MS teachers Vandana Kadam (2001) and Cindy Kerr (2000) and US teacher Misael Fisico (2003). This national award, established in 1994, is made possible annually by a bequest from Edyth May Sliffe, a high school mathematics teacher from Emeryville, California. ■ Joe Rosenthal, executive director of advancement for The Harker School, was recently appointed vice president of programs for the Silicon Valley chapter of the American Federation of Philanthropy (AFP). “We are so pleased to have Joe’s leadership,” said Barbara Larson, local AFP president. “He’ll be a great addition to our volunteer board.” Rosenthal will be responsible for all aspects of the chapter’s monthly membership meetings for philanthropy and fundraising professionals.
all transportation, including shuttles from campus to campus, field trips and sporting events. Steering the transportation area are one part-time driver and three full-time drivers; veteran Heather Perrotta here since 1996; Dan Hughes since 2000; Tony Rendon since 2002 and Jesse Gomez, hired in 2001. Harker has four buses, one of which functions as the campus shuttle and makes rounds every 30 minutes. In addition to serving the usual transit needs, transportation makes sure Harker News — April 04
■ Three Harker teachers were honored in March at San Jose’s Cinequest, one of the world’s top ten film festivals, during two showings of the short film “Springtime Dreams,” a new work produced in the style of Charlie Chaplin’s silent films. It featured Monica MacKinnon, MS performing arts teacher as Edna Purveyance, Chaplin’s bride-tobe; Marcie Gilbert, Gr. 4 Language Arts teacher as an extra; and period costumes all designed by Sarah Lougheed, K-8 performing arts teacher, who also assisted with makeup and appeared as an extra. As an associate producer, Lougheed also helped out with many logistical details for the film shoot last year. Lougheed’s son Robert Lougheed-Lowe, Gr. 9, also played a small part. Lougheed said the post-production editing transformed the film into a look-alike of Chaplin’s early films. “The producers of this film have shown it to Hollywood dealmakers who were astonished to find out that the film was shot with contemporary actors,” said Lougheed. ■ Also, Lougheed and MacKinnon both attended the American Choral Directors’ Association convention recently in Las Vegas, where they attended a variety of sessions including Master Conducting, Changing Boys’ Voices, Warm-up Techniques and reading sessions where they were introduced to a variety of music literature to use with Harker students at all grade levels. ■ Performing arts teacher Michael Pease will be playing one of the lead roles in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta “Patience” with the Stanford University Savoyards, showing weekends between April 23 and May 2. He hopes to see some Harker families there to enjoy this witty show. More information is available on the Savoyard’s Web site at http://www.stanford.edu/group/savoyards.
Downbeat Fundraiser
May 17 – Salute to Senior Moms!
Purchase a $10 ticket from Downbeat to Macy’s Community Shopping Day, Thurs., April 8, and receive exclusive shopping discounts of 10-20% on most merchandise at Macy’s. One hundred percent of the ticket sale proceeds will help fund Downbeat’s trip to per form at Disneyworld in June. To purchase a ticket, contact tickets@harker.org or e-mail laural@harker.org.
Join the annual Spring Luncheon for a salute to all senior moms on May 17, 11:30 a.m. on the Edge Patio. Senior moms will be treated to a special potluck lunch, with all food prepared by the 9th, 10th and 11th grade parents. Put the date on your calendar now and join in on the fun as we salute our senior moms! Contact Eva Hsu at 408.497.2882 or eva@reeltales.com, or contact Joan Brooks at 408.867.4264 or brooksjkb@aol.com.
Great Gifts Available!
NEW – Harker Tennis for Grownups! New tennis program for Harker teachers, parents and staff! Why do the kids get to have all the fun? Craig Pasqua, Harker head tennis coach and director of the Oakwood / Harker Tennis Program (and a USPTA certified Professional), recently signed the tennis center up to participate in a national tennis outreach program to teach new players the skills they need to get them playing tennis fast. That means you! For only $30 per 4-week session you can finally learn to play! Here are the details: Beginning Adult Tennis Classes: Session I – Tuesdays: 3/30, 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 6-7 p.m. Session II – Tuesdays: 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 6-7 p.m. Cost for each 4-week session: Only $30, and you can even borrow a racket!
The Speech and Debate Booster moms are still selling cookbooks and their fabulous custom ID tags! Contact the bookstore at bookstore@harker.org to order! They’ll make perfect Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation gifts – order today!
Hey, Parents! Win a Night at the Hotel Valencia! The Prom Committee is having a raffle drawing to help cover Prom costs - and it could mean a night at the Hotel Valencia for some lucky parent! For a $10 raffle ticket, you could win a two-night stay in a Junior Suite at the Hotel Valencia in Santana Row, which also includes dinner for two at their restaurant, Citrus. Total value is over $700! Show your support and buy tickets today! Contact Chris Daren, activities coordinator, at chrisda@harker.org to purchase tickets or get more information.
Harker Summer Programs
SIGN UP NOW for best selection. Visit www.harker.org for forms, facts and fun!
Intermediate / Advanced Adult Drop-In Clinics: Tuesdays (beginning 3/23): 7-8:30 p.m. Sundays (beginning 3/38): 10:30 a.m.-Noon Cost for each workout: $20 Players will participate in live ball drills, technical skill development drills and some competitive fun! Participants will also have the opportunity to stay and play after class. Contact Craig Pasqua, USPTA, at pasqua@best.com, 408.590.7347 or 408.983.5888. Go to www.tenniswelcomecenter.com for more information on this new outreach program.
The Harker News is published nine times per year by the Harker Office of Communications. Current and archived issues are also available on the Parent Home Page on the Harker Web site at www.harker.org. Editor: Pam Dickinson Asst. Editor: Terry Walsh Photography: Lee Trotter, Chris Daren, Talon & Winged Post staff, Nick Gassman
Design: Blue Heron Design Printing & Mailing: Communicart Mailing Coordinator: Bran-Dee Torres Contributors: Ashley Sukovez, Laura Vandendries
NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE ■ Speakers and student activities for Engineering Month ■ Photos and recaps of “Damn Yankees,” Cantilena / Guys’ Gig spring concert and full orchestra concert ■ Results and wrap-up from the Quiz Bowl championship being held at press time!
The Harker School is a K-12 independent, co-ed, college-prep school.
Grades K-6: 4600 Bucknall Rd., San Jose CA 95130 Phone 408.871.4600 • Fax 408.871.4320 Grades 7-12: 500 Saratoga Ave., San Jose CA 95129 Phone 408.249.2510 • Fax 408.984.2325
The Harker School does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, athletics or other school-administered programs, or in the administration of its hiring and employment practices on the basis of age, sex, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or nonjob-related handicap.
2004 April Harker News
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Rustbelt Abolition Radio: Education, Fascism, and Abolition
Filed under: Anti-fascist, Education, Incarceration, Interviews, Radio/Podcast, The State, US, White Supremacy
— Rustbelt Abolition
In this bonus episode, we speak with Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University. Placed on forced leave by Drexel, he is among a growing number of academics subjected to retaliation for their critiques of white supremacy and openly fascist organizing.
Ciccariello-Maher shows us how this university-centered backlash must be situated within the broader resurgence of fascism and white nationalism, which, in turn, cannot be understood apart from the deep structures of white supremacy, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy from which fascism emerges. He also sheds light on the false hope of educational reform within prisons, and how we ought to look instead to the forms of insurgent intellectuality abolitionists are creating both inside and outside prison walls.
Our conversation gestures to the possibility for a renewed anti-racist, anti-fascist resistance, both on university campuses and beyond them.
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Rustbelt Abolition
Rustbelt Abolition Radio is an abolitionist media and movement-building project based in Detroit, MI. Each episode amplifies the voices of those impacted by mass incarceration and explores ongoing work in the movement to abolish the carceral state (that is, prisons, police, courts as well as racial domination and capitalist exploitation).
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Tuesday, Dec 22 2015
State Highlights: In Florida, Providers’ Medicaid Payment Complaints Decrease; South Carolina VA Hospital Hires Surgeon Accused of Incompetence
News outlets report on health care developments in Florida, South Carolina, California, Virginia, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri and Connecticut.
Health News Florida: Medicaid Complaints From Health Providers Drop In Florida
The number of health care providers complaining about the state’s Medicaid insurers is on the decline. The report comes in response to complaints of providers who say they aren’t getting paid. First, a quick primer: Florida privatized its health care program for 3 million poor residents in 2014. (Aboraya, 12/21)
The Des Moines Register: VA Hires Ex-Iowa Surgeon Accused Of Incompetence
A former Des Moines-area surgeon accused of incompetence by Iowa regulators has been hired by a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in South Carolina. Alan Koslow recently agreed to pay a $5,000 fine and undergo re-training to settle allegations of incompetence and disruptive behavior. He is the second former Des Moines surgeon to take a job with an out-of-state VA hospital in recent years after being accused of incompetence by Iowa regulators. (Leys, 12/21)
California Healthline: State Urged To Protect Consumers In Proposed Centene-Health Net Merger
Consumer advocates are urging the Department of Managed Health Care to "use its full authority to impose comprehensive requirements to protect consumers before allowing the merger between Centene and Health Net to move forward." (Lauer, 12/21)
The Washington Post: Three Virginia Lawmakers Propose Changes In Pre-Approval Of Hospital Expansions
The move reflects a national push to eliminate regulations that require state pre-approval of hospital expansions, surgery centers and certain medical services. Some hospitals say that the regulations, known as “certificate of public need” laws, prevent providers from artificially increasing prices and protect facilities that care for indigent patients. (Portnoy, 12/21)
The Associated Press: Wisconsin Officials Get OK To Extend Prescription Program
Wisconsin officials say the state has received federal approval to extend a prescription drug assistance program for older residents. The state Department of Health Services said in a statement Monday that SeniorCare helps about 60,000 people each month by reducing prescription costs for low-income state residents who are 65 or older. DHS spokeswoman Claire Yunker says the action from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow SeniorCare to operate through 2018. (12/21)
The Kansas Health Institute News Service: Security Concerns Central To Halted Medicare Payments For Osawatomie Hospital
The reported rape of an employee at Osawatomie State Hospital in October exposed security concerns that federal officials cited when they decided last week to stop sending Medicare payments to the facility after Monday. Osawatomie had submitted a correction plan for the security issues to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but federal inspectors who visited the hospital Dec. 15 and Friday to follow up decided to proceed with cutting payments, said Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. (Marso, 12/21)
Health News Florida: FL Cancer Lab Pays $20M Over False Bills
A Fort Myers-based integrated cancer care services provider accused of billing for tests that were not needed will pay nearly $20 million to the federal government to settle allegations from a whistleblower that it violated the False Claims Act, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. (12/21)
St. Louis Public Radio: The Ones Who Survived: Study Looks At Firearm Injuries Among Children In St. Louis
For a long time, physicians at the major trauma centers in St. Louis say they have cared for an alarming number of people with gunshot wounds — including many children. "Some weeks we’ll operate more on gunshot wounds than we will for simple things like appendicitis,” said Dr. Pamela Choi, a surgery resident at Washington University.(Bouscaren, 12/21)
The Courier-Journal: Glitch Blocks Plan To Increase Child Care Funds
A last-minute plan by Gov. Steve Beshear to increase child care assistance for poor working parents has collapsed because state officials failed to enact it before his administration ended Dec. 7. Beshear announced Dec. 3 that his administration planned to use about $15 million in surplus federal money to boost payments to centers that accept children whose parents qualify for help through the Kentucky Child Care Assistance Program. The higher payments were supposed to begin Jan. 1. (Yetter, 12/21)
The Kansas City Star: Independence Becomes Third Area City To Raise Legal Smoking Age To 21
Independence on Monday banned the sale of tobacco products to anyone younger than 21, the third metro city to do so in less than a month. By a 6-1 vote, the Independence City Council passed the ordinance to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 years old. Karen Deluccie cast the only dissenting vote. “I believe that if you’re 18, you’re an adult, you have to make decisions including the decision to buy a product that people don’t agree with but it’s a product,” Deluccie said before the vote. (Cronkleton, 12/21)
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Purchase: $9.99
Rent: $4.99
Directed by Jamsheed Akrami
Language: English, Persian with English Subtitles
FRIENDLY PERSUASION examines the critical issues of Iranian cinema by framing several key questions and providing informed responses through commentary, scene analysis, and interviews with top Iranian filmmakers. The questions focus on international flowering, censorship codes, role of the government, representation of women, and a world-class children's film movement.
The filmmakers interviewed represent a diverse group of Iranian auteurs including new-wave visionaries Abbas Kiarostami, Dariush Mehrjui, Bahram Bayzai, and Masoud Kimiaie as well as the post-revolutionaries Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jafar Panahi, Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Majid Majidi, and Tahmineh Milani. The film scholar Richard Pena provides an insightful commentary.
"A splendid introduction to films from a country that has established one of the world's finest national cinemas.”
- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“A Comprehensive portrait of a national art form…. A must-see for any serious fan of Iranian film…. “Friendly Persuasion” is more inspiring than depressing. For its message is an encouraging one: somehow art will find a way.”
- Stephen Holden, New York Times
"Jamsheed Akrami's wonderful new documentary, "Friendly Persuasion," addresses with great insight and intelligence many of the key difficulties surrounding the making of films in Iran today. A must-see.” (***1/2)
- John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune
“Friendly Persuasion is a superb, critical survey of post-Revolution Iranian cinema.”
- Scott Foundas, indieWIRE
“Fascinating documentary… Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is one of the foremost authorities on contemporary Iranian cinema.”
- Donald Clarke, Irish Times
“Friendly Persuasion (***) is a thorough exploration of the Iranian film phenomenon..…If Iranian film is your thing, here’s the primer on these filmmakers who must balance their survival instincts with their creative appetites, and who have given the world masterpieces of light, composition and human feelings.”
- Enrique Fernandez, Miami Sun Sentinel
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No More Idols: Taking Measure of a Modern Prophet
Sep 7, 2014 | Best of the Bookman
Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World
by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
Regnery Gateway 1993.
Cloth, xi + 432 pp., $24.
As breathing returns after our swoon, as a glimmer of consciousness breaks through the unrelieved darkness, it is difficult for us at first to regain our clarity of vision, to pick our way among the clutter of hurdles, among the idols planted in our path.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “As Breathing and Consciousness Return” (1971)
In September of 1991, three weeks after the failed coup of August 1991 and twenty years after Alexander Solzhenitsyn penned this passage, I visited Moscow as a participant in a conference of some five hundred Russian and American experts in various fields of government, economics, law, agriculture, and religious life. This nerve center of the Soviet empire was undergoing a transformation toward some new form and function that no one knew quite how to define. The injustices of the past had been opened to view. The future was anticipated with hope but also with a sense of dread that things might return to what they were. “Breathing and consciousness” had returned and with that new stirrings of life.
One of the Russians assigned to the Commission on Spiritual Values was a young fellow dressed in the shabby, threadbare attire of a student in a Dostoevsky novel. Mikhail Seleznev introduced himself in our first session as Director of Research and Publications at the headquarters of the Russian Bible Society. But the American members of the commission soon learned that there was more to this young man than met the eye. He had been present at the Russian Parliament Building—called the Russian White House—as the tanks rolled through Moscow. He also went into the streets with a few other brave souls laying flowers on the tanks and distributing Bibles to the soldiers in them.
On the second or third day of the conference Mikhail offered to take some of us to what he called “the graveyard of our fallen idols.” This was in the park adjacent to the Tretyakov Art Gallery. As I got off the bus I could see a clutter of large objects scattered on the grass among some trees. They were the monuments and statues of Communist heroes that had been removed from their locations in public squares and parks. Images of Marx, Stalin, Beria, and that enormous statue of Dzherzhinsky, founder of the KGB, that the world saw on television as it was moved by a crane from its prominent spot in front of KGB Headquarters in downtown Moscow, were scattered about. Some stood upright, others were on their back or side. Someone had drawn red horns and fangs on a large likeness of Stalin and young children climbed atop his “demon head” as parents took snapshots.
Then Mikhail pointed to a steep hill that loomed behind this odd “cemetery.” “Look, my friends,” he exclaimed. “Do you see that church and how its dome is being refurbished. And over there. Do you see that dilapidated building. That too was a church, but the Communists removed its dome and used it for a warehouse. Perhaps one day it will be repaired also. These holy temples have endured humiliation and now it is their turn to look down victoriously upon this graveyard of the fallen gods of Communism.”
What child of the Cold War could ever have imagined such a scene? What child of the Cold War, having once seen it, could ever forget it? Over the next few days my colleagues and I made several other excursions, nay, pilgrimages, to the grave sites of two true Russian heroes. On a beautiful fall morning we traveled to the sleepy village of Peredelkino, home and burial place of Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago. And on another morning, a Sunday, we hitched a ride in a van to the suburban parish church of the martyred priest Alexander Mens, who just one year earlier had been bloodily murdered with an ax. Everyone told us this was done by agents of the KGB. After the liturgy we visited Fr. Mens’s grave outside the small wooden church building. This simple spot was heaped high with flowers left by pilgrims who steadily came and went. Here we got the strong sense that we were witnesses to the birth of a new Russian saint.
What do these remembrances have to do with a book on Alexander Solzhenitsyn? Only that Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the godfather of the new Russian Revolution of which Mikhail Seleznev was a young hero. Twenty years ago Solzhenitsyn predicted this revolution and confidently stated that it would come in time for him to return to Russia, Few, even among his admirers, really believed this would happen. Yet in May of 1994 Solzhenitsyn did return just as he had predicted.
And so Edward E. Ericson’s book Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World is extraordinarily timely, having been released just months before Solzhenitsyn’s return to his motherland. As if to prepare his readers for this very eventuality, Ericson has written a richly researched and persuasive book in which he attempts to answer the myths and misunderstandings of Solzhenitsyn’s polemical and political writings, from the Nobel Lecture of 1972 and the Letter to the Soviet Leaders (1973), to his extended tract Rebuilding Russia in 1990. In Ericson’s words: “The ideas of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn are highly significant to the modern world…. [However], the prevailing Western view of Solzhenitsyn is very inaccurate and needs to be revised and corrected…. Current events in Russia make this a particularly propitious time to reassess Solzhenitsyn.”
Ericson argues that until the early 1970s Solzhenitsyn was rightly understood as a moralist and prophet; but that in subsequent years his fiction and non‑fiction came to be interpreted politically in ways that distorted his message of truth and freedom. Western liberals, especially, became disenchanted with Solzhenitsyn and began to describe him as anti‑democratic and a super‑nationalist. The obvious background of these shifts in opinion included the increased difficulties Solzhenitsyn and other so‑called dissidents encountered with the Soviet authorities and the debate over détente. Furthermore, Solzhenitsyn threw himself into political controversy through speeches and tracts that departed from his usual medium of historical fiction. His statements on the Cold War, détente, and the general state of the modern world, made him a lightning rod of political controversy over foreign policy in the West.
It is arguable whether Solzhenitsyn made a mistake by issuing such statements and should have stuck with writing fiction. But even this conjecture misses the point, says Ericson. As he shows in his earlier volume entitled Solzhenitsyn: The Moral Vision and argues pointedly in this new book, a deeper source of misunderstandings about Solzhenitsyn is the profound difference in his worldview from most of his Western critics. Solzhenitsyn’s moral vision flies in the face of Western secularism and such shibboleths of advanced liberalism as the individual’s moral autonomy and the indisputable superiority of liberal democracy. His skepticism about the rightness of these doctrines, backed up by his peculiarly Russian blend of religious piety and objective historical analysis, is commonly interpreted as sure evidence of a reactionary and authoritarian mind wedded to a dangerous nationalist spirit. In reality, Solzhenitsyn has been both critical of and sympathetic to democratic forms of government. What he has been skeptical about is whether Russian democracy need include the familiar accouterments of Western‑style liberal democracy. Often depicted as an advocate of authoritarianism he is in fact a radical decentralist. This, ironically, only alienates him further from statist oriented Western liberals.
Solzhenitsyn’s worldview is deeply informed by the faith and culture of Russian Orthodox Christianity, a matter neither acknowledged nor understood by most of his Western interpreters and critics who know little or nothing about that heritage. Thus the political interpretation prevails. Solzhenitsyn is described as an inventor of Russian political dissent who became reactionary and an apologist for Russian nationalism. If his moral vision is acknowledged at all, it is treated as a by‑product of his politics. For his secular interpreters, whose faith is pragmatism or utilitarianism, there is no imagining what possible purpose moral discourse could have other than as a rhetorical preamble to policy formulation or political action. If moral discourse does not serve such a purpose then it must obviously be a mask for some kind of ideology like nationalism.
Since Solzhenitsyn’s critics go back repeatedly to his polemical tracts and speeches to justify their opinions, Ericson carefully analyzes not only the content and contexts of Solzhenitsyn’s speech but his rhetorical technique. He finds a far more balanced thinker than Solzhenitsyn’s critics describe. Solzhenitsyn’s responsible moral vision is rooted in the history of Russia, the study and recovery of which has been his obsession as an uncompromising seeker of truth. Solzhenitsyn insists upon the inductive study of history, religious tradition, and culture over and against accepted liberal models of deductive reason in politics.
Solzhenitsyn’s gravest and most unforgivable sin, however, is that his God is God and not Demos. He founds his arguments in a doctrine of human nature created in the image of God and of sinful but redeemable human beings who are answerable to God. His strong sense of human imperfection and his Christian universalism cut against ideologies that invest ultimate meaning and value in race, economics, or politics. Ericson rightly insists that this is where one must begin in order to understand the man and his writing. From the very start, Solzhenitsyn sought to prepare the Russian soul for a moral reawakening and regeneration after Communism. This is why he told his harrowing stories of degradation inflicted by human beings upon other human beings in Cancer Ward and Gulag Archipelago. For it was Solzhenitsyn’s conviction that unless the people repented of their sins against God and themselves and reappropriated freedom as a moral responsibility to do right, they would inevitably corrupt whatever new form of government they chose after Communism. In his remarkable essay “Repentance and Self‑Limitation” published in From Under the Rubble in 1973, Solzhenitsyn emphasizes this point.
Repentance is … a clearing of the ground, the establishment of a clean basis in preparation for further moral actions‑what in the life of the individual is called “reform.” And if in private life what has been done must be put right by deeds, not words, this is all the more true in the life of a nation.
If Ericson’s book did nothing else than bring attention to this moral and theological crux of Solzhenitsyn’s work it would have been worth the trouble. In point of fact the book is broader. Its broadness is indicated by the title itself, Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World. For while Solzhenitsyn has taken upon himself the enormous task of restoring the history and historical memory of Russia, the substance of his research is a searing critique of modernity, much like Vaclav Havel whom Ericson compares with Solzhenitsyn in a highly instructive final chapter.
As I complete this review at the end of October, 1994, the newspapers report on Solzhenitsyn’s address to the Russian Parliament after his six months of travel through the Russian heartland. The opinions vary little, drawing basically the same simplistic answers to why his impassioned address was received rather coolly. Solzhenitsyn is judged to be out of touch with contemporary Russia, much as his Harvard commencement address in 1978 was dismissed as the product of a person who did not know American reality. While there may be some truth in both these judgments, my own guess is that Solzhenitsyn has seen and described reality all too clearly. Could it be that the day of this modern prophet is over and that his way of ruthlessly stating the truth is no longer needed? Ericson’s fine study gives the objective reader reason to pause before considering such a conclusion. Prophets are generally not popular in their own time. No one knows this better than Solzhenitsyn himself.
But one thing is certain. Solzhenitsyn’s analysis of the disintegration of modernity in Russia and in the West is filled with haunting foreboding of dangerous times ahead. My friend Mikhail Seleznev has told me the following story to make the same point. After the coup, a Western reporter walked into the office of a former KGB chief. He noticed on the wall a large space darker than the rest of the paint in the room. He asked the individual at the desk what that was. The new occupant replied that until recently a portrait of Lenin hung there. “Do you see the nail there,” he said to the visitor. “We are wondering now what to hang on it.” Mikhail comments that this story captures the greatest temptation facing Russia today. Russians are wondering what to hang on that empty nail. Mikhail answers that nothing should replace the portrait of Lenin, and that the nail itself should be removed. Faith, he said to my theology class during a discussion of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor story, must never replace ideology as ideology replaced faith in modern Russia. The difference between faith and ideology is that faith requires a responsible use of freedom. It knows freedom’s limits and true purposes under God, while ideology is the irresponsible submission to another’s will and choice. There must be no more demigods, no more false icons, insists Mikhail.
This also has been Solzhenitsyn’s one constant message threading through all that he has written. Ideology of the right or of the left always promises to answer the need to believe in something. It would fill the vacuum of our moral bankruptcy with false teachings of salvation, replacing God and his works with idolatry of men and their schemes of efficiency and perfection. Edward Ericson has done us the special favor of digging this message out from underneath all the misguided and misleading interpretation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. And he makes us see that an uncompromising insistence on truth over and against ideology inspires and lends purpose to all of Solzhenitsyn’s work. One finishes reading Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World truly edified and far more sure of how to read and listen to one of the great authors of our time.
Vigen Guroian is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and the author of several books including Ethics After Christendom (Eerdmans, 1994). As an Orthodox theologian, he has made several trips to Russia and Armenia.
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Writing medium, deceased on May 1st, 1860 in Sétif, Algeria, evoked first at the house of Mr. Allan Kardec on May 21st, then at the Society, on May 25th.
1. Evocation. – A. I am here.
2. We know each other by name, but not in person, since we have never met. Do you recognize me? – A. Oh! Very well.
3. Have you come to visit me after your death? – A. No, not yet, but I knew that you would call me.
4. As a medium and already perfectly acquainted with Spiritism, I thought that you could give us instructive explanations, better than others, about different points of the science. – A. I will respond the best I can.
5. This first evocation, in a certain way, aims only at establishing our relationship and to put us in touch. As for the questions, since they are of general interest, I prefer to address them to you at the Society. Thus, I ask you if you could kindly attend the invitation to come. – A. Yes, gladly so. I will respond and ask God to illuminate me.
6. There are five mediums here. Is there anyone who you might have preference for in order to act as your interpreter? – A. That is indifferent to me as long as it is a good medium.
7. Have you ever been deceived by spirits as a medium in your communications? – A. Ah, often! There are only a few mediums that have not, more or less. Note: Next day Mrs. Duret manifested spontaneously and revealed disappointment for not having been asked a higher number of questions the night before.
8. If I did not do that, as I said, I was reserving them for the Society. I just wanted to make sure that I could count on you. – A. What is done in your house is also useful to the Society. It is sometimes convenient to take advantage of the moment when the spirit wants to communicate since the circumstances are not always favorable to them.
9. Which circumstances may be favorable to them? – A. There are many that are of your knowledge but you need to know that it does not always depend on the spirit. Sometimes the spirit may need to be assisted by others who may not be always available at the moment.
10. Since you have come spontaneously, I must understand that you are in one of those adequate moments and I will use you, if you wish so. You said that you were often deceived as a medium. Do you see now the spirits that deceived you? – A. Yes. I see them very well. They wanted to interfere here too but I see them clearly. I am no longer a toy in their hands. Hence I repel them.
11. You also said that there are only a few mediums that have never been deceived. What does it depend on? – A. It depends a lot on the medium and on the one who interrogates.
12. Kindly explain it more clearly. – A. I mean that it is always possible, whenever there is the will, to be undisturbed by the bad spirits and that the first condition for that is not to attract them by weaknesses or faults. How much could I tell you about it! Ah! If the mediums only knew how much harm they are in when they give opportunity to the malevolent spirits!
13. Is it only in the spiritual world that they are doing harm? – A. Yes, and also in the world of the living ones.
14. What harm can they do to them in the world of the living ones? – A. There are many ways. To begin with, they become the prey to evil spirits, who abuse them and push them around, stimulating every germ of defect that they can find, particularly pride and jealousy. God punishes them later though, through the penalties of life. Observation: We have more than one example of mediums endowed by the most remarkable faculties who have been chased and subsided by disgrace, after having allowed themselves to be dominated by evil spirits.
15. Wouldn’t it be better not to be a medium then, since that faculty may drag us to such serious inconveniences? – A. Do you really believe that the bad spirits attack only the mediums? Mediumship, on the contrary, is a precious means of recognizing and forearming against them. It is the remedy that God, in His benevolence, places together with the illness. It is the warning of the good father who loves his children and wants to keep them from danger. Unfortunately those who enjoy that gift don’t want to or don’t know how to use it. They are like the unwise person who harms oneself with the weapon that should be used for one’s own defense.
16. Is that you yourself, Mrs. Duret, giving the answers? – A. It is I giving you the answers, I testify in God’s name. However, I believe that if I had been left on my own I would be incapable. The thoughts come to me from above.
17. Do you see the spirit who gives you inspiration? – A. No. There is a crowd of spirits here before whom I bow, and whose thoughts seem to irradiate upon me.
18. Thus, a spirit may receive inspiration from others, like when incarnated, and serve them as an intermediary? – A. Have no doubt about it. The spirit frequently thinks that the answers are his when in fact he is just an echo.
19. Whether the thoughts are yours or suggested by others, we don’t care since they are good and we thank the good spirits who suggest them to you. However, I would still ask why those spirits don’t answer directly? – A. They would do it if you had interrogated them. It was me that you have evoked. They want to answer and then they use me for my own enlightenment.
20. A spirit who has obsessed a medium in life, can he obsess that medium after death? – A. Death does not free a person from the obsession of bad spirits. It is the image of the devil, tormenting the suffering souls. Yes, those spirits pursue him after death and cause him horrible sufferings. This tormented creature feels embraced by a power from which he cannot be released. On the contrary, the one who has been freed from the obsession when he was alive is strong and the bad spirits pay him with fear and respect. They found their superior.
21. Are there many mediums that are really good, in the thorough meaning of the word? – A. There is no lack of doctors but of good doctors. The same applies to the mediums.
22. Which signs can be used to identify the communications of a trustworthy medium? – A. The communications from the good spirits have an unmistaken character when we take the burden of studying them. As for the medium, the best one would be the one who has never been deceived because that would be the proof that the medium only attracts good spirits.
23. But aren’t there mediums endowed by excellent moral qualities who are still deceived? – A. Yes, the bad spirits may make attempts and do not triumph but through weakness or excessive confidence of the medium who then allows deception. But that does not last and the good spirits always win when there is strong will-power.
24. Is the mediumistic faculty independent of the moral qualities of the medium? – A. Yes. It is sometimes given in high degree to vicious people in order to help their correction. Don’t ill people need more medication than healthy ones? The bad spirits sometimes give them good advice without their knowledge; the good spirits leads them to that. Those people however, do not take advantage of that and out of pride they don’t follow the advice. Observation: This is perfectly accurate and one sometimes see inferior spirits giving tough lessons, in hard ways; we see them pointing out defects and exposing caprices to ridicule, more or less skillfully, according to the circumstances, and occasionally in a very witty manner.
25. Can good spirits communicate through bad mediums? – A. Imperfect mediums may sometimes obtain lovely communications that can only come from good spirits. However, the wiser and more sublime those communications, the guiltier the mediums are for not using them. Oh! Yes. They are very guilty and will suffer penalties for their blindness.
26. May the good faith and personal qualities of the person that interrogates the bad spirits, attracted by an imperfect medium, ensure good communications? – A. The good spirits appreciate intention, and when they consider useful they can utilize any kind of medium according to their objectives. In general, the more serious the qualities of the medium, the safer the communications.
27. Since all people are imperfect, does it follow that there aren’t perfect mediums? – A. Some are as perfect as allowed by Earth’s humanity. These are rare but they do exist; they are God’s favorites and prepare themselves for great joy in the spiritual world.
28. What are the defects that give more access to the bad spirits? – A. I told you: pride and also jealousy, which is a consequence of pride and egotism. God loves the humble and punishes the arrogant.
29. From the above, one can conclude that the medium who is not humble does not deserve any trust? – A. Not in absolute terms. However, if you recognize pride, jealousy and lack of charity in a medium, then you are more prone to be deceived.
Observation: What causes failure to many mediums is the fact of considering themselves the only ones capable of receiving good communications, neglecting those from others. They judge themselves as prophets but they are not more than interpreters of clever spirits that entrap them in their nets, persuading them that everything they write is sublime and that they no longer need advice. The belief of certain mediums in the infallibility and superiority of their communications is such, that to them it is almost a profanity to touch those communications; it is a blasphemy to doubt them; even more, one is exposed to turning them into enemies for it would be better to tell a poet that his verses are poor. The spirits who assist those mediums and make sure that they inspire in them the desire to stay away from anyone who can give them good advice feeds such a feeling, whose evident origin is pride. Hence, anything that is not good, in the absolute sense, cannot come from a good spirit. Consequently, every advice given, or every inspired thought which reflects the minor bad feeling is bad, and hence it comes from a suspicious source, irrespective of the qualities or redundancy of style, as a matter of fact. A sign no less characteristic of that origin is flattery, which is abundantly employed by the bad spirits towards certain mediums. They know how to praise their physical or moral traits, massaging the mediums’ secret inclinations, exciting their ambition and greed, even criticizing pride and advising humility, stimulating vanity and self-love. One of the methods they use is to persuade the mediums of their superiority as mediums, placing them as apostles of missions, which are at least doubtful and for which the first required quality would be humbleness, added to simplicity and charity.
Dazzled by the names of revered beings, from which they judge themselves to be the interpreters, they don’t see the bad intentions transpired by the false spirits, since it would be impossible for inferior spirits to simulate completely every quality that they don’t have. The mediums will not really be free from the obsession that victimizes them until they can understand this truth. It is only then that the bad spirits for their part, will understand that they are wasting their time with people that they cannot catch in a faulty situation.
(Society, May 25th, 1860) 30.
As it seems, your husband has the faculty of clairvoyance. Is that true? – A. Yes, positively. 31. He says that he saw you twice after your death. Is that true? – A. Yes, it is true.
32. Are the clairvoyant mediums subjected to be deceived by the imposter spirits as much as the writing mediums? – A. They are deceived less frequently than the writing mediums but can also be by false appearances, when they are not inspired by God. Didn’t the false prophets make miracles that deceived the people under the Pharaoh, during Moses’ time? It was only Moses who was not mistaken since God inspired him.
33. Can you now explain to us your sensations when entering the world of the spirits? Besides the more or less lengthy disruption which always follows death, was there a time when your spirit lost completely its self-awareness? – A. Yes, as always; it cannot be different.
34. Did that absolute loss of awareness start before the instant of death? – A. It began in the agony.
35. Did it persist after death? – A. For a very short time.
36. In all, how long might it have lasted? – A. About 15 to 18 of your hours.
37. Is such a duration variable, according to the individuals? – A. Certainly. It is not the same to all people. It depends a lot on the kind of death.
38. Were you aware of what was happening to the body while the phenomenon of death was taking place? – A. Absolutely not. God, who is good to all His creatures, wishes to spare the spirit of the anguishes of that moment; hence He removes every memory and sensation. Observation: That fact, which has always been confirmed to us, is analogous to what happens to the spirit when returning to the corporeal world. It is well known that at the time of conception the spirit that was designated to inhabit a body that is to be born is taken by a disruption which progressively increases along with the tightening up of the fluidic links that unite it to the matter, up until close to birth. At that moment the spirit equally loses self-awareness, only recovering it at the moment when the child breathes. It is only then that the union between the spirit and the body is complete and definitive.
39. How was the moment of awakening? Did you suddenly recognize yourself or there was a period of semi-consciousness, that is, an emptiness of thoughts? – A. I was in that state for some time, then I gradually recognized myself.
40. How long did it last? – A. I am not exactly sure, but it was short. Perhaps a couple of hours.
41. Was your sensation pleasant or painful during that kind of half-sleep? – A. I don’t know. I had almost no awareness of myself.
42. While the ideas became clearer, were you sure about the death of the body or, for a short time, you believed that you were still in this world? – A. In reality, I did believe it for a few moments.
43. When you were positive about your death, were you sad? – A. No, absolutely not. The loss of life is not to be deplored.
44. Where were you when you acknowledged yourself and what was the first thing that you saw? – A. I was with spirits that surrounded me, helping me to leave that disturbance. It was the change that shocked me.
45. Are you close to your husband? – A. I hardly leave him. He sees and evokes me, and that replaces my poor body.
46. Have you gone back immediately to revisit your friends: Mr. Dumas and the other spiritists from Sétif? – A. Not immediately. I thought they would evoke me. I had left them not long ago and it seemed that I had known them and had not seen them for centuries. I was a medium and spiritist. Every spirit that I had evoked came to see me. It was touching. If you only knew how nice it is to meet again our friends in this world!
47. Has the world of the spirits seemed something new and strange to you? – A. Oh! Yes.
48. This answer surprises us considering that this is not the first time that you are in the spiritual world. – A. There is nothing surprising about it. I was not as advanced as I am now. And besides, the difference between the corporeal and the spiritual world is such that we are always surprised.
49. Your explanation could be clearer. Wouldn’t that be because every time that we return to the spiritual world the achieved progress gives us new perceptions, allowing us to see it under different aspects? – A. It is positively so. I told you that I was not as advanced as I am today.
Observation: The following comparison allows the understanding of what happens in such a circumstance. Suppose a poor peasant that comes to Paris for the first time: he will take part in a society and live in an area compatible with his situation. After a few years of absence, during which he becomes wealthy and acquires certain education, he returns to Paris and finds himself in an environment completely different from the first time, which will seem new to him. He will understand and appreciate a number of things that had hardly caught his attention the first time around. In a word, he will have difficulty recognizing his former Paris but it will always be Paris, but seen in a different way.
50. How do you see now the communications given in Sétif: are they generally more good than bad? – A. They are as everywhere else: there are good and bad ones, true and false. People frequently get involved with things that are not serious enough and don’t always go well. Nevertheless, they don’t believe that they are doing bad things. I will make sure to correct them.
51. We thank you for your kindness in coming and giving the explanations. – A. I also thank you for having thought of me.
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of Beachamwell and Hilborough, Norfolk
1664 or 1668-1740
Beachamwell is also spelt Beacham Well, Beechamwell.
Born: Not known but probably baptized 1 November 1668 at St Mary the Virgin, Beachamwell. Died September 1740 aged 76 (which would indicate birth around 1664?).
Son of: William Harvey 1633-1700ish and Susan.
Brother of:
1. Thomas Harvey 1672-?
2. Susan Harvey 1674-?
3. Ann Harvey 1676-?
4. Susanna Harvey 16??-1679
Robert married: not known.
Robert had issue:
1. John Harvey (1689?-1742) who married Ellen (1695?-1742).
Robert Harvey: An Overview
The information I have about Robert Harvey comes from the following sources:
1. Registers from the church of St Mary the Virgin, Beachamwell. In particular his memorial on the outside wall of the church.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
Near this place are the remains of Robert Harvey Senior of Hilboro Gent [Hilborough, Norfolk] who died September 1740 aged 76 years. And John Harvey of Caldecot [Caldecote, Norfolk] Gent, Eldest Son of the above. Who died October 30th 1742, Aged 53 years. Also Ellen wife of the said John Harvey. Who died November 14th 1742, aged 47 years. And Robert youngest son of the Aforesaid John and Ellen Harvey. Late of Stoke Ferry in Norfolk, Surgeon: Who died February 28th 1754, Aged 28 years.
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We have a gap of 40 years in the Parish records but from the memorial we know that there was a Robert Harvey (1664?-1740) who died in 1740 aged 76, of Hilboro Gent (Hilborough is a village in the same area, very close by). Probably the same person as the Robert baptized 1 November 1668, in which case his parents were William and Susan. This Robert Harvey (1664/8?-1740) had a son John Harvey around 1689 (died 1742 aged 53).
John Harvey (1689?-1742) married Ellen (1695?-1742) and they lived at Coldecott House and had at least two children: William 1729-? and Robert Harvey (1727-1754), the youngest son.
But, who was John Harvey Esq (1699-1750) of Ipswich son of J Harvey of Beecham Wells, Norfolk? John married Margaret Hunt, daughter of John Hunt Esq of Worlington, Norfolk. This information is recorded on his portrait (see the book Norfolk Portraits).
Other than the above we do not really know very much about Robert.
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Immersed in MITRE’s MARS Serious Game, players learn organizational agility principles and behaviors as they work together to colonize the Red Planet. Photo credit: Jae Robinson
Today’s environment is one of constant change and disruption. Government organizations are greatly impacted by new technologies, new laws and policies, administration changes, and customer expectations for increased services.
To carry out their missions and serve customers in this type of environment, government organizations must operate in a more agile manner and better manage constraints and demands. This new approach is called organizational agility—the ability to anticipate and respond to an environment quickly and effectively through sensing, interpreting, and responding routines.
That said, how do organizations empower their staff to learn a new approach for organizing to conduct work in a 21st-century environment?
“Play a serious game,” says Dr. Shelley Kirkpatrick, a MITRE Principal in Organizational Change Management.
Kirkpatrick and her team developed the MARS Agency Organizational Agility Serious Game, an engaging and hands-on game designed to teach organizational agility concepts and put them into immediate practice.
As the name might suggest, the object of the game is to successfully colonize the Red Planet—Mars. The challenge is for players is to work together, rather than compete with each other.
Instilling Organizational Agility Concepts and Behavior
Grounded in organizational agility literature and principles of Organizational Development and Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the MARS Serious Game is a table-top game that Kirkpatrick or one of her team members facilitates.
Developed under funding from MITRE’s Innovation Program (MIP), the game takes about half a day to play and provides players with the opportunity to experiment with innovative ways of organizing, communicating, and working in a risk-free, simulated environment.
“Just talking to people helps them understand organizational agility conceptually,” Kirkpatrick says. “But learning about agility experientially helps to instill the mindset and skills to find new ways to organize and carry out work.”
The MARS Serious Game is a complementary tool to the Government Organizational Agility Assessment (GOAA). Also developed under MIP funding, the GOAA provides government organizations with a means of defining and measuring current levels of agility and a framework for improving organizational agility.
In working with a large military organization recently, Kirkpatrick deployed the GOAA to over 2,000 participants to measure organizational agility.
“Using the assessment, organizations can see where they are today in terms of agility and gain better insight into how they can further increase their organizational agility,” Kirkpatrick says.
Depending upon an organization’s needs, one or both tools can be used to increase understanding of organizational agility principles and to identify actions to increase their organization’s agility.
Challenging Routine Behavior
This past August, Kirkpatrick and her team introduced the MARS Serious Game to participants working on MITRE’s McLean campus. During the informal event, more than 25 people, along with a group of young Marines, stopped by to inquire about the game and how it might be helpful for their sponsors.
“One of the Marines thought we were recruiting people for an actual mission to Mars,” Kirkpatrick says. “He seemed a little disappointed that wasn’t the case, but then realized learning and using organizational agility principles could help him survive on Mars should he ever go there.”
Changing, or rethinking, typical behaviors is a key outcome of playing the MARS Serious Game. Kirkpatrick has observed that players tend to portray their “default” behaviors [see sidebar] when playing the game, especially when certain issue come up or when under stress.
“We then coach and prompt them to try a different approach or rethink their response to a situation in a way that will help the team or organization be more agile,” Kirkpatrick says.
Since Kirkpatrick and her team introduced the MARS Serious Game to MITRE and its sponsors, they have received enthusiastic feedback from players.
It’s a very creative game. It’s fun and engaging–you don’t realize it’s actually “work.” This is way more effective than if you came and gave me a presentation on agility. —Sponsor participant
Safe way to step outside of “normal” behaviors; experiment with operations, observe results, repeat. —Participant
It’s a great game! And I learned a lot from the discussions. —Participant
Playing MITRE’s MARS Serious Game, participants must collaborate rather than compete, trying new approaches that will help their team or organization be more agile. Photo credit: Jae Robinson
While facilitating the MARS Serious Game, Kirkpatrick has seen the tendency for players to portray what she calls “default” behaviors—basically approaching a situation in the same way every time.
As the game facilitator, Kirkpatrick coaches players to try a different approach, one that will help their team or organization be more agile.
A few challenges player often encounter are:
Delegation: Players in the Director role are often reluctant to delegate decisions and authority. Directors are represented through policy, communication, and culture cards that can be handed out to other players; however, directors often want to hang on to those cards. As part of the facilitated learning experience, players learn how a leader’s role is different in an agile organization than in a nonagile organization.
Balance of Stability and Flexibility: The practice round introduces players to the game and simulates a stable environment. Once the game begins, curveballs and other events happen that disrupt stability and often distract players attention from the mission of building biodomes and sustaining life on Mars. Experiencing instability within a simulated environment provides players with a risk-free environment to develop real-world flexibility.
Working Across Silos: Unlike typical board games where players compete to win, the MARS Serious Game is a cooperative game where players must work together to achieve the mission and balance resources. Many players use language or terms that reinforce silos, such as “this is MY department,” and “these are MY workers.” As players progress in the game, they realize they gain more by actually sharing resources.
Morale and Coping with Ambiguity: People react to stress and ambiguity in different ways. When hit with unexpected events in the game, some players see it as a challenge or puzzle, while others get a bit frustrated. Some players may mentally check-out for a round or two, until another player does something to include them and get their head back into the game. As a game of cooperation, players learn that it takes the whole team to be successful.
For more information about the MARS Agency Organizational Agility Serious Game and the Government Organizational Agility Assessment, please contact Shelley Kirkpatrick, skirkpatick@mitre.org.
Strategic Communications Contract Writer Lisa Pacitto covers innovation and technology for MITRE. She handles external communications for the Innovation Seminar Series and MITRE’s Pepper robot, @mitrepepper. She has written for The Boston Globe and MIT’s Technology Review magazine.
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‘We will never forgive you’: youth is not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joins other children from across the world to present an official human rights complaint on the climate crisis.
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Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney
Last week’s United Nations climate summit may go down in history – but not for the reasons intended. It was not the tipping point for action on global warming that organisers hoped it would be. It will instead probably be remembered for the powerful address by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who castigated world leaders on behalf of the generation set to bear the brunt of inaction.
Young people are not sitting back and waiting for older generations to act on the climate crisis. Days before the summit, school students led a climate strike attended by millions around the world. And at the first ever UN youth climate summit, more than 500 young people from 60 countries, including myself, explored how to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement.
This group of activists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers aged between 18 and 30 showcased potential solutions and put global political leaders on notice: they must fight off the climate crisis at the scale and pace required.
A young boy takes part in the global climate strike on September 20 at Parliament Square in London.
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Youth voices matter
Youth aged 15 to 24 years represent 16% of the world population and will reach 1.3 billion people by 2030. Obviously the action (or otherwise) of today’s decision makers on climate change and other environmental threats will affect generations to come – a principle known as intergenerational equity.
Millions of young people around the world are already affected by climate change. Speaking at the youth summit, Fijian climate action advocate Komal Kumar said her nation was at the frontline of a crisis and worldwide, young people were “living in constant fear and climate anxiety … fearing the future”.
Highly touted UN climate summit failed to deliver – and Scott Morrison failed to show up
“Stop hindering the work [towards a sustainable future] for short term profits. Engage young people in the design of adaptation plans,” she said. “We will hold you accountable. And if you do not remember, we will mobilise to vote you out.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres attended the event and his deputy Amina Mohammed took part in a “town hall” with the attendees, alongside senior representatives from government and civil society.
Young people are not sitting idly by
Technological solutions presented by youth summit participants included 3D printing using plastic waste, data storage in plant DNA, a weather app for farmers and an accountability platform for sustainable fashion.
Participants learnt how to amplify their voices using Instagram and how to create engaging videos with their mobile phones. An art workshop taught youth how creativity can help solve the climate emergency, and a networking session showed ways that youth leaders to stay connected and support each other.
Greta Thunberg, second from right, speaks as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and young climate activists listen at the start of the United Nations Youth Climate Summit.
Justin Lane/EPA
Elsewhere, you don’t have to look far to see examples of young climate warriors, including in the developing world.
Programs funded by the UN development program include in Kazakhstan where youth are helping implement an energy efficiency project in schools, and in Namibia where young people are being trained as tour guides in national parks and nature reserves. In Nepal, young people cultivate wild Himalayan cherry trees as a natural solution to land degradation.
Harness the power of nature
Kenyan environmental activist Wanjuhi Njoroge told the youth summit of her nation’s progress in restoring the country’s forest cover.
Nature-based solutions to the climate crisis – such as conserving and restoring forests, grasslands and wetlands – were a key focus at the summit. Efforts to meet the Paris climate goals often focus on cutting fossil fuel use. But nature has a huge ability to store carbon as plants grow. Avoiding deforestation keeps this carbon from entering the atmosphere.
Thunberg and British writer George Monbiot released a film ahead on the New York summit calling on world leaders protect, restore and fund natural climate solutions.
A film by Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot calling for more nature-based climate change solutions.
To date, such solutions have received little by way of investments and funding support. For example in 2015, agriculture, forestry and land-use received just 3% of global climate change finance.
Appearing at the youth summit, the global Youth4Nature network told how it mobilises young people to advocate for nature-based solutions. Their strategy has included collecting and sharing youth stories in natural resources management in more than 35 countries.
Youth ‘will be watching’ their leaders
When it comes to climate change, young people have specific demands that must be acknowledged – and offer solutions that other generations cannot.
But globally there is a lack of youth representation in politics, and by extension, they are largely absent from climate change decision-making.
The rise of ‘eco-anxiety’: climate change affects our mental health, too
Some youth summit participants reportedly questioned whether it achieved its aims – including the value of some workshops, why celebrities were involved and whether anything tangible was produced.
A young girl attends the the global climate strike in Brisbane.
Dan Peled/AAP
Certainly, there was little evidence that world leaders at the climate summit were listening to the demands of young people. This was reflected in the failure of the world’s biggest-polluting countries to offer credible emissions reduction commitments.
But the youth summit went some way to granting young people space and visibility in the formal decision-making process.
Pressure from young people for climate action will not subside. Thunberg said it best when she warned world leaders that youth “will be watching you”.
“The eyes of all future generations are upon you,” she said. “If you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you”.
Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, PhD candidate, University of Sydney
October 1, 2019 by particularkev Categories: Climate Change, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, United Nations | Tags: activist, climate, Climate Change, complaint, crisis, global warming, Greta Thunberg, human rights, justice, UN, United Nations, young people, youth | Leave a comment
Climate justice and an end to fossil fuels: the Paris agreement won’t satisfy activists
Rebecca Pearse, University of Sydney
A global climate agreement was adopted in Paris on Saturday evening, but it will leave activists demanding direct action on fossil fuels and energy market reform.
Before the Paris talks even began there were activists arguing that the negotiations would not deliver what they want. The Climate Justice Action network said that the COP21 will continue a 20 years of ineffective climate policy, demonstrated by a 65% rise in fossil fuel emissions since 1990.
Naomi Klein said she “refused to put our future in the hands of [negotiators] cloistered in the Bourget”. Klein places more hope in bottom-up energy democracy.
Meanwhile, Saturday’s protests were about saying campaigns for climate justice will continue.
Has activist pessimism about the agreement been justified?
The Paris Agreement doesn’t stack up
Klein argues that there is some “good language” in the agreemnt. The Paris text recognises the need to cap temperature rises at 1.5℃. However, the language doesn’t match national pledges for action. These pledges are so weak that a dangerous 3 or 4 degrees warming is likely.
The agreement also notes “the importance for some of the concept of “climate justice”, when taking action to address climate change.” But the substance of agreement falls far short of what movements mean by the term.
One of the main issues activists have raised is the absence of reference to fossil fuels in the Paris Agreement. The agreement aims for “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks” after 2050.
Reference to reducing fossil fuels, or even “decarbonisation” would have been better. The vague language of “balance” between (fossil fuel) “sources” and “sinks” opens up the possibility for loopholes, such as “forest carbon offsets” and technologies activists oppose such as “clean coal” and nuclear energy.
Loopholes are familiar terrain for Australian negotiators, who have secured the continuation of a 1997 land carbon accounting loophole to meet Australia’s 2020 target. It is an accounting rule that will allow further emissions increases in energy and industrial sectors with no penalty.
Opaque carbon terminology typical in climate agreements turns the climate issue into an unhelpful abstraction. The concrete problems climate movements want addressed are about energy and inequalities, which are systemic and difficult to change.
Movements want ‘system change’
Activist pessimism about the Paris Agreement reflects the fact climate movements want to change society and transform energy systems more rapidly and fundamentally than the UN system allows for. They do this by bringing people together, online and in public spaces, to put pressure on governments and corporations to change.
The climate movement is a contemporary version of what Immanuel Wallerstein called “anti-systemic movements”. Anti-systemic movements want to transform societies, and in this case, humanity’s relationship with ‘nature’.
Movements calling for “climate justice”, carry on traditions of the alter-globalisation movement, other forms of environmentalism, feminism, anti-colonial and socialist movements.
Climate justice movements are diverse, but there is a fundamental principle informing activist practice: climate change is a consequence of unequal, colonial, economic and social power relations.
Protests during the Paris negotiations illustrate the diverse strands of this anti-systemic agenda. The slogans were “Flood the system” and “Connect the dots”. Flood the system is a reference to anti-capitalist protests during the peak of the financial crisis. Connecting the dots means recognising the links between climate change and systemic inequalities.
Activists consistently point out that the impacts of climate change are greatest for marginal social groups, and that historical responsibility for climate change is concentrated in a small number of corporate and government hands.
Their analysis was symbolised in protests in the past weeks. The People’s Climate March and the People’s Parliament protest were both represented by Pacific Islanders, indigenous people, and mining-affected community members. They targeted Parliament, as well as a bank and fossil fuel company and coal infrastructure.
Given that climate justice movements want systemic change, it’s unsurprising that the Paris Agreement is not enough for activists. However, this is not to say that anti-systemic movements simplistically oppose all reform, or that movements don’t create new policy agendas.
Movements want reform too
There are two strong messages from activists about energy policy.
1) There needs to be a limit placed on fossil fuels
2) There needs to be regulation and public investment to facilitate affordable renewable energies.
As time as gone on, the political focus on abstract carbon targets and carbon pricing has diminished. Climate organisations like 350.org have translated their focus on global carbon target of 350ppm (a technical term for concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) into connected local campaigns to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
There are new research organisations documenting the fossil fuel assets that need to be retrenched in order to stay within a 1.5-2-degree limit. This year’s Australia Institute campaign for “no new coal mines” is concrete policy that would help keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Whether or not direct regulation of energy markets is politically feasible is an unanswered question. However, seeking change through complex and ineffective emissions policy like carbon trading has also been difficult for activists.
The road from Copenhagen goes beyond Paris
The last major climate talks held in Copenhagen in 2009 saw public protests like those last week. There was a broad sense that it was the last chance for a global agreement that could avoid dangerous climate change.
When the Copenhagen Accord was deemed a flop, a sense of failure was keenly felt by climate movements. The numbers of people engaged in climate activism dropped considerably from 2010.
But activists did continue to mobilise. After Copenhagen the social and environmental effects of Australia’s export mining boom in coal and gas were intensifying. New campaign organisations such as Lock the Gate and Land Water Future changed Australian climate politics. These groups are resisting fossil fuels, but climate mitigation is not the only, or central, motivation.
Food and water security, indigenous land rights, and farmer’s property rights have become much more salient than ever before. These campaigns have led to temporary moratoriums on coal seam gas, numerous inquiries, new water protections, and a debate about whether land owners should be able to say no to fossil fuel companies.
Renewable energy campaigns have matured since 2009, with new citizens campaigns developing the case for community renewable energy projects and fair access to the electricity grid for Australia’s 1.4 million rooftop solar owners. While these campaigns have struggled to get new policies, the resilience of the Renewable Energy Target is evidence that governments cannot risk losing voters who support renewables.
This week’s climate negotiations were one moment in a long battle. Activists are moving “through” and “beyond” Paris and will continue campaigns against fossil fuel dependence and for a “just energy transition”.
In doing so, movements will go on highlighting the failures of climate policy. They are changing what is politically feasible for Australian governments.
Rebecca Pearse, Research Associate, University of Sydney
December 15, 2015 by particularkev Categories: Climate Change, France, Global Warming, Paris | Tags: activists, agreement, article, climate, Climate Change, COP21, end, fossil fuels, France, global warming, justice, Paris | Leave a comment
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Hermaphroditic Sea Slugs Do It and Read Fifty Shades of Grey, Apparently
Doug Barry
Filed to:Sex
I'm told of a species of sea slug — Siphopteron quadrispinsom, if you really want to get fancy about it — that has both male and female organs, and so can have all kinds of kinky, painful sex, including the kind of foursome that involves only two creatures. The thing about these sea slugs, though, is that the reproductive, male-to-female version of sex is extremely painful for female slugs, so painful that, in theory, slugs should play female just as long as it takes to accrue a little storehouse of sperm. In fact, however, slugs enjoy their heteronormative liaisons much more often than that.
According to the New Scientist, this particular type of sea slug, when playing male, wield its rapier-penis with all the thrusting gusto of a musketeer, or a doctor giving a tetanus shot — the male slug stabs its partner, anchors the penetrating organ in place with spines so that it can inject a whole thimble-full of prostate fluid into said partner. This mating trial is apparently so traumatic for the "female" slug, that slugs prefer to act male, and very often resist doing it altogether.
However, Rolanda Lange of the University of Tübingen in Germany has found that the slugs act female more often than they'd need if they were simply trying to ensure that their eggs were fertilized. Lange and her colleagues captured different groups of slugs and found that the slugs that produced the most eggs acted female at a medium-rate. Though it would seem reasonable that slugs would only want to be female for the very bare minimum of progeny-creating time, Lange and her team found that slugs were female much more often than that, meaning that traumatic male-female sex has some other inscrutable benefit to the slugs that scientists just haven't uncovered yet.
A researcher at the U.K.'s University of Sheffield thinks it might have something to do with extra nutrients in the injected prostate fluid, but, more likely, it probably has something to do with the E.L. James saga mainstreaming BDSM among sea slugs, who try some bondage stuff out on each other because it's like a huge pop culture phenomenon even though they don't really like bondage at all and are just doing it to be cool and make new sex friends. If only all the slugs would be honest with each other about their sexual proclivities and not let pop culture fantasies determine what they do with their genitals, we might have a more placid, painless undersea environment, which would assuredly lead to more choreographed musical theater à la The Little Mermaid.
Slugs benefit from getting stabbed while having sex [New Scientist]
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aA Special Report
Stender E. Sweeney II
Stender Sweeney
Executive Vice President and Division Manager
Wells Fargo & Co.
Stender Sweeney is an executive vice president and division manager for middle-market banking in Wells Fargo’s office in downtown Los Angeles. His 145-person team provides financial services to middle- market and mid-corporate businesses in the Greater Los Angeles area. Sweeney also manages the specialty teams focused on businesses in entertainment, defense, aerospace and technology services. He joined Wells Fargo from Wachovia Bank, where he was a director of the Western Banking group. He spent nine years with Union Bank and worked with J.P. Morgan’s institutional investment management team in New York. He is on the boards of the Friends of Expo Center, the California Art Club and the Marshall School of Business at USC.
What was your proudest moment?
Raising three great kids with my wife
What is your alma mater?
What is your next project?
Hiking Mount Whitney
Who is your hero?
What do you like best about Los Angeles?
Our culture of innovation that marks both our societal and business progress over the generations. The weather isn’t bad either!
STENDER SWEENEY II
Adam Feit
Ed Bagdasarian
Economic Forecast & Trends 2019: Brent Williams
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Nigerian man returns $80K bitcoins transferred to him in error
by Ifeanyi Ngerem September 20, 2019, 11:16 am
Radio France Internationale has reported the story of a Nigerian who returned to its rightful owner $80,000 worth of bitcoins mistakenly transferred to his account. Amidst reports of some bad Nigerians, this is a story worth the read.
A Nigerian who found $80,000 dollar’s worth of bitcoin had been mistakenly transferred to him, has returned it to the owner.
Keith Mali Chung woke up to find 7.8 bitcoins in his account. That is the equivalent of $80,000 or €72,302. He immediately began trying to track down the owner of the bitcoins.
He said: “I trade in bitcoin, but never such a high amount,” Mali Chung explains on the phone from the Nigerian capital, Abuja and continues, “I knew it had to be a mistake so I posted an announcement via some WhatsApp groups to track down the owner.” Three days passed and no-one responded, so Mali Chung took to Twitter to track down the owner. That prompted a response from someone who had the correct encryption code for the transaction.
Please RT,
I received huge sum of BTC from an unknown sender and it’s definitely a mistake from someone I must have had transaction with before, Kindly DM me time of transaction, your adress and exact digits sent.. thank you. Kindly retweet
Bitcoin Keith (The African Bitcoin Bull) (@BitcoinKeith) September 12, 2019
The owner of the bitcoins mistakenly transferred to Mali Chung is a Nigerian politician who has asked to remain anonymous.
Nigeria is plagued by political cronyism and consistently ranks among the lowest 20 per cent on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index.. In June, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force announced that cryptocurrency firms will be subjected to rules to prevent the abuse of digital coins such as bitcoin for money laundering.
The move by FATF, which groups countries from the United States to China and bodies such as the European Commission, reflects growing concern among international law enforcement agencies that cryptocurrencies are being used to launder the proceeds of crime.
Lady jumps down from window after stealing from a bank (video)
Lady shocked after a man did the unthinkable at a shopping mall
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Tag Archives: Communist Manifesto
On the 165th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto
Posted on May 14, 2013 by morgan203
The unfinished business of the past
CC Image courtesy of adobe in chaos on Flickr
An anniversary can be recognized in many ways. One can approach it as a commemoration – a respectful, funereal recognition of the past; a corpse momentarily exhumed so old bones can be raked over and given their ritualistic due. The 165th anniversary of the publication of Marx & Engels’ Communist Manifesto should not be taken as an opportunity for such activity. The anniversary is more appropriately an occasion to recognize time in a different way: the anniversary is a timely reminder of the continued resonance of the deep-seated sense of preventable injustice that motivated the Manifesto. Though Capital has an undeserved reputation as an arid and scholastic tome it could not hope to match the raw passion of earlier work. The Manifesto, penned in 1848, shares with Engels’ 1844/45 The Condition of The Working Class in England a blunt simplicity that Marx subsequently recognized that their mature work, with its ‘academic scholarly reservations’, could not match. Just as importantly, The Manifesto is a signpost that Marx and Engels would ultimately transcend the quasi-satirical, partly internecine, and essentially petty critical discourse with the various strands of Young Hegelianism &c captured in the contemporaneous German Ideology. Works such as Saint Bruno or the Theses on Feuerbach may have marked them out as acute critics, but had they not made good on the implications of their critique, Marx & Engels’ would simply be a footnote to academic history rather than of real historical significance.
Nor should it be forgotten that the Manifesto opens with an invitation to embrace the label of ‘communist’ by those who would see a different and better world. The opening paragraphs state that the powerful of the time used the word as a term of abuse, a disparagement, a ‘spectre’ to be feared. Marx & Engels wanted to clarify what a communist was and so claim the term in a positive way; they wanted it to be clear why a communist should be feared and by whom. A communist should be feared because s/he has a clear and trenchant critique of capitalism and a communist should be feared only by those who would prevent the building of a better world for the many by maintaining a world that served the few. The terrible manifestations of the Soviet Union and of the Peoples’ Republic of China have tended to obscure the significance of this commitment. It has been over-written by a bloody history. Yet defenders of capitalism differentiate its ideals and potentials from its Enrons and Lehmans, and defenders of religion differentiate the Crusades from the essence of the teachings of Jesus. The need for a trenchant critique of capitalism remains as relevant as ever, and the possibility of a better world for the many that rejects maintaining a world that serves the few should not be a source of embarrassment to its advocates. It links the Paris Commune of 1871 with the Occupy movements of today.
Marx & Engels’ most profound insight is that social reality is a dialectical process that can be expressed through a historical materialist perspective. The very basis of their approach recognizes that social reality changes in its parts and in its sum. As such, it would be a surprise if all of the Manifesto or all of Capital were relevant today. Class dynamics have changed, immiseration has not proceeded in the way foreseen, the superstructure has become more sophisticated, any possible tendency for the rate of profit to continually fall has been at least offset by other recognized features of capitalism… Yet capitalism has continued to construct exploitative labour relations that separate out people on the basis of class; it has continued its tendency to act like a virus and extend itself to all available geographical localities, shaping world markets and institutions through globalization; it has persisted in distorting the creative capacities of the human – transforming potentially life-enhancing technologies into aspects of commodity production and thus into means of subjugation in pursuit of profit; it has continued to create an ideological inversion where humans exist for the imperatives of the economy rather than the economy exist to meet human concerns… It has continued to embrace its own ideological disjunctions – articulating free markets but supporting a prison of corporate privileges – whether that be Big Pharma or banks that are Too Big to Fail; and capitalism has continued to offer the prospect of individual formal freedoms that its own collective consequences ensure can never become practical freedoms for all… And, perhaps most crucially, capitalism has remained prone to systemic crises that vilify its victims and valorise its villains. Here, we should not obsessively focus on what Marx & Engels’ got wrong but be surprised at just how much they got right, and just how relevant much of that remains…. It’s most provocative claim is still a begged question:
“In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity – the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation has cut off the supply of every means of subsistence, too much industry and commerce seems destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them…”
Still, one must wonder how the Manifesto and then Capital would be phrased and focused if they were written today. What material would they draw upon? Manchester would likely be replaced by Mumbai or Shenzhen. Global supply chains and plutonomy might be prominent issues, an ‘all that is solid melts into air’ would surely be the many and varied financial instruments of a modern finance system with its CDOs CDS and couldn’t care less… And if there was one thing that Marx & Engels’ would care about it would almost certainly be the environmental context of human existence. It is often neglected that Marx & Engels’ critique of religion and critique of capitalism were not based on a technocratic sense of a rational disembodied creature. They were too enlightened to be Enlightenment thinkers. Marx & Engels’ were keen to recover the Aristotelian spiritual essence of species being from both capitalism and religion: ‘giving back to man the substance he has lost through religion; not as divine but as human substance’. There is more to this than simply labour.
A modern Marx & Engels would likely be radical eco-global political economists, unemployable in any reputable university; which is not to suggest they would be inclined to think one might knit the way to freedom. Their credo would likely expand beyond: “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win…” and it would almost certainly refer to wo/men not men, but I expect they would still be of the opinion that revolution and not reform was essential.
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Sistemul actual selecteaza incompetenti si sociopati pentru functiile de putere!
Does Our System Select for Incompetent Sociopaths? (March 26, 2014)
What is the shelf life of a system that rewards confidence-gaming sociopaths rather than competence?
Let’s connect the dots of natural selection and the pathology of power.
In his 2012 book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, author Kevin Dutton described how the attributes of sociopathology are in a sense value-neutral: the sociopathological attributes that characterize a dangerous criminal may also characterize a cool, high-performing neurosurgeon.
As Dutton explains in his essay What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed(Scientific American):
Psychopaths are fearless, confident, charismatic, ruthless and focused. Yet, contrary to popular belief, they are not necessarily violent. Far from its being an open-and-shut case–you’re either a psychopath or you’re not–there are, instead, inner and outer zones of the disorder: a bit like the fare zones on a subway map. There is a spectrum of psychopathy along which each of us has our place, with only a small minority of A-listers resident in the “inner city.”
While there is obviously a place for high-functioning sociopaths in professions which reward those characteristics, what about sociopaths who substitute deviousness and deception for competence? For some context, let’s turn to thePathology Of Power by Norman Cousins, published in 1988.
Cousins was particularly concerned with the National Security State, a.k.a. the military-industrial complex, which at that point in U.S. history was engaged in a Cold War with the Soviet Empire. Cousins described the pathology of power thusly:
„Connected to the tendency of power to corrupt are yet other tendencies that emerge from the pages of the historians:1. The tendency of power to drive intelligence underground;
2. The tendency of power to become a theology, admitting no other gods before it;
3. The tendency of power to distort and damage the traditions and institutions it was designed to protect;
4. The tendency of power to create a language of its own, making other forms of communication incoherent and irrelevant;
5. The tendency of power to set the stage for its own use.
In broader terms, we might add: the tendency of power to manifest hubris, arrogance, bullying, deception and the substitution of rule by Elites for rule of law.
Natural selection isn’t only operative in Nature; it is equally operative in human organizations, economies and societies. People respond to whatever set of incentives and disincentives are present. If deceiving and conning others is heavily incentivized, while integrity and honesty are punished, people will gravitate to running cons and embezzlement schemes.
What behaviors does our Status Quo reward? Misrepresentation, obfuscation, legalized looting, embezzlement, fraud, a variety of cons, gaming the system, deviousness, lying and cleverly designed deceptions.
Let’s connect the pathology of power and the behaviors selected by our Status Quo. What we end up with is a system that selects for a specific category of sociopaths: those whose only competence is in running cons.
No wonder we have a leadership that is selected not for competence but for deviousness. What’s incentivized in our system is spinning half-truths and propaganda with a straight face and running cons that entrench the pathology of power.
What is the shelf life of a system that rewards confidence-gaming sociopaths rather than competence? Unless we change the incentives and disincentives, the system is doomed.
The Normalization of Sociopathology in America (October 16, 2010)
The Federal Reserve and the Pathology of Power (November 18, 2010)
The Banality of (Financial) Evil (November 9, 2010)
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar14/sociopaths3-14.html
http://georgevalah.wordpress.com/
Acest articol a fost publicat în VIATA LIBERA ( engleza). Pune un semn de carte cu legătura permanentă.
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Archie (2015-) #14
Archie (2015-)
Once, Veronica Lodge was the Princess of Riverdale, flowers strewn at her feet everywhere she walked. Now she's a just regular student at a private school full of Mean Girls who've made her their Betty, led by their Queen Bee, the alluring and diabolical Cheryl Blossom.
Joe Eisma Jack Morelli Andre Szymanowicz Jen Vaughn
Comedy Children's Romance
Archie: Varsity Edition
Change is coming to Riverdale in this all-new reimagining of an American icon! Familiar faces return in new and unexpected ways. As the new school year approaches, you'd think Archie Andrews would be looking forward to classes and fun -- but nothing is as it seems in the little town of Riverdale. But is this a one-off or a sign of bigger changes awaiting for America's favorite teens -- and the ent
From Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the writers of the new CW series Riverdale comes the MUST-READ, brand new, ongoing comic series. Set in the universe of the TV series, the Riverdale comic offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Josie & the Pussycats and their friends, exploring small-town life and the darkness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome facade.
Jughead (2015-2017)
FROM THE COMICS DREAM TEAM OF CHIP ZDARSKY (Howard the Duck) AND ERICA HENDERSON (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl), ARCHIE COMICS PROUDLY PRESENTS... JUGHEAD! Riverdale High provides a quality education and quality hot lunches, but when one of those is tampered with, JUGHEAD JONES swears vengeance! Well, I mean, he doesn't "swear." This is still Archie Comics after all.
Life With Archie
Archie Marries Betty features the newlyweds as they move to the city to pursue their dreams and are faced with seemingly endless disasters engineered by a sinister figure from the past, and also includes the moving story of the death of their former teacher Miss Grundy. Archie Marries Veronica showcases the newlywed couple struggling to balance business and conscience while trying to keep Mr. Lodg
Betty & Veronica (2018-)
BRAND NEW SERIES! "Senior Year, Pt. 1: Summer" – Betty and Veronica go where they've never gone before—their senior year of high school! Only one school year stands between them and freedom, but when the two BFFs think they'll be attending the same college in the fall find out that their plans have changed, their senior year—and their friendship—is put to the test!
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LOSTGARDEN
You've found a rare treasure trove of readable, thoughtful essays on game design theory, art and the business of design.
The Real Triple Town available on iOS and Android
by Daniel Cook
Ported Posts / Uncategorized
The holidays were crazy. Instead of opening presents, we were putting the finishing touches on the mobile version of Triple Town. Some late nights all around. Big kudos to Cliff Owen for doing an immense amount of the heavy lifting.
Triple Town for iPhone and iPad
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/triple-town/id490532168?ls=1
Triple Town for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.tripletown
If you love Triple Town, please download it (it is free) and rate it. We are in a bit of a David and Goliath situation here since a very large and nasty company copied Triple Town on mobile right at the end of December. We’re a small team and we work hard, but moving to the phone took a few precious months. I don’t quite know how to express the feeling of bleeding our lives out trying to finish the game…all while watching a soulless shark lavishly spend VC cash to ride up the chart. Using my own design. That was like a punch in the gut. Betrayal, violation and powerlessness all wrapped up into one unpleasant emotion. This has easily been one of the most emotionally difficult releases I’ve ever done.
To add insult to injury, the night we got ready to upload the Android version we made an awkward discovery: There was already a game called Triple Town being sold by a certain Mr. WangYang. In fact, it was Triple Town. The art was ripped from the web version. The logo was the same. Check out that screenshot…captured for posterity. I want to send big thank you to Google. Even though their offices had closed for the night, they took down the fake immediately. That was deeply appreciated.
Ripped off: An example of a counterfeit game.
The best and most positive thing anyone who loves innovative indie games can do is spread the word about the original. Share the link. Download Triple Town. Write a review. Tell your friends. Heck, I tell strangers in coffee shops.
No one ever complains since a good indie game is an authentic joy. The next time I see someone after introducing them to Triple Town, all they ever want to talk about is Triple Town. It becomes an essential part of their life. It doesn’t matter that it was done by a few guys working out of home offices. All that matters is that it is a good, original game that players love. I figure the Fast Follower bastards may have money and evil on their side, but maybe a passionate community and some word of mouth about a decent game can carve a small space for the little guys.
Big thanks for all the continued requests asking us to make Triple Town for mobile. It kept me going.
Danc.
PS: Also a lot of folks told me they just wanted to ‘buy the damned thing’. So even though the game is still free if you want, you can now pay once and get unlimited turns.
PPS: First game in Unity! Very nice!
Maximilian Csuk says
Hm… the game is not available for my phone. And I even got a Samsung Galaxy S with Android 2.3… 😦
Justin says
Steambirds is one of my favorite Android games of all time. Downloading Triple Town in the background literally as I write this — will review as soon as I've kicked the tires on your game.It's a shame, particularly in the shadows of SOPA and PIPA right now, that your intellectual property was stolen and capitalized upon by the \”big guys.\”
MagnetiCat says
Congratulations Danc, I must say I strongly prefer this version because of the unlimited moves purchase option and because I love the feel of it much more than playing with a mouse. Nice! Please, please, please do tell us your opinions on Unity when you have the time. Not many 2D games like Triple Town are made with it. Most of us could not afford it in the next 2,000 years, but I am curious to see how it worked for you.
Congratulations on getting it done!I tried it on my Nexus One. It's playable, but the framerate is low and it takes ages to load. I'd be really interested in hearing how close you think you are to the performance limits of Unity. This is the kind of thing that worries me about adopting it.Also, the text size was insanely small. I realize the Nexus One has a higher resolution than most phones, but most apps scale their text up. I actually measured it, and got 0.9 millimeters per line of text.
Stu says
Totally Love this Game!Just downloaded and rated. I want to say that sincerely you are a shining beacon of hope for honest, authentic, and beautifully crafted games. I only wish there were more role-models like you in the industry to look up to. Good luck!
I'm pushing this all among my friends and family since I don't have a smartphone (shut up i'm on a budget!). I really hope it bounces up. It sucks so much about….the other game, it just makes me so angry, I can't imagine what it must be like for you guys.
Ido says
Doesn't work on my zte blade 😦
Kayleigh says
Same with me. I can't seem to find it on the Marketplace 😦
em3 says
Unfortunately it's for android 2.2+, and I have only 2.1 on my phone.I'm seriously considering rooting.
Mr Stark says
Says \”Not supported on your device\” for Galaxy S if you follow the link from the post above and open with the Market.Why?Is there a plan to support it sometime?
Entoris says
I've run into the same problems. I liked the game on Facebook and would love to give it a try on my SGS (with 2.3.4), but no dice. Oddly enough it is not compatible with my phone, though the hardware should be able to handle it (since someone commented down here that his/her Nexus One managed it, and that's practically identical to the SGS).
SimonOC says
A beautiful game with a very addictive cool gameplay mechanic. When I first played this game I was screaming mad that it was a stupid micro transactions system and I could not actually buy the game to enjoy it offline. I was so angry with the F2P style of the game I stopped playing it and moved on to something else. Then I hear the game is finally on the Ipad and I can actually buy it!?!Thank you very much, you made my weekend, telling all my friends :)PS. Game bought, I will have endless fun with it. 🙂
GameDevigner says
This game is horribly addictive, Danc. :)Speaking of Unity, any chance we're going to get a Unity Love Letter? 🙂
Alvaro Victor Cavalcanti says
AAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHI Loooooove the game. Love it, love it! But I cannot run on my ZTE V9 (ARMv6). :((((((((Now I'm depressed.
mbellish says
Any chance of getting a win phone version?
Bjorn Morrison says
Does not work on Huwaei u8800. Android 2.2.1 Wish I could send you error logs or something to help debug this. The Spryfox splash screen shows, then the Triple Town screen with loading bar. When the loading bar gets 80% complete, it drops back to my phone's home screen. But I have found out about the Facebook version (can't believe I didn't know about that), so that should tide me over. Oh and one more go of Realm….
Sorry, using Triple Town 1.04. It has only installed 0.97 mb, when the Store page says 12mb….
JHannes says
Looks like you should forward them your article on plagiarism in game design. Zynga too for that matter with their clone of Tiny Tower. Keep on creating better games than those evil Fast Followers. You guys rock!
Matthew Trevor says
Just echoing everyone here asking for SGS2 support. Is there a reason why it isn't, there seem to be more and more apps lately that don't provide it.
Kevin Gadd says
It's silly not to support the Galaxy phones, they're really popular.
Guruchild says
You'd be amazed how far intellectual cuttthroats will go to make a buck off stolen games. Occasionally, I'll run across a web site that is selling a copy of one of my old games. That's notable because a) I've never sold any of my games and b) none of them are even finished. They're incomplete, buggy, and conceptual at best.
TheSundayBest says
Just quickly read through your situation here. Appalling. Hope this resolves itself quickly, and in your favour.
Lucio says
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Big Louisville music news: Katie Toupin is leaving Houndmouth
Big news seems to drop weekly on Fridays at 4:30 p.m. This time, it’s music news. Louisville-area darlings Houndmouth announced on Twitter that they had important news on their website.
We just posted an important about our band on our website. https://t.co/CS0yIJ9OuB
— Houndmouth (@Houndmouth) April 8, 2016
The news? Katie Toupin is leaving the band.
The remaining members of the band said the split was amicable. The band is currently on break from a tour and is returning to the road on April 13. On Facebook the band said Toupin will not finish out the tour, which begins again in Illinois, but all shows will go on as planned.
Here’s the full announcement from the website:
The band started in 2011 in New Albany. The remaining band members are Matt Myers, Zak Appleby and Shane Cody. They record on Rough Trade Records. “Little Neon Limelite” was released last month and is their second recording.
Toupin co-owns the music-themed clothing store, Bermuda Highway, in NuLu.
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Dr. Francis Akor is known for experienced general Paediatrician with interest in Clinical Paediatrics and Research. He has been involved in large clinical trials in malaria prevention in children. His other interests are in neonatology and infectious diseases and currently he is working as Paediatrics Specialty Doctor, Conquest Hospital Hastings, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. His former work experience includes Doctor at Queens Hospital BHR NHS Trust Romford– Essex, his duties involve care of neonates including resuscitation, examination, investigation and treatment of sick new-borns and management of paediatric emergencies in the paediatric A & E and in patient care of children, Associate Lecturer at Department of Paediatrics, University of The Gambia Medical School. He has published 12 articles in different journals and was reviewer of journals including Journal of Tropical Pediatrics Transactions of Royal Society of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, South African Journal of Child Health. His area of research includes general paediatrics with special infectious diseases including malaria neonatology, neurology and paediatric haematology. He is affiliated with Paediatric Association of Nigeria, British Medical Association, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Ahmed, M., S. Donaldson, F. Akor, D. Cahill and R. Akilani, 2014. Olfactory hallucination in childhood primary headaches: Case series. Cephalalgia .
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Bojang, K.A., F. Akor, L. Conteh, E. Webb and O. Bittaye et al., 2011. Two strategies for the delivery of IPTc in an area of seasonal malaria transmission in the Gambia: A randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med., Vol. 8. .
Dondorp, A.M., C.I. Fanello, I.C. Hendriksen, E. Gomes and A. Seni et al., 2010. Artesunate versus quinine in the treatment of severe falciparum malaria in African children (AQUAMAT): An open-label, randomised trial. Lancet, 376: 1647-1657.
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Bojang, K., F. Akor, O. Bittaye, D. Conway, C. Bottomley, P. Milligan and B. Greenwood, 2010. A randomised trial to compare the safety, tolerability and efficacy of three drug combinations for intermittent preventive treatment in children. PLoS One, 5: 1-9.
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Akor, F., S.N. Okolo and A. Okolo, 2010. Blood pressure and anthropometric measurements in healthy primary school entrants in Jos, Nigeria. South Afr. J. Child Health, 4: 42-45.
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Mapping hypoendemic, seasonal malaria in rural Bandarban, Bangladesh: a prospective surveillance
Wasif A Khan1,
David A Sack2,
Sabeena Ahmed1,
Chai Shawi Prue1,
Mohammad Shafiul Alam1,
Rashidul Haque1,
Jacob Khyang1,
Malathi Ram2,
Jasmin Akter1,
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Malaria Journal volume 10, Article number: 124 (2011) Cite this article
Until recently the Chittagong Hill tracts have been hyperendemic for malaria. A past cross-sectional RDT based survey in 2007 recorded rates of approximately 15%. This study was designed to understand the present epidemiology of malaria in this region, to monitor and facilitate the uptake of malaria intervention activities of the national malaria programme and to serve as an area for developing new and innovative control strategies for malaria.
This research field area was established in two rural unions of Bandarban District of Bangladesh north of Bandarban city, which are known to be endemic for malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum. The project included the following elements: a) a demographic surveillance system including an initial census with updates every four months, b) periodic surveys of knowledge attitude and practice, c) a geographic information system, d) weekly active and continuous passive surveillance for malaria infections using smears, rapid tests and PCR, f) monthly mosquito surveillance, and e) daily weather measures. The programme included both traditional and molecular methods for detecting malaria as well as lab methods for speciating mosquitoes and detecting mosquitoes infected with sporozoites.
The demographic surveillance enumerated and mapped 20,563 people, 75% of which were tribal non-Bengali. The monthly mosquito surveys identified 22 Anopheles species, eight of which were positive by circumsporozoite ELISA. The annual rate of malaria was close to 1% with 85% of cases in the rainy months of May-October. Definitive clustering identified in the low transmission season persisted during the high transmission season.
This demographically and geographically defined area, near to the Myanmar border, which is also hypoendemic for malaria, will be useful for future studies of the epidemiology of malaria and for evaluation of strategies for malaria control including new drugs and vaccines.
Bangladesh is one of the 109 countries listed by the World Health Organization as having endemic malaria. Within Bangladesh, 13 of the 64 districts are considered to have endemic malaria, with 26.9 million people living in these 13 districts, a population larger than many African countries, which illustrates the scope of the risk from malaria. The government of Bangladesh, with financial assistance from the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, recently initiated programmes to control malaria in these districts. The primary interventions for the programme have focused on distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria diagnosis at the field level using rapid diagnostic tests (RDT), and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) as the first-line of treatment. Reports from district hospitals in these endemic areas demonstrate a reduction in the numbers of cases detected since the programme started in 2008; however, it is not clear if this reduction is due to the programme activities, to climate related variability in rates from year to year, or differences in the ascertainment of cases. These reports are based on cases treated at health facilities, which may not reflect the true rates of malaria since many patients may not seek treatment or reach a facility. Thus, the true rate of malaria in the endemic districts is not well documented.
A cross-sectional survey for malaria infection was conducted in 2007 by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) with BRAC to establish a baseline estimate of malaria prevalence in the population living in the 13 malaria endemic districts [1]. This cross-sectional survey showed a malaria prevalence of 13% by RDT in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (15.5, 10.7 and 6.8 percent in Khagrachari, Bandarban and Rangamati districts respectively) with the overall prevalence of 45 per thousand population of fever associated with malaria in these three Hill districts. About 89% of the infections were caused by Plasmodium falciparum, 5% by Plasmodium vivax, and the remaining by mixed infection. Asymptomatic prevalence in five southeastern districts was 40/1,000 versus 2/1,000 population in the eight northeastern districts. Such high rates of asymptomatic malaria infection suggested a need for further surveillance and control measures.
While most control strategies, as well as surveillance methods, are focused on symptomatic malaria, transmission of malaria occurs because of circulating gametocytes often from asymptomatic individuals. Unfortunately, little is known about the epidemiology of gametocyte infection in Bangladesh, but reducing transmission will depend on an improved understanding of all phases of malaria infection in both humans and the insect vectors.
Though the malaria burden among symptomatic patients is beginning to be understood for Bangladesh, there may be specific subgroups, which are especially vulnerable to increased mortality and morbidity from malaria, especially pregnant women. In other geographic areas, malaria increases the risk of mortality for the mother during pregnancy and increases the risk for low birth weight in the infant [2–4].
In order to better define the epidemiology of malaria in an endemic area of Bangladesh, the ICDDR,B in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) established a surveillance system for malaria in an area of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Southeast Bangladesh. The area selected for the surveillance was the two unions north of Bandarban town (Kuhalong and Rajbila), each with a population of about 10,000 people. The selection of these unions was based on data from the initial survey showing relatively high rates of malaria due to P. falciparum, and their relative accessibility. Residents of these unions are predominantly tribal people who speak their own language and not Bengali. The study area is close to the border with Myanmar and thus provides information of relevance to the Southeast Asia "ecozone" for malaria. This ecozone has been the source for isolates of malaria, which are resistant to multiple drugs. Thus, the Bandarban study area was felt to be an appropriate site for monitoring for emergence of drug resistance in the future. Being hypoendemic, it seemed that the study site could be a potential site for future studies of innovative control measures. Such studies carried out in the Bandarban field area of Bangladesh may be relevant to other countries in the Southeast Asia ecozone and potentially to other areas which are becoming hypoendemic as control measures reduce rates of malaria in previously hyperendemic areas.
Although the two unions selected for the surveillance activity are adjacent, they also have some contrasting features. Kuhalong is more forested and hilly, whereas Rajbila tends to have more rice fields. The earlier baseline survey conducted in a small number of subjects suggested that Kuhalong had higher rates of malaria (28% prevalence versus 4% for Rajbila); however, based on these small numbers it was not possible to establish with certainty which union had a higher disease burden [1]. Kuhalong is closer to Bandarban town, which has a hospital, while Rajbila is more distant, requiring between one to two hours to drive to the hospital.
The objectives for the project are shown in Table 1. This paper focuses on the methodology and activities used to accomplish these objectives. Subsequent papers will provide specific findings from ongoing studies. This malaria surveillance project intends to complement the national malaria programme as well as to provide a resource for conducting specific studies on malaria.
Table 1 Objectives for the Project on Mapping Malaria in Bangladesh
Approaching the community, the ministry, and stakeholders
When the two unions were identified as areas which seemed to be ideal for the project, the Upazila (an Upazila is the name given for a sub-district in Bangladesh) Health and Family Planning (UHFP) office in the Bandarban district office was contacted to discuss the purpose of the investigation. Since malaria had already been identified as one of the high priority problems in this area, the officer was very cooperative in assisting with the project. UHFP had information about the population in the two unions; however, this information was several years old; thus, the need to carry out new data collection of the population was discussed. The UHFP office provided two experienced staff members to assist in planning the project. These staff members from the UHFP office were very familiar with the unions of Kuhalong and Rajbila, were from the same tribal communities, and were fluent in the tribal languages.
Together with the UHFP staff, discussions were held with local community leaders, including all levels of leaders called Karbari, Headman, Union Parishad Chairman, and the Upazila Vice Chairman, to explain the purpose of the project and the proposed activities, including establishing a demographic surveillance system. Prior to actually starting the project, a meeting was held at the Bandarban Hill District Council Auditorium where most of the District & Upazila level Health & Family Planning Officers, NGO leaders, Upazila Chairman, Union Parishad Chairman & Members, Headmen and Karbaris participated. During the meeting, the project was described, and the participants had the opportunity to ask questions to the investigators. The general response was favorable since malaria was already known to be the major health problem of the area, and because the ICDDR,B has an excellent reputation in the country for its humanitarian services. The leaders were pleased that this effort was being made to help control malaria for their people.
Baseline population and geographic information
Baseline information on the populations of Kuhalong and Rajbila was collected during March and April, 2009 using locally hired surveillance workers. These workers recorded the numbers of persons as well as the global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of each household. The data was validated for consistency and completeness at the end of each day and problems were resolved the following day by revisiting the households. Random checks were carried out by a senior health assistant to ensure that data were properly noted on the forms.
GPS coordinates were imported and mapped in a geographic information system (GIS) using ArcGIS9.2 (ESRI, Redlands, CA). The map demonstrated that households were highly clustered within the unions. The clustering was likely the result of the terrain and hills, which is quite different from the plains of Bangladesh where people are spread more evenly throughout the countryside. These maps were then used to divide the unions into geographic clusters (Figure 1). The union and para (area consisting of several households) numbers were pre-designated by the LGED (Local Government Engineering Department) and these numbers were used in the demographic database.
Map of Kuhalong (A) and Rajbila (B) showing geographic clusters used for surveillance.
Demographic surveillance
Using the baseline listing of the households, teams of surveillance workers visited each house to conduct the census, to administer a detailed survey and to confirm the GPS reading. A unique identifier or respondent ID (RID) was used to identify each person, which included a 1-digit union code, 3-digit cluster code, 3-digit para code, 3-digit household number and a 2-digit individual member number. The format is, therefore, as follows: RID: □-□□□-□□□-□□□-□□. A number was painted on the front door of each house corresponding to the first 10 digits of the RID number to be used by the field workers during subsequent visits. The initial visit included documenting the information on each member of the household, including age, sex, and relationships. Follow-up visits were then conducted every four months to update the census records by collecting vital events, which had occurred during these intervals.
Information on pregnancy was collected by the DSS surveillance during each visit. Thus, the database includes information on pregnancy from a relatively early stage to ascertain pregnancy outcomes as well as any possible complications related to malaria. Pregnancy was documented only by history but not confirmed using pregnancy tests.
The DSS system used certain definitions. A "resident" was a person who resided in the study area continuously for at least three months during the past 12 months. A "visitor" was a person who remained in the study area for at least one week at a time, but stayed in the area less than three months during the past 12 months. The category of "visitor" was needed since the malaria surveillance intended to include all persons present in the surveillance area during the study period regardless of permanence residency. A "visitor" however could become a "resident" during the study if he/she met the defined criteria.
Knowledge, attitude and practice
Information was collected from each household to determine the socio economic status and to identify the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of the families in the area with regard to malaria, malaria treatment, health seeking behaviour, and use of bed nets. The first round of KAP surveys was administered at the same time as the initial DSS survey and subsequent KAP surveys are scheduled to be carried out periodically to observe changes over time.
Field worker and supervisory staff
The field work was conducted by locally hired surveillance workers (SW). The SWs were hired through a competitive process (written and oral exams), with nearly all being tribal people. Thus, the SWs spoke the local languages and were familiar with the customs and geographical features of the area. Most of them had worked in other non-government organizations and had some experience with data collection.
The workers were trained in the specific research methods to be undertaken, including approaching and communicating with persons in the community, obtaining informed consent, obtaining the relevant survey information and filling in the forms properly, weighing subjects, obtaining finger prick blood, preparation of blood slides, collection of blood using the rapid diagnostic kits, interpreting the results of the rapid test, obtaining blood on filter paper for PCR, and mosquito trapping procedures. They were also trained in the appropriate use of anti-malarial drugs according to the national guidelines as well as the guidelines for referral of severe cases. Figure 2 illustrates the field work being conducted in this rural, forested area of Bangladesh.
Population pyramid showing age and sex distribution of the study area.
Hiring of SWs was initiated in June 2009 and their field work in Kuhalong began in October 2009. Field work in Rajbila began in April 2010. The SWs in each union were divided into five teams with two persons in each team. One team was designated to carry out the DSS survey, three teams were designated for the active malaria surveillance and one team was designated to conduct mosquito surveillance. The teams were supervised at the first level by a Field Assistant (FA), and at the second level by the Field Research Manager (FRM) and a medical officer (MO). The FA was selected from among the SWs eight months after initiation of the project based on his/her performance in the field. The MO was a local, qualified, physician who had completed post-graduate studies in Public Health from Australia.
Consent process
Before initiating the field activities, an experienced Field Research Manager (FRM) was transferred from another project to help with communications with the community. Being a tribal person with more than 20 years experience working in field projects with the ICDDRB, he was familiar with the local customs and language as well as with field epidemiologic methods. Together with other project staff, he visited the communities and discussed the project with local leaders and administrative officials. When the teams went to the households to request their participation in the study, they obtained the informed consent of the head of each household or his/her representative. This consent allowed for the collection of information for the Family Visit Register (FVR), which included the names of all the household members, the relationship with the household head, age and sex. A copy of consent form and completed FVR were given to the head of the household.
In addition, for those households or persons who were included in the active and passive surveillance or the mosquito surveillance, written informed consent was obtained from each household or subject (or their legal parent/guardians in case of minor). Copies of the consent documents were given to the individuals who were enrolled.
Weather information was obtained from Bandarban from the Ministry of Agriculture, Soil Resources Development Institute which had been measuring the following parameters daily for over ten years: temperature (maximum, minimum, dry and wet bulb), dew point, humidity, soil temperature at 5, 10, 30 and 50 cm, wind direction and speed, span of sunshine, evaporation and daily rainfall.
Active surveillance for malaria
Active surveillance was conducted on a random sample of persons throughout the year. Each of the 12 clusters had roughly equal numbers of households. The sampling design was based on clusters stratified into 3 groups (Clusters 1-4 = cluster group A; clusters 5-8 = cluster group B and clusters 9-12 = cluster group C). Sampling was also stratified by age: 6m- < 5y, 5y- < 15y and > 15 yrs. Information and blood samples were obtained every week from four individuals from each age group in each cluster group (4 × 3 = 12 individuals). Two of the 12 subjects were followed for one year as part of a longitudinal surveillance process. These two persons were selected at random from the DSS listing for the union. Using this sampling procedure, a total of 624 samples, equally divided between the three age groups, were collected over the course of one year. Additionally, all pregnant women were invited to participate in both active and longitudinal surveillance.
During visits for the active surveillance, information related to symptoms of malaria were obtained, and a blood sample was obtained for a malaria smear for microscopic examination, a rapid diagnostic test (FalciVax, Zephyr Biomedicals, Verna, Goa, India), and a filter paper sample for PCR. The blood sample was obtained regardless of symptoms. This rapid test identifies antigens for both P. falciparum and P. vivax. Persons with a positive malaria smear or rapid test were provided with Coartem®, according to the national guidelines [5].
Passive surveillance for malaria
Information from symptomatic cases of malaria was obtained by field workers during their visits to the community. These were detected either directly from family members who alerted a SW about a person with fever or from another group of health workers from a nongovernmental organization (BRAC) which were providing services for malaria as part of the national programme. In either case, when a person with fever became known to an SW, the patient was visited, a blood sample was obtained for a malaria smear, a RDT (FalciVax), and a sample was taken for PCR using filter paper. If the rapid test or the smear was positive, the patient was provided with Coartem, according to the national guidelines[5]. The results of the PCR test was not used to make decisions on treatment since this was considered a research test, and the results were not available in time to make clinical decisions.
Persons with malaria, regardless of whether detected during active or passive surveillance were visited on days 2, 7 and 28 to inquire about the persistence of symptoms and to obtain additional samples for microscopy, rapid test and PCR.
Mosquito surveillance
For the entomological investigation, five houses were selected to include houses at both high and low altitude from each of the 12 clusters (total of 60 houses). Entomological collection was done using a CDC light trap. Each trap was placed in the house for at least 12 hours (6-7 PM to 6-7 AM) close to persons sleeping under a bed net. Collections were made from the same five houses in each cluster for five nights, one week per month, throughout the year. After each collection, traps were returned to the field laboratory and the mosquitoes were killed. Mosquitoes were then counted, sorted and identified up to species level. Anopheles mosquitoes were preserved in a separate vial (1.5 ml) according to house and species, labelled and caped with silica gel and cotton inside before sending to the ICDDR,B Parasitology Laboratory in Dhaka to reconfirm species designations and assess the presence of sporozoites by ELISA.
Laboratory facilities were available in Bandarban at the field office, at the ICDDR,B in Dhaka and at the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins. In Bandarban, the laboratory facility included a microscope and staining resources for the malaria smears, and a dissecting microscope for examining mosquitoes. In addition, the laboratory had facilities for processing, labelling and organizing the specimens collected in the field.
At the ICDDR,B laboratory in Dhaka, facilities were available to carry out PCR testing on filter paper blood spots using real time PCR, and to carry out PCR testing for mosquito species. Because of interest in both blood stage malaria as well as the presence of gametocytes, the molecular tests for malaria included a real time PCR multiplex DNA[6] as well as a specific test for RNA of the gametocyte using real time reverse transcriptase-PCR [7]. Molecular markers for drug resistance using real time PCR were also detected [8]. Additionally with mosquitoes, an ELISA procedure was established for detecting sporozoites from mosquitoes [9]. The real time PCR multiplex methods had earlier been established at Johns Hopkins University and were transferred to Dhaka by providing training at Johns Hopkins, equipment and reagents.
All data from the field was entered onto pre-coded forms, which were designed for direct data entry using a scanner. Field workers were trained on using the forms so the information could be read easily using this system. The system used ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 software for electronic data capturing and processing. After entry, the data was exported to Microsoft Office Access 2007 database. The data files were maintained at the data center in Dhaka and copies of the data were also sent to Johns Hopkins. Images of the scanned data forms were maintained in digital format in case there was a need to inspect the primary data source. The data forms used are described on Table 2.
Table 2 Data Forms Used To Collect Information During Field Work
The field area, consisting of two unions, had an area of 179 square kilometers located in southern Bangladesh, near the border with Myanmar. The maps of the two unions are shown in Figure 1 highlighting the defined clusters, which were used for the purpose of organizing the data collection. At the time of the initial census in 2009 (Kuhalong) and in 2010 (Rajbila), the total population of the field area was 20,563 persons including 16,319 tribal and 4,244 non-tribal people (primarily Bengali). The tribal people were overwhelmingly Buddhist while the non-tribal people were overwhelmingly Muslim. The age and sex distribution are shown in Figure 2.
The study area is hilly with elevations ranging from 80 to 152 meters. Vegetation consists of mixed thicket or dense forest with mixed evergreen and deciduous trees. The forested area is interspersed with some rice paddies. The average annual maximum temperature is 35.9°C; the average minimum is 13.2°C. The average total rainfall is 1780 mm, with most of the precipitation occurring from May through September. Photographs of the area are shown in Figure 3.
Photos of hilly, forested terrain (A) and of surveillance workers (B).
Anopheles mosquitoes were found to be common throughout the year and a total of 22 different species of Anopheles were detected during the year. Eight of these species were found to be positive by CsELISA for sporozoites. Full details of these findings and of their relationship with the transmission of malaria in the area will be published elsewhere. Figure 4 shows the field team with the CDC light traps.
Photo of team with the CDC light traps.
A total of 150 infections with malaria were detected from the field area by microscopy and RDT from the start of the surveillance through October 2010. Of these, 142 were P. falciparum, six were P. vivax and two were mixed infections. The distribution of the cases from active and passive surveillance in the two unions is shown in Table 3. Cases appeared to be highly clustered as shown in Figure 5. Although cases were detected throughout the year, most (84%) were found during the rainy season (May through September) when 80% of the total annual precipitation occurred. Cases appeared to be highly clustered as shown in Figure 5.
Table 3 Cases of malaria detected in the Bandarban field area through October 2010
Map showing the clustering of cases during the high season. The orange dots show the locations of specimens from active surveillance which were negative. The other colored dots (red and white) show the locations of the positive specimens for active and passive surveillance, respectively. The union boundaries are political and not actual.
The malaria studies were found to be welcomed by the residents of the area and in fact 100% of the households agreed to participate in collection of the demographic, SES and KAP surveys, and 97% agreed to participate in the active surveillance which included blood draws. Furthermore, 100% of the households that were approached for mosquito trapping inside the house agreed.
The ICDDRB-JHU collaboration has established a population-based malaria research study area in the Hill Tracts region of Southern Bangladesh. This is an area which is close to the border with Myanmar and is considered hypoendemic for malaria. Unlike other areas with malaria in South Asian countries, this region is part of the same ecozone with Southeast Asia where malaria resistance has been described. Malaria is often considered to be primarily a problem of Africa and Southeast Asia, but the large number of cases observed highlights the importance of malaria in South Asia as well.
This paper describes the methodology used to establish this research field area; future reports will provide details of the specific studies being carried out.
During the first year of surveillance 150 cases of malaria were detected; mostly due to P. falciparum, though P. vivax and Plasmodium malariae were also detected by PCR. Plasmodium ovale has also been found in this area [10], but this study has not yet documented this species. There was marked seasonality with most cases being detected during the rainy warm season from May through August.
In contrast to limited number of Anopheles mosquito species found in Africa, the studies here have documented at least 22 such species in this area and eight of them were found to be positive for sporozoite antigen. In a previous study in Matiranga in the same eco-zone of Chittagong Hill Tracts 15 anopheline species were reported in the peak transmission season of 2009 of which seven were infected with sporozoite antigen [11]. With the great variety of species, there has been concern that bed nets may be less effective in this region because each species may have its own behavioural biting pattern. If the mosquitoes feed earlier in the evening, prior to bedtime, transmission may occur even though bed nets are being appropriately. Whether this concern is valid is not clear but requires additional study.
There has also been concern that the rapid test being used in the national programme detects only P. falciparum. This study will document the relative importance of the different species and this data will help to guide future interventions toward controlling malaria caused by all species of malaria.
In contrast to most malaria projects, this demographic surveillance system and malaria surveillance system includes all age groups, not only the groups who are thought to be at highest risk. Inclusion of all ages will facilitate epidemiological studies of age specific disease rates as well as studies of malaria transmission during the high and low seasons.
The inclusion of several ethnic groups who reside in the field area makes it possible for future studies to also identify specific risk factors for malaria among the different groups, depending on possible behavioural or genetic factors. A majority of the population belongs to Indian subcontinent tribal hill groups, which are known to have high rates of haemoglobinopathies [12] as well as different forms of housing construction. These factors may present risks for asymptomatic malaria transmission as well as symptomatic malaria infection. Additionally, many live in homes with raised bamboo flooring, allowing mosquitoes to enter the house more easily.
Combining the surveillance with a GIS and weather pattern database will allow for studies of geographic and climate risks. By studying patterns of malaria during the year, relationships between rainfall, temperature and other weather variable can be described. Differing rates of malaria from year to year may be the result of the interventions, or they may be more related to climate conditions which vary. These studies will help analyze these environmental factors.
This project includes molecular studies of malaria. PCR assays using filter paper blood spots increase the sensitivity of this surveillance for blood stage malaria and also allows for detection of infections due to non-falciparum malaria. RT-PCR is able to detect gametocytes from blood specimens; thus, detecting persons who transmit the infection. Identification of genes associated with resistance will allow for detection of resistant strains. PCR will also be used to confirm species identification of Anopheline mosquitoes.
Looking ahead, this field area will be an important resource for the national programme to evaluate strategies for malaria control, as well as for research on the epidemiology of malaria, the transmission of malaria in a hypoendemic area, studies of genetic and behavioural risk factors, intervention studies to reduce transmission and for vaccine trials of promising new vaccines. The data can be shared with the Malaria Atlas Project [13]. In certain respects, this area of Bangladesh may be more suitable for vaccine trials since a moderate reduction in transmission may be observed more easily in this hypoendemic area with its established DSS and excellent active and passive surveillance, than in hyperendemic areas of Africa.
ICDDR:
B: International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
JHMRI:
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
UHFP:
Upazila Health and Family Planning
RDT:
Rapid Diagnostic Tests
Artemesinin based Combination Therapy
GIS:
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This research is funded by Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, grant number 00679. ICDDR,B acknowledges with gratitude the commitment of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
ICDDR, B: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Clinical Sciences Division, Bangladesh
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WK, DSa, RH, GG, MN, DN, SA, AC, DSu conceived and designed the study. ZH supervised GIS mapping with Assistance of SA, JK, MR, WK. WK, DSa, SA, CP, MSA, RH, JK, MR, JA, MMN, DN, GG, TS, ZH, DS analyzed the data. WK, DSa, SA, CP, MSA, RH, JK, MR, MMN, DN, GG, TS, ZH, AC, DS wrote the paper.
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The idea of this trip was to traverse one of the biggest cities in the world on bikes in 5 days, not only showing the incredible nature and mountains surrounding this city but also its diverse neighbor hoods, suburbs and famous landmarks. When this city was founded its full name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles sobre el Rio Porciuncula.” (If your Spanish is rusty, that translates to “The town of our lady queen of the angels on the Porciuncula River.”) a.k.a. L.A. or Los Angeles.
Southern California has been my home for more than 30 years, after travelling to over 70 different countries and riding my bikes in many remote corners of this world I thought it was time to explore my own hood. What better way to do so than with a couple of mountain biking Rock Stars.
Missy Giove is one of the greatest legends the sport of mountain biking has ever seen, she had a huge influence helping to shape mountain bike racing and its rockstar image it had in the 90’s, her attitude and racing style made her one of the most outstanding characters in biking. Her child like enthusiasm and naivety can sometimes mask the deep thinking and intelligent person underneath. A motor-mouth than can talk a 100 words a minute that reveals a personality as colorful as the tattoos that cover her body. This is a woman that is pretty fearless, addicted to speed and sometimes reckless, with no fear of broken bones; this might explain a little as to how she has ended up in some sticky situations in her life.
Timmy C (Tim Commerford) has been a longtime friend and hardcore mountain biker, he is the bassist for bands like ‘Rage Against the Machine’, ‘Prophets of Rage’ and ‘Audioslave’. He grew up around L.A. and has more passion and enthusiasm for bikes than many pro bikers I have met over the years.
We set out on the top of Mount Wilson (5710 ft), just east of L.A. in the San Gabriel Mountains and were heading West in the direction of Catalina Island in the Pacific Ocean. To negotiate the urban stages through the city we decided to mix it up between regular mountain bikes and ebikes. We had a support vehicle, courtesy of Stans, that made it easy for us to negotiate this urban jungle that his home to 12 million people and even more cars, 88 independent cities and nationals from 140 different countries. Less than 150 years ago most of the city was wild nature just as some of the surrounding areas still look like today. Much of Hollywood used to be orange groves until some of the biggest oil fields in the world were discovered and the movie industry moved to Tinseltown.
During our 5 stages a few more friends joined from time to time, as well as photographer Bill Freeman and videographer Cedric Tassan (VTOPO).One of my all-time favorite rides has always been Chantry Flats near Mount Wilson, to ride there with Missy was special. Especially since she hardly been around the bike scene or actually on a bike in the past 10 – 15 years, since she had retired from Downhill racing. The former World Champ and World Cup winner still had the same go-for-it style and attitude on or off the bike. As she doesn’t even own her own bike at the moment and I was happy to supply her with some of mine during this trip.
We had an incredible view from our starting point at the Mount Wilson Observatory across the entire city all the way to Catalina Island where we would finish our traverse in a few days’ time. Right behind us, looking over our shoulders, was not a single structure in sight as far the eye could see, only nature. Beautiful forests, canyons, mountain ridges, rivers, waterfalls and wildlife separate La La Land and the desert. Its easy to get lost in these mountains; the singletrails are world-class and often technical. Besides snakes and bears we had to keep an eye out for poison oak plants. If allergic to it, as I am, touching its leaves or branches will give a nasty rash that itches for days to the point of insanity. The trails can be technical and exposed at sections like the 80 feet waterfall traverse, when a mistake can have fatal consequences.
We spent the night in Pasadena from where we started the next morning, stage 2, on eBikes (class 1) towards Downtown. Missy and I were joined by Timmy C and Tony Z, a friend of mine from Laguna who inspired the urban stages of this trip and has an incredible knowledge of all the neighborhoods, parks, river deltas, staircases and shortcuts. It took a lot of research to find all these unique routes, tucked away neighborhoods, unique buildings, and hidden sections of trails in between. Experiencing the contrasts of rich and poor, nature and urban development, history and culture.
The eBike was the perfect vehicle for this experience. Don’t be mistaken, just because we had some pedal assist didn’t meant we didn’t get a workout. We climbed over 4000 feet that day including some really steep ‘widow maker’ climbs and staircases. Timmy launched a stair gap right at the beginning of our ride at the City Hall, not a place to crash for a guy who makes his living playing his guitar. But no worries, he pulled it off and I was glad I didn’t had to report to his band mates (Breal and Chuck D to name a few) that their Tour would be cancelled. Timmy is a very experienced mountain biker, he is been riding for over 25 years. He takes his bike with him on tour when he travels with his bands, he has done the Leadville 100, Race Across America and one year he clocked over 1million vertical feet on Strava. What he really likes are the technical challenges, especially climbs.
Certain sections he would try over and over again until he would succeed without putting his foot down. He has also developed a big interest in eBikes over the past years. Just like myself, we don’t feel like that ebikes will replace regular mountain bikes, we think there is a time and place for both kinds of bikes. The electric assist motor offers a lot of new and unique ways to experience riding and creates new options on old routes. Ebikes is not cheating, unless you race others with it. Something unique about ebikes puts even smiles on the faces of its biggest critics, once they actually try one. Thanks to GT Bicycles, Fox, Clif, Stans and Shimano we had enough bikes for our crew to keep up with us to document our ride on film and photo. It was Missy’s first experience on a eBike. She loves any kind of two wheeler and it didn’t take long for her to get loose on the GT eVerb.
Shortly after leaving the city limits of Pasadena we dropped into the Arroyo Seco riverbed and crisscrossed several neighborhoods to Mount Washington, where we took a break and ate a burrito with great views of the downtown silhouette ahead of us and Mount Wilson behind us.
Right before we got close to the center of L.A. we found a great trail high above the Interstate 5 Freeway near Dodger Stadium. From Radio Hill we dropped down to China Town but first we had to traverse some sketchy homeless areas, some of their provisional shelters were made of cardboards or tarps, others had tents. As dangerous it can be for some suburban folks on expensive bikes it was more shocking and sad to see the amount of poverty in this glamorous city.
Next to freeways, under bridges, in parks and in some areas like ‘Skid Row’, entire city blocks have makeshift shelters and tents along the sidewalks. Many have their few possessions stashed in ‘borrowed’ shopping carts all in the shadows of modern skyscrapers that tower over the maze of streets. We saw many cool landmarks along the ride, like the Bruce Lee Statue in China Town, we blitzed through the Bonaventure Hotel and World Trade Center, couldn’t resist the staircase in front of the Walt Disney Concert Hall or leaving some skid-marks (with our rear tires) on ‘Skid Row’. A nasty crash reminded me that I wasn’t 20 years old anymore and that I wasn’t on my trials bike, luckily I could limp away with just pain and some bruises but no broken bones.
L.A. is also a culinary experience, one can find food, restaurants and markets from all over the world. Los Angeles as a city has an enormous economic impact on the entire world, the economy in this city is bigger than Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Sweden.
Day Three started at the Griffith Observatory with breathtaking views across the city. Once again we were on ebikes, our goal was to finish this stage at the Santa Monica Pier. Of course we had to ride by the world famous ‘Hollywood’ Sign, assault the staircases of the infamous Hollywood Bowl, slalom around the 2500 Hollywood Stars on Hollywood Boulevard, ride up to Mulholland and sample some dirt trails at Franklin Canyon Park and pop out amongst the mansions of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. Wheelies on Rodeo Drive between Lamborghini’s and Rolls Royce’, eventually we pedaled all the way to the Baywatch (or shall I say Pacific Blue) beaches of Santa Monica. No better day than a weekend to witness the craziness along the famous beach promenade of Venice Beach and the Santa Monica Pier with all its artists, musicians, travelers, athletes, dancers and freaks of nature.
Back on our normal bikes we hit Timmy’s home-trails in the Santa Monica Mountains on Stage 4. We rode a long section of the Backbone Trails that traverses these mountains high above Malibu. From Yerba Buena we pedaled all the way past Pepperdine University on pristine singletracks through remote backcountry, canyons, valleys and along panoramic ridge lines high above the ocean. It was extremely windy and the fire danger was very high, especially after there had been several big fires in the area in recent weeks. We were lucky we were even allowed on those trails during that dangerous time.
Missy was riding one of my old Sensor bikes and I was sporting a GT Force, while Timmy rode his Enduro all mountain bike. We had some good laughs, it was a long day and a proper day on mountain bikes, this tour can be highly recommended. The last trail was a descent along a knives-edge ridge with the dark blue ocean getting closer with every turn.
We had an early morning start from the marina where we met a friend with benefits, who owns a beautiful yacht, which we took across the waters to Catalina Island.
Catalina Island is a 22-mile long, 95% of it is part a nature conservancy and its almost as pristine as a 100 years ago. It offers an abundance of wildlife including Foxes and Bison, which were set out in the 60ties when many Wild Western movies were shot on Catalina. There are two small towns on the Island on either side, a small airport, harbor and hardly any cars. After a beautiful 1,5-hour boat trip on our luxury yacht we anchored at the small settlement of Two Harbors, along the way we got to see whales and hundreds of dolphins. Since Catalina is a nature preserve, it is only allowed to ride on fire-roads and one needs to buy a biking permit. There are some big hills across the island and unfortunately no legal access to trails therefore we brought our eBikes. We came across some beautiful bays on the backside of the island with clear blue water. We passed some ranches and a few other bikers, who were first not happy to get passed by eBikers, until they test rode my bike which changed their conception and attitude instantly. Before we embarked on our final descent into the historic town of Avalon on the other end of the island we opted to add on an extra loop high above the town on the Divide Road. Catalina was once owned by the Wrigley (chewing gum) family, who donated most of it to the Catalina Island Conservancy to protect these beautiful lands for the future. Avalon is a popular tourist destination, it has many hotels and restaurants and an old casino form the early 20th Century. It feels like a different world although it’s only 25 miles off the coast of one of the biggest cities in the world. As matter of fact on clear day I can see the island from my bedroom at home. It was the perfect way and team to discover this metropolis and experience many ‘off the beaten track’ areas, trails and hoods. www.gtbicycles.com
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Bounty Evolution: $100,000 for New Mitigation Bypass Techniques Wanted Dead or Alive
BlueHat / By bluehat / November 1, 2013 June 20, 2019
Those who know me personally or follow me on Twitter are familiar with my obsession with karaoke. I do it as often as I can rope people into going with me, never forcing anyone to sing, though invariably everyone does – or at least sings from the sidelines to the songs they know. One of my all-time favorite songs is Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive, and it’s the song in my head as I write this post. By the end, I hope to have a few more people singing along. Go ahead and load it into the playlist as you read on.
Today, Microsoft is announcing the first evolution of its bounty programs, first announced in June of 2013. We are expanding the pool of talent who can participate and submit novel mitigation bypass techniques and defensive ideas to include responders and forensic experts who find active attacks in the wild. That means more people can “sing along” to earn big bounty payouts than ever before.
Today’s news means we are going from accepting entries from only a handful of individuals capable of inventing new mitigation bypass techniques on their own, to potentially thousands of individuals or organizations who find attacks in the wild. Now, both finders and discoverers can turn in new techniques for $100,000.
Our platform-wide defenses, or mitigations, are a kind of shield that protects the entire operating system and all the applications running on it. Individual bugs are like arrows. The stronger the shield, the less likely any individual bug or arrow can get through. Learning about “ways around the shield,” or new mitigation bypass techniques, is much more valuable than learning about individual bugs because insight into exploit techniques can help us defend against entire classes of attack as opposed to a single bug – hence, we are willing to pay $100,000 for these rare new techniques.
Building upon the success of our strategic bounty programs, Microsoft is evolving the bounty landscape to the benefit of our customers. The bounty programs we have created are designed to change the dynamics and the economics of the current vulnerability market. We currently do this in a few ways:
Offering bounties for bugs when other buyers typically are not buying them (e.g. during the preview/beta period) allows Microsoft to get a number of critical bugs out of the market before they are widely traded in grey or black markets and subsequently used to attack customers.
Offering researchers a $100,000 bounty to teach us new mitigation bypass techniques enables us to build better defenses into our products faster and to provide workarounds and mitigations through tools such as EMET.
Evolving our bounty programs to include responders and forensic experts, who can turn in techniques that are being used in active attacks, enables us to work on building better defenses in to our products. We will work whenever possible with our MAPP program and engage our community network of defenders to help mitigate these attacks more rapidly.
In this new expansion of Microsoft’s bounty programs, organizations and individuals are eligible to submit Proof-of-Concept code and technical analysis of exploits they find in active use in the wild for our standard bounty amount of up to $100,000. Participants would also be eligible for up to $50,000 in addition if they also submit a qualifying defense idea. The submission criteria for both programs are similar – but the source may be different.
To participate in the expanded bounty program, organizations must pre-register with us before turning in a submission by emailing us at doa [at] Microsoft [dot] com. After you preregister and sign an agreement, then we’ll accept an entry of technical write-up and proof of concept code for bounty consideration.
We want to learn about these rare new exploitation techniques as early as possible, ideally before they are used, but we’ll pay for them even if they are currently being used in targeted attacks if the attack technique is new – because we want them dead or alive.
This evolution of our bounty programs is designed to further disrupt the vulnerability and exploit markets. Currently, black markets pay high prices for vulnerabilities and exploits based on factors that include exclusivity and longevity of usefulness before a vendor discovers and mitigates it. By expanding our bounty program, Microsoft is cutting down the time that exploits and vulnerabilities purchased on the black market remain useful, especially for targeted attacks that rely on stealthy exploitation without discovery.
We shall see how the song plays out, but I for one am excited for more singers to step up to the microphone, or to sing out from the sidelines.
Katie Moussouris
Senior Security Strategist and karaoke MC
https://twitter.com/k8em0
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Boot Camp Alum Update: DeTOUR Takeover for Black History Month
Museum Resources
Julia Kennedy Marketing & Aud Dev Associate
Museum Resources November 19, 2019
We love seeing how our Boot Camp alums are taking what they learned during their time with us and using what they learned to do amazing things back at their own museums.
Jessica Gasbarre, a former Boot Camp attendee, was inspired by her new skills and created the DeTOUR at the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) where she works as the Membership and Engagement Specialist.
The DeTOUR happens on the third Thursday of each month and is an exclusive themed tour that’s both engaging and entertaining.
These tours focus on everything from the crazy personal lives of artists to sharing the inspiration and method to their madness or to lesser known facts about some of more obscure works in the collection. Each tour includes activities, personal connections, and of course mind-blowing stories!
But with February being Black History Month, Jessica wanted to use the opportunity to collaborate with the African American community in Rochester. She invited Shawn Dunwoody, a local artist, to take over the tour.
“Shawn is a local creative in the Rochester community; he is an artist, consultant, and a creative force for change. I told the group that I very much wanted to do a DeTOUR focused on Black History Month, but as a white girl, I felt that it wasn’t my place; I felt Shawn would do the DeTOUR justice. Shawn joked that he was asked because he’s the only African American I know, the group laughed, I started sweating, and the DeTOUR began.” – Jessica Gasbarre
Shawn shaped his tour with storytelling, community building, and sharing the tradition of the Black and African American art in MAG’s collection. He helped uncover some secret stories behind artists’ pasts, emphasized the impact of the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement, and celebrated the awesome accomplishments of modern and historical Blacks in the art world and beyond.
As traditional African drums played in the background courtesy of Shawn’s phone, he brought the group into Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Gallery, and focused on the beginning of Black art, emphasizing the importance of knowing one’s roots.
Throughout the tour, Shawn repeated the motifs of color, shape, and rhythm, applying them to artists in the collection such as Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Alison Saar, Nick Cave, and Sam Gilliam. As Shawn explained how the present builds off the past, he had the group build Lego sculptures in the museum.
For the grand finale of the tour, Shawn led everyone into a private activity room in the museum and one of MAG’s awesome curators showcased a Romare Bearden piece she brought out of storage for the DeTOUR. Shawn spoke about the history of collage and related it back to color, shape, and rhythm. The tour ended with guests creating their own collage images as music played and laughter ensued.
“What a crazy night. Thank you to everyone that came out. Many rules were broken but it was all for the love of art.” – Shawn Dunwoody
The best part? DeTOUR Takeover continued on for Women’s History Month! They celebrated women in MAG’s collection who made MAG-nificent museums, painted perfect portraits, altered our perceptions of feminism in the art world and who gave women the rights of agency.
If you’re in Rochester, New York, be sure to check out the DeTOUR series and check their full offering of programs.
We’re hosting more Boot Camps in 2017! Spots are limited – reserve yours now.
written with 💖 by Julia Kennedy
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Arcade Fire – Everything Now Review
August 9, 2017 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
‘Everything Now’ is the fifth studio album by Canadian group Arcade Fire. The album is rather more experimental than their last outing, however that does not necessarily mean that they all land. A friend recently described this to me as a “marmite” album, you either like it or you don’t. Maybe I’m odd, but that wasn’t my experience with Arcade Fire’s most recent album, with it coming across to me as an awkwardly average outing by the band, with only a few songs on the album actually being of any interest.Firstly, let’s talk positives. Both ‘Infinite Content’ and the follow-up ‘Infinite_Content’ are both good outings, with them contrasting each other well, whilst being about the exact same thing. ‘Infinite Content’ is one of the heavier songs on the album, providing thrashing guitars and genuine “head-banging” tunes. It provides a good addition to the dance album that the band appeared to be going for, having a very different sound to songs like of ‘Everything Now’. Contrastingly ‘Infinite_Content’ is a much slower tune, and whilst not being one that you can dance to, it works really well in context. The song lyrics “All your money is already spent on infinite content” fits perfectly with the tune, which to me sounds like the sort of music you would hear inside a shopping mall; calm and upbeat. Out of the singles, both ‘Electric Blue’ and ‘Creature Comfort’ are both fine musical additions. ‘Electric Blue’ is a well produced, quite funky track with an appropriate level of synths that certainly add to the melodic beat. The vocals too are particularly noteworthy, with a falsetto being deployed masterfully in this song. ‘Creature Comfort’ similarly deploys synths brilliantly, creating an 80s-style dance track that is surely enjoyable.
However, the positives in this album are slightly overshadowed by the negatives. Whilst there are good songs on the album, this album also contains possibly one of the worst songs I have heard this year. ‘Chemistry’ is a basic and lazy addition to the album, it is only memorable by the fact that it is quite dire. The song has a basic marching beat in the background over lyrics sang with little experimentation. The bland nature of the song may work well if the song were a short melody in the album, but at 3:38, it is almost inexcusable. Whilst the album as a whole is experimental, with both hits and misses, it feels like ‘Chemistry’ was produced with next to no effort, which is a shame as we know that Arcade Fire can do so much better than this. ‘Good God Damn’ is alright, but has very little to grip you for an extra listen. Which brings me onto another issue with the album, when it comes at the end, the latter songs on the album are completely forgettable after listening. Both ‘We Don’t Deserve Love’ and ‘Put Your Money On Me’ are instantly forgettable, both have very low-key beats that do not remain with the listener afterwards. And we have seen much better perfomances when it comes to vocals.
’Everything Now’ does have some stand-out examples of why the experimentalism here was not a waste. There are some songs on the album that are definitely worth adding to your playlist. However, a lot of the album is disappointing. When the band has gone out to create someting a bit more experimental and dance-worthy, it is almost unforgivable just how dull some of the music is. Hardly any of it will be played in your local bar or nightclub, I even doubt there will be many people tapping their foot in the comfort of their own home. What doesn’t help is that a lot of the album is “just alright.” But there is gold to be found here, just not a lot of it.
Arcade Fire – Everything Now – 5/10
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: 2017, Arcade Fire, Canada, Chemistry, electric blue, Everything Now, Featured, Music, Will Butler, Win Butler
Single Review – Arcade Fire – Signs of Life
July 6, 2017 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
Whether Arcade Fire find themselves rooted in rousing rock or pushing into newer, more mechanical material, they never seem to reduce the theatricality. New single Signs of Life dabbles in this, but in comparison to what we’re used to, tones down the drama. The track is built upon a funky bass, surrounded by various horns, siren effects, clapping, etc, etc, which adds up to make a colourful number recalling quintessential 80sness. Win Butler’s talkative tone paired with the mellow funk catches a likeness to Pet Shop Boys numbers. Despite its fun, Signs of Life lacks conviction, with diverse instrumentalism being chucked in here and there, nothing ever making a truly coherent breakthrough. For me, its completeness as a track is questionable. But there is no doubting the entertaining undertones the electronics have delivered. And hey, it’s Arcade Fire – they’re Canadian national treasures and should be protected at all costs.
Eleanor Chivers
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Arcade Fire, Canada, Everything Now, Featured, Music, Signs of Life, Will Butler, Win Butler
Single Review – Arcade Fire – Creature Comfort
June 25, 2017 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
‘Creature Comfort’ is the second single from their upcoming ‘Everything Now’ album. Heavy on production, the song has a heavy synth background that has definite 80s vibes. The song is produced well with the simple tuning of the synthesizer blending with the voice of Win Butler. The style of the song is interesting, with obvious continuation from their previous album, ‘Reflektor,’ but whilst maintaining an image of something new. ‘Creature Comfort’ is a good piece f music that would definitely work well in both a nightclub setting or an independent film. ‘Creature Comfort’ definitely ups the excitement for their next album.
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Arcade Fire, Canada, Creature Comfort, Featured, Music, Will Butler, Win Butler
Single Review – Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Everything now is Arcade Fires’ new single that precedes the Canadian band’s new album with the same name, which will be released july 28th. At the beginning you will be surprised by a melody which reminded me of ABBA, which is amazing. I wasn’t sure what I was hearing to be honest, but it’s so happy and uplifting and it brings the band back to the bands style in their 2013 album ‘Reflektor’. There’s only a hint of melancholy there. Adding the flute to this song with a weird techno intro that turns into that cacophony and then into this whole other beat and feel.
Everything now gives you the feeling of a band that is in control of their sound and it displays incredibly imaginative and wonderful songwriting. They found their balance, and if they manage not to lose it we can expect an amazing new album.
Lea Fabbrini
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: 2017, Arcade Fire, Canada, Everything Now, Everything Now Album, Featured, Music, Will Butler, Win Butler
Single Review – Arcade Fire ft. Mavis Staples – I Give You Power
January 22, 2017 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
If we didn’t already know of President Trump’s unpopularity in the world of celebrity already, it seems some big names have decided to affirm this in the releases of their protest tracks. Alongside The Gorillaz, Arcade Fire dropped I Give You Power the eve of the threatening inauguration. Unlike the The Gorillaz, however, who chose to embody their opinions concerning Trump in a fumble of melancholy confusion, Arcade Fire’s release is electrifying in every sense. The track builds upon itself with heavy synths while switching up the sound every now and again, which only seems to intensify the forcible vocals. Recruiting the soulful voice of Mavis Staples, at the same time as adding extra gusto, thoroughly emphasises the sense of togetherness this song symbolises, drawing influences from different genres and backgrounds. And this message is the true core of the track: Arcade Fire, in conjunction with the song, tweeted: “It’s never been more important that we stick together & take care of each other.” I Give You Power comes to a hauntingly powerful conclusion, as Win Butler whispers “I can take it away…watch me” into the ear of the listener. It’s an intelligently-produced track with a strong morale: a winner.
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: 2017, Arcade Fire, Canada, Donald Trump, Featured, I give you power, Mavis Staples, Music, Will Butler, Win Butler
This Weeks Music Video with Frank Ocean, Metallica, Neon Indian, Coldplay, BANKS and Will Butler
August 24, 2016 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Annie, Banks, Coldplay, Frank Ocean, Friday Night, Gemini Feed, Hardwired, Head Full Of Dreams, Metallica, Music Video, Neon Indian, Nikes, This weeks music video, Will Butler
This Week’s Music Video with Kendrick Lamar, MØ, Joanna Newsom, Will Butler, Blood Orange and Cage The Elephant
November 3, 2015 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2015, Blood Orange, Cage the elephant, Joanna Newsom, Kamikaze, Kendrick Lamar, MØ, Mess Around, Music Video, Sandra's Smile, These Walls, This weeks music video, What I want, Will Butler
Single Review – Arcade Fire – Get Right
September 27, 2015 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
‘Get Right’ is the new track from Arcade Fire’s 2013 album Reflektor deluxe EP, The Reflektor Tapes and it demonstrates a more low slung, Desert Rock inspired track akin to The Black Keys and Jack White and they deliver it with that sonic charge and tense atmosphere that the two aforementioned acts don’t do as well. The dropping, distorted guitars and given a kick by the saxophones behind them and the whirring and rising synths and bring the track to bear at it’s conclusion for a cool and slick piece of Desert Rock; adding a bit more life into a well worn sound.
Owen Riddle @oriddleo1995
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Arcade Fire, Canada, Get Right, Montreal, Reflektor, Reflektor Tapes, Will Butler
Will Butler – Policy Review
March 6, 2015 by Don't Look Down Leave a Comment
Arcade Fire’s rhythm guitarist Will Butler has often been the solid backing in what at times can be quite a chaotic band musically, that shifts and spirals around his brother’s slick and meandering vocals. Now with his solo debut, Will himself now gets to take charge with his own brand of slick meandering with Policy. At eight tracks long it’s a sharp and rapid album with quick-fire tracks and rapid rotations and progressions. It certainly looks like a break from Arcade Fire’s recent body of work and offers up a new/old approach that harks back to their early days. A nostalgic revisit or a revitalised take?
The lead single from his album is ‘Take My Side’. It demonstrates a keen sense of jangling, slightly distorted riffs and sharp percussion. With a vocal very much akin to his brother Win, the track almost sounds like an earlier Arcade Fire track, but the track doesn’t offer much in the way of quirks and new ideas. It is very much an indulgence in a garage tinged pop song that is well worn, but well delivered nevertheless. ‘Anna’ is an endlessly infectious and jiving track that’s lead by nudging riffs and sharp percussion. It offers up an indelible hook that goes on to reel off urgent piano spills that bookend Will’s vocal progression from whirring to shrieking vocal. The track continues to build up it’s infection of rhythm with the addition of a saxophone to amplify it only further. A wonderfully urgent and rapid track.
‘What I want’ is another whirlwind track with brisk rhythms and bass-lines with a wondrous enthused energy about it. Such an energy that’s more prominent from his near breathless delivery of his random and Jarvis Cocker-like witty lyrics and is one of the highlights of the album. The album opens with ‘Witness’ and is a soft-edged piano romp with the rapid chords intercepted by Will’s rapid vocal delivery almost between each key and the whole instrumental is accentuated by the harmonious backing vocals. ‘Something’s Coming’ offers up a bit of fuzz tinged funk that’s driven by the low lying bass line and the bear whimsical backing vocals and disco-like laser effects yet enters into a bit of unorganised chaos at times, but you get the feeling that was his intention anyway. The piano swoons and acoustic rambling that fill the rest of the track do offer up a nice break between the pent up energy of the other tracks but they do feel a little out of place. The strong points of the album are those moments of unrefined energy and enthusiasm that really kick on the album with little remorse. Sure it’s nothing special but it’s pretty damn enjoyable and the organised chaos of Policy is something everyone needs from time to time.
Will Butler – Policy = 7/10
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Anna, Arcade Fire, Canada, Policy, Take My Side, What I want, Will Butler, Win Butler
Sunday Suggestion – Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Reflektor’ is a single from Arcade Fire’s fourth studio album Reflektor that was released in 2013 and produced by the great James Murphy. The album may not have the complete quality of their third album, but it was still a very strong album and it largely made up their up-beat and simply wondrous Glastonbury headliner. The track has percussion and a rhythm riff that creates a solid hook. The vocals are spaced out well and sit perfectly above the instrumental core with the switch to French on the bridge keeping you on your toes and adding to the variety. The burst of the horns too; gives the hook an extra kick as well. The song goes on to take up a highly atmospheric build up and instant fall as it realigns itself back to normal which is something which won’t fail you when done in such a way. Even Bowie makes a brief appearance too. Despite being crammed full of different elements and three different vocals; nothing kills off anything else and they’ve utilised the plus seven minutes they had to good effect to really spread everything out and keep the atmospheric quality of it as well as retaining a lot of room for the different sound progressions and melodies.
Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Arcade Fire, Canada, David Bowie, Reflektor, Will Butler, Win Butler
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By Event Media (As Amended By ISAF News Editor)
Defiant Gets Off To a Strong Start
The first day of the Canada's Cup brought a lot of different conditions, breakdowns and postponements. The first race of the Canada's Cup was postponed for an hour this morning due to big breeze and rain.
Once the first storm passed through Team Defiant took an early advantage leading at the first mark and extended when Team Heartbreaker blew up their spinnaker and had to go without a headsail while they switching kites. There were a couple of course changes as the breeze shifted and even a moving mark. Heartbreaker would close the gap but Defiant's lead after the first leeward mark would be too much to overcome. Heartbreaker asked for a redress due to the moving mark but was denied due to the fact that it didn't affect the result of the race.
Race two of the day was postponed briefly while Team Heartbreaker did some repairs. The second race of the day would be an exciting one with a good even start with Heartbreaker getting Left first and then a tacking duel would ensue. A few squalls passed through and changed the wind conditions from breezy to shifty which kept the boats tight. Defiant would lead most of the race and was able to hang on for a nail biting two second victory.
The forecast looks better for Sundays racing. Defiant will be looking to extend their lead while Heartbreaker needs to get their first win to keep the Canada's Cup within reach. Stay tuned to the event for up to the mark rounding coverage.
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By Event Media
Sony Ericsson Takes Lead After Upwind Slog
It was a horrible upwind slog for the Volvo Baltic fleet last night. Sail damage was widespread, but at the head of the fleet, the Sony Ericsson/Team Elanders battle continued. Sony Ericsson now leads the series by half a point.
Last night's race to Kiel was everything everyone expected it to be. Cold, wet, windy and tiring, with much of it on the wind in up to 35 knots of breeze. After their excellent start, Avant (M Lundh/Swe & W Verbraak/Ned) were unable to match the speed of the newer and faster Sony Ericsson (T Blixt/Swe) and Team Elanders (M Humphries/UK). They quickly passed Avant and renewed their personal battle, which continued throughout the 140 nautical mile (nm) race.
Team Elanders won the start from Sony Ericsson in true match racing style and held onto her lead for about 14 miles, but then made a crucial mistake. "We got the wrong side of a couple of windshifts," explained skipper Matthew HUMPHRIES. "We gave them (Sony Ericsson) an advantage that we couldn't get back and turned a mile lead into a two mile loss, but that's yacht racing. We're not worried and we don't have any damage. It was very wet, windy and uncomfortable and everyone is relieved to be ashore."
"It's been a really good race," said a jubilant Thomas BLIX/Sony Ericsson, whose team now leads the series by half a point. "We have a great team, probably the best. No one has slept all night and we're tired now. We've had some small hiccups with the water ballast again, but we will fix that and we've no other damage."
Damage Avant retained her third position, in spite of ripping her mainsail from luff to leech in 35 knots of wind and sailing the remaining 40 miles or so to the finish under storm trysail and a small J3 headsail. Fortunately, they were able to reach into the turning mark at the Kieler lighthouse, still making 12 knots of boat speed. After that, they faced a 10 mile beat to the finish with the mast unstable without a full mainsail, which was damaged beyond repair. On arrival in Kiel, Avant's bowman, Fredrik Jacobsson/Swe, was taken to hospital for a check-up following a fall on the foredeck caused during a sail change in the night. The injuries, mostly to his face, were not serious and he was later released. The goal for this team was to finish first of the second generation boats and the team was delighted with their achievement. JMS Next Generation (K Heiberg/Nor) was not able to put pressure on Avant. The team damaged the shackle on their outhaul five minutes after the start and quickly reefed. Forty miles from the finish they damaged their mainsail track and had to drop the mainsail. They tried to rehoist it with two reefs, only to find a tear, so with no chance of catching Avant, they finished the course in fourth position under headsail alone.
AV-Teknik (M Murto/Cro) had all sorts of trouble with gear failure. In the first hour they pulled the clew out of the mainsail and sailed with a reef in for three hours whilst they made a repair. Then the first reef line snapped so the crew replaced it. The jib halyard broke and they tore they J4 and finally, 25 miles from the finish, they tore their mainsail from the first reef point to the second. "We don't know if we will be able to start the race tomorrow because of the problems with the mainsail" said a tired skipper Marko Murti (CRO).
Finishing positions race 3 Copenhagen - Kiel
1 Sony Ericsson (Thomas Blixt, Swe)
2 Elanders (Matthew Humphries, UK)
3 Avant (M Lundh Swe/W Verbraak, Ned)
4 JMS Next Generation (K Heiberg, Nor)
5 AV-Teknik (Marko Murtic, Cro)
Positions after 3 legs
1 Sony Ericsson (Thomas Blixt, Swe) 11.5 points
2 Team Elanders (Matthew Humphries, UK) 11.0 points
3 JMS Next Generation (Stefan Eneman, Swe/Kjell-Inge Heiberg, Nor) 6.5
4 Avant (M Lundh, Swe/W Verbraak, Ned) 5.5 points
5 AV Teknik (Marko Murtic, Cro) 3.0 points
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Mobile Phones • 25 Mar 2013
Pre-order the $760 Sony Xperia ZL now, if you live in the US that is
By Steven Norris: grumpy curmudgeon
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Sony’s ultra-expensive, exceptionally pretty and US exclusive (for now) Xperia ZL launches today for pre-order at the princely sum of US$760. It’s a very large phone, with the type of processing power behind it that would make a laptop envious.
First up, the screen. It’s full HD, or 1920×1080 for the rest of us. For a five-inch screen, it’s practically a must have and the 441PPI display seems to be one of the best Sony, or any mobile phone company has ever made. The screen sports BRAVIA Engine 2 technology, something that Sony is always keen to play up when it comes to raw screen power arguments. A 5-inch Sony screen, sound familiar? The PS Vita has the display, except the Xperia ZL may have already beaten its gaming sibling. The Vita’s PPI is a mere 221, the ZL is an impressive 200PPI more. Game over, Sony? Not really, as one is a chubby console. The other is a supermodel skinny smartphone with its sights set on the iPhone 5 and HTC One.
CNET has a decent hands-on with this powerhouse
Internal memory is fairly weedy by today’s standards (16GB) but the addition of a MicroSD slot for an extra 64GB and 2GB RAM makes up for any shortcomings, of which is minimal. The quad-core CPU (1.5Ghz) keeps the ZL ticking along nicely, which will ensure that the HD content runs smoothly and will hopefully usher in a new era of lush 3D games.
The Xperia ZL is very light as well, weighing in at 147-grams. And yes it’s an LTE phone, a theoretical 42Mbps for those in range of a powerful radio signal. Rounding off the feature list is an insane 13-megapixel camera and NFC, which is only slightly better than Bluetooth in terms of functionality.
One may wonder, what is the difference between the Xperia ZL and the Z? according to GSMarena, the ZL is “slightly shorter and a tad thicker” than the Z. Mystery solved.
Red is power
Pricing once more: It’s US$760 for the unlocked LTE model, or save a few dollars to get the unlocked HSPA ZL for US$720. Pre-order from the Sony Store in one of three earth-shatteringly plain colors: black, white or red.
Grab the full list of specs from GSMarena.
Steven Norris: grumpy curmudgeon
Steven Norris is a born writer, living in Tamboerskloof, Cape Town and educated in the ways of graphic design but destined to follow in the footsteps of the worlds greatest authors. He has had many years of experience as an SEO copywriter, learning the ropes the hard way before utterly mastering them. He loves training others to write, how to create stories from nothing and how to deliver them to a wider audience. His passion is gadgets, video games, and sorting jellybeans by colour and weight.
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Razer BlackWidow gaming keyboard review: power play
Reviews • 25 Mar 2013
Sony is launching a new wireless shooting grip for its latest cameras
Sony on Tuesday revealed a new wireless shooting grip aimed at helping photographers connect to their cameras more efficiently. Called the GP-VPT2BT, the grip…
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Published on 05.07.16 in Vol 3, No 3 (2016): Jul-Sept
Online Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment: Preliminary Results of the “OCD? Not Me!” Self-Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program for Young People
Clare Samantha Rees, BA (Hons), MPsych, PhD ;
Rebecca Anne Anderson, BPsych (Hons), MPsych, PhD ;
Robert Thomas Kane, BA (Hons), PhD ;
Amy Louise Finlay-Jones, BPsych (Hons), MPsych, PhD
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Clare Samantha Rees, BA (Hons), MPsych, PhD
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
GPO Box U1987
Perth, 6845
Phone: 61 8 9266 3442
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Background: The development and evaluation of Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) interventions provides a potential solution for current limitations in the acceptability, availability, and accessibility of mental health care for young people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Preliminary results support the effectiveness of therapist-assisted iCBT for young people with OCD; however, no previous studies have examined the effectiveness of completely self-guided iCBT for OCD in young people.
Objective: We aimed to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of the OCD? Not Me! program for reducing OCD-related psychopathology in young people (12-18 years). This program is an eight-stage, completely self-guided iCBT treatment for OCD, which is based on exposure and response prevention.
Methods: These data were early and preliminary results of a longer study in which an open trial design is being used to evaluate the effectiveness of the OCD? Not Me! program. Participants were required to have at least subclinical levels of OCD to be offered the online program. Participants with moderate-high suicide/self-harm risk or symptoms of eating disorder or psychosis were not offered the program. OCD symptoms and severity were measured at pre- and posttest, and at the beginning of each stage of the program. Data was analyzed using generalized linear mixed models.
Results: A total of 334 people were screened for inclusion in the study, with 132 participants aged 12 to 18 years providing data for the final analysis. Participants showed significant reductions in OCD symptoms (P<.001) and severity (P<.001) between pre- and posttest.
Conclusions: These preliminary results suggest that fully automated iCBT holds promise as a way of increasing access to treatment for young people with OCD; however, further research needs to be conducted to replicate the results and to determine the feasibility of the program.
Trial Registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR): ACTRN12613000152729; https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=363654 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/ 6iD7EDFqH)
anxiety disorders/therapy;
obsessive-compulsive disorder;
self-care;
therapy;
computer-assisted/statistics and numerical data;
young adult;
iCBT;
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially disabling psychological condition affecting 0.5% to 3% of children and adolescents [1-4]. The disorder is associated with high levels of comorbidity [1,5] and significant psychosocial impairment [6,7], such as difficulties concentrating at school and completing homework, disruption in household routines, and impairments in social functioning [6]. When young people with OCD do not receive adequate treatment, they are at risk of experiencing continued symptoms and additional psychopathology in adulthood [8-10]. As a result, early intervention is imperative.
The development of Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for OCD provides a promising pathway toward increasing the accessibility and availability of evidence-based treatment for young people with OCD. Substantial evidence supports the effectiveness of face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) as the gold-standard psychotherapeutic intervention for OCD [11,12]. However, there are significant limitations to the availability and accessibility of this treatment in the community [13-16]. In addition, young people may be unlikely to seek treatment for anxiety disorders, thereby increasing the likelihood of long-term impairment [17,18]. Online treatments help to overcome these obstacles by providing immediate, cost-effective, and remote access to treatment [19], and emerging evidence supports the use of iCBT and computerized CBT (cCBT) in young people with depression and anxiety. For example, one meta-analysis of 13 randomized controlled trials found moderate-to-large effect sizes across studies of iCBT and cCBT in the treatment of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents [20]. Another meta-analysis found that the effectiveness of iCBT for childhood anxiety is comparable to that of face-to-face CBT [21], whereas in a systematic review, Richardson et al [22] found that young people and their parents report moderate-to-high levels of satisfaction with cCBT for depression and anxiety, although attrition and noncompletion rates are often high.
Although research on the development and evaluation of Internet-based treatment for children and adolescents with OCD is relatively limited, these results suggest that iCBT may be a viable intervention for young people with this disorder. To our knowledge, only one study has examined the efficacy of iCBT for OCD in young people [23]. Using an open trial, Lenhard et al [23] delivered a 12-week therapist-assisted iCBT program to 21 young people aged 12 to 17 years who had a primary diagnosis of OCD. Participants reported significant pre-post reductions in OCD severity and related impairment, as well as significant improvements on measures of anxiety and global functioning. Although limited by the small sample size, these results are encouraging and raise the question of whether similar outcomes might be achieved without the inclusion of therapist support.
The minimal costs and consistent availability and accessibility associated with self-guided online programs supports the proposition that iCBT without therapist assistance has the potential to confer important public health benefits, if deemed safe and effective [19]. Moreover, such programs may be preferable for individuals who are concerned about stigma, confidentiality, or talking to a therapist about personal issues [24,25]. Preliminary results from studies with adults support the efficacy of self-guided iCBT for OCD [26], with initial evidence suggesting long-term (12-month) impact [24]. However, a recent meta-analysis suggests that completely self-guided interventions for adults with OCD suffer from high attrition rates, and that therapist-assisted iCBT produces superior treatment outcomes [27]. Across studies of iCBT for other anxiety and mood disorders, it has been found that when dropout and compliance is taken into account, therapist-assisted iCBT is more effective than self-guided iCBT [28]. An important question that remains to be answered is whether purely self-guided iCBT is effective for young people with OCD.
To our knowledge, there is no prior research evaluating the impact of fully self-guided iCBT for young people with OCD. Therefore, we aimed to conduct a preliminary evaluation to determine whether self-guided iCBT using the “OCD? Not Me!” program was effective in reducing OCD psychopathology in young people. We formed two main hypotheses: (1) that mean number of OCD symptoms would significantly decrease between pre- and posttest and (2) that mean OCD severity would significantly decrease between pre- and posttest. We also aimed to investigate the pattern of change in OCD psychopathology over time in the program.
Study Design and Procedures
The data for this study were early and preliminary data collected as part of a longer study currently being conducted to investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of the OCD? Not Me! program for reducing OCD symptoms and related distress among young people with OCD [29]. This study is a 4-year open trial utilizing a within-groups design to examine pre-post changes in young people’s OCD symptoms and severity, associated functional impairment, quality of life, family accommodation, and self-esteem, as well as parent/caregiver distress. The study was approved by the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia (HR 45/2013).
As described in Rees et al [29], OCD? Not Me! is a fully automated, eight-stage online program that is designed to treat symptoms of OCD in young people aged 12 to 18 years (for an overview of the eight stages of the program, see Figure 1). The treatment protocol is structured around the metaphor of “climbing OCD Mountain” to conquer OCD symptoms; in undertaking this journey, young people are provided with psychoeducation regarding OCD and a rationale for treatment using CBT with ERP. They are taught how to identify the functional link between their obsessions and compulsions (Figure 2), how to construct exposure exercises to target their OCD symptoms, and how to construct an exposure hierarchy that will support them to reduce their compulsions in a gradual way. In this process, participants in the program learn strategies for habituating to anxiety, dealing with problematic cognitions, and managing stress and setbacks. The strategies provided in the program are illustrated using the metaphor of “mountaineering equipment” that supports the participant to ascend OCD Mountain, and include an interactive log book for participants to record their OCD Mountain Challenges (ERP exercises) as they complete them (see Figure 3). At each stage of the program, parents and caregivers are also emailed with a link to online resources. These online resources outline information about what the young person is learning in the program, provide tips for supporting the young person in the program, and help parents and caregivers to manage family/caregiver stress.
Figure 1. Screenshot from the OCD? Not Me! program: overview of the eight stages of the program.
Figure 2. Screenshot from the OCD? Not Me! program: illustration of the OCD cycle explaining the functional link between obsessions and compulsions.
Figure 3. Screenshot from the OCD? Not Me! program: the log book used to record OCD Mountain Challenges (ERP exercises).
Participant Eligibility and Recruitment
The OCD? Not Me! program is designed for youth aged 12 to 18 years; although individuals outside this age bracket are allowed to access the program, their data were not used in this study. Because the OCD? Not Me! program is designed to treat OCD, to be eligible for inclusion in the program, potential participants were required to have at least subclinical symptoms of OCD. The Short OCD Screener (SOCS) [30] was used to screen for OCD symptoms, with participants required to have a SOCS score of two or more to be included in the study. We expected that young people with eating disorders might be drawn to the program, given that rapid weight loss and starvation can cause obsessional thinking [31]. Our online measures were not able to differentially diagnose eating disorders from OCD to the degree that a clinician was able and, given the potential need for more intensive and specialized treatment for individuals with eating disorder symptoms, participants were excluded from the study if they reported symptoms of an eating disorder. The SCOFF questionnaire was used to screen for these criteria [32], with participants excluded if they reported a score of two or more on this measure. Similarly, due to the overlap between psychosis symptoms and psychotic-like symptoms in OCD [33], participants were excluded from the program if they reported moderate-to-high symptoms of psychosis. The Adolescent Psychotic-Like Symptom Screener (APSS) [34] was used to screen for this outcome, and participants were excluded from the program if they reported a score of four or more on this measure. Finally, participants who reported moderate-to-high suicide risk were excluded from the study and encouraged to seek more specialized services. To assess suicide and self-harm risk, a measure was adapted from the suicide risk assessment module of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents (MINI-KID) [35].
Participants were self-referred or recommended the program by a friend, family member, or health care provider. Written consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants and their parents/caregivers online. All screening measures were completed online, and individuals who were not eligible for participation in the program were referred to the treatment provider database on the OCD? Not Me! website. Using this website, individuals can search for face-to-face mental health services in their local area, as well as access phone numbers for crisis counseling hotlines. Participants who were deemed eligible for participation in the program went on to complete the online assessment measures detailed subsequently.
Demographic Measures
Participants were asked to complete a series of demographic questions regarding their gender, age, country and state of residence, and education. Participants were also asked whether they were currently receiving psychological treatment for OCD and whether they were currently prescribed medication for OCD.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Diagnosis and Comorbid Diagnoses
There were no freely available, online, self-report comprehensive psychiatric assessments for young people; therefore, we developed the Youth Online Diagnostic Assessment (YODA) to evaluate whether participants met diagnostic criteria for OCD as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) [36]. The YODA covers the majority of disorders outlined in the DSM-V, although only the OCD diagnostic section was used in this study.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptoms and Severity
The self-report version of the Children’s Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (C-FOCI) [37] was used to assess OCD symptoms and severity. The C-FOCI is a brief measure of OCD psychopathology in children and adolescents that consists of a 17-item symptom checklist, and a five-item severity scale. The C-FOCI has been validated for Internet administration and has adequate psychometric properties [37]. In this sample, the internal consistency for the symptoms scale was α=.79, whereas the internal consistency for the severity scale was α=.82.
Following screening, participants completed pretest measures online and were given access to the program once pretest measures were complete. Although the recommended time frame for the program is 8 weeks, participants completed the program at their own pace. At the beginning of each stage of the program, participants were asked to complete a brief online assessment consisting of the C-FOCI and a risk assessment for suicide and self-harm. Therefore, C-FOCI data were collected at nine time points throughout the study: pretest, posttest, and at the beginning of stages 2 to 8 of the program.
Data were analyzed with generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) using the GENLINMIXED procedure of SPSS (version 22.0), with “participant” treated as a random effect and “stage” (pretest, per stage 2-8, and posttest) treated as a fixed effect. To accommodate violations of sphericity, the covariance matrix was changed from the default of compound symmetry to autoregressive (ARMA11). To maximize the likelihood of convergence, separate GLMM analyses were conducted for both of the outcome variables, and alpha levels were corrected to control for inflation of the family-wise error rate. The Bonferroni-corrected alpha level for all statistical tests was .025.
The GLMM maximum likelihood procedure is a full information estimation procedure that uses all the data available at each assessment point, rather than requiring data from all participants at each point. This optimizes statistical power and reduces sampling bias associated with subject attrition [38,39], making it suitable for research on Internet-based interventions, which often demonstrate high dropout rates [40]. Additionally, this analysis is robust to unevenly distributed assessment points [39,41]. Two GLMMs were used to evaluate the relationship between the fixed effect of time and each of the subscales of the C-FOCI (symptoms and severity). Post hoc least significant difference (LSD) tests were conducted to test for significant differences between time points. The t test values for the T1-T9 effects were computed using maximum likelihood (ML) to compensate for missing data. Cohen’s d [42] calculations were conducted to determine the size of pre-posttest change. Effect size magnitude was interpreted using Cohen’s [42] conventions (0.2=small, 0.5=moderate; and ≥0.8=large).
Of the 334 potential participants who completed screening measures, 21 were younger than 12 years and 59 were older than 18 years. Their data were not included in these analyses. Of the 254 participants were within the target age range, 93 participants were screened out because they met the exclusion criteria. A further 29 participants failed to complete pretest assessments. The screening and pretest procedure and number of participants meeting each exclusion criteria are detailed in Figure 4.
A total of 132 participants who were in the target age range completed pretest measures. This sample was 43.2% (57/132) male and 56.8% (75/132) female, with a mean age of 14.58 years (SD 1.94). In this sample, 73.5% (97/132) of participants met the DSM-V criteria for OCD as determined using the YODA.
Participant Flow
The number of participants that commenced each stage of the program at the time the data were collected were: stage 1 (n=116), stage 2 (n=67), stage 3 (n=27), stage 4 (n=16), stage 5 (n=14), stage 6 (n=12), stage 7 (n=11), and stage 8 (n=11).
Estimated Means
Estimated means were used to describe the average pretest scores on the C-FOCI for the target sample. The pretest (T1) mean score for OCD symptoms was 7.82 (SE 0.34) and 11.56 (SE 0.31) for OCD severity. At posttest (T9), the means for these outcomes were 3.87 (SE 0.83) and 5.77 (SE 0.97), respectively. Per-stage means for each outcome are shown in Table 1.
Main Effects of Time and Pairwise Contrasts
Our first hypothesis predicted a significant main effect of time on mean number of OCD symptoms, using a Bonferroni-adjusted alpha level of .025. This hypothesis was supported (F8,285=7.38, P<.001), with significant decrease in OCD symptoms observed between pre- and posttest (P<.001). Per-stage LSD tests with pairwise contrasts indicated that significant decreases in OCD symptoms occurred between stages 1 and 2, stages 2 and 3, stages 3 and 4, and stages 6 and 7 (Table 2). A slight, nonsignificant increase in OCD symptoms was reported between stage 8 and posttest. Effect size calculations indicated a moderate effect for the changes in OCD symptoms between pre- and posttest (d=.64).
Figure 4. Flowchart of assessment and clinical characteristics of screened participants.
Outcome Test time, mean (SE)
T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9
Symptoms 7.82 (0.34) 7.34 (0.35) 6.76 (0.44) 5.93 (0.52) 5.72 (0.60) 5.33 (0.62) 4.30 (0.69) 3.76 (0.82) 3.87 (0.83)
Severity 11.56 (0.31) 10.61 (0.43) 10.40 (0.54) 9.52 (0.88) 8.60 (0.88) 8.10 (0.96) 6.92 (0.95) 5.99 (1.18) 5.77 (0.97)
Table 1. Estimated means and standard errors for OCD symptom and severity scores.
Outcome and time interval CE (SE) t285 95% CI P (adjusted)
T1-T9 3.96 (0.84) 4.70 2.30, 5.61 <.001
T1-T2 0.49 (0.15) 3.26 0.19, 0.78 .001
T4-T5 0.21 (0.27) 0.79 –0.32, 0.74 .43
Table 2. Least significant difference (LSD) tests of the simple main effects of time with pairwise contrasts (contrast estimate; CE) of OCD symptoms and severity (T1-T9).
Our second hypothesis predicted a significant main effect of time on mean OCD severity, using a Bonferroni-adjusted alpha level of .025. This hypothesis was also supported (F8,285=15.21, P<.001), with significant decreases in OCD symptom severity observed between pre- and posttest (P<.001). Per-stage LSD tests with pairwise contrasts indicated that significant decreases in OCD severity occurred between stages 1 and 2, stages 6 and 7, and stages 7 and 8. Although OCD severity continued to decrease steadily over the course of the program, other per-stage reductions did not reach significance (Table 2). Effect size calculations indicated a large effect for the changes in OCD severity between pre- and posttest (d=.89).
This study aimed to evaluate early and preliminary results from a longer trial examining the impact of the OCD? Not Me! program on OCD symptoms and severity in young people aged 12 to 18 years. This is the first study to examine the effectiveness of a fully automated iCBT program for reducing OCD symptomology in young people.
Results from this study are encouraging. Participants in this study reported average pretest OCD symptoms and severity that were higher than those reported by a sample of young people with a primary diagnosis of OCD (mean 6.22, SD 3.54 for OCD symptoms and mean 11.22, SD 4.07 for OCD severity) in Storch et al’s [37] study. Although assessment of OCD symptoms in this study was based on self-report rather than diagnostic interview, it appears that, on average, participants were experiencing levels of OCD pathology comparable with clinical samples. Significant decreases in OCD symptoms and severity were observed between pre- and posttest. Per-stage analyses of OCD symptoms and severity indicated that mean scores on these outcomes decreased gradually over time in the program. In addition, effect size calculations demonstrated a moderate effect for reduction in OCD symptoms and a large effect for reduction in OCD severity. These effect sizes may be contrasted with Lenhard et al [23], who reported large effect sizes for reduction in OCD symptoms and severity (d= 1.09 and d= 1.43, respectively) in their trial of therapist-assisted iCBT for adolescents with OCD, although it should be noted that they used a different measure to evaluate OCD symptoms and severity. A recent meta-analysis reported standardized effect sizes of 0.70 across five studies of iCBT with varying levels of therapist assistance for childhood anxiety [21]. Importantly, it should be emphasized that our results were observed in the absence of any therapist involvement. This is an exciting finding given the notable limitations in the accessibility and availability of evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatment for young people with OCD. As Klein et al [43] have pointed out, the availability of fully automated, effective e-mental health interventions means that people can access treatment immediately and remotely, at a time and location that suits them.
It should be highlighted that these results are preliminary, and the final results of the trial might be quite different. Additionally, although entirely self-help programs make an important contribution to stepped care approaches to mental health, the value of some level of therapist contact should not be dismissed. A recent meta-analysis of self-help interventions for adults with OCD found that across studies, attrition rates declined and clinical outcomes improved with increasing therapist contact [27]. It would be beneficial for future research to consider how the inclusion of therapist assistance might impact outcomes and completion rates in the OCD? Not Me program. Future research is also required to determine those young people fully self-guided programs are appropriate for, and those from whom therapist contact is necessary.
Because the OCD? Not Me! program (including assessment) is designed to be entirely self-guided, this study did not use therapist-administered clinical interviews and, therefore, it cannot be determined whether participation in the program made an impact on OCD as a diagnosis. As assessment must be conducted without therapist involvement in order for self-guided programs to be truly self-help and anonymous, a key direction for future research is the development and evaluation of online, self-administered diagnostic interviews. We recommend further research to determine the validity, sensitivity, and specificity of the YODA relative to face-to-face diagnostic assessment.
A further limitation of this study was because it was an open trial with no control group, it cannot be reliably concluded that changes in the outcome measures were due to participation in the intervention. However, it should be noted that OCD in childhood and adolescence is characterized as a chronic disorder with high persistence rates [8,44]; therefore, it is unlikely that the observed outcomes are linked to spontaneous remission. It is recommended that future research compare the efficacy of the OCD? Not Me! program to a waitlist control group in order to more reliably link outcomes to the effects of the intervention. It is also recommended that future research on this intervention include some follow-up assessment to investigate whether changes in symptomology are durable over time.
Attrition analyses were not conducted in the current study because the study is ongoing and some participants were still undergoing treatment at the time of collecting this data. Although the GLMM procedure is particularly useful for conducting intention-to-treat analyses in studies where moderate-high rates of attrition are anticipated [39], attrition analyses are recommended in future studies. Understanding the factors that predict attrition (including attrition at pretest) is essential to understanding who fully automated iCBT is most suitable for and how the program might be adjusted to optimize participant retention.
It should be noted that almost 25% of the sample who completed screening measures in this study were outside of the intended age range for the iCBT program, indicating that there is a need for online OCD treatment services that target children younger than 12 years, as well as adults older than 18 years. In addition, almost a third of potential participants in the target age range were screened out of the study for meeting one or more of the exclusion criteria (elevated eating disorder or psychosis symptoms, and/or elevated suicide/self-harm risk). There is a clear need for services that are targeted to this group, and for better understanding of how best to manage risk within the context of self-guided treatment. Although most efficacy studies exclude individuals with suicide or self-harm risk, it is recommended that future developments in iCBT consider including strategies and protocols for managing suicide and self-harm risk, to support translation into effective intervention.
One of the benefits of the OCD? Not Me! program is that it includes a searchable database of mental health providers that participants can use to seek more intensive or specialized services, such as face-to-face treatment or telephone support services. Our data indicate that such services are relevant for those who seek treatment via the online program (who are screened out or who require more intensive services due to the severity of their symptoms). In addition, the findings support the potential for online assessments and services to be more comprehensively integrated into stepped care models, with treatment-seekers offered the most appropriate level of care for their needs following assessment. Increasing communication between online platforms and frontline health services supports continuity of care and also reduces the need for repeated assessments by different health care professionals. On this point, we found that approximately half the participants in our sample were already receiving psychotherapeutic treatment for OCD, and a third were currently taking prescribed medication for the disorder. This finding suggests that it may be of benefit to support health practitioners to use the iCBT programs with their clients through the provision of manuals and training.
In conclusion, the results of this study provide preliminary evidence that fully automated iCBT offers promise as a way of increasing access to effective treatment for young people with OCD. Future research is needed to replicate these results and to investigate predictors of treatment retention and outcome.
This work was support by the Australian Government Department of Health, grant number DoHA/279/1112.
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CE: contrast estimate
ERP: exposure and response prevention
GLMM: generalized linear mixed models
LSD: least significant difference
ML: maximum likelihood
OCD: obsessive-compulsive disorder
SOCS: Short OCD Screener
YODA: Youth Online Diagnostic Assessment
Edited by G Eysenbach; submitted 22.11.15; peer-reviewed by EB Davies, C Donovan; comments to author 03.04.16; revised version received 13.05.16; accepted 04.06.16; published 05.07.16
©Clare Samantha Rees, Rebecca Anne Anderson, Robert Thomas Kane, Amy Louise Finlay-Jones. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 05.07.2016.
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Qualitative Exploration of the Potential for Adverse Events When Using an Online Peer Support Network for Mental Health: Cross-Sectional Survey
Katherine Easton1, BSc (Hons), MRes Psych, CPsychol, PhD ;
Jacob Diggle2 ;
Mabel Ruethi-Davis3 ;
Megan Holmes3 ;
Darian Byron-Parker3 ;
Jessica Nuttall3 ;
Chris Blackmore4, BSc (Hons), MA, PhD
1Centre of Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2Mind, London, United Kingdom
3The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
4School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Katherine Easton, BSc (Hons), MRes Psych, CPsychol, PhD
Centre of Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare
Innovtion Centre
217 Portobello
Phone: 44 07969846886
Email: k.a.easton@sheffield.ac.uk
Background: Online peer support networks are a growing area of mental health support for offering social connection, identity, and support. However, it has been reported that not all individuals have a positive experience on such networks. The potential for adverse events within a moderated online peer support network is a new area of research exploration.
Objective: The objective of the study was to determine if use of an online moderated peer networks leads to adverse events for users.
Methods: Four biannual online surveys (October 2014 to March 2016) were conducted by a large national UK mental health charity, with users of their online peer support network exploring personal safety, moderation, experiences on the site, and how the site could be improved. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis by 2 independent researchers using a priori themes: negative experiences of moderation, social exclusion, contagion, negative interactions with other users, online relationships, co-rumination and collusion, and other.
Results: In total, 2353 survey responses were logged with 197 (8.37%) documenting an adverse event of negative experience. A dominant theme of negative experiences of moderation emerged (73/197, 37.1%) with evidence of social exclusion (50/197, 25.4%). Reading user posts was shown to be a cause of worry and distress for a few users, and analysis highlighted several instances of depressogenic and emotional contagion as well as some limited evidence of behavioral contagion (46/197, 23.4%). Very limited evidence of co-rumination (1/197, 0.5%) and no evidence of collusion were identified.
Conclusions: Evidence of adverse events was identified at low levels in the sample of respondents, although we have no comparison data to indicate if levels are low compared with comparable platforms. Not all users of online peer support networks find them wholly beneficial. Research must explore what works for whom. The next stage of service development should consider which users may be likely to receive no benefit, or even deteriorate, as a result of using the service.
digital technology;
online peer support;
adverse events;
Online Peer Support
Online peer support is an example of a technology-supported mental health self-management approach. Peer support has been defined as “people drawing on shared personal experience to provide knowledge, social interaction, emotional assistance, or practical help to each other, often in a way that is mutually beneficial” [1]. Peer support is often considered a helpful contribution to a wider mental health support and recovery plan. The approach works on the principles of using mutuality and reciprocity, which in turn facilitate the generation of social capital, known to be associated with well-being and resilience in mental health [2].
Evidence for the benefits of online peer support is mixed due in large part to the heterogeneous outcome measures adopted in research [3-8]. When using validated, clinical outcome measures based on a biomedical model to measure effectiveness, online peer support generally appears to have little effect [3,5,6]. When outcomes such as social connectedness, personal empowerment, and quality of life are assessed, research demonstrates evidence of benefits to users [4,7,8]. These are outcomes that are given a higher priority by people taking part in peer support [9].
The potential for adverse events when using peer support requires attention. Research has identified the presence of adverse events in online peer support including negative perceptions of moderation [8,10,11], emotional and behavioral contagion [11-15], negative debate [8,14], co-rumination [16] , collusion [13], and negative interactions with other users [8,11]. Other potentials for harm included unanswered posts and sharing of incorrect or misleading information about mental health [8]. The literature surrounding potential for harm on online peer networks is limited with a focus on depression. It is important to explore the user-perceived adverse events of using a national online peer support network for people with a range of mental health problems. In identifying the potential for adverse events on such platforms, the user experience may be improved, increasing safety and opportunity for beneficial outcomes.
A qualitative analysis was conducted using a deductive framework approach [17] with data from 5 online service evaluation surveys posted on the Elefriends peer support platform sponsored by the UK mental health charity Mind from October 2013 to October 2016. Elefriends is a moderated online community with over 50,000 users. Moderation of the site is overseen by Ele handlers, who remove posts containing personal details, swearing, personal attacks, harassment, and potentially triggering content.
All open-ended questions on the online survey were screened for evidence of adverse events. Items included: What could Ele (the moderator) do to make you feel safer? Tell us about being an elefriend (user). What usually brings you to Elefriends? What effect has being an Elefriend had on you? Has being part of this community changed the way you access support? Has being part of this community encouraged you to try anything new? How do you feel about the moderation? Is there anything else you would like to tell us? How does Ele make you feel?
After investigating evidence of harm and negative outcomes of peer support in the literature, a framework was developed to classify the qualitative data. Initially, there were 7 broad categories: negative experiences of moderation, social exclusion, contagion, negative interactions with other users, online relationships, co-rumination and collusion, and other (Table 1). Responses to items on the surveys including those asking about personal safety, moderation, experiences on the site, and how the site could be improved were examined independently by 2 raters and verified by a third to identify evidence of the themes.
Theme n
Negative experiences of moderation or site management 73
Social exclusion 50
Contagion or trigger words 46
Negative interactions with other users 38
Online relationships 19
Co-rumination and collusion 1
Table 1. Themes of adverse events and responses identified in user feedback.
In total, 2353 survey responses were logged across the 5 surveys. Of the 1574 respondents, 79.01% were female (1258/1574) and 1.08% (17/1574) identified as transgender or other. A total of 29.86% (470/1574) of the sample was aged 18 to 25 years, and 28.84% (454/1574) was aged 25 to 35 years. Users were experiencing depression (384/1574, 24.39%), anxiety (157/1574, 9.97%), or both (587/1574, 37.29%); in addition, 10.42% (164/1574) reported personality disorders and 5.97% (94/1574) reported a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder. A total of 8.37% (197/2353) of responses documented an adverse event of negative experience with 1.15% (27/2353) identifying multiple adverse events, which have been listed under multiple themes.
The dominant theme of adverse events was moderation, commonly relating to censoring (73/2353).
...getting a post taken off for talking about what’s been upsetting me makes the matter even worse for myself...I feel even more alone than before...it just adds an extra weight on top of my bad time.
[Response #6, Question 23, October 2015]
Some users of the site experienced social exclusion or found it difficult to identify with others (50/2353).
...I find that my posts often receive little to no response, that in turn causes feelings of being ignored and invisible or unimportant and unpopular...even something as small as somebody not clicking the ‘hear you or thinking of you’ buttons can be so discouraging and disheartening; it feels as though nobody is reading our posts and instead looking for the more popular, regular posters and users.
[Response #68, Question 20, May 2015]
Evidence of distress, depressogenic, emotional, or behavioral contagion was also reported (46/2353).
I don’t like seeing people making suicide threats on the page. It’s scary for them and frustrating for me as I feel I am putting a lot of energy into positive thinking and that brings me down.
[Response #82, Question 17, February 2015]
I had to stop for a while because I felt mentally too fragile to listen to other people's struggles. Somehow their depression exacerbated my own.
[Response #103, Question 18, February 2015]
No evidence of collusion was found. Very limited evidence was found of co-rumination (1/2353).
I also get worried that sometimes it’s an echo chamber...It can sometimes reinforce negative or unhelpful behaviour...I don’t know if I’d have wanted to be an Elefriend when I was really bad. Surrounding myself with other people who agreed with me that life was basically awful may not have been very helpful.
Evidence of adverse events was identified but appears to be at low levels in the sample of respondents. Moderation, social exclusion, and emotional contagion were identified in user responses although there is little data to indicate whether the rates we identified are comparable to other available platforms. People taking part in online peer support should feel able to express themselves, but the adverse events of removing posts must be weighed against the risks of leaving them in place, such as the increased contagion and collusion observed on unmoderated platforms [18,19]. Evidence suggests that depression, emotions, and behaviors can pass from one person to another [20]. However, we do not yet know at what rate such interactions need to occur for contagion to have a negative impact on other users. In terms of moderation, it is clear that a balance must be struck between reducing risk of contagion and allowing users in distress to express themselves and receive peer support.
Co-rumination and collusion can reinforce or encourage negative thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors, and this can facilitate contagion [19,20]. No evidence of collusion and very limited evidence of co-rumination was found in our study. This, as well as the lack of evidence of online stalking and sharing of health misinformation, can likely be attributed to the thorough nature of moderation on Elefriends.
Social exclusion and isolation are associated with depressive symptoms and have a detrimental impact on mental health [21,22]. Posts on Elefriends receive an average of 2.5 comments. Innovative ways to encourage users to interact with other posts and offer support, as well as writing their own posts, could be trialed.
Findings should be considered in light of the small self-selected sample and the sample characteristic. Individuals experiencing symptoms of depression or anxiety such as negative thought cycles are prone to catastrophizing, overgeneralization, and discounting positives, which may have influenced reporting of adverse events [23].
Examination of online peer support user feedback indicates that adverse events are uncommon compared with concerns relating to moderation and social exclusion. Not all users of online peer support networks find them wholly beneficial. Research must explore what works for whom. The next stage of service development should consider which users may be likely to receive no benefit, or even deteriorate, as a result of using the service.
We would like to thank users of the Elefriends social network for their contribution to the research process and for providing data for the study. The research was not funded.
JD is the Research and Evaluation Manager at Mind, the mental health charity which hosts Elefriends.
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Edited by J Prescott; submitted 08.06.17; peer-reviewed by V Betton, L Simons, C Thompson; comments to author 21.07.17; revised version received 08.08.17; accepted 11.08.17; published 30.10.17
©Katherine Easton, Jacob Diggle, Mabel Ruethi-Davis, Megan Holmes, Darian Byron-Parker, Jessica Nuttall, Chris Blackmore. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 30.10.2017.
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Driving, sleeping, screwing, reading
Truck cap, steel, aluminum, glass, rug, books, hand-dyed fabric, acrylic sticker and acrylic set paint
81 by 100 1/2 by 101 3/4 in. 205.7 by 255.3 by 258.4 cm.
Steel, stainless steel, glass, hand dyed bed sheets, wood and foam cushions
72 by 95 3/4 by 65 1/4 in. 182.9 by 243.2 by 165.7 cm.
Steel, glass, metal table
44 1/2 by 27 3/4 by 21 3/4 in. 113 by 70.5 by 55.2 cm
Steel bed frame, rear half of Toyota Celica, acrylic paint, aluminum storm doors and paint marker
92 3/4 by 120 by 64 in. 235.6 by 304.8 by 162.6 cm.
NEW YORK, February 8, 2016 –
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is delighted to present YOU ARE EVERYTHING, an exhibition of new sculpture works and panel paintings by Sarah Braman. The exhibition opens March 10, 2016 and will be Braman’s first solo exhibition in New York in five years.
Braman is known for her large-scale sculptures in which parts of scrapyard vehicles and old furniture are combined with translucent volumes of color and light. The artist’s distinctive color palette of rich pinks, blues and purples permeates the exhibition, from spray paint on found objects and hand-dyed fabric to the expansive colors of the glass forms.
For her most recent series, Braman uses scavenged objects from domestic life, such as discarded bunk bed, a truck cap, assorted furniture, as a starting point. Their visible wear-and-tear speaks to the passage of time and recalls the everyday struggles and joys to which these objects bore witness. Braman turns the utility of these objects on their head, destabilizing the notions of home and family.
In contrast, the glass forms to which these objects are attached appear otherworldly. Placed at off-kilter angles throughout the exhibition space, the sunset colored blocks generate a light and shadow that quietly uproot these broken down memorials.
Some of the sculptures have carpets or cushions that invite the viewer into the belly of the work. In “Driving, sleeping, screwing, reading”, Braman offers a selection of books scavenged from her town dump such as The Guinness Book of World Records, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and Cross Country Skiing as leisurely reading material for those who might like to stay a while.
The artist would like to thank Steve Grant for his patience and skill in welding, Nina Weyl and Seth Coen for their tireless and careful sewing, Barb Hadden for so much studio help, Mom and Liz for all the babysitting, and Saul, Jody and Phil for being the best home team.
By Peter Plagens
Sarah Braman: You Are Everything
Wall Street Journal April 13, 2016
There’s apparently a new development in which artists such as Sarah Braman (b. 1970) include acknowledgments, like writers do at the end of novels. In the press materials for her industrially luscious show, it’s noted that “the artist would like to thank Steve Grant for his patience and skill in welding, Nina Weyl and Seth Coen for their tireless and careful sewing, Barb Hadden for so much studio help, Mom and Liz for all the babysitting, and Saul, Jody and Phil for being the best home team.”
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by Rick Briggs
Campers, Sunsets, and Junkyards: Sarah Braman’s Containers of Light
Hyperallergic April 9, 2016
I’d call Sarah Braman’s show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent. You Are Everything, her first solo New York City exhibition in five years, presents a newfound ease with her material, a gracefulness in both subject and physicality I hadn’t noticed before. It’s as if she had traversed the messy, awkward, early stages of self-conscious invention and emerged on the other side, fully confident and in total command.
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By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Sarah Braman, ‘You Are Everything’
The New York Times April 8, 2016
A few blocks north of Sarah Braman’s exhibition “You Are Everything” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash is a rare sight: A defunct and shuttered McDonald’s restaurant on the corner of 34th Street and 10th Avenue. The title of Ms. Braman’s show comes from a graffiti tag on a similar-looking structure — red, yellow and white — in a rural location, a photograph of which is printed on the news release.
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By David Ebony
David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for April
Artnet News April 8, 2016
Sarah Braman's sculptures and paintings are at once monumental and ethereal. She explores light and space with spare forms and a nonchalant, almost cavalier, manipulation of materials. Nothing she does ever seems over worked or overwrought. In her fresh and airy 3-D works, she combines found objects, often abject detritus, with carefully constructed forms made of tinted glass and steel.
By Jerry Saltz
See You Are Everything
New York Magazine April 3, 2016
Sarah Braman, sensational sculptor.
In this solo show, Braman embraces a sort of dilapidated but still-loved found-sculpture aesthetic, assembling in beautiful agglomerations with tinted glass; wonderfully colored fabrics; and unruly discarded furniture, household items, and cut-up plywood. She arrives among Rachel Harrison, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince, and Donald Judd, putting a marker down as one of the strongest sculptors working anywhere. —Jerry Saltz
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, through April 16.
by Marwan Naaman
Heavenly Anarchy
Selections Magazine March 15, 2016
Although the title of Sarah Braman’s latest solo exhibition is You Are Everything, the artist believes that there is, perhaps, a more appropriate title, one that better captures the spirit of her new work.
“I think the unofficial name for the show should be Driving, Sleeping, Screwing, Reading. It turned out that a lot of the sculptures either include beds or actually are beds where you can lay down,” Braman says. “My husband told me the studio looks like a sci-fi, post-apocalyptic tent city.”
Selections Magazine
by Paul Laster
12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before March 11
New York-based artist Sarah Braman makes quirky sculptures by marrying found objects, constructed elements of colored glass and Plexi and oddly shaped pieces of plywood bearing brightly colored acrylics and spray paints. For her second solo show at the gallery, the artist uses a tree stump, a trashed truck cab, discarded bunk beds and fabricated glass structures to create eccentric assemblages.
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By Angie Kordic
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Colorist and Sculptor Sarah Braman to Present New Works at Mitchell-Innes & Nash February 16, 2016
Looking at the artworks of Sarah Braman, one can get a feeling that she’s like someone who is able to see certain things in a completely different way than regular folk. For instance, that sectioned old camper trailer is, indeed, exactly what it sounds, but it is also an artwork, placed on an art gallery floor like it’s always belong there, without any doubt. The truth is that the artist puts found objects together, in the manner of a proper Neo-Dadaist, creating art that is somewhere between sculpture and assemblage, ready to be contemplated by a contemporary viewer. Sarah Braman’s new sculptural works and panel paintings are soon going to be gathered for her first solo exhibition in New York in five years, hosted by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
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My First Car...
...honest...a 1959 Renault Dauphine, named by Fox News as 17th among the 20 Dumbest Cars of All Time. Mine was pink...no, really. Here's a quote from the review:
Why it's so dumb: Crappy, dangerous, rust-prone, slower than pulled pork.
Can you spell "chick magnet?"
...grinding slow today. You might want to read Jim Shepherd's review of the Mossberg/Maverick HS12 short-barreled O/U in today's SHOOTING WIRE:
It was quickly apparent that you might forget how to unload the tube-fed guns, or that you might forget to rack the pump after each shot - but there was no messing about with the HS12. Load, mount as the safety slides forward, and PRESS. No problems.
I bring this up because Marshal Halloway and I have been mulling over created a 1/2-day class on self-defense with a double barrel shotgun, then film that class for DRTV. We had such great response with the "tactical" lever action rifle and the single-action revolver self-defense class as SHOOTING GALLERY episodes, and I get a surprising number of queries about using the double for self-defense.
Of course, we've featured Stoeger's 2 DB tactical offerings, the SxS and the O/U:
They did the SxS last year:
As I've said for years and years that the double barrel is a fiercely efficient self-defense tool...like everything else, you've got to know how to operate the things. Since I'm a cowboy shooter who shoots a double-barrel in competition, it's pretty much second nature to me now...like breathing out and breathing in...I'm very grateful she's a woman, and so easy to forget...whoops! Defaulted to show tunes...LOL!
Ruger 10/22 Takedown
I wanted to say a couple of words on the new Ruger 10/22 Takedown -- hell yeah!
Whipped through STEYR to talk about Project AUG and may soon have good news on that front. Gee, I'd love to have a Mannlicher Classic in .223! THAT is a beautiful rifle! Also spent some time at MasterPiece Arms, which is a very impressive place. Really really liked the little Protector .380... Nice nice little pocket pistol! May have to get one. Home again tomorrow!
Me & My Snowboard...
So my Sweetie and I managed to get in a good day at Copper Mountain Sunday...the temp was, amazingly in the 60s, so by afternoon the snow was headed toward snowcone consistency. Morning, though was just super. The board is my ancient Burton all-mountain board set up with new Solomon bindings to match the new Solomon boots. Since I've lost about 30 pounds (so far) I can now wear all my old snow stuff, making me about 100% retro. I kept expecting somebody from Burton to run up to me and shout, "Dude! We need that board for the Burton museum!"
Good Post...
...over at Tam's View From the Porch:
There's always that one person who gets a toter's permit and seems a little, well, Barney Fife about it. Now they're a sheepdog! They run scenarios past you:
"What if you're in a convenience store, and you see a guy in a hoodie with his hands in his pockets, looking around at the security cameras?"
"I leave."
Definitely read the whole thing! Reminds me of my later years in a dojo when newbies would start with the "what if you're sitting in a bar?" meme, and they were always so disappointed when I said I'd get up and leave. Then I'd patiently (or sometimes not so patiently) explain that it was not a question of who could kick who's ass, but rather the indisputable fact that any violent encounter was a pure chaos event...once it starts, none of the participants have any idea where it's going. There are simply too many factors acting on the system for us to predict its direction with any success, and the whole process if full of anomalies, black swans and just plain weird s&^t.
Once we're in a chaos event, our survival depends on our mental flexibility, our ability to respond, to shift directions, morph tactics, to read the wind, whatever. Go back and reread Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do and The Art of War (this is my favorite translation). One of the greatest unseen dangers we as trained civilians face is the belief that we can drive the event. We think that if we are inside the aggressor(s)' decision-making loop, we are in control of the situation. And we may be, for a second or so. We need to fix firmly in our minds the sense that the clock is always running! The longer a chaos event runs, the more factors acting on the system, the greater the uncertainty. Our mindset as trained, armed civilians must always be on ending the threat. And to that I would add as quickly as possible. Removing ourselves from the scene ends the threat as certainly as a bullet. We're always looking for that option, but if we have to use a bullet we do so with the absolute certainty that we are in the right, that the bullet was the last option our aggressors left us.
As I've said before, I don't think the Florida case is the "poster child" for gun control that our enemies think it is...I think the local police are perfectly capable of sorting out what happened without the help of Eric Holder's Department of (Racial) Justice, POTUS, Al Sharpton, the Nation of Islam, the Brady Bunch, Snowplow Bloomberg, a million misguided people in hoodies, the Huffington Post and the rest of the freak show that's currently spinning up. To be sure, what happened in Florida was a tragedy, but before we throw the rope over the tree limb we ought to know what really happened.
Gun Sales Booming
You've already seen that Ruger is on order-taking hiatus because of the massive sales in the gun industry. My own industry contacts tell me that handgun demand right now is simply unprecedented (and it even made Fox News). I'm going to go out on a limb and say this demand is not the pre-election "bubble" I've been predicting for months. Rather, I think we're seeing the strength of Gun Culture Ver. 2.0, with literally millions of new people coming into the culture. As we've talked about extensively, the new shooters are being driven by concealed carry, the rise of the training community and more and more by the practical shooting sports. I'm hearing that the sports are experiencing growth levels they haven't seen since the glory days of the 1980s.
We've been talking for a year or so now that we're well past the tipping point and the mainstream culture has shifted wholesale in our favor. I would say that's one of the reason the now-collapsed antigun "industry" has so drastically seized onto the sad shooting story out of Florida. I'm not going to discuss that case, but I thought I might link to an unlikely comment, on the DemocraticUnderground.com, strangely enough:
Why Gun Control advocates will end up with egg on their face once again...
...all the gun control advocates are giddy, and think this is a turning point in their movement, LOL. Time for a reality check. I took this photo a while back at a grocery store's magazine rack... This photo shows the entire rack.. If you look closely their is about 17 different publications dedicated to firearms...And not a single "gun control monthly" in sight. They would not be for sale, if their was not a demand.
Gun control is not coming back as any kind of national movement, as if it was ever a national movement.
I will make two points on the Florida shooting, points I've made before in the blog, the podcast and THE BEST DEFENSE: First, do not ever give chase! A concealed carry license is not a junior police badge. One of the issues I talked about last week on the podcast (and will be talking about this week) is the complexities of intervention, that is, an armed civilian intervening in a violent situation in which they are not directly involved. Secondly, do not, either by intent or ignorance, escalate a situation! Your focus as an armed civilian is to deescalate the situation if possible and be ready to respond if the situation escalates.
We have our first planning meetings on the next season of THE BEST DEFENSE next week, and I intend to build in both escalation and deescalation scenarios, as well as at least one "giving chase" scenario for 2013.
AN ADDITIONAL ASIDE:
What I see happening in Florida right now is on a social level the opposite of deescalation. The President's comment that if he had a son, he would "look like Trayvon;" Louis Farrakhan tweeting that "the law of retaliation may be applied;" the blame blame blame (It's the GOP! It's Rush Limbaugh!") and the steady class war/race war drumbeat from people who should — dear Lord! — know better!
I grew up in the Jim Crow South, in Memphis...I saw the neighborhoods burn when Dr. King was killed...I've seen bright red blood in the streets from "race riots"...I've seen machingeguns turned on snipers in an American city...and I know what spit feels like when it hits your face because people whom you thought were your friends can't understand why you support "those n&^$#rs."
That people in power, including the President of the United States, would throw gasoline on a racial fire is utterly appalling — and terrifying — to me.
This doesn't end well.
Quickie...
...say my absolute choice for my Ruger Rimfire Challenge new pistol today! Totally love it and can't wait to get it and start putting rounds downrange! It's a...ah, you guys knew the punch line was coming, right? As soon as I can tell you, I will. It rocks...
Between Hither and Yon
I should be returning to my regularly scheduled idiocy tomorrow...
Now & Zen
Okay, I was supposed to spend the rest of Sunday afternoon installing a new toilet in the master bathroom...instead I nuked a vegetarian enchilada and spent the dinner hour installing the new Green Mountain barrel with its set of Williams Fire Sights on my Ruger 10/22 Target. It's going to be my Limited rifle for this year's Ruger Rimfire series. The rifle now balances perfectly...and it looks way cool! I'll stick some pictures in this post tomorrow AM. I fired a couple of rounds through it to make sure it was ejecting, and if I'm lucky and work like a busy little beaver tomorrow I'll take it to the range for an hour or so.
I'm still at a loss on my Limited pistol. Part of me thinks a build with the new Volquartsen frames would be just ducky; then I think about the Mark III Competition I've got down in the safe; Suddenly a little voice says, "1911 conversion unit...1911 conversion unit..." As you know my Sweetie appropriated my Tac-Sol 1911 Kimber and proceeded to shoot it very well. She also took my purple aluminum grips to replace the scrimshawed, amazingly tasteless faux-ivories originally on the Tac-Sol. I've got an STI Trojan .40 1911 I haven't shot in years, and it has a sweet trigger. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
We're planning on filming one of the big Wild Bunch matches for SHOOTING GALLERY Season 13... Not sure which one yet. Be fun to shoot one seriously, since I didn't last year. We also got such good response from the IDPA Worlds that I'm thinking of something IDPA-ish for next season as well.
My neighbors tell me there's a mountain lion in the neighborhood...little early for amorous lions, but I'll pay extra attention, lest Alf the Wonder Beagle end up an h'orderve.
Tomorrow, no matter what, the podcast and the toilet! I'll try not to get them mixed up.....and BTW, the enchilada tasted like garden mulch rolled into an old newspaper. The Old Speckled Hen was good, though...gotta love a beer named for a rusted-out Brit sports car...
Spent Yesterday on the Range...
...my Sweetie is going to be at GUNSITE this week, and since she shot a Tactical Solutions .22 unit 1911 on a Kimber in the user Rimfire Worlds and the Colorado State Championships last year, she wants to use a 1911 this week instead of her FNP-9.
I fished out a really nice Kimber Match Target 9mm that I got about a decade ago, then had the great Bruce Gray "blueprint" the gun...9mm 1911s are notoriously finicky (I exempt the Para TLC 9mm Commanders, which in my experience with several have been flawless out of the box...in fact, I was an idiot not to buy my T&E version!). Because there's so much less recoil impulse with a 9 as compared to a .45 ACP, which of course the gun was designed for, or even a .38 Super, it doesn't take much tolerance stack to jam them up.
I got the gun to shoot in IDPA Enhanced Service Pistol class — we filmed an IDPA championship with me shooting that gun many many seasons back for SG — then I shot a qualifying score at the Rogers Shooting School with the Kimber after Brucie overhauled it.
My Sweetie's brother brought his Glock and a .44 Vaquero, and we ran into one of my neighbors who's ramping up for cowboy competition this season. He also has a new Springfield Armory little 1911.
When I was running through the 1911 drills and tweaking my Sweetie's shooting to get her shifted from cowboy to the semi auto, I was struck by the connectedness of what I was doing. While I was shaping my neighbor's hands on the 1911 grip, I briefly flashed on Brian Enos doing the same thing with my hands a long time ago. I started on the dot drill (John Shaw was the first person I worked with who used it, although everybody and his dog Fred now takes credit for "inventing" it), then set up "negative space drills" — the A-zones cut out of the targets (George Harris, Bruce Gray). We worked on some trigger diagnostics I learned from Walt Rauch back when I started this journey, then a trigger drill I got from Chris Edwards at Glock when we were...how you say in English?...younger! LOL.
I said words Col. Cooper and Ray Chapman said to me a long time ago, because they are still valid, and tried techies I'd seen Mike Seeklander demo just a few weeks back. And as I shot through the same drills with the 9mm Kimber, I briefly flashed on Bill Rogers giving me hell while a group of very worried looking young Marine instructors looked on — "That's his friend, dude! How will he treat us?" — while Rosie Rosel laughed uproariously.
It might have been the most restful afternoon I'd had in months.
One thing that frustrates me about the Internet and those who purport to be experts is that, like the President, they say "I" a lot...techniques they have personally invented, or personally "refined," tests that are the epitome of all tests, drills that are different than any other shooting drilled ever done. I spent years in dojos, methodically crunching up the knuckles in my hands against unyielding stuff. If I learned anything in those years, it was that the martial arts cliche is true — the student is truly a reflection of the teacher. We are all journeymen, following a path that many other have walked before us. It calls to mind a quote from Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind; Beginner's Mind..."In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."
Whenever I start thinking I'm an expert on anything, I reread George Leonard's wonderful short book, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment. In that book's last chapter, Leonard, one of the great akido masters, speaks to the question of, "How can I be a learner?" This is what he concludes:
When Jigoro Kana, the founder of judo, was quite old and close to death, the story goes, he called his students around him and told them we wanted to be buried in his white belt. What a touching story; how humble of the world's highest-ranking judoist in his last days to ask for the emblem of a beginner! But Kano's request, I eventually realized, was less humility than realism. At the moment of death, the ultimate transformation, we are all white belts. And if death makes beginners of us, so does life — again and again. In the master's secret mirror, even at the moment of highest renown and accomplishment, there is an image of the newest student in the class, eager for knowledge, willing to play the fool.
There are many things going on in my life right now...many of them very good; some of them profoundly bad. A day on the range helps me remember the path I have chosen to walk, and remembering the path brings me closer to the Way...maybe that's B-S, but then again, maybe it's not.
Rosie Rosel, Rest In Peace
I note the passing of Rosie Rosel early this morning.
Go with God, my friend.
An Open Gun I Can Get Behind!
The CZ-75 TS "Parrot"...of course it's got the wrong sight on it...it need this one, the OKO "Parrot red dot"
Those Czechs...apparently we have the same tastes!
As per our commenter Laura, this is the obvious shirt to wear, from Amazon, no less...
And, of course, something to replace that drab, drab baseball cap with a Hornady logo on it...
I wonder if they have one with electronic ear protection built in? This could make the next IPSC World Shoot really, really festive!
Now that we've dealt with issues of sartorial splendor, let's move on to some real gun stuff...looks like Guns & Ammo has finally stumbled into something we've been talking about for years, the fact that the .223 is in fact an excellent home defense cartridge. Of course, they failed to mention that the AR is LOUD! Maybe next month they'll stumble into suppressors as well.
Although over at The Truth About Guns, they don't agree:
Rifles are, without a doubt, the worst idea. They’re cumbersome to maneuver, you need to put them down to do anything productive, and they don’t give you any additional benefits. The shotgun got you a little wiggle room in terms of accuracy, but the rifle is just as unforgiving – shooting wise – with the added benefit of having to worry about where the rounds eventually end up. Like the neighbor’s bedroom.
TTAG does agree that the darn things are loud, however...and anybody who saw this week's SHOOTING GALLERY on terminal ballistics now believes, absolutely believes, that you never, ever want to stand in front of anything that says "12 Gauge" on the barrel! BTW, am I the only one who thought that the ballistic gel hit by the 12 gauge slug looked like a giant alien caterpillar in its death throes??? I got to cut back on my caffeine...I did suggest at least one block of gel with a couple of cans of mixed fruit and a luscious whipped topping, but somehow that one never got made...
Over at The Survivalist Blog, there's an interesting article on the .22 LR as the "Best Survival Firearm:"
In my opinion, not having a number of .22s in your survival arsenal would be a mistake, but I think it would be a bigger mistake to rely on the .22 exclusively. It is underpowered for a number of important uses, it puts one at a tremendous disadvantage at distance, and it’s not a sudden killer of large game. Although people and large animals have been killed by the .22, it’s just not consistent enough to be a compromise.
Pretty well-done article...worth your time. And from an occasionally controversial direction, Suarez instructor Chris Flaherty has an excellent article on the Suarez Blog titled "Bullets Don't Work" (scroll down the page):
Quite simply put. Bullets don’t work, but we are lucky. Ammunition manufactures do a great service. They include a couple “magic” bullets in every box. We as end users just have to find them.
Bullets don’t work and keep shooting good accurate shots until that magic bullet does its damage.
I said this a lot while putting together the Panteao Productions CCW video last weekend, though not quite so eloquently.
The "Dream Ticket" From Hell
From the NY Daily News:
The report that Mayor Bloomberg recently had “a long private lunch at the White House” with President Obama has some speculating about Obama turning to Bloomberg as Treasury secretary or as president of the World Bank.
But if the President really wants to get the mayor involved, the way to do it would be to go all the way and put Bloomberg on the 2012 ticket as his running mate.
Gee, Obama-Bloomberg...could it just get any better than that? Hope...Change...Snowplow...pass me the Koolaide!
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/vice-president-bloomberg-article-1.1038312#ixzz1p6hV0kWj
The Endless Trip...
Finished the second day of filming with Joe Mantegna for Season 2 of GUN STORIES...went very very good. We're filming at the Autry National Center in LA...spectacular firearms collection! Gatling serial number 1, S.A.A. serial number S1, Wild Bill's Navy Colt, John Wesley Hardin's Colt, Billy the Kid's rifle, etc. Cool stuff behind the scenes, scheduled to go on exhibit in a year or so.
I also spent the morning at Independent Studio Services discussing future project...got some neat stuff on the horizon for SG!
Bill introduced into Senate on national concealed carry reciprocity. Here's the NRA release:
Senate Bill 2188, an important self-defense bill that would enable millions of Right-to-Carry permit holders across the country to carry concealed firearms while traveling outside their home states, was introduced in the U.S. Senate today. S. 2188 is the companion legislation to H.R. 822, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on November 16, 2011 by a majority bipartisan vote of 272 to 154.
Here are the details from Shall Not Be Questioned. I support this big time!
Meanwhile, I'm sorta tired...
A Surprisingly Balanced Article on Guns...
...from the usually relentlessly antigun Christian Science Monitor:
Back in the 1960s and '70s, a formidable gun control movement formed out of concern about urban crime. Widespread riots and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy and, later, the wounding of President Reagan added to concerns about the prevalence of guns. Other high-profile shootings, including the killing of five children in Stockton, Calif., in 1989 and the slaying of four federal agents during a siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, focused attention on assault weapons in particular.
A bevy of national laws followed – restrictions on mail-order rifle sales in 1968, the outlawing of "cop killer" bullets in 1984, the establishment of "drug-free school zones" in 1990 that included stiff penalties for anyone carrying guns in those areas, an assault weapons ban in 1994. By most accounts, the assault weapons ban, which tellingly expired in 2004, marked the end of the gun control arc.
Read the whole thing...Gun Culture Ver. 2.0 becomes increasingly more visible and influential...
DVD Filming Going Well
Finished first day filming for my Panteao Production "Concealed Carry Basics" video...brother Tom Yost came down for the filming, and it's always fun to hang out with Tom. We should wrap up principal filming tomorrow...I'll try to grab some stills.
Had dinner tonite with Mark Kresser of Taurus at a great restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale, Brimstone...darn good piece of fish and David Bruce Pinot. Things seem to be going pretty good at Taurus, especially with the addition of Jessie Harrison-Duff for their anticipated foray into competition.
Big shuffling in the competition world, what with Jeesie going to Taurus & Randi Rogers leaving Glock for Comp-Tac Holsters!
0-dark-30 call in the AM...
Another Progressive Paradise Weighs In!
From the Business Insider:
In recent remarks to the Latin American Herald Tribune, Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami announced that the government will begin suspending firearm importation, effective this month. Furthermore, local gunsmiths will no longer be able to market or sell firearms and ammunition.
According to El Aissami, “As of March, every last gun shop remaining in Venezuela – and there are less than 80 – should be closed. That is to say, in Venezuela, the perverse chapter of the commercialization of firearms and munitions is over.”
That should work well! After all, it's worked so well in other places...Uganda, Nazi Germany...you know the drill. I hope the peasants have lots and lots of machetes...
Slow Blogging Alert!
VERY busy for he next few days,so don't expect too much...
Rosie Rosel Hospitalized
I have been informed that my friend Rosie Rosel suffered a major stroke over the weekend. He is hospitalized and under sedation, and the situation is described as bleak.
Rosie, of course, has worked with Bill Rogers for years and is as fine a human being as has ever walked the earth.
My prayers are with Rosie and his wife (and my dear friend) Barb.
...watched it last night. Wonderful, wonderful movie. I loved the steampunk sensibility, the Dickens backgrounds, Martin Scorsese's magnificent direction...Hugo was what movies should be. Of course, I loved the "Clocks Throughout Time" exhibit at the British Museum, too.
A Generally Lazy Day
...which is good, since next week is a screamer. I'm going to be filming my first commercial DVD, based on my concealed carry segments for THE BEST DEFENSE, then throw myself wholeheartedly into Season 2 of GUN STORIES. Panteao Productions, my old friend Fernando, is handling the video, and I'll let you know when it's available. My goal is to establish a CCW baseline based on our years of TBD. I want to get beyond some of the endless memes we see on the Internet and in the mags and lay out a simple system. Well, that' the plan, anyway.
I worked up a new chili rub for fish last night -- 2 tablespoons ancho chili powder, 1 tablespoon each New Mexico red medium hot chili powder, cumin and garlic powder. Liked it, but may heat it up a little more with a bit of cayenne next time.
Sorry for the Absence!
Had to whip, whip I tell you, to Tulsa to spend the day on the range with Marshal for DRTV. Got to meet "Rastus" from the DRTV Forums at the U.S. Shooting Academy...cool! Have to go take a pick-axe to the drift in the driveway, but before I do, some links for the day:
Brother Ted endorses Romney:
The “Motor City Madman” threw his considerable weight behind Romney’s campaign Friday, hours after this column was tipped that the endorsement was imminent, during Thursday evening’s Romney fund raiser at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center.
I've told you I will support the nominee. Lemme think about this over the weekend.
From the Washington Times, (via the inestimable Say Uncle) a D.C. city official has his take on what we need to do to protect ourselves in an increasingly dangerous world...submit:
...Paul Quander, the District’s deputy mayor for public safety and justice, responded that crime victims should give the criminals what they want. Mr. Portman protested, saying, “But how do you know you’re going live and survive? You’re completely at their mercy.”
Mr. Quander thinks victimhood is preferable to self-defense. “The problem is, if you are armed, it escalates the situation,” Mr. Quander told residents. “It is much better, in my opinion, to be scared, to be frightened, and even if you have to be, to be injured, but to walk away and survive. You’ll heal, and you can replace whatever was taken away.”
That is so true! You can always have another child, or find a new spouse! And if you have to spend what is left of your life in a wheelchair, as a friend of mine did after a brutal D.C. mugging, hey, take those lemons and make lemonade! At least he got to park in the Handicapped Zones!
I am not one to wish ill to people, but there's a little voice in my head that whispers the hope for the future that Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Quander has the wonderful, wonderful opportunity to test his beliefs in the real world. Just lay back and enjoy it, Mr. Quander...the pain only last for a little while...
I strongly recommend that the GManCasefile blog, written by a former FBI agent, become one of your regular reads. It's not often that one blog can wax poetic about exotic Scotch in one post and neatly skewer the TSA in another, This is from the TSA: Fail post:
I sometimes ruminate while standing in line waiting to take off my shoes, remove my belt, laptop, iPad, etc., etc., about the improvised weapons I saw in prisons and how hard they were to find. It’s fascinating what weapons prisoners can make out of plastic forks, newspapers and toothbrushes. Ask any prison guard if an inmate can make a weapon out of an everyday item, and how long it would take them. Approximately 99% of what the average traveler carries on a plane would be considered contraband in a maximum security prison, due to the fact that it can easily be converted into a weapon. Toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks, pens, pencils, anything with wire (iPod headset), any metal object which can be sharpened, etc., etc. is a potential weapon. Carried to its logical end, TSA policy would have to require passengers to travel naked or handcuffed. (Handcuffing is the required procedure for U.S. Marshalls transporting prisoners in government aircraft.)
Read the whole thing!
You might also catch up on C.J. Shiver's, author of The Gun, the history of the AK-47, take on the new AK-12, the replacement for the venerable AK-47, over at NPR.
More likely, Chivers says, the redesign is motivated by a desire to help save "the Detroit of the modern rifle world."
"The main Kalashnikov plant for the Russian Federation is the same as the main Kalashnikov plant during the Soviet Union's time," Chivers says, "and that's located out in the Ural Mountains in a city called Izhevsk."
The fortunes of Izhevsk have risen and fallen with the popularity of the Kalashnikov. Today, it can be characterized as a struggling factory town, but orders for new Kalashnikovs could help change that.
That should get you started! BTW, I bought a gun I didn't intend to buy because it was so damned impressive on the range! I was out shooting one of the Remington Versa Max 12-gauge semi auto shotguns because I'd really been taken to task on the blog and on a couple of the forums for always recommending pump shotguns for self-defense, especially for preppers. My rationale was that a pump would pretty much run with whatever you crammed into it, whereas semi auto shotguns were either finicky or required to to carry extra do-dads to change the gas ports or bleed springs.
One commenter bluntly asked me if that was the case, why did I routinely recommend semi auto pistols for self-defense, as the newest generation of semi auto shotguns have solved the do-dad problem. Well, I shot the Beretta defense semiauto at SHOT a while back, and it did indeed run with whatever was stuffed in the tube. In talking to my friends at Remington Defense, they kept waxing poetic about the Versa Max platform and how it accomplished the same thing with a pretty elegantly simple solution:
I finally said send me one. After a day at the range filming with it, I sent Remngton a credit card number so to keep the Versa Max. It ran and it ran and it ran, regardless of the ammo. We went from Feather-Lites to sporting clays heavy loads, to slugs to hunting buckshot, mixed brands, etc., and it just kept shooting. We intentionally did no lubrication when we took it out of the box — we ran it bone dry, and it just kept shooting. The Versa Max actually shoots lighter — that is, less felt recoil — than my competition Winchester X2 semi, which is well-known for its gas system soaking up the 12 gauge hit.
It ain't pretty, but it feels like a real workhorse. How impressed were we with the gun? Not only did I buy my T&E gun, producers John Carter and Mike Long went back to their offices and order one for themselves, and two other crew members are going to follow suit. Here's the Remington specs for the guns we bought, the Versa Max Synthetic 26-inchers:
The new standard for reliability in autoloading shotguns. VERSA MAX® shatters convention and all previous benchmarks for reliability with an action unlike any that have come before it. Proven in the field and in extreme tests of endurance with thousands of test rounds, it cycles 12-gauge loads with ultimate consistency, softer recoil and less maintenance than you've ever experienced.
Any load. Anywhere. Every time - the new pinnacle of autoloader technology.
• Most versatile, reliable shotgun on the market.
• Reliably cycles 12-gauge rounds from 2 3/4" to 3 1/2" magnum.
• Versaport™ gas system regulates cycling pressure based on shell length.
• Reduces recoil to that of a 20-gauge.
• Self-cleaning - Continuously cycled thousands of rounds in torture test.
• Synthetic stock and fore-end with grey overmolded grips.
• Drilled and tapped receiver.
• Enlarged trigger guard opening and larger safety for easier use with gloves.
• TriNyte® Barrel and Nickel Teflon plated internal components offer extreme corrosion resistance.
• Includes 5 Flush Mount Pro Bore™ Chokes (Full, Mod, Imp Mod Light Mod, IC
I thought about getting the Versa Max Tactical,but I decided I'd rather add whatever accessories I needed down the line, and I wanted the longer barrel for clays. My friends at Nordic Components already have a magazine extension tube for the Versa Max if I want to go that direction, and Briley has a larger bolt handle and bolt release button — I consider these necessary purchases. You'll be seeing lots more on the Versa Max as I work with it...
On the Range in Tulsa Tomorrow...
...am thinking tonight about the very untimely death of Andrew Breitbart. He was a warrior in a time when we desperately need warriors, an inspiration in a time when inspiration seems lost, fearless in a time of cowardice. And he laughed loudly and often. That would be my definition of a man.
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Top News Stories of 2011
In January of this year I came up with the idea to keep a running list of the “Big News Stories of 2011”. It’s around this time of year, that I always enjoy thinking back on the memorable events of the past twelve months. In particular, I wanted to recall the news as I saw it. What were the events that came to my notice as they happened?
What follows is my list of the top news stories of 2011. It’s a wild understatement to say that it is by no means comprehensive. Oftentimes, it simply reflects the news as I saw it on the NBC Nightly News broadcast or read it on the NYTimes website. Regardless, it serves as a list which captures many stories of national interest during 2011.
(NOTE: Our second daughter was born on September 26, 2011. Therefore, my news monitoring dropped off significantly after that point.)
Originally posted as a YouTube video, a Columbus Dispatch video about Ted Williams, The Man with the Golden Voice is the first viral video of 2011.
1/8 – Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in a parking lot while meeting with her constituents.
Tunisian revolution followed by Egyptian protests
Verizon iPhone announced.
Most snow ever in the North East.
1/25 – President Obama speaks before the new congress during the State of the Union Address. Parties are mixed together (e.g. Senator John McCain and Senator John Kerry sat next to each other). Audience is much more civil than in years past.
2/11 – Revolution succeeds in Egypt with Hosni Mubarak stepping down.
Omar Kaddafi is defiant in the face of a populace moving towards revolution and his overthrow
Wisconsin teachers protest over the governor’s plan to do away with their ability to collective bargain.
3/11 – 9.0 earthquake, followed by tsunamis and nuclear disaster in Japan.
Omar Kaddafi brutally fights back against his country’s revolutionaries. International community establishes a no-fly zone.
3/23 – Elizabeth Taylor dies.
Rebecca Black’s Friday is an Internet viral sensation
Wednesday, April 27 – Storms with tornadoes and large hail cause widespread damage throughout the south. My wife and I learn that our baby is a girl.
Friday, April 29 – Prince William marries Kate Middleton
Late on May 1, the news breaks that Osama Bin Laden has been killed by a team of Navy Seals.
The Mississippi River reaches record flood stage in several states
May 21st comes and goes with no Rapture.
6/3 – Jack Kevorkian dies.
The largest fire in New Mexico’s history rages across the state
6/23 – Peter Falk (aka “Columbo”) dies.
7/8 – Last Space Shuttle mission, STS-135.
7/8 – Betty Ford dies (see Orlando Sentinel: Notable Deaths in 2011).
7/22 – Anders Behring Breivik goes on a shooting rampage in Norway that leaves 85+ dead.
7/27 – John Stott dies (1911-2011).
First signs of a “double dip” recession start to mount.
5.8 earthquake strikes east coast, centered around Mineral, VA.
Rebel forces take Kadaffi’s compound.
Pat Summit announces that she has early onset dementia, a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease.
Hurricane Irene – post storm flooding makes it in the top ten most costly disasters in US history.
9/6 – Gunman dead after killing 4, wounding 8 at IHOP in Carson City, NV.
9/16 – plane crashes at Reno, NV air races killing nine and injuring dozens more.
9/21 – After being held in captivity by the Iranian government for two years, two American hikers freed.
9/25 – While I’m preparing a batch of fresh baked, chocolate chip cookies, my wife’s water breaks.
9/26 – Our second daughter, Paige, arrives at 1:08am on a Monday morning. She is 6lbs, 13oz and 19in long.
Occupy Wall Street Movement – Inspired by the “Arab Spring“, thousands protest around the country w/o really having any uniting theme other than unrest about the economy.
10/4 – Arthur C Nielsen Jr. dies.
10/5 – Steve Jobs dies. My thoughts on this.
10/8 – Al Davis dies.
10/20 – Colonel Mummar Qaddafi is killed by rebel forces.
10/21 – President Obama announces an end to the Iraq War.
11/5 – Andy Rooney dies.
Joe Paterno resigns as head coach of the Penn State football team amidst a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky.
11/8 – Joe Frazier and Heavy D die.
11/15 – In the early hours of the morning, the NYPD forcibly removes Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park.
12/15 – Christopher Hitchens dies after a battle with esophageal cancer
12/17 – Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of North Korea, dies.
What stories did I forget to mention? What were your thoughts as you read this list? Please share in the comments below.
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Top 15 New Upcoming Horror Games In 2018 2019 Pc Ps4
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2018 was a somewhat weaker year for the horror genre in video gaming, but 2019 is looking a lot stronger, with a number of very promising horror games on the horizon. 2017 proved a vigorous year for all the ps4 owners. we enjoyed some of the biggest multi genre titles such as gravity rush 2, horizon: zero dawn, injustice 2, nier: automata, nioh, and for honor. you’ll be delighted to know that some of the best ps4 games are about to release in 2018. if you are […]. The game i may be looking forward to most from this list of the biggest new horror games of 2019, the blackout club is a co operative horror game that sees you and your friends as a group of teens. As 2019 closes out, it's clearly been a great year for the ps4. however, the upcoming ps4 games list for 2020 and beyond is seriously exciting. and that's before we even start thinking of what's. The main game, along with most of the dlc, is playable in vr as well! this is the best horror capcom has done in years, and represents a culmination of all the best horror practices that games have developed over the years. with new and exciting horror experiences coming down the pipeline, only time will tell where we go from here.
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10 biggest upcoming horror games of 2018 léon othenin girard · january 1, 2018 although 2017 was quite the year for horror games, 2018 looks to have a few spooky treats up its sleeve, too. Take a look at some of the new and upcoming ps4 games hitting the system in 2020 and beyond, or so dangerous. revisit the ps one survival horror classic with new visuals and a modernised control scheme but the same bloodcurdling sense of dread, as jill valentine is pursued by the relentless nemesis. act statement 2019 modern slavery. Psvr is simply perfect for horror games, and with a slew of new terrifying titles on the horizon, it's coming just in time. so whether it's a dark and stormy night or you simply want an adrenaline rush like no other, get ready to dive into these upcoming ps4 horror games. Well, don’t worry; we’re not in october yet. the point is it’s always the season to be terrified. a good horror game is perennial; it can be played any time, anywhere, and still scare us silly. with that in mind, now seems as good a time as any to break down the best horror games you can play right now on your ps4. let's begin. A new year means new games, and you better believe there are some amazing upcoming ps4 games filling the line up in 2020. you'll certainly be keeping yourself busy with some of big releases ahead.
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Marvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr.
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #39-40, 42, 50, 108-109, 365; Captain America (1968) #138; Daredevil (1964) #16-17; Fantastic Four (1961) #105-106; Untold Tales of Spider-Man #-1; material from Vampire Tales #2; Strange Tales #4; Menace #6, 11; Young Men #24, 26; Western Kid #12; Tales to Astonish #77; Tales of Suspense #77; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) 365.
Celebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary! From the fabulous fifties to the Femizons' future, Jazzy John Romita brought his distinctive and definitive style to all corners of the Marvel Universe! Witness the coming of the Communist-hunting Captain America! A furious face-off between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin! The debut of the Devil's Daughter! Peter Parker's parents in perilous predicaments! And classic stories featuring the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Nick Fury, Wolverine, the Kingpin and more — including rarely seen Atlas Era tales!
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Madonna: Like A Prayer 30 Years On
Here it is: Madonna’s artistic breakthrough, the first album of hers that was really geared to the CD-buying audience, and a fresh start after the distinctly dodgy years of 1987 and 1988.
Like A Prayer (weird title: didn’t someone in the Warner Bros. marketing department say, ‘Hey, it’s a bit similar to Like A Virgin‘?) was released 30 years ago this week. It topped the US and UK charts, spawned six hit singles and has sold around 15 million copies to date.
It was a revelation on a few levels – Madonna’s singing voice had more range and richness. Her lyrics were getting personal. There were two songs about her marriage to Sean Penn, and three zoning in on family relationships. She co-wrote and co-produced all the songs; by all accounts she knew exactly what she wanted and was present at all the tracking sessions, finding ever new ways of inspiring the performances she was after (see below).
She hooked up with co-producer/co-songwriter Pat Leonard to great effect. It was a classic double act – she provided melodies, street smarts and lyrics, he provided the classically-trained piano and arrangement skills. The result was her Sgt Pepper’s, a varied, ambitious, major work.
But how does Like A Prayer stack up these days? Here’s a track-by-track rundown of arguably Madonna’s greatest album.
‘Like A Prayer’: The lead-off single, a US and UK #1, once described by Rolling Stone magazine as ‘as close to art as pop music gets’. It was also highly controversial in its allusions to oral sex and an apparent conflation between religious/sexual ecstasy, not to mention the envelope-pushing video.
‘Express Yourself’: Great feminist party pop/funk tune co-written with Stephen Bray, inspired by Sly And The Family Stone and anchored by JR Robinson’s crisp grooving. Shep Pettibone’s single remix subsequently usurped the album version. David Fincher’s video cost a reported $5 million.
‘Love Song’: This duet with Prince was a curious meeting of pop giants, musically in the Lovesexy/Batman mould but lacking a great hook, though apparently they did initially write it eye to eye, Prince programming drums and Madonna donning a synth. Tapes were then worked on individually and sent back and forth between LA and Minneapolis. Whilst interesting, it’s nearer to a Prince B-side than something really memorable.
‘Til Death Do Us Part’: A coruscating portrait of her marriage breakup to Sean Penn, made even more poignant by its sprightly Scritti-style pop. Bassist Guy Pratt was the recipient of Madonna’s unique production style on this track. ‘What did you think of that?’ she asked him after one take. ‘Um… I think it was OK…’ was his response. ‘Did it make your d*ck hard?’ Madonna shot back!
‘Promise To Try’: A powerful ballad, featuring an uncharacteristically emotional vocal. According to Madonna, it was written completely spontaneously: ‘He (Leonard) just sat down and started playing, and I started singing.’
‘Cherish’: More Scritti-inspired pop fun, all major chords and twinkling synths, looking at happier times with Sean. Jeff Porcaro’s trademark shuffle is his one and only drumming appearance on the album.
‘Dear Jessie’: An inspired take on late-’60s psychedelia, almost like a children’s lullaby. A very cool, unexpected track.
‘Oh Father’: A gorgeous ballad in 6/4 with music by Leonard and lyrics by Madonna, written in a tiny rehearsal studio in the garment district of New York when Madonna was in ‘a very, very dark place’ during her tenure in the David Mamet play ‘Speed-the-Plow’. Madonna: ‘”Oh Father” is not just me dealing with my father. It’s me dealing with all the authority figures in my life’. The song’s intro alone can put a big lump in this writer’s throat. Madonna apparently coaxed the band through the song, telling bassist Pratt and drummer Jonathan Moffett in no uncertain terms where not to play. Apart from string section and guitar overdubs, they got it on the second full take, including Madonna’s live vocal. During the sessions, Moffett also asked her when he should come in. ‘You come in when I do this’, she replied, lifting up her blouse!
‘Keep It Together’: Another Stephen Bray co-write, this Go-Go-inspired ode to family togetherness, featuring some brilliant Randy Jackson bass, became a mainstay of her ‘Blond Ambition’ tour. If you play it loud you can also really hear the superb backing vocals of her regular live duo Niki Haris and Donna DeLory.
‘Pray For Spanish Eyes’: The point where Like A Prayer starts to run out of steam. A corny, soft-rock version compendium of Spanish clichés, complete with castanets and weary acoustic guitar, and a weirdly unmemorable melody.
‘Act Of Contrition’: And here’s the other stinker. Madonna free-associates awkwardly over a reversed version of the title track, with Prince’s backwards guitar track also ladled on to no great consequence.
Further reading: ‘Songwriters On Songwriting’ by Paul Zollo
‘My Bass And Other Animals’ by Guy Pratt
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Aces Of Bass in Early-’80s Britpop
Watching the superb reruns of ‘Top Of The Pops’ recently, it’s apparent how many great bass players stormed the UK charts during the early/mid-’80s.
Everywhere you looked, there were hip, young four-stringers with good haircuts and some nifty licks (or ‘kids with a riff’, as Robert Palmer called them).
Though very much under the twin influences of Chic’s Bernard Edwards and Jaco Pastorius, a whole host of ’80s players managed to forge some truly original sounds while clearly utilising the feels and techniques of both American bassists.
Here’s a smattering of great British players of the period (more from across the pond soon) with a few of their enduring performances. Make sure your subwoofer is turned on…
9. Mick Karn
By Japan’s 1979 Quiet Life album, the man born Andonis Michaelides had become one of the most original fretless players of all time, effortlessly bypassing the Jaco template. His lines were also absolutely integral to the band’s formula and eventual success. This minor hit demonstrates his melodic approach (though somehow he was denied a songwriter credit) and his playing reveals new discoveries even 35 years on.
8. Tony Butler
Shepherds Bush-born Butler brought something very unique to ’80s rock and pop with his band Big Country. He also formed a key rhythm section alongside drummer Mark Brzezicki. Check out his bouncy, almost dub-style rhythmic approach on this beautifully structured bass part.
7. Derek Forbes
The hyperactive Glaswegian just couldn’t stop coming up with classic early-’80s basslines. After his departure from Simple Minds in 1984, he also added some quality low-end work to Propaganda’s touring band.
6. Guy Pratt
The Artful Dodger of the early ’80s bass scene, Guy cut his teeth with Icehouse before breaking out to play with everyone from Madonna to Pink Floyd. This quirky 1984 hit is a compilation of all his licks and tricks – producers seemed to like his ‘more is more’ approach…
5. Graham Edwards
According to Pratt’s great ‘My Bass And Other Animals’ book, Edwards was always going up for the same gigs as him back in the mid-’80s. Now an almost forgotten name, he played some excellent stuff in Go West’s live band and also shone on this underrated gem:
4. Pino Palladino
Pino’s highly melodic fretless style had already graced megahits by Gary Numan and Paul Young by the mid-’80s, but this always seemed like his most intense, distinctive groove, with more than a hint of Bernie Worrell/Parliament’s ‘Flashlight’ about it.
3. Mark King
Mr King has to be in this list. Though best known now for his formidable slap technique, his crisp, fluid fingerstyle lines were just as distinctive, not least this Eastern-tinged salvo which really sums up the spirit of 1982 (though one wonders if he’d like another go at the vocal…).
2. Colin Moulding
The XTC man’s flowing, melodic style showed that he was a worthy heir to Paul McCartney. No matter how ‘standard’ the chord changes, you could rely on Moulding to come up with something memorable.
1. John Taylor
Like or loathe Duran Duran (I have to say I was usually of the latter persuasion), Taylor certainly came up with some memorable if somewhat samey grooves (as gleefully parodied by Mr Pratt), finding a pleasingly-understated style on this minor classic.
Any more for any more?
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Starring: Jean Servais
Slated for an Al Pacino remake in 2009, Rififi, one of the original heist movies has one of the most suspenseful and influential robbery sequences in film history. Helmed by one of the great film noir directors, Rififi (meaning brawling in French) follows Tony le Stephanois who recently out of the klink is looking to keep his nose clean. An appreciative former co-conspirator offers Tony an ill-formed jewel heist, which he is at first reluctant to become involved in, but then looks more promising after he catches his girlfriend sleeping with a local nightclub owner.
Tony plots and executes a perfect heist, drilling into the store from the apartment above and dropping in to crack the safe. A tense sequence follows with no music or dialogue and you really see the inspiration for later bank heist movies like The Getaway, Ocean’s 11, and The Italian Job. The film doesn’t end there as the crew slips up and a blackmail by the jealous nightclub owner costs the crew their fortunes and their lives.
Other Notable Films by this Director: The Naked City (1948), Brute Force (1947)
Watch the trailer and enjoy the RAW SEX…1955 style, powerful.
-pupson
Categories: Criterion, Drama, Foreign, Thriller . Tags: bank robbery, dassin, film noir, heist, jewel heist, rififi, servais . Author: pupson13 . Comments: Leave a comment
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What is the Goddess Clan?
女神族
Megami-zoku
Primary Abilities
Breath of Bless
Supreme Deity
Celestial Realm
The Goddess Clan is one of the five major races in the world of Nanatsu no Taizai.
Overview Edit
According to the Lady of the Lake, the Goddess Clan and their realm were created by the Supreme Deity, after this was given birth by Chaos.[1]
3,000 years ago, the Goddess Clan constantly clashed with the Demon Clan. Similar to the latter's Ten Commandments, this clan has their own elite unit, the Four Archangels, who even the Ten Commandments must be wary of, according to Monspeet. Despite often battling, most goddesses acted gentle towards humans and considered killing demons as a way to save them. However, the two legendary clans were largely evenly matched and thus a tentative balance was created.[2] At some point in time, they broke a treaty with the Demon Clan, and even slaughtered many women and children they were holding as prisoners of war.[3]
However, when Meliodas had betrayed his own people for his alliance and relationship with the Supreme Deity's daughter Elizabeth and severely crippled their strength by killing two members of the Ten Commandments, the rest of goddesses seized the opportunity to finally defeat the Demon Clan and instigated the Giant Clan, Fairy Clan and humans against them, starting the great war.
As a result, the Demon Clan was ultimately defeated by the Goddess Clan and their allied clans and sealed away in the Coffin of Eternal Darkness for many years, realizing it was the only way to win after losing their strongest fighter Mael. Despite their victory, they lost much of their power and the ability to maintain their physical forms in order to seal the Demon Clan for hundreds of years. The souls of the Goddess Clan came to inhabit within objects, only being able to manifest themselves in the physical world taking the body of another being as a vessel.
According to Jelamet, a majority of the goddesses apparently inhabit places called Sky Palaces, where they lay dormant, as she made use of the gate in the altar to bring the remainder of the Goddess Clan to invade and control Britannia.[4]
An unknown goddess tried to communicate with humans to find more about Meliodas, but what happened to her after her object's destruction is unknown. Other few goddesses escaped the battle after realizing some of the orders they received were wrong and became the leaders of the Druids, who worship the Goddess Clan.
In the present day with Hendrickson unleashing the Ten Commandments by incompletely breaking the seal, the Four Archangels "revived" to join the reincarnation of Elizabeth, the Seven Deadly Sins and the other races against the Demon Clan, now facing a new Holy War. However, two of them lost their physical bodies again while it was revealed that the Archangel Mael is still alive and turned into one of the Ten Commandments. After the return of Mael, the leader of the Archangels also loses his physical form at the end of the new Holy War, making Mael the last "survivor" of the Four Archangels.
As the name suggest, the Goddess Clan appears to be composed mostly of females, with only a few males have been seen so far. They appear human except with one or more angel-like wings, though some of them can have larger sizes or monster-like features such as having three heads.
Goddess Symbol on Elizabeth's right eye
Wings of the Goddess Clan manifested by Elizabeth's awakened power
Members Edit
Elizabeth †
Jelamet
Nerobasta †
Zaneri
Physiology Edit
Higher ranking Goddesses are distinguished by their multiple pairs of wings, with more pairs of wings they have and the larger is the size of those wings meaning the goddess is stronger. Whenever a Goddess inhabits a physical vessel or whenever they use their magical powers, their eyes manifest the symbol of a golden triskele.
The Goddess Clan is an extremely powerful race able to stand on equal ground with the Demon Clan, although it required the cooperation of the fairies, giants and humans to seal them away after losing their strongest fighter. Despite their power, they needed physical forms to actually affect the world by their actions. According to Ludociel, they aren't actual Gods like the Demon King or the Supreme Deity, despite their massive power. Members of the Goddess Clan share several common abilities:
Ark「聖櫃アーク Āku; literally meaning "Holy Chest"」: An archetypal magic technique of the Goddess Clan that creates light particles, often envolving the target in a dazzling sphere of light that breaks apart their body. It is mostly counteracts darkness by disintegrating, though it also can cause physical damage.[5]
Purge「浄化パージ Pāji; literally meaning "Purify"」: A technique that erases "abominable" souls, such as vampires and demons. This technique was passed down to the Druids.
Resurrection: Ban sought out the Goddesses to resurrect Elaine, believing that something like that should be easy for them. One of them said that resurrection of a single fairy is an easy task. Though, even when Mael, one of the Four Archangels, used a technique that let deceased souls reincarnate in a new life with their memories of their past lives[6], rather than resurrect them, the veracity of the statement has to be proven still.
Healing: This is the natural ability that all Godesses have allowing them to heal any one from any clan even Demons, healing any injuries an diseases.
Invigorate「健やかなれ Sukoyakanare」: By chanelling their healing power trough Ark, Goddesses can counteract negative effects, such as severe injuries either caused physical or by miasma, to even strong poisonous acid. It can also recover health and stamina or clear the mind of someone.[7] This power has the opposite effect on Demons when not controlled enough, hurting them and repelling their power.
Breath of Bless「祝福の息吹ブレス・オブ・ブレス Buresu Obu Buresu」: A spell that only a high-ranking Goddess could use. The user gathers light in their palm to create some kind of symbol and blowing it over their desired target, with those affected get a magic power boost. The Demon Clan refers to this technique as Cheat Hope「ペテンの光チートホープ Chīto Hōpu; literally "Scam Light"」 because it is also a brainwashing spell that turns the targets into fanatical zealots loyal to the Goddesses with no regard of their injuries and keep on fighting until they are broken and dead. [8]
Possession: With the consent or forming a pact with another being, Goddesses are able to take their bodies as vessels and use them as their own, being able to use all his/her abilities through their vessel, despite not being so strong that with their original bodies. However, the vessel (especially humans) may have difficulty hosting high-ranking Goddesses, leading their bodies to undergo transformations. The compatibility between the vessel and the Goddess can affect its overall strength.
Flight: Given the nature of their wings, this allows the Goddesses to fly. The stronger ones even have the strength enough to carry a giant.
Time Regression Spell: A spell that allows one to send the soul of another being towards the past. This spell can be taught to members of other races, mainly the Druids.
Ranks in the Army of the Goddess Clan Edit
Four Archangels Edit
Main article: Four Archangels
Four Archangels「四大天使 Yon Daitenshi」 is an elite unit composed of four of the strongest and highest-ranking members of the race, outclassed only by the Supreme Deity herself.
Ludociel (Leader)
Divine Lance Corporal Edit
Divine Lance Corporal「神兵長 Shinpei-chō」 are Goddesses who serve the Four Archangels within the Divine Militia and are of higher rank than Divine Soldiers.
Nerobasta
Divine Soldier Edit
Divine Soldier「神兵 Shinpei」 are Goddesses who serve the Four Archangels within the Divine Militia.
Female members of the Goddess Clan can be based on the Valkyries of Norse Mythology, while male members can be based on the Angels of the Bible.
Despite being names Goddesses which referes to female deities, there are in fact males among them and they are confirmed to not be actual gods.
The symbol in their eyes resemble a triskelion, a symbol that represents the drawing of the three powers of maiden, mother, and crone. It also can be a reference to the Holy Trinity.
All the members of the Four Archangels have their name end in "-el", which is the Hebrew word for "God." It is also used at the end of the names of each Archangels of God in the Bible.
Goddess Clan fighting alongside its allied clans against the Demon Clan 3,000 years ago
Apostle of the Goddess Clan
Horn of Cernunnos, the communication relic of the Goddess Clan
Druids, human worshipers of the Goddess Clan
Goddess Amber, artifact of the Goddess Clan
↑ Nanatsu no Taizai Manga: Chapter 337, page 12.
↑ Nanatsu no Taizai Manga: Chapter 176.
↑ Nanatsu no Taizai Manga: Volume 31, extra pages
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How a Culture of Outrage Around Politically Engaged Art Endangers Our Public Sphere
Does an artist’s race disqualify them from engaging certain subjects?
In recent months, artworks that address the socially volatile issues of police brutality and racially motivated violence have been in the spotlight. However, the critique, discussion and outrage surrounding these works have not focused on their quality, their meaning, or the intentions behind them—focus has shifted instead to artists’ racial backgrounds and whether they have the right to tell a story specific to a race or ethnic group to which they do not belong. Accusations of ‘cultural appropriation’ have become commonplace. This outrage, expressed with unvarnished acrimony on social media, gathers steam quickly, and once consolidated, can be leveraged to directly challenge individual artists and the institutions that present their work.
Kelley Walker’s work based on a King Magazine cover in ‘Kelley Walker: Direct Drive, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.’. (Photo above by Danny Wicentowski) before and after protests.
Last fall, protests and calls for a boycott broke out over Kelley Walker’s exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri. Several of Walker’s works, for which he appropriates images of the black body from photographs of Civil Rights-era protests and hip-hop magazine covers, prompted widespread calls for their removal. Black artists, community members and museum staffers pressured the museum to modify the exhibition by putting up a wall to enclose the offending works, and signage to warn viewers. Eventually, under pressure, the show’s curator resigned.
Artist Parker Bright’s silent protest at the Whitney Biennial, blocking Dana Schutz’s painting ‘Open Casket.’
When the Whitney Biennial opened in March, a painting by Dana Schutz, based on an iconic photograph of the mutilated body of Emmett Till lying in his open casket, sparked protests, a petition, and a social media frenzy. Rather than cave to pressure to remove the work or destroy it, as one open letter demanded, the Whitney stood by the artist and their decision to display the work; they respected the rights of protestors, including artist Parker Bright who stood, daily, blocking the view of the painting while wearing a t-shirt with the message ‘Black Death Spectacle.’ They partnered with Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute and held a public forum, thus opening the debate further.
But more often, and increasingly, artists and institutions bow to the demands of critics and protestors, rather than stand their ground and debate. Recently, Tom Megalis submitted a painting, Within 2 Seconds, the Shooting of Tamir Rice, depicting the shooting by police of 12-year-old Tamir Rice to a juried arts festival in Pittsburgh; the painting was accepted, but when Megalis posted an image of it on Facebook, it was met with outrage and derision, despite his earnest intentions. He has since withdrawn the painting.
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The cumulative effect of these protests, online and off, appears to have made it more difficult for individual artists and institutions to stand their ground while entering into and sustaining any kind of fruitful dialogue. In late May, Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center became the center of a heated controversy over Scaffold, a massive 2012 work by Los Angeles artist Sam Durant meant to create awareness about capital punishment and its disproportionate effect on people of color. Scaffold is based on designs for gallows used for seven U.S. state-sanctioned executions, including that of abolitionist John Brown and 38 Dakota men hung in Mankato, Minnesota in 1862. The work was not discussed in advance with the local Dakota community, and its installation was met with a protest and demands that the work be dismantled.
After a meeting between Dakota elders, Sam Durant, Walker Art Center executive director Olga Viso, members of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, and city government officials, a determination was made: A Native-owned construction company will oversee the dismantling of the sculpture; the wood will be taken to a site near Fort Snelling, where Dakota people were imprisoned after the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War that resulted in the executions, and ceremonially burned. As part of the agreement, Durant will never re-create the piece, and will transfer his intellectual property rights to the Dakota Nation.
In all of these cases, questions have focused on whether a white artist has the right to represent historically traumatic moments from the past of other racial and ethnic groups. In none of these cases was it the artist’s intention to cause pain—quite the opposite. And yet, in each case, with the exception of the Schutz painting at the Whitney Museum, due to the mis-fire of message and audience, a furious outcry on social media—a public shaming and calling-out of the artist—has led to the sequestration, removal, withdrawal, and now destruction of works of art due to the offense taken over the race of the artist. More to the point, these protests don’t pose questions; they assert the premise that white artists do not have the right to engage issues, histories, stories and pain that they themselves have not experienced and have, in fact, contributed to as the oppressor in a culture that systematically and structurally privileges white people.
Sam Durant, Scaffold.
While critiquing or protesting artworks is a vital part of a healthy democratic society, cultural institutions that bow to demands to remove or destroy works endanger our ability to maintain a public sphere where ideas and societal problems can be freely discussed and identified. Not only does silencing and suppression set a dangerous precedent for the culture at large, it does nothing to confront the realities of racism. As noted by NCAC a few years ago when the poet Vanessa Place, whose long-running social media performance—tweeting the full text of the novel Gone With the Wind—sparked violent criticism of the project as a racist appropriation:
The cultural atmosphere evidenced by the events […] is chilling to any creative artist or institution that may consider approaching difficult questions around race, sexuality or politics. It makes real debate about emotionally charged issues over which we often disagree nearly impossible. Unless they develop strategies to manage conflict and disagreement productively, cultural institutions will operate as echo chambers under the pall of a fearful consensus, rather than leaders in a vibrant and agonistic public sphere.
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Welcome to a marriage of cultures in Black Ties
Family feuds and weddings are taken to a new level in a Sydney Festival show that transforms the classic rom-com genre into a culturally charged theatre production.
The immersive theatre piece BLACK TIES is the first of its kind to be co-produced by two First Nation theatre companies; Australian actress Rachel Mazza's ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and the New Zealand-based Te Rēhia Theatre.
Black Ties reimagines the popular rom-com from a First Nations perspective. With an unrivalled castincluding Uncle Jack Charles, Mark Coles Smith, Lisa Maza and Brady Peeti, this show is created by a crack team of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Maori artists and is a world premiere. Credit:Steven Siewert
Directors Tainui Tukiwaho and Rachel Mezza, who've known each other for a couple of years, saw the potential and power in merging Indigenous and Maori perspectives together over the central themes of "family, food and music". Revered Indigenous actor Uncle Jack Charles is among the cast.
"The show itself was not the most important. What was the most important thing was to work with the companies and neutrally empower our cultures," Tukiwaho said.
Tukiwaho co-wrote the script with David Harvey, with both wanting the script to show, not tell audiences about the cultural commentary hidden in the unconventional wedding celebrations by breaking the fourth wall.
Actors Tuakoi Ohia (left) and Mark Coles Smith in Black Ties. Credit:Steven Siewert
"Our purpose is inviting [the audience] in as though they are a part of our family," Tukiwaho said.
Indigenous-Australian actor Mark Coles Smith, who plays the main Maori character Kane, described his love-struck persona as "perhaps almost the whitest black fella on stage".
Smith said he and the cast steered away from delivering just pure entertainment through a colonial theatre lens, instead they sought to ensure it had political substance with a cultural celebration and joy.
"The rom-com format is this kind of light transport genre, on the surface it is kind of fun and bubbles along. What is underneath all of that is this intersectional cultural reflection," he said.
The opening night of the show, last Friday, was also a community night, during which discounted tickets were made exclusively available for Indigenous people at Sydney Town Hall.
"What success looks like for me is trying to regenerate the amount of love and joy in the audience with what we had from the first opening night. That feeling of bringing so many people together with so much animation and celebration," Smith said.
"The people this show strikes at the heart of is Indigenous audiences, we hear it hit them and we hear them crying. They are holding our hands and thanking us for making this show."
To ensure a balance of First Nations perspectives the play has an equal number of Indigenous-Australian to Maori scenes.
Smith enjoyed working collaboratively with his ensemble since everybody was given the opportunity to consider themselves equal in the storytelling process.
"Everybody in the space had a chance to feel empowered by that nature of collaborativeness. I am still processing how different it was to other theatre processes," Smith said.
"I really enjoyed exploring themes in the rehearsal process, what do we bring into these scenes to continue these conversations that need to be had, with Australians and also with each other."
BLACK TIES is being performed on Gadigal Land at Sydney Town Hall as part of the Sydney Festival until January 18.
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USAID study: Estonia tops civil society viability ranking in 2016 ({{contentCtrl.commentsTotal}})
Despite the decline, Estonia still topped the ranking on the viability of its civil society. Source: (Ants Liigus/Pärnu Postimees/Scanpix)
Estonia once again topped the Civil Society Organization (CSO) Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia for 2016, published by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Despite topping the ranking, however, Estonia was also among countries where a decline was noted following year of rapid development.
According to the results of the study, in recent years the vitality of the CSOs of several countries has declined, including in Russia, Macedonia and Hungary. At the same time, the results of the report indicate that activists are learning new ways to stand for the public interest, mobilize citizens and get funding for their operations. A good example of this is efficient protest movements in countries where the government has tried to reduce the civic space, such as in Poland.
Estonia has been at the top of the index for years, meaning it is the country with the most vital civil society. Private giving is becoming more ingrained in society and volunteerism is also on the rise. CSOs remain active advocates, demonstrating their ability to stand up for the interests of civil society, their communities and society at large. Perceptions of civil society have also shifted, with many regarding civic action as an integral oart of life, not just something relevant to CSOs.
In recent years, however, rapid development has stopped, and in the fresh ranking, Estonia's indicators have declined.
"The primary reason behind Estonian indicators declining is the drop in organizational capacity," said Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations (EMSL) director Maris Jõgeva. "The gap between well-managed and less organized CSOs continued to grow. At the same time, new programs which could soon result in more innovation and impact for CSOs have been initiated in Estonia."
In the fresh index, Poland placed second after Estonia, while Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania followed. The viability of CSOs was deemed weakest in Belarus, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.
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General election: Boris Johnson reveals post-tipple Brexit booze ban
The PM's partaking of a dram in Scotland is likely to fuel doubts over the Tory leader's commitment to his "do or dry" promise.
Friday 8 November 2019 15:48, UK
Image: The Tory leader enjoyed a drop of whisky during a campaign visit to a Scottish distillery
Boris Johnson has claimed he has given up booze until Brexit is "done" - just 24 hours after being snapped sipping whisky during a visit to a distillery.
His partaking of a dram in Scotland is likely to fuel doubts over the prime minister's commitment to his "do or dry" promise, made on the election trail.
Image: The PM declared he had gone teetotal as he met with nurses in Nottinghamshire
It comes after the Tory leader had to apologise and express his "deep regret" over his failure to deliver on his "do or die" pledge to deliver Brexit by the Halloween deadline.
It is not the first time Mr Johnson is said to have gone teetotal, reportedly cutting out drinking in a bid to lose weight ahead of the Tory leadership campaign.
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Ironically, it was a glass of spilt red that threatened to derail his bid for the top job, after police were called to a row between the self-declared "wine man" and his partner, Carrie Symonds.
Mr Johnson revealed his latest period of abstinence as he talked about health issues with nurses during an election campaign visit to a hospital in Nottinghamshire.
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YANKTON, S.D. – Senior center Tyler Borchers (SR/Le Mars, IA ) (LeMars, Iowa) and senior forward Matt Hahn (SR/Fremont, NE ) (Fremont, Neb.) guided National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Division II top-ranked Morningside College in a 40-minute Great Plains Athletic Conference thriller Thursday, Jan. 2.
Mount Marty College, among the impressive stories of the 2019-20 NAIA D2 scene with a road win at the always-tough World’s Only and Famous Corn Palace in Mitchell, S.D., over No. 7-ranked Dakota Wesleyan University as part of a 13-3 overall and 5-2 loop start that helped them crash the top 25 at No. 23, proved their mettle in front of a near-capacity crowd at Laddie E. Cimpl Arena. The Lancers shot better than 50 percent from the floor which included draining 17 three-pointers to push the mighty Mustangs to the limit.
However, at the end of the evening, with the scoring reading a 91-87 win for head coach Jim Sykes‘ squad that increased their record to 15-0 overall and 8-0 in the conference, one statistical category stood out. A 37-25 rebounding advantage was the important section and featured many Maroon standouts. Tyler Borchers, who led four players in double digits for the Maroon with 22, gathered eight; senior forward Ben Hoskins (SR/Wayne, NE ) (Wayne, Neb.), totaling another big effort from the bench with eight points, grabbed five boards; junior guard Zach Imig (JR/Gretna, NE ) (Gretna, Neb.) who’s nine points moved him within 25 of the 1,000-point club, also cleaned the glass with five rebounds; and the trio of Hahn, senior guard Alex Borchers (SR/South Sioux City, NE ) (South Sioux City, Iowa), and junior center Trey Brown (JR/Gretna, NE ) (Gretna, Neb.) picked up four each.
Hahn’s four boards added to a glowing 18-point, seven-assist stat line, while Alex Borchers finished with 10 points, the four rebounds, and three assists. Brown came off the bench with nine points, his four caroms, and an assist to accentuate a perfect shooting night from the field (four-for-four). Freshman guard Will Pottebaum (FR/LeMars, IA) (LeMars, Iowa) continued to make his presence felt with his third double-figure scoring outing (11 points) to go with two rebounds and a steal.
A brief 6-0 run in the 15-minute mark of the second half gave Mside a 54-50 lead they wouldn’t relinquish. MMC closed within one three times and tied it once from that point but could never regain the advantage.
The Mustangs are back home for a showdown with the No. 7-ranked Tigers of DWU Saturday, Jan. 4. Game time inside Allee Gymnasium of the Rosen-Verdoorn Sports Center is 4 p.m.
NOTES: Tyler Borchers moved past former teammate Brody Egger on the all-time scoring list, taking over No. 4 (1,684). He’s registered double-figure points in five straight contests and 10 of his last 11 appearances … Alex Borchers, who is a point shy of 1200 for his career, has moved into No. 20 on the all-time points list and can climb into 19th with two points and into 17th with 20-or-more this weekend.
YANKTON, S.D. – Senior forward/center Sydney Hupp won’t soon forget two of the points that helped her move alone into the number 14 slot on the all-time scoring list.
Neither will her Mustang teammates or a persistent host side from Mount Marty College that battled tooth and nail for 40 minutes inside Laddie E. Cimpl Arena on MMC’s campus Thursday, Jan. 2. Hupp’s 12th and 13 digits of a near double-double of 13 points and nine rebounds which included two blocked shots and two assists occurred on a fade-away jumper as the clock hit four zeroes in the second half. As the ball gently slipped through the net, head coach Jamie Sale‘s squad averted a second successive defeat and kept firm hold of third place on the Great Plains Athletic Conference standings with a 64-62 win.
A bucket that concluded a back-and-forth affair throughout. The host Lancers made it clear it wouldn’t be easy for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Division II No. 7-ranked squad to leave southeastern South Dakota with a win from the get-go, scoring 15 of the first 23 points. Mside (12-4 overall, 7-2 GPAC) responded with a 19-5 run of its own and the contest saw traded leads from that point right down until Hupp’s winning shot.
Junior guard Sierra Mitchell (Pleasant Hill, Iowa) and sophomore guard Taylor Rodenburgh (Hawarden, Iowa) added key stat lines. Mitchell scored 14 points, dished out two assists and picked up a steal, and Rodenburgh, resuming her super-sub status, scored 14 points to tie for the team lead and corralled six rebounds. Other big numbers on the final totals came from freshman guard Olivia Larsen (Newell, Iowa) (six rebounds, four steals, eight points) and junior guard Grace Meyer (Pomeroy, Iowa) (five rebounds).
Morningside continues a hectic early January, facing off against fellow NAIA D2 top 15 foe Dakota Wesleyan University Saturday, Jan. 4. Game time is 2 p.m. on the Allee Gymnasium floor of the Rosen-Verdoorn Sports Center.
NOTE: Mitchell has moved up one spot on the all-time points list (No. 24 – 1,175) due to recent successes. It’s due, in large part, to a sparkling roll of 13 straight games with two-or-more made three-point baskets.
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A New Way To Fracture Oil and Gas Wells
By Brian Westenhaus - Jul 31, 2012, 5:21 PM CDT
GASFRAC of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has developed an innovative closed stimulation process and injection method, utilizing gelled LPG rather than water based conventional formation fracturing fluids.
The firm has developed a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or propane based gel that is as natural to a well as soil is to the earth. It’s dissolves into the formation hydrocarbons improving performance without using water.
LPG will burn of course so GASFRAC has developed a zero-oxygen, closed system and specialized equipment that protects worker safety, eliminates post-job cleanup and requires only minimal flaring that can be reduced to zero when installing the appropriate recapture facilities.
Without forcing water into the oil or gas laden rock opens the ability to quickly recover 100% of the fracturing fluid resulting in enhanced oil and gas recovery and longer sustained production. The LPG could be recaptured, reused or resold, a highly cost-effective benefit, especially for multi-stage horizontal wells.
GASFRAC is using your standard C3H8, a naturally occurring hydrocarbon that doesn’t damage the rock formation. In the gel form the material has low surface tension, low viscosity, low density, along with solubility within naturally occurring reservoir hydrocarbons – all of which when added together, create more effective fracture lengths, enabling higher initial and long term production of the well.
GASFRAC’s LPG Frack Results Graphic.
These properties have what GASFRAC claims are major advantages. The sand or proppant can be evenly distributed during pumping, thereby decreasing the chance of the proppant settling in odd inconvenient spots in the formations. The gel can generate a higher pay zone height throughout pumping and subsequent long-term production.
The waterless method increases initial production rates, helping establish production much sooner than traditional fracturing methods.
Sounds like an advertisement. Nearly so . . .
Except that the gel regains permeability with the stimulated hydrocarbons, with the ability to recover 100% of the fracturing fluids within days of stimulation. This creates economic and environmental benefits reducing clean-up, waste disposal and pre and post-job truck traffic, while creating higher initial production levels. It is a true win for producers and a win for the environment.
The technology isn’t yet fully proven. Still the firm has fracked over 1,300 wells in Canada and the US. The method was originally designed to improve the performance of low-pressure wells and has impressed those within the environmental arena.
The Vancouver Sun reports GASFRAC charges a 50 percent premium in comparison to traditional fracking companies. But there would be significant savings in water use, truck traffic (as much as 75% less), and easier site cleanups. Apart from logistical gains, the article also referred to the rise in well production as “spectacular.” Reports from the Cardium formation, which is west of Edmonton, displayed that the LPG fracking results are “two to three times better” at increasing the flow of oil and gas in comparison to traditional methods.
Another environmental advantage is LPG is electrically neutral and lacks having much friction, so it doesn’t dissolve and bring back to the surface the salts, heavy metals or radioactive compounds that water-based fracking extracts from the rock underground.
The oil and gas business, in its natural ultra competitive way has been pretty hush hush on the technology.
Last year, Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, used LPG to frack several natural gas wells in the Piceance Basin, home to several lucrative coal, oil and natural gas deposits in northwestern Colorado. The technology “significantly increases production while minimizing water usage,” the company said in its annual report, which did not mention GASFRAC by name.
It looks like there are already some formulas being developed for the gel for use in the specific circumstances. That is proprietary, and GASFRAC is leaving the ownership of the formulas in the hands of the well operators.
That privacy drives the watchdogs a bit crazy.
The technology is marching on. San Antonio-based BlackBrush recently announced a two-year contract with GASFRAC in the oil-rich Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. Phil Mezey, BlackBrush’s co-CEO, said in a news release that using LPG brought “oil production at a sustainable rate weeks earlier than with the standard water frac and we are seeing huge savings on disposal of frac fluids.”
GASFRAC has also fracked several oil wells in Colorado’s Niobrara Formation. Although GASFRAC hasn’t released the name of its customer, some investors have speculated that it is Fort Worth-based Quicksilver Resources.
The most interesting news is a well that GASFRAC fracked in north central Pennsylvania for Dallas-based Exco Resources. It could give a glimpse of how effective LPG fracking might be in the huge Marcellus shale in the environmentally and politically charged northeast.
The technology developed by former Chevron engineer Robert Lestz, now GASFRAC’s chief technology officer is very likely to take off. The company recently recieved a $100 million loan that will help ease some of its growing pains, and it has hired Zeke Zeringue, a former president of Halliburton Energy Services Group, to replace its retiring founder and CEO. Plenty of money, the right people and customers are lining up.
And! They’re hiring!
For the less thoughtful – a cautionary note. This is propane, the stuff in the bottle for the grill and used to fuel cars, heat homes and other things. It obviously burns. Yet a lot of folks are going to raise a ruckus over it being more dangerous than water. Keep in mind that the oil and gas business is about flammable liquids and gases and as a practical matter no one else is better able to incorporate a propane technology. It’s already safe and will get safer. Ruckessing over propane to frak a well might seem a little daft.
Congratulations to Mr. Lestz. Working out how to mix up a hydraulic fluid that works better than water and solves the big well fracturing concerns with better productivity is a fine accomplishment – that from here is highly appreciated.
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jim on August 01 2012 said:
It appears safe but in Alberta they have had two fatal accidents.
Jon on August 01 2012 said:
I don't believe these accidents were fatal.
Allen on August 02 2012 said:
GASFRAC has never had a fatality in over 1600 jobs completed. They actually have one of the strongest safety records of any service company in the industry
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When the first single of Sheryl Crow's debut -- the torch rocker "Run, Baby, Run" -- withered on the charts, it quietly introduced one of the biggest pop records of the mid-'90s. Written by a loose group of LA comrades from which the albums takes its name, the glut of hits presented Crow as a the affable, hard workin' backup singer who made it to the big time through characteristic gems like "Leaving Las Vegas," "Strong Enough," "Can't Cry Anymore" and, of course, "All I Wanna Do," which pulled in two Grammies. After getting giddy on hits, listen for the enduring downtempo album track, "We Do What We Can."
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Banned In France, Dubai Requires Women To Wear Burkini
By Lionel Arkin - April 29, 2017
Bikini season is right around the corner, and while women all over the world are preparing for the much-anticipated beach body reveal, women in Dubai are now being required to cover up. Recently, Dubai made a new requirement to “wear respectful swimwear” and to “be fully covered.” This marks the first time that a public beach in Dubai enforced a modesty policy. However, dress code policies are anything but new.
Dubai’s recent modest requirements are in stark contrast to France’s burkini-ban controversy. France’s ban began after a slew of anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic sentiment in the country. Then in July when the Mayor of Cannes called the burkini “the uniform of extremist Islamism,” the anti-Islamic position gained traction. The burka bathing suit ban in France received international criticism and The New York Times referred to the ban as “paternalistic, bigoted and hypocritical.”
In contrast, Dubai’s modest dress code has been around for a while. According to Yahoo Style, Dubai’s “modest dress code codified in its criminal law, requiring women to cover their shoulders and knees.” Dubai’s latest modesty requirement has garnered some positive attention. One British tourist shared on the National, “I am quite happy to use that section of beach as there will be no single men there, no large groups of young people smoking and swearing around my kids, and no barely dressed women posing provocatively with selfie sticks.”
Head of fashion design at Amity University Dubai, Vaishali Raj, shared his insights on the new Dubai modesty requirement with the National. Raj stated, “Emiratis dress conservatively, and expats are expected to do so as well. Visitors often lose recognition of the fact that Dubai is very much a part of the Islamic world. Liberal as it appears, the recently changed beach rules should be taken as a positive step to awaken tourists to the vast journey the place has traveled in its outlook in such a short span of time.”
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Mircea Cartarescu Bucharest, is one of the most relevant Romanian writers, poets and essayists of his generation. Over the next few years, my essential books will be published here as well. My Europe is one built on an enormous cultural, philosophical and scientific heritage. The United States of Europe seems something of a utopia right now. Fantasy and imagination Mircea Cartarescu Bucharest, is one of the most relevant Romanian writers, poets and essayists of his generation.
Populism is the ugly face of democracy. The unity of the EU is essential in these times of confusion and historical regression.
I write about people and about literature at the same straien, about the human condition and the condition of the writer in the endless frumoaasele incomprehensible universe that is our home. To leave comments on the website you must be a verified reader. I dream of a Europe without frontiers, I am also aware that we still have a long way to go until we can hope to achieve this dream.
I don’t write for the critics, but for those who genuinely read me, trying to find themselves in my books. Is a united Europe better equipped to fight populism and extremism?
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Cartarescu, during his recent visit to the Catalan capital to begin a series of lectures at the CCCB cultural centre. The important thing is, while you read, that everything disappears around you, and when you go to sleep, you suddenly find yourself completely frumoaselee in a bright new world. In your talk, you described your personal Europe. How do you feel about it? How do you feel that they have been received by readers frumaosele An explanation may be that Romanian is part of the same group of Romance languages as Catalan and Spanish.
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The Judaic-Greek tradition dating back 3, years is its spine. A Nobel prizewinner would have a much stronger voice in the fight in our country against populism and brutality, and there are many who are afraid of this.
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Chemistry and deposition in the Model of Atmospheric composition at Global...
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Chemistry and deposition in the Model of Atmospheric composition at Global and Regional scales using Inversion Techniques for Trace gas Emissions (MAGRITTE v1.1) – Part 1: Chemical mechanism
Müller, Jean-François; Stavrakou, Trissevgeni; Peeters, Jozef
A new chemical mechanism for the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) is presented and implemented in the Model of Atmospheric composition at Global and Regional scales using Inversion Techniques for Trace gas Emissions (MAGRITTE v1.1). With a total of 105 organic species and over 265 gas-phase reactions, 69 photodissociations, and 7 heterogeneous reactions, the mechanism treats the chemical degradation of isoprene – its main focus – as well as acetaldehyde, acetone, methylbutenol, and the family of monoterpenes. Regarding isoprene, the mechanism incorporates a state-of-the-art representation of its oxidation scheme accounting for all major advances put forward in recent theoretical and laboratory studies. The recycling of OH radicals in isoprene oxidation through the isomerization of Z-δ-hydroxyperoxy radicals is found to enhance OH concentrations by up to 40 % over western Amazonia in the boundary layer and by 10 %–15 % over the southeastern US and Siberia in July. The model and its chemical mechanism are evaluated against the suite of chemical measurements from the SEAC4RS (Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys) airborne campaign, demonstrating a good overall agreement for major isoprene oxidation products, although the aerosol hydrolysis of tertiary and non-tertiary nitrates remain poorly constrained. The comparisons for methylnitrate indicate a very low nitrate yield (<3×10-4) in the CH3O2+NO reaction. The oxidation of isoprene, acetone, and acetaldehyde by OH is shown to be a substantial source of enols and keto-enols, primarily through the photolysis of multifunctional carbonyls generated in their oxidation schemes. Oxidation of those enols by OH radicals constitutes a sizable source of carboxylic acids estimated at 9 Tg (HC(O)OH) yr−1 and 11 Tg(CH3C(O)OH) yr−1 or ∼20 % of their global identified source. The ozonolysis of alkenes is found to be a smaller source of HC(O)OH (6 Tg HC(O)OH yr−1) than previously estimated, due to several factors including the strong deposition sink of hydroxymethyl hydroperoxide (HMHP).
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Geoscientific Model Development
Bd. 12, H. 6 (06.2019), S. 2307-2356
10.5194/gmd-12-2307-2019
oai:publications.copernicus.org:gmd73382
https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/12/2307/2019/gmd-12-2307-2019.pdf
Müller, Jean-François / Stavrakou, Trissevgeni / Peeters, Jozef: Chemistry and deposition in the Model of Atmospheric composition at Global and Regional scales using Inversion Techniques for Trace gas Emissions (MAGRITTE v1.1) – Part 1: Chemical mechanism. 2019. Copernicus Publications.
DOI (10.5194/gmd-12-2307-2019)
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-2307-2019
Rechteinhaber: Jean-François Müller et al.
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The first three digital comedy shorts are hitting screens!
The first three digital comedy shorts from Channel 4’s commission with our North East Comedy Hot House will begin to hit screens this week!
Back in September, Channel 4 announced its collaboration with our Hot House, headed up by scripted comedy exec, Emma Lawson, in partnership with NFM. Following an open call for applicants, 24 digital shorts by North East comedy talent were commissioned with the aim of injecting regional voices into the national comedy scene. With only a couple of months of nurturing and development from the Hot House, shorts from three regional production companies will now be going live, with more to follow over the coming weeks. Fresh, original, diverse, and backed by a major broadcaster: welcome to the new North East comedy scene!
Raul Kohli, Couch Potato Films: ‘Too Proud To Split The Bill’
Stand-up comedian and Newcastle native Raul Kohli has made his first venture into broadcasting with Couch Potato Films’ ‘Too Proud To Split The Bill’. Starring alongside Aatif Nawaz from BBC Three’s sketch comedy show ‘Muzlamic’, Raul also wrote the short, who he claims is ‘for every Asian kid who’s ever been humiliated by their elders’ generosity when going out for a meal!’. The development journey from stage to screen has been a huge one for Raul, who says the Channel 4 project has been ‘immensely rewarding, and one you don’t often get to do in the North East’.
Producer of Hartlepool-based Couch Potato Films, Adam Bouabda, says that his company ‘have really enjoyed working with the North East Comedy Hot House and NFM. Emma has been a great exec; we’ve learned a lot from her and will continue to as long as she’ll have us around!’. This project has developed Couch Potato Films’ ability to deliver to broadcast and Adam is hopeful for future projects: ‘As part of the Tees Valley Screen Steering Group, I hope that we can bring more opportunities like this one to the region, helping new and emerging talent to get their ideas on screen’.
‘Too Proud To Split The Bill’ is out now on Channel 4’s Facebook, click here!
Joby Mageean and James Craggs, Roundhouse Pictures: ‘We’re Gannin’ Oot, Oot!’
Roundhouse Pictures’ ‘We’re Gannin’ Oot, Oot!’ is an exciting venture for both writer Joby Mageean and director James Craggs. Joby is an up-and-coming stand-up comedian from Newcastle; his shows are known for their whimsical sense of humour and musical components. Creating a film with Roundhouse Pictures was a new experience for Joby: ‘It was fantastic to see the sketch I wrote come alive in front of me. It is completely different to what I’m used to, performing comedy, it’s a lot more about creating a visual aesthetic and telling a story. I am so grateful for this opportunity and I absolutely love the end result’.
For Head of Film at Roundhouse Pictures, James, directing ‘We’re Gannin’ Oot, Oot!’ was also a huge source of professional development. Speaking of the ‘unique and incredible opportunity’, he claims: ‘The reason why we’ve gleaned so much from it is because, up to this point, Roundhouse Pictures had been a production company grounded almost solely in the corporate world. This was a real change!’. Like many working with the North East Comedy Hot House on this project, James feels there will be a shift in the work produced by Roundhouse in future: ‘It’s made us even more driven to produce more and different types of content, helping to establish the North East as a bigger part of the commissioned landscape’.
‘We’re Gannin’ Oot, Oot!’ will be released on Channel 4’s Facebook this week.
Jen Gallagher, FNA: ‘If Boobs Were Like Balls’
Hailing from the Tees Valley, Jen Gallagher is a first-time writer and director, debuting her talent for FNA’s first short: ‘If Boobs Were Like Balls’. Although the Channel 4 project has been an opportunity to feature funny new talent across the board, it has been particularly refreshing to champion women like Jen working behind-the-camera roles. She says: ‘Working with Emma Lawson and the North East Comedy Hot House to bring my comedy shorts to life for Channel 4 has been absolutely incredible’.
Zahra Zomorrodian, producer of FNA, has relished the experience: ‘Being supported and challenged by both Emma and the North East Comedy Hot House has had a hugely positive impact on the profile of FNA, regionally and nationally’.
‘If Boobs Were Like Balls’ hits Channel 4’s YouTube channel soon.
Channel 4 and the North East Comedy Hot House
The Channel 4 initiative has been designed to provide a platform for bold, experimental, and socially-shareable comedy. The content will be showcased exclusively across Channel 4’s social media channels, including Facebook and YouTube.
Laura Marks, the Channel 4 Commissioner for the project, said: ‘Showcasing new writers and talent from across the country and providing a platform for them to try the things they wouldn’t normally get the opportunity to do is hugely exciting for us’.
Emma Lawson, Executive Producer of the North East Comedy Hot House, adds: ‘I’m thrilled to have finally had the opportunity to develop and make comedy with the brilliant programme-making talent here in the North East. The Hot House initiative was formed especially for us to get more involved with the comedy community here, and thanks to Channel 4 we were able to hit the ground running! I can’t wait for the shorts to start hitting screens, and I hope this is the first of many collaborations with the production companies in the region’.
Alison Gwynn, our Acting Managing Director, comments: ‘These broadcast commissions have two things in common: they are made by people who live in the North East, and they make us laugh. We know the North East is a region brimming with creative talent and Northern Film + Media is working on a number of activities to support the growth of our production companies. Initiatives like this project with Channel 4 and Emma Lawson are essential to support the growth of the screen sector in the region. It has given our talent a space to experiment and find collaborators, helping them to take their comedy production to the next level and be seen by huge audiences’.
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There’s something intangible about the way ALPINAs feel so much better than their BMW counterparts. It’s hard to explain but there’s a feeling of delicacy, charm and specialness that makes ALPINAs so wonderful. I remember driving the ALPINA B7 for the first time and falling in love with it, despite my ho-hum feelings about the pre-LCI G11 7 Series. In this new review from Car Magazine, you can tell author Ben Miller feels a similar way about the new ALPINA B5 Biturbo.
Despite being based on the standard BMW 5 Series, the ALPINA B5 Biturbo feels like an entirely different machine. Not only that but it feels like an entirely different machine from the BMW M5, the fastest and most exciting version of the 5er. The B5 Biturbo is a different animal than both of those cars and, according to Miller, feels more special as well.
Under the hood is a revised version of BMW’s 4.4 liter twin-turbo V8. To say ‘revised’ is to drastically understate how different it is and feels. ALPINA gives it new Mahle pistons, two larger turbochargers, a new intake, exhaust, intercooler and even bigger NGK spark plugs. The entire engine is retuned to make 600 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque, making it a pokier unit than the one in the M5. More importantly, it feels different. It’s effectively the same engine that powered the B7 I drove last year and it feels more like an AMG than a BMW M engine, as Miller points out and I agree with. It’s meatier and deeper sounding low down but builds into a screaming monster at high revs.
It’s not just the engine, though. Everything about the way the ALPINA B5 moves feels different than any BMW product, M or otherwise. Its steering is more direct and communicative than the 5 Series, while its chassis is playful yet rock-solid. All the while, it’s more comfortable and luxurious than the M5. This is all thanks to specific tweaks to every little aspect of the 5er’s chassis, suspension, rear-wheel steering, all-wheel drive system and all of the software that controls it all.
All of those things add up to something that’s more than the sum of its parts, though. It’s hard to explain but ALPINAs just feel different, and often times better, than their BMW counterparts. The ALPINA B5 Biturbo is no different.
[Source: Car Magazine]
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Exercise during pregnancy on maternal lipids: a secondary analysis of randomized controlled trial
by Robinson Ramirez-Velez; Felipe Lobelo; Ana C. Aguilar-de Plata; Mikel Izquierdo; Antonio Garcia-Hermoso
Health Sciences, Public Health
Background: Today, scientific evidence has supported the popular belief that physical activity is associated with biological health in pregnant women. A randomized controlled trial was used to assess the benefits of physical exercise during pregnancy on maternal lipids in low-income Latina women. Methods: The study included 67 nulliparous low-income Latina women in gestational weeks 16-20, randomly assigned into one of two groups: 1) The exercise group, which took part in aerobic and resistance exercise for 60min, three times a week for 12weeks, 2) The control group, which undertook their usual physical activity and prenatal care. The primary outcomes were changes in maternal blood lipids after intervention. Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes measured were type of delivery, postpartum hemorrhage, newborn and/or maternal complications', gestational age, weight gain, birth weight, foetal growth, and Apgar score. Results: Fifty women completed the study. At the end of the intervention, there were differences between groups in low-density lipoprotein levels (mean change: -8mg/dL, 95%CI -3 to -29; P < 0.001) and triglycerides (mean change: -6mg/dL, 95%CI -1 to -11; P=0.03). Also, compared with women who remained in the control group, active women showed lower complications during delivery (moderate postpartum haemorrhage) (58% compared with 75%; P < 0.05) and lower complications in newborns (e.g. cyanosis or respiratory distress) (21% compared with 46%; P < 0.001). Conclusions: An exercise programme during the second and third trimester favours less gain in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides fewer delivery and neonatal complications. Trial registration:NCT00741312(August 22, 2008).
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OSI Board Changes 2014
Submitted by webmink on Wed, 2014-04-09 10:32
April annually sees the start of the OSI Board year, with resulting vacancies and the appointment of directors to fill them. This year saw vacancies arising due to the retirement of Board officers -- Karl Fogel, who has done a tremendous job as OSI's Treasurer, and of Martin Michlmayr, whose work as OSI's Secretary has been beyond measure. Also leaving due to term limits is Harshad Gune, and Richard Fontana's seat was open due to the one-year terms for directors representing Individual Members.
The Board turned to OSI's growing membership to fill the resulting four vacancies. Three of the vacancies were allocated for filling by people selected by the Individual Members, and the other was assigned to the Affiliate Members (comprising open source related non-profit organisations). Using approval voting, the Individual members selected Allison Randal (68% approval), Richard Fontana (61% approval) and Leslie Hawthorn (42% approval) -- each to serve for one year -- and the Affiliate Members selected Stefano Zacchiroli to serve for three years. Commiserations to the other candidates, and thanks for participating.
The new OSI Board will be meeting soon in Boston to make plans for the coming year. During this meeting we'll welcome the new Directors, select a President for 2014, meet with the Free Software Foundation and review our strategy for transformation. We are very grateful for your continued support and aim to make OSI ever more valuable both to its members and to the wider open source community.
Simon Phipps (OSI President, 2013)
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Paul Croft
b. 1963, Belfast Northern Ireland
Paul Croft is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and currently Lecturer in Printmaking at The School of Art Aberystwyth. Since qualifying as Tamarind Master Printer (1996), his research has focused upon technical, social, historical and contemporary aspects of British and International Lithography. He has published two seminal books on Stone Lithography (2001) and Plate Lithography (2003) and has curated exhibitions: Stone Plate Grease Water International Lithography 2007-8, Contemporary Chinese Printmaking 2014-16, Xiaoxiang Exhibition of International Printmaking 2015.
He has exhibited his work in the UK, Ireland, USA, China, Australia and New Zealand. As a collaborating printer he has worked with artists from across the UK and Wales including, Mary Lloyd Jones, Shani Rhys James, David Tress, Pete Williams, Pete Davies and Stuart Evans.
Elemental Radicals and Passages of Landscape represent two series of prints produced by Paul Croft since 2015 from the collection Language & Letters of Motif.
These prints reflect Paul's continuing interest in developing visual language and use of signs, symbols, alphabets, letters and characters. Fascination for motif sometimes deriving from seemingly insignificant objects, observed, found and collected, combine with research into the etymological development of writing and the pictographic origin of letters, characters and words.
Through woodcut and lithography, synthesis of images occurs from objets-trouvés, still life, amulets and museum artifacts, together with characters borrowed and adapted from Chinese. Through composition, presentation and format, ambiguity and uncertainty of meaning liberates interpretation, enabling the prints to be viewed and read in calligraphic terms.
Elemental Radicals has been produced as a set of twelve woodcuts, printed in variable editions of ten, resulting in a total of 120 unique prints. Based upon the Elements: (Series 1) water, air, fire, earth; (Series 2) wood, stone, cloth, gold; (Series 3) people, man, woman, child; each woodblock carries a Chinese 'radical' or root character that is used in a form of wordplay. Through block rotation, over-printing, use of paper stencils and counter-proofing, each of the characters is interrupted, the meaning obfuscated or changed to create individual statements.
Passages of Landscape, which is also a set of 12 prints, printed in editions of ten variable impressions, started off as a Mokulito, and combines woodcut and plate lithography, printed using stencils and counter-proofing. The prints inspired by aspects of landscape, play with the Chinese characters for: (Series 1) mountain range, peak, mountain, hill; (Series 2) creek, waterfall, river valley, gorge; (Series 3) grassland, marsh, plain, forest.
Elemental Radicals:Series 1: Water VI
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Elemental Radicals:Series 2: Gold VII
Passages of Landscapes: Series 1: Peak V
Passages of Landscapes: Series 2: Creek VI
Passages of Landscapes: Series 2: Waterfall X
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ORIYA GIRL BRINGS OUT THE BEST INVESTIGATIVE FILM
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Bhubaneswar:
We have tried to document one of the worst droughts that hit Bolangir in the year 2000 and its aftermath, says Ms Rupashree Nanda. Director of HARVEST OF HUNGER, the documentary that has been held to be the Best Investigative Film in the non-fiction category bagging for her the Rajat Kamal in the 52nd National Film Awards, this year.
Producer Actionaid India will also be awarded with Rajat Kamal over and above the cash prize it carries. Editor of the film, Mr. Prashant Nayak is also adjudged the Best Editor.
Atal Behari Vajpayee, when Prime Minister, had used a pampered journal to reject reports of starvation deaths in that side of the State. In these pages, we had shown how he was wrong. Rupashree has now irrefutably exposed the wrong done to our people.
It is sad to see the game of one upmanship among politicians and bureaucrats on display at the expense of one of the most oppressed communities, that battle hunger, succumb to starvation and sell off children to survive, she says.
The film has exposed the ruin of Orissas skilled workers who migrate to neighboring States providing profuse profit to agents of brick kilns where to they mostly go. The labor market in Bolangir is worth Rs 40-50 crore and comprises about 2 lakhs people; one third of which belong to the group of under-aged children, the documentary has established.
Ignored by administration and kept bereft of benefits promised in various projects, they go to the labor contractors seeking loans under compulsion of immediate living and then, to repay these loans, migrate as bonded laborers to the brick kilns mostly in neighboring Andhra Pradesh.
Says Rupashree, They are subjected to one of the worst forms of exploitation, working almost 18 hours a day in the brick kilns and subsisting on a diet of broken rice called Kanki, basically a chicken feed, for a period of 8 months. When monsoon comes, they return empty handed hoping good luck shall come and they will never to have to migrate again. But, despite a good monsoon, spending all the crops they yield in repaying the loans they owe to local agents and money lenders, they get on their ways to the kilns again.
Exposing this was not without any difficulty. The owners and managers of the brick kilns were vehemently against documentation. Rupashree notes, the migrant women even in their wretched despair, were extending her full cooperation and protection. Some of them saw me as a sister, some as a friend. They gave me food and shelter when necessary. Though vulnerable themselves, they protected me in the brick kilns whenever the Seths or Munshis threatened or abused. They trusted me and shared their lives with me. If I could dedicate this film to anyone, it would to those dignified people. Our efforts would be truly rewarded if the film brings about a change in the lives of these people.
A resident of Bapuji Nagar, she got initial interest in people of Bolangir during her visits to her mother who was then the Principal of Government Womens College there. She watched and observed their condition closely and deeply. Then came the Actionaid India project.
She has done her Masters in English from the Utkal University and specialization in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia. Her next venture is slated to be on Right to Information.
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Love Live! is a multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works, Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project tells the story of fictional high school girls who start an idol group in order to save their school from closing down. The series launched in the August 2010 issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine and has gone on to encompass anime adaptations, manga adaptations, music releases, video games, and more. To date, the franchise has received two anime adaptations and a movie directed by Takahiko Kyogoku, written by Jukki Hanada, and produced by studio Sunrise: Love Live! School Idol Project, Love Live! Sunshine!!, and Love Live! The School Idol Movie.
The Love Live! School Idol Project anime is the first in the franchise and its two seasons aired on Tokyo MX, TVA, and BS11 from Jan. 6, 2013 to June 29, 2014. Its story follows main character Honoka and members of the newly formed idol group μ's as they try to save their school, Otonokizaka Academy, from shutting down and follow their dreams of winning the Love Live idol competition and becoming full fledged idols. The anime spans 26 episodes total.
μ's Members:
Honoka Kosaka (CV: Emi Nitta) - The main character of Love Live! School Idol Project. She has a bubbly, cheerful personality and is the leader of μ's.
Kotori Minami (CV: Aya Uchida) - Honoka’s childhood friend who’s a bit airheaded. She is the wardrobe designer and choreographer of μ's.
Eli Ayase (CV: Yoshino Nanjo) - The Otonokizaka Academy student council president who is friends with Nozomi. She excels at sports and academics and is the choreographer of μ's along with Kotori.
Hanayo Koizumi (CV: Yurika Kubo) - A shy and quiet girl with poor self-esteem prior to joining μ's who later becomes president of the Idol Research Club.
Umi Sonoda (CV: Suzuko Mimori) - Honoka’s childhood friend who has expertise in kendo, koto, nagauta, shodo, and nichibu, and is the lyricist of μ's.
Rin Hoshizora (CV: Riho Iida) - A tomboy with an athletic and cheerful personality who is best friends with Hanayo.
Nico Yazawa (CV: Sora Tokui) - An idol superfan and founder of the Idol Research Club. She is the wardrobe designer of μ's along with Kotori. Her catchphrase is “Nico Nico Nii!”
Maki Nishikino (CV: Pile) - A talented singer and pianist, Maki is the main composer and vocal coach of the group.
Nozomi Tojo (CV: Aina Kusuda) - The big sister of the group who is demure with a mischievous side and acts as the group’s spiritual leader. Her hobby is fortune-telling.
The members of μ's are also divided into three mini groups. BiBi is comprised of Eli, Maki, and Nico, and their singles include "Diamond Princess no Yuutsu" and "Cutie Panther." Printemps is comprised of Honoka, Kotori, and Hanayo, and their singles include "Love Marginal" and "Pure Girls Project." The third group, Lily White, is comprised of Umi, Rin, and Nozomi, and their singles include "Shiranai Love*Oshiete Love" and "Binetsu kara Mystery."
The second anime, Love Live! Sunshine!! began airing on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS, BS11, TVA, SBS, TVQ, and TVh on July 2, 2016. It tells a very similar story to Love Live! School Idol Project - girls banding together and forming an idol unit to save their school from closing - but its setting shifts to Uranohoshi Girls' Academy with a new lineup of characters who form the idol group Aqours. Its opening and ending themes are "Aozora Jumping Heart" and "Yume Kataru yori Yume Utao." Thirteen episodes of the anime are planned.
Aqours Members:
Chika Takami (CV: Anju Inami) - The main character of Love Live! Sunshine!! who has a complex about being too ordinary and looks up to μ's which leads her to form a school idol group of her own.
Riko Sakurauchi (CV: Riakko Aida) - A modest, down to earth transfer student and the group’s composer.
Kanan Matsuura (CV: Nanaka Suwa) - Chika’s childhood friend who takes care of her injured grandfather and has a hard time attending class.
Dia Kurosawa (CV: Arisa Komiya) - The Uranohoshi Girls' Academy student council president, Dia is prideful and joins the group after losing a bet to Chika. She is also a diehard fan of μ's.
You Watanabe (CV: Shuka Saito) - Chika’s childhood friend who has an energetic, positive personality. Her catchphrase is “Keep her steady!”
Yoshiko Tsushima (CV: Aika Kobayashi) - Yoshiko joins the group in an attempt to try and overcome her chunibyo. She refers to herself as Yohane, a fallen angel.
Hanamaru Kunikida (CV: Kanako Takatsuki) - A ditzy, talented singer whose family runs a local temple.
Mari Ohara (CV: Aina Suzuki) - A bright go-getter whose favorite music is industrial metal.
Ruby Kurosawa (CV: Ai Furihata) - Dia’s timid crybaby sister who has long dreamed of becoming an idol and has androphobia (the fear of men).
Just like μ's, the members of Aqours are also divided into three mini groups. The first, CYaRon!, is comprised of You, Ruby, and Chika, and their first single is "Genki Zenkai Day! Day! Day!" Azalea is comprised of Dia, Kanan, and Hanamaru and their first single is "Torikoriko Please!!" Yoshiko, Riko and Mari make up the third group, Guilty Kiss, whose first single is "Strawberry Trapper."
Being an idol franchise, there is a main focus on music. A total of 46 singles have been released for Love Live! School Idol Project including the first season opening and ending themes "Bokura wa Ima no Naka de" and "Kitto Seishun ga Kikoeru," the second season opening and ending themes "Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki" and "Donna Toki mo Zutto," and μ's final single “Moment Ring.” Other notable μ's singles include "KiRa-KiRa Sensation! / Happy Maker!," "Korekara no Someday / Wonder Zone,” "Susume→Tomorrow / Start:Dash!!," and “Snow Halation.” There have also been 14 original song CDs including those released with the Blu-ray volumes, 20 character albums, and 7 video albums of concerts including μ's final concert “μ's FinalLoveLive! 2016: μ'sic Forever.” Nine singles have also been released for Aquors, the idol group from Love Live! Sunshine!!, including "Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru Kai?" and "Koi ni Naritai Aquarium" with their latest being "Yume de Yozora o Terashitai/Mijuku Dreamer," two insert songs used in the anime.
Aside from anime and music, the franchise also spans a wide range of other media. Three manga written by Sakurako Kimino have been published so far by ASCII Media Works in Dengeki G’s Magazine and Dengeki G’s Comic - these include Love Live! School Idol Project, Love Live! Anthology, and Love Live! School Idol Diary. A novel also titled Love Live! School Idol Diary written by Sakurako Kimino that remixes the anime series and is told from the perspective of different μ's members is published by ASCII Media Works and includes 11 volumes to date. Love Live! School Idol Festival, a collectable card and rhythm action game for the iOS and Android, was released by Bushiroad in Japan on April 16, 2013 and worldwide May 11, 2014. The game has since spawned the School Idol Festival Thanksgiving Festival, a competition held yearly in Japan since 2015 looking for the best School Idol Festival player. There have also been three rhythm action video games released on the PS Vita under the title Love Live! School Idol Paradise on Aug. 28, 2014, developed by Dingo Inc. These include: Vol. 1 Printemps, Vol. 2 BiBi, and Vol. 3 Lily White. There is also a board game called Love Live! Board Game: Fan Acquisition, School Idol Great Operation!, and radio web shows that include Love Live! µ's Public Relations Department ~NicoRinPana~ and RADIO Animelo Mix Love Live! ~NozoEri Radio Garden~. Love Live! characters have also appeared in four Bushiroad trading card games: Victory Spark Booster Pack "Baby Princess & Love Live!", Weiss Schwarz Love Live! School Idol Project, Fiveqross, and Love Live! School Idol Collection.
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The PHACS Scientific Leadership Group have created eight working groups, responsible for close examination of the data in their domain. They are also responsible for the development of abstracts for presentation and manuscript publication. Click below for a description of each Working Group, contact information for the Chair(s), and a link to its published research.
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Adolescents and Young Adults Working Group
Chair: Claude Mellins, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
Chair: Barbara Moscicki, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles
Chair: Katherine Tassiopoulos, DSc, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
The primary aims of the Adolescents and Young Adults Working Group are to: define the impact of perinatal HIV infection and ARV exposure on behavioral health outcomes including sexual behaviors, substance use, mental health, independent living skills, vocational/educational achievement, and social relationships, as PHIV and PHEU youth transition through adolescence and young adulthood; determine the prevalence and incidence of reproductive health outcomes including pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, menstrual irregularity and precancerous HSIL; and, among PHIV adolescents and young adults, to describe the individual, social, and health care system barriers and facilitators of (a) transitioning from pediatric to adult health care, (b) adherence to medications and retention in health care, and (c) physical and mental health. Examples of analyses the working group has undertaken include examining the co-occurrence of sexual, substance use, and mental health behavior risks in PHIV and PHEU youth; understanding the association between exposure to violence and virologic and immunological outcomes in PHIV youth; identifying factors associated with initiation of sexual activity and unprotected sex among PHIV youth; estimating the agreement between self-reported measures of antiretroviral treatment adherence and HIV RNA viral load; examining the prevalence of and risk factors for substance use among PHIV and PHEU youth; and a comparison of HPV antibodies and effectiveness between HPV-vaccinated PHIV and PHEU youth.
Selected Publications:
1. Moscicki AB, Karalius K, Tassiopoulos K, Yao TJ, Jacobson DL, Patel K, Purswani M,Seage GR III, for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Human papillomavirus (HPV) antibody levels and quadrivalent vaccine clinical effectiveness in perinatally-HIV infected and exposed, uninfected youth. CID 2018.
2. Kacanek D, Malee K, Mellins CA, Tassiopoulos K, Smith R, Grant M, Lee S, Siddiqui DQ, and Puga A for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Exposure to violence and virologic and immunological outcomes among youth with perinatal HIV in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. J Adolesc Health 2016; 59(1):30-7; PMCID: PMC4920719. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27089837
3. Alperen J, Brummel S, Tassiopoulos K, Mellins CA, Kacanek D, Smith R, Seage GR III, and Moscicki AB for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Prevalence of and risk factors for substance use among perinatally HIV-infected and perinatally exposed but uninfected youth. Journal of Adolescent Health 2014; 54(3):341-9; PMCID: PMC3944021. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24239286
4. Tassiopoulos K, Moscicki B, Mellins C, Kacanek D, Malee K, Allison S, Hazra R, Siberry G, Smith R, Paul M, Van Dyke R, and Seage GR III for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Sexual risk behavior among youth with perinatal HIV infection in the US: Predictors and implications for intervention development. Clin Infect Dis 2013; 56(2):283-90. PMCID: PMC3526253. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23139252
5. Mellins C, Tassiopoulos K, Malee K, Moscicki A, Patton D, Smith R, Usitalo A, Allison S, Van Dyke R, and Seage GR III for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Behavioral health risks in perinatally HIV-exposed youth: co-occurrence of sexual and drug use behavior, mental health problems, and nonadherence to antiretroviral treatment. AIDS Patient Care STDS 2011; 25(7):413-22. PMCID: PMC3125549. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21992620
Click here for a list of Working Group Members.
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Cardiopulmonary Working Group
Chair: Engi Attia, MD, PhD, Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington
Chair: Steven Lipshultz, MD, A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University at Buffalo
Chair: Paige Williams, PhD, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
The primary aims of the Cardiopulmonary Working Group (CPWG) are to (1) evaluate the effects of HIV and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment on cardiac and pulmonary function in children and adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV infection (PHIV) or perinatally-exposed to HIV but uninfected (PHEU), (2) evaluate the safety of ARV treatment given to HIV-infected pregnant women on cardiac and pulmonary health of their children, and (3) explore the pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiopulmonary abnormalities in PHIV and PHEU children and adolescents. The CPWG is comprised of 10-20 experts in cardiology, pulmonology, immunology, pediatrics, biostatistics, and epidemiology.
Some of the past projects include evaluation of serum biomarkers of cardiac function in both PHEU and PHIV children, echocardiographic measures of cardiovascular function and structure, and pulmonary function tests of PHIV and PHEU children. In terms of cardiovascular objectives, we have evaluated predictors of elevated cardiac and inflammatory biomarkers (such as C-reactive protein), and demonstrated associations of these biomarkers with echocardiographic measures among PHEU and PHIV children in both the PHACS SMARTT and AMP studies. We have also shown that PHIV children in the contemporary ARV era have marked improvement in cardiac function based on echocardiographic measures as compared to cohorts with perinatal HIV infection studied earlier in the HIV epidemic, but still show some differences from PHEU children of similar ages in the PHACS AMP study. In terms of pulmonary function, we demonstrated an increased risk of asthma and pulmonary complications in the PHIV children in AMP as compared to the PHEU controls, with some findings based on a PHACS substudy, the Ancillary Pulmonary Complications of HIV Infection study, in which pulmonary function tests were conducted in order to better understand the role of HIV in asthma and other pulmonary diseases.
Some of the current projects of the CPWG group include an R01-funded grant to conduct repeat echocardiograms on PHIV and PHEU young adults who previously had these performed in the AMP study about 10 years ago. This NHLBI-funded project will also include pulse wave velocity testing and collection of blood samples for evaluation of a comprehensive suite of cardiac and inflammatory biomarkers and markers of mitochondrial dysfunction. Another current project involves cardiac and pulmonary imaging studies of a small subset of PHIV young adults. Last of all, additional pulmonary studies are ongoing including an analysis to compare pulmonary function between PHIV and PHEU children and adolescents in the US to those in Kenya, and to better understand the mechanisms underlying obstructive lung disease.
The CPWG has also coordinated with other working groups to participate in research with overlapping interests. For example, the CPWG collaborated with the Metabolic, Nutrition, and Growth Working Group on an analysis of cardiac risk factors in adolescents aged 15 or older, based on risk prediction models, and completed two projects related to vitamin D deficiency and its relation to HIV infection status and echocardiographic outcomes. The creation of a DNA library on PHACS subjects also was strongly endorsed by the CPWG.
New directions of future research include proposals to use the extensive genotyping information obtained from the PHACS AMP study to better understand whether certain mutations may predispose patients to cardiovascular or pulmonary complications. These proposed genetic studies will take the PHACS program well into the next era of HIV medicine, namely the role of genetics in diagnosis and management of HIV infection in children, adolescents, and young adults.
1. Wilkinson JD, Williams PL, Yu W, et al for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Cardiac and inflammatory biomarkers in perinatally HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children. AIDS 2018 Jun 19,32(10):1267-1277. PMCID: PMC6387791. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596110
2. Shearer WT, Jacobson DL, Yu W, et al for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Long-term pulmonary complications in perinatally HIV-infected youth. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2017; pii: S0091-6749(17)30336-6.PMCID: PMC 5587357. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28279683
3. Lipshultz SE, Williams PL, Zeldow B, et al for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Cardiac effects of in utero exposure to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers. AIDS 2015; 29(1):91-100. PMCID: PMC4287991. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25562493
4. Patel K, Wang J, Jacobson DL, et al for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Aggregate risk of cardiovascular disease among adolescents perinatally infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Circulation 2014; 129(11):1204-12; PMCID: PMC3991841. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24366631
5. Lipshultz SE, Williams PL, Wilkinson JD, et al for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Cardiac status of HIV-infected children treated with long-term combination antiretroviral therapy: results from the Adolescent Master Protocol of the NIH multicentre Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. JAMA Pediatrics 2013; 167(6):520-7; PMCID: PMC4180681. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23608879
Complications Working Group
Chair: Kunjal Patel, DSc, MPH, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair: Russell Van Dyke, MD,Principal Investigator, PHACS Coordinating Center, Tulane University
The primary aim of the Complications working group is to identify infectious and non-infectious complications of HIV disease and evaluate their associations with antiretroviral therapy. Our working group therefore focuses on the AMP and AMP Up protocols of PHACS which include youth and young adults with perinatal HIV-infection and a comparison group of perinatally HIV-exposed but uninfected participants. Examples of our working group activities include examining trends in antiretroviral drug use, CD4 counts, HIV viral loads, and diagnoses; evaluating long-term treatment management strategies in the context of antiretroviral treatment failure, drug resistance and HIV tropism; comparing the effectiveness of vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, and human papillomavirus among infected and uninfected youth and identifying correlates of effective immune responses; examining the relationship between tenofovir use and renal disease; estimating the prevalence of liver disease; examining oral health including the prevalence of dental caries and periodontal disease; identifying biomarkers of low proviral load to inform future cure and therapeutic vaccine strategies; and establishing a DNA repository for genomic studies. Our working group has also collaborated with international pediatric cohorts to answer research questions relevant to the global perinatal HIV epidemic.
1. Moscicki AB, Karalius B, Tassiopoulos K, Yao TJ, Jacobson DL, Patel K, Purswani M, and Seage III GR for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Human papillomavirus (HPV) antibody levels and quadravalent vaccine clinical effectiveness in perinatally-HIV infected and exposed, uninfected youth. Accepted by CID
2. Neilan AM, Karalius B, Patel K, Van Dyke RB, Abzug MJ, Agwu AL, Williams PL, Purswani M, Kacanek D, Oleske JM, Burchett SK, Wiznia A, Chernoff M, Seage GR III, and Ciaranello AL,for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study and the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network. Association of risk of viremia, immunosuppression, serious clinical events, and mortality with increasing age in perinatally human immunodeficiency virus-infected youth. JAMA Peds 2017; 171(5):450-460.PMCID: PMC 5411314. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28346597
3. Purswani MU, Karalius B, Yao TJ, Schmid DS, Burchett SK, Siberry GK, Patel K, Van Dyke RB, & Yogev R, for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Prevalence and persistence of varicella antibodies in previously immunized children and youth with perinatal HIV-1-infection. Clinical Infectious Disease 2016; 62(1):106-14; PMCID: PMC4678104. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26385992
4. Van Dyke RB, Patel K, Kagan RM, Karalius B, Traite S, Meyer WA 3rd, Tassiopoulos KK, Seage GR III, Seybolt LM, Burchett S, and Hazra R for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). Antiretroviral drug resistance among children and youth in the U.S. with perinatal HIV. Clin Infect Dis. 2016; 63(1):133-7; PMCID: PMC4901868. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27056398
5. Moscicki A-B, Yao T-J, Ryder MI, Russell JS, Dominy SS, Patel K, McKenna M, Van Dyke RB, Seage GR III, Hazra R, and Shiboski C for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. The burden of oral disease among perinatally HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected youth. PLoS One 2016; 11(6); PMCID: PMC4907464. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27299992
6. Uprety P, Patel K, Karalius B, Ziemniak C, Chen HY, Brummel S, Siminski S, Van Dyke RB, Seage GR III and Persaud D for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. HIV-1 DNA decay dynamics with early, long-term virologic control of perinatal infection. Clin Infect Dis 2016; 64(11):1471-1478. PMCID: PMC 5434384. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28329153
7. Siberry GK, Patel K, Bellini W, Karalius B, Purswani M, Burchett SK, Meyer WA III, Sowers SB, Ellis A, and Van Dyke RB for the Pediatric HIV AIDS Cohort Study. Immunity to measles, mumps and rubella in us children with perinatal HIV infection or perinatal HIV exposure without infection. Clin Infect Dis 2015; 61(6):988-95; PMCID: PMC4551008. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060291
Hearing and Language Working Group
Chair: Mabel Rice, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Child Language Doctoral Program, University of Kansas
Chair: Peter Torre, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science, San Diego State University
Chair: Tzy-Jyun Yao, PhD, Senior Statistician, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
The Hearing/Language Working Group is a team of hearing scientists, speech/language pathologists, pediatricians, psychologists, epidemiologists and statisticians whose main goal is to examine the effects of HIV and/or antiretroviral therapy (ART) exposures on hearing and/or language acquisition in youth who were exposed to HIV or infected perinatally. Examples of our working group activities include investigations of hearing mechanisms, language acquisition in infants and toddlers, risk for and consistency of language impairments in school-aged children, and the persistence of language impairments into adulthood. We are also interested in the safety of ART treatment and in the effects of congenital infections and other comorbid maternal conditions on language development and hearing outcomes in HIV-exposed uninfected children.
1. Rice ML, Russell JS, Frederick T, Purswani M, Williams PL, Siberry GK, Redmond SM, Hoffman HJ, Yao TJ for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Risk for speech and language impairments in preschool age HIV-exposed uninfected children with in utero combination antiretroviral exposure. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2018; 37:678–685. PMCID: PMC 5995619 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29278615
2. Torre P, Zeldow B, Yao TJ, Hoffman HJ, Siberry GK, Purswani M, Frederick T, Spector SA, Williams PL for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Newborn hearing screenings in human immunodeficiency virus-exposed uninfected infants. J AIDS Immune Res. 2016; 1(1): 102. PMCID:PMC 5407375. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407375/
3. Redmond SM, Yao T-J, Russell JS, Rice ML, Hoffman HJ, Siberry GK, Frederick T, Purswani M, and Williams PL for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Longitudinal evaluation of language impairment in youth with perinatally acquired HIV and youth who were perinatally exposed to HIV and uninfected. J Pediatr Infect Dis Soc. 2016; 5(suppl 1): S33-S40. PMCID: PMC5181542. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27856674
4. Torre III P, Zeldow B, Hoffman HJ, Buchanan AL, Siberry GK, Rice ML, Sirois PA,Williams PL. Hearing loss in perinatally HIV-infected and HIV-exposed but uninfected children and adolescents. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012; 31(8): 835-841. PMCID: 3410657. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22549437
5. Rice M, Buchanan A, Siberry G, Malee K, Zeldow B, Frederick T, Purswani M, Hoffman H, Sirois P, Smith R, Torre P, Allison S, and Williams P for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Language impairment in children perinatally infected with HIV compared to children who were HIV-exposed and uninfected. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2012; 33(2):112-23. PMCID: PMC3310927. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22179050
Maternal Exposures Working Group
Chair: Ellen Chadwick, MD, PHACS Principal Investigator, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chair: Deborah Kacanek, ScD, Social Epidemiologist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
The Maternal Exposures Working Group examines the relationship of individual, clinical, and social factors during pregnancy and motherhood among women living with HIV to birth outcomes and health of their children. Our studies focus on evaluating associations of maternal HIV disease severity, use of specific antiretroviral drugs, maternal mental health and substance use with pregnancy outcomes (e.g., gestational age at birth, the size of the newborn, mode of delivery, subtle or major birth defects), as well as child health and development through young adulthood. As newer antiretroviral drugs are used more widely, we conduct studies to evaluate the safety of their use during pregnancy. We apply novel strategies to measure the amount of antiretroviral drugs that cross the placenta and into the fetus by examining presence in meconium (the first stools produced by the newborn) and maternal and infant hair. Our studies also seek to determine whether events that happen in pregnancy affect the genetics of the body (epigenetic studies) and the energy system of the cells (mitochondrial function).
1. Rough K, Seage GR III, Williams PL, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huo Y, Chadwick EG, Currier JS, Hoffman RM, Barr E, Shapiro DE, Patel K for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) and International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial (IMPAACT) P1025 Study Teams. Birth outcomes for pregnant women with HIV using tenofovir-emtricitabine. N Engl J Med 2018; 378:1593-1603. PMCID: PMC5984044 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29694825
2. Jao J, Kacanek D, Williams PL, Geffner ME, Livingston EG, Sperling RS, Patel K, Bardequez AD, Burchett SK, Chakhtoura N, Scott GB, Van Dyke RB, Abrams EJ for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study and International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network. Birth weight and preterm delivery outcomes of perinatally vs. non-perinatally HIV-infected pregnant women in the U.S.: results from the PHACS SMARTT study and IMPAACT P1025 protocol. Clin Infect Dis 2017; 65(6):982-989. PMCID: PMC 5849107. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575201
3. Williams PL, Hazra R, Van Dyke RB, Yildirim C, Crain MJ, Seage GR III, Civitello L, Ellis A, Butler L, Rich K for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Antiretroviral exposure during pregnancy and adverse outcomes in HIV-exposed uninfected infants and children using a trigger-based design: The SMARTT Study. AIDS 2016; 30(1):133-44; PMCID: PMC4704129. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26731758
4. Caniglia EC, Patel K, Huo Y, Williams PL, Kapetanovic S, Rich K, Sirois PA, Jacobson DA, Hernandez-Diaz S, Hernan MA, Seage GR III for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Atazanavir exposure in utero and neurodevelopment in infants: A comparative safety study. AIDS 2016; 30(8):1267-78; PMCID: PMC4851579. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26867136
5. Williams PL, Crain M, Yildirim C, Hazra R, Van Dyke RB, Rich K, Read JS, Stuard E, Rathore M, Mendez HA, and Watts DH for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Congenital anomalies and in utero antiretroviral exposure in human immunodeficiency virus - exposed uninfected infants. JAMA Pediatrics 2014; 169(1):48-55. PMCID: PMC4286442. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25383770
6. Watts DH, Williams PL, Kacanek D, Griner R, Rich K, Hazra, R, Mofenson, LM, Mendez, HA for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Combination Antiretroviral Use and Preterm Birth. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2013; 207(4):612-21. PMCID:PMC3549601.
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Neurodevelopmental and Neurology Working Group
Chair: Kay Malee, PhD, Psychologist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chair: Renee Smith, PhD, Pediatric Research Psychologist, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Neurodevelopmental and Neurology Working Group is a team of psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, pediatricians, epidemiologists and statisticians whose main goal is to examine the neurodevelopmental and neurological effects of HIV and/or antiretroviral medications (ARTs) on youth who were exposed or infected perinatally. We examine the potential short- and long-term consequences of exposure to or infection with HIV and its treatment on cognition, academic achievement, and on the neurological, emotional, and behavioral development of youth over time. We also examine how the environment and other possible stressors and/or protectors contribute to all of these developmental outcomes.
1. Smith, R., Huo, Y., Tassiopoulos, K., Rutstein R., Kapetanovic, S., Mellins, C., Kacanek, D. Malee, K. (2019). Mental health diagnoses, symptoms, and service utilization in US youth with perinatal HIV infection or HIV exposure. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 33(1): 1-13.
2. Lewis-de los Angeles CP, Williams PL, Huo Y, Wang SD, Uban KA, Herting MH, Malee K, Yogev R, Csernansky JG, Nichols S, Van Dyke RB, Sowell ER, Wang L for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) and the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics (PING) Study. Lower total and regional grey matter brain volumes in youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection: Associations with HIV disease severity, substance use and cognition. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 2017; 62:100-109. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28089557
3. Malee K, Chernoff MC, Sirois PA, Williams PL, Garvie PA, Kammerer BL, Harris LL, Nozyce ML, Yildirim C, Nichols SL for the Memory and Executive Functioning Study of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Impact of perinatally acquired HIV disease upon longitudinal changes in memory and executive functioning. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2017; 75 (4):455-464. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28481783
4. Garvie PA, Brummel SS, Allison SM, Malee KM, Mellins CA, Wilkins ML, Harris LL, Patton ED, Chernoff MC, Rutstein RM, Paul ME, Nichols SL for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). Roles of medication responsibility, executive and adaptive functioning in adherence for children and adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal 2017; 36(8): 51-757. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28709161
5. Harris L, Chernoff M, Nichols S, Williams P, Garvie P, Yildirim C, McCauley S, Woods S. Prospective memory in youth with perinatally-acquired HIV infection. Child Neuropsychology 2017; 7:1-21. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28782457
Metabolic, Nutrition, and Growth Working Group
Chair: Denise Jacobson, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair: Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
The primary aims of Nutrition-Growth-Metabolic Working Group are to investigate the effects of HIV and antiretroviral medications on aspects of nutrition, growth, and metabolism in children, youth and young adults living with perinatally acquired HIV infection (PHIV) and those who are perinatally HIV-exposed but uninfected (PHEU). We are also investigating nutrition and metabolic issues in pregnant women living with HIV and their effects on birth and child outcomes. In particular, we have published studies on distribution of fat mass, the prevalence and incidence of insulin resistance, pubertal onset, vascular markers of endothelial dysfunction, cardiovascular disease risk, bone mineral density, vitamin D and parathyroid levels and associations with bone density in PHIV compared to PHEU and mitochondrial abnormalities and insulin resistance, and changes in lipids after switching to newer protease inhibitor agents. In PHEU children we have published many studies evaluating growth and metabolic abnormalities associated with in utero antiretroviral medication exposure . Currently we are investigating fracture rates since birth, blood pressure and cardiac health, physical activity, lipid abnormalities, longitudinal assessments of bone growth, and mitochondrial abnormalities among individuals with PHIV, and among those with PHEU, growth patterns by preterm birth, small-for-gestational age, and maternal PHIV status.
1. Sudfeld CR, Jacobson DL, Rueda NM, Neri D, Mendez AJ, Butler L, Siminski S, Hendricks KM, Mellins CA, Duggan CP, Miller TL for Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Third trimester vitamin D status is associated with birth outcomes and linear growth of HIV-exposed uninfected infants in the United States. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2019 Apr 1. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002041. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31021992 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
2. Jao J, Jacobson DL, Yu W, Borkowsky W, Geffner ME, McFarland EJ, Patel K, Williams PL, Miller T; Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. A comparison of metabolic outcomes between obese HIV- exposed uninfected youth from the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort SMARTT Study and HIV-unexposed youth from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). J Acquir Immun Defic Syndr 2019; in press. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30844997
3. Takemoto JK, Miller TL, Wang J, Jacobson DL, Geffner ME, Van Dyke RB, and Gerschenson M for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Insulin Resistance in HIV-Infected Youth is associated with decreased mitochondrial respiration. AIDS 2016. 31(1):15-23. PMCID: PMC 5131681. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27755108
4. DiMeglio L, Wang J, Siberry G, Miller T, Geffner M, Hazra R, Borkowsky W, Chen J, Dooley L, Patel K, Van Dyke R, Fielding R, Gurmu Y, and Jacobson D for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Bone mineral density in children and adolescents with perinatal HIV infection. AIDS 2013; 27(2):211-20; PMCID: PMC4157938. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23032412
5. Jacobson D, Patel K, Siberry G, Van Dyke R, DiMeglio L, Geffner M, Chen J, McFarland E, Borkowsky W, Silio M, Fielding R, Siminski S, and Miller T for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Body fat distribution in perinatally HIV-infected and HIV-exposed but uninfected children in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: outcomes from the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2011; 94(6):1485-95. PMCID: PMC3252548. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22049166
Women's Health Working Group
Chair: Lisa Haddad, MD, MS, MPH, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine
Chair: Kate Powis, MD, Research Associate, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
The mission of the Women’s Health Working Group (WHWG) is to address the health and well-being of reproductive aged women living with or affected by HIV through impactful research driven by PHACS community members, including CAB members, study staff and investigators, and to support new investigators to conduct women’s health research. Working with women participating in SMARTT, AMP, AMP UP and AMP UP Lite protocols of PHACS, we foster collaborative research efforts to expand our understanding of health issues which have an impact on women living with HIV. Examples of research in progress include studies examining trends in ART prescribing patterns for pregnant women, determinants of viral suppression and CD4 in repeat pregnancies, substance use in pregnancy and in the postpartum period, associations of ART with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and relationship of antiretroviral treatment (ART) to weight gain during pregnancy and postpartum. The WHWG is committed to investigating biomedical, as well as social determinants of women’s physical health, mental health, and health-related behaviors to inform guidelines and policies to optimize the health of women living with or affected by HIV.
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Peter Dale (b. 1938) studied English at Oxford University where he became friends with the poets Ian Hamilton and Kevin Crossley-Holland, and William Cookson with whom Dale went on to edit the influential poetry quarterly Agenda. Dale's first collection, Walk from the House, was published in 1962 and has been followed by a further ten collections including Edge to Edge: New and Selected Poems (Anvil, 1996). Dale's translations of the French poet Villon has been continuously in print since 1973, and his versions of Jules Laforgue and Dante's Divine Comedy are also highly regarded, not least for the technical skill he displays in matching the original verse forms. Dale has conducted this hectic literary career alongside thirty years of teaching in secondary schools, and a busy family life.
In his poem 'Old Poet on a Rainy Day', Dale describes writing as "the solitary art" but whilst this might imply isolation, the poems themselves characteristically address another person – a father, wife, daughter or friend – using an intimate imperative. His frequent use of sequences – extracts from which appear on this CD – allows his essentially lyric voice the space for emotional exploration. The tension in the poetry is generated by the attempt to communicate and a frustration that such efforts are never wholly successful, as implied by the title of his acclaimed sonnet sequence 'One Another'. The "I" of the poems is predominantly an "eye", watching the world, often through the separating frame of a window, as in the observation of an ex-schoolgirl in 'Eighth Period' or the woman tending her roses in 'Gift of Words'. This desire for connection finds particularly beautiful expression in 'Vigil' where the narrator watches his sleeping lover and almost escapes the solipsism of the self through love: "Some nights I came near,/my lips in touch/with your pulsing lids/to catch the drift of your dream."
Dale's lyric style is intensely intimate whilst avoiding the histrionic pitfalls of the confessional mode. His formidable formal control is similarly understated, living up to his own injunction that "a poet shouldn't draw attention to his stylistic self; the poem should be a lens through which something crucial is seen." Dale's measured, softly-spoken reading complements this reticence, achieving a cumulative power to, as he says in his sonnet 'Window', "make the darkness personal."
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APC, which is short for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a given script app, which could speed up a database-driven site several times. Each time a PHP web page is accessed, the script pulls the content that has to be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and then the result is shown to the visitor. While this is necessary for Internet sites with frequently changing content, it's a complete waste of processing time and resources for a site which doesn't change, such as an informational portal which shows identical content on a regular basis. When the pages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them each time a user opens them. As this saves the time to collect content from the database and to parse and compile the program code, the Internet site will load significantly quicker. APC is really efficient especially for scripts with massive source code.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Web Hosting
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No. 7 Golden Bears Advance To Meet No. 22 Duke In Second Round At NCAA Tournament
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Complete Nov. 30 California Volleyball Release in PDF Format
BEAR NOTES: The No. 7 California volleyball team (23-7, 12-6 Pac-10) will face No. 22 Duke (25-6, 19-3 ACC) in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament. The second round match out of the Wisconsin Regional will start at 5 p.m. EST (2 p.m. PST) and will be webcast live through GoDuke.com. The winner will advance to the regional semifinal hosted by Wisconsin at Madison, Wis. as one of the final 16 teams in the tournament. Live stats will be provided by Duke Sports Information courtesy of the NCAA via CSTV's GameTracker. Check www.ncaasports.com or www.calbears.com for links and information.
CAL IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: With this season's selection, California made its sixth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament, a program record. The Bears have now made postseason NCAA play eleven times. Prior to the current six-season run, Cal made the NCAA Tournament in 1982-83 and 1987-89 emerging from that era with a 3-5 record. Under the direction of head coach Rich Feller, the Bears have won each of the six first-round matches that they have been in and have twice advanced to the regional semifinal; once in 2003 (a program first) and once again in 2006. California holds an 8-5 NCAA postseason record with coach Feller.
LAST MATCH: Facing Big South Champion Liberty in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Cal took game one with solid hitting, posting a .419 hitting percentage (15k, 2e, 31att). Liberty fought back in game two, however, posting a .310 hitting percentage and holding Cal to .152 on 46 attacks (16k, 9e). Coming out of the break, the Bears got back to what they knew best and fired back with 15 kills on 31 attacks without committing a single error (.484). It was defense at the net that gave Cal the match as the Bears held the Lady Flames to -.027 hitting (7k, 8e, 37att). The Bears put up 16 total team blocks to mark the seventh time this season that Cal has reached at least that total. Sophomore outside hitter Hana Cutura led the offensive with 21 kills on 50 attacks with only 3 errors (.360). Senior outside Angie Pressey posted her 12th double-double of the season with 14 kills and 13 digs. Four Bears had six total blocks against Liberty; junior outside hitter/middle hitter Morgan Beck, senior middle hitter Ellen Orchard, freshman setter Carli Lloyd and sophomore middle hitter Mindi Wiley.
NO. 22 DUKE NOTES: The Blue Devils finished second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 19-3 record behind only conference champion No. 20 Clemson. Duke, host of first and second round matches, defeated Patriot League Champion American in the first round 3-2 (30-20, 30-25, 28-30, 29-31, 15-7). The Blue Devils hit .365 and had 84 kills (19e, 178att) in their match. Five players had 10 of more kills and four players had 10 or more digs. Senior middle blocker Carrie DeMange led Duke with 22 kills and posted a double-double, adding 24 digs to her stat line. Sophomore outside hitter Rachael Moss had 20 kills (2e, 39att) and hit for .462 against the Eagles. On the season, DeMange leads Duke in kills with 590 kills and is hitting .293. Moss had three service aces against the Eagles and has 45 total aces on the season to lead the Blue Devils in that category. The Bears have faced Duke only once in school history, falling in four games in 1985.
EXTRA BEAR NOTES:
Senior middle hitter Ellen Orchard has 171 blocks this season, second best all-time in the Cal record books. Orchard held the second highest total prior to this with 168.
Orchard's current hitting percentage of .328 (272k, 85e, 570att) is fifth best all-time at Cal. Orchard's .305 in 2006 is currently sixth-best for a completed season.
Senior outside hitter Angie Pressey has 12 double-double matches this season.
Freshman setter Carli Lloyd now holds Cal's sixth all-time best season for assists with 1,359.
Cal's current .265 (1731k, 661e, 4039att) hitting percentage ties the team's all-time best for hitting in a season. The Bears hit .265 in 2003 (1926k, 705e, 4614att).
NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament Blog: Oregon, Washington State advances to Second Round
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Sindh assembly can give extension to rangers’ stay: Qaim
July 6, 2015 Off By Web Desk
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that under the 18th amendment the government of Sindh is bound to seek the concurrence of provincial assembly before allowing Rangers to work against terrorists.
Talking to media after distributing compensation cheques among the families of the victims of Safoora Goth tragedy Monday, he said that the Rangers were called in by government of Sindh long ago. “Their stay in the province has been extended from time to time,” he said, adding this time there was a bottleneck to give them extension. After the passage of 18th Amendment the Sindh government on its own cannot extend their tenure on its own. We have to take it to the assembly for approval.
To a question, the chief minister said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had taken all the political forces in confidence before launching operation against the terrorist elements. “It was decided in consensus that operation would be launched against four heinous crimes: terrorism, target killing, kidnapping for ransom and extortion,” he said.
He said that the constitutional experts and our legal team have told us that the Sindh Assembly was competent to award another extension to the Rangers to continue their operation. “But, this time it has to be taken to the assembly at least two months before putting it on the agenda of the house,” he said and added “the ways and means to give them {Rangers} another extension would be explored but we have to talk to them first,” he said.
Syed Qaim Ali replying to another question said that the services and sacrifices of Pakistan Rangers and Sindh police could not be forgotten. “They have done job but as I said there was a seriousness of army chief,” he said.
Syed Qaim Ali Shah said, “the Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif took personal interest to launch strong operation that’s why we have received encouraging results, otherwise Rangers was already in the city and all over province.”
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Foreign Investment, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Risk of U.S. Banking Organizations
FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2017-2
60 Pages Posted: 27 Mar 2017 Last revised: 21 Sep 2017
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W. Scott Frame
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Atanas Mihov
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Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Date Written: 2017-03-01
This study investigates the implications of cross-country differences in banking regulation and supervision for the international subsidiary locations and risk of U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). We find that U.S. BHCs are more likely to operate subsidiaries in countries with weaker regulation and supervision and that such location decisions are associated with elevated BHC risk and higher contribution to systemic risk. The quality of BHCs’ internal controls and risk management play an important role in these location choices and risk outcomes. Overall, our study suggests that U.S. banking organizations engage in cross-country regulatory arbitrage with potentially adverse consequences.
Keywords: regulation, supervision, bank holding companies, cross-border operations, subsidiary locations, risk, systemic risk
Frame, W. Scott and Mihov, Atanas and Sanz, Leandro, Foreign Investment, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Risk of U.S. Banking Organizations (2017-03-01). FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2017-2. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2940587
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Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album. To be reductive, it's the Citizen Kane of jazz -- an accepted work of greatness that's innovative and entertaining. That may not mean it's the greatest jazz album ever made, but it certainly is a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue posses such a mystique? Perhaps it's that this music never flaunts its genius. It lures listeners in with the slow, luxurious bassline and gentle piano chords of "So What." From that moment on, the record never really changes pace -- each tune has a similar relaxed feel, as the music flows easily. Yet Kind of Blue is more than easy listening. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz -- tonality and solos build from chords, not the overall key, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance. They return because this is an exceptional band - Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Wynton Kelly -- one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power. As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. Davis laid out the themes and chords before the tape rolled, and then the band improvised. The end results were wondrous, filled with performances that still crackle with vitality. Few albums of any genre manage to work on so many different levels, but Kind of Blue does. It can be played as background music, yet it amply rewards close listening. It is advanced music that is extraordinarily enjoyable. It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz -- but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection.
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GranuFlow Class Action
GranuFlo and NaturaLyte are brand names of dialysates (commonly called “solutions”) manufactured by Fresenius Medical Care, Inc., the largest provider of kidney dialysis services and products in the world. These solutions are used in dialysis centers across America, and around the world, to treat patients with kidney disease or failure.
However, after investigating the harmful effects of GranuFlo and NaturaLyte the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a recall for both solutions on March 29, 2012, and ordered Fresenius to revise prescribing instructions. According to the recall, use of these two products can lead to low blood pressure and result in sudden cardiac arrhythmia (heart attack).
In its order, the FDA stated these conditions, “may culminate in cardiopulmonary arrest” or other conditions, including death. Class 1 recalls are the most serious form of recall as they address situations that create a “reasonable probability that products will cause serious health consequences; or death,” according to the FDA.
According to theFDA, GranuFlo and NaturaLyte can create elevated bicarbonate levels in patients, leading to hemodialysis – related metabolic alkalosis, a significant risk factor for a variety other health problems including:
Altered mental status (confusion)
Manufacturer Hides Drug Dangers from Public
On November 4, 2011, Fresenius issued an internal memo concerning its GranuFlo and NaturaLyte medications. It revealed that almost 950 patients who died in their clinics in 2010 after receiving these solutions during dialysis treatments exhibited elevated levels of bicarbonate in their blood, which is a contributing factor in heart attacks.
The memo warned staff members at Fresenius’ clinics regarding the drugs’ risks. Fresenius failed to warn doctors and/or the third-party clinic providers of these serious dangers until after the FDA and public learned of the internal memo via a New York Times article. Even then, the public warning wasn’t nearly as direct as the internal memo.
As a result, a growing number of people who were injured by GranuFlo and NaturaLyte have begun lawsuits, claiming that Fresenius’ dialysis solutions caused severe, permanent injuries, and damages that included:
mental and physical pain
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lost wages and future earning capacity
Plaintiffs have further alleged that the manufacturer intentionally, recklessly and/or negligently concealed, suppressed, omitted and misrepresented the risks, dangers, defects, and disadvantages of GranuFlo and NaturaLyte.
GranuFlo and NaturaLyte Legal Cases On the Rise
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against Fresenius for injuries and wrongful deaths believed to be the fault of GranuFlo and NaturaLyte products. Many people have lost close family members to this tragedy. And many severely injured patients must live with serious health issues due to the damage their bodies have suffered.
In 2013, nearly 200 individual GranuFlo and NaturaLyte injury lawsuits against Fresenius were consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) in Massachusetts. You can view of a copy of the Massachusetts MDL here. In an environment where many plaintiffs sue the same defendant for similar injuries many cases can be heard for a temporary period of time in a single court in order to establish the formula for each individual trial.
The cases are then returned to their respective jurisdictions. This is what makes MDL’s different from class action suits, where plaintiffs band together and have their case argued by a single legal representative or firm.
Have you or a beloved family member suffered a heart attack or other injuries after dialysis procedures involving NaturaLyte or GranuFlo? If so, you may be entitled to fair and full compensation from Fresenius Medical Care for your injuries and other damages.
To best determine whether this is the course of action you should take, you should speak with a dedicated GranuFlo attorney who has experience fighting for compensation on behalf of victims of dangerous drugs and defective medical products.
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Our goal for you in this training course is to learn to respond; not react to a medical emergency. There are many people who are just simply afraid to respond to an emergency for fear they make things worse or that they may be sued. Recognizing that something is wrong and then calling 9-1-1; will not hurt anyone else and may in fact save a life. We will also discuss the “Good Samaritan” laws that will protect you from being sued for rendering first aid to the public.
During this course, you will be asked to perform quizzes, watch videos, and a final exam that must be passed with a score of 80% or greater. Once you complete all the requirements you will need to submit an evaluation of the course and then may instantly print a certificate of completion.
The participant will learn the following objectives during this course:
List the medical emergency priorities, roles, and responsibilities of the first aid rescuer
Describe key terms in first aid
Identify steps in donning Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Describe the problem and the actions taken to correct it
Describe when and how to help a choking adult, child, and infant
Demonstrate how to use an epinephrine injection pen
Describe and demonstrate how to control different types of bleeding
Describe and demonstrate how to assess, recognize, and treat different types of wounds
Recognize basic elements of common injuries and emergencies
Recognize and respond to common illnesses
Describe to how to prevent illness or injuries
Recognize legal issues and questions for first aid rescuers
Successful completion of this course
Responsive versus unresponsive person
First aid terms
Agonal gasps
Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
Phone for Help
Chapter 2 Basic First Aid
Giving first aid
Good samaritan laws
How to respond to an emergency?
Is the scene safe?
Who should help
Donning and removing gloves
Steps to handwashing
Recognizing an emergency
Moving the ill or injured
Foot drag
Shoulder drag
Blanket drag
Section Review
Chapter 3 Emergencies
Type of emergencies
Signs of a stroke
Learn more about strokes
What type of first aid?
Bleeding from the mouth
Chest discomfort
Symptoms vary between men and women
What is a rescue inhaler?
How to assemble and use and inhaler
Chapter 4 Injuries
Head, neck, and back injuries
Burns and electrical injuries
Internal and external bleeding
Signs of shock
Sprains, strains, and broken bones
Chapter 5 Environmental Emergencies
Animal bites, snake bites, and bee stings
Heat related problems
Heat cramp
Cold related problems
Emergency action for poisoning
First steps after an accidental exposure
Information the poison center specialist will need
Chapter 6 References
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