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What Could A City of Compassion and Wellbeing Look…
NOW’s Josh Malkin was one of the team behind Exploring Common Ground, an event promoting a city-wide Festival of Compassion & Wellbeing in Leeds. He explains here how the group started and its progress towards The Leeds Festival of Compassion
By NOW on 21st February 2019
ShareFest Brings People Together to Share, Repair, Swap and…
In partnership with Shareable and the Share Shed – A Library of Things, the Network of Wellbeing hosted the first ShareFest Totnes, in the south of England, which brought together over 800 people to celebrate sharing, repairing, swapping and making. To find out more, visit here.
By NOW on 16th October 2018
When We Forget Our Values, We Lose Our Way:…
“Values are like fingerprints… you leave them over everything you do” Elvis Presley Values are the things that are important to us. They are our motivators, our drivers, the passion in our hearts and the reason we do the things
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How Can We Meet Our Shame With Compassion?
At times it can be hard being human, and deep compassion for ourselves and others is needed. Join NOW and Andy Bradley for a free webinar discussion on 23rd October from 6-7pm to discuss this topic. Anxiety, depression, altered and
Your wellbeing - Creativity
By NOW on 10th September 2018
Happiness Is Handmade: A Weekend Of Immersion in Creativity
The Network of Wellbeing invites you to join facilitator Sherry Clark for “Happiness is Handmade” – a weekend of making and doing creative, purposeful and positive things with your hands, at Eden Rise, in Devon. *Unfortunately this event has been cancelled*
By NOW on 9th July 2018
New Website: Let’s Build Wellbeing Together!
Welcome to our new website! It’s designed to help us build a network of people who care about the wellbeing of people, society and the planet. We’re so excited about it and want to share some of its best features with
By NOW on 26th March 2018
Happy Beyond GDP: Photo Competition Results
To mark the 50 year anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s speech, where he expressed the limitations of GDP in leading us to true prosperity, we asked you to get creative and share photos of what GDP fails to measure – or in
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NUG Expands Award-Winning Edibles Portfolio with New Frozen CBD-THC Pops
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NUG Expands Award-Winning Edibles Portfolio
with New Frozen CBD-THC Pops Seed to sale brand’s latest creation is infused via nano-emulsion technology for
rapid-onset; five unique flavors available
OAKLAND, CA (December 10, 2019) — NUG, one of the premier diversified cannabis companies in California, today announced a nostalgia-inducing addition to its lineup of award-winning products: the Frozen NUG Pop, available in five bold flavors with each bar containing an equal amount of CBD and THC.
Each Frozen NUG Pop is infused with both 10 mg THC and 10 mg CBD through state-of-the-art nano-emulsion technology, which maximizes bioavailability. In other words, consumers can expect to feel the effects of these icy treats in about 10 minutes. The Pops are now available at NUG stores (locations include NUG Sacramento, which was recently voted “best place to buy cannabis” by Sacramento Magazine readers, and the brand’s newest outpost in San Leandro, NUG Wellness) and soon at dispensaries across California.
With recipes developed by NUG Edibles Department Director Chef Tyler Cooke, Frozen NUG Pops are made with all-natural fruit purees and sweetened with agave. They can be eaten on the spot upon purchase, or stored in home freezers for a refreshing treat at any time. The Frozen NUG Pops come in five flavors reminiscent of restaurant-quality desserts and cocktails:
Blackberry Pineapple
Watermelon Lychee Lemonade
“Between the complex flavor combinations and their early onset effects, the Frozen NUG Pops are an exciting grown-up version of a classic ice pop,” said Chef Cooke, who cut his teeth as a restaurant chef for more than a decade before becoming the culinary wizard behind NUG’s most popular edible creations.
“We’re also excited to introduce another product that utilizes the positive effects of both CBD and THC.”
This has been a banner year for NUG’s Edibles Department, as the team continues to innovate. In August, NUG debuted the Matcha White Chocolate NUG Bar, the first premium matcha-white chocolate edible treat featuring a 1 to 1 ratio of CBD and THC sold in California. The brand also recently introduced the Cookies & Cream White Chocolate Bar, just in time for an adult holiday candy indulgence.
“As a seed to sale brand, we pride ourselves in our sophistication and mastery in every aspect of the supply chain, especially with regards to developing cutting-edge yet consumer-friendly products,” said NUG CEO and Founder Dr. John Oram. We’re so proud of how our Edibles Department has evolved to consistently create crave-worthy cannabis-infused foods of superior quality.”
NUG cultivates and extracts all of its own cannabis at its Oakland, CA facilities to ensure that only the finest quality is used in its product lines. To find out where to purchase the new Frozen NUG Pop and other products, visit http://nug.com/.
About NUG, Inc.
Founded in 2014, NUG, Inc. is a premier, California-licensed, and vertically-integrated cannabis company with significant projected revenue growth based upon its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, extensive distribution network and award-winning brand. NUG operates the highest volume cannabis extraction facility in California, producing the majority of concentrates, vapes and other infused cannabis products sold in California under the NUG label and other leading brands. Through its own distribution company, NUG products are sold in over 80 percent of the licensed retail dispensaries in California, including NUG stores, offering consumers an unparalleled cannabis retail store experience. Follow NUG on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
NUG Wellness in San Leandro Grand Opening Party
San Leandro’s Newest Cannabis Dispensary is Hosting a Grand Opening Party! Sat., Jan. 25, 9am-9pmPrice: Free Admission! You are invited to join NUG Wellness for
Up close & personal with NUG – Tyson Griffin edition
Like the world of weed, Tyson Griffin has gone through transformations during his life. The former MMA athlete and now a turned trainer, is taking
Emerald Cup 2019 Wrap Up
Shout out to NUG fan Branden Carrell for winning our Emerald Cup tickets sweepstakes! We knew it was going to be a great weekend when
Vape Cart Testing
Photo Courtesy of Dr. Weed NUG – Premium Vape Cart Vape carts are recently trending and for all the wrong reasons. What began as a
Love Your Vapes – Vape Cart Storage & Usage – Best Practices
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Number 96 Home Page
Afternoons with Paula Kruger, ABC Radio Canberra
Today, Joe Hasham (Don Finlayson), author Nigel Giles and Number 96 Historian, Ian McLean, were interviewed by Paula Kruger for ABC Radio Canberra.
You can find the audio of the episode posted here... It’ll be up for a fortnight if you want to take a recording to keep: www.abc.net.au/radio/canberra/programs/afternoons/episodes/
ABC Radio interviews Joe Hasham Number 96
Number 96 and me: the novelisations - by Anne Harrex
Essay by Anne Harrex, February 2014
Between 1972 and 1974, eight novelisations based on storylines from the TV show, Number 96, were published by Angus & Robertson under the Arkon paperback imprint. In the end, I wrote seven of these and edited another of them (“The Wayward Husband”) for publication.
It all began with an advertisement in the weekend newspaper, “The Review”, formerly “Sunday Review”, “The Sunday Review” and, in its last incarnation, “Nation Review”. The ad may have appeared somewhere else, but this was where I saw it. Writers were wanted for crime and romance novels (I think it was romance) – “to apply send examples of your work to…” (The address gave no other clues.) I’d always been writing and had a drawerful of rejection slips to prove it. As I had two young children, who were now both at school, it looked like the ideal thing for me.
In those days there were still postal deliveries on a Saturday morning. It was a Saturday some weeks later when a parcel arrive…
40 years ago today...
40 years ago today, the final episodes of "Number 96" (#1217 & 1218) aired on Sydney television. Many former cast members returned to take curtain call bows with the final residents. What happened that night...: The residents of Number 96 are horrified to learn the identity of the building's mysterious buyer. The person who is driving them from their homes is none other than Maggie Cameron! Giovanni Lenzi and Marilyn MacDonald's romance fizzles once again, with Marilyn's decision to become a nun. Little Simon Dawson's body is found in Tamworth, but it is a false alarm. Giovanni announces a sell-out sale in the deli. Maggie explains that she couldn't resist one last trick played on the residents. Simon turns up safe and well. Dorrie Evans loses Herb half a million dollars because of her anger over his business relationship with Opal "Gran" Wilkinson. Everyone is pleased that the building will not change hands after all. While Arnold Feather an…
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Therin of Andor
Otherwise known as "Therin of Andor", Ian McLean has had an active association with "Star Trek" and science fiction media fandom in Australia since 1980. Before then he was an avid fan of the "Batman" TV series (60s) and the Australian TV classic, "Number 96" (70s).
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a snuff coloured beaver
Not long after tobacco was introduced to Europe, snuff taking was developed.
making snuff
A huge snuff user was the Emperor of France, Napoleon I (1769-1821). It was estimated that he would use three kilograms of tobacco monthly. He did it often during the day, as in his time, there was not yet a way of consuming enough tobacco to last a whole day. It was a year before his death that the snuff double barrel pistol was invented . The amunition chamber was filled with tobacco and the barrels were placed under the nose, the trigger was pulled, and the shot delivered enough tobacco to the nose to last for an entire day.
Not everyone was taken with the pistol up the nose method and different social classes used different ways to inhale.
The French historian Henri d’Allemagne aptly describes this:
“To take snuff, people of noble birth were meant to tap on the lid, take a few grains with the tip of their slender fingers, to make a slight gesture and to inhale the powder with ecstasy.
On the contrary, the countryman digged his thumb and forefinger inside the snuff box in order to take out a large pinch of tobacco, putting it on the back of his left hand and snorted it in a noisy way while rubbing his nose.”
Record of a Sneeze
In 1904 Margaret Thompson demonstrated her love for snuff by including these instructions in her will
“I Margaret Thompson being of sound mind etc. do desire that when my soul is departed from this wicked world, my body and effects may be disposed of in the manner following: I desire that all my handkerchiefs that I may have unwashed at the time of my decease, after they have been got together by my old and trusty servant Sara Stewart, to be put by her, and by her alone, at the bottom of my coffin, which I desire may be made large enough for the purpose, together with such quantity of the best Scotch snuff as will cover my Deceased body.
But I strictly charge that no man may be suffered to approach my body till the coffin is closed, and as it is necessary to carry me to my burial which I order in the following manner: Six men to be my bearers who are known to be the greatest snuff takers in the parish of St. James, Westminster.
Instead of mourning, each to wear a snuff coloured beaver hat which I desire to be bought for the purpose and given to them. Six maidens of my old acquaintance to bear my pall, each to wear a proper hood, and to carry a box filled with the best Scotch snuff to take as their refreshment as they go along.
modifications of the beaver hat
I desire my old and faithful servant, Sarah Stewart, to walk before the corpse and to distribute every twenty yards a large handful of Scotch snuff to the ground and upon the crowd who may possibly follow me to my burial place on which condition I bequeathe her £20. And I also desire that at least two bushels of said snuff may be distributed at the door of my house in Boyle Street.”
No snuff was required at King George V’s funeral cortege
Tags: eccentric, etiquette, funeral, pistol, snuff
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On June 5, 2010 at 11:00 am Bearman said:
“snuff double barrel pistol was invented ”
Is that where the phrase “to snuff somebody out” came from?
On June 5, 2010 at 12:12 pm nursemyra said:
Hmmmm….. I don’t know bearman. Will have to do some research
On June 7, 2010 at 8:35 am bschooled said:
“each to wear a snuff coloured beaver hat”
Is that where the question “Where’s my snuff colored beaver hat?” came from?
On June 5, 2010 at 12:24 pm Dan the VespaMan said:
Ahhhchoooooo !
Pardon me.
On June 5, 2010 at 1:17 pm daisyfae said:
Margaret Thompson seemed to have been directing her own snuff flick… but i suppose they didn’t have movies back then.
*chuckle*
On June 5, 2010 at 1:29 pm renalfailure said:
I know a few beaver hats I’d like to try on…
On June 6, 2010 at 6:18 am alonewithcats said:
I’ve got my eye on one beaver hat in particular right now. But I’m loyal that way. To my hats. Of the beaver variety.
On June 5, 2010 at 2:38 pm Terra Shield said:
She had to emphasise that she was of sound mind… hehehe
On June 5, 2010 at 2:59 pm Tom Allen said:
Ah yes – in those days long before teh internetz, we youngsters pretty much had to depend upon those pictures in National Geographic for our, er, amusement.
On June 5, 2010 at 3:22 pm Daddy Papersurfer said:
I’ve tried snuff – didn’t do much for me …… I’m sticking to my cigars …..
So that’s why TG sends you to the garden shed so often
One of the reasons ……
On June 5, 2010 at 3:43 pm jams o donnell said:
I love the idea of the snuff gun. Snuff is something whose time has passed. Perhaps it is time for its time to come back again… Far less noxious than cigs and a snuffo would be easier than a smoke-o in this day and age I’m sure
It may be slightly safer than smoking tobacco but it’s still implicated in oral cancers. You only need to see a few photos of what oral cancer looks like to be turned off snuff for life
On June 5, 2010 at 8:51 pm Ricardo said:
a bit needy in her death was she not?
Oh I don’t know Ricardo. I’ve made a few odd funeral plans myself. I’ve got all those corsets to consider…… 😉
On June 6, 2010 at 12:01 am Nicole said:
Hm. The idea of putting a gun to my nose just doesn’t appeal. No matter what’s in it. 🙂
On June 6, 2010 at 1:09 am Mitzi G Burger said:
It’s a shame Snuffalafagus wasn’t around for Margaret’s funeral. He could have led the cortege and shot snuff from his trunk.
On June 6, 2010 at 3:40 am 25BAR said:
Spam? Oh boy! I don’t know why that’s happening! Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll do some research on that.
I tore down the post titled ‘Help!’ because I didn’t like those photos too much.
And yes, I do visit fundamentaljelly.com.
On June 6, 2010 at 4:27 am thestuffinbetween said:
Incredibly interesting, Nursemyra! I just mentioned snuff on Clifton’s blog not realizing you had this posted. You may want to visit Unsolicited Advice and link this over.
Thanks much for your research on all of this peculiar stuff!
On June 6, 2010 at 8:07 am nursemyra said:
Thanks Stuffy 😉
I’ll head on over now
On June 6, 2010 at 5:55 am Seraphine said:
bushels of snuff? kilos of snuff?
no way! beavers, i know for a fact,
don’t wear hats. you’re funning
with us again, nurse myra.
I like funning with you Sera
On June 6, 2010 at 7:05 am Scott Oglesby said:
I wonder how many people overdosed on the snuff double barrel. Nicotine is one of the most toxic naturally occurring substances on earth…. Or am I wrong?
I’ve heard ‘experts’ say it’s the most difficult addiction to kick. I’ve never been a smoker so I don’t know….
On June 6, 2010 at 7:16 am Affer said:
A snuff-coloured beaver…..now THAT is not to be sniffed at.
I’m not even sure what colour snuff is…. beige perhaps?
On June 6, 2010 at 3:23 pm Rebecca Loudon said:
I wonder how much of that was cocaine? Naughty!
On June 7, 2010 at 1:50 am Malach the Merciless said:
And then came the snuff film, oh wait . .
On June 7, 2010 at 2:18 am freedownloadfont said:
I hope you gain success all the time!
warm greeting 0_0
On June 7, 2010 at 3:39 am RubyTwoShoes said:
Wonderfully entertaining Nurse Myra, loved learning about the double barrel snuff gun, and hearing the old dear’s funeral plans, what great consideration she gave her snuff! A true fan
On June 7, 2010 at 3:47 pm Mike McLaren said:
I just put a pinch between cheek and gum and swap it when it goes dull.
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warning to wives of diplomats
When Pamela Egremont returned from Peking, she bought back a copy of the following circular to show John Julius Norwich.
Lady Pamela found here
It was typed entirely in capital letters but I can’t bring myself to do that to you. I have left the grammatical errors as they were written
“From the Embassy of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Peking”
This is to inform all missions, especially the wives of other diplomats here in Peking, of the incident surrounding the sudden departure from Peking of the Sierra Leone Ambassador’s wife, Mrs Theresa Malomo Kojo Randall.
How beautiful is Sierra Leone?
Mrs Kojo Randall left suddenly to avoid scandal after her husband caught her with a packet of poison which was supposedly sent to her by her Guinean sweetheart whom she already has a 1 year old son for and from whom the ambassador snatched her away to come to Peking. This is the reason in fact why he did not realise she was already pregnant before. He married her and she had to come and undergo an abortion here in Peking on her arrival.
Terry-Poison found here
The poison was supposed to be used in cooking food for the ambassador to kill him so that Mrs Randall can easily return to her Guinean trader sweetheart in Freetown.
Well informed sources in Freetown said Mrs Randall confessed in Sierra Leone that she was advised to send for and use the poison for her husband by the wife of the First Secretary of the Embassy, Mrs Stella Saquee, who claimed vast experience in using such juju to keep her own husband quiet this is way he does not notice that she sleeps around with a lot of men here in Peking.
All Diplomatic Mission
Juju found here
on September 12, 2011 at 8:40 am Comments (44)
Tags: juju, letter, Peking, poison, scandal, warning, wives
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On September 12, 2011 at 8:46 am Carl D'Agostino said:
I hear Lady Ivy was also enamored of using poison. Hence…
On September 12, 2011 at 8:55 am anaglyph said:
Sierra Leone looks nice in pictures, but it’s a terribly troubled place.
I know it’s dangerous and there’s a lot of poverty. I just didn’t expect it to have such beautiful beaches
I think that’s what it says on Sierra Leone bumper stickers: ‘We might be up to our armpits in assholes, but you should see our beaches!’
On September 12, 2011 at 9:05 am dinahmow said:
Good ol’ John Julius – he gets to hear all manner of scandal.
Everyone wants their story included in his Christmas Crackers
On September 12, 2011 at 9:39 am King Willy said:
I shudder to think what a Peking abortion consisted of in those times… Bad Juju!
On September 12, 2011 at 12:08 pm Tony said:
Bad JuJu indeed!
On September 12, 2011 at 9:43 am Daddy Papersurfer said:
Thank heavens I’m not very diplomatic.
your lack of diplomacy is one of your charms daddyp
On September 12, 2011 at 9:52 am mitzigburger said:
Sordid stuff, Nurse M.
Yes, but don’t you love it Mitzi?
On September 12, 2011 at 9:58 am Affer said:
I wonder why it’s called ‘sleeping around’, when actually the last thing the participants are doing is sleeping…………..well, unless they are me, of course.
On September 12, 2011 at 2:04 pm Bearman said:
Poor Affer
On September 12, 2011 at 10:46 am zmkc said:
I am the wife of a diplomat so I can tell you that our lives are just as portrayed here – a complete nightmare (and you can’t get decent juju men these days either)
A diplomat’s wife…. ah, now it all makes sense
On September 12, 2011 at 11:14 am The Unbearable Banishment said:
My wife just finished The Poisoner’s Handbook and keeps gushing about what a great read it was. I don’t suppose I have need to worry, do I? Unless, of course, she start gushing to friends about how useful it can be.
Damn! It’s not on Kindle, but I just ordered a copy with my birthday money anyway 🙂
On September 12, 2011 at 11:52 am Nota Bene said:
That’s it. My ambitions for a diplomatic career married to a woman from Sierra Leone are at an end. Devastated.
Hey…. haven’t you already got a wife?
On September 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm Elisabeth Stewart said:
The problem with juju and/or poison when it comes to dealing with marital problems is that the spouse is always the first suspect.
Tempting though…. 😉
I’ve never been tempted to poison a spouse. a patient maybe…. 😉
On September 12, 2011 at 1:05 pm Tammy said:
Love the look of that beach. Guinea Trader Sweetheart sounds like a new brand of chocolate.
I hadn’t thought if that, but you’re right. Great name.
On September 12, 2011 at 6:17 pm Nick said:
How did her husband know it was poison? Was it clearly labelled “Premier Poison. High strength. Kills instantly. Ideal for use on unwanted husbands”?
He was a naturally suspicious psychic
On September 12, 2011 at 8:45 pm John Erickson said:
Another reason my wife works in a restaurant. By the time she gets home, if anybody was deserving of death, THEY are toast, and I can eat mine in perfect safety!
Hm, that last sandwich tasted a bit off, kinda…ack … cough … gasp ….
Did she use rye bread? You could be a victim of ergot poisoning…
On September 13, 2011 at 2:14 am Binky said:
Wives of diplomats are a lot busier than I thought.
Yes apparently it’s not all gin slings and dinner parties
On September 13, 2011 at 2:37 am Laura said:
I’m still trying to figure out what “this” refers to in “This is the reason in fact why he did not realise she was already pregnant before.” The fact that she had a Guinean sweetheart? That she had a 1-year-od son? That she’d received a packet of poison?
I’m so confused…
You’ll have to join the Diplomats’ Wives’ Club to find out
On September 13, 2011 at 6:57 am queenwilly said:
Gives a whole new slant to spam letters from Africa.
Where’s the offer of untold riches though?
On September 13, 2011 at 10:16 am dinahmow said:
On September 13, 2011 at 1:39 pm TerraShield said:
I’ve always thought being poisoned is a very romantic way to die… (Note to self: Must stop watching so many crime related shows)
On September 13, 2011 at 9:04 pm nursemyra said:
There’s nothing romantic about agonising spasms, vomiting and diarrhea. I’d choose carbon monoxide or a heroin overdose
On September 13, 2011 at 3:11 pm spilledinkguy said:
Ha! Pretty much a boilerplate, I guess…
On September 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm healingmagichands said:
I was struck by the last paragraph, in which the Wife of the First Secretary claims that using this juju (poison) helps keep her husband from noticing that she is sleeping around.
Yeah, I guess being dead might get in the way of noticing your wife’s proclivities.
On September 13, 2011 at 8:17 pm jammer5 said:
I thought Sierra Leone directed spaghetti westerns.
Haha…. close but no cigar 😉
On September 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm bluebee said:
Seems like the author of that circular had just taken a sip of his juju-laced coffee when he wrote it
On September 14, 2011 at 3:54 am alonewithcats said:
I wonder if a Poison album would have had the same effect.
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Did Hailey Bieber Just Diss Selena Gomez on Instagram?
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After fans speculated that Hailey Bieber shaded Selena Gomez on Instagram, the newlywed took to social media to set the record straight, telling her followers that she did not shade the 27-year-old singer.
Bieber shared an Instagram story where she posted a screenshot of the song she was listening to, "I'll Kill You" by Summer Walker. Speculation sparked from the title of the song and the timing of the post, which was an hour after Gomez dropped her song "Lose You To Love Me," which listeners believe is inspired by her former relationship with Justin Bieber.
The 22-year-old replied to Just Jared's Instagram post which shared theories that she shaded the singer. "Please stop with this nonsense...there is no 'response.' This is complete BS," she wrote in the comments section.
Later, Justin Bieber posted an image of a cheetah with blood on its face to his Instagram account, something that fans have been trying to decode. The comments section is flooded with replies and lyrics from Gomez's new song.
Read the lyrics to Selena Gomez's new song, here.
22 Things You Didn't Know About Justin Bieber
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Board index » General Myst Online: Uru Live Discussion » Off-Topic
What do you want in a video game
Karkadann
Post subject: What do you want in a video game
Location: Land of Confusion
What do you wanna see in a video game? I feel that a software company that keeps in touch with its fans and occasionally asks "what do YOU the fans want in a video game" has the potential to make a video game that is more popular with its fans, in theory.
I know people change over time and their interest also tend to change as well, no one can know what everybody wants. What was popular yesteryear might not be as popular today. However if you ask from time to time, keep in touch with what people are interested in and somehow work that into your own vision in theory it should be beneficial for all parties involved.
So just out of curiosity Im asking "what do you want to see in a video game, what will hold your interest and keep you coming back"
When You have eliminated all other possibilities What ever is left must be the solution
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Post subject: Re: What do you want in a video game
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Hm. Different things for me I suppose. A number of games I enjoy have a good story and backstory like the Age of Wonders storyline. I mostly take an interest in historical games, I closely follow the Civilization and Age of Empires series for that reason. Graphics and wonderful attention to detail also interest me, one of the reasons I love Myst and Uru. Then there's the ability to be creative like MineCraft.
What keeps me into Myst is the fantastic worlds, the backstory behind them and the puzzles to flex my brain a bit.
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Let's see some criteria:
Violence & weapons - Shoot the bad guys type... a complete turn-off
1st person view... grrr
Logical puzzles... ouch, I'm feeling a migraine coming
Strategy & organisation type of game (SimCity)... Bankruptcy awaits
Point-and-Click... an awful constraint
Inventory... a shovel, a rope, and a plank...seriously , I mean it...seriously...
Gambling... do I look like a gambler?
Backstory... it must grab my attention, I won't push too much into it though
Puzzles... there must be a walkthrough somewhere
3rd person view... that's more like it
Freedom of movement for exploration... that's more like it
Card/Patience game (no money involved)... bring them on
Lovely graphics/sceneries... sure!
URU (mostly), Journey (PS3), Syberia series, Dreamfall series, Mahjjong/Spider/Patience games
The odds that I'll play these games and replay them: High
All the other games (including the Myst series)
I might finish them once/twice or I might just not finish them at all - just wandering in the sceneries
In fact, it's just like in real life...drop me at the entrance of a National Park with food/water supplies, a packsack, a map (well...that's not necessary, I might with high odds, get off the track), I'll be really happy. At night, I'll play patience game. What about the bears & other long-teeth animals? Well... hmm... I will make use of violence & weapons
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I'll immediately seize the opportunity, after you've done all the hard work to compile this wonderful list and put myself completely behind it all ... We seem to be a good team, Annabelle ...
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Acorn1
One thing you didn't mention, Annabelle - but maybe I'm the only one who feels like this - is absolutely HATING stuff where there is a clock ticking and you need to react fast! I like to take my own time rather than be driven by a game.
This rules out an awful lot of games for me!
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Jamie Marchant
What I like in my video games, depends on what mood I'm in, if I want to get a lot of energy at once I play Sonic, if I want to think, explorer and solve puzzles, I play Myst, etc. The most important thing to me is that I have fun.
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:45 am
Acorn1 wrote:
Right !
I was in real hurry (well...not really ) this morning so I forgot that issue BIG time... I can become a monster when there are beat-the-clock puzzles or if the puzzles are too hard to be fun. I remember "trying" to play Chameleon. At the end there were teeth bites on the box cover & the CD-ROMs all finished their pity life in the garbage.
This is why I never liked Myst 4 Revelation:
The colour dots puzzle in Serenia is too hard to be fun and the spire mechanism puzzle to do whatever with the nara (don't ask me what we can do with it ) is too timed to be fun. And that spirit chase puzzle...grrrr
Ainia
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:31 am
Location: The Cleft, New Mexico
Shorah everyone,
I'm completely on board with Annabelle, janaba1 and Acorn1.
I *love*
taking my time
exploring endlessly
genuinely logical puzzles (like in the original Myst with figuring out what the levers controlled, how to turn on the power, etc.)
interesting NPCs and rich history/backstory (e.g. Yeesha is an odd but very interesting character and gets more and more complex as we learn more about her)
collaborating with other people
realistic and detailed worlds (realistic=well-rendered rather than identical to familiar Terran landscapes)
hidden nuggets to discover but which aren't required for gameplay
imaginative and mysterious worlds
I *hate*
conversation trees
having to collect piles of things (inventory, money)
anything requiring refined eye-hand coordination (fighting, high-speed chases, etc. YECH)
"enemies" (and all the evil things that go with them)
illogical puzzles (e.g. having to talk to NPCs in the exact right order, arranging refrigerator magnets in the right order to unlock the door, etc.) If it wouldn't make sense in real life then I will walk away and call it lazy game design
health meters (and all the evil things that go with them)
anything that promotes competition instead of collaboration
As you can probably tell, I'm not a gamer. I'm an explorer.
Location: Questing...
Dittos! Particularly about logical puzzles.
EXPLORATION!!
I would LOVE to see a game with the vastness, complexity, and beauty of a game like Skyrim but where you don't have to fight every person and creature you meet. Gore is a major turn-off. So are undead/demonic themes.
The Myst games will always be my favorite but I have to admit it's a little disappointing to finish exploring an age and realize it's so VERY small.
Make me think (puzzles!), but also let me explore my creativity. When you have a game that allows the users to create mods, it keeps fans engrossed in the game for years.
Humor is always a nice touch. But keep it subtle. (And innuendo is a cheap laugh. Lazy.)
Enough complexity that when you replay the game you find things you missed the first time around.
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Lord Chaos
"The Manhole" was the first computer game I finished. "Cosmic Osmo" followed that, and then "Myst." I'd played games in arcades but few of them engaged me and when they started moving in the direction of more gore I stopped going there.
"Riven" is, for me, the apotheosis of video gaming. I wander around, look at things, figure things out, and am regularly astounded by beauty of scene and music interwoven. The only bad thing about Riven is that it ends. It's like a good book, and leaves me wanting more. All these years later, I still want more but I fear that age is gone.
So, add my voice to Annabelle's. Give me a place to explore, things to figure out, beauty and grace and good music, with mystery and detail. That's a game I would play because I want to be in the world for a time, and that would differ from something like "Guild Wars," which I play as a time-killer on those days when I don't want to deal with anything else.
The first thing I did in Guild Wars 2? Start walking. I set out from the Black Citadel and found my way to all the other major cities. I echo the other voices in this thread and say I'm an explorer.
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KathAveara
Location: A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.
Hm, ditto for me too, Ainia!
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AdamJohnso
Guns, bazookas, and gazongas.
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Tomala
Ainia wrote:
arranging refrigerator magnets in the right order to unlock the door, etc
You didn't find that puzzle in Riven?
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I found other games to play.
HarveyMidnight
Years before I even played Myst-- back when it was typical for games to get harder and harder as you moved up in levels, I wondered myself if someone could make a game that didn't get harder as you went, that just provided unique and interesting things to see and hear.
It didn't occur to me that it would be puzzle-based, or about problem-solving.. so no, I didn't envision or predict Myst.
But I've heard about games like 'Dear Esther' and 'Journey' that sound more like what I was envisioning; just games where you explore , and your presence in certain spots will trigger the storyline... you don't die, you don't get frustrated and stuck-- you're just on an easter-egg hunt. The more you look, the more you find.
I think I would really enjoy a game like that.. just a fictional, beautiful place to explore, with a lot of amazing visuals and beautiful music-- the more you explore, the more new cool stuff you see and hear.
If I were to design my own "Myst VI", for example, my FIRST priority would be to come up with a story-based reason why your character would need to visit almost ALL of the Ages from the past games, just to put them all in one place with all the original music & sound effects and some new things added in, new music and new things to find-- so even AFTER you complete the story-mode, this game would be a 'museum piece' where you can always go back and tour your favorite Ages.
Nev'yn
Location: Tampa Bay, FL
For me, I always enjoyed the Quest For Glory Series. My all-time favorite would be #IV: Shadows of Darkness. Unfortunately, they completely redid the engine for QFG #V. I only played it for a little while, found it tedious for gameplay, and have never went back to finish it.
Another game I recall fondly is King's Quest 6. That game was always more of story to me than an actual game.
Although Myst/Riven are notable, the novels I will perhaps always like even more than the games. I need to remind the readers here I only discovered the cavern upon accident while researching other things. The game was briefly mentioned in comparison to something else. After doing a search, I discovered Uru. I thought the series had ended with the first two games and the book series. I still haven't played Exile or Revelations, while I obtained EoA only after an online copy was finally released on Steam.
Anys, sorry for the rambling nature of this post...Didn't really answer the question, did I?
(/me shrugs)
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Home Farming USDA Clarifies Oversight of Plant-Breeding Innovation
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently issued a statement providing clarification on USDA’s oversight of plants produced through new and innovative breeding techniques such as genome editing.
Under its biotechnology regulations, USDA does not regulate or have any plans to regulate plants that could otherwise have been developed through traditional breeding techniques, as long as they are not plant pests or developed using plant pests. This includes a set of new techniques that are increasingly being used by plant breeders to produce new plant varieties that are indistinguishable from those developed through traditional breeding methods. The newest of these methods, such as genome editing, expand traditional plant breeding tools because they can introduce new plant traits more quickly and precisely, potentially saving years or even decades in bringing needed new varieties to farmers.
“With this approach, USDA seeks to allow innovation when there is no risk present,” Perdue said. “At the same time, I want to be clear to consumers that we will not be stepping away from our regulatory responsibilities. While these crops do not require regulatory oversight, we do have an important role to play in protecting plant health by evaluating products developed using modern biotechnology. This is a role USDA has played for more than 30 years, and one I will continue to take very seriously, as we work to modernize our technology-focused regulations.”
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Chamberlain School Board Investigated for Civil Rights Violation
September 15, 2014 September 15, 2014 EditorLeave a comment
Press release from James Cadwell:
United States Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights to investigate Chamberlain School Board for Civil Rights violation.
The Chamberlain School board is being investigated for possible civil right violation. The alleged violation came about as a result of the boards denial to allow James Cadwell and Lynn Hart to formally present a letter of support from the King Center of Atlanta, Georgia for the honor song. In a email/letter dated April 8, 2014 from the superintendent of Chamberlain Schools Deb Johnson, Cadwell was told he could no longer bring up the Honor song and that she, superintendent Johnson, was informed by the board to not allow Cadwell to be put on the April 15, 2014 agenda to discuss the honor song. Ironically, the board at the very meeting Cadwell had requested to participate in to introduce the letter of support from the King Center, they, the board, modified the rules surrounding public participation and input and approved an amendment to read that subjects brought up by the public can only be discussed once. In addition they also amended their policy about length of time and now restrict the amount of time they can be discussed. It should be noted that this is direct conflict with the track record of the board. With the recent attempt by the board to build a new 13.5 million dollar multi purpose building the public has addressed this issue meeting after meeting with no opposition from the board or restriction of the amount of time spent on the discussion. It would appear that the restriction to the Native American Honor song is an attempt by the board to eliminate public input on subjects they are not in favor of. The whole idea behind public input is to help the board understand and to sway the boards decisions with the public exercising its desires.
Previously the board rejected a petition that was signed by over 200 of the staff and students of the Chamberlain Schools who were in favor of the honor song. In one of the responses to the petition board member Jay Blum made reference to hear say information, saying that he talked to a friend of a friend who said he was told by a student that he the student felt pressured in to signing the petition.
Past comments from the school board read like a horror story, President Rebecca Riemers told the public in one of the school board meetings that the issue of the honor song is dead! We will not be discussing it again. Additional comment include member Casey Hutmaker telling the public during a board meeting that “Chamberlain school is an english speaking school, we speak english here we don’t need any other language” as he made reference to the honor song. Addition comments in the same meeting found Hutmaker saying “we say the Pledge of Allegiance here that’s all we need”. Board member Dallas Thompson made reference to Crow Creek Sioux Tribe with this statement “Those people have all kinds of problems up there they need to straighten out their own issues. These kids are doing just fine until those adults got involved!”
The request for the honor song has received national support from the King Center, NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, with additional support of South Dakotas largest newspaper both in and out of Indian country and the South Dakota Indian Education Association who moved their conference as a direct result of the honor song denial by the school board. Chamberlain Schools minority population has increased to nearly 40% in the past few years with Native American students making up over 38% of that population. In addition some of the Elementary classrooms Native American population exceeds 50%.
Most recently the Chamberlain school board accepted the resignation of the lone Minority member American Indian Marcel Felicia and replaced him with the past president Rebeca Riemers who did not run for re-election in the last election.
In a letter received by Mr. Cadwell dated September 3, 2014 the United States Department of Education office of Civil Rights opened an investigation into alleged discrimination on the basis race. The office of civil rights is responsible for enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(TitleVI),42 U.S.C 200d and it’s implementing regulation, 34 C.F.R. Part 100. Title VI prohibits recipients of Federal assistance from the Department from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin.
As a recipient of federal financial assistance from the department, the district is subject to Title VI.
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“Border Town, USA” Series – Indian Country Today Media Network
This is this fourth piece of a series on border town violence in Indian Country Today Media. The next installments will include an analysis of border town violence and profiles of three cities: Albuquerque, NM, Gallup, NM, and Rapid City, SD.
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Lower Brule Elections Redux: Governance and KXL
September 1, 2014 EditorLeave a comment
Tomorrow are tribal elections in Lower Brule, the Kul Wicasa Oyate. Below is a list of my blog posts about the Lower Brule elections, tribal governance, and the Keystone XL pipeline. There is a lot at stake for the Kul Wicasa Oyate, the Oceti Sakowin, our sacred Treaty Territory, our Mni Wiconi, and Unci Maka. This is an important time in our history, perhaps more so than any other. I have a lot of faith in our young leaders, but they will be taking over a system broken by four decades of no accountability and complete lack of transparency to the Oyate, the People.
Please take the time to read over the issues facing our Nation:
Audit Reveals Lower Brule’s Budget has Major “Material Weaknesses”
Michael B. Jandreau, You Don’t Serve the People
Kul Wicasa Elections: A lot at Stake
Declaring War on KXL: Indigenous Peoples Mobilize
Open Letter to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribal Council on KXL and TransCanada
The Keystone XL Pipeline: Coming to Terms and Demanding the Impossible
Hecetu Welo!
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Mega Man EXE Transmission Interview
Developer Keiji Inafune talks with Dengeki about the return of Mega Man to the
Nintendo console, and we've got the translation.
Dengeki GameCube recently interviewed Keiji Inafune regarding GameCube's upcoming Rockman EXE Transmission (Mega Man EXE Transmission for overseas).
Inafune-san helped developed all of the Mega Man series. His recent work includes the Onimusha series and Rockman EXE for the GBA. PGC brings you the interview's translation below.
Dengeki: First of all, please tell us about the background for bringing Rockman to the GameCube.
Inafune: Originally, Rockman was a title that began on Nintendo hardware (Famicom). After various things, at one time the series was brought over to the PlayStation platform. However, after the GBA got released, we realized if we were targeting children, the most suitable platform would probably be portable gaming. With that in mind, we developed EXE. Then we thought that kids that have GBAs are showing interest in the GameCube. That is when we realized it might be better to go back to Nintendo. It started with Nintendo, and now we want the fun and enjoyment to be spread through Nintendo once more. I felt that fighting with Rockman was most suitable under the Nintendo hardware, so I thought, let's do it.
Dengeki: The title is Rockman EXE Transmission. But it's not a game derived from the GBA version of EXE, right?
Inafune: That is right. The GBA version of EXE merged the interesting aspects of action and card games. When we asked how we should transcend the action elements of the current Rockman, we started by wondering whether we should use the perspective of EXE. Returning to the original point, which includes returning to Nintendo, we rethought about what exactly is fun about Rockman. Today, with the rise of hardware's power, games have started to use 3D landscapes, but I think that does not come to my mind regarding Rockman, which demands precise jumping and action controls. When we think about what is fun about Rockman, it is about trying to figure out if you can jump this height or this width, which used to be measured in those block units that couldn't be helped with the limitations of the Famicom. Today, with hardware evolving, we stopped doing that even though it was fun. I think that was the wrong choice.
As a result, we started at a point where we wanted to preserve the core of Rockman that had graphics matching the hardware. We did not make the game for people that liked Rockman in the past, but we hope that even when those people play, they will remember the series and its fun gameplay.
Dengeki: Looking at the graphics, we have the impression of anime.
Inafune: Yes, the characters are cel-shaded. Since the Rockman EXE anime is currently on TV (in Japan), we created the game trying to make a connection with the anime. Rather than making Rockman very realistic, I thought the anime style would be much more enjoyable. Regarding effects, we developed the game trying to insert eye-catching effects.
Dengeki: Do you want to build an online game?
Inafune: No. Thinking about the business size, the current situation is a bit harsh.
Dengeki: Would you like to bring the Onimusha series on the GameCube?
Inafune: I think that the GameCube is for kids. I do not want kids to play Onimusha. My opinions are split with Director Mikami (Resident Evil's creator).
Translation by Bakudan Yoshinoya.
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Welcome onboard ‘The Great Swedish Cruise’ – a six-day journey between Gothenburg and Stockholm, where you travel serenely along the fantastic and historic Göta Canal.
Watch the Swedish countryside unfold in front of you as the captain navigates his way along the peaceful waterways. Unlike the four-day cruise the canal boat is docked every night giving you more time to enjoy the journey as well as the company on board. The beautiful landscape surrounds waterway as we slowly travel through the country. Our journey follows a blue ribbon through the heart of Sweden. Regardless the season you travel, it is a wonderful experience. During shore visits and overnight stops you will have the opportunity to participate in guided tours to some of the foremost sights Sweden can offer.
10.00 Departure from Gothenburg, Packhuskajen 10
14.15-14.30 Lilla Edet - the lock at Lilla Edet, built in 1916, is the first on our journey. The original lock was opened in 1607 and was the first lock in Sweden.
15.45-16.30 Trollhättan, locks - the impressive lock staircase at Trollhättan consists of four locks, and has a total drop of 32 metres. Of the three parallel lock systems here, only the biggest one (from 1916) is still in use.
16.30-18.30 Trollhättan - the Trollhättan Canal Museum is located in a storehouse from 1893. Learn more about the fascinating history of the Trollhätte Canal through the interesting exhibition and film shown here. You can also take a walk through the beautiful old lock area.
20.10 Arr. Vänersborg - this is the last town before we head out into Lake Vänern. The "Brinkebergskulle" lock is just before Vänersborg. Overnight stop.
04.45 Dep. Vänersborg
04.45-15.15 Lake Vänern - 44 metres above sea level. Sweden’s largest lake and the third largest lake in Europe, after the Ladoga and Onega lakes in Russia.
09.30-11.45 Läckö Castle - Läckö Castle was built in 1298 as a bishop’s residence. Its golden age was during the reign of Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie, who transformed it into a baroque castle in 1652. We are given a guided tour of the castle and the exhibitions (lots of stairs). App. 1 km walk.
15.15-16.45 Sjötorp - we now enter the first of the 58 narrow locks on the Göta Canal. At Sjötorp we have a set of eight locks and also the remains of some old shipyards. Here you can take a walk alongside the canal while our ship slowly travels up the locks.
17.45-18.35 Lyrestad - Jema Studioglas is located right by the canal and the guest harbour of Lyrestad. Here we experience at close hand the transformation of art glass sculpture from molten glass to its solid form.
19.45-21.20 Godhögen-Hajstorp övre - we pass a lock system consisting of four locks in very beautiful surroundings. In 1822 the western section of the Göta Canal was inaugurated at Hajstorp. After dinner we will be entertained by a music group.
21.20 Arr. Hajstorp - at Hajstorp our ship berths for the night, close to what used to be the Canal Engineer’s home, now privately owned. Overnight stop.
06.00 Dep. Hajstorp
07.00 Töreboda - the railway line between Stockholm and Gothenburg crosses the canal here. Töreboda also proudly presents Sweden’s smallest ferry, "Lina", which travels back and forth across the Göta Canal.
09.00 The Berg Canal/the Obelisk - an obelisk marks the highest point (91.5 metres above sea level) of the Göta Canal. This part of the canal is called the Berg Canal and originally had a sharp bend which was straightened in 1930-33.
10.00 Tåtorp - one of the canal’s two hand-operated locks is found at Tåtorp.
10.00-12.15 Lake Viken - the beautiful Lake Viken (91.8 metres above sea level) serves as a water reservoir for the western section of the Göta Canal.
11.10-12.15 The Spetsnäs Canal/Billströmmen - we steer through two narrow, wood-lined passages and small lakes full of water lilies.
12.15-12.35 Forsvik - Forsvik has a very interesting industrial history. The lock, built in 1813, is the oldest one in the canal. The impressive iron bridge dates from the same year. In the lock we are sometimes greeted with songs and flowers by the Kindbom family, a religious group. From here on we will be going downwards!
13.15 Karlsborg - before our ship enters Lake Vättern, we pass Karlsborg and will be able to see the roof of the fortress, which was built in 1819-1909.
13.15-15.00 Lake Vättern - 89 metres above sea level. Sweden’s second largest lake.
15.00-18.00 Vadstena - Today Vadstena is an idyllic little town. It evolved around the 14th century convent of the Saint Bridget (St. Birgitta), becoming a spiritual, cultural and commercial centre. The Abbey was built according to St. Bridget’s plans, and was consecrated in 1430. The Castle was built in the 1540s by King Gustav Vasa. Local guides will meet us and take us with the sightseeing train to see the Abbey and the castle. You will also have time here to walk around the town on your own, or go for a swim in the lake.
19.15 Arr. Motala - it was Baltzar von Platen who drew up the plans for Motala, and today it is called "the Capital of the Göta Canal". In 1822 an engineering works, Motala Werkstad, was established here to serve the Göta Canal and is today considered to be the cradle of Swedish industry. Here you also find the head office of the Gota Canal Company, responsible for operation and maintenance. We visit the Motor Museum, with its large exhibition of antique cars and motorcycles in authentic surroundings, collection of radios, toys, household appliances and more. You can also walk to see Baltzar von Platen’s grave, about 1 km along the left side of the canal. Overnight stop.
08.00 Dep. Motala - possibility to take a beautiful morning walk from Motala to Borenshult, app. 4 km.
09.00-09.40 Borenshult - lock staircase of five locks where you might hear the nightingale sing.
09.40-10.40 Lake Boren - 73 metres above sea level.
10.40-11.40 Borensberg - at Borensberg there is another hand-operated lock. We walk the short distance to the well-known Göta Hotel, from 1908, where we are served coffe and waffles. Just past the hotel there is a small gazebo leaning out over a sharp bend in the canal, known as the "Helmsman's Horror".
12.00 Kungs Norrby, aqueduct - the aqueduct at Kungs Norrby was built in 1993 and leads over the national route 36.
14.40 Ljungsbro, aqueduct - we pass the second aqueduct on our journey. This one was built in 1970.
15.00 Berg (Heda) - we start our descent in the lock system of Berg (15 locks) towards Lake Roxen. The convent of Vreta dates from about 1100 and was the first nunnery in Sweden. Its importance was later superseded by the convent founded by Saint Bridget (St. Birgitta) at Vadstena. The old convent church at Vreta is one of Sweden’s most interesting, offering many medieval treasures. Today, it is used as a parish church and is therefore not always open to visitors. The tour guide will take you on a walk (app. 3 km, partly uneven) to see the church and the remains of the convent. As an alternative you can walk along the canal or take a swim in Lake Roxen.
16.30-17.30 Berg (Carl-Johan) - the Carl-Johan lock staircase is the longest in the canal with seven connected locks. Here we board the ship again before steering out on the lake.
17.30-19.30 Lake Roxen - 33 metres above sea level.
19.30 Norsholm lock - here the canal crosses the main railway line Stockholm – Malmö.
22.00 Arr. Klämman - we stop for the night at the idyllic lock Klämman, a water regulating lock. Take the oppurtunity to enjoy the total stillness. Overnight stop.
07.30 Dep. Klämman
08.20-09.30 Carlsborg–Mariehov–Duvkullen - at the lock Carlsborg Övre we have the first of the eight locks taking us down to Söderköping. Here you can stretch your legs between the locks, or, if you want more exercise, walk all the way down to Söderköping, app. 4 km.
10.00-12.30 Söderköping - the idyllic town Söderköping was founded in the early 1200s and was very important during the Hanseatic period. The town also has a long and interesting history as a spa. Söderköping is yours to explore on your own. Don’t forget to try the famous ice cream!
14.00 Mem - passing through the last narrow lock before Slätbaken, an inlet of the Baltic, we leave the Göta Canal. On September 26th, 1832, the Göta Canal was inaugurated at Mem amid great pomp and circumstance in the presence of King Karl XIV Johan and his family.
14.00- The Baltic Sea - we cross open water for a short bit and then weave through the archipelago.
15.00-16.00 Stegeborg - the ruins of the Stegeborg Fortress are beautifully situated on a small island overlooking the bay of Slätbaken. The fort was constructed during the early Middle Ages and was built to guard the inlet to Söderköping. We are given a guided tour through the interesting history of Stegeborg. The walk is short, but somewhat uneven.
20.30 Arr. Sävsundet - we await dawn at the old pilot station. Overnight stop.
04.40 Dep. Sävsundet
08.10-08.20 Södertälje - Södertälje lock, 135 metres long, is the largest lock in Scandinavia.
08.20-14.50 Lake Mälaren - 0.3 metres above sea level. Sweden’s third largest lake.
09.45-11.45 The Viking community of Birka - the Viking community of Birka on the island of Björkö is often regarded as Sweden's first town. The town was then an important harbour for international shipping and trade. It was in use for about 250 years and was abandoned before the year 1000. Birka features on UNESCO’S World Heritage list. The archaelogists on the island show us around (app. 3 km, uneven terrain). We also visit the museum.
13.45 Drottningholm Castle - Drottningholm Castle, home of the Royal family since 1981, is also found on the World Heritage list. We pass the castle if time admits.
15.00 Hammarby lock - the final lock on our journey delivers us from Lake Mälaren into Saltsjön.
16.00 Arr. Stockholm, Skeppsbrokajen - our cruise ends at Skeppsbrokajen 103, in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Subject to changes. Note! All times stated are approximate.
This summer we took The Great Swedish Cruise on M/S Diana from Gothenburg to Stockholm. In the beginning, we were not sure if this tour was exciting enough but the experienced agents in Nordic Saga assured us that this was exciting and relaxing at the same time. And it really was! Thank you Nordic Saga ! This trip was once -in-a-lifetime experience into the beautiful Swedish countryside. Diana cruise boat is an old boat with tiny cabins and shared toilets, but very clean and pleasant. The food on the boat was exceptionally delicious. The captain and the cruise director and all the staff were very accommodating to the request of the passengers. We also enjoyed the company of the fellow travelers. The atmosphere all 6 days was fantastic. The scenery was breathtaking , not to forget the thrilling experience of going through canal's many locks. This was the most exciting journey in my life. Williams T. Emad
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The impressive lock staircase in Trollhättan with a total drop of 32 metres and the Canal Museum
Sweden’s smallest ferry, ”Lina”, in Töreboda
Forsvik with the oldest lock in the canal, built in 1813
Vadstena, home to Saint Bridget
Motala, the capital of the Gota Canal
The convent church of Vreta and the remains of Sweden's first convent
The Viking community of Birka, Sweden’s first town
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USC Business Student Becomes Award-Winning Entrepreneur
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Chinese national Tony Gao is a junior at USC, and he’s been studying in the United States ever since his days in junior high. He’s experienced the myriad challenges of studying in a foreign country and he’s overcome them. In one particular problem he faced, Gao saw an opportunity, and, with the help of two business partners, he seized it.
When Chinese students make their tuition payments, it can take more than a week for a payment to navigate from a Chinese bank to an American Bank, and then to a school or university.
With that in mind, Gao has made it his business to try and give Chinese students a faster, easier and more cost-effective way to pay their tuition. In 2013, he co-founded Easy Transfer Limited, a company that enables Chinese students and their families to make tuition payments directly from Chinese bank accounts to U.S. universities. The other co-founders are University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Michael Shang, whom Gao met while attending high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Randy Bretz, a long-time business leader who mentored the two young men.
Now, students from 517 different high schools and colleges across the U.S., including USC, have already used the payment service, Gao wrote in an e-mail to OIS.
“I know how hard it is for international students to pay their tuition, and so I really want to do that, to help them,” Gao said in an interview at the student dining area outside of USC’s Tutor Campus Center.
Using Easy Transfer, students can make tuition payments in just a few minutes, and schools or universities can receive the funds within 48 hours, Gao said.
In 2015, at 21 years of age, Gao was rewarded for his vision and hard work when he became the youngest person to make Bloomberg Business Week’s list of 25 pioneer entrepreneurs from China under the age of 25.
Gao’s a strong proponent of entrepreneurship, encouraging all of his friends who have business ideas to jump right in and pursue them while they’re still young—just as Gao pursued his idea. Some ideas cannot wait, Gao said, citing a popular belief in the Silicon Valley tech industry.
But when it comes to any person whose primary goal is to make money, Gao doesn’t prescribe entrepreneurship.
“If your goal is to make people’s lives better, you really get the soul of being an entrepreneur,” he said.
Before he considered entrepreneurship, Gao thought about working in a large financial services corporation. At the age of 19, he put on a suit and started shadowing a group leader at Ernst and Young, an international business management consulting firm, in its Bejing office. But he didn’t find much joy in the uber-competitive environment there, and he left Ernst and Young after just a month. Entrepreneurship, he has found, suits him best.
Holden Slattery, Communications Editor for OIS, is a Master of Public Administration candidate. He is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Back for Good – Recreating the magic of ‘Take That’
I have to admit that I do not count myself as a Take That fan. I do like the occasional song, but I do not get the phenomenal support this band have maintained over the years, and a support that is still very evident today.
Back for Good is a tribute show to the fabulous four, yes Robbie is still missing from the tribute boy band, but the music from all eras of Take That are faithfully covered by Daniel Paul Maines as Gary, Matthew Hall as Mark, Joe Currey as Jason and Daniel John Claxton as Howard.
The dance routines are well staged and with the four sexy female backing dancers add colour and movement to enhance the more than competent vocal performances. The show is well directed, nicely lit and the sound crystal clear. There are also a couple of brief appearances from the local ‘Limelight’ choir to support on backing vocals too.
There are a whole host of Take That classic numbers including ‘It Only Takes a Minute’, ‘Babe’, ‘Patience’, ‘A Million Love Songs’, ‘Never Forget’, ‘Everything Changes’, ‘Pray’, ‘Relight My Fire’ are only a few of the highlights for the predominately female audience at the Alhambra.
It is almost impossible to get tickets to see the real Take That’ given the melt down that occurred when their latest tickets went on sale recently, so if you were unable to obtain any, or if you were lucky enough to get some and just want a taster of the next summers extravaganza, why not take the chance to see this tribute act.
The show is always touring it seems and you can check out their future dates on line on their website www.backforgoodshow.com For the latest line up of forthcoming shows at The Alhambra Theatre their website is www.alhambradunfermline.com
Stand Comedy Club 25 November 2010
It was the night that the Christmas lights were turned on in ‘The Athens of the North’ and to say the weather was cold would have been an understatement. However, I was as warm as anything, sitting in The Stand comedy Club, basking in the heat of the red-hot comedy that flowed from the stage engulfing the packed out crowd.
Compere for the night was the bubbly and ebullient Susan Calman. Now I have seen he in this role on numerous occasions over the last few years, and she is always good, usually she’s great, but for this performance she was on fire. Susan as usual is a master at gently cajoling information from the audience, prizing information, opening prize gems from the crowd, setting them up for further investigation. Whether it was luck or good design by the Stand management, but maybe it was fortunate that there were two firemen on the front roll to keep things under control.
The opening act was a young Irish lad from Cork by name of Chris Kent. This was the first time I have come across this very funny chap but I certainly hope it will not be the last. Chris is a one-time electrician, and I can confirm that he is a bit of a bit of a bright spark as a comedian too. He was straight into his set of very funny, often self-deprecating in style, material delivered with buckets of confidence and has stage presence a plenty. In very short order he was drawing peels of laughter from all corners of the club. I will certainly look for him performing again and I’m sure he is yet another on the Eire conveyor belt of talent following on from the likes of Ed Byrne, Jason Byrne, Andrew Maxwell and Neil Delamere to name but a few.
Following the first interval and a further demonstration from Ms Calman as to her comedy prowess the larger than life Rick Molland bounded onto the stage. Lancastrian by birth but now Edinburgh resident Molland certainly had plenty of stage presence and his style of ‘lefty’ comedy was retro in some respects but bang up to date in content. It is fair to say that Rick has strong opinions on certain subjects and spits bile at targets, Jim Davidson, his fans and Maggie Thatcher are worthy recipients of his scorn but the BNP were the main focus of his diatribe. I think it would be fair to say he may not be for everyone, however those who got him seemed to lap it up. I’d like to see him again before I formed a full opinion, but I would certainly be prepared to see more.
Closing the second part was as Aberdonian Gus Tawse. It had been quite a while since I had seen him and have to say I was very impressed with the set he delivered. Tawse has no histrionics in his delivery, rather the reverse, what he does deliver is a very funny, well written, observed and delivered set peppered with plenty of laugh out loud moments. His subject material is varied including PC gone mad, his grandfather, a difficult childhood and of course a bit about his hometown. Tawse was on the button throughout, and had the entire crowd with him too. Here’s to the next time.
Following the second interval and prize draw the comedy typhoon that is Phil Nichol took to the stage and blew the audience to smithereens. The man is pure mania; he must expend enough energy in his twenty minutes or so to power a small town for a week. Okay most of the set I had heard before, yet it always seems fresh in the approach. Nichol is as well as an extremely funny guy also is a mean guitar player and a really good vocalist, so uses these abilities to enhance his performance. He captivated the crowd from the outset and never let them go throughout. He honed in on an unfortunate guy in the front row, Kevin, who found himself more involved in the performance than maybe he would have wished, but never in a nasty way. Nichol is Nichol. And it would be fair to say that he is as entertaining as he was on this night every time I have seen him and that must be at least in double figures now. Go see him yourselves and be prepared to be blown away.
The Stand delivers quality comedy virtually every night of the year both in Edinburgh and in Glasgow so to check out what is on offer why not visit their website www.thestand.co.uk for detail
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Steve Steinman’s Vampires Rock
There is nothing like a good-time musical theatre show to get the chill November blues out of your soul, so it was with great anticipation I, along with the excess of six hundred like minded folk, headed for the Alhambra Theatre Dunfermline where this almost non-stop touring show touched down for a return visit.
Writer / Director / Producer / Star Steve Steinman is the driving force behind this show since he created it in 2004 and it has grown a massive cult following with some audience members attending in costume. It was however my first time so knew little of what to expect.
Set in the year 2030, in the club of the evil Baron Von Rockula, Steinman, is in search of a bride and hopes to achieve his aim while auditioning for a new rock singer for his club. Enter the naive Pandora Rosie Box, a Cliff Richard geek who really has no idea what she is walking into, but with the help of the uber talented band The Lost Boys, her inner rock chick quickly emerges. Emily Clark portrays Pandora and my God what a voice this lady has!!
The comedy character janitor, at times seems to be a cross between Igor and Rocky Horror’s Riff Raff, but certainly injects humour into the proceedings, and can sing more than a bit too.
The plot is fairly minimal, but who cares, it is funny; non-offensive for any age and let’s be honest the music selected is the main reason for most to be there anyway.
Any show that kicks off with ‘Welcome to The Jungle’, progresses into Highway to Hell, continues with ‘Killer Queen’, ‘Sympathy for the Devil’, ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’ and ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ all before the interval cannot be bad as far as I, and nearly everyone else was concerned.
The rock didn’t stop there either, the second half was peppered with classics too, the very balcony of The Alhambra was shaking during the interpretation of ‘Jump’ and the sea of clapping hands during ‘We Will Rock You’ would have done justice to a Queen crowd.
The set was well designed, a huge skull with bat wings dominating, the lighting plot well delivered and the sound absolutely pin sharp. The direction was well drilled too, thrown into the mix were a couple of scantily clad female vampires and a few theatrical devices also slipped in to give this production even more gloss. The faithful recreation of rock classics however made it for me though, as the musicians and vocal performances were tremendous.
All in all a quality evening’s entertainment, and I certainly hope it continues to tour. I will be back, you can bet on it.
To find out future dates when it may be in your area check out their website www.vampiresrock.com and for the diverse variety of entertainment programmed by the Alhambra Dunfermline all is listed on their site www.alhambradunfermline.com
Kim Shepherd January 22 2011 Alhambra Theatre Dunfermline
Not a review for once, but a recommendation. A very talented lady surely destined for the very top. Grab you chance to see her now.
****Unfortunately this gig has now been cancelled***
Mark Watson – Do I Know You? 12 November
Although I have been aware of Mark Watson for a number of years now and have seen him do a couple of ‘guest spots’ so on Friday 12 November at Dunfermline’s Alhambra Theatre this was the first time I had seen a full length show, and no it wasn’t one of his full length 24 hr marathons that at one time he was synonymous for, just an hour 50 or so as part of his latest tour.
Some comics make a grand entrance, but then Watson is not some comics. Unobtrusively I became aware that something was happening, there was typing being screened on stage and it was him, sitting quietly at the back of the stage typing funny comments on his laptop, certainly a different way of doing a warm-up.
In spite of, or maybe because of, a whole host of late comers interrupting proceedings, Watson started his show by being a little all over the place. That’s not saying he wasn’t funny, he just seemed rather distracted, starting stories, or opening windows as he described it, parking them, going elsewhere before returning to his original ideas.
The concept behind the title of his show is that he is nearly well known, TV appearances and advert campaigns he has featured in have led to him being ‘sort of’ recognised by taxi drivers and the like, yet he is not a household name like Derren Brown and Obama, two people he holds in high esteem.
For someone who is really a big name in the comedy world at least Watson is very self-effacing, often self deprecating, almost as he doesn’t really understand why he is as popular as he is. His many die hard fans in the 500 or so audience were with him through out, and I imagine he gained quite a few more over the course of the show. He is a very pleasant guy, as I observed after the show, always happy to talk to his fans and pose for photos too.
Watson is in the middle of his tour currently and the future dates can be found on his website www.markwatsonthecomedian.com For future gigs at The Alhambra check out their website www.alhambraddunfermline.com
Stand Comedy Club – 11 November
Where to go for a good night out on a Thursday in November, location Edinburgh? This is a no brainer really. The Stand Comedy Club in York Place has everything you would want. Friendly staff, good choice of beer and wine, quality home cooked food and a comedy bill on offer that is second to none.
Our host for the night was the ebullient Susan Morrison, one of the many top class comperes this club is blessed with. Susan was straight into her role, her normal hundred miles an hour style of delivery packing the time available to her with a whole host of gags, stories and garnering information from the packed out audience to use as call backs later for both herself and the others that followed.
Having warmed up one and all, and getting the chuckle muscles toned, she introduced the opening act Edinburgh based Fifer Derek Johnston. It has been quite a while since I have seen this personable young chap perform and it was good to catch up with him again.
After a gentle start, with a little muted response from the crowd, Derek swiftly got into his stride and as his momentum built so did the laughter. Johnston is not a confrontational comedian, anything but, but this in no way detracts from his ability. Certainly by the end of his set virtually everyone wanted more.
Following the first interval, the first of two acts took the mic, and for the ‘short’ set it was Gus Lymburn. Although he has been around on the comedy circuit for quite a while this was the first chance I had had to see him I action for myself. I have to say I can understand why he has acquired a good reputation. Slightly more dramatic in style than Johnston, Gus was endearing himself to most, maybe not the Geordies up front, but they took it in good part, with a set packed through out with very funny material. I certainly look forward to seeing him again, this time with a longer set hopefully.
Closing the second section was Scottish comedy legend Parrot. This chap has been on the comedy scene for absolutely ages, although until recently his profile seemed to be somewhat lower. This is the third time I have seen him this year and he keeps getting better as far as I am concerned.
He certainly has stage presence in abundance, and a whole raft of funny material, often self deprecating, but this performance seemed to capture the imagination of the crowd and they were more than happy to go along with him for the duration of his set.
Following the second interval and prize draw Ms Morrison introduced our headliner Carey Marx. Now I have been a huge fan of his for a number of years now and make no secret of it. He is well respected in the business too, so I really cannot understand why he is not a mega star. Perhaps his choice of material may alienate him from some, but it is so well written, bitingly funny and superbly delivered, I don’t think I could ever take offence at his stuff. I was impressed with the whole set, his brand new material standing up well against his slightly better known, to me anyway, classics. The two friends I had with me on the night, had never previously seen him were well impressed, as was virtually the entire crowd. Part of his charm is his wicked grin that often accompanies his darker stuff, an expression that gets wider the better he goes down. And this was very evident on the night.
In these days of doom and gloom, recession and the impending festive season value for money is an essential. So with shows such as these of offer what better value could a comedy fan get?
To check out the future programme for both the Edinburgh and Glasgow venues go to their website at www.thestand.co.uk for details.
Jason Cook – The End (Part One) Stand Comedy Club
I had occasionally wondered if it was worth watching ‘the same show again’, especially as I had only seen it as late as August, barely three months ago. But I knew on this occasion at least it would be worthwhile when the comedian in question was gregarious Geordie Jason Cook. Why? Well he has an innate ability to riff with the audience so that each show is different, and during the Fringe his show was restricted to an hour, and the offering at The Stand was going to be at least twice as long.
So along with eighty plus others I eagerly took my place long before the start on a cold Sunday night in November. Cold it may have been outside but the temperature was red hot once Mr Cook hit the stage.
The essence of the two hours was that he would warm up the audience briefly, do the first half of his Edinburgh show, an interval and then the concluding portion, but Cook being Cook, and the enjoyment he seemed to be getting from the crowds reaction, the ad-libs, banter and riffing took him to a whole load of places he didn’t expect to go.
He does talk quickly, well he has to, to pack in all his material, and it is all top notch stuff as well. He can always find an anecdote or ad-lib from whatever treasure he uncovers and often he is the butt of his own stories.
The story behind the title of his show is that before Christmas 2009 he thought he had breathed his last, and when he fortunately found he hadn’t then he resolved to change his life somewhat for the better. It is the lead-up to and the immediate aftermath of the event that is his mainstay.
I was fairly late in catching on to this exceptionally funny chap, others within my team were far more astute than I in recognising his comedy genius. I hate the term as it is so often over used, but in his case it is truly appropriate, in fact I don’t think another word could describe his performances. I am not alone; I spoke to a number of people at the interval and after the show concurred 100% with my opinion which was gratifying.
As his name could imply, he take the best of ingredients in his material, mixes them the spice of his humour, simmers for two hours and ends up serving up a feast of regal proportions for one and all. A recipe for a great night out This cook certainly deserves more than a few Michelin stars to add to his name.
So do yourselves a favour, check out his website www.jasonlovescomedy.com to see where he is playing near you, then do everything you can to get a ticket. You would be a fool to yourself if you did.
For future dates at The Stand Comedy Club, both in Edinburgh and Glasgow, then check out their website www.thestand.co.uk and hopefully I’ll see you there.
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Researching Pianos ~ The Action
“I shall build an Arpicembalo!” stated Cristofori excitedly. The year was 1698 and his new invention literally translated means “harp-harpsichord”. It would be a new instrument that would sound like a harp and have keys like a harpsichord. Harpsichords have plucked strings but this new invention would have mallets that strike the strings. It was described in the inventory of the Grand Prince Ferdinand de Medici, his employer as ‘an instrument that could produce both soft and loud tones with 2 sets of strings at unison pitch having a cypress soundboard’. Needless to say, the Arpicembalo name didn’t last but rather, the function described the instrument. It would forever be known as a piano-forte or a soft-loud. Over time this truncated to simply, the Piano.
“If I use small leather mallets to strike the strings, then every note will have independent volume based on the velocity of each of the 49 keys. As the key is depressed, it will pivot and push the hammer up on a rotating axis.”
And that’s exactly what he did. The only problem was he needed to find a way to not only strike the string but also release the mallet as well. If this hammer strikes the string and then rests against it for any length of time, it subsequently blocks and mutes the vibration of the note.
“What I need is a hammer escape so that when I play the note, the hammer is released from the string.” Cristofori devised what is known as the Single Escapement Piano Action. According to the Metropolitan Museum, Cristofori’s hammer mechanism is so well designed and made that no other of comparable sensitivity and reliability was devised for another seventy-five years.
It’s now 1820 and Sébastien Érard of Érard Piano has developed a more intuitive piano action. After 100 years of the single escapement action, refined repetition was becoming more desirable for greater expression.
“While I respect the work of Cristofori”, thought Erard, “the action is primitive and doesn’t allow for complete control. For example, when I press a key down, I must fully lift up the key before it resets. This results in laborious playing.” Erard set to work and patented what would become the predecessor of the modern piano action in 1821, known as the double escapement action. Not only did his action facilitate greater control, allowing the pianist to repeat a note very quickly, but his design also had greater power as well. This power and control of the Erard action brought about a much wider dynamic range.
Modern Renner Grand Piano Action
Today, nearly 200 years have passed since Érard developed the modern action, and about 320 years since Cristofori’s piano. Could you imagine not only building piano parts by hand but also building without any sort of power tools? This brings into perspective Cristofori’s 2000-part action. The modern piano action contains more than 4000 parts and as we know from the Renner interview, the right parts can only be achieved from the right tools.
Piano Damper Lever Manufacturing
Fast forward to the 21st century. What has changed in the world of modern manufacturing? One word: automation.
Throughout the 1800’s until the late 1900’s, piano actions were planed and cut by machine but required a lot of hands-on guidance to build actions manually. Today with computer-controlled accuracy, parts are now profiled by machine and a large part of the assembly is also done automatically. From the factories that I have visited, this computer-controlled manufacturing has distinct advantages of uniformity, precision and speed. The functions of these parts have not changed over the centuries but the manufacturing has changed immeasurably.
When considering the advantages of one piano over another, sometimes the words “hand built” are used. This refers to the body, the frame or the soundboard of the piano. While piano actions today are partially assembled by hand, they are never “hand built” in the sense of Geppeto making every piece with a hand saw. Make no mistake about the fact that the piano action parts today are primarily computer-driven machined parts. One of the differences between pianos made in the 1900’s and 2000’s is that the parts have even less hands-on interaction. In the Renner article, Clemens Von Arnim stated that former machinery “got replaced not because we had outgrown its usefulness, but rather automation in manufacturing prevailed.”
Automation has allowed for the proliferation of piano manufacturing. During Cristofori’s time, he was employed by a prince. Pianos were built for aristocracy. The average person would not have even seen a piano let alone hear one performed. Today, hundreds of thousands of pianos are built annually. With a conservative estimate of 4000 parts per piano, that could place action parts at a total of possibly 1.5 billion each year. Manufacturing just the piano actions is no small feat. Since Cristofori’s time, the price and accessibility have changed in part due to the automation of piano parts.
Piano Back Check Manufacturing
When researching pianos, then what are the differences in piano actions?
To understand the differences in piano actions, we first need to look at the makeup of the components. Piano actions consist primarily of wood. Hornbeam and maple are used extensively for these parts. Steel is used for brackets while aluminum is often used for common rails connecting all of the parts for each of the 88 notes. Jointed parts are also made from nickel or chrome brass pins inserted into the wood and rotate quietly on cloth bushings (pictured below in red). Some companies have incorporated plastic and carbon fiber parts as well. Leather and felt are used extensively where parts would normally touch to provide cushion but also reduce noise.
The physical differences of piano actions are difficult to measure. There is a distinct division between wooden actions and carbon fiber. The carbon fiber actions, however represent a very small percentage of pianos. All pianos have primarily wooden parts but there are some elements that have plastic components as well. Is plastic bad? First of all, let me go on record by saying that action parts such as capstons or jacks have no bearing on the sound of the piano. Second, plastic in piano actions has been used since the 1950’s and it is used because it is strong, light-weight and consistent. Both high grade pianos as well as entry level makers have utilized plastic. Neither the use of plastic or wood are deal breakers for me. If you follow the vibration from the hammer, the majority of the energy transfers to the string. But what about the energy that travels down the hammer shank? Does it make noise? Boutique makers actually tune their hammer shanks to coincide with the pitch of the note. The connective joint of the hammer shank is the flange and all of the hammer flanges run along a common action rail. Subtle differences in wooden, aluminum or steel also contribute to overall tone.
What kind of piano action makes the best piano touch?
I’d like to go on a bit of a tangent and describe what piano actions are not. The keys should not feel loose nor sloppy. Neither should the touch feel heavy or laborious. Quite often these are a result of excessive or insufficient friction (yes, you can have too little friction in a piano action). Piano keys should always be quick to reset in repetition.
But the magic quality of a great piano action is this: every dynamic level from soft to loud should be matched to an equivalent action intention. What I mean by that is that if I intend to play a loud section of music, the action will reply in such a way that I feel like my intention of force matches the action. Unsatisfying actions are often mismatched to the force required to play the key. Sometimes you play a key with a medium force and the piano replies with too soft or loud a response. If the keys are too light, as a performer, you feel the need to hold back from any measure of force. Alternatively, a heavy action is one where you press in and the piano feels like each motion requires significant effort. But pianos are much more complicated in the sense that they are dynamic in nature. Some pianos respond well at just one volume level where you feel comfortable playing and the resulting tone feels fine but pushed to either extreme of soft or loud playing, the action again can feel mismatched.
To complicate things further, I would like the action to match not only the same force but the hammers to match the timbre as well. For example, in the lower, quieter dynamic levels, I would like the hammers to present more intimate and felty sounding tones and when I press in, the tonal quality also changes accordingly and becomes more strident and bolder. I recognize that these are big demands. And when it comes to researching pianos, these are impossible for novice players. Most often if the key makes a sound and that sound seems somewhat pleasing to the ear, the novice player will be convinced. But what about growth? What about a piano action that will match growth of the performer over time? Too often, pianos are purchased without thinking about 5 years down the road. I’ve all too often been told how a pianist has sometimes played even for a few years, then the “aha” moment happens and they realize they’ve been playing on a piano that isn’t suitable and holding them back from further advancement.
Piano Flange Manufacturing
First of all, let me go on record in saying that it is almost impossible to determine the quality of new action parts from visual inspection. When you open up a new piano and see the symmetry of new action parts, they all look stunning. But visual inspection doesn’t tell you a lot. In addition, it is my experience when playing the piano that you cannot determine what grade of wood, felt or cloth has been utilized for individual parts. I can’t tell you by playing that the whippen or the shank or back check are made of a certain quality.
I can only tell you from the performer’s perspective that you gain an overall impression about a piano action, which is built upon three things: action design, sum total of all parts and regulation. I feel that piano actions have certainly consolidated over the last 200 years and especially in the last 30 years. Action designs have become more similar from maker to maker as there seems to be a fairly narrow range of subtle differences between action designs. Again, computer-controlled assembly has brought about precision which has narrowed the gap between actions from lower priced instruments to higher ones. As competition has increased, I believe that the standard for piano actions parts has generally increased as well. It is generally accepted that wood must be properly kiln dried and cured and that felt of a reasonable quality must be utilized to make a decent end product. Regarding regulation, I’ve played pianos that have undergone complete transformations in the hands of a great piano technician. And when I say transformation, I mean the piano is unrecognizable to its former iteration because of small adjustments to the piano action. Each piano action is fitted with tiny adjustment screws, levers and even paper shims. A talented technician can often “smooth out” a piano action and transform it into an excellent instrument.
In the end, when buying a piano, take someone along who has experience playing many pianos. Don’t just “name shop” but sit down and play without reservation or pre-conceived notions and feel the keys. At times, piano actions will be perceived a struggle, like you’re pushing it along while at other times, the keys almost fly away and feel like you’re skating on ice. Play many pianos and in doing so, take note to how each piano keyboard feels at various volume levels, trying to make it whisper. Play the piano keys from top to bottom. All 88 need to come into alignment so that when you perform a singular melody line, one note doesn’t jump out from the rest. Take note to the subtle differences in tone as you gradually change dynamic levels. The older I get, the more piano actions have become important to me. There is no greater joy than when the action is perfectly aligned and the music you wish to make becomes reality when the keys feel like an extension of your fingers. Happy playing.
A special thanks to Hailun Piano for supplying the videos.
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Highlights: Strong defense leads Utah men’s basketball past in-state rival Weber State
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Utah men's basketball wins its fourth straight contest after defeating in-state rival Weber State 60-49 on Saturday at Vivint Arena. Sophomore forward Timmy Allen led the game in scoring with 19 points, while also leading the Runnin' Utes in assists with four. The 49 points allowed tied the fewest of the season for Utah. The Wildcats finished with three players in double-figures: Jerrick Harding (17), Cody John (15) and Khameron Davis (11). Utah moves to 8-2 early in the 2019-20 season. Download the Pac-12 Now app today and set alerts for Utah men’s basketball to make sure you never miss a moment of the action.
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Big Data's Disparate Impact
104 California Law Review 671 (2016)
62 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2014 Last revised: 30 Sep 2016
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Solon Barocas
Andrew D. Selbst
UCLA School of Law
Date Written: 2016
Advocates of algorithmic techniques like data mining argue that these techniques eliminate human biases from the decision-making process. But an algorithm is only as good as the data it works with. Data is frequently imperfect in ways that allow these algorithms to inherit the prejudices of prior decision makers. In other cases, data may simply reflect the widespread biases that persist in society at large. In still others, data mining can discover surprisingly useful regularities that are really just preexisting patterns of exclusion and inequality. Unthinking reliance on data mining can deny historically disadvantaged and vulnerable groups full participation in society. Worse still, because the resulting discrimination is almost always an unintentional emergent property of the algorithm’s use rather than a conscious choice by its programmers, it can be unusually hard to identify the source of the problem or to explain it to a court.
This Essay examines these concerns through the lens of American antidiscrimination law — more particularly, through Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination in employment. In the absence of a demonstrable intent to discriminate, the best doctrinal hope for data mining’s victims would seem to lie in disparate impact doctrine. Case law and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Uniform Guidelines, though, hold that a practice can be justified as a business necessity when its outcomes are predictive of future employment outcomes, and data mining is specifically designed to find such statistical correlations. Unless there is a reasonably practical way to demonstrate that these discoveries are spurious, Title VII would appear to bless its use, even though the correlations it discovers will often reflect historic patterns of prejudice, others’ discrimination against members of protected groups, or flaws in the underlying data
Addressing the sources of this unintentional discrimination and remedying the corresponding deficiencies in the law will be difficult technically, difficult legally, and difficult politically. There are a number of practical limits to what can be accomplished computationally. For example, when discrimination occurs because the data being mined is itself a result of past intentional discrimination, there is frequently no obvious method to adjust historical data to rid it of this taint. Corrective measures that alter the results of the data mining after it is complete would tread on legally and politically disputed terrain. These challenges for reform throw into stark relief the tension between the two major theories underlying antidiscrimination law: anticlassification and antisubordination. Finding a solution to big data’s disparate impact will require more than best efforts to stamp out prejudice and bias; it will require a wholesale reexamination of the meanings of “discrimination” and “fairness.”
Keywords: big data, data mining, algorithms, discrimination, employment discrimination, Title VII, civil rights, disparate treatment, disparate impact, procedural fairness, substantive fairness, inequality
JEL Classification: D63, J71, J78, M51, O33
Barocas, Solon and Selbst, Andrew D., Big Data's Disparate Impact (2016). 104 California Law Review 671 (2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2477899 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2477899
Solon Barocas (Contact Author)
Cornell University ( email )
UCLA School of Law ( email )
HOME PAGE: http://https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/andrew-d-selbst/
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Going Independent
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SEC chief rips into fiduciary rule
By Kenneth Corbin
March 02, 2017, 4:04 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON ― The acting SEC chair isn't mincing words on the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule.
"I have a very nuanced view of the DoL fiduciary duty rule: I think it is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad rule. For me that rule was never ever about investor protection," Chairman Michael Piwowar says. "To me, that rule, it was about one thing and it was about enabling trial lawyers to increase profits."
His comments come as the fate of the Labor Department regulation is uncertain; the department has moved to delay implemention while it reviews the rule.
Piwowar says now is the time to rethink the entire debate around a fiduciary standard because of favorable circumstances, including the freeze he put on writing new Dodd-Frank rules at the commission and the administration's push to slow or block the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule.
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"That now opens us up to have a lot of staff-driven ideas come up through the commission, maybe things that haven't gotten on the agenda for the last six-and-a-half years because they've been sort of crowded out by Dodd-Frank rulemaking, but yet are things we should be doing or should be thinking about," Piwowar said in remarks at the Investment Adviser Association's annual regulatory and compliance conference.
For the better part of a decade, the debate over a uniform fiduciary standard has been framed by the provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that authorized (but did not require) the SEC to harmonize the rules governing different types of financial professionals who serve retail investors. In the context of the highly politicized and polarizing Wall Street reform law, participants in the fiduciary debate have tended to retreat to their "camps," Piwowar says, and the uneven standards of care remain unchanged.
"What I'd like to do is take the opportunity to step back from that and have a more fulsome discussion," he says.
Piwowar suggests using a 2008 RAND study that the SEC commissioned as a starting point to reorient the fiduciary discussion. That study found that while investors are generally pleased with the investment advice they receive, there is widespread confusion about the different standards of care that govern the brokerage and advisory sectors.
In part, that confusion arises from the myriad titles financial professionals confer upon themselves, with many strains of "advisers" offering their services while operating under different regulatory environments.
"The idea that if someone calls themselves a financial adviser ― that means absolutely nothing, right?" Piwowar says. "Whether they spell it 'adviser' with an 'E' or 'advisor' with an 'O,' it means absolutely nothing, but a registered investment adviser has a very specific meaning, and therein creates a lot of the confusion."
He says that a renewed consideration of the fiduciary standard could "start a conversation with people about, 'Gee, if you call yourself an adviser or an advisor, then you have to hold yourself out to the suitability requirement of the Investment Adviser Act and case law that's come before that.'"
Piwowar urged the advisers and compliance professionals attending the IAA's conference to engage with SEC staffers to advance the fiduciary discussion and help to surface other proposals that could improve the regulatory environment, such as reforms to the commission's advertising or custody rules.
Piwowar acknowledges that there will be little movement on major rulemaking initiatives like a fiduciary standard while he is the acting chair, but he hopes to at least to begin developing the groundwork for some fresh proposals ahead of the confirmation of Jay Clayton, President Trump's nominee for chairman, and the filling of the two additional vacant commission seats.
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DAN done
(This is the text of a posting to the british-poets e-mail discussion list, concerning the final five performances of Domestic Ambient Noise, a 300-booklet collaborative soundtext project, developed by Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton between 1994 and April 2000. The principal performers at these five events were Bob Cobbing (voice, percussion etc.), Lawrence Upton (Voice, karaoke machine etc.), Jennifer Pike (Dance, slides, image-manipulation etc.) and Derek Shiel (sound sculpture).
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:12:56 EDT
From: Peter Manson
Subject: DAN done
Thanks to Rob [Holloway], Elizabeth [James] and cris [cheek] for their posts —
I went to all five DAN performances (was I the only person to manage that, other than Bob, Lawrence, Jennifer and Derek?) Attendance on the whole wasn’t good [litotes], but the people who _were_ there so obviously cared about this stuff that I sensed no despondency. It’s your loss, folks.
The experience was at the very least mind-altering (I feel genetically-modified too), so sorry if this is impressionistic and vague as to what happened when in response to what.
DAN 299, _Moise_ was given i.m. Alaric Sumner. Nobody said that before the performance started, and I only remembered, with a jolt, some way into the text — Jennifer bringing a slide of Bob’s theme into and out of focus, Derek and Bob making near-synchronised percussion from the fine strands of grain in the copy, Lawrence rising to a bellow as the blackness coalesced and broke back into focus, Jennifer obscuring more and more of the light with her hands, bringing the volume up till the whole room was plunged into darkness, the drumming and keening reaching a terrified pitch, calling the light back. And the light came back.
DAN 300, _Noise_, was launched almost as a demo of how they “do it” — taking the whole book slowly and systematically, one page at a time. Bob disoriented Lawrence by asking quite a detailed question as to how they should approach the performance of one particular page (“I’ve never heard you ask anything like that in 30 years, Bob!”), but the occasion was so open that the distinction between audience and performers just disappeared — cris cheek (who’d been videoing the doings) vocalised and danced with the masked-and-veiled Jennifer Pike, I coughed a bit, and there was plenty more crossover during the course of the weekend.
Part of the genius of the event lay in the way it defused any too portentous sense of an ending by having another 3 gigs after the launch of the final DAN. I felt a real change in Bob’s and Lawrence’s attitude on Saturday night, as if they were faced for the first time with DAN as a corpus of achieved work, something to be selected from and reanimated at will, rather than a set of discrete books to be tested. This time they worked from wall-mounted enlargements of DAN pages, which caused a change in reading posture (Lawrence often reads with the text on the floor at his feet) and inevitably altered the sound. Jennifer toured the room with a large sheet of distorting perspex, altering sets of images for the others to perform. There was an excitement and an energy here which exceeded anything I’ve heard before from either player. Bob, especially, who had been pacing himself quite carefully over the weekend, drumming rhythmically or quietly nuancing what the others were doing, burst into a volume and range of timbre I’d only ever heard on quite old recordings of his. Inevitably, when there’s so much to attend to, different hearers will foreground different things: not everybody in the room thought this was a high point of the weekend. I heard things that could have been taken off the Konkrete Kanticle recording of _Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom_, and returned to my guesthouse well pleased.
Sunday began with requests. With unintentional sadism I asked for _IS THIS NOT A TEXT? I’N’I’T’! (pour Andre Breton)_, which is quite closely printed and verbal: there was only one copy in the room and the mutually-incompatible eye-defects of the performers meant they could only read it with the text resting on a bar-stool, Lawrence standing and Bob kneeling. The text was hilarious, but I hope Bob’s knees have now recovered.
The two Sunday performances have merged for me, but there was a relaxed and adventurous trawl through some DANs which had escaped performance in the rush to fill all the gaps in the sequence (the relationship between order of composition and order of publication/ISBN number went on a drunkard’s walk somewhere early in the sequence — eventually there should be a User’s Guide which will make everything clear [sic.]). Lawrence performed his fractured and entirely demented homage to E. Nesbitt (ending “.. and we’ll all be lamb’s-wool rich”). This was proclaimed an instant classic by everyone present (what was the title?). There was more work with slides — some of the work was projected twice, once in the afternoon and once in the evening, and the interplay of consistency and innovation in interpretation was just amazing — a reprise with variations, an inversion (Bob doing the text the way Lawrence did the first time around and Lawrence shadowing him with a Bob), or an entirely new sound-poem.
So much for chronology.
Cris giggles when Jennifer (rendered ageless by a smooth white plastic mask and veil) faces away from him, bends over, and holds the pose 3 or 4 seconds too long for him to blank. Lawrence processes his voice through a child’s karaoke machine, then suddenly interposes the booklet between mouth and mic, so the live sound bounces off the back wall. Bob makes an inexplicable sound, somewhere between a cat’s miaw and Donald Duck, cracking up the audience in the middle of 299. Lawrence impersonates the lower case letter _b_. Lawrence and Bob toddler-fight over what page to perform, Lawrence knocking the book out of Bob’s hand. Jennifer uses a prism to split the projected images into rotatable multiples, taking Lawrence by surprise during a page containing the word _curly_. Bob and Lawrence chase the image(s) up the walls and onto the ceiling. Jennifer discovers a near-perfect corner-reflector made from the white ceiling and two mirrored walls in the corner behind the bar (the whole room lights up and everything goes quiet). Someone pounds the piano and Lawrence delivers an astonishingly good 20 seconds of garage punk.
Minute by minute, the work alternated between the viscerally scary and the riotously funny (Health warning: I noticed when going home on the Underground on Sunday night that I’d temporarily lost the assocation between loud shouting and imminent danger of physical assault — be careful out there).
I learned more about soundtext performance this weekend than I did in the preceding five years, and had a brilliant time.
Thanks for it.
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Urgent checks after fake psychiatrist practised in NHS for 22 years
Zholia Alemi was jailed for fraud in October this year after she changed an elderly patient's will to make herself a beneficiary.
Monday 19 November 2018 07:20, UK
Image: Alemi, 55, was jailed for fraud in October. Pic: Cumbria Police
Up to 3,000 foreign doctors are being urgently checked after a fake psychiatrist was allowed to practise for 22 years with no qualification.
Zholia Alemi claimed she had a primary medical qualification from the University of Auckland in New Zealand when she first registered in the UK in 1995.
She joined the medical register in the UK under a section of the Medical Act which has not been in force since 2003.
It allowed graduates of medical schools in certain Commonwealth countries, including New Zealand, to obtain registration on the basis of their qualification, without having to sit and pass the standard two-part assessment of their medical knowledge and skills - the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board exam.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has now admitted these documents were not subject to the rigorous checks that exist today and there is now an urgent investigation with checks on the licences of potentially thousands of other doctors who registered via the same route.
Alemi, 55, was jailed for fraud in October this year after she changed an elderly patient's will to make herself a beneficiary.
While working as a consultant psychiatrist for a dementia service in West Cumbria, Alemi exploited her relationship with her vulnerable victim, even applying for power of attorney in her name.
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The victim, who knew Alemi as "Julia", told police: "Julia has drafted a will. Julia has put herself down for everything as I did not tell her I had a family but I don't want her having it all."
Officers searched Alemi's office and home and seized a number of items including two display cases containing a number of watches, a new will for the victim and bank cards belonging to the victim.
In her police interview, Alemi denied committing fraud or theft, telling officers all the items found at her home were there with the victim's permission.
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In her second interview, Alemi told officers she was suffering from trauma induced amnesia and could not recall what she said in the previous interview. She continued to deny having committed any offences.
Alemi's contract of employment with Cumbria NHS Trust was terminated after her initial arrest in 2016 and she was placed on an interim suspension in June 2017 by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
Cumbria Police described her crimes as "abhorrent".
The GMC has apologised for "inadequate" checks made in the 1990s and for "any risk arising to patients as a result".
Its chief executive, Charlie Massey, said: "These are serious issues and we are investigating them urgently.
"It is extremely concerning that a person used a fraudulent qualification to join the register and we are working to understand how this happened.
"We have brought this to the attention of police and other agencies, including NHS England, so that they may also take any necessary action to support patients and answer any questions they may have.
"Our processes are far stronger now, with rigorous testing in place to ensure those joining the register are fit to work in the UK."
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Alex Trebek Has No Plans to Retire From Jeopardy! Anytime Soon, Says a Coworker
Good news, Jeopardy! (and Alex Trebek!) Fans.
Unlike any rumors, the long-time beloved host of the game does not quickly hang up its hat, despite the fact that he was diagnosed in March last year.
‘ He has no plans to stop and announces absolutely no exit, ‘ says a colleague of Trebek, who said in October in a CTV News interview he did not know exactly how much longer he could continue. Presenting the show due to the side effects of chemotherapy.
“We will play it with the ear and continue moving until we either win or lose,” Trebek said at the time.
But the 79-year-old host, who announced in September that he must undergo a second round of chemotherapy after having a setback during his treatment, was recently spotted in Los Angeles and enjoyed the holiday holiday and he looked just as fit Forever.
On 20 December he offered his annual holiday party for his staff members in Feinstein’s in Vitellos in LA, where he moved into the secret ‘ American Pie ‘ singer Don McLean (74) to perform various songs.
“I can officially remove this from my list of bucket,” said Trebek to the crowd. ‘ It was a delicacy for me. ‘
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John Lennon's Killer Up For Parole Again In New York
Filed Under:John Lennon, Lennon's Killer, Manhattan, Mark David Chapman, Parole, The Beatles, The Dakota
Mark David Chapman (credit: AP)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — John Lennon’s killer will seek his freedom this week for a sixth time.
Mark David Chapman is scheduled to appear before a parole board at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. It’s Division of Parole policy to identify only the week, not the day, the hearing will take place.
Parole officials are expected to release their decision the day after the hearing and a transcript about a week later.
The former maintenance man from Hawaii has been in prison nearly 30 years for gunning down the former Beatle on a Manhattan sidewalk outside The Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980. He was sentenced to 20 years to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Now 55, Chapman has been denied parole five times, appearing before the board every two years since 2000.
Last week, Yoko Ono said Chapman might be a danger to her, other family members and perhaps even himself and that she was trying to be “practical” in asking that Chapman remain behind bars.
At his last parole hearing, Chapman said he was ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle. He told the parole board he understood the gravity of his actions and was a changed man.
A new documentary on Lennon’s family and artistic life in New York in the 1970s is scheduled to air Nov. 22 as part of the “American Masters” public TV series. “LennonNYC” will include rare studio recordings, concert film outtakes and home movies.
The film “is about New York, the city he was in love with and strangely, the city that he loved so much, it killed him,” Ono said. “It was his love, and it was his death.”
Lennon would have been 70 in October.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
NO he killied horabbly. He took JohnLennons life. If he could bring him back and alive breathing I would say yes. Guess what. John Lennon will never be alive to create music again. Thanks to him. NO reverseing that.
Mike Johnstone says:
Ham – I couldn’t agree more. Sandwhiches are excellent. I’m glad someone here finally had the courage to say this.
StupidisCollins says:
IF he gets out, he’ll write a book, becime a reality t.v. star, get a movie deal and make big money. That’s the American way! God help us all.
SPARTEN says:
LET HIM OUT, AND I PROMISE TO ALL JOHN LENNON FANS THAT HE WILL NEVER SEE THE SUN SET. IF NOT ME, THERE IS SOMEONE WAITING FOR HIM TO BE RELEASED.
Let him out. And I hope somebody is waiting for him as he waited for John.
I like sandwiches
leave him in prison.
if he is released, no matter how ‘changed’ he thinks he is, there is alot of people who wouldn’t care how changed he was. He took John Lennon from the world. Think of the guy that shot the guy that killed Kennedy.
glove says:
killers must die – not house & feed by us, what did we do?
MDStewart says:
This guy never deserves to see the light of day because he can’t function in society. That, and the fact that there are those who haven’t forgot what he took from us. I don’t think he’d be safe out of prison.
EqualPartyUSA org says:
Chapman is guilty, but not of killing John Lennon.
Chapman was a patsy, just as Oswald, Sirhan, and Ray were patsies in the killings of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
The murders of people-power leaders by the FBI and international intelligence agencies didn’t start with JFK, nor did they stop with MLK.
Lennon was killed by a second, hiding, gunman on the other side of the lane from where Chapman was. It was in the compound, not “on a Manhattan sidewalk, which this typical MSM story says.
Search a little and find some truth, please. Sherman Skolnick knew. Mae Brussel knew. They weren’t the only ones. Search for them. It’s easy. Read what they said and wrote a long time ago. The MSM will never report it to you.
I take responsibility for what I say. I’m not hiding behind a screen name. I’m James Laffrey.
If John Lennon is still dead, Chapman should be kept inside.
Susan S says:
There are paroles/excons that have done what Mr Chapman to “regular”
citizens that are on the street after at least 7 years.
The only reason Mr Chapman is still in prison is because he killed John Lennon.
The man convicted of killing Malcom X is on the street.
Mental patients belong in a hospital not a prison.
A review of data from the US Department of Justicei llistrates that Mr Chaoman is still in prison because he killed a some one famous. If he killed Joe Blow he would have been released.
I absoutely agreed with you, Ben Saber. As well, freedom was what he never allowed John to have. Why does he sought for freedom? To do what with it? Kill another in the name of insanity???? If he is that sick … Prison is the best place for him to keep from hurting other people since he cannot be trusted and capable of taking care of himself other than killing. Let me ask this question … why killing another when that insanity head of his could as well tell him to end his life … kill himself???
Ted Neward says:
I never understood what John Lemons saw in Okinawa. She looked like a man…
i am sure if it was a black man, he was killed
out??? what for??? if freedom was that important to him, he shouldn’t have stopped and killed forever for that man. Let him stay there …at least, he still have his life. Let him live the rest in prison.
I never like John Lennon anyways.
It’s John Lemons fool!
FIRST OF ALL, LEARN HOW TO SPEAK SCOTT. WHAT ARE YOU TWO
Ben Saber says:
They should have executed him in the first place so we would not have to take care of a killer for 30 years and pay people to evaluate him for parole every 2 years and the media wasting attention and we talking about his problem today.
jonn L says:
no way can he assimilate himself into society… Even people that have lived their whole life in this society can not assimilate!!!! I guess if you have a 24 hour person ( appointed by the court) to keep an eye on him at his new job…. Maybe (the government ) can get him a job at the used record store selling Beatles memorabilia he can autograph IMAGIME THAT
John didn’t get the chance to survive and share the rest of his life with his widow, Yoko, and his son Sean. His killer is not needed in our society; we have enough of these “reformed killers” loose on our streets.
Even if John survived, he may not have wanted to live with his window anyways. Windows are well too delicate…
I agree. I would hate to know that a cold-blooded murderer has been turned loose on our streets. What possible vindicating excuse could a parole board offer up if they decided to turn loose amongst the public a man who kills in cold blood? In answer to the medication(s) mentioned by Collins let me ask, if his mental status dependeds upon meds, who will guarentee his daily compliance with such a medication regimen.
Oki Wana says:
This killed the living legend, the leader of the Monkeys. How can we even consider letting him out. Even considering is like you’re cookoo for cocoa puffs.
It ain’t right. When the Beatles are on iTunes, then release him. Until, then incarcerate the man and let the vatos and choloos take care of him homes.
I say let him go, and we’ll play it by ear.
dutch beatle fan says:
He killed a beatle for no reason at all Can you imagine what John Lennon would have given the world if havibg been alive.all those last 30 years….This murderer should be im jail the rest of his life..he deserves the maximum sentence
John Lennon dosent have a chance to come back every two years why should he, i say let him stay till he rots
W>H>H> says:
contridictions mental patient and chose his destiny I would suggest that he is incapable of choice therefor he must remain under supervision
sorry whatever your name is…i understand about mental illness and all that…but you are going to die in prison as you should…spend your days advocating for mental illness awareness and pray for the next generation…
Mike Borgster says:
Why is he allowed to live at all? Our society is so weak. He kills a man in cold blood. Zero doubt of his guilt. He shouldn’t get to live.
so it’s a mark of strength to kill, then?? put your gun down for two seconds cowboy…
jack green says:
Let him stay in prison. He has choosen for this and was able to think about the consequences too in 1980.
I don’t think he should EVER get out of prison!
If the guy is mentally ill, let him out and give him a chance. With all the new medications out there available today, he may stand a chance to have a normal life. I think the guy suffered enough. Then again, he may not make in the outside world because he’ll still feel like he’s in prison because of all the media that will surround him and he won’t be able to get a job. All in all, it really doesn’t matter at this point whether he gets out or not. Don’t know what’s better, prison or a half-house with no job and complete loneliness. He’ll be better taken care of in jail anyway.
Dr Moebius says:
Are you nuts Collins? Let me get this straight – you want to release a confirmed killer/ mental patient, because there might be some drugs to help him? Maybe YOU need to get some medication. If he gets let out, I’ll KILL HIM!!
How I love John Lennon’s work, and understand his messages of peace (and forgiveness), but at least ask Jullian, Yoko, and Sean Lennon say how they feel about it.
If the NY powers that be let him out, I guarantee he gets killed.
Are you a nut or what ? You understand John Lennon’s messages of peace and forgiveness, but yet if he get out, “YOU’RE GOING TO KILL HIM”. Better stop and do a self-check there DOC ??
John Lemons was an idiot.
And so are you.
AngelOfDeath says:
I agree,maybe collins is his pen pal? Eother way hes not getting out,or IF he does it wont last long because everyone who was a fan or is will hunt that guy down and do to him what he did to poor john. Godbless to johns family.
silly cybin says:
“give him a chance”, “have a normal life” , “suffered enough”, “won’t be able to get a job”, “no job and complete loneliness” Are you serious?
Anna Lee says:
Let him stay in prison. He is still a threat to society because he is a mental patient and he could snap at any time. He chose his destiny.
If he is a mental patience, then he could’t have chosen his destiny, he can’t determine what’s a good and bad decision.
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Emma Darwin to Matthew, 21 November 1863. Letter 4344: Darwin Correspondence Project
This letter is dated almost a year since the last known letter from Matthew, and it seems that in the interim there was at least one other letter from Matthew, and presumably also a reply from Darwin to Matthew’s letter of 3 December 1862, both of which are now lost. It appears the lost letter from Matthew had some “striking” remarks on natural selection. Darwin, writing through his wife Emma due to illness, responds with a metaphor of randomly shaped rocks and “noble buildings” which he uses to illustrate that, even if what we would nowadays call mutation was random, even so the progress of natural selection could still appear to be directed (this argument also appears in pp.248-9 and in the closing paragraphs (pp.430-2) of Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868)). The implication is that Matthew’s lost letter was arguing for some form of directed evolution, in line with his views on design and purpose in the universe (see keyword “Des” in the Short Articles section).
Down.
Bromley.
Kent. S.E.
Mr Darwin begs me to thank you warmly for your letter which has interested him very much. I am sorry to say that he is so unwell as not to be able to write himself.
With regard to Natural Selection he says that he is not staggered by your striking remarks. He is more faithful to your own original child than you are yourself. He says you will understand what he means by the following metaphor.
Fragments of rock fallen from a lofty precipice assume an infinitude of shapes—these shapes being due to the nature of the rock, the law of gravity &c— by merely selecting the well-shaped stones & rejecting the ill-shaped an architect (called Nat. Selection could make many & various noble buildings.
Mr Darwin is much obliged to you for sending him your photograph. He wishes he could send you as good a one of himself. The enclosed was a good likeness taken by his eldest son but the impression is faint.
You express yourself kindly interested about his family. We have 5 sons & 2 daughters, of these 2 only are grown up. Mr Darwin was very ill 2 months ago & his recovery is very slow, so that I am afraid it will be long before he can attend to any scientific subject.
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Truck crash and fire claims a driver’s life in Long Island City: FDNY
Photo by Todd Maisel
By Emily Davenport
edavenport@qns.com
A driver died of his injuries after he crashed his SUV into the rear of a flatbed truck in Long Island City that led to his vehicle catching fire on Thursday morning.
The FDNY received a call regarding a motor vehicle accident with a possible car fire in the vicinity of Jackson Avenue and Queens Boulevard at 10:13 a.m. on Dec. 5. A report from the Citizen App indicated that a truck was pinned by another car, with the driver trapped inside.
Rescue 4 was nearby and found the blue 2002 Mercedes Benz SUV fully involved in fire and asked for a fire pumper.
Facing heavy fire, Rescue 4 firefighters tore the door of the car open, but could not remove the man, who fire officials said may have died before the SUV burst into flames.
A firefighter at the scene said they used the water from the pumper to extinguish most of the fire before another fire truck could hook to a hydrant, but by then, it was too late for the driver of the SUV.
A spokesperson for the FDNY confirmed that the driver, who has yet to be identified, pronounced dead by EMS.
Highway investigators were trying to figure out whether the truck, owned by Olson Floor Supply, had stopped or was driving slowly on the bridge, police said. Officers were checking the driver for intoxication, but no charges have been filed at this time.
The cause of the crash is still unclear and is under investigation by Highway Collision investigators.
With additional reporting by Todd Maisel
Queens | Queens Blvd between Skillman Ave and Jackson Ave.
Vehicle accident with a confirmed pin, vehicle is on fire. EMS requested on a rush.
— New York City 911 (@NYC_Alerts911) December 5, 2019
Updated at 1:40 p.m.
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FDNY finds dead body at site of Queens Village fire
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Price Tags Vol. 1: 2003-13
For Discussion: Building Freeways for a Better Vancouver
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Gordon Price
Here’s something to keep you commenting while I’m away, based on a response that Guest, PT’s best balloon-pricker, placed on this post from the Daily Scot: Gentle Density in Portland:
If you zoom out on the Portland map, the continuous line of larger buildings (retail commercial, presumably) on those east–west “smaller” arterials is quite striking.
By comparison, Vancouver has much smaller pockets of retail strips, even along the arterials, and generally not parallel to each other for great length. i.e. Main Street, Cambie Village, and South Granville may be on the same latitude, but Oak is devoid of a commercial strip, and only Main Street’s commercial zone extends any great length.
Dare I say that these east-west Portland streets can afford to remain small because of the existence of the I-84 freeway, so long-distance travellers from the east will not need to traverse the neighbourhood on surface streets. i.e. these roads do not “need” to be stroads because of the existence of the freeway, so they can remain smaller and more neighbourly.
Scot and others decry the heavy traffic on our old streetcar arterials like Main, or the lack of pedestrianized streets like Robson, or the concern about the Viaducts coming down without lessening the impact on Prior. And the counter argument is that none of that is possible because those streets have to perform the contradictory functions of local street and through arterial, both for car traffic and transit.
In other words, they have to be stroads.
So is Guest’s implication right: would Vancouver have more options if we had built a freeway like I-84 to handle the through traffic so that now we could create more local mixed-use streets like Division?
This is not just an academic exercise. The Citizens Assembly in Grandview has called for a tunnel under their neighbourhood to handle the volumes currently on East 1st. If, in a reorganization of TransLink, the Major Road Network was turned over to the Province, then the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure could, for instance, come up with a plan like this:
Absorb the median to the east of Nanaimo to widen East 1st
Build underpasses under the cross arterials
Dig a tunnel from Victoria to Clark
Redesign a route across the False Creek Flats to serve downtown and the new hospital.
Voila, a de-facto freeway to handle the cross-city traffic that would connect to and from Highway 1.
Arterials like Hastings and Prior could then become neighbourhood service streets, narrowed and densified to create more livable, bikeable, mixed-use environments.
And once they’ve got the boring machine going, how about other connectors to the south and north? Then Main, Cambie, Fraser and others could be our new Division Streets.
So maybe we should build that freeway that never was. After all, we’re not funding new transit.
Off Celebrating: Back next week
Freeways for Vancouver 2.0
Patrick Condon says:
No that would not work. The evidence is Los Angeles. That city once had many hundreds of miles of streetcar arterials that were commercially vibrant. With the advent of the ubiquitous freeways the vibrancy of those boulevards was compromised entirely. They became mere feeder roads to the freeways serving distant jobs and shopping destinations. I am often critical of our city, but the strategy of slowly turning stroads into boulevards, a feature of the 2040 plan, is a good one.
Robert Walsh says:
This sounds good to me.
Except, they wouldn’t really, would they? The government would just build a freeway and accept the expanded capacity as a victory for motordom. Even after the construction of the Canada Line, we saw that Cambie Street wasn’t reduced in auto capacity in any way – even though, rightfully, it could have and should have been. Cambie Village could already be narrowed for auto traffic, with more walking space and bike lanes. Unfortunately pulling back motordom isn’t that easy – and certainly isn’t achieved by expanding motordom elsewhere.
No, I would say that Portland has those streets because early planners in Portland designed them at a certain width and they were never widened. Planners in both Vancouver and Portland designed the width of those streets in most cases long before freeways were being built into the core of cities. I highly doubt that you can draw a comparison between the width of those east-west roads and the I-84, though perhaps their usage is affected by the highway being there.
Scot B says:
Agree. I am struck by the historic building separation from one side of the street to the other on South Main for example. 90 feet is massive. Does anyone know why early planners needed so much room for the streetcar in this instance?
Karin Litzcke says:
As for width affecting speed, Prior forces a check of assumptions. You’d think it would be far too narrow for excessive speeds, yet the urge to speed on it is apparently impossible to moderate. I always drive it at 50 kph and from the behaviour of the drivers around me you’d think I had stopped my car entirely. And since the police never put speed patrols there, I guess they don’t think the urge can be moderated either.
Yet on that nice wide stretch of South Main, speeds are lower than they are on Prior.
I feel like grabbing the popcorn and seeing how this all plays out over the next couple of decades. A million people are moving here. At the current rate of property and rent prices, it wouldn’t surprise me if people have to pay $4000/month for a 1 bedroom. At a certain point, driving does become the cheaper option. It’s like saying, “Oh, I work full-time at Chapters on Granville and Broadway, I’ll just buy a house nearby for my family in Shaughnessy.” You simply just cannot afford it. Now, project out, and Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond will be priced as high as current Shaughnessy.
Portland has a lot of freeways, especially for its size. I think a lot of people down there do a reverse freeway commute out to business parks in the suburbs. Their downtown doesn’t feel very big (employment-wise). And, we talked about it before in a different thread, but I think that the cheap cost of housing has kept Portland neighbourhoods vibrant. That’s changing now as Portland is starting to get expensive and those neighbourhoods are dealing with gentrification. Families who have bookstore jobs that pay just $40-50k can still afford a house. Imagine what Vancouver neighbourhoods would feel like if lower-ish income families could buy a house?
I’ll be down there next week on vacation. If anyone has any suggestions on things to see, please pass them along.
pennystreet546 says:
Yeah, and the traffic in Portland, freeway and non-freeway through neighbourhoods, is just horrendous. You ought to see the huge traffic jams on the freeways of people coming in from the suburbs (like Vancouver, WA) and going home again in the evening. Portland has some fabulous housing stock that they aren’t tearing down and some great little pocket neighbourhoods, but they haven’t solved all the problems of modern cities.
Unfortunate that this rare objective post was spoiled with a contemptuous postscript, but it is good that the question was raised. I’ve often wondered it myself, living as I do in a neighbourhood that might not exist if the freeway had been built and where stopping it is regarded as a historical win even as we struggle with Prior/Venables traffic.
There is, however, something about your model of tunnels and overpasses that bothers me in an earthquake/tsunami zone. It is perhaps a shame that the amounts of housing necessary for a surface road and buffer zone were not sacrificed while property values were low enough to make it feasible. Now those same houses sit on Knight Street.
But maybe it wouldn’t really help, just bring more volume to local arterials. In evaluating that, I suspect that the analysis would be enhanced with the widening of the lens still further to include other cities, say, Seattle. There, my limited experience tells me a lot of people do still live along very busy arterials despite the existence of a city-highway network.
But if we’re really to examine history with the sole intent of avoiding what would become the onslaught of motordom, the thing that should have been done differently is the location of downtown.
By the way, I recently came across this about how motordom gained its upper hand in the first place. http://www.alternet.org/culture/secret-history-jaywalking-disturbing-reason-it-was-outlawed-and-why-we-should-lift-ban. I’m not sure it’s accurate, but the bulk of it sounds plausible enough.
Adanac says:
Oh, the conspiracy of the automobile industry is well documented. Not only did they change the culture of walking in order to have cars dominate, they also bought up the tram companies and then shut them down which forced people to have to buy their product.
I’m sure, now that we’re in the post peak-car era, that they’re still at it, interfering with politics for their own gain. You wonder if they’re behind the think tanks that are working against the will of the people in regards to transportation and mobility.
Andrew Browne says:
I don’t get the angst over Prior/Venables traffic. They have been arterials for the better part of a century. That they carry significant traffic didn’t exactly creep up on anyone suddenly. Bizarre. It’s like moving to a house along Oak Street and getting upset that you can’t have a quiet conversation in your front yard due to noise.
Robert Walsh PhD AIA says:
I have studied Vancouver, Portland and other cities in considerable depth, including the nearby city of Detroit (near to me). It’s important for people to understand that the decline of Detroit as a once vibrant city actually began with the construction of crosstown freeways in the 1950s. This was followed later on with racial unrest and the loss of jobs, but the freeways were very bad for Detroit. When people talk about adding freeways they frequently focus on the imagined advantages of connecting one location with another, without considering that nobody wants to live near a freeway. Basically you are going to be trashing a swath of land 1/4 mile wide on each side of the freeway, if you bring it across Vancouver.
It’s useful to keep in mind that the shape of a sound wave coming from a freeway is not a rapidly dissipating sphere, like you get from a point source; rather, it’s a cylinder which dissipates exponentially slower as it sweeps across the landscape. Anyone who wants to build an urban freeway should be required to live next to one for a year. You will find you are living in a wasteland, where the air is polluted, sleeping is more difficult and your freeway itself becomes a hostile barrier to pedestrian movement.
Vancouverites would do well to recall the comprehensive surveys the great Walter Hardwick initiated to learn what the public actually wanted. His work unambiguously showed that people in your community felt local walkability and neighborhood identity were far more important than rapid crosstown movement. Freeways do not improve walkability. Hardwick repeated this process and got the same results. I seriously doubt this has changed.
Learn from the experience of your own West End! When prostitution and street crime became increasingly problematic, there were several initiatives that reversed this trend, one of which was traffic flow adjustments that impeded access to the Lions Gate Bridge traffic artery. Easy freeway access turned out to facilitate street crime. Reducing it made the West End more livable.
Finally, before you sacrifice 1/2 mile wide swath of your beautiful city to automobile access, why don’t you people strive instead to do something innovative about mass transit? The goal should not be to destroy your city just to improve automobile access; rather the goal should be to leave the automobile on the dustheap of history. Show us the way to a better future instead of stupidly repeating costly mistakes that others have already made!
pricetags says:
Sorry, we resoundingly voted no to funding more transit. Our strategy now seems to be Motordom by Default.
That’s a blinkered and disrespectful view of the public’s vote, which was its considered response to a blinkered and disrespectful campaign for more money (which is not the same as voting against more transit).
Mr. Walsh’s insights are useful, but it is unfortunate that the same people who can do good analysis always think they are also the best positioned to prescribe.
Motordom by default vs Automobiles on the dungheap of history are not the only two options, nor is shepherding people like cattle onto mass transit a laudable goal. But this blog seems to prefer to polarize rather than to find a generally satisfactory compromise path. It’s a shame, because it would be so easy, and when it comes right down to it, that IS what we pay “experts” the bug bucks for.
Perhaps if you go back and reread my post more carefully you will note that I am not prescribing a particular solution; to the contrary I am exposing rather obvious flaws in the suggestion that freeways are the answer, and instead I recommend your community go back to the drawing board. I think we both agree that the people of Vancouver are creative enough to find a better solution. Learn from the mistakes others have made! One thing Portland, Oakland and San Francisco have in common is that they paid to remove crosstown freeways and are better off for it.
Vancouver spent roughly two decades trying to build crosstown freeways before the freeway protests got so much attention that the entire elected municipal government got thrown out on its tail in 1972. So even if you are going to disregard the hard won lessons learned by the failures of other communities, at least learn your own local history and don’t be so eager to undo some of the things that make Vancouver a great city. The lack of crosstown freeways is one thing that makes Vancouver better.
Robert, I read extremely carefully. “the goal should be to leave the automobile on the dustheap of history” is a prescription.
I need to run. I am merely encouraging people to challenge their assumptions. Obviously my pithy comment about abandoning the car as a default option is mean to be a thought provoking statement, not a prescription. You are of course free to take your car to a junkyard today and abandon it there but I think most people would catch on that this is not what I meant. The basic question is are you going to change your city to accommodate more cars, or are you capable of finding a better solution, whatever that may be?
It’s actually peculiar that this has not been better attended to. I thought Vancouver was supposed to be like living in a resort, yet resorts don’t require the patrons to get around in cars. ( hint: this comment is not meant to be taken at face value either).
Seriously, are these limited options really the best you people can do.
We resoundingly voted no to a very complicated and regional tax dedicated to a convoluted package of transit and other items, including a bridge promising a toll, a subway that would dead-end in a wealthy inner suburb, buses, a tiny passenger ferry, some light-rail and over 2,000 km of cycle paths, with the small-print going into tests regarding road-pricing, etc., all to be run by an unaccountable authority that fired its CEO during the voting period.
All through the campaign the proponents were promising reform saying TransLink needs to be ‘fixed’. Was anyone, anyone, surprised with the outcome? No.
You can support it or not, whatever, but to call a 0.5% increase in the PST _complicated_ is laughable. It might not have been desired, but it definitely was not complicated. It was very simple.
Come on, Andrew. You know very well how the No camp elucidated the facts and nothing but the facts. The one half of one per cent was going to eat all the children, cause the next megathrust earthquake, and make the chocolate supply disappear.
Immediately following being proposed the tax had to be explained, eventually an exception was made for car dealers, so residential geographic location would not benefit any Metro residents that purchased vehicles beyond the proposed tax zone.
The Retail Council of Canada.
“One of our concerns is that the basket of goods and services be identical, so you don’t have to figure out which tax to charge. That appears to have been addressed,” Wilson said. “The separate line appears to have been addressed, i.e. that it would be a separate line on the receipt.”
However, Wilson said there were still many questions that the Finance and Transportation ministries have yet to answer. One of the biggest unknowns is how the tax will work with online sales. …
Retail Council of Canada.
However, Wilson said there were still many questions that the Finance and Transportation ministries have yet to answer. One of the biggest unknowns is how the tax will work with online sales.
… restaurant owners are still concerned about the additional tax on liquor. (Food is exempt from the current 7% PST, but liquor is taxed at 10%; if the regional sales tax is approved, the PST rate on liquor would rise to 10.5%) …”
Result: No funding for more transit. The prospect of another futile plebiscite. Effectively the end of regional planning as we know it. And Motordom by Default.
And no funding for roads too. Don’t forget that TransLink and the municipalities are responsible for the vast majority of roads in the region. $750 million in the referendum was for roads. So there is no money to build any of this “freeway” in Vancouver.
Anyway, it would be really expensive and add really little capacity for cars anyway.
The SkyTrain system can be expanded both west from VCC Clark and East from Waterfront station by station if need be when money is available. A choice between a tunnel for cars at say $200 million which maybe will move around 1000 more people per hour (assuming the connecting roads can even handle the traffic) or a $200 extention one station of the Millenium Line, which can move 25,000 people per hour per direction is pretty obvious. Transit is a much better invest.
Plus, the vast majority of younger people are using transit, not driving. It makes no sense to build roads instead of transit.
Are the vast majority of young people taking transit because they want to, or because they can’t afford the alternative in our insanely priced housing market?
I also note that miles driven in the USA hot an all time high over the last 12 months.
http://247wallst.com/autos/2015/04/25/miles-driven-by-americans-reached-all-time-high-in-february/
So maybe it’s “not different this time” but merely once again rebounding from the effect of an economic shock on vehicle miles.
Read the link you post. “When the FHWA data are adjusted for population, the month that posted peak number of miles driven is June 2005. On that basis, miles driven in February are still about 5.7% below the peak.”
One of the main reasons why prices are higher in the City of Vancouver is people want to live where they are not forced to drive as they can walk, cycle and use transit. Or even when they chose to drive, the drive is much shorter and takes less time. They are willing to pay more to live in these locations and they have more money to spend on housing, thus increasing prices.
And, in newer developments near transit where people have to buy parking separately, many are choosing not to buy the parking leaving empty parking spaces.
It is precisely the yoke of regional planning that I believe citizens were casting off in the referendum vote. This is an unsought, unresponsive, and unloved empire that has grown up in the cracks of accountable elected government like an invasive species in a pond: it has to be eradicated lest it take over.
I once found a little book in a used bookstore called “government by experts” that I thought would be a joke or parody of some sort that turned out to be a perfectly serious thesis that everyone would be better off if they just ceded any decisions-making ability they had and subjugated themselves to government by experts. That is what regional transportation planning is, and a people who are accustomed to being citizens, not just subjects, are not liking it.
It really is fascinating how little the regional planning mindset cares about citizen quality of life – it simply doesn’t have to. As a result, its analysis is flawed because the advance of motordom is based upon citizens gaining certain amenities while others, that used to support the different way of life, disappeared. Just as the shopping cart altered grocery shopping, causing the layers of services that used to enable grocery selection and transportation to fall away, so too have other services disappeared that used to enable people to – for example – purchase materials for home renovation without a car.
Regional planning mindset simply stuffs all the errands that people currently do by car onto mass transit, and scoffs at them if they feel they cannot manage without their car. That scoffing came to its logical conclusion with the referendum – the people scoffed back.
As I said on the McArthurGlen thread, if planners want people to shop there by transit or bike, some services would be needed to make that practical. The same is true of the entire pantheon of economic activities that people now undertake by car, including the transport of relatives to seek medical care, for example. Pre-motordom, you may recall that doctors did housecalls, perhaps by carriage, or as one of just a few cars on the road. If you want to reverse motordom, it stands to reason you have to reverse the service level to what it had to be when people were constrained to living their lives by transit or on foot. Instead, the regional/mass transit planning mindset demonizes everyone who drives, regardless of whether they are out for a joyride or driving dad to the doctor.
The failure of regional planning to respect individuals and their needs enough to do good analysis about how best to influence a rational transportation system has spawned its logical outcome. To spit on the “no” vote only affirms that the people voted in their best interests, and that the regional planning mindset acts in its own.
95% of the land area of British Columbia is not suitable for agriculture. The regional planning movement in your region was in part a response to the failure to protect you limited agricultural land base, which was being gobbled up by suburban sprawl. Interestingly enough it was one of your first regional planners, Harry Lash, who introduced into your metro area the goal of livability. He was an advocate for community involvement at a time when the municipal government was leveling neighborhoods and discussed lacing homeowners from Strathcona. I get it that you may not like the way regional planning has been pursued recently. If that’s the case perhaps you should get more involved in it?
Karin, your Art of Complaining sophistry indicates you have not been so sophisticated to bother reading the Metro’s regional plan. It’s online and has many chapters. Yes, there’s one on roads.
MB, has everyone who comments here read the plan?
Robert, what would change about regional planning if I got more involved? And in what way is my current level of involvement inadequate?
Karin, I am not sure what particular special talents you would bring if you were to become a regional planner, but you do seem bright, hard working and committed to advancing the well being of your community, all of which would probably make you an excellent planner.
Yes it’s true that at the regional and the municipal levels planning in your region has pursue different agendas, and sometimes this has inflamed fierce public opposition that has also benefitted your community. The effort to stop the casino expansion at BC Place comes to mind, for instance.
The thing is, planners have also done a great deal to improve Vancouver and they are not necessarily the enemy. They have a tough job balancing competing interests. If these issues are a driving passion for you, then getting more directly involved might enable you to work towards improving your community while attaining more results for your effort.
Robert, I think you might have misunderstood my question. Your advice was not that I should BECOME a planner, but that I as a citizen should be more involved. We cannot all be planners, because nothing else would get done and there would be nothing to plan FOR. So what I wanted to know was how, if I were to donate even more of my time to the regional planning process that you are defending, that process would change. It was, in a sense, a no-win question, because I already know and this conversation is demonstrating that it would not, and cannot, change. Thousands of us could dedicate our whole lives to it in a voluntary capacity, reading the millions of pages of documents and studies that we pay experts to produce and providing earnest feedback to them, and it would not change.
Hence the plebiscite outcome.
Karin, you have made one-note generalizations about regional planning and planners, and now have admitted to not reading the regional plan. Therefore one can conclude you know not a stitch about them or the complex work they do, or the results they produce after months (or even years) of public consultation, information gathering and analyses.
This follows an incredibly naïve commentary berating experts, something I challenge you to make toward your family doctor or the plumber when you have a burst pipe. Somehow I think you will keep your opinion to yourself around them.
Ron S says:
Thank you for that. Couldn’t agree more
Oh, is this just a forum FOR planners to talk ABOUT citizens? Sorry, I thought it was FOR citizens to talk WITH planners ABOUT planning. It’s funny though, I have encountered doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, dentists, and, yes, plumbers who can bear critical scrutiny of their field from their clients.
MB, I hope you’ll keep up your gatekeeping and ensure that EVERYONE who participates has at least read the plan.
I don’t think any planner would hesitate to discuss the merits/pitfalls of regional planning with you Karin…if the intent was to have a discussion. But you’re not here to discuss WITH planners (as witnessed by your confrontational approach to Dr. Walsh’s comments and your editorial on the supposed failings of regional planning), you’re here to advocate YOUR position (which in many cases isn’t terribly well informed) and to put anyone who disagrees with you on the defensive.
“this blog seems to prefer to polarize rather than to find a generally satisfactory compromise path.”
As I’m sure you’re aware, compromise involves both parties understanding the other’s position, respecting it even if they disagree, and both being willing to shift their own position somewhat. If you’re seeking compromise (through blog comments?), you may want to re-evaluate your own approach and at least try to respect commenters who offer opposing views.
“It’s a shame, because it would be so easy, and when it comes right down to it, that IS what we pay “experts” the big bucks for.”
Dr. Walsh, with some planning expertise, offered some insightful comments and was immediately beaten down for “prescribing” solutions. You than offer up an editorial on the failings of regional planning that broadly labels regional planners (who do the planning) as an “invasive species to be eradicated”, offering your own “prescribed” solution. What part of this looks ‘easy’ to you?
I’ve quite enjoyed your many articles about motordom. I wonder if the name motordoom might be even more apt? In all seriousness, Vancouver once had an extensive network of street cars that were powered by hydroelectric generated electricity. This seems like such an excellent and sustainable solution and it raises the question of whether a return to such an approach could again be feasible?
No. Walking, cycling and buses better options now for short trips than streetcars that are much less expensive. In the future small automated electric taxis or buses will be better.
For longer trips, streetcars are too slow. Grade separated rapid transit better option that will actual get people out of their cars.
Brendan Dawe says:
In much of town you could rezone stretches of non-arterial near arterial and achieve acceptable results at the cost of a few Vancouver Specials
true. Would be a great idea in many cases.
Bingo. Hello East 2nd Ave, for example. Never will happen, though – Vancouverites are more addicted to single detached homes than even Surrey or Langley now.
Just a note that the noise on “stroads” is also very loud.
Just look at Granville and Oak and you’ll see that many of the houses are enclosed by 2 storey tall hedges to block out the noise.
Guest, hedges do little to alleviate noise. They are purely psychological or aesthetic. What you need is solid mass, like those lovely 1,000 km of tall concrete sound attenuation barriers that line Calgary’s major “trails” otherwise considered super-arterials or near-freeways. Wouldn’t that be a delight on East First?
Hedges and trees alleviate the air pollution.
In great numbers (e.g. forests), yes. In single short rows their effect is insignificant.
Dense vegetation such as dense hedges do help somewhat, according to EPA.
Dense vegetation does help, but minimally when in the form of hedges. It is better to have large-canopied trees in urban areas to counter air pollution and decrease the urban heat island effect. With respect to sound attenuation, nothing does it better than solid mass like masonry, except removing the source.
It might be a delight to the people who live on East First – I wonder if they have been offered the option of having them.
Racial issues in Detroit and other American cities made freeways the enabler of white flight. That did not really happen in Canada.
This is largely the accepted view Bob, but its really the ultimate chicken and egg problem.
In my view white flight is overemphasized as a factor in suburban sprawl. Many US cities like Portland did not experience white flight to anything like the same extent as detroit. The difference seems to be the number of freeway miles built per capita. Portland built about half as many per capita as Detroit. It seems that the more freeways that were built in a metro area, the more the centre lost value. This is common sense. Huge increases in serviceable residential land would obviously put downward pressure on average land value. This also affects Canadian cities. Housing prices in central Montreal dropped in measure with the provision of freeways there as well. What i am saying is that it was not so much white flight that drove the middle class from the center of many US metro areas, as the flight of any people who had enough money to grab a piece of these new greener pastures, pastures subsidized with tax dollars gathered mostly from people living in less green pastures.
See my article on this for more.
http://www.jtc.sala.ubc.ca/newsroom/patrick_condon_primer.pdf.
It should also be noted that racist federal housing policies did a great deal to polarize Detroit and other communities. The U.S. Government guaranteed housing loans that paid for white families to relocate out of Detroit but did not allow Black families the same access to housing loans. Indeed Black families have frequently had to pay more to get less in terms of housing.
I think you are speaking of redlining Robert, where certain neighbourhoods, at the time or soon to be black, were off limits for finance. Meanwhile no such restrictions on new suburban areas. However i don’t know of a case where the federal government required an ethnicity or color test to get financing.
I may be mistaken but I had thought that there was a double bind at work in which real estate agents were biased and the Federal government enacted policies that made it harder to sell if you were in a red lined area, simply because this land was depressed in value. This probably is less of a concern to folks in Vancouver, but the problems in Detroit as I understand them have multiple causes at all levels of Governments: local state and Federal.
The segregation was “de facto”, meaning never explicit in policy but many things conspiring to produce a segregated result in practice.
mezzanine says:
You seem to consider segregation was an accident with US housing policy. I’m not sure that’s correct.
And the correlation of portland, freeways and the lack of white flight versus detroit? I would also think racism, and not so much the presence of freeways. You just have to know portland’s history….
http://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040
There was an interesting Space Syntax based analysis of the decline of Detroit that showed that people began leaving due to the freeways and especially the lands adjacent to them a full decade before the racial tensions erupted in destructive riots. The authors of this study are Conrad Kickert and Sophia Psarra. I am not at present able to find a link, but Google scholar is frequently an excellent search engine for finding this sort of document.
Eric Doherty says:
“The Citizens Assembly in Grandview has called for a tunnel under their neighbourhood to handle the volumes currently on East 1st” Really??? Nothing about this was presented at the workshop I went to early in the summer. I can’t believe that this was really a consensus position.
Indeed. I was under the impression that they were much more inclined to putting parking on first avenue and calling it a day
Classic Vancouver. Decide to live near an arterial that has been busy for the better part of a century and then complain endlessly about it. Parking on 1st Ave. Jesus christ. God forbid anyone be able to get anywhere ever.
What of it? Just because it’s there doesn’t mean its good. First Avenue’s car prioritization makes passage across it inconvenient or dangerous by foot or by bike in many locations. First Avenue has no bus service, meaning that it has all of the negatives of an arterial without any of the positives. First Avenue spills a tremendous amount of traffic through the middle of Commercial Drive, reducing the value of that location.
Frankly, I don’t see what benefit Vancouver gets out of First Avenue.
Congratulations, Vancouver! You are now less progressive than Phoenix.
Phoenix voters pass Prop. 104 transit tax
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/08/25/phoenix-elections-transit-results-prop104/32283455/
I suppose that the Portland example and the Vancouver examples represent the following:
Portland – 2 extremes on the spectrum – freeway (high capacity extreme) and small neighbourhood arterials (lower capacity extreme)
Vancouver – multiple stroads – distribution of road capacity (moderate capacity all around)
On the traffic side of things, the Portland example could lead to traffic tie ups if the freeway is jammed (i.e. accident, etc.) while the Vancouver example provides multiple alternate routes in the event of an accident (traffic redistributes).
On the built form, planning side of things, how much does traffic on a stroad impact the development on those streets?
In Vancouver we are seeing more and more development on the arterials (due to zoning), but zoning is also still the main determining factor on whether or not the buildings have streetfront retail (and how “neighbourly” they might end up being) or a manicured garden out front (Cambie midrises, Oak Street townhouses).
I can’t speak about Portland traffic, but in Vancouver, we had one metal plate shutdown the North shore. Look what happens when the Skytrain breaks down for a few hours or an accident in the Massey tunnel. Our transportation infrastructure is so fragile, it’s hanging by a thread. Critcal Mass used to cause chaos just by riding bicycles. Imagine coordinated protests blocking a few bridges simultaneously, or god-forbid a terrorist attack. Imagine a million more people here. Then imagine an earthquake.
which is exactly the point that Guest was trying to make: that bottlenecks like the Lions Gate Bridge or a freeway are prone to failure.
Agreed. I guess my point is that Vancouver has not avoided having bottleneck pinch points.
logan5 says:
A trenched freeway would not be nearly as damaging as an elevated freeway. A trenched freeway would provide a good sound barrier, and surface streets would not be adversely affected the way they are by elevated structures.
If we’re not going to get busy building good mass transit, then the alternative is to build freeways. Do something for chrissakes because the afternoon rush is getting ridiculous.
Logan, surely you jest. I give you two km of Glenmore Trail in Calgary, 11 sunken lanes of pure joy and bliss growling and roaring away. There are even bas relief images on the 10m concrete walls and hundreds of millions of debt not even close to being paid off. Personally I’d like to see such follies flooded and stocked with fish and a community built at its edges. Call it Little Geneva.
Corndogger says:
I’ll give everyone else the facts about Glenmore Trail as you’ve obviously never driven on it. 11 sunken lanes? Try 6 (3 in each direction) with some exit ramps in places. It should be 10 lanes or more but bad planning in the past prevents that from happening. Yeah, there are fish on the walls thanks to a ridiculous 1% arts policy that we get foisted on us by the city administration who claimed everyone else was doing it.
Initially city administration wanted to do this project on the cheap and downgrade its capacity. Thankfully citizens revolted and demanded that it be built right. The result is a road that can handle much more capacity than before. Unfortunately, the refusal of planners in the past to plan for how people actually live their lives as prevented this project from being perfect.
Where are you getting that this project resulted in hundreds of millions of debt? The entire project only cost $110 million and the city had the funding to pay for it as they had screwed around taking action for over 30 years. Why do planners such as yourself continually lie to the public about road projects? You always grossly inflate the cost of freeway projects while vastly understating the cost and overemphasizing the benefits of transit projects. We non-planner peons are not stupid. We have the ability to find project plans, costs, etc. that are buried on city websites and to decode the social engineering nonsense in them. Personally I’d like to see planners elected so we know upfront what their true intentions are. As with the transit referendum in Vancouver, most of the quality of life killing projects urban planners propose would be soundly defeated.
They can’t help it. It’s a clique much like Scientology. They have an overwhelming and Rockwellian nostalgia for toy model villages because they grew up with them in school. They like their train sets. Now they’re grown ups the buildings are bigger, the edges are just pastoral meadows and farmland. They passed a few exams, so now they can design whole towns. They live in a bubble and we must too.
Doing nothing is fine by me. Why should my community suffer for suburban motorists?
The freeways that began the depopulation of Detroit were sunken, trenches freeways. Don’t kid yourselves; nobody wants to live near a freeway, trenched or otherwise.
The construction of semi-underground roadways in many areas would benefit all. Imagine if most of 1st Ave were partially underground, from Rupert to Clark. The vast majority of the traffic is just passing through to the city, or the freeway. Putting it at a lower level and covering large areas with park and recreational space, even building on parts, would be a massive benefit for the neighbourhood. Less congestion and less pollution, less fuel burned.
The same would be extraordinary in the stretch of Marine Drive between Cambie and Granville. Most traffic is either heading to and from; Richmond, the airport or the Oak Street Bridge. Just covering a trench with the through traffic below could re-create the needed commercial community of Marpole. The endless crawling traffic along 70th from Granville to Cambie destroy the street, as well as the connecting streets. Moving it underground would enable the whole area to improve. The success of Marine Gateway will bring much more traffic, a plan to reconfigure the roads in the area is a ‘no brainer’.
Eric. Capped roadways are enormously expensive. The one for Seattle that I worked on was 500 million for just 1000 meters. A big part of the cost is to ventilate the tunnel if something explodes in the confined space.
It’s also crucial to vent tunnels, just to evacuate vehicle exhaust.
That’s why I wrote ‘semi-underground’, as opposed to completely.
How long can an underpass be before it needs to be vented, half a block? Think Paris along by the river.
Eric, Paris has some comments for you:
http://www.weather.com/travel/news/paris-has-turned-its-riverbanks-beaches-20140813
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2015/05/06/anne-hidalgo-lance-l-acte-ii-de-la-restitution-des-berges-de-la-seine-aux-pietons_4628551_3244.html
I was referring to the style not the location.
… as do Seoul (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/world/asia/17daylight.html?_r=2&hpw), and topically, Portland (http://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/finder/index.cfm?&propertyid=156&action=ViewPark).
Just pointing out that Soul and Portland were freeways removed. Not capped.
Eric invoked the idea of roadways by the river. I presented counter-examples.
He didn’t advocate for capped roadways; you misunderstood him.
It is you that misunderstands. The location is irrelevant. The idea is submerged roadways and not necessarily completely covered. (Think Autoroute Ville Marie, Montréal, Centre Ville)
Oh, sorry about that. When you mentioned the specific example in Paris, I mistakenly thought about the specific example in Paris. My bad.
So… how much are you willing to raise taxes in order to pay for these submerged roadways?
I’d go up a couple of points without taking a breath. The reduction in pollution from the congestion would be worth it alone, just as it is over the Port Mann now.
If we want drivers on board we must offer them more than just a new Patullo with a toll.
There’s one, the Ronda Litoral, under the centre of old Barcelona too.
Eric, can you show me some examples where that type of roadway has reduced pollution? (I mean real examples, not conjecture.)
Anyone that owns a vehicle with an internal combustion engine will tell you that there although there is some pollution from even the most efficient engine, there is none when the engine is switched off. Any vehicle reaches its destination quicker on a road like the Ronda Litoral, than one puttering along between the many stop/start intersections above. This is not difficult to understand. Above the Ronda Litoral are parks, bicycle stands, flower selling shops and people walking, as well as bus routes and stops. Below, traffic is moving smoothly and reaching its destination faster and switching off sooner. Google it on ‘street view’.
Eric railed recently against a pipsqueak transit tax like it would halt the rotation of the Earth. On the other hand, we would need a major tax increase probably approaching double digits to fund his buried road(s) idea.
Let me guess: On that he would be silent.
The transit tax losers need to realize that they lost, quite profoundly badly too, because the plan was pathetic, the sales team clumsy and comedic while also pleading embarrassing desperation, ie. they were begging, and the transit authority is dysfunctional, as glaringly witnessed by the coup against their CEO mid campaign and the subsequent firings of a raft of top level, long standing, operatives in head office. One half of one percent didn’t factor into anyone’s budget considerations. Voting No was instinctive.
It will now have to be the provincial government that makes the important decisions on smoothing the flow of traffic into and out of the bottlenecks to the north shore, along 1st and south down Knight and Oak. They will also have to seriously consider extending the Sky Train that stops in Surrey and in Richmond.
By the way, I have finally figured out how to avoid the loss of column width for replies as a section of the conversation progresses. Instead of clicking on Reply to the bottom comment, click on Reply to the parent question above it. Your comment will slot in below the last comment, and will be the same width as the comment to which you are responding.
I wish you hadn’t
Been there. Done that. No T shirt. http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2010/CondonSevenRulesForSustainableCommunitiesCh2.pdf
Karin might not need to waste her time. The way things operate around here don’t often allow any nay sayers a chance. Another reason that when given the chance, the voters took it.
City Hall Watch:
” October 30, 2012 by urbanizta
(Updated Nov 1) On Halloween day, October 31, 2012, just one week to the day after the document was made public, City Council adopted Vancouver’s Draft Transportation 2040 Plan. (Council heard the staff report Tuesday morning, the speakers from the public in the afternoon, then voted the next day.) Vision Vancouver voted as a single block, against opposition. The staff report and draft plan, 123 pages combined, were released on October 24, 2012, just three working days before it went to council (and report contents have changed significantly since the June draft). (Did anyone notice the report was dated Oct 17? Why did City Hall hold it back until just before the meeting?) Did anyone notice that the first staff speaker was the City’s general manager for planning and development (i.e., land use), followed by the general manager for engineering services (i.e., transportation)? Media and therefore the public have focused on bike lanes and car traffic, but most people have missed an important point: Transportation 2040 is as much about land use changes (i.e., densification and construction) as it is about transportation …
This plan will override existing community plans and current planning underway. Also, what about timing? Is it possible that City Hall is not telling us honestly that they plan to increase density first by allowing dramatic increases in construction along “potential” future transit improvement routes, but the actual improvements in transit could be decades away, if ever? …”.
Fortunately, future councils are not bound by the decisions and policies of previous councils as it would be totally anti-democratic. This allows, as it should be, the council to best reflect the concerns of people currently living and voting in the city. To think that policies that not all of the people currently living in the city had a chance to comment on or vote for politicians who supported those policies should dictate city decisions forever is ridiculous. People change and thinking changes. Policies must adjust.
Jeff Leigh says:
@ Eric “Anyone that owns a vehicle with an internal combustion engine will tell you that there although there is some pollution from even the most efficient engine, there is none when the engine is switched off. Any vehicle reaches its destination quicker on a road like the Ronda Litoral, than one puttering along between the many stop/start intersections above. This is not difficult to understand. Above the Ronda Litoral are parks, bicycle stands, flower selling shops and people walking, as well as bus routes and stops. Below, traffic is moving smoothly and reaching its destination faster and switching off sooner.”
You are speaking here of a single vehicle, which will likely pollute less when it moves at a steady speed with no stops and starts. But that isn’t really the point, is it? The issue is traffic, not a single vehicle. When they move without stopping due to congestion, more of them tend to join the party. Then they move more slowly again. You have an expensive road, and the same crowding you had at the start. But with debt.
Looking at your example, the Ronda Litoral, there is a speed limit of 80 km/hr or 100 km/hr, depending on the section. But reports document that during rush hour travel speeds drop to as low as 20 km/hr. Perhaps not as smooth and fast as you think. And lots of references to the congestion problems on that route, and plans to widen it.
One study (en espanol) here: http://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2099.1/6285/ANEXO%20C_Análisis_datos_RACC%20Trafico%2080km.pdf?sequence=4
The question really is whether cities are going to pretend that vehicles don’t exist, build no more infrastructure for them and hope, or wait, until they just go away, or whether they are going to accept that they exist and accommodate them for everyones’ benefit.
Those municipalities that refuse to accommodate vehicles and vainly attempt to simply staunch the flow of traffic, will have to consequently accept congestion and resulting pollution as a result.
The Ronda Litoral is just one example of innovation that works for all. Wikipedia may well point out that at times the traffic is down to 20kmh. So what. The road was sunken and partially covered allowing for parks and recreation areas that were previously just a highway, much like Knight or Oak streets, or 1st Avenue in Vancouver. The covering of parts of the Ronda allowed the population of Barcelona to connect with the old city of Barcelonetta and with the seaside. It’s a choice. In this case it was a good one. Barcelona is one of the top cities in the world in many respects from design, art, finance, culture, tourism and, of course, history. Its implementation of modern technologies, for transportation also, has led to Barcelona being designated one of the worlds’ ‘Smart Cities’. No wonder it’s busy.
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Andy Dalton Dan Snyder Matt Haack Jason Sanders Joe Gibbs Jay Gruden Ryan Finley Brian Flores Zac Taylor Bill Callahan Sports Football NFL football Professional football
Cincinnati Bengals Miami Dolphins New York Jets New York Giants Washington Redskins Philadelphia Eagles Green Bay Packers
And the meek Bengals, Dolphins, Redskins shall win
By BARRY WILNER - Dec. 02, 2019 02:13 AM EST
Miami Dolphins center Daniel Kilgore (67) congratulates wide receiver DeVante Parker (11) after Parker scored a touchdown during the second half at an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
And the meek shall inherit the NFL fields.
At least in Week 13, that is.
It’s unlikely that anyone in Las Vegas or wherever sports betting is allowed these days put money on a parlay of the Bengals, Redskins and Dolphins winning Sunday. They were a combined 4-29 heading into the weekend and appeared like the only contenders for the top spot in next April’s draft.
Now, with their eight-game skid, the Giants might wind up with the inside track to starting off the draft, particularly if the Bengals again perform anything like they did in dismantling the, well, bungling Jets 22-6. Of all the tail enders in action Sunday, the Giants were the only also-ran to get run over, by Green Bay at a snowy Meadowlands.
Cincinnati had lost 13 in a row dating to last season, 11 of those in 2019 under new coach Zac Taylor. It was the flat, unprepared Jets — coming off a huge upset of Oakland no less — who looked like the team searching for its first victory, though.
Of course, the Jets also handed a winless Miami its first victory this season, becoming the first franchise to lose to opponents with at least an 0-7 record twice in the same year.
With Andy Dalton reinserted at quarterback after a failed experiment with rookie Ryan Finley, it was all Cincinnati.
"How do I feel? I can't even describe it. ... It's emotional,” Taylor said. “You go through it with all of these guys, and to finally get it, it feels really good. ... Now the pressure is off of you a little bit."
That was a classic example of a desperate team taking advantage of an opponent that never seemed to have its game face on.
That was not so much the case in Miami; the Dolphins have been competitive for a month and now have won three of five. That they fell behind by 14 points to the supposedly playoff-contending Eagles, then stormed back in a tribute to their resolve. The sort of resolve few teams “tanking” the season for a high draft selection possess.
Sure, they needed a trick play in which holder Matt Haack threw an underhand 1-yard pass to place-kicker Jason Sanders on a fake field goal, sort of. But the Dolphins never were intimidated, something bottom-level teams usually are when they fall into big holes.
And they got win No. 3 in great part because of that.
“This team knows how to deal with adversity,” said rookie coach Brian Flores. “We’re just going to keep swinging.”
They might have knocked out the Eagles. Philadelphia (5-7) has lost three in a row and will likely rue this fiasco if it falls short of equally mediocre Dallas in the NFC East.
That division also houses Washington, which has won two in a row to get to 3-9. When Jay Gruden was fired in October after five losses to begin the season, the Redskins had no fire, no true starting quarterback and, seemingly, no plan.
They’re hardly ablaze now, but there’s a bit of progress in DC, which has to be encouraging for Redskins fans who haven’t felt much of that since Joe Gibbs’ days. Gibbs’ first go-around days.
Interim coach Bill Callahan probably won’t be considered for the full-time gig as owner Daniel Snyder searches for a bigger name. Still, Callahan has instilled something with this team that could work as a foundation for future success.
“I think that we’ve got good veteran leadership and I think with any team anyone can lead it,” Callahan said. “The way you come in the building, how you prepare, how you practice, how you support each other. I’ve mentioned that many times to the team. It’s not one guy, it’s not one player with a C on his chest, anyone can lead, and that’s the beauty of leadership.”
There’s not much beauty to behold with the Bengals, Dolphins or Redskins. Any of the three is capable of dropping its final four games and securing that top draft spot.
However, for one given Sunday, Cincinnati, Miami and Washington gave it to opponents. Who would have called that?
AP Sports Writer Joe Kay contributed.
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QGIS Curriculum
Robert Catherman: Robert2009vn@gmail.com
This curriculum is a series of five volumes on the topic of using QGIS open source software. The intended purpose of these volumes is to provide detailed instructions that can be used as curriculum in GIS classes. Special attention has been paid to English syntax so the text can be easily translated into other languages. Currently the text is available in English and Vietnamese.
Volume One, How to use Geographic Information Systems to monitor outcomes of health care research and projects, is an introduction to QGIS open source software intended for the first-time user of GIS software.
Volume Two, An introduction to using open source GIS software with remote sensed images, introduces the use of QGIS for analyzing forest coverage changes using Landsat remote sensed images.
Volume Three, Using QGIS and Landsat Images to Monitor Seasonal Crop Development, is intended for users having basic familiarity with the use of GIS software but who are not necessarily proficient in using QGIS. The instructions in this volume will direct the learner using a case study that follows the growth of a corn crop from planting through harvesting by analyzing selected Landsat images.
Volume Four, Using QGIS and Remote Sensed Images to Analyze Land Use, teaches the use of QGIS software for analyzing land use and land coverage characteristics by classifying values in remote sensed images according to patterns of interest to the user.
Volume Five, Using QGIS for Watershed Mapping, uses maps to explore the many attributes that describe the characteristics of a watershed such as boundaries, river systems, dams and reservoirs, hill-shading, elevation contours, and rainfall patterns.
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Quantized friction across ionic liquid thin films†
Alexander M. Smith,a Kevin R. J. Lovelock,b Nitya Nand Gosvami,c Tom Weltonb and Susan Perkin*a
a Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
E-mail: susan.perkin@chem.ox.ac.uk
b Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
c Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 220 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ionic liquids – salts in the liquid state under ambient conditions – are of great interest as precision lubricants. Ionic liquids form layered structures at surfaces, yet it is not clear how this nano-structure relates to their lubrication properties. We measured the friction force between atomically smooth solid surfaces across ionic liquid films of controlled thickness in terms of the number of ion layers. Multiple friction–load regimes emerge, each corresponding to a different number of ion layers in the film. In contrast to molecular liquids, the friction coefficients differ for each layer due to their varying composition.
This article is part of the themed collection: Celebrating the 2016 RSC Prize and Award Winners
Supplementary information PDF (86K)
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP52779D
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 15317-15320
Quantized friction across ionic liquid thin films
A. M. Smith, K. R. J. Lovelock, N. N. Gosvami, T. Welton and S. Perkin, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 15317
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52779D
Alexander M. Smith
Kevin R. J. Lovelock
Nitya Nand Gosvami
Susan Perkin
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Journal:Acta Cryst F:S2053230X19002693
Crystal structure of phosphoribulokinase from Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 6301
Robert Wilson, Manajit Hayer-Hartl and Andreas Bracher [1]
Molecular Tour
Phosphoribulokinase (PRK) catalyses the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of ribulose-5-phosphate to ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate. The enzyme accompanies Rubisco in autotrophic organisms and both are unique to the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle of photosynthesis. Isoforms of PRK can be grouped in three classes, which occur in proteobacteria, archaea and photosynthetic organisms respectively. The crystal structure of PRK from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 6301 presents a structural model for PRK from photosynthetic organisms, such as β-cyanobacteria, most green and red eukaryotic algae, and plants. The enzyme is dimeric and has an alpha/beta-fold with an 18-stranded beta-sheet at its core.
Regulation of PRK enzyme activity in response to light controls carbon fixation during photosynthesis. This occurs via reversible formation of disulfide bonds during dark inactivation and complex formation with the adaptor protein CP12 and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, another CBB cycle enzyme. Interestingly, we find a disulphide bond between Cys40 and the P-loop residue Cys18 in our crystal structure, revealing the structural basis for redox-inactivation of PRK activity. A second disulphide bond appears to rigidify the dimer interface and may thereby contribute to regulation by the adaptor protein CP12 and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase into a supramolecular complex within which both enzymes are inhibited.
Perpendicular views of the asymmetric unit in the Syn6301-PRK crystal lattice:
The PRK chains A and B are shown as green and yellow ribbons, respectively. The disulphide bonds are represented as yellow sticks. N- and C-termini are indicated.
Comparison of the active sites in Syn6301-PRK, MhPRK and uridine kinase:
. The Cys18-Cys40 disulphide bond is represented by yellow stick. Secondary structure elements are indicated. The red pointer indicates the Walker A motif (P-loop).
(PDB entry 5b3f) in the apo state. The similar view as in the previous scene. The red pointer indicates the Walker A motif (P-loop).
(PDB entry 3w8r) in the substrate-bound state. The substrates cytidine (Ctn) and AMP-PCP (ATP) are presented as cyan and magenta sticks, respectively. The helical hairpin acting as a lid above the substrate binding sites is indicated.
↑ Wilson RH, Hayer-Hartl M, Bracher A. Crystal structure of phosphoribulokinase from Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 6301. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 2019 Apr 1;75(Pt 4):278-289. doi:, 10.1107/S2053230X19002693. Epub 2019 Apr 2. PMID:30950829 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X19002693
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Robert De Niro: Anglocuck Supreme
Posted on November 24, 2018 by Relampago Furioso 39 comments
Another Hollywood faker – Robert De Niro – is exposed as another Anglocuck who has lost all his dinero to a predatory female and is now about to be put through the frivorce meat grinder
I was doing my daily Red Pill reading when I happened across an entertaining factoid about Robert De Niro. This washed up Hollyweird pretender/has been still likes to act like a tough guy, especially when he blasts Donald Trump (who he’s apparently jealous of) but the reality is De Niro is no tough guy Italian. De Niro has been fully assimilated into man hating Anglo culture and has lived for 20 years as a human ATM machine for his exploitative wife, who is kicking him to the curb now that his career has met with diminishing returns.
Proving correct the thought crimes purveyed here at TNMM and other heretical outposts of truth this henpecked Beta male, De Niro just got dumped by his money grubbing wife after she sucked his marrow out like a black widow spider eating the male post mating ritual. The proof is in the pudding:
Sources don’t say why they split again, but I’ll be the shady one to point back to a story from February 2017, in which Robert allegedly got into a fight with Grace at a bar over her coffee company, Grace Hightower & Coffees of Rwanda. Robert hissed that he wouldn’t have to make “shitty movies” if she didn’t blow through all his money.
I laughed and laughed and laughed after reading that snippet. Yes, Bob you wouldn’t have to make shitty movies if you were a man and not a walking wallet for your wife. It seems his wife, Grace Hightower has taken all De Niro’s dinero, and now it’s splitsville. A process any MGTOW who has been used and abused by predatory females is well acquainted with.
That single line Bob dropped about making shitty movies eclipses anything he’s said during his film career for me. Why? Because that line is reality. The tough guy facade De Niro is just more Hollyweird fakery. His ethnic wife certainly learned the Anglobitch game well, which is why this diseased culture is such a danger to the world.
Here’s how any woman assimilated to Anglo culture plays the game: Milk the son of a bitch for all you can get out of him, then cast his consumed husk aside.
Not even a movie star can keep up with the pace of the Hedonic Treadmill that sexually challenged, solipsistic, avaricious, consummate materialists i.e. Anglobitches place their men on. Unfortunately, this culture of misandry – spurred on by the very liberalism De Niro spouts – tells men that unless they become supplicating chumps who write checks until they’re bankrupt they don’t get a taste of the pussy pie. And they’re evil, to boot.
What a revelation. De Niro is no tough guy. He’s just another henpecked Beta bitch paying through the nose for a wrinkled ASSet. How marriage isn’t just sophisticated prostitution, I still don’t understand.
The Corrupt Media
Beta males are going to explode one day.
Let’s put things down for a glance at modern America.
1 broken families
2 rampant drug use
3 dead end jobs
4 debt
5 broken women
As I mentioned before, a very rich and sated society can mask many problems. A poor and desperate society can’t.
That day of reckoning is coming, ain’t nobody gonna like it.
Yes, but if Robert DeNiro could act from the heart like he did with that “shitty movie” comment, some people would write him into something that isn’t so shitty …
Dig with me the mise en scene: “The People Versus Robert DeNiro”, a movie in which he’s being run through a gauntlet of money-grubbing bitches where we get to watch how he really feels about these spendthrift whores, along with all of the pimps and scam artists that these people bring along with them.
An Everyman tale in the age of the universally morally corrupt, in which the Everyman is on trial by the worst of the worst of the worst, with dishonours … yeah, how timely would that shiznizz be?
But could Robert DeNiro bear the pain of having to bare his soul on camera, just as a way of making good for all of those shitty movies?
I can’t wait for the DVD/Blu-Ray combo with the special audition tracks full of quiz time questions being thrown at him like rotten tomatoes and review comments from rearward-aspirated critics …
Oh, that last bit was a little gas that had to be let out. 🙂
Roosh is getting wiser in his live streams. He has eloquently examined and exposed the feminist, LGBTQ+pedophile agenda, and Zionist elite plans.
Incels are also outing cam whores and Insta-thots to the IRS. Grab your popcorn.
Beta males concern me more than anglo women. These estrogen dominant white knights are sneaky, conniving little fucks.
When they have government agency to attack men with jackboots, military-powered rifles and weaponry and the law at their side, it concerns me even more.
Now, she is going to divorce and get alimony based on his prior income. He is not going to be able to pay it going forward and he can forget about retiring. This will not end well.
If you have to get divorced, Asia is the place to do it. First the laws are fair and seem to benefit men. In China for example, the house goes to whomever paid for it. Secondly, support of the ex is not enforced. I am with a Chinese woman whose ex ran out on her and never paid a dime of the support he was supposed to. Second, divorced women are “leftover women” because Chinese men won’t marry them and so they are not eager to leave a marriage. It makes for a great dating environment for foreigners as us Laowai are all these women can get.
Worthless info. Haul your disgruntled wife over to China for Chinese family court procedures while on a two week tourist visa? C’mon. And anyway willing to live in Asia should not get married. There is such unlimited tail there that to get married is insane.
“Haul your disgruntled wife over to China for Chinese family court procedures while on a two week tourist visa?”
I can’t imagine anybody dense enough to think that is what I was suggesting. You have to follow the laws of where you reside anyway and obviously tourists aren’t residents.
Some guys still may want to get married and it is possible to do so in Asia without losing your ass in a divorce.
Toronto feminists cry rape at Dominican Republic and the Canadian government hires lawyers to prosecute the innocent and falsely accused in his own country.
The article was about Deniro’s upcoming divorce. Your ‘divorce in Asia’ thing was a non-sequitur at best
How are the Chinese courts going to rule in your favor when you’re not even someone on permanent residency, but a tourist?! I also guess that the woman will be an Anglowhore and not a Chinese citizen.
Only Justin Trudeau can threaten foreign countries to release feminists from the foreign legal systems. The Trudeau Canadian government has threatened Thailand, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, and lately Peru, so that Canadian women can enforce feminist law on sovereign nations.
Brazilian President Bolsonaro might send war tanks to Canada if Trudeau pushes his feminist and homo agenda to Brazil, this time.
The problem is that there are many “men” who are desperate to be with someone who resembles their dominant mothers. I know people who got taken to the cleaners by several women, then, happily offered themselves to the first female they met next, literally begging the new one to take full control of their lives and finances. The power is given to the females by those insecure “men”. Honestly, why wouldn’t females enjoy the benefits coming from others, free of charge? Those submissive “men” beg females to take their money.
De Niro is a disgrace to Italians and Italian-Americans.
He gets what he deserves.
Ha ha. Grace Hightower is worth 16 million ALREADY. Just by being married to Deniro. Imagine afterwards.
“PLEAD GUILTY…You enter a Peace Bond & it all goes away”
Says cop who arrested Steve Katsikaris on behalf of Dr. Brooke Hogarth>
Don’t trust feminist cops.
The cop and the doctor should be sued for harassment and violating the Police Services Act and Medical Act respectively:
R.F. GOLDSTEIN J.
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
[1] On November 18, 2015 Mr. Katsikaris attended at the Ryerson Medical Centre for a mental health assessment. Dr. Hogarth saw him. She became concerned about his stability. He became agitated and angry. Mr. Katsikiaris told her that police officers were trying to kill him. He specifically mentioned killing Paul Martin, the Chief of Durham Regional Police. In the course of her assessment Dr. Hogarth became concerned that there was a risk he would cause harm to others. She issued a Form 1 under the Mental Health Act. He was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital for a psychiatric assessment.
[2] Mr. Katsikaris was arrested and charged with threatening death. He was tried by Justice Bigelow of the Ontario Court of Justice. Justice Bigleow dismissed the charge. His Honour found that the Crown had not proven that the Mr. Katsikaris intended to threaten Chief Martin or that he meant that the threat be taken seriously.
[3] After the acquittal the Crown requested a common law peace bond. Justice Bigelow was concerned about the safety of Dr. Hogarth and Chief Martin. He explained that Mr. Katsikaris was simply required to stay away from them.
[4] Mr. Katsikaris appeals. He raised multiple issues before me. Most of the issues had nothing to do with the case. He asked for disclosure, although it was not clear to me what he was asking for disclosure of.
Many cops are white knights
Dude cops are the GOON Squad….just like infantrymen in the military. They are the useful idiots who enact these destruction laws put into place.
I suspect that the doc and cop are angry at what I type here, so if he tries to intimidate me here at my own home in the Blue State of NY, I will set my dogs on him if he dares to arrest me for feminist laws that are enforced only in Toronto.
The feminist doctor at Ryerson University and this crooked cop don’t respect free speech, but instead aim to stifle critical opinion.
If he can overstep his jurisdictional boundaries to arrest innocent men in other cities, I guess that he is going the route of Toronto Police Sexual Assault division who threatened Diana Davidson, of Vancouver (5000 miles away) and a female MRA from Atlanta, with jail, for mocking the feminist accusers of Jian Ghomeshi, who lives in Toronto.
The lesson is that even men who support the police and military should be cautious when white knight cops act on the orders of Angloskanks. The police are not your friend, as what Steve Katsikaris learned the hard way.
Just saw the clip. The dude filming has my full respect for calling out the bullshit. Trumped up charges, deciet, etc. Seems like the stuff of Communists manifestos. Canada? Sick of what that country has become. It used to be a great country and now it is communist.
Nice to see a real man there. He has my support.
Why is pussy that scarce in Canada? Cop started cursing the property owner because of the doc’s complaint that led to the charge and bail conditions!
You think with all that money he earned in his early years he would’ve set aside a few mil in FU money and fled to SE Asia to escape the Angloskank taxes (child support for Tyrone’s children, alimony on a wife who initiated the divorce/frivorce to fuck Tyrone and Chad)?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke I have always thought De Niro was a complete phoney acting the tough guy but in real life a fucking tosser. Most actors who act tough in Hollywood are complete wimps in real life or are really gay and are pictured with women who really are their beards.
mgtow.italia
Robert Di Nero 😃
We should start calling him Robert No Dinero.
As much as I despise the liberal progressive American male, aka, the Anglocuck, I don’t take pleasure in watching others suffer.
These guys, 60 plus or so, grew up and came of age in a very different America.
That being said, I have no compassion for any man whipped enough to wife up an American woman.
In a society where nothing is sacred no one is safe, especially the hapless beta male cuck.
He’ll be remarried in 3 years probably.
And that’s the problem with even Boomer MGTOWs; they constantly marry, re-marry, divorce, and end up on MGTOW.com complaining of having to pay hundreds of thousands in alimony, when younger MGTOW can’t even find a minimum wage job in Canada or USA.
Leeway,
if those men keep on marrying and remarrying, then, maybe the term MGTOW is not a correct way to describe them. I think they were more like “mommy’ s little boys” who never actually grew up to become real men.
There are many of them on MGTOW.com.
They are lucky to have grown up after WW2 and reached the peak of their careers before the 2008 global recession.
Us men 35 and below don’t have a chance to reach that level of wealth, especially with feminism taking even general labor jobs away from men.
Boomers drone-like insistence on marriage shows how totally different they are from us. How many of them have been divorce-raped and nearly jailed by divorce courts and then still go on to marry again? You really can’t listen to them at all or try to learn from them. They are brainwashed into marriage. To them, to be a man you must be married and unmarried men are weird/losers/wankers. They are such eternal bitches. It’s ridiculous. Robin Williams, DeNiro, Dennis Hopper and tens of millions of no-names etc. all were ruined by OLD women in marriages. What the hell is the point? They have the money for decades of 22 and under escorts but they go get married like drones.
How bad does marriage have to be before guys wake up? How awful do the women have to get? Divorcing men are treated like criminals by our culture.
I can’t imagine having my life ruined, freedom threatened and finances obliterated by a nagging bitch who looks awful in a bikini.
WHAT IS THIS? Who could make this mistake?
Trigger man
Westray. What I don’t get is the ones that are getting married THESE days. The ones of old is just cashing out. Men today see this happening and STILL do it.
either they’re not willing to learn from their mistakes or it’s the power of the pussy
Google Grace Hightower (DeNiro’s leech) and tell me about the power of the pussy. She’s fat and post 60. Awful. This was not some irresistible pussy. This is legal entrapment (married males) and cultural brainwashing. No way he was in a haze of sexual bliss. Just google her. The downtrodden married male is legally overpowered. It’s not pussy power. Pussy power is a kid’s game. 25 and unders. Yeah an 18 year old girl has phenomenal power. A fat 47 year old. C’mon. There is no ‘power of the pussy’ past the age of 35. There are freakish exceptions here and there but even they don’t have what any given under 25 escort has to offer.
Trigger Man,
Agreed. At this point, a guy who marries in 2018 is just not on my team at all. I don’t see him as a fellow man in my united brotherhood. I don’t even want to be on any ‘team’ but identity politics USA forces you to think in these terms. But anytime a guy marries, I just cringe. 6 months of decent sex with a chubby 7 (international 3) and then a life of hell, chores, and overburden with white knight gov’t workers ready to come in to save the (fat) damsel in distress on her word alone. You just got to stay away from all of it.
Granted, if women in the USA were walking around like Venezuelan beauty queens then you would just have to admit that you’re beat and do what they want. That would be worth it. But these guys getting destroyed by women with no sexual value at all just doesn’t make sense. I just don’t get it. I guess they’re married before they know anything and then the evil legal environment for married/divorcing men just can’t be avoided.
Dude what is the situation like in Italy? How much of a feminist shithole is it?
I tell ya, it’s no different than the US. Same patterns around here too. It’s a global phenomenon that seems unstoppable because it’s backed-up by the so called elites. I subscribe to everything Rel says so far so I decided to put my thoughts in writing to give my little contribution to the good cause of helping men.
You said, “Divorcing men are treated like criminals by our culture”. You are absolutely correct. And that is because we men allow it to be so.
Clay,
you are 100% correct. ALLOW, is the key word. I disagree with the term “pussy-power” at any age or level of perceived attractiveness. No female is special or somehow entitled to anything I have created. I believe in 100 % equality. I think men should never marry poorer women or women who they are not attracted to (and vice-versa). It’s this pedestalization of females based solely on looks or owning a vagina that causes all of these problems. I am not perfect, I did the same thing once but I have learned the hard way that dreaming and defying logic are sure ways to fail.
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Estimating premorbid intelligence in schizophrenia patients: demographically based approach
Milan Dragovic, Flavie Waters, Assen Jablensky
Objective: The aim of the present study was to provide a useful and quick estimate of premorbid intelligence that can be used in the population of schizophrenia patients.Method: Regression analysis (stepwise procedure) was used to identify which of five demographic variables significantly predicted National Adult Reading Test (NART) scores in schizophrenia patients. The new regression equation was subsequently assessed in an independent patient sample. The results were compared with scores obtained for an equation developed in healthy populations.Results: Age, occupation, and education contributed significantly to the equation, which accurately predicted NART scores in the patient sample. The equation developed in healthy people, however, consistently underestimated NART scores.Conclusions: Equations developed in healthy people are not accurate predictors of NART scores. By contrast, the new equation acknowledges the educational and occupational characteristics typical of individuals with schizophrenia. The equation should be used cautiously, but can be used as a rapid estimate when it is not possible to conduct a cognitive assessment using more traditional approaches.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Dragovic, M., Waters, F., & Jablensky, A. (2008). Estimating premorbid intelligence in schizophrenia patients: demographically based approach. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 42(9), 814-818. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048670802277214
Dragovic, Milan ; Waters, Flavie ; Jablensky, Assen. / Estimating premorbid intelligence in schizophrenia patients: demographically based approach. In: Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2008 ; Vol. 42, No. 9. pp. 814-818.
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J/80 National Championships 2018
Saturday 18th, Sunday 19th & Monday 20th August
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Race Management Guidelines
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The J/80 UK Class Association is delighted that their 2018 Nationals will be hosted by the Royal Lymington Yacht Club. The racing will take place in Christchurch Bay which is a great open water venue with minimal tidal influence. Courses will be laid by the highly experienced race team in the Bay with the option to race in the more sheltered Western Solent in the event of inclement weather.
The Club is very enthusiastic about welcoming visiting J/80 sailors to join its newly expanded J80 fleet for some great racing.
Racing will take place from Saturday 18th August to Monday 20th August, with a total of 9 races planned for the Championship.
The fun social programme will be centred on the Royal Lymington Yacht Club’s delightful riverside clubhouse which has stunning views over the Lymington River and towards the Isle of Wight.
Registration will be available from Friday afternoon. A discounted three-night berthing package has been arranged with Berthon Marina in the centre of picturesque Lymington and adjacent to RLymYC, and which is only a short sail to Christchurch Bay.
Lymington and the surrounding New Forest are popular tourist destinations, so early booking of accommodation for crews, supporters and families is recommended.
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Presidential Amnesty Programme Trains 137
The Presidential Amnesty Programme has successfully trained in different vocational skills and is set to graduate no fewer than 137 persons.
Raidar News reports that Murphy Ganagana, Media Assistant to the Programme’s Coordinator, Prof. Charles Dokubo disclosed this in an interview with the Raidar Gist in Abuja on Sunday.
Ganagana said that the beneficiaries were trained in leather works, ICT, fashion making, welding and fabrication.
He said that beneficiaries were chosen from across the Niger Delta region.
According to him, the training is a part of the Programme’s empowerment package for youths in the Niger Delta region.
“This unit liaises with government agencies, private and public sectors to generate employment opportunities for the beneficiaries.
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Ganagana said that the graduation ceremony is scheduled to hold on Monday and would be attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and governors of States in the region.
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Werewolf Chapter 22
An Informal Audience
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“By the way, is governance of the trade city Ryun Height going well? I received some reports that it got attacked by a small scale enemy. “
That’s right, I have reported about that incident.
I honestly reported about the scheme of Radiant Church Priest to liberate Ryun Height and that I banished him.
“I see, the clergyman had a secret collusion.”
There are no clergyman among demon races. There is only one religion that worships the ‘Demon King’, who appears once in several decades, or possibly several centuries.
Demon King silently nodded, and commented.
“Sometimes religion pushes humans to madness. Is there no choice but to rule by force?”
The sore place has been pointed out.
As this remains, my Ryun Height governing policy would be considered narrow minded. I explained in a rush.
“Fo..fortunately disorder was kept at the minimum. Banishing the leader as he was, and not appointing a substitute, I have stopped the movement of hostile forces.”
The demon king motionlessly staring at me, asked.
“As long as you keep up your governing policy, hereafter also you’ll have to compromise with the religious forces. Do you understand?”
“I am readily prepared.”
Honestly speaking, I am having more difficulties than expected. I, myself, was not very religious in my previous life, so I actually can’t understand their feelings.
But even with that, I don’t want to kill humans whenever possible other than on the battlefield.
Somehow I’ll have to try.
I don’t know whether my resoluteness was conveyed or not, but the demon king didn’t pursue the matter further.
“Regarding each city’s governing policy, that is left to the commander on site. As long as the governance in Ryun Height is proceeding smoothly, I approve that policy.”
From now on, my worries have increased by one, but for the time being I seem to have got through it.
The demon king continued.
“Just now, I had a war council with the second division regarding the northern war front of Mirarudia. Do you have an understanding of the situation?”
“Unfortunately I have only heard casually.”
Somehow, the second division seems to have lost the momentum they had at first. I have heard such rumours from the inujin caravan.
That rumour being true, the demon king slightly nods.
“Counter attack of humans have become furious. Hence, the second division commander, personally leading the entire army, departed for the front line.”
I see, that was the ostentatious feeling in the castle. When I looked, there was a map spread on the round table with various writings all over it.
Looking at it roughly, one of the three cities they had captured in the beginning seemed to have been recaptured. It seems they’ve lost consecutively in subsequent wars.
The demon king, rather than rebuking me for looking at the map, pointed his rough fingers at it.
“I have heard ruling the two cities in the south is proceeding smoothly. From now on, these cities would deeply affect the strategies of demon army. Keep it in mind”
Straightening my back, I bowed.
After that the demon king offered me to sit on a chair.
“From here on wards, this is an informal audience. I allow you to sit. Be seated.”
The ones that can sit in front of the demon king are the top executives of division commander class. Pulling the chair nervously, I sat on the chair not being able to calm down.
Looking back fleetingly, I found Barce, also an aide like me, to be standing as is.
I would have been comfortable, had he sat with me, but he was standing in attention with his hard to read reptile face.
Facing the demon king across the round table, I wait for the next instructions.
But looking at him so close, there is an staggering sense of tremendous intimidation. I am almost intoxicated from the released magic power.
“From sometime ago, I wanted to have a talk with you at ease for once. Among the various commanders of demon army I recognize you as one of the excellent commanders.”
“I am very much ob..obliged.”
The demon king asks me with a calm demeanor.
“For example, I have heard that you have divided your werewolf corps into squads of four people. Speaking of which, is there a special meaning to the number four?”
I bow my head.
“I’m awed at your divine discernment.”
Of course, there is a meaning to the four people squads.
While doing a dangerous task, a pair has more survival rate compared to someone alone. This is the same for both humans and werewolves.
That’s why, having two persons in a team, called two man cell, is basic for policemen or some of the military personnel.
Even I, myself, also have personal experience making a buddy for the swimming lessons in elementary school.
But I had realized that there is a limit to a-two man cells.
Once one of the two is injured, they lose their combat capability. The other person has to aide his injured partner, so without any back up they have to retreat.
Even if one forcibly fights as it is, the battle potential automatically falls below half.
Thereupon, I combined two two person teams. This is the four person variant.
Even if one is injured in one of the teams, the unhurt team would continue the battle. Otherwise the three of them can merge and fight.
On top of that, even if only two of them remain after the casualties, they can still barely maintain the two man cell.
Again, during reconnaissance occasionally one of the teams can go for scouting, and the other can maintain safety at the current position …. Such operations are also possible.
Even if I say that, I didn’t think of all that, rather these are the knowledge from a game in my previous life, it’s not a story to brag about.
Nonetheless, it was the first time anyone’s asked me this question.
The demon king deeply nodded to my explanation.
“Let me use it as a reference. Aide, record the current statements of Baito.”
It’s not Baito… rather vice division commander….
Well, it is a problem with the structure of their mouth, complaining won’t solve anything.
Barce was skillfully recording the current conversation.
“As you command. I have recorded the statement of Vaito-dono.”
No, wait.. Barce can correctly pronounce me, ‘Vaito’, right?
The demon king continues to ask me questions.
“This is a good opportunity, if you have anything to ask regarding the demon army, state away.”
I am just a vice division commander. I may sound bossy, but I am nothing more than a mid-level executive.
I had never expected that a person like me would get a chance to ask the questions regarding the demon army to the demon king in person.
“Don’t be anxious. Since this is an unofficial audience, there is no need to take responsibility for your remarks.”
Even if you say it like that.
As a matter of fact, the demon army has been sufficiently modernised.
When I enlisted, I was surprised by the fact that there exists a supply train.
The demon king’s headquarters, Glenstadt castle, is a huge accumulation point for supplying personnel and goods to the frontline.
Since the supply lines are maintained by the first division, we can fight with peace of mind.
Meanwhile, the human army depends on pillaging or purchasing. In worse cases, it’s on the whim of the soldiers.
Had I been reincarnated as a human, I would have gained merit for introducing the supply train, but that I could not do in the demon army.
The enlistment system and training regimen are also well-prepared, so they can build a new unit in a short period.
The humans seemed to be afraid that ‘the demon king can summon military forces infinitely from the hell’, but in reality it is just that sophisticated a system that has been established.
The demon king looked at my face, prompting the remark.
“Don’t be afraid. Speak.”
I am not really holding back, but the question, right… oh, right.
“With all due respect, I want to enquire regarding the chain of command of our demon army.”
“I permit, you may speak.”
In these last few years, the demon army has expanded its battle prowess at once.
In the beginning, it was only an armed group of ryujins, but in the blink of an eye, it became this large-scale by adding believers from other races.
However, that was the reason of various disorders.
For example, my social status.
An aide or a vice division commander, which one is it?.
When I joined demon army, the respective divisions were called ‘Ryujin Troops’, ’Kyojin Troops’, ‘Majin Troops’ etc.
(TN: Kyojin: giants, Majin: devils)
When the scale got bigger, the division was used for displaying the majestic appearance.
However, the chain of command and the responsibilities below the division commander level remain vague.
For example, Aide Barce is a close associate of the demon king, while the shishioni Dogg is just a group leader.
Then, I am the local commanding officer governing Ryun Height.
Speaking of the ranks, obviously it would be Barce, me and then Dogg.
Yet everyone has the same rank. On top of that, is it an aide or is it a vice division commander, that is not distinguished.
At a glimpse, it looks the same.
“Considering the current scale of demon army, there are a lot of ambiguous matters in the chain of command or the class system, I am anxious that this might be a problem hereafter.”
Saying this, when I looked at Barce, he had an stiff expression.
Maybe I am the first and last person to criticize the demon army’s organisation in front of the demon king himself.
The demon king nodding in a calm demeanor, indifferently explained.
“That is a good question. Since following the strong is the way of life for demons, there would be more inconvenience if army is structured.”
Rather I think it’s better to make the hierarchy clear, but what is the difference?
“If we establish strict chain of command or rank system, there is more chance that the weak soldiers with wisdom would be superiors of stupid but powerful soldiers. But the demon army is not matured enough to accept those.”
Now that I remember, there were those who started fighting me…
“So, keeping the hierarchy vague, I can only entrust it to the division commander’s order. Naturally, as you say, I’ll have to revise it sooner or later.”
Unexpectedly so, the demon king seems to be critical to the rule of supremacy of the strong.
Immediately, I apologized to the demon king for impoliteness.
“A fledgling like me has said too much. I beg your honour for forgiveness.”
“It’s ok, your question is sharp. I am also satisfied with your ability to govern Ryun Height.”
Saying such, the demon king happily continued.
“That’s right. I suddenly remembered the elated face of Gomoviroa when she recommended you.”
What kind of exchange happened….
But the demon king seemingly satisfied with himself, stopped the audience.
“The audience this time was extremely meaningful. Hereafter, come by periodically and report the governing status. I have expectation from you.”
“Yes my lord.”
It was thus, that I was finally freed from the presence of the demon king.
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13 comments on “Werewolf Chapter 22”
rasec135 on 2 October 2016 at 1:08 AM said:
Thanks for Chapter, go Vaito you can speak without stammering hahahaha
4xLessAnonymous on 2 October 2016 at 1:35 AM said:
Hope you enjoyed your break.
Anyway, it’s nice to see a smart Demon King, rather than a somewhat more stereotypical “me strong” Demon King.
Here’s hoping Vaito gets a promotion eventually, and that we get to see more from the Demon side of things beyond Vaito’s sphere.
GonZ555 on 2 October 2016 at 3:57 AM said:
i get the feeling that Demon King is a reincarnator too somehow..
thelurking1 on 2 October 2016 at 7:40 AM said:
Did that come from your meat sense?
Kensei Seraph on 2 October 2016 at 4:28 AM said:
Dark Jackel on 2 October 2016 at 5:29 AM said:
Thanks for the chapter! Demon Lord remains surprisingly chill. 😉
Ralmon on 2 October 2016 at 7:27 AM said:
Is the demon king reincarnated too? “Baito” seems to be normal mispronunciation of “Vaito” as many languages replaces ‘V’ with ‘B’ when ‘V’ isn’t in their language’s phoneme set.
The Gun Powder itself is suspicious. For a race as powerful as themselves and the technological background of the setting, creation of gun powder at such proper ratio is highly unlikely.
And of course the recording of the discourse. Are the demons this literate? And the practice is just too modern.
King of the End on 2 October 2016 at 8:19 AM said:
Thanks for the chapter, I thought this series had been dropped.
Litho on 2 October 2016 at 9:48 AM said:
datanator on 2 October 2016 at 10:16 AM said:
Good to see this one is still alive 🙂
Would anyone happen to know what happened to EX-Hero? There was the oh-so-glorious message saying
“I will continue my translation from today onward…….
you can say I’m back on track….”
after the hiatus, but nothing has happened since then 😦
Well, thanks for chapter anyways!
perdidoenlapereza on 2 October 2016 at 11:57 AM said:
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gippett0 on 3 October 2016 at 8:54 AM said:
Thank you for the chapter and all the hard work!
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In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.Metropolis featuring Gustav Fröhlich and Brigitte Helm is streaming with subscription on Fandor, streaming with subscription on Kanopy, available for rent or purchase on iTunes, and 3 others. It's a Drama and Science Fiction movie with a very high Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 98% and a high IMDb audience rating of 8.3 (149,920 votes).
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The interrelationship between torpor expression and nest site use of western and eastern pygmy-possums (Cercartetus spp.)
James M. Turner
Physiology and behaviour are closely linked, making knowledge of the interaction between species' energetics and activities important when attempting to understand how animals function in the wild. I examined torpor use by western pygmy-possums (Cercartetus concinnus) and eastern pygmy-possums (C. nanus) in relation to nest site characteristics and movement patterns. In coastal mallee heath in winter, C. concinnus nested beneath leaf litter at the base of dead Banksia ornata, where they employed torpor on 69% of observed days. In warm temperate sclerophyll forest, C. nanus nested in tree hollows of Eucalyptus spp. and used torpor on 64% of days in winter and 10% in summer. Torpor was used in nest sites that were buffered from outside temperature extremes. Both species frequently reused nest sites and while C. nanus was more likely to employ torpor in a previously used site, site familiarity did not influence torpor use for C. concinnus. Additionally, C. nanus was more likely to use torpor in hollows with a higher relative thickness in both seasons. No relationship was found between range size and the number of tracking days or capture body mass, though sample sizes were small. I suggest that the thermal attributes of nest sites influence torpor use for both species and this is likely vital for maintaining a positive energy balance, stressing the importance of preserving habitat with ample potential nest sites for conservation management.
Australian Mammalogy
https://doi.org/10.1071/AM19005
resting periods
nest site
nesting sites
sclerophyll forests
tree cavities
temperate forests
leaf litter
plant litter
range size
Turner, J. M. (2020). The interrelationship between torpor expression and nest site use of western and eastern pygmy-possums (Cercartetus spp.). Australian Mammalogy, 42(1), 85-95. https://doi.org/10.1071/AM19005
Turner, James M. / The interrelationship between torpor expression and nest site use of western and eastern pygmy-possums (Cercartetus spp.). In: Australian Mammalogy. 2020 ; Vol. 42, No. 1. pp. 85-95.
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Validation of a Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Questionnaire to Examine Factors Associated with Milk Expression
Yeon Bai, Lauren Dinour
Nutrition and Food Studies
Background: A proper assessment of multidimensional needs for breastfeeding mothers in various settings is crucial to facilitate and support breastfeeding and its exclusivity. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been used frequently to measure factors associated with breastfeeding. Full utility of the TPB requires accurate measurement of theory constructs. Research aim: This study aimed to develop and confirm the psychometric properties of an instrument, Milk Expression on Campus, based on the TPB and to establish the reliability and validity of the instrument. Methods: In spring 2015, 218 breastfeeding (current or in the recent past) employees and students at one university campus in northern New Jersey completed the online questionnaire containing demography and theory-based items. Internal consistency (α) and split-half reliability (r) tests and factor analyses established and confirmed the reliability and construct validity of this instrument. Results: Milk Expression on Campus showed strong and significant reliabilities as a full scale (α =.78, r =.74, p <.001) and theory construct subscales. Validity was confirmed as psychometric properties corresponded to the factors extracted from the scale. Four factors extracted from the direct construct subscales accounted for 79.49% of the total variability. Four distinct factors from the indirect construct subscales accounted for 73.68% of the total variability. Conclusion: Milk Expression on Campus can serve as a model TPB-based instrument to examine factors associated with women's milk expression behavior. The utility of this instrument extends to designing effective promotion programs to foster breastfeeding and milk expression behaviors in diverse settings.
Journal of Human Lactation
Statistical Factor Analysis
breastfeeding barriers
human milk expression
theory of planned behavior
Bai, Y., & Dinour, L. (2017). Validation of a Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Questionnaire to Examine Factors Associated with Milk Expression. Journal of Human Lactation, 33(4), 658-665. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334417695205
Bai, Yeon ; Dinour, Lauren. / Validation of a Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Questionnaire to Examine Factors Associated with Milk Expression. In: Journal of Human Lactation. 2017 ; Vol. 33, No. 4. pp. 658-665.
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Bai Y, Dinour L. Validation of a Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Questionnaire to Examine Factors Associated with Milk Expression. Journal of Human Lactation. 2017 Nov 1;33(4):658-665. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334417695205
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Select Influence to the PN Emissions in Calibration Procedure for Portable and Stationary Solid Particle Number Measurement Systems
Influence to the PN Emissions in Calibration Procedure for Portable and Stationary Solid Particle Number Measurement Systems
HORIBA Europe GmbH-Yoshinori Otsuki
HORIBA, Ltd.-Kenji Kondo, Kentaro Kojima, Takeshi Kusaka
The Real Diving Emissions (RDE) regulation has been introduced since September, 2017 by utilizing the Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS). For the PEMS for the solid Particle Number (PN) measurement (PN-PEMS), the validation tests are required by comparing to the stationary PN measurement system on a chassis dynamometer prior to the on-road emissions testing. However, there are some cases that the emission results of PN-PEMS have big difference for that of the PMP system as the PN-PEMS does not have the same system configuration and calibration procedures as a PMP system. In this paper, the influence of the calibration procedure to the PN emissions results was observed by applying the calibration procedure of the PN-PEMS to the PMP system. The current systems configurations for PMP system and PN-PEMS, and the differences of them were described. And, the calibration procedure of the PN-PEMS was applied to the PMP system to adjust the system detection efficiency at 23 nm. Finally, the influence of the calibration protocol was investigated by compared the PN emissions of PMP system and…
Select Improvement in PEMS performance for RDE testing at high and varying altitudes
Improvement in PEMS performance for RDE testing at high and varying altitudes
HORIBA, Ltd.-Shun Fukami, Haruhisa Mohara
RDE (Real Driving Emissions) by definition is performed under a wide range of conditions. Altitude, as well as temperature, is one of the boundary conditions that depends on the area where the test is performed, which will vary from country to country. These boundary conditions not only affect the exhaust emissions from the vehicle, they also affect the accuracy of the PEMS (Portable Emission Measurement System).The effect of barometric pressure changes on a PEMS was evaluated by altitude simulation chamber and means of an RDE test on Mt. Fuji. This paper describes the challenges for PEMS measurement with barometric pressure variations and the advanced system that has been developed to meet them.
Select Particle number emissions from standard and hybrid SI passenger cars
Particle number emissions from standard and hybrid SI passenger cars
National Laboratory of Automotive Performance & Emission-Xin Wang, Yunshan Ge, Wenlin Yu, Bin Song
School of Chemical and Process Engineering, The University o-Daisy Thomas, Hu Li, Yan Kang, Karl Ropkins
This paper presents the PN (Particle Number) and some gaseous emissions results from a group of SI (Spark Ignition) passenger cars including HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle), PFI (Port Fuel Injection) and GDI (Gasoline Direction Injection) vehicles. The PEMS (Portable Emission Measurement System) was used for on-board emission measurements. The vehicles were driven using the routes complying with the EU Real Driving Emissions (RDE) test procedures required in the European Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/427, i.e. starting in an urban driving mode and then continuing into a rural driving mode and ending with motorway driving mode part. The percentage of these three segments is approximately 33%, 33%, 33% respectively. The total test time was between 90 to 120 minutes.The vehicles’ driving parameters such as road speed, tailpipe exhaust temperatures and energy consumption were recorded and their correlations with emissions were investigated. The results show that most of the PN spikes were related to acceleration, deceleration and engine restart events. Comparing accumulated PN from different vehicles, total PN from the hybrid car was the lowest, even though this…
Select In-Depth Analysis of Additive-Treated Gasoline with a Modified HFRR Technique
In-Depth Analysis of Additive-Treated Gasoline with a Modified HFRR Technique
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants
Afton Chemical Company, USA-William Colucci, Kristine Morel
Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc., USA-Edward Malisa, Joseph Russo, Andreas Glawar, John Mengwasser, Edward Nelson
USA-Wendy Lang
Gasoline fuel lubricity is key to reducing wear and energy losses from friction in engines. The High-Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR) test protocol recommended for gasoline fuels has been modified to evaluate the wear and friction properties of additized fuels. Adapted from the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D6079 test for diesel lubricity and literature-based procedures developed for gasoline fuels, the protocol and hardware used in this study allow for differentiation of fuels with unique additive chemistries and varying additive treat rates (EPA-approved lowest additive concentration, LAC, or higher). Supplementing HFRR tests, measurements of acoustic emissions corroborate friction coefficient trends using different additized fuels. Anti-wear performance of fuels during engine tests was characterized by roller-follower pin wear and metal concentration in engine oil, further distinguishing LAC from alternate additized fuels. The engine tests and acoustic emissions measurements support HFRR observations that gasoline fuels with varying additive chemistries and concentrations can offer enhanced lubricity compared to fuels additized with basic LAC additized fuels.
Select Real Driving Emissions Measurement of Brake Dust Particles
Real Driving Emissions Measurement of Brake Dust Particles
Technische Universitat Ilmenau-David Hesse, Klaus Augsburg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-2138
The measurement of brake dust particles is a complex challenge owing to its open system configuration; indeed, the emitted particles are directly spread into the environment. Measurements on the inertia brake dyno feature controllable and reproducible environmental and operational parameters. Although Real Driving Emission (RDE) measurements enable the detection of brake dust particles emitted in real driving conditions (i.e. traffic condition, driving style, air humidity, vehicle components’ wear and ageing, etc.), they are complex and not reproducible due to external, continuously changing parameters (e.g., flow conditions, changing traffic conditions, particulate matter from other sources). The motivation lies in developing a real driving emission sampling system for brake particle emissions, which meets the quality requirements of the measurements, as well as the prevention of particle losses and contamination, thereby supplementing and reviewing laboratory-based procedures. On the basis of knowledge from the computational fluid dynamics and experimental investigations, an advantageous concept of a sampling system for mobile application is presented. The chosen methodological approach shows that the transport efficiency and the uniformity of the number concentration depend…
Select Analysis of Emissions in the European Driving Cycle of Used Light-Duty Vehicles Imported to Europe from North America
Analysis of Emissions in the European Driving Cycle of Used Light-Duty Vehicles Imported to Europe from North America
SAE International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Energy, Environment, & Policy
State Road Transport Research Institute, Ukraine-Oleksiy Klymenko, Viktor Ustymenko, Kostiantyn Kolobov, Sergiy Rychok, Mykola Hora, Nila Naumenko
This study analyzes the distribution of exhaust mass pollutants emission obtained in 1,157 tests in the European driving cycle of used light-duty vehicles (LDVs). At the time of production, the tested vehicles complied with the Federal environmental requirements of the United States (USA) and were imported to Europe from North America. They included 1,109 passenger cars (PCs) and 48 light-duty trucks (LDTs), equipped with gasoline engines. In general, for measured emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter (PM): 25% of test results for PCs do not exceed the T2B5 limits of the US Federal Standard; 43% of test results for PCs do not exceed the thresholds, designated for on-board diagnostic system (OBD) proper functioning; 45% of test results for PCs do not exceed the European Union (EU)’s former standard “Euro-5” norms. The automotive manufacturers of the PCs group represented various legislative and engineering approaches in Europe (Volkswagen, VW), Japan (Mazda), and North America (Ford) that are reflected in the emissions analysis results. In particular, the stricter CO limits…
Select Emission Factors Evaluation in the RDE Context by a Multivariate Statistical Approach
Emission Factors Evaluation in the RDE Context by a Multivariate Statistical Approach
Marianeve Costabile
Istituto Motori CNR-Livia Della Ragione, Giovanni Meccariello
The Real Driving Emission (RDE) procedure will measure the pollutants, such as NOx, emitted by cars while driven on the road. RDE will not replace laboratory tests, such as the current WLTP but it will be added to them. RDE is complementary to the laboratory-based procedure to check the pollutant emissions level of a light-duty vehicle in real driving conditions. This means that the car will be driven on a real road according to random acceleration and deceleration patterns conditioned by traffic flow. So, the procedure will ensure that cars deliver real emissions over on-road and so the currently observed differences between emissions measured in the laboratory and those measured on road under real-world conditions, will be reduced. However, the identification of a path on the road to check the test conditions of RDE is not easy and hardly repeatable. In fact, when the car is driven by a real driver on a real road we need, firstly, to overcome some problems for identifying the best way to travel through an unknown traffic area to…
Select Solid Nucleation Mode Engine Exhaust Particles Detection at High Temperatures with an Advanced Half Mini DMA
Solid Nucleation Mode Engine Exhaust Particles Detection at High Temperatures with an Advanced Half Mini DMA
CERTH/CPERI-Penelope Baltzopoulou, Anastasios D. Melas, Nickolas Vlachos, Danis Deloglou, Eleni Papaioannou, Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos
Diesel and gasoline direct injection engines emit nucleation mode particles either under special conditions or as part of their normally emitted size distribution, respectively. Currently, European legislation excludes nucleation mode particles as particle number vehicle emission measurements are limited down to 23 nm. The rationale behind such a cut-off size is based on the avoidance of significant uncertainties inherent in the sampling and measuring of sub-23 nm solid particles. However, the sub-23 nm particles have drawn increased attention since a large fraction of particles emitted by modern vehicles lies in this size range. In this study we investigate the possibility of accurate nucleation mode particles detection by using the Advanced Half Mini Differential Mobility Analyzer (HM-DMA). The Advanced HM-DMA system is able to classify aerosol particles in the mobility size range 5 - 30 nm with high resolution and fast spectrum acquisition that can accommodate a sample flow maintained at up to 200°C. The unique ability to classify particles at high temperatures permits engine exhaust measurements without the need for aerosol conditioning. Initially, the Advanced…
Select Test Procedure to Determine the Hydrocarbon Losses from Fuel Tubes, Hoses, Fittings, and Fuel Line Assemblies by Recirculation
Test Procedure to Determine the Hydrocarbon Losses from Fuel Tubes, Hoses, Fittings, and Fuel Line Assemblies by Recirculation
Fuel Systems Standards Committee
This SAE Recommended Practice is intended for the determination of the losses of hydrocarbon fluids, by permeation through component walls, as well as through "microleaks" at interfaces of assembled components while controlling temperature and pressure independently of each other. This is achieved in a recirculating system in which elements of a test fuel that permeate through the walls of a test specimen and migrate through the interfaces are transported by a controlled flow of dry nitrogen to a point where they are measured. That measurement point is a device, such as a canister containing activated charcoal or other means of collection or accumulation where the hydrocarbon losses are then measured by weight change or analyzed by some other suitable means.
Select Life Cycle Analysis to Estimate the CO2-Equivalent Emissions from MAC Operation
Life Cycle Analysis to Estimate the CO2-Equivalent Emissions from MAC Operation
Interior Climate Control Vehicle OEM Committee
This recommended best practice outlines a method for estimating CO2-equivalent emissions using life cycle analysis.
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Food now bigger than booze in Britain's pubs, new data shows
Oscar Williams-Grut
Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK
Yahoo Finance UK 16 January 2020
More food staff work at pubs than bar staff, new figures show. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Almost 30 years after the first ‘gastropub’ opened its doors, Britain’s pubs now employ more people handling food than drink.
New data shows chefs and food servers have overtaken bar staff in Britain’s pubs for the first time.
43.8% of staff at pub and bar companies work in catering, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), while just 28.9% do bar work.
The figures were almost the polar opposite in 2003. Back then, four in 10 employees were bar staff and just under three in 10 were involved in food.
The Sunday roast has long been a staple of many pubs but food has become a 7-day-a-week feature at boozers over the last few decades.
The Eagle pub in East London is credited with inventing the term ‘gastropub’ in 1991 when new owners put food front and centre. At the other end of the market, chains like JD Wetherspoon (JDW.L) also pioneered the idea of eating at the boozer with offers like its Thursday curry club. Pub dining has become so ubiquitous that celebrity chef Tom Kerridge has been able to build an entire career on the back of it.
READ MORE: Pub numbers are finally rising — but small locals are still at risk
The ONS said the shift reflected “changing consumer habits.” Data shows people have been spending less on drinking out and more on eating out in recent years. The rate of drinking among young people has also started to decline.
Embracing food has helped lift the pub sector to its best performance since the financial crisis, the ONS said. Britain’s bar and pub sector took in £23.2bn ($30.3bn) in 2017, the highest total since 2008.
ONS data showed the number of people employed in the sector has also risen sharply over the last 10 years despite a long-term decline in the number of pubs. 457,000 people now work in pubs and bars across Britain, almost 70,000 more than a decade ago.
In December, the ONS said the number of British pubs had risen for the first time in a decade. The statistics body said on Thursday that locals — small pubs with fewer than 10 staff — helped spur the growth. Small pubs grew in Britain for the first time in 15 years last year.
“While smaller pubs have been struggling to survive in recent years, bigger pubs have been growing in number,” senior ONS statistician Hugh Stickland said.
“This growth has been driven by food rather than drink and we’ve seen a big rise in the number of people employed as pub kitchen and waiting staff.”
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David Marcus Scores Grand Prix Hattrick at CDI3* Rockwood
Rockwood, Ontario – Canadian Olympian David Marcus of Campbellville, ON, made a clean sweep of the grand prix division at the CDI3* Angelstone International Dressage Tournament held June 14 through 16 in Rockwood, ON. Riding his 2012 London Olympic mount, Chrevi’s Capital, Marcus won both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle while Don Kontes stood in the winner’s circle following the Grand Prix Special.
Marcus and Chrevi’s Capital topped a nine-horse starting field with a score of 69.81% earned from the five-member panel of international judges. Riding Don Kontes, Marcus took third place with a score of 66.62%, finishing behind his 2012 London Olympic teammate Jacqueline Brooks and D Niro who scored 67.51%. Both of Marcus’s horses are owned by Deborah Kinzinger.
“Capital hasn’t shown since February, so it was nice to get him back in the show ring,” said Marcus, 32. “He felt fresh and happy in his job. It was a nice, clean test. It was fairly conservative, but since he hadn’t shown in a while, my goal was simply to go in and have no mistakes.”
Both the Grand Prix Special and Grand Prix Freestyle were held on Saturday evening in front of hundreds of spectators. Marcus and Chrevi’s Capital, a 13-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding (Chrevi’s Cavallo x Weinberg), rode their musical freestyle for the third time in competition, having debuted their new program at the prestigious CDI5* World Dressage Masters Palm Beach in January. Compiled by Joost Peters of The Netherlands and featuring the music of George Michael and WHAM!, their freestyle performance earned the winning score of 72.73% to hold off Brooks and D Niro with 72.33%.
“David Marcus and Chrevi’s Capital won the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDI3* Angelstone International Dressage Tournament held June 14 through 16 in Rockwood, ON.”
Photo Credit – Mary White, Lone Oak Equine Photography
“I love his new Freestyle,” said Marcus. “It wasn’t without mistakes, so there are still a lot more points in there for him. The high degree of difficulty in our choreography is really the highlight of this freestyle.”
Especially poignant for Marcus was being presented with the inaugural Jon Costin Memorial Cup as the winner of the Grand Prix Freestyle. A successful and extremely popular Canadian grand prix dressage competitor, Costin died unexpectedly in May.
“Jon was a good friend of mine, so it meant a lot to me to win the trophy created in his honour,” said Marcus. “I would also like to thank Leatherdale Farms for sponsoring the entire grand prix division. They are very supportive of dressage sport in Canada, and their generosity is greatly appreciated. Of course, I wouldn’t be where I am without the support of my owner, Deb Kinzinger.”
Kinzinger was on hand to cheer Marcus to victory in the Freestyle, just as she had done earlier in the evening when Marcus piloted her Don Kontes to the win in the Grand Prix Special. The pair earned a score of 67.94% to easily take the win over runner-up Evi Strasser of St. Adele, QC, and Renaissance Tyme, who scored 66.67%.
“Don Kontes felt the best he has ever felt, especially in the trot work,” said Marcus of the 13-year-old Swedish Warmblood gelding by Don Schufro. “Unfortunately, I made a mistake and we went off course so that brought our score down, but he is feeling stronger and more through. His scores improved from Friday’s Grand Prix, so I was very happy with that.”
The pair earned scores of eight out of 10 for several movements in the Grand Prix Special test, including their passage and canter work.
“Since our last show in April, I’ve been working with him on the basics, getting him stronger and fitter,” explained Marcus, whose last competition with Don Kontes was as a member of Canada’s bronze medal team at the CDIO3* Nations’ Cup in Wellington, FL. “He’s getting better and better all the time.”
In addition to his own success, Marcus also coached Maya Markowski and her horse, Lumiere, to strong placings in the competitive CDI small tour division. His partner, Nicholas Fyffe, competed at Third Level with Fiero HGF, owned by Robert Dover, in addition to helping Marcus on the ground.
For Marcus, the rest of the season will see him continue aiming Chrevi’s Capital towards the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) to be held next August in Normandy, France.
“Capital feels great, in his body and in his mind, and I’m looking forward to this year with him,” said Marcus, who plans to contest CDI events in Saugerties, New York, and Devon, Pennsylvania, later this season. “Everything we do this year is in preparation for the World Equestrian Games next year. We are trying to make the right plan to set him up mentally and physically to peak next year at the WEG.”
Marcus operates David Marcus Dressage in Campbellville, ON, just west of Toronto. For more information, please visit www.davidmarcusdressage.com.
Tagged under: 2012 London Olympic, 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games, CDI3* Rockwood, Chrevi’s Capital, David Marcus, Dressage, Grand Prix Freestyle, Grand Prix Hattrick, Grand Prix Special, Sidelines Magazine, WEG, www.davidmarcusdressage.com
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Mean Motor Scooter- Hindu Flying Machine LP. Kinda fuzzy, kinda surfy garage-rock insanity from the heart of Texas. On their debut album ‘Hindu Flying Machine’ Mean Motor Scooter put Fort Worth on the garage-rock map worldwide. The Fort Worth Weekly named MMS Band of the Year in 2016 and Artist of the Year in 2017. Mean Motor Scooter hit the ground running on their debut full-length, which is chock-full of quirky psych-garage blasts and fuzzed-out trash rock mayhem. They live in a world of fuzzy, sci-fi, B-movie paranoia and the songs on their debut album rocket by, chock-full of references to aliens, lizard men, crop circles, and all things weird and wonderful.
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HealthNow picks Informatica data virtualization over IBM and Composite
A comprehensive product evaluation led insurance provider HealthNow New York Inc. to choose Informatica data virtualization software over competing products from IBM and Composite.
HealthNow New York Inc. has chosen Informatica data virtualization software over competing products from IBM and Composite -- primarily because it required less SQL coding and did a better job of enhancing the insurance provider's data quality strategy.
"One of the things that I didn't like about both IBM and Composite was that [they were] much more driven off of coding," said Rob Myers, an enterprise data warehouse solution architect with HealthNow. "It seemed like you had to write a lot of SQL or that it was really just generating SQL mappings instead of the kind of transformation engine that Informatica gives you."
What is data virtualization software?
Data virtualization technology creates a middleware, or services, layer within an IT architecture where data from disparate sources can be aggregated, viewed and analyzed. The technology promises to reduce the time and expense associated with traditional integration methods -- like extract, transform and load (ETL) and database consolidation -- because the actual data is never physically moved from its source system.
But there are some areas where Informatica Data Services has room for improvement, Myers added. For one thing, he would like to see the software become more business user-friendly over time. That would make it easier for HealthNow business analysts to map data sources and create basic reports with information culled from virtual data marts.
Myers would also like Informatica to interoperate more seamlessly with enterprise service bus (ESB) technology from competing vendors. ESB technology serves as the backbone of a service-oriented architecture by providing a consistent view of services and hiding underlying application complexities.
"You've got to be able to talk to [message] queues," Myers said. "I know Informatica has been doing some stuff with queues, but [IBM MQ] is big in the ESB space and there are other players out there. I don't believe that that is where [Informatica] should be trying to compete. I think that would dilute their efforts."
Data quality workflow integration a deciding factor
Headquartered in Buffalo, HealthNow is a Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance provider for about 800,000 members in western New York. The company boasts about 2,500 employees, including a 30-member strong data management team.
HealthNow's IT shop runs mostly on IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase database management software. The company also runs IBM Cognos business intelligence (BI) and Facets health plan administration software from The TriZetto Group Inc.
"I joined HealthNow three years ago now, and this was a very traditional ETL shop. There was no concept of doing data services yet," Myers said. "There was no SOA architecture, and there was no reference architecture, to be honest."
That all started to change about a year and a half ago, when Myers and his team began evaluating data federation and data virtualization technologies as part of an effort to get usable information to business analysts faster than in the past.
At the time, Informatica was reselling Composite Software as part of an original equipment manufacturer agreement and had just come out with its homegrown Informatica Data Services. The roadmap for Informatica Data Services looked promising, Myers said, but the deciding factor mostly had to do with Informatica's ability to incorporate data quality rules.
"Informatica was showing us that not only could we federate the data, but we could throw in some quality rules," Myers said. "We could profile the data and those rules can go right into the mappings. A developer could write out the mappings into a virtual data model. [They] could see and profile the data at each step."
Another big factor that led HealthNow to Informatica over IBM and Composite centered on the capability of the company to provide quality maintenance and support. HealthNow negotiated a deal with Informatica which stipulated that all service calls would go directly to folks in the know.
"They took us and said, 'We'll embed you with the [Informatica development] lab and we'll have people from the lab come out and see what you're doing and make sure it's right,' " Myers said. "'That was a good feeling."
The insurance company went live with Informatica Data Services about a year ago, and Myers said the main benefit of the software can be described in one word: speed.
The company now has the ability to quickly create virtual data marts that pull in data from disparate sources and can be accessed by business users. The process of creating a data mart can take as little as two days, Myers said. In the past, he said, the process of moving data around for business analysts could take months to complete.
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Data virtualization software packages have often met with skepticism from end-user organizations concerned about ensuring the security of sensitive information, according to a recent paper from Cambridge, Mass.-based IT analyst firm Forrester Research Inc.
But security was not a major concern at HealthNow, thanks to the company's highly fortified IT architecture. The company runs an IBM WebSphere DataPower appliance "in front" of Informatica Data Services, which provides the system with one level of security.
"The only people that can really get to [the data services tier] are other application developers," Myers said. "And if we're letting end users hit it through Cognos, we have the Cognos security level on top of that."
A bigger challenge for Myers was convincing HealthNow's data integration team that Informatica Data Services could be a stable environment. Myers overcame that obstacle by taking on a few small data virtualization projects and producing solid results.
"[It showed] that the environment was stable and also showed that [the data services] were reusable components that were trusted by the business to deliver the right data," he said. "[The components] could be reused on many new projects coming down the line."
Despite some minor problems that arose as a result of HealthNow's inexperience with data virtualization, the Informatica Data Services implementation was mostly painless, Myers said. The company had the system installed, configured and passing proof-of-concept tests within two months.
"You certainly could do it faster," Myers said. "But I think that, as with any good architecture team, we [spend a lot of time] evaluating the best use of certain technologies and the direction we want to go."
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The Week In Review: Manufacturing
Time for smartwatches; beaming survey; 3D NAND; MIT job event; book-to-bills.
September 19th, 2014 - By: Mark LaPedus
Gartner predicts that by 2016 smartwatches will comprise about 40% of consumer wristworn devices. Gartner said that nine out of the top 10 smartphone vendors have entered the wearables market to date or are about to ship a first product, while a year ago only two vendors were in that space.
The eBeam Initiative announced the completion of its third annual survey. In one of the highlights of the survey, a majority (58%) of respondents predict that multi-beam technology will be used in production by 2016 to address the critical problem of mask write times as the industry moves to smaller geometries.
In a presentation, Aki Fujimura, chief executive for D2S, outlined the impact of context-dependent, mask-effects on mask hotspots.
At the recent 2014 Flash Memory Summit, Applied Materials and others participated in a panel discussion. Here was the big question at the event: Do you think 3D NAND is a disruptive technology for flash storage?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will host “Lam Day at MIT” at their Cambridge, Mass., campus on Sept. 19, 2014. For students interested in learning more about a career at Lam Research, Lam will also be at MIT’s Fall Career Fair on Sept. 19.
SEMI praised the bipartisan effort in the U.S. House of Representativesto pass H.R. 2996, the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation (RAMI) Act. SEMI further urged the Senate to move quickly on the legislation that would create public private partnerships to establish institutes for manufacturing innovation.
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.35 billion in orders worldwide in August 2014 and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.04, according to SEMI. In addition, SEMI also reported the worldwide PV manufacturing equipment billings and bookings for the second quarter of 2014. Worldwide billings increased to $319 million in Q2 2014, an increase of 33% from the prior quarter but 11% below the same quarter a year ago. Worldwide bookings for the first quarter declined to $234 million, 21% below Q1 2014 but 25% higher than Q2 2013. At 0.73, the book-to-bill ratio is below parity.
Veeco Instruments announced that its new Odyssey Ion Beam Deposition (IBD) Upgrade for the Nexus IBD-LDD system has repeatedly produced photomask blanks with zero deposition defects larger than 70nm. This represents a milestone toward the manufacture of semiconductor devices with advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
MegaChips has acquired 9 smart connectivity products based on DisplayPort technology that STMicroelectronics decided to discontinue last year.
Asia-Pacific is forecast to account for nearly 59% of the $285.9 billion IC market in 2014, followed by the Americas region, Europe and Japan, according to IC Insights.
DisplaySearch sees a possible tightness in the supply of TFT LCD materials and component in 2015.
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Mark LaPedus is Executive Editor for manufacturing at Semiconductor Engineering.
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The Kenyan city of Mombasa, the largest port in East Africa, has become the capital of a new drug trafficking route. Heroin from Asia and cocaine from Latin America now transit through Kenya, before heading to Europe. FRANCE 24s team reports.
Its an increasingly common sight off the East African coast, especially in Kenya: a ship from Pakistan with a cargo of heroin on board – containing poppies harvested in Afghanistan and refined in Pakistan. A few kilometres off the Kenyan coast, its joined by a small fishing boat.
In recent years, a new route has been opened up by international drug traffickers. And for good reason: the Kenyan coast is long and poorly monitored. No wonder, then, thats its easy to smuggle drugs into the country.
Once delivered to Kenya, heroin – and sometimes also cocaine – is brought to Mombasa, the countrys second-largest city and the regions biggest port. From there, smugglers have several options: taking a plane straight to Europe or Dubai; moving the drugs to the capital Nairobi to send them abroad more discreetly; or even sending them to South Africa or West Africa to use an even less obvious route.
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Our reporters met drug mules, like David, who regularly ingest drugs to transport them discreetly and avoid security checks. Its dangerous work, but extremely well-paid: David can earn up to €10,000 each time he smuggles drugs ouRead More – Source
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$1 Million in Radiothon Funds Distributed to 20 Charities
Mar 21, 2017 | Dream Scholars, News + Updates, SAY Detroit, SAY Detroit Clinic, SAY Detroit Play, Working Homes/Working Families
Representatives from 20 area charities accepted checks totaling more than $1 million on Tuesday from donations raised at Mitch Albom’s fifth annual S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon last December.
The ceremony at the Fisher Building included several first-time beneficiaries, including the Bing Youth Institute — a mentoring program for urban youth created by former Detroit Mayor and NBA legend Dave Bing.
Albom, who founded S.A.Y. Detroit in 2006, presented the checks to the benefiting charities with Dr. Chad Audi, president of the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, along with representatives of several major donor organizations.
“This is our happiest day of the year, when we can share funding with our hard-working charitable initiatives as well as many worthwhile outside agencies that are doing incredible work to help Detroit’s neediest,” Albom said. “The Radiothon is a gathering of generosity. Today is a spreading of that generosity. On behalf of the 20 charities that will benefit, I deeply thank the people of Michigan who helped us reach this milestone last December. Your kind and generous hearts are what being human is all about.”
Checks were distributed to the following area charities:
Humble Design: $10,000
Vista Maria: $5,000
Jewish Vocational Services: $10,000
Latin Americans for Social & Economic Development (LA SED Inc.): $10,000
COTS Bright Beginnings Child Development Center: $10,000
United Sisters of Charity/Mother Batie’s Kitchen: $7,500
College for Creative Studies/Detroit Dream Scholars: $30,000
Westside Cultural & Athletic Club: $10,000
Veterans Matter: $5,000
Michigan Veterans Foundation: $10,000
Cass Community Social Services: $25,000
Real Life My Music: $7,500
Working Homes Working Families: $125,000
DRMM Dignity Project: $10,000
SASHA Center: $10,000
Cathedral of St. Anthony: $5,000
S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic: $300,000
S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park: $425,000
Bing Youth Institute: $10,000
The Salvation Army Monroe Harbor Light-VA: $5,000
Albom on Tuesday also announced the creation of the S.A.Y. Detroit Tomorrow Fund, an endowment fund established to help preserve S.A.Y. Detroit’s legacy and be a catalyst for new growth. The fund was launched with a $50,000 donation.
Broadcast live over 15 hours on WJR (760AM), the sixth annual Mitch Albom S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon will be held Dec. 7 at the Somerset Collection in Troy.
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After New Hammerhall was griefed, Lord1 invited CranberryWarrior to the newest Church of Francis base, Francistan. Here he began working on a new tower as well as expanding the city.
After New Hammerhall was griefed, Lord1 invited CranberryWarrior to the newest Church of Francis base, [[Francistan]]. Here he began working on a new tower as well as expanding the city.
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CranberryWarrior
Ingame name: CranberryWarrior
First joined: December 27th, 2017
Clans: The League (Former), The Fellowship (Former), Church of Francis (Current)
Bases: Grasstle, Majula, Fort Cranberry, Der Bunker, Semper Idem, Asguard, Cooltown, New Hammerhall, Francistan
CranberryWarrior is a player who joined the server on December 27th, 2017. CranberryWarrior has been involved at various bases and with a few influential teams, including The League and The Fellowship. CranberryWarrior is known to bring trouble wherever he goes: most of his bases have been annexed, colonized, griefed or leaked. Ironically, none of these issues have been caused by him.
When CranberryWarrior first joined in late 2017, he was invited to Grasstle by pippenger, and then later invited to Majula by ostrich1414, where he worked with Sir_Phenhex. This was part of an initiative to introduce more new players to the server. At this time, CranberryWarrior was a member of their team, The League, although this team would soon collapse.
Later on, in August 2018, CranberryWarrior began to work on his own base known as Fort Cranberry. It was located near spawn and was a large cobblestone fortress with various buildings and towers inside. Here, he worked on the fort with Jero46.
However, by January 18th, 2019, CranberryWarrior became embroiled in a massive conflict, the Takeover of Fort Cranberry. After his fort was annexed by Struthio, placed under the leadership of several new players, and remolded at their leisure, CranberryWarrior decided to fight back. Multiple battles would ensue, with CranberryWarrior winning few; ultimately, Struthio retained control of the fort. Fort Cranberry would last until February 17th, when it was griefed by YeeterMyPeeter.
Between late 2018 - early 2019, CranberryWarrior had also been helping his ally Jero46 at their underground base, Der Bunker. Ironically, just as Fort Cranberry was, Struthio annexed and colonized Der Bunker on April 30th, 2019.
CranberryWarrior would eventually join The Fellowship after being invited by TheOnlySlash in March 2019. CranberryWarrior moved to Semper Idem, where he resided until it was griefed in April 2019. CranberryWarrior remained a member of the Fellowship well until May 2019, where he later quit.
Afterwards, CranberryWarrior moved to Asguard after being invited by QuantumEntropy. He would not last long, however: Asguard's coordinates were leaked after a quarrel between QuantumEntropy and e_lee, causing CranberryWarrior and jake276493 to grief the base before any harm could come to it by one of their opponents.
In July 2019 CranberryWarrior was also invited to Cooltown by Lord1, it was an Old Western-themed base near spawn that was later griefed by TheOnlySlash.
On July 9th, 2019, CranberryWarrior visited Struthio for the first time, where he remained temporarily. He started work on demolishing some of the lavacasts and fixing the griefs there.
On August 11th, 2019, CranberryWarrior was invited to New Hammerhall by Lord1. He was initiated into the Church of Francis and became a devout member, religiously worshiping Francis. He unfortunately had to help grief the city alongside Lord1 and _Unix2010 after they discovered that the city had been visited by a random unknown player while the members were away on a trip. CranberryWarrior bought wither skulls to spawn one right in the city which Lord1 named Francis.
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Katie Mitchell | Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino
“I’m not someone who believes in waiting for the unexpected to yield or generate something. We had one uniquely unexpected moment in this workshop which was: someone who works in the admin put on a pink outfit in the corridor before we were doing a showing for kids. I jokingly invited him in to introduce the show to the kids in his outfit and this became a character in the piece. But that is so rare, you couldn’t rely on it for a split second as a way of generating material.”
Quotes from the movie: Katie Mitchell devising Beauty and the Beast
“I wanted to become a painter at 15, but realized I wasn’t cut out for it. Now I paint with people.”
“I don’t find pieces that interesting. I enjoy the pictures, the ideas, the physicality – and in what ways the reality behind the story can be put forward, aside from just performing the usual theater gestures.”
She did not what is fundamentally great about theater though: the marvel of suddenly meeting people in a room and sharing experiences with them and telling each other stories – and by that process, possibly going home “a little more sensitive, considerate and empathetic”. Katie Mitchell considers going to the theater, and regarding another’s story with respect, important for the health of our society. This rare space must be protected.
“The British specialist in despair”, excerpts from the article about theatre director Katie Mitchell, by Alexandra Kedves, Tages-Anzeiger 18.11.2015, p. 35
Performances of the piece «Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino» on the 25th and 26th November at Schiffbau-Halle Zürich.
Katie Mitchell devising Beauty and the Beast
Katie Mitchell, born in 1964, is an English theatre director. She is an associate of the Royal National Theatre.
Mitchell, who turns 50 this September, has been hailed as the closest thing British theatre has to a genuine auteur: a director with a strong, uncompromising vision of how theatre should be. But over the past four years, she has quietly slipped off the UK’s radar. She first emerged as a director who did things differently with her 2007 multimedia adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. This was the beginning of what she now calls “live cinema”: performances that come alive somewhere between the chaotic scramble on stage and the smooth, cinema-quality output on the screen.
Quote English: National Theatre Discover 6.5.2011
Quotes German and picture: Tages-Anzeiger 18.11.2015, S. 35
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Some vocal-mimicking animals, particularly parrots, can move to a musical beat
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Researchers at Harvard University have found that humans aren’t the only ones who can groove to a beat — some other species can dance, too. This capability was previously believed to be specific to humans. The research team found that only species that can mimic sound seem to be able to keep a beat, implying an evolutionary link between the two capacities.
The study was led by Adena Schachner, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Harvard, and is published in the current issue of Current Biology. Schachner’s co-authors are Marc Hauser, professor of psychology at Harvard, Irene Pepperberg, lecturer at Harvard and adjunct associate professor of psychology at Brandeis University, and Timothy Brady, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Schachner and her colleagues closely studied Alex, a well-known African grey parrot who passed away shortly after the study, and Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo whose humanlike dancing behavior had led to online fame.
“Our analyses showed that these birds’ movements were more lined up with the musical beat than we’d expect by chance,” says Schachner. “We found strong evidence that they were synchronizing with the beat, something that has not been seen before in other species.”
The researchers noted that these two birds had something in common: an excellent ability to mimic sound.
“It had recently been theorized that vocal mimicry might be related to the ability to move to a beat,” says Schachner. “The particular theory was that natural selection for vocal mimicry resulted in a brain mechanism that was also needed for moving to a beat. This theory made a really specific prediction: Only animals that can mimic sound should be able to keep a beat.”
To test this prediction, Schachner needed data from a large variety of animals–so she turned to a novel source of data, the YouTube video database. Schachner systematically searched the database for videos of animals moving with the beat of the music, including vocal mimics such as parrots and vocal non-mimics such as dogs and cats.
Schachner analyzed the videos frame-by-frame, using the same analyses applied to the case-study birds. Criteria included the animal’s speed compared to the speed of the music and alignment with individual beats. Potentially “fake” videos were omitted, where music was added to the video after the fact, or the animal was following visual movement.
“The really important point is that many animals showed really strong evidence of synchronizing with the music, but they were all vocal mimics,” says Schachner. “Most of them were parrots — we found 14 different species of parrot on YouTube that showed convincing evidence that they could keep a beat.”
Because only animals capable of vocal mimicry – such as parrots – appear to be able to keep a beat, the study implies an evolutionary link between vocal mimicry and this crucial part of dance.
“Our data suggests that some of the brain mechanisms needed for human dance originally evolved to allow us to imitate sound,” says Schachner.
It is important to note that vocal mimicry alone is not enough for a bird to keep a beat, although the researchers aren’t yet certain why some parrots can dance and not others. It may be that all parrots have a latent capacity, but need certain experiences or social motivation, according to Schachner.
Schachner says that these birds do not seem to move in synchrony with sounds in the wild, and so the behavior could not have evolved as a result of direct natural selection. For this reason, in bird species this capacity must be an evolutionary byproduct of something else, says Schachner, seemingly vocal mimicry.
It may be, says Schachner, that the human ability to keep time with music has also evolved as a byproduct of vocal mimicry. She points out that the cognitive processes needed for both actions are related.
“In both vocal mimicry and entrainment,” says Schachner, “you’re taking in auditory input, and constantly monitoring not only your output but also the sound input. This allows you to fix your output in real time, to better resemble or line up with what you hear. For example, if you are tapping to a beat, you constantly monitor the sound and your taps, so that if you become misaligned with the beat, you immediately change your timing. If you are imitating a sound, you constantly monitor your memory of the sound you are trying to imitate, as well as the sound you are producing, so if you notice a difference, you can change your vocalization. So it seems plausible that vocal mimicry and keeping a beat might rely on some of the same mechanisms.”
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Compass Box reveals transparency ‘solution’
26 September 2016 by Richard Woodard
Scotch whisky producer Compass Box believes it has found a solution to the issue of transparency in the packaging and promotion of spirits following fresh legal advice.
Legal loophole: Detailed information on the new bottlings will be available on request
The company launched a global campaign aimed at encouraging greater transparency earlier this year, following the news that it had broken the law by revealing the precise recipes for two of its whiskies, Flaming Heart and This Is Not A Luxury Whisky.
Now, as Compass Box launches two new bottlings – Three Year Old Deluxe and Spice Tree Extravaganza – company founder and whiskymaker John Glaser admitted that there is no short-term prospect of a change in the law.
But he added: ‘We have found a legal workaround that allows us to achieve our primary goal – getting complete, clear and unbiased information into the hands of the people who are actively seeking it.
Glaser continued: ‘The legal advice we received is clear: while we must not actively promote the ages of the components used in our blends, we can provide information when we are asked for it by interested consumers.
‘So, starting with our limited editions Three Year Old Deluxe and Spice Tree Extravaganza today and extending to our full range of whiskies from 1 November, we are simply asking interested consumers to get in touch with us by calling our office, emailing us, contacting us on social media or speaking to us at events. The information is there – we’ll do all we can within the current regulations to share it with you – all you need to do is ask.’
New blended malt Three Year Old Deluxe was, said Glaser, ‘a perfect example of the issues we face’: the blend contains 0.4% three-year-old malt whisky (produced near the village of Brora); 90.3% malt whisky from the same distillery, but ‘considerably older’; and 9.3% peaty malt whisky distilled on the Isle of Skye.
Under the current rules, only the youngest component of the whisky – the three-year-old part – can be communicated to consumers via its product description, presentation or labelling.
Priced at £200/US$300 and bottled at 49.2% abv, 3,282 bottles of Three Year Old Deluxe will be released, initially in Europe from 1 October, and then in the US from 1 November.
Compass Box is also releasing Spice Tree Extravaganza, a new version of its Spice Tree blended malt, the production of which had to be discontinued 10 years ago thanks to its proscribed use of ‘untraditional’ cask maturation techniques.
The 46% abv whisky uses older components than the core Spice Tree expression and a ‘significant portion’ of Sherry-matured malt. Priced at £100/US$140, 12,240 bottles will be released, in Europe from 1 October, and in the US from 1 November.
Compass Box’s proposed solution to the transparency issue is reminiscent of the action taken in April this year by Bruichladdich.
The Islay distillery, which had pledged support for the Compass Box campaign, published the detailed recipe of casks used in each vatting of its core ‘The Classic Laddie – Scottish Barley’ expression online.
Bruichladdich defended the legality of the move by emphasising that the information would only be available to someone who was actively seeking to find it out, and who had access to Classic Laddie batch codes.
Latest news 29 October 2015
Compass Box transparency breaks EU law
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From the editors 29 October 2015
At a time when consumers clamour for more information about whisky, why does the law forbid it?
Bruichladdich honours transparency pledge
Islay distillery publishes the detailed recipe for ‘The Classic Laddie’ expression on its website.
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Police Nab Men Suspected of Using Sledge Hammers To Bust Through Wall of Honda of Melbourne
By Space Coast Daily // January 1, 2017
TAKEN INTO COSTODY AFTER FOOT PURSUIT
Melbourne police arrested Lamarcus Roberts Anderson, 43, and Laress Leon Nelson, 24, after responding in the early morning hours of Sunday about 1 a.m. to a call at Honda of Melbourne in reference to two suspects seen using sledge hammers to knock out a back wall of the dealership.
BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Melbourne police arrested Lamarcus Roberts Anderson, 43, and Laress Leon Nelson, 24, after responding in the early morning hours of Sunday about 1 a.m. to a call at Honda of Melbourne in reference to two suspects seen using sledge hammers to knock out a back wall of the dealership.
Upon arrival of the officers at Honda of Melbourne, located at 1240 S. Harbor City Boulevard, the suspects were spotted getting into a moving van and attempting to pull out of the parking lot.
Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, however it refused to stop and continued out toward US 1.
“A pursuit of the vehicle was initiated until it came to a stop in the area of Morningside Drive and Carolin Street, where the two subjects fled on foot,” said Melbourne Police Lt. Steve Sadoff.
Officers continued to pursue the subjects on foot while a perimeter was established.
“Through the coordinated efforts of all personnel involved in the incident, the subjects were apprehended without major incident or injury to anyone. Further investigation of the incident revealed that the vehicle driven by the subjects was stolen out of the city of West Melbourne.
“This is another great example of the community and their police department working together to solve crime and reduce victimization,” said Lt. Sadoff.
Melbourne Man Arrested After Chasing Down, Shooting At Man Who Repossessed Suspect’s Truck
Anderson was charges with Burglary, Grand Theft (Auto), Possession of Burglary Tools and Resisting Arrest without Violence.
Nelson was charged with Burglary, Fleeing/Eluding the police, Grand Theft (Auto), Possession of Burglary Tools, Resisting Arrest without Violence, No Driver’s License and Leaving the scene of an Accident.
The Melbourne Police Department is currently investigating this incident and more information may be available at a later time. If you have any information about this incident, call the Melbourne Police Department at 321-608-6731.
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Elaine Thompson Set To Sizzle At Jamaica International Invitational
by Reporting by Gary Smith, Lead Sports Writer May 19, 2017 May 20, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sporting Alert — Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson headlines a world-class list of athletes set to compete at the 2017 Jamaica International Invitational – the opening IAAF World Challenge meeting of the season – at the National Stadium on Saturday (20).
Watch Live Streaming on 1Spotmedia.com. Visit the Jamaica International Invitational website for more details.
Thompson v Jackson Could Be Very Fast
Shericka Jackson of Jamaica at the Rio Olympic Games
Thompson, who won gold medals in the women’s 100m and 200m events at the Rio Olympic Games in Brazil last summer, has been in immaculate form thus far on the season and she will look to extend her run when she contests the women’s 200m.
The MVP sprinter has already posted respective times of 22.19 (200m) and 10.78 (100m) in the opening legs of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League series in Doha and Shanghai.
The 24-year-old will start as the favourite to run away with another victory in front of the home supporters this weekend.
One of the main challengers for Thompson at this year’s Jamaica International Invitational is her club teammate Shericka Jackson, the World and Olympic 400m bronze medallist.
Jackson has also competed strongly over the shorter sprints this season — producing personal bests in both the 100m (11.24) and 200m (22.57).
Also lining up in the event are Jamaicans Simone Facey and Jura Levy, as well as Americans Shalonda Solomon and Candyce McGrone in addition to Tynia Gaither from the Bahamas.
De Grasse v Merritt Over 200m
Andre De Grasse of Canada at Rio Olympic Games
In the men’s event, Canadian sprint star and triple Olympic medallist, Andre De Grasse, will lead a solid lineup when he races for the first time in Jamaica.
De Grasse, who has featured in two open 100m already this term, will make his season debut in the flat 200m.
His main challenge should come from American former world and Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt, who will be racing in his third 200m this campaign.
London Olympics bronze medallist and 2013 IAAF World championships silver medal winner Warren Weir of Jamaica, as well as fellow countrymen Nickel Ashmeade, a semi-finalist at Rio 2016 and reigning Commonwealth Games champion Rasheed Dwyer, will lead the Jamaican charges.
Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, who finished fifth at the World Championships in 2015, is also in the field and will make his first appearance in the 200m in 2017.
Solid Men’s and Women’s 100m Fields
Allyson Felix v Shaunae Miller in World 400m final
The men’s and women’s 100m events have also setup some tasty clashes.
In the women’s race, American sprinter Allyson Felix will take on a solid field, which will include Jamaicans Christania Williams, a finallist in Rio, and Gayon Evans, the IAAF Indoor tour 60m champion.
Rio 100m and 200m finalist Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago and Americans Jenna Prandini and Morolake Akinosun are also entered in the event.
On the men’s side, former world 100m record holder Asafa Powell will aim to add to his sub-10 seconds 100m collection when he makes his third appearance in the event this season.
The 34-year-old should be tested by countryman Yohan Blake, the 2011 world champion, Commonwealth Games champion Kemar-Bailey Cole of Jamaica and American Mike Rodgers.
Asafa Powell of Jamaica competes in the Men’s 60m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Oregon. (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images for IAAF)”
Ronnie Baker of USA, Jamaican-born Turkish sprinter Jak Ali Harvey, as well as Jamaicans Nesta Carter and Julian Forte will also compete.
Also on the track, Jamaicans Javon Francis, Demish Gaye and Fitzroy Dunkley will battle against USA’s Tony McQuay and Belgium’s Kevin Borlee in the men’s 400m.
The women’s category sees Americans Natasha Hastings, Phyllis Francis, Ashley Spencer and Courtney Okolo going head-to-head with Jamaicans Stephenie-Ann McPherson, Novelene Williams-Mills, Christine Day and Anneisha McLaughlin-Whilby.
Harrison Pulls Out of Sprint Hurdles
Meanwhile, women’s 100m hurdles world record holder Kendra Harrison of the U.S. will not compete in Kingston, after fracturing her hand at the Doha Diamond League meeting earlier this month.
However, Harrison’s compatriots Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin, the Olympic silver and bronze medallists, are both good to go and the pair will join fellow Americans Sharika Nelvis and meet record-holder Jasmine Stowers at the starting line.
Leading the home charges are Megan Simmonds and Danielle Williams, the 2015 world champion.
In the men’s 110m hurdles, US champion and Olympic finallist Devon Allen makes his debut in Jamaica and he will battle with teammates Ronnie Ash and Jarrett Eaton, the winner at last year’s Jamaica International Invitational.
Rio semi-finalists Andrew Riley and Deuce Carter, as well as Tyler Mason are the Jamaican trio looking to stop a USA podium sweep.
In action in the field, Columbian two-time world and Rio Olympic triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen will make her season debut against Jamaica’s Shanieka Thomas-Ricketts.
Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres, who leads the world list in the men’s discus throw, will hope to improve on his ranking in the event, while Sam Kendricks, the American Rio bronze medallist, starts as the man to beat in the pole vault.
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MLM Magic
How an Ordinary Person Can Build an Extra-ordinary Networking Business from Scratch
by Venus Andrecht
This legendary networking book, “MLM Magic,” has been used for more than 20 years to teach tens of thousands of aspiring network marketers to create the lives they want through network marketing. Venus's easy, down-to-earth, low-cost approach to starting and running your multilevel will help you learn all the best ways to make your network thrive...and earn you all the income you desire. Venus is known for her funny, straightforward writing that makes reading this book a snap! She also packs her books with loads of tried and true methods (as well as her own personal methods) for growing your distributor and customer base. And, unlike other multilevel books that are all-hype, Venus gives you clear, easy steps to follow and you don't have to be a "super salesperson" to do them. Working mothers and others who prize freedom and flexibility in their jobs will particularly love Venus' style of business building. Get all the training you need in this information-rich book. Venus has more than 35 years of experience in network marketing, and she gives it all to you! Some of what you’ll learn include: • Simple steps for building a strong downline • Dozens of low-stress ways to find new customers • How to set up your work area • How to open conversations with strangers • How to close prospects • The importance of follow-up and how to do it • How to train and retain your downline/distributors • Easy ways to stay in touch with your downline, and much more
Working from her kitchen office, Venus Andrecht rose from genteel poverty to undreamed-of wealth using MLM, or multilevel marketing (also known as network marketing). In her first 10 months, Venus, a single mother, made over $100,000, and has since continued to bring in high income through multilevel marketing. Venus’s first networking book, "MLM MAGIC," winner of the NABE “How To Book Of The Year,” is for anyone who wants to make a decent living. Far from being the easy road to gold, Venus says that MLM/Network Marketing is almost the ONLY road to gold for the average person. Venus shares her secrets for success in this honest, informative, and entertaining book. In her over 35 years in networking, Venus has traveled the world training and teaching for a number of MLM companies. She's been called the “foremost woman” in network marketing and was part of John Fog’s small group of women trainers. She has written dozens of networking columns and articles for MLM publications, and has written several more “How To” MLM books in both ebook and paperback form, which you can find on her website. On her website, Venus has a FREE downloadable MP3 that will help you be successful in your business. Venus also does MLM coaching over the phone, and occasionally teaches classes and seminars.
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Tony nominated musicals: Winning isn't everything
Theatre, Tony Awards
June 8, 2018 by Stephanie Lottes
Winning a Tony for Best Musical is no guarantee for a long Broadway run
The Tony Awards are composed of 26 different categories one of which is Best Musical.
To be nominated for the honor a musical must have opened by the deadline to be eligible, meaning that the production must be playing in a Broadway Theatre, the Tony Awards are for Broadway only.
A win does not guarantee success some musicals have had short runs, but won the Best Musical Tony Award. In some cases, some of the productions have only lasted a year, which in the grand scheme of things would not be considered a successful run. On the other hand, Musicals that have only been nominated, but not won Best Musical, in some cases, the number of performances triples the number that the show that won had.
A production can only be nominated within their first year of being on Broadway. Lasting longer than a year on Broadway helps the production because word of mouth gets around, and ticket sales can go up.
Another thing about having a production be longer than a year is that the cast can change, bringing a whole new look and a whole new feel to the production.
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Investigators:
Michael Jensen
Gary LaFree
Other START Researchers:
Aaron Safer-LichtensteinHerbert TinsleyAnita Atwell Seate
The Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) project uses a mixed-method, nested approach to explore a number of key research questions related to radicalization, including:
what are the demographic, background, and radicalization differences between and within the different ideological milieus?
are there important contextual, personal, ideological, or experiential differences between radicals who commit violent acts and those who do not?
is it possible to identify sufficient pathways to violent extremism? and;
are the causal mechanisms highlighted by extant theories of radicalization supported by empirical evidence?
To address these questions, EADR researchers built the largest known database on individual radicalization in the United States: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS). PIRUS is a deidentified cross-sectional, quantitative dataset of individuals in the United States who radicalized to the point of violent or non-violent ideologically motivated criminal activity, or ideologically motivated association with a foreign or domestic extremist organization from 1948 until 2013 (except for two cases from 2014).
The PIRUS data can be used to explore a number of important aspects of radicalization and extremism in the United States. These include comparisons of ideological and sub-ideological groups, group-based and lone actors, and violent and non-violent extremists. The data can also be filtered by exposure date, age, gender, location, ideology, group, and more to address specific aspects of radicalization in the United States.
This project also includes a subproject:
The Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States - Foreign Fighters (PIRUS-FF) dataset contains over 100 variables covering all phases - pre-travel, travel, and return - of the foreign fighter cycle at the individual level. The database currently includes information on 288 US-based persons from 1980 through 2016 who have been publicly identified in open sources as having left, attempted to leave, or expressed an interest in leaving the United States for the purpose of supporting the activities or interests of a foreign non-state armed group or foreign regime, and were motivated by religion, ethnicity, or other ideology. The data can be used to explore a number of topics relevant for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, including the radicalization processes of foreign fighters, the role of travel facilitators, the source of travel knowledge and funds, involvement in terrorist plots in the United States, and extremist groups' support for foreign fighters.
Primary Findings:
Above all, the EADR project shows that there is no “one-size-fits-all” model of radicalization. Significant background, demographic and radicalization differences are present across the ideological spectrum, and the processes by which individuals and groups come to engage in extremist behaviors are complex, often resulting from a host of psychological and emotional factors that are difficult to model. In particular, this study revealed the following about radicalization in the United States:
Significant differences in background characteristics, group affiliations, and radicalization processes exist across the ideological milieus.
While the radicalization of individuals on the far left and those motivated by Salafi jihadist ideologies tends to occur in early adulthood, individuals on the far right and those who are motivated by single-issues often radicalize later in life.
The conventional wisdom that radicalization is more common among individuals who come from low SES backgrounds and/or lack educational opportunities is generally not supported by the PIRUS data. Most extremists come from middle class backgrounds and have at least some college education. That said, stable employment may decrease the risk that individuals with extreme views will engage in violent behaviors. Stable employment often leads to the development of positive social relationships and places demands on individuals’ time that depress extremist activities.
Despite an increase in lone actor behavior in the U.S., radicalization remains a distinctly social process. Group and clique membership rates remain high across the ideological spectrum.
While competition between extremist groups in the U.S. is not significantly linked to an increase in violent behavior, group rivalries exist in high numbers on the far right. Research suggests that competition within and between groups can produce disillusionment with extremist movements for certain individuals.
Clique membership is high across the ideological spectrum and is linked to an increase in violent behaviors. As peers organize into small, insular groups, common biasing mechanisms, such as group think and in-group/out-group bias, often set in, producing increasingly extreme behaviors.
The rates of prison radicalization in the U.S. are low and even across the ideological spectrum, suggesting that it is not a common pathway for most extremists nor is it limited to a particular ideology.
Radicalization is typically a long process, often lasting years for individuals, most often those on the far right. Recent evidence, however, suggests that online environments may be speeding up radicalization processes, reducing them to several months in many cases.
While documented mental illness is relatively uncommon among extremists, our results indicate that mental health conditions may be linked to higher propensities for violent behavior.
Individuals who engage in pre-radicalization criminal behaviors are significantly more likely to attempt or commit acts of violence post-radicalization.
Radicalization indicators are often the observable effects of underlying psychological and emotional processes. These processes are complex and are commonly driven by feelings of lost significance and community victimization, as well as the intense need for psychological and emotional rewards.
While it is clear that there is no single pathway to violent extremism, individuals were more open to extremist narratives when they experienced trauma or developed a deep sense of community marginalization.
For additional information about PIRUS, and findings from START’s analysis of the data, see:
Jensen, Michael, and Gary LaFree, Patrick A. James, Anita Atwell-Seate, Daniela Pisoiu, John Stevenson, Herbert Tinsley. "Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)," Final Report to the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. College Park, MD: START, 2016.
Methodology:
Project researchers used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to generate findings. The statistical investigations of the PIRUS database seek to explore similarities and differences among key individual characteristics across the ideological spectrum and to establish which conceptual components derived from theories of criminology reliably explain shifts from non-violent to violent extremism. Researchers relied upon comparative descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression modeling to address those questions, respectively. In addition, researchers compiled 56 life-course narratives of individuals who radicalized in the United States. The narratives were analyzed using fuzzy set/qualitative comparative analysis, which allowed for the appraisal of radicalization mechanisms and made it possible to determine the causal conditions and pathways that are most salient for explaining radicalization to violence.
Project Period:
January 2013 to December 2016
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs
A Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Disengagement and Deradicalization (EAD3)
Al-Qaida and Affiliated Movements Ecoterrorism Foreign Fighters Homeland Security Education and Training Left-wing Terrorism Political conflict and Violence Psychology of Terrorism Right-wing Terrorism Single-issue Terrorism Terrorism Databases and Resources Terrorism Trends Violence Adoption and Desistance
Violent Groups and Movements Individual Behavior Radical Beliefs and Behavior Deradicalization Disengagement
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) (Research Brief)
The Use of Social Media by United States Extremists (Research Brief)
Radicalization to Violence: A Pathway Approach to Studying Extremism (Journal Article)
Pre-Radicalization Criminal Activity of United States Extremists (Research Brief)
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters: Infographics (Research Brief)
Profiles of Radicalization in the United States (Research Brief)
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States (Journal Article)
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) (START Reports)
Quest for Significance and Violent Extremism: The Case of Domestic Radicalization (Journal Article)
START Annual Meeting 2016: Quick-Fire Presentation - Terrorism and Radicalization (Presentation)
Overview: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters (PIRUS-FF) (Research Brief)
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States: Preliminary Findings (Oct. 2015) (Research Brief)
Understanding the Threat: What Data Tell Us about U.S. Foreign Fighters (Research Brief)
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (Project Fact Sheet)
START Director to Senate: Stronger response to domestic terrorism needed (News)
Article based on PIRUS data among Criminology’s top 20 articles (News)
Wall Street Journal: Far-Right Extremist Crimes Have Been With Us for Decades (START in the News)
Newswise: S&T Develops the First Line of Defense Against Acts of Targeted Violence (START in the News)
Gang members, domestic extremists vastly different, says first study to compare the two (Featured Research)
The Guardian (UK): Research indicates Trump travel ban was based on misleading data (START in the News)
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) data now available (Featured Research)
Capital News Service: Profile of Maryland white nationalist grows (START in the News)
Mental Illness and Terrorism (Discussion Point)
The Hill: Three things terrorism experts want you to know about countering terrorism (START in the News)
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South Loudoun Basketball holds an annual end of season tournament for all house league teams in grades 4-12. The tournament is held at the end of the regular season, typically in early-March. "SoLo Madness" is a fun and exciting way to end the season. Tournament schedules are posted here during the tournament.
Tournament Seeding and Procedures for breaking ties
Tournament brackets are developed based on the regular season standings. The team with the best record received the highest "seed" for tournament play. The SoLo Madness Tournament Bracket is based on a standard format where the highest seed is matched up with the lowest seed. For quarterfinal matches, the matchups are as follows: 1st Seed vs 8th Seed, 4th Seed vs 5th Seed, 2nd Seed vs 7th Seed and 3rd Seed vs 6th Seed. The semifinal round would feature the winner of the 1-8 vs winner of 4-5; and the winner of 2-7 playing the winner of 3-6. The semifinal winners advance to the finals. If there are more than eight teams in a division, the brackets are expanded to include play-in games, where the 8th Seed plays the 9th Seed, 7th Seed would play the 10th Seed, 6th Seed would play the 11th Seed, and the 5th Seed would play the 12th Seed. The winner of the play-in games advance to the quarterfinals. Divisions with less than eight teams follow the same format, with the higher seeds receiving a quarterfinals bye.
To break ties for tournament seeding purposes, SoLo uses the following procedures:
1. Head to Head record among the teams tied
Team A and Team B are tied with 8-2 records.
Team A and Team B played once - The winner of that game gets the higher seed
Team A and Team B played twice – if they split during the regular season, then go to Tiebreaker #2
Team A and Team B played three times – The team who won two of the three games in the regular season gets the higher seed
Three or more teams
Team A, Team B and Team C are tied with 6-4 record
Teams played each other twice:
All teams finished 2-2 against each other – go to tiebreaker #2
Team A is 4-0 vs B/C, Team B is 1-3 vs A/C, Team C is 1-3 vs A/B
Team A is highest, Team B/C go to 2-team tiebreaker
Team A is 4-0 vs B/C, Team B is 2-2 vs A/C, Team C is 0-4 vs A/B
Team A is highest, Team B is next highest, Team C is last
Teams played each other once:
Team A defeated Teams B and C, then Team A received highest seed and Teams B&C would go to the two-team tiebreaker
Team A defeated Team B, Team B defeated Team C and Team C defeated Team A, then go to Tiebreaker #2
There will be cases where head to head won’t break the tie. We then move to Tiebreaker #2
2. Strength of victory against non-common opponents (a.k.a. “Power Points”)
Power Points are calculated based on the number of teams in the division. You receive an inverse number of power points based on the standings at the regular season. You receive one power point for defeating the last place team, two power points for defeating the second to last place team, and so on, up to the first place team. For example, in a Six Team division, here is the power point system works:
6 points for defeating team in first place
5 points for defeating team in second place
4 points for defeating team in third place
3 points for defeating team in fourth place
2 points for defeating team in fifth place
1 point for defeating team in sixth place
Example 1: Team A 8-2, Team B 6-4, Team C 6-4, Team D 5-5, Team E 4-6, Team F 1-9
Team B: Defeated: A, C, D, E, F, F
Power Points: 6+3+2+1+1 = 13 (exclude the common game vs Team C)
Team C: Defeated: B, D, D, E, E, F
Power Points: 3+3+2+2+1 = 11 (exclude the common game vs Team D)
Team B: Defeated: A, C, D, E, F
Power Points: 6+2+1 = 9 (exclude the common games vs Team C and D)
Team C: Defeated : B, D, E, E, F\
Power Points: 2+2+1 = 5 (exclude the common games vs Team B and D)
Team D: Defeated: B, C, E, F, F
Power Points: 2+1+1 = 4 (exclude the common games vs Team B and C)
There will be cases where the power point calculations won’t break the tie. We then move to Tiebreaker #3
3. Coin flip (2 teams) or random draw (3+ teams)
In the case of two teams, flip a coin – one team heads, other tails, winner gets higher seed
In the case of three or more teams, all team names go into a hat – first team pulled gets highest seed, next team gets the next seed, and the last team out of the hat gets the last seed among the tied teams:
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Tolkien and Chesterton
Posted on February 2, 2016 January 31, 2016 by Solutio Problematis Omnes
Two of our favorite Catholics are GK Chesterton and JRR Tolkien. We love them not just because of their fantastic ability to express themselves in writing but because they went about defending Catholicism through their writing. In our opinion, English Catholics are some of the best defenders of the faith probably because of their feelings of being strangers in their own beloved country, thanks to King Henry VIII.
Ralph Wood has written a beautiful and though provoking article below about a book that was published nearly a decade ago about Chesterton and Tolkien.
http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/01/the-catholic-fantastic-of-ches
The Catholic Fantastic of Chesterton and Tolkien
by Ralph C. Wood
1 . 2 . 08
It is often assumed that G. K. Chesterton and J. R .R. Tolkien were reactionary, antimodern writers. In a certain sense they were. Tolkien regarded nearly everything worthy of praise in English culture to have ended in 1066. He scorned the imposition of Norman culture on a vibrant English tradition that had flourished for more than five hundred years, and he looked on the Arthurian legends as an alien French import that offered no fit basis for a national mythology such as he sought to construct in his Silmarillion. Tolkien also thought the Protestant Reformation to be a terrible error, insisting that the cathedrals of England were stolen Catholic property. Neither was he happy that his friend and companion, C. S. Lewis, remained what Tolkien derisively called “an Ulster Protestant.” Tolkien also lamented the Triumph of the Machine, as he described the Industrial Revolution and all its pomps. He refused, moreover, to drive a motorcar once he saw the damage that paved roads and automobiles had done to the English countryside. Tolkien was an unapologetic monarchist as well, believing that hierarchical distinctions are necessary for the flourishing of any polity, whether academic or ecclesial or governmental. He longed, in fact, for the return of Roman Catholicism as the established state religion of England.
As the older man—he died in 1936, just as Tolkien’s popularity would begin to burgeon with the publication of The Hobbit in 1937—Chesterton seems even more of an antediluvian. He was the avowed advocate of all things ancestral, describing tradition as “the democracy of the dead,” granting the franchise to the greatest of all majorities, the deceased. He opposed women’s suffrage, divorce on all grounds, contraception in all forms, and machinery of most kinds. His chief opposition to dueling was not that it left someone dead but that it settled no arguments. His view of the Protestant Reformation was even less charitable than Tolkien’s. Calvinism and Puritanism are among the dirtiest words in Chesterton’s vocabulary. For him, the doctrine of double predestination was a monstrously deterministic and freedom-denying dogma. He also held the Reformation responsible for the rise of modern individualism and capitalism, when in fact Calvin (like Luther) looked backward to Augustine far more than forward to the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Alison Milbank’s Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real is a remarkable accomplishment, chiefly because it forestalls any easy dismissal of Chesterton and Tolkien as troglodytes. With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name-dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination. Both writers resorted to fantasy as an escape into reality, as Tolkien liked to say. They were fascinated with fairies because Elfland, as Chesterton called it, enabled them to envision the world as wondrously magical no less than terribly contingent: as “utterly real and enchanted at one and the same time.” Whereas conventional Christian apologists often cast theological stones at the obduracy of atheists and materialists, Tolkien and Chesterton answer them with Dwarves and Ents, with Innocent Smith and Father Brown. Smith fires bullets at his own best friend, robs his own house, and commits polygamy with the cooperation of his own wife—all in order to make himself and others more fully alive. Chesterton’s childlike priest is so unsullied by self-interest, in turn, that he alone can decipher the cynical deceptions of criminals.
Milbank demonstrates that the fictions of Chesterton and Tolkien seek to destabilize the familiar world by making it strange, eerie, uncanny. Rather than being frightened by the terrors of a Darwinian universe, they embrace its abiding otherness by way of fantasy, creating imaginative worlds that are altogether as surreal as the elephantine and hippopotamic products of the natural process itself. “Man is the ape upside down,” declares Chesterton. As the ape who is also an angel, man possesses unique freedom. “This freedom is most obviously present,” Milbank writes, “in the grotesque, which recombines the forms of nature and art to make something new and surprising.” It is also the freedom to acknowledge the world’s terror and alienation no less than its benignity. Tolkien’s dragons and orcs and wargs serve as reminders that there are dark forces at work in the world, powers so sinister that no one can fully withstand them. In frequent recourse to Scripture, Milbank also shows that many biblical texts and stories are themselves discomfiting and estranging, escaping all categories, defeating all definition.
Yet estrangement and alienation are never the final outcome of Chesterton’s and Tolkien’s work. For they share the conviction that we human creatures are most like God in our positive creativity. “We make,” said Tolkien, “by the law in which we’re made.” Virtually every human act—from dressing in the morning to making vast literary epics and philosophical systems—is an act of creation. Unlike Coleridge and the Romantics, however, Tolkien and Chesterton never grant godlike status to artists and thinkers as having the power to invent their own self-enclosed universe. On the contrary, they share a deep Thomistic regard for the primacy of being: for things as they are perceived by the senses. Like Kant, they confess the difficulty of moving from the phenomenal to the noumenal realm of things-in-themselves. Yet, unlike him, they do not despair over the seemingly impassable gap between the inner and the outer, the mental and the natural; instead, they reveal that the world is not dreadfully dead (as we have believed since Descartes and Newton) but utterly alive and awaiting our free transformation of it. The universe that has been made dissonant also requires reenchantment, therefore, in order for us to participate in an otherness that is not finally cacophony but symphony, a complex interlocking of likenesses and differences that form an immensely complex but finally redemptive Whole. The doubleness of all things is cause for rejoicing, it follows, rather than lamentation.
Our problem, Milbank makes clear, is not that we perceive too much but too little. Our perceptions (and thus our creations) are limited because our fallen and finite imaginations cannot grasp the surplus of light that pervades all created being—hence Tolkien’s and Chesterton’s literally fantastic attempts to hint and gesture at agencies so unknowable that they reveal God’s own inaccessibility. “Similitudes drawn from things farthest away from God,” Milbank quotes Dionysus the Pseudo-Areopagite as saying, “form within us a truer estimate that God is above whatsoever we may say or think of Him.” Thus do we encounter Treebeard, the huge dendroidal Ent who has a face that belongs (in Tolkien’s words) “to a large Man-like, almost Troll-like figure, at least fourteen [feet] high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck.” He also has seven toes on his gargantuan feet, and his “sweeping grey beard [is] bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends.” He seems alien in the extreme. Yet Treebeard not only rescues Merry and Pippin from the orcs, but also engages them with his penetrating eyes. Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow-growing, slow-moving creature.
As readers we are able to experience Treebeard at two levels: On the one hand, he is patently an aesthetic invention, a fictional creature. Both Chesterton and Tolkien constantly draw attention to the created character of their work, reminding us that it belongs to secondary and not primarily reality: it is a constructed thing to be enjoyed as such. Yet having encountered this fantastic tree with human features, readers can no longer look upon real trees as mere objects meant only for our manipulation. On the contrary, we can now envision all trees as analogical actualities, as transcendent symbols that participate in the reality that they signify, as having likenesses to us despite their differences from us, and thus as linking natural things with both human and divine things—and perhaps also with things demonic. It is not a long leap, for instance, from Treebeard to the trees in the Garden of Eden.
The Catholic and analogical quality of Tolkien’s and Chesterton’s work is what Milbank most convincingly demonstrates. Unlike much modern art that revels in the macabre and the bizarre—self-referential, solipsistic, nihilistic—the fantastical work of these two Catholics is not such a sorry project. Chesterton and Tolkien have not autonomously invented their own imaginative worlds so much as they have reordered the existing world in accordance with their fundamentally Aristotelian/Thomistic perception of it. Their common conviction is that everything has its own entelechy, its own end within itself that pushes it toward completion and fulfillment within a larger, indeed a final telos. This classic Catholic outlook is clearly voiced by Chesterton in his splendid little book on Thomas Aquinas, wittily entitled The Dumb Ox. Because all “things [tend] to a greater end,” Milbank quotes Chesterton, “they are more real than we think them. If they seem to have a relative unreality (so to speak) it is because they are potential, not actual; they are unfulfilled, like packets of seeds or boxes of fireworks. They have it in them to be more real than they are. And there is an upper world of what the Schoolman called Fruition or Fulfillment, in which all this relative relativity becomes actuality; in which the trees burst into flower or the rockets into flame.”
This Catholic theology of the imagination is perhaps realized most clearly in Tolkien’s story “Leaf by Niggle.” The artist Niggle has spent his entire life seeking to create the perfect tree¯just as Tolkien worked from 1917 until his death in 1973 on his twelve-volume but still uncompleted legendarium of Middle-earth. Not only is Niggle a deficient painter; his needy and practical-minded neighbor named Parish also frequently interrupts him. In the end, alas, Niggle’s canvas is used to patch the leaking roof on Parish’s house so that only a single tiny leaf is preserved from the original painting. Yet Niggle discovers, once he has died and entered a purgatorial realm, that the artistic life and the utilitarian world are necessary and complementary to each other. Having finally been purged of his false artistic self-sufficiency, Niggle is able at last to behold his perfect and finished Tree. “If you could say that of a Tree that was alive,” the narrator adds, “its leaves opening, its branches growing and bending in the wind that Niggle so often felt or guessed, and had so often failed to catch. He gazed at the Tree, and slowly he lifted his arms and opened them wide. ‘It’s a gift!’ he said.”
This final acclamation lies at the heart of Alison Milbank’s fine book. With clarity and wit and verve, she shows that the gift-quality of Tolkien’s and Chesterton’s art is premised on the gift-character of the universe itself. Their work, as she splendidly verifies, has profound moral implications. For in a gift-giving and gift-receiving world, we are not meant to seek our own advantage at the expense of others. Rather we are meant to create gifts—like those presents into which Galadriel has woven her own character before she gives them to the Company—that serve to free their recipients rather than putting them into our debt. Milbank has gifted us with what may well become our finest study of these Catholic artists in their unique relation not only to each other but also to our imagination-starved churches and culture.
Ralph C. Wood is the Mary Ann Remick Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture, Notre Dame University.
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19 Chesterton Quotes
Posted on January 6, 2016 January 4, 2016 by Solutio Problematis Omnes
https://churchpop.com/2014/08/13/19-of-the-most-refreshingly-commonsensical-g-k-chesterton-quotes
19 of the Most Refreshingly Commonsensical G.K. Chesterton Quotes
by ChurchPOP Editor –
Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons
A person can never get enough of the great Apostle of Common Sense.
1) “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
The Everlasting Man, 1925
2) “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
ILN, 4/19/30
3) “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”
4) “There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
5) “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
What’s Wrong With The World, Chapter 5, 1910
6) “These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
ILN 8/11/28
7) “It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
His book, “Charles Dickens”
8) “Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.”
9) “Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”
What’s Wrong With the World
10) “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
ILN, 5/5/28
11) “It is assumed that the sceptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of scepticism.”
ILN, 5-4-07
12) “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
Where All Roads Lead, 1922
13) “The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907
14) “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
ILN, 10/23/09
15) “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”
The Uses of Diversity, 1921
16) “The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.”
NY Sun 11/3/18
17) “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
Autobiography, 1937
18) “You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”
How I Met the President, Tremendous Trifles
19) “Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.”
Wells and the World State, What I Saw in America
All quotes and sources taken from The American Chesterton Society.
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) issues, 2009
Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 205
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Sonic the Hedgehog #205
Cover price
$2.50 (US)
Ian Flynn
Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 205 is the two hundred fifth issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by Archie Comics.
Official solicitation
“On the Run Part One”: Bunnie is back, but worse for wear with her wounds being tended in the hospital. Luckily, her friends are by her side... but not for long, as a less-than-lucid Eggman attacks in his Egg-Tortoise walker! Sonic and Tails spring into action, while Iron Queen and crew watch with wide eyes. Why are they so interested in seeing Eggman captured? It's the start of a new pulse-pounding tale guest-starring Nicole, Antoine, Monkey Khan, Espio and more! PLUS: “Birthright Part One”: Now it can be revealed: the long-held secret of the disappearance of Lien-Da’s father!
On the Run Part One
Dr. Eggman unlocks the cell override code while insanely rambling. Snively comes over and witnesses Robotnik crashing out of his cell. He throws Snively onto the wall and heads out to "destroy that hedgehog". Snively puts the Yagyu Clan and Dark Legion on high alert. He rams into the Iron King by accident and explains the problem. As he does, Eggman suddenly crashes out in his Egg-Tortoise, scattering the Iron Dominion's forces.
Back at New Mobotropolis, Sonic and Monkey Khan visit Bunnie in the Tommy Turtle Memorial Hospital while she is healing. Bunnie says she just needed some "rest". Monkey Khan apologizes to Bunnie, but she tells him that she was in more dangerous situations than what had happened that morning, and forgives him. Doctor Quack reminds Khan that he should be in bed. Sonic steps in and tells the doctor that Khan was with him the whole time. As Dr. Quack walks out, Nicole comes in and tells the room at large about a disturbance in the Great Forest.
Sonic heads to the forest and finds Dr. Eggman ripping out trees with his mech, looking for "Knothole". As he sees the blue hedgehog, Eggman at first thinks it's another Mobian, but suddenly realizes who he is. Eggman then fires missiles at Sonic, but Sonic dodges all of them.
Meanwhile, in the Eggdome, as the Iron Queen is directing everyone to get prepared, the Bride of the Conquering Storm comes in and explains Espio's failure. The Iron Queen directs her to go back to the Dragon Kingdom to get the other clans in line. Conquering Storm acknowledges the order while leaving with a sinister grin on her face. The queen then tells Dimitri he will be in charge of the Eggdome's security. When she leaves, Dimitri then tells Lien-Da to watch over things, but as he goes to his lab, she heads to her bunk instead.
Tails flies in to help Sonic and sees that it is Dr. Eggman causing all the havoc. Sonic directs him to disable the guns while Eggman is distracted. Tails manages to crawl under and shut down the entire system instead. He asks Sonic if he is going easy on Eggman, and he says he is after "breaking" him. Tails explains that he deserves no sympathy, but he does say that they don't have to be cruel to him. Sonic tries to get Eggman to surrender, but he sucker-punches Sonic in the face and passes out after laughing maniacally. The Iron Dominion then appears and demands that they hand over Eggman. Sonic tells Tails to take Eggman to the city, saying he's got the hard job while he prepares to fight the Iron Dominion.
Birthright Part One
While resting in her bunk, Lien-Da reflects on how a Kommissar shouldn't be bunking with the troops and that she should be Grandmaster. She reflects on how she and her brother Kragok plotted their own father's assassination, how she used an unstable weapon to kill him and how it also hurt herself. She also remembered how when she came to, Kragok took her 'rightful' Grandmaster position for himself alone. She reflects that whenever she had a chance to become Grandmaster, someone else would always take it away from her. Dimitri then told Lien-Da over the intercom to come to his lab. Hesitating for a few moments, Lien-Da goes to the lab, intending to take her rightful position...
This issue marks the return of Off Panel in the main comic series.
"Birthright" confirms that Lien-Da was responsible for the death of Mari-Su. Previously, it was heavily implied that Kragok and Lien-Da had a hand in her death, but it was never confirmed.
The Twilight Zone is again referred to as the Twilight Cage from the SEGA game Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, probably since some elements and characters in Sonic Chronicles were taken from Archie.
The cover of Sonic Super Special Magazine #1 uses the same artwork of Sonic from the cover of this very issue.
Similarly, the pose of Eggman was reused on a tar-out poster in the Sonic Super Special Magazine #2.
Throughout the issue, Dr. Eggman frequently makes references to famous lines and habits of the various versions of himself across the Sonic franchise's history:
"SnooPING AS usual."
Eggman's quote to Snively "Snoo-ping as usual" is a reference to the internet meme Robotnik Pingas, which is well known among Sonic fans on YouTube and based on an out-of-context line from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.[1]
After Eggman "escapes from the city" or "Eggdome," he states "I will destroy the blue one you know! He's the obstacle that always gets in my way." which is a line in the song E.G.G.M.A.N.
Similar to "Snoo-ping as usual," Eggman quotes from the Youtube video It's From the Show as well.
While in his padded cell, Eggman babbles about several elements of the early comics, especially those relevant to the original Dr. Robotnik. These references include mentions of Kodos Lion, Crabmeat as Robotnik's lackey, the Ultimate Annihilator, and Streaking Pashas.
Eggman covers his left arm in mechanical parts, mimicking the original Dr. Robotnik's roboticized left arm.
↑ Ian Flynn (30 September 2009). Sonic the Hedgehog #205 Preview/Discussion/Spoilers/Cookies. BumbleKing Comics. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015.
Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 205 at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
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Meals U.S. consumers enjoy eating at full-service restaurants 2016
Published by Statista Research Department, Sep 3, 2019
This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in November 2016. U.S. consumers were asked what meals they like taking at full-service restaurants. During the survey, 84 percent of the respondents stated that they enjoy eating dinner at full-service restaurants.
What meals do you usually like to take at a full-service restaurant?
Multiple answers were possible.
Eating out behavior in the U.S.
Average spend on food per person in U.S. restaurants 2016, by restaurant type
Frequency of using food delivery services in the U.S. 2016
Frequency of ordering food for takeout in the U.S. 2016
Share of U.S. consumers by how often they order desserts at restaurants 2016
Statistics on "Restaurants and food delivery in the United States (Statista Survey)"
Frequency of dining out at quick service restaurants in the U.S. 2016
Frequency of dining out at full service restaurants in the U.S. 2016
Reasons U.S. consumers would dine out more often 2016
Reasons U.S. consumers would order takeout more often 2016
Reasons U.S. consumers would order food for delivery more often 2016
Average spend per week in U.S. restaurants 2016, by restaurant type
Average spend on drinks per person in U.S. restaurants 2016, by restaurant type
Price U.S. consumers would pay for a main dish at a full-service restaurant 2016
Price U.S. consumers would pay for a main dish at a quick-service restaurant 2016
Meals U.S. consumers enjoy eating at quick-service restaurants 2016
Takeout occasions of U.S. consumers 2016
Locations U.S. consumers usually eat lunch on a regular workday 2016
Locations U.S. consumers usually eat lunch on a very busy workday 2016
Occasions during which U.S. consumers use dining options 2016, by restaurant type
Orders placed by U.S. consumers when dining out at full-service restaurants 2016
Orders placed by U.S. consumers when dining out at quick-service restaurants 2016
Takeout orders placed by U.S. consumers 2016
Food delivery orders placed by U.S. consumers 2016
Share of U.S. consumers by how often they order appetizers at restaurants 2016
Reasons U.S. consumers order appetizers and/or desserts in restaurants 2016
Cuisines U.S. consumers prefer when dining out 2016
Cuisines U.S. consumers prefer when ordering takeout 2016
Cuisines U.S. consumers prefer when ordering food for delivery 2016
Familiarity of U.S. consumers with restaurant chains 2016
Restaurant chains U.S. consumers have visited in the last year 2016
U.S. consumers who use online restaurant platforms regularly 2016, by platform
U.S. consumers who use select online restaurant platforms regularly 2016, by gender
Familiarity of U.S. consumers with online food delivery platforms 2016
Share of U.S. consumers by online restaurant delivery platforms they have used 2016
People U.S. consumers dine with at full-service restaurants 2016
Occasions U.S. consumers dine out at full-service restaurants 2016
Who African-Americans are likely to visit quick service restaurants with U.S. 2016
Occasions U.S. consumers dine at quick-service restaurants 2016
Who Asian-Americans are likely to visit quick service restaurants with U.S. 2016
Who Hispanics are likely to visit quick service restaurants with in the U.S. 2016
Share of Canadians eating frozen ready-to-eat meals in Canada 2015, by meal
Social and solo eating occasions in Canada 2013, by meal type
Share of In-home and Away-from-home meals by occasion in the U.S. in 2012
People U.S. consumers dine with at quick-service restaurants 2016
Type of meal of French employees for lunch break 2015
U.S. diners who state McDonald's is their most visited QSR 2016, by ethnicity
Italy: food products consumption expenses 2018
U.S. diners who state KFC is their most visited QSR 2016, by ethnicity
U.S. diners who state Wendy’s is their most visited QSR 2016, by ethnicity
Favorite subjects at lunchtime among the Spanish in 2015
Actions taken to maintain weight in Ireland in 2015
Share of preferred pancake toppings among adults in Great Britain 2017
Dining out: consumer reasons for choosing venue 2016, by community type
Italy: frequency of breakfast out of home during weekdays 2015
Eating out behavior in the U.S. Fast food industry Restaurant industry in the U.S.
Statista Survey. (November 24, 2016). What meals do you usually like to take at a full-service restaurant? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 21, 2020, from https://static2.statista.com/statistics/370690/distribution-of-restaurant-visits-by-daypart-us/
Statista Survey. "What meals do you usually like to take at a full-service restaurant?." Chart. November 24, 2016. Statista. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://static2.statista.com/statistics/370690/distribution-of-restaurant-visits-by-daypart-us/
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Occupational Outlook Handbook > Architecture and Engineering >
Drafters
Video transcript available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8WjCE-YfeE.
Quick Facts: Drafters
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What Drafters Do
Drafters use software to convert the designs of engineers and architects into technical drawings.
Although drafters spend much of their time working on computers in an office, some may visit jobsites in order to collaborate with architects and engineers. Most drafters work full time.
How to Become a Drafter
Drafters typically complete education after high school, often through a program at a community college or technical school. Some programs lead to an associate of applied science in drafting or a related degree. Others result in a certificate or diploma.
The median annual wage for drafters was $55,550 in May 2018.
Employment of drafters is projected to show little or no change from 2018 to 2028. Increased construction activity is projected to drive demand for drafters, but this is expected to be tempered as engineers and architects increasingly perform some tasks previously done by drafters.
Explore resources for employment and wages by state and area for drafters.
Compare the job duties, education, job growth, and pay of drafters with similar occupations.
Learn more about drafters by visiting additional resources, including O*NET, a source on key characteristics of workers and occupations.
What Drafters Do About this section
Drafters prepare technical drawings and plans.
Drafters use software to convert the designs of architects and engineers into technical drawings. Most workers specialize in architectural, civil, electrical, or mechanical drafting and use technical drawings to help design everything from microchips to skyscrapers.
Drafters typically do the following:
Design plans using computer-aided design (CAD) software
Work from rough sketches and specifications created by engineers and architects
Design products with engineering and manufacturing techniques
Add details to architectural plans from their knowledge of building techniques
Specify dimensions, materials, and procedures for new products
Work under the supervision of engineers or architects
Some drafters are referred to as CAD operators. Using CAD systems, drafters create and store technical drawings digitally. These drawings contain information on how to build a structure or machine, the dimensions of the project, and what materials are needed to complete the project.
Drafters work with CAD to create schematics that can be viewed, printed, or programmed directly into building information modeling (BIM) systems. These systems allow drafters, architects, construction managers, and engineers to create and collaborate on digital models of physical buildings and machines. Through three-dimensional rendering, BIM software allows designers and engineers to see how different elements in their projects work together.
The following are examples of types of drafters:
Architectural drafters draw structural features and details for buildings and other construction projects. These workers may specialize in a type of building, such as residential or commercial. They may also specialize by the materials used, such as steel, wood, or reinforced concrete.
Civil drafters prepare topographical maps used in construction and civil engineering projects, such as highways, bridges, and dams.
Electrical drafters prepare wiring diagrams that construction workers use to install and repair electrical equipment and wiring in power plants, electrical distribution systems, and residential and commercial buildings.
Electronics drafters produce wiring diagrams, assembly diagrams for circuit boards, and layout drawings used in manufacturing and in installing and repairing electronic devices and components.
Mechanical drafters prepare layouts that show the details for a variety of machinery and mechanical tools and devices, such as medical equipment. These layouts indicate dimensions, fastening methods, and other requirements for assembly. Mechanical drafters sometimes create production molds.
Drafters spend much of their time working on computers using specialized software in an office.
Drafters held about 199,900 jobs in 2018. Employment in the detailed occupations that make up drafters was distributed as follows:
Architectural and civil drafters 101,200
Mechanical drafters 58,000
Electrical and electronics drafters 25,600
Drafters, all other 15,000
The largest employers of drafters were as follows:
Architectural, engineering, and related services 49%
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services 4
Wholesale trade 2
Although drafters spend much of their time working on computers in an office, some may visit jobsites to collaborate with architects and engineers.
Most drafters work full time. Some work more than 40 hours a week.
How to Become a Drafter About this section
Drafters generally need to complete postsecondary education in drafting.
Drafters typically need an associate of applied science in drafting or a related degree from a community college or technical school. Some drafters prepare for the occupation by earning a certificate or diploma.
Programs in drafting may include instruction in design fundamentals, sketching, and computer-aided design (CAD) software. It generally takes about 2 years of full-time education to earn an associate’s degree. Certificate and diploma programs vary in length but usually may be completed in less time.
Students frequently specialize in a particular type of drafting, such as mechanical or architectural drafting.
High school students may begin preparing by taking classes in mathematics, science, computer technology, design, computer graphics, and, where available, drafting.
The American Design Drafting Association (ADDA) offers certification for drafters. Although not mandatory, certification demonstrates competence and knowledge of nationally recognized practices. Certifications are offered for several specialties, including architectural, civil, and mechanical drafting.
Creativity. Drafters must be able to turn plans and ideas into technical drawings of buildings, tools, and systems.
Detail oriented. Drafters must take care that the plans they convert are technically accurate according to the outlined specifications.
Interpersonal skills. Drafters work closely with architects, engineers, and other designers to make sure that final plans are accurate. This requires the ability to communicate effectively and work well with others.
Math skills. Drafters work on technical drawings. They may be required to calculate angles, weights, costs, and other values.
Technical skills. Drafters in all specialties must be able to use computer software, such as CAD, and work with database tools, such as building information modeling (BIM).
Time-management skills. Drafters often work under deadline. As a result, they must work efficiently to produce the required output according to set schedules.
Drafters, engineering technicians, and mapping technicians
The median annual wage for drafters was $55,550 in May 2018. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $35,170, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $85,140.
Median annual wages for drafters in May 2018 were as follows:
Electrical and electronics drafters $60,070
Architectural and civil drafters 54,920
In May 2018, the median annual wages for drafters in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services $56,930
Construction 56,310
Architectural, engineering, and related services 55,570
Manufacturing 54,320
Wholesale trade 53,820
Overall employment of drafters is projected to show little or no change from 2018 to 2028. Employment growth will vary by specialty. (See table below.)
Growth in the engineering services and construction industries is expected to account for most new jobs for drafters. However, computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) technologies allow engineers and architects to perform many tasks that used to be done by drafters, which is expected to temper demand for all drafters.
Competition for drafting jobs is expected to be strong.
Demand for particular drafting specialties varies across the country because jobs depend on the needs of local industries. For example, job prospects for mechanical drafters should be best in large manufacturing hubs.
Because many drafting jobs are in construction and manufacturing, job opportunities for drafters will be sensitive to fluctuations in the overall economy.
Candidates proficient in CAD and BIM are likely to have better job opportunities.
Employment projections data for drafters, 2018-28
17-3010 199,900 199,200 0 -700 Get data
Architectural and civil drafters
17-3011 101,200 103,000 2 1,800 Get data
Electrical and electronics drafters
Mechanical drafters
17-3013 58,000 54,000 -7 -4,000 Get data
Drafters, all other
This table shows a list of occupations with job duties that are similar to those of drafters.
Architects plan and design houses, factories, office buildings, and other structures.
Civil Engineering Technicians
Civil engineering technicians help civil engineers to plan, design, and build highways, bridges, and other infrastructure projects for commercial, industrial, residential, and land development projects.
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technicians
Electrical and electronics engineering technicians help engineers design and develop electrical and electronic equipment.
Electrical engineers design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical equipment.
Industrial designers combine art, business, and engineering to develop the concepts for manufactured products.
Landscape architects design parks and other outdoor spaces.
Mechanical Engineering Technicians
Mechanical engineering technicians help mechanical engineers design, develop, test, and manufacture mechanical devices.
Mechanical engineers design, develop, build, and test mechanical and thermal sensors and devices.
Surveying and Mapping Technicians
Surveying and mapping technicians collect data and make maps of the Earth's surface.
Surveyors make precise measurements to determine property boundaries.
For more information on schools offering programs in drafting and related fields, visit
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
For more information on certification, visit
American Design Drafting Association
Related BLS Articles
Career Outlook: "You're a what? CAD designer"
Architectural Drafters
Civil Drafters
Electrical Drafters
Electronic Drafters
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook , Drafters,
on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/drafters.htm (visited January 21, 2020).
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Scores & Matchups Matchups Injuries Teams Players Statistics Standings
Team Page | Past Results | Remaining Schedule | Player Stats | Player Roster
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5/17/20 @ Phoenix 9/3/19 W 82-70
5/19/20 Phoenix 9/3/19 W 82-70
5/22/20 @ Las Vegas 7/23/19 L 62-79
5/27/20 Connecticut 8/27/19 L 70-89
5/29/20 Washington 8/14/19 L 59-88
5/31/20 Las Vegas 7/23/19 L 62-79
6/2/20 @ Washington 8/14/19 L 59-88
6/5/20 @ Connecticut 8/27/19 L 70-89
6/7/20 @ New York 8/11/19 W 84-69
6/9/20 @ Atlanta 9/1/19 W 92-75
6/14/20 @ Los Angeles 9/15/19 L 69-92
6/16/20 @ Dallas 9/8/19 W 78-64
6/20/20 Los Angeles 9/15/19 L 69-92
6/25/20 @ Minnesota 9/11/19 W 84-74
6/27/20 New York 8/11/19 W 84-69
7/1/20 Chicago 6/28/19 W 79-76
7/3/20 Minnesota 9/11/19 W 84-74
7/5/20 Indiana 8/25/19 L 54-63
7/8/20 @ Los Angeles 9/15/19 L 69-92
8/18/20 @ Indiana 8/25/19 L 54-63
8/20/20 @ Atlanta 9/1/19 W 92-75
8/25/20 Minnesota 9/11/19 W 84-74
8/28/20 @ Chicago 6/28/19 W 79-76
9/5/20 @ Indiana 8/25/19 L 54-63
9/8/20 Washington 8/14/19 L 59-88
9/17/20 Atlanta 9/1/19 W 92-75
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Heritage Project News
St. Helen's Church, set at the heart of the market town of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, is an historic and attractive 15th century building. It is open daily from 9am until 5pm, giving plenty of opportunity to explore its wonderful history and splendid interior, with a variety of church guides, written and via 'phone app to help you. On Wednesday and Saturday mornings our helpful volunteers will be on hand, and our Heritage Centre will have exhibitions for you to enjoy, and the opportunity for a sit down with a cuppa.
At other times you may wish to sit quietly, to rest and reflect. Or you could join us at one of our weekly services or frequent fellowship and community events. To see a little of what we do, visit our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/St-Helens-Church-Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
On Saturday mornings our St Helen's Community Heritage Centre is open between 10.30am & 12.30pm it is not only a Heritage Centre with great displays and ever new exhibitions but also a meeting place to chat, play board games, make art, do your own knitting or crochet, add a piece or two to the communal jigsaw, and all with good coffee and yummy cake to help it along.
December’s Services:
Communion: 10.00am, Wednesdays 11th & 18th
Compline: 8.30pm, Wednesdays 11th & 18th at the Rectory, 4 Upper Packington Rd, LE65 1EF
Communion for Advent 3: 8.30am, Sunday 15th December
Morning Worship - "Come Dancing, strictly": 10.30am, Sunday 15th December
Communion for Advent 4: 8.30am & 10.30am, Sunday 22nd December
Candlelit Carol Service: 6.30pm, Sunday 22nd December
Children's Carol Service: 5pm, Christmas Eve
Midnight Mass: 11.30pm Christmas Eve
Christmas Day All-Age celebration service: 10.30am, 25th December
The Posada: playing host to Mary and Joseph in Advent
Throughout Advent, members of St Helen's are taking it in turns to host the beautiful knitted figures of Mary and Joseph created for us last year, as we think and pray about them travelling from Nazareth to Bethlehem, and think about what it means for us to travel to meet our Saviour on Christmas Day. Follow their journey on Facebook - St Helen’s Ashby de la Zouch
Carol singing in the nursing homes
Join us if you can for this annual event, singing in the 3 homes in Tamworth Road.
We will sing carols on Wed. 11th December, starting at Westwood residential home at 5.30, followed by Fern Leigh 6.00ish and Ashby Court at 6.30. All very welcome – all ages -join in at any point during the evening.
Praying the Polls
On Thursday 12th December
St Helen's church will be open 7am till 10pm, the hours during which people can vote, for anyone who wants to come and pray for our nation. There will be four prayer stations set up around church for people to use as they wish - they will focus on praying for peace, for reconciliation, for light, and for place by place prayers.
Brunch on Sunday
Q.What could be nicer than enjoying conviviality and a bacon bap and some good coffee?
A. Enjoying conviviality and a bacon bap and some good coffee at St Helen's!
All of these things are served at 9.15am on the first Sunday of each month. Our next one will be on 5th January 2020.
Our winter season of Heritage talks is underway. They happen on the first Monday of the month, starting at 7.30pm. (£3 including light refreshments). For the next talk, on January 6th, Peter Liddle looks at Medieval Pilgrimage to and from Leicestershire.
Future talks are:
February 3rd - 'Pushing Up the Daisies': The Flora & Fauna of Churchyards, Speaker - Steve Woodward
March 2nd - 'Hot off the Press', more recent finds from our research team
Burns night/haggis supper:
Community Heritage Centre.
Tickets available from Elizabeth Smith and the parish office (4 Churchyard, LE65 1AA) - £15
If you have a safeguarding concern, then please contact our local Safeguarding Co-ordinator, Liz Smith, via the Parish Office. If you wish to speak to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team, or to someone outside the church, their contact details are available here.
Mary Gregory, 16/05/2016
St Helen's Church
Email: office@sthelensashby.net
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Rainbow Queer Tango Sydney Press Release
QUEERING THE WORLD’S MOST ROMANTIC DANCE
GLBT people grasp the magic of Argentine Tango – in Buenos Aires, Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Stockholm, New York, Boston, Portland, Wellington, México City… and Sydney
info@rainbowtango.com
Argentine Tango is danced every night, all over the world. It is an international language which enables strangers to experience connection, intimacy, self-expression, and a rush of ecstasy. They needn’t exchange names, or even speak. With the entry costs low, tango is an unusual space where people of all social classes mix without distinction. And the average tango milonga is an age-diverse environment; teenagers and masterful elders dance with each other. Elegant and sexy, tango is a full time stage of drag kings and queens. Dancers of all ages wear suits and hats, high heels and skirts slit to the thigh. But until recently, Argentine Tango has been all but closed to gays and lesbians. With women forbidden to lead the dance and men dancing together only for instruction, not socially, tango has been unwelcoming to GLBT people.
But tango, and Argentina, is changing. The first gay milonga was created in Buenos Aires in 2003, the same year the city legalized gay civil unions, and in 2009 same-sex marriages. Now, more than 20% of the tourists are gay. In 2007 the government co-sponsored the first International Queer Tango Festival, now an annual event. Lively queer tango communities and festivals have also been built in Hamburg and Stockholm. In 2009 the OutGames in Copenhagen included a Queer Tango festival and San Francisco hosted the first US Queer Tango festival. GLBT tango classes are now offered in major cities around the world.
There is now a global Queer Argentine Tango community
Founder of Queer Tango Boston and Queer Tango Wellington (NZ), Vio Saraza, notes that “We are never the first. Someone started a Queer Tango group in Boston back in 1998. In Hamburg, the first tango in the city happened in a gay bar.” There was a lively Queer Tango scene in Sydney a few years go, but it seems to have waned.
In Vio’s Rainbow Tango classes, all students learn to lead and follow. They may keep this up, or they may eventually choose a role they prefer. But it won’t be based on their gender. “Sometimes guys who hated leading at first now prefer it. And vice versa.” But they point out that “We have to queer the codes of tango, too. Because leaders can’t assume that every femme wants to follow.” She’s written a guide for their students on how to use the traditional “cabeceo”, the gift and receipt of a nod by which a dance is contracted. The cabeceo protects the ego of the dancers, who turn each other down discretely — by not making eye contact. “In tango, we take very good care of the ego. It’s a formal, elegant way to interact. But in that it’s also very kind.” Argentines often call tango their “therapy”.
Along with co-founder of Queer Tango Boston, Duro, writing under the joint name Dyv Saraza, Vio wrote a novel about tango which worked to help readers imagine a Queerer Tango. Published in 2009, Aleph Bravo Tango is loved by dancers straight and gay alike, who find it does an extraordinary job of conveying the emotional subtleties of this addictive experience.
Vio prefers a happy and playful approach to tango, well suited to the queer practice of swapping the lead during the dance. But like all Argentine tango, it’s really about connection and learning to listen to another person with your body. As the leader interprets the music (dancing to the rhythm or melody as they wish), the attentive follower is ready to go in any direction at every moment, so they are able to move as one, although every step is improvised. “We really want to work with people who don’t have dance in their lives yet. To tango is to take a walk in a tender embrace. We want walkers.”
Vio explains what tango has meant to her. “I’m a very words person. Tango has enabled me to find another way of appreciating and communicating with people.” She explains that the language of tango facilitates a sublime level of connection, doubly amazing in that it is a routine part of the dance. “You have this incredible experience with someone you may never see again. Or perhaps with someone you dance with every week – but you only know their ’sobre nombre’ (over name). And for a couple it gives you a new way to connect with each other – especially when words aren’t working.” Duro, co-founder of Queer Tango Boston, a longtime rave|goth clubkid, calls tango “my golf. It’s something exciting I can do until I’m very old.”
Preparing to move away from Boston, Duro and Vio helped their students create a community organization which continues to welcome new GLBT dancers with weekly classes and a social “practica”. After leaving the US, committed to creating more space for Queer “Tangueros”, Vio went on to found a second community in Wellington NZ, which, likewise, now runs its own events. “I promise my students that everywhere I go, I will keep creating space for gay people to enjoy this dance.” Beyond confirming experts’ views that partner dancing is emotionally uplifting, Vio is interested in Tango’s contribution to self-confidence. “It’s the first time I really felt totally femme, although I have a femme appearance. And at the same time, leading Tango has helped me embody my butch. Tango is such an extreme gender performance! As a leader, I walk and move and touch another person in this really gracious, tender, masculine way. As a follower, I can move in that little girl fantasy of femininity. It feels like being the ballerina on top of the jewelery box.”
Who will enjoy tango?
People who are sick of the bar scene, bored with small talk, looking for a profound way to connect with people, or interesting in using their body in new ways.
Queer Tango
What is Rainbow Queer Argentine Tango?
What's TangoForge? Who's Vio?
Vio is part of the international movement to Queer Argentine Tango by encouraging gender complexity and exploration and creating space for GLBT people to enjoy tango. She is the founder of of Queer Tango Boston and Queer Tango Wellington. Her students now run their own weekly practicas and classes as community organizations. Vio is committed to building and supporting Queer Tango everywhere and, through her school TangoForge, to liberatory teaching methods. She is the co-author of Aleph Bravo Tango, a novel about Argentine Tango which, among other things, encourages readers to imagine a Queerer Tango. The novel was published in 2009 and is available on Amazon and other online booksellers.
Global Queer Tango Connections
List of festivals worldwide
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Oakland Raiders Designated Driver Challenge Rivalry Game
Fans who attended the Oakland Raiders game versus the Kansas City Chiefs at O.Co Coliseum on Sunday December 6, 2015 were treated to a great day of football in Oakland. The Raiders fought hard and played well, and Raiders fans showed amazing support for the home team in the Bud Light Good Sport Designated Driver Challenge against their AFC West rivals. Over a thousand fans pledged to be Good Sports – designated drivers for their group. Responsible fans autographed a responsibility inflatable football and received a free souvenir photo.
Anheuser-Busch has led our industry in promoting responsible drinking for more than 30 years and Bud Light Good Sport is one of our most visible programs, which reminds fans who choose to drink, to do so responsibly and get their friends home safely. We all share the same streets after the game. This partnership with the National Football League, participating stadiums, concessionaires, TEAM Coalition and football fans displays our commitment to keeping our roads safe.Bill Bradley, Senior Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Advertising and Outreach, Anheuser-Busch
TEAM Coalition is an alliance of professional and collegiate sports, entertainment facilities, concessionaires, stadium service providers, the beer industry, distillers, broadcasters, traffic safety experts and others working together to promote responsible drinking and positive fan behavior at sports and entertainment facilities. TEAM Coalition members and supporters include National Football League, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, NASCAR, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Americrown, Aramark, Delaware North Sportservice, Legends, Spectra, Beer Institute, National Beer Wholesalers Association, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Constellation Brands, HEINEKEN USA, MillerCoors, Brown-Forman, Live Nation, National Association of Broadcasters, Contemporary Services Corporation, International Association of Venue Managers, Stadium Managers Association and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. For more information visit www.TEAMCoalition.org or www.FansDontLetFansDriveDrunk.org.
• In 2014, 9,967 people were killed as a result of alcohol-related (BAC > 0.08) car crashes, a decrease of 1% from the 10,076 fatalities in 2013.
• Statistics and research clearly show that 21-34 year old males are the demographic most likely to be involved in an automobile crash, drive when impaired by alcohol, and fail to buckle up.
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Oakland Raiders Fans Never Drive Drunk
Kansas City Chiefs Celebrate Win, 2017 Bud Light Good Sport Designated Driver Challenge
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Meru Cabs
Meru Cabs slashes fares by 25% in Delhi; other cities to follow
The new rates will be effective in Delhi from Friday till mid-May and will be rolled out to other cities in due course.Shelley Singh | ET Bureau | April 22, 2016, 07:43 IST
Taxi operator Meru Cabs has slashed its fares by 25% in Delhi, coming out in criticism of the surge pricing policy of rivals Uber and Ola, especially during the experimental phase when odd and even numbered cars are plying only on alternate days.
The new rates will be effective in Delhi from Friday till mid-May and will be rolled out to other cities in due course. The reduced rates may be extended further depending on the response.
“We have seen a 35% increase in bookings during the current odd-even phase. We want to make the service more attractive to more users and hence have brought down rates,” Siddhartha Pahwa, CEO, Meru Cabs said.
“We do not see any losses due to this as the lower rates are compensated by a surge in bookings.” Rides on a Meru sedan will be down to Rs 17.25 per km (Rs 23 earlier) and for small cabs to Rs 11.25 per km (Rs 15 per km earlier.) This brings the rates close to those offered by cab aggregators Ola and Uber.
Pahwa also argued that surge pricing is not yet suited for the Indian market. “Ideally, in a free market economy surge pricing should be ok. But In India the supply (of cabs) is far lower than demand. It is a kind of monopolistic situation as users have no visibility on number of cabs, while the operators knows how many users are there,” he said. “Besides, any algorithm is capable of manipulation. There should be checks and balances.”
With a fleet of 20,000 cars in 21 cities, Meru Cabs is the largest pan India operator in the $15 billion taxi business. In Delhi, a $2.5 billion market, Meru has 3,000 cabs. “We are also expanding the fleet in Delhi by adding 600 more cabs over the next three months,” Pahwa said.
Meru has also seen an increase of 15-20% in its ride sharing option during the current phase of odd-even scheme in Delhi. About 65% of bookings are done via its app while the rest are through call centre.
Rival Carzonrent which runs the Easy Cabs radio taxi services and Myles self-drive option does not plan to reduce rates.
“We operate as a licenced operator and don’t plan to reduce prices,” Rajiv Vij, CEO, Carzonrent said.
“We have seen an increase of 20% in bookings,” he added. Carzonrent has a fleet of 2,500 Easy Cabs across four cities.
Tags : Internet, Radio Taxi, Meru Cabs
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Jonathan Chadwick
Cognizant appoints former VMware CFO Jonathan Chadwick as board member
Cognizant said that 50-year-old Chadwick was identified following a search by the company’s nominations and corporate governance committee on the boardAnirban Sen | ET Bureau | April 12, 2016, 18:39 IST
US-based software services firm Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, which has most of its 221,000-odd employees in India, has named former VMware finance and operating chief Jonathan Chadwick as an independent director on its board.
Cognizant said that 50-year-old Chadwick was identified following a search by the company’s nominations and corporate governance committee on the board
Given his background and experience in finance and auditing, Chadwick will also serve on Cognizant’s audit committee. Chadwick will serve as a board member until at least the Cognizant’s next annual shareholders meeting in 2016, Cognizant said.
"Jonathan brings a wide range of expertise as a technology, finance and operations executive to the Cognizant Board," said Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza in a regulatory filing issued by the company.
"As clients around the world turn to Cognizant to modernize their IT infrastructures for the digital era, Jonathan's extensive experience with key enabling technologies including virtualization, networking and security will provide a unique and valuable perspective to our board."
Chadwick’s appointment comes months after Cognizant reported that its 2015 revenue grew by 21%, but issued a lukewarm full-year revenue guidance of 10-14% for 2016, citing macroeconomic challenges and in the process, disappointing investors. Over the past 5 years, Cognizant has been the fastest growing large-cap IT services firm and consistently grabbed market share from both Indian and global outsourcing rivals such as IBM, Infosys and Wipro.
"Cognizant is a world leader in bringing practical business solutions to a global customer base," said Chadwick. "I am proud to be joining the board and look forward to working closely with such a well‑respected management team."
Before VMware, Chadwick also served as CFO of Skype and as a corporate VP at Microsoft of since its acquisition of Skype in October 2011. In the past, Chadwick has also enjoyed stints at companies such as McAfee and Cisco.
Tags : People, VMware, Jonathan Chadwick, Cognizant
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Testbook
S Chand and Company
Testbook raises funding from S Chand and Company
Founded by IIT alumni Narendra Agrawal and Ashutosh Kumar, Testbook focusses on online test preparation for competitive exams.PTI | Updated: March 01, 2016, 08:21 IST
Edtech startup Testbook has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from education content provider, S Chand and Company.
Founded by IIT alumni Narendra Agrawal and Ashutosh Kumar, Testbook focusses on online test preparation for competitive exams.
The Mumbai-based startup aims to build a personalised one stop solution for all competitive exams in the country including Bank PO, IBPS LIC, UPSC, SSC GATE, the company said in a statement.
"Testbook currently has close to 4 lakh users and over 1 lakh downloads on its mobile app and has conducted over 7.5 lakh tests in its platform. This association with S Chand will help expand our reach and enter into new markets," Kumar, who is the co-founder and CEO of Testbook, said.
The S Chand Group, managed by Dinesh Jhunjhnuwala (Vice Chairman) and Himanshu Gupta (Joint Managing Director), is one of the largest content and service providers in the Indian education sector, publishing around 35 million textbooks.
It delivers over 4,000 hours of e-content to 20 million students annually.
It has been investing in the fast growing ed-tech space with a presence in tablet-based content delivery, online tutoring, and online test preparation for government and PSU entrance examinations. It has completed five transactions since 2014.
In November last year, S Chand had raised USD 27 million (about Rs 179 crore) financing from IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and existing investor -- the Everstone Group.
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Huawei Introduces Film Awards, Attend Event and Get FreeBuds Lite
Nowadays, phone cameras are so powerful that they become the main camera on most occasions to capture the most beautiful moments on video. Now, Huawei is pushing the phone limits by enticing creators and filmmakers to shoot movies on their Huawei phones.
By doing so, Huawei hopes to uncover and support the talents of tomorrow. Introducing the HUAWEI Film Awards (HFA). Huawei is rewarding budding filmmakers to take part in the contest and winners can take home USD20,000 and a trip to Bangkok for the awards ceremony.
This Saturday (21st December), Huawei is having a film screening event at SCAPE. Local director Boris Boo will be there to grace the event and to showcase one of his works.
If you are not a filmmaker but you own a Huawei phone, you can register your interest to the event. However, registration slots are limited. Every successful registrant receives a complimentary HUAWEI FreeBuds Lite (worth S$188) at the door.
Click Here to Register Your Interest to Attend HFA
Want to have more information? Read the Press Release below.
Huawei Introduces Film Awards For Budding Smartphone Filmmakers
First time for filmmakers from the Asia Pacific region to be rewarded for their films shot on Huawei smartphones
Grand prize includes USD 20,000 and a trip to Bangkok for the awards ceremony
Film screening event in Singapore on 21 December showcasing local director Boris Boo’s work
Singapore, 18 December 2019 – Huawei today announced its inaugural film awards, named HUAWEI Film Awards (HFA), in the Asia Pacific region to encourage and inspire professional filmmakers and content creators to showcase their creativity through stories filmed using Huawei smartphones that contain top-of-the-line mobile camera technology. Themed ‘Empowering Your Possibilities’, the HFA allows aspiring smartphone filmmakers and content creators from Singapore and the region to explore their artistic and creative possibilities and tell great stories.
In Singapore, the HFA will kick off with an exclusive event at SCAPE on 21 December from 6.00PM. Renowned local director Boris Boo will be the guest of honour, with one of his own films to be premiered at the event. This event will celebrate directorial films, and spur on local attendees to participate in the HFA as well.
Event registration for interested participants is at the link here. Registration slots are limited, and reserved for Huawei mobile phone users, who are eligible to bring along a friend for the event. Every successful registrant receives a complimentary HUAWEI FreeBuds Lite (worth $188) at the door.
Through the HFA, Huawei hopes to play a part in driving innovation and creativity within filmmaking through the use of smartphones, and highlight how mobile filmography is possible with advanced technology progression that fits complex camera capabilities in a smartphone camera.
“The HUAWEI Film Awards is an Asia Pacific festival dedicated to celebrating work shot on any Huawei mobile phone, with the goal of uncovering and supporting the talents of tomorrow.
The festival aims to nurture the interest of local creative talents in smartphone film production by expanding their scope and freedom to create breath-taking films, thus providing them an entryway into the world of smartphone filmmaking,” said Phil Xu, Managing Director of Consumer Business Group Singapore.
“We hope this platform will enhance collaboration between local film makers, content creators and talents, encouraging them to share new filming knowledge, showcase smartphone cinematography skills, and gain recognition at national and regional levels,” he added.
The HFA is now open and calling for entries from all budding smartphone-filmmakers and content creators from now till 25 February 2020 (11:59 PM GMT+8) to submit their completed short film entries at the link here. The winner of the APAC Best Film at the HFA will walk away with a grand prize of USD$20,000, and an all-expenses paid trip to Bangkok, Thailand for the
awards ceremony.
The judging panel for HUAWEI Film Awards will include five prominent trailblazers in the film and broadcasting scene, namely Malaysian film and television producer and screenwriter Adele Lim, Thai postmodern author Prabda Yoon, and Rajay Singh, senior founder partner of film and TV commercial production company Directors Think Tank. Joining them are Alex Lin, Asia Pacific President of Huawei Consumer Business Group, and Chris Humphrey, who oversees regional broadcasting at A+E Networks.
The winners of HFA will be announced regionally on 6 March 2020. Other recognitions in the line-up of awards include APAC Best Director, APAC Best Cinematography, APAC Best Actor (Male or Female), and Country Level Best Film. Winners of all categories will receive a trophy and certificate. The winner of Country Level Best Film in Singapore will also walk away with
additional prizes.
Submissions must be filmed entirely on a Huawei mobile phone with running time within 10 minutes, following the theme ‘Empowering Your Possibilities’.
For further information regarding HUAWEI Film Awards, including terms & conditions and how to participate, visit the official HUAWEI Film Awards website at the link here.
About HUAWEI Film Awards
The evolutionary Huawei phones have empowered filmmakers and content creators expanding their scope and freedom to create breath-taking films. For more information, visit the official HUAWEI Film Awards website at the link here.
About Huawei Consumer BG
Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries, and are used by a third of the world’s population. Sixteen R&D centres have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India and China. Huawei Consumer BG is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc.
Huawei’s global network is built on almost 30 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.
For more information please visit: https://consumer.huawei.com/sg/ or find us @huaweimobilesg on social media.
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Text messages are a highly effective tool that you can leverage to reach your target audience. Stats show that SMS messages have the highest open rates of all marketing channels and are usually opened within 3 minutes of being received. This means it can be an extremely valuable channel of communication for marketers. However, the disruptiveness of an SMS message also means that marketers must be very careful with the content sent to ensure that it’s valuable for end contacts, while also ensuring compliance with regulations.
SMS Compliance
Text messaging is governed by an entirely different set of requirements compared to emails. In the United States, text messaging governance is controlled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) because a cell phone is classified as a radio transmitter. The governing law is the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (TCPA) because a cell phone is a telephone. In Canada, the law governing text messages is Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).
The laws governing SMS marketing is very strict and the penalties for non-compliance are extremely heavy — more so than enforcement and penalties assessed for non-compliance to laws governing email marketing. Therefore, ensuring compliance to the regulations is critical.
Opt-in Consent
Compliance with SMS marketing regulations requires express consent from your contacts. Maropost does not currently support 'Text-to-Join' capabilities, therefore you are responsible for securing express consent from the cell phone owners before you can subscribe them as a contact and send them marketing text messages.
The most common means of acquiring consent and cellphone numbers are from an online form. To ensure compliance with regulations, your online form MUST contain the following elements:
A clear description of what the person is opting-in to receive when they provide their cell phone number
A link to a Terms and Conditions page that explains what the SMS marketing program is all about.
A link to your Privacy Policy page.
The example below shows proper compliance for a web capture page for mobile numbers. Note how each of the required elements are clearly explained in the form.
You website’s online Terms and Conditions page must include a section that specifically addresses your text messaging program. This is the first page that wireless carriers will look at when evaluating whether or not you are compliant with their requirements. Consult with your Legal team to ensure the proper verbiage. At a minimum, the T&C must mention the following:
An outline of the maximum message frequency subscribers may receive
A statement indicating the carriers are not liable for any delayed or undelivered messages
A statement indicating that Message and Data rates may apply to any text/sms communication
Information on how a user/subscriber can opt-out (e.g. “reply STOP to opt out")
Your web site’s online Privacy Policy is the second page that wireless carriers look at when evaluating the compliance of your text messaging program. This page must include a specific reference to your text messaging program, and must include language stating that there will be no sale or dissemination of end user information to 3rd parties.
Accessing SMS Messaging
In order to activate the SMS Messaging feature, you will first need to complete a pre-screening assessment to ensure that your SMS marketing program is in compliance with the regulations.
Once the feature has been activated in your account, you can access it by hovering over 'Mobile' and selecting 'SMS' from the drop-down menu. If you are not able to see this, please contact your Customer Success Manager to start the activation process.
Manage SMS Contacts
To access your SMS lists, hover over SMS and select 'Contacts'. You will be able to view an index of the existing lists in your account, as well as the subscribers and unsubscribes in each.
Create a new SMS List
To create a new SMS list, click on 'New SMS List' in the bottom-right of the screen and enter the list name in the popup window.
Import Contacts into an SMS List
You have two options to Import contacts: Automatic Import or Manual Import.
Automatic Import
SMS contact information can be automatically added from the same opt-in forms that users are filling in for email, using the SMS API. You also have the option to manually import SMS contacts by following the process below.
Manual Import
Click the 'Import' icon
Click the 'Choose File' button, select the file from your desktop, and click 'Next.' The file may be in CSV or TXT format – to see a sample of what formatting is required for CSV, click on 'Example' in the upload window to download a sample file.
Map the column from your file to the Phone Number field.
Optional Mappings: You can also map a column in your file to the Subscribed field and the UID field. To map a subscription status, the proper values for this field are either 'S' for 'Subscribed' or 'U' for 'Unsubscribed.'
Select the options to Import New Contacts and/or to Update Existing Contacts.
Click the 'Import' button.
When the import is finished, you’ll receive a notification in the Announcement Center.
Create an SMS Campaign
Maropost for Marketing sends broadcast text messages to a list of contacts who have given their consent to receive promotional messages from you.
To create a new SMS message (Mobile > SMS), click on 'Compose Your Message' in the bottom-right of the screen.
Step 1: SMS Details
Message Name – Enter a name for the SMS campaign.
Message – You have a limit of 160 characters in your text message. Your message MUST include the following words:
“STOP”, “CANCEL”, or “UNSUBSCRIBE” – when a contact texts back either of these keywords, they will be unsubscribed from all the list(s) used to send the text messages.
(optional) “STOP ALL” – If you are using one-off lists to send a campaign, and will not be using that list for any repeated messaging, then you may include this keyword in your message. When a contact replies to your text message with STOP ALL, they will be unsubscribed from ALL lists and added to the Text Messaging Do Not SMS list. They will no longer receive any further text messages from you.
“Message and data rates may apply” or “Msg & data rates may apply”
Test Message – If you’d like to test the text message before sending to your contacts, enter a mobile number that you want to receive the test text message on.
Step 2: Select Audience
Select an SMS contact list that you have uploaded from the drop-down options.
Step 3: Schedule/Activate
Select the date and time (in Eastern Time Zone) that the broadcast SMS message will be sent, then select your send option.
Save as Draft – the SMS campaign will be saved in Draft status. It will not be sent.
Send Now – Send the SMS campaign immediately regardless of the scheduled date and time.
Schedule – Send the SMS campaign at the specified date and time.
Do Not SMS List
If there are any contacts who have replied STOP ALL to any of your SMS campaigns, they will be added into your Do Not SMS List, and will never be able to receive SMS campaigns from you again. To access or manage your Do Not SMS List, hover over your username in the top-right corner, and navigate to 'Account Settings' from the drop-down menu. Here you will be able to import or export contacts to your Do Not SMS List. Clicking on 'Manage' will allow you to view the individual mobile numbers that are present in this list.
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Well, your eyes do not deceive you – Cambridgeshire operator GoWhippet (who changed hands towards the end of 2014) have issued a complete timetable. Individual leaflets were issued before, but one or two routes only. At my first visit to St Ives Bus Station, the leaflets – photocopies – were kept in a locked filling cabinet, with Mon-Sat and Sunday services having to be asked for separately! Towards the end of the ownership by the Lee family, some brighter leaflets had been issued, and a leaflet carousel bought for the Bus Stn! When a separate leaflet was issued for the Busway services (after GW being sick of pointing out errors in the Stagecoach-produced composite one), you kinda wondered what was next.
Fast forward to the start of this year, and Matthew Wooll is now Commercial Manager at Whippet and Tower Transit Operations. His timetables from the days of First BeeLine and even Capital Citybus were true works of detail. I did ask if, by chance, there might be a new timetable after the consultation changes started… but one is out already!
No time has wasted at all with this timetable folder, A2 folded down to 1/3 A4 (Slimline). The cover’s end date is one day before the recently-consulted-on changes will take place.
It really is a case of where to start – a colour-coded diagrammatic service map showing every service in the network (except Tesco Bar Hill). The timetables show the entire network – Services 1, 1A/1B, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 21, 22/A, 61, 63, 65, 402, 476 on one side, and C, D, 7A, 18, 31, 75, 113, 196, and the map on the other side. The Index to Places Served features all these services. The remaining West Hunts shoppers and Tesco Bar Hill contract services, can be found online.
This guide is doubly highly recommended. First of all, it fills gaps, and brings everything to a similar level in terms of detail. Secondly, it fits everything into one place. This will show to complement the website, rather than printing sheets from it. The entire guide will act as a boost to passenger awareness of the network. It crams a massive amount of information, onto a single A2 sheet of paper.
You can download a copy here (this was the pre-production edition so the final contains a couple of tweaks), or for a paper copy, ask your Whippet bus driver. Failing that, send a 9”x6” Stamped Addressed Envelope to Whippet Coaches Ltd, 2 Rowles Way, Buckingway Business Park, SWAVESEY, Cambridgeshire, CB24 4UG.
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#randomtimetablemonday – Go Whippet Local Bus Services timetable, “running from February 2015 until
#randomtimetablemonday – Go Whippet Local Bus Services timetable, “running from February 2015 until at least 23 May 2015”
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The Memory of Time Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art
Sarah Greenough, Andrea Nelson, Sarah Kennel, Diane Waggoner, Leslie Ureña
Artwork: 130 four-color images
Size: 10.1 in x 11.1 in x 0.9 in
Published: May 19th, 2015
Photography’s remarkable ability to represent the past in the present is frequently invoked as one of the medium’s essential characteristics. Yet, as many contemporary photographers acknowledge, its relationship to the past is by no means straightforward. Organized thematically, the exhibition The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art explores the work of contemporary artists who investigate the richness and complexity of photography’s relationship to time, memory, and history.
From a shared fascination with photography’s past, including early photographic techniques, to creating works which give form to the literal passage of time and the fleeting evidence of cultural change, many contemporary artists are creating works that evocatively engage with how the past has been shaped by photography. The medium has been instrumental in both preserving and creating memory from its inception, and its ability to record the existence of ruins in contemporary society strikingly calls into question what is remembered or forgotten by history. This exhibition and catalog will examine how photographs not only evoke memories of place through the unfolding of different moments of time but also create powerful visual histories of our relationship with the land.
Investigates the complex relationship between photographic images and time—specifically how the medium both informs and preserves memories—in the work of contemporary artists such as Sophie Calle, Christian Marclay and Carrie Mae Weems.
Curator Sarah Greenough and her colleagues have made a survey of contemporary photographers' engagement with time and memory in which the images cohere to create an illuminating ensemble.
— Bookforum
Contemporary art enthusiasts will enjoy and be intrigued by this exploration of the history of photography and how artists find new strategies to produce exquisite images, […] intellectually challenging and quite stunning work touching on vexing issues of identity, place, history, and the public and private uses of the past as they intersect with the present.
— Library Journal, starred review
The works, created between 1990 and today, collectively demonstrate the way the medium has pivoted to adjust to, and comment on, the digital age, when editing images is quite literally as easy as the push of a button.
Documents an important collection of elaborate technical and creative achievements.
— Rangefinder
Sarah Greenough
Sarah Greenough is the chief curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Andrea Nelson
Andrea Nelson is assistant curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Sarah Kennel
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eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) is a small landlocked country bordered by South Africa and Mozambique. It’s a beautiful country with a diverse range of fauna, well worth spending some time in. It’s Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy, having been ruled by King Mswati III for the last 50 years.
The country achieved independence from Britain in 1968, but unlike many other former colonies did not change its name. That is, until the 50th anniversary of independence, which happened to coincide with the King’s 50th birthday bash.
eSwatini is known for its weed, exporting to neighbouring South Africa. It has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. It is also known for its annual festival, the Umhalanga reed dance, where hundreds of topless young women parade for the King and he selects a new wife. Only childless and unmarried women may participate. His father, the former king, apparently had 70 wives and hundreds of children. The current King has only 17 or so.
I had a nightmare getting there from Mozambique. I was told there was a mini-bus leaving whenever full from downtown Maputo. When I arrived, it was one of the ubiquitious Toyota vans (called “chapas” in Mozambique and “combis” everywhere else in southern Africa). A total deathtrap, it took 3 hours to cover the 45 minute drive to the border before running out of gas, just 6km shy, forcing all the passengers to hitchhike to the border. I then had to wait 2 hours for a taxi, getting to Swaziland 12 hours after leaving my accommodation in Maputo.
eSwatini has several nature reserves, where you can see the big 5. I visited the Mlilwane wildlife sanctuary. It has no natural predators (except for crocodiles), so the animals have less fear. I did a mountain bike safari and got really close to some Blue cranes (the national bird of South Africa) amongst others.
I also went to the Mantenga Nature Reserve and saw the cultural village and traditional Swazi dance. It was interesting to learn about the traditional culture, in which the men practise polygamy, but the dance I found a little touristy.
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Best 50 Inch TV Today: High Quality Televisions For Your TV Needs
Gregg Elliott
If you are in the market for a new television, you have probably noticed the number of options available to you. There are an array of sizes and features that you can choose from. The more common size choices are between 49 and 55 inches. These are easy to hang in most living rooms while still allowing you to view them easily at a distance. Some of the larger models may be difficult to mount due to the space considerations in an average living room.
These TVs can be found as basic models and as Smart TVs. We put together this guide of some of the best 50-inch televisions to help you in your search. Since we were looking at the best, most of the TVs on this list are Smart TVs, with all of the capabilities you could ask for at a reasonable price. Before we get into what we think the best television models are, here are some frequently asked questions and answers.
50-Inch Television FAQs
How We Reviewed
Overall Price Range of 50-Inch Televisions
Top 10 50-Inch Televisions
What Is a 50-Inch LED Television?
A 50-inch LED television is a medium sized television, perfect for living areas and businesses. The picture quality is crisp and easily seen at a difference. Many come with Smart technology; however, others have basic capabilities if you are not interested in a Smart TV.
Which Companies Make 50-Inch TVs?
If there is a television company in existence, then most likely it has a model of this size. Likewise, most of these companies also specialize in Smart TVs. Some of the more popular brands are LG, Samsung, Sony and Vizio.
How Do TVs Connect To the Internet?
Most of the TVs nowadays are Wi-Fi enabled. However, the more basic models may have a physical hook-up for internet connection.
Can I Watch My Favorite Apps on a 50- Inch TV?
Yes! If it is a Smart TV, then odds are it has some of your favorite apps already installed on it. For instance, many of these televisions have access to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video.
Can a TV Crash Like a Computer?
If it is a Smart TV, then unfortunately, the answer is yes. There is a lot of processing power in these TVs, and some apps may have a tendency to lag or glitch. Some TVs will handle these glitches and crashes easier than others because some tasks are easier to handle. However, these problems are often easily resolved by turning the TV off and on.
When it comes to our reviews, we look for quality televisions that deserve to be on a top 10 list. Not only do we look through the specifications listed by the manufacture, but also we check out consumer reviews. It is important for us to know what people are saying before we bring the reviews to you. We research the models extensively, to give you the best information possible.
50-inch televisions have a wide price range. The prices are usually based on features or brand name. On this list, you will find everything from cheaper televisions to higher end expensive models.
Before we dive into the best 50-inch television on the market, it is important to note that some of these TVs measure between 49 inches and 50 inches. However, most of these models have similar specs at similar prices. We’ll cover the basics of these TVs so that you can make an informed decision on which one appeals to your needs and fits into your price range.
1. Vizio D Series 4K Ultra HD HDR Smart LED TV
VIZIO D-Series 60" Class (60" Diag.) 4K Ultra HD HDR Smart TV –...
High Dynamic Range video support for HDR10 & HLG
4K Ultra HD Resolution – 4x the detail of 1080p Full HD
Full Array LED Backlight – For superior light uniformity and picture performance
The Vizio D Series is a 4K Ultra HD LED television. What this means is that it has four times the screen detail as full HD. It is a smart TV with access to many popular apps and works with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Popular marketplaces to find this model are Wal-Mart and Amazon. On the plus side, this TV is as highly capable as higher end brands and is in the median price range. It comes with Chromecast installed and has a limited product warranty.
2. Samsung MU7000 Series 4K UHD Smart TV With HDR
Samsung Electronics UN49MU7000 49-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2017...
4K Color Drive Pro reveals a wider spectrum of realistic colors, creating a more authentic picture.
See a wider range of color and contrast than full HD with 4K HDR Pro.
One Remote automatically detects and controls all your connected devices and content with no manual programming...
If you want a resolution that is topnotch, this TV delivers. Its images are vibrant, and it supports most streaming services. At 50 inches, its large images are sharp and clear because 4K is one of the best resolutions that money can buy. It comes with a great remote control. Unfortunately, like most TVs on the list, there is usually a limited warranty. You can find this TV at Best Buy, Amazon and other retailers that specialize in TVs.
3. TCL 5 Series 4K Smart UHD TV With HDR Roku TV
TCL 55S517 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Roku Smart LED TV (2018 Model)
Dimensions (w x H x D): TV without stand: 48.3 inches x 28 inches x 3 inches, TV with stand: 48.3 inches x 30 inches x...
Smart Functionality offers access to thousands of streaming channels featuring more than 500, 000 movies and TV episodes...
Pairs 4K Ultra HD picture clarity with the contrast, color, and detail of Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) for the...
In comparison to some of the other TVs on our list, the TCL 5 Series is more affordable. It offers many of the same qualities as higher-end televisions without breaking the bank. It comes with Roku TV, which allows you to stream from many popular apps. Consumers report that the TCL 5 Series doesn’t suffer from lag or delays and has a built in Wi-Fi. Amazon has the best price for this model.
4. Sony XBR49X900F 4K Ultra HD TV
Sony XBR49X900F 49-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV with Alexa...
BEYOND HIGH DEFINITION: 4K HDTV picture offers stunning clarity & high dynamic range color & detail
ENHANCED QUALITY: With the X1 Extreme Processor enjoy controlled contrast & wide range of brightness. Bluetooth...
SAY IT. SEE IT.: Connect Alexa to your compatible Sony TV to stream smart camera feeds with your voice. You can also...
When it comes to Sony products, their TVs are renowned for being high-end and some of the best on the market; but with this brand, you are going to get the price tag that goes along with it. This is one of the highest marked products on our list. However, it is important to note that this does not necessarily mean that its performance is better than the less expensive options. As you will see from the specifications, its capabilities are similar to the other models. But please note, it is a durable and high-quality television with 4k UHD resolution.
5. Samsung MU8000 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV
Samsung Electronics UN49MU8000
Samsung is a brand that you will see featured more than once on this list. Samsung manufactures high- quality electronics and has been a household name for decades. This TV tends to come with a 1-year warranty, but as with most of the televisions on our list, it can depend on the retailer in question. Check where you purchase the device because many retailers have their own add-on warranty. Of all the TVs on the list, this is one of the easiest to operate. You can find it on Amazon, Best Buy and many other retailers.
6. LG Electronics 49UJ6300 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV
LG Electronics 49UJ6300 49-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2017 Model)
Dimensions (W x H x D): TV without stand: 43.7" x 25.6" x 3.2", TV with stand: 43.7" x 27.8" x 9.3"
Smart functionality gives you access to your favorite apps and content using webOS 3.5. CONNECTIVITY : Wi-Fi Built In...
Pairs 4K Ultra HD picture clarity with the contrast, color, and detail of High Dynamic Range (HDR) for the most lifelike...
As with most of its competitors, this TV is equipped with many advanced features. You can use it to access most of the popular streaming apps, and while running them, it hardly experiences any lag at all. It has a high-quality picture, and consumers report that its sound has amazing clarity, in fact, you can hear it clearly at a distance! It is streamlined and has a contemporary look. As with most LED TVs, you can mount it on a wall or use it with a stand.
7. Samsung MU6300 Series 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV
Forget glare with this Samsung LED TV. It isn’t influenced by glare, period. In addition, it has vibrant colors and can boast a 4K UHD resolution. The colors are vibrant, and of all of the Samsung models, this is one of the most popular. Its sound is realistic and free of distortion. Also, it has minimal lag. Most Samsung TVs come with a limited warranty.
8. Sony XBR49X900E Ultra HD Smart LED TV
Sony XBR49X900E-Series 49-Class HDR UHD Smart LED TV
Works with Alexa for voice control (Alexa device sold separately).
Dimensions (W x H x D): TV without stand: 43.1" x 24.9" x 2.5", TV with stand: 43.1" x 27" x 9.4"
Smart functionality gives you access to your favorite apps and content using Sony’s Android TV.
With a quick and easy installation, this Sony TV is simple to set up. It is durable and is constructed from high-quality materials. It has a simple design and uses many of the same apps that the other TVs do. As a smart TV, it will also work with other devices without a problem. While the sound quality is fine, it isn’t as good as some of the other TVs on the list.
9. LG UJ7700 4K UHD Smart TV
Refresh Rate: TruMotion 120 (Refresh Rate 60Hz)
Backlight: LED
Smart Functionality: Yes
This LG is one of the best Smart TVs that we reviewed, and it can be found at a reasonable and affordable price. It has great side angle viewing quality and has a fair defense against lag, especially while gaming. The TV does have an average gray scaling and black level, and its HDR performance isn’t as great as some of the higher priced models. However, it definitely gets its job done as a high-quality TV.
10. Sceptre FHD LED TV
Sceptre 50 Inch 1080p LED HDTV X505BV-FSR Black 2017
50" LED HDTV 3 x HDMI (HDMI 1 shared with MHL) Clear QAM MEMC 120
Of all of the televisions on this list, this one is the most affordable. However, with its budget friendly promise, it also has fewer features. It has a lower resolution than any other TV on the list; however, it still offers full high-definition and has a clear and vibrant picture. It is not Wi-Fi capable and does not have a high refresh rate. Therefore, if you’re looking for a high-end 50-inch TV, this one isn’t going to be on your list. However, it is still durable, and a good deal for the budget minded consumer. You can find it at Wal-Mart and Amazon for a low price.
Vizio D Series 4K Ultra HD HDR Smart LED TV
Total HDMI ports
Samsung MU7000 Series 4K UHD Smart TV With HDR
TCL 5 Series 4K Smart UHD TV With HDR Roku TV
43.14 x 10 x 27.12 inches
Sony XBR49X900F 4K Ultra HD TV
53 x 7 x 29.25 inches
Samsung MU8000 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV
LG Electronics 49UJ6300 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV
43.7 x 25.6 x 3.2 inches
Samsung MU6300 Series 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV
Sony XBR49X900E Ultra HD Smart LED TV
27 x 43.1 x 9.4 inches
LG UJ7700 4K UHD Smart TV
Sceptre FHD LED TV
1080p FHD
44.29 x 9.65 x 28.43 inches
MHL, HDMI1, HDMI
When it comes to the best TV on this list, it was a difficult choice. Many of these televisions have very similar qualities and come at a comparable price point. However, based on reviews and specs, the Samsung MU8000 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV is the best on the list. It is one of the medium-priced televisions, but it comes with all of the features that you could ask for in a Smart TV. It is manufactured by a brand well known for having great support. Not only that, but it is a sharp, durable TV that is built to last. It is comparable to Sony, without the high price point.
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December 30, 2017 ~ Johnna Kaplan ~ Leave a comment
They say it will be crowded, but it isn’t, not this early, not on this cold day. My car is one of just a few slowly making their way up the road into a world of uncanny sandstone formations, red-brown against the sky.
The road winds up and around, and the rock sculptures grow and shrink and change form, clustering together or standing boldly alone. Some are majestically tall, others round or spiky, and they go on and on and on. We few off-season visitors, ensconced in our cars, drive past them in awe. Some look like they should topple over, if the laws of physics applied. Some are lumpen yet finely wrought, like ancient fertility statues. They populate a dry, dusty land, but they were made by water, and though it now returns only for brief flash floods, the ground undulates like a seabed. In some places, it is more spectacular than the famous arches we have come to see; it spreads out beyond the roads and trails into forbidden gentle hills, painted in the pale rainbow shades of the earth laid bare.
Past knobs and bobbles and needles rising from the uneven ground, past red cliffs and rock faces with improbable apertures, I stay mostly on the road, because this is a place that eats hours. But sometimes I wander on foot, following the worn pathways to those views deemed most amazing in a landscape that piles one amazement on another. I hike up a trail that is essentially a sand staircase on which a thousand sneaker tracks have laid down an inscrutable cuneiform in the pink dust. In about a half-mile, it climbs a few hundred feet, and I am reminded that I come from sea level and this is a strange, high land, where what should be a simple walk becomes a test of endurance. But I continue, breathless, to the top, where you can stand on a sort of platform and look out at Delicate Arch, the one from the Utah license plate and a trillion Instagram pictures. Off in the distance, it looks like a collectable miniature of itself, like you could balance it on your palm.
Arches deserves a constant state of awe, but it is impossible to remain steadily amazed for three or four or however many hours it takes to wind my way through the park. Perhaps the early explorers of this land managed it, but I am too easily distracted, my brain fragmented by a million intruding thoughts. And so the astonishment fades, just as anger and fear eventually do, even when you know there’s constant cause to be livid and afraid. Eventually, even in this red rock wonderland, even in this terrifying world, mundane observations and worries creep in.
But there is one thought that takes hold in a moment of clarity somewhere between the sheer strange beauty of it all and the little distractions. There is construction going on in Arches, one phase of a lengthy project to improve the roads. And as we sit in a tiny, absurd traffic jam in a vast and surreal landscape, waiting for workers to usher our vehicles past their trucks and orange cones, this strikes me as both ridiculous and encouraging. Even as nearby National Parks are facing destruction, even as the country’s institutions and value systems are fighting to survive, even as unforeseen calamities seem to await each time I glance at Twitter or a TV screen, some of us have come today to see how spectacular America can be, and others are working to make it more spectacular still.
State borders are arbitrary; or more accurately, they usually follow the needs and whims of humans rather than the cues of the land. But for some reason, whether it’s an illusion or a place’s culture imprinting itself on the map, something changes when you cross those invisible lines.
When I cross the line into Colorado I know instantly that yes, Colorado will be as promised, it will do exactly what it says on the tin. (It’s a cute tin, with little fir trees on it, and it’s made of recycled materials.) There is no cell signal as I pull over onto a dirt turn-out beside a perfectly on-brand sign. It is rustic, hanging in a rough log frame. Welcome to Colorful Colorado, it says, though the colors here are pale and faded, the windswept browns and greens of the mountains. Colorado knows to put that turn-out there, they know that I will stop and snap a photo, do their marketing for them free of charge.
Off to my left as I drive, a mountain rises, narrowing towards the top as if it wants to be a tower. It is Chimney Rock National Monument, but I know it’s something of significance before I see the sign. In these deceptively empty spaces, you know when you see a notable thing, because when you say to yourself, what in the world is that thing, you know that ever since people have been here, way back in the murkiest depths of pre-history, they have been asking the same.
Soon, arresting black and white birds with elegantly too-long tails, begin to swoop and flit low to the ground beside the highway. I see one and think it’s astonishing, and then I see another and think I’m lucky, but when I see three and four, and when I lose count of them, I realize they are something Coloradans must regard as commonplace, the way I see seagulls. They are black-billed magpies, Google will tell me later; they live in the West, their tails can be more than half the length of their bodies, and when persecuted, they become wary.
I am going to Durango, which the guidebook I read before leaving describes as “a place where visitors come to do stuff, not see stuff.” I’m a bad visitor, perhaps, because I do not want to want to mountain bike or river-raft or even ride the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad 3,000 feet up the San Juan Mountains. I only want to see a piece of Colorado, because it’s here and so am I, and who knows if that will ever happen again.
Durango forms itself around a lazy avenue of a main street that stretches out parallel to the Animas River. There is a lovely old hotel, a reminder of a grander age, and small storefronts with facades that look as if they were hastily assembled in a gold rush frenzy and then, having proved sturdier than expected, were kept around to house coffee shops and cute little stores. The pace is slow and everyone looks content. The parking meters have little arrows on them that point helpfully towards their corresponding parking space and say “This Car.” If you stand on the sidewalk, in front of a sporting goods store or a cluster of food trucks, and turn in a slow circle, you’ll see mountains rising in the distance on every side.
Everyone I pass is noticeably and uniformly thin and attractive, in an outdoorsy, makeup-free kind of way. They’re sportily well dressed in jeans and boots and slim-cut puffy jackets. They are all, I assume, capable of effortlessly hiking up a 14,000-foot peak after consuming several pints of locally brewed craft beer.
I feel as if I could have seen all this without seeing it. I could have conjured up Durango – and by extension, all of Colorado – in my imagination, informed by years of passively consumed tidbits and stereotypes and photos, and it would have been at least 90% accurate. This is the sort of place they name cowboy boots and SUVs after. But there are some things you cannot know if you don’t see a place for yourself, no matter how well you think you can envision it. For example: most mountain towns feel claustrophobic, penned in by their geography. Either the streets and buildings themselves seem cramped, or the ruggedness of the region requires lengthy journey on difficult roads; or the whole town is dominated by the sheer magnificence of the mountains looming above. But Durango suffers from none of these limitations. It feels wide open, from its wide streets to its wide sky. Its distance from other cities feels deliberate, pleasant even. And the peaks above it don’t threaten, as if they have decided that of all the mountain towns, they are willing to give this one room to be free.
What May Exist | NM
December 15, 2017 ~ Johnna Kaplan ~ 1 Comment
The yellow signs begin as soon as I cross into New Mexico on I-10. DUST STORMS MAY EXIST, they warn. Further signs explain, in installments, like a Burma-Shave ad of disaster, what to do in the event of a surprise haboob. The instructions repeat countless times, over many miles, and I try to memorize them just in case. New Mexico calls itself the Land of Enchantment, as if one should expect the casting of a happy spell, but maybe the other side of that is a curse, or the fear of one.
I should say that I am already afraid of everything: spiders, carbon monoxide poisoning, getting stuck in traffic on bridges, strange noises outside, phone calls, parties, the chance that I might one day select “self-clean” instead of “off” on my oven. But when you are afraid of everything, you are effectively afraid of nothing, and when you are afraid of nothing you forget that sometimes fear is called for, sometimes it is real.
New Mexico throws fearful things at you and wraps them in a stunning but comfortless form of beauty. It has no reference points; this strange desert, high in the mountains, is not quite like any other beautiful place.
I try to cover as much ground as I can in a sparse wilderness dotted with gas stations and trading posts advertising gems and blankets. This appears to be where nature stockpiled everything fantastically strange, and then humans followed suit. I traverse black rock mountains, like giant piles of onyx, on which small, solitary trees sometimes grow, their leaves flaming gold. I cross a bridge spanning the empty space high above the Rio Grande, its delicate steel forced into the rock walls of the gorge. I spot the hulking Earthships, a 1970s vision that looks like a cross between a past that’s gone stale and a future that never came. I drive through White Sands Missile Range and wonder if it ever ends; I later look it up and re-frame it in New England terms: this remote military instillation covers 3,200 square miles, or 2.6 times more land than Rhode Island.
The whole time, I am worrying about altitude. I’ve been this high once before, crossing the Continental Divide on a northern highway. But that was many years ago, and I was just passing over the mountaintops, on my way back down into a valley. Here, now, I am spending several nights in what feels like the sky: 5,300 feet, 6,900 feet, 7,200 feet. I research altitude sickness and what one might do to prevent it; also how one cannot predict if one will suffer from it: it is one of those ailments that can only strike when it’s too late. It affects the heart and lungs, which happen to be the two organs of my body that don’t quite work properly, and the things you least want to fail when you are completely alone in the high desert. I’d always thought that elevations were posted on roadside signs at town borders as a sort of affectation, but suddenly I see that they, like the dust storm signs, are alerts.
But it isn’t just the elevation, it’s the emptiness. At one point, I find myself in the Carson National Forest. It covers 2,100 square miles (or the size of a non-contiguous Rhode Island) and I may be the only human in it. Remnants of snow, or precursors to it, lie gleaming beneath the trees. On another day, I drive for an hour and count 60 other cars, not one per minute but five or six close together and then long, long stretches of time where I feel like the most isolated person in the world. I have been to parts of America less populous than this, but they never felt this empty; perhaps because in those places, the mountains were picture-book blue and snow-capped, rising above the plains, and not soft tan slopes that blend into rugged grey-green hills that transform into red and alien ridges. The terrain can’t pick a planet, and the weather can’t pick a season; from scorching summer one moment, the temperature dips to an autumnal chill the next. In the mornings my rental car beeps a mysterious warning as its dashboard thermometer flickers between numbers, flashing an ominous snowflake, adding to the general sense of strangeness and unease.
But within the fear is sheer wonder. There is White Sands National Monument, where I drive through fresh plowed snow that isn’t snow but gypsum, white and fine, that blows across the road and doesn’t turn slick beneath my tires. I get out of the car and follow a boardwalk over an undulating gypsum beach, but there is no water, only more pure white dunes not made of sand.
There are the golden trees, which become a motif, reappearing here and there. They stand along the highway from Socorro to Albuquerque, where they, or others that share their molten ocher color, are planted along multi-lane roads in the outlying neighborhoods. They peek over the adobe buildings in the Old Town, so that the whole quietly captivating city is bathed in fiery light. They continue into Santa Fe, where I wander around the historic town square and explore the adobe-lined alleys and hidden courtyards. The air smells like something wonderful but almost too intense, like incense made from a secret prescription of herbs.
Taos smells like something too, some other concoction of complex ingredients, but this potion is disorienting and strange. Maybe I am only sensing that same vague fear that’s been following me. Maybe it’s just that it’s my birthday, and I don’t want it to be, or that it’s been almost exactly twelve months since the election that made everything feel wrong. Or maybe it’s Taos itself, which strikes me as a cramped cliché the minute I arrive.
And then I drive to Taos Pueblo, a few minutes and a thousand years away. I am afraid of this too, unsure about paying a fee to, essentially, wander through the neighborhood of some other Americans and stare at them as if they are museum exhibits instead of people. But I go anyway, and find a place I want to photograph forever but can scarcely describe in words. First, there is open, dusty ground, with a clean ribbon of river rippling through it. The world’s sleepiest dogs lie, as if placed at random, in the dirt. Beyond, there are mountains, distant and pale, and in their shadow, mud-walled buildings cluster together, stacked atop one another and joined into rambling apartment blocks with turquoise doors. Wooden ladders lean against the exterior walls, connecting the first floor to the second, the highest floors to the sky. The Red Willow people who live here have been living here since long before America was even the faintest glimmer of an idea in anyone’s mind. Perhaps they will still be living here long after the idea of America has been forgotten. I feel no fear or strangeness here, just time standing still for a moment, and space opening wide, allowing this astounding place to remain, making room for anything you could imagine.
Dust storms may exist, but they may not; one can never really predict. Something terrible may exist, or something astonishing. Fear, yes, but also ancient adobe towns with ladders instead of stairs, cities with concealed corners and incense-scented skies, flame trees surviving on black mountains, white dunes that are neither beach nor winter snow.
I Just Want To See It | AZ
December 8, 2017 ~ Johnna Kaplan ~ Leave a comment
A line in a guide to Saguaro National Park, written in the form of a Q and A: “Do I have to get out of my car? I just want to see it.”
I drive into the desert morning of Arizona from Las Vegas, where I’d landed in the glittering dark the evening before. I need something different, something entirely new, an environment I haven’t been to in a state whose a history I know only hazily. Before planning this trip, I’ve never given Arizona much thought. But once I started, I wanted to do everything, to go everywhere, to stand on the ground in places that looked, on Google Earth, like cracks in weathered wood and grey veins in brown skin, like ancient wrinkled paper spread flat again and pale marble with deep red streaks. I couldn’t see it all, of course, but any of it would be worth something.
As I drive, the November day gets hotter. The road signs warn of winds and dust storms. The towns are afterthoughts: Why; Surprise. The rivers are the absence of rivers, with names that recall early miseries. I later look up one called Calamity Wash, but can’t find whether anyone bothered to record how it got its name; there must have been so many calamities.
In Saguaro National Park, I follow a dirt loop through a cactus wonderland. They are preposterous and wonderful, like tall green tube people with irregular numbers of arms, some reaching out to others that have no arms at all. They are comical, natural cartoons, but then the whole state is like a cartoon, in the best way. I tend to fight against stereotypes and quick impressions of places, because they are so often false, but here they are real: the giant cacti, not just inside the borders of parks that have been drawn around them but anywhere and everywhere; the vast ranches with curving gates above their driveways; the impossibly slim man in jeans and cowboy boots crossing an empty street into a shadow.
I was not expecting downtown Tucson, a calm and surprisingly sophisticated city, dotted with palms and dappled with sunlight and shade. In the historic district called El Presidio, hidden within an area of more modern office buildings and wide avenues, adobe homes and inviting little businesses line quiet streets. It all feels very private, as if just walking here is a special privilege someone happened to grant me today, as if secret courtyards are hiding behind every corner. Greenery is everywhere, or maybe I just appreciate bursts of flowers more when they grow in the desert. A “You Are Welcome Here” sign in three languages is stuck in a potted cactus outside a stately front door. A RESIST bumper sticker decorates a parked car. A turquoise line on the sidewalk leads to landmarks, but they have underestimated my love of turquoise, because to me the line itself is notable enough.
In Tucson, threads of Southwestern history that I never studied in Northeastern schools braid together, or tangle: Mormons and Mexicans and Conquistadors, Pima and Apache, and a Civil War battle between Confederates and Californians. An elaborate turquoise dome, more Middle Eastern than Southwestern, stands atop an old courthouse, warm against the cool blue sky.
But despite the strangeness, there is a familiarity too. I remember that though I have adapted to the New England coast over the years, I am genetically built for dry lands with brown wrinkled mountains, covered by cacti and palms and heated by sunshine.
I drive through the welcome heat into the mountains; I never knew that parts of Arizona were so high. The narrow roads roll out straight ahead and then blur at the bases of impossibly steep and seemingly inhospitable peaks. Every time, I think, it must curve there and find another way around, but every time, it goes up. And I climb, feeling small and weak in my little rental car in all this space, rounding switchbacks as the air gets thinner. I never knew there was a range called the Mule Mountains. I never knew there were U.S. Border Control checkpoints not located at borders.
I end up in the Victorian mining town of Bisbee, where tightly packed houses perch alarmingly on the slope of a gorge like desert bighorn sheep. Downtown Bisbee is one of the oddest places I’ve ever been, though I can’t exactly pinpoint why. It’s not just the odd mix of tourists, grungy hipster musicians, and people who choose to live in houses stacked vertically above warrens of winding driveways. It’s not just the architecture, dainty and sturdy and quirky all at once, or the street names: OK, Ore, Commerce, and Main. It’s an intangible weirdness, a sense of not being what I anticipated, though I hadn’t particularly anticipated anything in the first place.
Just outside of town, a multi-colored gaping wound opens in the earth, a former copper mine. It is called the Lavender Pit, and like its name, it is both beautiful and ugly. Beyond that, a vintage ghost town called Lowell stands stopped in time, retro movie set and relic of departed industry, and perhaps if you distilled America down until it was small enough to fit into one block, this would be the result. I see no one, but a dog barks at me from deep inside a building as I pass by on the sidewalk. Arizona is like that, I decide prematurely, having seen only a sliver of the western and southern portions of the state, full of empty places that turn out to be anything but empty. And I wish I had the time to find them all.
Earlier – was it only yesterday, or the day before? – I drove south from Tucson, along bone-dry roads with signs warning of floods. I followed the markers to San Xavier del Bac, an imposing mission church that dwarfed everything around it, including the formidable dusty landscape. I joined dozens of other people congregating in front of the spectacular Spanish building, patiently waiting to stand in the best spot to take a picture. I didn’t know what made me decide to come here; I assumed all those other people had a better reason than I. But maybe not. Maybe we all just wanted to see it.
Trapped | Galena, IL
Galena is a small town that looks like a present wrapped in red bricks, or a make-believe world where all that’s required for life is wine and cheese and popcorn, and all anybody could want for entertainment is a useless little gift from a gift shop with a clever name. Galena calls to you from the pages of magazines, with pictures of its 19th century Main Street and accompanying paragraphs that make it sound like the prettiest Midwestern river town of them all. And though I have seen dozens of Midwestern river towns, and found a handful to be so pretty that I couldn’t possibly imagine anything better, I still wondered: Did Galena really have something all of them lacked?
Almost as soon as I get there, I can see that it doesn’t; it just has way better PR. As I search for a parking lot that isn’t full, I realize I could write a list of similar-but-better places in my sleep. And those places, the other old-fashioned all-American towns with historic storefronts lining a lovely central street near a riverbank, would have free and ample parking.
At first glance, there is nothing here to remind me that I’m in Illinois. Galena could be anywhere in the Midwest or the South, but it could also be a slick re-creation of a typical American river town created by some theme park in Florida or Sweden or China. What eventually reminds me that I’m in the Land of Lincoln is Galena’s obsession with being the Land of Grant. There is a museum dedicated to him here, and you can tour the house where he received the telegraph telling him he was president, or stay in the hotel that served as his campaign headquarters. At one point, he walks past me on the sidewalk, wearing his blue uniform, and I have to stop myself from asking some actor if he didn’t think attempting to expel the Jews from Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee was just a tad un-American, just a bit more to the tastes of the Confederacy he was attempting to defeat, rather than Union he was fighting for.
It is pretty here though, if you lift your eyes above Grant and the shop windows and the heads of the shuffling hordes, or concentrate on the sidewalk, where little crab apples have fallen in response to the season’s first cool air. While the clustered storefronts and church steeples of Galena are not particularly unique, they are conveniently confined to Main Street. Tourists too unimaginative to turn the corner – as they’d have to in order to reach as many shops in one of the similar-but-better towns like Madison, IN, Marietta, OH, or St. Charles, MO – can in Galena simply stroll mindlessly until the cute runs out.
But as I walk, looking for a store selling anything I couldn’t find in any other cleverly commercialized historic town, I know I’m the strange one. People want what’s easy; that’s why every hotel in Galena is booked, and every inch of sidewalk is occupied. I realize, too, that this is the first time on my travels this year that I’ve seen a large concentration of foreign visitors. They, perhaps more than my fellow Americans trudging unthinkingly from gift shop to bar to steakhouse, depress me. I can almost sense them concluding that America is attractive enough on the surface, with its flag-lined streets, good for a quick Instagram photo, but that ultimately it’s a silly, empty country, distracted by too many varieties of hot sauce and sweaters that say “But first, wine.”
I walk the length of Main Street several times, as well as the parallel streets, which function as a sort of backstage for the show that is Galena. I’m looking for something that feels real, and even when I climb a set of stairs that takes me up above the parking lots and back doors to look down on the Galena River, I don’t quite find it.
And then I walk around one more time, and a bearded man wearing a baseball cap and strumming a guitar is sitting on the sidewalk singing “Light One Candle.” He’s several months early for Hanukkah, and I doubt more than a tiny handful of the people strolling past him or stopping to listen have any idea what his song is about. But there he is, as random and surprising and coincidental as anything else I’ve seen this year, singing of a Jewish uprising in the home of Ulysses S. Grant.
On my way out of town I notice something my eyes had skipped over earlier, an integral feature of Galena hidden in plain sight. Just before the entrance to Main Street – where the ticket booth would be if the town was in fact a theme park attraction – stand heavy, utilitarian-looking flood gates. On this day they’re open, just waiting to swing shut and enclose the town center the next time the water rises. In other places, I’ve seen bright murals painted along flood walls, but not here. Maybe Galena doesn’t want its visitors to notice this bit of infrastructure, or maybe they just don’t feel the need to make light of a frightening reality. As soon as I see the flood gates, I realize that earlier, when I climbed to the top of the stairs and looked down on the river, I was standing on a defensive wall. And for the first time, I see Galena not just as a tourist trap but a place worth protecting, a vulnerable place that, should it be washed away, would represent something valuable lost. It suddenly feels real.
The City From Above | Dubuque, IA
November 18, 2017 ~ Johnna Kaplan ~ Leave a comment
Dubuque on a Saturday morning is the kind of place where you stand on an empty sidewalk and needlessly push the button for the walk signal, asking permission to cross an empty street. It is one of those cities with a lovingly restored clock tower in the center of its downtown, and a golden-domed courthouse that seems entirely too grand and too elaborate for the humdrum business of local government employees in the present day.
A street fair or market is setting up as I wander, trying to quickly grab onto some small sense of this place in the few hours I have to spend here. The people on the streets aren’t much help; they consist of a few joggers and small gaggles of men hanging out, with no discernible purpose, outside of businesses that aren’t open yet.
The city seems to be trying, in an endearing way, to be cooler than it is. There is free public Wi-Fi, and would-be edgy murals are splashed across a few walls. I find a very crowded coffee shop in an area called the Millwork District, a name that evokes a gentrification that hasn’t quite materialized yet. As I walk away with my coffee, I pass a man lying tucked politely in the stairway of a law office; he looks so unworried in his sleep, so lacking the practiced invisibility of someone who lives on the streets out of necessity, that I convince myself he’s a lawyer who forgot his key.
I make my way to the riverfront. The water has been almost severed from the rest of the city by highways, and by the railroad tracks that came before them. A yoga class is beginning, its members congregating on a small plaza in the shadow of a pale grey bridge. They could be in any town anywhere in America. I walk for a while along the water, but the Mississippi here has no distinct personality either; there is nothing that illuminates its influence on the city.
I turn back towards where the land rises sharply to a vantage point high above the riverbank. At the base of the bluff is a small neighborhood called Cable Car Square, where sturdy old brick homes have been converted into shops. Here, at the abrupt dead end of a street that can climb no higher, is a small structure that resembles an impossibly quaint bus shelter. This is the Fenelon Place Elevator.
It’s not really an elevator so much as a miniature train on an alarming incline. It was built in 1882 by a wealthy man who lived at the top of the bluff and worked at the bottom, and disliked wasting his lunch break on maneuvering his horse-drawn buggy up and down the rugged hill. Today the funicular – sometimes called the shortest, steepest scenic railway in the world – hauls tourists 189 feet up the hill to the next block.
I wait at the diminutive shelter where the cable cars stop. When a car descends, I climb in, and sit on a wooden bench. The car fills with the few people who can fit inside, then begins to move. The climb is slow and rickety, along tracks that seem to be made of old wood and worn rope. As we are hauled up, the counterbalancing car slides down, and I watch it through the window and door of the little cable car, which doesn’t quite close. It should be terrifying, but it’s not – for some reason, as you wobble upwards, you have complete faith that the ropes will hold and the little car won’t run off the tracks and tumble down the slope.
I am the odd person out in the car, stuck with a family group; or rather, they are stuck with me. As we ascend, they talk about other scenic trains and trams they’ve ridden around the country, and about how the Mississippi, now growing smaller below us as we climb, really is the artery of America.
When we reach the top we pay the operator, who sits in a small booth there, and stand around looking down at Dubuque and the Mississippi below us and more of Iowa (plus some of Illinois and Wisconsin too) stretching out green and lush in the distance.
A small girl in the group decides immediately upon exiting the car that she wants to go DOWN!! But she, and all of us, have to wait for the car at the bottom, which has discharged its passengers, to return to the top.
The little girl grows increasingly unhappy, but I am finally content. From a jumble of highways and railroad tracks and architectural oddities, full of stores that open late and inhabitants who don’t seem to all belong in the same place, downtown Dubuque has been transformed into a neat grid of streets with square red and white buildings, arranged at a bend in the river. I am sure there it more to it, because there always is. Every tidy river town has its own tragedies and enchantments, if you have the time to find them. But because I don’t, I am happy to simply have this image of the city from above, a Dubuque that suddenly makes sense.
Soon the cable car returns, and we get in, I and the little girl and the adult who has been chosen to accompany her to the ground while the rest of the family stays up above. Now we are the descending car, sliding down as our counterpart goes up. We pass each other momentarily in the middle, fellow tourists doing the most exciting thing there is to do in a tidy river town, and then go our separate ways.
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1 A word. Theories with no information/evidence to back it up will be [[Main/{{Zapped}} purified]].²²[[WMG:Zacharie is the guardian of Zone 0.]]²Both the inside and outside areas play a version of "Empty Warehouse." Considering that Zacharie is a merchant, him owning a warehouse isn't out of the question. As for why it would be empty, Zacharie seems to [[{{Hammerspace}} carry all, if not most, of his stock on him]] because of his occupation of a video game merchant.²* The reason why Zacharie doesn't show up in Zone 0 for most of the game is because he's busy doing business in the other zones and the warehouse is empty, anyway.²* Zone 0 is one of the last zones standing after the other guardians have fallen.²* Both Zacharie and Judge appear to frequent Zone 0, and [[spoiler: the two appear to friends, or, at least, Zacharie recognizes Judge enough to notice when he leaves to mourn the death of his brother in the remains of Zone 2.]]²* Not to mention how him and [[BonusBoss Sugar]] know each other as well, at least enough for him to mourn her death.²* Jossed. According to WordOfGod The Judge is the guardian of Zone 0.²** Furthermore, remember what the Judge does at the beginning: He gives you a card that will send you to the first area. Only zone guardians have these cards.²²[[WMG:The Batter is a deity deciding that creation is corrupt and deciding to end it all.]]²Adding to the 'judgement day' interpretation of the game is the fact that all of the zone bosses (except for Sugar and the Queen) are named after descendants of Noah.²* Alternatively, the Batter is just the ''emissary'' of this deity. ''You'', the player, are the angel guiding his steps, and the deity itself is the one who "assigns" you to the Batter. Mortis Ghost, maybe?²²[[WMG:It was Japhet's madness that made Dedan the jerk he is in-game.]]²The room seems to imply the three were good friends at the start, and most of Dedan's cruelty is towards the Elsens. Perhaps seeing his friend try his best to please them, only for the Elsens to reject them due to their own paranoia, and watching him descend into madness due to his best efforts getting (unintentionally) thrown back in his face, embittered Dedan against them. Perhaps he now thinks trying to be nice to the unappreciative morons that reduced one of his only friends to a violent madbird isn't something he's gonna do, and takes his rage out on his employees.²²[[WMG:The game takes place within the Batter's mind as he achieves mental purity.]]²He is freeing himself of all internal stress (Zone 1), worries (Zone 2), desires (Zone 3), and dependence (The Room).²²[[WMG:When all of the zones have been purified, you can hear the Elsens' cries for help.]]²When wandering the purified zones (1, 2, and 3), the piece heard in the background is called "Not Safe." The piece consists of whispering, desperate thumping and cries for help. During the game, Enoch mentions that without him, the citizens of the zone will fall into an eternal nothingness. It could be speculated that these cries for help are the Elsens lost in this nothingness and are desperate to escape, instead of them just disappearing.²²[[WMG:The plot of the game is based around the Batter's battle with and descent into possible schizophrenia.]]²* Delusion (most common schizophrenia symptom): The Batter is dressed like a baseball player with the idea that he is meant to purify the world. [[spoiler:His 'sacred duty' is the reason why he killed his wife and child.]]²* Hallucination: The existence of the surrealistic Zones and The Room, including how he sees [[spoiler:The Queen (his wife), Hugo (his child), and the three Guardians (the stressors/burdens he carries with him)]], including hearing voices once 'Not Safe' begins all suggest hallucinations. Perhaps this is the reason for the note at the beginning that says "Keep your volume on to get the full experience".²* Other symptoms Batter has, related to schizophrenia, are as follows: lack of emotion (obvious visual representation) and social withdrawal [[spoiler:(in terms of his family, particularly his son, as read in the notes)]]²* [[spoiler:The names for Judge's competences (Aneurysm/Sclerosis) are based on trauma to the brain and could possibly be associated with schizophrenia; there is obviously a connection with this to Batter's condition. Judge COULD be the personification of his disease.]]²²[[WMG:Zacharie is Omnipotent]]²This is why he's one of the only characters you don't kill, one of the few that break the fourth wall, and the only one besides Batter and The Judge that's able to appear in Zone 0. It also explains how he's made out to be so important but outside of selling you goods and providing some exposition he really doesn't do much in game.²²[[WMG:The "off" switch is for Hugo's life support machine.]]²The entire game is a coma-dream of Hugo's, and represents his father trying to get through to him to tell him he has to die. He hides behind his childhood friends and his mother, and fears his father because he doesn't want to die, but in the end, the switch is still turned off.²* Alternatively, the whole thing is Hugo's coma dream and the zones dying off are parts of his brain gradually shutting down. In the Batter's ending, Hugo dies, while in the Judge ending he survives but is doomed to forever be a "vegetable" in a coma, since his entire mind has shut down, including what made him aware of his own existance.²* Another alternative; each zone is The Batter overcoming an obstacle (local and/or national laws, the mother's agreement/consent, the doctor's agreement to do so, etc.) in being able to turn the life support off so that he can let his son die in peace. In the Batter's ending, he succeeds. In the Judge's ending, he fails.²²[[WMG:Sugar killed everyone in Zone 0 beforehand.]]²Knowing how sugar is made, it's somewhat suspicious how she manages to have so much in her room. Perhaps she was already mad and needed the sugar to calm herself, then had herself sealed in the basement by Zacharie after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing what she just did]].²²[[WMG:The Judge is the Guardian of the "off" switch.]]²And he has his title because he can judge whether or not the world continues to exist, which is why whether he lives or dies determines the ending. He was snapped out of his DespairEventHorizon by the Batter approaching the switch because he has a link to it, and he didn't oppose the Batter purifying other zones because there's a chance for things to be rebuilt as long as the switch remains "on" (chalk it up to the...unique morality of being both a cat and Guardian).²²[[WMG:The Batter is a "failed" Guardian of sorts.]]²Specifically, the "Death" to the Queen's "Life". The Queen is stated to have recreated the world, but may not have the capacity to destroy it, which is why she created the Spectres to correct things for her. Conversely, the Batter can only destroy things, which is why he spends the game purifying the world instead. In the battle against the Queen, she mentions asking the Batter to return to where he came from, possibly meaning another Zone, possibly the Nothingness.²* On a less serious note, all the Guardians have a quirk to them. Dedan's is pedalos, Japhet's is books, Enoch's is cake. The Batter's would probably be [[NotSoStoic roller coasters]].²²[[WMG:Zacharie and Sucre are Hugo's real parents.]]²But they were separated from him when he was just a baby, so he made the Queen and The Batter to replace them. Now that Hugo is a small child, he doesn't remember his real Mama and Papa, which is why he says in his diary/notes things that Zacharie is just his friend. Furthermore, Enoch is Sucre's father, making him Hugo's grandfather.²* Which would explain why Enoch looks so similar to Hugo.²²[[WMG:Hugo used psychic powers to revive his parents, and the Batter CameBackWrong.]]²AfterTheEnd, exposure to fallout (it's been mentioned that the game's elements are all rumored to cause cancer, so nuclear involvement is likely) mutated his mother and father. Hugo was born sickly, but with powerful psychic abilities - as he was too young to control them, his mother channeled them to recreate the world. Of course, everything turned out more than a little strange as he knew nothing about the previous world or concepts like death, but the survivors figured it was better than nothing and set out to improve it. However, at some point, Hugo's parents succumbed to radiation sickness and died. Hugo brought them back, but in warped forms because of how he remembered them (the Queen's tentacles and "Bad Batter" were how they looked because of mutations). His relationship with his father further colored things; he's a sociopath because he neglected Hugo, who couldn't conceive of any positive traits in him. The final nail in the coffin was that the resurrection process seriously messed with the Batter's brain, which led him to try and wipe everything out and start anew.²* That could possibly explain why the Elsen can't reproduce. Hugo is a child, so he wouldn't know how it works.²²[[WMG:The Batter's form changes depending on who's viewing him.]]²This is confirmed with Sugar and the player alongside the Judge, but this could extend to other characters as well. Early on, the Judge mentions that the Batter "has no physical order", whatever that means. And while Japhet sees him as human, Dedan views him as one of the Spectres, and it's unknown what Enoch thinks of him. Perhaps only people who see the Batter as hostile can see his "bad" form.²* Perhaps this is why the Elsen are so easily fooled by The Batter wearing a necktie - they actually see him as resembling them, at least until he starts fighting the spectres.²²[[WMG:Going off of the above, so does The Queen's.]]²At one point, Dedan exclaims "By the queen's thousand faces!" despite the fact that The Queen hasn't a single face at all. Seems like just an expression, but we know that Dedan seems to respects the Queen a lot, and thus might view her as a powerful, eldritch being of some sort. Also, The Queen is somewhat presented as an opposite/equal to The Batter, what with having her own add-ons and such.²²[[WMG:Going off of both of the above, The Queen is the sun that Enoch refers to.]]²Enoch mentions that the guardians draw off of the infinite power of the sun, even though ''OFF'' does not appear to have a sun, nor a day or night in the first place. Recall that in The Room, Hugo's mom was represented in his drawing as a sun, and The Queen is supposed to replace his mom. Enoch has little respect for The Queen, since he immediately suspects you of being sent by her to stop him, so it's possible he views her as little more than an inanimate object, albeit a powerful one of which to draw his energy.²²[[WMG:The secretaries are the lost souls of the elsens left in the zones when they are purified.]]²The secretaries are described as demonic humanoid spirits. Maybe they're not really demonic but angry and seeking {{revenge}} on the Batter for ending their lives?²²[[WMG:The Batter is/was an Elsen himself.]]²There are similarities between the Batter and an Elsen (one being appearance). It could be possible the Batter didn't want to comform to what the Elsen's way of life was (nothing but work). So, he donned a baseball cap, decided the Zone Guardians had to be destroyed, and became the Batter. The Batter doesn't make the noise that the Elsens do, because he doesn't want to have anything to do with them in that aspect. He keeps calm and collected (seemingly uncaring) in situations, so as not to get too stressed. What happens if you side with The Judge? He finally becomes stressed, and turns into the creature you see (his burnt form).²* Possibly Jossed. Mortis Ghost has stated that the Batter's form changes depending on who's viewing him. Burnt Elsen are Elsen in a state of extreme stress.²* Alternate possibility: the Elsen (who are human--although the Batter is ''not'') are nonetheless subject to the same laws of subjective battle sprite appearance as the Batter. Just as the Batter never "transformed", the Burnt forms do not actually indicate a transformation; rather, they are how the Batter sees them during the battles. As far as anyone else is concerned, he's beating ordinary (if stressed) humans to death with a baseball bat.²²[[WMG:There is a power higher than the Puppeteer.]]²During the beginning introduction it's said that "''You have been assigned'' to a being called The Batter. The Batter has an important mission. Be sure that it's completed. '''''We''''' will let you out in Zone 0. Good luck."²This implies that even though the Puppeteer is thought to be God, something is giving the orders.²* Perhaps monkeys from beyond the stars?²²[[WMG:If the Secretaries ''Divide By Zero'' attack was used anywhere else, it would cause a RealityBreakingParadox...]]²...but in the Purified Zones, reality is already broken.²²[[WMG:The Spectres are the angry souls of the Elsen.]]²They are getting their revenge for being processed into sugar... And the Batter turning Elsen into Burnt and then slaying them sure isn't helping matters.²²[[WMG:The Batter is performing the ultimate MercyKilling.]]²The Batter knows that the world he lives in is a CrapsackWorld, and wants to destroy it so nobody has to live there anymore.²²[[WMG:The entire game of ''OFF'' is an alternate universe sequel to ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'']]²After defeating the ultimate evil, Ness was extremely traumatized. His innocence was lost, and the boy's smile died with it.²²Ness grew up to be stoic, and chose to solemnly DESPISE everything corrupt on planet earth. He believed any and ALL evil in the world must be wiped out completely. Never again, did he want something as putrid as Giygas to pervade his home. In the event of a world shattering cataclysm, however, he vowed that he would take on the responsibility of being the world's savior and purifying the world with his PSI powers.²²Although Ness was perpetually solemn and viewed the majority of mortal existence as disgusting, there were a few things in life that made him genuinely happy. While his childhood friends eventually became nigh irreversibly distant, Paula was only a town away. She was one of the few things in his world that remained pure, the only friend who understood him. And of course, Ness never forgot his love of baseball.²²Paula and Ness followed one another into adulthood, and eventually got married. The day their little boy was born was supposed to be a happy one...²²...Until the end of the world happened, via a nuclear fallout. A really, REALLY big one.²²Ness' world previously had its fair share of sentinent animals and creatures, but that was drastically reduced. And there were even fewer humans left. Most of those that were were mutated – including Ness and Paula.²²Paula had gained enough prestige as a psychic prophetess of sorts, and was unanimously selected by the remaining populous to be Queen. Likewise, Ness was widely respected as the Chosen One, and chosen to be king.²²After a couple years, Hugo grew more and more ill. Yet, he was showing signs of PSI/PK at an alarmingly early age. Ness was unable to aid, as he had lost much of his PSI/PK abilities in the mutation; Paula (now known as the Queen) managed to keep her powers, and even changed them a bit.²²Ness could never relearn PSI Healing, which is why he didn't revive any of the world's populous, or heal the remaining populous of their mutations and infirmities. He felt useless to the world, and to his family.²²The Queen did her best to care for her sickly child, and help him channel his powers through her own, but all they could do to keep him under control was imprison him.²²Ness, on the other hand, chose to depart for a few years, for various reasons. The idea of his only son being forced to live that way was unbearable to watch, he wanted to know if anyone else in the world had survived, and he wanted to find a way to fix the world. Maybe he could even regain his powers.²Although much had happened, Ness still remembered his vow to help the world if a global catastrophe ever happened.²²After wandering for years in vain, he gets further and further out of touch with the last remnants of his humanity. No longer did Ness remember the love of his family – only that they existed. He felt little to nothing for them, as his mind couldn't supply the will to make such connections. Eventually, the world sinks into more hopeless ruin, and Ness is consumed by one idea: Purify the world... no matter the cost.²²Possibly in a last ditch effort by his subconscious to retain his humanity, he recalled a profound love for baseball. Ness rechristened himself as the Batter. Soon, he met up with the Judge.²²The sheer amount of concentrated will behind the Batter's ideology was so strong, that it was enough to make his powers return gradually. On his journey, he had been enlightened concerning some matters, such as the nature of Players and Puppeteers, and the role they played in controlling his world. So, he struck a deal with the Player/Puppeteer. By the power of hypnosis, mind control, manipulation of will -- whatever you wish to call it – we agreed to help him with his unholy crusade. We had to know how it would all end, didn't we?²²Press start.²------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------²(Hey, you knew it was coming. Ness often uses baseball bats to attack, and regularly wears baseball caps. Paula seems respected enough in the ''[=EarthBound=]'' universe to be promoted to queenly status after a nuclear fallout wipes out the rest of humanity. It would explain why Hugo was born with psychic powers, anyway. Plus, ''[=EarthBound=]'' seems to know it's a video game, as evidenced by how it asks for the Player's name and asks the player for help in the final battle. Kind of makes a chilling amount of sense, when you think about it.)²²[[WMG:The inevitable silly AlternateCharacterInterpretation]]²* Via [[http://lparchive.org/OFF/Update%2043/ a goon]] from Website/SomethingAwful. Go read it yourself. Then come back and discuss.²²[[WMG:In the minor 'baseball game' metaphor, The Judge is the ball.]]²The game begins with The Batter hitting The Judge with his bat, in the tutorial battle. At the end of the game, when The Batter has purified the zones/bases and returned to his home/home plate, he hits The Judge once again.²²[[WMG:"Rubber" is actually an alloy of metal and plastic.]]²Assuming that the world ''is'' made of only the four or five elements, that leaves some questions. For instance, we are told that the fences in the residential area of Zone 2 are made of "soft, harmless rubber", which is not mentioned in Zone 1 at all. So where does rubber come from, and why is it not an element? Perhaps because it is ''two'' (or more) elements. It can't be just one, because then it would be just that element, not rubber. Smoke is out of the question, because you can't really make something solid out of that. Meat wouldn't be too feasible either, because it probably has an expiry date. And sugar? No one would waste something so precious on things like fences. So the only things left to consider are metal and plastic. Which makes sense, considering metal is solid enough and plastic would be soft enough for a "soft, harmless" fence. Plastic + metal = fence, Q.E.D.²²[[WMG:''OFF'' as a whole is about eugenics.]]²I don't recall where it was said, but Mortis Ghost once said eugenics as a whole inspired the idea behind ''OFF'', and it shows. Consider the player - you - to be a "purist". And The Batter is a tool for which you can carry it out. This is reflected in the gameplay - the first Burnt Elsen you find isn't even really evil, just stressed out. Can't perform under pressure? Well, looks like someone's getting the boot - or, dare I say, the bat. And from a Doylist view, it's not hard to see how CloudCuckoolander Mortis Ghost could have dealt with that before.²²[[WMG:The game is Hugo's dream, but not his dying one. Instead, it's his nightmare about his dad leaving him.]]²And to give a starting point: Zacharie is actually an attendant to Hugo, and so goes out of his way to tell him stories and help him through while he gets taken care of for his illness. This is why everybody knows Zacharie and why he's so important, but also so genera savvy. This is always why he's slightly callous about the whole thing in the dream, because he has seen sick children pass away, and so can probably come off as jerkish even if he really does care. The whole story began with Zach letting Hugo choose his own characters in a story, and instead let Hugo decide what was going on. You know, and interactive storytelling experience.²²Those who have seen the ending know about the off switch and the space monkeys. Well, it's actually a nightmare Hugo is having. Each major character is based off of people Hugo knows in real life. Dedan is based off of his father's friend from work. This is why he's seen as crass and crude, but in the room he can be seen speaking in a friendly manner when addressing Hugo/The batter directly. His father probably invited Dedan over from work, and Hugo heard some of his crude language. Also Hugo's father probably works in the farming business, raising cattle, which is where he got some of the strange ideas for elements. It is presumably because of his father's more honest nature that Hugo is no longer allowed to see him, because his father probably told him he was at risk of dying.²²The bird and the two cats are actually animals he liked to play with. Given that the bird is very indistinct before Valerie is killed by him, it was probably a common bird that Hugo gave a personality to. The whole of Zone 2 is full of Elsens that are even more neurotic than usual, because people probably always freaked out when they saw him playing with strays and trying to pet wild birds. Given that the bird had no personality to speak of, Hugo believed BeautyEqualsGoodness and that the bird was the kindest and most giving of the three. The FaceHeelTurn would most likely be Hugo's fear that the doctors, I.E. the ones who are letting him live, might grow tired of his constant illness and one day wish to stop helping him.²²The final guardian was the boss of his mother. He's very kind when speaking, and although he can be blunt, he always explains himself and makes sure he's understood, but otherwise very nice. He was most likely always aware of little Hugo when he was around and tried not to confuse him with adult business, unlike Dedan. This is why he's the kindest of the three and the only one who didn't go mad. Hugo doesn't know what job his mother works, so he doesn't associate anything with the boss aside from a nice man. Instead he sees his job as the scary thing. Sugar, I.e addictions and cravings that people buy.²²His mother is the Queen, who's always busy in order to afford Hugo's treatments. The Batter is his dad, who most likely is represented as a stoic version of the bad guy from the comic because he talked more freely about death around Hugo. The argument near the end of the game is something he overheard his parents yelling about. The "you haven't done anything" and "you forgot who the party was for" was his father telling his mother that she was working so much she never even got to see him anymore, despite paying for him to live. She snaps back by telling him he's frightening and saddening Hugo about the very real possibility of death.²²The ending of the game was if he feels his old life has gone forever of if he can still keep a part of it. Being a child, Hugo doesn't understand it, but Zacharie does. the official ending is that everything is in the past, and Hugo is no longer living the way he used to be, while the Judge ending is him holding on to three people who are still there: Pablo (the stray cat), Zach (his attendant), and a lone Elsen (The people at the hospital are still there, even if he doesn't see them as much.) As Hugo doesn't understand the metaphor, Zach instead tells him a new story the next day. a story about space monkeys fighting flying brains, building on the cleared out remains of his old story.²²[[WMG:The whispers Not Safe are the Add-Ons reassuring the Batter that his actions were correct.]]²One of the lines seems to be 'It was good that you killed them'.²** Jossed, the whole whispering is in French.²²[[WMG:The Elsen were meant to be the new world's humans.]]²The guardians designed them to be just like the men that populated the world before it ended. Unfortunately, the human mind is not prepared for {{utopia}}; fear and danger are an integral part of the psychology that the guardians would have used as the blueprint for humanity.²²Without anything to be afraid of, the Elsen had the choice to reject or embrace their genetic disposition towards fear. To preserve their sanity, they embraced fear. Every shadow is a spectre, every sound is a slasher, and nothing is safe. [[GoneHorriblyRight And all in the name of being just like humans]].²²[[WMG:The sequel will be named ''OFF 2 The Stars''.]]²Warning: Serious spoilers for the GoldenEnding.²²So, after the Space Apes take over the purified world, we skip ahead a few years. Every zone has now been replaced with a giant robot factory, churning out more and more fighter drones every day to combat the flying brains.²²The Player takes control of a random drone, wresting it away from its mission on the day of a decisive battle. The robot armies fall, and the flying brains invade. After successfully hiding from the invading warships, you are left to fight through a roboticized version of the first game to find and defeat the flying brains and restore the Space Apes to glory.²* Jossed. Mortis Ghost has confirmed he will not be making a sequel.²* However, this troper would LOVE to play a fangame like that.²²[[WMG:Dedan chose to have metal form in cows out of spite.]]²Within the Room, Dedan mentions he's in pain from a cow bite. Assuming that the events in the Room are before the Batter's arrival in Zone 1, it looks like Dedan made his Zone's industry around slicing cows in half just to [[DisproportionateRetribution get revenge on the species]]. He's got the power to form his Zone to his whims, so why else would he make the decision?²²[[WMG:The Batter is the Guardian of the Nothingness.]]²Before you run from him, Enoch states that the Elsen will be 'forever lost to the nothingness' if he disappears, implying that the nothingness is sort of a place for life after death. Maybe the Queen assigned the Batter to guard this space where the dead go, and the game starts because the Batter's wards, the spectres, escaped; he wasn't used to the way the overworld was, and its weirdness quickly drove him nutso while he was trying to rope all the spirits in.²²[[WMG:The Batter is the Queen's eldest son.]]²While playing the final parts of the game, it seems common thought that Hugo helped the guardians and wrote to his mother, but Hugo is still at least under 5, and in his time the guardians are already not as jovial as they once were. The Queen hardly seems to care about anything, so I don't take this as out of her league, especially with her tendency to neglect Hugo, which seems evidence of wanting to forget him despite loving him. The Batter on the other hand, is obviously able to do these things and has been able to for a long time before the game, probably back to when the guardians WERE nice. He looks smaller than most of the enemies in game, the Queen and guardians included, but when you walk around in the final parts of the game, you play as the Batter, not Hugo, and here he looks even shorter, in comparison to the world and Dedan alike, who when you first fight the Batter is near shoulder height to. Considering most of the other creatures of power in ''OFF'' are generally rather tall, and the Batter is always a little shorter than most of them, it would seem he's still young, or at least not fully grown, while the Queen is tall and adult as ever. Furthermore, in the Room's notes, it states that Zacharie and Sugar are the writer's friends, and while that could easily be true for Hugo, the Batter seems much more likely a candidate considering the age differences. If any of the other in-game characters knew the Queen was the Batter's mother, it could explain certain hostilities or uncare for the Queen, although as the Judge decides in the end none of it is excuse for murder. It could also explain why the Batter starts out in the Nothingness, instead of with Eloha and Hugo-she could have sent the Batter away, to prevent the truth from continuing to spread. And the Queen's comment of, "Look...He has your eyes. They are full of fear.", with the common thought that the Batter has no eyes or at least very different ones from Hugo, this would imply Hugo's creation was less than consensual, or at the very least that she's used to seeing the Batter terrified, and finds he and Hugo to have similar scared faces. Soz if this seems a little all over the place, that I don' have any explanation for.²²[[WMG:Zacharie is Hugo's true father.]]²During Zone 3, Zacharie notices the music box Batter found, and asks for it, saying it would mean a dear lot for him to have it. As we find out later, the music box plays Hugo's theme. Why Zacharie wants something reminiscent of Hugo isn't explained, but we have several hints. First, Zacharie, Hugo and Sugar are all confirmed to be the only humans in the game. Everyone else is a construct. Second, Zacharie follows Batter around everywhere, with Batter (supposedly) being Hugo's father, despite him being a creation of Hugo. Third, during the final zone, there's a paper (one of the calendar pieces I think?) that states Zacharie to be evil and to not listen to him. Given that the final zone is supposed to reflect Hugo, that seems to be his own feelings toward Zacharie. Hugo, too, states to hate his father for his negligence. So going by this, it's not hard to see Zacharie as Hugo's father.²²[[WMG:Everything is literal.]]²The Batter is literally a holy man on a mission to purify the world, created by Hugo. The Judge is literally a cat who is also the Guardian of Zone 0, who teaches the Batter how to fight and guides him on his quest. Dedan is literally a man with a body made of steel, a hard taskmaster, and the Guardian of Zone 1. Zone 1 is literally a living and working area for the people called Elsen, where the four elements are processed and sent where they are needed in the world. Japhet is literally a phoenix who was eaten by a cat, who he then proceeded to possess, as well as being the Guardian of Zone 2. Zone 2 is literally a living area for the Elsen, created by Japhet to make them happy. Enoch is literally a giant man who promised Hugo he would make him sweets, and so set up his Zone, Zone 3, to create sugar for said sweets. Zone 3 is literally an industrial area that produces sugar. Vader Eloha is literally the Queen of whatever world OFF takes place in, as well as Hugo's caretaker, as well as being created by him. Hugo is literally a little boy who seems to be sickly, who is the Guardian of the Room, and the creator of the Batter and Vader Eloha.²²There are no metaphors. What happens in the game is literally what happens.²²[[WMG:Sugar isn't actually made from [[spoiler:corpses]], it's just extracted from it.]]²It's never really explicitly stated that sugar is directly made from [[spoiler:corpses]]. It's entirely possible that there is simply a very limited amount of sugar in existence, and it can't be produced conventionally fast enough to properly replenish the supply. Likewise, the fact that sugar can be extracted from [[spoiler:dead bodies]] by burning them was likely discovered accidently, considering that the spectres are implied to have begun showing up very suddenly, and its entirely possible that some of them just had inexplicable fire attacks. Enoch probably just decided to run with it, and it likely wasn't his original plan, especially considering the events of [[spoiler:The Room]], where most of the guardians are revealed to have [[spoiler:actually been rather kindhearted and friendly, and likely driven to the states of madness and rage you found them in by the sheer logistics of managing the world]].²²[[WMG:Zacharie was responsible for the first apocalypse, and is aiding the Batter in finishing the job.]]²In one of the books in the library, there's a story about a masked man who killed the toad king. The Batter killing the queen (and, after her, Hugo), are the last obstacles to the switch.²Corollary, even though Zacharie is stated to be friends with The Judge and Valerie, and obviously close to Sugar, he doesn't only not do anything against the Batter who murdered Valerie and Sugar, but also aids him in quest to destroy everything.²²[[WMG:Zacharie is clinically depressed.]]²Mortis Ghost referred to him as a hero, he was the owener of the amusement park in Zone 2, but during the game, he does not act against the person who killed two of his close friends but sell him equipment so that he can better continue on his quest to murder everything, metaphorically handing the Batter the noose to hang him with.²²[[WMG:The story is not about the Batter. It's about Zacharie.]]²Going from the theory that Zacharie and Sugar are Hugo's parents, and that the Batter and the Queen are just stand-ins, created by Hugo. (And that the Judge and Zacharie are in reality two sides of the same coin)\²Hugo is sick, and Sugar either couldn't deal with this, or Hugo's sickness started after Sugar's problems, but Sugar is addicted to her namesake (maybe her name isn't even Sugar, but she has gone so far it might as well be). and is absent, she can't take care of Hugo.\²Zacharie, faced with his son's illness and his wife's addiction, Zacharie takes more and more risks to support both of them.\²The Batter (and, by extension, the player), are a symptom of Zacharie's attempts to salvage what is left is his family actually destroying everything - The Judge believes them to be phantoms at first, but welcomes them - no price is too high.²The purification of the first zone symbolizes Zacharie's loss of grip on reality, as the first zone produces the things that make up the world.\²The purification of the second zone symbolizes Zacharie losing his job (director of an amusement park - a place where everything should be perfect and fun; also loss of the illusion of perfection), his absence implies that he neglected his job in favour of back-alley dealings to provide for his son's medication and his wife's drugs, and also the loss of friends and family without him noticing it - Japhet taking over Valerie without the Judge realizing it, and the Batter killing Japhet/Valerie.\²The purification of the third zone is the loss of the source. Sugar is made from corpses - Zacharie is literally going over corpses to fuel Sugar's addiction.\²If the Batter kills Sugar, Zacharie responds with "... I suppose it's better this way", even though Zacharie and Sugar are implied to be at least close friends in the game, Zacharie should be distraught and attack the Batter, but instead he is resigned, as if he'd seen it coming.\²His continued support of the Batter via items for purchase (which cost more and more, because Zacharie has only this source of income any more and still tries to support his family) might hint that even if he couldn't save his wife, he will continue trying to save his son.\²The Queen, as an imagined entity, can't replace the real world / affection Hugo needs, and as such, the world she creates is incomplete and can't sustain itself in the long run.\²The game is literally Zacharie losing everything - if the Batter dies (Zacharie forces himself to stop), all that will be left over will be a world empty save for him and the Judge, and maybe Sugar, whom he can't support any longer, the Batter succeeding is Zacharie self-destructing after his son has died because of his own shortcomings.²²This is also why the only solution to winning this game is not to play it: Because the only way not to lose down that road is not to follow it.²²[[WMG:The Batter is [[spoiler:The Fallen Child/Chara from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''.]]]]²²You have to admit, it makes a lot of sense considering [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'''s Genocide/No Mercy]] ending. Afterwards, [[spoiler:Chara moved on to other video game worlds to destroy with the help of willing players.]]²* Except not only do the games take place in entirely separate continuities, but barely anything is known about [[spoiler:The Fallen Child/Chara]] so there's no evidence to prove it besides [[spoiler:they both destroy their respective worlds.]] Which, if that's your evidence, then [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/EarthBound Giygas]] must be a reincarnation of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Cthulhu]] because they're both {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with the goal to spread madness throughout the world]].²** Additionally, The Judge has some odd similarities with [[spoiler:Sans]], right down to being the one to (possibly) stop the end of the world.²* Possibly jossed as ''OFF'' was released before ''Undertale''.²²[[WMG:There are other Elsen besides [[spoiler:the last one in Zone 2.]]]]²While a minor theory that doesn't explain much, it's stated in the post office in Zone 1 that plastic and the other elements are "shipped" to the other Zones. While one could also argue that the Elsen are able to go into the Nothingness, it should also be brought up that only special people may enter the Zones and it's unlikely that Dedan or Enoch would give out Zodiac cards just so they could transport materials. What does that have to do with anything?²²While there are trains from Zone 1 there's currently only one working at the time (Train #2 is stated to have not worked very much), and it's shown that not only are Elsen capable of going out onto the plastic sea but they've even managed to make underwater motors (as shown in the amusement park in Zone 2). So maybe there's one, or several, ships with Elsen on them that are carrying things like meat, plastic, and metal still out there. At least, [[spoiler:during the Special ending]].²²[[WMG:The Room is not a flashback, simply another obstacle to stop the Batter]]²If it was, it would mean the Queen didn't exist in the present since she could only be found in the memory. Instead, it's part of her labyrinth of an area.²²The guardians weren't destroyed, they simply returned to the Queen after they were "purified". They act as a final defense keeping the Batter out with an impossible task of getting them to let him through. However, because of the Batter's uncanny resemblance to [[spoiler:Hugo,]] they allow him through after a few easy errands to prove he's their "friend". Had they not let him through, they could've returned to the zones and eventually restored the world again.²²From there, the Queen tries desperately to stop the Batter by changing the path over and over and sending him back to the start again and again. After losing the fight, her last ditch attempt to stop the Batter is to throw [[spoiler:Hugo]] in his way. All to stop him from turning everything ''OFF''.²²[[WMG:The playing of Over the Rainbow at the end credits refers to the ending of ''The Wizard of Oz''.]]²Just as Dorothy was able to go home at any time by clicking the heels of her ruby slippers, the player was able to quit the game and return to the real world at any time. The fact that they never did directly resulted in the DownerEnding, and Over the Rainbow serves as a reminder of that fact.²²[[WMG:Zacharie's [[spoiler:cat mask was taken from Zone 2's 'silkier hair' advertisement.]]]]²[[http://i.imgur.com/uPMSChv.png This]] is what the ad looks like up until you [[spoiler:kill Japhet, and the Judge's brother alongside him.]] But when you [[spoiler:go back after purifying the zone,]] [[http://i.imgur.com/COblsRA.png it's shown to be missing certain features.]]²²Plus, WordOfGod has stated that [[spoiler:he wouldn't make it out of Valerie's actual face]], as they were very good friends.²²[[WMG:The switch is nothing more than a light switch]]²And the entire world was imagined by Hugo to cope with his fear of the dark. Flipping the switch to ON turns on the lights, which ends the world.²²[[WMG:Zacharie is a villain.]]²While ''definitely'' not the BigBad (That title belongs to [[KnightTemplar The Batter]] or [[BiggerBad you]]), he does keep supplying you with weapons, defensive equipment and health regenerating items. Even after it's made apparent to him that you will destroy the world and even after you ''[[LackOfEmpathy murder his best friend, spouse or sister figure]]'' (whatever you interpret [[BonusBoss Sugar]] to be to him). While it looks like he's mourning, it doesn't stop him from selling anything that may help you in your quest to "purify" the world.²²[[WMG:In the special ending, the Judge is looking for a new land.]]²This is also the reason the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow" plays while he moves through the areas with a smile (since we've seen he's capable of closing his mouth). During his HeroicBSOD he also kept meowing for Valerie, despite knowing what happened to him, which leads to believe he's the hopeful sort. He's leaving the now empty lands because he has the hope that, out there, somewhere, a world still exists.²²[[WMG:The Batters Add-Ons represent the guardians good sides, the Queens Add-Ons their bad sides]]²As [[spoiler:Hugo]] describes the promises the guardians gave him in [[spoiler:Chapter 4]], the Batters Add-Ons appear on screen, one for every guardian. While the Queens Add-Ons are in their rightful place in [[spoiler:The Room]], the Batter's Add-Ons are located in seemingly random places, as if they were lost or thrown away, symbolising that the guardians repressed their good side. When the Batter fights the guardians with their respective Add-Ons, it symbolises that the guardians subconciously agree, if only a little bit, with the goals of the Batter. When the Batter fights the Queen and her Add-Ons with his own Add-Ons, it symbolises the guardians' good sides destroying their bad sides, hence "purifying" them.²²[[WMG:The Batter is the boy in the coma.]]²This theory states: the Batter was a teenage boy. His name (purely headcanon) was Michael Casey Battcher, he played baseball, and had some friends. His girlfriend, a woman known as the ‘Queen’ of the school (name: Vader Eloha) was, however, abusive towards him. One night, she drugged and raped him after he refused her too many times, and she conceived a child she claimed she would name Hugo if it were a boy. Soon after this, the Batter's few friends helped him get of the relationship, but the boy had been through a lot in his 17 years; it didn't help his depression or suicidal thoughts much.²Eventually, he tried to kill himself via overdose. Just before he passed out, however, he realized deep down that he didn't want to die just yet. He then fell into a coma.²²Everyone we meet in the world of ''OFF'' is based on someone Batter knew. Pablo and Valerie were a pair of twins who ‘acted like cats’. Japhet was Valerie’s boyfriend, at least he was before he snapped and tried to kill the Batter, Valerie, and Pablo one night (nearly succeeding with the last). Zacharie was the boy who made the Batter realize he didn't quite want to die yet; you see, Batter was in love with him. He thought about him all the time, hence why Zacharie seems to be everywhere.²The Elsen are based off this boy he used to know who was very anxious and studious. Sugar was an odd, erratic girl. Hugo is depicted as nearly an infant because he hadn't been born yet when Batter fell comatose. The Queen was, of course, based off his abusive girlfriend and all her competences are things she's said to him (example, saying “He loves you not” to him after they've broken up and knowing the Batter wishes to persue a romantic relationship with Zacharie. The Batter's mission, however, can work one of two ways: First, it could symbolize him still wishing for death, his ending being him dying peacefully in his coma while in the Judge's he stays alive, but he doesn't wake. Second, his ending could be turning off the illusion of this world he'd created and waking up to the happy faces of Zacharie and his friends. This would make the Judge's ending symbolize Batter being too afraid or too depressed to face the outside world again, surrendering his form in the imaginary world in order to stay in his coma, as he feels everyone wishes he'd do.²²[[WMG:The Special Ending is not as hopeless as the Judge made it out to be.]]²There is still one Zone left unpurified - Zone 0. The Judge, Zacharie, and Sucre seems to live there, and they can rebuild the world... again. Not to mention there is one Elsen still alive - and possibly more, as there are some parts of the Purified Zones that the Batter can't access.
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Escape to the Movies: Fury - Tank You Very Much
1 POSTED: 17 Oct 2014 12:00
Fury - Tank You Very Much
Fury is a good, brutal war movie that breaks the mold.
erttheking
I was wondering about this movie. It didn't look quite typical. I'm glad that it's not. I'll give it a shot when I get the chance.
Jman1236
Didn't know you fallowed the borderlands series bob.
Anyway yeah while ww2 movies are not my thing, I might rent this one to watch with my grandfather. He was too young when ww2 happened but he enlisted during korea but the fighting ended as he was getting on the plane so he spent 2 years as an MP in Germany.
Evonisia
I will watch it when I can, the money must be preserved for the releases I want in the video game department. I kinda like that, I've spent most of 2014 watching films every week, then switch to games after the end of summer (August was kinda barren for both).
K.ur
Wasn't it Bob himself who said that Shia can act if you give him an actual role, a character? In Lawless (2012).
webkilla
Well this suddenly looks like something I want to see
I just thought it was another braindead "America fuck ya" WW2 flick - but this... this looks interesting
Baresark
This looked pretty interesting. At least we have never seen a movie (to my knowledge) that centered around a tank crew. And Brad Pitt tends to pick his movies really well, which is what has kept him a Hollywood A Lister for his entire career.
i4njw
"David Ayer, whose films frequently depict savage, angry, unapologetically-brutal characters but also ask: "Does that mean they weren't also people? That their stories don't get told?""
I think he's a good pick for the Suicide Squad film based on that alone.
Definitely going to check this one out. Still have to see Gone Girl, though.
P-89 Scorpion
Not sure if I want to support a film who wrecked the only working Tiger left in the world and leaving Bovington Tank Museum with a huge bill to get it working again when they were supposed to look after it.
Wait, David Ayer made a Kurt Russell movie? Why didn't anyone tell me?
Gorfias
i4njw:
Yes. You have to go see Gone Girl before it gets spoiled for you. Great, great film.
As for this, doesn't look to bad.
A_Parked_Car
Hmmm, I haven't seen a good World War II movie for a while so it is nice to know that this is at least good as a movie. Now the question remains if it is good as a historical war movie (I study military history intensively).
Gorrath
Good review, gave me a lot of information without really spoiling anything (as if there was anything to really spoil.)
That said: "War is designed to turn people into psychopaths."
War is designed to turn people into bodies. The stress of it can have harmful effects on people's lives. War is not "designed" to turn people into psychopaths. Next to no one who comes back from a war is turned into one. Seriously, that line sounds deep and all, but it's pretty much total BS. No one I ever served with was turned into a "psychopath." I say this as someone who served in three of the damned things.
Quick Edit: And yea, I know it was just supposed to be kind of a throw away line. War is horrible, blah, blah, blah. It's still a load of horseshit.
Darth Sea Bass
I'd kind of wrote this one off, having seen Labeouf was in it! Consider my mind changed.
the December King
Great review, Bob. In fact, I was debating checking this one out, and now, I think I will.
ConanThe3rd
So, uh, is there a reason why the cannon shots about half way though this review look like green and blue lasers?
Barciad
Haven't seen it yet, but didn't 'Kelly's Heroes' (one of my favourite war movies of all time) do all this stuff first?
Charcharo
If only it were a bit more realysitc...
If only the morons that shot the movie did not break the Sherman... but it is a Sherman right? Not a Tiger, so it aint important and they can break it. Big deal it fought a war...
Man, the movie is decent. Good even. Could have been great (for me) if it were more ... realistic. But the way these cretins treated the tank...
Inexcusable! These things MUST be in the review. Why arent they [email protected]?#???
Gorrath:
Well if we're going to do the "what is war good for" question then I go with Clauswitz and say that war and its objectives are an extension of politics. Its been a very long time since a noble mounted war horse and marched men to fight for him because thats what he is expected to do by his father. Its goal isn't to make men dead but to end war so that one side can have its policy forced upon another. Britain in WWI went to war to protect its flagging hegemony of the sea lanes and investment banking against a Germany that was insisting on being the continental leader of europe and would therefore upset Britain's politics. I also agree though that war isn't a machine to turn men into psychopaths since a psychopath isn't a simple killer of men. A psychopath is a level of selfishness where nothing of compassion or guilt even exists. A soldier still has compassion or guilt for his comrades and modern war doesn't train you to let all your buddies die as long as you get to live.
Eric the Orange
Come now Mr.Chipman was "Tank you very much" the best tank pun you could think of.
Scorpid:
I don't disagree with your point, but I was speaking of war on the level of those fighting it, not the level of the geo-political forces and their goals. The purpose of moving into in an area and engaging the enemy is to create maximum destruction of their forces and materiel. From the standpoint of the soldier, your job is to create dead bodies and destroyed equipment. (I am being simplistic here, there are many military jobs that are not that at all, obviously.)
Even in the role of killer and destroyer, the soldier is not a psychopath, just as you point out, so I appreciate your understanding there. No sane person does this without remorse or care, which is why it's so hard to deal with it afterwards for a lot of people. If we really were psychopaths, PTSD wouldn't be a thing.
Odoylerules360
Really, what's with all the red and green lasers?
evilthecat
War is designed to turn people into bodies. The stress of it can have harmful effects on people's lives. War is not "designed" to turn people into psychopaths.
Well, it's not "war" which turns people into bodies, it's other people. Therefore, "war" (or rather, certain elements of military service) are designed to turn people into people who can turn other people into bodies. That's something which most people have an intensely socialized aversion to doing.
I don't think Bob's use of the word "psychopath" was meant to be taken literally. Very few of the people who staffed the death camps were actual psychopaths, they were ordinary people who had friends and family but who still went to work every day and just did their job as part of an institution which turned millions of people into bodies because that's what they'd been trained to do.
This is a horrible truth which people have been trying to wrap their heads around ever since. People don't need to be psychopaths to act like psychopaths. The vast majority of the most horrific atrocities of recent times were carried out by people like you and me, people who had good, functional relationships with other people, who had feelings, compassion for others and at least the capacity for remorse. Those people had to be trained to shut those things off.
Does war turn people into psychopaths? No. Does war make it more likely that people will act like psychopaths? Well, I guess it depends how you see it, but if you take the ability to override that deeply ingrained socialized revulsion towards killing people as one symptom of psychopathy, then war probably brings people closer.
TotalerKrieger
Odoylerules360:
They are tracer rounds. They burn a particular composition of chemicals to give off a particular colour and light intensity. Tracers are actually old technology, the Brits developed the first generation of them in 1915.
For those who are familiar with the technical aspects of WW2 tanks, how authentic is the tank combat? In the trailer, there is a sequence where a near point blank shot from a German Tiger glances off a US Sherman tank. That is pretty questionable, but it is hard to tell from a split second clip.
Any depiction or mention of the Commonwealth forces in the adjacent sector? Any acknowledgment of the Soviet offensive into Berlin?
In short, Bob let his politics flop out on the table again. I hope he's not the type who thinks all soldiers are bad, especially ours. Now I'm dreading what he'll say in his Intermission column about Captain America 3.
OT: I had a feeling that Fury is going to be good. If I can find some free time to watch this, I'll see it. Was anyone able to read that poster at the end with the whale in it?
captcha: Built Ford Tough
A good way to describe the tank in the title role, and its crew
Higgs303:
The 88 shot went at the front of the tank and glanced off of the frontal plate armor. As it WOULD in real life. The Tiger cant penetrate 63 mm of armor sloped at what seems like 80+ degrees... that is several hundred mm of armor.
What is interesting is that they are fighting at 50 meters... when most combat happened at 400 to 700 meters... (1+ km was rare...)
Also the Sherman bounced an almost sure pen shot at the Tiger's side. That should have been a knock out right there.
Cpt. Slow
It is pretty questionable because even though they aren't super powered like modern day tanks, they still can pack a punch. Or in this case, one shot would obliterate the other battle worn tank out just like that.
Regarding my desire to see this film... I am probably going to pick it up when it's on DVD because: 1. It has Shia LeDouche in it. And for the second reason: Brad Pitt his hilarious performance as Lt. Aldo Raine has ruined any future World War 2 film association for me.
evilthecat:
We are not actually that socialized to be adverse to killing members of "other tribes." We are more socially and even evolutionarily geared toward being peaceful within our own tribe, and being quite deadly against opposing tribes. Your point that it isn't "war" that turns people into bodies is, I think, mostly semantic. War is the institution of major military conflict, to say it doesn't kill people seems like a stretch. Contrary to what some think, the military doesn't have to break you down, steal your personality and empathy and turn you into a killing machine. As it turns out, humans aren't all that adverse to killing, though I am, obviously, speaking in the broadest of scopes here.
I won't presume one interpretation of his meaning over another, but there seems to be two ways to take what he said. Either war does actually turn people into psychopaths, or else war and its institutions cause regular, sane people to act like psychopaths. Either way you slice it, he's dead wrong. There is nothing inherently psychopathic about fighting in a war. Now that does not mean it's all sunshine and roses or that atrocities aren't committed by people who either break down mentally or really are psychopathic, but again, we're speaking in broad tones here. Again, I didn't take Bob's words as some literal condemnation of soldiers or a suggestion that we're all raving lunatics, I just didn't like what he said because it was horse manure.
If you think one just "shuts off" things like remorse, compassion or empathy, I'd say you're wrong if you're speaking about most people. At no point did I ever shut off any of that stuff. There was nothing psychopathic about calling in a mortar attack on a machine gun nest, or an air strike on a sniper position, or firing down range at targets more than willing to shoot back at me. It was simply a matter of doing what had to be done, even if it was messy business. We knew we were killing people and we weren't happy about it either, but we also knew that if we didn't kill them, they'd try to kill us. Our willingness to do what we did was not only not psychopathic, it was so normal as to be practically mundane.
kailus13
Apparently Shia LaBeouf went above and beyond for this movie. He had his front tooth removed and cut his face because he didn't think the make up was realistic enough.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/shia-labeouf-slashed-his-own-face-with-a-knife-to-make-his-fury-character-more-realistic-says-costar-logan-lerman-9776923.html
Say what you want about him, you can't fault his dedication.
Murlin
When I saw Brad Pitt was in the movie, this is what came to mind.
Thank you America, for giving us your hunks so we could be free.
arcade109
Anyone else hear the Alien trailer music on that last clip? Maybe I have just been playing too much Isolation.
Wolf Hagen
The only thing I dislike in this review is the subtext of: "War makes Psychopaths".
During wartimes yes, but I think all the Grandpas (for the 30 years old if we talk about WW2) beeing Psychopaths otherwise is a rather loose thread, that only developed VERY few times RL on whatever side of the conflict.
And despite usually not having too much nice words for either side of the war (I'm looking at the Bombers. >.<): Your Graps prolly isn't / wasn't a Psychopath. Not after the war. :P
Murlin:
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I absolutely love Kate Beaton. If ever I were to offer myself in marriage to someone based on their sense of humor alone, it'd be her.
Wolf Hagen:
Sorry, I've already been ranting about this above but I just wanted to add something I've already said up there here. I agree with your point except to say that even during the war we aren't psychopaths nor acting in a psychopathic way. I probably seem like I"m harping on this at this point but it just irks me to think that people believe that soldiers act in a psychopathic way when at war. On the whole, we're just regular people doing regular, rational shit in an extraordinary situation. Firing on armed people who want to kill you isn't psychopathic in the least. Other than that one bit, I think your point is great, so please don't take my one criticism of it too harshly.
Canadamus Prime
Maybe I'll see it when it hits Netflix. I just don't go to the theater much anymore.
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Popular Smash Bros. Mod "Project M" Immediately Halts Development
Steven Bogos
1 POSTED: 3 Dec 2015 19:02
The official Project M website has been stripped of all download links to the mod.
Project M, the ambitious Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod that adds dozens of balance changes, customization options, and even new characters, has suddenly and immediately halted all development, and cancelled the upcoming 3.61 patch. The official website for the mod has been completely stripped bare, removing all videos, download links, and screenshots related to the mod, and instead offering up a simple notice explaining the situation.
"We've made a difficult business decision: We're ready to finish development here and move on to bigger and better ventures," said the team. "We realize that this will come as a shock to many of our fans. Please, forgive us."
"As the PMDev team will be formally disbanded, please forward all official communications regarding Project M to video game attorney and business consultant Ryan Morrison," it added.
This news should indeed come as a shock, as Project M, despite altering a Nintendo property without the consent of the original developer, has been so far immune to any legal action or cease and desist letters from the company. Quite impressive when you consider it has been in development for six whole years.
Of course, quite a few conspiracy theories have sprung up suggesting that the big N has finally decided to bring the hammer down on Project M behind the scenes, which is what led to this sudden cancellation.
We may never know the full story behind Project M. While I personally didn't care much for it, I certainly wholeheartedly support the modding community and their right to modify video games.
Source: Project M
Ticklefist
Would be pretty cool if he's doing this because they gave him a job.
fix-the-spade
This sounds rather like the end of Mechwarrior: Living Legends development.
Oh high guys we've decided to through away a bunch of years work for no reason and destroy it all. This was in no way predicated by contact from lawyers making very nasty threats we totally decided to do this for ourselves.
If they all suddenly turn up in development positions elsewhere or put out a fighting game of their own then it will make sense, but such an abrupt and total decision sounds awfully like the deployment of lawyers.
While I recognize modders put a lot of time and energy into their work, and sometimes create amazing things, even things that shadow their fully commercial bases- six years is an awful long time to go around tip-toeing past the parents' bedroom in the hope they don't hear you. Especially when the parent company has created their own sequel and is selling DLC for it. Hello?
There comes a point where you need to stop hand-waving and murmuring, "Well, it's all technically kind of a gray area" and actually ask the creators if they're okay with you continuing to build on their efforts. And in that regard, anything past about the one year mark is just asking to add a sob story of flushing your efforts down the drain to your resume.
I don't know, of course, if Nintendo finally actually cleared their throat or Project M looked up one day and realized they could be making something commercially saleable instead of a mod for a game that's about to become two system-generations obsolete. But in either case, at the risk of sounding unsympathetic, it sounds like high time they moved on. Maybe they should have done a better job of warning their followers that this was coming, but it's difficult in either case for me to think the blame for that belongs anywhere but on them.
Johnny Novgorod
Ticklefist:
They made him an offer he couldn't refuse alright.
KoudelkaMorgan
They just wanted to start work on their new mod: Project Other M
I'm still going to go with 'Nintendo pulled a Nintendo'.
Nintendo: We Hate Gamers Almost As Much As We LOVE Conflict Minerals.
It's so sad to see my childhood ruined by facts and questionable business practices.
Atmos Duality
Tanis:
The scary thing: Shit like this is tame compared to what Nintendo used to pull back in the 80s and early 90s, when they pretty much had a monopoly on popular gaming.
Dictating to developers what they could or could not produce, and when they could publish, for starters.
Their anti-modding position even goes back to those times, when they sued Galoob (and failed, thankfully) over the Game Genie, trying to get it pulled from the market.
There's a reason I call them the 'Disney of Gaming'; beneath the family-friendly exterior is a corporate machine as cold and cynical as any other.
Well, while development of the game has ended, I'd say that even if Ninten-Ninjas had something to do with it, this is one of those cases where I can't get too mad at them.
It's not like other mods of games people have been looking forward to, where the damn thing was in the middle of development and then got one-shotted by the license holder JUST before the game came out (Lookin' at you, Square. Lookin' at you, Hasbro). Project M is finished and has been getting patches, character inclusions, modes, costumes and stages for 6 whole years. This game is pretty much as complete as it'll get, it has managed to entirely separate itself from Melee and Brawl in the best way, it's already in heavy circulation among the fanbase (so it'll never, ever truly die) and tournaments of it will continue to be held and streamed. In fact, since continuing development has stopped, and no more balance patches will be introduced, the metagame for tourney level play can now have a chance to really evolve, just like Melee's has.
As abrupt as it is, this isn't a loss for Project M, because they'd already fuckin' won years ago.
NeutralDrow
10 POSTED: 4 Dec 2015 00:33
Didn't even realize Project M was still ongoing. I thought it was just a single mod. Granted, I was never interested in it to begin with (why ruin Brawl by making it more like Melee, and not in the good ways?), but still.
...please tell me Brawl- is still safe.
Well they were messing with Nintendo, everyone already knew from the start this shit will happen, as long as you can make it out with all limbs attached in these encounters you got off easy.
And I presume the mod can still be found around the interwebs even if the creators aren't permitted to upload.
karkashan
Eh, not sad to see something that wasn't even good go the way of the cassette player. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw a "Microsoft Everybody - Conflicting Melee" or something in the future from 'em.
praisegrima
Hairless Mammoth
I never bothered to check it out, but Project M, or rather its concept, always sounded interesting. I always like the concept of customizing products, because sometimes what's on the market just doesn't suit your needs or desires.
My only hope is whatever really caused them to stop will not affect the hacking communities for some older games. There's a lot of games (and styles, for some franchises that somewhat changed genres) that many companies (including our friends at Nintendo) haven't made proper sequels to in years. I'd hate for fear of the shift in leadership at Nintendo or that demonic TPP to kill off a lot of creativity that breathes new life into old games. It wouldn't surprise me if many others followed the Project M dev team, though.
KoudelkaMorgan:
Now that's a game that could use some "minor" adjustments. Ah, if only...
BX3:
[snipped for length]
That's a good point. Chrono Resurrection, and the fan-sequel, Crimson Echoes, were passion projects for a pretty much dead franchise, but Square killed them off.[1] (Hasbro was probably just doing the typical "protecting the image of its IPs" deal. I think they like doing that a lot with MLP.)
Nintendo let a mod to a recent game on their, at the time, current system go on for years. That is surprising for such a protective company to let something like that continue (especially with the other Wii hacking and DS R4 cart issues going on around that time). It might even set a precedent, one that Big N may or may not be currently trying to destroy before it is fully set.
[1] BTW, fuck you, Square. A pretty much finished Crimson Echoes got leaked, so fans can enjoy a new Chrono game, while you only pump out re-releases of your classics.
Something Amyss
I didn't even know what this was, but...I kind of like these ambitious projects. It's a shame to see them vanish.
Johnny Novgorod:
He woke up with Epona's severed head next to him.
Karadalis
fix-the-spade:
Actually it wasnt even lawyers that contacted the MWLL guys... they had a "sit down" with the MWO devs who told them that "it would be a shame if you split the community, right? *wink wink, nudge nudge*"
That way they still could claim to not having pressured the MWLL guys with legal action while shutting down the one direct competitior they had left since the mektek guys had given up long ago.
This case does smell something fierce of corporate shenanigans, dont know if it was nintendo or something else but such drastic measures usually have legal backgrounds. Especially taking down ALL download links without any warning.
CaptainMarvelous
Given it took Nintendo 6 years to get round to it, might mean Isaac won the character poll? He was in Project M Ithink
Coruptin
Gonna blame the Smash Bros community for trying to make a competitive game out of a party game on this one.[/sardonic]
Arnoxthe1
Wait, so, I'm confused. Nintendo pulls a super fucking shitty move on the levels of Konami... And everyone here's just shrugging and saying oh well? As if it's no big freaking deal? The PM community is HUGE now. WTF. They just destroyed a beloved mod and a community and everyone's just like, "Oh well."
Not to mention, I'm sure the modders here were doing this for a fucking living and now, they're out of work because of Nintendo. And no one even bats an eyelash.
#FuckNintendo
From now on, Nintendo is not getting anymore of my money for a very long time.
Arnoxthe1:
The reason is most likely because the theory of Ninty having something to do with it hasn't entirely been confirmed yet. Maybe they did can it. Maybe the PM develpers just want to move on to another project. Maybe Ninty ate them and now they have jobs there. No one truly knows at this point, it's mostly just guess work.
And in any case, this news doesn't mean the mod has been killed, it means that the developers will no longer be updating it. Like I said in my earlier post, Project M will never die, because it's already being circulated.
Lightknight
Nope, that would make sense and if we've learned anything from gaming media it's that these bastards don't have any of that to spare past finding their own assholes to wipe.
Yes, they totally wanted to move on. Which is why they shut down all official download channels, killed all the official videos and screenshots, and shut down the ENTIRE forum and site and all their years of hard work without ANY prior notice whatsofreakingever, and the goodbye page points to an attorney for any further inquiries... This has legal action WRITTEN ALL OVER IT. Heck, just google "Project M" and look around a bit. You'll see a bunch of leaks including the then-about-to-be-released 3.61 version as well. They totally did NOT want to do this.
Nintendo stepped in and decided to be bitches. That's what it is. I don't blame the PM team in the slightest. They did what they had to do. Nintendo got all pouty and decided to be a fucking asshole. No if's, and's, or but's about it. I'd stake solid money on it.
again to Nintendo.
MarsAtlas
Thats not exactly legal, you know. I don't think there's ever been a case that went to court but there's definitely a lot of gray area for people getting paid for making mods, whether the mods have a cost to download or there's some sort of donation process to the creator. Patreon itself is a whole other category where it could be fairly said that they're being to make mods of a property that they don't own, especially if they include donation awards that are mod content. Thats the same reason that Patreon artists are getting in hot water over Rule 34 creations.
Yes, they totally wanted to move on. Which is why they shut down all official download channels, killed all the official videos and screenshots, and shut down the ENTIRE forum and site and all their years of hard work without ANY prior notice whatsofreakingever
While I'm of the mindset that Nintendo lawyers probably were involved I should point out that even if this was voluntary they have a good reason to shut the project down and all of its materials, as keeping it hosted will still make them vulnerable to lawsuit. Even if they weren't continuing to update it they would still be hosting it, possibly for some sort of profit. Its a smart move to cover their arses and if they actually gave a warning that they were shutting it down it potentially could show up as evidence against them in a court case later on.
MarsAtlas:
The question isn't if what the PM team did is strictly legal. Copyright law is super murky and sometimes super stupid which favors the companies. Nevertheless, the mod was strictly free. No one had to pay a cent for it. The question isn't whether Nintendo CAN sue them. It's whether they should. And they DEFINITELY should not have. It was super douchey of them to do. The community may survive through this but it's just been dealt a serious blow. Of which blow Nintendo should never have thrown.
And really, what good does this do at all in an even strictly cold calculating sense? Do they honestly think fans of PM are just going to shrug and start buying more Nintendo products? No! They're gonna fucking rage. And they should. It wasn't doing any harm to Nintendo. A lot of PM fans were actually fans who bought the new SSB too. So no real business was lost... And normal SSB fans were fine with PM and just left it alone.
Look, Nintendo didn't need to do this. It was a dick move. They shattered a community and bust apart an amazing dev team with serious talent. That's all there is to it. And I don't know about everyone else but I'm doing my own personal boycott.
Souplex
I played Project M shortly after Samus was released. It was leagues better than Brawl, and lightyears ahead of Melee, but I don't see the point. I have Smash Bros.: Rumble (In the Bronx) on my 3DS, and that's honestly much better than Project M.
Hell, I can even use my 3DS as a controller if I want the ideal control scheme when playing Smash Bros.: Rumble (In the Jungle) on my friend's WiiU. Project M just doesn't have a reason to exist anymore.
The question isn't if what the PM team did is strictly legal. Copyright law is super murky and sometimes super stupid which favors the companies. Nevertheless, the mod was strictly free. No one had to pay a cent for it.
The owner of the property still has the right to order a cease-and-desist though. There's even some legitimate points to be made, such as a fan creation using the property damages the property. That one is generally hard to pull off for anything that isn't in the same medium as the original property, but since Project M is a game like Smash Bros is there's a case to be made.
The question isn't whether Nintendo CAN sue them. It's whether they should. And they DEFINITELY should not have. It was super douchey of them to do. The community may survive through this but it's just been dealt a serious blow. Of which blow Nintendo should never have thrown.
Oh no question there. There's often an argument on the side of the property owner that it creates disinterest in officially licensed products and while anybody interested in Project M probably got the new Smash Bros that defense wouldn't hold up in court because thats not really the sort of thing you can actually prove in court.
And really, what good does this do at all in an even strictly cold calculating sense? Do they honestly think fans of PM are just going to shrug and start buying more Nintendo products?
Yes. It makes more sense to do this now too, given that they've finally released a Smash Bros that has post-release content being produced and sold. One could reasonably make the point that interest in Project M drives attention away from Smash Bros U/Smash Bros 3DS.
Oh, absolutely not. Lets not pretend that there isn't a reasonable underlying point to it besides just being zealous about copyright, though. This happened with a title already mentioned in this thread, Mechwarrior Living Legends, when they decided to release a new Mechwarrior game. They've done this with various AvP fan titles in anticipation of officially licensed AvP titles. They're not entirely wrong in doing this because, to a degree, it does draw attention away from licensed products. Like some of these previously mentioned titles, having an established community actually opens the door to making a title of their own that they can actually sell and make a business out of so its not like its the end of the road for them either.
Mortuorum
For what it's worth, your interpretation seems likely to me as well. If they weren't acting under some sort of duress, they would have provided at minimum a link to the code in development. And the fact that the only contact information provided is an attorney only reinforces that conclusion.
Fortunately, the code is widely-enough circulated at this point that a new development community will (hopefully) rise from the ashes and carry on the project.
Mortuorum:
Well... Believe it or not, this actually could be a good thing for the PM community. As it was, the PM team often put out balance patches at a steady rate. This unfortunately though had the problem of not allowing the meta game to grow at all. But now that development has finally stopped, that can start now, uninhibited by anymore big changes to the balance.
However, I am for one more build to be released. A bug fix build that could possibly have more alt costumes for the characters. That's really about it though and I also think that we should wait for even that before we release it.
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No. 6 Western drowns Paint Branch in second half for 4A state girls basketball Final Four spot; Gray and Rideout combine for 39 (VIDEO HERE!)
The underclass trio of Sanaya Gray (left), Nyceara Pryor and Vashae Rideout combined for 55 points for No. 6 Western in a 66-43 victory over Montgomery County’s Paint Branch in the Class 4A North Region girls basketball final Saturday. The Doves will play Prince George’s County’s Charles H. Flowers in the 4A state semifinals, Thursday afternoon at SECU Arena.
by Derek Toney
Moments after the final buzzer sounded in Western’s victory over Paint Branch in the Class 4A North Region girls basketball final Saturday evening, the Doves lifted up teammate and freshman guard Nyceara Pryor. Several players ambushed Western coach Tasha Townsend with Silly String.
There was some reservations entering the season about the Doves, and whether its talented newcomers would mesh with the veterans and last year’s newcomers. It’s been far from smooth, but Western appears to be hitting its stride at the right time, and right on up to Towson University.
The No. 6 Doves are back in the state Final Four after a 66-43 victory over Paint Branch in Baltimore City. Sophomore guard Sanaya Gray finished with 21 points for Western (22-4 overall), and Vashae Rideout added 18.
The Falls Road school pulled away from the Montgomery County squad over the final 16 minutes, claiming their first region title since 2016. The Doves will take on Prince George’s County’s Charles H. Flowers, Thursday evening at 7 at SECU Arena.
“Like Coach [Townsend] said this is ring season and we want it all,” said Pryor. “We’re not stopping at regions. We’re going all the way and get this ring.”
After a lashing from Townsend in the huddle, Western sped past the Burtonsville school in the fourth quarter. The Doves held Paint Branch to two field goals the entire second half.
Townsend said the huge crowd distracted her team a bit.
“They couldn’t get into a rhythm because there was so much going on, I told them to lock in and stayed focused,” said Townsend. “This isn’t the only crowd they’re going to come up against with all that noise. Once they settled in, we played our basketball.”
Leading 27-25 at halftime, Western padded its advantage to 38-30 behind baskets from Gabrielle Johnson and Gray and two free throws from Rideout. The Doves led 41-36 after three.
Western got into rhythm as Johnson and Rideout each got to the basket with relative ease. Gray dropped a 3-pointer pushing the lead to 48-38. Pryor got an inbound pass, streaked down the court and converted a 3-point play.
Johnson and Pryor continued attacking and converted easy baskets. Rideout followed up her own miss, giving Western a commanding 57-38 cushion with 3:40 left in regulation.
“We trust each other more,” said Rideout. “As our confidence grow, we’re playing more as a team.”
“There’s a lot of personalities and I have to specified each role,” said Townsend. “If we’re going to do this we have to do it as a team.”
Pryor added 16 points to Western’s cause. Johnson scored all eight of her points in the second half.
Katerra Myers led Paint Branch with 19 points. The Panthers, who lost for the second straight year in the 4A Elite Eight (lost at home to Catonsville last year), didn’t make their second basket of the second half until the final seconds of regulation.
Legendary Doves coach Breezy Bishop presented the team the North Region championship plaque Saturday. It’ll be the 16th state Final Four for Western, which last won a state title in 1995 when Bishop was nearing the end of her iconic tenure.
Likely the youngest squad in this year’s state 4A field, the Doves are thinking big.
“It means a lot taking this group. They’re young and I want to keep them focused and hungry,” said Townsend. “They know what we want to do, they know what’s in front of us. Now, they just got to finish strong.”
Class 4A North Region championship
No. 6 Western 66, Paint Branch 43
Paint Branch – Mayaka 1, Stewart 6, Anumga 8, Myers 21, Oyinlaye 2, Bruce 5. Totals 10 20-36 43.
Western – Gray 21, Rideout 18, Pryor 16, Johnson 8, Burden 4. Totals 19 25-40 66.
Paint Branch 9 16 11 7 – 43
Western 12 15 14 25 – 66
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Minneapolis features multiple options for overnight tent camping. (Photo: Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images )
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Afton State Park
Afton State Park is located just west of the Twin Cities along the St. Croix River. The park features a system of ravines, ridges and bluffs, along with panoramic views of the river. The park offers walk-in tent camping sites about one mile from the campground parking lot. The campground is open year round with water located on site. The park also has one canoe in site, accessible from the River only. Canoes and kayaks are not provided. Group camping is also available at the park.
KOA Campgrounds
KOA Campgrounds (koa.com) is a nationwide campground chain that offers RV and tent camping. Often located near large cities, these sites provide a more rustic atmosphere than many asphalt-clad RV parks. Two KOA Campgrounds are located in the Minneapolis area: the Rochester-Marion KOA and the Minneapolis Northwest KOA. Both locations feature tent sites, as well as a pool, firewood and propane. The Minneapolis Northwest location sits on 20 acres of maple and oak forest but is still close to the larger metropolitan area. The Rochester KOA is located to the Southwest of Minneapolis, near the Mall of America (mallofamerica.com) and Minnesota's Bluff Country, where you can enjoy hiking and scenic vistas.
Private Park Camping
Privately owned campgrounds surround the Minneapolis area. While most are intended for RVs, many have tent sites as well. St. Paul East RV Park (stpauleastrvpark.com) is located 20 minutes outside Minneapolis and offers tent campsites. The park also features a pool, laundry facilities, and indoor restrooms and showers. St. Paul East also offers pet sitting. Town and Country Campground (townandcountrycampground.com) is located within 20 miles of Minneapolis. From the campground you can explore the parks and riverbanks to the east or head to the Mall of America (mallofamerica.com), 13 miles from Town and Country. On-site amenities include nature walks, wireless Internet, a pool, laundry facilities and indoor restrooms and showers.
Minneapolis and the surrounding area is rich in arts and culture, shopping and outdoor activities. You can explore hiking trails along the St. Croix and Mississippi River, or visit historic Fort Snelling a retired U.S. military outpost. Minneapolis is also near the famed Mall of America, a shopping center so large in contains a full-sized amusement park equipped with roller coasters and mini golf. Downtown Minneapolis is full of restaurants, museums and nightlife.
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TrekMovie Presents: A Look At The Kelvin Timeline In Comics, Part One
| August 24, 2016 | By: Rich Schepis 8 comments so far
Cause and effect is a concept as old as time, and the title of a terrific TNG episode to boot. Seven years ago, when Spock Prime attempted to save the galaxy using red matter, the resulting outcome forged the birth of the Kelvin Timeline, which produced three feature films in the new universe and launched new comic book adventures. Part I of TrekMovie’s examination of the Kelvin Timeline comic books focuses on the resulting IDW mini-series that the 2009 film spawned as well as the Official Motion Picture Adaptation.
Prior to the May release of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek in 2009, IDW launched the four issue mini-series Star Trek: Countdown, which intended to serve as a transition from the original Prime Timeline fans were accustomed to for 45 years. Bemoaning the idea of a rebooted franchise and the loss of the previous 726 episodes and 10 feature films from official canon, fans rebelled against the idea of Abrams’ restart. However, all was not lost.
Star Trek screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, longtime fans of the Final Frontier, conceived a backstory that would lead to the events of Spock Prime commandeering the Jellyfish and launching the red matter. It was a brilliant maneuver that demonstrated that what came before was integral to forming the new timeline, as well as continuing the existence of the original Prime Timeline.
Star Trek: Countdown allowed the screenwriters to have their cake and eat it too, as their backstory included the efforts of not only Spock and his partner in crime, Nero, but also Captain Data, Ambassador Picard and Geordi LaForge. Additionally, readers watched as the Enterprise worked with the duo to save the galaxy, allowing Nero to board the legendary vessel with full access to the Starfleet database, where the Romulan miner soaked up as much Federation history as possible, including the story of one James Tiberius Kirk.
Sadly, none of the events of Star Trek: Countdown were referenced in the film, which had different goals for mainstream moviegoers. However, Countdown was just the book Bones might have prescribed for long-time fans worried that decades of stories would no longer exist in official canon. The collected edition of Star Trek: Countdown was a success, finishing 2009 as the 51st best-selling trade, moving 8,100 copies, and providing an excellent bridge from the last final Prime Timeline story – Star Trek: Nemesis.
Star Trek: Spock Reflections would launch two months after Countdown, and while not officially connected with the Kelvin Timeline or affiliated with any backstory produced by Orci and Kurtzman, writers Scott and David Tipton attempted to fill readers in on the whereabouts of Ambassador Spock after his last known appearance in the two-part TNG episode, “Reunification”. Beginning on Romulus, Spock takes a journey to Veridian III in order to return the body of his friend to Earth, after a communique from Picard alerted him to what had occurred in Star Trek: Generations.
The four-issue mini-series was a wonderful walk down memory lane and included appearances by Captain Pike, Dr. Chapel and Lt. Saavik. Plus fans finally meet the species responsible for that brandy that Kirk appreciates so much – a Saurian.
Concurrently with Spock Reflections, Star Trek: Nero began a four-issue arc in August, filling the 25-year void between the destruction of the Kelvin and Nero capturing Spock. Star Trek: Nero’s story once again came from the minds of Orci and Kurtzman, as readers saw on-screen discrepancies explained, like Nero’s disfiguration of his ear at the hands of the Klingons and how the Romulan came to know where and when Spock would arrive.
Two terrific moments from the mini-series come when the Narada encounters a Klingon armada of 47 ships, a confrontation which is referenced in the film, and also the Kelvin Timeline version of V’Ger, which plays an essential role in Nero and his crew’s escape from Rura Penthe, where they spent the 25 years between events. Once again, Orci and Kurtzman show an appreciation of what has come before in Star Trek, honoring the past while presenting a new story.
Finally, in 2010, IDW published its six-part Star Trek: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation from Orci and Kurtzman’s screenplay, which included deleted scenes of the birth of Spock (which was to occur as the film opened) and Kirk and his brother’s final run-in with Uncle Frank, resulting in the younger brother stealing the car audience saw him driving. For the Star Trek fan, these illustrated moments provide a glimpse into stories that ultimately would change before the finished product hit theaters, as was the case with DC Comics’ adaptation of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, where William Shatner’s rock monsters were realized.
One would have to think that Spock himself would be proud of IDW’s portrayal of the Kelvin Timeline in comics, as the Vulcan should appreciate the ripples in the pond that his actions created. Overall, IDW’s chronicling of the Kelvin Timeline was off to a notable start. Look for part two soon, which will feature the first 12 issues of IDW’s Star Trek: Ongoing series, which launched in September 2011.
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naHQun
“the resulting outcome forged the birth of the Kelvin Timeline, which produced three feature films in the new universe”
So is this an alternate timeline or an alternate universe?
It makes more sense in my head as an alternate universe, like the mirror universe.
They can both coexist. But they can also have people cross over.
I don’t understand temporal mechanics well enough to comprehend multiple timelines coexisting. You’d think one would overwrite the other.
OneBuckFilms
Technically, the term “Alternate Reality” is used, and the way it works in this particular case is this:
– In the Prime reality, the year 2387, the Hobus star near Romulus explodes, and a shockwave from that explosion threatens Romulus.
– Spock attempted to save Romulus using Red Matter, but that failed, and Romulus is destroyed.
– Spock’s ship (the Jellyfish), and an irate Nero go through the Black Hole that consumed Hobus, slinging the Narada to 2233 near Klingon space, and spock to 2258 closer to Vulcan.
– When Nero arrived back in time, a new Alternate Quantum Reality was created. Basically, a new universe was spawned starting in 2233. Yes, it means Enterprise is Canon on both realities.
Of course, the rest is all in our DVD/Blu-ray collections to enjoy… :)
It would take a lot to explain the Multiple-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics, where everything that can happen does happen, which is based on the fact that causality is not fixed, but becomes fixed upon observation.
Suffice to say it is extremely weird, completely counter-intuitive to our day-to-day interactions and perceptions of reality, and only partly understood by physicists.
Captain Danno
I agree that’s how it should work but Simon Pegg, and aledgedly the Okudas in the upcoming revised ST Encyclopedia, actually say that the changes go “in all directions” including before the 2233 entry point of the Narada. I choose not to accept that but if true it would be more like a new universe than a new timeline and would explain some of the little inconsistencies that pop up in the new movies.
Marc Henson
What inconsistencies are you referring to?
Things like the fact that certain characters are older/younger, and their births which would have occurred before the Narada arrived were still in different years. Little things whose changes would seem to predate the offshoot event, yet were still different from the way they’d been in TOS.
Lone Browncoat
Refer yourself to the Berman TNG episode “Parallels” anything done in the 1960s {and thanks to the work of CBS digital in making The Antares in “Charlie X” and the Sherman class drones appear in a couple of episodes} TOS and TAS are one universe, anything Rick Berman touched, including “Generations” is another, and where ever Ambassador Spock came from, he and his antagonist created another universe. Your “home proof” would be that all your tapes and discs did not change one iota. That covers a number of inconsistencies, like Scotty in ST:TUC, buying a boat [and if you believe the updated bios in one of the ‘Making of’ books] staying close to his sisters’ families because he still mourns the loss of a nephew. Whereas in ‘Relics’ it countered that he was on his way to Norpin colony, ergo, not the same Scotty, not to mention the morass over Tasha Yar, and what that created.
Plus other inconsistencies in TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT.
OK, I haven’t kept up on the IDW issues, but I have done my bit for Beyond, having seen it 8 times, but near the end, when he becomes Edison again, Alba was slurring his words, and I could not make out if he was saying Xindi or
Kzinti [Larry Niven’s incorporation of his Man-Kzin Wars into Trek Lore, in “The Slaver Weapon”] I thought I heard the ‘K’ sound but each time the audio wasn’t crisp enough, with him literally spitting his lines out. Guess I’ll know once I get the disc for it and can run the subtitles/closed captions .
Still have the wish, since the soundtracks are intact, that they would upgrade Filmation’s awful animation to something approaching modern CGI, like “Halo” and re-do the music as well, to something less grating on the ears.
I have often wondered if the timeline was altered by the events in First Contact and that’s how we got (the derivative muck that was) Enterprise.
I think it is an alternate universe, not just an alternate timeline. The differences in technology make it appear that the differences predate the Nero incursion.
I also think of it as a mirror universe, the characters are very very different than their prime universe counterparts.
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Using the Race Equality Charter as a catalyst for change
Posted on September 20, 2018 by unionadmin
Professor Kalwant Bhopal and co-author Clare Pitkin at the launch of the report
The 19th September saw UCU launch a major report on how to challenge and improve the HE sector’s record on race equality. Co-authored by Kalwant Bhopal and Clare Pitkin of Birmingham university it analyses the real impact that engaging with the Race Equality Charter promoted by AdvanceHE, formerly the Equality Challenge Unit, could have, if resourced adequately and handled robustly.
The report, downloadable here outlines the findings of a unique investigation into how the Race Equality Charter Mark (REC) impacts on quality policy and inclusion in Higher Education in England. Despite being restricted to England, the findings of the report can undoubtedly have wide implications for HEIs elsewhere in the UK.
Based on 45 in-depth interviews with individuals with a wide range of roles working in HEIs, some of which have achieved the charter mark and some which are only considering applying, or are in the process of doing so, the report has a number of key findings worth discussing widely. In addition to this, the interview extracts provided, give an invaluable insight into the realities of of trying to move towards achieving a charter mark for race equality.
Amongst the findings are that access to resources such as dedicated staff to work in this area, can be key in whether the process is taken seriously or even gets underway; investment from senior management is key in highlighting the importance of work in this area; a clear focus could be provided by the process if undertaken correctly; addressing the BME attainment gap and understanding the lived experiences of BME students was a key undertaking for success as was investigation of the recruitment, retention and progression of BME staff. The final two findings were the need for the charter to be linked to cultural and behavioural change and that steps needed taken to address the ‘fear of race’ as an area for discussion.
Amongst the key recommendations are that achievement of the REC should be linked to UKRI funding in the same way as applications in the biomedical area are expected to have achieved a silver Athena Swan award. Mandatory unconscious bias training for all senior staff in HEIs is recommended (but importantly – not as a ‘sop’ for the real challenging of attitudes) as is the finding that HEIs should have a member of senior staff championing Equality and Diversity whose role would be separate and different from that of Equality and Diversity officers. The role of annual reviews and monitoring also features heavily in the recommendations together with improving professional development for BME staff and the phasing-in of applications for the different levels of the charter mark.
Finally, and importantly HEIs are recommended to encourage and develop safe environments to discuss racism something which links in with the theme of addressing the fear of race, mentioned above.
A strength of the report is the wide range of interviews with individuals involved in the process of achieving the REC mark, or who are involved in the consideration of future work towards it. Some of the extracts given below will ring true with UCU members all over the UK.
On the consideration of how collecting data, can often overshadow the chance to actually make change, one respondent reported:
[…]there are a lot of good things that have come out in the questions of monitoring, evaluating, collecting data, which we never did in the past, so that’s a big step forward. But what do we do with that data? So you monitor and evaluate, but what are the systems? Are you creating innovative new things to address those issues and that’s a big gap. You know, people are building processes [ ] but there is a vacuum on leadership, a vacuum on ideas (p26)
On the effect that redundancies and staff losses cause to the successful implementation of action in this area, another respondent outlined:
We’ve just gone through a massive cost reduction exercise where we have actually made twenty percent of our support staff redundant, and we just don’t have any flex in any of our structure, so we have absolutely nobody dedicated full-stop to equality and diversity, let alone to add on somebody who can take an active role in preparation of Athena Swan information [for example]. (p27)
The report doesn’t shirk some of the difficult realities of attitudes found in HEIs and points out that despite HEIs being proactive in positively addressing the BME attainment gap, participants highlighted the negative attitudes of staff towards BME students. This was also related to a lack of understanding of particular issues that may impact of their experiences at HEIs as well as the impact of intersecting issues (such as gender and class). P34
The report strongly argued the need to find a safe space to discuss issues of race openly: Many respondents from BME backgrounds mentioned that they felt the REC would enable individuals to discuss issues of race and racism openly. A culture which encouraged a ‘fear of race’ was paramount in HEIs and discussing race was seen as a taboo subject.
Furthermore there was an assumption from all staff that addressing issues of equality and diversity was the responsibility of BME staff rather than all staff:
I think also the thing that I find when it comes to things about race…it’s seen as an ethnic minority issue, so people who are of the majority groups who are white don’t see race as something they necessarily champion. So if you see things to do with race or that sort of thing, it’s always the ethnic minority people who are really involved in it and I don’t think it kind of reaches to the wider white population that race is also something that is their responsibility. You know race isn’t just about black people or Asian people or Chinese people, everybody is sort of racialised in one way or the other. But it’s kind of left to people of the ethnic minorities to sort of champion race issues. p39
On the day of the launch, the report was attacked in the Mail Online by a Professor from (the private) Buckingham University claiming that he was ‘horrified at the disrespect shown by the proposals’ and that this was ‘a very concerning development and embodies extreme prejudice’
Hmm. For me this shows the report is spot on, and deserves not just wide dissemination and discussion, but also to be acted on by our members throughout the whole of the sector.
Professor Kalwant Bhopal is the author of White Privilege – the myth of a post-racial society. Published by Policy Press in April 2018
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The JEP report and it’s implications – some first thoughts
Following the report of the Joint Expert Panel on USS on 13th September, UCUAgenda asked Douglas Chalmers, Chair of the HEC, to give some first impressions on the report.
“I welcome the publication of this report. I think two things stand out – firstly it’s a vindication of our members refusal to accept the scrapping of our Defined Benefits Scheme and the shift to DC – now off the table completely as a result of the hard fought campaigns through the 14 days of strike action. Having just returned from the TUC yesterday, where our delegation made some key contributions in debate, I was asked to pass on congratulations of more than one union for the example our members delivered to the whole movement in this campaign. Secondly I think that the fact that the report is unanimous, including the views of both the managements Actuarial firm Aon, and our own First Actuarial, vindicated the fact that there is an alternative to the bankrupt view which USS and the pensions regulator were trying to push onto us all, and which we have now roundly rejected.
Branches now need to meet and discuss and feed their point of view into the debate, which both our Superannuation Working Group and our National Disputes committee will take forward – the latter meeting for the first time on October 5th. And colleagues should not forget the Special Conference on November 1st where these issues will be further debated, together with our views on the current Pay campaign.”
Report of the Joint Expert Panel examining the 2017 Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) evaluation – September 2018. Available from here
This outlines the unanimous conclusions of the Joint Expert Panel set up by UCU and UUK, the university employers, following endorsement of this approach by 64% of the UCU members in the scheme.
Below I’ve highlighted some of the key contents of the report (the emphases in bold are my own):
Joanne Seghers, the chair suggests in her introduction that if followed, the recommendations reduce the valuation estimates of the scheme to a point where it may be possible to reach agreement on the issues faced by the scheme:
On the basis of our analysis we have made a number of recommendations, the overall effect of which would be to reduce the valuation estimates of the future service cost and deficit to the point where the increase is small enough to allow the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) to be able to reach an agreement so that the issues currently facing the Scheme can be resolved, recognising that compromise may be needed on all sides. p5
She continues:
We recommend that the JNC and the Trustee come together to work at speed to agree a process that will enable any changes resulting from our recommendations to be implemented early in 2019. It will, of course, be for UCU and UUK (through the JNC and their respective democratic structures) to determine the best way forward
And adds:
This report is confined to the issues relating to the 2017 valuation, as defined in our Terms of Reference (ToR). However, it is clear from our assessment of the issues that further work is required. This should aim at delivering an approach to future valuations that is clear (and clearly understood by stakeholders) and which can deliver both a sustainable Scheme and a shared set of principles
Some extracts from the report itself are below:
The remit:
This report focuses on the first phase of the Joint Expert Panel’s (JEP’s) ToR, namely to review the basis for the Scheme’s 2017 valuation, assumptions and associated tests. This has included:
A review of the 2017 valuation to date, including an assessment of the methodology, assumptions and process underpinning it; and exploring the scope for possible revisions to the methodology and assumptions to allow the valuation to be completed without invoking cost sharing through rule 76.4-8 of the Scheme Rules.
In undertaking its work, the JEP has been asked to take into account:
• the unique nature of the HE sector;
• considerations of intergenerational fairness and equality;
• the need to strike a fair balance between stability and risk; and
• the current legal and regulatory framework.
The JEP has not, in this phase of its work, considered valuations beyond the 2017
valuation. That would be the subject of a follow up report. However, we have taken the
opportunity in this report to suggest areas for future investigation and consideration. p6
The JEP itself has had 11 day long meetings between May – Sept, with 11 oral evidence sessions and considered 55 submissions from scheme members and participating employers.
On the considerations of the three ‘tests’ used by USS to assess the valuation, and particularly in relation to Test 1, which many have focused on as one of the key problems in the current valuation, the report says:
The Panel has spent a significant amount of time understanding and assessing the
three Tests, and Test 1 in particular. The Panel has concluded that the outputs of Test 1, while very specific and quantitative, are highly sensitive to the input assumptions, many of which are very subjective. Consequently, we believe that Test 1 is given too much weight in determining the valuation and its effects extend beyond its original purpose. Rather than being used as a “stop and check” reference point, Test 1 is being used as a constraint on benefit design and driver of investment strategy. The Panel does not consider this helpful. It would be far better if Test 1, were its use to continue, was used as a test that informed other aspects of the valuation and funding strategy rather than acting as its lynchpin (my emphasis) p8
On the valuation process and governance, the report states (p9):
One of the unique features of USS is its governance structure. Amongst other things,
this gives the Trustee unique powers through a unilateral right to set contributions (subject to consultation). It is beyond the scope of this report to examine whether this should change, but clearly the process does need to be managed more effectively in terms of interaction with, and gaining the support and confidence of, employers and members.
With respect to assessing employer covenant, the Panel acknowledges it is not a simple task to consult with 350 different institutions or to ascertain their risk appetite – a consultation will inevitably generate a wide range of views and possible outcomes. However, the framing and context of the questions asked of employers have, in our view, produced misleading results. These results have been distilled into a single number which feeds into Test 1, and which in turn affects contribution requirements, future Scheme benefits, the investment strategy and the estimated deficit. These are outcomes which, on exploration, appear to be inconsistent with many employers’ wishes. p10 (my emphasis)
The report goes on to say:
There is no formal mechanism for involving Scheme members in the valuation process or assessing their appetite for risk. This is of great relevance in the USS context given the existence of cost sharing when additional contributions are required. It is beyond the scope of this report to consider how member involvement could be achieved, but this is an unresolved issue for the management of the Scheme.
In consideration of future adjustment, the report states:
The Panel has developed five principles against which adjustments could be considered
A re-evaluation of the employers’ willingness and ability to bear risk – this
would mean re-assessing the reliance on sponsor covenant.
Adopting a greater consistency of approach between the 2014 and 2017 valuations – this would mean changing the approach to deficit recovery contributions.
Achieving greater fairness and equality between generations of Scheme
members – this would mean smoothing future service contributions.
Ensuring the valuation uses the most recently available information – this would
mean using latest available data and taking account of recent investment
considerations and outcomes.
Taking the uniqueness of the Scheme and the HE sector more fully into
The Panel believes that making adjustments in each of these areas would have a material impact on the scale of the 2017 deficit and resulting contribution increases. We also believe this would create a space within which employer and members can find common ground so that the issues around the valuation can be reconciled. It is also our view that the adjustments proposed are consistent with the Trustee’s fiduciary duties and the objectives of the Regulator. (my emphasis)
If agreed and implemented, these changes would avoid the need for the very steep contribution increases envisaged in the Scheme Rule 76.4-8 (cost sharing) process. This would create the space for the stakeholders, through the JNC, to consider some of the longer term issues facing the Scheme and establish a stable platform for a further review of the Scheme by the Panel. (my emphasis)
Looking forward the panel suggests:
We have also made recommendations as to revisions to the 2017 approach that would enable the 2017 valuation to be concluded, whilst creating some space for the Trustee and JNC to consider the necessary short and longer term reforms to the Scheme.
However, it is clear that there are a number of issues that remain to be resolved. Whilst the JEP has commented on the many elements of the valuation, we have not opined on whether there is a different way of reaching a conclusion that could provide long term stability to the valuation process and have the support and confidence of all parties. The Panel believes this should be a core element of the second phase of its work.
The second phase of work should also include a wider review of the approach and involvement of UUK and UCU in future valuations so that a more collaborative approach can be adopted and industrial action, such as that witnessed earlier this year, can be avoided. This would require examining the interaction of the various bodies with a formal role in the valuation process; considering the potential for the involvement of Scheme members in the valuation process; and considering how more effective engagement with employers can be achieved. (my emphasis)
We have recommended that in view of the need to start to prepare for the 2020
valuation, work on Phase 2 should start as soon as possible. However, this work will require a firm foundation and cannot, therefore, be concluded until the 2017 valuation itself is concluded.
Some further extracts from the JEP’s findings during their investigation:
On Test 1:
Whilst a test of self sufficiency and employer reliance is a useful principle for the basis of a valuation, Test 1’s formulation, application and implementation is very rigid with the result that Test 1 has led to a valuation that is model driven rather than model informed. As suggested by other commentators, alternative ways of arriving at a valuation of technical provisions are open to USS and should be explored.
Test 1 drives the investment strategy towards a low return investment strategy that results in a higher deficit and higher contributions than would be the case if the current investment strategy were maintained.
The Panel believes that the Scheme’s advisers have put forward a clear, reasoned, well evidenced and positive analysis of the sector which provides overwhelming support for the assessment that the covenant is strong.
However, it is not clear that the employers’ appetite for risk has been assessed appropriately, particularly in relation to the delicate balance between investment risk, funding levels and contribution levels.
USS’s approach to meeting Test 1 implies a de-risking of assets. A number of other paths are open to USS and could be explored.
The assumption of gilt yield reversion has become the focus of attention for some critics who believe that USS’s assumptions are too optimistic. However, so long as USS holds a diversified (i.e not ‘de-risked) portfolio, the failure of gilt yields to revert will be accompanied by a change in the expected returns on other assets. The assumption of reversion is by no means as critical as some observers believe.
(Summary page 24)
Effects on contributions:
Here the panel suggests that
Based on the Panel’s understanding of cost sharing, the contributions without matching could result in member contributions of 9.11% and employer contributions of 20.071%. It will ultimately be for the JNC to determine how any new contribution rate is split between employers and Scheme members. (P 60)
This compares to the current rate of 26% (18% of salary paid by employers 8% by employees), and the rate of 36.6% from April 2020 which is proposed by USS based on the valuation as it stands.
How will the union take this forward?
The relevant decisions taken at Higher Education conference can be found here: MOTIONS re USS (HESC2018)
The coming weeks and months will give the members of our union the opportunity to decide the next steps in this process of guaranteeing a decent Defined Benefit Pension scheme worth the name.
Posted in H.E., Opinion | Tagged Pensions
Victoria Showunmi – “I’m a black female, passionate about what I do, with a proven track record”
Why you should vote Victoria Showunmi for the vacant black women’s seat on the NEC
In an interview with UCUAgenda, former NEC member Victoria Showunmi outlines why she is contesting the vacant black women’s seat on the NEC and urges members to consider voting for her.
Victoria is a long standing union member with 25 years service in UCU and previously NATFE. She’s a single mother with three girls and has no hesitation in describing herself as a feminist. Living in London although from rural Somerset originally, and working at University College London and Menouth University, her work focuses on gender, identity and race.
She is clear on the three main issues facing the sector – Pensions, including the situation for women, and women over a certain age, who had previously worked part time and are thus hit with inferior pension prospects; the Gender Pay Gap – including the often neglected factors hitting women of colour, who are often found towards the bottom of the pay scale; and marketisation both in HE and FE, where academics are facing increasing class sizes with less and less resources, and less time to spend with individual students.
In relation to the issues facing black workers in the sector, amongst the problems she identifies are a definite lack of progression and lack of a CPD structure that reflects what black workers need. Secondly she argues that there needs to be more recognition that issues around racism are real – something not always grasped at a local level.
Victoria argues that an intersectional approach needs to be further developed within the Union – a journey which she believes first got major support under Joanna de Groot our immediate Past President, and which is being continued now. She believes that she was instrumental in pushing for this during her time on the NEC, and hopes to continue this if successfully elected to the black women’s seat.
When she’s not campaigning, teaching or researching, she admits a fondness for the music of Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson – although her reading materials tend to be…. on academic areas. She’s currently reading around critical whiteness and would specifically recommend Unhinged – an insider’s account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman.
In the odd moment she can plant herself in front of the TV, her favourite boxset would be Law and Order (Special Victims Unit).
Why vote for her? She argues she has a good track record – she’s not pretentious, she’s passionate about what she does – she feels she’s approachable about anything to do with the union and she looks forward to pushing the union further on the issues above.
We recommend – vote for a candidate with a proven record – vote for Victoria.
Posted in F.E., H.E., Our Future | Tagged Building the union, Women
The Real Democratic Deficit in UCU
Posted on June 13, 2018 by unionadmin
Adam Ozanne
This post – from NEC member and recent Congress delegate Adam Ozanne, gives a point of view, on how in Adam’s words “UCU in three days moved from being the most successful trade union in the UK – one that other UK trade unions look upon as leading the way in fighting back against the deliberate constraints placed on them by the Tory government’s 2017 anti-Trade Union Bill – to one whose Congress degenerated into chaos after its paid regional and national officials, who are members of Unite, walked out three times and declared a trade dispute with UCU as their employer, causing Congress to be suspended twice and then brought to a premature end with only a fraction of its business completed”.
UCU Agenda would welcome comments on this – e-mail to unionadmin@ucuagenda.com
Congress should have been a positive and reinforcing event celebrating the successes of the past year, the union’s reinvigoration and renewed strength. So how was it that UCU trade unionists have found themselves in dispute with fellow trade unionists in their employ? Why did Congress 2018 degenerate into chaos? How can victory have been turned so nearly into defeat? And what role did UCULeft, a faction dominated by the Trotskyist Socialist Worker Party (SWP), and supporters of the Independent Broad Left (IBL) grouping play?
The post is set out in seven sections:
The three contentious motions
What happened at Congress – How Victory can be Turned into Defeat
Analysis of the dispute
A reminder of how the USS strikes came to an end
The UCULeft faction and IBL network
Posted in Congress, F.E., H.E., Opinion, Our Future | Tagged Building the union, Strategy
Coventry – help them on to victory
Posted on May 18, 2018 by unionadmin
Coventry UCU have been at the cutting edge of defeating the union busting tactics of local university management.
This week, saw a second, significant demonstration demanding that the Coventry University scrap their ‘sweetheart union’ imposed on the university’s subsidiary organisation ‘CU Group’ – a company wholly owned by the university, but where staff are paid less, have no proper pension scheme, and inadequate time to prepare courses – not to mention to to give pastoral support to students.
This weeks demo, featured UCU President Joanna de Groot, with Douglas Chalmers, UCU VP speaking for the second time at Coventry and also backed up this time by VP elect Nita Sanghera. An outstanding speech was once again given by branch chair Stephen Cowden, who had previously given a video interview to UCUAgenda on the fight for recognition
Speakers from Coventry TUC who have also been outstanding in their support spoke again, demanding that the Board of Governors, who were meeting that day – tell management they need to sit down and talk to the UCU, on the basis of granting the full recognition that the staff have repeated shown they have demanded.
The branch have consistently worked closely with the local community, the media, the wider labour movement and UCU regional and UK officials to build up the type of unstoppable campaign that will undoubtedly ensure victory in this campaign. They’ve also been heartened by the widespread support from UCU branches throughout the UK.
It’s a template that other branches can learn from.
Posted in H.E., Our Future, Solidarity | Tagged Academic Freedom, Campaigns, Coventry, Solidarity, Strategy
The USS Joint Expert Panel and more:
Posted on May 2, 2018 by unionadmin
Report on UCU Higher Education Committee on 27 April 2018
Adam Ozanne, an elected member of UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC), its Superannuation Working Group and the USS Advisory Committee, has written the following account of the discussions regarding the setting up by UCU and UUK of a Joint Expert Panel that took place in HEC on 27 April together with some observations about UCULeft.
Paul Bridge, UCU’s Head of HE, presented a report summarising the following:
the result of the consultative e-ballot: 64% of pre-1992 members voted on a 64% turnout (the highest in the union’s history) to accept the UUK offer of March 23rdand set up a Joint Expert Panel (JEP) that will assess the validity of the 2017 valuation and investigate alternatives to the current DB/DC scheme;
subsequent discussions within UCU’s Superannuation Working Group (SWG) and with UUK; and,
the response of Bill Galvin, the USS CEO, to the agreement by UUK and UCU to set up the JEP.
The report noted that there was a meeting of the JNC at 3.00pm and made a number of recommendations that were accepted by HEC and can be summarised as follows:
HEC approved the setting up of the JEP with three members nominated by UUK and three by UCU, as well as its Terms of Reference, operational timelines and reporting mechanisms.
HEC delegated to the SWG the endorsement of an ACAS recommended Chair of JEP.
HEC agreed that anyone interested in being one of UCU’s three JEP members may nominate themselves by submitting their CV and a 500 word statement, and that the SWG (minus the three USS Trustee Directors) would act as the selection and appointment panel and, in consultation with the HEC officers, take all other actions necessary to set up the JEP. SWG will seek recognised subject leaders with expertise in and knowledge of pensions, finance, the HE sector and the legal and regulatory context.
HEC directed the USS negotiators, in the JNC meeting that afternoon, to vote to revoke the DC-only resolution reached at its meeting on January 23rd, and against any move by USS to trigger a consultation of USS members on Rule 76.4 before the JEP has time to complete its work on the 2017 valuation (Rule 76.4 says that if JNC does not agree reach agreement on how to deal with the results of a triennial valuation USS may seek to raise employer/member contributions on a 65:35 basis).
The Chair of HEC and Head of HE will liaise with the Congress Business Committee with a view to providing time at HE Sector Conference for a report of the first meeting of the JEP and related matters.
All the above had been discussed and unanimously agreed by the Superannuation Working Group, which includes the four elected USS negotiators, the two alternate negotiators from the USS Advisory Committee (including myself) and the three UCU nominated Directors on the USS Trustee Board.
Several motions relating to the setting up of the JEP had been tabled by HEC members. One, that committed the JEP to robustly challenging the current USS valuation and methodology and HEC to pursuing changes in pensions’ regulations, was passed; and an amendment to the Head of HE’s report to include recognition of the equality and diversity implications of any changes in USS was accepted.
The proposers of the other motions were all allowed to speak to them, with no contrary speeches against, but, after the main USS report was passed, fell either (as “consequentials”) because they were incompatible with the above recommendations or because they involved constitutional changes to UCU’s decision making processes that can only be made by Congress.
This, it has to be said, caused a good deal of acrimony with many formal challenges to the Chair by the proposers of the motions which had the unfortunate effect of reducing the time available for discussion of the main report and its recommendations – especially as the SWG members of HEC had to leave the five hour meeting after three hours to prepare for and attend the JNC meeting. With the benefit of hindsight, it might have been better if all the motions had been withdrawn and if debate had concentrated on the main report together with, perhaps, additional amendments to its recommendations being proposed and considered; however, nobody suggested this and much time was wasted in unproductive argument and formal challenges to the chair..
Nevertheless, my personal view is that, despite claims made subsequently on the Activists list by some of those who disagreed with the above recommendations, the motions had to fall once the main report was accepted. This is because – despite claims that they “complemented” the main report – they all contained elements that were incompatible with the main report and/or UCU’s established democratic decision making processes.
For example, three of the motions sought to replace the elected HEC as the relevant decision-making body of the HE part of UCU with an ad hoc national strike committee or a branch delegate meeting with voting powers. Others would have delayed the setting up of the JEP until after HESC at the end of May, which would be too late given the time pressures we are under, or only allowed UCU members to be JEP members, which would unnecessarily exclude leading experts who do not work in HE. All these points were either incompatible with the recommendations in the main report, which had already been voted upon and accepted, or would have undermined UCU’s established decision making bodies. Logically and procedurally, it was not sensible to consider them any further.
In my opinion, therefore, the outcome of Friday’s HEC and the manner in which decisions were reached were appropriate. This is not, however, what you might think from reading some of the reports on Twitter etc. which seem to suggest that those who take a different view must be acting undemocratically or, even worse, are a “powerful right wing faction” in UCU that “believes in the deficit”. (Full disclosure: I first joined the Labour Party in 1976, and have never been a member of any other political party, though I have on occasion voted Green, Communist Party (for a friend was standing in a local election) and LibDem (after the Iraq invasion)).
I am afraid it is also the case that the conduct of some in the HEC meeting – disrespecting the Chair’s efforts to limit speeches in order to allow others time, shouting or speaking unnecessarily loudly into the microphone, showing obvious irritation with having to use a microphone and calling a point of order even after it had been called to an end, made the meeting unnecessarily drawn out and acrimonious and limited the time available for proper debate.
The chair had already had to draw attention at the start of the meeting to incorrect reports of the previous HEC on the activists list, which erroneously claimed he had not allowed discussion (13 colleagues had in fact taken part in discussion), and that he had ruled motions out of order (simply did not happen).
I find all of this deeply disappointing, and will go further by stating the following. UCULeft’s claims to being for a democratic and member-led union are inconsistent with its efforts on 27 April to undermine HEC as the legitimate decision-making body in the USS dispute, its opposition at the end of March to the e-ballot of all post-1992 members on the UUK offer, not to mention its opposition to local and national e-ballots and GTVO (Get The Vote Out) were when they were first introduced.
Just as there are good, democratic reasons for rules stating quotas and minimum numbers of days for giving notice of AGM and EGMs, so there are good reasons for using modern technology to enable timely member participation in decision making and for limiting the ability of meetings to change decision making processes and structures on the hoof (as in replacing HEC with ad hocstrike committees and “branch meetings with voting rights”).
Such rules prevent small unrepresentative but well organised factions from taking control of political organisations and leading them in directions the majority of members (who may be unaware of what is happening or too busy to attend in numbers at short notice) would not agree with. Similarly, insistence on the use of microphones when speaking is not a bureaucratic obsession but an equality principle that enables the hard of hearing to participate fully while rules prohibiting angry outbursts, repeated interruptions and shouting limit intimidatory behaviour and promotes free debate. Such rules and conventions are profoundly important for the well-being of the union.
What every member of HEC, regardless of whether they are a paid up member of UCULeft or not, recognises is the huge success of the USS industrial action. From GTVO trouncing the statutory ballot 50% turnout requirement to vast numbers of new members and the mobilisation of tens of thousands on strike, on picket lines and in vibrant meetings, UCU is leading the UK trade union movement in opposing the Tory government’s anti-trade union legislation. We are showing the way in reinvigorating trade unionism in opposition to the marketisation of the public sector and the erosion of traditional values of collegiality and public service that are the bedrock of the success of UK universities.
The setting up of the JEP is the next step in the defence of decent pensions in universities – and, indeed, elsewhere, because a successful JEP could well influence what happens to other pensions schemes, so we must get it right. The plan is for it to report in two stages: first, on the 2017 valuation in the Autumn, in time to forestall the USS making changes in 2019 based upon a disputed deficit; the second on alternative risk sharing mechanisms to the current hybrid DB/DC scheme. Friday’s HEC and the JNC the same afternoon set that process in motion and I for one am more than a little content with it and relieved that arrangements for setting up the JEP can commence immediately.
Posted in H.E., Opinion, Our Future | Tagged Building the union, Pensions, Strategy, USS
After the ballot – where are we now with our USS dispute?
Posted on April 16, 2018 by unionadmin
What a fantastic and enthusiastic campaign this has been for our union. We have shown by our sheer determination, organisation and hard work, our ability to force the employers back to the drawing board, and to withdraw their decision to scrap Defined Benefit and impose Defined Contribution on us. Where do we go to from here? Below you will find some thoughts that we hope will be helpful.
We got to where we are by combining the enthusiasm, commitment, and creativity of thousands of activists with the hard work of UCU staff, the policy framework established by our lead elected committees, the persistent efforts of branch committees, and the seen and unseen work of negotiators.
While there has been plenty of friction between the different players ( not surprising in a complex dispute ) it is a fact that all have contributed to getting us to a point so different from where we were when the employers looked like getting away with imposing a DC version of the USS scheme.
Students were key supporters of our struggle
It’s important to remember that the proposal which a massive majority of members have accepted was shaped by the priorities made very clear by the branch representatives who rejected an earlier set of proposals emerging from ACAS.
Rather than seeking to add to or alter those earlier proposals they wanted to focus negotiations on the key objectives of a full review of USS procedures and the defence of a guaranteed pension. Those priorities were taken into negotiations and are embedded in the outcome.
Of course the independent review is just the start of the next stage of our struggle for a better USS.
Support was widespread and enthusiastic
In accepting it members have shown not confidence in their employers (which is not great) but in our own ability to keep up the pressure for members’ interests, including future use of the industrial strength which we (and of course the employers ) now know we have.
Full involvement in the review will need to matched by unremitting vigilance by our branches, our elected committees and our industrial negotiators.
It seems odd and unhelpful that so much of the visible debate about the proposal and the ballot focussed on who said or did what inside UCU, rather than on our dispute with our employers or the interests of members. In any dispute the participants will have such concerns but do let’s remember that we launched this dispute for a big industrial reason – to challenge the employers’ outrageous and damaging attack on our pensions scheme which both threatened the size and security of our pensions and also pulled the rug out from under the co-stakeholder structure of USS.
SO – members took action because their wellbeing was threatened but also because this threat was just the latest step in the employers’ wrecking of the collegial and professional respect and co-working which should shape our workplaces, and they did this in the name of managerial authoritarianism and credit ratings. Many activists have said that the attack on their pensions was the last straw on top of a burden of managerialism, disempowerment, precarious wok, and excessive hours. Now they are energised to start organising challenges to this burden in their institutions. Real issues to take up, not internal wrangles and sectarianism.
We balloted over 53 thousand members, over 33 thousand of whom voted on the proposal The dispute and the ballot involved members: it was about members. and the outcome allows members to continue to pursue the issues which they have said mattered to them.
Together we have achieved something for ALL members in USS whether or not they agreed with every particular view, whether or not they were at rallies as well as striking. There is a crucial link between these two because activists have used both their power and their responsibility to use their commitment time and energy on behalf of our growing wider membership.
Lots to celebrate, lots to digest, lots to get on with. . .
Posted in H.E., Opinion, Our Future | Tagged Industrial action, Pensions, Strategy, USS
The USS dispute – some debate on our article
Posted on April 9, 2018 by unionadmin
The blog and our article had several thousand hits in the 24 hours following its publication, and since it was published we have received a number of critiques. This is a pleasing sign of a vibrant and democratic union.
Alex Gunz and Adam Ozanne write:
We unfortunately do not have the time to respond to many of these, but dialogue is important so we felt it important to give at least some kind of response.
Several of the critiques have been about typos, run-on sentences, moments of non-clarity and the like. We are aware of these, and apologize for them, but this is something we put together in non-existent spare time to a tight deadline, so one will have to live with them.
Other critiques were more substantive. For the sake of response we’ve chosen the most detailed one we are aware of to engage with. Take a bow Sam Dolan of Sheffield (who has graciously agreed to let us reply back here, and who we have invited to post a response of his own in the next few days).
Most of the points below are from a twitter thread, so bear with us here:
DOLAN: Point 1. O&G say the IDC proposal “would be dead”. But AJ says only that “UUK does not intend to return to the Jan JNC proposal …”
(QUOTES text from the offer saying): “UUK does not intend to return to the January joint negotiating committee proposal to consult on moving to a DC scheme”
REPLY: Nothing in negotiations is ever certain till the ink dries, but our understanding is that DC is not currently being discussed as a live viable option. Maybe tomorrow the economy crashes, interest rates spike, the government slashes university spending, and abolishes tuition, and we are back in a DC world. Maybe if we reject the offer the UUK hawks take over, declare that we aren’t interested in negotiating and roll backwards on us (or maybe not – anybody pretending to know exactly what would happen for sure, is appealing to facts not in evidence). But we are content that this is a reasonably accurate description of where the negotiations are at right now.
DOLAN: Point 2. O&G write “the 2017 valuation would effectively, be put on hold while an independent expert panel reviews USS’s valuation methodology and its claims that there is a deficit.” But UUK just say this:
QUOTES: “maintenance of the status quo… until at least April 2019” and “we are committed to maintaining a meaningful DB pension offer at this valuation. Longer term we would like to work jointly with UCU to consider other risk sharing alternatives”
REPLY: People seem to think nothing is allowed to happen before April 2019 but that’s not strictly true, the USS Board can make changes whenever it likes. Realistically these changes get made by the tax year for obvious reasons. Still, it was nice to have this deadline codified.
For what it’s worth, our understanding of the current deal is “No Change until April 2019 and then only change justified by a valuation methodology sanctioned by the expert panel, establishing the size of the cake, and JNC, how to divide it up.” Now it’s true that’s not written in stone, but at this point the pressures are generally more political than they are legal. If UUK suddenly announced draconian cuts in April 2019 while the independent report was still pending, they would have to know that this would spark a wave of anger, and this would lead to more strikes of the exact kind they are now making all these offers to try to defuse.
DOLAN: Point 3. O&G write “That independent panel of experts would review USS’s valuation methodology in time to conduct a new valuation before April 2019“. But there is essentially nothing about timescale in the UUK text, or in Sally Hunt’s email, AFAICS (corrections welcome).
(QUOTES pt 5 of the agreement): “the panel will make an assessment of the valuation. If in the light of that contributions or benefits need to be adjusted in either direction, both parties are committed to agree to recommend to the JNC and the trustee, measures aimed at stabilising the fund to provide a guaranteed pension broadly comparable with current arrangements.”
REPLY: Again, it will be up to UCU to make sure the panel completes it’s work by then, and if not to make sure UUK don’t try anything too silly in the interim.
It’s also worth noting that it’s not particularly clear what rule you could negotiate now to steer around this. For instance, let’s assume that the employers guaranteed not to change the pension plan until the independent committee completed its work. That would create an incentive for UCU to drag its feet and make sure the review took forever, so that we could keep the current deal alive for as long as possible. As much as we don’t trust UUK, they probably don’t trust us all that much either, and so are unlikely to agree to something which could create that dynamic.
Now maybe you could come up with something more elaborate to side step around all of these issues, but that would take time, and would probably STILL be open to future abuse by someone clever enough. So regardless of how many months of intricate negotiations you conducted now to get a perfectly clear wording, its implementation would still likely depend on the balance of power between our ability to strike, and their build-in powers as employers.
DOLAN: Point 4. O&G write that “any scheme implemented after April 2019 should be broadly comparable to the current DB scheme and to the Teachers Pension Scheme …”. But …
QUOTES: “4. UUK agree that any scheme implemented after April 2019 should be broadly comparable to the current DB sceme and to the Teachers Pension Scheme our colleagues in post-1992 universities and schools benefit from.”
DOLAN: From 1/85th to 1/57th? It is essentially impossible that the USS scheme will be “broadly comparable to” the TPS, unless there is some radical Deus Ex Machina from Government.
Here is what UUK actually say:
QUOTES: “6. … agree to continue discussion on the following areas: … role of government…”
REPLY: The TPS’s apparently fantastic accrual rate of 1/57 is not directly comparable to our rate of 1/85 because unlike the TPS, our plan grants us an additional lump sum payment when we retire that is 3 times the value of our annual pension. Calculating whether you are better with a slower accrual + a lump sum on retirement vs. a faster accrual with no lump sum is an exercise that we leave to the actuaries (though we suspect it depends heavily on interest rates and how long you live after retirement). But let us stipulate, for the moment, that overall the TPS plan is the better one. How is it a bad thing that a committee examining our pensions would use this as a comparison point? Even if it could never quite be reached, that would put upwards pressure on the value of our pensions instead of downwards pressure. This is why the union has been insisting for years that TPS should be considered as a comparison, and UUK has argued that it should not be. The concession that it should be is a good thing for us!
DOLAN: Point 5. “UUK and UCU would also agree to explore alternative ways of sharing risk.” But risk-sharing wasn’t mentioned at all in the UUK offer text? So point 5 looks like a backward step.
REPLY: When they talk about exploring other models, such as Collective DC, what they are talking about is ways of sharing risk (recall, CDC removes risk from institutions, but shares it among many members)..
DOLAN: “…In summary, this is unsatisfactory. I really don’t know what I am voting for – or against. Clarification is needed, from UCU central, from UUK, and from the USS trustees too. Key Q: What is the timescale for the JEP, and can/will it affect the valuation before Apr 2019? (End).”
REPLY: Uncertainty is a feature either way. If we reject the proposal, then we hope that the employers interpret this as an invitation to make clarifications and improvements and send it back. And they might! Or the hawks among them might seize the argument that we are not able to come to agreements with them, and that if they can tough out strikes through the examination period, then our leverage drops off a cliff over the summer, as there is no use picketing empty buildings. That is possible too. We don’t pretend to be able to handicap the odds either way.
But if we accept the deal then, yes, we face uncertainty this way too. Partly that’s because this is an offer of PROCESS, not of OUTCOME. It makes no hard promises about future payments of any kind, past April 2019. Instead it focusses on addressing our core grievance that decisions were being made in an opaque way, based on opaque analyses, using opaque criteria, chosen for opaque reasons. A big part of our initial complaint that this was a process ripe for abuse, and, further, that we didn’t trust their numbers.
What this offer does is offer a process that allows sunlight and input into deciding what the rules and criteria should be, and how they are decided. And it offers that this will be done sharing our goals of a pension that is comparable to the one that we and the teachers have now.
Now, legally speaking, UUK could still turn around and welch on this deal. They could let the expert panel run, then ignore everything it says, and announce that they were putting us on the cat food retirement plan after all. But politically that would become a very difficult thing for them to do. The union membership would be incensed at this betrayal, and we would have a very sympathetic public and political system (not to mention regulator) behind us, angry that they agreed to tear up all the legal rules to allow the expert panel to run, only for its outputs to be ignored and overridden. Put yourself in the position of a 2019 VC. Is that something you would readily sign on to?
The bigger risk for us is that we agree to a clear and transparent methodology, based on fair principles, and that this process ends up showing that the pension fund doesn’t have enough money in it, and the employers come to us in a stronger position to negotiate cuts to payments to balance the books. This is a possibility that many UCU analysts do not believe will come to pass, and let us hope that they are right. But even if they are not, at least we would be negotiating from a more honest place, with more of the cards out on the table. At least that would be a negotiation in which the truth got a fair shot, instead of us being easy marks to run over on the way to strengthening their books.
Whatever happens, it will, as ever, be down to us to continue to be engaged, to continue to defend our interests, and to use the momentum that this strike has generated to build up the union to be even stronger for the next fight. Because the only real certainty is that there will eventually be a next fight.
Posted in Opinion, Our Future, Solidarity | Tagged Industrial action, Pensions, Strategy, USS
Why I have voted YES to accept UUK’s proposal
Amanda Williams is a member of the NEC and HEC, and also a member of the UCU’s Superannuation Working Group.
I’ve voted yes to accepting the UUK proposal because I think that is the route that is most likely to protect our pension. That doesn’t mean that I trust UUK. It means that I believe that the valuation panel provides the best mechanism for resolving both the current dispute and avoiding future attacks on our pension. If UUK lets us down I trust my friends and colleagues in UCU to be ready to take effective industrial action in future.
The main case against voting yes to the UUK proposal seems to be a lack of trust in UUK and the lack of certainty as to what might happen if the proposal is accepted. It has been claimed that to accept the proposal would be naïve.
I am not proposing that we naïvely accept the UUK proposal, I am suggesting that we should vote yes with our eyes wide-open. That is why the notices for further strike action have been issued even while the proposal from UUK has gone out to the wider membership.
If we vote no and turn down the proposal we don’t know what will happen next. Different people, with different experience and expertise are reaching different conclusions based on their judgement. If we reject the proposal we don’t know for certain how UUK will react. We also don’t know how USS or tPR (the Pensions Regulator) will react. Those of us who think that the most likely reaction from UUK, USS and tPR will be a hardening rather than a softening of position are making a judgement.
If we accept the proposal we still don’t have absolute certainty about what will happen next. However, we do know that the expert panel will need time to convene, look at the valuation and come to conclusions. During this time, of course, industrial action would be suspended. We know that tPR has indicatedits support for a process which allows the stakeholders to come together and avoid recurring disagreements. We know that if we vote yes UUK would have committed itself to make approaches to seek support from USS and tPR for the process of finding a solution.
One of the arguments for voting no has been that the UUK proposal contained a commitment to ‘maintenance of the status quo in respect of both contributions into USS and current pension benefits, until at least April 2019’. Those advocating for a no vote say that this statement is there just to look good and therefore is evidence of duplicity. I disagree. If you believe that it adds nothing to the proposal then ignore it as a neutral statement. However, there is nothing in the rules that specifies the date at which implementation takes place. A date of April 2019 for implementation of changes was part of the USS’s project management timeline for the current valuation. Other implementations have been earlier (2011) or later (2014). So, in my view, this commitment adds a level of certainty that was previously absent.
Some of the criticism of the proposal concerns the language used within it. Words and phrases like a ‘guaranteed pension’ have caused consternation, the precise meaning of ‘comparable’ has been picked apart and the idea of considering ‘affordability challenges for all parties’ has been held up as unreasonable.
Personally, I am content to see a ‘guaranteed pension’ used as a synonym for ‘Defined Benefit pension’. That’s because a guaranteed pension is a Defined Benefit pension scheme. The definitions of DC and DB under international accounting standards (maybe not the most salient definitions but the ones I am most familiar with) are:
‘Defined contribution plans are post-employment benefit plans under which an entity pays fixed contributions into a separate entity (a fund) and will have no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employee benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.’
‘Defined benefit plans are post-employment benefit plans other than defined contribution plans.’
(IFRS Foundation, (2013), IAS 19 Employee Benefits, section 8)
If the pension is guaranteed, then by definition it is a Defined Benefit pension.
Comparability has been widely interpreted to mean something capable of being compared to something else (for example, a melted, destroyed heater could be compared to a functioning heater), thereby dismissing this commitment as worthless. That is a rather pedantic way of using a word for which the synonyms are ‘similar, close, near, approximate, akin, equivalent, corresponding, commensurate, proportional, proportionate, parallel, analogous, related’ and which can be defined as meaning ‘of equivalent quality’. The 12 March offer, although rejected by UCU, was a better comparator than the full DC offer from 23 January. Both have been rejected, but nonetheless it should be acknowledged that the shift away from full DC and a return to a hybrid structure is a significant victory. And we should remind ourselves that we will be the final arbiters of what is considered sufficiently similar, close or near to our existing pensions.
I am somewhat more sympathetic to the points being made about appearing to accept that there are potential ‘affordability challenges’. Discourse around affordability has been used to undermine the position of Defined Benefit schemes as the preferred option of employers as they were in the 1980s. Those discourses are misconceived: evidence can be found that DB schemes, especially large DB schemes, are a cost-effective way of making provision for retirement from both the employee and employer’s perspective. The valuation and the future service cost are bound up with each other, so opening the one up to scrutiny of the valuation panel provides a chance to review the other and refute any claims that future DB accruals are not affordable.
Advocates for a no vote have said that ‘we know that the pension scheme is in surplus, we know that it’s got loads of assets’ and ‘there is no risk to this pension scheme’. Well some of that is true and some is not, but none of it is a reason for voting no to accepting the proposal from UUK. It’s fairer to say that we know that the scheme is cash flow positive for the foreseeable future as long as it remains open to DB accruals (I realise that is not as effective a rallying call as ‘the pensions scheme is in surplus’), and it’s true the scheme has a very large total of assets (with a market value of about £60bn according to the March 2017 audited accounts). Still, I would take issue with the statement that there is no risk to this pension scheme — if it’s not taking risks it won’t be earning returns!
But what we need now is time for the Joint Expert Panel to pick apart the valuation, examine the strengths inherent in the scheme, such as its scale, the strength of the employers’ covenant, the robustness of a multi-employer scheme, the fact that it is asset-rich, and the healthy returns that the investments have made historically. All that information can be used to craft a new, better proposal for this valuation cycle.
As an aside, the scale of the scheme has apparently been one of the main concerns of tPR, but the recently published government white paper on pensions, ‘Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes’, proposes to put in place mechanisms to consolidate smaller schemes because of the significant advantages associated with the largest schemes. USS is the largest private DB scheme in the country.
I am optimistic that the valuation panel will start a process that allows the 2017 valuation to be revisited in such a way that a satisfactory resolution can be found. But I am not naïve. We have demonstrated that we can carry out effective industrial action. The credible threat of industrial action remains as a reminder to UUK to take the commitments it has made seriously. If we judge it has reneged on its commitment ‘to maintaining a meaningful defined benefit (DB) pension offer at this valuation’ we know we can muster on the picket lines again. More importantly, UUK now knows that too.
If we are looking for absolute certainty before we accept any proposals or suspend any action I think we will be waiting for ever and never be in a position to resolve this dispute, which in my view will then peter out without having crystallised the significant gains that have been made.
I have voted yes, not because I am daunted by more strike action — I’m not. If need be I’ll be there fighting for UCU’s interests, on the picket lines, as I have been in every dispute since I joined UCU. I have voted yes because I think that the most likely route to a getting a good pension deal currently lies through accepting UUK’s proposal.
Posted in Opinion, Our Future | Tagged Industrial action, Pensions, Strategy, USS
UCU Strikes: The Ballot, what it means and where we go from here.
With permission, UCU Agenda has reprinted a posting by Jeanette Findlay, and Patricia Findlay two UCU members from Glasgow and Strathclyde universities (who describe themselves as ‘non-affiliated’) on why they are calling for a yes vote in the current ballot. They make the point that it’s a ballot on the process and not the outcome. We think it’s a fantastic contribution to the debate. The original posting can be found here
Jeanette is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the College of Social Sciences at Glasgow University and Tricia is Professor of Work and Employment Relations at Strathclyde and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER)
Jeanette at UCUS congress
Tricia on picket duty
“The following is our understanding, based on evidence cited in the text, and on our understanding of how negotiations work/how settlements are reached, of where we are and the nature of the decision we are being asked to take. We are happy to debate any element of it if there are detailed rebuttals or alternative views on how things work, but we would ask for people to specify precisely how they perceive a settlement arising at any point in this dispute which does not involve a process the same or similar to the one that is on the table. For the avoidance of doubt, we are neither part of, nor opposed in principle to, any grouping within the union”. Jeanette Findlay, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Glasgow. Patricia Findlay, Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde
We came out on strike because in January the JNC (UUK plus chair) forced through a decision, based on the November 2017 valuation, to remove all Defined Benefits – totally unacceptable.
UCU position – (1) refuse to accept these changes, (2) want to open up the issue of the valuation to joint discussion and (3) protect a fair pension.
We go on strike for 14 days – make no mistake, the strike and action to date has been successful
Employers won’t talk …. Our action makes them talk
Employers threaten ASOS deductions … our actions ensures that most don’t/won’t
Employers assess that we won’t be strong enough to resist imposition of these damaging changes – but UCU grows in membership and activism
Employers insist DB is unaffordable – our action forces a DB offer in March (not good enough, but still an offer the employers previously said wasn’t possible)
We reject March offer and make plans for continuing action.
Employers make an offer in relation to the valuation process and HEC decide to put this to a ballot of members (people have a variety of complaints about the process – whatever the rights and wrongs of that, it isn’t relevant to the substance of the decision on the ballot).
What we are about to vote on is to agree a process, not to agree an outcome. Understanding this distinction is absolutely crucial. We/UCU believe that the USS valuation is wrong and have argued for 5 years for a different valuation process. Avoiding being in the same position every time the USS scheme is revalued means addressing the issue of valuation. Some agreement over the valuation is a necessary, but not sufficient condition, of an outcome to the current dispute that is acceptable to us. We are now being offered a joint valuation process.
1st objective of UCU action has been achieved – the original (DC) offer is now off the table as implied in the UUK statement, confirmed in a direct answer to a question by Josephine Cumbo of the FT and then finally confirmed in the letter to Sally Hunt from Alastair Jarvis last Wednesday (day of Branch Reps meeting in London).
So what are we being balloted about? The establishment of an independent panel to look at the valuation methodology and to have underpinning this panel a focus on DB and on ‘broadly comparable benefits’. We are being asked to say yes or no to what we asked for ie the 2nd objective of the UCU action.
We are NOT, at this point, being balloted on a set of pension arrangements – this will come later. We would not, therefore, be ‘giving up’ the current industrial action – though it is likely that we would suspend it (see point 20 below).
The pensions regulator is on board and the USS board now needs to agree this.
Assuming that the USS board agrees, then we have won the first round of this battle – we’ve had the unacceptable offer/s removed and have forced acceptance of the need for a joint process to address the valuation question.
Yet some people are unhappy – why?
Process of HEC decision – nothing to do with substance of what will be balloted on
Because it came from the employers – not unusual in any negotiations process for one side to propose and the other to decide on the proposal (and remember, some members were equally unhappy about the March proposal for having come from UUK and UCU).
Because they don’t trust the employer – if a lack of trust was necessary for negotiating and agreement making, few agreements would be made. We gain what we gain by strength in negotiation – and knowing when to deploy that strength.
Because there are no specifics on what the final position will be – that’s because this isn’t a ballot on the substance of the pensions, but a process to generate information that will underpin future negotiations on the actual pensions outcome.
Because there has been no specification of timings – lots of speculation about how this expert panel process is only for the 2020 valuation – but correspondence between Matt Waddup/UCU and UCU Glasgow makes it is clear that the joint expert panel is aimed at the current valuation – ie will be available in time to influence what happens after April 2019. It is our understanding that UCU will convey this shortly.
Some are arguing for a guarantee of no detriment at this stage. But at this stage, there is no ‘detriment’ on the table. If people are arguing that employers should commit now to no detriment in future, this is unrealistic – and even if UUK made such a commitment now, they could abandon that commitment when the Expert Panel on Valuation concludes. Whatever comes out of this valuation process becomes the next terrain on which to fight – or not. Because either we were right and the scheme is sound and doesn’t need to change. Or we were wrong and change in benefits or costs will be proposed. But even if we agreed increased costs were necessary, we could argue that they should be borne by the employers given they had a payment holiday some years ago – but we are not at that stage yet. In effect, some people seem to want to have the agreement completed before getting into the room with the other side! This is generally not how negotiations work.
There are objections to mention of affordability and constraints of the existing regulatory regime – we can disagree in negotiations as to what is or is not affordable, but we cannot object to the concept of affordability in and of Similarly, we may not like the regulatory regime, and we may wish to pursue separate discussions with the regulator to establish what room for manoeuvre there is, but we cannot pretend that regulation does not exist or oppose it in principle.
Some objections are because the UUK proposal doesn’t address a much wider range of issues, or because there is no focus on UUK governance – on the former, there are wider issues to focus on with our new members and activists, but this dispute is about pensions, and mission creep doesn’t help us with this; on the latter (and notwithstanding that the governance of UUK is a car crash that has got us into this dispute in the first place), it is not the job of any agreement with us to review/reform UUK governance – we would be up in arms if UUK suggested an agreement over the internal governance of UCU. UUK governance is for Principals/VCs to address – and they should.
We defer to no-one in our willingness to fight for what is right in the workplace. But we cannot get anyone to articulate – in conversation or on Twitter – what else precisely, at this stage of the process, we are asking for. The question being posed is simple at this stage – is the specified form and operation of an Expert Panel, focussed on retaining a DB scheme and broadly comparable benefits, acceptable to us at this stage in our dispute?
Discussions – on Twitter and elsewhere – about problems with the vagueness of the current ‘offer’ are misplaced because we do not have a current offer – we have a proposed mechanism to underpin an offer at the next stage of negotiations.
People say this should go back to the negotiators – what for? We have what we wanted at this stage – removal of the January JNC imposed changes – effectively returning us to the status quo for the time being – and (potentially) an agreed process. In fact, UCU confirmed at the Branch Reps meeting that there will be a DB scheme for at least four years: till April 2019 as is, and for the following three years (till next valuation) whatever DB scheme comes out of the current dispute – a scheme which we, necessarily and by definition, will have agreed to.
There are lots of risks in the process and in the future. The UCU choice of experts is incredibly important, as is ongoing communication and consultation with the membership. Being clear about what we will and won’t accept is crucial and needs to be understood by our negotiators. But at the end of any agreed process, based on whatever valuation comes out of it, proposals will be put to the Trustees and we will be balloted on whether to accept or reject them.
To reiterate – because this point appears to have been lost from the debate, certainly on Twitter – at this point, we are not agreeing to accept whatever comes out of this valuation process. We are not being asked to accept a ‘deal’ that specifies what our pensions will look like. We are being offered the process we asked for. To reject the process we asked for risks making us look ridiculous, alienating some members, and losing student and public support. Members need to be very clear about the different stages of the process – negotiations will follow the valuation process. The upcoming ballot is only about the valuation process.
A lack of clarity about what we are deciding in the upcoming ballot doesn’t help in informing members and makes us look divided and consequently weaker.
Once the Expert Panel has concluded, we are back in negotiations about the content of any agreement. If at that stage we don’t like what we are offered, then we will take action to defend our pensions.
If members vote yes in the ballot, and USS accepts it and the action is suspended, some people appear to feel that if activists ‘stand down’, they won’t stand up again. We have no reason to believe this (quite the reverse – we’re more likely to lose people if we try to keep them involved in action without clarity over why they are taking action). Not only are the employers unlikely to accept that industrial action continues throughout the valuation process (no employer would), but any strike action (or action short) would neither have a current objective (to get the employer to talk, because we’d be talking) or be timely for any ultimate objective – ie to influence an agreement, because we don’t have an offer of an agreement yet.
If members vote no in the ballot, what are we saying? What comes next? We can, of course, continue our action, but without a new valuation the November valuation will stand. We cannot wish away external constraints in the form of the tPR timescales for the current valuation – and (whatever limited flexibility exists) these are not sensitive to our industrial action as they are not in the gift of UUK.
To conclude, all disputes are resolved by a negotiated settlement. Our (UCU) position has always been that we want a joint process of valuation to underpin a negotiated settlement. If we accept the UUK proposal, we would be agreeing to take part in the valuation process that at some point would (or wouldn’t) lead to a negotiated settlement that we’d be balloted on. Engaging with the valuation process would be a necessary but not sufficient condition of a final agreement. We deployed industrial action to win round 1 – ie to stop the imposition of changes to DC and deliver the necessary condition (ie a fair valuation). That valuation process would then begin. When complete, we would negotiate on the basis of it (so long as the process had been robust), ballot on it and either accept it, or reject it – at which point industrial action would have an objective, which is to change the offer.
We have a job to do while the expert panel is ongoing. We need to build our union and we need to stay united and keep the communications flowing. We need to build capacity and capability for what might come next. We need to talk about and act in relation to all of the other problematic issues that we’ve discussed on the picket lines over the last month.
We have been successful to date, but there is a long way to go. There are tactical considerations to be made about how best and when is best to deploy our collective resources. What would be an absolute travesty is for us to be disunited after this ballot on process – for us, that really would feel like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Photos: 16th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration w/ Gladys Knight, Fred Hammond, Donnie McClurkin, Mali Music, Natalie Grant, DeWayne Woods and More
This year’s Super Bowl Gospel Celebration marked its 16th year with a blowout evening of powerful inspiration and entertainment, capped by inspirational moments, awards, special tributes, and starring performances from legendary icon Gladys Knight as headlining performer, to Natalie Grant, Fred Hammond, Israel Houghton, Donnie McClurkin, DeWayne Woods, Anthony Hamilton, Dave Hollister, Mali Music, and the NFL Players Choir. A perennial favorite during Super Bowl weekend, singers, entertainers, athletes, fans and more came together in Tempe, AZ in celebration of music, faith and football, including appearances from actors Boris Kodjoe and Tichina Arnold, and NFL players Russell Okung (Seattle Seahawks), Devon Still (Cincinnati Bengals), Rashad Jennings (New York Giants), Justin Bethel (Arizona Cardinals), NFL Hall of Famer Franco Harris, joining the evening’s co-hosts, actress Holly Robinson Peete and retired NFL star Rodney Peete at the 16th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration.
Made possible with gracious support from Presenting Sponsor American Family Insurance, the 2015 Super Bowl Gospel Celebration was held at ASU Gammage on Friday January 30th. Double Grammy®-nominee and Phoenix native Mali Music kicked off the show, opening with a musical medley – and the acclaimed NFL Players Choir (featuring current/retired players), under the direction of Myron Butler, marked its 8th year performing on stage – along with DeWayne Woods, joined by Anthony Hamilton and Dave Hollister, taking the stage for a never-before-seen performance of the new song “Friend of Mine.” A mix of praise celebration, community inspiration and poignant moments, the night featured Bengals’ player Devon Still receiving the Inspirational Game Ball award, and NFL player Justin Forsett (Baltimore Ravens) receiving the Spirit of David award, plus special tributes to gospel music legend Andraé Crouch and beloved sportscaster Stuart Scott.
Highlighting the spirit of faith and team sports united under one roof, this year’s Super Bowl Gospel Celebration also included appearances from Benjamin Watson (New Orleans Saints), former NFL player Israel Idonije (Chicago Bears), Kelvin Beachum (Pittsburgh Steelers), with a host of luminaries attending the show, including NFL champion Emmitt Smith and Patricia Smith, New England Patriots team chaplain Jack Easterby, Shark Tank’s Daymond John, singer Rebecca King-Crews, Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane, and more. One of only five NFL-sanctioned events, each year the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration donates a portion of its proceeds to local and national charities. Created and executive produced by Melanie Few-Harrison, for the past 15 years the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration has brought together a singular concert event blowout mix of superstar secular, Christian/Gospel artists and athletes, to uplift and celebrate the community in the host city of the Super Bowl game, and each year, the team that has also sent representation (players and/or staff) to the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration has won the Super Bowl game that year.
The Super Bowl Gospel Celebration was produced by event creator and NFL Sanction Holder, Melanie Few-Harrison, and Bart Phillips from Sunseeker Media. The Super Bowl Gospel Celebration also aired as a one-hour special on BET and Centric this year on Super Bowl Sunday, February 1st.
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Friday Open Thread – March 13th
Posted on March 13, 2015 by sundance
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
277 Responses to Friday Open Thread – March 13th
F.D.R. in Hell says:
Let’s get this out of the way first…
MaryfromMarin says:
Paraskevidekatriaphobia!
http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1336121/paraskevidekatriaphobia—or—friday-the-thirteenth-done-come-on-a-friday-this-month-
I wanted to post the strip itself, but this is the best I could do. I managed the “woohoo” guy and a cartoon, in another thread, but it’s early days for this skill. Rough edges.
Eleanor in Hell says:
Eleanor! Howdy! and thank you.
WTF? 😯
I complimented her eyes a few threads back, remember? She’s just doing me a return favor.
pspsst says:
LOLLOLOL! Eleanor is here too?
LOL! I had to sign in to say that was really funny!
taqiyyologist says:
I’m in stitches this AM! 😆
She GOTCHA,” Frankie. She really GOTCHA!
If I’d have been old enough in ’56 I’d have voted for Pogo, though he seems to have influenced a whole barrel of cartoon characters to run starting in ’60.
Col.(R) Ken says:
Mary, by chance were you the spelling bee champion in school?
No, but thanks for the implied compliment!
In any event, THAT word above ^^^ would stump just about anybody.
smiley says:
surprised its not in moderation 🙂
New skill (I sincerely hope):
❤ ❤ Hurrah! ❤ ❤
Thank you, magister. Although it didn’t work so well with Churchy…
canadacan says:
He is a great teacher
Appropriate–as usual!
And I have to say “thank you” to CJ, too–sorry I forgot!
We’re getting closer and closer to actually stating the truth.
Don’t forget that Hilla the Hun has the goods on BHO.
I’ve been wondering when that shoe was going to be thrown.
They’ve all got the goods on each other. I’d like every one of them to spill the beans all at once.
What a document dump THAT would be. For the ages.
auscitizenmom says:
Yep. It would probably look something like this:
There’s also a satisfyingly appropriate section in C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (chapter 16, “Banquet at Belbury”).
Ahhh you beat me to it 🙂
Last month was a Friday 13th, too… consecutive Friday 13ths are rare.
One more this year …in November. 😈
I’ll never look at my, er, Clogs the same way again. No wonder I scare people when I wear them.
I was wearing my Crocs while wifey and I were out chainsawing yesterday and no worried looks from the neighbors – must be my trusting face and mild demeanor.
Two in a row, and both are an awesome gift from the Lord…
like the Blood Moons
more of those coming up, too
If America had an authentic President, this would not happen…
Exactly FDR!
TKim says:
The secret service lapses keeps me up at night. If they fail at their main job this country would be unrecognizable for many many months.
“…this country would be unrecognizable for many many months.”
Uhhh, we’re already there. 😦
BTW, don’t let it keep you awake. Were something to happen, The United States of America will continue on.
Monroe says:
Secret Service is just cover show. Obama has a private security firm that manages his security. By any chance someone got too close to the President, the masses would panic but continuity would occur bc ValJar and Soros would still be pulling strings.
😥 I am afraid you are right. 😦
Donovan, Ogilvie, Clancy, Connolly
Gee, who could possibly anticipate drinking.
F.D.R. Great commentary of the culture of the SS.
TexasRanger says:
Washington is “Disintegrating” From Within Iranian Says
Referring to the GOP Letter by Republican Senators As Evidence of Decline.!
TEHRAN – Iran’s highest leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a sharp response Thursday to a letter to the country’s leadership by Republican lawmakers, deriding it as an indication that Washington is “disintegrating” from within.
http://nypost.com/2015/03/12/iran-supreme-leader-weighs-in-on-republicans-letter/
I thought Khamenei was very sick. Was the Senatorial missive so upsetting that he came back from the brink to address it?
people just come and go
people just float
gone with
in the long black coat…
someone is beating
on a dead horse. B. Dylan
BTW,,where’s Putin been lately?
BTW,,where’s Putin been lately? – gloating
a lot of dramatic theories swirling around.
a coup?
There’ve been a lot of ‘accidents’ to Putin enemies over the short term – maybe he’s busy signing condolence cards.
sittin on the dacha ..
watchin the tide roll away
carrying out the bodies…
(you missed my play on words there)
thought I was adding to it, or was I redding it wrong?
Just stalin for time so I could check the Georgia reference…
you’re too much…my bad.
“stalin for time”
that’s good, I must say.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
“Dacha” is very good, smiley! Carry on.
It’s good dacha caught that
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Health,
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a public appearance Sunday March 8th amid rumors about his health, as a relative dismissed the claims as gossip meant to derail ongoing nuclear talks with world powers.
State television aired pictures Sunday of the 75-year-old Khamenei addressing a group of environmental officials and activists at his residence in central Tehran. He appeared to look comfortable and healthy in the footage.
His comment about “Washington is “Disintegrating” From Within” was reportedly made in a meeting he held in his home with his President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics on Thursday March 12th.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irans-ayatollah-khamenei-makes-rare-public-appearance/
Don’t believe anything that you read,
and only half of what you see and hear.
— Helen Keller
Do you know what Helen Keller did when she fell down the well?
Let’s not go there.
(kicked the bucket)
I know, I shouldn’t have.
(Screamed her fingers off)
Helen: 100% skeptic, apparently.
I particularly like the liberal pundits who are saying SEN Cotton’s letter will force the Iranian Assembly of Experts to elect a hardliner replacement when Ali Khamenei goes to room temp. Their lack of understanding of the Iranian Revolution and the system of government the Ayatollah Khomeini established – after all they think our Supreme Leader’s an inspired visionary – despite what history and the function of the religious authority in Iran are. They completely ignore, as a matter of convenience and self-delusion. the inconvenient truth that what they see as a boogeyman hardliner the members of the Assembly of Experts see as a link in the continuous chain of Islamic government that Khomeini established. They look at each sop of rapprochement that the ‘civilian’ government holds out to the West as a nugget of hope while the religious authorities that really run the country (the progs don’t read foreign Constitutions any more than they do ours) see them as delaying tactics that give them wriggle room to herd more non-Moslem sheep into the abattoir waiting room. It’s OK for a Moslem to lie to the dhimmi, almost a religious obligation, and the progressive pundits believe all their told. I’m sure that when the time comes they’ll be the first one happily dancing into the free showers.
Couple of pertinent articles from Heritage:
“Why Tom Cotton’s Letter Did Not Violate the Logan Act”
Paul J. Larkin Jr. / March 12, 2015
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/12/why-tom-cottons-letter-did-not-violate-the-logan-act/?utm
“History Shows Obama Doesn’t Need Congress to Seal Iran Deal”
Melissa Quinn / March 13, 2015 /
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/13/will-white-house-pursue-treaty-executive-agreement-iran-heres-need-know/
I’ve seen other interpretations re the Iran deal and Congressional approval. While BHO apparently does not need Congressional approval to sign an executive agreement, on something so very important to the stability of the world, he definitely should consult with other than fascist leftys. But of course, that’s not gonna happen such is his hate.
This is a war between the far left and the far right. Those Senators who signed that letter had their legal beagles test its legality just as did Cotton’s crew. They aren’t going to pout any oftheir well-compensated body parts into a pencil sharpener and I’m betting they had legal staff from the Party looking at it to just to make sure it wouldn’t bite them in the wallet. The POtuS’s minions has been bandying about the term treaty while he calls it (now) a non-binding agreement. I believe the whole thing was political on teh POtuS’s part, he fielded the concept of a treaty without saying treaty to see if teh Republicans would cave – they didn’t.OK, so he now goes for a non-binding agreement that carries no force. If Iran caves (hides its program) he can claim victory until the farce is exposed by the next Administration in which case he can say that ‘if the Senate would have let me have a treaty none of this would have happened.” This guy would be playing 3-Card Monte or selling cut-rate Rolexs out of his overcoat on some Chicago street corner if he hadn’t sold what soul he has to walking Satanic influences. He doesn’t want a stable world, he wants Obama’s World.
He’s wrong. The disintegrating began with Obama, not congress.
Oh YEAH! Just wait until Ayatollah Obama gives Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a piece of his mind!
“Grandstanding Freshmen Senators (Tom Cotton vs John Kerry)”
by Humberto Fontova | Mar 13, 2015
“My reaction to this letter is utter disbelief. In my 29 years as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, I’ve never heard of or even heard of being proposed, anything comparable to this. If I had—not matter what the issue and who was President– I would have certainly rejected it.” (Sec. of State John Kerry reacting to the letter drafted by freshman senator Tom Cotton, signed by 47 Republicans and addressed to Iranian leaders.)
This precedent, of course, involves Democratic freshman Senator John Kerry, who far from “certainly rejecting” a very comparable letter– not only signed it, but followed up his signature with a personal visit for a friendly chat and handshake with the U.S. enemy to whom it was affectionately addressed.
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2015/03/13/grandstanding-freshmen-senators-tom-cotton-vs-john-kerry-n1970255
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/fcc-cites-soros-funded-neo-marxist-founded-group-46-times-in-new-regs/
Babs, I’m sorry I posted all those Hillary comments and ‘toons.
Yes, I read the part about the FCC cracking down on blog-speech.
Please, be a good girl and go back to Mah Jongg with the Andrews Sisters. 😎
The Andrews Sisters are in H***?
Yes. Something about an incident involving a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. 🙄
“Say no more, say no more” (h/t MP).
And here I was thinking nothing could beat yesterday’s thread!
FDR…that’s just a nasty rumor to deflect suspicion….the “incident” didn’t involve Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
Bugle Boy was set up to take the fall.
it was actually Company B.
Thanks for setting the record straight.
“There Will Never Be Another You.”
And Barney Frank went to Congress…go figure
(never someone with two first names)
Who? Have you turned your back on a fellow Dem?
You -never- turn your back on ol’ Barney. 😯
I particularly liked the way he and Dodd (all ‘we gotcha back, common person) and the bankers crawled into bed just before Barney retired. They had our backs, alright.
NO NO NO the good looking sweet Andrew Sisters! In Hell!
The Hollywood Canteen! Those babes were shaking!
Some things aren’t funny FDR
You’d be surprised who’s down here.
Trust me, it doesn’t take much to earn free passage across the River Styx.
Free? When did Charon start waiving the obolus?
[waiting…]
Sorry for the late answer. I was busy celebrating Noruz early in Washington, DC.tonight at the Dirty Martini on Connecticut Avenue. 🙄
The Styx is now free. Lucifer took the other rivers off the silver standard. It’s now one BitCoin to cross the Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Lethe.
The Iranians welcome visitations from the dead for their New Year celebrations?
Good thing I don’t have travel plans for down there. No Bitcoins.
nyetneetot says:
Mah Jongg!!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
Ve are selectifly filtering zee blog speech to ensure truth. Ve are ze guffernmint und ve know truth, ve vill tell you ze truth. Ze blogs zelektifly pull pieces out und redefine zem like zat unfortunate inzident where ze Zenator vas found in a rural Maryland motel mit a zuitkase of beer und two sheep. Ze Zenator vas a member uf ze Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry und vas just doink rezearch.
OK Ms Smith, did I meet the Common Core requirements in foreign language, politics and modern journalism?
Ya Vol! Do you think my barn boots will past for those black boots worn by the SS? Hate to buy a leather pair, checked with Johnston&Murphy don’t seem to have them on line……yet!
thefirstab says:
Doink……. I’m not pronouncing it right, so what?
Mark Steyn. No other intro needed:
Tweet of Defeat
http://counterjihadreport.com/2015/03/12/tweet-of-defeat/
Thinking back on it, I probably shouldn’t have told Henry Luce that her face would stop a clock.
Thought it was a Train?
Ix-nay on the ain-tray. There’s someone following me. 😯
Ah, you know it won’t last…
After all, it only an eternity in H3LL..
Yes, I have a couple of groupies on Circle 2. 😈
Made with a hammer and sickle…. literally…
Shhh… ix-nay on the ammer-hay ickle-say.
I’ll be in dutch with “ER.”
What makes you think that Eleanor doesn’t understand Pig Latin?
Because it’s not Esperanto.
Kie estas la necesejo?
rsmith1776 says:
A piece of work alright.
I’m more of a Dante ex-wife pinnacle guy myself…
yankeeintx says:
Well, at least they didn’t give Eleanor any horns 🙂
Now THAT’S some subliminal (or not so subliminal) marketing.
So many things our children do not know today…A lot because they are no longer around, and some because we do not show them.
Reminder to share with your kids, your grand kids the history that is all around, cause it is slowly disappearing. Share with them the stories of your youth, and your parents youth.
“So many things our children do not know today…”
You quoting our grandparents now?
Hey I’m a great grandma LOL
I remember mine 🙂 I’m lucky.
I know mine. I should call her.
“I should call her.” YES, YES, YES, taqi. Call her! NOW!!
BTW, thanks for posting my comic yesterday.
Elvis Chupacabra says:
I recall my granny showing me a “button hook” used to fasten button-up shoes. My grandad had a “foot adz” they used in shaping wood for building timber bridges and wooden oil derricks, which they built without paper blueprints. They also had a wheat scythe that belonged to one of their grandparents. They showed me how these things were used, which was a great mystery to me then.
Now, I proudly show off my fine old Leica 35-mm film cameras, my rotary dial pay phone and a 4-barrel Bosch carburetor!
When my oldest daughter wanted her own phone in her bedroom, I found one of those old hotel room pay phones. I refused to give her any change though…
labrat says:
My friend’s 5 y/o grandson came to her office and didn’t know what her telephone was. He was fascinated with it.
Oh there are so many changes just in the last 20 years.
One of the sillier “dozens” I remember was “Yo mamma’s so fat, she wears a VCR for a Beeper.”
That one doesn’t work anymore, because nobody knows what a VCR or a Beeper were.
True. LOL
BEEPERS!
Fer cryin’ out loud!
When I graduated, only doctors, nurses, EMS and drug dealers had those.
Three years out, most teenagers had one.
Now, most grade-school kids have a phone which is a computer a few orders of magnitude more powerful than the best we had when I graduated. In their pocket.
Say this to a kid: “Dual tape deck with high speed dubbing and DNR.”
Kids are so cute in a way today….
If you mention anything like black and white TV they then start asking how as the San Francisco earthquake or did you like Lincoln, or where your friends on the Titanic…LOL
in the late 80s my ex got the new latest and greatest computer with a whole 500 megs of memory and it cost $5,000…Luckily his company supplied his at home computers, and I got his hand me downs.
Look back at the changes in the last 50 years……that will really curl your hair.
Sandisk has a 200 Gigabyte micro-SD card coming out this quarter.
It’s the size of a fingernail.
I remember when we got a whole megabyte on an 8″ floppy disk and were like Hory Shet!
5 1/4″, I mean. Nobody ever got a megabyte on an 8″ floppy.
Not publicly anyway
Trash-80s, then Apple IIs and VisiCalc — changed my world. I remember trying to convince a development manager at IBM that the desktop computer was going to be the ultimate tool of the 80s; he didn’t get it.
I gave a friends kid a compass. He was fascinated. He walked around the pasture for an hour trying to figger it out.
KIDS REACT TO ROTARY PHONES
An oldie but goodie:
oh cool !
The Hidden Hand
EnterTheDragon says:
Please research/cover the Kelly File story on Obama taking the Iran issue to the UN, not Congress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wf3LPptZVE
more BS
doesn’t The US Constitution trump the UN ?
doesn’t The US Constitution also limit this power grab/abuse of authority?
isn’t time the un goes the way of atlantis?
You know I do feel that Obama feels that he is king and does not have to answer to anyone but himself.
Why wouldn’t he? Congress is deferring to him as though he were a king.
Well, we know from Medillin v. Texas that neither the UN World Court or an International Treaty can trumps a State Judicial System. Also, the President cannot order a State to abide by such a ruling. That case was argued in the Supreme Court by our own Sen. Ted Cruz. (then Solicitor General of Texas).
WeeWeed says:
Mornin’ infidels!
where’s the run-on sentence about gender equality ?
While a part of me is enjoying the death rattle coming from Hillz, the other part of me…….the one that can see and hear has pretty much had enough. Of her, and John Ellis. Mornin’ ma’am. Coffee’s on down below. 🙂
Mornin’ T!
Me, Mrs. T, and the boys are headin’ to the big city tonight to see Dennis Miller and BOR. Should be entertaining to say the least. Better turn on my Spidey-senses whilst milling about in that bastion of liberalism of SA. 🙄
Morning Ms. WeeWeed, Stella, Sharon, Tex, Nye, and All. Great morning! Had to do some early barn work, scraping the old used dirt out. Ready for new residents, later this month or April. Have to wait until the pastures’ thaw, grass is growing. Sitting on the back porch, enjoying my coffee, looking at the cracks in the concrete in need of repair, there’s always tomorrow!
I posted this late last night, about Holder’s replacement. There are currently 4 Senators from our side supporting her, which puts the vote at 50-50 with the tie-breaker going to Uncle Joe. If your Senator is one of these 4, I suggest y’all get on the horn. 👿
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/loretta-lynch-nomination-close-116032.html
TwoLaine says:
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion
BREAKING: Loretta Lynch Caught in Deceptive Disclaimer
By Sidney Powell | 03/11/15
http://observer.com/2015/03/breaking-loretta-lynch-caught-in-deceptive-disclaimer/
“Lynch, Caldwell and Weissmann are a triumvirate of trouble for the rule of law. The three of them go way back in the Eastern District of New York, and they apparently share the same vision for truth and law enforcement—the rules don’t apply to them. They are all licensed to lie.”
JUST SAY NO TO LYNCH!
Lindsay Graham is not one of my senators but I have no qualms about emailing him to tell him no…..
Coffee up y’all. It’s Friday. Enjoy. 🙂
Thank you Tex. be safe in your travels.
Okay, I’m packing. I’ll meet you all there. Uh, where is it, by the way, not that it really matters, I’m ready to go.
Beauty. That’s an invitation to relaxation.
Since there have been a number of names we’ve called the mental midgets in the ME, I think it might be a good idea to do as this General does. “Daesh” 😆 😆
http://chicksontheright.com/blog/item/27768-find-out-what-derogatory-name-a-top-u-s-general-calls-isis
I just call them islamists.
Good morning to all! Thank God! Coffee!
IS enjoyed an after dark parade of their military vehicles though downtown Mosul last night. CENTCOM wasn’t invited, so they crashed the party.
Evidently CENTCOM spent most of yesterday investigating an internet rumor that coalition jets bombed an Iraqi Army post in Anbar killing 38. Of course it was really pumped by the anti-american press. It took most of the day to establish that it was an IS truck filled with over 300 artillery shells.
Oh those funny boys from CENTCOM! They do have a sense of humor! Now they are thinking like Warfighter’s! Thanks John!
The amazing thing is that someone inside Mosul provided the heads up to CENTCOM.
So these means no cheap government surplus Toyota trucks?
Those look like Tundras, no less.
Apparently the “young lady” who got her *ss stomped in NY is enjoying her time in the spotlight. At least according to this article. Boys and girls, we are living in an upside-down world. 🙄
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/victim-brooklyn-mcdonald-attack-brags-fame-online-article-1.2146897
cohibadad says:
I wonder how the media chooses which incidents of black mob violence to publicize. That one was no more remarkable than most that Colin Flaherty posts. And I’m not sure why they call her a victim, didn’t look like any victims. She ended up on the ground getting the final beatdown but they were all active participants.
You’ve heard the saying, “They ain’t got no sense.” Well, here you go, an example. SMH
Her face doesn’t look any worse for wear…
“In McDonald’s beatdown, herd instinct took over: expert”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/mcdonald-beatdown-herd-instinct-expert-article-1.2147899
So is there going to be a disparate “herd instinct” impact defense?
Dr. Stoopid hangs up her TV gig. 🙄
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/12/nancy-snyderman-resigns-from-nbc-news-months-after-breaking-voluntary-ebola-quarantine/
She should have been jailed.
hoosiergranny says:
Dear “Dr. Nancy”,
After writing and deleting a scathing note telling you how I’m currently feeling, I decided to take a different approach. You have an amazing opportunity to turn your life around and get back to the basic values that this country was founded upon.
Take some time to review what all has happened in your life lately and determine how you would like your daughter to remember you. Perhaps if you would base your opinions and actions upon fact rather than rhetoric or bias, you would be better received. Just a suggestion.
And keep in mind that the good Lord gives and takes away. God Bless.
hoosiergranny
P.S. OK. I can’t deny that I’ve been looking forward to this moment for a long time.
Just when you think the murdering thugs of IS have hit bottom. They come up with a new nightmare. IS IEDs now come with a chlorine chaser.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-militants-resort-to-using-chlorine-gas-bombs-to-attack-soldiers-in-iraq-10102773.html
Chemical Warfare, not good, next step is Nuke ’em!
Where are all our treaty peeps at? Pretty sure that breaks a few conventions…
Got this Colonel,
Les, Arms agreements and conventions only restrict the civilized world from defending itself from the uncivilized. They are the panacea of those who think you can work everything out by talking it over. That’s why we “negotiate” while people are slaughtered by thugs.
The only good news lately was that it was an A-10 that strafed IS in Deir ez-Zur, Syria yesterday.
Coming to a subway, church, or synagogue near you? These random folks seem to find the most hellish warfare from every age in history. But let’s forget the danger all freedom loving humans are in. We need to have a national conversation on race. .
Sarc tags disappeared! Oops!
Center, right hand side of image. There is a face at the right hand side of the cloud.
Michelle Obama celebrates Iranian Spring holiday in OUR White House. Obama must think the Islamist takeover of Islam is a done deal.
Link: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/03/12/michelle-celebrates-iranian-holiday-white-house/
Please tell me she was in a full burka.
IIRC, that particular Persian (Iranian) spring festival (Nowruz) used to be in protest to islam.
pan·der
ˈpandər/Submit
gerund or present participle: pandering
gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).
“Obama is pandering to Islamic fanatics”
synonyms: indulge, gratify, satisfy, cater to, give in to, accommodate, comply with
“Obama panders to Iran”
See “quisling”.
Oh, she thinks that burkas are only for the lower class. She is above the level of a person who would be expected to wear a burka.
The White Hut and entire USA are in dire need of de-worming.
Sometimes I just feel like this –
Yep, I can relate.
That looks like so much fun!
I think they had The Rapture and nobody made the cut.
You may have something there………
That’s funny, doodahdaze, and yet it’s not funny at all. :-]
I wish that wasn’t funny.
Lois Lerner started harassing our guys way back when. Politico had the goods on her and sat on it as well. The Chicago Way did not start with Bronco Bama. 👿
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politico-sat-on-allegations-lois-lerner-had-prior-history-of-targeting-conservatives/article/2561408
Why is Lois still breathing free air? She should be in the big house, LEAVENWORTH, KS.
Seems that the blowback for the 46 senators who signed the open letter to the mullahs is pretty much isolated to inside the Washington beltway.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/beltway-reaction-aside-iran-letter-a-win-for-gop/article/2561461
Maybe since they outfoxed the fox?
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/reaction-to-gop-letter-exposes-attempt-to-outfox-congress-on-iran-deal/2015/03/13/
michellc says:
Comparing 1965 to 2015.
The big difference I see is the American flag in 1965 and the lack of American flags in 2015.
Yep, not one American flag that I can see in 2015.
Huge difference. The marchers in ’65 wanted to be included in the country. In 2015, not so much. They want to be treated differently – read better- (and held to a lower standard). It’s pretty frustrating.
lilbirdee'12 says:
A repost from midnight last night..some may have missed. Want to name a movie? The funny and creative minds here in the Tree have any ideas? Col. Ken?
Bigelow does Bergdahl. Yep, she announced last year she wanted to make the movie on our well known deserter and she’s making it a priority now. Soooo, maybe the movie will take the place of the report WE should have been told about back in Sept. 2014; since Ms. Big has such great contacts, don’t ya know ! Any treepers want to choose a good movie title for this blockbuster hit ?
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/bowe-bergdahl-movie-kathryn-bigelow/18058
“The Traitor wore Falsies”
“I was an Afghani War Bride”
“The Gay, the Bad and the Unshaven”
The Taliban and the Traitor.
A Man and his Beard
Don’t Do This
What a Creep!
Five Terrorists and a Traitor
A Rose By Any Other Name is still a Traitor
A Used Man
The Devil Wore Pantsuits
Obama’s Other Son: the Bergdahl Conspiracy
I like that one.
Zeros’ Last Trade
Trading Terrorists~~Five Beards At a Time
mcfyre2012 says:
On March 04, a dog was found shot and tied to railroad tracks here in the Tampa Bay area. After an extensive search, the owners were caught…turns out the dog “wasn’t mean enough,” so they decided to get rid of it. The owners? A 21-year-old, an 18-year-old, and also two 17-year-olds. More of Obama’s sons…with arrest records to boot (must have been why their pictures were buried in the printed version of the paper).
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/two-adults-arrested-in-shooting-of-dog-left-for-dead-tied-to-railroad/2221080
Innocents suffer when the diversity tolerance is high.
I was afraid to read this.
The dog survived.
Read at the bottom how the pup got her new name.
Surveillance cameras can serve a good purpose.
Penalties for animal cruelty are not harsh enough.
Irish Eyes says:
Nice looking dog, so glad this appalling story has a happy ending. Love that Cabela’s sent her a huge gift package. Looks like she’ll get a good forever home.
The FSA and YPG eliminated 74 IS thugs in Kobane and Til Tamr yesterday.
Imagine what they could have done with a little air support.
Moishe Pipik says:
NPR this morning took a break from bashing Israel to “talking” about Ferguson. All these experts talking about “microagressions” and “systemic racisim” as if any of this had to do with an at-large robbery suspect (Michael Brown) who punched a policeman in his face, grabbed his gun, and charged at him.
carterzest says:
I heard that as well and was yelling at my car radio until I finally had enough and changed the station. It is disgusting that they, as well as all of the other alphabet media networks, are still carrying on with the “unarmed Black teen” meme.
Yes! They’re still saying “unarmed teen.” Once a person reaches for someone’s gun, it’s a stretch to call him “unarmed.”
Maybe it should be “a teen who would like to be armed.”
I prefer “effing thug”
National Postsanity Radio.
Michael Dixon says:
Erick Erickson is subbing for Rush today, and is electrifying the airwaves.
He Kicked Ass.
The Periodic Table of Videos – University of Nottingham
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
I watched the one on Knighthood. What a darling man. I would loved to have had him for a professor. I never took chemistry. I would probably have failed at that.
wondering999 says:
auscm, you don’t have to put up with judgment on your Chemistry skills. The nice people at Khan Academy keep improving their website 🙂
Each video is fairly short. I love them, and one of these days I’m going to get around to their Accounting class too
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/
I’m childishly giggling over Scott Ott’s “…festering bag of pus …” [9:10]
Hillary’s Bizarre Press Conference Over Email Scandal
The voting masses in America may be topping off at Peak Ignorance.
Hillary looks like and lies like:
What is the JEOPARDY? And why am I always mentioned?
Chances are good that I won’t be a-visitin’ tomorrow so here you go:
A loooooong day, so:
On Thug Cat, there are thugs everywhere. Thug cats, dogs, birds, mice, rats, squirrels, gator, moles, etc. Don’t forget E. O. Wilson’s ants. AND…children, grandchildren, others extended relations and spouses (former and present). Ya gotta tame them.
I, for one, start laughing far too early. Bad show. Very humiliating for one trying to be a True Thug. Likely to get you shot. Or peed on.
We need a Counter-Thuggery Agency at Federal level. Preferable with agencies on the international, continental (not the dance), nationwide, regional, state, county, township. city and neighborhood level. Should solve the problem. Experience sezzzz.
Found this via IOTW and I agree with BFH, if it happened they would have recorded it.
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/03/12/uw-investigates-sae-fraternity-racism-allegations/70240858/
I have to see “proof” before I will believe what these black “victims” are saying, since we have seen so many lies.
I think they’re on a witch hunt now against SAE.
I’ve been seeing videos posted by what some of them have been saying, but the media could care less because as we know blacks are never racist, they’re just beaten down. After the OU football player had his video go viral, he called in the media to defend himself, he apologized for the language but used the excuse of how hard it is for a black boy and of course brought up Brown and Martin.
“I think they’re on a witch hunt now against SAE.” Yes, I do, too.
We have our share of crazies in Oklahoma as well. This bill was nothing more than to protect bakers and wedding venues and eventually Churches because we all know that is around the corner.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/oklahoma-dem-amendment-christian-businesses-must-post-notice-of-anti-gay-discrimination/
Oklahoma Democratic state Rep. Emily Virgin wants Christian businesses to post a public notice of discrimination if they intend to claim that they have a religious right to refuse service to LGBT people.
State Rep. Chuck Strohm (R) introduced a bill, the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act, earlier this year that would allow businesses like wedding cake bakers and photographers to deny services if it was “against the person’s religious beliefs.”
State Sen. Joseph Silk (R), who introduced a similar bill in the Oklahoma Senate, told The New York Times recently that new laws were necessary because the LGBT movement was “challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions.”
The amendment to HB1371 introduced by Virgin on Tuesday would require religious businesses to come out of the closet.
“Any person not wanting to participate in any of the activities set forth in subsection A of this section based on sexual orientation, gender identity or race of either party to the marriage shall post notice of such refusal in a manner clearly visible to the public in all places of business, including websites,” the amendment states.
Great. They have to post that they don’t serve LGBT. That will be like putting a bulls-eye on their business.
Exactly, the bill was not about discriminating it was about religious beliefs and a business not having to bake a cake or provide a wedding ceremony for a gay couple. So this idiot wants to risk their safety in order to follow their religious beliefs.
I think she represents the Norman area so I guess we can thank those smart college students who won’t get their butts to class for electing her.
It was just a ploy though to kill the bill.
Here is what has happened to Sen. Silk and his family since he introduced the bill. The last paragraph is the same tactics used by all leftists.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/lgbt-activists-issue-death-threats-children-oklahoma-state-senator
The LGBT activists have shown time and time again that they want to persecute, trample on people’s rights, and take people’s businesses if for any reason their behavior and choices are not agreed with. My family and I, like many others before, are testimonies to their hate, intolerance, and forceful nature of this movement. The sad thing is, no one is attacking their behavior. They have the right to be gay…but if you disagree with them, they will do everything in their power to ruin your life.
Look at the picture of his kids, they threatened to kill babies.
Bar! Beer!!
There for that!
I’ll have a case of what he’s having please!
32 taps. Nice. One of our places has 20.
Obamageddon lurks.
But there was positive news for the Zionist Union on that score too, with a poll of Israeli-Arabs showing the overwhelming majority would favor their united Arab party joining a center-left coalition government.
Jeb is going to try the “compassionate conservative” trick again. Walker is countering with the “passionate conservative” line….I like it.
What kind of kid spray paints swastikas inside a synagogue? I bet if a kid spray painted a pig on a mosque it would be considered a hate crime.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/swastikas-painted-inside-st-louis-jewish-center/
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your love and salvation to all. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Here’s a walk down Memory Lane
Who remembers these for gym…LOL
{Hand up} Aren’t they lovely?
Auntie Lib says:
Not only had to wear them, but had to iron the damn things every week. Hated them!!!!
Ironing was the worse Part for me too..
Q: – Why did Helen Keller have a burn mark on one side of her face?
A. – She answered the iron.
I know, I know…Eleanor’s going to p!ss in my Cheerios tomorrow morning at breakfast.
Remember this well !!!!
tessa50 says:
oh, what fun it was, lol
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/im-going-to-kill-you-white-boy-racist-slits-mans-throat-in-queens/
According to the NYPD, at around 2:20 a.m. yesterday, a 24-year-old man and his girlfriend were walking near Seneca Avenue and Gates Avenue “when the suspect, who was walking with a female acquaintance, ran up to the victim and said ‘I’m going to kill you white boy” in Spanish. The suspect then slashed the victim’s throat with an unknown object.”
The suspect fled with a female companion, who the police say acted as a lookout. The victim was taken to a hospital where he needed multiple stitches to close the wound to his throat.
The police describe the male suspect as being 25-30 years old and approximately 5’8″ with a medium build. The female suspect is described as being 25-30 years old and approximately 5’4″.
Ah, so they were both black, huh?
stormtigerzx says:
In light of all the bad news, it is so easy to become discouraged & give into despair, just wanted to show a story that can give evidence that God is still in control & works all things for good even in the most heart breaking circumstances.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?=GvhuUEx2UhM
Youtube search:: Incredible Body-cam footage shows dramatic rescue of Utah “Miracle baby” Lilly Groesbeck video
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SDSU campus and nearby neighborhoods hit with water outage
Restooms on campus closed due to College Area water outage.
Bella Ross
by Bella Ross, News Editor
UPDATED 3:55 p.m.: Updates from the City of San Diego indicate there will likely be fluctuations in water pressure around San Diego State’s campus through at least 10 p.m. tonight, according to SDSU Newscenter.
Portable restrooms and hand washing stations have been made available throughout campus as a result of fluctuating water pressure. These can be found at Cuicacalli, the Fowler Athletics Center, Campanile Walkway near Hepner Hall, Centennial Walkway, South Campus Green, University Towers and Chapultepec.
UPDATED 2:30 p.m.: Classes scheduled for after 3:30 p.m. will resume as normal, according to a university press release.
While many dining facilities are still closed, Aztec Market locations remain open. Students can purchase prepackaged food at these locations.
UPDATED 12:30 p.m.: Water service has been restored in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, East Commons, West Commons and the University Towers buildings, according to a university press release.
Dining facilities and restrooms are now open in those buildings.
Restrooms are now operating in all residence halls as well.
The College Area, including the entire San Diego State campus, was experiencing a water outage from a broken water main in the area on Wednesday, according to a campus-wide email from Associate Vice President Jessica Rentto.
Facilities Services Manager Chad Dragan said the outage has led to the closure of all restrooms and most dining facilities on campus. All air conditioning on campus is out of operation as well.
Rentto said campus will remain open but classes were cancelled through 3:15 p.m., with additional information to be provided at a later point regarding classes that occur after 3:30 p.m. She said non-essential personnel were free to leave at any point were are encouraged to take the trolley to avoid traffic.
Rentto said it is currently unclear when the water will be turned back on. City of San Diego utilities workers were working to resolve the issue.
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Trump, Who Has Told Over 1000 Documented Lies, "Surprised" by "Dishonest" Media
You couldn't make this madness up.
President Trump, a man who has now told well over 1,000 documented lies since he took office in January, was recently caught out lying about donating money to the father of a fallen soldier, and is so dishonest his entire administration works 24/7 to walk back his lies, is apparently shocked at the "dishonesty in the media". Speaking to radio host Chris Plante on Tuesday, the president said:
“Actually, dishonesty in the media is one of the things that surprised me the most. I thought after I won, the media would become much more stable and much more honest. They’ve gone crazy, CNN is a joke. NBC is a total joke. You watch what they report, it bears no relationship to what I’m doing. But the media is absolutely dishonest and frankly, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.”
Of course Trump's statement about the media being dishonest is again another lie. He offers no proof of the media's dishonesty other than his word, which is about as reliable as a North Korean nuclear weapon test. While Trump has occasionally managed to get others in his administration to verify his nonsense for the sake of keeping him calm (Rex Tillerson was forced to deny calling him a "moron", but only through a State Department spokesman), Trump's lies are so blatant and so frequent that fact checking is rarely ever needed any more.
Trump lied about cancelling Puerto Rico's debt. He lied about President Obama not calling the families of fallen soldiers. He lied about the Democratic Congresswoman who claims Trump told the grieving widow of a soldier killed in Niger that “I’m sure he knew what he was signed up for". How do we know he lied? Because Trump never, ever tells the truth. This is a man who averages roughly 5 false claims a day -- a rate that is now increasing rapidly. So you can't take anything he says seriously -- ever. Literally anything that comes out of his mouth is a lie, so when it's his word against anyone not in his immediate circle, you know it's almost certainly not true.
Trump may be genuinely be shocked at what he sees as the "dishonesty in the media", but it is because he is now delusional to the point of clinical madness. Trump can't seem to grasp the fact that those reporting on his lies aren't the ones doing the lying -- a fact that should, along with all the other terrifying behavior he is exhibiting, frighten the goddamn life out of you.
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Glorifying The Dead In My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies Review
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· October 10, 2018 ·5 min read
The captivating story My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and colors by Jacob Phillips is coming out this Wednesday under Image Comics. An enchanting story about the unknown, the mysterious, and wanting to delve into both at the same time without a parachute. After you read this OGN (Original Graphic Novel), My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, you won’t look at OGNs the same.
A Little Background About My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies is a graphic novel about a teenager named, Ellie. She has always romanticized the idea of drug addicts, whether it be in song, film, television, or life itself. The tragic and artistic souls are the ones that captivate her attention. Ever since she was young, they have captured all of her attention. Her mother, a junkie, died a decade ago at the start of My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies.
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies | Image Comics 2018, Brubaker, Phillips, & Phillips.
However, Ellie lands in an upscale rich rehab clinic where nothing is always as it seems. Ellie knows she is a bad influence so when she is placed in this upscale rehab, she finds another dangerous romance. Ellie will also soon find out how easily drugs and murder go hand-in-hand.
What To Make Of The Writing
The story in this graphic novel is exceptional. From the first page to the last, you get an in-depth story that would have not worked as well with weekly or monthly issues. This is a story that needed to be told in a graphic novel medium. We will explain, of course. First and foremost, the character, Ellie, is fantastically written. We get a fiercely great backstory on her character.
Enough to where we learn to care about her, even if that changes, at one point we did care about the outcome of the character. It is one thing to write a character that readers become invested in and it’s another to write multiple characters that way. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips create characters that resonate with the reader. From Skip to Ellie, we get a sense of safety in both of them even before knowing who they were.
The past, present, and future foreshadowing is a grand addition to this issue. The panels and pages are incredibly written alongside the art we will get to later in this review. However, the writing is simply some of the best we have seen in the comic book medium in at least five years tops. Brubaker and Phillips truly are a match made in comic book heaven.
A Not-So-Minor Drawback
While we were reading this OGN, we assumed Ellie and even other characters were at least thirty-years-old. Often times there is a blurred line between how old they appear to be. Granted, that may be how they are supposed to come off, such in that “young but old soul” type of way.
But, this put the reader (us) in a weird spot at times when we realized she was only 21 and her love interest, Skip, was 18. This could also be because of the fact that nowadays you don’t see many 21-year-olds in rehab for drug abuse. Or, at least, it is not showcased much. This wasn’t so much a drawback that we could not complete the story, but it did put us in a weird place for about 5-6 pages before it registered with us.
What To Make Of The Art
Brubaker’s art style is unique to Brubaker. If you see any of Ed’s work, you know it is Brubaker. We just came from an Iron Fist podcast about Ed Brubaker, where we showcased the best run and we talked and praised about it for more than an hour. This will be similar to that. The art style is different, in a great way. It has a sort of dated look with very pastel colors.
It works for this style of comic. Especially when this is an OGN about a specific subject that goes from past to present frequently. The past is in black, white, and grey. It is distinctive which pages are in past and which are in present. We don’t get future, but in the sense that there is foreshadowing, we certainly do. Ellie’s moves and decisions are going to alter the future, and we understand that as readers.
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Again, the writing and art go hand-in-hand in this OGN. They compliment one another in a way that is effortless. The writing showcases the art that showcases the showing of the novel. The writing tells is and the art helps show us what Ellie is actually doing. Ellie can say she is a bad influence all day long, but once we see that, it makes sense. In a particular panel, she talks Skip in smoking a marijuana pen.
He is hesitant at first, as anyone in a rehab facility would be. Nonetheless, a few seconds later Ellie talks him into this. While Brubaker can tell us this, Phillips and Phillips really showcase this to us in a specific page worth of panels. This is where we truly see Ellie take her manipulative tendencies to the next level. We are seeing that and thus, in turn, we believe it.
Should You Read My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies?
This OGN is a buy, read every year (at least every two years), and come back to appreciate the greatness. Please go out and buy, support, and appreciate the story inside of this OGN. It is incredibly written, drawn, and composed.
We just can’t do it justice because there is so much to talk about; we would be here all day. Go find out for yourself and go read My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies out today, meaning out now! Go get it!
A DEFINITE READ
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips is a stellar OGN being released under Image Comics, October 10th, 2018.
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English teacher, writer, editor, and poet. Some say she's a superhero, while some say she's a vigilante. She says she's an indestructible badass. Soon-to-be-graduate-student with an MFA in Film Studies. She currently has a BA in English Literature.
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Travis Moser’s Just One Look: The Songs Of Linda Ronstadt
Posted by Elizabeth Ann Foster | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog
Molly Pope, Daryl Glenn, Travis Moser, Cathy Cervenka and Jack Bartholet. Photo credit: Elizabeth Ann Foster.
By Elizabeth Ann Foster
If you ever see Travis Moser’s name come up on a marquee, treat yourself and get a ticket. His latest project (June 20 at The Green Room) is a homage to Linda Ronstadt. Moser shows up copying Ronstadt’s cover from her album Living in the USA. In the promotional materials he is featured complete with roller skates. Realizing how dangerous they are to navigate, and why Ronstadt is pictured holding onto the walls in skates to steady herself on the album cover, he thought the better of putting skates on for the evening’s performance. Probably not the best ensemble to wear going up stage stairs in the Green Room 42 venue.
Moser is funny, energetic, approachable and talented. Asking the audience “Do you like my pants?” made everyone looked around at each other amused. Pants, more like pantyhose. It looked Moser was dipped in black latex from his bellybutton down. A sheer net t-shirt and sequined baseball jacket completed the look. Attention seeking and mission complete.
Moser wanted to showcase all the genres Ronstadt mastered which included rock, pop, folk, country rock, country, art rock, hard rock, soft rock, mariachi and latin. Kicking of the set with “Still Within the Sound of My Voice” he reminisced how he first encountered her work. Not to date Moser, but he sent away to Columbia House Records, using a magazine ad to pick 6 records for a penny. He chose Ronstadt randomly. When he heard Ronstadt’s voice a new fan was minted. Moser then sang the production namesake “Just one Look” that had the audience singing along.
Each of the guest artists performed a duo of Ronstadt songs. “Barefoot” Cathy Cervenka, as she dubbed herself, after breaking her heel on the way to the show and ditching her shoes, belted out “When Will I Be Loved” and “How Do I make You.” Next Jack Bartholet, a young Elvis look alike, performed “Tracks of my Tears” and “Colorado.” Bartholet also performs at Pangea (the home of Monologues and Madness). Molly Pope was hysterical with her rendition of “Love is a Rose”. She first learned it as a ten-year old singing her then then 24-year old brother’s mature lyrics: “Got a Bugger In Your Nose and You better Not Pick It.” Daryl Glenn or “Fringe” as the audience called him, due to his fringed cowboy shirt, completed the guest sets with “I Don’t Know Much” and “Blue Bayou.”
The last number performed by all, including the audience, was “Somewhere Out There.” Everyone was standing, swaying and thoroughly entertained. It was fun to remember, for those of old enough to, all the different songs from Ronstadt we had grown up with however you may have discovered her. After the evening a few new fans were initiated.
Green Room 42 is a great new venue for cabaret and other shows at the Yotel Hotel. The food was excellent with great variety and the staff was gracious and efficient.
Travis Moser’s Just One Look: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt written and performed by Travis Moser.
With: Molly Pope, Cathy Cervenka, Jack Bartholet and Daryl Glenn
MUSICIANS Drew Wutke (piano and musical director), Joseph Wallace(bass), Hajime Yoshida (guitar), Derek Swink (drums), Tim Kelly (steel guitar).
The Green Room 42 at the Yotel Hotel, 570 10thAvenue, 4thfloor, New York, New York 10036.
646-449-7792 for schedule: tickets@thegreenroom42.com Venue doors open at 5:00pm. $20 no minimum.
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WordPress Analytics Plugin Leaves 1.3 Million Sites Vulnerable to Hackers
February 25, 2015Mohit Kumar
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in one of the most popular plugins of the the WordPress content management platform that puts more than one Million websites at risks of being completely hijacked by the attackers.
The vulnerability actually resides in most versions of a WordPress plugin called Wettable Powder Slimstat (WP-Slimstat). While there are more than 70 million websites on the Internet currently running WordPress, more than 1.3 Million of them use the 'WP-Slimstat' Plugin, making it one of the popular plugins of WordPress for powerful real-time web analytic.
All the WP-Slimstat versions prior to the latest release of Slimstat 3.9.6 contain an easily guessable 'secret' key which is used to sign data sent to and from the visiting end-user computers, explained in a blog post published Tuesday by Web security firm Sucuri.
Once the weak 'secret' key is break, an attacker could perform an SQL injection attack against the target website in order to grab highly sensitive information from victim's database, including encrypted passwords and the encryption keys used to remotely administer websites.
"If your website uses a vulnerable version of the plugin, you're at risk," Marc-Alexandre Montpas, a senior vulnerability researcher at Sucuri, wrote.
"Successful exploitation of this bug could lead to Blind SQL Injection attacks, which means an attacker could grab sensitive information from your database, including username, (hashed) passwords and, in certain configurations, WordPress Secret Keys (which could result in a total site takeover)."
The WP-Slimstat 'secret' key is just an MD5 hash version of the plugin's installation timestamp. With the use of sites like Internet Archive, a hacker could easily identify the year a target vulnerable website was put on the Internet.
This would left an attacker with about 30 Million values to test, that could be completed in about 10 minutes with most modern CPUs. Once the secret key has been detected, the attacker can use the key to tug sensitive data out of the database.
Users who run their websites on the WordPress content management system and have this popular WP-Slimstat plugin installed are being cautioned to upgrade their websites immediately in order to protect your website from this dangerous vulnerability.
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A New York City Guide For Seinfeld Buffs
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Airing between 1989 and 1998, Seinfeld remains one of the all-time greatest TV sitcoms. Although this celebrated show "about nothing" is indelibly linked with Manhattan, most of the filming actually took place in LA. That doesn't mean, however, that you can't add a few Seinfeld-related destinations to your tour of the Big Apple.
If you're still watching Seinfeld re-runs, then this is the New York tour guide for you! Below, we'll go through all of the best destinations to get your Seinfeld selfies in NYC.
Top Seinfeld Sites In The City
Tom's Restaurant (aka Monk's Café)
Let's start with the most obvious Seinfeld attraction: Tom's Restaurant. If you're scratching your head wondering what episode Tom's appeared in, then you're probably more familiar with this restaurant's fictional name: Monk's Café.
That's right, the spot where Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer spent most of their time talking about yada, yada, yada, is called Tom's Restaurant in real life. In recent interview, Jerry Seinfeld said before Seinfeld aired he decided to call the restaurant Monk's only because there was a poster of musician Thelonious Monk in his writer's studio.
While the exterior of this restaurant was shown prominently on TV, the interior scenes were shot in LA. However, once you go inside Tom's, you'll find plenty of Seinfeld memorabilia and even a few menu items inspired by the show, like Elaine's "Big Salad."
You'll find Tom's Restaurant at 2880 Broadway near Columbia University's campus.
Some Soup For You: The Original Soupman
Little did Persian chef Ali Yeganeh know that soon after opening his Soup Kitchen International on 55th Street he would become immortalized as the "Soup Nazi."While the show worked wonders for publicizing Yeganeh's homemade soups, he apparently detested the episode and banned Jerry Seinfeld from eating at his soup kitchen!
In the years following the "Soup Nazi" episode, Yeganeh changed his company's name to The Original Soup Man and opened a few more stores throughout the Northeast. You could also buy The Original Soupman's most famous products online.
Just follow the rules at this legendary establishment and you shouldn't hear those dreaded words: "No soup for you!" Remember how focused George had to be when he got his soup. George famously told Elaine, "Shhh. I gotta focus. I am shifting into soup mode." Whatever "soup mode" means to you, you'd better get into it before ordering your lobster bisque!
Tourists who want to see the first Soup Kitchen International must travel to the corner of West 55th Street and 8th Avenue, which is a five-minute walk from Carnegie Hall.
Where It All Began: NBC Studios
Not only is NBC Studios one of NYC's top tourist draws, it also has special significance for Seinfeld fans. Of course, Seinfeld aired on NBC and it's also here where Jerry and George pitched their idea for a "show about nothing" to NBC's staff.
While you're at NBC Studios, be sure to book a ticket for the "Top of the Rock" observation deck, which offers guests one of the best panoramic views of Manhattan.
You can find the NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Gray's Papaya
It's true that Kramer told Elaine he was going to get a hot dog at Papaya King, but since he and Elaine are located at the Upper West Side's Paragon, Seinfeld fans believe he must've meant a different hot dog vendor. You see, there's no Papaya King in that area of NYC. There is, however, a Gray's Papaya.
Gray's Papaya isn't only significant in Seinfeld lore, it's also is a great place to get a quick, cheap meal on your tour of the city. See for yourself if these dogs really are "tastier than filet mignon."
You'll find Gray's Papaya at 2090 Broadway at 72nd Street. For those who want to test the food at Papaya King, visit 179 East 86th Street instead.
For A Meal…Or Not: Mendy's Delicatessen
Should one soup be considered a meal? That's the question that came to the fore in a Seinfeld episode that featured Mendy's Kosher Deli.
Jerry was forced to bring fellow comedian Kenny Banja here for lunch after Banja gave Jerry a nice Armani suit. Although Banja raved about the swordfish, all he ordered was a soup, telling Jerry he'd "save the meal for another time."
The issue of whether soup constitutes a meal is still a hot-button issue for many Seinfeld fans. If you remember from the show, a key issue was whether or not Banja crumbled crackers into his soup. After Jerry told Elaine that Banja did have a few crackers, Elaine had to admit "Oh, well. Crackers in a bowl. That -- That could be a meal."
At the end of the day, however, this is an issue everyone has to decide on for him/herself.
Although the Mendy's Deli in this episode is no longer standing, there are still six Mendy's locations around the city. Interestingly, there's no swordfish on Mendy's menu, but there are plenty of soups to choose from.
A few Mendy's locations include 61 E 34th Street, in Rockefeller Center, and in Grand Central Terminal.
“The House Where George Costanza Worked:” Yankee Stadium
One of the great thrills of visiting NYC is taking in a ball game at Yankee Stadium. Of course, this stadium has special significance for Seinfeld fans serving as one of George Costanza’s employers.
Sadly, the original Yankee Stadium that George worked in was demolished in 2010. Still, it’s an unforgettable experience for any baseball and/or Seinfeld fan to watch a game in the new 2009 Yankee Stadium.
In addition to taking in a baseball game, Yankee Stadium also offers exceptional tours of its Yankees’ Hall of Fame & museum. Yankee Stadium is in the Bronx at 1 East 161st Street.
For those who want to stand in the soil of the original Yankee Stadium, the best you could do today is visit Heritage Field. This almost 11-acre field adjacent to the modern stadium is where the original “House That George Steinbrenner Built” once stood.
Where Is Jerry's Apartment?
When it comes to finding Jerry's apartment in NYC, it gets a little complicated. You see, Jerry mentioned in the show that he lived at 129 West 81st Street. While you could certainly visit this address, it won't look anything like the exterior address shown on the TV show.
If you want to see the apartment complex used on Seinfeld, then you have to travel to Los Angeles. The building producers used for Seinfeld & Kramer's apartment complex is on 757 S. New Hampshire Avenue.
Still, it's pretty cool for Seinfeld fans to check out the address Seinfeld gave in the show. When he was living in Manhattan, Seinfeld really lived in an apartment at 129 W. 81st Street.
Do They Have Risotto?: La Boîte en Bois
Located by Central Park, La Boîte en Bois is indeed a real restaurant in NYC. If the name of this restaurant isn't ringing any bells, perhaps you remember the risotto? Yes, it was here George's one-episode girlfriend Karen had a very satisfying risotto meal for dinner.
Amazingly, you won't find risotto on this French restaurant's menu!
Travelers who want to dine at La Boîte en Bois are highly advised to make a reservation online as it tends to get packed here.
The official address for La Boîte en Bois is 75 W. 68th Street near Lincoln Center.
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Of course, there are many other locations made famous by, but the above destinations are amongst the most iconic and easy to get to in Manhattan. Any fan of this Emmy-winning sitcom won't be disappointed following this tour guide in New York City. Get ready to snap some incredible Seinfeld selfies!
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