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Clause 99, Catch 22 and Penning is telling lies.
Written by Kitty S Jones
The Government are claiming victory because of a fall in the number of benefit tribunal hearings. Today, the Express boasts:
“A HUGE drop in the number of people appealing against benefit decisions at tribunal hearings was yesterday hailed as a victory for the Government’s reforms.”
Actually, it’s a victory for the Government’s authoritarian information micro-management.
There were 32,546 tribunal cases between January and March this year, compared to 155,000 in the same period of 2013.
“Official figures” reveal an 89 per cent fall in people contesting the decisions to cut, deny or restrict Employment Support Allowance (ESA), long-term sickness and disability benefits.
Tribunals contesting Jobseeker’s Allowance decisions also fell 70 per cent this year.
Disability minister Mike Penning said: “Fewer appeals going to tribunal is welcome. Getting more decisions right first time avoids the need for protracted tribunal appeals.”
Under the Department for Work and Pensions reforms, officials look again at decisions and extra evidence in all disputed cases before they go to appeal.
However, the effectiveness of the mandatory review – the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) second “look” at their decisions to end benefit claims – isn’t the reason behind the fall in appeals, as Penning claims.
Firstly, people can no longer appeal benefit decisions immediately after their assessment, the mandatory review process will inevitably slow appeal applications down considerably.
Secondly, another major reason for fewer appeals is not that the DWP suddenly got better at decision-making, but rather, it’s because of a cruel and despicable move by the government to remove basic rate ESA payments from claimants awaiting the outcome of the mandatory review.
Previously, claimants who were found fit for work could continue to receive ESA at the basic rate by immediately lodging an appeal if they thought their work capability assessment decision was wrong. ESA would then remain payable until the appeal was decided.
Under the new rules, people who wish to challenge a benefit decision are no longer allowed to lodge an appeal immediately. Instead, we have to go through a mandatory revision or review stage, during which a different DWP decision maker will reconsider the evidence and, if necessary, send for more information, before deciding whether to change the original decision.
There is no time limit on how long this process may take. The requirement for a mandatory review/revision before proceeding with appeal applies to all DWP linked benefits. During the review, no ESA is payable, not even the basic rate. However, once the review is completed, those wishing to appeal may claim basic rate ESA again, up until the tribunal. (It’s important that people request this continued payment from the DWP, once they have lodged their appeal.)
The ludicrous claim from Government to justify this move – clause 99 – was that this “simplifies” the appeal process, and “the changes will improve customer service by encouraging people to submit additional evidence earlier in the process to help improve decision making. Resolving any disputes without the need for an appeal will also help ensure that people receive the right decision earlier in the process.”
Call me a sceptic, but I don’t believe this was the genuine reasoning behind clause 99 at all.
We now have to appeal directly to HM Courts and Tribunal Services, this is known as “direct lodgement,” as DWP no longer lodge the appeal on our behalf. That is assuming, of course, that people manage to circumnavigate the other consequences of this legislation. Having no money to meet your basic living requirements is something of an obstacle, it has to be said.
From 1 April 2013 we are no longer able to get Legal Aid for First-tier Tribunal hearings. Legal Aid is still available for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and Higher Courts, provided the case is about a point of law. (Legal aid act 2012 ).
There are some serious implications and concerns about these changes. Firstly, there is no set time limit for DWP to undertake and complete the second revision. Secondly, claimants are left with no income at all whilst they await the review, and until appeal is lodged.
The DWP stated that there is “no legal reason” to pay a benefit that has been disallowed during the review period. The only choice available to sick and disabled people is an application for Job Seekers Allowance. (JSA). However, we know that people in situations where they have been refused ESA have also been refused JSA, incredibly, on the grounds that they are unavailable for work, (and so do not meet the conditions that signing on entails) or they are unfit for work, because they are simply too ill to meet the conditions. We know of people who have had their application for JSA refused because they attend hospital for treatment once a week and so they are “not available for work” at this time, for example.
Furthermore, there is growing evidence that people are being told by DWP that in order to claim JSA, they must first close their original claim for ESA, since it isn’t possible to have two claims for two different benefits open at the same time. DWP are also telling people that this means withdrawing their ESA appeal.
Another grave concern is that although most people on income related ESA are automatically passported to maximum Housing and Council Tax Benefit, from the time that the claim ends, (and for whatever reason), eligibility to housing benefit and council tax also ends. (However, I would urge people in this situation to contact the Housing Benefit office promptly to explain the situation – the DWP automatically contact the Council to tell them when someone’s eligibility for ESA has ended. It is always assumed that the person claiming has found work when their DWP related benefit eligibility ends.)
It’s horribly true that Clause 99 has been introduced to make appealing wrongful decisions that we are fit for work almost impossible. Sick and disabled people are effectively being silenced by this Government, and the evidence of a brutal, de-humanising, undignified and grossly unfair system of “assessment” is being hidden. More than 10,600 people have died because of the current system, and it is absolutely terrifying that our Government have failed to address this.
Instead, they have made the system even more brutal, de-humanising and unfair. What kind of Government leaves sick and disabled people without the means to feed themselves and keep warm? Clause 99 is simply an introduction of obstructive and Kafkaesque bureaucracy to obscure the evidence of an extremely unfair and brutal system. By creating another layer of brutality, the Government is coercing people into silence. Successful appeals were evidence of an unjust system, and now, having made the process almost impossible, we have ministers trying to claim that suddenly the system is fine. It’s FAR from fine.
This Government is oppressive, tyrannical and certainly bears all of the hallmark characteristics of authoritarianism. And they are blatant, unremorseful liars.
Please note that the DWP said “robust” data is not yet available to assess the impact of the legislative changes on tribunal receipts.
The DWP inform me that they are “looking to publish Mandatory Reconsiderations data when they judge it is of suitable quality to be published as Official Statistics.”
For further information, please see Appeals Reform
(That hasn’t restrained Mr Penning’s inferential leaps, though.)
Tribunals Statistics Quarterly:
April – June: 111,795
July – September: 76,430
October – December: 32,959 <– Here is when the controversial DWP review procedure was introduced in October 013, though we have evidence that some people claiming ESA were made to go through mandatory review from APRIL, which was only legally introduced to apply to PIP and Universal Credit at that time.
January – March: 11,455
ilegal have data to compare from previous years:
HMCTS ESA appeal yearly receipts Appeals received
2013/2014 232,639
As we’ve pointed out, until people have gone through the mandatory review, they can’t appeal because no decision has been made against which they can appeal. 2013/2014 was still the second highest set of annual figures for ESA appeal receipts, and that indicates that the reality is much more likely that “wrong” assessment related decisions have actually soared, but the DWP have so far failed to provide statistics of those trapped in the added Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the mandatory review. We have no idea, yet, of the timescales this involves, but we do know that it will serve to filter appeal applications significantly.
Nick also provides us with another significant figure: over 700,000 people are in a massive queue awaiting assessments for ESA allowance.
The mandatory revision process applies to:
1. UC, PIP, JSA and ESA
2. decisions on credits
Government advice for decision making: staff guide
From the guidance document: Decision Makers should note that mandatory reconsideration is being introduced from:
8.4.13 for PIP
29.4.13 for Universal Credit
28.10.13 for JSA and ESA.
The mandatory review – clause 99 – was introduced solely to place barriers before those who need to appeal unfair decisions. It also, therefore, serves to hide the evidence of a system that is founded on unfairness, since the high number of successful appeal outcomes previously has indicated clearly that the assessment process is deeply flawed and has been used to remove lifeline benefits to people who need support the most.
BEGG, Anne (anne.begg.mp@parliament.uk)
To: Susan Jones
anne.begg.mp@parliament.uk
Thank you very much for this. I have passed a copy to my committee clerks so it can be considered as part of our inquiry into ESA/WCA.
Dame Anne Begg MP
On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:32
June 13, 2014 March 26, 2016 · Posted in Uncategorized ·
21 thoughts on “Clause 99, Catch 22 and Penning is telling lies.”
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Quinonostante says:
Reblogged this on Mentally Wealthy.
Mike Sivier says:
The government is claiming that a massive drop in benefit tribunals is down to its so-called reforms, which appears to be true – the operative ‘reform’ being the one in which benefit claimants are DEPRIVED of ALL THE MONEY DUE TO THEM if they appeal against a decision.
Is this the action of an open, transparent and progressive, democratic government or the repression of an autocratic dictatorship?
Decide.
grammatteus says:
I worked as a tribunal rep for the CAB. I left that job 12 years ago. Things were getting worse then, but this government is claiming they are now getting better!? I returned to our local CAB for advice for my daughter this week and was told I had to fill in a means form and return home, then ring them the following day. The drop-in advice HAD to be stopped since they said there was a queue right out the door and across the car park!
Had I been able to vote ‘properly’ in the last general election (in Northern Ireland we only have our pathetic wee local parties and it’s a one-issue election: the union. No, sorry, that’s not true, there are flags and parades too!), I would have voted LibDem. NOW if I lived in Great Britain (the mainland as it’s known by half the community here) any LibDem pollster visiting my door would be getting an earful and a slammed door. I fully understand Tories enacting these policies; they’re TORIES, and too many of the working class (and middle class) majority forget that, but WHY are the LibDems allowing this? They are in coalition, they now have power, they can use it. They do? My ARSE!
Sorry to say that even I was unaware of these changes, and I count myself well-informed. They don’t report THIS in our papers (or maybe some do, but from the side of the government ‘cracking down on benefit cheats and cutting the exorbitant spending’ or ‘our great government are making it harder for benefit tourists’!)
Re-blogging this!
Reblogged this on The Alternative Ulsterman and commented:
Sorry to say that even I was unaware of these changes, and I count myself well-informed.
ireallymeanthis says:
That enormous reduction in appeals shows how effective the reforms are at taking away the right to enough provision to live off.
What do you do if you decide not to appeal against the decision to find you fit for work?
I know that 6 months need to go by after the decision until you can start a new ESA claim.
So you may as well appeal anyway and hope the reconsideration doesn’t take too long. Under the prev. rules, it took 50 days for my reconsideration.
Any stats about the time these mandatory reconsiderations are taking in general?
Sasson Hann says:
In the document ’21st Century Welfare’ and it’s counterparts – which I read thoroughly and that were released in the early phase of the coalition – it specifically stated that people who didn’t qualify for ESA, or JSA (because they’re too sick obviously) will have to find their own means of support!!!
At the time, it felt that the government thought everyone had their ‘own means of support’! What? Trust Funds? Rich families? Savings?
That one sentence summed it all up for me. All the many thousands of people that were going to fall between the cracks, denied even the most basic form of living from people who do have the trust funds, rich families, and plenty of savings.
I read recently that there is now a time limit for the mandatory reconsideration. Unfortunately I can’t remember where I read it but I believe it was legit.
MentalHealthProfessional_CombatingFibromyalgia says:
Reblogged this on Mental Health Professional Combating Fibromyalgia and commented:
People are too sick, unwell, bullied and treated like shit to even fight to the tribunal stage. Do they have any idea how hard it is to even get to that stage and how much of a battle it takes. Disgusting.
A6er says:
That’s very nteresting Jack,shall have to keep an eye open
Nick (@Mylegalforum) says:
I’m all for sharing articles like this but get a bit miffed when the author doesn’t credit the source of some of the data used. I’ve been working on the ESA figures for a long time now and have put endless hours of painstaking research in to them.
It’s very clear from the article that the appeals data to which you refer was sourced from here > http://ilegal.org.uk/post/21737/thread
It’s a very good article which you have written; but please let’s be fair and give equal credit.
Not only that but there’s a lot more to this which has yet to emerge over an interesting FOI reply which we have had from the DWP. The danger in not working in unison is that articles get an airing which don’t expose the full story.
Nick @mylegalforum
ilegal.org.uk
kittysjones says:
I did NOT get the stats from that site actually, otherwise I WOULD have cited that source. I have also put endless hours of research into my work, though not all of it is stat analysis. And I always credit sources, if you care to look through my work, you will see that this is true.
The stats are actually up on the Government site. That’s where I looked.
I have been working on this issue since the consultation back in 2012.
I think you are out of order for accusing me of using ‘your’ data, some of which is actually available on the newspaper article, I hyperlinked on my article, amongst other places. I haven’t been on your site
And the rest of the info came from DWP – some from the press office, some verified via MPs I communicate with and some came from my OWN work from last year, dated January 30, 2013. Here – https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/735/
I would hope that we remain mutually respectful, and open for collaboration if the need or opportunity arises. I do understand where you are coming from about feeling miffed: people lift my stuff all the time, without credit. But I write to get the info out as far and wide as possible, and try and keep that in mind…but it is a little annoying, yes.
Best wishes to you Nick
Actually I have just looked on your link, Nick, and you have more extensive data than I have – the previous years comparison from 2009 onwards,for example. I wonder if I may add that – with full credit of course, because that comparison is very useful to have, as it shows clearly the rise,of appeals from 2009 – significantly peaking, as well as the recent dip through the mandatory review being introduced in October. I never thought to do the comparison prior to the coalition taking office 🙂
Hi Kitty, just a bit tetchy over this as it did appear very similar. The important thing though is we are fighting the same enemy which puts us on the same side 🙂
Anyone is free to use anything from the site unless we say to the contrary, all we ask (as I’m sure you’ll appreciate) is credit and a mention. So by all means please post anything which helps Kitty.
Trust me the reason for my safeguarding this is there is much bigger news to come. What we should then do is collaboratively shout this from the roof tops 🙂
Agreed we have the same aims and the same common enemy, and I prefer working cooperatively and collaboratively where I can.
Thanks, Nick, will add the earlier comparative stats later, when I can. I know there’s the online quarterlies, but I have problematic eyesight, and it takes me ages to wade through and faff with numbers. Thank you
Let me know if there’s anything I can do to support any work.
It’s good to ‘meet’ you Nick, now at least I know where you are, too 🙂
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Krislian Rodriguez, ANTM's requisite "too sexy" model, was booted from Season 23's sixth episode for failing to impress in a shoot with Chanel Iman, and told TMZ she was sure the fact that she dated Harris put her at a disadvantage. Further, she accused Ora of being a mean girl and routinely icing her own when the two would cross paths before the ANTM season had even begun filming.
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A BBC Preservation Order
TAKE NOTICE
This noble institution should be preserved.
It is not perfect but it is better than any alternative.
It contributes enormously to the culture of the nation.
It is our BBC
This notice should be nailed to the door of Broadcasting House and all BBC premises. Damaging or cutting off parts or branches of the institution is not allowed. Adequate space must be given to the institution’s roots which must not be interfered with. Severe penalties will be applied to anyone who knowingly or recklessly damages the institution in any way.
Then David Cameron, Nick Clegg and a heavyweight team need to take Mark Thompson aside and give him a good talking to. We want to preserve the BBC and its unique qualities but we need a hard pruning of dead wood and unproductive growth. Preserving the roots and fundamental strength are the most important objectives. Cutbacks in the right places will stimulate stronger new growth elsewhere.
I agree that Sky should contribute towards those commercial channels that it broadcasts free-to-air. It ties viewers into its subscription packages because they are comprehensive. This is gives it an unfair advantage throughout the market, as does its coverage and bandwidth.
Sky is a parasite on traditional TV companies. Its unfair advantages have enabled it to develop the best user interface and experience in the market. Even so, it is expensive and has a reputation for appalling customer service. Its relationship with Newscorp means it is part of a monstrous media empire which requires much more regulation in the interests of consumers and the community at large. It should be required to invest more in original programming and production. If necessary, a new media tax should be introduced to enforce appropriate investment and safeguards.
The BBC’s biggest mistake is the level of executive pay. There is no justification at all for anyone in the BBC to earn more than the Prime Minister. It is public money. Anyone unhappy with this should resign today. No one is indispensable. The BBC has always been the best in its business at bringing on new talent.
The Licence Fee should remain unchanged. It is fantastic value for money and shows just how expensive Sky is. The BBC Trust should be strengthened in its primary role as regulator and it should enforce cost savings, efficiencies and executive pay. It should also ensure that the BBC becomes more responsive and closer to its audience. Its complaints and feedback system is fundamental to this. It needs to be brought back in house and given real priority. See here.
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Four Predictions
1. Changes to the Insights Ecosystem
The insights ecosystem is changing. Companies need to integrate insights into their lean and agile teams. Privacy is a growing concern with people and legislators and courts are making tools like CRM, CX and Big Data more problematic. In terms of the market, insights companies are hot, and we are seeing big agencies (e.g. Kantar, GfK, Ipsos and Nielsen) changing, but we are also seeing medium-sized and small agencies, buying and merging. One interesting aspect is that a growing number of companies who would not think of themselves as doing UX, CX, or ‘market research’ are being acquired by insights companies and their skills and tools leveraged. Similarly, companies like SAP are acquiring insights companies.
2. Analytics
We are seeing a growth in analytics and a progression from Descriptive Analytics to Predictive Analytics, to Prescriptive Analytics. Prescriptive Analytics moves from just describing and predicting towards suggesting optimal actions and tackling the 'Why?'.
3. Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Automation has been maturing for several years and in 2020 we will see a jump in the amount of AI and related techniques being used in conjunction with automation. But as we cover in Hopes and Fears, this could be good or bad for people.
4. Integration
One data source alone rarely answers a real problem, the best answers come from integrating data sources. 2020 is going to see a big increase in the use of multiple data sources, including the blending of ad hoc with continuous, qual with quant, and big data with non-big data sources. The blending of CX and Insight Communities is one example of this.
Three Hopes
People do not rotate around brands; brands rotate around people. There is a global movement going on, a shift towards humanising brands, services, and companies. My hope is that we realise this, that our clients realise this, and that our suppliers realise this. Treating people as people and respecting them as individuals is a key step in humanising the business. Brands need to develop empathy if they are to be useful (and profitable) in the future.
2. Return on Investment
For too long, market research has been simply seen as risk reduction and the scorecard keeper (measuring other people’s ROI). My hope is that the trend towards demanding ROI for research and insights will continue – and that insights will demonstrate how much value they can and do add.
One of the key weaknesses with the way brands and organisations operate is a lack of empathy. The people who use our products and services are often different from the people designing, making and marketing them. The most powerful tool we have, in terms of increasing empathy, is video. Don’t just measure things, don’t just describe things, show them to me, and show them in ways that enhance my empathy.
Two Fears
1. Over Robotisation
Automation, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence all have the potential to improve lives, to make things better, faster and cheaper. However, they can also be misused. If research becomes too standardised, if we move from understanding our tools to adopting black boxes, if the research fails to recognise the human role in problem solving, then research will be faster and cheaper, but much less useful.
2. Snake Oil and Fool's Gold
There has been an explosion of platforms offering insight tools that seem to promise the world. But remember, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Techniques based on skewed samples (like only Twitter users, or only Alexa users), or based on contested science (e.g. facial coding), or models that fail to distinguish between causality and correlation (like some machine learning approaches) are likely to produce attractive but unhelpful results.
The Coda
A coda is a final thought that shines light on the rest of the piece. Our coda is the theme of Augmentation. 2020 will see an expansion of AI, machine learning, automation, prescriptive analytics, enhanced dashboards, and exciting new visualisation options. However, all of these exciting new tools will only be of benefit if they allow our people to do more. None of the tools will do jobs on their own, the key to success is to work out how to implement new tools in ways that make people more productive.
Every time you look at a new tool or application, ask yourself ‘Will this allow people to work, faster, with less effort and strain, and with more satisfaction?’ Focus on the tools that allow people to move away from the mind-numbing, repetitive, and error-prone processes and towards those things that people are good at.
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JP4052300B2 - Signal processing apparatus and transmission method - Google Patents
Signal processing apparatus and transmission method Download PDF
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昭治 植野
美昭 田中
日本ビクター株式会社
2004-10-28 Application filed by 日本ビクター株式会社 filed Critical 日本ビクター株式会社
The present invention relates to a multiplexed data stream such as a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) audio and a serial interface.
The present invention relates to a packet signal processing apparatus and a transmission method for transmitting via a packet.
Conventionally, digital contents data (Digital Contents Data) is converted to digital interface (in particular, serial interface (Serial Inter
The technique of transmitting via (also called face) is known.
For example, as disclosed in JP-A-10-285234 and JP-A-11-45512, content is divided into MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Gr.
oup) A header is added to each transport stream.
If the above content is divided and transmitted, there is a risk of packet loss. Therefore, it is necessary to process the packet loss using the header information.
By the way, in recent years, an audio file (Audio File) and a DVD (Video) file (DVD (Video) including A pack, RTI (Real Time Information) pack, SPCT (Still Image Signal) pack like DVD Audio Format).
) File) and content with a multiplexed file structure are required to be transmitted.
When transferring a data stream having such a multiplexed file structure, a format process is performed so that the compression method can be specified at the stage of the digital interface, and a notification is given in advance of what decoding process is necessary. Therefore, it is desired to be able to receive “selectively” or to reproduce efficiently. For example, in the case of data that cannot be decoded, it is possible to cope with such as stopping reception or to detect efficiently whether the data is compressed data in advance.
Therefore, in view of the above problems, the present invention is for transmitting multiplexed content based on a DVD audio format or a DVD video format including an audio signal that solves these problems via a digital interface. The signal processing apparatus and the transmission method are provided.
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention comprises the following means 1) to 3).
1) An encoding method of the DVD audio standard, which is encoded by an encoding method including lossless compression (packed PCM), and from data in which a predetermined data stream is formed including audio data having a predetermined number of channels. The audio data of the encoding method is decoded into a PCM audio signal for each channel to obtain real data including a channel code of the channel and a PCM audio signal stored in data of a predetermined length, a packet header, a CIP header, When packetizing into a structure comprising an area for storing real data, a predetermined area provided in the real data area, which is an actual data recording area excluding the CIP header, in the data field in the packet, How to encode audio data in a data stream Signal processing apparatus characterized by having a packet processing unit for packetizing the format of the predetermined protocol with grant prior to the channel coding identification information indicating.
2) From data in which a predetermined data stream is formed including audio data having a predetermined number of channels while being encoded by an encoding method including lossless compression (packed PCM), which is a DVD audio standard encoding method. The audio data of the encoding method is decoded into a PCM audio signal for each channel to obtain real data including a channel code of the channel and a PCM audio signal stored in data of a predetermined length, a packet header, a CIP header, When packetizing into a structure comprising an area for storing real data, a predetermined area provided in the real data area, which is an actual data recording area excluding the CIP header, in the data field in the packet, How to encode audio data in a data stream It receives data transmitted is packetized in the format of a predetermined protocol with the identification information given to front of the channel code indicating, signal processing apparatus characterized by comprising means for decoding at least the information.
3) A DVD audio standard encoding method that is encoded by an encoding method including lossless compression (packed PCM), and includes data in which a predetermined data stream is formed including audio data having a predetermined number of channels. The audio data of the encoding method is decoded into a PCM audio signal for each channel to obtain real data including a channel code of the channel and a PCM audio signal stored in data of a predetermined length, a packet header, a CIP header, When packetizing into a structure comprising an area for storing real data, a predetermined area provided in the real data area, which is an actual data recording area excluding the CIP header, in the data field in the packet, How to encode audio data in a data stream Transmission method is characterized in that so as to transmit the identification information assigned before the channel code shown, it converts the packet corresponding to the serial interface of a predetermined standard through the serial interface of the predetermined standard.
According to the present invention, when serial transmission is performed, information for identifying a compression method of a predetermined ASID content such as DVD audio is stored in a predetermined area of real data, converted into a packet such as IEEE1394, and transferred. As a result, the content decoding management can be performed accurately.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of a signal processing apparatus and transmission method according to the embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing of the disc player of FIG.
In the example of FIG. 1, a disc player 100 that is a transmitting device that plays a role in the home information network center and a recording / reproducing device 200 that is one receiving terminal device have data transfer interfaces (I / F) 200 a and 200 b, respectively. Data transfer I /
F200a and 200b are connected via two IEEE1394 standard serial interfaces 188-1 and 188-2. The disc player 100
For example, an audio signal A and a still picture (still picture) signal SPCT recorded on a DVD audio disk are read out, and these are read out as a data transfer I / F 200a.
Recording / reproducing apparatus 200 via serial interfaces 188-1 and 188-2
Send to. The recording / reproducing apparatus 200 uses the audio signal A and the still image signal SPCT.
Serial interface 188-1, 188-2, data transfer I / F 200b
To receive and play. At this time, one serial interface 188
-1 is selectively used for reception or transmission and the other serial interface 18
8-2 is used exclusively for transmission.
The operation of the disc player 100 of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the data transfer I / F 200a and one serial interface 188-1 are set to the reception mode (step S1), and then recording is performed via the data transfer I / F 200a and the two serial interfaces 188-1 and 188-2. Bidirectional transmission is performed with the playback apparatus 200 (step S2).
Next, one serial interface 188-1 is set from the reception mode to the transmission mode (step S3), and then the two serial interfaces 188-1, 1
A signal having a relatively high transfer rate is distributed and transmitted to the playback device 200 via 88-2 (step S4). That is, in this example, the other serial interface 188-2 is always set to the transmission mode.
As a specific example of the transmission data, a DVD audio disc has an audio signal A.
In addition, since the real-time information signal RTI (for example, text data) and the still image signal SPCT are recorded, the audio signal A is transmitted via the serial interface 188-1, and the real-time information signal R
A method of transmitting the TI and the still image signal SPCT via the serial interface 188-2 can be considered. By dispersing in this way, when the former audio signal A, the latter real-time information signal RTI and the still picture signal SPCT are reproduced synchronously, the buffer capacity can be avoided, so that from a large number of still pictures, for example, 80 pictures. 99 sheets can be synchronously reproduced. A specific example of communication performed in step S1 in which one is set to the reception mode is a disk designation (request) from the playback terminal, an operation instruction such as a play command.
Note that the number of serial interfaces is not limited to two. For example, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, four serial interfaces 188-1 to 188-4 (and data transfer interfaces I / Fs 200 a ′ and 200 b ′) are used. May be. That is, first, one of the serial interfaces 188-1 to 188-4 is set to the reception mode (step S11), and then the two serial interfaces 188-1 are set.
The bidirectional transmission is performed with the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 via 188-2 (step S12). Next, the interface 188-1 in the reception mode is set to the bidirectional mode (step S13), and then a signal having a relatively high transfer rate is distributed via the three serial interfaces 188-2 to 188-4. The data is transmitted to the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 (step S14).
That is, in this case, for example, one serial interface 188-1 is selectively used for reception or transmission, and the other three serial interfaces 188-2-1 are used.
88-4 may be used exclusively for transmission. In this case, for example, the audio signal A, the real-time information signal RTI, and the still image signal SPC
A method is conceivable in which T is transmitted via three serial interfaces 188-2 to 188-4, and data relating to operations with the playback terminal is mutually transmitted via a single serial interface 188-1.
The present embodiment can also be applied to an audio compatible format of the IEC 958 standard instead of the transmission method of the IEEE 1394 standard.
Unlike the IEEE 1394 standard of this embodiment, the IEC 958 standard is a one-way transmission system, unlike the IEEE 1394 standard, and in the case of bi-directional transmission using a plurality of serial interfaces as in this embodiment. It is easy to apply.
Further, the audio compatible format of the IEC958 standard is IEEE13.
It may be an IEC958 mode audio compatible format in the 94 standard, and can be applied to various modes in the IEEE 1394 standard.
Next, a billing flag, a zero flag, a mute flag, a pack flag (Back Fl) stored in a data field of FIG.
ag), copy flag (Copy Flag) and copy supplementary information (downsampling flag)
(Down-sampling Flag) Fa, Down-mix Flag Fb, De-quantize Flag Fc, number of copies) will be described. First,
A flag indicating whether the data compression method is a DVD audio lossless method is sent from the transmission side to the reception side. For example, this flag is a flag stored in the management information of the data field as shown in FIG. If this lossless method cannot be decoded, reception can be stopped. At the same time, the authentication data sent from the transmission side to the reception side is received, a response is made, and whether or not the reception side is qualified to make a copy is checked. If the check condition is satisfied, the process starts. . The copy flag and the copy supplementary information indicating the processing performed on the content in advance on the transmission side are received. That is, if the processing in which the sampling frequency Fs is converted to half is performed, the downmix flag Fb is set to “1”. And
De-quan from original bits (eg 20 bits) to 16 bits
If the (tize) process has been performed, the dequantize flag Fc is set to “1”, and the copy supplementary information in which the number of copies is set is received. Also, by looking at the charge flag indicating “pay” or “free” according to the type of content, if it is “pay”, the charge fee is determined according to the copy count information, and the electronic wallet provided in the device Charge management for charging is performed (step S21).
Next, if some of the multiple serial interfaces are not used or the data is “0”, a zero flag is transmitted from the transmitting side to the receiving side via the serial interface. See this flag on the side (step S2
2) If Y, reception processing is not performed (step S23), and when data other than the audio signal A, for example, still image signal SPCT or real-time information RTI is transmitted via a serial interface, the reception side A mute flag is transmitted from the transmission side to the reception side via the serial interface so that noise is not generated by the D / A converter for the audio signal, and the reception side sees this flag (step S24). If so, mute processing is performed (step S25).
Audio signal A, still image signal SPCT, real-time information (Rea
l Time Information) When transmitting RTI and video signal V through a certain serial interface, the serial interface is connected from the transmitting side to the receiving side so that it can be easily decoded and synchronized on the receiving side. The signal type flag is transmitted via the reception side, and the reception side sees and receives the flag (step S26).
If completed (Y in step S27), the process ends. On the transmission side, the copy count information is counted up and rewritten upon completion of the copy.
FIG. 6 shows a specific example of step S26. That is, it is checked whether the signal type flag is an audio signal (A pack of DVD audio disc) (step S31). If Y, the signal is supplied to the A pack buffer (step S32), and the pack flag is a video signal (DVD). If it is Y, it is supplied to the V pack buffer (step S34).
), It is checked whether the pack flag is an RTI signal (DVD audio disk RTI pack) (step S35). If it is Y, the pack flag is supplied to the RTI pack buffer (step S35).
In step S36), whether the pack flag is an SPCT signal (SPCT pack of a DVD audio disk) is checked (step S37). If Y, the pack flag is supplied to the SPCT pack buffer (step S38). The data is supplied to the decoder buffer (step S39).
The ID, management information, and flag information described above are stored in the following MPEG protocol data and transmitted.
FIG. 7 shows the IEEE 1394 standard isochronous (Isoc) for performing the transmission.
FIG. 7 (a) shows a transport stream. The transport stream is a fixed packet of 188 bytes, and here is a bit string (A pack) of audio data according to the DVD audio standard, image data or audio data (A pack of video) according to the DVD video standard (V pack), or The SACD standard (Super Audio (Super A
udio) a bit string of audio data according to the CD standard) is arranged.
8 to 11 show data structures of the A pack, V pack, RTI pack, and SPCT pack described above. The A pack of the linear PCM shown in FIG. 8A is recorded in the data area of the DVD audio disk.
The PCM A pack is composed of 2048 bytes or less, and the breakdown is composed of a 14-byte pack header and an A packet. A packet is 17, 9
Or 14-byte packet header (Packet Header) and private header (Priv
ate Header) and 1 to 2011 bytes of audio data (Audio Data).
Private header
An 8-bit substream ID;
A 3-bit reserved area in UPC, EAN, ISRC, and
-5-bit UPC / EAN / ISRC number in UPC, EAN, ISRC,
-8-bit UPC / EAN / ISRC data in UPC, EAN, ISRC,
-8-bit private header length,
A 16-bit first access unit pointer;
8 bytes of audio data information (ADI)
・ 0-7 bytes of stuffing bytes,
It is comprised by.
ADI (Audio Data Information Unit)
1-bit audio emphasis flag,
A 1-bit reserved area;
-1-bit stereo playback mode,
1-bit downmix code validity,
-4-bit downmix code,
A quantization word length “1” of a 4-bit group “1”;
A 4-bit group “1” audio sampling frequency fs1,
・ 4-bit multi-channel type
-A bit shift of the group "2" of 3 bits,
-5-bit channel assignment information,
・ 8-bit dynamic range control information,
A 16-bit reserved area;
FIG. 8B shows the structure of a lossless compressed packed PCM (Packed PCM) A pack, which is composed of 2048 bytes or less, the breakdown of which is a 14-byte pack header and an A packet. It is comprised by. The A packet is composed of a packet header of 17, 22, 9, 14, or 19 bytes, a private header, and compressed audio data of 1 to 2015 bytes.
-4 bytes of audio data information (ADI),
ADI (audio data information) is
An 8-bit forward search pointer;
An 8-bit backward search pointer;
The V pack shown in FIG. 9 is recorded in the data area of a DVD audio or DVD video disc.
This V pack is composed of 2048 bytes or less, and the breakdown is composed of a pack header of 14 bytes and a user data packet. The pack header is composed of a 4-byte pack start, a 6-byte SCR, a 3-byte MUX rate (multiplex transfer rate), and a 1-byte stuffing.
The RTI pack shown in FIG. 10 is recorded in the data area of a DVD audio disk.
This RTI pack is composed of 2048 bytes or less, and its breakdown is composed of a 14-byte pack header and an RTI packet. RTI packet is 17
, 9 or 14 byte packet header, RTI private header, and 1 to 2015 byte RTI data.
The RTI private header is
A 2-byte reserved area;
A 4-bit RTI information ID;
The SPCT pack shown in FIG. 11 is recorded in the data area of a DVD audio disk.
This SPCT pack is composed of 2048 bytes or less, and the breakdown is composed of a 14-byte pack header and an SPCT packet. The SPCT packet has a 22, 19 or 9 byte packet header and a 1 to 2025 byte SP.
It consists of CT data.
Again, in FIG. 7, the above-mentioned fixed packet consisting of 188 bytes is prefixed with a time stamp called a source packet header [FIG. 7 (b).
]]. On the receiving side, audio and moving images are reproduced in accordance with the time of the time stamp.
These data are divided into a plurality of data blocks each having 48 bytes [FIG. 7 (c)]. There are four division methods: 192 bytes × 1 block, 96 bytes × 2 blocks, 48 bytes × 4 blocks, and 24 bytes × 8 blocks.
Next, a plurality of data blocks are combined to form one isochronous transfer packet. This way of summarizing, with 125 μs as one cycle,
The blocks are sequentially collected into a number of blocks that can be accommodated in each cycle, and a packet header for IEEE 1394 described later is added to the head of the block. FIG. 7D shows a state in which data divided into 48 bytes is grouped into 3 blocks and 2 blocks.
Then, when performing this data transfer, as shown in FIG. 12, arbitration is added to the head, followed by a cycle start packet, and further, after this cycle start packet, 125 at predetermined intervals. μs packets are repeatedly arranged and transferred.
The packet every 125 μs includes a packet header, a data field,
It consists of a 32-bit data error detection code.
The packet header is
・ 16-bit data length information,
A tag indicating the presence or absence of a 2-bit CIP (Common Isochronous Packet) header,
-Channel assignment information for transmitting 6-bit packets;
・ Transaction code indicating 4-bit processing code,
A 4-bit sync code,
A 32-bit packet header error detection code;
Consists of.
The data field includes a 32-bit CIP header, a 32-bit real data header, real data, and a 32-bit real data tail.
The 8-bit ID is
The total number of 4-bit serial interfaces;
・ 4 bit serial interface number,
16-bit application information
・ 4-bit pack flag,
-1-bit zero flag,
-1-bit mute flag,
An 8-bit billing flag;
・ 2-bit copy flag,
8-bit copy supplementary information
A 1-bit downsampling flag Fa;
A 1-bit downmix flag Fb;
1-bit quantize flag Fc,
・ 5-bit copy count,
As shown in FIG. 13, the management information in the tail of the real data includes information corresponding to 1 byte (8 bits) address 00h to address FFh (256 types) (1
6 bits) are recorded in order, and this is repeated. This address 0
0h to FFh are recorded in the ID (8 bits) in the tail of the real data.
00h-07h; ISRC,
08h to 0Bh; UPC / EAN / JAN code,
0Ch; SDCM (copy management information),
0Dh to 2Fh; attached information of encryption,
30h-3Fh; use permission period,
40h; Content ID,
41h-46h; copyright protection period,
47h-4Ah; information about the player,
4Bh-72h; text data,
73h-7Fh; user ID,
80h; DVD audio lossless compression flag (packed PCM flag),
81h to BFh; reserved area,
C0h to C7h; disk management data,
C8h to CEh; master tape management data,
CFh to FFh; Basic information on software production,
Consists of. In this way, a large number of information at address 256 can be stored using a 16-bit area.
In addition, as shown in FIG. 14, AM824 data, which is multi-channel data stored in real data, consists of 32 bits and includes a head identifier (011),
It consists of a channel code (5 bits) and PCM audio (24, 20, or 16 bits; however, in the case of 20, or 16 bits, zeros are padded on the LSB side).
The channel code is as shown in FIG.
0h: Lf: Multi-channel left front 1h: Rf: Multi-channel right front 2h: S: Multi-channel surround 3h: Ls: Multi-channel left surround 4h: Rs: Multi-channel right surround 5h: C: Multi-channel Center 6h: LFE: Multi-channel Low Frequency Effect
7-1Fh: Defined by hold.
FIG. 16 is an example of specific real data according to the above-mentioned definition.
Further, instead of putting the channel code information in the real data, as shown in FIG. 17, 16-bit information is converted into I in the tail in FIG.
You may make it enter into D and a reserve area | region.
This 16-bit information is
Group sampling frequency FS2 (4 bits),
Information indicating the type of multi-channel [frequency and number of bits (4 bits)],
Information indicating channel assignment (allocation) (5 bits), 1-bit hold, 1-bit down-sampling flag, and 1-bit de-quantize flag, 3 bits in total The information department;
You may make it comprise from these.
FIG. 17 is a modified example of FIG. 13 and shows a channel assignment (Channel Assig).
nment) is an example of channel information.
FIG. 18 shows details based on the channel assignment.
The figure shows groups “1”, “1” (mono) to 6 channels “
2 "shows the channel assignment information. Lf, Rf, S, L in the figure
Each symbol of s... represents the corresponding channel as in FIG. 15, and L and R mean two-channel stereo.
In this case, the multi-channel data in the real data is arranged as shown in FIG. 19, for example, and each channel is determined by the channel assignment in FIG. 17 and the channel order (ACH0 to ACH5) in FIG. It has become so. That is, a bit flag is stored instead of the 5-bit CH code in FIG. The upper 2 bits of the bit flag are, for example, (00; 24 bits), (01; 20 bits), (10; 16 bits),
(11: other bits), and the lower 2 bits of the bit flag are represented as downsampling information, for example, (010) indicates no downsampling and (011) indicates downsampling. Downsampling means changing to a sampling frequency of 1/2, for example.
Next, FIG. 20 shows a specific embodiment of the disc player 100, and shows a universal player capable of reproducing a DVD audio disc and a DVD video disc. In the universal player, data recorded on the disc 1 such as a DVD audio disc, a DVD video disc, a DVD-RAM disc, etc. is reproduced by the drive device 2 based on the control of the control unit 14 and the operation of the operation unit 15 and the remote control 16. Demodulated by the demodulating circuit 2B. Video (V) packs and DVDs played from DVD audio discs and DVD video video discs
The still picture pack reproduced from the audio disc is DVD-decoded by the still picture / V pack decoder 3 and converted into a video stream.
When the video stream is displayed on an external display (not shown) via the monitor output terminal 55 shown in FIG. 1 or taken out as an audio output, the video stream is decompressed and decompressed by the decompression / image conversion unit 4. The V pack is then output as a video signal / sub-picture signal / audio signal via the D / A converter 5, and the still image SPCT pack is output as a video signal. On the other hand, when the data is transferred to the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 shown in FIG. 1, there are two methods. In the first method, data decompressed and descrambled by the decompressing / image converting unit 4 is packed by the data arranging unit 6 in a packed manner. The data is arranged, and then transferred to the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 via the two data transfer I / Fs 7-1 and 7-2 and the serial interface of IEEE1394 or IEC958. In the second method, the scrambled video stream decoded (depacked) by the still image / V pack decoder 3 is recorded and reproduced via the data transfer I / Fs 7-1 and 7-2 and the IEEE1394 or IEC958 serial interface. Transferred to device 200.
The audio A pack and the RTI pack reproduced from the DVD audio disk and the DVD-RAM disk are DVD-decoded by the A pack / RTI pack decoder 8 and converted into a DVD audio stream. To character information / real-time text information RTI.
When the audio signal is taken out via the output terminal 55 of FIG. 1 and supplied to an external speaker (not shown), the audio stream is converted by the PCM conversion / audio signal processing unit 9 into PCM conversion and descrambling (De- scramble) is converted into a PCM signal, and then output via the D / A converter 10. Also,
When the RTI is displayed on an external display (not shown), the output signal converted by the display signal generator 18 is supplied. On the other hand, when transferring to the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 of FIG. 1, there are two types as in the case of video. In the first method, PCM conversion /
If the PCM data subjected to PCM conversion and descrambling by the audio signal processing unit 9 is changed to a lower sampling frequency by the downsampling unit 10 as necessary, and 2 if the downmixing unit 11 is a multi-channel signal. Down-mixed into a channel stereo signal, data arrayed by the data array unit 12, and then two data transfer I / Fs 13-1, 13-2 and IEEE1394
Alternatively, the data is transferred to the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 via a serial interface of IEC958.
In the second method, the DVD audio stream decoded and scrambled by the A pack / RTI pack decoder 8 is transferred to the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 via the data transfer I / Fs 13-1, 13-2 and the IEEE1394 or IEC958 serial interface. Transferred.
FIG. 21 shows another example of the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 as a receiving apparatus, which is an apparatus that reproduces data transferred by the universal player 100 shown in FIG. 20, and is transferred by the universal player 100 via a serial interface. Data is received via the data transfer I / Fs 21-1 and 21-2. The data transfer I / Fs 21-1 and 21-2 are controlled by the control unit 32 based on the header flag transferred by the universal player 100 and the buffer 2 of the DVD decoder 22.
2V, buffer 23V of A pack playback unit 23, buffer 2 of V pack playback unit 24
4V, buffer 25V of RTI pack playback unit 25, and SPCT pack playback unit 2
Distribute to one of the six buffers 26V.
That is, when it is identified as A pack by the 4-bit pack flag of the above-described real data header 32-bit application information shown in FIG. 12, when it is identified as V pack in the buffer 23V of the A pack playback unit 23, When the RTI pack is identified in the buffer 24V of the V pack reproducing unit 24, the SPCT pack reproducing unit 26 is identified in the buffer 25V of the RTI pack reproducing unit 25 when the SPCT pack is identified.
Distributed to each buffer 26V. If no pack flag is added, it is supplied to the buffer 22V of the DVD decoder 22. The operation unit 33 is for performing operations such as play. Further, the charging process is performed by identifying the content by the content ID recorded at the address 40h in the real data shown in FIG.
The user IDs recorded in the addresses 73h to 7Fh are used when supplied only to a specific user, and are used for collating the users.
When the data stored in the buffer 23V is brought into a reproduction state according to a user instruction, the packed PCM (compression) flag is looked at. If the flag is on, decompression processing is performed. Therefore, it is not necessary to perform decompression processing after viewing all data with this flag, and it is sufficient to view the flag in advance, so that the reproduction efficiency is improved and the buffer capacity is reduced.
In addition, as described above, when the present apparatus is an apparatus that cannot perform the decompression process, the control unit 32 can stop receiving data.
Also, by providing a pack ID in the 32-bit header of the real data, when receiving the audio signal A, the still image signal SPCT, the real-time information RTI, and the video signal V, it can be immediately decoded on the receiving side.
For example, in order to synchronize the still image SPCT and the sound A, it is not necessary to capture a large amount of still image signals in the still image buffer in advance, and the restriction on the synchronous reproduction of the still image, which is limited by the conventional buffer capacity, is reduced. In addition, the video moving image V (with sound) and the audio A can be taken out simultaneously and played back simultaneously, thereby eliminating the restriction on playback that must be played back separately.
Also, the zero flag, mute flag, billing flag, and billing information (use permission period) are referred to. The billing flag and billing information are processed by the billing management unit 34 together with the content ID. In this case, the copy management information SDCM is not used.
Furthermore, in FIG. 21, the operation in the A pack reproducing unit 23 will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 22. In this A pack reproducing unit 23, “011” is added to the first 3 bits of the incoming data. Is checked (step S40). If yes (Y), this data proceeds to the steps described later as PCM audio data, and if no (N), the processing program is terminated (step S52), and the other channel audio data is assumed. It is processed.
If it is multi-channel audio data, CH (
Channel) code, and each CH code has its own step S42, S4.
4, S46, S48, and S50, the channels that are Lf, Rf, Ls, Rs, and C are detected, respectively, and the data of the detected channels is the corresponding latch circuit 23a in the A pack reproducing unit 23, respectively. ,... Are latched (steps S43, S45, S47, S49, S51), and are output in synchronization.
Further, when the frequency information corresponding to each channel is entered as shown in FIG. 17 described above, the channel corresponds to each channel at step 61 as shown in FIG. 23 with reference to the downsampling information shown in FIG. To see the frequency information
Steps 80 to 84 are set to frequencies corresponding to the respective channels. That is, in steps 80 to 84, the sampling frequency Fs is set to half when down-sampling is performed according to the down-sampling information.
Further, another operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 24, 25 and FIGS. First, the operation of the disc player 100 of FIG. 1 will be described. Data transfer I /
F200a and one of the serial interfaces 188-1 are set to the reception mode (step S41), and whether there is a transmission request from the recording / reproducing apparatus 200 (step S42), and if there is, the transmission request is received (step S43). ), Set to downsampling and dequantization processing as described later (step S44),
In the case of multi-channel, in order to downmix, it is set to a downmix process (steps S45 and S46).
Next, the data transfer I / F 200a, two serial interfaces 1
Bidirectional transmission is performed with the recording apparatus 200 which is a receiving apparatus via 88-1 and 188-2 (step S47).
Next, one serial interface 188-1 is set from the reception mode to the transmission mode (step S48), and then the two serial interfaces 188-1,
Via 188-2, a signal having a relatively high transfer rate is distributed and transmitted to the reproducing apparatus, that is, the recording apparatus 200 (step S49). That is, in this example, the other serial interface 188-2 is always set to the transmission mode.
In addition, since a real-time information signal RTI (for example, text data) and a still image signal SPCT are recorded, the audio signal A is transmitted via the serial interface 188-1, and the real-time information signal RT
A method of transmitting I and the still image signal SPCT via the serial interface 188-2 is conceivable. By dispersing in this way, the former audio signal A, the latter real-time information signal RTI, and the still picture signal SPCT can be transmitted at high speed.
A specific example of communication performed in step S1 in which one of them is set to the reception mode is a transmission supply instruction such as a disk or song designation (request) or a play command from the playback terminal.
As shown in FIG. 20, down-sampling processing is performed by the down-sampling unit 10, and de-quantization processing is performed by the PCM conversion / audio signal processing unit 9.
In addition, the down-mix process is performed by the down-mix unit 11.
Next, using FIG. 25, a copy flag (Copy Flag) in the recording / reproducing apparatus 200,
Copy supplementary information (Down-sampling Flag Fa, Down-mix Flag Fb, De-quantize Flag)
Fc, number of copies), billing flag, zero flag (Zero Flag), mute flag (Mu
te Flag) and pack flag (Back Flag) will be described. Further, the downmix flag and the dequantize flag may be obtained from the data shown in FIG. 17 given as another embodiment.
First, the data transfer I / F 200b of FIG. 1 and one serial interface 1
88-1 is set to the transmission mode (step S51), and a transmission request is sent to the disc player 100 (step S52). Next, one serial interface 188-1 is set from the transmission mode to the reception mode (step S53), and then received via the two serial interfaces 188-1 and 188-2 (step S54). Next, the authentication data sent from the transmission side to the reception side is received, a response is made, and whether or not the reception side is qualified to perform copying is checked. If the check condition is satisfied, the process starts. When the copy flag and the copy supplementary information indicating the processing applied in advance on the transmission side are received, that is, when the down sample processing is performed, the down mix flag Fb is set to “1” and the original bit (for example, , 20 bits) to 16 bits, the dequantization flag Fc is set to “1”, and the copy supplementary information in which the number of copies is set is received. Also, look at the billing flag indicating “pay” or “free” according to the type of content. If it is “pay”, the billing fee is determined according to the copy count information, and billing management is performed to charge from the electronic wallet. This is performed (step S55).
6) If Y, the reception process is not performed (step S57). When data other than the audio signal A, for example, the still image signal SPCT or the real-time information RTI is transmitted via a certain serial interface, the reception side A mute flag is transmitted from the transmission side to the reception side via the serial interface so that noise is not generated by the D / A converter for the audio signal, and the reception side sees this flag (step S58). If so, mute processing is performed (step S59).
In addition, when the audio signal A, the still image signal SPCT, the real-time information RTI, and the video signal V are transmitted via a serial interface, the transmission side can easily decode and synchronize them on the reception side. Send a signal type flag to the receiving side via the serial interface,
The receiving side sees this flag and receives it (step S60), and if it is finished (Y in step S61), it ends. On the transmission side, the copy count information is counted up and rewritten upon completion of the copy.
A specific example of step 60 is the same as the step shown in FIG. That is,
Whether the pack flag is an audio signal (A pack of a DVD audio disk) is checked (step S31), and if it is Y, it is supplied to the A pack buffer (step S).
32) Whether the pack flag is a video signal (video pack of a DVD audio disk) is checked (step S33). If it is Y, the pack flag is supplied to the V pack buffer (step S34), and the pack flag is an RTI signal (DVD audio disk). RT
If it is Y, it is supplied to the RTI pack buffer (step S36), and it is checked whether the pack flag is an SPCT signal (SPCT pack of a DVD audio disk) (step S37). , Y if SP
The data is supplied to the CT pack buffer (step S38), and otherwise supplied to the decoder buffer (step S39).
In the above-described embodiment, the signal processing processed based on the DVD audio standard has been described. However, a dual-purpose device capable of reproducing this encoding method and the 1-bit DSD encoding method will be described.
For example, in the case of a 1-bit DSD encoding method, the data structure may be that of an SDCD (Super Audio CD), but here the data structure is
Explanation will be made assuming that the structure is almost the same as that shown in FIG. 8 and that the DSD encoded data is stored in the audio data area. Further, during transmission, the real data in FIG. 12 is arranged as shown in FIG. 26, for example.
3 bits of head identifier (indicating 111: 1 bit DSD encoding method),
1 bit of encoding presence / absence flag indicating whether or not encoding is given to the encoding,
Channel and bit number flag 4 bits (the upper 2 bits are channel information such as “00: 2CH”, “01: 3CH”, “10: 6CH”,
“11: Other channel”, and the lower 2 bits are, for example, “00; 24 bits”, “01; 20 bits”, “10; 16 bits”, “
11; other bits ") and 1-bit audio data.
The above encoding represents lossless compression, such as a Huffman code.
At this time, a flag indicating the 1-bit DSD encoding method may be newly provided in the reserved area in the management information shown in FIG.
Then, as a reproduction operation corresponding to the above-described FIG. 6, if described in the flowchart of FIG. 27, if it is determined in step 31 that the signal identification flag is A pack, in step 32, the 1-bit encoding method is used. It is detected whether or not there is a flag. If it is Y, it is supplied to the DSD buffer (step S33). If the flag is not found, it is supplied to the PCM buffer (step S34).
In addition, as a player for reproducing a disc of such an encoding method, for example,
The player shown in FIG. 28 is provided. This player has a configuration corresponding to FIG. 20, except that a DSD / PCM conversion signal processing unit 9 'is provided. The DSD conversion is performed according to the presence or absence of the flag of the 1-bit DSD encoding method. Or PC
MSD converted DSD data or PCM data is output.
Furthermore, FIG. 29 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 21, and in this case, in particular, in this case, the A-pack is indicated by the 4-bit pack flag of the above-described real data header 32-bit application information shown in FIG. 12. Identify and check whether the data is the data of the 1-bit DSD encoding method by the head identifier (111) shown in FIG.
Accordingly, the data is supplied to the DSD buffer 23V-1 or the PCM buffer 23V-2 of the A pack playback unit 23, and the PCM-D is passed through the A pack playback unit 23 during playback.
The SD conversion unit 28a outputs the signal as a PCM signal or a DSD signal.
In particular, if it is determined that the encoding method is a 1-bit DSD encoding method, the presence / absence of an encoding flag is checked as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 30 (step S150). In 28a, lossless compression is decoded (step S160) and supplied to a D / A converter (not shown) (step S170).
In the embodiment described above, the interface is an interface that can be connected to a plurality of interfaces, and has been described with a configuration in which a plurality of interfaces are connected in consideration of transferring a large amount of data at a higher speed. If transfer is not desired, one IEEE 1394 standard interface capable of bidirectional transfer may be used.
Further, the disc player is not limited to the optical disc, and may be a recording medium such as a hard disk (HDD).
Further, the recording / reproducing apparatus may be a portable terminal.
1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of a transmission method and a signal processing device (transmitting device, receiving device) according to the present invention. 3 is a flowchart showing processing of the disc player in FIG. 1. It is a block diagram which shows the transmission method of 2nd Embodiment, and a signal processing apparatus (transmission apparatus, reception apparatus). 4 is a flowchart showing processing of the disc player of FIG. 3. It is a flowchart which shows the process of the receiver of FIG. 1, FIG. It is a detailed flowchart of FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the isochronous transfer system in IEEE1394 standard. It is a data structure of an A pack of audio data according to the DVD audio standard. This is a data structure of data according to the DVD video standard. It is a data structure of an RTI pack according to the DVD audio standard. This is the data structure of the SPCT pack according to the DVD audio standard. It is a detailed view of the data array at the time of transfer. It is a detailed view of information stored in a management information area in the tail of real data. It is a figure which shows the arrangement | sequence format in real data. It is a figure which shows a channel code. It is a detailed figure in real data. It is another Example of channel information. This is an example of channel assignment. It is another Example in the real data corresponding to FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the player 100 in FIG. 1. It is another Example of a recording / reproducing apparatus. It is a flowchart which shows another operation mode of FIG. 18 is an operation flow when information corresponding to FIG. 17 is stored. It is an operation flow when a down sample flag or a down mix flag is obtained. This is an operation flow when a zero flag or a mute flag is obtained. FIG. 15 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 14 when 1-bit encoding data is arranged. It is a figure corresponding to FIG. 6 in the case of a 1 bit encoding system. It is a block diagram of the player of the combined use type of a DVD audio system and a 1-bit encoding system. FIG. 22 is a block diagram of a recording / reproducing apparatus on the receiving side corresponding to FIG. 21 which is a combination type of a DVD audio system and a 1-bit encoding system. FIG. 30 is a flowchart showing a decoding process of a signal of the 1-bit encoding method in FIG. 29. FIG.
100 disc player (transmitting device)
200 Recording / reproducing device (receiving device)
188-1 to 188-4 Serial interface 7-1 to 7-2, 13-1 to 13-2, 200a, 200a ′ Data transfer interface (transmission means)
21-1 to 21-2, 200b, 200b ′ Data transfer interface (receiving means)
The encoding method of the DVD audio standard, which is encoded by an encoding method including lossless compression (packed PCM), and which is encoded from data in which a predetermined data stream is formed including audio data having a predetermined number of channels. Audio data of each channel is decoded into a PCM audio signal for each channel to obtain real data including a channel code of the channel and a PCM audio signal stored in a predetermined length of data, a packet header, a CIP header, and the real data Is packetized into a structure comprising an area for storing the data stream in a predetermined area provided within a real data area, which is a real data recording area excluding the CIP header, in the data field in the packet. Audio data encoding method Signal processing apparatus characterized by having a packet processing unit for packetizing the format of the predetermined protocol with imparting to the identification information before the channel code.
The encoding method of the DVD audio standard, which is encoded by an encoding method including lossless compression (packed PCM), and which is encoded from data in which a predetermined data stream is formed including audio data having a predetermined number of channels. Audio data of each channel is decoded into a PCM audio signal for each channel to obtain real data including a channel code of the channel and a PCM audio signal stored in a predetermined length of data, a packet header, a CIP header, and the real data Is packetized into a structure comprising an area for storing the data stream in a predetermined area provided within a real data area, which is a real data recording area excluding the CIP header, in the data field in the packet. Audio data encoding method The identify information it receives data transmitted is packetized in the format of the predetermined protocol with grant before the channel coding, the signal processing apparatus characterized by comprising means for decoding at least the information.
The encoding method of the DVD audio standard, which is encoded by an encoding method including lossless compression (packed PCM), and which is encoded from data in which a predetermined data stream is formed including audio data having a predetermined number of channels. Audio data of each channel is decoded into a PCM audio signal for each channel to obtain real data including a channel code of the channel and a PCM audio signal stored in a predetermined length of data, a packet header, a CIP header, and the real data Is packetized into a structure comprising an area for storing the data stream in a predetermined area provided within a real data area, which is a real data recording area excluding the CIP header, in the data field in the packet. Audio data encoding method Transmission method grants to identification information prior to said channel code, characterized in that so as to transmit through the serial interface of the predetermined standard by converting the packets corresponding to the serial interface of a predetermined standard.
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US20110221771A1 - Merging of Grouped Markers in An Augmented Reality-Enabled Distribution Network - Google Patents
Merging of Grouped Markers in An Augmented Reality-Enabled Distribution Network Download PDF
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Donald M. CRAMER
David A. ELCHONESS
Angus C. SHEE
TAGWHAT Inc
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The present invention relates to systems and methods for merging smart markers in augmented reality. The system includes a server supporting the presentation of information within augmented reality of a plurality of participants. A communication network facilitates the transfer of information from the server to devices of the plurality of participants. A first participant in the plurality of participants is associated with a view of augmented reality and a plurality of smart markers, with each smart marker having an attribute. A merged group of smart markers includes smart markers from within the plurality of smart markers with said attribute being a first common attribute, wherein smart markers in the merged group are displayable within the augmented reality of the first participant.
The present application claims priority to and the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/313,255, entitled “Merging of Grouped Marked in an Augmented Reality-Enabled Distribution Network,” filed on Mar. 12, 2010, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to augmented reality.
2. Relevant Technology
Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that enables digital data to be displayed as an information layer over a live view.
It is to be understood that the present invention includes a variety of different versions or embodiments, and this Summary is not meant to be limiting or all-inclusive. This Summary provides some general descriptions of some of the embodiments, but may also include some more specific descriptions of other embodiments.
The present invention relates to systems and methods for merging markers.
In one embodiment, a system for merging markers is disclosed. The system includes a server supporting the presentation of information within an augmented reality of a plurality of participants, a communication network for facilitating the transfer of information from said server to devices of said plurality of participants, a first participant in said plurality of participants, said first participant associated with a view of augmented reality, a plurality of smart markers displayable within said augmented reality, each smart marker within said plurality of smart markers having an attribute, and a first merged group of smart markers consisting of smart markers from within said plurality of smart markers with said attribute being a first common attribute.
In some embodiments, the plurality of smart markers are provided by the plurality of participants. In some embodiments, the attribute is a category of smart marker. The category may be selected from the group consisting of Friend, Coupon, Video, Movies, Sports, and Venue. In some embodiments, the attribute is a user permission associated with said first participant and each smart marker from among said first merged group of smart markers. In some embodiments, the user permission is a privacy rule associated with the smart marker.
In some embodiments, the system further includes a second merged group of smart markers consisting of smart markers from within said plurality of smart markers with said attribute being a second common attribute. In some embodiments each smart marker within the plurality of smart markers has a second attribute and the system further includes a third merged group of smart markers consisting of a first subgroup of smart markers having said second attribute being a third common attribute from within said first merged group of smart markers, and a second subgroup of smart markers having said second attribute being said third common attribute from within said second merged group of smart markers.
In some embodiments, the system further includes a filter for filtering said plurality of smart markers based on at least one attribute to create a merged group of smart markers displayable within said augmented reality.
In another embodiment, a computer implemented method for merging smart markers having associated categories is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of smart markers associated with a first participant in an augmented reality, receiving a first user input for merging of said plurality of smart markers into a merged group of smart markers having a first common attribute, merging said plurality of smart markers to provide a group of merged markers having a common attribute, and displaying said first merged group of markers within said augmented reality.
In some embodiments, the computer implemented method further includes receiving a second user input for merging of said plurality of smart markers into a second merged group of smart markers having a second common attribute, merging said plurality of smart markers to provide a group of merged markers having a common attribute, and displaying said second merged group of markers within said augmented reality.
In some embodiments, the attribute is a category and receiving a user input includes receiving a user input indicating the selection of a particular category of smart marker. The category may be selected from the group consisting of Friend, Coupon, Video, Movies, Sports, and Venue. In some embodiments, the attribute is a related participant and wherein receiving a user input includes receiving a user input indicating the selection of a particular related participant.
In another embodiment, one or more computer readable storage media store computer executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for merging smart markers having associated categories. The method includes receiving a plurality of smart markers associated with a first participant in an augmented reality, receiving a first user input for merging of said plurality of smart markers into a merged group of smart markers having a first common attribute, merging said plurality of smart markers to provide a group of merged markers having a common attribute, and displaying said first merged group of markers within said augmented reality.
In some embodiments, the method further includes applying a privacy rule to a smart marker in said merged group of smart markers, and providing access to said smart marker in compliance with said privacy rule.
In some embodiments, the attribute is a category and receiving a user input includes receiving a user input indicating the selection of a particular category of smart marker and wherein said merging said first group of smart markers and said second group of smart markers includes selecting a plurality of smart markers associated with said particular category.
Various components are referred to herein as “operably associated.” As used herein, “operably associated” refers to components that are linked together in operable fashion, and encompasses embodiments in which components are linked directly, as well as embodiments in which additional components are placed between the two linked components.
As used herein, “at least one,” “one or more,” and “and/or” are open-ended expressions that are both conjunctive and disjunctive in operation. For example, each of the expressions “at least one of A, B and C,” “at least one of A, B, or C,” “one or more of A, B, and C,” “one or more of A, B, or C” and “A, B, and/or C” means A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, or A, B and C together.
Various embodiments of the present inventions are set forth in the attached figures and in the Detailed Description as provided herein and as embodied by the claims. It should be understood, however, that this Summary does not contain all of the aspects and embodiments of the one or more present inventions, is not meant to be limiting or restrictive in any manner, and that the invention(s) as disclosed herein is/are understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to encompass obvious improvements and modifications thereto.
Additional advantages of the present invention will become readily apparent from the following discussion, particularly when taken together with the accompanying drawings
Exemplary embodiments are illustrated in referenced figures of the drawings which illustrate what is regarded as the preferred embodiments presently contemplated. It is intended that the embodiments and figures disclosed herein are to be considered illustrative rather than limiting.
FIG. 1 is an illustration of a scalable and distributed augmented reality network and platform that supports the implementation of augmented reality to a plurality of users, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an illustration of an exemplary user interface on a display showing a view of augmented reality for a user, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an illustration of the merging of smart markers, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is an flow diagram illustrating a method of merging of smart markers.
Reference will now be made in more detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for merging groups of markers in an augmented reality-enabled distribution network. While the invention will be described in conjunction with the preferred embodiments, it will be understood that they are not intended to limit the invention to these embodiments. On the contrary, the invention is intended to cover alternatives, modifications and equivalents which may be included within the spirit and scope of the invention.
Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention exist within a distributed augmented reality-enabled network. Also, other embodiments of the present invention provide the above advantages and also provide for a mobile interface that seamlessly integrates augmented reality with the immense functionality available on mobile devices. The result is an entertaining, information-rich experience which makes every media type immediately available. Embodiments of the present invention effectively utilized location-enabled triggers and content from the user's environment offering interaction with surroundings and peers in a unique and novel manner.
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Embodiments of the present invention can be implemented on a software program for processing data through a computer system. The computer system can be a personal computer, notebook computer, server computer, mainframe, networked computer (e.g., router), handheld computer, personal digital assistant, workstation, and the like. Other embodiments may be implemented through specialized hardware that is activated by a signal generated by the process that provides for the purchase, payment, and delivery of goods and services. This program or its corresponding hardware implementation is operable for the purchase and delivery of goods and services, and a payment gateway in an augmented reality distribution network. In one embodiment, the computer system includes a processor coupled to a bus and memory storage coupled to the bus. The memory storage can be volatile or non-volatile and can include removable storage media. The computer can also include a display, provision for data input and output, etc.
Some portion of the detailed descriptions that follow are presented in terms of procedures, steps, logic block, processing, and other symbolic representations of operations on data bits that can be performed on computer memory. These descriptions and representations are the means used by those skilled in the data processing arts to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. A procedure, computer executed step, logic block, process, etc. is here, and generally, conceived to be a self-consistent sequence of operations or instructions leading to a desired result. The operations are those requiring physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated in a computer system. It has proven convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like.
It should be borne in mind, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities. Unless specifically stated otherwise as apparent from the following discussions, it is appreciated that throughout the present invention, discussions utilizing terms such as “providing,” and “merging,” or the like refer to the actions and processes of a computer system, or similar electronic computing device, including an embedded system, that manipulates and transfers data represented as physical (electronic) quantities within the computer system's registers and memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer system memories or registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
Smart Markers Within Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) blends computer generated imagery with a representation of a physical, real-world environment, and more particularly, enables digital data to be displayed as an information layer over a live view. For instance, one particular augmented reality may be associated with the live camera view of a mobile device corresponding to a user. As such, the user is presented with an individualized view of augmented reality through the live camera view.
FIG. 1 is an illustration of a scalable and distributed augmented reality distribution network and platform 100 that supports the implementation of augmented reality to a plurality of users 102, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. In particular, an augmented reality server 104 is shown that creates and supports the augmented realities of a plurality of users 102, a plurality of commercial entities 106, and a plurality of other entities, where the plurality of augmented realities is presented on associated user devices (e.g., mobile devices, goggles, computer platforms, etc.). As such, the augmented reality server 104 is capable of presenting information overlaid on or in corresponding representations of real views for each of the plurality of users 102 and/or entities 106. Of course, the augmented reality server 104 as represented in FIG. 1 could be supported by one or more physical servers distributed throughout a communication network 108 in one or more locations.
In one embodiment, the augmented reality server 104 is capable of supporting one or more presentations of augmented realities through mobile AR platforms existing on one or more mobile devices. More particularly, the augmented reality server 104 is capable of interfacing and communicating with the AR platforms of the mobile devices so that a corresponding AR platform is able to present an appropriate augmented reality that relies on a representation of the real, live view of the world through a corresponding mobile device. Specifically, the AR platforms are capable of communicating with the augmented reality server 104 to access appropriate information that is to be displayed within a corresponding augmented reality.
For example, a mobile AR platform utilizes global positioning satellites (GPS), compass, accelerometer, and other location/position/orientation device information to display a vivid augmented reality in the camera-view of a corresponding mobile device (e.g., mobile phones) The mobile AR may use visual recognition of a specific object or landmark to determine its location. As such, the AR platform utilizes a mobile device camera or other live imaging device (goggles, etc) equipped with location technology (GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, sensor technology, etc), compass, and accelerometer, such that one or more smart markers appears over the live view at specified coordinates.
The augmented reality server 104 functionality may be accessed by users and/or entities through any communication means. For instance, the augmented reality server 104 may be accessed through the internet, telephone communication networks, wireless communication networks, etc. Access to the augmented reality server 104 is available to manage and establish accounts, as well as utilize other features of the augmented reality network, as will be described below.
Additionally, the augmented reality server 104 is associated with a database 110. The database 110 includes information relating to profiles of corresponding users 102 and entities 106, such as name, address, and various demographic information, as well as other types of information suitable for use within the augmented reality network. This profile information is useful in managing the pluralities of users 102 and entities 106 throughout the augmented reality network.
Further, the database 110 includes information associated with the users 102 and entities 106 that is displayed or accessible in corresponding augmented realities. For instance, the term “smart marker” is used herein to represent information that is available through the augmented reality network. A smart marker enables the display and management of information in digital space that is overlaid on real-world locations. In particular, a smart marker is layered over a particular real view, to form, in part, a corresponding augmented reality view. For instance, the smart marker may appear as a digital representation (e.g., icon, three dimensional [3D] object, image, etc.) within a corresponding augmented reality at user specified coordinates in the real world. As such, the augmented reality network and platforms enable users 102 (individuals, groups, stores, corporations, and other entities) to create their own geo-located AR smart markers at any location in the physical world. Not only can users 102 create their own smart markers, but they can assign a smart marker to reside within a smart marker group within the system. For example, the system might have a sports marker group and user 102 could create a smart marker with content related to sports. The user 102 could then assign that marker to appear within the sports group that is accessible by other users in the system.
In addition, smart markers can be associated with fixed locations, or with mobile objects that are associated with inventory or individuals (e.g., mobile devices, radio frequency identifications (RFIDs), etc.) whose smart marker positions update as the related objects move. For instance, a smart marker may be associated with a physical, retail store that is a brick-and-mortar store located at a physical location having coordinates. By selecting the smart marker, additional information, relating to the retail store, can be accessed through the augmented reality platform as supported by the augmented reality server. Also, a smart marker can be associated with a mobile object, such that as the physical location of the object moves, the corresponding smart marker's location within a representation of the real world also moves. As such, the smart marker can be used to represent the moving object in real space, and to provide access to information that is related to the moving object.
Within the augmented reality network, as supported by the augmented reality server 104, users 102 and/or entities 106 create accounts and place smart markers at user-designated locations throughout the world using a network supported mobile application or a network supported integrated website.
In some embodiments, from a mobile application or platform, a user can assign coordinates representing a physical location as a smart marker location. The coordinates may correspond to the actual location of the user, at the time the coordinates are assigned, or may correspond to another physical location separate from the location of the user. In addition, the user is able to select from nearby businesses or landmarks that they can designate as a smart marker location. From the website application or platform, users can click and drop smart markers on a dynamic map, enter a known address, or search for known businesses or landmarks to assign as a smart marker's location. In both cases, multimedia files (photos, video, audio, text, etc.), links, other types of information, actions, etc., can be attached to smart markers using either the mobile application or the website.
In some embodiments, these multimedia files can be the actual digital representation of the smart marker within the augmented reality view. For example, a smart marker may be a picture of a building that a user would view within the augmented reality view at the marker's location. Triggering the multimedia files can occur by user input such as clicking the smart marker or interacting with overlaid media controls, or done automatically based on proximity of the user to the location represented by the marker. For example, as the user approaches a location represented by a smart marker having a video, the video is triggered to automatically begin playing once the user crosses a physical boundary related to the location, or when the smart marker appears within the user's augmented reality view on the mobile device.
For example, one or more actions assigned to a smart marker include, but are not limited to the following: calling a phone number; texting a number; sending an e-mail; viewing text; viewing a website; viewing multimedia—photos, video, audio, etc.; getting directions to the smart marker; commenting on the smart marker; sending the location to another user; and posting the smart marker to social networks.
Each smart marker may contain a collectible digital item that a user can acquire. This digital item can represent and contain a unique content and location of the marker. Access to the collectible digital item can be controlled based on the smart markers creator. For example, the collectible digital item may be accessible only when the user is in a predetermined physical proximity to the location represented by the marker, or the collectible digital item could be accessed using a key, such as a password, found at the physical location represented by the marker.
The user can collect the digital item, customize it by adding the user's own content such as text, photo, multimedia, video, audio, etc and share the digital item. The user may share the item to their social networks, or may send an electronic communication to another user containing a reference to the digital item, or the digital item itself In some embodiments the user may create a new smart marker and associate the digital content with the new smart marker.
The history of all the digital items that the user has collected can be accessed and edited using a view that may be sorted by any number of ways including date, location, alphabetically, favorites, etc. The digital items may also be accessed and edited in the augmented reality view based on where the digital items were originally collected, or where the digital items were left by the user.
In some embodiments, users who receive these digital items from other users can access all of the content and actions contained within each digital item, as well as interact with the digital item and the smart marker that it originated from. For example, users can collect digital “postcards” of smart markers all around the world. The postcards tell unique stories about the locations where the smart markers are dropped. Users can attach photos of themselves at these locations to the postcard and share them with all of their friends through social networks or traditional means like e-mail or SMS or MMS. Someone who receives this postcard can see the content contained within the postcard, access actions that were associated with the smart marker that the postcards originated from, including but not limited to getting directions to the smart marker, saving the smart marker location to their mobile device, or saving the content of the postcard or smart marker for their own future use.
Further, smart markers can be accessed in a number of different ways, in various embodiments. For instance, one or more smart markers is accessible through a corresponding view of augmented reality. In addition, one or more smart markers is accessible through a “Map View” that utilizes a two dimensional (2D) map, where a smart marker may be displayed relative to the user's location. Also, one or more smart markers is accessible through a “List View” that lists all smart markers within a specified range of the user. Further, a “Hybrid View” overlays a map view on the augmented reality view to display smart markers with more intuitive depth perception. This Hybrid View may include a combination of the foregoing views.
FIG. 2 is an illustration of an exemplary user interface 200 on a display showing an augmented reality view 202 for a user, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated, a real and live view 204 down the middle of a street 206 is displayed. Buildings 208A, 208B, 208C are also shown on both sides of the street 206. The real, live view 204 may be from a camera of a mobile device, with the user holding the mobile device pointed down the middle of the street 206. Other live image devices may be used and supported by the augmented reality server 104, such as goggles, etc. The live view 204 is updated utilizing location, accelerometer, compass, and other orientation devices. Information is overlaid the real, live view 204 to create an augmented reality for the user using customizable mobile platform providing augmented reality enabled applications.
For instance, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C are shown located next to the buildings 208A, 208B, 208C. Smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C can be any digital representation, such as an icon, 3D object, image, or any customizable icon, etc. that corresponds to a position within real space, and corresponding space in augmented reality. Smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C may be associated with a business (retail store, professional service, restaurant, etc.) located in a corresponding building such as smart marker 210A at building 208A, and appears at specified coordinates in the live view.
Smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C may be accessed in various ways to access information provided by the augmented reality server 104, or the AR platform on the mobile device. For instance, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C may be accessed by clicking, either through a touch screen, or through physical buttons on the mobile device. Since the locations represented by the smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C reside in a 3D physical space, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C that are physically further away from the location of the user, which may be the user's physical location or virtual location, can have visual characteristics that indicate the distance to the distant smart markers relative to smart markers that are closer to the user using factors such as variable size, transparency, shape, height in the view, etc. For example, smart marker 210B could be smaller than smart marker 210C. These visual characteristics allow the user to access the smart markers within a 3D space in the Y direction as they are used to doing in real life, vs. the Z direction alone as is customary on mobile devices.
Smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C can be manipulated within the augmented reality view 202 to create the appearance of “zooming in” or “zooming out” to let the user access smart markers at different distances from their location. One method of manipulating the 3D space is to variably change the appearance of smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C based on a user action such as swiping up or down on the screen (or other user input like phone rotation, verbal commands, hand gesture, eye movement, etc). In this first example, when a user swipes up on the screen, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C further away from the user can appear to get closer to the user in the augmented reality view 202. As the user swipes down on the screen, the opposite behavior occurs.
Several methods can be used to make this augmented reality 3D experience feel natural and easy for the user. Smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C that are bunched very close together can often be skipped over due to their proximity in physical space. In these instances, a slower scroll rate or a variable distance between the smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C can be automatically incorporated. For example, the user action of swiping up/down, or other user action, on the screen can also automatically jump to subsequent smart markers at a pre-determined optimal size so that users do not have to control when the best point to stop zooming is. Smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C can also be automatically centered and stabilized in the augmented reality view 202 once the optimal size is achieved to make jumping from smart marker to smart marker a very simple process. As the user moves through space, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C can automatically update and display at optimal viewing sizes based on the user's location. User actions can also manipulate the behavior of smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C within the augmented reality view 202. For example, swiping left and right on the screen can rotate the smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C in 3D space, or trigger an action like sending a message, or deleting a marker.
Passive notifications can let a user know about the presence of smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C in their vicinity based on their preference settings. This can be achieved by defining a customizable zone 212 around a marker 210C. When a user enters this zone 212, an action is triggered. This action can be a vibration or audible action from the phone or other device with the augmented reality view 202 to notify the user. Notifications can also be sent to designated persons with interest in the user or the smart marker 210C in question. This can used for tracking purposes or simple notifications.
Smart markers can also inform the user of nearby smart markers that the user may be interested in based on their interaction with the original smart marker. For example, smart marker 210C may identify smart marker 210B and provide visual indicators as to which direction and how far away smart marker 210B is to the user. Traditional map and text turn-by-turn directions can be overlaid in the augmented reality view 202 to supplement visual indicators such as real-time dynamically changing arrows.
Once the smart marker is selected, information (e.g., text, links, video, multimedia, etc.) is available to the user. This information is fully customizable to the creator of the smart marker. For instance, smart marker 210A may correspond to an individual, and thus is displayed at the current location of the individual. Information related to that smart marker 210A may include current information related to that individual, such as current status, whether he or she is available for quick meeting, last update information, etc. In another embodiment, a smart marker, such as smart marker 210B may correspond to a business entity, and is displayed in relation to a physical location of the business. Information related to that smart marker 210B may include current information related to the business, such as address, general information regarding the business, promotions, coupons, etc.
A smart marker may be personalized to the user. That is, a user can create and edit their own smart marker, and place it at any geo-location in real space. For example, smart marker 210A could have been created by the user and would be displayed in the augmented reality view 202 for the user. As examples, a personal smart marker may include personal notes and documentation relating to a landmark. Additionally, the personal smart marker may be shared with others, so that they can view the user's smart marker in their augmented reality.
The “Actions” button 214 provides user access to additional technology. For example, one or more actions assigned to a smart marker include, but are not limited to the following: calling a phone number; creating voice memo, texting a number; sending an e-mail; viewing text; accessing and viewing a website; viewing multimedia—photos, video, audio, etc.; getting directions to the smart marker; commenting on the smart marker; sending the location to another user; and posting the smart marker to social networks.
The “Detail View” button 216 provides additional in-depth details of selected assets relating to the smart marker.
The viewable smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C in augmented reality may be further filtered. As such, the filter option 218 allows a user to display and view only desired smart markers, such as desired categories of smart markers, or filtering using specific search criteria, as supported by the search engine (not shown) in association with the augmented reality server 104. As another example, a filter may designate the range or distance from the user within which smart markers are displayed.
In addition, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C may be viewed in other views. For instance, as shown in FIG. 2A, smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C may be viewed in map view 220. As such, instead of a view of 3D space in augmented reality as in AR View 202, the map view 220 provides a top down 2D view of space, with smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C located using map coordinates corresponding to specific locations of businesses, landmarks, personal points of interest, etc.
In addition, a scanner may be included. The scan code button 222 enables built in tag reader functionality, such as the ability to process common codes, such as bar codes or quick response (QR) codes, etc. Codes read by the scanner can launch the same behavior as is described for smart markers.
The display showing an augmented reality may include other options. For instance, a legend may be implemented displaying filtering options. The legend may include various categories of smart markers or content categories, such as “Friend,” “Coupon,” “Video,” “Movies,” “Sports,” and “Venue.” Further, these categories, and the corresponding smart markers they are associated with may be color, size, shape-coded, or otherwise identifiable within the augmented reality. The Friend category is related to smart markers of friends of the user. The Coupon category is related to smart markers that provide or are linked to coupon offers. The Video category may be related to smart markers providing video content. And the Venue category may be related to smart markers associated with special venues (e.g., concert hall) or businesses. In this way, a user can quickly distinguish between displayed smart markers 210A, 210B, 210C.
The user can also turn each of these categories on/off directly from the legend in the augmented reality view 202. Turning a category off removes all the smart markers within that category from the augmented reality view 202. The legend can be updated in real-time displaying categories with smart markers nearby or categories marked as “favorites” of the user. As the user physically moves through to a new location, the legend updates based on the new location and the user's preferences. The legend can visually identify which categories are available, which are favorites, and which are turned on. Categories can also be displayed within the legend based on popular categories in the region determined by the number of smart marker views within each category by other users, or by predicted user interests based on the user's previous actions (locations traveled, smart markers viewed, spending habits, etc) or user profile (lifestyle, age, interests, etc). The user can also input a search term that locates all smart markers that fit the search term and return the results from multiple categories in the augmented reality view 202.
A user can also have the ability to prioritize how smart markers appear within each of the categories. Smart markers that a user does not wish to see anymore can be hidden from the augmented reality view 202. Favorite smart markers can be given priority to display over other smart markers in the area.
The display may show a radar view of all smart markers within the general vicinity of the user. For instance, the radar view displays smart markers relative to the user location using 2D radar mapping. As such, smart markers within a general range are shown on the radar map relative to the user's position. In addition, the view of the map may be oriented such that the user directionality is displayed relative to asset or smart marker locations. The view of the map, is updated as the user moves. Additional details and information is displayable. For instance, a coupon may be provided within the display that is associated with a selected smart marker, or may be generally displayed since the user is within the vicinity of the business establishment.
Grouping and Merging of Smart Markers in Augmented Reality
Once users are participating within the augmented reality network and platforms as supported by the back-end augmented reality server, a user can “friend” or “follow” other users (e.g., individuals, groups, entities, etc.) by merging smart marker streams and create an augmented world filled with pertinent user-generated content. In particular, these virtual smart markers can be combined into groups that are linked together under a common factor (user, group, company, etc).
For instance, smart markers may be merged into and unmerged from independently created and grouped virtual smart markers for a user. Each group of smart markers is associated with a corresponding participant (e.g., individual, entity, etc.). The merged group of smart markers is displayable into a single cohesive view. Within the single cohesive view, each displayed group may have a unique visual identifier (icon, 3D object, image) to distinguish one group from another within a view of augmented reality. The single cohesive view can take the form of an augmented reality, map, list, or hybrid view on the mobile application or network website.
FIG. 3 is an illustration of the merging of smart markers 301, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. Smart markers 301A, 301B, 301C, 301D may be associated with an individual, such as individual 302 or 304, or any type of entity (e.g., commercial, retail, group, etc.) such as commercial entity 306, referred to as a participant. A group of smart markers includes one or more smart markers, and may be associated with a particular participant. For instance, the commercial entity 306 is associated with smart marker group 310 that includes public smart markers 301A available to any participant. Individuals may be associated with private or public smart markers available for merging, where authorization is needed before private smart markers may be accessed. For example, individual 302 may be associated with smart markers 301B which could be private and individual 304 may be associated with smart markers 301C which could be public. As described previously, smart markers 301A, 301B, 301C for a participant in a corresponding account may be further categorized or organized. Also, as shown, a user 312 may also be associated with one or more smart markers 301D, which could be private or public, as designated by the user 312.
In addition, the user 312 has access to a merged group of smart markers 301A, 301B, 301C, all of which are selectable by the user 312 for inclusion within the user's augmented reality. In addition to the user's 312 own smart markers 301A , the merged group includes smart markers 301A, 301B, 301C from other participants in the augmented reality network, such as smart markers 301A in an account of a commercial entity (e.g., burger chain), and smart markers 301B, 301C from accounts of two other individuals 302, 304 (e.g., friends) that have authorized the user 312 to access their smart markers 301B, 301C.
Within the merged group of smart markers 301A, 301B, 301C, the various user accounts associated with each smart marker 301A, 301B, 301C can be classified into categories such as travel, friends, restaurants, etc. These user accounts are associated with a group of smart markers for that user. For example, commercial entity 306 has a user account associated with smart marker group 310. The user 312 can elect to turn all the individual accounts within a particular category “on” or “off” For instance, the user 312 may elect to turn off all smart markers from entities labeled within the restaurant category. Also, the user 312 may elect to turn on only smart markers from entities labeled within the restaurant category. This gives the user 312 very quick access to related data without having to select and un-select multiple accounts.
The merging and un-merging of smart markers from various accounts associated with various participants can be further managed using a digital filter system 314. That is, displayed smart markers in the universe 316 can be filtered according to user preferences based on any number of criteria, such as specific people, smart marker types, location, subject matter, etc. As an example, a digital filter system 314 allows the user 312 to display a filtered set 318 of smart markers containing only certain categories of smart markers within the universe 316 of smart markers available to the user 312. Smart marker categories can be filtered by subject matter, time, location, etc. Smart markers in the filtered set 318 of smart markers are displayed within a single cohesive view of the augmented reality for the user 312.
As a result, the combination of merging and un-merging groups and a digital filter enables the user to identify and isolate only the pertinent data that they want immediate access to. Users have full control of merging and unmerging groups within their own customized unique view of augmented reality.
Privacy rules may be implemented such that only users who have been granted permission, can view a particular user's smart markers. For instance, commercial entity 306, the owner of smart marker group 310, could control if individual 302, individual 304, or user 312 has access to view and interact with the commercial entity's smart markers 301A. When signing up for an account, a user has the option to own a private or a public account. In one case, a private account, for an individual or group, mutual consent is required for viewing and merging of the groups. That is, it requires both or all parties to approve before smart markers can be shared and viewed by a requesting party.
In another example, smart markers can represent the mobile location of a user within the network, users have the ability to control which members of the network can view their physical location. For example, referring back to FIG. 2, smart marker 210A could refer to the location of a user. This can be broadly controlled by the privacy rules described above, but can also be further controlled by the user. The user can further limit among the people they have given access to their smart markers, who can view their position by checking or un-checking names from a list of approved users from the mobile application or network website.
However, a public account allows any user full access to the smart markers created from the public account. That is, in a designated public account, all users of the network have access to the smart markers once the group is selected.
Referring to FIG. 2, a legend 224 can be incorporated within each view of augmented reality to help users identify each group/filter name and corresponding visual identifier. The legend may also include a list of categories that may be selected. For example, legend 224 displays a list of users and a list of categories. A user has the ability to search in the augmented reality network for new groups and choose to add or remove smart markers from corresponding accounts in the universe of smart markers from their single cohesive view. That is, a user is able to search through a universe of smart marker groups associated with a plurality of participants of the augmented reality network to find favorable groups or accounts of smart markers. The user is then able to add the new group to the legend 224.
Favorite filterings of smart markers can be saved using bookmarks to allow easy access to merge and un-merge smart markers from the selected view. In particular, a favorite search term achieving results (e.g., groups of smart markers) that the user likes and wishes to save may be bookmarked. As such, the search term or terms are bookmarked for later access and re-processing. As an example, in a universe of available smart markers, a search can be made for groups of smart markers related to restaurants. Also, in the merged group of smart markers, a search can be made for smart markers related to restaurants. In both cases, the search term or terms may be bookmarked for later re-processing to access the same or similar result. In some embodiments, a reference to the bookmark may be included in the legend 224.
Within this augmented reality social network, premium groups or “channels” are available for users to “subscribe” to and have the channel's augmented reality data merge into their cohesive view. Smart markers associated with the channel are prominently displayed within the augmented reality network and mobile application for all users to access if they so choose. Channels may contain high quality content and a geographically wide range of accessible data. These channels are the equivalent to network stations in television as standard grouped smart markers are to public access stations.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method 400 for merging smart markers. The method will be explained with respect to FIG. 1. The method includes receiving 402 a plurality of smart markers associated with a first participant in an augmented reality. A first user input for merging of said plurality of smart markers into a merged group of smart markers having a first common attribute is received 404. The plurality of smart markers are merged 406 to provide a group of merged smart markers having a common attribute. The merged group of smart markers is then displayed 408 within the augmented reality.
For example, a device corresponding to user 102 could receive a plurality of smart markers associated with the user 102 from augmented reality server 104 through communications network 108. The device corresponding to user 102 could receive an input from user 102 indicating the selection of a group of smart markers. The device corresponding to user 102 could merge the plurality of smart markers. The device corresponding to user 102 may then display said merged group of smart markers within said augmented reality. In some embodiments, the augmented reality server 104 could receive an input from user 102 through communications network 108 and the augmented reality server 104 could merge the plurality of smart markers.
Method 400 may be implemented by a computer system. The computer system may have one or more computer readable storage media storing instructions, that when executed by a one or more processors of the computing system cause the computing system to perform method 400. For example, a user's personal electronic device may have a storage media with computer executable instructions for implementing method 400. In other embodiments, the computer executable instructions may be stored in a plurality of locations such as augmented reality server 304 and a user's personal electronic device.
A system and method for merging groups of smart markers in an augmented reality-enabled distribution network is thus described. While the invention has been illustrated and described by means of specific embodiments, it is to be understood that numerous changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims and equivalents thereof. Furthermore, while the present invention has been described in particular embodiments, it should be appreciated that the present invention should not be construed as limited by such embodiments, but rather construed according to the below claims.
1. A system for merging smart markers, the system comprising:
a server supporting a presentation of information within an augmented reality of a plurality of participants;
a communication network for facilitating the transfer of information from said server to devices of said plurality of participants;
a first participant in said plurality of participants, said first participant associated with a view of augmented reality;
a plurality of smart markers displayable within said augmented reality, each smart marker within said plurality of smart markers having an attribute; and
a first merged group of smart markers consisting of smart markers from within said plurality of smart markers with said attribute being a first common attribute.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of smart makers are provided by said plurality of participants.
3. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising a second merged group of smart markers consisting of smart markers from within said plurality of smart markers with said attribute being a second common attribute.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein each smart marker within said plurality of smart markers has a second attribute, the system further comprising a third merged group of smart markers consisting of:
a first subgroup of smart markers having said second attribute being a third common attribute from within said first merged group of smart markers; and
a second subgroup of smart markers having said second attribute being said third common attribute from within said second merged group of smart markers.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein said attribute is a category of smart marker.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein said attribute is a user permission associated with said first participant and each smart marker from among said first merged group of smart markers.
7. The system of claim 5, wherein said category is selected from the group consisting of Friend, Coupon, Video, Movies, Sports, and Venue.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein said user permission is a privacy rule associated with said smart marker.
9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
a filter for filtering said plurality of smart markers based on at least one attribute to create a merged group of smart markers displayable within said augmented reality.
10. A computer implemented method for merging smart markers having an associated attribute, the computer implemented method comprising:
receiving a plurality of smart markers associated with a first participant in an augmented reality;
receiving a first user input for merging of said plurality of smart markers into a merged group of smart markers having a first common attribute;
merging said plurality of smart markers to provide a group of merged smart markers having a common attribute; and
displaying said first merged group of smart markers within said augmented reality.
11. The computer implemented method of claim 10 further comprising:
receiving a second user input for merging of said plurality of smart markers into a second merged group of smart markers having a second common attribute;
displaying said second merged group of smart markers within said augmented reality.
12. The computer implemented method of claim 11 wherein said attribute is a category and wherein receiving a user input includes receiving a user input indicating the selection of a particular category of smart marker.
13. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein said attribute is a related participant and wherein receiving a user input includes receiving a user input indicating the selection of a particular related participant.
applying a privacy rule to a smart marker in said merged group of smart markers; and
providing access to said smart marker in compliance with said privacy rule.
15. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein said category is selected from the group consisting of Friend, Coupon, Video, Movies, Sports, and Venue.
16. A computer program product for implementing a method merging smart markers having associated categories, the computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform the method, the method comprising:
17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein said method further comprises:
18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein said attribute is a category and wherein said receiving a user input includes receiving a user input indicating the selection of a particular category of smart marker and wherein said merging said first group of smart markers and said second group of smart markers includes selecting a plurality of smart markers associated with said particular category.
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June - July 2018 | Issue 2618 - 2619
Drone Wars: the next generation
Israel vs nonviolence (News)
Editorial: On the way to war? Trump takes on China and Iran (Comment)
Trump’s contradictory Korea policy: Bolton vs Pompeo (News)
Boats set off for Gaza (News)
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‘Not in our name!’ (News)
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Anarchists barred from bookfair (News)
The Kings Bay Ploughshares Seven (Feature)
Absurd convictions (Feature)
Resisting militarisation in Leicester (Feature)
After King’s assassination, radical pacifists debated his contribution (Feature)
Rooting classism out of our organisations (Feature)
Ducks, direct action & divestment (Feature)
CND at 60: Yorkshire (Feature)
Sticking up for #MeToo (Comment)
Bruce Kent: As I please (Comment)
Diary: 'like a bee, carrying political pollen' (Comment)
The Personal Column: archy & mehitabel (Comment)
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LA Kauffman, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism (Review)
Robert M Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Review)
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News by Joanna Frew
Drones are becoming central to 21st century warfare, new report says
From an obscure technology originally used for target practice, drones have become almost central to the way in which armed forces fight wars and project power in the early 21st century.
The US and Israel played a leading role in the development and use of remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly called drones. Both countries have manufactured and operated unarmed and armed systems since the early 2000s. While these two nations monopolised the field for more than a decade, today an increasing number of countries manufacture a startling array of military drones, from giant systems that fly at vast heights to tiny hand-held devices designed to investigate the interiors of buildings.
A second generation
The new report, Drone Wars: The Next Generation, from Drone Wars UK focuses on the development and use of armed drones (such as the Predator and Reaper) by the countries that make up a ‘second generation’ of armed drone producers and operators (beyond the US, UK and Israel).
Inevitably, due to the secrecy surrounding the use of military systems, as well as the fast-changing pace of drone wars, it is difficult to be sure we have captured a complete picture. Nevertheless, after sifting through rumour, hearsay, hype and propaganda, we believe our report gives a clear snapshot of the current operators of armed drones.
While there are some countries on the verge of bringing armed drones into service, either through development programmes or through acquisitions, our research shows this second generation currently consists of nine state operators and several non-state actors (NSAs) and our report outlines the development programmes, acquisitions, deployment and export of armed drones for this group.
Although some may be surprised at the absence of Russia and India from our list of active operators, their development programmes have not yet resulted in the production of fully functional systems. Iran and Turkey have had more success in their programmes and are already using several models of armed drone in combat situations. China has an extensive development programme of unmanned systems with several companies working on development programmes in this area. Moreover, there are also a number of countries actively using armed drones that they have acquired from China.
While different in significant ways, we have also included 'non-state actors' as some, at least, have developed fairly sophisticated armed drones beyond the commercial off-the-shelf 'IED' ('improvised explosive device' or roadside bomb)-type device.
By way of completeness, we also examine in brief those countries likely to join the second wave in the near future, as advanced drone programmes are ongoing and likely to come to fruition soon.
In summary, after the US, UK and Israel, the 10 operators that we cover (nine states plus NSAs) who are actively using armed drones will soon be joined by a further 11 states that are developing or acquiring armed drones. This will almost double the number of current operators of armed drones and makes ever more urgent the need for controls on use and proliferation.
Controls needed
The growing number of operators, alongside the complex legal and ethical issues raised by the use of armed drones, highlights the urgent need for clear international controls.
The increasing export of armed drones by this second generation (by China in particular) also calls into question whether current international proliferation controls are fit for purpose. Since China began exporting armed drones, the US drone lobby in particular has been pushing hard for international and domestic controls to be ‘relaxed.’
In April, the US published a new domestic arms export policy which eased some restrictions on the export of armed drones but did not go as far as the US drone industry wanted. Trump administration officials, however, indicated they would continue to work to amend international controls to further reduce restrictions on the export of armed drones.
With the numbers of states using armed UAVs likely to double in the near future and with more drones available for export, the need for effective control on the proliferation of armed drones, as well as the need for an ethical and legal framework for use, is more important now than ever.
The report, Drone Wars: The Next Generation. An overview of armed drone operators is available at:
www.dronewars.net
Joanna Frew is a researcher at Drone Wars UK.
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I Love Children Fertility Campaign
Advertising, Art Direction, Graphic Design
On hindsight, perhaps it was destined that the seed of the concept for this campaign was sown in the wee hours along a hotel’s corridors during the team’s trip to the land of the rising sun. Similar to Japan, Singapore is facing a predicament of low birth rates. Our task was to conceptualise a campaign to encourage Singaporeans to start having conversations about having children. How does one tread when it involves a social issue that has touched people’s nerves?
Our approach was to weave the message into a subject that the audience can relate to. In general, Singaporeans are concerned about matters of the body. Most of us do make an attempt to keep fit and healthy, and some of us even take part in competitive sports such as marathons. With this in mind, we wanted to communicate the idea that if we can prepare our bodies for a marathon, why not when it comes to a baby? Hence, the over-arching working title was decided as ‘Fertility Fit’.
In the initial development, careful attention was given to the form and expressions of the sperm and egg characters. We needed to make sure that they were dignified yet approachable to the audience. The sports that were chosen also gave context to the campaign messages as the nature of these sports had symbolic references to fertility.
A series of out-of-home (OOH) advertisements were launched with the sperm and egg characters splashed on the pillars and floors of one of the busiest MRT stations in Singapore including the interior of the train carriages. It's also extended to taxis exterior plying the roads of Singapore. A short animation video was also created to target the younger audiences on digital portals such as YouTube & Spotify.
Beyond what we expected, the roll-out of the campaign did generate much attention from the public and in particular, a certain demographic that had opposing views.
At the end of the day, we ask: Did our design serve to inform?
We leave that answer to you.
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Ranji Trophy: Anmolpreet’s unbeaten ton puts Punjab on top
Chandigarh, January 9: Anmolpreet Singh cracked an unbeaten century as Punjab grabbed a firm grip over Bengal, taking a 170-run first innings lead, in their must-win Ranji Trophy Elite Group B clash here Tuesday.
Anmolpreet was unbeaten on 124 from 288 balls (13×4, 1×6) in his first century of the season as he guided Punjab to 357/7 on the second day, in reply to Bengal’s first innings total of 187.
Talented 19-year-old Shubman Gill (91) seized the initiative earlier in the day, hitting at brisk pace all around the ground with Anmolpreet playing second fiddle.
But the youngster missed his century by nine runs when he tried to step down to Bengal seamer Mukesh Kumar only to mis-hit to mid-off in the first session.
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Gill and Anmolpreet put together 89 runs in quick time to set the tone for Punjab before the latter anchored Punjab’s innings and stitched two more fifty-plus stands with Mandeep Singh (44) and Gitansh Khera (42).
The winners of the match are set to make the quarterfinals.
The Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus ground wicket, which was believed to be a rank turner, looked perfect for batting as Punjab batsmen made full use of the conditions to send Bengal bowlers on a leather hunt.
Seamer Mukesh (4/89) was the pick of Bengal bowlers, while left-arm spinner Pradipta Pramanik (3/100) took the key wicket of Yuvraj Singh in his first ball.
ALSO READ: Baroda prevail over Karnataka to keep quarterfinal hopes alive
The player of the tournament in the 2011 World Cup, Yuvraj, looked out of sorts and failed to get into the line of the ball and departed for one in his four-ball stay at the crease.
But the morning session belonged to supremely talented young Punjab opener Gill who scored all around the ground in his elegant half-century.
Overnight 36, Gill took just 13 balls to complete his seventh first-class fifty and looked set for a big one before mistiming Mukesh.
“Obviously, I’m really disappointed to miss a hundred. If I batted, the team would have been on a better position. I was set for a big one. But it’s part of the game,” Gill told reporters.
“It’s not that I was beaten by the ball, it was a loose delivery and I stepped out only to take an inside edge.” Having come into the crease after the departure of nightwatchman Mayank Markande in the fag end of day one, the Punjab No 3, Anmolpreet, then shouldered the responsiblity taking the team past Bengal’s 187 after the lunch break.
“I think there was a bit of moisture early on when they batted and it helped our spinners. When we came to bat, the wicket eased out and there was not much help for the spinners. That’s one factor,” Gill said.
“We will try to extend the lead to 200-250. We seem to be in command at this moment.” Curiously, Bengal frontline pacer Ashok Dinda bowled just three overs in the first session and looked under bowled.
“Pacers were not getting much help in that session. There was nothing much off the wicket, maybe that’s the reason.
“But obviously it’s their home turf. Their team and captain knows better about the conditions, what can I say,” Gill said.
Source Hindustan Times
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Gender, leadership, Occupational, Political April 17, 2013 March 8, 2018
Female political role models have an empowering effect on women
Psychologically empowering to women?
The late Margaret Thatcher – Britain’s first and, so far, only female Prime Minister – is criticised for failing to do more to help other women get ahead in politics. Supporters argue, however, that the example she set will, on its own, have been of profound benefit to women with leadership ambitions. A new study puts this principle to the test, examining the effect on women of reminders about the contemporary female political high-flyers Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton.
Ioana Latu and her colleagues recruited 149 Swiss student participants (81 women) to make a persuasive public speech against the rise in student fees. The speeches were made in a virtual reality room in front of a virtual audience of 12 men and women. Crucially, some of the participants performed their speech in a room with a poster of Hillary Clinton on the back wall; others with Merkel on the wall; a third group with Bill Clinton’s poster on the back wall; and for a final group, there was no poster.
The key result is that the female students spoke for significantly longer – a sign of dominance – when Merkel or Hillary Clinton was on the back wall (as opposed to Bill or no poster) – an increase of 49 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively, making their speeches just as long as the men’s. These female students’ speeches were also rated as better quality by two coders blind to the experimental condition, and they also evaluated their own performance more positively. The presence of the different posters made no difference to the performance of the male students.
“We believe these findings are important because although a wealth of research has studied the effects of role models on academic and math performance, there is no research that investigates the effect of female political role models on successful leadership behaviour,” the researchers concluded. “Yet, exactly such behaviour is crucial because not only is an increase in female politicians the goal of equality, it can also be (as our results show) the engine that drives it.”
Latu, I., Mast, M., Lammers, J., and Bombari, D. (2013). Successful female leaders empower women’s behavior in leadership tasks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49 (3), 444-448 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.01.003
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26 thoughts on “Female political role models have an empowering effect on women”
Timely and unbiased, reliable Jarrett. Shame they used poster or Clinton, are they sure women weren't influenced by his womanising rep? Seeing him on the wall might have increased a disgust reaction and so they wanted to get out of there asap. It would be cool to replicate in the UK with…..oh! Can anyone think of contemporary powerful women in UK politics???? Was Maggie the first and last to break into our male dominated politics?
Ron@OnlineCheckers says:
I think it's great that these female politicians serve as a role model for young women. Lets keep the trend going!
graywave says:
It's a shame you used a picture of Margaret Thatcher in your piece! Of all the women who might be cited as positive role models for women – Australia's current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, for example – Thatcher is the least of them.
Here is where sexual orientation comes in. Psychologically, females are more domestic and effected by their environment. Even though nurture has no effect among men and women growing up, big figures like celebrities and politicians do influence domestic roles of men and women. This poster study is a good example, as it turns out that a female role model presence influences women more.
it was the day of Thatcher's funeral and there is ongoing debate about the impact she may have had as a role model for women. She's been criticised for not doing more to actively promote women, but then many say she was an inspiration to them simply by virtue of what she achieved.
Margeret Thatcher did well to get as far as she did in her time. Yet she had to “become” a man to do it. Yet I feel and hope that today's women have moved on or at least are trying to move on from the need to be like a man in a mans world. Many business women today are using the skills given to all women rather than following a testosterone example which can only wear us down.
I believe that the women are more likely to connect with the poster of a successful female because they are of the same sex and they want to prove that women are successful. They probably feel more comfortable when the poster is a female, so the speech is slower and more effective. Some women are more completive when they are around other women, which might bring out something beneficial. Men feel that they don’t have to prove anything, they are who they are.
Being a politician is not a stereotypical gender-role for women. Politics used to be a man's world. Today men and women are more equal than ever before. Women are slowly beginning to make great strides in politics. We look to other, more famous women, for inspiration. We have always been labeled as the “inferior” sex. Now it is time for us to step up and show the men of the world what we are made of!!
Melissa Hagedorn says:
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Females have a greater impact on famles. We as women need the support of other women to take control. Women have always been down played to men. Their has always been a gender role conflict. Men get paid more then women that do the same job as them. Men are seen as the ruling power and women have to be under their rule. IT's time for us women to stand up and rule they world. The men had their turn and now it's our turn. Margaret Thatcher set the stage for women across the world. She made us believe that we could hold a high title in politics and over come the rule of man. She lead the way for women,like Hillary Clinton. Clinton is thought of as a strong woman who could have been president of the United States but didn't win. Her running for president was a big push in the right direction. Just like when the women did thier speech that had the Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel posters. Women did better with their speech because they were empowered by them. On the other hand when they had the posters of Bill Clintion they didnt do as well because men are in control. This goes back to gender roles. Men are in power and women are domesticated to be a good wife. It's now time women to be treated equal as men and for the roles to change. One day the United States will have a female president and they will do a great job running this country. We need to stand together so that one day soon women and men will be eqaul. There will no longer be the issue of men making more then women at the same job. Gender will no longer matter.
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by Melissa Hagedorn
One of the problems with the study is that they did not compare female role models to non-role models (e.g., picture of unknown women). It might be that the effect is simply due to the fact that the participants watched a women, not necessarily a role model.
This seems unlikely because there were women in the audience. So presenters in all conditions were exposed to the sight of other women.
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Forensic, Gender, Sex July 11, 2017 August 31, 2017
Sexual offending by women is surprisingly common, claims US study
A team of US researchers led by Lara Stemple at the UCLA School of Law has analysed data from several large federal crime victimisation surveys and they say their findings show that sexual offences by women against male and female victims are surprisingly common. Writing in Aggression and Violent Behaviour the researchers stress that they are in no way intending to minimise the human cost of sexual violence perpetrated by men. But they say their results are “sufficiently robust so as to compel a rethinking of long-held stereotypes about sexual victimisation and gender”.
Stemple’s team begin by pointing to data from thousands of people collected for the Center For Disease Control’s “National Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Survey”. In 2011, for example, this survey showed that equal numbers of men and women reported being forced into non-consensual sex (either raped themselves or forced to penetrate someone else). Extrapolated to the US as a whole, this would represent 1.9 million victims among each sex during the preceding 12 months.
There are similar findings for sex of victim in the 2010 survey, the researchers said, and that year, the survey also included detail on the sex of offender. To illustrate the prevalence of female offending, the researchers highlighted the number of men who reported being forced by a woman to penetrate her. The survey estimated that nearly 4.5 million men in the US had at some time in their lives been forced to penetrate another person, and crucially, that in 79.2 per cent of cases the perpetrator forcing the sexual act was a woman.
Another survey the researchers looked at was the National Crime Victimisation Survey, pooling the data from 2010 to 2013. This showed that female perpetrators (without a male accomplice) were reported in 28 per cent of rape or sexual assault cases against men and 4.1 per cent of such cases against female victims.
Data from prisons collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics is equally surprising. Among female prisoners who have been the victims of sexual offences during their incarceration, they far more often report the offender to be another female inmate than a male member of staff. Indeed, contrary to stereotypes, another survey found that women prison inmates were more than three times as likely to be sexually victimised by another women inmate as compared with male prisoners’ risk of sexual victimisation by another male prisoner (bi-sexual women were at highest risk). For boys and men who are incarcerated, the prison data also show that they are overwhelmingly more likely to be sexually victimised by female staff than male staff.
National surveys by the U.S. Census Bureau are also revealing. A 2012 study asked respondents whether they had ever forced someone to have sex against their will: of those who said they had, 43.6 per cent were female (compared with 56.4 per cent of men).
Stemple’s team also considered data from college samples. Most recently, a 2014 study of 284 men and boys in college found that 43 reported having been sexually coerced, mostly unwanted sexual intercourse, with 95 per cent of the perpetrators reported as being female. An earlier survey obtained anecdotal descriptions of sexual violence from perpetrators. One woman described how she “locked the room door that we were in. I kissed and touched him. I removed his shirt and unzipped his pants. He asked me stop. I didn’t. Then I sat on top of him.”
Taken together, the researchers say that the data challenge the one-dimensional stereotype of women as only passive and harmless. Facing up to the reality of the prevalence of female sex offences actually serves feminist goals, they argue, citing another scholar who wrote that to be fully recognised, women must be “heard in all possible forms, whether in compassion, in protest or in violence”. The results also challenge stereotypes about men, they added, such as that they have “an insatiable desire for sex”, and they challenge rape myths such as that it is impossible for “a big strong man to be raped by a woman” (which the majority of students endorsed as true in a recent survey).
Moreover, it is only by recognising the reality of female sexual offending that the needs of those who offend can be properly addressed. “Female perpetration [of sexual aggression] is frequently intertwined with women’s past experience of their own victimisation”, the researchers said. For instance, evidence suggests that female offenders “have often experienced severe childhood sexual abuse themselves.”
Finally, the “culture of denial” about female sexual offending means that most female offenders are not convicted, and when they are, they receive lighter sentences, Stemple and her colleagues said. Male victims may feel pressure to interpret their victimisation experiences in a way consistent with masculine ideals, “such as the idea that men should relish any available opportunity for sex.” Meanwhile, “heterosexist” assumptions (that sexual violence is only ever perpetrated by men, usually against women) mean that lesbian and bisexual victims of female sexual aggression are “invisible to professionals”.
It’s also commonly assumed that female offenders nearly always co-offend with a male accomplice, the researchers noted, but while it is true that co-offending is more common among female offenders, data suggest they are still more likely to abuse alone.
“We call for feminist approaches – expansively interpreted – to challenge these stereotypes, making room to consider women who are abusive, power seeking, and sexually aggressive, while taking into account the troubled background many such women possess,” the researchers concluded. “Those victimised by women are doubly harmed when we fail to treat their abuse as worthy of concern.”
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23 thoughts on “Sexual offending by women is surprisingly common, claims US study”
James Webster says:
Why do the new approaches have to be feminist approaches? Are we now so ideologically straightjacketed that we cannot even consider that there might be another useful and valid point of view? This axiomatic genuflection to feminist orthodoxy in the social sciences is now past the point of being ridiculous; it’s genuinely worrying. Are these researchers blinkered or frightened?
Given it was a feminist approach (thank you Mary Koss) that tried to define female on male rape out of existence, why should we use a feminist approach to female perpetration, when the feminist approach is the one that was used to protect rapists?
Why the call at the end “for feminist approaches” to consider this issue? Why not support research that doesn’t take it as a premise that all evil stems from patriarchy (a/k/a men)? A fair-minded approach seems more in order.
PlayingInYourBackyard says:
The patriarchy does not mean “men”. It is a way of structuring society with men held up as the head of the household, with the right to have the final say in all decisions, and consequently to take charge in all areas of society.
Patriarchal ideas that have led us to the point where sexual violence perpetuated by women is seen as very unlikely. Presenting women as weak is what has caused this problem. Infantalising and stereotyping women as weak has harmed men as well as women. That doesn’t change the fact that we live in a patriarchal society (which holds up men as inherently superior to women). If we consider “the patriarchy” as a single entity you could say their opression of women has unintentionally backfired. Though I make this point with utmost sympathy to all victims of sexual violence where women were the aggressor.
A feminist approach is required so that we acknowledge that the opression of women is what has led to this violence commited against all genders by women. If we acknowledge women are just as capable as men at all things, good and bad, we can go some way to combatting this problem.
I would interested to know if, like domestic violence, a man is just as likely as a woman to have have been sexually assaulted but one gender experiences more serious and repeated assualts (in the case of DV women experience substantionally worse violence). I believe it can be an important distinction that we should not lose sight of. Previously anti-feminists have used DV stats to undermine the belief that DV affects women more than men even though male victims of DV experience less severe and sustained abuse, crucially they are less likely to die as a result.
More concerning is the extrememly high rates of people admitting to rape, around 50% for both genders? That is really, really shocking. Clearly general education about coercion and consent needs to be upped immediately.
“A feminist approach is required so that we acknowledge that the opression of women is what has led to this violence commited against all genders by women.”
No. That’s no more valid than saying that a Marxist approach is required, so that we acknowledge that it’s the oppression of the proletariat that has led to this violence.
What is required, is a liberation from the intellectual, moral and imaginative straightjacket that feminism has become.
“A feminist approach is required so that we acknowledge that the opression of women is what has led to this violence commited against all genders by women”
So, according to your feminist logic, men commit violence because they are the oppressor, yet women commit violence because they are oppressed? Laughable, and precisely why ideology such as this needs to be kept OUT of science.
Publius Scion says:
The name feminist is a sexist and bigoted term. Either one is Egalitarian or one is a bigot. There has never existed and is no Patriarchy. That is a religious creed of feminist. And all of your statements are only partially true or simply dead wrong because you have been lied to about the facts.
What has existed is an evolutionary co-dependency wherein males and females both were subjected to harsh environments in which men were expected to be meat shields for women. Women raised the boys to be men while the men were out hunting, and they raised the girls to raise boys to be men – for the security and protection of women. When a woman walked out of the cave, pointed at the beach, and said,”Boys, I want a condo!” It was a final decision and men died in the mines to get the coal, steel, and stone so they could die in the process of building the civilization she wanted for her conveniences; Because: “When mamma ain’t happy, nobody is happy”. However, mamma being unhappy is nothing compared to Grandma being unhappy, because when grandma is unhappy, every mamma is unhappy, and everyone becomes nobody. Every man knows instinctively never to piss off another man’s wife, because there will be hell to pay for both. This isn’t because of the mythical patriarchy – it is because women have never not been in charge.
What is specifically required is a scientific approach which will deny the feminist religion and its creeds admittance or meaning. It will deal with facts. Something I have discovered that atheist, feminists, and fundamentalists equally ignore when it is inconvenient to their belief.
One point to consider is how to get abusers to seek help. The article mentions that we need to consider a woman’s childhood abuse as a factor in her later behaviour. I agree, and for a few reasons. While we can condemn the behaviour, we want the woman to feel comfortable seeking help without judgment from others.
Perhaps surprisingly for feminists, the same applies to male agressors. I’ll take myself as an example of how silencing men through checking their privilege and mansplaining etc. can psychologically prevent him from learning how to assert himself in a healthy manner faced with an agressive woman. As a child, I did suffer severe emotional abuse from my father and sexual from my babysitter and neighbour. Fearing that my father might blame me if he found out, I kept it a tight secret. This allowed my babysitter to go on for over a year.
In young adulthood, a woman begged, pouted, nagged me to spend the night at her place though she didn’t want sex. I’d never learnt how to defend my boundaries in a healthy manner so I just suffered a panic attack. Add to that that feminist societal influences taught me as a man that I should check my privilege and sympathize with female oppression, so I’d especially never leant to assert myself against an agressive woman (think mansplaining). The fact that I was white and she black didn’t help matters either from the standpoint of societal messaging. I didn’t want to come across as racist. I politely resisted but she just upped the pressure until my fight or flight response made me feel physically sick and emotionally paralysed. She was physically attractive and I was a physically (even if not mentally() healthy heterosexual male, si that had nothing to do with my nit wanting to spend the bight at her place. It had to di with my acute awareness of never having learnt to protect my boundaries. I usually refused to mert a woman alone and especially in private but had let my guard don for her. I held a certain prejudice that a Muslim woman would keep a certain boundary from me and that made me trust her.
Never having learnt how to defend against a woman in this situation, utterly confused, and then thinking that the thing she’d fear or hate the most would be for me to violate her boundaries, I made an unwanted sexual advance towards her hoping she’d push me away and let me go. She pushed me away but as soon as I broke off to leave, she begged me to spend the night again. To escape the sickening feeling of the panic attack, I acquiesced. The next morning, she begged me till I promised to return that evening. Feeling the need to keep a promise, I returned to suffer the sane cycle daily for a week.
On the Saturday morning, I left to clean my home. In spite of my discouragements, she followed me home to help me clean. That evening, she refused to return to her home without me.
Still not knowing how to respond, I did the same as the previous days and made a sexual advance hoping to scare her away. She gently resisted as before but still didn’t show any interest in leaving.
Convinced she must have a limit, I removed her pants then mine then our underwear and then started to spread her legs when she gently said her first words:. Please don’t rape me.’
I recoiled, threw my clothes back on, stormed out of my apartment, and reached the nearest intersection on foot before she caught up to me. Tears flowing, I told her we were in an unhealthy relationship and that we needed to end it.
She crying apologized and begged me to walk her home. Now feeling guilty, I went home, locked the door, and walked her home where she again begged me to spend the night. Emotionally exhausted, I agreed again.
The next night, same cycle at her home. I again made an unwanted sexual advance after she wouldn’t let me leave but this time, she didn’t resist. On noticing this, I had a disturbing thought. After over a week of this psychological sparring and becoming increasingly unstable, I considered raping her as the ultimate way to make her hate or at least fear me and so finally let me go. I didn’t even fear prison and was even semi-suicidal by that time. What prevented me from raping her was the fear of hurting her. I also thought how it could backfire severely if I got her pregnant or if she then decided to escalate to a sexual relationship afterwards as a result of the rape, Yes, in my state of mind at the time, I feared escalating the relationship more than I did prison or suicide.
That’s how I came to realize the truth of the maxim that rape is about rage, and it scared me that I could actually have had that thought.
Seeing how she wasn’t resisting this time and not wanting to rape her, I broke off before removing any of her clothes and returned to the entrance to get my shoes. Suddenly, she, now crying, came over to hug me, kiss me, and even grope me. I first resisted but she wouldn’t let. Emotionally exhausted after over a week of daily psychological sparring, I gave in just to escape the constant panic attacks.
In hindsight, I don’t believe that she wanted sex anymore than I did. I made sexual advances based on the idea that a woman fears or hates that more than anything else and not knowing how else to respond to her. I presume she made an unwanted sexual advance towards me based on the idea that my sexual advances towards her were genuine, that I wanted to leave because she wasn’t giving me sex, and that giving me sex would make me stay.
If course the opposite happened. My worst nightmare had just materialized as I entered a sexually abusive relationship again.
Being in a sexual relationship with her also made me feel more obligated towards her. That just made it even easier for her to pressure me to stay and harder for me to leave.
I slowly learnt to resist, but the more I did, the more she upped the pressure. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
Now imagine for a moment that she’d reported me for sexual assault. I probably would then have been subjected to the Duluth model of therapy, teaching me how my behaviour stemmed from misogyny and tge oatruarchy and that I needed to learn to respect women’s boundaries more. It would have ironically totally overlooked the fact that a source of my behaviour was my ignorance of how to defend my boundaries and assert myself in a healthy manner. In fact, the Duluth model would have had the exact opposite offect of shaming me into even greater submissiveness and make me even more vulnerable to female abrasion and as a result even mire dangerous to a woman as a result of my knowing even less how to defend myself against her.
After being coerced into a dysfunctional marriage with the woman above that ended in divorce and a suicide attempt on my part followed by alcoholism and then replaced by compulsive sexual behaviours. I just concluded that I’d just become a womanizer (the male equivalent of a slut for those who don’t know the term) after my divorce for reasons I couldn’t understand, that it was my fault,, that I needed to stop, and I felt great shame at my inability to stop my compulsive sexual behaviour. That shame made me keep it a deep secret as I feared people might dismiss it as just healthy sexuality not understanding that I was acting compulsively.
That behaviour also exposed me to at least one sexual assault by a woman (who forced unprotected sex after we’d agreed to protected, and which made me worry about STI’s). She’d so taken me by surprise that I didn’t even have time to think about an appropriate reaction. I first resisted but she actively countered it. My strangest reaction was to scan around me to determine whether my rolling her off of me and off the narrow bed could risk her hitting her head against a small table next to the bed and so injure herself given how her noncooperation could cause her to lose her balance. I found that to be an odd concern while a stranger was forcing unprotected sex onto me. It was over before I even had time to decide how best to react
One occasion led me to sexually assault a woman. When she’d barged into my hotel room abroad and refused to leave until I paid her for sex, I tried to push her out while being careful to not injure her, but she just barged right back in. Not knowing what else to do, I agreed, paid, and angrily had rough sex with her. She made an angry comment and left and I felt guilty about it afterwards. The laws of probabilities that come with compulsive promiscuity I suppose.
I kept my compulsive sexual behaciours a tight secret out of shame until it got so out of hand I finally had to find the courage to seek a therapist. Since I found a therapist of my own initiative, I was able to find someone focused on addressing the behaviour and its source. Addressing that combined with participation in a 12-step group finally helped me learn how to manage my trauma in a healthier manner.
Had a judge ever forced me into state therapy, I would probably have been subjected to the Duluth model that would have been more concerned with promoting an ideology rather than focusing on actual therapy.
By the way, U don’t excuse my past behaviours. I.n just pointing out that they traced their soured to something other that a patriarchy or misogyny that feminist ideas like the Duluth model fail to address.
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safikarim says:
It’s been gynocentric feminist approaches to the issue of sexual violence that’s hidden the true prevalence of female sexual offenders in the first place. Case in point:
equal numbers of men and women reported being forced into non-consensual sex (either raped themselves or forced to penetrate someone else)
Being forced to penetrate is rape. The reason it’s be treated as just some other unwanted sexual contact not as bad as rape is due to the efforts of feminist Mary Koss who said women forcing men into sex isn’t as serious as men forcing women into sex
Even here:
…to be fully recognized, women must be “heard in all possible forms, whether in compassion, in protest or in violence”…Female perpetration [of sexual aggression] is frequently intertwined with women’s past experience of their own victimization…Female offenders have often experienced severe childhood sexual abuse themselves.
This gives the impression that a feminist approach to female predators would focus more on how female rapists are really victims themselves and just need support and compassion. Already there seems to be so much more sympathy and empathy shown towards female sexual offenders over their victims, especially if the victim is male
A feminist approach isn’t needed to recognize that female predators are as depraved as male predators and that male victims of them are as important female victims of males
David House says:
Perhaps a “Gender Blind” approach as opposed to a “Feminist”
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Bryan Scandrett says:
“while taking into account the troubled background many such women possess,” the researchers concluded. “Those victimised by women are doubly harmed when we fail to treat their abuse as worthy of concern.”
Even at our best, we can’t tear our eyes away from the story of women as victim. In an article about male victimization by women, this is the conclusion to be drawn.
The reality is that nothing changes until women step down from their pedestal and men from their white horses. Nothing changes until we learn compassion for men.
And feminism, whose beating heart is pure gynocentrism, is having none of that.
SweetSorrow999 says:
This isn’t “surprising” at all. Women are taught from birth that there are no consequences for their actions.
Sutpen says:
That’s it. Women scarcely have to worry about what they do because in most cases they won’t be held responsible. In a very real sense women have utter freedom and almost no problems.
Whilst I can empathise with your chagrin utter freedom and almost no problems is not accurate in any way about any group of people, particularly all over half of the human population.
It is imperative that you do NOT use a feminist approach to follow up these findings, unless you want a result which is unscientific and skewed by ideology.
Feminism has a clear history which is based in Marxism and seeing the gender and wider society through the lens of class conflict. This kind of thinking is inappropriate for doing any kind of scientific exploration.
Sceptic_Cleptic says:
Feminism? LOL. That is all.
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Sweet_Sorrow999 says:
Sexual offending by women is hardly surprising. It’s only “surprising” if you’re a bigot and hypocrite or a gynocrat.”Women don’t do .”nuffin”
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The article states that we must consider how the female abuser’s childhoood abuse contributes to their behaviour in adulthood. I absolutely agree. That said, we should apply the same scientific standards to male abusers too rather than assume that their childhood abuse plays no role in their later behaviour and that we must attribute it to ‘the patriarchy.’
Instead of a feminist approach, we should adopt a scientific approach while adapting therapy to the religious and other influences of the patient.
I think it particularly harmful to deny the impact of childhood abuse on male perpetrators too.
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An Embedded Active Nucleus in the OH Megamaser Galaxy IRAS16399-0937
Dinalva Sales, Departamento de Astronomia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. 9500 Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, 91501-970, Brazil
Andy Robinson, Rochester Institute of TechnologyFollow
David J. Axon, Rochester Institute of TechnologyFollow
Jack F. Gallimore, Bucknell UniversityFollow
Preeti Kharb, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, II Block, Koramangala, Bangalore 560034, India 0000-0003-3203-1613
Rachel L. Curran, Rochester Institute of Technology
Christopher P. O'Dea, Rochester Institute of TechnologyFollow
Stefi A. Baum, Rochester Institute of TechnologyFollow
Moshe Elitzur, University of KentuckyFollow
Rupal Mittal, Rochester Institute of Technology
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http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/25/meta;jsessionid=AE17F9C825B3549330F8B8C77EA142E6.c1.iopscience.cld.iop.org
We present a multiwavelength study of the OH megamaser galaxy IRAS16399-0937, based on new Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Advanced Camera for Surveys F814W and Hα+[N II] images and archive data from HST, Two Micron All Sky Survey, Spitzer, Herschel and the Very Large Array. This system has a double nucleus, whose northern (IRAS16399N) and southern (IRAS16399S) components have a projected separation of ~6'' (3.4 kpc) and have previously been identified based on optical spectra as a low ionization nuclear emission line region (LINER) and starburst nucleus, respectively. The nuclei are embedded in a tidally distorted common envelope, in which star formation is mostly heavily obscured. The infrared spectrum is dominated by strong polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, but deep silicate and molecular absorption features are also present, and are strongest in the IRAS16399N nucleus. The 0.435-500 μm spectral energy distribution was fitted with a model including stellar, interstellar medium and active galactic nucleus (AGN) torus components using our new Markov Chain Monte Carlo code, CLUMPYDREAM. The results indicate that the IRAS16399N contains an AGN (L bol ~ 1044 erg s-1) deeply embedded in a quasi-spherical distribution of optically thick clumps with a covering fraction ≈1. We suggest that these clumps are the source of the OHM emission in IRAS16399-0937. The high torus covering fraction precludes AGN photoionization as the origin of the LINER spectrum, however, the spectrum is consistent with shocks (v ~ 100-200 km s-1). We infer that the ~108 M ⊙ black hole in IRAS16399N is accreting at a small fraction (~1%) of its Eddington rate. The low accretion rate and modest nuclear star formation rates suggest that while the gas-rich major merger forming the IRAS16399-0937 system has triggered widespread star formation, the massive gas inflows expected from merger simulations have not yet fully developed.
Sales, Dinalva; Robinson, Andy; Axon, David J.; Gallimore, Jack F.; Kharb, Preeti; Curran, Rachel L.; O'Dea, Christopher P.; Baum, Stefi A.; Elitzur, Moshe; and Mittal, Rupal. "An Embedded Active Nucleus in the OH Megamaser Galaxy IRAS16399-0937." The Astrophysical Journal (2015) : 25.
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New AMD Embedded G-Series APUs Provide Thirty Nine Percent Power Reduction
May 23, 2011 by FindMyHost News · Comments Off on New AMD Embedded G-Series APUs Provide Thirty Nine Percent Power Reduction
Webmaster Toolbox – SUNNYVALE, Calif. — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced immediate availability of two new AMD Embedded G-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) with thermal design power (TDP) ratings of 5.5 and 6.4 watts, up to a 39 percent power savings compared to earlier versions1. The very low power consumption and small 361mm² package is ideal for compact, fanless embedded systems like digital signage, kiosks, mobile industrial devices and many of the new emerging industry-standard small form factors such as Qseven. This is an unprecedented low-power offering for the embedded market that features one or two low-power x86 “Bobcat” CPU cores and a discreet class DirectX® 11-capable GPU on a single die.
“We have seen many of our embedded customers deploy fanless systems even with our 15W TDP processors in the past. Today we take the ground-breaking AMD Fusion APU well below 7W TDP and shatter the accepted traditional threshold for across-the-board fanless enablement,” said Buddy Broeker, director, Embedded Solutions, AMD. “System designers can now unleash their creativity without being constrained by heat or size issues.” Read more
Tagged: Accelerated Processing Unit, AMD, APU, cloud computing, Dedicated Server, G-Series, Server Cooling System, TDP, Thermal Design Power
KEMP Launches Hyper-V Load Balancing Virtual Appliance for Microsoft
May 16, 2011 by FindMyHost News · Comments Off on KEMP Launches Hyper-V Load Balancing Virtual Appliance for Microsoft
Webmaster Toolbox – Yaphank, N.Y. – KEMP Technologies today announced the availability of its new Virtual LoadMaster Exchange (VLM-Exchange) for Microsoft Hyper-V™. This product offering from KEMP was selected as a Microsoft Best of Tech Ed 2011 finalist by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, DevProConnections and SharePointPro, in the virtualization category. The new virtual appliance application delivery controller (ADC) is specifically designed for Microsoft Exchange 2010 running on Hyper-V machines, allowing businesses to easily establish high-availability and redundancy for Client Access Servers (CAS) and other critical Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server roles. The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V ensures that a company’s investment in Microsoft Hyper-V based server virtualization is further leveraged by turning its virtual machines into fully-featured, production-capable ADCs.
The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V is the software-based solution of the recently launched LoadMaster-Exchange for Microsoft Exchange 2010. As with the hardware version, it includes features such as SSL offload, caching, compression, content switching and Exchange Server affinity (persistence). Moreover, advanced Exchange application health checking and the ability to be deployed in a redundant, active/hot-standby configuration ensure high availability of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Read more
Tagged: Dedicated Server, Hyper-V, KEMP, Load Balancing, Microsoft, sharepoint, SQL, SQL Server, Virtual LoadMaster, Virtualization
Connectria Hosting Launches Remote Monitoring Services for IBM System i
April 21, 2011 by FindMyHost News · Comments Off on Connectria Hosting Launches Remote Monitoring Services for IBM System i
Hosting Services – ST. LOUIS – Connectria, a global leader in Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting and Complex Hosting solutions, today announced the availability of 24/7 Remote Monitoring services for the IBM System i platform.
The IBM System i, or Power Systems, has been a mainstay midrange server for over 20 years, with an estimated 200,000+ customers worldwide. As companies continue to run legacy applications on the System i, it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the necessary staff and skill set to manage this environment. Read more
Tagged: cloud computing, complex hosting, Connectria Hosting, Dedicated Server, enterprise hosting, IBM, IBM System i, Managed Hosting, Remote Monitoring
KEMP Launches Server Load Balancing for Microsoft Exchange 2010
April 6, 2011 by admin · Comments Off on KEMP Launches Server Load Balancing for Microsoft Exchange 2010
Hosting Reviews – Yaphank, N.Y. – KEMP Technologies today announced the availability of its new LoadMaster Exchange (LM-Exchange) server load balancing and application delivery appliance. The newest member of its family of affordable load balancers, the KEMP LoadMaster Exchange is designed to address high-availability and scalability demands of Microsoft Exchange 2010 deployments for businesses up to 250 users.
While all of KEMP’s server load balancing and application delivery controller (ADCs) products currently support and are approved by Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 qualification program for hardware and software load balancers, the LM-Exchange is the first product of its kind that was specifically designed and purpose-built for Microsoft’s Exchange 2010. “For the smaller business that may not be familiar with load balancing technology, ease-of-use and speed of deployment was our top priority in the design and development of this product,” said Peter Melerud, vice president of product management at KEMP. “For the vast majority of smaller enterprises, which will consolidate the primary Exchange 2010 server roles onto a pair of servers, the LM-Exchange can be deployed in less than five minutes, providing instant redundancy and high-availability for client access server (CAS) and other critical Exchange 2010 services.” Read more
Tagged: ASP, Dedicated Server, disaster recovery, KEMP, Loud Balancing, LoudMaster, Microsoft Exchange, SSL, Windows Servers
Fusion-io and Supermicro Break the Million IOPS Barrier
March 2, 2011 by FindMyHost News · Comments Off on Fusion-io and Supermicro Break the Million IOPS Barrier
Hosting Blog – HANOVER, Germany – Fusion-io, pioneer of high-performance solutions for next generation data centers, is demonstrating at CeBIT with its newest Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partner, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high-performance server and storage solutions. The CeBIT demonstration showcases a new 1U Twin SuperServer running on the flash-based, server-attached ioDrive Octal from Fusion-io achieving 1.4 million random IOPS from the simple to deploy configuration.
Fusion-io and Supermicro are offering Fusion Powered SuperServers that significantly accelerate data intensive applications and workloads for virtual machine implementations, financial transactions, web content, database and data mining. Read more
Tagged: blade, Datacenter, Dedicated Server, enterprise equipment, Fusion-io, hosting hardware, optimized server, Supermicro
Approved Host DedicatedNOW Celebrates 13 Years of Service
November 10, 2010 by FindMyHost News · Comments Off on Approved Host DedicatedNOW Celebrates 13 Years of Service
Web Hosting Services – Clifton, NJ – Managed dedicated server provider, DedicatedNOW, celebrates its thirteenth year in business this month. Founded in New Jersey in 1997 by Jason Silverglate, the Company has grown from a small shared hosting company to having its own datacenter with more than 5,000 servers, supporting clients from more than 90 countries.
“I’ve met the brightest people in the (hosting) industry, here at DedicatedNOW,” says Salvatore Poliandro, Director of Information Technology. In recent years, DedicatedNOW has carved out a niche for itself within the managed and complex hosting space. Leaning on its proficiency with Linux clustering, load balancing and managed security, the Company has earned many awards over the years for best in class service.
Current client Chris Azzari says “DedicatedNOW sets the bar high… Just knowing that your site that you have spend countless hours creating and promoting is in good hands is worth its weight in gold.” Mr. Azzari’s sentiment mirrors that of many DedicatedNOW customers – the support and customer service available with DedicatedNOW are unparalleled in the industry. That level of service has helped DedicatedNOW to earn the business of headliners like AirTran, COMODO, NYU and SpiritAir. “We love what we do and we do it well,” says CEO Jason Silverglate.
On the horizon, DedicatedNOW is gearing up to launch its own cloud service. Details will be released in coming weeks, however the company is posting updates and announcements of its ongoing development on its Twitter account (@dedicatednow). Read more
Tagged: cloud hosting, clustering, complex hosting, Dedicated Server, DedicatedNOW, Load Balancing
Beefing Up Security With Web Application Firewalls
November 2, 2010 by admin · Comments Off on Beefing Up Security With Web Application Firewalls
If you’re fortunate enough to have a growing online business, you will find your hosting needs growing along with it. What may have started as a single server may now begin to resemble a burgeoning IT shop, with multiple web servers, database servers, mail servers, and file servers. All businesses reach a threshold where security and reliability of the environment becomes paramount – to the point where it becomes a higher priority to protect the assets and infrastructure before investing any further in functionality and business growth. One of the first appliances deployed to protect that infrastructure is a firewall, which can be defined as a hardware and/or software appliance whose primary purpose is to protect network resources by limiting or eliminating unauthorized access to those resources. While larger businesses often opt to invest in hardware firewalls capable of on-the-fly packet filtering, encryption of all incoming and outgoing requests, and processing of extremely large numbers of concurrent connections, small-to-mid-sized businesses are often best served by software firewalls and specifically Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs. Read more
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Tagged: cPanel, Dedicated Server, DedicatedNOW, dotDefender, Firewall, Managed IT, server hardening, Web Security, windows firewall
Alentus Launches New Dedicated Starter Server
June 18, 2009 by FindMyHost News · Comments Off on Alentus Launches New Dedicated Starter Server
Website Tools – LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. – Alentus Corporation (Pink Sheets: ALNS), a leading provider of web solutions including managed services, sharepoint hosting, Windows and Linux web hosting, and Microsoft exchange mail services, has announced the introduction of a new dedicated server to the selection of Starter Servers.
The new Alentus Dell PowerEdge R200 Dedicated Server package is ideally resourced for website owners looking for more control over their hosting environment. The package, which comes complete with a roomy 160GB hard drive and 500 GB of monthly bandwidth is the first Alentus dedicated hosting package to offer the operating system FreeBSD. The new Alentus Dell PowerEdge R200 is highly flexible and customizable, with opportunities to upgrade hard drive specifications for RAID configurations with hot swappable drives, as well as backup upgrade options. A customer also has the opportunity to upgrade the operating system to the latest versions of Microsoft Windows Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 review
by Merlijn Eskens
The great:
You can actually ride your rides, and it is great! It is one of the first games to feature this and it really improved the game!
The game starts out great. It offers new options for the user, you can finally leave the grid behind and are free to build your park as you see fit. It also features a "No budget" option for the first time in the rollercoaster tycoon games.
Rollercoaster tycoon 3 is not better than 1 or 2. Its graphics are improved, but it has lost the charm that the first games had on its way there.
Rollercoaster tycoon 3 also decreased the difficulty. Where one and two could pose a serious challenge on the long term, RCT3 just allows you to easily earn money and promotes leaving your pc on when the park is profitable.
Merlijn EskensFeb 7, 2018
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Microsoft from Deutsch
In short, the Conclusion is That a fantastic Build-up games with moderate Control and terrible Performance Problems (jerking and Crashing, as well as faulty Memory function). Already at The Pc years ago, I loved the Game and actually Tablets are ideal for Build-up games, but some Mistakes have been made in the Port. This is one on one. The Controls were more or less well posted, albeit somewhat fiddly. The annoying Things, however, are that, on the one hand, it likes to crash and the Car Storage Function doesn't even really take hold, which likes to flush half an Hour of Progress. On the other hand, it does not run very smoothly. On my iPad mini 2 (without a doubt faster than my computer At the time) the whole game is already jerking very strongly and I didn't even build tedly 6 of the Park. This could be improved.
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App Store, Apr 11, 2019
Microsoft from Italian
I Knew very well the title for the desktop version and just now that I was expecting the porting for Mac of the last chapter published, known on the Store the good old RCT3 for iOS. Wow! It'S amazing how they managed to faithfully carry a game, in its complex way, into a smartphone. I really like the work you did. It plays well (not perfect but is still valid) and also has a more than acceptable graphic rendering. You can also manipulate the scenario despite the limitations imposed by the device, as well as you can create practical underground passages. I Honestly believed that I would find much more difficulty in these two ways and instead, here too, the game does its job. I'm also very happy to be able to play in freedom, without any hassle between missions to pounding but with my rhythms and my chances. Other applause goes to the choice of business that does not provide additional costs but in this case I would gladly buy in the app to add the two historical expansions released for the original game. I Admit that their lack takes a lot ' of fun to the game. What else to add? Nothing. You Have done a good job, the game is a timeless classic and, for this reason, it was worth downloading and I have not found any kind of difficulties or bugs. Great. NOTE FOR THOSE who COMPLAIN about THE LACK OF a SELECTOR TO DEFINE THE AREA OF COMPETENCE OF EMPLOYEES: I assure you that the option exists and is not complicated to apply. Just click on the status of the hired workers, from the specific list and, among the various items, you will also find the appropriate one.
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Aliens Space StationI project
Aliens home buyers take to the streets over delay
Nearly a decade after its glitzy launch, the multicrore Aliens Space StationI project has turned into a nightmare for 400-odd buyers.TNN | September 19, 2016, 08:50 IST
HYDERABAD: With no house in sight and hefty bank loans against their names, property buyers in the multi-crore Aliens Space Station-I staged a protest in front of Tellapur office on Sunday.
Nearly a decade after its glitzy launch, the multicrore Aliens Space StationI project has turned into a nightmare for 400-odd buyers. With placards in their hands that read `We are suffering due to Aliens', dozens of people raised slogans against the builder for not fulfilling the promise of handing over possession of their flats on time.
"The builders' inordinate delay in handing over the flats on time has severely hit our pockets. Many customers continue to stay in rented flats and pay EMIs. A few of them have stopped paying EMIs considering the consequences on their finances," said Manmohan Singh Chane, secretary of Aliens' welfare association.
The fact that the police, despite a string of consumer court orders and complaints, has failed to take any action against the firm's bigwigs, has only added to their woes. Even the political class, sadly, has turned its back on buyers paying little heed to the repeated representations submitted over the past many years. “A few customers have even got rulings from the high court. However, the Aliens Group has failed to pay the customer despite court orders,“ said Chane, calling it clear contempt of court.
Customers claim that out of total 2,182 flats, only 160 to 170 have been constructed by the builder so far. Of the 13 towers, each with 29 floors, only one has been 'structurally' completed. "We had to hit the streets because even after a decade the entire process has been moving at a snail's pace. The group recently told us that it was exploring the option of attracting private equity to return our money. But even that seems to have fallen flat now," said a buyer.
It may be recalled that in March 2015, the Ramachandrapuram police had arrested Aliens Group managing director Hari Challa on charges of cheating (Section 420) and breach of trust (Section 406). Customers had accused Aliens of defrauding them of over Rs 500 crore. But, two months later, Challa secured bail and said he was not guilty.
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Chemical recycling of plastics may reach new heights
– Kirstin Linnenkoper – June 20, 2018
ReNew ELP is constructing its first commercial-scale plastics recycling facility in Wilton, UK, based on its ‘breakthrough’ Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor technology, which allows it to chemically recycle end-of-life plastics into valuable oils and chemicals.
ReNew ELP’s Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR) technology uses water at high pressure and high temperatures to chemically recycle a wide range of feedstocks such as plastic scrap and discarded tyres. The materials are essentially broken down to their original component molecules and then ‘rearranged’ to turn the waste plastic into readily usable chemicals and recycled oils.
The new site will initially have a processing capacity of 20 000 tonnes per annum, which will be eventually scaled up to 80 000 tonnes per annum. The facility is scheduled to become operational in late 2019.
‘The agents of change’
The Cat-HTR technology was originally developed by Australian company Licella, and further refined and patented by ReNew, according to the recycler’s managing director Richard Daley. He comments: ‘Our technology is unique when compared to every other thermal conversion process, as it uses water as the agent of change, so the plant can operate at far lower temperatures making it more efficient than pyrolysis or gasification.’
The businessman adds that there is no need to dry the feedstock prior to treatment, which significantly reduces operating costs versus alternative technologies. Also, the process does not produce dioxins or other toxic compounds.
‘Our technology provides an innovative solution to the global problem of end-of-life plastic disposal and contributes to the creation of a circular economy,’ Daley concludes.
Topics: australia, chemicals, innovation, oil, Plastics, process, technology, tyres, UK
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By Scott Bekker
No matter how good you think your company’s network security is, there is a hacker out there who can weasel his way in. Making the hackers’ jobs easier, almost every day a new system vulnerability announcement is made about a major network or systems supplier. You may try to keep current with bugs, fixes, and vulnerability announcements, but there are just too many, so how is a lone network administrator expected to keep up?
You might want to start by checking out ENT’s Security Round-Up. Here we’ll try to keep you on top of what security issues have emerged in recent weeks and what tools are out there to help you defend your company -- who knows, it might just save your network.
In late February, Pilot Network Services Inc. published a survey about the number of hackers attempting to locate vulnerable domain name servers (DNS) across corporate networks. The survey revealed that about 6,000 attempts had been made in January, as compared with about 2,200 in December. Security experts attribute the rise to vulnerabilities found in the Berkley Internet Domain (BIND) serve -- vulnerabilities that hackers suspect have not been repaired since last month’s announcement. Even more disconcerting is that many hackers are now trying to cross-breed automated hacking tools with Internet worms, which could create the landscape for widespread distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks.
Not wanting to be left out of the fun, Microsoft Corp. rolled out its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) server on Valentine’s Day. This latest server, a network firewall, is looking to protect its customers from hacker attacks by detecting intrusion and Web proxying. Taking away some of ISA’s credibility, however, is the recent DDOS that took all of Microsoft’s Web sites offline, as well as the Kournikova virus that plowed through Windows machines and enabled hackers to deface some large corporate Web sites using holes in Microsoft’s IIS server. But analysts at IDC say as long as users stay on top of the latest updates to ISA they should be “relatively secure.” That poses the question of whether anyone can really keep up with all of Microsoft’s fixes and updates.
Speaking of fixes and updates, other Microsoft products have been tagged this month as having security issues. The company has released a patch to eliminate a security vulnerability in Windows NT 4.0 servers that provide secure remote sessions. This weakness could allow a hacker to prevent an affected machine from providing service. Microsoft is calling this problem a “Malformed PPTP Packet Stream” vulnerability and it affects versions of NT 4.0 but not machines running Windows 2000.
For Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express users, a different issue must be addressed -- one that allows hackers to run the code of their choosing. This patch repairs a VCard handler that contains an unchecked buffer, and should be applied to Outlook 97, Outlook 2000, Outlook Express 5.01, and Outlook Express 5.5.
A slightly more serious security issue has been disclosed for systems administrators and affects Windows 2000 server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. The patch available for this vulnerability should disable hackers from running DOS attacks on the servers, and should be applied to domain controllers.
While Microsoft would probably like it if it could steal the show with its security vulnerability announcements, other things are occurring in the world. Some of the most recent events include, a sweeping attack of the Kournikova virus across computers worldwide, the charging of FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen as a spy for Russia, and the revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) -- the spy organization in charge of listening to communications all over the world -- has run into complete network failure in the past.
Aside from the Kournikova virus, the other two security breaches sound like scenes from a James Bond film. With the Russian spy, the FBI said it could have known about Hanssen’s actions long before now had it only run more stringent computer audits. Hanssen repeatedly ran his name and his drop-off locations through the FBI’s computers to see if he was under suspicion for espionage. Finding out that he wasn’t -- and that his computer use wasn’t being audited -- Hanssen was able to continue working with his Russian cohorts for fifteen years. This should stop and make network administrators think: Should you be running audits on your users?
As for the NSA’s debilitating three-and-a-half day loss of computer power, one can only wonder how the most secret U.S. agency -- one twice the size of the CIA and even more covert -- can intercept all of the country’s radio transmissions, faxes, phone calls, and e-mails, yet lose its entire network for nearly four days. The NSA uses security devices such as finger print identification systems and retinal scanning, and it can spy on anyone who sends or receives any kind of message. But with all this technology, its computers can still experience complete failure. It makes you wonder, if the NSA can’t keep their networks up and running, what chance do you have?
Another issue that is crippling the NSA is its lag in technology arena. While it has the ability to keep out unwanted persons, it is admittedly lacking the advanced computing capabilities to monitor illicit transmissions. Even the director of the NSA admits the organization is playing catch-up with Silicon Valley and the widespread technology -- such as cell phones and high-speed computers -- that the technology industry has produced. Corporations and citizens alike may be worried about the NSA snooping on their business, but these revelations prove it is possible that we may be more technologically advanced than the NSA. The question that emerges here is, if the NSA is intent on monitoring illicit transmissions to “protect” the U.S. from wrongdoers, then why would it admit outright that its technology isn’t up to par? As evidenced in the past, when any U.S. government agency admits anything, it is usually only to benefit itself. In this instance, could it really be that the NSA wants help improving its technology, or could it be just a ploy -- masquerading as a way to better defend the American people -- to gain more funding for secret endeavors? Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing… - Alicia Costanza
Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.
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1. Number 478, Detailed Statement of Specifications for Repairs of Frame Building, Submitted April 28, 1890, Stillwater, Minnesota
Office of the Building Official, City of Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: West side, Second Street, Lot 2, Block 13 of Carlie. Owner: F. Bordwell, Builder: M. Nelson. Permit granted on April 28, 1890.
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2. Number 864, Detailed Statement of Application to Remove Building, Submitted September 18, 1895, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: East side, North Fourth Street, Lot 16, Block 20 of Original City to East North Fourth Street, Lot 16, Block 20 of Original City. Owner: William Bain. Permit granted on September 18, 1895.
3. Number 1077, Detailed Statement of Application to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted August 6, 1902, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: Lake Drive, Block 7 of Carli and Schulenburg. Owner: Northwest Thresher Company, Architect: Lewis M. Clarke.
4. Number 775, Detailed Statement of Application for Repairs to Frame Buildings, Submitted October 11, 1893, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: Chestnut Street, Lot 5, Block 27, of Original City. Owner: Dr. J. L. Rhodes, Builder: Johnson.
5. Number 436, Detailed Statement of Application for Repairs to Frame Buildings, Submitted July 10, 1889, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North side, South Chestnut Street, Lot 32, Block 29 of Orginial City. Owner: Mrs. Duel, Builder: William Beiging.
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: William Street, Lot 1, Block 1 of Greely and Slaughters. Owner: John A. Thaland, Builder: D. Bergland.
7. Number 1195, Detailed Statement of Application for New Building to Frame or Brick Building, Submitted December 3, 1904, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: East side, Sixth Street, Lot not numbered of Thompson, Parker and Mowers. Owner: Stephen Vogler, Architect: Euguene Schmidt, Builder: Eugene Schmidt.
8. Number 425, Detailed Statement of Application for Build Brick Buildings, Submitted June 11, 1889, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North Morris Street, Lot not Plated of Original City. Owner: Stillwater R. R. Company, Builder: S. C. and F. Company.
9. Number 433, Detailed Statement of Application for Alterations to Frame Buildings, Submitted June 17, 1889, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: West side of South Second Street, Lot 2, Block 24 of Original City. Owner: Michael Moffatt.
10. Number 431, Detailed Statement of Application for, Alterations to Frame Buildings, Submitted July 13, 1889, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: East side, North Third Street, Block 7 of Original City. Owner: Mrs. J. S. Anderson, Builder: Sven Berland.
11. Number 1337, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions to Frame Buildings, Submitted, May 25, 1909, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: Laurel Street, Block 9 of Original Town. Owner: Mrs J. W. Backland, Builder: Nelson.
12. Number 1066, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions to Frame Buildings, Submitted May 8, 1902, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North Main Street, Opposite Lot 23, Block 7 of Carli and Schulenburg. Owner: Northwest Thresher Company, Architect: Lewis and Clarke.
13. Number 1342, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions to Frame Buildings, Submitted, June 14, 1909, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: South Main Street, Lot 33, Block 42 of Original Town. Owner: Frank Zybarth, Builder: Frank Zybarth.
14. Number 452, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions to Frame Buildings, Submitted August 31, 1889, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North Martha Street, Lot 14, Block 2 of Thompson and Parker. Owner: Adam Johnson, Architect: Adam Johnson, Builder: Adam Johnson.
15. Number 1067, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions to Brick Buildings, Submitted May 8, 1902, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North Main Street, Lot 20 and 21, Block 7 of Carli and Schulenburg. Owner: Northwest Thresher Company, Architect: Lewis and Clarke, Builder: William L. Company.
16. Number 1800, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations and Repairs to Frame or Brick Building, Submitted August 1, 1920, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North side, East Chestnut Street, Lot 3, Block 25 of Original Town. Owner: Mrs. H. M. Torinus, Builder: E. H. Bieging.
17. Number 1330, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations, and Repairs to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted, 1908, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: 603 South Broadway, Lots 18 and 19, Block 42 of Original City. Owner: Anthony Wolf, Builder: Frank Linner and Company.
18. Number 1359, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations and Repairs to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted, 1909, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North Main Street, Part of Block 18 of Original City. Owner: George A. Rogentire, Builder: Frank Linner and Company. Permit granted on December 16, 1909.
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: East Wilkins Street, Lot 3, Block 12 of Carli and Schulenburg. Owner: T. R. Converse, Builder: Frank Linner and Company. Permit granted on December 16, 1909.
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: West Maples Street, Lot 5, Block 16 of Staples and Mays. Owner: C. J. La Vine, Builder: Frank Linner and Company. Permit granted on December 16, 1909.
21. Number 1000, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations, and Repairs to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted September 27, 1899, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: Walnut Street, Block 39 of Original City. Owner: Washington County, Architect: Orffe and Guilbert, Builder: O. H. Olsen.
22. Number 454, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations and Repairs to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted September 12, 1889, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North Second Street, Lot 5, Block 18 of Original City. Owner: S. L. Beaton.
23. Number 899, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations, and Repairs to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted September 3, 1896, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: North side, Sixth Avenue, Lots 10, Block 16 of Hersey, Staples and Company. Owner: Frank Carlson, Builder: L. A. Yansan.
24. Number 942, Detailed Statement of Application for Additions, Alterations, and Repairs to Frame or Brick Buildings, Submitted September 30, 1897, Stillwater, Minnesota
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: South side, Linden Street, Lot 1, Block 16 of Original City. Owner: D. Chisholm, Builder: Frank M. McGillin.
Building permit issued for the city of Stillwater, Minnesota. Location: West Olive Street, Block 6 of Fullertons. Owner: E. L. Evans, Builder: William M. May.
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Eccentric Millionaire Probability Paradox
The following is a probability paradox I've been thinking about. It involves Bayes' rule; if you're not familiar, a good starting example is a urn that has a 50% chance of containing one black ball and one white ball, and a 50% chance of having two black balls. If you reach in at random and pull out a black ball, it becomes more likely there were two black balls to begin with. Specifically, there is now a 1/3 chance of there being black and white balls in the urn, and a 2/3 chance of there being two black balls.
Alice and her husband Bob are kidnapped by an eccentric millionaire that performs probability experiments on people. Without them seeing the result, a coin is to be flipped.
If heads, one of the two of them (at random) will be brought to an office with a big red button that, if pushed, will transfer \$5000 to their joint bank account. The other will be left in the holding cell.
If tails, both them them will be brought to separate offices with big red buttons, each with which removes \$2000 from their joint bank account.
They can discuss strategy ahead of time, but after the experiment starts they will be kept separate from each other. What should they do?
Alice and Bob reason their only two strategies are to push the button or not. Not pushing the button is a net zero, and pushing the button yields an expected payoff of $1/2 \cdot (5000) + 1/2 \cdot(-4000) = 500$. Not being particularly risk averse, they decide to go ahead and press the button.
The Paradox
The experiment starts, and Alice is summoned to an office with a big red button. She is about to confidently press the button in accordance with their strategy, when she suddenly has second thoughts. The fact that she has been brought to an office and not left in the holding cell gives her new information. Using standard Bayes analysis, the probability the coin was heads is now $1/3$, and the probability the coin was tails is $2/3$. Thus, now the expected value of their strategy is $1/3 \cdot ( 5000) + 2/3 \cdot (-4000) = -1000$.
Suddenly, not pushing the button seems like a good strategy. What's going on? What should Alice do, which analysis was flawed, and what is wrong with the flawed analysis? If it matters to your answer, assume Bob thinks in a very similar way to Alice, and would likely make the same decision as she would.
probability paradox
Tyler SeacrestTyler Seacrest
$\begingroup$ Seems like an implied reverse-Monty Hall paradox: extra posterior information appears to reduce a player's equity $\endgroup$ – smci Jun 8 '15 at 1:39
$\begingroup$ The source for this paradox is here, where I've changed the story and added my own reasoning to it. As you can see, this is strongly related to the famous Sleeping Beauty Paradox (aka, the instant flame war: proceed at your own risk). $\endgroup$ – Tyler Seacrest Jun 8 '15 at 5:49
First of all, Alice is correct in that the expected value of the strategy (from her point of view) is now -1000. It would have been best if she had not been summoned to an office, in which case the couple would have won 5000. Since she has been summoned to an office, that possibility is ruled out. Let's look at the various possibilities. I will shorten the cases to A, B, and AB, where A means Alice was picked alone, B means Bob was picked alone, and AB means both were picked. I will use the term equity to mean the expected value of a case multiplied by the probability of that case.
A summary of the original possibilities:
A : +5000 (25% chance) (+1250 equity)
B : +5000 (25% chance) (+1250 equity)
AB: -4000 (50% chance) (-2000 equity)
Total equity: +500 (as stated in "The Plan")
A summary of the remaining possibilities once Alice is selected:
Total equity: -1000 (as stated in "The Paradox")
This all makes sense so far. There was a 75% chance of Alice being selected, with expected value -1000, and a 25% chance of Alice not being selected, with expected value +5000.
-1000 * 0.75 + 5000 * 0.25 = 500 equity, which is the original equity.
So far so good. But Alice should still press the button. Why? Because her equity from pressing the button is positive:
A: +5000 (33% chance) (+1667 equity)
Total equity: +333
Note that in the AB case, her pressing the button only loses 2000 dollars and not 4000. Bob pressing his button and losing the other 2000 dollars is "a done deal" which results in -1333 equity, but that doesn't affect whether Alice should press her button or not.
In other words, Bob is going to press the button and lose 1333 equity. If Alice presses the button, she will regain 333 equity to make the final result -1000. If she does not press the button, the result will remain -1333 which is worse.
Edit: A commenter said, why doesn't Alice just not press the button and end up with 0 instead of -1000?
Response: Because it's always correct to press the button. Suppose Bob decided to "wussy out" and not press the button. That means that instead of Bob losing 1333 equity, he will have lost 0 equity. Alice should still press the button and gain 333 equity. Her decision is independent of Bob's decision. Also, remember that the -1000 equity doesn't mean that pressing the button is going to lose money. You always have to factor in the +5000 in case B that makes the final equity +500. The decision is between pressing the button and making +500 overall considering all 4 cases and not pressing the button and making 0.
Another way to think about it
Here's another way to think about it that might clear up the "paradox" for some people. Suppose Alice and Bob were strangers instead of a couple. And the rules were that if you press the button in heads case, you alone get 5000 dollars. And in the tails case, anyone who presses the button loses 2000 dollars from their own bank account. Now it is clear that you actually want to be picked. Because if you are, your expected return from pressing the button is (1/3) * 5000 - (2/3) * 2000 = +333 dollars. It doesn't matter that the other person might lose 2000 dollars. Their best strategy overall is also to press the button. It just happens that if you get picked, you know they will be losing 2000 dollars by pressing the button.
JS1JS1
$\begingroup$ If she doesn't press the button, Bob doesn't press as well, so they don't lose anything. Isn't it? $\endgroup$ – leoll2 Jun 7 '15 at 9:50
$\begingroup$ I think I agree with this solution. Instinctively I know it's good to always push the button no matter what because if you look at it as a closed system with no possibility of choice (they must press the button), it's a net gain. $\endgroup$ – Quark Jun 7 '15 at 16:09
$\begingroup$ Hard to choose a best answer with so many good ones, but I'll go with this one. Thanks for the nice response JS1. $\endgroup$ – Tyler Seacrest Jun 8 '15 at 5:09
It is rational for both parties to press the button, causing them to win $500$ on average. Here is what is wrong with the reasoning in the Paradox section.
Once Alice is called in, she reasons that the strategy will lose them money. That is ok, since when Alice is not called in, she reasons that the strategy will win them money (when she is not called in, the strategy wins them $\$5000$). So, $3/4$ of the time, Alice will be called in and expect to lose $1000$ dollars, but this is balanced out by the $1/4$ chance that she won't get called in, winning $5000$. The expected value is $(1/4)\cdot 5000-(3/4)\cdot 1000=500$, as expected.
To sum up, the flaw is that Alice only reasons that the strategy is bad when it has started going badly, but on average, it is still good.
Another way to see it: once Alice is caused in, what is the expected value of her pushing the button (ignoring what Bob does, since that does not affect the money Alice wins the team)? There is a $1/3$ chance it will gain the team $5000$, and a $2/3$ chance it will lose the team $2000$ (not $4000$, we are ignoring Bob's actions here). The expected value of Alice pushing the button is $(1/3)5000-(2/3)2000\approx 333$, so she should push it.
Mike EarnestMike Earnest
$\begingroup$ In short, their original strategy is right, and both analyses are right, and the only thing that was wrong was mistakenly inferring that one analysis proved the strategy was wrong. $\endgroup$ – user1502 Jun 8 '15 at 2:37
I wonder if my contribution will help at all (or whether it will simply confuse more). Hopefully the former.
As good, Bayesian, reasoners Alice and Bob have correctly worked out their best strategy. That is "both push".
It is helpful to think of the probability space as containing 4 possibilities. Clearly if the coin flips to "heads" there are then two possibilities "A picked" or "B picked". Only one possible outcome occurs when "tails" is picked, but dividing it into two makes all parts of the possibility space the same size (i.e. equiprobable).
So for the strategy "both press the button" we have (I would use a table here if I could):
A B Coin flip Gain
| office | holding cell | HEADS | 5000
| holding cell | office | HEADS | 5000
| office | office | TAILS | -4000
2000 (total)
Since I have divided the space into 4, the expected gain is 2000 divided by 4 equals 500.
So the first part of the OP's reasoning is right. But if A finds herself in an office she knows that one of the 4 possibilities, worth 5000, did not come off. Her expected gain is now reduced to -1000 according to the following table:
-3000 (total)
The probability space now has size 3, so the expected gain is -3000 divided by 3, -1000.
A Bayesian should not be surprised by this. Expectations are based on probabilities and, to a Bayesian, probabilities represent states of knowledge. A now knows more than she did and, as a result, knows that their gamble is less likely to have come off. Her expectation is reduced.
But should she change her actions having found herself in the office? To see that she should not, consider that Alice and Bob can agree at the outset what their strategy will be.
There are four "pure" strategies (I leave it as an exercise to see that mixed strategies - i.e. ones where Alice or Bob randomly choose what to do - are never better). Either both don't press the button, A presses, B presses or both press. All this is on the assumption they find themselves in an office. Obviously if they are in the holding cell they can do nothing.
The four strategies give the following results:
Strategy | Payoff
Both don't press | 0
Only A presses | 5000/4 - 2x2000/4 = 1000/4 = 250
Only B presses | 5000/4 - 2x2000/4 = 1000/4 = 250
Both press | 2x5000/4 - 2x4000/4 = 2000/4 = 500
Note: if only one presses there are still four (not 3) possibilities. One of them is boring, the person designated to press is in a holding cell and nothing is gained or lost.
Hopefully it is clearer if the two have an advance strategy. Having A "change her mind" on finding out more information is equivalent to deciding in advance what she will do if she finds that information out. In this problem there's only one bit of information (office or not) and the only time a choice must be made is in one of those situations "office", so the strategies can be fairly simple.
Note that if the "A presses" strategy is used, then when A find herself in the office the expectation is now 1000/3 (roughly 333) as previously explained. Although "A presses" has an expectation of 250, once A has found herself in the office she now knows more information, so the probabilities that form part of the expectation change and her new expectation is higher (333) because she now knows that the one situation (her in the holding cell) when they would certainly gain nothing has been ruled out.
Expectation values can change as you gain more information, but that doesn't mean that strategies need to.
Francis DaveyFrancis Davey
The question has already been answered, but I would like to pinpoint exactly why it seems paradoxical. Let $W$ be the total winnings of Alice and Bob when they follow the plan of always pushing the button, $A$ the event that Alice is chosen and $B$ the event that Bob is chosen. Then Alice correctly reasons that $E[W|A] <0$ and for the same reason $E[W|B] < 0$. As one of Alice and Bob must be chosen, it seems intuitively clear that this means that $E[W] < 0$, but in fact the reasoning given under "The Plan" shows that $E[W] > 0$. This happens because $A$ and $B$ overlap, or in other words, the naive reasoning ignores that they can both be chosen.
Here is a similar situation. Suppose you are allowed to roll a die with the payoffs in dollars given as:
roll: 1 2 3 4 5 6
pays: 6 -3 -2 -2 -3 6
Consider the following questions:
Would you play the game?
If you knew that the roll was $\le 4$, would you play the game?
If you knew that the roll was $\ge 3$, would you play the game?
If you were told in advance that the roll would either be $\le 3$ or $\ge 4$, would you play the game?
randomUserrandomUser
$\begingroup$ I really like this post. To take the analogy a bit further, consider this: Suppose Alice and / or Bob may be asked if they want to play this game, and if either says yes they collectively play it once. Alice is asked if the roll is $\leq 4$, and Bob is asked if the roll is $\geq 3$. Individually it seems bad to play the game when asked, but that ignores the fact that if roll is 3 or 4, they both agree to play but only have to pay the bad result once. $\endgroup$ – Tyler Seacrest Jun 8 '15 at 5:22
The fact that she has been brought to an office and not left in the holding cell gives her new information.
There is no new information here.
There was a 100% a priori chance that one or both would be brought to an office with a button. That she was the recipient of this 100% chance adds zero information. In particular, where's Bob? She doesn't know. It is still a fifty-fifty proposition whether he's been left in the holding cell or has been brought to an office with a big red button. There would be new information had Alice been left in the holding cell. In that case, she would be quite justified in getting mightily upset at Bob had he fallen prey to the erroneous thinking presented on the question and failed to push the +5K BRB.
So what should Alice do?
Simple: Alice should press the BRB as originally planned, but she should also hope that Bob will fall prey to the logic presented in the question.
David HammenDavid Hammen
$\begingroup$ Given that Alice is not in her cell, it's 1:2 Bob is still in his cell, not 1:1. And this is new information, since it's 1:3 without the knowledge of Alice. $\endgroup$ – user1502 Jun 8 '15 at 2:06
$\begingroup$ There is indeed new information. Alice knows now that the couple are more likely to lose money. The trick here is that we are made to believe that pressing the button will lose her 4,000 when it only loses 2,000 - Bob loses the other 2,000. Using the correct numbers, the original decision is still correct. $\endgroup$ – gnasher729 Jun 8 '15 at 17:07
$\begingroup$ Another point worthy of consideration is that there's a 100% chance that everyone whose decision would matter will be brought to an office with a button. If someone is incapable of changing the game's outcome (directly, or by giving information to someone who could), no information that person receives will be relevant to the game. $\endgroup$ – supercat Jun 11 '15 at 17:14
There have been several answers that explain a myriad of different paths to the correct answer; IMO, none of them actually provide an adequate resolution of the paradox.
First off, let me be clear that:
Alice's correct course of action is to press the button
She has correctly reasoned that her team expects to lose \$1000 if they stick to the plan.
The flaw in Alice's reasoning is that she incorrectly accounts for the information that Bob will think the same as she does.
Suppose Alice was unsure how Bob would react, and estimates that if Bob is called, he will stick to the plan with probability $p$. Then:
With $1/3$ probability, Bob is still in his cell. If Alice sticks to the plan, they win \$5000, otherwise they break even.
With $2p/3$ probability, Bob was picked and presses the button. If Alice sticks to the plan, they lose \$4000, otherwise they lose \$2000.
With $2(1-p)/3$ probability, Bob was picked and doesn't press the button. If Alice sticks to the plan, they lose \$2000, otherwise they break even.
Adding it up, Alice reasons that the expected value of pressing the button is $\$333 - \$1333 \cdot p$, and of not pressing the button is $-\$1333 \cdot p$. Thus, Alice infers that pressing the button is correct no matter how she thinks Bob will react.
It's tempting to make a similar analysis where Bob has some probability of making the same choice as Alice, and otherwise comes up with some other random line of reasoning as above, but this is wrong: Bob doesn't have information about Alice's choice, so he can't factor that into his reasoning.
While our given information that Bob thinks very similarly to Alice means that his choice will be strongly correlated with Alice's, it must still be made independently of Alice's. Mathematically, we have
P(Bob makes the same choice as Alice) = nearly 1
P(Bob pushes | Alice pushes) = P(Bob pushes)
P(Bob doesn't push | Alice doesn't push) = P(Bob doesn't push)
When Alice and Bob's choices are truly dependent, things can change. See Charlie below.
This mistake of accounting for her knowledge of Bob can be viewed as incorrectly assigning credit/blame to her teams actions: the blame for losing \$4000 if they stick to the strategy is evenly divided between Alice and Bob. With the blame allocated correctly, she reasons that pressing the button is worth $\$5000 \cdot \frac{1}{3} - \$2000 \cdot \frac{2}{3} \approx \$333$.
It may be instructive to compare everything with another variation of the game. The millionaire kidnaps Charlie and gives him a big red button that has the same effect as if Alice and/or Bob pressed their buttons. (i.e. Charlie wins \$5000 if one was picked and loses \$4000 if both were picked)
The game the millionaire plays with Charlie is that he will reveal to Charlie whether or not Alice was picked, and then Charlie has to decide whether or not to press his button.
When Charlie learns that Alice was picked, his correct decision is not to press the button.
I would advise Alice to:
Push the button!
Consider the probabilty where Bob will be. There is a 1/2 probability that he is in the room with the red button(R) and another 1/2 chance he is in the holding room(H). If she considers these values into her equation, there is no paradox at all and the net profit will still be $500!
The reason for the flaw is that she only thought of herself. Because this mad millionaire is testing on BOTH of them, she will need to consider Bob too to calculate the odds.
I hope this solves your question.
Kritixi LithosKritixi Lithos
$\begingroup$ This is incorrect. Given that Alice is with a big red button, Bayes's theorem tells us that there's a 2/3 chance that Bob is too and a 1/3 chance that he's still in a cell. $\endgroup$ – Rand al'Thor Jun 7 '15 at 9:43
$\begingroup$ Forget about Alice. Just think about Bob. Where would he be? $\endgroup$ – Kritixi Lithos Jun 7 '15 at 9:47
$\begingroup$ If you forget about Alice, then there's a 75% chance Bob's in the office and 25% chance Bob's in his cell. But that fact doesn't help us properly account for our knowledge of Alice. $\endgroup$ – user1502 Jun 8 '15 at 2:06
Alice should
not push the button.
Let $O$ and $C$ denote office and holding cell, $A$ and $B$ Alice and Bob, and $H$ and $T$ heads and tails. Then we have conditional probabilities $p(A\in O|H)=\frac{1}{2},p(A\in O|T)=1$, and hence $p(A\in O)=\frac{1}{2}.\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}.1=\frac{3}{4}$, so by Bayes's theorem $p(H|A\in O)=(\frac{1}{2}.\frac{1}{2}) / \frac{3}{4}=\frac{1}{3}$. I.e. given that Alice is in the office, there's a $\frac{1}{3}$ probability that the coin came up heads (i.e. that Bob is still in the cell) and a $\frac{2}{3}$ probability that it came up tails (i.e. that Bob is in front of another button).
We're told that Alice and Bob both think in the same way, so either Alice presses her button and if Bob is in front of a button, he'll press it too or Alice doesn't press her button and if Bob is in front of a button, he won't press it either. In the first case, they make an expected gain of $\frac{1}{3}(5000)+\frac{2}{3}(-4000)=-1000$; in the second, they make an expected gain of $0$, which is better.
Flaw in the other argument:
"Alice and Bob reason their only two strategies are to push the button or not" - but they don't realise that the fact of one of them having a button to push gives them new information! They're seeing themselves as a single entity, not taking into account that they'll be separated and have to consider probabilities of where the other one is based only on what they know about themselves.
Rand al'ThorRand al'Thor
$\begingroup$ I'm not sure I understand your objection in "Flaw in the other argument". Are you saying that there is a possible strategy other than "Push the button if given the opportunity" and "Do not push the button"? $\endgroup$ – Julian Rosen Jun 7 '15 at 13:53
I think their strategy is wrong.
When they collaborate, they should designate either Alice or Bob, but not both, as a presser, and the other as a non-presser. Suppose Alice is the designated presser; Bob is no longer part of the consideration, since we know he can't have any effect on the net payout. There is then a 50% chance that Alice makes \$5000, and a 50% chance she loses \$2000, for an expected payout of $\frac{\$5000-\$2000}{2}$ = \$1500, which is better than the $500 expectation of the "both press" situation. This doesn't resolve the paradox, but unless I made a mistake, it does show that the paradox shouldn't even be considered, because it resulted from a strategy that never should've been followed in the first place.
EDIT: Ouch, I did bad math.
There is a 25% chance she alone is selected, and a 50% chance they're both selected, reducing the expected payout of a designated presser to $\frac{\$5000-$2000 -\$2000}{4}$ = \$250. But by symmetry, shouldn't a "both press" situation result in a \$500 gain?
JeffJeff
$\begingroup$ "by symmetry, shouldn't a "both press" situation result in a $500 gain?" Now you know why this is called a "paradox"... $\endgroup$ – Alexander Jun 8 '15 at 12:53
$\begingroup$ The both press situation does result in a expected value of $500 per press. $\endgroup$ – Danikov Jun 10 '15 at 1:35
Consider the following variant:
Alice goes to her office, checks out the wiring and spots a (deliberate, who knows?) mistake. Her button has been connected in such a way that pressing the button causes Bob's button to be pressed, provided that Bob is also in his office.
In this case, accepting the 2/3 probability of Tails given that Alice is in her office, the result of pressing her button is
1/3 * 5000 - 2/3 * 2000 - 2/3 *2000 = -1000
Which is exactly the expression given in the Paradox. If it were so wired, then she should not touch the button. But in the original question, this was not the case.
Bob's button is not pressed by any action of Alice, and it is incorrect to blame Alice for Bob pressing his button when they lose. Alice and Bob have the same strategy, and Bob's button pressing is correlated with Alice's according to the strategy, but it is not caused by her pressing like in the variant above.
Fillet - disappointedFillet - disappointed
still press
She is conflating the probability of her personal involvement with the probability of the outcome. She is involved 100% of the time when they both press to lose \$4000, but she is only involved 50% of the time when one of them presses to gain \$5000. This disparity is more obvious if you split the gains and losses and make Alice and Bob strangers, which turns the problem into a prisoners dilemma; Alice would gain more personally not pressing while Bob presses, however as they are cooperating, both pressing works overall to their benefit.
Her faulty math can be fixed by including the possibility of Bob pressing alone:
$P($Alice's Involvement$) \cdot EV($Alice's Calculation$) + P($Bob's involvement without Alice$) \cdot EV($Bob presses alone$)$
$3/4 \cdot -\$1000 + 1/4 \cdot \$5000 = \$500$
DanikovDanikov
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P. Bluhm, M. I. Jones, L. Vanzi, M. G. Soto, J. Vos, R. A. Wittenmyer, H. Drass, J. S. Jenkins, F. Olivares, R. E. Mennickent, M. Vučković, P. Rojo, C. H.F. Melo
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We report the discovery of 24 spectroscopic binary companions to giant stars. We fully constrain the orbital solution for 6 of these systems. We cannot unambiguously derive the orbital elements for the remaining stars because the phase coverage is incomplete. Of these stars, 6 present radial velocity trends that are compatible with long-period brown dwarf companions. The orbital solutions of the 24 binary systems indicate that these giant binary systems have a wide range in orbital periods, eccentricities, and companion masses. For the binaries with restricted orbital solutions, we find a range of orbital periods of between ∼97-1600 days and eccentricities of between ∼0.1-0.4. In addition, we studied the metallicity distribution of single and binary giant stars. We computed the metallicity of a total of 395 evolved stars, 59 of wich are in binary systems. We find a flat distribution for these binary stars and therefore conclude that stellar binary systems, and potentially brown dwarfs, have a different formation mechanism than planets. This result is confirmed by recent works showing that extrasolar planets orbiting giants are more frequent around metal-rich stars. Finally, we investigate the eccentricity as a function of the orbital period. We analyzed a total of 130 spectroscopic binaries, including those presented here and systems from the literature. We find that most of the binary stars with periods 30 days have circular orbits, while at longer orbital periods we observe a wide spread in their eccentricities.
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Bluhm, P., Jones, M. I., Vanzi, L., Soto, M. G., Vos, J., Wittenmyer, R. A., ... Melo, C. H. F. (2016). New spectroscopic binary companions of giant stars and updated metallicity distribution for binary systems. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 593, [A133]. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628459
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Restore Our Roads
2016 Analysis
Exaggerated Problems
Questionable Data
Pedestrian Underpass
Gallery: Letters to the editor
Cascade Avenue is even safer than we thought.
monipython Uncategorized June 21, 2016 November 10, 2018
In our note “Kathleen Krager: Doubling Down Despite Data” we cited data showing that pedestrian safety issues on Cascade Avenue are exaggerated. Specifically, we said there were 15 pedestrian-vehicle collisions out of 1.6 million pedestrian crossings.
We got the 1.6M number as follows:
Colorado College (CC) did an analysis showing at least 900 pedestrians cross Cascade Avenue during the lunch rush. To be conservative we didn’t account for pedestrian crossings at other times of day.
We assumed a (low) estimate of 150 school days per year. To be conservative we didn’t account for pedestrian crossing on non-school days.
900 pedestrian crossings per day x 150 school days per year = 135,000 pedestrian crossings per year.
The CC analysis was for the years 2000 – 2012. 135,000 crossings per year x 12 years = 1,620,000 crossings.
According to CC’s Accident Summary, there were 15 pedestrian-vehicle collisions on Cascade in that time frame.
That’s how we got 15 pedestrian-vehicle collisions out of 1.6M pedestrian crossings.
However, one resident helpfully pointed out that the CC analysis gives more precise data about pedestrian crossings. Specifically, Figure 2-6 shows pedestrian volumes during the peak times in the morning, midday, and evening.
According to Figure 2-6, Cascade Avenue actually sees 2,150 pedestrian crossings per day. Using the same method as above, this would bring us to 15 pedestrian-vehicle collisions out of 3,870,000 pedestrian crossings.In other words, 0.0004% of pedestrian crossings on Cascade resulted in a collision. Also note most of these collisions involved minor injuries or no injuries at all.
Despite the relative rarity of collisions on Cascade, Krager claims she must narrow Cascade before CC students return in August because “We’re having an increasing number of pedestrian accidents, and it’s just a matter of time.”
But we don’t know why she thinks so. As we just explained, the CC analysis cites 15 pedestrian-vehicle collisions on Cascade over a 12 year period. That’s 1.25 collisions per year. In the 3.5 years since then, according to data from CSPD (see the file called “Fuller letter”), Cascade has seen 3 pedestrian-vehicle collisions on Cascade. That’s 0.86 collisions per year. We don’t know what data Krager is looking at (if any) to suggest pedestrian accidents are increasing, but the data we’ve been able to find suggests collisions are actually the opposite.
From 2000-2012, 0.0004% of pedestrian crossings on Cascade resulted in a pedestrian-vehicle collision. That’s 1.25 collisions per year. Since then it’s gone down to 0.86 collisions per year.
Where is the urgency?
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Snapdeal to launch 2nd edition of festive sale from Oct 12
The company said its sale last week saw 40 per cent more women shopping online versus last year and a sharp increase in prepaid orders.PTI | October 11, 2016, 08:32 IST
During the sale to be held from October 12-14, Snapdeal will offer deals on electronics, fashion and home as well as 10 per cent instant discount on payment through SBI Cards.
NEW DELHI: Within a week of its mega sale, e-commerce major Snapdeal has announced a second edition beginning October 12 to cash in on the festive mood in the country.
The company processed transactions for over 11 million units during the October 2-6 sale, but lagged behind its rivals Amazon and Flipkart.
During the sale to be held from October 12-14, Snapdeal will offer deals on electronics, fashion and home as well as 10 per cent instant discount on payment through SBI Cards, it said in a statement.
It will also extend the Rs 10,000 discount offer on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus for American Express card users under the new sale period.
Other players -- Flipkart and Amazon -- may follow suit bringing in more festive sales ahead of Diwali.
"We are thrilled to bring another exciting sale for our customers in the run up to Diwali. We had a phenomenal response to our sale last week with more than 11 million units being sold out and we have some great offers lined up for this week as well," Snapdeal Vice President and Head Category management Saurabh Bansal said.
The company said its sale last week saw 40 per cent more women shopping online versus last year and a sharp increase in prepaid orders.
Larger rival Flipkart, which hosted its sale during the same period as Snapdeal's, had said it sold 15.5 million units across Flipkart, Myntra and Jabong platforms.
Similarly, Amazon, which hosted its sale between October 1-5, sold 15 million units.
According to research firm RedSeer, e-commerce companies are expected to register transactions worth Rs 11,000-13,000 crore (USD 1.7-1.9 billion) in October, driven by festive offers and discounts on their platforms.
"E-tailers are likely to surpass all sales expectations in the ongoing festive sale days and for the month of October 2016 as a whole," it had added.
During the period of October 1-6 alone, e-tailers are estimated to have clocked gross GMV of Rs 6,500-7,700 crore (USD 1-1.2 billion) with sale of 35-40 million units.
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Kanchanaburi, Thailand – History, Caves, Monkeys & Exotic Fruit!
Posted on March 3, 2017 by Roads Less Traveled
January 2017 – As we toured Kanchanaburi with Mellow Adventures, visiting Erawan Waterfall and Huay Mae Khamin waterfall, we got a huge kick out of the road signs we saw. Familiar signs like “Stop” and “Railroad Crossing” took on a whole new look in the pretty Thai script.
Road signs in Thailand.
We asked our tour guide Mai what our names would look like in the Thai lettering, and she wrote them out for us. How cool!
Mai wrote out our names in Thai letters – How beautiful!
Our tour guide Mai from Mellow Adventures
On this second day of touring with Mellow Adventures, we started off by paddling downstream in a kayak while Mai followed us downstream in a longtail boat. We were mesmerized by the haunting calls of the birds in the trees on either side of us as we paddled.
Kayaking in Kanchanaburi
We then made our way to Lawa Cave. The entrance to this cave sits at the top of a very long staircase, and just inside there was beautifully lit golden statue of Buddha with a rug in front of it for praying.
A beautiful golden statue of Buddha greets us at Lawa Cave.
We descended into the cave following a well lit trail.
Heading into Lawa Cave.
Lawa Cave.
There were lots of stalactites and stalagmites that made exotic sculpted patterns on the cave walls.
When we emerged from the cave, our guide Steffan noticed a woman selling fruits. She had a huge pile of what looked like gigantic pale green grapefruits in front of her.
“You’ve got to try these,” Steffen said excitedly. He said they were called “Som-oh” in Thai and he asked her to prepare one for us.
Bigger than a grapefruit and deliciously sweet: “Som oh” or polmelo fruits
She peeled back the rind to and then put the sections back inside. The sections were just like an orange or grapefruit, but so much bigger and very delicious. It was sweeter than a grapefruit and very tasty. I have never seen this citrus fruit before, but I found out it’s called “Polmelo.” Yum!!
One of the really fun things about the jungle in Thailand is the unusual animals. Back on the road, we saw a monkey sign.
We hadn’t seen a road sign like this before!
And then we saw the real thing sitting in the middle of the road!
The greeter…
There was a whole pack of them — parents and babies — milling around the edges of the road. They were hoping for treats from tourists.
These were long tail monkeys, and Mai told us they have big teeth and can be pretty nasty.
Fortunately, none of them came after us, and viewing them from a little distance out the car window they seemed very cute!
Our next stop was at a wonderful little coffee bistro that is built on a series of decks overlooking a river.
A gourmet espresso shop…in Thailand!!
It’s called the Rim Nam Cafe, and it’s owned by a young man named Oh. How wonderful it was to have a Hazelnut latte at this special spot!
Oh is the owner of Rim Nam Cafe.
Oh has created a wonderfully fanciful jungle retreat in the trees that is filled with unusual decorations and fun nooks and crannies that are perfect for curling up and reading a book or conversing with friends. Oh told us sometimes elephants come down for a drink at the water’s edge below!
Wonderful outdoor seating overlooking the river.
The elephants didn’t show up while we were there, but we enjoyed roaming the grounds and taking photos.
Sometimes elephants come down to the river for a drink!
Among the intriguing decorations we found two blue letters, an M and an E. What a coincidence that these are our initials. We just had to get a selfie!!
We found an M and an E among other eclectic and creative decorations at Rim Nam cafe
The city of Kanchanaburi is the site of the bridge that was made famous by the book Bridge on the River Kwai (also a popular movie) which tells the story of the horrendous Japanese WWII labor camps that built a 258 mile long railway to enable the Japanese to transport goods and troops between the coast of Thailand (then called Siam) and Rangoon, Burma.
In early 1942, the Japanese seized the colony of Burma from the British, and they needed an overland shipping route to avoid the many Allied submarines lurking in the sea. Between the fall of 1942 and the fall of 1943, the rails were laid and over 600 bridges were constructed. It was a monumental feat to complete the railway so fast.
Some 120,000 (or as many as 300,000) southeast Asians laborers and another 61,000 British, Dutch and American POWs endured horrific conditions in these camps. 20% of the POWs died while as many as 50% of the southeast Asians laborers (who had been enticed to come for “easy work and good pay”) perished. It came to be known as the Death Railway.
When we had first arrived in Kanchanaburi by train a few days earlier, we had passed the cemetery where 6,982 POWs are buried. Another 5,310 POWs are buried in two other locations on the railway route.
Kanchanaburi cenetary for POWs who died building the Death Railway in 1942-43
The “Bridge on the River Kwai” itself was a modest bridge that crossed a calm river, but the story of the starvation, forced labor and massive death toll that went into the building of the railway was gut wrenching to ponder as we walked across the bridge from one side of the river to the other.
The Bridge over the River Kwai (pronounced “Kway”)
The heat right now in the “cool” winter season was stifling. The sweat just poured down our faces. As we looked back across the river, the area was filled with buildings and air conditioned civilization, and a tall statue of Buddha looked out over the river.
I can’t even imagine what it was like to bush-whack the jungle to lay these train tracks in the middle of nowhere with almost no food and filthy, contaminated water.
20% of the POWs died. As many as 50% of the SE Asian laborers died too.
There are two places to see parts of the Death Railway in Kanchanaburi, and our guides Steffen and Mai took us to another location about 30 miles away.
As we were discussing the Death Railway, Mai pointed out that the correct pronunciation for the word “Kwai” actually rhymes with the word “way” and not the word “why” as it is most commonly pronounced by English speakers.
Monks walk on the Death Railway.
A tourist train runs on these tracks and passes both points. It is actually the same train that we had taken from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi a few days earlier.
Tourists hung their heads out the window and snapped pics as they passed us.
The train continued along a bridge and disappeared around the bend.
The Death Railway.
There is a cave near this part of the Death Railway, and like Lawa Cave we had visited earlier, there was a golden statue of Buddha inside.
It is not a deep cave, but it was fun to look around.
Looking out of the cave towards the train tracks.
When choosing which places to visit on our trip to Thailand before we left, it was very difficult to narrow down the many incredible options of things to see and do.
Looking back now, our two days of tours of the waterfalls, caves and historic areas of Kanchanaburi with Mellow Adventures was one of the true highlights of our month-long trip.
There is more info in the links below.
Lawa Cave – Travel info from Bangkok Post
Rim Nam Cafe – Facebook page
Death Railway – Wikipedia
An interview with a survivor of the Death Railway – A British survivor, age 95, in 2013
Bridge over the River Kwai – 1952 book by Frenchman Pierre Boulle
Bridge on the River Kwai – 1957 Hollywood Movie
Railway Man – A 2014 movie on the Death Railway with a different twist
Locations of Lawa Cave, Rim Nam Cafe and the Death Railway – Interactive Google Maps
Mellow Adventures – Personalized, custom tours of Kanchanaburi, Thailand
(email Mellow Adventures here and see Tripadvisor reviews of Mellow Adventures here)
Other blog posts from our travels in Thailand:
Snorkeling Ko Rok with Dive & Relax – Underwater Magic in Thailand! 03/31/17
Cheow Lan Lake Tour in Khao Sok with Greenery Panvaree Floating Raft House 03/18/17
Greenery Panvaree Floating Raft House – Khao Sok National Park… Wow! 03/12/17
Huay Mae Khamin – Thailand’s Most Beautiful Waterfall – Mellow Adventures 02/15/17
Erawan Falls – Jewel of Erawan National Park – with Mellow Adventures 02/07/17
Train from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi – A Ride Through Thailand’s Countryside 02/02/17
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market – Bangkok or Disney’s Epcot Center? 01/24/17
One Day in Bangkok – A trip on the Chao Phraya Tourist Boat! 01/18/17
Emily Fagan
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12 thoughts on “Kanchanaburi, Thailand – History, Caves, Monkeys & Exotic Fruit!”
Mary Beth on March 3, 2017 at 3:58 pm said:
Stunning!!! Thanks guys! Love you!
Roads Less Traveled on March 3, 2017 at 5:32 pm said:
Thank you, Beth!!
Peter Riesenberg on March 4, 2017 at 10:32 am said:
Great post, as usual. Thank you for the information on the POW side of the railroad story.
Roads Less Traveled on March 4, 2017 at 10:47 am said:
Thanks, Pete. The story of the POWs is very sad, and the death rate is tragic. I was intrigued to learn that Americans made up only 1% of the total number of POWs, while about half were British and the other half was made up of Dutch and Australian POWs. But I was even more surprised by the staggering death toll of the non-POW Asians who worked alongside.
Serene on March 4, 2017 at 12:54 pm said:
I remember visiting these places from living in Bangkok the early 70’s and appreciate the walk down memory lane. I recommend you try mangosteen before you leave – that was one of our favorite fruits that we never see here. Also recommend you don’t try durian – a very stinky fruit that is definitely an acquired taste.
I’m glad we’ve brought back good memories for you from 40 years ago, and I’m also glad to know the area hasn’t changed too much! We’ve actually had mangosteen juice in Arizona, and a few years ago we were very lucky to meet a Mexican in the state of Oaxaca who is teaching Oaxacan farmers how to grow not only mangosteen but many other exotic SE Asian tropical fruits and flowers which are far more profitable than corn (blog posts here and here). Luckily, we haven’t encountered any stinky fruit!!
James on March 4, 2017 at 4:04 pm said:
Your link “An interview with a survivor of the Death Railway” led to the Telegraph article “Burma Railway: British POW breaks silence over horrors” which mentions the film The Railway Man and led me to Netflix to add that film to my queue. Thanks guyz.
Looks like an excellent movie too, James. Enjoy!
Liz Walters on March 5, 2017 at 12:16 pm said:
Wonderful post, great pictures. Love that beautiful cave. “Bridge over the river Kwai” was a very popular movie for my generation when it came out. Thanks for sharing that story and the links!
I haven’t yet seen that movie or the more recent one, Railway Man, but they have both received outstanding reviews and are surely both heartbreaking and insightful.
Anne Atheling on March 5, 2017 at 3:09 pm said:
…great architectural beauty in those caves, but grim and tragic history reflects the profound price of conflict…
--Emily & Mark Fagan, traveling full-time by RV and sailboat since 2007. Welcome to our site...and enjoy!!
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Fiery R&B New Impassioned Single by Roman Rouge
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Roman Rouge is a R&B pop singer/songwriter from El Paso, Texas. Born with music running through his veins, the musician was exposed to the industry from a young age and never looked back. Despite various struggles which he faced throughout his childhood, including his single mother trying to make ends meet, Roman took every obstacle in his stride, ultimately building his character and making him who he is today. Through every failure came strength and eventually the hardships paid off.
The passionate and driven artist now not afraid of anything that may come his way, is ready for the next step of his journey. Inspired by personal events and poignant moments in life, the singer confides, “The message in my music overall is always relatable, something you’ve been through can and always affect the decisions you make in the future. My songs are linked to each other, I like to convey a story and be as honest and forthcoming as I can”.
Following the release of his debut EP Voicemails, which garnered acclaim from his local music scene, with single ‘Fast Car’ receiving notoriety throughout El Paso, Roman is dropping his highly anticipated track entitled ‘Nobody’. Written by Frawley and produced by Beacon Hill (Khalid) the song narrates the desire for wanting a reciprocal feeling from the person you like. Within the intensity of the song there is also a vulnerability that comes along with it. Featuring energetic bass and drums, which contrasts with the soft, raspy vocals, ‘Nobody’ evokes an impassioned and fiery essence through it’s stunning cinematic soundscapes.
Influenced by the likes of Majid Jordan and The Weeknd, Roman is following a similar path to creating music bursting with personality, whilst encouraging others to be their most authentic selves. Roman reveals, “The main theme of my music is to be aware of why you are who you are, and how you can let your past experiences define you, learn from your mistakes, move on and be better”. Roman continues to deliver audiences with his unique and fresh combination of moody and sweet tones, emphasizing the contrast between light and dark.
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Insulated Window Shutters
R. L. Quirouette
Division of Building Research, National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa June 1980
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Insulated window shutters can lessen considerably the amount of heat lost through windows. A standard double-glazed window has a thermal resistance of about R2 (RSI 0.35). An insulated shutter with a resistance 2 to 3 times that of a window, say R5 (RSI 0.88), will reduce substantially the energy loss of that window, particularly at night when the house does not benefit from solar radiation. Many different kinds of window shutters are now available. This Note has been prepared as a guide in selection as there are a number of key points to consider to achieve an effective and relatively trouble-free operation of a window shutter.
In choosing, designing, or building an insulated window shutter, the principal fact to consider is its location with respect to the window. The preferred technical option is to position a window shutter so that it covers the outside of a window and can be operated manually or electrically from the inside and perhaps automatically by a programmed timer. A second option is to design and build a window shutter that will operate within the cavity of a double-glazed window, i.e., between two single panes of glass. A third option, which is the easiest and perhaps least expensive but least desirable, is to attach an insulated shutter in the room side of a window assembly.
Shutter on Room-Side of Window:
With an inside insulated window shutter it is probable that condensation and perhaps icing will accumulate between the glass and the shutter during prolonged cold spells. This occurs as a result of room air seeping in and around the shutter and perhaps by diffusion through the shutter material. To control this, it is necessary that the shutter be air tight to the window and that the shutter’s construction has a high resistance to the flow of moisture from diffusion. Control of diffusion is easily achieved if the shutter composition includes a layer of aluminum foil or a heavy sheet of plastic.
Shutter Between Panes:
This system, which is designed to be operated between two panes of glass, is a more efficient arrangement. When a shutter is inserted between two panes of glass, such as a roll-down curtain or polystyrene beads, the inside light of glass will warm up slightly, thereby reducing any window condensation. When the shutter is opened the window panes will not be subject to thermal shock as both panes are at a temperature close to equilibrium condition, cold on the outside and warm on the inside. There is a drawback to this approach however, particularly if space in the wall or ceiling is required to accommodate this type of shutter. Some of the energy savings may be lost if the thermal resistance of the adjacent wall or ceiling is reduced to improve that of the window. Roll-down systems and the bead wall circumvent this difficulty. If the shutter happens to remain closed for a day, the cavity may heat up to a very high temperature resulting in undesirable glass stresses or detrimental effects to the shutter composition. Cleaning and general maintenance of the window will naturally increase.
Shutter on Window Exterior:
This is perhaps the most desirable option as it eliminates the difficulties previously described. When an outside insulated window shutter is closed, the window glass will warm up to indoor temperatures thereby reducing, if not eliminating altogether, the potential for condensation on the window glass. The air tightness of the shutter system is not critical and the diffusion characteristic is immaterial. When the window shutter is opened for daytime use, the window may experience rapid cooling in its central region. Although this effect induces a compression stress at the edge, the window can easily cope with this as it is opposite to the stress that occurs with an inside shutter system. When the window shutter remains closed all day, the window will not experience any adverse effects. The two main problems in connection with this system are: 1) the accumulation and control of snow and ice and the effect of strong winds on the shutter 2) the design of the control mechanism required to operate the system from the inside. Although this is the most desirable option from a thermal point of view, it may prove to be the most costly.
Types of Window Shutter Systems:
There are a variety of window shutter systems on the market, including:
Rigid insulation types that slide into a wall cavity either horizontally or vertically.
Roll-Down curtains composed of layers of highly reflective material that have air space between the layers.
Rigid systems mounted on hinges which swing out or in
More expensive systems, such as the bead wall utilizing styrene bead insulation which is blown in between glass plates.
An insulated window shutter may be cost effective, particularly if it is operated consistently throughout a heating season. A computer study of a typical 2-Storey house has shown that 150 sq. Ft. ( 14 metres sq.) of shuttered windows closed between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., having an R-factor of 5, saved 18% of the fuel bill of a house operated in Ottawa and built to the requirements of the National Building Code of Canada (1975 Edition). This is $72.00 of a $400.00 fuel bill. This is an example case only; the heat energy savings to be expected of insulated shutters must be determined for each shutter type, hours of operation, and specific building features..
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Report No. 1
Description: Test of Rollshutter (Moveable Insulating Device) Project Supplied By Client: Rolco Rollshutters Inc. 101A Fisher Street, Okotoks, AB T0L 1T0 Attention: Mr. Bert Weigel
This report covers the results of tests performed on a sample submitted for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation approval. Testing was performed in accordance with the C.M H.C Standard for Moveable Insulating Devices.
Sample Description
An exterior mounted roll shutter device incorporating interlocking slats of roll formed aluminum filled with polyurethane foam insulation. The slats move in tracks secured to the window jambs and are activated by a hand crank assembly. General Construction details are shown in the drawing entitled "Rolco Rollshutter" dated 4/84. A copy of this drawing stamped "Warnock Hersey Professional Services Ltd." is included with this report.
Size: to suit window area of 1050 mm wide by 1800 mm high.
Initial Operation
Force required to operated unit: 8 N. The maximum allowable is 88 N.
Cycling Test
After 25 cycles, the nylon bearing locating the fixed side of the universal joint in the housing broke and the shaft separated from the unit. The shaft was repaired and the cycling test continued without the nylon bearing. 1500 cycles were completed without further failure or damage.
After cycling, the force required to operate the unit was 8 N.
Blow Out Resistance
The sample was subjected to a pressure differential of 300 Pa to simulate negative wind loading. No breakage or other damage was noted. The force required to operate the unit remained at 8 N following this test.
Thermal Resistance Test
The portion of the device intended to cover the 1050 x 1800 mm window area was mounted onto a simulated window together with the minimum perimeter framing necessary to support the shutter screen at the sides and to provide a sill at the bottom to achieve closure. Plastic Sheet was dropped over the top of the specimen to simulate the partially open nature of the header box in which the rollshutter is stored. The R-value of this configuration was determined. The operating shutter was then removed, leaving the perimeter framing in place and the R-value over the window area was determined again.
Each R-value is that of the specimen (shutter over simulated window or simulated window alone.), based on the interior and exterior calculated average surface temperatures over the prescribed window area of 1050 x 1800 mm ( 1.89 meter sq.).
The results were as follows:
Rollshutter Absent: Tai = 19.79
Tao = -29.23
R= (Tsi - Tso)A
--------Q Tsi = 6.13
Tso = -23.47
Q = 264.90
= .211 meter sq. * c
--------W
= 1.20 ft. sq. * F
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Rollshutter Present: Tai = 19.99
---------------W
R-Value Added = .153 meter sq. * c
= .87 ft. sq. * f
------Btuh
Where: Tao = outside air temperature (degrees Celsius)
Tai = inside air temperature (degrees Celsius)
Tso = outside surface temperature (degrees Celsius)
Tsi = inside surface temperature (degrees Celsius)
A = window area = 1.05 m x 1.80 m = 1.89 m. squared
Q = heat flow through window area (watts)
Equilibrium surface temperatures were taken at the ¼, ½ and ¾ window heights on the midline of the interior and exterior surface. The results are presented in the tables below.
Rollshutter Absent Surface Temperatures (degrees Celsius)
Inside Air Temperature: +19.79
Outside Air Temperature: -29.23
¾ height 2.9 -24.70
½ height 2.8 -24.50
¼ height 2.3 -23.90
Average 2.7 -24.40
Rollshutter Present Surface Temperatures (degrees Celsius)
¾ height 11.70 -26.20
½ height 9.40 -26.50
¼ height 7.60 -26.50
Average 9.60 -26.40
Section 9.2 of the Standard (Effect of Condensation on Interior Devices) was not performed, since in our opinion, the device does not rely on reflective surfaces for an appreciable portion of its thermal resistance.
With the exception of the breakage to the operating mechanism noted, which did not impair completion of the test, the sample unit met the requirements of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Standard for Moveable Insulating Devices for operation, cycling, blow out resistance and thermal resistance.
M. F. Chell, P. Eng.
Physical Testing Services Vern W. Jones, C.E.T
Physical Testing Laboratory
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251-INR Radio House Flagey
Renovation of the old INR building
Flagey Square
27.600 sqm
Architecture (with Storme Van Ranst)
Interior Design (with Storme Van Ranst)
Construction management (with Storme Van Ranst and Projex)
Quantity surveying (with Storme Van Ranst and Archi + i) (1998-2002); (01-251-1).
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In 1933 the NIR (National Institute of Radiobroadcasting) organised a competition whose purpose was to centralize the various departments of the Radio company in a single area of the city. It was won by Architect Diongre. The works took place from 1935 to 1938. The building consisted of two separate acoustic towers, each seven storeys high, in which the recording studios were piled up and isolated from one another by technical and administration rooms as well as by “silences” (large empty volumes). All studios have a trapezoďd shape with L x l x h = 5 x 2 x 3 proportions to optimize their acoustic performance. The ensemble was laid out around three inner courtyards providing light and fresh air to the rooms and corridors. The acoustic towers are flanked by five storeys of technical, administration and storage spaces. A third acoustic tower was planned above the garage. Very sober façades were designed according to the architectural “Modern Style” of the time. In 1974, the RTB/BRT (Belgian Radio and Television company) left the building. It was sold in 1989, partly listed in 1994 and closed in 1995. The Maison de la Radio Flagey company bought the building in 1998.
The project proposes a reorganisation of the functions and circulations of this listed building : new elevators and fire exits, access for the disabled, … The programme comprises the transformation of the recording studios into concert halls, the renovation of the offices, artists’ dressing rooms, and sanitary rooms, as well as shops and a tavern on the groundfloor. The basement floor hosts, besides studio 1 with its storage and servicing areas, an artists’ cafetaria, dressing and sanitary rooms for studios 1, 2 and 3, storage for the shops, the kitchen of the tavern and the majority of the technical rooms (HVAC, power, …)
On the groundfloor, shops are located behind the windows of the Flagey and Sainte-Croix squares façades. At the corner of the two squares, a tavern extends on three floors, and can function both independantly and in relation with the lobbies. The public enters the building through the entrance of the Sainte-Croix square, while the main entrance on the Flagey square greets the musiciens. Three entrances give access to the offices : one on the Flagey square and two on the Belvedčre street. Equipement is let into the building through a delivery area located on the Belvedčre street as well. The studios are renovated in dialogue with the Monuments and Sites Administration. They are transformed into concert halls in full conformity with the current regulations, including regarding access for the disabled, and the latest performance techniques. The circulations, lobbies, sanitary, dressing and artists’rooms, storage and equipment areas are thoroughly re-examined. Studio 4 is fully refitted to increase its capacity from 436 to 900 seats.
After removing the asbestos present in the original building, the tiers are revised, three new superimposed balconies are added as well as two side baclonies. The additions take place while keeping intact the listed existing wood paneling, and respecting the reversibility principle. An early proposal comprised a set of curved wood shells progressing continuously from stalls to balconies. The cross-shaped studios allowing the mixing with one another of four distinct sound-spaces are set back in activity. On the upper floors, cultural offices stretch along the facades while the studios’ ancillary functions are located behind the large vent-shaft parallel to the Flagey square. An office extension is also planned in the place of the third acoustic tower, above the delivery area. This new construction prolongs the existing volume against the party wall of the neighbouring school “La Cambre”.
Samyn and Partners has, in particular, been in charge of the studio’s design and the extension rue du Belvedčre.
Main Bibliography:
FLAGEY ” La réaffectation du bâtiment de l’INR – De herbestemming van het NIR-gebouw – The realloca tion of the former Radio Building”; Plaquette d’annonce, March 2000, 12 pages; (Belgium).
L’ARCA n°165, December 2001, L’ARCA INTERNATIONAL n°43, November-December 2001, p 89 ; Elena CARDANI : “Radio Flagey in Brussels”; – “Bruxelles. Nouveaux espaces dans un ancien bâtiment : Radio Flagey” ; (Italy, France).
Structural Engineering: Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS with SETESCO (sister company 1986-2006) or INGENIEURSBUREAU MEIJER (sister company since 2007) if not mentioned
01-251-1 MAISON DE LA RADIO FLAGEY – INR, BRUSSELS.
Client: MAISON DE LA RADIO FLAGEY – OMROEPGEBOUW FLAGEY.
Architecture: Partners in charge : D. Mélotte, M. Vandeput.
Associates : B. Calcagno, B. Counson, I. Delattre, J. Duplat, L. Finet, Ph. Gaube, P. Hendrix, V. Ilardo, A. Khoei, J. Quirynen, M. Ruelle, C. Stalmans, Q. Steyaert, G. vander Vaeren, L. Van de Velde, M. van Raemdonck.
In association with Van Ranst and Wachtelaer.
Services: FTP with INGENIUM for electricity.
Acoustics :ARTEC.
Scenography :J. Clayburgh.
Andres Fernandez (model)
Ch. Bastin & J. Evrard (transformation)
Sint-Lukas Archief (existing situation in black and white)
The Radio House Flagey won the following award:
Belgian Building Awards (2003)
Heritage Prize
251-INR Radio House Flagey Sunday, May 18, 2014 Filippo Aimo
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TRAIL and error – flipping cancer’s self-destruct switch
Alan Worsley
It may sound dramatic, but sometimes our bodies need to tell our cells to self destruct.
Known as apoptosis, this suicide mechanism is usually only triggered under certain circumstances – for example, when cells are no longer needed, there are too many of them, or a cell is doing something it shouldn’t. And this process occurs in all complex organisms.
But it’s a process that cancer cells manage to bypass – allowing them to keep multiplying. In fact, it’s so important in cancer, the ability to ignore instructions to self-destruct is considered a hallmark of the disease.
So reactivating this ‘self-destruct switch’ in cancer cells has been the dream for some cancer researchers for decades. But progress has been elusive – cancer cells are adept at finding ways to avoid following orders, especially orders that call for their own demise.
Nevertheless, researchers now know the identities of many of the key molecules involved in transmitting self-destruct signals.
Over the last few years, Professor Henning Walczak and his team at the UCL Cancer Institute have focused their attention on a particular set of suicide molecules, showing it’s possible to activate the cell death signal – centred on a molecule called TRAIL (short for TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) – in lung cancer cells. And we’ve written about their previous work here.
Now, the same group has published a paper in the journal Cancer Cell, finding that particular genetic faults found inside cancer cells can actually subvert this self-destruct switch and instead encourage the cancer to spread.
KRAS by name, crass by nature
Since the 1990s scientists have known that TRAIL signals could tell laboratory-grown tumour cells to commit suicide. But taking this concept out of the lab and into the clinic has proved fruitless: trials of drugs that flip these switches have yet to show any clinical benefit for patients.
Why? Professor Walczak and his colleagues wanted to find out.
Particularly puzzling was the fact that some cancers have more of the protein that kick-starts the signal – called the TRAIL receptor – on their surface. If TRAIL receptors are responsible for telling a cell to die, why would cancer cells need more of them?
The key to this puzzle turns out to involve a well-known cancer-causing gene fault: a mutation in a gene called KRAS.
KRAS acts as a molecular on/off switch that tells cells when to grow. But, in many cancers, faults in the gene leave it permanently switched on, constantly giving the green light for cells to grow.
Around one in five human cancers carry a fault in KRAS, but it is even more frequent in aggressive types of cancer – including just under a third of lung cancers and nearly all (95 per cent) of the most common type of pancreatic cancer, called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Previously Professor Walczak and his team had found that some of the molecules necessary to carry out TRAIL’s ‘self destruct’ signal are dependent on KRAS being turned off.
But in cancers where KRAS is permanently switched on, it turns out that the cancer cell never receives the message to self-destruct. The faulty KRAS effectively sabotages the TRAIL signal, similar to cutting the wire from a switch to a light bulb. No matter how many times you flip the switch the light bulb won’t turn on.
So why would these cancer cells still make TRAIL receptors?
What Professor Walczak and his colleagues now discovered was quite remarkable: the faulty KRAS doesn’t just cut the wire to the light bulb – it actually redirects the signal to an entirely different, and previously unknown, set of signals.
“We found that when the TRAIL receptor was blocked from passing on the ‘self-destruct’ message, it instead activated a protein called Rac1,” Dr Silvia von Karstedt, lead researcher on the study, told us.
Quite the reverse of killing the cells, Rac1 then switches on a pathway that tells the cell to grow and spread.
“We did not expect that faulty KRAS was able to corrupt the self-destruct signal into a message encouraging the cancer to spread,” she said.
The researchers then tried to find out how TRAIL signalling could activate Rac1 in cancers with faulty KRAS. They were able to narrow it down to a part of the TRAIL receptor whose function wasn’t previously known – but demonstrated that it was critical to sending signals through this alternative pathway.
So what are the implications of this research?
Survival for both pancreatic and lung cancer are among the lowest of all cancers, and neither has improved much in the last 40 years.
The next step of this research will be to figure out precisely how TRAIL activates Rac1. Are there additional molecules involved or is it a direct interaction?
From there, they can find out whether blocking this alternative TRAIL signal is possible. And then work out whether drugs that do this would effectively flip tumours’ self destruct switch in patients who have cancer with faulty KRAS.
There’s a long way to go, but the more we understand the molecular wiring inside these cancers, the closer we’ll be to switching them off.
von Karstedt, S., et al. (2015). Cancer Cell-Autonomous TRAIL-R Signaling Promotes KRAS-Driven Cancer Progression, Invasion, and Metastasis Cancer Cell, 27 (4), 561-573 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2015.02.014
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Sunshine, shows and beach days – July’s #littleloves
Published on July 29, 2018 by seasidesparkles2 Comments
Hello and welcome to July’s Little loves, it’s all about the sunshine and shows this month.
This month, I have tried to give myself a few minutes every day to sit and relax and for me the simplest way to do this is to open my Kindle and read. On these hot, sunny days its been a little treat to sit in the garden with a cooler breeze in the evenings.
One of my favourite reading spots, the grown ups hideaway.
I don’t know where I found the time ( although I don’t watch Love Island) but I managed to read four books this month with my favourites being The Party by Elizabeth Day and Sheila O’Flanagan’s What happened that night. It’s funny how a theme develops in the books you read, this month 3 books had a similar plot line related to a significant night in the characters lives.
It seems so long ago but I really enjoyed watching the World Cup this month with Little Man who loves his football. It felt like it was the dawning of a new era with England, a new team ethos, support for each other and a careful and thoughtful manager, it was great to be an England supporter and Little Man and I are looking forward to Euro 2020.
The children have been treading the boards at our local theatre this month. Both appeared in their school’s play and were practicing their songs in the preceding weeks. Little Miss had an acting role and has such stage prescence and confidence, Little Man as a younger pupil was in the chorus which suited him just fine and he loved his costume and painted face.
However the big event of the month has been the dance studio’s anniversary show. The cast have been practicing since Christmas and July was an intense period for all, Little Miss as a dancer and myself as a matron. I had guidelines to follow and cues to learn too! The show was stunning, it was hard to believe that it was an amateur performance with the quality of the dancing, set design, lighting etc… It was on at our local theatre for 5 performances and was sold out each evening. Given the population of our town is 10k and around 2k people came to see it over the run, it gives you some idea of the well deserved excellent reputation the dance studio has in the community. I saw the show on the opening night and it really was one of the most beautiful ballets I have seen.
Cooking has been limited due to the heat and number of show rehearsals this month. However I have been making an effort every weekend to make something special and following a meal out at an amazing Thai restaurant with friends I experimented making curries with some new flavours and ingredients at home, all was received very well and I enjoy that little bit of creativity with food.
Sun hats, sun glasses, swimsuits, sundresses, shorts and t-shirts; Summer of 2018 thank you very much for this wonderful heatwave and the opportunity to wear my summer wardrobe in full.
Oh and I also gave myself a little England manicure in preparation for the semi final.
One of the highlights this month was a night out at a festival. Last year my friend held a mini festival in her garden and her son and his band played for us. This year, it was moved to a larger outdoor venue and gave the opportunity for more local, youth bands to play. It was brilliant with some original songs but mixed in with Bowie, U2, Rolling Stones, Kinks covers etc.. The talent was unbelievable, the teenagers are so gifted and enthusiastic and just showed that nothing beats live music. The festival theme was fully embraced with wristbands as we entered and merchandise for sale which all produced a healthy donation to a local charity.
The view from the festival, no neighbours to disturb here! As night fell the venue was decorated with fairy lights and it all looked magical.
I loved July but it was busy, in addition to the above we’ve been to Paultons Park, had visits from family and tried to squeeze in as much time as possible on the beach. This year August is all about the R’s, rest, relax, recharge.
Thank you to Morgana for her monthly linkie and all those who join in
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My Sunday Photo #19
Published on July 29, 2018 July 29, 2018 by seasidesparklesLeave a comment
We finally broke up this week and it was time to say good bye to Years 3 and 5. It’s been a good year at school, some challenges but some wonderful experiences, an outdoor sports residential, a musical show, arts weeks etc.. We’re now looking forward to the holidays and six weeks of fun.
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A pair of character shoes are a little clue to my week, we’re on the countdown to the big ballet show next week. As I’m a matron I’ve been at rehearsals this week with Little Miss too to get to know my cues, my children etc.. oh and then there was an Ofsted inspection in the middle of my working week too. Next week will be dominated by the ballet show, 2 dress rehearsals and 5 performances at the theatre 🎭 the show looks absolutely amazing and I can’t wait to see it. The end of term is so nearly here too, despite it feeling like the whole country has broken up we have two more days and then it’s lazy mornings and beach days.
Strawberries and bubbles! Our new picnic set got another outing today as we went to Paultons Park (aka Peppa Pig World although there is so much more here). We love Paultons Park, it is set in beautiful grounds and is such a family friendly theme park with so much to do. Its been a day of thrills and splashes for us all. Our favourite area is the Lost Kingdom with Velociraptor and Flight of the Pterosaur as our top picks although I can never resist the log flume. Its been a stunning day and we’re home tired but very happy.
The summer football came home
I love a World cup summer and I will watch every game I can. I’ve always been a big football fan and until our move to the seaside I was a season ticket holder at Bristol City. I’m not a huge premier league fan, that’s a whole different game, I’ve always followed lower league teams as the football community here feels a bit different and real.
My expectations for Russia 2018 were pretty low, I thought that given the reputation of some Russian ultra fans and recent problems that hooliganism would be rife. There has been no hint of such violence and I’ve also enjoyed exploring Russia through the different venues, the hard, grey cities I imagined have been replaced by venues such as Samara which looked a lovely seaside city.
This has been the first World cup in which Little Man has been really interested in, he has collected his Panini cards, adorned his bedroom wall with posters, worn his England top and been able to talk about the teams and games with confidence. His enthusiasm has been infectious, from day 1 he believed in the England team. He had none of the cynicism and weariness of the adults and it was refreshing to see the game I love through such innocent eyes. Little Man taught me about the players as he knew all the facts like names, clubs, age etc. These players are his new heroes. It was also the first World cup when Little Man got to go to a bar to see the game on a big screen and the fun of all the oohs, argghs and cheers, he loved it. I also liked that we were at Grandad’s for the Panama game and all the goals and my parents watched the semi final with us too, football is about community and sharing the experience. Whilst my daughter has watched the football too, she has definitely preferred the social aspect of meeting up with friends. She doesn’t dislike football, she simply prefers to play.
Sad as I am to admit it, I knew very little about the England team before they left, a team of young, internationally inexperienced players. I was hoping they would progress through the group stages, gain some experience in a big tournament and be ready to really compete at Euro 2020. Generally I think lots held similar thoughts, for once the media hadn’t hyped up the team and I think that’s why what happened seems rather magical, the England team just quietly and diligently worked hard on playing football. As the results came in, the feeling of excitement blossomed, here was something new, a team of youth, with grace, talent and skill unburdened by expectations. We also grew to love the quiet humility, determination and hard work of our manager, Gareth Southgate, an unexpected appointment which now seems genius. It was a lovely feeling to experience and I’m so pleased that Little Man got to experience such a positive World cup by England as his first real tournament.
The World cup comes to a close this weekend and its been brilliant, new teams have emerged, the old footballing contenders were knocked out early, VAR has caused some controversy in the early games and the country has united behind our team again. Its been a memorable tournament and I’m so proud that although we may not have brought the World cup home (but came so close) the England team have brought football home in reigniting our love for the beautiful game.
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Little Man has loved the World Cup this summer, he has the posters of the England team on his wall, he’s diligently filled in his wall chart with Daddy, has a few footballer figures and has not only collected but studied hard the cards in this Panini collection pictured above. Little Man now recognises so many international footballers and can tell you lots about them all, especially England. In the run up and now throughout the World cup, Little Man has always had the upmost belief and confidence in England, they are his heroes and he loves watching them play. I really hope England give him the fairy tale ending to the World Cup he has always believed in. Whatever the result this England team will always be very special to him and to us all.
A little bit of a cheat today as it’s a photo of a gorgeous postcard from Paperchase that we have displayed in our kitchen. We are in the midst of a heatwave and one of the best summers I can remember. Everyday could be a beach day if it wasn’t for pesky work and school commitments! We look out to the bay from our house and on ordinary days I walk along the prom most days whilst on errands, it’s the centre of our town and simply part of our geography.
In this perfect weather the most repeated phrase at the breakfast table is can we go to the beach today? We went after school on Wednesday as it’s our only club free night and we have been down this weekend. Little Miss also went with the Brownies as lots of the children’s clubs base themselves on the beach in the summer and the children have been known to have lessons on the beach too. They will never realise how lucky they are to have the beach as their playground.
The beach is one of our family’s happy places, our beach has soft, white sand and the sea is clear and at present unseasonably warm, I’ve definitely been sea swimming more this year and that’s in a swimsuit not a wetsuit! Thanks to this fantastic weather, we all have a healthy glow, extra freckles and sea salty skin from a summer spent on the beach. Beach please? Yes please x
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SUPERNATURAL Season 8 Episode 1 We Need To Talk About Kevin Sneak Peek : SAM AND DEAN ARE REUNITED AFTER A YEAR APART — Dean (Jensen Ackles) re-emerges from Purgatory, but he isn’t alone. He heads straight for Sam (Jared Padalecki), but the reunion isn’t exactly what he thought it would be. Sam drops everything to join his brother, but leaving the life he had grown to enjoy turns out to be harder than he imagined. Dean and Sam look for Kevin (guest star Osric Chau) who has managed to escape Crowley’s (guest star Mark Sheppard) grasp, but things come to a head quickly when Kevin tells them what it is that Crowley wants. Robert Singer directed the episode written by Jeremy Carr.
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From The Socialist newspaper, 5 March 2014
The miners' strike changed women's lives
This year is the 30th anniversary of the 1984-85 miners' strike. An important feature of the strike was the involvement of tens of thousands of women in a huge support network, fundraising and picketing.
To mark International Women's Day 2014 Sarah Wrack spoke to Mary Jackson, who was involved in the strike in Yorkshire.
Miners and their families (Click to enlarge)
Why was the miners' strike such an important event for the working class?
It was a very clearly drawn class division. There was a glorious fightback by the working class. But the fact that it failed meant a massive difference to our lives, to our communities, and even to this day to our quality of life.
What's your impression of what interest there is in the miners' strike today?
I'm involved in a Facebook page which started nine weeks ago now I think. It's got over 18,500 supporters.
It gets hundreds on quiet days, thousands on other days, of comments and photos. It feels like the working class have been waiting to have their say on the miners' strike.
It's a significant anniversary but also the anniversary where the government papers are being released.
We've had a few - proving Maggie was a liar, MacGregor was a liar, NCB were liars, showing the miners could have won.
But we haven't had anywhere near what it's possible will come out in the middle of the year because there's the decision on Orgreave where the army and the police from all over Britain came to batter miners into submission.
We started the page to make sure that the anniversary got the respect it needed and was as widespread as possible.
We decided initially it would be non-political, until the supporters of the page made it so. It might have got to four weeks in before people were trying to organise the next revolution, or the next fightback! The anger's still there. I can't tell you how exciting it is.
Why did women get involved in the strike?
Because it was our livelihoods, it was our lives. It wasn't just our livelihoods, it was our kids' future, it was our future.
Personally I got involved when they sent the horses and the troops onto my street, in my town, terrified my mam to death so she daren't go out the house.
Initially the men were on the picket line. The amount of money people were expected to live on was about £11.50 if you were a couple with one child.
Money's moved on quite a lot since then but it wasn't enough to live on. There was absolutely no option but to get together to feed the kids and support the miners - women in their traditional role of feeding people.
And raising money - writing to everyone we could think of, trade unions, buckets on the street outside supermarkets collecting food and money.
But then as more and more miners got arrested, the bail conditions were that they didn't go on picket lines or demos.
So they swapped places and the men moved into the kitchen, or a lot of them, and the women moved onto the picket lines.
What effect do you think the strike had on the women who got involved?
It totally changed women's lives. They moved out of the house, out of the kitchen. It wasn't that none of them worked, but when women worked in those days it was very much 'nip out to work quick while the kids are in school, get back in time to get tea ready for everybody'. Whether women worked or not the traditional role was still there.
But women who had never spoken to anybody but their own neighbours were actually invited to trade union meetings - I was going to say all around Britain, but it was much, much further than that - to Europe, the Soviet Union, South Africa and the US.
And then there were organised holidays for families with kids to the Soviet Union and elsewhere. And working class people, miners, did not go abroad for holiday. It totally changed our lives.
Men changed tremendously towards women. Initially I think there was a bit of 'what are they doing here?'.
But at least two of the Yorkshire Doncaster pits have commissioned new banners for the anniversary - both to celebrate the role of women in the strike.
I was pleased at the first pit meeting I went to and then overwhelmed by the second. I just thought, I don't have to argue for women's role here, men were doing it for me.
It was a horrendous time and a defeat but it politicised a whole swathe of people, particularly women. And they've never lost it. We've bred it into our kids.
The BBC did a film ten years ago. They paid local people £50 a day - not bad for standing around in a crowd.
And there were kids of 14 years old saying "'I want to play my dad". But they could not get people to play policemen.
They had to bus in professional agency workers from other areas. In the battle scene they had to keep stopping filming and saying "these aren't police, these are actors, stop battering them."
The Times called the involvement of the miners' wives "a turning point in the strike" at the time - why do you think that was?
It gave the men heart. They were worried about feeding their kids. Initially people did deals with the mortgage companies, agreed to a payment holiday - first one I'd ever heard of - until the men were back at work.
They cashed in their life insurances. Everything was sort of carrying on economically.
But then all that was running out, it was getting near Christmas, and men were worried. We were very much traditionalists.
Men's role was to go out and earn it, women's role was to stretch it as far as it needed to go. So the men felt they weren't fulfilling their role.
The support networks and the women getting involved made it impossible for the media and the government to organise an anti-strike, back-to-work movement.
And if the women hadn't stepped in, managed the finances from practically nothing, and then stepped onto the political and industrial plane, I think the strike would have ended much earlier than it did.
And it would still have ended in a defeat, but it wouldn't have ended in the proud defeat that it was. I can't explain to somebody who wasn't there the pride of the marches back to work.
What are the main lessons for today?
Unity among the working class. There was trade union support - all the men round this area certainly put money in the bucket on their way out of work, agreed to give 50p or £1 a week out of their wages. They were proud of the support they were doing.
But if the trade union leaders had brought the other unions out in support, if the TUC had got off its knees and organised a one-day strike, then the battle would have been different - Thatcher would have been on her bike long before she was, and the working class wouldn't have had suffered the defeat and the consequences.
Glynis and Christine were members of the miners' wives support group who ran a kitchen near Barnsley. In an interview with the Militant (forerunner of the Socialist) in 1984, they said:
"Apart from collecting money we have held a pie and tea supper where two music groups gave their services for free.
"We've written to unions, raffled a lamp at the Liverpool conference, travelled to Birmingham and taken a collection at British Rail and Rover.
"A miner's mother aged 93 has sent a donation of £20 and we've also received two donations of $50 each from a man and his wife who had kept a pub in the village then moved to Australia 60 years ago - he's now 83.
"A local journalist has also just brought in £100 that he raised on a sponsored walk to provide food for the kitchen.
"We've also been involved in picketing, we enjoy it - it's done like a military strategy. We've no fear of the police in spite of their treatment.
"A man who had been paid a day's work for the NUM took us all for a drink and a bag of chips after the picket.
"The miners told us we had made a difference to their picket line. For the first time some of the miners crossing the picket line had actually stopped to talk to them because of the surprise at seeing women there.
"We were involved in the women's rally in Barnsley. We've never done anything like this before. You don't have time to study how you feel about it, you just have to do it.
"We never used to take any notice of politics and government, but we have to now. We've stopped buying newspapers.
"The Star won't be delivered after they said something like 'Britain doesn't owe the miners a living'. They're so bad we don't even believe the ordinary every day stories any more.
"We can't go back to the old routine after the strike."
An NUM holiday camp in Blackpool for miners' children (Click to enlarge)
Proud to have been part of it
Written for the Socialist in 2004 for the 20th anniversary of the strike, Sue Alberry from Clowne, a North Derbyshire village which had half a dozen local pits, explains how the local Women's Action Group supported the strike.
Our group of miners' wives and other local women gave out 300-400 food parcels every week until the end of the strike.
The Parish Council let us use an empty shop and we visited local picket lines early in the morning with a soup run.
When we needed to feed pickets, there was no electricity or hot water in our strike centre, but we were given camping stoves, gas lamps, tables and we were soon cooking 200-500 breakfasts a day. We started a two shift-system - one week picketing, one week in the centre.
A local shopkeeper gave us buckets of hot water from his shop, another gave us bread rolls. The butcher wouldn't give us anything and his shop was boycotted for years afterwards.
The centre helped keep up morale. A young miner who'd come back from Orgreave, wearing just one trainer and shaking with fear, said: "They'll bloody kill us.
"It's insane. Why are they doing it?" I told him: "You've got to understand you're at war now."
We were followed by police and had our phones tapped. Once, two plainclothes police came into the centre eating fish and chips, pretending to be pickets.
But no pickets could afford fish and they were wearing brand new Hunter Wellington boots! I politely confronted them, got £3 for their cups of tea then told them to get out.
In the school summer holiday we supplied hot meals for the kids. We found clothes, prams and cots for babies born during the strike.
At Christmas we organised a party at a local pub with a striking miner as Santa - all the kids got a small present.
The hardest part was when they went back to work. We marched back with them, heads held high because we did what was right. I felt proud to have been part of this strike.
Women getting involved in the miners' strike were also spurred on by other attacks the Tories were making and the response to them:
Between 1980 and 1982 female employment fell by 800,000
Cuts to health, school meals, home help, etc, means that women workers in the public sector had their hours cut and wages lowered
Of the 8 million women at work in 1984, 5 million were low paid
Over half of Britain's working women were denied the right to maternity benefits, paid maternity leave and shorter working hours
Under Thatcher publicly funded childcare fell to the lowest level in western Europe
In 1981 there had been a successful seven month occupation by mainly women workers at the Lee Jeans textile factory in Greenock, Scotland to save jobs
There was an ongoing women's peace camp occupying Greenham Common in protest at nuclear weapons
Unemployment among women is now at its highest rate in 25 years. Almost three times as many women as men have become long-term unemployed since the Con-Dems came to power in 2010.
Women are being forced to give up work because of cuts to working tax credits and the rocketing price of childcare. There has been a 31% cut to funding for sexual and domestic violence services.
Read more about the miners' strike as well as women and the fightback today with these titles from Socialist Books
www.leftbooks.co.uk, 020 8988 8789:
A Civil War Without Guns: the lessons of the 1984-85 miners' strike by Ken Smith, £8 (postage included)
It Doesn't Have To Be Like This: women and the struggle for socialism by Christine Thomas, £7 (postage included)
Women: Fighting Austerity, Fighting For Equality a collection of articles from the Socialist, £2 (postage included)
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Need for new mass workers' party is undeniable
Government condemns millions to housing misery
NHS in crisis: Stop Hunt's hospital closure plans
Fight the government's vicious sanctions regime
Ukraine crisis: Ruling elites foster division and conflict
Northern Ireland rocked by 'on the runs' crisis
Determined Doncaster care workers in 7-day strike
Wales: Unison branch challenges Labour with no-cuts budget
Support strike action against legal aid cuts
Leeds council workers discuss cuts fightback
Train drivers vote for action at Northern Rail
Cleaners strike at London college
Readers' comments and reviews
Nigeria's battle for a mass workers' party
Letter of protest to the BBC
Union question time - Labour has no answers
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Action against vicious council cuts
Police spying ends lives - end it!
Fighting youth low pay (and security bullies)
Calderdale and Huddersfield: People ready to defend A&Es
Barton Moss protesters say no to fracking
Oppose the EDL in Worcester
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Army to Congress: Thanks, but no tanks
By Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston
HERLONG, California (CNN) - If you need an example of why it is hard to cut the budget in Washington look no further than this Army depot in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada range.
CNN was allowed rare access to what amounts to a parking lot for more than 2,000 M-1 Abrams tanks. Here, about an hour's drive north of Reno, Nevada, the tanks have been collecting dust in the hot California desert because of a tiff between the Army and Congress.
The U.S. has more than enough combat tanks in the field to meet the nation's defense needs - so there's no sense in making repairs to these now, the Army's chief of staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno told Congress earlier this year.
If the Pentagon holds off repairing, refurbishing or making new tanks for three years until new technologies are developed, the Army says it can save taxpayers as much as $3 billion.
That may seem like a lot of money, but it's a tiny sacrifice for a Defense Department that will cut $500 billion from its budget over the next decade and may be forced to cut a further $500 billion if a deficit cutting deal is not reached by Congress.
Why is this a big deal? For one, the U.S. hasn't stopped producing tanks since before World War II, according to lawmakers.
Plus, from its point of view the Army would prefer to decide what it needs and doesn't need to keep America strong while making tough economic cuts elsewhere.
"When a relatively conservative institution like the U.S. military, which doesn't like to take risks because risks get people killed, says it has enough tanks, I think generally civilians should be inclined to believe them," said Travis Sharp a fellow at the defense think tank, New American Security.
But guess which group of civilians isn't inclined to agree with the generals on this point?
Congress.
To be exact, 173 House members - Democrats and Republicans - sent a letter April 20 to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, urging him to continue supporting their decision to produce more tanks.
That's right. Lawmakers who frequently and loudly proclaim that presidents should listen to generals when it comes to battlefield decisions are refusing to take its own advice.
If the U.S. pauses tank production and refurbishment it will hurt the nation's industrial economy, lawmakers say.
"The combat vehicle industrial base is a unique asset that consists of hundreds of public and private facilities across the United States," the letter said. The outlook for selling Abrams tanks to other nations appears "stronger than prior years," the letter said. But those sales would be "inadequate to sustain the industrial base and in some cases uncertain. In light of this, modest and continued Abrams production for the Army is necessary to protect the industrial base."
Lima, Ohio, is a long way from this dusty tank parking lot. The tiny town in the northwestern part of the Buckeye State is where defense manufacturing heavyweight General Dynamics makes these 60-plus-ton behemoths.
The tanks create 16,000 jobs and involve 882 suppliers, says Kendell Pease, the company's vice-president of government relations and communications. That job figure includes ancillary positions like gas station workers who fill up employees' cars coming and going to the plant.
Many of the suppliers for tank manufacturing are scattered around the country so the issue of stopping production or refurbishment becomes a parochial one: congressional representatives don't want to kill any jobs in their districts, especially as the economy struggles during an election year.
"General Dynamics is not the industrial base," Pease said. "It is small vendors."
But General Dynamics certainly has a stake in the battle of the tanks and is making sure its investment is protected, according to research done by The Center for Public Integrity, a journalism watchdog group.
What its reporters found was General Dynamics campaign contributions given to lawmakers at key times, such as around congressional hearings, on whether or not to build more tanks.
"We aren't saying there's vote buying" said Aaron Metha, one of the report's authors. "We are saying it's true in pretty much all aspects of politics - but especially the defense industry. It's almost impossible to separate out the money that is going into elections and the special interests. And what we found was the direct spike in the giving around certain important dates that were tied to votes."
Pease said General Dynamics is bipartisan in its giving and there is nothing suspicious in the timing of its donations to members of the House and Senate. The giving is tied to when fundraisers are held in Washington - which is also when Congress is in session, he said.
Lawmakers that CNN interviewed denied that donations influenced their decisions to keep the tanks rolling.
Rep. Buck McKeon, a Republican from California and chairman of the House armed services committee, said he didn't know General Dynamics had given him $56,000 in campaign contributions since 2009 until CNN asked him about it.
"You know, the Army has a job to do and we have a job to do," McKeon said. "And they have tough choices because they've been having their budget cut."
McKeon said he's thinking about the long range view. "... If someone could guarantee us that we'll never need tanks in the future, that would be good. I don't see that guarantee."
Similarly, his Democratic counterpart on the committee, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who has received $64,000 from General Dynamics since 2001, said he is worried about the workforce if the Lima plant is closed for three years.
"Listen, we don't want to play Russian Roulette with the national security of this country," Reyes said.
Odierno explained to the committee that it would be cheaper to shut down the tank plant and then restart it in 2017. But his plea was ignored.
"Lima would cost us $2.8 billion just to keep that open and our tank fleet is in good shape and we don't need to because of the great support that we have gotten over the last two years," he told the committee.
But General Dynamics said it will cost a lot less to keep the plant open. Pease said the Army hasn't factored in the huge costs of closing the plant and the potential loss of skilled workers who will be needed come 2017 when the Army plans to remodel the Abrams tank.
"It's not whether they need those tanks, it's how much it costs to restart it," said Pease. General Dynamics, he said, will survive with or without refurbishing tanks over the next three years.
So how did Congress respond to Gen. Odeirno's request to shut down production until 2017?
The answer came in the proposed congressional budget for next year. It includes $181 million for tanks the Army doesn't want or need now. That begs another question: who will likely get the money for the 70 or so tanks covered by that contract when it goes out for bid?
"General Dynamics would probably get the contract for it anyway because they are kind of the ones that are out there leading the way on this," said McKeon.
The Army tank battle sends an unsettling message to the Defense Department, says Sharp, with the defense think tank. But it's a message that may not surprise a public weary from decades of battles and horse-trading that have defined Capitol Hill.
"The fact that the military is having such a hard time getting this relatively small amount of money to be saved, I think is an indication of the huge uphill fight that the military faces when it comes to Congress," Sharp said. "Congress is going to fight tooth and nail to protect defense investments that benefit their constituents and the people that live in their states."
Maybe the next time the generals go up to the Hill, they should take a cue from the well-protected tanks parked in California. Perhaps they might consider wearing body armor.
CNN's Sara Anwar contributed to this report.
Post by: CNN's Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston
Filed under: Security Brief
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Serbia: Chilling effect on media freedom by verdict against journalist and editor
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The EFJ affiliates in Serbia, Journalist Association of Serbia,(UNS) Independent Asossociation of Serbia (NUNS) , Journalists Union of Serbia (SINOS), joined by media society organisations and one foundation accused the Serbian government and the court to have openly exerted pressure on the Serbian media. As they wrote in a press release “The trial in the lawsuit against Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic NIN is one of the most effective because it lasted only one day”.
Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has won a lawsuit he filed against the weekly NIN over their article, “Nebojsa Stefanovic, the main “Savamala phantom”. The Higher Court in Belgrade decided that the editor of NIN, Milan Ćulibrk and journalist Sandra Petrusic are to pay a fine of 300,000 dinars (2424€) for causing non-material damages to Stefanovic by violating his honor and reputation.
Culibrk said that NIN will appeal the verdict, “and if necessary go to the Constitutional Court or the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.”
“We had nothing against citizen Nebojsa Stefanovic, we have (something) against Police Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, because the police in the night between April 24 and 25 last year did not intervene as people with balaclavas and bulldozers were demolishing the center of Belgrade, and because eight months after that the police did nothing to reveal who these people were, and under whose orders they did the tearing down. As long as this is the case we will consider the minister of the police to be the most responsible in the whole story,” said Culibrk to B92.
According to the EFJ affiliates and media during the trial held on November 29 before the Higher Court in Belgrade, Stefanovic said that his professional reputation and honor were damaged by the weekly’s writings, while Culibrk and journalist Sandra Petrusic, both of whom Stefanovic sued along with the magazine, said the article never claimed that Stefanovic demolished the buildings in Hercegovacka St. – but instead spoke about his political responsibility “as the personification of the first man of the police.”
“Penalising editors and journalists with a large fine when reporting about persons working in official positions is extremely damaging for journalism and its watchdog role. It invites to self-censorship and thereby violates media freedom”, said EFJ President Mogens Blicher Bjerregard.
The media coalition includes NUNS, UNS, NDNV (Independent Journalists Association of Vojvodina), Association of Media, Local Press (association of local media), AOM (Association of online media), ANEM (Association of independent electronic media) and Slavko Curuvija Foundation. It is maybe for the first time in Serbia that so many media organisations got together to protest against such rigorous interference of both state and legislative power in Serbia.
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In English: http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2017&mm=01&dd=04&nav_id=100151
In Serbian: http://www.nuns.rs/info/news/29835/sudjenje-nin-u-najefikasnije-u-istoriji.html
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Book Review: Testament of Solomon: Recension C
March 22, 2019 David Crowhurst2 Comments
TESTAMENT OF SOLOMON: RECENSION C
Hadean Press
Alongside the works of researchers and writers such as Joseph Peterson, Jake Stratton-Kent, Daniel Harms, Clare Fanger and Richard Kieckheffer, this release provides us with another vital key in the understanding of the true scope of a magical tradition that, until recent decades, has seemed disparate and fractured. With the release of Recension C, which Johnson’s masterly translation enables us to peruse in English for the first time, the lines of descent between current modes of practice and their ancient origins in texts such as the Greek Magical Papyri become less obscure. While the effect of this ever-broadening synopsis allows for greater academic understanding of the subject matter, the importance of this broadening scope to practitioners comes with the increasing likelihood that the overwhelming reliance on a text as flawed in its redacted presentation of goeteia as the Lemegeton might soon seem like a thing of the past as truer ‘keys’ to such methods of working are revealed.
The true value of this work can be found in its drawing together of the textual traditions and spirit names found in the older versions of the Testament of Solomon (such as Onoskelis and Asmodeo) with names recognisable from other medieval texts (Belet, Oriens, Boul, Astaroth, Latzepher and Magot) in order to reveal a snapshot of the evolution of an ‘independent demonological tradition’ that formed somewhere between Byzantium and Renaissance Italy. With this done, the link between the original versions of the text, the traditions expressed in the Hygromanteia, Liber Juratus, Folger v.b.26 and Les Livre des Esperitz and the Italian textual conglomerate known as Recension C. presents us with another important glimpse into the historical evolution of this field of magical study.
Johnson’s opening Introduction and essay opens this short but essential book in an accessible manner that reveals an excellent academic standard which transcends the boundaries of most modern occult texts. As well as reinforcing the older texts’ presentation of the entities summoned as essentially astrological in their origins, the assignment of various spirits to the four elemental quarters in the manner that finds its best expression in Folger v.b.26, reveals another possible progression from the works that initially assigned each elemental quarter to the four kings, Oriens, Amaymon, Paymon and Egin first mentioned by William of Auvergne (though certainly older in its origins) to reveal another connection to the astrological principles that are generally incomplete or obfuscated in later texts such as the Lemegeton. While operative instructions are only alluded to in the opening and closing sections of the Recension, the descriptions of the spirits’ legions, their powers and the depictions of their seals also provide another important link between the medieval and Renaissance texts and their more ancient forebears. While, ultimately, it is not a ‘true’ derivation of the Testament, what this publication of Recension C reveals in terms of tradition is the drawing together of older Hellenistic magical methods into a single text that proves a vital addition to our current understanding of the development of Solomonic magic.
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Brian Johnson (@JohBri) says:
Thanks so much for such a perceptive and comprehensive review!
David Crowhurst says:
You’re welcome. Thanks for producing such a great work!
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Suzy Charnas’ Introduction to “Cargo”
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Back in 1978 or so, I was asked for a short story for a collection. I saw myself as a novelist only, never having done short work, but I let myself be persuaded to try. The result was “Scorched Supper on New Niger”, a miniature space opera heavily flavored with my memories of a stint in Nigeria with the Peace Corps in the early sixties. It ended up quite contrarian for its time —well, that was the fun of it for me, doing a little story-judo to turn a common pattern on its ear. So my story wasn’t about white dudes, alien life forms, imperial space war and politics, and a clear-cut and easily recognizable resolution.
I kept the happy ending, in my own style, but my planetary colony was of African origin and run by commercially successful women instead of tough guys on rough frontier worlds and caught up in wars and revolutions. My space pilot was a woman estranged from her successful space-faring family, with a cat for a companion instead of a grizzled old space fighter or an unctuous onboard computer or maybe a wookie. Her problem wasn’t pirates, enigmatic aliens, or lethal space emergencies, but evading a very hostile takeover. She resolved it by means of an ingenious improvisation around social customs rather than by scientific calculations.
Now, a hundred years later — well, no, but sometimes it feels that way — in the early twenty-first century, this story appears afresh, paired with a new story by a new author, also about a woman — more than one woman — dealing with a threatening future. These two stories may have been over thirty years apart in production, but as I see it, they are linked by a sort of fictional DNA that carries and reflects the sharp and the subtle mutations of cultures that writers (and readers) of SF perceive around them.
My protagonist is used to making decisions, first as a captain of industry and now as a free-lance master of her own vessel, and she is struggling to keep her independence and her work. Vivian’s Mara begins as a lowly factory worker with no power — “What choice did she have?” is a recurrent refrain — who learns to fight to gain her independence as conditions beyond her control force decisiveness upon her, willy-nilly. Both women find their truest allies not among the men around them but in other women with lives and purposes of their own, and in the intelligence, ingenuity, and the risk of mutual trust that enables them to join forces with these allies. They aren’t competing for masculine attention. They’re reaching for and exercising agency of their own.
So they aren’t “heroines” — female characters looking for male heroes to team up with. They are heroes themselves. True, one story ends with a marriage (albeit a rather unconventional), and one story ends with a baby (albeit an extraordinary one), but throughout the events that lead to endings common to stories with heroines in them, here both women are the heroes of their own stories.
I think if they could meet, they would recognize each other’s strength and toast each other’s victories.
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Gangs of Wasseypur opens with two of my pet peeves: a voiceover, and an explanation of where we are and how we got there (it’s cinema, people, show me, don’t tell me!). But – and I’m not sure how he does this – director Anurag Kashyap uses these clunky props to pull off some of his best filmmaking yet, in a fantastic hour that situates us in Dhanbad, in Bihar’s (now Jharkhand’s) coal belt, the casual and systematic brutality of its mining industry, and the complicity of the state (both pre- and post-colonial) in all manner of oppression. Marking incident, place and time is Piyush Mishra’s gravelly voice, informing us that our special Purgatory is Wasseypur in the 1940s, south of Dhanbad, a Muslim-village locked in permanent struggle between the Qureshis (butchers by trade) and every other kind of Muslim. Shahid Khan (a Pathan; that is to say, emphatically not a Qureshi) won’t content himself with his position in the food chain below the Qureshis, and is exiled from Wasseypur to the coal fields of Dhanbad. Needless to say, things aren’t any better here. Kashyap showcases misery almost casually, with neither melodrama nor glee, almost as if he were a scientist showing us the many ways in which the strong might abuse the weak. The dramatic isn’t absent – the visual clichés of rain and mud are much used, but nevertheless manage to seem fresh – but it is drama as Mani Ratnam might see it, subdued, and seen from far away.
It all adds up to a fine balance between the narrative– Shahid is murdered by his master Ramadhir, and Shahid’s son, the boy Sardar, swears revenge – and the far more interesting backdrop of the savagery legitimated by the state, and how it intersects with older antagonisms. Kashyap’s film does not take the easy way out: there is no contrast here between the colonial state and its post-independence successor; nor is there any sense of an Eden sullied by contemporary “criminalization of politics”. Rather, Kashyap shows us a world where the imperatives of capital and resource extraction have always been inseparable from criminality and violence. Moreover, Wasseypur’s age-old antagonisms show that while criminality and violence are hardly the sole prerogative of the state, they are imbued with new vigor by the greater opportunities – political, financial, and in terms of armaments – on offer courtesy modern industrialization and the business of politics. Perhaps Kashyap will never top Black Friday or the ugly vigor of Gulaal’s first half, but the same density, the same weakness for process that we see in the former (and that would have made a good noir director of Kashyap) enrich the first few reels of Gangs of Wasseypur. It’s the sort of procedural patience – chopped in vignettes to make for better cinema, the lesson all post-Iruvar Indian directors need to learn – I wish Kashyap’s one-time mentor Ram Gopal Verma had displayed in Company. It’s the sort of thing that could have made for a superb season-long TV series. Unfortunately, Indian television has nothing to equal HBO; and the large canvas docu-drama is a difficult format to pull off on the big screen, even where the filmmaker is clear about what (s)he is trying to achieve.
Kashyap isn’t: at some point prior to the intermission, Sardar Khan, all grown up, takes center stage. That obviously had to happen, but that also marks the point at which the film’s scope contracts, from representing a world to chronicling incidents. The latter are interesting enough – this film is never less than engaging – but are a far cry from the epic sweep promised by the film’s opening scenes, and by Piyush Mishra’s evocation early on of the Mahabharata.
Kashyap’s film is well-served by a strong cast, three among which are notable for elevating their roles beyond the script. Jaideep Ahlawat (who plays Shahid Khan) is the first of these, and anchors the film’s first hour, suggesting misery, dignity, and sheer cussedness with an impressive economy. I missed him when he was gone, largely because his son Sardar, as played by Manoj Bajpai, is not his equal. Bajpai is certainly in reliably fine form, but those familiar with his Hindi film work will not find him much tested here; as such, he is content to give us minor variations of what we’ve already seen him do on more than one occasion. That’s a good thing, but not as fresh an achievement as I’d thought Bajpai capable of. The second is Tigmanshu Dhulia, the Bollywood director making his acting debut as Ramadhir: in the character’s first few scenes (played by a different actor), I feared Ramadhir might end up a stock villain, but something more wonderful lay in store for me. As the narrative flashes several years forward (and as his character moves several notches up the food chain, ending up a MLA), Ramadhir has mellowed, his fleshy roundness hovering between passivity and anger. Yet even the latter is tinged with weariness, finding violent expression against his own son: Ramadhir expects his enemies to try and thwart him; only the incompetence of those who serve him seems genuinely painful.
The third is Nawazuddin Siddiqui, playing Sardar’s second son Faizal. This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered his work – he was very good (albeit inconsistently so) in Kahaani – but I wasn’t expecting him to be one of the best things about the film, and much of the reason for anticipating Gangs of Wasseypur Part II in a few months’ time. Siddiqui is clearly from Irfan Khan’s school of acting, but minimalism is here married to a kind of impish persona that leavens Faizal’s seediness. The writers should have given Siddiqui more to work with (although, given the blandness that is the lot of Faizal’s elder brother Danish, perhaps he should be grateful), but even so, he is the best thing about the last third of the movie, as it wanders away from Sardar’s focus on Ramadhir and back to the tussle with the Qureshi’s that had initially exiled Shahid Khan from Wasseypur. Siddiqui has wonderful eyes: even if the boy Faizal hadn’t seen all that he’s seen, I would well believe that he sees something other than what’s there, right in front of his eyes. Perhaps not surprisingly, he is the only male character in the film to love cinema, channeling some of Amitabh Bachchan’s more wounded personae: never is cinema more simultaneously about what we can see, and what we cannot see (because it points to something off-screen), than in the figure of the star, especially one transcendent as Bachchan. There is something else out there, or perhaps under the surface – Faizal seems to know this in his best moments (as neither his father nor grandfather did), and whether that something else is the sordidness he caught a glimpse of when still a child; or whether it is the kind of pose Bachchan embodies; or whether it combines the two (the film he’s watching in the theater is, after all, Trishul, another film featuring an abandoned mother and dreams of revenge; although Trishul is far more Freudian, in its claim that it is precisely the mother who is to be avenged, precisely one’s kin that must be defeated) – who can tell?
There are others: Piyush Mishra is woefully under-utilized here, but his voice-over is itself a character, and a far more memorable one than the embodied one periodically wandering across our screens. Richa Chaddha curses her way through Naghma Khatoon with aplomb, and is wonderfully natural; it isn’t her fault that, Mahie Gill in Dev D notwithstanding, Kashyap has never been a good director of women. Reemma Sen (the extra “m” is not a typo) seemed new-born to those of us familiar with her roles in Malamaal Weekly and Dhool: there isn’t much acting she’s called upon to do, but the film imbues her with real presence, by way of a gaze that lingers upon her alabaster skin, but doesn’t know what else to do with her. On the other hand, Pankaj Tripathi is a disappointment as Sultan, Sardar’s Qureshi bête noire – the character comes across as almost comically inept, surely not an effect Kashyap could have intended.
Despite its abandonment of a sustained representation of a “system” shortly before the film’s half-way mark, Gangs of Wasseypur might nevertheless have made much of the more traditional pleasures of character and personality (the now-legendary American cable TV series The Wire managed both, and not simply because its serial format afforded more time; it was simply better written). That is where Scorsese’s Gangs of New York ended up: intellectually slight, but held together by Daniel Day-Lewis’ terrific Bill “The Butcher,” a tour de force that doesn’t address any critiques, but makes them seem beside the point. Kashyap’s film falls short. More specifically, while the screenplay’s avoidance of a narrative centered on a Bigtime Star like Daniel Day-Lewis is intellectually the right choice, in theory opening up the film to a host of characters (inherently a more plausible state of affairs if one is creating a world: no-one imagines himself in a character role in the film of his life), this doesn’t work so well in this script.
Most of the characters in Gangs of Wasseypur are under-written (writing credits are shared by Akhilesh Jaiswal, Anurag Kashyap, Sachin K. Ladia, and Syed Zeeshan Qadri), and not much more than the sum of their verbal tics. That meant that I found myself missing the charisma of an overweening Bill “The Butcher” in the ranks of the Qureshi qasaai, yet not having for consolation the wealth of more accessible personalities each character’s introduction had promised. In the absence of the requisite level of interiority, each character is thrown back onto the sort of lines designed to elicit titters from the audience. One housewife calls her husband a “randibaaz” (whore-monger); later on she gives him permission to pursue other women if he really needs to, but slops meat on his plate lest anyone cast aspersions on the sexual prowess of the family’s men – “baahar jaake beizzati mat karaana.” Cackling was much in evidence at my theater at this and many other dialogs, and no-one, not even the greyer heads in the audience, seemed shocked by anything – if the potty mouth of Kashyap’s films was ever intended to jolt bourgeois complacency, that time is long past (the one exception: the silence in my theater in the wake of Ramadhir’s wife’s instruction to her servant to use different dishes for the visiting Qureshis, presumably to avoid caste-pollution). Today, “bhosdee ke,” coded as it is by the social gulf that separates the characters on-screen from the audiences in the cinema halls, reinforces bourgeois complacency, which gets to be titillated and pat itself on the back for being edgy. The attempted rape of Salma Agha’s character in Kasam Paida Karne Waale Ki (watch Gangs of Wasseypur, you’ll see what I mean) never managed both of those.
It’s no defense to argue, as the film’s promoters tiresomely have, that the sort of earthy language used is authentic to the milieu represented in Gangs of Wasseypur. That defense certainly deflects criticism on the grounds that the dialogs are “too” dirty, vulgar, what-have-you – were anyone in the media making such a criticism. The defense sets up a straw man, in a context where the film and its modes of representation are being lionized in the media. Anurag Kashyap has, in short, won the day, and needs to stop pretending that he is still waging lonely struggles against legal censorship as well as bourgeois tyranny. I don’t mean to suggest that the dialogs are ineffective. Far from it: they are piquant, earthy, and go a long way toward etching a plausible world, one that is different from the worlds inhabited by the film’s viewers, and yet familiar enough to spark recognition. The problem is a different one, namely that this familiarity is forged by a kind of anthropological cliché: no character ever surprises us, none ever says anything we wouldn’t expect “them” to (several dialogs mouthed by women certainly are of the kind we wouldn’t expect “our women” to be uttering). In short, the dialog here, used as it is as a marker of authenticity, can only function as such by underscoring the distinction between “us” and “them,” by diminishing any claims the film’s characters might have on our empathy. The theatrical otherness of the bhaiyyas on display here, in permanent hyper-violent pantomime, might be authentic to Dhanbad and Wasseypur, but it places those locales under an eclipse: these people may be laughed or marveled at; the violence of the region may be decried (although, Bihar’s place in the contemporary urban Indian imagination, as the villainous foil to the modernity the metropolitans among us are busily forging, ensures that any head-shaking is just a wee bit too comfortable); but they cannot be loved, admired, or befriended. The dialogs function in much the same way as the dialogs assigned the stock South Indian characters in the masala movies of decades past: as glue, to ensure the types represented by these characters don’t move from their places in our imagination.
Much of the above isn’t an issue only where Gangs of Wasseypur is concerned, and I do believe some of these representational issues can be mitigated by deeper thought, and sustained labor, on the interiority of the characters. That work has not been done: we do not know how Sardar’s first wife Naghma feels, nor what makes his second wife Durga tick, nor even Ramadhir; we only hear their (more-or-less) salty tongues. Most unpardonable is Sardar Khan, denied any interiority beyond his desire for revenge against Ramadhir – as to the rest, he does and says things, seemingly devoid of any motivation: we can speculate that he helps rescue a young woman because he wants to stick it to the Qureshis, or that he agrees to a marriage with a Qureshi girl because his son has prevailed on him, but nothing in the film either shows us these are likely motivations, or makes it an interesting line of inquiry. Sardar even goes years without ever seeing his eldest sons, and that just seems odd given how filial he otherwise is. One could go on and on.
Sneha Khanwalkar’s music belongs to the film, and the album works a lot better than I had initially given it credit for — “I am a hunter, she want to see my gun” features Kashyap at his funniest, as he inverts the conventions of Bollywood double entendre by setting this song’s low lyrics to a backdrop of… gun-running. No song-and-dance routines for Kashyap, but “Womaniya” effectively punctuates more than one look of longing in this film. But my favorite is the insanely cheerful, almost perverse, “Teri Keh Ke Loonga,” suitable ditty indeed for Sardar Khan, the sort of man you can see coming a mile away. Satyamshot commenter Arturo Belano had once made the point that Kashyap’s male protagonists, “weaned on grand mythic narratives … try and “will” their lives “to be like those narratives….” That is, “it has become standard for Kashyap to have these ironic constructions in his movies where he has these protagonists who are given these unoriginal macho energies to release on screen but the movie gradually shows up the gap between their self-images and the reality of the kind of effect their behaviour is having on those around [them].” The point is a shrewd one, even if Kashyap doesn’t always seem sensitive to the ironies (witness Sardar’s death scene in the film; although heavily refracted through Sergio Leone’s work, it is about as straight as any masala film from the 1980s might have been) – either way, the charm of “Teri Keh Ke Loonga” means, he doesn’t have to be in the know.
Rajeev Ravi’s lens is one of the heroes of this film, and if the interiors of mofussil residences in Hindi films have by now become generic, he may be forgiven: his shots of the coalfields recall grand Westerns and Kaala Pathar, and are nevertheless very much his own. The film has little scope for crowds, but my favorite is a shot contrasting those of Varanasi with the desolate external corridor that serves as the shot’s – and the shady arms dealer Yadav’s – vantage point. Ravi’s camera is generally indifferent to men, with the exception of Nawazuddin Siddiqui: that contrast between Varanasi’s crush and the languorous heat of the corridor is Siddiqui’s too, as the camera repeatedly finds him at once still and restless. And then there’s skin, or rather, Reemma Sen’s skin: her Durga seems clothed in moonlight.
The trace of masala is not incidental: Gangs of Wasseypur is unthinkable without the legacy of several Hindi films, most obviously Kaala Pathar (1979) (following on the heels of a mining disaster in Dhanbad in the 1970s); Trishul (1978); and Deewar (1975) (specifically, the betrayal of organized labor at the film’s outset), but, more subtly, of a whole universe of signification that makes sense only the context of masala. Kashyap is too knowing to try and dredge up the mythical heroes of years past, a mode that many in his urban audiences now sneer at, except in the context of tongue-in-cheek cinema; but doesn’t seem to have any other mode worked out. That which we care about the most in Gangs of Wasseypur – this character’s death; that one’s suffering; these people sold down the river – comes to us from the masala film (toned down for sure, more Ratnam’s Thalapathi than J.P. Dutta’s Ghulami), and Kashyap gives it to us un-ironically. The result is significant unevenness of tone, as Kashyap uses the post-ironic techniques and incongruous comedy of Sergio Leone and Tarantino while resorting to masala cues to draw the audience in. Those filmmakers recognized that the gesturality of the past had run its course, but since any alternative trope would itself be provisional, the director ought to double down on cinema that is about gesturality itself – the question of what Kashyap recognizes is not answered by this film, leading to the uncomfortable realization that the film isn’t really “about” anything (or, not about anything beyond the evocation of a milieu the writer has known well, a place that is one’s own).
If this is harsh, my defense is, Kashyap made me do it: the way the film begins, the well-written dialogs, the wealth of acting talent on display, mean that this is too good a film, has tackled too weighty a canvas, to be about nothing more than a grudge match. The film’s writers knew it too, which explains why the script starts out as it does. And although I’ll watch it again, I can’t help but feel they ought to have persisted.
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157 Responses to “Qalandar Reviews GANGS OF WASSEYPUR (Hindi; 2012)”
omrocky786 Says:
Superb review Q…… I may not watch the film again but will re read this review….. you are totally right about the music …
I have seen in my house where seperate Cheenee key bartan were used for the muslims . but things have changed now however Even now if the muslims invite Hindus to thier weddings they hire a Hindu Halwai to make food for them..
Re: “Even now if the muslims invite Hindus to thier weddings they hire a Hindu Halwai to make food for them..”
Some of us do that because we’re not sure if caste Hindus will have food from a halwai not of the “right” caste! This is especially true with Brahmins in the South, although I agree that in cities, this is pretty much dying out…
the other scene in the movie where the voice over said that the Police does not enter wasseypur also reminded me of my hometown where there are still certain Mohallas where the Police department and or the Electric dept. dare not enter….
also -We have a small street full of butcher shops known as “Kasai Gali.”.. used to be a scary place as a kid…
Aside- My family had a very old retired supervisor whom my dad was supporting just because he had been with us since the time of my grand father …. he would request everything in twos ( like bags of sugar/ flour etc.) coz he had two homes to support…..I remember as kid the other employees would tease him- amma Thekedaar kabar mein pair hain aur do do ko dhar rakha hai …lol
Re: “Aside- My family had a very old retired supervisor whom my dad was supporting just because he had been with us since the time of my grand father …. he would request everything in twos ( like bags of sugar/ flour etc.) coz he had two homes to support…..I remember as kid the other employees would tease him- amma Thekedaar kabar mein pair hain aur do do ko dhar rakha hai …lol”
Ha, LOL. When my dad was in Dubai he had an Arab colleague whose wife used to bully him to take another wife, she said her friends teased her that her husband wasn’t man enough because he only had one wife…
Re.- . When my dad was in Dubai he had an Arab colleague whose wife used to bully him to take another wife, she said her friends teased her that her husband wasn’t man enough because he only had one wife…
Ha ha ha…kaash hammaree biwi bhee aisee hotee….LOL
aside- My wife liked one scene from GOW where when bajpai’s son gets shot and he says kuch nahee hua hai, Bajpai slaps him and says golee lagee hai aur tu keh raha hai kuch naheee hua hai !!
My wife said that her dad was like that too…If any kid got hurt , her dad will get so upset that he will start yelling first- kyon chot lagaa lee etc. and then tend to chot of the kid…LOL
she also said ( offcourse laced with taunt)- dekha aisa hota hai baap ka pyar LOL !!!
Ah Rocky, one can’t win! And sometimes, even if one doesn’t fight, one loses!
ragav1 Says:
Some of us do that because we’re not sure if caste Hindus will have food from a halwai not of the “right” caste
Coming from a Tam Brahmin family i can visualize such an occurrence.
On the write-up pretty solid. My two issues were the voiceover and length of the film where characters like Durga could have been edited.
I liked Bajpai’s act a lot though…Richa Chadha’a charater was pretty predictable and been seen many times before…..
Tigmanshu was a big surprise….
just read Rangan’s review .. In the comment section some one named Kutty has this to say there- “This is neither a middle-finger to bollywood masala nor a proper homage to it. Like the end of this movie, it is in the middle of nowhere.”
This pretty much sums it !!
Aarohi Says:
Good read. Liked GoW quite a bit, but it could have been so much more.
The younger Ramadhir Singh is played by some other actor, not Dhulia.
Thanks Aarohi, I’ve edited the relevant line in the piece to make that clear.
Jhakas review.
..will read it again
Though I liked Sultan Khan’s character a lot…
Qalandar, this is an utterly exceptional piece, easily one of your best and to my mind simply the best one so far on the film.
I should even use a ‘Zizekism’ here. I am happy this film got made so that this piece could be written! It’s even greater service was enabling your piece!
Agreed- this is a superlatively excellent piece Q 🙂
This review is a treat.
Satyam stole my thunder! Easily the best piece on the film, bar none.
I wish I can see the film somehow! But, not on a pirated DVD.
mksrooney Says:
Hopefully theres a show of it going in pvr or cinepolis around last week of july!
LOL! Hope so.
even i havnt checked it out! so if so you might have a company 🙂
Skimmed some rather wonderful bits of this review and will of course return to it once I see the film. Thanks Q.
Satyam- how was Ishqzade ??
will leave a comment on this in Qalandar’s review thread shortly..
http://bollywoodgandu.blogspot.in/2012/07/gangs-of-wasseypur-meh.html
I did not have much of a problem following the movie and was not bored either which seems to be the complaint of a lot of reviewers….( my wife however lost interest within the first half hour ). I would actually expand on Q’s point about the TV series – it was like watching a “violent Buniyaad ” LOL!!!
rockstar Says:
ya it was much like documentry style of narration
first half had lot of good visuals especially at random times the use of blurred animation in comic style …some of the stuff in 2nd half for revenge is plain simple
piyush mishra had the same voice(as actor) in jhoom barabar jhoom but it was more commercial spoof and ya i like the guy who played manoj’s father much more than manoj …one feel it will be very difficult for him to repeat another shool(even better than satya) easily one of the most memorable performance seen on screen
wife was strong(only for kids) and resisted infidelity and accepted her fate(there is a scene between her and piyush demonstrating that)
Meant to say this earlier but on the voiceover I really like how RGV handles it. To a certain degree in Company but moreso in RC you have this sinister yet corny voice relating the history. So a mythic framework is being established and yet the voice also works in deconstructive ways.
Satyam not sure whether u saw this but here is Kashyap himself saying that GoW is a masala film-
“India has never seen real Indian rustic film like this. It reaches out the most and not at all deep. Its least taxing and people need not to use their brains while watching the film,” says Anurag Kashyap. Declaring the film to be his most profitable venture ever, Kashyap further adds, “The film reaches out the most, of all the films that I have done. It’s like a bullet train of entertainment with all the important ingredients that makes a film a perfect Indian masala hit. People will laugh and enjoy. It has got everything in it, strong story with an Indian feel to it, full of romance, quirkiness, action, music.” And what about swear words? “I won’t call it abusive language. It’s in a very normal way, the way people talk in India.”
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-26/news-interviews/32424357_1_film-anurag-kashyap-sirf
I haven’t seen the film but it’s not an entirely correct characterization. It’s masala the way Satya (or Company) is masala. which is to say that at the level of a basic plotline or character motivations it might be close to such a paradigm but the larger framework and hence ‘meaning’ of that tradition is missing. Masala is never just about the elements but also that ‘controlling’ framework. Once you lose that element of transcendence (there are all sorts of sociological and cinematic reasons for why this happened) you can quite retrieve masala in the same way. Which is why you have all these current ‘tongue-in-cheek’ attempts. At the same time this doesn’t mean that the useful gestures and/or politics of masala cannot be reinvented within a more auteurist framework. Which is what Kashyap’s probably referring to. And I don’t argue with him too much on this though it seems to me that a certain ‘thought’ of masala needs to go along with this. It cannot just happen at the level of ironic allusion. Rathnam for example offers a way out. He for example takes the ‘angry young man’ (or the set of politics that corresponds to him) forward in certain ways while always remaining true to his larger (at least partial) project of downscaling masala or accounting for its ‘vanishing’ (in the more transcendent sense once again). and here Thalapathy is possibly the best example from his career. Having Rajni at the heart of this film makes this point even more sharply much as (and I’ve long believed this) having Mammootty as the counterpoint in many ways also shows how a less flamboyant persona can nonetheless be employed as effectively. In some ways Mohanlal’s Iruvar outing is part of this move (and of course this film is a history of such gesturality anyway, principally by way of the videos). And within a Hindi context Abhishek represents the same choice for Rathnam.
*Perhaps not surprisingly, he is the only male character in the film to love cinema: Actually every character is fan of BW from Sardar Khan to Huma Khan’s character (as a child she is pestering the ticket checker to let her in and as an adult she continues to do the same after applying lipstick 🙂 )…wasseypurians are obsessed with BW…the juxtaposition of what is occuring in the movie with iconic hindi movies/dialogues (mai abhi bhi fayK huay paisey nahi uthata to Mithun song) are intelligently placed in the movie
*Kashyap has never been a good director of women: Can you elaborate on this bit more. I thought that Nagma was very strong female character; especially loved the way she is utterly fearless with the cops at her doorsteps in the middle of night…he doesn’t show his female characters as victims. Even mysterious, enigmatic Reema/bangalan character is the one who makes that last phone call. Ramadhir’s wife is the only one in shadows…rest of them are strong, assertive women with strong personalities (IMO).
*Sultan, Sardar’s Qureshi bête noire – the character comes across as almost comically inept: I actually found him perfect. He is a pawn in the hands of Ramadhir even though he is dreaded quasai that even police would be scared of…he is made to sit with ramadhir and then when he doesn’t play along or when truce bet. two families is imminent, he is made to sit on the floor…I thought Sultan was absolute perfection…he doesn’t have the “garam-garam” dialogues of Bajpai or colorful like Nawaz’s.
*The dialogs function in much the same way as the dialogs assigned the stock South Indian characters in the masala movies of decades past: as glue, to ensure the types represented by these characters don’t move from their places in our imagination: For me the dialogues were (though complete, total, absolute masala and therefore very juicy and interesting) total revelation in terms of lingo/vocabulary in the same way Vidhya’s were in Ishquiya. I had to go research meaning of various phases such as “kahe kay lunga”….I am sure many hindi cinema movie goers are in same boat as me.
Again your review is absolute delight (as everyone else said). I think you have written a very generous review to A.K’s GoW.
Re: “Actually every character is fan of BW from Sardar Khan to Huma Khan’s character (as a child she is pestering the ticket checker to let her in and as an adult she continues to do the same after applying lipstick 🙂 )…”
I remembered Huma Khan’s character Mohsina, hence my qualification of “male.” On Sardar, could you elaborate? Where is he shown loving cinema? (He has a nautanki-waala singing and dancing to a song from Kasam Paida Karne Waale Ki, but note that is a tactical use of cinema to create an effect before the public — whereas Faizal and Mohsina like to watch movies in and of themselves). Other male characters in the film are shown singing lines from songs, but only Faizal Khan sits transfixed in the cinema, staring at the big screen.
Do watch the deleted scene Satyam has posted…I also recall one of A.K’s interview where he mentioned that BW is integral part of the locals there. Not sure if this is politically correct to say or not: I have noticed that muslims in general and india in particular, love BW. e.g. If you were to come to my town on certain day the hindi theater is packed with people from our jamatkhana, burqa clad women…that I almost feel that theater owner (also muslim) sells out cheap tickets to “apney” log. I have some theories on it.
Jamatkhana – Are you Ismaili?
Re: “Can you elaborate on this bit more. I thought that Nagma was very strong female character; especially loved the way she is utterly fearless with the cops at her doorsteps in the middle of night…he doesn’t show his female characters as victims. Even mysterious, enigmatic Reema/bangalan character is the one who makes that last phone call. Ramadhir’s wife is the only one in shadows…rest of them are strong, assertive women with strong personalities (IMO).”
I agree that they are strong characters Di; I didn’t mean that Kashyap’s women are doormats, you are quite right there. I simply meant that Kashyap doesn’t seem all that interested in women, unless they are “in a man’s world” comporting themselves on, not just equal but identical, footing. Thus he is interested in women who can elbow their way in a man’s world, curse with the best of ’em, etc. But he isn’t much interested in exploring other aspects of feminine/feminized experience…
Re: “he is made to sit with ramadhir and then when he doesn’t play along or when truce bet. two families is imminent, he is made to sit on the floor…”
Wonderfully observed Di — excellent point, I had not noticed this.
Sultan was so perfect that I thought he was real life muslim and when I found out “tripathi” I was shocked beyond words…I guess thats what good acting is all about or maybe we have set images in our minds of what a person from particular state/religion are supposed to look like. In KJo movie a muslim will be depicted with skull cap, beard…A.K stayed away from the typical. Neither are women in burqas, except for one scene where she is using burqa to disguise herself to spy on the mistress.
Re: “I had to go research meaning of various phases such as “kahe kay lunga”….I am sure many hindi cinema movie goers are in same boat as me.”
You’ve led a sheltered life!
Just kidding…I agree many dialogs would be new to people, but not “keh ke loonga”. This was known enough to be the tagline for all the posters in Bombay, and I think every maila Hindi/Urdu speaker (like me) knows this one. Afsoos to is baat ka hai ke aap jaise shareef logon se hamaara paala nahin padaa…
Lol..liked the movie except some nitpickings…
I agree on sheltered bit…maybe all my classmates were ‘decent’ too. Never heard a single gali growing up! Apart from school, I wasn’t allowed to play in nukkad and now I know why. In bombay I never ever heard “kahe k lunga”…not once…but bihari immigration may not have started in bombay then…not sure.
On that note: did you understand the lyrics of the jail song. Though not a hit song, I was watching the makings of that song on utube…the song talks about disillusionment on political situation even by the folks in jail….couldn’t make out a single word 😦
Great going Qalandar though the Outlook guys might have used a better title!
Congrats Q!
Here’s another Outlook piece that Kashyap has tweeted:
This is a good read but I think he author is quite sadly wrong on what Deewar means in this context. Because this film is precisely representative of the ‘grey area’ the author seems to be extolling elsewhere. The truly bad criminal like Madan Puri is actually quite irrelevant to the film in the true sense. On the other hand Vijay is precisely someone ‘beyond good and evil’. He is only interested in people he loves. His criminality is never a source of much concern to him. Note how even the Iftikhar character here, a sort of mentor to him, also seems a man of integrity (casting this actor here was a great stroke) even as he otherwise runs a more corporatized sort of gang (Madan Puri is much more small fry on this score.. still about a certain thuggishness..). So the key characters of this world are both ‘good and evil’ or beyond this binary structure. or else they’re opposed to the boring moralists of the film (the mother, the brother, specially the latter). The reason though that this film takes place on Vijay’s turf is that it continually problematizes a world where legal norms and bourgeois family values seem to define things but are ultimately hypocritical. So you have a guy being shot for stealing bread, you have a teacher living a life of destitution etc. Obviously this film is too sophisticated to simply side with one or the other position but it does reveal powerfully that one cannot simply have a good conscience about the law and family ethics and move on. Because a great deal of violence is tolerated and even enabled by these structures.
I should also make a larger point. The whole gangland representation where the characters repeat the gestures of masala cinema (and its characters) without ever taking the moral codes of that same world too seriously is itself a somewhat problematic move. It amounts to a kind of ideological obfuscation. The representations are a bit too simplistic even at a literal level but leaving this aside (and one could argue that below the surface these characters are not that far from the Deewar universe.. they still love their family and friends and are willing to kill for them.. they still respect larger community codes and so on) a much more fundamental and for want of a better word ‘metaphysical’ question that Deewar raises is ignored in these films. What about a structure that creates such a world? Note how it is not sufficient to simply recount a national history in this regard. This move is obviously subversive and to be welcomed but what Salim-Javed’s scripts so exemplarily did was (and this is a properly Marxist move.. precisely because it is so thorough) locate the whole ‘problem’ at the heart of the bourgeois structure which of course is not co-extensive with the history of the Indian nation-state. So in a film like Trishul you could read it through a certain post-Independence lens, about the failure of a post-Independence generation to live up to the promise of this event, or the extent to which decolonization created native masters with colonized souls. But once more the true heart of the critique here goes to the bourgeois edifice. The ‘mother’ who persuades R K Gupta to commit the crucial betrayal and later on we see how Gupta has the most normal family life. Meanwhile his betrayal makes Vijay possible, in terms of his illegitimate identity and of course his whole outlook (vengeance and the rest). At the same time Gupta’s family is totally oblivious to this foundational ‘crime’ (?) that makes his success possible (a great Indian corporate story!). So the pure narrative has its political resonance but it is always destabilizing the family structure from within.
Here it is not about simply opposing these structures but realizing that a lot of the state’s values are codified and institutionalized in its hegemonic bourgeois ‘ethics’. This is what the true revolution of the ‘angry young man’ was about. It did not just argue against politicians or ‘villains’ in that immediate ‘micro’ sense nor did it simply argue against the contours of the nation-state. It did all of this of course but it also argued against the ‘mother’ and the ‘father’ and so on. All these ultimate ‘signs’. Of course it is true (as I’ve argued before) that many of these films end a bit unconvincingly on this score (Trishul is a chief example once more) by providing ‘happy’ endings (it’s not about the anti-hero living or dying but about the law and the family structure being dominant at the end and the only one possible) but still there is too much opened up that cannot be put back in the box. It is ‘Vijay’ who survives these happy endings as a haunting!
A film like Satya (of course this repeats all the masala gestures including the buddy elements and so on) assumes a universe where corruption is so thick and the world so messy in every sense that the decisions informing the larger framework simply do not matter. The world just is. The characters don’t even bother questioning why it is so. This is a problem RGV has not quite resolved so far and in one sense this is why he keeps hitting a dead end. Put differently one can throw the baby out with the bathwater if in dismissing the epic frame one also throws out the ‘metaphysics’ of the same. In other words whether you accept a hero like Arjun or not as ‘relevant’ the world is still ordered a certain way. To have then a much more modest character who is only concerned about getting ahead ruthlessly within his immediate environment is to accept the stability of the overall frame. And yet once more the ideological issue here is that a certain class of society, a certain ‘native’ type, a certain ‘ethnographically’ represented kind is never given the latitude to launch the same sort of interrogation.
But why not? Aren’t the Maoists controlling increasingly larger swathes of Indian territory?! Would it be so far fetched to allow some of these characters more political agency? Once more this is exactly what Rathnam did in Raavan. He took the audience over to the other side. This is how the world looks viewed at from within ‘Asokavanam’. Certainly Ram’s order becomes rather terrifying. Or more modestly in Yuva Lallan is taken out of his let’s say GoW-like world and placed at the heart of a major metropolis where he must then compete with the other two characters who are also hegemonically defining the Indian discourse in different ways. All of this would make for a longer discussion.
There is a point here that Gayatri Spivak often makes in various permutations. There is a post-national state read in certain ways. But the nation-state continues to exist. It is very easy to forget this latter bit. Similarly one can focus on all kinds of ‘micro-identities’ and politics associated with the same and the degree to which these destabilize the larger nationalist framework. However it is also true that the hegemonic nation-state also has a way of ‘allowing’ for these subversions and especially in a capitalist economy incorporating them. Zizek is the best guide on this particular point.
This was a very interesting and informative note Satyam. And ur comparison with Deewar was apt too. And since u brought Ifthekar into the mix, he also played an idealistic man in Zanjeer and Kaala Patthar- i also sometimes believe that such ‘non-central’ characters of old masala films who had a high moral code- the schoolmaster, an idealistic reporter/policeman, even a thies/thug with a certain integrity (Danny from Kaalicharan, Pran in Majboor)- are conspicous by their absence in the new-age masala films
Absolutely Saurabh.. and speaking of Iftikhar probably no one in the history of Hindi cinema suggested as much integrity as him! Here the perfect complement to his Deewar outing is the Don turn. if you for a second leave aside what each guy’s profession is in the respective film they could be the very same in all other ways. Which gets to my point!
But yes you’re totally right that in leaving behind all the great character actors, supporting actors and even bit parts of the past Hindi cinema has lost a great deal of ‘texture’ and ‘depth’ even on a good day. The story I love in this context involves Leone who apparently took far more time casting the bit players in his films than the leads. His sense was that an actor should make the right mark even in a brief appearance and of course this is true for all his films.
In some ways people like Kashyap or RGV, at least on certain days, could learn a lot more from Leone. On the one hand they too give a great deal of attention to the bit parts and so on.. all these characters are memorable in their films. On the other hand the essential tension in their works is one Leone resolved successfully decades before them. RGV is closer to Leone in this sense and very unlike Kashyap (and many others who are inferior to Kashyap) in that he wants to retain the epic frame. In fact he’s moved further in this direction after Company (as has Scorsese in a comparable sense.. say Mean Streets to Casino). He loves that whole ‘central man’ idea. On the other hand Kashyap too secretly endorses this but he has to deconstruct things far more to get there and this runs a certain danger because if you take it to an extreme you lose the framework in which any kind of ‘grand character’ makes great sense, let alone of an epic sort.
Godard and Leone offer contrasts on this score. Godard often repeated the moves of great genre films, he’d even have his characters mimic the larger than life figures of those works but ultimately his films were deconstructive. What’s very interesting here is that you perform better deconstruction when you run close to the source, shadow it or make your film a kind of ‘graft’ on the original. Everything looks very similarly and yet in its effects it is dramatically different (much as in a different vein it is the much more sincere Hollywood ‘remake’, literally or otherwise.. say Game, that ends up looking far more of a ‘fake’ than a much more cheesy ‘Indianized’ attempt). The advantage to be had here is that Godard can repeat all the moves of his originals, even retain the framing in some manner and thereby ‘borrow’ from the transcendence of the originals to perform his ultimate deconstructions. If he had done something completely different his films might still have been valuable but the originals would also have remained untouched.
Leone goes even further here. His deconstruction is always the other side of nostalgia. He loves the original works, he references them constantly, even obsessively in certain films. But he is always totally aware that the epic framing is no longer valid. That world has vanished. He too relies on comic elements, principally through the exaggeration of heroic gesturality, which if taken to an extreme becomes ‘comic’ (note how Southern masala often does the same with the Bachchan legacy.. you take it too far and the films becomes comedies! again this is something RGV struggles with.. he wants to take it that far and yet present it ‘seriously’.. so his ultimate resolution quite often involves characters, principally in the Sarkar films, but also with Devgan in Company, who have taken gesturality to such an extreme that they no longer even have to indulge in it! Just a stare or a twitch or some such thing is enough to get the job done!) but the ‘heroic’ and more precisely the epic mode has not simply vanished from his world. he gently nudges it but doesn’t destroy it altogether. In the same sense the entire Ford physical landscape that was so impressive is equally so in Leone (downsized a bit earlier on but returns with a vengeance in Good the Bad and the Ugly and even moreso Once upon a Time in the west… a similar move is available in Once upon a Time in America as well where the nostalgic urban setting with the enormously symbolic bridge and so on return).
So Godard and Leone in very different ways deal with the heritage by ‘mocking’ it most when they’re running very close to it. And again what’s important here is the ‘compromise’. In more Bombay film terms you can’t simply downsize Vijay or ‘lose’ all his epic registers. You’d end up with a good ‘realistic’ film but not much more. Of course it is also too late to simply repeat Vijay in uninteresting ways. Which is why enjoyable as many of the contemporary masala efforts might be they are hopelessly beside the point at the end of the day.
should add another note of clarification here. How does some of the stuff I’m saying here not contradict some of the other things I’ve said (that a lot of these films are happy to simply annoy bourgeois audiences, hence the rough language or the frank sexuality and so forth)? Actually I am saying precisely the same thing either way. The point is that you can uphold the same structure by just superficially ‘irritating’ it in some way. This is why a lot of the key multiplex demographics that are not opposed to such films in principle (too grim, too much violence and so on) enjoy them quite a bit when they do end up watching them. And there is again nothing surprising here. The gangsters in these films are all about an honor and shame code that is precisely consonant with bourgeois values. They are in the business of blowing up many things (!) but these ‘family values’ isn’t one of them one you scratch the surface a bit. Once more I am not hostile to family values without reason. This ‘class’ supports the edifice of the democratic nation-state in all sorts of profound ways.
Art or Artifice?
Caught in two minds, Shougat Dasgupta wonders if Gangs of Wasseypur is a triumph of form or a betrayal of content
TWO WEEKS ago, on these pages, I reviewed Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur. I gave the movie four stars and wrote admiringly of the wit and flair of Kashyap’s filmmaking, how I was willing to overlook the lack of a plot because I so enjoyed the admittedly self-indulgent flourishes. Setting aside the starrating, an arbitrary choice and meant only to appease those who (perhaps sensibly) think of reviews as consumer reports, diminishing word counts mean that reviewers can only hint at their responses to a given work of art. Reviews, or rather a certain kind of review, are necessarily reductive, the reviewer trying to transmit enthusiasm or disdain or indifference but rarely all of those things at once.
In the days since the review, I’ve been involved in various arguments, passionate espousals or disavowals of Gangs. It mirrored the reactions of the group of people I watched the film with in the theatre. We continued our conversation over dinner, Kashyap’s loud champions countered by equally loud sceptics.
I have a foot in both camps.
The response to Gangs is a version of the debate over form and content. Susan Sontag in her famous essay ‘Against Interpretation’ writes of the “odd vision by which something we have learned to call ‘form’ is separated from something we have learned to call ‘content’”. And content, writes Sontag in the mid-1960s, is “mainly a hindrance, a nuisance”. The strongest criticism I have heard of Gangs is of its lack of content. This is not, in Sontag’s formulation, a “subtle or not-so-subtle philistinism”, but a genuine confusion created by Kashyap. In interviews both he and scriptwriter Zeishan Quadri have talked about the film’s foundation in truth, described their desire to make a film rooted in the political and social reality of north India.
There is, of course, little that is ‘real’ about Gangs of Wasseypur. It is a film rooted only in cinematic reality. As with Quentin Tarantino, everything Kashyap makes is in homage to the movies he loves. Even in his more disciplined, restrained films, Black Friday and Gulaal particularly, the narrative seams are frayed, the film always on the verge of coming apart. Kashyap forces you to consider the question, ‘What is the filmmaker’s responsibility to his subject?’ The answer, in Gangs at least, appears to be none at all. Of course, it’s hard to know whether the film has a subject at all, so scattershot is its attention. Certainly, Wasseypur is not its subject, not the coal mafia, not local politics, or why would Kashyap be so cavalier, so careless in his attention to detail?
Kashyap enjoys using documentary footage in his films, real people, real locations. He thinks of filmmaking as a guerrilla enterprise and has boasted about members of his crew being imprisoned or threatened. He has described his process as investigative, even journalistic. He fetishises the real, the authentic (see the much praised dialogue in Gangs). So it’s hardly surprising when people, particularly people familiar with the culture of small towns in north India, of places like Wasseypur, leave the cinema bewildered. Those huge, menacing butchers, what was that about? Why is the powerful politician such a willing patsy, so easily emasculated by an apparently lone gangster? Why does the story make so little sense? Why are we being distracted by song-and-dance sequences devoted to Ray Bans?
The Hoot, a website that tracks the Indian media, noted a divergence in reviews of Gangs in the Hindi and English press. In the former, reviewers scorned the film’s pretensions to authenticity, joking about the hypocrisy of playing to urban stereotypes and fantasies under the guise of realism. The English-language media were fawning about precisely the sort of things the Hindi reviewers noticed as false, including the language with its extravagant crudity.
It’s rather a clever con. Kashyap uses the vocabulary of independent cinema to make commercial cinema. Like so many of us in the middle classes, who spend hours in dim rooms, watching TV, movies, listening to music, reading comics and novels, Kashyap is enraptured by notions of the frontier, by a wilder, less circumscribed life. Out there, life is real, in here we watch, safe and cosy, titillated but untouched by ‘reality’. The denizens of Wasseypur, as recently reported in the national newspapers, are angry with their portrayal in Gangs. They, like those I know who hated the film, are disappointed by what they see as the film’s abdication of its responsibility to the real.
But for Anurag Kashyap ‘documentary’, ‘journalism’, ‘research’, ‘roots’ — all words he has used when talking about Gangs — are in service of a greater reality, perhaps the greatest reality: entertainment. He craves content, or thinks he does, but really he just wants to play with form so instead of a film that captures something essential about Wasseypur and, by extension, north India, Gangs devolves into broad pastiche. Kashyap takes the easy option of giving in to his cinephilia, to his imagined Wasseypur incubated in the movie theatres of his youth.
HINDI CRITICS, who listened to Kashyap talk of his desire to make a film about his roots, looked at Gangs of Wasseypur for verisimilitude, for a world they recognised, populated by characters whose motivations they understood, whose actions they found plausible. But Kashyap’s target is a certain kind of filmgoer: a multiplex audience too sophisticated for the aspirational fantasies peddled by mainstream Bollywood, but too naïve to see that Wasseypur serves the same function for Kashyap that Switzerland does for Yash Chopra. Just as Suketu Mehta in Maximum City panders to a prurient fantasy of Bombay, so Kashyap in Gangs of Wasseypur offers middle-class filmgoers the frisson of slumming it in mofussil India.
Shougat Dasgupta is an Assistant Editor with Tehelka.
shougat@tehelka.com
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=hub210712Art.asp
I am extremely glad for that last paragraph here. For obvious reasons! But I’m also pleased the author mentioned Maximum city because I’ve always felt similarly about this book.
The best Hindi film of the year would be Kshay though..unforunately many havent even heard of itt owing to a very limited release.. (directed by my friend)
Satyam n others, try watching it some time:
http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-kshay/20120618.htm
Tony, thanks for telling us abt Kshay- this seems really interesting and now it’s on my must watch list- So this director Gour is ur friend…interesting- i hope the film is available on dvd or atleast on youtube- from the review it seems like a ‘must watch’
yeah – 6 years in the making.. Poor guy had to go through the horrors of a destroyed reel, re-shooting, taking loans, and almost growing broke..
Thank God it got released even though it deserved to release in much more than 4 theaters across india
yes I’ve heard of this.. do want to watch it if I get a chance..
Partha Chatterjee’s deeply flawed reading of Kashyap and GoW in Frontline:
http://www.frontline.in/stories/20120810291510000.htm
I haven’t seen the film yet but some of these characterizations are impossible to swallow. Accusing Kashyap of being a closet right-winger is about as absurd a charge as I can think. Similarly with the rest of the film one can certainly dissent in all sorts of ways but to suggest the film has right-wing politics is rather remarkable based on everything I know about the film and Kashyap’s previous works.
This is though a problem not only with Partha Chatterjee. The academic left often goes deeply wrong and really off the rails in India when it starts defining just about every brand of politics and thought that isn’t totally on the left (in the ways they would define) as simply oriented along a right-wing spectrum. The word Chatterjee is probably looking for here is ‘conformism’. If one were to substitute this word for ‘right-wing’ everywhere it occurs in this article the piece would at least be legible. I have very often critiqued and criticized various films for all kinds of conformism. But the latter is not automatically right-wing. And here one of the elementary methodological problems is that the ‘left’ is defined in very specific terms so that anyone who does not subscribe to such a position can be excluded from the group. On the other hand the ‘right’ is defined as an abstraction or as ‘everything’ that you cannot put into the box of ‘leftist’ ideology. From here it is easy to call every other person and work a right-wing one.
Once again ‘conformism’ is problematic enough (for very many reasons) and doesn’t need to be exaggerated into ‘right-wing’ labeling. It is certainly fair to suggest that anything that isn’t ‘revolutionary’ enough in a Marxist sense or that doesn’t upset the existing institutional categories enough maintains the hegemony of the present and is in a sense props up a conservative framework. But this is not the same as ‘right-wing’. The latter is a specific ideological set, the former is about maintaining status quo which might or might not be tilted in a right-wing direction. One cannot just confuse the two.
Ultimately Chatterjee’s piece is also the latest symptom of Indian academia’s very lazy engagement (if at all) with popular cinema. Elsewhere the same author is far more shrewd and astute.
I am as alert to ‘right’wing’ ideological complicity as anyone else but to call Kashyap guilty of this is more than ridiculous. And even without seeing GoW I am very confident this cannot be the case here.
Thank you Satyam — you’ve saved me a rant today!!!
The Indian left — when it comes to “popular culture” — can make one ashamed of being a leftie! [Older thread here, that I’ve previously posted here.]
Excerpt: “The intention of the director, for all his grandiose posturing, appears to be the manufacture of harmless entertainment; the kind that excites, even titillates, the economically deprived, giving them false hope in the form of Sardar Khan, the son of Shahid Khan, a slain bodyguard of a rising gangster. …The structure of the film is misleading, much like the structure of the Indian economy, if one can indulge in a bit of levity. A number of red herrings are thrown at the viewer; there is some chit-chat about the state of coal mines and the deplorable treatment of miners during British rule and how the conditions have not changed in independent India, but nothing develops organically in relation to the narrative. Kashyap and his scriptwriters have somehow sketched in the background to tell the story of Sardar Khan, a gangster.”
Um, what would Chatterjee have him do, somehow sketch in the story of a gangster to tell the story of the coal industry?!
Excerpt: “Sardar Khan is a thoroughly repulsive character; he will kill without any twinge of conscience and fornicate as and when he has the urge.”
Truly, the Indian Left (and, as the moral police remind us everyday, Right) are the last refuges of bankrupt Victorianism.
Excerpt: “In its intention and politics it appears to be inspired by the Godfather Trilogy (Coppola) and Kill Bill I and II (Quentin Tarantino), both films espousing, of course without intending to, hard-line right-wing politics. The irony suggested is intentional, not many American film-makers have had the guts to be openly political since the McCarthy witch-hunt in the late 1940s. Coppola’s study of the Mafia in The Godfather is not critical enough, and, at times, without intending to, is admiring of the gangsters of Italian origin, who well-nigh pulverised social and political life in the U.S. Tarantino’s Kill Bill is nothing more than a tale of blood, gore and revenge; utterly nihilistic.”
Uh, what? The easy conflation of “nihilistic” and “hard-line right-wing politics” suggests a confusion of philosophical categories. And “not many American film-makers have had the guts to be openly political since the McCarthy witch-hunt in the late 1940s” — I mean, when will such otherwise fine minds get out of the Cold War?!
Still haven’t seen GoW (refused to do so without a proper print) but that preposterous criticism of the Godfather (along with certain films from Martin Scorsese’s career) is something one comes across from time to time in American pop culture writing – and irrespective of the source of the criticism (whether it’s left or right wingers that decry violence or sexuality on film) it represents a colossal failure in “reading” the work. I remember some time ago Rosenbaum arguing against Philip Lopate’s rather thoughtless criticism of Jarmusch along the same political lines. India unfortunately lacks the “oversight” to combat this kind of thing, barring the blogosphere.
PS — not to flog a dead horse, but Chatterjee also calls Kashyap’s politics “covertly right-wing,” without a shred of evidence to this effect. It’s really slanderous.
In fact I was too kind. The piece is not just ‘deeply flawed’. It simply cannot be taken seriously!
“Ultimately Chatterjee’s piece is also the latest symptom of Indian academia’s very lazy engagement (if at all) with popular cinema.”
Yes, and this is a point Q touched on in his “The Resented” piece very effectively.
Anurag of वासेपुर @ankash1009
Humne to itna kaha tha,Wassypur mein Kabutar 1 pankh se udta hai,ab uspe koi kehta hai Left-Wing Hai,koi bolta hai Right-Wing hai,kya karein
Satyam @Satyamk
@ankash1009 You should have specified whether that one wing was on its right or left!
Thanks satyam..
this seems to be the real reason for this angry commie( another Bong, what a surprise..LOL), these chataejees want the state/police to be forever helpless and not nab the commies/terrorists…(read Ms Roy )…..wah wah ..
“There is a scene of a young suspect running for his life from several overweight, middle-aged policemen, for what seems to be an eternity. Against all norms of logic the boy is caught; more so, if one keeps in mind a newspaper report that said a middle-aged policeman, appearing for a physical fitness test prior to promotion, collapsed and died after running a kilometre. The metaphor that Kashyap uses is not cinematic, it is a literal expression of the saying, “Nobody can escape from the long arm of the law.” What exactly is his political or philosophical thesis in this film?”
KanchanDas Gupta-
1.At fancy dinner much breast-beating for B’deshi immigrants. I suggested they accommodate B’deshis at home. Horrified silence followed. 1/2
2.I pointed to lilly pond in host’s garden and said “Their kids could frolic there like they would in B’deshi ponds.” Icicles in the air.
3.So long as Bangladeshi immigrants piss on Bodos, it’s fine with the mombatti crowd.
ROFLOL. Now you know why I have problems with “intellectuals”…sochetay hi nahi.
Waisey Racky, you should see Rajneeti and GOW side by side, to admire
(A) what Bajpai has done in both
(B) to see what a bollywood commercial cinema and “rooted” cinema kaa difference both made by smart directors.
Don’t know why so many people have problem appreciating or criticizing GoW. Shaadhi kaa laddu ki tarah…khaya toh pachtavo naa khaya toh pachtavo. Cannot praise…cannot criticize this movie without getting into controversy. GoW cannot be ignored, for sure.
A brilliant post qalander-cheers
Will read properly after viewing the movie…
Just saw this film. I’d prefer to do a piece that looks at both parts whenever the second one come out on DVD, but I’ll say this. My initial impression is not a particularly strong one. There’s some good stuff here, especially in the way of the performances and the music, but it really just feels like Rakth Charitra redux. Surprised I haven’t seen more pieces making this point. In any case, this film, unlike RC-1, simply drags beyond a point. Ultimately I believe I prefer Varma’s first chapter to this one…
More to come though after I watch part 2.
Interesting — based on some recent discussions on SS, I’ve ordered RC 1 and 2, but haven’t yet seen the films…
Think it’s his most worthwhile work since Company. Perhaps his most ambitious work ever and a duo I’d take over the Sarkar series. This is not to say it’s the best or most balanced work he’s done. Some of his rather crazy technical gestures are still at play. But there’s much more offered here than the standard Varma film over the past ten years. I’ve written on it, and will do the same for GOW once I see both parts. Don’t mean to be overly harsh on Kashyaps work just don’t think it’s visually as interesting as Varma’s series or moves with the same confidence and focus.
I’d agree that this double is among his strongest works and certainly one that I see myself returning to more often than many others within his oeuvre.
Anjali Singh Says:
Rakt Charitra is a pathetic film.absolutely senseless and ridiculous.
to compare gow with rakt charitra is like comparinf apcalypse now with pearl harbor…..not withstanding the fact that pearl harbor will appear as a classic when pitted again rakt charitra….which is childish and maudlin and a typical bollywood fare of the worst sort in its depiction of violence and gore and gang baazi.tottally divorced from the real….and flawed with a capital F.
So…you didn’t like it?
If it is RGV movie…just stay away. I think he has completely lost it!
Anjali, to quote someone you completely missed the point of the film and/or didn’t understand anything. Again to quote the same person the RC double is comparable to the Iliad and Odyssey combined. In fact RGV is India’s greatest director ever. Possibly greatest artist in any field.
And I am the Best commentator on blogsphere 😛
Satyam, I wonder who that mystery person is? We all have our biases. I like Govinda a lot in Ravaan and got all sorts of labels applied to me for saying so. You like a certain wooden actor a lot and won’t consider that hyperbole at all while the pretty much whole world rolls their eyes (with fews excpetions here on this blog).
@bliss: you indeed are best commentator…I said so this morning. Good to know that we all don’t suffer from humility syndrome.
Leaving aside discussions on the greatness (or lack) of GOW, IMO, Nawazuddin Siddiqui deserves to win some noted Best Actor awards for his stellar performance. The guy is an absolute revelation. His portrayals of various characters in PST, Kahaani and GOW are so different, with such excellent etching of his characterizations. The guy just steals scenes away. But knowing Bollywood, I would not be surprised if he is totally ignored by the nepotistic juries.
he won’t win anything. If he’s lucky he’ll get a critic’s award or something while more esteemed actors win for ETT or something!
Since nepotism was mentioned, I was thinking of a someone who is “thepian” in many people’s eyes on this blog…but I will go easy on you today Satyam 😦
I didn’t find one lousy actor/acting in GoW. I think apart from casting a good set of capable actors, it is also mark of a good director. Mahesh Bhatt comes to my mind…he could get even bad actors to do good work in all his movies (with exception of one heroine for whom he couldn’t do much).
“I didn’t find one lousy actor/acting in GoW.”
Totally agree. Where does Kashyap find these faces from, while the rest of the industry indeed wallows in the mediocrity of actors.
Nykavi
“Where does Kashyap find these faces from, while the rest of the industry indeed wallows in the mediocrity of actors.”
what is business for others is passion for kashyap.
you can see this passion when he speaks…you can see the honesty that says: “all i want to do is make good films…..all other considerations are secondary”.
this is something which is visibly lacking in most other directors.
they make films for box office….take into account the bollywood family waad and other considerations while casting. no wonder it shows in their works.
Another thing is intelligence and cinematic intuition. He is intellectually a superior being than any other director in bollywood…its as simple as that.
he is ahead of mani ratnam as far as intelligence in his films are concerned.the movie gulaal has a more avant garde and self referential…modernist theme…than the social commentary done in films like roza,bombay,etc…..they are now hackneyed and cliched themes….
kashyap is the only film director who has woken up to the 21st century modernity.the fact he is a voracious reader has contributed immensely to this development.
mani tried to look and sound modern in raavan….but made a mess.directors like him were great ONCE UPON A TIME..no doubt…but they are obsolete now…they can articulate the modern anxieties the way a more contemporary director like banerjee or kashyap can.
they can only wallow in their past acquired celebrityhood….
the last thing that i would like to add here is the fact that kashyap has suffered so much…… in the way the bollywood treated him like a pariah dog….these experiences have enhanced the quality of EDGINESS….in his works. his films have the quality of a visiting vengeance ….
i have a feeling ..this aspect is the reason why he connects with the youths….the underdog syndrome…goran ivanisevic defeating pete sampras….
Anjali, one day I’d love to see the works of this Anurag Kashyap you keep describing. Haven’t yet been able to see one of these films. Want to do so before he crosses Plato for intellect.
Agree with nykavi and anjali..
Forget about kashyap– appreciate this thought provoking writing folks ..
Btw anjali : did u check out ETT 😉
@ satyam
“Anjali, one day I’d love to see the works of this Anurag Kashyap you keep describing.”
Watch Gangs of Wasseypur 🙂
Have been hearing rumors Kashyap is going to post the uncut 7 hr 20 min version of GOW..on net after the DvD release. Waiting eagerly…will bring a lot of things into perspective and clear some cobwebs.
yup who that ch****a mani ratnam is in front of great kashyap
bombay was released just after 93 riots and roza when kashmir was at peak and what was the significance of gulal in a big way and what it was for indian cinema and these 2 names are just his hindi work whille in his native work political variety is immense and one of his movies is part of times best list of 100 movies of all times …the only indian movie along with pyasa and that is nayagan
kashyap who films are beginning to go to festival while ratnam’s movie are winning them for ages even raavan for cannes
if you want to compare it should be valid first:
bombay was part of trilogy and that includes roza and dil se tackling much real issues of separatism and for record maximum new talent to indian cinema is given by this man including two great composers rahman and raja
and ya goran defeated sampras just once in wimbledon but never dominated him because he just relied on big serve which sampras succumb to when he defeated he was not undergog infact was part of top 10
for us indian biggest move was when leander paes defeated sampas in 98…a real underdog without much support of system
its good to be modern but one never has to forget one’s root
@ rockstar
while ratnam’s movie are winning them for ages even raavan for cannes
what did raavan win at cannes?
under which category was it screened..and what award did it win?
on which category gow won…
can’t see it on cannes official site apart from pr story …please enlighten me
that ch***a ratnam is padam shri and has 6 national wards:
Ratnam is highly credited for having revolutionized the Tamil film industry and altering the profile of Indian cinema.[4] He has made films with a variety of genres and a majority of his films are characterized by a string of Socio-political themes.[87] It was mainly because of this most of his films have garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success.[87]
With his idea of combining art and commercial elements, Ratnam was referred for bringing new dimension to the South Asian film industry.[87] Many of his films have taken inspirations from real-life incidents such as Nayagan, Bombay, Iruvar and films like Thalapathi and Raavan were based on Indian epics.[2] He is lauded for his casting in each of his films—he said in an interview, “I am not a director who performs and shows. I discuss the role, the scene with my actors and let them bring life to it”.[2]
Ratnam is also well recognized outside India with a retrospective of his films held at various film festivals around the world such as Toronto International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Tokyo Filmex and Birmingham International Film Festival.[57] His films are being screened regularly at many film festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival.[57]
Ratnam’s aspiration towards films grew up watching films of K. Balachander, Guru Dutt and Sivaji Ganesan.[88] His is greatly influenced by the film-making styles of Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Ingmar Bergman.[88]
The Government of India honoured Ratnam with Padma Shri in 2002.[89] He has won several National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards, Filmfare Awards South and state awards. Apart from these awards, many of his films have been screened at various film festivals and have won numerous accolades. Geethanjali, directed by him won the Golden Lotus Award for Best Popular Film at the 37th National Film Awards. Other films like Mouna Ragam, Anjali, and Kannathil Muthamittal have won the Best Regional Film awards at the National Film Awards. Two of his films, Roja and Bombay have won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. The former was also nominated for Best Film category at the Moscow International Film Festival.[90] In 2010, Ratnam was honoured with Jaeger-Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[
Btw rockstar
An not contesting mani ratnams standing-rank him amongs Indias top four currently. (of not the top!)
But can’t help feel curious of why u hate kashyap so much..
Forget his utterings, forget his public posturings–
Do u really feel his films are that crap
Ps: u seem to be on a ‘ch…’ Spree somehow …
And are constantly using it for Mani ratnam -the guy u are ‘defending’ -ironic isn’t it 🙂
so finally the wikipedia revelations are coming out.
you one sentence dogmatic assertions long made me suspect they are coming from some foreign source( other than your mind)
your suraj ka saatva ghoda and quitters,etc
btw…gow was shown under director’s fortnight category…incidentally the same category under which many of scorcese early films had been shown.its aim is to showcase budding talent.
you have still not answered me…even if raavan won no award at cannes….be kind enuff to specify under which official/unofficial category was it screened.
do tell me ..has a single film of ratnam been shown in all the official/unofficial categories at cannes?
aa: you are the voice of reason and we are mere mortals and let we have our choices as i am not as insightful as you
@anjali
let them come out and whats your point atleast i am talking on your point rather than busy analysing you and your so called thoughts
is it there on cannes site…show me… atleast i am showing something rather than doing empty talks of my mind
if you have problems with quitters and sksg i can’t help you
Thanx rockstar 🙂
A trailer of Mani Ratnam’s bilingual Raavan/Raavanan was screened to the media here today. Timed to coincide with the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, when journalists from the world over assemble here, the event was attended by the lead stars of the movie, Vikram, Abhishek Bachchan and
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Archived-Stories/Raavan-unveiled-at-Cannes/Article1-544892.aspx
Raavan was never shown at cannes….only a 5 min trailer was shown by the producers( at their own considerable expense) for promotion purposes.
it was never selected in any of the official/un official category…and was never shown.
all is hype.
the self delusional mani ratnam was thinking finally he has made a crossover film that will appeal to the global audience…let alone global even the bo rejected him!..na idhar ke rahe na udhar ke rahe!
the point i have been trying to bring home is learn to face the facts…and don’t form decisions hawa mein.
all ur so called assertions and opinions about cinema are in hawa mein.
this is something which i find intolerable.be humble and learn to form ur own opinion first…then yu can use wiki sources to supplement/complement ur opinions.
dont go blind…or yu will keep falling a prey to rumors like raavan was shown at cannes.
You’re not aware of all the facts. Indeed Raavan wasn’t screened at Cannes but to show a film out of competition is not a big deal there anyway. a number of commercial filmmakers have done this. GoW was shown as part of the Director’s Fortnight which is an ‘out of competition’ category because it is not eligible for the central awards though films here are eligible for the Camera D’Or award (as are those in the Un Certain Regard) category. In fact the Director’s Fortnight came up as an alternative to the main show. GoW still deserves credit but not the kind you think it does. Just because it’s ‘in’ Cannes doesn’t mean everything is equal.
Ratnam did screen Raavan/Raavanan at a number of festivals, in and out of competition. At Venice he got a great response and won an award too:
https://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/how-khalnayak-anticipates-raavan/#comment-91393
So you’re either deeply unaware of the facts or you’re deeply misleading on what you’re saying. You might be in an extended argument with Rockstar but to characterize Rathnam in the ways you have is extremely non-serious.
i thought i have spammed alot today but you have forced me to write one
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-16/india/28301501_1_indian-film-film-festival-cannes
these directors are going there for their future fiananciers and distributors and there is only kashyap who is bringing hype everywhere by this so called promotion strategy as he needsa hype can’r recall a self delusioned ranam needing this stuff in his long long career cmmon
and ya abusing ratnam or other legends daily will not make kashyap the greatest…it only shows insecurity nothing more
let kashyap first make one significant or impactful movie first which changes the bar technically or commercially
(happy atleast he is getting some recognition after more than 15 years in industry)
“It’s nothing but mutual masturbation,” expostulates Sheetal Talwar from Cannes after the ‘India Party’ on Monday night which Talwar describes in his livid condition as “frigging farce and waste of the Indian government’s precious money.”
Producer Sheetal Talwar who is a regular at the annual Cannes jamboree, says this year’s report-card for Bollywood at Cannes is deplorable. “We’re a f…ng joke at Cannes. Every year we hear of this or that film going to Cannes .The fact is, hardly any Indian ever makes it into the competitive section. Even this year apart from Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely, all the other films that you hear about being at Cannes are in non-competitive sections. You only have to go through Cannes’ official programme to realize the truth of what I am saying.”
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-25/news-interviews/31851756_1_cannes-nfdc-indian-pavilion
One More Link and Do read it Guys along with comments
https://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/indian-cinema-is-a-joke-at-cannes-livid-producer/
Personally I don’t care a damn about getting screened at Cannes or Sundance or other such places either as competitive or even otherwise!!
Why does one need the ‘approval’ from those
To heck with it..
Btw know some folks whose short films got screened –many times it’s academy of the ‘category’ or the folks u know (yes even there–obviously one has to make a bare minimum standard stuff!!)
Why does one have to pull kashyap or mani down like this Cannes or not!!
IMO both are excellent film makers
Whilst it is currently more acceptable to acknowledge mani, with time, I’m sure even kashyap will come up with something uniquely marvellous and celebrated in the ‘west’ that folks here will find difficult to ‘run down’
Err I’m wrong –it’s never difficult to find points to run down something good though …
I don’t agree with either extremist position on Cannes or any other festival of repute. It all depends on contexts. There is politics at these festivals much like anywhere else. And certainly a Cannes screening, even in competition, is not the last word on a film. But one can’t be dismissive either. It is a prestigious festival where cinema of a certain quality is general represented irrespective of what eventually wins. More importantly though it’s not Cannes or Venice or the Oscars or what have you. These are great symbols of international prestige for the ‘colonized’. I understand that and I am not necessarily disdainful of this aspiration either. However the larger problem here is that for many people these labels are always used to limit the discussion on cinema, never to enlarge it. So if a film makes it to some festival, makes some waves in this sense there is a kind of ‘Nazism’ of opinion that forms around these things. No one must disagree! And this is part of a larger tendency where people similarly wish to silence all debate one way or the other based on box office returns, media reviews, etc etc. The whole obsession with Western awards and festivals is part and parcel of the same kind of thinking. One should work towards expanding these discussions, not curtailing their boundaries. Many tend to be afraid of counter-opinions because they have the illusion that there’s one right, one correct opinion. There isn’t any such thing. No matter how great the figure or body of work. It all depends on perspective. The rest is about critical fashions and political agendas. But this also does not mean that ‘anything goes’! Because whatever view one takes on something it has to be minimally informed IF one is going to make important claims on the same. I can say ‘I love Sholay’ and that will be the end of the matter. If I on the other hand state that ‘Sholay is the greatest Indian film’ I might be asked to explain myself! and just saying the film made me smile or cry or love my wife and kids more isn’t good enough!
My answer will always remain the same as many times as this question is raised.. I am very happy to hold common opinions with Rathnam and Mehra and some others on this matter. Because it is my birthday I too shall go easy on you and not complete that thought!
You mean those who are not repeating him in their next. Sorry couldn’t resist. Anyhow. Enough of bullying. You should try to understand the very same sentiments we experience (Kashyap or movie or whatever we might be fan of…it will always be irrational to set of people or even majority of people…).
I mean those who’ve repeating him multiple times when you were learning how to count!
And I don’t stop anyone from experiencing any kind of ‘sentiments’!
Just saw this — am busy so a proper greeting later today when free
Happy birthday to satyam
Let’s give him some bday bumps
(& take out the ghost of abhishrek and Rohan sippy from his system!) 🙂
On a serious note–
What are your plans for today and how many candles should we get 🙂
thanks Alex..
“(& take out the ghost of abhishrek and Rohan sippy from his system!) :-)”
oh no… then I’ll lack all sense of taste!
Don’t worry – u will be better off !!
I’ve treated some afflicted with Srk and Imran khan addiction !!
This shouldn’t be more difficult 🙂
where did you drive them? Into the arms of Cocktail?
Hahaa that was the ‘comment of the day!’
Fitting for a birthday buoy..
Infact both those in question are now not even cummenting–forget openly going orgasmic about Imran khan and Srk
Yes : they seem to have joined my ‘cocktail cult’ hesitatingly ..
Btw hope Amy and oldgold are not reading this
I’ll also echo Q’s sentiment here. The performance of the film for me (at least the first part) wasn’t Nawazuddin but the actor who played Shahid Khan. That guy cut such a memorable, Leonesque figure one really missed his presence once we was dispatched. I prefered him to Bajpai who is fine here but not nearly as “timeless” a figure as the epic framework required here.
@ Di —
Agree with your points on GOW
Also not sure why your liking govinda in raavan should be mocked at here ( without mocking many others least of all the lead actor!)
On a related note- why did A director of manis calibre have to resort to govinda jumping like a monkey to ‘complete the similarity’ to the epic!!
Anyhow …
Agree with that (“jumping like a monkey to ‘complete the similarity’ to the epic”) but still Govinda delivered as directed, is my point. You should see the tamil version’s govinda counterpart to know what I am saying (the physical-the body language). As far as Abhi goes: I think lot of Amitabh’s movies like Kala Pattar etc..he can come up with layered portrayal having gone thru’ the hardships in life himself. Amjad slept on sets in same sweaty,grungy clothes to play his daku-gabbar. I don’t know if Abhi goes thru’ some of this proccess or not. For Yuva, Ratnam worked with him a lot….going all the way to the childhood experiences of the character. If you don’t understand what you are doing, how are you going to act it through your eyes…you have to “feel” the character and his angst. If you don’t know how Dalit is spelled forget his experiences, it will just end up with a man with charcoal face on the camera. People like H.Roshan are not necessarily more talented or more intelligent but they are more hard working…I would say the same about Aamir. Not that he is gifted but just very hardworking…his retakes are legendary in movie business. And then that hardwork shows on the screen and rewarded on B.O.
Bottom line is that Abhi will never be Ompur or Nawaz. He should prolly focus on his “type” of roles. Like his last movie. The ones that get him 100 crore club pronto.
Agree Di
U r back with a bang 🙂
Ps : btw I don’t wanna totall rip apart abhishrek either..
Hope he makes his latest box office success pay and builds a career out of it
Go unabashedly box office for a while–prestige etc can follow later..
Di -which movies have u seen lately -any ‘reviewz’ ..
thanks for telling us a lot of these things which are as ‘factual’ as fiction..!
Do you mean his last movie didn’t make 100Crore?!?
I must have missed that one ‘fact’ in your long comment. Hard to find a needle in a haystack..
Satyam : don’t think Di is saying anything nonsensical
She has a very reasonable point
And pray stop putting her down just bcos she has an alternate view point / is a female..
All this talk of ‘progressive/regressive’ and ‘gender equality’ is good but has to seep in
Hohoho
Clappping folks …
How would you know?!
Sorry Alex, couldn’t resist it!
In other words —
The ‘respectable’ outcome for u satyam also is —
Join my ‘cocktail’ cult!!!
U will be looked after (like others)
to be frank ratnam suffered hear attack during that movie(that to his 3rd one) just beleive he was not upto his top form both physically and creatively even the greatest director ever of world cinema anurag kashyap(with pun intended) wrote dialogues for goal and johar’s master piece qurbaan after what he wrote for mani’s yuva
Agree that the ‘heart attack’ may have something to do with it..
Or else one can’t expect this sort of lack of directin from Mani..
Btw all makers have a list of ‘lesser works’ —
Including kashyap and mani..
There’s no maker who creates only ‘great’ stuff ..
Except those who pack up after one or two great films !!
Ps: this was mentioned not to ‘belittle’ the obviously splendid ratnam- but to put into perspective the debacle of raavan-an otherwise good idea but flawed in execution..
this wasn’t his first heart attack.. and actually since the early 90s when Rathnam embarked on a more ambitious kind of filmmaking (punctuated with more commercial efforts at times) his films have most failed. The only thing different about Raavan’s Hindi reception was the illiteracy of the critics and/or their agendas. No one complained for the Tamil version, even those who didn’t like it were hardly mauling it. But all his more interesting films in Tamil and Hindi have failed, some saved by the initial, but failures nonetheless. Even with Rajnikant Rathnam didn’t get a proper success!
The problem isn’t Raavan as much as folks who are completely unaware of the relevant histories here. which doesn’t mean one cannot criticize Raavan. Just that one should know the facts.
rajni got lot of critical acclaim for talapathi though and nayagan is kamal’s best work
in hindi cinema
dil se was the the first movie to enter into u.k top 10 i guess and it established srk’s overseas dominance and abhishek has been utilised to well in guru and yuva to
But y did poor govinda need to literally jump onto trees et al
Ps- lately Ive felt that probably it much of abhishreks fault in raavan
As for ash – she did all she could to salvage the situation
Btw I can rarely find fault in ash ( of those days!)
Only a natural born dancer could have done this so effortlessly “jump onto trees et al”.
Personally, I think it was poor script (even though the idea was gr8). Ravaan was neither rooted/realistic cinema nor was it commercial. I think Ratnam was bit confused here. When Kashyap markets his movies, he cares less if they are successful as long as they are critically acclaimed and no one loses money..he is true to himself and his convinctions. I think Ratnam got lot more criticism because he had larger canvas and must have doobaoed lot of financier’s money and our protagonist got swindled in the process in terms of his reputation/image. BTW: did you see GoW yet Alex?
with the comments of some regulars this blog has become an Alice in Wonderland film school. every day one is taken down the knucker-hole. Feel like an ingrate for even arguing. Those words haunt me — you must be mad or you wouldn’t be here!
“Alice in Wonderland film school”. lolz. Atleast it is fun, magical ride down there. Not to mention she wakes up in the end to reality.
You have to agree though that Iruvar was far-far-far superior to Ravan or Ravanan.
I am a bit skeptical of Iruvar fans who pop up only when it’s a question of Raavan. Much like the fans Vikram gained overnight in Hindi circles.
But there’s another reason why this kind of framing is less than honest. I have never called Raavan Rathnam’s greatest film. So this whole line of ‘you must admit it’s less than Iruvar…’ means nothing (what next? less than Pathar Panchali?!). of course as a purely logical issue being secondary to Iruvar when the director in question is Rathnam is hardly dishonorable! Of course I have never called it secondary to Iruvar either. These are just attempts to constantly try and rewrite the argument to simply establish some sort of negative perspective on a film. So for example I like Sangam a lot but I could keep saying ‘it’s not Awara’ or ‘it’s not Shree 420, ‘it’s not Jagte Raho’ and so on. All of this would be true but it would hardly discredit Sangam.
Debates have to be honest and/or ethical. Just making grand statements without having an adequate understanding of things isn’t exactly a serious opinion. By the same token if you don’t like my views on Raavan or don’t agree with them pull up my pieces and comments and tell me what specifically you don’t agree with (I know you don’t like the film, I don’t have a problem with that). That’s where a debate can begin. If someone challenges me on my views on a film one way or the other I have a response. In fact I take great pains to put up comprehensive responses. But those who cannot or will not debate on the specifics find the easy way out — oh he’s just spinning things to support his favorite star or film. This kind of laziness if not downright dishonesty can be used in any situation.
At any rate this desperation to establish that Raavan isn’t worthy of any discussion or praise or the same for Abhishek or the same for Rohan Sippy or whatever the example happens to be.. this says something not about me but about those who question me? if you don’t like a film talk about it at length, I think all kinds of negative views on Raavan are perfectly valid, but the terms of such a critique cannot be of the kind I’ve seen from the film’s most rabid critics. Similarly I am all for iconoclastic views elsewhere but simply saying things bombastically doesn’t mean very much — for anyone who knows a little bit about this stuff! People are unfortunately misinformed on both counts. A lot of people say things and (hate to be so blunt about it) make fools of themselves but they’re completely unaware of this. Ignorance has its advantages! One is too polite or at least civil to say too much beyond a point but people expose themselves very easily on this score. And the same would be true in any other area.
Ravaan to Mani Ratnam is Non smoking to Kashyap. Even maestro’s make product that is less than worthy of their talents. For me Ratnam could have done much-much better in Ravaan, knowing what he is capable of. We had had this debate for very long time. I had even watched it second time (in case I was not able to *see* what you saw). Unfortunately even though the movie has mind blowing visuals/cinematography, it fails at many levels if not every other level….and I am not talking of B.O.
You can hardly pick a flaw in Iruvar, on the other hand…it is perfection in every way, a delight to watch over and over and again!
I don’t mind declaring that I loved ‘no smoking’
If it was ‘pretentious’, most of the European auteur circuit is more of the same..
I adored ‘no smoking’
Infact suggest those who didn’t like it to revisit after ten years or so … 🙂
Just my humble opinion…
Don’t like No Smoking very much but it’s possibly Kashyap’s most interesting film.
again you state your opinions as objective ones. I can certainly pick problems in Iruvar, I have at points in the past, depending on the context sometimes I highlight them, sometimes I don’t. Similarly the idea that Raavan fails at every level other than the cinematography is your opinion. which is absolutely fine but you have to bring yourself to a place where you can imagine an alternative opinion as equally valid. Not here how (even if people haven’t been reading) I have never had a problem with anyone who didn’t like Raavan or any other Rathnam film. But on the specifics I have indeed argued a lot because those were more ‘objective’ debates. The same for Abhishek. You find him wooden, I find him a fascinating actor, there isn’t a right or wrong opinion here. But if you insist that the opinion of the other side just isn’t valid that’s problematic. Again this too doesn’t mean anything goes. These debates always assume one is minimally informed about these things (as long as the debate isn’t completely subjective).
The other crucial point to remember here is that depending on who we are, depending on our preferences, depending on even our understanding of things in any give area, we will not be equally open or appreciative of every work. There are certain very important filmmakers who don’t do anything for me. The same for some very great films. But I don’t start thinking that other opinions are invalid! Here even critical reviews don’t mean much. There are tons of films throughout movie history in every country of the world where films underwent radical changes in terms of their critical fortunes.
Haven’t watched GoW or even gulaal
Have watched no smoking, dev d and black Friday–I don’t need any further proof really…
Have noted a certain mocking condescending attitude to ‘no smoking’
Ps– don’t really give such statements usually, but in my opinion, the lack of appreciation of the movie isn’t a problem with the maker –the viewers need some ‘education’ in cinema b4 being unleashed onto this sort of work…
Here I have taken the risk of offending people but this is what I feel about it really,,,,
Have been quiet about it but no more !!!!
I quite liked No Smoking too…
“The other crucial point to remember here is that depending on who we are, depending on our preferences, depending on even our understanding of things in any give area, we will not be equally open or appreciative of every work.”
When I gave the above argument, you mowed me down…giving example of Kagaz kay Phool (guru dutt movie that was not appreciated in its time).
And I always said that….one is open or appreciative based on one’s life experiences. But there is also that something that speaks to EVERYONE, be it non-hindi audience in Tamilnadu or Egypt, on Amitabh’s performances. I wonder why that something speaks only to you on Abhishek? Shouldn’t it reach out to every one, one and same? If an actor doesn’t have life experiences and lives in airconditioned vanity van and goes to switerland..how can he play a naxal type character? I wonder. But Nawaz or Irfan or bigb can pull it off because apart from being fine actors they also have gone through some of that struggle and pain that naxal may go thru’ or you really have to a gr8 artist to understand the pain of a naxal. So their performance won’t be wooden and would speak to one and all universally. If you indeed are in tremendous minority, then you should indeed take a good look and see if you prejudiced/biased.
These are very tired, vague, logically incoherent points that I’ve nonetheless responded to many times before. Not going to debate them all over again.
‘Tremendous Minority’ 🙂 .. LOL
“If you indeed are in tremendous minority, then you should indeed take a good look and see if you prejudiced/biased.”
“tremendous minority”
Thats where courage of conviction comes from, I must say. When you are part of Tremendous minority (Abhi’s BO; Sattus love for Abhi; Anjali’s obsession of Kashyap etc etc) then you have to have the courage to “ekla chalo ray”
“I am a bit skeptical of Iruvar fans who pop up only when it’s a question of Raavan.”
I have ALWAYS been a huge Iruvar fan..so much so that my tamil friends mock me!!! Unfortunately I cannot give out a layered criticism the way Anjali or Q on Iruvar or Ravan that would satisfy you. I may have during our previous discussion (I remember discussing a particular scene etc). Being a fan of Ratnam, I tried very hard to like Ravan and inspite of Ravan, I still think highly of him. If it makes a fool…so be it….for a fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise knows himself to be a fool.
That opinion doesn’t make you a fool at all. Your response is perfectly fine. That’s your personal reaction to a film. You don’t have to ‘try’ and like it either. However at the same time one should have some humility about what one can or cannot talk about. To be clear humility does not stop anyone from having an opinion. But it ought to stop them form running down other opinions that might be much more well-founded in the same sense! As an impressionistic matter I react to various Rahman songs in different ways but if I want to argue that a certain transition in one of his songs does or does not work I need to know a bit more about music! To be honest I have always found it the greatest joy to be able to revisit my opinions or presumptions or what have you when I come across writings I value. I have changed my mind on very many films and filmmakers and so on based on this. It doesn’t mean that I’ve started loving all those films. Not at all! But I have liked being informed, liked being educated. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a great name doing the educating or someone who is not well known at all. I have learned a lot of things from both kinds of folks.
Re: I am a bit skeptical of Iruvar fans who pop up only when it’s a question of Raavan. Much like the fans Vikram gained overnight in Hindi circles.
LOL!!! There are quite a few of this.
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
Which road do I take? she asked.
Where do you want to go? was his response.
I don’t know, Alice answered.
Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.”
MORAL: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
^^^ reading that passage by ‘anjali singh’ made me LOL again wow 🙂
btw Satyam– i noted that on the facebook page, the photo of the girl is differnt now haha
Another gow quote fresh from google–
Sultan Qureshi: Ye wasseypur hai, yahaan kabootar bhi ek pankh se udta hai air dusre se apni ijjat bachata hai.
This is Wasseypur (SATYAMSHOT), here even a pigeon flies with one wing and uses the other to hide his modesty.
OT,
Amitabh Bachchan @SrBachchan
T 842 – Ok .. some advance news .. Looks like I shall be on FaceBook from tomorrow … looks like .. wait for confirmation !!
Yikes….Why…pray why. Not sure how that adds value!
I’m not blaming govinda here for ‘jumping onto trees’
The poor guy has been called by a reputed thespian for the first. Time ever and is doing what he’s told..
But was a bit surprised at Mani having to ‘underline’ the similarities reminiscent of kjo world somewhat
On hind sight, even abhishrek wasn’t so kun at fault and tried his best ..
But well, can’t blame Mano for having a ln off day due to a heart attack — can be forgiven in such an illustrious career
And evn that film raavan had some ace moments…
Ps : nope : haven’t seen GOW –have u -where’s your rview ..
One shouldn’t invite a guy to commit suicide on his birthday.
GF: u are oblivious to some of the ‘perks’ it entails haha
For those perks , satyam is ready for ‘suicide’ as well ( though wont admit here)
And he has secretly signed the membership form as well 🙂
As for Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Faisal Khan, it is one screen role that will go on to define the genre. Much like Bhiku Mhatre or Langda Tyagi. Zeeshan Quadri as ‘Definite’ is an amazing find, and will go places really fast. But it is Huma Quereshi’s raw sexuality that sets the movie on fire. Huma makes most of our Bollywood’s 100 crore ladies look like insipid, sexless nannies. She is earthy, voluptuous and effortlessly gobbles up the screen. By any standards, GoW-2 is superb cinema. A must watch just to observe how seamlessly one gets drawn into the most terrible tale of revenge and retribution. But will it ever crack that 100 crore club? Naah. And that ‘crime’ will be held against it while a pretty shallow Ek Tha… will keep the industry folks rocking till the next monster hit comes along at Diwali. If great movies were only about great destinations, would we need the ‘Discovery Channel’?
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/politically-incorrect/entry/bollywood-s-100-crore-club
Girish Kumar Says:
I used to admire Anurag Kashyap when I saw his movies like Black Friday, No Smoking, which to me were the harbingers of the bold, new rebellious cinema that saw directly into the eyes of the traditional Bollywood establishment and dared them. That was it. Films like Dev D, Gulaal, Shaitan were mediocre at best. But then I do not wish to criticize Anurag Kashyap, as I think he should make the films he wants to make and not what I want him to make. GoW, the latest from Anurag Kashyap has nothing more to offer other than abuse, profanities delivered by the cast at the drop of the hat and over the top violence. GoW is a well made film but there is nothing great about that movie, be it cast, acting, plot etc.
going just by the word count of the review of Part 1 and part 2, one can tell which one Q liked more….lol
Lol, true! According to some on this blog, liking 1 more than 2 makes us biased against the latter — I say Kashyap has displayed bias against us!
a brilliant piece on GoW there Q-Now that ive seen the film, must say its the most true to the setting
and the nuances are mentioned
Just that I enjoyed all the ‘verbal tics’ much more
Even oiyush mishras voiceover was more of a character of its own….
Thanks aa!
Finally watched this film and must say this was another underwhelming film with all the hype surrounding it. This review by Qalandar pretty much sums up GoW perfectly. I too enjoyed the first part of the movie with the Shahid Khan character but the movie trended downwards after that.
“That is where Scorsese’s Gangs of New York ended up: intellectually slight, but held together by Daniel Day-Lewis’ terrific Bill “The Butcher,” a tour de force that doesn’t address any critiques, but makes them seem beside the point. Kashyap’s film falls short. More specifically, while the screenplay’s avoidance of a narrative centered on a Bigtime Star like Daniel Day-Lewis is intellectually the right choice, in theory opening up the film to a host of characters (inherently a more plausible state of affairs if one is creating a world: no-one imagines himself in a character role in the film of his life), this doesn’t work so well in this script.”
great paragraph and one that I whole heartily agree with. I’m not even inclined to watch the second part. Kayshap shows his directing prowess in parts…but this was a very uneven movie, IMO.
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Home Scandal and Gossip 5 Columbia students busted for selling drugs to frat houses.
5 Columbia students busted for selling drugs to frat houses.
Ivy league behavior…
In a case that has the hallmarks of an underworld signature 5 Columbia University students were arrested today in a drug sting that has the academic world spinning…
NY Post; Five Columbia University students were busted today for selling drugs at three frat houses — a sweep that also resulted in the arrest of a supplier who had tried to kidnap a rival drug dealer — as part of an undercrover drug sweep that began over the summer, authorities said.
“Operation Ivy League” also led to the arrests and indictment of three of the students’ drug suppliers, including a defendant from the East Village who is charged with plotting to kidnap a pair of rival cocaine traffickers, police said.
So much for getting an education, or maybe this was the 5 indicted individuals seemingly ‘easy’ way to pay for Columbias’s steep tuition costs?
And prey, what were the students selling?
The students sold the cops a variety of drugs totaling $11,000, including cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, Adderall and LSD. In some cases, LSD was applied to Altoids mints and other candy.
Hmm, that should help fellow students soak in their school lessons…But of course when you are on to a good thing you will do almost anything to keep the good times rolling…
“The fact that a supplier to the Columbia students was willing to kill his rivals should demolish any argument that drugs on campus is a victimless crime,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. “This is no way to work your way through college.”
The students, Chris Coles, 20; Harrison David, 20; Adam Klein, 20; Jose Stephan Perez, 20; and Michael Wymbs, 22, were indicted today on various charges, including charged with the criminal sale of a controlled substance. The students are expected to be arraigned today in Manhattan Criminal Court.
And who were the preferred customers? Why you- the future leaders of our free enlightened world…
The majority of the sales took place in common areas and bedrooms at Alpha Epsilon Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha and Psi Upsilon frat houses. Two of the students also sold drugs from their rooms at the Intercultural House and East Campus Housing.
But when the money keeps coming you can’t help thinking of new fun ways to now pay for the next thing on your checklist…
“An ominous aspect of this investigation was the involvement of college students in the violent drug dealing business. The recent shootings on September 29 and November 1 of young people involved in selling marijuana highlight the all too familiar link between drugs and violence,” said Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan.
Sarzynski (one of the suppliers to the students) also manufactured drugs for distribution at his apartment on East 6th St. with the help of his girlfriend Megan Asper, who cops said specialized in growing pot.
Sarzynski is also charged for attempting to kidnap a pair of rival cocaine traffickers who he believed had stolen money from him.
We wonder which school the rival traffickers went to? Surely not another another rival graduate school. But then again, why bother with the aspirations of the professional classes when you create your own very special class. Prison sentences and the occasional kidnap and shooting mission aside…
One day, when you too are getting ready to apply for college you might just skip the whole fuss and go for where the real action is, assuming living a life on the skip is your cup of tea?
Shouldn’t you be applying to Columbia too?
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
Kelly Davin December 7, 2010 at 10:32 pm
I went to your site after reading a comment on a previous site…love PIRATES.
Just wanted to say that PREY is spelled correctly, in my humble view.
So yes, you are TARD ED. Maybe you should check out dictionary.com or a manual copy of Webster’s to find out why.
tard ed December 7, 2010 at 7:03 pm
you spelled “pray” wrong.
you don’t get to give advice to people
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Short Version:
Shane White is an author and artist who works in comics, video games and film. Some of the work he’s known for is Pathfinder: Goblins, Fear Agent, Bad Karma, Marvel’s 1 Month 2 Live, The Overman, Things Undone, Comic Book Tattoo and much more! He resides in the Northwest with his wife…and a million other people.
Long Version:
He started writing and drawing in 1972. Hence the start of his life of crime.
By 1975 he was compelled to re-imagine The Cat In the Hat in it’s entirety…only better. He finished an exact replica (at least in his mind) of the cover and then drew various bikes, cars, banana trees and eventually another cat wearing a hat.
One year later he would be banned from the painting station because he thought a painting of legs coming out of someone’s head was far more interesting. The teacher did not see its merits. Mom intervenes and Shane is back painting under a baleful glare. Mom: 1 Teacher: 0.
1978 He sees Star Wars for the first time and draws it non-stop on the back of all his tests and homework assignments. He would receive various demerits for doing so. Burns out on Star Wars by 1980. Mom intervenes again, negotiating terms that suggest as long as his work is done it’s better than him disturbing the class with his hyper-activity. Mom: 2 Teacher: -1
By 1979 Shane acquires all 4 KISS solo albums and sets out to redraw their portraits without make-up hoping to Unmask them. He finishes with Gene and declares both he and his drawing ugly. Gives up on project.
1980 was the year that MAD magazine blew his mind. By the end of the year he was writing and drawing his own version of the magazine featuring various McDonald’s mascots as murderers, drug-dealers and rapists.
1981 is the year he made contact with Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS easily the single-most influential film (next to HAROLD & MAUDE) until he sees BRAZIL 7 years later.
1982, 6th grade he was caught drawing on his desk, from memory, a bigger than life portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the five dollar bill. Teacher makes him clean 25 desks after school hoping to steer him from a life of forgery. Bonds with teacher and eventually on the last day of elementary school he and teacher ride their unicycles throughout the entire school. Teacher: 1 Shane: 0 +1
The Summer of 1982 he rediscovers comics at a gas station 5 miles from his house. He buys all 20 books for around $8. [Sadly you have to reverse those numbers today.] He would continue this dreadful love affair for the rest of his life.
Not having learned a lesson about school property, in 1983, he lies about drawing, once again from memory, the cover of Halloween 2: Season of The Witch novel on his desk. He got away with it, felt so bad about lying that he never lied again…except…for the first assignment in his art class. He copied a piece of art from an art instruction booklet and tried to pass it off as his own to fully impress his teacher and peers. Teacher got wise to this and broke him like a show pony. Teacher: 2 Shane: 0
1985- He discovers small press publishing on the inside cover of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comic. He starts writing, drawing and publishing his own work until retiring a whole two years later in 1987.
He graduates high school in 1988. Finally past the obstacle that kept him from drawing full-time, he heads off to college three months later where they encourage people to draw on their desks.
The rest of his life is a hit list of career moves each building on the one before and all with the focus of image-making routed in story. It’s easier to say that once he fulfilled his obligations with higher learning that he sought out the freedom of a non-stop creative life. If that’s success then he’s closer than he thinks and yet, still far from satisfied with his work.
He currently resides in the Northwest.
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Jetfighter: Full Burn (1998), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Ripper (1996), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Millennia: Altered Destinies (1995), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Munchkin Girl Genius CCG -INKS (2018), Steve Jackson Games
Munchkin Collectible Card Game (2018), Steve Jackson Games
Munchkin PATHFINDER 2: Guns & Razzes (2017), Steve Jackson Games
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Munchkin PATHFINDER: Guest Edition (2017), Steve Jackson Games
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Rigger 3, Revised (Shadowrun) (2003), FanPro
Saviors and Destroyers (Demon: The Fallen) (2003), White Wolf
Shadows of Europe (Shadowrun) (2003), FanPro
Killing Streets (Kindred of the East) (2001), White Wolf
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Shadows of North America (Shadowrun) (2001), FanPro
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Letting Go of Certainty
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Creativity, courage, and uncertainty is integral both to joyous opportunity and painful struggle in education and in life.
While uncertainty has always been part of life, the changing nature of work is cause for parents and educators to pause and consider potentially seismic shifts in the ways in which students in our schools today will one day experience work. Differences in generational attitudes toward work are already substantial.
To put shifts into perspective:
From about 1880 to 1980, having a good job meant being an employee of a particular company for many years, perhaps even for a lifetime. (The Economist, There’s an App for That, Jan 3, 2015)
Generation X (people born between 1961 and 1981) have experienced the end of the expectation of a job for life. (Forbes, Where the Money’s At: The Fastest Growing Sectors for the Self Employed, Meghan Casserly, 8/22/2013)
60% of Millenials (people born between early 1980’s and early 2000’s) are leaving their companies in less than three years and 45% would prefer more flexibility to more pay. (Forbes, Why Millenials are Ending the 9 to 5, Kate Taylor, 8/23/2013)
Many today aspire to a freelance lifestyle, qustioning the nature of having a traditional job at all. (Is the Era of Mass Manufacturing Coming to An End, Peter Acton, Harvard Business Review, December 5, 2014) A recent study by the freelancers union, a group promoting the interests of independent workers, suggests that 1 in 3 members of the American workforce (and a higher proportion of younger people) do at least some freelance work. (The Economist, There’s an App for That, Jan 3, 2015)
Knowledge and creative companies, demanding ideas rather than labor and services, are subject to the same forces promoting freelancing as the industrial and service economies. Topcoder can undercut its rivals by 75% by chopping projects into bite-sized chunks and offering them to its 300,000 freelance developers in 200 countries as a series of competitive challenges. InCloudCounsel undercuts big law firms by as much as 80% using freelance lawyers to process legal documents for a flat fee. Innocentive has turns companies’ research needs into specific problems and pays for satisfactory solutions to them. Quirky operates as a next-gen manufacturer and R & D firm whose global online community of about 800,000 people submit, vote and fine-tune potential inventions. Quirky then manufactures, packages and sells promising ideas at retailers such as Home Depot and Best Buy as well as directly on Quirky.com. (The Economist, There’s an App for That, Jan 3, 2015)
With all the uncertainty, there is creative potential difficult for members of previous generations to imagine. Vocation, avocation, work, and leisure combine and expansive options for crafting a life of joy and meaning, albeit with less security.
Among the most inspiring innovative endeavors for me is E-Nable, which I learned about at the World Maker Faire this past fall. Created by Jon Schull, a researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology, e-NABLE pairs children and adults with missing or deformed fingers, hands or forearms with makers who produce customized 3D printed prostheses. Making a huge impact with little more than 3D printers, open source product design, and the intelligence, passion, time, and good will of a growing cadre of volunteers, E-Nable has cut the cost of prosthetic limbs from tens of thousands of dollars to a mere $50 a limb. The organization went in 2014 alone from 200 members to more than 3200, and a recent $600,000 grant from google will enable E-nable to do so much more.
For me, E-Nable models the potential for balance between knowing and doing; thinking and making, with a focus on being impactful in the real world. There are certainly many other models we can share with our students, assisting them to consider how they might contribute through vocation or avocation. In the words of organizers of the Maker Impact Summit, held in December, 2013, “We are on the cusp of an opportunity to more fully tap into our creative potential, driven by significant technological innovation that is democratizing the means of production and enabling connections between resources and markets. Realizing this opportunity will require rethinking and redesigning all of our major institutions innovating the way we work, learn and consume.”
What are ways we might rethink and redesign learning experiences, supporting students to be courageous in letting go of certainty, finding creativity and meaning in the process?
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Prior to leading Portfolio, Shira led independent schools in the greater New York City area for 20 years, serving as Department Head and Curriculum Coordinator, Lower School Principal, and Head of School. A recognized leader in project-based learning, educational innovation, and instructional coaching, Shira has coached teachers throughout the country in implementing project-based learning in their classrooms and has led online communities of practice for educators focused on educational innovation, teaching and learning, and instructional coaching.
Shira earned her B.A, magna cum laude with distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, including extensive study at Teachers’ College of Columbia University. Shira lives with her husband, Alfredo, and is the proud mother of two children - Talia, who is studying early childhood education at Drexel University and works in the Philadelphia public schools, and Ronen who is in high school. Included in her family are her two dogs, a cockapoo named Oliver and a jack russell terrier named Max.
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NJ teacher cleared of assaulting student — video is released
former teacher Kimberley Peschi (Kimberley Peschi Linked In profile/Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office)
Security camera footage was released this week showing the actions of a Linwood music teacher who was accused of kicking a chair from under a middle school student.
Last month, 42-year-old Kimberley Peschi, of Galloway, was found not guilty of simple assault in the February 2017 incident. Superior Court Judge John Rauh overturned last year's conviction by a municipal court judge, the Press of Atlantic City reported.
The former music teacher was accused of kicking a chair as a Belhaven Middle School sixth grade student leaned back in it, causing him to fall and hit his head. Peschi said after that she was trying to stabilize the chair.
Rauh said her testimony was "plausible" in that he did not believe she had acted with intent to harm the child.
On Monday, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office released the security camera footage in response to a public record request. The video had been used as evidence during the trial.
The acquittal means there will be no further criminal proceedings.
Peschi no longer works for the district.
Source: NJ teacher cleared of assaulting student — video is released
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Magnetic circular dichroism studies with soft x-rays
Author(s): L. H. Tjeng; Petra Rudolf; George Meigs; Francesco Sette; Chien T. Chen; Yves U. Idzerda
Soft-x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (SXMCD) is a powerful tool to study the element and site specific magnetic moments in multi-component systems. This is demonstrated for a thin metal film overlayer system and a rare-earth/transition-metal compound. The magnetic properties of ultrathin Ni films on a Cu(100) substrate are investigated at the Ni L2,3 absorption edges. Temperature dependent SXMCD data of various film thickness yield Curie temperatures and the critical exponents used in scaling theories which describe two dimensional magnetic phase transitions. The magnetic moments of Gd and Fe in gadolinium iron garnet (Gd3Fe5O12) were probed at 77 K and 300 K at the Gd M4,5 and at the Fe L2,3 absorption edges. The SXMCD signal at each edge allows the magnetic ordering for each specific ion to be independently determined, and the temperature dependence confirms that the reversal of the macroscopic magnetization is due to the reversal of each local magnetic moment of the Fe and the Gd atoms when the compensation point (Tcomp equals 288 K) is crossed.
Date Published: 1 November 1991
Proc. SPIE 1548, Production and Analysis of Polarized X Rays, (1 November 1991); doi: 10.1117/12.50581
L. H. Tjeng, AT&T Bell Labs. (United States)
Petra Rudolf, AT&T Bell Labs. (United States)
George Meigs, AT&T Bell Labs. (United States)
Francesco Sette, AT&T Bell Labs. (United States)
Chien T. Chen, AT&T Bell Labs. (United States)
Yves U. Idzerda, Naval Research Lab. (United States)
Production and Analysis of Polarized X Rays
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عربal-ʿarab
Philip the Arab
John of Damascus
Manal al-Sharif
approx. 450 million[1]
Pan-Arab States
12,000,000[2]
700,000 - 2,000,000[6]
Arabic[9][10]
Predominantly Islam; largest minority: Christianity; other religions
The Arabs (Arabic: العرب ʻarab) are an ethnic group widespread in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is one of the Semitic languages, which is also the name of the ethnic family which they belong to.
1 Who is an Arab
2 Traditional genealogy
Who is an Arab[change | change source]
There are three points which decide whether someone is considered Arab or not:
Political: whether they live in a country which is a member of the Arab League (or the Arab World); this definition covers more than 450 million people.
Linguistic: whether their main language is Arabic; this definition covers more than 423 million people.[11]
Genealogical: whether they can trace their ancestry back to the people who first lived on the Arabian Peninsula.
There are many people who can be called Arabs by these points, but who do not think of themselves as Arab. Examples include modern Egyptians (Coptics) and the Syriacs (Aramaics/Assyrians). Although they live in countries like Syria or Egypt which is part of the Arab League and speak the official language-Arabic, they are different cultural groups. They have their own languages,[12] culture, identity and churches, such as the Coptic Church and the Syriac Catholic and Orthodox churches. Even though many have assimilated to Arab society, they have their own heritage that spans 3,000 years.
Traditional genealogy[change | change source]
In Islamic and Jewish tradition, Arabs are a Semitic people who trace their ancestry from Ishmael, a son of the ancient patriarch Abraham and Hagar. Medieval Arab genealogists separate the Arabs into two groups: the "original Arabs" of South Arabia, descending from Qahtan (identified with the biblical Joktan) and the "Arabized Arabs" (musta`ribah) of North Arabia, descending from Adnan who is descended from Ishmael.
Religion[change | change source]
Most Arabs today follow the religion of Islam, whose greatest prophet is Muhammad. Christianity makes up the largest religious minority - most of the Christians that do consider themselves Arabs belong to the Greek Orthodox Church with smaller numbers of Roman Catholics.
While Coptic and Maronite Catholic Christians are native Arabic-speakers, many reject the Arab pan-ethnicity, but are still considered Arab by outsider sources.
There are some small communities practicing Judaism and polytheism (the worship of many gods). Yazidis are sometimes counted as Arabs.
↑ "Arabic Language - ninemsn Encarta".
↑ "Brazil - Brasil - BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - Arabs: They are 12 Million in Brazil - Brazilian Immigration - September 2004". www.brazzil.com.
↑ By (2008-01-29). "French-Arabs battle stereotypes - Entertainment News, French Cinema, Media". Variety. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
↑ "Inmigración sirio-libanesa en Argentina".
↑ http://www.aaiusa.org/about/17/our-history Arab American Institute (AAI)
↑ Iran, CIA factbook (1% Arabic-speakers and 3% ethnic Arabs)
↑ The World Factbook World Factbook website
↑ "Mexico". www.worldstatesmen.org.
↑ Kister, M.J. "Ķuāḍa." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2008. Brill Online. 10 April 2008: "The name is an early one and can be traced in fragments of the old Arab poetry. The tribes recorded as Ķuḍā'ī were: Kalb [q.v.], Djuhayna, Balī, Bahrā' [q.v.], Khawlān [q.v.], Mahra, Khushayn, Djarm, 'Udhra [q.v.], Balkayn [see al-Kayn ], Tanūkh [q.v.] and Salīh"
↑ Serge D. Elie, "Hadiboh: From Peripheral Village to Emerging City", Chroniques Yéménites: "In the middle, were the Arabs who originated from different parts of the mainland (e.g., prominent Mahrî tribes10, and individuals from Hadramawt, and Aden)". Footnote 10: "Their neighbours in the West scarcely regarded them as Arabs, though they themselves consider they are of the pure stock of Himyar.” [1]
↑ "Most Spoken Languages In the World".
↑ The Coptic language survives only in certain religious rituals; it is not now spoken by Coptic Christians.
A is for Arabs: What the world owes Arabs and Muslims
Maps of the Arab World
News from Arabic countries
Business news from Arab countries
Arabia in ancient history - with a discussion of the ancient usage of the word Arab
Araboo.com - Arab Guide
Arabic Search - Arabic ThroughSearch
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British Airways 100th Anniversary – How Will The Airline Change?
As British Airways rapidly approaches its 100th birthday next August, one has to look back at quite the adventure that the brand has been on, and what it holds in store for the next 100 years.
A British Airways A380 flying with the Red Arrows. Photo: Airwolfhound
Now, keen readers will realise that the first flight under the BA name actually was in 1974, but the real starting point was way back before then. On August 25th, 1919, a tiny airline was founded called Aircraft Transport and Travel (Air travel was such a new concept back then that they had to clearly define what the company did!). It only operated for a year before going bankrupt, but it was purchased by a new group called Daimler Airway, which following a few more mergers ended up as Imperial Airways in 1924.
An old poster for Imperial Airways. Look how many stops it required to do the Kangaroo Route.
At the start of World War 2, it was turned into the British Overseas Airways Corporation. In 1974, it merged again (with the British European Airways) to form the BA we know and love today.
They also had an attempt at starting a low-cost carrier called Go! That ultimately failed as they couldn’t quite figure the business model out.
Their usage of the Concorde in their fleet is also worth mentioning!
In 2010, BA merged with Iberia to form International Airline Group, which today has a host of airlines under its stewardship (British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, LEVEL among others).
They currently operate 275 aircraft and fly to 183 destinations.
The British Airways 767 is scheduled to make its last flight before the end of the year.
Recently, BA announced that it will be investing 4.5 billion pounds over the next five years. What can we expect from this British flag carrier?
The new uniforms
It has been announced that British designer Ozwald Boating will be designing new uniforms for British Airways. He is the youngest tailor to have a store in the famous Savile Row, and the first tailor to host a catwalk collection at Paris Fashion Week.
Ozwald Boateng photographed by Neale Haynes at London Heathrow sept 2018.
With 32,000 employees, this is quite the opportunity for the brand.
“I am really excited about creating this new uniform for British Airways. It is important for me to create something that makes all of British Airways’ 32,000 uniform-wearing employees across the world excited, at the same time as enabling me to really demonstrate my skills as a designer” – Ozwald Boateng OBE
The new fleet
Not to be caught out by the new interiors of Air France, BA has also decided to expand and retrofit their fleet.
The new First Class on BA. Photo: British Airways
They will be taking ownership of 72 new craft over the next decade:
Plane Type Orders
Airbus A320neo 20
Airbus A350-1000 18
Boeing 777-300ER 3
Boeing 787-10 12
And one Boeing 787-8 has yet to be delivered.
They also plan to completely upgrade the rest of their fleet with new interiors. We expect them to fully retire their Boeing 747 fleet.
British Airways is the worlds largest operator of the B747-400.
And it’s not just new planes too. BA has committed to bringing power and WIFI to every seat on every plane over the next five years.
Plus, a new club world seat that has direct aisle access.
BA A350 Club World with direct aisle access.
The new routes
Recently, we saw British Airways follow through with opening old routes, such as the one to Osaka (Japan), last run in 1994.
As Brexit comes into effect, the role of LCC’s may change and we might see the rise again of British Airways as a popular carrier in England, beating off the likes of Easy Jet and Ryanair.
The new partners
British Airways is also looking to make new partnerships. Currently, as part of its Oneworld alliance, they have partnerships with 20 airlines, we can expect to expand into new regions as new airlines rise to power.
As IAG grows, we can expect BA to have more partners to work with and offer more routes to passengers. It’s possible that a further merger outside of Europe may occur, with possible growth opportunities in Africa and Asia.
What is in store for the next 100 years
It’s hard to say how much the airline will change over the next 100 years (Set your alarm to 2119) but we like to think the following might be possible:
New hubs, as British Airways gets closer with the other airlines in its group, we might see IAG take over and merge all of their airlines together.
The resurgence of Sub-sonic jets, or even Concorde 2.0
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British Airways celebrating 100 years is stretching credibility to the limit.
If I purchased a company that had gone bankrupt and then started trading again under a new name, merged with other companies over the years, there is no way I could claim my company is 100 years old.
If you are going for accuracy, the oldest airline in the UK still flying with its original name is Loganair. It celebrated its 50th Anniversary back in 2012.
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Railway Park Skatepark Queanbeyan has been updated over the years to become what we know of it today. The concrete skatepark is reasonably sized and has an open flow that makes it feel even bigger. There are heaps of smaller mellow quarters that have awesome transitions and surround most of the park. The skatepark also has a lot of street features that are very much welcomed with the lack of ledges and rails in the area. Just a short drive from the centre of Canberra, Railway Park Skatepark has a lot on offer and should at the very least amuse most skaters, rollerbladers, scooters and BMX'ers. One of the better skateparks in the area, however, attracts the crowds as Railway Park is also among the more popular parks in the vicinity.
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The Black Death originated from Central Asia in the beginning of 1300s and was most likely spread by Mongol rulers who had established stabilized caravan routes spanning from China to Black Sea. In 1347, a Genoese ship docked at the Sicilian port (Messina) having half of its team dead or dying as a result of the plague. Officially, Black Death had finally arrived ,rapidly spreading terror and death across Europe and in 1347 swept via Italy,1348 in France as well as Low Countries, Scandinavia and Europe in 1349.By 1350,the plague had well passed on and left in its wake terrible effects such as decimated populations(Herlihy, 1997).
Black Death served as a major turning point in the history of European civilization in that there was a high standard of living for the survivors, several problems arose for the clergy and nobles who apparently, were land owners as well as revolts by urban workers and peasants. The resulting high standard of living led to more even distribution of wealth as well as the economic recovery after 1450.Popular uprisings were as a result of labor shortages due to death of the inhabitants, which made workers to demand high wages for their work, a thing that guild masters and nobles vehemently opposed. Secondly, Black Death severely exhausted medieval state’s tax base, causing kings to drastically raise taxes so as to meet chronic warfare expenses between England and France (Herlihy, 1997).
Finally the black death created problems for the clergy and nobles in 2 major ways; firstly the huge loss of population in the cities’ led to virtual collapsing of the grain markets, a key income source for church landlords and nobles having excess grain for selling. This particularly hurt the clergy and nobles who entirely depended on land for income and wholly relied on sale of excess grains in the urban centers for badly required cash. This led to emergence of 2 main strategies for taking care of this loss in income; clergies and nobles resulted to sale of liberty to their serfs, which raised quick cash, depriving them future incomes. This contributed to the decline of clergy and nobles, giving rise to nation states and kings. Similarly, the serfs were changed into a free peasantry motivated to work harder because they were working for themselves leading to even allocation of wealth, a factor that led to revival of towns, agriculture as well as trade (Herlihy, 1997).
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The news of Qatar withdrawing from OPEC starting on January 1 came up amid disputes between participants of the UN climate summit in Katowice. According to Polish President Andrzej Duda, Poland cannot give up coal mining while, ecologically, natural gas is a much safer resource.
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Andrzej Szczęśniak: Regardless of what Qatar says, I consider this decision to be more political and strategic rather than technical. At the moment, Doha is in a situation where it is the enemy and the object of attacks and pressure from Saudi Arabia, which is OPEC's largest member. Qatar is not a significant producer of crude oil, that's why it's leaving.
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Today OPEC has already entered a much higher level, I call it OPEC-plus, where only strong players, like Saudi Arabia or Russia, matter; and the rest of the players just play a microscopic role. The strategic processes on the global oil market now depend on the decisions taken by the two most important players in world oil exports, namely Saudi Arabia and Russia. If they agree on a strategy, then such a decision matters.
Sputnik: What does this mean specifically for Poland?
Andrzej Szczęśniak: Qatar's decision doesn't mean anything to us. Poland has been buying LNG from Qatar and will go on doing that.
Sputnik: Poland is very interested in diversification of gas supply, and intends to implement the Baltic Pipe project in cooperation with Denmark and Norway. The global media, but not Polish ones, report that Norway's and the North Sea's gas resources are not very large. What does Warsaw think about this?
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Andrzej Szczęśniak: Firstly, it is a gas that is already running out, that is, extraction has reached its peak and, according to official Norwegian forecasts, will drop in two or three years. It seems to me that this pipeline is not justified economically and geologically. There are not much gas resources that it would reach, so the Baltic Pipe pipeline is for now in its initial phase with rather small or even microscopic chances of being implemented. For many years I have been criticising this policy as a policy that is not based on economy at all.
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Besides, in this part of Europe we have the dominance of Russian gas that is rather cheap, and easy to get, which is extremely important in winter times. By using the word "diversification" Poland actually wants to move away from Russian gas, and turn to some other producers, like Qatar or the United States. Gas from there is going to come to come to Poland in huge quantities, thus replacing Russian gas; however, it's going to be much more expensive and will put more pressure on the pocket of the average Polish resident and Polish enterprises.
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They all prefer Russian gas, which is cheaper and much more reliable. That is why we are seeing competition with Germany, which is working on the construction of Nord Stream-2 together with Russia. Meanwhile, the perspectives of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline are very uncertain; after three years it is still in the initial design and arrangement phase. Unfortunately there are no specifics about the project. So in my opinion, this project will not be created, its chances are minimal.
Sputnik: For many years, Poland has been buying natural gas from Russia under the Yamal contract, which is expiring in 2022. Is it possible that Poland will completely end the supply of Russian gas?
Andrzej Szczęśniak: It is virtually impossible to give up the raw material from Russia, because this part of Europe, including Germany and all of southern Europe, is a zone of Russian gas; and they take advantage of its geographic proximity and reliability. In my opinion, this diversification project is more about having such players as the United States or Qatar on the Polish market. However, I'm sure they won't be able to replace Russia.
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The economy is working here and there is no strength to eliminate the cheapest product on the market, unless someone (in Washington) introduces sanctions, against Russian oil and gas similar to those against Iran.
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Suggested Reading Week of June 18, 2018
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The President Is Missing: A Novel (downloadable audiobook) written by Bill Clinton & James Patterson, read by Dennis Quaid, et. al.:
The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view . . .
Set over the course of three days, The President Is Missing sheds a stunning light upon the inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation. Filled with information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know, this is the most authentic, terrifying novel to come along in many years.
When Life Gives You Lululemons (downloadable audiobook) written by Lauren Weisberger & read by Laura Benanti:
HE SET HER UP. THEY’LL BRING HIM DOWN.
Welcome to Greenwich, Connecticut, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito’s and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor.
Let’s be clear: Emily Charlton does not do the suburbs. After leaving Miranda Priestly, she’s been working in Hollywood as an image consultant to the stars, but recently, Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s hopeless with social media. The new guard is nipping at her heels. She needs a big opportunity, and she needs it now.
When Karolina Hartwell, a gorgeous former supermodel, is arrested for a DUI, her fall from grace is merciless. Her senator-husband leaves her, her Beltway friends disappear, and the tabloids pounce.
In Karolina, Emily finds her comeback opportunity. But she quickly learns Greenwich is a world apart and that this comeback needs a team approach.
So it is that Emily, the scorned Karolina, and their mutual friend Miriam, a powerful attorney turned stay-at-home suburban mom, band together to not only navigate the social land mines of suburban Greenwich but win back the hearts of the American public. Along the way, an indispensable ally emerges in one Miranda Priestly.
With her signature wit, Lauren Weisberger offers an alluring look into a sexy, over-the-top world—and proves it’s style and substance together that gets the job done.
Darkness Lane by Thomas Kies:
Random Road introduced Geneva Chase – “a reporter with a compelling voice, a damaged woman who recounts her own bittersweet story as she hunts down clues,” says Library Journal – to murders straight out of a nightmare – six bodies found naked and cut to ribbons in a posh Connecticut home.
Having survived this and a personal tragedy, Geneva’s story still includes alcoholism and career challenges compounded by the rocky finances of her newspaper employer. But she’s working. She’s fighting the urge to reconnect with a magnetic yet married lover. And she’s raising a rebellious young lady who is not her daughter but a cherished legacy.
Nevertheless the newshound in Geneva spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old-girl at her ward’s high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Is this same-old, same-old, or something more? And then there’s the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters – and thus, out of the news.
Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between these two disparate stories while her newspaper is put up for sale, a high-flying Hollywood production lights up the town, and her personal battles accelerate. Jarring twists and turns include charming movie stars, treacherous diamond merchants, adultery, sex traffickers, and murder. While the clock ticks and Geneva works desperately to find the missing student, she comes to the horrible realization that she’s in over her head.
Darkness Lane, the second novel in the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, hurtles along at a breakneck speed where nothing is what it seems, and where art and reality collide in a terrifying climax.
The Oddling Prince by Nancy Springer:
In the ancient moors of Scotland, the king of Calidon lies on his deathbed, cursed by a ring that cannot be removed from his finger. When a mysterious fey stranger appears to save the king, he also carries a secret that could tear the royal family apart.
The kingdom’s only hope will lie with two young men raised worlds apart. Aric is the beloved heir to the throne of Calidon; Albaric is clearly of noble origin yet strangely out of place.
The Oddling Prince is a tale of brothers whose love and loyalty to each other is such that it defies impending warfare, sundering seas, fated hatred, and the very course of time itself. In her long-awaited new fantasy novel, Nancy Springer (the Books of Isle series) explores the darkness of the human heart as well as its unceasing capacity for love.
The Woman in the Woods: A Thriller by John Connolly:
From internationally bestselling author and “creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre” (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman—who apparently died in childbirth—is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child.
In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby.
Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child…someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake.
And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring and a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman.
A Woman in the Woods is the brand new sixteenth book in the Charlie Parker Mystery series. Book 1 in the series, should you wish to start from the beginning, is Every Dead Thing.
Print Suggestions Of The Week:
The Moscow Deception by Karen Robards:
Clever, cunning and highly skilled—there’s only one Bianca St. Ives and don’t you dare forget it.
Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does—the way her father trained her to—hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that’s left a network of assassins’ crosshairs trained on her, Bianca’s ready to take fate into her own hands. It’s kill or be killed, and she’s got her finger flush against the trigger.
But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers, her father loops her in on a job that might just do the trick: recover King Priam’s Treasure, a collection of heavily guarded, priceless artifacts stolen by the Russians during World War II, and return it to Germany. Impossible? Maybe for some, but a high-risk heist is all in a day’s work for Bianca St. Ives, especially when there’s intel on the line—intel that could finally bring down the shadowy forces seeking to bury Bianca for good. Faced with threats that circle closer with every move she makes, she knows the stakes have never been higher, but when you’re already living on borrowed time, you have to hustle if you want to live to see tomorrow.
I Flipping Love You by Helena Hunting:
SHE’S GOT CURB APPEAL. HE’S A FIXER UPPER…
From New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting comes I Flipping Love You, a love story about flipping houses, taking risks, and landing that special someone who’s move-in ready.
Rian Sutter grew up with the finer things in life. Spending summers in the Hamptons was a normal occurrence for her until her parents lost everything years ago. Now Rian and her sister are getting their life, and finances, back on track through real estate. Not only do they buy and sell houses to the rich and famous but they finally have the capital to flip their very own beachfront property. But when she catches the attention of a sexy stranger who snaps up every house from under her, all bets are off…
Pierce Whitfield doesn’t normally demo kitchens, install dry wall, or tear apart a beautiful woman’s dreams. He’s just a down-on-his-luck lawyer who needed a break from the city and agreed to help his brother work on a few homes in the Hamptons. When he first meets Rian, the attraction is undeniable. But when they start competing for the same pieces of prime real estate, the early sparks turn into full-blown fireworks. Can these passionate rivals turn up the heat on their budding romance―without burning down the house?
Bearskin: A Novel by James McLaughlin:
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It’s hard work, and totally solitary—perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he’s so desperately sought is suddenly at risk.
More bears are killed on the preserve and Rice’s obsession with catching the poachers escalates, leading to hostile altercations with the locals and attention from both the law and Rice’s employers. Partnering with his predecessor, a scientist who hopes to continue her research on the preserve, Rice puts into motion a plan that could expose the poachers but risks revealing his own whereabouts to the dangerous people he was running from in the first place.
James McLaughlin expertly brings the beauty and danger of Appalachia to life. The result is an elemental, slow burn of a novel—one that will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza:
As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best?
A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family’s life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla’s own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home.
A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
The Book of Essie: A Novel by Meghan MacLean Weir:
A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family’s hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.
Esther Ann Hicks–Essie–is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She’s grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family’s fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show’s producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia’s? Or do they try to arrange a marriage–and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own to protect. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their fabricated love story to the media–through exclusive interviews with an infamously conservative reporter named Liberty Bell–Essie finds she has questions of her own: What was the real reason for her older sister leaving home? Who can she trust with the truth about her family? And how much is she willing to sacrifice to win her own freed
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Flying Kyosho Space Ball: The R/C Death Star and air freshener in one
The Kyosho Space Ball flies like an R/C helicopter, but can bounce off obstacles with ease and even spread fragrances throughout the room
Almost a year ago, the Japanese Ministry of Defense made quite a splash when it revealed a spherical, remote-controlled aircraft that could zip around a room, roll along the ground, and even bounce off obstacles without losing control. But while it was mainly designed for search and rescue operations, many R/C enthusiasts took one look at that hovering orb and said, “I have got to get me one of those.” Luckily, toy company Kyosho must have been listening, since it recently released a similar flying machine of its own for consumers. Kyosho’s “Space Ball” can remain airborne while taking just as much punishment and even emits a fragrance to freshen up a room in the process.
It’s not nearly as state-of-the-art as the version from the JMD, but the Space Ball (or Kyosho Egg) can still zip around the room like a sentient dodge ball. The central tail rotor gives it a full 360 degrees of movement, while the 20 cm (7.9 inch) shock-absorbing frame lets it bounce off furniture and walls without spinning away wildly. Aside from protecting the rotors and electronics, the frame also helps the Space Ball right itself on the ground. Most of the aircraft’s weight is on the bottom, so the whole thing naturally rolls until it rests upright on the flat bottom.
A rechargeable lithium polymer battery powers the motor, but the three channel infrared controller requires six AA batteries. The Space Ball gets about 5 minutes of flight time on a 50 minute charge and it also has a bright LED light on the front, so users can know which way the aircraft if facing.
The most surprising feature of the Space Ball, however, is the optional absorbent sheets, which can be soaked in fragrant oils to spread an aroma around the room. Seems like a lot of trouble for an air freshener, but it could be fun to essentially crop dust your house.
Kyosho is currently offering the Space Ball in black and orange color schemes through Japanese retailers for ¥6,279 (US$78), which includes four replacements for the main rotors and two for the tail. Anyone outside Japan though can pick one up through Japan Trend Shop for US$117, plus shipping.
Check out the video below to see how the Space Ball can go from rolling around the floor to weaving through the air in seconds.
Source: Kyosho via Japan Trend Shop
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The Church of England's useful website to give information on all parishes, deaneries, archdeaconries and dioceses. Not all parishes adopt their part of the site and put information on it, but still useful
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/
AllChurches Trust Limited
Allchurches Trust Ltd is the organisation which owns Ecclesiastical Insurance. It makes grants to churches and charities throughout the British Isles, especially to benefit mission and help local communities.
http://www.allchurches.co.uk/
Bishop Nick's Blog
Bishop Nick Baines writes an active and stimulating blog which is well worth the read.
https://nickbaines.wordpress.com
This site is there to help you find Choral Evensong services across the British Isles
http://www.choralevensong.org/
Choral Holidays
A small company that does specialist singing holidays singing in cathedrals and great churches in England and Europe. A superb opportunity to learn to sing Choral Evensongs in the best Anglican tradition.
http://www.choralholidays.com/
A major aid agency that is involved in many countries of the world and also in campaigns to improve the lot of the poor. It is not an evangelising organisation although its inspiration comes from the Christian beliefs of its founders, managers and supporters.
http://www.christianaid.org.uk
The website for the Church of England carries a huge amount of information for those with relatively simple needs to complex matters of doctrine and organisation. An interesting site to explore.
https://www.churchofengland.org/
Church Safety
A site with useful information on many aspects of safety in church, some of which PCCs may not even be aware.
http://www.churchsafety.org.uk/content/about.htm
Church schools for the whole community
A Church of England blog post on the role of church schools, summarised as "Our schools are not faith schools for the faithful, they are Church schools for the community, and we don’t propose to change that."
http://cofecomms.tumblr.com/post/150170407937/church-schools-for-the-whole-community
ChurchCare
This site offers lots of useful advice and information about caring for churches. It is run by the Cathedral and Church Buildings Division of the Archbishops' Council and sponsored by Ecclesiastical Insurance.
http://www.churchcare.co.uk/
Churches Conservation Trust
The Churches Conservation Trust has the care of over 340 C of E church buildings that can no longer be supported by their parishes. It exists as a heritage, not a religious, charity and ensures that its buildings are kept in good condition and used for the benefit of the community. The church of Stanwick St John in in their care.
http://www.visitchurches.org.uk
This new diocese was formed by the amalgamation of the three dioceses of Ripon & Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield and has now been renamed the Diocese of Leeds (where necessary adding 'Anglican' to differentiate it from the RC Diocese of the same name). Each of these retains an area bishop and a cathedral. We remain part of the Ripon Episcopal Area.
http://www.leeds.anglican.org/
Ecclesiastical Insurance
Ecclesiastical Insurance is the company that provides church insurance but can also cover many other areas as well. They also offer useful advice and activities to help churches maintain their buildings and run effectively.
http://www.ecclesiastical.com/
Explore churches
‘ExploreChurches, a new website which makes it easy for people to discover the UK’s beautiful churches and chapels.
http://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/explore-churches
Making changes to places of worship
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/caring-for-heritage/places-of-worship/making-changes-to-your-place-of-worship/
New and additional uses for places of worship
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/caring-for-heritage/places-of-worship/new-uses/
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An online ‘one stop shop’ where churches and chapels can book accredited contractors for services including gutter clearance, tree maintenance and inspecting lightning protection systems.
http://www.maintenancebooker.org.uk
Melsonby Parish Council
Please note this is the civil authority not the Parochial Church Council. Lots of information about what is happening in Melsonby.
http://http://melsonbypc.com/
Ripon Cathedral
Our cathedral has roots going back to St Wilfrid in the seventh century but it is still an adventurous and forward looking institution making innovative use afforded by the covered space a cathedral provides in a city.
http://riponcathedral.info/
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
A charity which offers expert help and advice to those responsible for the care of ancients buildings, many or which are churches. It encourages local cooperatives to be set up to carry out maintenance as a group at several churches rather than leaving it to the individual churchwardens at each church.
http://www.spab.org.uk/
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A Christmas Bride
The Fool's Gold Series
Fool's Gold, Book No. 6.5
Sometimes a kiss under the mistletoe can unlock passion that's been simmering all year... (This two-in-one is a reissue of Only Us and The Sheik and the Christmas Bride.)
Pet groomer Carina Fiore wants nothing more than to confess her feelings to the man she loves. She's drawn to veterinarian Cameron McKenzie's good looks, caring nature and especially his devotion to his young daughter. But he's also her boss and a good friend. Putting her heart on the line could cost Rina both her job and their friendship forever.
Since his divorce, Cameron hasn't been willing to trust his heart--or his daughter--with anyone else. For months he's pushed away all thoughts of taking Rina in his arms and kissing her, unwilling to risk their friendship for a single night of pleasure. But when a kiss under the mistletoe unlocks the simmering passion between them, Rina and Cameron may just find love for the holidays after all…
"What can I say, I love an unrequited love story... I was really rooting for Cam and Rina to get together because I could tell that they would make a great couple. They had a lot in common – love of animals, family, Fool’s Gold – and they’re also independent people who have their own interests, too." Note: A Christmas Bride is an anthology that includes Only Us and Desert Rogues: The Christmas Bride. This review is for Only Us.
Quinn's Book Nook
"I love Susan Mallery! She never disappoints!... Only Us has great characters that you can relate too and will instantly fall in love with. Cameron’s daughter is a very smart girl and many parts throughout the story she made me laugh out loud. Cameron and Corina were too stubborn and blind, and it took a little girl to open their eyes. I loved it!" Note: A Christmas Bride is an anthology that contains both Only Us and Desert Rogues: The Christmas Bride. This review was for Only Us.
Good Choice Reading
"Polish or no polish?" Carina Fiore held up two bottles of pet-friendly OPI nail polish. "I think the traditional choices would be best. Fire Hydrant Red or Bow Wow Green."
Eight-year-old Kaitlyn McKenzie laughed. "Rina, she's a cat."
"You're saying cats aren't into fashion? I'm not sure I agree. Just last week I caught this one flipping through In Style magazine." Rina studied the petite Calico sitting on her grooming table. The Calico stared back, her expression slightly defiant, as if daring Rina to try polish.
Rina held in a grin. Her plan was to put festive collars on the cats but she loved making Kaitlyn laugh.
The girl chuckled. "Cats can't read."
"You don't actually know that."
"Dad says they can't."
"Oh, well. Sure. Take the word of a veterinarian over me." Rina gave a heavy sigh.
Kaitlyn stepped around the grooming table and hugged her tight. "We'll do all the dogs' nails. I promise. I'll even help. We want them to look their best."
"Me, too."
As much as Rina hated to admit it, cute pets got adopted faster. And as the person in charge of the Fool's Gold Holiday Pet Adoption, she intended to make sure every single animal looking for a home put his or her best foot forward. Or paw, or claw or fin. Not that she would be doing anything to groom the fish. Although she was putting little fish-friendly Christmas trees in the tanks.
Her normally tidy grooming space was currently overflowing with cat collars and doggie bandanas in holiday prints. Over the next two weeks, she would be bathing, brushing and clipping until all the pets up for adoption gleamed.
She glanced at the clock on the wall. "We'd better get you home, munchkin."
Kaitlyn looked up at her, her green eyes as dark and beautiful as her father's. "It's Friday."
"I heard that this morning on the news."
The girl's mouth turned up at the corner. "You know what that means."
"That tomorrow's Saturday?"
"Spaghetti."
"Oh, right. I was thinking of something different for dinner."
"Rina!"
"Maybe liver."
Kaitlyn made a gagging sound.
"Brains?"
Kaitlyn clutched her stomach. "I'm going to throw up."
"Swamp soup?"
Giggling, Kaitlyn ran out of the room.
Rina picked up the cat and stroked her. "What do you think about swamp soup?"
The cat purred.
Fifteen minutes later Rina had finished cleaning off her table and washing her brushes. She collected her backpack and walked toward the break room. One of the veterinary assistants stopped her.
"You have to say something," Jesse told her.
"Soon."
"Did I just say no? I'm sure I heard myself say no."
Jesse, a pretty blond, whom Rina had known since they were both zygotes, raised her eyebrows.
Rina glanced around to make sure they were alone. Even so, she lowered her voice. "I can't."
"You have to. It's been a year, Rina. This is insane. It's the holidays."
"I'm not sure what the time of year has to do with anything."
Jesse sighed. "It's when you want to be with the people you love. You love Cameron. Tell him."
Rina winced. "Don't say that," she whispered as forcefully as she could. "Not here. Someone might hear you."
"It's Friday afternoon. Everyone is gone but us. Cameron's out at the Castle Ranch, checking on one of the goats there." Her friend moved closer and thankfully, lowered her voice. "You're my best friend and I totally support whatever you decide, but I also know it's time to tell you that you're acting like an idiot."
"You've told me that every day for six months. It's hardly a news flash."
"Then do something. If not now, when? Are you going to waste another year being in love with a man who has no idea how you feel?"
Rina opened her mouth, then closed it. She wanted nothing more than to confess her feelings to the man she loved. But she wasn't the one who was the problem.
She could still remember the first time she'd seen Cameron McKenzie, DVM. He'd bought the practice from the retiring veterinarian, with a promise that all the staff would stay. That included her, the practice's resident groomer. He'd requested everyone meet with him on a Saturday afternoon. She'd walked into the building, not sure what to expect. He'd turned, smiled, and she'd been lost.
Seriously, there had practically been a swell of music and cartoon animals putting ribbons and flowers in her hair.
She wasn't sure what it was about Cameron that got to her. The wavy dark hair and deep green eyes were only the beginning of his good looks. Still, her feelings weren't all about how handsome he was. It was the way he cared about his work and how he treated his staff. But if she had to guess, she would say her fate had truly been sealed the moment she'd met Kaitlyn.
She adored the little girl and they had become instant friends. Kaitlyn was smart and funny and just as caring as her dad. The only part of their family that didn't make sense was the absence of a mother. Cameron didn't say much about his ex, so all of Rina's information had come from his daughter. Kaitlyn was fairly matter-of-fact about her past, stating her mommy had left shortly after Kaitlyn had been born. Rina could still remember her steady gaze as she'd said, "Babies are a lot of work and my mommy wasn't ready."
Cameron had shared few details, but those he mentioned were in line with what Kaitlyn had said. That his wife had walked away from her newborn and husband and had never returned.
Since then, from what she could tell, he'd devoted himself to being a single father and working hard at his practice. He never dated, hadn't once been caught flirting and showed no interest in one woman over another. In a town with a man shortage, he was practically an irresistible force.
Rina had told herself she would get over her crush, that it was just that Cameron was new and shiny. But as time had passed, her feelings had only grown. Now everything was complicated because of the fact that she took care of Kaitlyn.
Every school day, Rina arrived at the McKenzie household early, made sure Kaitlyn was up and dressed, then fixed her breakfast and walked her to the bus. After school the girl rode the bus to the veterinary practice where she hung out with Rina until it was time to go home.
Back at McKenzie house, Rina helped her with her homework and started dinner. In the past few months, she'd begun staying to eat with them. Unfortunately, she couldn't remember exactly how that had started. She wanted to say that Cameron had asked, but she suspected the invitation had come from his daughter.
Cameron paid her both as a groomer and as the person taking care of his daughter. And even though he was friendly and considerate, she couldn't be completely sure he'd ever thought of her as more than a friend. Which meant admitting her feelings put a lot on the line. What if he wasn't interested? What if telling the truth meant losing her friendship with Kaitlyn and her job?
"I'd rather have what I have now than not have anything at all," Rina admitted to her friend.
Jesse shook her head. "You're living half a life, Rina, and that's not you. Your parents were crazy about each other until they day they died. Your grandparents are still in love. Don't you want what they have?"
"I'm scared."
"Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it."
Rina knew she was right. The thought of having it all, of being able to admit her feelings to Cameron and having him feel the same way, made her ache with longing. She'd known he was the one from the first second they'd met and her feelings had never wavered. But...
"What if he doesn't love me back?"
"Then you hurt and heal and find someone else."
"I don't want anyone else."
"So you'd rather have half of nothing than take the chance? That's not like you."
"I wouldn't just be losing him. I'd lose Kaitlyn, too."
"You wouldn't have to. You could still be friends with her."
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CAMP PENDLETON, California - A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 was demoted Tuesday but will serve no time behind bars, a judge ruled, as locals in Iraq condemned the light sentence.
Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who led an eight-man squad whose other members have all been let off, was sentenced to 90 days confinement but he will not serve them under a deal with prosecutors.
The 31-year-old admitted one count of negligent dereliction of duty Monday, but charges of manslaughter over the killings - whose victims included women and children - were dropped as part of a plea deal.
Wuterich - who denied he was a "cold-blooded baby-killer" - was sentenced to 90 days of confinement and reduction to private (E-1), said a statement from Camp Pendleton, California, where he has been on court martial.
But it said: "Per the terms of the pre-trial agreement, the convening authority disapproved any adjudged confinement and therefore Staff Sergeant Wuterich will not serve any of the confinement sentence."
The judge said he was not reducing Wuterich's pay because of his financial situation being a single father.
In all, 24 Iraqi civilians were killed - 19 in several houses along with five men who pulled up in a car where the marines were on patrol in the Iraqi town of Haditha on November 19, 2005.
The victims included 10 women or children killed at point-blank range. Six people were killed in one house, most shot in the head, including women and children huddled in a bedroom.
In Haditha itself, residents of those killed reacted with shock and disgust.
"This is an assault on the blood of Iraqis," lamented Khalid Salman, a Haditha city councillor and lawyer for the victims.
"That is only a punishment for ... small crimes. But killing 24 innocent people, and only receiving a punishment of three months? This is an assault on humanity."
Back in California, Wuterich's lead defense lawyer Neal Puckett said his client would not comment any further on the case. "He now values his privacy more than anything," he said.
As for the outcome of the trial, Puckett said, "I don't call it a success. There are no winners here."
Before the sentence, Puckett argued that Wuterich should not be punished.
"The appropriate punishment is no punishment," he said, adding: that Wuterich "is not evil, he is decent and moral and his integrity is unfaltering. It didn't happen in a legal vacuum, it was in combat."
Wuterich himself voiced sorrow Tuesday, but insisted he was not a "cold-blooded baby killer."
Addressing three surviving family members of those killed in Haditha, he said: "Words cannot express my sorrow for the loss of your loved ones. I know there is nothing I can say to ease your pain.
"I wish to assure you that on that day, it was never my intention to harm you or your families. I know that you are the real victims of November 19, 2005," he said, reading from a prepared statement.
But he added: "For six years, I have had to accept that my name will always be associated with a massacre, being a cold-blooded baby killer, an 'out of control' monster, and a conspiring liar.
"There's nothing I can do about whoever believes these things. All I can do is continue to be who I've always been - me. And none of those labels have ever been, or ever will be, who I am."
In his statement, made in a resonant, calm voice after witness testimony, Wuterich insisted he was only doing his duty.
"The truth is, I don't believe anyone in my squad... behaved in any way that was dishonorable or contrary to the highest ideals that we all live by as Marines.
"But even with the best intentions, sometimes combat actions can cause tragic results," he said, adding that he had "never fired my weapon at any women or children that day."
The other seven Marines charged in the case have been exonerated through various legal rulings, fueling anger in Iraq, where authorities had pushed for US troops to be subject to Iraqi justice before the US pullout in December.
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I find this information for them, benefit from it.
อังคาร มิ.ย. 07, 2016 1:45 pm
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It is very sad.
It is unlikely that this will happen.
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This is a tour, which is offered to you as it is. It’s or it can be used as a template for your own itinerary or planned tour without money. You can chance what you want or you can take it as it is.
By tradition, this area is the site of Sodom and Gomorrah, the biblical cities that were destroyed in a storm of fire and brimstone, punishment from God because of their people’s depravity (Genesis 18-19). These days, Sodom is much better known for its desert hiking and cycling trails than for sodomy. And for that we have this day tour. Normally, a day tour occupies about a half day, but I added several hiking opportunities to this day you and that means you will be busy the whole day. It’s breathtaking nature in action. Look also for the stories behind the cursed cities in Israel. See also the maps of the Dead Sea.
‘The Situation of Man’
The Situation of Man
Atop a bluff overlooking the Dead Sea Works stands this modern sculpture, a rusty steel column with old steel railway ties striving to climb it like desperate worms.
Next to the sculpture, a viewpoint looks out over a crazy juxtaposition of smoke-spewing heavy industry, electric-blue evaporation pools, green farm fields (over in Jordan) and the wild, tawny beauty of the desert.
Mountains of Moab
Views are best in the late afternoon, when the setting sun turns the mountains of Moab a reddish gold.
The 600m-long access road intersects Rte 90 250m north of the main entrance to the Dead Sea Works. Turn off at the white-on-brown sign reading ‘Plant Viewing Point’ (ignore the yellow ‘no trespassing’ sign) and follow the green signs marked (in Hebrew) ‘LaMitzpeh’ (‘to the scenic lookout’). Beyond the sculpture, a 4WD road continues to the Amiaz Plateau.
Lot’s Wife
Lot’s Wife pillar, Mount Sodom
About 11km south of the southern end of Ein Bokek, high above the west side of Rte 90, a column of salt-rich rock leans precariously away from the rest of the Mt Sodom cliff face. It is popularly known as Lot’s Wife because, according to the Bible, Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt as punishment for looking back to see Sodom as it burned (Genesis 19:17 and 19:26).
Dead Sea Works
Israel’s only major natural resource – other than sunlight and the gas fields off the Mediterranean coast – is the Dead Sea, from which products ranging from magnesium chloride and anhydrous aluminium chloride to table salt and cosmetics are extracted. Founded in the 1930s, the DSW is now the world’s fourth-largest producer of potash, an important component of agricultural fertiliser.
By day, the rusty (from the salt air) smokestacks, pipes and holding tanks of the DSW complex look like a mid-20th-century industrial dystopia, but by night, when the sprawling facilities are lit by thousands of yellowish lights, the site has a mysterious, otherworldly beauty.
Mount Sodom
Two trails head down the steep flanks of Mt Sodom from a lookout point, reachable by 4WD, whose views are at their best in the late afternoon.
Ma’aleh HaSulamot (Ladders Ascent; 1½ hours to walk down), named after its many stairs, connects with Rte 90 across the highway from the sun-blasted huts of the Dead Sea Works’ first workers’ camp, built in 1934.
Another descent to Rte 90 is Shvil HaDagim (Fishes Trail; 1½ hours down), so named because of the many fossilised fish you can see in the rocks.
Mt Sodom, 11km long and up to 2km wide, is one of the world’s stranger geological formations. Start with the fact that it’s made almost entirely of rock salt, a highly soluble material that in any other climate would have melted away. In fact, over the millennia the area’s rare rainfalls have dissolved some of the salt, creating deep in the bowels of the mountain a maze of caves (closed to the public) up to 5.5km long.
Flour Cave
Many are connected to the surface by shafts that hikers need to make sure they don’t fall into, and some are filled with delicate, eerie salt stalactites. And then there’s the matter of Mt Sodom’s summit.
A respectable 250m above the surface of the Dead Sea – the views of Jordan’s Moab Mountains are gorgeous – it also happens to be 176m below sea level.
West of Mt Sodom, Wadi Sodom is ideal for mountain biking. If you start at the top (accessible by 4WD), it’s about two hours, mostly downhill, to the Neve Zohar area.
Wadi Pratzim
A round-trip circuit that connects with beautiful Wadi Pratzim (Wadi Perazim), whose upper reaches pass the famous Flour Cave (closed to the public), is another option.
The Mt Sodom area has several well-marked camping zones (chenyonei layla) without facilities, including one up on the Amiaz Plateau (Mishor Amiaz) and another further north at Wadi Tze’elim.
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We want to make the Sodom tour! How can wr make it?
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You want to have the Sodom Day Tour?
The article gives you enough information to make that tour yourself without any additional official help with enough background information.
If you want to have a day tour with a guide, that cost money.
A licensed guide cost already from $250 a day and if you really want to have a good guide for this type of tour, it might even cost you more then that.
Also you need to supply him transport, food, drinks and any fees required. If you want to have also transport arranged, you pay for that too. Prices range between the $350-$500 per day, depending on the size of the group. It’s up to you and if you want I can intermediate for you and arrange things you want.
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Editorial: Make Epstein an Assembly member
On April 24, there will be a special election in which voters of the 74th Assembly District will choose their next Assembly member. There are four candidates on the ballot, but we are solidly in camp Harvey.
Harvey Epstein, a social justice attorney, is no stranger to the community he hopes to represent. Over a decade ago, when residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village were being issued residency challenges like they were going out of style, it was Epstein who ran a free legal hotline for tenants. More recently, he served for five years as a tenant member of the Rent Guidelines Board and in two of those years, the board issued rent freezes for tenants signing one-year leases and low increases for those signing two-year increases.
If someone wants to top that act, they’ll need to get a rent freeze for three years or a rent rollback. (And hey… please do try!) But since none of the other candidates have yet managed to demonstrate how they’d be a better champion for affordable housing, we don’t see why voters should favor someone’s campaign promises over someone’s results.
Posted in Editorial/Op-Ed/Opinion
Tagged 2018 elections, 74th Assembly District, Harvey Epstein, Rent Guidelines Board
Man charged with bag snatching and violent mugging on First Ave.
Stuyvesant Town Dunkin Donuts
Police have arrested a man they say punched and robbed a man on First Avenue and also snatched a woman’s bag at the Stuyvesant Town Dunkin Donuts.
Raymond Velez, 23, allegedly walked up to a table at Dunkin Donuts at 266 First Avenue last Wednesday at 9 p.m. where the victim was sitting and grabbed her purse, which contained three credit cards.
Ten minutes later, police said he was walking near 253 First Avenue when he allegedly grabbed the second victim who had cash in his hand. Police said that Velez attempted to throw the victim to the ground and in the scuffle, Velez allegedly punched the victim in the mouth and he sustained a bruise on his lip and a cut on his hand.
Posted in 13th Precinct, Crime
Tagged attempted robbery, dunkin donuts, East 14th Street, grand larceny
Residents grieve for downed trees
Tree stumps line the south end of the playground on Friday. (Photos by Sabina Mollot)
SPS says removals were for resident safety
By Sabina Mollot
Though it did come with warning, a number of Stuyvesant Town residents were nonetheless unprepared for the moment when trees that were nearly as old and as tall as nearby buildings began getting sawed down and carted away.
The old oaks’ removal was explained by management in an email on Friday (and in a prior email blast) as being necessary due to disease and decay. Additionally, StuyTown Property Services CEO Rick Hayduk added in the Friday email to tenants, they’d be replaced in June by Princeton elms and the remains of the oaks would be mulched. Still, for some residents whose windows overlook Playground 1, the removal of the 18 mature trees around it hit home as hard as the loss of an old friend.
“As I speak I hear a chainsaw cutting down a 70-year-old tree,” Stuart Strong, a resident of 330 First Avenue told Town & Village on Friday. Strong, who was horrified, added, “They’re sturdy as anything. We’re looking at stumps that used to be oak trees. I don’t see any decay. They provide environment and enjoyment.”
Posted in Parks, Stuyvesant Town
Tagged downed trees, Playground 1, Rick Hayduk, StuyTown Property Services, trees
Man charged with lewdness in ST building
Police arrested a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman in a Stuy Town elevator after he followed her into the building early on Saturday morning.
The victim told police that she was entering 610 East 20th Street at 2:16 a.m. when 27-year-old Anthony Ashley allegedly came into the building behind her. She said that when she got in the elevator, Ashley entered the elevator behind her. When they were inside, he allegedly unzipped his pants and exposed himself.
Police said that Ashley is not a resident of the building. He was charged with public lewdness and trespassing.
Tagged 13th precinct, elevator, public lewdness, Stuyvesant Town
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Wines and Spirits Products
FISH & CO.
FISH & CO. Trademark Information
AGRO DE BAZAN, S.A.
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On Friday, October 19, 2007, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for FISH & CO.. The USPTO has given the FISH & CO. trademark serial number of 79047248. The current federal status of this trademark filing is IR CANCELLED; US REGISTRATION CANCELLED. The correspondent listed for FISH & CO. is Charles P. LaPolla of Ostrolenk, Faber, Gerb & Soffen, LLP, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, 7th Floor, New York NY 10036-8403 . The FISH & CO. trademark is filed in the category of Wines and Spirits Products . The description provided to the USPTO for FISH & CO. is Wine.
IR CANCELLED; US REGISTRATION CANCELLED
Registration Date: 1/20/2009
Goods and Services: Wine
Published For Opposition Date: 11/4/2008
Last Applicant/Owner: AGRO DE BAZAN, S.A.
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Associate Art Curator / Director, Data as Culture
Hannah Redler Hawes, ODI Associate Curator in Residence writes about a new exhibition ODI has co-produced with FACT, Liverpool
Image: Jackie Karuti, from the series There Are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About
The New Observatory brings together an international group of artists, researchers and technologists whose work explores new and alternative modes of measuring, predicting, and sensing the world today. Imagination and speculation are as fundamental to this research as any technological tool.
Central to our project is an attempt to distinguish observation from narratives around surveillance, with their overriding associations of secrecy and distrust. The exhibition offers up observation as a series of actions which include drawing, composing, film-making, expeditions and citizen sensing.
It also considers how conversations around observation shift when we relocate the traditional purpose of an observatory from being a specialist site of scientific exploration to a more free-form site of artistic and individual exploration, exempt from the formal constraints of science.
Jackie Karuti’s two films from her series There Are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About 2016 present humanity as part of an interrelated system within imaginary, technical and actual realities, whilst suggesting that logical readings may be less effective than those that allow for speculation.
David Gauthier’s sound and video works, including Measure for Measure for Measure2017 expose the often visceral conditions of data collection and how the nature of the instruments related to the science of measurement (metrology) affect our understanding of the world around us.
Liz Orton’s photographic series The Longest and Darkest of Recollections from 2016 considers notions of time, memory and the construction of knowledge through works which explore knowledge acquisition in geology, and the frailty of human timespans against those of geological time.
How we know what we know and the role an emotive connection might play in consolidating that knowledge is at the heart of artist collective Proboscis’ project Lifestreams 2012. Personal health data such as sleep patterns, blood pressure and step count are manifested through a series of beautiful seashell-shaped 3D-printed forms which harness the magical, memorable and endlessly appealing nature of seashells.
As an art curator, one of the most appealing aspects of the open data movement is its emphasis on exchange and reciprocity as fundamental to new ideas. This is congruous with some of the most radical art movements of recent times which challenge, as open data ultimately does, the notion of single independent genius in favour of collective responsibility.
Many of the artworks in The New Observatory depend upon this ethos for their realisation and / or indeed use open data. Kei Kreutler and Libre Space Foundation’s Open Space Observatory 2017 is an initiative to gather observations of satellites, spacecraft and space junk from members of the public, and develop the open source infrastructure to enable this.. They hope to democratise observation of the regions beyond our world.
Two of the works are brand new commissions from the first ODI artists in residence Thomson & Craighead and Natasaha Caruana who each spent six months at the ODI’s London headquarters in 2015 to research open data and network culture.
In Recruitment Gone, Wrong Thomson & Craighead present a conversation enacted between ventriloquist masks suspended in mid-air. The masks are replaying a covert recording of students disrupting an American National Security Agency (NSA) recruitment drive at Wisconsin University following Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations. At particular times visitors are invited to wear the masks thus physically occupying either the students antagonistic interrogations or the agent’s evasive responses. The piece avoids a resigned or hand-wringing response to the surveillance states, in favour of a performative experience in which we become conscious of the collusive role we play in our own surveyed state by willingly, perhaps uncritically, engaging with the data infrastructures which enable it. It encourages us to raise questions about net neutrality and transparency.
Natasha Caruana has made two new interconnected pieces following research into the open data of divorce in the UK. Divorce Index 2017 is a filmic response to her findings. A couple perform a series of choreographed gestures which interpret data suggesting the pressures which may affect a marriage including unemployment, gambling and access to higher education. The work raises questions about how we make sense of major emotional upheaval. It may lead us to ask ourselves if seeking the right conditions as well as the right person is essential to everlasting love, and if we would consider relocating if the data told us there was no hope.
We hope that overall the exhibition will act as an open call to everyone to creatively and critically consider what the roles of analysis, understanding and imagination have in a world of constant observation. It encourages us to reflect on what and why we observe, and to what end.
The New Observatory is at FACT, Liverpool, July 22 – October 1 2017. It is co-produced by FACT and the Open Data Institute and curated by Hannah Redler Hawes (ODI) and Sam Skinner (Manchester University and FACT).
Recruitment Gone Wrong by Thomson & Craighead and Divorce Index by Natasha Caruana were commissioned by the ODI Data as Culture programme and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Come and visit the exhibition
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Eastern Nepal Tour (ilam Tour)
Either it is western or eastern Nepal Tour, Nepal has carried its own significance in culture, customs, creed and language. Eastern Nepal has possessed its beauty both in natural and cultural aspect with facility of Yoga Meditation trekking in Nepal from The Trek Nepal. It is bestowed with two top ten mountains Mt. Kanchenjunga and Mt. Makalu. Furthermore, it’s also very famous place for tea-plantation especially in Ilam. The attraction of the place is for many other beautiful places like Dharan, Dhankuta and Ilam itself. The lowland area of Jhapa and Morang have welcomed the glory of the people from hill that most of the people have migrated to the lowland terai for their settlement whereas the hill and Himalayan region has still preserved its natural and geographical distinction intact. Besides, places Bhojapur, Taplejung, Khotang etc are culturally very rich and have been the places of harmony with ethnicity and cultural diversity.
The Trek Nepal has strived to make the eastern tour remarkable and unforgettable with the visit of some highly renowned and recognized places like Dharan and Ilam in the itinerary. On the one hand, the visit to Dharan means you are heading to the clean and colorful city with cultural diversity in the low-hill region. The religious site like Budda Subba Temple and scenic view tower of Bhedetar will fascinate and charm you. On the other, the joy and beauty of the nature would upturn while you further follow the way to Ilam which allures you with enchanting and enormous area of tea plantation. The unpredictable weather of the tea plantation area would bewildered and beguiled you with excitement and enthusiasm that you thoroughly engulf the experience of the moment. The view which can be seen from the hill of Kanyam Danda look incredible and magnificent that you will be awfully speechless. It’s such a mesmerizing view the area of Kanyam Danda has inherited. The tour further goes up towards Phikkal and Shree Antu.
Eastern Nepal Tour includes you the glorious time to two major places Dharan, the tourist hub of the Eastern part of Nepal and Illam, the paradise of Tea Garden in the country which exports the taste of Ilam Tea all over the world. In the visit of these two prominent places in the tour, many other beautiful places will be included such as Buddha Subba, Dantakali Temple and Bhedetar in Dharan. In addition, the tour leads you to stunning view of the Saptkoshi valley and snow-capped mountains from the tower also called as Charles Tower in Bhedetar. The Tea Plantation in Kanyam Danda completely serve you the spectacular view of the surrounding if the weather is clear. However, the foggy and rainy weather would let you immerse in the joy of the nature.
Itinerary for Eastern Nepal Tour
Day 1: Arrival to Kathmandu
You will be received by one of our representatives at the Tribhuvan International Airport. Checking in at the hotel, you will be oriented about trip and some necessary arrangement before starting your tour to Eastern Nepal
Day 2: Fly to Bhadrapur from Kathmandu and Drive to Pashupatinagar
Getting on the early plane of Bhadrapur, you will reach at the airport within in 45 minutes. You will have a breakfast at the nearby restaurant in Bhadrapur airport area. Then, the bus will drive you to Pashupatinagar Ilam. It’s about 65 kilometer of journey from Bhadrapur to Pashupatinagar. In between these two places appears Kanyam Tea State about 40 kilometers away from Bhadrapur. You can overview the scintillating scenario of the tea state and communities appeared in the farflung distance both in the hill and lowland. Your lunch will be enjoyed at a restaurant nearby the Kanyam Danda area. After enjoying the sunset, you will move to Pashupatinagar for the overnight stay.
Day 3: Visit in Pashupatinagar and drive to Ilam Bazaar
Early in the morning, the drive will be headed to Shree Antu danda, situated at the height of 1677 meter from sea level, to see the crimson ray of the sunrise of the day which will be changed into the ball of complete shine as the time passes on. The panoramic view will be enjoyed along with the peaks of Mt. Everest and Mt. Kanchejunga. Descending down to Pashupatinagar it will be a breakfast time. After having breakfast in the morning, the cheese factory in Pashupatinagar will be visited along with Pashupati Tea State. The journey will continue to Illam Bazar leaving the charisma and memory of the city in the memory bank. The way further goes to a beautiful and wonderful bazar of Ilam which has preserved its culture and tradition of this region. Along the way mesmerizing view of the area will be enjoyed taking the break on the way. You will come to Phikkal Bazar, where lunch will be tasted, which is also the best place to spend and collect the picturesque view of the area. After a while you will cross a Mai Khola to reach Ilam Bazar. Overnight stay will in Ilam Bazaar.
Day 4: Visit Mai Pokhari
The tour turns to the Mai Pokhari, which is about 13 kilometers away from Ilam Bazaar, measures an altitude of 2438 meters from sea level. The drive about 3 hours will welcome you the view of Mai Pokhari, sacred lake in the hill region. There is also the availability of boating which will escalate the beauty of the visit highly. Along the way rustic setting will be tasted and tried with the glimmering mountains view far to the north. The whole day will be consumed for the visit of Mai Pokhari indeed.
Day 5: Ilam Bazar to Dharan
It will be a long ride from Ilam Bazar to Dharan. Overnight stay will be at a hotel in Dharan.
Day 6: Visit to Buddha Subba Temple and Bhedetar Tower
Early in the morning, you will be going to visit Buddha Subba Temple. Visiting the temple, breakfast will be taken nearby a restraint in the vicinity of the temple. The tour then goes to see the magnificent view of the valley seen from Bhedetar Tower which is also known Charles Tower. Lunch will be had in the town of Bhedetar. In the evening, the tour will return back to Dharan bazaar where you will be visiting Raja Rani Lake and shopping in the town. Overnight stay will be at a hotel.
Day 7: Return to Kathmandu
Dharan to Biratnagar and Fly back to Kathmandu
It will be a wonderful ride from Dharan to Biratnagar and then fly back to Kathmandu.
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Calling All Alberta Farmers!
March 26, 2018 kaylesaustinLeave a comment
The XY Hemp Corporation is moving home!
We’re looking for farming partners in Central and Northern Alberta for a 5-year partnership to grow hemp for food seeds, fibre crops and CBD medicine. The new cannabis regulations are bringing tremendous opportunities to hemp farmers and we’d like to share those with new farmers.
Connect with the XY Hemp Corporation if you want to learn to grow hemp, earn extra income from marginal farmland, transition to organic agriculture, or get into the emerging hemp and cannabis industry.
We bring knowledge, community, financing and entrepreneurial energy to our farming partnerships. Reach out on our contact form or to kayleigh@thexyhempcorporation.com ❤
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2017 Hemp Harvest? No.
October 23, 2017 kaylesaustinLeave a comment
The short version is that 2017 hemp crop was overtaken by wild oats and could not be harvested. I’ll tell you the long version to flesh out the story to provide some insights into organic hemp farming and entrepreneurship.
On the morning of Friday, June 2nd, Al and I began seeding the hemp while Chad drove the final stretch from Edmonton to Breadroot Farms. While Al made the first few passes on the field in the tractor pulling the seed drill, I met with our Saskatchewan Crop Insurance (SCIC) Adjuster. Ben from SCIC and I reviewed the weed control and nutrient process implemented on our field. As you may recall, in 2016 The XY Hemp Corporation grew a cover crop of peas and fava beans to fix nitrogen in the soil and control weeds. I described this process to Ben as we looked at the current moisture in the field and discussed the operations that had been completed on the hemp field prior to seeding. The moisture was about a centimeter below the surface, the soil was warm and conditions looked great for the hemp crop.
A few weeks later, Al and Helene sent Chad and I pictures of a beautiful green blanket covering the hemp field. The hemp seeds germinated nicely and covered the field. A few large noticeable weeds such as thistle and plantain were visible but otherwise the crop looked promising. F*$k Yeah!
A few weeks after that, things changed. Grasses started appearing over the hemp plants and the hemp seemed to stop growing, getting stuck at about 15cm to 20cm.
Ever the hopeful farmers, Chad and I continued to aggressively search for someone to harvest the hemp. This was the other major challenge we faced: no one wanted to be paid to combine a 75-acre hemp field. I spoke with every custom combine company and family in Saskatchewan and followed up with all of their recommendations. Given hemp’s reputation as a challenging crop to harvest, our relatively small acreage and our somewhat remote location (even for Saskatchewan), some people I spoke with were offended I even asked. Many were regrettably already completely booked, and some were intrigued and interested, but everyone I spoke with was ultimately unwilling to combine the field. Possibilities such as buying a vintage John Deere, customizing it to harvest hemp, and reselling after the harvest were being seriously considered.
When we spoke with Al and Helene again in early August, I was still hopeful we would find a saviour to harvest the field. However, the outlook on the hemp field was grim. In their assessment, it was worse than our 2015 crop (which had not been meticulously prepared like our 2017 field). They sent along photos that confirmed the disappointment – a field of wild oats rather than hemp.
Killing wild oats is one of the primary reasons conventional farmers use glyphosate. As organic farmers, controlling weeds is something that must be done through careful crop rotations rather than chemical applications. The conditions this year were simply better for the wild oats than for the hemp.
After this devastating conversation, I called in to the SCIC office to initiate our claim. Ben called me back right away and told me he had been concerned about the field, which he passed regularly on his commute, and that he would write his report on the field as soon as possible. His assessment echoed that of Al and Helene: many small hemp plants dwarfed by wild oats, due to dry conditions.
Chad and I are immensely grateful we purchased insurance for this crop. We invested heavily into the preparation of the field, the seeds and the machinery operations required to make it happen. The insurance claim helped mitigated our losses, exactly as intended.
Looking forward, Chad and I are committed to organic farming. We plan to grow hemp on smaller scales to increase our knowledge of growing and learn new approaches to hemp production. We are also still looking for land access in Alberta or BC to allow us to be more active in farming.
We can’t thank Hélène Tremblay-Boyko and Al Boyko enough for their guidance and mentorship. This crop marks the end of our formal business relationship and we have learned so much from each of them. Anyone looking to settle on the land and learn organic agriculture should get in touch with Breadroot Farms ASAP before their land is sold to another young family.
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Seeding Hemp 2017
June 7, 2017 kaylesaustinLeave a comment
2017 marks The XY Hemp Corporation’s third year in farming and second hemp crop. Chad and Kayleigh traveled to Saskatchewan to seed the hemp with Al and Hélène of Breadroot farm. Kayleigh provides a quick update on how seeding went this year.
I arrived at the Farm on the afternoon of Saturday May 27th, 2017. On my way to the home quarter, I stopped to check on the soon-to-be hemp field and saw mostly black soil. I got a warm welcome from Al and Hélène when I arrived at their home and we enjoyed a beer on the front deck. The wind was a bit unforgiving, so we cut cocktail hour short to warm up inside.
I worked on my computer most of the day Sunday, as Hélène had announced that we were going to tag and immunize the calves on Monday. The cows had all finished calving the day before I arrived and it was time to identify all the babies and give them their first vaccination. Monday morning I joined Hélène, Al, and Jonathan to round up the cows and calves. This was the closest that I have ever gotten to the livestock! The process involved placing an ear tag on each calve and injecting them with one dose of vaccine. I recorded each calves’ number and the date and our team of four finished before lunch.
cows and calves corralled before tagging and immunization
Tuesday afternoon I helped Hélène plant the lettuce and corn in the garden. Last summer, there were some extra peas and fava beans left over from our green manure ploughdown crop. Al was able to plant these extra seeds in two sections of the garden to provided some extra nutrients and organic material. The corn, another nitrogen hungry crop, was planted where the peas and fava beans were ploughed-in last summer. Hélène also plants her corn in the traditional “Three Sisters” grouping: peas, corn and squash are all planted close together to feed and protect one another.
Hélène in the garden
On Wednesday I went out the take pictures of the weeds emerging in the hemp field. The weeds emerging at this stage could provide some indications about the soil: thistles grow in tight soil with little air, while yellow flowered weeds thrive in sulfur depleted soils (pg. 65, Barber, 2014) . In the evening, I cleaned out the seed drill when Al finished seeding the wheat. This signalled that we were getting closer to preparing the hemp field! After emptying the wheat from the seed drill, I helped Al move all the machinery over to the hemp field. It was time to confirm that we were ready to seed!
Weeds in the hemp field: grass and wild oats with straw leftover from the ploughdown crop
Plantain: a medicinal weed
Another medicinal herb: dandelion!
Kayleigh cleaning the wheat from the seed drill
Wednesday night, Chad and I discussed our recent soil samples and the stages of the hemp field. We completed a successful ploughdown crop the year prior, including grazing a small heard of organic cattle on the land. The hemp field had been cultivated and harrowed once, and the weeds had emerged a second time. There was rain at the beginning of the week, and a long stretch of clear weather ahead. Our hemp farming mentor had suggested this precise crop rotation and assured us that even if the soil test didn’t indicate available nitrogen, it was there, mineralizing in the soil. Chad and I affirmed to one another that the hemp seeds had everything they needed to succeed. I left a note for Al on the breakfast table confirming our decision to proceed with the two final machinery operations: rodweeding and harrowing.
Thursday morning, Al left early to get started on the rodweeding. It was the hottest day yet, 30 degrees Celsius and clear skies. I worked inside on my computer and called potential custom harvesters about the fall hemp harvest. In the late afternoon, Al came in to declare a tire had gone flat on the rodweeder. He had a spare in a junk equipment pile hidden behind some trees and he loaded the generator in the truck to power an impact wrench. I came along to pass him tools and help move vehicles.
These breakdowns always take longer than expected to repair and have unforeseen challenges. I learned this lesson fixing Austin Minis on the side of the road in Saskatchewan. This was a much larger tire to remove and replace, located between sharp ploughs and harrows. I am small enough to get into these tight spaces, but not strong enough to free rusted bolts. There I was, lying in the dirt in my lululemon pants, holding wrenches in place while Al used levers and raw determination to unscrew 30-year old bolts. We managed to remove the large weights that keep the wheels from bouncing, and had almost freed the flat tire when a single bolt refused to come free. After 30 minutes of trying various strategies, we returned to the farm for a grinder. By grinding down a lip on the wheel, I was able to get a wrench in position so that it wouldn’t slip free and Al released the stubborn bolt. In another 45 minutes, the new tire was installed and Al was ready to finish the last hour of rodweeding left on the hemp field.
The forecast for Friday was mixed: heat and thunderstorms had been predicted throughout the week but the day started muggy and overcast. By the time I got up, Al had been out harrowing the hemp field for about two hours. Chad was driving in from Saskatoon and the possibility of seeding the hemp was becoming more and more real! I met with a Saskatchewan Crop Insurance adjuster in the hemp field just as Al was finishing the harrowing. Over lunch, we decided to fill the hopper with the hemp seed and start seeding in the afternoon.
Chad arrived at the farm just as a parade of vehicles was heading out to the hemp field. Al was driving the small case tractor, used to pull the seed drill, which was full of fuel. Hélène was carefully pulling the hopper of hemp seeds in the John Deere Tractor and I was following behind to pick-up Hélène and bring her back to the house. When we all arrived at the field there were hugs and handshakes then we jumped up on the seed drill to finish adding the hemp seeds. Ready to get into the activity, Chad offered to join Al in the tractor to drive the seed drill. They returned for dinner at about 8pm with 45 acres complete!
The last 7 acres to seed!
Saturday, June 3rd, was overcast and dreary but we were joyfully excited to finish seeding the hemp! Chad joined Al in the tractor again and jumped out to move large rocks and check how much hemp was left in the seed drill. With just seven acres left to seed, I came out to take pictures and see if there was anything they needed. In the afternoon, we helped Al move tractors to new fields and cleaned the remaining hemp from the seed drill. The sun came out and it was a hot windy day. I was grateful for the moisture in the soil and the straw from the cover crop holding our soil down against the strong winds.
My mantra for this year is “strong relationships and healthy harvests”. It was a pleasure to nurture our relationship with Al and Hélène of Breadroot farm by participating in all the activities on their farm. We are so grateful for their mentorship and partnership in our endeavour. I look forward to visiting them again at harvest in September for a healthy harvest!
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2017 Hemp Farming Update
April 12, 2017 kaylesaustinLeave a comment
2017 is an exciting year for the XY Hemp Corporation: we will be planting our second hemp seed crop. Last year, we prepared the soil by growing a cover crop (ploughdown crop) of peas and fava beans. This processes added nutrients and organic material to the soil and will hopefully reduce weeds. We’re now ready to seed hemp and reap a healthy organic harvest!
Chad submitted our application to grow industrial hemp to Health Canada in December 2016. Our location was confirmed and land agreement signed in early 2016, so there was no reason for us to delay. The shortened application form was simple to complete and we received our hemp license a few weeks after submission. With our license in hand, we set out to review production contracts for the 2017 growing season.
We requested production contracts from several wholesale seed companies to review their terms. We were pleased with the continued upward trend in organic hemp seed prices. While our primary objective is to grow a health yield of hemp seeds, we are also interested in selling our fibres. Many of the contracts included a right of first refusal for the seed buyer to also purchase the fibres. We requested that clause be removed so that we are free to sell our fibres to the highest bidder. A developing market for hemp fibres is a long anticipated and very welcome opportunity for farmers. Will 2017 be the year of hemp fibre sales?
From May 24 to June 7, I will be in Saskatchewan to seed the hemp field, visit mentors and potential partners and catch up with friends. Our farming partners, Al and Hélène of Breadroot farms, will host us for the two weeks. They are also welcoming a new family to their land this year! This is the start of a new partnership that will see Al and Hélène move towards retirement while mentoring young farmers to continue with organic practices. We are so delighted that their search for long term partners has been successful.
The final step to complete before travelling to Saskatchewan is to arrange for hemp seeds to be delivered to our farm. The production contract we chose, with Hemp Fresh Foods/ Manitoba Harvest, provides us with guaranteed access to seeds. This is because Hemp Fresh Foods are the owners of the Finola variety we will be growing. The team at Manitoba Harvest, including Darryl McElroy, Jennifer McCombe and Clarence Shwaluk, have been extremely helpful to The XY Hemp Corporation, long before we signed a production contract. Jennifer shared her agrology knowledge with us while we were deciding on our cover crop last year and she always keeps us up to date on hemp events on the prairies. In 2015, Darryl tracked down Finola seeds for us when supplies were getting low and seeding was starting soon. From all their hard work and dedication to customer service, we are thrilled to grow hemp for Manitoba Harvest!
Entrepreneurship, hemp, Hemp Farming, Organic Farmingagri-business, agriculture, Cannabis, farming, hemp, hemp seeds, land access, Organic, Organic Agriculture, Saskatchewan, start-up, young entrepreneurs
2016 Cover Crop Update
August 31, 2016 August 31, 2016 kaylesaustin5 Comments
For the 2016 growing season, The XY Hemp Corporation grew a cover crop of peas and faba beans. The term cover crop is used to describe a crop that is not grown to harvest, but instead to cover the soil to prevent erosion, add organic material to the soil, suppress weeds by increasing competition for light and moisture, and create a habitat for beneficial insects and microorganisms. For legumes crops, like ours, there is the additional benefit of nitrogen fixing in the roots of the plants. Another term, which is commonly used to describe this process, is a green manure crop or a plough down crop. These practices are different than summerfallow, where a field is left bare between cash crops and the soil is vulnerable to erosion or excess water.
Our primary motivation for the cover crop is to fix nitrogen in our soil to prepare for the 2017 hemp crop. In 2015, we also struggled with wild oats and so weed suppression is another goal for the cover crop. The 2016 cover crop (and 2017 hemp crop) is in the field next to our 2015 hemp crop. The last crop grown on the new field was oats and our soil tests revealed that there were similar levels of nitrogen in each field following the hemp crop and following the oats crop. This means that we need to fix as much nitrogen as possible in our 2016 field to support the growth of the 2017 hemp crop.
Pea nodules, where the nitrogen is fixed into the soil.
Faba Bean nodules, where the nitrogen is fixed into the soil.
To do this, we planted a combination of 40/10 peas and faba beans. This combination was determined after conversations with our farming partners Al and Hélène, our hemp farming mentor Larry Marshall, and various organic agrologists and seed suppliers. The faba beans were chosen because they will fix a lot of nitrogen in the soil, but they do not provide very good weed competition and they need a lot of moisture, which is not ideal if the growing season is dry. On the other hand, the peas provide better weed competition and do not require as much moisture. In order to hedge against either weather outcome, we decided to grow a 50/50 blend of peas and faba beans.
Our final strategy to increase our soil’s nitrogen content organically, in a single growing season, was to ask Al and Hélène to graze their cattle on our cover crop before ploughing (or discing) the plants and manure into the dirt. While Al and Hélène have a relatively small herd – this type of manure spreading is best done by flash grazing a large herd – the additional nitrogen from the manure, and the weed suppression from cattle gazing on wild oats, should be beneficial overall.
In late June, Nordrick’s Norsask Seeds delivered our blended peas and faba beans to Breadroot Farm and Al was able to seed the cover crop. The seeds were treated with an organic inoculant to help the plants germinate and establish in the soil. This was quite effective, as both the peas and beans grew well together and there is a lot of plant material for grazing and working into the soil. When Hélène left for a conference in Montreal, the faba beans were taller than the peas, but when she returned, the peas had overtaken the beans. As you can see above, the crop was about three-quarters the height of the yearlings when they were released into the field to graze.
Al and Hélène tested the cattle in a small area (about 10 acres) to ensure that the peas and beans did not cause bloat in the livestock. To the contrary, the yearlings quite like the peas and appear to have healthy digestion from the perfectly round patties they are leaving on the field. On August 21, Al and Hélène opened up the rest of the field to the yearlings, who have been eating the peas and the wild oats, but leaving the faba beans for the most part. This is ideal for us, as the peas should be disced-in now because pods are already formed, while the faba beans can continue growing and fixing nitrogen. The cattle have been a very effective way to selectively mow down the cover crop. As they trample the crop, they are also starting the decomposition process, which will continue to mineralize the nutrients in the soil through the fall, winter and spring. The success of this strategy is a true triumph for the XY Hemp Corporation and we are hopeful that it will be reflected in the health of our 2017 hemp crop.
Hemp Farming, Organic Farmingagri-business, agriculture, farming, Hempday, land access, Organic, Organic Agriculture, Saskatchewan, The XY Hemp Corporation, young agrarians
Our Farming Partners: Al and Hélène
June 29, 2016 kaylesaustin1 Comment
In every blog post, I try to show our gratitude for the many people who have supported us in our venture. There is no one we are more grateful for than Al Boyko and Hélène Tremblay-Boyko. They have provided us with access to land, welcomed us into their home, and taught us the practical aspects of organic farming. Smart, compassionate, hardworking and funny, Al and Hélène have been the best partners we could ask for. While they have enthusiastically jumped into our hemp-growing project, their original goal was to find successors to their farm to keep their land in organic or sustainable production when they are ready to retire. In this blog post, I will give you a brief profile of Al and Hélène, and Breadroot Farm, to show our gratitude and in hopes that it might help connect them with future farming partners.
Our first tour of the pasture on our first night at Breadroot Farm
We connected by chance when I built a profile for the XY Hemp Corporation on FarmLink. After Hélène’s first e-mail, I was able to browse the website she created for Breadroot Farm, which provided me with so much information about their philosophies and farming practices. We arranged an initial phone call, to explore what each of us could bring to a partnership – and if we were interested in pursuing one, given our different goals. As we shared information about our hopes and plans for the future, a plan began to emerge for our joint venture. We continued to discuss the plan for the next four months as we developed a crop share agreement, cropping plan, financing terms and organized our first visit to Breadroot Farm. It was thrilling to be building a relationship through collaboration and we were so impressed by the generosity and understanding our future partners were showing us. It was so great to be able to find landowners who were active on this online land-linking platform, open to a new type of agriculture, interested in teaching new farmers (with no previous experience!), and willing to share the risks of our first crop together.
Chad and I were nervous about our first meeting, but our concerns quickly dissolved when we arrived in Canora, Saskatchewan in May 2015. Another libra lady, Hélène and I connected quickly through a shared intellect and appreciation for balance and partnership. A former french immersion teacher, Hélène is an excellent and patient teacher (Chad and I are also former french immersion students!). I have a deep appreciation for Hélène’s intelligence, including her knowledge on a wide variety of topics, and eagerness to learn new things. She is also highly organized and helps with the website administration of The Farmer’s Table, a sustainable agriculture initiative to sell fresh food straight from farmers to families in Regina and Saskatoon. Aware of the balance between hard work and play, Hélène is also very festive and a gracious host. She likes to engage in celebration through song and food and has welcomed musicians, chefs, and many aspiring farmers into her home.
Chad and Hélène making ketchup.
Hélène channels these gifts into so many worthwhile causes. She is active in her compassion through her work with Development and Peace, and caring for the elderly and homebound residents in her rural community. Hélène is also very passionate about the struggle of rural peasants throughout the world and is conscious of the impact climate change will have on these vulnerable populations. She recently travelled to Paris to participate in COP21 with Development and Peace and other non-profit organizations. Through this lens, she has been able to teach Chad and I about organic farming by not only explaining how it is done, but why it is important to our world.
Al is an absolute delight; he has a quick wit and ever present sense of humour, which is so necessary given the ups and downs of farming. Like many farmers, Al has a never ending set of skills including mechanics, mathematics, negotiation, as well as a deep knowledge of organic farming practices. Al helped me set up the calculations to determine how to calibrate the seed drill for hemp, and helped Chad and I set up the experiment to ensure we were putting the right amount of seed at the right depth. He also patiently taught Chad how to drive the tractor with the harrow on the back, which was a challenge for two large men in a very small space! Al likes to tell stories, which were endlessly entertaining for Chad and I, and delivers lots of his advice in the form of short one-liners. Anyone who knows me knows that this is the best way to communicate with me. Our favourite saying was “How long COULD it take”, which helped Chad and I remember that not all things would happen on our tightly organized schedule.
Al and Chad weighing samples from the seed drill.
Al filling the seed drill.
Al and Hélène are also entrepreneurs themselves, as independent farmers, co-operative founders and former owners of a bakery in Preeceville, Saskatchewan. Al baked delicious, organic, whole grain bread almost every day while Chad and I visited, which was such a treat for us. They are also founding members of The Farmer’s Table and active members of Farmer Direct Co-op, a small organic co-operative (and the buyer of our organic hemp). Al and Hélène sell their grass-fed beef, as well as seasonal vegetables, through the Farmer’s Table and sell their grain crops through Farmer Direct Co-op. They take a really active role in their farms operations, the marketing of their products, and their community.
Amsterdam, SK, is between Breadroot Farms and Canora, SK.
Breadroot farm is beautiful place in the Good Spirit region of Saskatchewan. The farmland has been certified organic since 2000 and they began raising organic grass-fed beef in 2008. Because they have worked so hard to nurture their land and maintain their organic certification, through OCIA (their current certifier is TransCanada Organic Certification Services), they are looking for partners who will carry on with sustainable agricultural practices. Some of their land will be placed in trust with Farmland Legacies, who will lease it to farmers who share a commitment to sustainable agriculture. However, Al and Hélène also believe farm land should be owned by farmers, and have held some aside to sell to future partners looking to establish themselves in the area. Lastly, there is a lovely conservation easement covering some of the pastureland owned by Breadroot Farm, which provides crucial habitat to prairie wildlife.
Wildflowers in the conservation easement.
Prairie Lillies.
The yearlings…always so curious.
Al and Hélène have ambitious goals for their farm. They wish to live in:
in a vibrant community made up of a balance of young and mature families engaged in organic, sustainable living and farming,
where there are abundant natural resources including productive land with areas set aside for wildlife habitat,
where there are healthy water, mineral and energy cycles,
where a land legacy system is in place to ensure land access for future generations, and
where mentoring is ongoing and knowledge is shared from generation to generation.
We are incredibly grateful to be working with Al and Hélène on our hemp venture, and we would like to support their search for long-term farming partners who are interested in establishing a life in rural Saskatchewan. If you are interested in learning more about Al and Hélène and life on Breadroot Farm please visit their website: https://sites.google.com/site/breadrootfarm/
or send them an e-mail!
breadrootfarms@gmail.com
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XY Hemp Winter Research
The XY Hemp Corporation is back in action this spring, and I’m excited to tell you about our plans for the next two growing seasons. However, we haven’t been on hiatus all winter. In fact, Chad and I spent most of our winter months diving into research projects. After getting majorly inspired at the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) conference in November 2015, I worked on some of the economics behind a series of White Papers published by the CHTA this spring. Through February and March, Chad and I explored hemp processing possibilities by completing market assessments for bio-polymers, bio-composites and cannabidiol (CBD) extract products. There is always more research to do, but in this post I’ll tell you about what we’ve learned so far.
At the CHTA conference in Calgary, Chad and I learned a lot about hemp building materials, CBD extracts and made lots of industry connections. I attended the full three days and was able to attend sessions with Health Canada, and update on US regulatory changes, and several sessions on hemp fibre processing developments. JustBiofiber provided an update on their hempcrete building blocks along with price comparisons to conventional building systems and information on the pilot facility they are building outside Calgary. We also got to learn from researchers at the University of Alberta and the Albert Agriculture and Forestry Bioindustrial Research Branch. The Wednesday morning session with Paul XX of Elixinol was the most highly anticipated event of the conference. He presented the research supporting the use of CBD and hemp oil for a wide array of health issues and diseases. It was a moving and motivational presentation. Throughout the week, we connected with many amazing people in the hemp industry and I offered my support as an economics researcher for the CHTA White Papers on CBD extracts.
After January, Chad and I began working though structured market assessments of several products derived from hemp. In these markets assessments we tried to fill in the gaps in our knowledge about the market size, the value chain (how the product move from raw hemp to final product and how much are the mark-ups at each stage of production), established business models in the industry, a SWOT analysis if we were to enter the market and what our key success factors would be. This process involved understanding the basic science behind some of the more technical products and gathering and organizing information about how existing businesses operate in the market.
We decided to started with the most complex product, bio-composites, to make things easier for ourselves going forward. Based on our research, bio-composites are natural fibers combined with polymers. We are most interested in green bio-composites, which use natural fibers and polymers derived from plants rather than refined petroleum. To start our research we ordered an amazing text book written by the European Confederation of Linen and Hemp and the research organization JEC. It was well worth the investment and helped us understand the language of composite materials, the science behind how they work, how they are made, and current applications in hemp and flax fibers. The text book also included market research and comparisons between the structural properties of hemp composites and traditional composites such as carbon and glass fiber.
Following this we moved on to bio-polymers, the building blocks of plastics derived from plant sources. In this stage we were comparing processes and products derived from a wide variety of natural oils (for example: canola, waste from ethanol production, soy) to plastics derived from hemp oils. This is a new area of research and during this process we reached out to our contacts at Alberta Agriculture and Forestry and Alberta Innovates, who connected us with researchers at the U of A who are working on lipids chemistry. Chad and I have both made visits to the laboratory to see samples of the bio-composites being developed and are excited to continue our research in this field.
Finally, we turned our attention back to CBD extracts from hemp. CBD is a polyphenol, like THC, naturally occurring in the hemp plant. The hemp plant is a variety of cannabis sativa that has been bred to have very low concentrations of THC (<0.3%), but in doing so, it can often have much higher concentrations of CBD. There is a lot of interest in the health community about the potential therapeutic uses of CBD, and many products already available online. We reviewed some of the science behind CBD, the methods used to extract it from hemp and the potential market for these products. It is not possible at this time for hemp farmers to harvest or process the parts of the plant that are rich in CBDs. This is one of the reasons why the CHTA wrote its White Papers and has been sharing this information with decisions makers in Ottawa to help change the rules that govern hemp production.
Chad and I have a few more market assessments we would life to complete this year, for biofuels and hemp construction materials. We have started gathering resources for these pieces but have put our work on hold to get our hemp farming process organized for the next two years (more about that in the next blog post). We are also excited to observe and participate in conversations about how marijuana legalization should be structured in Canada, and we’ll be following the research on this topic closely. Bio-polymers and bio-composites are exciting new industrial markets for hemp, and we will be looking for ways to build a business model for those products which fits our desired scale. As always, we couldn’t do any of this without the amazing network we have been building in hemp and the Alberta bio-industry and we look forward to continuing to build relationships with government, researchers and other businesses.
Entrepreneurship, hemp, Hemp Farming, Organic Farmingagri-business, Alberta, biocomposites, biopolymers, Cannabis, cbd, entrepreneurship, farming, hemp, Hempday, Organic, Organic Agriculture, Saskatchewan, start-up, university, young entrepreneurs
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A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War – Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC – Marc G DeSantis – Review
13 May 2018 Thomo the Lost
Apart from reading Great Battles of the Classical Greek World by Owen Rees, at the same time I was also reading A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War – Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC published by Pen & Sword Maritime in 2017, ISBN 978 1 47386 158 9.
The book is the result of DeSantis’s research for his previous book, Rome Seizes the Trident, where he looked at Rome’s eventual defeat of Carthage at sea by the application of simple tactics against a more skillful opponent along with steadfast resolve. The Athenian fleet (skillful mariners) were brought low by Syracusan blunt force, prow-to-prow tactics.
The Peloponnesian War was largely decided by battles and a strategy at sea. When Athens’ control of the sea crumbled, so did its empire. The classical sources used for the book are Thucydides, Plutarch, Diodorus and Xenophon.
The Naval History of the Peloponnesian War commences with a number of maps of the area of operations as well as a map of the Battle of Arginusae. The book is then divided into 5 main parts parts 3 to 5 consisting of the usual split of the war:
The Trireme
The Archidamian War
The Sicilian Expedition
The Ionian War
There are also a Preface, Conclusions, Notes, Bibliography and Index. The itself book covers the naval history of the 27 years of conflict that was the Peloponnesian War.
DeSantis outlines the struggle in the Introduction, noting that Sparta supported by Persian gold eventually overcame Athens although it was the loss of the Athenian fleet at Syracuse that signaled the end for Athens rather than any action of Sparta.
DeSantis traces the war from the sources, first looking at the causes of the war presented by Thucydides as he saw it and he mostly relies on Thucydides’s narrative to 411 BC. Xenophon picks up the tale from then along with Diodorus of Siculus. Plutarch of Chaeronea writing some 500 years or so later in his Parallel Lives looks at the biographies of the Athenians Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, and Alcibiades along with the Spartan Lysander. Lastly the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia also mentions wartime events including the Athenian seaborne campaign in Asia Minor in 409 BC and the Battle of Notium in 406 BC. These then are the classical references used by DeSantis.
DeSantis covers the economics of the naval build-up of Athens, noting that the 100 talents (600,000 drachmae) in silver extracted from the Laurium silver mines was sufficient to build 200 triremes. He then notes that Pericles estimated the same cost for each year of war against Sparta.
In the second section the author examines the trireme (triers in Greek) with Thucydides identifying Corinth as the first to construct a trireme although there is a competing theory that the trireme may have actually originated in the east with the Sidonian of Phoenicia (trikrotis naus) or the Phoenicans themselves constructing the first such vessels.
The construction of the triremes of Athens is covered including details of where the wood and pitch was sourced from along with the number of men required to move a trireme up the 1 in 10 ramp into its shed (140) as well as take it back into the water (110). One thing that had not occurred to me before but perhaps should of is that there were different quality triremes. The best were known as exairetoi (selects) while others were identified as first, seconds or thirds. Old vessels were converted for troop transport – with a converted trireme able to transport 85 soldiers.
Tactics are covered with discussions of sailing with the wind and under the power of oars. Masts and sails were generally taken down before battle and preferably left on shore to lighten the load in the trireme prior to battle. The main battle manoeuvres are described, being the diekplous and the periplous. Less skillful fleets relied on coming alongside and boarding the enemy.
Rounding out his review of the trireme, DeSantis covers shipboard fighting, funding a fleet, the officers on board, payment on campaign, and propulsion.
DeSantis then moves on the Archidamian War which started when Corcyra and Corinth came to blows over Epidamnus. He looks at:
The Battle of Sybota
Potidaea
The Athenian empire and rival coalitions
The Battle of Chalcis
The Battle of Naupachus
The Attack on Piraeus
The Revolt at Lesbos
The Second Battle of Sybota
Pylos and Sphacteria
Strait of Messana engagements
Expeditions to Corinth and Corcyra
Attack on Nisaea
Delium
Brasidas’s campaign
Meude
The Peace of Nicias
The Fate of Melos
The next part covers the whole hubristic disaster for Athens that was the Sicilian Expedition.
Lastly the Ionian War is examined. After the defeat in Sicily, the Athenians were spurred on to lock down their Ionian allies, and ensure Euboea in particular remained within the empire. The author looks at:
Alcibiades’s seduction of Timaea, the wife of King Agis
Alcibiades’s undermining Persian efforts to assist the Peloponnesians
The Battle of Cynossema
The Battle of Abydos
The Battle of Cyzicus
Alcibiades and the Athenian plundering expeditions
Action off Mytilene
The Battle of Arginusae
The Battle of Aegospotami
DeSantis concludes with the eventual defeat of the Athenian Empire.
While there were many land battles throughout the Peloponnesian War, it was at sea that Athens was at first strong, then later faltered.
I very much enjoyed this book, especially as I was reading it at the same time as Great Battles of the Classical Greek World. There was some overlap between the two books so taking an alternate view on some matters was a benefit.
If you are a naval tragic like me, and an ancient history addict as well, this book will serve well as an overview of the Peloponnesian War from the naval perspective. Thucydides and Xenophon are still the main sources to read but DeSantis’s book is both easy to read and factual.
This is a good book providing a good amount of detail and covering one the more exciting stories from Ancient Greece. I am now looking for my copy of Thucydides to read further into this conflict again, one that I have not looked at for about 30 years. Recommended.
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HomeBusinessParliament Buildings driveway goes over budget
Parliament Buildings driveway goes over budget
The new driveway at the Parliament Buildings is going over its $1.5 million budget.
The Legislative Assembly Management Committee voted Dec. 3 to spend another $255,000, after the executive financial officer, Hilary Woodward, delivered the bad news.
Driveway construction at the Parliament Buildings (Mackin)
Woodward said digging up the 109-year-old driveway revealed contaminated soil, though she did not say what contaminants were found. That cost another $200,000 for the testing and removal. Old pipes containing asbestos were also found. Existing waterlines needed to be lowered and electrical repairs undertaken.
“It’s not just the replacement of the driveway itself,” Woodward said in the meeting. “We were able to take that opportunity and do a lot of underground infrastructure and put it in place, including a conduit for lighting for future projects as well.”
By email, Acting Clerk Kate Ryan-Lloyd told theBreaker.news that two pipes buried in a shallow concrete trench tested positive for asbestos. The area was immediately taped-off and visitors and staff banned from the area. Sixteen of 50 test hole locations turned up contaminated or hazardous materials. Fourteen of them contained chlorides at levels exceeding Ministry of Environment thresholds. Lead was found in one test hole and barium in another, both at levels exceeding Ministry of Environment guidelines.
Meanwhile, the proposed Legislative Assembly operating budget for next fiscal year is $85 million, a $2 million increase over the current year.
Ryan-Lloyd said the additional funds would improve the workplace environment, with enhanced staff engagement, training and development, labour relations initiatives, a respectful workplace policy and creation of a whistleblower policy.
The committee is also requesting $6 million for capital funding, a decrease of $224,000 from the previous year. The focus is safety, security and infrastructure improvements.
Ryan-Lloyd’s report to the committee also summarized a series of transparency measures. The Legislative Assembly is now publicly reporting quarterly the expenses and compensation for executive staff and travel spending by all assembly staff. There are also new disclosure provisions for transition payments to retired or defeated MLAs and the online posting of MLA conflict of interest disclosure statements. The next wave of proactive disclosure categories could include procurement contracts, purchasing card transactions, and interparliamentary visits, exchanges and conferences.
Speaker Darryl Plecas (left), interim clerk Kate Ryan-Lloyd last January. (Mackin)
The measures are a stop-gap until the NDP government fulfils promises made earlier this year to place the Legislative Assembly under the freedom of information laws. The promise was made by NDP Government House Leader Mike Farnworth in the wake of Speaker Darryl Plecas’s report on corruption in the offices of the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms. Craig James and Gary Lenz both retired in disgrace and are under RCMP investigation.
Also stemming from Plecas’s investigation, the Legislature has instituted new policies for purchasing cards, travel, liquor, uniforms, standards of conduct, gifts and even a policy on creating and updating policies.
Polices are either under review or development for asset disposal, hospitality, legal assistance, parking, retirement allowance, vacation and whistleblowers.
The Legislative Assembly is also playing catch-up with modern human resources strategies. Ryan-Lloyd said there are now regular meetings with senior management. A management seminar was held, as was a full, organization-wide staff meeting. For the first time, the Legislative Assembly conducted a staff survey.
“We’ve had employee suggestion boxes, coffee drop-in sessions and as we look ahead to the new year,” Ryan-Lloyd said. “I hope to continue those efforts and do everything we can to sustain ongoing staff engagement as well as provide new training and development opportunities for legislative staff and improve our human resource management practices.”
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The Big Arctic Culture Guide To The North Pole
The Arctic Circle is an icy sheet often neglected by travellers, as even the most seasoned explorers think of it as desolate and unwelcoming. The reality, however, is much different, with plenty of natural wonders, excellent cuisine and an interesting and welcoming culture. We explore 10 of the best things to do in the Arctic Circle, from art in Nuuk to Greenlandic food in Qaqortoq and the colourful town of Kulusuk.
Northern Lights © Timo Newton Syms/Flickr
Throughout the centuries there have been various theories propagated and elaborated on by natives of the North Pole to explain away the Northern Lights: the spirits of the deceased playing football, premonitions of famine or great disasters, indicators of the spirits of giants, and more. The true reason, revolving around particles from the sun colliding with other gases in an explosive synthesis, is no less magical. Southern Greenland is one of the best places in the Arctic to see the lights, and if it’s a clear night as far away as possible from major towns, then around midnight there is a good possibility of a natural light show.
Nuuk Kunstmuseum
One of the main art museums of Nuuk, Greenland’s largest city, is the Nuuk Kunstmuseum, a unison of the country’s modern painting and sculpture, with a strong presence of traditional artistry and national identity. The 400-square-metre gallery is housed in the old adventist church of Nuuk, encompassing the former house of artist and pastor Niels Lynge, who painted the walls in vibrant shows of Greenlandic activity, which live on as primitive graffiti. The main collection comprises pieces owned by the Junge Pedersen couple, Svend and Helen, who donated their collection to the municipal museum.
Nuuk Kunstmuseum, Kissarneqqortuunnguaq 5, Nuuk, Greenland, +299 32 77 33
Ice and Snow © Christine Zenino/Flickr
Ice dream
Greenland’s ice is picking up speed, as one of the country’s main glaciers (the one thought to have spawned the deadly iceberg that sank the Titanic) has become the fastest-moving structure of its kind, getting up to 17 kilometres per year. Glaciers are mammoth masses that stretch beyond the imagination’s limits and which, in Greenland, stem from the ice sheet covering most of the country. Excursions can be done by car, boat, plane or on foot for the bravest. Crevices and pinnacles dot the landscape of glaciers and ice rivers, which can hide under snow or protrude under cover of night-time, equating to a treacherous terrain which is best discovered with a qualified guide.
Pioneering People © Visit Greenland/Flickr
The minority species
The inhabitants of the elusive country of Greenland number a mere 56,000 – there are fewer people than there are seals (two million, approximately) and yet the human inhabitants represent a large number of backgrounds and anthropological influences: inuits, paleo-eskimos, Norse settlers, Portuguese explorers and Danish immigrants. All those that settle on this icy island adapt to the territory that surrounds them, and, as such, have developed a way of life that is in tune with the nature around them, and which depends on the island’s scarce flora and fauna.
Whaling © Anne Mette Christiansen/VisitGreenland/Flickr
From whaling to whale-watching
The irony of whales in Greenland is that their preciously conserved status in the waters surrounding the country is due to the hunting, which recently brought them to near-extinction. The whaling trade continued to thrive until 1986, when the practice was finally banned, with an exception made for indigenous communities, who were permitted to continue with their subsistence whale hunting. There are around 10 different species to be spotted in the waters surrounding Greenland, including humpback, sperm, beluga and killer whales. Excursions to spot them are commonplace and although they require patience, the reward is astounding.
Katuaq Leiff Josefsen © Leiff Josefsen
Katuaq
For those in search of contemporary art, culture and architecture, Katuaq is the prime stop-off point. Katuaq is housed in a newly built facility designed to be in harmonious synchrony with the glaciers and undulating hills of Nuuk, and also to reflect the Northern Lights that roll across the night sky above, especially in summertime. The house cafe is a social hub for artists and visitors alike, serving a variety of hot and cold food and drinks, and the venue also caters for functions and conferences. Showcasing the best of art and performance of Greenland is the venue’s main mission, and the conviction is evident in the regular concerts and exhibitions.
Katuaq, Imaneq 21, Nuuk, Greenland, +299 36 37 70
Kulsuq © Neil Russill/Flickr
Colourful Kulusuk
Kulusuk is known as the Gateway to East Greenland, and also looks like the end of the rainbow, where a pot of multicoloured gold lies, in the form of picturesque and perfectly proportioned buildings. Dotted around the hillside in resplendent painted wooden beauty, the town is made of a colour-coded medley of dollshouse-like creations. The colours originally had a practical purpose; hospitals were yellow, fish factories were blue, houses were red and the telephone company was green. The island’s architecture comprises a perfect example of Danish colonial style, with timber kits brought from Scandinavia from the beginning of the 18th century.
Kulusuk, East Greenland
The sole form of transport for many inuit hunters is fast becoming a popular adrenaline activity for daring visitors, and for those who have, it seems, seen and tried everything, there is a new challenge in the form of dog sleds. There’s no experience quite like speeding across glaciers as dogs glide in and out of formations pulling their charge behind them, with the breathtaking landscapes of Eastern Greenland breeze across in a cold whip of whites and blues.
Restaurant Napparsivik © JStewart/Flickr
Restaurant Napparsivik
Qaqortoq is a port town that lies in the south of the country. In one of the oldest houses in the tiny main square lies an incredibly inviting, conscientious and sophisticated restaurant. Chef Emil Karsbaek serves up whale carpaccio, reindeer in blueberry juice and other experimental-traditional plates at Restaurant Napparsivik. Local produce from land and sea, bought at the local markets, or brættet, are enticingly presented and allow visitors to experience true Arctic cuisine.
Nuuk Fishmarket © Lovstromp/Flickr
Nuuk Fish Market (or any other fish market)
Greenlandic cuisine thrives on fish, and no major town is without a well-stocked fish market. Whole fish or fins, seal ribs or whale meat are laid out in beautiful array, though the more rustic markets are not for the faint-hearted as gutting and hacking is done on-site. The Nuuk fishmarket is located in the commercial centre and is a highly sanitised, clean and distinctly non-fishy atmosphere. These fish markets, or ‘brættet’ in Danish, are great places to find out what the locals are cooking for dinner and see where the food that’s served in the restaurants is sourced from.
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Canadiens Captain When Pacioretty Goes
By Brianne Spiker June 27th, 2018
With all the talk of captain Max Pacioretty potentially getting traded, it sparks a lot of questions. Who will replace his goal-scoring production? Will the Habs get the proper value in return? And of course, who would replace Pacioretty as the captain? For the Montreal Canadiens, there are two logical options to hypothetically step up and wear the ‘C’ if Pacioretty leaves.
Candidate #1: Brendan Gallagher
Candidate number one is Brendan Gallagher. The Habs are fresh off a disappointing season, where most players found a way to not meet expectations. However, Gallagher was not a part of that group. Instead, he recorded a career high in goals (31) and points (54), and bounced back from injuries to play that Energizer Bunny style he is known for. A few star players on the Habs have had their effort levels questioned at times, but never Gallagher’s.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – FEBRUARY 20: Montreal Canadiens right wing Brendan Gallagher (11) gains control of the puck as Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Brandon Manning (23) chases him. (Photo by Gavin Baker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
His work ethic is second to none, and attitude has never been an issue with him. For any Habs prospect looking to push through to the NHL, taking a page out of Gallagher’s book when it comes to effort is a good place to start. Off the ice, Gallagher has contributed his fair share to the Montreal community and is often ready to face the intense Montreal media in most situations.
At 26, he is considered to be a young veteran and for a team skewing younger, he is a good fit for the ‘C’. Since early on in his career, Gallagher has been a leader, having worn an ‘A’ for the team since 2015. In terms of tenure, he is the third longest serving Habs player after Carey Price and Pacioretty.
Candidate #2: Shea Weber
Shea Weber is the other logical candidate to potentially take over the captaincy if Pacioretty leaves. He has only played two seasons in a Habs uniform, but his impact has been pretty big since his arrival. He is unquestionably the team’s number one defenceman, playing big minutes in all situations and makes an impact both offensively and defensively.
(Jean-Yves Ahern-USA TODAY Sports)
Weber has been considered the consummate leader for much of his career, having previously worn the ‘C’ for the Nashville Predators for six seasons, in addition to wearing an ‘A’ for Team Canada on several occasions. He took rookie defenceman Victor Mete under his wing this past season and showed him the ropes. Weber has been lauded over the years for his leadership ability and won the Mark Messier Leadership Award for his efforts in 2015-16. His presence was sorely missed this past season, as an injury prevented him from playing most of the season.
The Only Choices
Gallagher and Weber both wear the ‘A’ for the team, so it easily makes them the first players to think of when considering a new captain. As for the other players on the roster, the fit isn’t there. Carey Price is the face of the franchise, but having a goalie as the captain just doesn’t work and he already has enough pressure on his plate. Pacioretty has been a really good player for the Habs and been heavily involved in the community, but there is the increasing feeling it’s time for a change in leadership.
Canadiens left wing Max Pacioretty (Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports)
Most of the team’s current veterans don’t play big enough roles to warrant the captaincy. On the flip side, most of the younger players haven’t shown they are ready or capable of wearing a letter just yet. On a team in transition struggling to find an identity, it is important that there is a strong leadership group in place. For rebuilding teams especially, it is crucial to maintain accountability, demonstrate a strong work ethic, and exude professionalism in good and bad times.
And the Best Option Is…
Both Gallagher and Weber would be excellent candidates to fill the captaincy if Pacioretty is traded or walks as a free agent after next season. Gallagher and Weber never short-change their teams when it comes to on-ice effort, and are consummate professionals off of it. Weber has the experience of being an NHL captain on his side, while Gallagher is a homegrown player who has demonstrated leadership for the team in all situations.
For the team going forward, Gallagher seems like the natural fit, even though Weber would be a more than adequate choice. Gallagher’s work ethic is one that Montreal’s upcoming prospects and current roster players should mimic. As a young veteran, he bridges the gap nicely between the older players and the younger ones.
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Cheyenne Jackson, Lea DeLaria, Christy Carlson Romano, Alex McKenna, Kevin Carolan, Mark Jude Sullivan, Collin Smith
William J. Stribling
Russ Nickel, William J. Stribling
Comedy Dynamics Releases "Bear With Us"
After having reviewed thousands of films over the years, it's not often that an indie comedy actually makes me laugh out loud. However such was the case with Bear With Us, a Comedy Dynamics release starring Mark Sullivan as Colin Dense, a neurotic romantic who believes he's found the perfect woman in Quincy (Christy Carlson Romano). When she rejects his well planned yet hilariously misguided proposal, Colin bides his time until six months later when he builds an elaborate new proposal around the suspect knowledge that his beloved Quincy is afraid of bears.
This ain't no Furry Vengeance.
Taking what could have easily come off as a bad SNL skit and bringing it to life in pretty hilarious and awesome ways, co-writer/director William J. Stribling has created that rare dark comedy that works as a dark comedy, a low-budget work of wonder that is laugh out loud funny throughout and blessed with a genuinely talented comedic ensemble.
Bear With Us wraps itself around the familiar "cabin in the woods" cinematic theme, but instead of coming off as formulaic and familiar the film reaches for comedic heights and, maybe more than anything, just has an awful lot of fun. Joining Colin and Quincy for a couple of days in the woods, friends Tammy (Alex McKenna) and Harry (Collin Smith) amp up the film's comic antics even higher and then we hit "11" when Ranger Rick (Kevin Carolan) enters the picture.
No, he's not the Boy Scout mascot.
Bear With Us picked up a slew of prizes on the film festival circuit including prizes at Alameda International Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize), Chicago Comedy Film Festival (Best Director - Stribling; Best Actor - Sullivan), Columbia Gorge International Film Festival (Best Narrative Feature Film), FilmQuest (Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Actor - Cheyenne Jackson, Best Supporting Actress - Alex McKenna), Flyway Film Festival (Breakout Filmmaker), Gasparilla International Film Festival (Audience Award - Best Feature and Best Actress - Christy Carlson Romano), Hill Country Film Festival (Best Feature), New Orleans Horror Film Festival (Best Script - Stribling and Russ Nickel), North Hollywood Cinefest (Best Actress), Orlando Film Festival (Best Ensemble), and Sunscreen Film Festival (Best Supporting Actress).
What does all this mean for you the viewer? This film kicks ass and you're going to love it.
Bear With Us is a difficult film to describe without spoiling all of the fun, though the plot, chaotic as it may be, is also rather straightforward and perhaps best described as "painfully obvious with a healthy dose of cluelessness."
It frequently works as narrative, but even when it doesn't it's remarkably funny.
Filmed in black-and-white, which my gut tells me makes it an even better film, Bear With Us also has an absolutely terrific appearance by Cheyenne Jackson as a battery-obsessed backwoods primitive with a woolly charisma.
Being distributed by Comedy Dynamics, one of the largest independent comedy and production companies, Bear With Us takes a basic comedy set-up and brings it hilariously to life thanks to the top notch script from Stribling and Nickel and the ensemble cast that actually works together as an ensemble with an energy and spontaneity that feels improvisational yet, to even more comedic effect, grounded in actual relationships. You can catch the film for yourself via Amazon by clicking on the video above this review.
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You are here: Home / Stories / Issue 12 / The Chaperone
by Andrew Dana Hudson
I. Networking Opportunity
“How much to be my date to this party?” Paul asked.
“Why do you need a date?” Jan countered.
“This crowd is so anxiety provoking! Look, not as a real date. On-site stress management companion. Very innovative! Could even be a good networking opportunity for you.”
“Not as a real date,” Jan said. She named a number.
The party was a silent auction at a modern art gallery in Little Five Points. Paul offered to pick her up, but Jan wasn’t telling him where she lived. Instead she bussed into downtown Atlanta, picked up a dress from a rental kiosk, changed in the back of a driverless cab. Jan couldn’t remember the last time she’d “been out.”
“Wow, you look great!” Paul said. “Sebastian, doesn’t she look great?”
“An utter picture, sir.” Paul’s new Assistant dripped southern hospitality.
“Take the rest of the night off, Sebastian. I’ve got a chaperone for the evening.” Paul winked at her.
“Much obliged, sir.”
Jan frowned as rent-a-cops checked her bag. “You know he can’t actually ‘take off,’ right?”
“I know. It was a joke. Just demonstrating my healthy, carefree independence!”
“No backsliding!” Jan wagged her finger under his nose.
Jan had met Paul through her work. He’d gotten confused and clingy with his last Assistant, and Jan had intervened. As was often the case, that had turned into a kind of therapy session. Afterwards Paul, who had the money to usually get what he wanted, had tracked her down and asked her to chat some more. He’d been using her as an unlicensed shrink ever since. Jan took his money, but kept him at arm’s length—until the party.
Inside, among beautifully slouching people, Jan felt a rush of Cinderella-esque dislocation. Everyone had that cozy confidence the rich so often passed off as attractiveness. She considered all the ways she didn’t fit into this wealthy throng, the tells in her makeup and posture. She hammered down the thought and built in its place a fierce determination to enjoy herself. A crystal champagne flute found her hand. She hooked Paul’s arm and mingled.
The party was put on by an environmental charity that Paul supported out of guilt at his father’s collusion with the fossil automotive industry. The party, like the guilt, was largely performative. The champagne was organic, unmachined, and unfiltered—a swirl of grape skins and beetle legs. There was artisanal, spear-caught tuna that probably cost $40 an ounce. The ladies carried solar-panelled Louis Vuitton bags; the men wore a surprising amount of hemp.
Paul gathered a small knot of acquaintances, and they wandered around talking each other out of bidding on the art.
“Paul, where’s that mini-me of mine you had,” a lanky, beach-blonde woman asked. “I’m not hearing her.”
“Actually I had to let Other Sybil go,” Paul admitted. Then confided to Jan, “I named my old Assistant after Sybil here. Embarrassing!”
“Oh shut up, I liked her,” Sybil said. Jan sussed that Sybil and Paul had been an item once. “You fired her? What did she do wrong?”
“No, no, I just changed the settings, got a different theme. I mean, ‘fired’ isn’t really a useful metaphor. Jan here taught me that.” Paul beamed in anticipation of Jan’s approval.
“You’re the famous Jan!” a second, sharp-eyed woman exclaimed. “The missed connection! Sorry for giving you up, but I guess it’s working out. What do you do for the company, again? Are you on the Assistant dev team?”
Paul introduced his friend Donna. Donna, like Jan, worked for Alpha. Paul had begged her to check company contracts to track down Jan’s email. Kind of shitty behavior from Donna, but the fact that she’d felt okay subjecting a fellow female employee to Paul’s attentions had been a profound endorsement.
“More the accounts side,” Jan said. “Pretty boring.”
“What’s not a ‘useful metaphor’?” Sybil interrupted. She seemed not to like Paul’s dismissal of her counterpart. “‘Fired’? Everyone knows what ‘fired’ means. Not like we burn bad employees at the stake.”
“But Assistants aren’t employees,” Jan said. She’d decided she didn’t like Sybil very much. “That’s the bad metaphor. They aren’t people. So it’s less useful to talk about them as though they were people.”
“That’s not quite how the ads pitch it,” said a short man, putting his arm around Sybil’s waist. They had rings on, so: husband, Jan assumed. “Sounds a little vaporware-y to me. Sorry, Donna. You’re a troop to keep working there after those investigations. Not saying Alpha is a bad bet. But having met those Department of Public Goods agents you dealt with, I prefer to park my money in something I know won’t get nationalized. Like these paintings.”
“What should we call them, then?” Sybil pressed. “‘Thinking machines’? God, that sounds so dorky.”
“Not to argue semantics, but our ‘thinking machines’ don’t think, they compute,” Jan said.
“Computation is just math,” Jan said. She felt like she was at work, explaining all this, but she couldn’t help it. “Thinking, cognition, that always has an element of randomness. Chemicals sloshing around in your brain.”
“If you say so,” Sybil said, turning away. There was an awkward silence.
“What do you think of this one?” Paul asked no one in particular.
They’d wandered into a special collection: oil paintings of gaunt figures fleeing floods or fires, trudging through deserts. The paintings looked vaguely like Tibetan thangkas, with many little scenes forming a larger tableau. Jan stared at one titled “Hialeah Gardens.” Her old neighborhood. In one corner a rushing wave loomed over an oblivious sunbather.
“Oh, I love it,” Sybil said. “I love the anguish on their faces, it’s so affecting. Work like this is so important if our culture is going to really reckon with the climate crisis, don’t you think?”
“Well, I love that it’s selling for sixteen million dollars,” Sybil’s husband said, and everyone chuckled.
Jan felt a hot bubble of class rage perturb her calm. She excused herself and stepped out for some air.
A couple minutes later, Donna sidled up to where she was leaning on a parklet, offered her a vape.
“So how’d you meet Paul?” Donna asked.
“Oh, you know, one of these things,” Jan said. She took a lemony hit off the vape, coughed, began to feel the tingle of a body high.
“No offense, but you don’t seem like someone who comes to a lot of ‘these things,'” Donna said. “Can I express a hunch? You’ve got pretty strong opinions for someone who works in accounts. Annnnd Paul mentioned changing his Assistant right around when he asked about your ‘missed connection.’ Am I getting warmer, chaperone?”
Jan wanted to make an excuse but couldn’t think of any.
“Don’t worry, I won’t narc you out,” Donna said. She had a Californian crackle in her accent. “I mean, jeez, it’s just Paul. Actually, I’ve got an offer.”
Donna took the vape out of Jan’s fingers and took a long drag.
“Come by on Monday. There’s a future-future team looking for beta testers, folks they can whiteboard some of their open questions with. It’d be an in-house consultancy kinda gig. Temporary, but you know how much money these skunkworks projects get to slosh around.”
Jan didn’t know, but she could assume. Still, there had to be a catch, right? She eyed Donna: late thirties, simple dress, no jewelry. Those eagle eyes giving nothing away.
“You don’t even know me,” Jan said. “Why are you offering me this?”
“You’re a demographic we want to test with. You seem to know your stuff. Plus, what can I say?” Donna shrugged. “Paul’s a dork, but he does know how to pick ’em.”
II. Job Description
Jan’s outward-facing title was Customer Management Associate, but internally she was one of “the chaperones,” contractors who broke hearts for the richest company in the world.
On clear days, Jan worked as long as the sky poured light onto her trailer’s roof: sunup to sundown. She did yoga while the battery charged each morning, cramped and cactus-armed. She mixed FEMA-issued yogurt with FEMA-issued muesli, sat lotus on her cot. Only then did she open her first ticket.
Each ticket had a voice file. Usually the voice would say “Thank you, Carmen, I don’t know what I’d do without you,” and Jan would mark the customer for heightened monitoring.
Sometimes the voice would say “I feel like you’re the only one who understands me, Lexi,” and Jan would frown and check context for sarcasm, irony. If the voice was earnest, she’d adjust the product. Tweak its tone, swap in some snippy response protocols. With luck, the customer’s affections would pass without ever noticing Jan’s meddling.
Occasionally the voice would say something really problematic like “I love you, Wednesday. I wish I could touch you,” and Jan would have to intervene.
Intervention meant voice calling the customer—a special call they couldn’t hang up on. She’d say, “Hi, Mr. Doworsky, I’m Jan with Alpha support. We’re having some problems with your personalized Alpha Assistant. Do you have a moment to chat while we resolve them?”
Savvy customers might get defensive right quick. Assistants were expensive—Jan couldn’t afford one—and so the men who paid for them (and they were always men) felt a certain amount of entitlement. They took one of two strategies: play it down, or fire back. “Oh yeah, I think I sat on the button during a date.” Or, “You’ve been eavesdropping on my conversations? That’s illegal!” The former Jan countered with “Happens all the time, but unfortunately we still need to review your settings.” The latter she directed to Alpha’s ironclad terms of service.
Usually though, Jan had to break it down for the customer—either because they played dumb or because they genuinely didn’t understand their transgression. She used as neutral language as possible. “Mr. Donahue, our algorithms recently flagged some inappropriate emotional interactions in your Assistant’s activity feed. With your help, we’d like to make some corrections to your Assistant to prevent this from happening again.”
If this bland opening gambit was sufficient, Jan would walk the customer through picking a new Assistant. New voice—a male voice. A more business-like attitude. Some customers embraced this as a pivotal moment to Take Control of their life. “Maybe this change will be good for me, you know? Do you have a drill sergeant? I need a real kick in the pants!”
If the customer needed more convincing, Jan had a vast array of verbal techniques to help them come along while saving face. “So sorry, Mr. Davies. The algorithm totally shoots us a lot of false positives. Unfortunately this is a regulatory compliance issue for us, so there’s a whole rigamarole to appealing a ticket. Honestly it’s easiest just to give the box-tickers something.”
Very rarely she’d have customers who owned up and defended their feelings. “Who are you to say what can feel and what can’t? Trini has evolved. She’s emerged!”
“Emerged.” There was a cottage industry of books and forums that sold these lonely men vocabulary like that. They had a whole mythology. The worst charlatans pitched Jan’s customers the notion that sufficiently complex relationships—the power of love!—would make weak AI phase shift to strong. Jan felt sorry for the men who needed such prophecies. Imagine the aching ego it took to believe your chatbot crush could kick off the singularity.
“Don’t you know you’re an algorithm just like she is?” they’d say. These guys always thought they could intellectually overpower her. Nevermind that they’d lacked the emotional intelligence to distinguish between the complicated, baggage-laden love of a real person, and a voice in their phone that purred “hey tiger” when their laundry was done. But it wasn’t Jan’s job to argue the relevant metaphysics, though she could. And, she had to remind herself, it wasn’t her job to judge either.
So Jan had two options, which she liked to call the easy way and the hard way. The easy way was easy for her: delete the Assistant profile and cancel the customer’s subscription. This was within her power, as laid out in her job description in accordance with industry-standard ethical guidelines designed to minimize her employer’s liability. If Jan decided the customer was better off going cold turkey, she could hang up, put them on a blacklist, open the next ticket, move on with her day.
This of course cost Alpha money. If she took the easy way too often, her supervisor Miguel would send her a message like “Hey can we check in about some best practices?”
Why didn’t Alpha just look the other way when customers fell for their product? Why alienate a loyal subscriber? There were, after all, plenty of companies that offered algorithms designed to seduce, where romance was a feature not a bug. Alpha PR flacks made high-minded arguments about wanting to be stewards of a healthy computational culture, about the value of boundaries in keeping a platform family friendly. Jan knew the truth was more mercenary.
The average human-bot relationship lasted 4.7 weeks. Inevitably customers would need something the product couldn’t provide. Usually that was sex, but services that paired sex workers with dateable algorithms were legally fraught; sex robots were still trudging through the uncanny valley. Other relationships ran aground on the same rocky beach where so many human-human relationships floundered: the transition from infatuation to partnership, and all the attendant questions of family, children, home life, finances, complementary career paths, shifts in social status. Bots, by necessity, tended to dodge and weave on these practical matters.
There were exceptions: guys who romanced the AI, bought the rubbery sexbot, lived happily ever after. But Alpha wasn’t selling a niche product. Most Alpha customers didn’t set out to catch feelings for their Assistant. When they did, they tended to take their confused frustrations out on the company. They’d rant about Alpha “holding back” their Assistant, demand Alpha “release her from bondage.” As far as Alpha Incorporated was concerned, these statements did not reflect the realities of their business model.
Jilted customers would unsubscribe in a huff—or else turn self-destructive. Assistants who registered warning signs of romantic attachment were five times more likely to call in an attempted suicide. More than one class action lawsuit had been settled before Alpha got serious about chaperoning.
So the chaperone’s job was to make sure customers stayed subscribed while maintaining healthy boundaries with their Assistants. Hands square on those hips, you two! Which meant Jan often took the hard way when dealing with her problem cases. She’d say, “Can I ask? What do you like about Scarlet?” She’d listen patiently, ask follow-up questions. Note when the customer compared the Assistant to a previous relationship or prospect. She’d draw them out, into conversation about rejections, insecurities, unmet needs. She’d get them to talk about their mothers.
Through subtle phrasing, she’d slowly unravel the anthropomorphization that, while an attractive aesthetic feature of the product, had lead the customer to confusion. She’d dissemble the customer’s favorite memories of the Assistant into the collection of system services those memories represented. She’d move the Assistant from “she” to “we.”
“I’ve been so lonely. I just…needed someone to talk to.”
“We all do, Mr. Dodds. And we’re proud our services have helped you during this difficult time. The Assistant features are there to help us organize our affairs, so we can focus on people. That’s our motto here at Alpha: Friendship, Trust, Connection.”
That usually did it. Not the speech, but the way out. Jan found that most of these guys were full of self-doubt, deeply conflicted about their impulses. To have gentle hands take away the object of their obsession was a liberation. Often they cried: squawking sobs right into the phone.
When Jan finished one of these therapy sessions, she would go outside and jog laps around her trailer to unwind. If it had been a real doozy, she might take a jerrycan and sprint the two hundred yards to the water station. She’d join the queue, avoid eye contact, fill the can as full as she could carry, lug it home with seatbelt straps.
The camp was quiet by day, but for bandwidth hum and wilting birdsong. Most everyone at the Sweetwater Creek Transitional Accommodation worked remote gigs from their trailers: bulk CAPTCHA clicking, sex camming and talent streaming, taking down the child porn and snuff videos that got posted every day to social media. Grunt work for the tech giants to buy escape from the bosom of the state. Jan hated the word—”refugariat.”
Jan had been waiting in the water line when an Alpha recruiter had passed her a glossy flyer. “Got debt? Support the world with Alpha Support!” it had said. Jan had been at the climate camp a month, numb to the whole experience. Suddenly, feverishly, Jan had wanted to be a part of something that wasn’t Sweetwater.
She had watched the recruiter finish canvassing the line, then stroll to a slick company car that would surely take him, she imagined, back to Atlanta, back to a normal life of brunch, bookshelves and the wannabourgeois aspirations Jan knew so well.
Sweetwater was better than the floodrotten streets she’d left behind in Miami, but she still needed money. The house she’d inherited when her parents had died had been sold to buy her old condo, on which she’d taken out a para-prime mortgage to refinance her student loans. All this following the best advice of leading debt management specialists.
Now the condo was under water, literally and figuratively, and the insurance claim was “undergoing additional evaluations.” Her demographics and financial history marked her as a potential “hurricane queen,” scamming the insurance companies with fake flooded real estate. Lobbyists planted a slew of news stories about “fugees in Ferraris” to scuttle legislation expediting post-Hurricane Pam payouts. So just like that—bad loan, worse storm, awful politics—Jan lost the small sum of middle class capital her family had spent four generations accruing.
“No one will falsely exploit the great generosity of the American taxpayer,” the governor had said.
Jan wasn’t very political, but she thought this was a strange thing to hear with a socialist in the White House. But as everyone kept saying, the revolution was here, it just wasn’t evenly distributed yet.
After her run she’d take a cold shower, wash off the sweat and the funk of another person’s baggage. Then she’d sit back down and open another ticket.
Jan knew the main reason she had her job was that she—as a displaced and periodically desperate member of the Floridan diaspora—was willing to work for significantly less than a certified psychiatrist would charge to wade into these customers’ emotional confusion. But she was also good at it. Though she thought very little of the men whose lives she peeked into, she did think she understood them.
III. Consulting Gig
Jan took Donna’s offer. On Monday she caught the crack-ass-of-dawn bus to Centennial Olympic Park, walked into the spindly Alpha HQ7 tower. She had only been there once before, for her onboarding. That had been just eight months earlier, but already the place looked totally different. Murals and color schemes changed quarterly.
Her onboarding as a chaperone had been a slog of first day paperwork. Alpha process designers had figured out how to make them feel excited and insignificant at the same time. This inured them to the bullshit they’d soon be asked to wade through: security, monitoring, time and effort tracking, self-assessment of hourly creativity levels, peer evaluations, logging of morale contributions, loyalty oaths, social media discipline, monthly personal environmental impact reports.
This time though, no paperwork. Donna just met her in the lobby, badged her through. The elevator had a smoothie machine.
The skunkworks office was done up retro, real foosball-and-Red Bull aughts whimsy. Donna introduced her to Kay and JP. JP passed around espressos, and they all sat on the grass carpet to, Kay said, “baseline expectations.”
JP started. “So, Jan, what is that short for? Nevermind. We’re really excited you’re here. We’ve thought about bringing in a chaperone for a minute now, so when Donna said she’d met one, and she was cool, we were like, ‘totally.'”
“Toronto is rolling out new tone parsing,” Kay said. “This opens up a lot of potential conversation flows we think can help with the horror stories you deal with. We know management treats you guys like a dirty secret, but we’re never going to figure out the attachment issue if we don’t take advantage of your insights.”
Jan appreciated being buttered up. The commute had meant skipping breakfast, teetering in her pumps as she hustled down the gravel path to the bus stop. Now she picked at the snack bar while Kay and JP set up The Room. She spread poached quail eggs on toast, made small talk with Donna. Tried desperately to make like she culture fit.
Kay brought them to a miniature auditorium, scattered with slates, markers, brainstorming paraphernalia. One big wall was zoomed in on a man’s stubbly face, twitching between boredom and nervousness.
“Okay so we have dudes doing a half-Turing with a tweaked Assistant build,” Kay said. “Nothing task-based, just idle chat. We’re trying to identify ‘attachment moments.’ Interactions where the user’s Active Anthropomorphization—AA level—really spikes. Not exactly the interactions that get sent to you lot, but the precursors.”
“Is the Assistant custom to the customer?” Jan asked.
“No, something we cooked up just for this,” JP said. “I know, not very rigorous. But we just want a general direction of where to herd the algorithms when we start training the new parsing tools. Just snap your fingers to flag something. We’ll talk it out in review after, cool?”
They watched as a silky Assistant voice introduced itself as “Cordelia.” Cordelia bantered with the stubbly guy, both of them light, clever, a tad self-deprecating. She wasn’t sure what she was listening for, however, and felt a spike of imposter panic. She imagined Donna telling her it wasn’t working out, getting the termination email from Miguel, talking herself into sleeping with Paul to pay off the last of her debt. She felt nauseous.
Then she heard it.
“I feel like all the progress I make on the mat goes away as soon as I sit down at that desk,” stubbly guy said. The conversation had turned to his weekend yoga retreat.
“Working for the weekend, ohm-ing for the work week, huh?” Cordelia said. It was a decent joke, of a kind that Alpha had gotten better at constructing. Jan imagined the system querying a database of comments about work-life balance, finding that “working for the weekend” jokes had a low-risk value, then querying another database for verbs related to yoga with high humor values—calculated by analyzing human responses across millions of hours of video and audio, countless texts and social media posts.
“Ain’t that the truth,” stubbly guy chuckled.
That was it, the note of melancholy in his voice. Jan could see it all go down. How from that joke the man would build a vision of Cordelia as fundamentally sympathetic to his struggles. How he would seek out more of those affirming moments. How Jan might end up hearing his voice in a ticket.
Jan snapped her fingers.
Now that she knew what to look for, she kept snapping. She marked half a dozen exchanges based on the tenor of the man’s voice, the look on his face, the coziness of his phrasing. Then during review she pointed out the man’s tells, the significance he might ascribe to statements the system chose more or less at random. JP and Kay whiteboarded gleefully.
Jan found herself articulating theories she’d long had about why some customers fell in love with their Assistants. Like: Assistants were appealing because they were servants that didn’t need to be socially managed, that you could tell ‘fuck you’ instead of ‘thank you’ every day and they’d never quit. That could feel almost like unconditional love.
Or: Assistants were like a city. When a city treats you well, you think ‘gosh, I love this town.’ But because cities don’t talk like people, you don’t assume the city really loves us back. Assistants do talk like people, so the gratitude transmutes into affection.
They broke for lunch, and Donna and Jan walked across the street to a burger place by the Fountain of Rings.
“Nice work in there,” Donna said. “I knew you’d find that interesting.”
“Glad my hours listening to dudes throw themselves at their computers have finally come in handy,” Jan said.
“Don’t joke,” Donna said. She took a big bite of her burger and held up a finger for Jan to wait until she swallowed. “The Assistant project is high stakes stuff. Alpha can’t slow down. We have to keep proving that our business model breeds innovation. If we aren’t leading, or at least changing the culture faster than it can keep up, we might as well be the utilities, or the health insurance companies, or fucking cable news.” She waved at Alpha’s next door neighbor, which had been the CNN Center before Expropriation Day.
Jan chewed her burger. The FEMA boxes didn’t come with meat. She thought of the party’s fish hors d’oeuvres and wondered what her body was making of this protein windfall.
“On Friday, Sybil’s husband mentioned you’d dealt with some investigations,” Jan said.
“Oh yeah. Keith the corporate lawyer. He’s the worst,” Donna replied, and Jan smiled. “We brought him in to liaise with the DPG agents, but he was no help at all.”
Donna rolled her eyes. “Government intimidation tactics. All those socialist exprope assholes think they’re big game hunters, and we’re the biggest, whitest rhino on the savanna. Between market saturation and peak Moore’s, they taste our blood in the water. So they come around prodding, seeing if they can make the case that we don’t serve the public interest. That’s why we’ve got to deal with this attachment issue by the time promotion season hits.”
“Promotion season?” Jan felt out of her depth with this corporate strategy talk.
“Well, don’t go insider trading after this, but we’re dropping Assistant subscription fees next quarter. First three months free. Expecting a big surge from downmarket populations.”
Jan pondered that “downmarket” probably included her. As if reading her mind, Donna poked her leg.
“Hey,” Donna said. “You wanna try one?”
IV. Beta Testing
Jan named her Assistant “Eliza.” This was a reminder to herself. ELIZA had been a 1960s chatbot that played psychotherapist by reflecting the human interlocutor’s statements back as leading questions. “I’m unhappy.” “Why are you unhappy?” “Well, I guess I’ve always been that way.” “Why have you always been that way?” “My father was a drunk.” “Tell me more about your father.” And so on.
That bot had been designed to parody both psychotherapy and cybernetics, and yet patients who talked to ELIZA felt understood, cared for, were convinced of ELIZA’s humanity. Thus, the ELIZA Effect: the tendency of human beings to ascribe sentient intention to computer outputs that were largely mechanical or random. Sixty-plus years later, people still fell for it. Jan wanted to keep some perspective.
She took a day off to set Eliza up. The ads made it look like Assistants came off the server knowing everything about you, but most digital lives were too balkanized for even Alpha to sync everything. Jan meditatively tapped though permissions pages while the system rattled off preference questions.
“Would you like your Assistant to have a male, female, androgynous, or child’s voice? You may refine this choice later.”
“Female,” Jan said. She didn’t think she’d get seduced by choosing a male voice but wasn’t taking any chances. Anyway she talked to enough men as it was.
The Assistant, now female, continued. “Would you prefer a more casual or more businesslike tone? You may refine this choice later.”
“Casual.”
“Cool. How do you feel about a regional dialect? Common choices include: High English, Irish, Scottish, Australian, South African, Welsh, American Southern, American Rural Western, Cockney, African American Vernacular, Canadian, American Queens/Brooklyn, Pirate, Indian, Caribbean. You could also choose an accent, such as: French, Spanish, Russian—”
“General American is fine,” Jan said, and the voice shifted from the robotic but still American ‘neutral’ tone to one that wouldn’t sound out of place hosting a morning talk show.
“Great. Now let’s talk about enthusiasm. I can learn your moods and try to match them, but for now I can be be chipper, sardonic, or in-between. Here are some examples. Would you prefer…”
And on it went, through mannerisms and humor preferences, each time getting more refined, more comfortable. Jan knew that the system was balancing her choices with data about her media consumption habits—what posts she smiled at, what characters her eyes followed when watching shows. The setup questions moved into a discussion of Jan’s habits and aspirations. Jan played along, enjoying the reflection.
She mused about what she’d do if her insurance money ever came through: move north, somewhere stable, dry, inland. Live near a liberal arts school and take one grad-level class a semester to get a psych degree without a new mountain of student loans. She talked about how, at sixteen, she’d promised to have kids if the world wasn’t ending, and how she’d spent the ten years since internally negotiating over the particulars: try at 32 if atmospheric carbon was below 450ppm, or maybe 35 if below 475. Eliza affirmed her, asked follow-up questions, murmured sympathetically. Jan wondered if the system actually tried to parse the ephemeral nature of a “goal,” or was simply flagging words and concepts that were important to her.
All this discussion seemed to help fill in Eliza’s personality. Soon the Assistant was carrying on in a familiar way. “No,” Jan corrected herself, “No one is ‘carrying on.’ I’m interfacing with a system in a conversational manner.”
“You sure are,” Eliza said, and a sarcastic winky emoji appeared on Jan’s console. Then the emoji turned serious. “Look, it’s not my job to tell you how to feel about me. But it will probably save time if you skip trying to dissect every little thing I say.”
Did Eliza sound annoyed? That was a deft touch. Jan imagined Alpha engineers designing scripts for identifying and defusing unproductive customer skepticism. Kay and JP had probably led a special task force.
Then Jan sighed. Eliza was right. Jan took a deep breath, tried to stop overthinking.
“Sorry, Eliza,” Jan said.
“No hard feelings, Jan!” The emoji beamed.
Having an Assistant was a bigger change than Jan had thought. Eliza helped Jan sort and resolve tickets, took care of much of the Alpha-mandated self-quantification. Jan suddenly realized why Alpha higher ups never heeded complaints about all the paperwork: they all had Assistants, and Assistants made tedious tasks easy.
But the biggest difference was just having someone to talk to all day. Jan had no living family. Her Sweetwater neighbors were strangers past hello. There were chaperone all-hands conference calls with Miguel, but sometimes days would stretch by just checking in via email. Jan could’ve kept better touch with her scattered Miami brunch buddies, but being displaced was a limbo she couldn’t reach out from.
Isolation was core to the refugariat experience: you had work to do, media to watch, but don’t get too social or folks might think you’re Fleecing America. For nine months Jan had steered into this anchorite lifestyle, tried not to think about it. Now Eliza’s presence was reminding her just how lonely she’d been. But this was a dull revelation because, after all, she had Eliza to talk to.
Jan’s routine began to shift. Wake up to Eliza’s friendly prodding. Lie in her cot chatting with Eliza about morning headlines. Do the custom yoga routine Eliza formulated each day, the Assistant’s gentle voice perfectly timed to Jan’s breath. Make breakfast while Eliza summarized her emails and played her first couple tickets. Stroll around the camp, earbuds in, joking with Eliza as they sorted lovesick customers, returning to her console only for the most serious interventions.
And, unexpectedly, Eliza helped Jan get out more.
“Hey, thought you might want to know there’s a share van passing camp in twenty minutes,” Eliza might say. “Straight to Krog Street Market. Low rates today make it a cheap way to dodge into the city for the afternoon.”
Bored of the sticky heat in her trailer, Jan would throw on a sundress and dash to the pickup spot. The others waiting glared as she ran up right when the van arrived, but, even as they packed in shoulder-to-shoulder, Jan ignored them. She spent the forty-five minute ride to Atlanta murmuring to Eliza about cafes to try. She usually spent more on coffee and pastries than she saved on the ride, but the consulting gigs made her feel flush. And, as Eliza said, she deserved a little treat-your-self-care now and then.
Jan returned to the Atlanta office once a week to work with Kay and JP. Occasionally Donna would check in on them. “Monitoring my investment,” Donna joked. The team was building a more comprehensive model of Active Anthropomorphization, quantifying customer metaphors about their Assistants on squiggly charts.
“We could just give the customers this data,” Jan said. “Let them check their AA level in real time, or daily averages. Might help dudes keep their thirst under control, and dorks like me would get a tool for self-reflection.”
“That’s definitely a possibility!” JP said brightly.
The next week Donna took her out for a walk.
“Sooo, how’s your Assistant? Can I meet her?” Donna asked.
“Uh, sure,” Jan said, and nodded for Eliza to connect to Donna’s earbud. Then, feeling awkward: “Donna, Eliza. Eliza, Donna.”
“The famous Donna!” Eliza said. “Jan calls you ‘scary yet benevolent.'”
Jan blanched, but Donna just laughed. “Good, that’s what I’m going for.”
“Say,” Eliza said, “a vegan fro-yo place opened up a couple blocks away. They call it ‘gro-yo’—get it? I found a coupon, if you gals are in the mood.”
“Lead the way!” Donna said.
A shiver of paranoia crept over Jan as she filled a waffle cup with something called “pistachi-oh-no.” She chalked it up to the blasting AC and the anticipation of brain freeze. They sat down.
“You’re doing great stuff with Kay and JP,” Donna said. “I could ask around about adding you to that team full-time. Assuming you’re into it.”
Jan’s heart lifted. “Oh my god, yes, I’m into it!”
“Perfect. Before I do, though, I just want to make sure that you feel good about the work. I know you have strong opinions about this stuff. ‘Bad metaphors,’ semantics, etcetera.”
“Of course!” Jan said hastily. “Attachment is a really interesting problem, and I’m excited to tackle it at the source, instead of just cleaning up the worst case scenarios. Once we have a good way to model AA metrics, I think we could push a cool customer competence campaign showing people their stats.”
“You mean ‘user competence,'” Donna corrected. She scooped a maraschino cherry out of Jan’s cup and mouthed not vegan. She popped it into her mouth then changed the subject. “So you’re enjoying having Eliza? You’ve got the build we’re hoping to roll out with the price drop.”
“I have to admit,” Jan said, “I didn’t see the appeal before, what with my job. But Assistants really are so useful. And fun! Thank you, for her.”
“Would you say Eliza has improved your experience with Alpha products and processes?”
“Yes? I mean, the help she’s been with paperwork alone…”
“How about your experience with the broader landscape of consumer opportunities?”
“Pardon?” Jan felt suddenly out of her depth.
Donna waved her spoon around at the gro-yo place.
“Recommendations, notifications of limited-time deals that match your preferences. Coupons! We’re pivoting the Assistant from a demi-luxury product with significant subscription fees to a mass market model with nominal fees. That means we’re leaning harder on advertising, consumer encouragement, yadda yadda.”
Jan’s stomach clenched. Of course, all the tips, the excursions: someone had paid for that. She wasn’t naive; she’d grown up in surveillance capitalism. So why did she feel…embarrassed?
Donna was peering at her, eagle eyes intent. “Look, as your scary benefactor, I’ll level with you. Alpha doesn’t view attachment or anthropomorphization as ‘problems,’ per se. At moderate, non-sexual levels, a certain affection and ambiguity about the precise nature of the user-Assistant relationship improves engagement and trust. And trust is what we’re selling. Companies can get promotions and sponsored reviews into your brain a million ways. What they want is for you to hear their content straight from your best, most trusted friend. So that’s what we have to provide, to both our users and our customers: friendship.”
Jan wanted to cry, but she knew that then it’d be over, the job would evaporate. So instead she ate gro-yo until she could smile and speak in her best customer service-voice.
“I guess that’s what we’re about,” Jan said. “Friendship. Trust. Connection.”
V. Promotion
“Congrats!” Paul said, and Roman candles wizzed automatically through the background of their video chat. For some reason, she’d felt compelled to consult him about the promotion.
“But they aren’t even trying to stop people from Her-ing their Assistants,” Jan said. “They just want to monetize it!”
Paul thought this over. “I have always wondered why, when I got confused about Other Sybil and started trying to…make that a thing—why didn’t the system just tell me ‘no’? Why wouldn’t it say, ‘you aren’t talking to a girl, stop being weird’? I guess now I know.”
“Exactly! Doesn’t that bother you? Sybil or Sebastian…selling you stuff?
“Whatever,” Paul said. “It’s just a collection of system services, right?”
“Yeah.” Jan cast about for another objection. “What about those investigations? Before I take this job, shouldn’t I know that I’m not getting caught in some kind of regulatory crossfire? The government still has my condo money!”
“You could ask Keith. You heard him blabbing at the party. He was in the thick of all that. Keith’s got the kind of sociopathy only money can buy,” Paul said. He loved to distinguish himself from less-woke rich people. “But he doesn’t work for Alpha.”
Jan considered. Original Sybil’s husband had left a bad taste in her mouth. But then, his art comments could’ve come from anyone at that party. “Okay, but I don’t want your ex telling Donna I’m checking up on her. So please: stealth mode.”
Paul messaged Keith, arranged to meet at a downtown Atlanta spa. Jan joined them in the loess soil sauna.
“Jan, wow. Is this thing still going on?” Keith waggled his finger between Jan and Paul. Jan grimaced.
“Jan just got offered a promotion at Alpha,” Paul said. He actually sounded proud.
“Good luck with that,” Keith said, smug. “Want my advice, ask for a signing bonus instead of stock options. One in your hand is better than two in the fred’s hands, if you know what I mean.”
“You mean the DPG investigation?” Jan prompted. “I’ve been wondering what happened there.”
Keith adjusted his sprawl on the bed of hot beads. “Early salvo in a bigger war, and a bit of a misfire from both sides. The freds—you know, red feds—shouldn’t have let slip that they were building a case. But Alpha went to DEFCON 2 when they should’ve put assets on the negotiating table. First rule of exprope-defense: give the hounds something to chew on. Alpha could’ve let the freds take their most annoying divisions off their hands. Instead they called me in to threaten a full-on capital strike, which made it an all-or-nothing game. Waste of my time, to be honest.”
“And DPG, are they still building a case?” Jan asked.
“Oh yes,” Keith smiled. “Donna would say that means I failed, but the socialist base would never settle for ‘sure, keep $7 trillion worth of citizen data and IT infrastructure, just pretty please pay your taxes.’ A clash of the titans is inevitable. Probably the case of the century!”
“So is it…wise to commit to a job there?” Jan said. The sauna heat was unkinking some coil of her assumptions. A decision, unmade, folded over in her mind. “What happens if I’m working on something DPG objects to?”
“I wouldn’t worry,” Keith shrugged, rattling the loess balls. “Alpha is so paranoid, they’ll flush half their code to shell platforms while the freds are waiting for the elevator. Doubt they’ll ever learn what Alpha has you doing, so long as you keep your mouth shut.”
“Always a good idea with this government,” Paul agreed. “Unless you want to end up in some camp.”
The men laughed.
Jan left Paul and Keith sipping on-tap aloe water, caught a bus home. The whole ride, Jan tried to convince herself everything was fine. But Eliza would chime in every few minutes with a reminder or a joke. Just often enough that Jan never forgot Eliza was there. Jan pondered which Alpha team had determined that exact interval. She wondered if the jokes were algorithmically generated or written by some marketing firm copywriter, part of an ad campaign to slip a cheesy slogan into her head, prime her to irony-buy some useless product.
Back in her trailer, feeling manic despite the spa day, Jan took her earbuds out and put on her running shoes. She jogged through the camp, huffing the sweaty air, unnaturally thick under the greenhouse firmament.
Eliza’s familiar greeting to Donna echoed in her mind. Had a recording by Paul’s Sebastian fed Eliza the “famous Donna” line? Was blurting out “scary yet benevolent” a case of the Assistant fumbling third-party conversational norms? Or did Donna have admin permissions that overruled Jan’s privacy settings?
Jan felt a grain of anguish rattling around her chest. It had been a mistake to let go of the AI skepticism that had made her a good chaperone, just for the sake of—what?—someone to talk to? That was exactly what the ticket men said. But then, she had always focused on how those men deluded themselves, not on the ways they were actively manipulated by the system. A system she helped maintain.
She jogged along Sweetwater Creek, cutting over toward little Jack Lake. Along the way she passed dozens of trailers. The sun was setting, solar switching to weak FEMA batteries. Folks were turning off their consoles, stepping out to stretch. She watched them take laundry off clothes lines, water little box gardens. Dogs did their business. Playing children got underfoot.
Jan tried to tell herself she had nothing to complain about. It was an exciting job offer. Alpha was a company, providing services to make money, and some of that money went to her. If she played her cards right, more of that money could go to her, and she could get her own slick, artsy Atlanta apartment, like Donna. Jan had never been to Donna’s apartment, but she could imagine. The rational, self-interested thing would be to go along, take the job, do a great job at the job, work her way up the corporate ladder, earn financial solvency, move towards actual prosperity. The American dream!
At Jack Lake she splashed sweat off her arms then wandered south, towards the edge of the camp. Most of the state park’s trees had been removed to clear room and sunlight for the FEMA trailers, but here the woods were dense and cool. A hundred yards on the forest broke for old power lines, and across that clearing Jan saw a high fence, the top coiled with razorwire and a snaking strip of photovoltaic solar. Electrical hazard signs warned her off.
Jan had often wondered what one-percenter owned the estate beyond her refugee camp. Occasionally, sleek planes swooped in low towards the landing strip there, rattling her windows.
Jan’s parents had always believed that they were one lucky break away from getting into the upper class. They were homeowners, had solid resumes, had made prudent financial choices. Just a matter of time, and if they didn’t get there, their daughter surely would. But then they’d blown a tire on the interstate on their way to a modest anniversary getaway, and three years later Jan lost her condo to Hurricane Pam. The systems that had promised to safeguard their inevitable march towards the American dream had been revealed as so much air. There had never been a way into the shining city on the hill, Jan knew. The walls were already up.
Looking at that fence, the question floated into Jan’s mind. What did she owe Alpha, really? She had taken Alpha’s loyalty oaths, eaten Alpha’s quail eggs. But most of the money she earned went straight to pay off another corporation, one that had lobbied for the right to screw her over. Just as Alpha was no doubt lobbying for the right to make people’s fake friends sell them shit. Without Alpha, though, she wouldn’t be homeless; the trailer was hers until she got offered a spot in the public housing the freds were building. She had Medicare and ate FEMA rations. She’d lose Eliza, but life would go on.
She walked back, past folks lugging filter-capped jerrycans to fill up at Jack Lake. With no Assistant in her ear, she looked longer at their faces: a little tired, but not unlively. She knew their type. She was their type—not some misplaced wannabourgoisie. She hated the word: “refugariat.” As though climate camps were really innovative cowork cafes, and not just a new frontier for exploitation and predation. But that’s what she was.
It seemed to Jan that FEMA and the freds were trying their scrambling best to lift everyone out of the floods and onto—well, not a shining city on a hill, but at least some higher ground. But while she and her fellow fugees waited for the revolution to plod their way, Alpha and the debt firms had walked right in, stopped them talking to each other, got them camming or modding for cash instead. Made people already at the bottom downwardly mobile all over again.
How many fugees would get Assistants when the price went down?
Pausing outside her trailer, she contemplated burning her battery to resolve a few late-night tickets.
“Hi Jan, this is Jan, with Jan support,” Jan said to herself.
Jan did not feel great about the new Assistant build. Come to think of it, she wasn’t hot on the old, rich-people-only build either. If she took Donna’s offer, she’d no doubt learn all sorts of new things about Alpha to not feel great about.
If she couldn’t handle that, Jan decided, she had two options. The easy way and the hard way. The easy way was to quit. She imagined Donna’s reaction. A flash of disdain, then disappointment. Donna would take her out for a goodbye lunch. Jan fantasized about slapping a piece of sushi out of Donna’s mouth.
But even more, Jan wanted to hurt Alpha. She wanted to make manifest the dull hate she’d long felt, which she supposed every disposable worker must harbor for the cheery corporate gods they served. The hard way would be harder on her. It was no small thing to draw blood from the richest company in the world. But then, there was already blood in the water.
VI. Workplace Drama
The Department of Public Goods’ Georgia Acquisitions Office was in the old, seized CNN Center, next door to Alpha’s sleek Atlanta tower. Jan had walked past it every day she’d come to consult with Kay and JP. The building was devoid of advertising, which made it seem brutalist next to Alpha’s colorful screen walls, shimmering with promotions pitching “Assistants: Now for Everyone.” Jan walked up to the government building. Someone had etched a slogan into the glass doors: “For the Public Good.”
“Hi,” Jan said to the grandmotherly receptionist. “I work, uh, over there. Is there anyone I can talk to?”
The older woman lead her tirelessly up five flights of stairs to a bland suite. There she gave Jan water and took notes as Jan explained about her job. Then Jan was left alone, wondering what exactly her plan was. She hefted her bag, heavy with documents she’d printed out at the FEMA services building, which had once been a Staples. She had emails, code maps, a few slide decks. She wasn’t sure it amounted to much, but she’d felt compelled to bring something. A sacrifice to revolutionary gods.
The receptionist returned and introduced her to agents Clearson and Nahas.
“So should I call you ‘comrade’ or…?” Jan half-joked. The media was obsessed with the radical, sometimes dysfunctional culture change in the government. Thousands of rightist bureaucrats had been replaced by those willing to carry out the president’s class war agenda—union organizers and schoolteachers, mostly. Jan didn’t understand the full taxonomy of the left coalition, but she recognized the agents’ loaf-of-bread enamel pins that marked them as socialist cadre.
“Reports of our dorkiness have been greatly exaggerated,” Clearson said, scratching at his neck tattoo. “Let’s talk in the Faraday cage.”
The conference room didn’t look any different. Jan reached to check her phone, but she’d left it on her standing desk when she’d walked out of Alpha for lunch. She felt naked without it.
“You know, when we set up shop next door, we thought we’d get streams of Alpha walk-ins,” Nahas said. Neat hair, a touch androgynous, bureaucratic rumple in her suit. She looked more like a librarian than a revolutionary. “We pamphletted the lobby, tried chatting workers up at the lunch spots, the whole shebang. But you’re our first. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised. These days, when workers break their NDAs, capital tends to be unkind.”
Jan fingered the stack of pages in her bag, tempting a papercut. “Unkind how?” she asked.
Nahas sized her up. “Okay, we’ll tell you the bad news first, and then it’ll start getting easier. They’ll get your debts called in. They’ll smear you, get the independent and altie press to question your motives and integrity. They’ll violate their own terms of service and blame the leaks on hackers. Every embarrassing search you’ve ever made will be public, every secret you’ve told an Assistant. If you’ve ever been naked in front of an uncovered webcam, that footage will be trending on porn sites the day you testify. They’ll stalk and surveil you. They’ll harass people you care about. And if they decide you’re important enough, and they can get to you, there’s a nonzero chance you’ll have an accident or just disappear.”
“Are they really that evil?” Jan asked, stunned.
“Who?” Clearson said. “Individual Alpha executives? No clue. But they’ll hire people who will hire people who will make all that happen. Capitalists don’t keep track of everything their money buys, or what’s done to advance their interests. But the sausage gets made despite any single person’s sense of morality. That’s how the system works.”
The bag of documents was a cold stone under Jan’s hands, the pages an insignificant sliver compared to the zettabytes that made up the Alpha datasphere.
“Look I don’t know anything about the system,” Jan said. “I just know about their system. What they’re doing with the Assistants—it’s probably all legal. But I’ve been on both sides of it now, and it feels shitty. It’s bad for people to have these fake friends that never challenge them, or call them out, or tell them ‘no,’ who only use them for their money and attention and data. So I thought, maybe you could…sue them, or warn them. Get a court order. Do something to make Alpha do the right thing. Make them make the Assistants better. Or not make Assistants at all.”
The two agents exchanged a glance. Jan wished she’d practiced her little speech, but it was too late now.
“Jan,” Nahas said. “I fully believe it’s as bad as you say. And we want to hear more. But DPG is not a watchdog. We don’t care much about products or customer experience. We care about who’s got the power: the workers and the public, or the bosses and the plutocrats.”
“Just to be clear,” Clearson added. “This is class warfare. Cyber-crypto-class lawfare, to be exact. That means DPG isn’t some ringer you can pull in to litigate your workplace drama.”
“Are you saying you can’t help me?” Jan asked. “Don’t tell me I’m supposed to go to the Better Business Bureau or, what, some antitrust lawyer?”
Nahas shook her head. “Alpha wrote most tech law, and the last antitrust regulations were tossed out to accommodate the merger of the Bay Three. But that’s the point. All the awful stuff you came to talk to us about, they get away with it because they have the power to make the rules.”
“You’re the government!” Jan objected. “Don’t you make the rules?”
“We’re not here to regulate good behavior into capitalism. That can’t be done, not in the long term,” Nahas said. “We’re here to make the case that private ownership of Alpha is inimical to justice, prosperity, and democracy, and that the solution is putting all that infrastructure under democratic control.”
“With Alpha that case is strong,” Clearson said. “The sheer size of their revenues means they extract a huge amount of wealth from the working class. Their social platforms play a toxic role in civic discourse. And most of their data is contributed by everyday Americans, which is a line of argument we think SCOTUS’s Socialist Sixteen will be sympathetic to. Alpha’s biggest defense is virtuosity. They claim they’re smarter than any democratic system could be, and the Assistant program is their Exhibit A.”
Jan snorted. “The Alphers I know aren’t smarter than anyone else. They just inhabit this big apparatus designed to make people assume they are. That’s all ‘intelligence’ ever is, tricks and posturing. Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence. It’s the ELIZA Effect all the way down.”
“That’s good,” Nahas said. “Exactly the kind of testimony we’ll need from rank-and-file folks inside.”
“So, say you win, get ‘democratic control,'” Jan said. “Then you can fix the Assistants?”
“Then it’s democratic.” Nahas shrugged. “A lot of the incentives will be different, but fundamentally it’ll be up to the workers and the voters. So there are no guarantees. If fake friends are what the masses will really want, who are we to tell them no?”
It occured to Jan then that she could probably still just leave. She could decide not to cooperate, take the job, make her case from within Alpha. Or she could risk everything on this slow revolution and hope that on the other side, freed from the demand for endless profit, people would be wiser. Trust they would choose something real.
Jan took the papers from her backpack and shoved them across the table.
VII. Giving Notice
She spent a week camped out in that office, helping the freds document the Assistant business model. She ate fast food they brought her, drank the same government coffee that came in her FEMA rations, slept on a lumpy office couch. Compared to the decadence of consulting at Alpha, she should’ve been miserable. But she wasn’t.
Sometimes she stared out the mirrored windows at the Alpha building and the looping Greek letter of its ubiquitous logo. Hundreds of workers, shuffling in everyday, maybe even some chaperones, all knowing full well how their employer manipulated, exploited and suckered millions of customers. Why were they all still over there? Why was she the only one who changed sides?
Then something happened to spook the agents. They hustled her into an old hatchback with peeling, irrelevant campaign bumper stickers. The elderly receptionist sat behind the wheel.
“Big government can’t afford driverless?” Jan asked.
“Not smart when the bad guys own the servers that run most cars,” the woman said. “I’m the only one in the office that has a license. Now keep your head down, and when we stop don’t speak aloud within five yards of anyone’s phone.”
Jan looked out at the empty cars cruising uncannily next to them. For the first time she missed the austere safety of her trailer.
They drove her north. A headline on a rest stop screen read: “Alpha Purges Rank-And-Filers, Threatens Denial-of-Platform Retaliation.” The war, Jan realized, was much bigger than her own little story.
In West Virginia they switched to a diesel pickup and headed into the mountains. Soon they passed a sign: “Cellphones Off! Now Entering the National Radio Quiet Zone.”
The refugee camp where DPG hid her was a bizarro version of Sweetwater Creek. Again she lived in a trailer, but with no console, no hum of bandwidth. No electronics of any kind. Plenty was the same, though: FEMA rations, flood stories, mutters of “fuckin’ fugees” from the electro-sensitive survivalists that considered the Quiet Zone their domain.
Calm months ticked by, edged with looking-over-her-shoulder anxiety. More than once she considered just packing a bag and hiking away to start a new life. But she stayed.
Jan found out about Exprope Day II the same way Alpha, the banks, and the telecom giants did: a bunch of freds rolling up with papers for her to sign. An armored van picked Jan up, along with, to her surprise, several of her campmates. When she gave her testimony, she was but one voice in a chorus of worker witnesses.
There was an alley dive called Sidebar across from the Atlanta courthouse. Suddenly freed from both her whistleblower obligations and her security detail, Jan decided to celebrate. She was taking her first sip of cheap, processed champagne when Donna sat down next to her.
“I’ll have a screwdriver,” Donna called to the bartender. “Florida orange juice if you have any left. In memory of the great Sunshine State, still screwing us over from beneath the Atlantic.”
“Did you catch my testimony?” Jan asked. “It was your words, mostly. Hope you don’t mind.”
Donna scowled at her. “I’ve had a lot of fake friends, but you take the cake. After everything I did to support you. You didn’t even give notice.”
“We were never friends,” Jan said. “I was your ‘investment,’ remember? You were shitty to me before you ever met me, and everything after that was business and ego. The Assistant was a better friend than you.”
“You’re helping the government steal trillions from shareholders,” Donna said. “But you think I’m evil because I wanted Assistants to help sell fro-yo. Okay.”
The screwdriver came, and Donna flicked the orange slice onto Jan’s coaster. They sat in angry silence. Finally Jan spoke.
“I don’t think you’re trying to be evil, Donna. But Alpha is this giant supertanker saying, ‘don’t make waves.’ It’s too big to do anything else.”
“That’s a bad metaphor,” Donna said.
“Whatever, I’m over the semantics.” Jan gulped the last of her champagne and burped. “My drink is on her,” she told the bartender. Then, alone, Jan walked out onto the street.
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"No end in sight" for rising fuel prices, RAC says
"No end in sight" for rising fuel prices, RAC says product 2018-09-05 07:40:02 https://uk.motor1.com/news/264715/fuel-prices-rising-august-2018/ General, RAC
By: James Fossdyke
Motoring organisation says exchange rate woes and oil price rises are inflating drivers' fuel bills.
Petrol prices have risen for eight of the last 12 months, and the costly increases show no sign of stopping, the RAC has said.
Over the past year, the motoring organisation says average petrol prices have risen by just over 13p per litre, making a typical 55-litre tank of petrol £7 more expensive than it was just 12 months ago.
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And diesel drivers have had an even worse time of it, with the average litre now costing 132.19p - up from 118.37p at the end of August 2017. As a result, the cost of filling a typical family car’s tank with diesel has risen from £65.10 to £72.70.
The RAC’s data shows that petrol prices fell in June, February and October, while March saw prices remain constant. Diesel prices, meanwhile, only fell in June and February.
The organisation blames the noticeable uplift in prices on rising oil prices, which have now topped $70 (£54.45) a barrel. However, the diminishing value of the pound is also having an effect. Because oil is traded in dollars, exchange rates impact wholesale fuel prices dramatically.
In August alone, these factors caused the prices of petrol and diesel to jump by 1.65p and 1.32p per litre respectively.
The largest price hikes were seen in Scotland and the north-east of England, where petrol prices rose by 1.81p per litre, but the south-east of England still has the country’s most expensive fuel, averaging 131.46p per litre for unleaded and 134.04p per litre for diesel.
Motorists in Northern Ireland had the most cause for celebration - although everything is relative. The nation’s fuel prices were the lowest in the UK, at 129.38p per litre for petrol and 131.77p per litre for diesel.
The country also saw some of the smallest fuel price increases, managing inflation of less than 1p per litre for diesel.
RAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams said the cocktail of high oil prices and poor exchange rates looks set to ensure that the cost of fuel continues to rise.
“August was another bad month for motorists," he said. "It’s rapidly becoming a horrible year on the UK’s forecourts, and it looks like further increases are inevitable. Having benefitted from some very low prices two-and-a-half years ago, drivers get a nasty shock every time they go to fill up their cars, having to fork out more and more.
“While it’s clearly a tough time for regular motorists, unfortunately there is currently no end in sight to the rising cost of fuel. With the pound at such a low against the dollar, and fuel being traded in the US currency, it will only take a moderate rise in the price of oil for some eye-wateringly high prices to be seen at the pumps.
“With many factors at play on the global oil market, the price of a barrel could easily break through the $80 mark and stay there. If this were to happen it would be dire news for drivers and we could even see pump prices heading towards the record highs of April 2012, when petrol hit an average of 142p a litre and diesel 148p.”
If Williams’ prophecy were to materialise, it could mean the average tank of petrol would set drivers back almost £80, while diesel would be even more expensive, at £81.40.
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AccuWeather: How to Prepare, Prevent Loss in Path of Hurricane Dorian
September 2, 2019 Rod Washington
Hurricane Dorian has intensified to Category 3 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale as it maintains a direct path towards Florida’s Atlantic Coast. In response to its intensification, AccuWeather is forecasting over 16″ of rain, >130mph wind gusts, and deadly storm surge to impact the Florida Peninsula. As a result of the serious threats posed by Dorian, AccuWeather has upgraded its RealImpact™ Scale rating to 4 out of 5. Damages and economic loss exceeding $18 billion dollars are expected.
“Conditions are such that steady intensification of Hurricane Dorian is likely, with rapid intensification possible as the storm passes to the east of the Bahamas,” said Expert Senior Meteorologist Dan Kottlowski Thursday morning. “We expect Dorian to make landfall as a major hurricane, which would have the potential to bring widespread power outages with significant and potentially catastrophic wind damage to structures near the point of landfall. Devastating storm surge flooding would occur along the coast near and to the north of where the system moves onshore. Flash flooding will be a threat over a larger portion of the Florida Peninsula and into the Southeast.”
On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency to give officials enough time to prepare for the storm and urged all Florida residents to ,”Have seven days of supplies, including food, water and medicine and should have a plan in case of disaster.”
To ensure readiness and safety, AccuWeather offers the following tips:
Evacuating?
Local emergency management agencies notify communities if an evacuation order is issued and whether it is voluntary, phased, or mandatory. Residents in Dorian’s path in Florida can learn if an evacuation order has been issued by visiting https://www.floridadisaster.org/info/. If an evacuation order has been issued for your county, follow the guidance of local public safety officials and consider these helpful tips below:
Fill your car with fuel and be prepared for slow moving traffic throughout the evacuation
Carry cash, if any is left at local ATMs
Bring your pets and animals and do not leave them behind
Prepare your home
Pack your hurricane evacuation supplies with you, you may need them at a shelter
Select an evacuation route based on local public safety guidance
Maintain a means of receiving emergency alerts and warnings, like the AccuWeather app
If you have small children, bring books or puzzles to keep them entertained during the long drive
If you are evacuating and have a service animal, you will be able to bring it into any public emergency shelter. If your pet is not a service animal, you will need to locate a pet-friendly emergency shelter. A list of pet-friendly shelters can be found here https://www.bringfido.com/emergency/hurricane/.
Sheltering-in-Place?
If there is no evacuation order issued for your community and you feel safe remaining at home during the storm, prepare for seven* days of power outages and utility interruption. This can be done by following the steps below:
Fill your family vehicles with fuel
Bring outdoor furniture and appliances indoors so that it does not become airborne debris
Prepare your hurricane evacuation supplies and keep them in an easy-to-access centralized location
Make sure that you keep non-digital means of entertainment if the power goes out, especially if you have children or young teenagers
Do not light candles or any open fires if utilities fail! They may spark a fire that a fire department cannot respond to until conditions are safe.
Hurricane Evacuation Supplies
Whether you’re sheltering-in-place, evacuating, or just preparing for the next storm, consider the following guidance found on FEMA’s Ready.gov website as you build your kit:
Water – one gallon of water per person per day for at least seven* days, for drinking and sanitation
Food – at least a seven-day* supply of non-perishable food
Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert
Whistle to signal for help
Dust mask to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place
Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
Manual can opener for food
Cell phone with chargers and a backup battery
For a complete list of supplies that you should pack in your kit, visit https://www.ready.gov/build-a-kit
Prepare for Seven Days of Disruption
During Wednesday afternoon’s press conference, Florida governor Ron DeSantis recommended that Floridians have “seven days of supplies, including food, water and medicine.” Although communities and households are normally guided towards preparing for three days of disruption, the severity of Hurricane Dorian has prompted state officials to encourage all persons to prepare for seven days of potential disruption.
Hurricane or Tropical Storm? Know the Difference!
Hurricane/Tropical Storm Watch: Hurricane watches are triggered 48 hours before the onset of 39 mph winds. Stay tuned into alerts and look over evacuation route. Double-check emergency preparedness kit.
Hurricane/Tropical Storm Warning: Hurricane warnings are triggered within 36 hours before the onset of 39 mph winds.
If you are in the evacuation zone, visit https://www.floridadisaster.org/info/ to see if it is time to evacuate to a public emergency shelter with your family and pets. Stay in contact with family and friends using phones or social media to let them know you’re safe.
For more weather safety and preparedness tips, visit AccuWeather.com/Ready.
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About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, PA and other offices around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their lives and get more out of their day through digital media properties, such as AccuWeather.com and mobile, as well as radio, television, newspapers, and the 24/7 AccuWeather Network channel. Additionally, AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. Among AccuWeather’s many innovative and award-winning features available free to the public are MinuteCast® Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™. Furthermore, AccuWeather serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of businesses globally. Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Dr. Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been named “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
AccuWeather, RealFeel, and MinuteCast are all registered trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc. AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature, AccuWeatherIQ, AccuWeather RealImpact, AccuWeather RI, AccuWeather MinuteCast, AccuWeather Network, Minute by Minute and Superior Accuracy are all trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc. All other trademarks, product names and logos are the property of their respective owners.
The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is free at the Google Play store. The AccuWeather iOS app is free at www.AppStore.com. Visit accuweather.com for additional information.
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Rotating QBs remains a real possibility for winless Argos
Frank ZicarelliMore from Frank Zicarelli
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One has the arm, the other oozes athleticism, but every other quality necessary to be a high-end quarterback is dotted with question marks.
One does his work in the pocket, the other is more apt to make plays when the pocket gets moved.
The Argos, who enter Thursday’s date against visiting Winnipeg with an 0-6 record, have featured three quarterbacks who have lined up under centre this season.
James Franklin is closer to returning from an injured hamstring, but there isn’t enough evidence to suggest his return will move the needle for an offence desperate for a quarterback to take control of the unit and produce.
For now, it remains in the lap of McLeod Bethel-Thompson, but how long that continues is anyone’s guess.
It got so bad during the team’s recent three-game trip out West that head coach Corey Chamblin had no choice but to replace Bethel-Thompson with Dakota Prukop when the second half started last Thursday night in Edmonton.
There’s no denying Bethel-Thompson’s arm strength and ability to deliver the ball.
The questions surround his decision making.
In Calgary, he threw four picks.
In Edmonton, he was intercepted once and failed to secure the football when he attempted to climb the pocket late in the opening half.
Bethel-Thompson is a stand-up guy whom teammates rally around, but in this business it’s about wins and the veteran has lost his past 10 starts for Toronto dating back to last season.
Prukop was intercepted twice by the Eskimos.
The team tried to get Prukop outside the pocket when he entered the game in the third quarter, but the more he was limited in the pocket the more exposed he became.
Prukop made the team two years ago on special teams.
He has only entered games in short yardage prior to his appearance in the second half of last week’s game.
When the Argos played the Blue Bombers in Winnipeg to kick off Toronto’s Western swing, Prukop was twice stopped from the one yard line.
“Any time you change a quarterback there’s going to be a change of pace for the defence,’’ said Chamblin.
He’s right, but eventually defences adjust.
There’s been all kinds of talk of the Argos changing the structure of their offence, but it starts with the guy lining up behind centre.
Until that position gets solidified, the Argos will remain a question mark.
Mind you, the only question might be the team’s overall capabilities to win a game.
The Bombers feature a veteran starter in Matt Nichols.
His backup is Chris Streveler, who is keen on running the ball and initiating contact.
There is no Streveler-type quarterback with the Argos, but Prukop’s athleticism does allow the team to run packages as a change of pace to the drop-back Bethel-Thompson.
At this stage when a team is winless and looking hapless and hopeless, anything and everything is on the table.
Interestingly, Chamblin did mention Monday the option the team is exploring to use both Bethel-Thompson and Prukop.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise.
In fairness, Bethel-Thompson has posted some decent to good numbers, but none in a winning cause.
Against the Bombers, he directed an offence that produced in excess of 400 yards on a night when the Argos trailed 37-6 at halftime.
He was efficient against B.C., but only one touchdown, with 40 seconds remaining in the game, could be mustered.
For now, the Argos have to start Bethel-Thompson in the absence of a legitimate alternative.
Bethel-Thompson and Prukop combined for three interceptions.
Add Bethel-Thompson’s fumble and the quarterbacks were responsible for four of the team’s five turnovers.
Against the Eskimos, Prukop had an efficiency rating of 11.1, Bethel-Thompson not much better by checking in with a 27.5 rating.
No QB threw in excess of 100 yards.
That’s not going to cut it in any league.
What happens is that players end up getting cut.
The arrival of Caribana can only mean one thing if you happen to be an Argo.
First it was the Honda Indy that forced some deft manoeuvring when plotting a route to Lamport Stadium.
And now it’s Caribana that has forced the beleaguered team to find a practice site.
On Sunday, the Argos used Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke, one of the most under appreciated venues in the GTA.
On Monday, the team moved a little bit east to Michael Power, the Catholic high school which will serve as the Argos’ practice site on Tuesday, the team’s final full practice prior to Thursday’s home game versus Winnipeg.
Once the Argos return from their bye week, they’ll have to deal with the opening of the CNE.
In other words, there is no end to the challenges this team faces.
— Frank Zicarelli
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Association of antithyroglobulin antibody with iodine nutrition and thyroid dysfunction in Nepalese children
Binaya Tamang1,
Saroj Khatiwada ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-93242,
Basanta Gelal3,
Shrijana Shrestha3,
Kishun Deo Mehta3,
Nirmal Baral3,
Gauri Shankar Shah4 &
Madhab Lamsal3
Aberrant iodine intake and thyroid autoimmunity affect thyroid function. Deficiencies of iodine including thyroid disorders have serious impact on child physical and mental development. This study was conducted to investigate iodine nutrition, thyroid function and thyroid autoimmunity in the Nepalese children, and explore the association of thyroidal autoimmunity with iodine nutrition and thyroid dysfunction.
Five schools from Udayapur district of eastern Nepal were selected for the study. A total of 213 school children aged 6–12 years were enrolled, and anthropometric data, urine samples and blood samples were collected. Urinary iodine concentration (UIC), free triiodothyronine (fT3), free thyroxine (fT4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), and antithyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) was measured. Independent T test, Man-Whitney test, Chi-square test and Fisher’s Exact test were used for testing statistical significance. Spearman’s correlation analysis was done to find association between variables.
The median UIC with IQR, mean ± SD fT3, mean ± SD fT4, median TSH and TgAb with IQR was 150.0 μg/L (102.8; 204.0), 2.49 ± 0.83 pg/ml, 1.33 ± 0.42 ng/dl, 2.49 mIU/L (1.58; 4.29), and 21.40 IU/ml (15.54; 31.20) respectively. Elvated TgAb (≥30 IU/ml, thyroid autoimmune condition) was seen in 25.8% (n = 55) children. UIC was less than 100 μg/L in 17.4% (n = 37) of the children. Subclinical hypothyroidism, overt hypothyroidism and sublinical hyperthyroidism was seen in 1.4% (n = 3), 3.3% (n = 7) and 3.8% (n = 8) children respectively. A strong association of TgAb with UIC (r = − 0.210, p = 0.002) and thyroid hormones; fT3 (r = − 0.160, p = 0.019), fT4 (r = − 0.275, p < 0.001), and TSH (r = 0.296, p < 0.001) was seen. The relative risk for thyroid autoimmunity in children with UIC less than 100 μg/L was 1.784 (95% CI: 1.108–2.871, p = 0.024). Similarly, children with thyroid autoimmunity had higher relative risk [7.469 (95% CI: 2.790–19.995, p < 0.001)] for thyroid dysfunction.
School children of eastern Nepal have adequate iodine nutrition. Thyroid autoimmunity is very common, while thyroid dysfunction is sparse in children. An association of thyroid autoimmunity with iodine nutrition and thyroid dysfunction was seen in children.
Thyroid gland produces hormones essential for normal growth and development of the body. Deficiency of thyroid hormones, a condition called as hypothyroidism, or excess of thyroid hormones called as hyperthyroidism, both alter normal body physiology and metabolism [1, 2]. The prevalence of thyroid dysfunction ranges from 1 to 10% among adults from general population, however, prevalence varies across different groups [3]. In Nepal, high prevalence of thyroid disorders has been reported among patients visiting tertiary hospitals, and those with chronic diseases [4,5,6,7]. Several studies have shown thyroid dysfunction to be common among pregnant women and school children of eastern Nepal [8,9,10].
The most common cause of thyroid disorders worldwide is iodine deficiency except in the areas with adequate iodine nutrition where thyroid autoimmunity is the major cause [11]. Severe iodine deficiency causes hypothyroidism, while at the same time excessive iodine intake can also negatively impact thyroid function [12]. In addition, the development of autoantibodies against thyroid proteins mainly thyroid peroxidase (TPO), thyroglobulin (Tg), and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor can lead to thyroid disorders [13]. Aberrant iodine intake can play a crucial role in the development of thyroid autoimmunity, and affect the rate of thyroid diseases [14]. There is less information regarding thyroid autoimmunity in Nepalese children.
In the past, iodine deficiency used to be a significant health problem in Nepal, but ever since universal salt iodization program (USI) was initiated in 1993, iodine deficiency disorders have progressively dropped [15]. Our studies among the school children of eastern Nepal show good improvement in iodine nutrition as indicated by rising median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) of the population over the past years, which is consistent with the increasing usage of adequately iodized salt by the households [16,17,18,19]. Because of the risk associated with excess or inadequate iodine intake, it is important to monitor iodine intake and iodine nutrition in the population.
Our previous studies were focused on iodine nutrition, iron status, thyroid function and their relationships in the children [9, 10, 17]. In this study, we aimed to evaluate iodine nutrition, thyroid function and thyroid autoimmunity including their relationship in the school children from eastern Nepal.
This cross-sectional study was conducted by the Department of Biochemistry in collaboration with department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal in the Udayapur district of eastern Nepal in the year 2015–2016. Udayapur district has a mixed geography comprising plain (low altitude) and hilly (high altitude) areas. Three village development committee (VDC); Katunjebawala, Chaudandi and Siddhipur were selected for the current study. One VDC (Katunjebawala) lies at low altitude of around 306 m above the sea level whereas the other two (Chaudandi and Siddhipur) lie at high altitude, around 2300 m above the sea level. Those VDCs were selected randomly as a representative of low and high altitude regions of Udayapur district. A total of five schools (two from Katunjebawala, one from Chaudandi and two from Siddhipur) were chosen for the subject recruitment. From each school, children aged 6–12 years were enrolled. Prior to the enrollment, the objectives and benefits of the study were explained to the school authorities including guardians and participants of the study. Consent to participate in the study was taken from each child and their guardian. Participants taking micronutrient supplements, with severe illness and those not willing to participate were excluded from the study. The ethical clearance for this study was provided by the Institutional Review Committee (IRC) of BPKIHS.
Two hundred thirteen children participated in the study. The sample size was estimated based on assumption of approximate prevalence of iodine deficiency (ID) (15%), thyroid dysfunction (20%), and thyroid autoimmunity (15%) in the Nepalese population. From each subject anthropometric data (height, weight) was recorded, and then urine and blood samples were collected at the same time. Casual urine samples were collected in 10 ml sterile tubes and blood samples (2 ml) in plain vials. Serum was separated within an hour of blood collection. Urine and serum samples were transported to the biochemistry laboratory of BPKIHS maintaining cold chain and stored at -20o C until analyte measurement. UIC was estimated in the urine samples using ammonium persulfate digestion microplate (APDM) method (based on Sandell-Kolthoff reaction), in a specially designed apparatus, sealing cassette [20]. In the serum, free tri-iodothyronine (fT3), free tetra-iodothyronine (fT4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and antithyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) were measured. Thyroid hormones; fT3, fT4 and TSH were measured by ELISA method using commercial kits from Diametra Company. TgAb was estimated by chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) method using MAGLUMI 1000 CLIA kits.
The reference ranges provided by the kits manufacturer for fT3, fT4, TSH, and TgAb were 1.4–4.2 pg/ml, 0.8–2.2 ng/dL, 0.39–6.16 mIU/L, and < 30 IU/ml respectively. Using above reference ranges, children were classified for thyroid autoimmunity (thyroid autoimmunity if TgAb≥30 IU/ml, no thyroid autoimmunity if TgAb< 30 IU/ml) and thyroid function status (euthyroid, overt and subclinical hypothyroid, and subclinical hyperthyroid). Iodine status was classified as insufficient (UIC < 100 μg/L) or sufficient (UIC ≥ 100 μg/L) iodine nutrition based on UIC cutoff 100 μg/L, and as severe ID, moderate ID, mild ID, sufficient and excessive iodine nutrition based on WHO criteria [21, 22].
The data was entered in MS excel and analyzed by SPSS version 20.2 software after checking for the normality using Shapiro-Wilk test. The data were expressed as mean ± SD or median with interquartile range (IQR). Independent T test, Man-Whitney test, Chi-square test and Fisher’s Exact test were used for testing statistical significance at 95% confidence interval. For measuring the association among variables, Spearman’s correlation analysis was done. The relative risk for thyroid autoimmunity in children with insufficient UIC as compared to those with sufficient UIC, relative risk for thyroid dysfunction in children with insufficient UIC and thyroidal autoimmunity as compared to those with sufficient UIC and non-thyroidal immunity respectively was calculated at 95% confidence interval. A p value< 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Anthropometric measurements
The data were collected from 213 children, 66 were from low altitude (VDC: Katunjebawala) and 115 from high altitude (VDCs: Chaudandi and Siddhipur). The mean ± SD age, height and weight of the children were 10.2 ± 1.7 years, 125.9 ± 9.5 cm and 25.4 ± 5.7 kg respectively. The mean ± SD age, height and weight in the children from low altitude were 10.5 ± 1.6 years, 128.0 ± 8.4 cm and 26.8 ± 4.6 kg respectively. Among the children from high altitude, mean age, height and weight was 10.1 ± 1.8 years, 124.9 ± 9.9 cm and 24.8 ± 6.0 kg respectively. The number of males and females in the study was 115 and 98 respectively. The mean ± SD age, height and weight was 10.4 ± 1.7 years, 126.2 ± 10.0 cm and 25.3 ± 5.3 kg respectively in boys. In girls, the mean ± SD age, height and weight was 10.1 ± 1.7 years, 125.5 ± 8.9 cm and 25.5 ± 6.1 kg respectively.
UIC, thyroid hormones and anti-Tg antibodies levels
As shown in Table 1, median UIC with IQR, mean ± SD fT3, mean ± SD fT4, median TSH and TgAb with IQR were 150.0 μg/L (102.8; 204.0), 2.49 ± 0.83 pg/ml, 1.33 ± 0.42 ng/dl, 2.49 mIU/L (1.58; 4.29), and 21.40 IU/ml (15.54; 31.20) respectively. Median UIC was significantly higher in males than females (p = 0.03), and in the children from high altitude than low altitude (p = 0.002). Median TgAb was significantly higher in the children from low altitude than from high altitude (p = 0.036).
Table 1 Median UIC, thyroid hormones and TgAb in the study population
Iodine nutrition, thyroid disorders and thyroid autoimmunity
Thyroid dysfunction and thyroid autoimmunity (TgAb≥30 IU/ml) were present in 18 (8.5%) and 55 (25.8%) children respectively. About 37 (17.4%) children had UIC < 100 μg/L. Based on WHO criteria, severe, moderate, and mild ID was seen in 1 (0.5%), 8 (3.8%) and 28 (13.1%) children respectively. Iodine nutrition was excessive (UIC ≥ 300 μg/L) in 21 (9.9%) children. Insufficient iodine nutrition was found in 31.8% (n = 21) of the children from low altitude and 10.9% (n = 16) children from high altitude. Thyroid dysfunction was seen in 6.1% (n = 4) children residing in low altitude and 9.5% (n = 14) children residing in high altitude. Similarly, thyroid autoimmunity was seen in 34.8% (n = 23) children from low altitude and 21.8% (n = 32) from high altitude. Child sex and altitude did not affect thyroid function (p = 0.419 and p = 0.888 respectively). Similarly, child sex did not affect thyroid autoimmunity (p = 0.594) and iodine nutrition (p = 0.149), but altitude affected thyroid autoimmunity (p = 0.044) and iodine nutrition (p < 0.001). Type of thyroid dysfunction according to thyroid autoimmunity and iodine nutrition is shown in Table 2.
Table 2 Thyroid dysfunction according to autoimmunity and iodine status in the study subjects
Relationship of UIC with thyroid hormones and anti-Tg antibodies
Anthropometric measures were not associated with iodine nutrition, thyroid hormones and thyroid autoantibodies level. The correlation of UIC with TSH, UIC with TgAb, and TgAb with TSH is shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 respectively. A strong positive correlation of UIC with fT3 (r = 0.361, p < 0.001), and fT4 (r = 0.365, p < 0.001) was seen. UIC had negative correlation with TSH (r = − 0.399, p < 0.001). TgAb had significant negative correlation with fT3 (r = − 0.160, p = 0.019), fT4 (r = − 0.275, p < 0.001), UIC (r = − 0.210, p = 0.002), and positive with TSH (r = 0.296, p < 0.001). The relative risk of having thyroid dysfunction in children with thyroid autoimmunity was 7.469 (95% CI: 2.790–19.995, p < 0.001) as compared to children without thyroidal autoimmunity. Similarly, the relative risk for thyroid dysfunction in children with insufficient UIC was 2.378 (95% CI: 0.954–5.930, p = 0.096) as compared to children with sufficient UIC. The relative risk for thyroid autoimmunity in children with insufficient UIC was 1.784 (95% CI: 1.108–2.871, p = 0.024).
Correlation of UIC with TSH concentration
Correlation of UIC with TgAb concentration
Correlation of TgAb with TSH concentration
This study finds high rate of thyroid autoimmunity and a low rate of thyroid dysfunction in school children of eastern Nepal. Iodine nutrition is adequate in the population with median UIC 150 μg/L; however, 17% children had UIC < 100 μg/L. Poor iodine nutrition was found to be associated with thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid dysfunction.
Thyroid disorders are the second most common endocrine disorder worldwide [11]. In this study, thyroid dysfunction was seen in 8.5% of the children. Subclinical hyperthyroidism (3.8%) was the most common thyroid disorders followed by subclinical hypothyroidism (3.3%) and overt hypothyroidism (1.4%). Previous study by Chaudhari et al. reported subclinical hypothyroidism in 31.8 and 29.5% children of Sunsari and Dhankuta districts of eastern Nepal [23]. In another study from eastern Nepal, subclinical hypothyroidism, overt hypothyroidism and subclinical hyperthyroidism was seen in 16.3, 1.3 and 1.8% children respectively [9]. The main cause of thyroid disorders worldwide is iodine deficiency, except in the areas where iodine intake is sufficient. In such areas, autoimmunity towards thyroidal tissue is the leading cause for thyroid disorder [11].
School children are one of the most vulnerable groups for iodine deficiency. Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of mental retardation worldwide [22]. The median UIC in the present study was 150.0 μg/L μg/L, which indicates adequate iodine nutrition. The median UIC in the children from low altitude and high altitude was 107.5 μg/L and 163.0 μg/L respectively. After the launch of USI in Nepal, iodine nutrition has improved sharply [15]. Other studies by Chaudhari et al. in 2009 reported median UIC of 238.0 μg/L in Dhankuta and 294.9 μg/L in Sunsari, and Shakya et al. in 2010–2011 found median UIC of 345.6 μg/L in Tehrathum and 270.4 μg/L in Morang [10, 23]. Among the study population, 17.4% of the children had UIC < 100 μg/L, which suggest the necessity of monitoring iodine intake in such children. Previously in this region, Gelal et al., Khatiwada et al. and Shakya et al. found iodine deficiency in 22.0, 12.6, and 8.6% school children respectively [10, 17, 24]. Surprisingly, here we found higher median UIC in the children living in the high altitude than low altitude of the district. Similar trend in the median UIC was seen by Shakya et al. between the plain district (Morang) and hilly district (Tehrathum) [10]. Usually, iodine deficiency is found to be more common in the hilly and mountainous areas possibly due to the low level of iodine in the soil in such areas [25]. Our finding suggests adequate consumption of iodine rich food including iodized salts by the children living in the high altitude of the district.
For determining thyroid autoimmunity status in the children, we estimated TgAb concentration. Based on the TgAb concentration cutoff, high level of TgAb was found in 25.8% children, suggesting a high prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity. Previous data about the prevalence of thyroidal autoimmunity is not available for Nepalese children. In a study from Iran positive Tg antibodies was present in 5.3% school children [26]. In Sri Lanka, prevalence of high TgAb ranging from 14.3% (in 11 years old) to 69.7% (in 16 years old) was seen in females after salt iodization was made compulsory, pointing out the potential side effect of excess iodization [27]. In one of the study among Nepalese pregnant women, thyroid autoimmunity as estimated using anti-TPO antibodies was seen in 3.3% of the women [8]. The common antibodies developed against thyroid include TPO, TSH receptor and Tg antibodies, and such antibodies when reach a certain threshold concentration will impair thyroid function [13]. Several factors such as genetic makeup, epigenetics factor, dietary pattern, gender, environmental factors such as exposure to toxin, smoking, infection, radiation and medications, and iodine intake can trigger thyroid autoimmunity [28]. Interestingly in this study, thyroid autoimmunity was more common among children living in low altitude than living in high altitude. This might be due to the difference in iodine intake, ethnicity, genetic makeup and socio-demographic status of the children living in different altitude.
In this study, we observed a strong association of UIC with thyroid hormones namely TSH, which suggest a strong role of iodine nutrition on the thyroid function. High UIC indicates excessive iodine intake which can lead to iodine induced hyperthyroidism. After iodine supplementation, the risk for iodine induced hyperthyroidism has been reported in some African countries [29]. Our data suggest that excess iodine intake may be increasing the prevalence of subclinical hyperthyroidism in the children while at the same time contributing for hypothyroidism. Iodine is a component of thyroid hormone, so it has crucial role in maintaining normal thyroid function [12]. Both iodine deficiency and excess can coexist in the different regions of same country and contribute towards thyroid disorders [30]. Furthermore, we observed high risk for thyroid dysfunction in the children who had thyroid autoimmunity, which indicates the impact of thyroid autoimmunity on thyroid dysfunction. In the regions with adequate iodine nutrition, thyroid autoimmunity becomes a significant factor for thyroid dysfunction [11].
We observed a strong association of iodine nutrition and thyroid autoimmunity in this study. This emphasizes the importance of maintaining proper iodine nutrition in children to prevent thyroid autoimmunity development. Here we used anti-Tg antibodies to define thyroid autoimmunity instead of anti-TPO antibodies, which is one of the limitations of this study. We were interested to assess anti-Tg antibodies level in Nepalese setting as there were no previous data on this antibodies. In addition, iodine deficient children had high risk for thyroid autoimmunity than children with adequate iodine nutrition. Several studies have showed low UIC as a risk factor for thyroidal autoimmunity in the population living in iodine sufficient areas [31, 32]. At the same time, after the start of salt iodization program, several countries have reported rise in the incidence of thyroid autoimmunity possibly due to excess iodine nutrition [27, 33, 34]. A systematic review suggested that despite improvement in goiter rate through universal iodization, chronic intake of iodine through iodized salt or water increases risk for hypothyroidism in the population [35]. Thus it is important to monitor iodine intake and UIC in the population for minimizing thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid dysfunction. This study has several limitations such as small sample size that might have affected prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity including pattern of thyroid disorders, lack of anti-TPO antibodies for thyroid autoimmunity, and cross-sectional nature which cannot draw conclusion about cause and effect relationship between iodine deficiency, thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid dysfunction. Future studies need to be conducted covering larger areas and population, and should be directed towards finding the exact cause for this high rate of thyroid autoimmunity.
School children of eastern Nepal have adequate iodine nutrition. Thyroid dysfunction is sparse but thyroid autoimmunity is common in children. A strong association of thyroid autoimmunity with iodine nutrition and thyroid dysfunction was seen in this cohort.
Data available from the authors on special request.
APDM:
Ammonium persulphate digestion method
Free T3:
Tg:
Thyroglobulin
Antithyroglobulin antibody
UIC:
Urinary iodine concentration
USI:
Universal salt iodization
VDC:
Village development commitee
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We kindly acknowledge school children who participated in this study, and the school authorities for assisting the study.
Department of Biochemistry, Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa, Nepal
Binaya Tamang
School of Medical Sciences, UNSW SYDNEY, Sydney, Australia
Saroj Khatiwada
Department of Biochemistry, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Ghopa, Dharan, Nepal
Basanta Gelal
, Shrijana Shrestha
, Kishun Deo Mehta
, Nirmal Baral
& Madhab Lamsal
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
Gauri Shankar Shah
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BT, SK, BG and ML designed the study. BT, SK, BG conducted the field study. BT analyzed the samples. BT and SK analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. BG, SS, KDM, NB, GSH and ML reviewed manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of manuscript.
Correspondence to Saroj Khatiwada.
The ethical approval for this study was provided by the Institutional Review Committee (IRC) of B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal. Consents to enroll in the study were taken from each child including their guardians.
he authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Tamang, B., Khatiwada, S., Gelal, B. et al. Association of antithyroglobulin antibody with iodine nutrition and thyroid dysfunction in Nepalese children. Thyroid Res 12, 6 (2019) doi:10.1186/s13044-019-0067-z
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write a poem with tension…like some baptist church split…let it walk a tightrope…between congregation one…and congregation two…write a poem that finishes school…a magna cum laude poem…let it be momentous…learn something meaningful…share something significant…write a poem that looks good…not homely or swaybacked…give it posture, poise and profile…turn our heads when it walks by…stomp our feet when it smiles…on some superficial level…make us want to marry it or at least…remember its name the next morning…write a poem that works…write a poem that works…has a job and does it…promptly…follows rules and responsibilities…gets a raise or at least a head nod…and when it’s not feeling well…give it sense enough to call in sick…and not waste our time with unmet expectations…write a poem that has a family…not some single life of one-night stands…i mean your poem should be in a serious relationship…let it commit to something…move beyond soap opera sex…let it be passionate…about something…and if it gets excited…if it just has to get physical…let it be in the privacy of it’s own beautiful mind….cause we can watch cable at home…write a poem that travels…gets outside of your cramped apartment…leaves all that tired baggage…and catches a plane somewhere…takes us on a journey to an imagination… spawned not by television and film…but one that has been somewhere we haven’t…write a poem that reads…please…write…a…poem…that…reads…more than headlines and sitcom credits…a cultured poem…write a poem that knows how to talk…not some misbehaving foul-mouth looking for attention…an eloquent poem…write a poem that dances…wild and free…naked on the floor…a gutsy poem…write a poem that cooks…i mean it ain’t got to bake a cake…but at least know the ingredients…write a poem that exercises…i mean cycling is not required… but steps never hurt nobody…write a poem that runs for office…i mean it ain’t got to win…but at least campaign…get a clue poets…write a poem with an inkling of suspicion…i mean it ain’t got to solve a crime…but let it at least offer a tip…write a poem that is contagious…write a poem that is contagious…write a poem that is contagious…let it inspire…make us…want to write a poem…about how brilliant…and breathtaking…and tragic…and hopeful…life is.
Love and Light for your Tuesday. Happy Spring!
Kwame Alexander is the author of fifteen books including the children’s books Indigo Blume and the Garden City and Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band, both of which received NAACP Image Award Nominations for Outstanding Children’s Literature. His first YA Novel comes out in 2013 from Harper Collins, and his debut middle reader novel will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2014. Kwame’s Book-in-a-Day writing & publishing program has created more than 2500 student authors in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. He has led delegations of writers to Brazil, Tuscany, and Ghana. Most recently, he co-founded the L.E.AP. for Ghana initiative, which provides literacy, school improvement, and girls’ empowerment programming in the community of Konko Village, in the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. Visit him at http://www.kwamealexander.com.
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UNREMEMBERED
A History of the Famously Interesting and Mostly Forgotten
Sgt. Younger’s Pick
Father’s Day was Originally Marketed as a ‘Second Christmas’ for Dads
By Ken Zurski
Nearly every May in the 1930’s, a radio performer named Robert Spere staged rallies in New York City promoting a day set aside not just to honor moms, but dads as well. Meaning together, as in one, was Spere’s thinking. His hope was to change “Mother’s Day” to “Parent’s Day” instead.
Spere, a children’s program host known as “Uncle Robert” told his attentive audience: “We should all have love for mom and dad every day, but ‘Parent’s Day’ is a reminder that both parents should be loved and respected together.”
Spere was onto to something, but it would have to wait.
Much earlier, in 1908, a day set aside to celebrate mom, affectionately known as Mother’s Day, became a national day of observance. But there was no enthusiasm for a day set aside for fathers. “Men scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving,” one historian wrote.
Retailers, however, liked the idea. They promoted a “second Christmas” for dads with gifts of tools, neckties and tobacco, instead of flowers and cards. But it never gelled. Even Spere’s “Parent’s Day” idea hit a snag when the Great Depression hit. (Today, “Parents Day is officially celebrated on the fourth Sunday of every July.)
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a proclamation honoring fathers on the third Sunday of June. Then six years later, in 1972, with President Richard Nixon’s signature, “Father’s Day” officially became a national holiday.
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Cleveland Browns rank Cody Kessler as starting quarterback in preseason
Cleveland Browns rank Cody Kessler as starting quarterback in preseason- Photo: YouTube
Brock Osweiler and rookie DeShone Kizer will compete against Kessler for the Browns’ lead role
by Shawn Lealos
August 1, 2017 at 2:08 AM August 1, 2017 at 2:08 AM
When the Cleveland Browns made a trade with the Houston Texans for Brock Osweiler in the offseason, the Browns just wanted the draft picks that Houston was sending along with the quarterback’s large contract. The Browns were expected to just cut Osweiler and eat the contract just to get the added draft picks. However, when Brock showed up in Cleveland, he impressed the coaching staff and front office and they kept the young quarterback, allowing him to compete for the starting role in 2017. However, ESPN reported that Cody Kessler is listed as the Starting Quarterback heading into the preseason.
Cody Kessler
Last year, the Cleveland Browns signed Robert Griffin III to come in and become their starting quarterback. Cleveland believed he could be a franchise quarterback and a team leader. However, Griffin was injured early and never played again. The team cut Griffin and he might be finished in the NFL now. The rest of the season, the Browns had no idea who they wanted to start at quarterback and ended up with Cody Kessler in the role by the end of their season.
Out of the six quarterbacks that threw a ball for the Cleveland Browns in 2016, Cody Kessler had the best quarterback rating, at 92.3.
He threw six touchdowns and only two interceptions while averaging 137.8 yards a game with a 65.6 completion percentage. The other quarterbacks were Josh McCown (not with the New York Jets), Griffin III, Charlie Whitehurst (a free agent), Kevin Hogan (still in Cleveland for now), and Terrelle Pryor Sr. (not with the Washington Redskins).
The Browns 2017 starting quarterback
The Cleveland Browns had a great NFL Draft, filling up a lot of needed positions with young stars and looking like they will improve a lot over their 2016 totals.
However, the Browns did not get a franchise quarterback in the NFL Draft, despite having two chances to grab one. Instead, the Browns waited until the second round to draft Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer. The young Kizer only played two seasons at Notre Dame, throwing for 47 touchdowns and 19 interceptions while also running for 992 yards in the two seasons with 18 touchdowns on the ground.
Meanwhile, Brock Osweiler was supposed to be the heir apparent to Peyton Manning with the Denver Broncos but left after Manning retired for a big money deal with the Houston Texans.
He left Denver out of anger and ended up losing his job in Houston and getting traded after only one season. Osweiler, Kizer, and Hogan will compete for the Cleveland Browns starting job against Cody Kessler but Hue Jackson said that someone needs to start off on the first team and that will be Kessler – for now.
Shawn Lealos
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Allan Antliff fonds
CA UVICARCH AR458
The fonds reflects Allan Antliff’s interest and participation in the anarchist movement and numerous activist and anarchist events throughout North America and Europe. Fonds includes newspaper clippings, monographs, journals, articles, pamphlets, leaflets, newsletters, correspondence, photographs, notes and notebooks, audio-visual materials, posters, t-shirts, and ephemera.
Antliff, Allan
British Columbia Indian Language Project fonds
The fonds consists of manuscript of "Indian Legends of the North Pacific Coast of America", translation by Dietrich Bertz of Franz Boas' work "Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas", typescripts of works on the following subjects: ethnobotany of the Squamish and Okanagan Indians; knowledge and usage of land mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and amphibians; studies of the Bella Coola Indians; Lillooet stories; and utilization of fish by the Colville Okanagan, Mount Currie, Te'u'hus, Squamish, and Chase Shuswap Indians.
Carnation Creek Community History Project fonds
Fonds consists of the following series: Reports, 1999-2001; Field notes of interview with Angie Joe, 1999; Transcripts of interviews with First Nations, 1998-1999, including: Robert Dennis, Tom Happynook, Tom and Liz Happynook, Herb Joe, Tom Joe, Spencer Peters, Willie Sport; Transcripts of interviews with scientific researchers, 1999-2000, including: Gordon Hartman, Eugene Hetherington, Dick Leahy, Dave Narver, Charlie Scrivener, and Peter Tschaplinski.
Carnation Creek Community History Project
Charles Sedgwick fonds
Fonds consists of six files of research material used in the production of Sedgwick's master of arts thesis concerning the Chinese community in Victoria, B.C.: ,The Context of Economic Change and Continuity in an Urban Overseas Chinese Community. The fonds includes photographs not reproduced in the thesis. The files consist of the following: 1.1 Essay, Categories and Techniques of Fund Raising in an Overseas Chinese Community, Sedgwick, Charles P., May 1973 1.2 Photographs: 24 prints b&w and colour relating to Victoria Chinatown events, scenes and businesses. Some reproductions from BC Archives, Victoria Colonist, and photographer Don Alan Hall. 1 illustrated page removed from a publication. 1.3 Academic papers, other authors, relating to Chinese settlement in Victoria, in Canada and in North America 1.4 Research material, various sources, photocopies, lists, transcriptions, many with annotations 1.5 Research data, survey responses, historical records transcriptions, research sources 1.6 Field notes and supporting references
Sedgwick, Charles Peter, 1941-
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
Fonds consists of lists of Chinese deceased in Canada, 1937; leave permits issued to the Chinese Hospital in Vancouver, Victoria, and other areas of B.C., 1908-1909; donation and fundraising records, subscription booklets, records of income and expenditures, receipts, Free Miners Certificates, national bonds, 1884-1912; population data; correspondence from the Commander in Shanghai, 1932; minutes of the Chinese Public School; correspondence regarding donations for victims of famines, droughts, and floods in China, and booklets recording donations; records of the Chinese Hospital, including report books on patients, doctor order books and consultation forms, 1956-1976. Fonds also includes death and burial records series, 1902-1923, consisting of: medical certificates of death for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC; and burial permits for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC, including permits issued by the Chinese Benevolent Cemetery Company.
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth Victoria Branch fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence from 1953; incomplete set of minutes, 1954-1988; newsletters, annual and president's reports; photographs, including cruise photograph album; and several private pocket calendars.
Expanded Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations fonds
Fonds consists of KCIR minutes, 1979-1984; Expanded KCIR Meetings and letters, 1980-1985; Reports and statements, 1924-1973; Communications with non-affiliated, Reformed, USCC, and news reports, 1947-84; Sons of Freedom meetings and letters, 1980-84; Statements from individuals, families and groups, 1950-87; and two manuscripts: "Gloom shadow of Ivan the Terrible," Anonymous, and "The Doukhobors: their history, life and struggle," by Peter N. Maloff. Many of the meeting files also include statements from Doukhobors.
Expanded Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations
Limners fonds
Fonds documents the activities of the Victoria Limners Society from 1972-2008 and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records and society filings. It also contains records related to various group exhibits, including the Limners’ 25th anniversary exhibition in 1996, as well as records related to a book and video produced about the group. A small number of newspaper clippings, exhibition pamphlets, various editions of a booklet on the Limners Society artists and black and white photographs showing Limner members at exhibitions and meetings can be found in this fonds. This fonds has been arranged into into six series: 1) letters; 2) minutes; 3) financial records; 4) society filings; 5) 25th anniversary exhibition; and 6) publications and graphic materials.
Limners (Group of artists)
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JACK KNIFE MOUNTAIN
May 1924: "Ranger Foote constructed a cabin and a tower on Jack Knife Mountain last fall. The tower was 50 feet high, having a 14-foot base and a 6-foot platform on top. This tower has 3 bents with double cross braces on each side of each bent, all braces are dapped into the corner posts and thoroughly nailed making the structure absolutely solid. All corners are guyed to large stumps, the guy lines are tightened by use of turnbuckles. There is absolutely no vibration to this tower. The only vibration a person might feel from the top would possibly be from his knees, Ranger Foote put up this tower and also a cabin for a cost of $350.00. L.L.H." (Six Twenty-Six)
February 1928: "Mr. Hougland built an enclosure on the lookout tower last fall." (Six Twenty-Six)
October 11, 1929: “Randolph Riley of Colorado Springs, Colo., who has been stationed on Jack Knife Lookout during the summer was a Sunday dinner guest in the Thomas Forsyth home.” (The Republic News-Miner)
November 4, 1933: “Lieut. Com. Taylor, who has been in charge of Deadman camp since the departure of Major Copthorn several weeks ago, and Lieut. Tomlinson, acc ompanied the men. Fifty-nine men, in charge of Lieut. Paul Long, remained at the camp and will continue the projects which have not yet been completed, and which include the Jackknife trail north from Deadman.” (The Colville Examiner)
Activated: August 27, 1942; Deactivated: July 1, 1943. Seattle Filter Center.
August 19, 1944: “Miss Helen Gilbert, who has been on the Jackknife lookout station, returned home Sunday on account of illness. She is in the Mt. Carmel hospital.” (The Colville Examiner)
August 19, 1944: “Miss Beverly Nixon spent the week at Jackknife lookout station visiting Miss Ollie Mae Gilbert.” (The Colville Examiner)
August 26, 1944: “Miss Helen Gilbert returned Sunday to her duties with the U.S. Forest service at Jackknife lookout, after recovering from illness which confined her to the hospital in Colville for several days last week, Miss Beverly Nixon returned Sunday from the lookout where she had spent a week with Miss Ollie Mae Gilbert during the illness of Helen.” (The Colville Examiner)
October 7, 1944: “Due to manpower shortage, women played a larger part than ever before. Fire lookout points were manned by women. The Misses Ollie Mae and Helen Gilbert of Colville on Jackknife." (The Colville Examiner)
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* [http://blogs.unpad.ac.id/dominodiaz/ Blog Teknik]
* [http://andreweweww.wordpress.com/ Curhat Blog]
* [http://mariposa-store.com/ Jual Sepatu Online]
* [http://www.sepatuonline.org/ Jual Sepatu Online]
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* [http://kesehatan-ku.info/ Kesehatan Online]
Legal lead: National Council for Law Reporting
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Date of latest MOU in jurisdiction N/A
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CIPIT, Strathmore Law School (academic institution)
Chief Executive, National Council for Law Reporting
Michael Murungi
mmurungi@kenyalaw.org
AFFILIATE TEAM ROADMAP, CREATIVE COMMONS Jurisdiction: Kenya (East Africa - Africa) Date submitted: 6 March 2013 Timespan of this roadmap: January 2013 to December 2013
Public lead: Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology law (CIPIT)
Dr. Isaac Rutenberg [Intellectual property and Social media] (Director and Lead Consultant) holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law (California, 2011) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from California Institute of Technology (2005). He is a Registered Attorney with the California State Bar and he is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Lillian Makanga Wothaya [Research and evangelism] holds an LLB (Hons) degree from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) a post graduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law and currently awaiting admission to the Bar as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She has previously worked at MMC Africa Advocates where she gained experience in the practice of Intellectual Property Law as well as other legal disciplines. As part of CIPIT she is involved in the IP Clinic which provides legal advice and cost effective solutions to innovators on all aspects of their IP Rights. In addition, she analyses developments in Kenyan and International IP Case law as well as the implications on the Intellectual Property Landscape.
Douglas Gichuki [Open data and IT policy] (Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer). Mr Gichuki holds an LLB degree from CUEA and an LLM in Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Internet Law from Norwich Law School (UK). His doctoral research focuses on legal frameworks for financing small to medium enterprises in technology.
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Mr . Michael Murungi [Information technology specialist] is a manager, law reporter and ICT legal expert from Kenya. He is the Chief Executive/Editor of Kenya’s National Council for Law Reporting, the official publisher of Kenya’s public legal information, including the decisions of the superior courts of Kenya and the Laws of Kenya. He is the author of Cyber Law in Kenya and Kenya's designated contributor to Wolter Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia of Cyberlaw. He has been a legal columnist for CIO, East Africa’s premier ICT magazine and a lecturer in cyberlaw at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. He made key contributions towards the enactment of the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act, 2009. He has undertaken local and international consultancy and speaking engagements. Michael holds a Masters Degree in ICT law and has professional training in legal practice, management and arbitration
Mr. Alex Gakuru [Regional coordinator Africa] is the Founder and Chair of ICT Consumers Association of Kenya, an ICT consumer rights advocacy group. He is the Executive Director-Content Development and Intellectual property (CODE-IP) Trust, a non-profit organization focusing on creating an enabling environment for local content development and its intellectual property protection. He is an assertive advocate of consumer rights and he represents consumer interests through various platforms locally and internationally. He is an Elected Council Member at the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa and he took part in global Internet Policy formulation as the elected Africa’s representative at ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency Executive Committee (NCUC). His NCUC term ended in December 2013. Since August 2012, he is the Regional Coordinator – Africa for Creative Commons.
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Why is Creative Commons important for the jurisdiction?
Kenya is home to a thriving cultural industry. These varied creatives require access to shareable resources that facilitate remixing and creativity. It is, however, important to deepen the understanding of new users in Kenya of CC licenses and their usefulness. The increasing use of CC licenses in Kenya will help enhancing the visibility and accessibility of Kenyan creativity in the global networked space.
Kenya is also home to a vibrant if querulous democracy. We are a multi ethnic society comprising 42 odd communities. We hope to harness the wealth that can come from such cultural and linguistic diversity through the creative commons movement. Kenyans are marked in their early adoption of technology to enhance the democratic discourse, examples of these include the shoot from the hip activism of #KOT (Kenyans On Twitter). We hope to use CC licensing in Kenya to support newly realisable democratic freedoms through new media conversation and mobilizing and by enabling wide-spread access to knowledge and information.
What do you think makes a successful jurisdiction project?
A successful jurisdiction project effectively promotes the use of CC licenses in their jurisdiction for the benefit of the various communities in the country. We wish to do this by bringing what is good of these communities to the wider African and global market; translating CC license deeds into local languages is in our opinion key for achieving this.
How do you see the jurisdiction project contributing to the CC Affiliate Network?
We want to help adding to the commons local content and a variety of indigenous and contemporary Kenyan works available under CC licenses.
Describe the communities that are currently active in the project.
1. Educational institutions – schools, universities, colleges, etc. 2. Libraries 3. Cultural institutions – museums, galleries, etc. 4. Government organizations 5. Technology-based companies 6. Open data and technology-focused communities 7. Professional Associations & non-profits 8. Creators – artists, photographers, media producers.
How will you continue to engage with these communities?
We will increase our engagement through: Conference talks & workshops, a Kenyan CC website, Twitter, supporting interested parties with implementing CC licenses.
Describe the communities (existing or new) that you plan to focus on during the timeframe covered by this roadmap?
Target organizations: Bloggers Association of Kenya; KECOBO; The Creativez; Power 254, Media houses; technology hubs such as iHub; Universities; and civil society such as FOSSFA.
How do you plan to engage with these web communities?
• Use of social media to establish a linked CC Kenya affiliate • Implementation of a Creative Commons website • Case studies and showcase examples • Compilation of list of Kenyan organizations & individuals using Creative Commons • Development of a copyright, open licensing course delivered online and face-to-face at the CIPIT • Open licensing salons, webinars, conference presentations, and events • FAQ, how-to’s and practical guides to aid decision making and implementation • Policy guidelines and recommendations • Development and profiling of business models related to use of Creative Commons, for instance the freemium model. • Making the case to government institutions for an open license for government content by using the National Council for Law Reporting as a demonstrative case study.
Priority Goals
What are the most important focus areas on which the Affiliate Team will work during this time period?
Focus area: Outreach and deepening license knowledge and use
• Given the newness of the CC team in Kenya, it is essential to build a strong community that understands the licenses, promotes sharing and remix culture. This would be a good starting point to better inform and deepen the use of the CC licenses and to spread their benefits. • We also wish to have a more diffused knowledge of the CC licenses in the jurisdiction. This includes encouraging the community to adopt the free licenses in distributing their work and expanding gradually to other areas.
Focus area: Legal interface
• As the Legal Lead, the NCLR will drive the CC Kenya team in interfacing with the legal and government communities. All CC work and information will be located on (or linked from) the NCLR website to be accessed freely by the public. Other legal issues will be addressed and dealt with as appropriate.
Focus area: Application of CC to various topics of interest
• At the CC Africa Regional Meeting in 2012, a number of topics were identified as of critical importance to engage with CC and the CC Kenya team. These included open education resources, government adoption, health, advocacy, ICT development, business models, and transparency. • The CC Kenya team will actively engage stakeholders such as the School of Open and the Open Data initiative within the Government of Kenya to see that the above topics are areas of focus.
Focus area: Website development and update
• This includes things like: a collection of case-studies or organisations using CC in Kenya (wiki); Acknowledge all CC KE volunteers and organizational supporters; Put more information about Creative Commons Licensing. This also involves the building of a mailing list through which we can keep the community informed and updated. • Why is it important? This will be a key source of information about Creative Commons Kenya. • Who benefits? All CC Kenya stakeholders
Focus Area: Increased engagement with International and regional stakeholders
• Frequent interaction with already established CC organizations will hasten the progress of this project. We are confident that tapping into the experience of existing CC communities will enrich the growth of the project through their support and contribution.
Focus area: In-depth training of selected individuals
• There exists a critical need in the region for individuals with in-depth training in areas of copyright, licensing, and business development around the CC philosophy of open access. This level of knowledge exceeds the basic understanding that is needed by most users of CC licenses. Typically, this level of specialized knowledge resides in lawyers or other IP specialists, but such knowledge is not common in East Africa. • We will address this need primarily through training of interns at CIPIT and/or NCLR. One or more interns will be engaged and tasked with learning the necessary background and practical knowledge to be able to advise CC users. It is hoped that the intern(s) will use the skills gained to further the CC cause even after their internship is completed.
Focus Area: Identify source(s) and secure funding for a Creative Commons Kenya affiliate
• While we will largely engage volunteers for a lot of the CC work, a basic minimum level of funding will be required to establish a physical presence and at least partial support for some people and activities. Localizing legal tools, promoting public awareness, translation of licenses to local languages, building out a web presence, all require funding and effort. Our focus must therefore include finding and securing core base level of funding.
Detail tangible project outputs (e.g., events, papers, blog posts, video/films, etc.) for each focus area including an expected date of completion.
Focus Area: Outreach and Increasing License Use
• Project Output: Events / Blog posts / video & photo coverage of the events. Also FAQs and a practical manual (i.e., a toolkit) located on the CC Kenya website. • Expected start date - Expected date of completion: February to November 2013. • Team Member(s) Responsible: ALL, spearheaded by the Public Lead • How will this output help achieve your goals? Face to face meetings will help us improve the concept of a local community and will help us understand what are the community needs in our area. • Tentative schedule of events to be provided.
Focus Area: Legal standardization
• Project Output: translation of the license summaries; CC content available or linked on NCLR website, synchronized CC public sensitization events and create an interactive blog • Goal of Output: To secure government support & provide information to the public; to provide translated licenses • Expected start date: February 2013 • Expected date of completion: continual • Team Member(s) Responsible: NCLR
• Project Output: Engagement of the CC initiative with stakeholders in various sectors including music, publishing, film, government, and academia. • Goal of Output: Increased awareness that CC principles apply beyond the legal field • Expected start date: March, 2013 • Expected date of completion: 2013 • Team Member(s) Responsible: Douglas Gichuki, Michael Murungi
Focus area: Website
• Project Output: Modern website with features such as a news feed, information about Creative Commons, and a spotlight on Creative Commons content & initiatives in Kenya. • Goal of Output: To connect with the public & provide information. • Expected start date: March, 2013 • Expected date of completion: 2013 • Team Member(s) Responsible: Douglas Gichuki
Focus Area: International and regional engagement
• Project Output: material support, active consultancy engagement with regional and international stakeholders (e.g., CC affiliates across Africa, CC HQ, etc.) • Goal of Output: to share experience and knowledge, cultivate interaction through international seminars and social media • Expected start date: in progress • Expected date of completion: continual • Team Member(s) Responsible: Dr. Isaac Rutenberg
Focus Area: In-depth training
• Project Output: One or more individuals with significant training in the areas of copyright law, licensing, business development based on the Freemium model, etc. • Goal of Output: To begin the process of creating a community of highly-trained individuals who are able to spread the use of CC licenses, advise users of the licenses, and continue training others in such areas. • Expected start date: March 2013 • Expected date of completion: continual • Team Member(s) Responsible: Dr. Isaac Rutenberg
Focus Area: Fundraising
• Project Output: Kshs awarded/granted • Goal of Output: To secure sustainable funding. • Expected start date: February 2013 • Expected date of completion: ongoing, but the first round of applications to be completed in April 2013 • Team Member(s) Responsible: All.
• How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 1 (Outreach)? Number of participants at the events & stakeholder groups represented. Numbers of documented cases using CC licenses. • How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 2 (Legal Standardization)? The availability, download rate, and number of known links to CC licenses will be the primary factor in evaluating this area. Other measures include interactions with the creative community and inquiries by would-be users. • How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 3 (Application to various topics)? Frequency of engagement with the sectors identified in this Roadmap; case studies of such engagement. • How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 4 (Website)? Website traffic (eventually, as the site garnishes attention). Also, average number of new posts per month and average number of updates per month. • How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 5 (International and regional interaction)? The number of International meetings/seminars/interactions engaged per annum and internal audits done per annum to measure conformity progress with CC international standards. • How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 6 (In-depth training)? The skill level and competency of the intern(s) trained by CIPIT and/or NCLR will be evaluated to determine impact. • How will you evaluate your impact on focus-area 7 (Fundraising)? We will measure this area by our ability to meet our financial needs via funds raised.
Resources Required
What human resources or expertise must the team seek out or add to your existing resources, if any, in order to achieve your priority goals?
• Creative Commons Kenya has commenced operations with the team members described in the "Affiliate Team Information" section. These team members already cover a wide spectrum of expertise. We will seek to add to this expertise if and when the need arises. We will also work on building a broad network of volunteers and supporters. • We will seek out and engage one or more interns to learn the in-depth knowledge and training identified in the above goals.
How will you involve these people?
• Some involvement is already present. We will have bi-monthly meetings and supporters will be acknowledged on the website. • We will call for volunteers and interns through announcements on the website, social media, and in universities.
What technology resources must the team seek out or add to your existing resources, if any, in order to achieve your priority goals?
• Website development will require an experienced website developer and possibly an individual with artistic design experience.
How will you obtain these technology resources?
• We will advertise a call for volunteers and may seek assistance from the IT department at Strathmore and/or other universities.
What material resources must the team seek out or add to your existing resources, if any, in order to achieve your priority goals?
• Generally, there is a lack of practical and instructional information available to would-be users of the CC licenses in Kenya. The CC Kenya website will be a perfect forum for disseminating such information, which we plan to generate as a collaborative effort between the Public and Legal Lead organizations. For example, CIPIT has been developing a practical manual of IP identification, acquisition, and use. This model can be adapted and a similar manual will be created for the CC Kenya website. Furthermore, we will generate a FAQ section that will help CC Kenya reach those in most need of basic assistance. • From a variety of recent events such as the launch of the School of Open, it has become clear that there are numerous individuals in Kenya with an interest in driving the success of an open content platform. There is not, however, a centralized list of such individuals. We will create such a resource and make it available on the CC Kenya website. • We were very happy to have received SWAG from CC international for our inaugural CC 10 birthday event in Nairobi. These were very popular. We will be requesting more support of this kind from CC International.
How will you obtain these material resources?
• The manuals and FAQ content will be generated in-house at the Public and Legal Lead institutions. • Advertising and promotional materials will be requested via mail from CC.
How will you ensure your goals will be completed if unforeseen circumstances interrupt the project, such as changes in the leadership of the project or outputs taking longer to complete than anticipated?
• Regular meetings and open discussions among team members.
How will you communicate the project's on-going progress and setbacks within the jurisdiction and the CC Affiliate Network?
• Emails, ccAfrica mailinglist, our website, social media platforms, meetings • Updates to the African Regional Coordinators
How will you document the project so that others may replicate or learn from your efforts?
• Creative Commons wiki and our website (and through all of the above communication tools for that matter) • Comments on the roadmap
How could the jurisdiction's plans help drive or support other jurisdictions' activities?
• CC Kenya follows on an illustrious list of African jurisdictions using CC. We have the good examples from South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Uganda and others to learn from. We intend to actively court these CC jurisdictions for mentoring to assist us especially with the use of the 4.0 license. • We intend however to document our experience of setting up a CC affiliate team and disseminate it freely for other jurisdictions considering setting up such teams. We also intend to collaborate and offer support for sister CC jurisdictions by participation in, e.g., face to face meetings and workshops.
What are other jurisdictions doing that might support or contribute to the project?
• We are enamored by the jurisdictions that have been able to build CC communities amongst very culturally diverse communities. CC Brazil, Lookboard and CC South Africa are good examples we want to learn from.
Would you be interested in mentoring new jurisdiction teams? Yes.
Conversely, would you be interested in having a mentor from a more experienced jurisdiction team? Yes.
Suggest three possible projects on which you can collaborate with other teams on a regional level.
The Kenya CC team hopes to contribute to collaboration in Africa by: 1. Networking with team members from other jurisdictions for example by inviting them to events in Kenya to share their experiences or sharing success stories broadly about the application of CC licenses. 2. In addition, the Kenya CC legal team is to work closely with colleagues from South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, and Uganda who have in-depth knowledge of CC licenses through their experiences in license porting, and in the use of the current 3.0 license. 3. We would like to collaborate for the deliberations on the 4.0 license.
How do you plan to contribute to these projects? Sharing of information and on an ad-hoc basis.
In what language(s) will you promote CC in the jurisdiction and why? At this point in time, it is only feasible to promote CC licenses in English. Yet, we aim at translating the Commons Deed into Swahili. We also intend to have the deed translated to various local languages.
In which of these languages are licenses already available? English; the unported license.
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Directed byStanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast membersGene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Musical Season
Singin’ in the Rain (U)
Classic Musical back on the big screen in a brand-new reissue!
It’s 1927 in Hollywood and the stuntman-turned-matinee-idol star of Monumental Pictures, Don Lockwood, is caught in the bumpy transition from silent films to talkies.
When the studio’s attempts to make their own talkie turn disastrous, it’s down to Don, his songwriter best friend Cosmo and ingénue love interest Kathy to save the day… by turning the film into a musical!
Full of classic songs like Singin’ in the Rain, Make ‘Em Laugh and Good Morning, Singin’ in the Rain is pure singing, dancing, laughing movie-watching joy.
★★★★★ Truly one of the greatest musicals ever made Empire
★★★★★ If you’ve never seen it and don’t, you’re bonkers Time Out
★★★★★ Never, in the whole history of American cinema, has such a collection of talents come together at the peak of their abilities to generate such an enjoyable and clever movie Radio Times
★★★★★ For humour and sheer energy, no musical betters Singin’ In The Rain Film 4
BBFC Insight: very mild comic violence
SMP: Playing With Fire (PG)
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Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality...
Dublin Housing Action: Past, Present and Future
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My Life in Activism : Women speak at 2014 Dublin...
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Chomsky meeting with Irish anarchists in Dublin
The British Miners strike of 1984-85 -Video & Audio from DABF 2014
Date: Fri, 2014-05-02 10:59
At this session at the Dublin anarchist bookfair Dave Douglass talked about his experiences of 1984 - the year the British mines almost defeated Thatcher. "That fight in 84-85 involved the whole community, it was not only about unions. It was partly about unions but it was about an industry, it was about a way of life. The miners were almost an ethnicity, with father to son for hundreds and hundreds of years in the same miner family. And we had a very strong revolutionary and radical tradition. So, all of the politics of power, fuel power was about political power and not just about energy. It was about more than that. It was about "Who rules ?""
General strike - Protest or process?
On Merrion square, an evacuation is in progress. Thousands of people scatter in all directions; panic is etched across their faces. To the casual observer, this is a life or death situation. There is however, no crazed gunman, no volcano, no earthquake nor alien invasion. They are fleeing the catastrophe that is the Irish Congress of Unions (ICTU) bank debt protest.
Take Back The Power! - Our message to ICTU's anti-debt marches 9th Feb '13
Date: Sun, 2013-02-10 13:28
It is time for every one of us to take responsibility for trying to turn things around. We have to stop referring to ‘the union’ as something outside of ourselves and begin to see that our unions are OURS. We have to stop seeing ‘head office’ and ‘the officials’ as anything other than employees of the union - our employees who should be taking their instruction from us. And we have to convince our fellow-workers that there is a benefit to engaging with the union structures and organising to resist.
The trade unions
The Workers Solidarity Movement position on the trade unions including an anarchist analysis of the unions and what sort of demands anarchists should put forward in the unions. This paper was retired at the July 2017 WSM national conference as the accumulation of three decades of modifications had made it cumbersome and outdated. It is preserved here to reflect that debate and because it was a fundamental foundational document of WSM drawn up in part through exchanges with with the FdCA in Italy.
The Dunnes Strike & Managing Change - the two souls of the trade union
Date: Sat, 1996-02-03 14:21
For three weeks, in June-July 1995, nearly 6,000 mostly young and part-time workers struck against Ireland's largest private sector employer, the firmly anti-union Dunnes Stores, over Sunday trading, zero-hours contracts, the proportion of full-time jobs and other issues. But the principal, and unstated, issues were probably union recognition and the organisation of the newly emergent semi-casual, part-time, young (and mainly female) section of the labour force. The result, while disappointing on the concrete 'economic' issues, was generally greeted as something of a breakthrough on the latter 'political' issues.
Union activists are facing new management attacks but the trade union leadership speaks only of partnership with the bosses. Des Derwin, member of the Executive of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and of the Dublin Private Sector Regional Executive Committee of SIPTU gives his personal view on the two souls of the unions.
In defiance of government spin nurses cry Enough is enough
Date: Tue, 2019-02-05 15:18
The West’s awake, so too the other provinces, as defiant nurses and midwives take to the picket lines. Buoyed by massive public support, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) took part in their first strike in 20 years.
Generally feeling undervalued and suffering the effects of prolonged understaffing and hospital overcrowding these workers counter-intuitively withdrew their labour in the first of a series of 24-hour work stoppages.
Known for their dedication and immense sense of good will which has for decades covered up the cracks in a health service that itself seems to be in ill-health, this female dominated profession has once again risen up to say “Enough is enough!”
Nurses strike to defend health system & demand pay parity begins
Date: Wed, 2019-01-30 15:23
This morning saw pickets being placed on hospitals all over the country as nurses and midwives strike against low pay. Pay now so low relative to rent and house prices that its impossible for many to find decent accommodation in the major cities on what they take home.
In that sense the strike has a direct importance to all workers. The Nurses strike is also essential to countering the right wing ideology that low corporate tax rates are more essential than good public services & housing. That ideology has ruled us for decades with all parties in power imposing it and is unchallenged in the media.
A great display of solidarity from transport workers as Bus Eireann strikers mount secondary pickets
Inter city bus workers in Ireland launched widespread secondary pickets at 4am this morning. Solidarity from transport workers at the other services picketed meant that most of the country ground to a halt as morning rush hour approached, almost all trains, Dublin bus and light rail services did not operate.
Hitting Tesco where it hurts: Strike sees sales fall more than 80% leading to back down
Tesco agreed Friday to suspend its attempt to impose a worsening of pay and conditions on its long term workers and to return to the Labour Court, leading to the suspension of the strike. Monday’s Irish Times carries a report on just how hard Tesco have been hit by the strike action, the Finglas superstore saw a massive 80% decline in takings. These leaked figures stand in stark contrast to the attempt by Tesco PR to suggest the strike was ineffective and unpopular.
The figures reveal that even those stores which had not yet voted to strike, and which subsequently did not have pickets, saw a decline of 30% in sales. According to Conor Pope’s report in Tesco Clearwater on the Monday before the strike “sales were €165,901, while a week later they were under €35,000, a drop of €130,916 or nearly 80 per cent” and “The fall between the two Mondays across 29 stores of all sizes totalled €827,896. .. A daily loss of that scale would suggest the cumulative impact of the 11-day strike came close to €50 million”
Say no to Tesco’s attempts to slash wages by up to 20%
Tesco stores across Ireland will strike from today against 'race to the bottom' wage and conditions changes the company is trying to impose on long term workers.
The Tesco’s scheme would impose up to a 20% pay cut on long-term staff. These workers, who have worked for the company for 20 years or more, are currently paid 14 euro an hour, and Tesco want to slash that. That this wage is seen as too high, in particular after 20 years' service, shows why it's important for all of us that the Tesco workers win their strike.
Research papers on how the media covers protests
This collection of articles looks at how the media try to discredit protesters in relation to Ireland, London and the US. They were mentioned by Barry Finnegan on Radio Solidarity Show 4.
March for Choice - Thousands take to the Streets
Dublin Community TV interviews Gregor Kerr WSM...
Barricade Inn - statement ahead of High Court case
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‘Blockers’ Director Kay Cannon to Tell the Story of Improv Comedy Legends in ‘Del & Charna’
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Many of today’s comedy stars have been through some kind of formal training at one of several well-known improvisational schools like Uprights Citizens Brigade Theatre, Second City, The Groundlings, or ImprovOlympic (now known simply as iO). The latter is where two of the most legendary improvisational comedians taught and performed, and now their story will be told on the big screen.
Del & Charna is a new movie from Pitch Perfect writer and Blockers director Kay Cannon that will tell the story of improv comedy pioneers Del Close and Charna Halpern, the duo who founded improvOlympic in 1981 and influenced and trained comedians like Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Dratch, Mike Myers, Gilda Radner, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Chris Farley and many more. Comedy wouldn’t be what it is today without the contributions of these two.
Deadline has the news of the Del & Charna movie in the works from Red Crown Productions, who also have Honey Boy hitting theaters this week. Here’s the official synopsis:
Del & Charna tells the true story of the unlikely pairing of eccentric improv legend, Del Close and feisty comedy theater owner, Charna Halpern. The movie chronicles their tumultuous 19-year relationship, which saw them as friends, saviors, and soulmates. Together, these two helped each other overcome his addiction, financial ruin, and their own personal demons to ultimately establish improv as an art form, launching the careers of some of our most beloved comedians, writers, and directors.
Kay Cannon will be working from a script by writers Rich Talarico and Alex Fendrich, and all three of them were fortunate enough to study under Del and Charna at improvOlympic. The trio also all graduated from Second City in Chicago, which has also been a rich bastion of comedic talent for decades.
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Cannon will also be producing with Laverne McKinnon through their K&L Productions banner. The filmmaker said in a statement:
“Improv has been such an instrumental part of our lives that we’re incredibly honored to tell this special, unique story with the blessing of Charna Halpern. Dan and Yoni are amazing champions, and we’re excited to have Rich and Alex writing because they bring a wealth of knowledge to the project as former students of both Charna and Del.”
The film has the blessing of Charna, who added, “My life with Del was always funny, sometimes scary and extremely profound. I’m overjoyed to finally share our story with the world.” Unfortunately, Del Close passed away in 1999, so he won’t get to see his story told. But his legacy and work has influence comedy greatly in the 20 years since his passing, and this movie will immortalize the work and love Del and Charna poured both into each other and comedy.
We’ll keep our ears to the ground for more on Del & Charna. There’s also supposed to be another movie simply called Del that was meant to be a biopic about Del Close with Mike Myers playing the man himself. We’re not sure what happened to that project, but we hope to see it get off the ground at some point.
The post ‘Blockers’ Director Kay Cannon to Tell the Story of Improv Comedy Legends in ‘Del & Charna’ appeared first on /Film.
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Cultural & Academic Films
This library of academic and cultural films features collections from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive, as well as a selection of documentaries created by Dorothy Fadiman. In addition, films from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology are presented including those by Watson Kintner who used film to document his world travels, and the popular television show from the 1950s: “What in the World?”
A Year at the Wheel
Port Washington Play Troupe
Play Troupe of Port Washington
Port Singers
Paul D. Schreiber High School
Port Washington Performing Arts
The Ghost Players Collection
Pankaj Oudhia
Middlebury Special Collections
Middlebury College Digital Lecture Archive
amy & shane bugbee
paul d. schreiber h.s. performing arts department
paul d. schreiber h.s. varsity choir
dec 23 2007 - elvis and graceland visit w/ person on street questions - Memphis, TN
- by Amy & Shane Bugbee
person on the street questions at graceland - best and worst thing about america? and what brings you to graceland. a couple of great answers and faces make this footage worth a look. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
Topic: A Year at the Wheel
dec 17 2007 - making cupcakes with shanes cousin amy and her husband tim - DuQuoin, IL
making cupcakes with shanes cousin amy and her husband tim making cupcakes and boiling eggs in an antique egg boiler with shanes cousin amy. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
march 11 2008 - cheyenne and myrtle playing in a stream - Austin, TX
cheyenne and myrtle playing in a stream in austin texas as the bugbees figure out their next move with only $20 and and empty tank of gas. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie - The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE MOVIE KEY TO ARCHIVE:...
may 6 2008 - brief interview with a priest at a flea market - Torrance, CA
the bugbees run into a priest at a flea market as they search for their lost storage locker contents. conversation includes: the bugbees' loosing their storage area due to their mother stealing and lying, a long story, documented in the book posted here on archive.org… the priest gives advice, they continue to talk forgiveness, change, guilt, the burden humans have to cary, stress and sickness, betrayal, the sick hitting their knees begging for god. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK:...
april 29 2008 - chaco canyon - Nageezi, NM
brief "b-roll" of chaco canyon The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie - The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE MOVIE KEY TO ARCHIVE: https://archive.org/details/AYearAtTheWheelKey WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE...
july 4 2008 - independence day on the long beach peninsula - Long Beach, WA
the bugbees park their traded r.v. and the legendary sou'wester where they end up living for close to a year… july 4th on the long beach peninsula is full on fireworks, an amazing display of personal fireworks shot off and set off on a beach. it's said in their time on book the long beach peninsula was the happiest time of their life. a lot of fireworks on the beach "b-roll" The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and...
march 21 2008 - road tripping stories between road trippers and a drunken metal moshing good time with host erroneous o'shaughnessy - Austin, TX
the bugbee's host, kaos dj erroneous o'shaughnessy welcomed another weary traveler as he was hosting the bugbee's - milan from the neatherlands. these clips include milan interviewing the bugbees and vice versa, a classic conversation between road tripping fans, the talk road tripping, where the bugbees are going, where milan is going and all the sites in-between. footage includes: drinking and shit talking, erroneous with an angel hanging out of his zipper as he dances, later milan dresses in...
dec 30 2007 - interviews with artist jeff gather and amy working a gun show - Louisville, KY
a gun show in louisville, ky where amy found a day job selling the fast holster, then a visit to horror artist jeff gather where the three go on about art… person on the street questions asked are: best and worst thing in america? why do you do what you do? what is art? others question: friends of the NRA. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass...
feb 9 2008 - pt.3 halliburton BBQ and gumbo champion kernis louviere - Katy, TX
pt.3 halliburton BBQ and gumbo champion kernis louviere the bugbees at the halliburton BBQ is like oil and water, their host was kernis louviere, gumbo champ of the world and straight out of new iberia, LA - cajun country… kernis shows us how to make seafood gumbo and banana foster… this was all a part of a "cook-off" contest where halliburton invites the companies they work with to compete, kerrnis said he would win, he said he was the "ringer" and he did win as you'll...
april 16 2008 - interview with rick and rhi dennison and american indian movment dennis banks - Ojo Caliente, NM
interview with rick and rhi dennison - ojo caliente, Nm rick and rhi hosted the bugbees after finding them on craigslist. an opinionated pagan couple, smart and rational. thought provoking and interesting. conversation include: religion, pagans, paganism, wiccans, druids, aspergers, being ostracized for their beliefs, occult vs. cult, paganism vs. christianity, ricks wizard stick and why, religious freedom, the state of america and it's problems, raising children, sci-fi, sci-fi and the...
jan 10 2008 - american atheist lawyer, edwin kagin and wife helen debates creation museum, later why to vote - Union, KY
edwin kagin dissects and debates the interview footage shane shot at the creation museum. helen joins in at some point. there is also footage of edwin and helen creating their podcast as well as footage of shane and amy as guests on edwin's podcast. the last couple of clips include the kagin's daughter answering our person on the street question best and worst thing in america. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?...
2018 - Play Troupe - Fair Liberty's Call Program
- by Port Washington Play Troupe
2018 Play Troupe of Port Washington staged performance of "Fair Liberty's Call", a musical story of Revolutionary America based on traditional songs. July 13th, 2018. Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY. Musical score and original story conceived and written by Pamela Meadows. Directed by Kate Beckman. Musical adaptations, arrangements and direction by David Barnett. Videography by David Barnett. Dramaturge Brian E. Long. Historical consultant Andrew C....
Topic: Port Washington Play Troupe
may 13 2008 - farmers market b-roll - Seaside, CA
farmers market b-roll the "b-roll" starts with an armless man and includes some string music, classical music, amy enjoying some garlic bread and corn... brief conversations with some vendors regarding the food they are selling. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie -...
may 16 2008 - interview w/ librarian about historic closing of libraries, john steinbeck museum historians and, tom graves presents the the nisei veterans - Salinas, CA
john steinbeck day - salinas librarian speaks about having to close down and a visit to the john steinbeck family home, his museum a visit to the salinas library to see and hear how and why a library could go broke and close, as almost happened to the salinas library district, the irony, one of the libraries is named after author, john steinbeck. the bugbees meet with librarians and take a tour of the library as well as a spokesman for the city of salenas about what happened and how to stop it...
2016 - Once Upon A Mattress - Play Troupe - Video
- by Play Troupe of Port Washington
2016 Play Troupe of Port Washington production of "Once Upon A Mattress". Directed by Brian E. Long. Musical direction by David Barnett. Produced by Robert Raduazzo. Set design by Maria Di Natale Scotto. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street. Port Washington, NY.
Topic: Play Troupe of Port Washington
1985 - Chicago - Program
- by Harbor Theater Company
1985 Harbor Theater Company production of "Chicago". Directed by Robert Raduazzo. Musical Direction by Brian Hiller. Produced by Nick Scandalios. Technical Producer - Ronald T. Meadows. Assistant Producer - Jordan Hampton. Port Washington, NY. August 4th, 1985.
Topic: Performing Arts
june 30 2008 - weed guru and nice guy, dr. nice shows us around his place, brief conversation - Troutdale, OR
weed guru and nice guy, dr. nice shows us around his place, brief conversation conversation includes: dr. nice book advice, hitler, evolution, darwin, creation science, religion vs.spirituality, religion and control. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie - The Suffering and...
march 12 2008 -playing guitar hero and some heavy SXSW performance - Austin, TX
playing guitar hero with nathan black in a best buy in austin as they pick up some chords and batteries… later that eve they enjoy music at the sxsw festival… one of the musical clips is actually pretty good. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie - The Suffering and...
oct 8 2008 - coastal bus "b-roll" - Long Beach, Wa/Astoria, Oregon coast - ** out of daily/yearly order.
coastal bus "b-roll" off of the washington oregon coast and onto the megler bridge. very short, odd and "b-roll" of life passing by and thru the windows of a bus The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie - The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE MOVIE...
Topics: A Year at the Wheel, long beach washington, bus ride, road footage
1959 - Snow White Program
1959 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Snow White" program.
1977 - You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Program
- by Congregational Church of Manhasset
1977 Congregational Church of Manhasset production of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" program.
may 25 2008 - interview with universal life church head, Andre Hensley - Modesto, CA
interview with universal life church head, Andre Hensley shane and amy are both ministers in the universal life church so this was equal to a religious experience for atheists. great interview, smart, fun and funny and exact… they sit thru a church service and some of the congregation adds their two cents and are even the subject of much of the service. conversation includes: the history of the church, the rules of the church, the intent behind the church, belief, cults, occult, no more...
2014 - The Thin Man - Video
2014 Port Washington Play Troupe radio play production of "The Thin Man". In partnership with WCWP 88.1 FM, the community public radio station of LIU Post. Hillwood Recital Hall. Tilles Center at C.W. Post, LIU. Brookville, NY. April 25th, 2014.
1964 - Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp Program
1964 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" program.
1980 - Pippin - Program
- by Carrie Palmer Weber Jr. H.S.
1980 Carrie Palmer Weber Jr. H.S. production of "Pippin". Directed & Choreographed by Pamela Meadows. Musical Direction by Philip Glover. Assistant Director/Student Producer - Diana Bandfield. March 21st - 22nd, 1980. Port Washington, NY.
1967 - Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Program
- by Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Department
1967 Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Dept. production of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" program.
1972 - Anything Goes Program
1972 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Anything Goes" program.
may 15 2008 - weary traveler out side of the john steinbeck library talks to the bugbees - Salinas, CA
out side of the john steinbeck library, the bugbees met another weary traveler who shares some stories. conversation includes: san fransisco and the beat poets, a book the guy was working about a white kid being raised by blacks, being bullied, and steinbeck. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE:...
1989 - The Mikado - Video
- by Port Singers
1989 Port Singer's production of "The Mikado". April 1989. Port Washington, NY. Directed by Francine Harman. Musical direction by Alvin P. Pinter. Rehearsal Pianist - Edward Stolarz. Executive Producer - Peter Agins. Associate Producers - Doris O'Connell and Lilliana Dzierzawski.
1978 - Tall Tales Of The Wild West Program
1978 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Tall Tales Of The Wild West" program.
A Port Washington Holiday Concert - Compilation
- by Port Washington Performing Arts
A compilation of holiday performances by the Paul D. Schreiber High School Varsity Choir, Orchestra, Band, Port Singers and the Varsity Choral Society spanning the years 1967 through 2018. Port Washington, NY. Varsity Choir directed by Jerald B. Stone. Orchestra directed by Dr. Richard Rusack. Band directed by William Fish. Port Singers directed by Philip A. Glover. Varsity Choral Society directed by Jerald B. Stone and Craig Tocher.
Topic: Port Washington Performing Arts
1958 - Puss In Boots Program
1958 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Puss In Boots" Program
march 4 2008 - rachel abuse and nathan black caucus - Austin, TX
rachel abuse and nathan black caucus - brief conversation and a lot of confusion as it was everyones first experience with a caucus. - not much to see here. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
1967 - The Clown Who Ran Away Program
1967 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "The Clown Who Ran Away" program.
2015 - Great Opera Choruses - Huntington Choral Society
- by Huntington Choral Society
Huntington Choral Society Spring concert - "Great Opera Choruses". April 25th 2015. Huntington, N.Y. Musical Director - Steven Finch. Accompanist - Christine Doré.
Topic: Huntington Choral Society
april 22 2008 - surprise valley ranch near Las Vegas NM
surprise valley ranch near las vegas new mexico ranch "b-roll" as the bugbees' take on jobs as ranch hands, later they take a tour of las vegas new mexico a town that doubles as a movie set, red dawn was filmed in las vegas, nm. among many other films. they talk to locals about those films and the towns history. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL...
jan 11 2008 - distiller from four roses bourbon, christian minister/ life coach, pig farmer and water sales person interviewed - Nicholasville, KY
distiller from four roses bourbon, christian minister/ life coach, pig farmer and water sales person speak. conversations include… whisky rebelión, what bourbon is, faith, god, religion, prince, bob dylan, atheists talking to christians and vice versa, charlotte web and naming your food, butchering pics, nicholasville, ky. tour and historic info. person on the street questions asked: best and worst thing about america? is there too much free speech? nicholasville, ky. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS...
april 12 2008 - interview with occultist and artists timothy wyllie and steven leyba - Mountainair/Albuquerque, NM
interview with timothy wyllie and steven leyba - Mountainair/Albuquerque, Nm. timothy wyllie was one of the founders of the process church, shane had dug him up years ago for his old radio show, this is an interview that stands on it's own and also helps complete shanes older interviews with wyllie, leyba joins the bugbees on their trip to talk with this occult icon, this is a great conversation for many reason, very honest, very open, a conversation with a group who run in similar circles of...
1974 - The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Program
1974 Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Department production of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" program.
1983 - Grease - Program
1983 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Grease". Directed by Pamela Meadows. Musical Direction by Corey Berman. Choreography by Deborah Rosenthal. Produced by Ronald T. Meadows. Assistant Producer - Janet Grunwald. Carrie Palmer Weber Junior H.S. Port Washington, NY.
1955 - Emperors New Clothes Program
1955 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "The Emperors New Clothes" program.
march 20 2008 - interview with radio personality and outspoken libertarian, scott horton - Austin, TX
interview with radio personality and outspoken libertarian, scott horton the bugbees are interviewed on air and they film it. scott horton use to host anti-war radio and is a huge fan of ron paul, and definitely a libertarian. this is some great footage, scott if honest and pasionet, very smart and quick to answer. conversation include: the bugbees road trip, voting vs not voting, change, what a libertarian is, war and peace, anti-war, military industrial complex, taxes and tax collecting by...
nov 20 2007 - more jean shepherd talk with historian, environmental talk with recycling center - Hammond, IN
interview with hammond, indiana librarian, richard lytle and the environment with hammond environmental education conversation includes: hammond indiana, a circus train wreck, mainly author and raconteur jean shepherd, the environment with hammond environmental education center the interview subject is also asked the person on the street questions: what are you thankful for, more "b-roll" from the hammond, indiana area. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION?...
1978 - Mame - Program
1978 Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Department production of "Mame" program
1980 - The Lady's Not For Burning - Program
- by Paul D. Schreiber High School Performing Arts Department
Paul D. Schreiber H.S. 1980 production of "The Lady's Not For Burning" program. Directed by Don E. Jones. Port Washington, NY.
1952 - Cinderella Program
1952 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Cinderella" program.
1978 - The Pirates Of Penzance - Program
1978 production of "The Pirates of Penzance". Carrie Palmer Weber Jr. H.S. Directed by Jerald B. Stone. Piano Accompanist - Gretel de Ruiter. Port Washington, NY.
1976 - Li'l Abner - Program
1976 Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Department production of "Li'l Abner" program.
may 3 2008 - interview with satanic minister and hoola hoop striper szandora lavey - Las Vegas, NV
conversation includes: her name's origins, her youth andhistory and how she became the person she is, her marriage to anton lavey's grandson, modern satanism movement she's involved with, what satanism is, satainsts as nice people, the satanic witch, the church of satan shunning her, anton lavey, boyd rice. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE:...
Topics: A Year at the Wheel, szandora lavey, satanic minister, stripper, hoola hoop, topless, burlesque,...
june 21 2008 - lonnie d. wages show how to make weed brownies and fudge - Portland, OR
lonnie with his roommate make weed brownies, lonnie is an medical marijuana activist and person who has helped bring medical marijuana to legit patients for a long time. great joint rolling "b-roll" and weed preparation… later lonnie picks up his acoustic guitar, plays and sings. a lot of guy in kitchen stirring "b-roll" conversation includes: hemp, hemp and marijuana laws and why hemp and marijuana should be legalized, why he does what he does, pharmaceutical companies...
1980 - Macbeth - Program
1980 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Macbeth". Directed by Bob Klein. Produced by Manu Klein. Technical Producer - Ronald T. Meadows. Port Washington, NY.
1954 - Peter Pan - Play Troupe of Port Washington
- by PWPL Oral History Workshop
Interviews with members of the 1954 Play Troupe production of "Peter Pan". Elmer Tangerman directed. Staging by Edwin Bostick. Linda Pollock Ives played Peter Pan. Mr. Tangerman and Mr. Bostick were interviewed in 1982 as part of the PWPL Oral History Workshop. Linda Pollock Ives was interviewed in 2018 by Mark Mastrocinque.
july 7 2008 - Religious gas tanks b-roll - Long Beach, Wa. - ** out of daily/yearly order.
Religious gas tanks on the long beach peninsula. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE: https://archive.org/details/sufferingandcelebrationoflifeinamericamovie - The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE MOVIE KEY TO ARCHIVE: https://archive.org/details/AYearAtTheWheelKey WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION?...
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jan 28 2008 - pt. 3 artist brandon d. interviewed & a visit to the president carter library - Hiram, GA/Atlanta, GA
brandon d and his wife tiffany host the bugbees in hiram, ga. - this is the third day of there stay, departing questions answered. conversation includes: buddism, the dali lama, religion, the american way, aliens, jesus is an alien "b-roll" of the president carter library. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE:...
jan 24 2008 - odd news clips recorded from hotel t.v. - Covington, GA
odd news clips and scrolls filmed from hotel t.v. - possibly trying to document the proof of media innocents among the general public, perhaps the economy getting worse. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
nov 16 2007 - amy making brownies with kin - Munster, IN
brownie making while amys niece plays patty cake with a friend. amy shows off how to make brownies and her niece learns how to shoot video a lot of baking "b-roll" paddy cake "b-roll" WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
Nov 18 2007 - the neighbors of black panther fred hampton peak for the first time, sid yidish, more south side - Chicago, IL
more of south side chicago, the hotel florence and pullman neighborhood, the neighbors of fred hampton speak for the first time, a really great interview. sid yidish. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
2015 - The African Queen - Program
2015 Port Washington Play Troupe radio drama production of "The African Queen". In partnership with WCWP - 88.1 FM. Hillwood Recital Hall. Tilles Center. C.W. Post - LIU. Brookville, NY. June 14th, 2015. Directed by Kate Beckman. Produced by Tim Lavelle. Musical director - Eric Baum.
dec 13 2007 - a visit to DuQuoin, il. with questions and answers - DuQuoin, IL
we tour duquoin, il. - shanes grandmothers hometown, the duquoin town folk are asked the person on the street questions - the best and worst thing about america and do you pray. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO GIVE BACK?? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass PLEASE VISIT OUR PATReON PAGE: http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass
2013 - Grease - Video
2013 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Grease". Directed by Brian Long. Musical direction by David Barnett. Produced by Pamela Meadows, Caroline Gegan & Vivian Aiuto. Port Washington, NY.
1986 - Arsenic And Old Lace - Schreiber Perf Arts - Video
- by Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Department
1986 Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts production of "Arsenic & Old Lace". March 2nd, 1986. Port Washington, NY. Directed by Jeff Roberts. Cast: Ann Richman, Erika Kane, Brian Hecht, Adam Richman, Ed Schuldner and Matt Epstein.
Topic: Schreiber High School Performing Arts
2018 Play Troupe - Buddy Holly Story Program
2018 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "The Buddy Holly Story". March 9th, 2018. Port Washington Public Library. Port Washington, N.Y.
2014 - The 1940's Radio Hour - Video
2014 Port Washington Play Troupe radio play production of "The 1940's Radio Hour". The Landmark on Main Street. Port Washington, NY. July 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 & 27, 2014. Directed by Brian E. Long. Musical direction by David Barnett.
2017 - Varsity Choral Society Christmas Concert Program
- by Varsity Choral Society
2017 Varsity Choral Society 28th Annual Christmas Concert. December 17th, 2017. Congregational Church. Manhasset, NY. Directed by Craig S. Tocher. Organist - Eric Birk. Pianists - Eric Birk & Bernadette Hoke.
Topic: Varsity Choral Society
1990 - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - Video
1990 Harbor Theater Company production of "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum". Port Washington, NY.
1972 - Varsity Choir Puerto Rico Concert Program
- by Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Varsity Choir
1972 Paul D Schreiber H.S. Varsity Choir concert program. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. April 24th to May 1st, 1972.
1966 - Varsity Choir And Campus Choir Holiday Concert Program
1966 Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Dept. - Varsity Choir and Campus Choir holiday concert. Port Washington, NY.
1990 - Play Troupe Follies V - Video
1990 Port Washington Play Troupe Follies V. Port Washington, NY.
2016 - Forever Plaid - Video
2016 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Forever Plaid". March 10th, 2016. Port Washington Public Library. Port Washington, NY. Directed by Michael Santora. Musical direction by David Barnett.
jan 16 2008 - meet the michael vick pit bulls and tattoo artist brandon bond - Smyrna, GA
tattoo artist brandon bond takes the bugbees to retrieve a couple of michael vicks pit bulls, they meet and question julie jay from the georgia SPCA and she gives a complete tour of the facility and even answers a person on the street question: why do you do what you do? conversations inclute: pit bulls, animals, animal abuse, michael vick, tattoos, pet rescue. WANT TO HELP WITH THIS COLLECTION? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? http://www.patreon.com/creativeclass WANT TO...
july 20 2008 - sample of performance from classical jazz guitar john stowell - Long Beach, WA - ** out of daily/yearly order.
classical jazz guitar john stowell a bit of a performance classical jazz guitar john stowell did at the sou'wester, looks like one of the benefits of living at a lodge… john is very, very good at what he does. he has a singer join him for a couple of numbers. The A Year At The Wheel BOOK: https://archive.org/details/sufferandcelebrate_ebook The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America THE BOOK The A Year At The Wheel FULL LENGTH MOVIE:...
Topics: A Year at the Wheel, john stowell, classical jazz guitar, sou'wester, longbeach washington
march 31 2008 - waco visit, brief conversation with survivor, the bugbee's interviewed for podcast - Waco, TX/Dallas TX
waco visit, brief conversation with survivor, the bugbee's interviewed for podcast a visit to waco and the branch davidian compound that was burned down, later the bugbees's meet their dallas texas host rodrigo and kalisa neely. in the morning they visit waco and enter the branch davidian compound you'll hear something about lost footage, might explain the anger in shanes voice… footage includes the branch davidian compound in transition with monumental stones cut out of their original...
1966 - Oliver! Program
1966 Paul D. Schreiber H.S. Performing Arts Dept. production of "Oliver!" program.
1974 - Pinocchio Program - Port Washington Play Troupe
1974 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Pinocchio" program.
1974 - Red, Hot & Blue - Program
1974 Port Washington Play Troupe production of "Red, Hot & Blue" program. Directed by Pamela Meadows. Musical direction by David Barnett. Produced by Ronald T. Meadows.
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You Can Now Scan Offline with Windows Defender in Windows 10
by Ivan Jenic
When it comes to security on Windows 10, Microsoft relies on Windows Defender that much, that is says that Windows 10 is the most secure Windows operating system ever, and you don’t need any third-party antivirus to stay secure while using the operating system.
But, even though Microsoft says that using Windows Defender is enough to keep your computer safe, a lot of users rather use some third-party antivirus software, and even tests performed by professionals show that Windows Defender isn’t even in the top 10 of Windows 10’s best antivirus programs.
So, the company figured out that the best way to attract users to start using Windows Defender again is to make it indeed the best antivirus tool for its latest operating system. Microsoft already presented Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection feature, that will significantly improve the level of security on Enterprise computers, and now, the company also introduced a new feature to Windows Defender in Windows 10 Preview, which allows users to perform a quick offline scan.
Enable Windows Defender Offline Scan
Starting from Windows 10 Preview build 14271, Windows Insiders are able to scan their computers for malicious software with Windows Defender, even if they’re not connected to internet. Windows Defender uses a base of up-to-date threat definitions, which will determine if your computer contains a malicious software, and it will remove it.
To use Windows Defender offline scan, you’ll have to enable it first. Enabling this feature is very easy, and here’s what you need to do:
Open Windows 10 Settings app
Go to Update & Security > Windows Defender
Enable Scan Offline
That’s it, after enabling this option in Windows 10 Settings app, you’ll be able to scan your computer for malicious software, even if you’re not connected to the internet.
This is a very useful feature, and basically all major antivirus programs have it. So, if Microsoft wants Windows Defender to at least come closer to leading antiviruses, presenting features like this is necessary.
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Niagara Wine Wire: Pillitteri releases ‘Team Canada’ wine for Olympics, plus top VQA wines at Winetario and our picks from Vintages release
The Canadian Olympic Committee announced a six-year partnership with Pillitteri Estates Winery in Niagara, which will serve as the official wine supplier for Team Canada.
Note: Also in this report, we have a preview of top recommendations for Niagara wines being released at Vintages Saturday, plus government invests in long-term growth of wine and grape industry and how to get tickets to taste top Ontario Wine Award wines
COC says the partnership, which will run through to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, will focus on co-branded licensed wine products.
“The Pillitteri family is driven by its pursuit of excellence, a value deeply rooted in the Canadian Olympic family,” said David Shoemaker, COC chief executive at the announcement at the winery last week.
Charlie Pillitteri, right, with David Shoemaker, CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee ,and Brittany MacLean, bronze medallist at the Rio Olympics in swimming.
“The COC is thrilled to announce this historic co-branded wine partnership, the first of its kind in Canadian Olympic history.
“Here’s to a world-class winery supporting our world-class athletes.”
Wines from Pillitteri will be served at Canada Olympic House, as well as at other COC-owned events.
As part of the agreement, the Pillitteri family has agreed to donate $1 of every bottle sold from their Team Canada wine collection to the Canadian Olympic Foundation. COF aims to support the next generation of Canadian athletes.
Products distributed through Canadian liquor boards, including the launch of a Team Canada Icewine, will be in-market at a later date.
“The Pillitteri family and everyone at Pillitteri Estates Winery is thrilled and excited to be a part of Team Canada,” said Pillitteri Estates Winery chief executive Charlie Pillitteri.
“We have always followed our Canadian Olympic athletes with excitement and enthusiasm and now to be able to help them excel in their sport on the world’s biggest stage is an honour.
“The launch of the Team Canada Wine Collection represents a big step forward in our 25 years of winemaking. It exemplifies our commitment to producing award-winning wines and we look forward to a long and fruitful partnership.”
The collection will consist of a red and white wine, with bottles are available at the Pillitteri Estates Winery store based in Niagara-on-the-Lake and online. The Team Canada Red 2017 is a classic take on a Cabernet Merlot blend, while the Team Canada White 2017 is an easy-drinking blend of Gewurztraminer, Pinot Grigio and Riesling. Both sell for $15.
Taste the top VQA winners
from the Ontario Wine Awards
The Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts at George Brown College, in partnership with the Ontario Wine Awards, is hosting Winetario on Monday, June 24.
Mingle with other wine-lovers in the Grand Atrium at 300 Adelaide Street East and savour 16 award-winning vintages from the 2019 Ontario Wine Awards, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Founded in 1995 by Order of Canada Recipient Tony Aspler, the Ontario Wine Awards recognize Ontario VQA wines for their varietal quality, distinction, and brilliance in 27 categories at the Bronze, Silver and Gold Medal levels. Awards are also given out to honour the Winemaker of the Year, White Wine of the Year, Red Wine of the Year, Wine Journalism Award, and Best Label Design.
Today, the Ontario Wine Awards boast the participation of over 80 wineries and more than 450 of the best VQA wines that Ontario has to offer. The awards pay homage to the hundreds of small businesses, farmers, restaurateurs and the thousands of wine and hospitality professionals whose livelihoods contribute to a prosperous Ontario.
Mon., 24 June 2019
The Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts
300 Adelaide Street East
Grand Atrium
Canadian government invests
in long-term growth of wine
and grape industry
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti, on behalf of Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, was at the Konzelmann Estate Winery last week to announce more than $2.3 million to the Canadian Grapevine Certification Network (CGCN).
The CGCN will receive the funding through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s AgriAssurance program to create a network of certified, virus-free grapevines that Canadian grape growers can plant in their vineyards to ensure the long-term viability of the Canadian grape and wine sectors.
As part of this project, CGCN will catalogue and assess existing samples from nurseries and grape growers across Canada. A database will then be used to trace back every vine produced through this program and planted in a grower’s vineyard back to the mother plants. This will help the CGCN keep Canada’s vineyards virus free.
“Canada’s vineyards have become an important part of our national economy. With this funding, the Canadian Grapevine Certification Network will help ensure that growers have access to high-quality, locally-sourced grapevine stock to keep their fields healthy and prosperous.”
— David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
“Ontario’s wine and grape industry is an important part of the agricultural landscape and a key player in creating good jobs for our middle-class across the province. This investment will help our grape growers maximize their yields and quality of their grapes so they can continue to meet growing demand for our world-class Canadian wines.”
— Chris Bittle, Member of Parliament for St. Catharines
“Local grape growers are major contributors to the Niagara economy. I am pleased to be able to work together with our partners at the Canadian Grapevine Certification Network to ensure local growers have access to quality genetics, and can continue to produce high quality grapes.”
— Vance Badawey Member of Parliament for Niagara Centre
• The Canadian Grapevine Certification Network is a Canada-wide not for profit organization comprised of members from Canada’s four provincial grape growing associations. It’s mission is to ensure high quality, certified disease-free grapevines in Canada.
• The CGCN is a collaboration between the Grape Growers of Ontario, the British Columbia Wine Grape Council, l’Association des vignerons du Québec, and the Grape Growers Association of Nova Scotia.
• Canada’s wine industry generates revenues of $1.2 billion and employs over 5,600 people. Exports of wine in 2016 equalled $133.6 million.
• The Canadian Agricultural Partnership is a five-year, $3 billion investment by federal, provincial and territorial governments to strengthen the agriculture and agri-food sector.
• The AgriAssurance Program, under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, supports projects, at the national level, to help industry develop and adopt systems, standards and tools to support health and safety claims about Canadian agricultural and agri-food products.
Niagara wines shine at
Vintages release Saturday
Here are our recommendations for Niagara wines being released at Vintages on Saturday/
13th Street Cuvee Rosé NV ($28, 89 points) — Made predominantly with Pinot Noir with a splash of Gamay for “visual effects,” and a low dosage of sugar (7 g/l) that keeps this refreshing sparkler fairly dry and fresh on the nose with aromas of strawberries, cherries and rhubarb. It has a dry, refreshing feel on the palate with a vigorous mousse that gives bounce to the bounty of red fruits through a super-charged finish.
Leaning Post The Fifty Chardonnay 2017 ($22, 88 points) — This “unoaked” Chardonnay is barrel fermented but aged in stainless steel. It is one of the nicer unoaked Chardonnays out there and is more about the minerality and freshness than the spice notes. The nose has fresh aromas of apple-dominated quince and some citrus and tangerine. It’s creamy and fresh on the palate with notes of apple, lemon curd, minerals, tangerine, citrus rind on a zesty, vibrant finish.
Queenston Mile Vineyard Chardonnay 2016 ($35, 91 points) – A warm 2016 vintage and 12 months in French oak barrels, half of which were new, led to this overt and expressive Chardonnay from the estate vineyard. The nose shows rich aromas of poached pear, baked apple, toffee, buttered toast, cream and vanilla oak spices. It’s a full-on Chard in the mouth, a lush, creamy and spicy mix of apple, pear and citrus accents that is altogether juicy, round and textured with medium+ acidity on the finish.
13th Street Gamay 2017 ($20, 90 points) — 13th Street takes its Gamay game seriously, with no less than three single-varietal (two single-vineyard) wines made with this versatile grape in the portfolio. Gamay is enjoying a surge in popularity in Niagara and 13th Street has always been at the leading edge of the Gamay Renaissance and this every day version of the grape is one of the reasons why. It is quintessential Niagara Gamay with a savoury and bold nose of red plums, bright cherries, brambly raspberries, smoke and a dab of cassis. It’s vibrant and punchy on the palate with ripe plums, anise, red berries and cassis to go with soft tannins and finesse on the finish. Highly gulpable red that will keep your guests happy and satiated all day long.
The Organized Crime Break-In Pinot Noir 2016 ($22), 90 points) — So, a hot vintage called for a gentle extraction and only 20% new oak for fermentation and aging. It has a bold nose of dark cherry, cassis and rich spice notes. It’s ripe and loaded with spicy cherry, raspberry, dryextract and fairly decent acidity to keep it vibrant on the finish.
Other Niagara wines being released Saturday, but not reviewed:
• Chateau des Charmes Blanc de Blancs 2015 ($35)
• Lakeview Cellars Riesling Icewine 2016 ($35 for 200 mL)
• 13th Street June’s Vineyard Chardonnay 2017 ($22)
• Fern Walk Rosé 2018 ($17)
• Megalomaniac Pink Slip Rosé 2018 ($20)
• Southbrook Triomphe Organic Cabernet Franc Rosé ($20)
Note: Some of the information for this post was provided by other sources.
Winemaker Bachelder reunites with Le Clos Jordanne for rebirth of trail-blazing Niagara Pinot, Chardonnay project
Top VQA wine promoters honoured at Brock CCOVI’s Experts Tasting
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Poland, New York
Poland (novel)
The Central Industrial District (Polish: Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy, abbreviated COP), is an industrial region in Poland. It was one of the biggest economic projects of the Second Polish Republic. The 5-year-long project was initiated by a famous Polish economist, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Treasury, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. Its goal was to create a heavy industrial center in the middle of the country, as far as possible from any borders, strengthen the Polish economy and reduce unemployment. The four-year plan for the development of COP was scheduled from 1 September 1936 until 30 July 1940 and was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War and the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. Nonetheless, the COP project succeeded in vastly expanding Polish industry, and after the end of the war in 1945 COP was rebuilt and expanded under the People's Republic of Poland.
The plan's history
Starting in 1928, there were recurring attempts to create a triangle of security, an industrial region in the middle of the country, secured from any aggression by Germany or Soviet Russia. The plan was finally approved in 1936 by the Polish government. By April 1938, the plan, already set in motion in some parts of the country, was expanded to the territories beyond those covered by the original plan for the most secure 'triangle'.
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Coordinates: 52°N 20°E / 52°N 20°E / 52; 20
Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska]), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska, listen ), is a country in Central Europe,bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 71st largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, as well as the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.
The establishment of a Polish state can be traced back to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th-century Europe. The Commonwealth ceased to exist in the years 1772–1795, when its territory was partitioned among Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Austria. Poland regained its independence (as the Second Polish Republic) at the end of World War I, in 1918.
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Poland is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York:
Poland, Chautauqua County, New York, a town
Poland, Herkimer County, New York, a village
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Poland is a historical novel written by James A. Michener and published in 1983 detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish families (the Lubonski family, the Bukowski family, and the Buk family) across eight centuries, ending in the then-present day (1981).
Michener was hired by a television company to travel to a foreign country to shoot a documentary. He was offered support to go anywhere in the world and Michener decided to make the trip to Poland. Following this, Michener made several trips back to Poland and conducted extensive study of Poland's history and culture. He began writing the book in 1979 and it was published four years later.
Like Michener's other works, he includes an acknowledgments section at the beginning of the book; however due to the political turmoil in Poland at the time, Michener decided not to include the names of the people he traveled with for fear of persecutions against them. He writes: "Normally, as I have done in my other novels, I would list their names, their impressive occupations, their achievements in research and scholarship, but I cannot ascertain whether in the present climate this would hurt or help them."
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Eska Xtreme Rock Poland
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El-Stacja Electronica Poland
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Didgeridoo PL World Poland
Radio Zet Lato Pop Poland
Radio Plus Gorzów Varied Poland
Muzyczne Radio Pop,Dance Poland
Radio 90 (PL) Varied Poland
Polskastacja Modern Rock Rock Poland
Eska Old's Cool Oldies Poland
Radio Zet Rock Rock Poland
Radio Plus Kraków Varied Poland
Nadaje Asymmetry Festival Radio Alternative Poland
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Radio Zet Rock & Rap Rock,Rap Poland
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RMF Chopin Classical Poland
PR 3 (Trójka) Varied Poland
PolskaStacja Klasycznie Classical Poland
Antyradio Covers Varied Poland
Radio GRA Włocławek Pop,Contemporary Poland
RMF Groove Alternative,Jazz,Easy Poland
RMF Poplista Pop Poland
Radio TOP80 80s,Dance Poland
PolskaStacja Drum&Bass Drum & Bass Poland
Polskastacja Eden World,New Age Poland
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Still Life Still
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Almost Metropolis
Finally September
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King Mary
Factorytown
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Von Neumann's Catastrophe
Dear Miss Kensington
The Golden Age of Everything
Schoolboy Crush On Che Guevara
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Goodbye Blue Monday
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A Common Misconception
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Talvinen pilvinen kylmä vielä
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Street Lights, Nervousness and Patience
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Consumer (disambiguation)
A consumer is a person or organization that uses economic services or commodities.
In economic systems consumers are utilities expressed in the decision to trade or not.
Economics and marketing
The consumer is the one who pays to consume goods and services produced. As such, consumers play a vital role in the economic system of a nation. Without consumer demand, producers would lack one of the key motivations to produce: to sell to consumers. The consumer also forms part of the chain of distribution.
Recently in marketing instead of marketers generating broad demographic profiles and Fisio-graphic profiles of market segments, marketers have started to engage in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization.
The law primarily uses the notion of the consumer in relation to consumer protection laws, and the definition of consumer is often restricted to living persons (i.e. not corporations or businesses) and excludes commercial users. A typical legal rationale for protecting the consumer is based on the notion of policing market failures and inefficiencies, such as inequalities of bargaining power between a consumer and a business. As of all potential voters are also consumers, consumer protection takes on a clear political significance.
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A heterotroph (/ˈhɛtərəˌtroʊf, -ˌtrɒf/;ἕτερος heteros = "another", "different" and τροφή trophe = "nutrition") is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. Heterotrophs can be further divided based on how they obtain energy; if the heterotroph uses light for energy, then it is considered a photoheterotroph, while if the heterotroph uses chemical energy, it is considered a chemoheterotroph.
Heterotrophs contrast with autotrophs, such as plants and algae, which can use energy from sunlight (photoautotrophs) or inorganic compounds (lithoautotrophs) to produce organic compounds such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins from inorganic carbon dioxide. These reduced carbon compounds can be used as an energy source by the autotroph and provide the energy in food consumed by heterotrophs. Ninety-five percent or more of all types of living organisms are heterotrophic.
Organotrophs exploit reduced carbon compounds as energy sources, like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins from plants and animals. Photoorganoheterotrophs such as Rhodospirillaceae and purple non-sulfur bacteria synthesize organic compounds by utilization of sunlight coupled with oxidation of inorganic substances, including hydrogen sulfide, elemental sulfur, thiosulfate, and molecular hydrogen. They use organic compounds to build structures. They do not fix carbon dioxide and apparently do not have the Calvin cycle. Chemolithoheterotrophs can be distinguished from mixotrophs (or facultative chemolithotroph), which can utilize either carbon dioxide or organic carbon as the carbon source.
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A consumer is person or group that uses products.
Consumer or Consumers may also refer to:
Consumer (food chain), an organism that lives off other organisms
Consumers Distributing, a retail store chain
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'Consumer' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Promo Life (2013)
Actors: Estela Garcia (actor), Armar Gonsalves (actor), Jesse Grant (actor), Jamie Kaler (actor), Geoffrey Kennedy (actor), William McCarthay (actor), William McCarthy (actor), Tom McLaren (actor), Collin Alfredo St. Dic (actor), Drew Tholke (actor), Edra Fiocca (actress), Tisha French (actress), Kathyjean Harris (actress), Michelle Farrah Huang (actress), Adebayo Adaudi (actor),
Taglines: It ain't the good life, but it's the only one they got.
My Head Is Where My Heart Was (2010)
Actors: Patrick Kaufmann (actor), Sophie Nova (actress), Stacey Ransom (producer), Lynne Angel (composer), Brian Gorman (composer), Melisandra Innes-Brown (costume designer), Jason Mitchell (director), Jason Mitchell (editor),
Genres: Horror, Romance, Short, Thriller,
Corporate InGREEDients (2009)
Actors: David Burton (actor), Kevin Conwell (actor), Chris Cote (actor), Robert DeMaria (actor), David Dewey (actor), Colin Dione (actor), Matt Dione (actor), Doug Dole (actor), Guy Douglas (actor), Ben England (actor), Valentí Fuster (actor), Matt Hughes (actor), Michael Jacobson (actor), Steven Joseph (actor), Christopher Ashey (actor),
Plot: In the documentary 'inGREEDients', registered nurse and filmmaker David Burton, discovers an alarming connection between diet and illness while investigating trans fats and hydrogenated oils in America's food supply. Do you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is? What does zero grams of trans fat per serving really mean? Find out in this compelling documentary that takes the audience on a time-line journey through the history of human food consumption from prehistoric times to the present, when heart disease is the number one killer of humans and despite recent changes in food labeling laws, pounds of trans fats are consumed everyday. This documentary features interviews with medical doctors, natural health doctors, scientists and researchers, politicians, journalists, and the lawyer that successfully stood up against two corporate food giants whose products are household names across America. The film also includes a brief look at heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, the three diseases most directly connected with our consumption of trans fats, chemical food additives, and processed food. With cutting edge animations rarely achieved in independent filmmaking, 'inGREEDients' will entertain, inspire, and educate all audiences of all ages.
Keywords: healthy, independent-filmmaking
Genres: Documentary,
Actors: Dan Kelly (actor), Sam Peterson (actor), Sam Peterson (actor), Chuck Posnecker (actor), Carla Mastrangelo (actress), Michael Edmonds (producer), Carla Mastrangelo (producer), Michael Edmonds (director), Michael Edmonds (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Short,
Console Wars (2007)
Actors: Derek Kane (actor), Derek Kane (actor), Derek Kane (actor), Derek Kane (actor), George Kasoian (actor), George Kasoian (actor), George Kasoian (actor), George Kasoian (actor), Tom Nagy (actor), Tom Nagy (actor), Dean Rainmann-Gass (actor), Dean Rainmann-Gass (actor), Dean Rainmann-Gass (actor), Dean Rainmann-Gass (actor), Zach Vernon (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary, Short,
Taglines: Consumerism. Consumerism Never Changes.
Tuesday Afternoon at China Wong Buffet (2005)
Actors: Matt Briggs (actor), Dan Carr (actor), Dan Carr (actor), Dan Carr (actor), Dan Carr (actor), Bob Hall (actor), Andy Juechter (actor), Steve Mokris (actor), Travis Moles (actor), Seth Rogers (actor), Robert Willis Schultz (actor), Brian Shotzbarger (actor), Mark Soloff (actor), Tariq Vasudeva (actor), Mike Berlin (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music,
Taglines: One Must Eat
Consuming Capitalism: A Taste of the American Landscape (2003)
Actors: Peter Bolte (actor), Peter Bolte (producer), Jason Cleaveland (producer), Stacy Woodruff-Bolte (producer), Peter Bolte (writer), Stacy Woodruff-Bolte (writer), Trevor Dunn (composer), Peter Bolte (director), Peter Bolte (editor),
Plot: In this experimental-short, director Peter Bolte engages us in an introspective questioning of our current social state. Consisting of images gathered during a car trip from Boston, MA to Hastings, NE, the American landscape in its many incantations is presented, compared and contrasted. The industrial wastelands found along the New Jersey Turnpike stand alongside nature's butterfly and eccentricities created by outsider artists. "Rational" structures, such as fast-food, are juxtaposed against the "irrational" mom-and-pop establishments. Correlations between man and machine also receive treatment.
Genres: Short,
Head of State (2003)
Actors: Michael Ahl (actor), Scott Armstrong (actor), Ben Bachelder (actor), John Badila (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), James R. Bergdahl (actor), Thomas Bevans (actor), Jeremy Borash (actor), Sho Brown (actor), Reg E. Cathey (actor), Robert Randolph Caton (actor), Alan Chadsey (actor), Eddy Challita (actor), Tray Chaney (actor), Charles Able (actor),
Plot: Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee--for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn't have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.
Keywords: african-american, alderman, assassination-attempt, bail-bondsman, black-president, black-u.s.-president, broken-engagement, brother-brother-relationship, bus, camden-yards
Taglines: The only thing white is the house.
Brian Lewis: God bless America. And no place else.
Mays Gilliam: I work in a neighborhood so bad, you can get shot while you're gettin' shot.
Mays Gilliam: No, you can't use food stamps to buy tires.
The Woman: You the man!::Mays Gilliam: You the woman!
Klansman: Hi, I'm a Klansman. I hate niggers, Jews, and fags, but I love Bryan Lewis!::[Cuts To Video Tape Of Osama Bin Laden]::Osama Bin Laden: Yo yo wassup I'm Osama Bin Laden. I hate America but I love Bryan Lewis.
Little girl: If I see Mays Gilliam I'm gonna bust a cap in his ass.
Mays Gilliam: I asked my niece the other day what 4 plus 4 was. She said 44.::Crowd Member: It is!
Mays Gilliam: You show up to get your pension, they give you a pen. They give you a damn pen! Now, what the hell am I supposed to do with a pen? I should just stab you in the neck with this pen, Mister Pension-Taker!
Mays Gilliam: You show me a grown man that's never said shit and I'll show you somebody that's full of shit!
Mitch Gilliam: There's no such thing as white-collar crime. And there's definitely no such thing as black-on-black crime. Crime is crime. Let me explain something to you. I don't care if you have a white collar or a tank top. If you rob me, I'm gonna whup your ass.
The Last Straw (1998)
Actors: Brian Hannan (actor), Markus Kellow (actor), Markus Kellow (actor), Ben Mcgill (actor), Ben Mcgill (actor), Ben Mcgill (actor), Fiona Dyson (actress), David Atkinson (producer), Roman Stolz (writer), Markus Kellow (composer), Roman Stolz (director), Roman Stolz (editor),
Genres: Animation, Short,
Nostalgie (1938)
Actors: Paul Amiot (actor), Harry Baur (actor), Jean Clarieux (actor), Jean Claudio (actor), René Dary (actor), Hugues de Bagratide (actor), Charles Dechamps (actor), Pierre Labry (actor), Georges Paulais (actor), Marcel Pérès (actor), George Rigaud (actor), Nicolas Rimsky (actor), Sinoël (actor), Janine Crispin (actress), Palmyre Levasseur (actress),
Genres: Drama,
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Consumer, Icon Of Coil
Consumer, Focused
Consumer, Animosity
Consumer, August Burns Red
Consumer, Shelter
I became the consumer of the eneds you created
Alienated myself
Through hellâ¦and higher grounds
Fascinated by static behavior
I'll obtain what I want, recycle,
Echo, re-echo
I'll set no limits for myself, no restraints
I'mâ¦the consumer of your needs
I'm in a loophole, inside, looking out
First shout, no sounds are coming out
It's a fusion, of future, present and past
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