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Suncalcing the BUK and Vostok transport to Snizhne July 17th 2014
Basically, since the fatal July 17th 2014 it is already known that and how the Russian BUK was transported from Donetsk to Snizhne. That story never changed. Nevertheless Russian Trolls keep trying to blur the facts over and over again. And of course questions on details remain. These are (some of) these questions:
What is the exact timing of the convoy?
Did the Vostok convoy accompany the BUK or not?
Why was the BUK not found on the 11:08 satellite image that Bellingcat purchased?
Why did the BUK stop three times (first Donetsk, second after roundabout 'Motel', third in Torez near Gas-station)
Was there also an Oplot convoy of tanks to Snizhne?
Since the first part of July 17th was sunny and only later clouds appeared, it is possible to calculate (approximate) times based on shadows.
Maybe that will bring some clarity.
Suncalc tools
A very handy tool to do this can be found on www.suncalc.net, but this one does not give LOCAL time. Another one can be found at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/. That one needs some good-old-handwork, but has more precise time-control. For Ukraine the timezone is UTC +2 and DST (Daylight Saving Time). Calibrating Suncalc.net with this, we need to add +1 hour to get the correct Ukrainian local time. This can be understood as follows: suncalc.net uses the time of the users computer or even its own server. Since that is in Europe and the time difference with Ukraine is one hour, one hour needs to be added to get the local time.
Illicha Avenue
As reported in this blog, the BUK on the loader had been spotted on Illicha avenue.
According to the video released by the SBU there were several telephone calls regarding the BUK:
9:08 between Khmuryi and Buryat
Buryat reports the BUK is in Donetska nd came with a crew. Khmuryia says it won't be hidden but will be used immediately.
Buryat says he only had one instead of two. Khmuryi says it will go with Vostok tanks.
9:23 between Khmuryi and Sanych
Khmuryi asks where the BUK should go so it can join Sanych. "Behind the motel, just before Hornostaevka," says Sanych. "Just behind the motel," confirms Khmuryi.
9:54 Khmuryi and Unknown
Khmuryi instructs Unknown that he can find the BUK "outside the Motel roundabout". He has to take as many men he needs to accompany the BUK and go to Pervomaiske where he will be a reserve and has to guard the BUK..
Since in the third phone call instructions are given to put the BUK "behind the motel", at that time (9:23) it still must have been at Illicha avenue.
In the fourth phonecall Khmuryi says the BUK can be found "outside the Motel roundabout". It means it had relocated to that location (where Paris Match spotted and photographed it) by 9:54.
Paris Match Photo
This photo does not give a lot of foothold to work with. Intuitively I would say the shadow of the cabin bends slightly forward and thus the sun coming slightly from the back. But intuition is not enough here.
The big question is: what line is perpendicular to the street? If we can find that, we can review the shadows relatively to this line. But it is almost impossible to find this line, because there are basically no footholds to start from.
Just to mention some problems:
the pole in the middle does not seem to be vertical? But is the left one vertical than? Without definite vertical or horizontal lines it is impossible to find the horizon.
the road may slightly bend downwards to the side where the truck is standing, thus giving a shadow that is a little bit off.
the photo seems to be a crop from a video. If we don't know the center of the original photo, it is hard to tell what lines go perpendicular on the road (to compare the angle of the shadow with).
The only thing that gives a bit of a clue is light and shadows on the cabin:
The left side is the shadow side and similar to this left side, the back side is in shadow too (all the red arrows). But there are some features sticking out and receiving sunlight, similar as the top (yellow arrows). The big square (where a window could be placed) is at the top and left a little bit lighter than on the bottom and the right. This is also because it is bended slightly, but the point is: it does receive a little bit of light, but is NOT in full sunlight yet.
The truck seems to be a Volvo FH12 6x4 model:
And the backside of these trucks (as well as a lot of others) bends slightly forward towards the top:
Assuming that the truck is parked almost exactly in line with the road, it means the light must be coming almost perpendicular to the road and slightly forwards from the truck.
When we draw this in Suncalc, we get a time of between 10:00 - 10:15:
(If the sunlight would be exactly perpendicular to the road, the time would be 10:20.)
Reported time Paris Match
Paris Match reported that the photo had been taken in Snizhne. Later they corrected the location and said it was taken around 11:00 in Donetsk. This source talks about this:
The problem is, if they get one thing wrong (at first), how sure can we be about the other thing?
Their "11 am" probably is not meant to be very accurate anyways. It might have been 10 minutes before or after. So I think even we might say that their reported time might have been between 10:45 and 11:15.
Still, this is nowhere near 10:15. It means we have two options/scenarios:
the suggested shadow-calculation is totally wrong and the reported time was right.
the reported time is wrong and Suncalc-time is right.
There is one small possibility how the reported "11:00" still could be right... if the journalists had their watches on Moscow time, which is 1 hour later than Ukrainian time.
Since the BUK arrived at this location just before 9:54, it has either been waiting there for some 15-20 minutes (scenario 2) or about one hour (scenario 1).
Bellingcat satellite image
Bellingcat purchased a satellite image of the area, but couldn't find the BUK on it. I have viewed this image too and couldn't find it either. The reported time for this image was 11:08. A Suncalc on this image confirms this time. But (parts of) this image can not be published without making extra costs. Therefore no graphics here...
Nevertheless this means the Paris Match photo must have been taken before 11:08, because the BUK is not on it's location there.
This is the area Bellingcat purchased and viewed:
The blue icon (bottom left) represents the Paris Match location. The road to the end of this area leading to Snizhne is 12 kms long. With a speed of 30 kms per hour it would take 24 minutes to get their. It would mean the BUK should have left before 10:44 to be out of the photographed satellite area before 11:08:
With an average speed of 40 kms per hour it should have left before 10:50.
It means if we can be a bit flexible about the "11:00" the BUK-loader could have left between 10:45 and 10:50 to (just) get out of satellite range in time (scenario 1).
In scenario 2 the BUK-loader would likely have been long gone when the satellite took the picture.
Scenario 1b
Another possibility is maybe that (after waiting at the wrong spot?) the BUK drove to the Vostok base at the mine and was hidden for the satellite by the trees there:
Yellow area = Vostok base
Red ellipse = road hidden by trees in front of Vostok base.
First Vostok video
There are a couple of videos that show the Vostok convoy that day (but not showing the BUK). The first one is this one:
It is filmed at the crossroad right where the Bellingcat image ends:
Luckily for us there are some good shadows here:
The shadow of the pole runs over the path which is a little bit lower than the area where the pole is. Therefore the shadow is curved. The yellow line syncs with the part going down and therefore is not correct for getting the time. The red line syncs with the part running over the path and is more suitable.
Since there is a height difference, we can not draw a line from where the pole hits the ground. We have to start drawing this line from where the pole WOULD hit the ground if it was at the same level. This is approximately indicated by the red line. We can see it runs a little bit in front of the tree.
When we draw Suncalc accordingly, we get a local time of about 10:30:
That's interesting!
It' s about 11 kms from the Vostok-base which may have been between 15-30 minutes driving for them. They might have left the base something after 10:00 am. So WHILE the BUK-loader had just arrived (before phone-call of 9:54) and was waiting at the 'Motel' location, the Vostok convoy started leaving!
Scenario 1: the BUK-loader waited about one hour after Vostok left
Scenario 2: the BUK-loader likely had left at (almost) the same time as the Vostok column.
Waiting at the wrong location?
Maybe... the BUK-crew stopped and waited at the wrong location? They HAD to go to the Vostok-base and stop 'after the Motel just before Hornostaevskaya' which is the entrance street to the Vostok base. Did they instead stop 'just after the Motel' and thus missed the leaving convoy?
Maybe there and then they decided to let the tanks go ahead and have the BUK catch up with them? Or maybe they thought the BUK was already driving and the tanks had to catch up with the BUK?
Zuhres-video
The SBU had released a video of the BUK near Zuhres (as well as screenshots from unreleased video of other vehicles of the Vostok convoy):
The big pole in the middle of the shot gives a clear shadow:
It's (almost) parallel to the path next to it. (The path is at a slope, but since the shadow goes alongside the path, we can still just project this line onto the map without correction.)
Suncalc gives a time somewhat more than 11:30:
The time reported back then was 11:40, what thus turns out to match with the suncalc time.
Calculated speed of the loader
Google maps gives a distance from the Motel-location of 36,7 kms. It means if they left from the Motel at 10:45, they arrived at Zuhres after 55 minutes, the average speed was 40 kms/h. With this speed it would take them 18 minutes to travel the 12 kms to get out of range of the satellite and they would be out of range at 11:03.
We can do a similar calculation if they would depart 5 minutes later and so on:
This shows that if the BUK would have left at 10:55 (AND if would not have driven much faster during this first part) it couldn't have escaped the satellite. But leaving at 10:50 it would. An average speed of 44 kms per hour does not seem completely impossible for the loader, but it is on the high side.
scenario 1: the BUK-loader would have to drive an average speed of 40-45 kms/h, which might be too high for such a heavy trransport.
scenario 2: no problemo; time enough even at low average speed.
That last entry shows that if the BUK was hidden at the Vostok base and had immediately left after the satellite was taken, it had to drive with an amazing 73 kms/h average to arrive at Zuhres at 11:40. That seems to be too much.
Therefore we should exclude the option that the BUK is somewhere hidden on the satellite. We must conclude that it was already out of range when that image was taken.
Actual speed of the loader in the video
This is the first frame the Zuhres video starts with:
As can be seen, the right line of the apartment building exactly continues down along the left side of the blue shed (red line):
This will help us to determine the exact location of the cameraman. Basically this one line is already enough, because we know the person is filming from another apartment building through a window. All we have to do is to draw that line (exactly) on a map and see where it ends up. But to confirm whether we are right or not, we'll check the green bush right of the big pole (green circle) and the small pole almost in line with the bigger one behind it (orange circle) too:
It is tempting to start the first point at the exact corner of the apartment building. But since this satellite image is taken at an angle, the top does not give the exact position of the building on the map. The BOTTOM does though. So we have to correct the starting point with the same amount and angle of the other side of the building (because we can clearly see it there). This is indicated by the small red line.
To prevent errors like this one should find a satellite image taken EXACTLY from 90 degrees above.
Next we extend that line along the left side of the blue building (blue circle) until it hits (again the bottom!) of the other apartment building. THAT's the position of the cameraman. From there we draw the other two verification lines.
One goes through the big pole (small green circle) and we can see that the bush further on is on the right side of it (larger green circle).
The other one goes through the larger pole (larger orange circle) and we can see that the smaller pole in front of it is a little bit on the right side of the line.
Thus this confirms the cameraman position is correct.
Note how in the first frame, the left ramp of the loader is exactly behind one of the poles:
125 frames later that left ramp disappears behind the apartment building:
Now we can draw two lines from the position of the cameraman that will match these two position of the loader on the road:
Again take care to draw the upper line through the BOTTOM of the building (extending the previously drawn line is the easiest way to do that). With Google Earth we can now measure the distance between those two points: 28,73 meters.
The video I downloaded had 29 frames per seconds. This means the loader traveled some 29 meters in 4,3 seconds, which is at a speed of 24 kms/h.
Scenario 1: This calculated speed does not come near to the 40-45 kms/h average speed we calculated earlier. The only thing we can say about this is that at this point the loader is driving uphill and thus must have significantly slowed down here.
Scenario 2: if the BUK-loader would have left the Motel-location at a similar time as the Vostok column, say 10:05, it would have had 1 hour and 35 minutes to travel the 36,7 kms to the Zuhres-location. The average speed would be 23 kms/h. Exactly what we see in the video too.
Time difference between Vostok truck and loader
The photo/screenshot from the Vostok truck shows a clear shadow at one of the poles (left bottom corner):
We can project this image in the larger area (white box):
And then extent a line along the shadow of the pole (white line).
Now the problem is that their is a slope on the field before the pole. That makes it very difficult/impossible to compare it with the lines of the field. But assuming that the roof of the shed is horizontal and even approximately pointing into the direction of the pole, we can extend a line from there (blue line). This blue line represents a line perpendicular to the path near the pole and by chance also happens to represents the 11:40 time.
As can be seen, the white line is at an angle to the right of the blue line, meaning it was (a little bit) earlier. According to this calculation the truck might have passed this position somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes earlier than the loader.
Scenario 1: the loader had been (or is) catching up with the rest of the convoy. Maybe the Vostok convoy had been waiting for the truck or they were driving very slowly.
Scenario 2: the BUK-loader is falling a little bit behind from the Vostok column or they had been driving a little bit behind all the time.
Vostok at Shakhtarsk
The next video is recorded by Vostok itself and shows their convoy between Shakhtarsk and Hirne:
It is filmed at 3 locations:
1st location
Road with trees and a large building behind it:
It was filmed like this:
The shadows of the tank on the road almost seem to be perpendicular to the tank/road:
The shadows on the ERA (Explosive Responsive Armor) on the tank show that some light DOES fall on the front sides of them (large red circle):
but the left/back side has shadow (small red circle). The same accounts for the others (yellow ellipses). That means the light comes slightly from the front.
On suncalc this corresponds with a local time of 12:25 or maybe a little bit less:
2nd location
The second scene is shot in front of this building:
It can be found here (red ellipse):
3rd location
The third scene is shot at the checkpoint
On the map:
This screenshot shows that the side of the stone we are looking at, is having/getting a shadow (in right half of red circle compared to very bright in left half).
Therefore the light comes slightly from the West. Suncalc gives a local time of 12:40 (or a bit later):
The distance from the Zuhres location to the first Vostok location is 16 kms. Assuming that the truck passed Zuhres 10 minutes earlier than the loader (thus at 11:30), they traveled with an average speed of (16 kms in 55 minutes =) 17kms/hour.
This is unlikely slow. The only good explanation for this is that they must have taken a break to prepare for the video they were going to shoot and thus stopped the convoy.
Scenario 1/2
Meanwhile, even if the BUK was 10 minutes or more behind at Zuhres, it should therefore TOTALLY have been catching up with Vostok at this point!
But why was it not on the Vostok video? Either it must have been waiting behind them further down the road so Vostok could shoot their video. Or it even PASSED the convoy and drove UP FRONT of them.
Whatever the situation was, it seems they deliberately did not want to have the BUK on the Vostok video!
BUK photographed in Torez
When we look at the Torez photo:
we can see that the shadow on the billboard is at an angle, indicating sunlight hits the billboard from the right (left red ellipse). At the car on the right we can also see that the shadow is left from the car and thus the sunlight comes a little bit from the right side.
When we put Suncalc accordingly, we get a local time of 12:25:
This is consistent with the time reported in some tweets:
At 12:16 @Wowihay tweets that a BUK is driving through Torez in the direction of Snizhne. Do note that this is BEFORE MH17 was taken down and thus before anybody knew it was a passenger plane and thus before Russia/DNR tried to blame Ukraine for doing this.
At 12:26 @MOR2537 tweets a similar message. It seems this "12-10" should be understood as the time 12:10. It can't mean anything else actually.
These times mean that the loader had PASSED the Vostok convoy before they started to film it and was waiting here in Torez while they were filming.
Vostok filmed by RT
RT filmed the Rostov convoy that day:
From this location:
And this video had been taken in the car behind it:
The shadows are less profound in these videos, making it much more difficult to find an exact time.
This screenshot shows that the light clearly comes from the left and the shadows of tank and car are projected to the right. But at what angle exactly?
If the light would exactly come perpendicular to the road, that would correspond with a local time of 13:15:
I have the impression that the light comes a little bit more from behind than from the front.
To be safe we should maybe say that the time was somewhere between 12:30 and 13:30.
Green truck following Vostok
A green truck can be seen behind the white van, as well in the Vostok video as in the RT- video.
Thus it seems the Vostok convoy traveled the 9 kms from one to the other location (meanwhile passing the place where the loader was parked) without stopping.
This would be a 10 to 20 minutes drive with an average speed between 25 and 50 kms per hour. Because Vostok filmed their last scene about 12:40 or a bit later, they could have passed the RT-car between 12:50 and 13:00.
AP-journalists in Snizhne
In this article AP-journalist Pete Leonard reports about the BUK his colleagues had seen there:
Summarizing:
Seven tanks were parked at the gas station;
at 1:05 the BUK was driving through Snizhne;
then it was parked at Karapetyan street;
before it drove to it's final destination.
There are two gas stations in Snizhne on the route from Donetsk (yellow areas):
Google Earth shows that there is a blockpost there, with extensive trenches behind it and lots of space to park tanks and unload the BUK. Maybe they used the third abandoned gas station area (at the left) for this.
7 tanks is more then the 3 tanks we've seen in the Vostok convoy. These other four seem to be (arriving?) Oplot tanks who where later heading for Donetsk.
Journalists having lunch?
Wikimapia shows there are three restaurants in Snizhne:
The bottom one is exactly on the spot where the BUK was photographed and where retired miner Sakharov said it was parked: on Karapetyan street (red mark).
So it seems obvious to conclude the journalists were having lunch there when the BUK drove by and parked (almost) in front of them (but it could have happened in one of the other restaurants too of course). One of the guards seeing the journalists makes sure they didn't film it.
Take note: THEY DIDN'T WANT THE BUK TO BE FILMED!!
It means they didn't want Vostok or RT to film the BUK either. Maybe they did that anyways, but just didn't publish it. It is a good explanation of why the BUK is not on the (Russian made) Vostok videos.
After Torez the BUK-loader drove AHEAD of Vostok
It is a 12 kms drive for the BUK-loader from the location in Torez where it was photographed (at about 12:25) and Karapetyan street (at 13:05). With an average speed of 25 to 50 kms/h this is a 15 to 30 minutes drive. This would give it 10 minutes (at it's slowest speed) to 25 minutes (at highest speed) to unload (near the gas station). An average speed of 35 kms/h with 20 minutes for unloading does not seem to be unrealistic at all.
But that DOES mean the BUK-loader must have left its parking spot in Torez quite quickly after that photo was taken.
And after some 5 minutes (that is 12:30) it would pass the location were RT filmed Vostok (between 12:50 and 13:00).
THAT means the BUK-loader was driving AHEAD of the Vostok convoy.
In the tightest scenario RT filmed Vostok at 12:50 and Vostok had 15 minutes to arrive at 13:05 in Snizhne. But by that time the BUK was already unloaded and at Karapetyan street. So the BUK definitely must have arrived earlier than Vostok.
It seems they had been waiting for Vostok a while, but Vostok took way too much time to take their video, so they decided to move on with Vostok catching up with them.
Snizhne photograph
This photo was taken of the BUK at Karapetyan street, not on the loader anymore:
The photo was taken like this:
The shadow alongside the building goes like this:
Suncalc gives a local time of something between 13:15-13:30:
It indeed means the BUK had been parked there for some time (10 to 20 minutes), just as retired miner Sakharov had said.
Driving towards Pervomaiske
This screenshot shows a pretty clear shadow of one of the poles near the street:
Tricky thing is the road goes up there, meaning the real angle (shadow created on a flat area) should be slightly more horizontal in this screenshot.
Projected in Suncalc:
It gives a local time of something in the neighborhood of 13:30.
It means it did not stay long on its parking spot after the previous photo was taken.
All the locations in Snizhne:
Oplot
As shown in this blog, the Oplot tanks were driving TOWARDS Donetsk. No clear shadows are visible in those videos. It means the weather had turned cloudy, blurring the shadows. Thus these videos must have been recorded late in the afternoon.
Putting all the pieces together we get this scenario:
Around 9:00 the BUK-loader arrived at Illicha avenue in Donetsk. A couple of telephone calls back and forth were done to determine what to do with it.
At 9:23 it gets instructions to go "behind the Motel" and before the Vostok-base.
Instead it drives just behind the Motel roundabout and not at the entrance of the Vostok-base.
Something like 10:45 Vostok leaves its base, but not finding/taking the BUK-loader with them.
The BUK-loader left it's Motel-location 1 hour after the Vostok-convoy had left the base. Likely between 10:45-10:50 driving with an average speed of 40 kms/hour in the first part.
They were just getting out of range of the satellite that made an image at 11:08.
By the time it got in Zuhres it had catched up a lot with the Vostok convoy. There were some 10 - 30 minutes difference left.
The BUK-loader left at about the time Vostok left and drove a couple of minutes more or less behind the convoy
The Paris Match journalists must have been mistaken about the time they reported. Maybe they reported 'Moscow'-time, which is one hour later.
By the time the satellite made the photo is was long gone from that area.
The BUK traveled with an average speed of 23 kms/h in the first part.
Vostok wanted to make a video by the time they drove out of Shakhtarsk towards Hirne. They stopped somewhere over there and had the BUK-loader pass them, (so it would not be recorded on the video).
In Torez the BUK-loader waited a while (for Vostok).
Before Vostok catched up with them, they already moved on (just after 12:25; Vostok must have taken too much time to record their video)
They must have arrived at the gas station in Snizhne at about 12:40, where they had 15-20 minutes to unload.
At that same time Vostok shot the last scene of their video and they (quickly) moved on from Hirne to catch up with the BUK.
RT recorded them on the road from their car just before 13:00.
Unloaded, the BUK already had left towards Karapetyan street, (probably because it would be more out of sight there, than at the gas station).
Some AP journalist where having lunch in Snizhne and got a big surprise: a BUK drove by and stopped a little bit further.
Meanwhile Vostok arrived at the gas station, finding the BUK was already unloaded.
4 Oplot tanks had also arrived there (freshly coming from Russia?).
When the AP-journalists drove to(wards) Donetsk they saw the seven tanks at the gas station.
By that time the BUK was already positioning at it's launch location.
The Oplot tanks moved on and drove to Donetsk where they got spotted and filmed.
Neither of the two scenarios can be completely excluded as impossible. But the "11:00" does seem to be more troublesome. Why did it wait for one hour, to rush towards the Vostok convoy, narrowly escaping the satellite with a stiff average speed for such a heavy transport and basically not travelling together with Vostok.
The "10:00"-scenario on the other hand fits a lot better. Suncalc seems to indicate this time; it left together with Vostok; with a convenient average speed; long out of range of the satellite. The only disadvantage: Paris Match must have reported the time wrong somehow.
In either scenario, with of without the Vostok convoy, the BUK-loader was still accompanied by two (Vostok) cars during the entire trip.
Even though Russian Trolls try to obscure and blur the events of that day and some things are not entirely clear, there is nothing really weird or odd here. If this story (a Russian BUK traveling from Donetsk to Snizhne to its launch-location) is invented and plugged by the Ukrainian SBU, the Russians can LEARN A LOT FROM THEM!!!
Every twist the Russian version takes turns out to be easily dismissed as fake, propaganda and lies. This (Ukrainian) story nevertheless is consistent right from the beginning. It never changed. It is still the same as it was on July 17th 2014. And so far none of the zillion attempts to discredit it have succeeded. Only the details become much more clear over time, like in this blog. If this all is just a lie to blame Russia, the Ukrainian SBU can lie exponentially better than the Russian FSB!
Or maybe it is just all simply true: the Russians shot down MH17 with their BUK...
Disclaimer: this is a reconstruction. Most times remain estimates. When more accurate data would come available, adjustments may be necessary. Some details we may never know. The big picture is nevertheless very clear.
If you see any errors or have additions or additional info, please contact me (best through twitter).
UPDATE 12-5-2016
A new video of the BUK on the loader has appeared:
The geolocation is like this:
It is more southwards than the expected route:
The estimated time calculated with suncalc is 11:10:
Because the loader took a different route, the whole problem of 'narrowly escaping the 'Bellingcat' satellite image does not exist anymore.
If another part of that satellite image would be bought, south of the current one, it almost certainly will show the loader.
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Suncalcing the BUK and Vostok transport to Snizhne...
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________________ CM . . . . Volume XVI Number 4. . . .September 25, 2009
Vanishing Girl. (The Boy Sherlock Holmes).
Shane Peacock.
Toronto, ON: Tundra Books, 2009.
310 pp., hardcover, $21.99.
Subject Heading:
Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)-Juvenile literature.
Grades 4-10 / Ages 9-15.
Review by David Ward.
**** /4
Reviewed from Advance Reading Copy.
The words are spit out.
“Should you be referring to a certain blackguard who roams the streets at night with a group of ne’er-do-wells who prey upon the London populace, I would advise against it. I could produce these villains before he or Lestrade were even on their trail.”
“I am helping Master Malefactor to…
” “He is a thug and he shall remain one.”
“I can change him.”
“And we shall all fly to the moon one day.”
“He understands misery. He knows the sort of pain people endure in the workhouses.”
“You don’t know him, Sherlock. His life fell apart when he was small…”
“A story meant for the pages of the agony columns, I’m sure. I prefer Samuel Smiles and instructive novels…where folks rise from their troubles, where they choose the right path, not evil. He is a rat. And he tried to kill me.”
Thus, the young Sherlock Holmes describes his arch rival, Malefactor, in Vanishing Girl, Peacock’s latest addition of the series. As with his first two cases, Peacock has skilfully recreated the sinister world of Victorian London in which Sherlock Holmes was originally written. In this particular case, Holmes is captivated by the mysterious disappearance of Victoria Rathbone, the daughter of wealthy parents living in London. While the police, led by the pompous Lestrade Sr., try desperately to find the girl, Holmes uses his burgeoning skills to take in the more subtle clues, such as a watermark on the paper left by the kidnappers. He takes a wild train ride into the countryside, barely escaping the clutches of a guard and, at one point, ending up on the top of the train and balancing like “Blondin.” The clues he discovers at St. Neots both complicate and confuse his understanding of the case. It is when Holmes uncovers the secret past of Victoria Rathbone’s mother that he suspects a deeper duplicity of the facts. The potential of ghosts and ferocious beasts guarding the kidnapped girl help make the ending to this story a classic Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Peacock has done his research. Clearly he has been to the places he writes about as mentioned in the “Acknowledgements.” Further, one cannot help but appreciate his close reading of the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Peacock understands Holmes. Even a cursory consideration of the Hound of the Baskervilles makes this all the more poignant. Both Peacock’s Holmes and Doyle’s Holmes traverse the city and countryside to find clues, make extensive use of the powers of observation, and utilize the most infuriating skill of all: keeping the facts to himself until the end! Vanishing Girl is a story in which Holmes is powerfully developed. The reader discovers the origins of his learning self-defense and his infatuation with scientific “potions” (in this case, opium) to help solve crimes. Readers of the first two stories will appreciate the developing relationship between Holmes and Irene (not a happy one) and his deeper hatred of Malefactor. What a pleasurable, authentic read. This book (and series) would make an excellent unit for mysteries studies, story writing unit, or young adult readings of Victorian England.
David Ward is a children’s author and assistant professor at Oregon’s Willamette University.
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CHANCELLOR COLLEGE POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES: 2018 INTAKE
Chancellor College, a Constituent College of the University of Malawi, is inviting applications for various Postgraduate Programmes which will commence in September 2018.
GENERAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR MASTER’S DEGREES
The following are the minimum application requirements for all Master’s degree programmes:
A letter of application or a filled PG1 form to be obtained from pgstudies@cc.ac.mw. For online applications, go to: www.cc.ac.mw/pg.
A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university with at least a credit. Candidates with a strong pass (average of 55% and above) may be considered.
A detailed CV
Certified or notarized copies of academic transcripts and certificates
Two letters of reference from traceable referees (one of which shall be from an academician) and to be submitted in sealed envelopes.
Evidence of bank payment of an application fee of MK10,000 for nationals and US$50 for international applicants which should clearly indicate the name of the applicant and programme applied for. For National Bank of Malawi deposits at the counter, through MO626 or internet banking, applicants should use this account: Chanco PG application fees, Account No: 300000282543. For other banks and international transfers, applicants should use the following account: Chanco Sundry Income, Account No: 282553, held at the National Bank of Malawi, Zomba Service Centre.
Evidence of sponsorship: Preference will be given to applicants who will present credible evidence of funding for their studies.
NOTE: Specific programmes may have additional requirements which must be complied with. Incomplete applications will not be processed.
GENERAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR PhD
In addition to the general requirements above, applications for doctoral degree programmes should meet the following minimum conditions:
A good master’s degree (average of 55% above) from an accredited university. Candidates with work experience will have an added advantage.
A concept note detailing the proposed research topic
Sample of applicant’s written academic work
Unless specifically indicated, all Masters’ programmes are full-time and will run for 24 months. The first year is for course work while the second year is for research and thesis writing. PhD programmes run for 36 months (full time) and up to 60 months (part-time).
The tuition fees cover costs of registration, examinations, supervision and institutional overheads. Students are expected to meet costs of research, accommodation, meals, medical cover, books, stationery and learning materials.
The College does not provide accommodation and the students will be required to look for their own accommodation outside the campus.
All programmes operate on a no-fees no-classes basis. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate how they will support their studies either through a letter of commitment from their sponsors or a bank statement.
SPECIFIC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROGRAMMES
The following are the specific details of the advertised programmes:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Name of Programmes:
M.Ed. in Policy, Planning and Leadership
M.Ed. in Testing, Measurement and Evaluation
M.Ed. in Educational Psychology
M.Ed. in Sociology of Education
Fee Structure: MK4,125,000 for Malawian nationals; US$6,000 for SADC region students; and US$7,000 for international students.
Additional Entry Requirements: Bachelors degree in Education (or its equivalent) with credit. Those with a strong pass (average of 55% above) may also be considered. Work experience in education or education related area will be an added advantage.
Preliminary Enquiries Head of Educational Foundation on telephone number 0993450115 or by email: hodedf@cc.ac.mw.
b) DEPARTMENT OF CURRICULUM STUDIES
M.Ed in Curriculum and Teaching Studies (Language Education)
M.Ed in Curriculum and Teaching Studies (Mathematics and Science Education)
M.Ed in Curriculum and Teaching Studies (Social Studies Education)
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Department of Curriculum and Teaching Studies on telephone number 0993425995 or by email: cats@cc.ac.mw.
Name of Programme: (i) Master of Arts in Philosophy by Research
List of Research Areas: History of Philosophy; Continental Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Logic, Social and Political Philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, African Philosophy, Applied Ethics.
Mode of Delivery: This programme has two components: a taught course component delivered in the first semester of Year 1 where students will be required to attend compulsory seminars run every Saturday for 5 weeks. The second component will involve research leading to a supervised dissertation.
Additional Entry Requirements: A Bachelors’ or Honours’ Degree in any field of study with credit or strong pass with a minimum of three years work experience.
Fee Structure: MK3,000,000 for Malawian nationals for the entire two years.
Preliminary Enquiries: Head of Philosophy Department at gkayange@cc.ac.mw or the Post-Graduate Coordinator at ym9769@gmail.com.
Name of Programme: (ii) Master of Arts (MA) Degree in Applied Ethics.
List of Courses Offered: Core modules: African Moral Practice and the Ethical Theory, Moral Decision-Making, Biomedical Ethics, Research Methods and Methodology, Environmental Ethics, and Business Ethics. Elective Modules: Developmental Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Public and Private Sector Ethics, and Morality, Law, Politics and the Media.
Duration of Programme: 24 months and programme has taught course component delivered through block release in the first year followed by supervised research leading to dissertation in the second year. Students with no background in Ethics will be required to take a bridging module, General Ethics.
Additional Entry Requirements: Bachelors or Honours Degree in any field of study with credit or strong pass with a minimum of three years work experience.
Fee Structure: MK4,000,000 for Malawian nationals for the entire two years, US$4,500 for SADC students, and US$6,000 for international students.
DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
MA in Pure Linguistics
MA in Applied Linguistics
PhD in Pure Linguistics
PhD in Applied Linguistics
Additional Entry Requirements: Applications for MA programmes should have a good first degree (Credit+), or its equivalent in the appropriate subjects. Applicants with a strong pass (average of 55% and above) and relevant work experience shall also be considered. Applications into the PhD Programme should already have completed an MA. Subject to certain conditions, research students may be accepted on a part-time basis or, under approved arrangements, to work off campus.
Duration of Programme: For the MA degree, it is 24 months maximum while for the PhD, it is 3 years full-time.
Fee Structure: MK1,800,000 per year for Malawian nationals, and US$ 3,500 per year for international students. All programmes will be self-sponsored except for those who may secure funding.
Preliminary Enquiries: The PG Coordinator at: all_dept@cc.ac.mw.
DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Name of Programme: Master of Theology and Religious Studies
Additional Entry Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Theology and Religious Studies or any other relevant first degree.
Fee Structure: MK4,500,000 for Malawian nationals and US$6,000 for international students.
Preliminary Enquiries: Head of Theology and Religious Studies Department, trs@cc.ac.mw.
FACULTY-WIDE PROGRAMME
Name of Programme: Master of Science in Environmental Science (MES)
Duration of Programme: 24-months (full time)
Description of Programme: The MES programme consists of course work, research and a thesis.
Additional Entry Requirements: Candidates should have a good Bachelor’s degree (average of 55% and above) in natural sciences or related fields. Preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience.
Fee Structure: MK4,500,000 for Malawian nationals or US$6,000 for international students for the entire two years. A deposit of not less than K300,000.00 shall be paid upon registration.
Preliminary Enquiries: For further information, contact MES Office at: mesadmin@cc.ac.mw.
Name of Programme: MSc in Water Resources Modelling and Governance
Fee Structure: The annual tuition fees for the programme are MK2,250,000 for Malawian nationals and US$3,000 for international students.
Description of Programme: The MSc in Water Resources Modelling and Governance programme consists of course work, research and a thesis.
Additional Entry Requirements: Potential candidates should have at least a high pass in natural/applied sciences or related fields from recognized and accredited universities.
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Programme Coordinator, Dr Cosmo Ngongondo, at wrmg@cc.ac.mw.
Name of Programme: Master of Science in Applied Chemistry
Programme Structure: The programme, which is offered over four semesters (two academic years), is implemented completely on research basis. Students undertake studies on a topic which requires comprehensive application of chemical principles. Typically students take their dissertations in the broad areas of natural products, environmental chemistry, and food chemistry and processing.
Additional Entry Requirements: Candidates should have a high pass (55% or above) Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or related field from recognized university.
Fee Structure: MK1,500,000 for Malawian nationals and US$2,000 for international students per academic year.
Preliminary Enquiries: Head of Chemistry Department, i.e. mmonjerezi@cc.ac.mw; or Programme Coordinator i.e.: cshaba@cc.ac.mw.
Name of Programme: Master of Science in Geography and Earth Sciences (by Research).
Duration: 24 months (full time) and 36 months (part-time)
Description of Programme: Supervised research and thesis
Additional Entry Requirements: A strong first degree (average of 55% and above) majoring in Geography and/or Earth Sciences or any other related discipline. Candidates must submit a research topic of their choice.
Fee Structure: MK2,587,500 for nationals or US$3,450 per academic year
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Head of Department on: geo@cc.ac.mw; or dmoses@cc.ac.mw.
Master of Science in Informatics
Master of Science in Biostatistics
Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics
Mode of Delivery: The programme is run jointly by Department of Computer Science at Chancellor College, and Department of Computing and Information Technology at the Malawi Polytechnic. It is a 2-year full time programme delivered on a 2-week block release mode for the course work (classes, examinations, seminars and workshops) in the 1st year. The 2nd year will involve research leading to a supervised dissertation.
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants to be considered under this programme should have a Bachelors degree (average of 55% and above) in the fields of Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent qualifications from recognized universities. Applicants with degrees in related applied sciences from Malawi Polytechnic and Mathematical Sciences from Chancellor College can also apply. Females are encouraged to apply.
Preliminary Enquiries: mscinformatics@cc.ac.mw, copy to sec.maths@cc.ac.mw. Applicants who were already offered a place in the 2017 intake should submit a letter of commitment to report for classes otherwise their reserved places will be forfeited.
Fee Structure: MWK3,700,000.00 for Malawian nationals and US$6,000 for international students for the entire two year period.
Description of Programme: A 2-year programme, offered through block-release, and involves coursework and thesis.
Additional Entry Requirements: Candidates must have strong Bachelor’s degree (average of 55% and above), majored in Statistics, with strong background in Mathematics from recognized university. Selected candidates with deficiency in some Mathematics/Statistics will be asked to attend bridging course prior to enrollment.
Scholarships: Limited full scholarships will be available under the DELTAS Sub-Saharan Africa Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics Training (SSACAB) project, to selected applicants having Statistics degree with at least credit, and aged below 35 years.
Fee Structure: MK4,500,000 for Malawian nationals and US$6,000 for international students for the entire two-year period. Those attending bridging courses will be required to pay US $300 per module.
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Coordinator, Mr. Tsirizani Kaombe, on 0888 443 536, copy to sec.maths@cc.ac.mw.
Description of Programme: A 2-year full-time programme involving course work and thesis.
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Mathematics with at least credit or a strong pass (an average of 55% and above) with at least 2 years of relevant work experience.
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the coordinator, Dr. Mwayi Nyirenda-Kayuni, on mkayuni@cc.ac.mw; with copy to sec.maths@cc.ac.mw.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Programme (By Research)
Description of Programme: This is a 3-5 year full-time PhD programme by research, including supervisor guided reading. During the entire period of study, candidates should be prepared to devote at least 90 hours of teaching MSc or tutoring undergraduate students in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chancellor College, which is equivalent to offering 3 modules.
Additional Entry Requirements: For PhD in Pure Mathematics or Applied Mathematics: a strong Masters degree in Pure Mathematics/Applied Mathematics and a Bachelors degree in Mathematical Sciences. It is highly recommended for PhD applicants to pre-identify academic supervisors who are specialists in the proposed research areas.
Fee Structure: MK4,125,000 for Malawian nationals or US$5,500.00 for international students per academic year.
4. FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Name of Programme: Master of Arts Degree in Economics (Full time)
Programme Structure: The MA in Economics is offered jointly by the University of Malawi (www.economics.cc.ac.mw) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) (www.aercafrica.org), in two components. In the first component, students spend their first year doing coursework before embarking on thesis preparation under supervision of senior faculty in the second year. The first semester of coursework year is spent while in residence at Chancellor College in Zomba and the second semester takes students to the Joint Facility of Electives in Nairobi, Kenya. The facility draws students from leading universities in Anglophone Africa.
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants should have a first degree majoring in economics from an accredited institution. Those with a background in quantitative methods will have an added advantage.
Scholarships: Under the auspices of AERC, the Department of Economics offers a limited number of partial scholarships to outstanding candidates. Applicants are, however, encouraged to identify other sources of funding.
Fee Structure: MK3,240,000.00 per student per year for Malawian nationals and US$5,000.00 per student per year for international students.
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Programme Coordinator for MA (R) Economics at economics@cc.ac.mw or 0111951135.
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES
Name of Programme: Master of Public Administration and Management (MPAM)
Description of Programme: This prestigious master’s programme is being offered by the University of Malawi at Chancellor College through the Department of Political Administrative Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Environment and Development (SUM) at the University of Oslo in Norway. It is programme is a component of a four year research and training project entitled Strengthening Democratic and Economic Governance in Malawi.’ The programme consists of taught coursework component in the first year, followed by independent research and preparation of an examinable thesis in the second year.
Duration and Mode of Delivery: MPAM is a 2-year block release programme of study and students are expected to attend classes for three consecutive weeks in every quarter of the first year course work. In each quarter students will take two courses. All classes take place at Chancellor College in Zomba.
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants should have either a minimum of a credit Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Political Science, Human Resources Management or Business Administration offered by an accredited institution of higher learning and a minimum of two years work experience, or a minimum of a credit Bachelors degree in any discipline but holding a managerial position in the public service having worked for at least two years. Applicants with a credit at Bachelors degree in the relevant disciplines with a strong pass (an average of 55% and above) will be considered if they have at least three years of work experience. The work experience requirement will be waived for those persons belonging to marginalised, disadvantaged or underrepresented social groups such as those disabilities of any kind. Applicants should also submit a two-page typed brief of proposed research interests in the chosen discipline of study.
Fee Structure: MK4,725,000.00 for Malawian nationals and US$ 7,500 for foreign students for the entire two year programme.
Scholarships: Partial or full scholarships will be offered to marginalised groups such as persons with disabilities and those with special needs. Partial scholarships will also be awarded through a competitive process to those interested in undertaking gender related research leading to the production of a master thesis.
Preliminary Enquiries: Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Studies through the following email address: hkayuni@cc.ac.mw or pastudies@cc.ac.mw call 0882436251 or 09990798766.
Name of Programme: Master of Arts in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (MA HRM&IR)
Description of Programme: The programme consists of taught coursework component in the first year, followed by independent research and preparation of an examinable thesis in the second year.
Duration: 24 months (Full time)
Mode of Delivery: Block release where students meet once every three months. The eight taught modules will cover ten weeks spread through four residential block release teaching sessions.
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants should have a strong Bachelor’s degree with a credit or strong pass (an average of 55% and above) in human resource management, industrial relations, general management, public administration and business administration. Applicants who wrote a project at undergraduate level will have added advantage. Those with Journalism, Humanities, and Social Science degrees will be admitted if their undergraduate programme had some human resource management or industrial relations courses and have a minimum of 2 years working experience in management. Applicants should also submit a two-page typed brief of proposed research interests in the chosen discipline of study.
Preliminary Enquiries: Preliminary enquiries may be directed to the Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Studies through the following email address: hkayuni@cc.ac.mw or pastudies@cc.ac.mw call 0882436251 or 09990798766.
Name of Programme: Master of Arts in Political Science
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants should have a strong Bachelor’s degree with a credit or strong pass (an average of 55% and above) in Political Science or Public Administration. Applicants with a degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from an accredited institution will be considered if they had some Political Science subjects in their undergraduate programmes. Applicants should also submit a two-page typed brief of proposed research interests in the chosen discipline of study.
FACULTY-WIDE PROGRAMMES
(i) Master of Arts in Development Studies (Full Time)
Programme Description: This is a multi-disciplinary programme consisting of taught coursework component in the first year, followed by research and preparation of an examinable thesis in the second year.
Duration of Programme: 24 months (Full time)
Additional Entry Requirements: Applicants should have a minimum of a credit at Bachelor’s degree level in a Social Science or development related-field. Applicants with a strong pass (average of 55% and above) degree and have some relevant working experience will be considered if space is available.
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Deputy Programme Coordinator, Mr. Julius Chingwalu or the MDS Administrator, Mrs. Annie Banda, on pg_socialscience@cc.ac.mw. Candidates who were already admitted to the programme but had their places reserved need to apply for re-admission.
Fee Structure: K4,500,000.00 for Malawian nationals and US$8,000.00 for foreign students for the entire programme.
PhD in Development Studies
Programme Description: The ultimate objective of the programme is to produce PhD graduates who are knowledgeable about the developmental challenges confronting African countries and the developing world in general. The programme exposes candidates to high level analytical skills, classical and contemporary development theories, and perspectives, and to the practical side of development and underdevelopment from multidisciplinary approaches. This programme which is of duration of 3- 5 academic years (full time) has two components: taught courses and a research component. In the taught component, candidates are required to take a minimum of three full courses and a maximum of four on a block release format. The courses are organised in clusters of compulsory core courses and elective courses. Candidates take a combination of any two half courses to constitute a full course. The method of delivery involves a combination of lectures, presentations, and seminars, offered on a block release format. The courses are delivered in bloc releases of two to three weeks, every three months in the academic year. Classes take place at Chancellor College.
Additional Entry Requirements: Candidates with specialisation in social science fields such as public administration, sociology, psychology, history, economics and population studies are eligible to apply. Prospective candidates must be capable of carrying out independent research in the social sciences, use and exchange ideas with a view to improving and critically analysing development interventions. Candidates should have a strong Masters degree from a recognised institution in social science related field. Candidates from other disciplines will be considered if they have some background in development related fields.
Fee Structure: MK3,000,000.00 per academic year for Malawian nationals and US$ 5000 per academic year for foreign students.
Preliminary Enquiries: Contact the Faculty of Social Science Postgraduate Programmes Coordinator, Dr. Boniface Dulani, on pg_socialscience@cc.ac.mw.
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS
All applications should clearly state the programme applied for and should reach the following address by Friday, 12th January, 2018:
Zomba, MALAWI
For further details, including getting PG1 Form, please contact pgstudies@cc.ac.mw. For online applications, go to: www.cc.ac.mw/pg
P. O. Box 278,
Zomba,
Telephone : (265) 1 524 282/ 060/ 526 622
Fax : (265) 1 524 760/ 1 524 297/ 1 524 031/
E-mail : registrar@unima.mw
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A story of class distinction, a people and their traditions, a family and its fate, a country and its fight against fascism, and a woman with a secret she must take to the grave.
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When young Clara Simon suddenly quit her steady job in Ernest Maxwell Abbott's law firm over his increasingly shabby treatment of Jewish clients, she soon realized the seriousness of her actions. Giving up any job in struggling, post-WWI London meant taking a chance.
Clara knew her family at 21 Aldgate would not be supportive. With that in mind she did the only thing a Londoner could do: she looked for a quiet place to have a cup of tea and think over her hasty decision. A coincidental meeting with a former Abbott employee resulted in the suggestion of a job offer in Chelsea.
Clara, reluctant to consider venturing into affluent Chelsea, finally agreed to meet with the important French artist, Paul Maze, who needed an assistant to help write his memoir of his work as a field artist during the First World War. Their working relationship ignited a passionate love that forever changed and haunted her.
On the tides of political and social chaos prior to the Second World War, Clara was forced to make decisions that risked both her life and her marriage.
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Two people from opposite ends of the class and cultural divide who find themselves drawn to each other, during one of the darkest periods of modern history. Their relationship is defined by these troubled times.
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● Adjustments to the seeding and bids process
● Changes to offside penalties
● New hand signals for "4 Men" and "4 Women" (Updated hand signals will be released later in 2020)
● Direction on how photographic or video footage should be used
● Guidance on how to deal with dangerous plays
● Changes to receiving fouls for contact that occurs after a block
The new appendix can be found here.
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) has nominated Finland’s Disc Golf team in the annual World Games Athlete of the Year competition. The award honors an athlete or a team for their outstanding performance in 2019 or for their social commitment or particularly fair behavior. We direct everyone to the following site and voting for “Flying Disc – Team Finland” at https://www.theworldgames.org/awards/Athlete-of-the-Year-2019-70.
Team Finland, one of 25 candidates for the award this year, defeated Germany to win the WFDF World Team Disc Golf Championships in Alutaguse, Estoniain August 2019. The eight-person mixed squad did not lose a match at the championships and this victory catapulted Finland to the top of WFDF’s world Disc Golf country rankings at year end 2019.
WFDF announced today the results of its 2019 elections, with the WFDF member associations voting on several open positions on the Board of Directors.
Kate Bergeron (USA) was re-elected as Treasurer, Brian Gisel (CAN) re-elected as Ultimate Committee Chair, Lori Daniels (USA) elected as Freestyle Committee Chair, and Wolfgang Maehr (SGP) elected as SOTG Committee Chair.
For the continental associations, Nicole Bulos (DOM) was elected President for Pan America and Fumio “Moro” Morooka (JPN) re-elected to represent Asia-Oceania.
Shiellah Quintos was elected as chair of the Events Subcommittee of the Ultimate Committee. All of the above will serve a two year term from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021.
In addition, Liam Grant (IRL) was appointed by the board to serve out the remaining year of the term of the Chair of the Athletes' Commission.
The complete Press Release with results and biographies can be found here.
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) ended the decade by bringing together the Ultimate community for the annual International Spirit of the Game Day celebrations. More than 500 activities from at least 34 countries were held across the world on December 7 in honor of Spirit of the Game, a core and guiding element of the sports of Ultimate and Guts.
Participants were encouraged to share their love of Spirit of the Game on social media by posting about their events or sharing artwork on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Submissions came in the form of videos, articles, drawings, and more. More than 20 international vendors partnered with WFDF to offer merchandise as part of the festivities.
“The players, teams and organizations that supported these international activities —and the 21 vendors who supplied prizes this year —understand there’s so much more to Spirit of the Game than simply sportsmanship,” said Travis F. Smith, outgoing chair of the WFDF SOTG Committee. “iSOTG Day is our community’s annual opportunity to explore how Spirit of the Game can be better expressed and improved. Each year I’m blown away seeing how many people care so intensely about Spirit and its central role in disc sport.”
More information can be found on the official website of the event: http://www.spiritofthegameday.org/
13 December 2019 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation is pleased to announce that it has appointed Luke Tobiasiewicz as its IT Administrator in a part-time consultancy. Luke Tobiasiewicz, who had been serving as Chair of the WFDF IT Committee and is of British and Polish nationality, is currently also working as an IT Consultant for the Veritas Foundation (London) and for the St Albans Independent College (UK) as the IT Manager. He will also serve as Competition Director at the WFDF 2020 World Ultimate and Guts Championship in Leeuwarden, Netherlands in July 2020.
WFDF releases the 2019 Spirit of the Game Scores by country
Today, on International Spirit of the Game Day, the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) releases its updated list of Spirit of the Game scores by country. This list aggregates scores received by countries attending WFDF world and continental championship events for Ultimate and Beach Ultimate over the past four years (see complete list below).
New to the list in 2019: Costa Rica, Luxembourg, Mozambique and Virgin Islands. Also new is also the Guts division, which introduced spirit scores at the Asia Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships. The full data set with 63 countries in alphabetical order in the linked table.
WFDF updates World Ultimate Rankings
25 November 2019 - Official Communication
Update follows WFDF 2019 Pan American Ultimate Championships, EUF 2019 European Youth Ultimate Championships and EUF 2019 European Masters Championships.
The World Flying Disc Federation today released the updated World Ultimate Rankings. These country rankings are based on the finishing positions of teams at the most recent WFDF World and Continental Ultimate events:
International Spirit of the Game Day 2019 is 7th of December
WFDF is gearing up for the 6th annual International Spirit of the Game Day, which will take place on Saturday, 7 December 2019. This year, the day's theme is “Spirit of the Game — It’s Not Just High Fives!” iSOTG Day, organized by the World Flying Disc Federation in partnership with the charitable organization Early Recognition Is Critical (E.R.I.C.), encourages Ultimate communities around the world to celebrate and reflect on Spirit of the Game, a core and unique element of the sport of Ultimate, by hosting events, clinics and activities where players can discuss and demonstrate good spirit.
Anyone (groups or individuals) can participate in iSOTG Day, and they will get the chance to win prizes from dozens of vendors simply by posting a video, photo, article, etc., on the iSOTG Facebook event , on Instagram, or on Twitter with the hashtag #iSOTGDay. Submissions are open between 29 November and 9 December 2019. The winning submissions will be chosen by members of the WFDF Spirit Committee, E.R.I.C., as well as partner representatives.
Strong showing from Colombia at WFDF 2019 Pan American Ultimate Championships
Colombia further proved it’s a force to be reckoned with at last month’s WFDF 2019 Pan American Ultimate Championships (PAUC), earning gold in both the Women’s and Men’s divisions. The USA won the Mixed Division championship.
The event was hosted at the Sarasota Polo Club in Florida, USA from Sunday 3rd November to Friday 8th November 2019. PAUC featured national and club Ultimate teams in the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed divisions, along with Mixed Masters, Men’s Masters and Men’s Grandmasters divisions. More than 1,360 athletes on 67 teams from 13 countries participated in PAUC.
WFDF seeks bids to host upcoming 2021 and 2022 WFDF Ultimate & Beach Ultimate Championship Events
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors, Ultimate Committee and Beach Committee are seeking bids from potential host organizers for the upcoming 2021 and 2022 WFDF Championship events.
WFDF will select one (1) Tournament Organizing Committee (TOC) per event to host the following Grass Ultimate & Beach Ultimate events:
· WFDF 2021 All African Ultimate Championships (AAUC)
· WFDF 2021 Asia Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships (AOUGC)
· WFDF 2021 Pan American Ultimate Championships (PAUC)
· WFDF 2021 World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC)
· WFDF 2021 World Under-24 Ultimate Championships (WU24)
· WFDF 2022 World Junior Ultimate Championships (WJUC)
· WFDF 2022 World Masters Ultimate Club Championships (WMUCC)
· WFDF 2022 World Ultimate Club Championships (WUCC)
WFDF 2020 World Ultimate and Guts Championships (WUGC)
Date: 11-18 July 2020 Location: Leeuwarden (NED) Event announcement
WFDF 2020 World Junior Ultimate Championships (WJUC)
Date: 18-25 July 2020 Location: Malmo, SWE Event announcement
WFDF 2020 World Masters Ultimate Championships (WMUC)
Date: 5-12 September 2020 Location: Gold Coast (AUS) Event announcement
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Childish Gambino Osheaga, Montreal QC, August 4
Photo: Chris Bubinas
By Courtney Baird-Lew
As the last headlining act of the festival edged ever closer, a bonfire of white smoke rose from the centre of the massive audience, announcing the dramatic arrival of one Childish Gambino (real name Donald Glover). A hydraulic, circular platform, edged with disco balls, made its way through the haze towards the sky, elevating the shirtless, heavily bearded polymath along with it.
Opening with the powerful, gospel-tinged "Atavista," microphone hanging by his side, the track then melded into "Algortyhm" (off a yet-to-be-announced upcoming album). The platform then descended, allowing for Gambino to run through the crowd, behind security-guarded barriers, toward the main stage, where a group of gospel singers awaited him. Encouraging the audience to put away their phones, stating: "This is a church experience, we don't need to commodify the moment," he later descended into the crowd to take selfies with the masses.
Moving into "Summertime Magic" with tropical plants and a group of talented, teen backup dancers swaying in the background, Gambino's swaggering, magnetic charisma pulsated through the crowd; his actor-trained eyes found every camera, his dance moves hit every note.
Continuing with the Chance the Rapper-featured track "The Worst Guys" and "Worldstar" off of 2013's Because the Internet, with fireworks bursting in the background, the rapper/singer/actor then eased his way smoother tracks off Awaken, My Love!, as well as "Feels Like Summer" and crowd-favourites "Sober," "3005" and "Sweatpants," with nearly the entire audience rapping along, word-for-word.
While a faulty set of speakers muffled his sound for those listening off to stage right, Gambino's outstanding showmanship overshadowed all technical difficulties, with the highly anticipated "This Is America" throwing the thousands watching into a frenzy.
Ending his phenomenal set with a new song titled "Human Sacrifice" and the soul-warming "Redbone," it became clear that it is, indeed Donald Glover's world. We just happen to be living in it.
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Shotgun Jimmie Returns with New Album 'Transistor Sister 2'
Hear the Chad VanGaalen-equipped song "Cool All the Time"
Just over three years removed from releasing his Field of Trampolines album, Shotgun Jimmie has shared the details behind a follow-up effort.
Titled Transistor Sister 2, the songwriter's latest arrives August 2 through You've Changed Records. Thirteen tracks in length, the album was recorded and produced at the Chat Chateaux in Toronto by José Contreras (By Divine Right).
As its title implies, Transistor Sister 2 is a sequel to Shotgun Jimmie's Polaris Music Prize-longlisted 2011 album Transistor Sister. The sequel is said to be "full of genuine pop gems, thematic callbacks to its musical predecessor, and manifestos that renounce cynicism and promote positivity."
Jimmie's backing band for the release not only features Contreras, but frequent collaborators Ryan Peters (Ladyhawk) and Jay Baird (Do Make Say Think). Transistor Sister 2 also features musical contributions from Steven Lambke and Cole Woods (Human Music), as well as a spoken word monologue from Chad VanGaalen on first single "Cool All the Time," which can be heard below.
Shotgun Jimmie will celebrate the album's official release with a main stage performance at SappyFest in Sackville, NB, that weekend. Transistor Sister 2 is now available for pre-order.
Transistor Sister 2:
1. Blues Riffs
2. Tumbleweed
3. Hot Pots
4. Ablutions
5. Fountain
6. Suddenly Submarine
7. Piano (with band)
8. The New Sincerity
9. Cool All The Time
10. Sappy Slogans
11. Highway 401
12. Jack Pine
13. Sorry We're Closed
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Item:4 General Debate - 22nd Meeting 23rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council
5 Jun 2013 -
22nd Plenary Meeting - 23rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.
Ireland (on behalf of European Union), Mr. Gerard Corr 00:01:06
Pakistan (on behalf of OIC), Mr. Shafqat Ali Khan 00:04:59
Iran, Islamic Republic of (on behalf of NAM), Mr. Mohsen Naziri Asl 00:08:08
United States of America, Ms. Eilleen Chamberlain Donahoe 00:11:37
Republic of Korea, Mr. Choi Seok-Young 00:15:06
Japan, Mr. Junichiro Otaka 00:18:17
Ecuador, Mr. Rodrigo Jimenez 00:21:56
Austria, Mr. Peter Guschelbauer 00:24:59
Switzerland, Mr. Andre Fasel 00:28:29
Spain, Mr. Luis Angel Redondo 00:32:04
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Mr. Edgardo Toro Carreno 00:35:03
Czech Republic, Ms. Katerina Sequensova 00:37:14
Norway, Mr. Erling Hoem 00:40:50
Australia, Ms. Ruth Stone 00:43:26
China, Mr. Jiang Yingfeng 00:45:27
Cuba, Ms. Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo 00:47:47
Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mr. Mohsen Ghanei 00:50:18
France, Ms. Katerina Doytchinov 00:52:27
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Bob Last 00:54:54
Sudan, Mr. Hamza Ahmed 00:57:33
Denmark, Ms. Marie-Louise Koch Wegter 00:59:39
Netherlands, Mr. Roderick Van Schreven 01:01:44
Tunisia, Ms. Cherifaeyssar Kochlef 01:03:42
Belarus, Mr. Evgeny Lazarev 01:05:59
Slovakia, Mr. Fedor Rosocha 01:08:59
Iraq, Mr. Kamil Al Sayed Noor 01:10:41
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. Young-Ho Kim 01:14:20
Myanmar, Mr. Maung Wai 01:17:15
Belgium, Mr. Yannick Minsier 01:19:38
Viet Nam , Mr. Nguyen Trung Tanh 01:21:31
Canada, Ms. Alison Leclaire Christie 01:24:29
Azerbaijan (Right of Reply), Mr. Ismayl Asadov 01:27:10
Human Rights Watch, Ms. Julie De Rivero 01:29:54
Baha'i International Community, Ms. Diane Ala'i 01:32:06
CIVICUS, Ms. Nada Dhaif 01:34:26
Sudwind, Mr. Hassan Nayeb Hashem 01:37:05
British Humanist Association, Mr. Roy Brown 01:39:35
Human Rights House Foundation, Ms. Anna Innocenti 01:41:40
COC-Nederlands, Mr. Tampose Mothopey 01:43:54
Centre for Inquiry, Ms. Elizabeth O'Casey 01:46:21
Amnesty International, Mr. Peter Splinter 01:48:42
Jubilee Campaign, Mr. Matthew Jones 01:51:08
Union Arab of Jurist, Ms. Yanet Bahena 01:53:28
IHEU, Mr. Kacem El Ghazzali 01:55:51
Item:10 General Debate 36th Meeting 23rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council
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Item:8 General Debate 32nd Meeting 23rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council
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Posted December 12, 2014 by Sean Mesler in Video Games
Welcome back! The year is almost over and we decided to talk about the uprezzed elephant in the room, the HD remake. Sure some folks don’t like this seemingly growing trend, but others don’t mind it and since it’s going to happen anyway, we decided to throw our suggestions into the mix. So here are our Top 5 HD remakes we want to see!
5. Rock and Roll Racing
Racing games are great, but barely any can compare to the ridiculousness that was Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing. This game from 1993 set you up in a deadly race against random aliens all across the universe. However, the cars in Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing weren’t exactly normal. All of these cars had offensive and defensive weapons and booster rockets to aid in the carnage. In fact, some of the cars were video game “tributes” to Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder.
Of course, the most important part of Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing was the soundtrack. The genius developers took classic tunes like Paranoid by Black Sabbath and converted them to a weird MIDI format, which made the game that much better.
Making Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing into a new game wouldn’t be too hard. I don’t want fancy 3d graphics or new songs. All I want is for the game to look great on a gigantic TV. All of the audio and gameplay elements could stay the same. Completely redoing the game and changing essential elements would screw it up. Oh, and those announcers would need to return as well.
4. Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Before Borderlands, Halo, or Gears of War, there was one cooperative shooter that trounced everything else. This game paired super random enemy types with unique levels to create a very fun, but fairly difficult experience named Zombies Ate My Neighbors. The premise of Zombies Ate My Neighbors is fairly simple in that you play as two young adults armed with squirt guns. Your goal is to rescue all of the neighbors from multitudes of zombies before they are brutally murdered. The concept is simple, but sometimes simplicity is perfect. You were able to run around neighborhoods, malls, and other levels while searching for these neighbors in distress. Of course, your path would occasionally be blocked, so you would need to find keys, alternate pathways, or hidden areas to aid in your rescue missions.
It wouldn’t be too difficult to make a new HD version of Zombies Ate My Neighbors. The game was very solid (and a little stressful), so the developers would just need to add in some fancy artwork and maybe a couple new weapons. One bonus was the large amount of levels included in the original game, so they wouldn’t even need to include a Season Pass or some BS like that. I would absolutely play Zombies Ate My Neighbors again, provided there was split-screen cooperative play.
3. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
When I was a young child, there were only two RPG’s that mattered to me: Final Fantasy III and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. I was completely amazed that someone had made a unique version of Mario, although my young brain didn’t quite understand the concept of an RPG. Of course, I didn’t really care because Super Mario RPG was the perfect fan-service, in my opinion. It was extremely enjoyable to create a party of heroes that included Mario, Bowser, and other characters. Even better, I was able to explore new and old areas to my heart’s content while fighting random enemies. Super Mario RPG offered a slower-paced version of a beloved property, and it included multiple secrets, including a 2d version of Mario that could be unlocked behind a specific curtain.
Recreating RPG’s is all the rage these days, if Square Enix is to be believed, and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is the perfect candidate for an HD remake. The fan service alone would make me want to replay the game, but the solid gameplay would keep me engaged (yes, it sounds like a cliché). Plus, the developers could include some new attacks and enemy types to mix it up a little. Besides, who doesn’t want to revisit Nimbus Land?
2. Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Jedi Academy wasn’t great, but it ended up being one of my most played games during my younger years. Raven Software were the developers in charge of awesome Star Wars games long before they became the Call of Duty map pack developers. Raven started with Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast before moving onto Jedi Academy. Now, many people prefer Jedi Outcast because of the unlockable dismemberment ability, but I preferred Jedi Academy for the customizable characters, varying areas to explore, and double lightsabers. Plus, Jedi Academy had multiplayer modes set in cloud city, so all you had to do to win was use force choke and throw your enemies off of the walkways.
I would absolutely love to see an HD remake of Jedi Academy because the original was actually pretty ugly. Raven was working with the technology at the time, so they couldn’t really make the prettiest game of all time. Plus, the HD remake could include some more levels. Jedi Academy wasn’t the longest game around, but all of the included levels were really fun, especially Hoth. My only question would be “can Raven include that dismemberment mode from Jedi Outcast?”
1. Sid Meier’s Pirates
Sid Meier’s Pirates (the remake of a 1987 classic) came out at the perfect time in my life. Pirates of the Caribbean was one of my new favorite movies, and I basically wanted to pretend that I was Jack Sparrow. Luckily, Firaxis and 2K recreated this classic pirate game for the original Xbox and PC. This was especially helpful because my original copy of the 1987 game didn’t run on my PC. Apparently, 3 ½ diskettes were unusable.
Sid Meier’s Pirates had a great design in that it was an isometric view that worked well with the wide-open Caribbean setting. You could take your pirate ship (which I named the Black Pearl) and travel around in search of women, buried treasure, and your kidnapped family. Travel times depended on storms, rations, and attacks by other pirates. Pirates also included a timing-based control scheme for sword fights on pirate ships or in forts, but this control scheme also worked for dancing minigames and wooing the ladies. However, my favorite aspect of Sid Meier’s Pirates was the fact that you could lose the game if you didn’t find all of your family members in time. There were no second chances in this pirate universe. You just had to restart the entire game and try to find your family again—in their new, randomized locations.
Yes, I know that versions of Sid Meier’s Pirates have been released for the iPad and Wii, but they don’t count. I want a brand-new, gorgeous version of Sid Meier’s Pirates with the same goofy elements.
5. Metal Arms: Glitch In The System
Probably known as one of the best games you’ve never played, Metal Arms was a ridiculous 3rd person shooter similar to that of the Ratchet and Clank series. You played as this robot named Glitch who did more than just shoot some guns. My personal favorite mechanic was the ability to take control of other robots by tethering to them, allowing you the option to use the enemy’s own weapons against them, along with an assortment of vehicles to wreak havoc with. Why haven’t you heard more about this game? A sequel had started development when developer Swingin’ Ape Studios was bought out by Blizzard to take over and work on Starcraft: Ghost.
4. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
I don’t think very many Splinter Cell fans will argue with me that Chaos Theory was the best in the series. Before Sam Fisher went the action hero route, he was a stealthy spy that was at the height of his awesomeness teaching us that stealth is an art. As much as I love the Spies vs Mercs introduced with Splinter Cell Blacklist, Chaos Theory had the formula for multiplayer locked down. With the power of the current generation, Chaos Theory could benefit greatly.
3. Mass Effect Trilogy
Okay, Okay. I know this is really three games, but there was a lot to love with the trilogy. The original game was a fantastic RPG, but a bit lacking in the core gunplay. ME2 was pretty much awesome all the way through. ME3 left us hanging in the end, but introduced the surprisingly fun multiplayer. Getting the entire package with a slight graphical boost for current gen consoles just seems like a no-brainer.
2. Final Fantasy IX
Everyone seems to be hung up on Final Fantasy VII, but IX was honestly my favorite from the PS1 era. Although the characters were a bit childish looking, the game benefited from returning to its more traditional roots of gameplay. The story was actually quite solid and had some interesting qualities that really brought out its full charm. Not to mention, I would really love to ride my chocobo again in beautiful crisp HD.
1. Star Wars Republic Commando
Quite possibly my favorite Star Wars game of all time. Republic Commando melded a lot of FPS gameplay elements seen in previous shooters like Halo or Metroid Prime, but integrated cover and squad based combat. You get the chance to play special ops clone troopers with a variety of weapons from the Star Wars universe, all of which gave a nice shade of personality to the clone troopers. As far as today’s standards go, the AI could probably use an upgrade to compensate, but the gameplay still holds up as a slower-paced shooter, similar to that of Rainbow Six: Vegas. There might be other great Star Wars games out there, but this one deserves top spot in my book.
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5. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
I absolutely loved Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. From it’s bats@%t crazy story, to the variety of gameplay set pieces to it’s gorgeous graphics, it was easily one of my favorite games of 2008. While I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary to remake it for current gen consoles, I would love an excuse to experience it again on current gen consoles. And knowing Kojima, he wouldn’t settle for an uprezzed version of it. I could see him finding ways to implement some of the DualShock 4’s features into the gameplay.
I’m sure this would be on a lot of people’s list. Bioware’s space epic was bold, innovative and wholly fantastic. Being able to experience Commander Shepard’s rise from Spectre to savior (depending on your perspective and choices) of the universe is definitely something that begs for the HD remake treatment. And hopefull Bioware would use the extra horsepower to improve the more nagging issues that dinged the original versions like texture pop-in amd issues with saves carrying over between games.
3. Uncharted series
The main reason I want this is for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, my favorite game of last generation, but it doesn’t make sense to port the second game and not the first and third so they’re all here on my list. Not taking anything away from Drake’s Fortune and Drake’s Deception – I liked them both quite a bit – but Uncharted 2 stands above the rest for me and experiencing it all over again in gorgeous 1080p with 60fps, would easily get me to pony up the cash.
2. Final Fantasy XII
I’ll say it and I’ll say it proudly; Final Fantasy XII is by far my favorite Final Fantasy game. I loved the look, I loved the story but most of all I loved the way it played. Removing random encounters altogether and the Gambit system were the two things that always stuck with me years after I experienced the game for the first time back in 2006. Over 100 hours I spent in the world of Ivalice and I would gladly do it all over again in widescreen and HD.
1. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Come on now. I can’t see why this game wouldn’t be at the top of everyone’s list. It’s probably the greatest Star Wars game ever made and has a story that’s arguably better than most of the canon. Seeing this game completely remade for current gen would be something that could not only prove successful, but possible get the series back to where it started and belongs, as a single player, story driven experience. Do it now, Bioware. Pretty please?
So how do our lists stack up against yours? What games would you like to see done again with the HD treatment? Let us know in the comments!
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Sean Mesler
Sean is a semi-retired hardcore kid, semi-grown up and transplanted from his original home of New York to Los Angeles. A lover and critic of movies, music and video games, Sean is always quick with an opinion, a heaping dose of snark, and a healthy dose of pragmatism. PSN & Live Gamertag: N2NOther
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Doug Taylor's variable geometry proa from 1977
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Proa Notes
by Doug Taylor
I wrote the following in 1977 to document my experiences when building and testing an experimental proa. The design followed about a year of conceptual sketches and ruminations. I decided that it was time to check my excursions of the imagination with a real test platform.
VARIABLE GEOMETRY HYDROFOIL PROA
LOA 16’-7"
LWL 16’-1"
BOA 10’-9"
BWL 1'-1"
HULL DRAFT 0’-6"
FOIL DRAFT 0’-4"
SA 130 SF
This design is of the Micronesian proa type with the ama, (outrigger float), always kept upwind. Tacking upwind is accomplished by changing ends; (the term "shunt" has been adopted).
The single mainsail is like a genoa in that the luff contains a jibstay. The tack of the sail slides from one end of the main hull to the other on a small block pulled along a standing cable traveller. Two mainsheets are attached to the clew, one leading to each end of the hull. If a whisker pole is used, it must be disengaged when shunting.
The hydrofoil, a surface piercing foil, is carried on the weather side of the ama. In section, the weather side is an arc; the lee side is flat. Steering is accomplished by shifting the center of lateral resistance. Longitudinal placement of the foil ranges the length of the hull by pulling the ama fore and aft on pivoting float booms (aka), like a pantograph.
The hydrofoil tilts by means of universal joints at the connections of the booms to ama. Tilted inwards towards the hull at speed, the hydrofoil provides downward resistance to heeling. Let go out from the hull, the hydrofoil may provide upward lift to reduce ama resistance in light air.
The float booms pivot on the weather side of the hull, beneath the weather side deck, which acts as an upper stop to their vertical travel. Connections at the ama, as mentioned above, permit the foil to intersect the waterline at 30 to 120 degrees.
SEA TRIAL NOTES, SEPT. 21, 1977
CLEAR LAKE, CALIFORNIA
Sailed Proa this afternoon after modifying the foil tilt arrangement. Temporarily abandoned the tilt adjustment line, and lashed a prominent tilt angle, (15 to 20 degrees in).
Sailed about 2 hours. Can be steered as a regular proa with a big paddle, with the aka in perpendicular position. Steers well using only ama swing, could swing smoother, though. The akas bump along under the weather deck. Wind was about 6-7 knots. Noticed appreciable luff bend. Tack shift and clew shift sail works very well. A solid pole for foil tilt control would be good.
CONCLUSIONS TO DATE (1977)
In the design I did not much concern myself with the drag of the ama and foil. I had thought that the ama and foil pulled in toward the bow would result in a close hauled course. However, due to the drag, the actual effect is that a close hauled course is achieved with the akas about perpendicular to the hull. It can even pinch to luffing. Pulling the ama aft of midships slightly produces a steady windward beat without use of the paddle. Pulled way aft it produces a broad reach. Steering closer to a dead run requires steering with the paddle.
The aka thump and slide under the platform when shifting. Sitting in the canoe, on the after deck, helps, as opposed to sitting on the windward platform when sliding the aka forward and aft.
The arrangement of the foil tilting lines did not work due to the pull being led to both outrigger shrouds. The ama would flop to either side rather than hold the desired angle. I abandoned this arrangement and simply lashed the outrigger to a selected angle. Lashed so, it will still slide fore and aft without appreciably changing the angle.
To shunt, I found that the best results were obtained by first pulling the ama forward (in the initial direction), and letting go the sheet before it could point up very high. Then I backed to the opposite end of the craft, pulling the sail tack line with me, securing it as soon as I sat down. Then, after setting the sheet for the new direction, I would adjust the ama for the new course. All can be done in about 20 seconds. This could be bettered with practice. The sail tack traveler works well, as does the double, two-purchase sheet arrangement.
The strongest wind encountered was 6-7 knots. The ama lifted to its ski shaped bottom but no higher. The foil maintained a steady grip on the water, and I never had to hike out to counterbalance. In this mild wind the mast did bend to leeward some. On the next occasion that I sailed I first tightened the outboard (upper) shroud one notch and slacked the inboard (lower) shroud one notch. I tightened both (somewhat leeward) stays one notch.
POSSIBLE FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Devise some sort of double tracks & cars for the aka to ride smoothly under the platform when being shifted.
Devise a foil angle adjuster other than the original.
Lighten overall weight.
Put mast and hull / aka pivot locations further outboard, to windward. Enhancing working room, sail lift, strength to weight ratio of configuration?
Recut sail for 2 1/2" shorter luff.
Stronger mast for San Francisco Bay.
Note: on a subsequent sail, with a passenger and 10 knots of wind, the mast did fail. It consisted of two 15' lengths of 3" aluminum electrical conduit connected with an aluminum sleeve. It bent above the sleeve about 30 degrees.
Trial Photos 1977
Me at the mast, unfurling the staysail main. Patti O'Connor is passenger. Foil is lashed to ama at a few degrees, flat side in, curved side out.
Reaching.
Reaching on the other tack.
Close reaching, I think, Ama really pulling down, as if ballasted, but not.
On the beach. Foil has been unshipped from bracket on ama.
Hull is 17' long. Mast is 30' long. Not a good idea for a mast fabricated of aluminum conduit.
Micronesian Sailing Canoes
Douglas Taylor
Anthropology 3520
Prof. McKnight
In the study of Micronesia, the subject of traditional inter-island communication will attract the attention of Western sailors. The evolutionary development of the sailing craft of Micronesia was for the most part complete before the first European contact. This evolution produced a type of outrigger sailing canoe of an amazingly efficient design, which is radically different from Western craft.
The same basic design is found throughout Micronesia:
"…this mixture of races has, however, been so long in the melting pot that in all that concerns canoe design, Micronesia is as fully homogenous A Polynesia. What differences exist are due to local factors, and even there, are confined in the main to inshore craft. The voyaging canoes have a remarkably close family resemblance, bespeaking regular or frequent intercourse between the constituent island groups." (Hornell, 1936, p.345)
Among the most sophisticated of these canoes is the flying proa of the Carolina Islands. The designation "Flying Proa" is supposed to have been used since Magellan first sighted sailing outriggers in 1521, but it is thought that Magellan may have sighted Marianas canoes rather than Carolinas craft. (Hornell, 1936, p.375)
The speed and agility the canoes amazed the earliest visitors in Micronesia. Pigafetta, one of Magellan's crew, wrote, "the islanders delight to plough the sea with their small boats… they change stern and bow at will…and resemble dolphins which leap in the water from wave to wave." (Gibson, 1958, p. 66) Dampier, who visited in 1686, estimated a proa's speed to sometimes exceed 24 miles per hour.
The above mentioned 'changing from bow to stern at will' is the basis of the unique way in which the canoe is sailed. Discussion of the sailing technique will follow a description of the "Popo," or flying proa of Yap, (central Carolina's) and of variations found in other areas. This will provide a background for arguments on the sailing characteristics and some ideas on modern adaptation for further efficiency.
The Popo of Yap
The hull of the popo is built-up from a dugout keel to which are attached carefully fitted strakes. Traditionally these hull-forming strakes were secured with sennit twine through holes along their edges. Seams were caulked with sennit fibers and tree gum. As large trees are available in Yap, the dugout portion could be large, with only several strakes attached. On atolls with limited wood, however, the dugout part was wedge shaped, and many strake pieces were stitched together in a patchwork manner. These "patchwork" hulls fitted with great accuracy and skill.
The hull is longitudinally asymmetric. The outboard side, the side opposite the outrigger float, is straighter and flatter than the inboard side. The degree of asymmetry varies from nearly straight and flat to being only slightly less curved than the opposite side. The two basic functions of this asymmetry are the use of the steep side for lateral resistance, a "grip" on the water, like a Western sailboat’s keel, and to counteract the turning force from the drag of the outrigger float. An ideally shaped hull will cause the canoe to move straight through the water when pushed. (Hornell, p. 377)
Outrigger booms, "aka," attach to the topmost strakes on each side of the hull. They extend a few inches over the flat side of the hull, and eight or ten feet out from the weather side. The outrigger float, "ama," is solid wood and is shaped for little water resistance. It is attached to the booms with "Y" shaped wooden yokes. The weight of the outrigger is as important as important as is it’s buoyancy. When moving fast under sail, the float is often raised clear of the water, it’s weight countering the canoe’s heeling tendency.
Measurements of a representative Yapese popo are as follows: Overall length - 9.4m, Keel length - 7m, Depth amidships - 1.15m, Length of the booms to the axis of the float - 3.6m, Length of the float - 4m. (Muller, 1917, pp. 183, as quoted by Hornell, p. 182)
The sail is the shape of an isosceles triangle, with the two longer edges laced to two long poles. The mast is shorter than these spars, and pivots fore and aft from the middle of the hull. The upper spar is braced between the mast and a butt socket at either bow, The lower spar then hangs at the bottom of the sail and is controlled by a mainsheet. This is the oceanic lateen type of sail, of Southeast Asian origin.
Overall width of the popo is increased about 20% beyond the hull and float width by the addition of the lee platform. This rectangular deck is secured to two poles lashed to the aka in the canoe hull, pointing out from the flat side of the hull at an upward angle. This platform ,opposite the ama, is used for cargo or passengers. There was often a low hut of woven fronds here for protection from the weather. A somewhat taller hut was sometimes sitting on the float booms, between the hull and the float.
Theabove description of a Yapese popo can generally be applied to other Micronesian sailing canoes. Regional variations are obvious enough that a canoe’s place of origin can be determined by its appearance. Variations are usually limited to the presence or lack of a lee platform, the method of securing the float to the hull, and the design of the stem ends. In the case of the canoes of Palau and Sonsorol, the hulls are symmetrical, but the sailing method is the same. The following discussions pertain only to deep water sailing craft:
The Gilbert Islands canoes have no lee platform, they use three float booms. Frames are inserted into the hull for strength, as they are built up of patchwork planking. There are no stem projections.
Marshall Island canoes have lee and weather platforms. The float is supported by two main and four to eight minor booms. Hornell describes this system as having been brought to relative perfection. (Hornell, p. 362) These canoes use long, narrow floats. Narrow stems extend beyond the ends of the hull.
The Marianas canoe has no lee or weather platform. They have three outrigger booms, and the hull has slightly projection stems.
Canoes of the Palau Islands, and Sonsorol are not built with the asymmetry common to the others. There is a small weather platform, and two booms secure the float. On the Palau canoe straight thwarts across the gunwales project a little over the outrigger side. These ends support a long straight pole parallel to the hull, looking like a grab rail.
From Hornell’s summary on Micronesian canoes:
"In all the Micronesian groups of islands the design of the outrigger canoe reached a higher level of development than in any part of Polynesia, as did the knowledge of the science of navigation possessed by certain of the Islanders. It is difficult to conceive of any possible great improvement on the sailing canoe design of the Micronesians, for it combines three inventions of the utmost utility in sailing: 1, the flattened lee side of the hull acting as a leeboard to reduce drift to leeward and compensating to some extent for the pull to the weather side of the outrigger float; 2, the use of a lee platform on the cantilever system, enabling a greater quantity of cargo to be carried; 3, the midships pivoting of the mast, where the canoe was able to sail either end forward and so to keep the outrigger on the weather side, whichever course she was on." (Hornell, p. 438)
Sailing an Outrigger Canoe
When sailing, the wind is always kept on the outrigger side. If the wind came over the flat side, the canoe would be taken aback, and as the mast is not supported from that side, could be dismasted. The sail yards are stepped in the bow with the mast raked forward. A steersman works a large steering paddle from the extreme stern of the hull. Another crew member controls the sheet.
To tack an outrigger requires at least two persons. The canoe is put on a course perpendicular to the wind. The butt end of the upper spar is disengaged from the bow, carried manually to the opposite end, and secured. Another crew member controls the mast stays to concurrently rake the mast to the new bow. The helmsman takes a position at the new stern, the sail is trimmed, and the canoe moves forward on the new tack. Sometimes the steering paddle is secured to a lanyard tied amidships so that it can be dropped overboard and allowed to drift toward the other end. Accompanying photographs show the sequence of this tacking method.
Micronesian canoes sail easiest across the wind or somewhat downwind. Despite the efficient implications of the asymmetric hull, they do not point very high into the wind when to windward. In practice they are sailed upwind with the sheet, not so much the steering paddle. When the sheet is hauled in, the wind pressure on the sail toward the front of the canoe is increased, so the bow is forced downwind. Conversely wind is spilled from the sail when the sheet is slacked away, so that due to the drag of the outrigger, the boat turns up into the wind. It therefore proceeds to windward in a series of curves between 50 and 70 degrees off the true wind. Leeway, drift to leeward, is about 15 degrees, which makes an average windward course of about 80 degrees. (Lewis, 1972, p. 270) This upwind sailing problem can be described as a severe lee helm imbalance that forces the bow off the wind.
Upwind sailing was avoided whenever possible, though, because a wind change could more easily result in a gust from the wrong side that would capsize the canoe, and because upwind sailing subjected the craft to greater stress.Early canoes, bound entirely with vegetable fiber, were much more vulnerable to stress upwind than modern canoes made with iron tools, and fastened together with bolts and nails. (Sharp, 1963, pp. 56)
Authors’ opinions on the above matters do not all coincide. David Lewis refers to L. Mason and W. Draper to argue that the advantage of the flexibility of sennit lashings would be defeated by the use of iron fastenings. (Lewis, 1972, pp. 56) Alan Villiers states that the use of fiber lashings results in unsatisfactory seagoing vessels, subject to disintegration. (Villiers, 1949, p. 48)
It is my view that flexibility serves a shock absorbing function and is important in reduction of structural fatigue. However, the degree of optimal flexing could be determined for the various parts of the canoe. Modern materials, like metal alloys, plywood, and fiberglass could be used in such a way as to incorporate controlled flexing combined with strength. If Lewis is entirely correct, it follows that automobile suspensions would be made of fibrous materials.
The oceanic lateen sail plan enjoyed the advantages of maneuverability and upwind superiority over the earliest Western square sailed craft. Due to material advantages, however, Western technology has continually improved the efficiency of sails and hulls. Among the quickest of small sports sailboats today are the light planing sloops and catamarans. The latter bear only superficial resemblance to the Polynesian originals. A modernization of the Micronesian proa might result in a sports sail boat as fast as the best. If such a craft could outperform established designs of similar size, or if it could come close at less cost to the owner, then a new design could compete in the sailboat market.
Thomas Gladwin discusses recent innovations in the design and construction of Puluwat canoes. The three he lists are: replacement of the mat sail with cloth, the use of iron tools in fairing the hull, and dropping the taboos and rituals associated with canoe building. This last point results in smoother hulls because more people can lend a hand. (Gladwin, 1970, p. 123) Attempts at innovation outside Micronesia seem to miss the point of the importance of lateral symmetry. The Malibu Outrigger is a class of sailboat seen in Southern California which is an outrigger canoe, but which tacks upwind like other Western craft. The crew must try to counter the dragging outrigger when it is on the down wind side, by hiking their bodies out over the opposite side.
To approach the problem of modifying the Micronesian outrigger I first listed the assets and liabilities of the traditional design, then formed an idea of what a new design should be able to do. Superior aspects include the low water resistance of the extremely narrow hull, which also weighs less than a conventional hull of the same length. The flat side of the asymmetrical hull resists leeward drift without the depth or drag of a keel or centerboard. The curved windward side causes a water flow much like the aerodynamic flow on an airplane wing, which tends to give the hull upwind lift. (Gladwin, 1970, p. 94) The weight of the outrigger float performs the same function as a lead keel, but the ability of it's weight to counter wind pressure is immediate because it is attached at 90 degrees to the mast. A boat with a ballasted keel has to heel over quite a bit before the weight will counter heavy wind pressure. For these reasons, the weight of the outrigger float can be far less than that of an equivalent ballasted keel for the same amount of stability.
The disadvantages of these canoes include the necessity of manhandling the sail from one end to the other, making it impossible to sail single-handed. People are needed to sit on the outrigger booms to counter the wind if it grows heavier. The sail being attached so fat forward causes the previously mentioned lee helm tending to turn the canoe downwind when trying to tack. When running before the wind, the sail thrust is all outboard of the flat side and the float is in the water dragging on the other side. This necessitates the use of a large steering paddle to keep it on course, which constitutes a drag.
An ideal design, then, should provide a canoe that can be worked single-handed, including moving the rig from one end to the other. Either the sail plan to the center of lateral resistance should be continuously adjustable for steady tacking upwind, and to lessen the need for a heavy rudder / steering paddle when sailing off the wind. If it is to be sailed single-handedly, a way of spilling excess wind would be useful.
Construction of 17' Prototype, Sketches
Here is how the boat articulates. The aka(s) pivot at the hull and at the ama. The windward platform keeps the aka from swinging up, shrouds to the aka assembly keep it from dropping. The sail tack traveller can be seen. Most of these ideas came out a little different from the sketch in actual construction.
This scale drawing did not scan so well, so you have to scroll horizontally to see stuff. The stays and shrouds are shown here.
This scale drawing did not scan so well either, so you have to scroll horizontally to see stuff also. The stays and shrouds are shown here, as well as the lashing of the hydrofoil angle that was adopted during trials.
(Editor's note: I can't seem to make the Wayback Machine cough up sketch #3, not sure why. I'll try to get it from Doug.)
1977 - Rigging Proa before first launch. Andy, the best dog I ever knew, waiting patiently for a ride.
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Saccharine story; great leads
As an adult with Down syndrome and no family, Zak (Zack Gottsagen, making his feature debut) is a man without a place. He’s too old for children’s homes and too vulnerable for rehab centers. He winds up in a state-run nursing home.
He is popular with both staff and residents, but at 22 he doesn’t want to waste his life in a nursing home. He dreams of becoming a professional wrestler, like his hero The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). Where he wants to be is at wrestling school in North Carolina.
With the help of some senior residents, he escapes the nursing home and finds himself alone on the rivers of North Carolina. Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a drifter with a mysterious past, agrees to take him to the wrestling school. Cut to a water chase by well-meaning state workers and angry fishermen.
Can this motley duo reach their destination?
This modernized take on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sweet story of chasing your dreams and finding your family. Directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, in their feature debut, make a heartfelt and beautifully shot film, capturing the wild beauty of North Carolina’s seas and marshes. Each backwoods spot is populated with characters who could have stepped out of the pages of a Twain tale.
If only they had taken equal care with the script.
Sincerity is both the film’s greatest asset and its greatest weakness. Nilson and Schwartz take pains to give dimensional character to Zak, but not to the people he encounters. Antagonists can be cartoonish in their wickedness. An extraneous love subplot lands with the dull thud of a bird hitting a window. The message is so firmly hammered that it becomes tiresome.
On the plus side, LaBeouf and Gottsagen give utterly wonderful central performances. The scenes where they’re goofing around in fields and on rafts are brimming with joy. Newcomer Gottsagen has a natural screen presence, and his performance anchors the film. His Zak is determined, kind and in love with discovering new things. He blossoms the moment he escapes the nursing home. LaBeouf has never been better, in a genuine likeable turn. His Tyler is damaged by life but still a deeply good soul.
Their chemistry makes The Peanut Butter Falcon worth the ticket. It’s rare to capture a friendship so wonderfully on film.
Good Dramedy • PG-13 • 97 mins.
~~~ New this Week ~~~
After seemingly defeating the evil Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), the members of The Losers Club dispersed. Then children go missing again in Derry, Maine, and Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) asks his friends to return. Pennywise is back, stronger than ever.
Can the adult Losers Club find in each other the strength they had as children?
This sequel to It has a more difficult task than its blockbuster original. The best bits of Stephen King’s novel all involve the Losers as children; the adult sections drag by comparison. So It Chapter Two has an uphill battle to be received as well as the first film.
On the plus side, director Andy Muschietti is back, meaning gorgeous looks and plenty of chills. Muschietti also has a deft hand at editing, trimming down King’s novel into a streamlined story. Stars like Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader should help.
If you were a fan of the first movie (or the book), this should be an excellent way to spend three hours. But don’t buy the big soda. With that running time and plenty of jump scares, your bladder doesn’t need any more stress.
Prospects: Bright • R • 169 mins.
Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener - 7/11/19
Traveling Americans learn why you should first check Trip Advisor
Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are not a happy couple. Despite years together, she worries he will leave her. He wants to, but he doesn’t want the bad guy rep.
Before he can work up the nerve to go, tragedy strikes, leaving Dani in a deep depression. Stuck playing the doting boyfriend while complaining to his pals, he insincerely invites Dani along on his boys’ trip to Sweden. Nobody’s happy when she agrees.
The destination is a rare Midsommar festival in remote northern Sweden, where graduate student friend Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren) grew up. The festival holds a wealth of thesis material for anthropology student Christian and his friends.
The Americans are welcomed to the isolated community by joyous people with open arms and hallucinogenic teas. Their gracious hosts and odd customs charm the students.
But as customs become odder, the outsiders wonder what the purpose of this Midsommar festival is.
Midsommar solidifies director Ari Aster (Hereditary) as one of the most fearless and fascinating filmmakers working today. He turns the horror genre on its ear. There is plenty of gore, tension and good acting but few surprises. The point isn’t the end. It’s the journey.
Midsommar considers toxic relationships and our need to find community, even at the cost of compromising ourselves. Aster employs no jump scares, and he rarely relies on overly dramatic music. Still, there is plenty to keep you on the edge of your seat, as he takes us on a long, gruesomely disturbing march.
Camera work makes this film a triumph. Aster employs sweeping wide shots and careful, subtle CGI to make the film a living thing. Blossoms seem to breathe, the hills ripple in unnatural ways and faces in the friendly crowd of villagers are slightly misshapen. This eerie effect makes everything unsettling.
Also a cut above is Pugh’s astounding performance as Dani. Swinging from desperation to animalistic grief, she is a raw nerve of a woman who clings with her fingernails to signs of affection. She’s mesmerizing as she uncovers the secrets of the Midsommar festival.
Despite my raptures, Midsommar is not for everyone. It’s unrelentingly brutal, subjecting viewers to well over two hours of pitch black humor. It’s a movie meant to evoke a response, and in my theater responses were pretty diverse. Midsommar is a movie for viewers who appreciate artistry over expediency — and don’t mind a few split skulls along the way.
Great Horror • R • 147 mins.
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable
Thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton’s arm was bitten by a tiger shark. Many people would have quit surfing; Bethany viewed it as a minor setback. She learned how to surf without an arm to balance her and became a pro.
In this documentary, the surfer, mother and advocate for cleaning the oceans shares her secrets for a happy, productive life.
It should be an inspiring flick. If you’ve got kids with big dreams, this might be the movie to convince them to follow them.
Prospects: Bright • PG • 98 mins.
Haley (Kaya Scodelario) searches for her father as a hurricane floods her town. She finds him trapped and injured in their house. Fearing they’ll drown before help arrives, Haley seeks a way out.
What she finds is a giant alligator.
Fans of schlock horror and goofy CGI effects may find entertainment in one woman’s battle with an alligator.
Prospects: Flickering • R • 87 mins.
Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) is an Uber driver hoping to earn quick cash and a five-star rating. He’s expecting rides to the mall or the movies when Vic (Dave Bautista) jumps in his car.
A cop obsessed with catching a killer, Vic is a bit of a loose cannon, offering Stu a gun and trying to rope him into his investigation. What will Stu do to avoid a one-star rating?
Both Nanjiani and Bautista have proven themselves excellent comic talents. They can make almost anything funny, which is lucky, as this script lacks that quality and many others.
Prospects: Dim • R • 105 mins.
This film franchise should go extinct
The Jurassic World theme park was abandoned after a disastrous security breach left tourists maimed, eaten and heavily inconvenienced. The company went bankrupt, and the island of person-eating dinosaurs (some of which can fly) was ignored by the governments of the world.
Five years later, the dinosaurs are set to lose their haven. Isla Nublar’s long-dormant volcano is active and about to erupt. When the volcano blows, dinosaurs will go extinct again. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard: Gold), the former manager of Jurassic World, leads a non-profit dedicated to preventing a second extinction.
Claire is underfunded and fighting a losing battle, but there is hope. Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell: Marshall), John Hammond’s former partner and a founder of the technology that revitalized dinosaurs, has a plan. He wants Claire to help capture a few of every species and transfer them to safety on a new island he’s bought.
There’s a hitch: The government has decided to allow the dinosaurs to die, making this rescue mission technically off the books.
To help save the creatures she considers to be a miracle of nature, Claire recruits ex-boyfriend Owen (Chris Pratt: Avengers: Infinity War). He overcomes his reluctance for the sake of rescuing Blue, a dinosaur that once saved his life.
Will saving dinosaurs from a second extinction throw nature off balance? Is something nefarious lurking behind Lockwood’s plan? Will moviemakers ever stop tainting the memory of Jurassic Park with these terrible sequels?
This summer blockbuster offers big-budget effects and so little else that it manages to make dinosaurs mundane.
The one bright spot is the director, J.A. Bayona (A Monster Calls), who spices up rote scenes with innovative camera work. Bayona and cinematographer Óscar Faura (A Monster Calls) craft an opening sequence with great tension and pepper the story with original shots.
But grand camera angles and sweeping pans do not a story make. Plot twists and turns are so telegraphed that they might as well be handed out on a pamphlet before the movie. When humans appear, the film grinds to a halt. Their dialogue is terrible, they fail to understand human interaction and, most troubling, they take precious time away from the dinos.
Even seasoned performers like Howard, Pratt and Cromwell seem either bored or embarrassed. Pratt and Howard still have negative romantic chemistry, so every scene featuring their banter is painful as well as unnecessary.
Even diehard Jurassic fans will be disappointed.
Poor Prehistoric Action • PG-13 • 128 mins.
Pixar’s hero-family series is still super
Bob and Helen Parr (voiced by Craig T. Nelson: Book Club; Holly Hunter: The Big Sick) embrace their super abilities as heroes. With superheroes banned by the government as menaces, Helen worries that their children will suffer. Bob rails at the injustice of being denied his abilities.
So Bob accepts the offer of billionaire telecommunications developer Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk: Better Call Saul) to help the Parrs turn public opinion in favor of the Super community. He’s dismayed, however, at Winston’s insistence that Helen, whose alter-ego Elastigirl is less damaged, be the face of the campaign. Helen, Winston argues, is the practical super solution. She’s approachable and able to keep collateral damages low.
Helen doesn’t like the idea of leaving the kids. Bob doesn’t like the idea of leaving the spotlight. Still, he accedes to staying home with the kids.
Both Parrs face challenges. Helen enjoys being the center of attention, earning adulation as she does what she’s good at. She also feels guilt at leaving her children. Bob has a hard time coping with single parenthood, especially as baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile: The Incredibles) has started displaying a startling range of powers.
Can Helen help make superheroes legal again? Can Bob keep Jack-Jack from incinerating himself and the household? What will happen when a new supervillain emerges to challenge them?
Hilarious, action-packed and full of heart, The Incredibles 2 is a worthy sequel to one of Pixar’s best films. Writer and director Brad Bird’s (Tomorrowland) comic timing and action staging have matured in the 14 years between the first and second installment of this super story. Action sequences are thrilling, and emotional moments are touching. It’s a fine return to form for Bird, who had stepped away from Pixar to direct live-action films.
The first Incredibles took a harder look at its themes, midlife crises and lack of communication in marriage. Themes here — gender roles, raising kids and obsession with commercialism and screens — get shallower treatment. Discovering the identity of the villain won’t be much of a challenge if you’re over the age of six, as the film follows typical Pixar storytelling formula.
Still, this movie has a lot to recommend with slick 1960s’ styling and Bond-movie sensibilities. There are lots of visual jokes for fans of kitschy spy movies. The voice cast returns as well, with Hunter the emotional standout and Nelson offering some great comic moments.
The real star of The Incredibles 2 is Jack-Jack. Precocious babies can become tiresome in films, but Jack-Jack is the perfect blend of delightful chaos and zany comedy. The baby is, at once, the best argument for and against having children. His fight with a raccoon is one of the funniest animated sequences ever created. He even plays well with Incredibles standout Edna Mode (voiced by Bird).
With breezy action sequences, gorgeous visuals and a ton of heart, The Incredibles 2 is a great summer movie for the whole family. Come early to enjoy Bao, a wonderful short about the devotion, and obsession, in a mother’s love.
Great Animation • PG • 118 mins.
A group of women prove they can steal as well as the boys
Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock: Our Brand is Crisis) has had five years to work on her speech to the parole board. She’s also had five years to plan the ultimate heist. For Debbie, pulling heists is not only a family tradi- tion but a matter of redemption — she needs to prove to her- self that the mistake that put her in jail will never happen again.
The job is to steal a legendary necklace worth $150 million in the middle of the Met Gala. The job requires that Debbie get past not only the tight security of the Metropolitan Museum of Art but all of the private security firms hired to specifically protect the jewels on loan to the attending gliteratti.
Debbie needs a team. She hooks up with her old partner Lou (Cate Blanchett: Thor: Ragnarok) and starts to look for a few good criminals. She insists on an all-female team, because women are so frequently ignored. Together, Lou and Debbie recruit jewel- er Amita (Mindy Kaling: Champions); fence Tammy (Sarah Paulson: The Post); pickpocket Constance (Awkwafi- na: Dude); hacker Nine Ball (Rihanna: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets); and designer Rose Weil (Hele- na Bonham Carter: Sgt. Stubby).
Can Debbie’s team pull off the ulti- mate score? Or is robbery man’s work? Breezy, stylish and a whole lot of fun, Ocean’s 8 is a great summer diversion.
The chemistry between the women is wonderful, and when the ladies come together, the movie is fantastic. There is plenty of lickety-split dialogue and jokes to keep the tone enjoyable. Like all caper movies, if you spend more than 20 seconds thinking about the plot, everything falls apart. But the movie is able to effectively distract from the inherent ridiculousness well enough to mitigate any logic problems.
Though all the ladies work well together, they don’t work together enough. The Ocean’s franchise is built upon the fun of watching big-name celebrities riff off each other. In service of developing one too many plots, the characters are short-changed. Interest- ing teammates such as Rihanna and Paulson are given far too little to do in the name of allowing yet another wacky plot thread to form. There’s also entirely too much time spent on an underdevel- oped and uninteresting revenge subplot.
Blanchett and Bullock are effortlessly cool as the fast-talking center of the criminal whirlwind. But the standout in this cast is Anne Hathaway (Colossal). As the mark, a spoiled Hollywood star- let, Hathaway is a scenery-chewing delight. Her Daphne bounces between pouty brat, sex kitten and lonely neurot- ic. It’s a parody of every actress stereo- type, and it is masterfully executed.
Certainly full of flaws, Ocean’s 8 is still a pretty great way to spend a few hours. Arguably, it’s as entertaining as the George Clooney series and eons better than the Frank Sinatra origi- nal. It has enough laughs and winks at the audience to excuse the plot. This is a good popcorn flick for those who appreciate great fashion, fun heist sequences and loads of girl power.
Fun Caper Comedy • PG-13 • 110 mins.
A technophobe gets one heck of a system update in this entertaining thriller
Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green: Damnation) is married to a bigwig in the tech industry, with a self-driving car and an automated house. Grey doesn’t like automation. He prefers to drive vintage cars and restore them for rich buyers.
The mismatched couple is stranded on the wrong side of the tracks after an accident in the self-driving car. Attacked by a band of high-tech muggers with genetic enhancements, Grey is paralyzed and his wife is murdered.
A billionaire former client visits Grey in the hospital with an intriguing proposal: Be a guinea pig for a new microchip that might cure paralysis. The system, called STEM, will take over the severed nerve connections and control his body using brain signals.
The installation is a success but with one quirk: STEM not only controls Grey, it can also think and talk. STEM thinks it can help Grey solve his wife’s murder, and the two team up to take down the bad guys.
In the process, Grey learns something else about STEM. During times of stress, it can take over his body and turn him into a killing machine. That’s useful because the baddies are all bioengineered killing machines.
Upgrade is a throwback to the ultra-bloody 1980s action thrillers that didn’t take themselves too seriously. It is loud, ludicrous and endlessly entertaining.
Director Leigh Whannell (Insidious: Chapter 3) keeps the action fast and the story moving. There’s little time for reflection, and that’s a good thing, as films like this fall apart when you think about the plot.
The movie looks and feels gritty, but with a fun futuristic twist. It’s essentially a dystopia where the rich live in what look like Apple stores while the poor are reduced to shanty towns. Those who can afford it wear gas masks to keep their lungs clean while others cough in the streets. Its inventive reimagining of the future suits the tone of the story.
Another throwback is the level of violence. This is a movie in the vein of Robocop and Commando; expect to see limbs severed, heads blown off and buckets of blood. Showing the actual consequences of violence has a visceral effect on the audience.
At the film’s center is Marshall-Green, who is hilarious and poignant as a technophobe become reliant upon a computer system. Grey isn’t hard-wired to be a killer, so when STEM takes over he’s more than a little horrified at the carnage he’s causing. But he comes to rely upon STEM to help him achieve his vengeance.
Take your friends who can’t live without their phones and show them what a real upgrade can do.
Good Action • R • 95 mins.
Annie (Toni Collette) has trouble handling the death of her mother. As she tries to cope with the loss of the domineering woman, dark secrets from the past come to life.
First-time director Ari Aster offers an avant-garde take on the typical thriller, incorporating fascinating sound design and interesting framing. Plus, Heredity’s story makes it a horror movie that hits close to home.
For 20 years, the Artemis Hotel has offered medical services to injured criminals. The Nurse (Jodie Foster) runs the underground hospital under a strict code. Guests can’t murder other guests, the gates don’t open to strangers and the medical professionals can never be disrespected.
Waikiki (Sterling K. Brown) and his brother challenge the rules. The men accidentally stole a valuable container from The Wolf King (Jeff Goldblum). When the international crime lord comes to collect, the Artemis and its staff fall under siege.
Featuring a stellar cast and a fun concept, Hotel Artemis should be a zippy thriller full of fun lines and fast-paced action.
Prospects: Bright • R • 97 mins.
Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) has inherited a flair for the family business. Like her brother Danny, she is a thief. Released from prison, she plans her next big heist. Assembling a new crew, she explains the target: They’re going to rob the MET Gala.
This all-female sequel to the Ocean’s franchise is a breezy heist comedy. As with most of the Ocean’s movies it’s a safe bet that this is going to be a shallow but enjoyable flick, filled with cool outfits, funny lines and a plot that makes little sense.
Prospects: Flickering • PG-13 • 110 mins.
How did a man in a cardigan with homemade puppets become one of the most beloved children’s show hosts? It was a combination of luck and an infectious worldview that taught kindness to parents and children alike.
This documentary about the rise of Mr. Rogers and his legacy is filled with interviews on his impact on children and the Civil Rights Movement.
If you watched Mr. Rogers as a child, or if you want to feel the impact of a compassionate worldview, watching a movie on the power of kindness may be a relief from our increasingly pugnacious times.
Prospects: Bright • PG-13 • 94 mins.
Solo so-so
Growing up under the Dickensian thumb of an evil crime boss, Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich: The Yellow Birds) knows how to run a scam and talk himself out of a scrape. He has dreams of getting off the planet of Corellia with his girlfriend Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke: Game of Thrones). When his escape go awry, Han must flee the planet — say it with me — Solo.
Determined to return to Corellia with enough coin to buy Qi’ra’s freedom, Han joins the Empire’s army. Kicked out of flight school for his arrogance and mouth, Han is slogging through battlefields trying not to die when he meets Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri), a crook who ekes out a living stealing hyperfuel from the Empire and selling it to fringe organizations.
Han signs up for a life of crime and quick cash, convincing his newfound friend Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo: Star Wars: The Last Jedi) to come along as muscle.
If you’ve never seen a Star Wars movie, this is not the one to start with. Solo: A Star Wars Story is entertaining enough, but production and scripting woes show. Hired after another team’s firing, director Ron Howard (Inferno) cobbled together what he could from already-shot and reshot footage. No surprise that the overall story is rushed and disjointed.
Many plot points are told through clunky dialogue rather than shown. The central love story is poorly written, and its actors have zero chemistry. Most relationships are vaguely sketched. Some chase scenes, particularly one involving the Millennium Falcon and a space anomaly, are visually boring in badly rendered graphics.
The biggest failure is Emilia Clarke, who pulls outlandish faces and becomes a distraction in every appearance. She and Ehrenreich are very pretty, but together they have the appeal of cold oatmeal.
This is a shame as the love story wastes so much time, and the other parts are pretty darn entertaining. Harrelson and Ehrenreich have chemistry, and the heist scenes are fun. Suotamo’s Chewie also has great rapport with the cast and entertaining reactions to Han’s stupid plans and antics.
The best part of the movie, however, may be Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover: Atlanta) and his droid L3-37 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge: Goodbye Christopher Robin). Glover fully captures the slick charm of Lando, who disguises his worries beneath his cavalier veneer. His odd relationship with L3-37, who believes in droid rebellion from human rule, is one of the strongest in the film.
Flawed, yes, but Solo is still fun. Grab a bucket of popcorn and sit down to laugh your way though this breezy origin tale. If you’re a diehard Chewie fan, like this reviewer, it’s more than worth the ticket to finally see just what happens when you make a Wookie mad.
Fair Action Adventure • PG-13 • 135 mins.
D.C. (Johnny Knoxville) is the proprietor of an off-brand theme park filled with rickety rides and apathetic employees. When his daughter Boogie visits, D.C. wonders if he shouldn’t upgrade. Then a big corporate park opens nearby.
This is your typical Johnny Knoxville comedy, which means he’ll be hit, run over and thrown through the air. There will be crude humor, lots of silly jokes and barely any plot.
Prospects: Dim • R • 85 mins.
When her boyfriend Richard (Sam Claflin) invites her to sail across the Pacific, Tami (Shailene Woodley) thinks romance. The lovebirds hit a snag when they sale into a hurricane. With the boat and Richard nearly destroyed, Tami must draw on determination to save boat and boyfriend.
Based on a true story, Adrift should be a stirring tale of survival.
Prospects: Bright • PG-13 • 120 mins.
Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green) watches four muggers kill his wife after paralyzing him. Filled with rage, he gets an offer he can’t refuse: A billionaire wants to use him as a guinea pig for an implant under development. STEM would rewire Grey’s brain and allow him to walk.
It works, and the now-mobile Grey goes after the men who killed his wife. He finds an odd ally in the STEM system, which is able to take over his body and give him super-powered strength and abilities.
Is the STEM implant a godsend? Or is there a downside to allowing AI to move your body like a puppet?
This type of action movie could go either way, to bonkers action or slogging high-concept. If it leans into the craziness inherent in the plot, it could be a gonzo good time.
The mercenary with the mouth is back in a fouler, funnier sequel
Superhero Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds: The Hitman’s Bodyguard) is a regenerating mercenary who specializes in eliminating the worst of the worst: drug dealers, human traffickers and gang leaders. It’s a bloody business, but he’s having fun doing it.
The party stops when Wade encounters Cable (Josh Brolin: Avengers: Infinity War), a time-traveling soldier back from the future to kill 14-year-old Russell (Julian Dennison: Chronesthesia) because the world will be a better place without a kid abandoned and abused in a mutant orphanage run by a sadistic Bible-quoting headmaster who tortures children for their genetic differences. Wade isn’t so sure killing a kid is a superhero move.
Faced with a kid who may be beyond help and Cable’s nearly unstoppable determination, Wade assembles a team of super-powered people — plus one normal who saw the ad and signed up.
Can Wade and his X-Force prevail?
Vulgar, violent and wholly inappropriate for, well, anyone, Deadpool 2 is nonetheless great fun. Director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) is a former stunt man who knows how to stage and shoot thrilling action scenes. He keeps the tone light and the fight scenes bloody, which is a perfect balance for a film that gleefully violates the basic rules of filmmaking and decency.
The real reason this film works is Reynolds. Seemingly born to play a smart-alecky mercenary who rattles off pop culture jokes, Reynolds is charming in all his profane glory. He manages to make murder for hire rather delightful. He gives Wade emotional depth paired with gonzo physical humor. Anytime the movie takes a writing shortcut or leans on cliché, Wade is there to call it out and remind the audience it’s just a movie.
A host of fantastic supporting characters help Reynolds keep the tone light and breezy. The best is Domino (Zazie Beetz: Atlanta), a mercenary who has the amazing super power of luck. She can, without ill effect, tumble out of planes, take on armed men and rush into burning buildings. She also seems as attuned as Wade to the absurdity of the film they’re making. Brolin, on the other hand, is surprisingly flat as Cable.
Among other flaws, some elements rehash the first film, and a few of the scenes drag. Still, Leitch and Reynolds keep a pace too swift to complain for long. There’s always a new fight or joke just around the corner.
This is not a Marvel movie for young children, and you might think twice about taking your parents, though this reviewer’s mother loved it. There is orgiastic violence, disturbing male genitalia and enough foul-mouthed quips to fill a swear jar. For fans of the first Deadpool film or of wisecracking violence in your movies, this flick is well worth the ticket.
Good Action-Comedy • R • 119 mins.
Long ago in a galaxy far far away … Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) was a kid growing up under the thumb of an evil mob boss. Forced to steal and beg for food, Han dreamed of fleeing his planet with his girlfriend Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke) and becoming a great pilot.
When Han does get free, he ends up a grunt in the Imperial Army, dreaming of the day he’ll be able to return to Qi’ra. To earn enough money for her rescue, he falls in with thieves who need one big score to get out of their life of crime.
Will Han reunite with the love of his life? Or will he live a life of crime?
We all know that the real love of Han’s life was Chewbacca. So it’s a good thing the Wookie is introduced fairly quickly in this film. With production problems, a director switcheroo and scripting woes, Solo: A Star Wars Story carries a lot of baggage.
The good news is that new director Ron Howard has cobbled together a watchable popcorn flick, perfect for summer. Sure, there are plot and acting problems. Clarke, in particular, is poorly cast. But overall, following the origins of Han, Chewbacca and Lando (Donald Glover) is a breezy adventure through the galaxy.
Good Action Adventure • PG-13 • 135 mins.
Passion or obligation: That’s the choice
Ronit (Rachel Weisz: My Cousin Rachel) returns to her Orthodox community to mourn her father, a revered rabbi. She has lived in New York by choice and in exile since the revelation of her teenage fling with another woman, Esti (Rachel McAdams: Game Night).
Returning home as a successful photographer, Ronit learns that even in mourning she is shunned. In neither her father’s obituary nor his will is she acknowledged as his only child. She is welcomed only by Esti and by her husband Dovid (Alessandro Nivola: You Were Never Really Here), Ronit’s childhood friend.
Having accepted her rabbi’s order to take a husband, Esti is at once a pillar of the community and a closeted lesbian living a life of quiet desperation. In Ronit’s return, she hopes to grasp a little bit of happiness.
As the women reunite, gossip swells.
Beautifully shot and acted, Disobedience is a thoughtful film about closed communities. Director Sebastián Lelio, who just won an Oscar for the outstanding A Fantastic Woman, delves into the nuances of the Orthodox London community, showing the good and the bad. On the one hand, the community serves and helps its own. On the other, it’s run by rules that are unkind to those who don’t follow them.
Lelio takes pains to show the isolation of a person shunned. From the stores to school, the community turns hostile.
Helping underscore the theme is the brilliant acting trifecta of Weisz, McAdams and Nivola. Weisz’s Ronit is tortured as her hopes for reconciliation are smashed.
As Esti, McAdams offers a disturbing portrait of repression in religious communities. Unhappy as she is, she can’t bring herself to chance life alone. She knows that rekindling her romance with Ronit is the way to ruin, but she’s helpless to stop her attraction.
The surprise of the film is Nivola’s Dovid. His performance elevates a character who could have been a villain to a figure of sympathy. Dovid is devoted to his community and religion and is torn attempting to do the right thing.
Fascinating, well crafted and wonderfully performed, Disobedience is well worth the ticket.
Great Drama • R • 114 mins.
Four friends are feeling in a rut. Diane (Diane Keaton) is a widow figuring out sudden solitude. Sharon (Candice Bergen) is a judge stinging from a contentious divorce. Carol (Mary Steenburgen) longs to revive her stale marriage. Vivian (Jane Fonda) enjoys an active single life.
Forming a book club, the quartet finds their world changed by the titillating Fifty Shades of Grey. The book inspires some to embrace their sex lives and others to seek out lasting commitment.
Book Club is a typical finding-a-new-lease-on-life comedy. If you’ve seen one of its kind, you can guess the plot. It’s more about the charisma of the actors than the strength of the plot. This isn’t a movie to stretch these actresses, but it will play to each of their strengths. Expect Keaton to shriek and flail, Bergen to offer a sardonic wit, Steenburgen to smile beatifically and Fonda to offer a sultry wink.
If you’re a fan of these lionesses of the screen, it should be fun to watch them vamp for laughs. Still, it’s distressing that these women are enamored with one of the poorest written books in history.
Super-powered Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) has developed a reputation in the superhero community as the unkillable Deadpool.
Time-travelling, bioengineered super-soldier Cable (Josh Brolin) arrives in Wade’s era to give the hero a choice. He must kill a child to protect the future. Wade instead assembles a super team to stop Cable.
Deadpool was the surprise super hit of the Marvel universe. Foul-mouthed, uber-violent and hyped to the ridiculousness of the super-genre, this is not the Marvel movie you take your kids to. Reynolds is charming and wry as this superhero who breaks the fourth wall to address the audience. Reynolds and the producers seem to have found a delicate balance between parody and gimmick. But leave the kids at home. This one will earn its R-rating.
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Legendary director Wim Wenders was offered unprecedented access to the Pope as he spread his message of hope, charity and kindness.
The documentary examines what Francis hopes to achieve as head of one of the most powerful religious groups in the world and how he deviates from the pontifical norm.
Don’t expect a film questioning Catholicism or criticizing the church. This movie is about hope and the positive effect religion can have on the world.
Prospects: Flickering • PG • 96 mins.
Frank (Will Arnett) and Max (Chris Bridges) are ill-adapted mixed-species partners who go undercover at an exclusive Las Vegas dog show to bust a smuggling ring and find a stolen baby panda.
Frank pretends to be a pretentious dog owner and Max his pampered pet.
Think of this as Miss Congeniality with a cast of talking dogs. Expect tons of bodily humor and slapstick comedy in this kiddie movie.
Bad Samaritan
The scariest part of this movie is paying see it
Sean (Robert Sheehan: Mute) dreams of being a professional photographer. He takes his craft seriously and won’t take any job he considers beneath him. Thus limited, he shoots only random things on the street and his semi-naked girlfriend.
Until Sean and his buddy come up with a moneymaking scheme. As valets at a local Italian eatery, they lay hands on many car keys. While the customers are dining, the valets loot their homes.
The scheme goes wrong with Cale Erendreich (David Tennant: Jessica Jones).
In Erendreich’s house, Sean discovers a locked room. Instead of jewels, inside he finds a bound and beaten woman. He can’t break her chains but promises to find a way to save her.
From a pay phone, he calls the police, but doubling back he sees that the cops won’t enter the residence. His second strategy is to bait Erendreich into the open. Now he’s engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with a serial killer.
Poorly shot, bizarrely plotted and hilariously acted, Bad Samaritan is a victim of serial bad choices. Director Dean Devlin (Geostorm) is bad at character development, cinematography and pacing.
Acting is bad, too. Sean isn’t a particularly interesting hero. Erendreich is supposed to be a terrifying serial killer, but his evil machinations are pretty much limited to prank phone calls and sexting. Tennant gives us a villain who glowers, bugs his eyes and snarls through every scene, an odd choice for a movie that takes itself pretty seriously.
This movie is so bad that the only entertainment you’ll get from it is the fun of mocking it.
Thrill-free Thriller • R • 110 mins.
After the death of her father, Shaun (Gabrielle Union) and her kids prepare his home for sale only to find a recently installed security system that makes the house nearly impregnable.
The reason for this becomes clear when a violent gang shows up. She fights off her attacker, but the kids are locked in while the bad guys search for something Shaun’s father has hidden.
To save her kids, Shaun takes out the bandits one by one.
This is the Mother’s Day movie for the tough mom in your life. If you and your mom bond over Crossfit or Dirty Harry movies, this one’s for you.
Prospects: Flickering • PG-13 • 88 mins.
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) is expelled from her Orthodox Jewish community in London for her same-sex relationship with best friend Esti (Rachel McAdams). Moving to New York, she becomes a successful photographer but grieves for her lost family and friends. When the death of her father takes her home, she rekindles her relationship with Esti, now married to a prominent rabbi.
Director Sebastián Lelio, who gave us the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman, is known for respectfully exploring women’s issues. Both McAdams and Weisz are brilliant performers able to carry the nuance of a complex drama.
When Deanna’s (Melissa McCarthy) husband dumps her, she pursues the dream of finishing her bachelor’s degree, enrolling in her daughter’s college and moving into a dorm. She and the doubtful daughter bond, and soon Deanna is the life of every party.
McCarthy is gifted at both physical and verbal comedy. With the right script, there isn’t much she can’t do. This getting-her-groove-back flick — complete with makeover, sex with a cute guy and reconnection with family — doesn’t set the bar high.
This documentary follows feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsberg from Harvard Law School, where she is one of the first women admitted, to civil rights activism, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The filmmakers are admirers, so don’t expect challenges to this legend of justice. But if you want to know more of the life story of one of the most powerful women in America, this should be well worth the ticket.
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PRESIDENT BUHARI CONGRATULATES BAYELSA GOV-ELECT LYON, ON ELECTION VICTORY
President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates most warmly, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the November 16 election in Bayelsa State, David Lyon, on his impressive victory.
President Buhari also commends APC supporters in particular and Nigerians in general in the State who exercised their civic rights in a peaceful manner, notwithstanding the pockets of unrest recorded in some locations. http://www.bellsnews.com/sports/minister-meets-nff-demands-explanation-for-nigerias-dismal-outing/
Condemning the loss of lives in Bayelsa, particularly prior to the election, the President commiserates with the families of the victims.
According to President Buhari, ‘‘Violence during elections vitiates our commitment to demonstrate to the world and upcoming generation that we are a people capable of electing leaders in a peaceful and orderly manner.’’ http://opr.news/sa73b73d191116en_ng
He notes that while officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies did their best within the ambit of the law to ensure free, fair and credible elections, it is unfortunate that pockets of unrest, mostly sponsored by desperate politicians, were recorded during the poll.
The President looks forward to working with the incoming government to improve the lives of the people in Bayelsa State, while ensuring the security of lives and property of all citizens.
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2011| April-June | Volume 10 | Issue 2
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Peculiarities of genital ulcer diseases in HIV-infected patients: Report of four cases from Zaria, Nigeria
Dimie Ogoina, Haruna M Muktar, Reginald O Obiako
April-June 2011, 10(2):192-193
DOI:10.4103/1596-3519.82058 PMID:21691031
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Alzheimer's disease: A review of recent developments
Fatai K Salawu, Joel T Umar, Abdulfatai B Olokoba
April-June 2011, 10(2):73-79
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in aging adults, and a substantial burden to patients, caregivers, and the healthcare system. It is an increasingly significant public health issue; with the number of people living with AD projected to increase dramatically over the next few decades, making the search for treatments and tools to measure disease progression increasingly urgent. This review is based on a search of Medline, the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, and citation lists of relevant publications. The subject headings and keywords used were Alzheimer's disease, dementia, primary neuronal degeneration and senile plagues. Only the articles written in English were included. The diagnosis is still primarily made based on history and physical and neurologic examinations. Approved treatments are few and of limited efficacy, serving mostly to slow or delay progression and not to cure the disease, despite significant research by pharmaceutical industries. Cholinesterase inhibitors offer some help in treating cognitive and global functioning, as well as behavioral abnormalities in patients with mild-, moderate-, or severe-stage disease. The N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist, memantine, is similarly effective alone or in combination with cholinesterase inhibitors in moderate to severe stages of the disease. Recent insights into the pathophysiology of AD have led to promising investigational therapies, including the development of γ- and β-secretase inhibitors as well as active and passive immunization against the amyloid β-protein.
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Penile gangrene due to calcific uremic arteriopathy
Adamu Bappa, Fayaz Hakim, Mustafa Ahmad, Abdullahi Assirri
Calcific uremic arteriopathy (CUA) is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and secondary hyperparathyroidism. It typically presents with ischemic necrosis involving areas of adiposity in the body mainly the trunk, buttocks, or proximal extremity. Patients can also present with digital ischemia and more rarely penile gangrene. The pathogenesis of CUA is not yet clear but several putative factors, mainly hyperparathyroidism and related metabolic abnormalities are implicated. A number of conditions can mimic CUA clinically and should be differentiated from it. We present in the current study, a patient who presented with progressive penile gangrene and skin necrosis due to CUA. We review the current understanding of the pathogenesis, diagnosis/differential diagnosis, and management of this rare but potentially life-threatening complication of ESRD.
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Psychological and social adjustment to blindness: Understanding from two groups of blind people in Ilorin, Nigeria
Mosunmola F Tunde-Ayinmode, Tanimola M Akande, Dupe S Ademola-Popoola
Background: Blindness can cause psychosocial distress leading to maladjustment if not mitigated. Maladjustment is a secondary burden that further reduces quality of life of the blind. Adjustment is often personalized and depends on nature and quality of prevailing psychosocial support and rehabilitation opportunities. This study was aimed at identifying the pattern of psychosocial adjustment in a group of relatively secluded and under-reached totally blind people in Ilorin, thus sensitizing eye doctors to psychosocial morbidity and care in the blind. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study using 20-item Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) and a pro forma designed by the authors to assess the psychosocial problems and risk factors in some blind people in Ilorin metropolis. Result: The study revealed that most of the blind people were reasonably adjusted in key areas of social interaction, marriage, and family. Majority were considered to be poorly adjusted in the areas of education, vocational training, employment, and mobility. Many were also considered to be psychologically maladjusted based on the high rate of probable psychological disorder of 51%, as determined by SRQ. Factors identified as risk factors of probable psychological disorder were poor educational background and the presence of another medical disorder. Conclusion: Most of the blind had no access to formal education or rehabilitation system, which may have contributed to their maladjustment in the domains identified. Although their prevailing psychosocial situation would have been better prevented yet, real opportunity still exists to help this group of people in the area of social and physical rehabilitation, meeting medical needs, preventive psychiatry, preventive ophthalmology, and community health. This will require the joint efforts of medical community, government and nongovernment organizations to provide the framework for delivery of these services directly to the communities.
A review of stroke admissions at a tertiary hospital in rural Southwestern Nigeria
Olufemi O Desalu, Kolawole W Wahab, Bimbo Fawale, Timothy O Olarenwaju, Olusegun A Busari, Adebowale O Adekoya, Joshua Oluwafemi Afolayan
Background: Stroke is a common neurological disorder and is the third leading cause of death and a major cause of long-term disability. The disease is expected to increase in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria. There is no information on stroke in rural Nigeria. Objectives: To review the clinical patterns, risk-factors, and outcome of stroke in a tertiary hospital in rural Nigeria and examine the rural-urban variation of stroke hospitalization in Nigeria. Materials and Methods: We carried out a retrospective study of patients who had a clinical diagnosis of stroke at the Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti, South-western Nigeria between November 2006 and October 2009. Results: A total of 101 patients who had stroke were admitted during this review period, accounting for 4.5% of medical admission and 1.3% of total hospital admission. Women accounted 52.5% of cases, with a male to female ratio of 1 : 1.1. Their mean age was 68 ± 12 years. Stroke occurrences increased with age, as almost half (49.5%) of the cases were aged ≥70 years and majority (84.2%) of them were in low socioeconomic class. The mean hospital stay for stroke treatment was 12 ± 9 days, Glasgow coma score on admission was 11 ± 4. Ischemic stroke was 64.4%; hemorrhagic stroke, 34.7%; and indeterminate, 1.0%. Hypertension (85.2%), diabetes mellitus (23.8%), and tobacco smoking (22.8%) were the common identifiable risk factors for stroke. Of all the patients, 69% had ≥2 risk factors for stroke. Thirty-day case fatality was 23.8%; it increases with age and was higher among men than women (29.2 vs 18.9%) and in patients with diagnosis of hemorrhagic stroke (34.3 vs 18.5%). The numbers of identifiable risk factors of stroke has no effect on the 30-day case fatality. When compared with stroke in urban areas of Nigeria, we found no differences in frequency of hospitalization (1.3 vs 0.9 - 4%) and the major risk factor (hypertension). Hemorrhagic stroke was more common in urban than in the rural community (45.2 - 51 vs 34.7%) and the 30-day case fatality was lower in the rural community (23.8 vs 37.6 - 41.2%). Conclusion: Stroke is also a common neurological condition in rural Nigeria, in view of the fact that almost 70% of the patients had ≥2 risk factors of stroke. We recommend that, sustainable, community-friendly intervention programmes are incorporated into the health care system for the early prevention, recognition, and modification of the risk factors in persons prone to the disease.
Socio-demographic characteristics of alcohol abusers in a rural Ijaw community in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria
Seiyefa Brisibe, Best Ordinioha
April-June 2011, 10(2):97-102
Background: Causal relationship has been established between alcohol and more than 60 types of disease and injury. Despite this, alcohol is still widely consumed in several communities in Nigeria, and sometimes considered a health tonic. This study described the pattern, prevalence, and factors associated with alcohol abuse in a typical Ijaw community, where alcohol is produced and consumed in large quantities. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out in Okoloba, a rural community in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria using an analytical cross-sectional study design. The data were collected from members of the community aged 16 to 65 years, using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test questionnaire and clinical examination for hepatomegaly, tongue tremor, and hand tremor. Results: A total of 322 subjects, comprising 166 men and 156 women were studied. They had an average age of 41.4 ± 2.5 years, were mostly farmers (43.17%), married (66.15%), and had at most primary school education (62.42%). More than 90% of the subjects took alcohol in the preceding year, with more of them (43%) preferring the locally produced drinks. About 33% of the subjects had harmful drinking, while 12.73% had alcohol dependence problem. There is no significant age difference between the alcohol abusers and abstainers/social drinkers (P > 0.05), but alcohol abusers were significantly more likely to be males (P < 0.001), in polygamous marriages (P < 0.00001), had lower educational status (P < 0.0001), likely to be practitioners of the traditional religion (P < 0.0001), and more likely to be engaged in palm wine tapping. Conclusion: Alcohol is widely consumed in the community, but the prevalence of abuse was moderate, mainly due to cultural restrictions. Sales restrictions might be needed as the drinking habits of members of the community change with urbanization.
Acute abdominal conditions in people with sickle cell disease: A 10-year experience in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
NJ Jebbin, JM Adotey
Background: Abdominal crises (vaso-occlusive) are not infrequent in patients with sickle cell anemia. They usually present as acute abdomen. These patients none the less present with other causes of acute abdomen like others without hemoglobinopathy. Six cases of surgical acute abdomen in sickle cell disease patients treated in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) are presented. Materials and Methods: Six sickle cell anaemia patients presenting with acute abdominal conditions from 1999 to 2008 (inclusive) in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital were studied retrospectively (two patients) and prospectively (four patients). After initial resuscitation, appropriate surgical procedures, namely, appendicectomy (2), cholecystectomy (1), open drainage of splenic abscess (1), and release of adhesive band (1) were performed. Results: Six cases were treated (female/male ratio 2:1). Four patients were in the 11-20 year age group. Two patients had appendicectomy and two presented with acute cholecystitis/cholelithiasis, one of whom had open cholecystectomy. One young girl had drainage of splenic abscess and a 42-year-old male had division of obstructive adhesive band at laparotomy. There were two complications, namely, postoperative haemorrhage (in cholecystectomy patient) and acute chest syndrome (in one appendicectomy patient). These were successfully managed with blood transfusion and antibiotic/oxygen therapy, respectively. There was no mortality. Conclusion: Sickle cell anaemia patients are not exempt from acute abdominal conditions requiring surgery. A high index of suspicion coupled with repeated clinical examination is needed for early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
Evaluation of blood pressure and indices of obesity in a typical rural community in eastern Nigeria
Gladys I Ahaneku, CU Osuji, BC Anisiuba, VO Ikeh, OC Oguejiofor, JE Ahaneku
Aim: With increasing urbanization of lifestyle, cardiovascular morbidity and mortality have been on the increase in Africans. Studies on cardiovascular risk factors in rural communities in South East Nigeria are scarce. This study focused on hypertension and obesity in adult Nigerians dwelling in a rural setting in Eastern Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A total of 218 participants from the rural community were recruited into the study. A questionnaire was used to assess prior knowledge of their weight and blood pressure status as well as drug history for those found to have hypertension. Each participant's blood pressure was measured and any value ≥140/90 mmHg was regarded as high blood pressure (HBP). Their heights and weights were measured and their body mass indices (BMI) calculated using the standard formula of BMI = Weight in Kg/Height in m 2 ; BMI ≥30 Kg/m 2 was referred to as global obesity. Their waist circumferences (WC) were also measured and any value ≥102 cm for males and ≥88 cm for females was regarded as abdominal obesity. Results: The general prevalence of HBP in the rural community was 44.5%. The prevalence of HBP increased as age increased and awareness about HBP was low (15.2%). Females were more aware than the males. The prevalence of HBP was higher in males (49.3%) compared with their female counterparts (42.3%), whereas the females had a higher prevalence of all forms of obesity (abdominal: 36.2%, global: 14.8%) compared with the males (abdominal: 14.5%, global: 10.1%). Higher BMI was associated with higher systolic and diastolic BP values. Hypertensive participants had higher BMI and WC than those who had normal BP. Conclusion: The prevalence of both hypertension and obesity seems to be increasing in rural communities in Nigeria and thus, the available prevalence documented in previous studies for rural communities may no longer represent the current trend. Awareness of the participants about these major cardiovascular risk factors is still very low. Higher BMI was associated with higher values of both systolic and diastolic BP.
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Underweight, overweight and obesity in adults Nigerians living in rural and urban communities of Benue State
Adediran O Sola, Adeniyi O Steven, Jimoh A Kayode, Alao O Olayinka
Objective: To assess the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity among Nigerians aged 18-45 years, living in urban and rural settlements in one state in Nigeria. Materials and Methods: Four hundred and thirty-five subjects between 18 and 45 years of age were recruited for height, weight and waist circumference (WC) measurements. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated (weight/height 2, kg/m 2 ); WHO criteria determined BMI and WC categories. Results: Based on BMI, about 2% of the study population was underweight, 22% was overweight and 4% was obese. There were more normal weight persons in rural than in urban settlement. About 40 and 30% of females in urban and rural settlement, respectively, were either overweight or obese. Based on WC of the sample population, 10.34% had increased risk for metabolic syndrome [action level I (defi ned as WC ≥94 cm in men and ≥80 cm in women)] and 2.8% had substantially increased risk [action level II (defi ned as WC ≥102 cm in men and ≥88 cm in women)]. At action level II, there was no obese male. Conclusion: This study revealed that underweight, overweight and obesity exist in young adults, but overweight and obesity are more prevalent. Therefore, concerted efforts should be made to control this in young adults for their present well-being and to possibly avoid the risk of disease later in life.
Prevalence of malaria parasitemia amongst asymptomatic pregnant women attending a Nigerian teaching hospital
Aliyu Y Isah, Momoh A Amanabo, Bissallah A Ekele
Background: Malaria parasitemia among pregnant women is associated with complications to mother and the unborn fetus. There is paucity of data on asymptomatic malaria parasitemia, particularly in the northwest region of Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of malaria parasitemia in asymptomatic pregnant women and to estimate the packed cell volume (PCV) of this group of pregnant women. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study of only well pregnant women recruited consecutively at the time of booking for antenatal care. Thick film microscopy and qualitative immunoassay test for malaria parasite (MP) were performed for all the women. PCV estimation was also done using the micro-centrifuge method and comparison was made for women with parasitemia with those without MP. Some socio-demographic variables were also analyzed. Chi-square test was used to test for significance and a P-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Two hundred and twenty-five healthy pregnant women were studied. Seven women (3.1%) had MP by direct microscopy while 11 (4.8%) were MP positive with the qualitative immunoassay test. One hundred and eighty-five (82%) of the women were literate while 128 (57%) used insecticide treated mosquito nets in their homes. The mean PCV of the women with positive MP was 30.57 ± 2.26 as against 32.89 ± 2.45 for those without parasitemia (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The prevalence of asymptomatic malaria parasitemia in the study group was low but there was associated anemia in those with parasitemia. The use of intermittent preventive treatment is recommended for all pregnant women including those who are asymptomatic to forestall complications like maternal anemia.
Inflammatory bowel disease in Nigerians: Still a rare diagnosis?
AY Ukwenya, A Ahmed, VI Odigie, A Mohammed
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been thought to have a low incidence among subSaharan Africans mainly because of the sporadic cases reported from the continent in comparison with the larger numbers reported from North America and Western European countries. Is this difference based on real demographic susceptibilities or a reflection of lower level of healthcare delivery? Three cases of ulcerative colitis and one case of Crohn's disease diagnosed in a tertiary institution in northern Nigeria in the span of three years are reported. Their presentation coincided with the creation of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Unit of our hospital and with it the availability of endoscopic diagnostic procedures. All four patients were indigenous Nigerians. Our findings suggest that IBD may be more common in this part of the world than previously thought. With an increased awareness of the disease in our population, a greater utilization of modern medicine as against alternative medicine and with wider availability of diagnostic tools in our hospitals, it is our guess that more cases may be found in the future to dispel the belief that Africans are somewhat immune to this affliction.
Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking adults in two Nigerian cities
Olufemi O Desalu, Cajetan C Onyedum, Olufemi O Adewole, Ademola E Fawibe, Alakija K Salami
Background: Tobacco control policy can only succeed if the burdens of smoking are known. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmoking adults in two Nigerian cities. Materials and Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study from October 2009 to April 2010 among adult population of two Nigerian cities: Enugu and Ilorin. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered by interviewers to obtain socio-demographic information; and information regarding pattern of SHS exposure, awareness of tobacco control policy and the harmful effects of SHS. SHS exposure was defined as regular exposure to tobacco smoke in the previous 30 days in a nonsmoking adult. Results: Of the 585 nonsmoking adults that completed the study, 38.8% had regular exposure to SHS; mostly, in public places (24.4%). More men were exposed at public places when compared with women (27.0% vs. 19.5%). The strongest factor associated with exposure to SHS in women was having a smoking spouse [prevalence rate (PR) ratio-7.76; 95% confidence interval (CI), 3.08-9.42]; and in men, it was lack of home smoking restriction (PR ratio-6.35; 95% CI, 4.51-8.93). Among men, SHS exposure at any location was associated with lack of secondary school education, residing in slum apartment (house with many households), living with a smoking family member (non-spouse), lack of home smoking restriction, and alcohol intake. Among women, SHS exposure at any location was associated with having a smoking spouse, residing in slum apartment and lack of home smoking restriction. Seventy-two percent of respondents were aware of the harmful effects of SHS on their health. Lack of awareness of the harmful effects was significantly associated with increasing age (r= +0.45; P = <0.01), lack of secondary school education (r= −0.10; P = 0.04), residing in slum apartment (r =-0.12; P = 0.03) and being a widow/ widower (r= +0.24; P < 0.01). Only 17.4% of the employees reported availability of outdoor smoking area at their workplaces. Conclusion: Our results show that prevalence of SHS exposure was the highest in public places. These findings underscore the need for enactment of comprehensive smoke-free legislation and implementation of educational strategies to reduce SHS exposure in homes.
Living kidney donor transplants over a 16-year period in South Africa: A single center experience
A Abdu, N Morolo, A Meyers, S Wadee, R Britz, S Naicker
Background: Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The number of patients on the waiting list is increasing due to an imbalance between organ supply and demand. This has led to an increase in the number of living donor transplants in most parts of the world. The benefits to the recipients must, however, be weighed against the risks to the donors. Long-term follow-up of the donors is therefore imperative to ascertain the risks of living kidney donation. Materials and Methods: We reviewed the records of 571 potential living kidney donors (PLDs) in Johannesburg hospital over a 16-year period between 1990 and 2005. Results: There were 1030 kidney transplants during this period, with 800 cadaveric and 230 actual living donor (ALD) transplants. There were 571 PLDs; however, 341 (59.7%) withdrew or were withdrawn because of medical and non-medical reasons. Among the 230 ALDs, the mean age of the donors was 35.2 ± 8.3 years; 55% were females; 24% were Blacks. Eighty-five percent were related to the recipients while 15% were unrelated. Mean duration of follow-up was 8.6 ± 6.4 years. The pattern of post-donation follow-up was excellent in 29.7%, adequate in 34% and unacceptable/poor in 36.3%, based on the number of clinic visits post-donation. Hypertension was noted in 24% of the donors during long-term follow-up. Three of the donors also developed significant microalbuminuria. Conclusion: There is a need to encourage living kidney donation, especially amongst the Black populations, and to emphasize the value and significance of post-donation follow-up visits to all potential donors.
Absence seizure in the elderly
Owolabi L Femi, S Sale
Absence seizure is most common in children. It commonly occurs between 5 and 18 years of age; it is not common before the age of 2 years or after adolescence and it is relatively rare in adults over the age of 50. We report a case of electroencephalography confirmed absence seizure and absence status successfully treated with sodium valproate in an elderly patient with dementia. Differential diagnosis between absence status and complex partial seizure is emphasized.
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Profile and outcome of non-traumatic paraplegia in Kano, northwestern Nigeria
LF Owolabi, A Ibrahim, AA Samaila
Aim: This study was aimed to identify the clinical and radiological profile of non-traumatic paraplegia and the various etiologies associated with the condition. Materials and Methods: A review of the clinical and radiological presentations of adult patients presenting with non-traumatic paraplegia managed at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Murtala Specialist Hospital (MMSH), Kano, from June 2006 to November 2009 was carried out. Patients underwent a detailed clinical evaluation followed by laboratory investigation and neuroimaging studies and were followed up for 9 months to asses outcome and complications. Results: 98 patients with non-traumatic paraplegia consisting of 71 males and 27 females (M:F: 5:2) were seen. The age range of the patients was between 16 and 76 years, with a mean age of 40 years (SD = 15.3) years; 54 (55%) of the patients presented after 2 months of the onset of paraplegia. The commonest symptoms were weakness of the lower limbs (100%), loss of sensation (55%), sphincteric disturbance (50%) radicular pain and paresthesia (38.4%), back pain (21.4%) and erectile dysfunction (40%). All the patients had X-ray of the spine; 26.3% had Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) spine. The commonest etiological factors were tuberculosis (TB) (44.4%), transverse myelitis (13.1%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (9.1%), metastatic spinal disease (4%), and HIV myelopathy (4%). However, the cause could not be identified in 14 (14%) of the patients. The commonest site of affectation in those with TB spine was lower thoracic (53.8%) and upper lumbar (23.1%) vertebrae. Conclusion: Clinical profile of non-traumatic paraplegia in Kano, northwestern Nigeria, is similar to that reported elsewhere in Africa, with spinal tuberculosis and transverse myelitis accounting for over half the cases.
Community survey of attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder among primary school pupils in Benin City, Nigeria
EA Ambuabunos, EG Ofovwe, MO Ibadin
Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood neuro-developmental condition with early onset. ADHD affects children worldwide. However, there is a variation in the prevalence across different countries. In Nigeria, there is paucity of information on the prevalence. To provide the relevant information, a cross-sectional study was conducted between February and August 2006 among 1473 public primary school pupils aged 6-12 years selected systematically among pupils in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Materials and Methods: All the 1473 pupils were screened with the Disruptive Behavior Disorder (DBD) Rating Scale to identify children who had ADHD symptoms as contained in the DSM -IV. Such children were compared with randomly selected controls. The academic records of both the groups were also compared. Results: The prevalence of ADHD was 7.6%. The prevalence was higher in boys (9.4%) when compared to girls (5.5%) (P = 0.003). Of the three different subtypes of ADHD, the predominantly inattentive subtype (ADHD-I) was the most prevalent (47.3% of the ADHD population) followed by the combined type (ADHD-C; 31.3%), while the least prevalent was the hyperactive/impulsive subtype (ADHD-HI; 21.4%). There was no statistically significant difference in the prevalence of ADHD amongst the different age cohorts. Conclusion: The prevalence of ADHD was relatively high when compared to the figures available for other countries. For this reason, there is a need to pay increased attention to this condition in Nigeria. Community screening under the umbrella of the School Health Program could be of assistance.
Duration of labor with spontaneous onset at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
Munir'deen A Ijaiya, Kike T Adesina, Hadijat O Raji, Abiodun P Aboyeji, AbdulWaheed O Olatinwo, Abiodun S Adeniran, Idowu O Adebara, Salamat Isiaka-Lawal
Background/Objective: Duration of labor varies from one pregnancy to another and a period of less than 12 hours is regarded as normal. Modern obstetric practice involves active management of labor with the aim of preventing prolonged labor and its sequelae. The main objective of this study was to determine and compare the average duration of labor of spontaneous onset between nulliparas (Po) and multiparas (P ≥ 1) and to determine factors affecting duration of labor. Materials and Methods: This study was a prospective study carried out between 15 May and 14 June 2004 at the Labor Ward of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria. Two hundred and thirty-eight women who satisfied the inclusion criteria were studied. The inclusion criteria were term pregnancy with vertex presentation, labor with spontaneous onset, live fetus at presentation and spontaneous vertex delivery. Results: The mean ± SD admission-delivery interval in labor ward was shorter (3.77 ± 2.88 hours) among multiparas than that of nulliparas (5.00 ± 3.17 hours) (P = 0.235). The mean ± SD duration of labor (from the onset of labor to delivery) was shorter among multiparas (8.73 ± 4.17 hours) than that of nulliparas (11.23 ± 4.29 hours) (P = 0.426). The differences were not significant (t-test, P > 0.05). Maternal age and individual parity had significant correlation with the duration of labor in this study (Pearson correlation = −0.019, −0.027, respectively, P < 0.05). Conclusion: Interestingly, duration of labor was not significantly different among multiparas and nulliparas although it was shorter. Correlation existed between duration of labor and maternal age and individual parity.
Interscalene block for shoulder surgery
Ambrose Rukewe, Imoniche I Adeoye, Umar M Sule, Akinola Fatiregun
Fracture dislocation of the shoulder is a common musculoskeletal injury following road traffic accident. Peripheral nerve block has become a recognized anesthetic technique due to the rapid onset of prolonged analgesia, sufficient for both pain and surgical management. However, interscalene block for shoulder surgery has not been reported as a primary anesthetic technique in our environment. We report its successful use in open reduction and internal fixation of left humeral surgical neck fracture dislocation. The interscalene brachial plexus were localized by a Polystim II nerve stimulator (te me na, Bondy, France) with sustained biceps motor response at 0.2 mA and 40 ml of local anesthetic, comprising 0.25% bupivacaine and 1.0% of lidocaine with 1 : 200 000 epinephrine in equal parts was administered to establish the block. Surgical anesthesia was achieved 18 minutes after instituting the block and surgery lasted 70 minutes without complications. This technique may obviate the use of general anesthesia with its risks.
Ultrasound guided percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy / automated needle core biopsy of abdominal lesions: Effect on management and cost effectiveness
M Shafee Gani, Aaisha M Shafee, IY Soliman
Aims: This prospective study was designed to determine whether ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy (PFNAB)/US-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy (PNCB) of abdominal lesions is efficacious in diagnosis, is helpful in treatment choice, to evaluate whether various other investigations can be avoided, especially invasive ones, its time (shortening hospitalization) and cost-effectiveness. Materials and Methods: A total 159 US-guided PFNAB (67) and US-guided automated PNCB (92) of abdominal lesions were performed percutaneously in 150 patients; the youngest patient was a 3-month-old female and eldest was a 75-year-old female. The patient selection was irrespective of age, sex, or location of the abdominal lesion. These patients presented with abdominal mass/lesions, suspected malignancy, jaundice, and in some cases, however, biopsy was performed to determine the nature of indeterminate lesion (malignant / benign versus abscesses). They were 47 hepatobiliary, 6 pancreas, 24 gastrointestinal tract (GIT), 20 kidneys and urinary bladder, 20 prostate, 3 lymph nodes, 4 adrenals, 8 retroperitoneal, 13 ovaries, and 9 other types of lesions. We used free-hand technique (without biopsy attachment) in 129 cases, and transrectal and transvaginal with biopsy attachment was used in 30 cases. Results: In 91.99% of cases, US-guided PFNAB/US-guided PNCB contributed significantly to diagnosis in which US-guided PFNAB/US-guided PNCB was the diagnostic test in 23.33% cases. It confirmed a highly suspected diagnosis in 64% patients, and indicated a specific diagnosis that was not suspected in the remaining 36%. In 57.33% cases, the results of US-guided PFNAB/US-guided PNCB, did not alter treatment choice but increased physician confidence in the choice. US-guided PFNAB/US-guided PNCB was responsible in avoiding 107 planned investigations, including 8 laparotomies, with no significant complications and decreasing length of stay and resulting in 20% cost savings. Conclusions: Thus, the US-guided PFNAB/US-guided PNCB contributed significantly in diagnosis, and in most of the cases it did not change treatment choice but increased clinicians confidence in the choice. We can avoid the number of investigations, decrease morbidity and mortality, shorten hospitalization and cost by using these methods.
Acute acalculous cholecystitis due to hepatitis A infection in a child: A rare cause of acute abdomen
Özkan Herek, Nergül Çördük, Duygu Herek, Senol Bagci
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Observations of teachers in llorin, Nigeria on their practices of corporal punishment that are potentially injurious to their pupils' eyes
Abdulraheem Olarongbe Mahmoud, Abdulkabir Ayansiji Ayanniyi, Medinat Folorunso Salman
Objective: To document the observations of elementary school teachers (ESTs) in Ilorin, Nigeria on their practice of some types of corporal punishment (CP) that could result in eye injuries among their pupils. Materials and Methods: A short battery of questions that explored ESTs' observations on attitudes to, and knowledge of some commonly used CP practices was self-administered on 172 consenting teachers from six sampled schools. The potentials for their pupils to sustain eye injuries while receiving such CP practices were inferred from the usage of items with sharp and protruding ends to administer CP, and the application of CP onto pupils' body parts that are in close proximity to the eye such as the head and face. Results: Only 50 of the 172 ESTs favored the practice of CP of pupils by their teachers. Analyses of several potentially moderating variables on this response such as ESTs' ages, years of EST teaching experience, school, and class or grade that EST teaches did not prove significant. Over three-quarters of ESTs (80.2%) had ever observed that pupils were being disciplined by ESTs with a cane. About a fifth of them had also observed that ESTs applied CP to the head (19.8%) and the face (16.3%) of pupils. Conclusion: Findings suggest that ESTs' commonly employed CP practices have significant injurious potential to their pupils' eyes. It is recommended that CP be abolished in elementary schools, and instead alternative nonabusive methods of disciplining erring pupils by teachers be introduced.
Survey of medical specialists on their attitudes to and resources for health research in Nigeria
Abdulraheem O Mahmoud, Adeyinka A Ayanniyi, Abdul Lawal, Charles O Omolase, Yinka Ologunsua, Elsie Samaila
Aim: To study the views of medical specialists on their attitude to and the resources for health research in Nigeria and draw appropriate policy implications. Materials and Methods: Structured questionnaires were distributed to consenting 90 randomly selected medical specialists practising in six Nigerian tertiary health institutions. Participants' background information, importance attached to research, motivations for conducting research, funding, ethical oversight, literature search, and statistical support were probed. The coded responses were stored and analyzed using the statistical SPSS software. Results: Fifty-one out of the 90 questionnaires distributed were returned, giving a response rate of 63.3%. Research function was rated third by 64.7% of the respondents after hospital service (72.5%) and teaching (66.0%). Advancement of knowledge was the strongest motivating factor for conducting research (78.4%). Securing funding (94%) and finding time (80%) were their major constraints. Only a minority of the respondents, 20% and 14%, respectfully, positively rated the quality and promptness of the decisions of their institutions' ethical organs in the highest category. Most of their literature search was conducted on the internet (96.1%) and they stored and analyzed their research data with commonly available statistical software. Conclusion: Our study respondents regarded research highly but were severely constrained in conducting research by lack of access to sources of funding from within and outside Nigeria and finding time from core hospital functions. We recommend periodic (re)training in research particularly on how to apply for research grants and giving some protected research time for Nigerian medical specialists in order to boost their research function.
Incidence of bladder cancer in a one-stop clinic
A Yakasai, M Allam, AJ Thompson
Objective: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the importance of transvaginal scan (TVS) in the detection of bladder tumors in patients presenting with postmenopausal bleeding. Materials and Methods: We examined the case records of all patients that attended a one-stop clinic between September 2001 and May 2004. Those presenting with postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) underwent transvaginal scan and endometrial pipelle sampling. Where bladder pathology was detected, urine cytology was done before referral to the urologist Results: In all, 753 women were referred. There were 17 cases of endometrial cancer detected. Three cases of bladder tumor (malignant transitional cell cancer) were found. Conclusion: We recommend careful assessment of all pelvic organs in women presenting with PMB.
Editorial on live donor renal transplantation in South Africa
Kasonde Bowa
Surgical perspectives on inflammatory bowel disease
Robert B Sanda
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Public Advocate Williams, Brooklyn BP Adams and Rights organizations Hail Firing of Killer Cop Daniel Pantaleo
Special To The ...August 19,2019
The infamous killing five years ago.
New York elected leaders and officials at rights organizations today praised the firing of New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection to his killing Eric Garner an innocent unarmed Black man five years ago with a chokehold.
"Commissioner O'Neill came to the right decision to fire Daniel Pantaleo. Finally. After five years of waiting, five years of pain, five years of justice delayed and denied, we have some action, providing a small semblance of justice deserved," said Jumaane D. Williams, the Public Advocate.
"But the work needed to prevent these tragic incidents, to bring real accountability and transparency which will continue the push toward true community-police relationships in this city and around the country, is only beginning. Supporting our men and women in blue and demanding accountability are not mutually exclusive, and we must reject the voices of those who try to make us choose."
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said, “The family of Eric Garner has been waiting five long years for justice. It is my hope that they get some peace and closure after today. The reality is that Eric Garner would still be alive were it not for Mr. Pantaleo's actions, and while the system has failed Eric Garner’s family repeatedly for the past five years, at least the right thing was done today. I commend Police Commissioner James O’Neill for his decision to fire Mr. Pantaleo. Mr. Pantaleo does not belong in the NYPD, and I am glad to see that this is now the case.”
The Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams said, “It has been five years since our city was shaken to its core watching Eric Garner being killed on video from a police chokehold. After the Staten Island grand jury handed down their verdict, I stated that Officer Pantaleo should be terminated; today that termination has come to pass."
Adams added: “Commissioner O’Neill’s decision was I believe the correct one. Police officers carry the authority to take away life and liberty; with that authority comes the highest standard of responsibility to utilize the full range of de-escalation tools at their disposal. There is still a lot of anger and pain, and for the Garner family and so many of their supporters it may never go away. But with today’s decision, I hope we can look forward and create a symbiotic relationship between law enforcement and the citizens they put their lives on the line to serve and protect. The pursuit of justice continues.”
Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said: “This termination was long overdue. I hope that the firing of Daniel Pantaleo provides a small measure of justice to Eric’s Garner family which has tirelessly pursued justice for the past 5 years. While the justice system failed to hold Pantaleo accountable, his continued service with the NYPD sent a dangerous message to communities of color that cops can kill with full impunity. This firing makes clear that Pantaelo’s actions warranted, at bare minimum, being stripped of the privilege of bearing a badge and gun. No doubt, the continuing calls for justice from the Garner family and activists across the country helped contribute to this outcome. Eric Garner’s death stands as a reminder about the important work that must be done to confront the use of deadly force against unarmed African Americans.”
In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights said: "This is a long overdue modicum of justice for Eric Garner’s family, five years after Mr. Garner’s unjust killing. Now the NYPD must hold the other officers involved accountable. Harm – including grave harm – by police officers is not merely a matter of individual bad actors. From a lack of transparency and accountability, to a culture of secrecy and ongoing biased policing, too many of the factors that led to Mr. Garner’s death and the injustice that followed remain. For Mr. Garner, his family, and all New Yorkers, we need wholesale cultural change within the police department and to move forward with reforms. The Center for Constitutional Rights successfully sued the NYPD over the department’s racially discriminatory use of stop-and-frisk in the landmark class action suit Floyd v. City of New York, and continues to work with affected communities to implement reforms ordered by the court to reform the NYPD’s unconstitutional practices."
Jumaane D. Williams
New York Police Department
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The Great Yokai War (Movie Review)
Director: Takashi Miike | Release Date: 2005
By Todd on May 12th, 2009
At first glance, the charming 2005 child-like Japanese fantasy flick “The Great Yokai War” (aka “The Great Spook War”) doesn't seem like a Takashi Miike film. Nary a painful nipple piercing, arterial spray, or cocky yakuza thug with a closet full of depraved sexual perversions can be found anywhere throughout the picture.
What’s more, the movie even comes equipped with a snazzy PG-13 rating, something yours truly never thought he’d find plastered on the promotional material for a project directed by the man responsible for “Audition,” “Ichi the Killer,” “Visitor Q,” and the surprisingly solid surrealist prison saga “Big Bang Love: Juvenile A.” This begs the question: Can a motion picture crafted by this viscerally inclined cult director flourish without the man’s penchant for sex, violence, and deliriously long lines of cocaine?
The answer, simply put, is yes. “The Great Yokai War” is truly and completely entertaining, proving that Miike doesn’t necessarily need these less-than-moral elements to craft a truly engaging cinematic experience. In fact, once the initial preteen-friendly facade begins to wear off, you’ll quickly discover that this is just as twisted and maniacal as the talented filmmaker’s previous efforts, though his style has been filtered and restrained in order to appeal to kids with a sweet tooth for high fantasy and adults who grew up on “The Dark Crystal,” “The Neverending Story,” and the David Bowie classic “Labyrinth.” However, if your child suffered numerous panic attacks during “Monster House,” chances are he or she might be the sort of iron-nerved viewer this darkly imaginative saga was crafted for.
“The Great Yokai War” chronicles the otherworldly adventures of an 11 year-old boy named Tadashi, an inquisitive child who reluctantly moves to a small rural township after the divorce of his parents. Typical childhood struggles apply, though things get a bit more involved once our pint-sized hero is dubbed the “Kirin Rider” at a colorful local festival. Almost immediately after the title has been bestowed upon the wee lad, Tadashi is recruited to help aid a bizarre collection of mythological Japanese monsters (yokai) in their battle against a twisted foe who would love nothing more than to transform these lovably kooky creatures into mechanical and technological villains. Peculiar set-pieces and random yet oddly enjoyable scenarios soon follow.
Miike borrows from several creative sources -- namely “Alice in Wonderland” and the films of Hayao Miyazaki -- to bring Hiroshi Aramata’s novel to life on the proverbial big screen. The inspired characters Tadashi encounters along the way range from cute and cuddly to fearsome and deranged, in particular "Battle Royale" favorite Chiaki Kuriyama’s dastardly yokai killer Agi. Her treatment of the captured yokai will surely give most well-adjusted children nightmares for several sleepless weeks, especially the way her cruelty seems to ooze naturally from her strangely attractive pores. Don’t let the aforementioned MPAA rating fool you, folks -- Miike's warped sensibilities are definitely in top form, though his depravity has taken on a friendlier shade of foul this time around.
That said, the film is certainly not without its flaws. The copious use of green screens and CGI are obvious and occasionally cheap-looking; the runtime is a little too long for its own good; the acting is rocky and frequently flat; creepier characters might prove to be too frightening for children and too goofy for adults. The latter, of course, is probably intentional, as Miike has stated in several interviews that he purposely included severely scary moments to elicit screams and shrieks from the picture’s largely adolescent audience. The rest of the minor complaints tend to vanish once you allow yourself to get sucked into this incredibly detailed and expertly realized landscape. Assuming, of course, you possess the uncanny ability to do so.
It's really not that hard to give yourself over to "The Great Yokai War's" many eccentric charms. Miike is, as always, spot-on, regardless of how "tame" or "restrained" the film as a whole may seem. Beneath its warm and fuzzy family-friendly exterior beats the heart of a hard-hearted horror/fantasy picture helmed by a director who continues to amaze us with his ability to grow and evolve. Does the movie have problems? Sure it does. But even if you stop and stare at what Miike gets wrong, you can't help but get completely overwhelmed by the many things he gets right. It's a nice departure from his usual work, and, I hope, indicative of what's to come.
Todd has been a slave to the horror genre for as long as he can remember. After cutting his teeth on late-night Cinemax schlock and the low-budget offerings found on the classic USA program "Up All Night," our hero moved valiantly into the world of sleazy obscura, consuming the oddest films from around the world with the reckless abandon of a man without fear or reason. When he isn't sitting mindlessly in front of a television set, he can be found stuffing music, video games, and various literary scribblings into his already cluttered mindscape.
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Book Pricing: How the cover price of a book is set
February 28, 2014 Lavanya 5 Comments
Book pricing strategy that won’t work
While accepting the Man-Booker Prize (2013) for her novel The Luminaries, author Eleanor Catton said, “I am very aware of the pressures upon contemporary publishing to make money and to remain competitive in a competitive world…
…I am extraordinarily fortunate to have found a home at these publishing houses and to have found friends and colleagues and people who have managed to strike an elegant balance between making art and making money…”
The balancing act the author speaks of is a tough one and being elegant while striking that balance is like a pilgrim trying to ride a giant unicycle as the Kumbh Mela is in progress while wearing a saree. Publishers operate in a dynamic, ever-changing world of business which has its own arithmetic challenges not just limited to book pricing – demands of rising costs and continued money-making for sustenance.
Like all other businesses the publishing industry too, apart from other important things like promoting art and preserving literature, has to make money that can be ploughed back into the venture so as to be able to invest in more authors and reach out to a wider reading audience. This brings us to an important question even before we delve into how the books price is set.
How do books make money?
The primary source for the traditional publisher (a brick and mortar organization that publishes and sells physical books) is the revenue from sale of physical books. A simple formula to apply:
No. of Books Sold X Cover Price per unit
There are other sources of revenue too like sale of ancillary rights – (like movie rights), but we’ll get to that in a later section.
Pricing a Book
Book pricing strategy is arguably one of the most important aspects in driving sales. In price-sensitive India where there are not enough preventive laws to curb photo-copying and no stringent anti-piracy laws, the publishers need to be very careful in setting the cover price of a book.
Given the threats surrounding the traditional publishing business, complete recovery of cost would be a publisher’s objective while setting the price. (Profit would be nice too but given the cost factors and the sales numbers it is quite a wonder that they make anything at all!)
Though you might come across book pricing calculators, software and apps that magically come up with a book price that you can use, you’d benefit from learning more about the cost factors that come into play while pricing a book.
Here are some of them that would directly affect your book pricing strategy.
1. Cost of Book Printing and Creating a physical copy
This is the actual cost of ink and paper and emulsifier to print everything from the words inside to the printing of the glossy cover and the blurbs, the cost of creating the physical sturdy hard-back or the soft paper-back.
2. Cost of Book Distribution
Partridge Publishing, the self-publishing arm of Penguin Books defines this cost as, “The costs involved in offering your book through various channels.”
These various channels vary from shelf-space of retail booksellers to web-space of online booksellers like Flipkart or Amazon. Often this includes discount costs that are built into wholesaler invoices and the physical cost of logistics that are incurred while delivering your book to the various wholesalers and retailers
3. Cost of Sales and Book Marketing
All costs incurred by the publisher in connection with the publicity of your books including web banners, social-media marketing, traditional print marketing, costs of launching the book (if you’re one of those people who get launched with the flamboyance of a party!), cost of featuring you – the author, in various print and online newspapers and magazines.
4. Royalty paid to the Author (Ah, finally!)
This is the monies paid by the publisher to the creator of the work, the author. Usually this is a fixed % of the retail selling price of the book and this % is usually pre-decided in contracts. Sometimes the % varies for hardbacks and paperbacks because the costs involved are different.
Royalties also include % of revenue from sale of ancillary rights which we will talk about a little later on.
5. Book Designing Costs
The cost of book cover design and all creatives that are designed in connection with the book such as author photographs and purchase of copy-righted cover images, if any.
6. Other ‘invisible’ costs
These costs include employee man-hours spent editing and type-setting the book and other overheads of the publishing firm (light, water, electricity, rent, yada, yada, yada).
The selling price (SP) of a book will thus aim to recover all of the costs incurred above and will look something like this:
S.P = Per Unit cost of (1) + (2) + (3) + (4) + (5) + (6) + any profit margin that the publisher wants to build in
Notice the words ‘per unit.’ In India first edition copies that are printed are in the following ranges:
First-Time authors: 1000-3000 copies depending on how well-known the person is
Established Authors: 5000 – 10000 copies
Printing anything more than the numbers mentioned above results in the risk of incurring warehouse space for unsold copies.
The average price for fiction books sold in India ranges from Rs. 100 for ‘quick-reads’ and pulp fiction to Rs. 350 for literary fiction titles. Hardbacks cost more than Paperbacks.
Exceptions: Coffee Table Books, Graphic Novels and Picture Books whose printing costs are considerably higher. The number of books printed to are lesser (because this is a niche market and only a select audience purchases these genres) thus increasing the cost per unit.
Other Factors that affect pricing
1. Comparable price of similar books
A publisher normally will not price a book very differently from other titles in the similar genre. A comparison will be made between one author’s brand and position in the market versus the other author before a price is decided.
2. Market & Reading Tastes
What is the market reading? What has been done before? What hasn’t been done before? These are some of the questions that the publishers ask before fixing a price. A book meant for a niche market (like croquet) will be priced higher because of a small perceived number of readers.
3. Reader Demographics
The logistics costs will increase for remote locations but publishers are not known to use a differential pricing strategy. Instead they use a distribution channel that has reach in places where they don’t have a presence. For instance, Flipkart delivers to most locations so publishers will tie-up with such channels.
Other Sources of Revenue – Ancillary or Subsidiary Rights
Most publishing contracts between an author and the publisher will have the following subsidiary rights. (or alternate sources of revenue, i.e, other than sale of physical books).
eBook rights
Sale of publication rights to a third party (either publisher or agent)
Sale of adaptation rights to movie producers
Sale of adaptation rights to television serial producers
Audio Book Rights
Braille Rights
Some authors might have sold some of or all of these rights to the publisher who in turn is free to sell these to a third-party (eg: a publisher in a foreign country) and a % of proceeds from these ancillary or subsidiary rights is paid to the author as part of royalties.
Although book pricing strategies aim at complete cost recovery the final decision will always be a function of demand. Which is why some books continue to retail at launch prices while others retail at significantly lower than launch prices.
Do you think there are other determinants of price? Please leave a comment !
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Vaibhav Shukla March 24, 2015 at 5:36 pm
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Tag: Zolan Quobble
thanks: Birmingham, Edinburgh and London*2
Thanks to all those hosting and organizing the performances: Mike Hurley and the rest of the Fizzle gang, Sibyl Madrigal of Boat-ting, Matthew Collings (who also sourced the tools for a mid-tour kluge repair of my amplifier), and the Lewisham Arthouse. Kudos to Reka Sanders, Joe Hope and Han-ter Park for putting a roof over this itinerant musician.
Big thanks to Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders for the high-energy, musical workout, to Owen Green for introducing me to the musical (and comical) applications of a cardboard box, to Pat Thomas for his skill and wit, to Lol Coxhill for being the inimitable Lol Coxhill, and to the rest of Mathilde 253—to Charles Hayward and Ian Smith—for pushing and pulling into ever more fascinating musical spaces.
Last but not least, thanks to all who came to listen/watch.
Categoriesgigs TagsBirmingham, Boat-ting, Charles Hayward, Edinburgh, Fizzle, Grind Sight Open Eye, Han-earl Park, Han-ter Park, Ian Smith, Joe Hope, Lewisham Arthouse, Lol Coxhill, London, Mark Sanders, Mathilde 253, Matthew Collings, Mike Hurley, Owen Green, Pat Thomas, Paul Dunmall, Reka Sanders, Sibyl Madrigal, St Cecilia’s Hall, Zolan Quobble
tonight: Mathilde 253 with Pat Thomas plus Zolan Quobble
Mathilde 253 (Cafe OTO, London, April 18, 2010). Photo © 2010 Seán Kelly
Tonight (Saturday, February 19, 2011), at 8:00pm: Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) perform with Pat Thomas (synthesizer) plus Zolan Quobble (spoken word) at the Lewisham Arthouse (140 Lewisham Way, London SE14, England). Admission is £5. [Details…]
Categoriesgigs TagsCharles Hayward, Han-earl Park, Ian Smith, Lewisham Arthouse, London, Mathilde 253, Pat Thomas, Zolan Quobble
reminder: Birmingham, Edinburgh and London*2
Performances coming up this month with Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders; as part of Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) with Pat Thomas and with Lol Coxhill; plus more, in Birmingham, Edinburgh and London (see the performance diary for up-to-date info).
Birmingham, February 15, 2011: Performance by Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums) presented by Fizzle.
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Edinburgh, February 18, 2011: Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar), and Matthew Collings, plus others (TBA) presented by Grind Sight Open Eye.
London, February 19, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) with Pat Thomas (synthesizer) plus Zolan Quobble (spoken word).
London, February 21, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) with Lol Coxhill (saxophone), plus many more, presented by Boat-ting.
Hope to see y’all at these events!
Categoriesgigs TagsBirmingham, Charles Hayward, Edinburgh, Fizzle, Grind Sight Open Eye, Han-earl Park, Ian Smith, Lol Coxhill, London, Mark Sanders, Mathilde 253, Matthew Collings, Pat Thomas, Paul Dunmall, Zolan Quobble
performance diary 02-06-11 (Birmingham, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, London)
February 7, 2011 The Roundy
Cork, Ireland 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm) Stet Lab featuring Stephen Davis (drums) with Han-earl Park (guitar), plus Helena Reilly (voice), Kevin Terry (guitar) and Dan Walsh (drums).
Admission: €10/5.
February 15, 2011 The Lamp Tavern
Barford Street
Birmingham B5, England 9:00pm Fizzle presents a performance by Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums).
Admission: £5.
[facebook event…]
February 18, 2011 St Cecilia’s Hall
Niddry Street
Cowgate
Edinburgh EH1, Scotland 8:00pm Grind Sight Open Eye presents performances by Han-earl Park (guitar), and Matthew Collings, plus others (TBA).
Recommended donation: £2.
February 19, 2011 Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14, England 8:00pm Performance by Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) with Pat Thomas (synthesizer) plus Zolan Quobble (spoken word).
February 21, 2011 Bar & Co.
Temple Pier
London WC2R, England 8:30pm
(doors: 8:45pm) Boat-ting presents a performance by Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) with Lol Coxhill (saxophone). Also performing are Sharon Gal (voice), Alex Ward (guitar) and Steve Noble (drums); Red Start (Noel Taylor (clarinet), Benedict Taylor (viola) and Noura Sanatian (violin)); and Sibylline Sisters (Sibyl Madrigal (poetry), Aromorel Weston (voice) and Kay Grant (voice)). Admission: £6/4.
March 2011 The Netherlands I’m looking for performance opportunities in The Netherlands mid-March 2011. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!
March 30, 2011 Half Moon Theatre
Half Moon Street
Emmets Place
Cork, Ireland 8:00pm Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House. Tickets: €11 (€6) from the Cork Opera House.
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March 31, 2011 Kevin Barry Room
National Concert Hall
Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2, Ireland 8:30pm Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)), plus Paul G. Smyth (piano). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from Note Productions and the National Concert Hall. Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office.
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Categoriesdiary, gigs TagsAlex Ward, Aromorel Weston, Bar & Co., Benedict Taylor, Birmingham, Charles Hayward, Cork, Cork Opera House, Dan Walsh, Dublin, Edinburgh, Fizzle, Grind Sight Open Eye, Half Moon Theatre, Han-earl Park, Helena Reilly, Ian Smith, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Kay Grant, Kevin Terry, Lewisham Arthouse, Lol Coxhill, London, Mark Sanders, Mathilde 253, Matthew Collings, Music Network, National Concert Hall, Noel Taylor, Note Productions, Noura Sanatian, Pat Thomas, Paul Dunmall, Paul G Smyth, Red Start, Sharon Gal, Sibyl Madrigal, Sibylline Sisters, St Cecilia’s Hall, Stephen Davis, Stet Lab, Steve Noble, The Lamp Tavern, The Roundy, UCC, UCC School of Music, Zolan Quobble
performances: Birmingham, Edinburgh and London*2
Upcoming performances in Birmingham, Edinburgh and London, February 2011 (see the performance diary for up-to-date info):
Emmet Place
Cork, Ireland 8:00pm Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)).
More info to follow… Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House. Tickets: €11 (€6) from the Cork Opera House.
March 31, 2011 TBC
Dublin, Ireland TBC Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from Note Productions. Details to follow…
Categoriesdiary, gigs TagsAlex Ward, Aromorel Weston, Bar & Co., Benedict Taylor, Birmingham, Charles Hayward, Cork, Cork Opera House, Dan Walsh, Dublin, Edinburgh, Fizzle, Grind Sight Open Eye, Half Moon Theatre, Han-earl Park, Helena Reilly, Ian Smith, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Kay Grant, Kevin Terry, Lewisham Arthouse, Lol Coxhill, London, Mark Sanders, Mathilde 253, Matthew Collings, Music Network, Noel Taylor, Note Productions, Noura Sanatian, Pat Thomas, Paul Dunmall, Red Start, Sharon Gal, Sibyl Madrigal, Sibylline Sisters, St Cecilia’s Hall, Stephen Davis, Stet Lab, Steve Noble, The Lamp Tavern, The Roundy, UCC, UCC School of Music, Zolan Quobble
January 24, 2011 The Phoenix Bar
Union Quay
(doors: 8:45pm) Performance by Jin Sangtae (electronics) with Han-earl Park (guitar) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums).
Dublin, Ireland TBC Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award. Details to follow…
Categoriesdiary, gigs TagsBirmingham, Charles Hayward, Cork, Cork Opera House, Dan Walsh, Dublin, Fizzle, Half Moon Theatre, Han-earl Park, Helena Reilly, Ian Smith, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Jeffrey Weeter, Jin Sangtae, Kevin Terry, Lewisham Arthouse, London, Mark Sanders, Mathilde 253, Music Network, Pat Thomas, Paul Dunmall, Stephen Davis, Stet Lab, The Lamp Tavern, The Phoenix Bar, The Roundy, UCC, UCC School of Music, Zolan Quobble
performance: Mathilde 253 with Pat Thomas plus Zolan Quobble
Saturday, February 19, 2011, at 8:00pm: Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)) perform with Pat Thomas (synthesizer) plus Zolan Quobble (spoken word) at the Lewisham Arthouse (140 Lewisham Way, London SE14, England). Admission is £5.
See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [facebook event page…]
about the performers
Mathilde 253 is the real-time musical meeting between drummer Charles Hayward, guitarist Han-earl Park and trumpeter Ian Smith. Born out of an opportunity to explore the spontaneous mashup of avant-rock, African-American creative musics, European free improvisation and noise, Mathilde 253 debuted at Cafe OTO (London) in April 2010. Featuring special guest Lol Coxhill, the ensemble weaved a performance of physical virtuosity and humorous sound poetics; a patchwork of restraint, subtlety and recklessness.
A playful collision of personal, social and musical histories, Mathilde 253 is a site where tradition and idiom are not straightjackets nor limitations, but playgrounds for real-time (re)inventions and (re)configurations.
Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) is available on SLAM Productions.
Charles Hayward is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat and Camberwell Now, an ever growing list of solo concerts and CDs (most recent release Abracadabra Information on Locus Solus label), special collaborative performances, and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith.
Throughout the 90’s up to the present he has initiated a bewildering array of events and performances, including the widely acclaimed series Accidents + Emergencies at the Albany Theatre, Out of Body Orchestra (too much sound, not enough space, not enough time), music made from the sound of the new Laban dance centre being built which was choreographed for the official opening, music for a circus (part of the National Theatre’s ‘Art of Regeneration’ initiative), the full-on installation/performance Anti-Clockwise (with Ashleigh Marsh and David Aylward) for multiple strobes, maze structure of diverse textures, 2 drummers, synthesizers and your nervous system. Recent developements include the Continuity evenings as part of Camberwell Arts.
Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change,’ his current one-man show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.
Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park (박한얼) works from/within/around traditions of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open improvised musics, sometimes engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He feels the gravitational pull of collaborative, multi-authored contexts, and has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries and concert halls in Europe and America.
As a constructor of low- and mid-tech electronic and software devices, and as an occasional score-maker, he is interested in partial, and partially frustrating, context-specific artifacts; artifacts that amplify social relationships and, in some instances, objects that obscure the location of the author.
He is involved in collaborations with Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder, Alex Fiennes and Murray Campbell, and is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith. Recent performances include Mathilde 253 with Lol Coxhill; duo concerts with Paul Dunmall, and with Richard Barrett; trios with Matana Roberts and Mark Sanders, with Kato Hideki and Katie O’Looney, and with Thomas Buckner and Jesse Ronneau; as part of the Evan Parker led 20-piece improvising ensemble; and the performance of Pauline Oliveros’ ‘Droniphonia’ alongside the composer. His recordings have been released by labels including Slam Productions, and DUNS Limited Edition. He has appeared at festivals including Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology Festival (California), dialogues festival (Edinburgh), Sonorities (Belfast) and VAIN Live Art (Oxford).
Park founded and curates Stet Lab, and teaches improvisation at the UCC School of Music.
Ian Smith has been playing improvised music and has performed with Evan Parker, John Stevens, Maggie Nicols, Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford and Eddie Prévost among others. His own trio, Trian, has played at the 1993 London Experimental Music Festival and the 1992 Soho Jazz Festival. He also participated in a reformation of Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra in the ICA in 1994. He has collaborated with composer Roger Doyle, winner of the Bourges International Elecro-Acoustic Music Competition 1997, and he has been featured on two instrumental tracks by the hip hop band Marxman. He toured the UK with Butch Morris’ London Skyscraper conduction project in November 1997.
He helped to institute the London Improvisers orchestra in 1998 with Steve Beresford and Evan Parker, which continues to play monthly in London and has recently performed at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. He also founded The Gathering with Maggie Nichols.
In 2000 he recorded his second CD as a leader, Daybreak, with Derek Bailey, Veryan Weston, Gail Brand and Oren Marshall. Into the twenty-first century, as well as regularly playing with London improvisers, he has also performed with Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar Arkestra, guitarists Han-earl Park, Reeves Gabrels, the Poet and Detriot legend John Sinclair, and New York based drummer Harris Eisenstadt.
performance diary 01-11-11 (Cork, Dublin, London)
January 24, 2011 The Roundy
(doors: 8:45pm) Stet Lab featuring Steve Davis (drums).
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A historic tour to Xian usually includes trips to the famous Bell Tower and Drum Tower. The Bell Tower and Drum Tower that is located at the center of Xian are symbols of the city. These two architectures are both built during the Ming Dynasty and when standing on the towers you will get beautiful panoramic views of Xian city.
The Bell Tower was constructed in 1384 during the early Ming Dynasty and it is one of the grandest of its kind in China. Structured by brick and timber, the Bell Tower was built to be as high as 40 meters with an occupation of 1,377 square meters. The Bell Tower is a masterpiece of Ming styled architectures with its three layers of eaves decorated with dark green glazed tiles and gold-plating on the roof. Gilded color paintings and beautiful engravings are also founded to add the style of the Bell Tower.
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Lynn Marie Goya was elected as the Clark County Clerk and has been serving since January 2015. Clark County, which contains the famous Las Vegas Strip, issues approximately 80,000 marriage licenses per year to couples from over 160 countries around the world. The local wedding industry generates over 18,000 jobs and contributes over $2.5 billion in annual economic activity. When Goya discovered a 37 percent decrease in wedding tourism, she immediately took action, working with the legislature to create a special wedding promotion fund that generates over $1 million per year. She created a public/private partnership with the wedding industry that evolved into the Las Vegas Wedding Chamber of Commerce and works closely with Las Vegas Convention and Visitor's Authority (LVCVA), Travel Nevada and Brand USA.
Prior to being elected, Goya was a freelance journalist who wrote for local, regional and national publications including USA Today, Audubon and the Boston Globe. She is an award-winning playwright, an Emmy-nominated writer, received the Frederick L. Ryan Award for Economics; the JCPenny Golden Rule Award for community leadership and the EMERGE Nevada 2016 Alumni of the Year.
Achievements and Initiatives:
Implemented a secure online and in-person credit card processing service to reduce cash intake and allow the department to collect online order requests 24/7;
Created a simplified website for couples, MLIC.VEGAS, with a QR code that chapels and wedding planners can use on their literature to direct customers to our mobile-friendly application. Now, 100 percent of the couples use the online application, which reduces wait time for couples and printing costs for the department;
Worked with the legislature to provide much-needed technology funds to all Nevada county clerks;
Developing a strategy to balance privacy of personal information with public access to information;
Implemented a strategy to protect digitally archived permanent public records to secure and protect them from potential data loss or ransomware threats;
Digitizing county permanent public records that date back to 1909 and creating a transparent public search;
Overhauled the marriage officiant application process and implemented a mandatory training program to ensure officiants understood their rights and responsibilities to the state;
Streamlined the certificate filing process saving hundreds of hours of staff time;
Reorganized the Clerk's Office management team and created a new system for employee review and training;
Created an online scheduler for civil marriage ceremony and passport acceptance appointments;
Spearheaded promotional campaigns including Las Vegas Marries the Military in 2017 and 2018, "Say Yes to the UK Dress", May as Royal Wedding Month and the Pop-up Marriage License Bureau at McCarran Airport resulting in over $20 million in national and international publicity for Las Vegas Weddings.
NACo 2018 Achievement Award for revising the marriage officiant application process
2016 NACRC Best Practices Award
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Women of Distinction Award for Corporate and Government Services from the National Association of Women Business Owners of Southern Nevada.
Achievements, awards and recognition:
2018 Honorable Mention, Nevada Taxpayer’s Association Good Government Award
2018 Achievement Award, National Association of County Officials
2016 Achievement Award, National Association of County Officials (Video)
2016 Records Management Best Practices Award, National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials, and Clerks
2015 Women of Distinction Award: Government, National Association of Women Business Owners, Southern Nevada
2015 Alumni of the Year, EMERGE Nevada
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The Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2018: Bib Gourmand Selection
As a prelude to the 2018 edition of the Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau, Michelin has unveiled a list of local establishments that will be included in the Bib Gourmand selection. This award honours the richness of the local culinary scene including favourites like congee, noodles and dim sum. This year’s selection includes 82 addresses – 73 in Hong Kong and nine in Macau – offering a quality set three-course menu, all under HKD400. Trusty Congee King in Wan Chai is the first congee-shop to be honoured, while Glorious Cuisine, Ju Xing Home and Kwan Kee Clay Pot Rice are among the eight new restaurants on the list to be serving Cantonese cuisine. Other Asian cuisines are also included, like neighbourhood Thai restaurant Samsen located next to the historic Blue House. The Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2018 will be unveiled on November 30, at Grand Hyatt Macau.
See the complete list here.
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DC COMICS FOR AUGUST
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For previously posted August solicitations, click on the publishers' names below:
* Bluewater Productions.
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IDW PUBLISHING FOR AUGUST
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ARCHIE COMICS FOR AUGUST
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FEAR ITSELF: "THE SACRIFICE"
NBC has released seven images from the premiere episode of Fear Itself, "The Sacrifice," scheduled for Thursday, June 5.
Here's how the network describes the episode:
"When four criminals find themselves stranded in an old, snow-covered fort, they slowly discover both the fort and the seductive trio of sirens who reside there are filled with deadly secrets."
The episode stars Jeffrey Pieree, Jesse Plemons, Stephen Martines, Rachel Miner, Mircea Monroe and Michelle Molineu.
It was written by Mick Garris from a story by Del Howison and was directed by Breck Eisner.
The images feature Molineu as Tara, Pierce as Point and Monroe as Virginia.
Click on the thumbnails for larger images.
PUNISHER: WAR ZONE POSTER
Lionsgate has provided The Continuum a first look at the teaser poster for Punisher: War Zone.
Here's how the studio describe the film:
"Starring Ray Stevenson as Punisher, Punisher: War Zone is directed by Lexi Alexander and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Ari Arad. Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the 'Punisher Task Force' hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished."
Punisher: War Zone will be in theaters on Dec. 5. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.
TOP COW PRODUCTIONS FIRST LOOKS
For covers and five- to six-page previews of Top Cow Productions titles arriving in stores on May 19, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Madame Mirage #6 and Pilot Season: Twilight Guardian #1.
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MARVEL COMICS ROUNDUP
Marvel Comics on Monday announced second printings for two of it recent launches, Captain Britain & The MI-13 #1 and Guardians of the Galaxy #1.
Both second printings will be in stores on June 18.
In other Marvel news:
* The publisher announced a lower price of $2.99 for Captain America: White #0, in stores on July 9. The issue will feature two covers, including a wraparound, by Tim Sale.
* Marvel released a teaser image for its upcoming Eternals series. Click on the thumbnail above for a larger image.
* DC Comics has that Batman #676, the first part in the "Batman: R.I.P." story, has sold out one day after arriving in stores.
DC is going back to press for a second printing, which will be in stores on June 11 and feature a recolored version of the issue�s variant cover by Tony Daniel and Sandu Florea.
* Liv Tyler, who plays Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk, will be a guest on CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman on Friday.
* FX will air Blade on Sunday, May 25 at 12:30 p.m.
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's coverage over the past month, here are some links. Click on the date to get the day's full report.
* Wednesday, May 14: Incredible Hulk's Tim Roth, Batman Gotham Knight's Kevin Conroy, Battlestar Galactica, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Smallville, Archie Comics First Looks and The Dark Tower.
* Tuesday, May 13: The Middleman, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Zen: Intergalactic Ninja, Devil's Due/Capcom titles, Dark Horse Comics First Looks, Image Comics' The Roberts and Watchmen.
* Monday, May 12: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Wtichblade movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Bluewater Productions for September, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks, Boom! Studios First Looks, Archie's Katy Keen Special and Marvel Comics roundup.
* Sunday, May 11: Iron Man box office.
* Saturday, May 10: Dark Horse Comics for August, Iron Man and DC Comics First Looks.
* Friday, May 9: G.I. Joe movie, Marvel Comics First Looks and Batman Gotham Knight's Brian Azzarello.
* Thursday, May 8: The Middleman, The Dark Knight, Heroes, Iron Man and Archie Comics First Looks.
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* Tuesday, May 6: Iron Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Simpsons, Marvel's Secret Invasion, MTV Movie Awards, First Looks and Aspen Comics for July.
* Monday, May 5: Iron Man sequel, Avengers films, Smallville, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Virgin Comics First Looks and Dynamite Entertainment First Looks.
* Sunday, May 4: Iron Man box office and Battlestar Galactica.
* Saturday, May 3: Iron Man, Family Guy and DC Comics First Looks.
* Friday, May 2: Iron Man's Jeff Bridges, Michael Rosenbaum exits Smallville, Batman Gotham Knight's Alan Burnett, The Middleman, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel First Looks and Dark Horse First Looks.
* Thursday, May 1: Iron Man's Robert Downey Jr. and Leslie Bibb, Spectacular Spider-Man's Peter MacNicol, The Batman and Legion get Emmy nominations, Image First Looks, Moonstone Books for August, Archie Comics First Looks and DC Universe 0 second printing.
* Wednesday, April 30: The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man's Terrence Howard and First Looks.
* Tuesday, April 29: Iron Man's Jon Favreau, IDW Publishing's Galaxy Quest, IDW collects Love and Capes, Devil's Due's Drafted and First Looks.
* Monday, April 28: Iron Man's Gwyneth Paltrow, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Smallville and First Looks.
* Sunday, April 27: Iron Man and Smallville.
* Saturday, April 26: DC Comics First Looks and Marvel Comics roundup.
* Friday, April 25: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel First Looks, Iron Man movie and Boom! Studios First Looks.
* Thursday, April 24: Iron Man, Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Selma Blair, The Spectaculer Spider-Man's Vanessa Marshall, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville and Image Comics First Looks.
* Wednesday, April 23: Dynamite Entertainment for July, Desperado Publishing for July, Viper Comics for July, First Looks, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Simpsons.
* Tuesday, April 22: The Incredible Hulk, Wanted, Speed Racer, Smallville, Avatar Press for July, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks, DC Comics First Looks, Virgin and Stan Lee team and Marvel roundup.
* Monday, April 21: Iron Man movie, Boom! Studios for July, First Looks, Family Guy, The Simpsons and from New York Comic Con: Vertigo, Top Cow and Boom! Studios.
* Sunday, April 20: From New York Comic Con: Incredible Hulk producers, Marvel's Cop O' Joe and Chesterquest panels; and Red 5 Comics for July.
* Saturday, April 19: From New York Comic Con: The Spirit, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Wanted and Make Mine Marvel panel; Image Comics First Looks, Smallville and Dabel Productions for July.
* Friday, April 18: From New York Comic Con -- DC Nation panel, Secret Invasion panel and Mondo Marvel panel; Marvel First Looks, Image Comics for July, Black Panther animated and The Spectacular Spider-Man.
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Above- Mary Berry's QUEEN'S PUDDING from "The Great British Bake-Off".
We’re still thinking of Tony Bourdain. I’m lounging around while my partner reads out the funny bits (Medium Raw). Funny and acerbic, these are ideas all cooks and chefs relate to. He’s writing about real food, hospitality, conviviality, culture, all with a reminder that pleasure and sumptuousness are as important as restraint and simplicity. He loved excess and hated waste.
In contrast, flipping through the TV channels recently, I caught a few moments of Master Chef, a show that purports to be about good food. Instead of warmth and friendship, the show promotes humiliation, suspense, aggression, fear and panic. It’s “Game of Thrones” in a kitchen. Worse can be said of My Kitchen Rules, which adds downright rudeness, plastic surgery disasters and bad table manners. I won’t elaborate on their bad suits.
If asked, I’d probably accept a stint as guest judge on MC. The money could add an extension to the house, repaint the sitting room, add a few Iranian rugs to the collection. It could for heaven’s sake even get me a Rothko or pay Willy Nelson to sing at my birthday. But honestly, what was Prince Charles doing on the show? Was that a new low? Who pulled that off? Why did he do it? Did the stables need re-roofing? Did the organic garden at Highgrove need to be expanded?
The charismatic Lee Lin Chin is leaving (retiring?) the news desk at SBS. Beautifully spoken, her dress sense is exquisite with just enough eccentricity to balance style and good taste. Would she have time at least to help the image of the gentlemen from Master Chef and MKR – five of the worst-dressed men on TV?
-The Great British Bake-Off
I came to it late, I admit, but The Great British Bake-Off has entertained and inspired me. I even “binged” on six episodes in a row, one Sunday.
Mary Berry – cookery writer, Paul Hollywood – master baker, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc (comedians) host the show. Contestants work in a delightful marquee set in some bucolic corner of Britain. Their equipment is tastefully colour co-ordinated in pastel shades. They are put through a series of “challenges” – sponges, tarts, breads, scones, biscuits – but it’s all so civilized and calm, warm, friendly and encouraging. They all like each other. As an accomplished cook, I still learnt lots; about avoiding soggy bottoms, checking for yeast development, etc. (I had to get me one of them there automatic temperature checkers, by golly, and some better piping nozzles.)
“Tear’n share” breads were a first for me as was the new “all in one method” of cake mixing. Works well on a Victoria sponge (which leads, of course, to the differences between a Victoria, a Génoise, a Madeira).
I wasn’t happy with serrated knives cutting across cake racks nor with jumper sleeves pulled down to thumbs while cooking. I can’t believe that twice, salt was mistaken for sugar with disastrous results. The judges would criticize my love of dark pastry crusts - they prefer pale - and was it the British love of the double-entendre that gave so much attention to “nice buns”, “cream horns” and “soggy bottoms”?
The BBC couldn’t believe its luck when the show went viral with most of the population glued to the finals. The Great British Bake Off – catch it somehow – catch it on youtube – and for a laugh, watch David Walliams and Joanna Lumley do their thing!
https://www.youtube David Walliams Joanna Lumley
Queen’s Pudding
(based on Mary Berry’s recipe)
This is spectacular and easy.
*To prepare ahead of time, finish the custard and fruit part. Have the meringue whipped just before friends arrive. It will hold and can be “revived” with a light whisk before putting into the piping bag.
** If you have the privilege of eating this dessert, pour the cream AROUND your serve, not on top of it. (See Blog Post – “Respect” – 12/12/2017.) The chef has spent time cooking and presenting a lovely piece, with the meringue just right. Don’t dishonor it and cover it with cream. (The rugged individualists among us, of course, will do what they want.)
I first made this for a friend who is seriously gluten intolerant. For the base, I used part blanched almond meal, part gluten-free breadcrumbs. It worked so now I suggest the almond meal every time.
The recipe can be successfully adapted to the dish available. The pilluyvit dish in the photograph needed the recipe x 1.5.
600 ml real milk (i.e. not low fat)
25 gm butter (plus some for buttering the dish)
zest of one lemon (optional)
50 gm caster sugar
75 gm bread crumbs
(or better still, 50 gm blanched almond meal & 25 gm breadcrumbs)
Meringue: 175 gm caster sugar & the 3 egg whites
Fruit: 500 gm frozen raspberries & 200 gm caster sugar
Serve: pouring cream
Preheat the oven to 170C / 325F
Butter a 1.5 ltr (approx.) shallow oven-proof dish (one that will fit into a roasting tin as a bain-marie).
Base: Warm the milk, butter and sugar.
Whisk the egg yolks in a bowl and pour over the milk mixture.
Add the lemon zest.
Spread the breadcrumb mixture over the bottom of your dish. Pour over the milk mixture.
Place this dish of “custard” in a roasting tin, half filled with warm water.
Bake 20 – 25 minutes until set. Remove from bain-marie.
Fruit: Meanwhile, place the raspberries and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently for about 4 minutes or until you have a loose jam-like consistency.
Pour / spread over the custard.
Meringue*: Whisk the egg whites until fairly stiff. Gradually add the sugar and continue whisking until mixture is stiff and shiny.* (See above.)
Spread the meringue over the fruit, creatively forming peaks or better still, put meringue into a piping bag and pipe attractively.
Bake: Return to the oven (150˚C) for 20-25 minutes until the top is lightly brown and crisp.
Serve**: immediately with pouring cream.**
Comments below ...
Left - Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
Right - Sane & compassionate commentator on food and culture.
I've been off the air for a few weeks (in more ways than one). I've been taken up with hospitality training and evaluation. I also had a break in Tasmania, but more of that later. But no sooner am I back at the keyboard than I have to deal with the sad loss of another hero. Vale Anthony Bourdain. He died while filming in France, 8th June, 2018. So sad for us that he needed so drastically to be free of his demons.
He had graduated in 1978 from the American Culinary Institute. He was executive chef at the Brasseries Les Halles in New York when he came to prominence in 2000, with the publication of his best-seller, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a deep-down and dirty story about the parts of a restaurant no-one wants to see and a homage to those who make the place happen, the chefs and line cooks.
It was not a pretty picture. It was also probably the most foul-mouthed book you will ever read. I religiously recommended it to every cook, chef or dishwasher who came through our restaurant kitchen. It was compassionate, unflinching and full of realistic advice for anyone thinking of going into hospitality - and a far cry from the glory and pretty stories of magazine food pages.
And as a “Little Goody Two Shoes”, while I didn’t (and don’t) relate to the casual and frantic sex in the cool-room or on the stuffed bags of soiled linen in the passage, or the smack or lines of cocaine to get through the day, I grabbed at the plain, sane, essential advice for the kitchen - show up on time, keep your station clean and in order; the kitchen is a dangerous place. Furthermore, I related to his thinking about food and the significance of sharing. Perhaps it’s best to simply offer some random quotes.
“Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
“Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever”
“Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.” (Sorry about that one, but you get his drift.)
“Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours, moving in unison with grace and ease, can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.”
“Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Please, treat your garlic with respect. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.”
“For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.”
“So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. The business attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong. Maybe they didn't make it through high school, maybe they're running away from something, be it an ex-wife, a rotten family history, trouble with the law, a squalid Third World backwater with no opportunity for advancement. Or maybe, like me, they just like it here. ”
“The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.”
“Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fish-bones and Pernod.”
“If you look someone in the eye and call them a ‘fat, worthless, syphilitic puddle of badger crap’ it doesn’t mean you don’t like them. It can be – and often is – a term of endearment.”
“Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.”
“Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman, not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen, though not designed by them. Practising your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.”
“Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me.”
“Luck is not a business plan.”
His writing and TV programs around the world were brave and revealing. He put so easily into words what I believe (with more expletives that I’ve ever used). His heroes are my heroes, his villains my villains.
“I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.”
“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”
“Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.”
“As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin' " has never been truer.”
“These are the end products of the Masterminds of Safety and Ethics, bulked up on cheese that contains no cheese, chips fried in oil that isn’t really oil, overcooked gray disks of what might once upon a time have been meat, a steady diet of Ho-Hos and muffins, butterless popcorn, sugarless soda, flavorless light beer. A docile, uncomprehending herd, led slowly to a dumb, lingering, and joyless slaughter.”
“I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (though oral sex has to be a close second).”
His life had imperfections and on re-reading “Medium Raw” one senses an unease and depression, even an omen, despite his addictions being safely locked away in the past.
“Only one in four has a chance at making it. And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me. Iwas going to live. I was the guy.”
“I'll be right here. Until they drag me off the line. I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.”
Of the still prevalent macho kitchen atmosphere and gender inequalities that lurk beneath the glamorous “celebrity” chef culture shown up by the #metoo movement, he said “I think about this daily with real remorse.”
I recommend Medium Raw and give a copy of Kitchen Confidential to that niece or nephew who watches too much Master Chef (with perhaps a warning about the oral sex).
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Tetuzi Akiyama & Anla Courtis: Naranja Songs
Posted by eskaton Experimental / Avantgarde / Weird & Wired / Glitch / Noise / Field Recording
Artist: Tetuzi Akiyama & Anla Courtis (@)
Title: Naranja Songs
Label: Public Eyesore (@)
Tetuzi Akiyama is a Japanese guitarist and Anla Courtis is an Argentinean musician and co-founder of experimental outfit Reynols. I was unfamiliar with Akiyama, but somewhat familiar with Reynols. If you're wondering, this is a far cry from 10,000 Chicken Symphony. I've reviewed enough albums by duos to not underestimate what can be accomplished with only two musicians and guitars. However, in this case, I found myself wanting more. I've listened to the album several times now to see if I was missing something, but still found it to be a bit too minimal. We begin with 'Mind Mochileros,' which is a peaceful - if sparse - guitar duet that only seemed to get interesting halfway through. I found it to be a bit on the dull side, but then again maybe I'm just jaded. We shift gears with 'Springs & Strings,' which tries to push the envelope a bit with some feedback, distortion, and non-traditional playing on guitar. 'The CÃtrico Vibe' combines these approaches to some extent but still gets a bit repetitive. 'Los Frets Nómades' finally shows us what they are capable of about halfway through as they lay down a droning, grinding segment to finish off the song. If the whole album would have been like this, I would have definitely been on board. If you like sparse guitar improvisation, this may be up your alley. This album weighs in at around 39 minutes.
Philippe Lauzier: Transparence
Artist: Philippe Lauzier (@)
Title: Transparence
Label: Schraum (@)
Philippe Lauzier is based in Montréal and specializes in bass clarinet and saxophone, although this album also features half-bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, and motorized bells. That said, tracks crediting 'feedback with alto saxophone' clue the listener in that this is not a Kenny G style album. This is some minimal improv that uses a lot of silence to make the parts in which he is playing stand out that much more. That said, after a few listens, I found this to be a bit too minimal for my tastes. Some tracks work well, like 'Gisement,' with its deep, rattling bass drone punctuated by more traditional tones and 'Au-Dessus,' which features trills and warbles that become almost maddening (in a good way). Others, however, like 'Empoigner,' are so sparse as to leave you wondering if it was more a warm up session for the next track. I appreciate the judicious use of silence, but some tracks here are very sparse. I found this to be a mixed bag. When Lauzier is on, he's on, but the minimal tracks didn't seem to go anywhere. This album weighs in at around 43 minutes.
Hübsch, Martel, Zoubek: June 16th
Artist: Hübsch, Martel, Zoubek (@)
Title: June 16th
A piano, tuba, and a viola walk into a bar.... Sounds like the beginning of a good joke, but in this case it is the beginning of an interesting collaboration. This trio features Philip Zoubek on piano, Carl Ludwig Hübsch on tuba (and objects), and Pierre-Yves Martel on Viola da gamba (and objects). As with most of the material I have reviewed for this label, I was unfamiliar with these artists, but Hübsch provides some insight into how he perceives his work: 'Through the use of avant-garde and self-invented performance techniques, the tuba acquires completely new characteristics as a brass instrument. An innovative array of unexpected sounds is heard, the instrument is seen from a fresh perspective, and the audience is confronted with a novel way of perceiving time.' So if you had never thought of tuba as a foundational element of experimental music, here is a chance to rethink what classifies as experimental because he pulls it off. 'Tap,' for example, has a lot of rapid-fire percussive elements as they seem to be tapping and pounding relentlessly throughout the piece. This is common in experimental classical, but I could swear that there was a flute in the mix. This is one of those albums where you wonder how they got those sounds out of those instruments. But this is also a showcase of musicians who know their instruments well and work well together, as seen in such tracks as 'Coin Rang. Clock Clacked' and 'Introibo Ad Altare Dei,' which are sparse improvised compositions that make effective use of dynamics and quite spaces. Sometimes it gets a bit too sparse and minimal, as seen in 'Rrrpr. Kraa. Kraandl.' Still, if you like stripped down experimental classical, this is one to pick up. This album weighs in at around 43 minutes.
Monochromie: Colors in the Dark
Artist: Monochromie (@)
Title: Colors in the Dark
Label: Time Released Sound (@)
I had not heard of Monochromie, which is the work of French artist Wilson Trouvé. I am often not one for piano albums, but this is absolutely beautiful. Monochromie provides lovely, delicate piano compositions that seem to be woven from of a mixture of sadness and hope. But these are not straight piano compositions. There is also the effective use of field recordings, as with the sounds of children in 'Childhood,' the hum of a film projector in 'Old Times,' and crackles of noise in 'Katedra' and 'Thorns of Roses,' as well as lush synthesized strings and heavy reverb that keep the piano from sounding too sterile. The best descriptor I have for this album is 'sentimental,' but not in a maudlin way; rather, this is music that reminds you that the soundtrack to everyone's life is limited and goes through peaks and valleys and changes along the way. If you liked Nature and Organisation's 'Death in a Snow Leopard Winter,' but found it too straightforward, this is what you are looking for. Very well done. This album weighs in at around 54 minutes.
Ovro: Id|entities
Artist: Ovro
Title: Id|entities
Label: Some Place Else (@)
Ovro is a Finnish musician who has also collaborated with Niko Skorpio under the name Hæretici 7o74. The press release describes this as 'a bunch of stories told by different personalities. Whether the stories told are true, or just true to the one(s) telling them is left to the listener to decide.' And Ovro knows how to tell a story. If the mini poster that comes with the disc is any indication, this won't be the kind of story that has a happy ending, either. We begin with some minimal music of drums, bells, and drone and spoken word samples like 'he who summons the magic controls the magic.' This gives us an idea of what we're in for. The use of samples on this album is a lot more pronounced than usual in this kind of music, but this is by design. As she put it, 'It all began with a sudden urge to start collecting samples: 'Go forth and sample!'. Not only my usual field recordings, but samples from movies. Some were recorded straight from TV when the movie was on, some were nicked from movies in our DVD collection. There are bits from good movies, from bad movies, famous movies, obscure movies and everything in between ' but all more or less from the horror et al genre (I wonder how that happened, heh).' At times the samples become a bit heavy handed though. For example, 'Fate Dealer' repeats 'You're my hate disposal unity.' Still, overall this is good ritualistic ambiance with interesting use of samples throughout to build atmosphere. If you like your dark ambient extra dark, this is one to check out. This album weighs in at around 64 minutes and is limited to 250 copies.
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Home > Travel > Trip Reports > Discovering the Solomon Islands with the Master Liveaboards Fleet
Discovering the Solomon Islands with the Master Liveaboards Fleet
By Brandi Mueller, March 16, 2018 @ 06:00 AM (EST)
A lionfish yawns on a wreck off of “White Beach”
Bereft of blue skies and being pummeled by relentless rain amidst 40-knot winds, the first few days aboard the new Solomons PNG Master truly felt like a voyage into a final frontier. After all, the initial European vessels to explore these waters were tried and tested by such challenges. So why shouldn’t we have to prove ourselves on the Master’s inaugural sail through the South Pacific archipelago?
In this ever-shrinking planet connected by long-haul international flights and high-speed broadband, it can be difficult to find an underwater photography destination that hasn’t been thoroughly researched and explored. But with 900 isles spread out over a thousand miles, the Solomon Islands has plenty yet to be discovered. Drop onto never-dived sprawling coral reefs, photograph all-but-forgotten WWII wrecks, and explore hidden caverns—all from the comforts of a newly renovated high-quality liveaboard.
Explore the unspoiled reefs of the Solomon Islands with the latest liveaboard in the Master Liveaboards fleet
The Solomons’ Pristine Coral Reefs
With limited dive operators in the Solomon Islands, much of the underwater reef systems are rarely dived and are amongst the healthiest I have ever photographed. In some places, the coral gardens seemed to go on forever accompanied by a variety of reef species that rival anywhere else in the marine biodiverse Coral Triangle.
At the aptly named “Fish Market” dive site in the Russell Islands, an underwater photographer can find almost any fish species “on the menu.” We started one dive at a point using reef hooks to hold us in the strong current while we watched sharks, yellowfin tuna, schooling barracuda and hundreds of fusiliers put on a show.
Photo Tip: All of this healthy coral and fish life is due, in large part, to the amount of nutrients in the water. Nutrients bring life, but they also bring backscatter. Angle strobes outwards, turn down the power, and try and rely more on natural light to avoid too much detritus in your images.
A diver explores a colorful reef filled with soft coral and schooling fish
Don't miss out on the shallows: The reefs right under the surface are just as photogenic as down deep
After unhooking, a lively scene emerged so vibrant it appeared to be ripped straight from the pages of a children’s coloring book. There were hard corals, soft corals and encrusting coral all in different shades of white, ivory, pale yellow, purple, green and pink. Every so often, I’d spy an anemone in the midst of it all with a resident neon orange anemonefish. A school of fusiliers stretching over a large swath of the reef formed a fish rainbow.
Swarms of damselfish hovered above the reef, until the bright light of my strobe startled them into the safety of the coral for a brief moment before returning to the middle of the water column. Even though my catalogue of photographed fish is fairly extensive, I found at least one new species every day—sometimes on every dive. This is how a reef ecosystem should look. Perhaps it’s how the reefs all used to look: Vibrant, diverse, full of color and life and motion, the reefs of the Solomon Islands are incredible to photograph.
With so many rare critters (like this longnose hawkfish) it can be difficult to choose between macro and wide-angle
Blue velvet headshield slugs gather in an interesting formation
Be sure to have your diopter handy to capture the tiniest subjects
Photo Tip: Making the decision between wide angle and macro will be difficult for many dives. Most photographers will be happy with macro on pretty much every dive, but it’s best to check with the guides beforehand, as strong currents can be challenging for the small stuff.
Rediscovering Forgotten Wrecks
The Battle of Guadalcanal might not be the most famous in WWII’s history, but it certainly left a legacy in the Solomon Islands, both above and below the waterline. The Japanese had occupied the islands since May 1942, but a surprise Allied offensive in August met with little resistance. Fierce fighting subsequently raged for several months, culminating in a devastating four-day navel battle, as the Japanese tried, and ultimately failed, to retake the territory. Along with thousands of lives, the campaign claimed a number of warships and countless aircraft on both sides.
In the Russell Islands, you can find “White Beach,” and while it may sound like a pristine spot for a cocktail, it is in fact a post-war dumping site littered with trucks, jeeps, bulldozers, spare ammunitions and other war “garbage.”
The Solomon Islands has a variety wrecks from planes to jeeps and everything in-between
It’s one thing to photograph a rarely dived WWII wreck. But it’s entirely thrilling experience to rediscover a wreck: It’s that sort of opportunity that is offered by the Solomons PNG Master, especially on their wreck-specific trip itineraries several times per year.
We spent one day at an American Catalina and a Japanese Mavis, both planes that crashed during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Later that day, there was a bit of a commotion between the Master’s dive guides and several local fishermen. While freediving, the fishermen came across a never-before-seen plane. Historical records show that seven Mavis planes crashed during the battle, but as of then only six had been found. Could this be the lost seventh plane?
The mysterious Mavis emerges from the gloom as we descend
I tagged along with the divemasters for an exploratory dive of the mystery plane. The fishermen had floated a piece of Styrofoam with fishing rope connected to the wreckage they found, so we back-rolled off the tender and descended down the line. At 50 feet, the distinctive shape of an airplane came into focus. It was, in fact, a Mavis.
The coral growth on the plane was spectacular, which suggested it hadn’t previously been disturbed by divers. In several places, enormous branched green Tubastrea extended six feet in length each with hundreds of small cardinalfish in hiding. Lionfish cruised over the wings of the plane and I got a quick glimpse of a whitetip reef shark sleeping below the wing.
Back on board, the crew compared the GPS coordinates to the known wrecks and discovered it was completely unique. We were likely the first scuba divers to see that WWII plane since it went down more than 75 years ago. Talk about the explorer’s spirit.
A peek inside the newly rediscovered Mavis wreck shows just how much of the Solomons remains unexplored
Photo Tip: Nearly eight decades of being underwater has dramatically changed the look of many of the WWII wrecks in the Solomon Islands. Try to capture easily identifiable sections of the wreck—such as a plane’s propeller or ship’s bow—to make the image more impactful. Also, including marine life or divers as a secondary element makes for a more visually interesting wreck photo.
Photographing Secret Caverns
The underwater topography found throughout the Solomon Islands is nothing like I’ve ever photographed before. Dive sites such as “Mirror Pond” and “Bat Cave” have shallow, short swim-through, cave-like openings in the reef that lead into the islands to brackish ponds with the possibility of seeing saltwater crocodiles. What starts as a traditional reef dive ends by surfacing surrounded by lush green jungle.
“Leru Cut” is a classic Solomons’ dive site, where divers swim through a long crack in the island and at the end ascend to the surface to view sheer rock walls and tree roots hanging above. The cut is skinny, but two divers could probably fit side by side. Inside the cut are cave offshoots with whitetip reef sharks and lobsters. The walls of the cave are coated with encrusting corals, sponges, and macro marine life.
Divers descend through a crack in the reef, which will eventually lead into a cavernous opening into the rainforest
Exploring in Comfort
Much of the diving and topside exploration in the Solomon Islands exposes visitors to raw nature, so the meticulously finished Solomons PNG Master presents quite a contrast. Refitted and updated in late 2017, the Master is a comfortable and spacious vessel with 12 cabins hosting up to 20 people. Amenities include a media entertainment system, perfect for watching WWII documentaries, and a library of dive and fish ID books to tickle the interest of even a self-proclaimed fish taxonomy expert.
The dive deck has a station for each diver fitted with plenty of storage space and a place to hang wetsuits in-between dives. There’s even more than enough room for technical and rebreather divers, which the Master is happy to accommodate with advanced notice. Diving is either done directly off the liveaboard or from tenders if there’s a need to reach tighter spots.
The recently refitted Solomons PNG Master offers the comforts of home in one of the planet’s most remote diving destinations
With such a diversity of subjects, the Solomon Islands is a magnet for semi-pro and professional photographers and videographers. Fortunately, there’s a dedicated area for camera setup and storage, with multiple charging stations and plenty of space for reviewing images on your computer after an action-packed dive.
Yet the real highlight of the Solomons PNG Master isn’t so much to do with the boat, but with the knowledgeable and passionate people who run it. The cruise directors’ love for the marine life in the Solomon Islands is simply infectious. Dive guides go out of their way to help those with (and without) big cameras get in and out of the water. And then there are the wonderful chefs who intrigued our adventurous side with some Samoan flavors, but also had a knack for replicating popular Western dishes.
Although the Solomons PNG Master is a new addition to Master Liveaboards fleet, the boat and crew are not new to the Solomon Islands. They have been actively diving and exploring the Solomons for more than five years, so divers will benefit both from their expertise in the area and from the quality and consistency of service offered as a vessel under Worldwide Dive and Sail.
Can’t remember the name of a rare critter or nudibranch (like this ornate sapsucking slug)? The knowledgeable and passionate staff aboard the Master will be happy to help out
A Bright Future
After the dark and stormy start to the itinerary, the sun prevailed towards the tail end of our trip. And what better way to soak in the sun and splendor of cruising through the Solomon Islands than from the shaded sundeck while editing my images with a cocktail in hand?
As its name suggests, the liveaboard will soon begin spending part of its year exploring the underwater realm of Papua New Guinea. Itineraries will include transition trips between Munda (northwestern Solomon Islands) and southern PNG, as well as trips entirely within Papua New Guinea, which will offer underwater photographers the opportunity for world-class black sand critter dives, brilliant soft coral walls, and visits to remote villages. It seems that the future for the Solomons PNG Master is bright.
The Solomons PNG Master plans to chart new waters in the coming year
Planning Your Trip to the Solomon Islands
How to Get There: For most, a transit in Fiji or Australia is usually required. From there, Solomon Airlines, Fiji Airlines, Virgin Australia and Nauru Airlines fly into Honiara. You’ll be picked up from the airport on arrival day, although flights are often delayed or cancelled, so arriving a few days early is recommended.
When to Go: Diving in the Solomon Islands is year round, with the months of January through April tending to be a bit wetter. The Solomons PNG Master runs trips to Papua New Guinea in April through June.
What You’ll See: Miles and miles of pristine coral reef, soft corals, hard corals, schooling reef fish, sharks, nudibranchs, loads of critters, WWII wrecks, and caverns.
Who to Dive With: The Solomons PNG Master offers 7- and 10-day trips, which show guests the best the Solomon Islands has to offer. There are also specialty trips for wreck lovers. From April to June, there are a variety of itineraries exploring Papua New Guinea.
Money: The local currency is the Solomon Islands dollar, but some places accept Australian and US dollars. ATMs are frequent in Honiara but less common on outer islands. Many large resorts and major restaurants accept credit cards. The liveaboard accepts local currency, Australian and US dollars, and credit cards.
Visa: Most visitors can obtain a 90-day tourist visa on arrival. Check the latest requirements before making travel arrangements.
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Kinsale Gourmet Wins Prestigious Irish Food Award
Kinsale Gourmet has won the prize for Innovation at this year’s Blas na hÉireann, the Irish Food Awards. The Cork company’s recently launched ‘Meals Made Easy’ was chosen as the overall winner from 90 products that were carefully scrutinised and judged for innovation as part of the award sponsored by Bord Iascaigh Mhara’s Seafood Development Centre, the country’s only purpose built centre for seafood excellence and innovation.
In its 8th year, Blas na hÉireann, the Irish Food Awards is the biggest competition for quality Irish produce on the island of Ireland.
Kinsale Gourmet launched its Meals Made Easy range in June and has since secured a sizeable contract with SuperValu. The products are similar to scratch kits which are popular in the UK and consist of four pots of par-cooked ingredients such as prawn, hake, salmon, vegetables, rice etc. and mouth-watering sauces, all of which are 100% free of preservatives, additives, artificial colours and flavours. All the ingredients are gluten free and cooked in one pan to create a nutritious and flavour-full meal in just 6 minutes.
Mark Muldoon of Kinsale Gourmet says: “We are absolutely thrilled to win Blas na hÉireann’s Innovation award which recognises and validates our dedication to developing a truly innovative product that caters for those who want convenience without having to sacrifice nutrition and flavour. We’re also delighted and excited to win the bursary of €4,000 for the expert services and supports in BIM’s Seafood Development Centre which will help us to further develop and innovate new products which we hope will now be even more possible with this national award that will no doubt open new doors for us.”
BIM’s Seafood Development Centre (SDC) has sponsored Blas na hÉireann’s Innovation award for the last four years. Paul Ward, manager of the SDC, says: “We are delighted to sponsor this award which recognises and celebrates companies who are bringing truly innovative products to the market. Adding value and adapting products to meet the needs of modern day consumers and markets is imperative to business success and growth. We look forward to working with Kinsale Gourmet through their bursary.”
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A Decade of the most memorable Harps
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Few journalistic tasks could be more subjectively challenging than that undertaken by various media entities as the old year faded into a new decade and they chose the best or most important news stories of that decade past. Thus came revisiting of the education funding battle, the various clashes over Sound Transit, the drama of Amazon's quest for a second headquarters, Boeing's travails and ventures into the absurdity of the Seattle City Council's machinations. But for me the challenge was easier: choose from a decade of Harps the stories most memorable to me, some of which got little in the way of broad visibility. These are not my most personal Harps like my daughter's selection for the Oregon Supreme Court, my involvement with the rise of the young biotech company, Athira, from being its first outside investor to watching its move toward national Alzheimer's treatment visibility, or my almost yearly opportunities to compete in the World Senior Games. But ones with broad impact that deserved more recognition.
The story that may have been the most impactful on the Seattle area in several ways was about Seattle attorney Arthur Harrigan, Jr., who had key legal roles in saving two of Seattle's professional sports franchises.
Harrigan's low-visibility legal maneuvers forced absentee owners Jeff Smulyan of the Seattle Mariners and five years later Ken Behring of the Seattle Seahawks to be pressed into allowing time for local buyers to be found rather than being permitted to move the teams.
The legal confrontations with the owners of the two professional sports teams came about because Art Harrigan's law firm, now Harrigan Leyh, long represented King County on its legal issues. And the owners of both the Mariners and Seahawks came into conflict with the county because they sought to abandon the county-owned Kingdome and their leases there.
Because the Mariners' decision occurred in arbitration session rather than court battles, there was no media visibility for Harrigan's victory that required Smulyan to not only allow an opportunity to find a local buyer but had the arbitrator set a "local value" $35 million below market value for the franchise. No visibility, that is, until Harrigan shared the stories with me nearly four years ago (search Flynn's Harp: Art Harrigan).
And five years after the Mariners were saved, a series of Harrigan legal maneuvers that ended up before the State Supreme Court and eventually NFL owners, left enough uncertainty about Behring's likely ability to move the Seahawks to LA that he sold the team to Paul Allen.
Harrigan's arbitration victory with the Mariners allowed the high-visibility work of then Sen. Slade Gorton and John Ellis in landing Nintendo as the new lead owner to unfold and Paul Allen to emerge as Seahawks owner. But Harrigan deserves a moment of thanks as each Mariner season opens and when Seahawk fans gather for the first game of the year.
The story I personally found most memorable was the quest of Washington State University, President Elson Floyd, to convince a legislature that was initially reluctant to give him a hearing, to create a medical school at WSU.
Getting the 2015 Legislature to approve the creation of a new medical school at WSU, despite bitter opposition from the University of Washington and its powerful lobbying influence, was the crowning achievement of Floyd's eight years as WSU president.
It only later became known, as his battle for his medical school was being won through the tireless effort of hours of testimony before legislative committees and engaging lawmakers in one-on-one meetings, that he was waging another battle.
Floyd apparently learned early in that 2015 session that he had colon cancer, which before long he learned would likely be terminal. But he fought with equal determination for the next four months against his cancer, a battle he would lose, and for his medical school, a battle he won.
He died on June 20, 15 days before Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill containing the first $2.5 million to launch what would soon be named The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, which would be located in Spokane and grow to serve communities in all parts of the state.
As a member of the national advisory board for what is now the Carson College of Business, I had the opportunity to get to know Floyd from soon after his arrival and was stuck, as many others were, with his focus on his conviction about what he viewed as the job-creating mission of higher education.
"We need to communicate with the Legislature and policymakers that we understand that we are about creating jobs, about economic development," Floyd said at his first meeting with the advisory board.
Thus he transformed WSU's role as Washington's land grant university into something far broader. He stood at the national forefront of college leaders in understanding that the role of universities in economic development was destined to become the issue it has become in most states.
And the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, in August of 2017, welcomed its first 60 students to its Spokane campus.
What I describe as the most interesting business-sports story of the decade was the decision by two of the icons of the cellular-wireless era to bring their mutual love of baseball to develop alongside their affection for their wireless business.
John Stanton and Mikal Thomsen were in their 20s when they teamed up in the early '80s at McCaw Cellular to become part of the birthing of a fledgling communications technology whose growth globally they helped guide through several major companies over the next 20 years. Stanton was actually second in command at McCaw.
Now in their early 60s, both have parlayed their business success into owning and guiding professional baseball teams, a commitment both might well agree is a passion that rivals their business activities. Stanton is the majority owner of the Mariners and Thomsen majority owner of the Tacoma Rainiers, making them an anomaly in all of professional baseball since the Rainiers are the Triple-A franchise for the Mariners.
A business focus remains, however, as they continue to manage their Bellevue-based wireless venture and investment firm, Trilogy Partnerships, formed by a collection of long-time wireless partners after the sale of their Western Wireless to Alltel Corp. in 2005.
Stanton's and Thomsen's baseball involvement extends across the state and down to the West Coast League, an amateur collegiate summer league, where they are among owners of both the Walla Sweets and the Yakima Valley Pippins.
That baseball tie began, in fact, with the Walla Walla team in 2010 when Stanton, an alum of Whitman College, where he served as member and chair of Board of Trustees, called Thomsen and advised that he wanted him to join the ownership group Stanton was forming.
Thomsen returned the favor in 2011 when he advised Stanton that he was fulfilling his boyhood dream of owning his hometown Tacoma Rainiers team and wanted Stanton and his wife Theresa Gillespie, to join the ownership team.
In both Thomsen's and Stanton's cases, their love of baseball stems from childhood memories.
Thomsen once told me that the opportunity to create the ownership team that bought the Rainiers was like his "dream come true." He would be owning his hometown team that he had grown up rooting for from the time his dad took him to his first game at age three. That was the year that the then-Tacoma Giants returned after a 55-year absence.
Stanton also recalls attending the games of his hometown team with his father. That was in 1969 when, as a teenager, he became a fan of the Seattle Pilots in their first and only year of existence and recalls crying when they left town for Milwaukee.
So now Stanton, who took the title of Mariners CEO for a time after the ownership group he led bought out Nintendo, then turned over that role to Kevin Mather, has returned to officing fulltime in Bellevue where he can wander into Thomsen's office any time to discuss either baseball or wireless.
(The second article in this two-part series on my most memorable stories of the decade will be sent tomorrow. They will include a Harp that's my personal favorite because it's about my friend and former colleague, Vietnam correspondent Joe Galloway and his interviews with Vietnam veterans. Then there's the most overlooked story of the decade: the amazing commitment by Bellevue businesswoman Joan Wallace to the children of Granger, and finally the story of the locally overlooked but globally successful promoter of the sport of squash, Shabana Khan)
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Ulysses tells his shipwreck in Sicilian vernacular
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Tano Avanzato and his wife Erminia Terranova are two Sicilian ballad-singers and founded together the popular song group Zabara in 1991. They have to his name hundreds of concerts which they have staged in Italy and abroad. Tano Avanzato has willingly accepted to read Ulysses' verses (Hell, XXVI, 90-142) for Dantepoliglotta, in the Sicilian translation of Giovanni Girgenti.... To read more and listen to the reading of Ulysses' verses in Sicilian, see the web-page of Tano Avanzato: click here. See also the web-page of Erminia Terranova and listen to [...]
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Anastasia Vilkova was born in Astrakhan, one of the principal cities in the south of European Russia on the Volga river. She completed her studies at the Faculty of Modern Letters in the University of Astrakhan where she specialised in linguistic history with particular emphasis on old Russian. Currently she is in charge of editing a newspaper for young men to whom she is teaching journalism in a workshop for art and culture which has been expressly dedicated to them. ooOoo Anastasia Vilkova has lent [...]
Dante’s Ulysses and Tennyson’s Ulysses
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Humphrey Tonkin lends his voice to Ulysses in two dramatic monologues: Cary’s translation of Dante’s verses and Tennyson’s original poem.
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March 13, 2014, - 4:51 pm
Is Malaysia Airlines Plane Hidden in Africa/Asia for Future 9/11-Style Bomb Attack?
So, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is still missing, nearly a week after it disappeared from radar screens and any communication to third parties. We still don’t know what happened, while there are a lot of theories, including reports saying the Pentagon believes it went down in the Indian Ocean. I’ve given you my take, earlier this week. But there’s another plausible possibility posited by my smart friends, Fred Taub of Boycott Watch and radio talk show host Brett Winterble.
The plane might have been hijacked by Muslims on board–whether it was the Iranians or other Muslims on the plane. They might have ordered the transponder turned off or known how to do it themselves. Or perhaps the plane’s pilot and co-pilot helped them. Any of these could have happened. And since we’ve learned the plane flew for hours after the transponder and other radar, tracing, and communications equipment were turned off, they might have flown the plane to one of many choices of Islamic-controlled, extremist countries, such as Somalia or Pakistan. There are runways all over these countries, some big enough to handle that plane, some not.
And maybe, after landing the plane in one of these places, the plane was moved into a hangar or under trees where satellites wouldn’t see it. And maybe they are planning to use the plane as a bomb in a later attack, 9/11 style but on some other building or target elsewhere in the world. Or maybe it was a dry run to see if they could get a plane to just disappear and see how the world reacts. If that’s the case, so far it’s mission accomplished.
By the way, the cover story that the Iranian Muslims using fake passports were seeking asylum is, frankly, irrelevant. Many Muslim terrorists seek asylum and I’ve written about them, including today. It’s a nice, if weak, cover story, though.
So, what do you think? What happened to MH370? Where is it? Was it blown up by a terrorist bomb? Or was it stolen and put somewhere for later, evil use? Are the passengers still alive?
Tags: #MH370, Indian Ocean, Iran, Iranian Muslims, Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, MH 370, Mr. Ali
Truely believe plane is in some extremist location. I think the people on board will be used as target practice or experiments with chemical weapons. The plane is being used to fellow terrorists as a way to teach how to fly the plane. i think they will repaint the plane, load it with a nuke or dirty bomb and crash it into Isreal, US, or EU…..We’ll see how it plays out
Phil on March 15, 2014 at 4:34 pm
OT, Deb:
What’s this??? I thought NASA’s primary mission is now Muslim Outreach, not Historical Navel-Gazing…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists
…oh, wait:
“Dr Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development”
Nick Fury on March 15, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Take a look at the two international airports on the Maldive Islands. Male (Ibrahim Nasir International Airport) and Gan International Airport. Male is basically a concrete runway sticking up out of the ocean, with nothing on one side and the terminals on the other. Gan, two hundred miles to the south is on a even lonelier atoll. I’m sure it wouldn’t require more than a half dozen handsome payments to ground personnel to look the other way as the jet lands, refuels, and takes off on a direct flight — entirely over open ocean — to Iran. All this terrain avoidance over Asia to who knows where is unnecessary. Open ocean to the Maldives, then open ocean to Iran. Period.
Alan Ezer on March 15, 2014 at 8:16 pm
I think they are or were in Somalia, They probably avoided the northern route and all those military radars, …. going south its all open ocean, the same route they fly direct from any south east asian country to Johannesburg in the same 777 – 200 …
From Somalia the final destination … to be seen…
ioni on March 16, 2014 at 9:07 pm
Revealed:Diego Garcia with a runway long enough to land a Boeing 777 was programmed into the home flight simulator http://sco.lt/56D6bx ?
Patty on March 23, 2014 at 3:18 am
Im for 100% sure the plane is hijacked!
I noticed not a lot of people talk about the “NSS” 24 and 25th of this month here in the netherlands.
Lot of world leaders will come to this event in the hague.
Please google nss 2014 in the netherlands!
Is this just coincedence?
Plane just disappeared?
And nss 2 weeks from now?
For sure this is a evil terrorism plan!!
ericpablo on March 15, 2014 at 10:07 pm
I absolutely agree on that NSS theory! What if:
-The plane climbed to 45000 feet to de-pressurize and kill everyone inside who is not wearing oxygen masks, to make sure no one uses his/her mobile phone anymore.
-Then fly blow radar to some airfield as described in the previous post
-Modify the plane (fill it up with conventional or even nuclear bombs??) maybe even add anti air missile equipment
-on the 24th or 25 start from the hidden airfield, climb to that unbelievable hight of 45000 feet again, head for The Hague’s no fly zone and from that hight nose dive right into the NSS. Fighter planes will have huge problems trying to hit a nose diving plane going up to destructive speeds..
-The Hague isn’t that big, (I live close by..) and if you can imagine what destruction a plane filled with high explosives will cause… It will for sure make headlines around the world!!
Peter on March 16, 2014 at 6:12 am
Je bent ook nederlands?
Dit kan wel eens een akelige realiteit worden!
Maag draait me nu al om.
This could be a nasty reality!
Lets hope they find that plane soon!
And also survivors!!
ericpablo on March 16, 2014 at 7:23 am
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/police-search-homes-malaysia-airlines-pilots-suspect-wrongdoing-article-1.1723044
Meira on March 16, 2014 at 4:04 am
Don’t forget that the airspace in the netherlands was tested earlier by the Russians, it was a while ago but maybe it had something to do with the preparations for this attack.
Maybe an idea
Henk on March 16, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Beware the Ides of March. . .
ANTHONY on March 16, 2014 at 9:32 pm
Interesant dat er meerdere Nederlanders hier zitten…
Al ben ik dan niet een echte Nederlander meer… Woon al vanaf 1970 buiten Nederland…
Hans on March 17, 2014 at 10:34 am
bread and circuses. look at how other stories are going to the back pages.
General P. Malaise on March 17, 2014 at 10:23 pm
I think the transponder was turned off so the location the plane flew to wouldn’t be detected and probably was Iran and the plane landed and hidden in a hanger, the fate of the passenger’s is unknown
sher on March 18, 2014 at 12:25 am
I am frankly very surprised that there seems to be hardly any discussion about the most concerning and probably most likely purpose that an international criminal organization would have for a commercial airliner. If this plane was stolen it was done by some extremely organized intentional meticulous well planned technologically advanced criminal masterminds who must be capable of pulling off anything beyond what we can even imagine or be capable of protecting ourselves from. Sorry folks. For real. Any person with a reasonable brain knows this was no alien abduction. If this plane was stolen by someone with bad intentions against us, we would be safer knowing that our worst enemies have the best intercontinental missiles available because at least we would know what’s coming. All things considered it would seem to me that a commercial airliner in the hands of someone capable of doing what they have already done then we are all sitting ducks
bob snodgrass on March 19, 2014 at 5:55 pm
In the Waters off Perth, Australia? Really?? Where was the gain in taking a 777 to Australia? The left turn is now supposedly proven to have been programed before final sign-off. Transponder turned off afterwards. All of this to dump a 777 off the coast of Perth???
I would place my money that Malaysia Flight 370 having shadowed Singapore Airlines Flight 68 into Pakistan or Afghanistan airspace on the evening it disappeared.
Ii hid in the signal of another flight if they cannot track it as it’s own signal. Then dropped low when it veered off to approach the runway it had planned to land at when within proximity. If it wasn’t an accident , it is definitely a Black Op conducted by very skilled individuals. Time will tell.
WB on March 19, 2014 at 7:20 pm
The MH370’s transponder will be reprogammed to another regular flight number. It will either fly in the shadow of another plane or act like another flight.
It will approach Amsterdam airport in a normal way but will divert or start-through just before landing and heading for NSS on Monday where President Rutte has just a meeting with the G7 in an old building. (Catshuis).
No F16 can stop this plane and shooting it down in one of the densest populated area is not an option ( taking in consideration that heavy explosives might be aboard). Hopefully i’m wrong.
Bart on March 22, 2014 at 9:06 am
I do hope this plane will be found before Monday and I think I will be working at home that day.
BTW was Amsterdam Schiphol / Valkenburg Airport / former Ypenburg @ The Hague, The Netherlands loaded in the flight simulator of this pilot too?
Marcus on March 22, 2014 at 3:46 pm
they havent recovered the deleted data yet from the flightsim. But Amsterdam – The Hague at jetspeed is around 6 min. No time for F16’s to take off and intercept… This meeting at the Catshuis is, in my humble opinion, THE opportunity to plan an attack. Only the leaders they want are present. The other leaders like King Abdullah, Vice president of Indonesia etc. will not attend.
http://www.blikopnieuws.nl/bericht/211267/dick-berlijn-niet-uitsluiten-dat-vermiste-boeing-als-bom-wordt-gebruikt
funny he said this yesterday… maybe he read our Blog here 🙂
Sadly, I think this will happen.. There is no way that a large airliner crashing into the sea wouldn’t leave a huge debris footprint that the current satellite technology wouldn’t pick up.. Time will tell..
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The plane landed somewhere on the coast of Africa. They are wasting time and money looking in the water. I would start looking in the most corrupt countries on the coast of Africa
Majority of the passengers are alive being held captive. They need to take a closer look at all the events leading up to and after the disappearance. It’s not in the water! I think whatever the plan was they can’t carry it out because of all the traffic in the skies and water. But as soon as they get a chance they will carry it out. They now have had enough time to really hide the plane and the hostages. This plan may have been plotted out years in advance. I just wonder how much food and other resources do they have to substantially take care of the hostages. This is where I would start. Look at food and supplies all of a sudden need increasing.
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Manager's Report (Summer 2019)
by Richard Haynes, Acting Site Manager
It has been another busy summer at Fort York. July kicked off as usual with Canada Day when the Fort York Summer Guard traditionally begin their demonstration season. What some of my friends still call Dominion Day Troops and Drums of the Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry (that is, the Fort York Squad) celebrate their victory at Fort George on August 18, 2019. They emerged overall winners of the 20th anniversary Drum’s Muster & Soldiers’ Field Day. Tested were the skills of drilling, marching and firing – including an execution of “the perfect volley.” Also competing were two companies of the 41st Regiment from Fort George; elements of DeWatteville’s Regiment from Old Fort Erie; and elements of the 100th Regiment of Foot, based in Ottawa. The indomitable 10th Royal Veteran Battalion (alumni of the Fencibles, curmudgeons among them) provided experienced judges and what Parks Canada calls “demonstration programmers,” assigned to amuse a fickle public. Off duty, the veterans visited Niagara-on-the-Lake for refreshments. Photo by Lance Corporal Holly Benison was a huge success, with good weather and crowds to match. Considering the relatively tight turnaround for the new recruits, the Guard was up and running thanks to their NCOs and the efforts of our staff. All in all this made for a successful and safe demonstration season.
The highlight of the summer was Simcoe Day, when members of the Fort George Guard joined us to put on a spectacular show. The great weather helped to ensure record attendance. Well done to all the staff and volunteers! In particular, the careful and constant supervision by Kevin Hebib, Ewan Wardle, Colin Sedgwick-Pinn and Sam Horne was much appreciated.
Throughout the summer, the fort hosted many programs and activities – some familiar and some new. In particular, we offered the new Staycation Sunday events, free to the public with their admission. All of our people were involved in creating neighbourhood walking tours, an evening of campaign cooking, an entire day of historic music, the Great War Picnic event, and heritage garden and honey-making tours. Thanks to everyone here for making these happen; they introduced new people to the fort and gave us many ideas to work with. Summerlicious was also on the menu here this summer when Bridget Wranich and Melissa Beynon staged their Cool Tastings ice-cream workshop. Nothing tastes more like summer than the ginger ice cream made by the fort’s culinary historians!
Fort York and the open space of Garrison Common also hosted a series of third-party events: there was Vegandale, SOCA Brainwash, the Plantain festival, the musical happening called All Day I Dream, and the Caribbean-themed day called Flare. These events all diversify our audience and generate valuable revenue that helps sustain National Historic Site work.
The Museum of the Moon hovered under the Gardiner for six days, drawing thousands toward her in a nightly tide that climaxed in the harvest moon of Saturday, September 14 (the moon can be seen in the photo rising over the armoury a few days before). The near illuminated sphere is a seven-metre sculpture by U.K. artist Luke Jerram. The Bentway buzzed with food, drink and glowing millenial headphones while films and lectures in astronomy – including on our own Captain Henry Lefroy, of magnetical fame – happened in the Fort York Visitor Centre. Under the full moon on Saturday, Laurie Brown (of Pondercast) and the electronic Julian Van Tassel assembled a podcast live with Bernice, Choir! Choir! Choir! and the Halifax innovator Rich Aucoin. Photo by Andrew StewartThe fort was also thoroughly involved with some Bentway initiatives this summer, notably the annual Block Party and their regular Sunday Socials. These were all well attended and brought many new faces down to the area. The highlight of the Bentway’s season came in mid-September: the Museum of the Moon, a spectacular installation that brought some 20,000 visitors down to the Strachan Gate.
And September was an usually busy month: even as the school year got underway, our staff was working hard on a butter-tart workshop, an entire weekend of expanded displays and events on the mobilization of the city in 1939, and on the final weekend, the new concept of The Big Draw – an international festival of en plein air artistry. The last grand event of the season was the experience of Nuit Blanche, on October 5 involving our entire 43-acre site.
As the days lengthen in October, here at the fort we begin looking forward to the coming seasons. Our popular and totally spooky Fort York After Dark lantern tours resume on October 28 – you need a ticket, so do make a reservation (see Upcoming Events for details). Our culinary historians, meanwhile, are planning their new series for children in December: there’s going to be gingerbread galore for the cook’s apprentice!
The Reverend Dr. John D. Hartley (1942-2019) in the midst of the reception following the fort’s Remembrance Day service in 2014. After a lifetime of service to the United Church, Dr. Hartley “drifted peacefully into the next life” (as his family put it) on February 3. He led the annual remembrance on Garrison Common for more than 20 years. Photo by Jean-Marc RobinFinally, as we approach another Remembrance Day, it would be remiss of me not to mention a very sad event. The Reverend Dr. John D. Hartley passed away in February. Many of you may know Dr. Hartley as the minister who presided over our Remembrance Day services, virtually uninterrupted, from 1992 until only recently. We had no idea he had been suffering from pancreatic cancer when he had to bow out of last year’s event. The last time I talked with him was a week before November 11 when he assured me that, if I could not find a replacement, he would not let me down. Dr. Hartley was a great servant of Fort York, a fine person and a perfect gentleman. He will be missed.
David O’Hara has a new job. Site Manager at Fort York NHS since the beginning of 2005, David has been at the centre of every big development since, including the restoration of Garrison Common’s landscape and the creation of the extraordinary Fort York Visitor Centre. His new role (still with the City) is overseeing the possibilities for Rail Deck Park. Above, he’s chatting with author Mike Filey on the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge; right, he and Richard Haynes – who took over as Acting Site Manager right after Labour Day – anticipate the arrival of Prince Andrew for the Invictus Games in September, 2017. Look for an appreciation of David’s lasting contribution to Fort York in the next Fife and Drum. Photos by (above) Kathy Mills and Bob Kennedy
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On the 28 th June, 2018, an extraordinary meeting of the GVTC Council of Ministers was held at Serena Hotel in Kigali (Rwanda). The delegates attending this meeting are the ministers in charge of Environment & Sustainable Development; Tourism, Wildlife and Antiques; Trade and Industry of the three partner States to the GVTC Treaty, namely the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda. This meeting, chaired by Hon. Munyeshyaka Vincent, Minister of Trade and Industry of Rwanda, was honored by the DRC delegation, led by Mr. José Ilanga, Director General and Representative of the DRC’s National Minister in charge of Environment and Sustainable Development; and the delegation of Uganda, led by Mr. Kiwanda Godefrey, Minister of State and representative of the Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities of Uganda.
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At the end of these welcoming remarks by the Hon. Munyeshyaka Vincent, the meeting of the Council of Ministers reviewed the various themes dealt with and submitted to him by the Board of Directors of GVTC, held on May 31, 2018 in Rubavu (Rubavu). These themes successively covered the (i) the 2017 annual performance report; (ii) the Transboundary Strategic Plan (TSP) and Business Plan; (iii) the Work Plan for the next financial year; and (iv) the structure of GVTC staff and the modalities for its implementation.
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Angkor Thom, the 'great city', is a 12th century Buddhist walled city on the west bank of the Siem Reap river. Established by King Jayavarman VII, it was the last capital of the Khmer empire. It is part of the Angkor Archaeological Park that is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Spread over a square area of 9 km2 enclosed within 8 metre high walls and a surrounding moat, it is centered around the stunning Bayon temple which is known for its massive stone faces of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, and bas-reliefs depicting historical events and scenes from the everyday life of the Angkorian Khmer. Sculptures illustrating scenes and characters from Hindu mythology can be found throughout the complex. The complex has 5 gates - the Ghost Gate or Gate of the Dead in the east, the Gate of the Pot in the north, the Takaho door in the west, the Gate of the river Oum in the south which is the best preserved of all, and the Victory Gate in the east, in front of the Royal Palace. Each of the 5 monumental gates feature a queue of 54 devas (Gods) against a queue of 54 asuras, illustrating the legend of the 'Churning of the Milky Oceans'. The 23 meter tall sandstone towers are crowned with 4 heads, while the lower halves resemble 3-headed elephants plucking lotus flowers with their trunks.
Walk around the complex to see the Baphuon temple mountain (representation of Mount Meru), Phimeanakas temple next to the Royal complex, Terrace of the Leper King, and the Terrace of Elephants which once served as a base for the king's grand audience hall. Angkor Thom was one of the locations where few scenes from Lara Croft: Tomb Raider were shot.
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Krol Ko
Krol Ko is a Buddhist temple built in the 12th-13th century by King Jayavarman VII
Neak Pean is an artificial island with a Buddhist temple in the middle of the Jayatataka Baray, the last baray (artificial lake) to be constructed by a Khmer king in the Angkor area
The Prasat Bayon is a 12th - 13th century Buddhist temple located in the exact centre of Angkor Thom and is part of the Angkor Archaeological Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage site
Ta Keo was built circa 1000 as the state temple of Jayavarman V, son of Rajendravarman
Banteay Srei or 'Citadel of Women' is a 10th century Hindu temple complex dedicated to Shiva, the 'destroyer' in the Hindu Trinity
Ta Som is a small temple at Angkor built in the 12th century by King Jayavarman VII to honor his father Dharanindravarman II
One of the most alluring and photogenic sites in Cambodia, the Ta Prohm temple is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor
Angkor Wat, the 'capital temple' is the largest religious monument in the world, and part of the Angkor Archaeological Park that is a UNESCO World Heritage site
Banteay Kdei
The Bankeay Kdei, also known as 'Citadel of Monks' Cells' is a 12th century Buddhist monastic complex built under Jayavarman VII
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there was the 'goat gland doctor'. [en.wikipedia.org]
Operating from a small clinic in Milford, Kansas with a medical degree from a diploma mill he achieved national fame and soon started his own radio station. Eventually the AMA convinced the State of Kansas to revoke his medical licence, so he ran for Governor and almost won! Unable to appoint his own State Medical Board, he moved to Del Rio, Texas and built a new powerful radio transmitter across the river in Mexico. Eventually lawsuits drove him into bankruptcy.
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Castle and ROS Open reveal plans for 2007
Published: 20th Jan 2007, 13:28:04 | Permalink | Printable
Vetoes non-ARM port, will release Javascript Browse, and more
On Monday night, Castle and RISC OS Open popped down to SE1 London to chat to users about their shared source plans - although the only source we could find that night was the sauce in our curry afterwards.
To be fair, ROOL's Steve Revill said he had at least some of the RISC OS 5 blueprints on his Microsoft Windows laptop, neatly and aptly tucked away in an Acorn-badged carry bag. However, he had to scoot to catch his train back to Cambridge before any of it could be revealed as a small gaggle of coders began encircling him at the end of the evening. One even brandished a camera, ready to take snaps of any code like a war time spy taking copies of military plans on microfilm.
Castle's Jack Lillingston opened the presentation with a brief run through of his company's products before outlining the shared source initiative - which is designed to get the source code to RISC OS 5 out into the open for free, and encourage third party developers to improve it. Steve then took over to explain more about how the project will be organised, and how they need donations to keep going.
In short, the following points were raised during the talk.
RISC OS Open are using the source to RISC OS 5.12 as a base. They said it will take 12 months to get all of it released.
If you change the source and redistribute your efforts for free, you must make your modifications public, and allow Castle to merge it with their source code. If you redistribute the OS for commercial purposes, you must pay a royalty fee but you don't have to publish your source code to anyone.
Effectively, work that you do must be made available for all, unless you pay to keep it closed.
Changes handed to Castle will be fed to RISC OS Open, who will appraise and QA source code updates. If the patches are then accepted into the ROOL repository, it will become part of the next ROM build.
ROOL said they will produce periodic RISC OS 5 ROM builds for punters to download from the website and use them to upgrade their computers.
Castle has vetoed non-ARM ports. They said they want to focus development work on ARM-powered systems only, and developers will be banned from porting the operating system to another architecture.
The first components to be released under the shared source initiative will include the 'ROM applications', such as Paint and Edit, the printing system, the font manager module, and a Javascript-enabled version of Browse codenamed Phoenix.
Developers must equip themselves with the Norcroft C/C++ compiler toolkit, available from Castle, to build the operating system. ROOL said they were not against people using the GCCSDK, but any changes submitted must not be incompatible with Norcy.
Jack spoke briefly about RISC OS 5.12, which punters have to pay for - unlike previous Castle point releases. He also mentioned that Iyonix Ltd, a separate company run by himself and his fellow Castle director John Ballance, now resells Iyonix hardware.
He said: "RISC OS 5.12 is a culmination of four years of RISC OS 5 releases. Unless you have RISC OS 5.12, you won't be able to move on any further. It provides a good bed rock for further development.
"It supports a wide range of GeForce graphics cards, which gives you much higher screen resolutions and refresh rates and the start of access to the DVI output - this isn't supplied right now, but it will come. We've also put USB 2 support into the FlashROM and this speeds up the boot-up sequence."
He also added that RISC OS-powered set top boxes have outsold RISC OS desktop computers over the years. The STB kit has been shipped as far as North America and Asia, according to Jack.
Shopping for an OS
Moving onto the shared source plans, Jack said it is hoped people can download the source code and pay up front for royalties via a website. It removes the administrative burden of having to do deals and sign contracts with firms and individuals - they want to make it as easy, and therefore as cost effective, as possible, just like buying music from iTMS at 79 pence a pop. Plus, a website is open 24/7, which is handy if you're pushing the product to organisations on the other side of the world.
Jack said: "Castle own RISC OS, but RISC OS Open will be responsible for the shared source initiative. RISC OS is going to be made available through the world wide web, rather than doing a deal with people individually.
"Users are to have direct access to all the RISC OS sources, although it's not aimed at just RISC OS users; we want people through out the world to use it, particularly users in the Far East. We hope the community will grow and grow as others find out what RISC OS is all about.
"It will be easier to take RISC OS over to the Far East, and explain all the useful stuff that the operating system can do, and show them the pedigree of the system, answer their questions, and raise the profile of RISC OS. This is one way to get RISC OS more widely used.
"There's some set top box stuff that can never be published under our shared source licence, but there will be enough to build an Iyonix ROM. Modifying it to build a VirtualRiscPC or RiscPC ROM should be possible too."
Fig leaf to ROL
He added: "What we're doing shouldn't impinge on what RISCOS Ltd are doing. They are the experts at developing and moving on desktop RISC OS. We don't want, and are trying to avoid, duplication of their work. We've effectively provided them access to our sources. I have a lot of respect for [ROL boss] Paul Middleton, who has done a lot of good work in a difficult job. We've disagreed about things, but that's usual in business."
Jack avoided answering a query from the floor as to whether or not RISCOS Ltd's licence to redistribute and develop RISC OS is time limited and due to expire. Jack said: "I don't want to discuss other people's licences."
Open source advocates have often asked why Castle didn't opt for an existing and true open source licence for the project. Jack explained that it was essential that Castle retained overall control over their operating system.
He said: "We looked at using the GPL in great deal, and we had to select and modify it a lot to suit us and the situation we are in. We do need to protect our intellectual property, and have a degree of control over it. Our approach is to make the license flexible, and the controls in place can be relaxed if we feel this is necessary in future."
He also acknowledged that RISC OS 5 could somewhat fork into different favours, like GNU/Linux more or less quickly did, but said said he hoped "we can move it as one lump forward, and not have bits and pieces spread out everywhere."
Grey areas
The main road block with their custom licence at the moment is defining, in legal terms, the point when redistribution of RISC OS 5 becomes commercial. This is why, we're told, the licence is being batted back and forth between Castle and its lawyers. For instance, selling a CD with RISC OS 5 on it is clearly a commercial product, but someone could in theory give away said CD for free, but charge people separately for support and documentation - thus avoiding paying a royalty to Castle.
Jack said: "It's very difficult to define. There are grey areas of providing a service and the source code separately. We've had to look at past cases, and that's clearly been the main difficulty in defining what is and what isn't commercial. Basically, if you make money from RISC OS 5, then it's commercial, in my opinion."
Another rule in the licence will be to block coders from porting the operating system to another architecture, such as the Intel x86 compatible world.
Jack said: "There will be a restriction to make development work ARM-only. We also don't have a problem with emulation, provided it's emulating an ARM-powered system. It would take a huge effort to move to a new platform, and we feel it's best if they spent their efforts on something other than porting the OS to another architecture.
"We might change that clause, but not right now."
ROOL's Steve Revill said his organisation was being run by ex-Acorn, ex-Pace and ex-Tematic engineers in their spare time, and required the help of volunteers to help moderate source code submissions and donations from users. He also feared each download of a RISC OS source code batch could cost him up to a quid in bandwidth fees. Jack also mentioned that some of the money from RISC OS 5 royalties will be pumped back into RISC OS Open Ltd.
Steve said: "We rely on public donations to pay for our running costs. We aim to put Castle's sources on our website, and hopefully keep everything together in the same place. The source is specific to the Acorn C/C++ compiler, although we don't have anything against people using the GNU tools provided their changes don't break the source code with Norcroft.
"We want to offer enough source code to allow people to put RISC OS into a new computer. We also want people to use the RISC OS Open website to report faults and bugs into the online fault database, and use the forums to make suggestions, and talk about feature requests.
"There will be a team of moderators who will look at the source code changes submitted by developers, decide if it's good enough to go into our repository, and plug it in.
"The source code is 2GB in size, and it's hard work going through it all to check that it's code we can release, and remove the swear words from it. I did have a top 20 list of swearing in the source, but I don't think I'll be making that publicly available.
"There's only one or two of us doing this on a part-time basis, so volunteers are welcome. It will take us 12 months to release RISC OS 5.12 in full."
We also heard that commercial releases of RISC OS 5 from Castle, such as RISC OS 5.13, are likely to be fed back to RISC OS Open - but the shared source repository is expected to lag behind Castle's commercial releases by several months. Andrew Hodgkinson has also been working away at Browse in his spare time for years, we were told, and the web browser is expected to be released in the first source code batch.
Steve said they would move BSD-licenced code out of the RISC OS 5 tree and into a separate repository. He is on the look out for GPL-licensed code, which would also need to be removed, but admitted that it is difficult to know whether or not code checked in by a developer years ago came from a GPLed project.
He added that he felt that if people want to re-implement features found in RISC OS 4 and 6, they are more than welcome.
He said: "If people want to add RISC OS Adjust features to RISC OS 5, then go for it."
It was pointed out that Apple open sourced parts of its Mac OS X operating system, namely the underlying kernel level, first under a restrictive licence, and later using a more liberal one. However, they failed to see any significant take up from the developer community. As one punter from the floor put it: "RISC OS is a damn sight more healthy than other niche platforms, but with all these controls in place, why should we do Castle's work for free?"
Jack said: "If we were to open source RISC OS 5 under the GPL, the STB manufacturers would walk away. They want to keep their changes secret, and not have to hand it over to competitors. If someone in the Far East wants to do something wizard with RISC OS, we shouldn't stop them."
He also said that people who contribute to the source code could get discounts on royalty payments, as will companies who sell RISC OS-powered units in bulk.
Jack added: "It's a fair and reasonable licence, and encourages people to contribute as much as it can. I don't think Castle can do any more than that."
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Sounds like a bunch of people who don't get dual licensing despite there being a number of companies doing it rather successfully. Anyway, here's an interesting bit:
"He is on the look out for GPL-licensed code, which would also need to be removed"
So when Castle talk about protecting their "intellectual property", what they mean is stuff which includes other people's code they've also passed off as their own, violating the licence in doing so.
guestx on 20/1/07 3:37PM
This is potentially very good news, and I hope it succeeds. I reckon this is RISC OS's last throw of the dice. I'd be happy to contribute financially, but only once there's source on the website and the process has kicked-off. It's a shame there still isn't a clear timetable for the release of the first batch: I appreciate the legal difficulties and the limited time of the active developers, but some firm commitments on timing would encourage more support, IMHO.
Getting the apps out first seems sensible: the printer manager in particular would benefit from some work on Unicode. I hope, however, that Browse does not distract development from NetSurf. There are so few applications developed at the moment that duplication is the last thing we need. Hopefully the technologies in Browse (inc Javascript) can eventually benefit NetSurf, which seems to have an update every week at the moment.
Should open-source RISC OS ever make it to my A9, I'd definitely use it...
lym on 20/1/07 3:40PM
wonder if thats my pint glass in the photo?
epistaxsis on 20/1/07 3:40PM
Thanks for this good news!
Offering Phoenix (i.e. Javascript capable 32bit Browse) is very good. Perhaps as time passes by NetSurf and Phoenix can kind of grow into one browser, or as lym suggested, perhaps some of the good parts of Phoenix like the Javascript can be included into NetSurf.
hzn on 20/1/07 4:32PM
GuestX wrote>"So when Castle talk about protecting their intellectual property, what they mean is stuff which includes other people's code they've also passed off as their own, violating the licence in doing so.
With respect that is to misread the piece - there is (to quote) 2GB of code the fact they are combing it to make sure there *is* no GPL code there is a good thing I would have thought. Additionally you have no way of knowing *when* (if any) GPL code was included was it (a). When Acorn had it (in which case ROL's version may also be "poisoned" in the same way) (b). When Pace had it or (c). When Castle had it.
Anyway overall the release sounds like a good plan and hopefully it will proceed as soon as is practicable.
AMS on 20/1/07 4:45PM
On merging Browse/Phoenix and NetSurf -
1) Read this [link] 2) If the licences are even remotely compatible, I'll be extremely surprised.
jmb on 20/1/07 4:59PM
Looks like interesting times ahead and it is good news about Set Top Boxes selling worldwide with RISC OS in them, hopefully some of that will filter down to the desktop users as well.
Revin Kevin on 20/1/07 5:00PM
Whatever happened to the speech recognition that Acorn were showing off with their STBs? The ones that were supposed to play MPEG2 video etc?
tweety on 20/1/07 9:53PM
The hardware that RISC OS runs on is boring. It is slow and out of date. A port to a different architecture (x86) would open up access to faster, cheaper, hardware and renew interest in developing support for much needed features like DVD playback.
VisitorQ on 20/1/07 10:36PM
Until we actually *SEE* even a draft of the licence, we can't say how the limitation on porting effects it. I think it's foolish, anyway - if somebody wants to try, let them. It'll be their wasted effort. However, parts of the OS that are written in C could be almost automatically rebuilt for x86 with the right rig in order to massively speed up emulation. For example, the SharedCLibrary could be executed on the host side. Same with lots of other modules that are written in C. Stopping people from porting it away from ARM removes the possibility of somebody doing this neat hack to considerably increase emulation performance.
rjek on 20/1/07 11:20PM
Yes and that would reduce RISC OS I'm of no doubt to little more than an emulation "toy". Thankyou Castle.
AW on 20/1/07 11:54PM
AW>Agreed. If there is a comprehensive limitation of the OS to ARM (or code compatible processors like xScale) that's fine. While it's Castle's decission - the ban on x86 (or other) porting makes sense - simply making it *easier* to emulate/port RISC OS would I feel damage the RISC OS platform. To people who are already x86 fans or Windows/Apple/Linux devotees I expect that argument won't hold much water but then they've no emotional (or practical) need to see our platform survive and such attitudes should not therefore surprise us. They do what best pleases or suits them (fair enough) but the thing is if we enable porting *we* (the RISC OS users) will IMHO lose out. The others will still have their platform to return to while we will not.
VisitorQ>"A port to a different architecture (x86) would open up access to faster, cheaper, hardware and renew interest in developing support for much needed features like DVD playback."
Surely if you have an x86 machine you'd simply fireup one of the many capable DVD software players that already exist there - why bother with the extra hassle (especially as the DVD player would only work on the x86 RISC OS variant and not the native ARM one). Nope a non-runner I think.
AMS on 21/1/07 12:17AM
AW: I can't decide if you're pointlessly trolling, or if you actually believe that. It won't reduce RISC OS to an emulation "toy" at all. It'll simply speed things up where it is emulated. It won't damage native use at all, apart from the fact that emulation will be even quicker and cheaper, not to mention less buggy, as you'll suddenly be able to use UNIX's and Windows's far more advanced debugging facilities.
rjek on 21/1/07 12:18AM
RO as a desktop platform is just a toy now, we need to migrate to other CPUs and IMHO the way to do this is to gradually recompile and reimplement bits of RISC OS for other architectures, running the bits that have not yet been migrated under emulation along with the applications that have not been rebuilt and/or never will be. I think emulating a full ARM-based machine on a non-ARM platform is a dead end, and sadly I think ARM-based desktop computers are a dead end also. If ROOL releases the whole RO source with the license as described in the article I'd be interested in speeding up the FontManager and that's about it, but with permission to migrate to other hw I'd put in a lot more energy to help migrate RO onto readily-available, higher performance hardware and still pay the license fees to Castle for every sale of RISC OS. I can understand them wanting to protect their hardware sales but I fear those sales are very limited in number now.
adrianl on 21/1/07 12:23AM
AMS: because RO is leaner and faster, it would start up along with a RO DVD player in much less time than other x86-based OSes, give you a nice user interface that's actually fun to use and still have the required performance to decode DVDs in software where graphics card manufacturers have not made their documentation/drivers public?
To make things perfectly clear, I'm talking about running RO (or a RO-compatible OS) unhosted on x86 hardware, which is very different from emulating it on top of an existing x86 OS such as WinXP or a full Linux + X-Window system. I have no interest in the latter.
Don't port for x86, port for POWER These are orphan now that Apple are in x86 world. Could be a number of people hanging onto these vintage systems that may want to "stick it to Apple" by using an alien OS
lostamarble on 21/1/07 6:55AM
adrianl:My understanding is that porting to x86 would terminally break the vast majority of existing apps - most of which are no longer being developed. That seems a sure fire way to finally kill off the OS to me .
P.S. And presumably the same effort would have to be made in a year or two when the rest of the world moves to 64 bit? And the next change after that and so on...
adamr on 21/1/07 10:14AM
adamr:
Adrian said, "...running the bits that have not yet been migrated under emulation along with the applications that have not been rebuilt and/or never will be".
tlsa on 21/1/07 11:02AM
lostamarble: Are you trolling?
1. What's the point of swapping one set of marginalised desktop hardware for another? 2. The number of people wanting to "stick it to Apple" would be vanishingly small. 3, What's best for RISC OS is to attract "normal" users, not technical ones (because of the huge ratio of the former to the latter).
Stoppers on 21/1/07 11:04AM
adamr, i don't see the point of the 64-bit argument there. if you port to x86 you effectively port to x86-64 (aka amd64).
we've only got 31 years until we *have* to move to 64-bit, and seeing how after 17 years we're only partially 32-bitted.....
simo on 21/1/07 11:15AM
adrianl wrote>"To make things perfectly clear, I'm talking about running RO (or a RO-compatible OS) unhosted on x86 hardware"
In a doomsday scenario situation perhaps that might be the way to go. If RO ran *without* a Linux/Windows kernel hosting it that might retain some of RO's frugality/efficiency and speed. You would still need some emulation of legacy ARM machine code apps.
My one fear is by promoting RO under x86 (or any non-ARM processor) we'd accellerate the native RO platforms demise - especially sadly since faster ARM's are now available. So I'd still say that for the moment a restriction on non ARM use should be maintained (obviously if things took a nose dive in the future an RO run unhosted on other hardware was the only option for it's continued survival that would option would need to be re-evaluated - but I don't think were anywhere near that point yet).
The restriction to use ARM is unfortunate, but legally now, and technically, we're by and large stuck with it, unless we go out an re-write the whole OS without the intervention of Castle. I'd say that was pretty unlikely, so we should make the best of it. ARM is the most popular processor core in the world, surely that must count for something. There are many new portable ARM devices like the Nokia 800, this thing:
and loads of other devices, most are not very fast, and don't need to be for the job they are doing. Maybe we need to focus on these sorts of devices as the main platform for RISC OS and view the Iyonix and A9 as developer boxes for them. That's not to say desktop RISC OS is dead (no more so than it is now), but we can either lament the lack of CPU power or we can focus on a massive market where CPU power is not an issue, and inexpensive ARM based computers are in abundance. Let's not focus on unrealistic goals for our platform, such as great games, DVD playing etc. let's focus on completely do-able projects like maybe a Jabber client, Flickr client, maybe at J2ME port (it's GPL now, and completely at home on much more limited platforms than RISC OS). These are important and entirely feasible projects, and there are loads more like them.
I know I'm all talk at the moment, but I know if I had time to be working on RISC OS apps (and maybe I will soon) that's what I'd be working on. The DVD effort by Adrian Lees was heroic, but at the end of the day, I just bought a DVD player for £18.99. I've never watched a DVD on a desktop computer, I have on a laptop, on a train, but of course we don't have laptops.
I think sometimes we make too much of the limitations of RISC OS we cannot fix, and ignore the important limitations we *can* fix.
thegman on 21/1/07 12:00PM
ARM CPUs may not compare with other platforms for power but they are cheap: is there any future in developing a multi-processor version of RO?
bucksboy on 21/1/07 12:44PM
Yes, AMS, I think it would make native development redundant, unnecessary and obsolete. The first thing that would happen would be the "why bother?" argument - the final death knell to some diversity of choice and the ultimate defeat to narrow-minded conformity and convergence.
AW on 21/1/07 1:30PM
Having been to the SE Show and ROUGOL last Monday and having seen and heard the description of the license I couldn't in good conscience contribute anything under it, even though I have a few ideas (and a small enhancement to SciCalc already). There are too many other projects deserving of my time with more fair/benificial to users/equal licenses out there to work on.
Of course if the license if released and all the restrictions and weirdness isn't in the final version I'll be happy to change my mind.
flibble on 21/1/07 1:49PM
To restrict to just ARM processors is not a good thing in my opinion. If somebody ported to x86 say and it was successfully taken up by lots people then that is the natural evolution for Risc OS. Placing legal restictions is just not plain healthy
Jwoody on 21/1/07 2:27PM
I would like to see ports to other processors. (The only way I can see it appearing on a laptop natively)
The main conflict I can see with an non-arm version of RISC OS is if apps started appearing only for the other processors. Perhaps a better limit might be to restrict the execution of apps to ARM based ones. (While allowing modules to be run natively).
I suspect the possibility of a porting would interest many developers who've been lost to PCs
Whatever, it seems silly to apply the arm only rule to the commercial license
stoppers: I think you are missing something. The XBox 360 uses power processors. Hardly marginalised. A potentially huge market. Also the name RISC OS would not be silly, as it would on x86.
jess on 21/1/07 3:59PM
Restricting to ARM may stop RISC OS running on a 'proper' laptop, but there are options, like the Psion Netbook, and various tablet devices, which I am sure could accept a USB keyboard. It's not ideal, but it's good enough IMHO.
I think we need to accept that a port to another processor is not going to happen, but hypothetically, if it did, to restrict to POWER/PowerPC, although it's an incredibly popular architecture, would not get us much closer to having a native laptop, except for very expensive portable workstations. Sure there is the Wii, PS3 and XBox 360 all use PowerPC derivatives, but none of these are 100% suitable to be a desktop computer.
thegman on 21/1/07 4:41PM
I don't see the POINT of the ARM only restriction. As most of the source is ARM asm it would be an enormous task to port the entire OS to x86. Remember, although someone might discover that the released source is only 40% asm (that's a completely made up statistic) what would need to be ported is the core of the OS itself. Many of the ancillary support apps such as !paint might contain significant amounts of portable C code but I suspect that more than 50% of the OS itself will turn out to be asm.
It would probably be just as easy to recreate a RISCOS-like OS from scratch (perhaps making use of some freely available components), and re implimenting the API. I think that this would would be about same amount of work and produce a better result.
Unfortunately, the announcement that Castle won't ALLOW people to port to different platforms has turned a lot of people against the project from the start. And for no real gain from Castle's point of view.
At least this new development offers a new way forward for the OS.
killermike on 21/1/07 5:38PM
I think Castle's point of view is that if you could run RISC OS on a PC, they can't sell any desktop hardware. It's the same reason as say, Apple, they don't let you run Mac OS X on any old PC, because their sales would suffer, it's that simple.
I think killermike is quite right, it's probably just as easy, if not easier just to rewrite the entire OS, or build it on top of an existing kernel. Of course this has not happened yet, although there is no technical or legal obstacles. It would take a group of very good programmers a long time, yes, but there are many examples of os-rewriting success.
I think what we used to have is two under-developed strains of RISC OS, now we have the potential to unite around one strain of the OS, which could potentially get a lot more development. Personally, I'm not bothered about the licensing of RISC OS. If ROOL will make RISC OS better, and make it available on other hardware devices, which in turn make it more attractive to new users, then it must be a good thing.
The fact is, get a typical geek (that's not an insult, I consider myself a geek), and show him an Iyonix, he's going to think 'cool, but £799, nah, too much', get the same geek and show him a Nokia 800, and tell him RISC OS is optional, he's might think 'That's quite cheap, I'll give RISC OS a go, if it does not work out, I'll just use it with the standard Linux OS'.
I have two questions not related to RISC OS on x86:
1. How realistic is a port of RISC OS for PDAs and Smartphones when the source becomes available?
2. Does anybody know more about the STBs? How do they look like, are there any screen shots (can you recognise it's RISC OS?)?
maikl on 21/01/07 6:39PM
1) I posted about this on ROOL's forums, specifically asking about the Nokia 770 ( or Nokia 800 nowadays), and they seemed to think that it would be reasonably easy given the right people and time. I think PDAs/tablets like this are a good target, the Nokia 800 has an 800x480 screen, that's not too bad. Smartphones on the other hand frequently have 320x240 screens or even smaller, so a RISC OS desktop would not be so nice. Also, RISC OS could not drive the phone aspect of the device without a lot of work, whereas on a device like the Nokia 770, you've only got to drive a Wifi adaptor, and there are open source versions of Wifi drivers, which could be used or just referred to.
2) Don't know, Castle seem to really keep quiet about these things.
thegman on 21/01/07 8:18PM
thegman: "I think killermike is quite right, it's probably just as easy, if not easier just to rewrite the entire OS, or build it on top of an existing kernel. Of course this has not happened yet, although there is no technical or legal obstacles. It would take a group of very good programmers a long time, yes, but there are many examples of os-rewriting success."
Yes, but let's look at those examples. There are various BeOS rewrites and BeOS-inspired projects, mostly because the community regarded it as abandoned (despite some commercial continuation of the product), valued various parts of the architecture (which is a lot better than RISC OS), and saw that alternative platforms might not offer solutions that could be considered competitive, although faster hardware and improved alternatives have eroded its advantages. There are some AmigaOS-related projects, undertaken for mostly the same reasons, but arguably with less justification. Even Windows has at least one imitator.
But for all these projects, one major thing they seem to have in common is the stream of applications ported from GNU/Linux or other platforms, as the developers attempt to show that their project has real-world value. The original BeOS had its differentiating features and applications, as did the AmigaOS, but those applications - even if available on the successor platforms - seem not to be compelling, nor are those platforms seemingly producing innovative alternatives to things like Mozilla.
So even if RISC OS got reimplemented, what would the benefits really be? In a sane world, you'd end up with something like "GNU/FreeROS", where the "FreeROS" makes up very little that couldn't be done by Linux or other Free Software operating system solutions.
The problem facing the average Drobe regular is that a continuation of today's RISC OS isn't any better than the first cut of "FreeROS" - a relatively stagnant development scene with aging applications and poor architectural choices - but I suppose the latter would at least be open enough for people to improve, integrate, and have it compete and collaborate widely with other systems, rather than be saddled with a artificially constrained corporate roadmap.
guestx on 21/01/07 9:31PM
killermike wrote: "It would probably be just as easy to recreate a RISCOS-like OS from scratch (perhaps making use of some freely available components), and re implimenting the API. I think that this would would be about same amount of work and produce a better result."
I think it's important to distinguish between the factors that keep people using RISC OS: the desktop environment and the applications.
Contrary to popular opinion, the look and feel of the RISC OS desktop could be recreated for other desktop environments by skilled developers in a reasonable amount of time. Porting the whole thing, or reverse engineering then duplicating it, only makes sense if you want to use legacy software or want to retain familiar APIs, and that could be done via an emulator.
For most users, the only thing stopping them from moving to another desktop environment that looks and feels the same is the lack of familiar applications. Basically, if you could port the most popular applications to such an environment, you would satisfy many remaining users; the less popular applications would just have to be run in an emulator.
This approach is different to the usual one people fear in this forum: we're not talking about running ex-RISC OS applications on Windows and occasionally firing up an emulator; we're talking about running ex-RISC OS applications in a familiar environment and integrating an emulator to make sure all the niche applications continue to run.
davidb on 21/01/07 9:38PM
Guest X said:
"Yes, but let's look at those examples. There are various BeOS rewrites and BeOS-inspired projects, mostly because the community regarded it as abandoned (despite some commercial continuation of the product), valued"
I should add that I wasn't suggesting that a complete reimplementation of RISCOS was a good idea. I was just suggesting that porting all of RISCOS to x86 would be nearly as much work as reimplementing from scratch and potentially result in a less useful end product.
killermike on 21/01/07 10:36PM
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lostamarble on 22/01/07 05:02AM
(whoops, bad internet connection, try that again)
Stoppers, you hit the nail on the head. While the discussion has focused seriously on at least having a crack at RO on x86, there are many many 'obsolete' systems out there, I thought slipping under the radar with a port on something that can not be considered a threat to new ARM based hardware sales may be an option for those interested to see development of drivers or architecture improvements that existing ARM systems, or new ones, won't see for a few years. I just cut my post way to far down and it's a troll post. So now I'll go back to waffle mode.
One ancdote about Linux being ported from x86 to another architecture early on was the huge explosion to other systems once the lessons had been learnt... Now that there is PCIe support in the ARM architecture (XScale model whatever), what are the options of support in RO - not good until there is hardware supporting it? So how about hit the ground running by writing support under a x86 version that can be ported back to ARM when the hardware materialises, then the RO community hits the ground running with that new hardware? Of course I know absolutely nothing about porting between architectures, so I understand that we can learn nothing from software on one system before it arrives on the destination platform.
I like to check out www.linuxdevices.com to see ARM powered systems i'd drool over if RO ever made it onto them. There are plenty of options for exclusively developing RO for ARM, so the Castle/ROOL ideal of NOT porting to other CPU architectures is not too far fetched, there is a very fertile market out there. We do have to ask though, there is so much discussion from people who sound like they'd prefer to see RO on x86, can they be prevented by Castle/ROOL from giving it a crack?
This raises an interesting legal point. When does the creation of a RISC OS like OS developed for another platform, provided they don't call it RISC OS, become an infringement of Castle's IPR? We already have the ROX filer and desktop that run on Linux, and there is no problem with that to my knowledge. I don't think drag and drop, or context sensitive menus or an iconbar are a problem, or even anti-alised fonts, since all are already used elsewhere. If anyone tried it, I suspect it would be a goldmine for the lawyers and to the detriment of Castle and ayone else involved.
mrtd on 22/01/07 12:33AM
One of the reasons I believe ROOL don't want to open up Risc OS to non-ARM platforms is that ultimately ROOL/Castle know there is no money in the Risc OS desktop market, and subsequently would rather see effort focused on enhancing Risc OS rather than porting to another platform.
ROOL/Castle are only interested in the embedded/STB market where there is as of yet, no defined standard OS/platform, and where they have a chance of making some money.
Unfortunately, we desktop users just want Risc OS running on hi-spec system, and it seems that the most likely way of this happening would be to port to x86.
Although as a Risc OS user I would love to see Risc OS running on multi-Ghz hardware, the chance of that happening any time soon is very slim. Maybe when some mass market manufacturer releases a piece of hardware using the new Cortex ARM processor it will be a reality, but we shall have to wait and see.
nx on 22/01/07 12:40AM
I suspect that the only real problems would be with trademarks, or if the (lack of) connection between RISC OS and the new environment was misrepresented to users in some way.
davidb on 22/01/07 12:44AM
thegman: "Sure there is the Wii, PS3 and XBox 360 all use PowerPC derivatives, but none of these are 100% suitable to be a desktop computer. "
I just looked up the specs on the XBox360, it can plug into a normal (X)VGA screen. Has USB 2, ethernet and Wifi. It even looks like some PCs.
The only difference, were it possible to use as a desktop PC, would be booting off optical disk and needing a USB hard drive.
(And how much would it annoy BG if it got adopted as a desktop system, with someone else's OS)
jess on 22/01/07 12:53AM
I didn't know the Xbox had a HD15 port, that's pretty good. Although of course Microsoft does not permit running anything else on the Xbox other than it's built in OS. That's not to say it's impossible of course, but if you're deciding to port to another processor, you can choose one which permits every conceivable hardware permutation (x86), or you can go with one which only permits running on non-upgradeable hardware, no laptops etc (PPC consoles). If we were talking about the Amiga, which is already PowerPC native, then the PS3 especially is a no-brainer, particularly as Sony is perfectly happy for you to install another OS on it (and even tells you how).
But as we're talking about RISC OS, a hypothetical re-write to another processor may as well be done in such a way to allow many different CPUs, if you're doing all that work anyway, may as well do it in a cross-platform way with a runtime (like Inferno, Java, Intent etc.) or in a more traditional compiled-for-each-arch way like BSD, OS X, Solaris, Linux etc. That way you can just pick whatever CPU suits you best, regardless of it's architecture.
thegman on 22/01/07 11:06PM
The x box (old one) can run linux. It is frequently used as a media player OS type thing.
efforts are underway to get this on the 360.
cheers bob
nijinsky on 23/01/07 09:16AM
Yeah and I belive the PS3 has been seen in the wild booting Linux as well....
Not sure how good it works on the hardware, I guess linux would need a lot of tweeking to make use of any of the cut down extra processing units in the CPU...
I would be happy keeping with arm esspecially if we got the OS available on a laptop like device.... As has been said the Netbook pro is an option... There were also a load of other devices. I think Jornada 820 (& the 720 would be a good mini laptop), Nec Mobilepro (the 900 is a 400Mhz cpu version and has amoung other features a VGA out port), Compaq did a CE laptop I think running Arm and as has been said there are plenty of boxes shipped that run an ARM cpu that are tablet devices. Tablets tend to have a PS2 port and I have seen a lot with a light case that held a keyboard effectively making it a laptop like machine. Maybe not many desktop motherboards with PCI expansion but we have the A9, Ionix and it appears from the other article castle is looking at making an Ionix replacement.
mrmac on 23/01/07 12:19AM
It would be great to have RISC OS on any of these devices, however I think there is a problem with providing an OS for an existing system of this sort in the availability of the product.
Would the device still be available when the port is finished?
This would make x86 PCs and consoles the best target, unless the manufacturers themselves are involved.
thegman on 23/01/07 12:49AM
Jess: The XBox 360 isn't intended to run alternative operating systems (and I'm pretty sure the threat of Microsoft's legal department would be much greater that that of Castle's). So, you'd be limited to people with an XBox who are willing and able to hack their games console in order to run RISC OS.
Martin Dixon: How like RISC OS would it have to be, do you think?
The Look and Feel should be alright, since that issue was settled in the courts decades ago.
How about the API (SWIs). That, I could see a potential problem with (didn't Acorn copyright it, or something?), but no other processor type uses exactly the same mechanism, and WINE seems to have been left alone by Microsoft, even when it must provide some of the same binary interfaces as Windows.
On the other hand, what if the API provided was (a subset of) the OSLib C API? That doesn't belong to any RISC OS company.
I don't know if any of it would really be a problem for Castle, as long at it didn't use any knowledge of how RISC OS is implemented (let alone use any RISC OS code). As Alan Robertson said, there's a gap between Desktop and STB requirements that's getting bigger all the time, and any implementation of a RO like system using free components could never be as lean as the real thing (for reasons of time available), but that wouldn't be a major problem for a desktop system with many times the processor power available.
Porting RISC OS to x86 is a non-starter, making a RO-like environment on Linux is do-able, as would be getting some RO applications running on that.
Stoppers on 23/01/07 1:24PM
nx wrote>"One of the reasons I believe ROOL don't want to open up RISC OS to non-ARM platforms is that ultimately ROOL/Castle know there is no money in the RISC OS desktop market, and subsequently would rather see effort focused on enhancing RISC OS rather than porting to another platform."
That, with respect, sounds a little off target. The more logical reason is their hardware business would die/be damaged if RISC OS was ported to another CPU. I'd also point out that the effort to port to another platform would be expended by *others* (it entails *not much* extra effort on ROOL/Castle's part and that would not deter them surely).
nx wrote>"ROOL/Castle are only interested in the embedded/STB market where there is as of yet, no defined standard OS/platform, and where they have a chance of making some money. "
I haven't actually seen them say this anywhere? In any event Iyonix is *not* an embedded device yet they produced it - and there was mention of a follow up. In actual fact A9 is a more architypal "embedded" device (in as much as it doesn't have any expansion ports proper (no PCI bus)).
There are 1.2GHz ARM processors out now (Intel IOP's) that would do nicely (some even dual core) that would fit the bill. IMHO there'd be little point in moving to "unknown" processors when (finally) there are some compable ARM processors on the scene I would have thought.
AMS on 23/01/07 1:28PM
AMS: The problem is that 1.2GHz IOPs are still going to be much more expensive and not a touch on x86 or even PPC in terms of performance, and require somebody to actually design a motherboard using it still. Plus, RISC OS cannot take advantage of multiple CPU cores anyway.
rjek on 23/01/07 2:04PM
Linux already runs on the PS3 [link]
nijinsky on 23/01/07 2:18PM
mrmac on 23/01/07 3:04PM
Sorry had post go missing and then accidently re-submitted my earlier post....
Rob>Yes an IOP 1.2GHz will *not* give the same performance as 3-4GHz 64bit x86 CPU when running the same task natively. However we're not comparing horses for courses here - an ARM CPU run at 1.2GHz with the larger cache (L2) offers the means of running *natively* ARM RISC OS code that'll outpace an x86 based ARM emulator and probably by a margin too.
Yes I'll also concede that they may cost more than an equivalent x86 set up - but then you're paying for the ability to run RISC OS natively (i.e., at it's most efficient and with no reliance on another OS to run).
As to multiple cores yes RISC OS can't natively use them - but surely some "background" or applications specific tasks can be so done. (Ok you won't get x2 times the performance of a single core version of the same CPU and it may not be as transparent or as flexible - but a gain is a gain so let's pocket it eh ).
AMS on 23/01/07 11:26PM
mrmac:
What about availability of such devices? Can you still get them new from the manufacturer in sufficient numbers? Are there localised (especially keyboard, but also small things like power supplies) versions available for all users? What about the pointing device (touchscreen drivers)? Could the final RISCOSified product be sold at a competitive price and the development costs for drivers and other required software be recouped? I guess you are beginning to see why Apple switched to x86 now?
JGZimmerle on 24/01/07 00:43AM
Touch screen drivers must have existed in some form at some time for the Newspad. If we are very lucky Castle may have the module on a disk somewhere.
As my missing reply went on to say... I am also thining if the device goes out of production as long as you make sure you pick a device that was sold in sufficient numbers to ensure we continue to have a strong 2nd hand market and parts/accessories are available for a number of years. This would mean you could switch from selling the devices pre-installed with risc os to selling ROM upgrades (either a replacement plug-in rom board or a flash upgrade service).
By following the above route it would mean they can still continue to sell the service/product and continue to make money from the investment made to make the OS work on the device in the first place even if the device is no longer available new.
Reply to John Hogg, And also, the more devices RISC OS gets ported to, the more experience will be gained for doing such a thing, and theoretically at least, porting to new devices should get get easier and easier, so long as those devices are not locked down with various protection methods, and the hardware is relatively standard.
John Hogg: I do touchscreen drivers - have been showing them at Wakefield for years. I'll be putting more info up about them when my web site moves.
liquid on 24/01/07 12:05AM
Nice one --- I knew I had also seen them somewhere else before.
by the way the RPC I got from you is going nicely.... Though it's now got 233SA, ROS 4.02, 128MB ram and a few other upgrades since I got it.
Garry: exactly it will allow people to learn how hardware abstraction has been implemented and gain experience to port onto other devices... I seem to think the port of ArmLinux was the learning experience and catalyst that allowed a lot of the other Linux ports to take place off the back of it....
TBH making Risc OS 5 work on an RPC may actually help in this direction as well because it will allow people to learn about the abstraction and the modules/components of the OS that interface with the harware while using hardware that is very farmiliar so it will remove the problem of actually interogating all the hardware specs as well. Not to mention a lot of the mobile ARM devices ran on 200-233mhz strongarms so CPU power may be similar.... And getting Risc OS 5 working on the A9 would also prove very usefull as it's Arm9 will be simmilar to a lot of portable devices.
In reply to John: I could not agree more, this is an opportunity for us all to be using the same version of RISC OS, whether it's on a RiscPC, A9, Iyonix, or some future tablet device. The similar spec of CPUs is a bonus too.
This is what worries me the most about open source, it will be subverted in to pointless exercises instead of doing something useful to move the OS forward. It is a complete waste of time to port RO5 back to the Risc PC, there is no need for one version of the OS to run on everything, as there is nothing to be gained. Not one additional application will run on a Risc PC because it has RISC OS 5 (and indeed many thousands of 26bit applications will be broken buy it). The only applications that are RISC OS 5 only, are that way because they depend on Iyonix hardware. Familiarity with the HAL and driver model will come with experience of porting it to useful new hardware, not wasting valuable development time reinventing a decidedly square wheel on the Risc PC.
druck on 24/01/07 1:28PM
druck: "... it will be subverted in to pointless exercises instead of doing something useful ..."
You get the programmers you pay for.
flibble on 24/01/07 1:49PM
And a lot of software hasn't been updated to 32bit at all....
Have we not already quoted if everyone with an RPC was on 32bit and using the same OS thus making the market a lot bigger and demand a lot bigger for any updated application it may encourage some software to be updated and maybe even have some new features added at the same time (surely this would also benefit ionix users)
You say it's pointless I say it isn't - just continued repeating of it being pointless doesn't make it so. I think the people who think it would help the market have put forward a number of reasons it may help in this discussion so far but I havn't seen any of those reasons countered by any response or explanation. I am very happy to be proven wrong or have a reason given why it won't work but it always seems lacking.
I am not going to spend a large amount of money on an Ionix but I am happy re-learning Risc OS on my RISC PC which is cheap enough that if it doesn't work out I don't loose too much money. Again are there not so many RPC not being used that may have some life brought back...
A lot of people are probablly not capable of trying to make Risc OS work with a totally new device but are farmiliar with the hardware and how to directly interface with the harware in the RPC making it a valuable learning exersize in my opinion. Which will give them some knowledge of what files and code needs adjusted and may give them enough knowledge to make a move to a diffrent ARM device possible... The diffrence between the way I see it and the way you see it is let people learn in stages rather than throwing them in at the deep end. Yes some people may swim at the deep end so let them start at the deep end and go directly for a new device. But why let that stop the ones who would drown and either not try or give up at the deep end start off in more farmilair teritory.
druck: with the greatest respect, who are you to say how someone should spend their spare time? The point of open source is that if someone wants to spend their time backporting RO5 to a RiscPC, good for them.
If you're that concerned about going "forward", consider that someone who scratches an itch by gaining experience (back)porting RO5 to their hardware will make it easier for them to contribute to whatever *you* consider valuable in future.
Jaffa on 24/01/07 1:59PM
In reply to druck: I think it is very valuable to have all users on one version of the OS, it means that we can use APIs without fear of them not being available on some machines. The 26-bit argument is valid, if you're interested in using apps which are not being developed any more, but IMHO it's better in long run to discard all these applications and encourage the purchase/development of recent and actively developed applications. Clearly there will be some areas in which only legacy app will do, and that's what Aemulor is for. I would hope too that if we all start using RISC OS 5, then the Castle USB stack will become standardized and the farce of having to two USB stacks will go away. Personally I don't care if we use the Simtec or Castle stack, but having two is absurd.
Having two strains of RISC OS just means that the small amount of development going into RISC OS is split unneccesarily, and it means that we end up with stuff on one strain (i.e. the Select Image SWIs for handling different image file formats) which may be very useful, but we can't use as it won't work on the other strain.
Frankly, I don't care which side becomes the 'standard' RISC OS, but I think we can all agree that in an ideal world, if we could turn back time, we'd like to only have one version of RISC OS, and the open-sourcing of RISC OS 5 is an opportunity to achieve that.
I'm not an open source advocate at all, I agree that a lot of work that goes into open source projects is pointless, non-innovative duplication of commercial products and like you say, wheel re-invention. But we can either have practically zero development on two versions of RISC OS like we have now, or we can take a chance, put all our money on one version of RISC OS and see what we can do with it. Right now, left as it is, RISC OS is finished, it has *zero* chance of survival, but the ROOL/Castle plan offers hope, and I think it's important that we all get behind that.
nx on 24/01/07 4:46PM
These (nt) posts are beginning to annoy me. I’ve just typed in a whole message and Drobe loses it. Grrrr!
Any, what I think Druck was trying to say is that effort in back porting RO to the RPC would not really move the development of RO forward. Why spend time and effort in porting to an old and obsolete platform with very few users, when you could spend the effort in getting RO working on a much more recent and viable platform?
Of course, as you say, developers can choose how they spent their time, but I would prefer, even as a RPC user, if developers ported to newer faster ARM systems, else we’re not going to be going anywhere fast anytime soon.
Reply to nx: I agree to an extent, the RiscPC is ancient, and should probably be consigned to history, but various surveys and finger in the air guessing would probably indicate most RISC OS users are still on RiscPCs and it would be a shame to exclude them. Also, I understand that RISC OS 5 was primarily developed on RiscPCs and a port would be straight-forward, if not already done.
But yes, new systems should be the priority.
chrisrayson on 24/01/07 5:25PM
Maybe the best-of-both-worlds scenario would be to set to work on independently implementing Select features, and integrating them into RISC OS 5 in an API-compatible manner. That would bring convergence between the two OS branches, whilst still bringing new features to new (rather than ancient) hardware.
It still all seems rather sub-optimal, given that ROL have already put a great deal of effort into implementing Select features the first time, to expend more time and effort doing it all over again, but it looks like the only way they're ever going to get on an Iyonix...?
I think that ROL will probably use parts of the RO5 sources to port their version of RISC OS to the Iyonix, if the royalty payments are indeed only a few pence per copy sold.
JGZimmerle on 24/01/07 10:28PM
BTW, what is all this talk about developers learning how to port RISC OS to many new and old ARM devices? AFAIK the biggest challenge RISC OS faces is a lack of developers. Do you really think that the prospect of getting RISC OS to run on ancient hardware will draw a significant number of new developers to the RISC OS world? And yes, most of the software developers I know do consider 3 to 4 years old hardware ancient.
Reply to JGZimmerle, I suppose the idea of running RISC OS on various ARM devices is attractive to because if you compare RISC OS to Vista, Mac OS X or even Linux, RISC OS looked incredibly dated and limited. However, if you compare RISC OS to Windows CE, Palm OS, or an embedded Linux like in the Nokia 770/800, it does not look so bad. Proper multi-tasking, support for multiple CPUs, 3D graphics etc. maybe be present on these types of devices, but it's just not very important like is on the desktop. RISC OS on the desktop is many generations behind the market leaders, on PDA/Tablet style devices it's probably not even one generation behind, in some ways it may even have some advantages.
RISC OS on the desktop is extremely dated, RISC OS on a tablet is not so bad, it's almost like getting free pass to compete in the real world.
thegman: Sorry, RISC OS on a 770 (or my new N800, hopefully arriving tomorrow) would be a nice toy; but I'd rather have a Linux base for my day-to-day operations with Maemo than RISC OS.
Proper multitasking is *incredibly* important on a device like an Internet Tablet: I don't want to have to reboot it just because a single application crashed, or trample over someone else's memory.
Also, what would you use for Internet access on an N800-with-RISC OS? NetSurf for web browsing, I've already done a port of the Linux version, IM - Grapevine? That costs money. Messenger Pro/Pluto for email, would be a step up but you rapidly get to the point where there's a limit to how useful a pretty desktop UI is on such a high density screen.
After the iPhone demos, I'm already of the opinion that the Maemo desktop copies *too many* desktop metaphors blindly, without thinking of the optimal UI for the device's form factor and use cases.
Still, I like toys so I'd still like to see it
Jaffa on 24/01/07 11:31PM
Reply to Andrew: Never used Maemo, so can't really comment. I know what you mean about not wanting to reboot because an app crashed, I like real multitasking as much as the next man, but it's just not as crucial on a web-tablet as it is on a desktop computer IMHO. I use Macs at home and at work, I pretty much work them to death in a way that that RISC OS could not handle (not fast enough, can't really do two things at once, lacks the apps, no decent CLI, the list is endless) however, I demand so much less from a portable device, and just a couple of simple apps would make a RISC OS tablet perfectly useable for me.
As for the desktop UI, yes, on a device like the Nokia 800, it would be cluttered, but I think with a little imagination we could work around that, maybe change the window manager to suit it a bit better, allow apps to hidden easily, and I suppose if RISC OS on tablets caught on, people could modify the UIs to be a bit better on smaller screens etc.
Question: Is RISCOS 5 32/26bit neutral or 32bit only? With a RISCPC HAL, could it run in 26bit mode? If so, it could be made to run on that hardware and remain backwards compatible with 26bit software and forwards compatible with newer neutral software.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power?"
killermike on 25/01/07 00:54AM
Why is the RISC PC still popular?
I would say it's because with the things that RISC OS excels at (email and website design for example) a Risc PC does well. The things that RISC OS does not do so well (web browsing for example), an Iyonix is far better than a Risc PC, but still poor in comparison to a recent Mac or (properly working) PC.
So someone with a Risc PC and space for two machines but money for only one, buying a Mac could easily be more productive than buying an Iyonix.
That is why support shouldn't be dropped.
Jess, I'm not sure how RISC OS excels at website design, you need to able to preview the site how 99.9% of viewers are going to see it, which you can't do under RISC OS.
But I do agree that support for the RiscPC should not be dropped, if only because it was not that long ago that Castle were still making them. Also, we need to get as many people using the ROOL version of RISC OS as possible, and I think the RiscPC remains the most popular RISC OS box at the moment.
Hmm, wonder if it was trying to do the "In reply to" thing that's giving the nt?
Anyway, what I was trying to say before Drobe attempted to silence me with (nt) was that thegman's point isn't entirely accurate - if you design a page that'll work in Netsurf then it should work OK on other browsers too, so I don't think that that's much of an issue.
SimonC on 25/01/07 3:00PM
SimonC, Indeed, it should work the same, but the reality is that it does not. And if you're doing Javascript stuff, then Netsurf is not going to work anyway. If you're doing a site, which say, includes a YouTube video, you could put in the code on RISC OS, but you'd just have to assume it worked, as you could not test it. There is also issues like websites which use certain fonts in CSS, there are some fonts which you can assume a PC or Mac has, but not RISC OS.
I'm not criticising Netsurf, I think it's great, but using RISC OS for web design is somewhat like painting a picture whilst wearing spectacles which distort your vision, it might look OK to you, but that's not how 99% of your viewers will see it.
If you design a page that works properly in Arcweb then it will work properly in other browsers too. That doesn't make ArcWeb good to use for web design. In fact if you were to take MacOS, Windows, Linux and RISC OS, RISC OS would probably be the worst for web design and web design isn't even all that demanding, all you need is decent editing software and a decent browser. Ah, hang on....
fwibbler on 25/01/07 3:30PM
thegman: Web design on a Risc PC
As Simon says if you design a site that works in netsurf (and lynx and validates) then it should work fine on anything.
However you put a Mac (or PC) next to it to view what you are working on you have a very effective system. More effective than an Iyonix, a PC or a Mac on its own.
jess on 25/01/07 4:02PM
If you are going to write your site-code by hand, then RISC OS is the best choice for that. I have many years of experience doing web-design work on RISC OS, Linux (Gnome and KDE desktops and CLI), Windows, MacOS and Solaris. RISC OS wins because of the many tools available wich are perfectly "integrated" by the WIMP. If you have a RiscPC you can use the PC coprocessor card with Windows98 and the Opera web-browser for testing and viewing. On a modern PC you can work in a similar way with VirtualRPC, although the irritating way in wich the mouse is emulated (with the pointers of windows and RISC OS working at the same time, while the VirtualRPC window is active) is very irritating. IMHO the best way to do web-design work on RISC OS is by networking a RISC OS machine and a x86-Mac (use an A9home and MacMini if space is limited) with a KVM switch. Use an x86-Mac with BootCamp and WindowsXP installed, so you can test your site with both Windows and MacOS versions of browsers. If you want to test for web-standards compliance, use Opera.
JGZimmerle on 25/01/07 4:17PM
Oh yes, and don't forget BOSE QC-3 noise-canceling headphones to eliminate the noise of the PC's or Mac's cooling fans. Also works great for any other noise like DVD/CD- or hard-disc-drives. They are actually marketed for use on airplanes, but work equally well for most other background-noise like traffic and machinery noise. You can still hear people talking, though.
JGZimmerle: I code sites by hand using Dreamweaver on Windows. A plain text editor ... with syntax highlighting, error highlighting, validation, reference library, indentation tools, macros, gui method of setting properties and real time previewing. Oh and I can design visually if I so wish.
But where Dreamweaver really comes into its own, and what I could not live without, is the ease with which I can reverse engineer other peoples websites, which is particularly useful in creating minimal test cases of browser bugs (not exactly a common need, but it is very good for it). Of course, I could just be using !Zap or some other text editor and be beating my head against the wall in frustration.
So if you code sites by hand, there are other non RISC OS based alternatives, if you code sites visually you've no choice but to use something else.
I have used Dreamweaver, too, when I had to work on Windows or MacOS. However I still like RISC OS better. I suppose if you don't know XHTML and CSS well enough to write standard-compliant code from your head, it might be a little awkward having to look up the syntax of tags and attributes in the documentation, but that is the case for any language. What I don't like about big, fat applications like Dreamweaver is the fact that you have to adjust your way of working to the way the application works and you have no choice but to accept and live with the shortcomings (including bugs) of these applications. I much prefer to have lots of small tools each working just the way I want it to, all of them integrated via RISC OS' great drag 'n drop GUI. If one of these tools turns out to be buggy or complicated to use, I simply replace it with another one or contact the author so he can fix or improve it. Have you ever tried to contact the development team of Dreamweaver (good luck with that, you'll need it)?
Let get this clear, when we talk about porting RISC OS 5 we are talking about taking the entire OS accros from the HAL upwards, reimplementing device specific drivers and running in 32bit mode, as would ne necessary for running on any new hardware. This is completely, entirely and utterly a waste of effort for legacy machines such as the Risc PC.
However the "One OS to bind them all" advocates dont seem to realise this is not what they are really asking for. What they want is common API on all supported platforms, and this DOES NOT need an entire operating system to be ported - RISC OS is designed modularly to allow functionality to be added to the OS which is already designed to run on that hardware.
For example take the RISC OS 5 unicode font manager API, once that appears in the ROOL CVS system, it can be compiled and running on a Risc PC in a matter of minutes, and then all applications have API compatibility. There is no need to spend years re-writing drivers and breaking all 26bit software on the RPC to get the rest of RO5 on first.
druck on 26/01/07 12:21AM
@David Ruck
[recompiling individual components of RO5] An interesting point that I hadn't considered.
However, I am still wondering if OS components need to be recompiled for the RISCPC. If they work on the Iyonix wont they be 26/32 bit neutral and therefore runable on a RISCPC in 26 bit mode?
Obviously, any low-level stuff such as the HAL will need to be rewritten.
killermike on 26/01/07 1:49PM
Grrr... see *you*, nt!
JGZimmerle wrote, "RISC OS wins because of the many tools available wich [sic] are perfectly "integrated" by the WIMP."
Care to expand on that? HTML editors which just give you nicely coloured plain text with buttons for headings and so on (which is all I've seen for RISC OS) are somewhat old hat and were only "the thing" in about 1995 on other platforms. For a lot of the Web stuff I've done, I've needed to know how the CSS I've written will actually turn out, and regardless of how you write the HTML, this demands a browser that can support recent CSS specifications. So I'd say that RISC OS loses because of the browser situation, although since Firefox is apparently getting there on the Iyonix and presumably builds out of the Mozilla development tree, it's conceivable that one day there'll be a port of Mozilla Composer/Nvu/KompoZer - an application which has come along quite far even in the last few months. Then you might even have a decent browser and something which lets you enter text into a page without having to hit a preview button ten times a minute.
JGZimmerle: I disagree. A second screen is far more useful than a KVM and an old G3 Mac does fine. (I guess using VNCInput would be the ultimate).
But I think my point that a (networked) combination of a Risc PC and a Mac (or PC), is better than a Mac, PC or Iyonix alone, stands.
jess: "But I think my point that a (networked) combination of a RiscPC and a Mac (or PC), is better than a Mac, PC or Iyonix alone, stands."
And what was the RiscPC for, again?
Guestx: email and webdesign
And the Mac or PC aren't any good for e-mail and Web design? What does the RiscPC have that the others don't? A decent e-mail program and a decent text editor?
guestx on 27/01/07 00:15AM
Please keep to the topic of the article
guestx: "What does the RiscPC have that the others don't? " The Risc PC has a decent GUI. (And a built in vector graphics format)
Many of the things that RISC OS does well are things where the GUI is the limiting factor, not the power of the machine. This is why (I believe) Risc PCs are still popular and should not be dismissed.
GuestX:
Are you just trolling or have you simply not read our (jess' and mine) posts on this topic? The RISC OS GUI lets you work with a collection of different small apps and tools as though they were an integrated package. So you have a number of tools that complement one of the two excellent editors (Zap or StrongEd, both of wich have great HTML modes available). I mostly work with server-side content management systems like Joomla where I have to upload code-changes to the server anyway before I can really see what the changes would look like. This is a lot easier on RISC OS, than on most other platforms, because I never manually download or upload anything. I simply open the file in question from a filer-window wich displays the contents of a directory on the server (via an image filing system) and when I save the changes in the editor, they get saved directly back onto the server. I then refresh the page in the browsers I keep running on my MacOS-, Windows- and Linux-Computers to see the changes almost instantly in Opera (Windows and Linux versions), Internet Explorer (MacOS and Windows versions), Firefox (MacOS, Linux, Windows and RISC OS versions) and Safari (MacOS' standard browser).
jess:
For new web-designers the advantage of an x86-Mac is that they don't have to buy a separate PC to test their sites with windows-versions of web-browsers.
JGZimmerle: "Are you just trolling or have you simply not read our (jess' and mine) posts on this topic?"
Yes I have read them, but aside from drag-saving, where's the usability advantage? Have you not used a modern UNIX desktop which supports WebDAV or FTP-over-SSH? It seems to me that the only supposedly significant benefit being mentioned is the need to use text editors on RISC OS because anything more sophisticated for Web page authoring doesn't exist, and that this forces you to write HTML by hand. Sure, I've manually uploaded and downloaded things on Linux recently, but (1) you don't actually need to use command line tools any more, and (2) which desktop are you actually running on your Linux computers if you think that manual uploading/downloading is the state of the art? Even Windows has had Web Folders since Windows 2000, and I suppose Mac OS X has similar stuff, too.
druck: "Please keep to the topic of the article"
Oh, that was how Castle and RISC OS "Open" don't understand how these other platforms have managed to more or less retake the usability high ground from RISC OS - some because the owners of those platforms have lots of cash and monopolistic tendencies, and for others because genuinely open development is the norm on those platforms. Instead we hear about various Far East customers and Castle's inability to understand dual-licensing.
I'm not going to list all the small advantages of the RISC OS desktop, wich make it a better GUI. If you have forgotten what most of them are, why not use RISC OS again for a few months and re-discover usability. Or try to find the list someone once made (i think it got published on the RISC OS products directory) with about 130 ways in wich RISC OS' GUI is superior to most others.
Of course I have used modern UNIX/Linux desktops. In fact I use more modern Linux desktops than most Linux users, because I like to compile bleeding-edge versions myself to try out the newsest features. However the problem with Linux desktops and Linux desktop applications is, that they don't always work very well together. An example that I will never forget (because it took me ages to figure out what it was): I once had a problem with printing from OpenOffice.org under KDE. No-one else had this problem, and after a lot of experimentation, it turned out that OpenOffice would not print via the IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) to network-printers if the ODF-file was loaded from a SaMBa share through Konqueror. Other applications did this fine, though. After one year the OpenOffice.org development team had not fixed this bug, since then I have not checked again, it might still be there. This is just one of hundereds of such cases I have encountered over the years. There are plenty of Linux tools wich don't support WebDAV and why should they? Why is it not possible to mount an FTP share into the filesystem, like it is possible with GNU HURD and RISC OS? That way all applications with support for loading and saving files from and to the standard filesystem would benefit instantly. Also with all these highly specialised solutions, you also need support for them on the server and they usually open up additional security holes as well.
As for writing HTML by hand: Has it ever occured to you, that some people might prefer not be limited by the tools wich are provided by graphical web-design applications and might thus prefer to write HTML by hand?
BTW, druck is right, we are getting off-topic and since I don't think we will find common ground on this, I won't continue this time-wasting discussion.
Julian Zimmerle wrote: "Why is it not possible to mount an FTP share into the filesystem, like it is possible with GNU HURD and RISC OS? That way all applications with support for loading and saving files from and to the standard filesystem would benefit instantly."
That's what FUSE can be used for:
"BTW, druck is right, we are getting off-topic and since I don't think we will find common ground on this, I won't continue this time-wasting discussion."
Close the discussion if you want, but it's exactly this sort of improvement that would have been good to have in RISC OS. I would have been interested to write a user mode filesystem on RISC OS but the tools for doing it in a high level language didn't exist. Maybe people will finally be able to develop them.
When I first heard the announcement, I instantly thought... great I can dig through the ADFS/FileCore code and make the Linux ADFS driver work properly (full read/write), then I start hearing the'll be ARM platform only clauses.. well that's discouraging, and the likelihood that the licence will forbid the adding of GPL code to the RO source or vice versa as castle couldn't integrate the GPL dependent parts back into there closed source tree... I can only hope for the best, and be ready for the worst.
On the nice dual core 1.2GHz xscale chip, there's no cache coherency/SMP, so I'd go for the single-core version, with native PCIX and PCIe, onboard DDR2... it could be made into something. I'm sure even the development boards can be turned into a simple platform with a 1x PCIe graphics card, and a USB PCI card (have to sling the HD onto the USB.. *chuckle*), probably a bit expensive though.
NoMercy on 31/01/07 9:55PM
Nothing stops you looking at the RISC OS source code and using the knowledge gained to improve the Linux driver, you just can't use any of the code directly, and having seen some of it you probably wont want to.
The only issue with GPL comes if you want to integrate chunks of GPL code in to an existing RISC OS component, which isn't that likely. There's nothing stopping an independent module or application being included with in a RISC OS build and making the source available to meet the terms of the GPL.
As for the dual core as long as there isn't a faster single core version to use in preference, you can always find something to do with it, cache coherency or not.
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A surge in prices could benefit producers and the Toronto Stock Exchange, home to the world's largest publicly traded, pure-play molybdenum producer, Blue Pearl Mining , and a host of explorers.
Stocks related to the base metal, valued for its anti-corrosive and strengthening properties, have been soaring for weeks, underpinned by sturdy prices and buzz about a new fund that will invest in molybdenum and the companies that produce it.
Now, anticipation is building for news on a quota system from China, which could soon release a list of the molybdenum producers it will allow to export. Fewer than 30 names are expected, a Chinese industry group said, and exports could fall by 10 percent.
"It comes down to the Chinese," said Ian Nakamoto, director of research at MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier. "They could make or break the market."
About 400 million pounds of molybdenum were produced last year, with tight supplies making the market sensitive to supply disruptions and contributing to price pressures.
China is a major supplier of the metal, used primarily as a hardening agent in the production of stainless steel. It contributed about 17 percent of the world supply in 2006 and topped the world in reserves, UBS said in a report.
Other key suppliers are the United States and South America, where molybdenum is a byproduct of copper mining.
Interest in molybdenum is also being piqued by resource guru Eric Sprott's planned Sprott Molybdenum Participation Corp. The fund, preparing for an IPO, will invest in miners and up to 50 percent of its capital directly in molybdenum.
Two weeks ago, tight supplies and uncertainty over China lifted molybdenum prices to 16-month highs of $79 a kilogram. Since then, it has slipped to about $75 per kilogram, 25 percent above the start of the year.
Investor interest has sparked an exploration revival among juniors and has senior miners revisiting old plans.
"You're seeing lots of companies coming out of the woodwork with historical molybdenum deposits that they're starting to promote," said Wellington West mining analyst Greg Huffman.
Still, he doesn't expect much new production over the next two years, though new deposits could be developed by 2010, or 2011, depending on prices.
Trading firm Shangxiang Minmetals predicted in late 2006 that the world molybdenum market will move from deficit to balance in 2007 with supply estimated at 445 million to 450 million pounds and demand at 445 million pounds.
Some analysts see it differently. "Commodities are here to stay for a while. (I see) sustainability for quite some time," said Nakamoto.
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Capcom Reveals Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's Edition for North America
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If you're a Monster Hunter fan, then you'll definitely want this fantastic collector's edition for Monster Hunter 4 announced for North America. Here is what is included: 3.5" translucent Gore Magala figure (design not final) Felyne (wearing Gore Magala armor) pin Monster icon lanyard Microfiber cleaning cloth (design not final) Supply item box packaging A copy of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for 3DS The collector's edition costs $60 and can be pre-ordered at GameStop (information on other participating retailers is coming soon). Capcom says quantites are limited, so pre-order as soon as possible if you're planning on purchasing it! Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate will be available for 3DS in early 2015. Source: Capcom-Unity
Terraria Collector's Edition Coming to Xbox 360 and PS3
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Have you fallen prey to the addiction that is Terraria? Some call it a 2D Minecraft, but it actually has a whole lot of interesting features all its own. With that said, European gamers previously got themselves a snazzy collector's edition while the North American gamer was left out. This won't be the case for much longer! GameStop has put up two listings for a Terraria Collector's Edition - one for PS3 and one for Xbox 360. This is a boxed set of content, most of which is the same between the two consoles. Goodies that come with each edition are a flashdrive designed after a Terraria pickaxe, stickers, and a poster. So what sets these two collections apart? Picking up the game on Xbox 360 gives you a disc with the game on it. Buying the PS3 version though has no disc and includes a redeemable digital code instead. In either case, you get to play some Terraria on the console of your choice and put the fancy box on display.
Watch Dogs Limited Edition Unveiled
As with most high profile games out there, Watch Dogs is drumming up tons of interest before launch. Also like most of these games Ubisoft has decided to craft a special edition of the title. If you're expecting to absolutely fall in love with Watch Dogs then maybe take a look at what it has to offer. The Watch Dogs Limited Edition consists of a handful of physical goods: Watch Dogs game Steelbook game case Hardcover artbook (80 pages) Official sountrack Replica Aiden mask 9" statue of Aiden Most consoles will be getting the Limited Edition, although not all. This version will be available on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC. Wii U users are denied the snazzy collection although they can still buy the regular game. If you're willing to spend $130 for the set then pre-order before Watch Dog's launch date of November 19th.
Saints Row IV Special Edition Gets Weird
If there's one things fans have come to expect from the Saints Row series it is that the game never holds back. Everything is amped up from game to game and we can only wonder as to how much further Saints Row IV may go than its predecessors. At the very least, we can now be assured of this special edition being the strangest of the lot so far. The special edition is titled Saints Row IV: The Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition. It includes a foot long replica of the Dub Step gun which plays sounds akin to what it does in game. Also included is a doomsday button replica and 8" Johnny Gat statue. Beyond these tangible oddities, all pre-order DLC is also included. Interestingly, these bonuses were definitely pulled from the survey held a while back to ask fans what they wanted from the next Saints Row special edition. They listened to fans - but will fans now accept the collectibles? It costs $100 to nab the unusual assemblage of items when Saints Row IV launches on August 20th.
GRID 2 Gets a Ridiculous Special Edition
So, we're used to seeing many games get limited/special/collector's editions these days. Sometimes they're very fairly priced, and other times they are a bit too expensive. Some come with a heaping boat load of tangible nonsense, while others simply slap the word "limited" over their case alongside a single piece of pre-order DLC. What we don't see often (or ever) is a special edition that includes a car. No, not a toy car, or DLC, but an actual car. That's exactly what is supposedly on offer with the GRID 2 BAC Mono Edition through European retailer GAME. Of course, it also comes with a digital rendition of the vehicle in game, as well as racing gear and helmet. The BAC Mono racecar that comes with this edition is what makes it cost £125,000 ($189,000). In all likelihood, there is only such BAC Mono Edition available, if that. What this serves is a great marketing tool to show the ridiculous divergence between what it costs to have fun with supercars in a video game versus what it would cost to live out that fantasy. What is the most you would be willing to pay for a special edition?
Final Fantasy XIV Finally Hitting PS3 with a Collector's Edition
Final Fantasy XIV was in an incredibly tight spot when it launched back in 2010. Although it looked far better than the previous online title (Final Fantasy XI), it was met with widespread negativity. Due to the vast issues with the title, subscription fees were delayed for an entire year. Eventually, Square Enix decided to restart the game with Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. A Realm Reborn is not an expansion pack but a total reboot of XIV's world. Many improvements were brought to the game which will hopefully make it far more successful than its predecessor. The original version was set to release on PS3, but only ever saw PC launch. A Realm Reborn, however, will be the first taste of the game on PS3 later this year. To celebrate the relaunch, a Collector's Edition is also being made available for PC and PS3 users. It includes the game and additional content disc, soundtrack CD, art cards, account security token, and art book. Of course, a few exclusive DLC mounts and armor also come with it. All together, the Collector's Edition costs $80. If you'd rather skip the frills and just get the standard edition, Final Fantasy XIV will cost $40. It's out on August 27th but if you opt for the more expensive version you'll be granted early access into the game.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Gets Two Special Editions
Collector's editions of games seem to come out very frequently these days. The more money put into a game, the higher chances it has of getting one or more special editions as well. Grand Theft Auto V is undoubtedly an expensive triple A title and as such is getting two neat little editions. The Grand Theft Auto 5 Special Edition was announced by developer Take-Two today includes a collectible steel book, map of Los Santos and Blaine County, and digital content including additional weapons, outfits, and more. Both versions also come with the Atomic Blimp DLC. This edition happens to be $75. What if you're interested in a version with more tangible items? That's where the Collector's Edition may appeal to you. It includes all the contents of the Special Edition as well as other items. These include a bag, key, and hat. Digital goods include custom characters and added vehicles. Taking the plunge with this set will cost you $150. Grand Theft Auto V is coming on September 17th to PS3 and 360.
Total War: Rome II Getting Collector's Edition and Pre-Order DLC
Total War fans are going to be pleased about this news. Although it may not seem like long, it was actually back in 2004 when Total War: Rome launched on PC. Now, some time after its announcement, Total War: Rome II has a release date and special edition which were revealed by Sega today. You'll be able to grab the game on September 3rd. Getting a pre-order in from participating retailers (Amazon, GameStop) rewards players with three playable factions via the Greek States Culture Pack. Those who are more interested in tangible goods may instead appreciate what comes with the collector's edition. In this set, players get a numbered copy of the game, punic cards, Roman onager, tabula set, and tessera dice. If the names are unfamiliar then note that it's basically some dice, cards, Backgammon-style game, and small (but functioning) siege cannon. The Total War: Rome II Collector's Edition is going to be availble in a limited run of 22,000 copies.
Dreamcast Game The Ghost Blade Special Edition Up for Pre-Order
Are you tired of news about special edition after special edition for modern consoles like PS3 and 360? If you've still got a Dreamcast kicking around then perhaps HuCast Games will have you covered with their upcoming shooter. The Ghost Blade is currently up for pre-order and it's a nice little edition. The vertically-scrolling shooter currently has no release date but that didn't stop it from having a collector's edition created. The set will contain a copy of the game, soundtrack CD, SuperPlay DVD, color manual, sticker set, beta demo discs, and a 24 page art book. It might not be the most impressive collection out there, but you have to keep in mind that this is a homebrew developer we're talking about here and not a massive company. The Ghost Blade Collector's Edition is set to have a very limited print run. There will be only 300 made, although the game itself will be available in larger quantities. This edition costs approximately $110 so hurry and get it pre-ordered if the CE is that appealing to you.
Editorial: The Trick The Internet Fell For: Dead Island's Zombie Bait Edition
Jared posted a article in Analysis & Opinions
A few weeks ago, the gaming community saw the reveal of Dead Island: Riptide's UK special edition. As you're all probably aware, things didn't go over too smoothly after people saw what came in this special edition - namely, the dismembered, large-busomed statue. The joke going around the internet was that it's pretty much a bust of a bust. But that's wrong. A bust is made up of the head and shoulders of a character. This thing doesn't have a head and it goes all the way down to the torso. I mean, if you're going to do statue humor then do it right! I also think critics were incorrect to say that this statue was a bad idea in every way. It's certainly in bad taste, yes, but there was likely a calculated ulterior motive behind the special edition. So what was it? Well, read on to find out. Trick Them With Emotion All you really need to do to understand why this special edition was a good business move is to look at the advertising history of the Dead Island games. First we'll start with the obvious - the initial slow motion with the kid. The media and internet alike absolutely ate the trailer up. It made the game look like it would be a serious and emotional journey through an undead apocalypse. If that was the only media you saw released for Dead Island, you would probably be pretty shell shocked when you started the game up for the first time just to see this video play. Warning, this video is not exactly safe for work. So how do you go from that first trailer to that? Its simple. The announcement trailer was just made to drum up interest. Dead Island wasn't exactly "on the map" early on into its development. By this point, the zombie genre of games had started to wind down and people had had their fill. But that initial trailer made Dead Island look serious. It looked like a welcome change, and it got people talking. Of course, then people started seeing gameplay and that all kind of went down the drain. But the game still had to get advertised to people! How were they going to do that now that we saw the game was pretty much Left 4 Dead with some light RPG elements? The answer is sex. Sex sells and it causes controversy. Controversy gets you advertising. Its a win-win. This leads us to the promotional images. Weird Them Out With Sex Appeal Once it became apparent that Dead Island wouldn't be the emotional rollercoaster ride implied by the game's trailer, it was time to move on to bigger and better things. Namely, posing the rotting carcasses of the game's island inhabitants in different promotional shots. You had girls with missing arms playing volleyball and women with eviscerated stomachs lounging next to the pool. "This is pretty hot," said that one guy who isn't welcome here anymore. It was weird and people didn't really take a liking to them. But they got passed all around the internet because of it. While it didn't have as large of an impact as the slow motion trailer, it still got the game some free advertising. Just some though. The images themselves were quickly forgotten. Just seeing a few still images wasn't going to get anybody's goat. This can be considered sticking your toe in the pool to see how the water felt. It wasn't big enough to spread like wild fire across the internet, but it was enough to illicit a response from different websites. So, of course, the next step in this advertising operation was to just go all out with a dead booby statue. Man, advertising is weird. Not a bust, not a bust, not a bust! That brings us to the present. It was revealed that Dead Island Riptide (a game I didn't even know existed up to this point) would be getting a special edition where the statue was a woman's well-endowed dismembered body. Pretty much every major gaming website posted a news story about it along with a few news channels as well. It was a bad idea, it was in poor taste, and the whole thing was just awful. That seemed to be the overall message following the statue's reveal. But here's the thing. That statue's image was plastered freaking everywhere. You couldn't throw a piece of the statue of David without hitting an image of the boob statue. The internet had played right into Deep Silver's hands and given them the advertising they wanted. Of course, I could be wrong about all of this, but just look at their past history with Dead Island. Practically every big news release on the game was tailor made to get a response out of the gaming community. In my opinion, it's kind of a cheap way to drum up interest, but it clearly worked. What do you think about all this? Why not post in the comments below? As always, thank you for reading.
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist Special Edition Comes with Remote-Controlled Plane
In case you missed it, an unusual new collector's edition for a game was unveiled. That game is Splinter Cell: Blacklist and its recently announced special edition is somehow both predicable and unexpected. If you're fans of special editions with bulky items included then this one may even strike you as slightly familiar. If you buy the Splinter Cell: Blacklist Paladin Multi-Mission Aircraft Edition then you will get a handful of things that are expected of every edition in this day and age. You get DLC for some co-op maps, planes, and the like. Then there is a 22-page comic included to get you prepped for the story. However, all that is ignoring what is meant to be the most alluring thing of the package. This is the Paladin Multi-Mission Aircraft, as referenced by the name of the set. It is a bit more than a toy in that it is actually a remote-controlled device. This is similar to the remote-controlled car that came with Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition. With such a hefty device, this edition is also highly priced at $170. Splinter Cell: Blacklist will be out on August 20th which gives fans months to decide whether they need a new RC device in their life.
Five of the Weirdest and Worst Collector's Editions
Marcus Estrada posted a article in Analysis & Opinions
Whether they“re called collectors, limited, or special editions, these more expensive editions of video games have become an even bigger part of the gaming landscape since the start of the seventh generation of consoles. In the past, only a select few titles would be lucky enough to get multiple versions. With this current generation, however, we have seen the amount (and price) of special editions skyrocket. Every triple-A title has one, and even more niche games are beginning to get them. With so many special editions vying for people“s attention they sometimes get a little... weird. Just take the recently revealed Dead Island: Riptide Zombie Bait Edition. Although the edition was never meant to come out in America, many discovered it and instantly started reacting negatively. The set came with many expected tchotchkes but also a “bust†of an unfortunate vacationer from the game. The negative reaction was so big that it even caused the developer to issue an apology (although they have yet to state if they will cancel production of said product). With that in mind, let“s look back at some other eyebrow-raising, creepy, and downright bad special edition that have appeared before. F.E.A.R. 3 Collector“s Edition What is something to truly fear? Apparently the Collector“s Edition of F.E.A.R. 3 which included, among other things, a statue of antagonist Alma. It wasn“t just any Alma though. Nope, this is Alma post F.E.A.R. 2 - adult, nude, and pregnant with a glow-in-the-dark fetus visible. While it could be argued that this was very relevant to the game, it doesn“t change the fact that it was totally creepy. This edition of the game was available in Europe and probably inspired a great deal of nightmares. Record of Agarest War - The Really Naughty Limited Edition Here is an example of a very Japanese-style special edition which was actually brought to North America. Not only was the box adorned with seriously eyebrow-raising pictures on every inch of it, but the contents inside were questionable as well. There was a pillowcase decked out with an anime gal from the game as well as a mouse pad with “breasts†for wrist support. While it may have prevented some gamers from getting carpal tunnel syndrome, it most certainly did not help anyone to become less creepy. Since this, a few other games have taken to bringing over similarly awkward wares. Rez Special Package The PS2 music/shooter hybrid Rez actually had two special editions in Japan. First there was the rare Kanzentousui Set, which included headphones, but that“s not the one we“re going to talk about. No, I'm referring to the “Trance Vibrator†package. While it is amicable to want a rhythm game to really entrance a player, a small vibrating block doesn“t seem exactly the way to do it. DualShock controllers already vibrated to begin with, after all. As such, the peripheral has amused immature gamers for years, and with good reason. Rez“s port on 360 gives players a taste of the Trance Vibrator by allowing other controllers to vibrate in place of it. Give it a shot if you“re interested but unwilling to pick up the actual device. Dead Space 2 Collector“s Edition There are actually a great deal of collector“s editions with goodies that have sexual or creepy connotations. Let“s move away from that now and discuss the depressing Dead Space 2 Collector“s Edition. It came with a few standard extras, but the item which most intrigued fans was the replica plasma cutter. There was no description of size prior to launch and pictures were not the best at showcasing size. When the time came to open sets, gamers were disappointed to see the toy was not only tiny, but also cheap plastic adorned with a "Made in China" sticker. It also didn“t help that the replica was later sold separately as well, making the whole draw of this Collector“s Edition fairly worthless. Cardcaptor Sakura Tomoyo no Video Daisakusen Special Edition Box This obviously Japanese special edition wins the award for being one of the strangest out there. Sure, there are a lot of strange items available across expensive game editions, but the items within this one have not been replicated often to the best of my knowledge. Included with this edition was the expected pillow case but also a fork, spoon, decorative plate, and clock. What exactly does eating have to do with Cardcaptor Sakura? Your guess is as good as mine, and it“s for that reason that this game immediately comes to mind for weirdest collector“s edition out there. As you can see, there have been bad special editions available in all regions. Sometimes they are bad because they“re absolutely disgusting but other times it“s because of how horribly they are attempting to rip off customers. As of now, the trend in special editions seems to be moving towards digital content, but we still see many physical items available. Let“s hope that there is never a time where all collector“s editions are DLC because bad sets are so much fun to look at! What are some of the worst special edition sets you have seen? Which ones were a total rip off or hilarious?
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Choose from Two Different Special Editions for The Last of Us
Leah posted a article in Sony
Looks like upcoming Naughty Dog game, The Last of Us, is not getting just one special edition, but two! Let's see what's included in these two different packages. The Survival Edition, which will retail for $80, comes with the following: Steelbook edition of the game 170+ page hardcover artbook by Dark Horse Issue #1 of The Last of Us - American Dreams comic Sights & Sounds DLC Pack (game soundtrack, PS3 dynamic theme, PSN avatars: Winter Joel & Ellie) Naughty Dog sticker sheet The Art of The Last of Us will also have a standalone release that will retail for $40. The Post-Pandemic Edition, which will retail for $160 and is GameStop-exclusive, comes with the following: Steelbook edition of the game 12" statue of Joel and Ellie Issue #1 of The Last of Us - American Dreams comic Sights & Sounds DLC Pack (game soundtrack, PS3 dynamic theme, PSN avatars: Winter Joel & Ellie) Survival DLC Pack (multiplayer bonuses: bonus XP, melee booster, in-game currency, customizable character items), bonus Joel and Ellie skins) Naughty Dog sticker sheet Get ready for The Last of Us when it comes out on May 7th! Will you be getting the Survival Edition or Post-Pandemic Edition of The Last of Us? Or just a standalone copy?
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Dead Island: Riptide Gets Worst Special Edition Ever in Europe
A lot of the time when the United States gets something cool Europe can only watch with jealousy. Every once in a while games or their limited editions arrive only in the UK to the dismay of American fans. However, in the case of Dead Island: Riptide's newly announced "Zombie Bait" edition, no fans in either region are pleased. First, you get the expected items such as a steelbook, collectible artwork cards, and some DLC weapons. Then you get a statue, which is also common in special editions except for the fact that it is depicting a horrifically bloodied torso of a woman. Both the head and arms of the statue are lobbed off so all you can see is a "sexy" torso in a bikini. Certainly this is all Dead Island fans in Europe have been waiting for. Or not. Perhaps realizing their pack in is obscenely creepy, Deep Silver also notes that this is an "extremely limited" edition of the game. Still, this seems like something people would hide in their closets rather than making a "striking conversation piece" on a gamer's mantel, as they suggest. You can get your hands on a less disturbing version of the Dead Island: Riptide here in the US on April 23rd for PS3, 360, and PC. Edit: Although the press of this edition came out yesterday, it took until today for sites to take notice and voice their personal distaste over it. Now Deep Silver has apologized via Twitter for any offense they may have caused. As such, they will never do this sort of thing again - but the Zombie Bait edition will still be available.
Buyer Beware: The Pitfalls of the Bioshock Infinite Special Edition
By now, we've all seen the Bioshock Infinite Special Edition and all of the neat goodies it comes with. I'm still bummed out that they didn't include the murder of crows bottle with it, but what good is moping around about it? Instead, I thought we should discuss the statue that does come included with the game. Namely, why I'm frightened by it. As I'm sure you're all aware, the original Bioshock had a similar statue included with its special edition. Let's just say things didn't go quite as planned when it hit store shelves. Read on to find out why you should be weary when purchasing this neat collectible. The History Of Bioshock Special Editions First of all, the original Bioshock special edition did something most game companies just don't seem to be capable of doing with their own special editions. It became rare. You couldn't find a cheaply-priced complete special edition to save your life. Immediately after the game's release, the special edition shot up in price to upwards of $100 and stayed there for years. Usually this is a good thing... unless you happened to be one of the many people who ordered your special edition from an online retailer. As snug as a smashed up bug in a rug! You see, the figures included with each special edition of the game had a tendency to be broken upon arrival. The main problem being that the Big Daddy's drill would be snapped off inside the box. If you were buying it in store you could look in the box and see if your figure was complete or not. Of course, people ordering online didn't have this same luxury. You pretty much just had to hope the one you got was complete. If not, you were just out of luck seeing as the special edition was long out of stock by that point. However, there was a reprieve for those who were patient. After all of the complaints about broken figures came out, 2KGames started a replacement program for customers. It only took nearly three months to get your product replaced. And people got a nice hardcover artbook for their troubles. The Possible Future Of Bioshock Special Editions This leads us to today and the announcement of the Bioshock Infinite special edition. I'm sure you've all seen the giant winged statue of awesomeness. Yeah, well think about those nice thin wings sitting in that special collector's case. Look! The wings already have holes in them! (this is a joke) The drill bit on the original Bioshock's Big Daddy figurine was attached to what I would believe was a pretty bulky part of the figure and it still managed to break off. These huge wings are supported by nothing. They're just out there. I'd like to think that they've learned their lesson with collector's edition statues after what happened with the original Bioshock, but every time I look at that statue, all I see is cracked wings and customer complaints. There has been word that the statue itself will be contained in it's own special box so all of this worry might be for nothing, but you should always take the company's past into consideration when spending upwards of a $150. Do you think we could be facing some trouble with these new Bioshock Infinite statues? They certainly look like they could be trouble with those fully spread-out wings. I might be hesitant because of past events, but I am tempted to take a chance and buy one myself. As always, thanks for reading.
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Persona 4: Golden is Getting a Bear-y Shiny Premium Edition
Heads up, Persona 4 fans! The Atlus Faithful newsletter has just revealed a special edition for the upcoming Persona 4: Golden for Vita. Dubbed the "Persona 4: Golden Solid Gold Premium Edition", this special edition of the JRPG holds a bevvy of goodies. The game, obviously A P4G-styled Hori hard pouch for storing your Vita system and games A P4G-styled Hori face cover for protecting your Vita A P4G-styled protective skin for your Vita (also includes 8 matching character wallpapers) Sheets of stickers that feature Persona 4 characters All of this comes in a big box and will be retailing for $70. Atlus also claims that this premium edition will be extremely limited with only 10,000 units being made. The premium and standard editions of Persona 4: Golden (the latter of which will be retailing for $40) will be available in stores on November 20th. What do you think about the Persona 4: Golden Solid Gold Premium Edition?
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My Cup is Full with Author Friends: Books I've Loved, My To-Read List & a Giveaway!
I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted, but life, book/writing coaching others, writing my own someday book babies, and, most wonderfully, bringing LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER to the community anyone who knows me will tell you it's no secret I love, has taken over. Also moving. Also the holidays. And most recently a most exciting endeavor, my husband's soon-to-embark food truck, Baja Gringo Tacos! Yes, someday there'll be a cookbook in our future, too. But for now, we've been eating a LOT of tacos as he experiments and perfects the recipes that have filled our boy since we lived in San Diego. The story of what this means to my husband, to our family, is on simmer. But for now I'll just say that it makes me very happy to once again bear witness to the dimples that won my heart in the first place.
This chilly Easter weekend, with night-time temps that are still a bit too cold for making tacos in the truck, spring cleaning in preparation for a long overdue visit from my stepdaughter and her husband has me counting the numerous books cluttering my coffee table and about every other flat surface. Is Evelyn Woods speed reading still a thing? Because I need to invest if I'm going to keep up with the many prolific authors I'm blessed to know personally, even if in some cases, it's only online. Getting to know authors is something I've felt driven to do as I battle my own writing doubts, demons, and dragons. We all have them. Some of us are simply farther ahead in the conquering department. Holding their books, ruffling the pages, taking a whiff, and brushing my hand over the signatures of authors I've met in person and built friendships with online makes me feel that one day publishing a book--sooner rather than later--is possible for me, too. And you all know how I feel about POSSIBLE.
I know that my own "authordom" is about managing my time and prioritizing the completion phase of those projects on which I'm already so close I can smell the ink. But I also know that the same drive in me and my family that makes my husband's irreverent, anti-establishment, stick-it-to-the-man, cleaner eating and naturally gluten free taco truck a reality that makes sense for us, will open my work and my life up to critique and criticism. I have to acknowledge it: that fear is a part of what's held me back. There's so much nastiness and judgment online. It can be downright scary to put yourself, and by default your kids, out there.
Which brings me to the topic of the first book on my to-read list, Galit Breen's, "Kindness Wins."
From Amazon: When freelance writer Galit Breen's kids hinted that they'd like to post, tweet, and share photos on Instagram, Breen took a look at social media as a mom and as a teacher and quickly realized that there's a ridiculous amount of kindness terrain to teach and explain to kids―and some adults―before letting them loose online. So she took to her pen and wrote a how-to book for parents who are tackling this issue with their kids.
I have a twelve-year-old boy who suddenly thinks he's made of stuff that warrants his own Instagram account. I'm listening!
What Amazon doesn't tell us is why Galit set out to write this book in the first place. The author, herself, was a victim of online bullying and downright heartless cruelty. Breen published a beautiful piece on Huffington Post entitled, "Twelve Secrets Happily Married Women Know." In it, she shared a beautiful snapshot of her and her husband on their wedding day. The post went viral. What followed was a troll-fest rife with vitriol and hate directed, not at her words, but at her weight. One of the reasons (besides the fact that one of the wealthiest women in the world doesn't believe in paying writers who publish on her website) I, myself, have never published on HuffPo is the reputation that played out right under Galit's original post. Check out what Galit had to say about the experience and what became her book here, on her Twin Cities Live appearance. Kindness Wins releases this Tuesday, April 7th, and is available for preorder. I can't wait for my copy to arrive!
Next on my to-read list is another book that releases this Tuesday, April 7th. This one features a topic that's near and dear to my heart, and it's brought to us by a woman who shares the mission of online and in person kindness, compassion, and understanding. That has to be what's at the motherhood heart of the national, 39-city movement that in it's sixth season also celebrates the book, "Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now." Ann Imig, founder and national director of the live stage show and social media extravaganza, has compiled and edited a selection of some of the amazing stories that first graced Listen to Your Mother microphones and stages across the country. Yes, you can watch over a thousand archived videos from past seasons, but there's something truly special about lying in bed and reading the words as they were originally authored, dog-earing your favorites, and revisiting them time and again. The stories remind us as mothers, as humans, that we share so much more than separates us. The stories remind us how resilient we are, and that we are not alone in this world.
From Amazon: Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are important, taking readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor. Based on the sensational national performance movement, Listen to Your Mothershowcases the experiences of ordinary people of all racial, gender, and age backgrounds, from every corner of the country. This collection of essays celebrates and validates what it means to be a mother today, with honesty and candor that is arrestingly stimulating and refreshing.
If you're in or near St. Joseph, Michigan on Saturday, May 9th, our adorable little indie book store, Forever Books, will be on hand selling these at our inaugural Listen to Your Mother: Southwest Michigan show.
Okay, technically? I've already read this one. But Patty Chang Anker is one of the storytellers represented in the Listen to Your Mother Book. She is a warm, witty, and delightful author I've had the pleasure of meeting, twice! Her book, "Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave," is now available in paperback, and sports a beautiful new aqua blue spine. And it's clearly (see second paragraph, above) one I could stand to revisit. I had the honor and pleasure of introducing Patty when she visited Forever Books last summer. And then I met her again in New York when I drove there for #BinderCon just three days after moving last fall! Crazy, I know! But I had a free conference pass I'd won, the promise of meeting several online friends IRL, and a welcoming friend with a comfy sofa whom I'd met at a prior conference. So nothing was stopping me! The opportunity to see Patty again was just too irresistible. Her book and her experience with Listen to Your Mother had so much to do with me auditioning and garnering a spot in the Northwest Indiana show in 2014. And it certainly helped me find my brave and pitch my community as a new city in 2015.
From Amazon: “A compelling story of everyday courage” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Inspired and inspiring, this book draws on Anker’s interviews with teachers, therapists, coaches, and clergy to convey both practical advice and profound wisdom. Through her own journey and the stories of others, she conveys with grace and infectious exhilaration the most vital lesson of all: Fear isn’t the end point to life, but the point of entry.
You have to read it for Chapter 7 alone, in which Patty describes her adventure of surfing for the first time on Lake Michigan, off the soft white sandy shores of Silver Beach in my hometown. In the middle of WINTER!!! While I don't feel the need to try surfing in winter myself, there's abundant wisdom worthy of revisiting here.
As tender, green, delectable shoots emerge from the earth, "Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal," is a perfect spring read by another lovely and vastly talented author I met at #BinderCon in New York. Ava Chin and I shared deviled eggs and conversation as we sipped Chardonnay and chatted with other authors at a bar in Manhattan. (An event that prompted me to ask whether this was my life!) Her beautiful book has been on my to-read list for far too long, and now is the perfect time to move it to the company of my currently reading list! Without a kitchen since moving into our house in October, I must confess that the idea of reading about food as the world around me was going to sleep felt rather torturous. But I've decided to think of it as inspiration to recommit to cleaner eating, and to get my GANE Possible kitchen moving in the right direction. And I'm hoping to convince Ava to visit southwest Michigan for a foraging tour and book signing this summer. Be sure to Subscribe--->so you'll know when & if it happens!
From Amazon: In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance...and so much more.
Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods, and it's all about eating better, healthier, and more sustainably, no matter where you live. Time named foraging the "latest obsession of haute cuisine," but the quest to connect with food and nature is timeless and universal.
Ava Chin, aka the "Urban Forager," is an experienced master of the quest. Raised in Queens, New York, by a single mother and loving Chinese grandparents, Chin takes off on an emotional journey to make sense of her family ties and romantic failures when her beloved grandmother becomes seriously ill. She retreats into the urban wilds, where parks and backyards provide not only rare and delicious edible plants, but a wellspring of wisdom.
I can't mention authors I've met without reminding you of my time in spectacular Whitefish, Montana, with Laura Munson, author of "This is Not the Story You Think it Is...: A Season of Unlikely Happiness," and Haven writing retreat host. I mentioned how happy I am lately to see my husband's dimples again, but back when I read Laura's book, those dimples were a far off memory. Laura's book spoke to the pieces of my heart that felt desolate and alone in the aftermath of my husband losing his job, leaving California, and returning to Michigan with no prospects. I truly believe it not only had a significant part in my marriage surviving its darkest moments, but the book, Haven, time spent in Laura's company and in the company of other women writers inspired my participation in Listen to Your Mother, as well. Laura's book and Haven helped me to focus on the future I wanted to create, and it helped me to live as an example for my husband. Even though he never read a word of Laura's book, I honestly believe that without it he wouldn't have the opportunity to heal the loss of our restaurant by living his dream of opening Baja Gringo Tacos. Life is feeling pretty complete for us these days. And I owe a big piece of that to Laura and to Haven. My project has changed a great deal since Haven, but it's growing and it's becoming closer to the book I dreamed of writing when our daughters were young.
From Amazon: By the time Laura Munson had turned 40, her life was not how she thought it would turn out. Career success had eluded her; her beloved father was no longer around to be her biggest cheerleader; and her husband wanted out of their marriage.
Poignant, wise, and often exceedingly funny, this is the moment-by- moment memoir of a woman who decided to let go-in the midst of the emotional equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. It recounts what happened as Munson set out on her spiritual journey-and provides raw, powerful inspiration to anyone searching for peace in an utterly unpredictable world.
Before finding a publisher for This is Not the Story You Think It Is, Laura had written fourteen novels. Her's is the story of persistence and resilience.
This has turned into a post about being brave, which really wasn't my intention. But I suppose a short month away from showtime, it's what I needed to remember at the moment. There is little braver than reexamining and correcting a lie as an adult that began in childhood. In "Cinderland," Amy Jo Burns has done so in smooth, warm, amber words and turns of phrase, recalling small town America in eloquent, and in turn beautiful and ugly ways to which many of us can relate. In her gripping memoir, she holds herself and others accountable, while exploring the impact secrecy and speculation had on her life, and the lives of others who told, ignored, assumed, and judged the truth. In Burns' book not a single word is out of place or wasted, each one carrying the weight of their topic impeccably. And I think it sports one of the most beautiful covers ever. I've gotten to know Amy a bit online, and hope for an opportunity to meet her and hear her read in the future.
From Amazon: A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet
Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn’t quite a ghost town—only because many people had no choice but to stay.
The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man’s reputation. As for the remaining girls—well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was one of them.
And finally, for the Giveaway!
I can't thank Ruth Curran enough for sending me a copy of her important book to giveaway this spring. I'm currently reading my own copy of, "Being Brain Healthy: What my recovery from brain injury taught me...," and I'm finding it wise, well written, and hopeful. Together with the brain training games she's developed and offers on her website, Cranium Crunches, Ruth's mission is to help everyone understand, no matter their stage in life, "harness and use neuroplasticity to live a richer, deeper, more fully engaged life." Ruth's empowering message of self care and self responsibility is one, A) I needed to hear, and B) we share. Though I'm reminded that I want very much to be able to walk and function later in life, which means I want to conquer that exercise portion of wellness she writes about. I'm going to need all the stamina I can build, and spring is the perfect season to do it!
During the time I've gotten to know Ruth online, and having been interviewed by her recently for a podcast, I never guessed she suffered a brain injury until I became aware of the topic of her book. I'd have to endorse what she teaches as impactful for those with brain injury, and for those who want to optimize their own neuroplasticity. One of the most important things I've found to help lessen my self-diagnosed ADD is writing, which Ruth talks about in her book. I'll keep doing it. And I'll add more purposeful exercise to my list of empowered wellness activities.
From Amazon: The journey to wellness when coming back from a brain injury can be a long one. It is one that author Ruth Curran knows well. Faced with a myriad of challenges after her own brain injury, she decided to turn up the volume on the things that she loved and found ways to work through the discomfort and discouragement that can plague so many who are faced with this devastating diagnosis. Her own path – one that took 18 months – is one that she shares with readers in Being Brain Healthy. Being Brain Healthy is a book of hope. Curran shares insights on healing with readers and has the unique ability to explain complex neuroscience in a way that makes sense to even those who are just taking their first steps on the road to recovery. Convinced that everyone can work their way out of what Curran refers to as “the fog” and can build better thinking skills, the author shares how she turned her entire life into a better experience.
At the end of the month (April 2015), I will randomly select one winner from among the comments I receive on this post to receive Ruth's book! So tell me about a memoir, novel, or work of nonfiction I should put on my to-read list this summer!
Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Make No Progress: The Marginalized Need to Take a Lesson From the Right, or We're Screwed
Women and minorities got caught holding our breaths, waiting for our next “Savior.” In doing so, last night’s midterm results, wherein the GOP took control of congress, were a punch in the gut this morning.
I can’t recall voting in a mid-term election before yesterday with the vivid detail I imagine I will later recall this one. I know I did, but never before were the results as devastating. In the past I was guilty during a general election of just checking a box because I recognized a name or knew a family. Not because the state of our government and our country doesn’t matter to me, but because I didn’t feel I knew enough or that I was smart enough—maybe I felt I didn’t have enough “skin in the game,” so to speak.
I’m slowly adjusting my thinking. I did a bit of political writing before the 2012 election. I expressed my frustration with both parties and revealed that I didn’t identify with either one. As a result, an essay I wrote is included in the upcoming book, 51%: Women and the Future of Politics (http://womenandpolitics.us). That essay was adapted from a post I wrote which was featured and got some traction on BlogHer. “The Enlightened Middle Majority and Why The Sides Are Alienating Us,” was later honored by BlogHer amid the 2013 Voices of the Year in the Op Ed category. It was written as a follow-up to another BlogHer featured post, “My Friends Think I’m the Only Liberal They Know. I Don’t Know What I Am.” And when Yahoo! Voices existed I was excited to be counted as a contributor with an original piece entitled, "Am I the Only White Person in America Offended by Racism and the Tea Party?" My post was bound to be controversial, which is why they selected it. Your clicks and comments would have been much appreciated, but I chickened out. I didn’t promote my Racism/Tea Party post, and thus it fizzled into the ether.
But what if a discussion about bigotry and the blatant factor it is in the utter constipation that has become our government had taken wing? What if my post had inspired a conversation that led to some sort of progress back when John Baynor and Barack Obama couldn’t keep their distaste for one another away from rolling cameras? What if it had gone viral? What if it had the power to activate voters and voices and breed new politicians at all levels of government? What if it had the power to activate women to say, “Hey I’m pissed, too,” possibly preventing the erosion of women’s rights we’ve suffered since 2012 and before? ...What? It's possible. Women earned the right to step into that booth and vote their hearts and their minds and their truth less than one hundred years ago. Many exist who wish they could control what we do behind that proverbial curtain, or wish we didn’t have the right to vote at all. They are the ones preaching absolution through political action. And they are the ones who won last night.
By Rob Young from United Kingdom (American Flags @ Rockefeller Plaza) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Instead of the beautiful, progressive growth Obama’s election felt like at first, and could have validated in our society, his presidency has spurred a vapid effort to quash women and minorities. Women’s rights supporters yield ground every day, week, month to Tea Party supporters and conservatives. Because we don’t gather each and every Sunday, because we aren’t as organized, because we aren’t in each other’s faces, talking about our truth week after week, and maybe because we have a perceived “Savior” on the horizon, we lose. Even though conservatives lack a clear frontrunner, they won because they’re organized. They came together despite their ideological differences, and they took action toward one goal: to overtake our government. Brandishing those words is scary, but that’s what happened. The most worrisome issues will likely pass in committee. And the two thirds of registered voters who hit the snooze yesterday and in the years before won’t even notice.
It astounds me that we’re still having a discussion about same sex marriage, for instance. Since Obama’s reelection, progress that was made in the fight for women’s and gay rights has slipped, and now it will only slip further. Many in the middle likely felt they didn’t have an alternative to re-electing President Obama in 2012, because of our fear that what happened yesterday would happen, the events of which underscore the flaws in our two-party, push/pull/dig-in-your-heels system (and which don’t begin to call out the squiggly delegate maps that have completely skewed things to give advantage to those who already have plenty).
Leading up to the 2014 Midterms, we had no vocal leader, inspirer, activator, and it showed. While we sat waiting, political analysts and publishers weighed the odds of how and when they’ll get the most votes or sell the most books. No leaders stepped up to fan the flames, and thus they died. We’ve been waiting for Hillary to announce her candidacy for president. And because she hasn’t, we didn’t. We didn’t engage. We didn’t take lessons from the conservatives’ handbook. We didn’t have signs on our gathering houses reminding our flocks to get out and vote; the words not said reminding every parishioner of the message and the stakes and the end game and the promise of life everlasting…if they vote properly.
And I’m guilty. I personally did nothing in advance of the 2014 Midterm election to organize or to engage all those I know – all those who nod with me, who whisper, “me, too” – to vote. I see now that many of them didn’t. It was chilling to wake up to the reality of what each and every one of us allowed. And why did we allow it?
Because the shame of rape and abortion and domestic violence still keeps us silent.
A Facebook friend posted that a man grabbed her ass while waiting in line last night to vote. If that isn’t an ugly, frightening metaphor for precisely what happened to women and the marginalized during this election, I don’t know what is. (She wasn’t silent. I applaud her for calling the scum out.) We gain ground, but then because we are silent in between the “big” elections the rain pounds and the mudslides begin. We think it’s only the presidency that matters. We think we need a leader to show us the way. Because we’re marginalized, we think we don’t know enough or we don’t matter enough or we can’t make a big enough difference. And we’re guilty, and we’re silent, and we don’t want anyone to know our secrets. So we do nothing. We say nothing.
Little people can accomplish so much when they band together and take action. Doing something gets results better than passive activism, which takes place when we click and forget. Like the #YesAllWomen social media campaign in response to Elliot Rodgers,’ as it turns out, not so bizarre acts of terrorism against women, (source: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175850/), we’ve shown what can happen when you and I have the guts to have open conversations in a real and meaningful way. But unlike religious conservatives, we’re not following it up with political organization and action that can lead to the sort of change we say we want to see in our society. We’re too busy dodging the title of feminist, while our clicks lull us into a false sense of security. So that when action is needed, we hit snooze rather than wake up and show up at the voting booth.
Did the #YesAllWomen Twitter swell prompt the trolls to come out in force? Yes. Did it showcase some frightening, pervasive patterns among young women and girls who didn’t get it? It did. A completely screwed up mindset (yes, rape culture) exists toward women, and we need to change it.
Like French Montana’s acid rap Pop That and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, etc., etc., music beats into kids’ brains through their ear buds (source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/cakeshep/10-songs-perhaps-just-as-rapey-as-blurred-lines-f7az). They get “news” and images of what’s truth and what’s important from places like TMZ. The TMZ network “reports” in a “newsroom” style discussion. Speculation and humor inspire clicks rather than actual facts. Next to inflammatory headlines, a perpetual sidebar of ads with degrading links for bigger breasts, flatter tummies, and smaller waists degrades our body image – in our own minds, our value withers. A smorgasbord of mental drivel pops up for kids to consume and consume some more — it’s no wonder girls’ and boys’ brains are full of “rapey” themes that confirm their worth only if they’re skinny enough. It’s no wonder they begin to think rape and domestic violence is totally acceptable. Nay, cool. My generation grew up ashamed of our thoughts if they were “impure.” Our youth today are conversely ashamed of too chaste ones, of not being ghetto enough. We middles who don’t speak up, who didn’t show up, who because of shame and because we’re afraid they’ll think it’s okay don’t speak to our kids, are up against an almost insurmountable hurdle.
On the other side of the spectrum are messages that tell us we’re going to hell unless we find redemption and vote the right way. On not-so-super-Tuesday, a creep can grab a woman’s ass waiting in line to vote, but once he casts his vote correctly and shows up to testify on Sunday, the keys to the gates of Heaven are his, so who cares?
The great motivator for silence is shame. We’re ashamed of our sexual histories, of our choices, even when choice was taken from us, as in the case of rape and domestic violence. As in the case of recent domestic violence victim, Janay Rice, we can’t help but be aware of how victims are mistreated and blamed. There are thousands of blog posts and articles weighing in on why she married Ray Rice after the beating we all got to witness and speculate on, thanks to victim mishandling and the leak of a security video by the NFL. Which brought about another round of hash tags, #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft.
I declined a friend’s offer to share a post I wrote in response to the #YesAllWomen campaign, “#YesAllWomen: Abortion, Rape and Why Shame Can’t Keep Us Silent” (source: originally posted on BlogHer, http://www.blogher.com/yesallwomen-abortion-rape-and-why-shame-cant-keep-us-silent). Though I hoped it would contribute to the discussion, I wasn’t prepared to lead it, and the post decidedly did not appear on my own website. I told myself it was because I work so hard to focus on the positive. My #YesAllWomen post was anything but positive. It was about my own experience with rape and why maintaining women’s reproductive rights is so important to me as a woman who ended an unplanned pregnancy, and who later chose life and became a single mom at only twenty. Later still, I battled six years of infertility with a constant question running in my head of whether or not I was paying for my sexual history. I was not. There were physical and emotional reasons. But I never spoke to anyone about my feelings because of the shame. Even now, as a relative grownup, I’m not sure I’m ready for my small town to lump me with, “you libs,” or weigh in on whether I’m going to hell or whether I’m crazy. But I feel worse this morning about what my silence – yes mine, and yours –cost us last night.
In follow up to my #YesAllWomen post, I also wrote this poem of sorts, because in addition to two grown daughters, I have an eleven-year-old son at home:
#RealMenWait4Yes, Because They Know They Are Worthy of It
by Kim Jorgensen Gane
Rape is when a woman’s right to refuse sex is taken away from her.
Rape is when a woman must pay for her survival with her body.
Rape is when sex is taken whether or not a woman is physically or mentally capable of giving her consent.
Rape is when intimidation is used to compel a woman to engage in sex when she would refuse if she were in an environment where she could do so safely.
We have the right not to feel like it, not to feel like it with you, not to feel like it right now, but maybe later, and we have the right not to feel like it whether or not we’re married to you.
Our bodies are ours alone.
They don’t belong to the boy we laughed at, they don’t belong to the boy who bought us dinner, they don’t belong to a bunch of guys at a party because we’re too drunk to defend ourselves or to articulate no, they don’t belong to our husbands, and they sure as hell don’t belong to our employers.
Men are afraid women will laugh at them[?] Women are afraid men will kill them.
It doesn’t matter what she’s wearing. It shouldn’t matter where she is, whether she’s alone, whether it’s dark, whether it’s day, whether it’s night, whether the wind blows.
Men are afraid women will swallow them whole and spit them out like yesterday’s wine. Women are afraid men will beat them, batter them, rape and abuse them and then leave them for dead under the black sky of a cornfield.
Men are afraid of women’s power of want over them. Women are afraid of a man’s physical power and mental capacity to justify taking what he wants and crushing her.
Women are afraid to hurt someone’s feelings, we’re afraid to be impolite, we’re afraid to be called a bitch for saying no politely, and we’re afraid of being followed back to our apartments and attacked by that guy we tried to politely say no thank you to at the bar, but who just couldn’t walk away and take a polite no for an answer.
Men are afraid of being rejected in front of their boys.
Women are afraid of the guy who can’t walk away, who takes what he wants, who just because he gets an erection, feels it’s a woman’s responsibility to help him take care of it.
Men are afraid to be laughed at? Women are afraid to die.
#RealMenWait4Yes, but many, many boys aren’t taught, aren’t nurtured, aren’t loved by real fathers and real mothers into real men.
Real men respect women’s bodies and they respect women’s minds, and they respect a woman’s ability, liberty and right to choose whether or not to allow a man inside of her. And they respect themselves enough to wait, to earn, to deserve it.
#RealMenWait4Yes because they are worth it and they stand in respect and protection of women until they give themselves—breathless, wanton, with or without love, but they give.
The giving is a gift. And a real man believes he’s worthy and she’s worthy of knowing, of wooing, of waiting for the giving.
Real men walk away if she laughs, because they know it’s a reflection on her, not them, and a real man knows he deserves better.
A real man deserves the gift of the real woman who is ready to willingly give herself to him.
Because the giving is so much sweeter than taking.
(source: http://www.blogher.com/realmenwait4yes-because-they-know-they-are-worthy-it)
My fellow Enlightened Middle Moms of daughters and sons: we have important voices and we need to use them. Because we sat passively by and allowed it, last night we were raped at the polls. This morning and every morning that follows we need to tell everyone about it who will listen. Silence equals permission. Not being silent can shut down an aggressor, as told in “The View From the Victim Room,” an amazing Modern Love piece by Courtney Queeney, a woman who refused to be silent after she was beaten by her boyfriend (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/fashion/the-view-from-the-victim-room-modern-love.html?_r=0). We mustn’t give permission with our silence any longer.
Whether or not you agree with my thoughts and beliefs, I encourage women, the marginalized, and mothers especially, to do the following:
· Whatever your medium, use your voice
· Hold your politicians accountable
· Consider becoming a politician yourself
· Gather & Check In: Participate in thought-provoking, productive conversations about the state of our country and
anything else about which you feel passionate
· Don’t chicken out!
· If you are concerned about reproductive rights, consider going public about why
· And for God’s sake, talk to your kids
· Talk to groups of kids
· Talk to and engage each other
Speaking out is how progress occurs. This is how we call out bullies and tell them we're not having it anymore. Talking about rape and how objectification has impacted our own lives is how we teach young people—both boys and girls—that it’s wrong. Open discussions around the dinner table about current events are how we help kids identify the mixed messages with which they are inundated. Rather than preaching at them, asking kids questions and listening with open ears to what they think and sharing both our own experience and our own questions is how we can encourage kids to share and discuss their own uncertainty at home. If we don’t, they’ll figure out how they’re supposed to feel based on what their friends on SnapChat or Instagram have to say on a given day. Communicating is how we elevate awareness and let others know they're not alone if they feel the same, or afford those who disagree the opportunity to give thoughtful rebuttal. And parents, exhibit for your kids that we can disagree respectfully and still be friends. It gives kids power. Power to stand up to a bully or to a rapist, power to vote their truth, power to own how they feel. Power to no longer keep silent.
Just as spirituality doesn't belong only to the Christians, however, neither does politics or the responsibility for our collective future belong only to those who identify with either the Democrats or the Republicans. And it certainly doesn’t belong only to the menfolk. Every ideology thinks they're the only ones going to Heaven. Despite that, conservatives have successfully banded together as a scary, up and coming political party. In the case of politics, each ideology thinks they’re the only ones with the right answers for our country. When the best, fairest, most progressive answers most certainly share bits and pieces of each one.
I believe that political ads have grown more distasteful and polarizing to cause those of us who don't identify with either party to turn away and not be active. Maybe their purpose is to compel us to cover our eyes and our ears—to stuff our mouths with our fists and just pick a side, any side.
Even before 51%: Women and the Future of Politics is released, I'm grateful that being involved with the pending publication has empowered me to discuss things that are important to me, that fall neither to the right nor to the left, or that at any given time fall to both. From many of your nods and responses, public and private, knowing I'm not alone is gratifying. Even disagreements are gratifying (source: http://www.cuteconservative.com/blog/2012/05/03/to-the-enlightened-middle-majority-its-time-to-be-honest/), because it means we're alive and it means we’re having a conversation.
51% validated me as a writer and as an essayist. But I believe the publisher’s decision to wait – one can only assume for Hillary to announce her candidacy for president – based on the goals and import of the content versus the goal of selling the most books, has been a terrible missed opportunity. Whether or not the book ever comes out, or whether I’m still in it after publishing this essay, I still have a voice and a responsibility to speak out and to frickin’ VOTE. We all do, whatever our beliefs.
I may be “just” an Enlightened Middle Mom, but my thoughts matter. I’m fighting for my daughters’ and my son’s and my nieces’ and my someday grandchildren’s future. I’m fighting for girls to believe they have the right to say no, and to make reproductive choices that are right for them if no isn’t heard. Or if we give our yes to the wrong guy and biology wins over pharmaceuticals, or even if we make a youthful mistake. I’m fighting for boys to believe and to understand that they are worthy of waiting for that yes, and to recognize yes as the gift it is.
And yes, as a young unwed mother whose daughter saved her life, and later as a married woman who struggled with six years of infertility, believe me, I recognize that life is a gift. I’m all about life and possible. But the potential for life is not more important than my life. And as I said in, The Enlightened Middle, “…children deserve so much more than to merely exist.” Let’s do a better job of taking care of the mothers and children who are already living and breathing, starving, neglected and abused in our country before we cast stones about when life begins and what every single speck is worth – as long as it’s the right demographic and nobody has to pay for the prevention of its existence, for the termination of it, or for its care and feeding.
Any amount of controversy or flack we must endure will be worthwhile if we can give voice to those who have felt drowned out by the extremists bumping chests and posturing for attention. You know, the ones who are now strutting about the yard crowing. Even those of us who can’t pick a party deserve to be heard. Because this is still a free country. Or at least, it was.
Instead of rolling our eyes and changing the channel, or worse, waiting breathless and wordless and action-less for our “Savior” to announce, let us pay attention. Let us hold our politicians and ourselves accountable. I have the same right as anyone else to not sit idly by, but rather to pay attention, to care, to question, to express myself and to vote my beliefs. And you do, too – starting today.
I hope to incite folks who are as frustrated and as guilty as I am this morning to never let this happen again. Inform yourselves. Feel responsible. Whatever your beliefs or whatever you think you know, research and question. Look inward and review objectively the state of your own families over the last fifteen years or so, your truth, the state of the world as you know it. If we don’t speak out, we make no progress. Let us uncover our ears and take off our blinders. Let’s forgive ourselves, and rather than keep silent, let’s wear our shame close to our hearts but boldly on our lapels. Because uncovering our mouths and using our keyboards is where our power lies. Let’s get involved. Our hard work and sweat and heartbreak have benefited many who aren't looking out for us in the least. Let us look out for ourselves. Whoever you are, wherever you sit, I invite you to participate in the conversation. All the Enlightened Middle Moms out there need to join in a collective dialogue. We need to share our stories of rape, of abortion, of single motherhood, of all of it, as in my case, and speak openly about why reproductive rights are so essential to our survival, and not only during an election cycle. We have a lot of work to do before 2016 to halt this slip back into black and white era Pleasantville politics, and it needs to start today.
Hillary doesn’t have an exclusive on leadership. Progress could have been made had we all stood up as leaders. If we continue holding our breaths, we continue to yield ground in the fight for our reproductive rights, for gay rights, in the fight to no longer be marginalized, to no longer be held down by the thumbs of the 1%. Whether the former First Lady/Senator/Secretary of State does or whether she doesn’t become the first Mrs. President, we are, each one of us, responsible for taking the lead in gaining back the ground we’ve lost. Today I believe that Hillary is the most qualified and prepared individual to lead our country. I wish like hell she would thumb her nose at the Democratic Party to run as an Independent. She could be that much stronger with those of us in the middle leading the charge than she will be with us tagging along behind.
ENCORE Variety Show: An Entertaining Way You Can Support the Arts
My son will begin middle school this year at the middle school I attended. It’s the same middle school my brother, my eldest daughter, and two of my nieces attended. My son will likely be a fourth generation graduate of St. Joseph High School. And it is on that beautifully renovated and fully updated stage where I, and some 160 others from the 1950s through the 90s, will return this weekend for our ENCORE Variety Show to benefit the St. Joseph Public Schools Foundation. I’m among the very proud alumni of a school system in which I staunchly believe, and for which I am a proud advocate.
Photo credit: Don Campbell, Herald Palladium staff
The reasons I love St. Joseph Public Schools are many fold. They include the strong English department that taught me to write, despite never handing in a lick of homework and not graduating from college (I don’t recommend that). What saved my life and my sanity during my parent’s divorce, however, was the fine arts department, led by the likes of Miss Betty Theisen (fondly referred to by the lucky generations she taught as Miss T), Robert Brown, Dennis Bowen, and Steve Reed. Mr. Bowen, whom I’m honored to have accompany me this weekend, helped to grow my voice and provided opportunities to perform beyond church choir.
My favorite memory from high school remains when WGN’s Jeff Hoover and I played opposite one another in The King and I our senior year.
WGN: And Now For Something Completely Hoover
I haven’t sung in ages except for the occasional family wedding or funeral and alcohol-infused Karaoke. I’m mortified each time I recall when Jeff and I attempted to sing Islands in The Stream after neither of us had even heard the song since we'd rehearsed sufficiently and performed it with a band backing us for Showtime thirty years ago. There’s a reason neither of us volunteered to revive that performance for ENCORE. If you saw Sunday’s Herald Palladium, you are as excited as I am that Jeff is appropriately reviving a comedy skit, The Old Prospectors. He performed it back in the 80s with Jim Bartalone, and will again, hopefully to a welcoming and supportive full house.
Photo credit: Godvine.com
The hearts of both performers and appreciators of entertainment and comedy were broken last week when the news of Robin Williams' apparent suicide socked us in the same bellies we would hold, laughing, often in tears, as we watched Williams perform. I grew up on Robin Williams’ comedy. My daughters watched Hook and Mrs. Doubtfire a thousand times each. My sweet father-in-law passed away last week, too. Israel. Questionable shootings. Too many tears of a different sort have been shed lately. We need this weekend and all the occasions that bring opportunities to laugh, to celebrate, and to recognize how music and comedy save our souls. How they and the people we love are sometimes the only things that make life worth living.
Though he didn't graduate, Robin Williams was classically trained at Juilliard. Times are hard and cuts are prevalent for performing arts programs in schools across the country. Whether or not we shine brightly or fizzle hopelessly on our old stage this Friday and Saturday, it’s only a small piece of what this week means. It’s about supporting the future of St. Joseph Public Schools. It’s about continuing to provide programs that are sometimes the only lifeline for kids who desperately need to succeed and to shine and to have control of something when they often have so little control over what happens in their young lives.
2014 has been a turning point for me. I wanted to stop being angry. I wanted more, so I decided, and I got it. I put myself “out there,” owning the title of Writer. In the winter, I took a train to Montana to attend a writers’ retreat. In the spring, I auditioned and won a spot reading one of my pieces for Listen to Your Mother in one of thirty-two shows across the US. This summer is almost over, and I am at the editing phase after completing a draft of my first GANE Possible Publication for release late this fall. I accomplished that through the #Write2TheEnd program I co-facilitate with my friend and fellow writer, Ami Hendrickson. We can’t wait to begin our fall session September 15th. We hope you’ll join us and claim the title of Writer for yourself if that’s something you’ve always wanted to do. In 2015 I plan to learn to play the guitar my husband bought me over a year ago.
The idea is to stop dreaming, stop worrying about failure, and start doing. A foundation of my #MOREin2014 philosophy includes going back to my roots, to the things I enjoyed when I was young; before poor choices, responsibility, jobs, family, kids, new friends, or a spouse with different interests allowed me, little-by-little, to push my passions aside. Before I knew it, I'd allowed myself to make the choice to stop doing what I once loved: singing.
Earlier this year, I read Patty Chang Anker’s book, Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave. I reached out to Patty to tell her what a huge impact her book had on me. Between my possible and her brave, we became online friends. St. Joe is an incredible vacation destination and our “Riviera of the Midwest” happens to be where Patty overcame her fear of moving water and surfed for the first time, in WINTER (see chapter 7). I introduced Patty earlier this month when she visited Forever Books. Some Nerve inspired me enough to pitch an idea to the ENCORE powers that be to, sorta kinda but with a twist, revive a performance I did for Showtime, oh so many years ago. I am scared to death. But, like Patty might do, I’m singing despite my fear.
Photo credit: Scott R. Gane Photography
I can’t wait to grace my home stage with old friends and fellow alumni. The idea is thrilling. It’s exhilarating. And I especially can’t wait to honor the many years of Showtime and the teachers who made the spotlight, writing, comedy, music, and drama possible for generations of kids who desperately need the outlet and pure joy performing was and will be again. Whether it’s with us or at us, take time out to laugh this weekend, and do it while supporting a great school.
Tickets are available online or in person at Edgewater Bank at the corner of Broad and Main streets. Get yours today!
In Defense of the Humblebrag
Like Tom Hanks' character in Castaway, I want to shout to the seagulls, "I [former aimless flake who talked and wrote plenty about doing it but just couldn’t seem to finish]—WROTE A BOOK—this summer!" A shitty first draft, at least. There is still much editing to do.
But it’s true. I wrote the first draft of a whole, complete book this summer. I never dreamed I would finish something. And now? I’m hooked. Because let’s face it, not everyone wants to schlepp pennies for clicks for conglomerates. Some of us have shit to say. We have stories and memoirs that burn black, ashy grooves in our brains until we finally let them out into the world.
Once we finish, edit, polish, and publish, in order to reach our audience, we must promote ourselves. According to the brilliant and savvy Rachel Thompson of Bad Redhead Media, what's often missing from the streams of shameless self-promoters is the work of other awesome writers and interaction; give & take, aka conversation.
I don't promote the work of other writers without thought or care. I do it strategically. I do it for authors whose platforms I support, and yes, agree with. I do it for individuals that work to spread positivity rather than judgment, or I do it for interesting, likable people with whom I hope to sit on a panel someday. People like New York author Patty Chang Anker, who I’m introducing when she visits Forever Books this Thursday, August 7th, at 7:00 PM. She will sign copies of her book, Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave. Patty surfed for the first time off the coast of Silver Beach in Lake Michigan, after renting her surfboard from Third Coast Surf Shop (see chapter 7). No biggie for them, they surf in winter all the time, because that’s when the waves are totally rad. But Patty was a newbie. And FYI, Lake Michigan acts a LOT like an ocean, complete with rip tides. Several people who haven’t spent a lifetime learning to respect the lake are at risk of drowning, and some do drown, each season.
Another for instance, I can’t thank my co-facilitator, Ami Hendrickson of @MuseInks enough, from the bottom of my procrastinating, doubtful heart for bringing me along for the #Write2TheEnd ride of a lifetime this summer.
While co-facilitating our maiden 8-week session of #Write2TheEnd, I was talking, you see, to myself about giving ourselves permission and casting out our doubts and claiming our worth (thank you, coaches Nancy & Nicci). Funny how that works. And what a delicious, evil brain Ami has for thinking up #Write2TheEnd and inviting me to co-facilitate the course with her.
As I was teaching, I was learning beside our participants and listening to Ami share amazing tools that actually make writing a book possible. And those who know me know I’m all about possible. But we humans can’t always see what’s in front of our faces. We throw up walls and excuses and what ifs and we let fear get in the way.
And we let the judgment of others who use terms like “humblebrag” make us question ourselves and feel icky about an essential aspect of getting our work out there: marketing and self-promotion. Even if you get a publisher these days, you’re doing your own marketing. And the current climate makes that a difficult and delicate balance to strike.
Investing in a course like #Write2TheEnd, or gifting yourself with a writing retreat like the Haven Retreat that changed my life when I took a train from Michigan to Montana in the middle of the coldest winter in decades, is so much different than talking about writing a book. This is actually taking meaningful steps toward DOING it with purpose and with a plan and with accountability and with amazing support, if I do say so myself. ~blush~
And I will be the first to champion #Write2TheEnd alumni the moment their stories are no longer tentative, private, wistful ideas. The success they have achieved already, just by investing in the work and in themselves, and accomplishing their goals, means they've already earned Ami's and my eternal support.
#Write2TheEnd participants set their goal at the first session with a reward in mind: meeting their goal earns them $100 by The End of the 8 weeks--their particular end, whatever that end might be.
So this is me, humblebragging all over my students, and all over Ami & myself, too. Because I did what I feared was impossible, and she helped me get there. And now I know how to do it again & again.
I picked the “low hanging fruit” method, to kind of fool myself into submission. I started our eight-week session with the goal of turning blogs from a site I had shut down into a book. Easy peasy. It’s already written, right?
Ha! Silly me. One thing led to another, reading and tweaking my old blog posts prompted more writing and the need to fill in holes, to connect the bits and pieces, and include more data about what I’ve learned and whom I’ve learned from along the way. So what began as maybe a 50,000-word book, will likely end up closer to an 80,000-word book. And I’m not even getting $100 back at the end. Because…teacher. That wouldn’t be fair. Buy wow! I did that!
I’m pretty geeked. But my pride and joy in my own accomplishment doesn’t begin to compare with how my heart is swelling with pride and joy and amazement at the progress our participants have made, in the breakthroughs they’ve experienced, and in the success they’ve achieved.
It’s obvious to me from the process of writing my book this summer that I have indeed overcome and achieved a great deal: I have three amazing kids and we’ve held our blended family together for over twenty years through a lot of struggle. But building and supporting writers ranks in the top ten of my greatest achievements thus far.
As we wrap up our summer session and gear up for our fall session, which begins September 15th, I’m looking back with the amazement and pride of a momma bird watching her flock take flight.
Sooo…perhaps I am bragging about writing a book this summer, but there’s nothing humble about it. And well, it’s just too bad if I am humblebragging anyway. It’s amazing to me that I finished something, and I’m damn proud of myself. And I’m damn proud that I’m a part of something that can help make that happen for others. Shoot me. Call me a braggart. I don’t care.
It isn’t an understatement to say that if I can do it, you truly can, too. I hope you’ll join us. Even if you’re not local to southwest Michigan, be sure to get on the mailing list for the newsletter. We’re working on offering online options and on expanding the site in 2015, which, it freaks me out to say, is right around the corner.
On Monday, August 25th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, at our offices, 420 Main Street, St. Joseph, Ami and I are planning an evening to introduce ourselves to a new batch (or returning batch) of local writers, share a little about our program, and share a little about the Midwest Writers Workshop in Muncie, Indiana, we recently attended. We will hold a mini session open to your questions with answers to help you meet your goals and build your writer community. If there’s time, we may open it up to a read-around during which you can share a short work of your own.
I hope you’ve done something as amazing and outside your comfort zone with your summer as I have. If so, I hereby invite you to humblebrag about it in the comments.
#Write2TheEnd, Your End, with This Southwest Michigan Writers Workshop
AUTHOR NOTE, 05/20/14: Wrong? I was wrong?! A friend pointed out that the narrator in The Book Thief is not God, as I--I can only say--hoped, but is the Angel of Death. I'm leaving my original post as is, because A) it's not the first time I've been wrong, and it certainly won't be the last, and B) I think it brings up an important discussion about art and interpretation. Each of us appreciates and interprets what we, as individuals, need to receive when we take in art. When we put something out there for the public to consume, it becomes theirs to read into what they will and what they need.
Clearly I need to watch The Book Thief again. Better yet, I need to read the book!
Knowing the truth, hope still lives for me: I mean, if we can make Death appreciate life, then writing books is something we need to keep doing. Which is--I could be wrong, but I suspect--what the story is all about.
Writing has become my way to salvation--my way to myself. I can no more imagine my life without writing than I can imagine my life without my family, or without an appendage I've been accustomed to using my whole life.
For those of you local to southwest Michigan who have followed my journey as a writer and thought, "me too ... someday." That day is here.
Editor, full-time working writer, and friend, Ami Hendrickson, and I are here to support you, inspire you, light a fire under you—to help YOU make someday today.
We're holding a free, no obligation informational meeting to introduce you to our joint endeavor, #Write2TheEnd Writers Workshop™. On Wednesday, May 28, at 6:30 pm, in the old Masonic Temple, downtown St. Joe, at the corner of Elm & Main (420 Main St.), we will give you an overview of our syllabus and answer any questions you may have. In addition, you will leave with a small sample of what's to come; a mini-tool you can employ immediately to help move your writing from parked to forward.
I've overcome and come to own the permission and the soul pieces of writing for myself, and I believe I can help you do the same. I can assist with transformational writing, with essays, persuasive writing, blogging, and memoir. I can also help you see the value in being open to coaching, which I believe is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. It’s difficult to be objective about our own creative endeavors. It’s easy to fall in love with our own words. Someone who truly has our best interests at heart—who believes in us—is invaluable in helping us see our goals to fruition. And seriously, Ami blew my mind when she introduced me to our first get-it-done tool. The tools, the HOW, the discipline, the next steps, that's what I need and I look forward to digging in to what Ami has to share, right beside you.
If you're thinking, "this summer just isn't the time," then perhaps you need to either give yourself permission to let go of your dreams of being a writer and move on to something else wonderful & fulfilling—but please do move on and actually do something else—or give yourself permission to take this course and see what you can accomplish right now. Chances are, if this opportunity appeals to you and you let it pass, someday will never come. The excuses only get better, believe me.
But consider this: how many summers have gone by since you first dreamed of writing that great American novel or memoir or screenplay or stageplay, or since you’ve let a completed project fester in a drawer? This is the summer you could turn dreaming into finishing--into writing to The End--Your End. If you could do it yourself, you would have by now. You need a team, a tribe of like-minded individuals to help you succeed in the goals we share.
Is your life worth less than mine? Is it worth less than your mother's, your father's, than your child's? There are many ways to support and to parent and to care for others. Ami and I agree that caring for ourselves—that leading fulfilling, joy-filled lives—is an important way to care for those we love, and provides a beautiful example for our children, and the joyful lives we hope they grow to lead.
Nowhere else will you get such a powerful combination of tools, know-how, practical and functional writing advice, combined with the coaching and inspiration that will help you overcome your writing hurdles. There's a reason Ami and I have found one another. We each fill the other's gaps in ways that can help turn YOU into a powerful FINISHER where your writing goals are concerned.
We want this for you. We want this for you badly enough that we’re willing to give you back $100 at the end of the eight weeks when you meet the goal you set on the first night. But we can't want it more than you want it.
Have you seen the movie, The Book Thief? I strongly recommend it, particularly for writers.
"She was one of the few souls that made me wonder what is was to live"..."The only truth I truly know is that I am haunted by humans." –God, “Himself,” as a truly omniscient narrator in, The Book Thief.
If we are to believe the story, God's effort to know all life’s ups and downs lives in our suffering and comes alive in our writing. It is only through our words that He can know the sun on His face, the persistent ache of losing a loved one, the consuming bliss of loving, being loved and making love. God can only feel the wretchedness of love lost through our writing.
Our compulsion to write, then, serves God--or the Universe, or whatever you wish to call it—or not. Regardless of any higher power, through our story we gift others.
God giveth and He taketh away. We suffer and we write: to help God know what it is to live and to help others navigate their lives through their struggles, to fully experience and relive and lend a frame to their joys. Or perhaps we write purely to entertain, but that has value, too.
I can't recall watching a movie that moved me as much as The Book Thief. Framed in the expected horrors and the unimagined gifts of Nazi Germany, it tells the story of a girl who experiences so much loss and death, but in whose writing humanity lives. The acting is as glorious as the writing, and they play together, haunting and true like a cello in the hands of a master.
The Book Thief celebrates books and writing and it makes me wear the title of writer like a badge of honor, like a testament to a life lived. It makes me eager to keep doing both.
Liesel was meant to write for Max. You were meant to write for someone. I was meant to write for someone. There will always be those with more experience, more education, or someone loftier for whom the words appear to come more easily. That's fine. They will write for their someones. Don't let that keep you from writing for yours. Know that it is only through writing for ourselves that we can impact, transform, and truly haunt others in all the best ways.
The human experience is rife with layers and levels, with soaring catastrophe and bottomless joy. It is our duty as writers to paint our understanding for others—for humanity to experience through us. I hope you will consider completing your dream project with #Write2TheEnd this summer.
Join our Facebook group, even if you’re not local to southwest Michigan, for free writing tips, engaging discussion, and inspirational posts. And please, if you’re able, join us in person on Wednesday, May 28th. We look forward to welcoming you, and any writer friends you’d like to bring along.
Here’s to writing to The End. Your End.
--Kim Jorgensen Gane, (c) 2014, all rights reserved
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Why Write? Because You Should Always 'Listen to Your Mother'
AUTHOR NOTE: This post has been edited to include the embedded video of my LTYM performance, which may require a trigger warning for some. It deals with #SingleMom, #StepMom, #Infertility, #Suicide but it's also victorious and full of HOPE for #SuicidePrevention. #ItGetsBetter. Don't be alone. Please reach out and share your powerful story in the comments, below. Or call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK(8255).
Scott R. Gane Photography
I once participated in a yoga session in which we learned to balance our chakras. My hands took their turn on each of my eight chakra points, as guided by our instructor’s soothing voice. I felt calm and at peace. At the end I noticed that one of my hands was very warm and one of my hands was cold. I asked the woman whether this meant something, and whether it was normal.
She nodded, knowing, her whole being smiling at me. “You felt it. One of your hands was giving and one of your hands was receiving.”
Once I hit publish on a post, I wait. Sometimes I get a comment or two or maybe several after a few days. Sometimes I hear crickets. I’m writing for myself, to process my own life experiences, yet I hope to help a few people who need my particular brand of reflection or awareness along the way. Sometimes when I hear crickets, it’s a little disappointing. Even so, I’ll still write, whether or not I get feedback that tells me I’m making a difference in the lives of others. I’m happier, more balanced, more fulfilled, more forgiving and more loving to those around me. Writing makes a difference in my own life, and therefore it’s worth doing, because I’m worth it.
Because of writing and blogging, I had the privilege last May of being part of one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done professionally.Listen to Your Mother hit 32 cities across the US over two weeks in celebration of mothers and Mother’s Day. I joined thirteen other women from the Chicago area, northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan to give some pretty remarkable Midwestern mothers a microphone. Here's my performance. I hope you'll watch the others, too.
Why was being a part of this show so remarkable? Because it stretched me, it challenged me, and it validated me as a mom and as a writer in ways I could only dream of before. I played Anna in The King & I my senior year in high school, and began singing solos when I was five years old--I LOVED doing those things.
Listen to Your Mother was vastly different and so very much more than either performing or writing/blogging—it was a powerful, magical and mystical intersection of both. And I had no idea of its incredible power until I stepped on that stage.
I had to audition. That was similar to singing solos and having the lead in a musical. I had to perform. That was similar, too. My words and my story are things I’ve been sharing online for over two years now, with beautiful, heart-warming response via comments, shares and emails from many who have followed and been touched by my journey. What if I'd Said "Just Drive?" started right here, as a blog post for a #JustWrite exercise via Rebecca T. Dickson. I'm so grateful for her support and the kick-butt inspiration she offers so many writers, me included.
Performing my own writing was risky. It was gut wrenching. It was exhilarating. And yet it was like being enveloped in a warm, protective blanket of love and acceptance, much like my recent trip to a Laura Munson Haven retreat in Montana (by TRAIN, which I wrote about here).
Our first reader, Donya Kolowsiwsky, had never done anything like it in her life—talk about a stretch! Despite never having spoken into a microphone before, she knocked her three-ring circus intro out of the park! Our second reader, Carrie, shared a story of infertility and victory through adoption that touched and enthralled us all. I was third to read. I stepped on that stage, completely naïve to what the two women before me had just experienced. I’ll try to explain, but I won’t do it justice:
My two predecessors set me up for only success, and every one of us that performed after made for a flawless show. I felt allied with my fellow cast members and with the audience like a golden shimmer of aspens—connected and breathing and responding as one organism. We were joined by a shared root system of struggle and joy and existence, warm and rich, clinging tight to the nourishing loam of our stories. It filled the room and pulsed back and forth like the warm blush of sunset. I received the audience and they received me. Our connected energy rose with laughter (as during Robyn Welling's hilarious, How to Scar Your Kids for Life), fell with heartache, and bloomed with understanding, as during fellow single mom, Sheli Geoghan Massie's, Prego at Summer Camp. I didn’t want my turn to end in eight minutes. I wanted to do it again, and again, and again. I close my eyes and I can feel the energy still. The unexpected and unprecedented gifts we gave and received in a ninety-minute show on a warm evening in May, will stay with me for a lifetime. I hope you'll enjoy watching the other touching, hilarious, and sometimes tearful readings from our show.
From national producer, Ann Imig’s, humble beginnings with one show in Madison, Wisconsin in 2010, to 32 cities across the US in 2014—if you don’t know what Listen to Your Mother is about, or if you didn’t get enough, you can spend hours watching this season’s and past seasons' videos. You’ll find all those who have come before, giving in exactly the ways you need to receive them on the Listen to Your Mother YouTube channel. Go watch, follow their blogs, and leave a comment now and again to let someone know how much their words matter. And check out our national sponsors, BlogHer (from where I received the Voices of the Year honor in 2013), and Chevy.
Northwest Indiana producer/director, Lovelyn Palm, selected my story as part of Listen to Your Mother this year. I am grateful for her faith in me and in my story, and I feel so lucky to have met this remarkable mother of NINE, as well as our entire cast. With Lovelyn’s support and blessing, I want to do this for my community. I will complete the application process later this year in the hopes of producing and directing Listen to Your Mother in southwest Michigan in 2015.
If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, either as a sponsor, as a reader, or as a necessary and vital member of the audience, please subscribe to my email list to the right. You do not have to be a mother or a working writer to audition and participate. Stories come from sons, daughters, husbands, moms themselves, motherless children, and childless mothers. Listen to Your Mother is a beautiful celebration of motherhood and story in all its forms. And it’s a giving franchise, as well. A portion of ticket sales for our sold-out Valparaiso show supported the northwest Indiana Food Bank. Given the chance, I will choose to support the Boys & Girls Club of Benton Harbor, where I’ve enjoyed the honor of speaking to young girls about their future.
Whether or not I’m successful at bringing the show to my hometown, I look forward to next year and the years to come. I will be a part of this remarkable, uplifting, entertaining celebration again and again, even if it's an essential place in the audience.
I'd like to thank Laura Munson for being an invaluable source of support and encouragement in my writing journey and for inviting me along on this Blog Hop. Laura has pursued writing as a career for years, and is New York Times best selling author of This Is Not The Story You Think It Is. She doesn't believe you can be successful without doing the work. Her disciplined methods are far more helpful (check out her post here) than my haphazard ones, but here are my answers to the questions about our writing we were tasked with answering as part of this Blog Hop originally:
1) What am I working on/writing?
I have a LOT going on! I expect to release my first GANE Possible Publication, Beating the Statistics: A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Fertility, Halt Autism and Help Her Child Grow from Behavior Failure to Behavior Success late this spring. I'm always working on my memoir, My Grandfather's Table, for which I hope to secure a publisher who will go along with my plans to release it by my 50th birthday. That gives me two years. Hey! It's important to have goals! And of course, there's co-editing on the #JudyBlumeProject, which is ongoing and hopes to one day become an anthology in honor of Judy Blume's iconic and prolific contribution to libraries and homes across the world. In addition, I work as a part-time communications and media consultant (and future spokesperson) for UprightFarms.org, which is a small vertical farming startup, and which melds beautifully with my #MOREin2014 -- VARIETY & Veggies, GANE Empowered Wellness philosophy. We're currently doing all the behind the scenes work on getting our website and social media up and running in the very near future, but you can view our testimonials reel online now. As a freelance ghostwriter I've been published in a design industry magazine, and I've encouraged and advised numerous people on how to own the title of writer and pursue writing themselves. As such, if you feel called to writing, but need support in sharing your writing or finishing any writing goal you choose, I’m co-facilitating a local, face-to-face writing workshop with writer and editor friend, Ami Hendrickson (see her bio below, she's among the next participants in the BlogHop). *Every* writer dreams of spending a summer writing the Great American Novel--or maybe you want to write a screenplay, dust off a manuscript that's been sitting in a drawer, write a query letter, and actually SUBMIT it, or write a short story or memoir. #Write2TheEnd is an eight-week program that began in mid-June. We're finalizing our fall offerings now. It’s something you don’t want to miss, and it’s another really good reason to sign up for my email list. --->
2) How does my work/writing differ from others in its genre?
Genre? That's one of those scary words that can frighten off those of us who aren't too confident about our writing. All this writing and blogging nonsense began for me back in San Diego when I was so miserable I couldn't stand myself. After wallowing the first year we were there, I decided it was time to build a life for myself. It all centered around my novel-in-progress, Bluebirds, which I've been working on intermittently for six years or more. I haven't abandoned Bluebirds, and I still work on it from time-to-time. But it was proving really hard to write because I found myself trying to fit in too much memoir. Thus, My Grandfather's Table was born--a story of contrasts that flows between the nurturing, love, and nourishment that was freely given me as a child, against the shame and sadness of untold secrets that I believe led to my struggle as a young single mother. It's my quest to forgive and to love myself through food instead of punish myself with food. I need to exorcise the memoir bits in order to just tell the beautiful story that I believe Bluebirds is meant to be someday--because my Gramps continues posthumously to tell me so through birds.
3) Why do I write what I do?
I've covered that with question two, but overall, it's honestly to keep myself sane. As women, as mothers, we often judge one another. Through sharing my writing, I feel so blessed to have experienced the fellowship and support of other writers, which has led to so very much more than I’d ever dreamed possible. Between my trip to meet and learn from Laura Munson at Haven, and being a part of Listen to Your Mother, this is shaping up as an incredible year. I don’t believe I would have auditioned for Listen to Your Mother without Haven. And I don’t believe I would have tried without the support of my wonderful midlife women blogger friends of Midlife Boulevard. This is what they mean by tribe: I had fought the compulsion to write my whole life, pushed it aside as something frivolous and silly because I lacked a college degree. I had to seek out coaches and like-minded individuals and surround myself with their support, energy, and encouragement in order to feel justified in pursuing writing as a career. Because of my history, because of shame, because of allowing myself to be defined by perceived failure, before, I wasn't enough. The sky truly is our only limit, otherwise it's the self-limiting beliefs that hold us back from realizing our own greatness. Why NOT you?
You are enough and you and your story matter; you have the ability to impact yourself and others in ways you can’t yet imagine. GANE Possible: make your life what you’ve always wanted it to be…and bring someone else along for the ride. Why do I feel compelled to share my story? To be better for myself, for my family, to follow in my grandfather's footsteps and fully embrace and engage in this life I'm so blessed to have (especially if, like my grandfather, I live to 100!), and to help others do the same.
4) How does my writing process work?
Ugh! My writing "process" isn't one I can highly recommend if production (organization? what’s that?) and completion is your goal--and yet I've built three websites and produced a TON of writing over the last three years. I need to give myself credit for that! I probably write more in the Evernote app on my phone, standing naked and dripping wet in the bathroom, than I do actually sitting at my keyboard. I pray it’s the water that inspires my cancer spirit and not the cracked pink tiles that line all. four. walls. of the loo in the rental we currently occupy. I'm very encouraged by my #Write2TheEnd habits/progress this summer. I've just completed my first draft of Beating the Statistics, a mini, wellness-focused memoir, which I'd hoped would help me break the finishing and publishing ice. Having this awesome cover done by Julia Mattice at Tice Designs has helped inspire me to keep working. I have many projects of my own in process, as well as volunteering, consulting, and freelance work. Taking time to focus on my own writing is always a challenge. When I do, I have a ready list of notes in Evernote from which to copy and paste. I can then take off with fingers flying and often produce thousands of words at a sitting.
Mine was definitely the "pantser" method before. I'm benefiting greatly and producing more by adopting pieces of the plotter method, which is Ami's very large and essential piece of #Write2TheEnd, thankfully! ***WRITER/ BUSINESS TIP: Knowing and acknowledging our own weaknesses and joining forces with those who fill our gaps is a brilliant strategy I highly recommend! It's worked for my husband and me over almost twenty years of marriage, even though my creative "process" exasperates him!*** My new office is complete enough that I've moved in, so I'm getting better organized. It was difficult working from home where there was no separation of work hours and family or (barely existent) leisure hours. I look forward to getting settled into a routine after school starts this fall, and having designated work time and space. I will have to figure out where and when my writing time is most productive. This summer, it's been first thing in the morning before my son wakes and BEFORE social media, standing at my kitchen counter. Perhaps this fall I will devise a hanger for the doorknob to my new office that says, “Gone Writing.”
And now, I'm pleased to introduce my #Write2TheEnd partner, Ami Hendrickson, as well as Sabrina Lovejoy, and Joan Stommen. They are the next batch of writers on this transformational and inspiring Blog Hop all about writing.
Ami Hendrickson is the ghostwriter for several internationally recognized master horse trainers and other notable experts. Books she has been involved in creating include: Clinton Anderson’s Downunder Horsemanship; The Rider’s Pain–Free Back, written with neurosurgeon Dr. James Warson, named by American Horse Publications as one of the “Top 3 Books of the Year;” Geoff Teall on Riding Hunters, Jumpers and Equitation;Beyond a Whisper, with behaviorist Ryan Gingerich; and Photographing and “Videoing” Horses. She is the editor of the Trainer’s Certification Manual for the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA).
Ami is also an award-winning scriptwriter. Her screenplays have received recognition in the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, the Great Lakes International Screenplay Competition, the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Competition, and others. "Valentimes Day," a short film written for the SONY 4K Challenge as part of the 2013 Napa Valley Film Festival, was a featured selection in the 2014 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival. "The Interview" won both the Grand Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the Out of the Box Playwriting Competition in 2012.
A tireless mentor and cheerleader, Ami has helped scores of writers from 13 year–olds to septuagenarians get their first byline. She is always looking for ways to help writers make the most of writing time, jumpstart creativity, and pack more firepower into the writer’s arsenal. When she discovers something that works, she is quick to share it. She especially enjoys speaking to writers and conducting writing workshops. She graduated with distinction from Andrews University and holds degrees in English and Education.
Some of Ami’s favorite things (in no particular order) are: riding her horses, losing herself in a book, drinking good coffee, eating chocolate, smooching her husband or snuggling her daughter during a movie. She and her family live with their “vast menagerie” on a 100+ year–old farm in southwest Michigan. Find Ami via her website, www.AmiHendrickson.com, and her blog, Muse Inks. Read her post here.
Sabrina Lovejoy is most comfortable writing about what life has taught her. From becoming a single mom several days after her 18th birthday to her more than 20 years in corporate America, her hope is that her experiences encourage women to keep pressing towards their finish line. While fully aware that we all come from different backgrounds, Sabrina believes there is nothing that she’s been challenged with that someone, somewhere, hasn’t already experienced and overcome (Ecclesiates 1:9 “...there is nothing new under the sun”). She believes the journey of women would be easier if they’d more frequently seek those that know how to get from calamity to clarity. And, while that road has already been paved in many different ways by some of the most amazing women, writing has allowed Sabrina the opportunity to add her own bricks here and there.
Sabrina’s blogging journey started in 2009 with a blog geared towards encouraging single moms in corporate America. Later, she decided to lean more towards sharing the life lessons she wished someone had shared with her. In 2013, while pursuing a career as a Life Coach and disappointed with her own corporate journey, Sabrina founded a 30 day challenge entitled “Career Success through Self-Awareness”. Due to its success, Sabrina has begun the process of creating resources for women new to or frustrated with the corporate climb.
Sabrina’s blog, Much Needed Advice, is a compilation of her journey as a writer. Read her post here.
Joan Stommen has always been a writer. Her shelves are full of letters, essays, journals, newspaper clippings and lessons used as a writing coach. Retiring in 2007 after 33 years as an elementary teacher, she returns a few days a week to sub and stay active in the writing and learning process.
She’s a National Writing Project Fellow, a former staff development instructor for various school systems and taught writing instruction to teacher candidates at Kennesaw State University. From her college newspaper to various publications, she’s written news stories and columns for over 40 years. A native of Michigan who now lives in Georgia, she enjoys 5K’s, Zumba, hiking, gardening and reading.
In addition to compiling stories of her Dad’s war experiences, she contributes to national blogs and websites and writes the Gramcracker Crumbs blog (www.gramcrackercrumbs.com). Initially started with her 5 grandchildren in mind, she now writes about the aging process in Senior, Single and Seventy, fitness, education, family and, after the death of her husband, about Becoming a Widow; befitting her tag line “the bits and pieces of my life.” Read her post here.
Yours in Wellness Always,
Writing Retreat By Train: A Story of Contrasts, In Case You've Been Wondering
Observation car best place to write.
My Grandfather's Table is a story that flows between the nurturing, love, and nourishment that was freely given me as a child, against the shame and struggle of untold secrets. I suppose it's fitting that my trip across country to attend a Laura Munson Haven Retreat would be a story of contrasts as well.
The train ride out wasn't so bad, despite the fact that I was planted in coach for thirty plus hours. Thirty-four, to be exact. Which would prove nothing compared to the trip home, but that was only a whisper in my mind at the time.
I arrived in Whitefish, Montana after midnight, and secured my rental car key from the little honor-system lock box inside the early twentieth century, sturdy and somehow familiar brick of the train station. I hit the unlock button on the keyfob, the lock button, and caught sight of lights waiting for me less than half a block away. I slogged, slipped and slid my way through the alleyway. The task was complicated by my heavy laptop backpack/purse and the tether of large suitcase and smaller matching carryon my seasoned business traveling husband had rigged up for me.
I am not seasoned for business travel in the least, though here I was doing it. I was sweating beneath my layers, at the same time each intake of breath felt like menthol against my teeth as I hauled too much gear, alone, in the dark, in a strange town, to a waiting rental car, to drive myself about twenty minutes to a Super 8 in Kalispell that I prayed would be clean and ready for my arrival. And it was, despite Laura's disappointment at my interim location. "You're here to experience Whitefish," a town she promotes and features with tangible and deserving pride in her book, "This Is Not the Story You Think It Is."
After the tires of my nearly new and nicely appointed Dollar Rent-a-Car Toyota Carolla crunched out of the snow-covered library parking lot, I met the mostly clear, open pavement of highway.
I'd reassured Laura, amid her prolific and welcomed Facebook messages that kept me company throughout the lurching train ride--they contined when she busted me on Facebook with a, "Get thee to Glacier National Park, this sunshine doesn't welcome just anyone,"--that this southwest Michigander was a highly competent winter driver. As I suspected, dry Montana mountain snow has nothing on our heaviest Great Lakes effect. The post-midnight drive to Kalispell was peaceful and beautiful. Grateful to once again be in control of my own destiny, I calmed under the rhythm of street lights that, with Siri's familiar help, guided me.
This whole trip was a Candid Camera exercise in giving up control and attempting to shift some focus to myself and my writing: a mammoth task. I've been a stay-at-home mom for over ten years. I have been the chief decision-maker, gluten-free, non-toxic food-chooser, taxi-driver of my long-sought son's destiny, for nearly every moment of his eleven years outside of my body. It took six years of loss, disappointment, surgeries, charting, research, self-teaching & self-deprivation to bring him to existence. Letting go, leaving his admirable, albeit vacillating, sweet positivity at the prospect of Mommy being away for eight days for the first time in his or my twenty-seven year old daughter's, and twenty-five year old stepdaughter's lives, at times felt like he was being ripped out of me again.
I've been a mother my entire adult life. It's my job, my joy, my lifeblood. The only things I've been longer than I've been a mother, are a daughter, a sister, a singer, and a sometimes writer. I haven't even been a wife longer than I've been a mother, because my husband and I met when our girls were five and three. And I didn't figure out the writer piece of my puzzling ADD brain until I was forty-five years old. When, as our oldest two embarked on their individual tentative forays into adulthood, taking one to New York and the other to Florida, for the first time, what was a necessary choice (a move across country, briefly to California) for our youngest didn't feel like a good choice for the older two.
Once again, here I was torn. This trip and the two weeks leading up to it felt like I was conjoined twins trying to keep one foot in what's always been--motherhood, wife, safe, control, not claiming my soul as a writer and not holding myself accountable to finish a book--and the other foot reaching forward to Destiny, to what has niggled, and at times shouted at me ever since my fifth grade teacher encouraged my writing. Occasionally it was loud enough to actually get me to sit down at a keyboard and do the work; to write the vortex of words and stories that swirled within me. For a time the ADD would be quelled, my sometimes quiet, sometimes feverish release finally giving up it's hold on my mind. But doubt and self-criticism and responsibility and disdain for the preposity, the frivolity of the idea of my non-collegeate self being a *Writer*, would inevitably return to reign once again.
And the fear: the thought of writing about what's kept my story locked within me has seized me with steel-tipped talons. I know it's precisely what I must do to release the power it's had over me since I was five years old. Five is also when I sang my first solo in church. I was a very small singer with a big voice who couldn't form the words to tell my parents of the sadness that singed my memories of an otherwise happy childhood, that tinted them with the lens of shame and knowing too much. I can't see my story through, and therefore move forward without doing something big, something uncomfortable and unfamiliar, something that makes my skin prickle and my hackles raise at the financial nonsense of it, even as the other part of me plants its feet, crosses its arms and says through gritted teeth, "You must." Another moment she’s gentle; she places her hands over mine, looks into my eyes in the mirror and says, "You know what you must do, you just don't want to face it." Words I've said to a friend before. I had to be my own friend, when as usual I didn't fully express to anyone the conflict that plagued me about taking this trip.
The Friday before the Sunday I was to leave, I placed my first real paycheck in eleven years, for a new part-time endeavor as director, communications and media for Upright Farms, an exciting startup, on my husband's desk. I hadn't told him it was coming. He got choked up. I did, too. We embraced. With my family's intervention and unyielding support, pride and encouragement at the front end, I paid for my own travel expenses along the way. It felt a little Thelma & Louise. Like having choices. Like driving off a cliff but having one of those giant cushions meeting me at the bottom. I know that more will come. I know that I have the skills, the talent, and that I can deliver.
And after this retreat that is Haven, that was a haven for my writer's soul, after placing myself in Laura Munson's, her business manager, David's, the other brilliant, open, talented attendees', our very capable and supremely talented vegan chef, Emma Love's, and Walking Lightly Ranch's grower, Wes's, warm embrace--after challenging myself with stepping away from what's comfortable and pressing through what's scary as hell, after learning about silence (a condition I always feel compelled to fill with too many words), and brevity (something I may never conquer, but awareness is the first step), I know that I can deliver on this memoir, on the many books that, when I grant myself permission to write, can't spring from my fingertips to meet ruffled and bound pages fast enough.
Patience is key for me. Knowing and plodding and doing it despite what does or doesn't make sense is essential. Between writing, work compiling my first GANE Possible Publication which I hope to release late spring, blessed work, an audition and BEING CAST in Listen to Your Mother (our performance is this Thursday in Valparaiso, Indiana), it's taken me all this time to fully process my reentry into reality--to process what this chapter really meant to my life, to my future, to my family. It felt like I was away for a month. It's crazy that after two welcomed spring-like days, Michigan pines drooping with a March snow weeks later, these words finally began to release about a journey that took me to where conifers climb the sky. I found myself at home as I wandered the Flathead Valley of northwestern Montana. A wrong turn in the glorious sunshine took me around glistening Flathead Lake, her gentle ripples revealing pebbles beneath a bit of lapping shoreline particularly close to the road. My heart sighed. Lake is so comforting to this Midwest girl. Much like Michigan, the entire Flathead Valley around Whitefish, Montana, is full of them.
Standing guard over the silence.
I was eventually brave enough to set out to Glacier National Park, though not brave enough to walk alone into the woods. There were a couple of cars, and two cross-country skiers eventually met me back at my car, but the creak of soaring cedars and icicles thawing kept me close to the lodge and to Lake McDonald, itself. I took a walk around, listened to timeless echoes of children playing among the now empty cabins, jumping off the dock into a lake that was currently hidden by snow and watched over by me and a lone, tilting, wordless snowman. I forced myself to breathe, to take it in, to revel in my new tentative and unfamiliar moments of freedom. And silence.
Safely behind the wheel again, I drove to Whitefish, and enjoyed a delectable sushi dinner at Wasabi, where a beautifully framed review Laura wrote, watches over their entrance like a proud momma. She should be proud. Whitefish is a wonderful, throwback little town. It’s people are warm, Huckleberries are everything they’re preported to be, and it’s home to warm gluten-free buckwheat crepes, at the crêperies, where I enjoyed them stuffed with smoked salmon and dill havarti, not once, but twice. The second time a deserved bonus and a hearty, protein rich meal when my train was delayed from its morning departure. I wouldn’t know until much later how fortunate I was to have enjoyed it.
Despite the delay, which was ruled by a less than perfect $#!+storm of Montana's version of "blizzard,” 40-car freighter derailment and an avalanche in Glacier National Park all of which botched up all manner of travel from points west to Seattle, I made it home. Despite feeling more like livestock than passenger on an Empire Builder that had already traversed the frozen miles of tundra between Chicago and Shelby, Montana, where laden buses met from all points west to finally board--meaning things like the barely tolerable hygiene (sorta like camping clean, only worse) of a train on the way out crumbled to filth, empty soap dispensers, and insufficient food stores--I crept closer to Chicago, where my bleary-eyed son and coffee-fueled husband would collect me at 4:30 am, instead of 4 pm the day before, I am here.
There were moments of brilliance aboard the Empire Builder, both on the trip out and back. Almost all the good memories are about the people and faces that peppered my journey, which were beautifully described by poor Jen Fitzgerald of VIDA, whose travels home by train and other modes from AWFP in Seattle, all the way to New York, were far more painful. Whether or not you're in a sleeper, I recommend time in the observation car, where sunrise (so that’s what that looks like) brushed the snow of Somewhere, North Dakota, with a pink glow to match the open sky above. I also recommend taking at least one meal in the dining car. It is perhaps the one place my train experience felt timeless.
Observation car: You try taking a straight photo on a train!
My two lunches in the dining car provided a chance to sit and talk with other passengers without guilt, without feeling like I was *supposed* to be writing on this train--a task which proved more difficult on the ride back. The combined lurching and noise induced a rare motion headache despite adopting earplugs as part of my permanent ensemble by around Fargo.
Even so, because of every bit of it, I am perhaps more here than I've ever been in my life. I couldn't wait to sleep in my own bed. I couldn't wait to make love to my husband. I couldn't wait to hug my son again and again, to talk to my daughters on the phone.
My husband's prolific home cooking greeted me, leftover and spilling from the fridge. He made crock-pot(?!) chicken into soup, pork BBQ, another grilled chicken and then turkey meatloaf upon my return. Although I'm sure they didn't eat as many vegetables as I did, thanks to Emma Love, and as suspected they both had mild colds when I got home, they too survived and grew even closer. And I am reassured that one thing they wouldn’t do if left to their own devices for too long again (like when I'm on a book tour someday) is starve. It all tasted so much better than cardboard gluten-free crackers and tinned emergency meat made into chicken salad from mayonnaise, mustard and relish packets on a grimy, insufficiently stocked train. But even that tasted good at the time.
The sun, when it manages to shine this spring, is brighter. The day is new.
Thank you, Amtrak, for bringing me home. I am better for having made this trek. Though if I am brave enough to revisit your mode in the future, or brave enough to apply for a do-over via #AmtrakResidency (they would’t be interested in my small potatoes—they’re looking for much bigger fish), which I still believe has legs, a sleeper car will be involved. I will not miss not sleeping among the roughnecks. Nor will I miss trying to find a non-existent soft spot for my hips, over a bar my coat can't possibly cushion between two coach seats. This warrior MommaWriter is too damn seasoned, now too worldly a "business traveler" for that nonsense, ever again.
What about you? Always dreamed of writing on a train? Did you? Would you apply for an #AmtrakResidency?? Do tell me about it in the comments!
I'm participating in a Blog Hop with Laura next week with a new post, but couldn't let another moment pass without acknowledging everything the experience with her in Montana has meant to me. So many brave, beautiful hearts!
Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg: Crackbook Saved My Sanity but Now We Need to LEAN on Other Platforms
Dear Sheryl (I can call you Sheryl, right?):
You were a keynote speaker at BlogHer ’13. You celebrated the influence and the power bloggers have. We cheered for you. You asked us what we could do if we weren’t afraid. You impacted the words and homes of over 4000 women bloggers in attendance and countless others who listened after, now that we're talking about whether or not to refer to girls as bossy. (I'm not into banning, however. I'm more for empowering. I'm in the #OwnBossy camp, myself--why fight a battle we can't win? Let's reframe the word, and grow girls who know how to lead effectively.)
Yet just a few short months later, you’re using your Facebook muscle and multitudinous mulah to pi$$ on bloggers by making it very difficult to get traffic to our posts—many of us for whom not a penny is made from blogging.
You have our attention. But I’m afraid it’s not in a good way. I mean, when is enough, enough?
I’m glad I'm a procrastinator and didn't immediately buy your book in the post BlogHer '13 glow.
My love affair with Social Media began in earnest when I was living in San Diego. Three time-zones and an entire country separated me from my daughters, my mother, my friends, my posse. Facebook was all I had when on many days I felt as though I lived in a foreign country. I was the too large, too short, not blond enough Midwestern Interloper who often didn't garner enough interest for people to remember my name, or that we'd met before.
Image: by dvsross (Burning Man 2013)'(DVSROSS uploaded by russavia) [CC-BY-2.0(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Enter Twitter: Facebook's racier, hipper, #twerkier cousin, who it turns out a) teaches a writer-type to be more judicious with her words, and b) much more quickly breeds (do it organically) contacts, promotes fantastic writing and business tools, promotes opportunities for learning, and promotes one another. But Twitter isn't known for conversion rates, that is, converting from delivering free information to putting dollar$ in your pocket.
And then there's Google+. Social Media powerhouses like Guy Kawasaki, also a BlogHer ’13 keynote speaker, and the woman behind the man, Peg Fitzpatrick, encourage folks to use the platform, and thus it looks more and more appealing all the time. Here's the rub: like it or not, Google is the algorithm ruler of Internet Kingdom, and if you wish to have any kind of a presence, be any more than a microblip on the a$$ of humanity, have any kind of influence--staying power--apparently this is something equally, if not more, necessary. Yeah, yeah…we’re grudgingly on board. Maybe soon to be gratefully so, with the introduction of friends, Lisa L. Flowers' & April Welch's, Google+ Newbie Group, where your questions are actually answered. You might want to ask to join.
You know where I mentioned INcome? Despite the odd day when I may spend as many as 16 hours at my computer, I haven't actually found a way to make income happen on any of those magical pathways to...all I'm NOT accomplishing. I’ve had a couple posts picked up by Yahoo!—and made four whole dollars. I need balance in my life. It’s time to work smarter. Because it turns out actually BE-ing obsessively on social media doesn't put ca$h in your pocket unless you're willing to sell your (soul) web space to the devil, or you agree to write meaningless words on topics that don't matter about companies with deep pockets that lack any manner of good social intentions.
I haven't yet mentioned Pinterest, but since it's where I share all my favorite gluten free and GANE Empowered Wellness: GANE Possible resources, including recipes, brands and products, it more than earns mentioning. Again, however, I've yet to turn all that pinning into income for Momma to help pay for expensive gluten free grub for my growing tween. Good gluten-free gravy, what in the world will I do when he does meet teenagerhood?!
So, Facebook, fan of yours though I was, I need to start EMPLOYING all the articles I've read and teleseminars I’ve watched. I need to maintain some sort of Social Media Free Zone. I need to actually produce, choose one of my umpteen projects, finish a book, APE it, or query and SUBMIT, rather than merely hope someone Stumbles upon me (SO not ready to go there).
I hope you understand. And I hope you will still be there for me, ready to help me pass the time waiting for my kid in line at school, or when I need a good laugh, or when I miss my cyber friends too much. We'll still hang out. But my smart phone will spend less time in my hands. They'll be too busy typing words that matter.
So, all those ad$ you’ve schnockered businesses into paying for? That’s not where I’ll do my shopping, thank you very much, or ever have quite frankly, which might actually explain a lot. I’ll likely do that on Pinterest, or most habitually via a Google search, where a much higher conversion to dollars spent actually occurs--because I'm looking for it! And maybe that will prove true for image-driven Google+, too.
I, and many of my multitude$ of #MidlifeBlvd, highly-influential-demographic blogger friend$, have all but abandoned our pages, and many of us will not PAY Facebook to sponsor, boost or otherwise promote our posts. You have made more than enough money from all the ads (for singles? I’m married. To play GAMES?! Who has time?) we can’t avoid.
And most of all, I require human, face-to-face interaction like I require air to breathe. I'll teach humans and small businesses that deserve a shot how to use and derive benefit from social media all day long, but to me there is no substitute for doing that in a way that allows me to look them in the eye, maybe even a la Google Hangout one day soon.
Which is why my website saw an overhaul in the first quarter of 2014, when West Coast Posse—my effort to make a dent in the B.S. gang$ta attitude toward women that is so disturbingly prevalent in popular and social media—became GANEPossible.com.
My focus is positive. It's on my local community, which I love so much that my family and I came back to Michigan after being in San Diego just less than two years (even though it’s friggin’ freezing again right now!). I will do community outreach, I'll speak, and I’ll host healthy cooking demonstrations. I feel we are on the cusp of some very important wellness messages spilling over, and that's a difference I hope to promulgate. I’ll be networking with other businesses both in person and online to achieve that end. I've adjusted and readjusted my strategy, and am working hard to complete my first book which I hope to have published at the beginning of May 2014.
My belief is that small businesses need to band together. We need to collaborate, share with and promote the gifts we all possess--we need to support one another. We are so much more powerful together than we are on our own. I know this from my beautiful Midlife Boulevard friends. I know this from when my husband and I owned our restaurant and I co-created the Benton Harbor Marketing Initiative (BHMI) among downtown Benton Harbor, Michigan, businesses, back around the turn of the century—and look at what Benton Harbor has become since!
Patience and supporting one another is how we will survive and thrive, despite what the government, the economy, healthcare or Crackbook decides to do, TYVM. I am no longer afraid. And I will be an influencer. I hope you’ll get back on board, Sheryl, and stop making life so hard for the bloggy buddies we almost were in 2013.
A la Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, maybe we will soon hold up our glittering bags full of time and better-invested effort and say, “Big mistake. BIG!”
I’m so sorry, but I have a feeling that in the end, 2014 might hurt just a little for ya.
--Kim Jorgensen Gane of
Honesty, FEAR and #SomeNerve in 2014
Things look a little different around here! Check it out!
I wrote an end of the year wrap up post similar to the one I wrote last year, but it didn't feel honest, sincere or meaningful. It actually felt a lot like recycling, so I didn't publish it.
What is honest? FEAR: I’m scared $#!+less, every stinking day.
So when, thanks to blogging buddy, Blogger Idol 2013, THE Lois Alter Mark, whom I intend to meet IRL in 2014, I discovered the book, “Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave,”
I knew immediately, it was a book I needed to read. Actually, it was a book I could write after the last two years on my own quest to become brave, except clearly I’m not quite there yet.
Unlike warm, funny author, Patty Chang Anker, who is Chinese-American, raised by Chinese immigrant parents, with all the expectations that entails, I didn't know I was smart until later in life. What I did know was that I was a good singer. But when I became a single mother at 20, the singing no longer mattered, and it sure as hell wasn't enough when I was sure I wasn't smart enough or capable enough and didn't have enough money to be a good mother--to not screw up my child!
I had already failed everyone. I'd had a child alone. I wasn't about to fail again, but I couldn't reach out or ask for help. And so I was completely alone, to the point of being suicidal.
The stakes were so, so very high, that I became so, so very careful. Afraid to fail, but just as afraid to succeed. Certainly afraid to put myself out there to be judged, and yet I yearned for the accolades again. I yearned not to be ignored and stigmatized as a single mom. I didn't feel welcome in the church I'd grown up singing in. In fact I was stricken from the membership rolls because I wasn't tithing. Tithing?! I had to return bottles and cans from my dad's office for the deposit to buy bread and milk and eggs to feed my child! One heaping paper bagful was $4, give or take ten cents.
Life was hard. Life was a state of constant fear. And I began to believe that would be my reality forever. Even after I married, it still proved our reality, because together we seemed to suck the joy out of everything. Life was so hard as we worked to recover from our respective single parenting and divorce, we knew only hard and we kept living it. I see it in our daughters still sometimes, which is what makes me ache to prove to them, to prove to my husband that life can be joy-filled. Not easy necessarily, but that a time will come when we can relax and ENJOY all our hard work. Maybe just a little?
That's been our story: Hard. Work. Plodding. It's what has defined us. But it hasn't served us, and it sure as hell hasn't made us rich--the harder we work, the more we seem to struggle. Whatever we've each "done wrong" which determined that we don't deserve joy and happiness is what we've allowed to define us. That's been our story. Single mother, divorced father, job losers, failed restaurateurs.... ENOUGH! I think this is the year that we will choose how we define ourselves. At least I intend to!
Patty has a chapter in her book about surfing the Great Lakes. I don't think it's an accident that it was my hometown, St. Joseph, where she took such a plunge. In winter! She says, "Michigan folks must be made of heartier stuff than New Yorkers." While I don't know about that, I do know we are hearty, indeed. We take a lickin' and keep on tickin'. We're right smack in the middle of one of the longest, coldest winters in decades. If I could see that lake through the blizzard we’re currently weathering, I wouldn’t be able to imagine for a moment surfing it. But as Erica said from Third Coast Surf Shop, where Patty & Patrick rented their surfboard, "I'm from here, I can surf in the summer."
Patty asked me on Facebook whether I really live in St. Joseph. I proudly display a picture by Mark Parren of our little red-roofed light house as one of my cover photos. But Patty probably didn't recognize it because it was likely encased in a feet-, not inches-, thick sarcophagus of glacial ice at that time of year. So, yeah. I've been on a quest to overcome my fear of success as well as my fear of failure over the last two years, but I don't feel the need to surf Lake Michigan in winter to prove it. I sure as hell, however, want to meet the woman who did and lived to write about it!
Patty quotes her surfing coach, Patrick, as saying, “Strength and courage has always been there, you're just uncovering it in different ways."
I think strength and courage can hide behind hard work. Taking a licking and perseverance doesn't equate to happiness and fulfillment. And in 2013 it barely equated to food on the table. I make an effort to regularly be positive, or I keep my fingers to myself. There’s enough negativity among social media outlets. But that’s the truth. As wonderful as it was in many ways for me personally, 2013 was our scariest year yet financially.
I have to admit #SomeNerve has made me feel a little feisty, a little defensive perhaps about my choices over the last two years. Patty describes Barry's near-death experience on a plane. This makes me think of our near death financially, which has spurred in me an "ef-it" attitude about what I choose to do to contribute to my family. I simply can't abide the idea of waiting tables or tending bar or being someone's administrative assistant. Been there, done all those things.
Maybe some would say I've had a responsibility to do those things to bring in cash--that I should have done whatever it took to pay the bills, but my husband was already doing that. We can't both be miserable and unfulfilled and disbelieving, what then would that do to our son? And maybe I can have an influence on his actions and desire toward living a fulfilled life rather than just plodding through—he has taken up photography, and I think I might have inspired that just a little. And I've felt a deep calling to do something very different from what I’ve done that didn’t fulfill me in the past.
Fear of death is a big one for many people, but I have longevity in my genes with a grandpa who lived to be 100 years old. Patty’s book has inspired me to want to work harder not to screw that up. And if I have half my life left to look forward to, I want to make the most of it, and I want to help influence the happiness of others. The saying, Life is Too Short...not to grab every moment. Yet, while we're raising kids, we spend many of those years in a kind of standby mode. We hover and we put all our energy into our children, and often very little into ourselves.
When I look back on my life, much like someone having a near death experience might, I can see that all the pieces have come together in this moment. I can pull together all my life experience to have an impact on others, and that's what I want to do with the second half of my life. That's the beauty of growing older: Perspective. Hindsight. That's what I hope to take advantage of, and what I’ve been diligently self-teaching over the last two years.
I said to Patty the other night as we were Facebook chatting, that overcoming fear is the path I've been on for the last two years, and her book articulates it so beautifully. Wouldn't it be wonderful to help people to be brave well before they reach midlife? Why does it take so many of us so long? I haven't answered that question yet. But I keep trying. We allow so many other things to define us, I suppose, maybe this is when we finally begin to seek to define ourselves. But why the hell can't we be nurtured and encouraged to do that all our lives? Why isn't happiness and fulfillment always reason enough to do or to choose something?
Maybe it's because I've already been a mom for 27 years by the end of this month, but I've stood by long enough. Now I wish to put as much energy into raising myself and others up as I have and will continue to spend, raising my kids. And just as my husband continues to plod and to work, I will continue to seek that summit. Which of us will get there first? I hope it's me, so I can show him the light.
Previously West Coast Posse was largely directed at women. You’ll note that I’m kind of in the middle of an overhaul here, and I've seen so many men, my own husband included, defeated and in pain over the last several years of economic uncertainty and job loss, that I feel compelled to bring everyone with me along on this glorious ride of self-discovery & fulfillment. And I believe deeply that my grandfather's influence, his way of embracing people and life and food and gathering and celebrating every moment, can be key in seeing that to fruition. I hope you’ll see evidence of that as my “GANE Empowered Wellness: GANE Possible” section develops. That will be my #SomeNerve Challenge, by the way: finishing that book (don’t worry, Bluebirds is still developing its wings), living it, promoting it, speaking about it, fully embracing the philosophy of MORE, doing cooking demonstrations (some together!) and teaching others to embrace MORE in 2014. And I don’t think it’s an accident that my husband loved feeding people when we owned our restaurant—loved feeding the guys in the firehouse—or that we’ve since learned to do it in ways that help us maintain wellness, despite the stress we’ve been under.
The world needs MORE of us to feel happy and fulfilled--and you matter! Yes, I'm talking to you! If my path, if our path to get there can influence yours in a positive way, even when it’s bumpy, even when it’s scary, even when a positive attitude is at its most difficult to reach, I hope you'll hold on tight and come along for the ride.
This time next year, when I’m creeping up on 49, I know the hindsight will be worth it!
This is posted as part of a Blog Hop over at Midlife Boulevard. Our topic was: There's Nothing Wrong with Aging.
#GlutenFree Crock Pot French Toast Recipe for Thanksgiving Morning
Super excited to make another appearance on Yahoo! with this family favorite recipe.
As you'll see, some of my family is #GF, others are not, and this is one of those equalizing recipes where it doesn't matter, everyone enjoys it. We usually eat our French Toast Christmas morning in our jammies with many, many Mimosas, but I happened to think, what a great way to feed everyone breakfast on Thanksgiving, without adding to the rush and madness. And if you're not opposed to disposable, no extra dishes need be dirtied!
Get the recipe over on Yahoo!, and be sure to visit GANE Possible next door for more recent blog posts. Even if you're not local to southwest Michigan, be sure to subscribe to my newsletter which launches in January, along with my website overhaul, Quick Minute to GANE Empowered Wellness.
Don't forget to go get the recipe over on Yahoo! because it works perfectly for Christmas morning, too:
"Gluten-Free Crock Pot French Toast Rescues Your Busy Thanksgiving Morning!"
Set the Timer on the Coffee-maker and Load Up the Crock Pot the Night Before to Keep the Extra Bodies Out of Your Bustling Thanksgiving Morning Gluten-free Kitchen!
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Abt tops Mexico FP1
Daniel Abt topped the times after a flurry of late fast laps in the first free practice session ahead of the Mexico E-Prix.
Abt jumped to the top of the times in the closing minutes of the opening session in Mexico, finishing the morning less than a tenth of a second quicker than Venturi's Edoardo Mortara in second.
Mortara had only topped the times a few moments before Abt crossed the line, knocking his Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler team-mate Lucas Di Grassi off the top spot.
Di Grassi fell further down the order as multiple drivers found improvements in the closing stages of FP1. Alexander Sims finished the morning third, ahead of Sebastien Buemi, Oliver Turvey, and Di Grassi.
Stoffel Vandoorne was briefly top of the order in the middle of the session, but dropped down to seventh.
Antonio Felix Da Costa, championship leader Sam Bird, and Jose Maria Lopez rounded out the top 10.
Multiple drivers made use of the limited run off areas as they locked up and pushed the limits, including Lopez, Robin Frijns and Mitch Evans, but the only driver to make contact with any walls was Gary Paffett. In the final five minutes of the session, Paffett suffered a snap of oversteer and tapped the rear of his Venturi, damaging the rear suspension and ending his session early.
Championship newcomer Felipe Nasr finished P12, behind Santiago podium finisher Pascal Wehrlein.
2019 Mexico City E-Prix Daniel Abt
Top spot for da Costa in Mexico City FP2
5 reasons why you shouldn’t miss the Mexico City E-Prix
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THe Magic Three:
Writing, Teaching and Creating
Brutally Honest: Opening Up in the Classroom and on the Page
Kids are brutally honest. They tell it like it is. I rarely worry about what my students are thinking because they tell me straight up. For example, this student told me, “My friend said that you’re really hard to get to know, but that once she got to know you it turned out you were really nice and one of her favorite teachers.”
Honest student reads Loree Griffin Burns' The Hive Detectives
Brutal honesty is also one of the reasons I appreciate my critique groups as well. Although I’ve never published a novel, many of my critique partners have read various drafts of different novels.
They say the same thing as my student did, my characters are hard to get to know. Distant.
This is a huge problem, and I talked about it a bit at the end of my last post, Get Angry. As I wrote the last post, I realized that the subject of creating emotional resonant characters needed way more than a paragraph.
Now, I’m not going to spend a whole post looking back at my childhood, my mother’s childhood and my grandmother’s childhood talking about why emotional distance is something that the three of us have struggled with; however, I will say that through hard work, letting people in is something that we’ve all improved at throughout our lifetimes.
My mom and me.
My sons, my grandma (she's 103 in this photo) and me.
Obviously, letting people in is an area I still need to do a lot of work in according to my students and my writing peers. But the fact that my grandmother, mother and myself have made improvements in this area fills me with hope because it’s proof that learning lasts a lifetime.
I believe that through writing instruction in my classroom that I can create more windows for students to see who I am. In my Bumper Sticker Books and More post(9/22/19) as well as in my Get Angry post(10/23/19), I’ve shared some of the ways writing has built a stronger emotional connection within my classroom community. I am hopeful that I will be able to transfer that social emotional learning into my personal writing as well.
In class, we’re moving into our fiction unit now, and we’re about to delve into character.
Inked Voices is an online writing community. I’m taking a course through Inked Voices, and we’ve discussed one way to try and get closer to your character is to switch point of view from third person to first person. I’ve tried that several times in different manuscripts. By itself, it hasn’t done the trick. When I think about my classroom, I’d be hesitant to introduce that strategy because it’s a pretty advanced concept. But maybe it’s something I could try at the end of the year.
The mentor in the Inked Voices group, Sterling editor Rachael Stein, suggested having the main character open up to one specific character in the book. This tip really resonated with me. Maybe if I make it a focus for every interaction my main character has with her older sister to reveal a layer of her personality, I can chip away at that emotional distance.
It’s something I’m going to try. Since friends and family have told me I write powerful letters, in my next draft I’m going to try having the older sister be away at camp and have each chapter either begin or end with the main character writing a letter to her sister. We’ll see how it goes…
The universe has a way of not giving up when it wants you to pay attention to something. So yesterday when I attended nErDCampLI and I saw one of the sessions offered was Building Characters Readers Can Root For by Mark Oshiro and Ashley Woodfolk, I was in. It turned out there were other great authors on the panel, too, such as Padma Venkatraman, Barbara Dee and Rebecca Behrens.
nErDCamps are unworkshops. Participants post workshop presentations on an interactive board. Attendees vote with their feet. If the workshop isn't what you're hoping for, you leave and attend another one.
nErDCampLI 2019 Workshop Session: Building Characters Readers Can Root For
Here are some of the tips the authors on the panel suggested:
CHARACTER ACTIONS
Think about how your character will act, not what he or she has in his or her pocket.
How does your character react when they’re in danger?
How does your character react when they’re happy?
How does a character who always wants to do the right thing react when put in a difficult situation?
Does your character deal with difficult situations by creating emotional distance? (Ding! Ding! Ding! This is something I’ve been trying to unlearn my whole life).
How would your character react if he or she heard a firecracker?
Every character interaction should reveal character traits.
If everyone comes across a toad in a road, what does the main character do? How do the ancillary characters react as a result of the main character’s actions?
What do they doodle?
Avoid cliché. So if a character sees a cute dog instead of having the character think that the dog is cute, have the character note something unusual such as the dog is wearing shoes or the dog looks like her dog but is a different color.
CHARACTER APPEARANCE
What do their fingernails and closet look like?
What does their favorite pair of shoes look like?
If you don’t know what brand of mascara your fourteen-year-old character is wearing, then you don’t know your character.
Main characters can talk about secondary characters.
Character’s dialogue changes depending on who they are talking to.
PLOT QUESTIONS
What does the character want vs. what do they need?
What does the character want, and what’s stopping them from getting it?
How does the character change from the beginning of the story to the end? (This change is something I always have my students map out on their story arc before they begin drafting).
Instead of having a passive character become bold which is predictable, have a bold character learn how to advocate for him or herself in a different way.
Number one take away tip: actions matter.
Not all of these ideas are new to me, but the fact of the matter is it’s helpful for me to have everything written down in one place. I can close that window in my brain, and move onto the next task. I’m also hoping one or more of these tips will be help writers no matter what they’re age build characters people can root for.
Let’s keep the writing list going.
Writers, how do you build characters readers can root for?
Let’s start a list for letting students in.
Teachers, how do you open your heart to your students?
The Magic Three: Writing, Teaching and Creating
I'll be posting about writing, creating and teaching, the magic threes, on the threes the 3rd, the 13th, and the 23rd. (Yes, I know my first post was on the 22nd...oops!) Looking forward to sharing with you.
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Teaching on Love and compassion Meditation to inmates
…They need the teachings to make a change
One wrong move led to a lifetime of regret. Undoing must wait until the next lifetime.
Due to fear and anger one may kill. Due to fear and hate one may cause war.
I have been delivering meditation teachings to inmates in a State of California prison and a County jail for more than a year. The State prison is housing inmates who have already been tried and sentenced, aged from 20’s-50’s. The County jail is mostly holding criminal suspects prior to their trials and waiting for their trials. Some have been waiting for two years yet still haven’t had trial. Out of the thousands of inmates, there are hundreds who are Vietnamese, aged from late-teens to 30’s. Most of them are young, gang-type, who committed serious crimes, and their spirits are lost in this fast track modern technology and complex society. For example, look at our “three-strikes” legislation, and how people are given sentences completely inconsistent with the crime.
This paper is about State prisoners. The State prisons are housing many different types of inmates who committed various crimes. On Sundays I delivered teachings to only 3 different groups of students in the State prison. Each class was held in a separate building for one group of prisoners. Each building has a Christian chapel for worshipping, but the Buddhists don’t have their own chapel due to insignificant number of Buddhists in imprisonment.
Building “1” houses the inmates who had been in prison for a long time, for violent crimes they committed long ago; It seems that the many older-aged prisoners in Building “1” are opinionated and it was difficult for them to learn to meditate and generate boundless compassion. They are frustrated and confused about the future.
Building “2”, houses the unique white collar, middle-class inmates who committed crimes with sophisticated and well-educated minds. For some of those with educated minds wanted to learn about Buddhism and meditation, and expected fast results.
Building "3" houses gang-type killers and robbers, some who felt they had been unfairly convicted. The following is to discuss about those students in building "3".
Due to their poverty and uneducated backgrounds as orphans, homeless, with parents divorced, with experiences of family abuse, and unwelcome in the school or in community etc., they have made their mistakes and were caught. They are poor and don’t have money to pay for a good education and cannot hire good defense attorneys. This group seems to have warm hearts and their spirits seem open to changes.
During the summer it was hot in the California Central Valley, usually in the 90’s Fahrenheit, and the vehicle I traveled in was not air conditioned, nor was the prison. The inmates I have been teaching in "building 3", mostly had received serious sentences for 3-years or more, and some had received 15-year to life sentences. (Have we ever wondered how many seconds did a person commit a crime to deserve 25 years, 60, 90 or a life sentence? It is same as a death penalty, but delayed execution.) For this group of inmates ages range from 20 to 37; all were males and all had committed crimes. Some are paranoid and disturbed due to their heavy sentences, and most inmates in this group are unskilled; none graduated from high school; some have very little education. Some are involved in killing crimes and are haunted with their nightmares often in their sleep.
The teachings provided them comfort and energy to live and to learn to love and to tolerate conditions. Tried to be a courageous teacher is difficult when sitting among inmates while leading them, and asked everyone to pray for parents in the Vu Lan (Vulabarna-“A red rose on your shirt if you still have a parent alive”) Day, and everyone must say repeatedly, out loud: "I love you, mother, father, or grandparent…" At the beginning, they were all shy to say “I love you, mother,” but slowly, everyone could say the magic sentence: “Mother, I love you, I am sorry, I have caused myself to be in this prison, and I have caused you pain.” They learned to chant love and compassion sutras, to sit still for 45 minutes, and I encouraged them to sit still every morning and evening, before bedtime to cure nightmares. And this was a big help to inmates who committed fewer or lesser crimes. These inmates who have been coming to the class really want to make a change in their lives and also want true compassion from family and society.
We should give this a thought. Most will get out of prison some day. When they are released, we will have to face the reality of living with them as neighbors, as friends, or as relatives. We cannot turn them away, because they are human beings. And we cannot incarcerate people in prison forever. We should accept them, and everything, just like the earth accepts impurity. It was, for me, a very sad experience, but I was there to let them know that while most people enjoy family and friendly gatherings, shopping, going to churches, and other such things, we, I’ m for World Peace Foundation, won’t forget about them. They will be in our prayers and thoughts.
Whether we directly or indirectly created the prisons as well as the impurity, we must accept the resulting consequences as reality. We created a society of superior and inferior. We built up power for someone and we also destroyed peoples’ creditability to make them powerless. In this modern society we created sophisticated laws with the intention to help prevent crimes and to educate people to understand the seriousness of penalty that will apply if they violate the laws. We made laws with the hope that the laws will protect us. But we realize now that the laws cannot always protect all of us. Due to fear we created prisons, but we still live in fear of everything every day, anyway. We need to educate ourselves better about our laws. We should be teaching our children at the earliest possible time, that we are not totally free as individuals, to do as we wish, but must conform to support our society.
Out of fear, we decided to lock all troublemakers in prison forever so we invented indefensible laws. And when we built more prisons, we wasted much energy and resources, ultimately making our lives even more miserable. After all, we have never been totally happy nor have we enjoyed complete peace of mind. The truth is, we should not build prisons but rather, we should build temples for prayers, for healing all souls.
In our modern civilization we become more fearful, yet, we are the ones who created the most fearful things and conditions to haunt ourselves. The person who invented the atomic bomb with intention to make the world be still and peaceful, the father of this deadly created weapon, who we called ingenious, miscalculated the risk that some crazy person will use it. In less than a century, the threat of atomic weapons pervades this tiny Earth. Science and technology have changed our lives like tornados. They lead us from subsonic into supersonic and have swept the reality from our domestic simple lives and dropped us to an unknown world. They have separated us from our touch with reality. We don’t know about the person next door, and we distance ourselves from our relatives. To express love now we send hugs and kisses through the Internet and don’t experience real warm touch or physical hugs. We spend much time on the Internet, but whatever we read or see is temporary, exaggerated or inflated, and could disappear totally, never to be seen again. Nevertheless, we believe in it and
live with it. We are creating alien beings amongst ourselves. Today’s children may not know their parents well during their lifetimes, when they are influenced by the superhighway or fast pace of the Internet. However, we are also very fearful of computer virus attacks and crazy salesmen who may send us horrible messages against our morals. We are not safe as long as we carry fragile and destructible human bodies while our minds possess ignorance due to distractions and limited learning.
Recounting from ancient times, have we ever been not fearful? We must live with what makes up a society, including thieves, homeless, terrorists, and corrupt people. Corruption is far worse than terrorism. They both can slowly destroy the morality of a healthy society. We can die from earthquakes, tornados, floods, and diseases anytime. Terrorism can make us fearful of violence but how many of us ever actually face the terrorist? Corruption we face in our daily life. Why are we fearful and resentful when the person has already paid his dues? Could we love them like our own children? What if one of our children committed a crime? We don’t turn him away. We surely welcome him and try to comfort and heal his soul.
For how long will this modern technology last? How long will the resources on this earth last for us to enjoy electricity and gas? The more prisons we build, the more crimes will happen. We need to fill up what we built. When the resources of this earth have run out, do we still have prisons? Will we still be able to feed all prisoners or what will happen to them? Over-expansion of prisons is not a solution. Having a curriculum education to teach laws and meditation on a compassion program to all youngsters brings hope for solution and a healthy future.
Teaching compassion meditation is very effective to this group category. They are young people with histories of hate and vengeance, and through meditation we can help them to let go of their anger, learn to forgive, to heal their souls, and to prepare to change their lives. One whom I first met was paranoid; he came to the teaching because his friends told him about meeting with a Buddhist Chaplain. He didn’t look at me, did not smile, had difficulty communicating, and didn’t want to cooperate. But after meeting and meditating on compassion and forgiveness a few times, he began to smile and has opened up. He started to say to his friends a very understanding and responsible phrase: "Everyone is responsible for his karma and his own actions, and we should not blame anyone but ourselves for our imprisonments. We did something stupid, so we face the consequences." Hearing what he said, I knew the teaching was making progress. Two inmates told me that they were not guilty. To me, I can only try my best to teach them to learn how to pray, how to meditate, and how to contemplate on compassion, letting go of anger and hatred with hope that they will feel compassionate for others in their hearts.
We encourage the legislature to make a law to require children to learn about the law and penalties against violations of the law. It would help the third group, which is the majority group in State prisons. We should put this law in a curriculum beginning 4th or 5th up to 10th grades. Those are the kids who dropped out the most, and the most likely to commit crimes.
We also encourage citizens to try open, to forgive and to practice boundless compassion and to have amnesty for those convicted criminals who can prove that they have changed and become good and normal people. Is there an amnesty that should include the reduction of sentences? For example, an amnesty that reduces sentences from life to a number of years, and from a high number of years to be reduced to a lesser number of years, and so on? It is wasteful for a young man to spend the rest of his life due to a momentary mistake without thought, during his youth. The person has already died in a sense, so we must forgive and let go of things for which we no longer feel a need for vengeance forever. Why waste so much money to build prisons and have to hire people and to train them to be cruel and harsh in order to control the inmates? By doing so, we train people to become more rough than the inmates in order to control the inmates? What will happen to these guards and their family, and their children after they work in such ways; will they still be normal and nice?
May we all be safe, content and peaceful
Dieu Lien-Vu Lan Huong
I Light for World Peace
Tags: compassion, inmates, Love, Meditation, Teaching
Một người tốt có nghĩa người này làm nhiều việc giúp đỡ người khác mà không có ẩn ý lợi dụng người mình giúp là người tốt.
Một người có hiếu là luôn săn sóc cha mẹ mình, gia đình mình và đóng góp vào xã hôi được an lành là người hiếu nghĩa.
Một người Giỏi là người giúp được cho tất cả người nhà, người ngoài, và xã hội không có ẩn ý lợi dụng là người giỏi.
Giỏi không phải là thành công về công danh và tài chánh và gia đình, mà là người có khả năng làm cho nhiều người được hạnh phúc nhờ cậy mới gọi là giỏi.
"Sống ngay thẳng, bố thí, giúp quyến thuộc thân bằng,
hành xử không tì-vết, có học, có nghề hay, biết gìn giữ luật pháp,
biết thương người, biết giúp đỡ kẻ khác.
biết nói lời từ ái là người có phước đức lớn nhất"
Mangalamsutanipata parita.
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Over 1,700 historical artifacts seized in Istanbul, Mersin
ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency
Over 1,000 pieces of historical artifacts were seized in operations in Istanbul, a security source said on Jan. 9.
Acting on a tip, anti-smuggling teams conducted operations in three addresses on Jan. 8 in Nişantaşı neighborhood of the metropolis, the source said on condition of anonymity.
Security forces were tipped that an individual, who was earlier detained for possessing historical artifacts in his flat, was again collecting the valuable pieces illegally.
In the operations, a suspect, identified by the initials A.E.G., was detained, while 1,134 pieces of historical artifacts were also seized, the source added.
Some of the artifacts are believed to be dating back to 2000 B.C. and some icons bear drawings of Virgin Mary, child Jesus and the apostles.
Candle holders carrying Seljukian motifs, artifacts of Ottoman, Anatolian civilizations and Armenia as well as stelas and coins disassembled from cultural assets, tiles and edges were also among the artifacts.
Meanwhile, a total of 746 pieces of historical artifacts were seized in an operation in southern Turkey, security sources said on Jan. 10.
Gendarmerie teams of the Mediterranean Mersin province arrested a suspect, identified only by the initials H.K., in Mut district.
The suspect attempted to place historical artifacts from the Middle Age and the Roman period on the market.
Turkish security forces disguised as buyers contacted H.K. and the suspect brought historical artifacts from his home after agreeing on a price.
Among the historical artifacts seized were 698 coins, 24 rings, 16 earrings, three spearheads, two bird figurines, a cross, pendant and detector.
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After many years, Turkish Cyprus hosts a FIFA member team for first time
Turkish Cyprus is hosting a FIFA and UEFA member country’s football team for camping for the first time in decades.
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Daniel Cunin wins Brockway Prize
The Brockway Prize, a biennial prize for poetry translations from the Dutch, has been awarded to Daniel Cunin. The prize was established by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and is worth 5,000 euros. It will be presented on 1 June during the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.
The 2015 Brockway Prize jury was made up of literary translator Gregor Seferens and publisher Christoph Buchwald, supported by Peter Bergsma, translator and director of the Translators’ House Amsterdam (part of the Dutch Foundation for Literature).
Each edition of the Brockway Prize focuses on a different target language. The prize has previously been awarded to Francis R. Jones (2005; English), Gregor Seferens (2007; German), Jan H. Mysjkin and Pierre Gallissaires (2009; French), Francisco Carrasquer Launed (2011; Spanish), Judith Wilkinson (2013; English) and Ard Posthuma (2015).
James Brockway
Poet and translator James Brockway died on 15 December 2000. His translations gave an English-language readership access to the poetry of Rutger Kopland, Hans Lodeizen, M. Vasalis, Gerrit Achterberg and many other poets writing in Dutch. In 1966 he received the Martinus Nijhoff Prize for his services as a translator and in 1997 he was knighted, on the same grounds. In his will Brockway left half his estate to the Dutch Foundation for Literature. That legacy is used by the Foundation for the stimulation of translations of poetry from the Dutch.
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LOCAL NEWS & iMPACTS ON BUSINESSES: SUPPORT FOR floodED BUSINESSES
MORE FLOODING...MORE DEVASTATION FOR BUSINESSES
& SUPPORT FOR FLOODED BUSINESSES
Flooding across Derbyshire continues, and with more rain is forecast the outcome of further damage and prolonged disruption to businesses being inevitable. Albeit many businesses have already been hit hard in recent days after deluge of a months rain in 24 hours
THE DAMAGE CAUSED
The level of flooding and damage caused over the past week has been unprecedented, with many people and businesses not experiencing flood levels this high for 40-50 years. In addition with flood plans working in some areas, with the use of flood gates etc, the problem has moved to others that have not previously experienced such flooding. The videos and images circulating across the news are leaving many people shocked, but the reality for those affected is much tougher.
Video above: Upwards of £250,000 of damage is estimated to have been caused at Browns' site just off the A52, in Chequers Road, Derby
The physical damage is obvious to most, but the damage and knock effects are far more wide reaching.The impact on moral, to deal with the clean up when further flooding is expected, the loss of stock, but also the potential loss of records and data used within businesses, the loss of trade; not only for those businesses directly effected but the knock-on effect to those in the surrounding areas due to less footfall, and the impact on cash flow from both reduced income and increased unforeseen costs.
SUPPORT FOR BUSINESSES
SUPPORT FROM THE EAST MIDLANDS CHAMBER
Businesses in Derbyshire which have - and continue to be - affected by recent flooding are being offered long-term support to help them get back on their feet again.
It is offering affected firms directly affected by flooding free chamber membership for a year. Those taking advantage of the complimentary membership will enjoy the same benefits available to paid-up standard members, including legal advice.
SUPPORT FROM THE COUNCIL
Derbyshire County Council has made £100,000 available to help residents and businesses affected by the recent flooding.
The county council has set up the Derbyshire Floods Hardship Fund for Residents and the Derbyshire Floods Business Hardship Fund.
Residents who were evacuated or whose homes flooded will be eligible to apply for a one-off payment of £104.
Small or micro businesses whose premises were flooded will be eligible to apply for an emergency payment of £300 to help them cope with immediate, short-term loss of income.
To apply for either the residents fund or business fund people can ring the county council’s contact centre Call Derbyshire on 01629 533190.
Call centre staff will be available between 9.30am and 4pm tomorrow (Saturday 9 November) to take information and payments will be made to those who are eligible from 10am on Monday.
SUPPORT FROM lm iNSOLVENCY
IMMEDIATE CASH FLOW ADVICE
Whether affected directly or indirectly by the recent flooding, most businesses will see an impact on cash flow. Our Chartered Accountant and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner can help you manage your immediate cash flow problems to overcome any pressures, whether its simply managing and prioritising payments, or negotiating terms with creditors, banks and other funders. We can assist as much or as little as you need. We provide advice so you do not breach your fiduciary duties as a director in these difficult times.
MEDIUM TERM FORECASTING AND CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT
Often there is not a quick fix, and whilst you may fix the immediate problems or pressures that the business faces, there can be knock on effects that are longer lasting. In these circumstances, we can provide support for a longer period of time, whether as a sounding board at monthly meetings or more involved providing support with cash flow forecasting and funding.
LONG TERM SUPPORT IF UNABLE TO OVERCOME CASH FLOW PROBLEMS
Whether now, or in the future, if you are unable to overcome the cash flow pressures as a result of the knock on effects (and possibly other pressures) but wish to continue trading, we can provide support to help turn around your business, helping you identify and implement a number cost savings and performance improvements.
Formal procedures can also be adopted such as Company Voluntary Arrangements to formally allow time to pay creditors, and in many cases writing an element of debt off (subject to circumstances).
If you are struggling, ensure you seek professional advice and know all you options. We provide a FREE CONSULTATION with a Chartered Accountant and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in order for you to understand the options available to you.
OTHER OPTIONS IF ITS ALL TOO DEVASTATING TO DEAL WITH
Often through difficult times, business owners reach the stage where enough is enough, (due to stress, impact on health and personal finances) and wish to exit their business.
This is a personal choice, and you should do what is best for you and your creditors, and their is no shame in taking such action, it can be the best option sometimes.
You should however ensure you are professional advised by a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, to ensure you do not breach your fiduciary duties and so that you know all the options and the implications of each.
We provide a FREE CONSULTATION with a Chartered Accountant and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in order for you to understand the options available to you.
Our thoughts are with all those effected, and we wish you all the best.
Contact LM Insolvency & Advisory on 07972928153 or email lucinda@lminsolvency.co.uk to arrange a free consultation or to discuss any of the above.
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Three men: a project manager, a software engineer, and a hardware engineer are in Miami beach for a two-week period helping out on a project. About midweek they decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp.
As they rub the lamp a genie appears and says "Normally I would grant you 3 wishes, but since there are 3 of you, I will grant you each one wish."
The hardware engineer went first. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St. Thomas, with no money worries and surrounded by beautiful women who worship me." The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to St. Thomas.
The software engineer went next. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean, with no money worries and surrounded by beautiful women who worship me." The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.
Last, but not least, it was the project manager’s turn. "And what would your wish be?" asked the genie. "I want them both back after lunch" replied the project manager.
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Vince Cable calls last orders on ‘exploitative’ major pub chains – Manchester landlords to reap rewards
18 Jan 2013 - 05:46PM
By Jeremy Culley
Struggling pub landlords across the North West are set to benefit from Business Secretary Vince Cable’s plan to regulate the unfair rates they are charged for beer by suppliers.
Mr Cable will pursue legislation to curb the ‘exploitative’ practices of PubCos – the large chains that control the rent paid and beer stocked by their pubs – which will be addressed by an independent adjudicator.
The move stems from long-running attempts from Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland, also chairman of the all-party save the pub group.
The campaign wants the interaction between landlords and PubCos monitored by body able to impose fines for malpractice.
Meanwhile, an e-petition demanding the removal of the beer duty ‘escalator’ – a 2 percent beer tax hike – from the next budget, has passed the 100,000 signatures threshold.
This means the issue will automatically be debated in parliament, with the petition still not set to close until February 15.
Mr Cable’s reforms are ‘not perfect’, according to Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk, but he claims they will boost the industry and halt the alarming recent trend of pub closures in the region.
He said: “Pubs are vital hubs for communities in Rochdale, but due to the Tory-led government’s inaction and broken promises on backing small landlords they are closing at an ever-increasing rate.”
Around 27 pubs close each week in the UK, with more than 200 having been converted into convenience stores in the last two years.
Crucial to the demands of campaigners is a free of tie’ option – which would allow landlords to buy beer for the best price on the open market rather than being in a locked agreement with a PubCo to pay their rates.
Mr Danczuk argues Labour pressure made the government change their approach to the issue, with the Conservatives having dismissed the idea out-of-hand only three months ago.
Labour used the first Opposition Day Debate of 2013 to call for statutory regulation of the PubCos, which the Conservatives lent their support to less than 24 hours later.
“It’s a good start and I look forward to working with them to implement the change,” he added
The move will please the Fair Pint campaign – a coalition of independent landlords.
A spokesman for Fair Pint campaign said: “Well-run British pubs are now closing in unprecedented numbers. In 2006-07 bankruptcies amongst pub landlords increased seven-fold. It is clear that the tie between landlord and PubCo is a significant and contributory factor to the demise of the local British pub.
“The tied lease agreement creates a wholly inequitable relationship between the PubCo and the tied pub landlord. It has resulted in an unfair and uncompetitive arrangement for tied pub landlords and consumers alike.”
Mr Cable said that PubCos were given one last chance to change their conduct last year, but it has now become clear that self-regulation is not having any affect.
Paul Nuttall MEP, the deputy leader of UKIP, disagrees that this change will rejuvenate the pub industry.
He said: “Legislation such as the smoking ban and increasing alcohol duty have made many local British pubs unsustainable – and the government's proposed regulations are insufficient to save them.”
The government acknowledge that beer taxes and the smoking ban have had some impact on pubs.
Picture courtesy of Liberal Democrats, with thanks.
Simon Danczuk
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FILM REVIEW The Lovely Bones
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Falling between worlds – and stools
Daniel Carey
THERE’S a famous scene towards the end of ‘Jerry Maguire’ where the eponymous character (played by Tom Cruise) makes a grand speech in an attempt to win back his wife. He has just told Dorothy (Renée Zellweger) that she completes him, when she interrupts. “Shut up,” she says. “Just shut up. You had me at hello.” And they all live happily ever after.
If Jerry had Dorothy at ‘hello’, Peter Jackson’s new film ‘The Lovely Bones’ lost me long before it hit our cinema screens. The trailer, which has been running for what seems like decades, opens with an introduction from Susie Salmon (our own Saoirse Ronan) which explains that she was 14 years old when she was murdered.
Having hinted at an interesting whodunnit, however, ‘The Lovely Bones’ quickly turns its attention to imagining limbo for the non-religious generation. “Susie’s in the in-between,” a youthful voice that turns out to be her kid brother muses. When I heard those words, I thought: ‘This is not going to be my kind of thing’. And I wasn’t wrong.
Summed up as ‘a perfect world’ that ‘wasn’t perfect’, the place between heaven and earth from which Susie views events after her death is one of many problematic aspects of the movie.
‘The Lovely Bones’ – originally rated 15A by the Irish Film Classification Office, but re-graded 12A on appeal – is based on a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. ‘Invictus’ prompted this viewer to seek out the source material, but this particular adaptation has left fans of the book unhappy – and won’t win it too many new readers.
Saoirse Ronan is by far the best thing about the flick. Her character is an obsessive photographer, fancies a fellow high school pupil who looks like a young Diego Maradona, and describes being forced to wear a knitted hat as ‘an exercise in humiliation’. Then she falls victim – ‘off-stage’, so to speak – to a serial killer.
The murderer – played by the generally excellent Stanley Tucci – is straight from central casting. He is so obviously sinister it’s a wonder the obsessive sleuthing of Susie’s father Jack (Mark Wahlberg) doesn’t immediately lead him to the man across the road.
The investigating policeman (Michael Imperioli) insists on ‘evidence’ and ‘proof’, not standards that were required during the actor’s days playing Tony’s nephew Christopher in ‘The Sopranos’,
The place where Susie spends the early part of her afterlife looks spectacular – as one would expect from the man behind ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. Parts of the life she has left behind are echoed in giant size, and there’s a memorable scene involving ships crashing on rocks.
But regardless of the beautiful surroundings, why someone should be relatively upbeat after being murdered aged 14 is never even addressed – let alone explained. Requests that a dead person ‘let go of earth’ while her killer remains at large seem bemusing. It’s like a nonsensical episode of ‘The Ghost Whisperer’.
When the action swings back to the disintegrating family unit, the tone is all wrong. Susie’s mum (Rachel Weisz) is struggling to cope, so the kids are minded by their alcoholic grandmother (Susan Sarandon). The unfunny black ‘humour’ this evokes is another misstep.
There’s a dramatic scene when the dead girl’s sister breaks into the murderer’s house, and some suspense via a race through a cornfield. But with its hints of colliding worlds and guardian angels, the whole enterprise seems misguided. Any cinema-goer who still cares is focused on what’s going to happen to the repulsive villain, but too often, the picture has its head in the clouds.
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Sandflies, Midges and Sandfly Control Sydney
These very small blood-sucking flies are commonly referred to as sand-flies along the Australian coastline but in north-western New South Wales and western Queensland the "sand-fly" is a different type of fly altogether. "Biting midge" is the acceptable name for Ceratopogonidae in most parts of the world. Not all the biting midges suck the blood of mammals but the majority of those that do belong to the genus Culicoides. Members of this genus are widespread throughout New South Wales but are confined to coastal estuarine areas.
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Important species of Culicoldes breed in wet sand along the banks of creeks, in sandbars where creeks enter estuaries and in the sandy flats behind or within mangrove areas. ln most cases the breeding, in so far as we understand it at present, takes place in tidal areas but above the level of the neap tide. Culicoides subimmaculatus, the dominant pest of the New South Wales coastline, has peaks of emergence coinciding with the neap tide period, hence mass attacks may occur no more frequently than fortnightly in summer and autumn, and indeed, mass emergences will not occur at every neap tide even when the weather is warm. There are several other minor pest species which do not appear to be so closely linked to the tidal cycle but even these can occur in sufficient numbers to be regarded as a nuisance from time to time.
Adult densities are greatest close to breeding areas and sheltering may take place in mangroves but especially in low growing rank vegetation from which the flies will rise and attack suitable blood sources at all times of the day. Movement of adults takes place under calm, humid conditions with less than maximum light intensity. Characteristic periods of attack are at dawn and in the late afternoon. Wind will suppress biting activity and movement. Distance of migration from breeding areas is variable but half a kilometre is common and is possibly up to 5 kilometres in particular directions, usually up valleys, probably assisted by convectional air movements. Convection currents probably explain the observation that biting midges may be lifted up particular slopes to the tops of ridges adjacent to breeding areas. Situations exposed to dominant winds are not likely to experience noticeable populations unless a tree canopy also protects a growth of low growing vegetation. Flight is characteristically low to the ground.
Health hazards of biting midges
Biting midges are not known to transmit human disease in Australia. However their attacks are often the cause of distressing irritation and bite reactions to sensitive people. The bite itself is not usually detected although a small red spot may appear, quickly fading later to an itchy pa pule. Itchiness is the first symptom detected by most people and commences I2 to 24 hours after the bites have occurred. This lack of awareness of the attack at the time it occurs makes it difficult for people to take precautionary measures unless the attack rate is sufficiently intense to be obvious or the particular locality has a notorious reputation for biting midge attacks. The delayed reaction pa-pule may subside within two to four days with only mild irritation, or may develop into a more persistent vesicle capped by a scab. These more intense reactions are associated with greater irritation and their seriousness increases directly with the number of bites received. Continuing exposures to attack may result in fresh bites being received daily. Nevertheless, even two or three bites may be regarded as distressing by hyper-sensitive people. Those who complain most are usually people experiencing the attacks of these flies for the first time, such as new residents in areas close to an estuary. The English appear to react more severely to biting midges than most other peoples. The reactions caused by these flies are allergic in type and early attacks sensitise the victim who envelops more severe reactions to later bites. Sensitive people who experience an annual attack in summer holiday resorts may well remain hyper- sensitive for long periods of years, whereas residents in the same resorts may be virtually unaware of the midge problem.
The most important aspect of the reaction is the itchiness, which provokes scratching, which in turn increases the distress and may add a secondary infection to the original bite reaction. Any preparation which allays itching is useful. A simple calamine lotion, claratyne or telfast may succeed for some people but if adequate relief is not experienced a more specific anti-pruritic should be used. One which gives good results for many people is calimine lotion. Lotions containing anti-histamines are commonly used without much success. If serious reactions are experienced, medical attention should be sought.
Another biting midge belonging to the genus Leptoconops appears in the sandstone gulleys of the Berowra-Bobbin l-lead area each year about October and November. This species is typically a daytime head biter, especially inside the ears of animals and around the hairline on humans. lt also bites close to the eye and can cause "bung eye", a gross but painless swelling of both lids with even complete closure of the eye. Other species of the same genus occur elsewhere in New South Wales; their attacks may occasionally be significant but they would not be recognised as distinct from other biting midges or black-flies by members of the public, hence information is scanty. The breeding places of this particular type of midge have not yet been discovered in Australia.
Personal protection for residents of infested localities may be a matter of understanding the local conditions which favour midge abundance and their attack habits with a view to avoiding exposure at significant times. Reduction of close-to-the ground harbourage for resting adults may be of some assistance especially if the area of mown grass is fairly extensive. However, invasions, when they occur, are often swift. An insecticidal approach is of limited value, space sprays or fogs giving protection for only 30 minutes to 24 hours because of the likelihood of re-invasion. Smoke from a smouldering Ere is often protective. Mosquito repellent lotions applied to the skin of exposed areas are effective for a period, usually a couple of hours, but cannot be relied on for periods much longer than this. Although they are not removed completely by immersion in water, they are by excessive perspiration so that the period of protection may be related to the amount of physical activity. If repellents are used the results will improve if their use coincides as closely as possible with the known period of attack. Repellents are available as lotions, cream and aerosols and any one of these formulations may be more effective than the others depending on the conditions under which it is used. A special use for an aerosol formulation is on the throw-over net (if mosquito netting is used through which biting midges are able to pass) used to cover a baby`s pram, the treatment taking place before the baby is placed beneath the net. Many repellents contain ingredients which are irritant to mucous membranes and the genitals, and are also plastic solvents. For this reason, and particularly in the application of repellents to children, care should be taken and the product should be used with discretion owing to the possibility of transfer by hand from a treated area to eyes or lips; in any case, repellents should be applied judiciously. There have been reports that "baby oil" on the skin provides a mechanical barrier and substantially reduces bites.
Little can be done by the individual in the way of control since breeding areas are characteristically outside the limits of residential areas. The problem is an increasing one due to expansion of coastal towns into the peripheral areas where biting midges breed and because of the greatly increasing use of coastal lagoons for holidays and recreation. ln the urban environment the process of reclamation of waste low-lying land will do much to hasten the reduction of this pest and could well be accelerated on these grounds. Tidal waters rising and falling against a vertical surface such as a seawall eliminate the midge problem for the length of foreshore so treated. Although reclamation has been in disfavour because of rising costs in recent years it is again coming into prominence and he development, in this country, of cheaper techniques of providing spoil by sand pumps will eventually do much to eliminate many active breeding areas of biting midges. However, the construction of housing areas by reclamation, incorporating "key` '-type individual residential access to coastal waterways in NSW, may result in the production of extensive breeding areas in the tidal sandy margins as has occurred in some areas of Queensland. Also, some forms of reclamation undertaken for mosquito control, which achieve only the elimination of surface water but do not lower the water table well below the surface, can create midge breeding areas. This has happened recently in Queensland but has been a well-known fact for years in the United States.
Insecticidal treatment of breeding areas may still have some place. Effectiveness and economic operation both depend on precise knowledge of the more special breeding areas within the broad expanse of estuarine mud and sand. Potential biting midge areas are characteristically extensive and square miles of country may be involved. Treatment of breeding areas with persistent insecticides prior to emergence of adults has shown promise but this technique is as yet beyond the scope, in terms of finance, equipment, and trained personnel, of most local authorities, and is unlikely to meet with unqualified approval from the conservation-minded. Aerial application of non-persistant.
Persistent insecticides at the predicted times of mass emergence has shown more promise of SUCCESS . For larval control temephos would be suitable; for adult control maldison or naled. Strategic fogging against adults may be practicable, but it is 23 necessarily repetitive, costly, and at best only a relief measure. Household aerosols are of little use as most attacks occur out�of-doors. ln any case, where biting midges are really a problem, the ultimate success of insecticidal methods would almost certainly be materially assisted by the reduction of the problem area by judicious reclamation practices. lf there are alternatives available in the areas selected for reclamation, those presenting the greatest nuisance in mosquito and biting midge production might well be selected first. Recently gained knowledge of the biology of certain of the coastal pest species has been applied to pilot control projects in Queensland. When individual areas are carefully surveyed the actual breeding zones appear to be far more limited than can be assumed without local investigation. If these areas of active breeding are defined they can then be considered for elimination, for destruction of adult harbourage or for insecticidal treatment. At present successful temporary control is being achieved in small problem areas by the use of strategically timed, non-residual insecticidal fogging of breeding areas so that adult midges are killed shortly after their mass emergence at the period of neap tide. Overall, repellents are probably the most appropriate measure when at risk of being attacked. Cardinal points in midge control The biting midge problem is more difficult than any associated with mosquitoes since the immature stages cannot be readily seen and techniques for their recovery are laborious and highly specialised Since critical knowledge of this problem is only beginning to emerge the primary essential is more research. For the time being it is important that each infested area should be considered as an individual problem, at least until enough is known to reveal common factors which can be assessed on inspection.
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Crying Pig Mural
The pepper's a bit too spicy for my porcine amigo. He's part of a mural covering the north wall of El Puerco Lloron, down the hill and towards the water from the Pike Place Market.
The food was excellent and inexpensive. The mural is by Emmett Mclaughlin, who has a confusing range of styles in his body of work.
Stair #195, Laurelhurst
Stair exploration continues, this time in Laurelhurst. This is the top of SDOT Stair #195 looking east over Lake Washington to Kirkland.
The houses in the area aren't modest.
Fishermen's Terminal
The Port of Seattle opened Fishermen's Terminal on Salmon Bay as the Montlake Cut was under construction, and the Lake Washington Ship Canal wasn't yet completed. Pictures of its dedication on Jan 11, 1914 suggest it was raining heavily that day. The surrounding area remained undeveloped mud flats until Salmon Bay was flooded in the following years.
It remains an important home for a large fleet of fishing vessels. However, the relative importance of fishing to the Seattle economy has declined greatly, leading to the unmistakable ambiance of an industrial area in decline.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was the federal stimulus program of the mid-1930s. Infrastructure projects were built all over the country, including this stairway, Seattle Department of Transport's stair #55, joining the two one-way halves of 13th Ave W at Boston St.
Sadly, I can't point to any local infrastructure project that 2009's federal stimulus program funded and completed. Most of the money seems to have been spent on short-term operating costs of state and local governments.
Galer Traverse
Seattle Department of Transportation Stair #118, on Galer St between 4th Ave N and Bigelow. It's a reinforced concrete monolithic stair, with joined pipe railings.
One can cross Queen Anne via Galer St, and cover nine excellent stairways and a distance of just under two miles. Thomas Horton's excellent map provides a guide of the area.
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge is an unexpectedly high bridge conveying US-64 over the upper reaches of the Rio Grande. The detour to the nearest alternate crossing is a 46mi adventure on unpaved roads.
The top surface of the structure isn't exactly level, and it's certainly not overbuilt. However, it looks fantastic in the fading light of a New Mexico sunset.
Kasha Katuwe
This is the Kasha Katuwe slot canyon, in somewhat harsh midafternoon sun. It's a narrow and deep sandstone gorge, and would be both spectacular and dangerous in flood. The same area hosts hoodoos (tent rocks), including some that are quite phallic.
I look forward to scouring the continent for other slot canyons.
Yucca Baccata
Interesting bokeh covers the defocused background of this leaf detail. It's a banana yucca, with funky spiky swirls.
Rancho de Chimayó
Chili peppers hang on strings outside Rancho de Chimayó, a lovely restaurant run out of a family home on the high road to Taos. Their shadows fall on a wall finished with straw and mud.
Lunch was delicious, and it was the first time I'd had an excellent sopaipilla served as bread with a meal.
Waxing Moon
The waxing moon hangs over the almost cloudless New Mexico sky. After the last hint of sunset had disappeared, the land with its cloak of snow remained bright in the moonlight.
Ojo Caliente
Ojo Caliente is a beautiful and isolated hot springs resort in New Mexico. This is their large pool, adjacent to an arsenic spa. Paper lanterns (luminaria) decorate most walls, and stars and a near-full moon were all that was overhead.
Sunset, US-285
Unadjusted and straight off the camera, US-285 at sunset. A bit of snow from New Year's lingers in the north-facing shadows.
Georgia O'Keefe noted that the colors in New Mexico are completely different than in places east, and I agree.
Northwest Building Materials
At John St & Pontius Ave N, there's a mass of pretty siding and windows, tiled in an interesting arrangement to form an apartment block. It looks fantastic, although I wonder how the exterior lumber will age in the damp Northwest climate. Come back in 20 years to find out!
Google came by before it was fully erected. Next door stands an attractive 3-story walkup apartment - housing an intriguingly named business, Slut Apparel. Surprisingly, one can order shirts from them supporting the Seattle Lake Union Trolley!
Daily Dozen Donut Company
Yummy, delicious, fresh donuts. The Daily Dozen Donut Company is the place where donuts are born! Their automated machine drops in dough, floats them down the frying bath, and conveys them to be powdered or chocolate-sprinkled by hand.
You can't argue with Glady L. from Long Beach, whose Cambodian background and pregnant sister provide unquestionable authority supporting a five-star review.
Post Alley
Post Alley runs from the Pike Place Market down the hill towards Western Ave. It has hosted a big wall of old chewing gum, at least since 1993.
I quite enjoy driving down this public street and parting the waves of tourists. Invariably, they aren't expecting vehicular traffic, and freak out when confronted with oncoming headlights.
Thai Tom
Thai Tom is a tiny sliver of a storefront on University Avenue. Yes, it is actually only three motorcycle parking spots wide.
It has very positive reviews, which accurately reflect the high quality of the inexpensive dishes on offer. Speed of service is limited by the chef (there's only room for one) and this guy was a one-man-band, a dazzling orchestrator of woks, ingredients, and fire.
Here is a 1973 Plymouth Road Runner, a true bare-bones muscle car. The 440 cu in (7.2L!) V8 would certainly provide serious propulsion, via a 3-speed TorqueFlight automatic transmission.
The driving experience would be so completely different from a modern sports car. It would be fantastic taking her out for a spin...
Hudson, Georgetown
Competition for Calamity Jane's in Georgetown includes Hudson, a small brick building tucked off Marginal Way with a Plymouth Road Runner regularly parked out front.
The food was decent, and the ambiance was a bit quirky, with the gigantic bar overshadowing everything else inside.
Caffeinated Booze
This "specialty malt liquor" is Anheuser-Busch's version of Four Loko. It is 12% ABV, and has a bunch of caffeine too. These are 24oz single-serve cans (two regular beers), but at twice the alcohol content, are over four standardized drinks.
I'm not sure what they tastes like, but they're exciting enough to be banned in a number of states.
El Camino Conquista
The Chevy El Camino was a marvel of style and functionality. One must go to Australia to find utility coupes built in recent years, though they're called utes there.
This fifth generation Conquista (1978-1987) was spotted southbound on the I5 in Tacoma, in the final days of 2010. Note that it's a license plate sequence that's assigned to trucks!
Last trip up Granite Mountain we stayed along the ridgeline on the horizon, where it was quite windy. Back in November, there wasn't really enough snow to allow safe access to the summit via the ridge scramble.
This time I had a bit more time. Instead of joining five others that were gunning for the summit, I explored the bowl north and west of there. It was untouched, calm, and beautiful. The character of the snow was quite different than on the steep slopes.
Six weeks across Christmas brought quite a bit of snow to the western slopes of the Cascade range. I was close to the same location as in November - all that differs is a bit of parallax and perhaps five more feet of snow.
Another difference is that it was a brilliantly sunny day, and a lot colder.
Salish and Sepik
This panel, which faces both ways, was crafted by Coast Salish carver John Marston. He spent some time in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, exchanging techniques and ideas.
He came back with some Sepik rosewood, and carved this striking piece. The faces are an ambiguous cross between west coast native and Papua New Guinea tribal styles.
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CS:GO Pros Ramona Azween & Impression on making your shot count | Got Game
By Julius Tabios
Counter Strike: Global Offensive and its competitive scene are consistently growing. More and more players are joining the melee, and the prize pool for competitions has reached millions of dollars. MTV Asia spoke with two of Asia's rising CS:GO stars.
First up is Malaysia's Ramona Azween, a professional CS:GO player for all female team Tyloo.fe, who also happens to be a singer-songwriter.
MTV Asia: How did you get your start playing CS:GO and in the CS:GO scene?
Ramona: I've always loved the challenge of competitive gaming. I especially love it when people say that girls can't play games, because I feel like I've got something to prove. I love the grind of trying to become really good at whatever game I pick up and play. I am very competitive!
The main reason I started gaming would be due to my late brother. You know how when you're young and you've an older brother always playing games and enjoying himself, you just want to be part of that. It was our way of bonding. Gaming is just absolutely awesome. I've made many friends (and some frenemies), and I get to compete in front of a crowd every now and then.
Basically, I just really enjoy the adrenaline rush from competition, and if I'm not playing a competitive game at the moment, then I love to unwind by immersing myself in a really good RPG game. It's sort of like reading a fantasy book, but better. You get lost in another world.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Hello from Tyloo!🇲🇾🇨🇳
A post shared by Ramona Azween (@ramonaazween) on Sep 21, 2019 at 4:08am PDT
How is competing online and competing in a LAN different for you?
It's never the same. The feel and environment of competitive is much better in LAN tournaments, especially when it comes to the female competitive scene. It's much harder online because you never know for sure who's behind the computer.
What's your most memorable in-game CS:GO moment?
Playing with my best friends while representing Invasion Esports. Those were some fun tournaments! Shoutouts to Fluckz, m0n$taR, alecks.
I am grateful to have the opportunity to play and compete in one of the best powerhouse teams in Asia, Tyloo.fe!
You recently competed in Valencia and Shanghai. How was the experience?
It was awesome! Being able to compete at that top level, not just for yourself but also for your family and country, is really amazing. The esports facilities in China are world-class. We were treated not just as players, but also as professional athletes. I think that means a lot for all of us.
Assalamualaikum 🇲🇾, We are leaving to Valencia, Spain. Pray for our safe journey to @dreamhackcsgo valencia. We will be traveling for 21hours. And our first match will be on the 5th July. Info : https://dreamhack.com/showdown/groups-schedule/ Thank you @teammsia for the jerseys! And lastly thank you Malaysia, Insyallah til we meet again 🇲🇾. Photo credits : @teammsia #Orange.Sphynx
A post shared by Ramona Azween (@ramonaazween) on Jul 2, 2019 at 4:51pm PDT
The opportunity to compete against the world's best in Spain was a valuable experience for me. I've been playing competitive for 15 years, but the learning never stops. It's always been an uphill battle, and that motivates me each and every day. I want to keep working hard to have the chance to compete with the best again.
Interestingly, you play both music and gaming. Tell us about your music. In what ways do you find them complementary to each other?
I never really studied music. My family line comes from the entertainment industry. My mom was an actress back in the 80s, so it definitely runs in the family! :) I have always been passionate about my gaming, and when it comes to music it serves the same feeling each time I pick up my guitar or play the piano.
I write some Dota or CS:GO songs for fun in my free time. I actually have a radio single! I do this from my heart, which is why I only share them on my personal social media and never for the likes and views. Whenever I have the time away from gaming, it's always been music that's been my company.
Oh, of course my mom too!
What's next for you?
Currently my team and I (Tyloo.fe) just qualified for the top 8 (NEST PRO DIVINA Women's CS:GO Pro League); the next qualifier will be 14th October – 24th November, and the winner will represent Asia at the World Grand Finals in China in December.
We're also preparing for WESG China qualifier.
I hope that more female gamers will pick up gaming as their career. It doesn't matter if you compete in the male or female league, as long as you believe in your dreams and work hard towards achieving it, no matter what your effort will be rewarded.
Next, Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim is a veteran player in the CS:GO scene for nearly five years.
How did you get your start playing CS:GO and in the CS:GO scene?
I first started playing CS:GO back in 2013. I'd been a longtime fan of first-person shooters. My very first game was actually CS 1.3 way back when I was a wee child playing at local LAN centres – this was 18 years ago. I was a nobody when I first started playing CS:GO… I actually just got back into FPS games as I was competing in League of Legends and started playing CS:GO thanks to my elder sister asking me to join her.
I told her I would get the highest matchmaking rank achievable (The Global Elite) within two months, and actually achieved that rank just after one month of playing CS:GO. The game was just so much fun for me, and when the opportunity to play in competitions presented itself I immediately hopped onto it.
I rose to the top of Singapore's competitive scene, being one of the best players outside of the best team in Singapore a few years back. Eventually I joined that team, and after several years of success with them, together we were picked up by a professional esports organisation based in China. That's how I ended up playing for Big Time Regal Gaming as one of the only Singaporean CS:GO players to play professionally outside of Singapore.
How do you see the CS:GO scene progressing in the near future?
I think CS:GO is only gonna grow bigger. After going free to play, the game has garnered even more attention in both player base and viewers. There's plenty of tournaments and a LOT of competition between top-tier teams.
I believe many players are waiting on Valve to host something similar to DotA's The International for CS:GO. If and when that day arrives, CS:GO will truly prove itself as the uncontested, best spectator esport title of the decade, I'm sure of it.
How does it feel being an In-Game Leader? Walk us through the process.
I think as the IGL you're responsible for quite a good amount of things, especially since the CS culture in Asia is very different. There's a good amount of work that you have to put in, to build your team towards your strengths and to mitigate weaknesses. It's a good idea to set down rules, protocols and things to do on default, also known as the default way of playing the game: how to gain map control, get your team in a good position to properly get onto the target objective.
All in all the IGL's role is to ensure that the execution of your team's gameplay is both the most well-drilled one and at the same time the most flexible one – being able to adapt and call in-game strategies, tactics and evolving your game plan is essential to a IGL. There's honestly some additional pressure, you have to think for your team, think for yourself and at the same time focus on making sure your in-game mechanics are well-tuned. It's not super-easy to focus on your aim, take in information as well as process and make a call on that information all within about a minute. Keeping the team on track with mechanics, movement and morale is all a part of the game.
Tell us about your experience playing with Big Time Regal Gaming.
So far in BTRG I've had the pleasure of playing with some EU players, some Chinese and nowadays Indonesians. Playing with all these players has really taught me a lot. In terms of actual gameplay I feel amazing. Integrating playstyles and metagames from various regions, while working with players who all have a hunger to win, has truly been an educating experience.
Integrating myself into another society with a different culture while staying in Hangzhou, China was a really interesting experience as well. Right now I'm just working on stabilizing and improving even further, despite a few setbacks with roster changes and such, I personally won't stop until I've reached my own targets and goals. I believe that's closer to coming true, every day. Just gotta have the right mindset and mentality moving forward!
Soon we'll have the WESG SEA Finals, OMEN Challenger Series Indonesian Closed Qualifiers, and we have a couple of online tournaments here and there such as NESTPRO and ESL Pro League Asia-Pacific. It's going to be a busy Q4 for us, we're gonna work hard and hope for the very best.
Big shout-out to my family and friends who have been supporting me and my esports career since I started 10 years ago. My beautiful mum, cool dad, amazing sisters and gorgeous girlfriend for their understanding in what I chose to do, what I take pride in, what I've decided to dedicate my early adult years to.
CS:GO has truly been my heart and soul… as I type, I can't wait to get into another game.
Get your CS:GO fix at the Grand Finals of the Asia-Pacific Omen Challenger Series 2019, set to hit Jakarta on November 1–3. The top twelve teams will compete for their share of the US$50,000 prize pool. Visit omengaming.co for more info!
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Head of Communication, Technologies and Business Transformation
Welcome - thank you for your interest in our role.
We are looking to appoint to the pivotal position of Head of Communication, Technologies and Business Transformation for Ryedale District Council; this role is a career enhancing opportunity for a communications professional who has a proven record of strategic leadership, together with the ingenuity and ambition to showcase Ryedale.
Ryedale is a diverse and beautiful area of spectacular scenery, bustling market towns, dale and hill farms, and picturesque villages. However we are much more than beautiful! We are an ambitious and forward looking Council, we have set out our direction and vision to ensure we meet our challenges and also seize opportunities to enhance Ryedale District as a great place to live, visit and do business.
This role will further build the reputation of Ryedale District Council on a regional, national and international stage enabling us to realise our ambitions working with partners, agencies and communities. Internally through employee engagement and strong multi-layered staff communication the post holder will enhance our reputation as an employer of choice. This role plays a vital role in community consultation, engagement, working with local politicians and raising awareness with the residents we serve by keeping them informed, engaged and enabling their voice to be instrumental in the design, development and delivery of services.
With no overall controlling political party, the political context at Ryedale is not without challenge, however members are united in their commitment and ambition for Ryedale and resolute in their ambition for the future.
This high profile position will lead and manage the strategic direction and operational implementation of an integrated proactive approach to internal, external and electronic communication and IT technology. This requires the delivery of high performing and innovative communication service together with the ability to strategic commission IT service and resources. Utilising a full range of services, from communications via strong relationships with the media, through to seizing the opportunities of modern communication technologies, such as those offered by social media; you will lead our digital and online presence, including our corporate website.
As a communications professional you will support service changes and customer campaigns to change behaviour, build a profile for the council, manage its reputation as well as use crisis management skills to respond effectively. Striking the balance between communications designed to manage risk, instilling a sense of calm and conversely at times, bold, innovative communications that excites and invigorates!
You will be adept at proactive and reactive communication strategies; skilfully leading crisis communication responses to critical and emergency situations, whilst also expertly identify opportunities to prepare the ground for future strategic approaches. You will form strong and collaborative partnerships across the region, particularly with health, police and other emergency services.
To be successful in the role you will have a track record of leading successful communications services within a large and complex organisation, alongside in-depth knowledge of political and public sector landscapes and the communication challenges this naturally presents.
This is an exciting opportunity to make an impact at a time when we have strong and stable leadership with great ambition for our future.
If you are up to the challenge, we look forward to receiving your application.
Stacey Burlet
Chief Executive, Ryedale District Council Tony Galloway
Interim Deputy Chief Executive, Ryedale District Council
▼ About Ryedale District Council
Ryedale District Council is committed to continuing doing what matters for Ryedale through prioritising and achieving sustainable growth, focussing on customers and communities and demonstrating a ‘One Ryedale' approach.
We are an ambitious Council, passionate about our communities and the services we deliver. Providing services for circa 53,000 residents, local businesses and the many visitors to the area Ryedale district covers an area of 585 square miles and is one of the seven districts that make up North Yorkshire.
The Council is recognised regionally as an exemplar for its planning services and is keen to work in partnerships where possible. We benefit from the work of the Local Enterprise Partnership, ensuring we have a seat at the negotiating table.
You would be joining us at an exciting time, a time when we are moving our Vision further forward and turning that vision into a reality. We have an ambitious programme for economic growth with a commitment to create a more enterprising culture and to realise our significant economic growth opportunities. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and we are also bringing in new ways of working, co-developing services and supporting our residents and communities to access our services in different ways and promoting self-resilience.
Ryedale is the second safest local authority area in England. Safer Ryedale, the community safety partnership have developed effective multi-agency working and support a network of neighbourhood watch schemes. These groups are the eyes and ears of the Council across the district.
The Council has put in place a financial strategy to ensure long-term financial stability, the achievement of value for money and funding for priorities, we have the opportunity to invest in our future to maximise the benefit to the communities of Ryedale.
The Council has an ambitious agenda to deliver its priorities over the coming years as clearly articulated in the Corporate Plan 2017 to 2022. It is essential to address the continuing austerity measures, realise our economic growth opportunities, be at the forefront of the evolving devolution agenda and to fulfil its ambition to make Ryedale a great place to do business, to enjoy life and to make a difference.
Our services are designed around our customer's needs and we both deliver and commission solutions with those best placed to deliver services on our behalf, achieving efficiencies and resilience in return. When we engage with residents about priorities for the future, a consistent message is that good jobs and a thriving economy are vital to the quality of life for residents of Ryedale, but this must be balanced against maintaining the quality of the local environment which is highly valued. This message is particularly strong from young people.
Some of our key ambitions include:
Making the Ryedale district a great place to do business - securing new investment in the district, improving employment opportunities and working with education providers to support people accessing training and education that will skill them for work.
Making the Ryedale district a great place to enjoy life - improving the supply of housing and healthy life choices.
Making the Ryedale district a great place to make a difference - empowering and involving people in decisions about their area and their services, enabling people to get involved, volunteer and contribute to delivering services locally and facilitating people to access and use alternative service delivery channels.
For more information about Ryedale District Council please visit www.ryedale.gov.uk.
▼ About the locality - stunning Ryedale and North Yorkshire
Nestling between the City of York and heritage coastline, Ryedale has the North York Moors National Park form the northern border of the district and the Yorkshire Wolds the southern limit.
Comprising Helmsley, Kirbymoorside, Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and Pickering, Ryedale District has much to offer. An area of stunning contrasts and outstanding beauty, offering one of the most diverse landscapes in England. Filled with historical monuments, bustling market towns, stunning moorland and open countryside offering many opportunities for walkers and cyclists, and those that enjoy a little something more extreme!
Ryedale boasts the largest range of adventurous activities in Northern England. Our great golf courses, rivers to fish, or perhaps the regions watersports, gliding and rock climbing offer the exhilaration you are looking for? In nearby Dalby Forest, star watching events suitable for families take place throughout the autumn and winter months.
New to North Yorkshire?
As the largest county in the country we really do have it all… wide open spaces, traditional market towns, coastal resorts, quaint rural villages, vibrant cities and simply stunning rural landscapes not least within our two national parks. There are a wide range of shopping, leisure and cultural facilities as well as excellent schools, universities, road and rail links, there really is everything to offer you and your family as a place to work, live and enjoy! Our history of strong educational attainment, safe communities, low unemployment, rich heritage and culture offer a variety of pastoral pursuits that makes North Yorkshire a residence of choice.
Travelling further afield we have convenient connectivity, with a little over two hours commute on the main train line to London or Edinburgh!
For further information regarding the region take a look at www.yorkshire.com and www.visitryedale.co.uk.
▼ About the role
Job title: Head of Communication, Technologies and Business Transformation
Location: Malton, Ryedale, North Yorkshire
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £51,123 to £58,597
The role of Head of Communication, Technologies and Business Transformation for Ryedale District Council is a career enhancing opportunity.
As a council we recognise the importance of investing in our communications function, maximising the internal and external benefits of keeping people informed and engaging with a wide range of partners, communities and vitally, the public.
As a result we are looking for an experienced and innovative Head of Communication, Technologies and Business Transformation who can provide pro-active and creative strategic input and leadership locally, regionally and beyond.
As Head of Communication, Technologies and Business Transformation, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of a high quality communications strategy and addressing specific areas of improvement, providing the media channels and platforms which enable the council to realise its aspirations in both the short and long term. You will lead a high performing service with modern innovative approaches. You will use the resources available to you through partnership working to maximise breadth of impact.
You will work closely with the Senior Management Team and Elected Members to ensure that the Council’s reputation is maintained and enhanced through effective engagement with members, partners, residents, staff and stakeholders. This will include proactive promotion of the Council Plan priorities.
To be successful in the role you will have a track record of leading successful communications strategies, have a strong awareness of IT capability and functionality within a complex organisation, alongside in-depth knowledge of political and public sector landscape and the communication challenges this naturally presents. Strong leadership skills are needed to elevate the role of communications across the organisation and perform a critical element of achieving the organisation’s objectives.
With strong communication and engagement skills and the ability to think creatively you will use your presence to influence and lead people through a fast period of change and enhance the reputation and image of the council through transparency and openness.
Partnership working is integral to what we do, and a key part of the role will be to understand the practical and political challenges of working across a complex organisation and with a range of partners, bringing a sophisticated and agile approach to a busy and multi-faceted agenda.
You will be challenged with becoming a key strategic enabler, quickly winning the respect of colleagues and partners in order to successfully drive through the necessary changes and embed communications as a strategic, proactive and core function of the council.
This is a unique opportunity that requires both versatility and resilience, offering a professional challenge that the right person will relish as well as genuine opportunity to make a real difference to the communities of Ryedale.
Whilst benefiting from the beautiful countryside, commuting to Ryedale and our head office in Malton is easier than you might imagine, and with agile modern working practice this opportunity presents an ambitious communication professional with an enviable out of work lifestyle to match a progressive career.
Job description and person specification
Council plan 2017 - 2022
For an informal discussion about this opportunity we encourage applicants to contact Tony Galloway - Deputy Chief Executive on 01653 600666 ext 43203.
For a discussion regarding the recruitment process please contact Sarah France-Gorton, our recruitment partner, on 01609 798106.
To apply please send your CV including a personal statement in one Microsoft Word document to sarah.france-gorton@northyorks.gov.uk by midnight on Sunday 7 July 2019.
It is important that your CV includes: your full contact details (telephone, email, address), full employment history (name of employer, job titles, dates of employment and salary), full education history (qualification, grade, dates and place of study), explanation of any gaps in employment and the contact details of at least two referees including your current / most recent employer indicating whether you provide us with the authority to contact each referee prior to interview.
Your personal statement should outline your motivation for applying and how you meet the criteria for the role.
We will not accept applications from agencies.
This is a politically restricted post.
Closing date: Sunday 7 July 2019
Shortlisting date: Monday 8 July 2019
Assessment event: Wednesday 24 July 2019
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Ryedale District Council, June 2019
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Primary hydatid cyst in gastrocnemius muscle
Saswata Bharati, Mrityunjay Pal
Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgery, Midnapore Medical College, West Bengal, India
Mrityunjay Pal
Department of Surgery, Midnapore Medical College, West Bengal
Cystic echinococcosis, which is caused by the larval stages of Echinococcus granulosus, results from the presence of one or more massive cysts or hydatids, and can involve any organ, including the liver, lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, and long bones. Muscle hydatidosis is usually secondary in nature, resulting from spread of larval tissue from a primary site after spontaneous or trauma-induced cyst rupture or after release of viable parasite material during invasive treatment procedures. Primary muscle hydatidosis is extremely uncommon, because implantation at this site would require passage through the filters of the liver and lung. Intramuscular hydatid cyst can cause a variety of diagnostic problems, especially in the absence of typical radiologic findings. We present an unusual case of a primary hydatid cyst found in the popliteal fossa of the right knee of a 52-year-old woman, presenting as an enlarging soft-tissue tumor for 6 months associated with pain. The mass initially was diagnosed to be Backer's cyst by ultrasonography, but later it was confirmed postoperatively through histopathological studies to be due to hydatid disease. In regions where hydatidosis is endemic, hydatid cyst should be included in the differential diagnosis of any unusual muscular mass.
Keywords: Echinococcus , muscle hydatidosis, popliteal fossa, primary hydatid cyst, scolicidal agent
Bharati S, Pal M. Primary hydatid cyst in gastrocnemius muscle. Niger J Surg 2012;18:19-21
Bharati S, Pal M. Primary hydatid cyst in gastrocnemius muscle. Niger J Surg [serial online] 2012 [cited 2020 Jan 22];18:19-21. Available from: http://www.nigerianjsurg.com/text.asp?2012/18/1/19/95479
Hydatid disease, which is a zoonotic infection caused by larval forms (metacestodes) of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus found in the small intestine of carnivores, still remains an important health problem in endemic regions. [1],[2] Two of the four recognized species of Echinococcus: E. granulosus and E. multilocularis, cause cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) in humans, respectively. The eggs of these tapeworms excreted by carnivores may infect humans as natural intermediate host. [2] The disease results from the development of the larval or hydatid form in the body. Hydatid cysts, which generally involve the liver and the lungs, are uncommonly found in muscles; even in endemic zones. [2] Exclusive involvement of the muscles is extremely uncommon, because implantation at this site would require passage through the filters of the liver and lung. We describe a patient with a mass in the popliteal fossa of the knee for 6 months who was seen for pain and was found to have hydatid disease.
A 52-year-old female patient presented to the surgical out patient department (OPD) with the chief complaints of swelling of the right calf region associated with pain for six months. The swelling was gradually increasing in size. The pain was aggravated on walking. On examination, no associated tenderness was found. The radius of the swelling was 10 cm. The cyst did not disappear or reduce on flexion of the knee joint. Illumination test was negative. Fluctuation was present. Skin over the swelling was normal. X-ray of knee joint did not reveal any abnormality. Ultrasonography (USG) suggested atypical Backer's cyst while color Doppler test did not detect any abnormality [Figure 1] and [Figure 2]. Routine blood tests (Hb%, total and differential leukocyte counts, serum creatinine and urea level, and fasting blood glucose) were found within normal limit. Chest X-ray (PA view) and electrocardiogram were also found within normal limit. She was planned for excision of cyst under spinal anesthesia.
Figure 1: Right upper calf muscle showing the cystic cavity
Figure 2: Lateral aspect of right upper calf muscle
She was explained with the nature of operation and anesthesia and a written consent was taken. She was given tab. alprazolam 0.25 mg at the night before the operation. On arrival to the operating room, an infusion of lactated Ringer's solution was established and was put with routine monitoring, viz., electrocardiogram, noninvasive blood pressure, and oxygen arterial saturation. She was prepared for spinal anesthesia after preloading with Ringer's Lactate at 10 ml/kg. Spinal anesthesia was given at sitting posture at L3-L4 inter-space using 25G Quincke spinal needle and 2.5 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine. The operation was done in prone position. Multiple lobular cysts were found within a large cystic cavity on opening of the calf muscle through longitudinal incision. She was given injection hydrocortisone 100 mg and injection chlorpromazine intravenously on suspicion of hydatid cyst. Savlon® was used as scolicidal agent because of the risk of spillage. The cyst was excised totally which contained 22 daughter cysts. The diagnosis of muscular hydatidosis was confirmed by histopathologic examination. Later, USG of liver was done which did not reveal presence of any space occupying lesion suggestive of hydatid cyst.
The postoperative course was uneventful and she was discharged from hospital on postoperative day 4. The patient received adjuvant oral treatment with albendazole (400 mg twice daily; each course lasting 4 weeks, being interrupted by 2 weeks off therapy) for 6 months for prevention of recurrences. Total and differential leukocyte count (to diagnose leukopenia and eosinophilia) and serum transaminase levels were monitored during the therapy. The reports were found to be within normal limits. One year after the operation during follow-up visit she was found to be in good health and without any signs of recurrence.
Muscle hydatidosis is uncommon, accounting only for 3-5% of all cases [3],[4] and is usually secondary to hepatic or pulmonary disease. Most of the cases reported quadriceps, [3],[5] gluteus, [6] trapezius, [7] psoas, [8] erector spinae, [9] biceps femoris, [3],[10] adductor brevis, [11] infraspinatus, [3] biceps brachii, [6],[12] and triceps branchii [3] as the muscles of involvement. Muscle hydatidosis involving gastrocnemius muscle in the popliteal fossa is very rare. Till now only two cases were reported. [3],[13] Our case is different from them as it was diagnosed intraoperatively and managed accordingly.
Usually, intramuscular hydatid cysts are secondary, resulting either from the spread of cysts or viable larval tissue after spontaneous or trauma-induced cyst rupture or after operations for hydatidosis in distant regions. [1] Several factors would explain the exceptional nature of muscle localizations of hydatid cysts: Efficacy of the hepatic and pulmonary barriers, unfavorable muscle environment for the growth of hydatid larvae due to high lactic acid content and muscle's contractility which hinders intramuscular growth of cysts. [4] The predominant localization in the proximal muscles of the lower limbs could be explained by the volume of the muscle mass and its rich blood supply.
It is important to establish the diagnosis preoperatively in order limit the risk of anaphylactic shock or dissemination of viable protoscolices in the event of puncture or accidental opening of the cyst during resection. Chest radiography, USG, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are all can be used to depict hydatid cyst. However, the imaging method to be used depends on the organ involved and the growth stage of the cyst. Intramuscular hydatid disease can cause a variety of diagnostic problems, especially in the absence of typical radiologic findings. That happened in our case also, where the USG wrongly suggested the presence of Backer's cyst. Nevertheless, USG is the diagnostic tool of choice for the initial work-up and is particularly useful for detection of the floating membranes, daughter cysts, and hydatid sand in purely cystic lesions. [14] It is also used for staging and classification of E. granulosus infection. [15] CT is best for detecting cyst wall calcification and revealing the internal cystic structure posterior to calcification, and is the modality of choice in peritoneal seeding. [16] Both, CT and MR imaging can detect cyst wall defects as well as the complications such as rupture and infection of cysts. [16]
Immunodiagnosis can also play an important complementary role for primary diagnosis and also for follow-up of patients after surgical or pharmacological treatment. Detection of circulating E. granulosus antigens in sera is less sensitive than antibody detection, which remains the method of choice. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), the indirect immunofluorescence antibody test, immunoelectrophoresis (IEP), and immunoblotting (IB) are the routine laboratory tests used for serological diagnosis. The sensitivity and specificity of these tests vary according to the nature and source of the antigens used. In different studies when AgB was used as antigen, both ELISA and IB have shown specificity up to 100% and sensitivity up to 89% and 92%, respectively, in CE. [17]
Complete surgical treatment offers best hope for permanent cure and should include excision of the primary lesion, the daughter cysts and the communicating fistulas as a whole specimen. [1] However, extension of cyst in different muscle layers through communicating fistulas involving different muscle groups may cause difficulty in complete excision and also spillage of daughter cysts resulting in recurrence. Concomitant drug treatment with antihelminthics such as albendazole or praziquantel reduces the risk of secondary echinococcosis and recurrence. [1],[18] Prior injection of a scolicidal agent into the unopened cyst and mopping the operative field with sponges soaked in a scolicidal agent are the two most commonly employed measures. Hypertonic saline (15-20%), cetrimide (0.5%), chlorhexidine, hydrogen peroxide, and ethyl alcohol (70-95%) are some of the compounds used as scolicidal. [1] We used Savlon® as scolicidal agent because of its ready availability in the operation theatre. Also Savlon® has been proved to be the least concentration dependent and most effective scolicidal agent. [19]
Muscular hydatidosis is very rare and can cause difficulty in diagnosis, especially in the absence of typical radiological findings. The possibility of hydatid disease should always be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of a cystic mass in the muscle, especially in endemic areas to avoid fine-needle biopsy and the consequences of spillage of cyst contents.
Debashree Golder, Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, B.K.C College, Kolkata, India.
1. Guidelines for treatment of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in humans. WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis. Bull World Health Organ 1996;74:231-42.
2. Eckert J, Deplazes P. Biological, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of echinococcosis, a zoonosis of increasing concern. Clin Microbiol Rev 2004;17:107-35.
3. Gougoulias NE, Varitimidis SE, Bargiotas KA, Dovas TN, Karydakis G, Dailiana ZH. Skeletal muscle hydatid cysts presenting as soft tissue masses. Hippokratia 2010;14:126-30.
4. García-Alvarez F, Torcal J, Salinas JC, Navarro A, García-Alvarez I, Navarro-Zorraquino M, et al. Musculoskeletal hydatid disease: A report of 13 cases. Acta Orthop Scand 2002;73:227-31.
5. Ozkoç G, Akpinar S, Hersekli MA, Ozalay M, Tandoðan R. Primary hydatid disease of the quadriceps muscle: A rare localization. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 2003;123:314-6.
6. Ates M, Karakaplan M. Hydatid cyst in the biceps and gluteus muscles: Case report. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2007;8:475-8.
7. Calò PG, Tatti A, Tuveri M, Farris S, Nicolosi A. Hydatid cyst of trapezius muscle: An unusual localisation. Report of a case and review of the literature. Chir Ital 2007;59:873-6.
8. Bilanoviæ D, Zdravkoviæ D, Randjeloviæ T, Toskoviæ B, Gaciæ J. Lesion of the femoral nerve caused by a hydatid cyst of the right psoas muscle. Srp Arh Celok Lek 2010;138:502-5.
9. Atalay F, Orug T, Arda K, Tosun O, Atalay F. An unusual case of hydatid disease located in the erector spinae muscle. JBR-BTR 2003;86:329-31
10. Hamdi MF, Touati B, Abid A. Primary hydatid cyst of the biceps femoris. Musculoskelet Surg 2010;94:59-61.
11. Acar A, Rodop O, Yenilmez E, Baylan O, Oncül O. Case report: Primary localization of a hydatid cyst in the adductor brevis muscle. Turkiye Parazitol Derg 2009;33:174-6.
12. Karapinar H, Yaðdi S, Durmuº K, Sener M. Primary hydatid disease of the biceps brachii. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2008;17:e6-8.
13. Seijas R, Catalán-Larracoechea JM, Ares-Rodríguez O, Joshi N, de la Fuente JP, Pérez-Domínguez M. Primary hydatid cyst of skeletal muscle affecting the knee: A case report. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 2009;129:39-41.
14. Turgut AT, Akhan O, Bhatt S, Dogra VS. Sonographic spectrum of hydatid disease. Ultrasound Q 2008;24:17-29.
15. WHO Informal Working Group. International classification of ultrasound images in cystic echinococcosis for application in clinical and field epidemiological settings. Acta Trop 2003;85:253-61.
16. Pedrosa I, Saíz A, Arrazola J, Ferreirós J, Pedrosa CS. Hydatid disease: Radiologic and pathologic features and complications. Radiographics 2000;20:795-817.
17. Zhang W, Li J, McManus DP. Concepts in immunology and diagnosis of hydatid disease. Clin Microbiol Rev 2003;16:18-36.
18. Shams-Ul-Bari, Arif SH, Malik AA, Khaja AR, Dass TA, Naikoo ZA. Role of albendazole in the management of hydatid cyst liver. Saudi J Gastroenterol 2011;17:343-7.
19. Besim H, Karayalçin K, Hamamci O, Güngör C, Korkmaz A. Scolicidal agents in hydatid cyst surgery. HPB Surg 1998;10:347-51.
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41 CASES OF DENGUE: NEW CALEDONIA OFFICIALS
NOUMÉA, New Caledonia (June 4, 2002 - Oceania Flash)---The mosquito-borne dengue fever epidemic that was declared last month in New Caledonia has increased in intensity, with 41 cases now officially accounted for, the daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes reported.
Last week, the French Pacific territory's health officials repeated warnings to the general public to help eliminate mosquitoes’ most common breeding grounds, such as still water in old tires.
The Pasteur Institute, which is closely evaluating the situation, said the rate of new cases of the type 1 dengue transmitted by the Aedes mosquito is now about "two to three" a day.
In the capital, Nouméa, five insecticide-spraying trucks cover the urban area daily, particularly at sunrise and dusk, the mosquitoes' favorite time for biting.
"Whenever a new dengue case is identified, we kill all mosquitoes in the area surrounding the house, so as to avoid any further probability of propagation,"...
FIJI PM QARASE IN TALKS TO CONSIDER LETTING INDIANS SHARE POWER
SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 5, 2002 – The Canberra Times)---Fiji's indigenous Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase met today with Indian Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry -- overthrown as head of government two years ago -- and discussed the possibility of a multi-racial government.
"The half-hour meeting was fruitful. This is the first official meeting we have had together," Mr. Qarase told reporters, adding the two men would hold further talks during the weekend.
Mr. Qarase and Mr. Chaudhry are embroiled in court battles over the Prime Minister's refusal to invite Mr. Chaudhry's ethnic Indian Fiji Labour Party into government after elections in 2001.
Under Fiji's constitution, Mr. Chaudhry won enough seats at the election to be included in government, but Mr. Qarase has barred him from Cabinet, arguing Fiji was best ruled by indigenous Fijians.
Mr. Chaudhry's multi-ethnic government was overthrown in 2000, marking the third coup of an Indo-Fijian government...
CONGRESSPERSON MINK FROM HAWAI‘I INTRODUCES LEGISLATION PERTAINING TO
EDUCATION OF MICRONESIAN CHILDREN IN U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 9, 2002 – Yokwe Online)---Representative Patsy Mink of Hawai‘i introduced legislation last month that would allow schools to count Freely Associated States children living in the United States for the purpose of obtaining impact aid funding.
In her address before Congress, Mrs. Mink stated that in "exchange" for the "sacrifice" of military alliance and defense measures, the U.S. has given the FAS citizens the right to freely enter the United States without visas and establish "habitual residence."
According to the Representative, 115,247 Micronesians now live in the U.S. and the "public schools accept the financial burden for educating Micronesian children, even though the federal government created this obligation and should pay for it."
Mrs. Mink declared that it is unfair to make the innocent Micronesian children unwelcome pawns of our national defense policy. "Our nation is responsible...
BILL TO CUT NUMBER OF GUAM HOLIDAYS CONSIDERED
By Michael M. Kilayko
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TÃA, Guam (June 27, 2002 – Pacific Daily News)---The private and public sectors have mixed reactions to a proposed bill to cut the number of government of Guam holidays.
Speaker Tony Unpingco, R-Santa Rita, and Sen. Eddie Calvo, R-Maite, introduced Bill 343 Monday, which would reduce the number of GovGuam holidays from 15 to 10.
In addition, the bill provides for one "floating holiday" for each GovGuam worker, an additional paid day off each year that is selected by the employee.
Unpingco said the bill would cut costs by $2.4 million and add 500,000 government work hours annually, which will help the government handle revenues that continue to shrink.
Unpingco is running for governor in the fall election, and Calvo is his running mate.
"The full benefits of Bill 343 will not be realized in this fiscal year but will help considerably for fiscal 2003," Unpingco said in a press release.
Proposals to cut the...
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND
WEST PAPUA'S RIGHT TO INDEPENDENCE
For a class at the Western New England College School of Law (in Springfield, Massachusetts USA) I wrote a mock brief for the International Court of Justice, arguing that international law gives West Papua the right to declare an independent state.
The premise was that the U.N. General Assembly was asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on independence, refugees, the "Act of Free Choice," and the suspension of human rights. Other students wrote on the other questions, and I've asked the students who wrote for the West Papua side to share their papers on the Internet.
At the moment, only my paper is available. It's at: http://homepage.mac.com/peterwagner/papua_independ_wagner.pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
It's not a real legal document, but an academic...
SEA GRANT LEGISLATION PASSES U.S. HOUSE BY 407 - 2
CONGRESSMAN ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA American Samoa U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
NEWS RELEASE June 19, 2002
Congressman Eni Faleomavaega announced today that H.R. 3389, the National Sea Grant College Program Act Amendments of 2002, passed the House by a vote of 407 – 2.
"The National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) was established in 1966 to improve marine resource conservation and management," Congressman Faleomavaega said. "The program is patterned after the Land Grant College Program and currently there are 30 Sea Grant College programs that represent more than 300 academic institutions."
"In March of last year, I introduced legislation which would increase authorization for the National Sea Grant College program. Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Fisheries, was kind enough to hold a hearing on the matter and subsequently offered H.R. 3389."
"I am particularly pleased that this amendment...
PNG PM SIR MEKERE STILL AHEAD IN CONSTITUENCY VOTING
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (June 24, 2002 – NAU-FM/PINA Nius Online)---Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta last night still led the close vote for the Moresby North-West constituency in the Papua New Guinea general elections.
Sir Mekere (the People’s Democratic Movement leader) led People’s National Congress Party challenger Miria Ikupu by 650, according to figures from the Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission.
Constituencies in the National Capital District are the first being counted as voting across the country enters its second and final week.
The results come after a first week marred in some parts of the country -- notably in the Highlands -- by violence, security fears, and allegations of irregularities.
In other parts of the country, such as the Central and Gulf province areas, voting is reported to have proceeded smoothly.
Power failures and security concerns delayed the counting in Port Moresby.
Almost 3,000 candidates...
22 FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES CITIZENS TO UNDERGO U.S. MILITARY TRAINING
By Bernadette H. Carreon For Variety
KOROR, Palau (June 26, 2002 - Palau Horizon/Marianas Variety)---Twenty-two Palauans and Yapese will undergo military training this year, having successfully passed the rigorous screening of the United States armed forces.
Last week a U.S. Navy enlisting officer swore in Lance Wally, a Palau Community College student.
The 22 new recruits will undergo nine weeks of basic training at camps in the U.S.
Willy Pizarro of the Navy Recruiting Station on Guam said more recruiters will arrive in Palau this November to administer the aptitude test.
Every year, the Honolulu Military Entrance Processing Station administers the Arms Service Vocational Aptitude Battery Test to the citizens of the Freely Associated States -- Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap.
If they obtain the qualifying score in the aptitude test, the new recruits will then undergo...
PAPUAN STUDENTS ON HUNGER STRIKE OVER THEYS’ MURDER
JAKARTA, Indonesia (June 22, 2002 – Lasamana.net/Kabar-Irian)---Seven university students from Papua province are staging a hunger strike in Jakarta to protest the government's failure to bring the killers of Papuan independence leader Theys Hiyo Eluay to justice.
The seven members of the Papua Students National Front (FNMP) began the hunger strike on Thursday.
Two of the protesters, Robert Manaly from Central Java's Unika University and Fifi Novia from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, were admitted Saturday to Jakarta's Cikini Hospital after they fainted due to dehydration.
Their five associates, Hans Gebse, Meti Ronsumbre, Margareta Karoway, Diana Gwijangge and Icon, are continuing the hunger strike in front of the headquarters of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM).
"We won't stop our protest until our demand is met or until the medical team decides that our colleagues are not fit to continue," FNMP spokesman Charles Imbir was...
BETTER PAY TO RETAIN STAFF, PACIFIC MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS TOLD BY SIKIVOU
SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 12, 2002 – Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch)---Media organizations need to pay their journalists well in order to retain them, says Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA) chief executive Jese Sikivou.
The Daily Post reports Sikivou also warned local journalists that they needed to broaden their horizons to survive growing competition in the Fiji media.
Sikivou was speaking at the Fiji National Commission for UNESCO's National Media Symposium on Monday, when news organization and training representatives met to discuss future needs.
Sikivou said media organizations and the journalists needed to work in partnership.
He said while the call by the media organizations for more training and improvement was justified, the heads of media outlets needed to take a look at what they were paying their journalists, particularly the incoming ones.
Sikivou stressed that if journalists continued to be paid little, media...
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Commentary: When we lived in Peru, my mother remembers getting mugged every Friday when it was payday. We all lived together and tried to make ends meet, but it was a really hard living situation. My parents wanted to come here to give us better opportunities. And my father valued education a lot and he wanted us to have the best education we could get here in America. I went to secondary school in East Haven and then got a degree in Political Science from Central Connecticut State University. I just graduated!
Immigration is a huge problem, but there are so many facets to it. It’s not simply people crossing over. It’s why they are crossing over. It’s how they are crossing over. It’s finding ways for people to migrate safely and for them to stay here safely. It’s for them to have a voice when they are here, not to live hidden, not to live scared. And that is a problem. People don’t come forward with so many of the crimes that happen to them because of their status. And that’s not okay because you can’t hurt others just because you see them as inferior. I am very passionate about making more people aware of the issues facing immigrants.
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Posted by Kristina Killgrove May 16, 2014
The Drama in the Queen
A candidate for mom-of-the-year tries to convince her 6-year-old to hang out in a well so they can get famous when she's rescued. The mom goes down instead and finds a skeletonized body. The well is in Ellicott City, Maryland, but there's no indication as to why the FBI needs to get involved. Still, Sweets is leading the investigation because apparently that's what he does now in addition to being a wunderkind psychological profiler.
I could have picked a number of different pictures of
this episode, but... hot swimmer bod. You're welcome.
Hodgins finds blowflies and flesh flies, suggesting time of death was about 5 days prior. The size of the femoral head tells Brennan the victim was male, and the lack of marked lipping on the dorsal border of the pubic symphysis leads her to estimate he was in his early 40s. The bones are encrusted with coins from having come into contact with the bottom of the limestone well.
Back at the Jeffersonian, Brennan complains that she cannot tell perimortem from postmortem injuries because of all the coins adhering to the skeleton. The new intern, Jessica Warren, notes that the greater and lesser tubercles of the humeri are enlarged, as are the heads of both femora. Irregularity in the coracoid processes of both scapulae suggest a strain in his upper arm muscles, so Warren and Brennan think he may have been a swimmer. Saroyan doesn't find any drugs on the tox screen.
Angela gets a hit off the missing persons database: Brian Thomas, 43, a swim coach at fictional Knox Community College in Maryland. His wife, Lila, reported him missing but isn't sure when she saw him last because she works nights and he spent long hours at the pool. Brian reported some of his students for hazing, so Brennan and Sweets head to the pool to question Avery Parish. Parish has asymmetrical posture from limited mobility in his glenohumeral joint, or swimmer's shoulder. His friend, Quentin Marks, has poor hearing, which Brennan thinks is from prolonged exposure to pool water. Both are getting scholarships to four-year universities because of swim team. Another female swimmer suggests that Coach Gabby Morrell may have been sleeping with Brian Thomas. She denies the affair but thought that Brian may have been having one since she smelled perfume and found a gaudy earring in his car when he drove her home.
At the lab, Warren is working on removing the coins and staining from the bones so that she and Brennan can assess the injuries. Warren uses pineapple juice, which contains bromelain, to break down the proteins and remove the flesh. After doing that, she finds a fracture to the superior aspect of the acetabulum and another to the ilium suggestive of a fall down the well. She also finds perimortem fracturing to the left humerus and to the posterior surfaces of the 9th, 10th, and 11th left ribs. Lumbar vertebrae 4 and 5 are also shattered, which would have caused paralysis. Further, the calcaneus seems to have been driven backward, causing chipping to the cuboid, suggesting a feet-first fall down the well. Bony enlargement at the end of the left 1st metatarsal shows a hallux abducto valgus deformity: a bunion. And a hairline Lisfranc fracture in the midfoot is often the result of someone stumbling over plantarflexed feet, as women can while wearing high heels. Osteophytes on the anterosuperior edges of vertebrae T1-3 show continued stress to the upper back.
Angela finds that Brian bought dinner every Friday night at the same place. No one there recognizes a picture of him, but Brennan and Booth realize what's across from the restaurant: a drag club called Madam's Apple. Brian was dressing as a drag queen every week; the osteophytes apparently resulted from the weight of his fake breasts. Brennan and Booth talk to the owner, Destiny Childs, who suggests Kimmy Moore was upset at Brian, who went by Jenny while in drag, for taking her spot. Kimmy denies it and shows that she wasn't in a fight; Brian's 3rd and 4th metacarpals show he had gotten a "fight bite" (NB: do not click that link unless you're ok with pus!) two to three weeks prior. An alloy of copper and zinc plus plastic in the wound lead the team to think Brian was hit with a pipe. Fortunately, Angela finds footage of the fight from the convenience store camera. Brian, in drag, got into a fight with plumber Joe Rizzo. Joe admits to the fight, which occurred when he accused Brian/Jenny of stealing his credit card information. Hodgins and Warren test their pipe theory with meat-and-gelatin puppets but get nowhere. Madam's Apple, Angela finds out, has free wifi, and when Sweets brings him in, the club owner Destiny Childs admits to stealing from his customers. But he had stopped several weeks ago.
Brennan and Warren continue to search for the murder weapon and cause of death. They realize that the injuries sustained were not blunt force but rather projectile trauma mimicking blunt force trauma because it occurred while Brian was in the pool. Bullets will slow and deform enough to mimic blunt force trauma at a depth of about 8 feet. He was likely shot with a hollow-point bullet from a .45. At the pool, the team finds a nick in one of the lane dividers, which accounts for the plastic in the trace swab Hodgins did. Brennan finds traces of blood in a towel hamper that was likely used to move the body. They question Gabby Morrell again; she does own a .45 and has a key to the pool but insists she only uses the gun for target practice. When Hodgins finds a bullet fragment in the drain, it all comes together for Warren. She realizes that the killer had to have been in the pool with Brian. Water transmits more pressure than air, which means Brian should have a fractured ear ossicle; they fish out the stapes, and it has a hairline fracture. But this also means that the killer would have an ear injury and concomitant hearing loss. Quentin Marks admits to the murder. His gun, a .45 he got after he was in the military, tested positive for gunshot residue and chlorine. He apparently cheated on a midterm because his grades were slipping due to the time he was spending in the pool. Brian caught him and was going to turn him in, so he killed him because he really wanted to go to a four-year college.
This episode was, oddly enough, a decent one forensic-wise. I mean, Brennan figured out sex based solely on the femoral head and age-at-death based on only a small part of the technique of assessing the pubic symphysis. But at least it was based more in reality than the size of the C2 or other oddities they have used this season.
What did Angela get a hit on in the missing persons database? There wasn't anything particularly identifying about the middle-aged male skeleton with developed upper arm muscles.
Osteophytes from fake breasts worn for a few hours once a week? Nope.
Uh, so Sweets is a psychologist. Not an FBI agent. Why exactly does he get his own murder investigation, other than plot contrivance?
Hodgins was pouring HCl from one giant beaker to another in mid-effing-air? While not under a fume hood? And was the HCl green for some reason? Science!
(Why is everyone wearing sweaters in this episode and the upcoming one? It's late spring in D.C.)
Wait, what's Booth testifying about to a congressional subcommittee? I guess it'll tie into his getting shot next episode.
Is it just me, or did the writers do weird things with the pronouns for all the drag stars?
Can a non-traditionally-aged student be on a sports team in college? I don't think you can with high-interest sports like basketball, although I guess technically Quentin would have preserved his eligibility by being in the military. Still, I can't imagine you can be on a college sports team at any old age.
"What does it mean 'to Brennan' someone? Is that a compliment?"
Brennan: "You're finally using evidence to reach conclusions; I appreciate that." Sweets: "As opposed to my usual psycho-babble?" Brennan: "Exactly!"
"Anthropologically speaking, homosexuality is not a prerequisite for cross-dressing... it's an expression of personality."
Forensic Mystery - B. It wasn't at all telegraphed who did it. But maybe that was because they basically never mentioned the killer until he was the one who did it, for a reason that was only explained at the very end.
Forensic Solution - A-. Demerits for the hand-waving about IDing the victim through missing persons.
Drama - C-. I literally did not even catch the killer's name when he was first introduced. I had to look it up at the end, and it took me several webpages to find out. Lame.
As I understand it, you have a set number of years of collegiate athletic eligibility. My brother in law was able to join the archery team in graduate school, because he hadn't participated in athletics during his undergrad years. There may also be an upper age limit, but I don't remember the details of his archery eligibility - it was a long time ago.
britt said…
Also, all the people actually swimming when they go visit are SWIMMING WRONG. It would drive any ACTUAL swimmer crazy.
the gold digger said…
Britt, I noticed the same thing! I saw the swimmers in the background and wondered it if was a beginners' swim class.
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Domestic violence: Constitutes the willful intimidation, assault, battery, sexual assault or other abusive behavior perpetrated by one family member, household member, or intimate partner against another. In most state laws addressing domestic violence, the relationship necessary for a charge of domestic assault or abuse generally includes a spouse, former spouse, persons currently residing together or those that have within the previous year, or persons who share a common child. In addition, as of 2007, a majority of states provide some level of statutory protection for victims of dating violence.
Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is about power and control. The abuser wants to dominate the victim/survivor and wants all the power in the relationship-and uses violence in order to establish and maintain authority and power. Perpetrators of domestic violence are usually not sick or deranged, but have learned abusive, manipulative techniques and behaviors that allow them to dominate and control others and obtain the responses they desire.
An abuser will often restrict a victim's outlets, forbidding the victim to maintain outside employment, friends, and family ties. This has an isolating effect, leaving victims with no sup
port system, and creating dependency. Abusers also limit a survivor's options by not allowing access to checking accounts, credit cards or other sources of money or financial independence.
The Effects of DV include:
Fear;
Nightmares and sleep disturbances;
Anxiety;
Anger;
Difficulty concentrating;
Depression;
Low self-esteem;
Shame and embarrassment;
Chronic physical complaints;
Substance abuse;
Social withdrawal;
Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness;
Self-blame;
Numbness; and
Hyper-vigilance (inability to relax, jumpiness)
Domestic violence victims will often blame their own behavior, rather than the violent actions of the abuser. Victims may try continually to alter their behavior and circumstances in order to please the abuser-believing that if they follow certain rules and make sure the abuser is happy-they will not be hurt. However, violence perpetrated by abusers is often self-driven and depends little on victims' actions or words.
Domestic violence victims may minimize the seriousness of incidents in order to cope, and not seek medical attention or assistance when needed. Victims, because they fear the perpetrator and may be ashamed of their situation, may be reluctant to disclose the abuse to family, friends, work, the authorities, or victim assistance professionals. As a consequence, they may suffer in silence and isolation.
Perpetrators of Domestic Violence:
There is no typical domestic violence perpetrator, but psychologists have identified some common characteristics. Many abusers suffer from low self-esteem, and their sense of self and identity is tied to their partner. Therefore, if abusers feel they are somehow losing the victim, either through separation, divorce, emotional detachment, or pregnancy (fearing victims will replace love for them with love for a child), they will lash out. If victims "leave" through any of these methods, abusers feel they are losing power, control, and their self-identity. This is why it is particularly dangerous for victims during periods of separation or divorce from their partner. Abusers will often do anything to maintain control and keep the victim under control. This dynamic also makes escalating violence inevitable, as many victims must become emotionally unavailable, or must physically leave, in order to survive.
While the public may think of domestic violence abusers as out of control, crazy, and unpredictable, the contrary is most often true. Use of psychological, emotional, and physical abuse intermingled with periods of respite, love, and happiness are deliberate coercive tools used to generate submission. Abusers may violently assault, then minutes later offer words of regret. Many will buy gifts of flowers, candy and other presents in order to win favor and forgiveness. This creates a very confusing environment fo
r victims. Abusers may say they will never harm their partners again, and promise to obtain help or counseling. Often, these promises are only made to prevent victims from leaving. Without getting help, the violence will most likely recur.
The violence used by abusers is controlled and manipulative. Victims often can predict exactly when violence will erupt. Many law enforcement officers have commented on their surprise at finding significant evidence of a violent incident, a harmed victim, and a composed perpetrator casually speaking with officers as if nothing occurred.
Domestic violence victims are often exposed repeatedly to threats, violence, intimidation, and physical, emotional and psychological abuse. Constant, repeated exposure to violence has a profound effect on a victim's daily activities and functioning, thinking, interpersonal relationships, and sense of self. Some victims, because of the chronic nature of the violence, may develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a mental health disorder characterized by flashbacks, significant anxiety, depression and fatigue.
Perpetrators of domestic violence may constantly criticize, belittle and humiliate their partners. Causing the victim to feel worthless, ugly, stupid and crazy does not allow for a survivor's healthy self-perception. Low self-esteem may contribute to victims feeling they deserve the abuse, affecting their ability to see themselves as worthy of better treatment.
Finally, many victims describe domestic violence perpetrators as having a "Jekyll and Hyde" personality. Abusers often experience dramatic mood swings of highs and lows. They may be loving one minute, and spiteful and cruel the next. Abusers are frequently characterized by those outside the home as generous, caring, and good, and behave drastically differently in their home environment. Perpetrators of domestic violence are rarely violent to those outside of their domicile.
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Why Victims May Stay:
Very few individuals would become involved in a relationship they knew to be violent. Domestic violence has subtle origins. What starts out as love, courtship and concern, may turn into domination, forced adherence to rigid sex roles and obsessive jealousy. Victims are not masochists. They do not enjoy being hurt, abused, battered and controlled. Victims may stay with someone who is abusing them for various reasons which include:
Fear of the abuser;
Love;
Threats to harm the victim, loved ones or pets;
Threats of suicide;
Believing the abuser will take their children;
Religious reasons;
Believing the abuser will change;
Limited financial options;
Believing that violence is normal;
Believing in the sanctity of marriage and the family;
Limited housing options;
Blaming the abuse on alcohol, financial pressures, or other outside factors;
Fear of the unknown, of change;
Isolation;
Embarrassment and shame;
Believing no one can help;
Cultural beliefs;
Denial; and
Pressure from friends and family to stay.
Suggestions for Domestic Violence Survivors:
Contact a local domestic violence program. These programs are in many communities around the country and can provide: counseling and support groups; information about legal options, the criminal justice system, and social services; shelter; attorney referrals; vocational counseling; safety planning; and case advocacy. Programs will assist victims regardless of their decision to stay in, or leave, the relationship.
Create a comprehensive safety plan. With assistance from a victim service professional, victims should create an individualized plan for safety in all situations, including a checklist of necessary items to take when leaving an abusive situation. For more safety planning suggestions, please refer to the GET HELP bulletin entitled, Domestic Violence: Safety Plan Guidelines.
Consider legal options. In every state, domestic violence is a crime. For information on criminal penalties for abusers, and protections for victims through the criminal justice system, victims should contact local law enforcement or prosecutor's office. Reporting domestic violence incidents may raise safety concerns, so this option should be discussed with a victim service professional. Whether victims choose to report, it may be helpful to document evidence of abuse (i.e., pictures, witness statements, tape recordings), to be used in criminal proceedings, or in custody or divorce hearings. Every state also has a process for obtaining civil protective orders (also known as no contact orders, or restraining orders) that prohibit contact between an abuser and a victim. For more information on civil protective orders, victims should contact a local domestic violence program.
If Someone you Know is Involved in an Abusive Relationship:
Become involved. Advise victims of ways you can help (i.e., providing housing, money, child care, etc.). Help victims locate shelter and resources. Offer to call attorneys or make appointments with social service agencies. Provide transportation to the appointments and support throughout the decision-making process. If you hear a violent incident occurring, call the police.
Demonstrate concern. Tell victims the abuse is not their fault. Let them know you are afraid for their welfare and the welfare of their children. Many victims may not be able to see the harm violence does to their family until someone outside the family voices their concern. Hearing that others see the effects of violence on the children will often prompt victims to seek assistance.
Provide support and encouragement. Victims should hear from friends and family that they are worth better treatment and deserve to be loved. Supportive positive messages may enable victims to find the strength within themselves to escape the violence. Understand if victims are reluctant to leave: staying may be a survival strategy. Let victims know you are willing to help when they are ready to ask for assistance.
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National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Violence: 2003 Supplement," (New York: National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2004).
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Press release • Mar 13, 2018 01:56 EDT
The Compressor Discharge Temperature (CDT) probe (not to be confused with Conductivity, Temperature, Depth probe used in ships and also called CDT probe), is installed in the engine compartment just after the inter-cooler. The probe is installed with a #40 stainless steel clamp. A large clamp is supplied to fit around the air-port leaving the inter-cooler.
A typical CDT probe kit from J.P Instruments includes the thermocouple type ‘K’ CDT Probe, a stainless steel clamp thimble, one stainless steel exhaust seal washer and one stainless steel screw type clamp.
Working of the CDT in an aircraft: The CDT probe senses compressor discharge temperature of the aircraft compressor and for this purpose, the probe is mounted external to the flow path that receives high pressure air discharged from the compressor. This air flows past at least one thermocouple which in turn measures the high-pressure air temperature and the high-pressure air is then returned to the flow path.
Basically, air from the compressor is discharged through a hole bored into the engine case. This air is then channelled into a housing containing the CDT probe which measure the air temperature flowing over it. The CDT probe in turn sends an electrical signal to the connected EDM Monitors or electronic control unit which in turn indicates the compressor discharge temperature to the pilot. The air is then vented to a sink pressure and can be used as cooling or purge flow.
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ISSUE CONTENTS:
1. The causes of corruption in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the ways to combat it.
Onufrienko A.V, a graduate student of the Academy of the General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, pvs1997@mail.ru The paper investigated the causes contributing to the origin and existence of corruption in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Key words: corruption, official duties, the duties, the soldier, the corruption factor bribe.
2. Military unit as the subject of challenging cases concerning administrative offenses.
Kalashnikov V.V., Candidate of Law, lieutenant Colonel of Justice, pvs1997@mail.ru The article is designed to help the command of the court in challenging cases concerning administrative offenses in cases of unjustified imposition of administrative sanctions. The article is designed to help the command of the court in challenging cases concerning administrative offenses in cases of unjustified imposition of administrative sanctions. Key words: military unit, administrative responsibility, appeal actions.
3. How to dismiss a military man for the perpetration of «grievous» disciplinary offense.
Izolitov A.S., legal adviser of a military unit, master of laws, docent, izolitov@mail.ru. The article is devoted to the substantive and procedural aspects of the dismissal of a military man for committing an administrative offense. Key words: dismissal from military service, an administrative offense, disciplinary responsibility.
4. About the changes in order for military personnel cash allowances (commentary on the decree of the Minister of defence of the Russian Federation from June 2,
2014 No. 391).
Koryakin V.M., pvs1997@mail.ru Тhe article analyzes the changes and additions made to the Order of providing cash allowances of members of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, approved by order of the Minister of defence of the Russian Federation dated 30 December 2011 No. 2700. Key words: monetary allowances; additional payments.
5. On the right of choice and change the shape of housing various categories of servicemen during the period of their military service.
E.N. Trofimov, lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice stock, pvs1997@mail.ru The analysis of the forms of the living space soldiers. It is noted that at all times the problem of housing was one of the most acute problems of the full support of the armed forces of the state. Key words: military, housing, forms of realization.
6. Military courts: whether they are contemporary Russia.
N.N. Veretennikov, deputy chairman of the Khabarovsk Regional Court, PhD, pvs1997@mail.ru Considered debate about the necessity of military courts as a special institution of state power in the armed forces, which carried more than one century. Key words: army, military justice, mobilization, conditions, war.
7. Legal and technical support of the military courts to counter terrorism in the Russian Federation.
Israilov I.I., Judge of the Rostov-on-Don Garrison Military Court Candidate of Law, pvs1997@mail.ru This article describes a problem that occurs when considering military court criminal cases of terrorist orientation. Special attention the author pays to ensure the safety of participants in the process. The author suggests specific measures to secure the consideration of criminal cases by a terrorist. Key words: criminal proceedings terrorist, counter-terrorism, ensuring the personal safety of the participants during the court session.
8. Professional license requirement to the vendors of the arms, defense technology and munitions: topical question of legal practice.
Svininyh E.A., candidate of legal sciences, associate professor of the department of civil law, pvs1997@mail.ru The author of the article considers the legal practice of Rosoboronzakaz on complaints against the state customer’s professional license requirements to the vendors of the arms, defense technology and munitions. The author analyzes and classifies violations committed by the state customer in such cases. Key words: licensing; government contract; defense procurement and acquisition; government procurement; arms; defense technology; munitions.
9. Overcoming mutual responsibility in the investigation of violations of the regulations on personal relations: Theory and Practice.
Yalovoy O.A., Candidate of Laws, Assistant Professor; Torbin Youri, Doctor of Law, Professor, pvs1997@mail.ru Particular issues of overcoming of mutual responsibility are under consideration in investigation of breaking the statutory rules of behavior among enlisted personnel. The consideration about the necessity of the usage by investigator of tactical means for neutralization of organized resistance against investigation is substantiated. Key words: overcoming of mutual responsibility, tactical methods, investigator’s procedural activity, recommendations of criminalistics scholars.
10. Energy saving and energy efficiency of the Federal state institutions of the Ministry of defense of Russia.
S.U.Janson, Director General of JSC "Trest Gidromontazh", candidate of economic Sciences, associate Professor, pvs1997@mail.ru In article the author analysed standard legal regulation of questions of ensuring energy saving and increase of power efficiency by federal state institutions of the Ministry of Defence. Key words: Energy saving; energy efficiency; federal state institutions.
11. The use of balanced scorecard in the formation of strategy of development of higher military educational institutions.
V.A.Zapechnikov, the applicant of the Military University, pvs1997@mail.ru Higher military educational institutions are moving today, not only to the formation of the strategic plans of their activities, but also to actively implement these plans. In this regard, it is important to search and rationale the most effective mechanism for their implementation. Effective use of the statutory systems of indicators for the implementation of the development strategy of military schools in most cases impossible. In the article the author considers the possibility of using the balanced scorecard in the formation of strategy of development of higher
military educational institutions. Key words: Balanced system of indicators; the highest military educational institutions; strategic planning.
12. Evaluation of the effectiveness of government institutions.
T.R. Nuriyev, the applicant of the Military University, pvs1997@mail.ru Control of activity of public institutions from founders means procedure of an assessment of efficiency of such activity. On the basis of an assessment important decisions on the sizes and the assignment directions to establishments from the budget, and also can be made on stimulation of establishments to achievement of the best indicators of an assessment of efficiency. Besides, information on results of an assessment can facilitate to the founder a problem of decision-making on optimization of a network of subordinated establishments, reassignment of the head and change like establishment. In article the author analysed methodical approaches to an assessment of efficiency of activity of public institutions. Key words: Public institutions; control of activity; assessment of efficiency of activity.
13. Institutional development of the system of military-technical cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign States.
I.V. Kachaev, the applicant of the Military University, pvs1997@mail.ru In article the author analysed institutional development of system of military technical cooperation of the Russian Federation with the foreign states. Key words: Military technical cooperation; military products; arms and military equipment.
14. Regulatory organization of internal audit in the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Aibek uulu Lesbek, adjunct Military University, pvs1997@mail.ru Among the strategic objectives of the reform the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic an important role for the formation and development of internal audit in the internal control system of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic. In the article the author analyzes the legal regulation of questions of the organization of internal audit in the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic. Key words: audit, the budget, control, management, efficiency.
15. Domitsily military personnel and their active electoral right.
Vorobyev E.G., the candidate of jurisprudence, the senior lecturer, the colonel of justice Frequent discrepancy of a place of continuous accommodation of the military personnel (domitsily) with a place of passing of military service generates difficulties in implementation of their active electoral rights at regional and municipal level. It assumes entering into the current legislation of changes and the additions eliminating obstacles in this form of participation of citizens in administration of the state and local government. Key words: Military personnel. Electoral rights. Availability of participation in elections. Domitsily. Residence. Place of military service. Improvement of the legislation on elections.
16. Unnecessary elements of military training bureaucratization of military control.
Gluhov E.A., Colonel of Justice, PhD, professor of Russian MVD SPVI MVD Russia; Strokov S.A., Colonel, Head of the Faculty of command SPVI MVD Russia, pvs1997@mail.ru This paper examines the factors affecting the combat readiness of military units, which arise due to the conscious management of the military leaders. Key words: bureaucracy, military organization, evaluation criteria, combat readiness, military, physical training, military post, the duties of a soldier.
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Encore Presentation: Dr. Frank Newport, the Editor-in-Chief at Gallup, discusses the process of public opinion research and what it tells us about America’s changing religious landscape. We spend a significant amount of time discussing how polls are conducted, what their limitations are, and how survey companies like Gallup try to overcome these problems. This is a fantastic primer for those who are unfamiliar with survey research. We spend the second half of the interview discussing Dr. Newport’s book, “God Is Alive & Well,” which argues that America is still a vibrantly spiritual nation.
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America has become less religious in recent years. To explore this phenomenon, both in its present form and situated historically, we invite Prof. Joseph O. Baker of Eastern Tennessee State University to talk about the history and contemporary dimensions of American secularism(s). He notes that secularism does not necessarily mean atheism, but includes an array of different categories. We also discuss some of the reasons for the recent increase in “nones,” including family structure, changing sexual norms, and political polarization.
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How did the media report on the recent visit to the US by Pope Frances? And what role do think tanks play in shaping the religious landscape and government policy? We ask Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics & Public Policy Center, these questions and many more in a discussion that looks at how religious individuals can influence the political realm.
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Dr. Joseph Castleberry, president of Northwest University, discusses how the recent wave of immigrants have been revitalizing religion in America, both spiritually and in terms of civil religion. He connects this revitalization back early “great awakenings” in American history that were spurred by waves of individuals coming to America in search of greater opportunity, and relays stories of how the “new pilgrims” are planting churches and inspiring success.
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If there is anything more widely known and more highly revered in a Porsche than the coupe, it is the convertible. That is why so many of the coupe models also come with a convertible option. Porsche has always been synonymous with high performance and excellent quality and the Porsche convertible is no exception to that rule. As a matter of fact, those that are still in production often provide a far better experience than any other model of convertible available. Even so, there have been a number of convertibles that have stood out in the lines of Porsche models that have been released over the years.
Needless to say, from the very beginning Porsche realized the power that a convertible could have. That is why their first vehicle, the 356, would also come in a convertible option. As with many of the Porsche convertible vehicles that would follow, the 356 was available as only a two-door model. It would be produced until 1965.
Prior to ending the 356 line, Porsche created a vehicle that would go down in the history books. The introduction of the 911 to the Porsche line-up brought with it a convertible alternative. This vehicle, eventually to be named the most famous sports car of all time, was a two door model with a rear engine and the luxury that others had come to expect from the manufacturer. Now it continues to build on that reputation with a handling that is outstanding and the ability to stick to the roads like glue during any adventure. Even the most exciting thrill ride will seem even better from the driver's seat of a 911.
One of the most unique Porsche convertible vehicles to hit the market was the 918 Spyder. The name would give credit back to the original Spyder, also called the 550 Spyder, built from 1953 to 1956. This newer mid-engine two door roadster was first revealed as a concept car. After its unveiling at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show it was announced that production of this model would be limited. What sets the 918 Spyder apart from the crowd is the three electric motors that work together to help power the 3.4 liter V8.
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investigative documentary. ghost war on r.t. . that was. it was it was and. it. was a live. look at. the diplomats to come on those ships a little bit in the one nine hundred people were killed and at least seventy injured in a shooting and bomb attack at a college in the southern russian city of carried out by an eighteen year old students be atrocities left those who survived and shall. i must leave you sorry i'm old paul if you are the good you thought. even want to see you could you believe. that the similarities are being drawn to the columbine
massacre in the u.s. almost two decades ago when fifteen people died. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei over heads home after visiting saudi arabia and turkey to find out what happened to missing journalist jamal khashoggi. and a german kindergarten provokes an outcry for promoting itself as having hardly any migrants. to. a warm welcome you are watching r t international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and they care and good to have you with us. now a gun and bomb attack at
a college in crimea has left nineteen people dead zones more than seventy injured it was carried out by a students who later committed suicide here's the moment of the attack obtained by a video agency replica. thank you very much of a. book for you. to talk with so cannot i should talk about it before i got the silver thank you. oh. are. you going to the scene because. you. are one of the students who was at the college during the attack spoke to us say.
it is you know those that have all your. clothes that you're good value. but the father did during the visit go. through. i'm of the views that i know if you are the boys you thought. me you know why do you. r.t. correspondent maria for national anthem coach with the latest on the tragedy we are right now meters away from the polytechnic a college chain russia's crimean city of courage where a terrible absolutely shocking tragedy happened earlier on wednesday a gunman opened a wild party inside the called age during the break between the classes at the time when the students were have in the line chairs were chatting carelessly happily to
each other than he did to native an explosive device with metal parts inside it to increase the damage and shot himself dad fourteen people died at the scene and now there are four died had the hospital dozens of others were injured in this mass shooting the latest right now is that at least three of them are in coma ten are in intensive care and doctors right now off fighting for their lives trying to save them to as you can see the road leading to the college is cordoned off right now the best gate as are working at the scene they suspect that the gunman was an eighteen year old student off the same college where he opened far here you can see . the cars are coming from the scene of the entire country and broke the hearts of so many people and his you can see right now the reason the moral side
organized here people come here to. to think about those who died and they bring candles and flowers and. toys. all those who were killed were aged between eighteen and twenty stories we know but this information is not yet confirmed because identification process is still on the go and look at this very touching moment nineteen people dad is what really makes these tragedy very special in a very bad bloody way. it literally. explode when you look at looking.
at the small. bust in the field in the we just said it's come out of a list it's janja of share list if i can trust it if can for if we go talking. which came to jim has been or was inches of water fittingly isn't it was that it means every way to start the book prosequi the girl what the and also it's my vision a little more than that eve question choices now. if you do that that we go to commercial you are watching mother up in unity. because the the dogs are some of the energy work i should like of of the capital city at least the last bit of the game makes you more directly device got you know the. new jeeps year if you. buy new most of the singing because of my new i
just read book that on my trip when you go to another girl you when you look at it go. with them but i mean i would really check you choose to be able. the gunman is believed to be a student of the coalition and aged eighteen he was found dead in the building off the shooting himself similarities of being drawn to another atrocity carried out almost twenty years ago we did a collection of has the details two words that come to mind after a wednesday tragic events copycat attack the scenario of the school massacre in the crimean city of courage as old but our carbon kopi off another school shooting that took place in the u.s. nineteen years ago columbine became perhaps an inspiration to a young shooter from crimea the similarities are chilling one of the columbine shooters and the crimean gunman are all of the same age only eighteen years old
they were even dressed in similar black and white and they acted as if from the same playbook explosives placed in the canteen a serious of gunshots suicides in the school library the difference there were two shooters in the columbine attack and they killed thirteen students the crimean gunman was acting alone but somehow he managed to kill even more but what's even more disturbing he wasn't the first one to draw his inspiration from the columbine pair earlier this year two students attempted to carry out a similar attack and the city of perm they too were lots of aces by the american massacre the question is how many more will follow the gruesome example.
you know such talk out of me are seems more of those kinds of attacks which week or mass shootings this is something that we look at sometimes called a copycat crime united states and certainly been struggling with this issue of mental illness of violent offender with moncho most recently we're seeing shootings at schools. this is not that uncommon of you know really in the united states that you know when there is one kind of in a chart you're more likely to see. carried out in the same words what he
would r.t. will be keeping across any further developments following the attack in crimea and will bring you any updates. or who. are. now moving to other news the u.s. secretary of state has just concluded a visit to turkey and saudi arabia focusing on the international uproar over a missing journalist turkey accuses a saudi hit squad of murdering jamal who shot j inside the saudi consulate in istanbul two weeks ago and claims to have a recording of the incident my pompei i was asked to comment on that alleged recording. i don't have anything to say about that well we know what they could have discussed they could have gotten to the bottom of whether or not jamal khashoggi was indeed killed tortured and then dismembered as the consul watched as reports seem to indicate
however it seems that they focused rather on what seemed to be almost perfect about the u.s. saudi relationship we have lots of important relationships and then to relationships between us saudi companies government relationship things we work on together all across the world the efforts to reduce the risk to the united states of america from the world's largest state sponsor of terror ron those are elements of u.s. national policy that are for our in americans best interests. if you don't treat. it as if you. do. you. now pales comments referred to saudi arabia as a purchaser of american goods primarily military hardware and he seemed to talk
about saudi arabia as an ally against what he sees as the primary source of evil in the region iran now this is not so much different from what we heard from mike pompei i was boss of the u.s. president so i did arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the middle east and we are stopping the rain and trying to stop with stopping over everyone a big step for we took away that ridiculous deal that was made by the previous administration and they are an ally we have a very good allies in the middle east but if you look at saudi arabia they're an ally of tremendous purchaser donald trump's comments come as there is a huge amount of pressure mounting on the administration in response to outrage about the shoji incident president trump is. criticizing the condemnation of saudi arabia over the case of missing journalist jamal khashoggi residence stunning statement as three sources tell c.n.n. that a high ranking officer with the saudi intelligence agency oversaw the saudis are
now claiming was an interrogation and he wanted to a building in never came out of the building what are we talking about in the building was saudi if he's dead said republican senator marco rubio today the u.s. must respond or it risks its own standing the administration assures us that saudi arabia will get to the bottom of what actually took place eventually we're going to give them the space to complete their investigations of this incident when they issue their report will form our judgment about their next step in the decisions they make about accountability connected to this so the world just needs to sit back and have faith in the kingdom of saudi arabia former u.s. diplomat jim believes washington will do anything to keep the saudis on side against iran let's remember that the trumpet ministration for a number of reasons but i think primarily influence from israel and saudi arabia has a vendetta against iran that iran is responsible for everything wrong in the world
or iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism iraq is is is a regional threat of course this is all nonsense but this is what the israelis and the saudis want and that is the primary policy that it unites washington with riyadh and i think they find it want to find some way to preserve that so i think this is a way of emphasizing it in american context of that we somehow need the saudis in order to confront this very very evil threat coming from iran. back after this break.
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a comeback u.s. warplanes have accidentally struck a kurdish convoy and east in syria killing six allied forces as according to russian military ounce diplomatic sources. has the details. a fifteen fighter jets belonging to the u.s. led coalition in syria have mistakenly bombed syrian could units in the eastern province of the early hours are near the town of now the syrian units were carrying out an offensive against the last of what remains of islamic state in that part of the country and we are hearing from a military diplomatic source that the mistake was the result of a lack of professionalism and coordination between the united states and the syrian kodesh fighters on the ground but at the same time we are hearing that this did not
disrupt the operation that they were however a number of defections among the ranks of the syrian democratic forces and some islamic state fighters did manage to take over some new territories but that the operation continued now for more than six months the u.s. led coalition and syrian kurds have been involved in offensive against the islamic state stronghold in the area but this has been largely unsuccessful so certainly a very alarming situation unfolding on the ground was the u.s. central command to comment on the alleged bombing in syria and are waiting to hear back from them meanwhile human rights lawyer down kovalchuk believes the case could further complicate u.s. relations with the kurds. i have every reason to believe that it's true that they are. these kurds it may very well been an accident but that's the problem. with war and this is an example of the many disastrous unintended consequences
that the us has brought about by its intervention in syria the kurds have always the cannon fodder and pawns for the us gains in the middle east when will the kurds finally decide the us is not a reliable car that is hard to say judging from the past i have to believe that will just disappear and be forgotten and frankly i doubt it will even hear about of much on mainstream media ever in the united states. as a woman can gotten has the box control of a safe while promoting itself as a nursery with hardly any microphones and he says that they has the story. when hunting for a daycare center for your children what tops the list great teaching good cadmus not mr well how about hardly any migrants one can say cotton in the wealthy town of hamburg promoted just that leaving some parents moved to fight in
a promotional price they highlighted the following. of the families with the migrant bank ground only a few take care they've since deleted the sentence was deleted one sentence that accurately describes the fact that there are only a few families with a migration background the kindergarten few families does not mean no families at all the kindergarten also insisted it stands for inclusion and this is equally a pencil children of german origin and families with a migration backgrounds but that's not the kindergartens only statements that true criticism it adds that the financial situation of parents living in the kindergartens area is actually a large number of parents pursue self employed activity such as lawyers doctors organizational consultants brokers business owners the backlash was quick to follow . yeah enough money you can do as much stay decades in until you have them let the stupid plagues mingle with you these are the nazis in the guise of clean pure
democrats should lead in mosques itself with an immigrant free daycare center and the villa neighborhood the socially leitz we decided to say what germans think about the issue as a mother i would not accept it i mean you should and you could use other ways to attract people so one thing to do because if you don't know each other you can't live together you can only understand each other when you grow up together from the your list moment people will have international meet people from all of that evolved so i think it's. really really important already young. people can go different cultures different ways of living and so on that also parents favor a multicultural society when it comes to words on their children they start bringing attention to the proportion of needs of nationals in the schools and so forth so there might be discrepancy between what they say or do our daughter was in
the kindergarten for spanish germans and so there were a lot of nations latino nations and germans together and they spoke spanish and german and their kin their god so she learned both languages thinking about everyone wants the best for their children whether the best means having non migrant classmates and why the school should be bragging about this issue is another matter altogether and i'll say bell in. the native americans have expressed outrage over what they see as the politically motivated hijacking of their identity by senator elizabeth warren she took a d.n.a. test to rebuke donald trump. being a native american has been tart my story i guess since the day i was born we have
a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago she of the great tribal heritage what tribe let me think about what they call or pocahontas i've got a war in the blood in me that pocahontas. dollars your favorite chad hates a black child if you take that test if it shows your. lists . that warren releasing results of a d.n.a. test showing she has very distant native american ancestry the reports suggest warren has just a trace of native american heritage d.n.a. tests prove white woman white woman the people questioning whether this revelation
really did when her and the point do you think that the president owes elizabeth warren a million dollars or whatever it was a little bit more i would make sure that when i walk out pay me what you call me. the problem with the d.n.a. test is that it proves nothing of relevance the ought to be respected in terms of what it means for example had to be a charity. tom can say whatever he wants and not. mocking native americans or in any order to try to get me to snuff american students for. so regular everyday sane people the argument about well who's a percentage of this race and their race is naturally important people are just worried about how am i going to get to work every day you know my car is broken
down i need to have a job to begin with you know i want to be zero to have a secure life for myself i want to have food to eat a nice place to stay there word of bo basic tangible things that people have to have every single day but sort of frames extremist that are out there the far left to far right is a maybe and to the media it is very important because that's all day if he were to us he would love to hear your thoughts on all of us stories that i didn't get in touch by following us on social media and join us again at the top of the alkaloids . after repeated denials the saudis are now expected to change their story on the fate of jamal khashoggi was he the victim of abduction and torture that went too
far donald trump has expressed concern but little more some are saying riyadh to get away with murder. in a world of big partisan movies. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. china is in the software it's in the hardware as opposed to this so-called threat from russia where they're spreading needs that influence people to vote against
their better interest they put in me a bernie sanders as a. bodybuilder and this worked the mines of america to vote against their interests but china is actually infiltrating the hardware with actual chips try this actually paper train the soccer with actual malicious software that's ok we'll talk about that. later. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton in washington d.c. we're glad you're aboard thanks for being with us coming up today there is significant business fallout with saudi arabia over the revelations are related to the disappearance a potential murder of washington post journalist him off the show the party's alex my halal bitch is standing by i will give you the latest plus we speak about
markets all the time and give you our weekly market wrap up well today we take a little different look at how to diversify and cushion your investments as some say a bear market is either here or around the corner brian livingston the author of muscular portfolios joins us for that discussion and even you leaders have just finished meeting with british prime minister theresa may regarding rex that look at the latest developments with the c.e.o. of throw mark hilary forward to our breakfast expert plus later the biggest selling drug in the world will become less expensive all over europe as a patent expires but will others outside of the e.u. see similar benefits molly farrow is a contributor on american morning will tell. us the details all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines go. major news in the energy sector leads our global report today as general electric has taken a big bite out of
a fifteen billion dollars electrical equipment contract in iraq that had seemed set to go to european rival siemens a g. of germany under the contract g.e. will supply equipment sufficient to power the homes of three hundred thousand iraqis the truck of ministration diplomats meeting earlier with iraqi officials reportedly invoked the deaths of seven thousand u.s. soldiers as part of the iraq war which began in two thousand and three as an argument for giving the contract to a u.s. company by the way in two thousand and six the lancet medical journal published an estimate of six hundred fifty thousand iraqis whose lives were lost in that war the contract win is especially good news for g.e. because it shores up their ailing power business as their c.e.o. considers radical restructuring including selling off major g.e. divisions g.e. stock shot up in trading earlier today by forty cents per share on the news. japan's fourth largest publicly traded company is visibly reconsidering the risk of
business ties to saudi arabia after the alleged murder of journalist jim off the show get a saudi consulate and istanbul turkey more than two weeks ago whom busters will recall that softbank group previously unveiled a one hundred billion dollar investment vehicle they called the vision fund with forty five billion dollars of that total coming from saudi arabia just a week ago saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon said the monarchy might invest another forty five billion in a second vision fun but now soft bank chief operating officer says the group is anxiously looking at what is happening in saudi arabia and there is no certainty about a second vision fun much less a furred as had previously been suggested by softball. officials softbank is also currently slated to build a two hundred billion dollars solar plant in saudi arabia at least for now but soft bank isn't the only business reevaluating their business ties tooth the saudi kingdom here with more is r t correspondent alex the hell of it you joins us from
toronto alex we've seen a lot of people pull out of these so-called davos in the desert this financial conference taking place in riyadh saudi arabia due to the circumstances surrounding this or could show be there are some really big names here both people and businesses that have or were looking to have business and economic relations with saudi arabia even with billions of dollars at stake it looks like many people are picking principles above profits what do you make of it alex of are set to see that an alleged dismemberment of a journalist is what it takes for people to start focusing on what saudi arabia is doing in this world the famine and the genocide in yemen doesn't seem to be enough or we can even go back to nine eleven but it seems that maybe the governments aren't looking at this hard enough but some companies are and they are pulling out of this conference which is very important to the future of saudi arabia and i'm going to give you a pretty long list here of companies.
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DON’T mention Swan Vesta matches in the pubs of Sneinton – unless you are ready for trouble.
Back in the early 1980s when she ran the Duke of Devonshire in Carlton Road, Sue Bell became all-too-familiar with the strange superstition.
The story dates back to the beginning of the 19th century when a travelling gypsy in the area was caught after killing a swan – affirmed by law as the property of the Crown.
He was sentenced to death for a crime classified as treason and duly hanged.
Enraged by his execution, the gypsies were said to have placed a curse on the swans of Sneinton.
The hard luck story is embellished by Sue: “Count a swan’s tail feathers, and you will find there are 13.”
It became the word in Sneinton that if anyone produced a box of Swan Vestas, trouble would soon follow.
It sounds like an old wives’ tale but one night in the Devonshire, Sue became convinced it was true.
“The pub was empty and we were clearing up when I found an empty box of Swan Vestas.
“I said to my brother David Ogle – who now runs the Devonshire – ‘look what I have found. Thank goodness everyone has gone home.
“Just 15 minutes later, a couple walked past and the man put his fist straight through one of the windows… they had not even been in the pub that night.
“I would not sell Swan Vestas and I don’t think you could buy them in any pub in Sneinton.”
Sue, whose first pub was the Smiths Arms – known locally as the Lamp because of the red light outside the door – remembers another odd superstition, but never discovered the story behind it.
“The barrow boys and street hawkers would go mad if anyone mentioned the word ‘rats’, apparently they regarded it as bad luck. They always referred to them as ‘long tails’ – but I couldn’t tell you why.”
Another tradition which, Sue believes, exists to this day is one to keep a wary eye on.
“If you see someone turn a beer glass upside down on the table it means he wants to fight. I saw it happen recently in a city pub. I told the staff to keep an eye on the drinker and, sure enough, soon after it kicked off.”
Sue, with her late husband Brian, also ran the Jubilee at the top of Carlton Road before ending her pub days in the new Poets’ Corner in The Meadows.
“It was a hard pub and I was pretty tough. If I barred someone, they stayed barred. I don’t think I was very popular with certain people. Brian nicknamed me ‘The Rhino’!”
But her tough stance earned her the respect of the local police officers and her many law-abiding customers.
“We had some good times. There were a lot of good people. We had a fabulous football team, they were top of the Sunday league.” But after a couple of years, Sue suddenly decided she had had enough of the 24/7 lifestyle – just as a medium had predicted years before.
“A medium was due to appear at the Royal Concert Hall and I invited him to come to the pub. This was while I was still at the Duke of Devonshire.
“He told me I was thinking of moving, which was true, and then he said ‘you will wake up one morning and decide there is more to life’. He was right.”
Sue and Brian moved to the stewardship of the police training centre social club at Epperstone but, following Brian’s death in 2005, Sue became stewardess of the Nottingham Club in Castle Gate.
She looks back on her days at the Duke of Devonshire with the greatest affection. “It was a fabulous pub, a real community pub, and it still is. I think it will be the last pub in Sneinton to close.”
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Revista Brasileira de Educação Física e Esporte
Rev. bras. educ. fís. esporte vol.28 no.3 São Paulo July/Sept. 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-55092014000300395
Biodinâmica
Effect of β-alanine supplementation on 20 km cycling time trial performance
Ruth Margaret JAMES *
Simon Brian COOPER *
Jacques ROBERTSON *
Daniel MARTIN *
Roger Charles HARRIS **
Craig SALE *
*School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University - Nottingham - United Kingdom
**Junipa Ltd- Newmarket - United Kingdom
The effects of β-alanine supplementation on high-intensity cycling performance and capacity have been evaluated, although the effects on longer duration cycling performance are unclear. Nineteen UK category 1 male cyclists completed four 20 km cycling time trials, two before and two after supplementation with either 6.4 g•d-1 β-alanine (n = 10; BA) or a matched placebo (n = 9; P). Performance time for the 20 km time trial and 1 km split times were recorded. There was no significant effect of β-alanine supplementation on 20 km time trial performance (BA-pre 1943 ± 129 s; BA-post 1950 ± 147 s; P-pre 1989 ± 106 s; P-post 1986 ± 115 s) or on the performance of each 1 km split. The effect of β-alanine on 20 km time trial performance was deemed unclear as determined by magnitude based inferences. Supplementation with 6.4 g•d-1 of β-alanine for 4 weeks did not affect 20 km cycling time trial performance in well trained male cyclists.
Key words: Carnosine; Endurance exercise; Exercise test reability
Carnosine (β-alanyl-L-histidine) has been shown to have an important role in the maintenance of homeostasis in the muscle cell due to the pH buffering capabilities of the imidazole ring. As such, the expansion of the imidazole ring content in human skeletal muscle through an increase in the muscle carnosine concentration offers a means to increase muscle buffering capacity and high intensity exercise performance and capacity1 - 2. Other potential physiological roles of carnosine, such as increased calcium sensitivity3 - 4 and antioxidant capacity5 - 6 might also contribute to a positive effect on exercise capacity and performance, although literature is inconclusive7.
Carnosine is synthesised from the amino acids β-alanine and histidine, with β-alanine availability being rate limiting to the synthesis of the dipeptide within human skeletal muscle8. As a result, the dietary intake of β-alanine through supplementation is critical for the elevation in muscle carnosine content. Most studies have used doses of between 3.2 and 6.4 g•d-1 of β-alanine, with this resulting in increases of 40 to 80% in the muscle carnosine concentration, depending upon the duration of supplementation and the method of determining the muscle carnosine content.
Several reviews have concluded that there are significant effects of β-alanine supplementation on high-intensity exercise performance9 - 10. In particular, several studies have focussed on the effects of β-alanine supplementation on high intensity cycling capacity and have shown significant increases following supplementation11 - 13. The effects of β-alanine supplementation on cycling performance are more equivocal, with some showing no effect14 and others a significant improvement15.
Whilst there is general consensus in the literature for a beneficial effect of β-alanine supplementation on high intensity exercise performance9 - 10 , 16 - 17 fewer studies have examined the effects on longer duration exercise performance. However, a recent study examined the effects of β-alanine supplementation on cycling performance in a time trial lasting ~ 1 hr18. The findings suggest that despite marked increases in muscle carnosine concentration, β-alanine supplementation did not improve cycling performance18.
However, STOUT et al.19 supplemented untrained males with β-alanine and showed a 14.5% increase in physical working capacity at fatigue threshold post supplementation, while those supplementing with placebo decreased their physical working capacity at fatigue threshold by 1.8%. Furthermore, in a graded exercise test lasting ~19 minutes using untrained female participants, STOUT et al.20 reported no effects of β-alanine on maximal oxygen consumption but did report an increase in the time to exhaustion, as well as a delay in the onset of neuromuscular fatigue and an increase in the ventilatory threshold at submaximal workloads. These findings indicate the potential for β-alanine supplementation to increase performance during endurance based exercise. It is important to note, however, that increases in power output at ventilatory threshold with β-alanine supplementation could also be caused by increased buffering capacity, rather than other purported mechanisms, since higher buffering capacity via carnosine could reduce the need for H+ buffering through hyperventilation and CO2 elimination.
Interestingly, some evidence also exists to suggest that an increase in muscle carnosine concentration could influence muscle fibre function in humans3. DUTKA et al.3 mechanically skinned single muscle fibres taken from the "m. vastus lateralis" by muscle biopsy and subsequently characterised their calcium release and contractile properties. They showed that an increase in muscle carnosine content increased calcium sensitivity in slow and fast twitch muscle fibres and enhanced calcium release in slow twitch fibres. In addition EVERAERT et al.4 showed that providing mice with water containing 1.2% β-alanine for 8 weeks resulted in a higher carnosine concentration in the "extensor digitorum longus" and the "tibialis anterior", and an increase in fatigue resistance in the soleus.
Taken together, the results of these investigations provide a potential mechanism by which an increase in the muscle carnosine content could confer benefits to exercise performances lasting longer than the 60-240 s mostly studied to date, for which increased muscle buffering capacity would seem the most likely mechanistic explanation. Therefore, we aimed to examine the effects of 4 weeks of β-alanine supplementation at 6.4 g•d-1 on 20 km cycling time trial performance in trained cyclists.
Twenty-six UK category 1 male cyclists, completing at least 7 hours of cycle training per week, volunteered to participate in the study that was conducted from April 2012 to June 2013, meaning participants were recruited throughout all phases of an annual training cycle. They were randomly assigned to either a placebo (P) or β-alanine (BA) supplementation group; however, seven participants (4 from P and 3 from BA) withdrew, citing various reasons not associated with the study. As such, 19 participants completed all trials; participant characteristics are presented in TABLE 1. The study was approved by the Institution's Ethical Advisory Committee and conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki.
Table 1 Participant characteristics.
Age (y)
Body mass (kg)
Familiarisation(s)
β-alanine 10 37 ± 8 1.82 ± 0.06 78.7 ± 8.8 1975 ± 173
Placebo 9 32 ± 6 1.81 ± 0.04 80.4 ± 8.3 1993 ± 95
P value 0.211 0.902 0.671 0.786
Participants were fully informed of any risks and discomforts associated with the study before completing a health screen and providing written informed consent. Participants had not taken any supplement in the three months prior to the study and had not taken β-alanine for at least six months prior to the study due to the long washout period for muscle Carnosine21. Participants verbally agreed to maintain similar levels of physical activity and dietary intake for the duration of the study and compliance with this request was verbally confirmed with participants prior to each testing session. None of the cyclists were vegetarian and so would have ingested small amounts of dietary β-alanine from the hydrolysis of carnosine and methyl derivatives of this in meat. This would typically be expected to be around 50 to 400 mg per day.
This was a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel groups design experiment. Subsequent to preliminary testing, participants completed two baseline trials (separated by 48 h) and two follow-up trials (separated by 48 h), separated by four weeks of supplementation with either placebo or β-alanine. Participants in BA ingested two sustained-release tablets (CarnoSynSR, Natural Alternatives International, USA) each containing 800 mg of β-alanine (total dose per serving was 1.6 g) four times per day, separated by 3-4 h intervals, for a total daily dose of 6.4 g. The total amount of β-alanine ingested over the 4 week period was 179.2 g. Participants in P ingested a matched placebo containing maltodextrin. Double blinding was ensured as both beta-alanine and placebo tablets were given to participants in identical white tubs. An experimenter not directly involved in participant testing noted the lot number of each bottle and then removed the lot number prior to administration to participants. Once data collection was complete, the supplement corresponding to each lot number was revealed.
The sustained-release formulation of β-alanine used in the present study has been shown to reduce the symptoms of paraesthesia often associated with individual doses of β-alanine administered as free powder22. In this study, none of the participants reported any feelings of paraesthesia, and we are confident that the integrity of the double blinding was maintained. β-alanine tablets were tested by the manufacturer prior to release for the study and conformed to the label claim for β-alanine content. All supplements were independently tested by HFL Sports Science, UK, prior to use to ensure no contamination with steroids or stimulants according to ISO 17025 accredited tests.
Experimental protocol
Height (Seca, UK) and body mass (Seca, UK) were recorded before participants completed a full habituation test of the 20 km cycling time trial as described below. Following preliminary assessment, participants completed four identical main trials. All trials were completed at least 2 h postprandial following 24 h dietary standardisation, and participants had not completed vigorous exercise in the 24 h prior to each trial.
Upon arrival at the laboratory, a capillary finger prick blood sample was taken for the determination of baseline blood lactate concentration (2300 STAT Plus, YSI Ltd, UK). Participants then completed a self-paced five minute warm up on their bike followed by a three minute period of self-selected stretching before starting the 20 km time trial. The time trial was completed on a Cyclus2 (RBM Electronic, Germany) ergometer on which the participants mounted their own bike frames. The settings on the Cyclus2 were adjusted for each individual bike by entering the size of the front and back cog, bike weight and the crank length, ensuring an accurate measurement of distance and performance. During the exercise trial, the participant was deprived of any information regarding performance (e.g., time, speed, cadence) other than distance covered and gear selection and no feedback or encouragement was provided by experimenters. Participants were allowed to consume water ad libitum during exercise. Heart rate (T31 system, Polar, Finland) was recorded after every 1 km interval and RPE (using the Borg 6-20 scale23) after every 5 km interval. Cycling performance data (e.g., time, distance, speed and cadence) was recorded by the Cyclus2 every 0.5 seconds. Immediately upon completion of the 20 km time trial and then again following a self-paced cool down, capillary finger prick blood samples were taken for the determination of blood lactate concentration. Participants also performed three cognitive function tests (Stroop test, Sternberg paradigm and Rapid Visual information Processing (RVIP) task) before and after each 20 km time trial to assess selective attention, working memory, and sustained attention. However, these data are presented elsewhere and only the exercise performance aspects of the study are presented here.
In order to determine the reliability of the 20 km time trial, we used the data from trials 1 and 2 on 21 participants (age 35 ± 8 y, height 1.82 ± 0.05 m, body mass 80.7 ± 9.0 kg) who completed the 20 km time trial as described above. There was no significant difference in the time taken to complete the 20 km between trials 1 and 2 (trial 1: 1969 ± 112 s; trial 2: 1975 ± 119 s; p = 0.222). The intra-class correlation between trials 1 and 2 was r = 0.99, with the coefficient of variation being 0.7%.
All data were checked for normality of distribution using the Shapiro-Wilk test. Data were analysed using unpaired t-tests between groups where there was only one time point. Mixed model ANOVA was employed in SPSS v20 to examine differences in 20 km time trial performance, 1 km split times, blood lactate, heart rate and rating of perceived exertion between groups and across time and trials. Differences between trials 1 and 2 and trials 3 and 4 within groups were examined using paired t-tests. Where no differences were shown, the data from trials 1 and 2 were combined and the mean used as the pre-supplementation value and the data from trials 3 and 4 were combined and the mean used as the post-supplementation value. Statistical significance was set at p ≤ 0.05 and data are presented as mean ± 1SD unless otherwise stated.
Time trial performance data were also analysed using a contemporary magnitude-based inferences approach24 in order to detect small effects of practical importance in an applied setting, a technique which is becoming increasingly common in exercise performance research. This technique establishes the likelihood of an intervention having a positive/ trivial/ negative effect. A Cohen's unit of 0.2 was employed as the smallest meaningful change in performance. Where the chance of both a positive and negative effect is > 5%, the effect is deemed unclear. Qualitative descriptors were assigned to the quantitative percentile scores as follows: 25-75% possible; 75-95% likely; > 99% almost certain25 - 26. For determination of the magnitude based effects, we chose to average trials 1 and 2 and trials 3 and 4 within each group. We then calculated the difference between pre- and post- supplementation in each group, with the magnitude of the effect of β-alanine supplementation being determined as the difference between the two groups.
There was no main effect of trial across the four trials (p = 0.649) or of supplementation between the BA and P groups (p = 0.484) for 20 km time trial performance. There was also no interaction effect (p = 0.624).
Using paired t-tests and magnitude based inferences there were no differences between trials 1 and 2 and trials 3 and 4 in BA (p = 0.463, unclear; p = 0.130, unclear) or P (p=0.537, unclear; p = 0.967, unclear). Therefore, the data from trials 1 and 2 were combined and the mean used as the pre-supplementation value and trials 3 and 4 were combined and the mean used as the post-supplementation value.
There was no main effect of trial across the pre- and post- supplementation trials (p = 0.795) or of supplementation between the BA and P groups (p = 0.484) for 20 km time trial performance. The mean performance time for the BA group was 1943 ± 129 s pre-supplementation and 1950 ± 147 s post-supplementation, while for the P group this was 1989 ± 106 s pre-supplementation and 1986 ± 115 s post supplementation. There was also no interaction effect (p = 0.575).
The magnitude of the effect of supplementation in the BA group was unclear (p = 0.556), as was the effect of supplementation in the P group (p = 0.847). Finally, the difference between the two groups, and therefore the magnitude of the effect of β-alanine supplementation, was also deemed unclear (p = 0.575).
With regard to individual responses to supplementation, in the BA group five participants improved with supplementation, one stayed the same and four became slower. In the P group, four participants became slower and five participants improved (FIGURE 1).
Figure 1 Individual 20 km time trial performances pre- and post- supplementation in ß-alanine (BA) and Placebo (P).
There was a significant effect of exercise on heart rate (p < 0.001) and rating of perceived exertion (p < 0.001), which both increased over the 20 km time trial. However, there was no effect of trial and no difference between the groups for either heart rate (p = 0.520; p = 0.958) or rating of perceived exertion (p = 0.240; p = 0.396; TABLE 2).
Table 2 Heart rate (beats•min-1) and rating of perceived exertion (6-20) at 5 km intervals during the 20 km time trial and lactate concentration before and after the 20 km time trial (mmol•L-1).
Pre-supplementation
Post-supplementation
Heart rate β>-alanine 154 ± 8 157 ± 10 160 ± 11 171 ± 8 155 ± 6 159 ± 8 163 ± 10 173 ± 10
Placebo 153 ± 10 159 ± 7 162 ± 8 175 ± 7 156 ± 12 161 ± 9 162 ± 10 177 ± 8
RPE β>-alanine 15 ± 2 16 ± 1 17 ± 1 19 ± 1 15 ± 2 16 ± 1 17 ± 1 18 ± 1
Placebo 14 ± 1 16 ± 1 17 ± 1 19 ± 1 14 ± 1 16 ± 1 17 ± 1 19 ± 1
Pre-supplementation Post-supplementation
Pre-TT Post-TT Pre-TT Post-TT
Lactate β>-alanine 1.32 ± 0.49 10.04 ± 1.90 1.55 ± 0.56 9.49 ± 2.32
Placebo 1.26 ± 0.60 9.81 ± 2.24 1.39 ± 0.67 9.64 ± 1.80
Due to difficulties with the Cyclus2 saving split data in some trials, 1 km splits are given for n = 7 in BA and n = 7 in P. There was a significant effect of time on 1 km splits, with split times becoming faster towards the end of the 20 km time trial. There was no difference across the four trials or between the two groups for 1 km split times (p = 0.630; p = 0.760; FIGURE 2). Finally, blood lactate concentrations increased due to the exercise (p < 0.001) but again there was no effect of trial or group (p = 0.093; p = 0.869; TABLE 2).
Figure 2 1 km split times for the mean pre- (▪) and post- (▫) supplementation trials in ß-alanine (BA) and mean pre- (·) and post- (▫) supplementation trials in Placebo (P).
This is the first study to examine the effects of β-alanine supplementation on 20 km time trial performance in well trained male cyclists, demonstrating no significant effect of β-alanine supplementation on this model of exercise performance. The individual data is also supportive of a lack of β-alanine supplementation on time trial performance, with equal numbers of participants showing increased and decreased performance; with all changes being relatively marginal in any case. In an attempt to detect small effects of practical importance we also determined the magnitude based inferences. In line with the finding of no significant effect, the magnitude of the effect of β-alanine supplementation on 20 km time trial performance was unclear. As such, and given the high degree of reliability of the performance test used in this study (test-retest data having a CV of 0.7%), we can be confident in the lack of an effect of β-alanine on this performance test. These findings are also in accordance with those of CHUNG et al.18, demonstrating no effect of β-alanine supplementation on ~ 1 hour cycling time trial performance. Thus, these findings suggest that despite the beneficial effects of β-alanine supplementation on high intensity exercise capacity9 - 10, β-alanine supplementation does not influence longer duration (30 min - 1 hr), lower intensity, cycling performance.
An inherent problem of time trial tests in well trained participants who are familiar with the exercise protocol is that they are influenced by pacing strategies27 and sometimes these pacing strategies do not produce optimal performance28. There is also a variety, possibly an infinite number, of pacing strategies available to an individual29. However, if pacing strategies were employed by the athletes in the present study variables such as heart rate, blood lactate and particularly the RPE responses to exercise would have been lower in the group supplemented with β-alanine. Although, as expected, exercise increased heart rate, lactate and RPE, β-alanine supplementation exerted no effect on any parameter during exercise, indicating that this is unlikely to have been the case.
We hypothesised that β-alanine supplementation would improve time trial performance given the previously reported influence of β-alanine on the ventilatory threshold20 and the potential for an increase in muscle carnosine to increase the calcium sensitivity of slow and fast twitch muscle fibres and enhance calcium release in slow twitch fibres3. However, the strength of the currently available evidence to support the effects of carnosine on calcium handling is limited2 , 9, with only one study3 being conducted on human muscle fibres. If calcium handling were the main mechanism for an effect of elevated muscle carnosine on exercise performance, significant effects of β-alanine supplementation would be expected across a wider range of exercise performance tests than have currently been shown2 , 9. Whilst the present study was not designed to examine the mechanisms related to increased exercise performance as a result of elevated muscle carnosine levels, the lack of an effect of β-alanine would be consistent with the lack of an effect of carnosine on calcium handling. Either that or alterations to calcium sensitivity or release do not influence 20 km time trial performance.
Taking the existing evidence as a whole, the most likely mechanism for an effect of increased muscle carnosine on exercise performance and capacity remains the effect it has on intracellular pH buffering. Lending support to this assertion, studies have examined the effects of β-alanine on exercise capacity, using tests designed to induce large increases in intramuscular hydrogen cation levels and reductions in pH11 - 12 , 30, and have shown significant increases in exercise capacity. In relation to cycling, studies have shown significant effects of β-alanine supplementation on high-intensity cycling capacity, as determined by increases in total work done11 - 12. The cycling capacity test at 110% of powermax used by both of these studies is one of the few tests to be independently repeated with β-alanine supplementation. The increase in cycling capacity reported following 4 weeks of supplementation was similar in both studies; HILL et al.11 reported an increase of 13% and SALE et al.12 an increase of 15% using a slightly higher total intake of β-alanine. The fact that reductions in intracellular pH are unlikely to be limiting to 20 km time trial performance might thus help to explain the lack of a significant effect in the present study. However, during competitive cycling inclines in the road surface will frequently be encountered, with trials typically ending in a sprint, both of which might be expected to reduce intramuscular pH. It is therefore possible that increased muscle carnosine levels brought about by β-alanine supplementation may improve endurance cycling performance in real-life competitive races.
That said, not all studies with regards to high-intensity cycling performance tests have shown significant effects of β-alanine supplementation. BELLINGER et al.14 reported no effect of β-alanine supplementation on maximal 4 minute cycling performance, although van Thienen et al.15 reported a significant effect of β-alanine on 30 s isokinetic sprint cycling, performed at the end of a 110 min simulated endurance cycle race. Due to the findings of VAN THIENEN et al.15, we also determined the 1 km split times in the current study to ascertain whether there was any effect of β-alanine supplementation on exercise performance towards the end of the 20 km time trial. Split times were relatively consistent throughout but did become faster towards the end of the 20 km time trial in both groups, particularly in the final kilometre. However, there was no effect of β-alanine on the performance of any 1 km split.
The present study is not without its limitations; it should be noted that we did not determine the influence of β-alanine supplementation on muscle carnosine concentrations. This was primarily due to the lack of availability of a non-invasive method of determining muscle carnosine content in these well-trained participants. As such, we cannot confirm in the present study that muscle carnosine contents were significantly increased and, if so, what the magnitude of this increase was. However, supplementation with β-alanine at this level has consistently been shown to increase muscle carnosine concentrations by over 60%8 , 11, with others reporting no non-responders to β-alanine supplementation11 , 21 , 31. Indeed, only one participant from the series of muscle studies to-date has failed to respond to β-alanine supplementation with an increase in muscle carnosine8. Overall increases have been shown to be between 40 and 80% depending upon dose (between 3.2 and 6.4 g•d-1) and duration of administration (between 4 and 10 weeks). Furthermore, based on the dose-response relationship shown by STELLINGWERFF et al.32, our supplementation regimen would be expected to result in a 3.6 mmol•kgww -1 increase in muscle carnosine concentration.
These data suggest that endurance cyclists competing in events lasting around 30 minutes will not benefit from β-alanine supplementation. However, it may be that when the intensity of the cycling is increased, for example during a hill climb or a sprint finish, enhanced intramuscular H+ buffering, through β-alanine supplementation, may be beneficial to performance. Future research should investigate this possibility.
In conclusion, supplementation with 6.4 g•d-1 of β-alanine for 4 weeks did not affect 20 km cycling time trial performance in well trained male cyclists. This might suggest that a mechanism to support an effect for β-alanine supplementation on longer duration exercise does not exist and that the most likely effects are to be seen with short duration high-intensity exercise performance as the result of improved intracellular pH buffering.
The authors would like to thank National Alternatives International (NAI), San Marcos, California for providing the β-alanine (Carnosyn SR(tm)) and Placebo supplements.
The results of this current study do not constitute endorsement of the product by the authors or the journal.
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NASA’s sequestration plan would bring commercial crew to a halt
By Jeff Foust on 2013 February 14 at 9:32 pm ET
If budget sequestration goes into effect next month, NASA plans to enact a series of spending reductions that would effectively bring the agency’s commercial crew program to a halt by the summer, and delay or cancel some science and technology missions, according to a letter released by a Senate committee today.
The letter from NASA administrator Charles Bolden to Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, dated February 5, was one of many from various federal agencies that Mikulski’s committee released today as part of a hearing on the effects budget sequestration would have on the government should the automatic across-the-board cuts go into effect as currently planned on March 1.
Bolden, in the letter, said that the agency assumed that the current continuing resolution (CR), which funds the government at FY 2012 levels until March 27, would be extended through the rest of the fiscal year, and that the sequester would cut five percent from that level, or about nine percent from the remaining part of the fiscal year. That works out to a full-year budget of $16.985 billion, or $894 million below the CR level (and $726.7 million below the administration’s FY2013 budget request.) By comparison, NASA was looking at a larger cut of $1.46 billion under the original sequestration plans released in September.
Those cuts will not be distributed evenly across NASA’s various programs. Exploration would see a cut of $332.2 million from the FY13 request. Commercial crew would bear the brunt of that cut. “After sequestration, NASA would not be able to fund milestones planned to be allocated in the fourth quarter of FY 2013 for Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap),” the letter states, including a number of reviews scheduled for Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and SpaceX. “Overall availability of commercial crew transportation services would be significantly delayed, thereby extending our reliance on foreign providers for crew transportation to the International Space Station.”
NASA would also cut $45 million from its exploration R&D efforts, delaying or canceling several research programs in this area. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew exploration vehicle would not be directly affected by the cuts.
Elsewhere, NASA would cut $251.7 million from the proposed $619.2 million for its construction account, affecting a number of agency construction projects, including ground facilities needed for SLS and Orion. NASA would cut $149.4 million from the requested $699 million for its space technology program, with potential effects ranging from several planned technology demonstration programs to a reduction in parabolic or suborbital flights in its Flight Opportunities program.
Science would get a $51.1 million cut from its requested $4.91 billion. That would result in potential delays or lower funding levels for new Explorer and Earth Venture class missions, and a reduction in funding of about 2% for research and analysis grants. Major ongoing programs, like NASA Mars exploration efforts and the James Webb Space Telescope, would not be affected by the cuts. Paul Hertz, head of NASA’s astrophysics division, said during a NASA Advisory Committee astrophysics subcommittee telecon Thusday afternoon that he hasn’t seen the letter outlining the agency’s plans, but suggested one approach would be to delay the start of the next Explorer-class mission, slated to be announced this spring, until the beginning of fiscal year 2014.
The letter doesn’t identify any cuts to NASA’s space operations, education, or cross-agency support programs, suggesting that they would not participate in the cuts. In fact, the total cuts (relative to FY13) included in the letter, including the $7.3 million for aeronautics and $0.4 million for the office of the inspector general, sum to $792.1 million, more than the $726.7 million figure cited in the letter. The cause of that difference isn’t immediately clear.
62 comments to NASA’s sequestration plan would bring commercial crew to a halt
Dark Blue Nine
“NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew exploration vehicle would not be directly affected by the cuts.”
SLS/MPCV presumably weren’t targeted because their budgets were already going down by $230 million from FY12 to the President’s FY13 Budget. That, combined with the cuts to Construction of Facilities, is already pretty crippling.
The wise thing to do would be to put SLS/MPCV out of its misery and apply the savings to sequestration. But if the Administration is not going to put that on the table, then the only other choice within the Exploration account is to level-fund commercial crew.
Robert G. Oler
The President would in my view be foolish to “single out” any one or two systems/things in any budget for zero out in the sequestration process.
The goal of sequestration, something in my view Obama believes in, is to try and get “consensus” or what passes for it these days on a geniune federal budget…ie to restart the budget process which the GOP has mostly killed.
To do this requires across the board “pain” and some spectaculur “Washington Monument” thing that goes nicely with Obama’s campaign themes which he wilL “Run on” should sequestration take effect and the battle become a purely political one.
I expect Orion/SLS to succumb in the aftermath of sequestration when I think that there will be a genuine effort to draft a budget joined by members of the GOP who are not part of the Kamikaze corps.
the flip side of course is if the notion of a “coming together” flounders ie the GOP is content to lose this one (or the President actually does something I doubt) then things are not all that bad actually; the deficit is coming down anyway; this will drive it down more…the GOP will become even more unpopular as I believe that they will be blamed for it, the GOP will become more and more extreme…and Obama will have several campaign issues.
One of which is spaceflight particularly crewed lift if he desires it…ie “the GOP is leaving the Russians to control access to the station”…will come in handy in Blue Florida and Texas which is turning blue.
A lot of this depends on handling and events; but I think that is where things are trending now.
I will be entertained to see how the Tea Party in Space responds to this…as the last I checked they were pro commercial lift. RGO
E. P. Grondine
Hi RGO –
Do you think that the President may get really tired of “negotiating” with the House Majority Leader, and suggest to him to “negotiate” with the House Minority Leader?
DCSCA
February 15, 2013 at 8:02 pm · Reply
“The wise thing to do would be to put SLS/MPCV out of its misery and apply the savings to sequestration.”
Wrong. SLS/MPCV is a valid geo-political strategy for the United States that will presss on. The ‘wise’ thing to do is apply commercial crew subsidies/funding to sequestration- it will only delay something for a short time that’s inevitably going no where in the long run anyway.
Coastal Ron
DCSCA opined:
“SLS/MPCV is a valid geo-political strategy for the United States”
YOU think it is, but no one else. Those that support it actively in Congress do so because it benefits the citizens (and likely voters) of their states and congressional districts – not because of some nebulous “geo-political strategy”.
You have been asked by many to support this supposed theory of yours, but you consistently fail to describe what it means. Time to put up or shut up… Tick, tock, Tick tock…
Frank Glover
“Wrong. SLS/MPCV is a valid geo-political strategy for the United States that will presss on.”
Valid? ‘Geo-political strategy’ supportive of, or against…whom?
Exactly who is it meant to help, deter, impress, embarrass, or otherwise provide leverage? and how?
“it will only delay something for a short time that’s inevitably going no where in the long run anyway.”
I’m sure Bigelow and other interested parties would be quite surprised to hear that.
It would sit well with the Russians and their current monopoly on ISS access, however. They know we’ll never use Orion/SLS as an alternative to them…or for much of anything else. No ‘strategy’ there…
A M Swallow
CCiCap, which is being cut, is the follow on to CCDev which was initially funded using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 money. Ironic if NASA has to use 2013 Recovery Act money to complete it.
amightywind
This is logical. NASA cannot afford to string along 3 commercial crew projects. That is nutty, considering the 3 year duration of the mission. Time to get it down to 1. BTW, I have been enjoying Elon Musk’s public relations struggles with the NYT immensely.
will come in handy in Blue Florida and Texas which is turning blue.
The dems have made some inroads in the Rio Grande Valley, but they are still pretty much a coastal political party. Texas remains one of the reddest states, and a last redoubt of American capitalism. Florida has red tendencies but that is balanced by an elderly population that has been utterly enslaved by entitlements. Definitely a swing state with Marco Rubio around.
I will be entertained to see how the Tea Party in Space responds to this
Me too. I wonder what they think of the wildly popular Tea Party favorite Rand Paul. My guess is that 3 astroturfers in a basement just decided to hijack the name.
“This is logical. NASA cannot afford to string along 3 commercial crew projects. That is nutty”
Is it logical or nutty? The program is a year away from its downselect, so the “reduction” from the President’s FY 2013 Budget Request is causing the commercial crew milestones to be dragged out. That reduction is either good or bad, logical or nutty. It can’t be both.
“considering the 3 year duration of the mission”
The ISS parters are extending that “mission” to 2028, at a minimum. And some of the commercial crew performers will be ready before 2017. So the “mission” is more like 11-13 years in duration.
texas will turn blue, you can deny it all you want. just as you denied the possibility of obama being reelected:) florida already voted for obama, so that’s a mute point. and rubio? his sotu rebuttal was pathetic. i have rarely seen a politician that is so obviously uncomfortable speaking in front of a camera. totally overrated. if he is stupid enough to enter the primaries in 2016 he will crumble like perry and all the other empty suits.
enjoy some more government hand-outs before sls is shut down. it won’t be long now.
JimNobles
NASA cannot afford to string along 3 commercial crew projects.
They need to keep supporting at least two in case, after they become operational, one of them has downtime for one reason or another. If there was only one and it went down for some reason we’d be right back where we are today, having to buy rides from other countries. If NASA is forced to support only two it would probably be SpaceX, because they are well ahead of the others, and Dream Chaser because it is photogenic as hell, its design screams re-usability, and NASA really, really wants a space plane. But of course you already know this. You are just having problems accepting it. I don’t know why.
That is nutty, considering the 3 year duration of the mission.
I presume you are talking about ISS. The ISS partners are planning on extending its life as long as they can. Most everyone believes it will be in orbit and active many more years than you suggest. If Bigelow’s modules turn out to be useful and not crap I would supect we would see more of them on ISS or its replacement. Right now it looks like there is going to be a manned orbital facility for a long time to come. Your idea that we should ditch the space station seems to have very little traction with the people who are actually doing human space flight. I’m sure you know this as well.
BTW, I have been enjoying Elon Musk’s public relations struggles with the NYT immensely.
Me too. I think he’s winning and it’s all publicity for Tesla. I don’t understand the problems some people have with the idea of electric vehicles. I don’t care what powers my personal transportation as long as it’s there when I need it and it is not a hassle to maintain and operate.
“This is logical. NASA cannot afford to string along 3 commercial crew projects.”
Why not? So far the annual expenditures on it have been what, about the equivalent of seven weeks of the SLS/Orion annual bite?
A perfectly acceptable price for domestic, competitive, triple-redundant human LEO access that NASA can use now, and commercially, soon after.
What existing, or explicitly funded (for it has no commercial value, and only one possible government user) need will SLS serve?
Hi AW –
You don’t get it. Musk intends to do what he set out to do, regardless of Federal funding. Take a look at the cash flow and his deep pockets.
Of course, you undoubtedly realize that when battery technology improves, Musk will be well positioned with Tesla?
You should be thankful that Obama is not Nixon. You ever seen the vote counts in the Saturn shutdown papers? How about Obama saying, “Well, they’re not going to vote for us in those districts, so no problem”?
DRMuse
Folks need to slow down for a minute when talking about cuts to commercial crew. The letter compares funding under a post-sequester full year CR to the President’s budget request for FY2013 – not actual obligated funding for the program. Commercial crew received $406M in FY2012, which would be amount the program would run under a full year CR for FY2013. Then you subtract the sequester cuts on the $203M from second half of the year.
Let’s say that leaves you at about $185M for commercial crew for the second half FY2103 CR – add $185M to $203M ($388M) and subtract that number from the President’s FY2013 request of $830M – you get a “cut” of $442M. Which is very close to the number in NASA’s letter. (Otherwise, it makes no sense to “cut” $441M from a program that is only funded at $406 under a full year CR even if sequester is averted.)
The big number for crew is the result of a much larger difference between the President’s request and what the program is running under the CR. I haven’t seen evidence that the commercial crew program is taking a larger percentage cut than any other program.
“I haven’t seen evidence that the commercial crew program is taking a larger percentage cut than any other program.”
Your assessment on the commercial crew dollars is correct. Compared to FY 2012, commercial crew is only taking an $18 million hit in FY2013, even after the sequester.
SLS/MPCV is going to take a much bigger dollar hit in FY 2013 because the President’s FY 2013 Budget Request was cutting those projects by ~$230 million before the sequester. Their ground construction is going to take another large fraction of a ~$200+ million cut from the sequester. So the total hit to SLS/MPCV going from FY 2012 to FY 2013 is in the neighborhood of $400-500 million.
What’s interesting (and sad) is that NASA can quantify the impact of what is a small year-to-year cut to commercial crew. They know what milestones are going to move to the right from only an $18 million year-to-year reduction.
But there is no such impact for SLS/MPCV in the letter, even though it’s getting a much larger cut dollar-wise going from FY 2012 to FY 2013. A half-billion taxpayer dollars can disappear from the SLS/MPCV projects and nothing changes — no milestones, no content, no nothing. It’s a joke of a program. Everyone stays employed, but nothing else changes, no matter the funding level.
Jim Hillhouse
True, the $18M hit is from the FY12 appropriation of $406M. But that’s only part of the picture. Bolden states that Sequestration will cause a $441.6M budget cut off the President’s FY13 CCP budget request of $850M, leaving a CCP budget of $388M. In FY12, $406M was appropriated for CCP, which is the program’s current working budget under CR funding. For FY13, the House and Senate appropriated $500M and $525M respectively for CCP. That means that, based on House and Senate appropriations, CCP has been looking at a $325M to $350M budget haircut no matter what. But if the Sequestration sticks for long, that $441.6M budget cut will, as Bolden points out, cut nearly 38% of the CCiCap budget of $1.2B, obviously impacting CCiCap in a big way.
Bolden mentions no cuts to Orion, SLS, or the SLS ground systems budgets, nor am I able to devine any, in his letter. In FY12, Orion, SLS, and SLS ground systems were appropriated $1.2B, $1.544, and $317M respectively. For FY13, for Orion, SLS, and SLS Gnd Systems the House appropriated $1.025B, $1.544B, and $454M; the Senate appropriated $1.2B, $1.482B, and $394M; the final FY13 NASA Appropriation will likely budget $1.2B, $1.544B, and $394M respectively.
Jim Hillhouse said:
“Bolden mentions no cuts to Orion, SLS, or the SLS ground systems budgets, nor am I able to devine any, in his letter.”
Then you must have missed it, or maybe he didn’t mention it, but there are cuts to the infrastructure account the SLS depends upon for launch.
Now maybe they will still have time to catch up so it is not a major impediment to launching the SLS on schedule (which it likely won’t do anyways), but the same could be said for Commercial Crew – that these impeding cuts are just temporary slowdowns.
In fact, the commercial folks are more able to make up these types of slowdowns than government programs, so sequestration is less of a danger to Commercial Crew than it is SLS, which is already behind it’s budget curve to meet the current public schedules.
trust in nasa and congress to do the dumbest thing possible. in this case cut commercial crew while continuing to shovel money into a make work project that will never get anywhere (sls)…
Cdub
I was under the impression that the sequester cuts were across the board, and there wasn’t any leeway to decide to take more from one program than from another – that’s one of the reasons it’s considered such a bad way to cut. So, how does SLS escape being cut? Is my understanding just incorrect?
The cuts are across-the-board by appropriations/Treasury account, and each account has multiple programs within it. So in the case of the Science account, it’s up to NASA, OMB, and the White House whether to take the cut from JWST, the Mars Program, or other projects or research (or some combination thereof). And in the case of the Exploration account, which has SLS, MPCV, SLS/MPCV ground systems, and commercial crew, it’s up to NASA, OMB, and the White House which of those programs (or some combination thereof) takes the hit.
It does, thank you.
The cuts are across the board, when compared to actual appropriated funding levels (the FY13 Continuing Resolution). The administration is making them look uneven by comparing them to the FY13 Presidential Budget Request.
A classmate of mine from college days, who was chief of staff to what seems to have been Texas last sane senator for now…is now a lobbiest on K street representing several high powered groups and makes a pretty good living at it (Whittington and Kolker have met him when he was in “the big office”) describes sequestration as “the death of a terminally ill patient”…the patient is the way that politics is being done right now on the budget issues.
He compares sequestration actually happening to the death of a terminally ill patient (as opposed to the death of a healthy person in their prime)…as a terminally ill person nears the end the grieving by those all around actually grows worse until the “end” when there is a sense of release and relief…and the funeral becomes a “period” on all of this…as opposed to a healthy functional person where the funeral and aftermath is just tragedy that “grows numb with time”.
If sequestration happens (and my friend thinks it does) then we have a funeral of a process that is simply terminal. Every deadline the two sides pull out their talking points and on a seemingly predictable basis mouth them…sequestration actually implements pain, particularly in the GOP supported groups and then allows the political process to work which pushes public support behind either of the two groups (the GOP/Tea party or the Administration). Once it happens the political blocks dissapear and it becomes “every girl/boy for themselves”
It is kind of like letting the tax cuts expire…it was bad until well they did and now its a dead issue.
If there is sequestration I predict a very short period where there is some movement in the political “magma” and then there is a budget for real, and it looks more like whatever the President wants then the GOP, politics will likely move to his position RGO
The “tax cuts” (they were tax rates, not tax “cuts”) didn’t expire, except for those making over $400K a year.
The “tax cuts” (they were tax rates, not tax “cuts”) didn’t expire, except for those making over $400K a year.>>
even on Fox News they were commonly referred to as the “Bush tax cuts” not tax rates; and while I appreciate the difference and agree notationally with your statement I dont think it makes a lot of difference. the salient feature is still correct.
The predictions that those who supported NOT allowing the Bush43 (tax rates/cuts etc) expire for the upper income class were wrong.
So will be sequestration. When sequestration occurs and defense cuts ensure we will find 1) The Republic still has the most powerful military on the planet, 2) nothing bad happens because of the cuts internationally and 3) the GOP groups because of the pain to the corporate interest that they serve will all of a sudden find emphasis to compromise.
that is true with space policy as well, and when that happens SLS/Orion will perish. RGO
even on Fox News they were commonly referred to as the “Bush tax cuts”
Yes, it’s wrong even when your evil nemesis, Fox News, does it.
It’s kind of stupid to think that invoking Fox News continually is going to have an effect on any intelligent person’s opinion.
Ben Russell-Gough
This is an interesting attempt at inoculation – proposing a total disaster to persuade those who control the purse strings to show mercy and accept what would otherwise be unacceptably small cuts.
However, it only works if Administrator Bolden reminds Congress that crewed SLS still happens around 2020 so all killing Commercial Crew does is leave NASA reliant on Russia or even China (won’t that make Rep. Wolfe happy!) for a further four years (or more). I’m pretty sure some of the Wise Men inside the Beltway probably think that next year’s EFT-1 flight will mark Orion as ‘operational’ and they need to be disabused of that notion.
Justin Kugler
Desperately so. EFT-1 will not have any crew systems on-board. I’ve heard from my contacts in MPCV that they don’t expect to fly people before 2020 because the teams and technical capability have been so gutted.
Don’t get too excited. It’s not going to happen. Nor should it.
Donald F. Robertson
Worth reading:
http://www.nature.com/news/science-should-be-ready-to-jump-off-the-cliff-1.11897
— Donald
Stephen C. Smith
As I’ve written many times, NewSpace needs to run as far away from Congress as possible.
Once Bigelow is operational, once their partners SpaceX and Boeing are operational, then Congress becomes irrelevant.
Who knows, maybe NASA will turn around and lease a complex of BA-330 modules. It’s about $30 million per person to fly up to Bigelow on a SpaceX Dragon, then another $30 million or so to lease the BA-330 for 60 days.
Figure eight U.S. astronauts in a year (8x$30M=$240M) and year-round use of the BA-330 (6x$30M = $180M) and you have a new space station with a crew of four and two crew rotations every six months for under $500 million a year.
Stephen C. Smith said:
Having worked for both large and small DoD contractors, and commercial companies, I have a slightly different perspective.
Providing products and services to the government through competitive means is not a bad thing. The Commercial Cargo and Commercial Crew programs are competitive, and they provide not only a vital service, but they create an American capability that allows America to be self-sufficient. While that sounds patriotic (and it is), it’s also good business – as long as the companies are not dependent on the government, but that the government is just another customer. So it is with SpaceX, Orbital, Boeing and Sierra Nevada.
But I think the SLS & MPCV programs are a temporary but large distortion. For most of the history of NASA, it has had large concentrations of contracts for “Old Space”, even when “Old Space” was the only “*** Space”. Apollo was dominated by the big aerospace companies, and so was the Shuttle, ISS and Constellation program.
Now with the Shuttle gone, the ISS construction-complete, and the Constellation program recognized as too expensive, “Old Space” has few options for big NASA contracts. The SLS and MPCV are it, since without them the alternative is open competition for smaller contracts. But since the SLS and MPCV don’t serve any known function, other than some nebulous notion of “exploration”, and the designs are too ambitious to be constructed on time & budget, they will inevitably be cancelled.
Once the SLS is cancelled, then I see very little chance that “Old Space” will be able to get SLS/MPCV-sized sole-sourced contracts. Any new programs will require competitive contracting, and that should reset the playing field, and allow the “new” innovative companies to compete with the “old” innovative companies. That’s about as normal as we can expect and hope.
With competition the way companies get contracts, the power of Congress to meddle with NASA will be diminished enough that NewSpace will have a competitive chance to participate in NASA’s future exploration plans.
My $0.02
“As I’ve written many times, NewSpace needs to run as far away from Congress as possible.” whined Stephen.
Exdept it doesn’t. Because it needs government to exist. And if you review your own postinngs, you spend more time trying to stop SLS from getting off the ground than to start flying crews. NewSpace needs government for subsidies, as a customer, and to maintain a market. Without the ISS as a faux destination/market to aim at, NewSpace HSF is doomed to goin in circles, no place fast.
Googaw
NewSpace needs to run as far away from Congress as possible.
That’s like saying the antelope are getting scarce, so the lions should turn vegetarian.
Chasing NASA-inspired dreams has been the whole driving force behind NewSpace. Space stations (Bigelow), space capsule to supply space stations (Musk), propellant depots to fuel grand manned Mars mission, etc. Chasing NASA contracts has been the only way they could even start to accomplish this, since these NASA dreams are preposterous economic fantasies. The only way they can be seriously funded is through the politics of fraudulently central planning our supposed space future. About as far from real free enterprise as you can get.
To run away from NASA you’d have to focus on actual, boring space businesses, such building and launching communications satellites. You know, like Elon’s side business when he isn’t chasing NASA space capsule contracts and selling electric cars with batteries that die in the rain.
Making and transporting boring old unmanned machines (not even robots, just glorified iPhones in the sky) that do nothing except sit in GEO and actually do useful things for paying customers. Somehow I don’t think Rand is going to sell very many magazines with that kind of story.
I think it’s fair to say that commercial space has a good reputation within (most of) NASA and they’ll try to protect it as much as they can when the cuts come. SLS, although it has a bit of a tarnished reputation due to its polics, will not get slashed anymore than can possibly be avoided. There are still too many powerful people that support it although, in my opinion, not for the right reasons. Plus the general public, I think, still has the impression that big expensive government space programs are really the only way to do it.
I don’t expect commercial space to get zeroed out or anything like that. I don’t even expect there will be a down-select to two providers. It could happen but I don’t expect it. Not this year anyway. It might happen later as part of a compromise deal to start de-emphasizing SLS. SLS protectors might demand some blood from commercial, their enemy, as they tend to see things that way and can be quite immature.
It has been said that a pack of dogs is only as smart as the stupidest dog. There are some truly stupid dogs in that pack in congress. So there’s really no telling what will happen. But I don’t think this is panic time.
Kelly Starks
Certainly not a surprize. Given Congress and Senate have repeatedly stated the Space Launch System is their highest priority for the agency, and NASA and CBO has been saying for years how COTS CRS turned out to boost cost per pound to ISS, and SpaceX proves commercials not viable – CC being cut to support SLS was virtually certain regardless of sequester.
Hello Kelly. I haven’t heard you on The Space Show recently.
…NASA and CBO has been saying for years how COTS CRS turned out to boost cost per pound to ISS…
No they haven’t. That’s simply not true. I know that you have to believe this but it’s completely non-factual.
…and SpaceX proves commercials not viable…
That is completely the opposite of what’s actually true. SpaceX is proving that commercial works and works well. It’s astounding what they have managed to do on what little money they have spent. When it comes to the economical use of resources in building and launching space hardware they have set the new standard.
…CC being cut to support SLS was virtually certain regardless of sequester.
Commercial space is not going away. It is the future. NASA might have to cut some of their programs that are empowering commercial space in its early stages but they are certainly not going to abandon it. They’ll do anything the can to keep it viable, they know how valuable it is.
I think SLS has a couple of more years in it. The only that is really keeping it going now is politics. Look for the first successful Falcon Heavy launch to signal the start of the serious effort to ditch SLS. As a system it really doesn’t have much to offer. Commercial can probably provide the same capability without wasting so much taxpayer money.
This is about the private sector taking over from government as the private sector becomes equal to that task. It’s free enterprise, it’s the American way, it’s how things are supposed to work.
December 11, 2013 at 10:43 am · Reply
Hum, never heard at the time that someone had posted a question to me. In answer:
http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/hearings/052611_Charter%20CommCargo.pdf
page 1 goes over the budget numbers for the COTS/CRS program totaling $5.119 billion.
Page 5 shows cost per pound to ISS of $21,268 for shuttle, and $26,770 for Falcon/Dragon
“Given Congress and Senate”
The Senate is part of Congress.
“have repeatedly stated the Space Launch System is their highest priority for the agency”
No, the priorities are ISS, followed by SLS, then JWST.
Reference? Where have NASA or CBO stated this?
“SpaceX proves commercials not viable”
How? Most of the SpaceX manifest is commercial payloads.
Kelly Starks opined:
“and NASA and CBO has been saying for years how COTS CRS turned out to boost cost per pound to ISS”
Wow, you’ve been absent for so long, and then you come back and say the weirdest things!
Considering that the Shuttle averaged $1.5B per flight over the history of it’s life, and it could only carry 9mt of pressurized cargo to the ISS, that is $166,667/kg. SpaceX, through a $1.6B CRS program contract, will be delivering 20mt of pressurized cargo for the $/kg cost of – carry the one… – yep, that equals $80,000/kg. Half the cost of what the Shuttle could do, and that is using a new Dragon vehicle for each flight.
So much for that “theory”.
As DBN pointed out, the SpaceX manifest is dominated by commercial payloads, so that destroys your argument from that aspect. And for NASA work, since SpaceX completed the COTS program without going over budget, and has already performed it’s first CRS delivery successfully, that destroys any other part of your argument you may have sought to make.
I hope you weren’t spending all this time away dreaming this “stuff” up…
Again sorry I didn’t here the question. As to “..COTS CRS turned out to boost cost per pound to ISS”
As to “SpaceX proves commercials not viable”
SpaceX launches to ISS have high cost per pound compared to traditional NASA bureaucratic heavy hand gov acquisition process providers, higher problem and accident rates, needed NASA to pick up their R&D costs, etc. So “clearly” this “proves” they can’t cut it without NASA carrying them.
Hey they killed RLV work that way.
Martijn Meijering (@mmeijeri)
Whatever happenened to previous legislative action that specified how exploration spending should be divided between commercial crew and SLS/Orion? I recall it wasn’t as disastrous for commercial crew as what the administration is now proposing. I don’t understand their motives either, since these actions would mean giving up all that remains of their original plans, little as that was after their disastrous “compromise” with the porkers, and giving up on commercial crew and probably the ISS in favour of just SLS/Orion.
You’re thinking of the Space Exploration Sustainability Act. It basically states that a reduction in SLS can’t be used to fund commercial crew and vice versa. I don’t think that applies here. Even if commercial crew got a bigger cut, that money isn’t going to SLS — it’s just less that U.S. Treasury has to pay out to NASA overall. And when you compare to FY 2012 enacted, instead of the President’s FY 2013 Budget as the NASA Administrator’s letter does, SLS/MPCV does take a bigger hit in absolute dollars than commercial crew, by a lot.
Regardless, commercial crew won’t be able to ramp up as planned in the President’s FY 2013 Budget due to the sequester, getting a small cut instead of a near-doubling in budget, and the impact of that on commercial crew milestones is what the NASA Administrator’s letter describes. The program is still getting ~$400M/yr. But it won’t ramp up to ~$800M because of the sequester.
Between what was already planned in the President’s FY 2013 Budget request and the impact of the sequester on the Construction of Facilities account, SLS/MPCV is taking about a ~$400 million hit. But because the programmatics of SLS/MPCV are fuzzy (at best), the impact of that cut is practically undefined in the NASA Administrator’s letter.
Thanks for that explanation!
More generally, Congress can’t pass a law or a budget that stops a future Congress from changing the law or the budget.
Also, a law that says you can’t take from X to fund Y isn’t worth much, even if it could be enforced on future Congresses, because this can always be done indirectly: take from X to fund Z, then take from Z to fund Y (insert as many Z’s as needed — not very many — to confuse the public about what is going on).
That’s true, but they can make a preventive law to deal with a situation like sequestration, and that’s what they did. Nothing would stop Congress from passing a totally new budget, just as the sequestration legislation couldn’t, but it can provide for automatic stop-gap measures until Congress does actually pass new legislation.
A big plug for an article in Florida Today :
“Is Kennedy Space Center Ready for the Future?”
It’s a state-of-the-center article that covers all the bases, including what sequestration might do to the 21st Century Space Launch Complex. It’s well worth the time to read. It was on Page 1 of the Sunday paper, in the print version.
Stephen…thanks I;ll put it on the facebook page RGO
Interesting article Stephen. It really does show how the money that is supposedly for preparing for the “commercial use” of KSC is being channeled into SLS, hiding some of the true cost of the SLS program.
And as is pointed out in the article, it remains to be seen who would want to use the KSC facility for commercial space launch. SpaceX has talked about using one of the old Shuttle launch pads, but it wouldn’t use the VAB since they do horizontal integration, and would only add payloads requiring vertical integration once the rocket reached the launch pad. ULA won’t use KSC, since they haven’t run out of capacity where they currently are, and Orbital is fine being up in Virginia.
As far as I can see, the VAB is destined to be no more than a historical building, and might even face the sad future of being torn down for lack of need.
Coastal Ron wrote:
And as is pointed out in the article, it remains to be seen who would want to use the KSC facility for commercial space launch.
At one time, SpaceX was looking at 39A for Falcon Heavy, but I think they’ve decided to move up the coast to Shiloh if they can work out a land deal via Space Florida.
Every once in a while I hear a rumor that NASA will force ULA to use 39B for commercial crew, but I think that’s just wishful thinking. Boeing and LockMart are government porkers, and would do it if they got a fat government monopoly like they did with ULA, but as we know that monopoly will vaporize as SpaceX takes over the market.
You gotta love the idiocy on p. 5-6:
“NASA’s ability to develop a multi-user spaceport is important in part because the SLS and Orion will fly so infrequently, and their infrastructure is costly to maintain.
After a four-year gap between the first launches in 2017 and 2021, current plans call for missions every other year. Processing time in the VAB before launch is expected to last three months, leaving High Bay 3 vacant the rest of the time.
NASA will bear the entire cost of maintaining the little-used infrastructure unless more users materialize.”
I agree. The VAB is old and has high maintenance costs. The crawlers and one of the MLPs are being refurbished for SLS but are expensive to operate and maintain and relatively slow (a full shift for rollout) compared with the rail-based mobile launch platforms used for vertical processing with the Atlas at Cape Canaveral and the Long March 2E at Jiuquan or the rail-based erector systems used for horizontal processing with the Falcon and Soyuz. LC-39 as it will operate with SLS has a launch umbilical tower with swingarms on the MLP but (apparently) no capability for providing either servicing access or weather protection on the pad to many parts of the booster; compare this to the standard Chinese fixed launch service tower with swingback access stands, providing (at Jiuquan) full weather protection until about an hour before launch. Moreover there is the thorny question of whether the VAB could be configured for multiple launch vehicles. The cost of building a launch complex is relatively low as a percentage of total program cost and yet it has a major impact on launch processing costs, so the likelihood is that new operators like SpaceX will prefer dedicated pads tailored to their launch vehicles. Absent a major subsidy it does not appear likely to me that a commercial operator would use LC-39.
THE JIMP
You really have to laugh at the state of the U.S. space effort today. Crony capitalists like Musk reinventing 1950’s ICBM’s and 1960’s space capsules to ride on them. American astronauts bum rides from Russia and soon Iran may be able to orbit humans, something America can no longer do.The Senate wants to build another low exhaust velocity, very expensive to operate, oversized ICBM. After the economy collapes and the Marxist in the White House is driven out by a battered enraged public, mabe then it will be time to look at exploring and colonizing our solar system again.
THE JIMP opined:
“You really have to laugh at the state of the U.S. space effort today.”
Plenty of good and bad everywhere, but isn’t that normal?
As to whether it rises to the level of laughing at it, what is your basis of comparison? America of the 60’s? Russia of today? Iran or North Korea?
Not sure if you’re just a “drive by” poster (i.e. one that will never come back), but if you want to persuade, you’ll have to do better.
“Crony capitalists like Musk”
It’s obvious you don’t know the definition of “crony capitalism”.
“reinventing 1950′s ICBM’s and 1960′s space capsules to ride on them.”
As compared to what? Flying saucers from the 60’s?
Are you still driving a ground vehicle that uses an engine invented in the 1800’s? Or flying in vehicles pioneered last century?
Come on, again you provide no basis of comparison to bolster your point… which means it’s pointless.
One could say this of SLS, too…and it’s true that they’re all tall cylinders with pointy tops, and flamey stuff coming out of the bottom, but that disregards any differences in technology inside.
“American astronauts bum rides from Russia and soon Iran may be able to orbit humans, something America can no longer do.”
And yet you can say that (and you don’t ‘bum’ paid-for rides), in the same contradictory ‘breath’ as disparaging a near-term means of fixing that situation? (And Iran? Seriously?)
“After the economy collapes and the Marxist in the White House is driven out by a battered enraged public, mabe then it will be time to look at exploring and colonizing our solar system again.”
Another contradiction. ‘Collapsed economies’ don’t do much exploring, do they? And it’s still going to involve those 60’s reminiscent, tall firey cylinders when they finally do, unless you’re hiding some sort of single-stage spaceplane or ballistic vehicle in your pocket.
“Jimp” wrote
the Marxist in the White House is driven out by a battered enraged public”
it is babble like this where I usually just lean back and laugh for a bit and then dont reply…Sorry I have been to the PRC and The Soviet Union (while it was still the Soviet Union) and I know Marxist; you apparantly dont
(and I supported Howard Dean so I know Liberals so dont go there)..
but in the rhetoric that is right wing nuttery I found this to laugh at
“Crony capitalists like Musk reinventing 1950′s ICBM’s and 1960′s space capsules to ride on them”
Crony capitalist is a goofy right wing phrase that is like the Marxist comparison…but “reinventing 1950’s ICBM’s blah blah blah” is just nuts
other then the fuel, there is nothing similar to a Falcon9 and an Atlas…and other then the fact that they carry passengers there is nothing similiar between a Gemini and a Dragon…
however in the world of the right wing a sound bite is what replaces facts. RGO
I assume that the collasped economy will be rebuilt in 20 years or so, I could be wrong. The society that exists, I hope will be far more rational and intelligent, again I could be wrong. Lets say Iam right on both counts, a return to exploration and a move toward colonization would have to be based on using nuclear powered reusable vehicles. Chemical rocketry can never provide low cost access to space due to the low exhaust velocity of chemical reactions. While the nuclear engines tested in the 1960’s and early 1970’s lacked the thrust to weight ratio to power a vehicle to LEO, a design of the reactor fuel elements needed to achieve this was carried out in the late 1950’s.
“The society that exists, I hope will be far more rational and intelligent, again I could be wrong.”
No doubt corrupt politicians will still exist, since they know how to survive. If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t describe the civilization that is around at that point as “far more rational and intelligent” than what we have today.
“Chemical rocketry can never provide low cost access to space due to the low exhaust velocity of chemical reactions.”
“Low cost” is relative. So far chemical rockets are what we have, and the economics of them are understood. Besides, SpaceX is significantly lowering the cost to access space, and if SpaceX is successful with their Grasshopper initiative, costs will go down even more.
Regardless the propulsion method, volume is what’s needed to drive down the cost to access space, since that creates competition, and competition more than anything determines the best technologies to use.
Besides, the anti-nuclear sentiment world-wide won’t allow nuclear rockets here on Earth, and it would even be hard to send up the fuel for in-space only nuclear engines. I doubt that will change in 20 years, no matter what “far more rational and intelligent” people are around – and who’s to say they’ll want to do space exploration?
R. J. Halyard
All the NASA Sequestration cuts should be applied to NASA’s subsidies to the Commercial Crew Projects. Aren’t these projrcts just another example of ‘Big Government’? Shouldn’t risk capital be providing all the funding for these commercial projects? Looks like Sequestration is a good oportunity to put NASA funding of Comercial Crew projects out of their misery!
R. J. Halyard said:
“All the NASA Sequestration cuts should be applied to NASA’s subsidies to the Commercial Crew Projects.”
Since the Commercial Crew program is not a subsidy, then I guess that would result in $0 cuts.
“Shouldn’t risk capital be providing all the funding for these commercial projects?”
If you had a background in business you would understand that the customer who wants a custom service needs to bear some portion of the risk of developing the custom service.
And if you’ve ever been a private company that does work for the government, then you’d know how flaky Congress can be in providing any long-term guarantees that the government will actually buy government-specific services from you in the future.
However the Commercial Crew participants are risking their own money, which is why the program is called a public/private partnership.
“Looks like Sequestration is a good oportunity to put NASA funding of Comercial Crew projects out of their misery!”
Are you Russian? Only Russia wins if the Commercial Crew program fails. I would rather that the U.S. gains a robust, competitive crew transportation system, wouldn’t you?
Not necessarily, Public/Private partnerships (commercial companies and government agencies) have been around almost since America was formed. They’re not new.
Aren’t these projrcts just another example of ‘Big Government’?
No, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Constellation, and SLS are examples of big government. In those programs the taxpayers had to pay the whole bill. Companies in the NASA commercial crew and cargo program(s) are risking their own capital in the endeavor. The taxpayers are risking some as well but they are not paying for the whole thing.
I noticed that some people get upset because some companies are getting money from the government. If you have a business then anyone who wants the products or services you provide is a legitimate potential customer. Even if it’s the government. Government money usually spends like private money. What is a business to do if the government wants to purchase their product or service? Say, “No! We’re not going to do business with you ’cause you’re the government!” Be sensible people.
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Rock Classification
Rock is a natural, geologically-created material composed of minerals. ‘How’ a particular rock was formed leads to its classification which is generally either igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic: igneous rocks are formed when molten rock solidifies; sedimentary rocks form from grains of rock or organic matter deposited by wind or water and metamorphic rocks are either igneous or sedimentary rocks that have been transformed by heat and pressure within the Earth’s crust. Typical examples of rocks within these classifications are:
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The Earth was formed around 4,600 million years ago. As the embryonic planet cooled its surface hardened: it now comprises a relatively thin layer of solid rock (the crust) floating on a mass of molten and semi-molten rock (the mantle) surrounding a solid core.
The crust consists of about a dozen, quite separate, irregularly-shaped ‘plates’ that float on the mantle, constantly moving because of its powerful currents. This movement results in a number of ongoing, geophysical effects: the edges of some plates slip past each other horizontally; others collide, causing one to crumple to form mountains and the other to slide beneath it, back into the mantle where it will melt and be recycled; other plates are gradually moving apart, the resulting gaps being filled with new rock welling up from the mantle and solidifying.
The Earth’s cooling also caused water vapour in the atmosphere to condense into rain to create lakes, seas and oceans. The action of wind and water began to erode these first igneous rocks into grains which settled to form the first sedimentary rocks. The continual movement of the Earth’s crust gradually transformed some of these early igneous and sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
These continual geological processes happen on a timescale measured in hundreds of millions of years and the results are profound: they create the rocks we know today and shape the geography of our planet.
The Earth was formed about 4,600 million years ago. The oldest rocks we know of are less than 4,000 million years old; the oldest rocks containing fossils are about 3,500 million years old. Just 200 million years ago, the Earth’s land masses had come together to form a vast supercontinent called Pangaea, the most recent in a series that have been formed and then broken up by plate movement: Pangaea’s break-up has resulted in the continents and oceans we recognise today. Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago; the Himalayas started to form 35 million years ago (and are still growing) and modern humans appeared just 130,000 years ago.
Slate and Phyllite
The slate quarried today started to form during the Lower Palaeozoic era (a period of time defined as between 417 and 545 million years ago); phyllite is older and dates back to the Pre-Cambrian era (over 545 million years ago).
Slate is composed of fine grains of quartz and mica, either muscovite or illite, along with a range of other minerals that frequently include biotite, chlorite, hematite and pyrite. The exact mineral composition and their relative quantities affect the rock’s appearance, for example: chlorite gives slate a green colour; graphite – black; hematite – red and mica brings a silvery sheen. Phyllite’s composition is quartz, muscovite and chlorite: essentially it’s slate that has been subjected to a longer period of metamorphosis.
Slate was formed as a result of fine-grained, shale-type sediments being deposited deep on the ocean floor, the thick beds slowly compressing to form a layered sedimentary rock. This was eventually buried by movement in the Earth’s crust, the immense heat and pressure gradually transforming it into harder, stronger metamorphic rock.
This burial process often takes place in areas where neighbouring plates collide and are sometimes referred to as ‘Slate Belts’. A typical example is that covering north Wales, Cumbria, southern Scotland and Northern Ireland and marks part of the area where Laurentia (the plate containing Scotland and North America) collided with Baltica (Scandinavia) between 400 and 600 million years ago.
Mineral inclusions and pyrite
Most rocks contain ‘inclusions’ (a body or particle of another substance embedded in their structure), some are reactive, others are stable. The most potentially damaging inclusion in slate is pyrite, a shiny yellow crystal of iron disulphide (FeS2) formed from particles of organic material present in the sedimentary muds and crystallised during the rock’s metamorphic processing.
The presence of pyrite in a slate can be potentially disastrous. When exposed to water vapour in the air iron disulphide reacts, decomposing to form powdery iron sulphate and sulphuric acid. How quickly this happens, and its effect on the slate, varies:
It may just cause a stain around the inclusion
It may leave an unsightly, rust-coloured ‘run’ on both the slate and those in lower courses
Its decomposition will leave anything from just a pit in the surface to a hole through the slate
The slate may delaminate and split, or even totally disintegrate
The Thermal Cycling Test specified by EN 12326 tries to predict the effect of pyrite in the slate and offers three classifications:
T1 means there may be some discolouration around the pyrite itself, but the structure will not be affected
T2 means that although the pyrite will leach to form unsightly runs of discolouration, structural changes are unlikely
T3 means that holes may form as a result of the pyrite decomposing
Beyond this, if exfoliation, splitting or other structural changes occur, the roofing slates being tested are considered unacceptable for use.
It must be stressed that not all inclusions are either pyrite or reactive: many are inert and may do nothing other than perhaps give the slate a ‘sparkly’ appearance. But if inclusions are present it’s vital to look at the test data accompanying the slates and check the result of the Thermal Cycling Test.
Generally, if an inclusion is ‘cubic’ and is tightly formed with ‘neat’ edges, it’s probably inert and stable.
However, the only way to confirm this is by looking at the result of the Thermal Cycling Test in the slate’s test report – this will grade the level of risk as being either T1, T2 or T3.
The effect of a pyrite dissolving and leaching to cause runs of discolouration on a roof.
The stain is permanent and cannot be removed. The slates affected will have to be removed and replaced to prevent further contamination and ensure the roof maintains its watertight integrity.
A close-up showing how a pyrite has oxidised and spread within the slate’s structure. The weakness may result in a hole or delamination.
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Prisoners Of The Ghostland (Sion Sono, Nicolas Cage) (2019?)
Thread: Prisoners Of The Ghostland (Sion Sono, Nicolas Cage) (2019?)
"Nicolas Cage has been set to star in Prisoners of the Ghostland, a post-apocalyptic action thriller that will mark the English-language debut of Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono."
"Ghostland, penned by Aaron Hendry and Safai, centers on notorious criminal Hero (Cage) who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence."
- http://deadline.com/2018/05/nicolas-...ie-1202387827/
47lab
That's one Sono film that I'll be avoiding like the plague. Along with this bullshit John Woo remake.
http://deadline.com/2018/04/lupita-n...es-1202376846/
"only the simplest can accommodate the most complex"
It could be worse. He could have made Shinjuku Swan 3
In fact, by recent standards, this seems more interesting than the average Sono IMO.
That's certainly true. He's been on a real downward spiral. He's had more than his fair share of duds of late. I literally fell asleep watching THE WHISPERING STAR and THE LAND OF HOPE was absolutely wretched as well. I just don't have faith in Sono turning it around with his first foray into the English market especially with an idiot like Cage.
Zaibatan
Sounds like this is actually happening as Cage recently talked about it at a film festival in Macau:
I’m thrilled about it! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made, and that’s saying something. It’s out there. I wear a skintight black leather jumpsuit with grenades attached to different body parts, and if I don’t rescue the governor’s daughter from this state line where they’re all ghosts and bring her back they’re gonna blow me up. It’s just crazy. It’s way out there.
https://screenanarchy.com/2018/12/ni...ever-made.html
Imogen Poots has joined the cast, financing is in place and filming is set to start this spring. If and how recent reports of director Sion Sono being hospitalized with a heart attack will affect that schedule remains to be seen.
Sofia Boutella, Ed Skrein, Teresa Ruiz, Tak Sakaguchi and Bill Moseley have all joined the cast, with filming set to commence in Japan this month.
I'd be really excited about this if we didn't live in the CGI era.
Sono, Cage, Boutella on the left. No idea who the other dudes are.
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Stories from Sunday, March 20, 2016
Educators hear of reading program (Features ~ 03/20/16)
The Beta Nu Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society for key women educators, met Monday, March 7 at the Shelbyville-Bedford County Public Library. Leigh Cooksey, teacher ambassador at the Tennessee Department of Education and former Cascade High School English teacher., was guest speaker...
Hello World: Paislee Elizabeth Harris (Births ~ 03/20/16)
A.J. and Kayla Harris of Shelbyville announce the birth of a daughter, Paislee Elizabeth Harris, on Feb. 19 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The baby girl weighed 7 pounds, 6 oz. She is the granddaughter of Allan and Karen Harris of Shelbyville and Jenny Tomlin of Unionville...
May wedding planned for Luke, Phillips (Engagement ~ 03/20/16)
Hannah Georgina Luke of Derby, England, and Joshua Leslie Phillips of Shelbyville announce their engagement. The bride-elect is the daughter of John and Jill Luke of Derby. She graduated from Reaseheath College in Cheshire, England, in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in equine science...
Spring: Time for gardening (Column ~ 03/20/16)
Spring has sprung! Even if you disagree with me, I prefer to remain steadfastly positive on this particular subject. We should soon hear the growl of lawnmowers manicuring lawns all over the county. Daffodils are already blooming and trees are beginning to leaf out...
Woman forgives daughter's killer (Column ~ 03/20/16)
How do you forgive the man who murdered your child? Can you? Do you seek his death? Or do you petition the legal system to lock him up forever and throw away the key? A book released last week shows how a couple chose to forgive the man who used a shotgun on their 19-year-old daughter, Ann, during a breakup argument. The couple had been on again, off again for a while, and had wanted to get married...
Catch me ridin' dirty (Column ~ 03/20/16)
I cleaned out the inside of my car tonight. It only took about two hours -- which is a ridiculous amount of time for it to take to clean out a vehicle. My car was super messy, like painter's vehicle messy. I've been spending way too much time in my vehicle lately...
Words of praise are uplifting (Column ~ 03/20/16)
I was sitting in my recliner with my youngest granddaughter, Jojo, and I needed to get up to get something from the other room. That turned into quite an ordeal with Jojo there next to me, but I managed, finally. As I stood to my feet, my sweet little granddaughter said, "Good job, Papa!"...
Sunday Conversation: Trucker racks up 3 million safe miles (Features ~ 03/20/16)
Danny Smith is a safe truck driver who is involved in his community. So much so, he was recently recognized as the Truckload Carriers Association's Driver of the Year. His company, Big G Express, also recognized his career milestone of driving 3 million consecutive, accident-free miles...
You are special: Leigh Ann Young learns to believe in herself (Features ~ 03/20/16)
Long-time Bedford County resident Leigh Ann Young has made it her purpose to serve the members of her community. She graduated from Cascade and went on to receive her bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies K-6 at Middle Tennessee State University...
Champs split week-ending contests (High School Sports ~ 03/20/16)
MURFREESBORO -- The Cascade Champions finished off their busy week with a 10-4 loss on Thursday at Forrest, but a 6-3 win on Friday at MTCS. On Friday night, Champion junior Hayden Edmondson pitched five strong innings for Cascade and allowed just four hits and one run, while striking out two...
Viqueens hang on, win 3-2 (High School Sports ~ 03/20/16)
UNIONVILLE -- The Community Viqueens improved to 3-0 on the young season on Friday afternoon, edging out a 3-2 win over visiting Fayetteville. The game evolved into a pitcher's duel to start, with neither side scratching a run across the plate through the first three innings pitched...
Lady Champs blast Huntland (High School Sports ~ 03/20/16)
HUNTLAND -- Freshman Brooke Sudduth spun a one-hitter and led the Cascade Lady Champions to a huge 14-1 win on Friday afternoon at Huntland. Sudduth kept the Lady Hornets' bats tied up for virtually the entire game, allowing just the one hit in the bottom of the fifth inning, which came on Tara Cates' RBI double to left...
Eagles claim tennis win; Eaglettes fall flat (High School Sports ~ 03/20/16)
The Shelbyville Central Golden Eagle tennis team continued its strong start on Friday afternoon, edging Lincoln County 4-3. Shelbyville got a strong start in doubles, with partners Eddie Green and Malik Ransom picking up an 8-6 victory at the No. 1 doubles seed...
Lady Pats roar past Viqueens (Community Sports ~ 03/20/16)
UNIONVILLE -- The Liberty Lady Patriots hammered out 12 runs on 15 hits on Friday at Community and claimed a 12-2 league victory. Liberty wasted little time, plating three runs in the top of the first inning and a fourth in the top of the second. Community cut the Lady Patriot lead in half with two runs in the bottom of the third, but saw little else in the way of run support...
Congratulations on new position (Letter to the Editor ~ 03/20/16)
To the Editor: Congratulations to Mark Clanton (former Shelbyville public works director) on his new job. He is leaving a huge pair of shoes to fill. He has shown through love by the city, the taxpayers, the employees under him, you don't have to have a paper saying you have a college degree to be well liked, respected, and excel at your job...
Ramsey has been a successful leader (Column ~ 03/20/16)
The announcement that Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey will not seek re-election after 24 years of service in the legislature headlined a busy week on Capitol Hill. Ramsey spent four years in the House of Representatives before being elected to the Senate, where he led the charge to gain a Republican majority, then super majority. He was elected as lieutenant governor/speaker of the Senate in 2007 as the first Republican to serve in the position in 140 years...
Long, busy week for state legislators (Column ~ 03/20/16)
"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power." -- Charles Simmons On Wednesday of this past week, Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey announced that after 24 years serving in the State Legislature, he will not be seeking re-election. ...
Cowarts bring 'fresh, relevant' message in music (Local News ~ 03/20/16)
When Zach Kirby, worship pastor at First Baptist Church on Depot Street, met singer/songwriters Benji and Jenna Cowart at a worship conference in Franklin last fall, he said, "They had my attention from the first note they sang. They are anointed and humble worship leaders who write incredible songs for the church."...
Champion horse's headstone saved (Local News ~ 03/20/16)
community effort recently saved the tombstone of a former world grand champion Tennessee walking horse. Ebony's Threat's Professor was owned by Dr. Bob and Curtise McCloy and was trained by Ronal Young. He was the 1993 4-year-old world grand champion. He died Aug. 2,1994, from complications of colic. He was brought home from the clinic and laid to rest at Ronal Young's Stables on Highway 64 West...
Man punches woman in front of officer (Local News ~ 03/20/16)
A police officer says he was forced to tase a suspect to stop his attack on a woman outside a Shelbyville store Thursday afternoon. Marquail Demon Turner ran toward the woman as she talked to officer Brock Horner and began punching her in the mouth and face before being tased outside the Dollar General Store, 524 Madison St., a city police report said...
T-G News Quiz for March 20, 2016 (Local News ~ 03/20/16)
Here's our look back at the past seven days in local news. Choose the best answer for each question. 1) This month, Shelbyville City Council approved giving free rent to what type of business for its first year on city property? A. A concession stand at H.V. Griffin Park...
Shoes good for the sole: Eakin Elementary accepts donation (Local News ~ 03/20/16)
School can improve your mind. Sometimes, it can be good for your sole as well. For the second year, every teacher, student and staff member at a local elementary school has received a free pair of shoes. Last year's beneficiary was Southside Elementary School; this year, it was Eakin Elementary...
Sun shines on Daffodil Day in Bell Buckle (Local News ~ 03/20/16)
Bell Buckle celeberated its 39th annual Daffodil Day on Saturday. The event included flower sales, a flower show, seminars, demonstrations and vendors. Bell Buckle celebrates its recertification as Tennessee's smallest Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation during Daffodil Day, and this year's seedling giveaway (right) included black cherry, native sweet pecan and swamp chestnut oak seedlings. See more photos in a gall...
Vouchers would greatly impact public schools (Column ~ 03/20/16)
There was a discussion of the proposed school voucher program on the Times-Gazette website the other day, in the comments under a blog post about the wheel tax. I don't want to definitively answer the question of whether a voucher system would be good or bad, but I do want to respond to one commenter saying that a voucher system would not have any financial impact on public school systems. It would have an impact -- and potentially a large one...
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Heavens above, the age of Ophiucus is dawning
Thousands of people woke up to the realization last week that they aren’t who they thought they were.
Worse still, neither was that partner they always thought they were so compatible with based on their astrological signs, because this week it was announced that many of us were reading the wrong horoscope.
“Over the 2,500 years or so since the zodiac was established, your sign has moved about a month relative to the sun and stars,” Robert Roy Britt wrote in a posting on LiveScience that was republished by a newspaper in Minnesota, triggering the zodiac panic.
“You’re no longer what you think you are, and so if you’re an astrology buff, perhaps poised to make a New Year’s resolution based on the stars and a reading of your supposed personality, know that you’re actually following observations, predictions and advice aimed at another person entirely,” Britt wrote.
The shift in the alignment of the stars, which has come about because the Earth has been wobbling on its axis for millennia, means most people go back a sign.
Warm-hearted, patient Taurus becomes selfish, quick-tempered Aries.
Eminently practical and prudent Capricorns are now blindly optimistic and careless Sagittarians.
And many Sagittarians are now Ophiucus. Oh what? Ophiucus. It’s the hitherto little-heard-of 13th astrological sign. Apparently the Babylonians had an Ophiucus column in their daily horoscopes, but it got dropped somewhere between their civilization and ours. In any case, news of the celestial shift and of Ophiucus’s resurrection sent astrology buffs reeling.
If they weren’t wondering how to get rid of the Scorpio tattoo that they just had done when it turns out they’re really Libra, as Michele Zipp did in a blog posting on The Stir, they were pondering some of the other existential questions raised by the change.
What, for instance, are Ophiucus’s personality traits? What signs are compatible with Ophiucans? And do the lyrics to the song from Hair that go, “This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius” have to be rewritten?
It would become “the dawning of the age of Capricorn,” which doesn’t really work with the meter of the song.
Knowing that famous Ophiucans include the former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, rocker and reality show star Ozzy Osbourne, the late US comedian Richard Pryor and pop star Britney Spears, all of whom were born between Nov. 29 and Dec. 17, sheds little light on what the sign’s personality traits are.
In fact, wrote John Abbott in Kernel Press about Ophiucus, “To claim that people as disparate as Ozzy Osbourne, Winston Churchill and Richard Pryor have a similar set of characteristics is nonsense.”
The news of the heavenly shift is in fact old — Britt’s story links to another published on Live-Science in 2007, in which the shift in the heavens and Ophiucus were announced, and Abbott wrote his piece in 1996, which is why he didn’t mention Britney Spears — she released her debut album in 1999.
Britts and Abbott both point out that astrology is not a science, a hint that no one was supposed to take the redrawing of the zodiac map too seriously.
But for some reason, the whole thing went viral after the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota, picked up the story and got an astronomer — a real scientist — to comment on it.
The astronomer was swamped with phone calls, and the Star Tribune’s Web site got more than 183,000 hits on Thursday.
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East African Railway Master Plan
Title: East African Railway Master Plan
Subject: East African Community, Kidatu, Rail transport in Tanzania, Transport in Burundi, Tanzania Railways Limited
The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating existing railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and extending them initially to Rwanda and Burundi and eventually to South Sudan, Ethiopia and beyond.[1] The plan is managed by infrastructure ministers from participating East African Community countries in association with transport consultation firm CPCS Transcom.[2]
2 Proposed lines
East Africa, and indeed Africa in general, uses several gauges which would cause problems if railways of different gauges meet. The following gauges are used by existing railways in the area:
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge Tanzania (south), Zambia, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan.
1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) Meter gauge Tanzania (north), Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia.
950 mm (3 ft 1 3⁄8 in) Eritrea
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Standard gauge various new and rebuilt lines
The first of the regional railway lines, the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala-Kigali-Bujumbura Railway is a standard gauge (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)) railway.[3]
Proposed lines
The following are some of the proposed railway lines under the plan; all are standard gauge:[4]
Mombasa-Bujumbura Line; passes through Nairobi, Rongai, Tororo, Kampala and Kigali.
Nairobi-Addis Ababa Line; passes through Garissa.
Lamu-Juba Line; passes through Garissa.
Nairobi-Juba Line; passes through Garissa.
Nairobi-Kisumu Line; passes through Rongai
Kampala-Kisangani Line; passes through Kasese
Kisangani-Bujumbura Line; passes through Kasese, Kampala, and Kigali
Tororo-Juba Line; passes through Gulu, with spur to Pakwach at Gulu.
Kisumu-Juba Line; passes through Rongai
Kampala-Juba Line; passes through Tororo, and Gulu
Juba-Addis Ababa Line; passes through Garissa
November 2013, Kenya launches the Standard gauge Mombasa to Bujumbura line.[5]
May 2014, signing ceremony for funding of the construction of the Standard gauge Mombasa–Nairobi section between the government of Kenya and the government of the People's Republic of China.[6]
August 2014, Uganda awards the contract of the construction of the Malaba–Kampala section of the standard gauge section to the Chinese firm, China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC). The contract is worth an estimated US $8 billion (USh 20 trillion).[7]
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Map Showing the Proposed Railway Lines Across East Africa At Bbc.co.uk
Map of the Standard Gauge Mombasa-Bujumbura Railway Line At Railpage.com.au
East Africa SGR Schematic Map
Burundi Map
Rwanda Map
Tanzania Map
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^ Sambu, Zeddy (29 April 2008). "East Africa: Countries Move to Upgrade Railway Network". Business Daily (South Africa). Retrieved 13 May 2014.
^ Muramira, Gashegu (20 April 2009). "East Africa: EAC Railway Master Plan to Be Redesigned".
^ "China To Build Railway Linking East Africa".
^ "Map of Proposed New East African Railway System".
^ Kenya Launches New Railway to Reach South Sudan and Burundi,
^ Mumo, Muthoki (5 September 2013). "Sh319bn China Funds to Build High-Speed Railway to Burundi".
^ David Lumu, and Samuel Balagadde (30 August 2014). "Chinese Firm CHEC Given US$8 Billion Railway Deal".
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The Selves Group was founded in 1978 by David Selves who has always maintained that he was born to work! Born to meet the next challenge.
In his late sixties he has the energy, excitement, passion and drive of people half his age. But added to that he has the experience of a boy who used to dread Easter Sunday as a child because his Dad would cut the toes off his winter shoes, to make his summer shoes whatever the weather, to a man who has experienced the ebbs and flows of success, met the great, the powerful, the good (and the not so good!) across a world of business, commerce, politics and sport around the globe.
An after lunch and dinner speaker in great demand he is also recognised as one of the great charity auctioneers of his era as the testimonials bear witness. He has raised almost £1m with his gavel for charities and good causes large and small as well as assisting them in other ways.
Like most other things in his life David has spoken, and still does, in venues grand and everyday. Subject matter ranges from sport to current affairs and, when speaking on a cruise ship during the London riots of 2011, he abandoned his planned speech and held a discussion with the audience, “Banks, politics, press; what a mess. Murdoch guilty?”. It was electric and ran and ran and had to be stopped because the band needed to practice on the stage for the evening! He described it as one of the most exciting discussions he had ever been involved in.
As an event or committee chairman, whether keeping order or managing questions to a panel, his humour, wit and speed of mind combine to make him both efficient, probing and entertaining. A broadcaster and interviewer with an easy going charm those with something to hide have come to fear him. To contact David on any subject email davidselves@selvesgroup.co.uk or call 07984 632999
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posted Friday, November 4, 2016 - Volume 44 Issue 45
JESSE'S JOURNAL: Election Day Blues
According to a poll taken by the American Psychological Association, 52% of Americans polled said that the presidential election is a 'significant source of stress' in their lives. As one American who has been stressed out by the most tumultuous election in my lifetime, I am surprised that more Americans have not been driven to the brink of insanity. We have unpopular candidates; an angry and divided nation; discredited institutions; a mistrusted press; and social media that brings out the worst in people. Though previous elections were not without controversy or scandal, they tended to remain in the background of our lives until Election Day (unless, of course, we were involved in a campaign). Today the 24-hour media keeps bombarding us with the crimes, follies and misfortunes of candidates, their families, staff and allies, until we are sick and tired of it. To run for office means having your life dissected by a basket of deplorables (to quote one of Hillary Clinton's most unfortunate phrases) who spout their hatred on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat under the cover of anonymity. Whoever is elected President on November 8 will be hated by half the population, who with their supporters in office will try to make her administration a living hell.
Faced by such an unsavory prospect, it is no surprise that many voters, especially Millennials, have given up on the whole mess. What's the point of voting, they argue, if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are equally bad; and minority candidates Gary Johnson, Jill Stein and Evan McMullin have no chance of winning? Though I may sympathize with Millennial angst, having gone through it myself four decades ago, I truly believe that not voting is the wrong thing to do, for several reasons. First, voting is our duty, as citizens of these United States. There are many people in many countries (and even a few here) who wish they could vote. Second, there are other races that deserve our attention, and our vote. Third, those who think that Clinton and Trump are equally bad and equally unqualified are wrong. Clinton has her faults, from her e-mail fiasco to her alleged used of her job as Secretary of State to promote her husband's foundation. But Clinton at her worst is nowhere as bad as Trump, whose business record, personal history and off-the wall opinions make him completely unqualified to be President.
Trump brings out the worst in people. Clinton brings out the best in people. Clinton's running mate is Tim Kaine, not the most exciting person alive but a dedicated public servant. Trump's running mate is Mike Pence, a Religious Right stalwart and the most anti-LGBT governor outside of North Carolina. Clinton voters are mostly good people, who are appalled by the prospect of a Trump presidency. Trump voters, though not all 'deplorable,' are infected with the virus of racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, germs that will infect our body politic if Trump is elected president.
As a Baby Boomer, I regret the mess that our generation made when we took over. I hope Millennials and others do not make their own mess by not voting. Voting is important and it is essential. If we vote and win, we can congratulate ourselves on a job well done. However, even if we vote and lose, at least we did the right thing.
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Front and Center: Acclaimed Guitarist and 2016 She Rocks Award Honoree, Jennifer Batten
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We are honored to feature today’s Front & Center subject and 2016 She Rocks Award recipient, Jennifer Batten.
Best known
for having played guitar for Michael Jackson’s three solo world tours as well as the Superbowl XXVII, Batten has also toured and recorded with British guitar icon Jeff Beck for several years, recorded three solo CD’s, written two music books, and released three instructional DVD’s with truefire.com.
Batten continues to tour the globe with performances and multimedia one-woman shows that feature guitar playing in synch with films projected onto a giant screen. Batten regularly holds seminars, including her recent “Self-Empowerment for the Modern Musician Experience” series, geared toward providing the modern musician with tools available to help boost creativity, time-effectiveness, and new digital age income opportunities.
Learn more at www.jenniferbatten.com.
WiMN: What is the biggest lesson you learned from working with the king of pop?
JB: The value of entertainment on top of the music. People want to see a show these days. Just playing music isn’t enough because they can see you on Youtube without leaving the couch. They want to know they’re getting a piece of you live that will be different than on line. That can mean stories, dancers, special effects etc. In my case, for my solo show, it means films and stories as well as guitar improv. Michael’s music was only the foundation of a phenomenal show.
The second thing would be the value of mega rehearsal. Prior to working with him, I’d usually play a new song with a band in the day and perform it on stage for the first time that same night. It was always a cause of anxiety. But with Michael rehearsals were so extreme, there was no wondering what the next chord, or the form, or the next tune was. So in the end 100% of your focus was on performance.
WiMN: One of your biggest idols growing up was Jeff Beck, whom you ultimately ended up touring with. Can you share how your working relationship came to be?
JB: I merely wanted to meet him and get an autograph. I thought I could pull it off since I knew I’d be in London on the MJ Dangerous tour. I worked all the angles I could think of and got Sony to get him VIP tickets to Jackson at Wembley Stadium. Then… MJ canceled the friggin’ show after two openers went on! I was able to call Jeff and arrange a meeting the following day at the studio he was recording at. I gave him my debut CD as well as a video I’d just received of a piece that UK MTV had just done with me doing “Flight of the Bumblebee.” I checked that autograph off my bucket list and went on my way thinking I’d never see him again.
He called several months later after finally hearing my CD and said he wanted to cut a CD together. I toured and recorded with him for three years.
WiMN: When people think of a female guitar player, you are often the first person to come to mind. Who did you look up to as a role model when you first started to play guitar?
JB: The Beatles, Stones, and Monkees. Also my Dad was always playing jazz records after work and on weekends. His love of music and high regard for the artistry had a big influence. In my teen years I was into the blues and then discovered Jeff Beck, and that sent me on a whole other path.
WiMN: If you hadn’t been a guitarist, what do you think you’d be doing instead?
JB: I listed forestry as a choice of careers while in high school as I was into backpacking at the time.
WiMN: Congratulations on being inducted into the 2015 Guitar Player magazine Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement! What do you think are the key ingredients that helped you get to where you are now?
JB: Thanks! That really came out of left field but was a big bonus after being on the road last summer for a few months, and carving about 10,000 miles in the RV. The awards are a big feather in the cap.
WiMN: What do you think are the key ingredients that helped you get to where you are now?
JB: Love of music is number one, and visualization. I think people feel the degree of your passion for your instrument, and it’s infectious. People always want to be inspired, as do I. You have to immerse yourself in your passion and then you magnetize opportunity.
WiMN: 2015 kept you busy with Fishman, Digitech, Washburn, D’Addario and Lock-It clinics, and your own seminar titled “Self-Empowerment for the Modern Musician Experience.” What were some of the biggest standout moments from your tour with these clinics and seminars?
JB: Everyone can look up the five tour vlog chapters I did, which are on my YouTube channel in the “Tour Vlogs” playlist. There’s some pretty silly stuff in there as well as a ton of the highlights.
Most of them are in the vlogs, but connecting to people in the Self-Empowerment seminar was the bomb. And hearing back from some of them on how pumped they were afterward was a real pay-off. That was just the beginning of where the concept will go.
I’ll also be doing an online streaming version this winter for all the people that missed it, or whose cities/countries I didn’t come to. It’s the proverbial “time to give back” in my life, and I have a hell of a lot of experiences to share. Info will be posted on batten.com when it’s nailed down.
WiMN: What is a little-known fact about you?
JB: I’m a hermit. I LOVE to be alone. After the kind of intense stimulation you get on tour, I’m perfectly content to be alone 23 hours a day off road. I have two dogs and two cats, and I’m good to go. And I have a big crush on Brad Paisley :-).
WiMN: Do you have advice for young women who might be considering a career in the music industry?
JB: Learn your craft and never stop growing; that’s what will fill your soul. The fame thing is hit or miss – fairly shallow and usually very temporary.
WiMN: What is in the works musically for 2016?
JB: I just returned from China and will be enjoying the early winter at home working on the next level of the Self-Empowerment for the Modern Musician seminar for streaming. I’ll be touring the U.S. with Uli Jon Roth and Andy Timmons in late February. Dates can be found here. Then I’m off to Europe in May.
WiMN: What does it mean to you to receive a She Rocks Award?
JB: It’s pretty heartwarming, really. You just do what you do in your life, not with the goal of receiving awards. But to be recognized as a good influence, especially just when I’ve launched the Self-Empowerment seminar, is a little sign that I’m going in the right direction.
When I joined Michael Jackson’s band in 1987, I thought the female musician revolution was upon us. Wendy and Lisa were in Prince’s band, and Billy Idol had a couple of different women playing keys in his bands. Then…nothing.
Now 30 years later, I think the real revolution is starting to take off. It’s still extremely lopsided and unbalanced gender-wise, but now that anyone can post their performances on YouTube, you see tons of young girls kicking ass.
I found out last summer that there are more girls in the 140 School’s of Rock across the country than boys. I just hope that whatever influence I may have out there, that a healthy percentage of girls picking up a guitar will take it way beyond three chords and singing about their boyfriends. If you’re going to dedicate your life to music, you have an infinite amount of growth ahead of you. It never ends.
I find my shows (and I’m sure the February tour as well) will be 95% males in attendance. Usually females attending my shows are Michael Jackson fans, and although I usually try to play one of his tunes, my solo stuff couldn’t be further from his genre.
Maybe in the next five or 10 years the percentage will even out. I think WIMN and She Rocks awards is helping to get the conversation going. Since the Internet is now in most homes with decent speeds, change is happening much faster in the past in all areas.
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The history of casinos in Grand Theft Auto (via GTA V, the PSP and Vita)
November 7, 2019 Simon Plumbe Features, Headlines 0
For years, Rockstar made video game series Grand Theft Auto has been one of the most popular going. From the blocky top-down chaos of the PS1 originals to the majestic madness produced by Grand Theft Auto 5, we’ve seen some major changes over the years. We’ve spent our time in various major cities, from Los Santos to Liberty City, from the countrysides of San Andreas and the Britpop madness of London to the 80s wonder of Vice City. One thing that was always missing, though, was the ability to fritter away your gangland legends money in the casinos like the ones at Betfree. Now, that’s changed.
GTA5 has introduced so many new features to its online mode that keeping up with the pace of change can almost feel dizzying. However, one thing that always stands out when it comes to GTA5 is their desire to add more and more features, not just rehashes of what already exists. Back in the summer of 2019, Rockstar decided that it was time to bring in a new casino – one that you can use real money in if you so choose.
The Diamond Casino & Resort has become a major hit for players looking to go big and go home. What’s the deal, though?
The Diamond Casino and Resort: a game changer for GTA
While casinos in the past have been in the games, they’ve often played very minimal roles in the overall world building. Now, given GTA has more or less always made space for prostitution and strip clubs since the days of GTA3, or even before, the lack of gambling has always been seen as a minor oversight. That, though, has all changed.
This grandiose new casino is probably the largest add-on to GTA5’s online mode in a year to eighteen months. It has players flocking back after many left to go hunting in Red Dead Redemption 2. With this new casino, the most controversial addition has been the fact that you convert the money you have in GTA into casino chips to play with.
You could even buy GTA$ with real-life dollars, and then convert that into chips. This would allow you to take part in all manner of gaming fun, from table games like Poker and Roulette to various others like horse racing, slot machines, and so much more.
However, there’s not just the ability to spend your wages chasing a big win for your virtual gang lord. You might also choose to take part in the various new GTA Online add-ons like story missions that help you guard the casino, as well as various new cars to spend your winnings on.
While some decry another game going down the route of letting you use real money, there’s no obligation to do so. As such, you could spend some time in-game making money, or you could buy some online. It’s entirely up to you. One thing is for sure, though; the world of GTA can finally proudly boast having one of the finest virtual gambling establishments in all of video gaming.
The history of Casinos in GTA for PSP and Vita – Leone Casino
Leone Casino is actually a heck of a historied landmark building for GTA fans. Making its first appearance in the now-legendary GTA III, it would go onto appear in GTA Advance and then lastly, in GTA: Liberty City Stories for the PSP. You can find yourself visiting this establishment throughout the game (now available to play on your Vita as well), fending off attacks by the rival Sindacco family. Not to spoil much, but thank goodness you had a guy like Toni Cipriani working for you.
It’s worth mentioning that there are other such establishments in Liberty City Stories, such as the much-less storied Big Shot Casino, owned by arch-rivals the Sindaccos.
Funny enough, despite clear nods to gambling in both games, neither Vice City Stories nor Chinatown Wars (the other two entries in the GTA franchise available for PSP and Vita) feature casinos prominently.
Obviously, we have no idea what will happen next in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. But we know that Rockstar was keen on introducing a lot of minigames and gambling into Red Dead Redemption 2, so I think it’s safe to assume that whatever the future may hold, it’s sure to hold some sort of in-game casino for GTA VI (whenever that happens).
You’ll likely even be able to play with real money, just like in GTA Online’s Diamond Casino and Resort.
Is gambling something you look forward to in the next GTA game? Sound off in the comments below!
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A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 16:48
Ganzekraal is a farm dating back to the early 1700s. It was a key farm in the Groene Kloof (as the area north of Rietvlei and all the way to Geelbek on the Langebaan Lagoon was referred to in the time of the VOC) and is significant as part of the network of farms and buiteposte that stretched the VOC influence all the way from the Castle to Saldanha Bay.
Ganzekraal was one of the earliest freehold farms at the Cape, the title thereto having been given to Jacob van Reenen by a grateful government in recognition of his long and arduous trek to find the wreck of the Grosvenor (wrecked in 1782 on the North Transkei Wild Coast). The slave bell tower still stands today and this housed the bell from the Grosvenor, that Jacob had brought back from his expedition to find the wreck in 1790.
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Old photo of Granzekraal
Jacobs Bay which lies West of Ganzekraal was named after Jacob Van Reenen and was used by him to load his grain and produce onto ships that would lie at anchor in the sheltered bay. Today it is the holiday resort of Ganzekraal offering chalets, camping and a conference center.
Many West Coast family names are associated with Ganzekraal, amongst them the Melcks, Duckitts, Cloetes, Van Der Byls, Versfelds and Van Reenens.
The book “Ganzekraal” written from the memoirs of Mary Melck Kuttel, recalls the days from her birth (1900) to when her father had to sell, due to horse racing debts. It tells of a gracious error of Edwardian times.
Sadly the new owners had no sense of history and changed many of the architectural features and cut down trees and orchards that had stood for decades. In 1965 the then owners gave workers instructions to burn this undergrowth. Soon after starting the fire a strong South Easter came up and the house and dairy were gutted.
In 1970 the land was expropriated by the Department of Community Development and the property was leased to a farmer who kept cows and grew wattle. He proudly announced to Frances Kuttel Keegan (daughter of Mary Melck Kuttel) when she was there doing research for the book, that he had “flattened” the old house and dairy with his tractor.
Today all that is left is the old Schoolroom/Stable, Dovecote, outbuildings (pig sty, cart house, cowshed) and whilst there has been attempts to restore this valuable example of a bygone error, never to be repeated, these efforts have come to naught.
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Schoolroom at Ganzekraal in 2016 (Paul Naylor)
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Another angle of the schoolroom (Paul Naylor)
One can only hope that some organization will soon come forward and recognize the importance of renovating this site and bring it back to its former glory and preserve one of the very few examples we have of the history of this fascinating West Coast area.
Paul is a resident of Melkbosstrand (20 kms from Ganzekraal) and has a passion for local history. The neglect of so many of South Africa's heritage sites has motivated him to document what is left in his area.
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#1 incompetent news reporting
seagypsy
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What is the deal with news "reporters" these days. They seem completely oblivious to knowing what is and is not news.
So this guy shoots up a school and kills a bunch of kids. Follow up news would be information as to recent relevant developments. Such as, maybe finding journals where he planned it out, letters from an unknown source threatening him and appearing to be from teachers, intoxication at teh time of the shooting. Bath salts... something relevant! but instead this particular reporter wastes net space by telling us something about the guy that had nothing to do with what happened that day.
So he had aspergers syndrome. So what. The police have said that it had nothing to with what happened. Nothing more than the fact that he probably had toes and a nose as well. All this type of reporting will do, is create a fear among the uninformed of people with aspergers syndrome. Aspies are very common and anyone reading this probably knows a handful of people that are aspie without even realizing it. My son has aspergers, I have aspergers, and many people I know have aspergers. Aspergers is a common trait among people who are highly skilled in technical careers. Engineers, programmers, physicists. Even Einstein is suspected of having aspergers.
But most people know very little about aspergers unless someone they know is diagnosed with it. And even then they probably only look into it, if it is their own child or themselves. NTs, (neurotypical, people who do not have aspergers) usually find it much easier to just not interact with aspies except to tease them for being awkward. Or dismiss them as shy or something. Aspergers does not make people violent. If someone has aspergers and is abnormally violent then it is likely they have some other mental illness or circumstance that created that inclination towards violence.
Imagine, a sane person commits murder. will they report... "The murderer is said to be completely sane however the police have stated that this did not have anything to do the violent acts they committed. "
This is the article that annoyed me:
By: Danielle Deavours | Alabama's13.com
NEW YORK (AP) --
A law enforcement official says the gunman in the Connecticut school shooting had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome but experts say there's no connection between the disorder and violent behavior.
Asperger's is a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness.
High school classmates have described the gunman, Adam Lanza, as being bright but painfully shy, anxious and a loner.
Speaking badly about people after they are gone and jumping on the bash the band wagon must do very well for a low self-esteem.
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It's the time-honoured self protection mechanism of 'othering' people who make us feel uncomfortable. So mass murderers are instantly, remotely, determined to have been abnormal, therefore not like us, not like anyone 'we' are likely to know.
Anything that can isolate a person as being different, anything at all. Being quiet, or a loner, or having some kind of mental condition or disability, or anything at all which is, in fact, just one among many individual features of lots and lots of people who are no threat to anyone or anything.
One day people are going to realise that this is the far end of the spectrum of acting out behaviours, road rage, domestic violence and the like that are part of normal human failings. How to deal with the problems and how to prevent them will never be properly examined until people stop treating this as not-like-us, individuals-who-didn't-get-mental-health-services, dysfunctional-families or other platitudes, but as part of society and human behaviour that we should deal with honestly and openly.
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It seems when things like this happen they'll say anything, apart from questioning the lax guns laws that contribute to the body count. I heard that after Columbine, the school banned trench coats, but there was no change in local gun laws. Aspergers and trench coats are not the problem.
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Originally Posted by Phlogistician
Aspergers and trench coats are not the problem.
Nor are guns. Or knives or bombs for that matter, as the Columbine students were bombers, not gunman. Not much fortune, really, that the bombs failed and they had to fall back on plan B.
Even blaming gun laws is an example of scapegoating. Human beings are to blame for these tragedies. It was a human being that decided to kill. Not a gun. Not aspergers. Not a trench coat. The human being did it. And human beings kill each other, in one way or another, every day. It is part of our nature that we bury and suppress. but sometimes, we experience things that we just can't handle and so we lose our control and do something "crazy". I think we lose our ability to suppress our true nature at times, and sadly, it is in the nature of every one of us to be violent towards that which we feel threatened by. Whether a perceived threat is substantiated or not is irrelevant. Sometimes, it is simple assault, sometimes aggravated assault, sometimes it is nothing more than harsh words, but emotions get the best of us sometimes and things happen. Things we regret.
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Originally Posted by seagypsy
Even blaming gun laws is an example of scapegoating. Human beings are to blame for these tragedies. It was a human being that decided to kill. Not a gun.
It was a human being with easy access to firearms. If guns weren't a factor, other countries with more strict gun laws would see the same rate of homicides per annum, via other means, but we just don't see that. The homicide rate in the USA is four times that of the UK, for instance. Guns allow people to act on their impulses, and who hasn't got a bit annoyed with someone at some point in their life? Add a firearm into that disagreement and it's possibly not going to end well. Lax guns laws are a very real factor in this.
Going by homicide rates by country, it appears that education and cultural influences play a far greater role in homicide that access to one particular tool for the job...:
List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have had easy access to guns most of my life, and until relatively recently I have had a hair trigger temper. But I have never reached for the guns that were easily within my grasp. If the availability of the gun is to blame, then that suggests that if any gun is available that it WILL be used to murder someone. Consider how many people in America have access to guns. Then consider how many of THOSE people go out and shoot someone. Having the gun available is not the reason this guy killed people. It was probably the reason he chose a gun as his preferred method but not his motivation for killing. The guns didn't make him kill someone. He made himself kill. If he had not had a gun available, he likely would have used some other method. Maybe he would have knifed his mother and then ran a school bus off an embankment or something. Maybe a pipe bomb. Maybe arson.
When I was in school I was bullied heavily and I hated everyone in my school. I wanted them all to die. I had access to guns. What stopped me? My mom told me she loved me. She told me that some day, those kids wouldn't matter to me anymore. She didn't have a habit of lying to me. And I still believed in God, so I feared going to hell. Ultimately, I feared disappointing my mom, going to jail, and going to hell. Fear of the consequences is all that stopped me from killing all those kids. And I had no desire to shoot anyone. I didn't see shooting as very efficient. I intended to use arson will all the exits blocked. But that fear is what stopped me.
When the fear of consequences is gone, a person will do anything. This man had already chosen the consequences. He probably already planned to take his own life but for some reason felt he should take others out first. His motivations for that are still unknown. But he didn't fear the consequences because he had control of the consequences. He was apparently ok with death since he self executed. He satisfied his urge to kill and did not have any consequences to face. Did he have a belief in heaven/hell? who knows? I'm guessing he didn't. I am not saying that people should fear those things, but fear of consequences is what stops people from giving into their primal urges.
Absence of an immediate means rarely prevents someone from killing if that is what they have set their mind to doing.
So before you blame the easy access to guns consider the implications that presents. It suggests that anyone with access to a gun will use it to commit murder. This is an unfair assumption. Do you think you would kill someone if you had easy access to a gun?
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Having the gun available is not the reason this guy killed people. It was probably the reason he chose a gun as his preferred method but not his motivation for killing.
How do you explain that the homicide rate is four times that of the UK, if it's not influenced by the availability of guns?
Social differences. Entitlement attitudes running a muck. More people than our social infrustructure can support. I don't mean social welfare programs, I mean too much anonymity. When you feel as if no one knows you exist, you lose your humanity. anyone can speculate, and just about any suggestion can be supported by circumstantial evidence. Not knowing exactly what causes it does not automatically mean that availibility of guns is to blame. Your assumption doesn't follow observed patterns.
Sorry for the old numbers, had trouble finding statistics that were consistent and not reported with a biased slant.
o In 1994, 44 million Americans owned 192 million
firearms, 65 million of which were handguns.
Although there were enough guns to have provided
every U.S. adult with one, only 25 percent of
adults actually owned firearms; 74 percent of gun
owners possessed two or more.
- source
in 1994 there were only 23,330 murders in all, that includes murders not involving guns. so for the 44 million gun owners there were only 23,330 murders. and these 44 million gun owners had access to over 190 million guns 65 million of which were hand guns. So if availability is to blame, shouldn't there have been several million murders?
availability didn't cause millions of murders. and lack of a gun didn't prevent the murders that didn't involve guns. Your logic doesn't follow. It seems to be a scapegoat. Unpleasant things are easier to cope with when we have a scapegoat to blame. We cannot fight our attacker if we do not know who our attacker is. Not knowing why worries all of us. But creating a boogyman for lack of knowing who or what the real problem is does not solve anything. Ultimately, the only ones we can blame for murders are the murderers. And whether we like it or not, they were human beings, just like the rest of us.
So if availability is to blame, shouldn't there have been several million murders?
That's a non-sequitur. The murder rate is what it is, and it's four times higher than the UK, and guns are far more prevalent, seems a simple correlation, especially when you haven't qualified the other factors you cited as being intrinsically American phenomena. There are disaffected people in other countries too. For a developed nation, the gun homicide rates makes America stand out, and so does the rate of firearm ownership.
It really is worth taking some time to look at various countries on that map - different numbers/rates of gun ownership, of homicide, % of homicides by gun. The USA is extremely unusual among advanced economies.
Until you look at the % numbers, where you might think there's a similarity. There are a couple of countries with the same % of homicides by gunshot, but when you look at the numbers themselves, they're in a different world. 60% of murders by gunshot are a lot fewer homicides when you're talking a murder rate of 0.6 per 100000 versus USA's 4.2 per 100000 population.
KALSTER
You said it yourself; its correlation, not causation. Yet.
It stands to reason that if there are more guns, more murders will be committed by a gun, but that doesn't necessarily mean that many more murders of all types would occur, though at least some of it can be attributed to the fact that it is easier to kill with a gun than with about anything else.
Disclaimer: I do not declare myself to be an expert on ANY subject. If I state something as fact that is obviously wrong, please don't hesitate to correct me. I welcome such corrections in an attempt to be as truthful and accurate as possible.
"Gullibility kills" - Carl Sagan
"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it." - Harry Block
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
It stands to reason that if there are more guns, more murders will be committed by a gun as a percentage of the total, but that doesn't necessarily mean that many more murders of all types would occur, though at least some of it can be attributed to the fact that it is easier to kill with a gun than with about anything else.
Originally Posted by adelady
Exactly, a higher population, and a culture of mixed culture. We have the most diverse culture in the world here. And we do not insist on immigrants assimilating and never really have. Any group can retain their ancient heritage and when you have two groups living next to each other with vastly different POV and the encouragement to speak their mind, you will get conflict. We have a culture of conflict. We are a country of fighters. We are the descendents of dissenters and the very nature of our constitution breeds dissention, because our right to dissent is so blatantly spelled out in the constitution and bill of rights. This right to dissent is what attracts immigrants. And so what kind of people immigrate here? More dissenters. Where you have dissent, you have conflict. Where you have conflict, you have high emotions. Where you have high emotions, you have motivations for violence.
I see your logic as a non-sequitur. This issue is a matter of perceptions and speculations. It is not a fact that gun availability is the cause of murders. This is proven every day that 44million + gun owners do not shoot someone. It makes as much sense as saying that suicide is caused by the availability of razor blades.
Guns are a means of committing murder. Murder does not go away by taking away guns. Let's say guns disappear from the face of the planet. Will you take away knives next? ok now those are gone, what next, automobiles? how about baseball bats, golf clubs, and pipe wrenches? Then maybe pillows, plastic bags, and ropes. Where will it stop before you realize that if a person wants to kill they will find a way and they will kill.
Are you only put off by gun murders? do other murders not bother you? Just because something seems to be a correlation doesn't mean that there is actual causation shown. there are other factors murders have in common that have nothing to do with gun availability. Uncontrolled anger is a very common factor. Disenfranchisement is another. Desperation is another. These are things that are common factors in all murders regardless of method.
I think we will have to agree to disagree. You present data and I do not deny the facts of the data. but I disagree with your interpretation of it. We see it from a different point of view. At this point we are arguing beliefs. So any debate will be no more beneficial than two theists arguing the merits of their own religions against each other.
In any case, back to the OP. The article was poorly written and a waste of time. Why bother calling it an article any case when it is only 4 sentences long? And what good did the "journalist" think they were achieving by pointing fingers at aspies then pretending not to do so.
Gun laws seems to be the hottest topic as a result of this, from the reports I heard.
If the bloke has aspergers (which I didn't hear about) and is very uncomfortable socially, then this is likely to have played a part in creating the feelings which led to the severe actions. I don't know about the story, but a lesson from this is that those who are socially awkward need to be treated with respect and compassion, or they might flip.
One comment was from an American lady who thinks the competative and combatative, ego centric culture in America has played a big part in pushing this vulnerable individual over the edge. Therefore the fact that he has aspergers and has been bullied, is relevant and can teach us lessons that help to avoid such instances in the future.
I don't take from this that aspergers sufferers and those on the autism spectrum are more dangerous than anybody else, simply that they are more likely to be victimised in a culture that doesn't protect them, which is more likely to push them into severe actions.
But really, I have no clue what happened.
Another comment was that america has the same constitution as the UK, except the americans removed a qualifying statement which states that the right to bear arms only allows reasonable armoury and in accordance with the law.
I presume that any american with enough money is allowed to build an army?
It is not a fact that gun availability is the cause of murders.
It may not be the cause, but there are correlations that need to be incorporated into discussion and policy making.
From Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
States with tighter gun control laws appear to have fewer gun-related deaths. The disclaimer here is that correlation is not causation. But correlations can be suggestive:
and from America is a Violent Country - Kieran Healy
Note that “assault” as a cause of death does not distinguish the mechanism of death (gunshot, stabbing, etc). If anyone knows of a similar time series for gun-related deaths only, let me know.
It's worth looking at the link to see the graphs for individual countries. Not one single country ever has a high point anywhere in its series near the two lowest points on the USA graph. If someone gave you these graphs as data for statistical analysis you'd tell them they'd made a mistake. One of the graphs appears not to belong with the rest - that would be the USA.
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Whenever there is a sensational killing involving guns
the gun control gouls come out of the woodwork to feast upon the corpses
for their own agenda
the usa is different from most industrialized.advanced countries in that we have little in the way of a social welfare state
so we have a higher percentage of people who could have been helped or treated, but weren't due to our criminally expensive medical care(where care is just a four letter word) industry
so we have more desperation
and a television that constantly glorifies violence
some mentally ill people reach out in a crazed attempt to have some impact
guns ain't the illness
just a symptom of the rot and decay
question for you and seagypsy like this.
I agree that it needs to be considered, but so do all other factors. The issue of murder is being looked at with tunnel vision. Other factors playing into what leads one to murder are not being evaluated. I don't think there is any ONE cause of murder. I don't think there will be an simple fix like taking away guns. There is a reason we were given the right to bear arms and in today's world I think that justification is more relevant than ever. The purpose for allowing the armament of citizens is so that in case of invasion, every last one of us becomes an armed combatant that the invaders has to contend with. For a very long time we have been a superpower unchallenged. But not so much today. The world has become disenchanted with America and Americans. We are at higher risk of attack than ever and we should never let our guard down and assume the army can protect us. Of course, perhaps if we change our government policies towards foreign entities then maybe there wouldn't be so much animosity towards us coming from the outside. It seems, to outsiders anyway, we are a nation of bullies, and bullying breeds contempt.
But neither does Japan. Its total murder rate is less than 10% of the USA - 0.3 per 100000 population versus 4.2 per 100k for the USA.
(It does have a fairly sensible health system - but very little mental health care.)
There's more to it than that.
murder rate is too broad
needs refinement by economic status/race/ethnicity/ etc.
we are a melting pot of many races and cultures, not so the japanese
we are a melting pot of many races and cultures
And so is Australia (and the UK for that matter). In my kids' small primary school there were something like 60 languages spoken in the homes of the students.
Their culture is also very different there. The idea of honor and respect is unlike anything in the US. Honor and respect is default in Japan, in the US you have to earn it. Respect is even built into the Japanese language. And disrespect and familiarity tends to be the default setting for Americans. Just look how hard it is to get people to respect each other on this forum. Irrelevant personal ad hom attacks are the norm when two people disagree on politics or ideologies. Very few here are tolerant of other views. When Americans ARE being tolerant, it is through very conscious strong effort that it is expressed. And even then, the tolerance is usually superficial. We will say one thing in public, while in our heads or between close friends we declare that the people we disagree with shouldn't be allowed to breath or joke that it would be funny if the opponent meets a tragic end.
Adelady, could you please provide several citations showing that the United States is unusual or extremely high in homicide rates? This claim contradicts just about everything I've read including the source I linked to earlier where the US is midrange and many nations have a higher homicide rate, including South American countries and Asian countries.
I'm baffled by your repeated claim.
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Originally Posted by Neverfly
The wiki tables shows the UN data....no real reason to dispute them.
The US homocide rate is nearly four times higher than most other advanced nations, the lethality of guns being a big part of the reason. About 2/3 of those are by handguns.
And so many generallized numbers don't apply in this case.
Consider what we know so far: he used a high capacity semi-auto rifle to do most of the killing. This isn't typical, most homocide in the US is done by handguns.
This guy seemed off the radar in terms of mental health problems, or past troubles with the law-- improved mental health care most likely wouldn't have prevented this case. This guy could have probably passed any reasonable screening even if he's decided to purchase the guns he used that day.
The US Constitution 2nd amendment has always been pretty fuzzy--the writings by the founding fathers make a few things clear though--they wanted the citizenry to have the ability to form a militia to repel foreign or domestic tyranny and their homes. This intent is why I've always thought handguns don't apply nor should fall under the 2nd, while rifles should. The courts have recently lumped all firearms together and decided there's near absolute protection for those rights. A constitutional admendment change are very unlikely.
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Ok, so the qualifier is that it has a high amount for being a developed country, but not the highest, nor the highest among general nations, got it.
Yep. For an OECD country, it's not just high, it's an outlier.
The easiest way to see ranking in the world is to click on the "Rate" heading on the "By Country" listing on this page. You can see how many are above and below, and compare with countries you'd think of as being comparable. List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maybe I'm just dumb, but I'm not following you at all.
I did as you suggested, the US is less than Russia and the Ukraine. It's midrange. What am I missing here? That if it's higher than other European countries or Australia than it must be an outlier? There are less developed countries that have a lower homicide rate above and below the U.S.
There are developed countries with a higher rate than the U.S. and developed countries with a lower rate.
I'm just not seeing the extremity here- it still looks Midrange.
if it's higher than other European countries or Australia than it must be an outlier?
Among OECD countries I can only see Estonia with a higher murder rate - which has a population about the same as Nebraska or West Virginia. Though here there's an obvious problem with different data collections - those two states both seem to have higher murder rates than Estonia but it looks a bit odd.
A lot of the ex USSR and Eastern European countries, but not all, have murder rates higher than the USA. Considering how Russia in particular collapsed after the end of state control with death rates from TB to measles to alcoholism to violence and just about everything else increasing tremendously. being better than them is a bit like being better than South Africa. Not an achievement.
I think there are a lot of factors in this one and it's best for anyone to reserve judgment on causes for murder rates.
I just wonder what the strongest contributing factors are.
Adelady, I'd have to really crunch the numbers on this one and frankly, I got my hands full with work, holidays and whatnot- I've not been delving into serious posting lately.
Thing is, I'll take your word for it on these figures for now- You're not exatly an unreliable source where science is concerned.
But when I do have time, I want to follow up on it and some heavy comparing between nations and factors of crime rates. It just seems like it comes up in many debates.
Guns? Comparing murder rates between countries of differing laws
Religion? Comparing murder rates between different cultures and religious nations.
So on and so on.
This is a nice compilation of original and literature review research. Homicide - Firearms Research - Harvard Injury Control Research Center - Harvard School of Public Health
Haven't yet looked at it but this one looks to be the most interesting (to me anyway).
2. Across high-income nations, more guns = more homicide.
We analyzed the relationship between homicide and gun availability using data from 26 developed countries from the early 1990s. We found that across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides. These results often hold even when the United States is excluded.
Hemenway, David; Miller, Matthew. Firearm availability and homicide rates across 26 high income countries. Journal of Trauma. 2000; 49:985-88.
My issue with availability is Firearm Training and ownership.
Here's the real clincher: Most people are not armed and not armed about their daily business.
So- firearms are more readily available to those that may wish to do harm or are motivated to do so, but those that would be using them for self defense do not undergo training nor ownership.
What's left is a bunch of people that have the right to arm and defend themselves, but choose not to do so. Then, they blame firearms when a lunatic uses one improperly.
Self reliance and accountability... not in my backyard! Maybe one could be responsible and say, "I knew that there was a certain risk to living in society, maybe I should have taken the necessary and proper precautions instead of doing nothing- then calling for someone else to come and save my butt after I failed to do anything- then I'll blame the implement used, rather than the people or *gasp* myself!"
If these madmen had to shoot into an armed crowd, they'd lose the purpose even if their intent is to die. As it is, they are mowing into a crowd of unarmed people. The shock value and societal impact from the damages will be large. But if he was going to get popped off the moment he pulls out his firearm and starts in... he'd lose the purpose.
People are less quick to shoot at someone who will shoot back.
I'm willing to bet the vast majority of gun murders are against unarmed people.
If firearms caused murders, then there would be 44million shooting murders a day. No, the implication of that is absurd.
If you have ten people armed, does that mean those ten people are going to start shooting at eachother?
The larger population you have, the higher the odds you will have a murderer within that population.
A very interesting article:
Are We Hardwired to Kill? : The Intersection
This one is a pdf file that wants to download to your computer:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...55534169,d.b2U
So, we are animals. Yet, in our society, many people abhor the idea that we are animals. It's easier to find blame elsewhere.
#2 Males usually attack when the ratio is 3:1. Wrangham and Wilson reported that both chimpanzees and young men in gangs attack when they outnumber their victim 3 to 1 or more. The reason for this? This is the minimum number that can safely overpower a single victim.
The more populated, the more attacks. The USA is one of the heavier populated nations on the planet. (Estonia has a much smaller population...)
#3 The murder rate between chimps and humans is the same. Before we had inventive weaponry that could kill thousands with the press of a button, humans lived in hunter gatherer groups where we lived off the land like chimpanzees. Watts et al, reported that in these societies the homicide rate in humans and chimps is about the same.
That's why murder rates across the world are expressed per 100000 of population.
The lack of gun availability has had a big impact in Australia. No mass killings - none at all (unless 2 counts as mass, but many domestic killings involve more than that) - in the 16 years since the Port Arthur mass murder. I don't see the USA going for the same bans on handguns as we have, but the only guns generally legal here are now shotguns and rifles. No high capacity clips. They're strictly for the military only. Since the big buy-back there have been several amnesties for handing in guns, no questions asked.
Now it's basically cops and robbers with handguns and noone else. And criminals seem to concentrate their efforts mostly on killing each other rather than anyone else.
Density plays a role that I think is not being factored in, here.
Crime in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -interesting...
So, cops and robbers doing their thing, there... But that doesn't apply to all other countries? Yes, robbers doing their thing- murder is murder. You cannot discount that, even if the claim they only kill eachother is accurate (which I don't think it is.)
You cannot discount that, even if the claim they only kill each other is accurate (which I don't think it is.)
Nothing is entirely one thing and nothing else. But homicides by gun are dominated in Australia by gang warfare and family violence. Armed robbery is nowadays dominated by smallish events/soft targets with people using knives, machetes and syringes or steel pipe or baseball bats.
Of course, our other great advantage is in the reduced numbers of accidental deaths and suicides by gunshot. These numbers are huge in the USA.
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Nothing is entirely one thing and nothing else. But homicides by gun are dominated in Australia by gang warfare and family violence.
And this is different from elsewhere- how?
As for the rest, if the bank was armed, even a gunman would think twice about busting in to rob it.
Originally Posted by KALSTER
In the USA, guns account for between 60 to 70% of murder weapons, nearly accounting for all the extra murders you see in your stats, but not quite, meaning the US is a slightly more violent society than the UK, made worse by easy access to firearms.
Last edited by Phlogistician; December 18th, 2012 at 05:54 AM.
Originally Posted by Lynx_Fox
The US Constitution 2nd amendment has always been pretty fuzzy--
What I don't get is how 'arms' is interpreted solely as 'firearms'.
made worse by easy access to firearms.
This is non sequitur.
It doesn't follow.
Again, it's access to firearms when the "victims" that have the same access choose to not support a proper defense. I find it more vulgar, to be blunt.
One difference between the USA and other countries is that in school, kids are disciplined. At home, kids are disciplined.
But the trend in the USA for the last thirty years or so is that discipline is somehow bad. We're supposed to coddle the self esteem.
But if kids do what kids do- and bullying happens, the victim of bullying is more likely to get in trouble for fighting back because of the coddly "Zero-Tolerance" policies that get the victim chastised for striking or punching a bully- zero tolerance for getting physical.
So when these mentally deranged kids snap...
Of course it follows. Read the report Adelady linked to. More guns = more homicides, period. It's time to stop navel gazing and trying to excuse the prevalence of handguns, and stop passing the blame onto other factors. Lax gun laws are to blame for the most part.
'Supporting a proper defense' is just ridiculous, armed people get shot dead too.
The kid was not 'mentally deranged' and such comments are not helpful.
Really? So it's mentally stable to shoot up a school?
I saw it- it just doesn't impress me much. A large chunk of people decide on a whim that it's the job of others to protect them and they refuse to take part in their own survival and defense. No, it's scapegoating and pointing the finger to blame anyone but SELF.
Lax gun laws aren't the problem- society as a whole is. It's broken. I saw Adelady's link- see mine also, showing it's our animal nature to behave this way, no matter the tool used.
We deny this constantly and instead, try to blame anything but ourselves.
Passing the blame onto other factors is exactly what you're doing.
Armed people get shot dead too- a lot less frequently than unarmed ones.
All the hand-waiving in the world won't alter the fact that most shooters would opt out of walking into a loaded room. Most criminals seek easy prey.
you implied he was 'mentally deranged' before he snapped, implying the the diagnosis of Aspergers was to blame.
I saw it- it just doesn't impress me much. A large chunk of people decide on a whim that it's the job of others to protect them
That's BS. I live in England, the protection I have is protection FROM firearms, I don't want to be 'protected' _by_ one, because they afford zero protection. The sooner gun strokers wise up to this the better.
That wasn't my intention at all- Poor wording on my part. No, I consider the whole snapping bit as evidence that his mind wasn't set quite right.
Zero protection! Oh, that was a good one. Go on- tell another one!
I was taught to shoot by my father, a small arms instructor in Her Majesty's Armed Forces, who has survived live fire exchanges during periods of unrest. He made a few things very clear, amongst them were the advice to only point a gun at someone I genuinely intended to kill, and to assume that was the intention of anyone who points a gun at me. So, if I draw on you, you are dead. If you draw on me, I'll try to make you dead before you can make me dead, there'll be no 'put the gun down man' type stand off, I'll just double tap you and then stick one in your skull for good measure. Guns are for killing people, body armour is for protection.
question for you likes this.
You only need guns to protect against guns... a society full of guns offers no more reasurance than a society were guns are banished.
When we talk about survival, then it seems to me that guns are an unatural mechanism which is therefore interfering with natural survival mechanisms. Thats ofcourse assuming that it is natural to kill another human, I personally don't see that as the truth.
We are clearly very distinct from the rest of the animals... They are not violent, the just have the occasional test of strength to determine mating rights (by and large)...
for everbod to have a gun is actually far removed from the natural survival mechanisms that have served us for however long... A dispute over a girlfriend or boyfriend which results in the one who is fastest on the trigger winning, means that those with quick fingers and a willingness to kill others dead will prosper in the evolutionary game. is that how we want the race to evolve?
I would rather see people revert to resolving disputes with the bodies they have developed... meaning that the strongest and fittest will prosper in the evolutionary game, just like with all the other animals. Healthy evolution. It so easy, if somebody doesn't want a confrontation, then they don't enter into one... if they do want a confrontation, then they use the tools that nature provided in order for the healthiest to prosper. that might be contrived to sound cold, but actually it seems colder to me to allow the weakest to prosper and create a 'devolution'.
Evolution dictated by willingness to kill and ability to buy guns is obviously going to lead to a far more pathological species, in my opinion.
I wouldn't want to advocate the tightening of gun laws on civilians, unless we also tighten the gun (weapons) laws of governments... The people and government should ban weapons completely and throw away the blue prints, ideally.
Our laws should be based not just on the greatest good for the greatest number, but also the greatest good for the evolution of our species as well as all other species.
All true- except that you negated your own argument. If someone has a weapon on you- that firearm will drop them. It is self defense. You cannot wear armor over your entire body and no more people walk out wearing full body armor than those that walk out armed.
A gunman can shoot at unarmored areas or weak points in it. You can only evade so much before you need to eliminate the threat.
eliminate the threat.
In the Uk we've pretty much achieved that by having strict gun control. I don't need a gun because nobody else has one, see?
Yes, the threats have been eliminated by... wait a second...:
UKCrimeStats.com - The Leading Independent Crime Data Platform
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The United States is a global community. It is a melting pot that holds the worlds people and cultures under one roof. With that comes the good and the bad.
If we look at states like North and South Dakota, some of the most heavily armed (gun wise) peoples/states, we see that guns do not lead to homicide. In fact, you are more likely to be killed by a knife, bat, sword or poison in those states than you are a gun. Just as safe as Europe. Why is that? The population of those states have a different culture than say the drug cartel and central and south american gangs living in parts of Texas, California, etc..
Outside of the mentally ill, which Europe and the rest of the world has, the level of gang violence and foreign influence within the United States due to organized crime is a problem the UK does not have on the scale the United States has it.
This violence is not due to guns though, it is due to organized crime and the cultures of those criminals. If the United States wanted to stop the violence they would do something meaningful like legalize drugs. The few neighborhoods and areas that produce the overwhelming majority of homicides in the United States would stop doing so. Homicides in the United States would drop like a ton of bricks from the top of a 10 story building.
The idea that democrats, liberals and socialist sell, "that people kill people with guns because they see a gun and then they are somehow possessed and forced by that gun to go kill people for no other reason or rhyme than the gun made them do it", is as silly as it gets. Thoughts, reasons, plans, power, greed, etc, make people kill others, and the instrument by which they carry out their plans or actions of murder are not the problem.
Banning guns in the US will only create more violence and more deaths by creating one more banned and illegal substance/thing that is easily obtained in the Americas that gangs and organized crime and criminals can make a fortune off in the united states.
Last edited by gonzales56; December 18th, 2012 at 01:13 PM.
Originally Posted by gonzales56
Political party affiliation aside: Bingo!
Why do people from england and australia care about gun access in the U.S.?
that'd be like me caring whether you wore hats
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Originally Posted by sculptor
Hey, mean't to press the quote button there caught the like instead lol. But I think it is important what happens in America for many countries as it sets a standard and expectation levels, you guys have got the most powerful and richest country on the planet then naturally other countries are going to look to you for guidance.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - confucius
looking to us for guidance
or looking to guide us?
if the former, buy yourself a rifle(or 2 or 3), shotgun, and pistol
but maybe you ain't got deer(read lunch) wandering over your back yard garden?
Why do we care about our neighbours or the people half a mile away or on the other side of our state or country?
Some of us have friends or relatives living in the USA.
Many of us care about people no matter where they are.
That's three for starters.
you care about me
you'll defend my right to keep weapons?
No I don't mind fishing and I'd quite happily shoot guns at target or on a shooting range, but I couldn't shoot an animal, I think I would really have to be starving to death before I could shoot an animal. But there are lots of countries where people own guns doesn't mean they all go out shooting people with them, it's the nutters of this world that go out and get what they need to do their damage. Yeah you could ban guns but how long then until the next massacre happens with a chain saw, then what ban power tools. Heck even in this country I could go down to the police station and get a shot gun license.
I eat meat
I think "grass fed" wild game is healthier than supermarket meat
I shoot 'em
I butcher 'em
I eat 'em
and I feel healthier for the effort
Hunting rifles? Fine.
30 round magazines? No.
one kill
Originally Posted by Chrisgorlitz
Yeah you could ban guns but how long then until the next massacre happens with a chain saw, then what ban power tools. Heck even in this country I could go down to the police station and get a shot gun license.
I don't think that argument holds a lot of weight. There's a big difference between adapting something to kill, and allowing free, unchecked and unrestricted purchase of something like the Bushmaster rifle used in this incident. That rifle from its basic design to the round it used 0.223/5.56-NATO was designed from the ground up for killing people and use by the military--the only functional difference between it and the most common issued weapons used by NATO are the unavailability of burst or auto.
As for hunting, that bushmaster, isn't really a good hunting rifle--unless you like coyote, prairie dog or people. It's not even legal to hunt deer with it in most states. If however we wanted to throw off a tyrannical government it would be excellent.
So where does this leave us? What measures can we put into place to preserve every citizens right to defend their home when they live 30 minutes from a police response? How about work in large groups...a militia as the last stop gap if the US government decides to toss the US Constitution away? How do we minimize the crazies from getting their hands on these weapons?
Also, last time ago the definition of "assault rifle" was so muddled it was darn near meaningless and had more to do with cosmetics than capability. For starters nearly every dear rifle as well as most home defense rifles are semi-auto. Perhaps the most distinquishable feature we could restrict is round capacity, maximum clip/magazine sizes or perhaps even getting rid of clips and magazines altogether. That would have many good and effective tube fedd hunting and defense weapons with 3-5 rounds in high caliber and up to ten or so in smaller calibers. Of course they are more difficult to load, so would need to be left loaded in any realistic home defense scenario.
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how many of the recent mass murder "crazies" owned the weapons they used?
what percentage?
It seems that freedom isn't free
it comes with risks
Well I suppose if you wanted they could ban all the conventional fire arms and just let people have tranquiliser guns, I suppose you could still hunt with them and take down a burglar, I think Obama would have a hard time getting the legislation through though and the NRA would go nuts.
try and buy tranquiliser for tranquiliser guns
I do not know how to do this, and
even is the tranquilisers were available
I doubt that tranquiliser guns could replace rifles
do I want to eat meat heavily dosed with a tranquiliser?
(my uninformed opinion is NO)
You can restrict people, to try to control the minority- by controlling the majority.
Free and unrestricted... hmmm...
It just seems to me that the fault lies not in the "victims" but those that demand others be restricted just to make their own lives carry the illusion of being easier.
Some people like the idea of a guard but I don't. Even if I must take risks, I'd rather take risks than be at the mercy of a guard- a guard that may or not be incompetent.
Maybe I would live longer with bodyguards. But what kind of quality of life would I have? It's not just One legality- it's books full of them.
A little bit of responsibility from people... or everyone must be restricted- Not Free.
I prefer the responsibility. I truly cannot fathom why others would WANT to live as slaves to society, dependent on others to protect them. To never get passed childhood, being told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, what not to do, being punished and relying on those above for sustenance and protection.
Gotta grow up, sometime.
And I do care, too. I care about others, even to know they are ok in other countries. But none of us are ok. Some kids need Tough Love. And we're all being coddled, not allowed to grow up, leave the nest and take some damned risks in the world.
That's not good parenting. That's not caring, that's just controlling.
Maybe some people like to be children all their lives. I like being a kid sometimes, too. But when the trail gets tough, you gotta pack the kiddo away and get down to grim business. I don't want to be a kid forever, I don't want to avoid the risks of living- I want to be ALIVE and allowed to be, allowed to defend myself and to have quality of life, not just survival.
Maybe I'm just too primitive but the concept of "warm and safe" all the time doesn't appeal to me at all. It has its moments, but those moments should be at my choosing. How can one appreciate warm and safe if it's all there is?
Society isn't a grand civilization- it's a frightened child.
Actually attacking schools and children is unfortunately nothing new in the world and different types of guns, bombs, knifes, cleavers, swords, etc., have been used and end up being the preferred weapon of choice for most of these mentally ill people.
In 1996 a man used a handgun to kill 16 children in Scotland. In Norway a man killed 77 people last year (2011) with a bomb and guns. In China, just this past Friday, 1 man walked into an elementary school with a knife and stabbed 22 kids, many of which are in critical condition. In 2010, China, 8 Children were killed by a knife in another attack on a school and 44 others were injured.
The .223 is also a hunting round/rifle. It is the military that adopted that round from hunters and then created the m16 around it. It is a .22 caliber hunting round. Outside of a BB gun, it is hard to get a smaller round than that. As a fully automatic weapon, the AR15/M16 platform is an effective battle machine gun rifle. As a semi auto rifle, it is not effective as a soldiers battle rifle. It would not be used in the military if it was semi auto. Troops would be dead or running for the hills if they had the AR15 semi auto.
Anytime criminals and the mentally ill attack and/or kill people with guns, there is always a group of people who do not care about why or how, they only use the tragedy to attack and restrict law biding citizens.... People have to ask themselves why and for what purpose/means/agenda?
It is, IMO, very disturbing that people use and want to use this as a political tool to push an agenda that has nothing at all to do with the tragedy. Banning anything and everything will not and would not prevent this tragedy and it will not prevent it in the future. Someone who is willing and ready to murder people simply will not and do not care if you make a law telling them it is illegal to posses a piece of metal. It does not even matter if they can get a gun or a .22 caliber rifle or not, they are going to murder men, women and children.
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There is only a split second difference, if any at all, between say a 10 round clip and a 30 round clip.. Even with that said, it is easy to make an extended clip for guns and what makes you think murderers will not make one if they need one? You think they will be afraid of the law saying its been banned? Do you think murderers are thinking how much they would love to go murder people but, because they only have a 10 round clip, and it is a crime to have a bigger one, they are going to stop murdering or are not going to go out and start murdering? They are going to be so scared and deterred by the 30 round mag ban that they will give up their murdering ways?
Ineffective, unimportant, not a solution and a lie sold as a solution/fix that fixes nothing and only effects law biding citizens.
Someone who is willing and ready to murder people simply will not and do not care if you make a law telling them it is illegal to posses a piece of metal. It does not even matter if they can get a gun or a .22 caliber rifle or not, they are going to murder men, women and children.
What we don't know about such people is what else they might want. For those who have a weird fantasy of bullets flying everywhere (whether it's film or game based or out of their own warped imaginations doesn't really matter), the unavailability of guns with large capacity clips/magazines is a big drawback. That cuts out some such attacks right from the start. It certainly would have reduced, if not eliminated, the death toll at Port Arthur. Seeing as we have had no such mass killings in the sixteen years since we outlawed, bought back or otherwise eliminated such guns in Australia after Port Arthur, that tells us it might be a good start.
For those who are going to do the "running amok" thing with a knife or machete, we know that far fewer people will die. There are three brave American schoolteachers with horrible scars on their hands and arms who fought off such a man in their school. None of the children in their school were even injured, let alone killed. No-one died in the knife attack outside a school in China the other day, although 20+ people, including children, were injured.
No, it just changed the name of the game:
Childers Palace Fire - In June 2000, drifter and con-artist Robert Long started a fire at the Childers Palace backpackers hostel that killed 15 people.
Monash University shooting - In October 2002, Huan Yun Xiang, a student, shot his classmates and teacher, killing two and injuring five.
The killing goes on- just not all at once.
From the '90s onward:
Timeline of major crimes in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A measure like that will not work in the United States to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people and criminals. The United States is in a different part of the world, and guns will flow from central and south america into the United States, ending up in the hands of gangs, criminals and the insane. Removing guns from law biding citizens in the United States will insure that gangs, criminals and the insane stay heavily armed and the law biding citizens do not.
Two different situations. Two different national circumstances/conditions.
Last time I checked, the world was not sending fully automatic guns, grenades and rocket launchers to that part of the world. They send them to the Americas, and they have been, for decades now. The same drug routes the cartel use, they use to get their hands on these weapons from south america. Cut off guns in the United States and the Cartel will simply make money supplying gangs and the insane in the United States with these fully automatic weapons. Soon enough, law biding citizens will no longer be so and will also start buying these real military weapons.
Gangs and criminals in Australia still get hold of illegal weapons. But they mainly kill each other.
The biggest problem for mass killings is guns held legally in homes - as in Newtown - where someone loses their temper or has a first-time psychotic episode.
Now put them right in the middle of cartel country and warring nations, with illegal transport and trade routes set up all over north, central and south america, then remove the guns just from the law biding citizens, and guess what would happen?
It takes a highly ignorant person to believe that the cartel and gangs will not sell weapons and will disarm because a government banned its law biding citizens from buying something from Walmart.
Remove guns legally held in homes and what do you have left? In America, this would mean a drastic spike in real actual military weapons from South America (not the fake ones Walmart sells to American citizens) being needed by millions and millions of cartel, mafia and gang members in the United States. This will lead to law biding citizens demanding these same guns too. Now the crazy people can get their hands on real military weapons and weaponry.
It is a supply thing. If the gangs in your country are easily getting their hands on fully automatic weapons then it is only a matter of time before a crazy person gets their hands on one. Now what have you done? You have slowed down the tragedies in your country for a while, but what happens when fully automatic machine guns and/or grenades are used next time? What did you accomplish and how do you get murderers and gangs to give up their guns?
The gang problems you have in your country is also nothing compared to the cartel and central and south american gorillas and mafias found in the United States. The American gangs will stay armed and rearm as fast and swiftly as they can, and they will do so mainly with the military weapons found in south america because that is what will mainly be available to them. What then? What has been accomplished?
If the gangs in your country are easily getting their hands on fully automatic weapons
Not many. Remember we've also banned handguns (the Dunblane school shooting was in the same period). So they concentrate on those just as much.
Because the largest supplier of illegal firearms in the Uk was re-activating MAC10s imported from the USA and selling them to criminals. Your guns become our gun problem. But hey, carry on with the isolationist attitude, it's not like you are reinforcing a stereotype or anything.
Are you trying to make a point? Robberies and muggings are slightly more prevalent in the UK. Slightly. Murders and rapes four times more prevalent in the USA. Your guns are not keeping you safe from murder or rape.
My City has approximately 50% non-white population, yet a lower crime rate than many others which have less of a racial and ethnic mix. I find the claim that a 'melting pot' is somehow to blame fallacious therefore. Seems to be the more dense the population, and the less affluent, sees higher crime, irrespective of background.
If we look at states like North and South Dakota, some of the most heavily armed (gun wise) peoples/states, we see that guns do not lead to homicide. In fact, you are more likely to be killed by a knife, bat, sword or poison in those states than you are a gun.
That's the 'murder' rate, given dead men tell no tales, and those states have a 'Stand your ground' law, I wonder how many murders have been overlooked? Those states are also an exception, rather than the rule, and using that to try to prove something is poor science.
Just as safe as Europe. Why is that?
Not quite, both states still have a higher over all murder rate.
The population of those states have a different culture than say the drug cartel and central and south american gangs living in parts of Texas, California, etc..
Here we go with the double speak. If gun crime and homicide is intrinsically linked to those groups, and you are not a member of one of those groups, why do you need a gun?
So arming your gangs via lax guns laws is the answer?
This violence is not due to guns though,
Nope, and cars don't cause car crashes, and motorcycles don't cause motorcycle crashes, but we accept we need the safeguards of seatbelts and helmets, don't we?
It's possibly too late to fix, but do you really think things should continue? That the price of murdered children is OK so folks can have a gun they don't need? I don't think anyone is talking about banning guns, just tightening up ownership criteria, licensing, registration, restriction of ammunition sales to valid permit holders, safety and competency tests. You know, the kind of regulation you accept is required for vehicle ownership and operation, without screaming it violates your constitutional right to free travel.
Your guns are not keeping you safe from murder or rape.
As I pointed out, the culture is divided.
Many people buy into the bunk that they are supposed to let others deal with threats. They don't arm themselves, even if they have the right or freedom to do so.
Have you ever needed your gun to deal with threats in everyday life in America? Or does it just give you some comfort to have it on you?
Women are the targets of the vast majority of rapes, yet only ~23% of women arm themselves, compared with 47% of the general population. So why is this? It's about perceived risk, isn't it? Non gun owners aren't asking for others to deal with threats, they just don't perceive the risk to be as high as gun owners do, so don't feel they need to be armed to feel safe.
But then pro-gun types talk out of both sides of their mouth at the same time, on one hand saying they need a gun for protection, whilst dismissing the horrific gun homicide rate as being internecine squabbles amongst drug pushers. If the vast majority of the threat come from within that group, and you aren't a drug pusher, you don't need to defend yourself from that threat.
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Gun owners report using their gun for self defense more often that non-gun owners report crimes against themselves. So either guns are crime magnets, or owners a little paranoid and pull their piece when someone they don't like the look of gets too close. Gun defense stats are ridiculous, if taken at face value, they undermine everything gun ownership allegedly achieves.
In some situations, I might need a firearm. I'm sure it would be quite nice to have one handy when I do need it, however rare it is I might. Burglery and rapes and muggins are not so frequent. Yet, when they do happen, as all rare things eventually do, being armed is quite the boon when your families health and safety may be in danger.
I do not own any firearms, however. It's not from a lack of desire, I'd like to have a good rifle, for example.
If I had my way, everyone would be walking around with a pistol at the hip. Thing is, it's not my way. I live in a society that is divided on the issue.
For example, I take my little son to the Zoo. Everything's going fine (Ok, I'm not a big fan of zoo's; it's just an example) and my son's admiring the interesting animals when suddenly, a PETA wanna be psychopath comes blazing in.
Hey, it's rare but these things actually do happen in real life.
So, let's assume the world is my way. Dude comes in all crazy and instantly, he is a threat to my son.
Not a good thing to be.
I do not care about his motives. I don't care about his life or whether he was being spontaneous or really thought it all out. In that moment, he is nothing to me except for a threat to my son.
I draw and fire and -problem solved. No more people being shot at in a crowd, no more threat. It's quick.
This is primitive. It's the primal wrath of a parent. It's not necessarily logical or even proper. It's human.
So, how often does this happen? Well, any frequency is too much as far as society is concerned. So saying it doesn't happen often enough for one to bother to be armed is nonsense.
As it is, I'm unarmed- mostly due to the culture of my society. I don't usually need a gun for self defense, most things, aside from a rabid shooter with an automatic rifle I can handle without a gun.
Back this up with said stats.
Good question. A lot of people see burglaries and rapes as things that happen to other people, not to them- Until it does. Many women do take courses in firearm use after they have been raped and arm themselves- after the fact.
The mentality of "it won't happen to me" is prevalent. You can hardly use that to support your claims.
Believing that gangs and criminals only sell drugs and only go after drug dealers is ignorance at its best. Organized crime and criminals have their hands and reach into just about everything the governments gives out, taxes to much, restrict and outlaws.
My cousin was just shot by a thug for not pulling into his own driveway fast enough. The thug even got out of his car and went after him to kill him until my cousin pulled his own gun out and fired a few rounds in his direction. One cannot carry a police officer with them and so they better carry a gun if they wish to protect themselves.
I myself grew up in rough neighborhoods, been shot at more than a few time, even been stabbed and I know how the streets in america are and how they work. Gangs, thugs and the ignorant go out all the time looking to rob, hurt and victimize people. It is just a matter of time before people will need a policeman or a gun, and I can promise you the gun will be there far faster and far more often than a policeman ever will be. Policemen tend to investigate crimes, not prevent them or stop them while in progress.
You should do some reading about the history. The 0.223/5.56 was developed specifically to meet NATO standards after lessons from WWII and extensively tested against many other rounds developed during that period for the same purpose. Not a single example you provide excluded a gun or took as many lives--it contradicted your own statements. We did have a bombing of a school way back in 1927 that took more lives--but average people can't buy dynamite anymore.
You are also wrong about semi-auto capability. I was in the Army for 24 years as well as did operations with other NATO and trained the Iraqi Army--semi automatic fire is the standard of fire; it is not only how we train, it's how we use the M16/M4 weapons in combat. Semi auto single shots at long to medium range...and semi-auto double taps in close quarters/reflexive fire (e.g. building) fights.
Though developed for killing humans, the is a pretty good vermit rifle. Many of my friends still hunt (I don't so much anymore). The 0.223/5.56 is something you screw around with at a range, not something people go hunting with very often. If I wanted to go hunting I'd grab a 12 gauge, or 30-30 or 30-06. (though 25-06 is my favorite!)
To those who ask if guns are required? I've personally used a rifle to deter trespassers twice; both times when I was living 20+ minutes away from a police response. Neither was reported because I dealt with the situation and didn't want to spend the night answering dumb questions at the police station. As a civilian, I've never taken a gun for protection outside my home.
I don't have an agenda. I do think it's time we take a hard look at what's reasonable access for certain types of weapons.
I am not against tougher restrictions on owning a gun in general but I wouldn't want to see a ban on any type of weapon.
I think it would be reasonable to have exams be taken to obtain a firearm. Appropriate tests for appropriate firearms. Tests over general firearm safety as well as understanding what the legal uses of the gun are. For handguns, I think people should have to demonstrate the working knowledge of the legal definition of "self defense". I also think some working knowledge of how to handle the weapon should be demonstrated. If you can't hit the broad side of a barn, maybe you shouldn't be licensed to fire a weapon. Would be terrible if you go to shoot an intruder and your aim is so bad you hit grandma who is 50 feet away from the target.
We take similar tests to get a driving license. Something similar for a firearm would seem reasonable.
All that being said, did anyone have any thoughts on the OP? Just curious, because this thread was an attempt to address the socially irresponsible style of reporting that attempts to vilify people with Aspergers. I have an issue with this because I am an aspie myself and have plenty of times had access to guns when I was angry at people but never reached for those guns. Aspergers (AS is being abandoned as a separate diagnosis from autism btw) is simply not an issue associated with violence.
If the guy had been Muslim it would have fed more hatred towards Muslims, if he had been a Scientologist again, that would have fed hatred if not ridicule for them. The thing is, the article was useless and gave us no information about why the attack happened, it only gave the public seeds of speculation of blame for a relatively harmless personality trait.
Just curious, because this thread was an attempt to address the socially irresponsible style of reporting that attempts to vilify people with Aspergers.
Exactly. There's nothing about being an aspie that would lead to this kind of mass violence. There's very little in personality disorders or psychiatric conditions generally that leads in this direction. The main thing involved is what the Malaysians call 'running amok' - which can happen to an otherwise normal person 'losing it', or it can be the first psychotic episode in a developing psychiatric illness. Either way it can't be predicted or controlled. People who've already had psychotic episodes can be treated and medicated - but not those who haven't yet demonstrated this proclivity.
This piece is from a woman who knows guns but who might have a different view. To put it briefly, she approves of shotguns for home defence. Not so keen on other weapons, neither assault rifles nor handguns. It's pretty long. You can skip the section between the photo with dogs and the strip of booth photos and still get the points she wants to make. How a Gun-Loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons | xoJane
Me, I'd think a ban on hollow point bullets wouldn't be too hard a first step.
I wasn't considering bullets. I don't see why anyone would need hollow point bullets. I don't see why police would need them even. the general population doesn't walk around in body armor. But , and I am taking a guess here, I don't think you need a specialized gun to fire hollow points. So banning the hollow point bullets would not make any firearm unusable. I would not be against banning hollow points. But the weapons themselves, I don't think should be banned. Restrictions on who can get them and how I'd be fine with.
Believing that gangs and criminals only sell drugs and only go after drug dealers is ignorance at its best.
That's not my argument. Pro gun types excuse the horrific gun homicide rate by saying it's mostly internecine Gang squabbles, to say it's illegal gun ownership fuelling the stats. They then use the same stats to justify legal gun ownership. If non Gang members aren't the victim that often, who need a gun?
My cousin was just shot by a thug for not pulling into his own driveway fast enough. The thug even got out of his car and went after him to kill him until my cousin pulled his own gun out and fired a few rounds in his direction.
And if neither side had gun, someone probably just gets a black eye. You aren't making a good case for lax gun laws.
Simply compare the 'gun defense' stats published by Gary Kleck et al, and compare them to FBI crime stats. Either gun owners attract crime, or Kleck's stats are bogus.
Good question. A lot of people see burglaries and rapes as things that happen to other people, not to them-
And that is mostly true, it's doesn't happen to the vast majority of people. The question is, is having lax guns laws that contribute towards the murders of a bunch of innocent schoolkids a price worth paying to try and prevent a crime against someone that might never actually happen?
Oh dear, the .223 was specifically developed for the military.
You then mix your terminology .22 ≠ .223 the designation .22 is used for rimfire cartridges, whereas .223 denotes centrefire.
Then we get onto your 'fully auto' claims. I was taught to shoot using a L1A1 SLR, a derivative of the FN FAL battle rifle, except it had no select fire, and was single shot only. Despite being single shot semi-auto only, it was fit for purpose, and I'd happily go up against a fully auto M16 with one, if both of us had to carry our ammunition. 'Spray and pray' is all a bit Hollywood, where I expect you have gathered most of your gun 'facts' from. I'm afraid even with a fully auto, if your first shot misses, it's not reasonable to expect the second or third to hit, it just doesn't work like that. If you doubt the efficacy of single shots to kill, you should review the case of 'The DC Sniper' who used a Bushmaster.
7.62 x39
300 win mag(my current favorite)
5.56x 45
.38, or .45, or .44 magnum
7.62 x 51 (which I really enjoyed)
or a 12 guage slug
or a 50 caliber muzzle loader
for the correct prey
of the last 9 murders locally
5 were from knives ( a woman stabbed her doctor husband---an embezzler stabbed his wife and children, then shot himself, and a fellow in cr stabbed his neighbor)
4 from guns(of those 4, 3 were by cops)(2 in the back as the "suspect" fled)
......so, discounting the cops, you got 5 murders from knives, and one suicide via pistol
the weapons don't really matter much
it is the mindset that allows someone to shuffle off the societal prohibition: "Thou shall not kill".
And, that cannot be legislated away
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I don't think you are familiar with hand gun ammunition. Hollow point bullets are usually preferred due to their designed ability to flatten out when hitting a target or body. They deliver more force to the surface area and are less penetrating. Due to it being less penetrating, it is less likely that bullet would continue through a target/body and hit another target/body. These bullets are considered more "safe" to use in a civilian environment. Therefore restricting hollow point bullets may cause more severe wounds to the primary target/body and anyone behind them.
You sure, because in the UK we have strict firearms laws, and 1/4 the murder rate. Seems we are going a long way towards exactly what you say can't be done. Maybe you need more imagination?
Non seqitur.
Demonstrate the relation.
In other words; prove that strict firearms directly led to 1/4 the murder rate.
I don't think it can be said to be a case of strict firearms laws leading to a 75% reduction... it would be more a question of whether lax laws have led to a 300% increase.
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You are right, I'm not familiar with hand gun ammunition, except to know the difference between a live round and a blank. I haven't handled a gun since I was 16. I started developing clinical depression and became suicidal. I made my mother aware and guns haven't really been near me since. When I got over the suicidal thoughts, I realized I had a really REALLY bad temper that was not openly expressed (i bottled it up), and I was in an abusive relationship. Having studied some psychology by then I realized it was a bad combination and that I would be likely to kill my abusive husband at some point if a gun was available to me. He did buy one at one point and I flat out demanded that he get it out of the house or he would be eating a bullet by the end of the month. I asked for a divorce that month and without going through the complicated details, I impressed upon him that he should leave and never come back. He left, taking his gun with him.
I know that due to my life experiences, and tendency to suppress emotions, I would be a high risk if I had a gun. That's why I don't have one. But most people are not like me and can easily control themselves. That isn't to say that I can't or don't control myself, but I do see similarities in me and the life experiences of women who have killed as a result of battered wife syndrome. (please understand that Neverfly has never been abusive, I have been referring to a previous husband).
All that being said, did anyone have any thoughts on the OP? Just curious, because this thread was an attempt to address the socially irresponsible style of reporting that attempts to vilify people with Aspergers.
Do you know what I find socially irresponsible? Publicly reporting pretty much anything about the shooter. The general public does not need to know even his name. It serves no purpose, and at worst might inspire someone else to follow suit. Now I'm not suggesting that the publicity is the only motivation behind these types of acts, and by not giving it, we would prevent them all, but isn't some unsatisfied curiosity a small price to pay if it prevented even one?
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I hope you enjoy each line as much as I have and really engage yourself in the inexpressible joy that fills you when you let the Spirit take over! 7 Amazing Worship Songs Inviting The Holy Spirit. Hillsong Worship has always represented the 'sound' of Hillsong Church. One of the core precepts of Elevation Worship is the belief in the power of writing and recording songs that lift up the name of Jesus. 9/28/2018: Gordon Mote: Get Up In Jesus Name: Chord: jmcguitar: 6/23/2018: Leap Of Faith: Unseen Hand: Chord: jmcguitar: 6/23/2018: Mark Lowry: For I'm Persuaded To Believe: Chord: jmcguitar: 6/20/2018: Shane & Shane: King Of My Heart: Chord: bhbeyes: 5/23/2018: Gordon Mote: Ain't Gonna Give Up On God: Chord: jmcguitar: 4/5/2018: Gordon Mote. This local church worship team has a commitment to continually resource the Body of Christ with fresh songs of worship and a deep passion to see people connect with the Living God in a real and personal way. The list of songs about God's Word below* might be useful for your church worship services to help God's people receive God's Word or respond to it. Despite being known for such songs as " You Are the Mighty King," " Change My Heart, O God," and " Con Mis Labios, " he spent most of his career in public education. Lyrics, Authors, Biographies, Hymn History, even exclusive desktop backgrounds are available. Enjoy our prophetic praise and worship music from The Secret Place! Our heart is to provide people with direct access to free worship songs that will encourage them in their own personal walk with God. com is a recognized leader in the field of worship music and offer more worship MP3 and midi files than any other organization. Hi, I'm Tim Lucas, creator of Worship Deeper. Never let my heart grow cold, Never let me go. Released : October 20th, 2018. It is from this deep place of affection that God desires our worship. Evidence 2018. 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How do you come up with a top 10 list of the best male voices in Christian music today? Lucky for you, that’s my problem and struggle and not yours, but let’s see if you agree. “Songs of Hindu gods and goddesses are being played here and aarti (a worship ritual) is taking place on a daily basis. Discover worship videos from The Secret Place. Hillsong Worship Tour Dates, Concert Tickets 2019. Best Morning Worship Songs 🎶 High praise and worship 🎷🎶🎤 | Mixtape Naija. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. Latest Naija Gospel Songs in 2019. Always with Lyrics (Kristian Stanfill). Know your instruments, know your God. ” after which Chris Mereschuk served as pastor until January of 2018. MultiTracks, Charts, Patches, and instrument parts in RehearsalMix. Download easily transposable chord charts and sheet music plus lyrics for 100,000 songs. Check this out on YouTube Music. 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In this article, we aim to seek out the best new worship songs for 2019. Find out how God loves you. Part 2 Top 20 New Gospel Music 2018. ” after which Chris Mereschuk served as pastor until January of 2018. This is not because Graham was unfamiliar with more “contemporary” worship music—he was a close friend of Fernando Ortega and Michael W. The opportunity to capture and express that through studio recordings was a catalyst for a sonic experience that is utterly true to the spirit and legacy of Hillsong Church whilst being significantly unique in the current worship music landscape. The best country songs list represents a mix of new and old country stars. WeAreWorship has over 6,000+ songs from today's most established songwriters - like Matt Redman, All Sons & Daughters, Israel Houghton, Lincoln Brewster, Darlene Zschech, Graham Kendrick, Christine D'Clario, Stuart Townend, Tim Hughes, Martin Smith and Paul Baloche - but WeAreWorship is less about stars or status and more about the songs. The top CCLI songs come from last week (All CCLI top songs link to Spotify tracks for your previews. Christianity probably wouldn’t be what it is without its songs of worship towards God and the trinity. Latest Naija Gospel Songs in 2019. Hillsong Worship. Listen free to Maranatha! Praise Band - Top 50 Praise & Worship Songs 2013 (How Great Is Our God, Mighty To Save and more). Made up of worship leaders and musicians who serve faithfully in church every weekend, Elevation Worship is a band that launched out of Elevation Church in 2006. But it is high time worship leaders wrote better songs for the mind and heart!! 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Reckless Love - Cory Asbury 2. Songs For Communion found in: Behold The Lamb (Communion Hymn), Nothing But The Blood - UNITED, How Deep The Father's Love For Us, Remembrance - Hillsong Worship, The Table – Chris Tomlin, In Christ Alone, Communion – Third Day, O. YouTube relatively conservative Christian music favorites playlist for continuous playback. Discover Free Resources. Check out 51 Must Have Kids Worship Songs by Integrity Kids on Amazon Music. MUSIC MP3: Sinach ft. It’s somehow that time of year again, when we round up the best wedding songs 2018. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Best Worship Songs for the ChurchEver! - Various Artists on AllMusic - 2011. Music is a wonderful way to celebrate your faith. Tomi Favored. As 2018 nears its end, we have listed South African house music that made a big impression this year. Musical worship is such an important part of our embodied life together. 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Hook these best new songs 2018 to your music player or add play straight from our Spotify playlist. Our selection of awesome worship songs from 2019! Includes some highlights from 2013-2019 Check out our ambient worship playlist! You can also read more about the featured music on our blog, or submit music here. Pastor Dave Vance says it's easy for churches to make assumptions that stop them from meeting their cities' physical and spiritual needs. December 1: The Advent season begins. Do you like english music? I have collected a lot of english music songs and created a unique ringtone for you to reference. UPC: 617884936228.
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Good news on Deck
Greg Harder, The Leader-Post
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2006
The Regina Pats are facing a best-case scenario with injured captain Kyle Deck.
The WHL club received some good news on Thursday when Deck underwent successful surgery to repair his damaged left knee. The prognosis calls for just two weeks of recovery time, which is a far cry from the 4-6 weeks he could have missed had the procedure revealed a more severe injury.
"Of all the scenarios it was probably the best," said Pats head coach Curtis Hunt, whose team plays host to the Moose Jaw Warriors tonight. "If you could choose, you would choose no injury. But I think we're going to be a beneficiary out of this. We'd rather get it done now and have him healthy when we get to the postseason."
If all goes well, Deck will return for Regina's final 10 regular-season games, giving him ample time to prepare for the team's first playoff appearance since the 2003-04 season.
In the meantime, the Pats will have to find a way to make due without the services of their No. 1 defenceman.
"That's the tough part," noted Hunt. "You don't just replace him this time of year. It'll hurt our power play and our penalty kill but people have to step up. We expect players in our lineup on the back end to fill that void, not necessarily play like Kyle can play, but (to contribute) with responsible minutes."
Although Deck's situation looks promising, of greater concern is the fact it's the second surgery in less than a year on his left knee. He was in and out of the lineup in the second half of last season, missing a total of 11 games before going under the knife in the offseason to repair a partially torn meniscus.
This time, the damage wasn't as serious. He underwent an exploratory scope on Thursday which revealed that the knee only required some minor "cleaning up."
Although he didn't advertise the problem, Deck has been playing through pain since early November. The situation worsened two weeks ago when he took a knee-on-knee hit in a game against the Swift Current Broncos.
He took three days off and returned to play Regina's next two games before suffering another setback on Tuesday night against the Prince George Cougars.
The 6-foot-1, 200 pounder sat out the next night against Moose Jaw, the first time he has missed a game this season.
"That knee has been on-again off-again," explained Hunt. "He doesn't talk a lot about it to us. We force him into days off. It was a situation that as long as it wasn't going to get worse, it was just a pain thing for him. Now it was at a point where we knew it had to be taken care of."
Deck is enjoying the best season of his WHL career, posting four goals and a team-high 31 assists. His 37 points in 56 games are ranked ninth among WHL blueliners.
The Sedley product has been just as impressive in his own end, providing a consistent, reliable presence who can go head-to-head with the other team's best forwards.
Hunt thinks it's a credit to his captain that he has been performing at such a high level in spite of his sore knee.
"What tremendous heart and character for Kyle to play as long as he has with the pain he has been in," the head coach said.
"I mentioned his character and his leadership. He doesn't want to let his teammates down. He comes to play every night."
Moose Jaw (36-15-3-3) at Regina (30-23-0-4)
Today, 7 p.m., Brandt Centre
Radio: 620 CKRM
(Statistics do not include Friday's results.)
Key injuries: Regina -- D Kyle Deck (knee, two weeks); Moose Jaw -- RW Ian McKenzie (ankle, 1-2 weeks).
Overview: The Warriors are running away with the East Division pennant race, leaving the Pats to battle Saskatoon for second place . . . Moose Jaw leads the season series 4-3 against Regina with three games remaining. Both teams have posted 5-0 wins on home ice. The other five meetings have been decided by a single goal, including one in a shootout . . . Warriors captain Troy Brouwer, the WHL's leading scorer with 42 goals and 86 points, has been held off the scoresheet in his past two games against Regina . . . Moose Jaw G Joey Perricone has a 4-2 record against the Pats this season . . . Pats leading scorer Matt Robinson (29-18--47) had his four-game goal-scoring streak come to an end in Wednesday's 5-0 loss at the Civic Centre . . . Moose Jaw, the highest-scoring team in the WHL, has four players among the league's top 10: Brouwer, Dustin Boyd (35-37--72), Blair Jones (28-36--84) and Kenndal McArdle (27-31--58). Regina native Riley Holzapfel (17-33--50) is in the top 20.
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I personally think thats bad news the pats defence looks way less confused out on the ice without Deck, our PP looks alot better also without Deck also we were actually setting up one-timers on our PP with 3 different D (Pyett, Schira, and N.Ross)
The team as a whole came out very flat tonight against the warriors 2:11 into the game 2-0 warriors Hunt put the veterns out there after the 2nd goal to calm things down and have a quick talk to the young guys after that everyone was on the same page and got the job done..
But wow do the Pats ever miss that 1 big tough guy Brouwer tonight had his way with the Pats, there is know 1 on the Pats that can match Brouwer's strength, sure Reinhart gave him a piece of his own medicine but Reinhart tackled him in the crease then started to throw punches
All in all the Pats played a great 60+ min game
What a game...
got to admit, after those first couple shots on Reeks, I thought we were gonna be in for a very long night, but props to the boys who came out and proved me wrong...it was an intense battle and I was on the edge if my seat the entire time...that victory was oh so sweet... :thumb:
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The vote is coming up! I hope there will be NO bill passed with Wind and Solar attached, but if they do get in, I hope a 4 year deal will finally rid us of the menace.
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals others and preaches pacifism while enduring the torment of this own damaged soul. Then his lover, Martha, finds his gun and goes south to discover the truth, whatever that might be. Curtis sets out to bring her back, lest the Family fall apart. In the half-light of a nursing home sits Hollis, dragon lord of a lost Mormon line, who has anointed Curtis, damned him, and now awaits his return. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's writing is full of dark humour and razor-sharp insight. Catching human fallibility head-on, she demands examination, confrontation, and a reckoning of pain with beauty.
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Critics described the stories in Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's first book of fiction, as "some of the most impressive examples of new Canadian fiction in recent memory." Published in 2003, Way Up received a Danuta Gleed Award and was a finalist for the Relit Award. The Nettle Spinner, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was also named a best of 2005 by January magazine. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the former fiction editor of the Literary Review of Canada and has also worked as a tree-planter, a lumberjack, and a baker. Her reviews have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Toronto Star, and the National Post. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and is the magazine editor for Bookninja.com.
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An 8 year study of risk factors for SIDS: bed-sharing versus non-bed-sharing
C McGarvey1,
M McDonnell1,
K Hamilton1,
M O’Regan2,
T Matthews3
1National Sudden Infant Death Register, George’s Hall, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple St, Dublin 1, Ireland
2Department of Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
3University College Dublin, Department of Paediatrics, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple St, Dublin 1, Ireland
Cliona McGarvey
National Sudden Infant Death Register, George’s Hall, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple St, Dublin 1, Ireland; cliona.mcgarvey{at}tsch.ie
Background: It is unclear if it is safe for babies to bed share with adults. In Ireland 49% of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases occur when the infant is bed-sharing with an adult.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of bed-sharing during the last sleep period on risk factors for SIDS in Irish infants.
Design: An 8 year (1994–2001) population based case control study of 287 SIDS cases and 831 controls matched for date, place of birth, and sleep period. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated by conditional logistic regression.
Results: The risk associated with bed-sharing was three times greater for infants with low birth weight for gestation (UOR 16.28 v 4.90) and increased fourfold if the combined tog value of clothing and bedding was ⩾10 (UOR 9.68 v 2.34). The unadjusted odds ratio for bed-sharing was 13.87 (95% CI 9.58 to 20.09) for infants whose mothers smoked and 2.09 (95% CI 0.98 to 4.39) for non-smokers. Age of death for bed-sharing and sofa-sharing infants (12.8 and 8.3 weeks, respectively) was less than for infants not sharing a sleep surface (21.0 weeks, p<0.001) and fewer bed-sharing cases were found prone (5% v 32%; p = 0.001).
Conclusion: Risk factors for SIDS vary according to the infant’s sleeping environment. The increased risk associated with maternal smoking, high tog value of clothing and bedding, and low z scores of weight for gestation at birth is augmented further by bed-sharing. These factors should be taken into account when considering sleeping arrangements for young infants.
AOR, adjusted odds ratio
SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome
UOR, unadjusted odds ratio
bed-sharing
maternal smoking
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.2005.074674
Published Online First 21 October 2005
Copyright 2006 Archives of Disease in Childhood
Howard Bauchner
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2006; 91 e283-e283 Published Online First: 21 Mar 2006.
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The Hunt Against Vets (excluding Muslim servicemen) Is The First Path To Disarming Patriotic Americans…The Game Plan To Label ‘Right Wing’ Citizens As Domestic Terrorists…Dave Gaubatz Spills All…By Adina Kutnicki
Posted on September 3, 2012 by Adina Kutnicki
The amount of veterans who become a threat to American citizens is less than negligible. Some go off the rails, but so many others – never having served – do too. And don’t get this blogger started on Timothy McVeigh’s part in the Oklahoma City bombings and the media’s harping on his vet status. He was the dupe and dope, but hardly the main actor, evidenced by ‘What Happens When A Compliant Media Ceases Their Due Diligence’ – https://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/01/what-happens-when-a-compliant-media-ceases-their-due-diligence-thus-parroting-officialdoms-narratives-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/.
Moreover, with unhinged types coming from every segment of society, the preponderance of tangible terror threats emanates straight from the overall Muslim community – ‘Northeast Intelligence Network Digs Deeper & Deeper…And ‘Do Americans Know Who Their Neighbors Are?…The Jihadists Next Door’ – https://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/19/northeast-intelligence-network-digs-deeper-deeper-and-do-americans-know-who-their-neighbors-are-the-jihadists-next-door-compounds-galore-hezbollah-cells-too-commentary-by-adina-k-136/ supports this thesis. Pretending otherwise will get many Americans killed.
And it is more accurate to add to domestic terror rolls the following – Black Panther supremacists – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9HdvBb8HBk – than a smattering of shell shocked (PTSD afflicted) vets who resort to killing sprees. Add to the real list of threats the Weathermen (now “koshered” domestic terrorists), many running loose within Obama Inc. – http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/bringing_down_america_a_review.html!
Need more proof? Here’s a doozy – ‘ FBI Checking 100 Suspected Extremists In The Military’, and this report is courtesy of NPR, a left wing mouthpiece overall. However, if it looks like an Islamic terror duck…..http://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-extremists-in-military, even NPR has to jump on board, albeit kicking and screaming..
No matter. The Islamist-in-Chief’s surrogates take the opposite tack, as expressed by ‘DOD Classifies Domestic Muslim Terrorist Plots and Attacks Against The Military As Workplace Violence’ – sort of like a random postal worker who has gone bonkers – http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/dod-classifies-domestic-muslim-terrorist-plots-and-attacks-against-the-military-as-workplace-violence/…sheesh…
Besides, DHS is diddling with its own firebombs, and AG Holder is busy running FAST & FURIOUS, as he furiously protects real domestic terrorists – the Black Panthers and the Weathermen!
‘Alert : DHS Rounding Up Vets, Throwing Them In Mental Institutions’ via Dave Gaubatz’s Newsletter, the same counter-terror official cited herein – ‘The Muslim Mafia (aka the Brotherhood) And Their Overarching Pans…What It Means For America’ – https://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/25/the-muslim-mafia-aka-the-brotherhood-their-overarching-plan-what-it-means-for-americas-future-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/.
Therefore, take Dave Gaubatz’s warnings, outlined below, to the bank –
“Based on my research the targeting of our brave and loyal veterans has ulterior motives. The motives of the Obama Administration and liberals is to insure fewer Americans have the right to vote and to bear firearms. How can this be accomplished? Simply by having record numbers of veterans (who have for decades been predominately Conservative/Republican) involuntarily committed to a mental health facility. Once a person has been involuntarily committed by a Judge the following applies:
1. The person can no longer bear firearms.
2. The person can no longer vote.
3. The persons likelihood of obtaining a meaningful job is severely limited because when a potential employer conducts a criminal background check the involuntary commitment immediately shows up, regardless of the fact that a commitment to a mental health hospital is not criminal.
“Another important factor is that it does not matter if after an involuntary commitment is issued that the mental health doctors determine there is nothing wrong with the person, this never shows up in a background check. Again, the damage has already been done and the persons future is wrongly destroyed. All in the name and benefit of politics and politicians.”
“I have attached a newspaper article (below) of the DHS targeting veterans and more importantly an article about a military veteran who recently underwent the forced mental health commitment. When Brandon Raub was involuntarily committed the Secret Service and FBI were the ones who apprehended him and forced him to undergo a mental health evaluation. Why? The FBI stated they had received concerns from citizens about Raub’s Facebook postings. He had made anti-government statements. Does this not seem like the Russians and Chinese systems of justice?”
“I have one question that readers should pose to the Richmond, VA FBI Office who apprehended Raub based on his alleged anti-govt. remarks. Why aren’t they apprehending the thousands of Islamic Imams, Islamic scholars and Executives of Islamic organizations who daily make threats of treason, sedition, and the killing of innocent people. They are calling for overthrowing the U.S. government and replacing it with Islamic law (Sharia). They have books and manuals in their mosques calling for the above atrocities against Americans and our government. Why aren’t these Islamic leaders forced to undergo involuntary mental health treatment? Has the FBI not received numerous complaints from American citizens about the anti-government statements and statements of violence by Islamic leaders? Then again I ask. Why will the U.S. government not force the Islamic leaders into mental health facilities? The answer is because the Islamic leaders have millions of dollars from countries such as Saudi Arabia and they have senior U.S. politicians in bed politically and financially with Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters such as CAIR and Saudi Arabia.”
“My advise to veterans and Americans who support our veterans: Start shouting at the top of your voices to our elected leaders to stop targeting our brave troops and to begin focusing on Islamic terrorists who are operating freely inside our country. Americans have a Constitutional right to voice concerns about our government and you should never, never, relinquish this right. Once you have done this you have lost America. Respectfully, Dave Gaubatz”
Readers, let us add to the horror show, the following from Paul Watson
‘Veterans Are Being Targeted In Aftermath Of Smear Campaign’
“The lawyer who helped secure the release of Brendon Raub, a former Marine forcibly incarcerated in a psychiatric ward by authorities in Virginia for political posts on Facebook, told the Alex Jones Show today that there are currently a further 20 cases in his county alone that are similar in nature to Raub’s detention.”
“John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute also said that he had been contacted by numerous veterans in the aftermath of Raub’s release who had encountered similar problems with authorities attempting to have them declared mentally ill.”
“Whitehead attributed the high number of cases involving veterans as a consequence of the Department of Homeland Security’s aggressive campaign to demonize former servicemembers as domestic extremists.”
“Despite controversy at the time, DHS chief Janet Napolitano said she stood by an April 2009 DHS intelligence assessment that listed returning vets as likely domestic terrorists.”
“Just a month later, the New York Times reported on how Boy Scout Explorers were being trained by the DHS to kill “disgruntled Iraq war veterans” in terrorist drills.”
“The FBI has also gone out of its way to characterize returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as a major domestic terrorist threat.”
Whitehead pointed to efforts on behalf of health authorities in the United States to characterize distrust of authority as a mental illness under the label “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.
“As we highlighted earlier today, veterans in particular are being targeted in police raids to confiscate their firearms based on the manufactured pretext that they are “mentally defective.”
“Earlier this year, we also reported on a similar case involving David Sarti, one of the participants in the National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Prepper show. Sarti visited his doctor complaining of chest pains, only to have the doctor later commit him to a psychiatric ward and alert authorities, before Sarti was declared “mentally defective” and put on an FBI list that stripped him of his second amendment rights.”
“During an interview with Alex Jones last night, Whitehead also revealed that shortly before his release, psychiatrists had threatened to forcibly medicate Raub in order to “brainwash” him.
“Critics have made comparisons to the infamous psikhushka psychiatric prisons in the former Soviet Union where dissidents were sent to be isolated, brainwashed, and have their political ideas discredited amongst the general public.”
“Whitehead added that Brandon Raub is currently at home recovering from his ordeal and that he plans to file a civil lawsuit against the government for damages. Whitehead hopes that the shocking nature of the case will force Congress to begin investigations that could strip the state’s power to carry out civil commitments, under which victims are declared mentally ill with little due process and detained in psychiatric wards.”
For those still sitting on the fence…..
‘The Government Is Watching You’
By John Long
” I’d never heard of Brandon Raub until a few days ago. I’ve never met him, and frankly don’t know that I’d like him if I did. But what he’s gone through the last few weeks should be of concern to all Americans, of whatever political persuasion.”
“Raub is a Chesterfield County resident and veteran of the Marine Corps, having served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. After his hitch in uniform, he seemed to adopt – and express – some political views that most of us would find distasteful, to say the least. Some of his Internet posts were clearly anti-government, and he displayed a keen interest in the “truther” conspiracy theory that the U.S. government planned the Sept. 11 attacks.”
“Not surprisingly, Raub’s unconventional politics began to show up on his private Facebook page. He posted several messages containing anti-government diatribes and even offered to lead a vaguely defined revolution. Some of the games he played might give one pause, and he has been widely quoted for posting the charming lines, “Sharpen my ax, I’m here to sever heads.” As it turns out, these lines came from a Canadian rap song. Not my taste in music, and probably not yours, but hardly illegal to quote.”
“All told, offensive stuff, maybe even repugnant. But is such expression criminal? Should it be?”
“On Aug.16, after authorities had fielded some complaints about Raub’s Facebook posts, he was taken into custody by Chesterfield police, the FBI and apparently the Secret Service. Though all three entities denied he was under arrest, he was taken away in handcuffs (a scene captured in a widely seen YouTube video). The officials who took him had no warrant and filed no charges. They assert that Raub resisted arrest, though he wasn’t arrested. As far as I know, no weapons were found in his house and Raub was taken to a veterans’ facility near Richmond and later to Salem for psychiatric evaluation. He says at least one doctor threatened to brainwash him and put him on psych drugs against his will.”
“Meanwhile, his case caught the attention of the Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville civil liberties advocacy group. On Aug. 23, Rutherford’s case was heard in Chesterfield by Circuit Court Judge Allen Sharrett. He dismissed the government’s case against Raub in no uncertain terms, calling it “devoid of any factual allegations.” It’s hard not to reach the conclusion that Raub had been detained for Orwellian “thought-crimes,” but at least one judge was willing to intervene.”
“Raub, I’m afraid, might be the tip of a frightening iceberg. I spoke to John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, earlier this week. He told me starkly that “there is no privacy anymore. It’s over.” Such technology as facial recognition surveillance, police drones and cellphone intercepts means there is nothing Big Brother might not be watching you do, Whitehead warned. Especially if you post it on the Internet.”
“Of course, we want the government keeping watch on true threats to public order. Terrorist groups of any stripe, nut jobs who might shoot up a mall or the legitimately insane who might be a threat to their own safety must be monitored. But every time resources are devoted to harassing some person who has expressed unpopular views but made no actionable threats, it enables those who are the real hazards to increase their menace.”
“And frankly, who should alarm us more? The guy with a laptop who thinks the Bush administration knocked down the World Trade Center, or the government that can seize any of us at any time on paper-thin legal grounds and hold us without charge or warrant because we may have expressed an idea some official finds inappropriate?”
“You don’t have to like Raub or his politics to find this all disturbing. He is an American citizen, constitutionally guaranteed the exact same rights as you and me. Facebook posts are private expression, and as far as I can see, Raub never made any specific threat against anyone (certainly nothing specific enough to involve the Secret Service). Frankly, I’ve heard mutterings just as seditious from Occupy Wall Street protestors, Limbaugh listeners and my own students.”
“For that matter, I recently read about one guy who proclaimed “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” You might have heard of him. He also wrote a subversive treatise we call the “Declaration of Independence.” I suppose he also could be locked up today.”
Long is director of the Salem Museum and a Roanoke Times columnist.
Basically, the slippery slope between free societies – with constructive/normative “rule of law” – becomes blurred when offensive speech is squashed.
In other words, IF a leadership can’t tell the difference between criminal/seditious behavior, and the people’s right to state their FREE opinions, then nothing more can be said – literally.
Such a regime is already a dictatorship, or well on its way to becoming one, as they stealthily cross the line.
Besides, when the Constitution’s articles/amendments become null and void, the US can NO longer claim to be free. And that settles that.
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Sam on September 4, 2012 at 1:59 am said:
I don’t have anything to say about the rantings of a truther, but his right to free speech about a public figure was abridged. The tactics remind former Soviet refugees of where they came from and that there is no place else to go if we fail in November. Re-electing Obama = epic fail!
On another free speech topic, National Empty Chair Day (previously called Labor Day) has been a smashing success. Photos of empty chairs are all over the Net today, all over the blogs and all over Twitter. Looks like there are a LOT of Americans who think we should fire Obama.
adinakutnicki on September 4, 2012 at 8:42 am said:
Exactly….the fact of the matter is that people who have their head on straight know that ‘truthers’ have a screw loose. HOWEVER, once their thoughts are muzzled, ours are not far behind. And, this IS the issue.
However, the totalitarians – posing as liberals – wish to abuse free speech and turn it upside its head.
Once again – exactly.
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Research ArticleCHEMICAL PHYSICS
Inverting singlet and triplet excited states using strong light-matter coupling
Elad Eizner1,*,
Luis A. Martínez-Martínez2,
Joel Yuen-Zhou2 and
Stéphane Kéna-Cohen1,*
1Department of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, H3C 3A7 QC, Canada.
2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
↵*Corresponding author. Email: eizner{at}polymtl.ca (E.E.); s.kena-cohen{at}polymtl.ca (S.K.-C.)
Elad Eizner
Department of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, H3C 3A7 QC, Canada.
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For correspondence: eizner@polymtl.ca s.kena-cohen@polymtl.ca
Luis A. Martínez-Martínez
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Joel Yuen-Zhou
ORCID record for Joel Yuen-Zhou
Stéphane Kéna-Cohen
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In organic microcavities, hybrid light-matter states can form with energies that differ from the bare molecular excitation energies by nearly 1 eV. A timely question, given the recent advances in the development of thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials, is whether strong light-matter coupling can be used to invert the ordering of singlet and triplet states and, in addition, enhance reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) rates. Here, we demonstrate a complete inversion of the singlet lower polariton and triplet excited states. We also unambiguously measure the RISC rate in strongly coupled organic microcavities and find that, regardless of the large energy level shifts, it is unchanged compared to films of the bare molecules. This observation is a consequence of slow RISC to the lower polariton due to the delocalized nature of the state across many molecules and an inability to compete with RISC to the dark exciton reservoir.
In the molecular orbital picture, when an electron is promoted from the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), it can form a bound electron-hole pair, termed an exciton, with either singlet (total spin S = 0) or triplet (S = 1) character. Under electrical excitation of organic thin films, where uncorrelated charges are injected, spin statistics dictate that when oppositely charged carriers meet on a single molecule, they will form triplet excitons three times more often than singlet excitons (1). In contrast, under optical excitation, singlet excitons are preferentially formed because triplet exciton formation is spin forbidden from the singlet ground state. However, spin mixing due to weak spin-orbit coupling or the hyperfine interaction can lead to a subsequent transition from the singlet to the optically dark triplet state, a process known as intersystem crossing (ISC). One important characteristic of triplets is that their energy is almost always below that of the singlet because of the positive value of the Coulomb exchange integral. The singlet-triplet gap, ΔEST, is typically on the order of ~0.5 to 1 eV, which makes thermally activated reverse ISC (RISC) from the triplet to the singlet very inefficient compared to typical nonradiative decay rates (2). Triplet excitons in organic molecules are thus long lived with very low radiative efficiencies for transitions to the ground state, a process known as phosphorescence. This has been a source of important challenges for the development of efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic lasers.
A common approach to overcome losses due to triplets is the use of molecules containing heavy noble metals that greatly increase phosphorescence rates because of spin-orbit coupling (1). This approach has been very successful, leading to 100% internal quantum efficiency in OLEDs. However, organometallic complexes have some disadvantages such as their high cost due to the use of metals such as platinum and iridium, limited photostability for blue emitters, and possible toxicity (3, 4). In recent years, there has been a tremendous effort to develop purely organic emitters that can harvest triplets by converting them back to singlets through processes such as triplet-triplet annihilation or thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) (3–5). In TADF materials, the singlet-triplet energy gap is minimized (<0.1 eV), typically through donor-acceptor molecular design, which reduces the spatial overlap between HOMO and LUMO wave functions. This allows for thermally activated RISC of triplets to the singlet state, followed by efficient fluorescence. It has been shown that this approach can lead to the conversion of nearly all triplets into emissive singlet states (3). One disadvantage of this approach is that RISC rates are typically slow (with a rate constant of ~106 s−1), which can lead to large buildups of triplets at high excitation densities and subsequent losses due to triplet-triplet and triplet-charge quenching.
It has been known for some time that optical microcavities can be used to modify the energy of singlet excitons through the formation of system eigenstates called polaritons. An outstanding and timely question is, To what extent can these modified energetics affect triplet dynamics? (6–8). In the ultimate case where singlets and triplets are inverted energetically, can RISC be made very efficient to obtain high TADF efficiencies for a broad range of materials and avoid the buildup of large triplet populations?
Polaritons are light-matter eigenstates that form when singlet electronic transitions are strongly coupled to the vacuum electromagnetic field in an optical cavity. This occurs when the light-matter interaction rate is faster than the photon and electronic decay rates in the system. In the past decade, organic polaritons have proved to be a remarkable platform for the demonstration of fascinating nonlinear quantum phenomena at room temperature (9–11), the development of novel optoelectronic device applications (12–15), and modification of chemical reactions (16–21). Polariton states are separated into two types of dispersive modes, each on different sides of the electronic transition, called lower polaritons (LPs) and upper polaritons (UPs). The minimal separation between LP and UP states occurs when the cavity photon energy is resonant with the electronic transition and is termed the vacuum Rabi energy (Ω). As a result, the energetic separation between LPs and the triplet is smaller than the separation between triplets and the peak singlet absorption. For a large number of molecules, N, the Rabi energy Ω ∝ N/V, where V is the cavity mode volume. Because of the large number of molecules in a typical cavity as compared to the number of photonic modes supported by the cavity, Nph, strong coupling leads to the formation of N–Nph dark states at the same energy as the singlet transition, commonly referred to as the exciton reservoir. Even in the presence of disorder, these states are largely molecular (rather than photonic) in character and, because of their large number, have been shown to dominate the dynamics of polariton relaxation (20, 22, 23).
Experiments on triplet dynamics where the singlet transition is strongly coupled to a cavity mode were performed as early as 2007. In that case, it was found that resonantly excited polaritons could intersystem-cross to the triplet but that dark states dominated the overall dynamics and no substantial changes in rates were observed (6). Very recently, experiments with much larger Rabi energies observed a modest reduction of phosphorescence decay rate in strongly coupled optical microcavities, which was attributed to polariton-enhanced RISC (7). Phosphorescence rates, however, are sensitive to any changes in the optical environment, such as the presence of mirrors, so it is unclear to which extent changes were due to radiative effects or to polaritonic effects.
Here, we demonstrate the formation of polaritons in a material showing TADF, where we are able to convincingly invert the singlet polariton and the triplet-state energies. We directly measure triplet dynamics via the RISC rate, which is independent of any modifications in the optical density of states from the presence of the microcavity. We show that although RISC can be understood as a thermally activated Marcus process, reordering of the states leads to negligible changes in the overall dynamics of the system. In essence, because ISC is a single-molecule process, rate constants describing relaxation from the triplet to the delocalized singlet polariton scale as 1/Neff, where Neff is the effective number of molecules coupled to each cavity mode. Given that Neff ~ 106 in uniformly filled planar cavities, any contribution from the reordering is strongly suppressed. Last, we want to highlight the importance of doing these experiments in vacuum to avoid artificial modifications of triplet lifetimes due to quenching from triplet oxygen (see fig. S1) and in the linear excitation regime. In control experiments, we find that simple encapsulation from molecular oxygen due to the presence of microcavity mirrors can lead to large changes in rates.
Figure 1A shows a simplified diagram of the electronic energy levels and rate constants for TADF molecules and for polaritons in this material. When TADF molecules are optically excited, charge transfer singlets (1CT) are rapidly formed (5). Radiative decay can then occur either directly as prompt fluorescence or through ISC followed by RISC in a process known as delayed fluorescence. The thermally activated RISC rate constant shows a Boltzmann dependence (3, 4)kRISC=A exp(−EakBT)(1)where kB is the Boltzmann factor, T is the temperature, and Ea is the activation energy. In principle, the activation energy depends both on the singlet-triplet energy gap and the singlet-triplet reorganization energy, λT. In TADF molecules that show efficient RISC, the activation energy is expected to be similar to the singlet-triplet energy gap (3, 4). As shown in recent works (24, 25), the mechanism for ISC and RISC in TADF materials involves strong vibronic coupling between local triplet states (3LE) and the triplet charge transfer states (3CT), followed by spin-orbit coupling to 1CT states. For simplicity, we will use the notation S and T in Figs. 1 and 5 to describe the states of singlet and triplet character that undergo ISC.
Fig. 1 Photophysical kinetic diagrams and microcavity structure.
(A) Electronic energy levels and rate constants for the TADF material and polaritons. (B) Microcavity structure consisting of a Ag bottom mirror (100 nm), a Ag top mirror (30 nm), TBPi buffer layers (10 nm each), and a TADF layer consisting of either neat 3DPA3CN with a thickness of 70 nm (MC Neat) or codeposited TPBi-3DPA3CN (55 to 45% by volume) with a thickness of 64 nm (MC 1) or 81 nm (MC 2).
In a polariton setup, optical excitation at energies above that of the singlet exciton, such as at the UP or at even higher energies, leads to rapid relaxation to the dark states (22, 23, 26). As a result, light emission is mostly due to relaxation from the dark states to the LPs, followed by the radiative decay of LPs. The latter process occurs on a scale given by the cavity lifetime (<10 fs), which can be considered as instantaneous compared to the other time scales in the system. This combination leads to prompt radiative decay upon optical excitation. In materials that show TADF, however, dark states can also undergo ISC, which through RISC can ultimately populate the LP. This process leads to delayed fluorescence due to the slow rate typical of RISC. As shown in Fig. 1A, the delayed fluorescence pathway will involve ISC to the triplet, followed by triplet to dark state RISC with a rate constant of kT → DS and triplet to LP RISC with a rate constant of kT → LP. The first rate constant is essentially unchanged from that in the bare system, while the second rate constant is unique to the microcavity. If it could be made faster than kT → DS, then it would provide the means for accelerating RISC compared to the case of the bare molecule.
The molecule that we chose for this study is a trigonal donor-acceptor of 1,3,5-tris(4-(diphenylamino)phenyl)-2,4,6-tricyanobenzene (3DPA3CN) (27). This molecule has been shown to have a singlet-triplet energy gap of ΔEST = 0.1 eV and slow (kRISC~2 × 103 s−1) but efficient thermally activated RISC. In addition, 3DPA3CN shows no phosphorescence even at low temperature. The absorption and photoluminescence (PL) of a neat film of 3DPA3CN is shown in Fig. 2. The absorption has a peak at 425 nm (2.92 eV) due to a CT1 excited state, and the PL is Stokes-shifted by 0.66 eV with a peak at 549 nm (2.26 eV). PL quantum efficiency (PLQE) was measured using an integrated sphere with vacuum-packed samples (see Materials and Methods). The neat film showed a PLQE Φ = 86 ± 3%, and when codeposited with 2,2′,2″-(1,3,5-benzinetriyl)-tris(1-phenyl-1-H-benzimidazole) (TPBi) to reduce aggregation-induced quenching in the film, the PLQE reaches Φ = 98 ± 3% (see Table 1). Three microcavities were fabricated (see the structure in Fig. 1B), consisting of either neat 3DPA3CN with a thickness of 70 nm (sample MC Neat) or codeposited TPBi-3DPA3CN (55 to 45% by volume) with thicknesses of either 64 nm (MC 1) or 81 nm (MC 2). The active layer was sandwiched between two 10-nm TPBi buffer layers and 100-nm (30 nm) Ag bottom (top) mirrors. The buffer layers were used to minimize any direct quenching from the metal. In addition, control samples consisting of the active and buffer layers without any mirrors were fabricated during the same deposition run by masking the metal deposition.
Fig. 2 Chemical structure and optical properties of 3DPA3CN.
Absorption (dashed line) and PL (solid line) spectra of 3DPA3CN neat film. Inset shows the chemical structure of 3DPA3CN and TPBi (used as the host in mixed samples). a.u., arbitrary units.
Table 1 Photophysical data of the microcavities and control samples.
MC 1 (Ω = 0.45 eV, Δ = −0.36 eV), MC 2 (Ω = 0.5 eV, Δ = −0.49 eV), and MC Neat (Ω = 0.87 eV, Δ = −0.58 eV). When not specified, measurements were performed at room temperature. Notes: (i) kISC for the microcavities were taken from the control values. (ii) The PLQEs for 100 and 200 K were estimated from the measured yields: ΦPF(200 K)/ΦPF(300 K) = 1.02, ΦPF(100 K)/ΦPF(300 K) = 1.05 for the control, and ΦPF(100 K)/ΦPF(300 K) = 1.01 for MC 2. (iii) The uncertainties of kd and kp were estimated from the fit’s SD errors. For the PLQEs, a constant 3% uncertainty error was assumed. (iv) Even for long integration times, the delayed signal at 100 K is too weak to reliably extract the delayed lifetime. (v) From the two data points of the RISC rate constants at 200 and 300 K using Eq. 1, we obtain activation energy, ΔEa = 60 meV.
To extract the polariton dispersion relation, we measured the angle-resolved reflectivity of the fabricated microcavities, which is shown for transverse electric (TE) light polarization in Fig. 3 (A to C, respectively). For each incident angle, we observe two minima corresponding to the excitation of the LP and UP states. The dashed blue lines show the uncoupled singlet exciton absorption peak (Ex) and the cavity photon energies. The black lines show a least squares fit of the minima to the Hopfield Hamiltonian (see Materials and Methods). The triplet energy is shown as a solid white line at 2.41 eV, which corresponds to an energy of 0.1 eV lower than the bottom of the singlet band as previously reported (27). This value is also consistent with our temperature-dependent measurements reported below. The energy of the bottom of the singlet, which corresponds to the 0-0 transition, was taken to be at 2.51 eV from the crossing energy between the PL and absorption spectra (see Fig. 2). This should be contrasted with the absorption maximum, which corresponds to the vibronic transition with the strongest Franck-Condon overlap. From the fits to the Hopfield Hamiltonian, for MC 1 (Fig. 3A), we obtain a Rabi energy of Ω = 0.45 ± 0.02 eV with detuning of Δ = Ec − Ex = −0.36 ± 0.02 eV for the TE mode, where Ec is the cavity photon energy at normal incidence, and Ω = 0.40 ± 0.01 eV for the transverse magnetic (TM) mode (see table S1) (28). As can be seen from Fig. 3A, the LP energies at all incident angles are higher than the triplet energy for MC 1. For a thicker TADF layer, i.e., MC 2 (Fig. 3B), we obtain a Rabi energy of Ω = 0.50 ± 0.02 eV with detuning of Δ = −0.49 ± 0.03 eV for the TE mode and Ω = 0.42 ± 0.02 eV for the TM mode. As can be seen from Fig. 3B, the LP energies for incident angles above 35° are higher than triplet energy, but remarkably for incident angles below 35°, the LP energies are lower than triplet energy. Last, for a neat TADF layer (MC Neat), we obtain a Rabi energy of Ω = 0.87 ± 0.01 eV with detuning of Δ = −0.58 ± 0.02 eV for the TE mode and Ω = 0.87 ± 0.02 eV for the TM mode. This Rabi energy corresponds to 30% of the uncoupled singlet exciton energy (Ω/Ex), entering the realm of ultrastrong light-matter coupling (29). As can be seen from Fig. 3C, the LP energies for all incident angles are lower than the triplet energy, completely inverting the singlet-triplet ordering of the system for all of the measured angles.
Fig. 3 Angle-resolved reflectivity.
Measured using TE polarized light for (A) MC 1, (B) MC 2, and (C) MC Neat (as defined in the text). The solid black lines show the least-square fit to the Hopfield Hamiltonian (see Materials and Methods). The dashed blue lines are the energies corresponding to the uncoupled photonic mode and the exciton singlet absorption. The solid white lines are the triplet energies, which are 0.1 eV (27) lower in energy than the bottom of the singlet band.
Notably, the measured PLQEs for the microcavities were found to be systematically lower than those of the control samples (see Table 1). The lower quantum efficiencies can be attributed to slow relaxation from the dark states to the LP, relaxation of dark states to TM metal-insulator-metal plasmonic modes with wave vectors beyond the light line, and ohmic losses of the LP mode. As can be seen from the angle-resolved PL spectra in fig. S2, the PL of all microcavities is dominated by LP emission. The lowest PLQE, Φ = 7.5 ± 3%, was measured for MC 1 in which a large portion of the LP states have energies that are higher than the energy of bottom of singlet dark states. The inability to populate these LP states can be seen in the spectra as a sharp drop in PL intensity for any wavelengths below the 0-0 transition at ~490 nm (see fig. S2A). Other microcavities, which had energies below the dark states, do not show this effect and had PLQEs of Φ = 32 ± 3% and Φ = 20 ± 3% for MC 2 and MC Neat, respectively.
A direct way to examine the effect of triplet transitions to the LP is by measuring the delayed fluorescence and comparing the RISC rate constants of the microcavities to the control samples. The RISC rate constant can be calculated from experimental observables using the following equation (3, 30, 31)kRISC=kpkdΦdkISCΦp(2)where kp and kd are the prompt and delayed fluorescence rate constants, respectively, Φp and Φd are the PLQYs of the prompt and delayed components (Φ = Φp + Φd), and kISC is the ISC rate constant. The latter was estimated from the control sample using kISC ≈ kp(1 − Φp), assuming that kISC is the dominant nonradiative decay pathway for the singlet.
To obtain RISC rate constants, transient PL was measured for all of the samples (see Materials and Methods). All measurements were performed under vacuum and at laser powers that ensured that the dynamics stayed in the linear regime (see figs. S1 and S3). The normalized time-dependent PL intensities are shown in Fig. 4 (A to C). The large peak close to 0 ms corresponds to the prompt component, followed by the slow delayed fluorescence due to RISC and re-emission. Polariton transients were measured at normal incidence at the corresponding LP energy. To measure the delayed luminescence rate constants, kd, mean lifetimes were calculated from a multiexponential fit to the delayed decay luminescence data (see Materials and Methods); the values are shown in Table 1. The delayed and prompt efficiencies, Φd/Φp, can be calculated by integrating over the PL intensities of the respective delayed and prompt components (3). As can be seen in Table 1, only slight changes were found between the microcavities and the control samples. For the neat samples, kd is higher and Φd/Φp is lower compared to TPBi mixed samples. This is due to concentration quenching at the higher molecular concentration, which is known to have a detrimental effect on triplet lifetimes (3).
Fig. 4 Transient delayed PL characteristics.
Transient PL decays for the LP (blue line) and control film singlet (red line) at a collection angle of 0°. (A) MC 1, (B) MC 2, and (C) MC Neat (as defined in the text). The black lines are multiexponential fits to the delayed signal decay. (D) Delayed and prompt PL spectra acquired by an integration over the prompt and delayed parts of the decay for MC 2 and control at room temperature.
The prompt PL decays are shown in fig. S4, and the prompt rate constants kd are summarized in Table 1. The prompt lifetimes were found to be τp~5 ns, four orders of magnitude shorter than the delayed lifetimes. We find a slightly faster decay rate constant in the microcavities compared to the controls (up to a factor of ~1.6). This is principally attributed to a modification of the local density of optical states inside the microcavities. However, relaxation from the dark states to the LP can also potentially reduce the prompt lifetime if it is fast enough to compete with the radiative decay rate constant. Last, the RISC rate constants can be calculated using Eq. 2. As can be seen in Table 1, no significant changes are found for any microcavity compared to the corresponding controls.
In addition to room temperature studies, we performed transient PL measurements at lower temperatures as shown in Fig. 4B. By reducing the temperature, we increase the effective activation barrier for RISC, ΔEa/kBT, making the process less efficient. In this case, the rate constant kT → LP can compete more effectively with kT → DS and the overall dynamics become more sensitive to the modified energetics in the presence of strong coupling. As can be seen in Fig. 4B and the values in Table 1, at lower temperatures, Φd/Φp and kRISC decrease significantly. Nevertheless, we did not observe substantial modifications in lifetimes or efficiencies in the microcavity compared to the control.
Figure 4D shows the spectra of delayed and prompt components of MC 2 and the control sample. As was observed previously in some TADFs, the delayed spectra of the control are red-shifted compared to the prompt spectra (3, 31). The spectral shift was suggested to occur because of the effect of the triplet excited state on the nuclear configuration of the singlet excited state after RISC. Figure 4D also shows that LPs are the source of the delayed signal in microcavity measurements.
The above results seem to indicate a negligible influence of the LP mode on the conversion of dark triplet excitons into luminescent ones. To explain this observation, we rely on a theoretical model based on the variational polaron transformation that accounts for the emergent chemical dynamics upon strong coupling (20, 32). The relevant excited states of the molecule-cavity system are shown in Fig. 5 and correspond to S0ph, S1, and T. Here, S0phis the electronic ground state of the molecule with one photon in the cavity, while S1 and T are the electronically excited singlet and triplet states, respectively, with no photons in the cavity. The relative alignment of the nuclear potential energy surfaces are determined by λS = 0.33 eV, the reorganization energy of the singlet S0ph−S1 transition, and λT = 0.1 eV, the reorganization energy of the S1-T transition (see Fig. 5). Last, electronic coupling between S1 and T is mediated by the spin-orbit coupling matrix element, VST. Given that VST is unknown for this material and that an approximate value is sufficient for our purposes, we take VST = 2 × 10−2 meV, a value characteristic of TADF molecules (33, 34). For 3DPA3CN, λT was estimated from ΔEst and an Arrhenius plot of the RISC rate constant as a function of temperature (27). Population transfer between the triplet and singlet state of the bare molecule can be described in terms of a Marcus rate equation, with rate constant kT → LP, if we assume that the transfer rate between singlet and triplet states is mediated by low-frequency modes (which seems to be the case for this particular molecule given the absence of vibronic progressions in the absorption spectrum) that are sufficiently fast compared to the spin-orbit coupling time scale. Theoretical analysis shows that in the strong coupling regime, transfer from the triplet state to the dark singlet states (DS in the figure) also follows an effective Marcus description with rate constant kT → DS (see Materials and Methods) (32).
Fig. 5 Nuclear potential energy surfaces and population dynamics in the weak and strong coupling regimes.
(A) In the weak coupling regime, the population accumulated in the triplet electronic manifold needs to overcome a thermal energy barrier to reach the fluorescent singlet electronic state S1. The population in S1 needs to further surpass a thermal energy barrier to emit a photon, which corresponds to the state of the system S0ph, the electronic ground state accompanied by a microcavity photon resonant with the vertical singlet transition. (B) Upon strong coupling, the energy barriers are different for the dark states and the polariton ones. Transfer from T to the LP features a smaller energy barrier compared to the case in (A). However, delocalization of the LP across Neff ≈ 106 molecules markedly dilutes the electrostatic coupling between a triplet and a given molecule. This leads to very slow polariton RISC that cannot compete with RISC to the dark states (DS), which occurs at the rate in the bare molecule. This is shown in (C), where we calculate polariton RISC rate constants for Neff = 4 × 106 and the range of Rabi splittings Ω explored in our experiments (we assume a detuning of Δ = −0.58 eV as in the MC Neat sample at q = 0); the computed rate constants are significantly lower than the bare RISC rate constant kRISC~103 s−1.
To find the activation energies of the Marcus description, we first note that the Rabi frequency is larger than the highest frequency vibrational modes coupled to the exciton states. Under these circumstances, the exchange of energy between photon and singlet exciton states is much faster than the coupling of the latter to the vibrational bath. In this case, polaron decoupling ensues and the LP and UP nuclear configurations remain the same as that of the singlet ground state (19, 35), as shown in Fig. 5B. This nuclear rearrangement results in a significantly increased reorganization energy λT, LP for the polariton RISC process when compared to λT, with a concomitant increase in the activation energy. This activation energy can, in principle, be suppressed by further increasing the Rabi splitting to decrease the energy of the LP with increased Rabi splitting and yield an exponential increase in kT → LP. The molecular parameters and light-matter couplings of our experiment correspond to the normal regime of Marcus theory (larger Rabi splittings would be needed to access the inverted regime; see Fig. 5B). Even if the activation energy for transfer to the LP is fully suppressed, the maximum rate constant is bounded at light-matter resonance by kT→LP≤∣VST∣22ℏNeffπλT,LPkBT, where Neff = N/Nph is the effective number of molecules coupled per cavity mode and ℏ = h/2π, with h being Planck’s constant. The factor of 12Neff in this upper bound arises from the delocalization of the polariton across Neff molecules: Half of the polariton has molecular character, and out of this fraction, only 1Neff corresponds to a singlet that can undergo RISC with a given triplet because spin-orbit interactions are local. If we take Neff = 4 × 106 (see Materials and Methods) for the MC Neat sample (36), we obtain a room temperature kT → LP ≤ 0.1 s−1 (see Fig. 5C). This value can hardly compete with RISC to the dark states, which occur with a rate constant, kT → DS = kRISC, identical to that in the bare molecule.
We have conclusively shown that the RISC rate in a TADF material remains invariant under the strong light-matter regime even under energy inversion of the LP with respect to the triplet energy. Since the RISC process is thermally activated, the corresponding activation barrier to the LP can, in principle, be decreased by increasing the Rabi splitting. However, the large ratio Neff between the density of states of the dark triplet states and the polaritonic ones renders an improvement over the rate in the bare molecule unfeasible under normal conditions. This conclusion is independent of the strength of spin-orbit coupling within the material in question (32).
We propose two possible avenues to observe polariton-assisted harvesting of triplet excitons based on these observations. First, molecules in which the ISC process is in the so-called inverted Marcus regime are the best candidates to benefit from the formation of polaritons. In this case, the corresponding RISC energy barrier of the bare material will be significantly above ΔEst, but upon strong coupling within a microcavity, the energy barrier between the triplet states and the LP will decrease and can enter the normal regime. As a result, the cavity-assisted transition from the inverted, with a high RISC energy barrier, to the normal Marcus regime, with a much smaller energy barrier, will result in an exponential increase in the RISC rate constant much larger than that, which is possible in the normal Marcus regime. This exponential gain may be larger than Neff in extreme cases. Second, polaritonic states where Neff ≈ 100 or less due to extreme mode volume confinement such as in plasmonic cavities (37–39) can allow for large changes in dynamics. Assuming similar Rabi energies in 3DPA3CN, e.g., this would lead to kT → LP~104 s−1, which surpasses the bare RISC rate constant. Last, note that a slow rate constant for the transfer of population from the triplet manifold to the LP may still give rise to an enhancement of the delayed fluorescence yield. This occurs in cases where the equilibrium between singlets and triplets is formed much faster than the rate of singlet fluorescence, such as in singlet fission or organometallic complexes (8). Future work will focus on exploring these avenues.
The devices were fabricated on glass substrates using thermal evaporation at a base pressure of <10–7 torr (EvoVac, Angstrom Engineering). Before the deposition of the films, the substrates were cleaned and exposed to an ultraviolet (UV)–ozone treatment. 3DPA3CN was purchased and used as received from Lumtec.
The refractive index and the layer thicknesses were obtained using ellipsometry (J. A. Woollam Co., RC2 D + NIR). Angle-resolved reflectivity measurements were performed using a photospectrometer (Carry 7000). The angle-resolved PL measurements were performed using a fiber-coupled spectrometer (Ocean Optics Flame) with a 405-nm diode laser excitation (Thorlabs, CPS405). Quantum efficiency measurements were performed using an integrated sphere (Labsphere) on samples that were vacuumed in a transparent plastic to avoid exposure to oxygen.
Transient PL characteristics were measured under vacuum (<2 × 10−4 torr) using a streak camera (Hamamatsu, C10910) coupled to a spectrometer (Princeton Instruments, SP-2300). The PL signal was collected as 0° using an optical fiber. For delayed lifetime measurements, the samples were excited by a Nd:YAG laser and optical parametric oscillator (440 nm, 10-Hz repetition rate, and 8-ns pulse duration). Typical pump fluences were 10 to 50 μJ/cm2. For each sample, measurements were performed at several powers to ensure that the data were taken in a range where no nonlinear (e.g., bimolecular) processes occur. For prompt lifetime measurements, the samples were excited by a supercontinuum laser (Fianium WhiteLaser UV; 0.1-MHz repetition rate, ~50-ps pulse duration, and 405 nm using optical filters). The mean lifetimes were calculated as τm=∑iaiτi2∑iaiτi from multiexponential fits to the data (two terms for the prompt lifetime and three for the delayed), where ai and τi are each exponent weight and lifetime, respectively. The ratios, Φd/Φp, were obtained using integration over the PL decays of delayed and prompt components. Low-temperature measurements were conducted in vacuum using a closed-cycle optical cryostat.
Dispersion relation fitting
The experimental Rabi splitting and the detuning were extracted for TE or TM mod es by performing a least-square fit of the reflectivity dips to the following linear equation (28, 29)(Eph(q)+2DΩ/22DΩ/2Ω/2ExΩ/20−2D−Ω/2−Eph(q)+2D−Ω/2−Ω/20−Ω/2−Ex)(wj,qxj,qyj,qzj,q)=Ej,q(wj,qxj,qyj,qzj,q)(3)
Equation 3 is a solution of the Hopfield Hamiltonian, and the eigenvalues correspond to the polariton energies ±ELP, q and ±EUP, q. The in-plane wave vector is q, j ∈ {LP, UP} and D = Ω2/4Ex. We used a photonic cavity dispersion with an effective refractive index Neff,Eph(q)=(hcqNeff)2+Ec2(4)with q=ωcsin θ, where θ is the angle of incidence.
Rate constant calculations
We used a variational polaron transformation of the Hamiltonian (describing electronic states, photonic mode, and vibrational degrees of freedom) to account for the dissipative dynamics that emerge under strong light-matter coupling. This approach introduces an optimal energy partitioning between a vibrationally dressed polaritonic system (featuring renormalized energies of the triplet, singlet, and photonic states, as well as their couplings) and a small perturbation that contains residual couplings mediated by the vibrational bath (32). The latter perturbation is dealt with in the Markovian approximation using standard open-quantum systems techniques. For the parameters λS, λT, and VST assumed for 3DPA3CN, the rate constant between any triplet and the LP in the strong coupling regime is well described by a Marcus equation of the formkT→LP=∣xj,q=0∣2Neff×∣VST∣2ℏπλT,LPkBTexp[−(ΔEST−Ω2+λT,LP)24λT,LPkBT](5)where λT,LP=(λS+λT)2 is the reorganization energy between the triplet and the (polaron decoupled) LP state. We also remind the reader that the reorganization energy between two parabolic surfaces A and B of the same frequency is independent of the direction of transfer (A → B or B → A) or the difference between energy minima but only dependent on their relative displacement from one another. The spin-orbit coupling VST is the microcavity-free one, which is not changed upon microcavity confinement because of the negligible effect of the electric field on the angular momentum of the electronic excited states. Notice that the rate constant above contains a prefactor ∣xj,q=0∣2Neff, which equals the probability of finding the singlet in the LP state, which can accept population from a given triplet. We estimate that Neff is based on the ratio of the molecular density of states to the cavity photon counterpart (36, 40). The latter is given by ρph=neff24π[Eph2(qcut)−Ec2], where Eph(qcut) is the energy cutoff that we chose on the basis of the range of angles, which exhibit the largest PL signals for MC Neat (see fig. S2). By selecting θ = 600 for the latter sample, we have Eph(qcut) = 2.6 eV and Ec = 2.3 eV, which yields ρph = 12 μm−2. The density of molecular states can be estimated from the number density of the molecular emitters, approximately 7 × 1020 cm−3, which, for a thickness of 70 nm, corresponds to ρmol = 4.9 × 107 μm−2. Therefore, we obtain Neff=ρmolρph=4×106.
Table S1. Hopfield model parameter fits.
Fig. S1. Transient delayed PL in air and under vacuum.
Fig. S2. Angle-resolved PL.
Fig. S3. Transient delayed PL with different laser fluences.
Fig. S4. Transient prompt PL characteristics.
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A problem with modernity is that it seems that every square inch of Earth has already been explored, sanitized, and homogenized.
This is why I appreciate The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost. It is a modern account (2004) of living on one of the most remote islands on Earth – Kiribati.
Kiribati is not even visible on the map. Almost no other landmasses are visible when viewing the Earth from this perspective.
How it begins
At the age of 26, the author was an over-educated, aimless, post grad. (In many ways he is the archetype of the modern millennial – although solidly a Gen-Xer.) With no job prospects, he took ahold of his girlfriend’s apron strings and followed her to her foreign aid job on the tiny island nation of Kiribati – a spec of land alone in the center of the Pacific Ocean.
The couple romanticized about relaxed island living with beautiful beaches and charming, noble natives. Troost planned to write a novel while surrounded by peace and beauty.
From the second they step off the plane, they begin to discover that Kiribati is no island paradise. The locals are disease ridden, throw trash all over the island, and have goofy and superstitious ways. It is a world of deprivation under brutal heat and scarce resources.
The couple jumped in over their heads, but over time, yield to the brutal conditions and adjust to it as ‘normal.’ They worked out a way to live without complaint – and were reluctant to leave after two years living there.
The island airfield can only support small aircraft – when wild pigs aren’t blocking the runway.
The locals haven’t figured out that plastic isn’t biodegradable.
Brutal heat on the equator.
Hilarious and ferociously honest from start to finish
Troost and his girlfriend are not seasoned travelers. The reader sees the story unfold through the wide eyes of normal people that blindly leapt into an extreme situation. It’s relatable. The author narrates with a sharp wit and brutal honesty.
Some excerpts of interest
The I-Kiribati cover their island in litter. When the author tried to burn some discarded dirty diapers that were polluting the beach, he was stopped due to a ridiculous superstition..
“You must not burn the nappies.”
“Because you will burn the baby’s bum.”
The natives had a positive perspective on European colonialism. Troost honestly reports this despite it being ‘politically incorrect.’
One would think that the I-Kiribati would at least have some very mixed feelings regarding their historical experience with the I-Matang [foreigner] world, but this turns out not to be the case.
When I asked Bwenawa what he thought of about it, he said: “It was very good. They civilized us. Before, we were very savage. And now we are all Christian.”
You never knew for certain whether Bwenawa was just messing with your head, or whether he meant to casually dismiss the entire narrative of colonialism and exploitation that fills Western college textbooks
Fisherman frequently got lost at sea. Despite this, they never try to think ahead and prepare.
They do not carry sails, or oars, or life preservers, or radios, or flares, or spare parts for the engine. They do not even carry fishing rods…
Regarding the natives’ cruelty:
The I-Kiribati do not have soft and mushy feelings for the animal world. Even children, whom one would assume to be the most sympathetic to the plight of small animals, amuse themselves by flinging a kitten or puppy around by its tail until they grow bored, whereupon the animal is tossed into the current of an outgoing tide
Good historical background
More than just a memoir. The author does an excellent job of weaving the history of the islands into his writing. It makes the book more interesting, and this extra effort didn’t go unnoticed by me.
Into this atmosphere of agitated missionaries, unscrupulous traders, and chiefly wars fueled by drink, guns, and delusions, the arrival of the British Empire was not entirely unwelcomed by the I-Kiribati.
In 1892, Capt. E. H. M. Davis of the Royalist arrived on Abemama to plant the Union Jack and declare that henceforth the Gilbert Islands would exist as a protectorate of Victoria, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and Empress of India. He then moved on to every other major island in the group and said likewise.
The I-Kiribati said okeydokey, possibly because Davis immediately banned trade in guns and alcohol, and soon went so far as to banish the more obstreperous missionaries, including Kapu the Lawgiver, two moves that in a very short while returned to the islands a peaceful languidness that they had not seen since the advent of the whalers.
The chiefly wars that had riddled life in the northern Gilbert Islands gave way to Land Commissions and local magistrates. A few of the more murderous I-Matangs [foreigners] who had long stirred trouble on the islands were tried and either expelled or shot. The activities of traders were regulated, and as a result of there now being actual rules, many traders left. The Protestant missionaries were told to lighten up when it came to dancing.
I didn’t like the first third of the book. It’s long-winded and full of “cute” jokes about the author’s fearfulness and ineptitude at every culture shock. His girlfriend offers frequent and not-so-subtle slights to his manhood which he finds funny.
For example, when she told him:
You will not survive two days. Your skin will fry, you will collapse from dehydration, and because you will be the most useless person on the boat, you will be regarded by the others as a potential food source
Or when she said,
You remind me of my ex-boyfriends.
It felt like an “Everybody loves Raymond” episode, which got tiresome.
I ground through, eager to find the “sex lives of cannibals” part. By a certain point, I was half afraid his girlfriend would be the one sexing the cannibal men. I feared the author would be excitedly watching from the bushes.
Spoiler alert – it turns out there is no sex part of the book at all – or cannibals. He only references an island that is famous for blowjobs, but never goes there. The title is shameless “clickbait.”
Sorry, no cannibal BDSM in this book.
Troost found his stride and the final two-thirds of the book made the trudging through the first third worth it. The hard reality of life on the island made more of a man out of the author, and it was reflected in the chronology of the writing.
The author deserves the utmost credit for is his intellectual honesty from start to finish. He did not suffer from the self-censorship that we see so often today. He details the native peoples’ natures as well as his own – warts and all. It was an honest and detailed field report from a true, modern adventurer.
I highly recommend this book if the subject matter interests you. If you have a particularly low attention span, skip to about one third in.
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Improving hunting safety is somethign every sportsman and woman can contribute to.
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These are not random incidents. Not usually.
And that’s the good news.
Hunting is a safe sport and it’s one that’s getting safer all the time.
Take the case of New York. Thirteen hunters suffered “shooting-related incidents” – accidents other than, say, heart attacks – in 2018. That was down from 19 the year before, and tied the record for fewest ever.
That’s reflective of a trend, state officials said.
“The number of hunters is declining, but the hunting incident rate (incidents per 100,000 hunters) is falling much faster,” reads a report from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
“Since the 1960s, the number of hunters has declined about 20 percent, while the incident rate has declined almost 80 percent. The current 5-year average is 3.1 incidents per 100,000 hunters, compared to 19 per 100,000 hunters in the 1960s.”
The story is the same across the country.
Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources reported 128 hunting accidents and 19 fatalities in 1968. Fifty years later, in 2018, it had 13 accidents and three fatalities.
Pennsylvania saw 27 hunting accidents in 2018, only one of them fatal. That marked the sixth straight year with fewer than 30 accidents, said the Game Commission.
To put that in perspective, there were more than 200 accidents across Pennsylvania in 1981.
So that’s all encouraging.
But things can get better, and here’s why.
The accidents
According to huntered.com, which administers hunter education training for states all across the country, there are – year after year, decade after decade – four main causes for most hunting accidents.
First is hunter judgment mistakes, such as mistaking another person for game or not checking the foreground or background before firing.
Second is safety rule violations, including pointing the muzzle in an unsafe direction and ignoring proper procedures for crossing a fence, obstacle, or difficult terrain.
Third is lack of control and practice, which can lead to accidental discharges and stray shots.
And fourth is mechanical failure, such as an obstructed barrel or improper ammunition.
Which of the four issues is the biggest can vary from year to year and state to state.
But the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says the first two – judgment mistakes and safety rules violations – are the most problematic.
Not surprisingly, then, it recommends that hunters and others in the woods in fall wear orange clothing – whether required by regulation or not — to avoid being mistaken for game. “Nothing in nature” matches the brightest orange clothing, it says
Yet it’s largely unnoticeable to wildlife, it adds.
“Because deer and elk see blaze orange as grey, your hunting will not be affected,” it noted.
In Pennsylvania last year, though, nearly two-thirds of all accidents involved “unintentional discharges,” where someone’s gun went off unexpectedly.
More often than not, the person injured was the same one carrying the firearm. Fifty-nine percent of injuries were self-inflicted.
So a little more care there, perhaps, would have dropped hunting accident numbers even further.
Add it all up and that means most hunting accidents, if not all, are preventable. Sportsmen and women just need to be vigilant and accountable. How to do that?
Huntered.com lists four “essential” rules to firearms safety.
Treat every firearm as if it were loaded.
Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
Be aware of your target and what is beyond it.
Keep your finger outside of the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot.
Follow those simple rules and times afield need not end in pain, suffering or even tragedy, New York officials said in looking back on 2018.
“Remember that 99.9 percent of the people who hunt have safe and enjoyable experiences. Over half a million-people hunted in New York …and for every incident listed, there are thousands of other hunting stories of people who safely and responsibly took game,” it said.
“Just as important, even more passed up shots for the sake of safety, conservation, and respect for wildlife.”
Information on hunting safety
Every state wildlife agency makes hunting safety a priority message. They sometimes deliver it in different ways, though.
Here’s a good one.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has a “Home from the Hunt” campaign. It’s a nationally recognized hunter safety program.
Visitors to the commission’s website can watch a variety of videos covering everything from general hunting safety tips to information specific to tree stands and more. It’s worth checking out no matter where you hunt, particularly if you’re introducing a newcomer to the outdoors.
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Jordan offers two Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters to the Philippines
May 2018 news aviation air force industry
The Royal Jordanian Air Force has announced that it has decided to offer two Bell AH-1F Cobra combat helicopters to its Philippine counterpart, as well as a batch of TOW anti-tank missiles and ammunition. Already last year Jordan had offered three similar helicopters to the Kenyan air force.
Bell AH-1F Cobra firing 70mm Hydra rockets (Picture source: Royal Rordanian Air Force)
However, this present has nothing to do with the 16 AH-1F Cobras donated by Israel to Jordan in 2015. Here, they are similar helicopters obtained between 1988 and 2001 from the U.S Army stocks and bought at a ridiculous price. At the time, the Jordanians had acquired Bell AH-1Es and AH-1Fs. But these helicopters have aged and no longer meet the standards of the country used to fight against jihadism alongside Western forces.
Wanting to reduce its fleet of combat helicopters, especially since the delivery of Air Tractor AT-802 ground attack aircraft and Boeing AH-61 Little Bird tactical support helicopters, Jordan has chosen to give these Cobras to countries also engaged in the war against Islamist terrorists. Conveying these "free" helicopters is billed to the Filipinos. One way like another for Jordan not to incur too much expense.
In this operation, the Philippine Air Force is a winner because the ex-Jordan Bell AH-1F Cobras remain very powerful machines: armed with TOW anti-tank missiles, 70mm Hydra rockets and above all a 20mm M197 cannon, they remain formidable machines. Especially since these helicopters will be revised before their delivery by boat to the Philippines. They are expected there at the beginning of the summer.
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Redevelopment of Northern Pier Scheveningen
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Today, the plans for the redevelopment of the Northern Pier in Scheveningen Volker Wessels Vastgoed and entrepreneurs united in Scheveningen Viscluster presented to Alderman Norder Hague. The urban vision KCAP Architects & Planners and the business plan for area of the Northern Pier in Scheveningen make this part. The 8.8-acre area in the south of Scheveningen is developed with a mixed program of recreation in conjunction with the original fishing to an area with a special character.
The area consists of two parts: the fisheries processing plants to the fish market and the seaside promenade with a recreational tourist program. In the plan, the fishing industry around the first port stay focused and expand.
"This creates more space for fishing vessels to unload catches and to organize. Efficient and future-proof logistics process This strengthens the competitiveness of Scheveningen as fishing harbor, "says Hans Borsje, regional manager of Volker Wessels Vastgoed.
"The improvement of the spatial structure and device also directly contribute to the attractiveness of the resort as a whole," says Irma van Oort, partner of KCAP.
A new dune constructed. Adjacent to the promenade by the Spanish architect De Solà-Morales On top of a parking garage, a new promenade, overlooking the beach and sea. At the tip of the promenade is a 3-star hotel, a hotel apartment with pavilions and terraces and eventually planned an indoor sport cluster, also the educational center 'FISH' which can be all about. Fish and the North Sea experience
The urban vision and business plan are based on the draft zoning. For the architectural drafting various architects responsible, including KCAP for the hotel and the renovation and expansion of the United Fish Auctions (UFA) located in the existing end building of the fish auction and the existing buildings that are listed as a national monument.
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Disease activity and health status in rheumatoid arthritis: a case-control comparison between Norway and Lithuania
J Dadoniene1,
T Uhlig2,
S Stropuviene1,
A Venalis1,
A Boonen3,
T K Kvien2
1Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
3Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, the Netherlands
Professor J Dadoniene, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Vilnius University, Zygimantu 9, Vilnius, LT-2600, Lithuania;
dadon{at}ktl.mii.lt
Objective: To compare disease characteristics and health status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from two countries, Norway and Lithuania.
Methods: Patients were recruited from the RA registers in Vilnius (Lithuania) and Oslo (Norway). For each patient from Vilnius, a patient matched for age and sex from the Oslo register was selected. Sociodemographic characteristics, disease process, and health status were compared between the patient groups.
Results: 201 Lithuanian patients and 201 Norwegian patients were included. Mean (SD) age in both groups was 55.9 (10.0) years, and 83% were women. Patients from Lithuania were less often employed (27% v 42%; p=0.001), had higher disease activity expressed by the disease activity score (DAS28; mean (SD) 5.3 (1.0) v 4.4 (1.4); p<0.001), had worse physical function by the modified Health Assessment Questionnaire (MHAQ; mean (SD) 2.3 (0.8) v 1.6 (0.5); p<0.001), had more often comorbidity (73% v 53%; p<0.001) and they reported worse general health measured by Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36; mean (SD) 23.2 (13.5) v 44.5 (21.3); p<0.001). The proportions of patients who had used disease modifying drugs were similar, but the pattern of use differed.
Conclusion: Important differences in employment, disease activity, physical function, and self reported health status were observed in patients with RA from two northern European countries. Socioeconomic inequalities, differences in disease management, and access to specialised health care, as well as methodological issues regarding instruments and data collection are likely explanations. These data support the view that management of RA should be adapted to country-specific needs.
cross country comparisons
DAS28, disease activity score
DMARD, disease modifying antirheumatic drug
MHAQ, modified Health Assessment Questionnaire
RA, rheumatoid arthritis
SF-36, Short Form-36 Health Survey
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.62.3.231
The burden of inflammatory and degenerative joint disease for patients as well as for society is recognised as a major issue in the Bone and Joint Decade.1 The magnitude and nature of country-specific differences, however, has been insufficiently explored. There is an overall impression that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is more prevalent in the northern countries2–5 and occurs less frequently in southern countries.6,7 Not only the prevalence, but also the expression of the disease is reported to differ among countries. Classically, differences are attributed to genetic factors, or environmental factors including nutritional habits, ultraviolet radiation, microbial environment, and use of contraceptive pills.6–9 In addition, the organisation and quality of health care provided to patients can influence the disease severity, and socioeconomic characteristics can influence the perceived health status.10–12 Comparative studies on the impact of RA across countries can help to provide an understanding of country-specific factors contributing to the burden of disease and can help to target the needs of patients specifically.13 However, few such studies have been performed in the past decade and many of those available have methodological shortcomings.14–20
In this study we compared disease process and health status in patients with RA from two registers established in different, well defined geographical areas with a similar population size—one in Vilnius (Lithuania, Baltic state) and the other in Oslo (Norway, Scandinavia). We assumed that genetic and environmental discrepancies in these neighbouring populations were likely to be small and that possible differences in disease expression and health status were more likely to be explained by differences in socioeconomic status and healthcare organisation and provision.
Settings and patients
Patients were sampled from the RA registers of Vilnius (Lithuania) and Oslo (Norway), two cities with about 500 000 inhabitants. The Vilnius RA register was established in 1998 and comprised 1018 patients with RA for 486 500 adult inhabitants at the time of the study. The Oslo RA register was established in 1994 and comprised 1552 patients from 472 000 adult inhabitants at the time of the study. The completeness of the Oslo RA register was shown to be 85% and was used to estimate prevalence (44 per 1000)21 and incidence figures (25.7 per 100 000 inhabitants)22 of RA in Oslo. Criteria for enrolment into the registers comprised a diagnosis of RA23 and a residential address in Vilnius or Oslo, respectively. Both registers are continuously updated with new cases and withdrawals due to mortality or changes of address outside the cities. In Vilnius, the general practitioners or rheumatologist, working in one of the 14 outpatient clinics of the town, are asked annually to provide an updated list of patients with RA registered at their outpatient clinic, and the charts of the rheumatology department are continuously reviewed for RA cases (JD). In 1999 a random sample of 359 patients was invited for interview and examination and 201 patients agreed to participate. In Oslo, between 1996 and 1997, 883 patients aged 20–70 years were invited for interview and examination, of whom 636 agreed to participate in the study. Mainly the hospital chart reviews from the two hospitals serving the county are used to identify patients with RA in the town and mortalities are recorded from the population register. The charts of all patients with RA or possible RA referred to members of the multidisciplinary team in the county hospital are also checked.
The primary cases for this study were patients of the Vilnius RA register. For each patient a control from the Oslo RA register, matched for sex and age, was identified. Patients enrolled in the study came for interview and clinical examinations, performed in Vilnius from 1999 to 2000 and in Oslo from 1996 to 1997. The attendance rate for clinical examination in Vilnius was 56% and in Oslo 72%.24
Access to health services for patients with RA and social security in Vilnius and Oslo
Five full time and three part time rheumatologists work in half of the 14 outpatient clinics (polyclinics) in Vilnius. These rheumatologists provide about 10 000 consultations a year. The waiting time for a first referral to a rheumatologist varies from one to three months, but only one fifth of all patients with RA in the register had attended a consultation with a rheumatologist during the past year. When admission to hospital is necessary, patients are admitted to the rheumatology department of the University Hospital, which has 40 rheumatology beds. Mean duration of admission for each patient is 10 days. Six fully employed rheumatologists provide the hospital care and there is no outpatient consultation attached to the hospital.
The specialised rheumatology healthcare services in Oslo were in 1997 mainly concentrated in two referral centres providing about 12 000 consultations given by 10 rheumatologists. About 10% of the consultations are with patients seen within 1–3 days, the rest having a waiting time of between one week and six months. About 45 rheumatology beds were available for citizens from Oslo, including 25 beds for orthopaedic surgery of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases. On average, patients were admitted for 10 days.
Both countries have an obligatory health insurance, which is paid by social taxes to the State social insurance fund. In addition, there are small patient out of pocket contributions for drugs. Lithuania spends 4.6% of its gross domestic product on health care compared with 7.1% in Norway. Unemployment figures, a surrogate marker for economic welfare, are 13% in Lithuania and 5.6% in Norway.
The procedures for data collection were similar in both settings. After giving consent, the patients were invited for a structured interview and clinical examination. The interview and examination was performed by a rheumatologist (SS) in Vilnius and by a specially trained research nurse in collaboration with a rheumatologist (TU) in Oslo.24 The interviews comprised questions about sociodemographic status, including years of formal education and current working status, RA cases in the family, questions on disease activity, current and previous treatment, surgical interventions, comorbidity and extra-articular manifestations. When appropriate, the information obtained by interview was supplemented by information from the patient’s hospital record.
The disease activity was assessed by the 28 swollen and 28 tender joint counts, joint pain (scale 1–10 in Vilnius rescaled to 0–100), patient’s global assessment of disease activity (scale 1–5 in Oslo and scale 1–10 in Vilnius, rescaled to 0–100), and investigator’s global assessment (being rescaled from 1–5 to a 100 mm VAS in Vilnius). Laboratory tests were performed locally at the time of examination according to routine guidelines and included erythrocyte sedimentation rate (mm/1st h), haemoglobin (g/l), and white blood cell count. From these measures the disease activity score (DAS28) was calculated.25,26 In addition, IgM rheumatoid factor was determined by the Waaler-Rose test in Oslo (positive for a titre ⩾1/64) and by latex fixation in Vilnius (positive for ⩾40 IU/ml).
Finally, patients completed various health status questionnaires, including the modified Health Assessment Questionnaire (MHAQ; scale 1–4, 4=worst health)27 and the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36; scale 0–100, 0=worst health).28
SPSS was used for data entry and analyses. Results are expressed as mean (SD) or proportions (counts) when appropriate. Statistical analysis was performed using a paired test for continuous variables and the McNemar test for dichotomous variables. The differences were considered significant at p<0.05.
For each 201 patients with RA from the Vilnius RA register a patient from the Oslo RA register, matched for age and sex, was identified. Mean age was 55.9 (10.0) years and 83% were female. Table 1 shows that the mean disease duration for patients from Vilnius was slightly shorter (11.9 (9.5) v 12.9 (9.5) years), but this difference was not significant. The table also contrasts the sociodemographic features of the patient groups. There was an important difference in employment rate (27% v 42%; p=0.001), despite similar educational level (12.0 (4.4) v 11.7 (3.4); p=0.28).
Demographic characteristics of patients with RA from Vilnius and Oslo (mean (SD) for continuous variables, % (n/total) for dichotomous variables)
Disease activity and health status
Table 2 presents the disease process and health status for patients from both countries. Disease activity, including doctor’s global assessment, acute phase reactants, and all components of the DAS28, with the exception of the 28 swollen joint counts, were consistently worse for patients from Vilnius. Comorbidity was more frequently recorded in the Vilnius group, but the occurrence of extra-articular manifestations was similar. The health status was rated worse in Vilnius for joint pain (59.5 (20.0) v 36.2 (22.1); p<0.001), physical disability (MHAQ score 2.3 (0.8) v 1.6 (0.5); p<0.001), and several of the domains of the SF-36. Domains of the SF-36 showing significant differences (p<0.001) were physical functioning, role emotional, mental and general health.
Disease process and health status measures in patients with RA from Vilnius and Oslo (mean (SD) for continuous variables, % (n/total) for dichotomous variables)
Nearly all patients both in Vilnius and Oslo had ever used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The proportions of patients having ever used disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) were also similar (94% and 90%; p=0.17), but the pattern of use of specific drugs used differed considerably (table 3). Vilnius patients had been treated more widely with azathioprine (p<0.001), sulfasalazine (p=0.002), and antimalarial drugs (p=0.02), whereas methotrexate (p=0.02), gold drugs (p<0.001), cyclosporin (p=0.001), and d-penicillamine (p<0.001) had been used relatively more often in Oslo than in Vilnius. Surgery with joint replacements was more prevalent in the Oslo group (p<0.001) (table 3).
Drugs ever used and joint replacement surgery in patients with RA from Vilnius and Oslo (% (n/total))
Our study shows that the expression and impact of RA differs between two northern European populations. Disease activity (DAS28) as well as functional impact (employment and HAQ) and perceived general health (SF-36) were worse in patients from Lithuania.
To the best of our knowledge only six studies in the past 10 years have examined differences in disease expression in RA across countries.9,15,17–20 All focused on disease activity and damage while health related quality of life was not studied. Remarkably, five out of the six studies compared British patients with ethnically remote patients like Greeks,9 Pakistanis,15 Malaysians,17 ethnic black Zimbabweans,18 and West Africans,19 and one study compared Dutch and Egyptian patients.20 Table 4 summarises the data from these studies. The overall impression from these studies is that British patients tend to develop more severe disease with more expressed functional disability and higher prevalence of extra-articular manifestations than southern populations. In contrast, in the study comparing Dutch and Egyptian patients with RA, the Egyptian group showed higher disease activity and more pronounced impact on activities of daily living. The authors suggested that these differences might be attributed to the higher use of contraceptives among Dutch patients, on the one hand, and a more stressful lifestyle in Arabs, on the other.20 Overall, genetic factors may be an explanation but environmental factors also, such as use of contraceptive pills, microbial factors, life expectancy, educational level, and diet, may contribute to differences in disease expression across countries.13,29 However, it is methodologically difficult—if not impossible—to evaluate the individual contribution of each of these variables to the observed differences. We feel that the role of socioeconomic factors has been underestimated. Even in welfare societies increased mortality in RA was shown to be associated with access to health care.30 A recent study, comparing two socioeconomically contrasting regions of Oslo, showed similar disease activity but worse health status across several dimensions of self reported health in those living in the less affluent area.12
Results of comparative cross cultural studies
Difference in socioeconomic status may also be an explanatory factor in the present study. It is of note that differences between Vilnius and Oslo were not only seen in measures influenced by the disease perceptions of individual patients but also in disease activity.
This study is the first to compare RA among white populations in two different countries, with the exception of some preliminary data from a survey on patients with RA reported in England, the Netherlands, and Oslo.31 Our comparative study has several strengths. Firstly, both patient groups derived from urban populations comparable in size and with a similar low prevalence of RA. The reported prevalence of RA for Oslo is 0.44%,21 according to a population survey, and 0.36% for Vilnius, according to the Lithuanian health information centre.32 Patients in Vilnius had slightly shorter disease duration, but this difference was not statistically significant. Secondly, all outcomes recommended for observational studies33 were included, with the exception of radiographic damage. Prevalence of joint replacement surgery might be considered as a measure of damage,34 although the difference in joint replacements in favour of Oslo might be explained by differences in access to surgery. In Oslo, orthopaedic and medical treatment of patients with RA is performed within the same department, the so-called “combined unit”; whereas in Vilnius the facilities are separated. Otherwise, access to rheumatological health care appears to be rather similar based on the number of outpatient consultations, number of rheumatologists, number of beds, and admission time in hospital, but similarities in these numbers do not exclude possible differences in the organisation and provision of health care. Ideally, genetic factors should also have been compared, but DNA samples were not available for examination.
Although we have chosen to compare recommended outcomes, there is methodological concern about the validity of the instruments. The measures chosen for assessment of the different outcome domains were instruments accepted world wide for disease activity and health status that have been shown to be valid across countries.28,35,36 The validation of SF-36 was thoroughly performed in a Norwegian setting of patients with RA.37 The Lithuania translation, was followed by back translation and adaptation, but full validation was not performed, possibly, causing incomplete comparability. In addition, differences in joint counts might be caused by different interpretation of joint swelling, in particular. The latter observation indicates that regardless of careful description of procedures,38 training of the investigators in joint assessments should be emphasised. Examination of the patients in both groups by the same trained observer would be the ideal option but was impossible to achieve owing to geographical and cultural barriers.
Other limitations of this study comprise the possibility of selection bias. Although the completeness of the Oslo RA register was examined and found to be 85%,21 a similar study was not performed in Vilnius. However, it is assumed that most patients with RA are incorporated in the register because referrals from primary care are considered to be fair.39 This assumption is supported by the prevalence of RA, which was suggested to be 0.36%,32 indicating that about 1600–1700 patients should have been registered, compared with an actual recorded number of 1018. Another possible source of bias is the differences in response to invitation to participate in this study, which was somewhat lower in Vilnius than in Oslo. Response bias to participate in the study might have influenced the composition of the groups studied. Patients not included may comprise contrasting extremes: those with either mild disease who are uninterested in participating or those with severe disease who are unable to attend. Moreover, the possibility cannot be excluded that response bias acted in opposite ways in the two countries: more patients who were more highly educated and had less severe RA being less likely to participate in Norway and fewer educated and more severely ill patients being less likely to participate in Lithuania. Age and sex of participants and non-participants from both countries were similar within the country24 and between the countries.
It is also of note that assessment of the patients took place over different periods of time. As no important economic changes or changes in management strategies of RA occurred during those three years it is unlikely that the different period of time had a significant effect on working status and disease characteristics of patients in this cross sectional study, which included patients with a mean disease duration of 12 years.
Therefore, taken together, it is unlikely that the observed differences in disease expression can be explained by bias and lack of full validation of outcome measures. Explaining the observed differences remains difficult. Classically, geo-environmental factors (nutrition, ultraviolet radiation, microbial factors, contraceptive pills) are advocated to explain the differences in RA outcome among countries. Because both countries are located in the north of Europe and geographically not far from each other, the contribution of such factors will be low. However, additional research may add knowledge to RA genetic variety in the region and over the world.
A more likely explanation is the difference in social background and provision of specialised rheumatologists and therefore differences in medical RA management in Vilnius.39 This hypothesis is supported by the lower employment rate, differences in number of joints replacements, and differences in the use of methotrexate. Several factors might explain the phenomenon of the different use of DMARDs between the countries. All DMARDs are now available in Lithuania, but some drugs have been prescribed more often in the past than others. The higher use of antimalarial drugs and sulfasalazine in Lithuania might be explained because these drugs are considered by Lithuanian doctors to be less toxic and are preferable for patients who have limited access to highly qualified rheumatological care. Among the immunosuppressive drugs, the more frequent use of azathioprine probably reflects a historical difference. Azathioprine was for long time the only immunosuppressive drug, whereas methotrexate only became widely available and accepted later than in Western European countries. Finally, an economic consideration might play a part. Prednisone is inexpensive for patients, which might be an incentive for patients to accept this drug as the treatment option.
In conclusion, important differences in disease activity, physical function, and self perceived wellbeing are seen in white patients with RA from two northern European countries, the burden of disease being increased in patients from Vilnius. Differences in economic prosperity and healthcare organisation as well as methodological differences in instruments and methods used to assess the outcomes are the more likely explanations. In the light of the Bone and Joint Decade, further research into the influence of healthcare organisation on the outcome of RA should be stimulated.
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Funding for performance and equity: Student success in english further education colleges
Ozan - Jaquette
The impact of performance funding on community college student outcomes is a contested issue. Performance funding policies in most U.S. states involve too small a proportion of funding to change college behavior. English further education colleges are similar to U.S. community colleges. 1992 policy reforms in England centralized policy control, and implemented a per-pupil funding formula; 10% of all funding is based on student success but other components of the funding formula pay colleges more money for enrolling disadvantaged students. This research uses five years of student level data to test the impact of these policies. Overall student success rates rose by 10% during the five-year period, with the largest gains made by ethnic minorities, adult basic education students, and students from disadvantaged neighborhoods. Although the English system depends on regulatory agencies that do not exist in the U.S., the major assertion of this research is that market-based funding policies - if properly designed - can promote equity in educational achievement.
Education Policy Analysis Archives
national minority
Performance accountability
Performance funding
Jaquette, O. . (2006). Funding for performance and equity: Student success in english further education colleges. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 14, 1-36.
Funding for performance and equity : Student success in english further education colleges. / Jaquette, Ozan -.
In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol. 14, 2006, p. 1-36.
Jaquette, O 2006, 'Funding for performance and equity: Student success in english further education colleges', Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 14, pp. 1-36.
Jaquette O. Funding for performance and equity: Student success in english further education colleges. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 2006;14:1-36.
Jaquette, Ozan -. / Funding for performance and equity : Student success in english further education colleges. In: Education Policy Analysis Archives. 2006 ; Vol. 14. pp. 1-36.
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