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K1C2: Lessons for Political Messaging from 1952
By Kaleena Fraga
As Democrats gear up for midterm elections in 2018 and the presidential election in 2020 the party struggles to define its message. It cannot simply be the party of anti-Trump–especially if it aims to win back two-time Obama voters who turned Republican in 2016. Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the left-leaning podcast Pod Save America, has suggested that the Democrats take up “corruption” as part of their messaging. In recent weeks, his colleagues at Crooked Media have pushed this–corruption, collusion, and chaos.
It’s reminiscent of another young political operative. This one a Republican, and in the year 1952. Richard Nixon, as a candidate for the vice presidency, pushed the similarly sounding message of “Korea, Communism, Corruption”–K1C2.
While Eisenhower maintained a healthy distance from the campaign, Nixon leapt into the fray. He put up a fight for the presidency that would embitter many against him for the rest of his political career, including Harry Truman, who interpreted Nixon’s messaging as a sly way of calling him a traitor. (Truman would later insist that Nixon had personally accused him of treason, although no evidence exists to support this). Even in Nixon’s lowest point of the campaign–when he was forced to defend his use of a political slush fund in the now famous “Checkers” speech–he was sure to add at the end that electing Eisenhower was important because the Democrats had left the government riddled with Communists and corruption.
At one rally, Nixon said: “If the record itself smears, let it smear. If the dry rot of corruption and Communism, which has eaten deep into our body politic during the past seven years, can only be chopped out with a hatchet, then let’s call for a hatchet.”
At another, he went further, accusing the Democratic nominee, Adlai Stevenson, of “carrying a Ph.D. from Dean Acheson’s cowardly college of Communist containment.”
As for Korea, Eisenhower, a war hero, promised to visit the battlefield after the election. He and Nixon could argue that Stevenson lacked the necessary military experience, while no one could doubt Ike’s credentials. The war weighed heavily on the country. Truman kept a letter and a purple heart from a distraught parent in his desk, who sent it to him as the man “directly responsible” for their son’s death.
In the end, the alliteration worked–Eisenhower won 55% of the popular vote, won 39 out of 48 states, and took 442 electoral votes. He even won Stevenson’s native state of Illinois. Of course there were other factors at play. The Democrats had been in power since 1933 and there was a general feeling of fatigue toward their policies. Ike also campaigned on the promise of change.
Still, perhaps communications professionals of the Democratic party can take a page from Richard Nixon’s book. A s simple message, endlessly repeated, can go a long way.
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
The President & the Apprentice by Irwin F. Gellman
Truman by David McCullough
Author kaleenafragaPosted on May 24, 2018 May 23, 2018 Categories Campaigns, eisenhower, Nixon, Quotes, SpeculationTags 2018, 2020, eisenhower, K1C2, Nixon, Political Messaging
2 thoughts on “K1C2: Lessons for Political Messaging from 1952”
Patrick F. Hussey aka uncle pf says:
Corruption, Collusion & Chaos!
Ken W. Simpson says:
WW2 in retrospect ended in dishonour and set the scene for the next seventy years of infamy. Truman ended the war in the Pacific by dropping the atom bomb on civilians at Hiroshima, and barely faltering, dropped anther on Nagasaki. Eisenhower had ended the war against Germany by imprisoning German soldiers without food, clothing, shelter or water in fields by the Rhine to die of exposure or starvation. Back home the war hero got a ticker-tape parade and was a shoe -in to be elected president. Ike destabilised Guatemala, had Patrice Lumumba, the democratically elected socialist leader of the Congo assassinated and ignored the Fascist style hearings by Senator Joe McCarthy, the fact that his own Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles a fervent anti-Communist, was in fact a Nazi – like his brother Allen who became head of the CIA. Apparently it didn’t concern Ike that Averil Harriman, Skull and Bones, had a penchant for eugenics and appointed him as US Ambassador to Russia. Prescott Bush who financed Hitler’s war machine was elected Senator. Truman invaded Korea.
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Angela takes a break?
Nearly a year after her last alleged “retirement” from stalking and loudly defaming a person involved with the Hampstead SRA hoax, Angela Power-Disney has once against announced that she is withdrawing from the fray.
The news came first from Anthony G. Pike, who announced it yesterday:
News just in from our beloved ‘X-Girl’, Angela Disney, 61, in Oldcastle, Co Meath is that she’s finally throwing in the towel after previously throwing in the towel and then being dragged back into the ring again and this time with head satanist [redacted], in Hampstead breathing down her neck and threatening to throw her in the nick until death do us part. So, voila, Angie is now going to disappear for at least 3 mths with no one knowing quite where she is or what she’s doing. However, as [redacted] is working with the Irish Govt to bring Angie to book, the easiest thing to do in the circumstances is to hop it like Ella Draper did to Spain and in Angie’s case to her beloved Lanzarote. However, if Angie sits it out in Ireland the sword of Damocles will always be hanging over her head, but in Lanzarote she’ll be SAFE.
Angela, possibly stung by the implied criticism, almost immediately replied via her own blog. (We’re not linking to either blog, as both contain illegally shared names and images.)
This time, Angela says, her absence will be only temporary. Unlike her last “retirement”, which lasted approximately a week before some juicy news came up and she felt compelled to jump back in, this time she is being uncharacteristically cagey about exactly what she’s up to, and states that she will be back.
She announced that she would be taking three months off “to take care of some pressing health issues”:
For a perpetual “blurter” such as Angela, this is a remarkably unforthcoming announcement, but alert readers might have noticed that a couple of weeks ago she did refer to the possibility of leaving for a bit of a rest cure:
I’m thinking of running away to a convent for 12 weeks lol! Rehab better than psych unit or prison tho I didn’t plan it as strategy!
Am drinking more and chain smoking since the file got sent to DPP and figured some respite would be good and a break from social media?
Considering all of Angela’s bluster about how the gardaí are really on her side and are actually scouring her computer for evidence of wrong-doing against her, this was quite the admission.
Stories of Angela’s troubled relationship with alcohol have been rampant amongst her former friends. Long-time readers will remember her ill-fated visit with Jockney Rebel one Christmas, during which she enraged her host by her elbow-bending behaviour, which culminated in her falling asleep with a lit cigarette in her hand, burning holes in Jockney’s belongings…three times.
Once could be excused as an accident; twice begins to look like carelessness; three times sounds suspiciously like a drinking problem.
If Angela’s proposed break from spreading lies and hatred will involve a three-month spin-dry programme, we can only applaud it as a positive step. Alcoholism is a serious problem, with both long-term and short-term health impacts, and it cannot have been an easy choice to make. We don’t know the circumstances of her decision, or whether it was imposed upon her, but we hope it will have the desired outcome.
Tom Dunn done?
Meanwhile, back to that whole “blurting” thing…according to Angela (who has never been known to make shit up), last week FBI agents visited the avaricious evangelical Tom Dunn at his home in Ohio.
Strangely enough, just like the Irish gardaí who raided Angela’s home last August, these FBI agents were remarkably sympathetic to Dunn, and seemed to be on his side.
We’re sure it will come as a huge surprise to both Angela and Dunn, but it’s no longer the 1950s, and cops these days don’t generally interrogate suspects whilst beating them with rubber hoses and threatening them with the electric chair. It’s a much more civilised process, designed to obtain maximum information with minimum smacking about.
Besides, if Angela really is so confident that the gardaí are on her side, why is she heading off to rehab? Just asking.
29/03/2019 in Angela Power-Disney. Tags: alcoholic, Angela Power-Disney, Gardaí, harassment, stalking, Thomas Dunn
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55 thoughts on “Angela takes a break?”
I think it’s very simple EC…Angie is bricking it. She knows that the next knock on the door could be the one she is dreading. Hope she takes Andy up on his offer of board and lodging in Greece!
Back to yesterdays momentous happenings. Let me see if I have this straight…nary a gunboat or armoured car or squaddie or jolly Jack Tar in sight… a few coppers bored shitless…..28 or so fruit loops enjoying a day in the park…..Andy Pandy giving a lecture on law enforcement ( to no avail )…..The Pavement Taster and Lee C#nt pissing off early…..Matt Taylor did not even turn up…….many messages saying I would be there but ( put excuse here )………..some great filming of areas of grass……. His Highness spouting a few words of bollocks from Hong King and calling it a proclamation…….a statement that “the ayes have it ” and it was all over bar the shouting. Did I miss anything? Well, guess what….nothing has changed. HRH is still safely ensconced in Buck House, Parliament is till standing, Andy Pandy and The Pavement Taster are still nut cases and life goes on just like before. Just as I and many, many others on here said it would.
Piss off back to Greece you slimy little shit and lick your wounds.
Seargent Joe Friday says:
The FBI only investigate internal crimes unless they suspect Dunn of being a spy for a foreign country. They would however act on behalf of a request from another police force, say Scotland Yard.
And they are renowned for the very courteous manner when visiting “suspects” who they may consider not dangerous but perhaps breaching a law.
Has perhaps Ms Daisy Power finally had legal advice and been told to cool it?.
Interesting, EC. This is the same Angie who’s repeatedly denied being a drinker? I’m no expert on this sort of thing but am I right in thinking that denial is quite a common barrier for people with drink problems? One of the “12 steps” is admitting you have a problem, if memory serves.
Either way, whilst part of me wants to revel in Angie’s woes, I do genuinely hope the rehab works out for her.
I wonder how much of Angie’s erratic, irrational behaviour is down to the drink. It must at least be a factor.
This was my thoughts too, a friendly ‘cut it out NOW or we will nick you’ put forward as “I need a break” rather than “I was told to cut it out or join Sabine in the slammer”
Especially as she has REALLY ramped it up over the last couple of months, and certain people may have had enough and complained?
(of course she would never want to go inside- she would have to give up smoking for starters, and can you imagine her horror at THAT!!!! Smokers can ask permission to smoke, but there is no guarantee that they will be allowed to, and it would be a privilege that could be taken away at any time if the prisoner misbehaves)
I hope this inspires Angie’s mate Cat to curb her own drinking, if only for the sake of her kids.
Sounds like Anthony Prick might soon go on the ever-growing list of fruitloops Angie’s pissed off and/or fallen out with. That said, no one should ever feel ashamed about pissing off Anthony.
Tom Dunce is another one who belongs behind bars. A seriously repugnant and dangerous individual who’s repeatedly breached court orders, named a protected witness, shared the names, videos and images of those two vulnerable children and made disgusting threats to innocent people.
And don’t get me started on his ignorance of the Hampstead case. His lack of research and gaps in his knowledge are embarrassing. Yet he feels he knows enough about it to publicly name individuals and state with confidence that they’re child rapists, baby-murderers and cannibals. Disgusting little man.
And how sad how he’s brainwashed his own daughter into following in his footsteps and becoming a fanatical hate-spreader herself.
Spot-on, mate. There was one really exciting moment in the second live stream, though, when the rebels couldn’t find a pen. Nail-biting stuff.
“They would however act on behalf of a request from another police force, say Scotland Yard”
Perzackerly! 😜
It could be that she has seen the light. It could be that she has just found out that she has stage 4 inoperative cancer and needs palliative care. But I’m pretty sure we would have heard about it if it was the last one. And I don’t hold out much hope for it being the first one.
She’s hedging her bets. A narc like Mangela would be on it like a tramp on chips to tell you what her ailment was if she had one. It’s an excuse. I might be wrong.
We’ve danced around the whole personality disorder thing, and it’s fun, but the reality is that only someone who knows what they are doing can have any authority with this.
But I think it’s fair to say, whatever Mangela is suffering from, there is a disconnect between ego and super-ego, and all that fluff. She’s not quite sure why she’s about to do what she’s about to do, but she feels a need to do it anyway. She even knows it might be wrong. The sub-conscious is calling. Along with prison time.
It’s been a while now since Sabine was banged up. That takes time to process. They did nazi that coming! 🙂
APD has had her tech taken. Who knows what was on it. At the very least it just contains the malicious communications that she has been spreading. But maybe there is more! Who knows.
It’s laughable that someone like APD could jump ship. I mean, where would you hide the old heffer? In Morocco with Beauty Queen Ella and Camel Herder and Third Eye Opener Abe? I don’t think so. She’s on her own with this one. Trying to hide Mangela would be like trying to put lipstick on a pig, but I repeat myself.
I don’t think she’s going anywhere. I think it’s more cover for just taking some real time out to cool her boots and calm the fuck down while she considers her options, and comes to terms with the fact, that yes, she might actually be going to prison.
She may use this in mitigation. She may just be sticking her fingers in her ears and covering her eyes and hoping it all goes away if she imagines it out of existence. She may even have had a personal epiphany. It’s not like she would admit it if she had.
But I’m new to this game, even though I’m old to Mangela. She’s just doing what she always does: buying time, manipulating, playing the game on her terms. Pretty soon she will have to play the game on other’s terms. And I think she knows that. Narcisstic injury is about to come down in a mighty wave.
She’s sensing something changing in the water. But remember, she is two steps ahead of us all. Don’t think she’s not. Dumb she may be, but highly manipulative she is also.
Anyway, not long to go now.
Cat’s another one who I’d put money on being arrested by the end of the year. She’s just put up yet another blog post in which she names, slanders and attacks a protected witness. The only consolation is that almost no one actually reads her shitty blog. Or watches her (often illegal) videos, some of which actually have zero views, meaning that even her arse-kissing supporters can’t bear to watch them.
Is it a co-incidence that Dunn has a visit from the FBI and Angie’s sudden desire to sink into obscurity?. I think not. They may even have been gathering evidence on behalf of the Garda and Dunn has informed Daisy of this.
And does anyone know why the Exiled King of Hong Kong Airport’s videos are all in reverse as he shows the viewer an ‘arrest warrant’ form they too can create ?. Same with Andy Pandy which sort of is indicitive of their thought process.
Epic hissy fit from Cat Scot & Robert ‘Fabooka’ Matheson, saved for evidence and posterity:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19dQCUa2juQBChvJ9HI2ZhDnwCgQ59WYv
Includes Fabooka repeatedly attacking and threatening a protected witness, butt-hurt attacks on “typical Jewess” Karen Irving, several rants about how (yawn) everyone else on here is the aforementioned witness, several warnings to stop breaching copyright by posting screenshots of his comments, and Cat both disingenuously saying this blog is finished (despite currently approaching two million hits) and hitting a new low by giving out the supposed location of Flo Destroyer’s mother.
“…several warnings to stop breaching copyright by posting screenshots of his comments”
Yes, the slimy little twat seems very upset about that and has warned me in no uncertain terms not to re-post the screenshot that prompted his mammoth hissy fit.
So here it is again for anyone who missed it:
It can’t be cancer as Jesus has made her immune to that. No, seriously – she actually said that.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12gYWOw9PwQcNSKfy8YyRJw2yxgbYr5dz
And I see Angie’s wasted no time in sharing Cat’s illegal post, in her own ongoing bid for incarceration:
Another epic lie from Cat Snot. If the smell of booze weren’t so strong, she’d reek of desperation…
I followed the links to Devine’s gathering of loons in the park and now realise he”s just another Freeman of the Land idiot. His smugness is quite unbearable and cannot stand how these passive agressive creeps speak to police officers insulting them and trying to belittle them. Devine also infers the officers will face retribution at some stage.
Going to a convent?
Strategy!
You get to Court and your barrister says ‘She’s now living with the Sisters of Mercy and is thinking of joining the Order’. It’s Ireland. Who’s going to lock a nun up for long?
‘….no longer the 1950s, and cops these days don’t generally interrogate suspects whilst beating them with rubber hoses and threatening them with the electric chair….’
True, but they’re right good at throwing people like Based Amy out of parliament. Am I a terrible person for enjoying this?
For those who’ve not come across her before here’s a bit about Amy’s past:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/woman-gets-asbo-banning-her-from-sea-after-50-suicide-attempts-that-cost-taxpayers-1m-6597468.html
I hope she thanked the policeman who risked his life to save her.
I hope she’s considered paying back the 1 million pounds it’s cost the taxpayer to keep her breathing. Or is she just going to hang around parliament and go to Tommy Robinson rallies and make videos for the rest of her life? I expect she’ll do whatever gets her the most attention.
And a few nights ago, his pavement-kissing mate made a video in which he made death threats to police officers. I think he’s got bored with the taste of sidewalk surprise and fancies giving the porridge diet a try.
Yet no matter how long she stays in there, she’ll be nun the wiser.
Jeeesus. Think I’ll add this woman to my list of people never to get stuck in a lift with.
They said the revolution would not be televised. They were wrong…
Exiledscouser says:
I hear people book into the “priory” in order to kick their “habit”.
A little birdie whispered to me in passing that Angela allegedly may be going back to rehab where she allegedly spent time a couple of times through the years.
For her family’s sake, I hope that’s the case.
Wait till they hear she’s gone to live with a lesbian peedophile nun.
Lucca, I had an ex-neighbour (deceased now) who used to drink too much and he had strange ideas sometimes and I think he did have delusions occasionally. It was a shame because he was Jekyll and Hyde – could be quite nice when he was sober. He was eventually put in a care or nursing home where he dried out but he couldn’t look after himself by that stage. Mind you, if he had come home he might have gone back on the booze. My ex-neighbour never thought the world was ruled by Satanists though but he could be paranoid.
I’ve been looking on the web on King John’s back history (I won’t link the sites because I think they have already been referenced on other threads and one was definitely in conspiracy theory land though most just reporting on when he tried to take over an office in New Zealand. I may have been wrong when I thought he didn’t know his history because he had written King William IV “Silly Billy’ out of history because apparently he is referencing the Treaty of Waitangi when William IV was the British monarch. His (King John’s) ideas are still whackadoodle though.
f you gaze for long into an Abbess, the Abbess gazes also into you.
She’s now living with the Sisters of Mercy
Andrew Eldritch might have a few things to say about that. Still. I would pay many quatloos for a new video for ‘Adrenochrome’, with APD as one of the dancers.
John Wanoa isn’t the mild mannered would-be Regent he tries to come across as.
He belongs to a tiny corp of extreme right-wing Maoris who are appalling racists with quite perverted views who the vast majority of Maoris see as an embarrassment to their race and will have nothing to do with.
The white New Zealanders addressed the plight of that countries original inhabitants decades ago and have tried to make amends far sooner that Canada or Australia did including giving them political power.
New Zealand is possibly the least racist country on earth which is why Wanoa’s ugly racism sticks out. A good example is how the quite powerful and nationalistic biker gangs have rallied around the Muslim community in their moment of distress unlike Wanoa who insults and degrades the recent deaths in similar manner to how those ugly people have been telling the Sandy Hook parents their children never existed.
Angie will not stop. She cannot help herself. As much as she may want to (allegedly! we would be foolish to trust anytihng she says) back off somehow or take a break, she is utterly addicted to this. She feeds off it like a vampire. That last video with Dunn was a shocker.
The only thing that will stop her is jail and she is inexorably heading that way by her own actions.
She really is her own worst enemy. (Ongoingly! 8-))
Do you think “King” John has a bit more grey matter in the top storey than he appears to have in his videos? Like, did he know full well he wouldn’t be admitted to the UK the other day (I know this point has been addressed in other threads)? When I looked at accounts of his 2015 shenanigans (from NZ outlets) it did seem he’s been “trying it on” for some years. The tidal scam has been a constant factor (though with different “marks”) over the years. I still don’t understand how some of my fellow countrymen (and women) were deluded enough to think there would be a change of government yesterday. If I were planning a takeover of a state (for the avoidance of doubt I’m not!!!!!) I certainly wouldn’t blab about it all over Facebook and YouTube. BTW the conspiracy theory site that mentioned King John (in 2016) said that the UK monarchy would be going down in 2016…three years on and it’s still there.
Comedy gold..
Devine is live now, what a twanker!
Yes, and Araya Soma, Jake Clarke, and Edgar John (Eddie Isok) are all there as well.
Yes I heard him mentioning Jake, what a fool Jake is to get mixed up with that lot. It sounds as if he has been keeping in touch with Paul Rogers. That will not end well. I haven’t seen Araya Soma yet, not sure I want to. 😷 It was hilarious Devine making up that a Police Officer had charged at him when he was just walking past him & didn’t answer him about a similar camera.
He is indeed. It’s more Quatloos territory but this Facebook group is a good source of stupid if you want a good laugh and you won’t be surprised to discover he is a regular.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/council-tax-many-more-govacts-are-unlawful-lets-fight-back-1957436927904322/
She has done at least one video whilst drinking from a bottle, and it wasn’t milk!
Please post a link to the slimy little shits latest rant.
Sometimes we reach far and wide…….I believe that King John will not be getting a ” Kia Ora ” when he steps off the plane in Auckland……Morris will be without him for at least a day or two….lets see if he lets us know!
I can’t link him up Fireman Sam because he names a protected witness, sorry.
Alcohol is a fairly potent depressive drug, and it does decrease inhibitions, but I doubt that it is wholly responsible for her behaviour over the past four years. If one looks back further than early 2015, one sees a pattern of using malicious gossip and a healthy dollop of fiction to terrorise family, friends, and neighbours. That said, it’s possible that without the alcohol she might wake up and smell the coffee vis à vis her current legal situation. Anybody with common sense knows that she’s in a precarious position, and it seems she has been trying to drink that away.
Two things: her phone is in even worse condition than mine; and does the daft bint not know how to take a screenshot from her mobile?
His interview with Hellbound Heathen was fecking hilarious—it was quite clear that he had absolutely no idea of the facts of the case, but had only been told (probably by Angela) that it was true and he should just stick to that talking point.
“Typical Jewess”? LOL Where in hell did they get that bit of nonsense?
And attempting to dox Flo Destroyer’s mother must be a new low for that pair of nitwits.
Has anyone looked at these?
Yep. Revolting, but not unexpected. Sad inadequate garbage humans.
This has the name of the protected witness redacted, thanks to the Mouse…
Don’t any of these nutters read the conditions when they sign up to Facebook?. FB owns copyright of everything published on the forum.
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‘Massive’ Chinese stake in the south – Dene Mackenzie:
News of a $200 million milk plant to be built 5km north of Gore has been enthusiastically welcomed by Gore Mayor Tracy Hicks, who yesterday described the announcement as “massive”.
Mataura Valley Milk will have nearly 72% Chinese ownership. Construction of the new plant is planned to start on the site of the former McNab auction yards in October, with a planned commissioning date of August 2018.
Southland dairy farmers will hold 20% of the shares and be the suppliers to the new factory.
Much of the production will be infant milk powder bound for the Chinese market, although other markets will be developed. . .
Westland Milk Products appoints new Chief Executive:
Westland Milk Products, New Zealand’s second biggest dairy co-operative, has announced the appointment of Toni Brendish as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Westland Chairman Matt O’Regan said today (28 July 2016) that Brendish has extensive leadership experience in the international food and dairy industries, most recently as Vice President of DKSH (Thailand), a large consumer goods distribution business based in Bangkok, where she currently resides.
“Toni’s familiarity with the manufacture, supply chain and sales and marketing of value-added dairy products, including paediatric and nutritional powders and UHT dairy products, will be of immense value to the company as we progress the development and execution of our growth strategy for these businesses,” O’Regan said. . .
Processing on the horizon – Shannon Gillies:
Waitaki Orchards in Kurow is building a fruit processing plant to avoid a repeat of the loss of up to 50 tonnes of its apricot crop earlier this year because of rain.
The orchard lost most of the crop on nearly half of its 35,000 trees in January after two weeks of near-continuous rain.
The orchard’s smaller crop of nectarines was also badly hit, but other stone fruit, cherries and plums survived the rain. . .
Upbeat conference attracts 200+ delegates – Allan Barber:
The delegates at the 2016 Red Meat Sector Conference were challenged and entertained by a stimulating range of guest speakers and New Zealand icons the Topp Twins.
Minister for Everything Stephen Joyce gave the welcome speech at the Sunday evening cocktail function and took the opportunity to compliment the industry on its great performance in offsetting the dairy downturn, while encouraging it to work hard on progressing PGP funded projects with 40% of the total already allocated to the red meat sector.
At the formal conference opening the next morning Minister for Food Safety Jo Goodhew made a strong plea for industry government collaboration to protect New Zealand’s food safety and biosecurity reputation. She reinforced her message with the reminder that the consumer is not just interested in product quality and food safety, but also in its provenance, sustainability and the animal welfare standards applied to its production. . .
Sheep, beef farms must focus on costs – Hugh Stringleman:
Sheep and beef farmers need to focus on onfarm costs in the same way as dairy farmers, Beef + Lamb New Zealand chairman James Parsons says.
The key focus for his organisation was to help farmers get the average onfarm cost structure down below $3 a kilogram of product, both meat and wool.
When opening the Red Meat Sector conference in Auckland, Parsons said everyone in the sector needed to tell their story better to get product value growth from export markets.
The Red Meat Sector Strategy aimed to increase export earnings from all products – meat, wool and co-products – from $8 billion to $12b. . .
Risk, reward in produce sector – Stepehn Bell:
Huge changes in the booming horticulture sector present export opportunities but also mean considerable risk is developing, Westpac industry economist David Norman says.
Risks included consolidating in fewer markets, growing debt, the potential for more non-tariff barriers and the risk of labour shortages, Norman said in Westpac’s Industry Insights into Horticulture.
The sector was small in terms of jobs with about 39,000 full-time equivalents but accounted for more than 7% of merchandise exports with earnings of $3.4 billion in the year to May. Its exports, accounting for 60% of production, had grown 140% this century compared to 94% for all exports. . .
When a farm kid goes to an animal rights conference… – Laura Bardot:
I grew up on a cattle farm in rural Missouri. I am a classic, stereotypical farm kid that was involved in the local 4-H and FFA. I raised cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits and ducks. I know how to drive a tractor and drove a truck in a field before I drove a car on the highway.
Bullying farmers and ranchers
I became aware of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) from their pessimistic TV commercials trying to gain more donations by appealing to viewers’ emotions. I knew these animal rights organizations always said they were trying to help dogs and cats, but when they said they needed to “rescue” farm animals, that’s when I started to do research.
In August of 2014, Missouri residents voted on a “Right to Farm Bill”- ensuring Missouri farmers and ranchers are guaranteed the right to farm for forever in the state. I advocated heavily in favor of this bill, yet I met several people who were skeptical, and the majority of those people were misinformed on the bill by anti-agriculture groups. Therefore, I attained a dislike for these groups that felt the need to bully and pressure their way into getting what they think is best for animals – which often does not align with science. . .
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STM Publishing Newsletter – January 2020
Open access still prompting differences of opinion
Open access continues to be the biggest issue facing STM publishers. In mid-December, Springer Nature raised concerns in an open letter that the timeframes, metrics, and waivers required by Plan S could undermine the sustainability of scientific publishing and proposed its own alternatives – including flipping journals to full open access when their OA content reaches 90%, rather than the proposed 50%, and tying increases in open access publication to the funding made available for it. cOAlition S has responded by dismissing the publisher’s claims as ‘nothing more than an attempt to perpetuate the hybrid model’ and ‘a tactic to stall progress’, disputing its assertions using statistics from one of Springer’s own publications, Nature Communications. Meanwhile, the Publishers Association has issued an independent report, Evidence to inform a response to the UKRI review of Open Access policies, (PDF) insisting that publishers want to make the transition to Open Access (OA) a reality as comprehensively and rapidly as possible, and that they see transformative agreements as vital to this process, but also warning that transition to full open access cannot be achieved as quickly as Plan S suggests.
In the United States, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have both responded with concern to suggestions that the Trump administration may be moving towards requiring all federally-funded research to be immediately made available through open access, claiming that changing the existing twelve-month embargo period would threaten investment in the research communication system and undermine American science, research, intellectual property, and global competitiveness. However, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) welcomed the move, dismissing the embargo as unnecessary.
New transformative deals for Wiley and IOP
Wiley has concluded a three-year combined open access and subscription agreement with Bibsam, the consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions led by the National Library of Sweden. The deal will see 45 participating institutions retain access to Wiley’s subscription journals while their affiliated authors will be enabled to publish open access articles in Wiley’s hybrid and fully gold journals.
Jisc has agreed a transitional open access read-and-publish agreement with IOP Publishing which will give affiliated corresponding authors at participating universities unlimited open access publishing in 44 IOPP journals, with researchers also gaining reading access to 75 journals in the fields of physics, materials science, biosciences, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental sciences, mathematics and education.
Springer goes Dutch for sustainability
Springer Nature, which last month sold its publishing solutions provider Scientific Publishing Services to SPi Global, has announced a new partnership with The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch Consortium of University Libraries and the National Library (UKB). The partnership, which builds on a read-and-publish deal established between Springer and VSNU in 2015, aims to explore the societal impact of open research and its ability to accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It involves three key projects: using natural language programming and machine learning to categorise the past decade’s scholarly output from the Netherlands alongside a subset of five of the development goals; assessing the impact on non-academic actors of outputs in a selection of those subsets; and, providing assistance with and assessment of researchers’ efforts to achieve societal relevance in their work. The first phase of data from the partnership has already been released, with further outputs expected throughout 2020.
Springer is also working with Digital Science’s Dimensions on its database of author affiliations and institutional relationships, Nature Index. The Dimensions team will take over the data management of the index, and will continue to make a 12-month window of data available at www.natureindex.com.
EMBO partners with ASAPbio on new pre-submission peer review platform
EMBO Press, the independent publishing platform of the European Molecular Biology Organization, has partnered with non-profit scientist-driven organisation ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology) to create a new platform, Review Commons, which will peer-review life science research manuscripts ahead of journal submission. Papers submitted to Review Commons will be reviewed for scientific rigour and merit; paper and review can then be posted to the preprint server bioRxiv and submitted to one of the seventeen affiliated journals from six publishers which have committed to use these referee reports for their independent editorial decisions, with minimal additional expert input. The platform aims to reduce the 15 million hours of reviewer time estimated to be wasted each year on rejected papers.
New journals from Oxford and ACS
Oxford University Press has partnered with the Institute of Burn Research, Southwest Hospital, China, to publish Burns & Trauma, the open access official journal of the Chinese Burn Association and Asia-Pacific Society of Scar Medicine.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is launching two new journals – ACS ES&T Water and ACS ES&T Engineering – to reflect the growing role of environmental science and technology in the chemistry field and daily life.
Altmetric issues top 100 science stories from 2019
Altmetric has announced its top hundred science stories for 2019, including climate change, politics, and – at number one – an AI that can create a ‘deepfake’ video of an individual from a single photograph.
Tagged IOP, Open Access, Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, Wiley.
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State of Emergency Declared Again Over Local Measles Outbreak
The number of confirmed measles cases continues to skyrocket in the region and at least five were sent to the ICU due to the ongoing Hudson Valley measles outbreaks.
On Thursday, Rockland County Executive Ed Day issued a second declaration of a State of Emergency renewing the original declaration that was due to expire at 11:59 p.m., Thursday. The renewed State of Emergency takes effect at 12:00 a.m., Friday and will remain in effect until Saturday, May 25.
“Over the last 30 days since my original declaration, we have lost the one thing we couldn’t afford to lose, valuable time. With nearly 50 new confirmed cases in less than a month what we predicted has come true; this outbreak continues to rage despite the best efforts of our Department of Health,” Day said. “The disagreement amongst the various courts has undoubtedly caused confusion and contributed to this situation continuing. However, I pledge that we will continue to do everything within our power to combat this deadly disease and bring it to a stop once and for all.”
Last month, Day declared a state of emergency which banned anyone who is under 18 years of age and unvaccinated against the measles from public places in Rockland County.
Following the ban, parents of unvaccinated children filed two cases in New York State Supreme Court to repeal the ban. A judge later temporarily blocked Rockland County from banning unvaccinated children.
The second State of Emergency does not contain the Measles Outbreak Emergency Directive, prohibiting unvaccinated persons from entering indoor places of public assembly which was rescinded.
But the Rockland County Department of Health will continue to enforce the new order that was announced last week.
The order states anyone infected with the measles must stay home and out of public areas or face a $2,000 fine. Residents have been getting notices at their homes that state unvaccinated people exposed to measles must stay out of indoor and outdoor public places for 21 days or face $2,000 fines.
On Wednesday, officials in Rockland County confirmed there are now 200 cases of measles in the area.
In March, shoppers at a Hudson Valley Target, a supermarket and other popular local businesses were recently exposed to measles.
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus that is spread by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people. People first develop a fever, then often a cough, runny nose and watery eyes, followed by an appearance of a rash. People are considered infectious four days before to four days after the appearance of the rash.
Symptoms include a fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis or a runny nose. Symptoms usually appear 10-12 days after exposure but may appear as early as seven days and as late as 21 days after exposure.
In October, it was reported an international traveler with measles visited multiple locations in Rockland and Westchester counties. Among the locations infected with measles was the Costco in Nanuet and Westchester Medical Center.
The Rockland County measles outbreak spread into Orange County in November. Health officials in Orange County later warned that a taxi was exposed to measles.
Around Thanksgiving, shoppers at the Palisades Mall were potentially exposed to measles.
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Lieberman to Reid: You My B*tch
Remember a while back, when Joe Lieberman actively criticized and campaigned against the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate? Called him unfit to be commander-in-chief?
I said at the time that if Harry Reid didn’t punish Lieberman in some way, he would make it very difficult to maintain discipline in his caucus. (Similarly, with Ben Nelson.) If actively campaigning against your own party’s* presidential candidate doesn’t get you disciplined, what could you possibly do that would?
Not to be all “told ya so” and everything, but…
Lieberman has now come out against the health care reform bill that Reid is sending to the floor for a vote. He says he doesn’t like the bill, and is perfectly willing to help the GOP filibuster any bill he doesn’t like.
Because Reid did nothing before, he can now make no credible threat to Lieberman (or the more ambiguously wavering Dems, like Blanche Lincoln). The only tool he’s got is trying to buy Lieberman off, which presents two immediate problems: a) it’s tough to buy a senator when you’re bidding against the insurance industry, and b) whatever Reid has to give him, it’s going to be bad.
If you’d shown a little spine in the past, Harry, you’d have more options now; and Joe’s vote, if we can get it at all, wouldn’t cost us good legislation down the road.
(* Yes yes, I know. But Lieberman still caucuses with the Dems and holds committee chairmanships as a Dem.)
Tags:caucus discipline, Democratic caucus, Harry Reid, health care reform, Joe Lieberman
System-Blaming We Can Believe In
Matt Yglesias finally gets around to pointing out some senate rules that actually do keep the Dems from getting things done and actually should be changed:
Democrats hand out committee chairmanships by a blind seniority rule. Republicans do not. Chairman need to rotate out of their positions after fixed terms, which then gives the caucus as a whole input over who takes over next. Consequently, the Senate leadership has some meaningful leverage over Republican Senators—even Senators from liberal states. If they’re really determined to make Snowe (and Collins) vote “no,” they have tools at their disposal to make that happen. By contrast, the Democratic leadership heads into tough fights basically disarmed with no real tools of discipline and leverage at their disposal beyond the vague risk of a primary challenge. One day perhaps the Democratic caucus will decide that it wants to be an effective legislative party and it will adopt some principles that equalize the playing field. But until then, it’s going to be extremely difficult to overcome truly determined Republican opposition even with a large majority.
That explains a lot. A lot. I’d love to see the Dems change it, but I find myself doubting they ever will.
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Matt Yglesias sees reality without actually quite seeing it:
Meanwhile, the geography of the 2010 Senate races is also highly favorable to the Democrats. And given the contrast between ironclad discipline on the GOP side and the “anything goes” attitude on the Democratic side, it looks like for a while yet we may be in a California-style dynamic where Republicans can’t win elections but Democrats can’t actually pass a governing agenda.
See, there? That whole “ironclad discipline” vs. “anything goes” contrast? There’s your problem. That’s why “it looks like for a while yet we may be in a California-style dynamic where Republicans can’t win elections but Democrats can’t actually pass a governing agenda.”
Note, too, that Yglesias agrees with me that, contra Klein, there’s nothing about the senate rules that makes it inherently less amenable to discipline, as the GOP has been proving for a very long time, now, as both a majority and a minority. It just takes leadership from the top, and pressure from below. Republicans get the latter from talk radio and Fox News. Dems should be getting it from superstar bloggers like Yglesias and Klein.
Yet five will get you ten that within 24 hours Yglesias repeats his claim that the problem is the system, not the people.
One more time: when there’s no price to be paid for breaking with your caucus, because your leadership won’t inflict one and progressive opinion shapers are giving you a pass by blaming the system, why not go off the farm? The mainstream media love you because you look like a moderate and a Very Serious Person. You get more leverage and therefore more control over the content of legislation and the president’s ongoing agenda. The voters back home think you’re a stand-up guy or gal, voting what you think is right (or what is best for the home folks) instead of the party line.
Unless you represent a thoroughly liberal state (or district), of course you’re going to buck your party’s agenda.
Let me say I’m not arguing that Dems should be forced to vote in total lockstep 100% of the time the way Republicans are. We’ve seen what that got them; on the other hand, before they cratered, that discipline got them just about everything they wanted. So I am arguing that on the Democratic Party’s biggest, most important, most desired, highest-profile agenda items, yes, you’ve got to be willing enforce some friggin’ discipline.
Bless him, Father Occam, for he has sinned.
In my continuing disagreement with the tendency of the twenty-something liberal bloggers to blame the system for Democrats’ inability to get things done, I take note that Ezra Klein has now gone well out of his way to do just that.
In commenting on the fact that Dems are losing patience with Sen. Max Baucus over his inability to get a health care reform bill moved out of his committee (the Finance Committee), Klein says:
But this isn’t, as some are suggesting, because Baucus is a schmuck. It’s because the structure of the legislative process is more important than the individuals within it. The House has majority rule and an internal structure that lends itself to party discipline. The Senate has the filibuster. And beyond the Senate having the filibuster, Baucus wants a bipartisan bill out of his committee.
It is no surprise that the chamber with majority rule and party discipline is outpacing the chamber with anti-majoritarian rules and a bipartisan bent. We’re seeing how difficult it is to build bipartisan legislation when the minority believes it can kill the bill.
Occam (supposedly) tells us we shouldn’t multiply entities unnecessarily — in this case, those entities are explanations for the failure of Max Baucus — and Klein has done exactly that.
Let’s review the three key facts:
Baucus, for whatever reason, surely having nothing whatever to do with the fact that he’s gotten more campaign money from the health care industry than has any other member of congress, rilly, rilly wants his bill to be bipartisan.
The GOP believes it can kill health care reform altogether, which would be a huge political albatross to hang around the Dems’ necks in the next elections; therefore no Republican has any incentive to vote for Baucus’s bill or even negotiate in good faith.
Unlike the House Dems — and, though Klein doesn’t mention this because it cuts against his blame-the-system argument, also unlike the Senate GOP — the Senate Dem caucus is totally undisciplined.
You don’t need any more than that to explain why Baucus can’t — won’t — get moving. So long as he clings to his forlorn hope for a bipartisan bill despite fact #2, and so long as Harry Reid continues to let him, there will be no bill.
The existence of the filibuster rule is, at this point, irrelevant. It doesn’t apply to committee votes. The rules for committee votes are totally majoritarian. Just like Klein’s beloved House rules. All Baucus needs is 12 of the committee’s 23 votes, a simple majority; which means he doesn’t even need all 13 Democrats to vote with him. He chooses not to proceed on that basis, and Senator Mudpuddle chooses to let him dawdle.
So, while Klein says “the structure of the legislative process is more important than the individuals within it,” that’s simply not the case with health reform. The individuals in the system are more important than the legislative process.
Baucus is a schmuck (or at least a chump). So is Reid. So are the Republicans. And that’s the problem.
Tags:caucus discipline, Democratic caucus, Harry Reid, health care reform, Max Baucus, senate finance committee
Make It Hurt
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) — that famous “moderate” who grandstands by killing various pieces of legislation favored by his own party, caucus, leadership, and president, and passing various pieces of legislation favored by the other party, their caucus, their leadership, and their president — is out there “moderating” again.
This time, it’s on the president’s and his party’s highest priority: health care reform. Let me repeat, it is the highest priority, bar none, for both his party and his president. Obama has staked his presidency on it.
Nelson would like to kill it. He’s doing so by once again grandstanding to the Beltway press as a moderate — “Sure, we need health care reform, and personally I favor it, of course. But let’s not get in such a hurry. Let’s slow down so we can bring some Republican votes along,” he says mildly, tutting.
Nelson knows, of course, that slowing down the legislation will kill it. Which is what he really wants. Nebraska, see, is a big health insurance state.
While it’s aggravating to see Nelson’s hypocrisy succeed so well, time after time after time, both legislatively and in the media, you can’t really blame him for doing what politicians do: covering his backside.
No, as I’ve said before, the people to blame here, if Nelson succeeds, are Pres. Obama and Sen. Reid. They’ve got to make it clear to Nelson that going off the reservation is going to hurt; and going off the reservation on health care reform is going to hurt bad. Since neither Obama nor Reid has ever penalized anybody in their caucus for anything (and did I mention Joe Lieberman is on Nelson’s slow-walking team?), Nelson knows he can do whatever he wants, on any legislation he wants, as often as he wants, and never pay a penalty for it.
Back to the basics, Democratic leaders: when a thing is free, you get overconsumption of it. You’ve made torpedoing your own party free. Is it any wonder senators take that offer so often?
If health care reform fails, Nelson will be the villain, and he will have well earned it. But, as I’ve said before, it will still be the Democratic leadership’s fault.
Tags:Ben Nelson, caucus discipline, Democratic caucus, Harry Reid, health care reform, Obama
More on Caucus Discipline
There are some public, on-the-record comments, today, about Senator Mudpuddle’s rumored intention to penalize Dems who fail to support cloture votes.
First, it seems yesterday’s rumor is true: Reid really has put out the word. Second, the usual suspects are pushing back. Senators Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu, who oppose key features of their party’s two biggest legislative priorities, the health care and energy bills, said they won’t be put in a “procedural straightjacket.”
Nelson said something I find very odd:
I’m not a closed mind on cloture, but . . . if it’s something that would be pre-emptive of Nebraska law . . . then I’ve always reserved the right to vote against cloture.
“Pre-emptive of Nebraska law”? What are you, an interpositionist? A Georgia-style state sovereignty nut?
You’re not in the Nebraska state legislature, Sen. Nelson. You’re in the U.S. Senate. (You’d think he could keep that straight, since Nebraska doesn’t even have a senate.) Your job there is to write and support federal law. If you prefer Nebraska law, you’ve run for the wrong office, dearie; the one you want is back in Lincoln.
Update (7/8/09 2:27 pm): Related, Reid has also told Sen. Max Baucus to get off the dime on the health care bill; specifically, to stop wasting time chasing Republican votes. That suggests to me that Reid believes he can get the bill past cloture with nothing but Democratic votes.
Tags:Ben Nelson, Democratic caucus, filibuster, Harry Reid, Mary Landrieu, senate
Filibuster Politics
Matt Yglesias gets his title right, but then broadens his post in a way that, I think, makes it wrong:
[L]egislators prefer to do nothing at all. The supermajority—and, more broadly, the extreme difficulty of moving legislation—makes it easier for elected officials to make contradictory commitments to various people.
It’s clearly not the case that legislators prefer to do nothing at all. Republican legislators crammed as much legislating into their years of rule as they could. They clearly preferred doing stuff.
What is the case, as his title suggests, is that Democratic legislators prefer to do nothing at all.
Actually, no, that’s not right either. It’s not that they prefer to do nothing, it’s that they’re afraid to do something. When the GOP controlled things, the Dems were afraid not to follow along, so they helped the GOP do things — with the comfort of doing it from the GOP’s shadow. Now that the Dems control things, they can’t stand in the GOP’s shadow, anymore, and they’re afraid to move.
So we see this “We can’t actually do anything progressive because of the filibuster” excuse-making instead of arm-twisting and hard bargaining to bring recalcitrant members along.
They have the leadership positions, but they’re afraid to exercise actual leadership. They’re still trying to hide in the GOP’s now greatly reduced shadow, and the filibuster excuse gives them the means to do it.
Tags:Democratic caucus, filibuster
Discipline and Punish 2
So the Senate Democratic caucus decided to to let Lieberman keep his big chairmanship (Homeland Security and Gov’t Affairs Committee), and all his little sub-committee chairmanships, but took one of his minor committee memberships away. I have 3 possible reactions to this.
One: As noted before, whither discipline?
Two: As a punishment, this is worse than nothing. If you’re going to punish somebody, punish them. If you’re going to let them off, let them off. Trying to look like you’re punishing them when it’s absolutely obvious to everyone that you’re not punishing them just makes you look like you got in a fight and started slapping like a girl (apologies to the girls here’bouts).
Three: I had a thought last night, while watching news reports of Obama’s meeting with McCain. I wonder if that meeting and Obama’s absolution of Lieberman (which seems to be the key factor in the caucus’s girl-slap) are connected. That is, I wonder if what we’re seeing is the president-elect cobbling together a filibuster-proof majority on certain key policies, and McCain and Lieberman came as a package deal. They are famous chums, after all.
Just a thought. But I wanted to write it down in case it turns out to be right and makes me look hella smart.
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Behind The Scenes With George Strait – Heartland!
Tony Grassy April 8, 2019 VIDEOS
George Harvey Strait is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. George Strait is known as the “King of Country” and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and main country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.
Besides being a famous singer he is also a soft spoken cowboy who loves horses. What you are going to watch is a video showing George Strait behind the scenes showcasing a country atmosphere and dealing with the animals he
loves most, the horses. This video got hundreds of thousands of views and hundreds of comments such as:
“The real George. It don’t get no better than this. How did he get so GOOD at everything he does??? Thanks for sharing this special video.” “I love George Strait.!! He is the about the only country artist I listen. I have to say, he inspired me to get into the saddle, and I gotta say, it’s been the most incredible experience. It’s been on hell of a ride, and I will keep it going till the end of time. Thank you George, form an aspiring cowboy!”
“I like tie-down roping because team roping is not one of the sport’s standard events and I think tie-down roping is more the way to go instead of team roping.”
Watch and enjoy the video!
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Legal Provisions of Order XIV of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (C.P.C.), India
Issues arise when a material proposition of fact or law is affirmed by one party and denied by the other.
Material propositions are those propositions of law or fact which a plaintiff must allege in order to show a right to sue or a defendant must allege in order to constitute his defence. Each material proposition affirmed by one party and denied by the other forms the subject of a distinct issue.
Kinds of Issues—fact, law and mixed:
Issues are of two kinds—(a) issues of fact and (b) issues of law.
There is yet another kind of issue, which is a mixed issue of law and fact.
Duty of Court to frame issues—Order XIV, Rule 1(5):
It is the duty of the court under sub-rule (5) of rule 1 of Order XIV, to ascertain at the first hearing of the suit, after reading the plaint and the written statements, if any, and after such examination of the parties as may appear necessary, the material propositions of fact or law on which the parties are at variance and thereafter to frame and record the issues on which the decision of the case depends.
Issues need not be framed when no defence:
The court is not required to frame and record issues if the defendant at the first hearing of the suit makes no defence.
Alleemuddin v. Haji Bashir Ahmed:
While it is true the parties are expected to be vigilant and must see that proper issues are framed in the case but primarily it is the duty of the court and the court cannot be absolved of its responsibility merely because a party has been negligent. Even in an undefended case it is the duty of the court to frame proper issues with a view to inform the plaintiff what points he has to establish before a decree could be claimed.
Deciding of preliminary issues:
The issues of res judicata and constructive res judicata as also the maintainability of the suit could be adjudicated upon as preliminary issues. Such issues, in fact, when facts are admitted, ordinarily should be decided as preliminary issues.
Materials from which issues may be framed:
The court may frame the issues from all or any of the following materials:
(a) Allegations made on oath by the parties, or by any persons present on their behalf, or made by the pleaders of such parties;
(b) Allegations made in the pleadings or in answers to interrogates delivered in the suit;
(c) The contents of documents produced by either party. (Order XIV, Rule 3).
Court may examine witnesses or documents before framing issues:
Where the Court is of opinion that the issues cannot be correctly framed without the examination of some person not before the Court or without the inspection of some document not produced in the suit, it [may adjourn the framing of issues to a day not later than seven days], and may (subject to any law for the time being in force) compel the attendance of any person or the production of any document by the person in whose possession or power it is by summons or other process. (Order XIV, Rule 4).
First hearing:
It is the date on which the court proposes to apply its mind to the contentions in the pleadings of the parties to the suit and the documents filed by them for the purpose of framing the issues to be decided.
Power to amend and strike out issues:
(1) The Court may at any time before passing a decree amend the issues or frame additional issues on such terms as it thinks fit, and all such amendments or additional issues as may be necessary for determining the matters in controversy between the parties shall be so made or framed.
(2) The Court may also, at any time before passing a decree, strike out any issues that appear to it to be wrongly framed or introduced]. (Order XIV, Rule 5).
Issues of law and of fact:
Notwithstanding that a case may be disposed of on a preliminary issue, the court shall, subject to the provisions of sub-rule (2), pronounce judgment on all issues. [Order XIV, Rule 2(1)]. Where issues both of law and of fact arise in the same suit, and the court is of opinion that the case or any part thereof may be disposed of on an issue of law only, it, may try that issue first if that issue relates to—(a) the jurisdiction of the court, or (b) a bar to the suit created by any law for the time being in force, and for that purpose may, if it thinks fit, postpone the settlement of the other issues until after the issue has been determined, and may deal with the suit in accordance with the decisions on that issue. (Order XIV, Rule 2). Where the decision rests in the first place on a preliminary issue of jurisdiction and the court is of the opinion that the case may be disposed of on that issue, the court has no option but to decide that issue first.
Question of limitation should be decided as preliminary issue by trial Court:
Where suit for malicious prosecution claiming damages was filed after one year and three months from the date of acquittal, i.e., beyond prescribed period. Held, that question of condonation of delay under Section 5 did not arise and no factual investigation or recording of evidence was necessary. Question of limitation was to be considered on mere perusal of averment in plaint and it should be decided as preliminary issue by the trial Court.
Power vests in Court for framing of issues at appellate stage:
Where in a suit for partition, plea was taken by defendant that land in question was purchased by him for his own son and the question as to whether he was tenant thereof or joint family was the tenant, was to be decided by framing issues in that regard and referring the matter to tenancy Court. The said plea was neither raised before the Trial Court nor prayer for framing issue in that regard was made before the Trial Court. Therefore, rejection of said prayer by appellate Court was proper.
Legal Provisions of Order I of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (C.P.C.), India – Parties to Suits
Legal Provisions of Order VI of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (C.P.C.), India – Pleadings Generally
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HPC Eases its Way Into the Cloud
In The Next Platform
The ongoing journey to bring more enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) workloads into the cloud has been a bumpy one with its share of roadblocks and setbacks. As anyone reading The Next Platform has seen over the years, the challenges have ranged from latency to software licensing, application portability to networking costs. That doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Pratt & Whitney has been increasingly leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help design jet engines and Rescale since its launch in 2011 has offered software platforms and hardware infrastructure that companies can use to run complex scientific and engineering simulations.
Univa is an HPC middleware company whose offerings are designed to make it easier for enterprises to migrate some of their HPC workloads off of their on-premises clusters and into the public cloud. The company’ Navops Launch cloud automation platform is aimed at improving resource utilization, right-sizing the cloud resources to the workload requirements, migrating data to the cloud and creating hybrid cloud environments. It also works in multicloud scenarios; Univa works with high-profile public cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud, leverages VMware solutions as well as Docker containers, and uses technologies from the likes of Intel, Nvidia and NetApp. It’s also steeped in open source, working with the Linux Foundation, Open HPC, the Open Container Initiative and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Univa also offers its Grid Engine for distributed resource management, offering such features as monitoring and reporting and GPU and container support. The company over the past couple of years has seen its Navops Launch embraced by a range of organizations. Mellanox Technologies is using Univa’s products to help run silicon design efforts in a hybrid cloud, while eSilicon is using Grid Engine to manage ASIC chip design projects. Western Digital earlier this year announced it is using both Navops Launch and Grid Engine to build a million-core cluster on AWS for simulations used in the design of the company’s next-generation hard disk drives.
Read the full article, by Jeffrey Burt, on TheNextPlatform.com.
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Tag Archives: Latinos
by tosmarttobegop | May 28, 2009 · 7:27 pm
SOTOMAYOR SPEECH FROM 2001
Judge Reynoso, thank you for that lovely introduction. I am humbled to be speaking behind a man who has contributed so much to the Hispanic community. I am also grateful to have such kind words said about me.
I am delighted to be here. It is nice to escape my hometown for just a little bit. It is also nice to say hello to old friends who are in the audience, to rekindle contact with old acquaintances and to make new friends among those of you in the audience. It is particularly heart warming to me to be attending a conference to which I was invited by a Latina law school friend, Rachel Moran, who is now an accomplished and widely respected legal scholar. I warn Latinos in this room: Latinas are making a lot of progress in the old-boy network.
I am also deeply honored to have been asked to deliver the annual Judge Mario G. Olmos lecture. I am joining a remarkable group of prior speakers who have given this lecture. I hope what I speak about today continues to promote the legacy of that man whose commitment to public service and abiding dedication to promoting equality and justice for all people inspired this memorial lecture and the conference that will follow. I thank Judge Olmos’ widow Mary Louise’s family, her son and the judge’s many friends for hosting me. And for the privilege you have bestowed on me in honoring the memory of a very special person. If I and the many people of this conference can accomplish a fraction of what Judge Olmos did in his short but extraordinary life we and our respective communities will be infinitely better.
I intend tonight to touch upon the themes that this conference will be discussing this weekend and to talk to you about my Latina identity, where it came from, and the influence I perceive it has on my presence on the bench.
Who am I? I am a “Newyorkrican.” For those of you on the West Coast who do not know what that term means: I am a born and bred New Yorker of Puerto Rican-born parents who came to the states during World War II.
Like many other immigrants to this great land, my parents came because of poverty and to attempt to find and secure a better life for themselves and the family that they hoped to have. They largely succeeded. For that, my brother and I are very grateful. The story of that success is what made me and what makes me the Latina that I am. The Latina side of my identity was forged and closely nurtured by my family through our shared experiences and traditions.
For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir – rice, beans and pork – that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events. My Latina identity also includes, because of my particularly adventurous taste buds, morcilla, — pig intestines, patitas de cerdo con garbanzo — pigs’ feet with beans, and la lengua y orejas de cuchifrito, pigs’ tongue and ears. I bet the Mexican-Americans in this room are thinking that Puerto Ricans have unusual food tastes. Some of us, like me, do. Part of my Latina identity is the sound of merengue at all our family parties and the heart wrenching Spanish love songs that we enjoy. It is the memory of Saturday afternoon at the movies with my aunt and cousins watching Cantinflas, who is not Puerto Rican, but who was an icon Spanish comedian on par with Abbot and Costello of my generation. My Latina soul was nourished as I visited and played at my grandmother’s house with my cousins and extended family. They were my friends as I grew up. Being a Latina child was watching the adults playing dominos on Saturday night and us kids playing lotería, bingo, with my grandmother calling out the numbers which we marked on our cards with chick peas.
Now, does any one of these things make me a Latina? Obviously not because each of our Caribbean and Latin American communities has their own unique food and different traditions at the holidays. I only learned about tacos in college from my Mexican-American roommate. Being a Latina in America also does not mean speaking Spanish. I happen to speak it fairly well. But my brother, only three years younger, like too many of us educated here, barely speaks it. Most of us born and bred here, speak it very poorly.
If I had pursued my career in my undergraduate history major, I would likely provide you with a very academic description of what being a Latino or Latina means. For example, I could define Latinos as those peoples and cultures populated or colonized by Spain who maintained or adopted Spanish or Spanish Creole as their language of communication. You can tell that I have been very well educated. That antiseptic description however, does not really explain the appeal of morcilla – pig’s intestine – to an American born child. It does not provide an adequate explanation of why individuals like us, many of whom are born in this completely different American culture, still identify so strongly with those communities in which our parents were born and raised.
America has a deeply confused image of itself that is in perpetual tension. We are a nation that takes pride in our ethnic diversity, recognizing its importance in shaping our society and in adding richness to its existence. Yet, we simultaneously insist that we can and must function and live in a race and color-blind way that ignore these very differences that in other contexts we laud. That tension between “the melting pot and the salad bowl” — a recently popular metaphor used to describe New York’s diversity – is being hotly debated today in national discussions about affirmative action. Many of us struggle with this tension and attempt to maintain and promote our cultural and ethnic identities in a society that is often ambivalent about how to deal with its differences. In this time of great debate we must remember that it is not political struggles that create a Latino or Latina identity. I became a Latina by the way I love and the way I live my life. My family showed me by their example how wonderful and vibrant life is and how wonderful and magical it is to have a Latina soul. They taught me to love being a Puerto Riqueña and to love America and value its lesson that great things could be achieved if one works hard for it. But achieving success here is no easy accomplishment for Latinos or Latinas, and although that struggle did not and does not create a Latina identity, it does inspire how I live my life.
I was born in the year 1954. That year was the fateful year in which Brown v. Board of Education was decided. When I was eight, in 1961, the first Latino, the wonderful Judge Reynaldo Garza, was appointed to the federal bench, an event we are celebrating at this conference. When I finished law school in 1979, there were no women judges on the Supreme Court or on the highest court of my home state, New York. There was then only one Afro-American Supreme Court Justice and then and now no Latino or Latina justices on our highest court. Now in the last twenty plus years of my professional life, I have seen a quantum leap in the representation of women and Latinos in the legal profession and particularly in the judiciary. In addition to the appointment of the first female United States Attorney General, Janet Reno, we have seen the appointment of two female justices to the Supreme Court and two female justices to the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court of my home state. One of those judges is the Chief Judge and the other is a Puerto Riqueña, like I am. As of today, women sit on the highest courts of almost all of the states and of the territories, including Puerto Rico. One Supreme Court, that of Minnesota, had a majority of women justices for a period of time. Continue reading →
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Tagged as culture, equal rights, equality in the judicial system, ethnic diversity, fairness, Hispanics, immigrants, integrity, Latinos, minorities, prejudices, sex discrimination, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, women's rights
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Secret correspondence
By Norm Farrell on April 15, 2017 • ( 24 Comments )
Occasionally, readers and informants send me tips and information, some of it for background, some of it that leads directly to an article. Today, I received the first draft of a message that Pamela Martin is sending to Liberal Party workers. It follows.
From: “Pamela Martin” <contact@bcliberals.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2017 10:31 AM
Subject: It’s About Us
As BC Liberals, the reason we’re working so hard this election is simple. It’s about our kids, our jobs and saving our asses.
It’s about spending to further our personal rewards, so we don’t leave here with bills to pay and no real money in our overseas accounts. Keeping salaries and expense accounts high until the very end, so our friends and families can spend the public’s money the way they want. And making our jobs last to secure a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
That’s what we’re fighting for – and it’s all on the line in this election.
The contrast is stark: already, our opponents have indicated that they’d throw this all away. Replacing our jobs with unemployment. Scrapping waste and killing thousands of patronage jobs for our friends at hundreds of places you’ve never even heard about. Pushing our families to the brink by spending money we’ve intended to put aside for our own children and grandchildren. Our opponents would rather deliver social services, fund schools and universities and benefit common ordinary taxpayers, the mugs we call the “little people.”
That’s years of discipline and our hard work at risk when British Columbians cast their ballots. That’s half a billion dollars we “saved” in the Prosperity Fund, which should allow our close friends to enjoy the lives they choose – all gone if the other guys get their way.
We can’t let the opposition parties undo the benefits we leaders enjoy thanks to your hard work. We need to keep building a comfortable life for the people we love – us. We cannot let the other guys drag us down, causing us to lose the wealth we’ve hidden away, threatening the multiple pensions we’ve each earned and exposing us to public disapprobation, maybe even jail time for some.
BC’s election campaign is just starting to roll. And you owe it to us, our kids and their kids not to stop now. If you do, we’ll be ruined.
That’s the message from Premier Christy Clark – and it’s one I hope you’ll share in the weeks to come. Sincerely,
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johntwigg says:
Cute. Kinda like an April Fool’s joke. Well done – it makes a key point. May I share this? May I read it in an all-candidates meeting?? John
Norman Farrell says:
Of course John, you’re welcome to share it with North Island voters where you are standing for election as a candidate for the BC First party.
hanggovernmentcriminals says:
Thanks Norm! We’re on the same page on this.
Call me sometime and I’ll tell you the biggest joke of all.
And what I fear Site C and LNG are really all about.
And, yep, it all relates to Christy and her crew of pirates private “prosperity fund”.
I have a friend who recently retired from the Oil & Gas Revenue Division of the Ministry of Finance in Victoria. What she told me confirms and validates all you say and much more!
It’s like something out of a movie. Corruption in the billions. Out of control. Cocaine and crime. Offshore accounts. Mansions in Vancouver, Kelowna and Thailand.
Beyond belief! She saw it all first hand and knows how it works.
Another friend told me how Christy financed her first campaign by laundering drug money collected by a fanatic charged with attempted murder.
There is no doubt that Christy Clark is a hardened criminal with a “howdy doody” smile and a hardhat.
Talk about deception and duplicity. Likewise with her top cronies: Rich Coleman, Peter Fassbender and Mike de Jong..
Thanks again for taking on this evil corrupt criminal gang..
Where are the RCMP in all this?
Pray we can take this Liberal crew of looters and pirates down and there are some decent people to replace them with!
God Bless you for standing tall and not sparing the rod..
J. D. English.
Editor’s note: minor change to wording for legal reasons.
mike summers says:
Is this for real Norm?
It might have been more appropriate on the first day of this month but Pammy’s letter only came to me today.
vote4mikesummers says:
But is the letter legit?
Pam has never been trustworthy to me, but this letter is just nuts.
I can’t believe those thoughts made it to print.
I know you have great integrity, but Pamela Martin is suspect at best.
We are amused!
Guy in Victoria says:
Hi Norm,
That’s a very interesting comment from J.D. English who say’s ” And, yep, it all relates to Christy and her crew of pirates private “prosperity fund”.
I hope you print what he has to say.
Thanks Norm
Guy in Victoria
Bruce Lyster says:
Norman .AsI sit here in Kamloops reading this article and hope that it is true. I think this is a alternative fact. Surely to goodness Pamy is not that dumb. But saying that I will share it. I have to admit I am pretty nieve.
garthwest says:
Jeez Norm, I’d be really careful – can you be certain that this isn’t something created along the lines of ‘fake news’? It’s just too pat, too apposite to the typical Martin kind of statement – if it is real and you can confirm that it isn’t from a source other than Martin who’s actually trying to discredit you for posting it – then I’d say go with it….I’d want to know the Ip of the initial message and be certain that this hasn’t been tampered with. Not that I find it hard to believe that the Clark ‘brain’ trust actually ‘thinks’ and talks this way among themselves – I just wonder they’d be so utterly careless to put it in writing!
Exactly my thoughts Garth.
Please call Mr English and see what he has to say, and what his retired friend had to say as well.
I was really mad about this message and I jumped to the conclusion that almost everyone else jumped to that the message was genuine. Earlier today I calked Pamela Martin and I apologized for circulating the message. Well, I didn’t actually talk directly with Pamela, but following the Premier’s Protocol in these matters, I left a heartfelt apology on her butlers Voice Mail. My Dog, who is incidentally completely independent from myself will conduct the investigation into this subversion of democracy.
Samuel Clemens
That should read called and not calked.. Freudian Slip or maybe a nefarious hack!
Vicki Huntington’s staff may have been busy again.
Vancouver fantasy LNG island,with a 50 k BCL poli donation per person, of course?
Evil Eye says:
The Liberal candidate for Delta South, wants the new $3.5 billion+ Massey tunnel replacement bridge because he can now drive his farm machinery to Richmond! _ From the globe and mail.
Elections bring out the idiot in us and as for Pamela Martin, she was and still is a flake, nothing more.
I wouldn’t doubt for a second Pammy said this,she of the trillion dollar prosperity fund.
“Secondly, BC Hydro’s predicted demand for electricity has “dropped significantly,” according to the report.
Experts said that could mean electricity from Site C won’t be fully needed for nearly 10 years after the project’s expected completion date in 2024.
The surplus energy would need to be “exported at prices currently far below cost,” leading to losses of at least $1 billion.
Under BC Hydro’s forecasted demand, the analysis found, cumulative losses would be nearing $2.7 billion by 2036.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-suspension-ubc-report-1.4074750
North Van's Grumps says:
Did Pamela Martin get her phrase ‘Prosperity fund’ wrong? Four years has shown that the original phrase should have been Propensity fund
eg. A propensity for failure is in no doubt.
Someone needs to tell Pamela Martin, who claims “All The President’s Men” by Woodward and Bernstein is her most inspiring story of investigative journalism, that Shane Mills is doing a Donald Segretti Dirty Tricks number for the BC Liberals. Perhaps Pamela has stealth-fully embedded herself with the BC Liberals for a once in a generation opportunity to expose them for activities that make the Watergate burglars look like choir boys. Can’t wait for Christy to deliver the Nixon “I’m not a crook” speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M
How interesting that when you go to the link you are treated to a BC Liberal advert or Andrew Weaver before the Nixon clip.
I got an ad for Subway. It is a random setting from the server command according to the amount paid for the ad.
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Poor Pammy, if Christy looses the election she’ll be out of a job which pays her $130K a year and has for a long time. Life will be difficult without that extra $130K per year.
They must be getting worried, or some thing because I just read Warren Kinsella’s post. He just had to spring to Christy’s defense and take a swipe at Horgan. His “reports” would lead one to believe Horgan is a sexist who simply didn’t treat Christy well in the debate. Even refers us to Vaughn Palmer’s article about how “terrible” Horgan was. Not a word of course about Christy’s record. Then of course given Kinsella is a federal liberal strategist and ‘friend’ of Ms. Mills and is not unacquainted with Christy’s ex.
Suggested he have a read of this blog to get the real feel for B.C. and the B.C. Lieberals and how life is lived in B.C. by those who don’t donate to Christy and the B.C. Lieberals.
Who had the moral authority to seal 2010 Olympics finances ,until 2025,and are they factored in BC debt number?
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Neonatal outcomes with different betamethasone dosing regimens: A comparison
David Haas, William McCullough, Cara H. Olsen, Daniel T. Shiau, John Richard, Emory A. Fry, Michael F. McNamara
OBJECTIVE: To determine any differences in neonatal outcomes when dosing betamethasone every 12 hours vs. 24 hours for anticipated preterm delivery. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective review of births at <36 weeks' gestation from January 1, 1996, to July 1, 2000. Maternal and neonatal charts were reviewed. The deliveries were separated into 3 groups: those not receiving antenatal corticosteroids, those who received betamethasone 12 hours apart and those who received 24-hour dosing. Demographic, obstetric and neonatal variables were compared between the groups. RESULTS: There were 909 deliveries analyzed. With the 2 betamethasone groups, a significant difference was found for more maternal antibiotic use (90.4% s. 83.6%, p = 0.03), venous cord blood gas pH (7.31 vs. 7.32, p = 0.04) and neonatal surfactant use (39.8% vs. 25.5%, p = 0.001) in the 12-hour group as compared to the 24-hour group. For all other outcomes there was no difference. CONCLUSION: Outcomes using a 12-hour dosing schedule of betamethasone were similar to those using a 24-hour regimen in this retrospective review. Twelve-hour dosing could be considered an alternative way to deliver antenatal corticosteroids.
Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist
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Haas, D., McCullough, W., Olsen, C. H., Shiau, D. T., Richard, J., Fry, E. A., & McNamara, M. F. (2005). Neonatal outcomes with different betamethasone dosing regimens: A comparison. Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist, 50(12), 915-922.
Neonatal outcomes with different betamethasone dosing regimens : A comparison. / Haas, David; McCullough, William; Olsen, Cara H.; Shiau, Daniel T.; Richard, John; Fry, Emory A.; McNamara, Michael F.
In: Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Vol. 50, No. 12, 12.2005, p. 915-922.
Haas, D, McCullough, W, Olsen, CH, Shiau, DT, Richard, J, Fry, EA & McNamara, MF 2005, 'Neonatal outcomes with different betamethasone dosing regimens: A comparison', Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 915-922.
Haas D, McCullough W, Olsen CH, Shiau DT, Richard J, Fry EA et al. Neonatal outcomes with different betamethasone dosing regimens: A comparison. Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist. 2005 Dec;50(12):915-922.
Haas, David ; McCullough, William ; Olsen, Cara H. ; Shiau, Daniel T. ; Richard, John ; Fry, Emory A. ; McNamara, Michael F. / Neonatal outcomes with different betamethasone dosing regimens : A comparison. In: Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist. 2005 ; Vol. 50, No. 12. pp. 915-922.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is interacting with people from several cities across the country as part of his ‘Chai pe Charcha’ programme. At the onset of the programme, the Gujarat Chief Minister talked about the importance of good governance in a country. (IE Photo: Bhupendra Rana)
Responding to question on unemployment in Bihar, Modi says the problem is not confined just to Bihar but is prevalent across the country. He says there is an imbalance within India which needs to be fixed. According to him, the western part of India is more developed that the eastern part and this gap needs to be filled. (IE Photo: Bhupendra Rana)
Narendra Modi says he will bring special schemes to benefit the salaried class. I will return 5-10 per cent of their tax as ‘gift’. Narendra Modi says he will bring back all the black money that is stashed abroad. (IE Photo: Bhupendra Rana)
Odisha's traditional drum and bell performers under Nikhila Utkal Sankirtan Mahasangha protest for their various demands in front of the State Assembly in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. (PTI)
People of Odisha protest for their various demands in front of the State Assembly in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. (PTI)
Passenger fares and freight rates were left untouched today in the interim rail budget, which talks about plans about involvement of private sector and FDI as part of efforts to modernise the largest transport network in the country. (IE Photo: Anil Sharma)
Presenting the interim budget for four months in the Lok Sabha, Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said an independent Rail Tariff Authority is being set up to rationalise fares and there was a proposal to expand dynamic pricing of tickets in line with the airline industry. (IE Photo: Anil Sharma)
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla with Congress leader Ahmed Patel and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav during the extended winter session in New Delhi on Wednesday. (IE Photo: Anil Sharma)
Union External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid with Ratu Inoke, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Fiji during the joint statement after a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. (PTI)
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The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs recently issued an EU General Data Protection Regulation guidebook addressed to financial technology companies. This is the third brochure published by the MDA’s Personal Data Protection Working Group this year, following one pertaining specifically to the health care sector and another one aimed generally toward entrepreneurs.
In a 20-odd page document in the form of a Q&A, the MDA experts tackle several personal data-processing issues occurring in the context of activities of businesses from the fintech sector. Arguably, the guidelines fall into the scope of interest of a much broader audience, as they regard many universal matters.
Granularity of consents in marketing activities
One opinion expressed by the MDA in the context of the Polish telecommunications and electronic services laws (both implementing EU directives) is that there is no need to acquire separate consents from a data subject for sending them unsolicited marketing emails and making direct marketing calls. According to the MDA, “the rule of not covering several purposes with one formula [of consent] should not be read as a requirement to separately ask for consent for any kind of activity that may be a means to achieve that [single] purpose.”
Whereas the cited opinion is correct as a rule of thumb, since the GDPR indeed does not require separate consents for a bunch of related processing activities, all aiming to achieve the same purpose, in the context in which it was presented, some may argue that it may lead to an erroneous conclusion that sending unsolicited marketing emails and initiating marketing phone calls are the same purpose. The two means of communication differ significantly, both in the form of delivery of marketing content to the data subject and in the level of intrusion of the data subject’s privacy. The data subject may very well be willing to agree to receive emails that they can read at any given time but, at the same time, resent being “harassed” by phone calls at times chosen by another party. Suggesting that consent for both those purposes may be collected jointly may also, in some cases, be contrary to the rule of granularity and as such may jeopardize the attempt of a controller to collect a lawful consent for processing.
Processing special categories of data received without request
In the activities of the fintech sector, some doubts may arise in relation to situations when data subjects send the controller unsolicited information constituting special categories of personal data. According to the MDA guidelines, having received the information, for instance, in the course of correspondence with a client, the controller — not being able to separate it from other, necessary information — should simply refrain from using the information, secure it with appropriate technical and organizational means, not share it with anyone, and delete as soon as possible. What is interesting is that the MDA argues that simply receiving such data, i.e., without actively seeking it, should not be treated as "processing" in the meaning of the GDPR, as it does not fall into the category of "collecting." The possible controversy here relates to a commonly accepted approach that simply storing personal data on the controller’s infrastructure, without actively acting upon it, falls within the scope of GDPR regulation, especially because that sole circumstance poses a potential threat to the data subject’s rights and freedoms, in particular, in the case of unauthorized access to the data.
It is even more clearly the case when dealing with special categories of personal data, which are potentially the most harmful to the data subject when disclosed to third parties. It is true that there are situations — like the example of a bank client transferring membership fees to a political party — when the controller becomes in possession of a piece of sensitive data without a visible basis for processing it. Whereas such circumstances are indeed problematic, they should be approached with appropriate diligence and analyzed on a case-by-case basis, as there is no universal, clear-cut solution, like the interpretation proposed by the MDA.
Deleting data from backup copies
The MDA acknowledges technical difficulties regarding complying with data subject’s requests (in particular concerning deletion of data) in the scope referring to information stored in backups. As a consequence, the ministerial experts argue that the acceptable solution is to keep the personal data until either the bases for processing expire in relation to all personal data contained in the given backup, or the backup is no longer required. The brochure also includes a statement that creating and maintaining backups is merely a technical means to secure personal data, and as such it does not require a separate legal basis.
As to the first assertion, it brings about doubts regarding the rule of storage limitation, which seems disregarded in that respect, as the GDPR provides no explicit exceptions referring to backup copies of data. Referring to the second claim, the established practice is to indicate the process of maintaining backups as a separate item in the controller’s record of processing activities and to treat it like any other case of processing. It seems prudent and justified, particularly taking into account that stored backups may be — by themselves — a target of a cyberattack and their vulnerability poses an independent risk to the rights and liberties of data subjects.
Prevailing power of national legislation
The MDA states in the guidelines that national laws, such as banking law, telecommunications law and/or insurance law, have priority over general provisions of the GDPR, provided that they are not in contradiction with the GDPR.
What may concern a privacy professional reading the above opinion is not the acceptable conclusion that national legislation may include specific provisions regulating more in-depth particular situations of processing, including those typical for a specific sector of the market (which is expressly permitted by the GDPR), but the choice of words, which could be read as a suggestion of admissibility of passing national legislation which may prevail over the GDPR, as long as it is specific enough to exclude the more general provisions of the GDPR and "constitutes a higher level of personal data processing security." It is desirable to refrain from such, even remote, suggestions, as they might result in misinterpretation of applicable laws by the obliged entities and/or confusion as to the scope of applicable obligations. Responding to questions of entrepreneurs, like the ones included in the MDA guidelines, should require a particularly unambiguous explanation of applicable rules of legal primacy and an extremely careful choice of words.
To sum up, the Polish MDA conducts a praiseworthy activity of supporting Polish controllers and/or processors of personal data in interpreting and implementing GDPR requirements in their business activity. The visible idea showing through their publications is to facilitate business operations and assure a smooth transition from the old data protection laws to the reality of the GDPR. Nonetheless, the interpretations being the product of this activity could lead to the occurrence of new, interesting questions to be discussed by the obliged parties and the privacy professionals community.
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Welcome to research associate Rebecca Cooper!
Rebecca joins the Johnston lab as a Research Associate and is excited to shift her focus to new protein structure targets. She’ll be working to characterize structural motifs in bacterial methyltransferases and to develop a more efficient system for sequencing bacterial DNA from mixed cell populations.
Rebecca completed her PhD in west Texas with Dr. Guillermo Altenberg at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, using a FRET variant to investigate the conformational dynamics of ATP binding cassette (ABC) proteins. Rebecca then joined Dr. Katya Heldwein’s group at Tufts University in Boston and transitioned to crystallography, solving the structure of the full-length HSV-1 fusogen, glycoprotein B. In her most recent project, she studied sodium channels in the laboratory of Dr. William Catterall at the University of Washington.
Welcome Rebecca!
Welcome to research technician Michael Owen!
Michael joins the lab to assist with the development of bacterial transformation techniques and synthetic microbiology protocols for multiple bacteria, genome sequencing, and laboratory support.
Michael’s educational credentials consist of a B.S. in Biochemistry, a B.S. in Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology, and a Certificate in Biomedical Regulatory Affairs, all from the University of Washington. He has 13 years of experience working with a wide range of infectious disease bacteria under BSL-2 conditions in academic, government, and public health laboratories. This includes 7 years of experience working under BSL-3 conditions to identify bacterial select agents to support bioterrorism preparedness and response programs. Michael also has 2 years of experience as a Biosafety Outreach Officer for the 2015-2018 U.S. CDC Ebola Virus Disease Enhanced Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Capacity (ELBBC) Project. He assisted public health and clinical laboratories in Washington State with laboratory biosafety risk assessments for ebolaviruses and other high consequence pathogens.
Welcome Michael!
We are hiring for multiple positions! (UPDATE: Both positions have been filled)
Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Protein Engineering (dCas9) for Microbial Epigenetics.
The Johnston Laboratory in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is recruiting a highly motivated and creative Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate to conduct research relating to microbial epigenetics, metagenomics and synthetic microbiology. The successful candidate will be involved in multiple funded projects that seek to create new technologies (dCas9 effectors) and methodologies to delineate and/or engineer the epigenetic landscape of the human microbiota. These projects will focus particularly on microbial communities that reside within human tumors and related clinical cancer specimens.
We are accepting applications from both recent graduate students and more senior post-doctoral fellows with 2-3 years’ of post-doc experience that may be suitable for a Research Associate track.
You can apply here!
Research Technician I – Microbiology/Bacterial Transformation
The Johnston Laboratory in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutch is recruiting a highly motivated and resourceful research technician with expertise in the genetic engineering/transformation of non-model bacterial species and general microbiology to join our cutting-edge microbial genomics efforts.
The position is intended to provide support for our ongoing microbial engineering projects and microbial technology developments, as well as supporting general laboratory responsibilities. The successful candidate will work with the PI and post-doctoral fellows using state-of-the-art approaches in synthetic microbiology and genomics in a highly collaborative, stimulating, and collegial research environment. The candidate will also assist in lab maintenance, including responsibility of ordering lab reagents/supplies and making of communal lab reagents. With interest and experience in our lab, the individual may assist with additional opportunities in research. This position will provide ample opportunities for professional development and the acquisition of cutting-edge skills in synthetic microbiology research, research planning and strategy, and data analysis and interpretation.
Congratulations Martha!
Massive congratulations to Martha Zepeda Rivera Ph.D, who has been recognized as one of ten 2020 Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows. The highly competitive WRF Postdoctoral fellowship program is designed to support up-and-coming researchers who seek to conduct groundbreaking work that addresses unmet public needs. Over the next 3 years, this fellowship will provide funding for Martha to investigate innate bacterial defense systems that exist against foreign DNA and design and apply reproducible methodologies to bypass these systems to genetically engineer clinically relevant bacterial species.
October 17 2019:
Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Protein Engineering (dCas9) for Microbial Epigenetics
We especially encourage those from backgrounds poorly represented in STEM fields to apply to the lab.
October 9 2019:
Welcome to visiting research scholar Hermoine Jean Venter!
Hermoine joins the Johnston lab as a visiting postdoctoral researcher from the University of Tromsø in northern Norway. She will be training in SyngenicDNA techniques to break through the genetic defenses of Staphylococcus haemolyticus; a commensal of the skin flora that is also an important hospital pathogen and carrier of multi-drug resistance genes.
Hermoine completed her PhD at the North-West University in South Africa, and is currently a post-doc in the Cavanagh Lab, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø. Originally from an environmental sciences background, Hermoine recently made the jump to clinical microbiology. Her research centers on S. haemolyticus, and she seeks to determine the genetic factors required to to turn this common skin bacterium into a nasty hospital pathogen.
Welcome to computational researcher Hanrui Wu!
Hanrui joins Johnston lab and Bullman lab (Fred Hutch Human Biology Division) as a Lab Technician for Computational Analyses of Microbial Data Sets, including our PacBio generated genomes and metagenomes.
Hanrui has completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Northern Arizona University (NAU), and a Bachelor of Engineering in Biopharmacy from Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST). During his undergraduate study, he worked in the NAU Environmental Genetics and Genomics Laboratory (EnGGen) and TUST Pharmaceutical Synthesis Laboratory, developing his skills in environmental genetics and molecular biology. He then worked at Cloud Health Genomics performing whole genome sequencing for human subjects on Illumina HiSeq X10 systems before moving to Purdue to explore genomic data analysis as a part of his MS Research. During his masters, he worked on the identification of pathways that underlie complex disease, including Tourettes.
Welcome Hanrui!
New Beginnings for Lab Alumnus!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Javier Fernandez Juarez this month for successfully establishing his own research laboratory at St. John’s University in New York City!
Javier joined our synthetic microbiology initiative in late 2016, after completing his postdoctoral research in the Church Lab at Harvard. At the Johnston Lab (Cambridge, MA) he sought to expand our SyngenicDNA platforms and create novel synthetic “kill-switch” circuits for biocontainment of engineered organisms.
He joins St. Johns University as an Assistant Professor within the Biological Sciences Department. The new Juarez lab will focus on the construction of whole-cell biosensors that can be applied early detection of pollutants and disease biomarkers.
We are very proud of his achievements! Well done Javier!
June 28 2019:
Research Technician II, Computational Analyses of Microbial Data Sets
The laboratory of Dr. Susan Bullman and the laboratory Dr. Christopher Johnston are establishing a research program that utilizes state-of-the-art DNA sequencing technologies to study microbial epigenetics and the microbiome of human cancers and other diseases. These labs seek to jointly recruit a highly motivated research technician II with expertise in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies (library preparation) and computational analyses of multi-omics data (running bioinformatic tools on raw NGS data).
May 21 2019:
Our SyngenicDNA paper is out in PNAS!
Restriction-Modification systems are powerful defense mechanisms that bacteria use to recognize and degrade nonself DNA during predatory bacteriophage attack. The problem is that human-made genetic tools are also recognized as nonself DNA and degraded during genetic engineering. We use synthetic microbiology to create stealthy or “invisible” genetic tools that evade these defenses altogether. Can’t attack nonself DNA if you don’t know it’s there! Read all about our SyngenicDNA and SyMPL work here!
April 29 2019:
Welcome to new Research Technician Dakota Jones!
Dakota joins the lab to assist with ongoing single-molecule real-time (SMRT) genome sequencing efforts and multiple synthetic microbiology projects.
Dakota completed his B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from Missouri State University (Springfield, MO) in 2015. Primarily a human health focused program, he was exposed to molecular biology techniques ranging from protein science to nucleic acid science. He focused his undergraduate research on characterizing NER protein pathways, with a specific interest in knocking-out the protein Rad 16 (involved in differential repair of DNA after UV damage) in the model organism Tetrahymena thermophila.
Welcome Dakota!
April 4 2019:
Welcome to new Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Martha Zepeda Rivera!
Martha joins the lab to work on the delineation of the innate genetic defense systems of bacterial species and the design, development, and implementation of methodologies to bypass these systems during genetic engineering.
Martha’s graduate research was conducted at Harvard University in the laboratory of Dr. Karine Gibbs, and focused on the mechanistic understanding how cells of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis communicate self identity to differentiate and exclude different P. mirabilis strains and harness the power of a coordinated population.
Welcome Martha!
The move from Boston to Seattle is complete!
The PacBio Sequencer is happy in it’s new home in Seattle and we are currently seeking candidates to join our team and help us feed the machine (DNA Sequencing Technology and Microbiology Technician)
February 13 2019:
They grow up so fast!
Huge congratulations to Sean Cotton for successfully transitioning from academia to industry this month.
Sean (the first official alumnus of the Johnston lab) spent close to 2 years working with us as our staff scientist, figuring out and single-handedly running our PacBio sequencer, honing his synthetic micro skills, and driving our CRISPR projects forward. He begins his new career with Synlogic Therapeutics as a Strain Engineer next week! Awesome work Sean, we will miss you on the West Coast!
January 25 2019:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Synthetic Microbiology & Genetic Engineering
The Johnston Laboratory in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is recruiting a highly motivated and creative Post-Doctoral Fellow to conduct research relating to synthetic microbiology and microbial genetics / epigenetics. The successful candidate will be involved with delineation of the innate genetic defense systems of bacterial species and the design, development, and implementation of methodologies to bypass these systems during genetic engineering. This position will be funded under an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (TR01) research grant entitled “The SyngenicDNA and µPOET Platform: Overcoming Innate Barriers to Genetic Engineering in Bacteria.”
Here is the link to the full posting: https://careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/12818/
Very cool to see our SyngenicDNA preprint detailed and summarized nicely by Jonas Korlach, Chief Scientific Officer at Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) during the (4th Annual Microbiology and Immunology Virtual Conference). Fascinating to hear of other developments in the epigentic space, our method is detailed right around the 28 minute mark.
January 8 2019:
Happy New Year! In April 2019 the Johnston Lab will be relocating to Seattle, WA.
After an amazing 2 years at the The Forsyth Institute, Boston, the lab is shipping out to the west coast to join The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) within the Department of Vaccine and Infectious Disease.
Come work with us in Seattle: As always, we’re looking for highly motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic people to come work with us in our new location. We especially encourage those from backgrounds poorly represented in STEM fields to apply to the lab. We will be advertising several positions soon (research technician / computational biologist / postdoctoral researcher) but welcome applications year-round.
August 9 2018:
Wondering what SyngenicDNA is all about? Now you can find out. Our pre-print on SyngenicDNA is available as of today!:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/09/387985
Huge congrats to synthetic microbiology team member Javier on his new Nature Communications manuscript “Biosensor libraries harness large classes of binding domains for construction of allosteric transcriptional regulators“, hot off the press today!
You can read it right here! (and email Javier when you have questions).
July 6 2018:
Welcome to this years Forsyth Student Scholars! Deepti and Sina joined the lab to work on a novel restriction-modification (RM) system sub-type identified by the Johnston Lab. Over the next 8 weeks they will work with their mentors Sean and Javier to figure out how this new type of RM system works! Exciting stuff!
Each year we accept student applications for summer internships through the Forsyth Student Scholars Program (formally EOP program): https://www.forsyth.org/forsyth-student-scholars-program
June 6 2018:
As a 2017 TRA awardee, Chris attended and presented a poster at the 2018 NIH High-Risk, High-Reward symposium in Bethesda, MD.
Details of next years exciting funding opportunities through the Common Fund can be found here!
March 7 2018:
The Johnston lab is seeking postdoctoral applications through the Forsyth Institute’s T90/R90 Institutional Postdoctoral Training award. Details can be found here! Interested individuals should contact us directly.
December 15, 2017:
The PacBio Sequel is up and running! Lots of genomes and methylomes coming soon.
November 20, 2017:
Dr. Javier Fernández-Juárez joins the Johnston Lab group at Forsyth Institute as a Staff Research Investigator, bringing exciting skill sets and his biosensor expertise to the synthetic microbiology group at Forsyth.
October 5, 2017:
The prestigious NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award has been granted to Forsyth Investigator Christopher Johnston and his colleagues and will be administered by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). The grant recognizes exceptionally creative scientists pursuing high-risk, high-reward research that spans multiple disciplines and has the potential to challenge current paradigms. Johnston is one of eight investigators selected to receive this year’s award, which is open to scientists at all career stages. He is also among the program’s youngest grantees since its launch in 2009.
A research team led by the Forsyth Institute today received a $5.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue revolutionary research of microbes living in the mouth and within the human body. The research has the potential to accelerate work in diverse fields, including medicine, synthetic biology, agriculture and environmental sciences.
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Snapshots from the opening blitz at Union Street newcomer Palm House
By Paolo Lucchesi on May 22, 2014 at 5:12 PM
Palm House. Photo: Facebook
Last night, Palm House opened to the public, marking a return for the high-profile Cow Hollow restaurant space that last housed Nettie’s Crab Shack.
To refresh your memory, Palm House is a restaurant and bar inspired by the tropics, which they interpret to include a hodgepodge of influences, from Cuba and the West Indies to Hawaii and Thailand. Foreign Cinema chef/owner Gayle Pirie consulted on the multicultural menu (click here to view), and her former cook Lea Walker is the executive chef.
Due in no small part to the presence of slushy drinks on the cocktail menu, plus other warm-weather Union Street crowd-pleasers like pina coladas and mojitos, the bar was a very busy place last night — as it should continue to be in the coming weeks as word gets out around the neighborhood. For those wanting to check out Palm House for dinner, reservations are accepted, and the layout enables a fair amount of separation between the dining areas and the bustling bar.
Hours to start: Dinner and drinks served Wednesday through Sunday.
Some snapshots from the scene:
Palm House: 2032 Union St. (at Buchanan Street), San Francisco. (415) 400-4355 or palmhousesf.com.
· Previously: Palm House bringing Caribbean-inspired food and drink to Cow Hollow [Inside Scoop]
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Republicans Urge Amazon To Sell Conversion Therapy Books
July 19, 2019 July 19, 2019 by Randy Slovacek
(stock photo via Depositphotos)
A memo currently being circulated among Republican members of Congress asks the lawmakers to “contact Amazon with concerns” regarding “censorship” after the online retail giant announced it had removed books on the subject of so-called ‘conversion therapy.’
Earlier this month, Instinct reported on Amazon’s removal of all books by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, widely credited as the ‘father of conversion therapy.’
The action by Amazon was the result of months of complaints and an online petition that garnered over 82,000 signatures demanding the removal of the titles which included A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, Healing Homosexuality and How a Gay Boy Became a Straight Man.
Conversion therapy, sometimes known as reparative therapy, has been shown to lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness and suicide.
The discredited practice of attempting to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been widely denounced by major medical organizations like the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association as phony ‘pseudo-science.’
Currently, 18 states plus dozens of local municipalities have banned the harmful practice for minors.
But Vice News obtained a copy of the memo, given to members of the Republican Study Committee, which includes more than 70% of all GOP members of the House. The document was handed out during a private meeting of the members on Wednesday.
It would appear that Republicans want to see Nicolosi’s books back in circulation on Amazon.
“These books were available on Amazon until an LGBT activist repeatedly petitioned Amazon to remove the ‘homophobic books’ from the company’s website,” reads the memo per Vice News. “Amazon removed Dr. Nicolosi’s books and those of several other authors on similar topics.”
“It is not clear that any of the banned books have violated an Amazon policy,” continues the document. “But rather that the company is choosing to censor speech.”
The memo urges the GOP lawmakers to read an article from the Federalist which tries to assert hypocrisy for banning books on conversion therapy when Amazon still sells history book about Hitler, Mussolini, KKK leader David Duke and U.S. terrorist Timothy McVeigh.
Calling the LGBTQ community “a supposedly oppressed and marginalized group,” the Federalist article states the community “wields an extravagant amount of power” aimed at “anyone who chooses not to support” LGBTQ rights.
Vice News contacted Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) who has previously chaired the Republican Study Committee. Walker shared he didn’t know about the move to pressure Amazon but admitted he thinks Amazon shouldn’t be in the business of ‘banning speech.’
The author of the online petition, Sky Gray, told Vice News via email that the goal of banning conversion therapy books could be hampered with members of Congress getting involved.
”It shouldn’t be surprising that the conservatives are in support of conversion therapy; they’ve made it clear they are in the past,” said Gray. “It looks like this is going to be a bigger fight than previously anticipated, though I knew it would be an uphill battle.”
“Looks like the hill just got a lot steeper, with this knowledge in mind,” he added.
A poll conducted by Public Policy Polling released in April this year showed 80% of respondents believe performing conversion therapy on minors should be illegal.
(source: Vice News)
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I think that the GOP is Misunderstanding the reason the books have been removed , This is not factual History ( like books on Hitler) nor is it about Freedom of speech or a difference of opinion , like the GOP states . It’s about a dangerous and harmful “ method of therapy” that’s been denounced as “Phony” “pseudo-science that traumatizes the minors it’s practiced on by the American Medical Association, Psychiatry , and Pediatrics Associations! Along with being banned in 18 states and countless municipalities ! The Church has nothing to worry about , the Bible has been around for a couple thousand years , it’s not going anywhere , not to mention that “ Man on Man “ being a sin is a Mis quote or translated incorrectly ( just recently properly translated in 12 separate bibles of 9 different languages and Countries ) the Bible states – Man might not lay with boy – it’s referring to rape of young boys , not being gay . And “ Man” refers to mankind not one man . The GOP needs to get a grip on their insecurities .
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On May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 By Lou DoenchIn Fiction, TVLeave a comment
Hey George… not happy…
So HBO’s adaptation of George RR Martin’s fantasy epic A Game of Thrones has finally come to an end in a rushed, haphazard final season that didn’t seem to please anybody.
Now I have neither the time or inclination to dive into the details of what went wrong/right, plenty of other places to get that on the internet. I always knew that landing this sucker was gonna be messy. Heck the creator himself can’t seem to wrap things up and at this point it’s likely Brandon Sanderson is waiting for the call from George’s estate begging him to write a finish that makes sense like he did for Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time epic.
It’s a bittersweet conclusion to a project that had so much promise, especially in comparison to the artful way the Russo’s closed the current chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame just a couple weeks earlier. I’m particularly melancholy because I was an early adopter, snagging my well worn and loved paperback of the first book way back in 1996 or so. I was an evangelist for Westeros, although it became clear that what I liked about the books, the subversion of tropes and the surprise (and sometimes brutal,) twists were not only off-putting to many, but also a crutch that was covering for the fact that Martin had gotten waaaaay out over his skis.
It was the most ambitious project of Martin’s career and the first three volumes are still some of the best examples of epic fantasy storytelling in the genre. But by the time the 4th and 5th books were finished, with five and six year gaps in between publishing, it became obvious to this reader at least that Martin had lost control of his story. And with the smash hit HBO show well under way, there was always a looming danger that the show runners might have to improvise a lot of the finish.
Which led me to this Tortured Shakespeare Analogy on Facebook, preserved and edited here for all time because I made myself laugh.
I drink and I know things… that’s what I do…
The primary person to blame for the mess that is the ending of Game of Thrones is George RR Martin.
The last two seasons have been as if Shakespeare had handed the first three acts of Hamlet off to the director and actors with the promise he’d have it finished by the time Hamlet kills Polonius.
But when Hamlet sets off for England, with the dictionary definition of extraneous characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in tow, all the Bard has is the rough draft of act 4. The directors and cast do their best with it and it’s not terrible, in fact they trim a few bits and get the story chugging towards an ending, but when they ask for act 5, how does the story end, Bill is all like…
“Here’s my outline… there’s a duel… everybody dies… it writes itself, you’ll be fine.”
Then he wanders off to write comedies.
“But who becomes king?”
“Oh… ummm Fortinbras… it’s a twist! They love my twists… it’ll be great!”
“Say hi to the Queen!” (Waves as he sets sail for France.)
Me… being funny I hope
Tuesday TV: The Arrowverse is back!
On January 22, 2019 By Lou DoenchIn TVLeave a comment
I don’t have the mental energy for a deep dive, but I just wanted to share my squee at the return of Supergirl, The Flash, and Arrow from their winter hiatus. Coming off a great annual crossover event, Elseworlds, all three shows will start wrapping up this years storylines in preparation for the biggest event in Superhero TV history… Crisis on Infinite Earths!
What the Marvel Cinematic Universe has done in theaters, the CW has done on the small screen, bringing the experience of reading a superhero story in a living universe to life in front of our eyes. In this respect at least it’s a great time to be alive.
PS. Legends of Tomorrow returns in April!
Tuesday TV: Star Trek: Discovery
As we discussed last week, there have never been two new shows so intricately linked at their debut as Fox’s The Orville and the tentpole for CBS’s All Access streaming service Star Trek: Discovery. Both Seth McFarlane’s light comedy homage to The Next Generation and Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman’s gritty action packed prequel saga are aimed at the same set of viewers, while at the same time diverging enough from the source material to upset and divide that fanbase. As Disney has discovered as they add to the Star Wars saga, fans can be unreasonably possessive of the franchises they love. To be seen as ripping off or mocking a show, as The Orville has been accused, or betraying the spirit or messing with canon as ST:Discovery seems to be doing is tantamount to treason.
While I love to talk about this stuff, the vicious nerd-fights over which of these shows is the real “Trek” is boring. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Star Trek novels for decades, a space that has never been considered “canon.” But I’m simply not terribly upset by a Star Trek that tells the Federation story from a different angle. It’s the same response I have to folks shitting on the perfectly fine summer action films of the now apparently doomed “Kelvin-verse” movie franchise.
One controversy that I do understand is Discovery’s price tag. As the number of streaming services multiplies and the cost savings from “cord cutting” evaporate, Discovery needed to be realllllly good to justify the buy in. As Game of Thrones proved for HBO, even if a lot of folks are sharing that login, a great show can make up it’s cost and then some with this model. On the other hand it can really grate on a fanbase used to seeing Trek on broadcast TV. TNG veteran Marina Sirtis (Counsellor Deanna Troy,) revealed at a con panel this fall that she hasn’t watched the show…
“I have never watched it,” Sirtis said (via Trek Movie). “I am going to explain why I don’t watch Discovery before they all hate me. We were on the best Star Trek show. If CBS thinks I am going to pay to watch Star Trek, they are demented. I will wait until I go to England and watch it on Netflix, which I pay for anyway.”
Marinna Sirtis, who isn’t paying for this shit
So I’m well aware that a lot of folks may have not watched it yet, so I’m gonna try and be as spoiler free with my review/preview as I can manage. Set ten years before the original five year mission of the Enterprise, the main character of Discovery is Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham. She was orphaned by a Klingon attack on Doctari Alpha, raised by Sarek and Amanda Grayson on Vulcan (one of the continuity issues that some geeks are upset about,) and booted out of Starfleet in disgrace after the events of the two part pilot episode that ended with her captain and mentor, Philippa Georgiou (played perfectly byMichelle Yeoh) dead and the Federation and the Klingon Empire at war.
Micheal is given a second chance when the experimental starship the USS: Discovery rescues her from her exploding prison transport. Captain Gabriel Lorca, played with gusto by Jason Isaacs, takes her under his wing… kind of. The rest of the cast is also excellent, Mary Wiseman is delightful as Sylvia Tilly, Micheals roommate and an earnest cadet with her eye on the command track. Doug Jones plays Saru, Discovery’s first officer and Micheals former friend. A Kelpian, a species that was originally bred as prey for another species, Saru provides a unique and alien perspective. Wilson Cruz is Doctor Hugh Culber, the partner of Engineer Paul Stamets, played by Anthony Rapp (who has made some non-Trek related news recently, and is also excellent at Twitter.) The two became the first openly gay Star Trek characters on TV.
As opposed to The Orville, which is designed much more like the original “planet of the week” format of old school Star Trek, Discovery is serialized rather than episodic. The show follows the crew and Micheal as they attempt to perfect the ship’s strange drive mechanism in order to win the war with the Klingons. There’s a lot more action than any previous iteration of Trek, and the special effects are movie theatre quality. Once again no spoilers, but by the end of the season there have been some seriously fun hijinks, some incredible drama and some awesome sci fi.
I loved it. Like anything Trek I can quibble. I have never been a fan of turning the inscrutable and cruel original series Klingons into the bat’leth swinging warrior race with bad teeth of TNG. And Discovery’s Klingon’s are even more like Space Orcs than Worf and friends. A lot of fans are disappointed in the focus on warfare, but I for one was happy to see the first war between Federation and Klingons hashed out.
Thursday promises another great season, as we’ll get to know Kirk’s predecessor in the captian’s chair of the Enterprise, Christopher Pike, meet Micheals adopted brother Spock, and solve an all new galaxy spanning mystery. I cannot wait.
Tuesday TV: The Orville
On January 8, 2019 By Lou DoenchIn TV1 Comment
Buddy…level the camera…
I admit to being skeptical when The Orville was announced in 2017. And I was definitely not alone, especially as Seth McFarlane’s light comedy homage to Star Trek: TNG was landing around the same time that CBS introduced us to the prequel series Star Trek: Discovery. I’ll have more in depth to say about Discovery as we get closer to it’s second season premier on January 17th (IT’S AWESOME,) but the juxtaposition of the two shows and their decidedly differing tone has incited a lot of frankly silly nerdfighting over which program is the true heir to Gene Roddenberry’s legacy.
The most problematic yet brilliant element on The Orville is definitely creator and Captain Ed Mercer Seth McFarlane. Ever since his first hit show, Family Guy was actually dragged back from the TV Graveyard by fans demanding more after it’s surprise 2003 cancellation, McFarlane has been a TV hitmaker and controversial lightning rod. His often crude and careless comedy has definitely earned him some well deserved ire from marginalized communities and social justice advocates. His performance as host of the 2013 Academy Awards was marred by his leering rendition of a musical number called “We saw your boobs” directed at the women in the audience who had done topless scenes that year. It was pretty icky.
He’s also a zealous advocate for LGBTQ rights, a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and a board member for People for the American Way. As executive producer he was instrumental in bringing Cosmos back to the small screen. And despite the many worrying warning signs in his body of work, there’s no evidence so far that he’s gonna turn out to be Keyser Sose on the #metoo front. That’s right guys, “no evidence so far is all the rope we get.” And we’ve collectively barely earned that. All of this is to say that Seth combating multitudes, if his comedy or history spoil the sow for you that’s completely fair. But he has pleasantly surprised this viewer so far.
I think the biggest worry going into The Orville’s first season was that it would be Family Guy in Space. Especially with washed out Captain Ed Mercer as an obvious Larry Stu stand in for Seth himself, it could very well be Captain Brian Griffin humping the leg of every alien he meets. Luckily it seems that Ed Mercer represents a different side of Seth, an earnest and competent commander who is a bit frazzled to be in command of a light comedy starship crew.
I’m Bortus… I’m very intense…
Fox certainly hasn’t spared any expense. The FX and makeup are top notch. The ship is populated by an ambitious mix of classic sci-fi “humanoids with pointy ears,” all the way up to the lecherous and gelatinous Yaphit, voiced by Norm McDonald, who is basically a ball of green goo. The cast is excellent, Adrienne Palicki is a treat as Ed’s second in command and (light comedy remember,) ex-wife Commander Kelly Grayson. The ex-wife jokes get a little old, but hopefully they are moving away from them in the second season. The most fascinating member of the crew might be Peter Macon, as Commander Bortus. Bortus is a Moclan, a species which considers all of it’s members to be male. He lives with his husband Klyden, played by Chad Coleman on board The Orville and they have a son named Topa.
Topa was a centerpiece of the third episode of the series “About a Girl,” when it was discovered that he had been born female and it was revealed that while rare, female Moclans were subjected to mandatory reassignment surgery. Klyden and Bortus clash over whether to go through with the surgery as Klyden wishes, while Bortus has been convinced by his human crew mates to leave the child “as is.” This weeks second season episode explored some of the lingering fallout.
“About a Girl” sparked some pretty intense reactions. It came across as a bit ham handed as the show’s first attempt at tackling a serious issue, and a lot of trans and non-binary folks bristled at the implied universal sexual dimorphism in The Orville’s universe. On the other hand, Jesse Earl at the Advocate notes that while problematic, the episode reveals McFarlane’s ambitious intentions.
For better or worse, this marks Seth MacFarlane’s first attempt at emulating the spirit of the original Star Trek franchise instead of just its aesthetic and tone. Star Trek has always been known for tackling major issues of the day, and it’s clear that MacFarlane wants his show to follow in that vein, while hiding behind an extremely thin veneer of comedy and parody to lure in fans of MacFarlane’s typically irreverent humor brand.
Reaction to MacFarlane’s attempt has been extremely mixed, with many thinking he tried too hard and others arguing that he didn’t try hard enough. The only thing that most critics agree on is that they didn’t like MacFarlane’s take.
For many of us in the LGBTQ and feminist community, much of MacFarlane’s approach was woefully outdated. Yet we sometimes forget that this episode was not made for those who already know all about intersex and transgender issues.
The episode aired on prime-time television, a world that is still a barren wasteland devoid of any transgender and intersex representation. Many of the people watching these shows are stillnot used to having to look to niche platforms to find their representation. They don’t immerse themselves within LGBTQ culture on a daily basis and still lack basic understanding of what being transgender or intersex even is, let alone the prejudices that those communities face. So to showcase these issues in a heavy-handed way helps to give voice and acknowledgement to what is going on outside of a nonqueer, cisgender person’s worldview.
Jesse Earl, The Advocate, 9/29/2017
I really like Jesse’s take here. The Orville as a whole feels like an attempt by McFarlane to draw the viewers of his animated comedies and films into this other place he also loves. Folks who scoffed at paying CBS to stream Star Trek: Discovery get a lighthearted substitute that still has some meat on it’s bones even if it’s a little undercooked. In fact the structure of the Orville allows it to tackle classic Trek style storytelling better than the season long action drama that Discovery delivers.
One thing I actually find relatable on the Orville is the light comedy/serious storytelling dynamic. A good friend of mine felt that the crews lack of discipline and constant anachronistic joking were too jarring, taking them out of suspension of disbelief. But as a tabletop RPG player that dynamic makes perfect sense. The gamemaster will do his best to put together an interesting and sometimes serious adventure, but the players are still 21st century geeks hopped up on caffeine and whatever. Their characters will have outlandish backgrounds, they will crack wise at inappropriate times and drive the storyteller crazy. But they will also deliver solemn soliloquies, make tough life or death decisions, maybe even sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
I’m not going to judge anyone who is sick of Seth’s style or bothered by his sometimes serious lapses in judgement. We live in the golden age of TV, there has to be a line you make just to have time for it all. But so far I’m glad I’ve made some time for The Orville. I hope it keeps surprising me.
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51 Peter Lynch Quotes to Empower Your Investing
As the manager of Fidelity Investment's Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, which averaged a 29.2% return during that time and grew from $18 million in assets to $14 billion under his management, Peter Lynch is considered one of the most successful stock market investors of all time.
His simple approach to investing stems from the idea that anyone can be successful in the stock market, all it takes is a little research, patience and resilience. Lynch believes everyday investors have an advantage over Wall Street professionals because of their familiarity with the market place.
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Lynch found some of his best ideas when he was out with his family, traveling or talking with friends and associates. As one famous story goes, one day his wife excitedly told him how much she liked L'eggs pantyhose, a new product she'd just tried out. After looking into the company's prospects and liking what he saw, Lynch bought the Hanes Company, maker of L'eggs, and his fund investors realized a 30-fold appreciation in Hanes stock.
And Lynch believes individual investors can do the same if they keep their eyes open for potential opportunities.
Here are 51 pearls of wisdom from one of the greatest investing minds of our time:
1. In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
2. The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
3. If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
4. There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
5. In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
6. Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.
7. Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
8. Owning stocks is like having children -- don't get involved with more than you can handle.
9. If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
10. If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.
11. Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
12. Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
13. In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
14. You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
15. When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
16. If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
17. The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
18. I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
19. The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
20. Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.
21. Know what you own, and know why you own it.
22. In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
23. It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
24. The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
25. People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
26. My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
27. It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
28. When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.
29. That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
30. You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
31. Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
32. If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.
33. Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
34. The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
35. If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings -- assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.
36. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.
37. All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don’t work out.
38. Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it’s easier to admit you’re a crack addict than to admit you’re a short-term investor.
39. I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.
40. Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst’s job.
41. There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don’t understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.
42. As I look back on it now, it’s obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
43. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
44. All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
45. The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
46. In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
47. The natural-born investor is a myth.
48. In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
49. Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
50. If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.
51. The simpler it is, the better I like it.
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Marketing Lessons from Outliers & Non-lifers You Never Considered
December 18, 2018 December 27, 2018 / didhedieyet
Lifer: a person who has made a lifelong commitment, usually in a certain career.
We all know them, our parents have likely built a lifelong career in one specific industry, profession, or company.
In some regards we revere them because we can’t imagine doing the same thing for 40 years, let alone 4!
That said, some of the most successful and influential humans in recent history have made powerful statements by doing the complete opposite and bestowed powerful marketing lessons along the way.
Like who, you say?
#1: Donald Trump
Business man becomes 45th President of The US.
Most love to hate him but you have to give the man some credit for his incredible acuteness to:
Know exactly who his audience is (and campaign exclusively to them) and
Leverage Twitter as a testing ground for ideas and opinions
Why not take a page from his book and use Twitter to feel the reception for new products, marketing copy and angles, or potential product names?
#2: Brandon Stanton
Bond trader becomes world-renowned photographer.
Brandon knew that life was too short to not do what excited him so he set out to photograph thousands of people New York City’s 5 boroughs and create a scatterplot mosaic of them.
Posting the photos on Facebook along the way was just an added bonus. Yet, little did he know he was actioning a content strategy and building brand awareness along the way.
It was through these regular postings that he started to pay attention to the feedback: the kinds of posts that received the most engagement happened to be the portrait style photos with captions below that revealed something fascinating about the person, or human.
Embracing this, these posts soon became his staple format, ultimately leading to the “Humans of New York” movement that has made him legendary.
Data really is king. Not only in business, but in marketing as well.
#3: Ina Garten
The barefoot contessa.
Government budget analyst turned cookbook author; some people have a beautiful and consistent thread that runs through the narrative of their life.
Ina, is not one of them.
Originally beginning in Washington DC under the Ford & Carter administrations, she felt the industry was stimulating but definitely “not me.”
Reading a “for sale” ad in The New York Times, she jumped ship and became the owner of an indie food store, ultimately selling the store and writing a cookbook that made her a bestselling author at 51.
If there’s one marketing lesson she screams, it’s “don’t hesitate and try new things.”
Constantly experiment.
Whether that’s testing new channels, customer audiences, or product features, don’t let your assumptions or Harvard Business Review case studies get the best of you.
If there’s anything I’ve learned in marketing it’s that you are constantly hit over the head with surprises. In dramaturgy, they call it a gap moment: a difference in your expectation of what’s about to happen in a scene and what actually happens.
Nothing operates in a vacuum; not even humans and the unintentional marketing wisdom they shed.
~JK
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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe
At $43,000, Is This 2015 Porsche Cayenne The Brown Diesel Wagon We All Want?
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Nice Price Or Crack PipeIs this used car a good deal? You decide!
When you think of legendary Porsche products, cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cayenne probably won’t be at the top of the list. The diesel model’s lack of popularity has driven extraordinary depreciation, meaning perhaps more of us could drive it as well.
Provenance is a word that describes an object or idea’s place of origin. Providence is the largest city in the tiny state of Rhode Island. I often get the spelling of those two confused. Provenance was a factor in the contemplation of last Friday’s 1983 De Tomaso Pantera GTS. That was due to the car having been owned at one time by legendary racer, car tuner and hat wearer, Carroll Shelby.
The seller played upon that history, asking an inflated $249,900 to become the car’s next owner. Most of you saw through that charade however, and dunned both the price and the provenance with a 73 percent Crack Pipe loss. Maybe things would have turned out differently if Shelby had autographed the Pantera’s dashboard?
Speaking of different, today’s we have a 2015 Porsche Cayenne diesel to investigate.
Yes, a tall, oil-burning AWD wagon is perhaps the last thing you would have ever expected to come out of Stuttgart’s most famous automaker, but this is the world we live in.
Well, actually this was the world we lived in four or five years ago, back before Volkswagen’s mega-corporate diesel emissions cheating scandal rocked the auto industry. That tainted oil burners from almost all manufacturers irreparably. Oh, and I refuse to call it Dieselgate because I feel the use of anything-gate is so done).
Today, Porsche has given up on diesel engines for the U.S. choosing instead to focus their fuel economy goals on hybrids, including the Cayenne. You’d expect there to be a hybrid Cayenne, seeing as it’s Porsche’s best selling model, and almost all automakers catering to this price range seem to have an electrified version of their most popular cars. It’s almost as though the hybrid badge is coin of the realm among status seekers these days.
That shift has, however, left a lot of diesel Cayennes lying around, and most of those are priced well below their somewhat astronomical original asking prices. We’ll get to this one’s in a sec, but first, let’s see what you’re getting for your moolah.
This 2015 is from the Cayenne’s second generation and that rides on a platform that, like its forerunner, is shared with the Volkswagen Touareg and Audi Q7. The diesel engine is a 2967cc DOHC V6 that too is shared with the Touareg and Q7. Here in the Porsche, it gives it up to the tune of 240 horsepower and a more notable 406 lb-ft of twist. That’s all able to scoot the Cayenne diesel’s nearly 5,000 pounds to sixty in a little over 6 seconds while still making almost 30 MPG on the highway. Not too shabby. Backing up the smoker is an Aisin-sourced but Porsche programmed 8-speed automatic with Triptronic manumatic mode.
This one rocks a modest 55K on the clock, and speaking of timepieces, it also has the optional compass on the dash top, which is sort of like a clock. In fact, this Cayenne sports a number of added options, including the luxurious Premium Package and Burmester sound system.
The exterior is Umber Metallic which is sort of brown. Both paint and underlying bodywork look to be in excellent shape. The factory alloys look to be in acceptable shape although the ones in front are a bit dank with brake dust.
The interior is awash in leather, Alcantara, and upscale plastics. It also has enough buttons and switches to trigger an OCD overload. I’m sure each one has a unique and important function, but damn there’s a lot to learn in here. Like the exterior, the interior presents very nicely. The only issue here is an overly shiny steering wheel which may portend its early retirement.
The car comes with a clean title and, attractively, an extended warranty that’s supposedly good through February of 2021. It’s noted to be a one-owner car and to be both accident and smoker-free.
Okay, let’s get back to that crazy depreciation, shall we? The Porsche Certificate of Authenticity included with the car states its original MSRP as being $83,725. The base price on this at the time was around $56,000 so that’s nearly $30K just in options. Hell, you could have bought a base edition of the car without all the fanci-fications and a VW GTI for the same grand total.
Like all things really expensive and tenuously relevant, the Cayenne’s depreciation has been enormous. The asking price on this one is $43,000, which is still a lot of money, but less than half of what one would have cost you new just four years ago. The question for you is, could this diesel Porsche now be a steal of a deal?
You decide!
Madison, WI Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.
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Happily Ever Aftermath: Grimm (2012)
“Its two distinct states of existence simultaneous within one physical body. The duality of humanity. The yin and the yang. The Ike and Tina Turner of it all.”
So Grimm is a show that I have gotten really into. It’s modern day telling of the Grimm Fairy Tales but with a twist. Creatures from the fairy tales live among us, appearing as human to all but a select few. Instead of being the “brothers Grimm”, the Grimm are certain people who have the ability to see those monsters, or Wesen as they are called, from the tales. It is their job as Grimms to destroy all of them. Grimm is passed genetically, and sometimes it can miss a generation or skip a few, but all Grimms are related if you go back far enough on the family tree.
In the series the main character is a homicide detective named Nick Burkhardt, who is played by the very handsome David Giuntoli.
OMG I just find him so attractive. He has these really intense green eyes that just bore into you. He also has an amazingly adorable little boy/mischievous smile. Sometimes I’ll be watching the show and lose track of what has been happening because I’m too caught up in staring at him.
What can I say? He’s dreamy. Anyways let’s get back on track.
So the “Grimm sight” didn’t come to Nick until he was in his 30s. He discovers that it’s up to him to destroy all the creatures, but Nick actually does things much different. Because he is a cop, he likes to ask questions first before shooting, maiming, beheading, etc. Because of this he actually befriends a lot of Wesen. He meets up with a vegetarian Blutbad (Werewolf) named Monroe, who helps him figure out what the monsters are and how to take them down. Later on they recruits a Fuschbau (Fox) named Rosalee. It’s really cool as they bring to life all those fairy tale stories you used to love as a kid, but at the same time they also use a lot of German and the culture; promoting the same thing the Brothers’ Grimm did. There also is a lot of mystery and intrigue with a story that spans over the three seasons (can’t wait for season 4!!!)
So season one is Nick trying to figure things out, as everything is completely new and a little hard to understand. Season two he has a better handle on it, but also faces issues of trying to conceal or reveal to his close friends. He also gets involved more in the political intrigues and history of the Grimm. In the third season we have a guy who really has it together but faces a lot of issues as an enemy from the past is trying to kill him, a new Grimm comes to town, and much, much more. I highly recommend it!
So now that you all have a better handle on the background, lets move on to the episode. So this episode falls in the first season when Nick is still floundering, trying to figure out a lot. What is a Grimm? What are these creatures? How do I stop them? What really happened to my parents? What is this secret key that was given to him by his aunt? Etc. Now the episode I choose isn’t really a Halloween episode, but it was one that I thought was done very well. To be honest, the material that these episodes cover could be used for any Horrorfest post. Just like Supernatural, they cover a lot of “supernatural” things that are ripe for the Halloween countdown.
Okay, I’m sorry. Back to the episode. So the reason I chose this was because I liked how they presented the material. So here we go.
So the film starts off with a Ponzi-scheme guy committing suicide. Arthur Jarvis, handsome, rich guy is listening to the radio when he hears about the Ponzi scheme and the suicide. He becomes extremely worried as he has invested all his money with him. He doesn’t want to upset his new wife, Lucinda, and instead goes to her godfather Spencer Harrison to ask him what to do. He tells him that the only thing he can do is to go to Lucinda’s stepmother, Mavis, and ask her for money. He doesn’t want to go there but has no other choice.
They go to see her but she refuses.
Mavis has always hated her stepdaughter, and feels that Lucinda and Arthur will have to deal with it. That upsets the Arthur and Spencer. The two leave to try and figure things out.
That night Mavis is going to bed when she hears a noise
She looks under the bed and sees a Horned King-like creature!
Mavis runs out of the room, but the creature follows giving off this loud screeching that destroys all the glass in the house; blows the her eardrums, eyeballs, and arteries. Mavis goes falling off the stairs and hits the floor. DEAD.
The next day her daughter, Tiffany, stops by and discovers the body. She calls the police, and Nick heads to the crime scene.
He and his partner start investigating and find it very strange in how she was killed. They then go on to question the two daughters, Tiffany and Taylor. Thats when they discover that there is a third sister (Lucinda). Apparently Lucinda received nothing from the estate as her father gave everything to the stepmother. The stepmother hates her so much that she promised she would never give her a cent.
Nick also discovers that Lucinda’s husband and godfather came asking for money, but were refused. The husband and godfather are the top suspects now.
The Nick and his partner Hank Griffen go down to talk to them. As they are about to question the two, Lucinda (who knows nothing) walks in. Nick and Hank tell the three that Lucinda’s stepmother is dead. As they say this they discover that Harrison isn’t who they think he is. In fact he is a Wesen.
Nick sees the change and knows that something is up. He decides to bring the three in for questioning to try to figure out what’s happened.
When they question Lucinda, they discover that Mavis never really cared for her. She hated her and always gave her daughters everything while Lucinda received nothing. When her father died and left everything to the stepmother, her home life was awful. Luckily she met Arthur at a benefit and was able to get away.
Her alibi is that she was home all night with her husband.
They then question Arthur. He tells them that he knew Tiffany and Taylor, Lucinda’s stepsisters before he met Lucinda. He met them at a benefit and danced with them, but when he danced with Lucinda he fell for her. She was “so beautiful” that he couldn’t help it. Sound familiar?
His albi, that he was also home all night.
They then question Spencer, who tells them the backstory of Lucinda and her family. Her mother died when she was 6, and then her father remarried when she was 11. He died 7 months later. Mavis has always disliked Lucinda, and Spencer was worried about what might happen to Lucinda. He promised her father that he would watch over her and always tries to.
Getting the picture?
His alibi was that he stayed at the Jarvis house, as he and Arthur had gone late into the night working.
There isn’t enough evidence to hold anyone so they have to release all three.
That night we see Arthur and Lucinda fighting. Lucinda wants to go see Tiffany and talk to her, but Arthur wants her to stay home. He’s afraid that one of the sisters killed their mother and will kill Lucinda.
Spencer goes to find Lucinda at the Jarvis’ home but he’s too late. Lucinda has gone out to see her sister. Spencer is mad that Arthur allowed her out as he is supposed to protect her.
Back at Tiffany’s place, Lucinda has come to talk to her sister. Tiff won’t have any of it as she hates Lucinda for how she has treated the family. Lucinda pleads with her, that the past is the past and that they should move on. Tiff just ignores her.
Lucinda tells her stop and woges out, revealing her true self and transforming into a monster. She uses her screeching powers to murder Tiffany.
Meanwhile Nick and Monroe meet up at his Aunt’s trailer that houses a collection of Grimm items. The look through one of the Grimm diaries to figure out what Spencer is. As they look through the book they discover that the cause of all this is a Murciélago Matraca, or a batlike creature.
After reading about how their screeching can destroy vital parts of you body, Nick becomes worried. How is he going to stop this thing? They discover a special weapon that also gives off a high screeching sound. The two test it out.
He goes looking for Spencer and heads over to the Jarvis’ home. Lucinda and Arthur tell him they haven’t seen Spencer since earlier that morning. Arthur tells him, how he was planning to head over to Tiffany’s. Nick rushes over to Tiffany’s home and finds Spencer, along with Tiff. Tiff is doing a wonderful recreation of The Birds.
Nick takes Spencer in as he is sure he is the one doing the killing. However, Nick has issues actually charging him as they can’t really pin the murders on him. They have no murder weapon, (the cops besides Nick have no clue how somone could have killed the girls) and Nick can’t tell anyone that Spencer is a wesen. However, they are saved when Spencer says he wants to confess. He tells the truth, and unfortunately it sounds crazy and unbelievable.
He then tells Nick the whole story. Cinder-I mean Lucinda is the villain. She is the Murciélago Matraca and has no conscience whatsoever. She is a blend of the yin and yang, as she is pretty on the outside but pure evil on the inside. Spencer has been taking care of her all these years, giving in to every demand as, as long as she is happy things are fine. However, this financial crisis of the Jarvis family proved to be too much unhappiness for her. Nick freaks out and goes to his partner to talk it over. His partner tells him that if the rest of her family dies, then she gets everything.
Just as they are discussing it, Spencer breaks out and heads over to the Jarvis house. There he finds Arthur drunk and upset. Lucinda told him that she never loved him and she took off.
Spencer hunts her down at Taylor’s as does Nick. Lucinda goes running into a barn to hide from the two. Monroe meets Nick there and they set up the device to create the screeching sound to take down Lucinda. As they do that, Lucinda goes running out of the barn and right into Spencer. He attacks her as he knows that is the only way to end her. As he is apologizing for killing her, she “awakes” and kills him.
Nick finds their bodies.
Monroe asks Nick how he is going to explain everything. And Nick just gives that smile and tells him he has a plan.
Back at the police station, Nick shows his boss the device he used to stop Lucinda and tells him they found it at the crime scene. “Apparently” it was what they used to create the sound that killed everybody. Another case and monster destroyed. Also leaving us with that old adage:
I know its a little unusual, but be expecting to see more Grimm in the future!!
To go to the previous post, go to Only a Woman
For more on Cinderella, go to Episode VI: Return of the My Favorite Movie Lines List
For more modern twists on classical literature, go to A Hunky Helping of Manwich
For more on fairy tales, go to For She Filled Their Lives With Sunshine
For more on monsters, go to What Is This Thing?
For more TV shows based on books, go to Quite a Horror Story
For more of my fav quotes, go to In Their Proper Place
For more bible verses, go to Unbound
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Parents Worry Facebook Turns Their Kids Into Ads
Anna North
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The latest battle on the teens-and-Facebook front concerns advertising: parents are mad that just "liking" something essentially turns their kids into advertisements for it. They're asking if this is even legal. Turns out, nobody knows.
According to AdAge, a Brooklyn dad is suing Facebook on behalf of his son, alleging that "Facebook, Inc. has regularly and repeatedly used the names and/or likenesses of plaintiff ... for the commercial purpose of marketing, advertising, selling and soliciting the purchase of goods and services." At issue are Facebook's social ads, wherein users' names and images are used to advertise things they've "liked" or RSVPed to. You've probably seen Facebook pages or websites displaying lists of your friends who have liked their content, and if you're an adult user, you probably now know your name will pop up on a page if you like it. But kids — especially young kids — may not have the same awareness.
Of course, kids under 13 aren't technically allowed to sign up for Facebook. And since only a paltry 7.5 million of them do anyway, is there really a problem? Some parents — including those of older teens who are allowed under Facebook's rules — say yes. Dad Bill Streeter tells AdAge, "They're basically taking users and using them for endorsements of products, and even if their terms of service says something, I don't see how a minor child can consent to something like that. Of course it's a violation of the law." But the legal issues aren't nearly that clear-cut. Says advertising lawyer Linda Goldstein,
Nobody knows if it's legal. Does disclosure in the terms of service and use of the service constitute sufficient consent? The law requires that you have consent to use a person's name or likeness in advertising, in fact, it requires written consent. In this case, it's not clear at all.
Social advertising has been widely hailed as the next big thing, the idea being that your friends' recommendations are way more persuasive than those of strangers. And in some ways, clicking "like" indicates a certain tacit acceptance that you're endorsing a product. But some users — especially kids — may not be able to tell the difference between showing their friends they're into something and becoming a public spokesperson for it. And in this case, the law may need to step in to make sure Facebook lets them know what they're doing.
Facebook Forced To Address Legal Gray Area Of Kids And Advertising [AdAge]
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Hickory Sunrise Rotary
A Member of District 7670, Chartered November 27, 2000
Rotary Objectives
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Hickory Sunrise is the most diverse club in western North Carolina – a fact that makes us proud! Service in our community and participation in international projects are a vital part of what we, as Rotarians, want and have a passion to do.
This year, we will continue to strengthen our Club through new membership, service and educational initiatives with a focus on veterans and the homeless. Embracing Service Above Self and sharing the Rotary story through collaborative partnerships, fellowship and work will ensure that lives will continue to be changed – here in our community and abroad.
We invite you to join us or if you would like to speak with someone about Hickory Sunrise, please contact us.
Yours in Rotary Service,
Bob Steiger, President
Hickory Sunrise The Small Club That Gets BIG Things Done
A member of District 7670, Hickory Sunrise is the most diverse club in western North Carolina – a fact that makes us proud!
We are a small friendly club with a focus on educational initiatives and the needs of the homeless and veterans in our community. We believe in embracing the Rotary motto, "Service Above Self" - and our own club specialty of having fun while doing so.
We invite you to join us in making a difference in our community. Drop by one of our meetings at Lenoir-Rhyne University, or if you would like to speak with someone about Hickory Sunrise, please contact us at 828-464-1565.
Hickory Sunrise Rotary Club Meetings
When: Wednesdays at 7 a.m.
Where: Fireside Room at Lenoir-Rhyne University
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Home Elections 2018 Imran Khan promises to wage war against corruption after assuming power
Imran Khan promises to wage war against corruption after assuming power
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has promised that his party will curb high-level corruption on same day as his party assume government adding that curbing low level corruption will take some time.
While addressing workers at Jinnah Convention Centre as part of his election campaign in National Assembly constituency NA-53 Islamabad, Imran Khan said that he wanted to tell a few things to the workers. He said high level corruption is what the PM and his ministers are involved in. “Will the people of Pakistan vote such rulers who don’t even stay in Pakistan?,” he questioned. “I assure you, as soon as we come to power; we will nip high level corruption in bud,” he added.
Imran Khan promised that the successful Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation campaign of KP will be extended to whole Pakistan with a target of 10 Billion Trees. “The environmental issues such as lack of rains, global warming etc are because we don’t have enough greenery,” he maintained.
Imran Khan alleged that Shehbaz Sharif failed to construct a single hospital in Punjab where the Sharif family members could be treated.
He assured that his party will empower NAB and FIA to end high level corruption. “A single Dollar has reached to 125 rupees, but the Sharif and Zardari families are happy because their wealth in foreign accounts and countries increased,” he alleged.
“Workers should note that the first rule of a competition is to never consider your opponent weak,” the PTI chief said. “We were never prepared the way we are this time.”
Speaking of distribution of tickets, he said that he faced immense difficulties in the process of awarding party tickets to the candidates.
“There were several capable candidates, but the ticket was to be handed to one person,” Khan said, adding that there was no way to avoid the dismay of aspirants.
“My wife saw me growing old in three weeks over the matter of party tickets,” he said.
Khan was joined by PTI’s National Assembly candidates Asad Umer, Raja Khurram Nawaz and Ali Awan, who also addressed the gathering.
Earlier this week, Imran’s papers for NA-53 were approved after an election appellate tribunal allowed the PTI chief to contest polls from Islamabad.
His papers had been rejected on the basis of not filling out clause-N, which asks candidates about their contributions to their previous constituencies.
When the former cricketer-turned-politician had appeared before the Islamabad election tribunal, he had explained that he set up the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital and Namal College, and made the nation aware of its constitutional rights and exhorted the public to struggle for their rights.
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Anime To Look Out For in Winter 2020!!
Posted on January 11, 2020 by KiritoNarukami Leave a comment
With a new year means new anime! With more new anime than sequels, it’s definitely the time to start something new!
Below are the anime that I’ll be watching during the season (in alphabetical order).
Studios: SANZIGEN
Source: Manga
Synopsis: Third season of BanG Dream! series.
Being a fan of the mobile game as well as the first few seasons, it’s a given I’d want to see what the third season has to offer! Looks like SANZIGEN will be continuing the CGI animation for the entirety of the show. Though, in all honesty, I’m surprised that BanDori even made it to a second season! It’s popularity was very low when it was first starting up and to see the hype and excitement every where for this new season is great! If you like mobile music games and anime songs (let’s be honest who doesn’t?) be sure to run to your app store and try out the game!
FULL REVIEW OF SEASON 1 AND SEASON 2 (Season 2 review in the works!)
Studios: Nexus
Genres: Action, Mystery, Shounen
Synopsis: “An unknowing Sudou Kaname is invited to try out a new mysterious mobile app game called Darwin’s Game, but later realizes that he’s in for more than he’s bargained for when he finds out that there’s no way to quit the game.” -Darwin’s Game (manga)
While the PV didn’t give us a lot to work with. The premise of the story itself is actually quite interesting. I love the weird factors that are thrown in, like the whole “I was attacked by a man with a panda mask” thing. I’m expecting a dark story with lots of twists and turns. The character designs in the key visual doesn’t look too appealing but I’m hoping that it’s fixed by the time it airs.
Check out my first impression here
Studios: Science SARU
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, School, Seinen
Synopsis: “Asakusa Midori wants to create an anime, but she’s too disheartened to make that first step by herself. By pure chance, she meets Mizusaki Tsubame, an up-and-coming socialite secretly dreaming of becoming an animator. Together with Midori’s money-loving best friend Kanamori Sayaka, the energetic trio slowly work towards making their “ultimate world” a reality!” – Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! (manga)
Oh! This one looks really fun! The animation is very fluid and dynamic giving the show a very child-like atmosphere. There’s a studio ghibli aesthetic that I really enjoy and hope to see more of throughout the show. The sketchiness of the show really give it character as well. I’m curious how in depth they’ll go into the whole anime making process, or is this just a conceptual idea and it’s about the girls running rampant through their ideas and creations?
Check my first impression here
Studios: Production I.G
Genres: Comedy, Sports, Drama, School, Shounen
Synopsis: The fourth season of Haikyuu!!
IF YOU KNOW, THEN YOU KNOW. It’s been a long time coming, Haikyuu! is back for another season! One of my all-time favorite sports anime. Haikyuu! is actually the show that got me into to playing volleyball. From the key visual it looks like Kurasuno will be facing off again a new team as well as feature character development for Hinata, Kageyama, and Tsukiyama. I’m really excited to see where the story will take us next especially with how they ended the last season!
Hatena☆Illusion
Studios: Children’s Playground Entertainment
Source: Light novel
Genres: Comedy, Supernatural, Romance, Ecchi
Synopsis: “Makoto Shiranui is a boy who travels to Tokyo seeking to become the apprentice of Mamoru Hoshisato, a world-famous magician and friend of his parents. Ever since he had watched a show by Mamoru and his wife Maive, he had dreamed of being a magician. Their daughter Kana (nicknamed Hatena) has been Makoto’s friend since childhood. Even though Tokyo has had a rash of burglaries by a beautiful woman thief, Makoto can rest easy as long as Hatena is there. When he arrives at the Hoshisato residence, a haunted mansion, the family butler Jeeves and the maid Emma greet him, and he is reunited with Hatena, only to find out that they don’t really get along now.” – Anime News Network
Hatena Illusion piqued my interest with it’s plot and characters and let’s not forget the great character designs! The synopsis from ANN doesn’t really makes sense (I think it’s a literal translation of the Japanese synopsis) so I’ll just give a quick one down here.
Makoto Shiranui wants to become a magician and so he seeks to be the apprentice of Mamoru Hoshisato, a famous magician as well as a friend of his parents. Making his way to Tokyo Mamoru reunites with his childhood friend Hatena Hoshisato, who is also Mamoru Hoshisato’s daughter. Upon realizing that Makoto is, in fact, a boy and not a girl their relationship sours and Makoto is put in an awkward position. Amidst the excitement, a series of burglaries are taking place that lead to a greater problem.
Hopefully that makes more sense than the one above it. I’m really curious as to how story will unfold!
Studios: NAZ
Genres: Game, Fantasy
Synopsis: “In the year 2043, <Infinite Dendrogram>, the world’s first successful full-dive VRMMO was released. In addition to its ability to perfectly simulate the five senses, along with its many other amazing features, the game promised to offer players a world full of infinite possibilities. Nearly two years later, soon-to-be college freshman, Reiji Mukudori, is finally able to buy a copy of the game and start playing. With some help from his experienced older brother, Shuu, and his partner Embryo, Reiji embarks on an adventure into the world of <Infinite Dendrogram>. Just what will he discover and encounter in this game world known for its incredible realism and infinite possibilities?” -Myanimelist
Did I ever mention how much I enjoy VRMMO-esque anime? Infinite Dendrogram looks like it’ll be right up my alley. I’m not going to lie, the art and animation look SUPER cheesy and generic BUT I’m craving it so I’m going to go ahead and dive head first into this show!
Studios: Silver Link.
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Synopsis: “Kaede Honjō is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn’t dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can’t use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as “Absolute Defense” as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a “Counter Skill” that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.” – Anime News Network
Ah ha! Another VRMMO anime (banzai!), but this time around the story seems to have a bit more substance and by substance I mean MOE. You can’t go wrong with a character like Kaede who literally put all of her points into VIT/defense. Wherever this adventure takes Kaede, I’m sure it’ll be fill with joy, laughter, and zero pain. Also…is that Klein (Sword Art Online) on the left?!
Studios: Lerche
Genres: Comedy, Supernatural, School, Shounen
Synopsis: “At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school’s Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls’ bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom…but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy’s Hanako-san…is a boy!” – Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun (manga)
I’m sure we’ve all heard of the ghost story of Hanako-san by now! And if you haven’t…look it up! The friendly/not friendly ghost that lives in a stall! Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun is a different take on that ghostly encounter and the biggest twist? Hanako is a boy! This seems like a day-to-day type of story where the kids hang out and solves a different case or problem each day. Looks like a really easy show to watch without needing a lot of commitment.
Studios: Doga Kobo
Source: 4-koma manga
Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy, School
Synopsis: “When she was little, Mira Kinohata met a boy named Ao at a campsite in town. While gazing at the starry sky together, Mira learns that there’s a star with the same name as herself, but no star named Ao. The two then promised to one day explore asteroids together and find a star to name it after him. Several years later, Mira enrolls at the Hoshizaki high school and decides to join the astronomy club to fulfill her promise. However, she learns that the astronomy club will be merged with the geological research society to form the earth science club. Reluctantly, Mira goes to the club room and is reunited with Ao Manaka—the person she made the promise to explore asteroids with—and is shocked to learn that she is a girl!” – MAL News
My CGDCT anime of the season. The preview showcased really great art and animation so I’m looking forward to seeing more of that! The plot suggests that there is a bigger event within the show rather than just daily life within the group of friends. Also as it’s based off of a 4-koma manga, it’ll be interesting to see how it translates into the anime world.
Studios: Brain’s Base
Genres: Mystery, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Romance, Shounen
Synopsis: “At the young age of 11, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by youkai for two weeks and asked to become their “God of Wisdom,” a mediator between the spirit and human worlds, to which the girl quickly agreed but at the cost of her right eye and left leg. Now, six years later, whenever youkai wish for their problems to be solved, they make their way to Kotoko for consultation. Meanwhile, Kurou Sakuragawa, a 22-year-old university student, has just broken up with his girlfriend after he fled alone when the two encountered a kappa. Seeing this as her chance to become closer with him, Kotoko immediately makes her move, hoping to get married to Kurou one day. However, she quickly realizes there is something more to Kurou. With this knowledge, she asks for his help in solving the various issues presented by the supernatural, all the while wishing her newfound partner will eventually reciprocate her feelings.” – MAL Rewrite
I’m going to be honest, the story for Kyokou Suiri is definitely out there for me. It’s interesting that it incorporates youkai (they’re like Japanese monster from folklore). With not much to go off of from the preview and the synopsis, this one is definitely a wildcard that could go either way.
Studios: Studio Gokumi
Genres: Comedy, School
Synopsis: “Seton Academy, a school full of animals where, thanks to population decline, there are fewer humans than any other creature. Mazama Jin, an animal hater and the only human male in his class, falls in love with Hino Hitomi, the only female human, the moment he lays eyes her. However he soon finds himself entangled with various other creatures after he reluctantly joins the ‘pack’ of Lanka the wolf, the only other member of her pack.” – Murenase! Seton Gakuen (manga)
This…….is my guilty pleasure of the season. I mean who can resist all of this moe/cuteness that practically oozes out of the key visual alone?! From the preview, this looks like it’ll be a really fun show to watch with the cute characters and absolutely ridiculous story!
Studios: Zero-G
Source: Web manga
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Synopsis: “Yukimura Shinya and Himuro Ayame are two scientists that want to find out if love can be solved by a scientific theory. These two scientists also have feelings for each other and want to be able to solve their feelings through similar theoretical facts. With this perfect opportunity, these scientists will attempt to solve the theory of the love they express for each other.” – Rikei ga Koi no Ochita no de Shoumei shitemitai (manga)
Now this one is probably one of my picks for the dark horse in the season. Just the set up with the characters and the idea of breaking down the concept of love into a form of science will, no doubt, be an entertaining watch. Whether this show actually goes into the actual composition of elements that make up love or not, I think it’ll be an exhilarating time!
Runway de Waratte
Studios: Ezόla
Genres: Slice of Life, Drama, School, Shounen
Synopsis: “Chiyuki Fujito has a dream: to become a Paris Collection model. The problem is, she’s too short to be a model, and everyone around her tells her so. But no matter what they say, she won’t give up. Her classmate, a poor student named Ikuto Tsumura, also has a dream: to become a fashion designer. The two decide to combine their dreams and overcome the naysayers.” – Runway de Waratte (manga)
I’ve recently got into fashion, understanding what exactly I’m wearing and how it creates a composition with my shoes, belt, etc. Haven’t gotten around to understanding the runway fashion yet…but maybe this is my chance? Runway de Waratte looks like a really interesting drama about a boy who wants to be a designer and a girl who wants to be a model. Not sure how this will go but it’s got my attention for sure!
And that’s it for my anime selection for this season!
Is there something that I should be watching?
Which shows are you excited about?
tagged with Bang Dream! 3rd Season, Darwin's Game, Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!, Haikyuu!! TO THE TOP, Hatena☆Illusion, Infinite Dendrogram, Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu., Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun, Koisuru Asteroid, Kyokou Suiri, Murenase! Seton Gakuen, Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita., Runway de Waratte, Winter 2020
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Exclusive: Who's the "BITCH"? Lennon Stella Explains and Details Her Upcoming Album
The 'Nashville' star sets her sights on her debut LP
Maren Morris Joined by Cassadee Pope, Lindsay Ell, and RaeLynn to Perform "The Middle"
Maren Morris hit the stage in Nashville July 23 as part of Niall Horan's 2018 Flicker World Tour.
Clarinetist Wins Lawsuit After Ex-Girlfriend Fakes School Rejection Letter
It's been an emotional journey for this talented clarinetist. It all began in 2014 when Eric Abramovitz received a rejection letter from Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles.
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“She is a fine teacher with ability to diagnose problems and apply sound solutions that relate exactly to the central technique based on diaphragmatic breathing, a forward placement of sound and the knowledge of releasing words, so that the diction is clean, the tone free and communication verbally and tonally well established.”
Phyllis Curtin, Legendary Opera Singer and Vocal Pedagogue
Who Is Juliana
Juliana Janes-Yaffé is currently on staff as a vocal tutor/lecturer at Royal Northern College of Music (Junior Division) and Coventry University. Simultaneously — and continuously through 2014 — she was Head of Vocal Studies at the (New York) Mannes College of Music, Pre-Conservatoire Division. She has since been a voice teacher in great demand and has had students who are either training for, or are already working on, the Broadway and classical stages, the cabaret circuit, and theatre and recording professions. Her no-nonsense, methodical, and permanent training of vocal technique, and her vibrant personality, has earned her the praise of both students and professional colleagues alike. She currently also maintains an independent voice studio in Coventry and Birmingham, where she resides.
What other experts say
“It is immensely gratifying to say that [Juliana] understands clearly a healthy vocal production which allows her voice to serve her artistic, musical and dramatic intentions very well. She has brought students to my studio so that I could observe her teaching. I am delighted to tell you that she is a fine teacher with ability to diagnose problems and apply sound solutions that relate exactly to the central technique based on diaphragmatic breathing, a forward placement of sound and the knowledge of releasing words, so that the diction is clean, the tone free and communication verbally and tonally well established.”
Phyllis Curtin
Legendary Opera Singer and Eminent Vocal Pedagogue
“Thank you for your continued contributions to the Department, Juliana.
I know the team has greatly valued your input, particularly your inspiring vocal workshops to the Performance vocal students as well as workshops on how to compose for the voice for the first year composers. Your presence on the Vienna trip was a huge success and your fluent faculty with the language and your knowledge of the city were of considerable benefit. The students have undoubtedly gained an enormous amount from these interactions and we very much hope you have the opportunity to work within the Department on the new structure next academic year.”
Dr Sara Reed
Head of Performing Arts
“Ms. Yaffé is certainly an exceptional teacher. She clearly laid out the goals and technical, physical demands and musical challenges…It was evident that a routine, and proper tools, had been established. One of these important tools was the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)…This enabled the young singer to perform at a much higher level…Ms. Yaffé continued to work on elements of posture and body awareness throughout the lesson period. This produced terrific results…Ms. Yaffé was able to draw from her experience as a performing artist, and model for the student when needed…The student’s talent was acknowledged, and praise was given at the appropriate times…[Juliana] would not settle for less than the student’s best effort. The student enjoyed the process.”
Coordinator, Voice Department
Juliana’s Twelve Principles of Fine Vocal Pedagogy
Do no harm. A singer should never come out of a lesson with vocal fatigue.
Teach the fundamentals; they are fundamental to successful singing. Talent is essential, but one is only as good as one’s technique.
Good technique is good technique, regardless of the style to which the technique is applied.
Know how to quickly diagnose the individual student’s technical needs, then custom design the exercises and repertoire necessary to achieve a healthy technique and vocal longevity.
Train the breath and the body. Without this, no fine singing can occur.
Train the student’s appreciation for the principles of vocal excellence: good posture; well supported breathing technique; unencumbered vocal production; reliable intonation; clarity of (and emotional connection to) sung text.
Grant the student a reliable and permanent vocal technique, so that he/she becomes independent of you, not dependent on you.
Work with the student’s own voice, not your personal idea of what the voice should sound like.
Make the training of good singing diction a priority. It will not only help enable good technique, but also enable poetic expression inherent in all sung text. Good diction is NOT the singer’s enemy; rather, if trained correctly, it is one of the keys to vocal freedom.
As a tutor, apply your professional performing experience — and all of the above — to help the student audition and perform more successfully.
Engage your genuine interest in, and kindness toward, each student.
Let your enjoyment in being a tutor shine through, and have a sense of humour!
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Cloud 802.1x
By Ryan Squires Posted February 4, 2019
IT admins have long been interested in the 802.1x protocol. Tools that can boost security have a way of gaining the attention of IT admins. Originally designed for wired port security on switches, the 802.1x protocol has now been adapted for use in WiFi networks as well. Taking it a step further, the concept of a cloud 802.1x solution has begun to intrigue IT admins.
What is Cloud 802.1x?
In case you’re a bit confused by the terminology, said another way, a cloud hosted 802.1x implementation could also be called VLAN assignment or VLAN tagging from an end value perspective. When you look back at the history of 802.1x, it becomes apparent that its implementation was difficult to set up on wired networks.
The reason for this difficulty stems from the fact that traditionally, an 802.1x network required supplicants on endpoints. These endpoints were then coupled with a FreeRADIUS server which would be used to pass along authentications to an identity provider (IdP), usually Microsoft® Active Directory® (MAD or AD), or sometimes OpenLDAP™. With all of these moving parts, proper implementation presented quite the challenge to IT admins. So, while implementing 802.1x would no doubt increase the security of a given network, the level of difficulty to get it all to work remained pretty high. As a result, 802.1x wasn’t nearly adopted at the rate it should have been.
Fast Forward to WiFi
As networks shifted to WiFi and IT management infrastructure picked up and moved to the cloud, an opportunity emerged to make it much easier to deliver better network security. These innovations made it possible for IT administrators replicate just about everything to do with 802.1x implementations up into the cloud. No more on-prem RADIUS servers, IdPs like Active Directory to constantly maintain, or making sure each endpoint had the correct supplicant.
How Does 802.1x in the Cloud Work?
A cloud 802.1x solution would include, out of the box, a RADIUS server with the ability to provide VLAN reply attributes as well as including an on-board identity provider. So, IT admins wouldn’t be forced to spend a lot of time just trying to get these two components to talk. The outcome from this setup would enable IT admins to simply point their WiFi access point to the cloud RADIUS server and assign users to the proper VLANs, thereby eliminating a great deal of work and effort.
Thankfully, the example listed above isn’t just a theoretical pipe dream. A solution called JumpCloud® Directory-as-a-Service® is enabling IT admins with the ability to perform this cloud 802.1x function easily and effectively. Plus, this isn’t all it can do. While 802.1x can rightfully be called a networking security function, JumpCloud includes this feature as a part of its entire identity and access management platform, which provides users the ability to log in to any of their IT resources with a single set of credentials. That means users can log in to systems, applications, files, and of course networks, all with a single, secure set of credentials.
Learn More About JumpCloud
Ready to boost your network security with cloud 802.1x? Sign up today for a free JumpCloud account and see how our cloud-based directory services can enable you to let go of cumbersome on-prem implementations in favor or a clean, web-based console. If you’d like to see the product in action, go ahead and schedule a demo or visit our YouTube page for tutorials and informative whiteboard videos.
Ryan Squires
Ryan Squires is a content writer at JumpCloud, a company dedicated to connecting users to the IT resources they need securely and efficiently. He has a degree in Journalism and Media Communication from Colorado State University.
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Dozens Of Far Flung, Remote Villages Remain Cut Off Due To Snow
On November 9, 2019 by Observer News Service
SMC men cleaning snow from road at City centre in Lal Chowk Srinagar, Friday. (Photo: Abid Bhat / KO)
SRINAGAR – Dozens of villages, including border towns of Keran, Karnah and Machil in Kupwara and Gurez in Bandipora, in north Kashmir remained cut off for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday due to accumulation of several feet of snow, slippery road conditions and threat of avalanches.
About three to five feet of snow had accumulated in the upper reaches in north Kashmir, an official of Police Control Room (PCR), Kupwara, told UNI over phone on Saturday.
Officials said due to accumulation of snow, traffic on different routes, leading to far flung and remote areas, including near Line of Control (LoC), remained suspended since Wednesday following heavy snowfall on Tuesday night.
The PCR official said three main roads of Kupwara-Karnah, Kupwara-Keran and Kupwara-Machil are closed for any vehicular movement due to snow. “The roads are very slippery and there is also threat of avalanches, he said.
Meanwhile, the Razdan pass, connecting Gurez, Neeru and dozens of other areas near LoC in Bandipora district, was closed due to heavy snowfall. The road has been closed on Wenesday morning for any vehicular movement due to several feet of snow and slippery conditions.
The authorities have already pressed into service snow clearance machines and cutters to clear the snow and put through the road, which remained closed for six winter months in the past. The government has already approved a tunnel at Razdan pass to make it an all weather road.
The district administration in both Kupwara and Bandipora districts claimed to have already made all arrangements to meet any snow challenge, officials said, adding snow cutters and other sophisticated snow clearance machines have been pressed into service to clear the accumulated snow.
Meanwhile, administration has stocked enough essentials, including rice, atta, sugar, LPG cylinders, medicine at areas which remained cut off during winter with their district and tehsil headquarters in both the district.
Fresh landslide blocks JK highway, 1000’s stranded
A fresh landslide blocked the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district on Saturday, leaving thousands of commuters stranded at various places, officials said.
The traffic on the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country, was restored in the morning after remaining closed for two days due to heavy snowfall and landslides at several places.
“A massive landslide occurred on the highway near Mahar, 2 km away from Ramban town, around 2 pm, forcing closure of the road,” a traffic department official said.
A clearance operation was immediately launched but, given the volume of the debris, the road is likely to be thrown open for traffic only on Sunday, according to the official.
Light motor vehicles (LMVs) were allowed to move from both sides — Jammu and Srinagar — on Saturday morning, the official said, adding the fresh landslide left thousands of commuters stranded.
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic on Thursday after the Kashmir Valley and high-altitude areas of the Jammu region experienced first major snowfall of the season.
Mughal road, the alternate road that connects border districts of Poonch and Rajouri, remained closed for the fourth day on Saturday, the officials said.
The road was closed for traffic on Wednesday after heavy snowfall along the Pir Ki Gali and Shopian stretch, the officials said.
Air traffic resumes from Srinagar airport after 2 days in Kashmir
Air traffic resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended for two days due to poor visibility and heavy snowfall from Srinagar International Airport, where flight services were made operational in the afternoon.
However, the morning flights from the only airport in the valley were cancelled due to poor visibility.
“The air traffic from Srinagar airport has been resumed after 1300 hrs following improvement in the visibility,” an Airport official told UNI.
He said all the flights after 1300 hrs were operating normally. But, he said all the morning flights had to be cancelled due to poor visibility following cloudy weather.
Meanwhile, passengers alleged that the air fare has sky rocketed during the last two days. “As the valley was cut off from the rest of the country due to closures of Kashmir highway and Mughal road, the air ticket rates hiked many folds, despite the air traffic also remaining suspended,” Irfan Saleem, a resident of Srinagar, told UNI.
He said ticket from Srinagar to Delhi, which was being sold at Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 is being sold at Rs 10,000 to 11,000. “The authorities have been talking about capping the rates, but no such initiative has been taken so far and the common people are suffering. (With PTI, Agency Inputs )
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Funds & Institutional
IQ-EQ event shines spotlight on impact investing in Africa
Earlier this month, IQ-EQ hosted an insightful thought leadership event in Johannesburg for the South African investment community, themed on the topic of impact investing in Africa.
Attendees of the exclusive event enjoyed an inspiring keynote speech from special guest Christopher Bertish, a noted South African surfer, stand-up paddleboarder, adventurer and motivational speaker, followed by an informative panel discussion featuring an impressive line-up of experts from across the African private equity sector.
Kicking off the session was Sridhar Nagarajan, IQ-EQ’s regional managing director based in Mauritius, who welcomed the audience to the firm’s first Thought Leadership Series event in Africa since launching the IQ-EQ brand in March. He noted:
“Africa is of great strategic significance to IQ-EQ; we have 375 professionals based in the region, across Mauritius, South Africa and Kenya. Over the coming year we plan to invest significantly in key African markets; South Africa being the foremost among them. Today’s presentation is on a topic close to our hearts – impact investing – which has a vital role to play in bridging the social and economic divide in Africa.”
Sridhar then introduced keynote speaker Chris Bertish, an inspiring athlete who won the Mavericks Big Wave Surf contest in 2009 and completed the first ever solo and unsupported stand-up paddleboard crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 2017. In his presentation, titled ‘Achieving the Impossible: The Mavericks Big Wave Story’, Chris said: “I’m dealing with an environment that is deadly, volatile, in flux and in change all around me. It’s very similar to the environment all of you in the economics and financial fields are facing. The only constant that we know in life is change. My advice is: plan for the worst and hope for the best.”
A dynamic panel discussion followed, moderated by Charles Buchanan, local managing director of IQ-EQ South Africa. Sitting on the panel were: Yvonne Maitin, Founder and CEO of private equity impact fund manager One Africa Capital Partners; Grant Cornish-Bowden, Business Development Manager of leading ESG and impact consultancy EBS Advisory; Langa Madonko, Investment Principal at specialist alternative investment manager Summit Africa; and impact investment expert Johnny Ohgrøn Hansen, Executive Investment Director of InvestPire.
Panellists were first asked about the importance of impact investing in Africa. “We are living on a continent where 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 10% of the people, or less. Unless we deal with this ticking bomb, I don’t see how we are going to generate returns for investors or for us as an economy,” said Yvonne Maitin.
On the question of why it is difficult to sell impact investing, Grant Cornish-Bowden commented: “The solution lies in being able to quantify the impact you are already making as investors. Explaining to an investee company what impact is and how you want to measure it in their business is difficult and sometimes not relevant to their business model. How you recommend to the GPs and the other businesses you are involved with and tackle the issue of measurement is the crux of the matter.”
How can we best measure impact? “An important aspect of measuring impact is to find out where it lives. Impact does not necessarily live in the entity but outside the entity. The impact is what the job meant or what the investment allowed. Impact measurement also comes at a price. The highest cost of this is data acquisition, especially when it is outside your direct sphere of influence. It is really important to understand what is relevant to your stakeholders and portfolio and the communities they serve. Choose the areas of impact you want to report on, and be incredibly specific about that,” said Johnny Ohgrøn Hansen.
Lastly, the panel participants were asked this key question: What is the best way to sell the story of impact investing? Langa Madonko responded: “A part of explaining ‘Why impact investing?’ is about being able to articulate the value you will extract from the interventions you have put in the business. For instance, to take the example of ESG, you must be able to say to an investee company that if you do the following interventions, there will be cost-cutting and social impact alongside. Another aspect is: What proportion of the story are you feeding back to the community? For instance, you must be able to say, we are not just creating jobs but these jobs are being created for the local community. Of course, the easiest one to sell is governance. It is always easy to tell a business why we are focusing on governance – to make the business investment ready.”
Summing up the proceedings, Charles Buchanan commented: “My take on this evening – we have Langa addressing some of the basic need issues in South Africa, Yvonne who gave up her corporate job to set up her own business to invest in other SMEs, Grant who has dedicated himself to measuring impact through his work on sustainable development goals, and impact specialist Johnny who chose to relocate from Europe to be here. A very good set of people to get us interested in the impact investing movement in Africa.”
He concluded, “IQ-EQ supports a lot of investment fund managers and businesses through Africa that have a positive impact on African economies. While our role is that of a service provider to the investment community, it is so positive for us to see the great impact that the businesses we support are making.”
Below you will find our events highlight video. For a recording of the full event (plus an exclusive interview of Chris Bertish), please click here.
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Fruit and Vegetable Derived Waste as a Sustainable Alternative Source of Nutraceutical Compounds
Dietary phytochemicals are widely investigated in the eld of chemistry, biology, nutrition, and medicine for their potential health-promoting eects. Indeed, many in vitro and in vivo studies provide evidence that a number of these compounds are involved in the prevention and/or control of chronic disorders such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. e exponential growth of plant waste production from the agrofood industry is a critical global issue, considering its storage, disposal, environmental impact, and potential health risks. However, the exploitation of plant wastes/by-products for the recovery of added-value compounds oers new avenue for industrial growth and waste management. Indeed, the research and development of new functional foods and health products from low-cost raw materials is of great importance in nutraceutical, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and agribusiness sectors. Besides, optimizing the processing methods of waste products in order to reduce biomass utilization and environmental risks, as well as to improve recovery of added-value compounds, represents an urgent and necessary technological innovation for the bene t of mankind. In an industrial point of view, moreover, the utilization of food waste for recovering nutraceuticals is economical not only in production line but also in their disposal e purpose of this special issue is to feature the scienti cknowledge on the nutraceuticals associated with plant waste products derived from fruits and vegetables and their in vivo and in vitro bioactivities. e information disseminated through this issue is hoped to serve as an interdisciplinary link between biochemistry of nutrition, functional foods, and food technologies. Knowledge of not only quantity and quality of nutrients and nonnutrients present in such functional foods but also their bioactivity may provide broader and valuable information on the food quality eld of research. is special issue about “Fruit and vegetable derived waste as a sustainable alternative source of nutraceutical compounds” covers research articles from dierent perspectives. Overall, most of the papers have been related to (i) extraction and characterization of bioactive compounds from plant by-products as sources of health-related bene- cial compounds; (ii) process ptimization; (iii) development of new products and functional foods; and (iv) in vitro and in vivo bioactivities of nutraceutical components present or extracted from plant food wastes. Among the submitted manuscripts, ve papers have been selected to be part of this special issue. e paper authored by V. Lele et al. deals with the development of chewing candy (CC)—utraceutical formulations from juices and by-products of juices of the fruits sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) and quince (Cydonia oblonga L.) with antimicrobial properties against a panel of pathogenic bacteria strains. Two texture-forming agents (agar and gelatin) were tested for CC formulation. e results obtained in this study indicated that all samples (juices and juice byproducts) displayed antimicrobial activity against all the Hindawi Journal of Food Quality Volume 2018, Article ID 8136190, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8136190 pathogens tested, and the largest inhibition zones against Bacillus and Proteus mirabilis were observed for sea buckthorn juice and quince juice, respectively. Moreover, the addition of all samples (sea buckthorn and quince juices and juice by-products) increased the antioxidant activity and total phenolic content of CC. $erefore, taken together all results, not just juice but also juice by-products, have great potential as desirable antimicrobial ingredients for the food industry with the best acceptability values found for CC prepared with agar and sea buckthorn juice by-products and with gelatin and quince juice. Abundant residues are generated by industrial processing of blackberry in juices and concentrates. $e study by Zafra-Rojas et al. analyses chemicals, minerals, organic acids, antioxidants, and dietary fiber of Mexican blackberry (Rubus fruticosus cv Tupy) residues and compares it with a prune-based commercial product. $e results show that these residues possess bioactive components and functional properties higher than the commercial sample. Indeed, they are a very rich source of malic acid, phenols, and anthocyanins that contribute to a remarkable antioxidant capacity as measured by the ABTS assay. In addition, the residues can reduce iron and contain high amount of dietary fiber with elevated water retention and swelling capacity. Due to these characteristics, this waste matter could be considered as a potential source of useful and healthy components. $e Bigarade is a bitter orange (Citrus aurantium L. cv Bigarade) whose unpleasant taste mainly restricts its utilization to industrial extraction of essential oils. $e study carried out by Lagha-Benamrouche et al. was aimed at debittering the peel of these fruits to obtain a jam preparation with appreciable sensorial quality. At the same time, a number of analyses have been carried out to check physicochemical characteristics, bioactive components, and reducing power of the jam in comparison with the original bitter fruit. $e results show that the debittering process, including treatment with salt (NaCl), heat, and water decreases acidity, sugars, proteins, bioactive compounds, and reducing power, whereas increases the ash rate. Nevertheless, this jam still remains an interesting source of bioactive compounds with antioxidant potential, to be considered for dietary purposes. $is may add new interest to the exploitation of this fruit cultivated in Algeria. Olive tree culture and oil production are of economic significance in Jordan. $e paper authored by Al-Widyan et al. faces the interesting problem of treatment and exploitation of olive oil industry by-products and wastes, in particular the solid waste, a lingocellulosic organic material called olive cake. Considering that the processing at the olive mills, usually performed during the cold season, needs large amounts of hot water and then expensive diesel fuel, the authors propose building a system combining a ground well component (receiving water from tankers that bring the water from nearby springs) and a heat recovery component exploiting the aerobic biological fermentation of the olive waste. A number of analyses are performed to assure that the olive cake can be used for extended periods as a source of fermentation. $e authors provide evidence that their system can significantly produce raises in the water temperature before entering the fueled-operated boiler, to satisfy much of the mill needs. Souza et al. have reported that custard apple (Annona squamosa L.) bagasse flour, a by-product from custard apple processing, could serve as a promising ingredient in cookies enabling good sensory acceptability. $e authors have also shown that the flour and the cookies formulations are rich in essential minerals (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, Ca, and Mg) and polyphenols (200 to 658 mg GAE/100 g). Overall, the research highlights that the custard apple bagasse pulp flour can be incorporated in food formulations to improve nutritional and functional properties.
Titolo: Fruit and Vegetable Derived Waste as a Sustainable Alternative Source of Nutraceutical Compounds
ATTANZIO, Alessandro
TESORIERE, Luisa
Poojary, Mahesha M.
Cilla, Antonio
Citazione: Attanzio, A., Tesoriere, L., Poojary, M., & Cilla, A. (2018). Fruit and Vegetable Derived Waste as a Sustainable Alternative Source of Nutraceutical Compounds. JOURNAL OF FOOD QUALITY, 2018, 1-2.
JOURNAL OF FOOD QUALITY
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1155/2018/8136190
Abstract: Dietary phytochemicals are widely investigated in the eld of chemistry, biology, nutrition, and medicine for their potential health-promoting eects. Indeed, many in vitro and in vivo studies provide evidence that a number of these compounds are involved in the prevention and/or control of chronic disorders such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. e exponential growth of plant waste production from the agrofood industry is a critical global issue, considering its storage, disposal, environmental impact, and potential health risks. However, the exploitation of plant wastes/by-products for the recovery of added-value compounds oers new avenue for industrial growth and waste management. Indeed, the research and development of new functional foods and health products from low-cost raw materials is of great importance in nutraceutical, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and agribusiness sectors. Besides, optimizing the processing methods of waste products in order to reduce biomass utilization and environmental risks, as well as to improve recovery of added-value compounds, represents an urgent and necessary technological innovation for the bene t of mankind. In an industrial point of view, moreover, the utilization of food waste for recovering nutraceuticals is economical not only in production line but also in their disposal e purpose of this special issue is to feature the scienti cknowledge on the nutraceuticals associated with plant waste products derived from fruits and vegetables and their in vivo and in vitro bioactivities. e information disseminated through this issue is hoped to serve as an interdisciplinary link between biochemistry of nutrition, functional foods, and food technologies. Knowledge of not only quantity and quality of nutrients and nonnutrients present in such functional foods but also their bioactivity may provide broader and valuable information on the food quality eld of research. is special issue about “Fruit and vegetable derived waste as a sustainable alternative source of nutraceutical compounds” covers research articles from dierent perspectives. Overall, most of the papers have been related to (i) extraction and characterization of bioactive compounds from plant by-products as sources of health-related bene- cial compounds; (ii) process ptimization; (iii) development of new products and functional foods; and (iv) in vitro and in vivo bioactivities of nutraceutical components present or extracted from plant food wastes. Among the submitted manuscripts, ve papers have been selected to be part of this special issue. e paper authored by V. Lele et al. deals with the development of chewing candy (CC)—utraceutical formulations from juices and by-products of juices of the fruits sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) and quince (Cydonia oblonga L.) with antimicrobial properties against a panel of pathogenic bacteria strains. Two texture-forming agents (agar and gelatin) were tested for CC formulation. e results obtained in this study indicated that all samples (juices and juice byproducts) displayed antimicrobial activity against all the Hindawi Journal of Food Quality Volume 2018, Article ID 8136190, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8136190 pathogens tested, and the largest inhibition zones against Bacillus and Proteus mirabilis were observed for sea buckthorn juice and quince juice, respectively. Moreover, the addition of all samples (sea buckthorn and quince juices and juice by-products) increased the antioxidant activity and total phenolic content of CC. $erefore, taken together all results, not just juice but also juice by-products, have great potential as desirable antimicrobial ingredients for the food industry with the best acceptability values found for CC prepared with agar and sea buckthorn juice by-products and with gelatin and quince juice. Abundant residues are generated by industrial processing of blackberry in juices and concentrates. $e study by Zafra-Rojas et al. analyses chemicals, minerals, organic acids, antioxidants, and dietary fiber of Mexican blackberry (Rubus fruticosus cv Tupy) residues and compares it with a prune-based commercial product. $e results show that these residues possess bioactive components and functional properties higher than the commercial sample. Indeed, they are a very rich source of malic acid, phenols, and anthocyanins that contribute to a remarkable antioxidant capacity as measured by the ABTS assay. In addition, the residues can reduce iron and contain high amount of dietary fiber with elevated water retention and swelling capacity. Due to these characteristics, this waste matter could be considered as a potential source of useful and healthy components. $e Bigarade is a bitter orange (Citrus aurantium L. cv Bigarade) whose unpleasant taste mainly restricts its utilization to industrial extraction of essential oils. $e study carried out by Lagha-Benamrouche et al. was aimed at debittering the peel of these fruits to obtain a jam preparation with appreciable sensorial quality. At the same time, a number of analyses have been carried out to check physicochemical characteristics, bioactive components, and reducing power of the jam in comparison with the original bitter fruit. $e results show that the debittering process, including treatment with salt (NaCl), heat, and water decreases acidity, sugars, proteins, bioactive compounds, and reducing power, whereas increases the ash rate. Nevertheless, this jam still remains an interesting source of bioactive compounds with antioxidant potential, to be considered for dietary purposes. $is may add new interest to the exploitation of this fruit cultivated in Algeria. Olive tree culture and oil production are of economic significance in Jordan. $e paper authored by Al-Widyan et al. faces the interesting problem of treatment and exploitation of olive oil industry by-products and wastes, in particular the solid waste, a lingocellulosic organic material called olive cake. Considering that the processing at the olive mills, usually performed during the cold season, needs large amounts of hot water and then expensive diesel fuel, the authors propose building a system combining a ground well component (receiving water from tankers that bring the water from nearby springs) and a heat recovery component exploiting the aerobic biological fermentation of the olive waste. A number of analyses are performed to assure that the olive cake can be used for extended periods as a source of fermentation. $e authors provide evidence that their system can significantly produce raises in the water temperature before entering the fueled-operated boiler, to satisfy much of the mill needs. Souza et al. have reported that custard apple (Annona squamosa L.) bagasse flour, a by-product from custard apple processing, could serve as a promising ingredient in cookies enabling good sensory acceptability. $e authors have also shown that the flour and the cookies formulations are rich in essential minerals (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, Ca, and Mg) and polyphenols (200 to 658 mg GAE/100 g). Overall, the research highlights that the custard apple bagasse pulp flour can be incorporated in food formulations to improve nutritional and functional properties.
URL: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jfq/
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: Settore AGR/16 - Microbiologia Agraria
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Sister Nivedita writes about Swami ji
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AS A PATRIOT
Perhaps the distinguishing feature of the Swami's patriotism was the fact that it was centred in the country itself. Like all religious teachers in India he had a more complex and comprehensive view of what constituted the nation than could be open to any lay mind. And he hoped for nothing from the personality or the methods of the foreigners. He occasionally accepted Europeans as his disciples, but he always disciplined them to the emphatic conviction that they "must work under black men".
Before meeting his own guru, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, he may be said to have imbibed completely all that the Europeanising movement among his own people had to give. His whole life from this point becomes a progressive recapture of national ideals. He was no student of economic sociality, but his Asiatic common sense and brilliant power of insight were of themselves enough to teach him that the labour-saving mechanism of the far West,— where vast agricultural areas have to be worked single-handed—could only be introduced to the remote East — where a tiny plot of land maintains each its man or men—at the cost of overwhelming economic disaster. He was eager indeed to see the practicability of modern science developed among his own people, but this was rather with the object of giving a new and more direct habit of thought than with any outlook on the readjustment of conditions.
He probably understood as well as any university student of the West, (for scholars there are the only people who understand the actual bearing of national and economic questions! statesmen certainly do not!) that the problem of Asia today is entirely a question of the preservation of her old institutions at any cost, and not at all of the rapidity of innovation. He was no politician : he was the greatest of nationalists.
To him the very land was beautiful,—"The green earth, mother!" The organisation of labour through all its grades, the blossoming of ideals, the fruitage of social and spiritual powers, of thought and deed, represented a mine of wealth from which his great mind and passionate reverence could perpetually draw forth new treasures of assimilated thought for the guidance and enlightenment of cruder people. It was not the religion alone, or the philosophy alone, or the Indian Samadhi alone that spoke to the world through this great teacher.
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kazblah
A look at the funny side of sport. Mostly.
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Help, I’m having tennis withdrawal
Posted by kazblah on February 2, 2016 February 2, 2016
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There’s always a little bit of heartache when the Australian Open finishes.
For one, it means the end of a very short local tennis season. No sooner have we welcomed Roger, Rafa, Serena and Vika into our living rooms than they’re packing their bags and off to the airport without a by your leave.
It’s all ‘I love Australia’ when they get here, cuddling up to our koalas and waxing poetic about the ‘happy slam’ but the ardour cools distinctly when they lose a match.
Then it’s I’m-a-tennis-player-get-me-out-of-here and see-you-next-year as they jump the next plane in the perennial chase for ranking points.
The distribution of the tournament silverware also heralds the start of footy season. As if Mitchell Pearce’s Australia Day antics weren’t reminder enough.
Don’t get me wrong. I love a good game of rugby league or AFL as much as anyone. Last year’s NRL grand final was a cracker.
But the season is interminably long and you’ve got to put up with a lot of boofheads along the way.
I know the whole Mitchell Pearce story isn't funny, but this piece of editing is sheer genius pic.twitter.com/Lf7fM0X9Yc
— Annabel Crabb (@annabelcrabb) January 28, 2016
But the worst thing about the end of the Australian Open is the crap TV that takes its place.
All tournament, Channel Seven’s tennis commentators dutifully spruik the network’s February prime time offering as if we’re in for an absolute treat. Bear in mind, this is the network that tends to win the ratings.
Post-tennis, we’re back to Home and Away, where we can find out who shot Charlotte (and, indeed, who Charlotte is). An added extra is the soap opera standard of a leading character returning from the dead, which guarantees some acting worthy of a Golden Raspberry award.
No, @manufeildel did not just say there was TOO MUCH SAUCE. #MKR what is life?! pic.twitter.com/zrle0yETHp
— Yahoo7 Entertainment (@y7entertainment) February 1, 2016
Or we can tune in for the 51st season of My Kitchen Rules, the highlight of which seems to be an uptight carbophobe implying that co-host Manu Feildel is portly. Which he is. The man sweats butter.
And who can wait for Wanted, in which Rebecca Gibney plays a misunderstood badass on the run. In a shocking departure for Gibney, she wears bad clothes and doesn’t brush her hair!
#RebeccaGibney’s Wanted — first look #trucker https://t.co/On5SKRDEix pic.twitter.com/k8JxkMVpME
— Australia Trends (@australizer) December 11, 2015
Over on Channel 10, it’s the Aussie version of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, where a collection of forgotten household names try to jumpstart their careers by eating live cockroaches.
Shane Warne has decided it’s a good place to restore some credibility after the controversy around his charity. Which shows what a deep hole he’s in.
Camp leader? Was it worth it? Go Skip! HAHAHA.Tuck Trials for #WarnieInTheJungle #ImACelebrityAU NFW – G (SW Team) pic.twitter.com/MRXnqEEg9Q
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) February 1, 2016
To get any taste of sport last night, I had to watch Four Corners’ report on match fixing allegations in tennis. My head still hurts.
The program featured very little tennis, a little bit of soccer, a lengthy segue into lots of casino footage and a whale called Paul Phua. Who’s not a whale at all. No one would push him back in the water if he washed up on the beach.
The main thing that emerged from Four Corners was that International Tennis Federation President David Haggerty has absolutely no clue what’s going on in his sport.
Seriously. This is him searching for a clue.
Admittedly, Haggerty’s only been in the role since September. But on last night’s performance, I reckon he’d still have trouble knowing which end of a racquet to hold.
With a stock standard answer straight out of the Colonel Klink school of media management, it made you wonder what, if any, preparation he’d done for the interview and what possible benefit he thought he could bring the sport by doing it.
As you’ve probably gathered, I’m having tennis withdrawal. Yes, it was time to get off the treadmill and I’m grateful for the return to something resembling normal sleep patterns.
But what am I to do with my evenings when the only thing resembling sport is the Republican presidential campaign?
On the bright side, it’s only six months to the Olympics.
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We are backing the junior doctors as they fight
Posted on April 6, 2016 by Keep Our NHS Public Greater Manchester
Keep Our NHS Public stands alongside the junior doctors as they are forced to strike to defend themselves tomorrow, Wednesday 6 April. And is crystal clear on where the blame lies: firmly with the government.
The junior doctors are opposing the undemocratic, bullying decision of Jeremy Hunt to impose the junior doctor contract unilaterally in August. And so, the first of two 48-hour strikes by junior doctors this month commences 8am Wednesday 6th April. Now they will provide emergency cover but they will withdraw that cover for the second 48-hour strike commencing 26 April.
Their consultant colleagues will ensure that there is safe and good continuity of emergency services during this action and that emergency patients will not come to any harm.
The government must shoulder the responsibility for cancelled non-emergency surgery and outpatient appointments, just as they are responsible for the 70,000 cancelled operations last year for reasons including fragmentation of services worsened by government legislation and underfunding for 6 years in a row.
What a failure of government to have driven doctors and the BMA to the point where they have no choice but to strike. The Government’s own Equality Impact Assessment confirms the new contract discriminates against women (over 54% of junior doctors) but attempts to justify that discrimination:
‘[A practice] that causes a particular disadvantage is lawful if it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.’ And what is the government’s ‘legitimate’ aim? – ‘To enable employers to roster doctors when needed across seven days including evenings and weekends more affordably.’ [1]
This amounts to using junior doctors as cheap labour and the deregulation and weakening of payment for unsocial hours will roll out rapidly to the rest of the NHS workforce if the doctors lose.
Dr Tony O’Sullivan, recently retired as a consultant paediatrician and Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public, said:
“KONP sees this bitter attack on junior doctors in the wider context of government measures to undermine the NHS as a public service. We call on the Shadow Opposition to unequivocally support the junior doctors in rejecting the imposed contract and to stand up for a return of the NHS to a national public service, fully funded from taxation, and able to provide sufficient doctors and nurses to staff safe public services once again.” [2]
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Disgruntled Employee With Firearms Arrested After Threatening Mass Shooting at Long Beach Hotel: Police
Posted 2:18 PM, August 21, 2019, by Tracy Bloom, Carlos Saucedo and Kimberly Cheng, Updated at 11:04PM, August 21, 2019
A possible mass shooting was thwarted when Long Beach police arrested a disgruntled Marriott employee who had access to weapons and allegedly told a coworker he planned to shoot everyone he saw at his workplace, the city’s police chief said Wednesday.
Police released this photo of the weapons seized in the arrest of a man accused of threatening a mass shooting at a hotel in Long Beach.
Rodolfo Montoya, 37, was arrested without incident at his home in Huntington Beach on Tuesday, according to Long Beach Police Department Chief Robert Luna.
Investigators searched the home and seized multiple firearms, including an assault rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and high-capacity magazines, Luna told reporters at a news conference where the arrest was announced.
“I believe the Police Department has worked to avert what could have been a real tragedy in this community,” Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said.
The investigation began when a worker contacted authorities on Monday evening to alert them to a verbal threat of violence against the Long Beach Marriott, according to police.
Montoya was employed as a cook at the hotel, which is located in the 4700 block of Airport Plaza. Investigators believe he was upset over some recent workplace activity having to do with human resources.
In expressing his anger to the coworker, Montoya allegedly detailed a plot where he would shoot fellow employees and guests coming into the hotel, according to the police chief. He also described the tools he would use to carry out the plot.
“Suspect Montoya had clear plans, intent and the means to carry out an act of violence that may have resulted in a mass casualty incident,” Luna said.
But, according to the chief, the possible plan was thwarted when the coworker contacted police, prompting an investigation that led to a search warrant and an arrest.
Luna credited the employee’s tip with potentially saving lives and reminded the public that coming forward with information is the only way those types of incidents can be reported.
“We’ve seen countless of acts of senseless violence throughout the country in the last several months,” he said. “We want to remind everyone that if you see, hear or read about any threats or suspicious activity, I believe that it is your obligation to report that to the police.”
Investigators are looking into how Montoya obtained the cache of firearms and ammunition.
He has no known criminal record, but some of the firearms may been illegal to possess in California, as were the high-capacity magazines confiscated from the suspect’s residence, according to Luna.
Montoya was being interviewed by detectives on Wednesday afternoon, the police chief added.
He was booked on suspicion of manufacturing and distributing assault weapons, possession of an assault weapon and making criminal threats, according to a police news release.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call police at 562-435-6711. Anonymous tips can also be left by dialing 1-800-222-8477, texting TIPLA plus your tip to 274637, or going to the website http://www.lacrimestoppers.org.
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BE PREPARED FOR THE CHANGING FACE OF IR35
BE PREPARED FOR THE CHANGING FACE OF IR35-
This month the government will be considering responses to its policy paper and consultation - Off-payroll working rules from April 2020– looking at how the reform to the rules should go forward within the private sector. Chartered Accountant Chris Langrick considers six steps companies should take to avoid confusion next year.
The UK economy is increasingly reliant on contractors – self-employment has grown from 3.3m in 2001 to 4.8m in 2018– so it’s no wonder that the government is looking to review IR35, which has been in existence since 2000, to make sure that self-employed contractors pay the correct income tax and national insurance.
Some of the statistics that we hear about are very misleading. There is a lot of talk about how much additional tax the changes are likely to bring, but these focus on PAYE and national insurance. Little or no thought has been applied to lost corporation tax or the slow-down in business growth from an inability to maintain a flexible work force.
The recent consultation is designed to help shift the responsibility to determine tax status and associated risks from the self-employed worker to the hirer. This has been in place in the public sector for over two years, but now the focus is switching to medium and large-sized businesses who will have to comply by April 2020. Companies hiring self-employed workers will be required to take “reasonable care” when assessing roles.
So what can you do as a company to help yourself ahead of these changes:
1. Learn more about IR35
Nothing focuses the mind more than an unexpected tax bill, so don’t be vulnerable to it. Understand the new rules and how they might affect you and don’t miss out by being mis-informed when you are competing for much needed contractor talent – especially in the IT sector. Get ahead of the reforms by moving it right up the agenda and setting up groups of specialists with just that brief. A cross-functional working group – HR, finance and procurement – could make good progress towards 2020 by looking at implications, reviewing internal processes and talking to industry peers.
2. Don’t make the same mistakes as the public sector
There is definitely an opportunity for the private sector to get this right and learn from the mistakes of two years ago. Then, some public sector organisations incorrectly classified contractors as inside IR35, insisting the move to PAYE, or just banned contractors operating through personal service companies (which is the group that IR35 targets).
3. Review your contractor community
Look closely at your existing contractor workforce and establish the nature of the contract and working practices of each contractor. Most companies find some contractors working outside IR35, some within it and a pool of people who are somewhere in the middle. You can help them keep their contractor status through changes to their working practices. Be vigilant and thorough.
4. Work closely with recruiters
Make sure that people who supply labour to you properly understand the coming changes and realise that from April 2020 liability for non- compliance will shift down the labour supply chain and rest with the party that has failed to fulfil its obligations. This is a serious increase in risk for everyone in the supply chain and why it is really important to put a best practice approach in place this year with them.
5. Get specialist advice if you need it
It can be a complicated matter discerning where workers fall in terms of IR35 so you may need the support of an external legal IR35 partner to help you comply with the new regulatory framework. If you can establish a robust set of new policies in the next 12 months, you will avoid the confusion experienced by the public sector – we can and should do better this time.
6. Reassure your contractor pool
By talking and communicating regularly on the topic you will keep conflict and confusion to a minimum. Contractors will naturally have many concerns e.g. switching to PAYE could reduce take home pay so this is an emotive subject. Make sure they are included in discussions and get the message across that you are taking the proposed reforms seriously. They will be looking for reassurance that you will take ‘reasonable care’ and will not be looking to impose blanket assessments, or that - worse-case scenario - the change will bring an end to a flexible workforce. Show you are committed to fulfilling your obligations to contractors outside IR35 - no need to fear the rules – and that things can be done for those inside IR35 who still want to remain as contractors to help them stay outside of IR35 and maintain their self-employed status.
For some businesses the prospect of losing a skilled contractor community by mishandling the IR35 changes is a serious risk and HMRC has been crystal clear in its call for companies to step up their game. Get it wrong and there could be a real possibility that workers could be alienated or driven away. Responding quickly and robustly is the key to least disruption.
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To Tweet Or Not To Tweet? I’m TechnoLawyer’s Pick of the Week!
Filed under: Law,legal technology,legal writing,Social media,Technology — Helen Gunnarsson @ 12:01 am
Tags: BlawgWorld, Illinois Bar Journal, Social media, TechnoLawyer, Twitter
Wowie zowie–TechnoLawyer chose my cover story, “To Tweet Or Not To Tweet,” in the current issue (August 2011) of the Illinois Bar Journal, for BlawgWorld’s Pick Of The Week!
BlawgWorld publishes newsletters for lawyers. Its editors cull what they judge to be the best articles from legal publications all over the web for a handy weekly e-mail newsletter. (I don’t know how those editors work, but by even a conservative measure, that’s a LOT of articles to weed through every week. Lawyers deal in words, after all, and there’s a legal publication for practically every state, every local bar association, every national bar association, and every area and size of practice within those locales. There are also legal publications for gadgets and software that lawyers use. Then there are legal blogs, also known as blawgs–hundreds of those, at a minimum, many of which contain superb writing and insights.)
From all of those articles, the editors at BlawgWorld choose around a hundred each week to link to. From those top 100, they select ONE to excerpt and feature at the top of the newsletter. For the week of August 9, it’s mine! My head is still spinning.
The best things in life are free, and that includes BlawgWorld’s newsletters. You can subscribe by hitting the nice badge above that they sent me and following the instructions on the page it takes you to. Thanks so much to BlawgWorld’s great newsletter editors, Adriana Linares and Liz Kurtz, as well as to Neil Squillante, BlawgWorld’s publisher, and Kathryn Hughes, who writes the TechnoLawyer Blog, for choosing my article to feature. Thanks to all the lawyers I interviewed for the article and for the related , who provided terrific insights and commentary; I’ve included all of them, as well as many more, in my Illinois Lawyers Twitter list. Special thanks to Sonya Olds Som, a lawyer and business development specialist at the legal search firm Major, Lindsay, and Africa, and Carol Ross, a career coach in Boulder, CO and fellow Northwestern alum, who gave me good insights into social media back in 2009 for my article, “Twitter and LinkedIn and Facebook, Oh My!” that appeared in the June 2009 issue of the IBJ. And thanks to my own wonderful editor at the Illinois State Bar Association, Mark Mathewson, for all of his work and support!
Crime fiction, Giller Prize, CLE
Filed under: Books and writing,CLE,crime fiction,Europa Challenge,Law,literary prizes,Social media — Helen Gunnarsson @ 12:01 am
Tags: Canadian literature, CanLit, CLE, crime fiction, Giller Prize, noir, The Europa Challenge Blog
Despite its popularity, crime fiction isn’t generally a genre that attracts me. Even though I’ve practiced only civil, not criminal, law, it’s just always seemed too much like reading about work in my free time. By its nature, any crime fiction novel involves an investigation, which is common to any legal matter, criminal or civil. Often lawyers are involved. And then there are the gory details–sometimes more, sometimes less.
But Sarah Weinman has an article in The Wall Street Journal that explains what its devotees see in it. Reviewing a new translation of French noir novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette‘s “Fatale,” Weinman writes “One way crime novels become classics is by channeling the social concerns of the day. Raymond Chandler’s novels were indictments of moral corruption, pre- and post-World War II, while Dashiell Hammett countered Jazz Age excess with a decided anti-capitalist bent. These works offered a window into how the world really works, not how we wish it did.”
Weinman’s analysis makes sense to me, and it’s helping to convince me to plan on reading some noir in the near future. Reading some intriguing reviews and mentions of noir such as Jean-Claude Izzo’s and Carlo Lucarelli’s works on The Europa Challenge Blog, which are published in translation by Europa Editions, is strengthening my resolve. Crime fiction always includes strong stories and place settings, both of which I love. And I’ve observed that doing or reading something outside my usual routine on a regular basis almost always reinvigorates me.
Speaking of the Europa Challenge blog, after noticing a tweet yesterday about the forthcoming announcement of the longlist for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize, which annually recognizes the (arguably) best Canadian novel or short story collection published, I wondered (via tweets) whether some of the many Canadian booklovers might establish a Giller Prize Challenge Blog along the same lines as the one for Europa Editions books, which, in turn, was inspired by The Complete Booker blog.
The Giller Prize has been awarded only since 1994, so there aren’t as many to choose from–and those with far more expertise in CanLit than I pointed out that the quality of some of the winners has been controversial. So I proposed (also by tweet) that if someone does decide to establish a challenge blog, extending the reading challenge to books that made the shortlist–to expand the choices, not to challenge participants to actually read all of them (unless they really wanted to). As on the Europa Challenge Blog, participants could choose to read 4, or 7, or 14, or any other number, for various levels of satisfaction.
Toronto literary critic Steven W. Beattie responded by linking to a recent post of his own criticizing the method for selecting Giller contenders. Follow him, @bookgaga, @janetsomerville, @jadeperreault, @lawartsculture, @GillerPrize, and, of course, @MargaretAtwood, among many other bookloving Canadians, on Twitter for incisive tweets about CanLit and more. Please follow my fellow bloggers over at The Europa Challenge Blog, too!
I was thrilled to learn this week that several of my articles that have appeared in the Illinois Bar Journal will be included in materials for upcoming CLE seminars in Illinois and Oklahoma. “Tech tools for solos” and “From Sheepskin to Shingle,” both of which appeared in the September 2009 issue of the IBJ, will be part of the materials for an Oklahoma Bar Association seminar on the basics of law office technology, while “Unbundling Explained,” published in the October 2010 IBJ, will be included in the materials for a webinar from the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education on Limited Scope Representation. I had a lot of fun writing the lead article in the current (August 2011) IBJ, “To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: Twitter For Lawyers,” since as part of my preparation I got to talk to and quote a number of lawyers I follow on Twitter.
Are you reading or planning to read anything that’s unusual for you?
More on court opinions on the Internet
Filed under: judiciary,Law,legal technology,Social media,storytelling,Technology — Helen Gunnarsson @ 10:37 am
Tags: FastCase, Illinois Bar Journal, Justice Thomas Kilbride, Lady Gaga, unpublished opinions
Yesterday I posted about the distinction that a decreasing number of jurisdictions, including Illinois and the federal courts, make between “precedential” and “nonprecedential” opinions, historically referred to as “published” and “unpublished.” Today brings word of an interesting new article by Peter W. Martin of Cornell Law School, “Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law.” The article, which you can download without charge from SSRN, discusses Arkansas’s cessation of publishing its state courts’ opinions in the Arkansas Reporter, which had been the official record of those decisions, in favor of posting them on the Internet, where the state’s Reporter of Decisions maintains them as official records, and “explore[s] the distinctive alignment of factors that both led and enabled the Arkansas judiciary to take a step that courts in other jurisdictions, state and federal, have so far resisted.” Thanks to Prof. Martin for making this article freely available, and a Hat Tip to Paul Lomio of Stanford Law School and Legal Research Plus for posting and tweeting about it.
On still more breaking electronic legal news, congratulations to young legal research provider FastCase on inking deals with the D.C. and Georgia Bars. I wrote in 2009 about the company’s service, which the Illinois State Bar Association provides to its members as a free benefit, for the Illinois Bar Journal. As part of preparing the article, I interviewed Fastcase’s CEO, Ed Walters, whose business acumen so impressed me that I interviewed him again and got more great commentary for a subsequent IBJ article on social media for lawyers.
And in other news related to the Illinois Supreme Court’s recent amendment of SCR 23, the state court rule that distinguishes precedential from nonprecedential appellate opinions, my profile of Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride in the Illinois Bar Journal, which includes a sidebar explaining the justice’s leadership with respect to the court’s action, is now up. (Link may not work if you’re not a member of ISBA, and, if you’re a lawyer or a judge, you really ought to pony up and join 😉 .) The justice has a fascinating and inspirational story, and I was honored to get to tell it in the pages of the IBJ.
On a completely different subject that has nothing to do with the law or court opinions, here’s a link to a LadyGagaLicious video: Zheng Lab’s hilarious “Bad Project.” Send it to your favorite scientist! Hat Tip: Freelance writer Sandra Boncek Hume.
Thursday Thanks: Adrian Mark Baron and The Nutmeg Lawyer
Filed under: Law,Social media — Helen Gunnarsson @ 9:09 am
Tags: blogs, Lady Gaga, Nutmeg Lawyer, Thursday thanks
Today I’d like to thank Connecticut lawyer Adrian Mark Baron, who writes the outstanding Nutmeg Lawyer blog, for including this blog on his blogroll. As the name of Baron’s blog suggests, it’s a mite spicy–just enough to make its substance, the trials and tribulations of daily law practice, interesting and fun to read. How could you NOT click on a link to a post entitled “Lawyer Lessons From Lady Gaga?”
Like this blog, The Nutmeg Lawyer is a relative newcomer: Baron began it in 2009, when I remember reading more than one article suggesting that the legal blogosphere was saturated. He’s proven that there’s always room for high quality writing and content, having already been profiled, reprinted, and recommended in major legal publications in the US and Canada, including American Lawyer Media’s law.com and Oklahoma lawyer Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog.
Speaking of the fabulous Lady Gaga, two weeks ago I linked to this video of her hit, “Bad Romance,” by the University of Oregon a cappella men’s group, On The Rocks . For a much different, but equally delightful, interpretation of a Lady Gaga hit, check out tween Greyson Chance’s rendition of “Paparazzi” (if you’re not among the more than 31 million who have already watched it).
Dinner guests from purgatory
Filed under: Books and writing,First Amendment,Law,Social media — Helen Gunnarsson @ 12:01 am
Tags: book banning, First Amendment, South Africa, Twitter
Thanks to Zimbabwean lawyer and writer Petina Gappah for posting a link to South African writer and filmmaker Gillian Schutte’s account of a dinner party not quite from hell, but, perhaps, from purgatory. Schutte’s impromptu guests were 2001 Nobel literature laureate V.S. Naipaul and his wife, Nadira. I’m disappointed that she doesn’t report whether they brought a hostess gift! The site that published Schutte’s review, BOOK Southern Africa, looks like a great resource for those interested in South African literature.
South Africa banned Shirley Jackson’s famous and deeply unsettling short story, “The Lottery,” after it was published in 1948. On learning of the banning, Jackson reportedly said she was pleased, for it indicated that the South African authorities at least understood her story.
After The New Yorker published Jackson’s story, it received hundreds of letters expressing shock, confusion, and disgust, which the magazine forwarded on to Jackson. Some letters were abusive, and, indeed, Jackson’s own mother told her that neither she nor Jackson’s father liked it and wondered why Jackson didn’t write something uplifting instead. An analysis of the story that appeared in the spring 1985 issue of the New Orleans Review is here.
I’ve previously noted that it’s Banned Books Week here in the US. The American Library Association has published lists of the most frequently banned and/or challenged books, not just in the US, but in other countries as well, together with summaries of the reasons stated for the challenges or bans. According to this article, Playboy reported in 1984 that “The Lottery” was among the 30 most often banned works in American schools and libraries. But it’s required reading in many schools also, including the 6th grade honors English class in my own community.
Anyone who still thinks that “Twitter is for twits” should consider how writers and passionate readers (including me) harnessed its power to publicize an attack on Laurie Halse Anderson‘s terrific YA novel, “Speak,” as reported by The Guardian, among other publications. And any reader of my posts can tell that I don’t generally approve of banning books. So many classics have been the subjects of banning attempts, and, whatever the book’s merit, it seems obvious to me that trying to prohibit people from reading a book has demonstrably the opposite of the desired effect, serving only to whet curiosity. In fact, I well remember my own reaction the one and only time that my father, who, throughout my childhood, used to take me to the library (my favorite place!), told me I was not to read a book–“Love Story,” by Erich Segal. That summer at camp, on discovering that one of my 11-year-old cabinmates had a copy, I immediately borrowed it from her and read it–and, on finishing, thought “That’s IT??!?”
First Amendment advocate though I am, I would agree that there are publications that have no redeeming value and should be legally prohibited, with criminal penalties for their creators. Child pornography comes to mind, as do crush videos. But, as the litigation over the law prohibiting the latter shows, it can be very difficult to craft legislation that doesn’t violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (though the Senate is again trying).
Do you agree? What do you think?
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Get-out-the-vote heats up (with Conor Oberst); new Those Far Out Arrows, Pro Magnum 7-inch…
Category: Blog — Tags: Conor Oberst, Pro-Magnum, Those Far Out Arrows — @ 12:39 pm October 18, 2018
Those Far Out Arrows’ new album, Part Time Lizards, comes out Nov. 2 on High Dive Records.
by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com
Apologies for not mentioning last night’s get-out-the-vote program at The Sydney (something came up). From what I’ve read in social media, it sounds like it went over well, though I’m told there were some notable no-shows by politicians.
There’s another voter rally coming up, this time at The B. Bar, 4330 Leavenworth St. (the old Castle Barrett), and Conor Oberst will be among the performers. It’s a couple days before the election, Nov. 4. Also on the bill are Miwi La Lupa and Edem Soul Music according to Kevin’s article in the OWH.
The event is sponsored by Kara Eastman, who is running against Don “Frying Pan” Bacon (I don’t know if that’s his real nick-name; I only know him from his frying pan ads. Is that a wrought-iron skillet, Mr. Bacon?).
Elections are 19 days away, people.
Dark. Majestic. Metal. Omaha 4-piece rock band Pro Magnum released a new 3-song 7-inch opus earlier this month designed to fry your head off.
The band consists of Alex Kinnerk, guitar; John Laughlin, guitar; Pat Oakes, drums and frontman John Vredenburg on bass and vocals. Recorded and mixed by Ben Brodin at the world-famous ARC Studios, the 7-inch also features eye-burning artwork by Devin Ferguson.
This is some heavy shit, but its crazy melodic. If you’re a Maiden/Priest devotee, you’re in luck. Get your copy of “Knight Speed” b/w “Easy to Sin” at Max Trax Records.
Knight Speed b/w Easy to Sin by Pro Magnum
The first song from the upcoming Those Far Out Arrows album, Part Time Lizards (2018, High Dive Records), dropped Oct. 10. The track “Be Alright” is “an acknowledgment of the fact that not everything will work out the way you intended, but in the end works just fine; it’s all up to you,” said band member Evan Keelan White in this New Noise article.
The Arrows are in the middle of a lengthy U.S. tour, playing tonight in Lafayette on their way back to Omaha for a gig at O’Leaver’s Oct. 25. You can pre-order the new album, which comes out Nov. 2, from the High Dive Bandcamp page.
Singer/songwriter Jeremy Mercy plays at The Barley Street Tavern tonight with Ian Lund. 9 p.m. and free!
Read Tim McMahan’s blog daily at Lazy-i.com — an online music magazine that includes feature interviews, reviews and news. The focus is on the national indie music scene with a special emphasis on the best original bands in the Omaha area. Copyright © 2018 Tim McMahan. All rights reserved.
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Pro Magnum was released on the MaxTraxRecords label. It can be purchased at Maxtraxrecords.com.
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Bright Eyes signs to Dead Oceans, to tour in 2020; new Meth Head Steamroller…
Criteria’s ‘Years’ drops (last week); new Digital Leather, Dereck Higgins…
Buggy Lewis and the Rabbit Grenades tonight; Your Smith Sunday…
Cursive, Criteria, Cloud Nothings tonight at Winchester…
Waiting for the other Bright Eyes shoe to drop; S. Raekwon gets the Document treatment (from Saddle Creek)…
What’s the deal with Bright Eyes? Relax, It’s Science Saturday…
Jack McLaughlin’s new track features help from Conor Oberst, Shawn Foree; he plays tonight at Slowdown, Jr…
Disq drops first track from upcoming Saddle Creek LP debut, Collector…
The record distribution mess: Saddle Creek, 4AD and others leave ADA for Redeye Distribution…
January shows of note: new Digital Leather track; Las Cruxes makes NPR best of Latin list…
Brad Hoshaw on Ah, the holidays… Uh Oh, Bayside Sunday…
Cami Cavanaugh Rawlings on Little Steven, Chris Isaak, No Thanks, Ben Keelan-White tonight; Child of Night, Shanghai Beach, Young Guv, Tony Molina, Grapetooth, Hall of Fame Sunday…
Carla Goodrich on Glow in the Dark, #BFF tonight; Noah’s Ark Was a Spaceship, Eric in Outerspace Saturday…
Doug Flood on Live Review: The Faint, Choir Boy at The Waiting Room; T.S.O.L. tonight…
LeAnn on Fizzle Like a Flood, Matt Geiler, Sleep, Big Business tonight; Jollys, No Thanks Saturday; Diane Coffee, Disq Sunday…
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Parts 1-4 of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE) are now available, for a total of approximately 249,000 words. The Santa Barbara Corpus includes transcriptions, audio, and timestamps which correlate transcription and audio at the level of individual intonation units.
Contents and Summaries
All transcriptions in the Santa Barbara Corpus parts 1-4 can be dowloaded for free by clicking here. Metadata is available here.
To access individual conversations and other discourse segments in the Santa Barbara Corpus, you may select the audio file and transcription you wish to download by consulting the Contents and Summaries.
To download the audio files in WAV (recommended) or MP3 format, do the following:
Select the transcription you want (e.g. SBC001 Actual Blacksmithing) under the listing of Contents and Summaries
Right-click on the audio format you want (WAV or MP3)
Select "Save link as...". This should save the file to your computer in the format you have selected.
Alternatively, you can do the following:
Select a transcription (e.g. SBC001 Actual Blacksmithing) under the listing of Contents and Summaries
Click on the audio format you want (WAV or MP3)
The sound will start playing on your computer, and you will see a bar on your screen. Wait a little while for the file to download to your computer (during which time you can listen to the streaming audio)
Click on the downward-pointing arrow at the right edge of the bar, and choose "Save as source". This should save the file to your computer in the format you have selected.
Although it is now available for free on-line (see above), the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English can still be purchased on CD and DVD from the Linguistic Data Consortium, at the following web pages:
Part 1: LDC Catalog No. LDC2000S85
A version of the Santa Barbara Corpus transcriptions in CHAT format, including metadata, is available for download here; CHAT transcriptions of individual conversations are also available here under Contents and Summaries.
The audio files for the Santa Barbara Corpus can also be downloaded from TalkBank.org, in either MP3 or WAV file format, from the following locations:
For MP3 files: https://talkbank.org/media/CABank/SBCSAE/
For WAV files: https://talkbank.org/media/CABank/SBCSAE/0wave/
SBCSAE by John W. Du Bois is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English is based on a large body of recordings of naturally occurring spoken interaction from all over the United States. The Santa Barbara Corpus represents a wide variety of people of different regional origins, ages, occupations, genders, and ethnic and social backgrounds. The predominant form of language use represented is face-to-face conversation, but the corpus also documents many other ways that that people use language in their everyday lives: telephone conversations, card games, food preparation, on-the-job talk, classroom lectures, sermons, story-telling, town hall meetings, tour-guide spiels, and more.
The Santa Barbara Corpus was compiled by researchers in the Linguistics Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Director of the Santa Barbara Corpus is John W. Du Bois, working with Associate Editors Wallace L. Chafe and Sandra A. Thompson (all of UC Santa Barbara), and Charles Meyer (UMass, Boston). For the publication of Parts 3 and 4, the authors are John W. Du Bois and Robert Englebretson.
The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English also forms part of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The Santa Barbara Corpus provides the main source of data for the spontaneous spoken portions of the American component of the International Corpus of English. In order to meet the specific design specifications of the International Corpus of English (allowing comparison between American and other national varieties of English), the Santa Barbara Corpus data have been supplemented by additional materials in certain genres (e.g. read speech), filling out the American component of ICE.
Contents & Summaries
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
SBC001 Actual Blacksmithing SBC015 Deadly
Diseases SBC031 Tastes Very
Special SBC047 On the Lot
SBC002 Lambada SBC016 Tape Deck SBC032 Handshakes
All Around SBC048 Mickey Mouse
SBC003 Conceptual Pesticides SBC017 Wonderful
Abstract Notions SBC033 Guilt SBC049 Noise Pollution
SBC004 Raging
Bureaucracy SBC018 Vet Morning SBC034 What Time
is it Now? SBC050 Just Wanna
SBC005 A Book
about Death SBC019 Doesn't Work
in this Household SBC035 Hold My
Breath SBC051 New Yorkers Anonymous
SBC006 Cuz SBC020 God's Love SBC036 Judgmental
on People SBC052 Oh You Need
a Breadbox
SBC007 A Tree’s Life SBC021 Fear SBC037 Very Good
Tamales SBC053 I Will Appeal
SBC008 Tell the
Jury That SBC022 Runway
Heading SBC038 Good
Strong Dam SBC054 'That's Good',
Said Tiger
SBC009 Zero Equals
Zero SBC023 Howard's End SBC039 Pretty Busy
Bird SBC055 The Mama
of Dada
SBC010 Letter of
Concern SBC024 Risk SBC040 Beaten on
a Regular Basis SBC056 What is a
Brand Inspection?
SBC011 This
Retirement Bit SBC025 The Egg
which Luther Hatched SBC041 X Units
of Insulin SBC057 Throw Me
SBC012 American
Democracy is Dying SBC026 Hundred
Million Dollars SBC042 Stay Out of It SBC058 Swingin' Kid
SBC013 Appease
the Monster SBC027 Atoms
Hanging Out SBC043 Try a
Couple Spoonfuls SBC059 You Baked
SBC014 Bank
Products SBC028 Hey
Cutie Pie SBC044 He Knows SBC060 Shaggy Dog Story
SBC029 Ancient
Furnace SBC045 The Classic
SBC030 Vision SBC046 Flumpity-Bump
SBC001 Actual Blacksmithing
This is a conversation recorded in rural Hardin, Montana. Mae Lynne is a student of equine science, and is the main speaker. She is telling Lenore (a visitor and near stranger) about her studies. Doris, Mae Lynne's mother, is doing housework, but joins the conversation near the end to discuss friends of their family.
Audio: WAV MP3 Text: TRN CHAT
SBC002 Lambada
After-dinner conversation among four friends in San Francisco, California. Participants are in their late twenties or early thirties. Harold and Jamie are a married couple, Miles is a doctor, and Pete is a graduate student from Southern California.
SBC003 Conceptual Pesticides
A conversation among three friends who are preparing dinner together, recorded in Southern California. Roy and Marilyn are a married couple, and Pete is a friend visiting from out of town. All participants are in their early thirties.
SBC004 Raging Bureaucracy
Family conversation recorded in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The primary participants are three sisters all in their twenties.
SBC005 A Book About Death
A conversation between a couple who are lying in bed, recorded in Santa Barbara, California.
SBC006 Cuz
A very lively interaction between two female cousins in their mid-thirties, recorded in Los Angeles, California.
SBC007 A Tree's Life
Late-night conversation between two sisters, recorded in Montana.
SBC008 Tell the Jury that
Task related interaction--an attorney preparing two witnesses to testify in a criminal trial. Recorded in San Francisco, California. Rebecca is a lawyer, June and Rickie are the witnesses, and Arnold is Rickie's husband.
SBC009 Zero Equals Zero
Task-related talk, a teenage couple recorded in Mobile, Alabama. Kathy is helping her boyfriend Nathan prepare for a math test.
SBC010 Letter of Concerns
A business conversation recorded in New Mexico. Brad and Phil are board members of a local arts society. Phil wants to talk business, while Brad keeps trying to leave to pick up his wife who's waiting for him at a bookstore.
SBC011 This Retirement Bit
A conversation among three friends before lunch, recorded in Tucson, Arizona. All three participants are retired women; Samantha (Sam) is 72, Doris is 83, and Angela is 90.
SBC012 American Democracy is Dying
University lecture, recorded in Riverside, California. This is a Chicano Studies class; the professor is the primary participant, although it is a small, summer school class, and nine members of the class occasionally interact.
SBC013 Appease the Monster
This is a family conversation/birthday party, recorded in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The five participants are family members: Kendra (the birthday girl) and Kevin are siblings, Ken and Marci are their parents, and Wendy is Kevin's wife. This segment is highly interactional and contains a lot of overlap.
SBC014 Bank Products
Task related talk—this is a loan officers meeting, recorded in a bank in a small town in rural southern Illinois. Joe and Fred are loan officers working for the bank. Jim is the president of the bank, and Kurt is a board member.
SBC015 Deadly Diseases
A conversation among three friends, recorded in Los Angeles, California. Ken and Joanne are a couple, and Lenore is a friend of theirs.
SBC016 Tapedeck
A sales encounter, recorded in an audio store in Santa Barbara. Tammy is planning to buy a new tape deck. Brad, a salesman at the audio store, is discussing various tape decks which he is trying to sell her.
SBC017 Wonderful Abstract Notions
A conversation between two male friends, recorded in Southern California.
SBC018 Vet Morning
A task-related interaction recorded in a veterinarian office near Madison, Wisconsin. All five participants work in the office, some as secretaries and assistants and some as veterinarians.
SBC019 Doesn't Work in this Household
A family conversation, recorded in Michigan. Frank and Jan (a married couple) are talking with Ron--Jan's brother who is visiting from California. Brett and Melissa are Frank and Jan's junior-high-age children, who are doing homework and also taking part in the conversation.
SBC020 God's Love
A segment from a sermon/lecture recorded at a small conference near Chicago, Illinois. The speaker is a pastor in his mid seventies.
SBC021 Fear
A segment from a rather lively sermon recorded in Boston, Massachusetts.
SBC022 Runway Heading
Task-related interaction, recorded in an air traffic control tower in Portland, Oregon. Lance is training to be an air traffic controller, and has just finished working a shift. Randy, an experienced controller, is giving Lance feedback/briefing on his performance on that shift.
SBC023 Howard's End
A segment from a book discussion group, recorded in Topeka, Kansas. The eleven participants are all women between the ages of 46 and 85.
SBC024 Risk
This segment consists of game-playing and game-teaching on a computer, and was recorded near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Jennifer and Dan are a couple in their early twenties.
SBC025 The Egg which Luther Hatched
This is a segment from a lecture on the history and theology of Martin Luther, part of an evening class held at a church, recorded in Delaware.
SBC026 Hundred Million Dollars
This is a city meeting, recorded in Chicago, Illinois. City officials interact with the public about a government grant which is being applied for, to fund community development. The city can only apply once, so are soliciting applications from various organizations and will submit the one they judge as best.
SBC027 Atoms Hanging Out
An entertaining science lecture and demonstration, recorded at a large public science museum in Chicago, Illinois.
SBC028 Hey Cutie Pie
A very intimate long-distance telephone conversation between a romantic couple in their early twenties, which took place between Pennsylvania and California.
SBC029 Ancient Furnace
This is a business conversation recorded in Northern California between Seth and Larry, who are meeting for the first time. Seth works as an engineer who designs, installs, and sells heating and air conditioning units. Larry has invited him to his home to give him an estimate.
SBC030 Vision
A segment from a sermon, recorded at a large Baptist church in Chicago, Illinois.
SBC031 Tastes Very Special
Face-to-face conversation recorded in a restaurant in Pullman, Washington. Sherry and Beth are sisters (in their late twenties), and Rosemary is their mother. The participants discuss what to order for lunch, interact with the waitress (Jamie) and engage in talk about family and friends while waiting for their food.
SBC032 Handshakes All Around
A face-to-face conversation that takes place at an outdoor neighborhood 'block party' in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The three main participants are neighbors, age 60 and upward, all of whom happen to be named Tom. Discussion centers on life histories, World War II experiences, and neighborhood gossip. The three are briefly joined by Tucker (the daughter of Tom_1), and Elaine (the wife of Tom_3).
SBC033 Guilt
A lively family argument/discussion recorded at a vacation home in Falmouth, Massachusetts. There are eight participants, all relatives or close friends. Discussion centers around a disagreement Jennifer (age 23) is having with her mother (Lisbeth).
SBC034 What Time is it Now?
A late-night face-to-face conversation recorded in Northampton, Massachusetts. Participants are a married couple (Karen and Scott) in their early twenties. Karen has just returned home from work, and the two are talking while winding down for the evening.
SBC035 Hold my Breath
Lively family argument/discussion recorded in the kitchen of a family home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
SBC036 Judgmental on People
Face-to-face conversation recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are three participants and a baby. Lisa and Kevin are siblings, Marie (the baby's mother) is a friend of Lisa's. Much of the speech event focuses on interaction with, and talk about, the baby, as well as gossip about friends and co-workers.
SBC037 Very Good Tamales
Informal, task-related (cooking) talk recorded in the kitchen of a family home in Corpus Christi, Texas. A family is making tamales. Main participants are Julia (an 80-year-old woman), her daughter (Dolores), and grandson (Shane). They are briefly joined by Kate (Shane's sister) who is watching TV in another room. The segment contains occasional codeswitching (English/Spanish).
SBC038 Good Strong Dam
This segment is part of a tour of Hoover Dam, on the Nevada-Arizona border. The presentation is highly practiced. The main speaker also answers audience questions.
SBC039 Pretty Busy Bird
Task-related talk, a training meeting recorded at an aquarium in Chicago, Illinois.
SBC040 Beaten on a Regular Basis
Scripted tour of the Kentucky Horse Park / Museum. Presenter also addresses questions from the audience.
SBC041 X Units of Insulin
Medical interaction recorded in Southern California. A patient (Paige) is consulting with her dietician (Kristen) regarding management of diabetes.
SBC042 Stay out of It
Family argument and task-related talk, recorded in Pasco, Washington. The recording begins in a car, and moves to the kitchen of a family home. Main participants are three teenage sisters (Sabrina, Kendra, and Marlena), their mother (Kitty), and step-father (Curt). A friend of Sabrina's (Gemini) is also present. The dispute centers around Kitty's belief that Kendra stayed the night at a friend's house without permission, something which Kendra denies having done. Argument and shouting is interspersed with Saturday-morning housekeeping chores such as doing dishes and laundry.
SBC043 Try a Couple Spoonfuls
Face-to-face conversation recorded in the living room of a private home in Boise, Idaho, between Alice (a nurse, age 49) and her daughter Annette (a student and bank employee, age 24). Topics center mostly on their work day, as well as mutual acquaintances.
SBC044 He Knows
Face-to-face conversation recorded in the living room of a private home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two friends (Cam and Lajuan) are talking about their families and friends, and their own experiences as gay men.
SBC045 The Classic Hooker
Face-to-face conversation recorded in the living room of an apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two friends (Corinna and Patrick) are talking and watching TV. Topics are at times rather raunchy.
SBC046 Flumpity-Bump Down the Hill
Medical interaction, recorded in Shreveport, Louisiana. A patient (Darren) is consulting with his orthopedist (Reed) regarding a knee injury from a recent skiing accident.
SBC047 On the Lot
Face-to-face conversation between two cousins (Fred and Richard) in their early thirties, recorded in a private home in east Los Angeles, California. Topics include Richard's new job selling cars, Fred's frustration with factory work, and Richard's recent breakup with his girlfriend.
SBC048 Mickey Mouse Watch
Christmas morning traditions and gift-exchange among family members, recorded in Fresno, California. Tim and Lea are a couple in their late fifties, Judy is their daughter, and Dan is Judy's boyfriend.
SBC049 Noise Pollution
Face-to-face conversation recorded at an outdoor family birthday party near Boston, Massachusetts. There are ten speakers, all related. Four siblings in their mid thirties to mid forties: Dan, Al, Lucy, and Annette. Allen (Sr.), age 76, is their father. Al and Annette are twins. Linda is Al's wife, John is Annette's husband. Dave and Jane are Al and Linda's children. Glen is Lucy's son. Topics center primarily on recent renovations to Lucy's home.
SBC050 Just Wanna Hang
Face-to-face conversation among four roommates, recorded in a shared apartment in Burlington, Vermont. Speakers are all students at the University of Vermont, women ages 20-21. Speakers engage in small-talk, make plans for the evening, and discuss household matters.
SBC051 New Yorkers Anonymous
Conversation recorded before and during dinner, in a private home in Laguna Beach, California. There are four speakers, ranging in age from mid forties to early fifties. Sean and Bernard are a couple, Fran is a long-time friend visiting from New York. Alice is also a friend of Sean and Bernard, but had never met Fran. Discussion focuses on travels, and reminiscing about New York City.
SBC052 Oh You Need a Breadbox
Phone conversation between family members at Christmas. Andrew and Cindy, a couple in their mid forties in Albuquerque, NM, are calling Andrew's sisters in San Antonio, Texas. Discussion centers primarily on Christmas and Christmas gifts, and topics prompted by recent television news shows.
SBC053 I Will Appeal
Task-related talk recorded in a small claims court in Santa Barbara, California. This segment consists of a judge pro tem hearing and deciding two cases.
SBC054 'That's Good', Said Tiger
Public storytelling event recorded after a church potluck in Chicago, Illinois. The speaker, a professional storyteller in her mid forties, tells several stories and interacts with the audience.
SBC055 The Mama of Dada
Public lecture/forum in Santa Barbara, California. Noted artist and ceramist Beatrice Wood gives a public lecture at the Santa Barbra Museum of Art, shortly after her 101st birthday. Wood talks about her life and answers audience questions.
SBC056 What is a Brand Inspection?
Face-to-face conversation recorded on a ranch near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Julie has recently bought a pony from Gary's wife, and is giving him a bill-of-sale. She then gives a brief tour of her property and barn.
SBC057 Throw Me
Task-related talk, a recording of a judo class in Shreveport, Louisiana. The five students and their instructor are males between the ages of 22 and 37. The instructor is demonstrating and coaching the Hane-Makikomi throw, which students are practicing with varying degrees of success.
SBC058 Swingin' Kid
Face-to-face conversation recorded in a private home in Boise, Idaho. Sheri, a single mom in her mid thirties, and her son Steven (age 11) talk while Sheri prepares dinner.
SBC059 You Baked
Face-to-face conversation, recorded in a family home near Beloit, Wisconsin on Christmas Eve. Cam and Fred are a couple in their early thirties. Jo and Wess are Cam's parents. Topics include talk about family and friends, a football game which Wess and Fred had just finished watching, and holiday baking.
SBC060 Shaggy Dog Story
Face-to-face casual conversation recorded in an office in Shreveport, Louisiana. The two speakers, Jon (age 72) and Alan (age 66) are friends/co-workers taking a break from work. Alan is primarily telling Jon about his travel adventures and interests.
To reference the Santa Barbara Corpus as a whole, the following bibliographical model may be used:
Du Bois, John W., Wallace L. Chafe, Charles Meyer, Sandra A. Thompson, Robert Englebretson, and Nii Martey. 2000-2005. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, Parts 1-4. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
To reference individual parts of the Santa Barbara Corpus, the following bibliographical models may be used:
Du Bois, John W., Chafe, Wallace L., Meyer, Charles, and Thompson, Sandra A. 2000. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, Part 1. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. ISBN 1-58563-164-7.
Du Bois, John W., Chafe, Wallace L., Meyer, Charles, Thompson, Sandra A., and Martey, Nii. 2003. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, Part 2. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. ISBN 1-58563-272-4.
Du Bois, John W., and Englebretson, Robert. 2004. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, Part 3. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. ISBN 1-58563-308-9.
Du Bois, John W., and Englebretson, Robert. 2005. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, Part 4. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. ISBN: 158563-348-8.
Most of the audio recordings were originally made on Digital Audio Tape (DAT), recorded in stereo at 32 kHz or 48 kHz, on Sony TCD-D6 or TCD-D7 portable DAT recorders, using small, high quality stereo microphones. (A few early recordings were made on high quality analog cassette recorders.)
The audio data as published by the Linguistic Data Consortium consist of 16-bit, stereo, 22.05 kHz audio files in WAV format (PCM).
Personal names of speakers on the recordings, as well as other identifying information such as telephone numbers, have been replaced by pseudonyms in the transcripts, and have been altered to preserve the anonymity of the speakers by filtering the audio files to make these portions of the recordings unrecognizable. Pitch information is still recoverable from these filtered portions of the recordings, but the amplitude levels in these regions have been reduced relative to the original signal. A separate filter list file (e.g. SBC001.flt) associated with each transcription/waveform file pair (e.g. SBC001.trn, SBC001.wav) is provided to list the beginning and ending times of the filtered regions. (The file SBC040.flt is empty indicating there was no personal information to filter out.)
The filtering was done using a digital FIR low-pass filter, with the cut-off frequency set at 400 Hz. The effect of the filter was gradually faded in and out at the beginning and end of the regions over a 1,000 sample region, roughly 45 milliseconds, to avoid abrupt transitions in the resulting waveform.
The following additional files are included on the published CD’s and DVD’s from the Linguistic Data Consortium:
segment.txt explanation of the information contained in segment.tbl
segment.tbl information about the speech event context
segment_summaries.txt brief summary of the content of each discourse segment
speaker.txt explanation of the information in speaker.tbl
speaker.tbl speaker demographic information
table.txt description of file names and informal titles
annotations.txt
list of conventions and prosodic annotations
Major funding for the creation of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English was received from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the form of a grant [Grant #RT-21433-92] to Wallace L. Chafe, John W. Du Bois, and Sandra A. Thompson of the UCSB Linguistics Department, and Charles Meyer of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The initial phases of the project to develop the Santa Barbara Corpus were made possible by a series of grants awarded to Chafe, Du Bois, and Thompson by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the College of Letters and Science, and the Office of Research, all of UC Santa Barbara. Additional funds were received from the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania. The completion and release of Parts 2-4 of the Santa Barbara Corpus was facilitated by funding extended by Talkbank, an interdisciplinary research project funded by a grant (BCS-998009, KDI, SBE) from the National Science Foundation to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania.
For more information about the Santa Barbara Corpus, contact:
John W. Du Bois, Director
dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu
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Sonya Clark
November 2, 2018 – January 5, 2019
Opening Reception with the Artist
Now is an urgent moment for conversations about American identity and the ongoing role of racism in our culture. This fall, Lisa Sette Gallery will exhibit works that present a new scholarship of American identity, a matrix formed by our disparate human narratives and our shared human experience. Textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark tests the interactions between elementary human materials—textiles and text, storytelling and visual symbols such as flags and currency, beads and human hair—as a method of revealing our national history and collective character.
Any examination of American identity must address the legacy of slavery and the ensuing, ongoing mistreatment of African and African-American bodies. Clark’s Slave Collar series is an unflinching look at slavery and its historical origins: words that encapsulate the practice of dehumanization and slavery are inscribed in a series of punctures through handmade cotton rag paper.
Clark explains that these haunting works, “are based on the parallel legacies of Empire building through slave labor in the Roman Empire and in the USA. Many of the enslavement practices of ancient Rome were employed in the Americas, including things like slave collars.”
With a methodical approach and clarity of purpose, Clark’s works manifest the exchange of stories and skills that are fundamental to human connection across time. The deconstructed flags of Clark’s renowned Unraveling project resulted from hours of work alongside volunteers from the public, who shared their reflections and their labor to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War by unweaving the threads of a tightly woven Confederate battle flag.
A continuation of this project, Interwoven presents the deconstructed fibers of the current US flag interwoven with the deconstructed flag of the Confederacy. The result is eerily not one thing nor the other; a shadow image reminding us of the difficulty of separating out the strands. “It’s not really about an oppositional relationship,” remarks Clark, “But instead to try and discern the complexity of the symbol, the complexity of the history, and work—or unwork—it together.”
Community and craft as an iterative function of the American experience is integral to Clark’s experience as a first-generation immigrant. Her story encompasses a vast breadth of identities that exemplify a resident of the American continents—raised in Washington DC by a Jamaican mother and father from Trinidad and Barbados, Clark’s distant ancestors had in turn, survived the carriage from West Africa on a slaver’s ship. A Scottish great-grandfather connected the family to Europe, and these days Clark travels widely among these diasporic branches of her family: to Europe and the Caribbean, Africa and the US. It is a family story with a unique vantage on the notion of American identity: forged through slavery, immigration, love, and an intergenerational linking of cultures.
In our family stories, Clark says, “the most personal becomes universal,” and at the present moment of our American story, this rendering from the personal to the universal feels particularly urgent. For Clark’s part, addressing the violence and iniquities borne by African-Americans in our society is only the first sentence in the story.
“Anger is justified, and then what? Because anger is simply an emotion. I’m much more interested in what happens next. How do we move forward? And how far have we moved forward?”
This exhibition is part of For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative, a non-partisan, nationwide campaign to use art as a means of inspiring civic participation in advance of the 2018 midterm elections.
Since 2016, For Freedoms has produced special exhibitions, town hall meetings, billboards, and lawn sign installations to spur greater participation in civic life. Building off of the existing artistic infrastructure in the United States, For Freedoms has developed a network of over 300 artists and 200 institutional partners who will produce nationwide public art installations, exhibitions and local community dialogues in order to inject nuanced, artistic thinking into public discourse. Centered around the vital work of artists, For Freedoms hopes that these exhibitions and related projects will model how arts institutions can become civic forums for action and discussion of values, place, and patriotism.
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Events / Hang out?
Macaronesia Fuerteventura
Onexe, the best SUP RACE club in Spain, with the best team
Onexe Club, in Corralejo, finishes the season with the title of Champion Spanish Club, apart from many other individual awards which turn it into a national benchmark in a sport that is gathering more and more participants and clubs.
But apart from this, Onexe, dedicated to Sup in all its modalities, is standing out internationally too, as many of their members, between 14 and 17 year-old athletes, have started to compete in European and World championships. We must highlight the performance of one of these champions, Esperanza, who in just one year has reached the female Top Ten in the world.
This club, which has the biggest national team, finishes the season with six Spanish champions in Beach Race (Esperanza Barreras, Benjamin Moreham, Rakele Mannino, Vince Duschneit, Antonio Valero y Luca Boni) and three champions of Spain in Long Distance (Esperanza Barreras, Izaskun Martin y Antonio Valero).
Besides, this year, the club prepared a team to take part in the European Circuit where they carried out 5 out of the 12 tests (San Sebastián, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Holland and Germany) getting wonderful results such as those by Nicolas Trujillo and Bárbara Bellavia, who got the podium in the Iberdrola Bilbao World SUP Challenge.
In the Race modality, Onexe took part – just in September – in the four most important national competitions this year, from where they brought back a total of ten golden medals; a true challenge not just regarding sports but also regarding logistics and economy, as they have to travel in a trailer with 20 4-meter-long boards.
And more successes: Onexe Surfski team took part, for the first time, in the Spanish championship taking place in Mallorca with 4 athletes of the club. The young Iago Camacho Boam, who already enjoyed the Canary Islands champion award, got the second position.
All these results could be obtained thanks to Onexe High Performance Centre, the first national centre credited by the Surf Spanish Federation and which has just become one year old. We talked to Óscar Ruiz, coach of the centre.
In just one year you have become the best Spanish Sup Club and you have started to have international and even global outreach. What has brought about this important leap?
This High Performance Centre has allowed us to talk about high performance training, we have raised the standards a lot. Competing abroad requires not just sacrifice but also persistence, values I instil in my athletes every day. Moreover, it’s not just about training in the water, we are for multi sport: functional training, jog outings, swimming, etc. It’s about assuming a sport life style, full of values and benefits, we even teach them nutrition.
This evolution is also due to well programmed team work, and this is because we have great coaches, Esperanza Barreras (SUP), Mauricio Correa (Surfski) and Javier Cozar (physical trainer) who being high performance athletes themselves also transmit this life style to the youngest athletes.
The answer of the team has been most satisfactory, they have showed a great change of mind and a complete dedication: for example, this Summer, 14 to 17-year-old youngsters haven’t just doubled the amount of training time but they’ve also worked in Summer camps we were carrying out in the nautical school. This says a lot about them!
How does a coach feel when they can see their work giving such results in such a short period of time?
I feel proud of the commitment they have assumed thanks to their motivation and to realising that work always gives results: all the podiums they have got to! It’s important to say that in Onexe we’re a big family, a team in which we motivate one another. When one of us gets a podium, despite being an individual result, all of us consider it as team work, because all of us have sacrificed, trained and motivated together. In one year they’ve reached a standard of training they themselves didn’t know they could reach. They said I was crazy when I told them to row for an hour and a half non stop; now they do it for two hours and they still run for half an hour after that to run flat; they laugh when I remind them (lol)
Above all, I feel prouder of this change of mind rather than for the awards, although podiums are necessary to be noticed and to get the funding we need to travel and compete, as carrying so much equipment is really expensive.
How does this success affect the Club?
The fact of standing out nationally and internationally is making Fuerteventura be known, especially the High Performance Centre; several international riders will come to train with our team to take advantage of our excellent weather and waves during the next Winter season.
ESPERANZA BARRERAS AND BENJAMIN MOREHAM, the two great stars of the club this season
The athlete Esperanza Barreras has managed to be among the female top ten with two silver medals (San Sebastián and Holland). She is positive that «this leap has been the result of the kind of training Óscar is carrying out in the High Performance Centre this year, not forgetting that the most important is to have fun and train in group, the team motivates a lot!»
How has this changed your life?
Now I spend longer in the water (lol). These results make me feel like keeping training to get better results. It’s a dream to have classified and represent Spain in the World Championship that will be celebrated in El Salvador at the end of November. I want to thank Onexe Club and Nayra Martínez, who help us to be able to make these trips, and to Iballa Runano and Sonni Honscheit, who always help us. They are examples of renowned athletes in the world.
The other big star is Benjamin Moreham, the first child from Onexe team with a potential still to be developed, who stood out internationally in China world championship 2018 (under 18 category) but who despite having classified to compete in El Salvador won’t be able to attend for not having applied for the double nationality in time.
FUERTEVENTURA SUP CHALLENGE WAVES & RACE 2019
The last event of the season will be here in Fuerteventura, organised by Onexe. We mean FUERTEVENTURA SUP CHALLENGE WAVES & RACE 2019, in its VII edition, consisting of 5 EVENTS, and it’ll be celebrated from December 6th – 8th in Majanicho, in Corralejo bay. Fuerteventura will become, these days, the SUP epicentre, gathering the best national and international riders in Spain championship of SUP wave and Spain Cups of Race and Beach Race, Longboard championship in the Canary Islands and the Prone_Lifesaving championship. Moreover there will be parallel activities for all audiences.
Benjamin Moreham and Esperanza Barreras
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An Evening in A&E
In my last post, I promised to tell you about what we did on our Friday night. We had a rocking family trip out. To A&E! I told you it was fun!
So, Reuben fell off something at nursery. He says a plank, but no-one really knows. He split his lip. That was all fine. Later, he said that he was feeling dizzy and sick and he couldn’t lift his arms. That was all not OK. We phoned NHS Direct and on their advice went to A&E at St Thomas’.
And so began the waiting. The system wasn’t immediately obvious to start with, but once we found the ticket machine behind a wall, we took a ticket. And waited. It was like Argos in Hell. I’ve been to Argos in Peckham on Christmas Eve, so I know what the Hell branch would look like. A lot like a Central London A&E on a Friday night.
We had ticket 250. The 2 desks behind us were displaying numbers 248 and 249 but there was no-one behind either desk. Someone came back. Hooray! They saw someone else. Boo! What number ticket could these people have that could possibly be between 249 and 250? Were there fractions?
Eventually, we were seen. It had been half an hour and Reuben had been jumping about, failing to look ill in the slightest. As soon as we were sitting down though, he pulled it out of the bag “I feel so dizzy. I feel sick”. All the time I was trying to talk to the nice lady. But at least we were registering. What? You thought we saw a doctor after half an hour? Noooo…this was just to say we were here and to gain access to the paeds section.
Once we were through the doors, things got a little better. There were toys! And a playhouse! But there were also other children and Reuben was not in a sharing mood. Luckily for him, some of them were actually ill and didn’t bother fighting back when he snatched toys. Don’t worry, he still got into trouble for snatching, head injury or no head injury.
By now, it was 9ish and Roo and all the other children were up past their bedtimes. Ever tried running an evening creche? Don’t bother – they were all on a knife-edge, permanantly close to meltdown. It was surreal. There was a small girl being sick, another with a bloodied ear and of course a schoolboy who’d broken his arm on a trampoline. There’s always one.
Then, we were seen again! By a very lovely nurse this time, who took Roo’s temperature and tried to get some sense out of him as to what had happened. “Is he delirious?” “No, he’s always like this”. She had pictures in her cubicle, and a pot of bubbles which Nathan blew for Roo to catch while Eva shrieked in delight. Once again, Reuben was not acting as ill as he could have been. Then it was back to the waiting room to wait for the doctor.
9:45PM, or bedtime+2.5hrs. Roo munching chocolate after severely flagging, Eva feeding after a big wibble, still waiting…..
At 10ish, Reuben had a major meltdown. Nathan took Eva, and Roo curled up in my lap sobbing “I want to go home. I want my bed”. I think it’s fair to say we were all feeling the same by that point. We’d spent a long time in a small, full waiting room and Roo badly needed some time out. So I suggested we go into the playhouse together, which we did. Roo made us some imaginary beans on toast, and we watching Finding Nemo on the imaginary TV.
And just like that, he had his second wind! Well, more like a fourth or fifth wind by this point. He started charging around the waiting room, gathering the toys up into the playhouse and putting out pretend fires with his fire engine. Eva hadn’t slept all evening, so I paced up and down past the cubicles with her in the sling, trying to get her to sleep. No luck. Roo joined us, and hopped on the leaves on the floor until….we were called!
The doctor looked Roo over, which he loved cause it was just like Dr Ranj on CBeebies. He wriggled and roared like a lion when asked to, hopped on and off the bed and generally behaved like a child that had no need of an A&E department. After three hours in aforementioned department. Unsurprisingly, the doctor said he was fine but that we’d been right to bring him, Phew! I’ve been brought up to respect doctors and so have a fear of Wasting Doctors’ Time, but she agreed that a 3-year-old with a head injury and dizziness needed checking. Then she prescribed a litre tub of ice-cream for me and Nathan, with sides of crisps and beer. Or maybe we prescribed those ourselves…..
So, a fun place to spend an evening. There are lots of things around the place to try and keep children entertained, but three hours with two small children in a small room is always gonna be a tough one. Thanks to the doctors and nurses who saw us – you were all lovely. We’ll see you next time he falls off something…
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3 Responses to An Evening in A&E
adventureswithgravel says:
You’re lucky the kids’ area is open – at Royal Surrey it shuts after about 7pm, just as the students and drunks start coming in 😦
katese11 says:
That’s a bit rubbish!!
I know! It’s definitely the time when you need the toys and lack of crazies the most!
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Home Electric Vehicles EV Cars Comparing Tesla, GM, etc 200+ mile range electric cars – Tesla’s control gives the advantage
Comparing Tesla, GM, etc 200+ mile range electric cars – Tesla’s control gives the advantage
David Herron January 9, 2016 January 8, 2016 EV Cars
It’s a bit premature to do this, but can we compare between the Chevy Bolt and Tesla Model 3? While precise details for these cars haven’t been published, enough is publicly known to draw a few conclusions. And while we’re at it, we can include some hypothetical information on some other 200+ mile range affordable EV’s that have either been announced or we expect will be announced shortly. Over the next 2-3 years we’ll see multiple affordable 200+ mile range electric cars on the market. It’s worth our while to ponder the relative potential for each.
Chevy Bolt: This was publicly shown at CES a few days ago, and we should expect more details at the NAIAS auto show in Detroit next week. It should go to production in late 2016, have a 200 mile range, a price of $30,000 (* After tax breaks), and all of GM’s goodies like OnStar and a dealer network.
Tesla Model 3: Tesla Motors has repeatedly promised there will be an unveiling in March 2016, and it should go to production in late 2017. Range will be over 200 miles, it will have access to the Supercharger network, an MSRP of $35,000, and the cachet of being a Tesla. If Tesla is true to its stereotype, this car will be fast and sexy looking.
Nissan Leaf: While the 2016 Nissan Leaf pushes the range to nearly 110 miles, the company hinted strongly at a 338 mile range version last summer, and showed a concept car last fall with 300 mile electric range.
Evade blocked charging stations with one of these handy J1772 extension cords.
VW e-Golf: An unverified statement from a VW exec (who was since pushed out due to Dieselgate) last September suggested a 200+ mile range e-Golf would be available sometime. This is in line with VW’s promise it would be a leader in electric vehicles by 2018, and to fulfill that promise means delivering several models and to push their electric driving range way beyond the current norm of 80-100 miles.
Surely BMW (i3) and Kia (Soul EV) will be doing a longer range, but I’ve not seen anything. These vehicles named here gives us enough to chew on. Any other entrants in the affordable 200+ mile range BEV club will be very welcome.
Tesla Direct sales versus and independent Dealership Network
Tesla Motors has built for themselves a loyal following and hugely positive goodwill. Most of us are excited about the company and eagerly waiting to learn about the Model 3 and are hoping to plunk down the dollars for a deposit as soon as possible. It’s hard to buy that kind of excitement, especially when you’re General Motors.
There are some distinct differences, one of which is the business model. The customers may actually be better served by an independent dealer network and independent service network. Or the customers may be better served by Tesla’s model of direct sales through company owned stores. I don’t know how to gauge which model is better, but of course the non-Tesla automakers all sell through a network of independent dealerships. Further, the laws across most of the U.S. require that sales and service be handled by companies which are not the manufacturer.
We love to hate dealerships and car repair shops. Many think the direct sales model is better, but the history of laws requiring independent sales and service companies is based in real events. When a manufacturer sells and services direct to consumers it’s possible for the manufacturer to screw its customers. But we’re talking about the car business, and it’s hard to tell who’ll screw the customers worse, the manufacturer or the independent dealerships and repair shops.
At least Tesla Motors is, at the moment, acting with great honor.
What we should look for is whether or when Tesla Motors will begin sales through franchised dealerships. The company plans to be selling hundreds of thousands of cars per year by 2020, and in the millions per year by 2025. Will the company-owned dealership model scale to this sales rate?
Tesla’s control of repair, versus independent repair shops
Tesla Motors has tight control over Model S and Model X repair. I’ve reported before that some Model S owners have received cease-and-desist letters when doing their own repairs on their car. I’ve even asked the un-askable, whether Tesla would ever turn evil due to all this control.
Tesla’s management says they’ve designed the Tesla Service department to provide excellent service to customers, and not to be a profit center. Hence, Tesla’s staff is incentivized to give great service and not to screw the customers to make an extra buck. With the other manufacturers the incentive is the other way around, which is why we have so many bad experiences at repair shops.
At the same time it means owners of Tesla’s cars cannot exercise the Right To Repair the same as can owners of other car brands. While it’s not 100% prohibited for others (the car owner, or independent shops) to work on Tesla automobiles, I believe this is greatly limited.
What we should look for is indications that Tesla Motors is training independent car repair shops, selling parts, and even allowing owners to service their own car.
Fast charging infrastructure
Owners of 200+ mile range electric cars will want wide-spread fast charging stations, especially along highway corridors. With a sufficient range and sufficient fast charging, even electric car owners can take road trips.
In the case of Tesla Motors, their Supercharger network is being built all across areas where Tesla sells its cars. They haven’t discussed the conditions under which Model 3 owners will access this network. Will they, like Model S owners, have free access to the Superchargers? Or will they be required to pay a fee? Will Supercharger support be a bundled feature or an option?
For all the other automakers, the fast charging network is owned, built and operated by independent 3rd party companies. The other automakers have to trust that 3rd party companies will step up to the plate and build out fast charging. So far that hasn’t worked out too well (in the U.S. — the Netherlands is a different story). But we’re starting to see some changes, but because the automakers are working directly with charging network operators to build fast charging infrastructure.
Here Tesla Motors has a head start, but the other automakers are all working on related technology. A few months ago Tesla rolled out “Autopilot” (not autonomous driving) to Model S owners as an over-the-air update. It’s a first step towards autonomous driving, but decidedly is not the real deal.
Even though Tesla is ahead right now, the others will be doing this as well.
Another impact of the requirement for independent sales and service, is that every other automaker (besides Tesla) cannot send out over-the-air updates to their cars. Instead this is a service action, and has to be done by an independent repair shop. Which reminds me, there’s a Recall notice for my Soul EV that I must take care of.
Because Tesla Motors handles this themselves, they can and do send out over-the-air updates. These updates make major improvements, with the autopilot feature being just one example. We’re accustomed to this kind of manufacturer support in our computers and smart phones, why not in our cars?
Tesla Motors knows it’s necessary to blow up old stereotypes about electric cars. (Slow, ugly, boring golf carts) That, and the fact that Elon Musk loves fast cars, has meant a focus on high performance electric cars. We should expect this to remain true with the Tesla Model 3.
The other automakers instead strike a different balance of performance and energy consumption. If past experience with EV’s from other automakers are anything to go by, they’ll tend to offer more sedate performance than the Tesla.
Upgrade-ability
Tesla Motors has been good in many cases about upgrading features on their cars. For example, it’s possible to buy a bigger battery pack as Tesla bumps up the energy storage capacity. Not all features can be upgraded onto older models. For example, the autopilot software requires sensors that do not exist on older models, and cannot be retrofitted.
All the other automakers follow a rigid “model year” paradigm. Features added in later model years cannot be retrofitted into older instances of the same model. For example, the new 30 kiloWatt-hour battery pack in the 2016 Nissan Leaf cannot be installed in older models.
In almost every way, there’s a sharp distinction between Tesla Motors and all the other automakers. Tesla controls the sales and service of its cars, and can therefore do many things the other automakers are prohibited from doing.
I wonder how long Tesla Motors will be able to continue doing this. Or will they face a legal requirement to start opening up their business to 3rd party companies.
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David, UBER is challenging the taxi license requirements across several national jurisdictions. Although the Uber regulations tend to be city regulations, instead of State or federal law/regs, it is important to note that Uber has sufficient resources to engage competition law lawyers to challenge city rules and regulations.
The same may apply to Tesla. Although state laws and regulations may require dealerships to sell new vehicles it is not clear whether the ‘old model’ of new vehicle sales would hold under federal anti-trust laws related to constraints on inter-state trade. New car services offer more profit than new car sales for many “independent” dealerships. The advent of vehicle-to-network diagnostics would harmonize diagnosis of Tesla on real-time basis – providing warnings whenever the on-board alarms are triggered. A new Tesla owner can be directed to a state or city “qualified/certified” repair depot that would have access to the diagnostics and recommended service follow-up online as and when the owner’s Tesla entered their shop.
Who owns new car dealerships? The “independent dealers” own the brick, motor and equipment but manufacturers’ IP (intellectual property) holding companies owns the rights to “GM, FORD, etc.”. Dealers are granted contractual rights to use IP and have exclusive sales and service for a particular market area – at the prerogative of the manufacturer’s IP Holdco as provided in dealers’ franchise agreements.
When GM was on the ropes during the Financial Crisis it eliminated many of its sub-performing car dealerships simply by directing the dealers to remove the Trade Mark signage and ending new car allotments to the dealer’s inventory. References to the IP Holdco products were no longer exclusive to the dealer. Many dealers went bust during the Crisis after the IP Holdco pulled the IP rights from their dealership agreements and new car inventories were sold.
The bigger issue today is the exuberant expectations of market penetration of “autonomous vehicles” (“AEV”). Most accept that technology will continue to have an impact on transportation business models and product solutions. But several technical hurdles will need to be crossed before AEV’s will be noticed one on the roadways of major cities and inter-state highways.
The investment in AEV infrastructure required to implement AEVs into the current transportation system is one big hurdle. Smart grid technology and V2V and V2N communications will need more access to special purpose ‘secure’ network configurations – see the FOG Network, Prof. Mung Chiang, Princeton, as possible part solution to integration of Smart Grid and advanced vehicle technologies.
Thank you for your well-informed articles.
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Free Background Music Songs 24-41: Preview & Download
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Here are songs 24-41 in the Free Background Music series. These songs can be used for free for non-commercial projects as long as they are properly credited (for my songs, add the credit “music by longzijun”, but for songs by other composers who have submitted their work, you should follow the crediting guidelines on the download page for that particular song). You can refer the more detailed Terms of Use for more information.
Free Background Music Series Songs
The download links for a particular are one that song’s information page (refer to the link below the video).
41. Unfolded (3:56, 124 bpm)
My latest song! This is a minimalist, gently upbeat electro-pop piece. Te accompanying video is travel video footage I shot in Hokkaido. For MP3 and WAV file download links for the two versions, go to:
Background Music 41: Unfolded
40. Tale of the Forgotten Forest Kingdom by Kate Kwok (3:00)
This gentle, rhythmically flowing solo piano piece is an original composition by Kate Kwok There are two versions available: the one in the video (which is slightly compressed) and a version with the full dynamic range. For MP3 and WAV file download links for the two versions, go to:
Background Music 40: Tale of the Forgotten Forest Kingdom
39. Summit by Gary Ames (3:26, 128 bpm)
This is a pulsating, dramatic, orchestral piece submitted by Gary Ames. The kick drum comes in at around 1 minute and 10 seconds. It works well with action scenes. I used it recently for a sports video and it worked great. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 39: Summit by Gary Ames
38. Somewhere Deep in the Sea by Jessica Yip (2:42)
This beautiful and gentle piece solo piano instrumental is composed and performed by Jessica yip. There are two versions available: the one in the video (which is slightly compressed) and a version with the full dynamic range. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 38: Somewhere Deep in the Sea
37. Holly’s Theme (2:47)
This is a solo piano instrumental. The first and third sections are fast and have a propulsive feel, while the middle section is very sparse and has melancholy mood. At the end of the video, there is also a 60-second orchestral version of part of the middle section (and a no-drums version of that is also available). The video is a collaboration with five dancers from four different countries. For MP3 and WAV file download links for the different versions, go to:
Background Music 37: Holly’s Theme
36. Buoyant (4:20)
This is an upbeat song with lots of sonic variety. It has elements of different Electronic Dance Music (EDM), pop and folk music styles. The video is a collaboration with Juliana Payson, an underwater dancer. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 36: Buoyant
35. Broken (3:17, 120 bpm)
A three-minute gentle and slightly sad song played on piano. It is influenced by classical minuets but is more minimalist and contemporary in feel. The video is a collaboration with Lee Chan, a ballet dancer. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 35: Broken
34. I Vow to Thee My Country: Arranged and performed by Kate Kwok (2:12)
A two-minute piano arrangement of this lovely, nostalgic song by
Gustav Holst. The melody originally appeared the Jupiter movement of Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets.
Crediting Information
I Vow to Thee My Country: composition by Gustav Holst and Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1921); Piano arrangement and performance by Kate Kwok (2015).
Please note that it is possible to get false Content ID matches on YouTube for original performances of public domain compositions. The linked page contains information on what you should do if you get such a copyright claim. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 34: I Vow to Thee My Country
33. Little Hero (2:58, 134 bpm)
This is an energetic and dramatic three-minute dramatic song that is particularly suitable for anime, AMVs (Anime Music Videos), anime and animation. It features nice melodies and a variety of textures and sounds—from classical strings to rock guitar to electronic synths. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 33: Little Hero
32. The Hidden Path (11:00, 115 bpm)
An eleven-minute song with a mysterious atmosphere and a percussion-heavy rhythmic feel, The song is influenced by East African music styles.A shorter seven-minute version of the song is also available. This video is a collaboration with dancer Lee Chan. For MP3 and WAV file download links for both versions of the song, go to
Background Music 32: The Hidden Path
31. Dubtitution (7:25, 95 bpm)
This is a bass-heavy dub-inspired electronic track (think of the Jamaican dub of Sly & Robbie as opposed to dubstep). I wanted a lot of sonic variety in this song (a lot more than is normally found in dub), so there is a lot going on. Therefore, the song would be best suited to wordless videos (e.g., speed drawing, gaming, photography, sports montages, etc.). The video features the street art in and around the Hongdae area of Seoul. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 31: Dubtitution
30. Echoes & Fragments (3:00, 70 bpm)
This is a short and slow piano piece in a minimalist style somewhat in the vein of the songs of new age composer Ludovico Einaudi. It starts off (and ends) very quietly and features a crescendo in the middle. With this dynamic contrast, the song isn’t very suitable for use in vlogs. It is more suitable for ‘silent’ videos where you want to create a somber mood. The photos in the video are of the ‘homes’ of homeless people in the streets of Hong Kong. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 30: Echoes & Fragments
29. Ravenchanter (Background Music 29) 4:04, 90 bpm
New age, ambient (acoustic guitar, bass, piano, drums, percussion and woodwind instruments). This royalty-free song is a mysterious and hypnotic piece that is a combination of folk and ambient music. It has a steady rhythm. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 29: Ravenchanter
28. Wild Illusion by Nikolaos Taramanidis (Background Music 28) 5:43
Wild Illusion by Nikolaos Taramanidis (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SB47tLQS4w)
This is an an acoustic guitar ballad with faint echoes of Pink Floyd. The song is composed and performed by Nikolaos Taramanidis. It is in two parts: the first part has a gentler folksy feel while the while the second part is more influenced by blues. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 28: Wild Illusion Nikolaos Taramanidis
27. Sonicidence (2:48, 120 bpm)
This is designed as movie trailer music. It has a soft and hypnotic opening, a thumping bass and drum middle section and crunching rock final section. There are two different versions (the last section features a slightly different mix and arrangement. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 27: Sonicidence
26. Almost a Love Story (5:00, 110 bpm)
This is a wistful, melodic ballad influenced by the soundtrack music of Joe Hisaishi (who frequently worked on the anime of Hayao Miyazaki). For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 26: Almost a Love Story
25a. Memoryne (2:30, 116 bpm)
Piano instrumental, classical. This is a gentle and melodic song that is somewhat in the style of a minuet. The mood is nostalgic; it is somewhat sad, but light at the same time. Though it is classical in style, the harmonic progression is inspired by the jazz standard My Funny Valentine. The video features photos from around Kelowna and Penticton (in the Lake Okanagan region of Canada). For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 25: Memoryne
25b. Memoryne: Music Box Short Version (0:55, 84 bpm)
Here is a version of the main theme of Memoryne but in a music box style.The middle part ended up being too busy (too many notes), so this arrangement features the main melody only. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
24. Lock and Love (6:24, 86 bpm)
This is a romantic and melodic song with with flute, strings and acoustic guitar, bass and percussion. The video shows the love locks and the N. Seoul Tower. For MP3 and WAV file download links, go to:
Background Music 24: Lock and Love
Some songs were created mainly using loops while other songs are mainly played using a Korg MicroX or M50 syntheszier. The songs were recorded together using Cakewalk’s Sonars Home Studio.
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Phyllis Miller says:
I love your music but wish you could take some of the melodic 100-120bpm tracks and add nature sounds to it, birds, water, animals. I’ve been searching for music with nature sounds but most of it is tooo slow! I want something with a little tempo like the stuff you have. There is absolutely no one out there that puts out music with nature sounds that has a tempo.
There’s a good reason for that: there’s isn’t a strong demand. You can produce such mixes quite easily yourself. For example, you can use the shareware programme Goldwave (it is free for the first few thousand actions)
1.Open a nature sounds MP3 or WAV. Go to Edit – Select All then Copy
2.Open a music MP3 or WAV select Edit – Mix. Reduce the volume a little in the Mix pop-up window and select OK. Then you are done.
If the overall mix is too loud and you are getting distortion, undo the mix and go back to step 2 and reduce the sound some more.
If either the nature sound or the music is too loud, start again and go back to the original file (the one that is too loud) and select: Effect – Volume – Change Volume and then reduce the volume (maybe 15-30%). Then do the ‘mix’ again.
It might be even easier to use Audacity, which is totally free, but I am not familiar with the program.
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[…] used a royalty free background music called ” Sonicidence” composed by Longzijun. (https://longzijun.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/free-background-music-set2/) I then walked on a wooden board to create the foreground sound. As the rhythm of the music went […]
If it’s ok with you, I will be using your music for my makeup channel called Limelight Artistry. Of course, I will be crediting you on my video. Please let me know if that’s going to be an issue with you. Thanks, great music! :)
Hi, the music is free for non-commercial projects if credit is provided, but if you are using it for monetized videos (I think the videos on your channel are monetized, right?) or other commercial projects different terms of use apply: https://longzijun.wordpress.com/music/free-background-music-series-terms-of-use/
Hey man, I just want to say i love your music and that you enable people like me to use it. I just wanted to say thanks for your work and I very much appreciate it c:
(I use your songs but have not monetized any video. if that’ll happen, which i don’t think will be soon, i’ll try contact you)
A. Lee says:
Hi, I would like to know if all I need to do is to donate $10 to a charity in order to use your music for my YouTube videos? I was a bit confused about the terms of use. I make beauty videos so I need at least five minutes or more of the song or songs.
You haven’t clearly stated what you are doing (e.g. whether or not your videos are non-commercial), so I can’t really answer until you do that . If you are producing strictly non-commercial videos, the music is free as long as credit is given. If you are monetizing the videos (which makes them commercial), you are expected to donate at least 1% of any monetization revenue you receive (and credit the music). If you are a small business making a promotional video, you are expected to donate at least $10 to charity (and credit the music).
Ok thanks for clarifying! Well, I got my monetizing privileges taken away because I was naive enough to buy views not knowing it was illegal. So, I would monetize but for right now it can’t be done. I make beauty videos and health videos on YouTube and I think your music is beautiful. Thanks again!!!
Mihai Alexandru says:
sunshineku says:
Thank’s a lot,,, i love your music
Abhi Mishra says:
your songs🎵🎵🎵 are best ever I heard🎧 !!! there ‘s lots of.,……….but this is splendid work of yours songs……..🎶
thanks ……………..😊
Paul Knights says:
I Used your track – “Elegy” in the attached video I recently uploaded to Youtube. I think it fits perfectly with the film. I hope you agree.
…Paul Knights, Isle of Wight, UK
I will be using one of your musical pieces in a commercial for my non profit organization, Little Warriors’ Dreams.
premajamatia says:
I love song
Andrea Sitler says:
Beautiful music!
Dinmas Pitek says:
manavi says:
nice,very good
Very nice musics
hey longzijun: thanks for your very generous offerings!
very good chance that some of your tunes will figure in video releases soon… keep up the good work!
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Sean McMillan says:
I am touched by your music. You are a true inspirational artist and such a beautiful human being. Thank you indeed.
HDPS says:
Great site and music, but can’t seem yo download without signing up to some Box think I don’t want.
The site appears to be malfunctioning. No sign-in is required. Try it again now. I experienced the same problem 10 minutes ago, but it is working OK now. If it is still not working, you may need to clear your browser’s history, cache and cookies (and wait a few minutes). If it still doesn’t work, let me know.
aryan says:
my name is aryan, can i use this background scores for my short film and it is not at all monetized we are a group of friends making a short film on indian king , of course the credits will be given to longzijun as music by longzijun, will it be ok, please do reply me. thank you.
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Homepage > Columns > Arts and Media > The purpose of art part eight: judging art by experience
August 7, 2011 | By Kelly Carr
The purpose of art part eight: judging art by experience
Christians and Culture by Dr. Charlie W. Starr
Good art shows rather than says. It’s not preachy or teachy. It doesn’t have a moment when it says, “And the lesson I’m trying to teach you is . . . .” A great biblical example of this approach appears in the last few chapters of the book of Job. When God finally appeared to reply to Job’s demand for an audience with him, God never once told him about the cosmic conflict between God and Satan recorded in Job chapter one. He never explained where Job’s suffering came from. God just recited poetry about himself. He painted a picture of his glory in relation to the creation of the earth and all things in it. And the longer he spoke, the more Job understood and concluded,
My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes
(Job 42:5, 6).
As God spoke to Job, he did more than tell Job the truth; using poetic images, he showed it to him.
Good art puts us through an experience. It doesn’t teach at us; it presents images, sounds, or other sensory material to us so that we encounter its content in ways that mimic how we encounter life. If the art engages us like life does, it is probably good art. I say “probably” because once we’ve decided that a book or song is engaging, the next thing we should ask is whether or not the experience was honest.
Honest Experiences
Though I have said good art should entertain us, I don’t want to end there. Art that entertains isn’t necessarily also good. Let’s take an action film with a revenge plot as an example. There’s something very satisfying in a movie where an outnumbered, out-gunned hero whose life has been destroyed by his enemies takes revenge on and defeats every one of them. But from such films we get little more than the emotional satisfaction of our simplest sense of justice. Our school yard cries of “That’s not fair!” are placated, but any understanding of justice tempered by mercy, or of our need to forgive our enemies and surrender our desire for vengeance to God, is not to be found.
The experience is a bit dishonest. We might even say it’s there to feed a lust rather than a desire. This doesn’t mean the movie is automatically immoral. If it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an afternoon “escape to the movies,” a blockbuster intended for the sole purpose of entertaining our simplest tastes, then so be it. Eat some popcorn, have fun, and be aware of the artistic limits of the film. Die Hard gives us a rollick, but Gladiator, which certainly includes a revenge theme, both entertains and gives us an honest experience by raising questions that aren’t easy to answer, by treating characters as human beings and not caricatures (which often happens with villains in a story), and by presenting a picture of noble heroism.
Do I Mean Realism?
I’ve used the phrase “honest experience” because I don’t want to confuse the idea with what is called “realism.” Those who say good art should be realistic tend to dismiss any supernatural or fantasy elements in a story. They also tend to dismiss happy endings, something God promises to us—and that’s very real. The Lord of the Rings puts us through an honest experience by giving us glimpses of the heavenly reality through the glory of a magical, fantastic world. Conversely, art that is honest in its portrayal of evil and ugliness, so long as it doesn’t end in saying these are all there is to life—movies like Schindler’s List or The Passion of the Christ, for example—are also good, even if they’re hard to watch. The torture of the cross was not visibly beautiful, but there is a glory to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross (read Isaiah 53 and 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 together) that we should neither ignore nor fear.
Dr. Charlie Starr teaches English, Humanities, and Film at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky.
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Tag / C. Difficile
February 18, 2010 by Wanderer
Meeting the Quota on C.Diff
advocacy, C. Difficile, It's Nursing!
What is it with docs and ordering C.Diff? Why is it that if a patient has diarrhea, the order a test for C.Diff? Some days it feels like they went to an in-service recently and all remembered that C.Diff causes diarrhea and now anyone with loose stool should be checked -even if there are no other reasons besides loose stools. Here are some great examples of stupid rule-outs for C.Diff.
Dude who has ruled out 5 times within the last 3 months, ruled out the previous week on Friday and now on Monday they decide think that he needs to be ruled out again. Why? His white count is up. Did they forget that he has pretty much chronic aspiration pneumonia? Guess what? He ruled out a second time.
How about end-stage liver disease chick on lactulose? We all know lactulose, right? Binds to ammonia and flushes it out of the system – in the stool. And it’s always diarrhea. Never met a lactuloser with normal, non-runny poop. “But by God, she might have C.Diff! She has loose stools!” say the residents. “What are you stupid?” say the nurses. Guess who was right?
Or the LOL on tube feeds with no real gut flora anymore who has loose stools. Or the liver resection dude that ruled out last week and evidently needs to be ruled out again. Or the ICU transfer with colitis? (OK, I’ll give ’em that one) How about the LOL in with constipation who we give docusate, senna, biscoadyl, Miralax and MOM to so that they can poop, and when they do, thanks to all the loosening products that stool is nearly liquid? They surely have the Diff, right? Or my tried and true favorite, the patient who had 1 loose stool 5 days ago, and has yet to poop this admission. They must have C.Diff. But the patient so that is so bound up from narcs that they are pooping marbles, yes, the poop rattled in specimen cup just like a marble, pretty much takes the cake.
It almost like each resident group has a quota to fill for C.Diff rule-outs. And even when presented with rational evidence like lactulose, multiple bowel care products, rules-outs less that 72 hours prior, they blunder on blustering about antibiotics and gut flora and elevated white counts and diarrhea. Then they walk into the room without isolation gear on. I don’t get it.
Funny Lookin’
C. Difficile, contact isolation, isolation, It's Nursing!
We had just isolated a patient as it seemed they had C.Diff. How did we know before we even sent a sample? We’re nurses and rely heavily on the “deck method.” Y’know, if it looks like a duck, acts like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Translating that into poop, if it looks like the Diff, smells like the Diff and the patient is developing SIRS with a white count of nearly 20, we’re gonna’ guess it’s the Diff. Lab tests? Who needs that? Nurses’ noses show and unbelievable 95% sensitivity and 98% specificity with diagnosing C.Diff. But I digress…
So in isolation we gown up in the ever-fashionable yellow splatter-proof gowns, gloves and sometimes masks with just a touch of wintergreen oil to care for the patients. The patient who was isolation thought we were just the funniest thing since Jerry Lewis. As we walked in she looked up and giggled, “You guys look silly!”
From the mouths our elders…
November 7, 2008 by Wanderer
It’s a Duck
C. Difficile, It's Nursing!
You know the saying, if it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. I apply this to C.Diff. If it looks like it, smells like it, comes as frequently as it, it probably is the Diff. Simple right? But what I never understand is the thought processes our highly trained resident physicians contort themselves through to diagnose the Diff. Like I’ve said before, it seems like they have a quota to fill for C.Diff tests in a month and even if the evidence is such that the odds are pretty fucking low that it is the Diff, they’ll order it anyway, along with the resulting isolation.
Here’s what I mean. Patient has been on antibiotics for a couple of days, notes cramping in their lower abdomen. Mr. Resident orders stool for C.Diff thereby initating the cascade of events including moving the patient to a private room. So what’s the problem? The patient isn’t pooping. Nothing. Not a drop. Usually with C.Diff they’re like a salad shooter, spraying infectious diarrhea across the room (OK, I’m exagerating…kind of). Not them. They’re constipated. So the doc orders a suppository. Just to get a sample.
Does this seem strange? I know there are times when the Diff doesn’t cause CDAD, but more times than not, it ain’t the case. It’s become my favorite order, a suppository for stool sample to screen for C.Diff. When does it stop?
September 15, 2008 by Wanderer
Aerial C.Diff?
C. Difficile, CDAD, contact isolation, It's Nursing!
Another entry into the “Holy shit!” files of scary drugs, diseases and conditions, add aerial C.Diff. In this article: Aerial Dissemination of Clostridium difficile spores.
Adding airborne transmission to the standard contact transmission just increases the pucker factor. The article goes on to note that aerial spores were captured on several tests showing samples of C.Diff in wards where there had not been active cases of C.Diff for weeks. The authors postulate that this could be an explanation for the sporadic cases of CDAD (Clostridiun difficile associated diarrhea) that spring up seemingly out of nowhere.
While not surprising, it is enough to knock you back a bit. Operating on the idea that it is solely contact based transmission has been the basis for everything we do when treating CDAD. From terminal cleaning of the room post occupancy of a C.Diff patient to the gown and glove isolation we practice may not be enough to combat spread around a unit.
Combine aerial transmission with the over-abudance of PPI use (which studies have shown to be a factor in C.Diff infection due to the breaking of the gastric acid barrier protection from reduced gastic pH) in a population already at risk of CDAD and you have a poop-strewn nightmare ready to happen. While the article does not definitively note any cases where areial transmission is the sole cause of CDAD, it raises the specter that it proably does happen and that we need to adjust the way we protect our patients. Terminal cleaning with bleach is one step, espeically for surface cleaning, but the cleaning of air remains another aspect all together that could require extensive revamping of HVAC systems hospital wide.
It’s hard to guage the true impact of this and the fallout it may have on protocols, but it could go some way to explain a lot of cases of CDAD. Still it scares the poop out of me!
June 21, 2008 by Wanderer
Dear Doctor – Again
Dear Doctor Single-minded,
I know that my patient’s chief complaint is C. Difficile colitis, but are you perhaps forgetting his rather substantial cardiac history? The fact he has coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, has had both an MI and open heart surgery? I realize that his renal function stunk when he was admitted, but do you think it was all that wise to run IV fluids on him continuously for 5+ days? So now, instead of just slight bibasilar crackles like the first night I had him, he now has crackles all the way to under his shoulder blades. That he’s puffy like the Michelin man and we have to prop his scrotum up with towels because it is so edematous. Yes, as a matter of fact his saturations are within normal levels, but he doesn’t seem so peachy. He’s working a little harder to breathe and for the first time in 3 nights, when he got up to the bathroom to have a movement, he had an episode of chest pain, the first in his whole hospitalization. You say “call me if his respiratory status changes” but how about being pro-active and treating the issue before he decompensates and has to stay longer? Yes, I am a nurse, but you see your patients for 5 minutes a day, I’m with them 12 hours at a shot and get to know them, so when I ask if you’ve considered giving a little Lasix, I do have a clue and a reason for asking: I’m seeing a progression here that you and the Team are obviously missing. But I know, it’s nearly the end of June and you’re about to move up a year and have interns of your own, and not have to do the night shift as much anymore, but for now, can you just please treat my patient?
Oh, and while I’m at it, I know you guys have a quota for testing for C.Diff, but think about it before you do. When the you ask about the patients bowel habits and the nurse tells you that, “Well she had a couple loose stools, but days had given her Miralax, colace, senna and milk of mag,” the resulting loose stools is probably not C.Diff, just a side effect of over-medicating with stool softeners. If it was C.Diff, we’d tell you: if it looks like CDiff, acts like C.Diff (24 trips to the toilet in a shift) and mostly, smells like C.Diff, it probably is. If it doesn’t fit, why would you order the tests and the isolation it requires? And to add to that, when you’re sending a patient to my floor, you better tell us in advance that they are being ruled out for C.Diff because we have to give them a private room due to the contact isolation they must be in until they rule out for C.Diff.
The nurses who are trying to heal your patients.
February 23, 2008 June 21, 2008 by Wanderer
Me. And my big mouth.
C. Difficile, CABG, isolation
I did something stupid the other week. Something I regretted doing. It wasn’t dangerous, didn’t put any patients in peril, cause mass calamity on a national scale, nor promise unlimited health-care for all, nor deny inappropriate relations with a well-connected lobbyist, or drive my car into a train tunnel, but it was just stupid, and I paid for it.
About a week ago a resource nurse who comes to our floor a lot and I were talking and commiserating on the fact she had a trio of poopers. “All I’m doing tonight is cleaning up poop. Even though one has a flexi-seal, it’s still leaking out.” she said.
“Well at least you were prepared for it…your undershirt is kind of c-diffy colored…” I came back with.
“Yeah thanks, I know Captain Obvious.” she said, “It wasn’t the best choice. I should’ve known with this floor!”
And then I said it. The phrase that would doom me into poop-servitude: “Y’know, I haven’t had a night like that in a long time.” Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. It’s like saying “q—–” on a full-moon night, or “she’s finally asleep” about the demented old lady who had been trying to climb out of bed all night. In the grand karmic wheel of nursing, I just steeped in it.
So I show up Tuesday night, flushed with excitement from a nice ride into work, changed and ready to rock. And I start looking at my assignment.
#1: “bradycardia, s/p CV“. OK, he’s a walkie-talkie, fine.
#2: “synope” Again, OK, she looks like a walkie-talkie.
#3: “s/p CABG with AVR, post-op delirium and colitis.” Uh-oh…look a little further down the sheet on him, “mulitple loose stools, (c-diff – !)”
“Yep, could be fun but at least he doesn’t have c-dif,” I thought. Then I read a bit further, “Neuro: A & O x1-2, weak, 2+ assist up, left-sided weakness (new?), strict bedrest.” Now things were getting interesting.
#4: “sepsis, due to C-DIFF.” Yes, here it was the karmic retribution for the words so casually spoken the week before. “Neuro: confused and forgetful, A & O x1-2; Activity: up with 2+ max assist. GI/GU: foley, incont. of stool, 1 loose/mucoid stool.” That’s all of the report I needed. It was going to be one of those nights. Karmic payback.
The day nurse then told me, “Yeah, I d/c’d the flexi-seal yesterday.” I nod glumly, knowing that I would be spending quite a bit of time in the room that night.
So as the night evolved, I did the nursing thing. Checking briefs everytime I head into the room. 2100: still ok. 23:00: so far so good. 24:00, “awwww, hell naw”. Blow-out in #4….I felt like paging overhead, “clean-up on aisle three, clean-up on aisle three.” and clean-up we did. Nothing like a full-bed change blow-out session.
Then #3 rings, “yeah, I ate an apple, then I shit,” he says. That’s one of the things I love about old men, they’re so…well…honest. Clean him up. I’m out of the room less than 10 minutes, “Yeah,” as I answered the call-light,”I shit again.” And on, and on, and on. Cleaned him up 5 more times that night. The C-Diff lady? Nary a time after the blowout.
Fast forward to night #2. I still think I have poop on me somewhere. Even though I have new scrubs on and showered twice since being here. I can still sense it. Not really smell it, bu it more like sensing it, just out of conscious smell range, but there, like the lingering after scent of a bad bar night.
Same peeps. New issue though. Find out #3 has VRE. In his stool. That we had been cleaning for days on end. Without gowns. OK, so make that 2 peeps on contact precautions. And still pooping. Lots.
About midnight I call up Materials, “Hey, this is Wanderer up on 4. Can you send up some more of the big blue chux and another 4 or so packs of isolation gowns and a box of the peri-wipes? We’re going through them like they’re going out of style.”
And the battle continued. I think I singed off all of my olfactory nerve endings those 2 nights because I couldn’t smell anything when I go home in the morning. After I left each room, the smell no longer lingered, it’s like there was nothing for it to linger on. They were gone. Which I guess could be a good thing.
Onto Night 3.
Charge nurse (different on from the past 2 nights) hands me my assignment and says, “I took away #3 from you, it’s just not fair to have 2 isolation patients.”
“Uh. OK, I had them both last night…but I’m not going to complain.” I said. But in fact, it was worse. Instead of having 2 poopers, that I know well, and have kind of gotten used to their unique idiosyncrasies (i.e. smell), I get one and a new cast of characters.
In retrospect, it was OK. She was just spreading the love. Out of the 6 nurses on my particular side of the floor, everyone had at least 1 isolation patient, most were contact, for c-diff. So we all had the love that night.
But what did I learn?
Yes, never, ever, open your big mouth. Karma’s a bitch. Even though you know you’re due, just don’t say it. Let it go. Maybe you’ll stay free a little while longer.
That shoe covers are this year’s must have accessory!
And that I look good in yellow…
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Shane Filan posts touching tribute to his mother who passed away over the weekend
December 16, 2019 at 11:38am
Westlife singer Shane Filan has paid a touching tribute to his mother Mae, who passed away on Sunday.
The Sligo native got in touch with fans over social media, posting a message which reads: ' Yesterday, Sunday 15th of December was the saddest day of my life. My mother Mae who was an incredible, beautiful woman, wife, mother, grandmother and friend passed away peacefully surrounded by all her family.' Filan went on to say 'to all the fans for all your support and lovely messages, thank you. Her funeral is a very private time for me and my family to grieve and I know you all understand and will respect that.'
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— Shane Filan (@ShaneFilan) December 16, 2019
In his post, Shane requests that 'if you would like to do something in her memory, you can make a small donation to Sligo North West Hospice who looked after her so beautifully and peacefully in her final days and will continue to do so for so many more families.'
A number of followers have offered their condolences to the Shane has his family, with one saying 'I’m heartbroken for you Shane' and another adding 'thinking of you all Shane your mum was an amazing lady.'
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2020 Piaggio Liberty S 150
New Scooters • Liberty
2020 Piaggio Liberty S 150 • $3,099
LIBERTYS150
FORM AND SUBSTANCE
The Piaggio Liberty S 150 is the big brother of the family; the most elegant, captivating and top performing member. It's also the sporty brother to its twin and as with the other Liberty "S" models, it unabashedly comes in two strong, uncompromising colours: red (Rosso Opaco) and grey (Grigio Titanio Opaco) to create a striking effect with the black diamond-edge wheel rims and red-stitched seat. This is a scooter that demands to be looked at, with other elements in dramatic black such as the luggage rack, heat shield and mirrors. As with the other Liberty models, it's not all about looks, but functionality is important too. There is plenty of storage with a space under the rear shield and another, large enough to hold a full-face helmet, beneath the seat, a spacious foot board and handy bag hook. The instrument cluster combines analogue and digital technology. Last but not least, on the performance side, the Piaggio Liberty S 150 is powered by an air-cooled, electronic injected, three-valve single cylinder motor which uses i-get (Italian Green Experience Technology) and complies with Euro 4 emission standards.
PLENTY OF STORAGE: There's no shortage of space on board the Piaggio Liberty S 150: there's room for a small piece of luggage on the footboard whilst in the rear shield you'll find a lockable glove box and under the seat (accessed electronically via a button) there is a compartment large enough to easily hold a full-face helmet.
SAFETY FIRST: Nothing has been left to chance when it comes to safety: the wheels of the Piaggio Liberty S 150 are "16 and 14" respectively, the braking system is made up of a 240 mm disc and a rear drum and also includes a front wheel standard ABS anti-lock system refined by Piaggio together with Bosch, the world's leading manufacturer of automotive components. Safety and reliability guaranteed.
TRAVEL IN COMFORT: The seat of the Piaggio Liberty S 150, with its eye catching and sporty red stitching is noteworthy for its roominess, making it extra-comfortable if you're travelling in two. Passengers will also enjoy being able to place their feet on the extractable foot pegs which fold neatly away into the sides of the scooter.
CHROME DETAILING: The electronic instrumentation of the Piaggio Liberty S 150 is made up of a classic analogue speedometer together with a more modern elegant blue LCD display which contains the fuel level, odometer and clock. It's set off to perfection by a chrome frame which is the ideal complement to the vertical decorative ensign on the front shield and the chrome detailing on rear and front ends of the scooter.
Front - Single disk 240 mm
Rear - Tamburo 140 mm
Front - Tubeless 90 / 80 - 16 in., 51J
Rear - Tubeless 100 / 80 - 14 in., 54J
Single cylinder 4-stroke i-get
12.9 hp (9.6 kW) @ 7,750 rpm
Max. - 9.58 ft. lb. (13 Nm) @ 5,250 rpm
Automatic centrifugal dry
Electronic injection
Starting System
Oil with wet sump
1.58 gal. (6 l)
High resistance tubular steel
Front - Telescopic hydraulic fork, 76 mm stroke
Rear - Single hydraulic shock absorber with 5-position preload adjustment, 74.5 mm stroke
Matte Red
Nero Matt
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First Planet Orbiting a Close Binary Star
Submitted by Rebecca on Thu, 2013-08-15 11:43
Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, McDonald astronomers including Bill Cochran discovered the first planet orbiting a close-together binary star system. It is one of many exoplanet discoveries made at McDonald.
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Most Powerful Supernova
Sat, 2005-01-01
An automated search using a McDonald telescope discovered the most powerful supernova to date, Supernove 2005ap.The exploding star briefly shone 100 billion times brighter than the Sun. The Texas Supernova Search project was run by University of Texas graduate student Robert Quimby using the ROTSE IIIb telescope at McDonald.
Supernova 2005ap (with labels)
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Sizing Up the Stars
Tom Barnes and David Evans published a method for determining a star’s size by measuring its brightness and temperature. Known as the “surface brightness relation,” it is still a commonly used technique today.
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Invention of High Speed Photometry
An instrument developed by R. Edward Nather opened a new field of astronomy, high-speed photometry. It allows astronomers to measure changes in an object’s brightness on timescales of a thousandth of a second or less. Among other things, it has been used used to discover rapid pulsations in white dwarfs, the “corpses” of once-normal stars like the Sun.
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Bouncing a Laser Off the Moon
One month after Neil Armstrong took the first “small step” on the Moon, McDonald Observatory bounced a laser beam off a reflector left on the Moon by Apollo 11. The experiment measured the Earth-Moon distance with an accuracy of a few inches.
Lunar Laser on the Harlan J. Smith Telescope
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Shape of the Milky Way
Gerard De Vaucouleurs proposed that the Milky Way galaxy is a barred spiral, with spiral arms extending from a long “bar” of stars in its center.
Gerard de Vaucouleurs
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Improving the View
Harold Johnson and W.W. Morgan devised a system for measuring the colors of stars. The system, which is still in use today, allows astronomers to remove the effect of interstellar dust, which makes stars look redder.
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Discovery of Titan's Atmosphere
Gerard Kuiper discovered the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, the first detection of an atmosphere for any moon in the solar system.
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Muhammad Ali: The Transcendence of Sports
Written by Raphael Uribe
Community Juni 7 2016
Juni 7 2016
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On Friday night the world learned of the tragic passing of Muhammad Ali. His fight against Parkinson’s disease came to an abrupt end in Phoenix. The world of sports was orphaned of one of its greatest icons. Few have ever rivaled Mohammed Ali’s stature in sports and few can claim the spot he had as a cultural icon really for the entire world. A truth too painful to admit would be that we might never see a person of his kind ever again. However, we remember him now as a legend athletically, socially and historically.
Muhammad Ali was a World Heavyweight Champion and what a true champion he was. He fought with every inch of desire. The “Thrilla in Manilla” against Joe Frazier was one of, if not the, greatest fights of all time. Ali later said it was as close as he ever “got to dying in the ring”. Throughout his career, he epitomized a ‘never-give-up’ attitude that every athlete can and should look up to.
He was also box office gold and a one-of-a-kind entertainer who drew the adoration of sports fans from around the globe. Ali’s magical era of boxing included Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Leon Spinks, Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston. Whether he was executing his brilliant and stunning rope-a-dope strategy or demonstrating how he could “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee,” Ali epitomized calm under pressure and limitless self confidence backed by immeasurable courage. In every respect as a fighter and as a larger-than-life persona, he was simply awesome.
On a cultural side of things, Muhammad Ali fought bravely and outspokenly against racial discrimination. In the face of nationwide civil unrest over the Vietnam War and rampant bigotry left over from the Jim Crow era, Ali was uniquely proud of his heritage and his people. The 1960s are of course remembered for the civil rights movement, and the rise of historic figures like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Elijah Muhammed. It was under their influence that Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay, declaring “Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.”
Even the greatest athletes of our time would dream to have the legacy of Muhammad Ali. For sure, many years have passed since Ali’s magnificent accomplishments in and out of the ring captivated our attention, but the legend that was Muhammad Ali will forever live in our minds.
What athletes can do by remembering Ali is to never give up in their sporting journey.Ali famously once said “I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion”. This mentality is the epitome of a great athlete, determined to achieve their maximum potential.
Muhammad Ali will forever be known as among many things, the People’s Champion. He fought not just for himself but for millions of supporters around the world who were inspired by him. Ali and the definition of athletic greatness will always be intertwined. He wasn’t just a part of history, he literally made it. Rest in Peace, Champ!
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What is Hanukkah? 10 Surprising Facts About the Jewish Holiday of Lights
by Mamiverse Team | 07/12/2015
What is Hanukkah and where do Hanukkah traditions come from? Although, it’s probably the best known Jewish holiday among non-Jews, many don’t really know a lot about exactly what is being celebrated. Hanukkah commemorates two miracles — the first is the victory of a small army of Jews, called the Maccabees, over the powerful Greek army that was occupying Israel. Second, once the Maccabees reclaimed the Holy Temple, they had only enough pure oil for the eternal light to burn for one day but it would take eight days to produce more. Miraculously, the light burned continuously until the fresh oil was ready.
Now that you’ve got the basics, here are 10 more surprising answers to the question, What is Hanukkah?
1. It’s not Jewish Christmas Christmas is one of, if not the, most important Christian holiday while Hanukkah doesn’t carry the same weight. Passover and Yom Kippur are much bigger holidays in the Jewish faith. Also, gift giving isn’t one of the original Hanukkah traditions. Traditionally children were given money called Hanukkah gelt. These days kids get a symbolic bag of chocolate gold coins. The gift giving is a fairly recent American addition.
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2. The Menorah One easy answer to the question, What is Hanukkah? is that it’s also known as the Festival of Lights. The Menorah is a candelabra that holds nine candles. Eight of the candles represent the eight nights the oil burned in the Holy Temple and the ninth, called the shamash, is used to light the others.
3. Lighting the Candles The candle lighting is an essential part of Hanukkah traditions. A candle is lit in the Menorah for eight nights. The first night the shamash and one candle are lit, the second night two candles, etc. They should be placed right to left to reflect the way Hebrew is read and they are lighted left to right starting with the newest candle.
4. Changing Names, Changing Dates There are at least 13 — probably more — different ways to spell Hanukkah in English and none of them are wrong! The most common spelling is Hanukkah and the second most common is Chanukah. The date for celebrating Hanukkah is based on the Jewish lunar calendar and it can start anywhere from November 28 to December 26. This year it begins on December 6.
5. Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel A dreidel is a little spinning top with four sides that each has a Hebrew letter. Together they spell out, A great miracle happened here. But it isn’t just a fun toy, dreidels are important because the Greeks had declared that learning Torah was punishable by death, so Jewish children would study in secret. Whenever a Greek happened by, they’d whip out the dreidels and pretend to be playing.
Here’s the really surprising part. There’s a Dreidel League, which, not surprisingly, is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
6. Put Your Diet on Hold Remember the miracle of the oil? Well, that’s what Hanukkah’s all about so naturally the menu features dishes that are fried in oil. Two of the most popular foods are latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (jelly donuts). Cheese is also served in honor of Yehudis who killed a Greek general by plying him with salty cheese to get him to drink her poisoned wine.
7. The National Menorah In 2001 George W. Bush hosted the first official White House Hanukkah party and it’s been an annual tradition ever since, complete with the lighting of the National Menorah. Side note: President Obama also hosted the first annual White House Passover Seder in 2009.
8. The 2015 Nordstrom Hanukkah Sweater Debacle In November Nordstrom issued an apology and pulled a Hanukkah sweater from their shelves after a public outcry about perpetuating Jewish stereotypes and using offensive terms. It was emblazoned with the slogan Chai Maintenance Hanukkah J.A.P. What were they thinking?!
9. Hanukkah Mexican-Style What is Hanukkah Mexican-style? Check out The Best of Mexican Kosher Cooking by Shifrah Devorah Witt and Zipporah Malka Heller for lots of fabulous recipes.
10. Rock of Ages Ma’oz Tzur, or Rock of Ages, is a traditional Hanukkah song with mysterious origins. It’s believed to have been written in the 13th or 14th century by a German man named Mordecai who hid his name in an acrostic in the first five stanzas.
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A Chat with Roma Downey
It was wonderful to meet and interview Roma during a prescreening of “Son of God.” I was so impressed with her sincerity — this is a devout Christian actress who lives, works and prospers regardless of what Hollywood says. I enjoyed seeing this faith-based story on the big screen
A Conversation with Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett is a guitar-playing singer-songwriter, composer and actor who weaves a tapestry of western, folk, swing, jazz, blues, and gospel into his music. He was incredibly gracious during our interview and shared insights into his family and faith. Interestingly, he was born and raised Missouri-Synod Lutheran, as was I. It takes one to know one!
Check out Lyle’s take on the old Lutheran churches and old St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Serbin on the video page of LyleLovett.com — “Trucks, Tortillas, and Tombstones” (Part 3).
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Danielle Bradbery is The Voice! Our local treasure hit it big with Team Blake. Danielle Bradbery has taken on a whirl-wind ride to stardom, starting with her hometown roots to her win on The Voice!
You may know Page Parkes from her modeling agency and her appearance on the reality TV show Scouted. She and her husband adopted three biological siblings and have a wonderful family, as well.
Everyone knows baseball great Roger Clemens, and I’ve been fortunate to interview him and his wife Debbie on several occasions. Meet his family and beloved pets, and see his lovely home.
Who says NASCAR is for guys? The Bumbera family includes racing sisters Kristen and Kendall. These girls can handle life in the fast lane!
Houston News Anchor Dominique Sachse
Amidst her blended family of five children and a busy career reporting the news, Dominique graciously took me on a tour of her gorgeous home located in the heart of Houston. The architecture is reminiscent of New England, and the interior is warmed by a French country theme.
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Katy Christian Magazine and Fort Bend Christian Magazine Cover Features
I first served as a writer, then an editor, then editor in chief for Katy Christian magazine, and then helped launch the sister publication Fort Bend Christian magazine. Below are a few of my favorite covers and features.
Pink Divas: Fighting Breast Cancer
I am truly honored that my cover feature, Pink Divas, received an Excellence in Cancer Journalism Award. How humbling it was to interview Creech Elementary School personnel and students who band together year after year to fund raise for the cause of breast cancer. Penny Ducote, a breast cancer survivor, shares her story as a very supportive staff and student body cheer on her victory. So many parents, boys and girls participated in Komen’s Race for the Cure on their bicycles. The unifying spirit was tangible. Learn more about the article here.
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Impulse (1974)
mikestakeonthemovies March 22, 2016 11 Comments
I like to call the majority of the 1970’s “the dark ages” when it comes to the career of Canadian Icon William Shatner. He was in between stints as Captain James T. Kirk and while he never seemed to be out of work, many of the roles he undertook seem comical from our vantage point in review. Perhaps none more so than this role that cast him as a handsome widow chasing embezzler with murder on his twisted mind.
This thriller from director William Grefe begins with a black and white flashback that’s going to give our Shatner character some reasoning for the heinous crimes he’s going to commit in the next 87 minutes. While a young boy of about ten, we see that his mother is taking “johns” to earn her living. When a navy man gets a bit out of hand, young Shatner walks in and attempting to protect his mother kills the military man with a samurai sword.
Fast forward to the present toupee Bill is sporting circa 1974 in between gigs on Mannix and Police Woman.
Shatner is now to be found enjoying a front row seat watching a hip maneuvering belly dancer do her thing. After the show he meets her for a rendezvous but is spotted by a jealous blonde. When confronted we learn that he’s a “kept” man by a wealthy woman who’s tired of his philandering ways. In no time at all, Shatner seems to lose his sanity and strangles the woman, ditching her and her car in a convenient near by river.
Time to move on and find another woman of means that he can con into supporting him.
Sexy Shatner even gets lines like pointing out to a cute desk clerk, “You’re buzzers ringing.” in reference to the phones. She purrs back at our sexy Canuck, “You better believe it.” Sure enough, Shatner is bedding her in the next scene.
What Shatner really has on his mind is working his way into the lives of Jennifer Bishop and her aunt, Ruth Roman. There’s money to be found in Roman’s private safe and Bishop is hooked into believing Shatner can make her some big bucks on the stock market.
The biggest obstacle for our nutty version of Shatner is that Bishop has a nosy 10 year old daughter who doesn’t trust her Mother’s new beau and when she sees him kill old pal Harold Sakata in gruesome fashion, she begins to cry wolf to no avail. The pressure begins mounting on our loose cannon version of Shatner.
This time capsule makes for an interesting curio for fans of the legendary James T. Kirk. How about a rather soft looking Shatner in a striped muscle shirt? Yes we get treated to that look right along with the tousled toupee. It’s no secret that Mr. Shatner is a commonly used prop for imitators and comedians. Seeing him go over the edge on more than one occasion here almost comes across as Bill lampooning himself.
The outcome gets a bit gory in detail and if you didn’t see the end coming then you’re not the film connoisseur I took you to be.
This film is out on a budget label so shouldn’t be too tough to locate on DVD or perhaps even on line for the Shatner fan in all of us.
1970's, Daily Take
Harold Sakata, Ruth Roman, William Grefe, William Shatner
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Trouble Man (1972)
geelw says:
Yikes. I forgot all about this one, but that’s probably a good thing 😀
It was my first viewing and since Bill is a fellow Canadian I felt an Impulse…… I know that’s baaaad.
You win this round, mister (lol).
Sounds like a classic.
In a William Shatner kind of way……
Thank you for that image. I have beat my head upon the desk in front of me, but still the image refuses to die. Like Rosenshatner and Guildenshatner.
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Ha! Years ago I bought the film on that ‘budget label’ you mentioned (after watching a scene on-line where Shatner gets tough with a woman carrying balloons…a classic moment), and I thought it was a hilarious watch. I love the fact that Shatner goes head-to-head with a ten-year-old girl throughout the film, and always ends up holding the losing end of the stick.
Hi Todd. It’s a hoot seeing Shatner play the sexy wife woman killer. Not sure who found him sexy so dare I say it’s a stretch?
If neither you nor I found him sexy, then yes, it’s a stretch.
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Absolute Carnage: Avengers (2019)
CAPTAIN AMERICA! HAWKEYE! THE THING! WOLVERINE! Years ago, Cletus Kasady used the Carnage symbiote to take over a small town called Doverton, Colorado, as well as the team of Avengers who arrived to stop him! Barely able to free themselves from his control during their first meeting, this small band of heroes will have no choice but to assemble once more after they discover that Doverton’s entir
Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors (2019)
Collects Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors (2019) #1-3, Absolute Carnage: Avengers (2019) #1. The cult of Carnage comes to New York City! When he was last seen, John Jameson was being recovered from the site of a massacre in Doverton, Colorado, by Misty Knight. Since then, they’ve both been MIA. So how, then, did they become the only two people poised to prevent chaos as a deadly foe of Spi
Amazing Spider-Man (2018-)
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #1-5 and material from Free Comic Book Day 2018 (Amazing Spider-Man). It's a new beginning for the Amazing Spider-Man! Peter Parker's life is turned upside down when a revelation from the past puts his job, relationships and whole life in jeopardy! And as if that's not enough, Spidey must deal with an alien invasion (with a mysterious twist), a new roommate (w
Amazing Spider-Man: Wakanda Forever (2018)
PART ONE OF A THREE-PART STORY THAT SEES THE DORA MILAJE TEAM UP WITH THE MARVEL U! The blockbuster Black Panther film has everyone talking about Wakanda’s best warriors, the fierce Dora Milaje! Now witness the Dora outside of Wakanda – and in Spider-Man’s world! When the Dora catch wind of a Wakandan threat causing trouble in New York, they’ll leap into action – with or without their ki
Annihilation - Scourge (2019)
Collects Annihilation — Scourge: Alpha, Nova, Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill, Fantastic Four And Omega. There is only survival! Something is stirring in the Negative Zone — something the Marvel Universe isn’t ready for! Can Nova assemble a team powerful enough to tackle this burgeoning threat — or is it already too late to stop its descent upon the galaxy? For the greatest champions of th
Avengers (2018-)
Collects Avengers (2018) #1-6 and Material From Free Comic Book Day 2018 (Avengers/Captain America). A new era for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Steve Rogers. Tony Stark. Thor Odinson. The big three are reunited at last — and just in time to save the world from the 2,000-foot-tall space gods known as the Celestials! Behold the coming of the Final Host! But who will answer the call as a new team
Champions (2016-2018)
Following the fallout of CIVIL WAR II, Avengers Ms. Marvel, Nova and Spider-Man strike out on their own — joined by Cyclops, Viv Vision and the Totally Awesome Hulk! Six young heroes determined to change the world — and they're only the beginning!
Domino (2018-2019)
Collects Domino (2018) #1-6. Impossible targets call for impossible shots — and no one can make them like Domino! Marvel's #1 soldier of fortune is back in an explosive new series! The product of a failed Super-Soldier Program, Neena Thurman always made her own luck as the sharpshooting mercenary known as Domino…but what happens when her own powers betray her? The hunter becomes the hunted
Edge of Spider-Geddon (2018)
Collects Edge Of Spider-Geddon #1-4, Superior Octopus #1. Every world has its spider! Spider-Punk is back and better than ever, tackling his home dimension’s problems with arachnid attitude! And witness the next chapter in the life of Peni Parker, A.K.A. the fan-favorite SP//dr! But the amazing, spectacular alternate-reality heroes don’t stop there! In one universe, when Uncle Ben is shot i
Generation X (2017-2018)
Collecting Generation X (2017) #1-6. The Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach has opened its doors, and is ready to foster the next generation of heroes and diplomats! But this time around, the X-Men recognize an unfortunate truth: not all mutants are created equal. Some mutants are just not made to fight Sentinels or serve as ambassadors on behalf of their kind. Some mutants will
Jean Grey (2017-2018)
Collects Jean Grey #1-6. When the teenage Marvel Girl traveled through time and arrived in the present, she learned the terrible fate that befell her adult counterpart. Possessed by a cosmic entity called the Phoenix, that Jean Grey was trapped in an endless cycle of life and death. Now, determined to escape that future, young Jean sets out to write her own destiny. But when she has a premoniti
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015-2019)
Lunella Lafayette is a preteen super genius who wants to change the world- but learned the hard way that it takes more than just big brains. Fearful of the monstrous Inhuman genes inside her, life is turned upside down when a savage, red-scaled tyrant is teleported from prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call today. The pair is many things, and together the most amazing Marvel Team-Up. Marv
Venom (2018-)
Collects Venom (2018) #1-12. Rising star Donny Cates and blockbuster artist Ryan Stegman transform the world of Venom! An ancient and primordial evil has surfaced beneath the streets of New York. With it, something equally disturbing has been awakened in Venom, that most wicked of web-slingers! The symbiote may still be a lethal protector of innocents in New York, but this never-before-seen thr
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Weapon X (2017-2018)
Decades ago, the Weapon X program produced the deadliest mutant killers on the planet. Now, with more research, more funding and more Adamantium at its disposal, the Weapon X program is creating new killers for old targets: Old Man Logan. Sabretooth. Lady Deathstrike. Weapon X isn't just experimenting on mutants anymore…it's eradicating them. All of them. Plus: Deadlier and more shadowy than eve
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Articles containing spoilers, Locations
"Agh! To the belly of a beast with all of you..."
The article found on this page contains spoilers, meaning information and facts concerning the Mouse Guard books will be contained. If you do not want to know about the latest events, it is recommended to read on with caution; or not at all.
"In these we claim our independence from the savage world around. Our autonomy, ideals, and pride live here."
―Map of the Territories, 1108
A particularly idyllic scene in the Territories.
The Mouse Territories is a rough and rocky portion of land locked by landmasses to the east and west. To the north of the Mouse Territories is the North Sea, while to the south-east is what appears to be a patch of small lakes and ponds. The soil is unsuitable for agriculture and is heavily forested and blanketed with thick underbrush.
Situated around the edge of the territories is the Scent Border, while scattered throughout the Territories themselves are various mouse outposts, villages and towns each governed by their own local magistrates and mayors.
What is beyond the Mouse Territories is not commonly shown. According to Kole in Legends of the Guard Volume One, beyond the east borders is wild country, an eastern sea and some forest land inhabited by mice, weasels and snakes.
"This happened in the far east. Past our territory. Past the wild country and over another sea yet."
―Kole, Legends of the Guard Volume One
A Brief History of the Mouse Territories Edit
In the not-too-distant past, mice lived in tiny tree hollows, under logs, in stone cracks and other wayward, forgotten places. They lived scattered across the wild without community or support. They were hunted by predators, subject to harsh weather, and had few supplies to sustain them in the face of calamity. In fact, these mice were far more likely to perish from depredation, exposure, illness or starvation than live a long, prosperous life.
Lockhaven during the Fall of 1152, as it is besieged by the Axe Army.
Against the overwhelming forces of nature, a few desparate groups made a stand. They staked a claim on a handful of safe patches of wilderness. As word of these safe havens traveled, other mice flocked to them. The most famous settlement grew quickly from a hiding place to an outpost to a fortification and, finally, to a citadel- fortified walls surrounding a prosperous town, defended by a dedicated guard. This place is now called Lockhaven, and it is the center of what is known as the Mouse Territories.
As Lockhaven became more and more secure, its guardians reached out to other settlements. At first, the Lockhavenites tried to bring everyone they found back to the safety of their city. Many came, but many also would not. Other communities, perhaps less safe but still prosperous, had formed in the wild. They were reluctant to leave what they had begun, despite their precarious position.
There was a debate within the ranks of Lockhaven’s guardians. What to do about these other settlements? Should they be forcibly moved? Should they be abandoned? In the end, the guardians decided there was only one true answer: Lockhaven must use her strength to defend and support these communities. All mice must prosper or all mice will fail. Therefore, these guardians struck out to the distant settlements, marking paths and noting which directions gave them more cover, better viewpoints and quicker routes.
These brave, selfless mice quickly became known as the Mouse Guard. As their numbers grew and their protection was extended and came to be relied upon, the far-flung settlements did indeed prosper. Lockhaven itself changed as well. It became less of a bustling city and more of a central hub for the Guard. Eventually, the Guard took over the administration of the citadel completely.
A Tenderpaw is promoted to the rank of Guardmouse in a special ceremony overseen by a Matriarch.
The first mouse to organize the defense of Lockhaven was female. Thereafter, it has remained tradition that the Guard be commanded by a female mouse given the rank of Matriarch. She is in charge of internal affairs, governing the mice of Lockhaven and setting the Guard's missions and patrols. The Matriarch determines Guard postings, what duties patrols are to complete and which areas in the Territories need the most attention. Beneath her are a cascade of captains and administrators who assist her in day-to-day operations and long term plans.
In the wilds between the settlements, all mice agree, the Mouse Guard is the law. But in the mouse towns, the Guard only has as much authority as that town's government allows. Most settlements welcome Guardmice, but many defer to their own lawmice and protectors. Some places even force visiting Guardmice to turn over their weapons at the gates of their settlement.
More history coming soon!
Settlements Edit
Appleloft
Birchflow
Dorigift
Elmoss
Frostic
Gilpledge
Lalogero
Whitepine
Wildseed
Wolfepoint
Flintrust
Grasslake
Ivydale
Oakgrove
Pebblebrook
Port Sumac
Roofwallow
Sandmason
Shaleburrow
Sprucetuck
Thistledown
Walnutpeck
Willowroot
Windselm
Woodruff's Grove (Lost)
Barkstone
Dawnrock
Ferndale (Lost)
Lillygrave
Mapleharbor
Rustleaf
Shorestone
Map Gallery Edit
Map of the Mouse territories, 1108.
Mouse Guard Role Playing Game - "The Territories" chapter
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Capello continues to cling to the wrong experienced players
It was only last year that I was championing Fabio Capello as an intelligent and adaptable manager capable of improving considerably on England’s tournament record. Then disastrous preparation for the World Cup in South Africa and the handling of the captaincy fiasco transformed him from hero to zero for the whole nation. Yesterday’s draw with Switzerland, in a game England should have won at Wembley, was further evidence that Capello should have gone after the failure of the World Cup.
Capello’s main failing at the moment, above his poor communication skills and shoddy organisation, is his refusal to move on from ageing stars. Frank Lampard started as part of a three man midfield yesterday but England improved dramatically after the break when Capello brought on Young in his place, who should have started the game. Young scored a smart goal.
England have real pace and youthful pentration available on the flanks. The likes of Young, Downing, Johnson, Lennon and Walcott ought to be utilised more often. It’s taken Capello too long to give them international playing experience. The best teams at the big tournaments are units of quality players that have played together for a number of years, since the promise of their youth. Look at the German and Spanish sides.
In the centre of midfield, Jack Wilshere is the future. Capello has finally decided to give him a key role. But he continually plays alongside Parker and Lampard. Lampard is past his best and should be a squad member, not an integral part of the team for the long term. Parker was exposed yesterday; he is not the solution to England’s midfield woes. Capello needs to look to younger options for a holding midfield partner for Wilshere. Tom Huddlestone perhaps?
On the other hand, Capello consistently neglects experienced international players that could still play a vital role in his squad. His new found fetish for Darren Bent as a lone striker has alienated Peter Crouch, with rumours swirling today that he’s ruled himself out of international duty whilst Capello remains in charge. Michael Owen would have scored the chance Bent had to win the game, undeservedly, for England against Switzerland. Michael Carrick has been superb for Manchester United and would compliment Wilshere well. His passing ability is well suited to internationals.
A year ago I thought one of Capello’s key attributes was decisiveness. He dealt excellently with the John Terry crisis at first, only to divide the dressing room with his terribly handled reinstatement. However the defining aspect of his tenure looks set to be indecision. Extraordinarily Capello didn’t know his best eleven before the 2010 World Cup. He still won’t know his best eleven before Euro 2012, if England get there. He appears torn between entrusting the team’s hopes to youth or tried and tested experience. And when he tries to balance the two, he picks the wrong ingredients.
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Macho Antidotes to the Royal Wedding – Part 2: United on BBC iplayer
My second suggestion of anti-Royal Wedding medication for the ordinary man, following the sensational spectacle of Thor, is a single strong dose of BBC drama United, shown on Sunday and now available on iplayer. If Thor was grounded in fun fantasy then United is rooted firmly in poignant and period storytelling, of the sort the Beeb does so well. In fact with budget cuts beginning to bite, our national broadcaster has made it clear that quality dramas like United and The Crimson Petal and the White are the future of BBC2 in particular. If future projects are as good as these then it’s a wise as well as an economical decision.
United is the story of the tragic Munich air crash that killed most of Manchester United football club’s first team, as well as reporters and staff, after a successful European cup match in Belgrade. The squad’s flight was stopping over in a snowy Munich to refuel and the players and coaching staff were keen to return in time for their league game that weekend, and thus avoid a points deduction. For most football fans the catastrophe that cruelly cut short the life of so many of “Busby’s Babes” is the stuff of familiar legend. I have been a Manchester United fan since the age of 6 and was raised on the fairytales of pure footballers from both before the disaster and after it. The men directly touched by such devastating events forged the foundations for Manchester United to become the world famous and successful club it is today.
Rest assured though, United is a good drama and an absorbing watch, pure and simple. For those without the background in football heritage or even those that can’t tolerate the game, this is a captivating human story of careers, celebrity and comebacks. Most importantly this is an extremely British tale and the perfect anaesthetic for ears bleeding profusely because of the hypocritical and imbecilic and meaningless whining of Americans pleasuring themselves over the blandest, most lifeless 24 hour coverage of the exterior of Bucking-HAM palace.
Despite the subject matter United is not all doom and gloom. For over half an hour from the start we are welcomed into the heart of a football club going from strength to strength. But it’s not about the football; it’s about the characters at the club. We are treated to finely honed BBC costume drama detail, from the 1950s fashions, to the dressing room, to Old Trafford, the Theatre of Dreams itself, rendered lifelike with impressively unnoticeable CGI. Most pleasing of all is the delicious double act formed between David Tennant’s Welsh coach Jimmy Murphy and Dougray Scott’s understated but charismatic portrayal of United’s most celebrated manager, Matt Busby.
Most of the time, Tennant steals the show, as he does in almost everything he’s in. It is by no means one of the more important judges of an actor, but Tennant continually succeeds at accent after accent, this time believably carrying off the musical Welsh tongue. This role also allows him to show off other more vital aspects of his talent too though. He has tremendous fun motivating the players as a coach with vision and then more than copes with the emotional side to the story when the drama hits. The majority of Doctor Who fans may now be fully warming to Matt Smith but Tennant remains a class act and it’s actually refreshing to see him embracing parts as diverse and interesting as this one.
It’s fitting that United is mostly told from the perspective of a young Bobby Charlton. He’s now a Sir and a national treasure, but then he was just a lad that wanted to play football. And he ended up living through a harrowing and traumatic experience. Yet he came out the other side of it and was lucky enough to have been part of the great team before the crash, and the even greater side built from the ashes. Jack O’Connell, who plays the young Charlton here, does a really good job whether he’s stumbling through the plane’s ripped ruins and grimacing at explosions, practicing on the pitch or gazing up in awe at the stadium.
As a production United really does ooze quality. The acting is top notch, the music is touching and the directing beautiful, particularly at the snowy crash site itself and in the dressing rooms. It also deals sensitively with an immensely emotive issue. The question of blame is delicately raised and wisely the film does not nail its opinion to any specific interpretation. Some will blame those who were desperate to play abroad and then make it back home in time for the league match, and indeed Busby blamed himself. Some will blame the league officials who refused to grant a postponement to the fixture after United’s European trip. Some will insist the officials at the airport and the mechanics and the pilots should have taken more care. But the sensible will just accept the terrible tragedy of it all. The enormous grief.
Of course the overwhelming and important cost of the crash was the human one, with so many young men dead. Their families and girlfriends and mates were robbed of their lives prematurely. As a drama United undoubtedly tells that tale. It often seems callous, stupid and emotionally ignorant to talk of the cost to the game of football. I call myself a football fan but much of the time the game leaves me unmoved. I do not live and breathe the game, I no longer care greatly as I used to as a child when one of my favoured teams does poorly. It takes a great occasion or an unusually interesting story, or an exciting match with beautiful passages of play, to truly ignite my interest these days. But there certainly was a significant cost to the game of football after the Munich crash, and it was a cost that mattered almost as much as the loss of their lives. United tells that story too.
It mattered that such a great and talented team was almost completely wiped out, because it mattered to them. It would have mattered to those that died and it mattered to those left behind. It mattered to the fans that mourned them and even the people that knew them. It’s too easy to talk with nostalgia of how football used to be, with starting elevens as opposed to giant squads and meagre salaries and basic training pitches; the modern game is too often ignorantly slated as excessive junk. Watching United though you can see the appeal of that nostalgia, of an old school approach brimming with romance, you can understand those who knew it firsthand ranting and raving at the money making machine that’s replaced it.
Nowadays you wouldn’t get Tennant’s character, a first team coach, ringing round top flight clubs begging for players in the aftermath of a disaster so that the locals could see a game and to maintain the winning philosophy of a club. It just wouldn’t be possible. Or necessary. You wouldn’t get a fairytale quite as magical as the one that swept a ramshackle team, comprised of youngsters and amateur unknowns, to the F.A. Cup Final at Wembley just months after the crash.
I’m not ashamed to admit I cried watching United. I might have been predisposed to an outpouring of emotion because United stirred up a long since cooled love in me for the beautiful game. But I defy anyone not to be moved by such excellent acting, such accurate portrayals of grief and commitment and passion. I have been reminded by United that anything, be it art, table tennis or cartoons, that takes you out of yourself and absorbs you, helping you to forget pain and grief completely just for a moment, is a worthwhile and admirable activity. Something worth fighting for.
The Royal Wedding is more likely to make me vomit than get teary but I know it would be more acceptable to sob down the pub over the achievements of football greats than the nuptials of a posh Prince. So when the women are welling up at the sight of a dress or a bouquet, tell them you’re not dead inside you’d just rather save your sympathy and admiration for real royalty.
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Ditulis oleh MayImilae, JMC47 pada Jan. 1, 2019
While there are a lot of notable changes to go through from the past two months, there's some notable news for the general Wii community. By the time this article is up, the Nintendo Wii Shop will be closed. Purchasing will be entirely disabled so all remaining Wii Points will be rendered useless, and even downloading of purchased games will be disabled at an undefined date in the future. While this may not seem like very big news for an emulator, Dolphin does actually support connecting to and buying games off of the Wii shop.
More distressingly, it's likely only a matter of time before the Wii Nintendo Update Servers (NUS) themselves go down. Dolphin relies on the NUS servers for installing a fully updated Wii System Menu in Dolphin. Users with unscrubbed Wii discs can rely on them as well to install the System Menu after they go down, but, depending on when the game was released, it may not be fully updated.
It's also rather disappointing that the many unique titles released on WiiWare can no longer be legally purchased by users. Say what you will about the average quality of WiiWare releases, these titles are a part of the Wii's legacy, one that is slowly being locked out to those who would want to experience them in the future.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we have a lot of big changes that hit over the past two months that we need to get through. The sun may be setting on Nintendo's revolutionary console, but on the emulation front we still have a long road ahead of this. We hope that everyone enjoy's this month's notable changes!
For the convenience of our Android users, we've decided to cluster up a ton of important Android changes together after the more general changes. If you're on Android 9 or are a big fan of Paper Mario, you definitely won't want to skip out.
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Microsoft Regional Director
Daron Yondem
Daron started his way in the community writing his first ASP.NET AJAX book in 2007, an 800 pages long AJAX Bible. He started hosting sessions all around Turkey trying to spread the word about AJAX libraries and ASP.NET’s approach to it. He wrote articles on MSDN Magazine, PC World, PC Net Magazine. Also, he received his first MVP award as an ASP.NET MVP in 2008. The same year, he was given the leadership role in INETA Turkey and served as INETA Turkey Lead for three years. Daron did not stop within Turkey and extended his reach within other countries in the MEA region hosting sessions about Silverlight, HTML5 in Egypt, Lebanon, Dubai, Qatar, Beirut, Jordan, Sophia, and South Africa. He spoke at international conferences including TechEd Middle-East, TechEd South Africa, MSDays Bulgaria, DevReach, Microsoft OpenDoor, and PDC. Throughout the years his speaking topics included Serverless, CosmosDB, Azure, AI.
In 2009 Daron received “Microsoft Regional Director” title and was given “Gold Global Impact Award” for three consecutive years. In 2010, he was awarded as a Silverlight MVP and kept that competency for another year. Meanwhile, he took the INETA Middle-East and Africa President role in 2011 and managed 144 user groups all around the region.
Daron wrote four technical books in English and two books in Turkish about IE and HTML5, CosmosDB, including a book published collaboratively by 15 MVPs all around the world from Wrox Publishing.
The birth of Microsoft Azure was just another milestone where Daron could has used his back-end experiences to the community. He hosted Azure Camps in Turkey and has been the only speaker for a Middle-East Azure Roadshow and the Middle-Easy DevOps Roadshow for Microsoft.
Daron works as a CTO in XOGO, an digital signage company running on Azure and IoT Core.
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Risked
308 pages ;
Consequences, Family, Rescue, Resourcefulness, Teamwork
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel
Soviet Union, 1904-1918, Anastasia,, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia,, 1901-1918, Nicholas, II,, Emperor of Russia,, 1868-1918, Family, Czarevitch, son of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia,, Alekseæi Nikolaevich,, Time travel, History
The mystery adventure surrounding Russia's last tsar and the fate of his family will enthrall readers and spark thinking and discussion as engaging as the book's fast-moving plot. Another remarkable installment in "The Missing" series! (Book Seven in Missing Series)
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed.
Jonah and Katherine journey to 1918 with the Romanov children in the sixth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “plenty of fun and great for history teachers as well.”
It’s a paradox: When Jonah and Katherine find themselves on a mission to return Alexei and Anastasia Romanov to history and then save them from the Russian Revolution, they are at a loss. Because in their own time, the bones of Alexei and Anastasia have been positively identified through DNA testing. What hope do they have of saving Alexis and Anastasia’s lives when the twenty-first century has proof of their deaths?
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East Market Announces Federal Donuts as Newest Tenant
Philadelphia (May 14, 2018) – Today, National Real Estate Development, LLC (“National Development”) announced that Federal Donuts, the famed Philadelphia donut, coffee and fried chicken shop, has leased 1,180 square feet at its East Market project, owned by National Real Estate Advisors, LLC, JOSS Realty Partners, Young Capital LLC and SSH Real Estate. East Market will be the seventh city location for Federal Donuts, which is owned by James Beard Award-winning restaurateurs, Chef Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook of CookNSolo Restaurant Partners, along with Managing Partner Tom Henneman, Felicia D’Ambrosio and Bob Logue. The restaurant is expected to open in fall 2019.
“Federal Donuts is loved by Philadelphians, and we’re proud to have such a celebrated brand join our project,” said Daniel Killinger, Managing Director, National Development. “Our vision has always been to create a dynamic neighborhood at East Market that combines national brands and local favorites as part of the many opportunities offered to live, work, shop and dine. With retail beginning to come online and the opening of The Ludlow, we have no doubt that a ‘Hot Fresh’ Federal donut or a tasty fried chicken sandwich will be the perfect complement to any one of those activities.”
The East Market project, encompassing the full city block from Market to Chestnut and 11th to 12th Streets, will offer shopping and dining options with sophisticated apartments and contemporary workspaces designed by BLT Architects and Morris Adjmi Architects respectively. Federal Donuts joins the growing list of tenants at East Market including MOM’s Organic Market, Wawa, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, Little Baby’s Ice Cream, District Taco, City Fitness, TJ Maxx, AT&T, Design Center Philadelphia and architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The Ludlow, East Market’s first residential building, offers 322 units, is open for leasing, and move-ins began last month. An additional 240 apartment units will become available at 1199 Ludlow Street, with 60 operated by high design extended stay concept ROOST Apartment Hotel set to open in late summer 2018.
“Federal Donuts is a homegrown brand built on the strength of Philadelphia,” said Federal Donuts partner Steven Cook. “We couldn’t be more excited to take part in the revival of East Market as one the city’s great neighborhoods.”
Federal Donuts, the world’s first fried chicken and donut shop, opened its first storefront in 2011 to enthusiastic crowds. Donuts are either “Hot Fresh” out of a donut robot fryer, tossed in house blended sugars and served hot; or “Fancy”, with a rotating selection of imaginative and delicious glazes which cover cake donuts made fresh each morning. Federal Donuts’ twice-fried super crispy chicken is offered coated in dry seasonings, savory glazes, or naked. In addition, Federal Donuts serves up its Philly favorite Chicken Sandwich, a twice-fried boneless chicken breast dusted in house ranch seasoning, a slice of old-fashioned American cheese, dill pickle, and the shop’s not-so-secret recipe for “Spicy Rooster Sauce” all on a Martin’s Potato Roll.
About East Market
East Market, a pedestrian-oriented development in the heart of Philadelphia, is revitalizing an entire city block, from Market to Chestnut, 11th to 12thStreets. This mixed-used project blends urban and artisanal shopping and dining experiences with contemporary work and living spaces. The project is owned by National Real Estate Advisors, LLC, a leading investment manager specializing in build-to-core, developing and owning large-scale, urban commercial and multifamily projects for its institutional client accounts; Joss Realty Partners, a New York-based private real estate investment firm; Young Capital LLC, a Philadelphia-based real estate investment firm affiliated with Classic Management, Inc.; and SSH Real Estate, one of the largest privately held commercial real estate companies in the Greater Philadelphia Region. East Market is being developed by National Development, the full-service arm of National Real Estate Advisors. For more information, please visit www.eastmarket.com or email eastmarket@natrealestatedevelopment.com.
About Federal Donuts
Restaurateurs Steven Cook and Chef Michael Solomonov of CookNSolo Restaurants (Zahav, Dizengoff, Abe Fisher and Goldie), Managing Partner Tom Henneman, Felicia D’Ambrosio and Bob Logue, opened Philadelphia’s first Federal Donuts in October of 2011. The crowds came for donuts first, served either Fancy (glazed and decorated each morning) or Hot Fresh (fried to order and tossed in flavored sugars). At 11 am, the Korean-style fried chicken rolls out. The super-crispy, twice-fried birds are coated in either dry seasonings or glazes.
Federal Donuts quickly earned notice from press, including The New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, who called the cake donuts “world-class.” Federal Donuts has appeared on ABC’s The Chew and Good Morning America, Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, and CBS This Morning. Print accolades include The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Bon Appetit and Saveur, which selected the Spicy PB&J donut as one of the Top 50 Donuts in America.
What’s more: in January of 2017, Federal Donuts expanded it’s imaginatively delicious impact on Philadelphia’s food scene when they opened Rooster Soup Co., a diner-style luncheonette that donates 100% of its profits to Broad Street Hospitality Collaborative in Philadelphia. The Hospitality Collaborative provides meals and essential services to those experiencing homelessness and food insecurity in Philadelphia. Rooster Soup’s diner-inspired menu is made from the backs and bones of Federal Donuts’ chickens – over 700 each week – which transforms food waste into a sustainable funding source of profits flowing directly to Philadelphia’s most vulnerable citizens.
To learn more about one of Federal Donuts’ six locations in Philadelphia (1219 S. Second Street; 1632 Sansom Street; 3428 Sansom Street; 701 N. Seventh Street), 2101 Pennsylvania Ave inside Whole Foods Market Center City, and the seasonal concession at Citizens Bank Park, visit us at federaldonuts.com.
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How New Americans are Shoring Up America’s Economy
by Jenny Shank
Between 2000 and 2013, immigrants accounted for 48 percent of overall growth of business ownership in the U.S. John Moore/Getty Images
"What is good for immigrants is good for everyone."
Walk down Main Street in your community and it’s likely that you’ll pass by a lot of immigrant-owned businesses.
In the new report “Bringing Vitality to Main Street,” the Council of the Americas and the Fiscal Policy Institute find that between 2000 and 2013, immigrant-owned businesses were responsible for all the net growth in Main Street businesses — from restaurants to hairdressers to auto body shops — throughout the U.S. and in 31 of the largest 50 cities in the country.
Immigrants own 53 percent of America’s grocery stores, 45 percent of its nail salons and 38 percent of its restaurants. Overall, immigrants own 28 percent of the Main Street businesses in America, even though they only comprise 16 percent of country’s population.
The authors of the report included businesses owned by both documented and undocumented immigrants in the study, zeroing in on three areas where vibrant immigrant communities have revitalized neighborhoods and cities: Philadelphia, Nashville and the Twin Cities.
Jennifer Rodriguez, executive director of Philadelphia’s Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Cultural Affairs, tells NBC News that the report, “really tells a story of how hard-working they are and how they are contributors to our city, how they helped bring back neighborhoods that have been in decline.”
In addition to contributing to business growth, immigrants seem to be shoring up the housing market as well. Gillian B. White writes for National Journal that while millennials have so far proven to be less likely than previous generations to purchase real estate, buying a house is still a key goal for many immigrants. In fact, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, immigrants are responsible for 27.5 percent of the growth in homeownership over the past 20 years. Unlike their millennial counterparts from non-immigrant families, the children of immigrants account for the largest increase in the growth of households headed by people under age 30.
As Rodriguez says, “I often say that what is good for immigrants is good for everyone.”
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Swedish Scientists Implant Prosthetic-Controlling Electrodes
A team of surgeons at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden has implanted electrodes into a patient in hopes of giving him more complete and natural control of his prosthetic arm.
A news announcement said the electrodes were "permanently implanted in nerves and muscles of an amputee to directly control an arm prosthesis. The result allows natural control of an advanced robotic prosthesis, similar to the motions of a natural limb."
Sahlgrenska University Hospital said the surgical team was led by Dr. Rickard Brånemark with technology developed by Max Ortiz Catalan, supervised by Brånemark and Bo Håkansson of Chalmers University of Technology, also located in Sweden.
Brånemark said of the surgery, "The new technology is a major breakthrough that has many advantages over current technology, which provides very limited functionality to patients with missing limbs."
The new technology, a news release from Chalmers said, answers two big challenges of successful prosthetic use: how to firmly attach the prosthetic to its human user, and how to enable that user to "intuitively and efficiently control the prosthesis in order to be truly useful and regain lost functionality."
Brånemark says the new process "combines a bone-anchored prosthesis" - via a titanium screw - "with implanted electrodes."
"It allows complete degree of motion for the patient, fewer skin-related problems and a more natural feeling that the prosthesis is part of the body," Brånemark says. "Overall, it brings better quality of life to people who are amputees."
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Livestock for Hanukkah
By Daphna Berman 17:22 04 December in Latest
If you are still looking for an interesting Hanukkah gift this year, consider a goat. Yes, a non-profit based in Arkansas is looking to combine concepts like tzedka and tikun olam with the gift-giving traditions of Hanukkah to encourage people to gift cows, bees, water buffalos...
Stevie Wonder Cancels Appearance at IDF Fundraiser
By Daphna Berman 16:40 30 November in Latest
Stevie Wonder has canceled his appearance at a pro-Israel gala to benefit IDF soldiers after the United Nations pressured the performer to withdraw, citing his affiliation with the organization. Wonder, who was slated to headline the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) western region gala...
Jon Stewart is Old: Happy 50th Birthday!
Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and a pioneer in modern political satire, turned 50 yesterday. Born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz to a Jewish family in New York, Stewart is one of the country’s most successful— and arguably influential—comedians. The Daily Show, which airs on Comedy...
Protest to Mark Three Years Since Alan Gross Arrested in Cuba
By Daphna Berman 16:08 29 November in Latest, Uncategorized
A protest Sunday in front of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington has been planned, in what organizers are calling a “stand in solidarity” to mark three years since Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba. Gross, a Maryland native, was detained in December 2009 while on...
I Just Called To Say I Support You…
Legend Stevie Wonder is set to headline for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) western region gala next month. The event, which is slated to attract some 1,200 IDF supporters, is being chaired by Israeli businessman Haim Saban, and his wife, Cheryl. Other celebrity appearances include...
The Jewish Christians of Bello, Colombia
The people of Bello, Colombia, had long been devout Christians, but about a decade ago, that started to change. Some whispered about grandparents that didn’t eat pork; others recalled family traditions of lighting candles on Friday night. And then Juan Carlos Villegas, the minister of a...
Mayim Bialik’s Divorce
When Mayim Bialik announced her divorce last week, everyone, it seemed, had an opinion. The actress announced the split in a statement, which she posted on her Kveller blog. Writer Ayelet Waldman tweeted, “Attachment parenting wingnut who spent entire marriage w/kid hanging from nipple getting divorced. #shocking”...
First Jewish Center to Open in Portugal Since Inquisition
A Jewish cultural center is set to open in Portugal in what is being billed as the first community institution of its kind since the inquisition more than 500 years. The mayor of Transcoso, a small town some 40 miles from the border with Spain, has...
Egypt, Hamas and Israel
Egyptian policy toward Israel has largely remained consistent, despite rhetoric from the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled government that indicates otherwise, a leading Middle East expert told Moment Magazine. David Pollock, a fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that Egypt is actively trying to de-escalate...
Israeli Victims Identified
Three victims of the direct rocket hit in the city of Kiryat Malachi have been named. They are: Ahron Smadga, 46, Yitzchak Amsalam, 27, and Mira Scharf, 26. Scharf, a mother of three children, who was seven months pregnant, had been living in Delhi, where...
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Quick Loans Privacy PolicyBrian Hughs2019-03-07T16:30:35+00:00
Privacy Policy for BW Hughs, Inc. dba Quick Loans
This (“Policy”) describes how BW Hughs, Inc. dba Quick Loans (collectively “Quick Loans,” “we” “our” or “us”), collects, uses and shares your information. Quick Loans takes the privacy of its customers and visitors to its stores and websites very seriously. This Policy describes the type of information we collect, how we use and share that information, how we protect that information, your choices regarding that information, and how you can contact us with any questions
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED, HOW IS IT COLLECTED AND HOW IS THAT INFORMATION USED?
We collect Personal Information and Non Personally Identifiable Information (“NPI”), as defined below. We collect Personal Information and NPI about our customers, store and website visitors, in primarily three ways: directly from our customer, store or website visitor (for example, when applying or inquiring for a loan in person or from entering your information when online), from our web server & application logs, cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies, and from third-Âparties. We use your Personal Information and NPI primarily to provide you our products and services, to ensure quality of service, to contact you, to provide you with offers or information about our products and services, and to provide you with a personalized website experience. We do not share with others any Personal Information, unless we say so in this Policy, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
We share your Personal Information and NPI with our affiliates.
We also share your Personal Information and NPI with our service providers and other third-Âparties as described below.
We may also share your Personal Information and NPI to meet our obligations to technology and content providers, or as required by law.
WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE?
If you do not want to receive information about our products or services, please update your account preferences (where available), and/or utilize the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” mechanism within the communications that you receive from us. If you have any additional questions or concerns related to this Policy, you may: email us at [email protected] call us at 417-725-5010 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday; or write to us at Quick Loans, PO Box 1668, Nixa, MO 65714
HOW IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED?
We have implemented certain appropriate security measures to help protect your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Despite these measures, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.
Full Privacy Policy
We collect two main categories of information from or about you: Personal Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information (“NPI”).
We define Personal Information as information that directly identifies an individual, such as name, residential street address or postal address, email address, social security number, date of birth, driver’s license number, government-issued identification number, phone number, credit report, bank account or other financial institution account numbers and transactions. We define NonÂ-Personally Identifiable Information or NPI as information about an individual or about categories or groups of individuals that do not identify you individually, such as your IP address, randomly assigned values in “cookies,” mobile device identifiers, geo-Âlocation, and other technical information. We also collect other information that may not identify you individually, such as your gender, vehicle information, occupation and other employment information, personal references, and residence related information such as lease and ownership information, and other information.
How Do We Collect Your Information?
We may collect Personal Information from you in a variety of ways. For example, we collect information you provide when you apply for a loan or otherwise enter into a contractual arrangement with Quick Loans at physical store locations. We may also collect Personal Information from or about you when you visit a website owned or operated by Quick Loans or on our behalf, when you use our mobile applications, visit social media websites, when you encounter Quick Loans at an event, or when you enter a promotion we offer. We use third parties to provide us with additional Personal Information about you. For example, if we know your name and postal address, we may use a third party to provide us with your email address. In addition to what is described below, we use this information for market analysis, marketing and other business purposes, including enforcement of contractual obligations. We may also collect Personal Information about you from consumer and/or credit reporting agencies and your personal references. If you provide Personal Information to us regarding others, we rely on you to obtain that other person’s consent for disclosing their information to us and inform that other person about how we will use the information and our contact details for any queries. In addition to what is described below, we collect NPI through many sources, including from information that you and third Âparties provide to us.
When you visit our websites, we may collect information about your visit and store that information, which are records of the activities on our website. Our servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information that we may collect or that thirdÂparties (including thirdÂparties involved in advertising operations) may collect while you navigate our website include, but are not limited to: (i)Your Internet protocol or “IP” address; (ii) The name of your Internet service provider; (iii)The city, state, and country from which you access our website; (iv) The type and version of browser, operating system, computer, or mobile device you use; (v) Screen resolution; (vi) A list of your browsers plugins; (vii) Installed fonts; (viii) Other technical characteristics of your browser, computer, or device; (viiii) The links you click within the website and the pages you visit; (x) The date and time of your visit; (xi) The web page from which you arrived to our website; (xii) and Certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website. The information we collect helps us administer the website, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use, and improve the visitor’s experience. The information may also be used for marketing purposes and may uniquely distinguish your browser or computer from other devices.
In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, we may use cookies to store and help track information about you. A cookie is a small data string that a web server stores on your computer or mobile device. (A web server is a computer that hosts a website and responds to requests received from your computer). Cookies can play an important role in providing a good customer experience using the web. Among other things, cookies enable a website to maintain continuity when a visitor’s web browser requests a series of web pages. Without cookies, for example, a website owner may not be able to recognize that a visitor just completed the first step during an online application process so that the second step can be presented. Cookies also enable advertising. Navigating our website will result in the placement of various advertising related cookies by third-Âparties on your computer or device. These cookies allow web servers involved in advertising operations to recognize your browser as you navigate to other websites and are necessary for the online delivery or placement of certain ads. Some third-Âparties involved in ad operations may maintain their own proprietary consumer databases that allow them to personally identify or track website visitors. Cookies generally hold various types of information, including randomly assigned unique identifiers, which allow websites, including websites covered by this Policy, to customize your experiences on the websites and gather information about your navigation of the websites. We may use different kinds of cookies, including HTTP cookies (also known as browser cookies) and Local Shared Objects such as Flash cookies that are built for use with the Adobe® Flash® Player. We may also use similar technologies, such as HTML5 local storage. Information gathered from cookies helps us understand how our websites are performing and provide website usage information to support customizing and improving our websites and their messaging and advertisements. We also use cookies to help verify the identity of a website visitor or to recognize you as a return or registered visitor and remember your settings and preferences. Cookies allow us to save preferences for you, so you won’t have to reenter them each time you visit. The use of cookies is relatively standard. Most browsers are initially set up to accept browser cookies. You can manage browser cookies by using features and functions available on most Internet browsers. For example, most browsers will allow you to choose what cookies can be placed on your computer and to delete or disable cookies. Flash Cookies, which by their nature are associated with Flash Player, may be removed by managing your settings with Adobe by visiting www.adobe.com. You should understand that some features of many websites may not function properly if you block or don’t accept cookies.
Other Data Collection Technologies
We may use web beacons, pixel tags, .gif files, and the like, that allow for the collection of information about your interactions on our websites. These technologies may be used, for example, to place advertisements, to understand website traffic patterns and the number of visitors to our website, and to measure the effectiveness of advertisements or our website. Web beacons, and the like, also enable third parties involved in advertising operations to recognize your browser as you navigate to other websites and are necessary for the online delivery or placement of certain types of ads. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google’) to collect certain information relating to your use of the Website. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the Website analyze how users use the site. You can find out more about how Google uses data when you visit our Website by visiting “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”, (located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/). We may also use Google Analytics Advertising Features to provide you with interest-based advertising based on your online activity. For more information regarding Google Analytics please visit Google’s website, and pages that describe Google Analytics, such as www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. To learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options, visit the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative websites (www.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org), or by clicking the “ad choices” icon by the advertisement and selecting what types of advertisement you wish to opt out of. Please note that if you choose to opt out, you may continue to see ads on our Website.
Social Networks and Widgets
Our website also includes social network or other thirdÂ-party plugÂins and widgets that may provide information to their associated social networks or thirdÂparties about Quick Loans websites you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plugÂin or widget and regardless of whether you have an account or other relationship with these social networks and thirdÂ-parties. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or thirdÂ-party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address and the URL of the web page where the plugÂin or widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking websites, you should read their privacy policies, to learn what information they collect, use, and share.
Quick Loans’ websites may contain content, services, advertising and other materials that link to websites operated by thirdÂ-parties. We have no control over those other websites, and this Policy does not apply to them. We encourage you to refer to the privacy policies of those websites.
How Do We Use and Share Your Information?
We use the Personal Information and NPI we collect from you for many purposes. For example, we use Personal Information and NPI to process, manage, complete and account for transactions, including lending and service arrangements and collecting amounts payable associated with such arrangements; provide products and services you request; to enforce contractual obligations; help prevent fraud, unauthorized or criminal activity, claims and other liabilities; operate, evaluate and improve our business, including developing new products and services, managing our communications, performing research and administering our website and other programs, and for auditing purposes; market to you our products and services and the products and services of our franchisees and other thirdÂ-parties; communicate with you about our products and services, including to respond to your comments and inquiries, to use “click-Âto-Âchat” or equivalent functionality for customer service purposes, and to identify your preferences so we can notify you of new or additional products, services, promotions or events that may be of interest to you; communicate with you about and administer your participation in promotions we offer or are involved in, such as sweepstakes, contests, special events and other programs; enable you to participate in surveys and other research efforts; perform data analysis, including market and consumer research, financial analysis, and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising efforts online and otherwise; and comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, industry standards or guidelines, and Quick Loans policies. In addition to other sharing described in this section, we may disclose Personal Information and NPI: (i) in order to comply with laws or legal process, including subpoenas or agency orders and investigations which we determine are required under appropriate circumstances; (ii) as we reasonably determine necessary or appropriate to protect property, our rights or the rights of others; and (iii) to enforce our contracts, policies and customer agreements. We may also DE-Âidentify Personal Information (by removing certain data elements such as name, phone number, date of birth) that we receive from you or from third-Âparties so that it cannot be used to identify a specific individual. We may transfer information covered by this Policy, including Personal Information, in connection with a merger or sale or store closing (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) of all or part of Quick Loans business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.
Sharing With Corporate Entities, Franchisees, and ThirdÂ-Parties
We also share Personal Information and NPI with our affiliates and service providers who provide services to us or on our behalf and agree to only use such information for the purpose for which it was provided and in accordance with this Policy. We may also provide Personal Information and NPI to credit bureaus, third parties collecting amounts owed to us, and third parties to whom we assign your account for collection purposes. We may also share the Personal Information with select thirdÂ-party vendors, business partners, and other companies so that they can send you promotional materials about goods and services (including special offers and promotions) offered by them. After the information is provided to such third-parties, the subsequent use or disclosure of such information is subject to those third-parties’ privacy policies and practices. We may also use services hosted by third-parties to assist in providing our services and to help us understand our customers’ use of our products. A third-party service may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including, for example, your IP address, the third-party’s cookies, or any of the other categories of information itemized under Online Activities, above. Quick Loans uses “interest-Âbased” ads also known as “Online Behavioral Advertising” or “OBA.” Online behavioral advertising is advertising that is directed to you based, at least in part, on your Internet browsing behavior across the web. Although we do not share Personal Information with the third-parties that conduct advertising operations on our behalf, these third-parties and their affiliates do collect certain information as a result of their “tags” being on our website. The information they collect includes the name (URL) of the web pages you view while on our site, your IP address, time of visit, information about your browser software, information about your device, and randomly assigned identifiers stored in cookies, which they use to target and to advertise. Quick Loans uses third-parties that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), which prescribes certain norms of conduct and provides an opt-out for behaviorally targeted ads, as discussed in “Your Options Regarding Personal Information,” below.
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards intended to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, or disclosure of Personal Information and NPI. Although we take such precautions seriously, it is impossible for us or others to guarantee the safety and security of Personal Information and NPI.
Will this Policy Change?
This Policy may be updated periodically to reflect relevant changes in our information practices. We will post a notice on our website to inform you of significant changes to this Policy. We will also provide additional information regarding changes to this Policy as may be required by law.
Your Options Regarding Personal Information
You may request that we correct, update or amend the Personal Information we hold about you. To update us regarding changes in your Personal Information, please contact us at the store location at which you have done business, or you may contact us as described below. You may elect to opt out of receipt of email and text communications from us by following the instructions provided in such communications or by contacting us as provided below. Even after opting out, you may still receive service oriented, non-promotional communications from us and promotional communications from other third parties as a result of their own interactions or transactions with you. Please allow time for us to process your request or contact us should you have any concerns about your opt-out request. Do Not Track is a public-private initiative, http://www.w3.org/2011/trackingÂprotection/, that has developed a technical “flag” or signal that an end user may be able to act within their browser software to notify websites that they do not wish to be “tracked” by 3rd parties as defined by the initiative. The initiative, however, has not reached a consensus as to exactly what technical or other actions those parties receiving the signal should take. As a result, Do Not Track has not yet been standardized and most websites, including Quick Loans, do not alter their behavior or change their services when they receive a “do not track” flag or signal. You can, however, make decisions about your privacy and the ads you receive. As explained in the section above, “Sharing with Corporate Entities and ThirdÂ-Parties,” Quick Loans uses online behavioral advertising. You can control whether companies serve you behaviorally based advertising by visiting the DAA web page and using the DAA’s opt out http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. The DAA opt-out requires that cookies not be blocked in your browser. As an alternative to the DAA opt-out, you can also elect to block all cookies from first-Âparties (such as Quick Loans) and from third-Âparties (such as entities involved in advertising) by using the cookie blocking options built into your browser software. For example, in Internet Explorer 9, you can block both first and third-Âparty cookies by selecting those options at Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Settings Advanced/Override Automatic Cookie Handling. As another example, if you are using Firefox 25, you can “uncheck” Accept All Cookies under Firefox Preferences/Privacy Use Custom Settings for History/Accept Cookies from Sites. Please note, however, that if you do decide to block cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly.
How Can You Contact Us?
If you wish to contact us regarding your information or this Policy, you may: Email us at [email protected] Call us at 417-725-5010 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central Standard Time, Monday through Friday. Write to us at: Quick Loans P.O. Box 1668 Nixa, MO 6571
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Born and raised in Beijing, China, Tseng had a nickname meaning "young lily." She graduated from Fu Jen University in Beijing in 1942, moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and then to Hawaii. From 1953 she got the job as an associate professor in the Art Institude of Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1966 she graduated with the degree in Asian Studies and became associate professor in Department of Art in University of Hawaii. In 1992, a large-scaled retrospective exhibition was held in Taipei Fine Art Museum. Her style and creation come from the deconstruction of traditional Chinese paintings. Yet with new mix and match her work create a new reflection and thought of space. The "dsui painting" she created shattered the boundaries among painting and paper materials that enriched the scope of painting. The traditional techniques and skills were mixed and matched and offered a whole-new atmosphere.
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Computer vision: Finding the best teaching frame in a video for fake video fightback
ANN ARBOR—Contributing to a project that aims to detect “deepfake” videos, University of Michigan engineers developed software that improves a computer’s ability to track an object through a video clip by 11% on average.
The software, called BubbleNets, chooses the best frame for a human to annotate. In addition to helping train algorithms for spotting doctored clips, it could improve computer vision in many emerging areas such as driverless cars, drones, surveillance and home robotics.
“The U.S. government has a real concern about state-sponsored groups manipulating videos and releasing them on social media,” said Brent Griffin, U-M assistant research scientist in electrical and computer engineering. “There are way too many videos for analysts to assess, so we need autonomous systems that can detect whether or not a video is authentic.”
Current software for parsing video clips relies on humans to mark up the objects—such as people, animals and vehicles—in the video. “Video object segmentation” algorithms then follow the boundaries of the marked objects through the videos.
Today’s advanced “deep learning” programs require the human to mark only a single frame. The frame presented to the human is typically the first frame in the video, which is rarely the best choice. But until now, there was no automated way to choose a preferable frame.
When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) requested this capability, the U-M team was skeptical that it was even possible. The software wouldn’t even know what in the video you were trying to track, so how could it recommend a frame?
But with deep learning techniques, Griffin and senior author Jason Corso, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, didn’t have to figure out how to choose the best annotation frame—the algorithm would do that. Their challenge was creating enough “training” data so that the algorithm could draw its own conclusions from a large set of examples.
Griffin and Corso started with 60 videos in which every frame had been annotated. If they posed the question the obvious way—”Which frame is the best annotation frame in each video?”—they would have only 60 training examples. Instead, they designed their “BubbleNets” software to compare two frames at a time. The software predicts which frame, if selected for a human to annotate, will enable the segmentation software to stay truer to the object’s boundaries. This gave them nearly 745,000 pairs of frames for training the algorithm.
It is hard to say exactly what BubbleNets looks for in an annotation frame, but testing showed it preferred frames that:
Weren’t too near the beginning or end of the video.
Looked most like other frames in the video.
Showed a clear view of the objects in the video.
BubbleNets is already “a small cog” in DARPA’s multi-university media forensics program, Griffin said. In an effort to identify falsified propaganda videos, DARPA needs to train its own algorithms on manipulated videos. BubbleNets helps other software automatically erase objects from videos to create training data.
But BubbleNets could also be useful in other robotics and computer vision tasks. For instance, future home robots will need to learn the layout and contents of a house. The robot would be able to present its owner with a set of frames that contain unidentified objects.
“Think about a toddler. A toddler sort of knows what they know, and then at some point, they realize they don’t really know something. So they ask a question. And that’s what we want to enable the computer to do,” Corso said.
Computer vision algorithms that have to operate without human input, such as those for driverless cars or drones, could also benefit. In these cases, the software would sift through training video clips looking for things that it didn’t recognize. Then, when it found a problematic clip, BubbleNets would choose that best frame for a human to explain.
Corso is a member of Michigan Robotics and is also co-founder and CEO of the computer vision company Voxel51. Griffin is an affiliate of Michigan Robotics.
Study: BubbleNets: Learning to Select the Guidance Frame in Video Object Segmentation by Deep Sorting Frames
Jason Corso
Brent Griffin
DARPA media forensics
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Gospel to Hawaii & The Marquesas Islands, & the end of Pele volcano worship
byBill Federer
Gospel to Hawaii & The Marquesas Islands, & the end of Pele volcano worship, human sacrifice, cannibalism & leprosy
British Captain James Cook discovered Hawaii in 1778, naming them "The Sandwich Islands" in honor of John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich -- the acting First Lord of the Admiralty
A kahuna showed him a 50 foot tower with nearby skulls and graves of sacrificed war captives and those that broke a kapu (taboos).
In 1779, on his third visit there, Captain Cook was killed.
News of Captain Cook's voyages inspired William Carey to take the Gospel to India in 1793.
King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands in 1810.
In the early 1800s, whaling ships began visiting the Hawaiian Islands.
An orphan, Henry Opukahai'a, was being raised by his uncle to be a pagan priest, but became disillusioned with rituals and chants.
Together with his friend, Thomas Hopu, Henry Opukahai'a fled Hawaii on the American whaling ship Triumph in 1807, which sailed for New England.
They were befriended by Christian students at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, who instructed and prayed with them to become the first Hawaiian Christians in 1815, during the time of the Second Great Awakening.
Henry Opukahai'a studied Greek and Hebrew and attempted to translate into his native tongue the Book of Genesis and other parts of the Bible, though none this survived.
In his Memoirs, which sold 500,000 copies after his death in 1818, Henry Opukahai'a wrote:
"O what a wonderful thing is that the hand of the Divine Providence has brought me from the heathenish darkness here the light of Divine truth never had been.
And here I have found the name of the Lord Jesus in the Holy Scriptures, and have read that His blood was shed for many ..."
Henry Opukahai'a continued:
"My poor countrymen, without knowledge of the true God, and ignorant of the future world, have no Bible to read, no Sabbath."
Thomas Hopu met General Andrew Jackson, whom he accompanied to New Orleans.
Hopu fought the British during the War of 1812, resulting in him being perhaps one of the first Hawaiians to serve in the United States armed forces.
An excellent swimmer, Hopu saved several crewman after a shipwreck.
Five times he taken prisoner by the British in the West Indies.
Once starving in prison, African slaves gave him food and water, affecting Hopu to forever detest the enslavement of Africans.
Two years after Henry Opukahai'a's death from typhus, Thomas Hopu went as a missionary with Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston back to the Hawaiian Sandwich Islands, serving as their translator.
Hiram Bingham's grandson, Hiram Bingham III, discovered the Inca city of Machu Pichu in 1908 and was elected Governor of Connecticut and a U.S. Senator.
Hiram Bingham IV was U.S. Vice Consul in France during World War II, where he helped 2,500 Jews escape internment camps of Hitler's National Socialist Workers Party.
Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston were sent to Hawaii by the American Board of Missions on the ship, Thaddeus, arriving at Kailua on MARCH 31, 1820.
The missionaries not only spread Christianity, but confronted drunkenness and vice which had been introduced into the islands by sailors, whalers, and convicts from Botany Bay.
The missionaries created a 12-letter Hawaiian alphabet and reduced the Hawaiian language to writing.
They translated the Bible, began a newspaper, set up schools and churches, and convinced the Hawaiian women to wear dresses.
In 1823, Betsey Stockton (1798-1865), a young African American woman, sailed with the second group of missionaries from New Haven, Connecticut, to Hawaii.
She had been been born a slave but was given her freedom.
A strong Christian, Betsey had attended classes at Princeton Theological Seminary before sailing to Hawaii.
She set up schools and taught islanders English, Latin, history and algebra. In two years, over 8,000 students attended 200 schools.
Idolatry and human sacrifice had previously been ended by King Kamehameha II and his Queen mother Ka'ahumanu.
Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested to be baptized in 1823.
She then banned prostitution and drunkenness, resulting in sailors resenting the missionaries' influence.
Queen Ka'ahumanu helped spread the Gospel in the islands, beginning a "Great Awakening."
She was presented with the newly completed version of the New Testament in the Hawaiian language just prior to her death.
Her last words were:
"I am going where the mansions are ready."
The cousin of Kamehameha I, Chiefess Kapiolani, in 1824. defied the volcano goddess Pele by saying a Christian prayer, climbing down into the lava crater and returning unharmed, then eating the forbidden Ōhelo berries.
Chiefess Kapiolani then praised 'the one true God', proclaiming:
"Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. All the gods of Hawaii are vain."
The son-in-law of Hiram Bingham was missionary Titus Coans.
Coan's account of evangelism is recorded in Life in Hawaii: An Autobiographical Sketch of Mission Life and Labors, 1835-1881 (NY: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1882, 49-52; Michael McClymond, Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, 2006):
"Among these converts was the High Priest of the volcano. He was more than six feet high and of a lofty bearing. He had been an idolater, a drunkard, an adulterer, a robber, and a murderer.
For their kapas, for a pig or a fowl he had killed men on the road, whenever they hesitated to yield to his demands.
But he became penitent, and appeared honest and earnest in seeking the Lord.
His sister was more haughty and stubborn. She was High Priestess of the volcano. She, too, was tall and majestic in her bearing.
For a long time she refused to bow to the claims of the Gospel; but at length she yielded, confessed herself a sinner and under the authority of a higher Power, and with her brother became a docile member of the church."
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote (The Life and World of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Vol. 12, 1892):
"Kapiolani was a great chieftainess who lived in the Sandwich Islands at the beginning of this century. She won the cause of Christianity by openly defying the priests of the terrible goddess Peele'.
In spite of their threats of vengeance she descended the volcano Mauna-Loa, then clambered down over a bank of cinders 400 feet high to the great lake of fire (nine miles round) - Kilauea - the haunt of the goddess, and flung into the boiling lava the consecrated berries which it was a sacriledge for a woman to handle."
Tennyson wrote in his poem "Kapiolani":
"Noble the Saxon who hurl’d at his Idol a valorous weapon in olden England!
Great and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine, Kapiolani
Clomb the mountain, and flung the berries, and dared the Goddess, and freed the people
Of Hawa-i-ee!
A people believing that Peelè the Goddess would wallow in fiery riot and revel
On Kilaue-ä,
Dance in a fountain of flame with her devils, or shake with tier thunders and shatter her island,
Rolling her anger
Thro’ blasted valley and flaring forest in blood-red cataracts down to the sea!
Long as the lava-light
Glares from the lava-lake
Dazing the starlight,
Long as the silvery vapour in daylight
Over the mountain
Floats, will the glory of Kapiolani be mingled with either on Hawa-i-ee.
What said her Priesthood?
‘Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berries of Peelè!
Accurséd were she!
And woe to this island if ever a woman should climb to the dwelling of Peelè the Goddess!
One from the Sunrise
Dawn’d on His people, and slowly before him
Vanish’d shadow-like
Gods and Goddesses,
None but the terrible Peelè remaining as Kapiolan i ascended her mountain,
Baffled her priesthood,
Broke the Taboo,
Dipt to the crater,
Call’d on the Power adored by the Christian, and crying ‘I dare her, let Peelè avenge herself ’!
Into the flame-billow dash’d the berries, and drove the demon from Hawa-i-ee."
Titus Coans, considered Hawaii's greatest evangelist, continued his missionary account:
"I set off Nov. 29, 1836, on a tour around the island ...
On reaching the western boundaries of Puna, my labors became more abundant ... They rallied in masses, and were eager to hear the Word.
Many listened with tears, and after the preaching, when I supposed they would return to their homes and give me rest, they remained and crowded around me so earnestly, that I had no time to eat, and in places where I spent my nights they filled the house to its entire capacity, leaving scores outside who could not enter.
All wanted to hear more of the 'Word of Life.'
At ten or eleven o'clock I would advise them to go home and to sleep. Some would return, but more remain until midnight.
At cock-crowing the house would be again crowded, with as many more outside.
At one place before I reached the point where I was to spend a Sabbath, there was a line of four villages not more than half a mile apart.
Every village begged for a sermon and for personal conversation.
Commencing at daylight I preached in three of them before breakfast, at 10 a.m.
When the meeting closed at one village, most of the people ran on to the next, and thus my congregation increased rapidly from hour to hour.
Many were 'pricked in their hearts' and were inquiring what they should do to be saved.
Sunday came and I was now in the most populous part of Puna.
Multitudes came out to hear the Gospel. The blind were led; the maimed, the aged and decrepit, and many invalids were brought on the backs of their friends.
There was great joy and much weeping in the assembly.
Two days were spent in this place, and ten sermons preached, while almost all the intervals between the public services were spent in personal conversation with the crowds which pressed around me.
Many of the people who then wept and prayed proved true converts to Christ; most of them have died in the faith, and a few still live as steadfast witnesses to the power of the Gospel ..."
This courage of High Chiefess Kapiolani inspired many Hawaiians to be missionaries to other islands, such as Samuel Kauwealoha, who sailed in 1853 to the Marquesas Islands.
Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha planted churches and schools in the Marquesas Islands, and helped end cannibalism.
He was mentioned in Titus Coan's 1882 missionary account Life in Hawaii, Chapter 13, "The Marquesas Islands ... The Hawaiians Send a Mission to Them":
"The missionary at this station was the Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, a native of Hilo, and a member of the Hilo church ...
We landed on a beautiful beach of white sand, and walked half a mile through a charming grove of tropical trees, along the margin of a crystal brook ...
We found Mr. Samuel Kauwealoha living in a stone house ... all built by himself ...
Here, amidst the shade of lofty trees, he was living with his devoted wife, teaching the children to read and write, and preaching 'Christ our Life' to 149 savages; and here, under the shadow of a towering tree, I spent one of the happiest Sabbaths of my life.
The almost naked and tattooed savages came out and sat quietly in semicircles under the tree, with the bright-eyed little children in front, all seeming to love their teacher, and to welcome the stranger, to whom they listened, Samuel Kauwealoha interpreting ..."
Missionary Titus Coan continued:
"We had also a Sunday-school, where the pupils recited the Lord's prayer and the Ten Commandments, with some other lessons, in tones and inflections of voice which were soft and melodious ...
At 11 A.M. Captain Brown and his mate, Captain Golett, a good Christian man, who had commanded many a ship, came on shore with the crew of the Morning Star, and we had service in English."
Another missionary from Hawaii to the Marquesas Islands was James Kekela.
The Marquesas Islands were first visited by American Maritime Fur Trader Joseph Ingraham on the brig Hope in 1791, who named them Washington Islands.
In 1813, Commodore David Porter claimed the islands for the United States, but the U.S. Senate never got around to ratifying it.
This delay gave time for France, beginning in 1842, to incorporate the Islands into French Polynesia.
In French Polynesia, missionary James Kekela wrote that Hawaii was fortunate to have become a possession of the United States rather than a possession of France:
"The French government is celebrating the 14th of July in Papeete, as America does on the 4th of July.
What Americans do to celebrate is to give speeches, worship God, do things to strengthen the body, and so on.
The French are pleasure lovers, acting as in the old days ... the dances of Tahiti, Tuamotu, Rurutu, Tubuai, and Atiu ...
What is done is like what the (filthy arioi?) did.
It is a very painful thing for our eyes to behold, because all kinds of liquor are allowed on the tables on this day- beer, soda, wine, whiskey."
In 1842, a 23-year-old American sailor named Herman Melville was on a ship that visited the Marquesas Islands.
Soon after, Melville wrote first book, a semi-biographical novel titled Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (London; New York: 1846).
Melville described how he and a companion deserted the ship Acushnet.
They stole up into the mysterious island mountains, waiting for their ship to depart without them.
His companion fell and was injured as they descended a steep ravine into the Typee valley.
They were captivated by the sensual beauty of this island paradise until shortly after, his companion disappeared.
When Melville asked the natives what happened to his friend, they were strangely silent, leading him to conclude that he had been eaten.
The natives forbade Melville from going anywhere near the coast.
Nevertheless, three weeks later, Melville barely escaped with his life.
Melville wrote at the end of book Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life:
"These disclosures will ... lead to ... ultimate benefit to the cause of Christianity in the Sandwich Islands."
In 1864, James Kekela rescued an American seaman from death at the hands of angry cannibals in the Marquesas Islands.
In gratitude, President Abraham Lincoln sent James Kekela an inscribed gold watch.
Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the best-sellers Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886), related the story in his book, In The South Seas of his visit to the Marquesas Islands in 1888-89:
"During my stay at Tai-o-hae ... a whole fleet of whale-boats came from Ua-pu ... On board of these was Samuel Kauwealoha, one of the pastors, a fine, rugged old gentleman, of that leonine type so common in Hawaii.
He paid me a visit ... and there entertained me with a tale of one of his colleagues, James Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa.
It appears that shortly after a kidnapping visit from a Peruvian slaver, the boats of an American whaler put into a bay upon that island, were attacked, and made their escape with difficulty, leaving their mate, a Mr. Whalon, in the hands of the natives.
The captive, with his arms bound behind his back, was cast into a house; and the chief announced the capture to James Kekela ..."
Robert Louis Stevenson continued, relating the story of Mr. Whalon's rescue from the cannibals:
"In return for his act of gallant charity, James Kekela was presented by the American Government with a sum of money, and by President Lincoln personally with a gold watch.
From his letter of thanks, written in his own tongue, I give the following extract. I do not envy the man who can read it without emotion.
'When I saw one of your countrymen, a citizen of your great nation, ill-treated, and about to be baked and eaten, as a pig is eaten, I ran to save him, full of pity and grief at the evil deed of these benighted people.
I gave my boat for the stranger's life ... It became the ransom of this countryman of yours, that he might not be eaten by the savages who knew not Jehovah. This was Mr. Whalon, and the date, Jan. 14, 1864.
(The seed of the Gospel) was planted in Hawaii, and I brought it to plant in this land and in these dark regions, that they might receive the root of all that is good and true, which is love.
Love to Jehovah.
Love to self.
Love to our neighbor.
If a man have a sufficiency of these three, he is good and holy, like his God, Jehovah, in his triune character (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), one-three, three-one ...
If he cherishes all three, then is he holy, indeed, after the manner of the Bible. This is a great thing for your great nation to boast of, before all the nations of the earth ..."
Stevenson continued quoting James Kekela:
"From your great land a most precious seed was brought to the land of darkness.
It was planted here, not by means of guns and men-of-war and threatening.
It was planted by means of the ignorant, the neglected, the despised. Such was the introduction of the word of the Almighty God into this group of Nuuhiwa."
Robert Louis Stevenson concluded quoting James Kekela:
"Great is my debt to Americans, who have taught me all things pertaining to this life and to that which is to come.
How shall I repay your great kindness to me?
Thus David asked of Jehovah, and thus I ask of you, the President of the United States.
This is my only payment-that which I have received of the Lord, love-(aloha).'"
In 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson , who was suffering from tuberculosis, visited the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, where those who contracted leprosy were quarantined.
He spent 8 days helping Sister Marianne Cope care for lepers.
His visit was shortly after the death Father Damien, a Belgium priest who ministered who spent 11 years, 1873-1889, caring for lepers, eventually contracting the disease and dying of it himself.
Father Damien's selfless ministry was supported by Catholics and Protestants.
After seeing the work and inquiring of inhabitants, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a 6,000-word polemic praising Fr. Damien.
A statue of Fr. Damien in on the capitol grounds in Hawaii and the U.S. Capitol.
Robert Louis Stevenson, after having "visited the scene of Damien's life and death," wrote of Hawaii:
"The first missionaries came; they found the land already self-purged of its old and bloody faith; they were embraced, almost on their arrival, with enthusiasm ... and to these last they stood (in a rough figure) in the shoes of God."
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Verlaine and Ten Composers: Exquisite Poetry, Exquisite Singing, Exquisite Playing
October 6, 2017Ralph P. Locke
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Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Album / Oronoz.
A Verlaine Songbook: Carolyn Sampson, soprano, and Joseph Middleton, piano
Songs by Charles Bordes, Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Séverac, Joseph Szulc, and Régine Wieniawski Poldowski
Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Joseph Middleton, piano
BIS 2233 [SACD] 80 minutes
Back in the LP days, if a singer wanted to show some sophistication, s/he sometimes put out an album of songs by famous composers set to the poems of one poet: for example, Phyllis Curtin’s much-admired 1964 disc of Debussy and Fauré songs to poems by Verlaine, with pianist Ryan Edwards (available now as a CD from VAI).
Today, singers and their pianists are often more willing also to explore repertory by composers who are much less well known. Also, a CD can carry much more music than the typical LP. Carolyn Sampson—an established light soprano—here offers an entire, well-stocked disc of Verlaine settings by no fewer than ten composers: the inevitable (but always welcome!) Debussy and Fauré, but also Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Ravel, Reynaldo Hahn, Charles Bordes, Déodat de Séverac, Joseph Szulc, and Régine Wieniawski Poldowski (daughter of the famous violinist).
This does not produce a scattershot effect because several cycles or sets are recorded entire (Debussy’s Fêtes galantes, series 1, and Ariettes oubliées; and Fauré’s La bonne chanson). Also, the songs of Poldowski are grouped together, as are those of Hahn. The single songs by Ravel, Szulc, et al., thus come as refreshment after a group of tracks by one composer.
Another element of coherence: a number of the songs use the same text as some other song on the disc. There is much fascination in observing how Saint-Saëns, for example, fills “C’est l’extase langoureuse” with a lively accompaniment emphasizing ecstasy whereas Debussy’s setting emphasizes languor. And, for extra fun, certain images recur from poem to poem, in different contexts: moonlight, nightingale, musical note-names (“do-mi-sol”), and so on.
Roger Nichols’s booklet-essay gives much insight into the different composers’ approaches to each poem. The translations, by William Jewson, of the often-laconic song texts are as clear as can be without adding many words of explanation.
People who already know the Debussy and Fauré songs recorded here may well be delighted, as I was, to discover how responsive the other composers were to this poet’s evocative verses. Hahn, Poldowski, Séverac, and Szulc produce what are, in many ways, quite conservative settings. (Szulc would go on to write musical comedies.) But conservative need not mean routine. Szulc’s setting of “Clair de lune” captures the dreamy mood of the text beautifully, as does Poldowski’s somewhat Schumannesque “En sourdine” (“Calmes dans le demi-jour”). Poldowski’s “Mandoline” (“Les donneurs de sérénades”) evokes the atmosphere of commedia dell’arte no less effectively than do the famous settings by Fauré and Debussy. And there are poetically apt echoes of church style in a song by Bordes and the closing number of the disc, by Séverac. As for the master composers, I will confine myself here to mentioning the sole Ravel song: “Sur l’herbe,” which I had never encountered before, is a wonderful “slice of life” song in his magical pseudo-Spanish style.
This was my first time hearing Sampson. She is a light, flexible soprano, a bit like Sylvia McNair or Kathleen Battle. She commands a wide range of techniques, from straight tone to rich vibrato, and from super-legato singing and controlled portamento to a semi-spoken lightness. She can file her voice down to a slender but well-supported thread. Some of the singing is among the most beautiful that my ears have ever been privileged to receive: for example, in Chausson’s “Apaisement” (“La lune blanche”)—which is one of several tracks from the CD that can be heard on YouTube—and Hahn’s “L’heure exquise” (“Votre âme est un paysage choisi”).
Sampson receives superb support from Joseph Middleton, who is director of the Leeds Lieder Festival and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. I was often enchanted by the ways in which the pianist responds to the changing imagery in the texts and to shifts in harmony and figuration.
The same performers’ previous CD for BIS, Fleurs (likewise including some songs by “lesser” composers), was rapturously received by record critics (including Erin Heisel, in American Record Guide, September/October 2015). I foresee a similarly positive response to this marvelously well thought-out CD, which nicely reminds us that many lesser-known composers from the past have written at least a few pieces that can gratify performers and listeners alike today.
Warning: at first I listened to some tracks from this Verlaine disc on the CD player in my car. Her loud high notes often came across as harsh; the echo, annoying. I wonder if this was a side-product of it being a compatible SACD disc. (This is the first SACD disc I have tried listening to.) At home, on good equipment, the whole disc is as exquisite as (Verlaine might say) the glow of moonlight on russet grass.
The above review is a lightly revised version of one that first appeared in American Record Guide. It was published online at OperaToday.com and appears here by kind permission of American Record Guide and OperaToday.
Tagged WithCarolyn SampsonCharles BordesChaussonDebussyFauréJoseph MiddletonJoseph SzulcPaul VerlaineRavelRégine Wieniawski PoldowskiReynaldo HahnSaint-SaënsSéverac
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Bard Music Festival 2019: Korngold and his World (REVISED)
As I return to the Bard Music Festival year after year, I notice that the spaces of Olin Hall and the Fisher Center, become more crowded and sold-out notices appear ever more frequently. I also notice that I’ve seen a good many of the attendees before. There is certainly a minority who are passionately interested in one composer or his historical and cultural context and not in the others, but I am confident in saying that the core of the Bard audience consists of recidivists. Lately the choice of focal composers has shifted from the undisputed pantheon to composers who are interesting because of their cultural position in their own time. Saint-Saëns, Chávez, and Rimsky Korsakov fall into this category. The audience keeps on growing. It’s obvious that we share a broad interest in western art music, but the way in which the individual composers are presented is exploratory, and, given the presence of musicians and musicologists, bound to take a controversial course. I always leave not only knowing something I didn’t know before, but with a profound new insight, and, most important of all, questions to mull over during the months that separate us from the next Bard Festival.
A Korngold Festival! Two from the Bard Music Festival, 2019, as well as Two New Recordings
Not everyone agreed about the merits of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music, but he was the occasion of one of the most provocative Bard Music Festivals ever. Four of us have deliberated on either that or important new recordings, which add to our understanding of this sympathetic composer.
A Fine New Recording of Korngold’s Masterpiece, Das Wunder der Heliane
Lovers of opera, decadence, and general excess, had reason this year to rejoice. This past summer, Bard Summerscape staged, as its centerpiece, complementary to the Bard Music Festival, Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane), which is possibly the single most important work by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957). And the work has now appeared in a sumptuous new recording (reviewed here) as well as in a much-praised DVD version from the renowned Deutsche Opera (Berlin), which indeed looks wonderful in this trailer.
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Delving into the music of Alberic Magnard is to reach deep into the heart of French culture. Magnard was a subtle, aristocratic composer, trading in understatement. If you enjoy the delicate chromaticism of Gabriel Fauré, or Albert Roussel’s early works, such as his First Symphony, Poème de la forêt, you will love Magnard. If you are looking for the more obvious charms of Berlioz, Dukas, Franck or Saint-Saëns, you may be disappointed. Magnard is like Franck, but turned inward and away from Franck’s saccharine religiosity. Despite all the forte moments one could want, this is music best heard with the lights low and a log in the fireplace.
The Bard Music Festival—Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Trajectory: the Symphony in F#, Music for Hollywood, Chamber Music
After attending the fully staged performance of Korngold’s opera Das Wunder des Heliane and the concerts of the second weekend of the Bard Korngold Festival, I arrived a distinct sense of the shape of the composer’s career trajectory and of the development of his unique musical sensibility, one which I suspect the festival programmers might not have hoped to suggest. To the extent that Korngold’s name is familiar, it is owing to his powerful, compelling, and influential Hollywood film scores. The unique, invaluable Bard Music Festivals usually aim to take us beyond and behind the headlines associated with its central figures and to give us a means to re-evaluate them in a more nuanced way, in the context of their less familiar works as well as those of their contemporaries. In the case of my encounter with Korngold, however, the result was a strengthening of the general view that this composer was born to compose film scores.Up to now, Korngold’s non-film music has not been completely neglected.
A Crop of Recordings XXIX: Magnard, Bruckner, Korngold, Vaughan Williams
Korngold did not live to see his symphony achieve popularity, as many know. It premiered in serial-minded Vienna in 1954, poorly rehearsed, and immediately sank into oblivion as a holdover from the past. Korngold himself died just a few years later of heart disease. Nearly twenty years then passed before Rudolf Kempe discovered orchestral parts in the Munich Philharmonic’s score library and revived the work for a new era. This awareness wasn’t totally Kempe’s doing. A generation of college students had grown up in the meantime watching late-night swashbucklers featuring Korngold’s Hollywood scores. These audiences fell in love with the spirit of his music. It was Errol Flynn, you might say, who got young people interested in Korngold, and film score conductors like Charles Gerhardt who then followed apace with the music on LP. Today, John Wilson occupies a similar space in British musical culture, bringing to life for concert audiences music originating in film and television.
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We know the secret of Blake Lively to lose weight after pregnancy (but we would not do exactly the same)
We love Blake Lively, his waste of sympathy, his naturalness, his looks and, why not say, his tremendous great guy. And after giving birth to her first child she had eight months to prepare for her role in Blue hell, a movie in which he spent most of his time in a bikini.
And although at the time he was not overwhelmed by not having a perfect body after giving birth (as we tell you in this article), he also had to prepare for the role of the moment. But that was not a problem for the actress, who confessed during an interview how he had managed to recover his wonderful figure.
In an interview for the Australian program Kyle and Jackie O Show explained how he had achieved it: giving up all processed foods. But also eliminating gluten from your diet and soy. And, of course, doing a lot of physical exercise.
In the same interview he confessed how hard it had been for her to give up this, especially bread, and eat such a restrictive diet: "Just try gluten and soy and you'll see how hard it is"he explained.
But he also confessed that he was trying follow a diet as balanced as possible, including protein, carbohydrates and fruits and vegetables: "And it wasn't the worst. I was eating rice and sushi.".
Blake Lively is not the first celebrity to which we have heard him defend the benefits of giving up gluten to lose weight more quickly and recover the line in occasional moments such as after pregnancy. But as our colleagues in Vitónica tell us, a diet based on gluten-free foods is not suitable for people who are not intolerant of this protein. It does not have to make us lose weight or help us lose weight and there are no studies to support it. What usually happens is that when you give up buns, breakfast cereals, etc., we go to processed food as Blake says, and instead opt for natural and less processed foods It is helping to take care of your weight.
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Miami Hurricane, September 30, 1937
The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Vol. XI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday Afternoon, September 30, 1937
Number I
Registration Is Well Over 800 Mark
Figures Show Definite Increase Over Last Year’s Enrollment, Says Provin
“Figures available at press time, although still unofficial, indicate a definite increase in enrollment over last year,” Harry Provin, Registrar, announced yesterday.
According to the reference file, compiled by the Hurricane this year for the first time, more than eight hundred students are now registered in the regular division, with the total steadily increasing as registration for the fall term continues.
“If the increase in enrollment in the adult division, which begins this Saturday, comes up to expectation,” Mr. Provin continued, “there will be a total registration in excess of last year's peak, when a total of 1,037 students were enrolled.”
Larger incoming classes of both freshmen and transfer students have already registered. Approximately thirty-five different states other than Florida are represented. Fifty per cent of the students are from Florida, particularly from Dade county.
Increases in registration already have necessitated the opening of additional classes.
With both men’s and women’s dormitories crowded and still more students enrolling every day, 1937-38 is definitely expected to be the biggest year the University has ever had.
Swim Party Saturday
Genial “Pop” Burr, manager of the Venetian Pools, on behalf of the University swimming team, has cordially invited all members of the Student body to a swimming party to be given at the Pools on Saturday night at eight o’clock.
There will be no admission charge. Just bring your bathing suit and be prepared for a swell time!
41 Students Are Graduated in Summer School
Largest Number to Date Receive Diplomas at End of Eight Weeks Period
Forty-one students receiving their degrees during the summer session.
Candidates included:
Bachelor of Arts: Harry C. Blews, Lucille M. Conlon, Judith DuPree, Irving Genet, Sylvia Guito, Dona Merrill, Muriel Murray, Rhoda Neiderer, and Eleanor Pendergast.
Bachelor of Science: Harry Cleveland and Roy Woodbury.
Bachelor of Science in Education: Selma P. Abernathy, Margaret At-warer, Edna E. Bird, Edna P. Bozeman, Mildred C. Cook, Darrey D. Davis, Kaye 0. Frazier, Elizabeth Graham, Elsie Hale, Ida G. Hillstead, Crystal Holmes, Camille Jenkins, Bernice Kells, Lillie C. Kramer, Mabel G. Lewis, Geraldine Martin, Laurene Miles, Lane Mitchell, Emma Moffett, Jeanetta B. Nash, Lola D. Ramsey, Lillie Rix, Nora Smith, Mabel Sparkman, Elsie Taylor, and Ina Weems.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Elbert Derr and Byron Harrison.
Bachelor of Laws: Robert Boyer und Betty Speizman.
L.I.: Amy Kirby, Elnora Krueger and Ann McLeod.
New Features Included in 1937 M Book
Students Pay Small Fee to Make Up Deficit Incurred By Printing of Edition
Many new features appear in the 1937 edition of the University M book which was edited by Charles Hardee-Priest, Fay Taylor and Mary Frohberg and sponsored jointly by the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.
The blue felt cover bearing the usual blocked letter “M” together with the University of Miami seal in white, while the book itself dedicated to eDan Holdsworth, contains a diagram of the University building and the new Roddey Burdine Orange Bowl, a copy of the student constitution, an intramural section, and a feature dedicated to the memory of Phil McKemie, Joseph Eardley and Chaa. Williams.
Four hundred copies of the book were printed by the Parker Art Printing Company for one hundred dollars. Part of the deficit incurred by the cost of printing will be made up by selling the book at ten cents a copy, while the balance may be referred to the Student Senate for student appropriation.
Dramatic Students Complete Summer Stock Engagement
Calling themselves the “University of Miami Repetoire Players,” eleven students of the University dramatics department, and Mrs. Opal E. Motter, dramatics instructor, enjoyed a successful season in Hendersonville, N.C. where they staged stock performances during the summer.
Loading a truck with costumes and other stage properties, the players drove to Hendersonville and took over the Maxwell Farm, where they handled the entire staging and publicity themselves. Plays were presented in the Hendersonville auditorium.
With the object of starting a dramatic movement in that area, the group presented seven plays, running one each week.
Local followers of the theatre were pleased with the performances and expressed a desire for a return engagement next summer.
During the summer Mrs. Opal Euard Motter played the leading feminine role in the Federal Theatre production “Gallows Gate” a drama in three acts by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. The play ran in Miami during the month of June.
New Faculty Hurricanes Open Season Against
Members • ”
Are Initiated Georgia State in New Orange Bowl
Five New Professors Take Up Routine of Duties As Registration Closes
New faculty members of the University of Miami have already been initiated into the routine of registration and their respective duties in the various departments.
E. Morton Miller, returning from a years’ leave of absence during which time he pursued courses for his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, will resume his assistant professorship of zoology. The departure of Dr. Fred H. Strohecker, who has gone to Kenyon College at Gambia, Ohio, left this vacancy. ‘
The vacancy created by the departure of Dr. J. G. Roberts, head of the French department, will be filled by Dr. William P. Dismukes of the University of Illinois. Dr. Roberts accepted an appointment at Lehigh University at the close of the spring term iii June.
Simon Hochberger has been engaged as head of the journalism department to replace Lewis G. Leary, former supervisor of journalism, now working on his doctor’s degree at Columbia University. Mr. Hochberger holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and has lined up extensive practical exper-
An expansion of the journalism courses from last year’s practical journalism will include courses in the principles of journalism and in copy reading and makeup. The establishment of a separate school of journalism is the eventual aim of the administration.
Kenneth Vanderford, formerly of the Universities of Washington and of Chicago, will replace Sidney Maynard, who was instructor in Spanish last year. Mr. Maynard has been granted a year’s absence to work on his doctorate at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Robert McNicoll is returning after a year’s leave of absence, and will be assistant professor of Latin-American history and institutions. Dr. McNicoll graduated with an A.B. degree from the University of Miami in 1930. He completed his doctorate at Duke University during his year’s leave of absence.
Robert McKenna has been added as an instructor in law and will be in charge of the law library. Mr. McKenna is formerly of the University of Pittsburgh.
Two of last year’s graduates have been added to the staff. Lawrence Tremblay will be in charge of publicity and the band. Robert Reinert will be conductor of the men’s chorus, a new group to be developed in the music school.
James Beusse, a graduate of two years, will serve as assistant graduate manager of athletics.
Secretary of University, President of Student Body Extend Welcome
To the University Student Body:
If you are with us for the first time, we are happy to welcome you to our institution* We hope that you have come to us for serious, conscientious .•«ort. Work as hard as you play, with fairness and good sportsmanship, and you will find here everything that yeu expected of university life. Look for the best in fellow students, classes, and faculty instructors, and you will not be disappointed. Be constructive in your ideas and efforts, then all of your activities will give you satisfaction. We invite you to become • part of us and catch the spirit of our institution and of out region of Florida.
If you have returned to us for another year, we ask that you continue to show the splendid cooperation that has marked your conduct in the past. We are confident that your enthusiasm will aid our progress this year, just as your loyalty in the past has made possible many of our achievements of other years. To you who have already caught the vision of educational possibilities in Southern Florida, we say also, “Work hard, play hard, and we will build here a splendid institution of higher education.” ■
F. xf.
Pearson, Secretary
To the old and new students:
As president of the Student Government Association at the University of Miami, I am honored with the opportunity to welcome back to a great university — old friends and clhssmates who have been separated temporally by the vacation period.
To you I say, “March On Miami.” Bring back that spirit of good fellowship and loyalty so evident on our campus and steadily mounting in previous years; come back with the sole purpose of bettering our school.
To you, the new students at the University, I extend a hearty welcome in behalf of the students in general. You, however, are the new blood in the life of this institution; upon your shoulders rests the burden of furthering every phase of university life. You are now in college; what you were in high school means nothing to us unless it can be used in the proper channels for the benefit of the University in general. Take part in all activities open to you. Respect all upper classmen and their station. Wear your dinks, they are a symbol of your class. Be guided by your manual.
To all of you, both old and new; I again welcome you.
Thomas Q. Condon, Jr.
Music Fraternity To Sponsor Song Fest; Will Award Prizes
In order to create a greater interest in group singing among the fraternities and sororities on the University campus, Phi Mu Alpha Sin-fonia plans a song-fest to be held in the near future.
The Song-Fest Committee consisting of Bob Reinert, Eddie Baumgar-ten, and Walter Cunningham will visit the fraternities and sororities at a time designated by the competing groups to aid them in preparing for the coming contest.
A handsome prize will be awarded to the winning fraternity and sorority. Judges will be members of the faculty chosen by Miss Bertha Foster, Dean of the School of Music.
The Sinfonia Male Chorus will not compete inasmuch as they are sponsoring the affair.
Contest rules will be published in a later edition of the Hurricane.
M Club Dance
The M Club will again aponaor the annual football dances this year, the first to be held Friday night immediately following the Hurricane - Georgia State College These dances will again be held in the Cafeteria and Bob ReineiA’s Miamilodians will furnish the music Admission is 40 cents for men and 25 cents for women. The proceeds will be used to buy books for needy members of the varsity.
Chips Yates and Dorothy Smith will be sponsors for the game tomorrow night.
Friday Night; Pep Rally Tonight
Huge Bonfire
Will Be Set at 7:45; NoParade
Attendance of Freshmen At Traditional Pre-Game Rally Is Compulsory
Plans for the first pep rally of the season were near to completion as freshmen received preliminary instructions for their part in it at a meeting yesterday.
The rally, to be staged tonight, will feature a bonfire stacked thirty feet into the air. Its construction is under way by the freshman class under the direction of the Vigilance Committee.
The customary parade through Coral Gables has been deferred until a later date as a minimum of parade permits are to be issued this year.
Ceremonies will begin at seven-thirty tonight with several rousing cheers under the direction of Jimmy Abras and school songs played by members of the University band. Pep speeches will be made and instructions for attendance at the game will be given, followed by the lighting of the bonfire. Freshmen will then participate in the traditional snake dance around the roaring fire to the strains of the battlesongs.
As in the past, all freshmen are required to attend. Any freshmen who are out of order or who refuse to cooperate will be referred to the paddle.
1937 Hurricane Varsity Roster
No. Name PO Wgt. Hgt. Home Town
*10. R. Masterson E 184 6-1 Roselle, N.J.
11. G. Hamilton E 185 6-2 Somerville, Mass.
12. Verdun Arries E 185 6-3 • Calumet, Minn.
13. J. E. Corcoran E-HB 164 5-9 % Savannah, Ga.
14. F. Paskewich E 161 6-9 Wauchula, Fla.
15. G. Pittard E 180 6-10 Athens, Ga.
16. Bill Black T 186 6 East Bank, W. Va.
17. S. McCrimmon C-T 200 6 Miami, Fla.
18. Stan J. Raski T 190 6-2 Duluth, Minn.
19. Tom Condon T 202 6-1 Roselle, N.J.
20. Brad Boyle T 221 6-2 Port Jervis, N.Y.
21. Dave James T 194 6-2% Miami, Fla.
22. C. Guimento G 187 5-10 Dunmore, Pa.
,23. Gus Hanley G 175 5-9 Lawrence, Mass.
24. J. Oespovich G 185 5-11% W. Paterson, N.J.
25. Gene Duncan G 180 G Pittsburgh, Pa.
26. Robert Olson G 184 5-8% Chicago, 111.
27. Harry Hayward G 185 6-11 Rhinelander, Wis.
28. Nick Seminoff G 181 5-9 Stamford, Conn.
29. Joe H. Dixon C 190 6-1 Warren, Ohio
30. Z. Zelesnick C 192 6 Milwaukee, Wis.
31. Dave Abrams C 195 6-1% Chicago, 111.
*32. Eddie Dunn HB 185 6-3 Port Jervis, N.Y.
33. Chick O’Domski QB 171 6 Welch, Va.
34. James Poore T 190 6-1 Taconite, Minn.
36. Lou Chesna FB 197 6 Hanover, Pa.
*37. A. Vaccarelli FB 153 5-6 Red Bank, N.J.
38. H. Noppenberg QB 188 6 Menominee, Mich.
39. T. J. Moore FB 190 5-4% Charleston, W. Va.
40. Carl A. Jones HB 161 5-8 Mobile, Ala.
*41. Andrew Csaky HB 185 5-11% Cucumber, W. Va.
42. G. Stockdale HB 170 5-11% Greenville, Miss.
43. Carl Sapp FB 168 6 Pahokee, Fla.
44. George Dolan HB 154 5-8 Waterbury, Conn.
45. John Douglas HB 173 6-2 Beckley, W. Va.
47. Robert Grimes HB 156 5-10 Berwind, W. Va.
48. Don Salisbury FB 194 6-2 Chinchilla, Pa.
*49. John Bolash E 183 6-2% Berwind, W. Va.
50. Doss Tabb HB 165 5-11 Pahokee, Fla.
Sixth Edition o Holdsworth’s Book Is Printed
f Many Turnout for First Glee Club Rehearsal
I.R.C. Advisor Seeks to Acquaint Student With Organization
With an increase of students enrolled in the University the officers of the International Relations Club and Mr. Paul E. Eckel, faculty advisor, wish to acquaint the students with the aims and ideals of the organization.
One question which might be asked is, “What is an International Relations Club?” An International Relation Club is a group of students in a normal school, college or university meeting regularly to discuss relations between nations. These groups are sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on condition that the members study and discuss world affairs from an unprejudiced and objective point of view. There is a total of eight hundred and five I.R.C. clubs throughout the world. Clubs are most numerous in the United States. Five are established in the state of Florida. Clubs are also organized in thirty-two other countries reaching half-way around the globe to distant Siam and including such parts of the United States as Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
One of the aims of the club is to instruct and enlighten the public through intelligent discussion of world affairs and international problems in order to cultivate and instill in the lives of people the idea that war can be prevented by an appeal to justice and judicial process rather than to armed force.
The Miami club was founded on the University campus by Victor Andres Belaunde in 1929. Mr. Eckel is looking forward to a banner year with many peitinent questions to be discussed. He is anxious that students make use of the many good books which the Foundation sends to our library.
Some of the interesting programs which are being planned, include such topic as “Latin American Relations,” “Highlights in International News,” “Neutrality Legislation vs. Far Eastern Hostilities” and “Can the United States stay out of the Next War?”
All students who are interested in becoming members are cordially invited to see Mr. Eckel or any of the following officers: Eleanor Elizabeth Matteson, president; Miguel Colas, vice-president; Betty Curran, treasurer; C. A. Cold, Jr., pub! city; and Porflrio Per6z, Pan American chairman.
The first meeting will be October 13th at 7:30 in the Social Hall at which time Dr. Robert E. McNichol will be the guest speaker /
Dean Completes Revision of ‘‘Money and Banking,” Popular Text on Finance
Concluding twenty-four months of work, Dr. John Thom Holdsworth, dean of the School of Business Administration, published the sixth revised edition of his textbook entitled “Money and Banking” on August 23. The beautiful black and grey bound edition, published by the D. Appleton Century Company, has been used as a standard since its first publishing in 1914 and is an up-to-the-minute edition, contemporary with the last closing of Congress. The book will be used as a text in Dr. Holdsworth’s class in money and banking.
Dr. Holdsworth is former president of the Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank and vice-president of the Bank of Pittsburgh. He has written several textbooks, among which are “A History of Banking in Pennsylvania,” and “The First Bank of the United States.”
Word has been received by Dr. Holdsworth that “Money and Banking” has already been adopted as a standard text at the University of Illinois and he is anticipating a wide adoption of the book in universities and colleges throughout the country.
Director Reinert Hopes to Have Typical Chorus Singing Well Known Songs
An excellent turnout this week supplied an auspicious thinning to the newly organized Men’s Glee Club of the University, Director Robert Reinert announced yesterday.
Tryouts were held Monday and Wednesday, September 27 and 29, in Room 250, at one o’clock. Many men with previous musical experience took part.
A glee club that will compare favorably with the largest and finest the country has to offer will be Mr. Reinert’s aim. “Ours will be a typical college glee club, singing well-known and liked numbers,” he stated. “For the present, at least, the repetoire of the group will be governed by the tastes of the club as a whole. Programs will get under way as soon as possible, and polishing up on technique will have to wait until the group is established. “In due time, we hope to have an organization with a reputation equalling that of the band and orchestra.
“There will be no limit to the size of the Glee Club, and any man who enjoys singing for the pleasure of it should see me at once in my office, Room 258.”
Sheaffer Is Unperturbed As Band Wins New Praise in First Rehearsal
The first rehearsal of the University of Miami Symphonic band almost brought hand-springs all over Coral Gables from those who were hearing the band for the first time, but Director Walter Sheaffer stood on the podium unaffected. Many of the upper-class members of the band realized the instrumentation and performance was a decided advance ove^. previous years, and they too were unaffected, awaiting Mr. Sheaffer's comment at the end of the rehearsal.
Bill Bennett, as snappy a drummer
Friday Assembly
Periods will be shortened ten minutes (tomorrow in order to provide for an assembly to be held at 10:1 Or Periods will run as follows:
First period, 8:30 to 9:15; second, period, 9:20 to 10:05; Assembly, 10:10 to 10:45; Third period, 10:50 to 11:35; Fourth period, 11:40 to 12:25.
On the first Friday of the month a general assembly will be held, class meetings on the second, Y.W., Y.M. and other organizations on the third, and assembly on the last Friday of the month.
as ever whipped a big bass drum, did his stuff while several first-termers stood in the shadow of his hypnotic presence and, not far from Bill a long line of tubas supplied additional thunder. The cornet section, headed by first trumpeter Harry McComb could have made the most ardent pacifist enlist for war, and the clarinets, which are plentiful and good this year, trilled up and down the hall and up through the rafters.
If the bands of Sousa, Pryor, Parisian Garde Républicaine, Goldman, and the King’s Own could have been molded into one musical unit it might not have sounded much better than the new university band . . . and yet Sheaffer was not pleased.
Chuck Buehrer headed the trombone section in the absence of Sam Head who is suffering from a case of curvature of the trombone slide, commented in the language of his Stryker, Ohio, town “Gosh durn, it sounds so good I’m flabbergasket!” Two new baritone players brought out parts that were not heard last year, and Eddie King was snaredrumming again after a year’s absence.
Eddie Baumgarten came back to the band this year with two new (Continued on Page Four)
Harding Says Most of Squad Is in Good Shape
Sapp. Zelesnick, Grimes and Corcoran, Injured, Not Expected to See Service
Jim Beuiae, assistant Graduate Manager of Athletics, announced yeaterday that there will be several new policies for students put in effect this year at the new Burdine Orange Bowl Stadium during the football games. They are:
(1) Student« will be required to present other means of identification besides their activity books at the gates.
(2) At only the Northwest gate will students be admitted.
(3) There will be a free parking area for students on the north and
I northeast sides of the Sixteenth avenue entrance. Students are | warned to arrive as early as the 1 spaces are expected to fill rapidly.
Following weeks of gruelling prac-| tice, a comparatively new Hurricane team clad in new uniforms will sally out to meet their opponents from Georgia in a brand new stadium to-| morrow night. Starting whistle is at ! 8:30 p.m.
The new uniforms have burnt orange wool jerseys with white numerals, airplane silk pants of the same ■ color and natural finish leather head I guards. The stadium is the Burdine Orange Bowl (see story on page 3).
I And the opponent is the South Geor-! gia State Teachers’ College.
Coach Jack Harding in. an inter-| view yesterday stated that the entire squad was in pretty good shape. “The ends seem to be well taken care of,” he said, “and the centjer position too, Oul tackle situation is rather uncertain, but we have enough boys to throw in there until we find the right combination. The guards look fair.
“In the backfield, I think our quarterback position is pretty well taken care of with Csaky who has had experience and should handle the job in good manner. The halfbacks show good possibilities, but it all depends on timing and experience which these boys need. Dunn, Jones, Douglas and Stockdale should take care of these halfback positions nicely when they acquire the timing.
“Our passing seems to be improving as well as all around blocking. The line is gaining momentum in its charging and pulling out on running plays. Our downfield blocking is gradually improving. The boys have learned the fundamental plays of the new system fairly well and it is only a question of getting a few games under our belts to get the proper timing.”
With only four letter men returning to service, the comparatively green team faces a terrific schedule. A fast charging line is expected to I break up Statesboro’s aerial plays. Four men are still out on injuries.
1 Carl Sapp is nursing a wrenched ankle, Red Corcoran a bad leg and Zomps Zelesnick is recovering from nn appendicitis operation. Grimes has reported for practice, but is being { kept out of service in order to give his leg a chance to heal.
In the starting position tomorrow night will be Masterson at left end; Raski at left tackle, and Guimento in left guard position. Either Dixon or McCrimmon will start at center with Hanley at right guard and Black taking right tackle. The right end position will go to either Bolash or Pit-tard. Csaky will start at quarterback and either Douglas or Stockdale in the right half position. Fleet-footed Eddie Dunn will serve as left half with Chesna as fullback.
The sale of season tickets for the 1937 season has been better than ever before, Stuart Patton stated.
Students bearing activity books will be admitted at the northwest gate, entrance number one. Any student attempting to enter on an activity book not belonging to him will be refused admittance and the book taken up. Student sections are E, F, and half of section EE. Half of section GG is reserved for alumni while the band will occupy the lower half of E. Students are requested to park their cars on 16th avenue.
The game will be played as scheduled regardless of weather conditions since the new stadium is equipped with an elevated field making possible complete drainage.
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Full Text The Miami Hurricane THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Vol. XI Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday Afternoon, September 30, 1937 Number I Registration Is Well Over 800 Mark Figures Show Definite Increase Over Last Year’s Enrollment, Says Provin “Figures available at press time, although still unofficial, indicate a definite increase in enrollment over last year,” Harry Provin, Registrar, announced yesterday. According to the reference file, compiled by the Hurricane this year for the first time, more than eight hundred students are now registered in the regular division, with the total steadily increasing as registration for the fall term continues. “If the increase in enrollment in the adult division, which begins this Saturday, comes up to expectation,” Mr. Provin continued, “there will be a total registration in excess of last year's peak, when a total of 1,037 students were enrolled.” Larger incoming classes of both freshmen and transfer students have already registered. Approximately thirty-five different states other than Florida are represented. Fifty per cent of the students are from Florida, particularly from Dade county. Increases in registration already have necessitated the opening of additional classes. With both men’s and women’s dormitories crowded and still more students enrolling every day, 1937-38 is definitely expected to be the biggest year the University has ever had. Swim Party Saturday Genial “Pop” Burr, manager of the Venetian Pools, on behalf of the University swimming team, has cordially invited all members of the Student body to a swimming party to be given at the Pools on Saturday night at eight o’clock. There will be no admission charge. Just bring your bathing suit and be prepared for a swell time! 41 Students Are Graduated in Summer School Largest Number to Date Receive Diplomas at End of Eight Weeks Period Forty-one students receiving their degrees during the summer session. Candidates included: Bachelor of Arts: Harry C. Blews, Lucille M. Conlon, Judith DuPree, Irving Genet, Sylvia Guito, Dona Merrill, Muriel Murray, Rhoda Neiderer, and Eleanor Pendergast. Bachelor of Science: Harry Cleveland and Roy Woodbury. Bachelor of Science in Education: Selma P. Abernathy, Margaret At-warer, Edna E. Bird, Edna P. Bozeman, Mildred C. Cook, Darrey D. Davis, Kaye 0. Frazier, Elizabeth Graham, Elsie Hale, Ida G. Hillstead, Crystal Holmes, Camille Jenkins, Bernice Kells, Lillie C. Kramer, Mabel G. Lewis, Geraldine Martin, Laurene Miles, Lane Mitchell, Emma Moffett, Jeanetta B. Nash, Lola D. Ramsey, Lillie Rix, Nora Smith, Mabel Sparkman, Elsie Taylor, and Ina Weems. Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Elbert Derr and Byron Harrison. Bachelor of Laws: Robert Boyer und Betty Speizman. L.I.: Amy Kirby, Elnora Krueger and Ann McLeod. New Features Included in 1937 M Book Students Pay Small Fee to Make Up Deficit Incurred By Printing of Edition Many new features appear in the 1937 edition of the University M book which was edited by Charles Hardee-Priest, Fay Taylor and Mary Frohberg and sponsored jointly by the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. The blue felt cover bearing the usual blocked letter “M” together with the University of Miami seal in white, while the book itself dedicated to eDan Holdsworth, contains a diagram of the University building and the new Roddey Burdine Orange Bowl, a copy of the student constitution, an intramural section, and a feature dedicated to the memory of Phil McKemie, Joseph Eardley and Chaa. Williams. Four hundred copies of the book were printed by the Parker Art Printing Company for one hundred dollars. Part of the deficit incurred by the cost of printing will be made up by selling the book at ten cents a copy, while the balance may be referred to the Student Senate for student appropriation. Dramatic Students Complete Summer Stock Engagement Calling themselves the “University of Miami Repetoire Players,” eleven students of the University dramatics department, and Mrs. Opal E. Motter, dramatics instructor, enjoyed a successful season in Hendersonville, N.C. where they staged stock performances during the summer. Loading a truck with costumes and other stage properties, the players drove to Hendersonville and took over the Maxwell Farm, where they handled the entire staging and publicity themselves. Plays were presented in the Hendersonville auditorium. With the object of starting a dramatic movement in that area, the group presented seven plays, running one each week. Local followers of the theatre were pleased with the performances and expressed a desire for a return engagement next summer. During the summer Mrs. Opal Euard Motter played the leading feminine role in the Federal Theatre production “Gallows Gate” a drama in three acts by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. The play ran in Miami during the month of June. New Faculty Hurricanes Open Season Against Members • ” Are Initiated Georgia State in New Orange Bowl Five New Professors Take Up Routine of Duties As Registration Closes New faculty members of the University of Miami have already been initiated into the routine of registration and their respective duties in the various departments. E. Morton Miller, returning from a years’ leave of absence during which time he pursued courses for his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, will resume his assistant professorship of zoology. The departure of Dr. Fred H. Strohecker, who has gone to Kenyon College at Gambia, Ohio, left this vacancy. ‘ The vacancy created by the departure of Dr. J. G. Roberts, head of the French department, will be filled by Dr. William P. Dismukes of the University of Illinois. Dr. Roberts accepted an appointment at Lehigh University at the close of the spring term iii June. Simon Hochberger has been engaged as head of the journalism department to replace Lewis G. Leary, former supervisor of journalism, now working on his doctor’s degree at Columbia University. Mr. Hochberger holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and has lined up extensive practical exper- An expansion of the journalism courses from last year’s practical journalism will include courses in the principles of journalism and in copy reading and makeup. The establishment of a separate school of journalism is the eventual aim of the administration. Kenneth Vanderford, formerly of the Universities of Washington and of Chicago, will replace Sidney Maynard, who was instructor in Spanish last year. Mr. Maynard has been granted a year’s absence to work on his doctorate at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Robert McNicoll is returning after a year’s leave of absence, and will be assistant professor of Latin-American history and institutions. Dr. McNicoll graduated with an A.B. degree from the University of Miami in 1930. He completed his doctorate at Duke University during his year’s leave of absence. Robert McKenna has been added as an instructor in law and will be in charge of the law library. Mr. McKenna is formerly of the University of Pittsburgh. Two of last year’s graduates have been added to the staff. Lawrence Tremblay will be in charge of publicity and the band. Robert Reinert will be conductor of the men’s chorus, a new group to be developed in the music school. James Beusse, a graduate of two years, will serve as assistant graduate manager of athletics. Secretary of University, President of Student Body Extend Welcome To the University Student Body: If you are with us for the first time, we are happy to welcome you to our institution* We hope that you have come to us for serious, conscientious .•«ort. Work as hard as you play, with fairness and good sportsmanship, and you will find here everything that yeu expected of university life. Look for the best in fellow students, classes, and faculty instructors, and you will not be disappointed. Be constructive in your ideas and efforts, then all of your activities will give you satisfaction. We invite you to become • part of us and catch the spirit of our institution and of out region of Florida. If you have returned to us for another year, we ask that you continue to show the splendid cooperation that has marked your conduct in the past. We are confident that your enthusiasm will aid our progress this year, just as your loyalty in the past has made possible many of our achievements of other years. To you who have already caught the vision of educational possibilities in Southern Florida, we say also, “Work hard, play hard, and we will build here a splendid institution of higher education.” ■ Jay F. xf. Pearson, Secretary To the old and new students: As president of the Student Government Association at the University of Miami, I am honored with the opportunity to welcome back to a great university — old friends and clhssmates who have been separated temporally by the vacation period. To you I say, “March On Miami.” Bring back that spirit of good fellowship and loyalty so evident on our campus and steadily mounting in previous years; come back with the sole purpose of bettering our school. To you, the new students at the University, I extend a hearty welcome in behalf of the students in general. You, however, are the new blood in the life of this institution; upon your shoulders rests the burden of furthering every phase of university life. You are now in college; what you were in high school means nothing to us unless it can be used in the proper channels for the benefit of the University in general. Take part in all activities open to you. Respect all upper classmen and their station. Wear your dinks, they are a symbol of your class. Be guided by your manual. To all of you, both old and new; I again welcome you. Thomas Q. Condon, Jr. Music Fraternity To Sponsor Song Fest; Will Award Prizes In order to create a greater interest in group singing among the fraternities and sororities on the University campus, Phi Mu Alpha Sin-fonia plans a song-fest to be held in the near future. The Song-Fest Committee consisting of Bob Reinert, Eddie Baumgar-ten, and Walter Cunningham will visit the fraternities and sororities at a time designated by the competing groups to aid them in preparing for the coming contest. A handsome prize will be awarded to the winning fraternity and sorority. Judges will be members of the faculty chosen by Miss Bertha Foster, Dean of the School of Music. The Sinfonia Male Chorus will not compete inasmuch as they are sponsoring the affair. Contest rules will be published in a later edition of the Hurricane. M Club Dance The M Club will again aponaor the annual football dances this year, the first to be held Friday night immediately following the Hurricane - Georgia State College These dances will again be held in the Cafeteria and Bob ReineiA’s Miamilodians will furnish the music Admission is 40 cents for men and 25 cents for women. The proceeds will be used to buy books for needy members of the varsity. Chips Yates and Dorothy Smith will be sponsors for the game tomorrow night. Friday Night; Pep Rally Tonight Huge Bonfire Will Be Set at 7:45; NoParade Attendance of Freshmen At Traditional Pre-Game Rally Is Compulsory Plans for the first pep rally of the season were near to completion as freshmen received preliminary instructions for their part in it at a meeting yesterday. The rally, to be staged tonight, will feature a bonfire stacked thirty feet into the air. Its construction is under way by the freshman class under the direction of the Vigilance Committee. The customary parade through Coral Gables has been deferred until a later date as a minimum of parade permits are to be issued this year. Ceremonies will begin at seven-thirty tonight with several rousing cheers under the direction of Jimmy Abras and school songs played by members of the University band. Pep speeches will be made and instructions for attendance at the game will be given, followed by the lighting of the bonfire. Freshmen will then participate in the traditional snake dance around the roaring fire to the strains of the battlesongs. As in the past, all freshmen are required to attend. Any freshmen who are out of order or who refuse to cooperate will be referred to the paddle. 1937 Hurricane Varsity Roster No. Name PO Wgt. Hgt. Home Town *10. R. Masterson E 184 6-1 Roselle, N.J. 11. G. Hamilton E 185 6-2 Somerville, Mass. 12. Verdun Arries E 185 6-3 • Calumet, Minn. 13. J. E. Corcoran E-HB 164 5-9 % Savannah, Ga. 14. F. Paskewich E 161 6-9 Wauchula, Fla. 15. G. Pittard E 180 6-10 Athens, Ga. 16. Bill Black T 186 6 East Bank, W. Va. 17. S. McCrimmon C-T 200 6 Miami, Fla. 18. Stan J. Raski T 190 6-2 Duluth, Minn. 19. Tom Condon T 202 6-1 Roselle, N.J. 20. Brad Boyle T 221 6-2 Port Jervis, N.Y. 21. Dave James T 194 6-2% Miami, Fla. 22. C. Guimento G 187 5-10 Dunmore, Pa. ,23. Gus Hanley G 175 5-9 Lawrence, Mass. 24. J. Oespovich G 185 5-11% W. Paterson, N.J. 25. Gene Duncan G 180 G Pittsburgh, Pa. 26. Robert Olson G 184 5-8% Chicago, 111. 27. Harry Hayward G 185 6-11 Rhinelander, Wis. 28. Nick Seminoff G 181 5-9 Stamford, Conn. 29. Joe H. Dixon C 190 6-1 Warren, Ohio 30. Z. Zelesnick C 192 6 Milwaukee, Wis. 31. Dave Abrams C 195 6-1% Chicago, 111. *32. Eddie Dunn HB 185 6-3 Port Jervis, N.Y. 33. Chick O’Domski QB 171 6 Welch, Va. 34. James Poore T 190 6-1 Taconite, Minn. 36. Lou Chesna FB 197 6 Hanover, Pa. *37. A. Vaccarelli FB 153 5-6 Red Bank, N.J. 38. H. Noppenberg QB 188 6 Menominee, Mich. 39. T. J. Moore FB 190 5-4% Charleston, W. Va. 40. Carl A. Jones HB 161 5-8 Mobile, Ala. *41. Andrew Csaky HB 185 5-11% Cucumber, W. Va. 42. G. Stockdale HB 170 5-11% Greenville, Miss. 43. Carl Sapp FB 168 6 Pahokee, Fla. 44. George Dolan HB 154 5-8 Waterbury, Conn. 45. John Douglas HB 173 6-2 Beckley, W. Va. 47. Robert Grimes HB 156 5-10 Berwind, W. Va. 48. Don Salisbury FB 194 6-2 Chinchilla, Pa. *49. John Bolash E 183 6-2% Berwind, W. Va. 50. Doss Tabb HB 165 5-11 Pahokee, Fla. Sixth Edition o Holdsworth’s Book Is Printed f Many Turnout for First Glee Club Rehearsal I.R.C. Advisor Seeks to Acquaint Student With Organization With an increase of students enrolled in the University the officers of the International Relations Club and Mr. Paul E. Eckel, faculty advisor, wish to acquaint the students with the aims and ideals of the organization. One question which might be asked is, “What is an International Relations Club?” An International Relation Club is a group of students in a normal school, college or university meeting regularly to discuss relations between nations. These groups are sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on condition that the members study and discuss world affairs from an unprejudiced and objective point of view. There is a total of eight hundred and five I.R.C. clubs throughout the world. Clubs are most numerous in the United States. Five are established in the state of Florida. Clubs are also organized in thirty-two other countries reaching half-way around the globe to distant Siam and including such parts of the United States as Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines. One of the aims of the club is to instruct and enlighten the public through intelligent discussion of world affairs and international problems in order to cultivate and instill in the lives of people the idea that war can be prevented by an appeal to justice and judicial process rather than to armed force. The Miami club was founded on the University campus by Victor Andres Belaunde in 1929. Mr. Eckel is looking forward to a banner year with many peitinent questions to be discussed. He is anxious that students make use of the many good books which the Foundation sends to our library. Some of the interesting programs which are being planned, include such topic as “Latin American Relations,” “Highlights in International News,” “Neutrality Legislation vs. Far Eastern Hostilities” and “Can the United States stay out of the Next War?” All students who are interested in becoming members are cordially invited to see Mr. Eckel or any of the following officers: Eleanor Elizabeth Matteson, president; Miguel Colas, vice-president; Betty Curran, treasurer; C. A. Cold, Jr., pub! city; and Porflrio Per6z, Pan American chairman. The first meeting will be October 13th at 7:30 in the Social Hall at which time Dr. Robert E. McNichol will be the guest speaker / Dean Completes Revision of ‘‘Money and Banking,” Popular Text on Finance Concluding twenty-four months of work, Dr. John Thom Holdsworth, dean of the School of Business Administration, published the sixth revised edition of his textbook entitled “Money and Banking” on August 23. The beautiful black and grey bound edition, published by the D. Appleton Century Company, has been used as a standard since its first publishing in 1914 and is an up-to-the-minute edition, contemporary with the last closing of Congress. The book will be used as a text in Dr. Holdsworth’s class in money and banking. Dr. Holdsworth is former president of the Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank and vice-president of the Bank of Pittsburgh. He has written several textbooks, among which are “A History of Banking in Pennsylvania,” and “The First Bank of the United States.” Word has been received by Dr. Holdsworth that “Money and Banking” has already been adopted as a standard text at the University of Illinois and he is anticipating a wide adoption of the book in universities and colleges throughout the country. Director Reinert Hopes to Have Typical Chorus Singing Well Known Songs An excellent turnout this week supplied an auspicious thinning to the newly organized Men’s Glee Club of the University, Director Robert Reinert announced yesterday. Tryouts were held Monday and Wednesday, September 27 and 29, in Room 250, at one o’clock. Many men with previous musical experience took part. A glee club that will compare favorably with the largest and finest the country has to offer will be Mr. Reinert’s aim. “Ours will be a typical college glee club, singing well-known and liked numbers,” he stated. “For the present, at least, the repetoire of the group will be governed by the tastes of the club as a whole. Programs will get under way as soon as possible, and polishing up on technique will have to wait until the group is established. “In due time, we hope to have an organization with a reputation equalling that of the band and orchestra. “There will be no limit to the size of the Glee Club, and any man who enjoys singing for the pleasure of it should see me at once in my office, Room 258.” Sheaffer Is Unperturbed As Band Wins New Praise in First Rehearsal The first rehearsal of the University of Miami Symphonic band almost brought hand-springs all over Coral Gables from those who were hearing the band for the first time, but Director Walter Sheaffer stood on the podium unaffected. Many of the upper-class members of the band realized the instrumentation and performance was a decided advance ove^. previous years, and they too were unaffected, awaiting Mr. Sheaffer's comment at the end of the rehearsal. Bill Bennett, as snappy a drummer Friday Assembly Periods will be shortened ten minutes (tomorrow in order to provide for an assembly to be held at 10:1 Or Periods will run as follows: First period, 8:30 to 9:15; second, period, 9:20 to 10:05; Assembly, 10:10 to 10:45; Third period, 10:50 to 11:35; Fourth period, 11:40 to 12:25. On the first Friday of the month a general assembly will be held, class meetings on the second, Y.W., Y.M. and other organizations on the third, and assembly on the last Friday of the month. as ever whipped a big bass drum, did his stuff while several first-termers stood in the shadow of his hypnotic presence and, not far from Bill a long line of tubas supplied additional thunder. The cornet section, headed by first trumpeter Harry McComb could have made the most ardent pacifist enlist for war, and the clarinets, which are plentiful and good this year, trilled up and down the hall and up through the rafters. If the bands of Sousa, Pryor, Parisian Garde Républicaine, Goldman, and the King’s Own could have been molded into one musical unit it might not have sounded much better than the new university band . . . and yet Sheaffer was not pleased. Chuck Buehrer headed the trombone section in the absence of Sam Head who is suffering from a case of curvature of the trombone slide, commented in the language of his Stryker, Ohio, town “Gosh durn, it sounds so good I’m flabbergasket!” Two new baritone players brought out parts that were not heard last year, and Eddie King was snaredrumming again after a year’s absence. Eddie Baumgarten came back to the band this year with two new (Continued on Page Four) Harding Says Most of Squad Is in Good Shape Sapp. Zelesnick, Grimes and Corcoran, Injured, Not Expected to See Service Jim Beuiae, assistant Graduate Manager of Athletics, announced yeaterday that there will be several new policies for students put in effect this year at the new Burdine Orange Bowl Stadium during the football games. They are: (1) Student« will be required to present other means of identification besides their activity books at the gates. (2) At only the Northwest gate will students be admitted. (3) There will be a free parking area for students on the north and I northeast sides of the Sixteenth avenue entrance. Students are | warned to arrive as early as the 1 spaces are expected to fill rapidly. Following weeks of gruelling prac-| tice, a comparatively new Hurricane team clad in new uniforms will sally out to meet their opponents from Georgia in a brand new stadium to-| morrow night. Starting whistle is at ! 8:30 p.m. The new uniforms have burnt orange wool jerseys with white numerals, airplane silk pants of the same ■ color and natural finish leather head I guards. The stadium is the Burdine Orange Bowl (see story on page 3). I And the opponent is the South Geor-! gia State Teachers’ College. Coach Jack Harding in. an inter-| view yesterday stated that the entire squad was in pretty good shape. “The ends seem to be well taken care of,” he said, “and the centjer position too, Oul tackle situation is rather uncertain, but we have enough boys to throw in there until we find the right combination. The guards look fair. “In the backfield, I think our quarterback position is pretty well taken care of with Csaky who has had experience and should handle the job in good manner. The halfbacks show good possibilities, but it all depends on timing and experience which these boys need. Dunn, Jones, Douglas and Stockdale should take care of these halfback positions nicely when they acquire the timing. “Our passing seems to be improving as well as all around blocking. The line is gaining momentum in its charging and pulling out on running plays. Our downfield blocking is gradually improving. The boys have learned the fundamental plays of the new system fairly well and it is only a question of getting a few games under our belts to get the proper timing.” With only four letter men returning to service, the comparatively green team faces a terrific schedule. A fast charging line is expected to I break up Statesboro’s aerial plays. Four men are still out on injuries. 1 Carl Sapp is nursing a wrenched ankle, Red Corcoran a bad leg and Zomps Zelesnick is recovering from nn appendicitis operation. Grimes has reported for practice, but is being { kept out of service in order to give his leg a chance to heal. In the starting position tomorrow night will be Masterson at left end; Raski at left tackle, and Guimento in left guard position. Either Dixon or McCrimmon will start at center with Hanley at right guard and Black taking right tackle. The right end position will go to either Bolash or Pit-tard. Csaky will start at quarterback and either Douglas or Stockdale in the right half position. Fleet-footed Eddie Dunn will serve as left half with Chesna as fullback. The sale of season tickets for the 1937 season has been better than ever before, Stuart Patton stated. Students bearing activity books will be admitted at the northwest gate, entrance number one. Any student attempting to enter on an activity book not belonging to him will be refused admittance and the book taken up. Student sections are E, F, and half of section EE. Half of section GG is reserved for alumni while the band will occupy the lower half of E. Students are requested to park their cars on 16th avenue. The game will be played as scheduled regardless of weather conditions since the new stadium is equipped with an elevated field making possible complete drainage. 1
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Black Market Vape Carts Linked to Recent Outbreak of Illnesses Across the US
Many of the illnesses are being connected to illegally-produced pot vape carts that contain deadly toxins or heavy metal solvents.
by Chris Moore | news | Aug 20, 2019
Over the past two weeks, nearly a hundred people were hospitalized with serious breathing difficulties after vaping nicotine or weed. Doctors have been perplexed about the cause of this sudden spread of vaping-related illnesses, but officials are now linking a number of these cases to black market weed vape cartridges that may contain a deadly lung toxin or other contaminants.
Since June 28th, health departments in Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Indiana, and Minnesota have reported 94 cases of people suffering from serious breathing issues after vaping. All of these patients experienced shortness of breath, coughing, and difficulty breathing after vaping. Some cases have been so serious that patients required artificial ventilation.
Seven of these cases occurred in the town of Hanford, California, and the close proximity of these incidents helped authorities track down a possible cause. Dr. Milton Teske, health officer at the Kings County Department of Public Health, reviewed the case files and discovered that each of these patients used weed vape carts purchased from unlicensed pop-up markets.
Gallery — Here's What Fake Vape Carts Look Like:
The vendors at these markets sell illegally-produced vape carts, filled with a mix of raw THC oil cut with other agents, which can include propylene glycol, glycerin, MCT oil, or basically anything else that a bedroom chemist wants to add. “Whoever is mixing it up in their garage, they’re adding other flavors, I suspect, or it’s how they’re diluting it,” said Teske to Leafly. “I suspect it’s some type of hydrocarbon.”
The contaminant could also come from the empty vape cart itself. California law requires all legal weed vape products to be thoroughly tested for contaminants, but black market dealers often buy untested empty carts from China to hold their oil concoctions. These untested carts could include pesticides, residual solvents like hexane, lead, other heavy metals, or any number of unknown irritants, toxins, or allergens.
In Wisconsin, where 30 vaping-related illnesses have been reported in the past weeks, investigators have linked some of these cases to a specific brand of black-market vape carts. Some of the patients who suffered extreme heart and lung damage after vaping reported using a popular brand of vape carts known as Dank Vapes.
Dank Vapes is a relatively well-known brand with a social media presence, but the company is operating entirely outside the law. “They act like a cannabis company, but they actually don’t exist. They’re in the packaging industry,” said Mark Hoashi, founder of the cannabis-rating app Doja, to Inverse. “These are just people filling cartridges as ‘Dank Vapes.’ It’s not a singular facility. It’s just people in their garages filling them and selling them.”
Inverse discovered that Dank Vapes has registered trademarks for their logo with the US Patent and Trademark office, but were unable to find any evidence that the company is legally authorized to produce cannabis in any state. These products are marketed as premium and safe products, but as they are not produced legally, there's no oversight to ensure the products are free from toxins and contaminants.
Gallery — Edibles That Look Like Real Food Products:
California cannabis testing facility BelCostaLabs reports that fake weed vape carts often contain unsafe levels of myclobutanil, a fungicide. When heated, this chemical releases toxic fumes, including hydrogen cyanide, which can cause serious lung damage and even death.
“That’s one of the most commonly discussed pesticides,” said BelCosta Labs CEO Myron Ronay to Inverse. “That’s definitely one that we see frequently in the underground market.”
It is currently unknown whether every one of these recent cases can be traced back to black market weed vapes, but regulators in adult-use states are warning cannabis users to stick to legal products.
“If you’re going to vape THC, get it from a licensed dispensary where you know there’s a certain amount of testing required,” Dr. Teske said to Leafly. “It sounds like it’s going to cost twice as much as the stuff on the street, but you don’t want to end up... with a life-threatening respiratory condition.”
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Amandla Stenberg backed out of Black Panther casting because she’s light-skinned
Joe GampSaturday 3 Mar 2018 3:45 pm
LA-born Amandla could have starred in Marvel’s latest blockbuster (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
Amandla Stenberg has revealed that she almost won a part in Marvel’s Black Panther blockbuster – but backed out of casting for an exceptional reason.
Stenberg,19, auditioned for the role of Shuri in the new blockbuster, which focuses on King T’Challa of the African country of Wakanda, the most technologically advanced nation on earth.
Amanda, who backed off from auditioning and let the role go to British actress Letitia Wright, told CBC that she wouldn’t have felt comfortable taking the role in the superhero adventure.
“One of the most challenging things for me to do was to walk away from Black Panther,” revealed Stenberg.
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‘I got really, really close and they were like, “Do you want to continue fighting for this?’ And I was like, this isn’t right.”’
Auditioning for the role of the king’s genius sister, Amandla told how she felt strongly that her heritage meant she would have felt ‘off’ by accepting the part.
‘These are all dark-skinned actors playing Africans, and I feel like it would have just been off to see me as a bi-racial American with a Nigerian accent just pretending that I’m the same colour as everyone else in the movie,’ she explained.
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Continuing, the rising actress – who was born in LA – explained how her decision meant she was taking up ‘less space’ in the film’s cast.
‘That was really challenging, to make that decision, but I have no regrets.
‘I recognise 100 percent that there are spaces that I should not take up and when I do take up a space it’s because I’ve thought really, really critically about it and I’ve consulted people I really trust and it feels right.’
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Home Crime Child Trafficking 16-yr-old Lagos schoolgirl: How sex trafficker lured us into prostitution in Calabar
16-yr-old Lagos schoolgirl: How sex trafficker lured us into prostitution in Calabar
After Funmi and Kemisola wrote their final exams of the session, they returned home to meet a female relative who had convinced their mother to allow her take the teenage sisters to a wealthy home in Calabar, where they were expected to work as housemaids for a monthly pay and an opportunity to complete their secondary education in a reputable public school.
Unknown to the girls and their mother, the woman they thought was going to help them improve their fortunes was actually an agent for a sex trafficking ring dragging young girls into commercial sex work and exploiting them in the process.
“She took us to Calabar to live with many other girls our age in a small two bedroom flat owned by a woman who became our madam.” Funmi, who was 16 when she and her younger sister arrived in Calabar on the last day of August, told Opera News. “The woman stayed in one room and squeezed about seven girls, including my sister and I in the other room.”
Instead of serving “responsible” families as the woman who took them out of Lagos had informed them, the girls were told they were going to be introduced to men whom they must “work hard to satisfy”.
“Our madam said we had to work for her during the period of [school] holiday,” said Funmi. “She told us we were not going to be working with any family until in September, when schools reopen.”
But September ended with the girls still stuck with their madam who told them that they would have to wait until the start of the following year which, according to her, was when new families usually make requests for maids.
“She said the people we were supposed to work for had travelled out of the country and so we had to wait until January so that she can get us a new family,” Funmi said of her benefactor. “For the other girls, she simply told them they were no availability for them until the next year.”
“Every evening, she would send at least one girl to go spend the night with a man,” Funmi added.
Although not widely reported in the media, human trafficking within Nigeria is rampant in the country. A recent report released by Plan International revealed that more than 75 percent of human trafficking cases take place domestically and involves movement of persons from rural areas to urban centres.
About 51 percent of girls trafficked in Nigeria are less than 24 years of age and 84 percent are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation, according to the Plan report which also noted that internal human trafficking has risen significantly in the last two decades from rural communities to urban cities like Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Kano, Kaduna, Calabar, FCT and Port Harcourt.
“Moving young girls from village to cities with mouth-watering offers of job only to be used as sex slave is nothing but trafficking,” Dr. Orji Ogbureke, Acting Country Director of Plan International, said at the launch of No To Trafficking Campaign and presentation of Report Research on trafficking of girls and young women in Nigeria. “Ninety-nine percent of girls trafficked is for sexual exploitation. Others are for trade and labour.
In Calabar, Funmi and Kemisola were uncomfortable with the idea of doing sex work and contemplated running away from their madam, but they feared they could be caught if they tried to escape and punished by their benefactor for doing so.
“The woman (their madam) has friends all over the area who often kept an eye on what the girls living with her did.” Kemisola, who is 14 years of age, told Opera News. “They reached her straight away if they saw you where you shouldn’t be.”
One evening in early December, a male visitor came to the apartment where the girls stayed and began to touch the sisters inappropriately. As soon as the visitor departed, Funmi and Kemisola turned to their madam and told her they were leaving the flat right away. The woman refused to let them go and held each of the girls tightly with her two hands. The sisters overpowered her and ran to the vigilantes on the street who immediately stormed the compound and moved all the girls to the nearby home of a woman who was willing to take them in. Their trafficker escaped.
The following day, a number of locals raised money to transport the girls back to where they originally came from. Funmi and Kemisola each got 10,000 naira for their transport fare back to Lagos. The other five girls who lived with the sisters came from communities in the southeast and so were supported with cash enough to transport them back to their hometowns.
“We are happy we were able to put a stop to what was going on where we lived,” Kemisola said in Calabar shortly before the girls departed by bus to Lagos. “My sister and I will go back to our mother in Lagos.”
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Dance The Zoologist 13590
Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
Duncan Brown
Reel of three - across - half (REEL;ACROSS;HALF;R3;)
Reel of four - diagonal - half (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R4;)
Double Triangles (DBLTRI)
Hands across - 3 (HX;3P;)
Snake Pass (SNAKE)
Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
Book 46 [12]
Exeter Branch 40 [18]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 9 [193] (diagram only)
The Turn of the Tide (Ian Hardie) [RSCDS publication]
The Sailor's Wife (Niel Gow) [Original publication (Exeter 40)]
The Zoologist Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band Book 46 CD 12 J32 8 4:41 35.1 The Turn of the Tide/Blackwood Jig/The Meteorite
The Zoologist 3/4L · J32
1c cross down RH (2c up) and cast R to between end cpl facing 4cnr ; ½ Lsh Reels3 across, 1c face 1cnr (pos)
½ Reel4 on 1diag, 1c pass Rsh and face 2cnr pos. ; ½ Reel4 on 2diag, 1c finish BtoB in middle facing opposite side (3, 1x_mid, 2)
DTr, 1c finish Rsh to Rsh facing opposite side
3c+1M & 1W+2c LHA finish as started ; 1M leading 3c & 1W leading 2c dance to 1cnr {1}, 4cnr {2}, 2pl own side {1}, to finish (2,1,3). This is like the »Snake Pass«, but with sharp angles, forming the letter »Z« for Zoologist (from a note by the deviser).
1s cross down between 2s+3s & cast to right to face 2L/3M, dance 1/2 LSh reel of 3 across (1L with 2s, 1M with 3s) & end facing 1st corner (pstn)
1s dance 1/2 diagonal reel of 4 & pass RSh to face 2nd corner (pstn), 1s dance 1/2 diagonal reel & end in double triangle positions (facing opp sides)
1s dance Double Triangles & end in middle facing opposite sides RSh to RSh
1s dance LH across (M with 3s at top & L with 2s), 1M followed by 3M+3L also 1L followed by 2L+2M pass RSh diagonally across to change ends & loop round to right to end on own sides. 2 1 3
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2017 Nov 11, Toronto Workshop Tea Dance 2017-11-11 Nameless Dancer Oct. 10, 2017, 10:48 p.m.
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17 04 08 Hastings 2017-04-08 Maddy Coelho Feb. 8, 2017, 4:47 p.m.
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Scots on the Rocks Social 2015-05-23 Diana Hastie May 21, 2015, 9:18 a.m.
Trinity 28 Sept 19 - James Coutts 2019-09-28 Bill Austin Sept. 14, 2019, 5:09 p.m.
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St John's 2015-11-14 Annual Ball 2015-11-14 David McQuillan Oct. 12, 2015, 1:40 a.m.
Trinity SCD Club Edinburgh 2016/04/23 2016-04-23 Daniel Hintermann March 28, 2016, 10:42 p.m.
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ZA 2015-11-28 RSCDS Pretoria Christmas Social 2015-11-28 Heather Hodgson Nov. 25, 2015, 11:50 a.m.
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Newark Annual Dance 20 Oct 2018 2018-10-20 John Aitken June 18, 2018, 12:53 a.m.
Leeds SCD Club Dance- 14th September 2013 2013-09-14 Christine Parker-Jones Sept. 11, 2013, 7:43 p.m.
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19 06 01 SASS Newick 2019-06-01 Chris Pratt April 28, 2019, 9:10 p.m.
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The Cheshire Wyche Ball Sat 30 March 2019 2019-03-30 Christine Grove Aug. 29, 2018, 10:32 p.m.
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Dilip's Mountain View Unit 4 Dances Dilip Sequeira Dec. 29, 2017, 7:38 p.m.
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Silvesterkurs 2016/17 Gemünd 2017-01-07 Eva-Maria Beckmann Jan. 7, 2017, 9:10 p.m.
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Give The NHL Some Freakin’ Respect
Despite contractual media requirements for our friends at ESPN who cater their delivery of SportsCenter to the NBA,NFL, and MLB notably because they air these sports on theirs or sister networks. The NHL needs a bit of a spotlight, yes the NHL is understandably more appealing to the Canadian market however looking at this year’s intriguing Stanley Cup final between the two largest markets in all of the USA (L.A. Versus N.Y./NJ Mega metro area).
So what’s not to like about the match-up. No, it is not a David and Goliath matchup but a truly big market(s), big showcase event that (oh yeah) includes The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America. So what does that tell you, GIVE THE NHL THEIR FREAKIN’ RESPECT!
Here in the STL, KMOX (aka our CBS radio affiliate) will always talk about our beloved (St. Louis) Cardinals as they should but still should be talking some more hockey or Stanley Cup. I mean the (St. Louis) Blues had a really awesome season, it was a shame though that the Blues didn’t have a chance against the Western Conference champs, and a reason that the Kings are in the Finals is because they had to go through STL to get there. But KMOX with their baseball obsession and ESPN with them obviously putting hockey inside a little box is a darn shame. Show some support for the league and this team showing known as the L.A. Kings with “The Great One” dropping the opening face-off last night some respect. FACT: Kings are the 1st Team in NHL History to Go 3 games to NONE (aka 3-0) in Every Round of the playoffs, that’s four grueling rounds that they had to do this. WHERE’S THE RESPECT? Oh yeah it’s a shame nobody in this town knows much about the Stanley Cup happenings this year. Ok, the Blues were beaten. SO WHAT! This town is great when it comes to hockey fans and its coverage. This year it’s not happening. They are clearly dropping the ball for this one. I wish hockey fans in St. Louis felt the same way I felt about this. Even though this isn’t as a great series as it is. It’s a great story for the Los Angeles Kings and I think that the many media outlets outside of L.A. and NY/NJ should still cover that.
Thanks to my man Tom for some factual credit in this article.
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THE PREMIERE…Beltran vs. Pujols
Welcome to the OFFICIAL 1st blog! LET ME TAKE YOU…N THE ZONE!
As a long-time St. Louis Cardinals fan, I have had the pleasure to learn and see many Cardinal players. I have also learned about the loyalty of the Cardinal fan base. It really gets rough when a star player from your favorite team leaves and joins a different team, it really gets worse when it’s a rival. Where am I going with this…I’m glad you asked.
Right after the 2011 World Series, the Cardinals won their 11th championship, David Freese was a hero and gave us fans the most dramatic end of the regular season AND postseason we may ever witness. The biggest story from that whole season was none other than Albert Pujols. Pujols became a free agent REALLY when that postseason ended. The next step was: “WHERE WILL ALBERT GO?” For the entire 2011 season, the Pujols’ talks DOMINATED sports radio in St. Louis. It got very sickening because it was the same stinking question over and over again. I’ll tell you now…I KNEW HE WAS LEAVING! I’m not an expert. Don’t claim to be one. I’ll get into that subject about journalists talking bad about fans and their “journalism” at another time. MAKE SURE YOU HOLD ME TO THAT! I WANT TO DISCUSS THAT! Back to Albert…I knew he was leaving because they weren’t going to pay him. On December 10, 2011…Albert Pujols didn’t sign with the Cardinals. He signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. THAT IS A MOUTHFUL! I was happy for him. Of course many Cardinal fans were not. Then…THE HATRED!
During this, Cardinal fans began to show their true colors…the ones that once praised Albert…wanted him to rot and hope that he never comes back to the LOU. WHY? Because he took the money…the money that he was going to be well paid for. The money that Cardinals management were never going to really pay anyway. You are fooling yourselves if you think that Cardinals front office were going to pay him. Pujols did what he was supposed to do…GET PAID! So if you are a Cardinal fan, NEVER and I mean NEVER HATE WHAT THAT MAN DID FOR ST. LOUIS! You may find him to be arrogant, self-centered, egotistical, whatever…at the end of the day he is still a man. AND A CHRISTIAN! Christians aren’t perfect. He makes mistakes. So after 11 seasons, 445 home runs, 3 MVPs and 2 World Series titles, Albert found himself in another uniform for the 2012 season for 10 years and $240 million. So, then the replacement for Albert began. The Cardinals made one deal and it looked very promising. They went and sign a former Cardinal killer from back in 2004…his name was Carlos Beltran.
Carlos Beltran, had two of the most unforgettable postseason moments that Cardinals’ fans will never forget. The 2004 NLCS when he dominated Cardinal pitching, yet they lost in 7 games. Plus the one, that HE will never forget…a 12-6 gem of a curveball delivered from (now teammate) Adam Wainwright in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS that sent the Cards to the World Series. After signing a 2-year, $26 million deal, here he is as the Albert replacement. Only big issue here was could he play in at least 150 games for the Cards. After playing 140+ games with the Mets and Giants last season, it seems like it. But injury-plagued 2009 and 2010 seasons seems like that was not the case. So what Beltran would the Cardinals get?
GOING N THE ZONE: So far (as of June 1st) Beltran is clearly doing better than Albert. THAT SHOULD MAKE PUJOLS’ HATERS HAPPY! Beltran is batting .294 with a league-leading 15 home runs and 42 RBIs. Beltran is a great player and I have nothing against him. NOTHING! He is a welcomed addition to the ‘Birds and hopefully will provide that same magic that he did back in 2004. I hope he’s an all-star when it goes to Kansas City in July. Albert, after having a homerless April, is batting .243 with 8 home runs and 28 RBIs. It looks like Albert has found his footing in Los Angeles. I still think he’ll pull through with .300 average and 30 home runs to continue his streak of 30 home run seasons. YEP I SAID IT! HATERS WILL ENVY THAT and I hope that he wins a world title in Los Angeles to shut up the Cardinal fans! Either way it goes, Cardinal fans will look for that word “STEROIDS” on Albert…that’s just how much hatred these fans have for him! It’s disheartening, it’s sick, it’s crude and just idiotic. No way I would think that the greatest baseball fans in Major League Baseball would act this way because one of the best hitters of the 21st century decided he was leaving for money. IT’S THE WAY OF THE GAME! THERE IS NO LOYALTY ANYMORE (not just in baseball) IN SPORTS SO SUCK IT UP AND GO ON WITH LIFE! CHEER FOR HIM REGARDLESS! Except if he was a Cub…scratch that…I would still cheer for him. So who the Train choose between the two…ALBERT! I been a fan of his since he came his Rookie Of The Year season back in ’01…you can believe me or not. I saw this guy in spring training, didn’t know who he was (wearing #68 in spring training) but he was good enough to make the team. Now in his 12th season, is one of the highest paid players in baseball. CONGRATULATIONS ALBERT! You have earned it! SO WHAT…that you weren’t the greatest base runner, your attitude wasn’t the best at times…that you got an ego…you still are one of my favorite players and I’ll root for you until you hang up your spikes and jersey for the last time!
Coming up on Monday: Why the Spurs will win the championship?
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The Welcome episode…sort of
Welcome to the N The Zone blog…where I, your illustrious host blogger, Arlington “The A-Train” Lane will provide hopefully some intriguing words for you to agree with or disagree with and really have some fun with this. I did a sports blog briefly for a site called PrimeJock (SHOUTOUT TO JODY CLAY FOR THE OPPORTUNITY) but then I just left because I didn’t have the time to do it. But anyways, I am back. Plus I need to re-introduce myself…
The name came from a sports TV show I did for roughly a year on IWatchRadio.com (SHOUTOUT TO PATRICK GALLAGHER) and that was fun. Had some guests, had a crew and it was all worth it (SHOUTOUT TO SOLOMON ALEXANDER AND SHAMEKA GREENE)! Since then I have been doing other things and it took away from my weekly show. I was upset but I had to make a dollar. I miss doing sports radio and on the screen. I miss hanging and sitting in with great radio personalities and producers. It’s good I got the opportunity to keep up with most of them and hopefully I will get to see them again in some shape, form or fashion. But in the mean time…I’ve wanted to do my own blog for quite some time. Mostly on and off for doing it. But now I’m devoting to it. Because I can get some things about sports and life off my chest and bring to you…my good people! I don’t think I would have done this again if it was not for my wonderful fiancee, Robyn. She’s doing one as well, I can’t wait to read some of them (when she posts them live). I thank her and love her dearly. But enough about that. It’s time for me to talk and write about sports…so tomorrow June 1st…GET READY!!
One last thing, I love doing shoutouts and I may do them often…but shoutout to my good buddy Coach Jarrod Rogol, now the new head coach of the Ultimate Indoor Football League’s new expansion team, the Missouri Monsters. Their season kicks off in March of 2013. One more, to owner Khalia Collier of the St. Louis Surge women’s professional basketball team, getting ready for the 2nd home game of the season on June 2nd!!
That’s it. It’s official June 1st…THE A-TRAIN TAKES YOU “N THE ZONE!” Coming up tomorrow…Pujols vs. Beltran!
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Resilience in Retrospect: Interpreting Fukushima’s Disappearing Consequences
By John Downer
The third anniversary of the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns occasioned a new round of US media scrutiny. Among the leitmotifs of this coverage was a story that pertained less to the disaster itself than to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) efforts to manage the public’s perception of it. Particularly notable in this regard were a slew of internal NRC emails obtained by NBC reporters via the Freedom of Information Act, which shone a light on the regulator’s response to the unfolding crisis. The emails suggest a systematic effort to obfuscate or downplay implications of the accident that might be detrimental to the nuclear industry’s credibility at home: a high-level decision to disavow prior NRC concerns about the seismic vulnerability of US plants, for instance, and a policy of ignoring questions about the potential effects of meltdowns on US soil. NBC’s revelations could not have been surprising to most seasoned nuclear observers. As early as July 2011, the Wall Street Journal
was reporting on private NRC emails suggesting that the industry and its regulators were actively hiding evidence that many US reactors were at risk from earthquakes that had not been anticipated in their design. At the same time in the UK, The Guardian published an archive of internal UK government emails that showed the nuclear industry working closely with civil servants to downplay the Fukushima accident and keep it from delaying proposed plants.
It is easy to see why US and UK nuclear regulators would be concerned by a disaster in Japan. The entire logic of Western nuclear policy, planning and legislation is premised on the idea that meltdowns like Fukushima’s are either: a) literally impossible, or b) so unlikely as to be beyond political consideration. The US, for example, takes the latter approach. By invoking quantitative risk assessments, it formally categorizes meltdowns as ‘hypothetical’ events that are ‘theoretically possible’ but too improbable to warrant genuine policy consideration – much like alien invasions or catastrophic meteorite-strikes. This determination then underpins almost all its discourse around nuclear power. It is implicated, for instance, in formal cost-benefit analyses, which ignore the possibility of accidents when weighing the economics of different energy options (e.g. OECD 2010). It is implicated in its emergency response planning, which is framed around small leaks rather than Fukushima-scale meltdowns. It is implicated in planning decisions, such as the in the ‘clustering’ of multiple reactors in single sites where the failure of one can imperil the others (as was the case in Japan). It is even evident in a substantial body of its social science research, which routinely treats ‘nuclear risk’ as an established property, to be contrasted, or reconciled, with public perceptions of that risk.
The understanding that meltdowns will not (or cannot) occur is so foundational to this discourse that the appearance of three reactor meltdowns in a single week (all at the Fukushima site) could have unequivocally upended the way industrial societies conceive and manage nuclear risks. The accident’s outsized dramas – which upstaged even the momentous earthquake and tsunami that instigated it – only seemed to confirm the intolerability of nuclear disasters, while simultaneously undermining assertions that such disasters were too improbable to merit consideration. Long-standing critics of nuclear power could hardly have looked for a clearer vindication of their fears. It would have been easy to imagine that that atomic energy would have little future post-2011.
For all this, however, the credibility of nuclear energy proved surprisingly resilient to Fukushima. Some nations retreated from reactors after the accident. Japan, for instance, was gripped by a groundswell of public opposition to atomic power, while Germany resolved to
abandon reactors entirely. In most instances, however, dreams of ‘nuclear renaissance’ lived on.
Prior to Fukushima, 547 reactors were either proposed, planned or under construction throughout the world; a year later, this number had increased to 558. In early 2012, the NRC issued approvals for four new reactors – the first since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Around the same time, Britain and France signed a formal agreement paving the way for a new generation of reactors in both countries. In these nations and more, the expert and public consensus on nuclear energy ‘escaped’ the touch of Fukushima, just as it escaped that of Windscale in 1957, Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and countless other brushes with disaster.
The durability of the nuclear industry’s credibility speaks to the flexibility of risk as a concept, and to the nature of the structures in which it is embedded. It was achieved, in large part, through the promulgation of narratives that framed the disaster in two ways:
i)By arguing that Fukushima was ‘exceptional’, and, as such, did not undermine reliability calculations proving that meltdowns should be beyond consideration. and/or…
ii)By arguing that Fukushima showed meltdowns were more ‘tolerable’ events than formal risk assessments had previously imagined (thereby implying that the reliability of reactors is less essential and inviolable).
These narratives – which internal correspondences, such as those released by NBC and The Guardian show being framed – were constructed and disseminated at the highest levels, shaping policy discourse and reverberating throughout the mainstream media. This chapter will discuss their logic and their consequences. Section 2, below, begins by briefly outlining and then critiquing the argument that Fukushima was ‘exceptional’. It argues that Fukushima reveals more significant and generalizable vulnerabilities than narratives of the disaster usually suggest. Section 3 is the heart of the chapter. In three parts – each focusing on different ways of construing the disaster Ñ it outlines and critiques the argument that Fukushima was ‘tolerable’.
The accident, it concludes, was more costly and alarming than publics are encouraged to believe. The concluding section of the chapter consists of two parts. The first asserts that it is reasonable to construe Fukushima’s public portrayal as a form of denial, and tackles the thorny question of agency. Drawing on two sociology literatures – ‘Agnotology’ and ‘Science and Technology Studies’ (STS) – it offers different perspectives on how and why narratives about Fukushima have come to be misleading, and considers their relative implications. The second and final part draws on the conclusions of the first to reflect on nuclear resilience. Outlining five ways in which protecting the credibility of nuclear experts from disasters undermines the practices that protect people, it argues that the resilience of nuclear authority compromises the resilience of nuclear infrastructures.
To read more :
https://www.academia.edu/33274228/Resilience_in_Retrospect_Interpreting_Fukushimas_Disappearing_Consequences
June 2, 2017 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2017 | Fukushima Daiichi, Lies & Cover-up, Nuclear Disaster, Spinning | Leave a comment
Fukushima Catastrophe at 6: Normalizing Radiation Exposure Demeans Women and Kids and Risks Their Health
Since the election of President Trump, certain words have taken prominence in our lexicon: “alternative facts”, “gaslighting”, “normalization”. But the techniques these words represent have been used by the nuclear industry and its purveyors in government since the Cold War love affair with nuclear weapons began.
And as we deal with the continuing fallout 6 years after the Fukushima, and 31 years after the Chernobyl, catastrophes began, the nuclear industry continues to put these techniques to good use. They have labeled “radiophobic” those who question nuclear power or who refuse to move back to contaminated areas or eat contaminated food. They shame people into taking health risks and socially isolate those who refuse to comply. They sell the lie of decontamination despite the fact that what has been decontaminated one day, may be recontaminated the next.
Women and children are often the focus of these “normalization” techniques. And they are the ones with the most to lose including supportive social and familial structures, and ultimately, health. Females, children and pregnancy pay a disproportionate price for nuclear energy because they are especially vulnerable to radiation damage. When a catastrophe like Fukushima happens, they become targets: targets of gaslighting, social isolation, radiation damage.
Japan’s radiation refugees
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) estimates that as of Nov 2016, the number of people displaced because of the earthquake, tsunami and radioactive contamination remains at 134,000. Of this number, 84,000 are still displaced around Fukushima, where evacuation orders are not yet lifted around the reactor.
In 2017, Japan is lifting evacuation orders and basically forcing people to move back to towns that were, and still are, contaminated with radioactivity from the ruined Fukushima nuclear reactors. Those who return are promised a one-time sum for doing so. For those who will not go back, the Japan government will cut off compensation. The IDMC frames the issue as a horrible choice: return to risk or try to reintegrate elsewhere without any resources. Greenpeace, in their February 2017 report, demonstrates that the uncertain risks and unpredictable nature of radiological contamination mean there is no return to normal.
Taking radiation into your psyche, as if it is normal
Radiation is associated with disease, even at low levels. Nuclear power proponents incorrectly contend that if you think you are sick from radiation exposure, it is all in your head and your health problems resulted from your worry. In other words, it was your fault, not theirs. They term it “radiophobia”. This pernicious label was first coined in the United States in the 1950’s. Like much of the initial Cold War nuclear policy, it attempted to “normalize” nuclear technology so that above ground atomic bomb tests could continue unhindered.
In fact, an opinion piece in the Western journal of surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, a medical journal which addressed women’s health issues, blamed caretakers for inciting fear of nuclear weapons in children. In the piece, entitled “RADIOPHOBIA; a new psychological syndrome,” the author claims “Anxiety-ridden parents or teachers who fear atomic bombs probably project the same fears to their children…” And that this “conditioning amounts to psychological punishment”. In essence the author, who was not a qualified mental health practitioner, was accusing these parents of abuse. The not-so-subtle implication was that radiophobia was a woman’s disease that she passed to any children she contacted.
The unscientific radiophobia label has persisted through the larger nuclear power catastrophes. For instance, according to a Macmillan dictionary entry, “Chernobyl has left an enduring legacy of opposition to nuclear power, now often referred to as radiophobia by technical experts…” However, the targets of this dismissive and derisive label are not just those who oppose nuclear power. The mysogynistic overtones of the radiophobic label are clearly present as the Fukushima and Chernobyl catastrophes continue to unfold.
In the wake of a nuclear catastrophe, exposed women and children are specifically berated into silence. If they continue to express concerns about health impacts, they risk becoming social outcasts. In this context, radiophobia is a social label used to stigmatize, not a scientific or medical diagnosis. In the case of Japan, radiophobia is called “radiation brain mom“. This epithet particularly refers to women who question whether food is contaminated; and it implies that they are irrational, overly emotional and unscientific, merely for asking the question.
Radiophobia accusations at Fukushima put children and women’s health at risk
After Fukushima began, doctor of psychosomatic medicine, Katsuno Onozawa, was interviewed by the Asahi Shimbun in 2013. As an actual expert on psychosomatic disorders, she stated: “children were exhibiting a range of symptoms including sore throats, nosebleeds, diarrhea, fatigue, headaches and rashes…” Yet these symptoms were written off as “radiophobia” and the mothers were accused of making their children sick by worrying. “Many reproach themselves, thinking, ‘Maybe I’m the one who’s strange,’ and become depressed.” She concludes: “If we say ‘it’s safe’ despite the risks only to erase fears, then we simply leave in place the danger that defenseless children may be contaminated.”
For the record, here are some symptoms of short-term, higher radiation exposure: “nausea, vomiting, headache, and diarrhea…swelling, itching, and redness of the skin” Many around Three Mile Island complained of similar symptoms following the partial meltdown there. The higher the radiation dose, the quicker the symptoms manifest. Children are more vulnerable to radiation exposure than adults, women more vulnerable than men.
In Japan, the “radiation brain mom” label has resulted in a self-censoring of concern about radiological contamination, leaving women and children unprotected after exposure to the initial radiation cloud. Subsequently their health is continually put at risk from food and environmental contamination. “Silence was not imposed by an iron fist of government, but rather wrapped around people like soft velvet, gently making women feel that they had to be silent.”
Taking radiation into your body, as if it is normal
Since the Fukushima catastrophe started, recommendations for radiation exposure limits in Japan were increased by 20 times. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) sets non-binding recommendations internationally for post nuclear catastrophes. Their limit is 1 mSv per year in addition to background radiation. This effectively would double the dose from unavoidable natural background, which is already 0.8 to 1 mSv per year. However, according to the IAEA, 1-20 mSv per year “is acceptable and in line with the international standards and with the recommendations from the relevant international organisations, e.g. ICRP, IAEA, UNSCEAR and WHO”.
Therefore Japan is, under controversy, encouraging resettlement in areas up to 20 mSv/yr. The increase in the allowable exposure limit occurred after contamination created wide-reaching negative economic impacts. Before the radioactive release contaminated Fukushima province, it was a center for organic farming and the “eat locally” movement. Since the contamination, consumer instinct has been to avoid Fukushima products.
Since studies show cancer and other disease impacts can occur within the range of natural background, clearly, the decision to allow a higher exposure level had nothing to do with health. Instead, it was an economic decision that took advantage of the fact that many diseases induced by this radiation exposure may not show for years, or may show as hard-to-attribute subclinical impacts, masking radiation’s disease-causing role. For those health impacts that do appear, nuclear proponents can always fall back on the argument that “it is all in your head”–i.e. radiophobia.
International agencies and industries normalize eating contaminated food to save face and money.
The ICRP is guilty of encouraging radiation ingestion, despite known risks. One recommendation is the encouragement of growing, selling and consuming, contaminated food, as an economic imperative for those in contaminated areas.
ICRP has also supported an effort in the wake of Fukushima called ETHOS that encourages “practical radiation protection culture” (PRPC). ETHOS was an effort originally started with the French nuclear industry, after the Chernobyl catastrophe began, when they realized that the cost of evacuation and compensation was starting to impact the nuclear industry’s financial and public standing worldwide.
Encouraging PRPC is a cowardly way of saying it’s too expensive to move people away from contaminated areas or allow them to eat clean eat food, so officials need to tell people there is no health risk from contamination. This is done under the guise of empowering the local populations by providing them with monitoring equipment, training, and a sense that eating contaminated food is okay. Mothers in Belarus were trained to measure the radioactive contamination of their children and to accept a certain level, resigning them to the fate of living with and eating radioactivity.
ETHOS goes one step further in claiming that individuals bear the responsibility to keep themselves safe from radioactive contamination with little to no help or resources from the industry that caused the contamination in the first place. Now, ETHOS is in Fukushima, protecting the nuclear industry from those whose lands it has defiled and whose lives it has marred.
The U.S. will be no different
For those who are hoping the U.S. will somehow escape the radiation normalization process, think again. We are learning from Fukushima and Chernobyl that international bodies like the World Health Organization (WHO) or ICRP will provide no support for clean food and relocation to uncontaminated land should we suffer a nuclear catastrophe.
We are further learning that our U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admits that decontamination is a lie. Using very colorful and demeaning language regarding radiological cleanup, an EPA employee said in 2013 “‘U.S. residents are used to having ‘cleanup to perfection,’ but would have to abandon their ‘not-in-my-backyard’ mentality in such cases. ‘People are going to have to put on their big-boy pants and suck it up…’”.
Dove-tailing on this egregiously tone-deaf statement, EPA proceeded to institute “protective” action guides (PAGs) meant to provide levels of acceptable contamination in food and water subsequent to a radiological incident. A radiological incident can include a catastrophic release but also lesser releases from transport accidents, for instance. The limits EPA recommends are hundreds to thousands of times higher for some radionuclides than previously allowed. Exposure could continue at these levels for years, endangering women and children the most. Just like women have been resigned or bullied into silence at Chernobyl and Fukushima, we can expect the same modus operandi here.
UN Human rights instruments offer women and children radiation protection when other national and international agencies fail to
Women and children are more susceptible to radioactivity, therefore any attempt to label women as irrational for fearing radioactivity is ludicrous. The fact is, women and early life stages are not protected by the recommendations of international experts. Women and children have, and will continue to, pay a disproportionate price for the use of nuclear power, it’s routine radioactive releases, and the catastrophes it causes.
Increasing allowable levels of exposure post accident for economic convenience or to tamp down fear is unacceptable. Encouraging women and children to eat contaminated food appears to be in violation of Article 24 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), particularly the principle of needed access to “adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking-water, taking into consideration the dangers and risks of environmental pollution”.
Women’s voices should count for more, not less
Women are often the most concerned about social health, and are the first and most vociferous in protecting public health following a nuclear catastrophe. And science shows they should be. Women and children are more vulnerable to radiation’s impacts and the life-stage of pregnancy is uniquely sensitive. They pay the highest price for nuclear power and it releases, so their voices should count for more, both in the energy decisions we currently face and in how we protect those whose lives are upturned by nuclear catastrophes.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/06/fukushima-catastrophe-at-6-normalizing-radiation-exposure-demeans-women-and-kids-and-risks-their-health/
March 6, 2017 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2017 | Denial, ETHOS, Fukushima, ICRP, Propaganda, Radiation Exposure, Spinning | Leave a comment
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Medical Coverage Changes at the Pines Rehab and Health
by NVRH | Jan 15, 2020 | In the News
After 40 years, NVRH Corner Medical transitions care over to new medical director
As of January 1, 2020, the position of medical director at the Pines Rehab and Health has transitioned from Corner Medical-based providers Joyce Dobbertin, MD, DC; Tom Broderick, MD; Mitchel Sullivan, MD and John Scott, MD to Delores Burroughs-Biron, MSN, MD and Kate Guilmain GNP- BC. Burroughs-Biron and Guilmain will be on-site every week, offering residents and their families more availability and scheduling flexibility.
The relationship between Corner Medical and the Pines started with Corner Medical providers John Elliott, MD and Tim Thompson, MD approximately 40 years ago. Nurses and staff at Corner Medical also helped with patient care, from communicating important instructions to connecting Pines residents with providers. In the past, Corner Medical providers visited residents in the morning, and if necessary, after-hours and in the evening. However, Burroughs-Biron and Guilmain will spend more time on-site during the day.
“It’s time to have dedicated people at the Pines for more hours during the day, much like an on-site hospitalist,” Dobbertin said. “In the past, doctors used to see patients before and after their clinic hours. That meant families had to come in early in the morning or they had to arrange another time to meet with the doctors. Now, residents can be seen at different times during the day and family members can get their questions answered and feel better about the care of their loved ones.”
Burroughs-Biron, who goes by Dr. Dee, works per diem for Northern Counties Health Care. A Board Certified Family Medicine doctor with a master’s degree in nursing and specialization in gerontology, she has worked at different health and long-term care facilities throughout the state.
“It’s a humbling experience to take on the medical director role after Corner Medical has been here for 40 years,” Burroughs-Biron said. “Dr. Dobbertin has been here for 18 years, which means I have some pretty big shoes to fill. But we’ve been working together to make this a smooth transition.”
Kate Guilmain, a geriatric nurse practitioner, has worked in primary care at the Veterans Affairs in White River, VT for several years. She has also worked for the Ray of Hope, a voluntary adult behavioral health program in Woodsville, NH.
“This has always been what I wanted to do,” Guilmain said. “Being a part of the Pines community allows me to have real relationships with the people I am taking care of.”
“The nature of healthcare is changing, and our patients both in the hospital and in long-term care facilities are becoming more complex,” NVRH CEO Shawn Tester said. “Long-term care facilities like the Pines are getting people who would ordinarily have spent more time in the hospital post-surgery or recovery from an acute illness. Now these individuals are going to places like the Pines, and it requires a lot more attention and time from providers and healthcare staff.”
Burroughs-Biron acknowledges that it takes a holistic approach to best care for the Pines residents. She hopes to continue to utilize Dobbertin’s expertise in palliative care and to consult with Dobbertin when it comes to complex cases regarding end-of-life discussions.
“Because the Pines is part of the healthcare community, it’s really important that we maintain a collaborative effort with the community, families, emergency rooms and the hospitals,” Burroughs-Biron said.
Dobbertin and Burroughs-Biron will continue to communicate throughout the transition. Dobbertin is not retiring, and instead is looking forward to spending more time on her office practice at Corner Medical and her palliative and hospice patients. She will continue to be the primary provider for most of the Pines’ assisted living patients.
“Two heads are better than one, Dobbertin said. “Dr. Dee and I have previously worked together, and patients benefit from our collaboration. I’m really looking forward to this transition and I know the Pines community is in good hands.”
The Pines also recently welcomed a new administrator, Chad Dingman, and new director of nursing, Pam Byam, RN. Both Dingman and Byam bring years of long-term care experience and new energy to the Pines. Byam and Dingman have forged a working relationship that will support the Pines as the facility continues to attract new staff, meet resident needs and become a leader in the long-term care community.
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More than once i have had to stop myself from heaving it out the front door. I am so very disappointed. Thanks guys. I just got this new imac and suddenly had this incredible stupid problem. Updated and tried everything. As Asterion wrote: The Mac OS wifi should be bullet-proof.
Feel that I needed to hack my new Imac to make internet work… Have spent to long time on this. I need to work. Wanted to give it back to the shop. I have just bought this new macbook pro and would also happily trash it — I have tried every fix above that I am able to do knowing practically nothing about computers and being new to the mac but no solution works for more than a short while.
Just another point — the numbers appear and repopulate sometimes and other times all I get is the prompt for the password, no numbers. If only I had done a bit of research first — never heard a bad word about mac before this. This worked for me! As of this morning, all things works.
The wifi was the shakiest part of the problem, but this work! Thanks a bunch! Blessings to you! Download speed is about 5 times higher now as well! So far so good with my mid iMac. Nothing like losing the connection in the middle of a mb upload. Tried all of the above with no luck. I found an obscure non-Apple related reference to someone else having internet dropout issues with this and other D-Links. Anyway, after changing this setting on the router I have been internet dropout-free for almost 24 hours so far. Time will tell of course. I had similar problems.
It all started when I went from Snow Leopard to Lion a clean install on my mid Tried all the tweaks but nothing worked.
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Both my iPads were fine and never ever dropped out. Came across the Rys Sommefeldt article Google it and liked his logic ie to change one of the Lion drivers back to that that was in Snow Leopard — and yes it can be reversed. Yes, I can hear the howls of anguish coming from all the purists and the Apple people but the bottom line is that it worked for ME. Ran for a couple of days like this with no problems.
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Then thought why not try a clean install of Lion. So I did, complete with all updates and all my usual software. Going great at present, no WiFi dropouts at all. So for a quick fix, try changing back to the Snow Leopard WiFi firmware as per the article. If you have more time to spare, try a new install of Lion on your erased iMac HD.
I just bought the newest version of the Macbook Air June I was having the same issues connecting to the internet even though I was connected to the wi-fi. This solution worked. Very easy to follow. It just works! Had to reboot to fix it. This is so much better! Just bought an iMac, when booting for te first time, it asked me for wi-fi connection. Entered all the info, guess what no connection? Following these instructions and adding the new location worked. Now the router name is appearing in Keychain. I tried these tips, but i dont get an ip adress or any numbers when i press the renew DHCP lease button.
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And when I unplug my ethernetcable i get a wireless sign with an exclamation point in it. And the wifi says no ip adress. Hope you can help me! And the weirdest thing is all my roommates use the same wireless even one also has the macbook pro, and i can connect to other routers but this one just doesnt want to connect with my mac. The problem is the wireless in lion is randomly searching for other and new connections. It disconnects when it does the searching.
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NO way to turn that off as its built into os. I bought my imac three weeks ago from JB hi fi in Sydney. Will have to see if I can get a refund…really upset? Brilliant… solved my problem that when i turn the router off and on, I would have to go through the wifi icon and select the network, not it does it without me having to do anything I turn the wifi off and on constantly because it is an android hotspot, and i take my phone with me.
Adding a new location worked!!! Finally, after a year of dropped connections, all it took was this!! Thank you OSX Daily! I was getting desperate, tried everything on al the support sites, found this and it works!. Now I can get back to work. Many, many thanks. I just want to help you: I wasss so frustrated so i know what you feel! We have macbook pro 17 inch and old macbook air. At home we had the same problem. Put this in my broswer: I upgraded our iMac to OS Lion in May or so, and have had nothing but problems with my internet connection since. Those who are saying this works are just experiencing the effects of a temporary work around.
They probably too, dont use the wifi enough to experience the problems most of us do. SO frustrating. I tried this fix and it seems to have worked. One strike, Apple! Was skeptical about messing around with the network configurations since I am not a very tech savvy person but in the end I figured it was worth a shot! Pure genius!!!!! Thanks so much for posting this solution. I can stop tearing my hair out!
Had this same issue, but fixed it. The problem only occurred when I left my laptop, apparently Lion is aggressive in trying to save power. For me I just set my Air to never sleep when plugged in. Wifi failed on my iMac within 2 minutes after trying the fix. Not related with power issues whatsoever. I was busy working, but had to stop really soon…. I did a fist pump when it worked!! I was so worried cos I am absolutely hopeless with computers but you saved me: D thank you in abundance for sharing your wisdom!
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Think about Internet connectivity. Remember the lengthy screech and squeal of a modem handshaking with your ISP? Today, thanks to wireless networking and broadband Internet connections , you can open your MacBook Air and be browsing the Web within moments. At least, you can when Wi-Fi is working properly. As a consultant, I occasionally come across a Mac that insists that you choose the Wi-Fi network from the menu bar icon every time.
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Here are a few troubleshooting steps that should fix it. Restart the Wireless Router — The next step is to reboot the wireless router, often an AirPort base station. Just as many issues are solved by restarting the Mac, the same goes for Wi-Fi hardware. These devices often lack reset or power switches, so the easiest way to restart them is to pull the power.
Once the wireless router is back up this can take another minute or two , see if the Mac can connect to the Wi-Fi network. To fix this, delete the connection and recreate it. Follow these steps:. Click the Advanced button at the bottom right of the window. This is where your Mac remembers Wi-Fi details that enable it to connect automatically the next time that network is available. Wait for the right wireless network to appear. Select it and click the OK button, entering the network password if prompted. Restart your Mac to see if your it joins the network automatically. Are you on, and does it stay on?
If yes, congratulations! If not… onward and upward. Creating a new location gives you a clean slate of wireless network settings and may clear up any remaining glitches. Using the buttons at the bottom, you can add or remove any network services that you never use, and set the order by choosing Set Service Order from the pop-up gear menu. Once everything is adjusted probably with Wi-Fi at the top , click the Apply button. Does your Wi-Fi stay connected? It should! Last Ditch Efforts — Of course, there are a number of other reasons why Wi-Fi connections can be problematic, and some of them can be difficult to fix.
For instance:. Worse yet, wireless routers do die, despite their lack of moving parts. Luckily, you usually get new Wi-Fi flavors when you upgrade. If all else fails, calling Apple is your best bet.
Has anyone created a utility to edit the wifi network list? It's a real pain to find individual networks it's not like Apple gives a search option. Surely there must be an easier way? I often hit this problem after my MacBook Pro wakes from sleep. Sometimes it takes a couple of goes. Hi James, That's exactly the point!
You shouldn't have to do that at all. See if deleting and recreating the network, or making a new Location, helps your laptop connect automatically. It seems that the local network doesn't recognize the DNS. Since I can't change the router, I have created a 'location' that is as 'plain Jane' as possible with no DNS specified. That seems to work every time.
Another possibility is a corrupted keychain key. Open Keychain Utility and delete the key for the network that the Mac is failing to connect to automatically. You'll have to reconnect to the network as if it were one you've never used before, but after that hopefully your Mac will remember it and join automatically. In the section "Recreate your preferred network", I am told "Select the Wi-Fi connection in the list of network services on the left. So Wi-Fi appears in the list of network services on the left of the Network pane? And what happens when you select it?
I've gone through 3 hubs so far Anker and Buffalo and when I connect them to one of the 2 available USB 3 ports on my MBP retina inch late model it often causes the wi-fi to stop. Apparently there are interferences with the 2.
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Approximately 1 in 59 children has autism spectrum disorder. Although children can be diagnosed as early as 18 months, limited resources and a global shortage of child mental health experts have pushed the average age of diagnosis to between 4 and 6 years.
Early detection is crucial to optimize a child’s development throughout their life. Researchers developed the Autism and Beyond app, a novel use of digital technology, to put evidence-based information in the hands of concerned parents and enable earlier detection through this easy-to-access prescreening.
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“It’s about you as a parent. You should have a way to get access to this knowledge. You can share it with your provider, you can use it to advocate for your child, you can use it to find resources. To me, that’s the kind of revolutionary thing behind it,” lead author Helen L. Egger, MD, the Arnold Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, tells Healthline.
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Mammals are awesome. Not only are we humans mammals, but so are some of the most iconic animals alive today – think the elephant, the lion… the panda! It seems we more easily fall for another hairy, milk producing mammal than for a spindly invertebrate or a scaly fish.
But there are almost 4600 mammal species on our planet, and a lot of them are way more interesting than the panda, and really weird! So i’m bringing you my pick of the top 10 weird mammals, you should know more about… because with so much diversity in the mammalian class it’s easy to miss some of the more wonderful ones!
Who: de Brazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus)
Where: Wide spread across equatorial Africa
Why: I like Chimpanzees as much as the next person – they’re smart, they can learn sign language and they’re super closely related to us… BUT do they have a wiseman’s white beard and a crescent crown on their foreheads? No they do not. And that is why de Brazza’s monkey is one weird looking monkey you should know more about.
Despite their loud appearance, these monkeys are very hard to find because they’re so quiet. Just because you’re beautiful you don’t gotta boast about it! It’s also common for de Brazza’s to curl up when predators appear, no doubt to cover their noticeable faces – a sweet image nonetheless, and the perfect start to this top 10.
Pondering the meaning of life, probably. Photo: Flickr/Steve Wilson
Rockin’ it from all angles. Photo: Flickr/JohnBWilson
Who: The Kinkajou (Potos fiavus), also known as the Honey Bear
Where: Central and South America
Why: That weird long tongue! Thought to have evolved to help them feed on nectar and honey, I like to think of them as a big hairy butterflies. They do eat insects too though, so the butterfly similarities end pretty quickly. They’re an arboreal species, spending most of their time in the canopy either sleeping in tree holes during the day or hunting and foraging at night.
While groups of kinkajous will sleep together in their dens, they generally act solitary when out and about. Come time to mate however, and the males make up for lost time. They’ve been observed following around a fertile female for up to five hours and then copulating with her for three and a half hours longer – quite a protracted affair!
If you got it flaunt it. Photo: Flickr/Josh More
Yeah. I see you. Photo: Flickr/Luca5
Who: The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)
Where: The Mahakam, Ayeyarwady, and Mekong Rivers in South and South East Asia
Why: Bottle shaped beaks are so last year. The Irrawaddy dolphin sports a flat face instead and the result is kinda like a giant, smiling thumb. A species of oceanic dolphin, they’re incredibly good at dealing with salty, estuarine conditions and live predominantly in scattered populations within river systems.
In one such system, Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady river – Irrawaddys have actually formed a cooperative relationship with humans. They’ll voluntarily herd shoals of fish towards fishing boats, giving the fishermen more food and allowing the dolphins to feed easily on the fish stuck in the net.
In Cambodia and Laos locals actually believe the Irrawaddy dolphins are reincarnations of humans and that it’s therefore bad luck to harm them. Sadly despite this, these wonderfully weird animals are labelled as vulnerable due to the impacts of humans. BUT, you can adopt your very own funny faced friend and check out more amazing photos of them here!
Thumb face, dolphin style. Photo: Flickr/Frank
Dance like the rainbow! Photo: Dan Koehl – Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Who: Giant Indian Squirrel (Ratufa indica)
Where: India, duh.
Why: And you thought squirrels were boring – these much bigger and much more beautifully coloured giant Indian squirrels get even better when you learn about their quirky behaviours. Just like birds, they build nests in the trees!
While aves generally prefer a nest with a convertible design, the giant indian squirrel likes a spherical shaped home and builds its nest by thrusting sticks together into a hollow ball with three to four layers of leaves in between. Impressively, they usually whip them up in a breezy two and half hours.
Nuts about the Giant Indian Squirrel. Photo: Flickr/Hari Ratan
Who: Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul)
Where: The grasslands and montane steppe of central Asia.
Why: Very closely related to your own Snowball or Mittens, Pallas cats are one of seven species of feline in the same lineage as domestic cats. But much more badass. And really fluffy.
Even before they’ve opened their eyes, Pallas kittens begin growling and hissing – setting themselves up from day one for a life much more inhospitable then your comfy lounge room couch. They can encounter temperatures cooler than minus 50 degrees (Celsius or Fahrenheit), so all that fluff is incredibly handy!
Helpful too, are their small sloped ears. While they may look a little weird, Pallas cats are ambush predators and rely on blending in with their environment. Their ear adaptation helps them stay inconspicuous when peering out from behind rocks.
Mesmerised by those hazel eyes. Photo: Flickr/Tambako the Jaguar
Pallas on the prowl – Photo: Flickr/jinterwas
Who: Silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus)
Why: Butter-cake yellow fur and a face curved like a banana, the silky anteater is one sweet mix. An ant specialist, it spends most of it’s time in the forest canopy – eating up to 5000 ants each night and sleeping in a tightly curled ball during the day. Best of all though, these weird wonders are total badasses too.
Despite being the smallest species of anteater (and looking a little pathetic tbh), they’ve got guts! When sensing danger they firmly grip their tail around a branch and rear up on their hind legs, front paws held above their face in a karate like stance, ready for action. That courage definitely calls for a spot in this top 10!
Want to see a silky anteater in moving picture form? Go here.
That sweet, sweet face. Photo: Quinten Questel – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Looking for trouble. Photo: Flickr/Quinten Questel
Who: Queensland tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni)
Where: Queensland, Australia.
Why: Oh I think you nose why… that rolled up, protruding pair of pipes the Queensland tube-nosed bat calls a nose. A species of fruit bat, their weird nostrils were originally thought to act as snorkels, allowing them to breathe easy as they chomped through fruit.
Further research however, has found that the nostrils are likely used instead to help the bats produce an incredibly detailed olfactory map of their surroundings. Each nostril can open and shut and move independently of each other – and they also happen to be strangely yellow. Obviously a mammal you need to nose, so it’s in the top 10!
Their matching yellow eyeliner just completes the look. Photo: Michael Pennay
Nostrils flared and prepared. Photo: Michael Pennay
Who: Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis)
Where: Africa and the Middle East
Why: Get this. Despite the fuzzy face and resemblance to something like a quokka, guinea pig or prairie dog, these little guys have a very unusual family tree. In an incredibly weird, master piece of evolution, it turns out that hyraxs evolved from a common ancestor alongside ELEPHANTS, DUGONG and MANATEES.
This means that today, hyraxes are most closely related to the enormous elephant and a couple of giant water mammals – what a family reunion! And what better reason to pop these cuties in the top 10!
While there are several species of hyrax, the rock hyrax is probably the most well known. Living within rock crevices, the males in their small groups really know how to charm a female. When in the wooing mood, males compose a complicated song said to reveal a great deal of information about that male to a listening female. The higher ranked the male, the longer he sings!
Let me sing for you sweetheart. Photo: Pablo Necochea
Taking a break from being an absolute charmer. Photo: Flickr/Cloudtail
Who: Saiga Antelope (Procavia capensis)
Where: Central Asia
Why: It’s not a face that’ll win a beauty contest: nose like floppy shot gun barrel and the illusion of weirdly big, bug eyes – but gosh it’s fascinating! With populations in Russia, Kazakhstan and a sub species in Mongolia, these gentle sweeties live in some of the harshest conditions in the world.
Come calving season they can meet in extraordinary numbers, however the population has been dwindling and in a tragic turn of events, in June this year (2015) around half of the world population was mysteriously killed off by some still unidentified phenomenon. Mass die offs of the saiga have occurred in the past however, and science and veterinary teams are now better prepared than ever to understand the problem and hopefully find a solution!
It doesn’t get much weirder than this! Photo: Darwin Institute
Who: The Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii)
Where: Southern and Eastern Africa
Why: A mammal that almost looks reptilian! The pangolin has long been a favourite mammal of mine thanks to its weird, scaly appearance – and that is why i’ve given it the honorary position as number 10 in my top 10 list. Born as adorable soft-bodied babies, their keratin scales harden as they get older and develop blade like edges to deter predators when they curl up in a ball.
While there are eight species of pangolin all equally as wonderful and weird as the other, I love the especially odd, lop-sided look of the Ground Pangolin – with it’s huge ‘heavy hindquarters’ and disproportionately small head. They have an amazing walking style – crouched over, using their hindlegs alone, with the occasional help from their forelimbs and tail for balance. As the only species of pangolin found in Southern Africa the Ground Pangolin is a true gem too and definitely deserving of this top 10 spot!
Love their little curly ears too! Eek! Photo: David Brossard
And that’s a wrap! Photo: David Brossard
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great post once again!! 🙂 I have seen the Indian Giant Squirrel once… right, in India!! 😉
Thank you so much 🙂 Oh wow that’s awesome! Their colours are just incredible, i’d love to see them in the wild.
you can check out my post on the species… 😉
How wonderful, i’ll take a look now 😀
Giovanna M says:
NICE. Now I just have to pick a favourite from your favourites 😮 I like the smiling thumb and the pangolin best PROBABLY :3 Nice work 😀
Oh the smiling thumb has to be up there for sure! Haha i’m laughing just thinking about it now… But also the Hyrax – it has such a seedy little smile, i’m totally charmed there as well 😛 Thanks for the lovely words Gio! 😀
Hey crazy cat lovers, meet the oddest members of the feline family – Odd Organisms says:
[…] The square shaped head comes because Pallas’s cats have ears low down on the sides of their head – something that helps them avoid detection when peering out from rocks to stalk prey. An old favourite, you’ll also find Pallas’s cat on my previous post: the top 10 weird mammals you should know more about. […]
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Being Human: Horrible Nora (Spoilers BBC, SYFY)
{ February 29, 2012 @ 6:56 pm } · { Being Human, TV }
{ Tags: BBC, Being Human, Bishop, ghost, Nina, Nora, Sally, Syfy, Vampire, Werewolf } · { Comments (4) }
I suppose I should thank the writers on the Syfy version. I’ve been struggling to separate Nora’s character from the one on BBC whom she’s ever so loosely based on, Nina. The connection has been severed, because Nina is fantastic and Nora is simply awful. It is suddenly hard to imagine that Josh can’t do better.
For the unlucky fans who don’t know, Nina is a little spitfire who fell in love with George in the very first season, worried about him losing his humanity and tried to convince him to embrace it in the second, and then returned to his side to make a family with him in the third. She is the great love of George’s life and apart or together, she always had his back.
On the BBC, the women lift the men up, but on Syfy (with the seeming exception of Sally), they can’t stop dragging them down. Since Nora became a werewolf, she’s enjoying her furry self much more than the human one. This makes her detrimental to everything Josh and Aidan (and, off on her own, Sally) are trying to do. The idea seems to be that someone who was once vulnerable enough to be abused by her boyfriend to the point of being viciously burned would prefer some access to power and even a separation from her own humanity, as if she equivocates her humanity with weakness.
The show implies that unlike Josh, who is completely separate from his wolf side for most of the month while he is human, Nora is ruled by wolf instincts, which cause her to jump to the defense of the two strangers who happen to share their condition. Though she was quick enough to make Josh feel guilty about attacking her ex the previous week, she now admits that she finds Josh’s intent to have the werewolf pair murdered attractive—even as it threatens her suddenly sacred “pack”.
While Nora goes native, Josh continues to love and protect her, which ends up threatening Aidan’s life and ending vampire cop, Cecelia’s. Annoying (if sexy) sociopath Connor, the brother-werewolf who started all the trouble for Josh and Nora, finally gets got and his corpse conveniently takes the blame for the vampire murder that Nora committed.
You had to feel sorry for Brynn, who clearly never meant to cause trouble by approaching the two new werewolves with her different ideals. But how irritating was Nora, who holds and comforts her new best pal, easily trading her loving boyfriend for what is now a pack of two? Will Nora ever rediscover the urge to be human? If so, can it be written in a way that will make her likable again?
Right now, that feels like a stretch. Nina once left George because he participated in covering up a vampire murder. Neither Nina nor George ever left the other because he or she didn’t want to stay wolves and eat people with impunity. Considering the focus of the show, it puts Nora very firmly in the “Do Not Want” category for Josh. At this point, she’s as damning to him as Suren is for Aidan. Judging by the BBC, that’s not the way their relationship was supposed to go down.
Touching base with the other two roommates:
While it was fun the previous week to watch Aidan hallucinate my favorite vamp, Bishop, it was even more satisfying to watch the two roommates actually interact with each other this week, with Josh forcing Aidan deeper into the vampire conspiracy but both Josh and Aidan ultimately choosing their friendship over the werewolf/vampire politics that would tear them apart.
Sally looks as though she might not fight the Reaper after all. She had a very brief confrontation with now-dead murderer, Danny (giving me immediate fantasies about the possibility of a similar circumstance for Annie and the diabolical Owen—how about it, Whithouse?!), and was saved by the Reaper. She then admits she feels left behind by her roommates and is looking to move on. She looks tempted to tell at least Aidan about this decision, but both Aidan and Josh are too busy to realize anything is amiss. Too bad she was too busy last season to bond with them properly…surely they’d pay more attention then.
What’s to come? It’s hard to say, being well away from most of the BBC second season plotlines. All I know is how sorry I feel for Josh: the person he fell for no longer exists.
Being Human: “Addicted to Love” (Syfy, BBC Spoilers)
{ Tags: Aidan, Annie, BBC, Being Human, Bishop, George, ghost, Herrick, Mitchell, Mother, Nina, Nora, Sally, Suren, Syfy, Vampire, Werewolf } · { Leave a Comment }
Oh, Nora. Girl. What are you doing??
Last night’s episode is still careening off into no-man’s land, as far as nothing that we BBC fans have seen before.
There’s a flashback of Princess Suren’s temper tantrum, which didn’t seem impressive enough to warrant her punishment. Granted, she killed in a public place, forcing Mother and the other vampires to mass murder the rest of the human witnesses. I suppose this is the same as BBC: the old ones wanted to force Mitchell underground for drawing too much attention to himself with his own mass murders, but he was able to refuse their offer. For a time, at least.
Sally gets stuck possessing her living crush’s girlfriend until she’s driven out by the Reaper. I notice many viewers are wondering why the Reaper is after her in the first place, which is made clearer on the BBC. Instead of a ghostly figure, the BBC Reaper takes the form of Annie bleeding on the floor where she died, but thereafter uses the ability to communicate through radio or television…which is extremely creepy, but at least it’s verbal. Annie is targeted because she turned down death and pissed off the powers that be…powers that are never explicitly defined. As punishment, they try to drag her into hell in a variety of ways, and she has to learn how to fight death. I can’t say if this will be the same for Sally—Syfy has the luxury of more episodes in a season, and therefore can take their time with the reveal.
We also get to meet the psycho ex who burned Nora, and see him get some richly deserved if brutal justice. Nina’s ex never made an appearance, though she had the same story and the same vicious burns. There is a pilot episode where the original George confronted his ex-fiance’s new abusive boyfriend with a violent reaction like Josh’s, but no such episode where Nina does anything remotely similar.
Nora is not Nina. That has to be my new mantra; they are nothing alike. Nina never killed, and in fact was the one spending the second season searching for a cure. Therefore, I can find little insight to Nora within Nina. Nora seems to love Josh, but her wolf loves murder and mayhem—both represented in this new werewolf, Connor. Josh/Nora fans like myself have reason to worry…Nina and George did part ways in the second season. Nina refused to be sucked into George’s acceptance of the murder and chaos that surround the three roommates. It’s possible that Nora and Josh will part on the opposite basis.
I’m looking forward to next week for one reason, and if you’re with me from last season, you know exactly what it is:
Herrick flashbacks on the BBC all involved actual memories, and I found it odd that Bishop wasn’t around for Aidan’s Suren background. You might say I’ve missed him. I can’t wait to get his take on the new order. I bet he finds Mother and Suren as tedious as I do.
Being Human: “(ILoathe You) For Sentimental Reasons” (Spoilers Syfy, BBC)
{ February 7, 2012 @ 6:58 pm } · { Being Human, TV }
{ Tags: Aidan, Annie, BBC, Being Human, ghost, Herrick, Mitchell, Nina, Sally, Suren, Syfy, Vampire, Werewolf } · { Leave a Comment }
Still digging through Syfy in my search for similarities to BBC, which should be waning as time goes by. They can still be found if you’re willing to stretch for examples.
Sally attempts to help her living friend Zoe find a date, which is somewhat like when Annie attempts to help Hugh reconnect with his ex-girlfriend. Hugh is one of those everlastingly nice guys who never get the girl, in love with Annie without realizing she’s a ghost. Seemingly as a consequence of escaping the plot of the afterlife to suck her beyond the door, Annie becomes invisible to him but tries to help him find a more practical and appropriate love interest.
Zoe’s situation is the opposite, as by the end of the episode she prefers to date a ghost than a living human being. Sally goes back to inhabiting a woman in order to get physical with the doctor she finds attractive. Here, Syfy introduces an interesting addiction problem similar to Aidan’s. Sally is the one who attends a support group of ghosts, whereas in the BBC version it is Mitchell who institutes a kind of Vampire AA—or would that be BA? Of the two, the ghost support group is a bit easier to accept as a concept, since it’s hard to imagine the savagely blood-thirsty Being Human-style vampires sitting around expressing feelings.
Speaking of vampires, this week featured the return of boring, serious Suren with her ever-monotone voice. I can’t help but wish she was played by Lucy Liu, who can deliver a line with the straightest face and still manage to inflect both humor and attitude. If not, maybe the character needs some livening up through the writing. I know what they’re trying to sell, I’m just not buying it. The rebellious child of presumably the oldest and most powerful vampire in existence should be a lot more impressive. I miss Bishop.
Aidan fights against dealing with the mafia, which is like Mitchell’s reluctance when dealing with dirty politician Chief Constable Wilson in order to protect the vampires in Herrick’s stead. Herrick”s progeny continued to kill teens and couples with impunity, forcing Mitchell to compromise his ideals in order to clean up after them. Similarly, the mob man catches a rogue vampire as an act of good faith and to convince Aidan that his aid is necessary. Aidan killed the mafia man because he succumbs to his blood addiction and his jealousy for Suren (unwarranted, if you ask me—what’s so great about her?). Mitchell kills Wilson in much the same way, minus the sexual aspect.
In the BBC version, there is no brother/sister pair of natural born werewolves. There IS a werewolf father/son duo claiming to be born werewolves in the third season, but their claim turns out to be false. In the BBC version there is only one example of a natural born werewolf, and that’s Nina and George’s baby. I do think the fact that it has never happened before adds a lot of drama and angst that Syfy will miss out on, and I did not fall in love with the idea that the resulting werewolves would prefer not to be human at all. Should Nora and Josh follow that path, I guess their baby would be like that as well? That seems to defeat the purpose of the show.
On Syfy, the three roommates continue to lead mostly separate lives. This was also the case in the second season of the BBC version, but they’d already had a solid foundation built the first season. There are a lot of satisfyingly dramatic scenes between them that can’t realistically occur without that closeness, such as George trying to break down a door to save Annie or Mitchell going psychotically savage to save them all. I can’t see Aidan, Josh, or Sally getting that roused about each other. Each one does fine without the others, and to me that’s a pity.
Those who worry about the future of certain main characters based on what happened in the last few episodes on BBC should rest easy—Syfy has no intention of letting them go that soon. Maybe that’s why the characters can take their sweet time becoming close to each other.
Being Human: “All Out of Blood” (Spoilers Syfy, BBC)
{ January 31, 2012 @ 12:11 am } · { Being Human, TV }
{ Tags: Aidan, Annie, BBC, Being Human, George, ghost, Josh, Kristen Hager, Mitchell, Nora, Sally, Syfy, Vampire, Werewolf } · { Leave a Comment }
This was a pretty tame episode, but at least we weren’t subjected to boring “Princess Suren”. Instead they delved deeper into the roommates’ personal issues. Syfy makes a lot of the same points as BBC, even if they’re not using the same exact stories.
Off the three roommates, Sally has to do her own thing almost completely. Initially in Season 2, Annie could be seen by and interact with regular humans. There was an entire plot point where Annie gets a job at a local bar and is targeted there by some entity from the other side, the BBC equivalent of Sally’s dark, misty reaper. The entity uses a human who had a near death experience to try and drag her through a door. After this experience she goes back to being invisible to normal humans, at which point Sally could possibly pick up the same storyline again—or not.
It’s still similar: Sally’s in danger from an entity because she turned down her door, and though it’s not explicitly stated as it is in Annie’s case, she’s beginning to worry about her roommates moving on without her. For the BBC version, Annie has good reason to worry, as Mitchell is always gone because of his new vamp obligations or his new crush, and George actually moves out. Combined with her own experiences in her failed attempts to build some sort of social (after)life, she starts to realize the downside to eternity in one state of being.
Sally has come to this realization much faster, but that makes sense since she hadn’t bonded as much with her roommates as had Annie in the first season—they’re not grounding her in the same way. This season, even in only 3 episodes, has already shown her reaching out more to the boys than she did before. There hasn’t necessarily been much depth involved in the reaching, but there’s still plenty of time for that. I appreciate any improvement.
Aidan is struggling much more with his addiction than Mitchell initially did in the second season, but there are reasons that I think this helps with the continuity if Syfy intends to have a similar third season. Mitchell ‘s stress mostly sprang from being unable to keep the other vampires clean and then being ill-equipped to deal with their indiscretions. Trying to work within the dirty but effective system that Herrick left behind to protect the vampires’ secrecy was enough to test his self-restraint, but there were no blood bags or whores to fall back on. The problem for me with continuity came when Mitchell had little trouble sleeping with a mortal woman, yet in Season 3 he tells Annie he’s incapable of separating sex from blood and in fact uses one to get the other. If Aidan has a similar future in store, it makes more sense to show a great deal of struggle now.
Julia, the doctor that Aidan’s been dating, is revealed as Josh’s ex-fiance. Lucy, the doctor who dated Mitchell for much of the second season, had no prior relationship to any of them. George’s fiance never makes an appearance except in the pilot, which isn’t included in the first season because it had different actors for Annie and Mitchell. At one point during the first season, George mentions to Annie that he has seen his ex-fiance with someone else, and that’s the end of it. I won’t appreciate them using Julia as Aidan’s love interest for the rest of the season because they don’t need that wedge driven between two best friends—that would ruin Aidan for me. That friendship should continue to be the most solid part of the show.
Finishing up with my favorite couple, Nora and Josh are very different from Nina and George, but perhaps on a similar trajectory regardless. I’ve said before, Nina never killed—George did, and it made him much more aggressive but not necessarily looking to kill again. Fortunately, I was looking for a tougher Nora and this is a way to get one. There must be something wrong with my brain, because I love this savage Nora. Watching her stalk Josh’s ex—c’mon, which one of us wouldn’t do that?? I love the way Kristen Hager, the actress playing Nora, reveals the beast within with a simple change of tone and expression.
Last week I wondered about Nina’s wrath with Mitchell, which Nora would have no reason to feel since Aidan never set her up with Josh. I missed this plot point because it lead to such an intense confrontation between the two. Instead of not being angry at all, Nora directs that wrath at Josh, rightfully so, because he fled from his relationship with his fiance, Julia, but felt free to take chances with Nora. Which way is best? George was too kind-hearted to take a chance with Nina’s safety but Mitchell thought dating Nina was part of “Being Human” and so he asked Nina out for him. Josh made that same decision for himself, presumably having been convinced by the success he’d had so far in their joint experiment.
Speaking of experiments, this show has Josh attempting to find his own cure. On BBC, George never returns to medical school because of his condition and though he is still a genius, he never believes there is a chance of a cure. Season 2 does revolve the idea of a cure, but from outside sources, which have yet to be hinted at on Syfy.
Next week shows some extra-curricular (read: nothing to do with BBC) werewolf problems for Josh and the return of the very stereotypical vampire princess (yawn). I think I know where some of this is going—I’m just not telling you yet.
Syfy’s Being Human: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? (Spoilers Syfy, BBC)
{ Tags: Aidan, Annie, BBC, Being Human, Daisy, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?, George, Ivan, Josh, Meaghan Rath, Mitchell, Nina, Nora, Sally, Suren, Syfy } · { Leave a Comment }
Two episodes in and I’m having a much better time than last season. Admittedly this could be because I found more fault with the BBC’s second season than I did with the first. Syfy has a lot of opportunities to improve upon it.
I mentioned last week that George was kind of useless for Nina. Like when he finally faces the fact that he changed her, it’s Nina who comforts him while he cries. Every time I see that scene I want to reach into the screen and shake him.
Anyone who watched Syfy tonight saw Josh contain his own guilt as he attempts to convince Nora to survive this. Two things in George’s defense: First, Josh’s circumstances allow his mind to be more stable; he never killed, is not being constantly attacked by vampires, and has not given more ground in his head to the wolf. Second, Nina is far stronger than Nora…heck, Nina is a lot stronger than George. That’s why they complement each other so well.
I’ve decided the best thing to do is to stop expecting Nora to behave like Nina and accept her as a completely different character. That’s why now I kind of like her. I suppose she doesn’t need to turn any of that blame Aidan’s way as Nina did with Mitchell. Mitchell is the one who encouraged George to date Nina, going so far as to invite her over for their first date.
Nina: You loaded a gun and you fired it into a crowd.
My feelings for Sally are, per usual, slightly more mixed. It’s good to see that she had some bonding moments with both roommates that didn’t involve whining and I was thrilled to see that she called for Aidan for help after her nightmare. In the BBC version, Mitchell and Annie had already had some “moments” in season one that never happened for Sally and Aidan, so I was wondering if they were going to scrap the connection between them. Maybe not! 🙂
Another Syfy plus is Sally’s ability to enter the bodies of humans. I thought Meaghan Rath did a great job portraying something anyone could imagine: the ultimate high, for a ghost to really be human again. In the BBC second season, Annie is also testing her powers but the best she can do is touch the human and feel what that person experiences. One finds out in Season 3 why that’s just not as good…
At this point, I can’t tell if Aidan’s storyline will resemble Mitchell’s second season at all. True, the young woman that Aidan met at the hospital could be the human who was Mitchell’s love interest for a time, but she didn’t get the job and this episode ends with them leaving the bar together. If he is hunting her, then she’s not the love interest. That woman sticks around.
BBC has no Mother, nor Mother’s Daughter, Suren, but perhaps Suren is supposed to replace gorgeous, psychotic vampiress Daisy? If so, Suren should step up her game because in comparison she’s completely dull. I’m just not thrilled with all the cliche vampire posturing from her character. Daisy was all about having fun:
“A lot of vampires, it’s all about the blood and the world domination. Me and Ivan… we’re just about the tourism.”
Daisy’s story was completely different from Suren’s, but she was the most important female vampire of Season 2. She influenced Mitchell and even George, to some extent. But this wouldn’t be the first time I thought they were replacing a main character from the BBC’s version, only to see that character show up later in the season. Syfy has more episodes, so they’ve got plenty of time.
Syfy’s Lost Girl: UF Fans Should Take a Look
{ January 19, 2012 @ 6:53 pm } · { TV }
{ Tags: Anna Silk, Being Human, Bo, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Georgina Kincaid, Kenzi, Ksenia Solo, Lost Girl, Richelle Mead, succubus, Syfy, The Morrigan, Urban Fantasy } · { Comments (2) }
This is a no-brainer. The whole reason I watched Lost Girl, besides the fact that it conveniently aired after Being Human, is because it looked so much like some Urban Fantasy series brought to life. A chick in leather with magic powers and quick wit who kills a bad guy within the first ten minutes? I even Googled it to make sure it wasn’t based on something I’ve read or could read.
Main character Bo (played by Anna Silk) is the primary draw for me. She embodies the quintessential UF heroine with her tough girl leather outfits and contrasting lighthearted humor. Yet she is humanized by an obvious sense of loneliness and a longing to belong (which tells me to look forward to some ultra-fun angst). Also magnetic is her elfin-looking but fully human side-kick, Kenzi (actress Ksenia Solo), who is rescued by Bo in the beginning but manages to rescue Bo right back by the end of the premiere. You just know she’ll be kicking ass at some point.
A possible problem for UF fans is the way this show warps mythology for the sake of its world-building. My first problem was the Morrigan (played by Emmanuelle Vaugier), whom you might identify correctly as an Irish goddess of battle, yet here she wears heels with shiny jewelry and a ton of makeup. She is no one’s idea of a warrior queen. She looks like one of those Real Housewives—the Real Housewives of Unseelie Court.
Of course they don’t use that word, they just say dark court, and it’s versus the light court, not Seelie. Recognizable wins over accurate, especially in TV.
The succubus mythology has also been seriously messed with. Bo may remind you of Richelle Mead’s UF heroine, Georgina Kincaid, but they’ve stuffed her in with fae mythology and left out anything about demons or hell or immortality. Instead, she’s a changeling, a fae baby given to humans to raise, or at least that’s the way that I’ve interpreted her story.
I’ll give Lost Girl a chance, because it still reminds me too much of the typical UF universe. It’s up to the writers and actors to provide suspension of disbelief, despite a mythological background that’s out of whack. But we know it can be done. After all, Being Human just proved it the hour before.
SyFy’s Being Human Season 2: Off the BBC Track (SPOILERS BBC & Syfy)
{ Tags: Aidan, Annie, BBC, Being Human, Bishop, George, ghost, Herrick, Josh, Mitchell, Nina, Nora, Sally, Syfy, Toby Whithouse, Vampire, Werewolf } · { Comments (2) }
Here we are again: another series and another chance to play Syfy versus BBC. At the end of season 1, I speculated that there were enough differences between the two that perhaps Syfy would be branching off in its own unique direction. One episode in and it definitely still looks that way. Just to be clear, I intend to spoil the ending of both BBC and Syfy’s first seasons, and the BBC second season. If you didn’t see either of those endings, don’t go forward—you’re supposed to be surprised. 🙂
Let’s start with the end of last season, which is important in order to understand some big differences that exist before the second season even begins. If you don’t recall and you missed the replay tonight, let me remind you that Sally tries to torture Josh via bitching and moaning so that he’ll use his wolf to kill Bishop for Aidan, since all three friends are veritably certain that Aidan will lose the fight. Josh reluctantly agrees, but then Sally and Aidan turn the tables on him in order to protect him from having to kill.
That was a huge surprise for BBC fans, which was great because I thought I could only be surprised the first time around. In ours, George pretends he intends to run away with Nina, when in fact he tricks Herrick into being locked in with his wolf. He changes and tears Herrick to shreds. The American version does offer a more satisfying fight, as the BBC focuses on a battle of words and the fight itself is a few blurry moments of audible savagery. Yet this is George’s attempt to accept his wolf in order to save his best friend. That’s why George and Josh begin their respective second series in completely different places.
This might be a good thing, since in the BBC version, George spends much of this season being kind of a dick and poor newly-turned Nina deals with most of her problems alone. Will this happen for Josh? Hard to say, but so far there are few similarities.
Both Nina and Nora keep having been scratched a secret until the first change. However, Nina can see Annie, so she asks for help and swears her to secrecy. I had hoped that Sally and Nora would have a similar bonding experience, which in my mind could have been done without allowing Nora to see her yet, but Sally continues to be solely immersed in her own ghostly realm. While it seems likely that Josh will find out about Nora, depending on how he manages to escape being shot by the vampire, Nina continues to keep her secret until the truth comes out in an argument. She has distanced herself sexually from George, which he interprets as her rejecting his wolf. (This may still happen with Nora and Josh, since the series starts with her gently refusing him.) Nina begs George for patience and support but he is overwhelmed with self-loathing and the new level of anger and violence that are the result of his having embraced his wolf in order to kill Herrick. He is also on edge because vampires are constantly attacking him in retaliation for Herrick’s death. This is obviously not part of Josh’s reality at this point, which may change the direction of the series.
BBC’s Being Human Season 1 ends with an introduction to the villain of the following series, and it has nothing to do with any vampire “Mother”. I’ve said before that the Old Ones were only introduced on BBC in Season 3, and the finale suggested that there would be a conflict with them next season. The villain for Season 2 is an old man who has apparently been searching for the trio, and found them with the help of mental patient and fiance-murderer, Owen. We find out in Season 2 that he’s a religious man who views all non-humans as abominations.
The environment between the roommates is fertile for a villain to exploit. Mitchell is overwhelmed with being the new vampire king; George attempts to separate himself further from his wolf and causes more problems with his denial; and Annie is threatened by the world beyond the door that she turned down and also begins to think about the implications of immortality as an unchanging ghost. Given Sally’s nightmare about a reaper coming after her and Aidan’s problematic attempt to keep the vampires clean, some BBC plot lines will clearly prevail. The future of Josh and Nora is much more unclear. I do hope Nora will go through the same anger and angst and love that Nina went through as she struggled to accept her new role.
One thing is clear, Syfy has an advantage because they’re two seasons behind. This gives them a chance to avoid the pitfalls that poor Toby Whithouse’s show has run into because three of the four main characters are leaving before the story is told. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, those are more spoilers than I really want to put here—Google at your own risk.
Syfy’s Being Human: Bishop Just Got Better (SPOILERS–from BBC as well)
{ March 29, 2011 @ 12:29 am } · { Being Human, TV }
{ Tags: Aidan, Annie, BBC, Being Human, Bishop, George, ghost, Going Dutch, Herrick, Mark Pellegrino, Mitchell, Sally, Syfy, TV, Vampire, Werewolf } · { Leave a Comment }
Tonight on Syfy was the best episode yet.
Bishop is suddenly at a whole new level, and I think he took the show with him. I’ve mentioned in past posts that I was disappointed in this seemingly softer Vampire King. In Going Dutch, I was delighted to find out I’ve been tricked. Bishop has been playing his own version of trust-me-I’m-not-so-bad with Aidan, but because he wasn’t hiding any of the things Herrick hid from Mitchell (werewolf cage-matches, the room of trapped humans), I assumed he wasn’t hiding anything at all.
Now I admit this episode was a complete revelation for me partly because I missed something important in the Bernie episode. I never saw the part where Bishop asks Seth if he “took care of the boys”, leading Aidan to blame and reluctantly kill Bernie.
So much for empathy towards human children.
No matter. Bishop’s gloves have now completely come off. Meeting with the Elders for their final judgment, he absolutely shines. He calmly admits that mass murder and slavery are two options for his Vampire Supremacy Plot, causing Aidan’s brain to explode. The Dutch demand that he go underground and have Aidan cull the clan, Aidan volunteers to rein him in, and Marcus bursts forth with a power sharing dream that is clearly the wish his heart makes—doom and betrayal all around, but nothing wipes the smile from Bishop’s face.
That’s because Bishop has a surprise for everybody in the room (and me on my couch). He’s poisoned the Elders with juniper-laced blood and serenely explains his plans while decapitating all but the one that a panicked Aidan manages to save. Here, finally, is the charismatic, psychopathic Bishop that I’ve been waiting for, reminiscent of Herrick’s malignant genius for the first time. Suddenly I can’t wait to see what he’ll do next.
Yeah, Bishop owned the episode, but there were other honorable mentions.
The exorcism (borrowing slightly from BBC’s Season 2, but not much) was a nice twist for Sally and Danny, since Danny can’t see her and torture her à la the terrifying Owen. Having Sally thrust herself into the exorcist’s body and face him as such was startling in a really good way.
For me, however, special effects are dessert, but dialogue is the meat and potatoes. So I loved the simple little scene with Josh and Aidan in the hospital, where Josh worries about his friend and tells him about his own awkward reaction to Nora’s pregnancy. I enjoy their connection; there is at least an echo of Mitchell and George here.
Speaking of connection, I don’t think I’ve talked much about Rebecca, but I do like her. She’s a strong character, portrayed sympathetically by Sarah Allen (possibly the best female actress on the show IMO). She gets to kill Marcus, with the added incentive that she found out Bernie died because of him. I liked the fact that she’d been given a heart, and that Aidan went through so much with her.
Complaints from the BBC fan (you knew I had some):
Just a few questions. If the exorcist is saying ‘let the spirit be filled with light and love’, why is Sally in so much pain? Is she actually evil then? Why did she completely disappear before a commercial break, only to be back in the same position and in pain again in her next scene? If she’s being exorcised from the house, where is her Door? When Annie was forcibly removed in Season 2, she was dragged into a Door and it slammed shut. In this version, if you move on naturally you use a Door, but exorcisms make you sick until you disappear? And since I did bring up that demon-spawn Owen, let me firmly assert that Danny is still a very watered down version. Watching him fearfully tell Sally her death was an accident (though he did try choking her right after he said it) reminded me of how much Owen enjoyed killing Annie and getting away with it. He didn’t mean to do it exactly, but he was awfully glad that he did.
On another note, next week they show her getting all psycho-ghost with Danny and the other roommates are concerned. This is one sticking point for me; the roommates haven’t had much bonding time with Sally this season–she mostly whines at them and they argue with her. If they try to show them as being attached to her the way George and Mitchell wept for Annie at the end of Season 1, I will just gag or maybe vomit on my TV. I don’t want to do that.
Have I mentioned that I hate, hate, hate that Nora is pregnant with Josh’s child already? They barely know each other. Yes, I am aware that this is a realistic chain of events, but I’m just saying that I prefer the courtship of George and Nina by far. When Josh and Nora had their serious conversation at the end about the pregnancy and Josh mentioned that he was worried about genetics, I worried that Nora would attempt to reveal what we only just found out from Nina in Season 3 about her family history. Fortunately, she didn’t go into detail. That’s good, because damn it Syfy, you have to save some of the mystery! Most importantly, will Nora turn wolf this season, or at all? I’m starting to wonder if the next season will resemble BBC’s version or if they will split off completely and form their own tangent. And the pregnant woman on the table was gross.
Still. Best episode yet.
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MALI, Ciwarra school
Great to receive this drawing from The Ciwarra School in Mali considering the conflict in this Country at the moment.
“When we started this project, Mali was at peace and now since March 22, there is conflict. The kids themselves chose this drawing as the one to represent what is needed now in Mali. The dove is in the shape of the map of Mali. ” Debbie Fredo.
We all wish for Peace because life is linked to Peace
We wish to thank the directors Deborah Fredo and Maria Diarra Keita, all the children and staff connected to the Ciwarra School. We reached this school through Mr. Stephen L Esquith and his wife Chris from Michigan .
Stephen’s wife Chris Worland (who is a quilter and fabric artist 😉 ) has been working very closely with the Ciwara School in Kati, Mali for several years. In fact, Chris did a quilt project with the Ciwara School and their local elementary school in Michigan a few years back. Since 2004 Stephen and Chris have taken a study abroad program to Mali and now spend 3-4 weeks at the Ciwara School with their students from Michigan State University.
http://rcah.msu.edu/profile/esquith
We wish Mali Peace…………….
Mali Flag Meaning:
The green stripe symbolizes hope, nature and fertility of the land. The yellow represents purity and mineral wealth and red stands for strength and the blood spilt for independence.
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Beyoncé: How I Prepared for Blue's Birth
"I got my nails done, I got my feet done, had my hair done, and I had my little lip gloss," she says with a laugh
By Anya Leon and Alexis Chiu
When she arrived at the hospital last January, Beyoncé came with the best of intentions for her daughter’s delivery.
“I did have a fresh eyebrow wax,” PEOPLE’s 2012 Most Beautiful Woman says with a laugh.
“I got my nails done, I got my feet done, had my hair done, and I had my little lip gloss.”
But, in the end, Blue Ivy‘s birth trumped all the new mom’s primping and prepping to meet her baby girl.
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“I didn’t feel that I looked beautiful during birth, but who does? After being pumped with all those fluids and gaining so much weight … I barely recognized myself,” she explains.
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Acclaimed touch dancer, singer, and stage and display actor. He earned both a Theatre Desk Honor and a Tony Honor for his efficiency in the 1992 Broadway creation of Jelly’s Last Jam. He started tapping appropriately at age five. He produced his film debut inside a 1981 Mel Brooks humor movie called Background of the Globe, Component 1. He hosted a PBS system known as “Gregory Hines’ Touch Dance in the us.” In 1963, he began a dance troupe along with his brother and dad known as Hines, Hines, and Father. He wedded Pamela Koslow in 1981, got two kids, and got a divorce in 2000. He co-starred with Denzel Washington in the film The Preacher’s Wife.
Full Name Gregory Hines
Date Of Birth February 14, 1946
Place Of Birth New York City, NY
Profession Dancer
Spouse Pamela Koslow
Children Daria Hines, Zach Hines
Parents Maurice Hines Sr., Alma Hines
Siblings Maurice Hines
IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm0002138
Awards Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Talent, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreographer
Nominations Tony Award for Best Choreography, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In A Children/Youth/Family Special, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing In A Children/Youth/Family Special, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Class
Movies White Nights, Tap, The Cotton Club, Running Scared, History of the World, Part I, Waiting to Exhale, Renaissance Man, Wolfen, The Preacher's Wife, A Rage in Harlem, Deal of the Century, Off Limits, Bojangles, Eve of Destruction, The Tic Code, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Once in the Life, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Mad Dog Time, The Red Sneakers, The Cherokee Kid, Who Killed Atlanta's Children?, Subway Stories, A Stranger in Town, Dead Air, Bleeding Hearts, White Lie, Good Luck, Parade of Stars, Broadway's Lost Treasures II, Color of Justice, Broadway's Best at Pops, Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton, T Bone N Weasel, Amazing Stories: The Movie IV, Eubie, White Man's Burden
TV Shows The Gregory Hines Show, Little Bill, Lost at Home, Motown Returns to the Apollo, I Love Liberty, Amazing Stories, Great Performances: Dance in America
Star Sign Aquarius
1 Hope Clarke, Ted L. Levy and he were awarded the 1993 New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Musical for "Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway in New York City.
2 He was awarded the 1992 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Actor in a Musical for "Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway in New York City.
3 He was the son of Alma Iola (Lawless) and Maurice Robert Hines. Gregory's father was of African-American background. Gregory's maternal grandparents, Lionel Sidney Lawless and Bernice A. Walker, were from Trinidad and Saint Kitts, respectively. Gregory's mother had Afro-Caribbean, and smaller amounts of Welsh, Portuguese, English, and Irish ancestry.
4 Hines made his feature film debut in Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I (1981). He was a last minute replacement for Richard Pryor, who had to cancel his appearance in the movie due to his freebasing accident.
5 Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 248-249. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
6 Inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2004.
7 Appeared with Eubie Blake on a 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live (1975), hosted by Gary Busey. He sang two Eubie Blake songs and danced as well.
8 Sings on the title track, "So Nobody Else Can Hear", of a recording by legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb (Miles Davis' "Kinda Blue"). Bill Cosby and Freddie Hubbard are also on this record.
9 In 1954 he and brother Maurice Hines they were cast in the Broadway musical "The Girl in the Pink Tights".
10 "There's nothing better than love" is a duet song he recorded with friend Luther Vandross back in the 80s. Gregory is known for his smooth silky voice and recorded his own self-titled album on Epic/Sony in 1987.
11 Won Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Jelly's Last Jam," for which he also shared a Best Choreographer nomination with Hope Clarke and Ted L. Levy. He was also nominated for Tonys three other times: as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) in 1979 for "Eubie!", which he recreated in the television version with the same title, Eubie! (1981); ; and as Best Actor (Musical), in 1980 for "Comin' Uptown" and in 1981 for "Sophisticated Ladies."
12 Was considered for the part of "Winston Zeddemore" in Ghostbusters (1984).
13 Buried in the family plot of Carmela and Michael Truszyk in St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Catholic cemetery in Oakville, Ontario, west of Toronto
14 When he was in his twenties he worked on a farm.
15 His mother's name is Alma.
16 Had his professional debut when only 5 years old.
17 Was aged six when he and brother Maurice Hines performed, as the Hines Kids, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
18 In the late '60s he decided to try his hand at performing rock 'n' roll music, and writing his own songs.
19 He and Maurice Hines were cast as brothers in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984), set in the Harlem club where their grandmother had been one of the elite black entertainers performing for a whites-only audience in the twenties and thirties. Coppola encouraged the brothers to improvise so they based one scene on their real-life reunion in "Eubie!" and admitted the tears were real.
20 He had a reunion with brother Maurice Hines when they were both hired for the Broadway musical, "Eubie!" in 1978. It earned him a Tony nomination, as did his role in another musical, "Sophisticated Ladies".
21 Has two children: Daria Hines, born in 1971 and Zachary, born in 1983. Also has a stepdaughter, Jessica.
22 His own stage show has taken him from New York's Bottom Line to spots as far-flung as Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Japan and Monte Carlo.
23 Was the first choice to play the Eddie Murphy role in 48 Hrs. (1982) but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with The Cotton Club (1984).
24 He won a Tony in 1992 for "Jelly's Last Jam".
25 He grew up as a member of "Hines, Hines, and Dad" with his father, Maurice Hines Sr. and brother, Maurice Hines in a tap dancing act.
Little Bill 1999-2004 TV Series Big Bill
The Root 2003/I
Lost at Home 2003 TV Series Jordan King
Law & Order 2003 TV Series Carl Halpert
The Red Sneakers 2002 TV Movie Zeke
Santa, Baby! 2001 TV Movie Noel (voice)
Bojangles 2001 TV Movie Bojangles
Will & Grace 1999-2000 TV Series Ben Doucette
Once in the Life 2000 Ruffhouse
Who Killed Atlanta's Children? 2000 TV Movie Ron Larson
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her 2000 Robert (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Blue's Big Treasure Hunt 1999 Video short Jack (voice)
The Gregory Hines Show 1997-1999 TV Series Ben Stevenson
The Tic Code 1999 Tyrone Pike
Stories from My Childhood 1998 TV Series the Czar
Color of Justice 1997 TV Movie Reverend Walton
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground 1997 TV Movie Jack (segment "Manhattan Miracle")
The Cherokee Kid 1996 TV Movie The Undertaker Jedediah Turner
The Preacher's Wife 1996 Joe Hamilton
Mad Dog Time 1996 Jules Flamingo
Good Luck 1996 Bernard 'Bern' Lemley
Waiting to Exhale 1995 Marvin King
A Stranger in Town 1995 TV Movie Barnes
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995 TV Series The Beast / Prince Koro
Kangaroo Court 1994 Short
Dead Air 1994 TV Movie Mark Jannek / Jim Sheppard
Renaissance Man 1994 Sergeant Cass
Sesame Street 1993 TV Series
T Bone N Weasel 1992 TV Movie T Bone
White Lie 1991 TV Movie Len Madison Jr.
A Rage in Harlem 1991 Goldy
Eve of Destruction 1991 Colonel Jim McQuade
Tap 1989 Max Washington
Off Limits 1988 Albaby Perkins
Running Scared 1986 Ray Hughes
White Nights 1985 Raymond Greenwood
Amazing Stories 1985 TV Series Falsworth
Faerie Tale Theatre 1985 TV Series Edgar - Miller's Son
The Cotton Club 1984 Sandman Williams
The Muppets Take Manhattan 1984 Roller Skater
Deal of the Century 1983 Ray Kasternak
Parade of Stars 1983 TV Movie Bill Robinson
Eubie! 1981 TV Movie
Wolfen 1981 Whittington
History of the World: Part I 1981 Josephus
Away We Go 1967 TV Series Guest Performer
Great Performances 2004 TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 56th Annual Tony Awards 2002 TV Special performer: "It's a Grand Night for Singing", "New York, New York", "Lullaby of Broadway", "Fugue for Tinhorns", "Heart", "Don't Rain on My Parade", "America"
The 49th Annual Tony Awards 1995 TV Special performer: "Broadway Songs We've Never Done and Never Will"
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995 TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 46th Annual Tony Awards 1992 TV Special performer: "That's How You Jazz"
Tap 1989 performer: "Challenge", "Cheek to Cheek", "Can't Escape The Rhythm"
White Nights 1985 performer: "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York"
The Cotton Club 1984 performer: "Copper Colored Gal"
Parade of Stars 1983 TV Movie performer: "Doin' the New Low-Down"
The 54th Annual Academy Awards 1982 TV Special documentary performer: "Lullaby of Broadway", "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", " You May Not Be an Angel, but I'll String Along with You", "Shuffle Off to Buffalo", "Lulu's Back in Town", "Jeepers Creepers", "Nagasaki", "There Will Never Be Another You", "Forty-Second Street" - uncredited
The 33rd Annual Tony Awards 1979 TV Special performer: "Hot Feet"
Saturday Night Live 1979 TV Series performer - 1 episode
Tap 1989 improvographer
White Nights 1985 tap improvography
The Cotton Club 1984 tap improvography
The Red Sneakers 2002 TV Movie
Bleeding Hearts 1994
Bojangles 2001 TV Movie executive producer
To Her Own Rhythm 2015 Documentary short post-production Himself
Actors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2016 TV Movie Himself
Bruce Hornsby & Friends 2004 TV Movie documentary
Luther Vandross: From Luther with Love - The Videos 2004 Video documentary Himself (segment "There's Nothing Better Than Love")
Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photography of Milt Hinton 2003 Documentary Himself
Venice: Lost and Found 2002 Documentary
The 56th Annual Tony Awards 2002 TV Special Himself - Host & Peformer
8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2002 TV Special Himself
33rd NAACP Image Awards 2002 TV Special Himself
It's Black Entertainment 2002 TV Special documentary Himself
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
Journeys in Black 2002 TV Series documentary Himself
Omnibus 2001 TV Series documentary Himself
The Rosie O'Donnell Show 1997-2001 TV Series Himself
Charlie Rose 2001 TV Series Himself - Guest
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 2000 TV Special documentary Himself
Come Get Some: The Women of the WWF 1999 Video documentary Himself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends 1999 TV Special documentary Himself
The Roseanne Show 1999 TV Series Himself
Intimate Portrait 1999 TV Series documentary Himself
29th NAACP Image Awards 1998 TV Special Himself - Host
The DeMille Dynasty 1998 TV Movie documentary Himself
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood 1998 TV Movie documentary Himself
The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1998 TV Special Himself - Presenter
The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1997 TV Special Himself - Presenter
All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade 1997 TV Special Himself
Late Show with David Letterman 1997 TV Series Himself
The 69th Annual Academy Awards 1997 TV Special Himself - Presenter: Best Original Dramatic Score
Signature: George C. Wolfe 1997 TV Movie Himself
27th NAACP Image Awards 1996 TV Special Himself
Reading Rainbow 1996 TV Series Himself
The 50th Annual Tony Awards 1996 TV Special Himself - Presenter: Best Choreography
The 49th Annual Tony Awards 1995 TV Special Himself - Host & Performer
Baseball 1994 TV Mini-Series documentary Satchel Paige / Various
In a New Light '94 1994 TV Special Himself
Bob Hope: The First 90 Years 1993 TV Movie documentary Himself
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1992 TV Movie Himself
Great Performances 1989-1992 TV Series Himself
The 46th Annual Tony Awards 1992 TV Special Himself - Performer, Nominee: Best Choreography & Winner: Best Leading Actor in a Musical
Dying for a Smoke 1992 Video documentary Himself
The Dancing Man 1992 Documentary Himself
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 1991 TV Special Himself
Square One Television 1991 TV Series Himself
The 63rd Annual Academy Awards 1991 TV Special Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Original Song
Entertainment Tonight 1991 TV Series Himself
The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1991 TV Special Himself - Presenter: Best Actress / Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy / Musical
Ebony/Jet Showcase 1985-1990 TV Series Himself
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration 1990 TV Special Himself
The 5th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards 1990 TV Special Himself
The 61st Annual Academy Awards 1989 TV Special Himself - Presenter: Best Original Song
The Arsenio Hall Show 1989 TV Series Himself
21st NAACP Image Awards 1989 TV Special Himself
Soul Train 1988 TV Series documentary Himself
Freedomfest: Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Celebratation 1988 TV Special documentary Himself
The 42nd Annual Tony Awards 1988 TV Special Himself - Presenter: Best Direction of a Musical
19th Annual NAACP Image Awards 1987 TV Special Himself - Presenter
Late Night with David Letterman 1986 TV Series Himself
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 TV Movie documentary Himself
About Tap 1985 Himself
Lou Rawls Parade of Stars 1985 TV Series Himself
Motown Returns to the Apollo 1985 TV Special Himself
6.20 Soul Train 1985 TV Series Himself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly 1985 TV Special documentary Himself
Wogan 1985 TV Series Himself
The 57th Annual Academy Awards 1985 TV Special documentary Himself - Presenter: Best Original Song & Best Sound
Night of 100 Stars II 1985 TV Movie Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1970-1984 TV Series Himself
Sesame Street 1983 TV Series Himself
Shirley MacLaine... Illusions 1982 TV Movie Himself
The 54th Annual Academy Awards 1982 TV Special documentary Himself - Performer
I Love Liberty 1982 TV Special Himself
Kids Are People, Too 1982 TV Series Himself
Fridays 1982 TV Series Himself - Guest Host
The 24th Annual Grammy Awards 1982 TV Special Himself
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever 1981 TV Special Himself / Lionel Foot
The 35th Annual Tony Awards 1981 TV Special Himself - Performer & Nominee: Best Actor in a Musical
Live from Studio 8H: 100 Years of America's Popular Music 1981 TV Special
The 34th Annual Tony Awards 1980 TV Special Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Musical
Good Morning America 1980 TV Series Himself
The 33rd Annual Tony Awards 1979 TV Special Himself - Performer & Nominee: Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Saturday Night Live 1979 TV Series Himself - Musical Guest
The Mike Douglas Show 1972-1978 TV Series Himself / Himself - Singer / Dancer
Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour 1972 TV Series Himself
The New Bill Cosby Show 1972 TV Series Himself
The David Frost Show 1969-1971 TV Series Himself
The Pearl Bailey Show 1971 TV Series Himself
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters 1969-1970 TV Series Himself
The Hollywood Palace 1969 TV Series Himself - Dancer / Singer
The Kraft Music Hall 1969 TV Series Himself
The Joey Bishop Show 1968-1969 TV Series Himself
Operation: Entertainment 1968 TV Series Himself
Dream Girl of '67 1967 TV Series Himself - Bachelor Judge
Stage Show 1956 TV Series Himself (as the Hines Brothers)
Great Performances 2004 TV Series
The 76th Annual Academy Awards 2004 TV Special Himself (Memorial Tribute)
Friendly Fire: Making an Urban Legend 2003 Video documentary short Himself
Gleason: He's the Greatest 1988 TV Series Guest Tap Dancer
The Best of Gleason 2 1988 TV Movie Himself
¡Qué noche la de aquel año! 1987 TV Series Raymond Greenwood
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter 1982 TV Movie documentary Actor - 'History of the World, Part 1' (uncredited)
Award shared with
2003 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Little Bill (1999)
2002 Image Award Image Awards Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Bojangles (2001)
1988 Image Award Image Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Running Scared (1986)
2003 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special The Red Sneakers (2002)
2003 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special The Red Sneakers (2002)
2002 Black Reel Black Reel Awards Network/Cable - Best Actor Bojangles (2001)
2002 Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Bojangles (2001)
2001 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Bojangles (2001)
2001 American Comedy Award American Comedy Awards, USA Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series Will & Grace (1998)
2000 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Will & Grace (1998)
1998 Image Award Image Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series The Gregory Hines Show (1997)
1996 Image Award Image Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Waiting to Exhale (1995)
1989 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program Tap Dance in America (1989) · Don Mischer (executive producer)
· Jac Venza (executive producer)
· David J. Goldberg (producer)
· Rhoda Grauer (producer)
1985 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Motown Returns to the Apollo (1985)
1982 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Class I Love Liberty (1982)
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Netflix forecast disappoints ahead of Disney+ launch
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Netflix gave a weak forecast that unnerved investors just as Walt Disney and others prepare to escalate Hollywood’s streaming video wars, although the company’s quarterly results beat Wall Street targets.
Shares of Netflix traded down about 1 percent at $355.02 in after-the-bell trading.
Netflix predicted it would pick up 5 million new streaming subscribers from April through June. That was below the 5.48 million consensus of industry analysts surveyed by FactSet.
“What’s making investors nervous is that there are signs of a slowdown in the second-quarter subscriber growth,” said Haris Anwar, senior analyst at Investing.com. “This is made all the more prominent by the looming threat of competition from Disney and Apple.”
Netflix added a record number of paid streaming customers in the first quarter, reaching a total of 148.86 million.
The just-ended first quarter included the debut of original dramas “Sex Education” and “Russian Doll,” and the company raised prices in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
In a letter to shareholders, Netflix said it saw “some modest short-term churn effect,” or dropping of its service, in response to the price increases.
From January through March, Netflix reported it added 7.86 million paid subscribers internationally, compared with the average analyst estimate of 7.14 million, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
The company said it signed up 1.74 million paid subscribers in the United States in the quarter, above the average analyst estimate of about 1.57 million, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Netflix is spending billions to attract new customers while Disney and Apple build streaming rivals and Amazon.com makes gains with audiences.
“With a combined market cap of around $2.2 trillion, those three bruisers aren’t to be messed with,” Hargreaves Lansdown equity analyst George Salmon said.
Disney has viewed as one of Netflix’s strongest rivals thanks to a broad portfolio of franchises popular with children from Mickey Mouse to Marvel and Star Wars and a brand trusted by parents. Last week, Disney priced its service at $7 per month, just over half the $13 price for Netflix’s most U.S. popular plan. The Disney+ service will launch in November.
“We don’t anticipate that these new entrants will materially affect our growth,” Netflix said, “because the transition from linear to on-demand entertainment is so massive and because of the different nature of our content offerings.”Disney is leading a shift among traditional media companies that had been selling programming to Netflix for years. Now, many have decided to keep their content for their own services. AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Comcast plan to move into the streaming market.
Netflix spent $7.5 billion on TV shows and movies for 2018, and executives have said that amount will grow in 2019. The aggressive spending has led to a tripling of the company’s debt in two years, to $10.36 billion in 2018, from $3.36 billion in 2016.
For the first quarter, Netflix said its net income rose to $344.1 million, or 76 cents per share, from $290.1 million, or 64 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts on average were expecting 57 cents per share.
Total revenue rose to $4.52 billion from $3.70 billion. Analysts on average had expected revenue of $4.50 billion.
Netflix shares had closed up 3 percent in regular Nasdaq trading on Tuesday ahead of the results.
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Planet Smoothie Franchisee Interview: Dallas Area Developer Blair Ritchey
Former pastor turned Planet Smoothie investor looks forward to building on momentum of record sales in 2018
It was a record sales year for Planet Smoothie® Franchisee Blair Ritchey’s McKinney, Texas, location and he looks forward to building on that success as he expands the brand in North Texas. Located just north of Dallas, the store is the flagship operation for McKinney, who is also an area developer for Planet Smoothie.
Not only did the store set an overall sales record for 2018, but the McKinney location had back-to-back months of sales records. “We set a new sales record every month from April through August,” Ritchey says. “It was a great summer sales wise. That sets us with new goals and new levels to meet. We’re excited about figuring out how 2019 can be better than 2018!”
We recently spoke with Ritchey, a former Wesleyan Church minister who joined the Planet Smoothie franchise family in 2012, to get an update on his plans for developing North Texas region.
To what do you attribute your record 2018?
We’re building on a solid foundation — a great product and great customer service. Our smoothie offerings are just really solid and our customer service is top notch. It’s a combination of a great product and great customer service, which is something we have built on consistently over the past 4 or 5 years. We continue to see both new customers and regular customers. It’s been a slow and steady growth for us.
We also are located in a vital retail center and we see a lot of day traffic. We are more family focused when kids are out of school, so we see business pick up. We also see more families coming in on the weekends. We have a great mix of customers — individuals coming in on their way to work, high school kids and people headed to the gym to workout or just finishing up a workout.
What drew you to the Planet Smoothie brand?
One of the things that attracted me to Planet Smoothie was the simplicity. The processes are not complex. I don’t have a restaurant background, so I needed something that wouldn’t overwhelm me on that part. The nice part of being part of a franchise like Planet Smoothie is the support from the corporate office.
I also have a foundation I work with, the International Student Foundation, which works with foster care kids. We provide college scholarships and mentoring. So ISF is my other hat I wear. That’s the great thing about franchising — it allows you to run your store and still have bandwidth to do other things.
What are your plans for expansion in the new year?
Our next phase of development is basically to reproduce ourselves. The thing that is so attractive for us is we have a brand that is a great brand as well as a great product and that’s obviously a big part of the equation.
The other thing is we just have a great territory. Planet Smoothie is a new brand for Texas.
We have several leads that we are in the process of working with. We are very optimistic about 2019 as the brand continues to grow and build. We’ll be introducing potential new franchisees to the brand and using our McKinney store as the pilot store to illustrate what a profitable store can look like.
We definitely feel like there is potential for more room to grow. We are pumped about our brand and the development of Planet Smoothie and its future and very glad it is a vital part of the community here.
How important is it to be a hands-on owner?
I have a manager who manages the openings and busiest times, but I’m in the store every day. I handle all the inventory, as well as staffing, scheduling and accounting.
What do you look for in a franchisee?
We look for people with a vision for the brand and a good sense of their community — they are involved in their community and they know it and they want to serve it. Most Planet Smoothies tend to be neighborhood type stores, so it’s beneficial if owners are part of the schools, gyms and communities they are serving.
Second, they are passionate about health and fitness in a sense that they want people to achieve their health and wellness goals.
Third, they have a keen business sense and the drive to make something successful. They have that sense of passion and work ethic.
Planet Smoothie is a smoothie franchise that sets itself apart by offering great-tasting smoothies that use healthier, natural ingredients. In a side-by-side comparison, our brand’s smoothies generally have less sugar and fewer calories — a big competitive advantage as Americans actively seek out healthier options. Planet Smoothie is led by a veteran franchise team and dedicated brand support team as part of the Kahala Brands™ family.
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To learn more about Planet Smoothie franchise options, please visit our website. Read the latest news on our blog, and delve into the options for ownership on our research pages.
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Belgian nuclear reactor shut down three days after restarting
Electrabel's Doel 1 reactor in northern Belgium was restarted on December 30, 2015 and then shut down again on January 2, 2016
An ageing Belgian nuclear reactor shut down on Saturday afternoon, just three days after it was restarted, but there was no safety risk, the power utility that operates it said.
The Doel 1 reactor in northern Belgium was restarted on December 30, after originally being shut down in February in line with a law that called for the country's gradual exit from nuclear power.
"Doel 1 automatically shut down at 6:00 pm," a spokeswoman for power utility Electrabel told AFP, confirming a report published by the Belga news agency.
"Everything went according to procedure. There was no impact on safety, and no impact on staff, local residents and the environment."
The company said the shutdown was caused by a "normal safety mechanism", in order to restart it safely.
Belgium agreed last month to extend the life of Doel 1 and Doel 2, both of which are 40 years old, until 2025 under a deal that ended years of battles that threatened the country with power blackouts.
When running, the two reactors can produce 866 megawatts, equivalent to around six percent of Belgium's total electricity capacity.
Environmentalists, especially in neighbouring Germany which is phasing out nuclear power, have criticised extending the life of Belgium's reactors which they say are too old to be considered safe.
Belgium has suffered a series of nuclear mishaps in recent years, with three of the country's seven reactors closed at one point, in two cases due to the discovery of micro-cracks in the reactor vessels.
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