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Dawn Neumann
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Emaildmneuman@iupui.edu
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Contribute to Staff Perceived Irritability, Anger, and Aggression After TBI in a Longitudinal Veteran Cohort: A VA TBI Model Systems Study
Miles, S. R., Brenner, L. A., Neumann, D., Hammond, F. M., Ropacki, S., Tang, X., Eapen, B. C., Smith, A. & Nakase-Richardson, R., Jan 1 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Empathic Responses to Affective Film Clips Following Brain Injury and the Association With Emotion Recognition Accuracy
Neumann, D. & Zupan, B., Jan 1 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Investigation of a New Couples Intervention for Individuals With Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Backhaus, S., Neumann, D., Parrott, D., Hammond, F., Brownson, C. & Malec, J., Jan 1 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Social Adjustment
Sex-based differences in affective and cognitive empathy following severe traumatic brain injury
Zupan, B., Neumann, D., Babbage, D. & Willer, B., Jul 1 2018, In : Neuropsychology. 32, 5, p. 554-563 10 p.
Sex differences in response to emotion recognition training after traumatic brain injury
Babbage, D. R., Zupan, B., Neumann, D. & Willer, B., Jul 18 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Brain Injury. p. 1-8 8 p.
Impact of Patient Affect on Physician Estimate of Probability of Serious Illness and Test Ordering
Kline, J., Neumann, D., Raad, S., Schriger, D. L., Hall, C. L., Capito, J. & Kammer, D., Apr 11 2017, (Accepted/In press) In : Academic Medicine.
Negative Attribution Bias and Anger after Traumatic Brain Injury
Neumann, D., Malec, J. F. & Hammond, F., 2017, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 32, 3, p. 197-204 8 p.
Rasch Analysis, Dimensionality, and Scoring of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Irritability and Aggression Subscales in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury
Malec, J. F., Stump, T. E., Monahan, P., Kean, J., Neumann, D. & Hammond, F., Jan 1 2017, (Accepted/In press) In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Reductions in Alexithymia and Emotion Dysregulation After Training Emotional Self-Awareness Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Phase I Trial
Neumann, D., Malec, J. F. & Hammond, F., Jan 5 2017, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
Affective Symptoms
The Relations of Self-Reported Aggression to Alexithymia, Depression, and Anxiety after Traumatic Brain Injury
Treatments for Emotional Issues after Traumatic Brain Injury
Neumann, D., 2017, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 32, 5, p. 283-285 3 p.
Examination of an intervention to enhance relationship satisfaction after brain injury: A feasibility study
Backhaus, S., Neumann, D., Parrot, D., Hammond, F., Brownson, C. & Malec, J., May 15 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Brain Injury. p. 1-11 11 p.
Exploring the use of isolated expressions and film clips to evaluate emotion recognition by people with traumatic brain injury
Zupan, B. & Neumann, D., May 15 2016, In : Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2016, 111, e53774.
Perspective training to treat anger problems after brain injury: Two case studies
Winegardner, J., Keohane, C., Prince, L. & Neumann, D., 2016, In : NeuroRehabilitation. 39, 1, p. 153-162 10 p.
Role of physician perception of patient smile on pretest probability assessment for acute pulmonary embolism
Kline, J., Neumann, D., Hall, C. L. & Capito, J., Aug 2 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Emergency Medicine Journal.
Physician's Role
Sex Differences in Emotion Recognition and Emotional Inferencing Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Zupan, B., Babbage, D., Neumann, D. & Willer, B., Oct 21 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Brain Impairment. p. 1-13 13 p.
Recognition (Psychology)
A randomized controlled trial of emotion recognition training after traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D., Babbage, D. R., Zupan, B. & Willer, B., May 1 2015, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 30, 3, p. E12-E23
Cognitive problems after traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D. & Lequerica, A., Jan 1 2015, In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 96, 1, p. 179-180 2 p.
Cognition Disorders
Decreased facial expression variability in patients with serious cardiopulmonary disease in the emergency care setting
Kline, J., Neumann, D., Haug, M. A., Kammer, D. J. & Krabill, V. A., Jan 1 2015, In : Emergency Medicine Journal. 32, 1, p. 3-8 6 p.
Exploration of a new tool for assessing emotional inferencing after traumatic brain injury
Zupan, B., Neumann, D., Babbage, D. R. & Willer, B., Jul 1 2015, In : Brain Injury. 29, 7-8, p. 877-887 11 p.
Inferencing
Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D., McDonald, B., West, J., Keiski, M. A. & Wang, Y., Jun 4 2015, (Accepted/In press) In : Brain Imaging and Behavior.
The association of negative attributions with irritation and anger after brain injury
Neumann, D., Malec, J. F. & Hammond, F., May 1 2015, In : Rehabilitation Psychology. 60, 2, p. 155-161 7 p.
Affect recognition in traumatic brain injury: Responses to unimodal and multimodal media
Zupan, B. & Neumann, D., 2014, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 29, 4
Neuroimaging and facial affect processing: implications for traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D., Keiski, M. A., McDonald, B. & Wang, Y., Aug 1 2014, In : Brain Imaging and Behavior. 8, 3, p. 460-473 14 p.
Occipital Lobe
Recognition of facial and vocal affect following traumatic brain injury
Zupan, B., Babbage, D., Neumann, D. & Willer, B., 2014, In : Brain Injury. 28, 8, p. 1087-1095 9 p.
Relationships between alexithymia, affect recognition, and empathy after traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D., Zupan, B., Malec, J. F. & Hammond, F., Jan 2014, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 29, 1
The relationship between facial affect recognition and cognitive functioning after traumatic brain injury
Yim, J., Babbage, D. R., Zupan, B., Neumann, D. & Willer, B., 2013, In : Brain Injury. 27, 10, p. 1155-1161 7 p.
Repression (Psychology)
Affect recognition, empathy, and dysosmia after traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D., Zupan, B., Babbage, D. R., Radnovich, A., Tomita, M., Hammond, F. & Willer, B., Aug 2012, In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 93, 8, p. 1414-1420 7 p.
Olfaction Disorders
Meta-Analysis of Facial Affect Recognition Difficulties After Traumatic Brain Injury
Babbage, D. R., Yim, J., Zupan, B., Neumann, D., Tomita, M. R. & Willer, B., May 2011, In : Neuropsychology. 25, 3, p. 277-285 9 p.
Using startle to objectively measure anger and other emotional responses after traumatic brain injury: A pilot study
Neumann, D., Hammond, F., Norton, J. & Blumenthal, T., Sep 2011, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 26, 5, p. 375-383 9 p.
Startle Reflex
Influence of Sex and Age on Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes Among Older Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury
Graham, J. E., Neumann, D., Reistetter, T. A., Hammond, F., Dijkers, M. & Granger, C. V., Jan 2010, In : Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 91, 1, p. 43-50 8 p.
The importance of vocal affect to bimodal processing of emotion: Implications for individuals with traumatic brain injury
Zupan, B., Neumann, D., Babbage, D. R. & Willer, B., Jan 2009, In : Journal of Communication Disorders. 42, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.
Training emotional processing in persons with brain injury
Neumann, D., Zupan, B., Tomita, M. & Willer, B., Sep 2009, In : Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 24, 5, p. 313-323 11 p.
Overview of impaired facial affect recognition in persons with traumatic brain injury
Neumann, D., Zupan, B., Babbage, D. R. & Willer, B., Jul 2007, In : Brain Injury. 21, 8, p. 807-816 10 p.
Autistic Disorder
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PewDiePie Posts Crypto-Related Video on His YouTube Platform
January 12, 2020 Jimmy Aki 0
Felix Kjellberg, the man behind popular YouTube channel PewDiePie, published a video on his channel yesterday, where he spoke about popular crypto asset TRON and the recent merger between its controlling company and streaming platform DLive.
TRON announced that it would be acquiring the DLive platform about two weeks ago, with the company explaining at the time that DLive will be joining BitTorrent- another platform acquired by TRON recently- as well as BLive, TRON’s smaller, related streaming service.
PewDiePie Joins DLive
In the viral video, Kjellberg explained the reasons why he joined the platform last April, including and especially the fact that content creators are able to collect 100 percent of the revenue they earn from their work. He added that to celebrate the integration of BLive into the TRON blockchain family; he’d be giving away his gaming chair.
The video is relevant for two things; first, it’s PewDiePie- the most popular YouTube channel in the world, with a subscriber count of about 102 million and an average of 180 million monthly views as at press time. As far as advertising on YouTube goes, there’s no one who would have been more effective.
It’s also coming at a time when there’s a lot of suspicion about YouTube and its treatment of crypto-related content. On December 23, several notable crypto YouTubers received notifications from the video streaming giant that it had deleted some of their content from its platform.
The entire ban lasted about four days, after which YouTube began to reinstate the affected videos. However, despite the fact that it claimed its platform had deleted those videos unknowingly, several YouTubers continued to complain that not all of their content had been reinstated on there.
Video Creators Still Need YouTube
Unsurprisingly, a lot of impacted YouTubers determined not to allow the platform to dictate how they would make their livelihoods, and immediately went on to share their content via decentralized video platforms. Speaking with Cointelegraph, Jeremy Kauffman, the founder, and chief executive of decentralized video streaming platform LBRY, claimed that access to his platform had increased by almost 100 percent day-over-day.
LBRY was created in 2016, and it uses blockchain to allow for peer-to-peer content creation, downloading, and storage. Its platform is also open-source, and as Kauffman explained, the platform doesn’t enforce strict rules like YouTube concerning what users can publish and share.
Of course, it’s highly unlikely that a lot of these crypto-related YouTubers will be willing to make the switch to platforms like LBRY or even DLive to start sharing content. Inasmuch as they hate YouTube and its occasional overreaching, they know that a vast majority of their audience will not be willing to make that switch.
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These 10 People Make a Lot of Money Playing Video Games
by Mark Feffer June 3, 2014 1 min read
Playing video games and making a six-figure income for your trouble? It’s good work if you can get it, and enough people are getting it for e-Sports Earnings to compile a list of the top 100 of them. They come from around the world and the best of them–Korea’s Lee Jae Dong–is making in excess of $500,000. As Business Insider notes, this is just their winnings. The figures don’t even include sponsorship deals and the like.
Just think about it the next time someone says gaming is a waste of time.
Here’s the top 10:
Lee “Jaedong” Jae Dong – $519,086.72 from 52 tournaments (Korea)
Danil “Dendi” Ishutin – $455,615.83 from 43 tournaments (Ukraine)
Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel – $454,919.23 from 36 tournaments (USA)
Oleksandr “XBOCT” Dashkevych – $453,311.74 from 41 tournaments (Ukraine)
Jang “MC” Min Chul – $452,926.25 from 78 tournaments (Korea)
Clement “Puppey” Ivanov – $450,480.14 from 39 tournaments (Estonia)
Lee “Flash” Young Ho – $447,016.47 from 47 tournaments (Korea)
Jang “Moon” Jae Ho – $439,677.98 from 81 tournaments (Korea)
Jung “Mvp” Jong Hyun – $393,116.38 from 50 tournaments (Korea)
Jonathan “Loda” Berg – $355,514.05 from 47 tournaments (Sweden)
For those of you keeping track at home, five of these leaders are from South Korea, just one from the U.S. Could it be we don’t take our gaming seriously enough?
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2 Responses to “These 10 People Make a Lot of Money Playing Video Games”
John Dorian November 13, 2014
it’s still a waste of time 🙂 So what you can list people who win millions playing lottery but the chances of getting that payday are rare.
Implying that playing call of duty while eating cheesy puffs is going to get you 6 figures. Just is not going to happen. These people really dedicate their life to playing games not just play games they live and breathe games and master it giving up social lives.
I think most people can make 6 figures if they try for it and only care about $$$
and in terms of why south korea is leading it’s like saying why american football players make millions and mexican football players only make nachos and cheese.
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Computationally efficient algorithms for statistical image processing: Implementation in R
(2010-053), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, December 2010 (techreport)
In the series of our earlier papers on the subject, we proposed a novel statistical hy- pothesis testing method for detection of objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We developed algorithms that allowed to detect objects of unknown shapes in the presence of nonparametric noise of unknown level and of un- known distribution. No boundary shape constraints were imposed on the objects, only a weak bulk condition for the object's interior was required. Our algorithms have linear complexity and exponential accuracy. In the present paper, we describe an implementation of our nonparametric hypothesis testing method. We provide a program that can be used for statistical experiments in image processing. This program is written in the statistical programming language R.
ei Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. Computationally efficient algorithms for statistical image processing: Implementation in R (2010-053), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, December 2010 (techreport)
Fast Convergent Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference
Seeger, M., Nickisch, H.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2010 (techreport)
We propose a novel algorithm to solve the expectation propagation relaxation of Bayesian inference for continuous-variable graphical models. In contrast to most previous algorithms, our method is provably convergent. By marrying convergent EP ideas from (Opper&Winther 05) with covariance decoupling techniques (Wipf&Nagarajan 08, Nickisch&Seeger 09), it runs at least an order of magnitude faster than the most commonly used EP solver.
ei Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Fast Convergent Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2010 (techreport)
A PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Graph Clustering and Pairwise Clustering
Seldin, Y.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 (techreport)
We formulate weighted graph clustering as a prediction problem: given a subset of edge weights we analyze the ability of graph clustering to predict the remaining edge weights. This formulation enables practical and theoretical comparison of different approaches to graph clustering as well as comparison of graph clustering with other possible ways to model the graph. We adapt the PAC-Bayesian analysis of co-clustering (Seldin and Tishby, 2008; Seldin, 2009) to derive a PAC-Bayesian generalization bound for graph clustering. The bound shows that graph clustering should optimize a trade-off between empirical data fit and the mutual information that clusters preserve on the graph nodes. A similar trade-off derived from information-theoretic considerations was already shown to produce state-of-the-art results in practice (Slonim et al., 2005; Yom-Tov and Slonim, 2009). This paper supports the empirical evidence by providing a better theoretical foundation, suggesting formal generalization guarantees, and offering a more accurate way to deal with finite sample issues. We derive a bound minimization algorithm and show that it provides good results in real-life problems and that the derived PAC-Bayesian bound is reasonably tight.
ei Seldin, Y. A PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Graph Clustering and Pairwise Clustering Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 (techreport)
Sparse nonnegative matrix approximation: new formulations and algorithms
Tandon, R., Sra, S.
We introduce several new formulations for sparse nonnegative matrix approximation. Subsequently, we solve these formulations by developing generic algorithms. Further, to help selecting a particular sparse formulation, we briefly discuss the interpretation of each formulation. Finally, preliminary experiments are presented to illustrate the behavior of our formulations and algorithms.
ei Tandon, R., Sra, S. Sparse nonnegative matrix approximation: new formulations and algorithms (193), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 (techreport)
Robust nonparametric detection of objects in noisy images
(2010-049), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, September 2010 (techreport)
We propose a novel statistical hypothesis testing method for detection of objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We present an algorithm that allows to detect objects of unknown shapes in the presence of nonparametric noise of unknown level and of unknown distribution. No boundary shape constraints are imposed on the object, only a weak bulk condition for the object's interior is required. The algorithm has linear complexity and exponential accuracy and is appropriate for real-time systems. In this paper, we develop further the mathematical formalism of our method and explore im- portant connections to the mathematical theory of percolation and statistical physics. We prove results on consistency and algorithmic complexity of our testing procedure. In addition, we address not only an asymptotic behavior of the method, but also a nite sample performance of our test.
ei Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. Robust nonparametric detection of objects in noisy images (2010-049), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, September 2010 (techreport)
Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2010 (techreport)
Many problems of low-level computer vision and image processing, such as denoising, deconvolution, tomographic reconstruction or super-resolution, can be addressed by maximizing the posterior distribution of a sparse linear model (SLM). We show how higher-order Bayesian decision-making problems, such as optimizing image acquisition in magnetic resonance scanners, can be addressed by querying the SLM posterior covariance, unrelated to the density's mode. We propose a scalable algorithmic framework, with which SLM posteriors over full, high-resolution images can be approximated for the first time, solving a variational optimization problem which is convex iff posterior mode finding is convex. These methods successfully drive the optimization of sampling trajectories for real-world magnetic resonance imaging through Bayesian experimental design, which has not been attempted before. Our methodology provides new insight into similarities and differences between sparse reconstruction and approximate Bayesian inference, and has important implications for compressive sensing of real-world images.
ei Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2010 (techreport)
Cooperative Cuts for Image Segmentation
Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J.
(UWEETR-1020-0003), University of Washington, Washington DC, USA, August 2010 (techreport)
We propose a novel framework for graph-based cooperative regularization that uses submodular costs on graph edges. We introduce an efficient iterative algorithm to solve the resulting hard discrete optimization problem, and show that it has a guaranteed approximation factor. The edge-submodular formulation is amenable to the same extensions as standard graph cut approaches, and applicable to a range of problems. We apply this method to the image segmentation problem. Specifically, Here, we apply it to introduce a discount for homogeneous boundaries in binary image segmentation on very difficult images, precisely, long thin objects and color and grayscale images with a shading gradient. The experiments show that significant portions of previously truncated objects are now preserved.
ei Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. Cooperative Cuts for Image Segmentation (UWEETR-1020-0003), University of Washington, Washington DC, USA, August 2010 (techreport)
Fast algorithms for total-variationbased optimization
Barbero, A., Sra, S.
We derive a number of methods to solve efficiently simple optimization problems subject to a totalvariation (TV) regularization, under different norms of the TV operator and both for the case of 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional data. In spite of the non-smooth, non-separable nature of the TV terms considered, we show that a dual formulation with strong structure can be derived. Taking advantage of this structure we develop adaptions of existing algorithms from the optimization literature, resulting in efficient methods for the problem at hand. Experimental results show that for 1-dimensional data the proposed methods achieve convergence within good accuracy levels in practically linear time, both for L1 and L2 norms. For the more challenging 2-dimensional case a performance of order O(N2 log2 N) for N x N inputs is achieved when using the L2 norm. A final section suggests possible extensions and lines of further work.
ei Barbero, A., Sra, S. Fast algorithms for total-variationbased optimization (194), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2010 (techreport)
Gaussian Mixture Modeling with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models
Nickisch, H., Rasmussen, C.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2010 (techreport)
Density modeling is notoriously difficult for high dimensional data. One approach to the problem is to search for a lower dimensional manifold which captures the main characteristics of the data. Recently, the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (GPLVM) has successfully been used to find low dimensional manifolds in a variety of complex data. The GPLVM consists of a set of points in a low dimensional latent space, and a stochastic map to the observed space. We show how it can be interpreted as a density model in the observed space. However, the GPLVM is not trained as a density model and therefore yields bad density estimates. We propose a new training strategy and obtain improved generalisation performance and better density estimates in comparative evaluations on several benchmark data sets.
ei Nickisch, H., Rasmussen, C. Gaussian Mixture Modeling with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2010 (techreport)
Generalized Proximity and Projection with Norms and Mixed-norms
(192), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010 (techreport)
We discuss generalized proximity operators (GPO) and their associated generalized projection problems. On inputs of size n, we show how to efficiently apply GPOs and generalized projections for separable norms and distance-like functions to accuracy e in O(n log(1/e)) time. We also derive projection algorithms that run theoretically in O(n log n log(1/e)) time but can for suitable parameter ranges empirically outperform the O(n log(1/e)) projection method. The proximity and projection tasks are either separable, and solved directly, or are reduced to a single root-finding step. We highlight that as a byproduct, our analysis also yields an O(n log(1/e)) (weakly linear-time) procedure for Euclidean projections onto the l1;1-norm ball; previously only an O(n log n) method was known. We provide empirical evaluation to illustrate the performance of our methods, noting that for the l1;1-norm projection, our implementation is more than two orders of magnitude faster than the previously known method.
ei Sra, S. Generalized Proximity and Projection with Norms and Mixed-norms (192), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010 (techreport)
Cooperative Cuts: Graph Cuts with Submodular Edge Weights
(189), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, March 2010 (techreport)
We introduce a problem we call Cooperative cut, where the goal is to find a minimum-cost graph cut but where a submodular function is used to define the cost of a subsets of edges. That means, the cost of an edge that is added to the current cut set C depends on the edges in C. This generalization of the cost in the standard min-cut problem to a submodular cost function immediately makes the problem harder. Not only do we prove NP hardness even for nonnegative submodular costs, but also show a lower bound of Omega(|V|^(1/3)) on the approximation factor for the problem. On the positive side, we propose and compare four approximation algorithms with an overall approximation factor of min { |V|/2, |C*|, O( sqrt(|E|) log |V|), |P_max|}, where C* is the optimal solution, and P_max is the longest s, t path across the cut between given s, t. We also introduce additional heuristics for the problem which have attractive properties from the perspective of practical applications and implementations in that existing fast min-cut libraries may be used as subroutines. Both our approximation algorithms, and our heuristics, appear to do well in practice.
ei Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. Cooperative Cuts: Graph Cuts with Submodular Edge Weights (189), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, March 2010 (techreport)
Information-theoretic inference of common ancestors
Steudel, B., Ay, N.
Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1010.5720, pages: 18, 2010 (techreport)
ei Steudel, B., Ay, N. Information-theoretic inference of common ancestors Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1010.5720, pages: 18, 2010 (techreport)
Popper, Falsification and the VC-dimension
Corfield, D., Schölkopf, B., Vapnik, V.
(145), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, November 2005 (techreport)
ei Corfield, D., Schölkopf, B., Vapnik, V. Popper, Falsification and the VC-dimension (145), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, November 2005 (techreport)
A Combinatorial View of Graph Laplacians
Huang, J.
Discussions about different graph Laplacian, mainly normalized and unnormalized versions of graph Laplacian, have been ardent with respect to various methods in clustering and graph based semi-supervised learning. Previous research on graph Laplacians investigated their convergence properties to Laplacian operators on continuous manifolds. There is still no strong proof on convergence for the normalized Laplacian. In this paper, we analyze different variants of graph Laplacians directly from the ways solving the original graph partitioning problem. The graph partitioning problem is a well-known combinatorial NP hard optimization problem. The spectral solutions provide evidence that normalized Laplacian encodes more reasonable considerations for graph partitioning. We also provide some examples to show their differences.
ei Huang, J. A Combinatorial View of Graph Laplacians (144), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2005 (techreport)
Beyond Pairwise Classification and Clustering Using Hypergraphs
(143), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2005 (techreport)
In many applications, relationships among objects of interest are more complex than pairwise. Simply approximating complex relationships as pairwise ones can lead to loss of information. An alternative for these applications is to analyze complex relationships among data directly, without the need to first represent the complex relationships into pairwise ones. A natural way to describe complex relationships is to use hypergraphs. A hypergraph is a graph in which edges can connect more than two vertices. Thus we consider learning from a hypergraph, and develop a general framework which is applicable to classification and clustering for complex relational data. We have applied our framework to real-world web classification problems and obtained encouraging results.
ei Zhou, D., Huang, J., Schölkopf, B. Beyond Pairwise Classification and Clustering Using Hypergraphs (143), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2005 (techreport)
Gretton, A., Bousquet, O., Smola, A., Schölkopf, B.
(140), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2005 (techreport)
We propose an independence criterion based on the eigenspectrum of covariance operators in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs), consisting of an empirical estimate of the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the cross-covariance operator (we term this a Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion, or HSIC). This approach has several advantages, compared with previous kernel-based independence criteria. First, the empirical estimate is simpler than any other kernel dependence test, and requires no user-defined regularisation. Second, there is a clearly defined population quantity which the empirical estimate approaches in the large sample limit, with exponential convergence guaranteed between the two: this ensures that independence tests based on HSIC do not suffer from slow learning rates. Finally, we show in the context of independent component analysis (ICA) that the performance of HSIC is competitive with that of previously published kernel-based criteria, and of other recently published ICA methods.
ei Gretton, A., Bousquet, O., Smola, A., Schölkopf, B. Measuring Statistical Dependence with Hilbert-Schmidt Norms (140), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2005 (techreport)
Approximate Inference for Robust Gaussian Process Regression
Kuss, M., Pfingsten, T., Csato, L., Rasmussen, C.
(136), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2005 (techreport)
Gaussian process (GP) priors have been successfully used in non-parametric Bayesian regression and classification models. Inference can be performed analytically only for the regression model with Gaussian noise. For all other likelihood models inference is intractable and various approximation techniques have been proposed. In recent years expectation-propagation (EP) has been developed as a general method for approximate inference. This article provides a general summary of how expectation-propagation can be used for approximate inference in Gaussian process models. Furthermore we present a case study describing its implementation for a new robust variant of Gaussian process regression. To gain further insights into the quality of the EP approximation we present experiments in which we compare to results obtained by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling.
ei Kuss, M., Pfingsten, T., Csato, L., Rasmussen, C. Approximate Inference for Robust Gaussian Process Regression (136), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2005 (techreport)
Maximum-Margin Feature Combination for Detection and Categorization
BakIr, G., Wu, M., Eichhorn, J.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2005 (techreport)
In this paper we are concerned with the optimal combination of features of possibly different types for detection and estimation tasks in machine vision. We propose to combine features such that the resulting classifier maximizes the margin between classes. In contrast to existing approaches which are non-convex and/or generative we propose to use a discriminative model leading to convex problem formulation and complexity control. Furthermore we assert that decision functions should not compare apples and oranges by comparing features of different types directly. Instead we propose to combine different similarity measures for each different feature type. Furthermore we argue that the question: Which feature type is more discriminative for task X? is ill-posed and show empirically that the answer to this question might depend on the complexity of the decision function.
ei BakIr, G., Wu, M., Eichhorn, J. Maximum-Margin Feature Combination for Detection and Categorization Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2005 (techreport)
Towards a Statistical Theory of Clustering. Presented at the PASCAL workshop on clustering, London
von Luxburg, U., Ben-David, S.
Presented at the PASCAL workshop on clustering, London, 2005 (techreport)
The goal of this paper is to discuss statistical aspects of clustering in a framework where the data to be clustered has been sampled from some unknown probability distribution. Firstly, the clustering of the data set should reveal some structure of the underlying data rather than model artifacts due to the random sampling process. Secondly, the more sample points we have, the more reliable the clustering should be. We discuss which methods can and cannot be used to tackle those problems. In particular we argue that generalization bounds as they are used in statistical learning theory of classification are unsuitable in a general clustering framework. We suggest that the main replacements of generalization bounds should be convergence proofs and stability considerations. This paper should be considered as a road map paper which identifies important questions and potentially fruitful directions for future research about statistical clustering. We do not attempt to present a complete statistical theory of clustering.
ei von Luxburg, U., Ben-David, S. Towards a Statistical Theory of Clustering. Presented at the PASCAL workshop on clustering, London Presented at the PASCAL workshop on clustering, London, 2005 (techreport)
Approximate Bayesian Inference for Psychometric Functions using MCMC Sampling
Kuss, M., Jäkel, F., Wichmann, F.
In psychophysical studies the psychometric function is used to model the relation between the physical stimulus intensity and the observer's ability to detect or discriminate between stimuli of different intensities. In this report we propose the use of Bayesian inference to extract the information contained in experimental data estimate the parameters of psychometric functions. Since Bayesian inference cannot be performed analytically we describe how a Markov chain Monte Carlo method can be used to generate samples from the posterior distribution over parameters. These samples are used to estimate Bayesian confidence intervals and other characteristics of the posterior distribution. In addition we discuss the parameterisation of psychometric functions and the role of prior distributions in the analysis. The proposed approach is exemplified using artificially generate d data and in a case study for real experimental data. Furthermore, we compare our approach with traditional methods based on maximum-likelihood parameter estimation combined with bootstrap techniques for confidence interval estimation. The appendix provides a description of an implementation for the R environment for statistical computing and provides the code for reproducing the results discussed in the experiment section.
ei Kuss, M., Jäkel, F., Wichmann, F. Approximate Bayesian Inference for Psychometric Functions using MCMC Sampling (135), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2005 (techreport)
Linear and Nonlinear Estimation models applied to Hemodynamic Model
Theodorou, E.
Technical Report-2005-1, Computational Action and Vision Lab University of Minnesota, 2005, clmc (techreport)
The relation between BOLD signal and neural activity is still poorly understood. The Gaussian Linear Model known as GLM is broadly used in many fMRI data analysis for recovering the underlying neural activity. Although GLM has been proved to be a really useful tool for analyzing fMRI data it can not be used for describing the complex biophysical process of neural metabolism. In this technical report we make use of a system of Stochastic Differential Equations that is based on Buxton model [1] for describing the underlying computational principles of hemodynamic process. Based on this SDE we built a Kalman Filter estimator so as to estimate the induced neural signal as well as the blood inflow under physiologic and sensor noise. The performance of Kalman Filter estimator is investigated under different physiologic noise characteristics and measurement frequencies.
am Theodorou, E. Linear and Nonlinear Estimation models applied to Hemodynamic Model Technical Report-2005-1, Computational Action and Vision Lab University of Minnesota, 2005, clmc (techreport)
Support Vector Channel Selection in BCI
Lal, T., Schröder, M., Hinterberger, T., Weston, J., Bogdan, M., Birbaumer, N., Schölkopf, B.
(120), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, December 2003 (techreport)
Designing a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system one can choose from a variety of features that may be useful for classifying brain activity during a mental task. For the special case of classifying EEG signals we propose the usage of the state of the art feature selection algorithms Recursive Feature Elimination [3] and Zero-Norm Optimization [13] which are based on the training of Support Vector Machines (SVM) [11]. These algorithms can provide more accurate solutions than standard filter methods for feature selection [14]. We adapt the methods for the purpose of selecting EEG channels. For a motor imagery paradigm we show that the number of used channels can be reduced significantly without increasing the classification error. The resulting best channels agree well with the expected underlying cortical activity patterns during the mental tasks. Furthermore we show how time dependent task specific information can be visualized.
ei Lal, T., Schröder, M., Hinterberger, T., Weston, J., Bogdan, M., Birbaumer, N., Schölkopf, B. Support Vector Channel Selection in BCI (120), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, December 2003 (techreport)
Image Reconstruction by Linear Programming
Tsuda, K., Rätsch, G.
(118), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, October 2003 (techreport)
ei Tsuda, K., Rätsch, G. Image Reconstruction by Linear Programming (118), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, October 2003 (techreport)
Ranking on Data Manifolds
Zhou, D., Weston, J., Gretton, A., Bousquet, O., Schölkopf, B.
(113), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany, June 2003 (techreport)
The Google search engine has had a huge success with its PageRank web page ranking algorithm, which exploits global, rather than local, hyperlink structure of the World Wide Web using random walk. This algorithm can only be used for graph data, however. Here we propose a simple universal ranking algorithm for vectorial data, based on the exploration of the intrinsic global geometric structure revealed by a huge amount of data. Experimental results from image and text to bioinformatics illustrates the validity of our algorithm.
ei Zhou, D., Weston, J., Gretton, A., Bousquet, O., Schölkopf, B. Ranking on Data Manifolds (113), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany, June 2003 (techreport)
Kernel Hebbian Algorithm for Iterative Kernel Principal Component Analysis
Kim, K., Franz, M., Schölkopf, B.
(109), MPI f. biologische Kybernetik, Tuebingen, June 2003 (techreport)
A new method for performing a kernel principal component analysis is proposed. By kernelizing the generalized Hebbian algorithm, one can iteratively estimate the principal components in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with only linear order memory complexity. The derivation of the method, a convergence proof, and preliminary applications in image hyperresolution are presented. In addition, we discuss the extension of the method to the online learning of kernel principal components.
ei Kim, K., Franz, M., Schölkopf, B. Kernel Hebbian Algorithm for Iterative Kernel Principal Component Analysis (109), MPI f. biologische Kybernetik, Tuebingen, June 2003 (techreport)
Learning with Local and Global Consistency
Zhou, D., Bousquet, O., Lal, T., Weston, J., Schölkopf, B.
(112), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, June 2003 (techreport)
We consider the learning problem in the transductive setting. Given a set of points of which only some are labeled, the goal is to predict the label of the unlabeled points. A principled clue to solve such a learning problem is the consistency assumption that a classifying function should be sufficiently smooth with respect to the structure revealed by these known labeled and unlabeled points. We present a simple algorithm to obtain such a smooth solution. Our method yields encouraging experimental results on a number of classification problems and demonstrates effective use of unlabeled data.
ei Zhou, D., Bousquet, O., Lal, T., Weston, J., Schölkopf, B. Learning with Local and Global Consistency (112), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, June 2003 (techreport)
Implicit Wiener Series
(114), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2003 (techreport)
The Wiener series is one of the standard methods to systematically characterize the nonlinearity of a neural system. The classical estimation method of the expansion coefficients via cross-correlation suffers from severe problems that prevent its application to high-dimensional and strongly nonlinear systems. We propose a new estimation method based on regression in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space that overcomes these problems. Numerical experiments show performance advantages in terms of convergence, interpretability and system size that can be handled.
ei Franz, M., Schölkopf, B. Implicit Wiener Series (114), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2003 (techreport)
Machine Learning approaches to protein ranking: discriminative, semi-supervised, scalable algorithms
Weston, J., Leslie, C., Elisseeff, A., Noble, W.
A key tool in protein function discovery is the ability to rank databases of proteins given a query amino acid sequence. The most successful method so far is a web-based tool called PSI-BLAST which uses heuristic alignment of a profile built using the large unlabeled database. It has been shown that such use of global information via an unlabeled data improves over a local measure derived from a basic pairwise alignment such as performed by PSI-BLAST's predecessor, BLAST. In this article we look at ways of leveraging techniques from the field of machine learning for the problem of ranking. We show how clustering and semi-supervised learning techniques, which aim to capture global structure in data, can significantly improve over PSI-BLAST.
ei Weston, J., Leslie, C., Elisseeff, A., Noble, W. Machine Learning approaches to protein ranking: discriminative, semi-supervised, scalable algorithms (111), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2003 (techreport)
The Geometry Of Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis
Kuss, M., Graepel, T.
Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a classical multivariate method concerned with describing linear dependencies between sets of variables. After a short exposition of the linear sample CCA problem and its analytical solution, the article proceeds with a detailed characterization of its geometry. Projection operators are used to illustrate the relations between canonical vectors and variates. The article then addresses the problem of CCA between spaces spanned by objects mapped into kernel feature spaces. An exact solution for this kernel canonical correlation (KCCA) problem is derived from a geometric point of view. It shows that the expansion coefficients of the canonical vectors in their respective feature space can be found by linear CCA in the basis induced by kernel principal component analysis. The effect of mappings into higher dimensional feature spaces is considered critically since it simplifies the CCA problem in general. Then two regularized variants of KCCA are discussed. Relations to other methods are illustrated, e.g., multicategory kernel Fisher discriminant analysis, kernel principal component regression and possible applications thereof in blind source separation.
ei Kuss, M., Graepel, T. The Geometry Of Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (108), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2003 (techreport)
The Kernel Mutual Information
Gretton, A., Herbrich, R., Smola, A.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, April 2003 (techreport)
We introduce two new functions, the kernel covariance (KC) and the kernel mutual information (KMI), to measure the degree of independence of several continuous random variables. The former is guaranteed to be zero if and only if the random variables are pairwise independent; the latter shares this property, and is in addition an approximate upper bound on the mutual information, as measured near independence, and is based on a kernel density estimate. We show that Bach and Jordan‘s kernel generalised variance (KGV) is also an upper bound on the same kernel density estimate, but is looser. Finally, we suggest that the addition of a regularising term in the KGV causes it to approach the KMI, which motivates the introduction of this regularisation. The performance of the KC and KMI is verified in the context of instantaneous independent component analysis (ICA), by recovering both artificial and real (musical) signals following linear mixing.
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ei Gretton, A., Herbrich, R., Smola, A. The Kernel Mutual Information Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, April 2003 (techreport)
A Note on Parameter Tuning for On-Line Shifting Algorithms
Bousquet, O.
In this short note, building on ideas of M. Herbster [2] we propose a method for automatically tuning the parameter of the FIXED-SHARE algorithm proposed by Herbster and Warmuth [3] in the context of on-line learning with shifting experts. We show that this can be done with a memory requirement of $O(nT)$ and that the additional loss incurred by the tuning is the same as the loss incurred for estimating the parameter of a Bernoulli random variable.
ei Bousquet, O. A Note on Parameter Tuning for On-Line Shifting Algorithms Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2003 (techreport)
Toyama, K., Schölkopf, B.
(MSR-TR-2003-64), Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, 2003 (techreport)
Interactive Images are a natural extension of three recent developments: digital photography, interactive web pages, and browsable video. An interactive image is a multi-dimensional image, displayed two dimensions at a time (like a standard digital image), but with which a user can interact to browse through the other dimensions. One might consider a standard video sequence viewed with a video player as a simple interactive image with time as the third dimension. Interactive images are a generalization of this idea, in which the third (and greater) dimensions may be focus, exposure, white balance, saturation, and other parameters. Interaction is handled via a variety of modes including those we call ordinal, pixel-indexed, cumulative, and comprehensive. Through exploration of three novel forms of interactive images based on color, exposure, and focus, we will demonstrate the compelling nature of interactive images.
ei Toyama, K., Schölkopf, B. Interactive Images (MSR-TR-2003-64), Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, 2003 (techreport)
Kernel Dependency Estimation
Weston, J., Chapelle, O., Elisseeff, A., Schölkopf, B., Vapnik, V.
(98), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2002 (techreport)
We consider the learning problem of finding a dependency between a general class of objects and another, possibly different, general class of objects. The objects can be for example: vectors, images, strings, trees or graphs. Such a task is made possible by employing similarity measures in both input and output spaces using kernel functions, thus embedding the objects into vector spaces. Output kernels also make it possible to encode prior information and/or invariances in the loss function in an elegant way. We experimentally validate our approach on several tasks: mapping strings to strings, pattern recognition, and reconstruction from partial images.
ei Weston, J., Chapelle, O., Elisseeff, A., Schölkopf, B., Vapnik, V. Kernel Dependency Estimation (98), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2002 (techreport)
A compression approach to support vector model selection
von Luxburg, U., Bousquet, O., Schölkopf, B.
(101), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 2002, see more detailed JMLR version (techreport)
In this paper we investigate connections between statistical learning theory and data compression on the basis of support vector machine (SVM) model selection. Inspired by several generalization bounds we construct ``compression coefficients'' for SVMs, which measure the amount by which the training labels can be compressed by some classification hypothesis. The main idea is to relate the coding precision of this hypothesis to the width of the margin of the SVM. The compression coefficients connect well known quantities such as the radius-margin ratio R^2/rho^2, the eigenvalues of the kernel matrix and the number of support vectors. To test whether they are useful in practice we ran model selection experiments on several real world datasets. As a result we found that compression coefficients can fairly accurately predict the parameters for which the test error is minimized.
ei von Luxburg, U., Bousquet, O., Schölkopf, B. A compression approach to support vector model selection (101), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 2002, see more detailed JMLR version (techreport)
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Português | English | Deutsch
Not only the Brazilian sun warms the hearts".
Kathrin Albrecht about the concert in Aachen - Aachener-Zeitung - 11/2012
"… Eight years after his debut album he now comes with a new album called Grampeado. Together with his band, which includes a lot of percussion, he brings a nice kind of South-American folk-pop. Mixing traditional rhythms with electronic sounds and his calm, down to earth vocals. Sometimes bluesy, sometimes rock [...] The twelve songs are of high quality…"
Eelco Schilder - FolkWorld - 11/2010
"… It's worth a listen in to Grampeado - the second album of this singer-songwriter from Paraiba, Northeastern Brazil [...] With his warm, velvety-rough voice, the guitarist interprets sometimes fiction, sometimes true stories and his own reflections about life".
Katrin Wilke - Folker - 10/2010
"In Santos' music, Samba can be turned into Soul, and Bossa into Blues. This works as a homogenous blending, if one - in spite of the "exile" - is deeply rooted in one's own, in this case north eastern, culture of one's home country."
"…A few days ago, the news came that a song by Ivan Santos and Lenine won the Grammy. The song is called "Ninguém faz idéia" and is on the cd "Lenine InCité". […] Brasil com S congratulates these two artists, who enrich our music ever more intensisvely."
Tânia Gabrielli und Clemens Maria-Pohlmann - Brasil com S
"…Songs from Nowhere (2002) by Ivan Santos is an album that I have come to like a lot over the past few weeks, and it certainly deserves your attention (…) The magic of this album is in its details: each time you listen, you discover new aspects, new twists in the lyrics, nice aspects in the arrangements and rhythms, etc."
Olaf Brugman - Goiaba Brazilian Music
"... The result is sophisticated pop music with Brazilian roots, also appealing to people who have nothing really to do with Brazil itself."
Hans-Jürgen Lenhart - Jazzthetik
"Lady Multimelancólica, a ballad of undisputable beauty, is the highlight of Songs from Nowhere, which has other great moments in "Cris me Quis", "Na Lona", and "Mau Jesus e o Bom Ladrão". All these compositions were created in Germany by that artist from Paraíba, who arrived there alone with his courage, taking the challenge of starting a musical carreer abroad without resorting to old clichés."
Felipe Tadeu - International Magazine
"Songs from Nowhere" - songs floating in the air. They make us jump, smile, and dream".
Michael Kegler - Nova Cultura
"Seriousness and self-will are important elements of the music and character of the 49-year-old artist, as well as the objective to simply sum up even the most complex things. In the meantime, Santos has played with only one or two percussionists, and in recent years, has developed a poetry that is playful and less fraught with significance, but nonetheless worth reading and listening to. The fundamental element of his CD "Songs from Nowhere" is the idea of graspable, though not profane, pop minimalism..."
"... In his music, traditional rhythms of the North East Brazil, such as Baião and Maracatu continue to survive. But as a global player, Santos, who amongst other songs has written "Lady Multimelancólica" for Rosanna & Zélia, does not confine himself to nurturing his roots. Rather, he has been searching for years for the crossover between Blues, Rock, Pop, Funk, and Reggae, thus creating an urban sound just like colleagues such as Lenine, which allows for many associations."
Journal Frankfurt
Copyright © 2009 Ivan Santos
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Woodstock 50 lineup out
By Davey Boy 2.0, March 20, 2019 in Soundboard
Davey Boy 2.0 185
World Idol
https://www.woodstock.com/
edger 99
I appreciate they are doing this but this won't get me to battle the crowds. Cool though!
Velvet 147
Peace & Love & The Killers.
Northern Wish 63
Hall-of-Famer
If this was the Bluefest lineup, we'd be freaking out!
Loads of good stuff in there but not enough to get me back to The Glen with 60,000 others.
20 hours ago, Northern Wish said:
Yep and Yep.
Hartamophone 81
On 3/25/2019 at 12:58 PM, Northern Wish said:
True enough. I would be pretty happy - thrilled, even! - to be able to ride my bike to this festival after work every night. Lots of good stuff on here, but not enough to tempt me to make the trek. Also, as a three-day festival lineup it seems a little cobbled together and uneven, but then again so do I.
Jay Funk Dawg 35
good to see some original Woodstock performers on this, (Dead & Co of course) but also Country Joe, Canned Heat, Santana...
Jaimoe 44
1 hour ago, Jay Funk Dawg said:
good to see some original Woodstock performers on this, (Dead & Co of course) but also Country Joe, Canned Heat, Santana...
Although Canned Heat are sans leaders (and lead vocalists) Al Wilson and The Bear. At least The Zombies will be with Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone.
DevO 27
True, better lineup than Blues Fest, but I will have no problem giving this one a pass.
I can't imagine the ticket prices to be very cheap, I guess we'll know soon.
23 hours ago, Jay Funk Dawg said:
I was in a back-and-forth about this very topic on Twitter. I’m calling $350 plus camping fees as the cheapest option, up to a bajillion dollars for super magical endangered tiger VIP packages. Some people were using the Phish Watkins prices as a guideline, but I don’t think this will be comparable in that regard.
Booche 235
There are tons of great acts lined up for this one. I am kinda shocked, to be honest.
I think the main issue is that summer has become 'festival' season and there are so many that devoted music fans, such as the group who are reading my reply, see/read artistic lineups which almost bounce off us and mean nothing. Day Two is sick and you get Jay-Z closing it the following day. Dawes seems hidden and they are a great band everyone on this board, who I know, would be pleasantly surprised with seeing because ya'll would love'em.
#psychedaboutJasonIsbellatBluesfest
Edited March 30, 2019 by Booche
True true. There's so much good stuff to be had this summer.
15 hours ago, Booche said:
...Dawes seems hidden and they are a great band everyone on this board, who I know, would be pleasantly surprised with seeing because ya'll would love'em.
Every time I hear of Dawes I mistake them for Foals, probably because I saw them back-to-back at a festival once.
Foals was so bad at that festival I wanted to beat them up and I wanted to beat up the people that signed them, and the people that produced their records, and I even wanted to beat up their guitar tech. Having them play at the festival was a horrible, horrible waste of time, not to mention electricity. I never thought that innocent musical notes could be put together so atrociously.
When they announced the lineup and had the ticket onsale date set for weeks in advance I was suspicious. When does that happen?!?!
Well, seems like they are having problems down there. The Black Keys have pulled out, the fest doesn't have the proper permits yet, and now they've postponed the ticket sales.
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/04/woodstock-50-ticket-postponement/
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The tents are already up though...
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Agitated
A spokesperson for Woodstock 50's financial partner says the Woodstock 50 festival has been canceled.
And Schuyler County Administrator Tim O'Hearn said in an email that he received notification that the event is being cancelled. Woodstock 50 was scheduled to be held Aug. 16-18 in Watkins Glen, Schuyler County.
But organizers for the 2019 Woodstock festival say this is false and the concert will be held.
"Woodstock 50 vehemently denies the festival's cancellation and legal remedy will (be) sought," a statement from Woodstock 50 said.
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2019/04/29/woodstock-50-cancellation-argument/3616705002/
This is now being widely reported, not just in Poughkeepsie
8 hours ago, Northern Wish said:
I'd imagine so. I just shared the first article I saw on my feed mentioning cancellation.
Now Michael Lang says the show will go on. But the financial backer says not so. This could be the worst publicity ploy ever devised.
"This could be the worst publicity ploy ever devised."
I am sure you must recall this one Northern Wish, which forces the following questions:
Has our collective short-term memory become so poor we forget about things like the Frye Festival? If you really think about it, the POTUS plays off that motif all the time so what does anyone really remember?
Edited May 1, 2019 by Booche
I'll be there rain or shine, cancellation or no cancellation. The show must go on!!
On 4/29/2019 at 10:14 PM, Esau. said:
Wasn't at all a dig on you, I just like the word Poughkeepsie.
Sure I remember it but it doesn't even stick in my mind as a music festival. Ain't no shame in that I guess, considering it was just Ja Rule and Blink 182 and some djs. That would be like calling the alley behind Queen St W an art gallery because there is a Banksy there
Frye was sold as a music festival.
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By John Carvalho
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January 7, 2018 January 8, 2018 / johncarvalho56 / Leave a comment
I don’t plan to read Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff any time soon. (To confess, Jonathan Eig’s bio of Muhammad Ali is my current sustenance.)
Yes, Wolff’s content, and his uncommitted relationship with accuracy, has caused its own firestorm. For me, however, the lessons to be learned are in public relations, not narrative pseudo-journalism.
Mistake #1: Wolff’s White House access, which created much of the book’s tastiest morsels, seems to be the result of organizational chaos (the Trump White House’s sustenance). With no clear permission or denial, and a vague endorsement from Trump, Wolff was granted access to observe, while Bannon assumed Priebus approved, while Priebus assumed Kushner … , etc.
A clear center of decision-making authority in these access requests, though an impossibility in the Trump White House, is the remedy.
While it’s disturbing to consider that these political professionals were more concerned with their own survival than the President or the country, such is the amoral worst of high-level politics.
It should not be accepted as reasonable, professional behavior, regardless of how close to the apex of political power it occurs.
Mistake #2: A peremptory Internet search would have alerted Trump’s White House staff that Wolff was not a good fly-on-the-wall candidate. His take-down pieces on everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Christopher Hitchens were there for the Googling.
In 1990, I was director of public information for Azusa Pacific University. A local news radio personality asked if we were interested in hosting a discussion of Malathion, a controversial insecticide being sprayed to control an invasion of Mediterranean fruit flies. Sounded good, so I agreed.
The personality, it turned out, was shock jock Tom Leykis, at his last stop before nationwide syndication. I should have known better, but I didn’t.
Alerted by a frantic APU alum, I turned on Leykis to hear him announce the anti-Malathion rally at Azusa Pacific, timed for an actual spraying. Attendees would stand in the open and dare the helicopters to spray them. Standard academic discourse.
After I canceled the “rally,” Leykis characterized my reversal as a weak-spined concession to alumni pressure. I suppose that was charitable, considering the real reason was my inept unprofessional stupidity.
In the same way, allowing an author like Wolff such access is a doubly-incompetent media relations breakdown by the White House, thus creating an avoidable public image crisis.
My master’s degree from Cal State Fullerton is in public relations, particularly agenda building in the media, and many of my students are public relations majors. I try to pass along advice to them from my experience and studies, while teaching them their required journalism courses.
The best advice I give them overall is, “just say no.” They don’t have to do journalists’ jobs for them (echoing journalists’ complaint that they don’t do law enforcement’s work for them, either). PR folks don’t have to allow journalists access to private property, even if a crime is being investigated. And they certainly don’t have to give a best-selling author access to secure government offices, due diligent Googling or not.
Sure, overall, they will do their organizations wisely by counseling access at appropriate times and not locking down the media 100 percent. It’s a tough balance to work out, but it’s possible.
Their main responsibility is to their organization, however, and an automatic “yes” to media access can cause much more damage than an initial “no”–as the Bannon-Priebus-Kushner brain trust demonstrated in creating this Fire and Fury.
The Pre-Main Event at Mayweather-Pacquiao? Media vs. PR
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Even before the undercard had started at the “Fight of the Century,” a nasty dispute ensued, with Rachel Nichols of CNN and Michelle Beadle of ESPN squaring off against the Mayweather camp, particularly his publicist, Kelly Swanson.
The basics were that Nichols and Beadle said they were told they had been denied credentials. Amidst the outrage that ensued, Swanson emerged claiming that they had indeed been issued credentials and that their claims to the contrary were false.
You can get details on the actual conflict in this account by Richard Deitsch of SI.com. But let’s also think about what this tells us about the professional practice of public relations — as demonstrated by Swanson and, in contrast, how it should be done.
Although she is considered one of the most powerful people in boxing, male or female, most non-boxing fans would not be familiar with her. This profile from the Buffalo News might have given journalists more hope about how she would have handled the situation with Nichols and Beadle.
Conflict and Credibility
At one point, the conflict was a debate between Nichols and Swanson about whether indeed Nichols’ credential had been pulled. Swanson claimed otherwise, as this transcript from a USA Today interview shows (apologies for the muddy screen capture):
But Nichols brings some credibility to the table on this. Many in the audience — and I daresay most in the profession — would be inclined to accept Nichols’ version of events.
If the person involved were Geraldo Rivera or Clay Travis, then of course their claims would be greeted with some skepticism, given their reputation for self-serving promotional scams. But Nichols has earned more respect than that.
Some PR folks also have a reputation for credibility, maintained under fire. One close-to-home example is Kirk Sampson, long-time SID at Auburn. Even during the height of the flames in the Cam Newton controversy during the 2010 season, Sampson cemented his reputation for respectful, ethical professional behavior, as this Deadspin report pointed out.
Some reporters were as skeptical toward Auburn as Nichols and others were toward Mayweather’s treatment of women. But Sampson maintained a level head and afforded courteous treatment to all requests.
Entertainer or Journalist?
It was a side issue, but some wondered whether Beadle deserved the same treatment as Nichols, because Beadle has a different reputation within the media.
But that is another mark of a professional public relations practitioner — equal respectful treatment of all in the media. You might not have enough seats on press row for everyone, but you have an unlimited amount of respect and courtesy to show each media member.
In this case, it is a false distinction to think that Beadle should be accorded less courtesy than Nichols because Beadle is a host of an ESPN2 program rather than a reporter for CNN. Given the available facilities, Beadle deserved better treatment.
Of course there is going to be a “pecking order” for media attention; sports figures have only so much time available for the media, especially during the season. But the most respected media relations folks do everything they can even for smaller media outlets. It gets tricky with the emergence of blogs and podcasts, requiring even more media savvy by the public relations folks. But they understand that as part of their job.
Never Lie for a Client
The above Buffalo News feature notwithstanding, Swanson definitely lost credibility. Her account, as described above, simply does not ring true. At once, she acknowledges that Nichols got bad information, then seems to discount its importance.
It would be more appropriate for Swanson to acknowledge the misunderstanding or miscommunication, and then to go the extra mile to make sure Nichols and Beadle were accommodated. It might have taken some phone calls and direct contact from Swanson to Nichols and Beadle, but it was her office that had created the confusion, so it was her responsibility to clear it up directly — not through Twitter or the media.
But for Swanson to claim that Nichols was always credentialed implies that Nichols was not telling the truth. It’s difficult to imagine Nichols’ motives for lying. She had more to gain by being at the fight as a credentialed journalist than leaving, indignant and jilted.
Given that Mayweather and Swanson were not pleased with Nichols’ grilling of the fighter during an earlier interview, the situation came off as payback, draining believability from Swanson’s explanation even further.
My master’s degree was in public relations, and my last job before I started teaching was as a public relations director for Azusa Pacific University, a private liberal arts university in Southern California, in the early 1990s.
My policy was always that I would never lie. As the person who submitted the statistics for the U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings, I never “cooked” the numbers.
It’s not a PR professional’s role to do the media’s newsgathering work for them, either. When seven APU students were diagnosed with hepatitis, I did not contact the media to announce it. At the same time, our office had everything in place so that when the first journalist contacted us (thank goodness none ever did), we were ready with full disclosure — a release and fact sheet, the dean of students as chief spokesperson. We were not going to lie about it.
It’s one thing to keep internal information private, another to intentionally mislead, as Swanson seemed to do in her explanation.
No doubt Swanson is well paid for her work with Mayweather, and some superstar athletes might consider the truth to be theirs to call for their public relations folks. But Swanson’s credibility is hers to maintain, and any public relations professional must determine with his or her perceived honesty is up for bid.
No doubt some athletes would be relieved that their publicist would go to such lengths to keep them from unpleasant questions. If she’s looking to expand, Swanson will gain well-paying clients, impressed at her willingness to take on reporters like Nichols.
But at what price?
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Buffering Mechanisms in Aging: A Systems Approach Toward Uncovering the Genetic Component of Aging
Aviv Bergman ,
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: aviv@bergmanlab.org
Affiliations Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America , Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America , Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Gil Atzmon,
Affiliation Institute for Aging Research Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Kenny Ye,
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Thomas MacCarthy,
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Nir Barzilai
Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America , Institute for Aging Research Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Aviv Bergman,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030170
Aviv Bergman Gil Atzmon ... Nir Barzilai
An unrealized potential to understand the genetic basis of aging in humans, is to consider the immense survival advantage of the rare individuals who live 100 years or more. The Longevity Gene Study was initiated in 1998 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to investigate longevity genes in a selected population: the “oldest old” Ashkenazi Jews, 95 years of age and older, and their children. The study proved the principle that some of these subjects are endowed with longevity-promoting genotypes. Here we reason that some of the favorable genotypes act as mechanisms that buffer the deleterious effect of age-related disease genes. As a result, the frequency of deleterious genotypes may increase among individuals with extreme lifespan because their protective genotype allows disease-related genes to accumulate. Thus, studies of genotypic frequencies among different age groups can elucidate the genetic determinants and pathways responsible for longevity. Borrowing from evolutionary theory, we present arguments regarding the differential survival via buffering mechanisms and their target age-related disease genes in searching for aging and longevity genes. Using more than 1,200 subjects between the sixth and eleventh decades of life (at least 140 subjects in each group), we corroborate our hypotheses experimentally. We study 66 common allelic site polymorphism in 36 candidate genes on the basis of their phenotype. Among them we have identified a candidate-buffering mechanism and its candidate age-related disease gene target. Previously, the beneficial effect of an advantageous cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP-VV) genotype on lipoprotein particle size in association with decreased metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, as well as with better cognitive function, have been demonstrated. We report an additional advantageous effect of the CETP-VV (favorable) genotype in neutralizing the deleterious effects of the lipoprotein(a) (LPA) gene. Finally, using literature-based interaction discovery methods, we use the set of longevity genes, buffering genes, and their age-related target disease genes to construct the underlying subnetwork of interacting genes that is expected to be responsible for longevity. Genome wide, high-throughput hypothesis-free analyses are currently being utilized to elucidate unknown genetic pathways in many model organisms, linking observed phenotypes to their underlying genetic mechanisms. The longevity phenotype and its genetic mechanisms, such as our buffering hypothesis, are similar; thus, the experimental corroboration of our hypothesis provides a proof of concept for the utility of high-throughput methods for elucidating such mechanisms. It also provides a framework for developing strategies to prevent some age-related diseases by intervention at the appropriate level.
Previous research showed that the frequency of deleterious genotype of some age-related disease decreases its prevalence as the population ages, as expected, since subjects with deleterious genotype are weeded out due to mortality. There exists, however, a set of age-related genes whose deleterious genotype indeed decreases up to ages 80–85, but subsequently increases monotonically, until by age 100 its prevalence is similar to that at age ∼60. Why is a known harmful genotype so prevalent among centenarians? Most likely because this genotype is protected by longevity genes. We corroborated this hypothesis by studying gene–gene interactions between age-related disease genotypes and longevity genotypes. Our findings suggest that individuals with the favorable longevity genotype can have just as many deleterious aging genotypes as the rest of the population because their longevity genotype protects them from the harmful effects of the other. We identify genes contributing to extreme lifespan as well as their counterpart, age-related disease genes. Our findings provide a proof of concept for the utility of high-throughput methods, and for elucidating mechanisms by which longevity genes buffer the effects of disease genes. Our approach gives hope for developing new medications that will protect against several age-related diseases.
Citation: Bergman A, Atzmon G, Ye K, MacCarthy T, Barzilai N (2007) Buffering Mechanisms in Aging: A Systems Approach Toward Uncovering the Genetic Component of Aging. PLoS Comput Biol 3(8): e170. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030170
Editor: Pinchas Cohen, University of California Los Angeles, United States of America
Received: July 25, 2006; Accepted: July 17, 2007; Published: August 31, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 Bergman et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work has been supported by grants from the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award, the US National Institutes of Health (RO1 AG028872-01A1 and RO1 AG-18728–01A1), the General Clinical Research Center (M01-RR12248), and the Diabetes Research and Training Center (DK 20541) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Abbreviations: APOC-3, apolipoprotein C3; CETP, cholesteryl ester transfer protein; CVD, cardiovascular disease; LPA, lipoprotein(a)
While life-style factors such as obesity have been identified as limiting factors in life expectancy [1], genetic factors have been implicated in, and are considered central to, the process of aging. These genetic factors are obvious simply from observing the change in maximal life span between species, and the effect of single genes on longevity in several invertebrates [2–4]. However, the long list of biological processes associated with aging has not permitted all the causes of mammalian aging to be determined. Monogenetic disorders such as abnormalities in the LDL receptor gene [5,6], the rare helicase gene defects in Werner syndrome that prevent subjects from attaining normal lifespan [7], and the more common BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in breast cancer [8], all represent genetically determined phenotypic defects associated with early mortality. However, these are not necessarily common mechanisms of aging, and despite the evidence for a substantial genetic component, the inherited biological factors [9] that define lifespan in long-lived humans remain unknown. In population-based studies, the incidence and prevalence of age-related disease can be a marker of aging. For example, in our Ashkenazi Jewish study, the prevalence of homozygosity for the −641C allele in the APOC-3 (apolipoprotein C3) was found to be significantly higher among centenarians and their offspring than in the control [10]. Significantly lower serum levels for APOC-3 and unique lipoprotein phenotype (lipoprotein particle size) were noted among carriers of the −641C homozygote [10]. In previous work, we examined the effect of the genotype on aging by monitoring age–related disease as a clinically relevant surrogate for aging. We showed that this favorable APOC-3 genotype was associated with lower prevalence of hypertension, CVD, and metabolic syndrome, in addition to being significantly more prevalent among centenarians and their offspring than that of the control group. Furthermore, a strong correlation was found with increase homozygosity for the 405V variant in CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein) [11] in centenarians, also associated with a unique lipoprotein phenotype and lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome and with preservation of cognitive function [12]. These observations further confirm that aging is a complex trait, and additionally, that genes associated with aging often have pleiotropic effects. To address the complexity of aging, we adopted an evolutionary approach in searching for genes associated with longevity and the “aging phenotype,” which includes age-related diseases, in humans. Evolutionary theory can be summarized as the study of how genetic variation within a population is translated into variation between populations in response to natural selection, i.e., differential reproduction over the course of many generations. Similar principles can be applied to the study of changes in the genetic makeup of populations in response to differential survival over the course of one or two overlapping generations. Differential survival in response to mortality will therefore be reflected in the prevalence of genotypes underlying the process of aging and longevity.
The studies reported here are based on the following three assumptions: first, exceptional longevity is a rare phenotype; second, genotypes associated with age-related diseases are “weeded out,” while those genotypes associated with survival, longevity genes, are enriched in an advanced age subpopulation; third, some favorable longevity genotypes may act to buffer the deleterious effects of other genes that lead to age-related diseases. It is this third assumption that makes it possible to discriminate between age-related disease genotypes and the longevity genotype. Given cohorts representing each decade of the lifespan, one can examine whether those who continue to survive exhibit biologically distinctive phenotypes and genotypes, when compared with those of younger cohorts. Thus, the relative prevalence of favorable longevity genotypes within the population can be expected to rise monotonically rather than abruptly or intermittently over the life course; conversely, the prevalence of age-related diseases genotype is expected to monotonically decrease; however, the prevalence of those deleterious genotypes that are buffered may, paradoxically, be found to remain the same (or increased) among individuals with extreme lifespan. Using populations of Ashkenazi Jews consisting of individuals in the age range 50–110 years (including ∼400 individuals between ages 95–110), indeed we observe a monotonic increase with age for three genotypes: 1) the CETP gene codon 405 isoleucine to valine variant (CETP VV); 2) the APOC-3 gene codon A (−641) C variant (APOC-3 CC); 3) a deletion at +2019 in the adiponectin (ADIPOQ) gene. The enrichment of the CETP genotype is supported by evidence from two independent populations [11,13]. Finally, we may explain why the CETP-VV genotype appears to exhibit an additional advantageous effect—the neutralization of the deleterious effects of the LPA gene: from this follows the observed high prevalence of the deleterious genotypic variant of LPA among the centenarians.
Rationale for Genotyping Centenarians and Expected Pattern with Aging
Aging is associated with a decline in the frequency of survivors attaining older ages; i.e., the frequency of centenarians in human populations is only ∼1/10,000 persons. Given the evidence of a genetic basis for longevity [14–16], we would expect the prevalence of favorable genotypes in genes contributing to prolonged lifespan—i.e., longevity genes—to be significantly higher among centenarians relative to their prevalence in a younger control population, as can be observed for the favorable genotypes of CETP-VV and APOC-3 in Figure 1 (see the discussion below). Furthermore, although at birth the probability of living more than 100 years is ∼1/10,000, this probability increases to ∼1/250 when an individual reaches his or her life expectancy (∼80 years old). We would therefore expect the frequencies of longevity genotype to increase monotonically in progressively older age groups. Figure 2 shows the expected monotonic increase for the same genotypes, CETP-VV and APOC-3 (see also Figure S1). In contrast, deleterious genotypes associated with “aging phenotype” (e.g., age-related disease genes) would be expected to decrease monotonically as mortality selects out individuals with these deleterious genotypes. These considerations suggest that changes in genotypic frequencies affecting lifespan in different age groups can be detected and used to determine the relevant genes associated with the aging process.
Figure 1. Genotypic Frequency Comparison between Control and Proband
Genotypic frequencies of SNPs associated with some of the genes implicated in CVD. Comparison is between control individuals (∼70 years old), and probands (∼100 years old). Offspring of centenarians are excluded from this analysis. Significant change, p < 0.0066 (after applying Bonferroni correction), was found for two genes, CETP and APOC-3. Most genotypes exhibit no change in frequency between the two groups though they may still be factors contributing to lifespan.
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Figure 2. Frequency Trend of Two Buffering Genes
Longevity genes are expected to exhibit monotonic increase in their favorable genotype when sampled in progressively older age groups. The graph shows a highly significant (p < 0.0006) monotonic increased frequency across ages for favorable genotypes in APOC-3 CC, and a significant (p < 0.047) for CETP-VV, fulfilling our definition for candidate longevity genes.
However, the two components, longevity and an aging phenotype, cannot be disentangled, since an increase of a favorable genotype in a longevity gene necessarily results in a decrease of the frequency of its complementary genotypes. Similarly, a decline in prevalence of a deleterious genotype at an age-related disease gene necessarily implies an increase in its non-deleterious alternatives. Thus, a simple analysis of monotonic increase or decrease in genotypic prevalence across age groups is not sufficient to discriminate between longevity genes and their counterpart age-related disease genes.
Identification and the Interpretation of a U-Shape Pattern of Genotype with Aging
In this study, we introduce a possible solution to overcome this limitation. As a first step, we must consider the protective effect that longevity genes might confer and what effect this might have on lifespan. It has been shown that offspring of centenarians are healthier than their appropriate age-matched controls, supporting the notion of inheritance from centenarians to their offspring [10,12,16–20]. This observation lends support to the hypothesis that longevity genes might buffer the deleterious effect of certain genetically determined age-related diseases. Genes associated with the latter set of diseases are here termed buffered disease genes. Figure 3 shows the frequency trend of the deleterious genotypes of two age-related diseases genes, KLOTHO and LPA, and indeed, centenarians are endowed with significantly higher deleterious genotype than the elder control group (80 years old), and in the case of LPA, even than that of the younger group. The presence of a molecular buffering mechanism has already been discussed and observed in model organisms. Studies of buffering mechanisms such as the chaperone HSP90 have demonstrated that in the wild-type, under normal conditions, the hidden accumulated, mostly deleterious, genetic variation is buffered and not expressed phenotypically; however, when HSP90′s functionality is compromised, that same genetic variation is translated into, mostly deleterious, phenotypic variation [21,22]. Further theoretical analyses on the capacity to harbor and express such phenotypic variation have also been reported [23,24]. These theoretical findings have been corroborated by experimental data from model organisms [23,24] without any a priori assumptions regarding the potential genetic pathways. It is therefore reasonable to extend this approach to genetic hierarchies and pathways responsible for the process of aging in humans. We recognize that not all longevity genes act as buffering mechanisms. Our study therefore focuses on the discovery of those genes that have a buffering effect, and their targets, age-related disease genes. This equivalence suggests that the buffering effect longevity genes are hypothesized to possess, will allow the accumulation of deleterious allelic variants in buffered disease genes. In turn, we expect the prevalence of a deleterious age-related genotype among centenarians to be maintained at a level similar to that prior to the onset of the age-related disease within the (younger) control population. Centenarians, however, are rare in human populations; thus, an initial decline in the prevalence of the deleterious genotype in buffered disease genes is expected. As the population ages, the proportion of individuals endowed with favorable genotypes at longevity gene loci increases, as should the proportion of individuals carrying (the now buffered) deleterious age-related disease genotype. Thus, such deleterious genotypes should exhibit a U-shaped trend with progressive aging. The following more formal argument describes this more clearly. We first divide the population (at birth) into those protected by the longevity allele (group P) and those lacking it. We then further subdivide the latter group into those with deleterious allele in age-related disease gene (unprotected group U) and those with wild-type allele (group N). Since they are unprotected from the deleterious genes they are carrying, group U is expected to have the shortest mean lifespan, dU, of the three groups (P, U, and N). Assuming that the favorable genotype group P has the longest mean lifespan, dP, (dP > dN > dU), in part because the longevity allele confers a buffering effect against the deleterious alleles they may have, then we will observe a U-shaped curve, which is a consequence of the final population being dominated by group P (see Text S1 and Figure S3 for simulation results).
Figure 3. Observed U-Shape Trend of Age-Related Buffered Disease Genes
Longevity genes are hypothesized to buffer the phenotypic effect of certain deleterious age-related disease genotypes, thus allowing the accumulation of the latter in a population endowed with longevity genotypes. Presented here are the frequency trends across ages of deleterious genotypes in KLOTHO and LPA. Frequencies decline until the population age is ∼80 years old, close to the current average lifespan, and then increases to nearly the frequency in younger age, fulfilling our definition of a buffered disease gene. We used a binomial model with identity link function with both linear and quadratic terms for age, and tested for the significance of the quadratic component. We found a statistically significant quadratic component at the level of p < 0.035 for both KLOTHO and LPA.
Figure 3 shows such a trend for the deleterious variant of two age-related disease genes, KLOTHO and LPA (see also Figures S1–S3).
Gene–Gene Interactions To Identify Targets for Longevity Genes
An important final step in our analysis is required—that is, to associate longevity genes with their potential targets—buffered disease genes. In the absence of favorable genotypes in longevity genes, the protective effect, and with it the accumulation of deleterious genotype in buffered disease genes, will not occur. Therefore, in a subpopulation lacking longevity-favorable genotypes, a monotonic decline in the prevalence of a deleterious genotype in a buffered disease gene is expected. In contrast, in a subpopulation possessing the favorable genotype, no change, or an increase, in the prevalence of deleterious buffered disease genes will be observed. Figure 4 shows such an interaction between the deleterious variant of LPA and the two variants of CETP (for further details see also Figure S2). A limiting factor in this final step is that, since centenarians are rare, we expect the favorable genotype in longevity buffering genes also to be rare among younger populations. To overcome this limitation, we make novel use of the centenarian offspring data. Inheritance assures that the genotypes among offspring will be enriched with favorable longevity genotypes. Thus, by admixing the offspring with a control population, we artificially enrich the prevalence of rare longevity genotypes. Because we only make use of the offspring population in this final step, the identification of potential longevity genes and buffered disease genes (and the analysis of their interactions) is not affected by the introduction of this artificial enrichment.
Figure 4. Interaction between CETP and the Buffered LPA Gene
An interaction between the longevity gene and its target buffered disease gene is revealed by population subdivision. A subpopulation endowed with the favorable longevity genotype will show either no change, or an increase, in the frequency of its target deleterious genotype. In a population lacking the favorable longevity genotype, a monotonic decline (similar to the decline in nonbuffered disease gene) will be observed. Presented here are the frequency trends across ages of deleterious genotype in LPA in the subpopulation having favorable longevity genotype CETP-VV versus the subpopulation lacking it, i.e., CETP-IV and CETP-II. The two trends show a significant difference (p < 0.037, see Text S1 for statistical considerations).
Patterns of Genotypes with Aging
We present the analysis of the 66 common allelic site polymorphisms in 36 candidate genes for a lipoprotein phenotype we have studied (see Methods for the population and statistical considerations). Figure 1 visually represents the frequencies of their genotypes in ∼70 and ∼100-year-old subjects (see Table S1 and Text S1 for a complete list). Only the frequencies of homozygosity for the codon 405 valine (V) allele of CETP (VV genotype) and the homozygote CC genotype in the APOC-3 promoter region APOC-3 C(-641)A, have been determined as having a significantly greater prevalence among centenarians (both p-values from chi-square tests are less than 0.0001, and show statistical significance even after Bonferroni correction). Both genotypes have been previously associated with increased lipoprotein particle size, and thus are associated with a reduced risk for CVD. For that reason, we considered them favorable candidates for longevity genotypes [11,25].
The observed greater prevalence of these genotypes in centenarians compared with the control group as a whole does not, however, completely satisfy our first hypothesis. That is, for CETP-VV and APOC-3 CC to be considered favorable longevity genotypes, a monotonic increase with age is expected. Indeed, this turns out to be the case. Figure 2 shows a highly significant (p < 0.0006) monotonically increasing frequency trend for APOC-3 CC. For CETP, the monotonic increase trend is also found to be statistically significant (p < 0.047), making both APOC-3 CC and CETP longevity gene candidates. The statistical significance for a monotonic increase of favorable genotypes with age was tested using logistic regression (see Text S1 for details).
Most of the genes we have studied, however, have not been reported to differ significantly in frequency between control subjects and centenarians—e.g., lipoprotein lipase (LPL), lymphotoxin alpha (LTA), low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), and others (see Figure 1). Lack of statistically significant differences, however, do not signify the irrelevance of these genes to the aging process, since the frequency analysis of the intermediate age groups may well reveal a more complex pattern, as will be shown below.
Identifying Buffered Age-Related Disease Genes
To identify buffered disease genes further, a more detailed examination is required. A deleterious genotype at an age-related buffered disease gene is predicted to decline initially as the population ages. As the population approaches extreme longevity, the initial decline should reverse, and the prevalence of the deleterious genotype should increase. Indeed, studies in French and Italian centenarian subjects [26–28] reported the paradox of an unfavorable genotype and phenotype that are more common in centenarians. Among the set of genes tested, we have identified two such genes: one is LPA (see Figure 3), which is associated with increased risk for vascular diseases in the elderly [29]. The other gene shown in Figure 3 is the age-related disease gene KLOTHO, an aging gene that is associated with low HDL and reduced CVD risk [30,31]. The reported frequency trends for both LPA and KLOTHO follow the expected U-shape trends based on individuals from the control group only, as described above.
Using statistical assumptions described above (see Methods and Text S1), we arrived at a statistically significant quadratic component for the genotypic frequency of LPA (p < 0.035). A similar statistically significant result was shown for KLOTHO (p < 0.035). Interestingly, LPA plasma levels, known to be a factor for coronary artery disease [32], have also been measured and found to reflect precisely the trends of the genotype: 15.3 ± 1.8 mg/dl in subjects 60–70 years old, declined to 10.8 ± 2.1 mg/dl in subjects aged 71–80 years old, with an increment to 15.7 ± 2.3 mg/dl when subjects achieve an age of 100 years old.
Longevity Genes and Their Target Age-Related Disease Genes
To complete our analysis, the buffering effect of longevity genes on their target age-related disease genes needs to be determined. As explained above, to ensure the presence of favorable longevity genes in a younger population, we supplemented the control population with the offspring of centenarians. We then divided the pooled, control offspring population into two subpopulations—those endowed with, and those not endowed with, a favorable genotype in a longevity gene, i.e., CETP-VV versus CETP-IV / CETP-II. When a chi-square test to reveal the interaction between LPA and CETP genotypes is performed between the 92-year-old age group (advanced in age, though not yet centenarians) and the younger 80-year-old group, we find a significant interaction with respect to CETP-VV and CETP-IV / CETP-II (p < 0.026, chi-square). However, the hypothesis described above suggests a stronger result: in a subpopulation endowed with the favorable CETP genotype (CETP-VV), the frequency trend of the deleterious genotype of LPA will exhibit no change, or may even increase, with age. In contrast, a significant decline should be observed in the subpopulation lacking the favorable longevity CETP genotype. Indeed, such a difference in frequency trends is observed (see Figure 4). The reported differences between the observed trends is statistically significant, p < 0.037.
Although we expect to have multiple targets for each of the longevity genes, not all age-related disease genes may be targeted by all longevity genes. In case such protection is not provided, we would not therefore expect to see a significant change in frequency trends between the two subpopulations. For example, when the same pooled control offspring population was subdivided on the basis of the favorable genotype at the APOC-3 locus to test its effect on the deleterious LPA genotype, no significant changes in trend behavior were observed. In addition, as a test of our hypothesis, a similar interaction analysis was performed on the KLOTHO genotype. Since no data from centenarian's offspring were available for the gene–gene interaction analysis, we included individuals from the centenarian population. When an interaction between CETP and KLOTHO exists, one would expect the admixed, control-centenarians population to exhibit a more significant interaction term than that obtained by an admixed control-offspring population. However, no significant interaction was found when associating CETP or APOC-3 genotypes individually with the unfavorable KLOTHO genotype (P = 0.38 and P = 0.85, respectively). Figure 5 shows that the KLOTHO's frequencies for the two subpopulations, with and without favorable CETP genotype, follow a similar U-shape trend. The lack of interaction suggests that, though CETP and KLOTHO may both have an influence on lipoprotein size, no buffering mechanism can be inferred.
Figure 5. Interaction between CETP and the Buffered KLOTHO gene
Comparable to Figure 4, we show here the frequency trends across ages of deleterious genotype in KLOTHO in the subpopulation having favorable longevity genotype CETP-VV versus subpopulation lacking it, i.e., CETP-IV and CETP-II. Because of the lack of offspring data, we included centenarians (see text). The two frequency trends follow a similar U-shape with age and show no significant interaction term (p < 0.38). Nonsignificant results have also been observed for the interaction term between APOC-3 and KLOTHO (unpublished data).
Toward Building the Genetic Network of Aging
Finally, to corroborate our findings with existing knowledge about interactions among the set of genes we have identified, we applied a two-stage network analysis. First, using GRID (General Repository of Interaction Database), we identified all the possible targets of CETP, LPA, and APOC-3 (primary interactions), and then extended the scope to include secondary and tertiary interactions which resulted in a network of 248 nodes and 450 edges. From this extended network, we then selected those genes that lie on the minimum pathways (shortest path length linking two nodes) among CETP, LPA, and APOC-3. This resulted in the following additional genes: APOE, LPAL2, PLTP, and APOA1. In the second stage, we used the PathwayArchitect software application (Stratagene, http://www.strategene.com) to further corroborate the resulting interaction network. Results of this analysis yielded a similar outcome, that is, the same genes resulted in having the highest confidence index of interactions in the pathway layout graph. Figure 6 delineates a subnetwork of known interactions among proteins relevant to our hypothesis. As can be observed, CETP indeed interacts with LPA. This interaction is two-fold, via LPAL2, a LPA-like 2 lipoprotein, and again, through LPAL2 via APOA1 apolipoprotein A-1 [33,34]. These findings call for further analysis of the role of the LPAL2 and APOA1 proteins. Interestingly, although the pathway analysis revealed direct contact between APOC-3 and LPA [35–38], the hypothesis test revealed that buffering does not occur between APOC-3 and LPA, since there exists no significant interaction (p = 0.076). This observation suggests that given the similar biological effect APOC-3 and CETP has on lipoprotein size, buffering is most likely mediated by other, yet to be discovered, biological means. Finally, when the KLOTHO protein was introduced into the pathway analysis, no additional links were found, nor did we find any link between KLOTHO and any of the subset of proteins tested. This finding is in accord with our hypothesis, due to lack of interaction between CETP or APOC-3 and KLOTHO. Corroborating our hypothesis with known protein interactions indicates that our analysis can predict and be used to further suggest interactions not yet known.
Figure 6. Protein–Protein Interaction Network
Protein–Protein interaction networks of subsets of proteins relevant to the buffering hypothesis analysis. Connecting lines between gene symbols indicate interactions; different types of interactions are denoted by symbols on the lines. Green square, regulation; blue square, expression; light green triangle, transport; + in grey circle, positive effect; − in grey circle, negative effect. CETP interacts with LPA through LPAL2, an LPA-like 2 protein. This interaction is also mediated by LPAL2 through APOA1, and apolipoprotein A-I. Also, though our analysis shows no interaction between LPA and APOC-3, pathway analysis shows a direct interaction, suggesting additional and non-overlapping functionality between CETP and APOC-3 (see text).
Recent progress in the search for candidate aging genes in centenarian studies has been significantly helped by the availability of more sensitive statistical techniques [39,40]. For example, an allele-specific association with longevity was found for SOD2 [41] due to the increased sensitivity of the relative risk method [42,43] over the gene frequency method [41]. Given the important polygenic aspects of the aging phenotype, an approach that searches for candidates within their genetic context is urgently needed. Previous work has already demonstrated the importance of genetic background for longevity, suggesting a role for epistasis [44,45]. The study we present here moves further in this direction by not only giving the genetic background a central role, but furthermore suggesting a novel mechanistic explanation based upon previous theoretical results on gene–gene interactions and buffering.
A previously unfavorable LPA genotype has been reported to be paradoxically increased in French and Italian studies of centenarians [26–28], representing an increased frequency of disease genotype in centenarians. Our results suggest that a harmful genotype probably does not turn into a protective one, but rather indicates a protection by other favorable longevity genotypes. Indeed we show that increased CETP-VV genotype, CETP levels, and favorable lipoprotein sizes may buffer the deleterious effects of LPA genotypes, thus allowing the accumulation of unfavorable genotypes among centenarians. Similar U-shaped patterns of genotypic frequency with respect to age have also been reported by Tan et al. [42] for the C282Y allele and by Cavallone et al. [46] for the PON1 gene, making them candidates for further analysis as buffered age-related disease genes.
To identify the frequency pattern of genotypes associated with aging and longevity, any analysis must include representation of all age groups. Because the nadirs of frequencies for LPA and KLOTHO genotypes were at age ∼80, previous studies that identified putative longevity genotypes (due to rising life expectancy from ages 80 to 100), may have identified protected aging genes but not true longevity genes. Comparing populations at ∼50 and ∼100 years old would potentially exclude individuals possessing aging genes that may be buffered at a later age. It is also important to realize that, because we have obtained a large number of rare individuals with exceptional longevity, classical genetic rules, such as the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, do not apply in this population. This should be retrospectively considered in groups of centenarians whose results were dropped because they violated the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. In other words, because the genotypes of survivors are “selected,” the greater the attribution of a genotype to longevity, the greater is the divergence from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium among the elderly.
The focus of the current study has been on the longevity genes of centenarians. However, given the complexity of the trait, which may derive from multiple, redundant pathways, pleiotropic interactions, and other environmental factors, it is highly likely that different individuals achieve longevity by different means. Parallel studies in other isolated populations, such as the Icelandic, will provide the means to address new pathways for longevity. Confirming these findings in the general population will also facilitate identification of longevity genes at the individual level. It is most likely that longevity involves a far more complex relationship among longevity and disease genes than the pairwise interactions we have introduced here. Yet, our results suggest that this approach can contribute to our understanding of processes as complex as aging. We used two examples of genotypes that seemed to protect from several age-related conditions. Thus, we expect each of these genotypes to provide protection against several aging genotypes. Indeed, we conclude that investigating the genetic pathways for “aging phenotypes,” such as age-related disease and the pathways that buffer these effects, combined with analyses of quantitative traits, may suggest strategies to modulate the disease phenotypes of aging. For example, if any single longevity gene buffers against several aging genes, agents could be developed to exploit such a drug with widespread protective effects.
Population and genotypes studied.
Our population, Ashkenazi Jews, is an ideal study group because social, political, and religious pressures limited this population to a relatively few founders [47]. This genetic homogeneity is paralleled by a relatively homogeneous socioeconomic and educational status. Inbreeding in this population has allowed successful genetic research in Ashkenazi Jews, including the characterization of multiple rare autosomal recessive disorders such as Tay-Sachs disease [48], factor XI deficiency [49], and hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy (i.e., sulfonylurea receptor mutations) [50], as well as common diseases such as breast and ovarian cancer (i.e., BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations) [8]. A limitation of this model is the lack of inclusion of a complex gene-environment interaction. However, by selecting an environmentally homogeneous population, we minimize the effects of such interaction.
Three hundred and five probands with exceptional longevity (228 females and 77 males, age 98.2 (0.36) years [mean (SE)], range 95–109 years; 48% over the age of 100 years) were recruited to participate in the study. Birth certificates or dates of birth as stated on passports defined the participants' ages. Probands were required to have been living independently at 95 years of age as a reflection of good health, although at the time of recruitment they could be at any level of dependency. In addition, for inclusion probands were required to have a child who was willing to participate in the study. The offspring group consisted of 227 females and 203 males (age 68.3 [0.45] years, range 54–89 years). Finally, the control group consisted of 265 females and 203 males (age 69.5 [0.52] years, range 54–90 years), matched in age to the offspring. Details regarding the recruitment and demographics of this group can be found in [11,16,17] (see Table 1 for age distribution of the subjects recruited).
Total Number of Subjects Recruited for This Study Grouped According to Class, Age, and Gender
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To test our hypothesis, we determined the prevalence of 66 common polymorphic sites in 36 genes that are known to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) using a multilocus PCR-based genotyping assay. Briefly, DNA was amplified using multiplex reaction containing biotinylated primer pairs. Amplified fragments within each PCR product pool were then detected colorimetrically with sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes immobilized in a linear array on nylon membrane strips. Probe specificities had previously been confirmed by sequencing and by use of DNA genotyped independently through other methods such as restriction length polymorphism analysis [51].
Statistical considerations.
The following are the statistical considerations in identifying potential buffered disease genes contributing to the aging phenotype. Among the SNPs which demonstrate a significant decline in frequency with age in the control group, we examined those in which the prevalence is significantly higher in the centenarian population relative to the control 80–90 age group. The identified SNPs are those associated with candidate-buffered disease genes. For those SNPs which show an initial significant decline with age followed by a significant increase, that is, a U-shape trend of age-related target genes, we confirm the pattern by fitting a generalized linear model with data from the combined control and centenarian groups. We use a binomial model with an identity link function and both linear and quadratic terms for age, and test for the significant quadratic component. More specifically, the binary response (Y) of having (Y = 1) or not having (Y = 0) the deleterious genotype of an age-related disease gene is modeled as P(Y = 1) = b0 + b1age + b2age2. Note that the standard logistic regression does not apply to this case since it models probability as monotonic to covariates. Maximum likelihood estimates of the coefficients b0, b1, b2 are obtained by the Fisher Scoring method. The statistical significance of the quadratic term is then determined by the likelihood ratio test that compares the likelihood of the model of b2 ≠ 0 with the model of b2 = 0. If the quadratic term is significant and the minimum of the quadratic function −b1/(2b2) falls within age range of our subjects, the relevant gene is further considered. To formally test the statistical significance of the interaction term between frequency trends of the two subpopulations (those endowed with and without favorable genotypes at the longevity gene), it is equivalent to test the statistical significance of interaction effects between the factor “age” and the “longevity genotype” factor, using logistic regression. The binary response in the logistic regression is whether or not a subject has the deleterious genotype of the buffered disease gene. To test the significance of age–gene interaction, the model with main effect only and the model with the interaction effects are compared using log-likelihood ratio test (for additional information see Text S1).
Figure S1. Trends of Genotypic Frequency with Age
Line-a, longevity genes. Line-b, age-related diseases genes. Line-c, buffered age-related disease genes.
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Figure S2. Trends of Genotypic Frequency with Age of Buffered Age-Related Diseases Genes
Line-a, gene–gene interaction with favorable genotypes in longevity genes. Line-b, gene–gene interaction with no favorable genotypes in longevity genes.
Figure S3. Trend of Genotypic Frequency in Simulated Age-Structured Population
Table S1. Genes and Their Associated SNPs Genotyped for This Study
Data is represented visually in the main text (Figure 1).
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Text S1. Supplementary Text
Elaborations on analytical considerations, statistical consideration in determining longevity genes, statistical consideration in determining buffered disease genes, statistical considerations in determining interaction between longevity genes and buffered disease genes, and method and list of genes for which SNPs analysis was performed.
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We thank Mr. William Greiner and Ms. Deborah Davidson for their contributions to this study. We are indebted to all participants and their families for their commitment and enthusiasm, and to the institutions that assisted in recruitment. We thank Drs. Jurg Ott, Harry Shamoon, and Mark Siegal for helpful discussions.
AB, GA, and NB conceived and designed the experiments. GA performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.
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Beyoncé- A Win for White Supremacy
February 16, 2017 by Kushite Prince
Following her Grammy speech and performance, superstar Beyonce garnered abundant praise. Beyonce’s grammy performance portrayed Queen Bey in a manner that proved as royal as her title. Beyonce’s look seemed reminiscent of the queens of our indigenous homeland— a connection that did not go unnoticed by spectators. However, Beyonce garnered the most praise for something fans are not used to associating with Beyonce—loss.
Beyonce lost to Adele in the “Album of the Year” category. To most, this loss was inevitable due to a racially aware stance accompanying some tracks in her latest studio album Lemonade. Lemonade presented the contemporary world with all that has come to associate with Beyonce while intertwining a “woke” perspective not commonly aligned with the singer. The visual album featured the mothers of slain teens Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and songs like “Freedom” that sought to paint Beyonce as an ally to the black collective in our time of turbulence. For these reasons, many regard Beyonce’s loss as a win. This is certainly the stance of Myles E. Johnson, author of popular New York Times article “What Beyonce Won Was Bigger than a Grammy.” The article referenced the price blacks who dare to exist outside the parameters of white conventionality pay as being overlooked if not ignored in terms of acknowledgment. For this assertion, Johnson is completely correct. However, does a few tracks on an album largely about relationships, infidelity, and love, place Beyonce in the same category of black activists like Assata Shakur, Angela Davis or singer-activists Nina Simone who unapologetically dedicated themselves to the plight of blackness in America?
The praise following Beyonce’s long overdue “consciousness” demonstrates that the bar for black allies is impossibly low. Beyonce as a black activist demonstrates that one or two acts fulfill the necessary requirements to deem someone a black leader. The black collective witnessed this behavior with former President Obama who would often place a single stream of consciousness in his speeches, a consciousness that he would counter with the following sentence. Yet, the allegiance he had for five seconds, overshadowed lesser deeds carried out in the majority of his actions and behaviors. Beyonce’s praise functions in a similar manner, as her seemingly “overnight” enlightenment supersedes past behavior that aimed to present Beyonce, the black woman as a crossover artist.
Forgiveness is a virtue seemingly exclusive to the black collective. I say this because, despite the depth of systemic oppression, many blacks remain dedicated to looking past this truth in favor of an optimism that borders oblivion. While beautiful and reflective of a humble spirit—forgiveness has proved much more harmful than helpful. I also can’t help but wonder if this behavior is forgiveness at all, or just a desperate attempt to believe something we wish to be true.
Black women want to believe in Beyonce. And to our defense, she does deserve some praise. Superstar Rihanna has yet to say anything pertaining to the contemporary manifestations that mirror traditional treatment of black bodies. This is not accidental, as Rihanna, although a black woman, seems to appeal more to those outside the black diaspora. Beyonce has always led a strong black female following, the same black females who have lost their sons, brothers, and fathers in the fire of white male supremacy. Thus, her contribution, while small, works strategically. The Grammy’s illustrates Beyonce as losing the battle but winning the war. Losing to Adele depicts Beyonce as bearing the necessary sacrifice to not only maintain her fan base but to award her racial credibility and thereby deepen fan affinity for her.
Beyonce, a black woman who gained fame and international stardom for her fair skin, blonde weave, and jezebel-like performances, personifies the height of white male imagination. She embodies what many black women wish they were, conventionally beautiful with full features, fair skin, a curvy yet slim body, an accent that is slight enough to suggest a humble sweetness but a work persona that screams boss. She’s a wife, a mother, businesswoman and all-around superwoman. But she is a fantasy.
While some blacks praise a God who looks like their former slave masters, other praise Beyonce, a woman who while black, portrayals European aesthetics as the height of black female beauty. Many seem to have forgotten that not long ago Beyonce referenced racism as “in her father’s time,” as if it is not racism that fuels her success let alone existence in a still predominately white male industry. It is easy to praise Beyonce for her loss, despite her ability to perform and prove victorious in smaller categories. If we praise Beyonce for her loss, it is easy to overlook that a more dynamic and culturally aware performer would not be afforded Beyonce’s platform, because their authenticity would inspire in a way that Beyonce never could.
Beyonce exists as a means to control the black female demographic. For example, I can not help but notice that weaves became a more versatile and a more prominent tool in black female hair styling as Beyonce’s popularity grew. The desire for long, full, hair personifies what I like to call the “Beyonce effect,” an effect mirrored in every popular black female image from reality stars to singers. Beyonce’s power manifests in her ability to generate styles and standards of beauty, and in her losses and wins.
I feel compelled to mention that I reference Beyonce as a brand and not an individual, as the chief component of Beyonce’s popularity is that she encompasses a larger than life figure– a human canvass of desirability curated by white male imagination. Beyonce becomes a figure of influence due to a black female collective that largely exists vicariously through their blonde-haired heroine. Beyonce personifies what many black females think black female perfection is. As a physical manifestation of black female thought, Beyonce acts as a pawn to dictate what we do. Carter B. Woodson conveyed the following excerpt from The Miseducation of the Negro:
If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
Thus, Beyonce is not an activist or conscious member of the black collective. Beyonce is the literal and figurative back door of which the black female collective enters into a white male gaze. She is a prevalent form of contemporary inferiority veiled as black excellence. Furthermore, Beyonce functions as an on-going win for white supremacy, functioning as a string that puppeteers the black female psyche by veiling the poisons of white supremacy with pseudo black femininity.
Article written by CC Saunders
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Vol. 6. α-Synuclein in Parkinson's Disease
This article was written by Dr. Norihito Uemura, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is pathologically characterized by dopaminergic neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta and formation of neuronal inclusion called Lewy body. The significance of this neuronal inclusion in the pathogenesis of PD remained unknown for decades since it was first described by Fritz Heinrich Lewy in 1912.1) However, in 1997, it was reported that missense mutations in α-Synuclein (α-Syn) causing familial PD, and Lewy bodies in sporadic PD were intensely stained with the anti-α-Syn antibody, indicating a close involvement of α-Syn in the pathogenesis of PD.2,3) Given additional reports of SNCA (α-Syn gene) duplication or triplication causing familial PD and single nucleotide polymorphisms of SNCA as risk factors for sporadic PD, there is no doubt that α-Syn plays a central role in the pathophysiology of PD.4,5) This article first summarizes the physiological function of α-Syn and then reviews the involvement of α-Syn in the pathophysiology of PD.
Structure and physiological function of α-Synuclein
Synuclein was first identified in mammals in 1991, and three subtypes, that is, α-, β-, and γ-synuclein, have been identified to date.6) α-Syn, which consists of 140 amino acids, is primarily expressed in neurons in the central nervous system, especially in the presynaptic terminal. α-Syn has 7-fold repeated sequence consisting of highly conserved 6 amino acid residues in the N-terminal that is predicted to form an amphipathic α-helix structure.7) In fact, the α-Syn monomer exists in equilibrium between cytosolic, unfolded form and membrane-bound α-helical form in the cytoplasm.8) However, some researchers reported that α-Syn physiologically exists as helically folded tetramers.9) Missense mutations causing familial PD concentrate in the N-terminal region (Fig. 1). The non-amyloid-component (NAC) domain at the center of α-Syn was discovered as a peptide sequence in senile plaques in the Alzheimer's disease brains.10) This domain is hydrophobic and involved in α-Syn aggregation.11) The C-terminal is abundant in acidic amino acids and contains Ser129, which is highly phosphorylated in Lewy bodies.12) Since most α-Syn is not phosphorylated at Ser129 in the normal brains, antibodies against phosphorylated α-Syn are often used to detect pathological α-Syn aggregation.
The physiological function of α-Syn remains largely unknown. Young zebra finches learning to sing show increased expression of α-Syn in the relevant nuclei, indicating the involvement of α-Syn in neural plasticity.13) α-Syn deficient mice do not show any abnormalities in life-span, reproductive function, or brain morphology.14) However, an electrophysiological analysis of brain slice preparations revealed that α-Syn inhibited synaptic vesicle release.14) A similar function of α-Syn was also shown in a study using primary cultured neurons overexpressing α-Syn.15) In addition, α-Syn inhibits soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complex-mediated lipid membrane fusion, supporting these findings.16) On the other hand, cysteine string protein-α (CSPα) promotes SNARE complex formation in the presynaptic terminal, whereas phenotypic abnormalities in CSPα-deficient mice, including synaptic degeneration and premature death, were compensated by α-Syn overexpression.17) Later, α-Syn was reported to promote SNARE complex formation by binding to SNARE synaptobrevin 2 in its C-terminal sequence.18) However, it remains unclear how to link the two functions, α-Syn-induced inhibition of synaptic vesicle release and promotion of SNARE complex formation.
Figure 1. Structure of α-Synuclein
Red: missense mutation sites reported in familial PD
Underlined: repeating sequence
Green: post-translational modification sites reported in PD
U: ubiquitination P: phosphorylation N: nitration
α-Synuclein aggregation and cytotoxicity
α-Syn is naturally a soluble protein, but forms β-sheet-rich amyloid fibrils in a group of diseases collectively called synucleinopathy. Synucleinopathy includes Lewy body dementia (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA), in addition to PD. Recombinant α-Syn, which also forms fibrils in vitro, forms soluble oligomers during this aggregation process, and the oligomers and fibrils are cytotoxic (Fig. 2). Both A53T and A30P mutations cause familial PD, but the former promotes fibrillization, whereas the latter promotes oligomerization in vitro.19) Researchers insisting that α-Syn physiologically exists as tetramers reported that PD-causing missense mutations in α-Syn promote α-Syn aggregation and enhance its cytotoxicity by decreasing tetramers and increasing unfolded monomers.20) Since reactive oxygen species are produced during the metabolic process of dopamine, dopaminergic neurons are exposed to high oxidative stress. α-Syn is oligomerized through dityrosine bond under oxidative stress.21) Likewise, quinones, which are oxidative metabolites of dopamine, act on the C-terminal of α-Syn to promote and stabilize oligomerization.22) However, oligomers are not a single molecular species, but oligomers that differ in structure and cytotoxicity have been reported both in vitro and in vivo.23,24) While the oligomers may include various molecular species, the oligomers generally damage the membrane structures and cause cellular toxicity through various mechanisms, including induction of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress, impairment of endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi vesicular transport, chaperone-mediated autophagy, and SNARE complex formation in the presynaptic terminal.23-28) On the other hand, the sequence in the NAC domain is required for α-Syn aggregation,11) and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) spectroscopy revealed that 46th-54th amino acids and 63rd-96th amino acids form a Greek key topology to serves as the fibril core.29) After transduction of α-Syn fibrils into mouse primary neurons, α-Syn fibrils taken up by neurons work as templates to induce α-Syn aggregation in neurons, resulting in impairment of synaptic function and neuronal loss in 2 weeks.30) To consider the therapeutic target, it may be important to determine which (oligomers or fibrils) makes a greater contribution to the pathogenesis of PD. Oligomers are more toxic than fibrils in vivo,31) and oligomers unidentifiable with usual immunostaining for α-Syn are extensively detected with the proximity ligation assay (PLA) in the brain of patients with PD.32) On the other hand, an in vivo imaging analysis revealed aggregate-bearing neurons die over time in α-Syn fibril-injected mouse model.33) It still remains controversial which (oligomers or fibrils) makes a greater contribution to the pathogenesis of PD.
Figure 2. α-Synuclein aggregation
It is still controversial whether α-Syn physiologically exists as monomers or tetramers. It is suggested that there are distinct oligomers and fibrils that differ in structure and biological activity.
Intercellular spreading of α-Synuclein
Lewy pathology is not limited to dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta but is widely seen in other brain regions. Braak et al. systematically analyzed the pathology in cases with incidental Lewy body pathology or sporadic PD and suggested that Lewy pathology initially develops in the olfactory bulb and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve and then spreads in the brain stereotypically.34) In addition, since Lewy pathology is also found in the enteric nervous system (ENS) in the early stage of PD, they hypothesized that Lewy pathology in the ENS travels retrogradely to the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve and then proceeds from there in a caudo-rostral direction.35) Despite the impact of the Braak's hypothesis on investigation of the clinicopathologic progression of PD, this hypothesis lacked the evidence that Lewy pathology can spread among brain regions. However, the patients with PD who underwent intracerebral transplantation of fetal mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons developed Lewy bodies in the graft cells, suggesting that Lewy pathology can propagate from host to graft cells.36,37) In addition, it was shown that injection of α-Syn fibrils formed in vitro into the mouse brain induces aggregation of endogenous α-Syn in neurons, which then spread along the neural circuit.38,39) Injection of Lewy bodies extracted from the PD brains into the mouse or monkey brains also induces α-Syn aggregate formation in host neurons, which then spread to other brain regions.40) This phenomenon is known as prion-like spreading of α-Syn and may explain the Braak hypothesis, attracting wide interest of researchers. From the aspect of therapeutic target, researchers are trying to elucidate the mechanisms of interneuronal spreading of α-Syn and find how to inhibit the spreading. While various possible mechanisms of the spreading, including direct cell membrane penetration, macropinocytosis, receptor-mediated endocytosis, and exosome- or nanotube-mediated transfer, have been reported, it is still unclear which mechanism plays the most important role in the pathogenesis of PD.41-45)
Structural polymorphism in α-Synuclein aggregates
It has recently been reported that α-Syn fibrils formed in vitro differ in biochemical properties (aggregate structure) and pathology induced in cultured cells or mouse brains (biological activity) depending on conditions in which α-Syn fibrils are formed,46,47) indicating the existence of diverse α-Syn aggregates, more specifically, the possibility that distinct α-Syn aggregates may induce different pathologies in humans. PD and DLB are both characterized by α-Syn aggregates in neurons but differ in clinical course and pattern of pathological progression. MSA is characterized by α-Syn aggregates in oligodendrocytes and clearly differs from PD and DLB. To date, the mechanisms by which the same pathological protein, α-Syn, causes distinct synucleinopathies remain one of the unsolved mysteries in this field. Several recent studies have demonstrated the differences of pathological α-Syn aggregates in distinct synucleinopathies. For instance, pathological α-Syn extracted from MSA brains is more potent for inducing α-Syn aggregation and more toxic in the mouse brains or cultured cells than one extracted from PD brains.48,49) However, the pathological differences in distinct synucleinopathies cannot be explained only by the differences of pathological α-Syn aggregates because injection of pathological α-Syn extracted from MSA brains into the mouse brains result in α-Syn aggregates in neurons, but not in oligodendrocytes.48,50) In addition to the differences in α-Syn aggregates, some host factors may be necessary to explain and reproduce the pathological differences in distinct synucleinopathies.
While approximately 20 years have passed since identification of α-Syn as the main component of Lewy body, various pathological mechanisms and therapeutic targets have been reported, but have not led to the development of disease-modifying therapy. Because no experimental system can reproduce the disease pathology completely, it should be important to establish a system which reproduces well a certain pathological mechanism and try to develop therapeutic intervention against it.
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KENTUCKY CANNABIS RALLY AT THE ROTUNDA IN FRANKFORT!
The people of Kentucky, all groups, all BILLS for Cannabis whether it be “Medical” or “Adult Use”, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Independent, are requested to join us in Frankfort Kentucky on March 11, 2020 to show our support for the effort in our State!Please plan to be there!LOCATED AT CAPITOL ROTUNDA700 CAPITOL AVEFRANKFORT, KY 40601https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19rs/hb136.htmlAN …
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13 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. 2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier 4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. 7 And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
(Genesis 13:1-18 NIV)
In Chapter 12, Abram launched out in faith, following the Lord to a new homeland for him and his eventual family. The Lord appeared to Abram and promised him the land on which he stood as his inheritance to him and his promised offspring.
We saw Abram’s faith quickly dissolve into fear and flight when a famine came across the land. Abram did not seek the Lord, but simply packed up and went to Egypt on his own accord. Abram’s fear then turned to foolishness as he made Sarai his wife lie to the Egyptians and say that she was his sister, not his wife. Abram was more concerned about his self-preservation and making a name for himself than protecting his wife and obeying the Lord. The Egyptian Pharoah, believing Abram and Sarai’s lie, gave gifts to Abram for her bride-price and took Sarai as his wife and slept with her.
When the Lord inflicted all kinds of diseases on the Pharaoh and his household, it didn’t take long for him to figure out what had happened. The Pharoah gave Abram a thorough tongue-lashing, then promptly kicked him and all of his entourage out of Egypt.
As we begin Chapter 13, we see Abram heading back to where he was before. Granted, Abram was wealthier leaving Egypt than when he had arrived, but at great cost to his integrity, his marriage, and his walk with the Lord.
When Abram arrived back at Bethel where he had previously built an altar to the Lord, he must have had a mini-revival in his relationship with the Lord, as Moses tells us that Abram called upon the name of the Lord again.
Abram’s nephew Lot had been with him this whole time, from Haran to Canaan to Bethel to Egypt to the Negev and back to Bethel. The famine was likely still going on, and Moses tells us that the land could not sustain the pressure from all the animals grazing it. Obviously, the flocks of Abram and Lot had increased; also, the extra burden of livestock that the Egyptian Pharoah gave Abram didn’t help matters. Finding grazing land for flocks of sheep and goats was relatively easy; finding grazing land for cattle was much harder, as they required so much more vegetation to feed them. The Pharoah might have gifted Abram with the animals, but Abram had to make sure they were fed and watered – not an easy task in a drought-stricken land with limited vegetation and water.
Moses tells us that there were four groups of people in the area trying to care for their livestock: The Canaanites, the Perizzites, Abram, and Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were on the land first, so they had first dibs. Any remaining grazing land and water were open to whoever claimed it first or was willing to share.
As the story unfolds, we see the true nature of Lot’s character unfold. In Abram’s and Lot’s culture, the accepted norm was for the elder relative (Abram) to have first rights and priority over the younger relative (Lot). Instead, Moses records that word came back to Abram and Lot that their herdsmen were fighting among themselves over grazing spots. Lot didn’t call off his herdsmen and tell them to move further out to find graxing land. In this, we see Lot’s selfishness and greed come out. Lot had gone along with Abram’s faith and relationship with the Lord but had never made that relationship with the Lord his own.
In contrast, we see Abram learn from his mistakes in Egypt and offer his nephew Lot grace as God had shown him grace. Abram tells Lot that he does not want to fight with him, and gives him first pick of grazing land. Whatever direction Lot picks, Abram will automatically pick the other direction. Abram likely remembered God’s promise to give all the land to him, and knew that God was sovereign and would work all this out in the long term.
Lot chose the plain of Jordan based on the lush vegetation – it looked like the fabled stories of the Garden of Eden – plenty of grass and water for all. There was only one problem – the people of that area were exceedingly wicked and sinned greatly against the Lord. Apparently, Lot ignored this major issue, putting material wealth ahead of his relationship with the Lord. So Lot moved his herds and herdsmen and family into the Jordan plain and settled near the city of Sodom, while Abram stayed out in the boonies of Canaan near Bethel.
After Lot moved out, the Lord promised Abram all the land that Abram could see, and told Abram to visit the land in its entirety. So Abram obeyed and walked throughout the land, settling near Hebron. Abram, remembering the Lord as his protector and provider and sustainer, built an altar to the Lord and worshipped Him there.
In this chapter, we saw Abram’s faith and character grow, while we saw Lot’s true nature of greed and selfishness and lack of relationship with the Lord surface.
May we be growing in grace and faith like Abram, and not shrinking in our relationship with the Lord like Lot.
~kevin
Posted in Genesis
Advent 2019 – Week 4
Five Senses – Taste
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New Resource!
The Library is trying a new resource! We have access to the full catalog of several channels via RB Digital. Adult cardholders can check out one channel per week and during that week, have full access to any title in that channel’s collection. Let us know what you think via our comment form.
The ebooks and eaudiobooks are available via the collection of resources at NCLIVE.
Acorn TV — This channel streams world-class mysteries, dramas, and comedies from Britain and beyond. Binge-watch a classic series or discover your new favorite show among dozens of programs available exclusively on Acorn TV.
The Great Courses –The leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos on subjects like; Science, History, Travel, Health & Wellness, Professional Development, Photography, Cooking and much more.
Indieflix — A streaming movie service that offers access to pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts.
Pongalo — Spanish language telenovelas and translated movies streamed on demand to all popular devices.
Stingray Qello — The world’s largest collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries streamed on-demand to just about any digital device.
LearnItLive — Live and on-demand classes including quick tip videos, all related to wellness and personal development.
Method Test Prep – Comprehensive self-paced program for ACT/SAT tests.
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November 6, 2017 November 6, 2017 Lock Us Up
Lockdown Oldham: AWOL
We’d booked to play Lockdown’s third game next weekend, and for once had a weekend with no games planned. However, after bumping into the Lockdown owners in the Tesco across the road from them, we were offered the chance to play a week early, and obviously, we couldn’t turn that down…
“You are members of a group of highly trained members of the secret service, the Viper Unit. A member of your group has gone missing and the government believe he has gone rogue. You believe otherwise and discover he has been abducted by an unknown faction. Unfortunately, the government have ordered a drone strike on your partners location, to eliminate any threat. You have an hour to infiltrate the mystery enemy’s hideout, save your partner and escape before the building and surrounding area is destroyed.”
AWOL is a very clean, cold, bare room, which creates just the right atmosphere for the bunker you find yourself exploring. There’s a good number of military props, some of which are needed, and some of which are just for show, and the room has been nicely done.
In terms of puzzles, there was a good flow to the game, and everything worked logically. We sped through the first puzzles but hit a roadblock when we entered too many incorrect codes into a safe that locks you out for a few minutes – massively frustrating! However, it gave us time to find out where we were going wrong, which was needed – this was the only puzzle that didn’t work quite how you’d expect when using logic, but in less than 24 hours, they’ve already changed it – great to see a company who really welcomes feedback and takes it on board.
There’s some great little puzzles in this room with unique touches, and it shows Lockdown have gone the extra mile – rather than being a wholly paper based puzzle room, there’s some nice variety that creates a fun game.
Overall, a good game that’s probably our favourite out of the three at Lockdown. Enthusiasts, you’ll be able to do this as a team of two, newbies should take 4+ players. We’ll be back very soon for the very exciting sounding “The Neglected”, which is apparently nearly ready for opening!
Host: Our game was hosted by Caraline (that’s not a typo!), and it was great to see her again. The family who run Lockdown are lovely, and we found ourselves talking to them for nearly an hour!
Clue System: Clues were delivered via a screen
Success? Yes, we escaped in around 54/55 minutes and made it to the top of the leaderboard (which only contains one other team at the moment, but shush).
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Was so glad that we bumped into Caraline and Daz and given a chance to play earlier because a weekend without an escape game just feels wrong!
Really enjoyed A.W.O.L and definitely my favourite of the three rooms at Lockdown Oldham. Theming started before you entered the room with a well dressed corridor…something a lot of places don’t bother with. There were quite a few unique puzzles that we’ve not seen before which is quite rare, which is impressive for such a new company. There was some ambiguity with the puzzle that leads to the safe opening (or locking you out as in our case 😆) but nothing major and they did say they’d change the one little part that caused confusion.
Clues were via a screen but later you had to communicate with someone via another means, which really added to the story/mission. They do like their storylines at Lockdown!
Really lovely owners who want to create great rooms and who genuinely care about making sure you have a good time and that everything works well. We chatted for ages and could have stayed all day but we had other plans. We’ll definitely be returning soon for the new room 👍
Informed that they’ve already changed the section of the puzzle that was a bit ambiguous…. great news. Told you they care about making it the best experience possible! ☺
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A walk in the park: The devil at the Forges du Saint-Mauricie
17Sep 2018 18 Sep 2018
The retelling of a legend from the historic Forges in La Mauricie is part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks.
The call was as common along the riverbank as that of the loon or the coyote.
“Ida! I-i-i-ida!”
Ida heard but she didn’t turn toward the call. Little waves lapped at her fingers, washing away a layer of sand to reveal hands as pale as white pine. She was speaking, but her words were caught on the current and swept away by the river.
“Sweet blessings, River Spirit,” she said eventually, lightly. She wiped her hands on her chemise because she’d forgotten her apron.
She didn’t run home, because Ida didn’t run. She didn’t want to miss anything along the way. Rather, she stopped to pick a bell-shaped maidenstear, turning it inside out and spreading its delicate petals to make a tiny dancer. She picked up a smooth flat stone that would be perfect for skipping or for pitching at a creature that got too close to the garden. She dropped it into one of her shoes, which she was swinging at her side.
She noted a new trail that had been stomped perpendicular to hers and she squinted into the woods along it.
The call again: “Ida! I-i-i-ida!”
She said a word of promise to the trees and picked up her pace ever so slightly.
Her mother’s admonishments began before her fingers were even on the door handle.
“And I’ve been calling you so long my throat is raw. What are we to do about that?”
Ida bit her lower lip. “Stop talking?”
Her mother’s hand was already holding a wooden spoon and Ida sidled out of reach just in time. “Where have you been? Talking to the Bell boy?”
“Talking to the River Spirit.”
“The devil, more like, and in a chemise. You stay away from that Bell boy. His father steals our wood for his furnace and his son will just as like steal your treasure, if you catch my meaning.
“It’s locked up, Mother.”
“May God hear that. Your apron, Ida. I needn’t tell you again.”
In her room, through the small window of which she could smell the river when the wind was right, Ida fastened her apron. In its pocket was the key to a carved box. Inside that, underneath her Bible, were a handful of gold coins, a gold ring and jeweled necklace her father’s mother had bequeathed her. She’d only tried them on when her own mother was fast asleep. She wasn’t allowed to wear them till she was married.
The key was fastened to a bracelet made of small iron links that James Bell had given her. She didn’t dare wear that, either.
“Satan can’t ever touch iron,” he had told her. “It’ll keep you safe.”
They had been much younger then, sitting under a canopy of leaves trying to scare each other with ghost stories while their fathers haggled over the cost of wood for the forge.
The River Spirit had evolved from those stories, being the volatile ghost of a woman who, Ida said, threw herself into the rushing waters in despair when her true love was slaughtered by pirates. When she was angry, she would kill and destroy without prejudice. When she was calm, she granted wishes to young lovers.
It was hours till Ida was able to slip away again. She had done her lessons and said her prayers and the summer sun was sinking. Her mother had gone to bed piously early and her father, as was his custom, had accompanied their men to the forges with the day’s haul of logs.
Halfway to the river, she stepped off the path to see how far went the little trail she’d spotted that morning. It was too defined to have been pressed down by deer, but not wide or obvious enough to have been cut by her father’s men.
In the stillness of almost-dusk came the soft echo of iron on wood. She took off her shoes and navigated carefully over pine needles and cooling dirt. She stepped into a man-made clearing just as a tree fell, the sound of twigs snapping and leaves being crushed masking her gasp. Two men with arms the size of small trees belted the trunk with leather straps and were hauling it away on a wider trail opposite the clearing.
Ida caught her breath and opened her mouth to demand an explanation, but before she had moved any farther into the clearing, James Bell was in front of her.
“Where did you come from?” she whispered.
“You shouldn’t be here, Ida.”
“In my father’s forest?”
His jaw beneath his sweet rosy cheeks hardened. The sun flashed between the leaves, then dropped a finger’s length. James’s smile spread with the shadows. “Ida. Ida. When we marry, it’ll be our forest.”
She took two wide steps into the clearing and was close enough to see the gold flecks in his brown eyes. But she was gazing at the stumps beyond him, which seemed more pronounced in the twilight.
She could hear the grunts and straining of the men hoisting the tree onto a wagon, the thump of wood on wood, the creaking of wheels. She raised her hand and lowered her chin — it might have looked like a nod or a prayer.
“Ida, we can talk to your father right now.”
She had started to walk away, but his voice followed her. “I need to see to these men, Ida. Wait for me. Wait for me a moment.”
Yet she was already at the wider path and had turned toward home.
Her carved box was too big to fit in her apron pocket; she held it tightly against her chest as she strode back toward the river. She did not glance at the newfound path but passed it with her chin raised.
A branch had fallen over her path and in her rush she stepped on it, gouging the soft flesh of her sole. She spat the devil’s name and caught herself before she fell, stumbling forward and leaving rust-coloured footprints on the hard sand. At the river’s edge she jerked to a stop and loosened her grip on the box.
“River Spirit. River Spirit. How many hundreds of times have I pleaded for true love? Well, he isn’t, Spirit. He isn’t true. He’s only after my treasure.” She held the box aloft and walked into the water. It stung her bloody foot and gooseflesh rose from her ankles to wrists.
“Sprite or devil, I commit my treasure to you. May he never lay eyes on it.”
She thought she heard her name and in one exploding heartbeat she pitched the box as far as she could from shore. It hit the surface with a thud and sank without further ceremony. She turned away before the first wave of ripples had reached her legs.
James was standing at the tree line, across the thin strip of sand that was almost pink as the sky now.
“It’s okay, Ida,” he said in a voice as buttery as the moon. “We can get it back.”
Partway up the beach, she paused. James was frozen as well, waiting for her.
Her fingers were curled around the key inside her pocket.
“You’re a thief,” she said so quietly he had to lean forward to hear. “You’ll never have what’s mine. Not my land. Not my treasure.”
“Ida.”
One step closer and she sank into a crevasse that had opened in the sand. James extended a hand and she stumbled out of his reach. The crevasse had begun to boil, and they frowned at it with eerily similar expressions of confusion. Ida recovered first; she pulled the key from her apron pocket and raised it above her head.
“Never,” she breathed, and she threw the key with all her power toward the bubbling hole. The iron sparked against a rock and the crevasse burst into flame, swallowing the key.
“The devil,” James spat.
Ida smiled and walked backward till she was in the river again. “You see the devil. I see the river. Begone, thief; my treasure is taken already.”
The legend of the devil’s cauldron is told many different ways in various texts and on plaques within The Forges. What we know is that there was a girl, or two girls, or a woman, and a treasure, and the devil. Ida Poulin was the daughter of a wealthy woodlot owner who is believed to have hidden treasure in a fury when Matthew Bell, manager of the ironworks, stole trees to make charcoal. Bell’s eldest son was named James.
The devil’s fountain is a small pool of water on the beach that perpetually bubbles thanks to methane near the surface. Bring a book of matches and see if you can get it to light up.
We’re giving The Forges two sneakers (out of a possible, completely arbitrary five). The museum and trails are lovely and staff as cheerful as at all Parks Canada sites. But there’s no dedicated play area for kids to run off steam and the trail from the museum, through the upper and lower forges and back to the parking lot is rather short. Your best bet is to pair a visit with a day or weekend trip to La Mauricie National Park.
The Forges is about 140 kilometres east of Montreal. It is open from June 23 to Sept. 3. You have one last chance to visit this year, on Sept. 29 for Journées de la culture.
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New York Law School: Bad GPA? How about Another Semester on the House.
{ February 6, 2012 @ 5:39 pm } · { Economy, Law School, Unemployment }
{ Tags: at risk, attorneys, bad investment, bar exam, employment statistics, free semester, fudge the numbers, law graduates, law school, law school scam, lawyers, legal education, new lawyers, New York, New York Law School, predictor, reality, recent law grads, student loans, unemployment, Wall Street Journal } · { Comments (2) }
Education Loan Payments Once You Graduate
Since law school administrators know that their current form of providing a legal education is inadequate to prepare graduating law students for the real world of law practice and to pass the bar exam, they found a new way to fudge their numbers. Since more mainstream media and law school scam blogs have brought attention for reform with law school employment statistics and student debt, one law school is offering some students one more semester to not deal with the hovering reality that will crash upon them once they graduate. The article mentions it focused on those “at risk” upon graduation, would one dare say you knew they were “at risk” when you offered them admission/enrolled them into your law program. Overexpanding your annual enrollment class to keep whatever financial aid from the federal government into you ‘institution of higher education?’ Read the following article of what New York Law School is now planning to do in order to skew the numbers:
Bad GPA? How about Another Semester on the House (02/06/2012)
One free semester after a full 3-year matriculation will likely change nothing. Whatever it takes to keep the numbers right, future student loan debt rolling into the schools and crashing on the law graduate.
Too Many Lawyers Not Enough Jobs: New York Edition
{ Tags: attorneys, economy, education, graduate school, higher, law, law graduates, lawyers, new, New York, no jobs, not viable, recession, recovery, unemployed, Wall Street Journal } · { Comments (7) }
The statistics cannot be ignored, slow economy, too many lawyers not enough jobs = Do Not Attend law school. We warned you and now more than ever main stream media is catching up. Because it’s so obvious and so overwhelming. Where before, say five or more years ago, one had an excuse, no knowledge of deceptive statistics, false encouragement of upward mobility, the higher education will make your life better. The Wall Street Journal is telling you there aren’t enough jobs for attorneys and they’re just referring to the NEWLY minted law graduates; not those who have been laid off or otherwise terminated, from the high ranking partnerships to the staff attorney who find that there is no resources awaiting them in the legal industry.So add that to the 9,000 new law school graduates in New York alone. Here you go:
New York Times Report Show Lawyer Surplus Law Jobs Shortage, Lawcrossing Finds 29,000 Attorney Jobs
Pasadena, CA — (SBWIRE) — 06/29/2011
The New York Times is reporting that the tough job market for new lawyers is partly a result of a lawyer glut in the law jobs market.
The article is based on data gathered and analyzed by Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (EMSI), a consulting firm specializing in economic analysis and employment data. The figures gathered by EMSI in fact show that the law schools are graduating more JDs than the economy can absorb for the next few years.
EMSI has taken as its baseline the number of people passing the bar in every state and DC in 2009. The numbers were then put up against the number of estimated job openings for lawyers in those states for the period 2010-15. In every state except Wisconsin and Nebraska, plus DC, there was a lawyer surplus.
The biggest surplus was in New York. 9,787 people passed the bar in 2009 for an estimated 2,100 openings for the period 2010-15. Nationwide, there were only 26,239 job openings for lawyers, while 53,508 people passed the bar. California was in second page with almost 3,000 lawyers in surplus.
Even Nebraska and Wisconsin just have negligible surpluses of law jobs for lawyers. But even though attorney jobs for new lawyers are scare, they exist in most states. LawCrossing is a job aggregator site for all types of legal jobs. The site has been able to locate over 5,500 attorney jobs in New York alone. Nationwide it has located over 29,000 attorney jobs.
Wow, Grade Inflation: Article in the New York Times
{ June 22, 2010 @ 11:06 am } · { Economy, Esquire, Imagery vs. Reality, Law School, Unemployment }
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Today the New York Times posted: In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That – NYTimes.com .Most of us already concluded that oversaturation of the legal market and lack of practical skills caused most lawyers to talk the plank into the sea of unemployment.
“In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient. These include law schools like New York University and Georgetown, as well as Golden Gate University and Tulane University, which just announced the change this month. Some recruiters at law firms keep track of these changes and consider them when interviewing, and some do not.”
This article focuses on grade inflation, with the implication that such practices will increase the chance for attorneys to get jobs. What the author fails to realize is that there aren’t any legal jobs to get moreso nowadays.
“Law schools seem to view higher grades as one way to rescue their students from the tough economic climate — and perhaps more to the point, to protect their own reputations and rankings. Once able to practically guarantee gainful employment to thousands of students every year, the schools are now fielding complaints from more and more unemployed graduates, frequently drowning in student debt.”
One could easily argue that students are getting grades they do not deserve, yet students who are forced into the bottom portion of the curve because of mandatory grading may benefit.
“Unlike undergraduate grading, which has drifted northward over the years because most undergraduate campuses do not strictly regulate the schoolwide distribution of As and Bs, law schools have long employed clean, crisp, bell-shaped grading curves. Many law schools even use computers to mathematically determine cutoffs between a B+ and a B, based on exam points.” I doubt somewhat the characterization the author makes of most undergraduate schools, like during this entire time the law school’s manner of operating has a clear history of legitimacy.
I do remember reading a year ago a high school or elementary schoolteacher who left primary education altogether because he was distraught that by school policy he HAD TO distribute a certain number of grades ranging from A’s to D’s for each school year. He stated there were some were good in certain areas like testing and others who were good in other areas, solving problems but not under pressure (I guess like schoolwork or homework) but I’m sure you can assume who received what grades. This teacher had a soul. Based on what I witnessed in law school, especially your first year, where you’re assigned tenured professors who have lost their minds, that many of them enjoy taking their life’s disappointments on unsuspecting students (pretty much all 1Ls). I’ve even met a Ph.D. professor who stated she enjoyed final exam and final grading because she could give whoever she didn’t like in her class whatever grade she wanted.
“All of the moves can create a vicious cycle like that seen in chief executive pay: if every school in the bottom half of the distribution raises its marks to enter the top half of the distribution, or even just to become average, the average creeps up. This puts pressure on schools to keep raising their grades further.” Wonder if it does any thing for their rankings too…”Employers say they also press law schools for rankings, or some indication of G.P.A.’s for the top echelon of the class. And if the school will not release that information — many do not — other accolades like honors and law journal participation provide clues to a student’s relative rank.” Interesting…
Anyone remember the scene from the Titanic when the ship was actually sinking and the violins kept playing either to comfort those on board or for those who wanted to enjoy themselves until the vary end? These schools are doing everything BUT closing down to keep the cycle going. These factors contribute greatly to the future generations, standard of living, mental and social health, but grading systems themselves do not appear to be regulated at all.
Next, the article reads: “Others, like Duke and the University of Texas at Austin, offer stipends for students to take unpaid public interest internships. Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law even recently began paying profit-making law firms to hire its students.” Just as many 0Ls are desparately seeking ways to attend law schools, these law schools are getting so desparate to have their prior students get some work. This is such a bad cycle. It’s like no one is dealing with reality. Cycle of law school addiction?
“But the tactic getting the most attention — and the most controversy — is the sudden, deliberate and dubiously effective grade inflation, which had begun even before the legal job market softened.”
“If somebody’s paying $150,000 for a law school degree, you don’t want to call them a loser at the end,” says Stuart Rojstaczer, a former geophysics professor at Duke who now studies grade inflation. “So you artificially call every student a success.”
But wait, IVY League law schools are doing it too: “Harvard and Stanford, two of the top-ranked law schools, recently eliminated traditional grading altogether. Like Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, they now use a modified pass/fail system, reducing the pressure that law schools are notorious for. This new grading system also makes it harder for employers to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, which means more students can get a shot at a competitive interview.”
This is unfortunate because as more of the lower tier law schools opened, more students will attend for some strange reason. Older generations (I mean people who grew up in the 80’s) did not have access to law school rankings and U.S. News and the internet. Career centers or counselors steered them towards state institutions regardless of rankings. Those that could’ve made it into Top Tier then would’ve had better chances of carving a real career in the legal industry before this devastating shift of “it will never be the same” occurred. Now, those who were intelligent enough and those who weren’t but attended the same TTT law school will be forever lumped in the mediocrity with rice paper thin prestige. Those who knew some of the game and went to top tier but not that much better will be given the written stamp of approval, you may pass “Go” but still on the other side of the door are the blank faces whose stares read “Yeah, they got me too.” So welcome one and all, at this point it does not make a difference which law school you attended, only in the heads of those promoting this practice and the all too eager law graduate who continues to delude him or herself into thinking that attending law school was a wise decision.
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Why is it expensive: The 7-Lakhs-upwards-a-night Regent Suite aboard the Seven Seas Splendor Cruise
Tarantino fans, meet the filmmaker’s 8 most stylish characters so far
Before ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’ hits theaters mid-August, we figured now would be a perfect time to look back at the director’s most stylish characters. From ‘Django‘ and his impeccable avant-gardiste outfit as a free man, to Mia Wallace’s revisited femme fatale look, there’s quite a lot to be unloaded, before we dive on the style of the 9th official Tarantino movie. Click the More Info button to see the Tarantino’s best dressed characters in action!
Caution, a few spoilers ahead…
Rosario Dawson as Abernathy Ross (Death Proof, 2007)
Not a lot to add, here. Rosario Dawson is Abernathy Ross in ‘Death Proof’. Her strong character contrasts with the personas we’ve been used to seeing in horror flicks. Her colorful wardrobe makes for an instant classic, the moment you glance at her. It is also more common than The Bride’s yellow outfit…
Robert De Niro as Louis Gara (Jackie Brown, 1997)
Heat, Casino, or Goodfellas should be enough for us to go through De Niro’s impeccable outfits as he plays less than recommandable characters that have a few issues with the law. Unfortunately, none of the movies mentioned there are Tarantino movies, and in ‘Jackie Brown’, released in 1997, the short-tempered bandit who’s always in-between two drug fueled episodes, is actually quite stylish (all character considerations aside). Patterned shirts, forearm tattoos and an iconic moustache are all part of the persona.
Lucy Liu as O. Ren Ishii (Kill Bill, 2003)
If Tarantino yearbooks existed, and as far as cold blooded killing machines go, O-Ren Ishii would for sure rank in the top of the crop. The sword master, trained killer and mafia leader, is also one hell of an elegant character. Don’t be fooled by her angelic face or elegant outfits, the half-Japanese, half-Chinese boss of the vipers killed her own subordinates for criticizing her mixed background…
John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction, 1994)
One memorable duo — The two are exactly what happens when a genius director is able to work with two equally genius actors. The two well-suited, menacing men are iconic for a few reasons, and the outfit is for sure one of them. Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two screwball henchmen, on the quest for a suitcase (you probably know the rest of the story). From a style stand point, the pair is reminiscent of Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’ styling.
Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus (Inglorious Basterds, 2009)
Shosanna Dreyfus, portrayed on the big screen by Mélanie Laurent, is both an hommage to actress Julie Dreyfus, who also plays in the movie, and a nod to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Much like the Victorian character, Shosanna Dreyfus is seeking justice via revenge against the Nazis, and she looks very stylish doing so.
Jamie Foxx as Django (Django Unchained, 2012)
The D is silent — The story of Django is a compelling, gory epic that portrays an ill America still looking for its true values. Tarantino depicts the horror of slavery like never before. Jamie Foxx plays the role of Django, an enslaved black man looking to free the love of his life, in an incredible eruption of violence, blood and fire that is very graphic, yet incredibly satisfying. The story is well complimented by Jamie Foxx’s outfits in the movie and fore sure, the blue ensemble has to be one of the most stylish outfits in the whole 2012 flick.
Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine (Inglorious Basterds, 2009)
Bawnjorno — What would an American man undercover in Paris during the second World War look like? Lt. Aldo ‘The Apache’ Rain is one of your answers. The leader of the Basterds, famously played by Brad Pitt, can’t speak a word of Italian, French or any other language for that matter, but he’s not there for that. As Aldo would put it: “You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin’.”
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace (Pulp Fiction, 1994)
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Medicating Women’s Moods
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[Note: I know in my last post I said that I was going to write about my time in the psychiatric ward, but then I read an article and my reaction was so strong that I had to write a rebuttal. So, I promise to continue my Dispatches from the Psych Ward series next week.]
Last week, The New York Times published an op-ed by psychiatrist Julie Holland called “Medicating Women’s Feelings.” I read it because I was hoping it was going to be a critique of how society has historically used psychiatry and pharmaceuticals to control women’s bodies and behaviours. Unfortunately, it ended up being a bad lesson in biological determinism, stereotypes, and oversimplification.
There are sweeping generalizations and stereotypes made throughout Holland’s op-ed. But my favourite one comes in her first sentence: “Women are moody.” There are roughly 3 billion women in the world and, according to Holland, we are all moody. In an article for The Frisky, Katrin Higher, argues that:
What she [Holland] fails to mention is that our particular biological expressions of fears and desires…are not any more moody than men’s particular manifestations of moodiness. Just because we may cry after something troubling, doesn’t mean a man won’t punch a wall (and maybe a woman will punch a wall, actually that sounds fun and I may try it) for a similar feeling.
Katrin is right. Some women may cry after something bad happens, but that doesn’t mean a man won’t react in some other way. Or, heaven forbid, they might actually cry! My point is, not all women are moody. It’s just ridiculous to think that all 3 billion of us react in the same way to situations. Some women are moody, but I also know a hell of a lot of men who are a lot more fucking moody than I am (and I have a disease that makes me pretty fucking moody).
Another issue with Holland’s op-ed is the overarching message that suggests that women’s “emotionality” is a source of untapped power and by medicating ourselves, we are losing this power. As someone who is both a woman and takes medication for a mental illness, does this make me less of a woman? Moreover, what about the trans community? Are trans women less of a woman because they don’t have the biology to make them emotional? Of course not! These sweeping generalizations about gender and emotions serve no one.
Moving beyond the oversimplification of women’s moodiness Holland argues that the pharmaceutical industry is “targeting women in a barrage of advertising on daytime talk shows and in magazines.” And she isn’t wrong. Since the advent of Valium being marketed as “Mother’s Little Helper,” psychotropic medications have been disproportionately marketed towards women. In a 2003 study Jonathan M. Metzl provided a visual history of how “psychotropic treatments became imbricated with the same gendered assumptions at play in an American popular culture intimately concerned with connecting ‘normal’ and ‘heteronormal’.”
If a woman was a lesbian, perceived as sexually promiscuous or frigid, or didn’t want to be a wife or mother, she was labelled as sick and often given medication until she agreed to the path set out for her by patriarchal society (check out Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler for more about this). However, this was also true for gay men or other people who didn’t fit into heteronormative society. Keep in mind, homosexuality was only removed from The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the psychiatric bible of diagnosis) in 1986.
Holland is also not wrong in saying that women are overmedicated. She contends that “one in four women in America now takes a psychiatric medication, compared with one in seven men.” However, I would suggest that the disproportionate use of medication between men and women may be skewed by the fact that men are less likely to seek help for their mental health and are therefore less likely to be given medication. Men have been taught that they cannot show their emotions whereas women have been told it’s okay to be emotional (unless they’re too emotional, in which case they’re crazy or on their period). This ties back into the dangers of Holland’s assumptions about emotions and gender. If we believe that women are allowed to be emotional because it’s more “natural” to them and teach boys that they are not – how are the expected to then seek help when they are struggling with their mental health?
I would also argue that society as a whole, and not just women, are overmedicated. We want a quick fix for our mental health and therapy takes time. The global pharmaceutical industry is valued at approximately $300 billion and they spend roughly one third of all sales revenue on marketing rather than research. And it’s not just Big Pharma making profits on us popping pills. Doctors are profiting big-time by shilling certain medications over others. This has become such a major issue that one of Canada’s largest medical regulators, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, is barring doctors from receiving any gifts from pharmaceutical industries. And the same is happening in the U.S.
However, this isn’t to say that medication doesn’t have a role in treating mental illness. A lot of people, myself included, benefit from taking medication to manage our moods. It’s just that when your doctor and Big Pharma can team up to push a certain medication, you have to start questioning whether or not we really need that antidepressant or not.
It’s not that Holland’s op-ed is entirely wrong, it’s just that she lacks nuance and contextualization for a lot of her assertions. Both women and men are emotional beings who have the capability to suffer from mental illness. And whether you choose medication, therapy or both it’s important that you seek help for your mental health and choose the treatment that’s right for you.
In case you want to read more in response to Holland’s op-ed, The New York Times published a series of letters.
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The Complete List of NCAA Bowl Game Swag
By Sean Norris
It's the most wonderful time of the year. No, not the holidays—the start of college football bowl season, a 35-game slate beginning Dec. 21 and stretching almost a week into the new year. And while the games should be killer, they're nothing compared to the swag athletes will receive for participating.
Sure, the NCAA has had its share of hangups of late—especially where promotional products are concerned—but bowl season giveaways are one thing the organization gets right. Just look at some of this stuff.
Participants in the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman will get a Sony PlayStation 4, a hat and a backpack. Players in the Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl will nab a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablet, Oakley sunglasses and more. And athletes competing in the Valero Alamo Bowl will receive an iPad Mini, an Apple gift card and a Fossil watch, among other gifts.
That's an impressive spread, but even more impressive might be the "gift suites" given to players at 14 of the bowl games, including the BCS National Championship Game. The suites—private events where bowl participants are allowed to select gifts from an array of options—offer a number of big-ticket items, including high-end electronics and wearables from major brands using the events as test markets for new items.
Our pick for coolest gift-suite giveaway? A leather home-theater recliner with USB ports for powering electronics. (Working from home would never be the same.)
Check out the entire list here, and leave your pick for best giveaway in the comments.
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The Maggid of Bergenfield
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Vayikra: The Sacrificial Hershey Bar
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It is not easy teaching fourth grade boys about animal sacrifice, especially last period on a Friday afternoon. The sun was out, and the school buses were already lining up outside to take them home for a long weekend away from school. You could clearly see them, almost glowing bright yellow, outside the classroom window.
This was going to take some pizazz to pull this off.
That was how Rabbi Heshe Lambert approached the third book of the Torah, Vayikra. It was filled with details about the korbanot. This was hard material to present to young students. But he was determined to get it right. So he brought some visual aids to his classroom, in a large cardboard box.
"Now boys, in Parshat Vayikra, Hashem teaches Moshe about the korbanot, the sacrifices that Klal Yisroel were commanded to bring in the Mishkan. Does anyone know what korban comes up first in the parsha?
"Shmuel? No, the Mincha, which is the meal offering, comes up a little later.
"Menachem? No the Shlamim, that is, the peace offering, comes up after that.
"Good guesses, boys. I can see you really read the parsha! Actually, the first korban that comes up is the Olah, It's an offering of atonement, to repent for sins, but it's also so much more. We'll talk about that more next week.
"The first question I wanted to ask you about the Olah is, what kinds of animal were you allowed to bring for this sacrifice? Everybody look in your chumashim and tell me what you find.
"Mark? Correct, you can use a cow.
"Yossi? Yes, you can use a sheep. Good.
"Pinky? No, no bears. No cheetahs. Come on, look in the chumash.
"Yes, Tuvia, you can bring doves. And other birds, too. Good one. The Torah also mentions goats.
"So my question for you is, why can you bring so many different animals?"
That was when the rabbi pulled out the box.
"The answer is, that everybody has different abilities and can afford different animals. The cattle is like the Cadillac of the animals. It's like--" he reached into the box and pulled out-- "this giant Hershey's Kiss, in this beautiful silver wrapper."
That worked. He finally had their undivided attention.
"Someone wealthy might bring a perfect cow, to symbolize his love of Hashem. Like this Kiss, it's the top of the line, if you were, say, offering candy sacrifices.
"But maybe you couldn't afford a cow. Still, you wanted to give the best that you could. So maybe you would offer up--" he reached into the box to the class' rapt attention-- "a sheep." He pulled out a big box of Mike and Ike's Red Rageous Candies (made with real fruit juice)--"or maybe a goat--" Fruit by the Foot. "I mean, it's not a giant Kiss, but still it's good. Know what I mean?"
Every boy in the room was nodding in agreement. Rabbi Lambert was pleased. His use of leftover Purim candy was paying off. And he was pretty sure his own kids would never miss it. They had gone into sugar-overload days ago.
"So let's say you really don't have much money. Still you want to serve Hashem with a full heart. So maybe you would go with--" he pulled out one cherry Twizzlers licorice--"something modest that still had significance to you."
One boy in the room--was it Nachum?-- actually let out a yum noise.
"So now we have a whole array of candy sacrifices standing in for our animal choices. And what do we learn from this? Anyone?
"No, Pinky, it is not that G-d loves candy. I would say that is not the message I was aiming for.
"Correct, Shimmy. The lesson here is that as long as a person offers what is from his heart, and what he is able to bring, then it will be accepted and he or she will be rewarded.
He reached into the box for one more item, a box of matches.
"And now I think it would be appropriate to offer up all this candy as a sacrifice to Hashem."
The gasp was fantastic. It almost made the whole lesson worth it.
"Just kidding. If you boys want to come up in an orderly fashion, there's enough candy for everyone."
And although the journey from their seats to the teacher's desk was actually less than orderly, Rabbi Lambert distributed the loot with the hope that his point had been made.
And even if it had been lost in the tumult before the boys raced home for Shabbat, at least he had the consolation of knowing he had eliminated some serious chametz from his house. A happy ending for all.
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COL3TRANE was once dubbed ‘North London’s Answer to Frank Ocean’, which is a pretty strong way to start a conversation. He’s certainly got the pipes; a smooth, downtempo croon that has made him the go-to collaborator for artists as diverse as Goldlink and SG Lewis. Reared on a combination of Motown and cutting-edge UK jazz, Cole Basta’s music combines a love of hip-hop with sumptuous production that far belies his 20 years. If he’s going to be the next big thing, it certainly helps that he’s already written himself the soundtrack.
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Ireland’s Great Potato Famine
[Originally published in July 2018]
During Ireland’s Great Potato Famine of 1845-52, one out of every eight people in Ireland died of starvation or disease. The famine resulted in more than a million deaths. Because potatoes were the nation’s staple food, untold numbers were reduced to eating grass or nothing at all when every year’s potato crops failed. Those who ate the rotted potatoes pulled from the ground became ill. And yet, British landlords made peasant farmers gather their wheat crops and send them to Britain while the Irish became walking skeletons, or ceased to walk at all.
Many who could gather together enough money to leave came to America, resulting in nearly a million poor Irish immigrants arriving on American shores during the famine years alone. These huge masses of desperate, often uneducated Irish made up the first large migration of poverty-stricken people to the U.S. This caused an upswelling of nativist hatred, bigotry and violence toward the Irish that took decades to abate.
Back in Ireland, British landlords evicted the starving Irish farmers and sharecroppers from their modest huts and houses when they couldn’t supply the promised number of bushels of produce from blighted land. Landlords kicked starving children, disabled elderly people and everyone in between out of their homes. They took every grain away from dying Irish babies and threw families out into the harsh elements, where hundreds of thousands of children died.
Why? Because rich landowners convinced themselves that vulnerable people were worthless people, that affluence is next to godliness, that some people are just born dirty and disgusting and disposable.
We have recently seen men kidnap tiny victims of war, call their parents murderers and rapists, and send them back to the countries that killed their family members and threatened their lives. Powerful Americans prey on victims of war, legal asylum seekers. Poor, battered, sick and exhausted people offer themselves up to our mercy, thinking the great and powerful United States will keep them from dying. They think we will shelter them from the gangs that torture and murder their loved ones in their home countries. They hope to get jobs and work hard and have a chance to be safe and stop their nightmares. Because they thought we meant it when we said that our nation reveres liberty and justice for all.
Treating the Irish like nonentities was made easier by the prevalence of stereotypes of the Irish people as stupid, lazy, filthy, obscene, drunken, vulgar and subhuman. They were said not to care about their children the way good Christian English people did, not to mind eating rot, to be too drunk to be aware of their misery, to be innately drawn to sin. Many English (and Americans) were taught that the Irish had earned their state because they were depraved and unloved by God. Their Catholicism was considered vulgar, and was held up as one more reason to despise them. This anti-Irish sentiment followed the Irish to America, so even though many found opportunity here, acceptance was hard-won.
Now we hear so many of those same epithets and slanderous words flung at Mexicans and Central Americans and South Americans who are struggling just to stay alive. The Irish immigrants who flocked to American in the 1840s and 1850s would certainly recognize the degrading and dehumanizing words that spill out of our president’s mouth, and the rough and degrading treatment given to those who drag themselves here asking only to be given a chance to stay alive.
This is how evil spreads—by determining that those who suffer must deserve their suffering, and that those in hard circumstances don’t feel or care or love as much as the affluent do. By turning away from our responsibility to help the most vulnerable among us, we stomp out compassion. By labeling the destitute and distraught as vermin, as innately criminal, as dirty, dangerous and bad for society, we propagate the rot.
We are spreading a new plague. We are setting our own destruction in motion.
Many currently in power preach that the poor are bad and undeserving, and that the foreign-born poor are even more depraved—dangerous, too. This is one of the roots of evil—this determination of the worth of human beings based on homelands or ethnicity.
For a few decades, we seemed to have gotten better about this. Most in the U.S. who still held filthy, bigoted thoughts (and there were many) knew to hide them in public. But the demons of prejudice and hate walk more openly among us now. They continue to spread the lies that some people are innately unworthy of concern, of help, even of life.
Why don’t we learn?
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How Xenophobia Destroys Us from the Inside
Video July 8, 2017 Laura Grey
A model member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology community, a hardworking go-getter who regularly works 16-hour days to support his family (which includes two daughters—both U.S. citizens—and a wife who is eight months into a high-risk pregnancy), is likely to be deported this summer. Does he have a criminal record? No. Is he a leech on the public welfare system? No. Francisco Rodriguez not only works full time as a custodian at MIT but also runs a carpet-cleaning company, and he pays income taxes on both jobs.
Did he lie to the government and try to sneak in? No; he applied for asylum when he moved here from El Salvador just over a decade ago. A mechanical engineer in his native country, his success made him a target of gangsters who shook him down and threatened him with murder if he didn’t pay them even more. He has been up-front with the Department of Homeland Security all along the way. The U.S. would not give him asylum, but until recently they would not begin deportation proceedings, either, since it was clear that Francisco was not a risk to our nation—indeed, he was a taxpayer and a job-creator, he supported his family and was active in his children’s school, his church and his union. But on July 13, he will meet with representatives of ICE, possibly for the last time before he is forced to leave his family, his job, his business—everything—behind in the U.S., the country he has served so well for over a decade.
So what changed? Our nation is now led by a man who sees all born outside of our borders as lesser beings, and he sees those who were born in countries below our southern border as especially dangerous and worthless, with inherent violent and immoral tendencies, no matter how clearly the facts prove otherwise.
Francisco Rodriguez wasn’t targeted for deportation because he’s a danger to society; he was chosen because his honesty made him easy to find, and his lack of criminality made him highly unlikely to cause a fuss when he was singled out for removal from his home, his family, his job and his community. If Francisco is deported, he and his wife will not be allowed to travel between the U.S. and El Salvador to visit each other for at least ten years.
The true cost of Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-refugee policy is this: families are torn apart; honest and hardworking people are forced to give up everything to go to countries where their safety is at risk; taxpayers are taken off the rolls, so the IRS loses out on revenue; and formerly independent families are forced to ask for assistance during and after family crises (in this case a high-risk birth with no father present—a crisis completely manufactured by the U.S. government).
The knock-on effect of sweeping deportations to families, businesses, tax rolls and our culture in general is enormous and devastating. It will soon be felt strongly in the business world and will result in lower income tax revenues as well. The service and construction sectors rely heavily on undocumented labor and are fearful of the increasing costs of hiring citizens who want greater income and shorter hours. The agriculture sector is already feeling the pinch and is worried about how they’ll manage to find enough farm workers to bring in their crops. They can’t find enough citizens willing to work long hours in seasonal agricultural jobs in the blistering harvest-season heat, even as wages rise. Produce will rot before it can be picked and distributed when there are not enough workers to go around. Will our supposedly business-savvy president recognize the folly of his fear and hate then? It is doubtful.
These misguided policies fuel our growing xenophobia and will take a huge economic and emotional toll on our nation. It is never in our country’s interests to treat good, honest, hardworking people like criminals because of an accident of birth. Our moralistic pronouncements about the greatness of our country are hollow when we use our might to destroy lives, to vilify honorable people and to dismantle our social compact out of unearned self-regard based on birth and not innate worth. We harm ourselves as well as others when we let our fears and prejudices overcome reason, mercy and human decency.
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I Cannot Celebrate Today
July 4, 2017 Laura Grey
I feel so melancholic about the direction this nation has taken this past year that I can’t find much to celebrate this Independence Day. These supposedly United States are again facing so many of the things we chose to free ourselves of in 1776—institutionalized inequality; a growing lack of respect for our sisters and brothers among the populace; rule by a careless aristocracy that stomps on the most vulnerable; and the detestation and destruction of truth, justice, fairness and mercy by those in power. But this time, these evils are not visited on us by a distant king—these sins are of our own making. We have chosen our own violent, prejudiced, ugly, Earth-hating leadership.
I want to celebrate and revel in the passion of the masses who resist. I want to stand with them against greed and bigotry and corporate take-over of our health and safety and humanity. But today, I just need to hide away from blind, jingoistic celebration of a nation that shuts its doors on refugees, on the destitute, on the desperate. I don’t recognize my nation anymore, the nation whose Constitution has so often made me literally weep with pride. I cannot celebrate today.
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Coretta Scott King’s Condemnation of Jeff Sessions
February 7, 2017 Laura Grey
Above is the beginning of the letter that civil rights leader (and widow of Martin Luther King Jr.) Coretta Scott King wrote to segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond about Jeff Sessions in 1986 when she was protesting his nomination for a position as a federal judge. On the cover page of her nine-page letter, Mrs. King wrote, ‘“Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters. For this reprehensible conduct, he should not be rewarded with a federal judgeship.”
Thurmond was supposed to make the letter a part of the Senate record, but he failed to do his duty in an attempt to the hide the filthy history of a fellow believer in white supremacy. Thurmond’s action hid the fact of the letter from the public for 30 years. It was recently rediscovered and shared by the Washington Post.
Tonight Senator Elizabeth Warren was reading it aloud on the floor of the U.S. Senate when Republican Senator Mitch McConnell shut her down, saying she was breaking Senate rules against impugning the name of a fellow member of the Senate by sharing historical facts about his long history of racism, facts necessary to properly assess his worthiness for one of the most powerful posts in the nation.
Jeff Sessions has spoken on behalf of segregationists and white supremacists. He has gone out of his way to stand by bigots and against racial equality in his public as well as his private life. Now Donald Trump wants him to be our Attorney General.
Stand up to them, America.
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Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Video January 28, 2017 Laura Grey
Here is a chilling scene from the musical Cabaret by composers John Kander and Fred Ebb. In this first week of the Trump presidency, when our freedoms are already being ripped from us and a dark, xenophobic hatred is settling on our nation, sharing this troubling work of art feels particularly and horribly apt and important.
Kander and Ebb wrote a number of musicals, including Chicago, together. Their biggest hits were stories of darkness and decadence in which the music, though catchy and clever, eloquently underscored the sordid qualities of the worlds in which their stories took place. Their songs (including “Cabaret,” “New York, New York,” “Maybe This Time” and “All That Jazz“) are so pleasing that they can be pulled from their context and enjoyed as great tunes whenever and wherever you like. But in context, Kander and Ebb’s songs enrich and amplify the plays’ messages and power and make them two of the most important creators in the musical theater canon.
As Jews and homosexuals born in the 1920s, both Kander and Ebb had seen and experienced antisemitic and homophobic bigotry personally. One imagines that those difficult experiences can only have deepened their understanding of and sympathy for the characters for whom they wrote.
Please watch this clip to the end to experience its full, chilling power. Far from being a simple musical comedy, Cabaret is the story of life around a Berlin cabaret during the rise of the Nazi party during the early 1930s. It shows how evil infiltrates a cultured and cosmopolitan nation, and how no amount of retreating to the cabaret for distractions can keep the evil truths of the outside world from overtaking a once-beautiful culture.
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Einstein Was a Refugee
When Albert Einstein came to the U.S. to escape persecution by the Nazis, prominent Americans like Charles Lindbergh were warning the nation of the dangers of letting outsiders into the country. He and many popular politicians, religious leaders and businessmen (like Henry Ford) got on the radio, lobbied politicians, published antisemitic books and pamphlets and joined with white supremacist organizations to spread fear and hatred toward Jews. Many said that Jews were communist agitators without morals who would infiltrate the American way of life, degrade American culture and destroy Christian values. So this supposedly Christian nation turned away Jewish refugees out of irrational fear based on a lack of understanding of others’ religious and cultural beliefs. And it’s happening again. One state government after another is shutting its doors to Syrian refugees, describing them as dangerous jihadists and assuming that Muslims are all wild desert people without morals. ISIS/ISIL/Daesh wants a religious war, and we’re playing right into their hands. Don’t let us harden our hearts against refugees based on irrational fear. Don’t let the terrorists win.
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Fat Shaming: Socially Acceptable Bigotry
Fashion designer and Academy-Award-nominated actress Melissa McCarthy, second from left, shows off pieces from her new 7Seven fashion line, Summer, 2015
When gifted comic actress Melissa McCarthy was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, she went searching for an appropriately elegant evening gown to wear to the ceremony. “I asked five or six designers,” she told Redbook magazine. “Very high-level ones who make lots of dresses for people — and they all said no.” The designers demurred because Ms. McCarthy does not conform to the fashion world’s size-two-to-size-six ideal. Designers had no interest in having her wear their dresses, even though over 40 million people in the U.S. alone saw Ms. McCarthy on their TV screens in one night, because designers feared that being seen to create clothing for larger women would actually harm the reputations of their design houses.
It’s ironic that designers think designing for women size 14 and up degrades and debases their brands since fully two-thirds of women in the United States fall into that category. Over 90 million women in the U.S. alone wear size 14 or larger, yet they are relegated to smaller, sadder “plus-size” clothing departments. They are made to feel that they are not only unimportant but not worthy of attractive, comfortable clothing even though they purchase and wear billions of dollars worth of clothing and accessories each year. They are shut out of many stores and designer’s lines completely, and stores that cater to them often offer them less flattering products for more money. The funny but maddening WTF Plus Tumblr blog shows the range of hideous, sexless, embarrassing clothes designed for larger women that smaller women would never be expected to buy, let alone wear.
While Emmy-winning actress Melissa McCarthy is best known for being a popular comedian who is willing to bear the brunt of jokes about her large size, she actually started out as a fashion and textile design student at New York’s prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology before her career in entertainment took off. In August 2015 her new line of clothing, 7Seven, debuted a line of clothes ranging in size from 4 to 28. The line is in a relatively affordable price range that matches or meets the prices of retailers like Ann Taylor and Banana Republic. With her inaugural collection, McCarthy shows a great eye for proportion, fit, pattern and texture. Her designs are fashion-forward and very wearable.
McCarthy dislikes the term “plus-size.” “Seventy percent of women in the United States are a size 14 or above, and that’s technically ‘plus size,’ so you’re taking your biggest category of people and telling them, ‘You’re not really worthy.’ I find that very strange,” she says.
In response to the news of her fashion line’s availability, Internet trolls came out en masse on social media and news sites to denigrate McCarthy and others for “enabling” and celebrating larger women’s rights to enjoy their bodies. As always happens when women with bodies larger than a size 6 dare to show comfort or confidence in their appearance, people took to their computers to accuse McCarthy and others of glamorizing unhealthy lifestyle choices. Those self-elected arbiters of appropriate body shape and size would like all people size 8 and above to go about in sack cloth and ashes until they starve themselves down to a single-digit dress size.
Disapproval and disrespect shown toward plus-sized people doesn’t obviate their need to find clothes that fit, feel good and look attractive. Those who respond to Ms. McCarthy’s new business venture by denigrating those who are larger than themselves are essentially saying that allowing people to clothe themselves attractively, affordably and comfortably is the wrong tack—that we should instead shame them into looking the way we want them to and tell them that having the bodies they have is a moral failing. I wonder whether these self-appointed body shamers go out of their way to shame smokers and alcoholics, too. Those who drink or smoke bring on early death from their habits in even greater numbers than overeaters do, but our society shows them more understanding. They have the option of giving up their habits and avoiding people and places that trigger their dangerous behaviors, but EVERYONE has to eat, and every metabolism is different, so larger people can’t just stop the behavior (i.e., eating) that disrespectful trolls find offensive.
Many larger people are actually regular exercisers who are quite healthy—you can’t tell from looking who is truly unhealthy inside. Large people have higher rates of some deadly diseases, but so do coal miners, house cleaners and beauticians because they choose jobs that expose them to carcinogenic chemicals. Police officers and soldiers die in greater numbers and intentionally choose work that causes great stress that often requires taxpayer-funded medical and psychological intervention later. Do we judge them for putting their lives at risk? Do we denigrate them for their choices?
Melissa McCarthy is a multitalented woman who designs chic, comfortable and fashion-forward clothing, much of it aimed at a market that comprises over two-thirds of the nation’s adult female population. People who want to shame those women into conforming to their personal preferences are nothing more than hateful bigots who spew venomous tirades in the self-righteous belief that their discomfort over seeing bodies larger than those featured in Vogue magazine justifies their using their supposed concern about health and setting bad examples for youth so they can clobber those with different body types and sizes over the head, shaming and shunning them and telling them that they are unlovable, undisciplined and unimportant, none of which is true.
An ever-growing body of scientific literature points toward the fact that people who are deemed overweight to obese usually have very different gut biomes (intestinal ecosystems) than thinner people do, and that the varieties and sizes of bacterial colonies in their guts have an enormous impact on the speed and effectiveness of their bodies’ metabolic rates, the intensities of their cravings for food, the ways in which they metabolize medicines, and their propensity toward depression, anxiety and other emotional and psychological disorders that may manifest in a compulsion to eat in order to find comfort.
In short, the gut biomes of larger people may send intensely powerful and frequent signals to their brains telling them what, when and how much to eat. We live in a culture in which almost everyone has taken multiple types of antibiotics that distrupt gut biomes, sometimes with disastrous, even deadly results. We are also regularly bombarded with ads for unhealthy foods and drinks that further disrupt our gut biomes and our endocrine systems, making permanent weight loss exceptionally difficult for even the most determined people. But we are also surrounded with Photoshopped images of impossibly thin, unrealistically proportioned people on TV, in movies, in pornography and in computer games, making it easier to believe that there are actually many more “perfect” bodies in existence than actually occur on this or any other planet. So we compare ourselves to these pretend people we keep seeing, and to make ourselves feel less bad about our own imperfections, we glom onto the perceived failures of others and build ourselves up by ripping them apart and smarmily saying that we’re shaming and shunning them for their own good. How preposterous. It’s cruel, and it doesn’t help people to lose weight.
What does help? Making people feel confident and attractive enough to get up, get out and exercise and take good care of themselves. Helping them to feel less anxious or depressed about themselves by giving them access to clothes and accessories that allow them to feel more attractive, confident and appealing. Success breeds success; those who feel shame are more likely to retreat into self-defeating behaviors that compound difficult habits, while those who believe in their inherent worth and who have hope for a positive future are more likely to get up and take the actions that lead to healthier, happier lives. Shaming and shunning those who are heavy tends to push them toward habits that make them heavier still. Helping them to find attractive outfits for every occasion, including athletic and exercise wear, gives them ways to love the bodies they have and helps them to believe that their bodies are worth effort and care.
Yes, being obese is not healthy, but being slightly overweight actually leads to a longer life expectancy than being slightly underweight. Furthermore, many people who are significantly overweight exercise regularly and do not have either diabetes or high blood pressure, just as some very fit and thin women have serious diabetes from childhood onward and need daily insulin injections. You can’t tell by looking, and even if you could, others’ dietary habits are not your business.
Should we encourage healthy dietary and exercise habits throughout society? Yes! Should we work to eliminate junk food dispensaries from schools and increase the quality of school lunches and discourage teachers from using sodas and snacks as rewards for good work? Yes! But it does not follow from these societal goals that encouraging health requires disparaging and defaming those whose habits or bodies don’t conform to cultural ideals.
Rather than fat-shaming those among us with larger bodies, let us celebrate women like Melissa McCarthy who make larger women feel freer to be active, positive and comfortable in their bodies while living happy, productive, healthy and engaged lives.
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[Revised from an article originally published in Laura Grey’s Little Hopping Bird blog.]
You’d be shocked if a coworker said she could gauge the intelligence of a member of your company by the color of her skin, wouldn’t you? If your child’s teacher said Muslim kids aren’t trustworthy, you’d notify the principal at once. If your favorite cafe’s owner said he disliked gay people, his blatant bigotry would ensure that you’d never eat his risotto again. You’re careful not to stereotype people in wheelchairs or wheatgrass juice drinkers, lesbians or limo drivers, Estonians or the elderly. You see how ridiculous it is to ascribe personality traits to whole groups, or make generalizations about ability or behavior based on so little information. You expect your friends, family and coworkers to show the same respect to others that you do.
So, why are so many otherwise sensitive, multiculturally aware folks so willing to put down the little guy? Why does society hold such contempt for short men? Why are smaller-than-average fellows passed over for jobs, relationships and pay raises at higher rates than other men? And why are jokes and snide asides about short men being less confident, virile or capable so pervasive?
Easy laughs at the expense of men who are mere inches shorter than average are commonly accepted in daily conversation, in ads, in TV shows and films, at work. Even the rare man who shares my own height of just five feet two inches is only 10% smaller than a man of average stature in the U.S., and most men who are publicly berated for being short come within 5% of average height. Why do we ascribe so much social importance and status to such a small variance in size?
My own height is below the 25th percentile for American women, so I’ve always been aware of society’s preference for taller people. But as a petite female, I sometimes benefit from stereotypes about small women. Short women are often assumed to be cuter, nicer or more approachable before people even get to know us. Our stature is less threatening, so strangers often assume our personalities will follow suit. Because people expect us to be friendlier, meeker and weaker than average, they might let down their guard more easily with us and be more willing to help us. However, they also condescend more, sometimes assume we’re less capable or even less intelligent, and not infrequently they offer assistance we haven’t asked for and don’t want, sometimes insistently, as if being smaller than they are means we can’t be trusted to gauge our own strength and ability appropriately.
In study after study, the majority of men say they much prefer dating women who are smaller than they are. Shorter-than-average women make men feel bigger and stronger in comparison with taller women. Tall women definitely find it harder to find men who are comfortable dating them, and they say overwhelmingly that they prefer to date men even taller than they. They then hear fewer comments about their height and get less attention for sticking out in a crowd. But tall women also have a lot of positive characteristics ascribed to them. They’re assumed to be more capable and powerful in social, academic and business settings, so they earn more money as a group than their smaller sisters. There are various advantages to being taller than average, of medium height or even shorter than average height for women, and men of taller-than-average height gain noticeable benefits in social, financial, academic, business and governmental realms. But short men? They’re at a social disadvantage across the board.
Surveys of attitudes reveal that people both perceive and treat people of shorter stature as inferior. This is particularly notable in the business sphere. International university studies have shown that short people, male and female, are paid less than taller people, with disparities similar in magnitude to those ascribed to race and gender gaps. Tall people have significant advantages when it comes to hiring, pay, promotions and prominence within their companies. A 2005 survey of the heights of Fortune 500 companies’ CEOs revealed that they were on average six feet tall, approximately three inches taller than the average U.S. man. Fully 30% of these CEOs were six feet two inches tall or more. Ninety percent of CEOs are of above average height.
In the U.S., taller candidates have the advantage in electoral politics, though heightism isn’t a problem in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin is just over five feet seven and former President Dmitry Medvedev is just over five feet five inches tall. France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy is just over five feet six. He is married to the former model Carla Bruni, who is five feet nine inches tall, and throughout his tenure this fact was constantly remarked upon throughout the world. Endless jokes were made about his power being enough of an aphrodisiac to make up for his lack of height, which many assume would otherwise make him appear weak and sexually less desirable. As if a man’s attractiveness, sexual skill or ability to be a good husband had anything to do with his height!
Shockingly, heightism has been cited as one of the underlying causes of the Rwandan genocide, in which approximately one million people were killed. One of the reasons that political power was conferred on minority Tutsis by the exiting Belgians was reportedly because Tutsis were taller and were therefore seen by the Belgians as superior and more suited to governance than Hutus. That’s a horrifying price to pay for baseless prejudice, isn’t it?
Why do a few inches of height matter so much that over 90% of women say they wouldn’t want to date someone shorter than they are? Why do men and women find being of short stature so risible? Film and TV directors often elicit laughs by having a short man make an entrance in a scene when a man of power, action or attractiveness is expected, playing off the audience’s expectation that a charismatic individual must be tall. Think for a moment about how often people laugh at the mere idea that a short man could be considered worthy of their admiration, just as people used to laugh at the idea of showing respect to women, black people or gays and lesbians.
Much loved actor Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones and was so moving in the film The Station Agent, has made a career of playing bright, serious men with dwarfism in a world in which people make constant assumptions about their ability, their personalities or their manhood based on nothing more than height. The brilliant economist Robert Reich met Bill Clinton while they were Rhodes Scholars; he went on to be Clinton’s labor secretary and is now a professor at UC Berkeley. He is a particularly witty and pleasant fellow, and is quite willing to make jokes about his four-foot-ten-inch stature. He has to be a good sport about this; it is cited as a relevant fact about him far too frequently. Reich is wise to let this roll off his back; when short men show fatigue or frustration at the frequent comments and stares, the public that so enjoys razzing them about this inane fact is all too quick to turn nasty and attribute a panoply of bad characteristics to them based on, yes, their lack of height.
We’ve all heard that short men are supposed to be prone to the Napoleon Complex, or Little Man Syndrome, an alleged type of inferiority complex said to affect men of short stature who attempt to overcompensate for their height in other aspects of their lives. Yet this supposed syndrome or complex does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Ironically, Napoleon Bonaparte was, at five feet six, taller than the average European man of his time. Yet how many images have you seen of Napoleon depicted as unnaturally short, and how many times has that trope been used for comic effect? He and countless men of less-than-average height have been depicted as angry, pompous and much shorter than they are, and the negative characteristics ascribed to them are often assumed to be related to a burning desire to overcome supposed embarrassment and self-hatred brought on by their height. Interestingly, research by Britain’s University of Central Lancashire shows that the supposed Napoleon Complex (described by them in terms of the theory that shorter men are more aggressive and try to dominate those who are taller than they are) was not in evidence in their experiments. In their studies, taller men were more likely to lose their tempers and be aggressive than shorter men. The Wessex Growth Study, a community-based longitudinal study conducted in the UK, monitored the psychological development of children from school entry to adulthood which found that “no significant differences in personality functioning or aspects of daily living were found which could be attributable to height”; this functioning included generalizations associated with the Napoleon Complex, such as risk-taking behaviors.
Think of how often this cliché appears in television, film and especially advertising. When people need visual shorthand to express negative characteristics, isn’t it remarkable how often they resort to using height as a signifier for social, sexual or business failure? The primary villain in the popular animated movie Shrek is Lord Farquaad, whose most notable physical characteristic is his extreme shortness. He is repeatedly made the butt of jokes about his stature, even in his presence, despite his power and authority. His every entrance is made more ridiculous by his attempts to conceal his lack of height. The idea that his dastardly and grandiose gestures are all efforts to compensate for shortness (or his supposed lack of virility) is not only alluded to tacitly but is explicitly mentioned numerous times. His small stature is, if you will, visual shorthand meant to allow the audience to detest and dehumanize him so that he can be made more hateful and ridiculous in our eyes.
Michael J. Fox has been an extremely popular actor and public figure for over 35 years. He is talented, likeable, attractive and witty, and his articulate and impassioned advocacy for stem cell research brings a huge amount of attention and funding to his cause. He suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, which often causes embarrassing physical tremors and even difficulty speaking, but he has been willing to brave the snide remarks and derision of people like Rush Limbaugh in order to help his others, no matter how difficult or exhausting public speaking are for him, and no matter how much travel and public scrutiny and exhaustion aggravate his symptoms. Yet, despite his remarkable efforts, which have allowed his foundation to fund over $450 million worth of research to help people with Parkinson’s to live better lives, public figures and private ones continue to make jokes about his height and caustically remark on his shortness, as if his size should in any way impact our ability to take him seriously.
Tom Cruise’s having had several wives taller than he is has gotten nearly as much press as his dismaying affiliation with Scientology, and has garnered much more press than stories of his actual acting talent or business acumen. His over-the-top demeanor and outspoken behavior certainly merit attention and even, at times, derision, but why is his height alluded to alongside descriptions of his behavior, as if the two were related? He is one of the most popular, lauded, influential, powerful and wealthy men of all time, yet there is usually a derisive smirk on the faces of commentators and poison in their prose when they refer to him. How many times have you heard journalists laugh because a shorty like Tom Cruise thinks himself worthy of the amazonian goddesses at his side? And how minuscule, how lilliputian, is this allegedly tiny and unworthy human being who thinks he’s man enough to stand next to Katie Holmes (who is five feet eight) or Nicole Kidman (who is five feet ten)? At five feet seven, he’s two inches shorter than the average U.S. male. Two inches. The width of a small lemon. But because he dares to fall in love with women who are taller than he, he is castigated and verbally emasculated by media outlets on a nearly daily basis. How ridiculous is that?
For the fun of it, consider the following list of shorter-than-average famous men. Consider their accomplishments, personalities, their talents, their influences on culture. Think about whether they fit general stereotypes of short men. Then consider whether you have unwittingly bought in to these stereotypes, or carelessly perpetuated any of them. It’s so common, and so easy to do. But it’s not fair. It’s time to stand up for the little guy.
Five feet tall: David Ben-Gurion • Andrew Carnegie • Danny DeVito • Fiorello LaGuardia
Five feet two: Buckminster Fuller • Paul Simon
Five feet three: Mohandas Gandhi • Martin Scorsese
Five feet four: Ludwig van Beethoven • Mel Brooks • Elton John • Pablo Picasso • Rod Serling • Auguste Rodin
Five feet five: Harry Houdini • J.R.R. Tolkien • Lou Reed • Armand Hammer • Gus Grissom • Sammy Davis Jr.
Five feet six: Alfred Hitchcock • Bob Dylan • Peter Falk • William Faulkner • Elijah Wood • Dustin Hoffman • Spud Webb • T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Five feet seven: Martin Luther King, Jr. • Stephen Spielberg • Robin Williams • Mario Andretti • Bono • Doug Flutie • F. Scott Fitzgerald • David Eckstein • James Cagney • Salvador Dali • Al Pacino
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Height 6'
Strawberry Blond Hair
Jim Shooter/Creator
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Mary MacPherran (Earth-616)/Quotes
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Normal Intelligence
Superhuman (75-100 ton) Strength
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Bulletproof Durability
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Mary MacPherran (Earth-616)
Mary MacPherran Creel
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Skirn, Skeeter, Thunder Girl, Spider-Woman, 'sweet patootie'[1]
Carl Creel (Absorbing Man) (husband);
Jerry Sledge (step-son)
Gamma Flight; formerly Roxxon Industries[2], Doom Maidens, Umbral Dynamics, Illuminati, The Worthy, Masters of Evil, Frightful Four, Legion Accursed[3]
Formerly The Hood's Lair, Hell; Denver, Colorado; New York City, New York
Professional criminal, mercenary
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545 lbs (247.21 kg) (95 lbs before transformation into Titania)
Human mutate genetically enhanced by Doctor Doom using Battleworld technology
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Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #3
Face it, Greenie. There's only room for one strongest woman... and it ain't you!
-- Titania src
Mary MacPherran was born prematurely in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. Mary was often overlooked as the smallest of her siblings and would immerse herself in fantasy books. She grew little over the years, remaining short and scrawny compared to her peers; a popular girl at school named Vanessa Ashwood gave Mary the nickname "Skeeter" (a slang word for mosquito) because of this. Her only real friend was Marsha Rosenberg, who was similarly unpopular (in her case for being awkward and overweight). Consistently mocked and humiliated since childhood by the wealthy Vanessa and her social clique, Mary (and Marsha) had to take menial jobs to survive. Mary grew bitter over her hard life, and fantasized about something improbable in her favor such as winning the lottery. These fantasies soon turned to gaining superpowers to be admired, and to exact revenge on her tormentors.[4]
When the second Spider-Woman Julia Carpenter began to make appearances in Denver, Rosenberg remarked that her hair was the same color as Mary's. Mary falsely confided in her friend that she was secretly Spider-Woman, and when Rosenberg spread the rumor, Mary saw her popularity grow and was invited to a party by Vanessa and her clique.[4]
In the midst of the party, however, their suburb of Denver was ripped from Earth and used by the alien Beyonder to create the makeshift planet Battleworld. When the real Spider-Woman arrived on the scene and saved the guests from falling debris, Vanessa and her friends realized they'd been duped and chased MacPherran and Rosenberg into the forests of Battleworld. Frightened and exhausted, the two young women were found by the villain Doctor Doom, who was looking for recruits for his army of supervillains; he offered the girls the chance of gaining superhuman powers, which they accepted Doom's offer.[5]
Doom recreated both women using highly advanced alien technologies found in the aptly named "Doombase", which were powered by immense energies from a ferocious alien storm outside. Able to use the technology entirely as he desired, Doom induced high-level metahuman abilities of a specific and particular design. While Rosenberg (now known as Volcana) received a fiery form composed of ionized plasma, MacPherran gained powers in diametric opposition to her previous incarnation - where once she had been "the scrawny one who got her face rubbed in the dirt," she was now far taller, muscular, and more buxom than average. She now had an incredibly high level of superhuman strength and durability. [5]
The changes were not only physical, but mental in nature. Where Mary MacPherran had been small and timid, the newly-named Titania - so called because she had strength like a titan - was proud and confident, perhaps to extremes. Volcana melted some machinery into a large pile of red-hot slag; Titania immediately picked it up, boldly ignoring the slight possibility of injury, and hurled it through the wall. Soon after, she challenged Carl "Crusher" Creel, the Absorbing Man, to a fight which he refused, reasoning that he had "nothing to prove...to a dame."[5]
After gaining powers, she was introduced to the other villains that were assembled there on the planet, including the Absorbing Man. Titania began to work for Doom in earnest, battling the superheroes. She soon made an enemy out of Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk, which would be the beginning of a long rivalry.[6]
When the heroes later stormed the Doombase to rescue She-Hulk after Titania and her allies had beaten her senseless, Titania tried to face up against veteran super-hero Spider-Man; despite her massive strength and durability advantages, Spider-Man's highly superior speed, agility, and long experience in fighting against more powerful foes allowed him to not only dodge her assaults, but to attack her with impunity, culminating in throwing her through an exterior wall. During this fight, Titania's attitude and newfound arrogance quickly evaporated, giving way to what Spider-Man called the "whining little wimp-ette" inside - it was clear that her arrogance could only last while Titania had the upper hand, as otherwise a reversion to her previous character would occur. Mindful of this beating, Titania would harbor a fear of Spider-Man for quite some time after.[7]
After her run-in with Spider-Man, a previously hinted-at relationship between the Absorbing Man and Titania began; Titania seemed fairly dependent on Creel at this point. Once Owen Reece, the Molecule Man, managed to seal off the chunk of Denver and navigate it back to Earth, Creel and MacPherran revealed that they were done with Doom and his war, and simply wanted to go home.[8]
Return to Earth
Once back on Earth, Mary decided to deliver payback against Vanessa for the years of abuse, destroying the girl's mansion and making her beg for forgiveness with her head under Mary's foot however, but was talked out of going further by Creel when asked if doing all this made her feel better.
Masters of Evil
The pair did not settle down to the quiet life, instead joining Baron Zemo and his latest incarnation of the Masters of Evil. Their first assignment was to recruit the powerful Moonstone into the group.[9] Later on, Zemo kept them at large to field new recruits, which prevented them from joining the main group in the assault on Avengers Mansion.[10] To kill time, Titania robbed a jewelry store, only to come to the attention of Spider-Man; too afraid to fight, she ran from combat, only to encounter the hero again in LaGuardia Airport. There, once more Titania tried not to fight, having Creel do so on her behalf; yet the sight of his near-defeat at Spider-Man's hands was enough for Titania to temporarily overcome her arachnophobia, charging into combat. It was a moot point, though, since Creel ended the fight by threatening to destroy a plane full of innocents if Spider-Man refused to leave the scene, which he reluctantly did.[11]
The villainous couple received another assignment from the Masters: this time, they were to kill the Avenger Hercules, who had been gravely injured previously by the Masters, and was in a coma in hospital. Hercules was saved by a guard of only the diminutive heroes Ant-Man and The Wasp; Creel was stung by the Wasp as he switched from liquid to human form, and Titania was shrunk to the size of an insect and then blasted through a wall by Wasp. The villains were easily subdued, with Titania taken to the Vault, a superhuman penitentiary.[12]
Titania's stay in the Vault was not to last long, however. When Tony Stark, Iron Man, began the Armor Wars - the battle to destroy or disable all enhanced armor types based on stolen Iron Man designs - this inevitably led him to the Guardsmen, the Vault's wardens. The ensuing conflict, while successful from his point of view, created a power failure, allowing Titania and Mister Hyde to escape. While Captain America, then known as The Captain, managed to subdue and capture Mister Hyde, his colleague Demolition Man was humiliated when he tried to apprehend the far stronger Titania; when allowed the opportunity for a rematch later, a scared Demolition Man simply let the villainess escape.[13]
Using her newfound freedom, Titania traveled to Washington D.C; losing a succession of battles with She-Hulk, Titania promised to never attack her again, and to return to jail.[14]
Frightful Four
Broken out yet again, Titania joined with the Wizard, Klaw, and Hydro-Man, to become the new Frightful Four. Battling the Fantastic Four, the team only won due to help from Dragon Man, Professor Gregson Gilbert's creation, and Aron, a renegade Watcher; in the rematch, the Fantastic Four prevailed, only to have both Fours imprisoned by Aron in suspended animation, using clones of the Fantastic Four to act out adventures he wished to witness. When both teams were freed, Aron chose to witness the dreams of his clones instead, transporting the Frightful Four back to the Vault as a service to the Fantastic Four.[15]
Acts of Vengeance
However, this stay in The Vault was as permanent as earlier ones - a conspiracy between Loki and the Wizard, among other villains, saw Titania free once more, as part of Loki's Acts of Vengeance plan. Teaming supervillains to fight enemies not usually their own, Titania was dismayed when Doctor Doom, her partner, told her she would face not She-Hulk, but Spider-Man. Doom managed to stoke Titania's pride and anger, allowing her to overcome her fear and engage Spider-Man; unfortunately, Spider-Man had temporarily bonded with the Uni-Power, making him Captain Universe. This granted him the power to render Titania unconscious in one massive energy discharge; the only benefit of the situation was that Titania had lost her fear of Spider-Man.[16]
This time, Titania did not even make it back to the Vault; she was freed by Graviton, who also collected the Trapster and the Brothers Grimm, all of whom had been humiliated by Spider-Man in his Captain Universe guise. Along with Chameleon and Goliath, they attempted to take revenge, only to fail; Titania was humiliatingly defeated by a collision with a speeding bus.[17]
Reunion With the Absorbing Man
Escaping the Vault once again, Titania, ever the team player, joined Superia's all-female army the Femizons, as foes of Captain America and Paladin;[18] this did not work out, however, and so Titania resolved to track down her old flame - the Absorbing Man. She interfered with a battle between him and Eric Masterson, who was Thor at the time; when she appeared injured by a blow from Thor's hammer Mjolnir, Creel admitted his love for her, which she gladly reciprocated. Seeing this, Thor allowed them to leave.[19]
While Creel made an attempt to live a normal life, Titania went back to robbing jewelry stores; concerned, Creel attempted to "scare her straight", collaborating with Thor in a ploy involving a Guggenheim exhibit. While the appearance of Spider-Man and special police unit Code: Blue complicated matters, Titania ultimately remembered her love for Creel.[20]
Drawn to an A.I.M. convention in Boca Caliente, Titania joined with the Abomination and Gargantua to battle the Town Called Hulk;[21] once this was done, Titania came to her senses somewhat, asking Creel to marry her. The wedding was attended by many supervillains; while the Avengers interrupted the ceremony, they left the couple alone.[22] In their new life, the pair seemed not to be able to stay under the radar, assuming the guises of Thunder Girl and Lightning Bolt in order to hunt Spider-Man for the reward offered by Norman Osborn. Despite contracting severe skin burns as a result of this escapade, this was not the end of the pair's villainy; committing more robberies, Titania also clashed repeatedly with She-Hulk again.[23]
Illness & Recuperation
However, this was not a permanent state of affairs; despite her enhanced durability, Titania contracted a terminal illness: cancer. Without health insurance and no money, she was quickly forced to move from the hospital to an abandoned building.[24] Slowly weakening, but still massively strong, she fought through the illness with the help of doctors provided by Thor; as a result, the Absorbing Man repented to Thor, bowing to the new Lord of Asgard.[25]
Power Gem
However, Titania proved unable to stay away from She-Hulk, and underwent an intense physical regimen to boost her abilities. However, She-Hulk had done so more efficiently, briefly reaching levels almost approaching those of the Hulk himself. Battered and inadvertently humiliated by her, Titania was offered the chance at revenge after obtaining the Power Gem, one of the legendary Infinity Gems, from its former owner, the former Champion of the Universe, now known as the Fallen One because of his own defeat at the She-Hulk's hands. The Fallen One had agreed to cease using the Power Gem as a condition of his defeat, but was free to gain his own revenge by proxy through Titania. After an initial defeat by the newly-empowered Titania, She-Hulk tricked her into believing that she had killed her in a second battle; Titania's initial rush of triumph suddenly melted into uncertainty, as she realized that her life now had no meaning or focus without the object of her obsessive hatred. The She-Hulk then took advantage of Titania's confusion to pluck the Power Gem from the criminal's forehead, and proceeded to use the Gem's power to knock Titania out with a single punch.
Big House
Titania was later incarcerated in the Lang Memorial Penitentiary, a.k.a. the Pym Experimental Prison #2, a prison in which superhuman inmates are shrunk with Pym particles to less than an inch in height. This reduced both their chances of escape and their threat to guards and the public if they do escape, since inmates can only be returned to their full size by prison technicians or the few others who have access to Pym Particles.[8]
Still shrunken to her diminutive form, she was reunited with her husband Creel, clashing again with She-Hulk. While shrunk, she was grabbed by Jazinda (a female Skrull) and thrown to a shark, who ate her.[26] Titania survived this somehow, as she encountered X-Factor Investigations[27] and was later at the Raft, commenting along with other female inmates on the prowess of the new warden Luke Cage.[28]
Skirn: Breaker of Men
When the Serpent was freed by Skadi, he called seven hammers to Earth. Titania was transformed by one of these hammers, becoming one of the Worthy: Skirn, Breaker of Men. She then set off with the Absorbing Man to find the Hammer destined for him.[29]
Following the final battle with the Serpent, the hammer of Titania is taken from her as well as the other hammers of the other Worthy. She was then returned to the Raft where she suffered a nervous breakdown, and claimed `they` were going to take her hammer, moments before Sin's forces attacked.[30]
After one too many times of getting caught by the Avengers and imprisoned, Titania decided to go legit and stop her criminal career. She was released from prison on parole, and managed to convince the Absorbing Man to reluctantly promise to follow her footsteps once he got out as well. However, her past didn't help in trying to live a normal life, having trouble finding a job, and a decent lifestyle.
She-Hulk managed to get her a job at a pawnshop, which was shortly thereafter assaulted by a band of robbers. While Titania used her powers to stop the robbers, the pawnshop owner blamed her for the attack, and Titania ultimately came to blows with Luke Cage and Iron Fist, displaying new levels of powers. She was rescued by the Hood, the person who had secretly set up the robbery in the first place, and managed to convince her to return to her life of crime, and become a member of his Illuminati.[31]
Following a failed attempt at stealing Asgardian weapons,[32] the Hood helped Titania rescue Absorbing Man from a prison known as Pleasant Hill, but she remained hesitant to trust the Hood, after discovering he had secretly upgraded her powers. When Robbins tried to amass an army with the villains that had been imprisoned at Pleasant Hill, he proposed to target the families of their enemies. Titania confronted Robbins, believing that to be a line that shouldn't be crossed. During an ensuing discussion, the Hood revealed to Titania that he had set her up to lose her job. Mary forced the Hood to teleport them away from their pase, and during a fight, she defeated him and destroyed his cloak, losing reverting to her previous level of power. When the police arrived to the scene, Titania realized that it was impossible for her to live a normal life, and decided to embrace her criminal career together with the Absorbing Man.[33]
Sometime later Titania was told of her husband's heroic sacrifice by the Inhuman Black Bolt and alien telepath Blinky. She mourned his death and arranged his funeral, which was attended by Captain America, Thor, and the Wrecking Crew. After the funeral, Black Bolt was attacked by Lash. Titania helped fought off the Inhuman villains, but was unable to prevent them from kidnapping Blinky.[34] Soon the Jailer possessed Blinky's mind in order to kill Black Bolt, so Lockjaw took Titania to Parkwood Cemetery where Absorbing Man suddenly emerged from his grave. Absorbing Man and Titania helped Black Bolt fight a Jailer-possessed Blinky until they managed to drive Jailer out of her.[8]
Immortal Hulk
After her husband had joined Gamma Flight, she reunited with him and also joined the team. Following Shadow Base's latest attack on the Hulk, Gamma Flight retrieved Rick Jones's Abomination shell. However, as Titania and Carl were having a conversation, General Fortean in the Redeemer Armor broke in and incapacitated them with the rest of the team and stole the shell. After recovering themselves, they found out that their teammate, Dr. Langkowski had been killed by Fortean. They the decided to attack Shadow Base and during the attack, they were joined by Hulk, Harpy, Rick Jones and Jackie McGee. However, they were overwhelmed by Fortean as the new abomination and his soldiers.[26]
Power Grid [40]
Energy Projection
Fighting Skills
Due to undergoing Doctor Doom's mutagenic alteration process, Titania possesses various superhuman physical attributes.[35]
Superhuman Strength: Titania possesses vast superhuman strength that has increased over the years due to intensive weight training. Titania was originally strong enough to lift about 85 tons and she can now lift about 100 tons.[35]
Superhuman Stamina: Titania's highly advanced musculature generates considerably less fatigue toxins than ordinary humans. She can physically exert herself at peak capacity for about 24 hours, before the build up of fatigue toxins in her bloodstream begins to impair her.[35]
Superhuman Durability: Titania's body is highly resistant to physical injury. She is capable of withstanding high caliber bullets, falls from great heights, tremendous impact force, and temperatures as high as 1,500 degrees Celsius and as low as -120 degrees Celsius without sustaining injury.[35]
During the War of the Serpent, Titania obtained a mystical hammer forged by the Asgardian god of Fear, she as a result she had enhanced powers that come with wielding a mystical weapon from Asgard until she lost it.[36]
Titania is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, having undergone training from the Champion of the Universe. She is particularly experienced in using street fighting techniques that allow her to make full use of her great strength.[37]
Strength level
Hammer of Skirn (formerly)
Titania was impersonated by the mutant shape-shifter Copycat.[38]
She has no connection with Titania (Davida DeVito).
Titania showed her evil nature in a major way in Fantastic Four #548, where the Frightful Four were discussing what to do with one of their hostages, Susan Storm. It is Titania that urged that they kill her, but the Wizard refused and insisted that they keep her alive.
Before the mutagenic alteration provided by Doctor Doom, Mary weighed about 95 lbs and was called Skeeter by the people who knew her. After becoming Titania, she began rejecting that nickname.[4]
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Notes on the ‘stragglelogue’ as a travel book genre, and how I followed Hunter S. Thompson
Photo: Gal G
Brian Kevin
It was about five years ago that I first hatched the idea for my upcoming book, The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America. I was a grad student at the time and initially pitched the Thompson Trail to the US Fulbright Program as a sort of vaguely scholarly post-graduate research project. As my proposal explained, even devoted fans of Thompson — the self-proclaimed “gonzo journalist,” author of Hell’s Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among others — are often surprised to learn about his stint as a foreign correspondent, reporting on Cold War politics from various locations across South America in 1962 and 1963.
“My intent,” read my doomed application, “is to retrace Thompson’s route across the continent, revisiting the sites that formed the basis of his groundbreaking writing in the National Observer in the early 1960s. The result will be a research-based work of longform nonfiction, a travel narrative leading the reader along Thompson’s course, comparing the South America of his stories with the reality of the continent today.”
Not long after applying, I went out for a beer and ran into my landlord, an accomplished fiction writer to whom I mentioned my proposed literary pilgrimage. Roundly unimpressed, he swigged from what must have been his fifth Scotch ale before turning to me with a shrug.
“Why would you want to follow in somebody else’s footsteps?” he asked, wiping his mustache with the back of his hand. “Why recreate someone else’s journey? Wouldn’t you rather blaze your own trail and write about that?”
When the Fulbright people eventually turned me down, I said the hell with them anyway and hit the Thompson Trail on my own, ultimately spending six months retracing Thompson’s South American circuit. I slept on a gurney for a week in a rural Paraguayan clinic, got swept up by a populist street mob in Lima, spent Easter morning arguing politics in a transvestite brothel, and was marooned in Colombia when monsoon rains sunk the boat I was traveling on. I won’t say it was a gonzo trip, exactly — I spent far too much time conducting interviews and nerding out in museums for that — but it was lively and enlightening and profoundly fulfilling.
And yet, five years and 8,000 miles later, my drunken landlord’s questions still ring in my head. Did the guy have a point? Is there a sense in which following the trails of our heroes is, in fact, a bit of a travel crutch? A kind of high-concept cop-out that keeps us from blazing trails of our own?
My take on all this is rooted in an acceptance of the fact that we are all stragglers now, all of us following in the footsteps of countless, anonymous others.
As a reader, I am a devoted fan of the “following in the footsteps” narrative, a bona fide literary sub=genre that I’ve taken to calling the stragglelogue. Among my all-time favorite books are Scott Huler’s No-Man’s Lands (straggling behind Odysseus), Patrick Symmes’ Chasing Che (straggling behind Che Guevara), and Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s Travels with a Tangerine (straggling behind Moroccan explorer Ibn Battutah). It’s a form with a long pedigree, stretching all the way back to Herodotus’ Histories — arguably the world’s oldest travel book, published around 440 BC — which was, among other things, a stragglelogue retracing the routes of the early Greek colonists across Asia Minor. The British travel writer Justin Marozzi even took things meta a few years back, following in the footsteps of the ancient Greek historian himself, making his book The Way of Herodotus perhaps the first-ever stragglelogue of a stragglelogue.
Driven as it is by historical inquiry (some might say gimmick) rather than conventional plot, the stragglelogue is an oddball genre. In an article in the current issue of The Writer’s Chronicle, the novelist Sabina Murray writes, “Plot is unnecessary to move a book around when you’ve given the narrative an actual pair of legs, pair of eyes, and an articulate, thoughtful voice.” She’s talking about the late German author W.G. Sebald, but she might be describing the best of the stragglelogue sub-genre.
And where does this leave us workaday travelers? Is a backpacking tour of George Orwell’s Burma any less gnarly for having Orwell as a guide? My own travels along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail were certainly derivative, but does that make them any less meaningful, any less authentic?
My take on all this is rooted in an acceptance of the fact that we are all stragglers now, all of us following in the footsteps of countless, anonymous others. There is no more terra incognita, if there ever was any to start, one man’s incognita being another woman’s backyard. There are no trails left untrod. In only the most isolated of circumstances will a human being on this planet ever again stumble into a corner of the world that hasn’t been thoroughly explored, photographed, mapped, and otherwise documented. And while this may seem demoralizing at first, the silver lining is a gradual unveiling of whole new dimensions of travel, unknown and unknowable to yesteryear’s swashbucklers. History is a space through which I travel now just as easily as longitude, latitude, and altitude. Thanks to the steady accumulation and diffusion of human knowledge, the enticing blankness of terra incognita has been replaced with bottomless strata of story and meaning and causality that, know it or not, I am forever drifting through, like a scuba diver among the eddies.
For me, then, the landlord had it all wrong. The appeal of trailblazing is limited. My aim instead is to keep on following — to follow better, follow deeper, until I find myself traveling alongside not only Thompson, but the Inca priestess who came before him, the conquistador who struck her down, and the Wari laborer who laid the stones beneath them, now matted over with layers of unseen footprints.
Editor’s note: For pre-order information about The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America, follow @BrianMT on Twitter.
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Claws #2 (of 3)
Navigating an obstacle course of bullets, arrows, grenades, bombs, knives, rockets and giant killer robots, the deadly duo desperately search for an escape route, unaware that the games' deadly ringmaster hasn't yet unleashed the main event.
Justin Gray Jimmy Palmiotti
Art by:
Joseph Michael Linsner
Collected Edition
Wolverine & Black Cat: Claws
Wolverine and the Black Cat find themselves at the center of a deadly game. A team of filthy-rich hunters have slapped down some serious cash for the opportunity to hunt the Most Dangerous Prey on the Planet. Can the duo make it out alive?
Wolverine & Black Cat: Claws 2 (2011)
Collects Wolverine & Black Cat: Claws 2 #1-3 and Killraven (2002) #1. This all-new tale of action, intrigue and razor-sharp appendages picks up right where the first CLAWS left off! Two of Marvel's most beloved and be-clawed heroes - Wolverine and Black Cat - have barely had time to catch their breath from defeating the villainous mastermind Arcade and his sidekick White Rabbit when the two e
Wolverine / Captain America (2004)
It's a team-up for the ages. Wolverine and Captain America are both the best there is at what they do...but with drastically different results!
Jubilee (2004-2005)
Join Jubilee, everyone's favorite wisecracking mutant firecracker, in her new adventures on the left coast! Living in the X-Mansion was a trip, but now she's found where "mutants" really come out - her old stomping grounds of Los Angeles!
Wolverine/Nick Fury: Scorpio Connection (1989)
Wolverine and Nick Fury — as both allies and adversaries! When they embark on a mission to stop the criminal mastermind Scorpio, Ma Fury's favorite son has very personal reasons for wanting to bring in the villain alive. But what happens when Logan wants him dead? You just know sparks are gonna fly!
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Study of clinical profile and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in culture-positive typhoid fever cases
Ashwini Kumar, Vinay Pandit, Seema Shetty, Chythra R. Rao, Sanjay Pattanshetty, Charmaine M. Samarasinghe
Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal
Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal
Background: Salmonella enteric serotype Typhi has created a significant therapeutic problem as these strains have developed resistance to the commonly used antimicrobials for the treatment of typhoid fever. Objectives: To assess the clinical profile and sensitivity patterns to anti-typhoid drugs. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of 106 culture-positive typhoid cases admitted in a tertiary care hospital during the years 2005-2008. Results: Records of 106 patients were evaluated, 83 (78.3%) males and 23 (21.7%) females. Fever was present in all patients. Headache in 63 (59.4%) patients and generalized body ache in 53 (32.5%) patients were the most common symptoms, while spleenomegaly in 47 (44.3%) patients and hepatomegaly in 42 (39.6%) patients were the common presenting signs. A maximum sensitivity of 96.6% was observed with cephalosporins, whereas a resistance of 29.2% was seen with fluoroquinolones. Conclusion: A high degree of sensitivity was noted to chloramphenicol, ampicillin and sulphonamides, showing a trend of roll-back of sensitivity to conventional antibiotics.
Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Hepatomegaly
Fluoroquinolones
Kumar, A., Pandit, V., Shetty, S., Rao, C. R., Pattanshetty, S., & Samarasinghe, C. M. (2012). Study of clinical profile and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in culture-positive typhoid fever cases. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 37(4), 256-258. https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.103475
Kumar, Ashwini ; Pandit, Vinay ; Shetty, Seema ; Rao, Chythra R. ; Pattanshetty, Sanjay ; Samarasinghe, Charmaine M. / Study of clinical profile and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in culture-positive typhoid fever cases. In: Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 2012 ; Vol. 37, No. 4. pp. 256-258.
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Reddit launches cost-per-click ads
Campaign objectives for the new ads include reach, video views, traffic and conversions.
Amy Gesenhues on January 30, 2019 at 9:00 am
Reddit announced on Wednesday it is launching cost-per-click (CPC) ads, the platform’s first performance-based ad unit. The CPC ads can be bought through the Reddit ad dashboard and will “complete the suite” of Reddit’s ad offerings, along with cost-per-impression (CPM) and cost-per-view (CPV) ads.
After a complete redesign of its website — the first in over a decade — Reddit is building out its ad offerings to attract more brands to the site. The new CPC ad units will allow advertisers to implement direct response campaigns across desktop and mobile, and will be delivered as either a link or Promoted Posts (video included).
“While cost-per-click advertising isn’t innovative, in itself, the launch marks a big moment for the Reddit Ads business. This is a point of inflection that helps get us to parity in the market and will change the way advertisers think about our capabilities,” said Reddit VP of brand partnerships Zubair Jandali in the announcement for the CPC ads.
According to Reddit, the new bid-type ad offering is the first major step the company has taken to ramp up its performance business and will open up more ad inventory on the site. Reddit’s CPC ad campaign objectives including reach, video views, traffic and conversions.
Reddit’s CPC ads are the first ad product launched since the company hired Shariq Rizvi as its VP of Ads Products & Engineering earlier this month.
Wayfair, Hired and Kabam are among a select group of brands that were given early access to the CPC ads. Reddit reports most advertisers in the beta group have improved return on ad spend by up to 50 percent.
Reddit says its CPC ads are the first of several upcoming performance offerings, with enhancements to ad targeting, reporting and campaign management tools to come.
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She was born in New Zealand, grew up in England and moved to Seattle when she was twelve. Prior to attending medical school at Stanford, she completed her Masters in Public Health at Columbia University and spent several years working on public health programs in Mexico, Panama, Ethiopia and Rwanda. After medical school, she completed a Family Medicine Residency at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose.
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Medical students often see residents as the most important teachers on the wards. However, there is a relative lack of data on the qualities that medical students value in their resident teachers. We conducted a qualitative study to determine the teaching behaviors that medical students value in their resident teachers.Over a 1-year period, 28 medical students completed 115 open-ended written reflections about their educational experiences with residents at a single, university-affiliated, community-based family medicine residency program in San Jose, CA. Qualitative data were analyzed using the constant comparative method associated with grounded theory. Ten recurring themes were identified after triangulation with published literature.When given the opportunity to make open-ended written reflections about the teaching abilities of their resident teachers, medical students most often commented on topics relevant to a "safe learning environment." More than one in four reflections were associated with this theme, and all were characterized as positive, suggesting that the ability to set a safe learning environment is a quality that medical students value in their resident teachers. In contrast, the least frequently occurring theme was "knowledge," suggesting that residents' fund of knowledge may not be as important as other qualities in the eyes of medical students.Our study adds to a growing body of literature suggesting that, from the medical students' perspective, a resident's fund of medical knowledge may not be as important as his/her ability to establish a supportive, safe, and nonthreatening environment to learn and practice medicine.
Galvanizing medical students in the administration of influenza vaccines: the Stanford Flu Crew. Advances in medical education and practice Rizal, R. E., Mediratta, R. P., Xie, J., Kambhampati, S., Hills-Evans, K., Montacute, T., Zhang, M., Zaw, C., He, J., Sanchez, M., Pischel, L. 2015; 6: 471-477
Many national organizations call for medical students to receive more public health education in medical school. Nonetheless, limited evidence exists about successful servicelearning programs that administer preventive health services in nonclinical settings. The Flu Crew program, started in 2001 at the Stanford University School of Medicine, provides preclinical medical students with opportunities to administer influenza immunizations in the local community. Medical students consider Flu Crew to be an important part of their medical education that cannot be learned in the classroom. Through delivering vaccines to where people live, eat, work, and pray, Flu Crew teaches medical students about patient care, preventive medicine, and population health needs. Additionally, Flu Crew allows students to work with several partners in the community in order to understand how various stakeholders improve the delivery of population health services. Flu Crew teaches students how to address common vaccination myths and provides insights into implementing public health interventions. This article describes the Stanford Flu Crew curriculum, outlines the planning needed to organize immunization events, shares findings from medical students' attitudes about population health, highlights the program's outcomes, and summarizes the lessons learned. This article suggests that Flu Crew is an example of one viable service-learning modality that supports influenza vaccinations in nonclinical settings while simultaneously benefiting future clinicians.
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The Tale of LabMD: New lawsuits charge ethics violations and fake data breaches
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02 May The Tale of LabMD: New lawsuits charge ethics violations and fake data breaches
Posted at 09:29h in Blog, News by Michael Daugherty
The LabMD data security case is anything but dull. An 8-year (and counting) fight with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into allegations of government overreach and collusion, a key witness granted governmental immunity and multiple related civil lawsuits scattered around the country. And last week, LabMD – the target of an FTC data security enforcement action – sued a prominent former federal prosecutor over charges of ethics violations and unsealed its False Claims Act lawsuit against a cybersecurity firm, accusing it of falsifying data breaches as a way of landing new business. Over the weekend, LabMD filed a federal lawsuit against the former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania for alleged violations of the Ethics in Government Act. The 27-page complaint, filed in Manhattan, accuses Mary Beth Buchanan, now in private practice, of participating in the LabMD enforcement action as counsel to a whistleblower, Richard E. Wallace, even though – the complaint charges – she participated “personally and substantially” in the case while the U.S. Attorney.
The complaint alleges that, while the top federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh, Buchanan authorized the FBI “to install a dedicated DSL line in Wallace’s home office … to access and use FBI proprietary surveillance software and equipment to search and seize evidence from the computers of child pornographers.” LabMD claims that “Wallace used the FBI surveillance software … authorized by Buchanan …. to search for, access and download from a LabMD billing computer … a 1,718-page LabMD file containing confidential health information.” That file is the basis of the FTC’s data security enforcement action against LabMD. Wallace was then the director of special operations for Tiversa Inc., a cybersecurity forensics firm.
The LabMD complaint further alleges that Buchanan was eventually retained by Wallace to represent him in the FTC action and the former U.S. attorney and her firm “direct[ed] Wallace not to testify about his prior work with Buchanan, and in particular, not to disclose his use of the FBI surveillance software and equipment authorized by Buchanan to hack into and take from a computer … a [LabMD] file containing confidential information on over 9,000 patients.”
The Ethics in Government Act – passed after the Watergate scandal – places restrictions on former government officials and either prohibits or restricts their participation in matters in which they were involved while in the government.
The LabMD case dates back to 2010 when the Commission began investigating the Atlanta-based cancer detection lab’s data security practices. After years of back-and-forth, an administrative law judge eventually tossed out the FTC’s case. The Commission reversed and reinstated the case. LabMD appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The matter was argued last year and a decision is expected soon. We have covered the LabMD case extensively on this blog.
Earlier last week, LabMD’s False Claims Act lawsuit against cybersecurity firm Tiversa was unsealed in New York federal court. The complaint accuses Tiversa of faking data breaches to lure in new clients including the U.S. government. Tiversa engaged in a scheme to defraud the United States Government out of “millions of dollars” by “fabricat[ing]” cybersecurity breaches in order to obtain lucrative federal contracts, according to the suit.
The complaint alleges that Tiversa searched “peer-to-peer” computer networks to locate and seize sensitive information from the federal government and used that information to falsely represent that there was a security breach when, in fact, it was easily remedied by removing the software from the infected computer. To incite urgency, Tiversa allegedly identified IP addresses of known criminals or locations where it would be perceived as problematic for the information to be found, and falsely claimed that it had found copies of the identified files at those addresses as well. According to the complaint, once Tiversa successfully induced the government entity into a contract, it continued to falsify alarming breaches in order to maintain the business relationship.
LabMD further contends that Tiversa employed the scheme on “public and private entities” nationwide, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and the Department of Education, to name only a few.
“It is a classic protection racket, updated for the digital age,” charges LabMD.
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Dr. Lindsey is an internationally known expert in the field of Communication Sciences and has over thirty years experience in deep space and satellite communication system architecting, engineering, design, analysis and simulation. His areas of interest include channel characterization, measurement, synchronization and communication techniques as applied to global mobile communication and navigation systems, satellite communications and personal communication networks. He has published more than 140 papers on various topics in communication and information theory and he holds several patents. His patents have been implemented in numerous communication satellite systems and ground station and mobile communications receivers located around the world.
Dr. Lindsey is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE. He has received several awards and honors and held numerous offices. He was one of the pioneering founders of the IEEE Communication Society, served on the Board of Governors and Editorial Boards of the IEEE,served as editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and he has been the Technical Program Chairman for numerous national and international conferences on communications and telemetry. He serves on Commission C, Signals and Systems of the International Scientific Union (URSI) and the CCIR Standards Committee.
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Containerised data centre delivered for Envision AESC UK
October 16, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment
Envision AESC UK required a new data centre to support its newly acquired office and production site at their newly acquired Sunderland site. While there was a requirement for additional rack space, the primary driver was space and location. The client chose to relocate an internally based data centre (potentially consuming office or warehouse room), placing it instead externally. Rittal was able to provide a solution consistent with the previous system, in terms of both design Read more…
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Cyxtera expands with new Amsterdam data centre
Cyxtera Technologies, the secure infrastructure company, has announced the opening of its latest European data center in Amsterdam slated to commence business operations during the first quarter of 2020. Cyxtera’s newest facility in Amsterdam (AMS1) will provide a highly connected secure infrastructure platform to help customers in the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. Additionally, the company announced plans to expand its CXD on-demand data centre platformto Frankfurt and Amsterdam. The new Amsterdam facility will expand the Read more…
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Schneider partners with Avnet and Iceotope on liquid-cooled data centre solutions
Schneider Electric has announced that it is teaming up with Avnet and Iceotope to jointly develop innovative, chassis-level immersive liquid cooling solutions for data centres. This newly announced partnership brings together three global technology innovation leaders: Avnet for technology integration services; Iceotope for chassis-level immersion cooling technologies; and Schneider Electric for data centre infrastructure solutions. “Compute intensive applications like AI and IoT are driving the need for better chip performance. Our quantitative analysis and testing Read more…
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Future proofing cooling in data centres…
October 2, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment
Every watt counts during round-the-clock operation in data centres… Today, data centres are springing up wherever you look. So much waste heat is generated in each of these data centres that around half of the required electrical energy must be used for cooling the hardware alone. Yet the information age has only just ‘warmed up’; the larger the volume of data is, the higher the required cooling capacity and thus the energy consumption will also Read more…
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Solving Europe’s data centre and cloud infrastructure capacity challenges
September 26, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment
Taking place at Billingsgate, London (5-6 November), DCD London explores the full on-premise/off-premise infrastructure ecosystem, from enterprise to hyperscale, and colocation to edge. With an audience of senior executives and technical teams from many of the largest data centre operators globally, responsible for the design, build, management and operation of mission critical IT facilities, this is a must attend event. This year the key themes focus on five pertinent topics: Energy Smart Infrastructure From future battery Read more…
Wave goodbye to unsustainable IT
The world’s first ocean powered data centre will be built in Scotland, giving access to predictable renewable generation with grid backup, at a location which benefits from low temperatures… Simec Atlantis Energy (Atlantis) has announced plans for a tidal-powered data centre in the Caithness region of Scotland. The power supply for such a data centre would include electricity supplied via a private wire network from tidal turbines at the existing MeyGen project site. Described as Read more…
Understanding the UPS’s role in power quality management
Alex Emms, operations director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power, explains the UPS’s vital role during mains presence, as well as in blackouts, and shows the importance of selecting online systems… Most people in IT are aware that UPSs use batteries to seamlessly take over the critical load if the incoming mains supply fails. While this is certainly true, UPSs form an equally important role in managing power quality when the load is being supplied from the Read more…
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The August outage and UK data centres
Jack Bedell-Pearce, CEO of 4D Data Centres, says planning for resilience was the key to ensuring uptime… In the wake of investigations by Ofgem, National Grid and the generating companies, into the circumstances around the outage, this is a great time for us to reflect, as a data centre operator, on what happened. The simple answer is: nothing. Customers in our data centre did not see a change in their power supplied, or the operation Read more…
Virtual Power Systems and Natron Energy announce strategic partnership
Virtual Power Systems (VPS), a creator of ‘Software Defined Power’ (SDP), has announced a strategic technology partnership with Natron Energy, a developer of disruptive battery products using Prussian Blue electrode chemistry. The agreement includes the integration of Natron Energy’s patented battery technology into VPS’ Intelligent Control of Energy (ICE) software platform to broaden SDP applications while further extending the hardware ecosystem of SDP-enabled solutions. “As the creator of SDP, VPS collaborates with the most innovative data Read more…
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Kao Data announces Paul Finch as interim CEO as it enters next phase of expansion
Kao Data has announced that Paul Finch is to lead the company as interim CEO through the expansion phase of the 43.5MVA campus development. The announcement is made as incumbent, Jan Daan Luycks stands down from the company based on his decision to return home to the Netherlands. Paul Finch has 30 years of progressive experience in the industry, including over a decade at senior management level, focussed on data centres, technical real estate and complex Read more…
New board appointment at Iceotope signals increased adoption of liquid cooling
Iceotope Technologies has appointed Neil Yule as Non-Exec Director. In his new role at Iceotope, Neil has been tasked with supporting the Board and Executive Management Team in delivering a new generation of cooling technologies to the hyperscale data centre market. Formerly President of Munters’ Global Data Centre business, where he achieved 5-fold growth over the 4 years to 2018, Yule has a track record of delivering breakthrough cooling technologies to hyperscale data centre operators. Read more…
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Plans to build ocean powered data centre in Scotland
September 9, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment
Simec Atlantis Energy Limited (‘Atlantis’), the global developer, owner and operator of sustainable energy projects, has announced ambitions for a tidal-powered data centre in the Caithness region of Scotland. The power supply for such a data centre would include electricity supplied via a private wire network from tidal turbines at the existing MeyGen project site. This would be the first ocean powered data centre in the world, with the potential to attract a hyperscale Read more…
New breed of electrical ecosystem
As a Top 100 supplier, integrated power manufacturer, Socomec, has been invited to take part in the annual CBRE Supply Partner Event on Thursday October 3rd2019. The event showcases market leading products with an emphasis on delivering demonstrable value and exceptional user outcomes. Participants in the event are carefully selected on the basis of recommendations, a proven track record of performance, the ability to continuously improve and innovate and to deliver an experience to users Read more…
Rentaload load bank technology integrated into EkkoSoft Critical
EkkoSense, the software-driven thermal optimisation specialist, has added Rentaload load bank functionality into its EkkoSoft Critical M&E SaaS software. Rentaload is a leading European load bank rental company, and customers across Europe will now be able to view real-time load data in EkkoSoft Critical, providing them with immediate insight into the impact of their real or simulated data centre loads on cooling, power and capacity performance. EkkoSense and Rentaload originally announced a partnership in November Read more…
Leaseweb selects Maincubes’ AMS01 data centre
Leaseweb, a provider of cloud hosting services, has selected the Maincubes‘ AMS01 data centre as a strategic location for further expanding its Amsterdam data centre presence. Meeting Leaseweb’s standards with regard to energy-efficiency, compliance and high-redundancy, Maincubes’ AMS01 offers Leaseweb wholesale space with ample growth perspective to scale its server and network infrastructure in Amsterdam. As an Infrastructure as a Service provider, Leaseweb currently operates 20 data centres at locations across Europe, Asia, Australia, and Read more…
Data Centres Ireland: 60 speakers confirmed
August 29, 2019 By Louise Frampton Leave a Comment
Data Centres Ireland will be providing key insights into the Irish data centre sector, exploring the opportunities and challenges facing the industry in this region. The data centre market in Ireland is experiencing significant growth: an additional 29 data centres have received planning permission and are under development, and capacity is forecast to double from 600MW to 1200MW in the next 5 years. This level of investment means there are huge opportunities for Investors, Suppliers and Read more…
IoT devices to reach 14 billion by 2024; data centre demand to surge
Data centres will face increasing demand as the number of IoT connected devices surges over the next five years. Newly released market research, from 451 Research, indicates that the number of IoT connected devices (excluding PCs, smart TVs, and game consoles) will be approximately eight billion in 2019, and reach nearly 14 billion in 2024 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12%. Consumer IoT accounts for the majority of total IoT connected devices, Read more…
YPO announces £400m framework for public sector data centres
YPO, one of the UK’s largest publicly-owned buying organisation, has announced the launch of its Data Centres, Maintenance Cloud Hosting and Security framework for the public sector. The new framework has been created to ensure data can be stored compliantly and accessed across several locations – either on premise, off premise or via the cloud. Utilising data centres and cloud technology is expected to support organisation within local government and education sectors, especially those operating Read more…
Vycon introduces eco-friendly flywheel system for mission critical power protection
August 27, 2019 By Louise Frampton 3 Comments
Vycon, a designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, has announced the addition of the VDC-XXT flywheel model to its VDC line of clean energy storage solutions for 24/7 power protection. Paired with three-phase uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), the company claims that the patented flywheel technology provides a greener, cost-saving solution compared to UPSs that use lead-acid or lithium-ion batteries. The new VDC-XXT 450kW system is supplied in the same slim Read more…
Equinix and VMware partner to accelerate enterprise hybrid cloud transformations
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has announced an expanded partnership with VMware to support VMware Cloud on Dell EMC on Platform Equinix. The digital transformation landscape has never been more complex. Enterprises must focus on ensuring the availability, performance, security and reliability of a massive set of applications while operating in a cost-effective and scalable manner. To meet these evolving needs, Equinix and VMware are teaming together to develop solutions to help enterprises accelerate hybrid cloud transformations Read more…
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Making data centres part of Singapore’s sustainable economy
Singapore needs new data centres and a sustainable economy. These two objectives do not need to conflict. An obvious start may be to make ageing data centres more efficient or simply shut them down. A less obvious solution could be cross-border carbon offsetting, says Ed Ansett from i3 Solutions Group…
Beginning in about 2000, big inward investments paved the way for Singapore to become the dominant regional data centre hub with a thriving commercial data centre sector. Fast forward to 2019 and Singapore is facing significant challenges placing data centre operations at the heart of the discussion around sustainability and GDP growth.
For Singapore to meet its climate change commitments without putting the brake on digital economic growth, i3 Solutions Group has some wide-ranging suggestions to align data centres, the digital economy and sustainability.
Tackling climate change
Singapore ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016. Due to geographical constraints, it imports 97.6% of its energy. Less than 1% comes from renewables.
Singapore’s (electrical) energy is generated locally using imported fuels with much coming from low-carbon-producing natural gas.
With limited space and few energy resources, the Singapore government is working hard on its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement and its sustainability agenda. Efforts include plans for 1GW solar deployment after 2020, including a floating solar farm of 50MW (peak) at the Tengeh Reservoir. It is also testing one of the world’s largest sea-based offshore floating solar test beds.
January 2019 saw Singapore introduce a carbon tax of $5 per tonne for emitters. This tax is fixed until 2023. By 2030 the cost per tonne is anticipated to have increased to between $10 and $15. Singapore’s National Energy Authority says: “Any industrial facility that emits direct greenhouse gas equal to or above 2,000 tCO2e annually will be required to be registered as a reportable facility and to submit an Emissions Report annually.”
These regulatory and cross-sector moves are welcome. But when it comes to data centres, sector specific radical rethinking is needed to create a sustainable industry that continues to attract investment upon which modern economies depend.
A sustainable sector
There is no escaping the fact that data centre operations are energy intensive and emit CO2.
The question for Singapore, and most metros around the world that have signed the Paris Climate Agreement, is how to meet their commitments while running a productive and sustainable data centre sector.
Some cities have opted for a moratorium on building new data centres. Such a move was recently announced by Amsterdam. This is an untenable solution. Such moves will likely scare away developers of efficient facilities to nearby locations considered more data centre friendly, and in doing so hamper economic growth.
For cities such as Singapore, the solutions need to be long term and highly effective. With scarce land capacity and an energy sector that consequently relies on fuel imports, a multi-layered approach is needed to both address the energy needs of new data centre developments and the inefficient legacy facilities.
For new developments a clear opportunity lies in offsetting the carbon footprint of the data centre. Any new development drawing power from Singapore’s grid would have its energy use off-set through investments by the local provider in environmental projects around the world to balance out their Singapore data centre carbon footprint.
This would mean that CO2 reduction projects outside Singapore could offset local CO2 usage. In PCA terms, it is clear that intergovernmental climate negotiations are global and complex. Any proposed changes are subject to ongoing talks which happen mid-year and annually.
As reported recently by the International Energy Authority following the 2019 PCA mid-year meeting: “By agreeing to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, countries opened the way for a new form of international interaction on carbon markets… Article 6.2 sets out the principles for voluntary co-operative approaches. One country can transfer so-called ‘internationally transferred mitigation outcomes’ [ITMOs] to another country, which can then use them towards its NDC [Nationally Determined Contributions] target.
“These transfers must apply robust and transparent accounting rules to avoid double counting of ITMOs and to ensure environmental integrity. The transfers can take place using various approaches and mechanisms, such as bilateral cooperation programmes between countries, or national or regional emission trading schemes.”
Clean up or shut down
And what about the existing data centres? Some legacy data centres pre-date Singapore’s data centre sustainability standard SS:564 and the Greenmark system, and many will never achieve their design efficiency for various reasons.
The answer, surely, is regulation to ensure inefficiencies are identified and reported and then improvements made, and the most offending, typically older facilities put on notice to be shut down.
It could be mandated that existing data centre operators change their operations with a focus on greater utilisation, higher efficiency, offsetting carbon emissions and modernisation of old facilities. This can be achieved using a mixture of incentives and regulation:
Data centre facilities must be given aggressive targets to lower carbon emissions
A tax could be levied on operators of existing data centres to fund oversea carbon offsetting schemes and investments in renewable energy sources
Inherently inefficient data centres should be put on notice to either achieve predetermined levels of efficiency, or face being shut down
Where efficiency targets cannot be meet operators should be mandated to close or replace legacy facilities with new high efficiency data centres
Solution, not the problem
The problems of addressing sustainability and meeting demand are not unique to Singapore. They are being discussed in cities across the world. The big picture is addressing the climate crisis. This means investing in renewables, offsetting carbon emissions and creating climate-friendly tax environments. Efficient data centre operations will have to be mandated if these vital facilities are to become part of the answer to cutting carbon emissions.
For governments, businesses and citizens to benefit from the digital revolution, data centre planning and operation needs radical rethinking.
Data centres cannot be part of the climate change problem, but rather must evolve and become part of the solution.
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Deputies of the Majilis proposed to eliminate the practice of a ban on travel abroad for Kazakhstanis who have overdue loans, as well as to tighten the requirements for banks that issue loans to insolvent borrowers. According to the Deputy Irina Smirnova, it is necessary to reconsider approaches to supervision and to exclude elements which … Continued
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First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin believes that Belarusians may be interested in Almaty resorts. The Vice Prime Minister noted that the two countries need to develop cooperation in various fields, reports Sputnik Kazakhstan. Turchin noted that, given the ever-changing economic processes in the world, Belarus should pay attention to those areas that … Continued
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Entrance to the Big Almaty lake is limited for cars. This was reported in RSU “Ile-Alatau state national natural Park”, the correspondent of MIA “Kazinform”. “Dear residents and guests of Almaty and Almaty region, we inform You that the entrance to the Big Almaty Lake from 16 km from the eco-post Alma-Arasan is limited for … Continued
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The United Arab Emirates is becoming a more sought after beach destination in the summer season. According to the tour operator TEZ Tour, this year the volume of bookings in the summer months of 2019 increased by 226% compared to the same period of the previous year. As reported Profi.Travel General Director of TEZ Tour … Continued
Air Astana transfers flights from Sheremetyevo to Domodedovo from October 27
Since October 27, 2019, Air Astana, the largest airline in Kazakhstan, transfers its flights from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Domodedovo airport. What are the changes related to? The change of the airport concerns flights both from Nur Sultan and Almaty. The booking system of Air Astana has already been updated with these changes for flights operated … Continued
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Starfleet admirals
Starfleet Command personnel
Robert Comsol
Admiral Robert L. "Bob" Comsol was the commanding officer of Starfleet Command in the mid-23rd century. He held that post beginning in 2253. He played golf with Commodore Antonio Delgado. (DTI novel: Forgotten History)
Following the visit of the Enterprise to Talos IV in 2254, Comsol signed Starfleet General Order 7, barring access to the planet. In 2267 he sent an order to relieve James T. Kirk of command of the Enterprise for receiving transmissions from that planet contrary to General Orders. (TOS episode: "The Menagerie")
Later that year, Comsol signed paperwork authorizing the mobilization of troops for the Federation-Klingon War that briefly occurred. (DTI novel: Forgotten History)
In 2268, at the behest of Commodore Delgado, Comsol authorized the historical research mission of the Enterprise to 1968. (DTI novel: Forgotten History)
He retired from Starfleet in 2269. (DTI novel: Forgotten History)
It is possible that the Comsol mentioned in In Tempest's Wake is meant to be Robert Comsol. If so, Comsol had come out of retirement and been promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Federation Starfleet in 2270.
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NextWashington Briefing Dispatch: Mitt Romney
Resurrection and Moral Order: Authority
Matthew Lee Anderson on October 20, 2007
***Note: I am precising Oliver O’Donovan’s Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics this week here at Mere-O. I hope you will work through the challenging and provocative theological ethic that O’Donovan articulates.***
Chapter 6: Authority
So far, O’Donovan has articulated the content of reality and the need for our understanding of “moral freedom” to be compatible with that reality. In fact, he has argued that moral freedom is only compatible with that reality.
O’Donovan had posited that the Holy Spirit makes the objective revelation of Jesus Christ subjective to us in two ways: (1) by making it present and authoritative and (2) by evoking our free response.
Before O’Donovan addresses the way in which the Holy Spirit makes the objective revelation of Jesus Christ authoritative for the Church and the Christian, he turns to understand the concept “authority” itself.
What, then, is ‘authority’? According to O’Donovan, when we speak of “an authority,” we mean “something which, by virtue of its kind, constitutes an immediate and sufficient ground for acting. Beauty, community and truth are sufficient grounds for action in themselves.” These “things” which invite our action are a part of the teleological structure of the world. The ‘authority’ is, then an arche–it is a beginning because it is the reason for action, and a rule because it is binding on everyone (which sets it apart from a personal goal).
O’Donovan then identifies two types of authority within the created order: natural authority and truth. With respect to natural authorities, O’Donovan identifies four such loci: “beauty, age, community and strength (a word which includes the whole range of natural virtue, from might to wisdom).” Our responses to these authorities, however, is not above scrutiny. Rather, we may respond to these authorities critically or uncritically. The person who listens to music may act ‘reasonably,’ but we will only know whether they act morally when we critically evaluate her action–was she ignoring some event that she should have prevented? Was she simply being idle? This critical evaluation submits the lower, ‘natural’ authorities to the higher–the authority of truth.
Though the authority of truth is inherent in the created order, we become “conscious of it only as we attempt to comprehend the world as an ordered whole. Its authority belongs to the order of things as a totality, whereas those other authorities belong to differing elements within it. Reflection in obedience to truth is reflection about the relations of things.”
O’Donovan points out that he is simply reformulating what he has said prior about the created order in which actions attain intelligibility (chapter two). He is only reformulating it now around authority in order to demonstrate that nothing needs to be added to the created realm to give it authority. That is, while the created order is made by God and there is no authority except from God, “That gift was really given. Authority really is vested in creaturely existence. God, in creating, has effected not only other beings, but other powers, yet without in any way diminishing his own sovereign being and power.”
Such a conception, which seemingly isolates “truth” from God, may be thought to leave little room for divine authority. Before addressing the relationship between the authority of truth and divine authority, however,, O’Donovan turns toward political authority, as he aims to show how “the interpretation of divine authority has been influenced by the political model.”
Political Authority
O’Donovan argues that political authority is a fusion of two forms of authority, the natural authorities and the moral authorities. With respect to natural authorities, it draws from might and tradition (or strength and age). While it is tempting to think of authority as only might, it is clear that we do not acknowledge the authority of those who can only enforce. As O’Donovan writes, “For true political authority to flourish, there must be a stronger motive of obedience than is furnished by fear of sanction and habitual conformity.”
On the other hand, political authority must not be assimilated into moral authority. While the law may tell us what to do and hence impose obligations upon us, there may be cases where what the law requires is already morally required of us. What distinguishes political authority is its “formal commitment to righting wrongs.”
Hence, when these three authorities are exercised by a person–the authorities of might, tradition and “injured right”– they are “endorsed by a moral authority which requires that we defer to them” (emphasis mine). When these conditions obtain, the political becomes the moral. As O’Donovan puts it,
Political authority, then, cannot take form without these three elements: sufficient might to govern, sufficient identification with the tradition of the community to govern legitimately, and sufficient commitment to righting wrong to govern, within the relative possibilities open to human powers, justly.
This, however, raises a rather interesting problem. Because political authority is interested in preserving public right action, it can only bear an “indirect relation to the demands of truth and goodness considered absolutely.” An individual may act like Socrates and hold firm to his principles even to his own death. The politician, while obligated to the same moral truth, “must hazard not only his own survival but the survival of political authority in his society…”
He is constrained by the limited possibilities for action in the public sphere, limitations arising from its dependence upon tradition and might, and for him it is a matter of principle, not merely of expediency, not to strain those possibilities to their breaking point…So political authority is arbitrary…in the more problematic sense that its correspondence to the demands of right is compromised.
In other words, the political sphere is a sphere where the truth is necessarily compromised. The politicians must sometimes reject the philosophers for the sake of the polis. O’Donovan contends that this fact is distinctive to the Christian political tradition. While Moses is the divine lawgiver for the people of Israel, in Jesus’ eyes he compromised the truth: “Because of your hardness of heart….”
Divine Authority
The paradox of political authority is that we may be obligated to pay, for instances, “taxes to support government programmes which [we] think immoral.” In other words, its “moral claim is to a degree independent of the moral claim of its particular demands taken on their own.” Under O’Dovonan’s conception, “Political institutions can confront us with a morally arbitrary demand which is morally obligatory to obey.”
O’Donovan limits the scope of what might be termed the “arbitrary character of political authority,” as one might expect. But the paradigm is parallel that of divine authority, which also can can “transcend the judgment of our moral reason.” And when the divine commands, the reason must submit.
But as O’Donovan points out, the political paradigm presents the road to rapprochement between the will and the reason.
The concession to political authority is, after all, strictly circumscribed: like Galileo, we mutter under our breath as we make our act of conformity. And that means that sovereignty properly belongs not to law but to truth, for only a perception of the truth can lead us to whole-hearted action. The marvel, we may say, is not that the community can demand conformity; the marvel is that conscience can secretly transcend that conformity and pass judgment upon it in light of truth.
Here, though, lies the crucial difference between divine authority and political authority. If the divine authority is to command our obedience, it must “command us as supreme reality.” Divine authority is only authoritative if it “belongs to the first reality upon which truth is grounded.”
Here again we find ourselves at the crossroads of rationalism and voluntarism, and with good reason: the issue is at the heart of theological ethics, the main question of which is, “How does God’s word engage our obedience when it would seem that our obedience is already committed to the authority of the created order as presented to our reason?” More simply, what is the relationship between the divine command and the order of creation?
In answering this question, the rationalist tradition prefers continuity: “God speaks through the order which reason perceives.” Voluntarism, on the other hand, emphasizes the discontinuity: “God’s command cuts across our rational perceptions and relativizes them.” Left on their own, each of them devolves into humanism, with their own respective character and vices. But, O’Donovan argues, we must be instructed by each in understanding divine authority.
The value of theological voluntarism is that it reminds us that human judgments must be criticized in light of the divine. Human reason is not transcendent, and so when we encounter the divine, we must assume a posture of trusting obedience.
But here too rationalism must have a voice. As O’Donovan puts it, “If obedience is to be trusting, it must also be hopeful. The disciple who obeys the divine word in defiance of his own limited perceptions of right is genuinely trustful only if he believes that the paradox is not an ultimate contradiction of reality.”
The divine purposes, then, are scrutable–but not yet. The eschatological character of knowledge must not be ignored, as it is in rationalism.
This combination of voluntarism and rationalism is clear in the person of Jesus, who speaks with an authority that is, on the one hand, novel–“A new teaching with authority!” On the other hand, Jesus is still recognizable as the divine—though his ultimate reasons are inscrutable, his divine authority is recognizable. As O’Donovan puts it, “The new teaching vindicated itself by vindicating and restoring the old creation.”
Other posts in the series:
The Created Order
Eschatology and History
Knowledge in Christ
Freedom and Reality
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Tagged in: Resurrection and Moral Order
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Tania From 90 Day Fiancé - 'I Was Molested Multiple Times'
Sunday night’s episode of 90 Day Fiance, focused on Tania Maduro - who returned to the United States from her 30-day girls’ night out attending the Costa Rican School of Witch Doctory. In the episode, Tania was reunited with fiancé Syngin Colchester - and the two started fighting immediately
Tania and Syngin have the type of toxic relationship that you can predict will end very badly.
After the show, Tania went on social media - and explained to fans that she's a survivor of sexual abuse.
Tania revealed to fans, “For those who assume to know all about me from just seeing me in a Sunday Night TV Show… here’s a quick fact..” She added, “I was molested multiple times before I was even five years old. So yeah #MeToo.”
Tania then went on IG Live to reveal more about the sexual abuse she suffered. According to Tania, she talks about her abuse in front of TLC 90 Day Fiance cameras, but so far producers have chosen not to include that on the show. “I also talked about that during filming,” she wrote. “Don’t think it’s ever made it to screen though. Just like a lot of stuff hasn’t.”
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Andy Seuss Making Cup Debut with RWR at NHMS
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Seth Eggert Jun 28, 2019
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Correspondent
Rick Ware Racing adds another driver to their fold as Andy Seuss will make his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut in their No. 51 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
RWR most recently helped Bayley Currey make his premier series debut earlier this season. Ray Black Jr., Josh Bilicki, Cole Custer, Harrison Rhodes, and Kyle Weatherman also made their debuts for the organization.
Seuss will follow in the footsteps of fellow NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour alum Ryan Preece, who made his debut at NHMS in 2015. A veteran of the Modified Tour, he has just one start at NASCAR’s national level in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2016.
“It’s a dream come true, a dream I had honestly gave up on,” Seuss explained. “I can’t thank Rick enough for pursuing me to do this. To do it at my home track, where I’ll be surrounded by my family, friends and everyone that has supported me for so long just makes it that much more amazing.”
The Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 will be a hometrack race for the Hampstead, NH native. Although a New Englander, Seuss found success in the now-defunct NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour.
In the Southern Modified Tour, Seuss earned two championships in 2014 and 2015. He also had 22 victories, 70 top-five, and 93 top-10s in 115 starts. Seuss also started from the pole in 13 starts. In comparison, he had just three top-five finishes in the Northern (and now combined) Whelen Modified Tour.
“RWR is very excited to have a proven champion behind the wheel of the No. 51 Jacob Companies Monster Energy Cup Series car,” commented team owner Rick Ware. “I have been following Andy’s success for some time now, and I am thrilled that we were able to put this together.
“Having a New Hampshire driver, with proven success, in the car at NHMS is going to be very special. The entire RWR crew is ready to build Andy a good car and see what he can do with it!”
Seuss also has 12 starts in the ARCA Menards Series. He earned Our Motorsports’ best finish as an organization, runner-up at Talladega Superspeedway in 2017. Seuss has four top-10 finishes in ARCA competition.
To date, RWR’s best finish in the Cup Series was a 12th-place in the 2018 Daytona 500 with Justin Marks.
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About Seth Eggert
Seth Eggert has followed NASCAR his entire life. Seth is currently pursuing a writing career and is majoring in Communications and Journalism. He is an avid iRacer and video gamer. Seth also tutors students at Mitchell Community College in multiple subjects. He has an Associate's Degree in History.
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‘Selfless’ with Ryan Reynolds Gets Fall 2014 Release Date
Selfless with Ryan Reynolds Gets Fall 2014 Release Date
— June 12, 2013
in Casting News
FilmDistrict has set a September 26, 2014 release date for their upcoming drama Selfless. We first reported on the project in April, when Ryan Reynolds boarded the project.
The story centers on an affluent older man who pays to have his mind transplanted in a much younger body. When he learns that the body he now resides in was murdered, he finds himself being hunted down by mysterious forces, as he tries to determine who killed the body's previous inhabitant.
Tarsem Singh (Immortals) is directing from a screenplay by Àlex Pastor and David Pastor (Carriers), with Ram Bergman, Peter Schlessel, and James D. Stern producing. It isn't known when production will begin.
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As of now, the only other movie facing Selfless is the Focus Features/Laika animated comedy The Boxtrolls.
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Christian Movie Reviews of the 80 Best Christian Movies
There are many good Christian movies but some of them are super-cheesy and/or low budget. So we have Christian movie reviews so you can choose what you think is the best Christian movie. Here are our picks for the best. What do you think? Did we get all of them? Are there some you like that we don’t have?
Here’s a compilation video of this post:
#80 – Christmas Angel
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – A Christian family movie for Christmas that I LOVED. It was predictable and slow, but I loved Della Reese in it and the message that it gave. Everyone should watch this at Christmas time.
Summary – This Christmas, Olivia Mead has one wish: that her single mom (Teri Polo) would find someone that she can call “Dad.” She and her classmates soon discover that the answer to all their wishes lies inside a mysterious abandoned house. Within the house they discover Elsie Waybright (Della Reese), the Christmas Angel. Elsie tries to teach Olivia that some requests must be left to God. As Christmas day approaches, Olivia receives an unwelcomed answer, the suspicious Dr. Nathan Davis (Kevin Sorbo). This Christmas, will Elsie be able to teach Olivia and her friends to trust in God?
#79 – Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is funny and is good for both young and old. It is a good one for the whole family. It is a lot of fun and has a subtle spiritual message in it too.
Summary – Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape find themselves on the ride of their lives when they are mysteriously whisked back to the time when pirates ruled the high seas. As they help a brave princess rescue her brother from a dastardly pirate villain, they battle evil cheese curls, giant rock monsters and their own fears and become the most unlikely heroes you’ve ever seen.
#78 – Letters to God
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I really enjoyed this movie. It is very good. It is one of my favorite Christian movies. The story is touching and made me cry like a little girl. It was very touching and inspirational. I would like to see this movie again soon!
Summary – Tyler Doherty is an extraordinary eight-year-old boy armed with strong faith and courage as he faces his daily battle against cancer. Surrounded by a loving family and community, Tyler’s prayers take the form of letters he sends to his ultimate pen pal, God, on a daily basis. These letters find their way into the hands of Tyler’s postman, Brady, who is at crossroads in his life, searching for meaning. Brady at first is confused over what to do, but his decision ultimately is a testament to the power of Tyler’s shining spirit, bravery and grace. Inspired by a true story, Letters to God delivers a message of struggles regardless of what they may face in their everyday lives.
#77 – What Would Jesus Do?
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie teaches and shows how people who are not really living the best life can turn around and make the best of it by doing what Jesus would do. It is a powerful and awe-inspiring movie. It has a great message throughout.
Summary – A powerful and thought-provoking story about 4 individuals – a singer, a newspaper editor, a wealthy philanthropist and a Minister who lost his faith – all vowing to walk in the steps of Jesus. Every day and every decision becomes a turning point in their lives as they must ask themselves What Would Jesus Do?
#76 – October Baby
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is quite differing in opinion but that is mostly due to the nature of the movie and subject matter. Once you get past the differences I think all can agree that this movie has a great message of love and forgiveness that all can relate and grow from.
Summary – As the curtain rises, Hannah hesitantly steps onto the stage for her theatrical debut in college. Yet before she can utter her first lines, Hannah-unscripted-collapses in front of the stunned audience. After countless medical tests, all signs point to one underlying factor: Hannah’s difficult birth. This revelation is nothing compared to what she then learns from her parents: she was actually adopted … after a failed abortion attempt. Bewildered, angered, and confused, Hannah turns for support to Jason, her oldest friend. Encouraged by his adventurous spirit, Hannah joins his group of friends on a Spring Break road trip, embarking on a journey to discover her hidden past … and find hope for her unknown future. In the midst of her incredible journey, Hannah finds that life can be so much more than what you have planned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxH2fPhrNEc
#75 – Mandie and the Secret Tunnel
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is good for the whole family to enjoy. It is a movie that I personally didn’t like. I just found it a little boring but doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good movie.
Summary – Young Mandie’s life changes when her Cherokee friends help her escape to a mansion that holds the hidden secrets of her past and the key to her future. “Mandie and the Secret Tunnel” is an incredible adventure that takes Mandie in search of her family roots. Compelled by the story that her father told her from the time she was a small child, Mandie makes a discovery that ultimately reunites her with the family she never knew she had. It’s a story filled with adventure, mystery, comedy, and romance.
#74 – Baptists at our BBQ
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I thought this movie was very cheesy and had some humorous parts but was not my favorite movie at all. I did like the overall concept of unifying a community no matter what religion or any other factor though.
Summary – Tartan (Dan Merkley) is 29, single and Mormon. Tired of being set up by his marriage-conscious mother, Tartan takes a job as a forest ranger in Longfellow, a sleepy town where half the population is LDS, the other half is Baptists, and nobody can get along! Tartan’s not the only recent transplant: the beautiful (and single) Charity (Heather Beers) arrives in Longfellow to spend some time away from her ex-fiancee. Together Tartan and Charity devise a plan to unite the town by having an All-Faiths Barbecue!
#73 – Your Love Never Fails
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is cute. I enjoyed this movie, the parents work together to make things better for each other and their daughter. It is a fun and inspiring movie to do better with relationships.
Summary – Your Love Never Fails is the story of Laura (Elisa Donovan), a working mother who just wants to spend more time with her daughter Kelsey, 9. Unfortunately, her demanding boss Paul (Fred Willard) has other ideas. When Kelsey’s father, Dylan (Brad Rowe) files for joint custody, Laura is forced to take Kelsey to Texas, where she confronts the lifestyle, church and father (Tom Skerritt) that she left behind. With the help of the local church pastor, Frank (John Schneider), Laura and Dylan will find their way back to the commitment they made to each other and to Kelsey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSnQHTNGGss
#72 – Rust
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie doesn’t have any content you need to be worried about showing children but the subject matter and format probably would be a little advanced or boring to children. It is a good movie showing that no matter what path we find ourselves on we can always find our way back.
Summary – In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a mysterious fire, and his childhood friend is implicated in the murder. Convinced of his friend’s innocence, James sets out on a mission to find the truth…and in the process, rediscovers his own lost faith.
#71 – Me Again
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie teaches a life lesson that we need to sometimes step back and see how others see us. We need to make sure that in everything we do we are being the person we want to be. This movie is kind of silly and ridiculous but has a good message to it. I probably won’t ever watch it again but the first time was pretty okay.
Summary – From the outside looking in, Rich Chaplin (David A.R. White) has everything that any Pastor and family man could ever want. In reality he has lost sight of everything that matters the most, including his family. When he wishes for a life other than his own, he suddenly finds himself trapped within the lives of everyone his apathy has affected. This unforgettable journey brings Rich to view life through the eyes of a diverse cast of characters including an elderly woman (Della Reese), a top fashion model (Logan White), his own wife (Ali Landry) and even a goldfish! It might even take an encounter with a strangely familiar angel, (Bruce McGill) to help him realize that he is wasting his chance to love and impact the most important people in his life. Join Rich as he finds himself on a wild and hilarious ride that will change his life forever.
#70 – Facing the Giants
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review –This movie is great! I was surprised to see it ranked so low on the list. It is a movie for the whole family and all should see this show once. It is quite enjoyable and touching showing we need faith and courage.
Summary – In six years of high school football, coach Grant Taylor has never led his Shiloh Eagles to a winning season. When faced with seemingly insurmountable professional and personal crises. the idea of giving up has never come easier. It’s only after an unexpected visitor challenges him to trust in the power of faith that he discovers the strength to persevere.
#69 – Escape
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I have not personally seen this movie so I can not give my own opinion about this one, but is there someone who has seen it that would like to share their opinion?
Summary – Doctors Paul and Kim Jordan are struggling to find peace in their lives after the tragic loss of their baby’s life. Paul (C. Thomas Howell from The Amazing Spider Man, ET) persuades Kim to escape reality and flee to the exquisite islands of Southeast Asia. Paradise becomes a nightmare when he is kidnapped by human traffickers in need of a skilled doctor. Faced with a fight for survival, Paul finds himself captive alongside the wealthy Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies from Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings). He quickly realizes there is no hope for his captors dying leader and is forced to examine his eternal fate. With life and death in the balance, Malcolm challenges Paul to stop running from God. Will Paul realize that trust in God is his only hope for escape and reunion with his wife?
#68 – The Ultimate Gift
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I really liked this movie. It is charming to watch the story unfold. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next. I thought the little girl in this movie was very cute and did a great job of acting in her part. Well done film.
Summary – Based on Jim Stovall’s best-selling novel, The Ultimate Gift sends a young man of privilege on an improbable journey. Trust fund baby Jason Stevenes (Drew Fuller) loves all of life’s gifts, as long as they’re bankable. But when his wealthy grandfather, Red (Garner), dies, Jason receives a most unusual inheritance: twelve tasks, which Red calls “gifts,” to challenge Jason to grow as a man. If he succeeds, the experience will not only change Jason forever, but he will discover the real meaning of wealth.
#67 – Encounter: Paradise Lost
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I didn’t like this movie very much because there was A LOT of violence in it. There is an actor that plays Jesus Christ, and he was very cheesy and wasn’t at all like I picture Christ actually being. This one definitely isn’t the one for small children!
Summary – In this explosive, challenging sequel to the faith-based sleeper hit “The Encounter”, a retiring drug smuggler (MIANO), his drug-addicted wife and his ruthless bodyguard (DANIELS), find themselves trapped by a suspended DEA Special Agent (WHITE) at a Thai resort owned by a troubled former Wall Street investment banker (Hutton) and his wife, who mourn the loss of their only son in a devastating tsunami. It is an explosive mix of personalities. Violence looms, but a mysterious guest, claiming to be Jesus Christ (MARCHIANO), arrives to offer each of them one final chance at redemption in this inspiring, thought-provoking thriller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGMBjC7er7Q
#66 – The Singles Ward
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is super cheesy, but if you are a Mormon or understand Mormon humor, this one will keep you laughing throughout. I thought it was better than a lot of other “Mormon movies.”
Summary – A divorce lands Jonathan (Will Swenson) back into the congregation his Mormon faith designates as a “singles ward”–a place to cultivate new friendships with the goal of marriage. Unsatisfied with this turn of events, Jonathan leaves his church and invents a comedy routine poking fun at LDS, a decision that turns awkward quickly when he falls for Cammie (Connie Young), a member of the same ward he left.
#65 – The Perfect Game
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is inspiring because it is based on a true story. It is a wonderful story about pursuing your goals and having faith that you can accomplish anything as long as you are determined to do so. I recommend this one, especially if you enjoy sports!
Summary – Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek) is Cesar, who returns to his native town, Monterey, Mexico after his major league career is cut short. Moises Arias (Hannah Montana), Jake T. Austin (Wizards Of Waverly Place), Jansen Panettiere (Ice Age) and Ryan Ochoa (Pair Of Kings) costar as impoverished baseball-loving kids who recruit him to coach their rag-tag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqYvtyNWJbY
#64 – Saturday’s Warrior
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This is an LDS movie that is pretty old and really cheesy, but I really like it. Parts of it are inaccurate, but putting that aside, it has a good message and tells a good story.
Summary – The musical Saturday’s Warrior is a compelling story of family devotion, romance, humor, teenage distraction and pre-mortal promises that will make you think about where you came from and why you are here. Based on a long running stage play of the same name.
#63 – Sons of Provo
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I would say that this movie caters to a very specific audience. Some people think it is really dumb, and some people really like it. For me personally, it wasn’t my favorite.
Summary – Sons of Provo is a hilarious behind-the scenes “mockumentary” of the greatest LDS boy band that never really was! Will Swenson (The Singles Ward), Kirby Heyborne (The Best Two Years), and Danny Tarasevich are the fictional Everclean, a semi-talented pop group destined for worldwide fame (but they’d settle for the state of Utah…and probably Idaho). These squeaky-clean Momma’s-Backstreet-Boys are touring across the state, bringing their righteous dance grooves to the Mormon masses. Will their newfound popularity take them to higher levels of awesomeness, or will it tear them apart like cheap acid-free scrapbooking paper?
#62 – Fireproof
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I really liked this movie! The first twenty minutes or so are tough to get through because there is a lot of fighting and yelling between the husband and wife, but in the end, it is a great story about saving a marriage and learning to love each other through selfless acts of kindness. I recommend it!
Summary – Kirk Cameron (Left Behind) stars as Caleb Holt, a heroic fire captain who values dedication and service to others above all else. But the most important partnership in his life, his marriage, is about to go up in smoke. This gripping story follows one man’s desire to transform his life and marriage through the healing power of faith and fully embrace the fireman’s code: Never Leave Your Partner Behind.
#61 – Rejoice & Shout
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – If you enjoy “gospel music,” you’ll really like this movie! The whole movie is about how gospel music got several African-Americans through hard times and struggles that they had. It will definitely lift your spirits!
Summary – Rejoice & Shout covers the 200 year musical history of African-American Christianity, featuring the legends of Gospel music, including The Staple Singers, The Clara Ward Singers, The Dixie Hummingbirds, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Culled from hundreds of hours of music, tracing the evolution of gospel music through its many styles-the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing, the emergence of “soul”, and the blending of rap and hip-hop elements. It connects the history of African-American culture with gospel as it first impacted popular culture at large and captures so much of what is special about this music and African-American Christianity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PRahdZpeI
#60 – Suits on the Loose
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – In my opinion, this is probably the silliest of the Mormon movies that are out there. There are a few funny parts, but overall this one wasn’t my favorite.
Summary – Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missionaries, Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson, run into a restroom at a remote rest stop, Justin steals their car. Scrapping their military fatigues for the conservative missionaries’ tags in hopes of passing through any road blocks, their guise is so good that the police insist upon escorting the escapees directly to New Harmony, the town that’s been anxiously awaiting their Mormon missionaries. As the two renegades find themselves embraced by the town’s hospitality, they try to map out their escape. With Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson destined to arrive, what will happen when the town of New Harmony discovers that their missionaries are actually on the lam from the law? Can they keep up the charade and fool everyone around them or will they be found out?
#59 – Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie wasn’t my favorite. I personally thought it was kind of boring at parts and the acting wasn’t all that great.
Summary – Reunited with the mother she never knew, Mandie Shaw (Lexi Johnson) finally has the family she always dreamed of, until Uncle John threatens to tear it all apart to keep an old promise. After he forbids Mandie from joining his quest, Mandie and her friends embark on a harrowing journey by train to protect Uncle John. Grand adventure ensues as they struggle to solve riddles and dare to face the secrets of the Lost Antler Cave Mine.
#58 – The Note III
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is all about giving yourself and others a second chance, and that is what makes this a good movie. It was awesome to see the characters work together to help each other become better people!
Summary – A romantic getaway for Peyton and husband King Danville (Ted McGinley) takes an unexpected detour when an infant is abandoned at their doorstep, transforming them into temporary parents. Petyon is reminded of her secret past and relies on her journalistic instincts to uncover the baby’s story in this all-new tale of hope, inspiration and second chances.
#57 – Courageous
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This is a great movie because it teaches that we need to worry about what really matters most in life, which is our family. It’s a good story about the transformation of a husband and a father.
Summary – As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes and their partners willingly stand up to the worst the world can offer, yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. While they consistently give their best on the job, they quickly discover that their children are beginning to drift further away from them. When tragedy hits home, these men are left with a newfound urgency to renew their faith and reach out to their own children. Will they be able to find a way to serve and protect those who are most dear to them?
#56 – Big Miracle
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is cheesy and isn’t really spiritual, but it is a good movie. If you are an animal lover, this would be a good movie for you.
Summary – When a family of whales is trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle, a small-town reporter (Krasinski) and an animal-loving volunteer (Barrymore) rally an unlikely coalition of Alaskan natives, oil tycoons and the Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales before it’s too late.
#55 – Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This is a good movie that tells the true story of Joseph Smith and his retrieval and translation of the golden plates. It helped me realize just how difficult it must have been for Joseph to do what he did!
Summary – Step into nineteenth-century New England and experience the story of one of the most influential men in religious history. At only twenty-one years of age, Joseph Smith Jr. receives a prophetic revelation that he is to translate ancient scripture into what would be published as the Book of Mormon. But his calling is not without turmoil and sacrifice for both Joseph and his young bride, Emma. The pair must endure rejection and persecution as they labor to know and do the will of the Lord. This film is a must-see for Latter-day Saints or anyone who has heard the name of Joseph Smith.
#54 – A Shine of Rainbows
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – I haven’t seen this movie myself, but I’ve heard that it’s a good one for the whole family with good themes.
Summary – An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O’Donnell (Connie Nielsen) to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire’s reluctant husband Alec (Aidan Quinn) refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery, illuminating how rainbows can shine around – and within – us all.
#53 – Love’s Abiding Joy
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This is a wonderful story of hope and joy. It is a great way to show that although we have struggles and trials in our lives the Lord always knows what he is doing and has a plan for each of us.
Summary – Following a treacherous journey West, Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her husband (Logan Bartholomew) have set up a homestead where they’ve begun to raise a family. And now that a railroad line connects the states, Missie’s father (Dale Midkiff), is able to visit. But when the joyful reunion is interrupted by tragedy, the faith and love of this family is once again challenged in a story you and your family will never forget.
#52 – Love Takes Wing
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This movie is great for learning and seeing a good example of faith and hope when you endure and keep trying.
Summary – Still as feisty as ever, Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment among the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda struggles to make sense of the disease and God’s plan for the beleaguered town. But with the support of Lee Owens, the town’s handsome young blacksmith and her best friend, Belinda learns that if she can rely on faith and love then everything else may just fall into place!
#51 – For the Love of Grace
Mommy Bear’s Family Movie Review – This is a romance that teaches a good lesson at the same time, so I recommend this one to everyone!
Summary – Firefighter Steve Lockwood (Mark Consuelos) is dealing with the untimely death of his wife while trying to keep his mind on his job. After he saves the life of a young woman (Chandra West) from an apartment fire, the two begin to get acquainted, and each begins to heal from their wounded pasts and start to see the different possibilities that the future holds.
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Rachael Henzman says
Thanks! This is really helpful!
Melinda Beaman says
I love so many of these!
Carolyn Ann Colley says
my favorite Christmas movie is listed, Christmas Shoes, I love that movie.
Emily Anne Ploch says
Great list! I will have to check these out!
Sylvia Svendsen Carroll says
Great list – lots of titles of movies I haven't seen. I'll have to fix that! 🙂
Samantha Kuiper says
This is a great list!
Wow, thank you for this! It's so hard to find Christian movies sometimes that aren't super cheesy. I'll def. watch The Christmas Shoes this coming winter and I'll have to rent Hachi : A dog's tale for family night!
Mya Murphy says
wow super sounding movies!
Barbara Filgate-Cobham says
Thanks so much for this! I'm excited to check many of these out!
Robin Quick says
These are all great movies that I would recommend to any family!
Janie Martin says
I. Love. Christian movies. Most. Of. Them has real. Meaning. To. The story. There is. No sex involved. Or. Violence or. Cuzzing. Just. Doesnt. Make. Sense. Ya know. I do. Believe. What. Ppl. Show. On tv. Is. A. Bad influence. On. Children. They. Learn. From. It.
Lana Bradstream says
I love movie lists. I have not seen most of the movies listed, but I will check them out. From the list, I am judging that you are going for happy Christian movies, which is why The Passion was not listed.
Lee Marissa says
I'm so excited to go and try to find these movies they all sound great.these r movies that I can actually sit with my daughters and watched them without worring about dirty scene and dirty words…thank you for the listing.
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Brittany A Hampton says
Thank you so much! I'm going to look these up as well you can NEVER have enough Christian movies!
I haven't heard of many of these movies in this list. I do however love the Love Comes Softly series of movies, The Christmas Shoes. and Amish Grace. I'll have to check out some of the other ones you have mentioned.
Rebekah Mercier says
I haven't seen any of these movies and am excited to find them and watch with my family or husband.
Rebecca Sykes Sinclair says
Great list – several I have seen, but many of them I haven't. I enjoyed reading the reviews!
Sylvia Ortiz says
I love to watch "inspirational" christian movies; thanks for sharing and for the great reviews – will be adding "Love Comes Softly" to my movie picks. 🙂
This is a great list I've only seen one of them. I'll have to watch some of these.
Mary Avlos-Dailey says
I wish everyone took the time to do this! Thank you so much. I will keep this list!
Tina Jennings Seagraves says
Love Comes Softly.
Mary Jo Mudd says
I haven't seen all of these, but I will now. But the ones I have seen are really good movies! Thank you for sharing these. Some of them I haven't even heard of, but will now have to check out!
T.j. Meikle says
Look great! I should try to watch a few of these.
Gina Hunter says
I have some new movies to watch now thanks. Gina Hunter
ive seen all these movies!
Am Hengst says
This is great. They all sound like wonderful movies. There are not alot of movies with no swearing etc. in them now a days. My daughter in law would like this list to – thanks forall the information on the movies.
Thank you so much for posting these awesome Christian movies to watch. I do not know some of them, and I like watching good Christian movies!
Angela Williams says
Love this list, especially for date night with my husband. Thanks!
Holly Lampi Trudeau says
All great choices, always looking for family apporpriate movies that we can watch together! I loveedd Hachi! Made me cry but so sweet & cute!
Alexandra Roach says
I need to watch some of these!
Francesco Fiorino says
Very interesting article!
Lori Davis says
Thanks for the list. You always hear "You can't judge a book by it's cover" so it is nice to have a guide like this!
Michael Perkins says
We have cut the tv and are looking for family friendly fare.
Raul James Bugahod says
I watch some of it and its very inspiring.
Karen Chayne Sanchez says
Wow! lots of interesting and inspiring christian movies here! I only saw Hachi and the ten commandments. I'll try to see the rest of this list. Thanks for sharing!
Paula K. Varble says
I love this list. I haven't been able to see most of these because my small town video store doesn't offer them. The Blind Side is one of my all-time favorites though. Good wholesome but didn't know if was classified under Christian genre. That's great!
This list of movies are awesome. I would let my family watch any of these. Thanks for the great review. 🙂
Sam Dock says
Loved Hatchi, and The Blind Side!
The 10 commandments….awesome movie!
Michelle Sweeten says
Enjoyed the list! Helps my Netflix que! As for the Ipad 2, I love that is has wifi….. never used one before, so I'm sure there would be more!
Amber Pifer says
love the ipad2 for it's touch screen and that you can watch movies and tv on it.
Stevie Albertson says
It's light weight & the Apple app store – it'd be so convenient to take w/ us when we go places w/ my daughter & we need something to occupy her.
I watch Mrs. Miracle every time it's on around the holidays & I love Love Comes Softly – 1 of my favorite movies of any type – I must watch it a couple times a year.
Angelo Palma says
To Save a Life is my favorite movie – and favorite Christian movie. It needs to get on this list!
Mark Mitchum says
THE APOSTLE, by Robert Duvall, is the best Christian movie of all time. 90% thumbs up even on ROTTEN TOMATOES, (a secular critic-site). Many invaluable lessons for the young tikes, and adults alike. P.S.–the ending is an inspiring, tear-jerker. God had a plan all along…
Stephanie Mago-Eagle says
What a great list of movies thank you for sharing them.
Sandra Phillips says
I wasn’t aware that some of these were considered Christian movies….Faith like potatoes was wonderful.
m88 says
Everyone loves what you guys are up too. Such clevfer work and reporting!
Keep up the very good works guys I’ve incorporated you guys tto blogroll.
Julie Naudet says
I can not believe Grace Card is not on this list…..should be in the top 5!
Vincent Hopwood says
What, no “Book of Eli” starring Denzel Washington?
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W. Does Best On A Short Leash
By Michelle Cottle
The ever-insightful Jonathan Rauch has a cover story in the new National Journal reinterpreting George W.'s presidential legacy. Basically, Jon argues that Bush may be remembered as neither historically good or bad, but as a solid mediocrity. (He means that in a good way.) Specifically, Bush's last couple of years in office have gone a long way toward redeeming his once Nixon-league failures, especially in matters of foreign policy. Here's the passage that caught my eye:
"I think what you see here is a guy who has learned to be as effective as possible in reduced circumstances," says [Steven] Schier, the Carleton College political scientist. Paradoxically, this chief executive who prided himself on assertive, even aggressive, leadership proved to be a weak strong president but a surprisingly strong weak one.
This strikes me as completely on target--and maybe somewhat predictable considering what we know of Bush's past governing experience. As governor of Texas he didn't have much power. To get anything done, he had to work with the Democratic-controlled state House (and, starting out, a Dem-controlled state senate) as well as Democratic bigdog Lt. Governor Bob Bullock. By most accounts, W. did a fine, reasonably bipartisan job.
Of course, Texas Dems are not national Dems. But the bigger issue seems to be that W. is simply a leader who performs better and more responsibly when faced with constraints. Allowed to run/swagger amok, he risks ruining himself--and the country. In this way, he's a walking advertisement for divided government.
--Michelle Cottle
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One week until Kentucky’s gubernatorial primary elections
By Joel Williams
Four Democrats and four Republicans are competing for their party’s nominations in Kentucky’s May 21 gubernatorial primaries. The general election will take place on November 5. The position last changed partisan hands in 2015, when current governor Matt Bevin (R) defeated Jack Conway (D).
The Democrats running are Kentucky House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins, state Attorney General Andy Beshear, former state Auditor Adam Edelen, and retired engineer Geoff Young. Edelen has led the group in fundraising and spending. Beshear has led in the one public poll conducted and several internal campaign polls released by the candidates. Fifteen televised ads have aired on behalf of candidates in this race.
On the Republican side, Gov. Bevin faces state Rep. Robert Goforth, Ike Lawrence, and William E. Woods. Bevin and Goforth are the only candidates to raise significant funds so far, with the two only about $50,000 apart. No public polls have been released in the race to this point. While he has not earned the endorsement of President Donald Trump (R), Bevin did hold a campaign event at which Vice President Mike Pence (R) spoke.
Secretary of State Alison Grimes (D) announced on May 2 that a record 3,421,796 Kentuckians were registered to vote in the gubernatorial primary. In 2015, 392,701 votes were cast in both primaries combined.
Heading into the election, Kentucky is a Republican trifecta. A trifecta exists when one political party simultaneously holds the governor’s office and majorities in both state legislative chambers. Republicans control the governor’s office and both chambers of the Kentucky State Legislature. There are 22 Republican trifectas, 14 Democratic trifectas, and 13 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control.
Joel Williams is a staff writer at Ballotpedia and can be reached at joel.williams@ballotpedia.org
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Placement builds understanding of disabilities in Bali
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Five students from Flinders University’s Disability and Community Inclusion Unit are gaining real-world experience through their first overseas field placement at PUSPADI Bali, an NGO supporting more than 4,500 people with disabilities in Bali and Eastern Indonesia.
Associate Professor Caroline Ellison and the students from across regional Australia have been doing a five week field placement at PUSPADI Bali, where they’re learning about the increasing need for more high-quality support for local people with disabilities in a developing country.
The partnership between the university and the NGO developed when Associate Professor Ellison and PUSPADI Bali Director I Nengah Latra met while participating in the 2015 Australian Award Fellowship between Flinders DCIU and the Ministry of Social Affairs in Indonesia. From there, they later coordinated for students to start doing field placements.
“We really value the cross-sharing of information and culture between Associate Professor Ellison, the students and the PUSPADI Bali team because we learn from each other about disability rights, as well as how people with disabilities can use their power to improve accessibility, inclusion and tolerance in their communities,”says PUSBADI Bali Director I Nengah Latra.
“From a university perspective, it’s good for students to have these diverse experiences and understand cultural sensitivities, as well as see that the world isn’t just their view but more than that,” says Associate Professor Ellison.
“During my time at PUSPADI Bali, I have noticed everyone is on an even playing field, from the way the staff respectfully interact with people with disabilities and how they’re open to us all sharing our skills and knowledge to help people who need it most,” says Flinders student Sarah Baillie.
The students are gaining a deeper understanding about disability issues through their field trips to East and North Bali with PUSPADI Bali staff, who regularly provide rehabilitation, mobility aids or wheelchairs to those in remote or inaccessible areas.
“It’s interesting to see how the PUSPADI staff have developed really good relationships with the families and community,” says another student, Nicky Byrne.
“The outreach model (in Western Australia) is something we don’t see as much because people in regional areas will travel to the city for wheelchairs or other support and if someone doesn’t have a lot of money, it can be quite hard.”
The students have also observed the contrast between the different levels of funding support for disability services in Bali and in Australia.
“We see a lot of the work that PUSPADI Bali is doing that we, who are working with disability support organisations in Australia are actually getting help with from the government, which is what makes it work and we also have the National Disability Insurance Scheme but here in Bali unfortunately, it isn’t happening as much as it does back in our country,” adds student Leigh-Anne Hodgetts.
PUSPADI Bali is based at the Annika Linden Centre which is a social incubator for NGOs providing disability support services.
Alongside field trips, the students have also been spending time in PUSPADI Bali’s workshop to learn about how high-quality prosthetics and orthotics are made as well as in the therapy and educational classes at YPK. On the courtside, they’ve also played numerous games of wheelchair basketball at Bali Sports Foundation.
Associate Professor Ellison and the students brought 300 books and childrens’ games to donate to PUSPADI Bali’s Bungaya Library and Learning Centre.
The library is set to open in August and was funded through the Australian Government’s Direct Aid Program, the fundraising efforts of Balinese and Australian teenagers Tyas Latra and Samara Welbourne, as well as donations from supporters.
During their placement, Professor Ellison and students also had the opportunity to meet with the Australian Consul to Bali Drew Boekel and Australian Consul-General to Bali Dr Helena Studdert as well as with lecturers from the Universitas Udayana in Bali.
“We value these international placements because Flinders University has a lot of students from around the ASEAN region and we believe that disability isn’t a tragedy but it’s all about diversity and acceptance,” she says.
There are plans for more Flinders University students undertaking disability studies to do further placements at PUSPADI Bali next year.
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Niger promises civil servants conducive working environment
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Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has promised civil servants in the state that they would soon be given a conducive working environment that would enable them carry out their functions effectively.
Governor Bello gave the assurance on Tuesday when he paid an unscheduled visit to the State Secretariat in Minna, the state’s capital.
While stating that plans were underway to construct more office blocks, he admitted that a situation where five or 10 persons occupy one office was not acceptable.
“I came to inspect the secretariat, to see how civil servants were doing, their welfare and to also note down some of their challenges, I knew some of them since I was a Commissioner, I know there is a huge challenge in terms of office space.
“We are proposing to build one or two blocks, I just inspected the site and it appears we have enough space to erect few more blocks and hopefully as soon as our finances improve, we will construct two more blocks to decongest the existing facilities we have.”
According to Governor Bello, with their current condition in the available offices, it was difficult to monitor staff and they could not be fully blamed for abysmal performance.
He decried the poor conditions of the secretariat and said that government would ensure improved welfare of the state workforce.
“The entire premises is discouraging, there are no functional toilets, the furniture have worn out, I know it requires a lot of funds, but I also believe if you engage people to work, you have to provide them with the environment and the tool to work, for if they don’t perform, it is not fair to hold them responsible.”
The Governor, however, said that all civil servants receiving salaries would be made to carry out their work and those in the ministries that do not have anything doing would be sent somewhere else to work, adding that it was an effort towards staff auditing. (Channels TV)
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Counter Terrorism Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police excellent performance against terrorist and hard core criminals
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Peshawar, November 06, 2018 (PPI-OT): The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police by demonstrating excellent performance against terrorist and hard core criminals have approached 1810 dreaded terrorists and recovered huge quantities of arms and ammunition from their possession during the last five year.
According to details the CTD police during this period also safely recovered 91 abductees which bespeak volume of sheer hard work and professional acumen of its jawans. During this period several intelligence based operations were also carried out against the dens of the enemy of peace. 1458 cases were registered in CTD during this period out of which 1241 cases were challand to the courts while the remaining cases are under process of investigation. Similarly the arms and ammunition took into police custody during this period included 32 suicide jackets, 709 hand grenades, 2664.752 kg explosive materials, 7133 detonators, 20 RPGs, 134 SMGs and 426 pistols.
It may be recalled that being a frontline fighting force against the terrorism the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police and its people are suffering the most by rendering previous sacrifices of their lives. The achievements made by the CTD during the last five year will go in the annals of history. It was this outstanding performance of the CTD that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is being termed the most safe province in respect of peace and security.
The Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Salahuddin Khan Mehsood has commended this performance of the CTD, added that it has emerged as an effective fighting force against the terrorist and the ample proof of this fact can be easily gauged from its continuous success against the enemy of the state. The IGP also maintained that the people of the province feel proud on the valour and gallantry acts of the CTD jawans and vowed that terrorist, kidnappers and extortionist would be eliminated at every cost and the province would be made cradle of peace.
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Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Road, Civil Secretariat Peshawar,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Website: http://kppolice.gov.pk
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Ways to get out of a scalar rut?
I'm a well versed and experienced guitarist. I have a decent sense for rhythm and melody, but I have a VERY hard time with soloing. I know you've heard it all before I'm one of those guys that got stuck practicing scales too much and cant, for the life of me use them productively.
I CAN sometimes come up with little melodies, but I need help getting out of the scale rut. I understand modes and arpeggios and chord progressions, but I just need help getting out of the "running scales" problem I have. I listen to and play many genres: metal, rock, jam band, jazz.
The main issue I've been having is I'm stuck in the pattern blocks and have a hard time connecting different patterns together to make nice runs and arps. I need to make up some drills to work between the patterns, connecting them instead of running one after the other.
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You hit it on the nail: scales are not solos, nor does practicing scales help in any way to make good solos. – Michael Martinez Jan 23 '15 at 19:54
Do you transcribe other players' solos? I find this helps me a lot, especially when I transcribe non-guitarists' solos. The clichés and idioms on other instruments are simply different than they are on guitar, so that can help to see melody from a different perspective. Trumpets and saxophones, in particular, sit in a similar range to the guitar but have completely different styles of play.
To get the most out of transcribing solos, here are some points I think are important:
Choose solos you love, but from which you can learn. For example, I love the playing the blues and I want to expand my repertoire of blues ideas, but I don't transcribe Stevie Ray Vaughn solos. I love Stevie's playing, but I can't learn from it anymore. He played exactly what I would have played, if only I could play better. This is not to take anything away from Stevie, who did in fact play better than I do, but just to point out that I won't learn much from a Stevie solo that I don't already know.
On the other hand, I just transcribed Oliver Nelson's solo on "Stolen Moments", from his record Blues and the Abstract Truth (his solo starts at 4:14 and goes to about 5:54). "Stolen Moments" is also a blues, and Wikipedia describes his solo in it as "contain[ing] 'possibly the most famous' use of the augmented scale in jazz." I didn't know that at the time I started transcribing it (I just looked up the Wikipedia page as I was writing this), but I knew it was beautiful, lyrical, haunting, and entirely different from anything I would have thought of playing.
Get it right. Not just the notes, but the timing and the inflection as well. Get some software that slows music down without altering its pitch and allows you a great deal of scrubbing and looping control. I've used both the Amazing Slow Downer and Capo, and both are very good.
Getting the timing right is especially hard for me, but there's a lot to learn there. I have a tendency to overplay and to rush, and forcing myself to absolutely nail the timing on, say, a Miles Davis solo has taught me a lot about relaxing and staying in and behind the pocket. The inflection isn't as hard for me, but sometimes it's hard for my students. They don't seem to hear things like grace notes, slides, bends, vibrato, etc., the kinds of things that give the solo its vocal-like quality.
Write it down. This is important on so many levels. It will improve your reading, improve your knowledge of the fretboard, and it will really force you to grapple with the timing. Does that phrase really start on the 'and' of 3? How long is that pause? I thought those were sixteenth notes, but if they are, then the notes in this measure don't add up to four quarters. Hm.
Writing the solo out will also help with analysis. Once you've written it down, go back and write the chord symbols over the staff as they occur in the song. Then analyze the solo to see how the notes and phrases work with the chords. If you really want to go nuts with this, listen carefully to the chords that the other players are actually playing rather than the chords in the chart---they may be using alterations and substitutions, and the soloist may be playing off of those.
To be blunt: if you know the solo, write it down. If you can't write it down, you don't really know the solo.
Wisdom from Miles. Miles famously said about soloing, "Play what you hear, not what you know." In other words, when you're soloing, don't think about augmented scales and minor-7th arpeggios. Listen instead to what's in your heart and your head, and play that. Easier said than done, obviously, but this is exactly how transcribing helps the most: it trains your heart and head to hear ideas you wouldn't otherwise have, and it trains your fingers to execute better what you hear.
Alex BassonAlex Basson
The part about transcribing other instruments is great advice. Their ruts are completely different. – horatio Mar 18 '11 at 19:26
Adding to Miles' wisdom, I have my students sing what they're playing. This really helps internalize the connection between thought and fingers. Eventually, I make them sing a phrase while playing 'air' guitar and then play the phrase verbatim on their guitar. Once you've done this for a while, you can play anything you can think, which I often find to be more melodic than how my fingers tend to stroll when left to their own devices. – yossarian Mar 18 '11 at 20:40
I'm still reading you answer, it's long and I have ADD LOL.....anyway..I am trying to learn solos a lead guitarist I had threw down for my old band. blues licks, but the phrasing is superb and just has so much experience behind it they're hard to comp. link to tunes : bandmix.com/raintree_music the song "Don't Rock The Boat" is a perfect example of solos I CAN"T write myself but really should be able to now with 20+ years behind me. I wrote the chord progressions for those songs 10 years ago and played rhythm. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:21
I knew about Steve Vai's time with Zappa. Marty Friedman also has mentioned that transcribing sax solos was part of how he learned. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:53
@InternalConspiracy If your having trouble linking guitar bits/phrases/patterns together you probably would benefit from transcribing some solos. Liking raintree btw, can hear Santana's influence in there somewhere. Nice bass in there too. – Bella Mar 22 '11 at 6:16
I think this is a common problem with guitarists, we all at some point or other run across this. Some of the things I have have learned to push past this are as follows.
String skipping
String skipping is a good way to mix up your scale runs, its a good idea to find a pattern you like the sound of and try moving it around, applying this to arpeggios is equally interesting. Here is a simple pattern repeated over two octaves in B minor:
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Hint: it might sound nice to drop the repeated B(9) and slide into it instead.
There are quite a lot of way you can use intervals to get interesting sounds, one idea is to take a scale and decide that you will play it using notes exactly x number of intervals apart.
So you might choose to play Dorian mode with notes 3 intervals apart, this could go as follows; [1-4][2-5][3-6][4-7][5-1] and so on through the octaves. Or you could take a section of this say [1-4][2-5] and move the pattern up an octave repeating the pattern.
Its a good idea to practice this using different interval distances and in different keys/modes, also its a good idea to make yourself a backing track to play over. Here is an example of using notes 5 intervals apart in B minor:
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You could play this in any way you want; however I have kept this on the two strings because it sounds nice to slide this around. Its also another very nice way to get around the neck. Try this with different interval distances.
There is a similar idea to this but using arpeggios in this answer I gave.
This is the kind of thing Paul Gilbert does a lot, I suggest you check out some of his videos on Youtube.
Alternate scale/arpeggio patterns
Its also a good idea to try and find multiple places and fingerings to play the same scale, certain fingerings lend themselves to certain ways of playing, this will also open up your knowledge of the fretboard which will naturally lead to more musical ideas and flexibility.
As with everything else, pay close attention to your phrasing when applying these ideas.
Here is a musical sample I created to accompany this answer; it incorporates the ideas in this answer (string skipping and intervals) interspersed with straight scale runs and a little phrasing.
BellaBella
thanks, I do stuff like this all the time. It's the "using it musically" part that gets me sometimes. It's not like I CAN"T EVER write a decent solo, but I have to work at it very hard to make it right. and by now, 20+ years playing just guitar, I should be able to do it by now. That part really just hasn't clicked yet. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:25
There is a lot of Wisdom in @Alex Basson's answer, the idea i have put forward are purely from a technical standpoint; i personally very rarely sit down and transcribe things note for note, since i try to develop my own style; however i do often put on an album of whatever i'm listening to that week and groove along with. While doing this i try to retain the original feel of the tracks but using my own style, while assimilating interesting licks/lines from the track (whatever instrument). This is how i develop a lot of technique, and have a lot of fun. I usually do this with a few beers ;) – Bella Mar 19 '11 at 13:49
After reading your comment to @johnnysim's answer, I think what you really need is ear training and singing along your practice; pick a note and try to guess the sound of another note in the same scale before actually playing it. It takes a lot of training but you'll eventually be able to play any melody you have in mind.
UncleZeivUncleZeiv
I do need ear training actually. I have a voice teacher that lives next door to me and I would be dumb not to take advantage of that. I can usually sing a melody or solo, but I can never translate it to guitar, and If I try it gets so discombobulated it doesn't sound anything like what imagined and I don't remember what the original was supposed to sound like. ADD for ya! – InternalConspiracy Jul 1 '11 at 2:42
A great alternative to breaking out of linear scale runs is to use arpeggios. The first step is to be able to play chord tones of a chord progression. So in a progression in the key of E minor that goes Em Am for example, you could improvise with an Emin triad (E, G, B) over Em, and an Amin triad (A, C, E) over Am.
Once you are comfortable with visualizing these chord tones on the neck and playing it in time with the progression, take it a step further and play an Emin7 (E, G, B, D) over Em, and an Amin7 (A, C, E, G) over Am - these extra notes will add more colour to your lines.
I have a blog on this approach that demonstrates me playing over a more complex progression with tab: http://guitartreats.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
If you're feeling adventurous, you may go another step further and start superimposing other arpeggios: play a Gmaj7 (G, B, D, F#) over Em, and a Cmaj7 (C, E, G, B) over Am to create even more interesting lines.
HalmonyHalmony
I like your blog post example. Also, I'd love to know how you generated the music/tab that you included in the post. What software are you using to make that? – Alex Basson Mar 18 '11 at 14:39
Hi Alex, thanks for checking out my blog. I use a Mac and created that notation/tab with a free software called Tuxguitar. It's a simple but effective program, but these days I've switched to using GuitarPro6 for more flexibility and the results looks a lot better too. – Anonymous Mar 18 '11 at 14:46
Something I was taught that helped me break out of the scale box was to treat the notes of a scale as a target rather than a requirement. For instance, you can play patterns around the G major scale and only land on the notes of that scale to release tension. As an example, I have an ascending lick where I do 2 and 3 note hammer-on / pull-offs where the root note of the "flutter" is a note in the pentatonic scale. By the time you get up 6 or 7 steps up you've built up a lot of tension with which you can descend back down using a more traditional scale.
JamesJames
Dude, song is about melody, not about scales and arpeggios. Start with the melody and enjoy it. Don't mechanically try to add anticipations etc. just let it get into your mind until you feel where you want to add your stuff. Every "method" is just another way to get into another "rut". Soloing is just playing with the melody, otherwise it is boring and unnatural. And keep the groove. For example Tommy Emmanuel has this incredible talent of taking a melody and developing amazing things with it. He doesn't even read music and I was in a masterclass when he actually asked the audience "I don't know how this chord is called"... Most of us knew the chord, but there was no one who could play better than Tommy.
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@ZvonkoM Cool a fellow computer geek guitar guy. I have not heard of Tommy, but a guitarist I am inspired by, and I'm sure most have not heard of him is Steve Sweeney with the Ohio Jam band Ekoostik Hookah ekoostik.com He has a very Dickie Betts style that I envy. I aspire to have phrasing like Steve Sweeney! Even in the Metal I play, I want phrasing that melts your soul. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:36
So you practice scales and arpeggios but can't actually do anything with it? But what were you not doing all this time? How about putting down the guitar for a while, put on some Stevie Ray or Django or Holdsworth or Hendrix whatever you fancy and just listen.
Get that feel for what the musician is playing - find what it is about their playing, whether it's a feel, tone, rhythm or a particular sequence of notes - and internalize it, practice it, master it. Do this repeatedly and tirelessly because you love it, and can't help it. Obviously, if you want to be a guitarist, it's because you love the guitar and the music, not because you want to be the next -cough- Richie Sambora. -hack-
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I listen obsessively sometimes. less than a few years ago, but I have a good ear and pick out each player's subtleties. Like SRV. Lots of people can PLAY an SRV song, but they don't come anywhere close to SOUNDING like SRV. He had a subtle technique that just made each chord he played stand out. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:28
I can do a pretty good impression of SRV and I can't remember ever really practicing to sound like SRV. Practice is absolutely necessary to connect what you hear in your mind with what your fingers must do, but ultimately getting the sound comes from total confidence with the instrument. – Anonymous Mar 19 '11 at 1:58
That said, to try to explain the SRV sound, it comes from a fairly tight grasp on the strings with the fretting hand applying subtle vibrato across several strings at once, or simultaneously pulling several sharp sharp, while the right hand is very slightly muffling the strings at bridge to get a nice rhythmic chording - sometimes muting only the lower strings to get a nice searing lead. Also very important is muting with the fret hand, loosening grip so stings lift off fret but still light touch by hand. Do that and apply some rock-solid rhythm, you got it made. :) – Anonymous Mar 19 '11 at 2:18
"ultimately getting the sound comes from total confidence with the instrument" which I'm gaining but still don't have quite yet!! I don't really have opportunities to play with other people very often either and I know that can make a big difference. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 3:44
Sing what you play. Then play what you sing. You don't have to sing accurately, but it will change the way you choose your notes and rhythms.
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If I could play the melodies I sing and make up to riffs, I would be on the cover of every guitar rag! but alas, here I am. That's great advise though and have been trying to do that more and more. sing something, then try to play it. It never comes out exactly, but I get close. I do that with riffs a lot too. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:26
Don't analyze it. Clapton was once asked for the most important piece of advice for guitar players and he replied "listen as much as you can". Forget the arpeggios and the modes... listen to some simple blues pieces and play them back with feeling. Sometimes you will have to play the same line a hundred times to get a unique take on it. This is not as obvious as it sounds but it is a very worthwhile approach and in my opinion the only one that separates the parrots from the real guitarists.
IrishChieftainIrishChieftain
agreed to a point. I need to arps and scales so I can TRANSLATE what I hear in my head, to notes. I am not one to play within the rules at all..but I like to have them as a guideline. There's a lot of experience behind that too. Having the years that I do, I CAN take a simple lick and make it sound better just by doing something subtle to it a beginner would never know to do. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 1:33
True. But it took me 30+ years to use my ear when playing something back to myself on guitar; instead I was always concentrating on the geography of the neck. Since I made that paradigm switch about 2 years ago, my playing ability has gone to another level. It was a subtle but powerful lesson... and it was Clapton's quote that clued me into it... – Anonymous Mar 19 '11 at 2:31
what types of things do you do? I know it can be hard to verbalize feeling, but if you have some concrete examples of what you did differently that would be great. – InternalConspiracy Mar 19 '11 at 3:43
Take a song like Stepping Out (Beano album). Listen to it a few times and take a walk/drive. In my head I hear how I would like to be playing it - we all do this. However, when we pick up the guitar after that we need to "rehear" what we just played in our head! Usually, this gets lost in translation. When playing it in your head, make it better than the original... think how to knock their socks off with feeling! When the crowd gets chills down their back, you've hit the target :) – Anonymous Mar 19 '11 at 13:55
My answer will be Blues based:
a) Try Call/Response type phrasing. This means instead of long legato lines, you could try to do dismantle your penchant for runs into small "conversations" a la Blues. Playing a phrase - such as a short B.B.King style 1 bar lick. Then answer it with a phrase that is totally different rhythmically and melodically.
One thing extra thing you could do is "swap" the phrasing. If the first call is a phrase that sounds good, you could respond by repeating the phrase but perhaps an octave higher/lower or perhaps in a harmonic equivalent.
Basically - this forces you to consciously play differently. Of course you can still through in an arp here and there - but it begins to cut up your scalar runs into small "human" voice type sentences.
b) Al Di Meola Rhythms. Instead of the usual legato style 16th and 32nd notes. Again, throw in interruptions and Rests. Apply accents to the offbeats. Etc. Di Meola is a big influence on me regarding this. It will at least make your scalar runs sound "different" to begin with.
c) Don't Play at all. In a solo section - how far can you go without playing anything? Must you fill every bar with a solo? How about literally stopping. This can give some creative options. eg. If you know you're going to stop - play a tension building lick. If you decide you will play 2 bars then rest for 3 you could try and articulate a phrase that's appropriate. (for some reason I've got a Latin Samba beat in my head as I write this).
d) Try mimicing horn players. The thing about horn players is that their power comes from breath. Therefore they will run out and will need to take a rest! Try and do the same. This is another variation of (b). But the other dynamic is that the articulations are different. Again... because their lines are not "guitar" based - mimicing their runs could afford you some new phrases.
e) Singing I think this was covered in another thread, but singing along to your solos can help you unlock some creative juices. You can either sing while your playing. Or sing a phrase then play it. The latter is definitely harder - and at least it's not "guitar" in origin so you won't immediately fall back in your rut.
Hope these help
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for (d), try staying on just one string and jump up to second position before changing registers (strings). – luser droog Oct 26 '11 at 22:26
hey that's a great tip. The jump to a second position can also be done musically via sliding into the note. Or acrobatic octave jumps - they're visually fun but hard to do (especially onstage when you're jumping around!) – Vlad - geetarCOACH.com Oct 27 '11 at 8:46
yeah, a slide or a pivot ($3.2 $3.5 $3.4 $3.7 as 1 - 4 - 1 - 4) is easier. But for that very reason, doing a hard jump makes a better exercise. And you can delay (or avoid) jumping only by doing r e a l l y l o n g s t r e t c h e s. – luser droog Oct 27 '11 at 10:06
A bit late to the party but here are a couple things that have helped me:
1) Focus on small 'boxes' of three or four closely positioned notes on the fretboard. Think of them like manageable bite-sized sub-scales. E.g., from C major pentatonic, take: - The C at the third fret of the A string - The D at the fifth fret of the A string - The E at the second fret of the D string - The G at the fifth fret of the D string
...Take those four notes and master them. I.e., play every single ordering of those notes. Explore different rhythms for the orderings. What happens when you play two of the notes at the same time? Try switching which one you consider to be the 'root' note where you resolve your melodic phrases. What different genres can you express with those four notes? What fingerings work well? Once you feel that you know everything there is to know about that box and have muscle memory for every single pattern imaginable (or are just getting bored with it), choose another one and repeat. After you have a couple boxes, look for ways to connect and transition between them.
You can take the same approach with whole scales (What differing shapes/paths can the same scale take on the fret-board? How do they connect/intertwine?) but the smaller boxes seem more manageable to me.
2) To rephrase the advice in other answers about learning the solos you love: Work out how to play any melodic phrase that comes to mind. I.e., sit down and figure out how to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' without any other instruction or hints other than you and your guitar. Then do 'Ride of the Valkyries'. Then do 'The Entertainer'. Then do 'On Top of Old Smokey', etc. etc. You don't have to get all the harmonies and orchestration--just the main theme as you hear it in your head and only to your satisfaction. The goal is to be able to translate what you have in your brain to your fingers. There might also be something of a vernacular in music that has "stood the test of time" or is reasonably memetic--i.e., tunes that everyone knows (including your parents/grandparents).
3) Don't forget articulation in your practice/playing. E.g., things like string bending and vibrato. They're not overly mind-blowing or difficult but they can turn a mechanical/robotic phrase into a much more heart-felt/human/expressive performance.
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A lot of people say that you need to do specific things, and then after enough repetition the desired results will happen by themselves. And they're right most of the time. Developing musical intuition is a very powerful way of patching together the emotional center with the moving/instinctual center. But for someone who has intellectualized a lot of the content of musical theory, this becomes increasingly difficult. The brain can't trust the gut to take care of business. So the brain keeps looking over the gut's shoulder and causes interference just by being there.
The only way to combat this "departmentalization" is holism. It really is a spiritual problem. The rut in your playing is symptomatic of a rut in your life (I'm trying to be philosophical, not mean. This is all my opinion based on extrapolation from your question. But I'm going to state it like a fact because it makes the idea easier to explain. As they say in rehab: If it don't apply, let it fly.) Take a break! Go to the park. Find a girl, settle down... oh, wait, never mind.
You should read about the psychology of creativity. Isaac Asimov, Howard Gardner, Carl Jung! Particularly important is the "topology of psyche", the different combinations of the four functions: intellect, emotions, intuition, sensation. You need to teach the brain to respect and understand the gut's true abilities.
You can also keep attacking it from the music theoretical side. Johann Fux's *Gradus ad Parnassum" explains the rules of counterpoint. This is the book Beethoven studied. And the most amazing book on musical theory I've ever found is Viktor Zuckerkandl, Sound and Symbol. It uses musical examples to discuss real philosophy. The idea is that the individual tone itself, when played in a musical context already knows what it should do. Music Theory is the attempt to predict what it should do. Musical Intuition uses the parallel processing of the human nervous system to approximate what it should do. And when the mind, ears, and fingers start to work together, the human organism becomes the instrument and the music truly does "play itself." Like the puppet working a puppet in Being John Malkovich.
So in summary, I both agree and disagree with everybody else on this page. Try their suggestions. But if it doesn't work, check out some of these authors and dig a little deeper. Leverage the mind to break the stranglehold of the mind.
Edit: That said, I did think up a laundry-list of things to try doing.
Try to play a solo with just one note. You can use varying dynamics (piano, sforzando, muted, harmonics), varying texture (rallentando, tremolo, staccato, rasgueado!), varying tone (bright near the bridge, sweet near the neck, strangely dull near the center), *swing-against-a-*straight-beat, straighten-up-a-swing-beat, and syncopate, to name a few. This lets you concentrate on the rhythmic phrasing.
When you watch TV, play along with the commercials. Try trading-eights with the scrubbing bubbles. You learn to very quickly jump into different styles.
When you make a mistake, play it twice!. It makes it sound like you intended it the first time. And the second time you won't get it the same as the first; so it sounds like its developing, albeit a little weird. At that point your fingers have danced around the unfamiliar notes in question long enough that the third time it sounds like you first imagined it. But the audience has become part of the discovery, too!
Randomly slide up/down an octave, whereever there's room. Or other intervals, for a quick change of position and timbre (if you change position and keep the same notes, you have to change strings which can give a different edge to the same melodic fragment).
Try open tunings and use a slide. Good luck trying to play nice, even scales. You have to pick your notes based on chord intervals and choose which way to slide into it (even if you mute the sliding, it still needs to be a convenient direction).
But these are just techniques, and the scales is just the graph paper. To paint a picture, you have to paint a picture of something. Figure out what emotional aspect the song is missing (too weepy->add aggression, too fluid->add punctuation, too melodic->add rhythm, too rhythmic->add melody, too euphonious->add chaos). In the standard rock-song form, the solo goes between the second and third verse. This is the "summing up" portion of the corresponding Euclidean proof. The solo is the boy Oedipus, reared on the legends of the first and second verse, enumerating his litany before beheading his father (or whatever inescapable conclusion the third verse has to offer). The solo has a musical purpose to justify the tension expressed in the final moments.
And one final bit of inscrutable wisdom from Bill Richardson, band director at UMSL:
Music is between the notes!
He was probably quoting somebody, but never told who.
The most between-the-notes soloist of all time is Louis Armstrong. (But try the one-note solo first, listening to Louis is cheating!)
luser droogluser droog
This may sound silly, but I recommend that you stop improvising for a while (like a month or so) and focus on transcribing and playing composed (not improvised) music by ear. It's hard to grab the guitar and not improvise if you're used to it. But what I think happens when most guitarists improvise, is that their fingers take over, and they start running up and down the scale because fast kewl licks are the norm. That's what people expect from guitarists. And that's what most of our heroes do.
I personally can't keep myself from improvising (yes I'm such a hypocrite) so I moved to another instrument and rarely play the guitar anymore. I find transcribing much harder than improvising, mainly because when I'm improvising, I don't think about every single note, I just decide that I'm going to move from the fifth back to the tonic without skipping any notes, or using an arpeggio, or using that pattern I use all the time... you get the idea.
I think my problem is weak ears. If I can improvise pretty fast, but can hardly transcribe simple melodies from pop songs, what else could it be?
AnthonyAnthony
Try to think of the scales in terms of intervals instead of patterns on the guitar neck. In The Advancing Guitarist, one exercise is to play on only one string. That is a helpful technique to map out the intervals, and refrain from using the well known patterns.
Another thing is to play around (with scales or just in general) on a keyboard. I find that I more naturally create melodies there, while on the guitar it is easy to fall back into the patterns. Then play those melodies on the guitar.
One-Finger Soloing
It's a very simple technique but I came across this recently. You literally choose one finger on your fretting hand - index most likely - and are only allowed to use this finger.
The idea is it breaks your ingrained muscle memory of playing scale patterns. And also, following the scale is now no easier in terms of finger movement than playing anything else.
I rather feel this is a bit too simple for someone of your experience though?
Mr. BoyMr. Boy
with an on the fly solo i find that basing it around the standard pentatonics really helps, from there you can slip in and out of modes/scales or whatever whenever you like.
i find it helps create a fluid supply of melodies
Finbar MaginnFinbar Maginn
While this is pretty good advice in general for rock/pop solos, the question at the top is specifically about how not to just follow a scalar pattern. – luser droog Jul 31 '14 at 4:14
Attitude !! Play music.
The key word is "Play". When it comes to solos, it's literal: a box of toys and some time to do whatever you want.
Training scales and arpeggios etc is greater for dexterity and they may constitute a run or riff you put into a solo, but I think it's not an answer to "how" to come up with a solo - more how to add some impressive twiddles (and nothing wrong with that! :-D ).
I find a good way of gaining some inspiration is to break out of the comfort zone a bit. Don't play within the 'usual' scale/pattern. Play some other fretboard pattern or position that's a bit difficult for you, or unusual. For me, this normally leads to routes and melodieds that I would normally not have arrived at if playing just the good ol' pentatonic etc. Also it serves me well to remember that all I'm doing is making noises. There aren't any rules. So sometimes I play the string so deadened it sounds like a drum and go for a rhythm solo, or just let it feed back and play with tremolo arm, or use the mike stand as a guitar slide. My point isn't "try these", it's more .. break the norm.
Play melodies as if you're the singer. Take a pop(?) song and play the vocal part. Play the words (sort of etc). Once you can hear the song make the notes feel good by bending up to them, different vibrato and phrasing. Then think of the mood of the song, think about the lyrics. Then play the melody in octaves or with a slide.
openquestionsopenquestions
You have probably got more advice than you can use, so I will be brief. I am coming to the conclusion that no matter what type, style or period, the introduction of half-step, non-scale intervals in melodies makes a difference in the interest that music generates in the listener.
The appoggiatura is just one kind of half-step ornamentation, and it has its technical definition. Let's just say that it is about "leaning" from one note to the next - from a non-scale tone to a scale tone.
In the blues, you will hear the minor third bending to the major third all the time. That is merely the most obvious example. Spice up your solos with non-scale half step intervals, and see what happens.
memphisslimmemphisslim
Everyone's given some great advice, but here's the thing about solos; they're melodies, and melodies are constructed in a certain way. It's possible to figure out that certain way just by playing, but I found it far more useful to actually understand the principles of melody construction ahead of time. Once I did, my solos improved by leaps and bounds.
So, what is the way to construct a melody?
I'm not going to reproduce it here, because it's too much information. What you need to do is grab yourself a copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition" and read the chapters on melody. They're the best text on the topic I've found.
You can get the book on Amazon here.
SandalfootSandalfoot
Learn how to reharmonize the tune, or passages in the tune, with passing chords, secondary dominants, cadences, etc. Then identify tones in each new chord which you use as target tones in your solos.
For each passage in your song, identify the tonic chord. Then learn how to use a solo to establish this chord as the harmony of resolution: approaching it and resolving to it.
Good solos are a combination of: phrasing and selection of target tones. Target tones come from the chords; if you have a weak chord progression you will have a weak solo; a nice strong chord progression will give you a strong solo.
Michael MartinezMichael Martinez
This is a great little exercise:
I have been in a guitar rut for a long time, so much so that my playing has actually suffered. I bought my first best beginner guitar at that time & I regret this and know that if I ever stop playing guitar my life will not be the same. I love music but being able to create amazing music on the guitar is something I have been working towards since I was very young. I have recently found an amazing song that I would like to cover and I have been practicing the riffs everyday but some of the parts are very difficult and I know I could have played it a year ago.
This page helped to remind me what used to inspire me and I feel inspired again. Back to practice :)
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By Janene Pieters on August 18, 2016 - 15:08
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A police officer killed in a shootout while responding to a break in on Bonaire on Wednesday, was identified as Ferry Bakx, the Telegraaf reports. He emigrated from the Netherlands in January 2013 and was living and working on the Antillean island since, according to the newspaper.
Bakx responded to a reported break in in Sabadeco Shore, one of the two most expensive neighborhoods on the island, around 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The suspect was still in the house and officers followed him on foot, according to Lucia Beck of the local police. Shots were fired and Bakx was hit.
He was rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds, where he died. The perpetrator is still on the loose.
State representative Gilbard Isabella had contact with the police and Public Prosecution, he said to the newspaper. I know they are doing everything n their power to arrest the perpetrators. Now first of all my condolences and attention go out to the wife and friends and all colleagues", he said.
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"Very wild through the wood is the way they must take"
Grandparental Reflections
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Think Human and Think Literature
In among teaching, marking, and research, Mat Tobin has convened a really exciting evening panel conference (with me as whipper-in) and really to advertise this event as part of the Think Human festival at Oxford Brookes, I thought I’d post a brief reflection – and if you aren’t already aware of how to book in, or what the details are, this is the link to the details on Eventbrite.
The award-winning panel we will meet at the event – Daniel Hahn, with discussants Catherine Johnson, Beverley Naidoo and S F Said – will of course have their own things to say, and Jon Appleton will reflect on Jan Mark as well, to start us off. I may get a chance to reflect by blog on the issues they raise later. I won’t subvert the discussion by starting it now. Well, not much.
I wanted to take a step back and think – as this blog title puts it – about how Think Human seems to me just has to be something to do with story. Over Christmas Chris Lovegrove followed closely the Twitter conversation about Masefield’s Box of Delights and in his summing up on his blog suggested that there is “fictionalising of autobiographical elements” in Masefield. Do we – or if I’m not going to overgeneralise, do I – do the reverse when I read? Did I need in some sense to become Kay Harker, the orphaned hero, when I first read The Midnight Folk and its sequel with my mum and dad comfortably having a Middle Class cup of tea downstairs? Do I autobiographise (that’s a terrible word; I promise not to use it again) elements of fiction as I read?
In the MA module I participate in, I ask the students to look at a chapter (15, if you’re interested) of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue in which he writes
Narrative history of a certain kind turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.
(I must admit one reason for including this chapter in their discussion is MacIntyre’s example of the young man at the bus stop and the duck – but that’s by the way).
In life, MacIntyre suggests
We enter upon a stage which we did not design and we find ourselves part of an action that was not of our making.
It would seem natural that, if we live this metaphor, we would try to discover patterns in our own narrative by looking at other people’s – fictional or actual. Empathy and even compassion are part of our participation in a story. It is interesting that MacIntyre’s own example includes this identification between storyteller and audience specifically in a drama/story context:
Each of us being a main character in his own drama … In my drama, perhaps,I am Hamlet or Iago or at least the swineherd who may yet become a prince…
I think it is fundamental to the conversation of drama, novel, even the everyday “You’ll never guess who I saw in town today…” and perhaps it always has been. The hunter returns to the fire and tells us of the kill she or he has made, and we try and empathise ourselves into their account. Or they return and tell us of the deer that leapt past them into the undergrowth and how it lives and we think what it must be like to live like that, the choices it might make (and maybe how we might catch it) – and all of a sudden I am at one with Rob Cowan’s magnificent empathetic account of the deer in Common Ground. 4000 BCE or today. The act of storytelling may have become more complex over millennia, but has an element of identification between telling and hearing: what one of the characters in Alan Garner’ Boneland pronounces as a ‘True Story,” a story in which we understand something more of ourselves, a story that makes us “think Human.”
But this is just my take: does everybody – writers, translators, readers – see it this way? One of the main ideas of getting such major voices together was to urge people who come to Boxes of Delight to try and see what links there might be between how writers communicate. Are there common themes on how they approach their task? What is the importance of the values they communicate? Do they write for the child they once were; do they write with a specific audience in mind?
See you on 11th Feb.?
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Gifts Reserved for Age?
A storm was gathering yesterday that has hit us good and proper today. I had been for a walk and a coffee and came out from the pub to see the lights on in St Andrews across the way. Evening Prayer time in a warm, quiet, dark church.
And when I got home I looked up the words from T S Eliot because, I wanted, I suppose, some more of that sense of contemplation that Eliot tries for:
So, while the light fails
On a winter’s afternoon, in a secluded chapel,
History is now and England…
The aesthetic pathway of spirituality may be cultural, maybe victim to changing fashions or simply growing up, but it is not to be forgotten: it creates the thin places, or sharpens the senses to see those places where prayer has been valid, where the other and the now meet. Thin places. In the church the silent near-dark was stunning, and all those poems from all those Thomases, Thomas Merton and R S Thomas and T S Eliot (not to mention Dylan Thomas’ “close and holy darkness”) were somehow at my elbow. And maybe the incense smudge of a memory of the church when I was a child, after Compline and Benediction, or the quiet of Magdalen after Night Prayer…
But tonight it is different, and the blustery grey has been superseded by a Wild Hunt of a storm. Time then to go back in my mind to another thin place, to the little, basic cottage on the North York moors where this poem from Kathleen Raine was posted up by a previous inhabitant, and said so much about a keener, wilder, maybe more dangerous spirituality. I have cited it before.
Let in the wind,
Let in the rain,
Let in the moors tonight,
The storm beats on my window-pane,
Night stands at my bed-foot,
Let in the fear,
Let in the pain,
Let in the trees that toss and groan,
Let in the north tonight.
Let in the nameless formless power
That beats upon my door,
Let in the ice, let in the snow,
The banshee howling on the moor,
The bracken-bush on the bleak hillside,
Let in the dead tonight.
The whistling ghost behind the dyke,
The dead that rot in the mire,
Let in the thronging ancestors,
The unfilled desire,
Let in the wraith of the dead earl,
Let in the cold,
Let in the wet,
Let in the loneliness,
Let in the quick,
Let in the dead,
Let in the unpeopled skies.
Oh how can virgin fingers weave
A covering for the void,
How can my fearful heart conceive
Gigantic solitude?
How can a house so small contain
A company so great?
Let in the dark,
Let in your love tonight.
Let in the snow that numbs the grave,
Let in the acorn-tree,
The mountain stream and mountain stone,
Let in the bitter sea.
Fearful is my virgin heart
And frail my virgin form,
And must I then take pity on
The raging of the storm
That rose up from the great abyss
Before the earth was made,
That pours the stars in cataracts
And shakes this violent world?
Let in the fire,
Let in the power,
Let in the invading might.
Gentle must my fingers be
And pitiful my heart
Since I must bind in human form
A living power so great,
A living impulse great and wild
That cries about my house
With all the violence of desire
Desiring this my peace.
Down in Yon Forest
This is a bit of a mish-mash, with all sorts of sources bunged together. I’d like to think of it as an enquiry into why Christmas a time of nostalgia but suspect it is a pile of stuff under a Christmas tree with no labels: sort through the pile and see what you can find. But why do we look back at Christmas? Why does the glorious The Friendly Beasts by Tomie de Paola have choristers and candles to sign/sing us to the stable? It is as if the validity of Christmas in some ways springs from this appeal to the past. Is it because Christianity has created a feast in which “history” is one of the most important guests? I’m not sure. De Paola often has this sense of tradition, such as his retelling of Italian folk tales, the beautiful Clown of God, and representations of Bible stories – and the Night Before Christmas, which is our family’s standard version of the poem (follow this link to Jake Hayes who has some lovely photos of this version). There is some of that, certainly, right from St Luke’s dating of events and the genealogies he and St Matthew produce. Perhaps it is also because, in the partial extirpation of a pagan Yule, one of the things that remains is an echo that says “remember how it used to be…” – and could this be an attempt to return to a (mythical) Christmas of our own childhoods? And then maybe in England that nostalgia includes a sorrowing for some good old days, a golden age around 1500 CE or maybe 1600, or 1800… There is more than one ghost of Christmas past, I suspect, and maybe as well as our personal ones we carry ones for our society too, whether we acknowledge them or not.
It is not only Dickens that feels the weight of past Christmasses. Cole Hawlings who “does date from pagan times” in The Box of Delights sings the rescued Cathedral staff back to their Midnight Mass where they are greeted by the monks from years past
…for on such a Christmas Eve what one of them would keep away?
and Tolly’s dream-like experience of Midnight Mass moves between his own twentieth century and the past of his family in the seventeenth. As I have just cited recently, Susan Cooper celebrates this looking back when celebrating the Solstice:
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day…
What is the attraction of the past for this festival?
In the run-up to this Christmas I come back (again) to poets Thomas Merton and R S Thomas. Here are two poems that seem to me typical of their approach to Christmas. Merton first of all, surrounded by the traditions of his faith and practice like Duccio’s Maesta or Martini’s: All those hopes and fears of all the years gathered around the Virgin and Child:
Flocks feed by darkness with a noise whispers,
In the dry grass of pastures,
and lull the solemn night with their weak bells.
The little towns upon the rocky hills
Look down as meek as children:
Because they have seen come this holy time.
God’s glory, now, is kindled gentler than low candlelight
Under the rafters of a barn:
Eternal Peace is sleeping in the hay,
And Wisdom is born in secret in a straw-roofed stable.
And O! Make holy music in the stars, you happy angels.
You shepherds, gather on the hill.
Look up, you timid flocks, where the three kings
Are coming through the wintry trees;
While we unnumbered children of the wicked centuries
Come after with our penances and prayers,
And lay them down in the sweet smelling hay
Beside the wise men’s golden jars.
Merton: Carol
and Thomas, well, Thomas is aware of the biting wind of doubt and silence in the Nada Nada Nada, Y En El Monte Nada of St John of the Cross. Here he captures a Christmas purity that I think is hard to beat:
The moon is born
and a child is born,
lying among white clothes
as the moon among clouds.
They both shine, but
the light from the one
is abroad in the universe
as among broken glass.
Thomas: Nativity
RST is like this: grounded but bleak, with a now rather than a history in his poem. This is often his way, I think (although not always): a doubting impatience in the spiritual –
Will you continue to torment us?
If you are ubiquitous, why
not be here when we say : Now?
Thomas: Could Be
I have been a student of your love
and have not graduated. Setting
my own questions, I bungled
Thomas: Incarnation
Merton, however, pours out his love not only for the God he seeks in monastic profession but also in places for the life itself:
The sun that plays in the amazing church
Melts all the rigor of those cowls as grey as stone – Or in the evening gloom that clouds them through those tintless panes,
The choirs fall down in tidal waves
And thunder on the darkened forms in a white surf of Glorias.
Merton: St Ailred
I’m not sure I can answer my own question, to be honest: Christmas is a time of looking back, looking forward – and inwards too. For me, the tensions between the very grounded (and dark) spirituality of R S Thomas and the almost ecstatic exuberance of Thomas Merton is resolved in a medieval lyric:
This is the text:
Lully, lullay, lully, lullay,
The fawcon hath born my mak away.
He bare him up, he bare him down,
He bare him into an orchard brown.
In that orchard ther was an hall
That was hangid with purpill and pall.
And in that hall ther was a bede;
Hit was hangid with gold so rede.
And yn that bed ther lythe a knyght,
His woundes bledyng day and nyght.
By that bedes side ther kneleth a may,
And she wepeth both nyght and day.
And by that bedes side ther stondith a ston :
Corpus Christi wretyn thereon.
It is known as a Christmas carol in a slightly altered version, where the moon shines bright on a saviour… born this night, but the earliest version seems to me to be a visit to the Sacrament where the Passion is clearly discerned. Benjamin Britten’s version is here, but the version of Britten’s setting I know best and love is Jeff Buckley’s anguished countertenor.
But let’s go back a bit. Here I am, in the mid-70s, eighteen or nineteen years old, and opening my new Breviary for the first time, exploring what it has in it. It has an appendix of poems as well as hymns and in coming for the first time to the Corpus Christi carol I remember myself (a year or so before) back to a little gothic church in the hills above Guildford.
Lully lulley; lully lulley.
So why the falcon? And why the lullaby refrain? The idea of being suddenly snatched now makes me think of a sparrowhawk or peregrine, but I will let my C16th predecessor (who doubtless was more at home with such things as this MS/blog from the British Library suggest) have her/his way. In a near-sleep, dreamlike state, a soul is snatched away to a hall –
He bare hym up, he bare hym down;
He bare hym into an orchard brown.
…and in the hall in a wood (or Eden after the Fall, its trees bare), sees the truth of the link between Passion and Eucharist.
The trees surrounding the Franciscan Friary church (now Chilworth Abbey) could well be leafless in winter, and at any rate the “truth” of this matters less than what the image said to me in my late teens: a religious experience that was sudden and rooted in mediaeval imagery brought me (I am unsure who “my mak” is otherwise) to an altar, to the reserved sacrament on its bed. We might well be beyond the limits of medieval orthodoxy here, in the realm of the eternally bleeding Fisher King perhaps, as we look at the knight in bed and his attending virgin. The song remains sited for me in a small monastic/friary choir, all gothic and quiet. What strikes me some forty-odd years later is how powerful the medieval imagery is.
This seems to me to be important for a number of reasons, and at the moment, prominent in these for me is that whatever we make of this kind of medievalism it remains a touchstone of Christian – or perhaps Catholic Christian – piety. It allows us back into a time (or a mythology) where there was space for a rich visual and linguistic expression of religious practice. I might contest this, sometimes – a sort of liturgical Sealed Knot where historical re-enactment is what it’s all about – but I cannot deny its power. It allows me to read The Cloud of Unknowing, or Bl Julian of Norwich with a sense of continuity that draws on aesthetics as much as reason or ipsissima verba. It opens a door, as it were, to the MSS I love to read.
I sometimes wonder whether, somewhere along the line, I learned (probably wrongly) that this allowed me to say “I belonged;” I belonged to something big and beatific. Seeing it at Chilworth was therefore a step towards the belonging I felt for a time at Magdalen and then Ampleforth and then Blackfriars. And therefore for me Christmas might be some kind of looking backwards to see what Christmas means; to some extent, looking at might-have-beens.
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Puddleglum
Above Dr Slop and Mr Slope And Mrs Proudie and all the Blooms, Flashmans [sic], Golightlies and Trunchballs (and Honeys) and other characters with significant names – even Agnes Nutter – one character in fiction stands out for me as having not so much a name as a character description:
Puddleglum the Marsh Wiggle in C S Lewis’ The Silver Chair.
The Narnian ancestor of Fungus the Bogeyman, Puddleglum is never one to look on the bright side of life. His fenny existence is as dull and damp and depressing as his expectations are low. When Eustace and Jill and Puddleglum reach the giants’ gastle, he very typically says “We’ve done the silliest thing in the world by coming at all: but now
that we are here, we’d best put a bold face on it.” I might have wished him voiced by one of the more lugubrious characters created by Les Dawson or some maungy character from Last of the Summer Wine. Today, 13.12.19, maybe I could voice it myself.
And the genius of Lewis’s depicting such a gloomy character is that The Silver Chair is enlivened by the warmth with which Puddleglum is presented: a comic character ” as doleful as a funeral,” a caricature of an adult whose task seems to be to depress the enthusiasm of the child protagonists. But then comes this, his best speech, and the heart of Lewis’ contra mundum (or at least contra Senior Common Room) beliefs: fighting the lulling enchantments of the Witch who wants to entrap the heroes in her Underland, he stamps on her fire and returns to her:
“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things — trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that’s small loss if the world’s as dull a place as you say.”
The Silver Chair (and I have to admit it is my favourite of the Narnian chronicles) deals with enslavement to enchantment as the allegory of sin with such vivid detail – the eponymous silver chair being the beautiful instrument that holds Prince Rilian in thrall to the Witch – that it makes me wonder whether Lewis is doing something autobiographical here. One of the beauties of the storytelling is that it works at all sorts of levels, religious and non-religious spirituality: sin and redemption; exile and homecoming. And what are we in thrall to? And who liberates whom?
And if we are on a quest to find a way to be free, what is the role of Puddleglum in our lives?
There is a danger in seeing a superficial mindfulness as the touchstone of happiness, “I have been mindful today” being the spiritual equivalent of “I must, I must improve my bust.” What Puddleglum does is remind us that jollity is not happiness, that it is not always necessary to look forward to a glorious dawn in order to be righteous or holy or whatever. And today I think of the cruelty of the death of St Lucy, the plight of many in a false dawn for a brand new (= same old, same old) Britain, and I wonder if, with so little cause for carolings, I can be glum for a while, and alongside Puddleglum can “take a serious view of life” – and still be prepared to stamp out, when needed, the seductive sweetness of a sorcerer‘s fire.
I am reading T H White’s The Book of Merlyn again after a long break.
The paper trail is not edifying so maybe it needs acknowledging – at least, the messiness needs some acknowledging. It is a mess of the biographies of two men: William Mayne and T H White. There remain all sorts of issues about how we celebrate the creativity of people whose personal lives did not measure up to the standards we would wish. That is at least some acknowledgement…
I came back to the Sword in the Stone again having read William Mayne’s The Worm in the Well, which echoes it. I asked when I’d read it if Mayne’s flaws deafen me to his message of reconciliation and renewal; I find myself asking over and over the same with T H White – something I was alerted to in Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk. But for the purposes of this blog post (which will largely be quotation from the Book of Merlyn) I am going to set aside the author and look at the text.
I know I’ve written about the magic patriarch before, when Merlin, Merriman et al have come up from my reading (here, for example, where I mention White explicitly, and then here, for the “humanist rabbit pulled from a transcendental hat,” and most recently here) but Merlyn – note the spelling – is here at the moment because of T H White’s lost-and-found masterpiece and its subject. Setting aside the moving first sections, the re-encounter of Merlyn with his former pupil (now beaten and old and depressed) the substance of the story brings us to Badger’s sett, to, in effect, an Oxbridge Senior Common Room in the grand old style, the Combination Room, where Arthur is tasked by Merlyn and the animal committee to make sense of the human condition, in the last night before Arthur’s final battle.
White’s construction of Merlyn’s prophetic powers is that he is living his life in the opposite direction to the rest of us. Merlyn has known the insanities of C20th totalitarian regimes (White wrote the book as part of his struggle about whether he should maintain his pacifism), refers affectionately (but not without criticism) to his friend Karl Marx, and gets muddled in trying to explain to Arthur that the whole story they are in is on a book – the book I am holding. The gentle, bookish comedy aside, this allows Merlyn the painful knowldege that Arthur is to die in battle the next day, and for White/Merlyn to comment on fascism and communism, and for King Arthur, lost and tired, to ponder his path, as (with the the magician’s assistance) he visits ants, geese and takes advice from the donnish Badger and the Plain People of England in the shape of the Hedgehog… What makes Arthur Arthur? What makes a Human Homo Ferox rather than Homo Sapiens? Facing defeat of everything he thought he stood for, yet surrounded by his animal advisers and under the magic of the querulous Merlyn (beautifully depicted by Trevor Stubley), Arthur, the aged king, is exhausted:
There was a thing which he had been wanting to think about. His face, with the hooded eyes, ceased to be like the boy’s of long ago. He looked tired, and was the king: which made the others watch him seriously, with fear and sorrow.
They were good and kind he knew. They were people whose respect he valued. But their problem was not the human one…It was true indeed that man was ferocious, as the animals had said. They could say it abstractly, even with a certain didactic glee, but for him it was the concrete: it was for him to live among yahoos in flesh and blood. He was one of them himself, cruel and silly like them, and bound to them by the strange continuum of human consciousness…
One of them himself. Politics, ethics, where to belong and whether to resist: these are not abstractions for White (in exile in Ireland in 1942 as he writes), or for Arthur – or for us. As he writes, Tolkien’s Fellowship are paused at Balin’s tomb in Moria, Lewis’ protagonist in The Great Divorce is sent back to everyday life in Oxford rather than face the terrible sunrise of the parousia: it is a decade of loss and darkness and doubt. Life should have been sorted in the War to End Wars that ended in 1919 – and hadn’t been. Arthur continues to ponder:
…he had been working all his life. He knew he was not a clever man.… Just when he had given up, just when he had been weeping and defeated, just when the old ox had dropped in the traces, they had come again to prick him to his feet. They had come to teach a further lesson, And to send him on.
But he had never had a happiness of his own, never had him self: never since he was a little boy in the Forest Sauvage.… He wanted to have some life; to lie upon the Earth, and smell it: to look up into the sky like anthropos, and to lose himself in clouds. He knew suddenly that nobody, living upon the remotest, most barren crag in the ocean, could complain of a dull landscape so long as he would lift up his eyes.
And I know how he feels: to have some life seems to me to be a core desire – certainly for Arthur, whose life has, throughout the books, been so rarely his own.
Is this last part of this post a spoilier? I find it hard to say: the book has a moving ending, the various endings to the legends providing their own kind of speculative fiction. The sleeping king of so many folktales? Avalon? Edinburgh? and White has to make his own move about his position on war and resistance. But before he does, he finds space for his own legend of Arthur Rex quondam et futurus:
I am inclined to believe that my beloved Arthur of the future is sitting at this very moment among his learned friends, in the Combination Room of the College of Life, and that they are thinking away in there for all they are worth, about the best means to help our curious species: and I for one hope that some day, when not only England but the World has need of them, and when it is ready to listen to reason, if it ever is, they will issue from their rath in joy and power: and then, perhaps, they will give us happiness in the world once more and chivalry, and the old medieval blessing of certain simple people – who tried, at any rate, in their own way, to still the ancient brutal dream…
But defeating the barbarities of Attila or Sauron or Mordred remains only a hope, an aspiration, and I return (as ever) to Susan Cooper’s bleak but rousing Merriman:
You may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.
A different , maybe more grounded Merlin and a different hope to the poor hope of the exiled White.
nicktomjoestory Uncategorized 4 Comments December 2, 2019 December 3, 2019 5 Minutes
All this from a small dog?
Doodles the therapy dog whom Cherryl Drabble has introduced to her school and written about has been much in my thoughts, and was the subject of a blog post at the start of this academic year, when I asked this strings of questions:
Should schools be therapeutic spaces – or should the task of learning itself be enough to raise self-esteem and motivate? How does “belonging” fit with one’s identity as a learner – or an educator (thanks, Jon, for the timely reminder on this last point as I prepare a class on the Sociology of Education)?
If a dog is right for one school, should all schools get one? How might practice in a school where pupils have significant needs for physical and/or cognitive support be different from other schools? Should they be seen as different?
What is the role of the professional as an autonomous worker? How do educational institutions work as teams – and (see above) how does belonging and having a voice in a team look in practice?
What does the documentation of a National Curriculum have to say about what society might aspire for? Does this aspiration close doors or open them?
What makes an argument valid?
Does “it works for us” clinch an argument, validate a practice?
How does research work in a messy world of so many variables?
That’s a lot of questions to lay at the door of one writer and her dog, and maybe a lot to ask of first year undergraduates, too. What I suppose I’m getting at – and thinking about as I gear up for the marking of their essays – is the stuff at the heart of this document, Be More Critical from Oxford Brookes’ Upgrade service.
As a student in higher education, you need to weigh up the strengths and limitations, the values or merits of what you read, see and hear. You can then justify your own conclusions.
Much of your learning at university is designed to enable you to develop the skills you need for life and work. A questioning, ‘critical’ approach is fundamental to everything. You are not simply a ‘sponge’, soaking up information, and repeating it in your assignments to prove you ‘know’ it. Your course is designed to help you develop a critical approach to evidence so you can apply it in your future practice…
And so here we are, faced with a multi-headed task around choosing an essay that is
going to exercise and develop a student’s critical skills
going to be big enough to be interesting and yet feasible in about four weeks
going to have an accessible amount of relevant sources.
Let’s look at Doodles.
Cherryl Drabble’s book is friendly, chatty and anecdotal. It allows a school to ponder some of the pros and cons of getting, training, managing and, well, using a dog in therapy. I think it has come as a surprise to some of the students that policy and practice can be presented and discussed in this voice -but of course this is the voice of education as it is spoken in staff rooms. Is it, maybe, the voice of the educator as opposed to the educationalist? In some ways, perhaps: but here is another critical question, and one that trails around education very often (this clip provides a nice metaphor): how does someone who thinks and writes about education differ from someone who works with learners on a daily basis? What should the new consumer (and replicator?) if academic style make of Drabble’s warm reportage?
When Levi, a boy with ADHD (p100) readies himself for learning by playing with Doodles, and perhaps more particularly by taking charge of the dog, a number of things are in play.
We as readers are aware of Drabble’s astonishment at this turn of events; she is showing a key (but sometimes overlooked) element in reflective practice in that she reports on her emotional responses.
We are also aware of how her report is couched in conversational language: a student-critic will notice the turns of phrase that are suited to spoken language (“No, that wasn’t his intention at all.”) and reflect on the way in which academic language, while useful when it makes meaning clear, can also distance the reader… What are the choices for the young writer?
It’s actually quite complex – and the deeper we go, the more there is to see:
Why is Levi “running off some energy?” and what is the role of a TA with a child who has needs similar to Levi? What role does conformity play in a learner’s experience? What might boundaries do – impair Levi’s learning or give him a structure? How does the student in Higher Education explore the big questions around educational “therapeutic spaces”?
And then I might ask the student reader to look again at Levi, to see how these “sensory breaks” allow him to succeed in class. Might Levi’s teacher really be looking at good practice for any learner – and how does learning at University take into account ideas of what makes an enabling learning environment? Or does it simply replicate historical precedents with a liberal (or “customer-first” neoliberal?) veneer of conversation, group tasks and chatty tutors? Should we have sensory breaks? How do we make a case – weighing up evidence, seeing arguments in context? If pace is self-chosen for Levi, if compassion and belonging underpin his learning experience, what about in Higher Ed?
From Levi and Cherryl on the playground we are on task in “developing students’ critical skills” as well as looking at the questions this post started from.
Wow. Yes, all this from a small dog.
nicktomjoestory Uncategorized Leave a comment November 17, 2019 November 18, 2019 4 Minutes
Just a quick thought for the students on two of the three modules I’m teaching this semester, based on the relationship between the cat and the rabbit in the wonderful Up The Mountain. My comments here might be something to follow up, but are in no way important for what follows here. I hope this works for the three modules* but maybe in different ways: I have to say that from the outset I’m writing this really for the first years: for “my” Ed Studies students, and then for the first year Outdoor Learning people in Early Childhood.
The model that the book Up The Mountain explores is one of friendship and apprenticeship. The author wrote it in memory of her grandmother “who loved nature and books” – and that pretty much sums up my attitude to this semester’s teaching: warmth, love of Nature, love of books.
However, if this were all, I think I would be wondering if this was worth a degree. Just as sometimes I look at CPD that people report as inspirational and think “that was a day’s worth?” I worry that coming out of the undergraduate process thinking that one or two tutors were nice people and that being outside is lovely is just too weak. Of course, in the CDP example and the undergraduate one, this précis is too wishy-washy to be a decent overview of what anyone has learn, but what do I want students to do when starting out in Higher Education? I find myself as old Mrs Badger, watching the little cat explore, and grow – and pass on his delight to the (even littler) rabbit who joins his journey. Perhaps the imagery doesn’t extend too far, a delight though the book is.
But to move away from metaphor, let’s take Doodles, the therapy dog whose work is described in Cheryl Drabble’s book and her blog. Why use a book like this in the Introduction to Education Studies? Well, because it describes and uses the disciplines of Education Studies in a compassionate and engaged context. Real children and young people, along with their educators, have encountered and appear to benefit from a different way of working. How do we know this works? Do we define curriculum in such a way that the experience of education has room for “cute, fluffy, handsome, pretty and furry”?**
We will, of course, read about the uses and abuses of cherrypicking educational practices and about the ways theory can and can’t be used – from Developmentally Appropriate Practice to looking at models of (dis)advantage – but Cheryl Drabbles’ dog allows us to ask big questions through a practical lens. For example:
We might, by moving beyond the text itself into exploring what we mean by distinguishing between research and news media, ask
All this in twelve weeks?
No, and no. We (the students and I) are beginning to pose these questions, just as we are beginning to put together the skills the students will need for the next few years and beyond. And of course it’s not Doodles – or even Cheryl Drabble’s book about him and his impact on her school – that gives us these things. We are using the idea of a therapy dog, and what people have said about therapy dogs (and mutatis mutandis the experiences we are having outdoors in the other modules and what people write about being outdoors) as ways of starting to explore the Big Questions both in the abstract and the concrete. We are also starting to look at the conventions that Higher Education (sort of) seeks to impose on its neophytes. So – to end with practical questions – if we are using (as many students are) the e-version of the book, how are you going to reference a quotation from it? How might you summarise some of Drabble’s conclusions?
*The three modules are: the first year module Introduction to the Study of Education and the first and second/third year modules Young Children’s Outdoor Learning. Doodles makes his appearance especially in the first of these.
**Drabble, C (2019) Introducing a School Dog: a practical guide. London: Jessica Kingsley. Drabble (2019:98)
nicktomjoestory Uncategorized 1 Comment October 7, 2019 October 15, 2019 4 Minutes
Naming Colours
Sleeping in the bin
Books of Life and Death I
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Looking for Thursbitch 4 – Visit
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Looking for Thursbitch, A sort of research journal. Section 1
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Looking for Tolly IV: Weather
Thoughts on Garner sources I
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Thoughts on Garner Sources III
Garner Secondary Sources
What is Grendel?
Wild Spaces, Wild Magic
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Saturday afternoon, April 29, the handsome music room of the Van Vleck Mansion was filled with guests anticipating a feast of opera. During intermission, they enjoyed the beautiful gardens - the magnificent wisteria whose two massive trunks threaten to bring down the columns they encircle were just beginning to bloom, the many flowering bushes and trees at their peak and the noble rooms of the beautiful turn of the century Italianate Villa built by the Van Vleck family of Montclair.
Presented by the New Jersey State Opera, the finale of a series of auditions and competitions presented twelve singers - tenors, baritones, basses, sopranos, well - trained young professionals who were competing for three awards: the Alfredo Silipigni Memorial Prize ($3,000); the Dr. Ennio Callouri Memorial Prize ($2,000), and The New Jersey State Opera Guild Prize, honoring Florence Infante ($1,000). Each performer sang the aria of his/her choice, from well-known masterpieces like O Patria Mia from Verdi's Aida to the rarely performed O Mairia, Maria from Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa. All were accompanied by pianist John F. Spencer.
The gentlemen were all in black tie; the ladies in glamorous gowns which enhanced the character they were portraying. Executive Director of the New Jersey State Opera, Ed Perretti, himself a renowned tenor, provided witty but informative introductions to each of the arias, which were sung in the language in which they were written: Italian, French, German or Russian.
After all had performed, each of six singers chosen by the highly-qualified judges as candidates for the awards sang a second aria, demonstrating range and consistency. The winner was Kidon Choi, singing an aria from Verdi's Rigoletto. Runner up was Seok Jong Baek. Third place went to Sueng Hyen Baek. A reception followed where guests mingled with the performers and trustees of the New Jersey State Opera.
The New Jersey State Opera has a long 40-plus-year history in the music world. Under the leadership of the late Maestro Alfredo Silipigni, the company, based in Newark, presented grand opera. It also performed at other venues in New Jersey and internationally, the highlight of which was a production of Aida in China in 2001. Many years later, after Silipigni's death and some reversals, it is once again presenting opera to New Jersey audiences.
June 3rd will feature a gala performance of winners of the New Jersey State Opera's Alfredo Silipigni Vocal Competition in solo, duo, and trio combinations, at an elegant home donated for the event by generous supporters in Paterson, NJ. Cocktails 6-7pm; concert 7:15pm. For tickets and further information, please contact Ed Perretti at 973-202-7727.
E. Mario Bertolino
Gilda Cruz-Romo
Anna Moffo
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Latest Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Bootloader Prevents Flashing Unsigned Firmware on Device
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is currently in the process of receiving the January security update which brings patches for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, but it also comes with a new bootloader. A new bootloader on Samsung phones has always meant that you can not downgrade your phone’s OS. However, the terrifying part of the new Bootloader is the fact that it patches the ability to use a cracked version of the bootloader, developed by Prince Comsy.
Odin is a tool used to flash and install new firmware on Samsung devices. When Samsung builds Android, they remove some features from the bootloader and replace it with Odin. The leaked version of Odin can only flash to devices with matching model numbers. The workaround for it is Prince Comsy’s version of Odin which allows flashing versions of Samsung software not signed by Samsung or firmware signed by Samsung but for a different region with the same SoC.
Since Prince Comsy’s Odin no longer works with this new bootloader, that means that any builds that are not officially signed by Samsung will not flash. Not only does it block flashing firmware from different regions, but also unlocked firmware on a carrier locked device. If you try to flash the carrier unlocked firmware on carrier phone, it will hard brick your phone. There is no way to restore from a hard brick in Odin at this point in time.
Carrier-specific builds of the January security patch have only just started rolling out, but the Exynos-based Note8’s started to receive the January update a few weeks ago. All builds come with the same changes to the bootloader that patched Prince Cosmy’s modded Odin. Official signed builds will still work for flashing, though.
Even though the new update has rolled out to the Note8, the Samsung Galaxy S8+ and Galaxy S8+ are yet to receive it. Both the Galaxy S8 and S8+ have an open beta program for Android Oreo and the included bootloader which doesn’t disable the use of Prince Cosmy’s Odin. The reason it still works is that the bootloader has not been fused, which means that motherboard will not allow any program to downgrade it. Once these builds get the new BLv3 revision, it will be permanent and cannot be downgraded.
Source: XDA developers
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An overview of the budget crisis of 2017
employees take in the news of this year’s layoff process
Bisma Zafar
Sarahy Lopez, News Editor
After a two-year budget stalemate, Interim President Richard Helldobler announced in July that NEIU will receive a budget. However, controversy still surrounds NEIU about the saving strategies used before getting an appropriation for the fiscal year.
NEIU implemented furlough days to save money during the budget crisis this year.
Faculty and staff received seven weeks of 20 percent furloughs last year, losing the equivalent of a week’s worth of pay to be spread out over a month. The five days of spring break, April 11 and 12, and May 1st were furloughed days. Classes were canceled and employees were suspended for another week’s worth of pay and work.
“The university will pause the furlough program as soon as it is financially able to do so,” Helldobler said during the Board of Trustees meeting in April. “The university’s end of January national analysis demonstrated the need to save about $8.2 million in order to process general operations and payroll to the end of the fiscal year on June 30 (and) an additional $16.7 million to do so until Sept. 30, unless additional state funding is provided.”
NEIU and other public university students, faculty and staff rallied at Springfield on April 27 to protest Rauner’s lack of a budget plan and called on Rauner to fund higher education.
Democratic officials running for governor also attended and spoke out. J.B. Pritzker insisted that “There’s only one state worker I want to put out of work and that’s Bruce Rauner!”
State Senator Daniel Biss asked, “Who thinks Bruce Rauner is doing a great job? I can tell you who. Universities in Wisconsin, and Iowa, and Indiana, and Missouri, they think Bruce Rauner is doing a great job – sending our young people out of Illinois.” Student retention rates in Illinois were at an all time low, due to the budget crisis and the uncertainty of schools remaining open for the next semester.
Furlough days continued long after the rally, as officials in Springfield failed to pass a state budget Illinois public universities. Administrative, professional and civil service staff at NEIU had one furlough day each week, and student aides did not work on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The lack of a state budget forced the school to fire 180 employees in May.
Helldobler announced the layoffs on day 700 that Illinois has been without a budget. The school hasn’t received its full appropriation from the state since the fiscal year 2015, and layoffs ensued, closing 130 civil services and 50 administrative jobs.
The layoffs saved NEIU about $9 million, which was necessary to stay open during summer and fall, according to Helldobler and VP of Finance Michael Pierick.
“Having to say goodbye to so many people is heartbreaking,” Helldobler said. “This is one more result of this 700-day-old budget crisis — a crisis not of our making.”
Helldobler’s first priority was to stay open no matter the costs. In order to continue offering students affordable education, his fear being that they will not attend college at all if NEIU were to close.
During the town hall budget meeting on July 13, Helldobler announced that a budget plan was approved by the state providing the university about $33.2 million. MAP grants were also to be fully funded and will allow the school to stay open until the fiscal year 2018.
During this array of good news, former employees from the university spoke out during the budget town hall meeting, asking whether the layoffs will be rescinded. Michael Pierick said they had no plans to rehire any of the people that were laid off, and said that layoffs will continue despite the budget. Currently, the university is still unsure of its future concerning the fiscal year of 2019, and as far as they know, NEIU does not have a budget plan after 2018.
A protest ensued on NEIU’s campus Aug. 9, accompanied by a musical chairs game played by current and former employees to dramatize the layoff and “bumping” process caused by the closed positions and continuing layoffs.
In a statement from the president Ellen M. Larrimore of American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) she said, “We are devastated by the loss of so many of our co-workers. The huge disruptions caused by the bumping process will have long-term effects on the processes of the university and on the kind of service to students we’ve always prided ourselves on. The opening of the fall semester will definitely be bumpy, and we can only hope that students will bear with us as we attempt to get up to speed on processes and procedures we may or may not be familiar with or trained on.”
The AFSCME bargaining unit formerly included about 230 civil service employees. From this group, 41 people were laid off and at least another 43 were transferred to other offices or other areas on campus.
“This is sad time for us as workers who have always dedicated ourselves to and believed in the mission of the university,” Larrimore said. “But we must continue to do our jobs to serve the students we care so deeply about who come to NEIU to get an education and earn degrees that will help them support themselves and their families in the future.”
Linda Loew, an employee for six years, received a layoff notice about a week ago. She mentioned loving NEIU and the students in a letter addressed to the Independent, saying that she is mostly angry at Governor Rauner for “allowing public education to be held hostage” and how that harmed millions of people and families.
“I also disagree with, and am disappointed in, our university administration that went ahead with these layoffs despite the passage of a budget that so many of us were in the forefront of fighting for,” Loew wrote in her letter. “We worked hard to demonstrate the absolute necessity for these funds to be released because we understood the extraordinary harm that the absence of these funds was causing.
“I, and all my union sisters and brothers in AFSCME, and many more among the staff at NEIU, believe it is wrong that our positions, and the critical services they provide, are still being axed in light of the budget victory. I fervently believe that there was, and remains, a better way forward, better for our students and our ability to serve them,” she said.
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
Ellen M. Larrimore
Interim President Helldobler
Linda Loew
NEIU
Bisma Zafar, Arts and Life Editor
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Independent Volume 39 Issue 9
Work, Study, Work-Study
Brandi Nevarez, cartoonist | October 16, 2017
Cassie’s Done It – Finals
Gabrielle Nuszen, Comic Illustrator | April 29, 2017
GN – Staying Fit
GN – tax refund
Gabrielle Nuszen, Comic Illustrator | March 29, 2017
GN – Studying
Cassie’s Done It – Textbooks
Gabrielle Nuszen, Comic Illustrator | January 25, 2017
Cassie’s Done It – Christmas
Gabrielle Nuszen, Comic Illustrator | December 6, 2016
Life of Goldie
Pablo Medina, Editor | December 6, 2016
Life of Goldie – A Brave New World
Pablo Medina, Editor | November 23, 2016
Cassie’s Done It – Black Friday
Gabrielle Nuszen, Comic Illustrator | November 23, 2016
The NFL must remove Michael Vick from the Pro Bowl
The struggle and miracle of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome
“Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer” recap and review
NBCSports writer omits Patrick Kane from Top 10 list, Twitter laughs
Opinion | Lizzo is judged by her behavior, not her race or sex
Tweets by NEIUIndie
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1. McKay, Kyle. Development of the Visible Light Photon Counter for Applications in Quantum Information Science .
Degree: 2011, Duke University
► The visible light photon counter (VLPC) is a high quantum efficiency (QE), Si-based, single-photon detector with high gain, low-noise multiplication, low timing jitter, and… (more)
▼ The visible light photon counter (VLPC) is a high quantum efficiency (QE), Si-based, single-photon detector with high gain, low-noise multiplication, low timing jitter, and photon number resolution. While the VLPC has high QE in the visible wavelengths, the QE in the ultraviolet and infrared is low due to minimal absorption within the active layers of the device. In the ultraviolet, the absorption coefficient of Si is high and most of the incident photons are absorbed within the top contact of the device, whereas, in the infrared, Si is practically transparent. A number of applications in quantum information science would benefit from use of the VLPC if the QE was improved in the ultraviolet (e.g., state detection of trapped ions) and the infrared (e.g., long-distance quantum cryptography). This thesis describes the development of the ultraviolet photon counter (UVPC) and the infrared photon counter (IRPC), which are modified versions of the VLPC with increased QE in the ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, respectively. The UVPC has a transparent metal Schottky contact to reduce absorption within the top contact of the VLPC, resulting in an increase in the QE in the ultraviolet by several orders of magnitude. The IRPC is a proposed device that has an InGaAs absorption layer that is wafer-fusion bonded to the VLPC. The band alignment of the resulting InGaAs/Si heterojunction is measured and shows a large discontinuity in the valence band that impedes carrier transport at the interface. A ultra-high vacuum wafer-bonding system was developed to understand the impact of the surface chemistry of the bonded wafers on the band alignment of the InGaAs/Si heterojunction of the IRPC. Advisors/Committee Members: Kim, Jungsang (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Electrical engineering; Single Photon Detection; Visible Light Photon Counter; Wafer Bonding
McKay, K. (2011). Development of the Visible Light Photon Counter for Applications in Quantum Information Science . (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4990
McKay, Kyle. “Development of the Visible Light Photon Counter for Applications in Quantum Information Science .” 2011. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4990.
McKay, Kyle. “Development of the Visible Light Photon Counter for Applications in Quantum Information Science .” 2011. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
McKay K. Development of the Visible Light Photon Counter for Applications in Quantum Information Science . [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4990.
McKay K. Development of the Visible Light Photon Counter for Applications in Quantum Information Science . [Thesis]. Duke University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4990
2. Cahall, Clinton T. Enabling Technologies for High-Rate, Free-Space Quantum Communication .
► Quantum communication protocols, such as quantum key distribution (QKD), are practically important in the dawning of a new quantum information age where quantum computers… (more)
▼ Quantum communication protocols, such as quantum key distribution (QKD), are practically important in the dawning of a new quantum information age where quantum computers can perform efficient prime factorization to render public key cryptosystems obsolete. QKD is a communication scheme that utilizes the quantum state of a single photons to transmit information, such as a cryptographic key, that is robust against adversaries including those with a quantum computer. In this thesis I describe the contributions that I have made to the development of high-rate, free-space quantum communication systems. My effort is focused on building a robust quantum receiver for a high-dimensional time-phase QKD protocol where the data is encoded and secured using a single photon's timing and phase degrees of freedom. This type of communication protocol can encode information in a high-dimensional state, allowing the transmission of >1 bit per photon. To realize a successful implementation of the protocol a high-performance single-photon detection system must be constructed. My contribution to the field begins with the development of low-noise, low-power cryogenic amplifiers for a detection system using superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). Detector characteristics such as maximum count rate and timing resolution are heavily influenced by the design of the read-out circuits that sense and amplify the detection signal. I demonstrate a read-out system with a maximum count rate >20\,million counts-per-second and timing resolution as high as 35\,ps. These results are achieved while maintaining a low power dissipation <3\,mW at 4\,K operation, enabling a scalable read-out circuit strategy. A second contribution I make to the development of detection systems utilizing SNSPDs is extending the superb performance of these detectors to include photon number resolving capabilities. I demonstrate that SNSPDs exhibit multi-photon detection up to four photons where the absorbed photo number is encoded in the rise time of the electrical waveform generated by the detector. Additionally, our experiment agrees well with the predictions of a universal model for turn-on dynamics of SNSPDs. A feature our multi-photon detection system demonstrates high resolution between n=1 and n>1 photons with a bit-error-rate (BER) of 4.2 × 10-4. Finally, I extend the utility of the time-phase QKD protocol to free-space applications. Atmospheric turbulences cause spatial mode scrambling of the optical beam during transmission. Therefore, the quantum receiver, and most importantly the time-delay interferometer needed for the measurement of a phase encoding of a single photon, must support many spatial modes. I construct and characterize an interferometer with a 5\,GHz free spectral range that has a wide field-of-view and is passively a-thermal. The results of interferometer characterization are highlighted by a >99\,% single-mode, and >98\,% multi-mode interference visibility with negligible dependence… Advisors/Committee Members: Kim, Jungsang (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Quantum physics; Optics; Engineering; cryogenic electronics; interferometry; multi-photon detection; Quantum communication; quantum key distribution; single-photon detector
Cahall, C. T. (2019). Enabling Technologies for High-Rate, Free-Space Quantum Communication . (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/18833
Cahall, Clinton T. “Enabling Technologies for High-Rate, Free-Space Quantum Communication .” 2019. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/18833.
Cahall, Clinton T. “Enabling Technologies for High-Rate, Free-Space Quantum Communication .” 2019. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Cahall CT. Enabling Technologies for High-Rate, Free-Space Quantum Communication . [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/18833.
Cahall CT. Enabling Technologies for High-Rate, Free-Space Quantum Communication . [Thesis]. Duke University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/18833
3. Esmail, Adam Ashiq. Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744355
► The work presented in this thesis investigates transitions between quantum states in superconducting double dots (SDDs), a nanoscale device consisting of two aluminium superconducting islands… (more)
▼ The work presented in this thesis investigates transitions between quantum states in superconducting double dots (SDDs), a nanoscale device consisting of two aluminium superconducting islands coupled together by a Josephson junction, with each dot connected to a normal state lead. The energy landscape consists of a two level manifold of even charge parity Cooper pair states, and continuous bands corresponding to charge states with single quasiparticles in one or both islands. These devices are fabricated using shadow mask evaporation, and are measured at sub Kelvin temperatures using a dilution refrigerator. We use radio frequency reflectometry to measure quantum capacitance, which is dependent on the quantum state of the device. We measure the quantum capacitance as a function of gate voltage, and observe capacitance maxima corresponding to the Josephson coupling between even parity states. We also perform charge sensing and detect odd parity states. These measurements support the theoretical model of the energy landscape of the SDD. By measuring the quantum capacitance in the time domain, we observe random switching of capacitance between two levels. We determine this to be the stochastic breaking and recombination of single Cooper pairs. By carrying out spectroscopy of the bath responsible for the pair breaking we attribute it to black-body radiation in the cryogenic environment. We also drive the breaking process with a continuous microwave signal, and find that the rate is linearly proportional to incident power. This suggests that a single photon process is responsible, and demonstrates the potential of the SDD as a single photon microwave detector. We investigate this mechanism further, and design an experiment in which the breaking rate is enhanced when the SDD is in the antisymmetric state rather than the symmetric state. We also measure the quantum capacitance of a charge isolated double dot. We observe 2e periodicity, indicating the tunnelling of Cooper pairs and the lack of occupation of quasiparticle states. This work is relevant to the range of experiments investigating the effect of non-equilibrium quasiparticles on the operation of superconducting qubits and other superconducting devices.
Subjects/Keywords: Superconducting devices; Quantum computing; Quantum information processing; Josephson junctions; Superconducting single electron transistors; Quasiparticles; Superconducting double dots; Quantum dots; Electron transport; Electron dynamics; Cooper pair; Cooper pair splitting; Superconducting qubits; Qubits; Low temperature measurements; Dilution refrigerator; Shadow mask evaporation; Quantum capacitance; Single microwave photon detection; Non-equilibrium quasiparticles; Charge isolated double dot
Esmail, A. A. (2017). Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744355
Esmail, Adam Ashiq. “Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744355.
Esmail, Adam Ashiq. “Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots.” 2017. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Esmail AA. Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744355.
Esmail AA. Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2017. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744355
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018
Esmail, A. A. (2017). Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018
Esmail, Adam Ashiq. “Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018.
Esmail AA. Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018.
Esmail AA. Charge dynamics in superconducting double dots. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2017. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270018
5. Povey, Rhys G. Microwave cavity hidden sector photons.
Degree: MS, 2012, University of Western Australia
URL: http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33240&local_base=GEN01-INS01
Hidden sector photons are weakly interacting, slim, hypothetical particles predicted by Standard Model extensions that have an extra U(1) gauge symmetry. Their only interaction with… (more)
Hidden sector photons are weakly interacting, slim, hypothetical particles predicted by Standard Model extensions that have an extra U(1) gauge symmetry. Their only interaction with standard matter is a weak kinetic mixing with the photon. That is, photons can oscillate into hidden sector photons in a manner similar to that of neutrino oscillations; the probability or strength of this coupling is proportional to the kinetic mixing parameter, X. Ongoing experiments are searching for the hidden sector photon, and limiting X, over a wide range hidden sector photon masses. In this thesis we investigate and develop experimental methods to search for the hidden sector photon using microwave cavities, which typically probe a mass mγl ∼ 10 µeV. The archetype hidden sector photon experiment is 'light shining through a wall'. For microwaves, this consists of two isolated, resonance matched, microwave cavities, with ample shielding between them to act as a wall. Photons injected into one of the cavities are, by standard means, unable to propagate and produce a signal in the other cavity. If hidden sector photons exist, however, the photons in first (emitter) cavity are able to oscillate into hidden sector photons and travel through to the other cavity. Inside the second (detector) cavity, they can oscillate back into photons and be detected. The probability of this transmission has a strong dependence on the geometry of the cavity setup and excited cavity mode patterns. We investigate this dependence thoroughly and optimize the setup for axially stacked cylinders. The prototype experiment carried out in 2009 is also included for completeness. Building on this, we describe the follow-up light shining through a wall experiment currently under assembly.
As an aside, an experiment is also carried out to demonstrate the ability of microwave cavities to enhance and measure extremely low power signals in the sub-quantum regime, typical of the signals we hope to measure in hidden sector photon experiments. In the second part of this thesis a new method of hidden sector photon detection is presented. Based on an energy threshold crossing, this approach uses only one microwave cavity and identifies missing photons which have mixed into hidden sector photons. For a photon to oscillate into a hidden sector photon, it must have an energy (and hence frequency) of at least the rest mass energy of the hidden sector photon. If photons are resonant in a microwave cavity and tuned over this threshold value, there will be a drop in circulating power as photons suddenly start oscillating into hidden sector photons and escaping the system. We describe a theoretical model of this phenomena, as well as a prototype experiment to explore practical concerns and data analysis. This method is able to probe the kinetic mixing parameter, X, at similar levels to light shining though a wall experiments, but only over very small regions of mass. The major advantage of this approach, however, is the unique hidden sector photon signal distinct from any…
Subjects/Keywords: Hidden sector photon; Microwave
Povey, R. G. (2012). Microwave cavity hidden sector photons . (Masters Thesis). University of Western Australia. Retrieved from http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33240&local_base=GEN01-INS01
Povey, Rhys G. “Microwave cavity hidden sector photons.” 2012. Masters Thesis, University of Western Australia. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33240&local_base=GEN01-INS01.
Povey, Rhys G. “Microwave cavity hidden sector photons.” 2012. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Povey RG. Microwave cavity hidden sector photons. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Western Australia; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33240&local_base=GEN01-INS01.
Povey RG. Microwave cavity hidden sector photons. [Masters Thesis]. University of Western Australia; 2012. Available from: http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33240&local_base=GEN01-INS01
6. Alsolami, Ibrahim. Visible light communications with single-photon avalanche diodes.
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:744eeb47-8bb6-4776-8b8f-f7b6374d89bd ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635218
► This thesis explores the use of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) for visible light communications (VLC). The high sensitivity of SPADs can potentially enhance the performance… (more)
▼ This thesis explores the use of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) for visible light communications (VLC). The high sensitivity of SPADs can potentially enhance the performance of VLC receivers. However, a SPAD-based system has challenges that need to be addressed before it can be considered as a viable option for VLC. The first challenge is the susceptibility of SPAD-based receivers to variations in ambient light. The high sensitivity of SPADs is advantageous for signal detection, but also makes SPADs vulnerable to variations in ambient light. In this thesis, the performance of a SPAD-based receiver is investigated under changing lighting conditions. Analytical expressions to quantify performance are derived, and an experiment is conducted to gain further understanding of system performance. It is shown that a SPAD-based receiver is highly sensitive to illumination changes when on-off keying (OOK) is employed, and that pulse-position modulation (PPM) is a preferred modulation scheme as it is more robust. The second challenge is broadcasting to SPAD-based receivers with different capabilities. A traditional broadcasting scheme is time-sharing, whereby a transmitter sends data to receivers in an alternating manner. Broadcasting to SPAD-based receivers is challenging as receivers may have diverse capabilities. In this thesis, a new multiresolution modulation scheme is proposed, which can potentially improve system performance over the traditional timesharing approach. The performance of the proposed scheme is analyzed, and a proof-of-concept experiment is performed to demonstrate its viability.
Subjects/Keywords: 621.382; Communications engineering (optical,microwave and radio); visible light communications (VLC); photon-counting receivers; single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs); on-off keying (OOK); pulse-position modulation (PPM); broadcasting; multiresolution PPM.
Alsolami, I. (2014). Visible light communications with single-photon avalanche diodes . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:744eeb47-8bb6-4776-8b8f-f7b6374d89bd ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635218
Alsolami, Ibrahim. “Visible light communications with single-photon avalanche diodes.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:744eeb47-8bb6-4776-8b8f-f7b6374d89bd ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635218.
Alsolami, Ibrahim. “Visible light communications with single-photon avalanche diodes.” 2014. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Alsolami I. Visible light communications with single-photon avalanche diodes. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:744eeb47-8bb6-4776-8b8f-f7b6374d89bd ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635218.
Alsolami I. Visible light communications with single-photon avalanche diodes. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2014. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:744eeb47-8bb6-4776-8b8f-f7b6374d89bd ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635218
7. Yan, Zhizhong. Quantum Optoelectronic Detection and Mixing in the Nanowire Superconducting Structure.
Degree: 2010, University of Waterloo
► The recent advancement of superconducting nano devices has allowed for making a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector (SNSPD), whose extraordinary features have strongly motivated the… (more)
▼ The recent advancement of superconducting nano devices has allowed for making a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector (SNSPD), whose extraordinary features have strongly motivated the research community to exploit it in many practical applications. In this thesis, an experimental setup for testing the SNSPD has been established. It contains an in-house packaging that meets the requirements of RF/microwave and optoelectronic characterizations. The quantum efficiency and detection efficiency measurements have confirmed that our approach is satisfactory. The dark count performance has reached the anticipated level. The factors affecting rise and fall times of the photoresponses are addressed. Based on the successful setup, the characterizations including dc, small signal ac measurements have been undertaken. The measurements are aimed at quantitatively investigating Cooper pair density in the superconducting nanowire. The experimental method involves a two-step, small signal S-parameter measurement either in the presence or absence of optical powers. The subsequent measurements by varying the temperature and dc bias current have achieved remarkable understanding on the physical properties of SNSPD nanowires. Then, the electrically induced nonlinearity is studied via the large signal RF and Microwave measurements. The experiments are a set of one-tone and two-tone measurements, in which either the RF driving power is varied at a fixed frequency, or vice versa. Two major nonlinear microwave circuit analysis methods, i.e. time-domain transient and hybrid-domain harmonic balance analysis, are employed. The simulation result reveals the optimized conditions of reaching the desired nonlinearity. Finally, we have successfully measured the optoelectronic mixing products in an electrically pumped optoelectronic mixer, which has identical structures as that of the SNSPD. The experiments confirm that this mixer is not only sensitive to the classical light intensities, but also to that of the single photon level. Meanwhile, the quantum conversion matrices is derived to interpret the quantum optoelectronic mixing effects.
Subjects/Keywords: Microwave superconductivity; Nonlinearity; Single photon detector; Superconductivity; Nanowire; Nonlinear characterization; NbN superconducting films; Quantum communications; Quantum efficiency; Dark counts; Optoelectronic Mixer; Harmonic Balance Analysis; Nonlinear Microwave Circuit; Superconducting nanowire
Yan, Z. (2010). Quantum Optoelectronic Detection and Mixing in the Nanowire Superconducting Structure . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4952
Yan, Zhizhong. “Quantum Optoelectronic Detection and Mixing in the Nanowire Superconducting Structure.” 2010. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4952.
Yan, Zhizhong. “Quantum Optoelectronic Detection and Mixing in the Nanowire Superconducting Structure.” 2010. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Yan Z. Quantum Optoelectronic Detection and Mixing in the Nanowire Superconducting Structure. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4952.
Yan Z. Quantum Optoelectronic Detection and Mixing in the Nanowire Superconducting Structure. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4952
8. Hong, Pengda. Investigation of Novel Applications of Nonlinear Optics: From Parametric Oscillation to Image Restoration.
Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering, 2015, Lehigh University
► Nonlinear optical phenomena are the illustrations of the nonlinear responses of polarizations of media to electric fields. Since the first demonstration of frequency doubling from… (more)
▼ Nonlinear optical phenomena are the illustrations of the nonlinear responses of polarizations of media to electric fields. Since the first demonstration of frequency doubling from a Ruby laser in 1961, nonlinear optics has been intensively investigated. It has variety of applications from chemical sensing to image restoration. An optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is a device whereby a pump frequency can be converted to two lower frequencies in a nonlinear medium. There are three key ingredients for an OPO, i.e. a pump laser beam, a nonlinear medium providing a gain for the oscillating parametric wave through the nonlinear polarization, and an optical feedback by use of a cavity. In an OPO based on a KTiOPO4 (KTP) and KTiOAsO4 (KTA) crystal composite consisting of periodically-switched plates, signal twins and idler twins are generated due to two quasi-phase-matching conditions, instead of a single signal and a single idler in a conventional OPO. The two signals or idlers within the twins have perpendicular polarizations. In addition, the frequency separation between the signal twins or idler twins, dictated by the length of each crystal plate, is insensitive to the pump frequency and crystal temperature. Therefore, the signal twins (idler twins) are highly coherent with each other. These three novel features make such a type of the OPO stand out for realizing certain applications such as image restoration and THz generation having unique advantages. Since the signal twins or idler twins have perpendicular polarizations, they can be used to restore blurred images, which is insensitive to polarization of an incoming beam. In contrast, such an application based on a conventional OPO is sensitive to the polarization of the input beam. In addition, the twins can be heterodyned in a photodiode when their frequency separation is around 100 GHz, which can be used to detect carbon dioxide with an increased sensitivity and to simultaneously clean up the images blurred by atmospheric turbulence. For the AFB-KTP composite, the twins can be used in chemical sensing with a high sensitivity. It is worth noting that the frequency difference of the twin beams can be designed to be cover the range of 100 GHz to a few THz. Our theoretical analysis reveals that THz waves generated by mixing signal twins in a nonlinear medium have much significantly reduced quantum noise, compared with that by mixing a signal and an idler from a conventional OPO. Raman spectroscopy is an important tool in studying properties of optical materials based on third-order nonlinear process. In order to analyze anti-Stokes signals, relatively high pump power is usually required. As a result, local heating effects make Raman peaks lose their frequency accuracy. Anti-Stokes signals can be enhanced in a waveguide structure of lithium niobate, such that relatively low pump power is needed for spectroscopic studies. Such an advantage may open up the possibility for developing a portable Raman spectroscopic device. In the waveguide, both the forward and the… Advisors/Committee Members: Ding, Yujie.
Subjects/Keywords: Image Restoration; Nonlinear Optics; Optical Parametric Oscillation; Single Photon Detection; THz Generation; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Engineering
Hong, P. (2015). Investigation of Novel Applications of Nonlinear Optics: From Parametric Oscillation to Image Restoration . (Doctoral Dissertation). Lehigh University. Retrieved from https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2637
Hong, Pengda. “Investigation of Novel Applications of Nonlinear Optics: From Parametric Oscillation to Image Restoration.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Lehigh University. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2637.
Hong, Pengda. “Investigation of Novel Applications of Nonlinear Optics: From Parametric Oscillation to Image Restoration.” 2015. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Hong P. Investigation of Novel Applications of Nonlinear Optics: From Parametric Oscillation to Image Restoration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Lehigh University; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2637.
Hong P. Investigation of Novel Applications of Nonlinear Optics: From Parametric Oscillation to Image Restoration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Lehigh University; 2015. Available from: https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2637
9. Li, Da. Novel applications in nonlinear crystals based on second-order nonlinear optical interactions.
► Second order nonlinear mediums, like lithium niobate and KTP, have been extensively studied for various applications, such as single photon detection and terahertz generation. In… (more)
▼ Second order nonlinear mediums, like lithium niobate and KTP, have been extensively studied for various applications, such as single photon detection and terahertz generation. In this dissertation, several novel applications in second order nonlinear crystals have been studied in depth, as follows: 1) Highly efficient single-photon level detection at 1.57μm. There exists an absorption peak for carbon dioxide at 1.57 μm, which is extremely desirable for NASA ASCENDS program, due to the fact that it can monitor CO2 concentration in the outer space. Commercially available detectors at IR wavelengths suffer from high dark counts up to 105/s, as well as low quantum detection efficiencies, usually with values between 10% and 15%. In contrast, single-photon counting in near-IR (600-800nm) can be performed efficiently with silicon APDs. Single photon counting modules with dark counts lower than 25/s and detection efficiency in the range 50% to 70% are commercially available. We took advantage of silicon APDs, implemented efficient conversion from 1.57μm to visible with more than 60% of internal quantum conversion efficiency and demonstrated almost noise-free measurement. As a result, our detection system has reached an ultralow noise level of 25 s-1 and a detectable photon rate of 81 s-1 for communication band. 2) Non-destructive method for evaluating domain errors in PPLN waveguide using surface-emitting geometry (SHG). Periodically-poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide is an efficient nonlinear structure for generation of tunable coherent radiation based on optical parametric oscillators and single-photon detection based on frequency up-conversion. In order to achieve efficient conversion, quasi-phase-matching (QPM) must be satisfied. However, imperfections of periodic domains due to fabrication errors such as linear taper of domain period, duty cycle error, and randomness of domain period significantly affect the performance of the PPLN waveguide. We developed a fast and non-destructive method to statistically evaluate the domain quality of PPLN. The resolution can reach 0.5nm.3) Anti-Stokes enhancement observation in lithium niobate waveguide. Anti-Stokes signals are much weaker than Stokes counterparts due to significantly reduced phonon occupation numbers. We now measure the forward- and backward- propagating anti-stokes photons from waveguide and observed enhancement factor at least one order of magnitude higher than in the bulk. The required pump power was reduced five orders of magnitude to only a few microwatts. Under two propagation configuration, we observed different layouts of anti-stokes peaks for lithium niobate.4) Terahertz generation through difference frequency generation of two close wavelength IR beam in Gallium Phosphide (GaP) stacks. By stacking alternatively rotated GaP plates, we reached maximum terahertz photon conversion efficiency of 40%. The corresponding peak power generated inside the four GaP plates approaches 4kW. As the number of plates is increased from four to five, the THz output power… Advisors/Committee Members: Ding, Yujie J..
Subjects/Keywords: Nonlinear optics; raman scattering; single photon detection; sum frequency generation; terahertz generation; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Engineering
Li, D. (2015). Novel applications in nonlinear crystals based on second-order nonlinear optical interactions . (Doctoral Dissertation). Lehigh University. Retrieved from https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2679
Li, Da. “Novel applications in nonlinear crystals based on second-order nonlinear optical interactions.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Lehigh University. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2679.
Li, Da. “Novel applications in nonlinear crystals based on second-order nonlinear optical interactions.” 2015. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Li D. Novel applications in nonlinear crystals based on second-order nonlinear optical interactions. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Lehigh University; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2679.
Li D. Novel applications in nonlinear crystals based on second-order nonlinear optical interactions. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Lehigh University; 2015. Available from: https://preserve.lehigh.edu/etd/2679
10. Murrells, Robert Gregory. The Search for Low Energy Single Photons in MicroBooNE.
Degree: 2019, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:318623
► The MiniBooNE experiment is a Cherenkov based experiment located on the Booster Neutrino Beam. It observed an unexplained excess of electron neutrino charged current quasi-elastic… (more)
▼ The MiniBooNE experiment is a Cherenkov based experiment located on the Booster Neutrino Beam. It observed an unexplained excess of electron neutrino charged current quasi-elastic (CCQE) event candidates in the ~200-475 MeV reconstructed energy region known as the "Low Energy Excess" (LEE). These electron neutrino CCQE event candidates were in the form of lone showers, a signature left by both electrons and photons indistinguishably in the MiniBooNE detector. For this reason the identity of the MiniBooNE LEE as a photon or electron excess is currently unknown. Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are a relatively new type of detector able to distinguish between photons and electrons. The MicroBooNE detector is one such LArTPC and is situated on the same beamline and at a similar baseline as the MiniBooNE detector. This makes MicroBooNE an ideal experiment to test the photon and electron interpretations of the MiniBooNE LEE. This thesis presents the search for a photon LEE using an enhanced rate of neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) Delta production and subsequent radiative decay (NC Delta radiative) as the candidate source. A multi-stage NC Delta radiative event selection has been developed which takes full advantage of MicroBooNE's photon-electron discrimination capability. The ability of the search to select NC Delta radiative events in MicroBooNE and validation of the search with 4.8e19 protons-on-target worth of data are presented. Also shown are preliminary studies of MicroBooNE's sensitivity to a NC Delta radiative interpretation of the LEE. Advisors/Committee Members: KARAGIORGI, GEORGIA G, Soldner-Rembold, Stefan, Karagiorgi, Georgia.
Subjects/Keywords: Neutrino Physics; MicroBooNE; Single Photon
Murrells, R. G. (2019). The Search for Low Energy Single Photons in MicroBooNE . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:318623
Murrells, Robert Gregory. “The Search for Low Energy Single Photons in MicroBooNE.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:318623.
Murrells, Robert Gregory. “The Search for Low Energy Single Photons in MicroBooNE.” 2019. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Murrells RG. The Search for Low Energy Single Photons in MicroBooNE. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:318623.
Murrells RG. The Search for Low Energy Single Photons in MicroBooNE. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:318623
11. Anisimova, Elena. Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications.
► Quantum communications and quantum cryptography are developing rapidly during the last decades caused partly by a fast progress in quantum computing. Quantum cryptography provides an… (more)
▼ Quantum communications and quantum cryptography are developing rapidly during the last decades caused partly by a fast progress in quantum computing. Quantum cryptography provides an unconditionally secure way of communicating whereas traditional classical cryptographic protocols are likely to be broken by super powerful quantum computers. In the past few years distances covered by quantum communications have increased by an order of magnitude. To provide a global coverage for the quantum networks, a satellite based quantum communications is the most promising solution. As an emerging field, QKD systems are still under evolution process. Despite outstanding security proven theoretically, it has loopholes caused by their implementations. To test QKD, find the possible loopholes and suggest ways to fix them, is a job of many scientific groups. In this thesis I start with presenting my work for a securing test of a commercial QKD system Clavis2. A Trojan-horse attack on Bob's apparatus was prepared by testing reflections and transmissions of all optical components in Bob's scheme. The attack was implemented and found to be unsuccessful at the tested wavelengths due to afterpulsing effect in Bob's single-photon detectors reacting to the bright light attack pulses. Three chapters of the thesis are dedicated to custom built single-photon detectors (SPDs) based on commercial Silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs). Those detectors demonstrate parameters that altogether are not possible to find in commercially available SPDs, especially if combined with a very compact size. One of the in-lab-built SPDs was implemented in 143 km teleportation experiment, where a low dark count rate was crucial for the success of the experiment. The next generation SPD is already built, characterized and ready to be implemented. Another 4-channel SPD was built as a prototype for a quantum satellite SPD. It has light weight, low electrical power consumption, low dark count rate and decent other parameters. It was used in the airborne demonstration of QKD receiver payload experiment, when a secret key was successfully generated between a moving aircraft and a ground station. SPDs installed on a satellite have to be able to work in the harsh space environment during a mission life time. Space radiation dramatically increases dark count rate of APDs. The last project presented in the thesis committed to a radiation test of three types of APDs and one type of photo multiplier tube. The experiment included characterization of all SPDs before and after irradiation by four levels of proton radiation, equivalent to 3 months - 2 years duration in a 600 km low Earth orbit. Three methods for mitigating radiation damage were tested and found to be successful with perspective to use some of them on a quantum satellite to extent life time of SPDs. To summarize, this work makes a contribution to the development of SPDs for global quantum communications.
Subjects/Keywords: single-photon detectors; quantum communications
Anisimova, E. (2018). Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12935
Anisimova, Elena. “Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications.” 2018. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12935.
Anisimova, Elena. “Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications.” 2018. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Anisimova E. Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12935.
Anisimova E. Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12935
12. Murrells, Robert. The search for low energy single photons in MicroBooNE.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Manchester
URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-search-for-low-energy-single-photons-in-microboone(b27ffc4b-a0f3-429a-aceb-eceb0560f8ec).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.771506
▼ The MiniBooNE experiment is a Cherenkov based experiment located on the Booster Neutrino Beam. It observed an unexplained excess of electron neutrino charged current quasi-elastic (CCQE) event candidates in the ~200-475 MeV reconstructed energy region known as the "Low Energy Excess" (LEE). These electron neutrino CCQE event candidates were in the form of lone showers, a signature left by both electrons and photons indistinguishably in the MiniBooNE detector. For this reason the identity of the MiniBooNE LEE as a photon or electron excess is currently unknown. Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are a relatively new type of detector able to distinguish between photons and electrons. The MicroBooNE detector is one such LArTPC and is situated on the same beamline and at a similar baseline as the MiniBooNE detector. This makes MicroBooNE an ideal experiment to test the photon and electron interpretations of the MiniBooNE LEE. This thesis presents the search for a photon LEE using an enhanced rate of neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) Delta production and subsequent radiative decay (NC Delta radiative) as the candidate source. A multi-stage NC Delta radiative event selection has been developed which takes full advantage of MicroBooNE's photon-electron discrimination capability. The ability of the search to select NC Delta radiative events in MicroBooNE and validation of the search with 4.8e19 protons-on-target worth of data are presented. Also shown are preliminary studies of MicroBooNE's sensitivity to a NC Delta radiative interpretation of the LEE.
Subjects/Keywords: Single Photon; Neutrino Physics; MicroBooNE
Murrells, R. (2019). The search for low energy single photons in MicroBooNE . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-search-for-low-energy-single-photons-in-microboone(b27ffc4b-a0f3-429a-aceb-eceb0560f8ec).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.771506
Murrells, Robert. “The search for low energy single photons in MicroBooNE.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-search-for-low-energy-single-photons-in-microboone(b27ffc4b-a0f3-429a-aceb-eceb0560f8ec).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.771506.
Murrells, Robert. “The search for low energy single photons in MicroBooNE.” 2019. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Murrells R. The search for low energy single photons in MicroBooNE. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-search-for-low-energy-single-photons-in-microboone(b27ffc4b-a0f3-429a-aceb-eceb0560f8ec).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.771506.
Murrells R. The search for low energy single photons in MicroBooNE. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-search-for-low-energy-single-photons-in-microboone(b27ffc4b-a0f3-429a-aceb-eceb0560f8ec).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.771506
13. Chitnis, Danial. Single photon avalanche diodes for optical communications.
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5fd582dd-8167-4fe4-88f8-871ba905ade1 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618386
► In order to improve the sensitivity of an optical receiver, the gain and the collection area of the photo-detectors within the receiver should be increased.… (more)
▼ In order to improve the sensitivity of an optical receiver, the gain and the collection area of the photo-detectors within the receiver should be increased. Detectors with internal gain such as avalanche photodiodes (APD) are usually used to increase the sensitivity of the receiver. One problem with APDs is the sensitivity of their gain to their bias voltage, which makes them challenging to be fabricated in a standard CMOS process due to variations in their gain. However, when an APD is biased over its breakdown voltage, it is sensitive to a single photon, hence, referred to as a single photon avalanche diodes (SPAD). The SPADs are photon-counting detectors, which are less sensitive to their bias voltage, and can be integrated with rest of the electronic circuitry that form an optical receiver. An avalanche diode requires dedicated circuits to be operated in the SPAD mode. These circuits make the diode insensitive to an incident photon for a duration that is known as deadtime. Unfortunately, The collection area of the PD, APD, and SPADs are limited to their capacitance. Hence, a large photo-detector leads to a larger capacitance, which reduces the bandwidth of the receiver. In this thesis, a photon counting optical receiver based on an array of SPADs is proposed which increases the collection area with a low output capacitance. The avalanche diode and peripheral circuits which operate and readout-out the SPAD array are fabricated in the commercially available UMC 0.18 μm CMOS process. Initially, the avalanche diode is tested and characterised. A high performance circuit is then designed and tested which is able to achieve short deadtimes up to 4 ns. Once the photon counting operation of the SPAD is verified, a numerical model is developed to investigate the influence of several factors, including the deadtime, on the performance of the photon-counting detector in a communication link. Based on the simulation results, which show the advantages of an array over a single detector, a prototype detector array of 64 asynchronous SPADs is designed and tested. This array uses a high-speed readout mechanism which is inspired by the current steering digital-to-analogue converters. Bit error ratio tests (BERT) verify the photon counting capability of the proposed detector, and a bit error rate of 1E-3 has been achieved at data rate of 100 Mbps. In addition, the array of SPAD is compatible with a front-end of conventional optical receiver which uses a photodiode as a photo detector.
Subjects/Keywords: 621.382; Communications engineering (optical,microwave and radio); Electronics; Sensors; mixed analog digital integrated circuits; optical receivers; poisson channels; single photon avalanche diode
Chitnis, D. (2013). Single photon avalanche diodes for optical communications . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5fd582dd-8167-4fe4-88f8-871ba905ade1 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618386
Chitnis, Danial. “Single photon avalanche diodes for optical communications.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5fd582dd-8167-4fe4-88f8-871ba905ade1 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618386.
Chitnis, Danial. “Single photon avalanche diodes for optical communications.” 2013. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Chitnis D. Single photon avalanche diodes for optical communications. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5fd582dd-8167-4fe4-88f8-871ba905ade1 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618386.
Chitnis D. Single photon avalanche diodes for optical communications. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2013. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5fd582dd-8167-4fe4-88f8-871ba905ade1 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618386
14. Geaney, Shaun. Bringing near-field scanning microwave microscopy into the quantum regime.
Degree: PhD, 2019, Royal Holloway, University of London
URL: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/bringing-nearfield-scanning-microwave-microscopy-into-the-quantum-regime(551f9191-d06d-4727-b986-488d2a86d8a8).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792959
► Near-field scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM) is a widely used scanning probe microscopy (SPM) technique. It can non-intrusively probe the material properties of a sample at… (more)
▼ Near-field scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM) is a widely used scanning probe microscopy (SPM) technique. It can non-intrusively probe the material properties of a sample at the nano-scale using microwave frequency radiation. The rapid development of nanotechnology, materials and surface science underpinned by scanning probe techniques drives the demand for ever more versatile and non-invasive nano-scale analysis tools. Specifically, the development of solid-state quantum technologies has created a need for nano-scale measurement techniques that operate in the same regime as these quantum devices. However, there are very few nano-scale characterisation tools that are capable of quantum coherent interaction with samples. In particular, all NSMMs so far operate in the 'classical' regime, at high powers. To reach the quantum limit for NSMM we require (i) temperatures that are lower than the photon energy, kbT << hω and (ii) ultra-low power such that the average photon number (n) ~ 1, as is necessary for coherent interaction with a quantum system without saturating it. This work presents an ultra-low power cryogenic NSMM integrated with an atomic force microscope (AFM), to enable precise distance control. A high-quality 6 GHz superconducting resonator is used as the microwave probe. This resonator is micro-machined so that it also forms the scanning tip of the AFM. We show that the microscope is capable of obtaining nano-scale dielectric contrast down to the single microwave photon regime, up to 109 times lower power than in typical NSMMs. The microscope was designed in-house in a dilution refrigerator operating at 10 mK with a customised suspension system to minimise the effects of external mechanical vibrations. In this thesis, we evaluate the performance of this NSMM. We also discuss the remaining challenges towards developing an NSMM capable of quantum coherent interaction, an enabling tool for the development of quantum technologies in the microwave regime.
Subjects/Keywords: NSMM; Quantum; Technologies; Near-field; Scanning; Microwave; Microscopy; Single photon; Two-level systems; TLS; TLF; Resonator; Superconducting; Tuning fork; Probe; Fractal; Regime
Geaney, S. (2019). Bringing near-field scanning microwave microscopy into the quantum regime . (Doctoral Dissertation). Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved from https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/bringing-nearfield-scanning-microwave-microscopy-into-the-quantum-regime(551f9191-d06d-4727-b986-488d2a86d8a8).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792959
Geaney, Shaun. “Bringing near-field scanning microwave microscopy into the quantum regime.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/bringing-nearfield-scanning-microwave-microscopy-into-the-quantum-regime(551f9191-d06d-4727-b986-488d2a86d8a8).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792959.
Geaney, Shaun. “Bringing near-field scanning microwave microscopy into the quantum regime.” 2019. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Geaney S. Bringing near-field scanning microwave microscopy into the quantum regime. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Royal Holloway, University of London; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/bringing-nearfield-scanning-microwave-microscopy-into-the-quantum-regime(551f9191-d06d-4727-b986-488d2a86d8a8).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792959.
Geaney S. Bringing near-field scanning microwave microscopy into the quantum regime. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Royal Holloway, University of London; 2019. Available from: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/bringing-nearfield-scanning-microwave-microscopy-into-the-quantum-regime(551f9191-d06d-4727-b986-488d2a86d8a8).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.792959
15. Keshavarz Akhlaghi, Mohsen. Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors.
► The quantum properties of electromagnetic radiation at single photon level promise to offer what are classically inaccessible. Single photon sources and detectors are therefore on… (more)
▼ The quantum properties of electromagnetic radiation at single photon level promise to offer what are classically inaccessible. Single photon sources and detectors are therefore on demand for exploiting these properties in practical applications, including but not limited to quantum information processing and communication. In this thesis, I advance Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPD) both in terms of models describing their operation, and their performance. I report on characterization, semi-empirical modeling, quantum-optical modeling and detector tomography. The results provide more accurate methods and formulations to characterize and mathematically describe the detectors, valuable findings from both application and device points of views. I also introduce the concept of Gated SNSPDs, show how to implement and how to characterize them. Through series of theoretical and experimental investigations, I show performance advantages of Gated SNSPDs in terms of dead time and dark count rate, important figures for many applications like quantum key distribution. The ultimate limitations of gated operation are also explored by physical modeling and simulation steps.
Subjects/Keywords: Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors; Single Photon Detectors
Keshavarz Akhlaghi, M. (2011). Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6416
Keshavarz Akhlaghi, Mohsen. “Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors.” 2011. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6416.
Keshavarz Akhlaghi, Mohsen. “Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors.” 2011. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Keshavarz Akhlaghi M. Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6416.
Keshavarz Akhlaghi M. Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6416
16. Narku-Tetteh, Noble Nii Nortey. A Sub-10ps Time-to-Digital Converter with 204ns Dynamic Range For Time-resolved Imaging and Ranging Applications.
Degree: 2014, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/152478
► Time-resolved quantization has become inherent in systems that incorporate a Time-of-Flight (ToF) or Time-of-Arrival (ToA) measurement. Such systems have diverse applications ranging from direct time-of-flight… (more)
▼ Time-resolved quantization has become inherent in systems that incorporate a Time-of-Flight (ToF) or Time-of-Arrival (ToA) measurement. Such systems have diverse applications ranging from direct time-of-flight measurements in 3D ranging systems such as Radar and Lidar systems to imaging systems using Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) (in fields such as nuclear instrumentation, molecular biology, artificial vision in computer systems, etc.). Time resolution in the order of picoseconds, especially in imaging applications has become important due to the increasing demands on the functionality and accuracy of the DSP (digital signal processing) in such systems. The increasing density of integration in CMOS implementations of such imaging and ranging systems places large constrains on area and power consumption. Furthermore, the increased variability of the range of the measurement quantities introduces an undesirable trade-off between dynamic range and precision/resolution. Therefore there is a need for time-to-digital converters which achieve high precision, high resolution and large dynamic range, without excessive costs in area and power. In this thesis, a wide range, high resolution TDC is designed to offer a timing resolution of less than 10ps and a dynamic range of 204.8ns. This is achieved by using a digitally-intensive hierarchical approach, using two looped structures, which incorporates a novel control logic algorithm. This guarantees accurate operation of the loops, removing the possibility of MSB errors in the digital word. Firstly the measurement is subdivided into 2 different sections: a coarse quantization and a fine quantization. Both of the conversion steps involve the use of a looped delay?line structure utilizing only 4 elements per delay line. This together with the control logic, makes the design of a wide dynamic range TDC achievable without excessive area and power consumption. The design has been simulated, fabricated and tested in the IBM 0.18?m technology. The proposed design achieves a resolution of 8.125ps with an input dynamic range of 204.8ns, a maximum input occurrence rate of 100MHz and a minimum dead time of 7.5ns. The fabricated TDC has a power consumption of < 20mW (1.8V supply; FSR signal at 4MS/s) and < 35mW at the maximum output rate of 100MS/s. Advisors/Committee Members: Palermo, Samuel (advisor), Sanchez-Sinencio, Edgar (advisor), Balog, Robert (committee member), Choe, Yoonsuck (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC); laser interferometry detection and ranging (LIDAR); single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD); time-of-flight (ToF) time-of-arrival (ToA); time-to-digital converter (TDC); most-significant-bit MSB
Narku-Tetteh, N. N. N. (2014). A Sub-10ps Time-to-Digital Converter with 204ns Dynamic Range For Time-resolved Imaging and Ranging Applications . (Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/152478
Narku-Tetteh, Noble Nii Nortey. “A Sub-10ps Time-to-Digital Converter with 204ns Dynamic Range For Time-resolved Imaging and Ranging Applications.” 2014. Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/152478.
Narku-Tetteh, Noble Nii Nortey. “A Sub-10ps Time-to-Digital Converter with 204ns Dynamic Range For Time-resolved Imaging and Ranging Applications.” 2014. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Narku-Tetteh NNN. A Sub-10ps Time-to-Digital Converter with 204ns Dynamic Range For Time-resolved Imaging and Ranging Applications. [Internet] [Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/152478.
Narku-Tetteh NNN. A Sub-10ps Time-to-Digital Converter with 204ns Dynamic Range For Time-resolved Imaging and Ranging Applications. [Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/152478
17. Ashoor, Ahmed. Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection.
► Microwave detection techniques based on the theory of perturbation of cavity resonators are commonly used to measure the permittivity and permeability of objects of dielectric… (more)
▼ Microwave detection techniques based on the theory of perturbation of cavity resonators are commonly used to measure the permittivity and permeability of objects of dielectric and ferrite materials at microwave frequencies. When a small object is introduced into a microwave cavity resonator, the resonant frequency is perturbed. Since it is possible to measure the change in frequency with high accuracy, this provides a valuable method for measuring the electric and magnetic properties of the object. Likewise, these microwave resonators can be used as sensors for sorting dielectric objects. Techniques based upon this principle are in common use for measuring the dielectric and magnetic properties of materials at microwave frequencies for variety of applications. This thesis presents an approach of using Artificial Neural Networks to detect material change in a rectangular cavity. The method is based on the theory of the perturbation of cavity resonators where a change in the resonant frequencies of the cavity is directly proportional to the dielectric constant of the inserted objects. A rectangular cavity test fixture was built and excited with a monopole antenna. The cavity was filled with different materials, and the reflection coefficient of each material was measured over a wide range of frequencies. An intelligent systems approach using an artificial neural network (ANN) methodology was implemented for the automatic material change detection. To develop an automatic detection model, a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) was designed with one hidden layer and gradient descent back-propagation (BP) learning algorithm was used for the ANN training. The network training process was performed in an off-line mode, and after the training process was accomplished, the model was able to learn the rules without knowing any algorithm for automatic detection.
Subjects/Keywords: artificial neural networks; microwave detection
Ashoor, A. (2012). Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6766
Ashoor, Ahmed. “Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection.” 2012. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6766.
Ashoor, Ahmed. “Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection.” 2012. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Ashoor A. Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6766.
Ashoor A. Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6766
18. Zhang, Haoyu. Microwave imaging for ultra-wideband antenna based cancer detection.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Edinburgh
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9958
► Breast cancer is one of the most widespread types of cancer in the world. The key factor in treatment is to reliably diagnose the cancer… (more)
▼ Breast cancer is one of the most widespread types of cancer in the world. The key factor in treatment is to reliably diagnose the cancer in the early stages. Moreover, currently used clinical diagnostic methods, such as X-ray, ultra-sound and MRI, are limited by cost and reliability issues. These limitations have motivated researchers to develop a more effective, low-cost diagnostic method and involving lower ionization for cancer detection. In this thesis, radar based microwave imaging is proposed as a method for early breast cancer detection. This imaging system has advantages such as low cost, being non- invasive and easy to use, with high image resolution and its thus good potential for early cancer detection. In the first stage, an ultra-wideband Vivaldi antenna and a slot Vivaldi antenna are proposed, simulated and fabricated for breast cancer detection. The designed antennas exhibit an ultra-wideband working frequency. The radiation patterns also achieve the desired directional radiation patterns. The second stage of this study presents a planar breast phantom and a hemisphere breast phantom. These two breast phantoms are simulated and fabricated using CST microwave studio and tissue-mimicking materials respectively. Mono-static radar systems based on a single antenna configuration and an antenna pair configuration are then proposed. These two systems are used to measure the planar breast phantom and hemi- sphere breast phantom, with the scattering signals measured in the frequency and time domains. Based on the measurement results, it is concluded that the reflected energy increases when the antenna moves close to the tumour; otherwise, the reflected energy is reduced when the antenna moves away from the tumour. The received time domain scattering signals are processed first and then used to create microwave images to indicate tumour position. A clutter removal method is proposed to extract the tumour response from the received signals. The microwave images are then created using the tumour response based on the simulation and experimental results. The imaging results indicate that a 5 mm radius tumour can be detected. The tumour burial depth is also studied. A multi bio- layer phantom which contains deep and shallow buried tumours is simulated and measured using the Vivaldi antenna. A spectrum analysis method is proposed to distinguish between different tumour depths. The results indicate that a difference in depth of 15 mm results in a mean change of 0.3 dB in the magnitude of the spectrum. Discrimination between benign and malignant tumours is also considered in this study. The singularity expansion method (SEM) for breast cancer is proposed to discriminate between benign and malignant tumours based on their morphology. Two cancerous breast phantoms are developed in CST. The benign tumour is a 5mm radius sphere and the malignant tumour is a spiny sphere with an average radius of 5mm. The use of the SEM leads to the successful discrimination of these two tumours. This method provides a solution to…
Subjects/Keywords: cancer detection; microwave imaging; antenna
Zhang, H. (2015). Microwave imaging for ultra-wideband antenna based cancer detection . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9958
Zhang, Haoyu. “Microwave imaging for ultra-wideband antenna based cancer detection.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9958.
Zhang, Haoyu. “Microwave imaging for ultra-wideband antenna based cancer detection.” 2015. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Zhang H. Microwave imaging for ultra-wideband antenna based cancer detection. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9958.
Zhang H. Microwave imaging for ultra-wideband antenna based cancer detection. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9958
19. Richardson, Justin Andrew. Time resolved single photon imaging in nanometer scale CMOS technology.
► Time resolved imaging is concerned with the measurement of photon arrival time. It has a wealth of emerging applications including biomedical uses such as fluorescence… (more)
▼ Time resolved imaging is concerned with the measurement of photon arrival time. It has a wealth of emerging applications including biomedical uses such as fluorescence lifetime microscopy and positron emission tomography, as well as laser ranging and imaging in three dimensions. The impact of time resolved imaging on human life is significant: it can be used to identify cancerous cells in-vivo, how well new drugs may perform, or to guide a robot around a factory or hospital. Two essential building blocks of a time resolved imaging system are a photon detector capable of sensing single photons, and fast time resolvers that can measure the time of flight of light to picosecond resolution. In order to address these emerging applications, miniaturised, single-chip, integrated arrays of photon detectors and time resolvers must be developed with state of the art performance and low cost. The goal of this research is therefore the design, layout and verification of arrays of low noise Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) together with high resolution Time-Digital Converters (TDCs) using an advanced silicon fabrication process. The research reported in this Thesis was carried out as part of the E.U. funded Megaframe FP6 Project. A 32x32 pixel, one million frames per second, time correlated imaging device has been designed, simulated and fabricated using a 130nm CMOS Imaging process from ST Microelectronics. The imager array has been implemented together with required support cells in order to transmit data off chip at high speed as well as providing a means of device control, test and calibration. The fabricated imaging device successfully demonstrates the research objectives. The Thesis presents details of design, simulation and characterisation results of the elements of the Megaframe device which were the author’s own work. Highlights of the results include the smallest and lowest noise SPAD devices yet published for this class of fabrication process and an imaging array capable of recording single photon arrivals every microsecond, with a minimum time resolution of fifty picoseconds and single bit linearity.
Subjects/Keywords: 539.7; Time resolved imaging; photon arrival time; photon detectors; Single Photon Avalanche Diodes; SPAD
Richardson, J. A. (2010). Time resolved single photon imaging in nanometer scale CMOS technology . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7588
Richardson, Justin Andrew. “Time resolved single photon imaging in nanometer scale CMOS technology.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7588.
Richardson, Justin Andrew. “Time resolved single photon imaging in nanometer scale CMOS technology.” 2010. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Richardson JA. Time resolved single photon imaging in nanometer scale CMOS technology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7588.
Richardson JA. Time resolved single photon imaging in nanometer scale CMOS technology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7588
20. Martinez, Nick. Waveguide-coupled Avalanche Photodiodes for a CMOS Compatible Tranceiver Package.
► Optical signal detection is most readily done with classical sources emitting signals which undergo very little attenuation. Detection of signals with these power levels… (more)
▼ Optical signal detection is most readily done with classical sources emitting signals which undergo very little attenuation. Detection of signals with these power levels benets from classical photodetectors, where the photon induced electronic signal is discernible above the background noise. In other instances, where the optical signal may start from an attenuated source, or in cases where the optical signal is severely attenuated in transit, a detector which exhibits gain converts a weak optical signal into a measurable electrical one. Detectors which convert a weak photo-generated electrical pulse into a strong one do so through a process known as carrier avalanche and can only take place when the photodetector's applied voltage is high enough. The voltage applied depends on physical parameters of the avalanche photodetector, like it's width and doping factors. iv APD's, as it will be shown, bridge the gap from classical detector to detection at the quantum limit of single photons. This work will, in fact, explain the two modes of operation that makes avalanche photon detectors responsive to both highly attenuated classical sources down to attenuated sources averaging roughly one photon per pulse. Figures of merit will show APDs operated separately in both modes of operation yield exceptional performance compared to devices of similar architecture and materials. Lastly, other opto-electronic devices with compatible processing will be described, with the nal goal of designing and characterizing high performance optoelectronic modular components that can be seamlessly integrated with one another for a complete signals package. Advisors/Committee Members: Daniel Feezell, Paul Davids, Majeed Hayat, Tito Busani.
Subjects/Keywords: apd single photon detector; Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Martinez, N. (2017). Waveguide-coupled Avalanche Photodiodes for a CMOS Compatible Tranceiver Package . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nsms_etds/42
Martinez, Nick. “Waveguide-coupled Avalanche Photodiodes for a CMOS Compatible Tranceiver Package.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nsms_etds/42.
Martinez, Nick. “Waveguide-coupled Avalanche Photodiodes for a CMOS Compatible Tranceiver Package.” 2017. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Martinez N. Waveguide-coupled Avalanche Photodiodes for a CMOS Compatible Tranceiver Package. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nsms_etds/42.
Martinez N. Waveguide-coupled Avalanche Photodiodes for a CMOS Compatible Tranceiver Package. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2017. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nsms_etds/42
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
21. Wayne, Michael Alan. Optical quantum random number generation: applications of single-photon event timing.
Degree: PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2017, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
► This dissertation is the result of research which, although electrical and computer engineering in nature, also aims to improve the performance of many systems in… (more)
▼ This dissertation is the result of research which, although electrical and computer engineering in nature, also aims to improve the performance of many systems in the field of quantum information. For example, random number generators are used in almost all areas of science, and the initial portion of this work details the theory, design, and characterization of two photon-arrival-time quantum random number generators (QRNGs). After the QRNGs were completed, it was realized that their performance was severely limited both by the maximum detection rate of the single-photon detectors used, and the precision at which the arrival times could be resolved. The single-photon detectors used for both QRNGs are single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs), devices which when operated below their breakdown voltage can create a macroscopic amount of current (an avalanche) in response to a single incident photon. Some of this charge can become trapped in defects or impurities; if this trapped charge is released when the SPAD is active, a secondary ‘false’ detection event, or ‘afterpulse’ can occur. To lower the afterpulse probability to reasonable levels (< 1%), we attempted to reduce the amount of avalanche charge by halting its growth promptly with high-speed electronics, so that defects have a lower probability of becoming populated in the first place. Initial results show reductions in afterpulse probability by up to a factor of 12, corresponding to a ~20% decrease in dead time, a value that could be improved further. We developed an FPGA-based time-to-digital converter system for use specifically with SPADs, achieving a time-bin resolution of 100 ps, with lower dead time and higher maximum detection rate than all currently available detection systems. This further allowed for the creation of a new higher-order SPAD characterization technique, which was identified previously unknown subtleties to SPAD operation. Finally, we developed an ultra-low-latency QRNG, which was used in one of the recent loophole-free demonstrations of quantum nonlocality. The final latency was below 2.5 ns, to our knowledge the lowest latency QRNG to date. Of special interest, however, is our subsequent exploration into the characterization of its bit-probability drift using atomic clock stability techniques. By employing the Allan deviation and implementing precision feedback, the additional frequency drift caused by environmental fluctuations is reduced such that the resulting bit stream can pass cryptographic random number tests for sample sizes up to 5 Gb. This system is currently intended for the NIST random-number beacon, a world-wide trusted source of random bits. Advisors/Committee Members: Kwiat, Paul G (advisor), Kwiat, Paul G (Committee Chair), Carney, Paul Scott (committee member), Dallesasse, John M (committee member), Kim, Kyekyoon (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Quantum random number generator; Single-photon detector
Wayne, M. A. (2017). Optical quantum random number generation: applications of single-photon event timing . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97316
Wayne, Michael Alan. “Optical quantum random number generation: applications of single-photon event timing.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97316.
Wayne, Michael Alan. “Optical quantum random number generation: applications of single-photon event timing.” 2017. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Wayne MA. Optical quantum random number generation: applications of single-photon event timing. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97316.
Wayne MA. Optical quantum random number generation: applications of single-photon event timing. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97316
22. Tyndall, David. CMOS system for high throughput fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting.
► Fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is a key analytical tool for molecular and cell biology research, medical diagnosis and pharmacological… (more)
▼ Fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is a key analytical tool for molecular and cell biology research, medical diagnosis and pharmacological development. However, commercially available TCSPC equipment is bulky, expensive and power hungry, typically requiring iterative software post-processing to calculate the fluorescence lifetime. Furthermore, the technique is restrictively slow due to a low photon throughput limit which is necessary to avoid distortions caused by TCSPC pile-up. An investigation into CMOS compatible multimodule architectures to miniaturise the standard TCSPC set up, allow an increase in photon throughput by overcoming the TCSPC pile-up limit, and provide fluorescence lifetime calculations in real-time is presented. The investigation verifies the operation of the architectures and leads to the selection of optimal parameters for the number of detectors and timing channels required to overcome the TCSPC pile-up limit by at least an order of magnitude. The parameters are used to implement a low power miniaturised sensor in a 130 nm CMOS process, combining single photon detection, multiple channel timing and embedded pre-processing of the fluorescence lifetime, all within a silicon area of < 2 mm2. Single photon detection is achieved using an array of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) arranged in a digital silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) architecture with a 10 % fill-factor and a compressed 250 ps output pulse, which provides a photon throughput of > 700 MHz. An array of time-interleaved time-to-digital converters (TI-TDCs) with 50 ps resolution and no processing dead-time records up to eight photon events during each excitation period, significantly reducing the effect of TCSPC pile-up. The TCSPC data is then processed using an embedded centre-of-mass method (CMM) pre-calculation to produce single exponential fluorescence lifetime estimations in real-time. The combination of high photon throughput and real-time calculation enables advances in applications such as fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and time domain fluorescence lifetime activated cell sorting. To demonstrate this, the device is validated in practical bulk sample fluorescence lifetime, FLIM and simulated flow based experiments. Photon throughputs in excess of the excitation frequency are demonstrated for a range of organic and inorganic fluorophores for minimal error in lifetime calculation by CMM (< 5 %).
Subjects/Keywords: 621.36; time correlated single photon counting; CMOS
Tyndall, D. (2013). CMOS system for high throughput fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12238
Tyndall, David. “CMOS system for high throughput fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12238.
Tyndall, David. “CMOS system for high throughput fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting.” 2013. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Tyndall D. CMOS system for high throughput fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12238.
Tyndall D. CMOS system for high throughput fluorescence lifetime sensing using time correlated single photon counting. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12238
23. AHARONOVICH, IGOR. Novel single photon emitters based on color centers in diamond.
Degree: 2010, University of Melbourne
► Exploitation of emerging quantum technologies requires efficient fabrication of key building blocks. Single photon sources are one of these fundamental constituents that are presently pushing… (more)
▼ Exploitation of emerging quantum technologies requires efficient fabrication of key building blocks. Single photon sources are one of these fundamental constituents that are presently pushing the bounds of existing materials and fabrication techniques. Color centers in diamond are very attractive in this respect since they are the only photostable solid-state single photon emitters operating at room temperature known to date.
Subjects/Keywords: diamond; single photon source; ion implantation; emitter
AHARONOVICH, I. (2010). Novel single photon emitters based on color centers in diamond . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/35637
AHARONOVICH, IGOR. “Novel single photon emitters based on color centers in diamond.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/35637.
AHARONOVICH, IGOR. “Novel single photon emitters based on color centers in diamond.” 2010. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
AHARONOVICH I. Novel single photon emitters based on color centers in diamond. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/35637.
AHARONOVICH I. Novel single photon emitters based on color centers in diamond. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/35637
24. Ouin, Gildas. Etching Processes for GaN Nanowire Fabrication and Single Photon Emitter Device Application.
Degree: MS, Microelectronic Engineering, 2019, Rochester Institute of Technology
URL: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10172
► As they have exhibited great potential for light emitting devices, Gallium Nitride (GaN) nanowire (NW)-based devices have attracted a lot of interest over recent… (more)
▼ As they have exhibited great potential for light emitting devices, Gallium Nitride (GaN) nanowire (NW)-based devices have attracted a lot of interest over recent years. Ultra-thin GaN NWs can be used to manufacture many novel devices for future communication and encryption systems, such as single photon emitters (SPEs). However, the conventional growth techniques have limitations in terms of manufacturability, creating the need to explore top-down, etch reliant GaN NW fabrication processes. This work focuses on improving the fabrication methods for top-down GaN nanowires and lay out a potential process for the manufacturing of SPEs. Using a combination of dry and wet etching, the existing process for top-down GaN nanowire fabrication was improved to achieve features with a sub 50nm diameter. An initial process for SPE manufacturing is proposed and an electrochemical etch setup is introduced to broaden the processing capabilities and applications. Preliminary experiments for these new processes show promising results. Advisors/Committee Members: Jing Zhang, Karl Hirschman, Santosh Kurinec.
Subjects/Keywords: Electrochemical; Etching; GaN; Nanowire; Single photon
Ouin, G. (2019). Etching Processes for GaN Nanowire Fabrication and Single Photon Emitter Device Application . (Masters Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10172
Ouin, Gildas. “Etching Processes for GaN Nanowire Fabrication and Single Photon Emitter Device Application.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10172.
Ouin, Gildas. “Etching Processes for GaN Nanowire Fabrication and Single Photon Emitter Device Application.” 2019. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Ouin G. Etching Processes for GaN Nanowire Fabrication and Single Photon Emitter Device Application. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10172.
Ouin G. Etching Processes for GaN Nanowire Fabrication and Single Photon Emitter Device Application. [Masters Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 2019. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10172
25. Slattery, Oliver T. Development of single-photon sources, detectors, spectrometers and interfaces for quantum communication systems.
Degree: 2015, University of Limerick
► This thesis describes work on single-photon pair creation, entanglement and entanglement measurement; single-photon spectral narrowing for atomic interaction; and single-photon detection and spectral analysis. The… (more)
▼ This thesis describes work on single-photon pair creation, entanglement and entanglement measurement; single-photon spectral narrowing for atomic interaction; and single-photon detection and spectral analysis. The systems developed exploit the interactions of light beams in non-linear crystal materials. Greatly non-degenerate time-bin entangled photon pair sources are implemented based on the quantum process of spontaneous-parametric-down-conversion. The non-degenerate wavelengths correspond to an atomic transition (895 nm) and a telecommunications band (1310 nm). Interference-fringe-visibilities of over 78% are achieved, verifying entanglement. An efficient and low-noise single-photon up-conversion detector based on sum-frequency-generation is implemented. Photons at 1310 nm are converted to the visible region and efficiently detected using a visible single-photon detector. An overall detection efficiency of over 32% is achieved with a dark-count noise rate of 2500 s-1. The detector is further developed to achieve an inter-symbol-interference free detection rate at twice the limit of the type of visible detector used. The detector is adapted into an up-conversion spectrometer for wavelengths near 1310 nm. A sensitivity of -126 dBm is achieved, corresponding to photon fluxes of approximately 500 s-1. The up-conversion spectrometer is further adapted for correlated biphoton spectroscopy by incorporating a frequency entangled and time correlated source. In this scheme, the spectral function near 895 nm of a remote object can be reproduced by locally measuring the 1310 nm with the up-conversion spectrometer and monitoring the coincidence detection rates. To achieve linewidths feasible for atomic interaction, a very narrow linewidth non-degenerate single-photon pair source is implemented based on spontaneous-parametric-down-conversion embedded in a singly-resonant cavity which is locked to and resonating at the frequency corresponding to a target atomic transition. Linewidths as narrow as 28 MHz are achieved. The brightness of the source within the modes is increased by two-orders compared to the single-pass implementations. Advisors/Committee Members: Buckley, Noel, Lynch, Robert P..
Subjects/Keywords: single-photon sources; quantum communication systems
Slattery, O. T. (2015). Development of single-photon sources, detectors, spectrometers and interfaces for quantum communication systems . (Thesis). University of Limerick. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4844
Slattery, Oliver T. “Development of single-photon sources, detectors, spectrometers and interfaces for quantum communication systems.” 2015. Thesis, University of Limerick. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4844.
Slattery, Oliver T. “Development of single-photon sources, detectors, spectrometers and interfaces for quantum communication systems.” 2015. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Slattery OT. Development of single-photon sources, detectors, spectrometers and interfaces for quantum communication systems. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Limerick; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4844.
Slattery OT. Development of single-photon sources, detectors, spectrometers and interfaces for quantum communication systems. [Thesis]. University of Limerick; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4844
26. Keizer, Floris. Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography.
► The increase in luminosity during the LHC upgrade programme causes a challenging rise in track multiplicity and hit occupancy in the LHCb detector. In order… (more)
▼ The increase in luminosity during the LHC upgrade programme causes a challenging rise in track multiplicity and hit occupancy in the LHCb detector. In order to mitigate this effect, the use of photon detector hit time information is presented in the context of the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors. The application of a time gate in the FPGA of the digital readout board for the Upgrade Ia photon detector, which is being installed for LHC Run 3, is described. Data recorded during SPS charged particle beam tests using a 6.25 ns time gate show a reduction of up to a factor of four in asynchronous detector noise compared to the original 25ns readout. A time-walk correction based on the time-over- threshold is proposed. Using the LHCb simulation framework, the intrinsic time resolution of the RICH detectors is demonstrated to be less than 10 ps. This is particularly relevant for the LHCb Upgrade II, which is scheduled for the year 2030 in preparation for a further order- of-magnitude rise in luminosity. Methods of time gating and scaling of the signal amplitude in the RICH reconstruction likelihood maximisation algorithm are presented. The results show that, considering improvements in the time-resolution only, a photon detector with an approximately 50 ps resolution can achieve today’s particle ID performance in the high- luminosity LHC environment. In the second part of this thesis, the first published semiconductor tracker for cosmic-ray muon scattering tomography is presented. The tracker uses silicon strip sensors from the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) with an 80μm pitch. A novel electronic readout system for the sensors is designed, based on a scalable, inexpensive, flexible, FPGA-based solution. A high-precision mechanical structure with integrated cooling is built to align the SCT modules. This alignment is fine-tuned in software, and the tracker performance is compared with a Geant4 simulation. A scattering angle resolution compatible with 1.5 mrad at the 4 GeV average cosmic-ray muon energy is obtained. Data are recorded for plastic, iron and lead samples using 45000 muons. Images are reconstructed using the Angle Statistics Reconstruction algorithm, and demonstrate good contrast between low and high atomic number materials.
Subjects/Keywords: CERN; LHCb; Single photon detection; Cherenkov radiation; Ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors; Sub-nanosecond time resolution; Particle detectors; Silicon strip detectors; Readout electronics; Detector performance simulation; Semiconductor tracker; Cosmic radiation; Muon scattering tomography; Image reconstruction algorithms; Particle beam tests; Photon sensors; Detector cooling and alignment
Keizer, F. (2020). Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766
Keizer, Floris. “Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766.
Keizer, Floris. “Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography.” 2020. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Keizer F. Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766.
Keizer F. Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766
▼ The increase in luminosity during the LHC upgrade programme causes a challenging rise in track multiplicity and hit occupancy in the LHCb detector. In order to mitigate this effect, the use of photon detector hit time information is presented in the context of the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors. The application of a time gate in the FPGA of the digital readout board for the Upgrade Ia photon detector, which is being installed for LHC Run 3, is described. Data recorded during SPS charged particle beam tests using a 6.25 ns time gate show a reduction of up to a factor of four in asynchronous detector noise compared to the original 25ns readout. A time-walk correction based on the time-over- threshold is proposed. Using the LHCb simulation framework, the intrinsic time resolution of the RICH detectors is demonstrated to be less than 10 ps. This is particularly relevant for the LHCb Upgrade II, which is scheduled for the year 2030 in preparation for a further order- of-magnitude rise in luminosity. Methods of time gating and scaling of the signal amplitude in the RICH reconstruction likelihood maximisation algorithm are presented. The results show that, considering improvements in the time-resolution only, a photon detector with an approximately 50 ps resolution can achieve today's particle ID performance in the high- luminosity LHC environment. In the second part of this thesis, the first published semiconductor tracker for cosmic-ray muon scattering tomography is presented. The tracker uses silicon strip sensors from the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) with an 80μm pitch. A novel electronic readout system for the sensors is designed, based on a scalable, inexpensive, flexible, FPGA-based solution. A high-precision mechanical structure with integrated cooling is built to align the SCT modules. This alignment is fine-tuned in software, and the tracker performance is compared with a Geant4 simulation. A scattering angle resolution compatible with 1.5 mrad at the 4 GeV average cosmic-ray muon energy is obtained. Data are recorded for plastic, iron and lead samples using 45000 muons. Images are reconstructed using the Angle Statistics Reconstruction algorithm, and demonstrate good contrast between low and high atomic number materials.
Keizer, F. (2020). Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793059
Keizer, Floris. “Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793059.
Keizer F. Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793059.
Keizer F. Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/298766 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793059
28. Fadol, Samah S. Abu Ali. Characterisation of polarisation-entangled photon source for quantum key distribution.
Degree: 2016, University of KwaZulu-Natal
► Entanglement in real physical systems has been of great interest due to its importance in quantum mechanics. It has applications related to quantum information science… (more)
▼ Entanglement in real physical systems has been of great interest due to its importance in quantum mechanics. It has applications related to quantum information science speci cally quantum cryptography since it eliminates the possibility of photon number splitting attack during the key distribution process (Quantum Key Distribution). This thesis deals with creation, detection and characterisation of the correlated polarised photon pairs, which were emitted from a nonlinear BBO crystal via Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) process. The procedure that leads to the construction of a polarisation-based entangled system is discussed by considering some of the measurement techniques, which can be applied to study fundamental quantum mechanics and its applications in quantum communication. This thesis consists of a set of experiments to validate the entanglement of single photon pairs. The rst experiment realised by generating of polarised based entangled photon pairs. The quantum correlation between the entangled photon pairs have been tested by measuring the visibility of the system and by verifying the maximal violation of CHSH (Clauser, Horne, Shimony and Holt) inequality. In the second experiment, the delity of the system has been measured by carrying out the state tomography to reconstruct the two-photon density matrix and consider the interference e ect of two photons. This helps to study the preservation of the quantum state during the propagation. Advisors/Committee Members: Ismail, Yaseera. (advisor), Petruccione, Francesco. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Photon pairs.; Creation and detection.; Quantum mechanics.
Fadol, S. S. A. A. (2016). Characterisation of polarisation-entangled photon source for quantum key distribution. (Thesis). University of KwaZulu-Natal. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10413/14865
Fadol, Samah S Abu Ali. “Characterisation of polarisation-entangled photon source for quantum key distribution.” 2016. Thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/14865.
Fadol, Samah S Abu Ali. “Characterisation of polarisation-entangled photon source for quantum key distribution.” 2016. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Fadol SSAA. Characterisation of polarisation-entangled photon source for quantum key distribution. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/14865.
Fadol SSAA. Characterisation of polarisation-entangled photon source for quantum key distribution. [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/14865
29. Percival, Helen. Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits.
► Lambda systems, with a metastable state in addition to the ground state, naturally occur in many atomic systems. Atomic lambda systems offer many potential applications… (more)
▼ Lambda systems, with a metastable state in addition to the ground state, naturally occur in many atomic systems. Atomic lambda systems offer many potential applications in quantum information processing including single photon transistors and quantum memories. In superconducting qubits, ladder type systems are most common, useful lambda systems, however, have remained elusive. An effective lambda system was created, formed from the Jaynes-Cummings dressed states of a superconducting qubit-cavity system. Using two-photon driving, the system can be controlled as a conventional lambda system. The performance of the device is characterized to determine the suitability of it for various applications, including the single photon regime. A model was developed to investigate the effects of detuned two-photon drive. This model restricts the cavity-qubit system to only the three levels that are used in the lambda system. In the time domain, the drives interfere. Only when the drives are detuned by the same amount in opposite directions do they not interfere and the coupler invokes the transistion it is driving. In this experiment, a 3D transmon was placed in a superconducting aluminum cavity with a decay rate U+03BA=0.25MHz. Qubit characterization demonstrate that the transmon has T1=17U+03BCs and T2=35U+03BCs. From this, the decay rate of the qubit was calculated to be U+0393=62.5Hz, indicating the system has U+03BAU+02C3U+0393, which is necessary to form an effective lambda system. Using the two drives, it was shown that the detuning of the two-photon driving is linear. Holding one of these drives constant in frequency and drive power, it was demonstrated that the detuned frequency of the second drive changes quadratically with its drive amplitude. Suitability of the system to the single photon regime was investigated by using the two detuned drives: a strong, continuous wave drive, and a weaker, pulsed drive. Decreasing the pulsed drive amplitude, it was shown that the metastable state can be populated a pulse of only 3700 photons, suggesting with better signal isolation, and quantum-noise-limited signal amplification, the single photon regime may be achieved.
Subjects/Keywords: Quantum information; Superconducting qubits; transmon; microwave; superconducting; qubits; lambda; single photon; transistor
…for single photon detection. The proposed system uses a single photon transistor to use a… …single photon to alter the transmission magnitude of a continuous-wave microwave signal. The… …constructs, including single photon transistors and single photon detectors. Unfortunately, in… …with a single photon. A model developed to simulate the time dynamics of the detuned probe… …1 1.1 Motivation Although single photon detectors are common in optics, there is not a…
Percival, H. (2017). Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12409
Percival, Helen. “Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits.” 2017. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12409.
Percival, Helen. “Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits.” 2017. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Percival H. Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12409.
Percival H. Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12409
30. Folgar, Carlos Eduardo. Structure Evolution of Silica Aerogel under a Microwave Field.
Degree: PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, 2010, Virginia Tech
► Structure evolution of silica aerogel was studied in microwave- and conventionally processed samples over the temperature range from 25 to 1200â °C. The samples were… (more)
▼ Structure evolution of silica aerogel was studied in microwave- and conventionally processed samples over the temperature range from 25 to 1200â °C. The samples were produced using sol-gel processing and dried under carbon dioxide supercritical conditions. After drying, the monolithic samples received a thermal treatment at different programmed temperatures in two different ovens, conventional and microwave. The microwave process was performed using a single mode microwave oven at 2.45GHz. Dielectric properties were measured using the cavity perturbation method, and structural characterization was carried out using a variety of techniques, including absorption surface analysis, Helium pycnometry, Archimedes principle, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and high resolution microscopy. The data obtained revealed that structural differences do exist between microwave- and conventionally processed samples. Three different regions were identified from the structural characterization of the samples. Regions I exhibited a structure densification at temperatures between 25 and 850â °C. Region II was characterized by a bulk densification in the temperature range from 850 to 1200â °C. Region III was represented by the onset of crystallization above 1200â °C. Explanation and possible causes behind the structural differences observed in each region are provided. In general, the structure evolution observed in microwave- and conventionally processed samples followed the same order, but occurred at lower temperature for the microwave process. Advisors/Committee Members: Clark, David E. (committeechair), Viehland, Dwight D. (committee member), Suchicital, Carlos T. A. (committee member), Pickrell, Gary R. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: silica gel; single mode microwave oven; dielectric measurements; microwave process
Folgar, C. E. (2010). Structure Evolution of Silica Aerogel under a Microwave Field . (Doctoral Dissertation). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27801
Folgar, Carlos Eduardo. “Structure Evolution of Silica Aerogel under a Microwave Field.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Virginia Tech. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27801.
Folgar, Carlos Eduardo. “Structure Evolution of Silica Aerogel under a Microwave Field.” 2010. Web. 21 Jan 2020.
Folgar CE. Structure Evolution of Silica Aerogel under a Microwave Field. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27801.
Folgar CE. Structure Evolution of Silica Aerogel under a Microwave Field. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27801
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Reality Check, the OCD, BDD and Hoarding Support Group in Macclesfield was set up 10 years ago by Emma, Honor and Debbie. It was in response to Emma dealing with her own OCD and realising that there was no provision for ongoing support in their local area.
She responded to an initial idea proposed by a therapist at Macclesfield hospital and a representative from ‘Making Space’. The group was set up with the aim to support people living with OCD, BDD and Hoarding issues and their family members, carers or friends. Emma recognises that living with these conditions can be lonely and isolating and the group wanted to help people to gain support and check in with other participants about their thoughts and feelings.
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Analysis Of A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Anchor Bay High School Essay
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by Irish Writer James Joyce, depicts the mental and physical growth of Stephen Daedalus, an Irish Catholic. James Joyce applied innovative rhetorical devices and techniques, like the flow of consciousness, to the novel, for which he was celebrated and remembered as one of the leaders of literary modernism. Meanwhile, his ingenious use of traditional devices also makes remarkable contributions to the development of the main ideas of this novel. This essay will identify three rhetorical devices in Chapter four and analyze the connection between the rhetoric and the meanings of this chapter. From my perspective, the rhetoric contributes to the expression of the meaning in this chapter by smoothly and profoundly linking the character to the theme.
The whole story centers on the changes experienced by Stephen which guided him to his own path of an artist. Chapter four serves as a transition between the former chapters, which depicts Stephen’s childhood, degeneration and confession, and the last chapter, which details Stephen’s contemplation and self-exile. More specifically, it demonstrates to the audience the process by which Stephen abandoned priesthood and then pursued freedom. These are all made vivid by a variety of rhetorical devices utilized by James Joyce.
The first notable device, parallel structure, characterizes Stephen’s changes and is primarily descriptive. It is an indispensable part of the novel, for it logically leads to Stephen’s later emotions. The device appears in the first sentence of the chapter: “Sunday was dedicated to the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Monday to the Holy Ghost, Tuesday to the Guardian Angles…” (P105, James Joyce). This is a description about how Stephen scheduled his time to practice his religious beliefs. The sentence is extraordinarily powerful and impressive as the beginning of a new chapter, since it shows how unreservedly Stephen devotes his life to religion in search of ultimate salvation and happiness. Serving the same function is the sentence “He offered up each of his three daily chaplets… in faith of in the Father Who had created him, in hope in the Son Who had redeemed him…” (James Joyce, P106). By emphasizing Stephen’s endeavors and seemingly unshakable faith, James intends to show the influence of the retreat on Stephen, as well as foreshadowing Stephen’s impatience and frustration later in the chapter, a consequence of his self-blame for his imperfection and his doubts about whether his penances are effectual. Had the author not attach enough importance to this portion of the novel, it wouldn’t have appeared natural that Stephen grew so disheartened that he himself casted doubts on his beliefs------The device promotes the progression of the plot.
After all the foreshadowing, the author starts to use symbolism to indirectly address Stephen’s changes. One awesome use of this device appears in the third part of chapter 4: “Now, at the same of...
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1 Linear Search
2 Time Complexity
3 Linear Search C Program
Linear Search
In linear search, we start searching for the target item at the beginning of the array. If the target is equal to the element at index 0, then we have found the target. Otherwise, we keep searching for the target one by one in the array until a match is found. The linear search also sometimes known as Sequential search.
We commonly use Linear search when the elements of an array are not sorted.
Let’s take an example:
Suppose, we have an array arr declared and initialized as:
int arr[] = {100, 50, 99, 44, 12};
The following are the steps to search for value 44 inside the array.
Step 1: Search for 44 at index 0. Since, 44 != arr[0], we move on to the next index.
Step 4: Search for 44 at index 4. Since, 44 == arr[2], we have found the target. At this point, we don’t need to move on to the next index. So, our search ends here.
Time Complexity
Let’s now examine the efficiency of Linear search in term of Big O Notation.
In a worst-case scenario, if there are 100 elements in the array then the linear search will take 100 steps. Similarly, if there are 10 million elements in the array, then the linear search will take 10 million steps.
Note: By worst-case scenario, we mean that the target is found at the end of the array.
In general, we can say that in the worst-case scenario the linear search will take as many steps as there are elements in the array. Hence, If there are N elements in the array, then the linear search would take N steps.
The above statement can be expressed in terms of Big-O notation as follows:
O(N)
This is read as big O of n.
Keep in mind that in plain English, O(N) simply means for N number of elements, an algorithm would take N number of steps.
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The following is a C program to search for the target using Linear search algorithm:
/***************************************************
* Program to search for an item using Linear Search
****************************************************/
#include<stdio.h> // include stdio.h
#define SIZE 10
int arr[SIZE] = {100, 91, 22, 52, 71, 9, 11, 24, 2, 80}, is_found = 0;
int target; // number to be searched
printf("Enter element to search: ");
scanf("%d", &target);
// search for the target sequentially
if(target == arr[i])
// if target is found stop the search and break out
is_found = 1;
if(is_found)
printf("Item %d found.", target);
printf("Item %d not found.", target);
// signal to operating system everything works fine
Enter element to search: 80
Item 80 found.
Enter element to search: 200
Item 200 not found.
In line 13, we ask the user to input a number to be searched.
The scanf() function in line 14 reads the input from the keyboard and stores it in the variable named target.
In lines 17-25, we use a for loop to iterate over the elements in the array. If the target is equal to the current element in the array, we set is_found to 1 and break out of the for loop using the break statement. Otherwise, we keep looking for the target until we have reached the end of the array.
The if-else statement in lines 27-34 checks the value of is_found variable to determine whether we have found the target or not and displays the appropriate message.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
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History of Alternative Communication in Chile: Phases and Endeavors
Chiara Sáez and Jorge Iturriaga
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Conceptualizing and Historifying Alternative Communication
Oligarchic Crisis and the Emergence of Alternative Media, 1890–1932
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With the surge of social struggles tied to the implementation of capitalist modernization at the end of the 19th century, diverse forms of technology-based mass communication in Chile arose to represent the emergence of social sectors that didn’t participate in the dominant culture and sought to disseminate an alternative. Working-class and feminist newspapers, neighborhood theaters, and Cordel literature broke away from the traditional elitist and pedagogical nature that had defined the media until that time. Since then, with cycles that have ebbed and flowed, numerous communicative experiences were related to mass culture in controversial ways: they opposed it, converged with it, et cetera. Even though it is possible to trace the continuity between the cases described, this continuity is not clear upon first glance, due to its underground and nascent character. In general terms, these experiences were not established as an autonomous space for technical or aesthetic experiments; when there was a strategy, it tended to be political in nature, whereas communicative material remained conditional. Finally, the study of these cases implies a paradox: the 20th century began with a vast number of alternative communication projects that became institutionalized over the years, but they re-emerged more autonomously during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and the era that followed. This process of institutionalization alludes to an inversely proportional relationship between the process of incorporating the masses into positions of power (in the period between 1925 and 1973) and the development of alternative communication: these experiences are plentiful in the less institutionalized contexts of the enlightened working-class culture (that is, preceding the founding of the Communist Party in 1922 and after the anti-working-class culture that has accompanied the neoliberalism imposed since the dictatorship).
Keywords: Chile, history, communication, alternative communication, workers’, movement, workers’, press, community media, social movements, indigenous communication, digital activism
Chiara Sáez
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
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A major challenge for countries that emerge from civil war is the stabilization of the post-conflict order in a way that fighting does not break out again. Recent empirical and theoretical work on the resolution of civil wars and on the duration of peace strongly rely on the bargaining framework of war emphasizing information asymmetries and commitment problems as main reasons for why in some states civil wars recur repeatedly, whereas in other societies a conflict ends and a transition to a peaceful society is successful. The length of peace spells depends partly on information about the distribution of power that became available during the conflict, captured by the duration and intensity of the fighting as well as the type of conflict ending. Information problems are more relevant at earlier stages and with regard to the initiation of negotiations. In finding bargaining deals and securing their implementation, the conflict parties have to overcome commitment problems. The literature has investigated in more detail third-party security guarantees and power-sharing arrangements as mechanisms to get conflict parties to credibly commit to and adhere to a negotiated agreement. Recently, empirical research moved beyond the conclusion of peace agreements to the study of their implementation. Particular challenges for a peaceful order are the demobilization of ex-combatants, which is aggravated by time-inconsistency problems, the timing of elections, and the redistribution of economic resources. Finally, solutions become more difficult in multiparty conflicts and if the armed groups are fragmented.
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SNC-Lavalin reshuffles leadership ranks, restructures amid poor performance
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As the political furor over whether SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. received special treatment from the Prime Minister dominates national headlines, the Montreal engineering and construction company has been suffering through its own, separate business drama — reshuffling much of its executive lineup this year in the face of losses and mishaps.
On Thursday, the Montreal-based engineering company announced an official restructuring of its business, and made three leadership changes adding to earlier turnover in its ranks.
The company framed the changes as an attempt to “de-risk” its business by consolidating certain business segments. It follows several damaging mishaps, including theloss of a $350-million contractin Chile earlier this month, and a cloud that moved over its oil and gas business particularly in Saudi Arabia, both of which led to major writedowns and earnings revisions.
“This new organizational structure will position us for further improving project delivery, driving sustainable growth and more consistent cash flow generation,” Neil Bruce, chief executive of SNC, said in a press release.
The company has twice slashed its profit forecasts this year and last month it reported a $1.6-billion loss for the fourth quarter. That prompted Standard & Poor’s Ratings agency to downgrade its credit from BBB to BBB minus, the lowest investment grade rating for its bonds to still be eligible for bank investment.
SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce.
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Part of its losses flowed from a dispute with the Chilean-run copper producer Codelco.
In January, Bruce said he was “deeply disappointed” in his mining team for cost overruns on the project, and the company’s chief financial officer said it would result in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Earlier this week, SNC confimed it had been fired from a $350-million contract to build acid plants for Codelco, and walked back claims that it hoped to resolve that dispute on an accelerated time frame.
That project was an engineering, procurement and construction contract, in which SNC agreed to design and build the project at a set price. Such contracts are higher risk as the company is responsible for cost overruns.
As part of the restructuring, SNC announced a new “project oversight” position to “foresee and fix project-related issues in a timely fashion,” that will report directly to Bruce.
He has stressed to investors that there won’t be any future debacles similar to what happened with Codelco on its outstanding EPC contracts.
“We have gone through 20 of our top contracts,” Bruce said during the last earnings call in February. “In terms of the work we do in this arena … we’ve done all the checks again to make sure that what we approved is what we signed and that they are on track and we don’t have anything of any similar nature whatsoever.”
This new organizational structure will position us for further improving project delivery, driving sustainable growth and more consistent cash flow generation
SNC CEO Neil Bruce
Per its restructuring on Thursday, the company is focusing on four core segments including nuclear, infrastructure, resources and lastly, engineering, design and project management, or EDPM.
It will also have a technology business, which includes clean power and cybersecurity, and its capital business, meaning six discrete units down from seven.
SNC also announced new people to lead its EDPM, capital and resources segments — the last of which combines the old mining with the oil and gas segment.
This follows the appointment of a new chief operating officer Ian Edwards in January, a replacement named to succeed him as head of infrastructure, and the planned exit of its former head of the oil and gas business unit this summer.
Meanwhile, in Ottawa, the company has faced heightened scrutiny after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testified earlier this month that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration pressured her to reach a settlement with SNC on longstanding criminal charges that it bribed Libyan government officials.
The entire situation has lead to growing speculation about whether SNC may seek to break up some of its business, and sell certain units. Market reaction to the latest news was tepid, with the price barely moving from around $34.
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Rachel Jeantel on attorney Don West: "I'll hold it back ... my parents taught me better"
Amidst the aftermath of the dramatic courtroom conclusion which saw the jury in the George Zimmerman trial return a "not guilty" verdict, on Monday evening Piers Morgan invited Rachel Jeantel to join him in studio for a face to face conversation.
With a live audience hanging on every word, Jeantel listened intently as the "Piers Morgan Live" host rolled a video clip from earlier in the evening, in which CNN's Anderson Cooper conducted his own exclusive interviewwith the juror known simply as B37:
"I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communication skills," said the juror, speaking about Jeantel. "I just felt sadness for her."
Admitting to feeling "angry" and "upset" after hearing herself described that way, Morgan's guest defended her character:
"When the state closed they're trying to explain what kind of person I am. And you can see the kind of person I am," she explained. "Out of the whole stand I never cussed out Don [West]. Even during our little back - since March."
Having seen her courtroom nemesis, the man who aggressively cross-examined her doing the trial, in the CNN hallway earlier in the evening, Jeantel took the high road:
"I'll hold it back. The only reason I have not said anything to Don Weston [sic] because my parents taught me better. As an adult you don't have the right to disrespect an adult," she explained. "Don't curse - okay I did give attitude."
Watch the rest of the clip of Morgan's exclusive interview with Rachel Jeantel, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
Post by: Elisabeth Brubaker
Pierce, I like your great passion to african americans! But have some respect for US law and a jury too!
Geo: I have great passion for people that are not lily white, but please stop with African Americans. Nobody living in this country right now, today, is African American unless they were born in Africa and moved to America and got citizenship here. To the rest of the people with more pigment in their skin, you are doing a great disservice to all by dividing this country and that is the whole problem.
Sorry to offend you, whoever you are. I was talking about Pierce and his Nnacy Grace – like shows. Also about his hate tawards american laws and justice system Those shows brain wash people like you and get you guys hatefull
What do you want to be called...black then?
abovethelies
Lizzy you have serious social issues. Geo's reply to you was right on the money. Simply reading your response it clearly indicates that you are simply too intellectually deprived to understand diversity in this country. When I refer to diversity I am NOT just suggesting skin tone.
Jax...really? What do you want to be called? Its clear that Geo like any other US citizen would like to be referred to as an American. Do we refer to others Americans for instance as Caucasians Americans? Latino Americans.....Asian Americans....Jax take a break and get a better understanding of the social dynamics of this country before commenting.
MrUniteUs
How about the term White? How divisive is that word?
c rogers
another classic example of the media starting trouble and fueling the fire. The juror DID NOT say RJ was uneducated. What she said was that she felt RJ felt intimated by her education/personal skills and that she felt bad for her. Pierce immediately jumped on the chance to ask RJ "how does that make you feel that the juror said you were uneducated"?
c Rogers, were we listening to the same juror member she called Rachel uneducated.
Seriously, I can't believe the arrogance of Piers Morgan that he sits there and twists the intention of the jurors word to basically ridicule this girl to her face and watch her reaction. This guy's quality as a journalist is similar to that of a tabloid. Where's the real Will McAvoy?
not talking about problem does not make it go away. It lays in the shadows and festers when; then where there is a stimulus it erupts! I submit that the killing of a teen by an adult was the stimulus . the media didn't cause or isn't stirring this mess! Race is a factor in American life! Always has been but I hope that someday it won't be....
C. Rodgers you "heard" what you wanted to. The juror DID say she was uneducated and felt sorry for her. Unbelievable but quite understandable when the juror actually "believed" an animated demonstration regarding the death of this teenager.
What they should have done was imagine being on the phone with a close friend, then finding out he was killed 1 minute after you last heard his voice. Not only the shock of losing a friend but thinking maybe if you or said did something different,
he would still be alive. Now add the international media coverage.
Dwayne Wall
C Roger, the juror did indicate that RJ was uneducated and even offered sympathy for this. I believe you're smart enough to recognize a candid way of making a statement because one is to coward to say just how he/she feels.
NellTick
Rachel IS uneducated.
waloso
Shame on Mr. Morgan having such an invalid and information-less circus of a show. Shame on CNN for calling itself a news channel. They should have asked the young lady what type of judicial system she would prefer.
Those that do not accept the outcome of the trial should vote for a fascist candidate that will promote execution on the whim of the public, and eliminate the judicial system all together.
Agreed. well said,this type of continued media coverage serves no purpose but to continue to stir the pot & divide our country.. and not deal with the the real issues.
Your way of thinking signals in psychology what we call denial. People of your character are in denial. They are ethnocentric and ignore that the United State is populated by a multi-ethnic society. Who dare you to judge Piers Morgan. He is a great Journalist because he is impartial. He is aware that America is a multicultural society. You need a lesson in cultural diversity to better understand other people of different background living in the US. It seems to me that you only see Caucasian as Americans . I Compare you to juror, B-37 who did not deserve to be part of a jury because she is bias. She thinks Rachel Jeantel is ignorant and at the end of the day, Jury B-37 is the one who needs knowledge in cultural diversity. Rachel Jeantel knows more about American culture than her. I compare her to you Waloso.. your are living in a Caucasian nest and ignore and disrespect other cultures around you.
Pierce doesn't truly care he is just trying to keep his show going.
Americans can have respect for the law but voice opposition to the selection of an all white (except one hispanic) jury to hear the case. Jury members have prejudices just like all Americans. What made me angry with this jury member, was her references to Jeantel and saying that they didn't give any credibility to her testimony because she's not educated and didn't understand a lot of the phrases she used. Then she made mention of that's the way "they" talk where "they" come from and their environment. You've got white women on the jury that think highly of themselves because of their husbands jobs. Her husband was a lawyer (you can imagine the types of conversations they had at their kitchen table about young blacks). She was pro defense and pro gun rights from the time the jury deliberated and you know her mouth was running to change the others minds. She said gave more weight to the uninvolved neighbor saying they were afraid from the breakins from blacks than Jeantel. I just felt the tones of racism and bias feelings towards young blacks from "their environment'. I can respect the law, but not this jury member. And Trayvon didn't stand a chance for justice with this all white and hispanic jury.
Umm so white people make up 72% of the population, therefore in a 6 person jury there should be 4 white jurors. Being off by one is not that bad of a miss. The ideal REPRESENTATIVE jury in this case would have been 4 white people, 1 black person, and 1 hispanic person. The jury really wasn't too far off of being representative
comicbookworld
What does a jury of mostly white women have anything to do with their ability to judge an alleged crime by a Hispanic man against a black man? And how do you know what these women think, how they live or what they believe? Now if the jury had been full of Hispanic men or black men the questioning its makeup would be a valid point.
when ive heard her talking the first time,i did not believe her,here is why: she tried too hard to makeTreyvon look and sound too good…ex;he was a child..he was never aggresive..he only smoked weed twice a week..he was chill…he only wanted to come home..and on and on,makes it too hard to believe that he was a stand up citizen when your own family and friends describe you cause they try hard to make you look good…and then when she was ask what does "cracka" means she said..oh..thats nothing..just a men..we call any men "cracka" really?? i know blacks call ONLY white men that..then Pierce ask her do you smoke weed?? of course she said NOOO..not me..really?? i only say what i see,and to me it looked like she was trying to hide something,then that thing about she tell him Treyvon to run cause they tought Zimmerman might be a rapist??? really?? come on!! a 17 yo boy is not a baby…Kobe went to the NBA at 17
@Jeremy – learn FL demographics: The largest Florida racial/ethnic groups are White (57.9%) followed by Hispanic (22.5%) and Black (15.2%).
Great post here, I too heard a lot of disregard for Rachel and the statements that she made which should have been crucial in the decision making process of the jury. She was the one on the phone with Trayvon, she could testify as to why he was trying to get away from someone who was stalking him. The juror said she believed everything GZ said about the case and that is why she voted the way she did. It's sad but there is no understanding of what the kid was thinking, no idea that he might have been afraid of GZ and the juror did not recognize Trayvon's right to "Stand his Ground!", after being stalked by GZ for no reason.
My comments are solely based on my opinion of the jury member's interview. When a grown adult lady wants to disregard a teenager's testimony because she's "uneducated", then I question whether or not she is racist. I doubt she would have said that about Defense Attorney's West's two blond haired teenage daughters. And I have little doubt that these older white women (most of them housewives who's husbands had good jobs) would say that they are afraid of a black teenager if they felt like they came from a low income or inner city neighborhood. I'm a white executive and hear this type of talk all the time from my professional co-workers and their spouses. If this is a trial on whether or not the jurors feel like Zimmerman was afraid or not at the time he pulled the trigger, then Trayvon never had a chance for justice with this jury. Doubt they could have got any consensus for conviction with any jury. Fortunately, civil trials don't require a unanimous decision and far less evidence. We'll see what happens.
Dave I could'nt have said it no bettter than u did.
Thoughful
Let's realize that jury selection was done by both the prosecution and the defense. The fact that the jury was made up of 6 women – none of which Black Americans – can be completely attributed to that is what the prosecution wanted. If you want to believe that the trial was not fair because of the jury makeup – blame the prosecution, not the system or the defense.
shaybill
Our country is so far removed from the American Dream, because we are not able to accept others who are different from us. We maligned Rachel Jeantel, as ignorant because she couldn't speak. She should have been viewed as the immigrant that she is – not as an IGNORANT person. In this video, her attorney was with her to help her through her nerves and this interview. I liked that she was able to remember the teachings of her parents, "To Respect Your Elders" even within the courtroom. Great interview Pierce because it showed Rachel Jeantel as a human being with emotions and respect for her familial upbringing.
piers how dare you put down Rachel just she is stupid, it is the fault of the white teachers she had ,they should have taught her the whites are to blame for everything in the world blacks have been slaves for four hundred years and we want more food stamps and more welfare benefits, and we like to steal and loot and be a thug like little 10 year old trayvon
And even though there was ample evidence that Trayvon was on top of George Z. giving him a good beating, Rachel clearly heard Trayvon say, "Get off, get off." Makes sense to me.
I can't make a commit on this site because it is biased against whites
This is something that just happened a few days ago. Where is the outcry for this man. Please look at this link and see for yourself. Again where is Rev Jackson & Sharpton and such. By the way the man being struck, is a special needs person. Yet NOBODY of color in my community has come foward to condem these actions
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/320516/483/Man-allegedly-beaten-You-broke-my-spirit-
Randy Sears
Piers Morgan is why I did not become a journalist. To be successful or popular, a journalist MUST sensationalize a subject like he did with gun control and how he's doing with the outcome of a criminal trial. Why cannot people accept the decision of a completely open trial shown on television? The FBI had already investigated this case and did not want to take it up. Piers Morgan - grow up along with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others and ACCEPT the verdict. The kid was a thug - no matter what people said - he beat the hell out of Zimmerman. Piers, what if that was YOU laying on your back getting pulmetted on each side of your head and your head bouncing off the concrete.......do you honestly not think you would have felt very, very threatened? And also, how far would Trayvon Martin had gone if he hadn't been shot? Maybe he would have very seriously injured OR killed Zimmerman. The Black community needs to accept the judicial decision and quit trying to make a saint out of the thug kid. Also, Piers Morgan, how do you justify getting so involved in American culture when YOU"RE a bloody Brit ? Go home.......leave America !
I'm still mad at the OJ Simpson verdict but you didn't see me or any other race out protesting.
OJ was found innocent of even killing anyone by the jury but yet lost in a civil court (big time) for wrongful death (which he was found innocent of killing). So lets see what happens when its a known fact that Zimmerman killed Trayvon. A wrongful death appears to easier to win – and will have a different jury.
So as Americans we should just sit back and accept whatever is decided even if we know it to be wrong. Look back to cases like the west memphis three. Three kids convicted of murdering two young boys and preforming satanic rituals with their body. Conviced with not one single shred of evidence. Two were sentenced to life in jail and the third was given the death penalty. They could have sat back and just accepted the verdict, because hey it was an open televised trial so who are they to question it. But they didn't let it go, they pushed for appeal after appeal and they are all free men today. At the same token it is clear that Zimmerman messed up here and should have been found guilty. Okay so Martin supposedly had a history of gang related activity, but there is nothing that says that he was doing anything wrong that night. You can bet your ass that if some guy followed me in his car, got out of that car and started following me on foot, and came at me with a gun that I would try to get away too, and if I couldn't I would beat him within an inch of his life to escape. Anyone who says they would do otherwise is a liar.
Yeah because that's what happened. Trayvon ran away and George hunted him down until Trayvon had to fight for his life. Did you not watch the trial at all?
Well said Bill.
trakers
bill- quite obvious we we're watching 2 different trials.. its not against the law to follow someone especially in a gated community..why did it turn violent? unfortunately, this is the answer/choice to many young male adults (black, white or any other color) .. his own friend testified that he was angry not afraid and that GZ asked him what he was doing there? She never said that TM said he had a gun at that point! his answer was by way of a fist and "beat down". Maybe if he had some respect and made a different, better choice in how to handle the situation he would be here today so thats where we should try to start to change.. the mindset of handling confrontations, the gun was drawn as a last resort. And TM history of fighting, gang activity and behavior should have and does weigh in on the choice he made..while tragic, he was 17 and he knew right from wrong but chose the wrong path in this situation.
There was no evidence of Trayvon being involved in gang related activity. Trayvon was not on trial. Zimmerman was found "not guilty" not because he was "not guilty", but because there weren't any witnesses other than the young man he killed, to what actually happened. He could have physically grabbed Trayvon to keep him from getting away; could have thrown him to the ground and Trayvon managed to free himself and get on top of Zimmerman before any witnesses appeared on scene. But Zimmerman was tried by an all white and hispanic jury. Americans have the right to free speech and most likely have the right to post Zimmerman's whereabouts on social media for the rest of his life.
Dean – You obviously did not watch the trial with an open mind to the FACTS.
There was absolutely NO EVIDENCE that Trayvon was "hunted" down. Followed to a point, absolutely.
The FACT is Trayvon had more then 4 minutes to walk 50 yards home, that is a FACT.
He chose to confront GZ, FACTS, Thank God these jurors used common sence, they knew it was GZ's voice screaming, even after all the lies from the Martin family that it was Trayvon. You cannot convict somebody based on emotion. Do I wish GZ made better decisions that night? ofcourse! Do I wish Travon made netter decisions that night? Ofcourse!
The one thing people are not speaking about is that Trayvon had every "right" to protect himself. How many of us if we're out after dark in the rain and we see someone following us. If they appoach you, are you just going to let them come at you and not defend yourself. If I'm going down I'm going down fighting. Stand your ground should go both ways. And race is in the play. If this was a black man and he shot an unarmed white boy he would be under the jail, and you know that's right.
defend against what? questions? TM wasn't afraid .. he was angry..according to the "credible" witness RJ..GZ asked him why he was there..it was a gated community that had been burglarized many times recently. listening to the interview that Piers morgan thought it was important to air with RJ only convinced me more that these young adults/teenagers feel its ok to smoke pot afew times a week, and use vulgarity, racist names and "whoop ass' when questioned.. and then it becomes a media circus b/c a man who was not raised like that, and is trying to protect his neighbors (of many races), and then must defend himself b/c he feared for his lfe? Seriously?
GMountain
At what point do you stop calling the police? If your house was broken into four times, would you not take some form of action? If you are not from that neighborhood, you are suspect..period. People keep flinging this profiling word around. If I saw two white guys standing on a street corner looking over their shoulders, and one reached into hos pocket and gave the other one something I would think it is meth. If I was a cop, I would think the same. It could be a piece of chewing gum. It's the environment we live in. The unicorns and fairies are all gone. They apparently moved to England (according to Piers).
What makes him a thug? Please give me your definition of a thug? I am a grown man and if some stranger comes and grabs me I going to defend myself. Zimmerman got beat down because he didn't identify himself. Have you ever been in a fight before? Zimmerman's head was not bashed into the concrete 12 times because he would have had a concussion. They had a fight he probably slipped and fell and a teenager was getting the best of him and he lost his cool. Those little scapes he had comes from a fight. I seen worst than that at bar fights from people of all races. His little abrasions are consistent with a fight. You perpetuate a sterotype and need to get out and see the world and education yourself.
I don't care if Trayvon was a thug, pimp,or pot head, that robot cop had no right to gun him down, The robot cop wanted to be the hero of the neighbor, but insist he is a ZERO. Killing a 17 yr old unarmed black male, And it is only one word that can decribe juro rB37 RACIST.
tmac810
Piers seems to be baiting the fire. What's up?
midwest3
RATINGS. Unfortunately, there are those viewers who cannot see past the obvious attempt to stir things up just for the sake of being watched – with no regard for the damage it does.
Bill M
Piers, you are a terrible journalist. All you do is stir the race pot. You try and turn every issue into a race issue to boost your ratings. You should be ashamed of yourself. You are dividing our nation. Go home.
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You sir are a disgrace to journalism. Please consider packing up and going back to the UK. I am sure the readers of The Sun would appreciate your sensational reporting where the facts don't seem to matter. Report facts or don't report.
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Piers needs to rethink his line of questioning here...is he frustrated that he didn't get to interview a juror. The jury has spoken and in our country we have to respect that.
The trial is over. Both sides had to agree to the jury panel. The Prosecution could have asked to have anyone excused. RACE was not the issue with the JURY!
On Rachel: Is it me or does she always look stoned? OPEN YOUR EYES!
On the verdict: It is what it is. Was OJ really not guilty? I won't debate this with anyone. I was not upset with that verdict or with this one. This is the legal system we all rely on..
Was Zimnmerman a racist? Don't know nor do I care! Did he make a poor decision leaving his car? ABSOLUTELY.... Did he murder Travon Martin? We will never really know as only one of them is here to tell his side of the story.
But one thing did irritate me about this entire trial. It was the way that Travon was portrayed as the young child. The pics shown by the media showed him at what appeared to be an age of 12, maybe 13. He apparently had a past of drugs and fighting.... it appears he was NOT the innocent young man he was made out to be....
One man has changed his life forever and ended the life of another. Is it Zimmermans fault entirely? ABSOLUTELY NOT! It is a combination of his own reaction along with how our society has evolved.
Now I am not a racist. I have Spanish friends, African American friends, European friends and of course my caucasian friends. More of my friends are considered minorities (Black and Hispanic) . There is no public outcry when a black kills a black, or a black kills a white, or a Hispanic kills a black. Why is this such a big deal? Murder is MURDER!
Lets rationalize this as a SOCIETY ISSUE, remove the RACE CARD and cure the problem by raising our children to be better people and work together to stop ALL of the VIOLENCE!
Formee
Think of how you reasoned when you were 17 years old. It don't necessary matter how you looked, fat, thin, tall or short you were 17. And it is the same for late Trayvon Martin, he was 17years old with pictures in the media or no pictures. A teenager is a teenager regardless
many teenagers are tried as adults based on the decision they make.
You got everything right except one thing. You do not have to justify yourself by naming your minority friends. It pokes holes in all of these media slimeballs and politicians and "community activists" (isn't that a play on words.) If you have to "prove" you are not a racist than anything besides your word, then they are the ones who have an issue. Isn't that the same thing as a cop pulling a group of black teens over because the color of their skin? You are white, therefore, you must prove your neutrality, hey black kids, you get a hall pass. Hypocrisy from beginning to end. Am I the only one who sees this? I would fly at my own expense to debate Piers Morgan.
Mr. Morgan is again attempting to revive his show. He has stated his views against guns. Those are his views. The softball questions to th young lady could have been answered by a baby. No disrespect to Ms. J, . But lets be very clear the world is Not against Black People. The media i.e. HLN as such would not be on the air if they did not create the news. The operative word is create, they do not report it. I ask Mr. morgan how he vetted his info. Mr. Morgan if I could find this info why didn;t you or your large staff?
Just check out this link and maybe use your so called power to get the record from the Miami Board of Ed and PD to get a real prospect of who Trayvon really was.
Gwen Sheder
Piers Morgan is guilty of race baiting. He is arrogant and is contributing to the divide in our county. I watched the interview with Rachel Jeantel. As of July 15, 2013, I will no longer watch his program. Good Luck Cnn!
Piers needs to go back to England anyway...
J.M. Travis
I totally agree with your comments. I don't respect Pierce Morgan as a journalist and as a result, I don't view CNN as an unbiased, reliable news source. I will NOT be tuning into CNN, EVEN when there are nothing but commericals on other stations. In a nutshell, watching muted commericals is preferable to what's being passed off as "news" on CNN.
Treebeard
Nancy Grace is the "Jerry Springer" of justice.
Dawn K
The juror did not say you (Rachel) were stupid. I believe was meant was none of the education you received prepared you being placed in the court room as you were. I feel I'm educated enough to hold my own in most situations, but no way would be able to in the court and attorney 'world'! I do, however, think you (Rachel) need to open your mind to what the juror and anyone else who has said something you don't like or agree with. Just as you expect, almost demand they do when it comes to you, Trayvon, and your 'generation's' way(s). Yours is not the only way.
Just because you disagree, does not make you right.
Personal note: don't have the surgery, is part of 'you', and actually, those who are your friends, family, partner... probably think is an enduring 'cute' part of 'you'.
I like what you just said in this post. Jeantel is who she is but do you know the Juror did not understand her. she was not clear to them, her communication was not clear to them. They kept quiet about it until after the verdict. Yet she was the star witness!! They should have asked for an Interpreter.
I still can't understand a word she is saying.
Dawn, she is not smart. She lied in court, and she cannot read well. A (black), I shouldn't have to mention that, but in this country, and on this issue, apparently that has more credibility, wrote an op-ed piece the day after she took the stand and he said it wasn't a race issue, or a generational one. It is an educational issue. Apparently the highschool she attended performs in the bottom quarter of reading, writing and math. I was looking for the stats, but it isn't good. Is it the school systems fault? Maybe. Regardless of what the teachers are doing for you, if you replaced just a little bit of "hanging" out time with some enlightenment time, watching news, reading, I bet you would advance yourself. That really speaks to all kids, not just the school in Miami.
Ivan Gur-Arie
Rachel Jantel was a very sympathetic person and I felt a great empathy for her. She is a human being as such has to be respected as is the right for all people regardless of race or background. However, I find that Piers Morgan is an abomination to journalism. He is stoking the race card here for his purposes whatever they may be. I agree with Robert Zimmerman who so much as said that Morgan was smearing the brother, George. Good journalism is shown by Anderson Cooper who asks question with no pre conceived notions. Piers Morgan is one of those who refuses to accept the verdict which was open and televised with no visible overtones as Morgan would have you believe. Would Morgan have felt the same way with the OJ trial where an almost wholly black jury acquitted OJ in three hours after a trial of many weeks? I want to see justice for ALL people and it does not serve any purpose to further human relations by stoking a reverse lynch mob.
This was SELF DEFENSE, not stand your ground. Piers apparently thinks it's ok for thugs to attack you and you can just stay and take a beating. I say no,....you have a right to defend yourself and if it's with a gun then so be it.
Skittles and iced tea and cough syrup = street drug called "LEAN". Also, why doesn't Piers ever mention Martins cell phone texts and pics?
And what's with the idea we need black juries for blacks? Blacks don't convict other Blacks. Blacks only convict other races. That was obvious in the OJ trial.
Piers is just a liberal. Nothing confusing about the way he thinks. He's an emotion based decison maker like most liberals. They think and decide not on logic or common sense but on emotions. People riot based on emotions as well. Emotion based decision making is very hit or miss. When you are an emotion based thinker you constantly go back to basic elements of thought, sort of like a child thinks. It's not a mature adult way of processing information.
No, Piers is a guy who came to US and wants to teach us how to live here. He forgot that we kicked them Brits out for the very reason that we don't want to live their way. Although I do drink English breakfast tea, I also carry a gun, so if any Travon will attempt to jump me, I know what to do.
Piers is just a C O N S E R V A T I V E . Nothing confusing about the way he thinks. He's an emotion based decison maker like most conservatives . They think and decide not on logic or common sense but on emotions. People riot based on emotions as well. Emotion based decision making is very hit or miss. When you are an emotion based thinker you constantly go back to basic elements of thought, sort of like a child thinks. It's not a mature adult way of processing information.
Works both ways, doesn't it ?
The juror on CNN with Anderson Cooper was VERY intelligent. Very impressive.
Molly West will go down in history as triggering a Department of Justice investigation posting a picture on Twitter of her and her dad and the most racist item identified on camera in this century. How great is today's technology? Too bad it hasn't advanced to sound recognition, but that is coming in our lifetime, identifying Trayvon's screams.
Yeah, having an ice cream with your dad makes you a racist.
Uthinkwearestupid
Don't forget very white
jenab6
I thought that Don West was very polite to Rachel Jeantel. He asked her questions about what she heard on her telephone call with Trayvon Martin on 26 Feb 2012, but he was nice about it. It was his job to find whatever answers he could. If Jeantel got made to look like a fool, then it was her own doing, not West's. I mean, really, either "creepy ass cracka" IS a racial comment or it ISN'T. One or the other. And Jeantel said it was... until West pointed out that since Martin made the comment, then all the racism must have been coming from Martin. Oops! Suddenly, "creepy ass cracka" wasn't so racial after all! How do you recognize a liar when you hear one? By identifying statements that are in conflict with each other, with the known evidence, with the laws of logic, or with the laws of nature. The moment Jeantel contradicted herself, it was obvious that she had lied once again.
DID YOU SEE DON WHITE'S DAUGHTERS MOLLY TWITTER PICTURE? Outrage. Absolute outrage. Total outrage.
I know!!!!!! Eating ice cream is just an outrage. And saying "we beat stupidity" how dare she.
Marching in the streets and rioting are perfectly ok though. Sorry Sam but I find your outrage amusing considering the facts in this case.
Don West was more patient than I would have been. I was ready for her to write her answers on a chalkboard as she was not understandable.
caralee2010
Honestly, Piers Morgan and so much of the media is fanning the flames of racism rather than dealing intelligently with facts and the law. Can they be held accountable somehow – please?
(And, by the way, I am not rejoicing in this verdict. This whole mess is a tragedy – there is no innocent person here. There is no criminal culpability – I agree with the jury on that – but that doesn't mean that both of these men couldn't have made better choices that would have prevented the whole thing.)
Did you hear the Juror on Anderson Cooper show?, they didn't understand Jeantel., the star witness. This begs the question????. The Jurors didn't make efforts to make sure the court is aware of that problem. Have seen interpreters in court for people who can't speak or speak different language. If the Jurors felt that they didn't understand Jeantel they should have asked for an interpreter.
Formee,
I don't think that the court offers an ebonics interpreter? It wasn't because of her speech impediment or medical condition but because she is unable to speak proper English. If you went to a job interview or talked to someone in a professional setting and spoke the way she did, would you be taken seriously or as creditable?
You just nailed my point exactly. This was not a job interview, neither was it an exam. All the juror and the public needed from her was her testimony. "Tell us what happened that day Jeantel".
Hi Pierce,
Mine here is a concern regarding the jurors comment on Anderson Cooper show. If the jurors did not understand what the star witness was saying are they not supposed to ask for an interpreter? It is wrong to ignore or discredit what she was saying just because they can't understand her. Her communications skills as Jeantel has explained on your show is caused by a disability. What Jeantel said on the stand matters a lot to this case and if the juror heard or understood nothing other than the cursing, then this is a mistrial. The Jurors should have voiced this concern in court, why they kept quite until after the verdict is behold me.
You realize Mr. West has spent most of his career defending criminals, the majority of which were black males. He isn't a racist.
Tonight is the first time I saw the picture West's daughter posted with the ice cream cones. Deplorable. Absolutely horribly deplorable. Totally disgusting. Shows what stereotype parenting some people give their offspring. I totally disagree with West's ugly daughter (and she IS BUTTT-UGLY BY THE WAY, DESPITE WEST'S MONEY). Well, I do agree. Jeantel beat stupidity tonight. West's homely offspring.
The only thing offensive are your attacks. Eating ice cream and supporting your father are not crimes. On the other hand the special prosecutor is being investigated for withholding evidence and not sending the case to a grand jury. The only thing ugly is your obvious racism.
Your resort to cheap personal attacks against THE DAUGHTER of one of the lawyers who represented GZ proves conclusively that you have virtually nothing of value to offer in this discussion.
Oh, and YOU CAN GUAR-AN-TEE The Department of Justice of the United States will evaluate the ice cream picture. Like Father, Like Daughter!
One more....the juror (the one to speak first that hopes by doing so her book deal will outsell the other book deals in the making) saying something like "This is the way they were brought up" about Janteal. Well, you cannot get more racist and judgmental than West's daughter and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Your the only racist I see.
I'll second Dean on that comment. I mean, if you had something principled or logical to say about this, I assume you'd say that and not wallow in personal attacks. Shoot, if you're going to do that, at least attack the lawyer, not his kid.
I'm very sorry it offends you, but this jury got it right. There was much more doubt than mere "reasonable doubt" about whether GZ committed murder or manslaughter. The only legal verdict was NOT GUILTY. The rest of this is a side show. Get over it.
Piers look at this http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracka
Bravo William.....I just posted the same comment! It's only ok for African American to use this term and turn it around for their own benefit. So typical!
I'm an outsider looking in. I'm a 62 year old white woman in British Columbia, Canada and can't believe that anyone has the audacity to say that race was not a factor in this case. That's what so obviously started it all. I accept the jury's verdict and might have also voted the same way based on the letter of the law. However, for the woman on the jury to say that race was not considered is to pretend not to see the elephant in the room as you move around trying not to have it step on you. Get real people. No way would George Zimmerman have been alerted to and following a young white teenager in a hoodie. None of us knows for certain what happened after that but if George had simply walked up to the kid and asked what he was doing in the neighbourhood, like he would have with any white kid, the whole thing would have ended differently.
Thanks to Piers for having Rachel Jeantel on tonight. Like everyone else I was amazed at how relaxed, articulate, and personable she was. I thought back to how I was running a household at her age as my mother was was in hospital dying of cancer and there were younger siblings to raise. I would've been scared spitless to have been sitting in a court room, answering questions about the last few minutes of my best friend's life. I can't say that I'd have done any better than her in spite of coming from an upper middle class background with all the resulting privileges. Tonight she shone and we all got a better picture of Treyvon through her. I don't think it would've changed the verdict and I hope that she's surrounded by people who've told her that. The letter of the law doesn't take into account what started the encounter, merely what George thought was happening, and how it all ended up. It doesn't make it right, but that wouldn't make it the first case in the history of the law would it?
The people on here who want to believe that race wasn't involved are as blind as the nearly all-white jury. When you're in the middle of the situation, can you really see what's going on? I don't come from a race-free country but I sure as hell recognize when race has entered the equation and so should you.
Yup, George is such a racist, he went to his senior prom with a black girl.
Keep swallowing the media garbage.
Missee
Ms. Cyhtia, Well said! I probably would have chosen man slaughter for other reasons, such as who takes a gun to go to targets,...the statement all alone "they always get away" indicated to me that his mind set was, not tonight. It is my strength that in this situation I stand on...I was guilty of sin, yet Christ forgave me. I believe he could have handled that situation a whole lot better, but I do not hold any ill will in my heart for him.
Love you piers..I am a 26 year old mixed female. I appreciate this interview but honestly, I wish the star witness had been able to articulate her point better. I did clearly hear though, her point about trayvon possibly thinking zimmerman may have been a rapist, how could the defense look over this?! therefore, trayvon was using self defense.....the media we are exposed to these days as a whole really makes us all paranoid about one other. So what is self defense against self defense? It's almost like a duel...how would you charge that?
Hmmm, never mind, I know.
I couldn't hear what she was saying and I was trying to. I didn't make out that part about rapist.
Was it reasonable to suspect Zimmerman was a rapist? Is there a bunch of 28-year-old Hispanic males raping 17-year-old boys? The answer to both is no. Just because you think something doesn't make it reasonable. Now if someone punches you in the face and is then on top of you punching you and your head is slamming against concrete, then it is reasonable to fear grave bodily injury.
One, the defense didn't miss anything, but I think you meant the prosecution.
Two, self-defense against self-defense wouldn't matter. In the matter of self-defense the aggressor is what really matters, one who has either verbally expressed serious threat and is advancing giving you reason to believe they will act on those threats, or one who has engaged in actual physical violence upon you causing you to fear for your life. No matter which occurred, there would always have been reasonable doubt. No matter how you spin it, the evidence provided a ton of reasonable doubt, and if anything at all, far more reason to believe Zimmerman's account.
Sally MJ
I saw Jeantel's testimony. Mr. West was very thorough and specific with Jeantel. And sometimes confused – but he was never rude or mean. If she was embarrassed, it had nothing to do with West.
Agreed. It had to do with the fact that she is not educated, and according to her twitter account, she smokes weed everyday. Great star witness. I wouldn't let this lady mow my lawn no less be a witness in a murder trial. This is one of the most ignorant people I have ever had the pleasure of listening too.
Mr Morgan I dare you to say you love the USA that you be proud to be one of us,. you can not say this can you? for this is why you are here and why you are doing this to our country. you love England and this is all plan to harm us isn't it, you never say any thing nice about us or our country ever. tonight was all about our court got it wrong isn't it, sick so sick.
How can you people be so stupid? Molly West alone started a Justice investigation.
Molly West was just supporting her father for doing his job in defending Zimmerman.
Piers, go back to your miserable UK. We don't need you here. We don't need you to tell us about guns or justice in America. This is why we're Americans and you are not. YOu want to live UK way – go and live there
Soldier Maley
I am so sick of hearing about teens being children. When I was 13 I was a young adult in High School. When I was 17 I was a High School Graduate, old enough to be a United States Soldier in the Army to defend my country... a 17 year old is AN ADULT ! ! ! An 18 year old is able to pick the President of the most powerful country in the world. Yes as a SEVENTEEN year old I was an ADULT.
So America, stop trying to baby our adults and make them responsible for their actions; as I was held accountable for mine. 17 year olds are NOT babies...
Youthinkwe are stupid
So you think at 17 you are grown huh? You joined the military at 17 huh? Riddle me this did your parent(s) have to sign for you to join due to your age? Before you answer you should know that you are addressing someone that knows the answer. So by American standards NOT YOURS 17 is still a child.
Piers I dare you to air this comment: I am so sick of hearing about teens being children. When I was 13 I was a young adult in High School. When I was 17 I was a High School Graduate, old enough to be a United States Soldier in the Army to defend my country... a 17 year old is AN ADULT ! ! ! An 18 year old is able to pick the President of the most powerful country in the world. Yes as a SEVENTEEN year old I was an ADULT.
Steve Krause
For a girl that didn't want to get involved in the trial...for a girl that didn't want to testify...for a girl that didn't want to be in the spotlight...why is she doing national interviews now?
Simply put, she is just a big/fat liar!
Piers is an idiot for trying to capitalize on a tragedy. Piers, if you hate América so much, go back to your own country. Most "REAL" Américans don't welcome your ilk in this country, anyway.
As for Rachel Jeantel, as a minority, I feel she is an embarrassment to the Black community. If she was a little more intelligent, she would shot her huge trap!!!
Here is another fact that the biased media and willfully ignorant and racist populace choose to overlook.
The need for Trayvon Martin to feel sufficiently paranoid to lash out violently in the way Zimmerman and eye witnesses claim. This is important because a street drug that is popular in the young urban community known as Purple Drank or Lean produces those very side effects.
Purple Drank or Lean is a coctail that is created by mixing Robitussin or other over-the-counter cough medicines with, you guessed it, Skittles and Arizona Watermelon Juice, the flavor of tea Trayvon Martin was carrying that night.
Purple Drank also goes by other street names such as sizzurp, lean, syrup, sip sip, drank, barre, purple jelly and Texas tea. It has opiate like effects. Some of its side effects include confusion, agitation, and hallucinations among others.
Sad day in America
What's so frustrating about this case is the blatant disregard for Trayvon Martin as a human being with every right to go where he pleases and to be a teenager who makes mistakes. I would challenge any parent of a teen (especially young boys in Trayvon's age range) to tell me that life with a teenager is all peaches and cream. He's dead and yet it's his life (life style) that many are focusing on. Was this jury told to disregard all of the facts leading to his shooting and only focus on the end result? I listened to the juror who spoke to Anderson Cooper last night who admitted that she didn't understand Rachel at times. Does that mean you discount her testimony or do you ask the judge for clarification? Was this done in this case? A sinking ship will eventually drawn everyone on board. 1 John 4:20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
george john
Pierce Morgan goes too far in his erroneous reporting of the George Zimmerman case. Morgan is himself prejodice and VERY partial.
I won't watch CNN because they permit this type of NON news trash !
Piers – you are a pompous ass! you call this good reporting? you are one of the many ring leaders in this media circus! that being said, having watched the interview, I am more convinced that GZ acted appropriately, your guest said that its ok in her world that using racist language is not only acceptable but expected, smoking pot a few times a week was normal? and that TM was not afraid but he was angry and merely giving GZ a "whoop ass" so wasn't this exactly what the defense was saying? the only difference was TM was expecting to come out the winner and not expecting a gun. My answer is if you are afraid you run, you hide or seek help, you don't confront, and use violence. why didnt he ring someone's bell? why didnt he go home or call the police as GZ did? insetad of asking questions fairly, it is clear that you want to keep this going to secure your pathetic job..RJ, a credible witness, really? she said whatever the prosecutor wanted her to say and got tripped up when she couldnt remember..why didnt you ask her about being a racist?
LittleMo
There are a few hard questions here that no one really wants to face. When Trayvon noticed he was being followed bhy did ht turn around and confront George Zimmerman? Why didn't he keep walking and call 911? Why didn't he knock on someone's door and ask them for shelter or to place the call? If he was really scared why didn' the run? Why turn around and ask GZ "why are you following me?" Houses had been broken into around that complex and TM had no way of knowing of GZ was trouble any more than GZ knew of Trayvon was trouble. Biggest thing – why did Trayvon strat the fight – and he had to – he was on top when the trigger was pulled.
As for Rachel Jeantel, if her behavior on the stand was that of someone whose parents "taught her" then that is a girl is is stlil in dire need of raising.
Marget Turner
I watched Jeantel's testimony and it was clear to me that there was a history with Don West. Indeed, he did depose her back in March and given Jeantel's disposition towards him during the trial there is no doubt West was below the belt cruel-he bullied her relentlessly during deposition. By contrast during the trial his cross examination of her, while not directly harsh, was certainly patronizing–and she felt trapped–she tried her best to protect herself from being bullied by this man and to let us and the jury know he would stoop to any level needed. West absolutely expolited her vulnerabilities. What kind of man is West that he raises a daughter who has such utter disregard for people that she would tweet "we beat stupidity?" Perhaps she is just "Trash come to town" for the first time. Her parents should have reared her better
She is unable to make 1 complete sentence grammatically correct. She was the STAR witness? Joke. Do not tell me this was a racial issue. She is as dumb as a box of rocks. Serve her right to get such horrible criticism.
@ Marco-It would be grammatically correct to say "serves her right" not "serve her right". Only a problem since you are making a critique of someone else's grammar. But since you brought the topic up--correct grammar has nothing to do with truth-it is just window dressing. While it would have been nice had Jeantel been able to articulate what she heard and perceived a little better-–the truth of the matter is that Jeantel did know and Zimmerman had to admit that he was absolutely following Trayvon. Trayvon did not do one thing to lead Zimmerman to reasonably rationalize that Trayvon was up to cause harm to the point he needed to be followed by a citizen with a loaded weapon. I do not have a problem with guns. I have a problem with losers who have guns.
Mr. Morgan????? What do you think you are accomplishing by being so far left on every single viewpoint and fanning the flames on this George Zimmerman verdict! Just heard you say "Rachel was clearly a smart cookie"? Can you not see she was all dolled up and clearly had been coached before your interview? You make the comment about NOT injecting gun control and in the same sentence say George Z (your White Hispanic) acted like some gun toten action hero from TV because he had a concealed carry permit and protected himself?
Have you ever considered for even a moment that George Z could be telling the absolute truth and what Trayvon could have conceivably did to George if he didn't end the fight with that pistol? Brain damage or death maybe? Is it nice to live in a fantasy world like yours? You are a disgrace to America and hate everything that makes America great. You should be sued for fanning the flames and causing Trayvon supporters to Riot and damage people and property.
I recently retired after 29 years in the Army and know a little bit about human nature and the reality of conflict. You seem pleasantly clueless as to what it means to be American. We are not perfect but we are free to succeed or screw up unlike most countries of this world. For just once support the good guys, White people are not all KKK members and gun freaks merely because they are conservative.
You are the apitemy of "White Guilt" you never challenge any minority or far left guest but you have disdain for someone that makes rational sense like Mr Zimmerman's brother that put you in your place several times during interviews. If I were him I would cancel also since you wil never have an open mind for conservative viewpoints. Thanks for listening...
1. you carry a loaded gun (equalizer)
2. you pick a fight
3. you begin to lose the fight you started
4. you scream for help to get yourself out of the situation that you started
5. no one helps you to extricate yourself from the mess you created
6. you pull your equalizer and kill the person who's getting the best of you
7. a young life is snuffed out
8. you claim self defense
9. a jury of your peers declare you not guilty
10. only God knows – pray for Peace
Disgusted,
#2 not proven. If this was true the entire outcome at trial is different. It really comes down to this.
mbrigg
Pierce – news item in the local Phiily newspaper today – "10 Murders in City Since Saturday". When will you and your guests express your outrage be over this? Or do you and your liberal commentators just accept black on black murders as normal business and no need to get involved? If you and your guests truly cared about how minorities are treated , you would cover this topic but NO ONE – including Rev Al, NAACP, Jessie Jackson and your quests – care about it because it is not as newsworthy are a Hispanic shooting a Black in a self defense case.
Would you feel the same way or make the same comments if the roles and races were reversed in this case? My guess is probably not. Just relax.....
Texas Justice
Piers Morgan is not fair and balanced, his journalism is so, so skewed. First, he has Robert Zimmerman on Sunday night and he gets his lunch handed to him. He tried the old bait and switch, and Zimmerman was not buying it and put Morgan in his place. Then last night , Morgan interviews Rachel Jentel and surrounds her with an audience (never see that before) that is so pro Trayvon Martin. Morgan....get over it. The jury has spoken...and found Zimmerman not guilty. He may be not innocent, but only God knows that. I do have some advice for you though....go back to England.
brasstacs
Zimmerman was found not guilty by a jury from the evidence shown in a fair trial....End of story...If it were a black man who killed a white man this wouldn't even be news...there would be no public out cry, no rallies,no nothing except being just another statistic....Journalist with the tabloid style of Piers Morgan like to keep fanning the flames,from this story ..not because Morgan really gives a damn, but for ratings and controversy... Morgan is exploiting this tragedy for his own gain,and "milking" this story for everything he can get...proving even further what a contemptible a$$ he really is. He doesn't care that the proven innocent Zimmerman will always be looking over his shoulder and his life could be in danger..and the enormous expense that Zimmerman has for legal fee's...all because this story was made political and exploited by the media and by people like Morgan..Pathetic
You are correct that if it were a" black man that killed a white man" this wouldn't be news. Its also clear that if this were as you suggested the black man would have been arrested immediately. The bottom-line this wasn't as you suggested and we will never know. Its very sad that a teenager lost his life. Personally I don't believe that GZ is racist, a bigot or a "bad" person but I do believe that he was wrong in using deadly force. Yes the jury found him not guilty and GZ will have to find peace with God.
Abovethelies...I too believe that GZ is not a racist,however I disagree with you about Zimmerman using deadly force...Travon Martin was a scraping 17 year old who was over 6 ft tall and athletic who sucker punched Zimmerman breaking his nose and knocking him down,and then according to the evidence was slamming his head into the cement.....I'll remind you of the FBI statistic that more people are killed each year by bare hands then by rifles...any kind of rifles including what is called assault rifles...So what would you do if a bigger guy was on top of you and beating the crap out of you ??..I have no doubt that Zimmerman feared for his life and neither did the jury..thus the use of deadly force was justified...And I'll also ask what would a cop have done if this kind of attack was against him/her ??
How do you know they were in your words "Pro-Martin"? Not everyone in the audience spoke nor did everyone "cheer" on Rachel. Based on your comments its obvious that you are biased which is apparently what you are claiming Piers is guilty of. Actually you need to "get over it"....
fubarobama
LOL..this is the best that piers morgan could get on his show..hilarious..this woman cant but 2 words together and Piers holds her in high regard..thats all you need to know about piers
Bigoted comments....Does that make her a bad person or are you simply stating a point of view from the eyes of a bigot? Who cares if she can't "put two words" together that you can understand. There are many people like her in this country and it has NOTHING to do with the pigmentation of their skin. However, I am glad you shared with us your higher level of intellect.
abovethelies....
you have got to be the most gullible person alive...if you don't think that staged audience was not pro Martin. Take off your blinders. Yes, and you are right, I do have a bias with unfair journalism. If you think Piers Morgan is fair and balanced then you are as blind as him.
AGAIN I ask you....Did everyone speak in the audience? Did everyone cheer at every word she spoke? Unfair journalism is in the eye of the beholder......I didn't see an ALL pro-Martin audience. If you aren't satisfied with Pier then I recommend you turn to FOX network instead. I'm not anymore gullible then you are biased. The jury decided on the evidence presented to them and GZ will have to make peace with Go; not CNN, you or I.
I give up.....you like the kool-aid....then keep on drinking it.
Peace with GOD........
Koolaid.....really???....Coming from a self=proclaimed "Texas Justice" ....I take that as a compliment......If you don't like what's being reported on a network then change channels......
Its really bothering me that Piers Morgan is not defending the judical system.. these jurors didnt ask to be a part of this trial, they gave up their time with their families and their lives are forever changed. Now they are being questioned? they followed the evidence and the law, pure and simple! Remember in a trial, its a jury of the defendant's peers not the victim.. TM supporters you can't have it both ways, not have the victim on trial but have a jury of peers that would clearly not be neutral.
Piers Morgan, why not do a show about how many young black males have died at the hand of other black men, and to simplify it.. since this shooting occured? the numbers are shocking and devasting, why aren't al sharpton and jesse jackson walking for all those men? better yet, how about all the soldiers, of all races that are dying to give us the very freedom we exist under, a rally or walk for them ? disgrace!
Sadly, in that interview she confirmed everytghing that's been said about her.
Well this latest news now that she gave the suggestion to Travon he might be a rapist, that could explain Travons fear and why he reacted so quickly to punch out George. From what I've been reading she say he might be a gay rapist. Also if Travon was high on weed and that suggestion comes through to him it hightened his fear. Maybe if she would of said just run home and get out of there this would of never happened as well. Thoughts.
tyfuller11
Jurors come to the judicial process with ingrained thought patterns and prejudices. They do not become animatrons once deliberations begin and suspend all of their base beliefs to interpret the evidence. The fact that the juror felt compelled to mention she felt sad for her because of her perceived inadequacy tells more about the juror than Rachael. We pity those we feel superior to, or are glad we aren't.
tyfuller11 – most definitely agree with you. well said.
Really? Are you sure about that statement? Have you ever experienced being a juror? One thing you would know is someone is assigned as the one who keeps things honest and it's not easy to remind everyone hey "we have to use only the evidence presented not our OPINIONS or so called PREJUDICES " only Facts nothing else no matter what we personally may feel or believe WE ARE SWORN IN TO AN OATH and we can be held in contempt of court if WE don't follow the rules of the court. These 6 jurors were sworn in and had to abide by the LAW as it is stated on the books for FL. They had to follow steps to convict or not to convict according to the Judge and I suspect if they pursued this decision without bias but as a servant to the Judicial System then the verdict that was rendered was done so according to Law and Statutes for the state of FL.
Piers' issue is with guns, even if used legally. He doesn't care about blacks, the judicial system, or anything else except his own agenda.
The homeowners association where Zimmerman murdered Trayvon already settled out of court and paid the Martin family $1,000,000.00 dollars. The home owners had to pay for Zimmerman's actions.
Jeantel certainly hasn't missed a meal
MajorVariola
She admits in her "urban community", Martin was administering "whoop-ass". They take physical assault very lightly. She continues to convict Martin.
It is not so hard to figure out that racism and ethnic discrimination exist in America. Just read the comments on all these American news sites. Blacks are treated like second class citizens and considered America's problem. The brunt of racism was experienced by Rachel Jeantel for being different. Look at all these people GNAWING and PAWING at Rachel like she is some BEAST.
People do that all the time, to folks of all colors and creeds, when they are made into public figures as she has been. She is probably getting it a bit worse at the moment for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is the high emotions revolving around the case.
That said, she isn't educated. She isn't a good speaker. That's not an inference based on her skin color, that is a fact you glean from listening to her speak. Why can't we even say the truth? She isn't a good speaker. FACT. Could she be one day? I'm sure she could, with practice and dedication she could become good at it, just like anyone. Acting like she is at least average, or "just fine", is a disservice to the young woman. I hope that's not what her teachers have been telling her just so they can move her along.
Jim: listen to yourself speak. Are you unemployed and have all day here at the boards? You have nothing good to say about Rachel. Face it.
Jim, the nails of your paws are getting too dull from too much pawing at Rachel.
When did he change his name to Don Weston?
Rachel has a BITE problem so pronouncing words and names are a problem for her.
none ya
RJ had a gun to sell to TM. The defense team had this text message but wasn't allowed to put it in as evidence. That's why RJ was afraid to be on the stand for fear she was going to have to explain.
TM was using RJ. She was doing dirty work for him. It's all in the text messages that wasn't allowed into evidence. She is getto smart and book dumb.
cookiemnster
Gosh, what restraint Jeantel shows! She didn't curse out nobody while testifying in a murder case. Awesome job!
Ray Satterwhite
Most of the discussion that I have read and/or participated in, since the Martin decision was rendered, centers on everything but the facts. I have previously stated that opinions are like certain body parts. Everyone has one and some people are one. So here's mine. Once Zimmerman chose to ignore the instructions of the 911 dispatcher not to pursue Martin, he was no longer under the umbrella of protection afforded by being a Neighborhood Watch volunteer. He was on his on with no right to do what he was doing. Regardless of any social perspective Trayvon Martin may have had of George Zimmerman, he had every right to "stand his ground" against Zimmerman's unknown intentions. He was under no obligation to verbally or physically respond to any command Zimmerman may have given. Zimmerman's apparent plan of subduing Martin fell apart when Martin took him to the ground. Based on Zimmerman's training and ambitions, he was a want to be Officer of the law and couldn't make the grade, I believe he was on a mission to prove himself worthy. I think Zimmerman is guilty of manslaughter. I think if Trayvon Martin had killed Zimmerman in self defense the decision would have been a resounding united verdict of manslaughter.
Ray, Where did you get your so called facts? They are skewed at best there was no evidence saying that Zimmerman still pursued Trayvon once he was told not to. You obviously believe the lie that Zimmerman got out of his truck after the 911 dispatcher said he didn't need to follow the suspect? The trouble with that is Zimmerman was already out of his truck when he talked to the dispatcher and said "Ok" when he was asked not to pursue the suspect. Something went terribly wrong in the next few minutes that forever changed the lives of two men as well as the tapestry of America. According to the trial the jury can ONLY rule on FACTS not opinion or hearsay if the lawyers had presented FACTS to back up their charges then we would have seen a different outcome since they didn't we are left with this outcome.
Sam Fisher
Oh but her parents didn't teach her how to conduct herself in a court of law? She is a disrespectful, lying, and uneducated person.
Rachel said on Piers Morgan last night that Trayvon smoked weed about "twice a week" and flapped her gums about a few other things. I don't think this is the kind of information Trayvon's mom want to hear. The more I think about it, it's because of being around people like Rachel is one of the reasons why Trayvon's mom sent him to his father in Sanford.
media parasites
It is disgusting, how this poor, ignorant, and uneducated child is being taken advantage of the media. They are a disgrace and so are her parents for not teaching her how to speak properly. Who will ever take this girl seriously? Who would ever hire a mess like this? She is in for a long, hard life. Instead of blaming her parents for her ignorance, I'm sure she'll blame society.
starkisa
A thought for Piers Morgan
You have people speculating about the change in Rachel's demeanor and personality on your show compared to what it was in the courtroom. Using your your investigative nature, why not discuss the probability that what accounts for the difference is that she was prepped and coached? Any reasonable person that was told how they portrayed such a poor image on national TV will certainly go to extremes to correct that the next time they appear on TV. My intuition is worthless in legal terms but it appears obvious to me that she was self-playing the role of a different character on your show than she was in the courtroom. It didn't seem genuine at all.
flavaflav
What a waste of human breath,,she has contributed NOTHING to society. Typical taker and no contributor. squirted out 3 puppies w/ 3 different men,,,uneducated by her own fault. now she is going to get a free ride,,,,,what a joke. she has or never had any intentions of bettering herself. this case has gone to her head (like most uneducated black people). she represents the trash of haiti. come here and do nothing but get free crap and be a fat, nasty bum. society fail!!!!
estherundermates
This is just pathetic. This poor woman, obviously a product of our fabulous public school system, spoke a language? that did not remotely resemble English, hell, that isn't even eubonics. No way you understood a thing she said, though I did notice her fondness for saying whoop asssssssssss. She did no good for herself, the Martin family. She is a sad pathetic mess, a product of the hood/ghetto whatever and you should be ashamed for exploiting this woman for ratings. Another not so shining moment for you, Mr. Morgan.
How about you do real shows, about the real problems in America, CRIME IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS. BLACK ONBLACK. Chicago, Detroit, LA, every major metro city. WHEN WILL YOU COVER THIS???? MURDER EVERDAY AND THE MEDIA IGNORES IT. ENDLESS MURDER/CRIME AND YOU WON'T COVER IT.
Shame on you, CNN, and every other network that refuses to cover the real crime going on daily.
If not, please do us a favor and go back to UK. Just try not to get drawn and quartered walking down the street 'cause you and got no guns and aint no stand your ground in jolly old England.
Do you support summer jobs programs and cancelling the sequester.
90% of Blacks arrested are unemployed.
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October 10, 2018 – Meeting of PIPA members after the press conference
Posted on 17 October 2018 by PIPAWORLD
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PIPA press conference on 10 October 2018 in Paris – after the decision of the Court of Cassation against the certifier TUV RHEINLAND
PIPA press conference on 10 October 2018 – preparations before the decision of the Cour of Cassation – Paris
10th October 2018: a great victory for PIPA and PIP patients: the French Supreme Court (“Cour de cassation”) rules in favour of the victims and against the certificator TÜV RHEINLAND
Wednesday, October 10, 2018, Paris
PIP breast implants case: the decision of the French Supreme court confirms the responsibility of the certifier TUV Rheinland and gives hope to thousands of victims around the world
By an expected decision today, the French Supreme court (“Cour de cassation”) overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal which, incomprehensibly, had cleared the German certifier TUV Rheinland in 2015.
According to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal neglected essential elements, and made a mistake in not holding TUV liable, despite the proof provided of the failure of its controls. The highest French court ruled in the same way as the judges of the Toulon Commercial Court who, on three occasions, ordered the German group to compensate PIP victims.
With this scathing disavowal of TUV’s strategy, the French Supreme Court is paving the way for the world’s largest collective trial.
This is a decisive step in the search for liability that three distributors had began eight years ago through their French lawyer Olivier Aumaitre. The latter has since founded an association bringing together more than 15,000 patients and a collective of international lawyers at the service of victims (PIPA – PIP Implant World Victims Association : www.pipaworld.com).
Several thousand new victims have already mandated PIPA to conduct new proceedings before the Commercial Court, the first hearing of which is scheduled for 17 December 2018. PIP victims can join this legal action until that date.
For Olivier Aumaitre, at the origin of the proceedings against TUV, “the Court of Cassation renders a decision in accordance with the law, fair and consistent with the objective elements of the case which are devastating for TUV. It validates all the actions we have taken since 2010 and which we have pursued against all odds for the past 8 years in the interests of the victims”.
This is a victory not only for the victims but also for the European Union. This historic decision will force certifiers and their insurers to be particularly vigilant in their controls of medical devices. This self-regulation will have a virtuous effect by strengthening the safety of CE-marked products.
For Olivier Aumaitre, this is “a good decision for the consumer whose interests and health are protected by the European system and for the European economies, which are partly based on the reputation of CE marking“.
“This is a complete failure of the arrogant and threatening strategy of the German certifier, who showed a deep contempt for the victims, and who preferred to spend millions of euros unnecessarily on lawyers’ fees and on communication and denigration operations, rather than assume its responsibilities by repairing what was reparable,” said Mr. Aumaître, who is considering criminal action against TUV for attempting intimidation and blackmail of his clients.
“We call on TUV to change its attitude and to grasp the hand offered from the beginning by the distributors. TUV must now immediately compensate the victims. Indeed, the pathologies developed by PIP patients are often heavy (inflammation of the lymph nodes, contamination of different organs by the blood, etc.). The longer we wait, the worse the situations get. If TUV has shown no empathy for these victims, it is to be hoped that the financial risk will make them see reason, as the final bill may increase over time,” adds Cedric Joachimsmann, a former distributor of PIP implants, who first held TUV Rheinland liable.
As the average compensation should be between €10,000 and €20,000 per patient, according to initial indications from the courts, the total bill should amount to €6 billion for TUV Rheinland.
“We invite TUV to contribute the first billion to the European compensation fund that we are calling for in a petition. The majority of patients around the world still have to claim compensation. We intend to continue the fight, through the PIPA organization for the 400,000 victims around the world,” says Cedric Joachimsmann.
Petition on Change.org:
https://chn.ge/2xItQRg
About PIPA :
PIPA is a digital platform designed to facilitate the handling of victims’ compensation claims and is supported by an international network of partner lawyers specializing in litigation. Tehy are the first to have initiated compensation proceedings in France for PIP implant victims.
Since 2010, this task force has represented and defended more than 15,000 PIP implant patients on all 5 continents and in 2017 obtained an order for TUV RHEINLAND to pay their clients a record provisional compensation of nearly 60 million euros.
In 2018, more than ever, the fight continues.
https://pipaworld.com/
PIPA expands its network of lawyers dedicated to defending PIP victims
Pierre-André Watchi-Fournier is a French lawyer. He has been involved in the PIP file since 2010 with Olivier Aumaître. He officially joined PIPA as PIPA’s correspondent in Toulon and Aix-en-Provence.
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“Those eyes are like dark hooks for the soul,” says Sir Thomas Boleyn of his daughter Anne in The Tudors. I must confess that I am awaiting March 30th anxiously, for that is the date that Showtime’s addictive saga The Tudors returns for its second season. Those of you fortunate enough to see season one already know why this is a date worthy of celebration. It is much akin to Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, an adaptation of an English king that was worthy of at least two cinematic viewings alone. The St. Crispen’s Day speech was everything Shakespeare could have possibly intended when he penned those magnificent lines:
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few,
Just remembering that scene still gives me chills . . .
But back to The Tudors. It is breathtaking in its own right, and makes me yearn to be in a Shakespearean seminar. Henry VIII is played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and he is nothing like Richard Burton’s stocky, hammy Henry of Anne of a Thousand Days. This Henry is sexy, menacing, brooding, and has enough hubris to be believable. The characters major and minor are wonderfully cast, the writing rich, the setting palatial but time-appropriate. Not that I am a film critic.
The wonderful thing about having On Demand cable is that I was able to catch up on season 1 in one week. That’s not to say that it didn’t make me sleep-deprived, but it was a sacrifice I’d gladly make again. I even managed to turn my husband into a Tudors’ junkie. I’m thinking of watching the last few shows again just before the 30th just to refresh my memory so that I’ll be in peak viewing shape when the curtain rises on season 2, just after Wolsley has gotten his just desserts.
Just in case you might be wondering why on earth I’m writing about a television series on a blog about writing, then you obviously haven’t seen this series. Each show leaves me breathless and wishing that I had written just a few lines of the dialogue, such as the one with which I opened this entry. How often have you wanted to describe someone’s eyes but been unable to find just the right words? Have you ever thought to use the word hooks? I know that I haven’t. So I’ll keep watching and listening with my ears attuned to the words as they tumble out of the actors’ mouths like ripened fruits, moist and luscious, wishing that I could taste them so that I could better know them, how to access them. To write like that, to be part of the few, the happy few . . .
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How can a beta-sheet peptide be both a potent antimicrobial and harmfully toxic? Molecular dynamics simulations of protegrin-1 in micelles
Allison A Langham, Himanshu Khandelia, Yiannis N Kaznessis
Institut for Fysik, Kemi og Farmaci
Udgivelsesdato: 2006-null
https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.20397
Udgivet - 1. jan. 2006
Micelles
Molecular Dynamics Simulation
protegrin-1
beta-Strand Protein Conformation
Bibliografisk note
Copyright 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Langham, A. A., Khandelia, H., & Kaznessis, Y. N. (2006). How can a beta-sheet peptide be both a potent antimicrobial and harmfully toxic? Molecular dynamics simulations of protegrin-1 in micelles. Biopolymers, 84(2), 219-231. https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.20397
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1-2 Broadgate EC2M 2QS
1-2 Broadgate Office Space - EC2M 2QS
This ultra smart business centre occupies one of the City of London's most unique mixed-use corporate environments, and offers contemporary office space, easy-to-book meeting rooms and a newly refurbished reception area. Located on the second floor of One Broadgate, the business centre would suit any company working in financial services or other sectors of the service industry. This centre offers all-inclusive pricing, so you can move in with peace of mind that there will be no unexpected costs each month. There is 24-hour access available to tenants, as well as an excellent range of amenities.
Serviced from £343 per person per monthCoworking from £169 per person per monthVirtual from £103
18-20 Appold St EC2A 2AS
18-20 Appold St Office Space - EC2A 2AS
This office space is strategically situated inside a former Victorian furniture warehouse placing you and your team in a location brimming with character. The building features many original features including exposed brick walls, Crittall windows, and wood floors. Many useful and meaningful amenities are included at this location, such as; a communal kitchen area, lounge space, library and quiet space, and showering facilities! All business essentials are, of course, included. Members have 24/7 building access so you will not be confined to traditional business hours. Personalised access cards provide you with peace of mind. High-speed WiFi is available to make sure your working week runs smoothly. Every detail has been carefully considered so that you can hit the ground running from the day you move in.
Serviced from £1118 per person per month
Appold Street EC2M 7PY
Appold Street Office Space - EC2M 7PY
For those looking for the flexibility of working at home, but still want the feel of their office, these purpose-built pods fuse together both requirements and offer an innovative workspace solution that will be installed in your garden or any pre-agreed location. Available in a range of sizes and styles - with the traditional office set-up or a meeting room style models available - the pods come furnished and fully equipped with everything you need for your working day. The built in electrical system provide LED lighting, ventilation, heating and power sockets. The pod itself is made from durable steel and comes double glazed and will withstand the elements during colder months.
Serviced from £250 per person per month
2FA - 2 Finsbury Avenue Square EC2M 2PG
2FA - 2 Finsbury Avenue Square Office Space - EC2M 2PG
Taking its place in the heart of Broadgate, this new centre boasts eight floors of raw, contemporary space with cutting edge design. Award-winning architects are behind the centre's impressive style, which is a stunning contrast between traditional wood panelling and cool, stylish black flooring. Offices are open plan in layout and fresh, and the centre's magnificent roof terrace provides an alternative space to work, relax or have some fun postwork. The centre has state of the art technology, with a WIREDSCORE Gold rating. There is also a dedicated community manager, 24hr access, WiFi throughout and sound proofed phone booths.
1FA - 1 Finsbury Avenue EC2M 2PF
1FA - 1 Finsbury Avenue Office Space - EC2M 2PF
Due to open its doors very soon, this Broadgate-based centre brings a unique design which contrasts and industrial, rugged style with contemporary elements. The centre boasts stunning metal beams and clashes this with glasswork and wood floors. Tenants will be sure to be impressed with the incredible central atrium, as well as the roof terrace - an ideal space to chill or mix up your working environment. The Grade II listed building has lots of natural light and communal areas which makes for a productive atmosphere. The building is also accessible 24 hours a day, meaning you can work late into the night if needs be, as well as a fantastic onsite team on hand to answer any queries you may have.
4 Crown Place EC2A 4BT
4 Crown Place Office Space - EC2A 4BT
Offices and shared workspace are arranged over seven floors at 4 Crown Place. Options at this modern co-working space include small one-, two-, four- and six-person suites and larger 40- and 60-person offices. Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business or an established company with a bigger team, you will find a sophisticated workspace with bright décor and contemporary furnishings. Companies from various sectors work together in this collaborative and friendly environment. On-site supports link businesses with investors, suppliers and clients to help your business grow. Features includes beautiful outdoor terraces and comfortable breakout areas for informal meetings and breaks. Telephone and Skype booths are available for private discussions, while fully-equipped meeting rooms provide professionals spaces for discussions with your team or clients. There are also showers and bike storage for active commuters that run or bike between home and the office.
Serviced from £542 per person per monthCoworking from £542 per person per month
ALPHEUS BUILDING EC2M 1NB
ALPHEUS BUILDING Office Space - EC2M 1NB
This business centre is situated in a prime area of London and the extraordinary office exceeds the expectations of a normal work space. The building is an impressive 19th-century Edwardian structure that has been newly refurbished and offers private desks, business lounges and event spaces that have been beautifully designed. The flexible work space is filled with an abundance of natural light and chic decor. The building boasts a stunning outdoor terrace, where tenants can get fresh air. Located in a vibrant London area, there are numerous places to go for lunch and great transport links within walking distance.
Serviced from £720 per person per monthCoworking from £319 per person per monthVirtual - Call for latest price
2nd EC2M 7UH
2nd Office Space - EC2M 7UH
This beautiful Grade II listed building contains a refurbished, 5 Star boutique style workspace, spread over the second, third and fourth floors. Each suite offers superb natural light and elegant features, so will successfully create the wow factor for anybody that you welcome through the doors. The Front of House desk will offer its services during office hours on Monday to Friday, so you and your guests will be more than taken care of. There is the option to access other centres, great for flexible working if you are away from your base. Meeting rooms are available on-site, when a formal gathering is required.
46 New Broad Street EC2M 1JH
46 New Broad Street Office Space - EC2M 1JH
This distinguished building houses a selection of fully furnished office suites complete with an onsite gym, fully integrated IT and communications systems, spacious lounge and meeting rooms, security and 24 hour access.
Serviced from £575 per person per monthVirtual from £150
Level 17 Dashwood House EC2M 1QS
Level 17 Dashwood House Office Space - EC2M 1QS
Standing 74 meter high, the newly refurbished this centre offers a first-class, exclusive atmosphere coupled with spacious, high-ceiling facilities and multi million pound, five star fit out. As you walk out the elevator, the original commissioned artwork, large granite reception area with expansive spectacular views of London offers an unforgettable experience to any visitor. On the 17th floor, as you walk out the elevator, the large granite reception area with expansive views of London as well as original commissioned artwork offers an unforgettable experience to any visitor. Besides incredible views, the impressive boardrooms, meeting rooms, business lounge and exclusive kitchen make this office location one of the best serviced offices within the business centres of the City of London. Anyone can put a desk and a phone into a room and call themselves a serviced office, however, we invest in the development and enhancement of proprietary software that will drive your business. Our high speed internet service is designed in house for the multi-tenant environment built for business and is unique to the industry. There is a highly qualified team on hand to ensure you have everything you need to keep your business running smoothly. Your personal assistant becomes your one point of contact for all administrative needs. By being a client of ours you will have the power of a multinational corporation and it's complimentary to travel and work from any other location of ours. The office space is totally flexible; you could grow into the office next door. Renovate it if you wish, or expand into offices around the world. Take an office for just one month - or stay forever!
New Broad Street House EC2M 1NH
New Broad Street House Office Space - EC2M 1NH
Your business will thrive when you base it in this centre at Liverpool St Station, in the heart of London's global financial centre. From the outside, New Broad Street House is a beautiful Victorian building, while inside it's an inspiring designer working experience that's light, airy and modern. Find the flexible space to suit your business needs, whether you want to drop into a business lounge, book a meeting room or private office, or brainstorm your next big idea in the collaborative areas. Chat with our friendly reception staff, on hand to ensure your day goes smoothly, and network with our dynamic business community. Step outside and you're just five minutes from the buzzing food and drink destination of Broadgate Circle, which hosts festivals, art installations and live music. Spark your creativity with a stroll to the gardens at Finsbury Circus and St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate or work out at Fitness First. There are bus stops almost on the doorstep. You're just two minutes' walk from Liverpool Street Tube station and it's a little further to the mainline train station. Moorgate and Bank tube stations are eight minutes away.
55 Old Broad Street EC2M 1RX
55 Old Broad Street Office Space - EC2M 1RX
Old Broad Street is a location within the heart of The City of London and as such is surrounded by a multitude of other businesses as well as the services and amenities to service occupiers you would expect from a global centre of commerce. This fantastic office space boats a stunning sleek, modern interior design that will impress clients and colleagues alike. The office space itself is airy, bright, and filled with an abundance of natural light that creates a comfortable working environment. Business essentials such as high-speed WiFi are included as standard. Access to the hosted building entrance is off street in a quiet courtyard area free of traffic making access easy, safe and convenient. This sophisticated office space is the perfect place to grow your business.
60 New Broad Street EC2M 1JJ
60 New Broad Street Office Space - EC2M 1JJ
On the first floor of this Grade II listed building are contemporary serviced offices with first-class amenities. Furnished offices of various sizes feature the latest IT and telecoms technology, including high-speed internet. Office spaces are unbranded to give businesses the flexibility to make their new space their own. With 24-hour access, tenants can work late hours or weekends without restrictions. Along with rent and business rates, all-inclusive prices include utilities, security, office cleaning, and service charges. This modern business centre is furnished with modern British-made desks and furniture. The result is a design-led space that seamlessly incorporates comfortable breakout areas and professional meeting rooms with spacious offices. Staff at a stylish reception desk ensure a professional welcome for your guests and other visitors throughout the day. A fully-equipped kitchen has an inviting seating area and is stocked with complimentary refreshments. Plus, bicycle storage and showers are convenient perks for commuters that run or bike to and from work.
100 Bishopsgate EC2M 1GT
100 Bishopsgate Office Space - EC2M 1GT
This new office space is spread over five floors and is situated in two different buildings. The larger building is the home to the Business Club on the 18th floor and on the 19th floor is office space. In a building just opposite, the office space is over the third, fourth and fifth floors. The 19th floor office space provides outstanding views of the city of London and all the beautiful iconic buildings. This luxury work space is situated in a prime area of London, there are excellent transport links and a variety of fantastic amenities just on the doorstep. This listing offers premium office space, with a focus on status, privacy and service.
50 Liverpool Street EC2M 7PY
50 Liverpool Street Office Space - EC2M 7PY
Stained timber and panelling, thick copper and steel mesh, and arched windows are just some of the original features that help infuse a sense of history and character into this elegant period building. These architectural details are seamlessly integrated with advanced IT and telecommunications systems, including high-speed broadband internet. Private offices and hot desks are both available at this stunning property. Each space is finished with modern décor and contemporary furnishings. The property also has convenient bike spaces and shower facilities if you bike or run to the office. There are plenty of corners for you to work, network and relax at 50 Liverpool Street. A sophisticated lounge looking out to Liverpool Street Station’s main concourse and trendy breakout areas provide comfortable spaces to work and meet. Fully-equipped meeting rooms are available to host discussions with your team or business clients. Kitchens with dining areas are also found on each floor. A staffed reception provides a friendly and professional welcome for guests. Experienced staff also deliver administrative support, including help with answering telephone calls on behalf of your company and managing your post and parcels.
34-37 Liverpool Street EC2M 7PP
34-37 Liverpool Street Office Space - EC2M 7PP
Set in the heart of the capital and spread across eight floors, this magnificent new centre - due to open in November - is an extraordinary setting for businesses of any kind, with private offices, co-working and hot-desking opportunities available. It's luxurious environment is capped off with its stunning roof terrace - both floors or it - offering a brilliant space to take in some fresh air or host an evening event. The centre also comes equipped with a coffee lounge, which offers a wide range of snacks, organic drinks and other items in a chilled, calm atmosphere. The workplace facilities are also first class, with dedicated phone booths giving tenants the option to take and make phone calls in a discrete manner without the noise and distraction of others around them. Additionally, dedicated meeting rooms mean that you always have a professional, comfortable environment to host clients and other guests. The rooms are designed to optimise the meeting for you, with everything you'd need for a meeting, include full connectivity. There are also shower facilities within the centre, a helpful addition especially for those who commute to work on a morning, which, with the centre's bike storage, will be a stress free experience. Stocked kitchenettes make sure that tenants have a place to prepare and enjoy a meal day-to-day, if you fancy a change from the many eateries nearby.
30 Crown Place EC2A 4EB
30 Crown Place Office Space - EC2A 4EB
5 Star office suites benefiting from being fully serviced and furnished to an exceptional standard. With dedicated secretarial and security personnel, car parking, on site dining facilities, lounge and meeting rooms, IT support staff and much more.
4 Christopher Street EC2A 2BS
4 Christopher Street Office Space - EC2A 2BS
This centre offers co-working space that focuses on supporting founders and young businesses in achieving their goals and growing their business. The centre is beautifully decorated throughout, with a modern finish, and hosts a unique community that prospers excellent growth for tenants as you work alongside like-minded people who foster a collaborative and supportive atmosphere. The centre boasts an array of amenities, such as meeting rooms and workshop rooms, and an onsite boutique gym. There are both fixed desk and hot desk options available. Whilst a traditional working day spans from 9 till 5, this centre understands that you may not adhere to that structure and as such the centre offers 24 hour access. An onsite cleaner means that work space and communal areas are always kept to a high standard. Added to all of this, the wonderful support team on offer at this centre will be there at all stages, and host events that will inspire you.
Coworking from £132 per person per month
This centre is situated in a five storey building just five minutes from Liverpool Street Station covering a total area of 70,000 sq. ft. The space provides a multitude of options for both private office space as well as an area of over 23,000 sq. ft. dedicated to coworking with 200 workstations. Tenants of the space have access to the on-site gym and shower rooms as well as the in-house bars and cafeterias. This centre is a hub for innovation and gives tenants exclusive access to investor events and access to the centre run incubation programmes. The space also give tenants access to in-house mentoring and start-up services.
5 Wormwood Street EC2M 1RQ
5 Wormwood Street Office Space - EC2M 1RQ
Superbly situated on Wormwood Street in a popular area of Liverpool Street, these fantastic office suites come complete with lounge areas provided as an informal area where people can socialise, conference rooms for hosting important presentations and discussions and virtual office space available, providing an extra feature for your business. Offering a range of excellent support services that include professional, high-quality administration support and dedicated reception support team.
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Field Development Team Progress in Cambodia
Jezza770 | Nov 30, 2017 | in Knowledge Base
Having been on project for three official work days, the Field Development Team have made rapid progress towards their monthly goal of setting up a test farm.
Land has already been acquired at the Landmine Museum near Angkor Wat. The projected usable land space totals about half an acre, with four separate plots marked out for use.
At the present moment, only one of these plots will be developed, with the other plots available for future scaling.
A baseline assessment has been conducted on the land to profile the existing conditions. The soil was found to be slightly acidic, generally quite moist or saturated, and highly susceptible to erosion. The marked plots were measured for size, which were recorded as:
Currently unmeasured
The plots are approximately rectangular, generally flat with minor changes in altitude, and are positioned next to a channel of still water. There is also a small pond adjacent to plot 3. The local flora and fauna were observed for species, disease, and locality. Some of the fauna observed were:
Many various types of flora were observed, some in patches, others dispersed, and some in abundance everywhere. All of the plots were covered in either flora or water puddles, which covered about 25% of plots 1,2 and 3.
The plan moving forward is to make contact with stakeholders that can provide resources such as a tractor, soil, tools and equipment, and seeds/seedlings (preferably in that order). Concurrently, a blueprint template will be set up to determine the number and length of beds available for planting. The flora to be planted will be determined by the input from the market analysis team.
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Tag: Tom Bradshaw
Sketches: Liverpool F.C.: Season: 1929-30
November 24, 2018 kjehan
Sketches gathered for Liverpool F.C. for the 1929-30 season. Tom Morrison (Liverpool Echo: August 31, 1929) Tommy Cooper, future-Liverpool, Derby County (Liverpool Echo: September 28,
The death of Tom Bradshaw
February 22, 1986 Tom “Tiny” Bradshaw, who captained many great Liverpool sides in the great football days of the 30s, died aged 82 at Monksland
Thomas Bradshaw (Tom Bradshaw) @ PlayUpLiverpool.com
All articles about Tom Bradshaw on PlayUpLiverpool.com; About Tiny Bradshaw: “Nicknamed ‘Tiny’ on account of his size. Added backbone to the Anfield side when he
Football trial teams
August 12, 1939 kjehan
Saturday, August 12 – 1939 The teams to turn out for Tranmere Rovers, Chester, Wrexham, South Liverpool and Crewe today are appended: – Tranmere Rovers.
Tom Bradshaw transferred to South Liverpool
July 18, 1939 kjehan
July 18, 1939 As anticipated, Tom Bradshaw, the former Liverpool and Scottish international centre-half, duly signed for South Liverpool, negotiations between officials of the club
Back to training for Liverpool F.C.
May 16, 1939 Tomorrow is calling-up day for the players of Liverpool Football Club! Yes, the players who are to tour Scandinavia – the tour
Who was the best Liverpool player ever (up to 1939)?
February 4, 1939 kjehan
February 4, 1939 The competition asking for the six most famous footballers of Liverpool F.C., in order of merit, led to a large survey of
Mr. William John Harrop re-elected chairman of Liverpool F.C.
June 28, 1938 Mr. William john Harrop was unanimously re-elected chairman of Liverpool F.C. at a meeting of the board, at Anfield, this morning. Tommy
Liverpool Reserves v Newcastle United Reserves 0-0 (League match: May 7, 1938)
May 7, 1938 kjehan
May 7, 1938 Match: Central League, at Anfield, kick-off: 15:15. Liverpool Reserves – Newcastle United Reserves. Liverpool (2-3-5): Dirk Kemp, Ben Dabbs, Billy Hood, John
Liverpool Reserves team selection
May 4, 1938 Liverpool’s Central League side to meet Newcastle United Reserves at Anfield on Saturday will be: – Dirk Kemp, Ben Dabbs, Billy Hood,
Liverpool players for sale
April 13, 1938 Look out for some big money transfer before the season is over. Circulars setting out the names of players with whom clubs
Burnley Reserves v Liverpool Reserves 6-0 (League match: January 22, 1938)
January 22, 1938 kjehan
January 22, 1938 Match: Central League, at Turf Moor. Burnley Reserves – Liverpool Reserves 6-0 (2-0). Referee: Mr. A.C. Denham (Preston). Burnley (2-3-5): Tom Hetherington;
List of Liverpool A.F.C. players: Season 1937-38
December 18, 1937 Name Birthplace Height Weight Goalkeepers A.J. Riley South Africa 6 ‘ 1 12 ‘ 0 A. Hobson Horden 5 ‘ 10 1/2
Aston Villa Reserves v Liverpool Reserves 2-3 (League match: December 4, 1937)
December 4, 1937 kjehan
December 4, 1937 Match: Central League, at Villa Park. Aston Villa Reserves – Liverpool Reserves 2-3 (2-3). Referee: Mr. G.H. Parker. Aston Villa (2-3-5): William
List of Liverpool F.C. players 1937-38
October 2, 1937 kjehan
October 2, 1937 Arthur Riley Goalkeeper; South Africa; 6ft. 1in. and 12st. Alf Hobson Goalkeeper; Horden; 5ft. 10½in. and 12st. 3lb. Tom Flower Goalkeeper; Liverpool;
Chelsea v Liverpool 6-1 (League match: August 28, 1937)
August 28, 1937 Key note: “There was more than a touch of football romance about the appearance of the 19-years-old Ramsden in the Liverpool side
Liverpool v Wolves 1-0 (League match: April 10, 1937)
April 10, 1937 Key note: “Jeers turned to cheers when Nieuwenhuys, the Liverpool right winger, scored the only goal of the match – five minutes
Derby County v Liverpool 4-1 (League match)
April 3, 1937 kjehan
Saturday, April 3 – 1937 Match: Football League, First Division, at Baseball Ground, kick-off: 15:00. Derby County – Liverpool 4-1 (1-1). Attendance: 13,417. Referee: Mr.
Liverpool v Charlton Athletic 1-2 (League match: January 2, 1937)
January 2, 1937 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 14:30. Liverpool – Charlton Athletic 1-2 (1-2). Attendance: 29,850. Referee: Mr. T.J. Botham. Liverpool
List of Liverpool A.F.C. players, Season 1936-37
December 12, 1936 Name Birthplace Height Weight Goalkeepers A.J. Riley South Africa 6 ‘ 1 1/2 12 ‘ 10 A. Hobson Horden 5 ‘ 10
Tom Bush to play against Manchester United
November 18, 1936 Liverpool will rest Tom Bradshaw for the game with Manchester United at Old Trafford, on Saturday, and Bush takes his place. Team:
Liverpool v Sheffield Wednesday 2-2 (League match: November 14, 1936)
November 14, 1936 Key note: “With the dreary weather of the morning pushed out of the way by the sunshine, the conditions at Anfield were
Preston North End v Liverpool 3-1 (League match: November 7, 1936)
November 7, 1936 Match: Football League, First Division, at Deepdale, kick-off: 14:45. Preston North End – Liverpool 3-1 (0-1). Attendance: 16,887. Referee: Mr. G. Twist.
Vic Wright back from injury
November 4, 1936 Liverpool F.C. make no change in their team to visit Preston North End: – Alf Hobson, Tommy Cooper, Ben Dabbs, Matt Busby,
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Posts Tagged ‘vegetarian cuisine’
Indian Food: Centuries of Parallel Evolution, Now Converging?
January 13, 2013 Anuraag Sanghi 2 comments
Indian cuisine has been regional for centuries. But, in the last thirty-five years, Indian food habits have undergone a sea-change.
Image source & courtesy – hindustantimes.com
omething very strange is happening across India.
Indian cuisine has been regional for centuries.
Rajasthan has a dry cuisine that concentrates on preservation. Konkan food is full of greenery, freshness and coconut. Andhra cuisine has an overload of chilly and tamarind. Some brahmin sects in Bengal and Konkan coasts, eat fish.
But for the first time in 5000-years of Indian history, India’s Bombay High Generation (1975-2000) changed that. In the last thirty-five years, Indian food habits have undergone a sea-change.
Dosas and Idlis are now a breakfast staple across India. How much have dosas penetrated? Seen at a corner atta-chakki (a house-hold size grain-flour mill), a Muslim householder, who wanted some dosa-atta to be dry-ground. Clueless on how to make dosa batter, the family had decided to go the dosa way due to children-pressure.
Punjabi paneer items are now lunch and dinner regulars across food tables in India. Modern Punjabi cuisine, perfected in the last 500-years of gurudwara-langar cooking has taken the country by storm.
Banarsi chaat has surely spread across the country. Remember, Banaras is the world’s oldest living city.
In all this, an analysis of the food composition will show a broad focus on two things.
One – A good mix of carbohydrates, proteins, fat and fibre.
Two – Maximum variety and increasing the number of elements that go into any preparation, which is the bedrock of vegetarian cuisine.
Here is an interesting post by Vir Sanghvi on Banarsi chaat.
I’m finally coming to terms with something I’ve always suspected about myself: my favourite food in the world is chaat. Give me caviar, give me white truffles and give me the greatest hits of Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrià, and I’ll probably be diverted for a while. But after a briefflirtation, I will return to my first love: chaat.
One of my friends is a TV big-shot who prides himself on his foodie skills though he has a misplaced admiration for his local Bihari cuisine and little understanding of the complexities of Gujarati food! and even he and his wife were stunned by the quality of the chaat. The secret of good chaat, he said, is that UP has the best chaat in India but that it does not come from Lucknow as is commonly supposed but from Benaras. The thing about the people of Benaras, he added, is that they are naturally shy and reluctant to leave their city and show off their skills to the world.
I phoned Marut and asked him what he thought. He agreed that UP was the centre of the chaat world. But he thought that, within UP, there were many chaat traditions. He gave me the example of what we call paani-puri in Bombay. In Lucknow and Kanpur, they use the term ‘batasha’ or possibly, ‘gol-gappa’. In Benaras, on the other hand, they call it a puchhka and the taste of the paani is subtly different from the Lucknow version.
Marut thinks that there are strong foodie links between Benaras and Calcutta, which is why the term ‘puchhka’ is used in Bengal as well. He reckons that perhaps chaatwallahs from the Benaras region moved to Calcutta and seeded the city’s flourishing chaat scene.
He may be right. The more I thought about it the more chaat seemed to be a UP thing. The Calcutta tradition is essentially a morphing of Benarasi recipes to suit the city’s Bengali and Marwari clientele. This is why Calcutta’s puchhkas are tarter than the Benaras version. In Delhi, on the other hand, the chaatwallahs probably came from Lucknow and Kanpur and gave the city its own gol-gappa, which I regret to say, is easily the least interesting example of the genre.
Neither Marut nor I could work out which part of UP Bombay’s chaatwallahs originally came from. We know for certain that chaat was transported to Bombay by UP Brahmins, most of whom used the surname Sharma. (Take a poll of the chaatwallahs at Chowpatty and Juhu. You will find that most of the long-established ones are still called Sharma.)
It is a tribute to Bombay’s culinary genius that the UP chaat tradition was able to successfully mate with the Gujarati snack/farsan tradition so that a new chaat culture was born. The Gujaratis took the principles of UP chaat (something fried, lots of crispy things for texture, chutneys, dahi, potatoes, etc.) and created new dishes. The most famous of these is bhel puri but there are many others.
The Bombay dahi batata puri has its roots in UP chaat but is very much an individual dish in its own right. Ragda pattice is a Gujarati adaptation of that north Indian standby, tikki with channa. And Marut reckons that Bombay’s pani-puri, which is the local variant of the gol-gappa/puchhka/batasha chaat is probably the best expression of this dish. (I love Bombay but here I disagree with Marut: my money is on the Calcutta puchhka.)
The more Marut and I talked about it, the more convinced we became that we could trace nearly all genuine chaat dishes to waves of migration from UP. This explains why it is so difficult to find a chaat tradition south of Bombay: the UPites did not venture further down the Peninsula.
It is funny, though, that at a time when every state is doing so much to put its cuisine on the map, UP takes so little credit for being the home of chaat. Kerala may brag about its spices, Goa may trumpet the virtues of vindaloo and so on, but UP seems to have surrendered all claims to chaat, which is now seen as a pan-Indian favourite rather than a regional cuisine.
The public image of the food of UP leads only to the Awadhi haute cuisine of Lucknow and to pots of steaming biryani or animal fat kebabs. I love Lucknawi food as much as the next man but I doubt if it has been as influential or as popular as chaat. And yet, the chaat geniuses of Benaras, Lucknow, Kanpur and other UP towns get almost no recognition at all. Their wonderful tradition is disparaged as being ‘mere street food’.
But India lives and eats on its streets. And that night as I turned away all the fancy food that Marut and the Michelin-starred chefs had cooked and stuck to the Benaras chaat, I pondered the injustice. In America, they celebrate the hamburger and the hotdog; pizza is Italy’s global calling card; and Britain is known for fish and chips. So why, oh why, do we in India not give chaat the respect it deserves? Why is it without honour even in its home state?
I say this not just because chaat is my favourite food. I’m sure that millions of other Indians are also crazy about chaat. So, for once, let’s give haute cuisine a rest and stand up for what we really love: the cuisine of the Indian street.
via Rude Food: the cuisine of the street – Hindustan Times.
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Categories: India, Social Trends Tags: bengal, Delhi, food, Gujarati, Indian cuisine, Lucknow, Mumbai, vegetarian cuisine
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I Will Go Where There Is No Path, and I Will Leave a Trail
Ralph Waldo Emerson? Muriel Strode? Fred V. Hawley? Andrew Taylor Still? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: A powerful inspirational quote about choosing your own destiny is often attributed to the notable philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here are two versions:
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I am confused because I cannot find these words in any of the famous essays by Emerson. The words are occasionally ascribed to others such as George Eliot, Robert Frost, and George Bernard Shaw. Could you tell me who should be credited?
Quote Investigator: Expert Ralph Keyes in the “The Quote Verifier” noted that the expression was commonly attributed to Emerson. Yet, Keyes declared that “No source of this quotation has ever been found in his works”. 1 QI concurs that there is no substantive linkage of this saying to Emerson.
The earliest strong match known to QI appeared in a poem published in August 1903 titled “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers” by Muriel Strode. Boldface has been added to excerpts: 2
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Infinitely will I trust nature’s instincts and promptings, but I will not call my own perversions nature.
Each receives but that which is his own returning.
Each hears but that which is the echo of his own call.
Each feels but that which has eaten into his own heart.
I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it.
It is no stigma to wear rags; the disgrace is in continuing to wear them.
The above citation and some others in this article were located by top researcher Barry Popik. 3
Here are additional selected citations in chronological order.
Muriel Strode’s statement was metaphorical, but an entertaining literal example of this advice appeared in a book titled “Picturesque Canada: The Country As It Was and Is” in 1882. When traveling with horses and wagons it was best to avoid the primary trail whenever rains fell: 4
There is no road but the trail. Hard, black and glittering in dry weather, only let the least shower fall, and the black loam sticks in a wonderful way to the wheels and the horses’ hoofs. The best course then is to turn aside to the grass on either hand, and make a new trail for yourself, and pray for dry weather. A furious storm of rain or perhaps hail will come with little notice, accompanied with thunder and lightning absolutely terrific to those who have experienced only the mild electric disturbances of the eastern provinces.
In 1901 a religious journal printed a passage showing that the basic metaphor employing a “beaten or an untrodden path” was already in use in the spiritual domain. However, the statement and intention of the following passage was different: 5
Even the desire to be novel, and leave the beaten path, may lead to a kind of imitation originality or eccentricity. But he whom the Spirit really guides cares nothing whether he is in a beaten or an untrodden path. Patiently and fearlessly, wherever it may lead him, in the broad highway or across the dangerous ravine, he follows his own star…
In August 1903 a poem by Muriel Strode was printed in the journal “The Open Court”. It began with the following memorable line as mentioned previously:
In September 1903 a national conference of Unitarian Churches was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A speaker named Reverend Fred V. Hawley referred to exuberantly singing a version of the saying: 6
In the minute that is left let me say that what we need most on those great Western prairies is not primarily more money or more meeting-houses, but a love and a fidelity enthusiastic enough to find a way or make one,—men who are not hunting for a place or a pulpit, but who, in a splendid enthusiasm, can sing:—
“I need not follow the beaten path;
I do not hunt for any path;
I will go where there is no path,
And leave a trail.”
[Applause.]
In 1905 Strode released “My Little Book of Prayer” which included the first line of her poem and several additional lines: 7
In August 1905 the Annual Meeting of the American Osteopathic Association was held in Colorado, and an instance of the saying similar to that used at the 1903 church conference was spoken during an address of welcome by an osteopath named Paul M. Peck. The expression was credited to Andrew Taylor Still who was the founder of osteopathy: 8
When our revered founder Dr. Still, first gave birth to the thought—
I need not follow the beaten path,
I do not hunt for any path,
I will go where there is no path
And leave a trail,
the firm belief that he was right must have sustained him throughout the period of martyrdom and oppression.
In July 1906 an instance of the saying was printed in the “New York State Journal of Medicine” with credit given to Muriel Strode: 9
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.—Strode.
In 1914 the prominent inventor Alexander Graham Bell delivered a speech that contained a thematically related suggestion for his listeners. More information about Bell’s quotation is available here: 10
Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.
In 1983 an instance matching the popular modern version was printed in a yearbook of the University of Michigan Medical School. The expression appeared on the page of a student and was probably selected by that student. No ascription was given: 11
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
In 1984 a newswire article about a country singer-songwriter named Bill Anderson described a picture displaying a shortened instance of the expression: 12
One picture over his desk shows two skiers taking different runs down a snow-covered mountain. Its message sums up Anderson’s 30-year career in show business: “Don’t follow where the path may lead. Instead, go where there is no path.”
In January 1992 an academic periodical called the “Middle School Journal” printed the saying with an attribution to Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the earliest linkage to the luminary seen by QI: 13
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In September 1992 a large sign in a school in Pennsylvania presented the adage credited to Emerson: 14
In foot-high red cursive letters, a new sign above the Martin Meylin Middle School office in Lampeter bears these words from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
In 1999 the syndicated newspaper feature “Cryptoquote” printed a solution that was ascribed to Emerson: 15
Saturday’s Cryptoquote: DO NOT GO WHERE THE PATH MAY LEAD. GO INSTEAD WHERE THERE IS NO PATH, AND LEAVE A TRAIL — RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The connection to Muriel Strode has not been forgotten. For example, in 2006 a real estate advertisement in a Chicago, Illinois newspaper credited an instance of the expression to Strode: 16
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
In conclusion, QI would tentatively credit Muriel Strode with the originating the statement published in August 1903. In September 1903 Fred V. Hawley spoke a different version of the saying, but it is possible that he had already encountered Strode’s version. Perhaps future research will clarify the provenance. It is clear that the linkage of the saying to Ralph Waldo Emerson occurred many years after his death and is not substantive.
Image Notes: Ski trail from charbonnelbruno at Pixabay. Image has been cropped.
(Great thanks to Sam LoPresto whose query led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. Thanks also to Wikicitas for the query about a thematically related quotation.)
2006, The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes, Quote Page 56, St Martin’s Griffin, New York. (Verified on paper) ↩
1903 August, The Open Court: Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea, Volume 17, Number 8, Section: Miscellaneous, Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers by Muriel Strode, Start Page 505, Quote Page 505, The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
Website: The Big Apple, Article title: “Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”, Date on website: November 02, 2010, Website description: Etymological dictionary with more than 10,000 entries. (Accessed barrypopik com on June 18, 2014) link ↩
1882, Picturesque Canada: The Country As It Was and Is, Edited by George Monro Grant (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario), Volume 1, Chapter: The North-West: Winnipeg to Rocky Mountains by Principal Grant, Quote Page 328 and 329, Published by Belden Bros., Toronto, Canada. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1901, Present Day Papers: A Monthly Review for the discussion of Modern Thought and its application to Christian faith and practice, Edited by J. Wilhelm Rowntree, Volume 4, The Work of the Spirit by May Kendall, Start Page 4, Quote Page 12, Published by Headley Brothers, London. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1903, Official Report of the Proceedings of the Twentieth Meeting of the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches, Held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 21-24, 1903, Missionary Addressees: Address of Rev. Fred V. Hawley, Start Page 178, Quote Page 182, Geo. H. Ellis Company, Printers, Boston, Massachusetts. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1905 (Copyright 1904), My Little Book of Prayer by Muriel Strode, Unnumbered Page, (Page 6 after copyright page), The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1905 October, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Volume 5, Number 2, (Official Report of the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Osteopathic Association, Denver, Colorado, August 14-18, 1905), (Remarks of Paul M. Peck, San Antonio, Texas), Start Page 46, Quote Page 47, Published by The American Osteopathic Association, Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1906 July, New York State Journal of Medicine, Volume 6, Number 7, (Freestanding short item), Quote Page 293, Column 2, Published by the Medical Society of the State of New York, Brooklyn, New York. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1914 June, The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 25, Number 6, Discovery and Invention by Alexander Graham Bell, (Address to the graduating class of the Friends’ School in Washington D.C. by Alexander Graham Bell on May 22, 1914), Start Page 649, Quote Page 650, Published by National Geographic Society. (Google Books full view) link ↩
1983, Aequanimitas (The University of Michigan Medical School Yearbook), Page for Barbara N. Wynn M.D., (Quotation without ascription), Unnumbered Page (Quote Page 171 by GB), University of Michigan Medical and Nursing Schools, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
1984 December 2, The Philadelphia Inquirer, He’s a Country-Music Star Who Has Always Followed His Own Path by Mark Schwed (United Press International), Quote Page H18, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (GenealogyBank) ↩
1992 January, Middle School Journal, Volume 23, Number 3, Theme Issue: Middle School Curriculum, (Picture caption), Quote Page 42, Published by: Association for Middle Level Education AMLE. (JSTOR) link ↩
1992 September 1, Lancaster New Era, Section: NEWS, Article: L-S board hears many arguments against year-round school plan, Author: Joe Byrne, Quote Page A01, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (NewsBank Access World News) ↩
1999 March 8, The Rockford Register Star, Cryptoquote by King Features, Quote Page 11D, Rockford, Illinois. (GenealogyBank) ↩
2006 January 27, Daily Herald, Section 7, (Century 21 Real Estate Advertisement for Christine Klein), Quote Page 8, Chicago, Illinois. (NewspaperArchive) ↩
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Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology
September 2017 , Volume 8, Issue 3, pp 378–389 | Cite as
Pulsatile Flow Leads to Intimal Flap Motion and Flow Reversal in an In Vitro Model of Type B Aortic Dissection
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Bradley G. Leshnower
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David N. Ku
Ravi K. Veeraswamy
Understanding of the hemodynamics of Type B aortic dissection may improve outcomes by informing upon patient selection, device design, and deployment strategies. This project characterized changes to aortic hemodynamics as the result of dissection. We hypothesized that dissection would lead to elevated flow reversal and disrupted pulsatile flow patterns in the aorta that can be detected and quantified by non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging. Flexible, anatomic models of both normal aorta and dissected aorta, with a mobile intimal flap containing entry and exit tears, were perfused with a physiologic pulsatile waveform. Four-dimensional phase contrast magnetic resonance (4D PCMR) imaging was used to measure the hemodynamics. These images were processed to quantify pulsatile fluid velocities, flow rate, and flow reversal. Four-dimensional flow imaging in the dissected aorta revealed pockets of reverse flow and vortices primarily in the false lumen. The dissected aorta exhibited significantly greater flow reversal in the proximal-to-mid dissection as compared to normal (21.1 ± 3.8 vs. 1.98 ± 0.4%, p < 0.001). Pulsatility induced unsteady vortices and a pumping motion of the distal intimal flap corresponding to flow reversal. Summed true and false lumen flow rates in dissected models (4.0 ± 2.0 L/min) equaled normal flow rates (3.8 ± 0.1 L/min, p > 0.05), validated against external flow measurement. Pulsatile aortic hemodynamics in the presence of an anatomic, elastic dissection differed significantly from those of both steady flow through a dissection and pulsatile flow through a normal aorta. New hemodynamic features including flow reversal, large exit tear vortices, and pumping action of the mobile intimal flap, were observed. False lumen flow reversal would possess a time-averaged velocity close to stagnation, which may induce future thrombosis. Focal vortices may identify the location of tears that could be covered with a stent-graft. Future correlation of hemodynamics with outcomes may indicate which patients require earlier intervention.
4D PCMR Aortic dissection Flow model Hemodynamics Intimal flap motion
Associate Editors Francesco Migliavacca and Ajit P. Yoganathan oversaw the review of this article.
The online version of this article (doi: 10.1007/s13239-017-0312-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
We would like to acknowledge funding for this work from Medtronic, Inc.
Joav Birjiniuk has received a graduate research assistantship from Medtronic, Inc. Lucas Timmins declares that he has no conflict of interest. Mark Young is an employee of Medtronic, Inc. John Oshinski declares that he has no conflict of interest. David Ku declares that he has no conflict of interest. Ravi Veeraswamy has received consulting fees from Medtronic, Inc.
This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
This study was funded by Medtronic, Inc. The following authors have received benefits for personal or professional use from a commercial party (Medtronic, Inc.) related directly to the subject matter of this manuscript: graduate research assistantship (J.B.), employment and salary (M.Y.), and consulting fees (R.K.V).
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Supplemental Figure 1 Pump driver voltage (top), central aortic pressure (middle), and model outlet flow rate (bottom) traces demonstrating physiologic pumping (TIFF 439 kb)
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Supplemental Figure 2 Transverse motion of the intimal flap at different points in the cardiac cycle. Note accentuated motion of the intimal flap at the level of the exit tear (arrow) during fluid deceleration (TIFF 2093 kb)
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Supplemental Figure 3 Pathline visualizations in both normal and dissected aortae. Physiological, helical flows can be noted throughout the aortic arch in both models, with significant skewing of velocity profile towards true lumen in the dissected case. Note filling of distal true lumen with cessation of flow partway down the false lumen (TIFF 5918 kb)
Supplemental Figure 4 Luminal flow rates in normal (black) and dissected (colored) aorta. Slice locations on right correspond to slices designated on left (asterisks indicate significant difference from the Normal aorta at all slices, p < 0.05) (TIFF 1392 kb)
Supplemental Video 1 Fluid flow reconstructed from PCMR data. Detail on right demonstrating diastolic vortex forming at exit tear (MP4 16570 kb)
Supplemental Video 2 Dye visualization of reversed false lumen flow and exit tear vortex formation in aortic dissection model (MOV 332517 kb)
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1.Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical EngineeringGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaUSA
2.Department of BioengineeringUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUSA
3.Cardiac and Vascular GroupMedtronic, Inc.Santa RosaUSA
4.Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Joseph B. Whitehead Department of SurgeryEmory University School of MedicineAtlantaUSA
5.Department of Radiology and Imaging SciencesEmory University School of MedicineAtlantaUSA
6.George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaUSA
7.Division of Vascular Surgery, Joseph B. Whitehead Department of SurgeryEmory University School of MedicineAtlantaUSA
8.Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of SurgeryMedical University of South CarolinaCharlestonUSA
9.Emory University School of MedicineAtlantaUSA
Birjiniuk, J., Timmins, L.H., Young, M. et al. Cardiovasc Eng Tech (2017) 8: 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-017-0312-3
Received 12 February 2017
Accepted 24 May 2017
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-017-0312-3
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Delray Beach Open: Dan Evans in second career final after upsetting John Isner
by King February 25, 2019 Career
Dan Evans spoke of his resilience after reaching his second career final with a 3-6 6-2 6-3 upset of second seed John Isner at the Delray Beach Open. (File Photo)
Briton Dan Evans spoke of his resilience after reaching his second career final with a 3-6 6-2 6-3 upset of second seed John Isner at the Delray Beach Open in Florida on Saturday. Less than a year after returning from a 12-month cocaine suspension, Evans staged a remarkable turnaround to set up a final against Moldovan Radu Albot after a slow start to the afternoon semi-final.
Isner took command early, breaking Evans in the second game and winning the first set without facing a break point as his booming serve held him in good stead in blustery winds on the outdoor hardcourt. Evans fought back, however, breaking Isner twice in quick succession to capture the second set before breaking again in the second game of the final set, aided by an Isner foot fault.
The Briton displayed few nerves as he held serve throughout the final set, closing out in style with four first-serve winners to clinch the final game to love.
“I got, not lucky, but I started to see his serve pretty well,” Evans told reporters. “I wouldn’t say guessing, but anticipating and got ’em right. Other days I could be looking stupid going (the wrong way). I returned really well when I got my racket on the ball, and that was my goal just to get the ball back.”
Evans previously appeared in a final at the 2017 Sydney International, where he was beaten by Gilles Muller. After a run to the fourth round of the Australian Open in his next tournament, his career seemed poised to take off, but a few months later he tested positive for cocaine.
Asked what the experience had taught him, Evans said: “You’ve got to stay resilient in the sport. (Tennis is) so up and down. Obviously my down was from my own wrongdoing. There can be injuries. Let’s say mine was a mental injury. (It was important to) keep believing because I could never imagine I’d be back close to the top 100 in such a small amount of time.”
He swatted away a suggestion his suspension had been a growing experience. “I made a mistake and I dealt with it and that was it. It was the worst thing ever, so I’m just back now trying to win tennis matches and stay on top of everything.”
Albot, 29, will be playing in his first ever final after thrashing American Mackenzie McDonald 3-6 6-0 6-0 in one hour and 30 minutes. After falling behind in the opening set, Albot gained momentum from his opponent’s unforced errors and cantered through the final two stanzas.
Albot had reached two previous ATP Tour semi-finals, in Metz last September and in Montpellier earlier this month, but lost on both occasions. A win against Evans in the final on Sunday would make him the first Moldovan to win an ATP Tour title.
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How Can We Make Sure We’re Using High-Quality Open Source Components?
April 17, 2018 Ayala Goldstein
Way back in the day (in software production speak that means three years ago), professionals in our ecosystem were still going back and forth about free and open source software vs. proprietary. Which is better? Which is safer? Which will cost you less in the long run?
For the most part, that raging debate has quieted down.
At this point, we can all agree that organizations have a lot to gain by using open source components, and the questions that are keeping many R&D, legal and security teams awake these days are how to stay secure and compliant.
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One aspect that many development teams seem to be marginalizing or even overlooking is an open source component’s quality and what qualifies a component to be of high quality over one that does not.
How can we ensure that the components we are using will provide stability and consistency under pressure?
Looking for Quality in Open Source Components
In a webinar with Microsoft and Forrester, WhiteSource polled a group of nearly 200 R&D leaders and influencers from a variety of tech organizations about their open source practices and concerns. One of the questions that we asked participants was what most concerned them about using open source. The results tell us a lot about how the community views priorities regarding open source usage. Nearly 53% said they worry about security issues, 38% said licensing was most concerning, and merely 8% admitted to worrying about quality.
The concern over security is quite understandable, and it’s good to see that application security, prevention, and remediation are on everyone’s mind.
However, it’s not clear why quality is underestimated or even overlooked by so many industry leaders. Does this mean they have complete faith in the open source development community to create only the best code or in their teams’ ability to locate and identify the best open source components?
With all the open source repositories out there, how many developers can really discern the quality of the open source component that they are using?
How Can We Rate Quality When There is No Current Standard?
The reality is that there are no common standards for assessing an open source component’s quality, and the collaborative nature of open source can make it challenging to assess.
As Preethi Thomas of Red Hat points out, in open source, “community involvement is voluntary, people's skills, levels of involvement, and time commitments can vary,” making quality assurance a challenge. Usually, when choosing a component most developers will go with what they know, and if they’re not sure they might ask a friend. Considering the results of our poll — quality most probably won’t be the first thing on their checklist before choosing a component.
But if we really want to ensure that we incorporate stable and reliable open source projects — what are some of the things we can look at?
Adoption: Rely on the Wisdom of the Crowd
This seems like a no brainer: the more people using an open source component, the more reasons to trust it. Except...who said Heartbleed?
The notorious security vulnerability in OpenSSL was identified two whole years after its inclusion in the project, although OpenSSL was being used by an estimated 2/3 of web servers world-wide by that time.
Since then, a lot of code has been forked on GitHub, and while the open source community and its contributors arguably learned their lessons, I think this proves that the popularity of a project doesn’t promise its quality. Popularity may be one indication of an open source component’s quality, but if we don’t want to find ourselves racing through production with a buggy component, it’s probably not the only parameter we should go by.
Does Size (of the community) Matter?
In the aftermath of Heartbleed, many in the security community pointed out the fact that OpenSSL, the world’s most widely-used online security solution, was manned by two guys named Steve. Since then, nonprofits and giants like Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, and Google are helping ensure that open source projects are better maintained with increased resources and support.
Does that mean that today, the amount of contributors to an open source project tells us about its quality?
The short answer to this question is maybe. Established, long-living projects are supported by large communities of dedicated developers, many of whom have been contributing for years.
That said, going by this parameter alone will only get us so far. Sometimes more people just means more problems — especially when we’re talking about QA. Having a large community is important, but it doesn’t necessarily promise seamless and efficient processes.
A Matter of Commitment
What’s better than a large community? An active one.
If you want to talk numbers, a good one to look at is the number of commits in an open source project over a period of time. The number of commits tells us how many developers are actually working towards improving the code, ensuring that the latest version is a trusted one.
There Will be Bugs
So you found a popular project, with a big community that is continually working to provide users with a better version. Is that enough to promise a high quality component?
This brings us to the unpleasant subject of bugs. Like the rest of the open source project, bugs and their fixes are public, and can give us a clear view of how diligent the community is at locating issues and providing fixes.
A dev team leader’s nightmare is a long list of bugs, but when we’re looking at an open source project, it’s best to check under the hood. When in doubt — go back to Linus’s Law, that stated that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. A look at an open source project’s bug tracker, the rate in which bugs are opened and resolved, can tell us a lot about the projects quality. We know that in any development project there will be bugs. What’s more important is how shallow they will be. Are there enough eyeballs? Are they doing their job?
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Let’s Get Critical
The bug tracker for the open source project you are considering boasts a community with x-ray vision and speed-of-light fixes. Sounds good, right? No arguments here.
But we recommend that you continue to look closer. How many high severity bugs are open? How long have they been there? Are people working to fix it? This is another parameter that will help you ensure that an open source community is active and committed to delivering users the best product.
At WhiteSource, when we rate the quality of an open source library, we base our scoring on the aggregated value for each open source library version based on three of the parameters I mentioned earlier:
Source Control Activity – how many commits as an indicator of its level of activity.
Fix rating – the number of bugs fixed in each specific version.
Bug Statistic – the amount and severity of open bugs for each specific version.
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Add Quality to Your Open Source Must-haves
It’s safe to say that questions about the quality of open source components are resolved. Open source components are a great way to build strong products.
However, we not all components were created equal, and in order to ensure our products’ quality when using open source, there’s a whole set of parameters that we need to look at.
Luckily, the open source community’s collaborative ethos ensures that everything you need to know about an open source project is out in the open. Who else is using it? Who’s developing it? How active is the project in finding and remediating issues?
But checking with the community is a lot of manual work, and developers just don’t enough time for such extensive research on each open source component.
When our developers started using the Web Advisor we weren’t expecting anything to change since they were extremely educated about open source components metrics. Imagine our surprise when we started getting tons of questions from our own developers about the quality index in the Web Advisor.
The process we went through with our own developers, taught us a lot about how we should go about this with our own customers’ developers. It specifically showed us that an open source project quality is not in the developer’s mindset and that we actually need to train them and explain why it's important to ensure there’s an active community behind any project. This training was even added to the onboarding process.
Another surprise we had was when our team leader reported a significant drop in alerts created by our own tool through our Jenkins plugin. The reduction in alerts, which is associated with our developers using the Web Advisor, proved that offering information about open source components in the developers’ native environment (the browser) while they were selecting the right components enabled them to make better choices the first time around, thus saving a lot of wasted time and resources.
Now, it's so much easier for our developers to choose the right libraries in StackOverflow, Maven Central and more by quickly clicking on the extension right in their browsers. It encourages them to code more confidently knowing they can trust the components they are using from the get-go.
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Since 2006, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation has funded a massive reforestation effort with more than 12 million tree plantings.
Every year, 1 million trees are planted as part of the Enterprise 50 Million Tree Pledge, a unique public-private partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation that will continue through 2056.
“Environmental protection, reforestation and watershed conservation efforts are critical for many endangered species. Many of our 2017 planting projects were selected to restore habitats that threaten both wildlife and people that rely on forests for food, cover and water,” said Carolyn Kindle Betz, senior vice president and executive director of Enterprise’s Foundation.
The 12 million plantings represent more than 100 projects in Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the UK – as well as in diverse forests throughout 16 states in the U.S.: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
2017 Plantings Address Critical Needs
Last year’s plantings included 180,000 trees in Lake Superior State Forest in Michigan, a forested watershed that provides vital ecosystem services to the Upper Peninsula. The plantings support much-needed habitat for the endangered Kirtland’s warbler, a songbird that requires dense young jack pine for its breeding habitat; provide clean water for high-quality trout streams; and re-establish a stable food source for native game species. Since 2006, Enterprise’s Foundation has funded the planting of 380,000 trees in Lake Superior State Forest and over 1.5 million trees throughout the state of Michigan.
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250,000 trees in the Econfina Creek Water Management Area, Florida
140,000 trees in the Atlanta Forest Management Unit, Michigan
133,000 trees in Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota
100,000 trees in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana
70,000 trees in Tahoe National Forest, California
50,000 trees in Ireland
50,000 trees in Scotland, Northwest England, Northern Ireland and Wales
40,000 trees in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon
35,000 trees in the Sandhills Game Lands, North Carolina
30,000 trees in Klamath National Forest, California
30,000 trees in Landes Forest, France
30,000 trees in the Spiritwood, Saskatchewan and the greater Toronto area, Canada
25,000 trees in Pike National Forest, Colorado
13,000 trees in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Administrative District, Germany
4,000 trees in Ateca, Spain
Through the Arbor Day Foundation, the Enterprise 50 Million Tree Pledge works with a variety of partners in North America, including the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. National Park Service and the National Association of State Foresters, as well as Tree Canada and Forest Recovery Canada. In Europe, partners include the U.K.’s Woodland Trust, France’s Reforest’Action, Spain’s Sustainable Forests (Bosques Sostenibles), and the German Forest Protection Association (Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald).
Photo (courtesy of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation) shows tree planting in the Willamette River Basin of Oregon, where over 820,000 trees have been planted via the Enterprise 50 Million Tree Pledge.
See a full list of the 50 Million Tree Pledge planting projects (PDF).
See Arbor Day Foundation website.
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Somewhere near Bouna Vista lies a peaceful and greenery-filled neigbourhood known as Wessex Estate. The old colonial-styled estate houses a total of 26 white and black low-lying blocks that were built more than 50 years ago.
These distinctive colonial apartments used to be the homes of British soldiers and their families from the fifties to the early seventies.
Today, with the government keen in developing this area as a focus for arts and design, some of the buildings are leased out to local and foreign artists, architects and creative designers.
Opposite of Portsdown, separated by the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE), is another similar estate with many colonial houses, mostly for residential uses. The estate is situated beside the Hort Park.
There is a famous eating house in Portsdown known as Colbar (short form for Colonial Bar).
It was first built in 1953 at nearby Jalan Hang Jebat, and started off as a canteen to serve the British military soldiers who lived in Wessex Estate. The canteen has survived over the decades, and expatriates have gradually become its main customers after the British withdrew from Singapore in the late sixties.
In 2003, Colbar shifted to Whitchurch Road to continue serving the masses with its signature dishes in chicken chop and curry chicken.
Other similar estates in Singapore include Dempsey, Rochester Park and Seletar Camp. Dempsey and Rochester Park have transformed into high end food and beverage heavens whereas part of Seletar Camp is being reserved for the new Aerospace Hub.
Seletar Camp, popular for its peaceful and bucolic feel, currently has dozens of similar black-and-white colonial-styled bungalows leased to locals as well as expatriates.
The camp was completed by the British in 1928, as a means of air travel and air defense for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The name “Seletar” refers to the aboriginal tribes who lived along the coastal regions near the Johor Straits.
Between the fifties and seventies, the community living at Seletar Camp, made up of more than 2,000 RAF employees and their families, became better known as the Seletarville. It was visited by George Ward, the then-British Secretary of State for Air in 1957.
After 2006, the camp became increasingly affected by the rapid development of the Aerospace Hub, where almost half of the 378 original colonial houses have been identified to be demolished to give way to the new facilities.
Many of the houses bounded by Park Lane and Hyde Park Gate, now under Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), are left empty and awaiting for demolition. The conditions of these beautiful black and white houses are still in good shape.
There are also three huge mansions at Park Lane, one of which was the clubhouse. The clubhouse had many facilities, including a large swimming pool. It is unknown whether the other two mansions were formerly of residential use or other purposes. The designs of these mansions look to be a mixture of colonial and Malay flavours, with many pillars added to the first level of the buildings, much like a Malay attap house standing on stilts.
Fortunately for now, the houses at Mornington Crescent, Lambeth Walk and Maida Vale are spared from the modernisation. However, it remains unsure whether these occupied houses will be demolished after their leases expire in a few years’ time. The Aerospace Hub is expected to be completed in 2018.
The Seletar Base Golf Course was built as a golf club for the British personnel in 1930. The National Sports Promotion Board (NSPB) took over the course in 1971 after the British Forces withdrew from Singapore, renamed it as Seletar Country Club. When the club moved to Lower Pierce Reservoir in 1995, the course became one of the few golf courses open to public. It had also shut down due to the development of the area.
Like the former British Air Base at Seletar, there are also many classic black and white colonial houses at the former British Naval Base at Sembawang (now Sembawang Shipyard). More than two dozens of the houses are scattered on both sides of Admiralty Road East and West.
There is a network of minor roads in the Sembawang vicinity that used to be restricted to public access in the past. The roads were mostly named after the Commonwealth countries and former British colonies, such as Canada, Kenya, Pakistan and Sudan. Some, like Auckland Road, Durban Road, Lagos Road and Wellington Road, were named after their cities. The rest had their names taken after the overseas territories of Britain. Bermudas, Falkland and Gibraltar are some of the examples.
While most of the houses are occupied and well-maintained, some are in poor conditions. Just a short distance away from the century-old Beaulieu House (now a restaurant) and the Sembawang Jetty, it is a serene and quiet environment for the current residents here.
122 Responses to Portsdown, Seletar & Sembawang Colonial Houses
Patrick Ong says:
Sadly most of these houses are not under conservation…And the high rent is chasing the earlier tenants – the families, singles and artists – out and replaced by regular folks with loads of money
Jesse Abdullah says:
Was living at Warwick road during the late 90s. Love the tranquillity, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Walking along the railway towards Hang Jebat mosque, just for a bowl of yummy chicken curry. Any idea are those colonial houses at Portsdown and Warwick still exist?
Yep, they are still around.. Many artists and designers rent the houses as home+offices
yes warwick still exist i just went around there
Ross Ibrahim says:
I didn’t know my wife (Jesse) also subscribe to this wonderful blog! Hi Jc?
Yes, beautiful memories of Warwick Road, love the place…
Wonder where Gopi and Smoggy is now..
Ken Benge says:
I lived at 1 Lancaster Gate fron 1968/1971 and have happy memopries of the camp. I went back on 2007 and saw the bungalow which had been modernised but didn’;t have the courage to knock on the door and speak to the occupants. Went back again 2009 and sadly much of the camp as I knew it was being demolished.
Hope to make one more visit during 2012 as have friends who were and still are trading in Jalan Kayu.
Sadly,what was the home and community for thousands of serviceman and their families is almost beyond recognition.
A little off topic here but, does anyone know anything about the bungalow on top of bukit timah hill?
Hi Nick, I went up to the summit of Bukit Timah Hill but I did not notice any bungalow there.
Chiew Joven says:
I saw a old house on the summit but was use by the telco for communication but I’m not sure if it is the bungalow you are referring to.
This telecom building is located near the summit
it looks really interesting, would love to visit somedays.
Rob Cannon says:
HI, What a lovely lot of nostalgic pictures to look at. I lived at RAF Seletar in 1960-62 and we moved on to the camp to live at 8, The Oval. I revisited there about four years ago, the year of the 1st grand prix, and it was lovely to be able to see our lovely bungalow. Very happy childhood memories. My Dad was a teacher at the RAF Seletar junior school.
Sandra Purnell says:
I was an RAF Sgt.’s daughter at School in 1960/61 . We lived at 52 Regent’s St. RAF Seletar. I would love to revisit when I come to Singapore on 6-9th June 1914. Currently living in Australia on route back to UK> Do the houses still exist.
Andrew Bailey says:
Nice to read your post. I was there with my family from 1955 to 1957 – my Father was posted there. I went to the base school.
Trying to remember which road we lived in but cant find a map that covers the south-west corner of the married quarters, to jog my memory. It was a row of bungalows, facing some open ground which went up to the perimeter security fence.
I roamed the whole island, alone or with pals, in the 17th Singapore (Eastern) scouts. The most magical experience of my life.
MRS JACQUELINE A IRVINE says:
My partner was there from 1951-1956 he is the son of Squadron Leader Thomas.
We are going back there this year to 2 Park Lane as David celebrates his 70th birthday and lived there as a child.
Pamela Payne says:
i was there 55-57 (I was 12 to 14 years old) and went to the base school! My maiden name was Allan. Just been back to Singapore for the first time since then and had a simply wonderful time. Jalan Kayu was only partly changed and there was still much to recognise at Seletar; we never got into a black and white but stayed in the tiny house in Jalan Kayu. Had a Coke at The Canteen, where we kids used to rot our teeth on Cokeafter school. The present owner has been here for 50 years – he has just two teeth! Did you know Janet Hunter? She was my best friend but, sadly, I’ve lost touch with her. Pam
mike hume says:
Hi, Rob.
I was at Seletar from 1960-63. Loved the place and the people.
Are you the same Rob who was asking after Dusty Miller?
If so, send me a mail on mikehume@bigpond.net.au
Mike Hume
i was serving my national service at school of manpower training in seletar camp. this was where we were trained to type using manual typewriters. there was a encik(warrant officer) who shouted at trainees(like myself) as “baboons”. he has since retired and is now a grassroot leader in sembawang/nee soon grc.
Encik Bakerchi!
I’m lucky enough to be the current resident of the house pictured above as Sembawang house 3. It is indeed a wonderful, serene area of Singapore – I appreciate the beauty every single day. There are also many more of the black and white bungalows on and around Canada Road across the main Admiralty Road East from the shipyard. Interestingly enough the house opposite mine is known as the old Khatib mess, see:
http://pictures.nl.sg/434399a2-6e75-486d-8639-245949e7638e.aspx
for photo.
Thank you for your lovely website and I must get to the hot spring – it’s been on my to-do-list forever!
Hi! Abigail,
I once came acrossed the petrol car and officers petrolling the area, the petrol car and the uniforms they wore do not look like the normal police officers we usually see. Just out of curiosity, are they under different forces? or they are a special unit for the area?
elroygoh02 says:
I thought the colonial houses were detached houses that people were living in! There is also colonial houses near Changi Village. I went on a small road through many of those houses and I thought that would lead to the Old Changi Hospital!
Occupant of 14 Knights Bridge here from 1970s to 1994. 🙂 I loved my childhood life. Sadly the house has been demolished. 😦
Patricia Spencer says:
My parents lived at 18 Knights Bridge in 1950/51 and I’d love to be able to identify which house it was on old aerial photos or plans. We do have photographs but they are too close-up to work out its position with respect to other houses. If you could help us to pin down its location in Knights Bridge, that would be much appreciated.
Not sure if this will help
https://postcardsfromseletar.com/2007/11/14/birds-eye-view-of-seletar-airbase-past-present-and-future/
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/postcardsfromseletar.com/2008/10/16/which-houses-will-stay-which-will-be-demolished/amp/?source=images
https://www.ura.gov.sg/Conservation-Portal/Explore/Photo-Gallery?bldgid=FRAFS
Thank you for the links which are very interesting, but what I’m trying to do is work out which of the houses shown on plans is number 18 Knights Bridge where my parents lived. If you could indicate which was 14 where you lived, then I could probably work out where 18 was – I hope that makes sense!
Peter Dunlop author "Street names of Singapore" says:
Please do not call the concrete and brick houses “Black & White” The black paint was only added after they were transferred to Singapore civilian ownership in the ’70s and were then let to the public. Strictly, the term black and white should only apply to those house with significant timber in their construction. The timber was painted black to help resist termites
most of the colonial houses at Seletar, Sembawang and Portsdown are built in concrete and bricks, which means there aren’t many Black and White houses left in Singapore
buellbunny says:
Friends of ours lived in an old black and white house in the 80’s. It was used as a Japanese brothel during the war! It is sadly long gone now, along with the flats we lived in, in Ratus Road.
I would welcome debate on the term “Black & White”.
In my recollection, none of the brick and concrete houses such as at Portsdown Road, Rochester Park, Medway Park and so on had any black paint when they were British military quarters. I believe that the black paint was an addition, a marketing ploy, of the various government agencies entrusted with these properties and their immensely valuable land bank, since independence. At first the rents were very low but in time some of them became popular with Singaporeans and the rents began to rise.
I believe that the term “Black & White” should apply strictly to houses with a significant amount of timber in their construction. Such houses are to be found in Alexandra, Tanglin, off Scotts Road and behind Dunearn Road and elsewhere. Many were built as quarters for military and administrative officers of the colonial government
Peter Dunlop, that’s very interesting and pertinent info! Thanks a lot! Now i understand why there are so many so called “Black and White Bungalows” in unexpected areas of Singapore – it’s cos they aren’t REALLY colonial B&W houses!!! And yes, what you say about it being a marketing ploy is sooooooooooo true!! Thanks for opening my eyes!
Katena Leck says:
I’ve been living in a colonial bungalow in seletar camp since 1994 to 2008. Had a wonderful time there. Can anyone tell me when were the houses at Warwick road built? Were they built the same time as Ports down road colonial houses?
Shona Fullerton says:
We lived in Montreal Rd a the Naval Base (Woodlands) from 1971-1974. Dad was with the RAF.
We had also lived at Changi, on the Chip Bee estate and Krangi.
There is a colonial-styled house along Alexandra Road, left vacant for several years… Anyone has info of this abandoned house?
Sin Yee says:
some of the old colonial houses are very visually interesting and I’m looking for an abandoned one for filming of a short film. Anyone has good suggestions and how do I go about applying for the permission to shoot the short film at the place?
Hi, I just lived in 202 Lagos Circle at Sembawang after a stint working with the MoD.
Hi Chris. How funny, I will be staying there in a few weeks time. Is there a picture on this blog that looks similar to 202 Lagos Circle?
Harry Brown says:
Hi, my parents lived in 202 Lagos Circle c. 1951-52. My father worked for the Admiralty and I think the house may have been part of the Naval Base at that time. I know that they really liked their time there.
Hello there! Just wondering if you know any infomartion about this bungalow at Thomson Rd. It is visible from PIE toward Changi entering from Thomson. It has a driveway uphill leading to the main building. When i was walking pass, i could see there were some birds, not sure if its a hen, along with 3 or 4 of its chicks at following foraging near d grassy area. I really had that old school kampong feeling. Really curious about the current owner and what it used to be. I saw a sign “Europa Country Club” but the guard said that its a private property and there is no entry.
Joyce Lewis says:
My husband and I were both serving members of the RAF and were posted together to RAF Seletar in 1967. We stayed at the Pasir Ris hotel for a week before finding a house in Jalan Tari Zapin off Jalan Kayu, this was only for another few weeks as we were then allocated a small bungalow on Seletar camp in Edgware Road. We are going to Australia for a holiday in the New Year and stopping three nights in Singapore We would love to see if any of our old haunts still exist and have a trawl down memory lane as we have such fond memories of Singapore and Seletar. I was demobbed in late 1969 and we came home with our baby daughter in 1970.
Can anyone advise whether it would be worth going to visit Jalan Kayu or has it all gone now?
katenaleck says:
Hi Joyce, I feel a need to answer to your post as there are some coincidence of your time spent in Singapore as with me living here. My husband and I moved into hay market in seletar camp in 1994 and stayed right up to 1st January 2009 when the government took back most of the rented black and white houses in the camp for air hub development. We then bought a house at Jalan Tari Zapin. And stayed there for 4 years till end of last year. We missed the lay back and close to nature living of a black and white house that we moved into Normanton estate ( portsdown black and white) where we are also closer to our boys school.
Edgware has still half a street intact but the camp has changed alot, Jalan Kayu miracly survive through the years, most of the houses along the road have retained its old look but alot of food places have popped up too. It has still a very old charm about it with the roti prata shop still there. Overall I think though the camp has changed alot, it is still worth a walk down memory lane. Hope you have a good time should you decide to visit Singapore and Seletar Camp.
Katena
Sent from Samsung Mobile
Hi Joyce, you can check out “A Walk Through the Old Neighbourhood – Jalan Kayu” on how Jalan Kayu looks like today… There is also a couple of old photos of Jalan Kayu in the 1970s and 80s
Jalan Kayu still very much remains the same as before, but Seletar Camp, as what Katena has described, has changed a lot in recent years
Jean Minchintin says:
I have only just found this site. My husband was stationed at RAF Seletar 1964/67 & initially we lived just outside the RAF base in Jalan Kayu but I do not remember the name of the road – it was off the main road from the camp on the right hand side. The accommodation was just terraced bungalows all linked together. We then moved to an RAF hiring in Serangoon & my daughter was born at Changi hospital in 1965
I would love to see any photos of the of the housing running behind the main Jalan Kayu road leading up to RAF Seletar.
I loved my time in Singapore & have never had the chance to return & maybe I don’t want to as it has changed so much & I have wonderful memories of the quaint & colourfull place
Dave Taylor says:
Not sure if I am repying to Joyce, or the page creator – who has done a brilliant job. Lots of nostalgia here, although I just read one mail where the guy said he would have loved to have been this peaceful place – Seletar – during Christmas. I’m afraid not. This period was often reffered to by both the officers and airmen as a “Four Day Drunk”. Lots going on, none of it exactly peaceful!
I see many people on here that should become members of the RAF Seletar Association. Our newsletter and website feature lots of stories about the old days, we even organise trips back to Singapore and Seletar, the next one – probably the last – is due to depart in March 2015 and there are still places available.
Dave Taylor, Assn Vice President & Membership Secretary
Peter Clay says:
Hi Joyce, my name is Peter Clay and I was stationed at RAF Seletar from 1966 to 1970 with 52 Sqdn. My family and I lived first in Jalan Tari Zapin but after 4 months we moved to Seletar Hills but this was only to last for 3 months as the RAF then moved us into 23 Birdcage Walk on the base and there we stayed until we left Singapore in February 1970. I moved across to work out of RAF Changi when Seletar became the first air base handed over to the Singapore Armed Forces in February 1969. I then travelled to and from Seletar to Changi every day for a year before sadly leaving Singapore at the end of February 1970. I am returning to Singapore in October 2014 and look forward to seeing all of the changes that have taken place.
Old Birdcage Walk is still around, but Seletar has changed so much that it is almost unrecognisable now
Hi Joyce Many thanks for your rapid reply to my comments on Seletar. I thought it might have changed beyond all recognition but it seems some is still recognisable. Is it still a military base or is access open to the general public? If not I suppose I will have to write to the Commanding Officer to request permission to enter so that I can show my son and daughter in law who will be with me where we used to live.
Hi Peter, That was weird, I have just got home and read your messages and then to find that you thanked me for my reply was very odd. I am just replying! We have not yet been back to Seletar, we travel in January 2014, so can’t answer your questions. I was hoping for similar answers!. Your spell of service was pretty much the same as ours except that we stayed at Seletar until June 1970, I was a Cpl WRAF on Seletar and the very last member of the WRAF on the station, I worked until November 1969 when I retired to have our first child. My husband was a Sergeant in 6 TSU and he worked on Seletar until we came home in June 1970. I was in Changi hospital having our daughter in February 1970 when you were travelling home. Hope you enjoy your visit next year, if I find out anything useful I will let you know next March. Best Wishes Joyce
Hi Joyce Sorry the reply was not from you but from REM SG my mistake. However I hope you enjoy your trip in March and I look forward to your comments on your return. I think we were there at the same time and I have a daughter who was born in Changi hospital on 19 July 1967.Its hard now looking back to realise that she is 47 years old but then again I am 72, I guess we never think in our minds how old we are. Best wishes Peter
Hi Peter, I’m not Joyce but RemSG, the author of this page. I’m the one who replied you above 😉
There is still a small restricted military camp but much of the Seletar vicinity has been opened to public access since many years ago, so you can just drive/walk in at your own leisure.
As mentioned, Seletar has undergone big changes particularly in the past 2/3 years. Half of the colonial houses there have been vacated and will probably be demolished soon. Some of the old roads were expunged too (I’ll upload the maps later)
Hey Peter, I just thought I would write this reply. Your comment above reminded me so much of what happened when my late father attended my graduation in England in 1995. His situation is somewhat the reverse of yours. He was with the Singapore Army and in the 50s he was sent to England (I think for training). We went to Salisbury and there was one military base he wanted to return to. Unfortunately, we did not write in first so there was no chance for him to visit. He seemed more than happy though, to be able to see it from the outside.
As his daughter, I was so proud of him and was sad he didn’t get to go in. I would imagine, your son and daughter-in-law would also like to see a part of your history… if indeed it is still visible (with the change Singapore has gone through).
I am currently in Canada, but I am sure Singapore would welcome you 🙂
Hi SMG sorry for the mix up. Many thanks for your info and look forward to your map of the present situation.
Hi, these are the maps of Seletar, ten years apart
Map of Seletar 2002
(Source: Singapore Street Directory 2002)
(Source: http://www.streetdirectory.com/)
Hello everyone, thank you for the really nice replies to my message. Also thanks for the maps, I see that Edgware Road is still there although foreshortened. I think it looks as though our old house, number 30 has dropped off the world! Never mind it will still be good to go back and look at the camp and Jalan Kayu, might even have a wander down Jalan Tari Zapin. It is nice to know that we will be able to go onto the camp area without having to apply for permission. Next we will have to find out how to get from the centre of Singapore City out to Jalan Kayu, still it will be fun to find out. Thanks again Joyce
Hi Joyce, Peter, as per the author of this blog, Seletar Camp has changed alot since the days when you lived here. But some of its charms still remain and I think it is definitely worth a visit, at the very least to stop by at the prata shop outside for a hot (or cold) teh tarik (pulled tea)
The old camp gates are still around, but without any sentries now, you can drive or walk through freely. Nice to note that even the old searchlights at the top of the gates are still intact. And beside the entrance is a cairn that was just unveiled a few months back by the RAF Seletar Association when a few of it’s members flew to Singapore for the ceremony;
http://www.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20130402-412941.html
That too should be worth a visit to see and take a couple photos. After that it’ll be a trip down memory lane for you as you pass through the gates and see the roundabout and the familiar names; Edgeware, Maida, Lambeth. Take a lovely stroll around (but preferably not in the heat of the Singapore 12 noon sun) these streets that you used to call home. The houses are all still there and very well conserved. You will see some very uniquely done up homes, including one filled with lovely vintage automobiles and motorcycles with it’s own 1950s style garage.
Old Birdcage Walk’s houses are still there too, but most are either empty or leased to aerospace related companies as they are on the other side closer to the aerospace sector. You can definitely walk right up to them nonetheless, no military restrictions.
Need to point out something relating to the above 2013 map; it does not show Oxford street, but trust me, it’s still there, I currently live at Oxford Street
Back to the walkabout; at the end of Oxford Street and before you enter Old Birdcage walk is a lovely old canteen under a big tree, operating since the 1960s till today. Mostly serving tea, coffee and light snacks and opened till 4pm (closed sundays). Another nice place to stop for a break before you head towards Old Birdcage. From there you can continue to explore the other side of the camp before making your way back out to Jalan Kayu.
Getting from downtown to old Seletar airbase -> either just take a taxi direct, or you can take the subway (MRT) to either Sengkang or Punggol station, then take a 5 minutes taxi ride from there. There is also a bus 103 direct from Serangoon bus interchange. This is the only bus that goes into the old airbase estate
Interesting side note reminding us of Seletar’s past; just last week they found a Japanese aerial bomb near St Martin’s Lane while digging. It is a 100kg bomb from WW2 that didnt detonate and stayed lodged in the ground all these years. Imagine; during the time you were living in Old Birdcage Walk this scary device was underground, barely a street from your home 🙂
Thankfully the military has control-detonated the device and all is safe now. Thus as you can see, your old stomping grounds is still a very interesting and beautiful place to visit. Here’s wishing both of you a safe and lovely trip to Singapore and Seletar, take care. – David
Our family was stationed RAF Seletar mid fifties and we used to live in the last house next to the golf course on Old Birdcage Walk. My husband and I are visiting in January 2018 is this house still there please?
Hi Christine Peter Clay here.I lived in 23 Birdcage Walk from 1967 to 1970 and returned in October 2014,all that was left of old birdcage walk was about 3 houses all of which seemed to have been made into flats the rest had been demolished.They were standing on their own as all else had been cleared around them,even they may not be there now but I found it very sad so dont be surprised at what you may see.We still enjoyed the new modern Singapore though so good luck on your visit.
Christine Kendall says:
Peter, thanks so much for your reply. Am in a quandry now as to go or remember it how it used to be!
Thanks again Christine
Hi David I live at no 15 oxford st from 1973 to 1976 on selecta camp my husband was in the forces at new soon camp we lived right across from the golf course would it be possible for you to post some pics of my house I stayed at please I would be very grateful thankyou jean
Lunch at the nostalgic Colbar @Whitchurch Road
Jennie Aries says:
As a teenager aged 15 we walked along Lagos Circle regularly to get to the Naval Base Club to the Teenagers Room, where, I met my husband, who also lived in the Naval Base, further towards the Gate, you used to get to The Causeway to cross to Jahore B. We did return, 17 years ago, and had a lovely day touring around the Base, visiting our old haunts, including the Dockyard Pool!
Thank you for your information David, we are really looking forward to our visit in February and getting quite excited at the prospect. Joyce
horlicksyey says:
Hello! I was just wondering if anyone knows the location of the house in the last two pictures ?
Thank u!! 🙂
@ Horlicksyey – I think Wellington Road, Sembawang.
Laishrem Prakash Kumar Singh says:
So many memories just dance around me this morning and I went back to my 1984, when I was living in 108 Jalan Hang Jebat with my family. I remember my first friend Robin , who lived on 107 top floor with family, they are two brothers & one sister, his father like music. I wish I can get his contact. I miss you my friend, when I went on 1996, it was just like same it was, and I spent my whole day.
Contact Me: Laishrem@gmail.com
An empty colonial house at Dahan Road, off Admiralty Road West. There’s also an old makeshift shelter (bus stop?) outside the house.
We used to get the bus to SIngapore International School from this bus stop in 71-74
We lived round the corner in Ratus Rd. Sadly our flats are gone now, but would love to go see the old neighbourhood again one day…. if its still there that is!
janice goh says:
hi, we are interested to be able to rent a house in seletar camp. our kids will love to live in a house surrounded by nature. my husband and i will love the sound of crickets…
what kind of rent should we be expecting to pay?
Does anyone have any information about Rochester Park?
My father lived there from 1957-1962 and I visited a few weeks ago. The house he lived at – number 18 – and a number of others on the road are boarded up for redevelopment.
I wondered what was going ot happen to the boarded up houses. A number of others in the vicinity have been converted to restuarants.
Black and whites at old Seletar airbase to get new lease of life
The black and white bungalows at the former Seletar airbase were built to house officers from Britain’s Royal Air Force before the outbreak of World War II.
Now they could house offices, schools, restaurants, spas and sports facilities under plans being drawn up by the Government, The Straits Times has learnt.
All 32 bungalows, which have been vacant in recent years, and two former military buildings at The Oval and Park Lane will also be gazetted by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for conservation.
Despite the planned makeover, JTC Corporation is intending to maintain the colonial charm of the structures. “This will add vibrancy to the area and the ambience will also be preserved with the decision to zone it as a heritage site,” said JTC’s aerospace director Leow Thiam Seng.
Some empty yet beautiful colonial houses at Rochester area, opposite Star Vista
Do you know what these houses are being redeveloped into? My father lived at number 18 and has many happy memories of the area.
David Taylor says:
THe RAF Seletar Association have in their ranks members who lived and worked at Seletar from as far back as the thirties up until closure as an RAF Base in 1969. Lots of data in our archives on everything to do with the base from 1928 the the present day. For details contact dt@deltatango.net
falwasser says:
Nostalgic… As a child we lived in a beautiful house on Ratus Road Sembawang, apartment on Admiralty Road and then Durban Road flats (an amazing community there).
It’s sad seeing the empty houses. The stories they could tell. The echoes of laughs and playing through those houses. Sad.
What Fun! Just fell into this blog while looking for names of streets! I’m scanning all my pictures and trying to document them. We moved on the base when it first opened to the public in 1976. Hardly anyone was living there and I had my pick of bungalows…I chose the one on Edgeware right where it faces Knights Bridge. I picked this one because it had a telephone booth right outside. I knew it was going to take months before I could get my own. I was alone most of the with two little boys while my husband was flying in Indonesia. What good memories… most of the families were British (I’m an American)… wonderful Halloween party – trick-or-treating all over the base followed by “tea” / BBQ! I remember my boys’ friends who lived on Knights Bridge – Bryan and Jenny Rebecca…how I learning to play golf on an empty golf course – Sammy was the pro…chasing our little dog home and locking him up so he wouldn’t roll in the sand traps! Matthew was our grocer who came by a couple of times a week.
Thanks for the memories! It was so long ago.
Effa says:
Does anyone know if I can rent any of these colonial houses for a 2day event (wedding)?
Barbara Lake says:
I lived on Wessex Estate twice. The first time 1952 – 1954. Cannot remember the name of the court but it was directly opposite the Pasir Panjang Infants school. We watched it being built and then I went there. From 1959 – 1960 we lived further up in Gibraltar Court.
We lived on Birdcage Walk, Seletar from 1958 – 1959.
Denise brook says:
I lived in singapore from 1961 to 1963, as a teenager.. We stayed at the pasa ris hotel for a short while then moved to a hiring in serangoon garden city, on Chartwell Avenue. we then moved onto the camp at Seleter, to Birdcage Walk, then to a newly built house on Swallow Street. it is great to see the old homes. I went back to Singapore two years ago and went to all the homes I lived in. one only has happy memories! Denise Crossfield.
Jean Arnold says:
I lived at 15 Birdcage Walk 1962/1963 – Jean Devoy
Jean, Could you contact me please. One of our memebers (RAF Seletar Assn) living in Australia wishes to get in touch. Just had an e-mail from him this morning, he was at Seletar way back, thinks he knows you.
Pete and Bev Ramsay NZDF says:
We lived in Duke Street Seletar 1971-1973 then Durban Road Naval Base 1977-1979. Our black and white in Durban Road was still there four years ago windows glassed in and air conditioning installed. Our Amah of both tours lives in Yishun and we are still in touch. I bought a set of tyres from Ah Soon Tyres Orchard Road in 1972, now he owns a Shell service station and we will catch up with him this month. Leighton Tailors of Jalan Kayu 1970’s now trades from Far East Shopping Centre and still make clothes for me. Great people and many memories.
Julia Brown says:
I lived with my family, father Group Capt TWA Hutton,at No 1 Park Lane, RAF Seletar, 1966/1970
Julia, I would love to get in touch with you. When writing the history of RAF Seletar (Crowning Glory ISBN 1-903953-16-2) I tried to get in touch with your father, but was unsuccessful. I did manage to contact the last CO, Group Capt Alexander Maisner, and we became good friends. I am still in touch with his daughter.
Hi David, Very sorry you didn’t manage to get in touch with my father, I am sure he would have loved to have spoken to you. Unfortunate he died just over five years ago. I was only a teenager and don’t have very much that would have helped you. I just remember really enjoying our time at seletar.
Hi Ramsays, very interesting to hear your story. Unfortunately Duke Street was one of the casualties of Seletar’s aerospace space revamp. Only a handful of streets are left. I live on Oxford and sometimes try to imagine how life was like in the old days when I stroll around the base. Must have been a peaceful and lovely experience, especially during days like Christmas and Easter. Here’s wishing you the very best.
Steve Ingram says:
I lived in 8 & 12 Hyde Park Gate between 1966 – 71 I was 9 -14 yrs old then, Dad was a teacher in the (derelict for many years) Junior school on Oxford rd/hampstead gardens (now demolished).
I came back to seletar a few weeks ago at the end of July 2015, bur there’s a new road and everything’s gone, School, Golf club house Oxford rd too. Now only a dual carriageway.
I tried to get to Hyde Pk Gt but could not get through, I could see No1 Park Lane (Station Commanders house) across the road but could not work out how to get there.
Do you know if the bungalows on Hyde Pk Gt and the Oval been demolished or are they being restored?
I wanted to get photos of our old houses but could not manage them.
Mr David Taylor says:
Have not visited this site for some time Steve but if you contact me I have quite a file on the ex RAF Seletar married quarters.
Hi guys. I am an Australian who lived at Seletar from 1959 to 1963 and worked at the CJ2 “spook station”. I played footy at the base, golf at the golf club, swum at the pool and grew to like a lot of English RAF types during my sojourn there. so much such so that I learned to fly back in OZ and was a pilot for all of my working life. I write novels now about the Arthurian Legends (15at last count) and my e-mail address is mikehume@bigpond.net.au I’d love to hear from anyone who was there in those marvelous days, not that todays days aren’t marvellous.
HI Mike
My family lived on Hyde Park Gate between 1966-71 I was a boy then 9-14 yrs old my dad was a teacher at Seletar Junior school. My Mum also worked at CK2 as secretary to the then Station Commander. She said there was an Aussie & NZ contingent there during her time (1970-71) I remember She really enjoyed her time at CK 2. great team spirit between all and lots of laughs -, I seem to recall there was also a CK1 which was not functioning then and was only used as a storage facility. ?
I believe that sometime after the Brits left, CK 2 closed and the Aussies and NZ contingent moved to a new facility somewhere around Kranji, I don’t know if they are still there ?
I went back to Seletar 4 weeks ago, much has now changed, lots been demolished to make way for the new aerospace hub.
Have you been back Mike,? of course this your back yard for hols etc.
Cheers Steve
mikehume says:
Hi, Steve, it was nice to hear from you. The spooks as your mum used to know them have closed down in most of our foreign bases. The age of technology meant that the job of monitoring radios was replaced by the age of intercepting phones, especially mobile phones, and this can be done (by all nations) from within their national borders.
Tis a pity because life was great then and we lived the dream. We’re still living it in many ways because those of us who live in “good countries” have a lot to be thankful for.
Your mum was there a little bit after me but I can still picture the office, which would not have changed during those years, and she would have been teased unmercifully by my peers who had a great opinion of you and yours. I’m certain that those who worked there in her years would probably remember her.
I am going to a dinner at the mess at Cabarlah next month and if I run into any of the Singapore Club who were there at that time, I’ll mention your name.
While I travel a lot and I rarely get a chance to read the Remember Singapore blogs, you can get me on mikehume@bigpond.net.au if your or her feel like a chat.
Mike Hume in glorious Brisbane in the Land of Oz.
Janeil Vaswani says:
Hi Steve, bit of a long shot but any chance you would be willing to share your experience on growing up in Hyde Park for a school project?
Janeil
Fenella says:
My name is Fenella Woodhouse and i’m a third year student studying Film and Television Production at the University of York. For my final year, I am required to produce a documentary portfolio, including a taster tape which lasts no longer than 5 minutes.
Living in Singapore as an expatriate for the last 15 years, I am wanting to produce a documentary about post colonial Singapore, uncovering the richly human nostalgic society of Singapore through exploring the postcolonial behaviour and identities of individuals. I was wondering if anyone could put me in contact with any individuals who might remember Singapore in its colonial days as i’d love to interview them for my documentary (preferably still living in Singapore!)
Just to be clear, the documentary is for an assignment and is thus for internal examination only, it will not be published outside of the University!
Hi Fenella! When you mention post-colonial Singapore, are you referring to the post-1959 self-rule years? In fact, there are many individuals who certainly remember the particular turbulent era.
Bruce Bird says:
Hi Fenella please give me a call +65 9103-1201 regards bruce
Hello, Jean. I was at Seletar from from 1960-1963,. I was in the Australian Army and worked at a radio station on yui chu kang road. when i first arrived in singapore i went out for some time with a girl called valerie miller, who, by chance, lived in Chartwell (or a similar name) at Serangoon Gardens. I also saw a girl called Jean who lived at Seletar and I’m almost positive she lived in the street you mentioned. My name is Mike Hume and I would have been about 20 at the time. I had one of those gas-guzzling american cars (a black studebaker from memory), The Jean I knew had a younger sister. I have recently been in contact with one old friend from those days a teenager who lived near you called ROY MCCUBBIN.who now lives in Exeter. I now live in Brisbane australia and and write books about the Arthurian legends that are sold around the world. If you like I can be contacted on mikehume@bigpond.net.au and I would love to hear from you, especially if you are the Jean I knew. My English website for the books is mkhume.co.uk
I hope that all is well in your world. Mike Hume
Jean Devoy says:
Hi Mike, Thanks for the message but I don’t think I am the Jean you are looking for. I was only 11 in 1961 when we were there and I don’t have a younger sister, just a younger brother. Do you have any relations in Tasmania as I know a Greg Hume who lives there. Hope you manage to find the Jean you are looking for. Best wishes, Jean
We’re going back in March 2018, my partner David Thomas is celebrating his 70th birthday on the 27th March at his previous home 2 Park Lane (now Wheelers Estate) ( he is son of Wg Cdr F Thomas)
You will have a wonderful time. Pam
Qt Boi says:
Ehhhe this is nice. Anyone went out to back of Hyde park road houses to view planes land/take off?
Kit Rabson says:
Yes, in 1968 I used to watch Andovers, single- and twin-Pioneers take off and land. The Beverley’s were already in the scrap line by then…
I used to take my baby godson to watch the planes take off and land between 1957-1959! I was 14-16yrs; we were living there when Lee Kuan Yew got in and changed everything. And guess what? I’m on my way back to Singapore for a trip down my memory lane next week – 23rd January 2018! I’ll be there with my retired RAF husband (Wg Cdr Roger Payne) for six nights before moving on to Sri Lanka. My father was the Station Warrant Officer, WO David Allan (he died in 2000 and is much missed) and my mum, Dorothy Allan, who sadly died exactly one year ago. I had a wonderful English friend, Janet Hunter, who lived on Mornington Crescent. We lived in one of the little houses in Jalan Kayu for the whole two years, I’m pretty sure it was in Tong Lee Road. Janet and I attended the school on the base and I have photographs of so many old school friends – if any of you read this, do please get in touch. My favourite teacher was Mr Chatsfield, the English teacher; he inspired me and as a result I became a writer/journalist. I happened to meet him one day in a little Arab shop in Aden in 1965. I lost touch with Janet Hunter (I think her married name might have been Elliot) her father was John Hunter – I would love to find her again. I also had a wonderful Chinese friend called Gan Yew Bee (don’t know if the spelling is correct) but I lost touch with her too after she married, we met in the home of Ceylonese friends of my parents, Binnie and Rahim. Her father was a very rich man and they lived in a huge house in the middle of an estate of bungalows, all of which belonged to the family and, I believe, were given to Yew Bee upon her marriage! Again, it would be wonderful to see her again, like me Janet and Yew Bee will be in their mid-70’s. I’m so grateful for this wonderful site, I’ve spent hours reading it all. Many thanks. Pamela Payne (nee Pam Allan).
Hi Jean. I agree. The ages don’t add up. Not to worry, because I have run across six people now that I knew from those days and I’m happy just to renew their acquaintance.
I have a son in Tassie but not the one you mention. My boy has a pub in a little town just outside of Launceston. I don’t see him very often because it’s very cold down in that part of the world..
Have a good 201, Jean, and I hope that all goes well in your world.
I stayed at 31 Lambeth Walk in 2004 as part of my training with SIA. It’s good to see that the building is still there. SIA used to lease many of the houses there. 25, 27, 31, 33 Lambeth Walk, the big bungalow next to the parking lot across 31 Lambeth Walk (ground floor was the canteen), as well as the first house just as you enter Maida Vale and some others at The Oval.
We used to walk to the flying college past the big houses along Old Birdcage Walk, through the golf course and past Hawker Pacific. Our local watering hole was the Kingfisher Club which I believe was at Park Lane. If we felt energetic, we walked over to Sunset Grill. Lots of great food (still available) within walking distance at Jalan Kayu. We used to travel down to Serangoon or Yio Chu Kang using bus 103 from the entrance of Seletar Camp.
I went by the area a year ago. It’s sad that so many of the buildings are gone now. But, unfortunately, that’s the price of progress. Should have taken more photos back then.
My father was in the Navy (fleet air arm) and I went to Seletar Secondary school 1968-1971. One of my very good friends at school was the daughter of Wing Commander Broad at Seletar and lived at 2 Park Lane. I spent a lot of time at that house with my friend and remember having a big joint birthday party under the house as it was built up on pillars. I believe that house has now been demolished.
Dukestreetgirl says:
I used to stay on Duke Street when I was a teenager around 2002, it was so much fun doing teenager stuff like gatherings, house parties when the parents are away, BBQs every weekend, the garage sales, that pack of wild dogs that terrorized seletar camp, I’ll never forget that uncle who was always chasing his chickens as well it was always amusing watching the chickens cross the road… Exploring but it was hella spooky exploring, so many encounters, witnessed cults at the old interchange right behind the old bus stop, that huge widow tree at the roundabout really creeped us out and the bus stop behind the long stretch of road is definitely haunted. Rode bicycles into the ‘forest’ right behind the bus stop where there’s a lake to take a dip. Oh and they tore my house down 😦 but the memories will never be erased 🙂
The colonial houses at Halifax Road… Some are converted into child care centers, others are left abandoned.
In 2013, they were thought to be in danger of being pulled down for the construction of the new North South Expressway, but URA has clarified that they would be safe from demolition.
Does anyone know a family called Miller who lived at Serangoon Gardens in the years 1960 to 1963. The father, “Dusty” was a “muso” who worked at Seletar and the Millers had two daughters, Valeria and Erika. I’d like to catch up with them if at all possible.
Mike Hume, Brisbane, Australia.
KnightoftheBridge says:
And to view the “mountains” across the strait? Yes! (80s- early 90s) there was no fencing but nobody went onto the runway. Good ol’ days
Brian Davies says:
I was posted as a sergeant , to live in Jalan Kayu on the left as you approach camp.to RAF Seletar, to 6TSU at the end of 1969. After 4 days at a hotel (of doubtful reputation, but very friendly to my wife, little daughter & me) we moved into a house at the back of Jalan Kayu’s main street.
In less than 2 months I was promoted to Chief Technician (with loads of housing points) and moved onto camp to a delightful bungalow at the main gate end of Regant Street (it had been the Station Warrant Officer’s dwelling prior to his posting)
It was a happy time, even though I spent a lot of time up in Malayia on exercises and the odd Op.
The Seletar Sergents Mess was terrific and my wife Jackie and I loved it. Taxi trips into town were frequent for our crowd for shopping and eating. I remember 5 trips around the Tiger Brewery ( the last one completed in 45 minutes!!!) Also Robinson’s Apartment store before it burnt down.
After nearly 2 years 6TSU became a Tactical Signals Flight as it moved to Changi Airfield, and quartered in Duxford Road at the AMQ’s a few miles from camp. In October 1971 I closed down the Flight and handed in a vast inventory in to stores. We were operationally capable up to the last day
My son Alun was born in Changi Hospital in Jan 1971 and three years ago visited Changi just before the Hospital was demolished
Hi Brian, At first I thought you were a member of the Seletar Assn, similar name, but has he worked in the Inst Section obviously not the same. Still, interesting letter.
Jacqueline Irvine says:
It was amazing to have lunch at 2 Park Lane the home of my partner from 1952-1955.
Hello Jacqualine, Your partner must have been Wing Commader Flying then. Don’t have his name but the CO, in No1 would be Group Captain Marlow, Seymour, or King, depending.
No David is the son of Wg Cdr F Thomas decd and was just a child. He was sent ‘home’ in 1955 to go to Findon College.
Polly Rabbits says:
I lived in Ratus Rd, in the early to mid 80’s. We were in a 3 story block of 6 flats. We loved it there and its so sad to see that they are no longer there… we were with the RNZN and NZ armed forces.
Matt Peters says:
I grew up in Seletar back in 89-92, best years of my life. I was recently there last Monday to be precise, my heart was very sad to see all the development. It was a very special place for me. Does anyone know how much these house are going for ?
chance upon gilbartar cresc beautiful colonial house, hope they can be preserved.
any1 selling at cyprus road property? keen to puchase
Christine Sparks ,ne Young says:
I lived in Seleter Hills during 1962-63-64 returned to Uk 65 Ithink .
My father was Chief ERA young in the Royal Navy he served on H M S Woodbridge Haven ,The Manxmen ,and I believe The Pelu ,during those years .
My sister was born in Changhi Hospital whilst we lived there ,and I have a brother who was just a small boy whenwe went out there .
Weboth attended first the Naval Base School ,then where transfered to the R A F school later .
We lived in a flat over the top of the shops initially ,then moved to a bungalowe further up Seleter Hills .
I was only about 7 when we arrived in Singapore ,and 10 when we left .
I have many memories of our time in Singapore ,especially our Amha and her daughter who made me a lovely batik blouse ,that I had for years .
I remember Robinsons department store,it was a treat to go in the restaurant there for a cold lemonade ,it had lovely air conditioning .
The bungalow we lived in had a monsoon drain outside garden ,and my brother rode his trike into it ,and he was hauled out covered in stinking green slime .
Luckily none the worse for his experience .
My mother and her friend Margaret Shaw placed him and the trike fully clothed into the shower to clean him off .
We stil laugh about that to this day .
If there is anyone who can still remember going to school during that time ,or living in Seleter Hills about the same time I would love to hear from you .
Best wishes Christine Sparks ne Young .
Henry Yim says:
Nice site. Interesting and nostalgic. Although I ain’t Singaporean, I worked in Singapore in the 80’s and at a time in the 80’s and 90’s. half my family were calling Singapore home. We still have strong ties with Singapore so I do feel attached to her in many ways.
I remember Dover Road and all those colonial house. We drove over here often and then onto Gim Moh for dinner or South Buona Vista for boneless duck rice. What a time!
New life for 13 more colonial bungalows at aerospace park
Thirteen more conserved colonial bungalows at Seletar Aerospace Park are being refurbished for retail, F&B and office use.
They will join four other bungalows which were renovated as food outlets that opened last year at the park’s food and lifestyle hub, The Oval.
The latest works are expected to be completed next year, and statutory board JTC has launched a request-for-interest for their use.
The move was announced yesterday by JTC, the lead government agency behind the development of Seletar Aerospace Park – a 320ha plot of land housing Seletar Airport and a total of 32 conserved colonial bungalows, the remaining 15 of which are currently vacant.
It is also home to more than 60 multinational and local aerospace companies.
JTC said the second phase of The Oval follows positive reception for the first. Footfall at its existing cluster of food outlets – Wheeler’s Estate, The Summerhouse, Youngs Bar and Restaurant, and Di Wei Teochew Restaurant – can hit 3,000 over a weekend.
The Straits Times understands from one operator that his overheads run up to a six-figure amount, with rent comprising a small fraction of that. He also noted that footfall at his outlet has increased by 80 per cent year on year since it opened in late 2016.
Seletar still houses around 130 other residential colonial bungalows, which are located outside the aerospace park zone.
JTC said that over the next three years, it plans to introduce heritage storyboards and gathering points along the existing Round Island Route of the National Parks Board (NParks) for cyclists and pedestrians which runs around the aerospace park.
This leg of the route starts at Rower’s Bay at Lower Seletar Reservoir Park and ends at Piccadilly along Seletar Aerospace Drive. This will be done in partnership with NParks, the National Heritage Board and Seletar Hills Estate Residents’ Association (Shera).
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-life-for-13-more-colonial-bungalows-at-aerospace-park
Kim Lupo says:
I lived in Singapore from 1973 to 76 when my dad was in the military there. We started out in Changi, then moved to Seletar and lived in the oval – last house as you went out the oval I think. Then moved to a huge black and white house overlooking the causeway between Singapore and Malaysia. I still have photos of it and memories of a dining table that sat 24 people and being able to play cricket in one wing of the house. Such an amazing place to grow up. Except for the huge snakes and lizards in the gardens!
Rob Lovett says:
We lived on Seletar camp from 1962 to 64, firstly at Hampstead Gardens, overlooking the golf course and then at Knightsbridge. I went to the primary school on the camp and have many happy memories of times spent at the swimming pool and fishing from the yacht club slipway. My father was an AQM (later designated loadmaster) on 34 squadron, flying Blackburn Beverleys.
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By Steven Meyer News December 3, 2019
King Park is excited to announce that both the Build Fund and the Edge Fund received grant awards from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.
The CDFI Fund makes grant awards to CDFIs to help them sustain and expand their financial products and services. Grant awards can be used for a variety of purposes including:
Increasing the volume of products or services
Providing new products or services
Expanding operations into new areas
We are proud to be selected out of so many applicants throughout the nation.
Nearly 500 organizations applied for the CDFI Fund’s Financial Assistance or Technical Assistance grant awards, though only 321 were selected.
Since its creation in 1994, the CDFI Fund has awarded more than $2.4 billion to CDFIs, community development organizations, and financial institutions. The Edge Fund received a $125,000 CDFI Technical Assistance grant award, while the Build Fund received a CDFI Financial Assistance grant for $225,000.
“I am proud to announce the FY 2019 CDFI Program and NACA Program awards,” said CDFI Fund Director Jodie Harris. “I am especially pleased that almost half of the awarded organizations have chosen to provide services in areas of persistent poverty, which will lead to significant impact for residents in some of the most distressed communities nationwide.”
Evan Tester, Deputy Director of King Park Development Corporation, stated: “We will use the CDFI grant awards to create impacts that encourage economic and affordable housing expansion in Marion County.”
The Build Fund and the Edge Fund will use the grant awards to enact positive change for our communities and improve upon our services providing inclusive, affordable housing and offering flexible financial products to local small businesses.
Steven Meyer / About Author
Steven has long served the Indianapolis area in several non-profit and government positions. As the Executive Director of King Park, Steven has continued to build on the success of the strong and diverse housing market and foster economic development. He has focused on leveraging the strengths and connections of the King Park area to attract new partners, new neighbors, and new economic opportunities.
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Children’s Television
Children’s television is an important part of the UK creative economy. Because of this, in 2015, the government introduced a special tax relief scheme for producers of children’s television. The Children’s Television Tax Relief (CTR) is one of eight creative industry reliefs and builds on the High-End Television Relief and Animation Relief.
Children’s Tax Relief aims to assist UK-based production of children’s TV by providing a financial boost. Like all of the creative tax reliefs, the CTR offers a cash benefit provided your production meets certain criteria.
Who can claim Children’s Television Tax Relief?
Children’s TV Tax Relief can be claimed by companies producing children’s television programmes. As with other creative tax reliefs, CTR can only be claimed by a company that is subject to corporation tax.
The production itself must meet certain criteria. The requirements are similar to those of the ATR and HTR. Programmes must be intended for broadcast and either pass the cultural test or qualify as a co-production. At least 10% of the production costs must be from activities in the UK.
Additionally, it must be a programme for children where the primary audience is expected to be under 15 years old. Programmes that are commissioned together are treated as a single programme under the guidelines for claiming CTR.
While HTR is subject to a £1 million per programme hour threshold and a 30-minute slot length requirement, Children’s TV Tax Relief is not. Like the lower thresholds for CTR reflect the different formats and types of production made for the younger audience.
The CTR also has certain allowances for quiz and game shows, provided the prize is not above £1,000.
Who can’t claim?
As with all of the cultural industries tax reliefs, certain productions are not eligible for CTR claims. These include
advertisements or promotional programmes,
news or current affairs programmes,
panel or variety shows,
live events, including theatrical performances,
programmes produced for training purposes.
BFI cultural test certification must be received before the claim can be made. An experienced CTR adviser can help producers understand the timeline for filing and how the BFI cultural test applies.
What costs qualify?
The costs incurred are the basis of any CTR claim, and this means that accurate record keeping is essential for a successful claim. Like HTR and ATR claims, relief is claimed on core expenditure in the UK. This may include pre-production, post-production, and intellectual property rights costs. An experienced CTR tax adviser can help determine which expenditures are eligible for a claim, as requirements may change.
Provided all criteria are met, companies can claim whether or not a production is profitable. This could be an additional deduction of 100% of the enhanceable expenditure or, if a loss has been made, 25% of the loss up to the amount of the enhanceable expenditure. A tax adviser can help determine what deduction might be available for a given production.
A worked example of Children’s TV Tax Credit can be found <here>
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Hastings RNLI Station open day welcomes future lifesavers
Amidst the local festivities of Old Town Week in Hastings, on Tuesday 31 July the town’s lifeboat station opened its doors to allow members of the public to board their Mersey class lifeboat, the Sealink Endeavour.
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Members of the public talk to Hastings lifeboat crew and lifeguards outside the boathouse
A combination of sunshine and incredible local support made Hastings lifeboat open day a roaring success. However, the day was bittersweet for the volunteers who make up the crew here, as they showed off their lifeboat to visitors for the last time before saying goodbye to her. The station is due to receive a brand new custom-built Shannon class all-weather lifeboat, the lifesaving capabilities of which are second to none.
Alongside Hastings lifeboat crew, local RNLI lifeguards showcased their own training equipment and rescue watercraft, while talking to visitors about their work educating the public around water safety.
Following first aid demonstrations from the lifeguards, children were eager to take it in turn to practice chest compressions with the training equipment and get behind the wheel of their rescue watercraft. RNLI lifeguard Harriet Lowe guided the potential future recruits and shared her enthusiasm for how the RNLI works to keep people safer.
Find out more about the charity's current campaign 'Respect the Water' to learn how to float and save yourself from cold water shock.
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RNLI lifeguards patrol over 249 beaches around the UK and Channel Islands
Taylor Johnson, Lifeguards Press Officer (Summer 2018) for the South East 07785 296252
Paul Dunt, Regional Media Officer (South East), 0207 6207426, 07785 296252 paul_dunt@rnli.org.uk
For enquiries outside normal business hours, contact the RNLI duty press officer on 01202 336789
RNLI online: For more information on the RNLI please visit http://www.rnli.org/. News releases and other media resources, including RSS feeds, downloadable photos and video, are available at the RNLI News Centre.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the charity that saves lives at sea. Our volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 238 lifeboat stations, including four along the River Thames and inland lifeboat stations at Loch Ness, Lough Derg, Enniskillen and Lough Ree. Additionally the RNLI has more than 1,000 lifeguards on over 240 beaches around the UK and operates a specialist flood rescue team, which can respond anywhere across the UK and Ireland when inland flooding puts lives at risk.
The RNLI relies on public donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. As a charity it is separate from, but works alongside, government-controlled and funded coastguard services. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824 our lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved at least 140,000 lives. Volunteers make up 95% of the charity, including 4,600 volunteer lifeboat crew members and 3,000 volunteer shore crew. Additionally, tens of thousands of other dedicated volunteers raise funds and awareness, give safety advice, and help in our museums, shops and offices.
Members of the public may contact the RNLI on 0300 300 9990 or by email.
Young supporter Jack dons an RNLI helmet as he revs the engine of their rescue watercraft with lifeguard Octavio Aizenman
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Prue Leith launches new cookbook at Salcombe RNLI 150th celebratory lunch.
On Friday 22nd March the Grose Family and Thurlestone hotel were delighted to have sponsored one of the events helping to celebrate the 150th anniversary and to raise money for Salcombe RNLI.
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David Grose, Prue Leith, Mark Dowie
Special guest Prue Leith helped to host the event and held a question and answer session along with a signing of her latest book “Prue, My all-time favourite recipes”
Thurlestone hotel, worked in partnership with local food and drink suppliers to help create a delicious three course menu for the 100 guests who attended the ticketed event. The Thurlestone Hotel, family owned since 1896, prides itself in supporting local charities and in particular the RNLI as it is a non funded charitable organisation and helps to protect and look after the area where the hotel is located. The RNLI is very close to the Grose families’ heart, and David Grose has had the honour of being their Chairman in the past and is very involved with the charity.
The aims of the Salcombe RNLI 150th Anniversary year are simple: to spread the word and encourage support from all over the South Hams, to commemorate (with two Jim Martins statues) this area’s service and commitment over 150 years, and to celebrate and ensure a firm base for the future. There will be many ways in which everyone can get involved so please follow the Salcombe RNLI through their website, and on Facebook and Twitter accounts. A Station history book (authored by Museum curator Roger Barrett) is available now and 30-minute documentary, produced and directed by Chris Tizzard, will be released in the Spring.
Thurlestone Hotel and Salcombe RNLI would like to thank everyone who attended the event for their support, and the suppliers, Baltic Exchange, Charles and Anne Maxwell, Mark Lawrence, Will Bees Bespoke, Salcombe Gin, Helly Hansen, Richard Pullan, Fiona Kilby, Ruth Archer, The Bake House Salcombe, Christopher Piper Wines, Kingfisher, Challices, Forest Produce, Salcombe Brewery, Café Du Monde, Martyn Norsworthy and Nick Walker printing who all helped to make this event a great success.
Thanks to the support shown at the Luncheon, approximately £11,000 was raised in aid of RNLI Salcombe.
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Prue Leith, with stories
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Lisa Blount…As Is and Still Loved.
The veil between life and death feels very thin to me right now. A breath could disturb it. The slightest ruffle could reveal a familiar face right behind. A voice known so well. A look, a whisper, a remembered expression. She feels so close to me and yet the veil is stretched between us and I can’t see beyond. I want to; I look up and expect to see her, to hear her voice, but there is nothing. Only silence. Only memory. And I shake my head, unable to believe the truth that feels so raw and surreal. That someone so close, so dear, so much a part of my life and times is…gone.
There are big questions to be discussed here. Life and Death questions. The Whys and Wheres and Hows of what happened, what happens next. The urge to flail and scream and demand answers is never more sharp than in a moment like this. She was here…now she’s gone. Where did she go? Seriously. Where? Believers will have their answers; non-believers as well. I just wonder. I don’t know. I only know that she’s gone and I’m stunned. I want to remember her, to write about her, so those of you unfamiliar can know this person who touched me with her sweetness, her talent, her love and support, even her ornery edges. For those who did know her, I want you to know my Lisa, the girl I knew; a person with the full spectrum of life and personality and emotion and pain and joy and sorrow…a person so big as to deserve testimony. I’m here to testify. For my girlfriend. My sister. My Lisa Sue.
Friends made in our twenties resonate in ways that are particular to the decade; an intensity that comes with youth, so full of drive and hope and a vision of the future that is indisputable. People met in that era of such deep feelings and dreams seem to LEAP into our psyches with a ferocity that is seldom matched as we grow older. That’s where Lisa and I met, at that ferocious age.
I came to Los Angeles in 1975 and was one of the first students in a new acting class run by Bobby Lyons, a brilliant teacher who, at the time, was a familiar face to many movie and TV viewers. I was deeply embedded for the next five years and met a boatload of people who ultimately became the center of my world; some of whom, to this day, remain my closest friends. They have moved around the country, diverted to new careers, disappeared into families and jobs and different worldviews, but somehow the ties-that-bind bound us forever. Lisa was a part of that world.
She came into the acting class a year or so after I did. She walked into the doors of the Chamber Theater in Studio City, CA, stood outside the tightly knit core at the center and peered in fearlessly. Petite, gorgeous, all Southern drawl and warm smiles, she had us at “Hey, y’all” and, in awe, we never looked back.
While our earnest successes ran the gamut from “I had a good cold reading,” to “an agent liked me!” “my new head-shots are great” or “they said I’d get the part if they go blonde,” Lisa Blount arrived fully formed as a bona fide movie star. No small thing. Not only was she Hollywood-gorgeous with her platinum Prince Valiant and huge blue eyes, but damn if that girl didn’t have talent all over the place! She’d been discovered in her home state of Arkansas, cast at 17 as a teenager obsessed with James Dean in the film 9/30/55, and by the time she got to us in the late ’70’s she was knee-deep in the trajectory that led to her breakout role as Lynette Pomeroy, Debra Winger’s best friend and David Keith’s tragic love interest in the unforgettable An Officer and A Gentleman. Nominated for a Golden Globe as “the Best New Star” of 1983, her position as our personal star was cemented from there.
Were there jealousies? No doubt. But Lisa had such an approachable, welcoming energy that it was impossible to keep her at bay for long, even on envy’s behalf. Frankly, she wouldn’t let you…embracing Lisa was just too easy a thing to do. I didn’t know her well those early years but I liked her; I was awed as the rest, and I certainly found her exotic. Besides her very appealing “Southern-ness” (fascinating to this Chicago-born Midwestern girl!) she was the only person I knew whose hair color changed as frequently as the month. Notice, in any photographic retrospective (including this one!), the swirling spectrum of reds, blondes, brunettes, browns, blacks that is her ever-revolving hair palette. There was even a brief and unfortunate green period (due to a miscalculated bottle job) that luckily slipped by the photographers! And while most of us were still in jeans and jackets, she was always wrapped in some sartorially-inspired tumble of vintage, western, and Betsy Johnson all put together on a calculated whim. Shopping with her was legendary and when I finally did make the squad, I was introduced to her impeccable eye for the “find”…she could pull 12 things off a clearance rack and conjure couture. I wouldn’t have even seen the 12 things.
We briefly shared an agent, which had me smug for, oh, so short a period of time, as he unceremoniously dumped me after becoming a manager, deciding Lisa’s career trumped anything I might have to offer. Even then I liked her…think about that! As we ambled closer to friendship, she attached to a select few of my closest cohorts, (particularly Nancy Locke Capers, Susie Singer Carter, Pat Royce, the late, beloved Taylor Johnson and Tina Romanus, right) and over time we bumped into each other so often that intimacy became inevitable. I remember bonding over a lengthy phone conversation in which she hilariously diatribed about a recent (and temporary) weight gain that resulted in “a stomach that is lying right here on the bed next to me, looking up, tellin’ me ‘I’m hungry, girl!” With her accent, her timing, and her willingness to poke fun at herself, she was irresistible.
We threw ourselves into the relationship as young girls do. We shared music and bands we both loved, she’d gussy up and sit front and center at my gigs at Club Lingerie or Madame Wong’s; we’d dissect books and movies, get to the gym, and work lines for each other’s auditions. She was a passionate friend, ardent about her support and so expressive of her feelings. She could burst into tears listening to a song I’d recorded or remembering a particular passage I wrote that moved her. She did, in fact, read and edit every single thing I did write: screenplays, one-acts, even my recent 350 page novel manuscript, offering impeccable notes, mind you! When you talked to her she listened like there was no one else in the room and she paid as vivid attention to the good news as the heartache, something not everyone can do. And she really, truly wanted to hear your opinion on any one thing or another. That she wouldn’t always agree with you was a given and when she didn’t, you’d surely be the first to know. I can remember a few “mornings after” when a somber call revealed disagreement with something I’d said the night before or she’d found herself hurt by a comment made. It could be chagrining, those morning conversations, but I grew to appreciate the clarity; you never had to guess where you stood with Lisa Blount. She’d damn well let you know.
She wasn’t always easy. She was a wild child at times and often left me in the dust. She could be recalcitrant and demanding and there were episodes I found maddening. She had demons and shadows like so many of us but there was also something restless and relentless about her hunger for life and the accomplishment of the goals she set out for herself, and that sometimes exhausted both her and the people closest to her. She did everything full-bore, whether tearing up the town, delivering a kick-ass performance, or giving you the shirt off her back. That passion was both her blessing and her curse. It left her raw and vulnerable at times when she needed to be strong. It misguided her at times when wisdom should’ve trumped emotion. It hurt her at times when old pains and new ones stole her energy and attention. But when she felt good, when she was clear and on her game, that big heart and soul of hers was truly something to behold.
In the early ’90’s she decided to make a big change. Her career was going in fits and starts, her marriage had ended, and she wanted to get stronger. She wanted to clean up the cobwebs, clarify the focus; start a new chapter. And so she did. Part of that “let’s get healthy” assignment translated into a workout regimen that was sometimes brutal; it was so like Lisa to leap off a cliff before testing the waters below! She liked working with a punching bag, loved the physicality of it, the visceral, high-impact smack that drained stress and gave her a place to funnel her energy and anger. It was so invigorating that she didn’t pay much attention to the details, like how high should the bag be? What was the best angle for her body? What was the suggested time limit of a good workout? Nah, not Lisa. She punched away like there was no tomorrow and, with little notice of the initial pain, tore the muscle off her right scapula in what she thought was a forgettable injury. She had no possible way of knowing that this minor moment of over-activity was going to change the rest of her life.
I got married (“Oh, Lorraine, he is just precious!”), she did TV shows (Profit, Judging Amy…), movies (Great Balls of Fire, Box of Moonlight…); we did a play together, she dated here and there, and simultaneous with all this evolving and experimenting and living, she became more and more impacted by the growing and excruciating pain in her back. The seriousness of the injury was finally determined, doctors got involved, treatments were implemented but they told her the time between injury and treatment had exacerbated the problem: scar tissue had formed between the bone and the torn muscle and the subsequent nerve damage created constant and fearsome pain.
And life was changing, quickly. We were getting older; our lives were taking a different shape. I now had my son, many friends were working full-time, married, involved in disparate creative projects, and we mourned the loss of a common cause, a class, a club where we could all gather and connect. So we started a “women’s group,” a loose, informal gathering of friends and acquaintances that got together in revolving homes once a week and, by turn, shared the bullet points of our lives for discussion and analysis. Our first meetings were so popular that over 30 women showed up and the opportunity to share with any depth was limited. But over time people fell away and before long we dwindled down to five or six, until it was just four of us: me, Lisa, Tina Romanus and Joyce Jackson. It was then that Lisa and I became sisters.
We met every week for the next ten years. Every week, bar nothing. Four to five hours of naked, soul-stripping conversation. The men in our lives shook their heads, wondering what on earth we could possibly find to talk about for that length of time. Well…them, for one thing! But it was more than girl-talk; it was about the world around us, our careers, frustrations, favorite movies, our lives, all of it, and if there’s anything women bond over, it’s the sharing of their lives. There was so much laughter, lots of tears and honest thought, and always – always – good food. The hostess would provide and, believe me, though every one of us had our culinary high-points, we always looked forward to Lisa’s turn, especially after her mother, Louise, came to town and introduced us to the Blount Family Home Cookin’ Extravaganza: baked ham, collard greens, grits (two kinds), mac n’ cheese, cornbread baked in an iron skillet, black-eyed peas with bacon, sweet (sweet) tea, and always something sinful for dessert. Lisa learned well from her Mama and before long we came to expect those dinners when it was her turn to host. And since we always made a damn big deal about each of our birthdays, when it was mine, the assignments were clear: Joyce made the chocolate cake (best ever), Tina brought the most creatively wrapped gifts, and Lisa cooked her amazing “soulful food” for me. Have had nothing like it since.
Somewhere in there the name “Ray McKinnon” started cropping up. Lisa had done a film called Needful Things in 1993 and thus began all manner of chatter about this tall, gangly, very intriguing fellow who played Deputy Norris Ridgewick and had won her heart. In fact, we heard so much about him that we finally stood up and said, “Lisa Sue, it’s time we met this Ray McKinnon” and so it happened. An event was organized at Lisa’s house; a gathering of poetry lovers called to listen to the current poet laureate. Ray was conveniently (and conspicuously) part of that crowd. We girls looked that man over like the sister-crones we were and came away charmed, charmed, I tell ya! Warm, funny, clearly enamored of our girl, he passed muster in a nanosecond and quickly became an invaluable, essential member of our family of friends. When Ray and Lisa were married in 1998, we were all there to sing the wedding song and celebrate their moment of deep, abiding happiness. That was a very, very good day.
But the story, like life, couldn’t seem to stay steady. While she and Ray flourished as a couple, Lisa’s pain became more disruptive. Jobs were lost because she wasn’t physically capable. Social events were passed on. The pain was chronic and so unrelenting that it became a syndrome unto itself. There were difficult and futile surgeries. Drug regimens. Alternative treatments. Prayers and affirmations and encouragements. She and I talked long and hard about what was going on and both did endless research on the topic. I learned more about pain than I ever wanted to and she experienced more than anyone ever should. But even in that, she refused to disengage from life. She’d get herself out of bed and keep going. When the girls came to my family’s vacation home up on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington state, she was the one, the only one, who wanted to conquer Mt. Constitution with me. It is the highest point in the island chain; a 9+ mile round trip with a 1240-foot elevation gain and it is a good challenge for even the hearty hiker. For this wounded woman struggling with chronic pain…really? Oh, yeah. And she did it. With vigor. Even after I got us lost on the way down and ended up costing us a few more miles of walking, she completed the trek exhausted but elated. It remained, always, a sweet, private triumph for us both.
But then life took a very interesting turn. As she would say later, “Just as one door was seemingly closing in my life, another door opened. And I only have one person to thank for that, my husband Ray McKinnon.” She and Ray had created Ginny Mule Pictures with their friend and partner, Walton Goggins, and that ambitious adventure proved a boon. With a mission statement to tell and depict Southern stories with authenticity and significance, Ginny Mule’s inaugural production was The Accountant(a farm comedy), a film short written and directed by Ray. With a script that was nurtured by Lisa’s unerring sense of nuance and logic, it starred Ray and Walton, as well as their friend and fellow actor, Eddie King, and was a brilliant piece of biting, prescient satire on the state of farming in the South. It rang with truth and wit, and audiences were bowled over. Back at the Girls’ Group, Lisa started talking about what to wear to the Oscar’s and we girls looked at each other with knitted brow. Positive thinking was always encouraged, mind you, but this seemed…well, this seemed too high a place to aim and we worried that she was setting herself up for some raging disappointment. But when the nominations were announced, as we all now know, there they were, on that precious, very exclusive list. We were thrilled and relieved; now she could be happy with that, right? Nope. Now we were talking about who would be up on the stage when the winner was announced – all three? Her and Ray? Ray and Walton? And once again, we looked at each other and gulped. Ever protective, we wondered, couldn’t the nomination be enough? Apparently not. And damn if on the big night it was those three – Ray, Walton, and Lisa – who walked up to accept the Oscar for Best Film Short. I was in a San Francisco hotel room at the time watching the show with my family and the ensuing cacophony brought phone calls and fears of intervention from the front desk. It was a communal triumph and nobody was happier than Lisa and Ray’s friends. We threw an Oscar party a few weeks later and had cake.
She is well known for many roles – obviously An Officer and a Gentleman is so iconic that one only has to say “Way to go, Paula!” to know who Lisa Blount is. But the role that will always be her defining performance, to my thinking, is her star-turn in Chrystal.
Produced by Ginny Mule, brilliantly written and directed once again by Ray, who also stars as the venomous Snake (along with Ginny Mule partner, Walton Goggins, and Billy Bob Thornton as Lisa’s co-star), Chrystal gave Lisa a many-layered character to embody, one that not only tapped into her considerable acting (and singing) skills, but also told the story of her pain in a fictional framework. Ray says he wrote it as a “love letter”; a way to honor the daily struggle Lisa now endured, and it is exactly that.
Chrystal tells the tragic but ultimately redemptive tale of a woman who suffers not only the loss of a child due to a car accident caused by her drug-dealing husband, but the physical torment of a broken neck that leaves her in never-ending, excruciating pain. When her husband is released from prison after 16 years, she is left to find what remains of their lives, struggling with her ability to forgive and move on. It’s a dark, painful story that depicts the sorrow of lives spiraling into despair, but offers a profound narrative turn that presents realistic hope. Lisa gives a powerful performance that is heartbreaking and sometimes almost too raw and painful to watch. It is one of the most stunning pieces of work I have ever seen – and I mean that, girlfriend or no girlfriend. I was in the theater when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 and the audience was literally sobbing in stunned silence by the film’s end. If you see nothing else that Lisa did in her too-short but illustrious career, please see this film. Brilliant on all accounts.
Her last major film was Ginny Mule’s Randy and the Mob, in a hilarious, deadpan performance as Charlotte Pearson, Randy’s (Ray McKinnon) wife who is chronically depressed, suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome, and is a baton-twirling instructor. I think that’s all that needs to be said. Ray is not only the titular Randy but additionally plays Randy’s gay identical brother – a turn of inspired lunacy – and Walton is the mysterious Tito. Even Burt Reynolds shows up. A Southern mob caper. It is, as they say, a hoot.
Shortly after the completion of Randy and the Mob, Lisa and Ray moved to Little Rock. It was a move precipitated by the need for change, the need for family, and the hope that Lisa could heal in the quieter, gentler environs of her childhood. For me, it was the end of my chapter. Certainly the end of an era. I knew she had to go but I felt like I was losing a pivotal member of my family, my innermost circle. I didn’t know when I would see her again and it was, in fact, almost five years before I did. That occurred when Ray was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Ginny Mule’s latest co-production, That Evening Sun, starring Hal Holbrook, Ray and Walton (a brilliant, touching film…a must-see), and he and Lisa came to town for the award ceremony in the spring of this year. Though we had talked long and often in her absence, it did my heart some serious good to actually see her, because she looked beautiful, she was feeling good enough to travel, and she had hope. HOPE. That was a lot. We planned a “girls’ trip” for the fall…we’d been waiting for each of our lives to settle down and for her to feel better before we got out to Little Rock and it seemed it was finally time.
And so I did get to her house in Little Rock. Finally. This past weekend. Five days after she left this world. I walked into the house that Lisa built, with the many items and details I knew so well from her Los Angeles home, and wandered through, from room to room, imagining her pulling my arm to drag me to the next surprise; chattering away, telling me, “Now, Lorraine, I got this at a little thrift shop downtown for a dollar and don’t you think it works perfectly with this sconce?” Which it did. Of course it did, Lisa. It all worked perfectly. And in that beautiful old Southern home, surrounded and cared for by Raymond’s incredible family of women – sisters Judy and Dotty, cousin Kim, his wonderful Mama – with an eclectic but now forever-bonded group of LA friends – Walton, Eddie King, Perry Herman, Kathryn Howell, my husband Pete – and scores of other family and friends who found their way to the house – Tim Jackson, Jon & Sandra Marbaise, Chris Jones, Lorri Davis, Philip, Danny, too many to mention; all heartbroken and longing to find a way to comfort Ray and grasp some last, ephemeral sense of Lisa, we gathered and mourned.
Each of us has our specific memories, our eras; our particular roles in her life. Some knew her from the films and TV shows they did together. Others remember her from her childhood. High school. College. Even within the Los Angeles era there were different chapters. I was lucky enough to be part of many of those. So let me come back to bookend my story:
By the end of our time together the only thing that had changed was the physical distance between us. The rest remained. She knew my secrets, I knew hers. She loved me unconditionally, as I did her. We considered our families family. She adored my boy and took every chance to cuddle with him when he was little and applaud his accomplishments as he grew older. I love her husband and she loved mine, particularly empathetic when a series of car accidents left him, too, in chronic pain (she was even sweet enough to be the costume maven for a show of his!). She celebrated my birthdays with me, all the major holidays, even some minor ones, and she and Ray were welcomed regulars at our Thanksgiving table. We grew up together, we grew older together, and we looked forward to finding our ways as crotchety old gals still kicking ass together. Yep, we had plans.
But know this: even in all her pain and struggle, Lisa never lost faith that life would get better. And in those last months, that faith was returning the favor. She just shot a pilot for “Outlaw Country,” a new FX series with Mary Steenburgen, she spent time in Nashville recording several songs, and she was honored with the Arkansas Hall of Fame Award. She was ready to start remodeling the kitchen, she had just finished Ray’s office; she talked of planting a garden and, lo and behold, she’d once again changed her hair color. If ever there was a sign of orneriness coming to back life, that was it! As she told several people in these last months, she was ready to start saying, “Yes!”
It’s hard to distill a life down to a tribute speech, a magazine article, or a blog entry; particularly a life as colorful and accomplished as Lisa’s. I’ve only touched on some of the poignant markers we made together along the way. The ones that defined the friendship I had with this woman for over 30 years. Hopefully they’ve done her justice. Her last words to me were in an email she sent Oct. 1st. It was my 20th anniversary and I’d posted a blog article about my husband (Cowboy Strong & Poetry Sweet…Love In the Age of MTBI). She rarely emailed, so I was particularly touched to get this note from her: “Lorraine, happy anniversary to you and Pete. As you must know, you two have been and remain the truly most inspirational couple that I know. Because of my health issues, and knowing how sad, how strange it has affected my life, I have been able to look at you and know that I am not alone. That my husband is not alone. When I think back to your beginnings together, it seems like we have all grown up. A lot. Not just changed, but accepted our lives…as is and still loved. I thank you both for reminding me how precious all phases of love is. Your ole pal, Lisa.”
The veil shifts for a moment…I see Lisa walking into my house with a pan of something hot and fragrant, dressed to the nines, a gift in hand of some lovely thing she found in a consignment shop. She’s got a big wide smile on her face and when she sees me, her eyes light up and she hugs me with a warm, happy “Hey, Lorraine!” That’s my Lisa. That’s my girl. As is…and still loved.
An Officer & a Gentlemen on-set photo courtesy of www.inarkansas.com
Lisa Blount & Billy Bob Thornton, Crystal poster @ www.imdb.com
Ray McKinnon & Lisa Blount, Independent Spirit Awards @ www.zimbio.com
All other photos courtesy of Lorraine Devon Wilke
Billy Bob ThorntonChrystalGinny Mule PicturesLisa BlountOfficer and a GentlemanOscar-winning film short The AccountantRandy and the MobRay McKinnonsouthern filmsWalton Goggins
These “Happy Days” with Miz Susan Morgenstern
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20 thoughts on “Lisa Blount…As Is and Still Loved.”
it was very interesting to read.I want to quote your post in my blog. Can I? And do you have an account on Twitter?
Tina Romanus
Thank you for writing this astonishingly beautiful tribute, to our Lisa.
You shared so many wonderful memories; your own experience filled with joy and sorrow; creating a vivid portrait, for those who didn’t know her as well, bringing her a little closer to us all today. Lisa’s life was a living painting. Her very presence in our lives said, “You are loved.”
Lorraine, you captured her essence eloquently; with poignancy and humor. I loved that you touched, not only on her talent and her goodness, but on her orneriness and her changing hair color through the years. That made me smile. My favorite color was strawberry blonde, when we waltzed with the girl we adored.
I share this unfathomable anguish with you, our mutual friends, her husband Ray and Lisa’s lovely family. Your telling of her story was so comforting. It helped me to see some photos, which I don’t have. The one in the bathroom, for instance, and the one at Thanksgiving dinner at your house, bought me back to a time, when we laughed until we cried, dreamed each other’s dreams, and never for a moment, thought that it would ever end.
The last time you and I saw her, we were standing on a balcony looking below, trying to find her, and then she appeared with her arms up, outstretched, welcoming us, and yelling, “I’m here.” Those words echo in my memory now, and I will listen for those words, which I hope to hear again one day.
We will hold her close in our hearts, and give thanks for her brief time with us, when our lives were richer for her love.
Your Sister-friend,
Tina…what can I say…you were there, you were part of the circle and we’re all reeling, as you say. I’m touched that you felt I did her justice in this piece; obviously that was my goal. She was such a pivotal part of our community, it is literally, at this point, impossible to believe she’s not here. I will continue to hold her dear and close, as I do you. And when all else fails, I’l put my thoughts and feelings into words, where I find my clarity in ways that comfort me and, hopefully comfort you. love, Lorraine
Colin Fickes
Incredibly moved by your tribute to Lisa.
Colin – thank you for your comment. I’m glad you got the email and took the time to read the story. Lisa’s friends seem to all be very lovely people…
Nancy Locke Capers
Lovely, Lorraine…..
Pat Royce
I am so utterly moved by this piece you have written, Lorraine. Lisa would be so so touched. You have a way of capturing with words the essence of a person, a feeling, an experience…like nobody I’ve ever read. You have described Lisa perfectly. And you have paid tribute so beautifully to what a generous, honest, incredibly loving friendship is. I’m proud to have been her friend and so proud to be yours.
What a beautiful comment, Pat. Coming from you, it means a lot…both about the writing and the woman. I’m so glad you feel I captured Lisa’s essence – that was my goal and she was so clearly in my mind as I was writing this that I half expected her to come bounding in the room. Would that she could. What a sad journey for our circle of friends. Thank you for commenting, pate. Love, L.
Oh Lor…..beautifully said, as always.
thanks, Nancy…
Breathless. I’ve been on alert for this since you wrote after her death that a personal tribute would be forthcoming. There is a depth and texture in this portrait that is stunningly missing from the standard media coverage of her death. What emerges is a victor who wouldn’t settle – whether challenging herself (or you!), pursuing her dream of manifest excellence in her work life, or seeking authentic relationships with friends and that true love she surely found and deserved. I love so much about this piece. I love that she seems a thoroughly modern successful and bright woman who wanted to be more than a Hollywood resume, who retained her roots and that innately southern charm thing while merrily trying on new styles and hair colors. I love that this group formed of weekly base-touching – the sister circle of support. How fortunate you all were and are, particularly as you turn to each other right now. I love that she was still stretching her talent boundaries and branching out. I love that she defied her chronic pain to the extent she could and perhaps prepared you for understanding the nature of daily pain.
That veil will continue to flutter. You’ll remember and continue to hear her voice and sense when she is nearby – that spirit now soars and is out there to ring the windchimes on your porch, or blow in your ear on a hike or tell you – “c’mon just a few more reps” when you’re in the gym.
Loved all the pictures and somehow think – redhead seems to suit her best – a bit exotic and definitely noticed for its rarity.
Thinking of you and your loss. much love.
Cris: I responded to your comment last night but for whatever reason, I apparently didn’t hit save. And I really wanted to respond because your comment just knocked me out. You don’t even know this women and yet your sense of who she was was profound. Your artistry via the written word is immense and I hope enough people are getting to your blog (http://cris-cafeimagine.blogspot.com/), as readership is richly deserved. There’s just something about your ability to read someone’s work and make the most poignant comments…it’s a gift, really. You touched me deeply for understanding my friend. She is someone you would’ve liked, both of you so artistic and full of life. Thank you for being a part of this journey…much love, L. (I always liked the red, too!:)
Your writing is so sharply attuned to conveying details that it is relatively easy to intuit something about the subject of any of your blogs. In rereading this, I find her performance in Officer and Gentleman all the more noteworthy as that character’s rather craven selfishness and desperation seems so unlike the friend you have described here.
Will note the other recommended films, particularly Chrystal which seems to be an artistic love letter. Always a sucker for those.
Please keep writing and I will continue to read and occasionally drop a comment.
Thank you, Cris. Do check out Chrystal. Tough film but worth the journey. I will keep writing and I will keep reading. Glad to have you in my corner. Love, L.
I don’t know why I was compelled to find the voice that sang “Red Rocking Chair”. I began my search this morning and found a Youtube video of Lisa Blount singing that song. I listened for a while and let her voice soothe my soul. Just before I closed the windows with my search, I saw the words “found dead”. I hesitated. I did not want to know. But hiding from truth just leaves a void. I am so glad I came here and found a beautiful tribute of someone to whom my only connection was a mournful song.
Marian:
Your comment so touched me. I, too, loved the rendition of that song Lisa sang and I’m amazed that you were able to track down my tribute compelled by that song! Truly a testament to her voice, her feeling, her transcendental talent.
It has been almost a year since Lisa died and there isn’t a day that passes that I don’t think of her in one way or another. She is missed on so many levels – her amazing talent, her production skills, her family attachments – and, for me, a dearest, most darling friend. Life is an amazing journey and I’m grateful my path crossed hers, as I’m glad yours crossed mine today.
Thank you for your kind words. LDW.
I only met Lisa a time or two with her precious cousin Sandra. I was priveleged enough to be able to conduct the sale of her personal property for Ray McKinnon, approximately a year and a half after her death. I feel like I got to know her just a little bit by being in her home and around her personal property for the three weeks that it took us to prep for her sale. I was also blessed to be around Ray McKinnon for a few of those days, and I must tell you that she must have been a heckofa girl to have a man still so in love with her, a year and a half after her death. Their beautiful home was the home of true artists, no doubt, and I count the contract to sell the personal property of Lisa and Ray’s home together among my highest accomplishments. Your article was sent to m by Sandra marbaise, Lisa’s cousin and it was just as beautiful the Blount/McKinnon home. What a talented group of friends! Wish I could have known you all!
Anna: Lovely to get your comment.
Yes, Lisa and Ray’s home was beautiful, a reflection of a woman with incredible creativity and impeccable taste and a man who appreciated both. They were quite the couple and two of my dearest friends. Lisa’s death was, and continues to be, a shock and a deep sadness. I imagine Ray will still be in love with her for the rest of his life, regardless of where that life takes him. As for me, I still hear her voice saying, “Hey, Lorraine!” in that inimitable way she had, all warm and loving and always interested…she was quite something!
I’m glad they had someone caring and sensitive to take care of the sale of their home; it had to have been difficult for Ray and I’m sure you’re assistance went a long way toward making it bearable. Sandra is a very dear, sweet woman and we’ve stayed in touch since Lisa’s passing; I consider her a friend.
Thank you for your kind words; they did have an extraordinary group of friends, all of whom felt they were as extraordinary in return. It was an amazing time we all had together….LDW
Miriam Davey
I’ve seen lots of movies in my lifetime, but Lisa’s amazing performance in “Chrystal” is one of the few that stays with me. Her rendition of “Red Rocking Chair” has got to be among the best ever recorded. I wonder if her Nashville recordings have been released?
Miriam: I couldn’t agree with you more. I watched Chrystal recently, the first time since Lisa died, and it both broke my heart and made me, once again, realize what a talent she was. Such an incredible loss. I don’t know what happened to her Nashville recordings; I’ll have to see if I can find out anything about that. Thanks for stopping by…LDW
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Ecojon’s Thoughts on the Passing of Baroness Thatcher
I have had many thoughts over the milk-snatcher’s death and have tried hard to control the hatred I once felt for her over the savage destruction not just of the mining industry but of the tight-knit communities and their people also destroyed as part of their punishment for opposing the Tories and bringing them down. I lived through these times and was deeply involved in the struggle and it is hard to forgive.
But being older, and definitely no wiser, and having attended a funeral of a good person on Saturday I have tried to see her not as the cruel and very damaged piece of work that she undoubtedly was, but as just another human being with all her frailties who has reached the end of the road. Not that I have any criticism for those who have celebrated her passing – after all the Establishment will celebrate it in a slightly different way at her State Funeral.
But then I saw last night that she no longer lived in her London home but had moved to a hotel room nearby as she was very much alone in her latter days. Somehow it seems a fitting epitaph for the woman who tried to destroy the whole concept of ‘society’ and who certainly damaged it in large swathes of the UK and even in far-flung countries. At the end of the day the lowly-paid people who will never be part of Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ were the ones she was entrusted to and I feel sure were compassionate in their treatment of her.
As to the Falklands – anyone with a crumb of intelligence knows that this could have been dealt with through diplomacy but she needed a ‘good’ war to ensure electoral survival. Many brave soldiers, from both sides, lost their lives far from home in a war that should never have happened.
I simplisticly used to think way back then that it would be cheaper to relocate everyone from the Falklands back in the wild areas of the UK and fully support them financially to pursue the kind of lifestyle they appear to desire. A Highland Clearance in reverse so to speak.
But silly me – way back then I knew nothing about the oil reserves around the Falklands; hadn’t realised that we might one day have to rely on their teeming fish-stocks; and also the geographic importance of the islands for the inevitable despoilation of Antarctica for its mineral resources once the ice has receded a bit further.
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martin c
25,000 and counting
Has ever the death of a British premier, ever provoked street parties, …..In Britain.
Just watched STV – Green is finished and the Board of Rangers International needs to sack him or resign. This sham just cannot continue – the tape of Green and Whyte is devastating for Green. Allegations of Racism is the least of his worries.
Amazing that STV have turned on him – more later on the late show.
Ecojon~~~ is there not something about he cant be sacked for a while yet as they are a NEW company!!!
@GWG
I thought he had tuped over from Sevco 5088 🙂
lol~~~~ naw….. do they must have a AGM before any of the current lot can be sacked
since adams not here anymore to correct yous its tube not tubed lol what a buzz lol
JohnBhoy
@ecojon
I agree eco. Charlie’s history. STV stitched him up good and proper – he never saw them coming. Incidentally, an excellent piece from you above – intelligent and genuine as ever. Well done.
JB.
At the end of Scotland Tonight’s piece:- ‘Rangers FC will not be issuing any further statements as these matters are now in the hands of our lawyers.
They will be ‘ pleading the 5th’ next!
I think they will have plenty to say Bud.SB’s don’t sell themselves. Lol.
It’s a horrid murky world they live in, if money made me like that, I would give it all away!
barca.
eco posted earlier that the share price had dipped below 70p for the first time today – albeit only temporarily as it is still 70.5p. What he didn’t mention was that this was on the back of the trades totalling less than 800 shares. They must be bricking it – I have never seen so little activity since the share
issue! It’s almost like being on the edge of a crumbling cliff and being terrified to move in case the whole lot disappears beneath your feet.
Where are the neds ?
Maybe that arschloch [ that’s german for asshole] Gilmour at Saints, will wake up and see the kind of people he is attempting to deal with. [allegedly]
indeed~~~ WONT BE LONG NOW!!
http://tinypic.com/m/fymr8o/2
newtz
ahem …..
Mr Green told STV that he has spoken to Rangers’ lawyers and is planning on submitting a report to Police Scotland in relation to the conduct of Mr Whyte, who purchased Sir David Murray’s 85% stake for £1 in May 2011.
Have inserted this into my Babel translator (Tyke to English) …….
and got something completely different ……….
Something about being asked to submit a response ……..blah blah …
To StrathClyde (assumed) Police ……. blah blah ….Regarding …… blah ……. something about Mr Whyte claims …… blah blah … (Allegedly) ….
Need to adjust setting further to get more sense out of it …..lots about whippets …. flat caps …..et al …
Will endeavor to unscramble further ……
Just inserted ‘ Up a creek without a paddle’ into my Babel Translator (English to Tyke) …….. and got ….
On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at ……………….. what the ……
Translated back (Reverse translation) ……. Got ……..
“On a Moor without a hat”
Still rolling around rhe floor …………
Latest attempts at translation of interview (Tyke to English) give lots and lots of abuse and swear words …..
Would be put into moderation if i repeated them ……..
I think you might need to change the late 2013 dateline 🙂
aye~~~~ looks like I’ve pre-ejectulated
not to worry there’s another one in the making
Craig Whyte levels his .44 oz magnum ice cream at the wounded Charles who is trying to recall if Craig has fired all the cassettes in his recorder. Craigy says, “I know what you’re thinkin’. Did he record six tapes or only five?… You’ve got to ask yourself one question…Do you feel lucky?… Well, do you, Chunk?”
Charles Green on STV ….
Who is Manchester United?
Right, now i’m upset …………. going straight on Red Cafe ……..
I’m on his case now …….
…… and shadup mcfc … afore ye comment 🙂 …….. who are MU …… indeed …..
A repost getting things in the correct order …..
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
Charles Green discovered to have been telling the truth …
Proof discovered that oldco assets WHERE transferred direct to Sevco Scotland
Previous statement …. “For the avoidance of doubt ….. etc” … CANNOT be attributed to Charles Green direct.
On June 14th 2012 Companies House records Resolution ……
DISAPPLICATION OF PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS
This gave Charles Green absolute authority over Sevco 5088.
D&P duly presented with copy of resolution and with his authority assets transferred DIRECTLY to Sevco Scotland.
Charles Green VINDICATED
….. END ….
Oh …….
Since such a resolution could not be passed without the written approval of Whyte as the majority shareholder in Sevco 5088, then if Charles Green can produce this written authority ….. he is in the clear ……. Simples
Now who is Manchester United ya Muppet ….. !
Has y one got a time for the Chicco Verde “This is your lie” programme tonight on STV. I can only get on satellite, and only caught tail end. It took me ages to find the code to add as an extra channel, but I don’t have a schedule list on it
Get it on your computer under stv news.
Cheers bud, After me tearing my hair out trying to find it on my dish. Lol. I’ve got it on my telly now, but still no schedule
You gotta laugh at the posters who think Britain has a right to the Falkland/ Malvinas. The islands are over 8000 miles from Britain and 130 miles from Argentinian Patagonia. Nobody is taking away their right to remain on the Malvinas but if they choose to remain then they should do so as Argentine citizens. It still shocks me that over 600 young lives were sacrificed and hundreds more were severely psychologically damaged – ask Combat Stress, the charity for ex servicemen – all for that God forsaken outcrop of land. The fish stocks and oil reserves don’t belong to us.
Someone else who thinks that fascist aggression should be rewarded. When Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia, you would have been checking how far away on the map it was from Britain and asserting that nobody is taking away their right to remain in Czechoslovakia but if they choose to remain then they should do so as German citizens.
@Marching On Temazepam
“Someone else who thinks”. A neurological activity you have yet to experience ya jealous fascist zombie lol Is it true that yer brother’s yer maw?
Do you mean sister or are you just confused?
Away back to playing with the rest of the untermensch, you fascist scum. Yer dog’s yer maw.
@ Wanking on Together
Bet your dad looks on you as the son he never had. I’m trying to imagine you with a brain. Did somebody die lol
Wait a minute – Britain had four nuclear submarines stationed in the South Atlantic. The outcome was never in doubt. Blockade the islands, blockade Argentinian ports. Islands recovered in 12 months maximum. There was no need for the deaths. That would hardly be giving in to the junta. Natural justice lies with the Argentinians. Proximity is irrelevant? Jeez! Equating the Nazi invasion of the ancient land of the Czechs with the junta’s taking of the Falklands – calm down. The islands were empty before the plantation of this ragbag collection of misfits? Of course the Palestinian lands were barren and bereft of human life too. It’s a popular claim for land grabbers to make.
And finally, I made a simple error with the numbers, but every single death I mourn sincerely.
Peace, love and justice to all of us.
Ever heard of air travel?
The Islands could have been resupplied constantly by air from Argentina.
Boots on the ground were needed.
Natural justice lies primarily with the Falkland Islanders who were in effect prisoners and secondly with the British.
Proximity IS irrelevant, examples abound all over the world.
I did not mention Czechoslovakia and I believe we and France should have intervened then rather than the later invasion of Poland.
Dont know why you brought Palestine into it but for the record I support a Palestinian State .
Could you explain why you think Argentina has a claim on the Islands?
What part of British, always been British, citizens want to remain British dont you understand?
British since before Argentina existed.
Uninhabited before that.
Proximity has no bearing whatsoever.
I notice you mention 600 young lives- are you referring only to the Argentinian casualties ( 659 ) and not the British ( 255 ) ?
I lost a friend there.
RIP Gdsmn David Malcolmson 2nd Batt. Scots Guards killed on Mount Tumbledown.
The IRA supporting scum were cheering the death of your mate, and are still celebrating it.
Respect to him and to you for honouring his memory.
was it worth it david serous question banter a side
I am extremely disinclined to engage with you because of your vile previous posts, but in a word, yes.
His memory is cherished by his family and friends and most importantly by the Falklands Islanders for whose freedom from a fascist tinpot junta he fought.
He was from the army that has defeated every tyrant in the last 200 years, Napoleon, The Kaiser, Mussolini, Hitler, Hirohito, Saddam Hussein.
He was a stout bluenose and his friend who I did not know were killed together. He was a Celtic fan who won a medal in the same engagement.
They lie buried together in Irvine cemetery.
Ill never forget him nor will others.
Have you found the source yet of those banning figures at Parkhead and Ibrox that you were quoting?
No, I havent been looking yet.
But I will.
I have been foaming at the mouth on other issues which I am sure you have been aware of.
@David, British before Argentina existed!!! What the hell does that mean? Scotland & Ireland were Scottish & Irish before BRITAIN existed so if we pursue that logic we’ll be here all day deciding nothing.
The Malvinas are Argentinian (great day for the Argies yesterday :)). The tax payers of these islands are being pumped dry by the expense of keeping these pampered sheep farmers “quaintly British” in those God forsaken Islands. They can remain there if they want but under Argentinian admin, It is a democracy you know!.
Geographic proximity is Everything!! otherwise we just have an imperial free for all where might is right. I suspect that’s the kind of scenario that you & that pig of Nazi “marching” get off on. Progress is a major irritation for you Brits as you ponder the demise of your empire.
Rangers Gone! Thatcher Gone!, Flegs coming down! The world is a brighter place, but your bitter, boorish & sour Britishness still casts a dark shadow!!!!
BTW david the Titanic was a pile of shit !
Wrong on every count.
If you had read my previous posts you would have picked up that I am a Scot not a Brit. But I lost a friend there and support the Falklanders ( Island named after a Scot, largely inhabited by Scottish descendants )
The difference in your daft analogy is that the Falklands were UNINHABITED before we arrived. Scotland existed as a Country.
Cannot understand why anyone would support a foreign country over the democratically expressed wishes of their own kin.
The Islands are self-sufficient now with the exception of defence costs.
Argentina is a democracy now, thanks partly to us; but fascism / totalinariasm could return, as their history shows.
Geographic proximity is IRREVEVANT, otherwise the map of the whole world would need redrawn; anyway, Argentina is still some distance away and the Islands are not on the continental shelf.
The Titanic was the most advanced ship of the day and a source of great pride. She was lost due to ignoring Ice warnings and inadequate lookouts/
oversteaming.
Not my Kin!!! couldn’t care less if Scots occupied the Falklands. Scots occupied large tracts of the globe , but are not entitled to claim it as Scottish or British territory. FYI The French originally claimed jurisdiction over the Malvinas, also unjustly
The old chestnut that lands were uninhabited is the usual pish pedaled by apologists for the empire. St Kilda & Rockall are currently free of inhabitants, so if the Argentinians rolled up & claimed it as theirs you would be the first to contest their right to ownership. Which is peculiar as you state that proximity is irrelevant. (btw there is evidence to suggest that Native Americans settled the islands)
The Defence costs are considerable, hence the British states, less than full divulgence of how much the mainland tax payer is being pumped for. The islands are not self sufficient, in either food or fuel which is transported there & subsidized again by you know who.
Argentina is a democracy not due to us ,(more delusional thinking about the beneficence of the once great Britain) but due almost entirely to the wishes of the Argentinian People. Of course you in your” Britain civilized the planet” piety cannot fathom swarthy skinned foreigners forging their own civilization.
Proud of the Titanic? really? conveniently forgetting that it was built by the most sectarian organization in the good old Orange, fascist state of Norn Iron. Yes my friend. Fascists experiments weren’t only conducted in South America!!!!
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Northern Ireland did not exist when the Titanic was built.
Just Ireland- part of the UK.
The Falklands are self-sufficient because they can pay for all their needs, defence excepted.
Remind me who was in charge of Argentina when they invaded again?
Do you know how many dictatorships have existed in Argentinian history?
I have never heard of any evidence of Native settlement on the Islands, could you explain?
Who were they, and how did they get there?
If Argentina wish to claim Rockall let them take it to the International courts or invade ( if they can afford the fuel ).
I am sure HMS Astute could do with testing her new torpedoes.
sevco 5088 is whyte and ticketus d&ps are there mates greens the front man with a cunning plan to bump both he moves all assets to sevco Scotland were liquidation laws are different and can of load all debts from ticketus who had a agreement with whyte he would go gantor are different and at same time steals new-co 10 year in barl for a crooked phoenix that has went wrong lol green stole newco stop laughing
ATOL has passed Thatcher fit for work lol.
post at sevco for her lol
Thanks David.
mcfc
The League Against Cruel Sports has called for an end to TV interviews which feature a defenceless, dumb creature being bated and tormented by mild questions from a polite interviewer. The interviewee was also subjected to prolonged and disturbing Whyte noise which can lead to long term psychological damage.
Sorry that should have read “STV interviews”.
theres no end to it greens stole the assets and transfered them to sevco scotland theres heavy criminality going on here can any1 remember a couple of weeks back a top print man posted to paul his fingers will be sore soon with the news to come its all about to hit the fan its drip drip then bang lol what a time to be a tim ,ticketus deal would have tuped over via whyte being gantor for loan under english law green bumped the lot its a con lol green must have thought it was plain sailing bdo must revoke sale and police must step in d&ps are well at it to 3million bill for a crooked scam
Is it correct that sevco 5088 never owned the assets? Were we all sold a blinder by D and P?
Did the assets go straight to sevco scotland, was there a transfer of assets?
https://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/duff-phelps-had-binding-agreement-with-sevco-5088-why-did-they-sell-ibrox-to-sevco-scotland/
the laws of phyisics lol
http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/220791-charles-green-agreed-to-receive-25000-from-craig-whytes-associate/
A nasty vicious piece of work was the milk snatcher. Some idiot stated she wasn’t unpopular before the Falklands war. Yes, I’m afraid she was the most unpopular since records began. Therefore in order to boost her ratings, she started a totally uncalled for war. So every death on both sides was in effect to boost her popularity.
She reneged on promises to the Republicans in Long Kesh in order to get the men off their fast resulting in a sense of betrayal which started the second fast, resulting in the death of the gallant Bobby Sands and nine others. The sas were employed in the north of Ireland resulting in many innocent deaths as they literally had a license to kill as they pleased.
Many men took their own lives after being discarded on to the scrap heap at an early age. I personally know guys who have never worked apart from the odd yopper scheme. Thirty years with no job or a chance of one certainly has a devastating effect on a persons well-being
I really could go on but the revulsion I feel towards her and her cohorts will never diminish. As soon as I was texted with the news last night at work, myself and an English friend toasted her death with a lovely cold bottle of powerade. I will not apologise to anyone for my actions as I had waited on this day for years and nothing was going to spoil it.
TAL to all who have suffered because of this evil woman.
Well said Fra. I doth my cap. I bought a bottle of bubbly and booked a holiday I was so happy! Her demise has certainly boosted the economy.
Don’t bother coming back from your boy-f*cking tour of your favourite haunts in Thailand.
Greetin’ on Together lol
Bet you’re still trying to tease the neighbours wee poodle into your bed wi’ a chocolate biscuit? Lol
“Some idiot stated she wasn’t unpopular before the Falklands war. Yes, I’m afraid she was the most unpopular since records began.” Until Tony Bliar. Notwithstanding her personal popularity, the last opinion poll before the invasion had the Tory Party narrowly ahead. Historical fact, despite bitter socialists trying to rewrite history.
Did the aliens forget to remove that anal probe? Lol
“Thirty years with no job or a chance of one…”
Just picking on one point of this.
I don’t believe there is any real evidence that the Falklands was in any way desired or encouraged by Thatcher or her cabinet.
The record shows the opposite, panic and real fear in both government, total confusion as this just thought this was more saber rattling by Argentina. One the invasion had happened the expert view in the MoD was that the distances were just too great and that a Navy that was totally configured to stop Russian submarines getting into the Atlantic could not support the longest amphibious warfare supply chain in any history using only its own air support
The risks involved were extremely high (UNTIL troops were landed, after that the result was never really in much doubt). A single lucky strike on one of the carriers could have ended it all in 30 mins. 3 ships got hit by modern anti-ship missiles, all sank. (2 Naval, 1 civilian)
The attack on the Belgrano is not a difficult one if the situation is taken in context Yes, this was a very old ship (was originally American and had been at Pearl Harbour!). Yes it wasnt sailing at the fleet (the most fatuous argument of them all given the size of the south Atlantic!) However, It also armed with quite a lot of very modern Harpoon Missiles (the American version of the famous Exocet) and escorted by several modern British build destroyers also armed with the same missile. The age of the ship is frankly not the point, it was the missiles it carried, these had a range of 80+ miles and once fired found their own target Naval warfare is very nasty and can go wrong very easily and very quickly. No sensible commander would allow such a ship within 1000 miles of their fleet and would attack on sight.
We were also very much in the unknown, there had been no significant naval engagements since 1945 and that was pre-missile. One really good strike on the fleet and it was game over.
Also please take into account the separate troop fleet following with tens of thousands of troops in civilian liners which would have been very vulnerable indeed.
Britain had actually already been very tolerant already with regards to NOT shooting down on sight Argentina military 737’s which were obviously trying to spot the main fleet, this would have been a very justified action but they were initially just warned off.
One of general problem with conflict is that it is very hard to be clear exactly how much the other side is serious and how much it is just posturing. the cost of underestimating how serious your opponent can be terminal. It is also much harder to judge this with modern weapons where you never actually see the other side anyway.
Another myth was this was a tory war, just read Michael Foot’s speeches in the commons!!
The finally finish, I absolutely despised that woman (as my granny referred to her) and her “philosophy” such as it was. My first political memory was of her government and what it did, I can lay a lot at THEIR door (as she was just the front person and not even the originator), but like most wars the Falklands was cock-up not conspiratory. Even if you hate someone, you should not re-write history.
Great post, 100% accurate.
STV: Who at Manchester United told you that you were wanted in the Premiership?
Charlie: Well… why do we want to know that?
I really can’t eat anymore Jelly & Ice cream…..for pmsl
Hey everybody, if the sale is revoked. Does that mean that Hectors bill is “live” again.? All the creditors bills live, and Murray in soapy bubble.? What a day. Wonder if it will be rounded off by a panda getting hisend away(sorry, 2 pandas!).,Hope for the future !
TAPE RECORDINGS OF DAFT CHARLIE
Daft Charlie told the STV that “My Whyte didn’t pay money into my bank account. £25,000 was put into my bank account.”
[So, £25,000 magically appeared in his bank account and he didnae know who put it there lol]
Tape recording that directly contradicts Daft Charlie:
Daft Charlie: “I f*****g, I need money off you [Craig Whyte].”
Clever Craigie Bhoy: “Yeah, if you, if you give me your details I’ll cover whatever you’ve got to pay out. It’s not a problem.”
Daft Charlie: “What I’m saying is, there’s no f*****g, there’ll be no trace into my f*****g bank account. But I’ll f*****g, but I’ll do it now, I’ll write it out now. I’ll give them a cheque for £25,000 from me.”
Daft Charlie is taped saying that he will hide the source of the cheque from the legal firm:
“Oh, Craig’s gone, Craig’s gone” in relation to the £25,000 payment.
Can this week get any better? Honestly, I can’t take too much more.
thoughtsfromthenortheast
Ah good west coast banter , you guys need to know a line was drawn in the sand , it was called the Good Friday agreement , leave the past in the past .
If you lot put as much effort into the future the world will be a better place.
Margaret Thatcher is not dead…..she’s just starting from scratch in the third division…….
David Cameron has just sent a personal letter to the Thatcher residence… It Starts- ” due to recent events, you have too many bedrooms”….
I am a bit slow on all this, can a company buy the assets and then register them in a different companies name and thus we have sevco 5088 never owning the assets but who has control over the assets?
What I think I’m driving at is did sevco 5088 at any legal point in time own the assets or buy them for sevco scotland or was it a straight sell to sevco scotland with no involvement in the transaction of sevco 5088.
Sevco 5088 never actually bought the assets.
The majority shareholder/owner has the authority to instruct D&P to transfer ownership of the assets not to Sevco 5088 but to another company under his control
The resolution called DISAPPLICATION OF PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS.(June 14th) needed to be passed by a majority of Sevco5088 shareholders.
It could not be passed without the written approval of Whyte as the majority shareholder in Sevco 5088.
The resolution immediately empowered Green (sole director) to act on behalf of Sevco 5088 without reference to its shareholders.
So did CG have the authority of CW to pass this resolution ….. ???
CG could kill off all speculation immediately by producing this document ….. thus vindicating himself.
Of course ….. if it does not exist ……. KaaBooooom !
Strange that he has not ….. !!!
Got it ?
BTW, the fact that the resolution exists (Companies House) does however vindicate D&P (in this instance) ……. they have other questions to answer though
I note that CG ‘may’ have recieved an invite from Mr Plod for explaination/response…….. regarding statements made lately ……. note his clever tactical ‘spin’ on this in his STV interview …. Always look closely at such statements
Any posters on here got an RM account ?
They are in a bit of a quandry ……
They cannot figure out why CG could not transfer assets on June 14th (despite his statement at the time to have acquired assets), and instead happened onJune 15th.
If they can answer this they belive they are in the clear ……….
Thread on RM is:
Rangers was sold direct to Sevco Scotland, not via Sevco 5088
Someone with account could pop on and explain that June 14th was day of Sevco 5088 resolution
so transfer could only happen June 15th after presentation to D&P that he had sole authority.
you might want to mention about CW being major shareholder in 5088 … and Charlie MUST have a document signed by CW authourising such a resolution.
Newtz, thanks for taking the time.I was struggling to understand how D&P could release the assets to a different company. It’s clearer now.
newtz.
Again I think I might be slow, but I think I got the thrust of your argument, except the bit that says ‘Whyte as majority shareholder of sevco 5088 ‘ . Is there any proof of this ? Am I missing something?
Green told Whyte that he (Whyte) “was Sevco”. meaning that Whyte owned Sevco 5088
Note also CG pleading for the £25K to cover costs of formation of 5088 …… and …. money to be paid to his personal account so that it could not be traced ……. btw also referring to monies to imrans mother’s account …….. Banks cannot ringfence monies …… it’s a pot ….. !
CG was cover
you begin to see that CW has a very srong case
BTW ……. Amazing discovery by newtz
RM moderator BOSS is not all that he seems ……………
He is slowly leading the Bears to the answer ………
It was HIS post that started the clue ………
He slowly led them towards the truth ……. being careful not to give game away …………
Then when they got stuck / confused over date of June 14th and 15th …..
He carefully guided them to Companies House with a What If ……
Even stating that June 15th date …… does’nt mean a thing !!!
In other words ……. check out June 14th at Company House (without actually saying so …… )
It could not be any more blatant ………..
……….. A Bleedin MODERATOR !!!!!
Amazing …………… So what is his agenda …….. ??
*Who Is Manchester United” ……….. We Demand to KNOW ……
……. MUPPET ….
OMG …..
he has told them …. in a round about fashion …… but they still cannot figure it out …….. he referred to the resolution as ‘right to assign’ …. nobody has picked up on it …… yet ………. Will he spell it out …. ?
they still believe the answer is their salvation ……. it’s gripping …. !
I guess he must be reading this thread …… we seem to be (almost) working in tandem …….. doh !
Boss (Moderator) on RM
“To take an example of something I know about (don’t know much about property). If I lodge a document at Companies House on 15 June it matters not a jot – what matters is the date on the document itself which might very well be 14 June”.
“.. there would probably be a right to assign which might have happened here ……”
Can he be any clearer …………………
He wants them to fall over the answer ……. and he clearly wants them to know …… without being seen to actually tell them ………. curious !
the’ve still not got it but a new thread has started someone else trying to give them the truth with the tantalising cw might have a case against d and p.
it took me a while to get it. and only with help, so thanks again
newtz. Further to your comments last night, I have just visited RM. Boss would seem to have changed his tune, and the bears all seem to be happy.
Any idea what has changed?
@Bud
Can’t figure it ou yet !t …….. his tack has turned to the D&P and CG agreement which was confidential ………… but again referring to the ‘Right to Assign’ …….. But much of that agreement gradually crept out ….. D&P final report etc (and no mention of right to assign …… and i even doubt that it exists there ……. simple logic excludes it) ……. so leaves the resolution !
My question then is who has his ear ……. have my suspicions …..(not Whyte), … Brown ?? … someone else !!……. he clearly knows that the ‘Right to Assign’ is the correct answer …….
If he simply worked it out like a few others elsewhere, then he would simply blurt it out !!! and claim the kudos ……. so again, why was he quite deliberately leading the Bears down this path …. is he a DeepThroat ???
Still curious ……
@Carson
Lancet, prestigious medical journal, on number of civilian deaths in Iraq caused by coalition forces:
“We are quite confident that there’s been somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100,000 deaths, but it could be much higher… Ninety-five percent were due to airstrikes by helicopter gunships, rockets or other types of aerial weaponry. Forty-six percent (56,000) of the violent deaths involving coalition forces were men ages 15 to 60, but 46 percent (46,000) were children younger than 15, and 7 percent were women (7,000), the researchers reported.”
46,000 children killed by our brave troops and their pals. Now, what was that you were saying about child killers?
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Ecojon, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
It is fitting that on this site the death of Baroness Thatcher has split opinion. In most descriptions of her political life the word divisive is never far from the opening paragraph. (Though Ecojon neatly avoids this)
It is possible to argue that the business of a leader does not necessarily include being popular, rather the single minded pursuit of what they believe to be right is all that matters. In this regard as Prime Minister, Thatcher excelled.
Being popular enough to secure an election victory is all that’s required. That’s the way our political system works. Like it or change it.
Naturally there is a counter view; there are other ways to lead. On election in 1979 the new prime minister alluded to it.
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt may we bring faith. And where there is despair may we bring hope.”
(The words are attributed to St Francis of Assisi)
I’ve always thought that the best way to lead is first to persuade people of the value of what you are proposing and then to unite them in common cause.
If you can’t do this, then what you are proposing contains flaws which are obvious to the people you’re trying to persuade if not yourself.
People are likely to make their thoughts known, especially when their welfare is threatened and a wise leader will take account of them even if the electoral system allows freedom to ignore their pleas.
In Britain under Margaret Thatcher, harmony, truth, faith and hope were not much in evidence. In communities up and down the country people actually feared their political leader. Worse still they felt under attack and with good reason.
As industry after industry was sacrificed on the altar of what came to be known as monetarism communities headed toward extinction.
Margaret Thatcher claimed that there was no such thing as society but she clearly knew the value of a pound note; something which without society, simply would not exist.
In the end people who support the Thatcher years are representative of a wider group who did well under her leadership.
It’s fair to say that given the choice most people would rather do well than suffer the pain of poverty.
The true measure of society (yes is it does exist) is not the measure of how well those at the top are doing, or even those in the middle. The numbers that define us are those that describe the lives of those at the bottom.
One of the defining periods of the Thatcher government was the Falklands war. In comparison with recent wars in which we have engaged it is unique.
It was a war fought ostensibly for British sovereignty over a collection of islands in the south pacific.
More recently we have conducted our wars in someone else’s country; the weight of evidence suggests that this is preferable if not ideal.
That sovereignty over those islands was disputed and that this was clear to the British government of the time has never been argued against. Sovereignty is still claimed by Argentina even now.
That this lead to war tells of a problem ignored, one left to fester while the business of power wielding at home held sway in the cabinet office.
In the end it was dealt with by reaction, the last resort of those unacquainted with forward thinking.
The PR apparatchiks defined it as a glorious victory. The dead simply died, burned, drowned or shot.
There is a way of judging a political life; you simply weigh the good against the bad. History puts political life in the balance.
The achievements, in Margaret Thatcher’s case, the Anglo- Irish agreement greater European treaties, and breaking through the barriers presented by a male dominated world are not easily dismissed and sit on one side of the scales.
On the other side, first and foremost are the dead, those that gave their lives in the causes she supported and drove, and those that struggled against them.
Then there are those who were marginalised, the weak and infirm, those who found they were simply wrong in their lifestyles. Those who found their lack of success politicised and scorned. Those who needed help and support and found themselves cast out by a political philosophy that had no need of them.
Long after I’m dead and forgotten history will continue and Margaret Thatcher will be remembered.
The reality of her term in office will be largely forgotten, history will note Britain’s first female prime minister.
We owe something to future generations, we need to tell them that things are not as simple as they seem.
There are many ways to do this, dancing in the streets is only one.
As ever Martin – great comment.
A Nato air strike has killed 11 children and a woman in eastern Afghanistan, according to local officials.
The strike targeted militants in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province, which is on the border with Pakistan.
“Eleven children and a woman were killed when an air strike hit their houses,” said Wasifullah Wasifi, the spokesman for Kunar province.
They were killed when their houses collapsed on them, officials said.
Sky News – Monday 8th April 2013
Considering all the damage Thatcher done to the steel industry in Britain, I’m surprised she found a fkn bucket to kick.
Anybody got a link to Billy Bragg singing Hail Hail , while dancing on a freshly dug grave, wearing a flat cap, and a googly eyed ferret poking out his fly? I’m sure there were a couple of Pandas humping in the background. Came under the heading “Bears finally f****d”
Harry Bawbags
I admit i have been out tonight had a few and i visit to try and achieve a balance bu what has all this got to do with mt , she changed our country for the good dont care what the feck you lot say , steel workers power workers,, little shits dancing in George Square your phone would be switched off at 9pm you fuckwits if she did not take care of this lot
ti’s so sad watching Charles being ripped a new AR***** by his former pals at STV….. he MUST have done something so unforgiving ~~~ like kill the ludge Goat and flogged it to his wee P**** pal Ammand
Point to note. Thatcher NEVER said “There is no such thing as society.” That was simply crass editing of her quotation in order to produce the damming soundbite. (I thought everyone knew this by now). Similarly, Iran NEVER said “Israel should be wiped off the face of the map”. Again, they were victims of crass editing as can be proven by simply seeking out the quotation origins.
As for the falklands, I feel their ownership will once again be shortly on the political agenda. It’s quite likely to happen once the English decide we should now be “governed” by Labour.
Don’t forget, BLIAR was on the brink of handing Gibralter back to Spain, despite the protests of the Islanders themselves,
just as Norn Iron was a planned part of the original Independent Ireland until a military threat of mutiny scuppered the Idea.
The Falklands are in danger because we no longer have a task force capable of deploying to the South Atlantic, not without French assistance, and there’s no way they would get involved in such a task. This of course is the result of successive London Governments making massive cuts to the Armed Forces, as they are wound down in preperation of the Euro Force already forming in mainland Europe.
The Falklands are in no danger whatsoever.
4 Typhoons there would decimate any potential threat from the air, a submarine is usually kicking around, and there is a full battalion of British troops with services there.
Intelligence is such now that any pre-emptive strike would be detected long before a move was made and the garrison- both land and air- can now be reinforced in 48 hours.
If the Islands were lost however, different story.
Big difference from the last time, when there were 18 Royal Marines.
The only threat comes from Argentina .
Mrs Kirchner seems odd but she isnt daft enough to try another invasion which would fail instantly.
PS, not to defend Thatcher, but it should also be remembered she made the decision to stop subsidised milk while a inexperienced minister, long before she became PM.
She also reversed the decision when she saw the public outrage it caused.
The least she deserves is a fair crack of the whip, and not the pathetic kind of demonisation we have heard since her death, especially north of the border
jebarrett
look up Newshawk for the facts
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The Sisterhood of Man
On seventeen separate rooftops, this morning, in one small town in rural Kentucky, seventeen volunteer firemen sit with each of their laptop computers running the Google Earth application, and a good lensatic compass in hand. They’re all engaged in the installation and orientation of digital television antennas that will prevent the loss of free television broadcast service to the residents beneath those seventeen rootops.
Google, the giant, progressive corporation, actually heard my request! (lodged about a month ago) that they update their Google Earth application to highlight the geographic location of all digital transmitters within the United States — and promote this update as a means to help homeowners and good Samaritans ease the digital transition: Good for Google public relations, good for good Samaritans, good for the worst and dimmest, good for the sake of goodness.
The firemen benefit doubly by;
1) honorably helping to free the analog spectrum for first-responder/emergency communications, and
2) by actively participating with members of their community whose infirmity, age or incompetence prevent them from reconfiguring their television hardware by and for themselves.
I don’t know that those three preceding paragraphs are entirely apocryphal. It’s possible that the example of a president bent on transparency, hope, change and interpersonal civic engagement in service of public interests has, in fact, led to the opening of homes, hearts and roof-hatches to the purpose of our helping one another. Maybe my cynical, cloistered view of the state of current events is simply too blinkered and blindered to appreciate the actual kindnesses transpiring between my fellow Americans, and I simply don’t see it happening from the tiny well of my abysmal isolation. Too bad for me.
Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind) delivered a speech in the role of Clarence Darrow, in which he said that every advance in technological innovation is countered by a significant sacrifice; we gain the power of birds to fly, but scent the clouds with gasoline; we conquer the barrier of distance with the telephone and lose the charm of absence (which makes the heart grow fonder)…as though every step toward the future of human technology is a stride away from human nature. Jerry Mander seconds this perspective by saying that the promoters of new (&/or haphazard) technology are always people whose fortunes improve with its adoption. It’s as though a dedicated team of divine accountants were balancing a ledger: A dark visionary model of innovation I personally dislike and mistrust, but it makes more sense than the 58½ years I’ve spent listening to hype and tripe about The Unlimited Potential of Humankind (which hasn’t entirely materialized much). Where are the flying cars we were promised in the 50s that betokened the dawning of The Age of Aquarius, the Brotherhood of Man, and Tomorrowland?
Why does The Sisterhood of Man sound like salacious innuendo?
The Brotherhood of Man hasn’t worked very well as an iconic model to which we aspire. It’s come to encompass brother-rape, -torture, -pillage and -slavery as a means to the preservation of Our domestic tranquility, usually at the cost of Theirs. So I propose The Sisterhood (big sister or little, your choice) as an alternative target, just to change the aspirational paradigm. Sister-rape, -torture, -pillage and -slavery might provoke a little extra doublethink while preparing to victimize the next sucker, and if that doesn’t work any better than brotherhood, The Motherhood of Man comes next.
I tend to favor the poetic synthesis Richard Brautigan anticipated in Machines of Loving Grace, which envisioned the union of sophisticated technology with our natural humanity, and facilitated the evolution of both.
So seventeen firemen aren’t sitting on seventeen rooftops this morning? Maybe they’ve been wisely and justly delayed by solid bureacratic reasoning and won’t begin the altruistic work at-hand until Juneteenth (June 13, 2009) when irate, analog broadcast television customer-complaints pour in concerning the absence of signal on a few million television sets, and the almost-forgotten American fondness for free broadcast TV will set big wheels in motion to preserve the equilibrium of squeeky little wheels in commotion. Whatever works.
I guess I really want that flying car, still.
31 May 09 Posted by Scott Ellington | Uncategorized | 3 Comments
The Right To (A) Life
Washington Weak, this morning, woke me with a panel discussion of the nomination of Judge Sotomayor (whose introduction, this week, revolted me with its Traditional American Family Values prelude — very like an Oscar-acceptance speech). The panel’s conclusion was nebulous and conditional (as ever) with regard to the eventual outcome of the partisan squabble that will rage and languish through the remainder of the year, but one insightful remark put something else in perspective for me.
A veteran reporter said that looking back on the record of Ms Sotomayor’s opinions provides a useful lever for neither her conservative nor her liberal scrutinizers, but that looking forward to her views on abortion rights may yeild significant purchase for the opposition to her nomination. It may have been Gwen Ifill who said in response that abortion rights is last year’s issue, that same-sex marriage is the new polarizer.
The RightToLife of an unborn fetus continues to be yet another unresolved American controversy from which the spotlight of national attention has moved on. We seem to do that moving-on thing more than we come to definintive conclusions. What struck me as interesting about this exchange was that the right of a fetus to be born guarantees exactly nothing with regard to its sexual orientation, nor, pretty much, anything else.
I think sexual preference is a good deal more complex than binary labels like straight or gay. Even the four-part coalition of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender simply reduces the vast spectrum of sexual orientations to a five-part disharmonious choir. Anyone whose intimate union with other people is sanctioned by majority opinion is a deviant whose right to A life is discouraged to some extent by somebody. We are, all of us, deviants from any standard definition of normative behavior. Not only aren’t people perfect or normal or standard, it’s a wonder we’re even reasonably similar.
In fifty years of encounters with male homosexuals in and around San Francisco, I’ve come to believe that a guy comes here escaping FROM a family and community that squelched and impugned his right to an honest life. Heterosexual parents, and an orthodox midwestern upbringing don’t guarantee the heterosexuality of the box of chocolates incubating in pregnancy. What comes out of that belly has a right to make A life that’s every bit as high a priority as the right to be born in the first place.
Sexual orientation isn’t a function of choice. Whether to abort or not is a choice, but once the child is born, its parents and community, state and nation are Constitutionally obligated not to impede that child’s making an optimal life. In the same way that the Constitution doesn’t act as a practicable example to the macrocosm of the private sector, it also doesn’t proscribe the behavior of the microcosmic personal sector, either. We, The People, don’t privately practice what it preaches about the use and abuse of power: “Do Better”.
If an unborn fetus truly has a right to life, the quality of that life falls within the province and responsibility of the passionate RightToLife advocates. If their arugment makes any kind of sense, the folks who bomb Planned Parenthood clinics would also be after hate-criminals. They aren’t. Ironically, people who oppose abortion seem to be disposed to attack sexual deviation, and any deviation from the standard American Way of impugning the rights of others to make an authentic life for themselves and their significant others.
So from the comfort of my armchair, I’m philosophizing that the lives of serial murderers, pedophiles and sociopaths have undiscovered value that won’t be revealed in this beknighted country until the RightToLife argument is taken several steps beyond its current impasse. The thing is that same-sex marriage (the current media hot-button issue) isn’t a different controversy. It too requires sustainable, supportable resolution:
We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I like to think it was a declaration of independence from the Bible, and that the minor faults in the language in that particular sentence reflect an adolescent (evolving) perception of sustainable, supportable rebellion from the more significant failures of our pathetic past. The Declaration didn’t explicitly identify chicks, niggers, dirt-worshipers, chinks, spicks, micks and sexual deviants/defects as exempt from rights endowed by the right to life. Neither do I.
If the choice to be born is made on your behalf by people who did not consult you, they’re conscientiously obliged to get out of your way in your pursuit of conscientious happiness.
There’s a free treasure trove of panel discussions and interviews here:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/383/
The link leads to my personal favorite, though MIT World is packed with valuable items for every interest.
And there’s plenty more David Milch here:
http://theideaofthewriter.blogspot.com/
Grant McCracken’s blog is the intersection of fascinating ideas and a probing intelligence:
http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/
And Bob Hoffman’s The Ad Contrarian is an invaluable antidote to advert-think hysteria:
http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/
Just tracking Henry Jenkins’ trail of ideas is the work of several lifetimes:
http://henryjenkins.org/
And the Rowell website:
http://www.mountainlight.com/
is an oasis of inspiration and information on the journey to learn to see.
I’m adding the gallery page of my DeviantArt account largely because it’s a better viewing environment for the presentation of images than I’ve managed to squeeze out of this blog. And adding this link may spur me to post more of the best stuff I get every weekend.
http://scottellington.deviantart.com/gallery/
Catching up on the Daily Show this evening, I found Jon Stewart busily mocking the Democratic congressional irresolution in the presidential closing of Guantanamo, and the reluctance of any state’s representatives to accept terrorist-detainee-refugees. To illustrate the American competence to keep bad guys inside, Stewart cued an MSNBC clip of a patricidal cannibal named Joseph Garner, interviewed at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, who, after killing his father, took a bite out of his father’s brain. Stewart went on to fence brilliantly with Nuke Gingrich.
Funny thing.
Joseph L. Garner was the name of the kid who lived across the street from me from 1951-63. The guy on the screen looked a great deal like an older extrapolation of the Joey Garner I remember; glasses, pale and particularly strange. Slough about 45 years, and prisoner Garner could easily be the very same kid who accidentally broke the little finger of my right hand beneath the heel of his boot as we walked to the Saturday matinee at the Avenue Theater. It happened when I reached for something interesting on the ground in front of us — and he took a shot at crushing it. Despite being nearly identical in age, raised under similar conditions, we were two very different kids. I ignored the pain and numbness in my finger until it started smarting from the salted popcorn, midway through the feature. There was blood. There was also no way I’d disclose the fact that that twerp had caused me a moment’s discomfort, but whatever friendship we’d enjoyed was 250-300% over.
I watched at a distance from that point forward as Joey’s peculiarities surfaced in the schoolyard. All through the fifth and sixth grades, he hung out with very small kids; taunting, teasing, bullying. And I’d listen attentively as my mother pointed to Joey as though he were a paragon of the virtues she demanded of me. I, of course, knew a whole lot better than she…who Joey really was. And is. So that’s what fresh psychosis smells like in the morning.
Joseph Garner, inmate at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, looked like the perfect reason for me to call my mother and tell her just exactly how infallible is her judgment of character. Unfortunately, I’m not that particular prick. Neither, upon closer inspection of the records available to me by means of the internet, is prisoner Garner, Joey. The cannibal is probably ten years younger, slightly better looking and likely a pleasanter companion.
Still, it would have been awfully nice to take and withhold the news of this mountain of moral highground from my mother. So very close, yet totally unsmokable.
The Acme of Creation
There goes another weekend spent photographing Caspian Terns. I’ve learned that auspicious weather predictions of mid-70° temperatures don’t really account for 20-30mph winds sweeping off the bay, so I dressed for the middle of winter, and things turned out okay. Unfortunately, I hit the beach at 0900 yesterday and about 1000 today, finding that identical conditions caused the 60-70 roosting terns to face into the NW wind, with the sun semi-bright on their backs, and incoming tide preventing me from setting up at any angle to optimize catchlighted eyes, minimize shadows, and watch for incoming birds in flight. And both days, the kite&windsurfers arrived shortly after I did.
On a day like today, there were about as many surfers as terns. Although the birds are resilient in terms of turf, and they’ll condone a goodly amount of encroachment, fifty yards is about as close as anything human or canine gets before every roosting bird goes airborne. At about 1030, a couple of guys hauled their kite-launching-operation into the breach between me and the terns (which left abruptly), while the guys spent about 30 minutes there, largely motionless, failing to launch.
I’m not one to walk up to imperfect strangers demanding to know what the fuck they think they’re doing by coming between a photographer and a mess of sitting birds at which his 18″ lens was obviously pointed. And since I’m not quite that arrogant an asshole, I contented myself for 30 minutes of watching where the terns had gone and calculating how the change in their location might lead to better images; resourceful and inventive, projective reconfiguration of my shooting situation. Live and let…(there’s plenty of polarizing invective here that I’ll leave to your imagination).
Ultimately, when the guys left, and the birds refused to return, I picked up my stuff and walked about 300 yards for an auspicious line-of-sight on their new location, which changed the moment an unleashed dog came at them…and again when a 6inch, half-deflated Pier 39 balloon blew out of the water toward them. Pier 39 is about 20 miles away, northwest.
As more and more surfers arrived to take advantage of the increasingly strong and steady wind, I settled for 750 new photographs (today) and left the beach thinking about the sublime intelligence of humankind, which is (to the best of my knowledge) endlessly celebrated in song and ode and whitepaper and journal article and (human) common sense by absolutely no other species.
We are the pinnacle of creation (according to us) and the crowning achievement of a God who smiled upon us, giving us dominion over all the earth and the lesser creatures He made before finally accomplishing the unparalleled wonder of us?
When human kind is smart enough, or evolved enough, or divine enough to ask another species how mankind ranks on the pinnacle-meter…I don’t think we’ll like the answer. No worries, we’re going to remain blissfully ignorant until we’ve silenced every other potentially-intelligible voice on this planet and moved on to proclaim our divine dominion over everyplace else, too.
In all, I set myself up, then moved my set-up eleven times while attempting to photograph Caspian Terns in flight in the past 48 hours. Every weekend I spend doing this stuff, the birds teach me something new about the difficulty involved in doing it well and properly. Thusfar, they appear to be comfortable with me planted about 65 yards from their bivouac, from which one or two birds depart to go fishing approximatedly every quarter-hour, unless there’s a school of feast in the water — then it’s almost a mass-evacuation…but the one reliable fact seems to hold that every returning bird comes back to the bivouac which moves with the random incursions of surfers, dogs and balloons…I think I’m learning to read their cues, at least a little; and keeping their displeasure with my presence managable. So at the end of our time together, I always tender my gratitude for their patience. I assume they understand and appreciate the gesture, because they’re always there (pretty much in the same place) the next time I see them.
At the core of the regret I feel in walking away is leaving them to the tender mercies of the oblivious folks who remain when I’ve dragged my butt from their space. The barnacle of creation seems a more apt description for humans, although it does a disservice to barnacles. So the subject line of this entry went straight for the Wile E. Coyote connection, with a little Douglas Adams inflection; so long, and thanks for the sympathetic attention.
In Tern, that statement simply sounds like an ecstatic croak, which is pretty much all I hear ever from them, which makes it seem as though they lead an eminently enviable existence, which doesn’t suck.
The Power of the Center
Thusfar, in the second chapter of Rudolf Arnheim’s book, he’s identified alternative models of sense-making for objects in a visual field; grided or centric. No doubt he’s setting up some miraculously elegant proof of the necessity and complicity of these two schemes of composition in all aesthetic endeavors, not exclusively in visual/graphic arts. The thing is that the abstract terms with which these ideas are expressed makes them feel as bloodless as math without numbers, a strenuous exercise in airy vagueness; and he’s evidently going to take his own sweet time in getting around to the notion that the model/image of a concentric system of organization is an excellent representation of the way attention works through eyes.
He opens with the familiar neonatal metaphor of a me-centered universe that radiates outward from the nucleus of attention in which a child’s perceptual mechanism locates awareness of itself. But self-awareness in a vacuum (of significant events external to that center) is not a description of a reality about which people can speak; it’s the curse of godlike consciousness in an absolute void. (“Existence is beyond the power of words, to define:”) Arnheim introduces other people to the child’s awareness as Other-centers of awareness of which the child eventually becomes cognizant as independent entities; triggering the birth of compassion and empathy. What he hasn’t yet said is that the grid system of an objective reality is necessary for the concentric center of subjective awareness to relocate a nipple, a toy, a light…that the grid and the eddy are complementary organizational representations that make the evolving consciosness feel at home in the world of familiar events in the consensual scheme that most of the rest of us claim as our own.
It’s not that these two schemes are alternative maps of the perceptual world, mutually exclusive disciplines, but that they complement one another to provide an interlocking schematic basis for consciousness to operate and function in the physical world. And the deadly thing about Arnheim is that I’ve no assurance he’s ever going to say what I’m hoping to find confirmed somewhere in the next 200 pages. That very uncertainty makes it necessary to read slowly and cautiously. Luckily, I read very slowly, anyway, but the impulse to drive relentlessly through this book is hampered by the diminishment of my curiosity, as the piles of abstractions grow higher.
Rowell’s The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography aroused my renewed curiosity in reading more Arnheim, but the profoundly dry Arnheim experience is driving me back toward Rowell, with Film as Art positioned like a malevolent defensive back waiting to smack me down when I’ve, at long last, completed The Power of the Center and before I can move toward The Inner Game again…even before the goal of better photographs comes in sight. The gridiron analogy felt appropriate there for a moment.
Generation Boom
Last week, Robert J. Elisberg posted another intelligent blog-article at Huffington Post. With the lightly sardonic tone he often uses, he blasted the notion that George W. Bush saved us…itemizing the myriad ways in which George W. Bush did nothing of the kind.
I was moved by the article to comment, that:
George Bush saved us by quenching the Torch of Freedom in the well of our global disgrace.
“Mission Accomplished!”..?
Catching up on my iTunes subscription to The Daily Show, last night, I watched Jon Stewart converse with Cliff May about the intricacies of Americans inflicting torture on detainees. In the course of this remarkably frustrating definitions ho-down, Stewart said that Harry Truman should have been held accountable for war crimes against humanity for lobbing atomic bombs at two unwarned Japanese cities, when the objective of ending the war would probably have been accomplished just as effectively without waging total war against unprepared civilians.
Two nights later, Stewart backtracked from that “extreme” position. He made it sound as though the words slipped out (of their own volition) before he’d given the proposition adequate censorial thought, saying that, upon reflection, his statement was simply stupid.
I think he was absolutely right in not pardoning Truman. I’m suspicious of the apology that followed as disingenuous, politically correct/conventional, and far more profoundly stupid.
I went on to revisit Flags of Our Fathers and Beyond Barbed Wire/Go For Broke.
I think the generation to which I belong, Generation Boom, was defined by the presidential decision to end the horrors of global war by bringing them home to the undefended wives and children of soldiers who weren’t prepared for a second “date that will live in infamy”, which Truman swiftly followed with a third.
The one thing foreign enemies always seem to forget is the uncharacteristically immoral and illegal depths to which Americans will sink in pursuit of certain goals. While our temporary lapses in sanity give rise to various catchphrases; Manifest Destiny, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills, Remember the Maine, Alamo, Pearl Harbor, 911…they all have in common a bult-in hysterically unilateral justification for anti-empathy.
And just as our foreign enemies overlook our tacit penchant for unfathomable ruthlessness, we constantly forgive ourselves for breaking Indian treaties, slavery, indentured servitude, infantilizing women, internment camps, and general acts of racial, religious and ethnic prejudice…all the forms of rampant xenophobia that transform our fellow Americans into foreign enemies…at least temporarily…long enough to exact some staggering form of vengeance in retaliation against the diversity they represent.
Generation Atom is gradually fading away. My cohort (formerly Beats, Hippies and Punks) is replacing them, daily, as pillars of an establishment that practices hypocrisy. I think the cure for the fossilization of virtue resides in daily doing better unto Others than will be done unto you.
06 May 09 Posted by Scott Ellington | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Scriptural Distillation
Do better unto others than will be done unto you.
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“‘IS women helped fighters rape our women,'” translated from “‘IS-vrouwen hielpen strijders bij het verkrachten van onze vrouwen,’” by Lennard Swolfs, NOS, November 1, 2019:
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Wedgie WCPP114 Clear XL Picks 1.14mm, yellow 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: yellow The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.Made from a premium blend of polycarbonate for durability and playability, Wedgie Clear XL's come in vivid translucent colors that sound as good as they look. Same material as the Fender California Clears and Dunlop Gels, but Wedgie Clear XL's add our evolutionary design that will make your playing really (...)
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Wedgie WMH025 Micstand Pick Holder Tub (25 pcs)
25 Stück für je 6 Plektren im Verkaufsdisplay einfaches Aufstecken an jeden Mikrofonständer Paßt in jedes Koffer-Zubehörfach Elastischer Gummi Länge 77 mm Ø 15 mm Lieferung ohne Picks Die Zubehör-Sensation aus California/U.S.A: WEDGIE ist der Shooting-Star der amerikanischen Musik-Zubehörindustrie. Hoch innovative Plektren und Zubehöre, die von Praktikern entwickelt wurden und in präziser Ausführung als (...)
Art. No.: WD.WMH025
Wedgie WCPP100 Clear XL Picks 1.00mm, red 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: red The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.Made from a premium blend of polycarbonate for durability and playability, Wedgie Clear XL's come in vivid translucent colors that sound as good as they look. Same material as the Fender California Clears and Dunlop Gels, but Wedgie Clear XL's add our evolutionary design that will make your playing really take (...)
Wedgie WPH100 Pick Holder for Guitar Tub (100 pcs)
100 Stück im Verkaufsdisplay Pickhalter zum Einhängen an den Saiten oberhalb des Sattels Für 2 Plektren Elastischer Gummi Die Zubehör-Sensation aus California/U.S.A: WEDGIE ist der Shooting-Star der amerikanischen Musik-Zubehörindustrie. Hoch innovative Plektren und Zubehöre, die von Praktikern entwickelt wurden und in präziser Ausführung als erstklassige Marke viel von sich reden macht. GEWA hat den Exklusiv-Vertrieb (...)
Art. No.: WD.WPH100
Wedgie WNPP40 Nylon XT Picks 0.40mm, white 12-Pack
12 pieces Standard 351 Form ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: white The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.The Wedgie Nylon pick has the patented Wedgie shape with an added light texture for extra grip. Super durable, with a great sound.The Wedgie Nylon XT is great for hard attacking, aggressive guitar players who need a comfortable pick that won't slip while playing. Wedgie Nylon XTs fit the order.
Wedgie WRP108 Rubber Pick Box / Cabinet / 108 pcs. / 36x Soft / Medium / Hard
Wedgie WRP108 Rubber Pick Box / Cabinet 108 pieces standard 351 model ca. 29.5mm x 25mm gauge: 36x soft, 36x medium, 36x hard 54 x 3,1 and 54 x 5mm thickness colour: white, grey A revolutionary, totally new sound and feel for your acoustic or bass guitar. The special elastomer material nearly eliminates pick noise, leaving you with clean warm tones. This pick sounds like your fingers, yet plays like a pick. No (...)
Art. No.: W.RP108
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: black The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.The Wedgie Nylon pick has the patented Wedgie shape with an added light texture for extra grip. Super durable, with a great sound.The Wedgie Nylon XT is great for hard attacking, aggressive guitar players who need a comfortable pick that won't slip while playing. Wedgie Nylon XTs fit the order.
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: blue The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.Made from a premium blend of polycarbonate for durability and playability, Wedgie Clear XL's come in vivid translucent colors that sound as good as they look. Same material as the Fender California Clears and Dunlop Gels, but Wedgie Clear XL's add our evolutionary design that will make your playing really take (...)
Wedgie WDPP73 Delrin EX Picks 0.73mm, yellow 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 30mm x 25mm colour: yellow The special Delrin blend ensures a clean sound and snappy release. Wedgie Delrin EX Picks are your same favorite pick but evolved to have a better feel and less slip.Wedgie Delrin Ex Picks are available in standard color/thickness combinations just like Fender or Dunlop, so you can just pick your favorite color and play. These durable picks will take whatever you can (...)
Wedgie WDPP50 Delrin EX Picks 0.50mm, red 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 30mm x 25mm colour: red The special Delrin blend ensures a clean sound and snappy release. Wedgie Delrin EX Picks are your same favorite pick but evolved to have a better feel and less slip.Wedgie Delrin Ex Picks are available in standard color/thickness combinations just like Fender or Dunlop, so you can just pick your favorite color and play. These durable picks will take whatever you can throw (...)
Wedgie WDPP88 Delrin EX Picks 0.88mm, green 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 30mm x 25mm colour: green The special Delrin blend ensures a clean sound and snappy release. Wedgie Delrin EX Picks are your same favorite pick but evolved to have a better feel and less slip.Wedgie Delrin Ex Picks are available in standard color/thickness combinations just like Fender or Dunlop, so you can just pick your favorite color and play. These durable picks will take whatever you can (...)
3 pieces standard 351 model ca. 29.5mm x 25.5mm gauge: hard colour: black A revolutionary, totally new sound and feel for your acoustic or bass guitar. The special elastomer material nearly eliminates pick noise, leaving you with clean warm tones. This pick sounds like your fingers, yet plays like a pick. No noise, just tone. Rubbers have a contoured grip and come in 2 thicknesses and 3 levels of stiffness (Soft, Medium, (...)
Wedgie WRPP50S Rubber Picks 5.0mm Soft, light grey 3-Pack
3 pieces standard 351 model ca. 29.5mm x 25mm gauge: soft colour: light grey A revolutionary, totally new sound and feel for your acoustic or bass guitar. The special elastomer material nearly eliminates pick noise, leaving you with clean warm tones. This pick sounds like your fingers, yet plays like a pick. No noise, just tone. Rubbers have a contoured grip and come in 2 thicknesses and 3 levels of stiffness (Soft, Medium, (...)
Wedgie WNPP73 Nylon XT Picks 0.73mm, grey 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: grey The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.The Wedgie Nylon pick has the patented Wedgie shape with an added light texture for extra grip. Super durable, with a great sound.The Wedgie Nylon XT is great for hard attacking, aggressive guitar players who need a comfortable pick that won't slip while playing. Wedgie Nylon XTs fit the order.
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: purple The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.Made from a premium blend of polycarbonate for durability and playability, Wedgie Clear XL's come in vivid translucent colors that sound as good as they look. Same material as the Fender California Clears and Dunlop Gels, but Wedgie Clear XL's add our evolutionary design that will make your playing really (...)
Wedgie WNPP50 Nylon XT Picks 0.50mm, cream 12-Pack
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 31mm x 25.5mm colour: Cream The evolution of picks. Less spin, less slip, more control.The Wedgie Nylon pick has the patented Wedgie shape with an added light texture for extra grip. Super durable, with a great sound.The Wedgie Nylon XT is great for hard attacking, aggressive guitar players who need a comfortable pick that won't slip while playing. Wedgie Nylon XTs fit the order.
12 pieces standard 351 model ca. 30mm x 25mm colour: blue The special Delrin blend ensures a clean sound and snappy release. Wedgie Delrin EX Picks are your same favorite pick but evolved to have a better feel and less slip.Wedgie Delrin Ex Picks are available in standard color/thickness combinations just like Fender or Dunlop, so you can just pick your favorite color and play. These durable picks will take whatever you can (...)
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Thoko Didiza
SA’s politics of rage – please don’t burn our books!
Is apartheid still to blame for South Africa’s dysfunctional schools? A child walks to school in 2013 in the Eastern Cape. Photo: AFP/Jennifer Bruce
AMIDST thousands of tweets responding to the mayhem overtaking the city of Tshwane (Pretoria), with buses and municipal vehicles torched‚ businesses ransacked and roads blocked with mobs and burning tyres, one of the most poignant came from a young man, presumably a student, named Theodore Sebolai: “Please don’t burn the library. Police go protect the library… we have assignments and we’re heavily relying on it, Pleaase!!!”
The current violence exposes the ANC’s vicious internal struggles. The decision from its Luthuli House headquarters to appoint outsider Thoko Didiza as a Tshwane mayoral candidate in the coming municipal elections, overriding local voices, has provoked fury.
But Sebolai’s plea symbolises more than party squabbles. It is about the betrayal of the country’s youth over the past two decades, and how the casualties of government incompetence have been young people’s most precious things, such as education. Last month, 50 schools in the Vuwani area in Limpopo province were burnt down or vandalized in protests following an unpopular government decision to incorporate Vuwani into a new municipality.
Meanwhile, more fortunate South Africans continue going about their lives while anxiously following reports of the instability. The “lucky” ones who possess foreign passports hold them preciously as an insurance policy, and everyone stashes as much money as they can into foreign bank accounts, in case things get so bad that the anarchy comes to their doorsteps.
As far as education is concerned, most who can afford it – middle class people, whether white, black, coloured or Asian – send their children to private or independent schools because of the appalling state of government schools. For example, over 85 per cent of Jewish kids go to Jewish day schools.
In 2013, basic education minister Angie Motshekga admitted to a parliamentary media briefing that “[t]he diagnostic test of the [National Development Plan] said 80 per cent of [South African] schools were dysfunctional”.
Who should we blame for South Africa’s travails? Is it still a result of apartheid, white racism and privilege, and white monopoly capitalism, as radical black politicians claim? Or the ANC’s inept governance, corruption and its lack of vision since 1994? Whatever the answer, we are sliding downwards.
In times of crisis, angry young people often help change things which seem intractable. So it was with the Soweto student uprising of June 1976, the watershed event which initiated the eventual demise of the apartheid regime. Perhaps they will do it this time too with the political leadership.
What about the human right to an education? A 1976 student leader Dan Montsitsi who is deputy chairperson of the June 16, 1976 Foundation, last week warned today’s youth: “[In 1976] we were dodging bullets and teargas… We burnt most of the beer halls throughout Soweto, and all administration board offices. [But] no single school was burnt… Each and every student was hell bent on defending their classrooms.”
Student movements cross red lines and make mistakes, but their militancy and energy tends to focus minds. The controversial “Rhodes must fall” movement at the University of Cape Town, for example, has initiated a crucial national debate about university policies and fees, despite several thuggish episodes such as burning artworks on the campus, the throwing of faeces onto the statue of Cecil John Rhodes and other violent incidents.
The energy of the youth needs to be affirmed and steered by elders into constructive directions. Ultimately, responsibility for the country’s sorry state lies with politicians – in this case the ANC – for failing to provide hope to young people. In particular, failing to educate them. The catastrophic education system has been described by respected South African commentators such as Judge Dennis Davis as a “crime against humanity”.
Indeed it is, no less than apartheid was. A burnt bus can be replaced tomorrow, but young South Africans whose fresh minds have been squandered by not being educated, will be handicapped for the rest of their lives.
Tagged ANC, Angie Motshekga, corruption, Geoff Sifrin, Rhodes Must Fall, South Africa, South African education, South African Jews, South African schools, Soweto uprising 1976, Taking Issue, Thoko Didiza, Tshwane, Zuma
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