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Bouncy Bossa 2:24
Worst GIgs
Really 2 stories but one tour.
On our way to a big tour in Mexico we got to the border at Nogales and the tour buses were supposed to meet us at 11 am. Well, this being Mexico, the time thing didn't really work and the buses didn't show. 9 hours of standing on the border waiting for 4 buses to show up (we had a huge dance troupe as well). The good news, one more day of border town partying, the bad news, well we had to do it all again the next day.
Finally the following day at about 3PM the buses show up, we cross the border and without much fanfare start our trip to Hermosillo, the first stop on our tour. No problems.
The following day, we have to do the whole publicity thing since this was co-sponsored by Coca Cola and after the obligatory photos on the stage we finally got to leave and enjoy the refreshing taste of warm, I should say hot, Coca Cola products. See, ice isn't really called for there.
Not 10 minutes later, one of the lighting trusses has a welding failure and collapses... on the stage where about 90 of use were just standing. That was really a crisis averted because there probably would have been deaths.
Part 2 - Mexico City
Well there are lots of mini-mishaps but nothing that important so we jump ahead to Mexico City, our crowning jewel and the Plaza del Toros was packed. So many people that there were people climbing the light poles to watch.
Over 50,000 people and we were jamming, until the power went out for half the stage. The mics worked, but only the guitar amps still had power. This was the 80's and e-drums were hot... until the power failure.
The bass player was singing and his part was being played by the midi track along with a lot of backup DX-11's. Gotta love those digital keys!
So there I am having to play guitar with just a singer and me, in front of 50,000 people. That wasn't the problem. I had to create a harmony part since I was just playing a single funk line and had long ago forgotten the original harmony (you tend to memorize songs after playing the same sets for months ;)
It was a good lesson though, and one I remember to this day. The audience usually doesn't know what is wrong with the set, only you do. Keep playing and pretend this is the way it is.
in travel and gigs
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Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
Original Articles: Gastroenterology
Natural Evolution of Infantile Regurgitation Versus the Efficacy of Thickened Formula
Hegar, Badriul*; Rantos, Rastra*; Firmansyah, Agus*; De Schepper, Jean†; Vandenplas, Yvan†
*Department of Child Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Belgium
†Department of Pediatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Kinderen, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
Received 21 August, 2007
Accepted 9 October, 2007
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Yvan Vandenplas, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Kinderen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium (e-mail: yvan.vandenplas@uzbrussel.be).
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition: July 2008 - Volume 47 - Issue 1 - p 26–30
doi: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e31815eeae9
Regurgitation is frequent in infants. We evaluated changes in regurgitation among patient groups fed standard formula, standard formula subsequently thickened with cereal, or formula manufactured with bean gum as a thickening agent.
Patients and Methods:
A prospective, blinded, randomised 1-month intervention trial evaluating the efficacy of parental reassurance of the regurgitating child in combination with 3 formula interventions—standard infant formula (group A); 5 g of rice cereal added to 100 mL standard formula (group B); and formula manufactured with bean gum as a thickening agent (group C)—was performed in 60 infants presenting with more than 4 episodes of regurgitation and/or vomiting per day during the week before inclusion. Formula intake, infant comfort, stool aspects, and weight gain were evaluated. All of the infants and data recorded by parents in a diary were evaluated weekly by a blinded health care professional.
At baseline, groups A, B, and C were similar for all of the parameters. After the 1-month intervention, regurgitation/vomiting decreased significantly in all 3 groups (P < 0.0005). Although the decrease was largest in group C (−4.2 ± 2.1 episodes/day), the incidence did not differ significantly with groups A or B. At no evaluation interval was there a difference in volume of formula intake, infant comfort, stool frequency, or aspect. After 1 month, weight gain was significantly greater in group C compared with group A (19.9% vs 16.4%; P < 0.001).
Thickening of formula decreases regurgitation, but not significantly. Parental reassurance remains the cornerstone of the treatment of infant regurgitation.
Gastroesophageal reflux (GER), the involuntary passage of ingested material from the stomach into the esophagus, is a common event in infants. Most reflux episodes are asymptomatic, brief, and limited to the distal esophagus. Regurgitation is defined as passage of refluxed gastric contents into the oral pharynx. Vomiting is a coordinated reflex and is defined as expulsion of the refluxed gastric contents from the mouth. The difference between regurgitation and vomiting is not always clear-cut. GER disease is a condition that develops when the reflux of stomach contents causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications such as pain, poor growth, and esophagitis.
According to epidemiological data, about 20% of the parents of formula-fed infants seek medical help because of infant regurgitation (1). Dietary management has been recommended in infants with frequent regurgitation and/or vomiting by the North American and European societies for pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition (2,3). In some parts of western Europe, up to 20% of the formula that is sold is thickened. We performed a prospective, randomised, and blinded trial to compare the evolution of regurgitation and vomiting in infants fed standard formula or formula thickened with rice cereal or bean gum.
Healthy term-born, formula-fed infants (ages 1–3 months) presenting with frequent regurgitation and/or vomiting (≥4 times/day since at least 1 week before inclusion) were included in a 4-week interventional trial to evaluate the evolution of regurgitation and vomiting and the clinical effect on both of a standard formula thickened with 5 g rice cereal (Rice Cereal Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland) per 100 mL or an “antiregurgitation” formula manufactured with bean gum as a thickening agent (Nutrilon1-AR, Royal Numico, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands). The bean gum–thickened formula is a nutritionally balanced formula with increased viscosity (Table 1). At baseline, body weight for height ratio was in all children >90% by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 guidelines. According to the inclusion criteria, all of the infants were at baseline exclusively fed with standard infant formula at normal concentration. Mechanical obstruction such as infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis and malrotation were excluded before inclusion. Exclusion criteria were atopic symptoms such as eczema, watery rhinorrhea or diarrhea (suspected cow's milk allergy), congenital abnormalities, feeding refusal, hematemesis, melena, use of antireflux medication, or previous use of thickened formula.
Composition of infant formulas used in study per 100 mL
All of the patients were randomly assigned to 1 of the 3 groups. Randomisation was performed according to an automated randomisation. All of the participating parents were reassured in the same way, explaining the natural evolution of infant regurgitation and the benign nature of the condition (2–4). Group A was continued on standard infant formula, group B was switched to standard formula thickened with the rice cereal, and group C received the bean gum–thickened formula. In all of the groups, infants were fed ad libitum. Parents recorded the frequency of regurgitation during the entire 4-week intervention period in a diary. Parents also were asked to record volume intake for each feeding, and periods of sleep disturbances caused by irritability, feeding refusal, stool aspects (watery or hard), or back arching. At baseline, there were no differences between the 3 groups (Table 2). Weight gain was evaluated at the beginning and the end of the 1-month intervention.
Baseline demographic data and clinical characteristics
Results are expressed as the mean ± 1 standard deviation. Analyses are performed with SPSS version 15.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL). Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to test for differences between subgroups and paired Student t test or Wilcoxon rank test for changes within subgroups. The level of significance was set at P < 0.05. The study protocol was approved by the local ethical committee; written informed consent was obtained before inclusion.
All 60 included infants completed the study; each group consisted of 20 infants. The 3 groups were comparable at inclusion (Table 2). Table 3 shows a progressive reduction in frequency of regurgitation and vomiting during the 4 intervention weeks in all 3 groups, demonstrating a statistically significant natural decrease in regurgitation frequency (group A: −2.7 ± 2.4 episodes/day; P < 0.005). Regurgitation decreased mostly in the group that received the bean gum–thickened formula (group C: −4.2 ± 2.1; P < 0.005), but the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.14).
Frequency of regurgitation/vomiting during the intervention period
Table 4 summarises the evolution of the intake of formula in each group, which was comparable at every evaluation (baseline and weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4). Although not significantly different, intake in the cereal-thickened group remained stable for 2 to 3 weeks. The stool characteristics (consistency, frequency) did not differ between the groups during the intervention period with a majority of children that had normal soft stools. Similarly, there was no difference in sleeping disturbance.
Evolution of intake during the intervention, mL · kg−1 · day−1
Weight gain was significantly higher in the group with bean gum–thickened formula (965 ± 166 g) compared with the standard formula group (828 ± 160 g; P < 0.05) or compared with the cereal-thickened formula (575 ± 97 g; P < 0.00001). The percent weight changes were, respectively, 16.4 ± 1.09% (group A), 11.5 ± 0.9% (group B), and 19.9 ± 0.8% (group C) (P < 0.0001). This may be related to the (nonsignificant) smaller intake in group B in comparison with the other groups.
Knowledge of the natural history of regurgitation and vomiting is relatively poor because of the limited description and identification of the infants. In an Italian observational study in which 2879 infants were followed from birth to 6 months, regurgitation was reported in 23.1% of all infants (5). Formula was changed in 60% of all infants (5). The frequency of regurgitation varies largely in relation to age. Martin et al (4) showed that about 40% of all 3- to 4-month-old infants regurgitate, whereas at 12 months of age, only 5% of infants regurgitate. A prospective follow-up of 63 regurgitating infants reported a remission in all before 1 year old (1). Even thereafter, feeding refusal, duration of a meal, and parental feeding-related distress were significantly prolonged or increased in the group with regurgitation if compared with a control group (1,6). This observation suggests a decreased quality of life in regurgitating infants and their parents, even if the regurgitation has disappeared. Infants spitting up during 90 days or more during their first 2 years of life have a greater risk for developing GER symptoms at 9 years old (4). This may point to the fact that some of these children who frequently spit up may have undiagnosed GER disease (7). Conversely, a history of GER is the most frequent underlying cause of feeding disorders in young children (6).
Parental reassurance has been strongly recommended by the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition as the first step in the therapeutic approach (2). Avoiding overfeeding also has been shown to reduce regurgitation (8). Volume reduction may be helpful in clearly overfed infants, but is of no or limited interest in infants who are fed with a normal frequency and volumes according to weight and age. In this trial, there was no difference in volume intake among the 3 groups. Milk-thickening agents have been shown to further reduce regurgitation (8). In the United States, thickening is usually achieved with the addition of rice cereal to formula (3,9). When thickening an infant formula with an energy density of 20 kcal/oz, the addition of 1 tablespoon of rice cereal per ounce of formula increases the energy density to approximately 34 kcal/oz, whereas the addition of 1 tablespoonful of rice cereal per 2 oz of formula increases the energy density to approximately 27 kcal/oz (3). Thickening agents—such as rice cereal, gelatin, and various polysaccharides such as carob bean gum or galactomannan—have been successfully administered for the treatment of regurgitation in infants (9–13). Adding rice starch to formula may provide additional buffering of acid, which may alleviate irritability. Moreover, rice cereals have an excellent digestibility in infants as young as 1 to 3 months (13,14). Theoretically, increase of the energy density in this manner may be an appropriate strategy for infants who fail to thrive because of inadequate intake or excessive loss because of regurgitation. When formula is thickened, it is necessary to cross-cut the nipple to allow for adequate flow. All of the infants participating in this study had a normal nutritional status at inclusion. It is not clear why weight gain was smaller in the group with rice cereal than the other 2 groups. However, weight gain was significantly greater in the group fed the bean gum–thickened formula than the standard formula. The strong trend in reduction of episodes of regurgitation could have facilitated this observation, given that intake was similar in all of the groups. Because increased weight gain in infants may be a risk factor for obesity during adulthood, these nutritional aspects need further evaluation.
Many commercial antiregurgitation formulas are available in European countries that contain potato, rice, or corn starch, locust bean gum (prepared from St John bread, a galactomannan), or carboxymethylcellulose (a combination of pectin and cellulose) as thickening agents. There are as many different compositions of antiregurgitation formulas as there are companies: Some formulas are casein predominant, whereas others contain protein hydrolysates. These formulas have been reported to decrease regurgitation, vomiting, and esophageal acid exposure when compared with unthickened formula and formula thickened with rice cereal (15). This benefit, although cosmetic, is welcome to parents of children who frequently spit up. Decrease of the incidence of regurgitation does reassure the parents. In the first randomised trial, parental reassurance without formula change was shown to not decrease regurgitation more significantly than bean gum–thickened formula (identical to that used in this trial) (16).
The effect of thickened feeding on GER documented by milk scintigraphy, 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring, or impedancemetry remains controversial, although the reduction in the incidence of regurgitation was confirmed in most studies. Gastroesophageal scintigraphy is a sensitive and noninvasive test for the detection of GER. In the study by Chao and Vandenplas (17), the number of infants with more than 3 postprandial reflux episodes was significantly reduced in the group receiving rice cereal–thickened formula. Cereal-thickened formula was significantly more efficacious than postural therapy in decreasing the frequency of regurgitation in regurgitating infants. Treatment of regurgitation with cereal-thickened formula resulted in an increased energy intake (approximately 25%), related to increased gain in weight and length, in comparison with regular formula and positioning therapy (17). Esophageal pH monitoring showed that milk thickened with rice starch or carob bean gum decreased the number of acid reflux episodes, but the total duration of acid exposure remained unchanged, presumably because of the slower clearance of the thickened acid reflux from the esophagus (9,16). A controlled trial that evaluated the use of formula thickened with 4% rice starch in infants with GER showed decreased regurgitation and crying and increased sleeping time, even though the number of reflux episodes documented by scintigraphy did not decrease (13).
Vandenplas et al (16) previously reported that milk thickened with carob bean gum (the same content as the already thickened formula in this trial) decreased the number of acid reflux episodes, but the total duration of acid exposure remained unchanged, presumably because of slower clearance of the thickened acid refluxate from the esophagus. Wenzl et al (18) confirmed (for the same formula) a significant decrease in regurgitation, although the height of the reflux episodes as measured with impedance was not different. However, a recent multicentre trial found that a casein-dominant formula thickened with a specifically treated corn starch reduced esophageal acid exposure, reduced reflux as detected by scintigraphy, and reduced clinical symptoms (19,20).
Few studies have compared the impact of feeding with standard versus thickened formula on the frequency of infant regurgitation. The findings of this trial confirm the data reported in the first article on the efficacy of commercial antiregurgitation formula (16). The 1994 report and this study used the same prethickened formula. Also, in the first trial, parental reassurance was shown to reduce regurgitation and vomiting significantly (16). The difference in decrease of regurgitation between standard and unthickened formulas was not significant (16).
Some thickening agents have potential side effects. Thickening agents may mask symptoms and delay correct diagnosis and other therapeutic interventions. Orenstein et al (10) indicated that thickened formulas were associated with significantly more coughing, which led to the hypothesis that thickened formulas worsen nonregurgitant reflux. According to in vitro models, bean gum may be associated with malabsorption of minerals and micronutrients. Studies of various thickening agents (including guar gum, carob bean gum, and soybean polysaccharides) indicate the potential for decreased intestinal absorption of carbohydrates, fats, calcium, iron, zinc, and copper (21–23). Abdominal pain, colic, and diarrhea may ensue from fermentation of bean gum and undigested starch derivatives in the colon. In some animal studies, although not all, the addition of carob bean gum to the diet decreased growth. Although they are rare, serious complications of bean gum consumption such as acute intestinal obstruction, gastric bezoar, and necrotizing enterocolitis have been reported in preterms and newborns. Allergic reactions to carob bean gum have been reported in adults exposed to it at their workplaces. However, only a few infants have been reported with carob bean gum allergy after exposure to thickened formula. No data are available on whether the addition of starch of different sources (rice, corn) with protein contamination may put the young, regurgitating infant at risk for developing allergies to these foods.
A Cochrane review concluded that thickened feeds reduce the regurgitation severity score (95% confidence interval [CI] −1.35 to −0.52) as well as the frequency of emesis (95% CI −1.22 to −0.61), but that acid reflux, expressed as reflux index, was not reduced (95% CI −3.27–4.23) (24). In this trial, there was no statistically significant difference among the groups in the incidence of regurgitation, although the incidence of regurgitation was smallest in the bean gum–thickened group. In poor socioeconomic conditions, more expensive antiregurgitation formula should not be recommended. Parental reassurance remains the cornerstone in the approach to infant regurgitation. Although volume intake was similar in the 3 groups, short-term weight gain was significantly higher in the bean gum–thickened group. Whether this increased weight gain is beneficial needs further evaluation.
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2. Vandenplas Y, Ashkenazi A, Belli D, et al. A proposition for the diagnosis and treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in children: a report from a working group on gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Eur J Pediatr 1993; 152:704–711.
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7. Gold BD, Freston JW. Gastroesophageal reflux in children: pathogenesis, prevalence, diagnosis, and role of proton pump inhibitors in treatment. Paediatr Drugs 2002; 4:673–685.
8. Khoshoo V, Ross G, Brown S, et al. Smaller volume, thickened formulas in the management of gastroesophageal reflux in thriving infants. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2000; 31:554–556.
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10. Orenstein SR, Shalaby TM, Putnam PE. Thickened feedings as cause of increased coughing when used as therapy for gastroesophageal reflux in infants. J Pediatr 1992; 21:913–915.
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12. Fornon SJ, Filer U Jr, Thomas LN, et al. Relationship between formula concentration and rate of growth of normal infants. J Nutr 1969; 98:241–254.
13. Lifschitz CH, Abrams SA. Addition of rice cereal to formula does not impair mineral bioavailability. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1998; 26:175–178.
14. Shulman RJ, Gannon N, Reeds PJ. Cereal feeding and its impact on the nitrogen economy of the infant. Am J Clin Nutr 1995; 62:969–972.
15. Borrelli O, Salvia G, Campanozzi A, et al. Use of a new thickened formula for treatment of symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux in infants. Ital J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1997; 29:237–242.
16. Vandenplas Y, Hachimi IS, Casteels A, et al. A clinical trial with an “anti-regurgitation” formula. Eur J Pediatr 1994; 153:419–423.
17. Chao HC, Vandenplas Y. Effect of cereal-thickened formula and upright positioning on regurgitation, gastric emptying, and weight gain in infants with regurgitation. Nutrition 2007; 23:23–28.
18. Wenzl TG, Schneider S, Scheele F, et al. Effects of thickened feeding on gastroesophageal reflux in infants: a placebo-controlled crossover study using intraluminal impedance. Pediatrics 2003; 111:e355–e359.
19. Xinias I, Mouane N, Le Luyer B, et al. Cornstarch thickened formula reduces oesophageal acid exposure time in infants. Dig Liver Dis 2005; 37:23–27.
20. Chao HC, Vandenplas Y. Comparison of the effect of a cornstarch thickened formula and strengthened regular formula on regurgitation, gastric emptying, and weight gain in infantile regurgitation. Dis Esophagus 2007; 20:155–160.
21. Bosscher D, Van Caillie-Bertrand M, Van Cauwenbergh R, et al. Availabilities of calcium, iron, and zinc from dairy infant formulas is affected by soluble dietary fibers and modified starch fractions. Nutrition 2003; 19:641–645.
22. Aggett PJ, Agostoni C, Goulet O, et al. Antireflux or antiregurgitation milk products for infants and young children: a commentary by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2002; 34:496–498.
23. European Commission Scientific Committee for Food. Opinion on certain additives to foods for infants and young children in good health and in foods for special medical purposes for infants and young children: locust bean gum. Document XXIV/1270/97, Annex II. 1997; E410.
24. Craig WR, Hanlon-Dearman A, Sinclair C, et al. Metoclopramide, thickened feedings, and positioning for gastro-oesophageal reflux in children under two years. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004; CD003502.
Antiregurgitation formula; Bean gum thickened formula; Infant formula; Regurgitation; Rice cereal thickened formula; Vomiting
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition47(1):26-30, July 2008.
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Banjo Bones, The Dark Side of Americana, Jul 7th, 2017
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Listen now - - Banjo Bones sings themes of the present in a voice of the past. With lyrical content that spans the introspective to the esoteric, Banjo Bones combines elements of roots music into a genre defying style that borrows in equal portions from blues, jazz, country and folk. Whiskey infused philosopher, frustrated poet, and wannabe cowboy, Banjo Bones takes listeners on a journey filled with the musical landscape equivalent to Death Valley, as told by a pallet of characters that would be perfectly at home in a Fante or Bukowski book. A founding member of post-punk band Samsara, based in Washington DC in the early part of the 1990s, JL Espada recorded and released a regionally successful EP (recorded in the legendary Inner Ear Studios, home of underground legends Fugazi), only to turn away from the music industry in 1996. He eventually found his voice again through the alias Banjo Bones, and after relocating to Sacramento, CA in 2011, released several works, including the EP Failed Ambitions (2012), and the popular single Snowy Mountain (2013). The full-length CD of new material, The Place of Dead Roads, was released March 5, 2015. 2017's Cowboy Dreams is the most recent release, a ten song collection of songs that can best be described as the soundtrack to a desert adventure.
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{{/if}} Integrated intelligence: Sigma Control 2 – Kaeser Compressors Ltd.
Integrated intelligence: Sigma Control 2
Kaeser Kompressoren’s revolutionary modular concept takes compressor controller technology to the next level and beyond. Welcome to the world of Sigma Control 2.
Sigma Control 2, Kaeser’s PC-based compressor controller, delivers energy efficiency, reliability, and standardised servicing; its modular design offers exceptional versatility and enhances communication.
It’s now more than a decade since the Coburg-based compressed air systems provider introduced its ground-breaking ‘Sigma Control’ internal compressor controller, the innovative “PC in a compressor.” The integration of an industrial PC as standard in every compressor not only enabled cost-effective control, but also allowed networking capability between individual units and with master control systems. This breakthrough provided the keystone for today’s integrated system approach to compressed air production by enabling continuous advances in energy performance and improved reliability of complex compressed air systems.
Enhanced communication and efficiency
The core strengths of Kaeser’s ‘Sigma Control’ compressor controller are its ability to optimise energy efficiency and to communicate seamlessly both internally with the compressor as well as externally with master control systems. Unsurprisingly therefore, Kaeser’s development engineers also applied these outstanding features to the new generation Sigma Control 2, or SC2 as it is referred to more succinctly. However, wishing to make the Sigma Control 2 even more versatile than its predecessor, what Kaeser’s engineers came up with for the SC2 was an innovative modular design that creates a “division of labour” between the main control unit and the separate input/output modules. As a result, this unique concept makes the SC2 even easier to maintain and to communicate with.
Sigma Control 2 is equipped with its own web server, which allows direct communication with the compressor via intranet/internet. So, within the scope of Kaeser’s Teleservice facility for example, password-protected compressor settings and operational data can be called up and adjusted on any PC with an internet browser without the need for additional expensive software. Compressor operation and maintenance are therefore made even easier, as is regular monitoring of cost- and energy efficiency.
Sigma Control 2 communicates internally with the compressor via input/output modules that are tailored with differing inputs, outputs and floating contacts to meet the specific needs of the various compressor ranges. This future-proof concept therefore offers exceptional flexibility.
User-friendly and reliable operation
It is not only the compressor that benefits from the SC2’s fast and efficient communications, the user does too: The large operating panel is dominated by an LED-backlit, 256 x 128 pixel, greyscale LCD screen on which plain text messages can be easily read across eight 30-character lines. Nine LED indicators signal additional operational parameters and conditions, and 13 membrane keys labelled with easy to understand icons ensure unmistakeable input of the various commands.
The operating panel communicates directly with the “main control system”, the core of the Sigma Control 2. It comes with four interfaces for active and passive communication:
with the compressor (IO-BUS for up to six I/O modules)
with Sigma Frequency Control speed controllers. This feature enables the use of infinitely variable, frequency speed control not only for the compressor drive itself, but also for electric motors of fans
with the internet and/or computer networks (via the Ethernet interface, 10/100 MBit/s, RJ45)
with the user’s various control systems via plug-in communication modules which are available for Profibus, Modbus, Profinet or Devicenet.
Cards and chips
Seamless documentation of all operating conditions and parameters is essential to ensure optimum compressor performance at all times. This important task is facilitated by the memory feature included as standard with the SC2, data from which can be easily and quickly uploaded to a computer thanks to the addition of a SD card slot. The same slot also makes it possible to transfer and install software updates onto the SC2 using a pre-loaded SD card. As a result, updates can be carried out quickly and all operational settings are retained.
Sigma Control 2 provides high level security with its integrated RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) functionality. Not only does this technology ensure secure log-in for users and/or Kaeser service engineers, but also safeguards the system against unauthorised changes or operation. This security feature has been added to further standardise servicing in order to ensure high quality standards and to provide continuous quality assurance for service work.
Kaeser rotary screw compressors are already being equipped with the new Sigma Control 2 controller which will eventually become standard on all ranges.
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Welcome to the latest FFI.
Can you believe it’s been a fortnight since I chatted with Laurie Boris? Where does the time disappear? So, what’s been happening since then?
The clocks went back an hour last weekend leaving us with shorter evenings and longer nights. Autumn is here – that’s ‘Fall’ to my friends on the other side of the Atlantic, and they have it right; I seem to spend half my spare time sweeping up dead leaves right now.
Winter’s knocking at the door and I’ve filled the log store ready to set the fire, our only form of heating. I’m not a big fan of winter, but short of moving to the tropics, I’m stuck with it. So, let’s snuggle up for warmth and welcome today’s guest, who’s crossed the Channel for a chat, Jenny Harper.
KJD: Welcome Jenny, thanks for coming all this way. How you doing?
JH: Hi Kerry, I’m fine thanks. Getting over the ferry ride.
KJD: Oh dear, was the crossing a little rough?
JH: Not too bad. How are you?
KJD: I’m great. Nearly finished the third draft of my latest novel, The DCI Jones Casebook: Sean A Freeman.
JH: Fantastic. It’s so exciting to reach that stage, isn’t it? What’s your friend, DCI Jones been getting up to?
KJD: Aha! Nice one, Jenny. I can see you’re trying to deflect me away from the primary topic of this interview—you. I can see you’re going to be a tricky one to pin down. Let’s start with an easy question. What’s the best thing about your hometown?
JH: Deep-fried Mars bars!
KJD: As I said, I’m going to have to watch out for you!
JH: Seriously (I’ve never had one, honest), Edinburgh is a stunning city, on a par with any of the top historic towns in Europe. It has everything – history, architecture, views of hills and sea, culture (theatre, music, film, books, art) and great travel links. But best of all, it comprises a lot of wonderful small communities.
KJD: Hey, that sounds great. I’ve never been to Edinburgh. I’ve heard about the Fringe and the Arts Festival – must pop over for a visit sometime when I can afford a new raincoat. I spent a week in Scotland for work back in 2002. It poured the whole time (tee hee). Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.
Tell me what you see out of your studio window.
JH: My garden. Rooftops and chimneys. The Braid Hills, which are covered in yellow gorse in the summer, and a lot of trees. My house was built in 1887 and is part of a terrace. The terrace is one third of a triangle of terraces. The back gardens all meet in the middle. Very suburban in a Victorian kind of way.
KJD: Lovely, sounds rather tranquil for the middle of a capital city. Thanks for that, now, let’s get to know you a little better.
You’re shipwrecked on a deserted paradise island. Apart from the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare (yeah, right), what other book must you have and why?
JH: I hate questions like this! It’s like when someone asks me the best place to eat. We have 700 restaurants in this city, but my mind goes blank… Can I have a series, if it was printed small and bound into one great book?
KJD: Hmmm, possibly.
JH: If so, I’ll take the Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett – the best historical novels ever written. They have everything: they are complicated, but page turning. They are amazingly evocative. Francis Crawford of Lymond is the hero to end all heroes. It’s a love story that spans six long books and crosses most of sixteenth-century Europe from Scotland to Russia by way of France, Germany, Turkey and Malta and more. Guess that would help prevent boredom!
KJD: Okay, I’m normally very strict, but will allow you a compendium of titles wrapped into one volume, but it does mean you have no wriggle room later in the interview.
Under the same conditions, what’s the one luxury item you’d take with you and why? By the way, no beauty items allowed.
JH: Darn. I wanted moisturiser. Can I cheat and have a solar-powered laptop, preferably with internet connection? There must be a satellite station above this desert island, surely?
KJD: Hmmm, I’ll have to think about that one. Let’s see how the rest of the interview goes.
Now let’s skip right to the technical stuff, which I’m sure all your readers are as interested in as I am.
What genres do you read and do they differ from the ones you write? If so, why?
JH: Anything that grabs me and is well written. I love good ‘women’s fiction’, more literary books as long as they are great stories and aren’t pretentious, crime, thrillers… Variety is key, and I love good stories. Doesn’t matter what genre they are really.
KJD: That’s a good range. I’m a little more restrictive in my reading choice, but let’s move on before I find myself in trouble. I’d like to discuss your writing next, if you don’t mind.
JH: Not at all.
KJD: What’s the first thing you do when starting a new novel? Do you research and write a detailed plot outline, or are you a pantser?
JH: I’m a plotter. But I often tear the plot up or rewrite it as I go along. In my WIP (work in process), I’ve lost some over-complicated story lines and unnecessary characters, so the outline doesn’t make sense any more. At 30k, I’ve ditched it and simply listed the scenes that need to happen from here on in.
KJD: That sounds pretty close to being a ‘pantser’ to me, and similar to the way I work. We have to be fluid in our writing, right?
Okay, so what excites you about writing and the writing process?
JH: I love it when the book starts to take off. I find the early stages excruciating. It can take me months to get the framework and characters right, but I have been known to write 34k words in less than five days. (It nearly killed me, but I didn’t delete much of it.) I love it when I find ways of drawing my clues and images on through the book. And I adore editing and polishing!
KJD: To my rapier-like statistical mind (and with the help of the desk calculator), I worked out that’s an average of seven thousand words as day! Blimey, that’s going some, no wonder you were exhausted.
You love the editing process? That is interesting. Most writers I know (including me), find that a real chore. Fancy staying over and editing my next book? Sorry, scrub that. Where were we? Ah yes …
Where did you find the inspiration for Maximum Exposure? What’s it about? How about a sneak preview? Come on, out with it!
JH: I like to write about women who have real, demanding jobs, and typically the book starts at a moment of crisis. I’ve set Maximum Exposure in a newspaper office – and the heroine discovers the newspaper is under threat of closure.
The book is available as an eBook until February, with a paperback run due to hit the shelves then. Here’s a sneak preview of the opening:
Outside the offices of The Hailesbank Herald, a late frost edged the cobbles with a white rime that glinted and sparkled in the thin early morning light. Daisy Irvine retrieved her camera kit from the boot of her antiquated mud-splattered Suzuki and fumbled for her office key in the depths of her bulky fleece. Being the youngest ever chief photographer at the local newspaper was an achievement she was really proud of, but early-morning call-outs were a definite downside to the job.
She shoved the door open with her shoulder and the heat in the office slapped into her with a force that felt almost physical. She peeled off her jacket, swung her bags onto her desk, and registered that the editor was already in and flouting the law as usual by smoking a cigarette. She was just working out how to frame her request for a pay rise when she heard a strange moan.
She looked up and saw Angus MacMorrow fall, straight as a newly felled tree, onto the shabby threadbare carpet of his smoke-filled lair.
KJD: So, a smoker bites the carpet, eh? Love it! That’s the sort of opening I like. Excellent, thanks for sharing that. I’ll be putting the buy links at the bottom of this interview, so all you fans reading this can find the book easily. I wish you the best of luck with it, I really do.
Back to you now, if there were a single thing you’d like to change about yourself, what would it be?
JH: I sometimes say or do things I later regret.
KJD: You and me both, Jenny. You and me both. What’s next in your life?
JH: I keep trying to ease out of things so that I can have more time to write and to travel. It doesn’t seem to be happening. But life couldn’t be better – lots of interests, a beautiful home, lovely family, and a new publisher. If that’s what’s next as well, I’m happy!
KJD: Wonderful. There aren’t enough people in the world happy with their life. We all envy you.
Okay, let’s see if I can tease something out to make up for all that happiness. Tell me something about yourself you wouldn’t want you partner/parents to know. Don’t worry; it’ll be our little secret. 😉
JH: Secrets, eh? But I’m only interested in other people’s secrets!
KJD: Darn it. You know that means the solar-powered laptop for the desert island is now off the table, right? It’s back to paper and pencils from now on.
JH: I thought as much, but my lips are zipped. You’ll never drag any secrets out of me, no matter how many chocolate cakes you bribe me with.
KJD:Oh dear. I can see that I’ve met my match. It’s been wonderful chatting with you Jenny, an absolute delight. Before we finish, do you have anything else you’d like to mention? When you arrived, you said something about having some news about tomorrow.
JH: Thanks for reminding me. Would you mind if I put in a plug for a charity anthology that is coming out tomorrow?
KJD: As it’s for charity, okay. Don’t ever let anybody say that I’m not charitable.
JH: You are a darling.
KJD: Oh hush, you’ll have me blushing.
JH: I want to tell you about, Let’s Hear It For The Boys, a book of short stories and all sales are in aid of Movember (the men’s health charity).
KJD: I’ve heard of Movember, but can you explain what it means to you and your feller?
JH: Our Movember message? ‘Don’t die because you’re shy’. Robin (my husband) urges men to speak to their doctor about any health worries they might have, even if they think they are embarrassing. Movember is a great cause – and it’s also great that as writers we can do our little bit to help. You can check out the blurb below and click the cover to buy and support this great cause.
KJD: I’m sold, it’s a fantastic movement. I’ll start growing my moustache tomorrow. Best of luck with the project and thanks millions for your time today.
Movember Anthology by HitLitPro
All Profits Donated
Mo Sistas, it’s time to step up . . .
Perhaps one of the men close to you (brother, husband, son, friend…) join in with the moustachioed adventure that happens every November. Around the world it’s the month that has literally changed its name, as the global organisation, Movember, leads the way in changing the face of men’s health.
This year it is time for the ladies to step up and grab the moustache baton. While we Mo Sistas may be follicly challenged about the face, we do have the power of words at our fingertips.
Let’s Hear It For The Boys is a tribute to the men of Movember. The HitLitPro authors have created these 9 short stories to celebrate the men in our lives, the effect they have on our hearts, our minds (and our bodies) and the difference they can make to the world around them.
Jenny Harper lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, though she was born in India and grew up in England. She has been a non-fiction editor, a journalist and a businesswoman and has written a children’s novel and several books about Scotland. Her short story, ‘The Eighth Promise’ was published in March in the Mills & Boon anthology, Truly, Madly, Deeply. Jenny writes contemporary women’s fiction with bite – complex characters facing serious issues. Face the Wind and Fly is about a woman wind farm engineer with a marriage in trouble and a controversial project to handle. Loving Susie is about a female politician with a complicated family history and at odds with the world. Her latest novel, Maximum Exposure, is about a newspaper photographer with job to save and some growing up to do.
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Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
She’s a professional photographer – but is she ready to expose her heart?
Adorable but scatterbrained newspaper photographer Daisy Irvine becomes the key to the survival of The Hailesbank Herald when her boss drops dead right in front of her. And while big egos and petty jealousies hinder the struggle to save the paper, Daisy starts another campaign – to win back her ex, Jack Hedderwick.
Ben Gillies, returning after a long absence, sees childhood friend Daisy in a whole new light. He’d like to win her love, but discovers that she’s a whole lot better at taking photographs than making decisions, particularly when she’s blinded by the past.
When tragedy strikes Daisy’s family, loyalty drives her home. But it’s time to grow up and Daisy must choose between independence and love.
I’ll be posting the next Friday-Fortnight Interview on 14th November, and will feature Julie Frayn.
About the Author: Kerry J Donovan
#1 Amazon bestselling author with the US-based Lucky Shores thriller series and the Ryan Kaine military action thrillers, and creator of the popular DCI Jones Casebook series of crime novels, Kerry J Donovan was born in Dublin. A citizen of the world, he currently lives in a stone cottage in the heart of rural Brittany, which he took five years to renovate with his own gnarled and calloused hands. The cottage is a pet-free zone (apart from the field mice, moles, and a family of red squirrels). He has three children and four grandchildren, all of whom live in England. An absentee granddad, Kerry is hugely thankful for the modern miracle of video calling.
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Julie Frayn October 31, 2014 at 1:26 pm - Reply
Deep fried Mars bars? Nummy… Jenny do you do NaNo? At the pace of 34K words in 5 days, you’d be done in a week! Awesome.
Kerry Donovan October 31, 2014 at 3:38 pm - Reply
Don’t know about Jenny, but I don’t bother with NaNo because I don’t have a problem with motivation, I have other ‘challenges’.
Time, ability, fatigue, ingrowing toenails, (but that last one was a lie.) 😉
jennyharperauthor November 2, 2014 at 2:34 pm - Reply
Julie, I don’t do NaNo. I can only write at that speed near the end of a novel – if I tried it too early, I fear most of the words would just be wasted! Good luck to you, though!
Mary Smith October 31, 2014 at 1:50 pm - Reply
Great interview – reads like ti was a lot of fun to do.
Thanks Mary, we had a ball … and a chocolate cake, and loads of tea.
Kerry’s a whole lot better at interviewing than most chat show hosts! 🙂
Kerry Donovan November 2, 2014 at 3:45 pm - Reply
Aw shucks.
Michaela Miles November 1, 2014 at 9:27 am - Reply
Fabulous interview, Kerry! Can’t wait for the next one 🙂
Thanks Michaela, it’s going to be a doozie.
I take my hat off to anyone who can make me sound fun!
It was easy, Jenny – you did all the work.
dalefurse November 1, 2014 at 10:06 pm - Reply
Hi Jenny and Kerry. A really good interview. I agree, it does read like it’s in real time. Loved that question about a secret. Do you ever have anyone answer that one, Kerry? 🙂
Kerry Donovan November 2, 2014 at 12:44 am - Reply
Yes Dale,
I do – but sometimes I keep the secret. 🙂
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New bonding requirements for public sector contracts
Changes to the Construction Act came into effect for all contractors on July 1, 2018 that will have a substantial impact on public sector contracts.
The potential lien for maintenance work in Ontario - and beyond
A recent case has opened the door for landscape maintenance contractors in Ontario to argue that their services should be considered lienable.
Case study: Where a written change order is required but not obtained
Good risk management under a contract requires contractors and subcontractors to be thinking about the contract throughout the life of a project.
New version of mandatory poster released
Employment Standards Poster available in many languages.
Keeping workers safe from falls
A number of Ontario Ministry of Labour initiatives this spring are aimed at reducing injury and death from falls.
New version of mandatory injury poster available
Occupational Health and Safety Act requires poster to be displayed in every workplace.
New sexual harassment laws now in effect
Employers in Ontario have new duties under the Occupational Health and Safety Act this month, as Bill 132 comes into force.
The legislation expands the definition of harassment in the OHSA to include sexual harassment and is designed to make sure workers know their rights as employees as well as their options for confidential reporting of abuse.
“In the past, the alleged harasser might have been disciplined behind closed doors,” explains Workplace Safety and Prevention Services (WSPS) consultant Paul Hartford. “You’ve probably heard the expression, ‘if you want justice to be done, justice has to be seen to be done.’” The new legislation ensures complainants have the right to learn the outcome of an investigation.
Bill 132 mandates employers to:
Develop, maintain and review a written workplace harassment policy and program in consultation with the Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) or health and safety representative. The Act does not specify what must be contained in the policy, but it’s a good idea to add the Ministry of Labour’s new definition of sexual harassment to the harassment policy and program.
Set out in the program how the worker may report the abuse to another party if the abuser is the employer or supervisor. The changes do not specify who will investigate, only that the investigation be appropriate under the circumstances. Bill 132 gives Ministry inspectors the power to order a third-party investigation in this situation.
Provide information and instruction about the policy and program to workers.
Investigate harassment complaints appropriately.
Determine how confidentiality will be maintained during investigations.
Ensure the complainant and the alleged harasser are informed about the results of the investigation, and any corrective action, in writing.
Review the program at least once a year.
If a violence and harassment policy already exists, Hartford suggests you piggyback on what have already done. Start with a checklist of things you need to do in order to be ready, and be sure to communicate what’s happening to all employees.
“It’s a perfect subject for your next safety talk,” says Hartford. “It can be as simple as telling workers what the law has enacted, that the company is reviewing its policy with your Joint Health and Safety Committee, and that more communication will follow in the coming weeks.”
Hartford offers the following suggestions on how employers can adapt their existing harassment policy and program to meet the new requirements:
Determine who is responsible for doing the updating in consultation with the committee: the health and safety coordinator, human resources?
Sit with your JHSC, look at what you currently have, and work backwards to fill gaps. Step one may be to update your definition of harassment to include sexual harassment.
Review your program and make sure complaints can be addressed in the applicable manner.
Identify who will carry out sexual harassment investigations and how they will be trained. Is it the same people who investigate other forms of harassment and workplace violence?
Determine what reporting provisions you will put in place, and how you will guarantee confidentiality.
Review your company’s anti-discrimination policy to confirm that it addresses sexual harassment.
“Look at this as an opportunity to reinstruct and re-engage your employees and your management team,” says Hartford. “It’s a reminder of expectations of workplace conduct and comments. It’s a reminder that there is recourse for those being bullied or harassed.”
For more information visit wsps.ca.
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US targets Russia in first step against meddling in midterms
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Yet another one-shot thread (updated 2020-1-17)
https://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11237
Re: Yet another one-shot thread
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:23 am
by Scroff
Thanks for the lovely words, glad you liked it! I get a lot of pleasure from writing but it's good to know that it can provide some enjoyment to others too.
Feurox wrote: ↑
the idea of Suzu as a sort of prophetic dreamer is great!
Taking "randomly falls asleep at plot-convenient times" off the table made me think about other consequences of her narcolepsy that could be interesting and her being a dreamer seemed worth exploring, hence Suzu the sleepy shaman!
"Hang on..."
Hisao makes his way through the crowd, still unsure of the layout of the school grounds, the stalls and the people milling around them making navigation harder. He was not going to visit the festival but changed his mind when he found that the cafeteria was closed for the day. His belly is being ungrateful, forgetting past favours, and delicious smells are floating on the gentle breeze.
He grabs a selection of tasty, but decidedly not Nurse-approved, treats and finds a seat which is secluded but close enough to watch the festival goers. He has a nagging feeling that there is something odd about the scene in front of him. It is not the visible disabilities, he has seen enough of those in the last few days to accept them as part of his new reality. He is the only person who is alone, everyone else is part of a group or a pair, but that is how things were at his old school too. He finally sees what he is searching for: it is the groups' interactions he finds unusual.
He looks more carefully, checking for signs of the niggles and annoyances which, in his experience, lurk under the surface at events like this. Nothing! He leans forwards and concentrates on teasing out strands of conversation from the hubbub.
"Keep going, the bench is right there, we can sit down in a couple more steps."
"I'm sorry I didn't notice your new 'chair, I was blinded by your smile."
"Come on, you can do it! You always get a steady moment after a big shake, throw then!"
"Hold on tight, I'm gonna get us there in record time! We'll get some before they sell out."
"Hey, that was great! Remember last year? You couldn't even pick up a gun. You'll win a prize next year fo' sho'."
"So what if he doesn't want to watch the fireworks with you? There's plenty more fish in the sea."
Friends encouraging each other, giving and taking comfort without hesitation, everyone included. He understands: the academics, the twenty-four hour medical care, the well-connected careers service are not what this school is about. Such things are attractive to parents, customers who want tangible benefits for their money. Yamaku is about creating a place where cripples, discarded by Japanese society, can create their own community. Where they can find the unconditional acceptance that they should receive from their families, but seldom do. Where they can forge bonds which will help them through the rest of their lives.
Realising he needs time to think through this revelation, to consider how it applies to him, he starts to walk towards the dorm. He recognises a familiar face and nods to her in passing; he decides that he will make an effort to learn the names of his classmates.
"Hang on Hisao, don't leave. The best is yet to come."
He turns to look at her, returns her smile, and takes the hand she is holding out to him.
by Hanako Fancopter
d'awww, short and cute. Wonder who the mystery girl is? Maybe Emi (short and cute!)
by Mirage_GSM
Short and very to the point. I like it. Nice work!
Thank-you both for the kind words! The idea for this popped into my head when listening to REM's "Everybody Hurts" and it kept bugging me till I wrote it.
Hanako Fancopter wrote: ↑
Wonder who the mystery girl is?
We can rule out Rin at least! In one sense she stands for Yamaku, promising Hisao a bright future if he turns his back on manly picnics and all that entails. In another she's a cute girl from his class who fancies a snuggle during the fireworks. Personally speaking, I prefer the latter
by Feurox
Beautifully done Scroff. And over-the-shoulder watch from Hisao’s lonely festival. You mentioned R.E.M. with this, but it actually really reminds me of Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve- just crowds of people coming, going, living in front of a stagnant Hisao. You could have ended it there, but I’m glad you went for a more optimistic ending - Very well done.
by Razoredge
I never gave my feedback to your writings, it's a shame, I know.
But, yeah, I enjoyed every piece you dropped. Especially the last one. It was very well done. It's short but so cute.
Thanks to both of you for the encouragement. I really didn't expect that this piece would get such a positive reaction, being a mish-mash of how I see Yamaku, my reaction to what I've read about the education of kids with disabilities in Japan (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1515/cj-2016-0009), and my (perhaps overly) optimistic world-view.
it actually really reminds me of Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve
This is the most rewarding thing about putting my stories out there - different interpretations that make me think about them in different ways. Yeah, if you cut out the bit about learning classmates' names and change the final sentence to:
He turns to look at her, shakes his head, and continues on to his room.
then the whole piece would have a darker feel to it.
Manga Evening
Hanako opens her door and smiles when she sees Miki bearing snacks. Their weekly get-togethers are manga evenings in name only, neither of them is very interested in comics, but they enjoy each other's company so much that there is never a shortage of things to talk about.
Miki notices a photograph taped to the wall above Hanako's desk. "That's new, more food porn eh? I like it."
"Misaki says pictures of my dishes are a g-good addition to her portfolio. I'll probably use them in applications too."
"Still planning on going to pudding school then?"
"C-catering college thank you very much! Have you thought about what you're going to do n-next?"
Miki grimaces. "Suzu and Hisao are dead set on University but it's not right for me. The government guy who came to the Track and Field Club said there's money to fund one or two of us, we'd be pin-ups for their campaign to get more disabled kids into sports. It'd give me the chance to train full-time and I should be able to find a coach near wherever the guys end up, so I'm gonna go for it. I not going to compete as a disabled athlete tho', this doesn't slow me down," she brandishes her stump, "and the best opportunities are in the mainstream."
She puts the snacks on Hanako's desk and points at a teacher training prospectus. "This doesn't look like pudding school, unless you're going to teach others to make puddings."
"Catering college! N-no, that's for Lilly, I'm helping with her applications."
Miki raises her eyebrows in surprise. "I thought we'd seen the last of the Amazon?"
"She's not happy in Scotland and wants to return h-home."
"How do you feel about that? You've come a long way since she left, do you think you'll fall back into your old ways if she takes you under her wing again?"
Hanako shakes her head emphatically. "No, we've talked it through, we b-both realise our relationship wasn't very healthy a-and we've been making changes. I miss her a lot, but I've really enjoyed g-getting to know more people, walking my own path"
"Yeah, I doubt I'd be sitting here if she was still around. If you ever want anyone to join you on that path, shout and I'll be there." She wrestles a card from the pocket of her hoodie and gives it to Hanako who smiles when she sees the doodles of chibi Suzu and Hisao.
"Pizza and m-movie night?"
"Yeah, they've been feeling a bit out of touch now you're busy with the Newspaper Club. We're not trying to guilt you or anything," Miki says hastily, "it's good you're doing new stuff, but they don't see you as much as I do and want to re-connect." She watches Hanako fidget uncomfortably and avoid eye contact for a few moments before saying, "come on, out with it, looks like you've got ants in your pants!"
"You always collapse into a c-cuddle pile as soon as we've eaten and I feel-"
"-like your intruding? Gotcha. Less cuddling, more chatting."
"N-not intruding. M-Miki..."
"You OK?" she asks in surprise, she hasn't heard Hanako's shy voice for a long time.
"It's not impossible that someone will l-like me, is it?"
"Of course not, I like you loads."
"N-no, like me."
"Has Hanako got lurve on the brain? They grow up so fast.."
"Hush you! You see all sorts of people p-paired up, do you think there's someone for me?"
"Oh my sweet girl." Tears spring into Miki's eyes as she hears the yearning in Hanako's voice and she can't help but hug her. "Yes, there are people out there for you. You've got to be picky tho', don't settle for the first person who's nice to you, you're worth so much more than that."
"A-am I?"
"Fuck yeah! You're smart and kind and loyal, and you're getting a wicked good sense of humour. It might be hard for you to accept but you're beautiful too. Anyone who won't look beyond the obvious can fuck right off." Miki feels Hanako nod against her shoulder and they lean out of the hug.
"How did it h-happen for you?"
"I wouldn't ask me for advice, the number of break-ups I've had means I'm hardly a role model."
"What about the three of you? It's stable i-isn't it?"
"Yeah but that's different."
"In what way?"
Miki runs her fingers through her hair as she tries to think. "It's difficult to put into words. I guess it was a similar story with both of them, we had a strong base to work from before adding the romance. Nurse told me to keep an eye on Suzu and even tho' she annoyed me at first, she got to me in the end. She's a persistent bugger, never gave up on me even when I was at my worst. She took whatever shit I threw at her and answered it with a cuddle."
Hanako nods, "I was t-terrified of you in first year, it's hard to imagine now."
"Hisao looked beneath the surface, saw things most people don't notice cos they're too busy checking out my boobs. He said I helped him get back to his old self after his time in hospital. I didn't find out about that till later, all I knew was he stopped being a little scared boy and learnt to give massages which had my toes curling in pleasure."
"How did you go from friends to l-lovers?"
"There's no magic recipe, it's different every time. You've got to be brave and follow your feelings."
"I'm n-not brave..."
"You say that sweetheart, but there's times when it takes more courage for you to set foot out of this room than most people ever need. Have you seen someone who tickles your fancy?"
"Not really, I've o-only just started thinking about the possibility of a relationship."
"What about a preference? Boy or girl?"
"I haven't thought about that either. I think who they are is more important t-than what they are."
"Good for you! You may be a late starter but you know what matters. Make sure to run 'em by me before you get up to any mischief."
"Nuh-uh, you'll scare them off and I'll die a v-virgin!" When their laughter dies down Hanako asks, "what's that like?"
"Sex?" Smiling at her embarrassed nod, Miki replies, "it can be the best thing or the worst. Often meh."
"How come?"
"First times with strangers have a sense of excitement, a feeling of danger. The sex isn't usually great tho', it takes time to learn what buttons to press for your partner. Going by the book gets you close, but it's never as good as with someone who really knows you."
"I-I can't imagine doing that."
"Never say never! But yeah, you should go slow at first. I'm not gonna say I regret anything, tho' I learnt more about what I don't enjoy than what I do." Miki leans closer to Hanako. "Don't tell anyone, I kinda miss the thrill of the hunt."
Hanako gasps, "you wouldn't do anything to h-hurt them would you?"
"Nah. Sometimes I see a cutie and wonder what it'd be like, but it's not worth it, what I've got is too important to me."
"So when is it the b-best?"
"Predictably enough, when you know each other, when there's trust and love, all the cliche stuff. The things Suzu can... Well that's probably TMI eh? I wish there was a way to get the best of both worlds."
"R-roleplay!"
"Be someone you a-aren't. I bet you could think up all sorts of scenarios between the t-three of you. What if you p-play the part of a rich businesswoman and offer Suzu a million Yen for a night with Hisao w-while she watches and-"
"Bloody hell Hanako, where'd that come from?"
She blushes, "I've been reading Yuuko's an an magazines, she's always l-leaving them lying around the library. Once I've read the good bits I pretend I've just found them and give them b-back to her."
"You sly old dog!" Miki grabs her phone starts laboriously typing a message. She sends it and looks up at Hanako with a smile. "Let's see how long it takes them to get bac-" She is interrupted by several notifications going off in quick succession and reads the messages. With a laugh she stands up and walks towards the door.
"Miki? Where are you g-going?"
"To rescue a stranger in a dark alley. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow!"
Re: Yet another one-shot thread (updated 2019-04-03)
by Lap
Awww, poor Hanako. That's worse than having to watch their cuddle-pile after pizza. This was supposed to be her evening with Miki.
Fun story, I'm loving the way the M/H/S triad is developing.
Yeah I was cross with Miki for thinking with her vagina, but then I realised that she's treating Hanako exactly the same way as she treats everyone else. No kid gloves, no allowances for her being "delicate", so I reluctantly gave her a pass, providing she dishes the goss at the earliest opportunity!
Lap wrote: ↑
I'm loving the way the M/H/S triad is developing.
Thank-you! I've been skipping around their timeline and the tale of how they got from the end of Three of a perfect pair to the start of "You are not alone..." has yet to be told but it's almost finished and will probably be posted next
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:46 am
He pulls himself up from the seat and shuffles to the kitchen. His body tells him to eat, to drink; he obeys though there is no savour to be had. As he washes the dishes he watches the children playing in the park across the road while the young mothers enjoy each other's company, one eye on their offspring. Not having children is a source of sorrow but not regret: he never found another he wanted to have a family with after they parted.
He remembers.
"Oh come on Hisao, it's just a bit of fun. Do it for me, pleeeeeeease?"
"Why Saki? Why?"
"You'll look cute, and I'll make it up to you after!"
He found it almost impossible to deny her anything, though he always put up a fight. It cost him little but his dignity and what did that matter in the long run? Besides, she was very talented at making up... "Fine, do your worst!"
With a giggle she started twining ribbons in his hair. "Oh yes, don't you look pretty. Now now, no scowls, give your Aunty Saki a big smile."
A make-over from Saki was a lengthy, strangely enjoyable, experience; the making up after even more so. As they rested on the bed he noticed her grimacing and rubbing her feet. "They playing up again?"
"Yeah, the new meds Nurse gave me seem to be causing some water retention and it's making them sore."
"My turn to pamper you then." He rolled off the bed and put some ice from the mini-fridge she kept under her desk into a half-finished glass of water, dunked a wash cloth in it and bathed her feet.
He sat by the hospital bed, her hand in his, conscious of how small it was. The superfluous flesh had melted from her body, only her smile remained unchanged.
"Hisao, you're not living, you're killing time until time kills me. You have to let go, to stop torturing yourself about something that is not your fault and you can do nothing about." She coughed, her breathing shallow and laboured. "Why spoil our memories of what we had? This is hard enough without having to see your hangdog face every day. Why won't you say something?" She pulls her hand out of his grasp. "You know what, I'm done. Get out and don't come back."
"No Saki, please, you don't mean it."
"I'm pressing the call button if you're not out of here in ten seconds."
He left reluctantly, reasoning that it was just a bad day, that she would relent tomorrow or the next day. On his next visit he was told she had transferred but they cited patient confidentiality when he asked where she had gone. Frantic to find her, he phoned everyone he thought might know where she was or might lead him to someone who did. No-one told him anything.
He remembers how long it took to recover from his feelings of betrayal. He remembers the spiral of depression he fell into after reading her obituary in the Yamaku Alumni newsletter. He remembers when, in his mid-forties, he finally understood that she had excluded him from what remained of her life out of love, not spite.
Half a lifetime has elapsed since then and he is tired of his memories. He has put away his keepsakes and no longer visits that haunted attic room. He is waiting for the time when they can again share lollipops and crisps.
by brythain
That's a good Saki one. I was just thinking of how old Hisao would look a bit like the storekeeper.
Sad one, but good one, too.
Both fantastic Scroff. Brilliant reads, even if the second made me a little sad. Quality is near perfect as usual.
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LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR BISD IS FRIDAY
May 29, 2014 - News - Tagged: SCHOOLS
Friday is the last day of school for the oldest school district in Texas, our own Brenham School district.
When the final bells ring the BISD will conclude its 139th year. By all accounts it was an exciting and productive year.
The Cubs football team went to the state finals for the third time in 11 years. There were successes on the basketball courts, and track and field events.
Brenham students distinguished themselves in various UIL competitions, including academic, debate and choir competitions
The Brenham High School drama department had a full season of productions. In the fall they presented the comedy ‘The Foreigner’ and the spring musical returned with a production of ‘Legally Blonde,.’
This was also a year of major changes for the BISD. Construction work continued for the new Alton Elementary School and the renovations at the middle school.
This means Alton Elementary School will be moving from its long time location on Kerr Street to its new campus in the 1300 block of South Market.
Alton Principal Michael Ogg says this move will be bittersweet.
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Alton Elementary will move to its new site on South Market at the beginning of the new school year.
Ogg notes that his school is moving from the one-time location of Pickard High School to the one-time location of Brenham Elementary School.
Brenham school district voters approved a $26 million bond issue to build the new Alton and make renovations for the middle school. Both projects are expected to be ready for the next school year beginning in August.
The Brenham High School Class of 2014 graduates 318 young people Saturday night at Cubs Stadium. Valedictorian Kate Wellman and Salutatorian Jeremy Arnold will address their classmates. The future looks very good for them. Many are going on to further their educations with more than $203,000 in scholarships awarded to them.
Brenham School Principal Steve Skrla says, as of right now, they plan to have the graduation commencement at the stadium, even with a 60 percent chance of rain. He says a final determination will be made Saturday. If the exercises have to be moved indoors to the high school auditorium.. Each graduate will have five tickets for family members and guests.
KWHI will have a live broadcast of the graduation exercises beginning at about 7:45pm Saturday.
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Anode performance of boron-doped graphites prepared from shot and sponge cokes
Tao Liu, Ruiying Luo, Seong Ho Yoon, Isao Mochida
Advanced Device Materials
The structures and anode performances of graphitized pristine and boron-doped shot and sponge cokes have been comparatively studied by means of scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and galvanostatic measurement. The results show that high degree of graphitization can be obtained by the substituted boron atom in the carbon lattice, and boron in the resultant boron-doped graphites mainly exist in the form of boron carbide and boron substituted in the carbon lattice. Both of boron-doped graphites from shot and sponge cokes obtain discharge capacity of 350 mAh g-1 and coulombic efficiency above 90%. Apart from commonly observed discharge plateau for graphite, boron-doped samples in this study also show a small plateau at ca. 0.06 V. This phenomenon can be explained that Li ion stores in the site to be void-like spaces that are produced by "molecular bridging" between the edge sites of graphene layer stack with a release of boron atoms substituted at the edge of graphene layer. The effect of the amount of boron dopant and graphitization temperature on the anode performance of boron-doped graphite are also investigated in this paper.
Journal of Power Sources
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.08.104
Graphitization
boron carbides
Liu, T., Luo, R., Yoon, S. H., & Mochida, I. (2010). Anode performance of boron-doped graphites prepared from shot and sponge cokes. Journal of Power Sources, 195(6), 1714-1719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.08.104
Anode performance of boron-doped graphites prepared from shot and sponge cokes. / Liu, Tao; Luo, Ruiying; Yoon, Seong Ho; Mochida, Isao.
In: Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 6, 15.03.2010, p. 1714-1719.
Liu, T, Luo, R, Yoon, SH & Mochida, I 2010, 'Anode performance of boron-doped graphites prepared from shot and sponge cokes', Journal of Power Sources, vol. 195, no. 6, pp. 1714-1719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.08.104
Liu T, Luo R, Yoon SH, Mochida I. Anode performance of boron-doped graphites prepared from shot and sponge cokes. Journal of Power Sources. 2010 Mar 15;195(6):1714-1719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.08.104
Liu, Tao ; Luo, Ruiying ; Yoon, Seong Ho ; Mochida, Isao. / Anode performance of boron-doped graphites prepared from shot and sponge cokes. In: Journal of Power Sources. 2010 ; Vol. 195, No. 6. pp. 1714-1719.
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The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review)
Masamitsu Konno, Ayumu Asai, Koichi Kawamoto, Naohiro Nishida, Taroh Satoh, Yuichiro Doki, Masaki Mori, Hideshi Ishii
After the initial use of anti-folates for treatment of malignancies, folate metabolism has emerged as a rational diagnostic and therapeutic target in gastrointestinal cancer. The one-carbon metabolic pathway, which comprises three critical reactions (i.e., folate and methionine cycles), underlies this effect in conjunction with the trans-sulfuration pathway. Understanding of the one-carbon metabolism pathway has served to unravel the link between the causes and effects of cancer phenotypes leading to several seminal discoveries such as that of diadenosine tri-phosphate hydrolase, microRNAs, 5-FU and, more recently, trifluridine. In the folate cycle, glycine and serine fuel the mitochondrial enzymes SHMT2, MTHFD2 and ALDH1L2, which play critical roles in the cancer survival and proliferation presumably through purine production. In the methionine cycle, S-adenocyl methionine serves hydrocarbons and polyamines that are critical for the epigenetic controls. The trans-sulfuration pathway is a critical component in the synthesis of glutathione, which is involved in the production of reactive oxygen species in cancer stem cells. Therefore, characterization of one-carbon metabolism is indispensable to the development of precision medicine in the context of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In the present study, we review the historical issues associated with one-carbon metabolism and highlight the recent advances in cancer research.
International journal of oncology
https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.3885
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Trifluridine
Hydrolases
Metabolic Networks and Pathways
Konno, M., Asai, A., Kawamoto, K., Nishida, N., Satoh, T., Doki, Y., ... Ishii, H. (2017). The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review). International journal of oncology, 50(4), 1057-1063. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.3885
The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review). / Konno, Masamitsu; Asai, Ayumu; Kawamoto, Koichi; Nishida, Naohiro; Satoh, Taroh; Doki, Yuichiro; Mori, Masaki; Ishii, Hideshi.
In: International journal of oncology, Vol. 50, No. 4, 04.2017, p. 1057-1063.
Konno, M, Asai, A, Kawamoto, K, Nishida, N, Satoh, T, Doki, Y, Mori, M & Ishii, H 2017, 'The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review)', International journal of oncology, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1057-1063. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.3885
Konno M, Asai A, Kawamoto K, Nishida N, Satoh T, Doki Y et al. The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review). International journal of oncology. 2017 Apr;50(4):1057-1063. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.3885
Konno, Masamitsu ; Asai, Ayumu ; Kawamoto, Koichi ; Nishida, Naohiro ; Satoh, Taroh ; Doki, Yuichiro ; Mori, Masaki ; Ishii, Hideshi. / The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review). In: International journal of oncology. 2017 ; Vol. 50, No. 4. pp. 1057-1063.
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title = "The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review)",
abstract = "After the initial use of anti-folates for treatment of malignancies, folate metabolism has emerged as a rational diagnostic and therapeutic target in gastrointestinal cancer. The one-carbon metabolic pathway, which comprises three critical reactions (i.e., folate and methionine cycles), underlies this effect in conjunction with the trans-sulfuration pathway. Understanding of the one-carbon metabolism pathway has served to unravel the link between the causes and effects of cancer phenotypes leading to several seminal discoveries such as that of diadenosine tri-phosphate hydrolase, microRNAs, 5-FU and, more recently, trifluridine. In the folate cycle, glycine and serine fuel the mitochondrial enzymes SHMT2, MTHFD2 and ALDH1L2, which play critical roles in the cancer survival and proliferation presumably through purine production. In the methionine cycle, S-adenocyl methionine serves hydrocarbons and polyamines that are critical for the epigenetic controls. The trans-sulfuration pathway is a critical component in the synthesis of glutathione, which is involved in the production of reactive oxygen species in cancer stem cells. Therefore, characterization of one-carbon metabolism is indispensable to the development of precision medicine in the context of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In the present study, we review the historical issues associated with one-carbon metabolism and highlight the recent advances in cancer research.",
author = "Masamitsu Konno and Ayumu Asai and Koichi Kawamoto and Naohiro Nishida and Taroh Satoh and Yuichiro Doki and Masaki Mori and Hideshi Ishii",
doi = "10.3892/ijo.2017.3885",
journal = "International Journal of Oncology",
publisher = "Spandidos Publications",
T1 - The one-carbon metabolism pathway highlights therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancer (Review)
AU - Konno, Masamitsu
AU - Asai, Ayumu
AU - Kawamoto, Koichi
AU - Nishida, Naohiro
AU - Satoh, Taroh
AU - Doki, Yuichiro
AU - Mori, Masaki
AU - Ishii, Hideshi
N2 - After the initial use of anti-folates for treatment of malignancies, folate metabolism has emerged as a rational diagnostic and therapeutic target in gastrointestinal cancer. The one-carbon metabolic pathway, which comprises three critical reactions (i.e., folate and methionine cycles), underlies this effect in conjunction with the trans-sulfuration pathway. Understanding of the one-carbon metabolism pathway has served to unravel the link between the causes and effects of cancer phenotypes leading to several seminal discoveries such as that of diadenosine tri-phosphate hydrolase, microRNAs, 5-FU and, more recently, trifluridine. In the folate cycle, glycine and serine fuel the mitochondrial enzymes SHMT2, MTHFD2 and ALDH1L2, which play critical roles in the cancer survival and proliferation presumably through purine production. In the methionine cycle, S-adenocyl methionine serves hydrocarbons and polyamines that are critical for the epigenetic controls. The trans-sulfuration pathway is a critical component in the synthesis of glutathione, which is involved in the production of reactive oxygen species in cancer stem cells. Therefore, characterization of one-carbon metabolism is indispensable to the development of precision medicine in the context of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In the present study, we review the historical issues associated with one-carbon metabolism and highlight the recent advances in cancer research.
AB - After the initial use of anti-folates for treatment of malignancies, folate metabolism has emerged as a rational diagnostic and therapeutic target in gastrointestinal cancer. The one-carbon metabolic pathway, which comprises three critical reactions (i.e., folate and methionine cycles), underlies this effect in conjunction with the trans-sulfuration pathway. Understanding of the one-carbon metabolism pathway has served to unravel the link between the causes and effects of cancer phenotypes leading to several seminal discoveries such as that of diadenosine tri-phosphate hydrolase, microRNAs, 5-FU and, more recently, trifluridine. In the folate cycle, glycine and serine fuel the mitochondrial enzymes SHMT2, MTHFD2 and ALDH1L2, which play critical roles in the cancer survival and proliferation presumably through purine production. In the methionine cycle, S-adenocyl methionine serves hydrocarbons and polyamines that are critical for the epigenetic controls. The trans-sulfuration pathway is a critical component in the synthesis of glutathione, which is involved in the production of reactive oxygen species in cancer stem cells. Therefore, characterization of one-carbon metabolism is indispensable to the development of precision medicine in the context of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In the present study, we review the historical issues associated with one-carbon metabolism and highlight the recent advances in cancer research.
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DO - 10.3892/ijo.2017.3885
JO - International Journal of Oncology
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Top Ten Tuesday – Childhood Favourites
Hello all, and a belated happy new month!
It’s Top Ten Tuesday again – it happens every week – and today, it’s Childhood Favourites. Here are mine:
Tim and the Hidden People
by Sheila K McCullagh. Tim finds a magic key which enables him to see the Hidden People. I came across this ancient class reader series in some dusty attic. Dark and atmospheric, with wonderful artwork. So began my love of all things fantasy.
The Secret Island
by Enid Blyton. I was given my first book token and I picked this! The Secret Stories were a forerunner to the more famous Famous Five series. Three siblings escape cruel relatives to live on a secret island, which is the start of their adventures with Prince Paul (!) of Baronia. I would go on to read a lot of Blyton, but this stayed with me the most.
by Robert C. O’Brien. Talking animals didn’t interest me. I never liked Beatrix Potter or Wind in the Willows. OK, I liked The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann, but the mystery of the secretive colony of rats at the centre of O’Brien’s Newbury medal-winner captivated me.
Moondial
by Helen Cresswell. When you think of stately homes, what comes to mind? TIME TRAVEL, that’s what. I’d mention A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, and Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce here too.
Five Children and It
by E. Nesbit. The first in a trilogy. Five kids staying at their uncle’s mansion discover a bad-tempered sand fairy who can grant wishes. Wishes go wrong! I also loved Nesbit’s The Treasure Seekers, featuring the adventurous Bastable children.
The Chrestomanci Series ‘Witch Week’
by Diana Wynne Jones – author of Howl’s Moving Castle. Part of the Chrestomanci series, Witch Week is set in a parallel world, similar to ours, where magic is common! Off the top of my head, Jones’ Archer’s Goon, A Tale of Time City, and The Dalemark Quartet brightened my childhood.
by C.S Lewis. I don’t recall loving Lewis’ writing. But despite that, and my ‘talking animals’ prejudice, there’s no denying the pull that Narnia had on me.
Midnight is a Place
by Joan Aiken. This historical melodrama lays it on a bit thick: wronged orphans, bad-tempered guardians, vast mansions…I loved it, and also Aiken’s alternate history The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
The Children of the New Forest
by Frederick Marryat. My maternal grandfather’s favourite – given to me as a present. It’s England, the Civil War, and the Beverley orphans escape the Roundheads and hide in the forest. Other classics I loved: Alcott’s Little Women, The Prince and the Pauper by Twain, and the slightly later The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
by Judith Kerr. WWII historical fiction dominated heavily in my reading. Pink Rabbit was probably my favourite, but I also loved Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden, The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier, and The Cay, by Theodore Taylor. Plus I am David by Anne Holm, set a little later.
Soon it was paranormal romance! But also Brontë, George Elliot, and Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier.
So that’s my 10…OK I cheated a bit! xLx
This entry was posted in tags/awards and tagged bibliophile, book blog, book blogger, bookish, Books, characters, Fantasy, literature, Writing on July 2, 2019 by Lindsay Acland.
Book Reviews Sally Rooney – NORMAL PEOPLE are overrated
You’re in so much pain you pass out. Before you collapse, you’re pondering your unearned cultural privilege and reductive iteration of gender theory. Meet Frances: communist, poet, and narrator of Sally Rooney’s coming-of-age debut set in post-crash Dublin.
Frances and BFF Bobbi study at the elite Trinity College. They encounter 30-something photojournalist Melissa, who introduces them to her actor husband Nick and their arty social set.
While Bobbi gets cliquey with Melissa, Frances has a desultory affair with the handsome yet passive Nick, who suffered a breakdown.
Before college, the girls attended high school together, where Bobbi scrawled “fuck the patriarchy” on a wall near an image of a crucifix. (She’s a rich anarchist who browbeats her fellow students with her “remorseless intelligence”.)
When not joining Bobbi in putting the world to rights on everything from gender roles to capitalism and police brutality, Frances self-harms, and mops up after her violent alcoholic dad. Bobbi ‘compliments’ her by saying she doesn’t have a “real personality”.
Frances has insecurities about her looks and working-class background, but consoles herself she’s smarter than other people. “I’m going to become so smart that no one will understand me…” she daydreams, leafing through A Critique of Postcolonial Reason.
It would be OK if Friends were a biting Millennial satire. But it’s as earnest as its characters, and like being battered round the head with that copy of Postcolonial Reason.
I can see why it would appeal to young female readers who identify with Frances’ self-esteem woes. It’s much, much darker though – in terms of mental health – and full of doctorate level gobbledygook. Hardly the witty, sparkling delight people have been cooing over.
The couple who mope together…
Normal People’s third person narrative is shared between Marianne and Connell.
Connell’s mother cleans for Marianne’s rich family. At school, he’s a popular soccer player, while Marianne is an outcast. Terrified of what other people think, he ignores her, setting up a tortured on/off romance.
They leave small-town Ireland for Trinity College, where (like Frances and Bobbi) they’re the two smartest people enrolled. Aspiring writer Connell is further alienated by his working-class background, and suffers a breakdown.
Marianne revels in her isolated perch, with the scholarship exams a matter of needing her “superior intellect to be affirmed in public.” In another Friends retread, she’s beaten at home, this time by a brother.
During an on-again phase (and in an echo of Frances and Nick) Marianne (who feels herself “degenerating, moving further and further from wholesomeness, becoming something unrecognisably debased”) asks an uncomfortable Connell to hurt her during sex.
Described as a ‘modern love story’, it puts you through the wringer: depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, domestic violence, abusive boyfriends, death, predatory schoolteachers, BDSM. If this is a modern love story, do count me out.
Rooney again nails Millennial hangups, and doesn’t challenge them. She’s a young voice emerging ahead of the pack, pale and interesting in interviews, so smart you can barely understand her.
This entry was posted in Books and tagged book blog, book blogger, book reviews, bookish, Books, characters, fiction, literature, normal people, reviews, sally rooney, Writing on June 18, 2019 by Lindsay Acland.
This is my first ever Top Ten Tuesday, a book blog meme created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010, moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018.
“Page to Screen” is this week’s topic. This is a list of books I’ve read, off the top of my head, that I’d like to see adapted/re-adapted, or are being adapted, etc…
Circe by Madeline Miller This current bestseller about Circe, daughter of Helios, Greek god of the sun, has already been optioned for a TV series. May the gods descend from the heavens if they stuff it up!
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson This is one of my favourite novels, with its historical family saga meets Sliding Doors-style alternate timelines. I’d love to experience this atmospheric novel up on screen.
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber They did an Amazon pilot on this, starring Rob Stark from Game of Thrones. It’s the most melancholy book I’ve read (FYI Faber’s Under the Skin became a cult classic starring Scarlett Johansson).
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman would make a fine movie if they get the tone right. It’s already been snapped up by Reese Witherspoon…sure. I don’t know why, but I got a slight Mike Leigh/Happy-Go-Lucky vibe.
Leia, Princess of Alderaan This is a YA Star Wars canon novel by Claudia Gray. I think Solo was doomed because fans just didn’t want a movie centered on Han. A series or a movie about a young Leia? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
After Mrs Rochester This is actually a play Polly Teale wrote after adapting Jane Eyre for stage. It’s based on the troubled life of Jean Rhys, writer of Wide Sargasso Sea. We’ve had Colette, so why not Rhys?
Gates of Fire Rights to Steven Pressfield’s historical epic about the Battle of Thermopylae were acquired by George Clooney’s production company years ago, before vanishing into antiquity. Here’s a good article about why Gates of Fire never made it to the big screen.
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews I did a post about the Jennifer Lawrence movie and the book it was based on. The film..and even the book (first in a trilogy) have a certain ick factor, but there’s still potential for a TV series about spy/ballet dancer Dominika.
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook. Only recently done, but attempt #1 was dull, and they could redo in ten years! I know they have to alter things for screen – my only unfulfilled expectation was not to be bored out of my ever-loving skull.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is Kirsten Dunst’s proposed directorial debut. While I’ve great faith in Dunst (who has co-written the script) as an actress, this is a huge challenge!
**Lx**
This entry was posted in tags/awards and tagged book blog, book blogger, bookish, Books, characters, Film, literature, movie reviews, movies, reviews, Writing on May 14, 2019 by Lindsay Acland.
BOOK REVIEW: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
When asked to define history, as a graduating class are in this Man Booker Prize winner, most would say it is the events of the past and the study of days gone by.
In Julian Barnes’ novella, the flaws and misuses of memory riddle the reflection of unreliable everyman narrator Tony Webster.
Tony recalls the last of his school days, when his little clique was joined by Adrian Finn – more serious-minded than his new friends and ambivalent about his inclusion. They move on to university and to their adult lives, with the usual promises of staying in touch.
Years later, a letter from a solicitor and a mysterious last will and testament link to the past. Now retired, divorced, a father-of-one and still unremarkable, Tony tries to re-examine his past relationships and his connection to a youthful tragedy.
Stricken with remorse, he reconnects with a woman he edited out of his own history – the prickly and perplexing Veronica. This leads Tony, and readers, down a bewildering path.
The Sense of an Ending offers an observation of middle class mediocrity and insecurity, as Tony shifts his position on his own recollections.
He becomes a one-man revisionist school of thought as other viewpoints come to light, and old evidence – including an excoriating letter penned by the young Tony – is re-evaluated, evoking regret, responsibility, and the elusiveness of memory.
This entry was posted in Books and tagged book, Book review, literature, memory on June 26, 2015 by Lindsay Acland.
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NSW Place Point Dataset - Town
Place point represents named places in NSW. A place point can be a region, city, town, village, locality or suburb. There are two attributes, population source and population, that are not currently maintained. Place point is a point feature class of the NSW Digital Topographic Database ( DTDB ), within the Cultural theme. There is no overall accuracy reported in the database, however accuracy of the individual feature instances of each feature class can be found in the database tables. The currency of the feature instances in this dataset can be found in “feature reliability date” or “attribute reliability date” attributes. All feature instances in this class are attributed with a planimetric accuracy value. It is expected that the 90% of well-defined points with the same planimetric accuracy are within 0.5mm of that map scale. Depending on the capture source, capture method, digital update and control point upgrade, every feature instance reported has a positional accuracy within the range of 1m - 100m. For detailed definitions on all feature classes and attributes, refer to the DTDB Data Dictionary.
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Dataset Purpose
The DTDB is primarily used for planning, developmental activities, navigation and resource monitoring by emergency services, the Defence Forces, environmental resource managers and engineers. This information is also commonly used by bushwalkers, canoeists, anglers and fossickers to establish a detailed picture of the local environment.
GeoDatabase(gdb), Shape(shp), ESRI SDE, Well Known Text(wkt), Data Exchange Format(dxf),Oracle(SDO), MapInfo(MID/MIF/TAB)
Dataset Lineage
The original mapping information that constitutes the DTDB was initially created from 1970 at 1:25 000, 1:50 000 and 1:100 000 scales from stereoscopic aerial photography supported by ground truth, field data capture and updating. These scales have an inherent accuracy as per the National Mapping Council of Australia, Standards of Map Accuracy (1975). Therefore, the position of the feature instance will be within 0.5mm at map scale for 90% of the well-defined points. That is, 1:25000 = 12.5 m, 1:50000 = 25 m and 1:100000 = 50 m. The original manuscripts were scanned and vectorised and translated to Genamap files. Beginning in 2004, the data was migrated to an ESRI geodatabase. Since then the database has been continuously updated and upgraded through a program of external data integration from custodial and other sources, data matching and data verification of other internal and external databases, field investigation and research, as well as through Land and Property Information (LPI)’s regular cycle of updating aerial imagery of 10 cm, 50 cm and 2.5 m GSD. The programs address the content correctness, currency and accuracy of different Feature Classes on a continuous or cyclical basis. The specific programs utilised for the maintenance of each feature are largely defined by the Capture Source Attribute attached to the feature. Data is updated via multiple source programs and captured using various methods; Registered Image Trace, Ortho Image Trace of 10 , 20 and 50 cm ground sample distance imagery from ADS and 2.5 m from SPOT 5 imagery , Table Digitisation , DCDB , Scan / Vectorise , Differential GPS , Non-corrected , Comparative estimate , Survey Controlled , Mobile GPS , Stereo Image Trace Aggregation or replication of existing line segments , Engineering Design File (CAD) Scanned Map Image Trace , Positioned within features cadastral or ortho image extent. Some capture methods are unknown which may occur where data was supplied by an external source where the data capture method is undefined. Depending on the capture source, capture method, digital update and control point upgrade, every feature instance reportedly has a positional accuracy within the range of 1 m-100 m. It is important to note that not all features may be captured within the database for each feature class, and may not be an accurate representation of the current state.
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Legacy secured as Chautauqua dedicates historic Soldiers Field
At the Mt. Gretna National Guard encampment in 1912, via the Library of Congress.
Inset: Yesterday's dedication ceremony at Soldiers Field, as captured by the Mount Gretna Area Historical Society.
5 min read195 views and 86 shares Posted July 29, 2019
More than 100 people gathered at Soldiers Field in Mt. Gretna Saturday to dedicate the historic tract of land now owned by the community, celebrating the victorious fund-raising mission that preserved a piece of history in their midst.
The Pennsylvania Chautauqua was able to purchase the 18.1 acres of military history after a fund-raising campaign that began in April of 2018.
Read more: With Soldiers Field purchase, Pennsylvania Chautauqua secures a legacy for historic military training site
“I want to welcome you to a success party,” said John E. Feather, one of the co-chairmen of the Soldiers Field Project, with Mike Sherman. “Five months after we began the project, we received contributions in the amount of $325,000 and some of those donations came from as far as Maine, Florida, and California.”
A 1918 Dodge Brothers Light Repair Truck, an extremely rare item with only five known to exist. This truck in particular is believed to have been used at the Gretna encampment.
Asking price for the land owned by Eastern Enterprises was $975,000, Feather said.
The fund drive for Soldiers Field resulted in a total of one million dollars, ensuring the beloved piece of land would stay undeveloped for the future, said Sue Hostetter, one of the neighborhood district chairs.
During the weekend, an encampment of history re-enactors and white canvas tents occupied the field, showing people the life led by soldiers before they were sent out to fight in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
A color guard group from the Pennsylvania National Guard hangs out by the historic style tents prior to the dedication ceremony.
A number of dignitaries lent their voices to the official dedication of the Mt. Gretna Military Reservation known as Soldiers Field, commemorating a story that began in 1884.
That year, local philanthropist Robert H. Coleman invited the National Guard of Pennsylvania to train at his Gretna park. In 1885, the area became an official military encampment to train members of the Third Brigade of the National Guard.
By 1887, more than 9,000 soldiers arrived at Soldiers Field, which then encompassed 120 acres.
“This was a once-in-a-lifetime cause,” said Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gatewood of the Pennsylvania National Guard. “This area boasts a rich local military history…a quarter of a million soldiers marched on this field and that history needs to be preserved.”
State Representative Frank Ryan (R-101), a retired Marine, wore his uniform as he addressed the crowd, thanking all who made the sacrifice of a financial donation.
State Representative Frank Ryan (R-101) speaks with an attendee.
“By preserving our heritage we’re embracing our future,” Ryan said. “If this would have been made into a development, no one, eventually, would remember what happened here.
“Think about 1917, the isolation – few cars, no phones – and the youngsters here would be heading out to Europe and most had probably never been out of their communities,” Ryan said. “Their lives were forever changed in this field.”
Mt. Gretna’s military reservation continued to be used for training until 1935.
By that time, Feather said, advancement in weaponry, such as increased ranges in artillery and the development of the tank, meant the relatively small size of Mt. Gretna’s military reservation was unable to accommodate the technology, and Ft. Indiantown Gap near Annville became the new military reservation.
Now a large grassy field bordered by forest, Soldiers Field not only played an important in military history, but had its share of glory days.
President Benjamin Harrison visited the Gretna encampment, and in 1887, former Civil War General Phil Sheridan came to review the troops, an event that brought out 25,000 spectators.
While the site will remain largely unchanged, keeping its woodsy feel, a number of improvements are in the works, thanks to a grant from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Plans include a pedestrian bridge to be built over the Conewago Creek that runs through a wooded area of the Field, providing an overflow parking area, and restructuring a narrow gauge railroad bed into a walking trail. Trees will be planted along Timber Road, along the east side of the Field and safety lights will be installed.
“There will be no bright lights and no paving,” Hostetter said. “We have an advisory committee and residents of each district can go to their representative and tell them what they want and what they don’t.”
Mike Sherman, co-chairman of the project, said some of the historic pathways will be reworked to be walking trails.
Project co-chairman Mike Sherman explains the plans for Soldiers Field, which are designed to accentuate the grassland nature of the historic military training grounds.
Largely, Soldiers Field will remain as it looks today, Sherman said.
Through specialized mowing practices, several prairie species of grass and wildflowers may be added to the field, Sherman said.
Tom Ford, director of the state’s Bureau of Recreation and Conservation, said he came to Mt. Gretna to look into a project and received a history lesson.
“This is one of the most awesome projects I’ve ever worked on,” Ford said. “It was an opportunity to save this heritage by using our department’s resources, and the fund-raising campaign was amazing and unprecedented.”
Local residents are proud of the accomplishment, too.
“I think it’s wonderful,” said Mt. Gretna resident Jack Graham, referring to the coming improvements at the field. “We needed more land for parking; we have problems every summer. They’ll keep this as grassland, but still park cars here. In the past, people had to be bused to events like the art show, but now we won’t have to do that anymore.”
To contribute to the ongoing Saving Soldiers Field Capital Fund Campaign, checks may be made payable to PA Chautauqua, P.O. Box 637, Mount Gretna, PA, 17064.
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Location legal definition of Location
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The establishment of cemeteries, such as the one pictured, may be prohibited by state or local legislative bodies but only under certain circumstances.
Areas that are set aside by public authority or private persons for the burial of the dead.
A public cemetery is open for use by the community at large while a private cemetery is used only by a small segment of a community or by a family.
A cemetery includes not only the actual grave sites but also surrounding areas such as avenues, walks, and grounds.
Cemeteries are not governed by laws that apply to real property or corporations due to their inherently different nature. Most states have established laws that specifically apply to cemeteries.
The establishment of a cemetery involves the process of formally designating a tract of land for use for the burial of the dead. It must be set apart, marked, and distinguished from adjoining ground as a graveyard.
The state, in the exercise of its Police Power, has the right to regulate the creation of cemeteries by providing for their establishment and discontinuance as well as to monitor their use. Private interests in the place of burial are subject to the control of public authorities, which have the right to require the disinterment of bodies if deemed necessary.
Burial sites may not be absolutely prohibited by legislative action inasmuch as they are considered indispensable and directly related to the public health. Provisions in corporate charters cannot prevent the exercise of police powers with regard to which lands may be used for burial purposes, since burial in certain places might create a public Nuisance.
Regulation by Municipal Corporations Subject to express legislative authority, and by virtue of its general police powers, a municipality may reasonably regulate places of burial within its borders. The key requirement is that a municipality may not act arbitrarily with regard to the regulations it adopts.
The power of a municipality to regulate cemeteries is an ongoing one that may be exercised as required by considerations of public health and welfare. Regulations may prohibit such actions as future burials in existing cemeteries, the enlargement of existing cemeteries, or the establishment of new ones.
A municipality may own and maintain a cemetery when it is expressly authorized to do so. General control may be exercised over a cemetery that a municipality owns, but control may not be exercised arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably.
Corporations and Associations A cemetery corporation, as defined expressly by statute, is any corporation formed for the burial of the dead in a receptacle or vault. Such a corporation may or may not be organized for pecuniary profit and may or may not be organized under the general corporate law.
The members of a cemetery corporation are those people who own plots according to express statutory provisions. They cannot make a profit out of the sales of lots if the corporation is not for profit. Nor can they make a gift of their plot to another independent corporation.
If statute permits, cemetery corporations may issue stock and pay dividends to stockholders. Stockholders may enact bylaws.
Some statutes provide that a cemetery may give land shares, which are certificates entitling the holder to receive a portion of the profit from the subsequent sales of plots, in exchange for payment for the land purchased. This type of certificate is not a stock certificate but is in the nature of a nonnegotiable promise to pay money.
The establishment of cemeteries may be prohibited by state or local legislative bodies, but only under certain circumstances. The interment of dead bodies is necessary and proper and therefore the prohibition of the establishment of a cemetery must be based on the potential danger to human life or health. State and municipal organizations are not permitted to prohibit burial for such reasons as the value of adjoining land being lessened or because a cemetery might be a source of annoyance to inhabitants of the surrounding community.
Under some statutory provisions a cemetery cannot be established within a certain distance of a private residence, store, or other place of business without the owner's consent. Similarly, certain statutes provide that, prior to the establishment of a cemetery, consent must be obtained from the county or municipal authorities within whose limits the cemetery will be located.
Title and Rights of Owners of Plots, Grounds, or Graves
The purchaser of a plot in a cemetery is generally regarded as having obtained only a limited property right. He or she acquires a privilege, Easement, or license to make burials in the purchased plot, exclusive of all other people, provided that the land remains a cemetery.
The plot owner's interest is a property right entitled to protection from invasion and the title is a legal estate. The owner's rights are subject to the police power of the state as well as the rules of the cemetery and any restrictions made in the contract of sale.
A cemetery corporation may cancel the contract of sale of a plot where regulations of the corporation that are part of the contract are violated by the sale due to a Mistake of Fact.A purchaser may, in turn, rescind the contract where substantial misrepresentations have been made by the corporation.
Plot holders cannot be prevented by cemetery owners from erecting markers, entering the grounds, or interring family members in the plots they own. If a plot owner dies intestate, the rights to the plot pass to the heirs in the same manner that Personal Property passes in the absence of a will. A gravestone or marker is the personal property of the person who places it near a grave and its ownership is passed to this person's heirs.
Abandonment is the only way in which the use of land as a cemetery may cease. It takes place either by removal of all the interred bodies or by neglect to such a degree that the property is no longer identifiable as a cemetery. The removal of bodies may be ordered by public authorities when necessitated by the public health. The owner of a cemetery may opt to discontinue the sale of plots as initially planned, but permission to do so from government officials might be a prerequisite.
Duties as to Care and Maintenance
The owner of a plot has the duty to care for and maintain the plot either personally or through an agent. A cemetery's trustees may supervise plots to prevent them from disintegrating to the point of unsightliness.
If a statute so requires, a cemetery association must care for its plots. If a charter imposes a duty upon the association to keep the grounds in repair, this obligation does not encompass plots sold to individuals.
A cemetery association has the duty to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition. Doing so includes the proper maintenance of portions of the cemetery used for travel or occupation by attendants of burials.
Uniform and reasonable rules and regulations may be made for the care and management of lots by the proprietors of a cemetery. Such rules must be equal in their operation. An unreasonable rule would be to prohibit the owner of a lot from hiring his own caretaker; however, a rule requiring that such work be done by competent persons would be reasonable.
Right of Burial
Everyone is entitled to a decent burial in a suitable place. The right to be interred in a particular cemetery is an easement, license, or privilege. An element of this right is the privilege to be buried according to the usual custom in the community and pursuant to the rules and regulations set forth by the proprietor of the cemetery. When an individual does not purchase a plot subject to any restrictions on burial, the proprietors have no subsequent power to limit such right unreasonably.
An individual who obtains the right to be buried in a cemetery subject to the control of a religious organization takes the plot subject to the organization's rules. This may limit the burial right to its members or to those in communion with such organizations. The church has exclusive jurisdiction over the question of whether a person is in communion with a religious organization and thereby entitled to burial in its cemetery.
Interference with Owner's Rights
A Cause of Action may be based upon the interference with the rights of a plot owner. An unlawful and unwarranted interference with an individual's exercise of the right of burial in a cemetery lot is a tort. An infringement of the rights of a plot owner may be prevented by an Injunction if an injury is threatened.
Either criminal or civil liability, or both, exist for Trespass or other types of injuries to a cemetery or to individual burial plots. If a burial ground or plot is wrongfully invaded or desecrated, an action of trespass may be brought against the wrongdoer. Vandalism and destruction of tombstones are criminal offenses. The person who erects a tombstone may maintain an action for injury to it. After that person's death, his or her heirs may prosecute such an action. Generally, the measure of damages for trespass is the cost of restoration. Since there is a strong public policy against injury to gravesites due to the indignity of the act, punitive damages—intended to deter future acts of desecration—may be awarded.
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LOCATION, estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor general's office. Act June 25, 1781, Sec. 2, 2 Sm. Laws, 7.
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* Raleigh, Tucson, Seattle and San Diego are among the six cities where renters would need to pay less than 10 percent more for a top location. In strong job markets such as Seattle and San Diego, rents are high in most locations, even in lower-rated ones.
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TRISTAN TOLENO grew up in Marlboro and graduated from Brattleboro Union High School. He was a philosophy and religion major at Wesleyan University, but then chose to follow a passion for food and be a chef. In one busy weekend, he graduated from New England Culinary Institute and married Susie Webster, also from Brattleboro. They moved to New York City, where he developed his cooking skills and Susie earned her Master of Divinity degree. Following their urban adventure they moved back to Brattleboro, where for its ten years of operation, Toleno was the managing partner and chef of Riverview Cafe. Until recently, he continued to work in food service as a caterer and wood-fired pizza chef. This year, you will still find him cooking at the American Legion Post 5 Banquet facility. In 2011, Toleno completed his MBA at Marlboro College. A decade of business experience and activism in many arenas-notably the local food movement and kids' health-drew him to study sustainability and system change. For the last seven years Tristan has been teaching about Complex Systems to Marlboro College MBA students and was recently named interim Dean of the Graduate School. Susie Webster-Toleno serves as the minister to the Congregational Church of Westminster West and as a hospice chaplain. Member of the House: 2012 - Present.
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Spain Town Hires Poo 'Detective' to Spy on Dog Owners
MADRID, April 02, 2014 (AFP) - Fed up of dog dirt underfoot on its streets, a Spanish town has hired a detective to catch owners who fail to pick up after their pets, officials said Wednesday.
The mayor's office in Colmenar Viejo, a historical town north of Madrid, said fines and warning signs had failed to coax some owners into picking up their dogs' mess.
So from next week dog-walkers will be spied on by a professional "Canine Detective" who will prowl the town to catch negligent dog owners red-handed.
"This person, incognito, will watch the streets and public spaces in which most dog dirt has to be cleaned up," the town hall said in a statement.
"Their job will be to film owners who do not pick up after their dogs in flagrante and hand in this evidence along with a report as proof in police proceedings."
The town hall said offenders would face possible fines of up to 150 euros ($200), with higher penalties for repeat offenders.
Before the detective starts work, authorities have sent actors into the streets dressed up as detectives to warn locals of the anti-excrement campaign, which it said was motivated by health concerns.
"Most dog owners are responsible people who do not let their pets defecate in inappropriate places and pick up the excrement immediately," said Colmenar Viejo's conservative Mayor Miguel Angel Santamaria.
"But unfortunately there is a minority that lacks consideration for others and leaves a trace of its incivility in streets, pavements and even the entries to schools or children's playgrounds."
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About LRSG
Launceston Refugee Support Group (LRSG) started in early 2017 - you can read about the origins and history of the group under the About | History menu.
We are formally constituted as a charity registered in the UK with charity number 1178812.
We have a board of six trustees, and four officer posts. Trustees are rotated with two standing down each year, they can stand for re-election unlimited times. Officers are formally elected at each AGM (usually in October/November) and do not have to be trustees. The constitution is available for download.
Current (as of July 2019) Officers are:
Chair: Francis Tippett
Vice-chair: Roger C-O
Treasurer: Janet Rogerson
Secretary: Bill Glenn
(click on name for contact details and any further information)
Business meetings are normally held monthly, although occasional months may be missed. Notices of meetings and agendas are send out on the mailing list (email) - signup using the form on the right/below. They are held in the evening on the last Thursday of each month. The current location is Dingley Hall, Methodist Central, Launceston starting at 7:30pm
Minutes of business meetings are available here, usually within a week of the meeting under the About | Minutes menu
Other regular events include a stall at the monthly market in Launceston Square (2nd Saturday of the month from March to December) and weekly collections and sorting of items for aid to Europe from 10-12am on Fridays. Deliver items to Room 6 above Central Methodist Hall.
Occasional special events are organised for fundraising or general community engagement - details will be posted on the Facebook page and on the email list.
LRSG is a UK registered charity (no.1178812)
This means that we can get gift-aid on your donations if you are a UK taxpayer - that's 20% extra from the Government to us on top of everything you give. To donate please see the Donations page.
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articles On Location
On Location: The London park from Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up
Maryon Park in Charlton lies at the beguiling centre of the Italian director’s psychological mystery.
Words and Polaroid
@AdamScovell
One of the first things I did when moving to London was to go on a lonely tour of the locations used in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film, Blow-Up. Such was the power of its London images and locations that it felt like a good starting point in learning about the city. Though based on Julio Cortázar’s original short story which was set in Paris, Antonioni (along with scriptwriter Tonino Guerra) turned the narrative of half-glimpsed murders and off-kilter urban atmospheres into a quintessential London film, even if it was not his main aim.
It came as a surprise, then, to realise how much Antonioni cut up the capital, creating a version of it that feels more real and yet is fabricated simultaneously.
Blow-Up follows the exploits of Thomas (David Hemmings), a high-level London fashion photographer bored to death with the vacuous nature of his own work and industry. On visiting a park in between working, he photographs a couple seemingly in the middle of a romantic dalliance. The woman, Jane (Vanessa Redgrave), remonstrates with him after he’s captured them on film and insists on having the reel but she suspiciously flees.
Soon, Thomas is followed and Jane finds his studio, believing falsely that she gets the photos back. Thomas develops the reel but, noticing strange things in the bushes, he begins his own detective work; realising that he has in fact captured evidence of a murder rather than an affair.
Though the director uses a startling array of locations from all over the city, at the centre of its mystery is the park where Thomas wanders and accidentally blunders onto a killing. The park is the first thing we see of the film. A photoshoot bleeds through the names and words of the credits as they unfurl over the grass where Thomas himself eventually mimes his way out of existence. Antonioni famously augmented this whole environment, spraying it with various colours to get the texture right and tidying up the park with a vigour most local councils would be envious of.
Viewed through Antonioni’s lens, the park is a curious realm. The actions of a group of mimes faking a game a tennis seems to become real, as if all of life was itself a game of false impressions; bodies appear and disappear there; and the sound of the breeze rustling through the trees is seemingly caught on Thomas’ photos, entering his flat as he develops large prints of the park’s land. It’s almost as if the stark “redevelopment” that Antonioni captures of the area upended its governing logic, allowing ghosts and fantasies to quietly arise.
In many ways, Blow-Up is a haunting: of Thomas by what he missed and what he really saw, of the slippery nature of reality and, in particular, central London haunted by south London.
The park plays into this in that, rather than using a more well known location nearer Thomas’ studio situated in Notting Hill, Antonioni opted instead for the small but unusual Maryon Park in Charlton. Thomas seems to have a shadow-life in south London. He spends the night in a dosshouse situated in Peckham (with a Camberwell sign on its doorway). He’s even seen driving to the park first via Stockwell Road – with the once vivid red buildings of the Pride and Clark motorbike shop – and then via Woolwich Road until finally turning off and towards the park.
It’s certainly a far cry from the lavish mansions and restaurants used from central London, playing into the idea that central is so caught up in its own image that it’s not real at all; a few square miles concocted by the naïve daydreams of the rich.
Revisiting Maryon Park still conjures peculiar feelings, not least in that there is a sense of ghosting the actions of the film’s protagonist; developing and sharing his obsession with endless revisits. Unlike on his various visits, however, Charlton and Maryon Park were buzzing with life when I returned there. I took a train from London Bridge to Charlton, aware that I was being met solely by people wearing the same sort of red that litters Antonioni’s film in highly coloured fragments on walls and cars. It was a match day at The Valley, Charlton FC’s stadium. I wandered along the same road that Thomas drove along in his Rolls Royce, turning off into Clevely Close where the antiques shop from the film was.
Luckily, unlike the road, the park is little changed and probably will always in some way remain as it was. I walked up to the higher plain via the steps that Thomas skips and jumps up in idle pleasure away from his stuffy fashion studio. The main sequence of photographs and murder take place on this plain. It’s now a lot scruffier with the majority of its fences removed and the grass growing long. But the location is recognisable. I crouched behind the tree that Thomas hides behind when photographing Jane and snapped my own Polaroid. There was no one in my shot, however, living or dead.
With the main area of the park dominated by the tennis courts seen in the film, it felt only right to also snap a shot of it as well. Again it has changed very little, except for a narrow hedge separating the court and the main lawn. I noticed a man setting up a ball machine so he could aptly practice alone; another mimed game. A young, injured dove was unusually in the exact corner that I needed to photograph too. The scene only missed the trail of mimes watching on to add to the full, original weirdness.
Of course, nothing was really seen in the park, and yet that dichotomy between objectivity and subjectivity is what lies at the heart of the narrative. “What did you see in that park?” asks Ron, Thomas’ manager, late into the film. “Nothing,” Thomas reluctantly replies.
With thanks to Polaroid Originals.
Published 2 Sep 2019
Tags: Michelangelo Antonioni
On Location: The Dalston house at the heart of Mike Leigh’s Naked
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On Location: The bridge from Jules et Jim
This grey structure in the centre of Paris provided the Nouvelle Vague with one of its most iconic images.
On Location: The final shot from Agnés Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7
Paris’ Boulevard de l’Hôpital provides the setting for one of the most cherished endings in French cinema.
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English red wine secures gold medal at International Wine Challenge
By Martin Green
| 28 November, 2019
An English red wine has scooped a coveted gold medal at the International Wine Challenge for the first time.
The Red Miller 2018 is produced in Kent by Hush Heath, which used 100% Pinot Meunier grapes.
This grape is generally used along with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to make sparkling wine and it is rarely seen as a key component in still red wine.
Yet winemaker Owen Elias dazzled the expert judges at the IWC with a “supremely elegant” red from a single plot of extremely ripe Pinot Meunier grapes.
Elias said: “Pinot Meunier is rarely seen as a still red anywhere in the world. Here we have a delicate and aromatic wine which will be extremely interesting as it develops over the next two years.”
Just 5,000 bottles of the limited-edition Red Miller 2018 are available, but it is interesting to see the potential of such wines in the south of England.
England is generally renowned for sparklers and it came third overall in this category at the IWC, with the third largest medal haul.
France led the way, followed by Italy, but England secured 26 medals for its sparkling wines. There were two golds, for the Hattingley Valley rosé 2015 from Hampshire and the Oxney Classic 2016 from Sussex.
Only France secured more gold medals for its sparkling wines, with three. In total, England earned 47 medals.
IWC director Chris Ashton said: “We’re thrilled to be able to award England its first International Wine Challenge Gold medal for a red wine. England has been gaining attention for its sparkling wines for some time, so it’s great to see a broader range of wines on the radar.
“Kent in particular led the way with its still wines, while Hampshire and Sussex carried the torch for the sparkling wines. But it’s still early days for the UK wine industry, and we’re excited about watching the continued progress of our wine industry.”
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The monument is like a ship, a big black marble ship you walk in, can look up to see the buildings that scar the sky, and forward, to see the semicircle of marble where there are symbols. Symbols of various good ideas, from various African cultures, and a crescent moon, and a cross. I was alone. I was alone, I couldn’t see any other people.
It was on the my list of things to see, to distract myself from the fact that I have no job and am about to run out of money: the African Burial Ground.
Being alone in Manhattan is a strange and wondrous thing. I only remember it happening a few places: once or twice in the teacher’s lounge at my old school, and once in a deeply tucked-in dead-end room at the Met.
Cinema has taught us to be alone in Manhattan is also to know the apocalypse. How it might be to be really alone, not feel alone or seem alone.
I was alone, though, wholly alone, well, with whatever is left of 15,000 people who had been buried there because they were black.
Most of the parks you could name in Manhattan used to be cemeteries for the poor: Bryant Park, Union Square, Washington Square. In Washington Square park, perhaps 20,000 dead. What should it be? How long could you nod at the dead?
When you are from a newer place, a place relatively undisputed, as places go, it seemed to me history might be thoughtful, progressive. Were there Indians in Kansas? Oh, there were. A long time ago.
At first New Amsterdamians and New Yorkers of all backgrounds were buried together. Then, in 1697, the church where I worshipped this morning (well, its ancestor self) banned black people from being buried within the city limits of New York.
During the Revolutionary War, the British held New York City, making it a magnet for escaped slaves. Before the revolution, almost all blacks in New York were slaves. Afterward, only 2/3 of them were.
The freeing came in fits and starts. Ultimately it was July 4, 1827, when all slaves in New York were freed, no matter when they had been born, or to whom they were enslaved.
When I visited Dr. King’s home in Atlanta, I was disturbed to see how few white people were there. I wondered how many white people visited this monument. We were all saved from slavery, we all live under its shadow still, and we all require encouragement to mourn and honor our past and hope for better.
Anyway I was alone at the African burial ground site, with no one to dislike for not being there. It was a hot that could be held by not moving too fast.
I went uptown. I got a cookie and sat in the one-floor-below-ground garden of the former Whitney. It isn’t really a garden. It’s an outside place to sit, where the heavy jutting outness of the building shaded us so fully that when the traffic and wind sound became rain sound, we could only see it against the face of the brick building across the street. “I think we’re all right here,” I said to the woman who had sat next to me. She had an Italian accent and was also eating a cookie. She nodded. We watched the rain far below our brown granite awning.
It is a building I at first hated, the first time I visited, when I was eighteen. I came to find it warm, the way Frank Lloyd Wright wanted the Guggenheim to be, and human-sized, and digestible. Its cubby windows, its mini village snuggled in the stairwell.
The building has recently gone from being as cool as the Whitney is to as uncool as the Met is. The guards are now in their dress blues, the whole system is on the Met system. The building is now part of the Met, New York’s aircraft-carrier sized cathedral, rather than the Whitney, who moved downtown to wave in the whole overexpensiveness of contemporary art with a restaurant for people who want to be seen there, not a cafeteria with kids’ meals or an atrium full of footworn tourists wearily looking at their phones waiting for someone they know to marathon it through another half mile of paintings and mummy cases.
Unfinished was the show at this new-christened place, Met Breuer.
Jasper Johns’ paint-by-number target: he created it, you complete it. Never completed. Never to be. Until that apocalypse day you are alone in Manhattan and you find the glass smashed and you take it out. And paint, careful or sloppy, all yours.
Andy Warhol’s paint-by-number, a violin half done politely and half done comically.
Perhaps my favorite: a film that has an introductory card (A Film by) and then a countdown, 5…4…3…2…1…1/2…1/4…. I stopped and chuckled, and then I waited and watched other people watch it and get puzzled or disappointed but no one laughed so I didn’t like anyone else in the gallery. It was funny, it was funny, nothing happens, you see, nothing ever happens, things just get smaller and recycle themselves.
Old paintings, funny to see in that space as you are not used to seeing the Madonna and Christ treated properly in that space, only mocked and rehashed there, in the moderns, the contemporaries, but with the Met’s paintings there, you can see how some painters began loving or at least respectful paintings of them and stopped, for one reason or another, who knows. Portraits of the rich without faces, perhaps they were not paid for, faces.
A Whistler with the suggestions that show what it is like to be somewhere without being there at all, how people move away from you without moving.
A painting of horses I drew into, and moved like horse, horses in a battle that shows how real and unreal battle is, how real and unreal enemies, friends, because it is unfinished, not on purpose, by happenstance.
Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show, “Unfinished”:
Jasper Johns, “Target”
Andy Warhol, “Do It Yourself (Violin)”
Jorge Macchi, “La Fleche de Zenon”
Anton Raphael Mengs, “Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, duquesa de Huescar”
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi), “Holy Family with St. John the Baptist”
James McNeil Whistler, “Cremorne Gardens, No. 2”
Peter Paul Rubens, “Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry”
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essential Shopping
By Dave Fidlin
Photo by Madison Shoe Repair
They come in almost any style, color, and configuration imaginable and serve a variety of purposes. Some lend themselves to formal occasions, while others are better suited for adventures in nature. Shoes comfort our feet, and a well-worn pair reflects the journeys we’ve been on to fill our soles. A variety of shops and services across the Madison area specialize in shoes, each with their own philosophy in offering the perfect pair to customers.
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Madison Shoe Repair & Bootery
This hybrid shoe-repair and retail establishment has been a part of the Madison retail scene for a year, setting up shop along Monroe Street last November. Kaitlyn Kirby, who runs the shop with husband Michael Benters, says customers come into the shop and ask to have a variety of different types of shoes repaired.
“The most common types of shoe resoles we do in the shop are Birkenstocks, work boots, men’s dress shoes, women’s leather boots, and men’s dress boots,” Kaitlyn says. “We’ve had customers bring in Red Wing or Irish Setter boots to be resoled that they’ve had for 20 to 30 years.”
While seeing a local cobbler might conjure up images of bygone eras, Kaitlyn says investing in a good sturdy pair of shoes is as wise a decision today as it was decades ago—and the practice fortifies the pocketbook and environment alike.
“We’re very much in a throwaway society, but when you invest in great footwear, it pays to repair them versus buying a whole new pair,” Kaitlyn says. “For instance, we sell many Red Wing Heritage boots in our shop, and the costs can range from $200 to $300. Instead of buying a whole new pair at this price point, you can resole them for $99. This way, you’ll get many more years out of them, and for a fraction of the cost.”
In addition to the shoe repair business, Kaitlyn and Michael sell a variety of shoes, along with other clothing and apparel, in their shop. Danner, Irish Setter, Lems, Red Wing Heritage, and Vasque are among the brands they offer.
While Kaitlyn and Michael are new to the Madison retail scene, Kaitlyn’s extended family’s expertise runs deep in the shoe business. “We opened [Madison Shoe Repair & Bootery] with my dad, Ernie, who has 25-plus years shoe-industry experience; my step-mom, Kathy; and my two brothers, Bo and Rusko,” Kaitlin says. “They all live in Illinois, where my dad owns five Red Wing shoe stores.”
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Movin’ Shoes
The concept of giving a car a test drive before purchasing is well known. Staffers at Madison’s venerable Movin’ Shoes store carry that mantra over to their line of athletic footwear. Before making a purchase, customers can take their prospective pair of shoes out for a run either on an indoor treadmill or, if Mother Nature cooperates, for a few blocks outside.
The “test them first” mindset is one of several unique concepts at Movin’ Shoes, which first opened its doors in 1973. “We’ve been known to be hipsterish and a little laid back in our style,” says Jered Sweeney-Demezas, general manager. “Customer service has always been number one for us. We have a very flexible return policy.”
The more than two dozen employees at Movin’ Shoes have a variety of backgrounds, including expertise in such fields as kinesiology. Jered says the employees’ skill sets are designed to help customers make the best, most-informed decision possible. “We have that personal experience. We’re very critical when it comes to shoes. We’re shoe geeks.”
While employees are on hand to provide their know-how, Jered says customers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to decision-making. “We’ll offer recommendations, but we want the customer being a part of the discussion. We have hundreds of different styles, and it’s all about what the customer likes. It’s really about getting the right shoes on the right person. As long as the community needs us, we’ll be here.”
In addition to its retail operation, Movin’ Shoes holds a range of events and services, including a running club and group run outings. Special events include a full-moon run and a subzero race series.
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When it comes to shoes, Pat Blake, who runs (shoo) with his sister, Kate Blake, places three themes front and center in selecting the right pair: comfort, quality, and style. “You can have a comfortable, but fashionable, pair of shoes,” says Pat.
(shoo), which also has a retail operation in Milwaukee, boasts shoes in a variety of unique styles and colors. “We like to push the mold a bit,” Pat says. “Giving our customers a comfortable shopping experience is important to us.”
Both locations offer a mix of classic pairs and fashion-forward pieces. Pat characterizes the shops’ product lines as “thoughtful selections.” Regardless of whether they’re a nod to the past or present, the goal is to offer up the styles customers desire. For men, (shoo)’s selection includes boots, casual, dress, sandals, and sneakers. Their women’s lines also run the gamut with boots, flats, heels, loafers, and wedges.
The Blake siblings opened the Milwaukee shop in 2005 and followed suit with the Madison establishment in 2010. Pat says the Madison location has been an ideal fit for the shop. “We really wanted to be on State Street. It embodies our brand.”
Styles come and styles go, but shoes are most definitely here to stay. Regardless of where fashion trends head into the future, local merchants say they are ready and willing to help consumers find the perfect pair and fit for any occasion.
Dave Fidlin is a freelance writer who has a special affinity for Madison. Dave’s career spans nearly 20 years, and he’s grateful for the opportunity to learn something new each day through his professional pursuits.
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Hard shell, succulent heart
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PHOTOS ROMAN PAWLOWSKI
The waters off the Danish coast are teeming with oysters. While an invasive species is taking over the beaches, indigenous oysters still thrive in the depths of Limfjord – to the great joy of culinary connoisseurs.
The midday sun hangs low in the sky over the Limfjord, its glittering waters almost the same icy blue as Niels Nielsen’s eyes. A giant of a man, he has been working on ships for 23 years – as a cod fisher on his own boat and also as the captain of a tug laying cables off the coast of Brazil. “But there’s no place for small children in the seaman’s life,” says Nielsen, laughing loud enough to drown out the drone of the boat’s diesel engine. Today, 43-year-old Nielsen lives with his family beside his native Limfjord, a sound covering 1500 square kilometers in northern Denmark. He works here as the skipper of the Egon P, a small, bright-red research boat. “Let’s bring up the treasure, then,” says Nielsen.
The fishing gear emerges from the waves and spills its contents, black and heavy, into the boat’s stern: thousands of blue mussels and dotted among them, plump starfish that evidently live very well off the shellfish. There are no flat fish in the net because “the seals and cormorants grab them,” says Nielsen. Then from among the shellfish, the skipper picks out the true pieces of gold, hard and as large as the palm of his hand – dozens of magnificent specimens of the Limfjord oyster, the most exclusive item on the Nordic menu. A single one of these oysters can cost as much as eight euros at restaurants in Copenhagen. Pacific oysters farmed in aquaculture account for 94 percent of all oysters consumed worldwide; the European oyster’s share of the global oyster market is a tiny 0.2 percent. Among these exceptions, the Limfjord oyster is actually a special case because the European oyster isn’t farmed here; the fishermen take only wild specimens from the bed of the shallow sound.
The very picture of a seaman: Niels Nielsen pulls oysters out of the Limfjord for the Technical University of Denmark; his catches determine the fishing quota for the following year
There used to be oyster fishing grounds off the coast of Sylt and other North Sea islands, but overfishing long ago decimated stocks, making the European oyster extinct in the German Wadden Sea. That won’t be happening in the Limfjord, though, as Nielsen and his colleagues from the Danish Shellfish Centre at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) monitor the vulnerable oyster population by making test catches that provide the basis on which the fishing quotas are set. In 2018, only 300 tons of oysters were brought up, roughly ten percent of the estimated total quantity. Until now, only one out of 100 Limfjord oysters have been consumed in Denmark. Most of the catch is flown to Galicia, to Madrid and Barcelona, where restaurants impatiently await their arrival. For a long time, the Danes were not known for their gourmet palates, but rather as a nation of traders, who loved their fried bacon. But that’s all changed thanks to New Nordic Cuisine. Started by top chefs like René Redzepi of the Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, that trend is now making its way into hinterland kitchens. Everywhere the emphasis is now on regional and seasonal ingredients, kelp from the coast, for example, and sea buckthorn form the dunes. The European oyster barely survives further north than the Limfjord. Redzepi cites the low water temperature as the reason for their being the world’s best: the colder the water, the slower the oysters’ growth and the more intense their flavor.
Nielsen places an oyster in a folded tea towel. This will protect him should his knife slip. With a practiced hand, he slits the tough adductor muscle and removes the top half of the shell to reveal the mollusk in its mother-of-pearl bed. A few drops of lime juice and I slurp it down raw. Fantastic!
All eyes on the mud: morning oyster safari on the eastern coast of Fanø
The daily life of an oyster is pretty monotonous. It sits in one spot and pumps water through its gills, filtering out the microorganisms that form its diet. You could also say that it spends its life concentrating the taste of the sea. Limfjord oysters feel surprisingly meaty on the tongue. Novices have to steel themselves the first time they shuck an oyster out of the bottom half of its shell and put it straight in their mouth, even if it is a well-known fact that the brainless mollusk feels nothing. For Erwin Lauterbach, chef at the Lumskebugten restaurant in Copenhagen, it’s the same as with other sophisticated tastes: practice intensifies the experience. “No one enjoys their first oyster,” says Lauterbach, “it’s an acquired taste.” An oyster need not even play the aromatic lead in a dish, it even unleashes its magic when concealed, in the form of a few chopped oysters mixed into ox tartare, for instance: “Then you find yourself wondering about a certain saltiness that lends something amazingly unexpected, a lightness, to a recipe.” A daily dish might be creamed potatoes with two or three oysters as a side, “simple and festive at the same time – that’s oysters for you.”
Klaus Louring likes them best the way they were eaten in the Stone Age. Before we try Stone Age preparation, we first have to become hunters and gatherers ourselves, on the island of Fanø in the Danish Wadden Sea. Louring, 55, was a seaman in his youth and worked on container ships sailing between Europe and Asia. Now he’s a coastal ranger on Fanø, where he initiates school classes and tourists in the mysteries of the Wadden Sea. At low tide, he leads his listeners out to the young Pacific oyster beds. Since the 1990s, walkers on the mudflats have been able to observe how this particularly invasive species has been establishing itself and spreading in the shallow waters along the Danish coast. The Pacific oyster has a hard, elongated shell with sharp edges. These wild oysters are almost certainly the offspring of oysters cultivated in the many aquaculture operations around the North Sea: Eggs are fertilized by semen in the water, and then the current carries the larvae a long way off. No one can control where the oysters come to rest. “In the Wadden Sea, the Pacific oyster has only one enemy,” says Louring, as we find the first few in the mud, “homo sapiens with his excellent appetite.”
MUDFLAT SAFARI
Gather them yourself and the oysters taste twice as good: The Danish Shellfish Centre run guided tours to the Wadden Sea mudflats. At the end of the mud hunt, the expert explains how to prepare the catch.
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A glass of bubbly and a taste of the sea: Every October, Fanø holds an oyster festival
So far, there has been no specific research into this invasive species’ potential impact on the Wadden Sea. It is unlikely to affect the European oyster, which grows at depths of up to 30 meters, but it does seem likely that it could displace indigenous species, such as the blue mussels. “In some places, both the mussel populations and individual specimens are becoming smaller,” says Louring. It could have something to do with the fact that oysters, like mussels, are dependent on the microorganisms that the tides wash into their gills. “An oyster filters 12 liters of water an hour,” Louring points out, while a mussel manages only six liters at most. Fewer mussels would mean trouble for the millions of migrating birds that replenish their energy reserves in the Wadden Sea before continuing their flight south. The birds can crack open a mussel, but not an oyster. “The more we take, the better,” says Louring.
We walk almost two kilometers out onto the mudflats, past “spaghetti factories,” as Louring calls the tiny piles lugworms leave behind on the mud. Lawyer Snorre Kehler is holding his little daughter Viktoria’s hand. Their pail soon fills up with the fresh shellfish, many of them big as a man’s fist. “We want to cook a Mediterranean-style meal with them back at our holiday home,” says Kehler’s wife, Natasha, an IT consultant, “we’ll bake them in the oven with a little parmesan cheese, parsley and garlic on top – they taste best that way.” But we also sampled a few right there on the beach, where our guide lit a campfire. “In the Stone Age, they only had knives made of flint, and you can’t open an oyster with one of those,” says Louring, laying a few oysters into the embers. After a few minutes on the fire, the liquid inside the oyster begins to boil and expand and – the shells plop open.
Café Stranden beside Henne Beach in Denmark
The people of Ertebølle on the Limfjord were already tucking into European oysters 7400 years ago, as we know from a gigantic pile of oyster shells discovered by archeologists along what was once the coastline. The pile is 140 meters long, 20 meters wide and two meters high, an accumulation of the oyster shells Stone Age people gathered and split open over their beach fires over a period of 1500 years. Among the shells, the archeologists also found fish bones and pottery shards with traces of burned-on bouillabaisse still clinging to them. The remains of human skeletons were also discovered in the stack. An examination of the bones revealed that the people of that time were healthier than their descendants, who became farmers and lived off cereals and the animals they kept.
Just how many Limfjord oysters there will be in the future also depends on their reproduction strategy. A stay-at-home that holes itself up behind the hardest calcium carbonate needs to be creative if it wants to reproduce: Oysters change their gender. Most of the time, the Limfjord oysters are male, says Lene Friis Møller, a marine biologist at the DTU’s Danish Shellfish Center, “and they only become female and produce eggs in fine weather summers, when the water temperature remains above 18 degrees over a longer period, and there are ample supplies of plankton in the water.” In 2018, Denmark enjoyed an exceptionally long, warm summer – ideal conditions for oyster offspring. It takes a Limfjord oyster three years to grow to 100 grams – serving size. It seems good times lie ahead for fans of the world’s best oysters.
Natasha Kehler collects Pacific oysters on a tour with mudflat guide Klaus Louring
Mudflat guide Klaus Louring
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The Maguire University History
How it all started in 1963
It was way back in 1963 when Loyola’s basketball team traveled to Louisville to compete in hat is now known as the Final Four. Back then is was simply known as “the finals,” with two semi-final games played on Friday and the championship game on Saturday.
That season, Loyola had been highly rated team. They were led by Coach George Ireland and Assistant Coach Bill Shay, who happened to be regulars at a certain bar in Forest Park called Maguire’s. The bar was a popular hangout for fans and the coaching staff from Fenwick High School and other Catholic League teams.
Scouts were known to drop in at Maguire’s, well aware that they were likely to talk with some of the most well-informed enthusiasts of high school basketball in the city.
Block Of Tickets to the Final Four Games
Assistant Coach Shay possessed tickets for the college basketball finals that year, and about eight fans from the Maguire’s contingent went along with him to the event in Louisville. They had such a good time that they invited others from Maguire’s to join in the following year – with or without tickets. By 1972 more than 100 basketball fans from Maguire’s were going to the Final Four wherever it was held!
One day in ’72 a coach from Fenwick took a seat at Maguire’s with an NCAA application form. On a whim the regulars filled it out – listing the name of their “school” as Maguire University, their colors as green and white, and ‘jollymen’ as their nickname. Surprisingly, the application was accepted by the powers that be at the NCAA and the Maguire’s regulars were notified that they would be receiving a block of tickets to the Final Four games!
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After two seasons, though, a sports reporter from the Chicago Tribune revealed the fictional status of Maguire University. The NCAA revoked the block of tickets and even asked hotels to avoid renting rooms to the Maguire group at tournament time. But the Maguires didn’t get discouraged and went to the games anyway, securing their own tickets and carrying on with lively parties in celebration of their enduring love for college basketball.
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A Forbidden Planet NYC Mega-Signing! Paul Pope will be signing copies the brand new release of his masterpiece ESCAPO from Z2 Comics. Dean Haspiel will be signing his new book FEAR MY DEAR: A BILLY DOGMA EXPERIENCE also from Z2. Nick Bertozzi will be signing copies of SHACKLETON. And Chris Miskiewicz will be signing issue #1 of his hugely anticipated new book THOMAS ALSOP from BOOM! Studios. Bob Fingerman will also be on hand to celebrate MINIMUM WAGE #6, the final issue of the first new story arc. Come early to make sure you can snag all 5 of these amazing books!
Weds., June 18th, 2014 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Forbidden Planet NYC
832 Broadway, New York, New York 10003
FEAR, MY DEAR
FEAR, MY DEAR: A Billy Dogma Experience, published by Z2 Comics, is out in hardcover today.
Hardboiled romance has gone galactic in Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel’s FEAR, MY DEAR: A Billy Dogma Experience. Super powered paramours, Billy Dogma and Jane Legit’s pathological War of Woo unearths the chaos of a cosmic deity and Billy uncovers the psychedelic horror of an eighth “deadly sin” when he travels to the heart of his mind to face the truth of his past…and his future. Remastered from the original webcomics series, Billy Dogma is “the last romantic antihero,” a passionate bruiser head-over-heels for his knock-em-dead dame.
Created in 1995, Billy Dogma is Dean Haspiel’s ongoing love letter to the insanity of love. Dean Haspiel’s long list of artist credits include an Emmy Award for title illustration in HBO’s “Bored to Death”, an Eisner nomination for “Billy Dogma”, as well as collaborations with Jonathan Ames, “The Alcoholic”; Harvey Pekar, “The Quitter”; and Inverna Lockpez,’s ”Cuba: My Revolution”. Collected for the first time FEAR, MY DEAR is a great introduction to Dean’s work.
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SEC proposes changes in Regulations S-K to ease compliance in regulatory filings
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The move is part of a broader plan to modernize the compliance regime.
In a significant development, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed changes to rules governing how publicly-traded companies disclose business, legal, and risk factors in regulatory filings.
The proposal is aimed at reducing the compliance of burden on companies while improving the readability of disclosures companies will need to provide investors in regulatory filings; it also discourages companies from including repetitive or non-material information, said the SEC.
The SEC’s proposed changes to Regulation S-K are subject to a 60-day public comment period.
The proposals are part of a broader effort by SEC Chairman Jay Clayton to modernize and ease, in places, the agency’s regulatory regime for listed companies.
“The world economy and our markets have changed dramatically in the more than 30 years since the adoption of our rules for business disclosures by public companies,” said Clayton in a statement. “Today’s proposal reflects these significant changes.”
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The Disgusting Reason Your Eyes Turn Red in The Pool
Why Do Your Eyes Turn Red in The Pool?
3 July, 2016 by Georgia Bobley
Public pools are a part of life year-round in the UAE, and it's not uncommon to end a weekend of swimming with red, burning eyes.
The logical explanation for bloodshot eyes after spending time in the pool is that the chlorine caused some sort of irritation. In public pools especially, where chlorine levels are higher, this seems to make total sense. A new report from the US's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says otherwise, though, and the results are pretty disgusting.
It's not chlorine that's making your eyes red, says Michael Hlavsa, who is the chief of the CDC's healthy swimming program. "When we go swimming and we complain that our eyes are red, it's because swimmers have peed in the water," he explained to TODAY. "The nitrogen in the urine combines with the chlorine and it forms what's known as chloramine and it's actually chloramine that causes the red eyes. It's chlorine mixed with poop and sweat and a lot of other things we bring into the water with us."
Further, while we typically assume that a strong smell of chlorine suggests a cleaner pool, it's actually the opposite: the stronger a pool's chlorine smell, the more filled with pee it is. "Healthy pools don't smell like chemicals," says Hlavsa.
In public pools, the best way to prevent the spread of germs is to make sure pH and disinfectant levels are properly maintained. And as pool goers, it's important to shower before entering the pool to get any sweat or dirt off your body.
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In an unprecedented act of cowardice, America annulled its long standing position that there is no daylight between America and Israel.
As featured at Michael P. Ramirez.
In an unprecedented act of cowardice, America annulled its long standing position that there is no daylight between America and Israel. The Obama Administration abstained from voting for a U.N. resolution which labels Israel an occupier within its own land, including the Jewish Quarter in Old Jerusalem and the holiest Jewish site in the world, the Western Wall.
This was nothing more than a betrayal by a thin skinned President Obama who has been trying for years to weaken Prime Minister Netanyahu. Every action taken was wrongheaded, going against the American archetype; treating its enemies and allies in an opposite bizarro-like manner.
In 2015 former Obama Campaign wunderkind Jeremy Bird’s V15 political team inserted itself in the Israeli election trying to beat Netanyahu. Netanyahu won, Obama lost.
Israel’s direct neighbor to the East, Syria is suffering in horrific chaos after the poorly planned departure of U.S. and allied troops from Iraq leading to a power vacuum in the region in which ISIS was born. Over half a million people have been brutally murdered just miles from Israel’s civilians.
Obama has since enabled Israel’s greatest geopolitical threat and world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism, Iran.
Now in an attempt to instill its long term legacy upon President-Elect Trump and the world, John Kerry, Ben Rhodes and Barrack Obama have targeted Israel in the same way a losing team kneecaps and injures their victorious opponents while leaving the field, preventing the winning team from succeeding in the playoffs.
True to form, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s administration is calling it like they see it. They have suggested President Obama orchestrated the U.N. vote, which was almost dead with Egypt pulling out at the behest of President-Elect Trump. It was only resurrected by other countries with no interest in the region with deliberate behind-the-scenes shenanigans sponsored by Obama.
Unfortunately there is little a President Trump can do to overturn the vote. It’s estimated the United States sponsors 22% of the United Nations budget as well as house its plush 18-acre complex on the East River in New York. President-Elect Trump has suggested things will change on January 20th in regard to the U.N., but has not provided details. Americans who distrust the U.N. would be delighted to reconsider its U.N. membership and pull funding which would lead to its eventual demise.
Historically, lame duck Presidents don’t attempt to change foreign policy on their way out the door. President Obama seems focused on his legacy, doing what he can to ensure his policies will withstand the oncoming assault by the next administration. However Obama hopes to manipulate people’s perception of his foreign policy, history will record the facts; This President was an antagonist to America’s ally, Israel, which is the only beacon of democracy, innovation and human rights in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood. -
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English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Words about Formalism, Poststructuralism, and Illusion
Robert L. Caserio
ELT Press
ELT: Volume 33:2, 1990 Words about Formalism, Poststructuralism, and Illusion Murray Krieger. Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988. xii + 292 pp. $28.50 THE ABANDONMENT of an intellectual tradition may be just the moment for the tradition's defense. The adherents of tradition can revise and newly justify their position in the light of challenges, even by incorporating some of the latter; and they can thereby give what is old a fresh look. In literary theory formalism has been undergoing abandonment for some time, and one wonders if in the present it can find any renewed standing for itself. But judging from Murray Krieger's latest collection of essays, this is still just the moment for formalism's defense. Words about Words about Words promises to rejuvenate what is old, and most of all to revitalize the formalist doctrine that there is a distinctive character to fiction which differentiates literature from mere writing. The promise puts the promiser in an appealing light. In rethinking what is old (in this case, not only the formalist doctrine just mentioned, but the traditional aestheticcum -moral idea that some artworks are more valuable than others), the thinker enacts a dialogue between old and new that puts him in the role of a liberator. He can free us, one assumes, from a merely slavish, unthinking adherence to tradition and from a merely slavish, unthinking alliance with innovation. The role is an enormously demanding one, clearly. Krieger manages the role, but I cannot say that he performs it consummately. Krieger proposes that criticism and literary theory adopt a stance equidistant from New Criticism and poststructuralism. For example, New Critical formalism insisted on the literary work's closure as a self-unifying closing-in of the work upon itself. Krieger maintains the centrality of poetic closure in his own formalist poetics. But he distances himself from the New Critical insistence by seeing closure as the sign of what has been displaced, "the absence of which reinscribes itself into the represented presence." "In reading ... we seek a form that produces total closure, except that as we find each form closing, we find it also—through its apparent consciousness of its own fictionality—opening itself totally toward that which its closure would exclude." This sounds like distance from New Criticism, but not from poststructuralism. Yet Krieger tries to keep the latter at arm's length too, by insisting on the difference between écriture and the forms we identify and canonize as literature: "I am more inter266 Book Reviews ested in how we come to see and project poems . . . than I am in deconstructing that projection." His interest, though, is not in reader's responses—how we come to see and project poems—but in how poems see and project themselves. And they do so, Krieger thinks, by a play of illusion and of a conscious breaking of illusion that for him is unique to poetic or fictive discourse. The key to Krieger's renewal of formalism, with its emphasis on fiction as a discourse set apart from others, is his interest in the literary work's "apparent consciousness of its own fictionality." The fruit of this consciousness in fiction is for Krieger a fine duplicity. Krieger sees a text's apparent consciousness of its own fictionality at work in the text's illusive closure, which is really a mediation of closure and openness in a way that makes each a tricky double of the other. The value of literary texts—even, apparently, the moral value —inheres in this unique dynamic of duplicity in them. This emphasis on illusion, and on its duplicitous assertion and undoing, is Krieger's contribution to the traditional formalist attempt to isolate and define "literariness." "Illusion, after all, " Krieger says, "is what my poetics is all about." But I think it is just here, in Krieger's dependence on the phenomenon of illusion, that he does not fulfill his role as liberator. While illusion is often invoked in Words about Words about Words, it is less often discriminated and expounded . As a result one comes to suspect that Krieger's reliance on...
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Vitalic’s fourth album is a tribute to disco legends Giorgio Moroder and Patrick Cowley. Glittering, strange, and ultra-nostalgic, it has nods to '80s New Wave (“Waiting for the Stars”) and Kraftwerk-era synth-pop (“Hans Is Driving”), the latter of which features vocals by fellow French producer Miss Kittin. An otherworldly cover of Supertramp’s 1982 hit “Don’t Leave Me Now” closes out the album.
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Saudi Arabia ditches rules separating women and men in restaurants
James HockadayMonday 9 Dec 2019 4:08 pm
Saudi Arabia has relaxed many strict social restrictions in recent years (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
Women will no longer have to sit behind partitions at restaurants in Saudi Arabia, as the kingdom gradually eases its conservative social restrictions.
For decades female diners have had to use separate entrances under the Gulf state’s hardline gender segregation rules.
Restaurants and cafes, including major Western chains like Starbucks are segregated by ‘family’ sections for women out on their own and a ‘singles’ section just for men.
Venues without enough space to uphold the strict religious law wouldn’t allow female customers in.
But the rule has been scrapped after the country’s Municipal and Rural Affairs Ministry quietly made an announcement yesterday.
Previously single men had to eat in a separate section to ‘families’ (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
The statement was published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, buried among a list of newly-approved technical requirements for various buildings including schools, stores and sports centres.
It said the decisions were aimed at attracting investment and business opportunities in the country.
Yesterday’s announcement is likely to trouble more traditional Saudis who view gender segregation as a strict religious requirement, even though rules are not nearly as strict in neighbouring Islamic countries.
Some restaurants and cafes in the coastal city of Jiddah and upscale hotels in the capital of Riyadh had already allowed men and women to sit freely.
Although restaurants will no longer be forced to separate customers by gender, there is nothing stopping businesses from doing so if they wish.
Across Saudi Arabia men unrelated men and women not mixing in public has been the norm.
Restaurants and cafes too small to enforce the rule would not allow women inside (Picture: Getty Images)
Most Government-run schools and public universities remain segregated as are most Saudi weddings.
But in recent years Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salaman has pushed for sweeping social reform.
Since August women have been allowed to travel abroad without a male guardian’s permission in August and to drive since June 2018.
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Consequences of immunodominant epitope deletion for minor influenza virus-specific CD8+-T-cell responses
Samita Andreansky, John Stambas, Paul G. Thomas, Weidong Xie, Richard J. Webby, Peter C. Doherty
The extent to which CD8+ T cells specific for other antigens expand to compensate for the mutational loss of the prominent D bNP366 and DbPA224epitopes has been investigated using H1N1 and H3N2 influenza A viruses modified by reverse genetics. Significantly increased numbers of CD8+ K bPB1703+, CD8+ KbNS2 114+, and CD8+ DbPB1-F2 62+ T cells were found in the spleen and in the inflammatory population recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage from mice that were first given the -NP-PA H1N1 virus intraperitoneally and then challenged intranasally with the homologous H3N2 virus. The effect was less consistent when this prime-boost protocol was reversed. Also, though the quality of the response measured by cytokine staining showed some evidence of modification when these minor CD8+-T-CeIl populations were forced to play a more prominent part, the effects were relatively small and no consistent pattern emerged. The magnitude of the enhanced clonal expansion following secondary challenge suggested that the prime-boost with the -NP-PA viruses gave a response overall that was little different in magnitude from that following comparable exposure to the unmanipulated viruses. This was indeed shown to be the case when the total response was measured by ELISPOT analysis with virus-infected cells as stimulators. More surprisingly, the same effect was seen following primary challenge, though individual analysis of the CD8+ K bPB1703+, CD8+ KbNS2 114+, and CD8+ DbPB1-F2 62+ sets gave no indication of compensatory expansion. A possible explanation is that novel, as yet undetected epitopes emerge following primary exposure to the -NP-PA deletion viruses. These findings have implications for both natural infections and vaccines.
https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.7.4329-4339.2005
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Andreansky, S., Stambas, J., Thomas, P. G., Xie, W., Webby, R. J., & Doherty, P. C. (2005). Consequences of immunodominant epitope deletion for minor influenza virus-specific CD8+-T-cell responses. Journal of Virology, 79(7), 4329-4339. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.7.4329-4339.2005
Consequences of immunodominant epitope deletion for minor influenza virus-specific CD8+-T-cell responses. / Andreansky, Samita; Stambas, John; Thomas, Paul G.; Xie, Weidong; Webby, Richard J.; Doherty, Peter C.
In: Journal of Virology, Vol. 79, No. 7, 01.04.2005, p. 4329-4339.
Andreansky, S, Stambas, J, Thomas, PG, Xie, W, Webby, RJ & Doherty, PC 2005, 'Consequences of immunodominant epitope deletion for minor influenza virus-specific CD8+-T-cell responses', Journal of Virology, vol. 79, no. 7, pp. 4329-4339. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.7.4329-4339.2005
Andreansky S, Stambas J, Thomas PG, Xie W, Webby RJ, Doherty PC. Consequences of immunodominant epitope deletion for minor influenza virus-specific CD8+-T-cell responses. Journal of Virology. 2005 Apr 1;79(7):4329-4339. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.7.4329-4339.2005
Andreansky, Samita ; Stambas, John ; Thomas, Paul G. ; Xie, Weidong ; Webby, Richard J. ; Doherty, Peter C. / Consequences of immunodominant epitope deletion for minor influenza virus-specific CD8+-T-cell responses. In: Journal of Virology. 2005 ; Vol. 79, No. 7. pp. 4329-4339.
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AU - Webby, Richard J.
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N2 - The extent to which CD8+ T cells specific for other antigens expand to compensate for the mutational loss of the prominent D bNP366 and DbPA224epitopes has been investigated using H1N1 and H3N2 influenza A viruses modified by reverse genetics. Significantly increased numbers of CD8+ K bPB1703+, CD8+ KbNS2 114+, and CD8+ DbPB1-F2 62+ T cells were found in the spleen and in the inflammatory population recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage from mice that were first given the -NP-PA H1N1 virus intraperitoneally and then challenged intranasally with the homologous H3N2 virus. The effect was less consistent when this prime-boost protocol was reversed. Also, though the quality of the response measured by cytokine staining showed some evidence of modification when these minor CD8+-T-CeIl populations were forced to play a more prominent part, the effects were relatively small and no consistent pattern emerged. The magnitude of the enhanced clonal expansion following secondary challenge suggested that the prime-boost with the -NP-PA viruses gave a response overall that was little different in magnitude from that following comparable exposure to the unmanipulated viruses. This was indeed shown to be the case when the total response was measured by ELISPOT analysis with virus-infected cells as stimulators. More surprisingly, the same effect was seen following primary challenge, though individual analysis of the CD8+ K bPB1703+, CD8+ KbNS2 114+, and CD8+ DbPB1-F2 62+ sets gave no indication of compensatory expansion. A possible explanation is that novel, as yet undetected epitopes emerge following primary exposure to the -NP-PA deletion viruses. These findings have implications for both natural infections and vaccines.
AB - The extent to which CD8+ T cells specific for other antigens expand to compensate for the mutational loss of the prominent D bNP366 and DbPA224epitopes has been investigated using H1N1 and H3N2 influenza A viruses modified by reverse genetics. Significantly increased numbers of CD8+ K bPB1703+, CD8+ KbNS2 114+, and CD8+ DbPB1-F2 62+ T cells were found in the spleen and in the inflammatory population recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage from mice that were first given the -NP-PA H1N1 virus intraperitoneally and then challenged intranasally with the homologous H3N2 virus. The effect was less consistent when this prime-boost protocol was reversed. Also, though the quality of the response measured by cytokine staining showed some evidence of modification when these minor CD8+-T-CeIl populations were forced to play a more prominent part, the effects were relatively small and no consistent pattern emerged. The magnitude of the enhanced clonal expansion following secondary challenge suggested that the prime-boost with the -NP-PA viruses gave a response overall that was little different in magnitude from that following comparable exposure to the unmanipulated viruses. This was indeed shown to be the case when the total response was measured by ELISPOT analysis with virus-infected cells as stimulators. More surprisingly, the same effect was seen following primary challenge, though individual analysis of the CD8+ K bPB1703+, CD8+ KbNS2 114+, and CD8+ DbPB1-F2 62+ sets gave no indication of compensatory expansion. A possible explanation is that novel, as yet undetected epitopes emerge following primary exposure to the -NP-PA deletion viruses. These findings have implications for both natural infections and vaccines.
U2 - 10.1128/JVI.79.7.4329-4339.2005
DO - 10.1128/JVI.79.7.4329-4339.2005
JO - Journal of Virology
JF - Journal of Virology
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Miami students meet law school representatives at annual Law Day event
Written by Arman Aboutorabi, CAS communications intern
Two students talk with a law school representative from Indiana University.
On October 16, the Sue J. Henry Center for Pre-Law Education hosted its annual Law Day. Housed in the John Dolibois room in Shriver Center, representatives from 42 different law schools came to Miami University to give students interested in law the chance to learn more about their programs and the law school admissions process.
Law schools came from every region of the country, and excellent programs such as Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and the Vanderbilt University School of Law interacted with Miami students by sharing the unique offerings of their programs.
Prior to the Law Fair portion of the day, a few admissions directors held a special Mock Admissions Panel event, where they reviewed anonymous applications and provided insight into how an admissions committee comes to a decision.
While many students often assume that law school admissions is strictly about grades and test scores, this event illuminated the holistic nature of the law school admissions process. The importance of strong letters of recommendations was stressed, and even more abstract skills were seen as positives in an application.
"Seeing examples of time management has been a strong positive in some applications and has come up a lot in admissions decisions," said Aly Ricci, assistant director of admissions at Saint Louis University School of Law.
A Miami student shares a lighter moment with a law school representative at the 2019 Law Fair.
The Mock Admissions Panel segued straight into the Law Fair, where each school had set up a table filled with valuable and informative pamphlets, magazines, and brochures. The event was well-attended, as the room quickly became filled with students actively engaging with law school admissions reps to get a feel for which law schools could be the best fit for them.
"Miami's Law Day provides the invaluable opportunity to interact 1-1 with law school representative from a wide array of schools," said senior political science and English literature major Haley George. "This experience helped me develop connections with admissions staff and gave me a better understanding of what different law schools have to offer."
Senior political science and Spanish major Amelia Stefan observed how important an event like this is for a student not yet familiar with the law school admission process.
"This event is very important at Miami because, if you are not taking any pre-law courses, this a great way to get some of that information," she said.
"We had near record student turn out this year at the Law Fair," said Maria Vitullo, director of the Henry Pre-Law Center. "The Fair is a great opportunity for students to hear directly from law schools about their programming and better understand the law school admission process. It's great to see so many students interacting with law schools and taking advantage of the opportunity to meet face-to-face with admissions representatives."
In addition to holding events such as Law Day, the Sue J. Henry Center for Pre-Law Education has its own team of advisors and offers courses designed to prepare students for a career in law and success when applying to law schools. The program also provides multiple free practice Law School Admissions Tests (LSAT) throughout the year.
If you are possibly interested in a career in law, visit the Sue J. Henry Center website to learn about this invaluable resource at Miami University.
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Michael Thomas Howard Investigation
Michael Thomas Howard Kalibu & Shekinah Abuse Story
Out of Africa – Finland
Emails with Michael Howard
Victim Testimonies
An American Woman’s Testimony
Marko H. – OOA – Finland
Pastor Peter Kankochi – Malawi
Feston K – Malawi
Gift S – Malawi
Edmundas B -Malawi
Rozella Heyns – Michael’s sister
Mark & Maria Cronin
Farayi Saide – Malawi
Juho Eronen – Finland
Alinune Msongole – Malawi & Mozambique
Ulla Kulmala
Brian Culwell
Legal Doccuments
Shekinah Ministries Minnesota
Shekinah Ministries Ohio (non-existent)
Cleared checks into fradulent Shekinah Account
Ohio Statutes regarding Non-Profits
Ohio Attorney General complaints
Paisley Grayson Mavutula
Linda Mavutula
Harri Wiherkoski
Jim & Eileen Kirt
Dutch Vandervlucht
Pastor Christopher Navaya
[Editor’s Note: Jim & Eileen were considered by our family as close, personal friends. We have had them to our homes on many occasions, often for weeks at a time. We have treated them like royalty, given them many gifts and spent many hours taking them sightseeing around Texas. They were the last couple that I thought would be covering up for Michael Howard and Paisley Mavutula’s sins, let alone partaking in sins of their own. They were the last couple that I thought would stab me in the back so blatantly when I attempted to bring some of the unrighteousness at Kalibu to Michael Howard’s attention. Unfortunately, they did stab me in the back, they did TURN their backs on me and on our family, they did cover up the sins of others, they did participate in verbal and physical abuse of others while “serving” in Mozambique.
I’ve heard all the tales from them both about the work in Mozambique, and I’ve heard about the vision and everything else. Unfortunately, the actual fruits are something different. Finding one person that went to Mozambique and actually serves the Lord now because of Jim & Eileen can’t be done: we’ve looked. Instead, what we find is story after story of abuse and a wood business. I spoke to several people who were there in the early years, when there was a vision to harvest wood and roof churches, preach the gospel, start a real Bible school, etc. Where is that now? Instead of the proceeds of those wood sales going into the ministry, they went into the pockets of Jim & Eileen Kirt. They have warehouses of this wood stored up in Michigan. where they sell it from their company, The Blackwood Source http://www.blackwoodsource.com.
They’ve personally told me that “this is their retirement” and that they “never have to work again!” So much for this being a mission or ministry. How about their donors over the years that gave to them while they ran this lucrative business? Well, we’ve talked to some of them as well, and they are just as shocked about the fact that Jim & Eileen have piled up treasures in Michigan, when they thought they were in Mozambique to focus on the work of the Lord. I feel bad for them both and still love them, but they were massively deceived and fell under the same anti-Christ spirit that the others have. At this stage in their lives, their pride won’t allow them to admit that for 15 years, they really weren’t missionaries. It would destroy the image that others have of them, and this is unfortunately all that matters for many these days.
Jesus said we would know a tree by its fruit. This always proves true. The fruit of Jim & Eileen’s “missionary” work in Mozambique is money in the bank for them.]
Jim & Eileen Kirt are the heads of Shekinah Ministries, Inc., which is the fake & illegal ministry being run in the USA. If you don’t know what a sham this ministry is, please click here to read about the legal problems with Shekinah.
We have now heard stories from many people who either had contact with Mozambique, such as Mark Cronin, or who were personally in Mozambique, such as this testimony that we just received. It has not been edited to correct grammar, because we wanted you to read it in its original context from the actual abuse victim, a young man named Alinune:
It Was In November,year 1989,when I First Met Pastor Michael, Suki, Kim & Joyce When They Came To Preach In Chitipa District In The Northern Region Of Malawi. By Then I Had No Where To Stay As My Parents Had Abandoned Me & Chased Me Away From Their Home Just Because I Had Accepted Jesus As My Lord &savior. Of My Life.During His Meetings I Had A chance To Give Out My Testimony& After That I Asked Pastor Billy Mnkhondia To Asked Pastor Michael If He Would Take me To Blantyre With Him. I thank God My Request Was Aproved, He Sent Some Money To Mr Webster Sinyangwe So That He Should Take Me To Blantyre. When I Arrived At Kalibu Compound Formally Known As Ebenezer Bible School In Limbe, I Thought Every Thing Would Be Better For Me. Back Then Pastor Michael Had A very Serious& God Fearing Team, like The Anton, Charity, Jane, Lovemore Just To Mention.
I was Sent Back To School But The Treatment I & Other People Were Getting at Kalibu Was So Bad. Not Only Me But Every One Have Had A Time Where By We Got Whipped.
Pastor Michael Had A Special Hose Pipe Which Him & Paisley Used To Beat Us Using It.
[Editor’s Note: If you don’t know what a hose pipe beating looks like, watch this video of another African school teacher filmed beating a student with a hose pipe. He was secretly taped with a cell phone. Note the disgusting way the women are standing off to the side, apparently praying as this child is beat. DISGUSTING! What kind of God do they serve? Apparently the same one as Michael, Paisley & Jim. This teacher in the video was arrested and imprisoned for doing this.]
My FELLOW Friend Had To Run Away In Early 90s, but I still remained there just because I wanted to complete my education. Life was just very tough. All the people working there were not born again after the first team left. In 1994, pastor Michael Bought Another Plastic Black & red Rod From Zambia Which Him & Paisley Have Been Using To Beat Us With It. This Rod Paisley Is Using Up To Date.
The Treatment At The Compound Was Just No Different To A Prison Campus. We Used Have Nsima With Pegion Peas Without Tomatoes & cooking Oil In It, This Is Happening Up To Date. The Place Was Full Of People Who Had No Fear Of God In Their Heart But Full Of Fonications, corruptions & oppressions Of Others. Any One Who Tried To Rebuke Them Became Their Worse Enemy,like His First Bible School Team, Charles Tailor, Gerald, Tom Even Myself. They Much Rely On Their Wealth More Than Relying On God. In The Year 2002, paisley Kicked Me Out Of Kalibu Like A Dog. He Claimed That I Revealed Him To My Landlord That He Was Committing ADULTERY With My Landlord’s Wife.
I was in Mozambique for a time. Jim beat me so much with some of his workers, that one day I used a chain saw to threaten them to protect me. But Eileen was the worse in behavior than Jim. Jim is a very quiet man but he was made to be cruel.
[Editor’s Note: I can certainly testify to this! If I ever met a woman with a Jezebel spirit, it’s Eileen Kirt! I have seen her lose her temper on several occasions, and she just becomes nasty in a very sarcastic way. She needs some serious deliverance, and in no way should be traveling and teaching or ministering in any way in her current condition. As for Jim, I don’t specifically know what background he’s hiding, but he’s gone through multiple marriages and outwardly appears very quiet and conservative. We were sitting in my living room and talking about Sodom and Gomorrah and the depravity of homosexuality less than a year ago, and Jim began to defend them, saying that he “didn’t have a problem with homosexuals!” At the time, it shocked my wife and I both, because he is so verbally outspoken on every other conservative issue. I don’t know if this is because he has been covering for a homosexual like Michael Howard for so long, or because he has his own struggles with this? To be clear, I certainly have a problem with homosexuals, because GOD has a problem with homosexuals! They can be delivered, just like a thief, liar, drunkard or any other sinner can, but they can’t continue to practice sin and expect the Body of Christ to turn a blind eye to it! This is precisely why we lack God’s presence in our lives; because we refuse to turn from sin and pursue the Holiness and Righteousness of the Kingdom of God!]
You know I have scars from the beating by Pastor Michael, Paisley & Jim. They used to beat me several times & it was a habit to them.
In fact my wife told me that Paisley forced her to sleep with him when I was in prison in order to help her get money.
Rozella Heyns’ testimony of Jim & Eileen Kirt
When all is said and done Jim and Eileen will be without excuse.
A number of years ago, I visited Mozambique, where Jim & Eileen Kirt were “missionaries” for the better part of 15 years.
They were the perfect hosts, but while I was there I saw very little ministry and the focus was mainly on the wood business. Even back then, they were having problems with their pastors.
Throughout their time in Mozambique they were always having problems with pastors. At the time, I had just been through one of my episodes with Michael and they asked what the problem was. I told them I had been having a really tough time and that Michael was being very difficult. They were all too aware of what that was like and Jim even offered to talk to Michael on my behalf. I told them definitely not since it would make matters even worse. Michael would not appreciate me talking with someone he considered far less spiritual than he.
In July of 2011 Eileen was touring the US – this would end in Chicago for the conference. She had stopped over in Lawrence, Kansas to visit a mutual friend and had to have work done on her car, so I drove through to spend the day with her. She informed me that their time in Mozambique was over and that they planned to move back to the States. It took them another two years after that because they did not have enough blackwood to stock for their retirement.
The blackwood business from the beginning was supposed to support Calibu Ministries in Mozambique and yet not one single church was built or roofed by them, nor one pastor supported in all the years they were there.
Eileen told me they had found the perfect couple to take over from them in Mozambique when they returned to the States. Despite the fact they were warned about this couple, they refused to hear it – just as their leader, my brother Michael Howard, never listened when someone has tried to warn him. So, they ignored warnings and it turned out that the husband was in adultery and was abusive. Sound familiar to you all?
Still, Kalibu ministries PAID for his return ticket to the States. The wife remained in Mozambique and ended up living with a Moslem and eventually marrying him. Wonderful discernment Jim and Eileen and Paisley and Michael!?
At our meeting in Lawrence, I told her that I was seriously thinking of leaving as I could no longer continue with the abuse and the constant stream of young men passing through the revolving doors of Michael’s life. Eileen told me that she and Jim had long been concerned with Michael, as he appeared to have no EMPATHY whatsoever.
WOW, what an amazing word to use.
I was shocked, as the only time I had heard that used was when watching the film on the Nuremberg trials. The young American prosecutor interviewed every one of the nazi prisoners prior to the trial and when asked what they had in common he said they all lacked EMPATHY. I was actually horrified that Eileen would place him in the same group as some of the worst killers of the 20th century.
About six weeks after the Chicago conference and her return to Africa she came back to the States to take over from me. I gave her copies of everything I had on computer and walked her through everything. I had offered to continue helping with storing and shipping books as Dutch VanderVlucht had said that he would not have anything to do with the running of Shekinah ministries. I offered to continue editing and typesetting the books, but was informed that Michael no longer wanted any assistance from me at all.
For the latter part of her stay with me, I took Eileen sightseeing in St. Louis and shopping.
On her return to Africa, she told friends of mine that she was now the “Queen” of Shekinah and that people had better watch out.
Eileen is aware of all that has gone on in Shekinah/Kalibu/Out of Africa. Because of that, Jim is also in the know.
Despite all of this, they continue to deny the truth and to defend and stand with Michael. As a result, they are without excuse.
An American Woman’s Testimony of Abuse
Cult Leader’s Response to Biblical Counsel
Harri Wiherkoski Convicted of Aggravated Tax Fraud
Justice for Sale – Roz Heyns Arrest
Michael Howard & Paisley Mavutula’s Land Theft
misappropriation of funds
Cult Leader's Response to Biblical Counsel
An American Woman's Testimony of Abuse
New Article in Finland - Word Magazine
Email correspondence with Michael Thomas Howard
Harri Wiherkoski – Finland
Linda Mavutula (wife of Paisley Mavutula)
Marko H.
Cleared checks into fraudulent account
Michael Thomas Howard
Pastor Dutch VanderVlucht
Pastor Peter Kankochi
Farayi Saide
Gift S. – Malawi
Rozella Heyns
Ulla Kulmala – Finland
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Rival Factions in Bolivia's CONAMAQ: Internal Conflict or Government Manipulation?
CONAMAQ, a federation of Bolivian highland indigenous peoples, has split into two parallel organizations after a bitter struggle. Is this the result of internal political conflict, or a government strategy to undermine opposition?
Emily Achtenberg
Over the past several months, Bolivians have witnessed the crisis of CONAMAQ, a confederation of Aymará and Quechua communities in the Bolivian highlands. Since 1997, CONAMAQ has championed the rights of highland indigenous peoples to direct representation, self-determination, and collective control of land and resources. Today, it has fractured into warring parallel organizations, one supporting the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government of Evo Morales, and the other—the original “organic” CONAMAQ—increasingly turning against it.
"Organic" CONAMAQ vigil (Juan Pablo Muñoz, La Razón)
In early December, a disputed election between the rival factions led to a police siege of CONAMAQ’s La Paz headquarters and a series of violent confrontations, followed by hunger strikes, vigils, and road blockades by the “organic” faction (which led the organization until December). “Organic” CONAMAQ then threatened to blockade the Dakar Rally, a mega-sports and tourist spectacle featuring a cross-continental auto and motorcycle race that passed, for the first time this year, through the Bolivian highlands.
The blockade was cancelled due to threats of a heavy military presence and a counter-blockade by pro-government social organizations (or, from the perspective of the pro-government faction, a lack of popular support). On January 15, the pro-MAS group violently seized control of CONAMAQ’s headquarters as police looked the other way. The action was denounced by Bolivia’s human rights Ombudsman and by UN officials in Bolivia.
As to the causes of the rupture, there are conflicting perspectives. According to Vice Minister Alfredo Rada—one of several prominent members of the Morales government who cut his political teeth working with NGOs in support of indigenous organizations—CONAMAQ “self-destructed” when its bases lost confidence in their leadership. CONAMAQ’s alliance with the lowlands indigenous federation CIDOB in opposition to the TIPNIS highway, Rada argues, precipitated a growing organizational break with Morales that was not supported by its constituency. The final straw, says Rada, was CONAMAQ’s recent pact with the Green Party, a small pro-ecology bloc that will oppose Morales in the upcoming (2014) presidential election. Their candidate, Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, was a former leader of the conservative political opposition, defeated by Morales in 2005.
Critics say that CONAMAQ’s troubles are not a product of internal strife, but reflect a deliberate strategy by the Morales government to intervene and undermine the organization’s organic leadership. CONAMAQ, they argue, is only the most recent in a series of independent indigenous and social organizations that have been torn apart by rival factions which the government has encouraged and financed.
Pro-MAS faction ceremony at CONAMAQ HQ (Daniel Walker Mamani, La Razón)
In an analogous situation last year, as recounted by the daily Página Siete in a recent editorial, after three months of government pressure, blackmail, threats, and enticements offered to its constituent organizations, the lowland indigenous federation CIDOB split into two parallel groups. The original CIDOB is now allied with CONAMAQ and other indigenous groups in a strategic campaign to elect more independent indigenous delegates and break MAS’s two-thirds control of the next Congress, but it has not endorsed the Green Party or any other presidential candidate. (However, individuals prominently associated with CIDOB, including ex-MAS indigenous representative Pedro Nuni, have announced their support for conservative Santa Cruz governor Rubén Costas, who led the “Media Luna” autonomist movement against Morales—and orchestrated attacks against the CIDOB offices—in 2008.)
Government officials accuse the “organic” CONAMAQ and CIDOB of seeking to undermine Bolivia’s “process of change” through their alleged links to foreign (U.S.) interests and the domestic political opposition. Similar charges were levied by Morales against the Danish NGO IBIS, which he expelled from Bolivia last December. In a mirror image of the “organic” factions’ perspective, Morales accused IBIS of interfering with and conspiring to divide CIDOB and CONAMAQ, by furthering controversial activities (such as the TIPNIS march) that he views as political in their intent. (In the always more complicated reality, it appears that IBIS actually provided assistance to both CIDOB factions.)
Whether the new parallel groups have been created, abetted, or merely opportunistically exploited by the Morales government, the relationship appears to be mutually beneficial. Pro-government CIDOB now receives significant funding for development projects and services, while the original faction is considerably debilitated.
While the new CIDOB has already had some differences with Morales—for example, over its recent unsuccessful bid to permit the election of indigenous deputies through their traditional organizations, rather than through the political parties—it has provided him with unequivocal political support. Pro-MAS CIDOB and CONAMAQ have joined with the three major national peasant organizations to resurrect the Unity Pact, the coalition of social movements that brought Morales to power in 2005. This is a critical step in the run-up to the 2014 election, where Morales is seeking a broad (70%) mandate for his third presidential term.
For MAS dissidents like former Cochabamba governor Rafael Puente, the CONAMAQ episode reflects an increasingly disturbing trend towards MAS government intervention in civil society affairs. Even human rights organizations appear to be falling victim to the growing official preoccupation with controlling dissent. Just two days after the final ouster of “organic” CONAMAQ, police occupied the offices of the 38-year-old Permanent Human Rights Assembly of Bolivia (APDHB), along with a dissident pro-MAS faction critical of the organization’s loan of office space to the displaced indigenous group. According to APDHB president Yolanda Herrera, it was the first police intervention of a human rights organization since Bolivia’s return to democracy in 1982.
For anthropologist Xavier Albó, the splits in both CONAMAQ and CIDOB illustrate how relations between the MAS government and indigenous-identified groups have deteriorated since the TIPNIS controversy. For Albó, Morales’s continuing “doublespeak” on environmental issues is especially problematic. As a recent pertinent example, he cites Morales’s nationalistic promotion of the Dakar Rally, which indigenous and environmental groups (in Chile as well as Bolivia) have protested as a threat to fragile ecosystems, wildlife habitats, and archaeological sites. Even worse, to compensate for potential environmental degradation, the Dakar sponsors have committed $500,000 to conserve a forest in the Peruvian Amazon—exactly the type of carbon credit scheme that Morales has denounced at home and abroad.
For Puente, the post-TIPNIS revival of mutual distrust has also been marked by the reemergence of a “colonialist mentality” among some campesino and official sectors, which degrades indigenous-identified peoples. For indigenous groups, Puente argues, this also takes the form of pacting with conservative oppressors as a means of retribution against their own unresponsive leaders, repeating a historical pattern that dates back to the Incas and the Conquistadors—with disastrous results.
From a political perspective, as former MAS Vice-Minister of Lands Alejandro Almaraz has noted, CONAMAQ’s and CIDOB’s traditionalist worldviews have long run counter to the grain. Their promotion of ancestral, communitarian forms of social organization, land ownership, and control of resources challenges the logic of syndicalist peasant capitalism that has been the dominant ideology in Bolivia since the nationalist 1952 Revolution.
Today, the principles espoused by CONAMAQ and CIDOB appear to be increasingly in conflict with the Morales government’s developmentalist agenda, which includes expansion of the agricultural frontier, remercantilization of land, and resource extraction in indigenous territories. Still, these policies have significant popular support. Whether due to internal division or external design, the weakening of independent organizations like CONAMAQ and CIDOB will certainly help to diminish any remaining political obstacles to advancing this program.
Emily Achtenberg is an urban planner and the author of NACLA’s biweekly blog Rebel Currents, covering Latin American social movements and progressive governments (nacla.org/blog/rebel-currents).
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Sir Arthur C Clarke, 1917-2008: The Final Goodbye from Colombo
19 March 2008 — Nalaka Gunawardene
Later blog post on 23 March 2008: Arthur C Clarke embarks on Final Odyssey
‘This is Arthur Clarke, saying goodbye from Colombo….’
This was the characteristic signing off Sir Arthur C Clarke used whenever he made a video greeting to an international meeting on some important issue somewhere on the planet.
From disarmament and new communications technologies to space exploration and conservation, he would offer the uniquely Clarkian take on the subject – in his witty, insightful and funny style.
I have worked with and for him for half my life – 21 years – as part of his personal office in Colombo, Sri Lanka (not to be confused with the government-run Arthur C Clarke Institute which he had nothing to do with). In that time, I helped film a significant number of video greetings to gatherings of the world’s movers and shakers.
Some of these were assemblies of sombre men and women in suits at the United Nations, Davos or Pentagon. Sir Arthur would deliberately poke fun at the pomposity and self-importance of these types, in a way that they could still laugh – even at their expense.
Other events were less formal, but no less important: glittering gatherings of Hollywood or Silicon Valley professionals – some of who have more ‘soft power’ worldwide than military generals or secretary generals. Again, he would challenge the boundaries of imagination of these professionals whose mega-billion industries were built largely on imagination.
In all these and more, Sir Arthur demonstrated another quality: the great economy of words. He hardly spoke for longer than ten minutes, or 600 seconds. The Grandmaster of the Soundbyte that he was, he knew just how to pack the right mix of power, fun and sense of wonder into each second.
Confined to a wheelchair in Sri Lanka – the country he adopted – in later years due to Post Polio, Sir Arthur used either satellite links or the web to connect to many important scientific, literary and entertainment gatherings in far corners of the planet.
And yes, he did often remind his eager listeners that he invented the communications satellite in his spare time in 1945 – and one of short stories (Dial F for Frankenstein) inspired a British computer scientist to invent the world wide web.
When Sir Arthur said his Final Goodbye from Colombo in the early hours of 19 March 2008 at Colombo’s Apollo Hospital, there was no global witness. He was in the company of just five people – comprising family and staff.
Aptly, however, the news of his demise went right around the world at the speed of light thanks to the comsat and web. In less than an hour, the whole world knew.
And now its the world’s turn to say Goodbye to its most trusted ‘Man in the Future’. The world remembers, salutes and celebrates his genius, humanity and imagination.
In doing so, many have turned to the last video greeting that Sir Arthur made, just a few days ahead of his 90th birthday (16 Dec 2007). This is about how that video was made.
For once, there was no specific invitation from anywhere. But for several weeks running up to his birthday, we had seen considerable media and fan interest on how he feels like completing 90 orbits around the Sun.
So in the last days of November 2007, I suggested to Sir Arthur that we should film a short video message – openly addressed to the whole world, sharing his reflections on turning 90. He liked the idea, and as has been the custom in recent years, asked me to draw up his speaking points.
I spent several days going through dozens of his essays and speeches, both published and unpublished. When I had a draft, we worked long and hard on it to get everything just right. I saw how he could still ‘Clarkise’ any piece of writing, which showed no sign of wear and tear for the 90 orbits.
This was a ‘no-budget’ production. Sir Arthur’s personal photographer Rohan de Silva had done many video greetings using a home video camera, but he and I agreed that this should be done more professionally. I mentioned the idea to our friends at Video Image (Private) Limited, the country’s top production company who had filmed with Sir Arthur for so many global TV channels and international clients. They immediately agreed to do it – for free.
We didn’t have a tele-prompter, but realised the importance of Sir Arthur looking straight at his audience. So in just a couple of days, Brian Ratnasekera of Video Image improvised a working unit.
I directed the shoot with Video Image crew on 5 December at Sir Arthur’s home. Allowing several breaks for him to catch his breath, our filming took the better part of that morning.
The filming got off to a bumpy start. First the improvised tele-prompter had some teething problems, but these were quickly sorted. Then, in a very rare moment of disagreement, Sir Arthur said he wanted to be filmed wearing his Nehru jacket (which he affectionately called ‘My Doctor No suit’).
We had already donned him in a colourful bush shirt and crew and I felt that this was the right attire for a message that was intensely personal and somewhat wistful. The shirt with large prints was far more characteristic of Arthur C Clarke than any formal suit. At that moment, I was the shoot’s director and not his long-standing spokesperson who would be more agreeable with his views and wishes.
A few tense moments passed. Then one of Sir Arthur’s valets had a brainwave. Why not use the casual NASA jacket that Sir Arthur often wore when he felt the air conditioning was getting a bit too cold?
That saved our shoot. He compromised, trading Nehru for NASA. Within seconds, he was back to his normal cheerful self. When the shoot got underway, he was at ease, speaking right to the camera and looking straight at millions of unknown viewers who would watch it for years to come.
Reading our text scrolling gently upward on the tele-prompter, he missed out just one word out of nearly 900. We only needed to do a single re-take. That was impressive for a man who’d recently had cataract operations in both eyes.
In the end, I knew we had a great piece – one where he looked back at a most remarkable career of our time, and looked forward to what lies in store for humanity.
Over the next two days, my colleagues at TVE Asia Pacific did a simple edit – stringing together the few segments he’d filmed with breaks in between. Our IT Specialist Indika Wanniarachchi uploaded it to TVEAP’s YouTube channel on 9 December 2007. The next day, VideoImage uploaded it to their YouTube channel.
This itself made some international news and and soon became a hit on YouTube.
Read the full transcript on TVEAP website
After surveying what has, by all measures, been a highly remarkable life and the astounding rate of technological development he has witnessed, Sir Arthur listed three ‘Big Wishes’ that he wanted to see happen – ideally in his life time (alas, that was not to be).
Finally, he offered some personal views on posterity – a subject on which he’d been ambivalent at times.
This is perhaps the most consequential of his birthday reflections. In his own words: “I’m sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I’ve had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer – one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.”
He ended the message by quoting another English writer — who, coincidentally, also spent most of his life in the East — Rudyard Kipling:
“If I have given you delight
by aught that I have done.
Let me lie quiet in that night
which shall be yours anon;
And for the little, little span
the dead are borne in mind,
seek not to question other than,
the books I leave behind.”
That’s also how he ended his 9-minute birthday video – but upon reflection, it seems to me that he used that to bid a fond farewell to his millions of fans and readers worldwide. Perhaps his famous crystal ball told him something…
He signed off: This is Arthur Clarke, saying Thank You and Goodbye from Colombo!
And this is Nalaka Gunawardene, saying Thank You and Goodbye to Sir Arthur. It was the greatest privilege of my life to have worked with you.
Photos by Shahidul Alam, Drik Picture Library, taken in Sir Arthur’s study in Colombo in Feb 2007
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21 Responses to “Sir Arthur C Clarke, 1917-2008: The Final Goodbye from Colombo”
The Nut Cracker Says:
Sir Clarke will remian in hearts for ever and always.Words are not powerful enough to convey the sorrow within the hearts of the people of science.Why couldn’t it have been Mary Kate Olsen or Lindsay Lohan???
Jose Cordeiro Says:
What a great human being we have lost!
This is a real tragedy for humanity, losing such a genius enlightened human.
Earthlings will always remember you, as one of our prophets of the future.
Futuristically yours,
Jose Cordeiro
Tokyo, Japan, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Known Universe, Unknown Multiverse
Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Remembering Arthur C Clarke Says:
[…] author of Moving Images, Moving People! who has worked with Clarke for about 21 years, writes wistfully about the last video message that […]
DAVID DAMARIO Says:
He took us to places and events beyond ourselves. He made us look into the future with a possitive attitude and and always with the thought that we humans with all our faults were deep down good. He saw the good…and he opened our minds to the possibilities of the future.
In his last note to me late in February this year he said, “Dear David Damario and Family. I dreamed last night that I saw my 100th Xmas.” and then signed “All Best Wishes.” Arhtur C. Clarke
There will never be another and he is laready greatly missed. It was an honour to know him.
Goodbye my friend.
David Damario
Per adua ad astra!
My God, it’s full of stars…..
yichaelle Says:
Nalaka, you are so lucky to have known him personally. I knew him through his books which I read voraciously over the years. Sir Arthur was a Mighty Being, an amazing mind. I have picked this quote from the Upanishads which I think is a fitting stanza to describe him. His Leaving is our loss.
“I have known this Great Being,
effulgent as the sun
beyond the boundaries of tenebrous gloom.”
Shaik Anwar Ahamath Says:
The planet has lost a wonderful human. He must have had humanity’s progress in mind and not profits for himself when he decided not to patent his communications inventions. It would have made him astronomically rich but at the expense of the now ready, easy and cheap communication between peoples and nations.
Jim Oliver Says:
Dear Nalaka:
Thank you for the beautiful comprehensive tribute to Sir Arthur!
You were truly fortunate to have known him personally. As well, we were exceedingly fortunate to have our horizons stretched and our human folly challenged by this writer and dreamer.
Never doubt the power of a few well-chosen words!
>>Jim
Dayan Jayatilleka Says:
Dear Nalaka,
What you have done is wonderful. Congratulations and thanks.
Is it not possible to put together everything Sir Arthur wrote and said about Sri Lanka, in a single compendium (with dates)?
Did Sir Arthur have any specific – or indeed general – ideas/suggestions as to how we could resolve the Sri Lankan conflict?
Nalaka Gunawardene Says:
Thanks to everyone who left comments above. The 90th birthday video has been in heavy demand since Sir Arthur’s death on March 19. The number of views on TVEAP YouTube channel alone has now passed 100,000 – and it’s also available on several other locations on the YouTube.
I’ve just remembered how the BBC, historically Sir Arthur’s favoured broadcaster, was somewhat peeved that they didn’t get the video first. Sir Arthur shrugged it off saying, “They’d better get used to the new media reality!”
A few days later, Queen Elizabeth II launched her own YouTube channel for the Buckingham Palace! Always a believer in evolution, Sir Arthur placed a premium on adaptability. He was fond of quoting fellow science fiction writer Michael Crichton’s term ‘mediasaurus’ to describe those venerable media organisations that are too trapped in their own glorious past to adjust to the rapidly changing media and information landscape.
Global Voices në Shqip » Shri Lanka: Përkujtim i Artur Klarkut Says:
[…] i Moving Images, Moving People! i cili punoi me Klarkun për më tepër se 21 vite, shkruan me dëshirë për video porosinë e […]
Allan Whitefield Says:
I was privileged to visit him in this library several years ago – one of the greatest experiences of my life – and discuss his books and philosophy with him. He was greatly interested in the work I was doing in Colombo at the time, and sprung on me the biggest disappointment of my life. He was due a visit from Buzz Aldrin, and invited me to dinner – the day after I was leaving! The world is a poorer place without him.
Venturing Into The Impossible « ShahidulNews Says:
[…] But the world will remember his magic. […]
John Whale Says:
I and my family were privileged that Sir Arthur invited us to have dinner at his home in 1996 after my wife won a trip to Sri Lanka ina competition on the Discovery Channel.
I remains a treasured highlight of my life. I sent birthday greetings and New Year greetings by email to Sir Arthur every year since we met, and he replied every time, except this year – I had a feeling that things were wrong.
Thank you Nalaka for your article it brought the memories flooding back. BTW I have a feeling that we may have met when I was over there.
groundviews » Imagine and innovate to honour Sir Arthur C Clarke! Says:
[…] December 2007, on the eve of his 90th birthday, I helped Sir Arthur to record a short video message on his life and times. (It turned out to be his public farewell.) He always placed a premium on brevity, and in this […]
Venturing Into The Impossible | ShahidulNews Says:
[…] But the world will remember his magic. Tags: Photographer, Photography, Science Fiction, Shahidul Alam, Sri Lanka, technology, Writer This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 3:38 am and is filed under My Photo Essays. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. […]
How to Get Six Pack Fast Says:
If you want to read a reader’s feedback :) , I rate this article for four from five. Decent info, but I have to go to that damn google to find the missed pieces. Thanks, anyway!
Leon Jean Says:
Thanks for your insight – nice article to read. I’ve sent a tweet about it :-) Thanks
Living in the Global Glass House: An Open Letter to Sir Arthur C Clarke - Groundviews Says:
[…] years ago this month, I worked with you in drafting and filming your 90th birthday reflections on YouTube. In just nine minutes, you […]
Dear Nalaka – you were so lucky!
When Worlds Collide #68: Imagine That! Analyse This! | When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene Says:
[…] December 2007, on the eve of his 90th birthday, I helped Clarke record a short video message on his life and times. In just nine minutes, he looked back at his “90 orbits around the Sun” […]
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Bradford Hanson 2019-06-07
Bradford Hanson · 7 June, 2019
A NEW pro-Israel group that is pretending to be a standard bearer for conservative opinion in the United States was founded in January, a fortuitous bit of timing as it will not have to reveal its sources of income until next year. The Edmund Burke Foundation describes itself as “a new public affairs institute” having “the aim of strengthening the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries. The Foundation will pursue research, educational and publishing ventures directed toward this end.”
The Foundation’s launch will be at an open-to-the-public conference that will be held at Washington’s Ritz-Carlton hotel on July 14-16, 2019. So as not to confuse the possible audience unduly over who Edmund Burke was or what he stood for, the conference is being advertised somewhat lamely as “National Conservatism: A Conference in Washington D.C.” on its Web site nationalconservatism.org. Note that neither the name of the foundation nor the promotion of its stellar cast of speakers includes the word “Israel,” but the Jewish state is really what it is all about.
The conference’s Web site explains that
Politics in America, Britain, and other Western nations have taken a sharp turn toward nationalism—a commitment to a world of independent nations. This has been disorienting to many, not least the American conservative movement, which has, since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, grown increasingly attached to a vision of a global ‘rules-based liberal order’ that would bring peace and prosperity to the entire world while attenuating the independence of nations.
The return of nationalism has created a much-discussed ‘crisis of conservatism’ that may be unprecedented…The conference on ‘National Conservatism’ will bring together public figures, journalists, scholars, and students who understand that the past and future of conservatism are inextricably tied to the idea of the nation, to the principle of national independence, and to the revival of the unique national traditions that alone have the power to bind a people together and bring about their flourishing.
It is obvious to most actual conservatives that nationalism has never really gone away, but what the conference organizers are really getting at is using nationalism as an excuse for giving Israel and the United States carte blanche to attack, invade, dominate, control, and invade other countries with impunity. The argument that America and Israel have a special entitlement to justify their actions is frequently made, most notably by other Israel-firster groups like the “Foundation for Defense of Democracies” (FDD). FDD argues that “democracy promotion” by force is a legitimate foreign policy of powerful countries (read: the United States), while “threatened democracies” (read: Israel, especially Israel, always Israel — did I mention Israel?) must be protected.
Why do I say that the Edmund Burke Foundation is just another pro-Israel puppet? Look at the people running it. Its President is David Brog, who is also the executive director of the Maccabee Task Force, “an effort launched in 2015 to combat the anti-Israel BDS movement. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), were he served as executive director for its first ten years. Before CUFI, Brog worked in the United States Senate for seven years, rising to be chief of staff to Senator Arlen Specter and staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has also worked as an executive at America Online and practiced corporate law in Tel Aviv, Israel and Philadelphia, Pa. Brog is the author of Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State (2006) and In Defense of Faith: the Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity (2010). In 2007, the Forward newspaper listed Brog in its ‘Forward 50’ most influential Jews in America.”
The Edmund Burke Foundation’s Chairman is an Israeli, Yoram Hazony, who describes himself as a “Jewish philosopher.” He resides in the Jewish state and is a well-known Israeli nationalist, having written that nationalism empowers “the collective right of a free people to rule themselves.” (White people excepted, of course.) He declares that “We should not let a hairbreadth of our freedom be given over to foreign bodies under any name whatsoever, or to foreign systems of law that are not determined by our own nations.” He adds “My first concern is for Israel.”
In other words, for Hazony all external criticism of what Israel is and does is illegitimate while Brog is what might be described as someone who has made a career out of being Jewish, along the way advancing what he perceives as Israeli interests. So why are they heading an ostensibly American foundation?
Indeed, it doesn’t require a Trumpean level of genius to see what this is all about and where it is going. If there is an unfortunate development arising from the “National Conservative” conference it is the inclusion as speakers of some genuine people among the crowd of usual Zionist hacks, with National Security Bloviator John Bolton leading the dark side of the list. The non-Zionist non-fanatics, who are invited solely to give the event credibility, should know better and ought to avoid the Edmund Burke Foundation like a cup full of active HIV. I will not call them out by name here and now but they can be identified from the speakers’ list. One has to wonder if they are being paid for their services.
In fact, new organizations dedicated to defending and promoting Israel are not exactly unusual. They tend to pop up in the United States and Western Europe like wild mushrooms in the springtime. By one estimate, there are 600 such organizations in the U.S. alone, running the gamut from the “liberal left” to the “conservative right.” They exist because there is a certain paranoia on the part of prominent Jews and leading Jewish organizations due to fear that the American people are finally waking up to the fact that they have been getting used and abused by a vast Zionist conspiracy for the past 70-plus years.
Why do some American Jews betray the interests of their host country to support another nation that is manifestly a pariah due to its own behavior? It might just be because to do so is painless and can also lead to personal career advancement. Brog’s career demonstrates how it works, particularly if one can latch on to a Jewish Zionist Senator like Arlen Specter along the way. And the benefits for Israel are enormous, amounting to hundreds of billions of U.S. Treasury dollars as well as a de facto commitment for American soldiers to fight and die for Israel even if Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu starts a war for no reason whatsoever.
Taken together, all of the pro-Israel groups constitute a veritable political juggernaut that seeks to advantage Israel and benefit it directly without regard for the damage done to Americans themselves and to actual U.S. interests.
Disguised advocacy for the Jewish state, such as that soon to be emanating from this new “Edmund Burke Foundation,” has led the United States into a bottomless Middle Eastern quagmire of impoverishment, dispossession, and death. They are unspeakably filthy liars and exploiters of the innocent.
Source: based on an article at The Council for the National Interest and National Vanguard correspondents
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2016 viewer release summaries: week 30
Posted on August 1, 2016 October 4, 2016 by Inara Pey
Updates for the week ending Sunday, July 31st
This summary is published every Monday, and is a list of SL viewer / client releases (official and TPV) made during the previous week. When reading it, please note:
It is based on my Current Viewer Releases Page, a list of all Second Life viewers and clients that are in popular use (and of which I am aware), and which are recognised as adhering to the TPV Policy. This page includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog
By its nature, this summary presented here will always be in arrears, please refer to the Current Viewer Release Page for more up-to-date information.
Official LL Viewers
Current Release version: 4.0.6.315555 (dated May 23), promoted July 5th – formerly the Inventory Message RC viewer download page, release notes
Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
VLC Media Plugin Viewer RC version 4.1.1.318152, released on July 28th – replaces the QuickTime media plugin for the Windows version of the viewer with one based on LibVLC (download and release notes)
Maintenance RC viewer updated to version 4.0.7.318189 on July 28th – fixes and updates (download and release notes)
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Windlight rebrands: welcome to Kultivate in Second Life
Posted on August 1, 2016 by Inara Pey
In June 2015, I helped to spread the word about Windlight Magazine a (then) new arts-focused magazine for Second Life.
For its launch, Windlight sought to innovate, with programmes such as the Windlight Fellowship Programme and gallery, and over the last 12 months that desire to innovate has continued, with the title branching into areas beyond such as e-publication, music, literature, fund-raising, sponsorship, hunts, and fashion.
Because of this broadening of focus, on July 31st, 2016, Windlight founder John Brianna (Johannes1977 resident) officially announced the re-branding of the title to Kultivate Magazine, which will encompass all of the brand’s existing titles and activities, including the on-line magazine, the in-world Windlight Art and Windlight Bailywick galleries, The Edge (fashion) and The Edge Gallery, The Rift, and e-publications like the Quill and Pen. Kultivate will continue to support fund-raising activities, such as the work of Team Diabetes of Second Life, and run competitions, hunts, and events such as the 30/31 Event.
The new name came about for a variety of reasons, one of which is John’s own sister, Kandis. “In establishing Windlight, I wanted to honour my late sister,” he said. “Before her passing two years ago, her love of photography student took her to Paris where she experienced growth in so many ways, including taking her abilities to new heights as she perfected her photographic craft.
“Over the last year, we’ve seen Windlight grow in many areas, and we’ve growth in so many ways to cover the broad spectrum of art in Second Life. ‘Kultivate’ was selected as our new name to both reflect our broader aim of cultivating artistic expression, and to further honour Kandis’ memory through the use of the initial K.”
He continued, “Our strong commitment to the arts will never change. We will continue to have our art shows, our galleries, and our many artistic events to bring you the resources you have grown to love and utilize. If anything we will simply expand and bring you additional resources to help you to cultivate your craft.”
For the last 12 months it has been an absolute pleasure to work with John, Eles and the team, both as a contributing writer and as a quiet advisor. During that time I’ve witnessed not only the brand grow, but also those putting in all the hard work on moving it forward grow as a team committed to the coverage of art in its broadest sense within Second Life. I’ve little doubt that this rebranding will allow further expansion and great coverage of virtual arts across the platform.
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Space Sunday: rockets, red spots, fireballs and spaceplanes
Posted on August 1, 2016 March 5, 2017 by Inara Pey
SpaceX’s plan to start down the road to their first human mission to Mars with their 2018 automated mission to the Red Planet – which NASA suggests will cost the company around US $320 million
NASA has indicated that the SpaceX Red Dragon mission to Mars, which the company plans to carry out in 2018, will likely cost around US $320 million for SpaceX to mount, ad NASA itself will spend around US $32 million over four years in indirect support of the mission.
The Red Dragon mission, first announced in April 2016, will be financed entirely by SpaceX; NASA’s costs will be related to providing technical and logistical support – such as using its Deep Space Tracking Network for communications with the vehicle.
If all goes according to plan, the Red Dragon mission could be launched as early as May 2018. It is the crucial first step along the road towards the company’s ambitions to land a human crew on Mars by the end of the 2020s. If successful, it could potentially be followed by at least three further uncrewed Red Dragon flights in 2020/22, prior to the company commencing work on building-up matériel on Mars in preparation for a crewed mission.
A SpaceX / NASA infographic outlining the 2018 mission. Credit: NASA / SpaceX
Red Dragon is the name of an uncrewed variant of the SpaceX Dragon 2 vehicle, which will enter service in 2018 ferrying astronauts to / from the International Space Station. Intrinsic to the mission is the plan to conduct a propulsive landing on Mars using the craft’s SuperDraco Descent Landing capability. This is vital on two counts.
For SpaceX, a crewed variant of the Red Dragon will likely be the Mars descent / ascent vehicle during a human mission to the planet. So understanding how it operates in the Martian atmosphere is a vital part of preparing to land a crew on the planet. NASA is similarly interested in learning how well retropropulsion works in slowing a vehicle to subsonic speeds in the Martian atmosphere, as it now looks likely they will use the same approach for their human missions to Mars, which may occur in the 2030s. Gaining the data from the SpaceX missions means that NASA doesn’t have to fly its own proof-of-concept missions all the way to Mars.
A Dragon 2 text article test-fires its eight SuperDraco engines during a hover test in 2014
Whether or not Red Dragon will fly in 2018 is still a matter of debate. SpaceX has some significant commitments and obligations on which to focus: commercial Falcon launches, resupply missions to the ISS, the start of crewed flights to the ISS, introducing the Falcon 9 into its flight operations, etc. These all tend to suggest that the development of the Red Dragon capsule, which will require some significant modifications when compared to the Dragon 2, will be subject to the company’s existing commitments taking priority over it.
In the meantime, the company plans to release more information on the overall Mars strategy, up to and including their human mission, in September.
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As the Juno space vehicle reached the farthest point from Jupiter in its first orbit around the gas giant and begins a 23-day “fall” back towards the planet, scientists on Earth may have unlocked the secret of why Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is so warm.
The Eye of Jupiter: a CGI recreation of the Great Red Spot based on observations from the Voyager spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope, and as used in the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Credit: 21st Century Fox.
Here on Earth, the atmosphere is heated by the Sun. However, despite being five times further from the Sun than Earth, the upper reaches of the Jovian atmosphere share similar average temperatures to our own when they should in fact be a lot colder. Many theories have been put forward as to why this is the case, but now a team from Boston University, Massachusetts, believe they’ve found the answer: the heating of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is the combined result of the Great Red Spot (GRS) and Jupiter’s aurorae.
The Great Red Spot is one of the marvels of our solar system. Discovered within years of Galileo’s introduction of telescopic astronomy in the 17th Century, it is a swirling pattern of red-coloured gases thought to be a hurricane-like storm raging down through the centuries in the Jovian atmosphere. Roughly 3 Earth diameters across, its winds take six days to complete one spin around its centre, driven in part by Jupiter’s own high-speed spinning about its own axis, completing one revolution every ten hours.
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“The acquisition of the majority stake in Nyquist Systems was a strategic decision. BST eltromat is now integrated into the future developments of Nyquist Systems and can thus optimally adapt the shared solution portfolio to the requirements of label and packaging printing,” says BST eltromat Managing Director Kristian Jünke, explaining his company’s motivation to increase its stake in Nyquist Systems after only one year. “The comprehensive practical experience that BST eltromat has acquired over the last few decades in the area of print inspection is now being added directly to the specialist knowledge of Nyquist Systems in the narrow web market. In combination with our other products, this results in added value based on factors such as digital networking, and helps our customers make the best possible use of their value chain.” The result is a further strengthening of the shared market leadership in quality assurance systems for web-processing production processes and, to a certain extent, is the next logical step in the intensive partnership between the two companies.
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~J-drama “Taiyou no kisetsu”, why you must watch…
How far will a grudge take you? What sacrifices would you make to fit into society? How will the cost of losing true friendships affect you? Can you persevere through the thick of it all? Just a few of the moralities explored in the Japanese drama “Taiyou no kisetsu” (“The season of the sun”). The handsome and talented Takizawa Hideaki stars alongside a talented cast including Ikewaki Chizuru, Okada Yoshinori, and Matsumoto Rio in a heartfelt drama which follows the often self tormented life of Tatsuya (Takizawa Hideaki) as he struggles with a dark past which leads to a “fake” life in which he often needs to choose between his true heart’s feelings in a battle between the need for revenge and that of ultimate redemption. This drama is true old school with every ingredient the viewer needs: the mysterious past waiting to reveal itself, an unorthodox love triangle brought upon by ironically..hate, the overbearing and eccentric mother that makes you go…eh?, a rich kid with a kind heart that ultimately leads to mixed feelings as he rivals the lead character in a way you originally couldn’t imagine…yes a twist awaits!, a rich kid you’d like to punch the living daylights out of, an overly sheltered handicapped sweet girl who’s music reaches the heart of the matter (played by Ikewaki Chizuru ♥) that makes you want to cry and you will :(, vicious corporate schemes aimed at bringing it all down, an often aloof mother of the lead character, abused ice cream cones, numerous gratuitous Tackey shower scenes…someone find him a shirt! :P, and it all comes to a head in ways which the viewer couldn’t even imagine as the drama unfolds beautifully with Tackey running for something larger than his beginnings…his self sacrifice…his malicious behavior….his heartbreak….his deception…and ultimately lead to his crying charge for redemption in the darkest of hours…will he succeed? You’ll have to watch to find out. Sure some of the characters are grossly underdeveloped but what’s not to love here?…not much. Just have the tissues ready…key the song here, hit play…
https://morningberryz48.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/02-e382ade383bbe382bbe383bbe382ad.mp3
~Takizawa Hideaki “Kiseki” mp3~
Dramas theme songs are so vital to any series and here there couldn’t possibly be a more fitting song as Tackey’s solo “Kiseki” mirrors in a very symbolic and literal way the feeling and meaning of this entire drama. Not bad as a feat for a single song as the emotions delivered in this track couldn’t be more appropriate and welcome. And it’s ability to heighten this drama’s appeal?…two fold and then some and while this drama is rather old I’ve known the theme song “Kiseki” much longer and I can’t express the magnitude of the excitement that I felt when I initially heard it playing while the menu loaded! (^o^)/!! To know a song first….love it with all of your heart….and then find out that it’s theme song for a drama that really touched you….equals pure ♥.
Here’s the DVD set that I was able to find and the production is beautiful with even the disc being picture labeled.
~Takizawa Hideaki “Kiseki” pv~
Tackey & Tsubasa “Hatachi” album (first pressing)
“Kiseki” is from Tackey & Tsubasa’s debut album titled “Hatachi” and the songwriting on this particular album is really stellar and it still remains as their best written album in my opinion…and that being true despite many favorites of mine being on later albums and singles which followed including “Ho! Summer” which still stands as my most favorite song by them overall! ^-^ Different songwriters and a really different style to “Hatachi” just makes it stand apart in so many ways
Tackey & Tsubasa’s albums, singles, and DVDs can be purchased here at Cdjapan.
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20 Responses to ~J-drama “Taiyou no kisetsu”, why you must watch…
philipleslie says:
2013年12月14日 at 11:48 pm
Thank you so much for putting me onto this excellent dorama. After promising to only watch one episode a day, to make it last, I watched three in a row yesterday. It’s completely addictive! Tatsuya, the impossibly good looking lead, is wonderfully complex, and very much a Tom Ripley character (as in The Talented Mr Ripley), infiltrating a group of well-to-do friends with an ulterior motive… I love all the characters, and they’re each memorable, from the spiteful housekeeper to beautiful and sensitive Eiko. Her mother, the failing concert pianist, is excellent too. (There’s a wonderful French film which I’m reminded of: http://www.amazon.com/The-Page-Turner-Catherine-Frot/dp/B000P6R9NK) The dorama is so well made too. At one point Tatsuya is having a heart-to-heart with Shinji and kept in shot is the teddy bear Shinji gave to Yuki, and which Tatsuya had nominated for his prize (except he was pointing at Yuki who was clutching it) after winning the pool game, saying that he wanted the thing that was dearest to Shinji. It’s Eiko who steals your heart, though, and makes you want to buy a plane ticket to go and protect her. You really feel her happiness and pain. I love that her sad piano piece is heard in the soundtrack at various moments. It gets more poignant every time you hear it. And what a great choice to use the Beach Boys songs too. The credits sequence is amazing, shot like a dream, with an incredible song. One of the best credits sequences I’ve seen.
“The Page Turner” has such a deep plot of characters and intentions too!…just reading the synopsis in reviews. I was wondering if you’d be able to hold out on just an episode a day ah I’d have caved too! Oh speaking of Tatsuya, the actor is indeed sooooooooooo handsome like I couldn’t dream up ~* a more beautiful guy!!!! That’s a perfect analogy with the ulterior motives and the depth of characters and how they interact with one another…..U~n the camera work and images are so specific and you really get so much more from those scenes as they become even more poignant in meaning with the sets images playing as characters too in a sense. Eiko….Ikewaki Chizuru~♥….so happy you’ve fallen in love with her character and she’s such an adorable sweet person too in real life…remember the Bistro episode…well I was writing there that I was wanting to up the video for that Bistro episode so that you could watch but not until after you absolutely adore her in this drama….ahhh mission accomplished =P! Theme songs heighten a drama’s appeal so much I so agree and perfect choices here…oh and as I was about to say atop here about Tatsuya….Takizawa Hideaki♥ hot Tackey!!! He sings the main theme and it really is visually orchestrated so awesome…but anyway I’ve got more Tackey to share with you….”Kiseki”‘s music video is just above in this post in case you’ve watched….? The music video itself is symbolic in its visuals and meaning as pertaining to its lyrics….such a perfect ~* song all around. How far have you’ve gotten? I imagine you may have finished it already? So happy you love the song!!!! Yes!!!
I’m still catching up on comments, I apologize so much.
I’m not the world’s most observant person, which is why I could read your post and completely miss the photo of the album cover! ‘Kiseki’ is a lovely song. Doesn’t ‘Hatachi’ mean 20 years old? As I wrote elsewhere, I have two episodes to go. I’m dreading what’s going to happen to Eiko. I also feel great sympathy for Shinji, who is (or rather was) a kind and trusting person, like Eiko. Now he’s losing everything simply by association with the bank… I see that Ikewaki Chizuru voiced The Cat Returns! while also-beautiful Matsumoto Rio is in Tokyo Friends, which is on my to-watch list. There are so many things on that list! It’s so good these shows are online.
Don’t worry about catching up with comments. It’s Christmas. Speaking of which, I will take this opportunity to wish you a Very Merry Christmas! Do Hawaiians have any interesting twists on the original Christmas recipe, or is it celebrated pretty much as on the US mainland?
ヾ(＾∇＾)おはよー♪
I can only be on for a little and by now you must think I’m the worst corrspondent….but I’m not normally this way, still I know I’ve been terrible here and I apologize so much…basically I know I’ve sucked recently..sorry.
U~n!♥ “kiseki!!!” “Hatachi” is twenty years old you are right and it’s the title of Tackey & Tsubasa’s (the other hot guy) debut album under Johnny’s. It’s an immaculate album, but more on that later. aH YEs Matsumoto Rio is here too….we’ve spoken about her at length too here haven’t we =D…
https://morningberryz48.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/searching-for-matsumoto-megumi/
She usually has a much more likeable character but okay I’m going to quote/paste you here now from your entry @ the Chizuru/Rena Bistro post:
‘I hadn’t anticipated what was going to happen in the final episode, which I watched earlier. Oh so very sad! I couldn’t believe it. Poor sweet Eiko. Her finals scenes were truly heartbreaking. I did think selfishly that it should have been Tatsuya instead, but that wouldn’t have made any sense, as he might as well have drowned after all.
Eiko’s departure aside, it did end very satisfyingly, with all the characters finding resolution of some kind; from the housekeeper to Yuki.
Now I must find another drama with Ikewaki Chizuru fully alive in it. But first I am to start with your other recommendation ‘Sekkai no Chuushin… ‘ I will launch into that tomorrow.’
First though, Christmas here is pretty much the same I think as in elsewhere…we have what we call pot~lucks thought with gatherings where everyone gets together and provides a dish or more to the celebration ~*…it’s really Hawaii custom to bring a dish/dessert when being invited but it’s more or less a universal thing isn’t it lol so perhaps only the term ‘pot luck’ is Hawaii’s own =P,
So happy you finished!!! lol that after now typing it sounds like a sexual dialogue omg sorry (*´艸`) ！Dramas can be like that where you just can’t stop watching ne~…=)~! U~n the final episodes really brought so much to a head and even with Tatsuya’s being used himself was unforseen and yet his accomplice made his own ammends in taking to the crime as his own…..it ties up everything as you’ve said and yet it’s tragic in so many ways.
For the Sun…Eiko’s song, how dramas can seamlessly make them a part of the ‘background’ and yet they’re so central in emotions and meaning of those scenes in which they are heard are poignant beyond words. From Tatsuya’s tragic prior life…his father….the suicide…his mind set…..the scheming….the bank scheme….revenge….untrue love (with Yuki) Matsumoto Rio/Megumi was so wonderful in her role throughout….you mentioned the theme and ending credits visuals….so truly artistic I agree and deeply symbolic too and isn’t it so much like Tackey’s “Kiseki” music video…..I remember wanting to take a broom so to speak to the housekeeper UGH! she was such a dislikeable character and yet she did redeem herself…her formal apology to Eiko meant a lot…..Shinjj…wow I can’t even express how much you feel for him and yet in some way you’re still rooting for Tatsuya beneath it all….he was a purely sweet and genuine heart and I’m happy that he got back with Yuki in the end as he’s such a kind hearted and when he dove in to save Tatsuya it speaks volumes of whom he is……I know he had other thoughts as to saving Tatsuya as in having him live with guilt-regret forever and still his actions were most noble….and the piano’s central theme throughout the entire drama……the piano is such an impassioned instrument…….how Eiko wrote from the heart and yet her mother was so technical with her approach…..I’m so so happy that you’ve taken to Ikewaki Chizuru~♥..she’s a gentle heart and so sweet…..adorable times a million….a great actress…..I’ll be upping her Bistro appearance with Tanaka Rena……hugs♥….I know you’ll be going away for the holidays now and I’ll miss you..really you’re the reason for me to stay here, you really are.
LOve X LOve
btw….when are we getting married =D ?
Straight away! What are traditional Hawaiian-style weddings like. I imagine there are a lot of flowers.
Mmm…there will be an abundance of flowers and there are many scenic locations here to get married at or it could be a much less formal affair which would be equally lovely. Being if I were with child I’d think it would have to be soon but as your little swimmers couldn’t possibly reach me from so far away no need to panic…(^q^)!
(Much chuckling!) I’d have to apply to become a US citizen, too. I can name quite a few of the presidents already…
That’s good, and I hear that they’ll be asking lots and lots of questions about the U.S. which many living here now have no idea of what the correct answer is…(^q^)!
こんばんは。そなは朝です。日曜日です。I think some of that might be wrong! Apologies. So lovely to hear your thoughts.A shame I missed you online just now… I too liked the distinction between Eiko and her mother, the head and the heart, as it were. I’m hoping that outside of the drama, the cousin Keihou learned to play that electric keyboard he acquired for Eiko and will write his own songs. I see the drama was based on a novel. I wonder how different it is from the adaptation…
Fear not, I won’t be far from the computer, and will be here for a while. I’m truly humbled you value our dialogue here so highly (I’m giving a very low おじぎ (?)(humble bowing) at this point). I’d feel terribly guilty though if you were to renew your WP because of me, even though your post is indispensable, and the best I’ve ever found! My big regret is not finding you earlier. I set up this blog ages ago and never used it.
Looking forward to the Bistro video a lot. Oh, and you’re far from being a terrible correspondent. It’s wonderful that you reply as much as you do, and I treasure our connection.
I love that you’re writing in Japanese here =D….so you’ve said the greeting for the evening time, here afterwards you might say it like….今は、日曜日朝です。The no particle could be used after nichiyoubi also but both would be okay =). lol yes the keyboard he worked so hard to purchase for Eiko…wasn’t that so sweet♥ of him albeit that things didn’t work out and I’m yet to me a guy whom would go running out of his own place with pillow in hand just because a girl was going to sleep in the same room as he lol….then again he nearly slept right with her didn’t he =O. Oh I hadn’t reallized it was based on an actual novel and not a script only…for the author’s sake I do hope that they kept as closely to the original writing as possible =). Oh no please no bowing….a gentle handshake or cheek pecks would be much better! Meeting someone whom truly shares interests and passions and loves to express themselves openly is inspiration ~* to me, really is…and when you blog through lots of silence (and yet a lot of silent visitors) it does make the experience of blogging a lot less fun so, no meeting you means a lot and I too do wish we’d met earlier when I was a lot more active in blogging here as I had a lot more bloggy time to spend. Thank you so much~♥!
先生、ありがとうございました。There was a spelling mistake (そな when I meant それ) in my second sentence above which I can blame upon my careless typing. I’ve just bought a new and better Basic Japanese book, which has a much better structure than the one I was battling with. I’ve had a couple of surprises over pronunciation: おりがみ I’ve discovered, should sound more like oringami (the ‘ng’ as in ‘singer’). The same for ‘manga’. I doubt if I’ll ever get beyond the basics, but then I surprise myself by understanding every so many words in a dorama….I doubt if the novel has been translated. Have you seen Sky of Love? 恋空。It stars the beautiful Arigaki Yui. That was based on a phone novel. How do phone novels work, then? Do you get a chapter at a time: like, one a day, or could you just keep on downloading and reading in one go? In that one of the characters drops to the floor to beg forgiveness (I think it was). This happens a lot in the doramas I’ve watched. Is it common in everyday life? It’s not something that’s done over here and always looks so very dramatic. It it surely the ultimate expression of sincerity to prostrate yourself.
Oh no I’m in no way qualified =P!! There are some of those nuances in pronunciation which may be odd at first but after awhile they become second nature =). Oh I’ve never heard of that title before but I do like some of Aragaki Yui’s works….phone novels are fascinating and mostly they’re through subscriptions where you’d receive them chapter by chapter so I’m thinking you may not be able to get an entire works all at once although I’m not entirely sure of that. It’s really deeply embedded into Japanese culture going back to olden days and in some circumstances it would be appropriate even in today’s business settings if the situation were extreme enough where a subordinate is asking for forgiveness/ understanding…it’s the ultimate showing of respect if one were to get down so low with head bowed deeply just as you’ve said.
You may like the Aragaki Yui movie, as I did, although I did have a slight problem believing she’d be attracted to her yankee boyfriend, and the plot has a couple of odd twists in places….I’m wondering how phone novels are chosen, and how many words they are. I’ll Google it! There might be something written on the subject in English
Oh dear! Had I forgotten to say that for “Sekai no chuushin..” please watch the movie and not the drama…omg I hope it’s not too late?
Oya~chu♥…..it’s late here…
No, not too late. The movie’s the one with the Hirai Ken theme, right? I fast-forwarded episode 1 of the drama to hear the closing theme and wondered why a different song was being used. Now I understand why!
Yay I caught you in time!! The drama version had slipped my mind but I do prefer the movie version which is a rarity as I love the length of dramas, still the movie version for its cast is just perfect~* and you get a much more powerful impression and lingering haunting from the movie version I think as it’s much more compact with the same story line more or less.
Crying Out Love… has been on my eBay Watch List for a while too. According to the blurb, the English subs are good! Looking forward to that one in the new year.
Ayase Haruka is a fave too as she’s the central female lead, awesome you found the drama version subtitled too. A few years ago she acted in a female lead version of the legendary Zatoichi series which was originally played by a male, “Ichi.” I just realized too that Osawa Takao acts in both “Ich” and in the movie version you’re about to watch =).
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521. The Temptations: “My Girl”
Posted by The Nixon Administration in The Temptations, Writing credit: Ronnie White, Writing credit: Smokey Robinson
Gordy G 7038 (A), December 1964
b/w (Talking ’Bout) Nobody But My Baby
(Written by Smokey Robinson and Ronnie White)
Stateside SS 378 (A), January 1965
(Released in the UK under license through Stateside Records)
Q. What’s the best thing about the Temptations’ My Girl?
A. Everything.
I’VE GOT SUNSHINE
If it’s strange to be reaching December ’64 on Motown Junkies whilst we’re actually in August – and what’s laughably called “summer” here in Wales, meaning “the two weeks of the year when it rains slightly less than the other fifty weeks” – then it’s doubly strange to be rummaging around Motown’s end-of-year clearance sale and suddenly find My Girl, which has always felt to me like the sound of spring becoming summer. Or the sound of the month of May, if you like.
Coming across My Girl here, in the middle of a fairly ropey run of Motown sides shoved out at the end of the year when nobody was looking, it shines brighter than ever. That first bass pulse, as familiar and comforting as a heartbeat, heralds our return to home ground, a first sighting of land after what feels like months at sea.
It’s a strangely minimalist start, quiet and repetitive; as well as providing stressed-out radio listeners with a little bit of clear air and thinking space after the detergent ads have finished, its sheer familiarity now gives it the same kind of feel as the reverent hush that falls over a congregation before dearly beloved. But then that beautiful, beautiful Robert White guitar loop kicks in, climbing the scale two steps at a time like a ladder of sunlight stretching up to heaven, and you realise that this is just a great song no matter what surrounds it. And we’re only eight seconds in.
WHAT CAN MAKE ME FEEL THIS WAY?
I could write a whole book just filled with the things I love about My Girl, and still be thinking about what was left over to put in Volume 2. Just those opening few seconds are full of things that drive me to ever more stretched similes: the tiny, tiny hint of echoing reverb on those bass strings that sound like brushed drums coming from down the hall, the finger snaps that let us know we’re among friends while still making it impossible to tell just how many people’s fingers are being clicked even after two hundred listens, the benign hiss in the air that seems to swell and breathe between each pluck of the bass. But it’s almost pointless to go through the song highlighting these things, because the beauty of My Girl is that it’s a song made of highlights.
It can be difficult trying to find new things to say about these Motown “monuments”, the iconic (in every sense) songs that everyone’s already heard so many times that they blend into the background. Doubly so with My Girl, which is perhaps the Motown song that more than any other has become part of the trans-Atlantic cultural fabric; more overplayed than even Baby Love, it’s the one song where you could play pretty much any ten-second stretch and still get people singing along.
But with My Girl, that’s kind of the point. Which is why I started this review with the question: what’s the best thing about it? And the answer is, everything. If there’s no obvious high point, no moment where you, the listener, is moved to sit down and say oh, wow, it’s because the entire song is made out of them, and limiting yourself to just one favourite bit is a pointless waste.
Plus, every great moment somehow makes every other great moment stronger. Even the one relative moment of weakness – the last ascent, the final push to the summit, as we hear the I guess you’ll say… bit for the valedictory last time, being underscored by a string section that has got ever so slightly out of hand and briefly tries in vain to compete with our boys’ vocals – feels like a deliberate mistake, like a beautiful Islamic carpet made almost imperceptibly imperfect so as not to offend those heavens we’re now gatecrashing.
WHEN IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
And still, that’s not why I love My Girl so much. No, I love this because it doubles down on its emotional impact, perhaps Motown’s best example of dovetailing form and function to emphasise both.
What am I talking about? It’s a feeling, simple to appreciate but hard to explain. The lyrics (which I’m not going to quote, but for anyone just joining us from Mars, they make up the sub headings sprinkled throughout this page) feature David Ruffin’s narrator celebrating the feelings of sheer joy that come from being head-over-heels in love, making devastatingly effective use of deceptively simple lyrical imagery. Not only do David and his fellow Temptations make us feel it too (it’s almost impossible not to smile along with his good fortune when this is playing), the song itself inspires the same kind of feeling in me: it’s exactly as cheering and warming as the feelings David’s describing, so you get a two-for-one double hit. Sunshine on a cloudy day, indeed; no Motown record has ever felt more like the perfect tool for parting those clouds.
Reading about this cold, without it playing in the background, I imagine there’s the tiniest hint of an iconoclastic rejection, an involuntary turning away from the obviousness of it all, kind of like the reaction to other ultra-overplayed Motown monoliths (as with Mary Wells’ My Guy, for instance, or the aforementioned Baby Love). But listening to this when you’re not expecting it, it’s just wonderful, something like those beautiful moments when you can actually feel the summer in the air after a rainstorm, shielding your eyes from the dazzling flashes on the wet ground even as you taste the warmth on your neck.
That’s why I love My Girl.
ALL THE RICHES ONE MAN CAN CLAIM
Poor old Ronnie White has often been airbrushed out of the history of My Girl, Midge Ure style, and so it’s worth noting Smokey was often better when he had a trusted partner, someone to mix his palette; Robinson himself has credited Ronnie with stopping him from getting too rote and cheesy when writing this song. But really, it stands as Smokey’s masterpiece to date, empirically the best song he’d yet put his name to (already a pretty hotly-contested title).
Less than a year had elapsed since the Funk Brothers had cut another majestic Smokey Robinson number, My Guy, similarly themed and similarly titled. Less than a year had elapsed since the Temptations had put months of endless, thankless, hitless toil behind them, bounding out of obscurity with another fine Smokey Robinson number, The Way You Do The Things You Do. But to listen to either of those next to My Girl, the difference is nothing short of remarkable, the band and the group both great, giant, seven-league strides ahead of where they’d been before. So it’s a foolish task to try and take any of the credit for this amazing record away from either the Brothers or the Tempts, all of whom are on the form of their lives here (not least David Ruffin, for whom this was a first single lead vocal with the group – talk about making a winning start). But if any one person deserves to be singled out, it’s Smokey Robinson.
It was Smokey who realised the mileage in writing a male “answer” to My Guy, Smokey who singled out the previously-unheralded David Ruffin as the group’s secret killer weapon, Smokey who wrote this song especially for Ruffin’s voice, riding the very edge of sweetness and sandpaper, Smokey who spent hours in the cramped, low-tech conditions of the cobbled-together Hitsville studio endlessly mixing vocal tracks down on a 3-track tape machine to make room for more ingredients, Smokey who wrote what must be the first pop hit with a string break as an instantly memorable hook – and, of course, Smokey who’d solved the problem of getting the five Temptations to sing together in the first place. To see Robinson still singing this in his live shows 50 years later, or to see him taking up half the cover of the Temptations’ second LP, the modestly-titled The Temptations Sing Smokey (above), you can’t begrudge him taking some of the glory; he earned it.
THE BEES ENVY ME
I haven’t done a full and complete count, weeding out all the doubles and re-issues, but my current estimate is that we’ll finally be done here on Motown Junkies when we reach something like review number 4150, which means we’re only one eighth of the way in. Regular readers will know that I’ll be giving just fifty of these sides top marks, ten out of ten, marking them out as my fifty personal favourites, my own highly subjective Motown 50, and that once they’re gone, they’re gone. So some people may be rolling their eyes at me wasting another precious ten on such an obvious pick. (Oh, this is getting ten, if you hadn’t guessed already. Sorry to ruin the suspense.)
But sometimes there’s just nothing else to be done. And if My Girl isn’t in your fifty top Motown tunes, I fear nothing can be done for you.
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89 thoughts on “521. The Temptations: “My Girl””
Wow! I can’t believe I am the first to comment here. Excellent review, Mr. Nixon. Yes, I agree this is a wonderful song – completely flawless, kudos to Smokey, Temptations, the Funk Bros, the janitor – whoever. Again, great! great! great! …. HOWEVER, for some strange reason I can pick maybe 20 Temptations songs that I technically like better than “My Girl”. I wonder what is wrong with me? Maybe because it has been so overplayed? Not sure. Of course, I love it everytime I hear it though for a period in the 80s when it was so overplayed I did groan a little when it came on the radio the umpteenth time. I guess the drawback of a big hit record (& wonderful record) is that it can obscure the other great work an artist has done. I guess it troubles me that the average Joe on the street can name “My Girl” but just try to mention “It’s Growing” “My Baby” or “Since I Lost My Baby” & you will probably get blank stares. I know that we MJ’ers understand but for some reason it troubles me still. So…. I realize I am getting way too analytical here. Definitely agree with your 10 but it almost bothers me that I possibly might not pick this for my desert island set. Maybe this song is so familiar that I can hear it in my mind almost perfectly. I think my quandry might be that I discovered Motown (& soul music in general) in their 1967-68 period so many of those records (particularly those of the Temptations) are very dear to me. I didn’t even hear “My Girl” until 1968 at the tender age of 10. I know just about every note of the “With A Lot Of Soul” album by heart! So this is my somewhat garbled response to this song. Hoping my Motown Junkie friends still love me! And, again, Mr. Nixion this was wonderful review & worth the wait!
My good friend, Mr Nixon, I know that apologies aren’t expected here, but please do know that I meant in no way to slight this song. As I said above, your review is excellent & spot on & this is a great song. Outside of you friends here I have little opportunity to discuss music as I do here.
We forgive! Lol. But I think you are suffering from your own diagnosis which is overplay. It happens to the best of songs.
Thanks! Been waiting for your comments lady. Saw them below. Great as always!
Bob Harlow said:
A wonderful review of a wonderful record. I would take “My Girl” over all the other Temptation singles and there are a few more 10’s there for me. This is one of the top 5 Motown Records of all time in my opinion.
Overplayed? There is a reason that “My Girl” has had so much airplay, it’s that good!
You’re right, “My Girl” is a great recording by any measure. Co-writer Robert White’s role should be illuminated. Further credit must be given to Paul Reiser, a talented Motown house arranger. It was Reiser who created the nearly perfect string and horn arrangement that really separated “My Girl” from the pack. Even insiders at Motown were knocked out by the final product. Most still are.
It is worth noting that per David Ruffin, he was thinking of his infant daughter as sang the words to “My Girl” during the recording process. Some trivia: The Tempts put their background on first then David added his lead vocal. “My Girl” was David’s first lead on a Tempts single, his first lead on a Tempts recording was “You’ll Lose A Precious Love”, written and produced by Smokey, recorded March 2, 1964, the B-side of “Ain’t To Proud To Beg”.
Smokey saw David’s talent very early on.
Finally, to what problem did Smokey solve “getting the five Temptations to sing together” do you refer?
Correction: Paul Riser
Thanks Charles. Yes, Paul Reiser is the guy from Mad About You and Aliens 🙂
Ronnie White of the Miracles was the co-writer, Robert White the immortal guitarist who played that great riff. Neither is still with us, both having passed within a few months of each other in 1994/5, but neither should be underestimated.
There’s a heartbreaking bit in the Standing in the Shadows of Motown documentary where one of his fellow Funks (I can’t remember who offhand – Eddie Willis, possibly?) relates a story of him and Robert eating in a restaurant in the mid-80s and hearing My Girl strike up on the radio; White started to excitedly tell the waitress “that’s me!”, and then abruptly stopped, and when his friend asked why, he said he’d sound like just another crazy old man to be humoured. It’s just crushing.
Anyway. It’s a great arrangement, and Paul Riser is a twice-over Motown great for both his arranging and his trombone work – check out this fantastic and fascinating lecture he gave in Madrid last year! – but I’m fundamentally uncomfortable flat-out crediting him with writing the string and horn parts he arranged, just because there’s so much of a thin and blurry line between arranger and composer, and it’s always maddeningly unclear how much was him and how much was the credited writer/producers – even in that lecture, he goes from saying “credit where credit is due”, saying how meticulous Smokey and Stevie Wonder were (“every beat was put in there on purpose”), and how his work was just “a little icing on the top”, and then almost in the same breath points out how “un-funky” Smokey was, and claims the Temptations hated the song until he got his hands on it and fixed it, which doesn’t ring true at all. So, um, who knows? It’s a great arrangement whoever wrote it, but this is Smokey’s show.
You’re quite right about this not being David’s first lead vocal, I didn’t realise You’ll Lose A Precious Love (of which more later) predated this – I’ve amended the review accordingly.
As for the last bit, it’s my contention the early Tempts’ harmonies (’61-’64) are often chaotic and lacking discipline until Smokey gets involved and sorts out their vocal chart arrangements – check out some of the earlier reviews where I expound on this in much more detail. The best metaphor I could come up with was the bit in Ben Hur where Charlton Heston puts the brilliant but disorganised chariot horses in the right order and they suddenly become champions…!
Wow! I didn’t realize that Mr. Riser arranged this. Add him to my list of thank yous, and add both Mr. Whites as well! Cheers!
Quick, name the finest sides you can think of issued by Presley, Lennon & McCartney, Phil Spector or Brian Wilson, and “My Girl” is instantly their equal. If there’s something that makes, for instance, “Love Me Tender,” “Yesterday,” “Be My Baby” or “God Only Knows” greater masterpieces, go ahead and make the argument. I’ll wait.
Today, you can still make your way through secondary Temptations’ sides like “Runaway Child Running Wild” and “Don’t Let The Joneses Get You Down,” but after all these years, they have the unmistakable under taste of soap opera. “Psychedelic Shack,” no loser, nevertheless, is a period relic, as though someone dug up a time capsule. Even the otherwise unassailable “Cloud Nine” and “Ball of Confusion,” here and there, have musical and lyrical points that pin them to an era one knows is gone, and not coming back.
Not “My Girl.” Never “My Girl.” Five generations after we’re all dead, young people in love for the first time –especially young men- will effortlessly take this song to their hearts as robustly as the public did when 1965 was dawning. What the Taj Mahal is to architecture, what the Mona Lisa is to art, what the aurora borealis is to natural wonders, “My Girl” is to records. A “10” if there ever was one.
“Five generations after we’re all dead, young people in love for the first time –especially young men- will effortlessly take this song to their hearts as robustly as the public did when 1965 was dawning.” Dave L — I certainly hope so my friend!
Wow! Wonderful commentary Dave L. I was tempted to try to make an argument with “Be My Baby” — excellent song it is, but it doesn’t have that timeless quality of which you speak of.
ThinPaperWings said:
I think it’s certainly worth a 10/10, though it is certainly overplayed. Fortunately I wasn’t personally overexposed, and for that I’m grateful.
Without doing a survey of all the Temps singles, I think the construction of the chorus is pretty unique. David sings an ascending melody line, and at the peak, it unfolds like a flower, with each Temp (or 3 of the 5, anyway) repeating the title, then folding back together underneath David for the ‘whoa-oh-oh-oh’ as he resumes the lead (and they echo him to finish it all off.) Quite an arrangement and quite unlike anything else in their catalog, or any other Motown songs for that matter, though you might argue that the seed of that idea was there in ‘Too Many Fish in the Sea.’ They certainly traded leads a lot more on the more psychedelic material, but not quite like this.
And I think it’s worth pointing out from a musical standpoint that the key change is extremely well used here. It’s as if the narrator’s singing of the song has taken his affection to an even greater extreme, and the musical lead-in is seamless.
My friend, another good “brief lead vocal trade off song” is “Its You That I Need” by the Tempts. Everybody gets to chant the title (even Otis). It is a wonderful song. And yes friends, please believe me, despite my rambling diatribe above I do love “My Girl”! It is playing as I write this!
Of course, one more “lead vocal trade off” song which actually came before “Fish” & “My Girl” is “Breathtaking Guy” by the Supremes. Back to the Tempts, I thought the traded lead vocals motiff worked well with some of the psych-soul stuff & not so much in others. I am the first one to admit that the whole psych-soul sound wore very thin to my fragile ears very quickly but of course we are light years away from that!
Great shoutout to the Supremes Grandpa Landini! Lol
Smokey Robinson will turn 25 the following February, and “My Girl” is the first in what was almost surely the busiest year of his life, and maybe his most creative.
In addition to some of the most striking compositions and productions Motown ever knew, Smokey will spend the year not only propping up his own group, but The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Brenda Holloway, and soon enough again, The Marvelettes. When you factor in his television and concert schedule as well, he might very well have been busier than Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Today, he probably looks back on this period and wonders how the hell he did it. Smokey’s Motown vice-presidency was no gift – he earned it.
My friend Dave L. I woke up this morning a little embarrassed by my ramblings from yesterday. Good thing I’m not a politician! I do love this song. I have included several mea culpas. I also know that I am amongst friends here so I feel free to give my views no matter what they are. My own friends that I hang around with are the absolute best as far as friendship, etc but I really cannot discuss music with them as I do with you dear friends here at MJ. So thank you. And no offense to anyone here was intended in the least.
As example of people’s (outside of MJers) ignorance about Tempts/Motown, I recently had a very well intentioned young man tell me how much he like “Build Me Up Buttercup” by the Temptations! I had to very gently correct him.
By the way, I am so impressed that a talented singer such as Mr. Robinson had the foresight to give his song to Mr Ruffin & his co-horts rather than be tempted (No pun intended) to keep it for himself. In one of my crazy alternate universe scenarios I wonder what would have happened had Smokey & his fellas recorded the song first. Hmm… I mean Smokey’s great and all that but I wonder… Of course, I do know that Smokey got around to recording his own version of “My Girl” on the Miracles ‘Time Out” album. His version is pleasant but even there he wisely chose not to try & recreate the Temptations arrangement.
One more thing & I promise I’ll shut up. in 1998 the Tempts slyly referenced (or sampled) a bit of “My Girl” in their comeback hit “Stay” (not the Maurice Williams song). Cheers & best to all!
Imagine how happy the Motown Christmas party of 1964 must have been. Despite the sting of losing Mary Wells, the Tempts knew this beauty was on its way to radio and stores, the Tops had finally broken through, the Vandellas had an anthem-ish masterpiece, every new single of Marvin’s was gathering more fans, and the Supremes had three consecutive number ones. There couldn’t have been a frown in the building. 🙂
Well said … and Smokey & his guys are about to have a banner year in the hit singles department!
Unless you were in the Marvelettes, maybe.
Why would the Marvelettes be sad? They’ve got a big hit with “Too Many Fish in the Sea”.
Well, one fleeting appearance in the Top 30 three months ago (all they’d have to show for a year and a half of work) isn’t really what you’d call commercial success, certainly not compared to what the other marquee Motown acts mentioned were doing – and their next single wasn’t slated to come out for another four months again, long after the rest of the acts Dave listed had had new material out, which shows the kind of faith the company had in them. Brilliant though it is, I’d struggle to really call Too Many Fish a “big hit” in the context of the other breakthroughs Dave mentioned, and there’s no denying they were visibly slipping down the label’s pecking order.
Grandpa Landini I think you may be amused to know this but my favorite cover of “My Girl” is Dolly Parton’s “My Love”. Am no way am I saying it’s better or just as good as, but Dolly makes it totally Dolly lol. It’s very sweet & enduring. She made it during the late 70s when she was trying to crossover.
I also like Dennis Edward’s version he did on the “My Guy/My Girl” mashup.
I love Dolly P Damecia! I’ll have to check this out!
From “The Temptations” Otis Williams, in his own words, as the group comes to this point:
[“ The year 1964 closed on a high note not only for us but for everyone at Motown. The Supremes racked up three number-one records in a row, then became the first Motown act to appear on national television when they debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was exciting to see our friends on a program we watched every Sunday. When the Supremes made that historic appearance, they represented not just themselves but everyone at Motown. As they would in several other areas, the Supremes blazed a trail the rest of us would follow, and we were all very proud. There were plenty of great female singers around Hitsville, and some truly fine-looking ones, too. But, as the world discovered, Diane, Flo, and Mary were born to this; they had ‘it,’ or as we’d say, the Jim Johnson. They were stars. Meanwhile, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, and the label’s latest signing, the Four Tops, kept spinning out the hits. After “Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)” charted in the twenties, we were looking for the next tune.
Back home in Detroit, Smokey Robinson caught our act at the Twenty Grand one evening. One of our numbers featured each of us singing a part. The title of it escapes me, but I do remember that we brought the house down with it. After we came offstage that night, Smokey approached us and, pointing directly at David, said, “I’ve got a song for you.”
It turned out to be a tune Smokey and Ronnie White had written and planned to cut with the Miracles. It was midtempo ballad with a pretty, sweet melody. From the first line – “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day / When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May” – we knew we had something very special. That fall, during a run at the Apollo, Smokey came to New York to work with us in our dressing room between shows. He taught us to sing the parts as he heard them and perfect those intricate harmonies. On November 17 we recorded “My Girl” in Detroit. It was David’s first lead on a single.
We recorded our vocals over a basic track, so what we heard was basically bass, drums and guitar. Smokey worked up those lush string parts with Paul Riser, a classically trained musician who wrote most of the orchestral music on Motown records. We listened in the studio as Smokey added the “sweetening,” and by the time he was finished with the mix, it was the most gorgeous, magical love song I’d ever heard. There was no question in our minds that we had the big one here.” ]
“The Temptations,” Otis Williams with Patricia Romanowski, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
Ed Pauli said:
10/10—yes Nixon, I wholheartedly agree for probably the only time-as for David L–My Girl is better than any Presley record save for the ones on that funny looking yellow label with musical notes and a chicken if it is on a 78 RPM!!
The only other records in the entire universe that I liked more than My Girl were—Be Bop A Lula, IN the Still of the Nite , and Bo Diddley
To me, My Girl is the epitome of all things Motown–the beat, the lyrics, the music , the harmonies–and the only other record besides Chuck Berry that they could;ve sent into outer space
gregory said:
Yes If There Ever Is A 10/10 this is it!!!!as usual a “A” class review!!!!! This is the perfect temptations record!!!!
We finally agree! A perfect 10/10. Despite being overplayed. It’s still my favourite Temptations’ song, and, at least tied for favourite Motown song, and favourite song of any kind.
My friend Robb. A definite 10. I thank my fellow MJ’ers for allowing my somewhat stumbling perspective from above. In no way did I intend to slight this song in the least. I’m just wired funny when it come to music. I probably need at 2 or 3 types of Motown favorites lists for my obsessive-compulsive personality (& yes “My Girl” would be on one or more of those!) Hey! if it helps, I’ll ask my doc to adjust my meds. LOL!!!!
Blank Frank said:
Nixon, as perfect as this song is, your review matches it. Both are 10/10. Thank you
Beautiful review & wonderful comments on a wonderful song! Thanks Nixon & everyone – especially Dave L for the Otis Williams piece – fascinating! I love this song, and I love the Temptations – if I were Nixon, they’d get a heavy share of my 10s. I can’t wait to hear what brother John has to say!
Yes, dear Mary, I am also interested in what John has to say. He is the classical guy isn’t he? I am sure he will have some good perspective on this wonderful song. Hopefully more coherent than my stumbling statements from above! Have a wonderful day!
Thanks, Landini, he is indeed the one, and is madly working on commissions before meeting up with the rest of us siblings next week – I can’t imagine anything else holding him up.
The cruel hand of fate decided to trash my modem and exile me from the internet just as ‘My Girl’ appeared. And, oh, what a feast of eloquence it inspired, from Nixon, and from everyone here. The ‘classical guy’ recognizes a classic when he hears one! – While fully recognizing the greatness of a song like ‘Satisfaction’… well, I’m tempted to echo the great Marianne Moore here: ‘Satisfaction is a lowly thing/ how pure a thing is joy…’ (I don’t really think that ‘Satisfaction’ is lowly – but My Girl’s joy trumps anybody’s frustration, no matter how vigorously embodied.) Sheer benevolent floating affectionate artistry, and ageless like Mozart. I can certainly empathize Landini, coming to the Tempts at the time of ‘With a Lot O’ Soul’ – another very nearly perfect album – but this is a summit – at the Himalayan altitude where comparisons are pointless – it’s at the very top. And Nixon, your prose is beautiful music itself, once again rendering full and exuberant justice to this immortal song. – And I realize that I’VE NEVER HEARD THE FLIP SIDE!!
My friend John, Your comments have made my day! Thank you so much. Like you, I never heard the b side until yesterday on YouTube. I will wait until Friend Nixon gets to it before commenting. Thank for your confirmation of WALOS album. What a great album! It is so funny, my sophomore year in college (back in 1977) I had a roomie who was a classical guy who listened to classical almost exclusively. We had a great time – he would patiently listen to my pop/soul/rock records & I would listen to his classical stuff & we would compare notes. Many times when I get burned out with music I tend to put a classical station on in my car or wherever. It is a great way to cleanse the pallete so to speak! Have a great weekend my friend!
Beautiful commemtary John = )
So this is the single everyone’s been holdimg they’re breathe for? I’m glad I didn’t know it would be next or I would’ve been just as anxious as everyone else lol.
10/10 there’s no argument here. My Girl is truly one of those timeless records that music critics & people who aren’t so certified to talk about music (you know the ones on those crappy 100 greatest songs countdown shows) speak of. My Girl is the type of song that makes me feel nostalgic for era I never known. Just as Steve D. mentioned above its impossible to pin point a favorite part of this song. Just when I think its the bass in the intro, then I think no it’s David, then I think no it is THOSE fingersnaps, then I think it is the rest of the Tempts in the background,
point a favorite part of this so. Just when I think it is the bass in the intro, then I think no David really makes this record, then I think no its the rest of the Temps, then no the string breakdown is really my favorite part.
Hey Damecia, Give a listen to the Tempts’ 1998 “comeback” hit called “Stay” & see if you hear the “My Girl” vibe running through it. And yes, Smokey & Ronnie got a partial writing credit – very much deserved! I normally don’t go in for “sampling” but “Stay” is a splendid song which captures the “My Girl” spirit in a very un-cheesy way.
I listened to “Stay” & they sampled “My Girl” well. How cool is that? A group.samplimg.their own music lol. Pretty dope if you ask me. Off subject but I love when Madonna makes reference to her hits in her new songs lol. It may be cocky, but move like this prove how strong a catalog The Tempts & Madonna have. Back to the song, I really like it…it real smooth = )
Abbott Cooper said:
James Brown was the undisputed champion of personal past hits referencing.
Agreed, Damecia! I’ve been playing the song in my head since yesterday, and I keep saying it’s THAT part – no, wait it’s THIS one, arrggh, it’s that bit, and so on. I’ve brought the album into work today, but I don’t expect that I’ll be able to solve that particluar conuundrum – sure will enjoy the attempt, though!
Hi Mary, this is from Landini…. Please tell your brother that we are waiting for his comments. Thanks! And thanks for your insights as well. Have a wonderful day & weekend!
Oops Sorry Just read your comments above re. your bro…. Hope you all have a wonderful time together! Cheers!
He’s posted in reply to ours above – and does not disappoint!
Hi Miss Mary! It’s great to hear from you = )
Hi Again Miss D, Have a busy day ahead but thought I’d add some more comments. Just re-read your comments & you might have hit upon something that I was incoherently rambling about up above re. “My Girl”. I agree that so many pompous rock critics love to heap praise on “My Girl” & other classics (& RIGHTFULLY SO) but you are right, many times they don’t really understand the music & they ignore other great music by those same artists. Here at MJ, we can heap praise on the classics like “My Girl” & “My Guy” etc but we can also appreciate songs like “Dream Come True” or “Run Run Run” or “You Lost the Sweetest Boy” and.. WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT! Funny too, back in the late 60s many of those same pompous critics were very reluctant to praise Motown music & nowadays they tend to go overboard in their praise at the expense of ignoring other great music. Anyway… I’ll shut up now…. Have a great day & Labor Day Weekend!
That is funny! Lol. I cant stand those types of critics. Im so glad Steve D. allows us MJ’ers to disagree with him. Not only does hr respond with reasoning but he sometimes changes his mind a bit.
Like you i’m also glad that I can come on here.& talk with everyone. My friends only know a little about music and that’s only.current music. It really is a joy for me to come here & talk about what I know, state my IMHO’s & learn.from you cool people. Lol. = )
Why not? Let’s feel a little sorry for ourselves too -with this record as our best excuse- that the hand of fate couldn’t keep this classic line-up of the group together at least a decade. As it was, we didn’t even get five full years.
When reading “The Temptations,” and when 1968 arrives, one sorely wishes there was a respected show business legend that could have coaxed Ruffin to listen to less of his ego, and put forth workable ideas that would provide added recognition without destroying the ‘one among equals’ sense that helps groups stay together. I would not have been bothered with a subscript line on the 45s that said “featuring David Ruffin” underneath “The Temptations,” even though we all knew by then if we were hearing him, Eddie or Paul.
And, again from the book, one gets the sense Berry didn’t inject himself very far into the turmoil and just let a majority opinion within the group make the call, but the other four members could hardly have been unemotional or objective about the tension. That’s completely different from how Berry was in the middle of every unhappy instance in the Supremes. Soon enough too, when they’re down to a trio, similar turmoil comes to The Marvelettes.
I’ll always wonder if things might have gone differently, if there’d been some interested, old-hand show business veteran and friend of Motown about to coax these young performers to more intently consider the long view.
Well said my friend!
Great observation about Berry. I recently made the same. I saw an interview with Eddie Kendricks before he died & he said he only talked to Berry 3 times! IMO Berry needed Diana Ross & The Supremes just as much as they needed him. No fool he is, so I guess it’s safe to.say he knew.what.group.mattered most.
Sorry guys i’m typing on a phone and I have somewhat long nails, so please excuse any misspellings or run on sentences = )
I forgot to mention in my first comment the wonderful job Steve D. has done writing this review. A 10/10 should go to you too =)
Of course a “10,” not even the slightest question there. I agree with everything that’s been said about this iconic record. But… each time I hear it, the line “I guess you’ll say” bugs me. “What can make me feel this way?” is a question, so it should be, “I guess you’ll ask” — but of course that doesn’t rhyme. I’m sure Smokey thought and thought about a way to get around this — and I’m not saying I know another word that would have worked (you’d have to fix the subsequent rhyme) — but it still stands out every time I hear this. I think, “Man, this would be absolutely perfect if that one line were fixed!!” I know most would say this is nitpicking a work of art, and maybe it’s the famous flaw every work of art needs to truly be memorable.
Hi Nick!
Was English/Grammar your.favorite subject in school? Lol
Ha! I don’t know if t was my favorite subject, but it was the only one at which I got good grades!
Hey Nick, I’M the stickler for grammar! I’m known as “the grammar policeman” on Soulful Detroit Forum. I’m appalled at the pitiful condition of the so-called English language written on The Internet (especially by Americans and Brits (but even by many Canadians)) these days. It bears almost no resemblance to the English we spoke and wrote in Canada and USA during the time I grew up (1940s and 1950s). And yet, even I, give Smokey, accomplished wordsmith that he is, poetic license to come up with words that rhyme and flow nicely off the tongue when sung, to make a song work.
Having tried my hand at songwriting (and especially lyric writing) I can appreciate the fact that proper grammar and word order must often be sacrificed to come up with a workable tune. Isn’t the license to change word order and “bend” grammar usage a bit one of the main tools of poetry (and, thus, songwriting)?
Yes, you ARE nitpicking in this instance. I think Smokey did a great job on choosing these lyrics, and matching them to the tempo and resultant phrasing timing requirements of this song, matching the words to the music.
My opinion for what it’s worth is that you can SAY “What can make me feel this way?” as an alternative to merely THINKING it.
Far be it from me to second-guess Smokey, Robb! Totally agree with you comments.
Nick, if you can slightly change your interpretation of the lyric to “I guess you’ll say [that] what can make me feel this way [is] my girl”, then that might solve your problem.
LOL! I suffer the curse of being an ex-English teacher. This one never struck me as strange (but it does now that you’ve brought it up). The one Motown grammar mangle that stands out for me is “Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my sadness hid.”
Just imagine how “klunky” and off-tempo songs would sound if they ALL had to be written with proper grammatical usage and using the optimum current conventional word order (e.g. no artistic license allowed)! I’m a stickler for proper grammar, and yet, “Just Like Pagliacci did, I’ll keep my sadness hid” is among my favourite lyric half-stanzas of all time (and I’ve listened to over a million vocal songs in my 66 years).
I’m so old that my English is no longer conventional. If someone sang “I could care less” when he meant “couldn’t care less” I’d have a beef. Not allowing grammatical changes because the basic meaning is changed (as in “Could care less”) is reasonable. Not allowing artistic license when the meaning is discernible, is not!
My favorite is within Eddie Holland’s “If Cleopatra Took A Chance” where we hear, “In the history books, you’ll find, kingdoms have been TOOK.” We have up to 3 composers to blame for that one, none of whom is Mr. Holland. Every time I hear that line, I feel sharp pain in my gut, followed, not by a grimace, but a chuckle because it sounds so crazy.
I’ve been racking my brain since Wednesday to think of something pertinent to say about “My Girl”, but can’t think of a darn thing except for 10/10. Great review too.
This is at once excruciating and laughable: how safe, sanitary, white(!), and out of touch the Grammy Awards were back in this time. Have a look, the winners for 1964 material:
http://littleurl.info/hnp
Thanx for posting this! This is funny to see
Randy Brown said:
There were more black winners in the Classical category than in the Pop category! That was an era when Leontyne Price was an almost automatic winner (I think 4 or 5 years straight), and Marilyn Horn got an award that year, too. And look at Roger Miller almost sweeping the Country division with a song that few people remember today…and a black man, Charley Pride, would win an award in that category in 1972.
Motown’s Grammy debut would come a few years later with a highly unlikely record. Given NARAS’ tendency to reward million-sellers, it’s shocking that Motown didn’t get any props until 1968.
Yes Nixon, an awesome review!! This is one of those iconic songs that helped make The Motown Sound a pop culture mainstay and for generations to come. Yes, 10/10 definately. A major home run for Smokey, Ronnie White, Paul Riser and all those talented people that worked at 2648 West Grand Blvd in Detroit Michigan..”Hitsville”
Yes, the song has been over played partly because I worked on air at various Oldies Stations in major markets here in the states..”My Girl” is still being played 48 years later because it is great! I have their Box Set, Emperors of Soul which contains the song “My Girl” with the Vocal Track in clear. You can still hear the music track in the background, coming from the engineers production glassed in studio which is just above from where the artists record their vocals..
I also read earlier on this thread reguarding The Tempations “With A’ lot O’ Soul” LP from 1967 which to me was another Motown masterpiece…”(I Know) I’m Losing You”
“All I Need” “Your My Everything” “Loneliness Made Me Realize(It’s You That I Need)” and various other cuts from that Album..Wow!!
Ron, thank you for another confirmation for WALOS. Is it okay with everyone if I take that to my desert island with “My Girl” added on? LOL!
If as most of us agree that the song is a ten, then the best that any song could hope for is 9.9999999999999999999………………..Listening to the many other versions that are out there, from the Beatles to Otis, to the co-writer of this song. It is the most gorgeous track from beginning to end ever!. While the string break that continues into the last verse rarely fails to make the hairs stand up on my aging arms, when you think there isn’t any more that can be added, how about the sax closing out the verse, subtle as thunderclap. At the time of release I lived in a Classical Music household, being 10 years old I did have friends fortunately, which is how I heard the song, though I was mostly attracted by the aforementioned string break. We have been blessed by the vocal only track on the Tempts 5 Disc compilation from the mid nineties, where hearing the backing vocals is truly mind blowing. When you consider that the Tempts were also executing some pretty nifty moves on the stage as well as singing these harmonies. Game Over!
I have Emperors of Soul too 🙂 and wasn’t it a wonderful surprise? Nowhere on the packaging does it tell you it’s there; you just think disc 1 is done and -oh my God!- there it is. Acapella “My Girl.”
It’s early, Nixon, but someday, I bet we’d all like to hear what your favorites are among your own reviews. Motown 1965 essentially begins with “My Girl,” and I suspect there will more joy to express in those reviews than in any other one year.
I needed Motown to unwind to in those years. Sept. 1964 to June 1966 were my last two years in Catholic parish school in Philadelphia. We were taught by the St. Joseph order of nuns who still wore the penguin outfits. I was plenty intimidated by them then, but from the viewpoint of 58, I realize Sister Joseph Gertrude and Sister Maria Sancta had to be -as anyone would- rather formidable presences to control a room of 40 boys on the cusp of adolescence, day after day. Any soft side to them had doled out sparingly and carefully. A starched and pressed long-sleeve white shirt every day, and I knew how to put my own necktie on in 20 seconds.
But when I got home, there were the Supremes, Vandellas, Temptations, Four Tops and all the others who made sure childhood was something I’d always treasure. Bring it on, Motown 1965.
Ironically Dave L. we were both among the residents of what was then the nations fourth largest city. And what a nice way to begin the school year in Sept. 1964 with our beloved baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies historic train wreck at the end of the season. Lesson learned at age 9, it ain’t over till it’s over, with apologies to Lenny Kravitz
I agree, that 1965 was the best Motown year, though it is nearly impossible to get a copy of the Hipo Select Motown Singles Collection for 1966, copies of 1965 are pretty much readily available.
Also, Nixon, all of your reviews are outstanding, even for records I don’t particularly care for, but this was a review that was worthy of a 10!
Just listened to all the assorted versions I have. Instrumental – no vocals by the Funk Brothers. Without lead vocals (but with back up). A cappella. In each of those separate slices, there are wonders. Listening to all “glued together”: perfection!
It’s also fun to discover the slight variations in all the versions (for example, lengths ranging from 2:40 to 3:10; live version recorded at the Fox Theater). And then checking out the covers (Marvin Gaye, Human Nature, The Royal Philharmonic, Mamas & Papas) to hear how dramatically they pale relative to the original)!
Your review is a 10 out of 10. Wonderful!
Hi — Interesting to note that “My Girl” is not included in 2 of the group’s later Live albums “Copa” & “London’s Talk of the Town”. It is included in a medley in the “Live in Japan” set from 1973 which wasn’t officially released until recently. I saw the Temptations in 1970 in Washington,DC at the Carter Baron Ampitheater & have very little memory of the show (I was 12 at the time!). I am racking my brain to remember if they did “My Girl” as a full song or as part of a medley or at all! I remember a lot of show tunes/standards & of course, a few of their then current psychedelic soul hits. Was anyone at that show & if so, what are your memories of it?
Surely the best Xmas present ever (this was released 12/26/64) and worthy of that “10”. But I always hold out for the NEXT Tempts A-side…
Rupert Kinnard said:
There are very few things that can bring a smile to my face like hearing the opening notes to “My Girl” by The Temptations. I can never think about such greatness in terms of being “overplayed.”
Everything about that record strikes me as perfect and as joyous a celebration of love as any recording ever made. The first sounds of the bass guitar as the happy beating of a heart, followed by finger snapping, beautiful melody… and then, with delightful
urgency, David Ruffin’s startling voice cutting through everything with the great line,
“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day…”.
The sweetness of the background vocals are the cherries on top of the sundae. The production is as epic as any record ever recorded. It is one of the seven wonders of my world.
I would add, however, that it is profoundly ironic that my least favorite of all the 20 versions of My Girl that I own, is Smokey and the Miracles’ version of the song. I think it is rare that I don’t care for a Smokey performance…but I was shocked when I bought the album Time Out for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles when it was first released in 1969 and heard Smokey’s rendition of his masterpiece! He butchered his own song! What say you, Nixon?
Mr. Kinnard, I wonder if Mr Robinson (great as he was) was astute enough to realize that he could never beat the Temptations version and probably just threw together his arrangement to fill up the album. I am not sure if Motown/Smokey/Temptations quite realized what a classic they had on their hands until many years later. Just my thoughts.
Yes…I guess you could be right. As far as straying away from the actual arrangement of the original, I actually found Michael Jackson’s rendition of My Girl to be quite delightful. I think Stevie Wonder’s version is my second favorite and I love the mellowness of Marvin’s version, which doesn’t even seem to have the Funk Brothers as the backing band….
Yeah… all those versions are good. I was listening to an Eddie Floyd collection yesterday & he did a version of “My Girl”. Of course, nothing can touch the Temptations’ version, but Eddie’s version gives an interesting Southern Soul spin on the song. Of course, there is Otis Redding’s version which is in a class all by itself.
10 out of 10, indeed…for the Tempts version!!!!!!
Governor Milton P. Shapp said:
There are records that are incapable of being overplayed, and this is one of them. There is so much going on here musically and emotionally that every time I hear this it’s like the first time. Smokey deserves every accolade that can be (has been) thrown at him. America’s greatest poet indeed.
A friend of mine says the string arrangement on this makes her cry. I know what she means. The little melody after they sing “My Girl” toward the end before the fade sounds just like how it feels to be with that one person who can turn your life into springtime. It’s the accumulation of those kind of little details that make this record the wonder that it is.
If I were forced at gunpoint to change something, I might vote for leaving out the “hey hey heys”. But it would have to be at gunpoint.
Heh heh heh…nope! The “Hey, hey, heys” are such a part of the celebratory aspect of the song and the background’s support of the song’s central theme…it has to stay. Sorry…
I agree. The “hey, hey, heys” must stay.
…then it’s settled!
Jim Riley said:
No other song can make me feel 15 again in a heartbeat the way this one does. That’s 43 years off my age the moment it starts!
Super duper ten out of ten! Though released at the end of the year it road out into the early spring of 1965 so my early memories of this song playing include toe-tapping patent leather shoes from guys with real high “conks” and cardigan sweaters and pants high enough to see nylon socks, long Cadillacs with whip antennas with the radio blasting “My Girl”, and the Temps suddenly making a lot of TV appearances. I studied them so close that as soon as this song comes on i can fall right into the choreography for “My Girl”!
10/10 no doubt.
1. Now we get two thematic riffs in counterpoint!
2. A brilliant instrumental bridge with new material (forward-looking to God Only Knows) that leads to a whole step modulation – not as clever as the one in Baby I Need Your Lovin’ but still a legitimate non-cliché modulation. After shaking off the MOR lounge lizardiness of Tin Pan Alley ez listening vocals, pop has finally re-evolved to encompass, on its own terms, the massively horizon-expanding idea of changing key.
3. The brass fanfares almost inarguably influenced McCartney circa 1967.
4. Now this is what I call an “answer song” – other than the title it’s all new, all fabulous, all hooks.
“The ever popular Temptations have a real smoothie and a winner here that flows effortlessly along with a really polished production and performance from the quintet. Fast rising in the US, with sufficient plugs it could happen here too. Faintly reminiscent of the Miracles in technique and presentation. 4/5
“Nobody But My Baby is more troubled with a moody piano weaving in and out of the melody. 3/5
“Two very good sides from a fine group.”
[Dave Godin, Hitsville U.S.A. 2, 1965]
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How did Daenerys manage to turn up at King's Landing
In Game of Thrones S8E4, Daenerys went to Dragonstone with her court and the Unsullied when...
Her fleet is attacked by Euron, Rhaegal killed, Missandei captured and (at least a part of) her fleet destroyed.
We see Tyrion and Varys have a discussion on Dragonstone. Some unspecified time later they turn up with Daenerys and some Unsullied at the gates of King's Landing. I am aware that Dragonstone is both, close to King's Landing and not for away from the continent. But...
Even if Daenerys has some ships left, it is clear that Euron's fleet is in control of the waters around Dragonstone and Drogon is of limited use in defending against them. It seems unlikely that Euron will allow even a part of Daenerys' army to leave the island. It seems also unlikely that Tyrion, Varys, Grey Worm and about 100 Unsullied have been riding on Drogon one-by-one to the continent (without leaving an option to quickly retreat to Dragonstone).
Considering that the travel to King's Landing is shown off screen, there seems to be an obvious way how she could have made it there. What am I missing?
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I can't find a suitable dupe right now, but this has long been a feature of both the series & the books. Time gets pushed & pulled; journeys, unless something significant happens on them, are simply skipped. She probably marched there, taking however many weeks it takes to move an army - but it's simply not important to the plot. – Tetsujin May 8 '19 at 9:07
@Tetsujin: My point is that they have to first get off the island. How would they do that when they don't control the sea that surrounds it? This would need more than just boarding a bunch of ships and sailing to the continent. They have to get past Euron's fleet first. – Sefe May 8 '19 at 9:11
@Sefe Considering there was a meeting presumably Euron let them through. – TheLethalCarrot May 8 '19 at 9:31
Fans have come up with estimates of distances - Dragonstone to Sharp Point 100m, Sharp Point to King's Landing 320m. That's a lot of sea to be watching. Though, tbh, how the scripts have been running since we ran past the end of the books, I'd just say "plot got them there.' Distances & interactive map not quite up to date but fun. – Tetsujin May 8 '19 at 9:46
She was on her way to get coffee. – AJFaraday May 8 '19 at 15:37
It may have been intentional (not killing them all, allowing them to come to Kings Landing), as she wanted to send "her people" (the people living inside the Red Keep) a message and is ultimately working to set-up Dany.
As I attempted to answer on this question, Why didn't Cersei kill Dany, Tyrion, and the rest of the others?, there was a heavy implication in various dialogue exchanges throughout the episode concerning Dany and the burning down of King's Landing and one instance featuring Cersei, was about wanting Dany to come to her AND that she wants Dany to burn down Kings Landing, killing thousands of innocent lives to make Dany look like a villainous usurper.
Cersei specifically asks Qyburn if her "message" was well-received. The following is Cersei's exchange with Qyburn and Euron after Euron's attack, showing Cersei's intent.
8.04 Transcript: (Emphisis Mine)
Cersei: Our message was well received then?
Qyburn: Your people would have heard the usurper is coming. They are grateful for your protection within the walls of the red keep.
Cersei: You're certain about the dragon?
Euron: I saw it sink beneath the waves.
Cersei: That must have been glorious.
Euron: The glory is yours, my Queen.
Cersei: When the war is won the Lion shall rule the land, the Kraken, the sea, and one day our child shall rule them all.
Euron: She's coming for you.
Cersie: Of course she is. Keep the gates open. If she wants to take the castle she'll have to murder thousands of innocent people first.
This seems like a better explanation than the weakness of the Iron Fleet. The one issue that I have is that Dany doesn't know this and so she has to calculate with the fact that the Iron Fleet will not let her come to the mainland or that her people will not make it back to Dragonstone (she is safe since she can go back with Drogon). Would she take that kind of risk for such a meeting? – Sefe May 8 '19 at 14:15
It was definitely a risk, but I don't doubt Dany's affection for Messandie either. All of the characters (except for Jon) are basically falling apart and are not making rational decisions IMO and I think this is intentionally thematic: ignorance out of greed and false piety. I hope the mythology elements make a comeback so at least this doesn't feel so entirely in vein. Although Dany doesn't know it, other conversation between her and Tyrion (and others) have made light of her avoiding it (don't be queen of the ashes, 'the goal is not to burn down King's Landing', etc) – Darth Locke May 8 '19 at 14:32
Many characters are not falling apart. Varys certainly isn‘t. Sansa made the politically smart move to tell Tyrion about Jon in spite of her promise. Aryia continues to do her thing. The wildlings wisely go back to where they belong. The only ones not thinking things through seem to be Dany and Jamie. – Sefe May 8 '19 at 19:11
The Starks (symbol of justice) have dismantled. Sansa betrayed Jon's trust. Dany continues to betray Jon trust (by not offering anything), Arya has left never to return (and who knows how mad she really is). Bran's revelation (Jon) has only caused destruction of house Stark. Cersei/Euron not taking out Dany/Dany being crazy enough to face Cersei outside the gates are not perfectly rational or the smart move. Also what happens to T and V if Dany finds out they have moved against her? Bronn got under Jaime's skin and has left Brienne. There's not a lot of unity, just chaos and immorality – Darth Locke May 8 '19 at 19:51
Jon is Jon and all he cares about is honor, truth justice etc. In the world of GOT this would either make him either a pawn or on the losing end of the conflict. Sansa has learned when you have to make a move. That's what she did and Dany knew she would. Without people around him who play the game of thrones for him, Jon would be dead and buried at castle black. If Sansas move works out, Jon will be king and she will be queen of the North. How's that a bad thing for house Stark? If she wouldn't have told it, either Dany or Cersei would be on the throne, which are both poor options for her. – Sefe May 9 '19 at 7:11
Notice that Euron's fleet was not that big, we see only about eleven ships, the impact of the attack is mostly due to the element of surprise. Daenerys' fleet seems much bigger, I don't have a direct aerial screenshot but it seems to be dozens and we only see a few ships destroyed. We don't see the aftermath but it's very likely Euron's fleet retreated immediately after they lost the element of surprise.
So Daenerys likely still has a fleet left. As to how Euron didn't block that, well, remember he has only about 11 ships with him right now and that they are on dragonstone:
As you can see there is a lot of open sea a fleet can take take from Dragonstone to the mainland in order to disembark the troops, after which troops can march to King's Landing. Also from Dragonstone you have a clear view on the (directly) surrounding sea. So Euron cannot hide, loses the element of surprise and he has not enough ships to throw a full blockade. As there is no tactical advantage for Euron to stay there, he most likely sailed back to King's Landing.
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In my opinion, the better question is why didn't Cersei take Dragonstone while Daenerys was away so she wouldn't have a good defensible base of operations that also has a lot of symbolic meaning, but well... – KillianDS May 8 '19 at 9:53
Considering that she left the bulk of her army on Dragonstone it would be hard to take it. And you don't need many soldiers to thwart a landing operation. – Sefe May 8 '19 at 10:35
Being the king of the Iron Island, I doubt his fleet is a mere 11 ships. This presumably was his task force. A blockade on Dragonstone would be a far better use of his forces than letting them lie anchored somewhere. Daenerys might have been able to make it through there, but probably not without a fight. – Sefe May 8 '19 at 10:39
@Sefe actually it was said in one of the earlier seasons that yara took the iron fleet and Euron had to rebuild it. Also, that doesn't matter: 11 ships were enough for the ambush, more would likely only have made them more visible. Bringing in the rest of the fleet would only serve for frontal confrontation, which Euron has never done before and he may actually be terrible at it. – KillianDS May 8 '19 at 12:04
"...he most likely sailed back to King's Landing." He definitely sailed back to King's Landing, since both he and Mellisandre were there on the wall with Cersei when Daenerys showed up. Whether or not he pulled all of his ships from Dragonstone or not is up for debate, but we know he would have at least one ship less there. – Geobits May 8 '19 at 13:24
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Alongside Art Dubai and the Sharjah Biennial (previewed in Bidoun issue 16), the UAE’s March arts extravaganza also includes the former Creek Art Fair, which has had a name change and something of a makeover in 2009. Managed by dynamic Abu Dhabi-based curator Emily Doherty on a shoestring budget, it may, perversely, come into its own as the credit crunch bites the U.A.E., shying away from glitz to focus instead on small curatorial initiatives. The old stone houses, grouped around organizer XVA Gallery in Dubai’s historic quarter, will host individual artists, including the influential artist and gallerist Fereydoun Ave, designer Zain Mustafa, and photographer Mark Pilkington, as well as local galleries. Highlights include installation artist Buthayna Ali at Green Art Gallery (one of the oldest Dubai galleries, now undergoing some innovative changes under new director Yasmine Atassi), and the Third Line, which will give over its house to work by a new signee, the Emirati conceptualist Ebtisam Abdulaziz. International participants will include Saatchi Online editor Rebecca Wilson and London-based curator Sara Raza, who will be curating a daily BAF Art School, held over brunch each morning. Bidoun will also be hosting artists’ work.
Idris Khan: Be Lost in the Call
Elementa is something of a well-kept secret in Dubai. Off the beaten gallery track, located in an unpromising block in the airport zone, it nonetheless is making a place for itself with a strong run of serious shows by Emirati, South Asian, and international artists, mostly organized by in-house curator Mehnaz Tan. In March the warehouse gallery will give the celebrated British artist Idris Khan his first show in the Gulf. A set of new works made for the Dubai show will include photographs combining analog and digital techniques based on musical scores, books, and Sufi texts. The artist will debut a single-screen version of his recent film Lying in Wait, made in collaboration with the British contemporary choreographer and dancer Sarah Warsop. The Elementa exhibition will also include a series of images inspired by Rumi, via American minimalist Agnes Martin. “I found similarities in the way she put emphasis upon line, grids, and fields of extremely subtle color and the way Arabic calligraphy is laid out on a page,” says Khan.
Lamya Gargash, Presence Series—The Sofa 2007.
Courtesy of the artist and The Third Line
Emirati Expressions
January 20–April 16, 2009
Including work by several generations of Emirati artists, this grand survey exhibition is curated by Anne Baldassari, director of the Musée National Picasso, Paris. It sets out to “present a harmonious blend of traditional and contemporary work in which the national culture can be represented visually and symbolically,” displaying the work of sixty-four artists in a dark, dramatically lit “black box” at the self-proclaimed seven-star hotel–cum–exhibition venue. Alongside work by established contemporary artists such as Lateefa bint Maktoum, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Lamya Gargash, and the pioneering brothers Hassan and Hussein Sharif, is a clutch of newcomers; the result is something of a mixed bag. Aspects of the show — including the employment of a curator from afar, and a lack of catalog and texts in Arabic — are, according to local artists, problematic. Nonetheless, the endeavor has resulted in a rare and much-needed burst of documentary material, including a film about the artists by Emirati directors Khaled Al Subaihi, Ahmed Arshi, and Fadel Al Muhairy. It is certainly worth exploring.
Lamya Gargash, Presence Series—The Orange Room, 2007.
Reza Aramesh, Action 42, June 2007, 2008.
Courtesy of the artist and B21 Gallery
Reza Aramesh:Between the eye and the object falls a shadow…
B21 Gallery
April 14–May 7, 2009
Following a run of shows by Tehran-based stalwarts, including Khosrow Hassanzadeh and Bita Fayyazi, Dubai’s B21 gallery has scheduled a show with its latest signee: London-based photographer Reza Aramesh. The show will include his 2008 series Between the eye and the object falls the shadow, which draws on both Goya’s The Disasters of War (1810–1820) and Reuters photojournalism of war and conflict in the Middle East from the 1960s to the present day. Aramesh has these scenes reenacted by nonprofessional actors of mostly migratory backgrounds within the incongruous setting of stately and historic homes in the idyllic English countryside.
Page from Jeremy Deller’s journal, October 2008.
Courtesy of the new Museum
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is — Conversation about Iraq
February 11–March 22, 2009
On March 15, 2007, insurgents detonated a car bomb on Baghdad’s al-Mutanabbi Street — home to the city’s historic book market — killing thirty-eight people and wounding over a hundred. The explosion also destroyed fifteen cars, one of which will be on display at the New Museum as part of British artist (and Turner Prize recipient) Jeremy Deller’s endeavor to stoke conversation about the current state of affairs in Iraq. The carcass of the automobile will serve as an artifact of the war, and of the pre- insurgency, cultural and intellectual life centered on al-Mutanabbi Street. Deller and a rotating cast of journalists, military veterans, scholars, and Iraqis will chat up museum visitors. One imagines a Baghdad teahouse transported to the secure environs of the downtown institution, the quotidian reflections on ethnic cleansing and the destruction of Iraqi society as related to visitors stopping by on their way to the museum cafe.
Or not. The title of the show suggests an effort to present, with a shrug of acceptance, the facts on the ground, as evidenced by the burned-out car. But the goal is conversation, not just communication. So how might visitors respond to this information? And is the desired event — a conversation — an end in itself? Deller and his cohorts will find out, and not just at the New Museum: the project will travel, via RV, throughout the country, exploded car in tow, stopping at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and ending up in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum. Co-organized by New York public arts presenter Creative Time, the road trip promises to test Americans’ willingness to engage in a conversation that has to some degree been shelved as the explosions have waned.
Emily Jacir: Where We Come From
February 6–April 15, 2009
For Where We Come From (2001-2003), Emily Jacir asked Palestinians throughout the world, “If I could do anything for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be?” Then, during a sojourn in the Palestinian territories and Israel — a trip made possible by her American passport — Jacir fulfilled their requests, among them “Go to Haifa and play soccer with the first Palestinian boy you see on the street.” The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art recently acquired the piece and exhibited it this winter. The work was accompanied by a jarring wall text informing viewers that “works of art can engender valuable discussion about a range of topics, including those that are difficult and contested, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” It then directed viewers to the Haas Atrium, where they could find “additional information about Emily Jacir’s Where We Come From, including a list of frequently asked questions.”
One can assume that such directives and qualifications will be jettisoned with Jacir’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim this spring, on the occasion of her receipt of the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize. It is strange that while one institution feels compelled to qualify Jacir’s political concerns and set them at a distance, another sees them objectively as cause for celebration — but it’s not inexplicable. Jacir, a Palestinian-American artist who divides her time between New York and Ramallah, doesn’t mince words, which is part of the reason why visitors to the Guggenheim this spring can expect a show that will “engender valuable discussion about a range of topics.”
Michael Blum, Exodus 2048, 2008.
From Be(com)ing Dutch. Photo by Benoit Pailley. Courtesy the artist
Be(coming) Dutch
January 15-March 29, 2009
Since its inception in 2007, the Museum as Hub project has taken an aspirational model of identity and art practice — the free flow of ideas across borders, supported magnanimously by international cultural institutions — and given it a semipermanent anchor on the fifth floor of the New Museum. After exhibitions in Mexico City, Seoul, and Cairo, all complemented by the New Museum’s programming, Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum took up the topic of “neighborhood” last year with a contentious foray into the realm of global capitalism and its discontents.
‘Be(com)ing Dutch,’ which finished its run at the Van Abbemuseum in September and will be on exhibit at the New Museum starting January 15 (along with the customary lecture and panel fare), reflects on the prosaic questions of national identity, migration, and social conflict with a welcome shot of ambivalence and occasional violence.
In the video Freedom of Expression, Lidwien van de Ven re-edits footage from the hearing at which Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch politician and feminist critic of Islam, presents her case for European Union protection against threats on her life. Hirsi Ali resigned from Parliament after it was discovered that she had misstated her name on her asylum application, and she now lives and works in an undisclosed location in the Netherlands. In the video, she is shrouded by men in dark suits, her face slipping in and out of view as they plead on her behalf.
Michael Blum’s Exodus 2048 installation offers a vision of Hirsi Ali’s past, as imagined from a point in the future. He takes us into the family quarters of a refugee camp for Israelis exiled to the Netherlands in the year 2048, after an explosion of the Palestinian population and the political decline of Israel’s allies has decimated the country. The result is something between kitsch and trauma: Imagine Anne Frank’s hideaway occupied by despairing teenagers armed with graffiti pens, clippings from celebrity magazines, and salvaged scraps of nationalist propaganda, waiting for their asylum applications to be processed.
Courtesy of Beirut Art Center
Emerging Artists’ Exhibition
April 14–June 6, 2009
For its second exhibition to date, the newly launched Beirut Art Center will debut what will soon become an annual program devoted to emerging artists from Lebanon and the greater region. Earlier this year, a call for proposals went out near and far; a committee invited especially for the occasion will select artists based on their submitted proposals. The subsequent show will provide an important follow-up to the new nonprofit space’s successful launch this past January (see reviews).
Solmaz Shahbazi, Perfectly Suited For You, 2005.
From Tarjama/Translation
Tarjama/Translation
May 10–August 2009
Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Iftikhar Dadi, ‘Tarjama/Translation’ will feature the works of artists from the Middle East and its diaspora who explore questions of “translation” through their respective practices. Encompassing a variety of media and artistic strategies, ‘Tarjama/Translation’ treats the multiple processes of translation as dynamic and complex, from linguistic and textual maneuvers, to the expansion of consciousness engendered by an increasingly globalized world. Aware of the loaded nature of sweeping exhibitions that take the Middle East as referent, organizers hope equally to take on the unwieldy question of how work from the Middle East is understood in a Western context. What is gained and what is lost in the process of speaking for and about the region? Ambitiousness aside, the lineup looks promising and includes, among many others, Lara Baladi, Gulsun Karamustafa, Emily Jacir, Farhad Moshiri, Wael Shawky, Solmaz Shahbazi, and Mitra Tabrizian. In addition to the exhibition program, supplemental programming will include public discussions as well as individually commissioned artist projects.
Solmaz Shahbazi, Persepolis, 2005.
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Psych and The West Wing’s Dulé Hill joins CBS legal drama pilot Doubt
Matt Wayt
Filed to:TV
Dulé Hill will return to the dramatic arena from whence he came to co-star in CBS’s pilot Doubt. Fans probably know Hill as the co-star of the USA comedy Psych, but his breakout role was Charlie Young, personal aide to the president, on The West Wing. And even though Aaron Sorkin’s White House drama could be as playful as anything on TV at times, it seemed like Hill was always the vehicle of anguish—his character’s backstory included a police officer mother who was killed in the line of duty, and his courting of the president’s daughter triggered a violent plot from white supremacists. But all that was made okay by President Bartlett occasionally clapping Charlie on the back or giving him absurd gifts like Paul Revere’s carving knife.
It sounds like Hill will be afforded more levity in Doubt, as Deadline reports that he’ll play Albert, a lawyer with “a good sense of humor” and a close friend of Sadie, the show’s main character who probably never laughs at all. Sadie and Albert are working on “a very high-profile case, representing a member of a prominent New York family.” Sadie eventually becomes romantically involved with the client, who might be guilty of a brutal crime, likely prompting Hill to crack wise about the situation using terrible law puns. (“You sure habeased his corpus!”)
Also cast are Kobi Libii (Alpha House) as Nick, “a smart, ambitious, and enterprising recent law school graduate,” and Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) as Cameron, a “competitive and compassionate” transgender attorney. Doubt comes from longtime Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, so look for most of the show to take place outside of the courtroom and inside elevators or supply closets at the law firm where characters will air their grievances, have sex, or both at once.
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Presidential elections take place in Ukraine on 31 March. Source: Anton Aleksejev/ERR
Members of the Estonian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) are currently in Ukraine to observe the presidential elections taking place on Sunday.
The situation in Ukraine is unpredictable and it is likely that a president will not be elected in the first round, delegation leader MP Mart Nutt (Isamaa) said according to a Riigikogu press release. If this proves to be the case, a second round will be held on 21 April.
According to Mr Nutt, three candidates have a serious chance of reaching the second round: leading candidate Volodymyr Zelensky, current President Petro Poroshenko, and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
The President of Ukraine is elected directly, and as Ukraine is a semi-presidential republic, its president has relatively extensive powers, he explained.
"The election of the president may make Ukrainian-Russian relations tenser," the Estonian MP said. "Relations between Estonia and Ukraine are good, the presidential elections will likely not have any impact on them."
Also observing Sunday's elections in Ukraine are OSCE PA Estonian delegation members and MPs Jaanus Marrandi (SDE) and Mati Raidma (Reform).
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Stoned with the stars: California's marijuana tourism gets smoking
Javier TOVAR
AFP January 28, 2019
Gene Grozovskiy founded Green Tours, where the focus is marijuana
Gene Grozovskiy founded Green Tours, where the focus is marijuana (AFP Photo/Robyn Beck)
Los Angeles (AFP) - When California legalized recreational marijuana use in 2016, Gene Grozovskiy decided he would show tourists the big change behind the scenes.
Now he's seeing some green, thanks to strong interest in all that grass in Los Angeles, considered the world's largest pot market where the air routinely smells of weed.
The 35-year-old took inspiration from his father, a Russian immigrant who led tours of Los Angeles for decades. The younger Grozovskiy outfitted a bus to take visitors on pot-themed outings.
But he acknowledged that getting Green Tours off the ground has not been easy.
It's the same complaint heard from many with pot-related businesses in California: while dreaming of big money, what they have encountered is plenty of bureaucracy and high taxes from the state.
"At first, the cannabis industry did not accept us, the tourism industry did not accept us," said Grozovskiy.
"It took a year of literally knocking on doors and fighting," he explained. The company lost money in 2018 but expects to be in the black this year.
Rivals, such as Green Line Trips, Weedology, Dope Tours and Food High, cropped up over the first few months after recreational pot use was legalized.
Grozovskiy's tour takes about four hours and includes a visit to a dispensary -- selling not only weed but also candies, chocolate and other edibles -- a local growing facility, a bong factory and a house for smoking. It costs $89.
Rather than typical Hollywood tour stops, Grozovskiy's bus will take patrons to experiences like a smoking session with actor Tommy Chong from "That'70's Show," for $179. In the future, he hopes to bring other celebrities on board, like Snoop Dogg.
- Like at Disneyland -
Guide Ryan Lance told the story of cannabis: how it was first used as medicine in the United States before being outlawed.
Now, its recreational use is legal in 10 US states, including California, and in the capital Washington.
Among the major changes since legalization, marijuana-linked arrests have declined sharply -- down from millions in recent decades.
In the dispensary, manager Scott B, who wouldn't give his last name, detailed the various types of marijuana plants that exist.
He also described how to differentiate female from male plants, how they are crossed, and the light and water the plants need to thrive.
The manager detailed worrisome state taxes, strict tests that can lead to millions of dollars in weed being discarded and how some companies employ five-year-old children to test the safety of their packaging.
Dan Chlebanowski, 30, who has been a pot lover since his teenage years, listened closely.
"I think any time you're interested in something, and anytime you can see the behind-the-scene aspect of that, it's always fun," he said.
"I mean you see it at Disneyland, you see it here in Hollywood, why not for cannabis, you know?"
Legalization was critical to launch pot-related tourism ventures. And yet the overall marijuana industry has not surged as many predicted.
Arcview, a firm specializing in the cannabis market, reported a drop in the state's sales between 2017 and 2018, from $3 billion to $2.5 billion.
"The decline is slight, but remarkable given that we projected a very rapid growth," said Arcview vice president David Abernathy.
- 'I have my contacts' -
California's pot legalization means that anyone over the age of 21 -- as for alcohol -- can have up to one ounce (28.3 grams) of grass.
Meanwhile, producers, distributors and sellers must apply for city and state licenses, and adapt their products to meet tough legal requirements.
The measures have led to a "very developed and robust illicit market" of businesses that won't comply with the new law and can thus avoid charging astronomical taxes that can reach 35 percent, said Abernathy.
Alex Traverso, head of communications at the California Bureau of Cannabis Control responsible for regulating the industry, told AFP that several measures will be approved in the state legislature that may reduce the tough current regulations.
But anyway, the impact of the high prices was so great that Felicia Davis, who was on the tour, said she would not vote for a similar legalization in Wisconsin, where she lives.
She prefers to pay less on the black market. "I have my connections," she said with a smile.
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July issue 2009
Interview: Iraj Manzoor
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Clash of Civilisations?
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Man of the Moment
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The Next Swing of the Bat
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A Formidable Enemy
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True to Tradition
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Whose Land is it Anyway?
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Interview: Nasreen Mehmood Kasuri
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By Faiza Shah | Fashion | Life Style | People | Q & A | Published 11 years ago
On the ramp, she is the ultimate diva — gorgeous, sensuous, seductive. But when the spotlight is turned off and the designer labels are back on the rack, Iraj Manzoor returns to a normal life and surrounds herself with family and friends. The quintessential supermodel, Iraj began her career in the early ’90s. Distinguishingly tall, a head-turner and très trendy with an aura that is hard to miss, she climbed to the top very fast but the mega success didn’t go to her head. Iraj is surprisingly centred and strives to maintain a balance in her life.
A free spirit, warm and down-to-earth, Iraj speaks with candour and earnestness as she sits cross-legged on the floor, pausing reflectively during our conversation, a far away look in her calm eyes. Not one to obsess about weight and looks, Iraj managed to hold her own in a field that she calls ‘disorienting’ and ‘superficial’ but extremely challenging at the same time.
In this interview with Newsline, Iraj Manzoor dissects the pros and cons of her stint in the world of glamour and glitz.
Q: What are the major irritants in modelling?
A: When I started my career around 1991, things weren’t that bad. You did not have to be part of any clique to succeed and find fame and fortune. However, it took me longer to move up the ladder, because I had to get business myself, make incessant calls here and there … There was not much help available but the industry at that time was a lot easier to manoeuvre because it was literally like a family. Frieha [Altaf] was sweet enough to let me lead the catwalk on my first show, which was really overwhelming.
A lot of models fall into the stereotype, with hopes of gaining popularity and earning more if they become what is demanded of them, especially the Lahore models. They are groomed by someone else and told to look and act in a certain manner, so that most of them appear mass-produced. They lose their individuality and don’t have any sense of personal style. I have issues with that.
Q: How do you fight the stereotype?
A: I have always tried to be true to myself. I appreciate creativity and I really believe in having a personal style, which I have developed and remain true to. I surround myself with people who allow you that space (to be who you are), and try to be around those who are creative and humane. And, of course, I’m close to Him (she points to the skies).
Q: What is modelling about? Is it just about having a pretty face?
A: I think it’s about being true to yourself. Being creative, being confident about who you are. The present set of younger models are hung up on what everyone else wants them to be and I try to tell them ‘Be who you are first.’
I myself try not to get caught up in this trap of feeling like I’m a diva. I’ve stood on garbage dumps for shoots without a murmur of protest, but things are not like that anymore. People who meet me say that they are surprised that I’m just like them and my reply is, ‘I want to be like you, I want to be normal. I need to be a simple human being.’ I treat everyone equally when at work, give everyone equal respect — even the chai wala deserves respect because he too, like us, is doing his part of the job.
Q: And you don’t fit into the run-of-the-mill requirements of the industry?
A: A misconception the new models have is that the more work you do, the more popular you’ll become. I’m content doing what I do, even if I’m not in every commercial or every shoot. If, at the end of my career, people call me just a high fashion model, I would be more than pleased because that is what I decided I would be. I don’t want to overwork myself to get more fame.
I find people at the top level [of the fashion industry] judgemental. They decide from the start that a girl from the other side of the [Clifton] bridge will not go far because she is not fluent in English, so she can’t mix with a certain group of people. I teach the younger girls in this field to respect themselves first and I tell them ‘You dont have to go with the flow.’ Khoni, who is a new model, was wearing coloured lenses for a show and I told her not to do that because you become so dependent on artificial beauty enhancements that you lack confidence in your natural looks. She refused to listen to me because someone told her it would make her look better. However, in a subsequent ramp show, she came up to me and said she wasn’t going to wear the coloured lenses because she understood what I had meant earlier. I was very pleased that even though it was something minor, I was able to knock some sense into her.
Q: Do you have any close friends in the industry?
A: No. All the people I’m closest to are outside my field.
Q: How has the Pakistan fashion scene changed?
A: It’s just that more people have entered the industry, and with more people you have more room for creativity. Although that doesn’t necessarily mean that all the work happening here is great. In fact, since there is such a huge industry now, it is easier to distinguish the good work from the bad. If there are 50 ugly dresses, there will also be 20 beautiful ones that are produced. There are more make-up artists too, but some of them aren’t even worth mentioning.
Q: You often travel abroad for shows. How do people perceive Pakistan’s fashion industry and you as a model coming from Pakistan?
A: People generally assume I am Indian or Bangladeshi and are always shocked when I correct them and say, ‘No, I am a Pakistani.’ Unfortunately, Pakistan is now well-known for all the wrong reasons.
We usually do shows for the Pakistani community abroad. I think we still have a long, long way to go if we have to compete internationally. And it’s the political and religious elements in our country that keep us from crossing certain boundaries.
Q: You haven’t ventured into acting like many other well-known faces from the modelling world …
A: I have never really been inspired enough by a project to want to act in it. I do come from an artistic background; my family is into the arts. But whatever you see on TV these days is just Star Plus serials.
When my mother, Zeenat Yasmin, was acting it was a different time altogether, with quality dramas being produced, that explored something real. I really need to be inspired to act, if I ever do.
Q: You are quite the performer on the catwalk …
A: I love doing runways! I think that’s where I can be myself. While fashion shoots are static and limit you, the ramp doesn’t and you can really be bold and creative. Similarly, I prefer to do shoots which are experimental, rather than the usual ones you see in every magazine — shoots that stand out, so I can be proud to be a part of them.
Q: Name a recent a project that you have been proud of?
A: A shoot for Zaheer Abbas. I was wearing nylon clothes in the sweltering heat, with my hair loose, climbing towers on a factory’s premises. It was really something!
Q: What has kept you so grounded?
A: Family values — it’s the best thing you can get. My mother has always been really humble and that is what I’ve picked up from her — humility. These days I’m spending quality time with my parents and I have the best relationship with my mother, now that I’m in my 30s. I make a distinction between work and my personal life.
I know how easy it is to get pressurised in this field — I have discovered that the hard way. I went to a sort of extreme at the start of my career. I even lost a lot of weight. But I realised that that was not the way to go. I couldn’t let myself obsess about losing two more pounds or gaining half a pound. I think I need to be with myself and to have my own time in order to collect my thoughts, because this field really disorients you.
Q: What is your idea of beauty?
A: I am against photoshoping and airbrushing because it makes everyone look so perfect. It’s like telling them that you are not beautiful as you are — this is what constitutes beauty. Here no one knows when to stop. You convert a model into a doll’s face, where even the pores on her skin don’t show.
Recently, I saw an ad which had the tagline, “Beauty is power.” And I absolutely disagree with that! Intellect is power, knowledge is power — not what you look like. This ‘fair-and-lovely’ phenomenon has to go.
Q: Would you go for botox or any sort of cosmetic tweaking?
A: Never. I want to age the way I am supposed to.
Q: Your everyday routine?
A: I start my day early, spend time with my mother, help around the house, and clean my room, washroom, etc. I am a model but I don’t live like one. I do the housework, I’m a perfectionist when it comes to cleaning. And I spend time with my cat. I wish I was a female cat so I could just marry him. I love him that much!
Q: Your diet regimen?
A: I am a vegetarian, so that really limits my choice here because there aren’t any tofu or soy products available locally. I know I should convert and have some meat, too, since God has given us that right but I just love animals so much that I can’t do it!
Q: Your favourite model among the new breed?
A: Fawzia, Rabia Butt, Fia, who has this tomboyish-ness which is appealing, and Fayeza, who is a classic high fashion model because she has remained true to herself.
Q: Your pet peeve?
A: (Wracking her brain) … Nothing. I’ve become quite tolerant. I always think if I find someone annoying, I could be annoying to others too.
Q: Any major/minor vices?
A: … You should be able to tell me!
Short Take
Q: Your hidden talent?
A: I can see through people.
Q: What about your painting?
A: Well, that was never really hidden, I just haven’t pursued it seriously since I graduated from college.
Q: Your comfort food?
A: Daal chaawal.
Q: Your favourite dress in your wardrobe?
A: A simple white shalwar kameez, starched, almost manly in cut.
Q: Your favourite fragrance?
A: It will always be Escape by Calvin Klein.
Q: Your favourite designer?
A: I don’t have one. I don’t want to limit myself to think only one person can make beautiful clothes. By choosing one, I limit myself from liking others.
Q: Your favourite book?
A: The Life of Pi.
Q: Your favourite movie?
A: Coppola’s Dracula.
Q: What do you do to relax?
A: Walk or run, in open spaces. Under the sun. I love the feeling of the sun on me, its strangely relaxing.
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Pakistan Cricket Board, Lahore University of Management Sciences collaborate to advance cricket
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Lahore, October 01, 2014 (PPI-OT): Shaharyar M. Khan, Chairman, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Dr Sohail Naqvi, Vice-Chancellor, of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) signed an MOU at LUMS Wednesday (October 1, 2014) morning to advance the game of cricket, to the mutual benefit of both institutions.
PCB will support development of cricket at LUMS through providing coaching services, internship programmes for recommended students, and consultancy and development of LUMS’ cricketing facilities (nets, grounds, pitches etc).
LUMS for its part will create custom-made programme for the development of young cricketers, which among others include communication skills, stress management, drug abuse prevention and leadership. LUMS shall also allow, at mutually convenient times and dates, use of their cricket ground for practice of the national women’s cricket team, national women cricket tournaments and HEC cricket tournaments.
‘Truly delighted’, Shaharyar Khan, PCB Chairman
At the signing ceremony, PCB Chairman, Shaharyar Khan said: “I’m truly delighted at the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding. This is PCB’s first-ever collaboration with any university. And I am sure that with the lead provided by a centre of excellence like LUMS, more top of the line educational institutions shall benefit by aligning their cricket programmes with PCB’s development plans. “The best thing about this collaboration is that it is a two-way street, with both sides making a significant contribution”.
‘Most auspicious for LUMS’, Dr Sohail Naqvi, Vice-Chancellor, LUMS
“This signing is most auspicious as far as LUMS is concerned. It shall tremendously support cricket in LUMS while we shall also make a tangible impact by providing specially produced modules for PCB’s Youth Development Programme and by opening up our facilities for PCB’s women’s teams”, said LUMS Vice-Chancellor Dr Sohail Naqvi.
Dr Naqvi further said, “Sports activities are encouraged and supported by the LUMS administration. LUMS provides various sports facilities to its students including the Maratab Ali Sports Complex, which offers facilities for several games; football fields; cricket grounds; tennis courts and walking tracks. An Aquatic Centre is also under construction at LUMS”.
It is pertinent to mention here that an Advisory Council will have oversight over the programme and will be keenly measuring progress once every three months.
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Gülen-affiliated schools still closed despite lawsuit parents
Parents will have to teach their children elsewhere.
A lot of work for no legal attempt at the conclusion of the Mohamed Al Fatih-comprehensive school in Casablanca. A group of parents whose children education followed the Gülen-affiliated schools community opposing recently against the decision of the Minister of the Interior to such schools to close. It would be the injured parents include the bad reports about the decision, they would too late informed.
In addition, there would be no comparable alternative to according to the affected parents their children are in the area.
Yesterday the Court ruled in Casablanca that it could not meet the desire of the parents to the school community. Except in Casablanca are expected over the whole country offices of the Mohamed Al Fatih, this group will be closed by order of the Ministry of the Interior.
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The Guyana Gold Board was established on May 15, 1982 to manage the business of trading gold in Guyana. The Board purchases and sells gold within Guyana and abroad, at a standard price which is fixed twice daily. It also secures adequate supplies of gold ensuring equitable distribution at fair prices and engages in other commercial and industrial activities. The GGB has issued dealers’ licences to 9 entities and individuals who help to facilitate the purchase of gold from sellers across Guyana. In addition to its office in Georgetown, the GGB has offices in Bartica and Charity.
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Press Release – Ministry of Natural Resources updates on action on dragga at Parabara Village
Acknowledging the concerns of the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) regarding the presence of a ‘dragga’ at the Parabara Village in South Rupununi, the Ministry wishes to offer an update on the steps made so far for the structure’s removal. Upon immediate awareness of the structure’s presence, an investigation was launched by the Ministry and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission which saw the issuing of an Order to Remove in June, 2019. A follow up visit was made in late August. During the visit Mining Engineer Donnell Perry and Mines Officer Nial Gravesande observed one river dredge parked on the left side of the Kuyuwini River. There were no signs of disturbance of the river banks or turbid water and the dredge showed no signs of being worked recently. On the part of the GGMC and the Ministry, there is evidence from pictures of the dredge and the observance [...]
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The Ministry of Natural Resources’ third Annual apprenticeship programme 'Youth in Natural Resources III' saw 28 of its Apprentices graduating on August 30th, 2019. The ceremony held at Baridi Benab State House saw in attendance HE President Brigadier David Arthur Granger, Minister of State Hon. Dawn Hastings-Williams, the Minister of Natural Resources Hon. Raphael Trotman, and representative of government agencies and extractive industries corporations. Giving the feature address to the graduates was President David Granger who stressed on environmental, protection and preservation. While noting this and acknowledging the significant contributions of the natural resources sector to Guyana’s economy, the President went on to call for the continuous need for the sustainable exploitation of the nation’s patrimony to the benefit of all Guyanese, highlighting that conservation as a viable tool in sustainable development. He went on to note efforts made towards ensuring sustainability and developing a green nation to the benefit of the youth. [...]
Remarks by Hon. Raphael G.C Trotman at the GGMC Awards Ceremony to celebrate Mining Week 2019 – Monday August 26, 2019
Remarks by Hon. Raphael G.C Trotman at the GGMC Awards Ceremony to celebrate Mining Week 2019 Savannah Suite, Pegasus Hotel Monday August 26, 2019 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Mr. Stanley Ming, Commissioner of the GGMC, Mr. Newell Dennison, Directors of the GGMC Board, Representatives of Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association, Guyana Women Miners Organization and the National Mining Syndicate and other stakeholders in the sector, staff of the GGMC and the Ministry of Natural Resources, members of the Media, a warm welcome to you. I feel a deep sense of pride and consider it a privilege to be addressing you at this Award Ceremony, which also marks the opening of the Mining Conference that will be held here over the next two days. I believe the theme for Mining week 2019: “Fostering Respectability and Responsibility in Mining Conduct’’ is [...]
Press Release-Ministry of Natural Resources facilitates historic meeting of the boards, aims at cooperation and collaboration
Press Release Ministry of Natural Resources facilitates historic meeting of the boards, aims at cooperation and collaboration The Ministry of Natural Resources on August 22nd facilitated a joint meeting of the Boards of the Guyana Forestry Commission, Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and the Guyana Gold Board. Present were the Minister of Natural Resources Hon. Raphael Trotman, Chairwoman of the GFC board Ms. Jocelyn Dow, Chairman of the GGMC board Mr. Stanley Ming, Chairman of the GGB Mr. GHK Lall, and Senior representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the respective boards. In opening remarks, Minister Trotman classed the Thursday meeting as historic and made known that it stands as an opportunity for greater collaboration and cooperation between the agencies and sectors. The Minister, who was the facilitator earmarked five areas for discussion; The Forest Restoration Programme (FRP), rehabilitation and maintenance of hinterland roads, use of available technology for [...]
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Press Release – Ministry of Natural Resources launches Annual Youth in Natural Resources Apprenticeship Programme
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Press Release – Minister Trotman discusses Guyana Gold Board (Amendment) Bill 2019 with GGB, gold dealers and natural resources sector stakeholders
The Minister of Natural Resources Hon. Raphael Trotman today met with the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) along with gold dealers and mining organizations to discuss the amendments to the Guyana Gold Board Act. During the meeting, the Minister made a presentation of the Guyana Gold Board (Amendment) Bill 2019 which seeks to amend the Guyana Gold Board Act, Cap. 66:01 and certain provisions of the Tax Act, Cap 80:01 in an effort to strengthen the regulating regime of the gold trade. This would, as a result, allow the successful execution of the provisions of the Act and therefore improve transparency, accountability and the efficiency of the GGB in carrying out its business in relation to the purchase and sale of gold. After making his presentation, the Minister opened the floor to the gold dealers, stakeholders, and the GGB to have discussions on the bill for them to raise concerns and [...]
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Following a request made to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Representative’s office in Guyana by the Minister of Natural Resources for further technical support, the United States Department of Health and Human Services of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has submitted a preliminary summary of their findings and recommendations following a visit to Guyana from September 11 to 14, 2018. The visit was facilitated through ongoing collaboration with the PAHO/WHO Guyana Country Office and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) following reports of concerns raised earlier in the year about overexposure to mercury emissions. The team consisted of two engineers: Duane R. Hammond MS, PE and Kevin H. Dunn Sc. D., CIH from the Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Division of Field Studies and Engineering. During the visit the team met with Ministers Trotman, Lawrence, and Scott, as well [...]
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Impact of 8-week linoleic acid intake in soy oil on Lp-PLA2 activity in healthy adults
Minkyung Kim1,
Minjoo Kim1,
Ayoung Lee2,3,
Hye Jin Yoo2,3,
Jung Soo Her2,3,
Sun Ha Jee4 &
Jong Ho Lee1,2,3
No intervention follow-up study has examined the association between plasma n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to determine whether the administration of linoleic acid (LA, 18:2n-6) in soy oil affected Lp-PLA2 activity in healthy adults.
Self-reported healthy participants (n = 150) were randomly assigned to three groups: a low LA group, in which 10 mL soy oil was replaced with one apple; a medium LA group, in which the typical food intake was maintained; and a high LA group, in which 1/3 cup of cooked refined rice was replaced with 9.9 g of soy oil capsules daily. Plasma fatty acids and Lp-PLA2 activity were measured along with other CVD risk factors.
After 8 weeks of treatment, plasma LA levels decreased in the low LA group and increased in the high LA group. The high LA group showed greater increases in apolipoprotein B (apoB) and oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) than those in the low LA group. Plasma LA levels and Lp-PLA2 activities demonstrated greater increases in the high LA group than those in the medium and low LA groups. Changes in plasma LA positively and independently correlated with changes in Lp-PLA2 activity, which was negatively correlated with changes in collagen-epinephrine closure time (CEPI-CT).
An increase in plasma LA following intake of soy oil was independently associated with Lp-PLA2 activity, which was also related to apoB, ox-LDL and CEPI-CT.
ClinicalTrail.gov Identifier: NCT02753907, registered 25 April 2016 (retrospectively registered).
Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) is a macrophage-derived enzyme that contributes to oxidative stress, vascular inflammation, and endothelial activation [1, 2]. Elevated levels of Lp-PLA2 have been associated with unfavorable health outcomes, including an increased risk for myocardial infarction and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related deaths in adults [3]. Indeed, our previous study indicated that elevated Lp-PLA2 activity was associated with prehypertension [4], which reflects an early increased risk of CVD [5]. Furthermore, several studies on darapladib, a drug that inhibits Lp-PLA2 activity, showed its beneficial effect on CVD in accordance with decreases in Lp-PLA2 activity; Mohler et al. [6] reported that darapladib dose-dependently decreased interleukin (IL)-6 in patients with stable coronary disease; Serruys et al. [7] indicated that its administration to patients with angiographically proven coronary disease inhibited the increase in necrotic core volume (coronary atheroma volume) compared to that of individuals who were not given the treatment. However, the role of Lp-PLA2 in CVD is controversial; Blake et al. [8] showed that Lp-PLA2 activity did not predict CVD events in women after adjusting for traditional risk factors; Rosenson and Stafforini [9] reported that it was unclear whether a mechanism regarding limit necrotic core expansion by darapladib is a consequence of Lp-PLA2 activity inhibition. Moreover, the researchers demonstrated that Lp-PLA2 activity did not predict future risk in individuals who had adequately managed cholesterol levels in several intervention studies [9]. Thus, the role of Lp-PLA2 as a risk factor of CVD is unclear.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 PUFA) supplementation reduces markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, which are risk factors of CVD, including atherosclerosis [10]. However, consumption of large amounts of omega-6 (n-6) PUFAs had proinflammatory, prothrombotic, and proaggregatory effects and promoted the formation of thrombus and atheromas [11]. Thus, we hypothesized that there is a link between intake of n-6 PUFAs and Lp-PLA2 activity for the increased risk of CVD. A number of follow-up intervention trials have been performed to examine Lp-PLA2 activity in the context of n-3 fatty acids. However, no intervention study has examined the association between changes in plasma n-6 fatty acids and Lp-PLA2 activity, which is recognized as an independent risk factor for CVD [2]. Recently, Steffen et al. [12] reported that n-6 fatty acids were independently associated with Lp-PLA2 in their cross-sectional, multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Therefore, the present follow-up intervention study aimed to determine whether 8 weeks of linoleic acid (LA, C18:2n-6) representing n-6 PUFA administration in the form of soy oil would alter Lp-PLA2 activity, as well as other CVD risk factors, in healthy adults.
Subjects were recruited via a poster advertisement in Seoul, Korea, between June and September of 2015. Subjects who agreed to participate were screened for their health status. Blood samples were obtained to evaluate their clinical and biochemical parameters, and self-reported history of diagnosis and treatment of any disease, as well as intake of medication or supplements, was also examined. After the screening, 150 subjects aged 30–65 years, who were non-diabetic (fasting blood glucose < 126 mg/dL) and non-obese [a body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2], had no history of any disease, and were not using any medication or supplements, were finally enrolled in this study. Exclusion criteria included dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, liver disease, renal disease, chronic disease of the gastrointestinal tract, cerebrovascular disease, pancreatitis, cancer, intake of any medication or supplements, and women who were pregnant or lactating. Drug or alcohol abuse (alcohol consumption >280 g/week for men, >140 g/week for women) also excluded participation in the intervention. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the Institutional Review Board of Yonsei University approved the study protocol, which complied with the Helsinki Declaration.
Study design and intervention
An 8-weeks, randomized, placebo-controlled study was conducted with 150 healthy adults. The participants were divided into three groups: a low LA group composed of 50 individuals, in which 10 mL soy oil was replaced with one apple; a medium LA group (control group) composed of 50 individuals, in which the typical food intake was maintained; and a high LA group composed of 50 individuals, in which 1/3 cup of cooked refined rice was replaced with 9.9 g (9 1.1 g capsules, 3 per meal) of soy oil daily as a supplement (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02753907; http://www.clinicaltrials.gov) [13]. The soy oil capsules were provided by Misuba RTech Co., Ltd. (Asan, Korea). The soy oil used in this study contained 54.2% LA, 21.6% oleic acid, 10.7% palmitic acid, 8.1% α-linolenic acid, and 4.1 mg of α-tocopherol/100 g [14, 15]. The subjects kept food diaries 3 days before the baseline visit and for 3 days during weeks 4 (middle of intervention) and 8 (end of intervention). Individual sessions lasted 1 h and included supportive counseling and dietary instructions. Group sessions were held separately for participants in the low LA and high LA groups. The participants received the same dietary behavioral curriculum, which included identical information on dietary fiber intake, education on the food pyramid and portion control. The daily low LA and high LA replacement items (apple or capsules) were provided to participants in each group for the duration of the intervention. Participants were counseled to maintain their baseline levels of physical activity, which was assessed using validated measures at each visit. Compliance was assessed via the dietary intake record along with the amount of unconsumed oil capsules or apples returned at the middle and final visits.
Daily energy intake and physical activity measurements
Details regarding daily energy intake and physical activity have been previously published [16]. Briefly, a standardized 3-days dietary record (2 weekdays and 1 weekend day) was obtained from each participant. This record was completed at home after the participants received detailed explanations from a dietitian. This measurement was performed during weeks 0, 4, and 8. A computerized version of the Korean Nutrition File (Can-Pro 3.0; The Korean Nutrition Society, Seoul, Korea) was used to determine the macronutrient content of the foods consumed by the participants and their total daily energy intake. In addition, the participants completed a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire and a 24-h recall with the assistance of a dietitian on weeks 0, 4, and 8 to confirm the accuracy of the dietary record. A standardized 3-days physical activity record was also completed at home on the same days that the dietary record was completed, and total energy expenditure was calculated.
Anthropometric parameters and blood pressure
Detailed information on these parameters is provided in our previous paper [16]. Briefly, body weight, height and waist circumference were measured at screening, baseline and the 8-weeks follow-up visit. BMI was calculated in units of kilograms per square meter (kg/m2). During each testing session, systolic and diastolic blood pressure values were measured in a supine position after a resting period.
Biochemical analyses and plasma Lp-PLA2 activity and oxidized LDL
Detailed information has been previously published [16]. Briefly, blood samples were collected following an overnight fast of at least 12 h, and the levels of fasting triglycerides; total-, high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol; apolipoprotein (apo) A-I and B; glucose; insulin; and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) were measured. The activity of Lp-PLA2, also known as platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH), was measured using a PAF-AH activity assay kit (Biovision, Milpitas, CA). The resulting change in absorbance was immediately read at 412 nm for 30 min at room temperature using a VERSAmax microplate reader in kinetic mode (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA). Lp-PLA2 activity was expressed in nmol of PAF hydrolyzed per min per mL of serum. Plasma oxidized LDL (ox-LDL) was measured using an enzyme immunoassay (Mercodia AB, Uppsala, Sweden). The resulting color reaction was monitored at 450 nm with a Wallac 1420 Victor2 multilabel counter (PerkinElmer Life Sciences, Boston, MA).
Hemostasis tests
The details of the hemostasis tests have been previously published [16]. Blood samples used for the platelet function analyzer-100 (PFA-100; Siemens, Marburg, Germany) assay were collected in 2.7 mL tubes containing 3.2% sodium citrate and analyzed independently. Collagen-epinephrine closure time (CEPI-CT) was analyzed using a PFA-100 system according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) were measured using a Sysmex CA-1500 coagulation analyzer (Sysmex, Nagano, Japan). The fibrinogen concentration was determined via a light scattering method with the Sysmex CA-1500 coagulation analyzer.
Fatty acid concentrations using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
The details of GC-MS have been previously published [16]. Briefly, all analyses were performed on an Agilent Technologies 7890 N gas chromatograph coupled to an Agilent Technologies 5977A quadrupole mass selective spectrometer with a triple-axis detector (Agilent, Palo Alto, CA) in the electron ionization mode (70 eV) and full scan monitoring mode (m/z 50–800). Derivatized samples were separated on a VF-WAX column (Agilent Technologies, Middelburg, Netherlands) with helium as the carrier gas and a temperature ramp from 50 °C to 230 °C. Metabolites in the samples were identified by comparing their relative retention times and mass spectra with those of authentic reference standards. The relative metabolite levels were calculated by comparing their peak areas to that of the internal standard compound.
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 21.0 (IBM/SPSS, Chicago, IL). Logarithmic transformation was performed on skewed variables. For descriptive purposes, the mean values are presented using untransformed values. The results are expressed as the mean ± standard error. A two-tailed P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. We compared the parameters at baseline and at the 8-weeks follow-up visit, and the net change (difference from baseline) among the low, medium, and high LA groups was assessed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with a Bonferroni post hoc test. Paired t-tests were performed to compare the effects of the intervention within each group. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed to identify the major variables influencing Lp-PLA2 activity. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to examine relationships between variables. A heat map was generated to visualize correlations among variables.
Among the enrolled subjects (n = 150), 3 dropped out for personal reasons, and 147 subjects completed the study. Among the dropouts, all 3 were in the control (medium LA) group and maintained their usual dietary intake. Thus, the compliance rate based on returned capsules and apples was high (98.5%), and no adverse reactions involving supplementation with soy oil were observed. The soy oil used in this study contained 54.2% LA, 21.6% oleic acid 10.7% palmitic acid, 8.1% α-linolenic acid and 4.1 mg of α-tocopherol/100 g [14, 15]. There were no reports of adverse events from study participants in all three groups during the study period.
No significant differences in the baseline measurements between the 3 dietary groups were found for age, BMI, daily energy intake, % carbohydrate, % protein, and % fat of total energy, blood pressure, lipid profiles, glucose, insulin, hemostatic markers and plasma levels of the four n-6 and three n-3 PUFAs (Table 1 and Fig. 1). After the intervention period, carbohydrates substantially increased in the low LA group as they were given an apple instead of LA supplements, whereas they significantly decreased in the high LA group, who consumed extra LA instead of 1/3 cup of cooked refined rice. The means of the dietary fat intake were broadly met, with changes of −2.3, −0.1, and 3.4% in the respective diets (low LA group, medium LA group and high LA group) relative to the baseline intake. During the intervention, the ratio of PUFAs to saturated fatty acids significantly increased from 1.20 to 1.75 in the high LA group; thus, all dietary characteristics showed the expected changes. There were no significant differences in physical activity levels among the three groups at baseline, 4, and 8 weeks.
Table 1 Clinical and biochemical characteristics and plasma levels of fatty acids of each groups according to linoleic acid intake
Plasma levels of LA and Lp-PLA2 activity at baseline (□) and 8 weeks of follow-up (■) according to LA intake. Mean ± SE. Data included 50 (low LA), 47 (medium LA) and 50 (high LA) participants. §Values were tested by logarithmic transformation. P-values were derived from ANOVA. All alphabetical P < 0.05 values were derived from ANOVA with the Bonferroni post hoc test in follow-up and changed values; no significant changes among each group are indicated with the same letter, while significant changes among each group are indicated with a different letter. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001 indicate comparisons with baseline values in each group performed with a paired t-test
Plasma fatty acid levels
Relative levels of the following plasma values of PUFAs are shown in Fig. 1 and Table 1: LA (18:2n-6); gamma-linolenic acid (GLA, 18:3n-6); dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA, 20:3n-6); arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n-6); alpha-linolenic acid (ALA, 18:3n-3); eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3); and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3). Significant effects on overall dietary fat due to changes (difference from baseline) in LA intake between the groups were broadly supported by changes in the plasma LA levels, which were significantly different between groups (P < 0.001) (Fig. 1). Plasma LA levels decreased by 12.2% in the low LA group and increased by 13.8% in the high LA group after diet intervention from the baseline values (Fig. 1). The low LA group showed a significant decrease from baseline in plasma LA, GLA and DGLA, whereas the high LA group showed increases in plasma LA, GLA, DGLA and AA, and these changes in plasma LA (P < 0.001), GLA (P = 0.001), ALA (P = 0.018), DGLA (P < 0.001) and AA (P = 0.015) were significantly different between the groups (Fig. 1 and Table 1). At week 8, plasma LA (Fig. 1), ALA (P = 0.004) and DGLA (P = 0.008) were higher in the high LA group than that in the low LA group (Table 1).
Blood pressure, glucose, and serum lipid profiles
The low LA group showed significant decreases from baseline in diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol at 8 weeks (Table 1). Changes in total cholesterol (P < 0.001) and LDL-cholesterol (P = 0.003) were significantly different between groups, and greater reductions in the low LA group were observed than those in the high LA group. The high LA group also showed significant increases in serum apoB and plasma ox-LDL at 8 weeks. The changes in the serum apoB (P = 0.010) and plasma ox-LDL (P = 0.018) were significantly different between groups, with increases observed in the high LA group and decreases in the low LA group.
hs-CRP, hemostatic markers and Lp-PLA2 activity
The low LA group showed significant increases from baseline in hs-CRP, fibrinogen and aPTT at 8 weeks (Table 1). The high LA group showed significant increases from baseline in plasma Lp-PLA2 activity at 8 weeks. The changes in the plasma Lp-PLA2 activity were significantly different between groups (P = 0.002), with increases observed in the high LA group and decreases in both the medium LA and low LA groups (Fig. 1).
Correlations among changes in the plasma fatty acid levels, LDL, ox-LDL, apoB, CRP, hemostatic markers and Lp-PLA2 activity
Figure 2 shows the correlations among changes in plasma fatty acid levels, LDL, ox-LDL, apoB, CRP, hemostatic markers and Lp-PLA2 activity in all participants (n = 147). The changes in plasma LA were positively correlated with the changes in GLA, ALA, DGLA, AA, Lp-PLA2 activity (all P-values < 0.001), apoB (P = 0.002), ox-LDL (P = 0.001) and LDL-cholesterol (P = 0.001). The changes in Lp-PLA2 activity were positively correlated with the changes in LA (Fig. 3, r = 0.322, P < 0.001), DGLA (P = 0.002), AA (P = 0.038), LDL-cholesterol (P < 0.001), ox-LDL (P < 0.001) and apoB (P < 0.001) but were negatively correlated with the changes in CEPI-CT (Fig. 3, r = -0.266, P = 0.001) and also showed a trend toward a negative correlation with aPTT (P = 0.062). Other correlations among plasma fatty acid levels, LDL, ox-LDL, apoB, CRP, hemostatic markers and Lp-PLA2 activity are shown in Fig. 2 (P-values are available in Additional file 1).
Correlation matrix among changes in plasma fatty acid levels, LDL, ox-LDL, apoB, hs-CRP, hemostatic markers and Lp-PLA2 activity. Correlations were obtained using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Red indicates a positive correlation, and blue indicates a negative correlation
Correlations among changes in Lp-PLA2 activity, LA, and CEPI-CT. r: Pearson’s correlation coefficients
Because the regulation of Lp-PLA2 activity is complex, a multiple linear regression analysis was performed to determine the independent effects of the following variables on Lp-PLA2 activity: age, BMI, gender, baseline Lp-PLA2 and changes in LDL-cholesterol, ox-LDL, LA, apoB, GLA, DGLA, AA, ALA, EPA, and DHA. Lp-PLA2 activity was affected by baseline Lp-PLA2 activity (β = –0.228; CI: –2.432, –0.511), as well as changes in apoB (β = 0.304; CI: 0.019, 0.058) and plasma LA (β = 0.198; CI: 0.187, 1.358) (R2 = 0.255, P = 0.010).
This study examined whether changes in LA intake in the form of soy oil over 8 weeks would alter Lp-PLA2 activity, which is an independent risk factor for CVD. The results showed that 8 weeks of daily 10 mL supplementation with soy oil, equivalent to approximately 5 mL of LA, increased the plasma LA levels by 14% and Lp-PLA2 activity by 6.2% without changes in LDL-cholesterol levels. Thus, the major finding of the present study is that when the total energy intake was kept constant, an increase in plasma LA from intake of soy oil was independently associated with an increase in Lp-PLA2 activity in non-diabetic and non-obese healthy subjects who were not taking any medications or supplements that could affect lipid metabolism, platelet function or inflammation.
To date, no dietary intervention studies have examined changes in n-6 fatty acids in the context of Lp-PLA2 activity, and only one cross-sectional study with a large population examined the potential association between Lp-PLA2 activity and plasma fatty acid levels [12]. Steffen et al. showed that Lp-PLA2 mass and activity were significantly higher in participants with greater plasma levels of LA and DGLA [12]. In this study, the change (difference from baseline) in Lp-PLA2 activity was associated with changes in plasma n-6 PUFAs, including LA, DGLA and AA; however, a multiple regression analysis revealed that only the change in LA was independently and positively correlated with the change in Lp-PLA2 activity—a hallmark of inflammation, atherosclerosis and CVD [2, 12].
As a major unsaturated fatty acid in the diet, LA is considered to be atherogenic because of its pro-oxidative and proinflammatory properties [12, 17, 18]. Thus, the positive association between changes in plasma LA and Lp-PLA2 activity in this study may be explained by the influence of LA on inflammation. Hennig et al. [17] also reported that the positive association between LA and Lp-PLA2 was due to its promotion of inflammation and the activation of phosphoinositol 3-kinase in cell culture models [17]. Indeed, there is a considerable body of evidence showing that LA affects inflammatory signaling cascades, which may in turn influence Lp-PLA2 expression via phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase. However, further research is needed to determine whether these effects are involved in the induction of Lp-PLA2 expression in vivo.
Additionally, an increase in Lp-PLA2 activity was also related to increases in apoB and ox-LDL and a decrease in CEPI-CT. Ox-LDL is generated under oxidative stress [19], which is caused by increased LA and Lp-PLA2 activity [1, 2, 12, 17, 18]. LA was positively correlated with Lp-PLA2 activity in the present study, suggesting that oxidative stress is enhanced in the high LA group. Moreover, Wang et al. [20] demonstrated that ox-LDL stimulated expression of Lp-PLA2; therefore, a vicious cycle of ox-LDL generation by elevated LA or Lp-PLA2-induced oxidative stress and increased Lp-PLA2 due to ox-LDL might occur in the body. CEPI-CT has previously been related to bleeding time [21] and shown to serve as a method to identify high residual platelet reactivity despite aspirin therapy, thereby predicting the risk of ischemic events [22]. Thus, a negative correlation between changes in Lp-PLA2 activity and CEPI-CT and a positive correlation between changes in the plasma LA level and Lp-PLA2 activity could suggest an increase in the plasma LA level from increased dietary LA intake. Additionally, aPTT, as a functional assay, is accurate and highly reproducible and can identify abnormalities within the coagulation pathway [22]. In this study, the low LA group showed significantly increased aPTT (by 3.5%) at 8 weeks and a trend toward a negative correlation between changes in Lp-PLA2 activity and aPTT.
There was an increase in fibrinogen and hs-CRP within the normal range in the low LA group, despite significant reductions in LDL- and total-cholesterol. These findings may indicate a transient phenomenon present during the transition from normal LA intake to low LA intake. Similarly, Tylner et al. [23] observed a negative relationship between changes in fibrinogen and the intake of an energy-dense formula with oleic and LA in older, frail adults with a lower dietary intake than their estimated needs.
The present study has several strengths, including dietary intervention with different levels of LA and the direct measurement of plasma fatty acid levels compared with that of previous studies, as well as indirect measurements of fat intake from dietary recall. Additionally, numerous demographic, lifestyle and clinical factor adjustments were made to better determine whether changes in LA were associated with changes in Lp-PLA2 activity. In terms of limitations, the fat intake in the medium LA dietary group (control group) is typical for the Korean population but much lower than that in Western countries. Thus, the results of this study cannot be generalized to other populations with a higher fat intake. Furthermore, it should be noted that the role in Lp-PLA2 is still controversial. Despite these limitations, the present findings indicate that higher plasma LA levels, resulting from a higher dietary LA intake, are associated with higher Lp-PLA2 activity, as well as increases in apoB and ox-LDL and decreases in CEPI-CT.
An increase in plasma LA following oral intake of soy oil for 8 weeks elevated apoB, ox-LDL, and Lp-PLA2 activity in healthy subjects. Changes in plasma LA positively and independently correlated with changes in Lp-PLA2 activity, which was negatively correlated with changes in CEPI-CT. Our results suggest that consumption of n-6 fatty acids, especially LA, is associated with increases in Lp-PLA2 activity and CEPI-CT, and these increases may be mediated by elevated oxidative stress.
ALA:
Alpha-linolenic acid
One-way analysis of variance
apo:
Apolipoprotein
aPTT:
Activated partial thromboplastin time
CEPI-CT:
Collagen-epinephrine closure time
CVD:
DGLA:
Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid
DHA:
Docosahexaenoic acid
Eicosapentaenoic acid
GC-MS:
Gas chromatography mass spectrometry
GLA:
Gamma-linolenic acid
HDL:
High-density lipoprotein
hs-CRP:
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein
LA:
LDL:
Low-density lipoprotein
Lp-PLA2:
Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2
ox-LDL:
Oxidized low-density lipoprotein
PAF-AH:
Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase
Prothrombin time
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This work was supported by the Bio-Synergy Research Project of the Ministry of Science, ICT and the Future Planning through the National Research Foundation, Republic of Korea [NRF-2012M3A9C4048762]; the Korean Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [HI14C2686010115 and HI14C2686].
The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
MKK contributed to analysis and interpretation of the data and drafted the manuscript. MJK contributed to analysis and interpretation of the data and drafted the manuscript. AL contributed to acquisition and analysis of the data. HJY contributed to analysis and interpretation of the data and drafted the manuscript. JSH contributed to acquisition and analysis of the data. SHJ contributed to conception and design of the research and acquisition and interpretation of the data. JHL contributed to conception and design of the research, contributed to analysis and interpretation of the data, and drafted the manuscript. All authors critically revised the manuscript, read and approved the final manuscript, and agree to be fully accountable for ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the work.
Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the Institutional Review Board of Yonsei University approved the study protocol, which complied with the Helsinki Declaration.
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National Leading Research Laboratory of Clinical Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics, Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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, Jung Soo Her
Department of Food and Nutrition, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project, College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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Additional file
P-values for correlations among changes in (Δ) plasma fatty acid level, LDL-cholesterol, oxidized LDL, apolipoprotein B, hs-CRP, hemostatic markers and Lp-PLA2 activity. P-values were derived from Pearson’s correlation coefficients. (DOCX 29 kb)
Kim, M., Kim, M., Lee, A. et al. Impact of 8-week linoleic acid intake in soy oil on Lp-PLA2 activity in healthy adults. Nutr Metab (Lond) 14, 32 (2017) doi:10.1186/s12986-017-0186-2
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Business Accounting App Khatabook Raises $25 Million Series A Capital
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Author: shweta@yournxt.com
Bangalore based Khatabook, a mobile app platform that allows the SMEs of the country to keep the transaction records has confirmed bagging $25 million Series A funding. The fresh funds are being infused by big names like GGV Capital, Partners of DST Global, RTP Global, Sequoia India, Tencent, and Y Combinator.
Notably, more than 20 angel investors that include names like Amrish Rau, Anand Chandrasekharan, Deep Nishar, Gokul Rajaram, Jitendra Gupta, Kunal Bahl, and Kunal Shah also made their contribution in the round. Prior to this round, Khatabook had secured $1.5 million in seed round financing from Sequoia Capital India.
Launched in 2018 by Ravish Naresh, the platform helps micro, small and medium-sized companies keep the business transaction details digitally. The firm claims to have more than 5 million merchants using the mobile app of the firm in more than 3,000 cities across the country. Available in 11 Indian languages, the company has a presence in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan as well.
Ravish Naresh, CEO, and Co-founder, KhataBook talking about the funding said, “With this round of funding, we are looking to scale our tech team, build more products that can help SMEs manage their business, and focus strongly on security and other essential apps."
“India is at an inflection point with dramatically low data costs leading to strong adoption of smartphones, especially among its millions of merchants. At Khatabook, we have taken early but significant steps towards leveraging this trend to digitize India’s shopkeepers. For most of our merchants, we are the first business software they’ve used in their entire life. And we will continue to build more India-first innovations to further enable the growth of what is still a largely untapped sector, the CEO of the firm further added to his statement.
Sequoia Capital India MD Shailendra Singh, commenting on the capital infusion said, “KhataBook is having a huge impact on millions of Indian SME’s by becoming the system of record for their business dealings, the equivalent of a business ledger on their mobile phones. In most cases, it’s their first mobile SaaS product and could well be their gateway to using other mobile applications. For example, mobile payments are now growing on KhataBook at a very rapid pace. Sequoia India couldn’t be more thrilled with the exponential growth the company has experienced since joining our Surge program. The team is thrilled to double down on the investment in KhataBook and excited to support Ravish and the team on their journey.”
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Farewell, Homie: O’Quinn Signs One-Year Deal with Pacers
Free agent and former Knicks forward Kyle O’Quinn has come to terms with a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Indiana Pacers. O’Quinn’s free agency began two weeks ago when he declined a $4.2 million player option with New York. He joins a Pacers team that finished the season 48-34 and took the Eastern Conference… Read More ›
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Knicks Sign Arron Afflalo for 2 Years, $16 Million
The Knicks made their first significant move in free agency today with the signing of veteran guard Aaron Afflalo to a two-year deal worth $16 million.
Knicks Sign Shannon Brown, Earl Clark to 10-Day Contracts
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Knicks Sign Jeremy Tyler to Reported 2-Year Deal
The Knicks have added much-needed relief to their forecourt depth with the announcement yesterday of signing 6’10 Jeremy Tyler to a reported two-year deal…
Knicks Sign Kenyon Martin to 10-Day Contract
The Knicks’ long-standing interest in Kenyon Martin has come to the fruition today with the two sides agreeing to a 10-day contract.
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Marine guns for justice
By Laura Italiano
February 13, 2012 | 5:00am
Ryan Jerome Steven Hirsch
Manhattan prosecutors have quietly offered a no-jail, misdemeanor deal to the retired young Marine who’d been facing a mandatory 3 1/2-year prison sentence after trying to check his Indiana-registered handgun at the Empire State Building, court papers reveal.
But the former tow gunner, Ryan Jerome — who has garnered letter-writing support from hundreds of current and former Marines from across the country — is saying no thanks, and continues to ask that the case be dropped altogether.
The DA’s conciliatory move — and the fact that it’s been on the table for two months — was revealed in a letter filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Throughout the two months, Jerome has argued through his lawyer that he does not deserve any criminal record — felony or misdemeanor.
“We continue to believe the case should be dismissed outright,” said Jerome’s lawyer, Mark Bederow, declining to discuss the negotiations.
Jerome, 28, is a West Bend-based jeweler, and had brought his legally-registered .45-cal Ruger to New York on a business and pleasure trip because he was transporting $15,000 in gold to a Long Island refinery, he argues.
He was arrested during a visit to the Empire State Building, when he alerted authorities to the gun after seeing a sign that said all weapons must be checked.
It is a felony — carrying a 3 1/2-year mandatory minimum sentence — to posses any gun in New York, even one legally registered elsewhere, unless it is registered in New York. Prosecutors typically use discretion in charging folks caught with guns, sometimes offering pleas to misdemeanors as in Jerome’s case, but almost never dismissing the charges outright.
Before coming to New York, Jerome had looked at a website that described which states he could legally bring his gun to — but was confused by how the columns were formatted on his screen and sincerely believed that his Indiana license was sufficient here, his lawyer has argued.
“The New York District Attorney’s Office is offering to allow your client to plead guilty to a single Class “A” misdemeanor in full satisfaction of all charges,” said the letter, addressed to Jerome’s lawyer from the prosecutor heading the case, Joseph Davis.
“This plea deal is made available to your client with the understanding that should he decide to accept said offer, he would be sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000.00 and required to perform 10 days of community service at a place both parties could agree was appropriate,” the prosecutor’s letter read.
Jerome is due back in court March 20 to learn if he has been indicted.
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Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses
Simone MacRì, Daniele Neri, Tommaso Ruberto, Violet Mwaffo, Sachit Butail, Maurizio Porfiri
The study of zebrafish behavior represents a cornerstone upon which basic researchers promise to advance knowledge in life sciences. Although zebrafish swim in a three-dimensional (3D) space, their behavior in the lab is almost exclusively scored in two dimensions, whereby zebrafish are recorded using a single camera providing 2D videos. Whether this dimensional reduction preserves the reliability of data has not been addressed. Here we show that, compared to a 3D observation, 2D data are flawed by over-reporting and under-reporting of locomotory differences. Specifically, we first reconstructed 3D trajectories through the integration of synchronous information derived from two cameras, and then compared them with the original 2D views in classical experimental paradigms assessing shoaling tendency, fear, anxiety, and general locomotion. Our results suggest that traditional behavioral scoring of individual zebrafish performed in 2D may undermine data integrity, thereby requiring a general reconsideration of scoring zebrafish behavior to incorporate a 3D approach. We then demonstrate that, compared to 2D, a 3D approach requires a reduced number of subjects to achieve the same degree of validity. We anticipate these findings to largely benefit animal welfare by reducing the number of experimental subjects, without affecting statistical power.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01990-z
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MacRì, S., Neri, D., Ruberto, T., Mwaffo, V., Butail, S., & Porfiri, M. (2017). Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses. Scientific Reports, 7(1), [1962]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01990-z
Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses. / MacRì, Simone; Neri, Daniele; Ruberto, Tommaso; Mwaffo, Violet; Butail, Sachit; Porfiri, Maurizio.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1962, 01.12.2017.
MacRì, S, Neri, D, Ruberto, T, Mwaffo, V, Butail, S & Porfiri, M 2017, 'Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 1962. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01990-z
MacRì S, Neri D, Ruberto T, Mwaffo V, Butail S, Porfiri M. Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses. Scientific Reports. 2017 Dec 1;7(1). 1962. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01990-z
MacRì, Simone ; Neri, Daniele ; Ruberto, Tommaso ; Mwaffo, Violet ; Butail, Sachit ; Porfiri, Maurizio. / Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses. In: Scientific Reports. 2017 ; Vol. 7, No. 1.
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Scheisse: German Banks Keep Suing Goldman Sachs
By Patrick Clark • 09/07/12 5:59pm
German lender DZ Bank AG sued Goldman Sachs over $188.6 million in mortgage-backed securities, according to Bloomberg, claiming that investment bank misrepresented the loans underlying the securities.
Earlier in the week, Bayerische Landesbank sued Goldman over about $511.9 million in securities underwritten by Goldman, charging that the securities were riskier than promised and were “destined to fail,” according to Bloomberg, citing a complaint filed Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court.
And IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG sued Goldman, alleging “material misrepresentations” on $73.2 million in mortgage securities. (IKB also sued Citigroup in an apparently similar suit.)
Together which serves to remind us of Michael Lewis’ line about who was buying the worst of the mortgage-backed securities n the run-up to the financial crisis: “Stupid Germans in Düsseldorf.”
Filed Under: Politics, News & Politics, goldman sachs, Michael Lewis, Legal Briefs, Landesbanks
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PMA induces expression from the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter via the activation of JNK and ERK in the presence of adenoviral E1A proteins
Amde Selassie Shifera, John A. Hardin
The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) thymidine kinase (TK) promoter contains elements involved in both constitutive and induced expression. We determined that phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induces the HSV-1 TK promoter in HEK293 cells. However, PMA did not induce expression from the promoter in HeLa cells and did not result in a globally increased gene expression in HEK293 cells. Induction of HSV-1 TK promoter required activation of both of JNK and ERK pathways. However, activation of the two pathways alone was not sufficient for induction of HSV-1 TK promoter. By transiently transfecting into HeLa cells the adenoviral E1A gene, which exists as an integrant in HEK293 genome, we demonstrated that E1A proteins are necessary for induction of HSV-1 TK promoter by PMA. We propose mechanisms by which signaling pathways activated by the tumor-promoter PMA cooperate with the oncogene E1A to stimulate a eukaryotic promoter, namely the HSV-1 TK promoter.
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2009.08.013
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Shifera, A. S., & Hardin, J. A. (2009). PMA induces expression from the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter via the activation of JNK and ERK in the presence of adenoviral E1A proteins. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 490(2), 145-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2009.08.013
PMA induces expression from the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter via the activation of JNK and ERK in the presence of adenoviral E1A proteins. / Shifera, Amde Selassie; Hardin, John A.
In: Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 490, No. 2, 15.10.2009, p. 145-157.
Shifera, AS & Hardin, JA 2009, 'PMA induces expression from the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter via the activation of JNK and ERK in the presence of adenoviral E1A proteins', Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 490, no. 2, pp. 145-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2009.08.013
Shifera AS, Hardin JA. PMA induces expression from the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter via the activation of JNK and ERK in the presence of adenoviral E1A proteins. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 2009 Oct 15;490(2):145-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2009.08.013
Shifera, Amde Selassie ; Hardin, John A. / PMA induces expression from the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter via the activation of JNK and ERK in the presence of adenoviral E1A proteins. In: Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 2009 ; Vol. 490, No. 2. pp. 145-157.
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How to Create a Marketing Persona for Your Business
by Oneposter | Sep 5, 2017 | Animation, Graphic Design, Marketing | 0 comments
Because Your Target Audience is Everything
So you’ve decided you want to produce an explainer video, corporate video, animated video or marketing video for your business. Great. The first thing you need to establish is who you’re targeting this video to. But figuring out who your target audience is isn’t always as easy as you might think.
What is a Marketing Persona?
One way to hone your target audience down is to imagine them it in the form of an actual person, or a marketing persona. Personas are the result of a combination of actual data and educated guesses, representing different people your business is trying to communicate with and sell to. Not only do personas help you to envisage your target audience, they also help you hone the messages you want to communicate in your marketing material – like videos.
The tricky thing about a target audience is that sometimes it’s not actually an ‘a’. Many businesses communicate with and sell to a range of audiences, so often one communication style isn’t appropriate for all audiences. The solution? Create 3-5 marketing personas to identify the different kinds of people you’re targeting.
Getting Started on Your Marketing Persona
The first step is to visualise these ‘people’ as actual people. Give them names, ages, family, jobs, salaries, interests, education achievements, locations, even political persuasions if you think it’s appropriate. All of these demographics are firstly based on key data you know to be true about your audience, then expanded with calculated guesses to turn statistics into more relatable ideas. For example, if you sell makeup, chances are your primary target audience is female. If you’re a brand like M.A.C, you’re perceived as being quite young, hip and funky so the women who buy from you might be aged 18-39, be in long-term relationships but not have children, and have well-paying jobs with lots of expendable income. Now, expand your stats – and don’t be afraid to get creative. Your first target persona is called Lotte (short for Charlotte). Lotte is 23 and has been with her boyfriend for two years. She rents a room in a Grey Lynn flat, she works in social media in a trendy boutique marketing firm in Ponsonby, she loves online shopping, and her favourite hobby is pilates.
On the other side of the coin, perhaps you’re a brand like Avon which might be considered older, classic and less likely to experiment with makeup trends. Therefore, the women who buy from you might be aged 39-69, be married or divorced with teenage or grown-up children and be nearing retirement. This persona might be called Christine. Christine is 59, is a nurse, and has been a nurse since she left school aged 18. She and her husband own their family home in Christchurch plus a rental in Tauranga, and they have two grown sons, both of whom are married (and one of whom has a child of his own). Christine is starting to think about retiring, because she’d like to spend more time in the garden and playing with her grandson.
How to Use Different Personas in Your Videos
Lotte and Christine are very different people. In the same way, the messages they respond to are very different too. When it comes to producing a video, it’s important to establish very early on who will watch this video, and what response you want from them. If you’re M.A.C, you might produce a video about a new range of neon lipsticks that’s creative, fun and fast-paced because those are the kinds of things that people like Lotte might respond best to. If you’re Avon, you might produce a video about a classic range of foundation that’s a bit slower in pace and reserved in theme because that’s more like Christine. Marketing personas give video producers an exact idea of who their target audience and the communication style that will best suit them, so they can come up with creative ideas that will see direct results.
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Bitcoin Suddenly Dives Below $7,000 As Crypto Markets Lose Billions
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets were suddenly sold off today, with the bitcoin price losing around $200 per bitcoin in minutes and dipping under the psychological $7,000 mark once again—continuing a period of relative volatility for digital tokens.
Bitcoin-rivals ethereum, Ripple’s XRP, bitcoin cash, litecoin, EOS and binance coin were also heavily sold off, wiping billions of dollars from the combined cryptocurrency market capitalization.
The cause of the sudden sell-off was not immediately clear, however, analysts have noted a drop in crypto market trading volume recently.
“All is quiet on the crypto front. Perhaps, a little too quiet,” Mati Greenspan, the founder of bitcoin and crypto research outlet Quantum Economics wrote in a note ahead of the bitcoin sell-off today, adding the dominance of the world’s biggest stablecoin, tether, “seems to be waning.”
Bitcoin was earlier trading at $6,880, down by 3.5% over the last 24-hour trading period, according to prices from U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase, with ethereum, Ripple’s XRP, litecoin, and bitcoin cash all off by between 5% and 8%.
EOS, a dectralized app token similar to ethereum, led the bitcoin and crypto market lower.
Earlier this year, bitcoin and cryptocurrency price watchers warned that “dismal” bitcoin volumes could mean the market was headed for a perfect storm.
In periods of low trading volume, crypto prices are more vulnerable to so-called whales moving the market by placing massive buy or sell orders at a little above or below current market rates. These can trigger trading algorithms that then send prices sharply higher or lower and can be a sign of market manipulation.
Meanwhile, research out earlier today suggested the bitcoin price might struggle over the short term due to the $2 billion PlusToken scandal—one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency scams.
The bitcoin price hasn’t fallen below $7,000 since the end of November and its sudden fall knocked … [+]
“That’s certainly something to consider when you are thinking about where the price is going, at least in the short term,” Kim Grauer, senior economist at blockchain analysis company Chainalysis told financial newswire Bloomberg. “It could be, according to our research, continued downward pressure.”
PlusToken scammers are thought to have sold some 25,000 bitcoin, according to Chainalysis data, with a further 20,000 still to be dumped back onto the market.
Billy Bambrough
I am a journalist with significant experience covering technology, finance, economics, and business around the world. As the founding editor of Verdict.co.uk I reported on how technology is changing business, political trends, and the latest culture and lifestyle. I have covered the rise of bitcoin and cryptocurrency since 2012 and have charted its emergence as a niche technology into the greatest threat to the established financial system the world has ever seen and the most important new technology since the internet itself. I have worked and written for CityAM, the Financial Times, and the New Statesman, amongst others. Follow me on Twitter @billybambrough or email me on billyATbillybambrough.com. Disclosure: I occasionally hold some small amount of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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Deutsche Bank’s Massive ‘Multi-Trillion Dollar’ By 2030 Bitcoin Question
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been written off by many as nothing more than a flash-in-the-pan fad, riddled with scams and criminals.
The bitcoin price, which looks set to close the year at twice its January price, has remained highly volatile—while sluggish bitcoin adoption continues to worry those in the crypto industry.
Now, amid warnings that the “fragile” fiat currency system will be put under strain in years ahead, Germany’s troubled Deutsche Bank has asked, “will fiat currencies survive,” in what it calls the “multi-trillion dollar (or bitcoin) question.”
“The forces that have held the current fiat system together now look fragile and they could unravel in the 2020s,” Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid wrote in a report looking at 24 alternative ideas for the next 10 years.
“If so, that will start to lead to a backlash against fiat money and demand for alternative currencies, such as gold or crypto could soar. The demand for alternative currencies will therefore likely be significantly higher by the time 2030 rolls around.”
The report blamed “decades of low labor costs” and inflation for weakening the fiat system and comes after a year that’s seen the bitcoin price boosted by social media giant Facebook’s plans to launch its own private cryptocurrency, dubbed libra, and countries from China to the European Union begin to explore how to create digital currencies of their own.
Central banks are still struggling to offset the effects of the global financial crisis that birthed bitcoin, with worries another so-far-unidentified crisis could be looming on the horizon.
“Will fiat currencies survive the policy dilemma that authorities will experience as they try to balance higher yields with record levels of debt,” Reid asked. “That’s the multi-trillion dollar (or bitcoin) question for the decade ahead.”
Bitcoin is often touted as an antidote to the central bank, debt-based monetary system, picking up the moniker “digital gold” for its built in scarcity. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin, with the supply drying up in the distant year of 2140.
Reid’s comments put him at odds with outgoing European Central Bank executive board member Benoît Cœuré, who last year described bitcoin as “the evil spawn of the financial crisis,” and has outlined plans for a European “central bank digital currency” to rival the likes of Facebook’s libra.
Deutsche Bank, which has seen its value cut by 90% in the ten years since bitcoin was created, has also predicted corporate and government banked cryptocurrencies will drive crypto adoption.
“Assuming governments back cryptocurrencies, and consumers want them, adoption rates will drive the timeline for mainstream use,” Reid wrote. “If current trends continue, there could be 200 million blockchain wallet users in 2030.”
Deutsche Bank has forecast there could be more than 200 million bitcoin and cryptocurrency users … [+]
Meanwhile, other banks are warning that the year ahead could bring an overhaul of the “status quo.”
“We see 2020 as a year where at nearly every turn, disruption of the status quo is an overriding theme,” Saxo Bank’s chief economist Steen Jakobsen wrote this week in a report titled “10 Outrageous Predictions for 2020.”
“The year could represent one big pendulum swing to opposites in politics, monetary and fiscal policy and, not least, the environment. In policy making, it could mean that central banks step aside and maybe even slightly normalize rates, while governments step into the breach with infrastructure and climate policy-linked spending.”
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20 Stocks That Could Double Your Money in 2020
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It might be hard to believe, but in just seven weeks we’ll be saying our goodbyes to 2019. Although investors have endured a couple of short-lived rough patches, it’s been an exceptionally strong year for the stock market. The broad-based S&P 500 is up 23%, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 18%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has returned almost 27%.
How good are these returns? Well, let’s just say that the S&P 500, inclusive of dividends and when adjusted for inflation, has historically returned 7% annually, with the Dow closer to 5.7% a year, on average, over its 123-year history.
And it’s not just these indexes that stand out. Of companies with a market cap of $300 million or larger, 124 have gained at least 100% year to date, through Nov. 5. Just because the calendar is about to change over to a new year doesn’t mean this optimism can’t carry over.
If you’re looking for a number of intriguing investment ideas for next year, consider these 20 stocks as possible candidates to double your money in 2020.
1. Innovative Industrial Properties
Yes, cannabis real estate investment trusts (REIT) are a real thing, and they can be quite lucrative! Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE:IIPR), the best-known marijuana REIT on Wall Street, is already profitable and growing at a lightning-quick pace. After beginning 2019 with 11 medical marijuana-growing and processing properties in its portfolio, it now owns 38 properties in 13 states that span 2.8 million square feet of rentable space.
The beauty of Innovative industrial Properties’ business model is that it creates highly predictable cash flow. The company’s weighted-average remaining lease term is 15.6 years, and its average current yield on its $403.3 million in invested capital is a cool 13.8%. At this rate, it’ll net a complete payback on its invested capital in just over five years.
As long as marijuana remains illicit at the federal level in the U.S., access to capital will be dicey for cannabis cultivators. That makes Innovative Industrial’s acquisition-and-lease model a veritable green rush gold mine for 2020.
Image source: Pinterest.
If you missed out on the Facebook IPO and have been kicking yourself for the past seven years, don’t fret. Social media photo-sharing site Pinterest (NYSE:PINS), which allows users to create their own virtual boards based on their interests, could be your second chance to profit.
Like most brand-name social media sites, Pinterest has seen exceptionally strong user growth. Monthly active user (MAU) count rose to 322 million by the end of September, up 71 million from the prior-year period. What’s most notable about this growth is that it’s mostly coming from international markets (38% MAU growth vs. 8% in the U.S.). Even though ad-based revenue is minimal in foreign markets, it nevertheless demonstrates that Pinterest has global appeal.
The company is also making serious strides to monetize these users by boosting average revenue per user (ARPU) globally. In recent quarters, Pinterest has simplified its ad system for smaller businesses, focused its efforts on boosting ARPU in overseas markets, and pushed for video, which has a much higher repost rate than static images. These efforts appear to be paying early dividends, with international ARPU more the doubling to $0.13 from $0.06 over the past year.
With Pinterest forecast to push into recurring profitability next year, a doubling of its stock is certainly not out of the question.
3. Intercept Pharmaceuticals
Never overlook a first-mover advantage — especially when it pertains to a $35 billion indication!
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a liver disease that affects between 2% and 5% of all U.S. adults, has no cure or Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatments, and is expected to be the leading cause of liver transplants by the midpoint of the next decade. And according to Wall Street, it’s a $35 billion untapped disease.
In late September, Intercept Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ICPT) submitted a new drug application for Ocaliva, a treatment for NASH. While the high dose of Ocaliva did lead to an unsettling number of pruritus (itching)-based dropouts in late-stage studies, it also produced a statistically significant reduction in liver fibrosis levels, relative to baseline and the placebo, without a worsening in NASH at the 18-month mark. Even if Intercept’s Ocaliva only secures a small subset of the NASH market, it has the potential, if approved by the FDA, to quickly earn blockbuster status of $1 billion or more in annual sales. Suffice it to say that 2020 could be a banner year for this midcap biotech stock.
Image source: Redfin.
4. Redfin
With interest rates and mortgage rates on the rise throughout much of 2018, it looked as if the fun had come to an end for a hot housing market. But following a trio of Federal Reserve rate cuts and a big drop in Treasury yields, the housing industry is hotter than it’s been in more than a year. That, along with low mortgage rates, could be the perfect recipe for online real estate brokerage company Redfin (NASDAQ:RDFN) to double in 2020.
Unlike some of the companies you’ll see on this list, profitability isn’t a near-term priority for Redfin. Rather, scaling its tech-driven platform and taking real estate service market share are its primary goals. One way Redfin is doing this is by undercutting traditional real estate agents with its salaried agents. With a listing fee of just 1%, Redfin cuts out costs that generally irritate buyers and sellers.
More so, Redfin is looking to infiltrate the high-margin servicing business to make the buying and selling experience less of a hassle. It’s expanding nationally and consolidating tasks, such as title, appraisal, and home inspection, into a single package that consumers can designate the company to handle, thereby removing a key buying or selling objection. Perhaps it’s no surprise that this real estate disruptor grew sales by 39% in the second quarter and saw its market share rise 11 basis points to 0.94% of U.S. existing home sales from Q1 2019.
5. Meet Group
The online dating industry is worth, by some accounts, $3 billion in annual revenue, and Meet Group (NASDAQ:MEET), which specializes in livestreaming and social media interaction (including online dating), is a company that growth and value investors should be swiping right on.
Whereas most of the tech world focuses on bigger names with broader brand recognition, Meet Group’s mobile portfolio of apps, which includes MeetMe, Lovoo, Skout, Tagged, and Growl, has done an admirable job of growing the business. More specifically, the company’s laser focus on bolstering its video business is really paying dividends. During the second quarter, daily active video users increased to 892,000, representing 21% of total users where Live is available on their app. This is important given that video revenue per daily active user grew to $0.26 in Q2 2019 from $0.15 in the prior-year quarter.
Furthermore, Meet Group’s big spending on security enhancements is now in the rearview mirror, according to a third-quarter preliminary update. This mobile livestreaming site is growing at a double-digit rate, has a focus on high-margin video, and sports a forward price-to-earnings ratio of eight (yes, eight!). This multiple, and stock, could both easily double and still have room to run.
6. Exelixis
In all fairness, Exelixis (NASDAQ:EXEL) has had an incredible run on the coattails of lead drug Cabometyx. Following its approval to treat second-line renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and first-line RCC, the company’s share price rose from $4 to $32 between Jan. 2016 and Jan. 2018. Now, back at $16, Wall Street is wondering, what’s next?
In the early months of 2020, Exelixis and partner Bristol-Myers Squibb may have that answer. The duo are expected to reveal results from the CheckMate 9ER late-stage trial that combines Cabometyx with Bristol-Myers’ blockbuster immunotherapy Opdivo, which also happens to be an RCC rival. If this combination therapy dazzles, the duo could snag an even greater share of the RCC market, further boosting Cabometyx’s case as a blockbuster drug.
Investors should also know that Exelixis offers a rare value proposition in the highly competitive and often money-losing biotech space. This is a company offering double-digit sales growth, a forward P/E of 16, and a PEG ratio of a minuscule 0.36. With patent cliffs remaining challenging for Big Pharma, Exelixis, in addition to potentially notching a win with CheckMate 9ER, might find itself as a buyout candidate in 2020.
7. StoneCo
Although Warren Buffett is best known for buying value stocks, the fastest-growing stock in Buffett’s portfolio (at least from a revenue perspective), StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE), could be primed to double in 2020.
StoneCo isn’t exactly a household name, but this $10 billion payment solutions and business management software developer is finding plenty of interest for its fintech offerings in Brazil. During the second quarter, which StoneCo reported in mid-August, the company saw total payment volume for its merchants rise 61% year over year, while active clients increased 80% to 360,200 from the prior-year period. Since Brazil remains largely underbanked, there’s a long-tail opportunity for StoneCo to make its mark with small-and-medium-sized businesses in the country.
StoneCo is also investing heavily into its software subscription model. On a sequential quarterly basis, subscribed clients more than doubled to approximately 70,000 in Q2 from 32,000 in Q1 2019. While StoneCo won’t appear cheap in 2020 due to its aggressive reinvestment strategy, its Wall Street-estimated top-line growth rate of 38% may have enough firepower to double this stock.
Image source: Planet 13.
8. Planet 13 Holdings
Although legalizing marijuana across the U.S. would make life easier for vertically integrated multistate operators (MSO), it’s not exactly a problem for Planet 13 Holdings (OTC:PLNHF), which approaches its seed-to-sale model a bit differently than other MSOs.
Planet 13 is all about creating the most unique experience imaginable for cannabis consumers. The company’s SuperStore in Las Vegas, Nevada, just west of the Strip, spans 112,000 square feet and will feature a pizzeria, coffee shop, events center, and consumer-facing processing site. At 112,000 square feet, it’s the largest dispensary in the U.S., and is actually 7,000 square feet bigger than the average Walmart. The company is also developing a second location that’ll open next year in Santa Ana, Calif., just minutes from Disneyland.
Aside from its sheer size and selection, Planet 13’s transparency and technology stand out. The company is utilizing self-pay kiosks in its stores to facilitate the payment process, and provides monthly updates on foot traffic and average paying ticket size for investors. Maybe most striking, Planet 13 has about 10% of Nevada’s entire cannabis market share. It could have its investors seeing green in 2020.
9. First Majestic Silver
Precious-metal mining isn’t exactly known as a high-growth industry. However, following years of conservative spending, and after witnessing gold and silver spot prices soar in 2019, miners like First Majestic Silver (NYSE:AG) are suddenly sitting pretty.
Even before gold and silver moved higher by a double-digit percentage in response to falling U.S. Treasury yields, First Majestic was making waves. In May 2018, it closed a deal to acquire Primero Mining and its flagship San Dimas mine. Between incorporating the low-cost San Dimas into its portfolio, and looking at ways to bolster its existing assets (e.g., modifying the roasting circuit at its La Encantada mine to add up to 1.5 million ounces of silver production per year), First Majestic has seen its silver equivalent ounce (SEO) production grow from 16.2 million ounces in 2017 to perhaps north of 26 million SEO in 2019.
First Majestic should also benefit from a return to historic norms in the gold-to-silver ratio (i.e., the amount of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold). Historically, the gold-to-silver ratio has hovered around 65, but is currently at closer to 84. This would suggest silver has the potential to outperform gold in the intermediate-term; and no mining company has greater exposure to silver as a percentage of total revenue than First Majestic Silver.
10. Trupanion
According to the American Pet Products Association, an estimated $75.4 billion will be spent on our pets in 2019, with $19 billion alone on veterinary care. Given that 63.4 million U.S. households have a dog, and 42.7 million have a cat, the opportunity for the pet insurance market is huge. That’s where Trupanion (NASDAQ:TRUP) comes in.
Trupanion is a provider of lifelong insurance policies for cats and dogs. Like any insurance company, Trupanion is built for long-term profitability. Most insurers offer predictable cash flow and have exceptional pricing power, which is a necessity if they’re to cover claims. But Trupanion is going where few insurers have gone before. U.S. and Canadian pet insurance market penetration is just 1% and 2%, respectively, which is providing some learning curve bumps along the way, but also giving Trupanion an incredibly long runway to growth.
Trupanion is currently unprofitable, but it appears close to turning the corner to profitability. Sales grew by 26% in the second quarter, and are expected to romp higher by 20% in 2020, according to Wall Street. If the company continues to find success with referrals, it’s very possible it could surprise in the earnings column next year.
11. Ping Identity
What do you get when you combine some of the hottest tech trends into one company? None other than identity solutions provider Ping Identity (NYSE:PING), which recently IPO’d in September.
While there are plenty of cybersecurity providers, Ping’s uniqueness derives from its use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to attempt to identify users and computers as trusted. Being able to operate within the confines of traditional enterprise networks, or being tasked with securing cloud networks, Ping offers an assortment of products that should be able to meet the needs of small, medium, and large-scale businesses. Not surprisingly, it should be capable of double-digit sales growth in the near-term, like its peers.
What also can’t be overlooked in the fast-growing security space is that Ping’s valuation is a modest $1.3 billion. After being acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity for $600 million in 2016, Ping delivered a doubling of that value in three years, following its IPO. This demonstrates the potential of focused individual security, and makes it all the more likely that Ping Identity could be quickly scooped up by a larger rival.
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12. Livongo Health
As you’ve probably caught on by now, this list of stocks that could double in 2020 is full of disruptors, and Livongo Health (NASDAQ:LVGO) certainly fits the bill.
Livongo is a developer of solutions that helps people change their health habits. By supplying testing kits that connect to smartphones, and utilizing data science, Livongo works to change the behavior of diabetics, and can also be used to assist patients with hypertension. Given that over 30 million people have diabetes (most being type 2 diabetics), and a number of these folks could use some serious help managing their symptoms, Livongo Health’s products are exactly the disruptor needed in this space.
According to the company’s second-quarter results, the number of clients in Livongo’s ecosystem nearly doubled on a year-over-year basis to 720, while the number of enrolled diabetes members did more than double to 192,934. More importantly, Livongo’s triple-digit sales growth rate cannot be overlooked. While profits are highly unlikely in 2020, a year of market-topping revenue growth is very possible.
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13. Lovesac
When the calendar changes to 2020, relax, put your feet up, and let small-cap Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) do the heavy lifting for your portfolio.
Lovesac, the home furnishings company that sells beanbag chairs, sectional couches, and a host of other in-home decorations, has struggled in 2019 amid trade-war concerns. It’s been hit hard by higher tariff costs, and that’s clearly brought investor worry to the forefront.
However, a quick look at Lovesac’s second-quarter operating results should relieve most worries. By passing along modest price hikes to consumers, as well as reducing its reliance on China from 75% to 44% of its manufacturing, the company has, in a very short time frame, reduced the impact of the trade war going forward.
What’s more, these price hikes don’t appear to be adversely impacting the company’s fast-growing and niche furnishings business. Lovesac reiterated full-year sales growth of 40% to 45%, with comparable store sales growth coming in at 40.7% in the second quarter, and noted that new customers and repeat clients are driving growth. Although profitability is still probably two years away, sales growth of at least 40%, with a price-to-sales ratio of right around 1, could be more than enough to send this stock rocketing higher.
14. Amarin
The biotech industry is always a good bet for a volatility, and Ireland-based Amarin (NASDAQ:AMRN) might have a real shot to grow from a midcap to a large-cap valuation in 2020 thanks to its lead drug, Vasecpa.
Vascepa, a purified fish oil derivative, was approved by the FDA all the way back in 2012 to treat patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia (SHTG). But it’s not Vascepa’s potential in treating SHTG patients that’s got Wall Street excited. Rather, it’s a supplemental new drug application stemming from a five-year Harvard study in 8,179 people with milder (but still high) triglyceride levels. The results showed that Vascepa lowered the aggregate risk of heart attack, stroke, and death in these patients by 25%. In other words, if Vascepa were to be approved for an expanded label indication to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, its potential pool of patients could grow tenfold, as would its sales potential.
Later this month, on Nov. 14, an AdCom meeting will take place to discuss Amarin’s marketing application for Vascepa, as well as to vote on whether or not the members of the committee favor approval. By January 2020, at the latest, Amarin should have the FDA’s official decision on Vascepa (the FDA isn’t required to follow the AdCom’s vote, but it often does). If I were a betting man, I’d count on positive reviews all around.
15. CalAmp
In Aug. 2018, Bain & Co. predicted that the Internet of Things global market would more than double from $235 billion in spending to $520 billion in just four years’ time (between 2017 and 2021). That global opportunity is too lucrative to overlook for small-cap CalAmp (NASDAQ:CAMP).
CalAmp, which provides software and subscription-based services, as well as cloud platforms that support a connected economy, has been hurt in recent quarters by the trade war with China, as well as sales weakness in its Telematics segment that’s been tied to a few core customers. However, CalAmp has reduced its Telematics product sourcing from China to around 50% from 70% to 80% earlier in the year, thereby minimizing the pain it feels from the trade war. Also, a number of customers blamed for its sales slowdown in Telematics (e.g., Caterpillar) are on the cusp of ramping up production as upgrades are made from 3G to 4G.
As Telematics growth picks back up, the company has seen record sales from its software subscription segment. Sales rose 65% year over year in the latest quarter, and now account for a third of total quarterly revenue. In short, the CalAmp growth story is just getting started, and 2020 could feature some very favorable year-on-year comparisons.
16. Aimmune Therapeutics
Another biotech stock with a potential first-mover advantage in 2020 is Aimmune Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AIMT).
Aimmune’s lead drug is Palforzia, an oral drug that’s designed to lessen the symptoms associated with peanut allergy in children and teens. There is no FDA drug currently approved to treat peanut allergy in adolescents, and an estimated 4% to 6% of all children in the U.S. have some form of allergy to peanuts.
Now, here’s the great news: Palforzia looked like a star in late-stage clinical trials. Patients aged 4 to 17 were administered increasingly larger doses of peanut protein during the study, and 67.2% taking Palforzia completed the study without needing to discontinue the trial. This compared to a mere 4% on the placebo who completed the trial.
More good news: Palforzia has already been given the thumbs up by the FDA’s Allergenic Products Advisory Committee. Even though the FDA isn’t required to follow the vote of its panel of experts, it does so more often than not. It appears likely that Palforzia will get a green light in January, and it could be on track for more than $470 million in annual sales (by Wall Street’s consensus) by 2022. With other treatments in development for egg and walnut allergies, Aimmune looks well on its way to carving its own niche in the biotech space, and potentially doubling its stock in 2020.
17. Antero Midstream
Midstream is the unsung hero of the energy infrastructure space. While drillers retrieve fossil fuels and refiners process them, it’s midstream providers that are the essential middlemen providing transmission, storage, and a host of other services that ensure these products make it to refineries for processing. Antero Midstream (NYSE:AM) may be just one of many midstream operators in the U.S., but it also might hold the distinction of being the cheapest and most likely to rebound in 2020.
Antero Midstream acts as the middleman for Antero Resources, a producer of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) operating out of the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale region in the Appalachia. This region is known for its natural gas and NGL production, which is worth noting given that LNG demand in North America could quadruple between 2018 and 2030, according to estimates from the McKinsey Energy/Insights Global Energy perspective model. This should provide a solid foundation of fee-based revenue for Antero Midstream.
Antero Midstream also recently announced a $300 million share repurchase program, suggesting that its board feels its stock is too cheap. If fully executed, this share buyback would remove about 8% of the company’s outstanding shares, and it shouldn’t impact the company’s jaw-dropping, yet seemingly sustainable, 17% dividend yield. Including this payout, Antero Midstream could very well double next year.
18. MediPharm Labs
Marijuana stocks throughout Canada have suffered through supply issues since day one of adult-use legalization more than one year ago. But one ancillary niche that should be immune to these struggles is extraction services. The company you’ll want to know in this space is MediPharm Labs (OTC:MEDIF).
Extraction-service providers like MediPharm take cannabis and hemp biomass and produce resins, distillates, concentrates, and targeted cannabinoids for their clients. These are all used in the creation of high-margin derivatives, such as edibles and infused beverages, which were just legalized in Canada on Oct. 17, and will hit dispensary shelves in a little over a month. Since derivatives offer much juicier margins than dried cannabis flower, demand for cannabis and hemp extraction services should remain strong.
What’s more, extraction providers like MediPharm often secure contracts ranging from 18-to-36 months, leading to highly predictable cash flow. With MediPharm’s Barrie, Ontario, processing facility eventually on its way to 500,000 kilos of annual processing potential, and the company already profitable, it would not be the least bit surprising if MediPharm doubled in 2020.
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19. Stitch Fix
Even high growth stocks can hit a rough patch; just ask the shareholders of online apparel company Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:SFIX). Following poorly received fourth-quarter results and weaker-than-expected sales guidance for the first quarter, Stitch Fix is a lot closer to its 52-week low than 52-week high at this point. However, things could change in a big way in 2020.
For starters, Stitch Fix is a potential retail disruptor that can capitalize on consumers in two ways. First, there’s the subscription side of the business that includes a stylist who picks outfits and accessories out for customers, who then to decide to keep (buy) or return these items. Secondly, but more recently, Stitch Fix has also been finding success with its direct buy program, which allows its members to skip the stylist and purchase highly curated and personalized product directly off its website. The company believes this dual-growth approach will play a key role in revenue growth reacceleration. It’s worth noting that despite its fourth-quarter report being poorly received by Wall Street, active clients grew 18% to 3.2 million from the prior-year period.
Stitch Fix is also planning to expand its offerings to men and children, and would be expected to bolster advertising as these new lines roll out. The company pointed out in its most recent quarter that fiscal first-quarter sales guidance is weaker because it lifted its foot off the gas pedal with regard to advertising. That’s an easy fix that should have Stitch Fix mending its weakness pretty quickly in 2020.
20. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Not every stock that doubles has to be growing at 20%, 30%, or more, per year. Sometimes, it just requires Wall Street and investors to readjust their outlook.
Brand-name and generic drug giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE:TEVA) has had a miserable go of things for nearly four years. A combination of generic-drug pricing weakness, opioid lawsuits, bribery allegations, high debt levels, and the shelving of its once-hefty dividend, have sunk Teva’s stock by almost 90%. But a renaissance of sorts may be on the horizon.
You see, Teva lost more than half of its value in 2019 after 44 U.S. states sued the company, and many of its related peers, over the manufacture and sale of opioids. However, Teva appears to be making progress on these lawsuits by offering free medicine to select states, and, more importantly, not having to outlay much of its precious cash. If these opioid suits are resolved, it’s not crazy to think Teva regains pretty much all of the ground it lost when they were announced.
At the same time, Teva’s turnaround specialist, CEO Kare Schulze, has reduced annual operating expenses by $3 billion and lowered net debt by $8 billion in a couple of years. Teva has the potential to really change some opinions in 2020, and that could lead to a doubling in its share price.
Don’t forget the most important “secret” to wealth creation
While it’s possible that many, or only a small number, of these 20 companies doubles next year, the important thing for investors to remember is that great ideas often take time to develop. The grandiose secret to wealth creation isn’t going to be found by day-trading or trying to time the market. Rather, it’s discovered by investing in high-quality businesses that you believe in, and allowing your investments to grow for five, 10, or even 20 years, if not longer.
It can be fun to predict next year’s top performers and potentially find yourself a proverbial gold mine, but don’t take your eyes off the horizon, which is where the big money is being made.
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Forget China—Is This The Real Reason Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, And Ripple’s XRP Bounced?
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Bitcoin has swung wildly this week, as many had expected it to, with it losing $1,000 per bitcoin a few days ago before suddenly shooting back up earlier today.
The bitcoin price is now at over $9,000 per bitcoin after dropping to lows of almost $7,000 on Thursday–and heading fast towards the psychological $10,000 mark, according to the latest prices from Luxembourg-based exchange Bitstamp.
Elsewhere, other major cryptocurrencies ethereum, litecoin, Ripple’s XRP, and bitcoin cash rallied between 7% and 23%, adding billions to the value of the combined cryptocurrency market.
Many bitcoin and cryptocurrency market analysts pointed to comments made by China’s president President Xi Jinping that the country should “seize the opportunity” of bitcoin’s blockchain technology as the reason behind bitcoin’s rally.
China banned bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and some took Xi’s blockchain comments as a sign the country could ease bitcoin and crypto restrictions.
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“We must take the blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies,” Xi reportedly said, speaking at the 18th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in Beijing.
“[We must] clarify the main direction, increase investment, focus on a number of key core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation.”
However, Xi’s comments, which referred only to blockchain technology and not to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, might not have been the driver behind bitcoin’s recovery.
Following bitcoin’s sudden drop earlier this week, bitcoin and crypto investors feared the worst wasn’t over the for the market.
Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was savaged by U.S. senators over his plans for a bitcoin rival dubbed libra and crypto investors are fretting there could be a global crackdown on bitcoin and other digital tokens.
Elsewhere, technical data pointed to a so-called “death cross” for bitcoin, while the Fear & Greed Index slumped and a Twitter reading of investor temperature was poor.
This sentiment slump meant investors bet against the bitcoin price, predicting it would move lower.
When the bitcoin price recovered a couple of hundred dollars per bitcoin in just a few minutes, some $150 million worth of short positions on the Seychelles-based BitMEX crypto exchange were liquidated, according to bitcoin and cryptocurrency analytics provider Skew.
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This triggered what’s known as a “short squeeze,” where an asset rapidly increases in value due to short sellers trying to cover their positions, resulting in buying volume that drives the price up.
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Late-Inning Heroics? Stocks Hint At Friday Rally As Trade Talk Optimism On the Rise
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Stocks down for the week so far but trade optimism gives positive tone early
Micron shares fall on disappointing forecast
Wells Fargo gets a new CEO, helping lift shares
Friday dawns after a week that didn’t provide much direction for investors. Stocks have generally chopped around in reaction to the latest geopolitical or domestic political news, and stayed in a tight range.
The question Friday might be whether the major indices can propel themselves to a victory for the week, because they start the session slightly down from a week ago thanks to positive trade vibes and solid durable goods data. That data looked really nice, up from the previous month and rising for the third month in a row. We’ll have to see if that’s sustainable because a lot of it was from the defense sector in the form of planes and parts. Either way, the trend can sometimes be your friend, as the old market saying goes.
Also, the Personal Consumption Index (PCE)—the Fed’s preferred inflation metric—rose 0.1%, roughly in line with expectations. The core index, which strips out the often-volatile food and energy prices, also rose 0.1% to an annualized rate of 1.8%. It’s an uptick for sure, but still below the Fed’s stated target of 2% inflation. Might this be enough to shift the Fed’s thinking from dovish to neutral?
Whether or not stocks make a last-minute run here, it’s been hard to find much of a theme in the last few days. Hopes for progress in trade negotiations got reinforcement yesterday with an October 10 date set for new talks, but the noise out of China since then has mostly been about how willing they are to buy more U.S. products.
That’s all good, but it doesn’t get at the intellectual property and other issues that U.S. negotiators say are at the heart of the matter and apparently were a sticking point when the last round of talks broke down. It’s hard to see these talks getting much further without movement on these issues.
Another focus is the impeachment drama in Washington. Two big bombshells came out this week, but stocks didn’t show much reaction. As we’ve said, it’s important to keep your emotions out of trading, and impeachment is an emotional issue. It’s likely to be a long process and a constant background noise over the next weeks and months, but investors might serve themselves better by watching earnings and data.
It’s interesting to hear some analysts saying that the impeachment situation might actually be bullish because it could put pressure on the administration to get a trade deal done on the sooner side. This school of thought suggests President Trump might be keen to get some positive headlines to counter the negative ones. That remains to be seen and is just speculation for now.
On the earnings front, bad news came at the end of the week from Micron (MU), as the semiconductor firm issued guidance that Wall Street didn’t seem to like too much. Shares were down 5% in premarket trading. Revenue and earnings beat third-party consensus views, but were way down from a year ago as the company continues to struggle with demand for its memory products. It wouldn’t be too surprising to see the weakness in MU shares work their way into the entire chip sector, maybe putting pressure on Technology stocks today.
And Wells Fargo (WFC) is back in the news today after the financial company hired a new CEO. This ended a six-month search and means investors won’t have to approach WFC’s earnings call next month with more questions about who would head the company. Shares rose in premarket trading.
Quarterly Market Gains Not Much To See
The old quarter is just about over, and it’s been a wild one that basically didn’t go much of anywhere if you look at the major indices. Sure, they surged to new peaks at times, but also retreated. It ended up being almost a wash, with the benchmark S&P 500 (SPX) closing Thursday up just 1% from where it finished at the end of June.
The choppy trade that marked most of the quarter continued on Thursday, with the market giving up early gains, clawing back to flat and then losing more ground by the closing bell. Some of the “risk-on” trading we saw on Wednesday didn’t really carry into Thursday, with small-caps in the Russell 2000 (RUT) drifting lower and Financials having a rough day.
Instead, some caution appears to be coming back into play late this week, with Utilities and Real Estate near the top of the leaderboard Thursday. Those aren’t places people tend to go when they’re feeling gung-ho about the economy. Bonds—another defensive area—also rallied, but gold didn’t share in the fun.
Though every day seems to have a different theme, there’s a lot of concern out there about the fundamental picture. It’s good to hear that new trade talks begin October 10, as we found out Thursday, but a resolution doesn’t seem all that close.
One concern is that new tariffs announced last month on Chinese goods could start having an impact on consumer spending, which would possibly cause companies to get even more cautious. If companies stay in a holding pattern, it’s hard to see any significant rally on the horizon. Earnings growth is already expected to fall year-over-year in Q3 after sinking in Q1 and Q2.
When you get right down to it, earnings drive the market. If investors continue to see earnings grow at slower rates, at some point the market could start to reflect that. FactSet, a research firm, predicts a nearly 4% earnings loss for S&P 500 companies in Q3. Earnings fell 0.4% in Q2 and also fell in Q1, making this potentially the first three-quarter stretch of falling year-over-year earnings since late 2015/early 2016.
No Fun for FAANGS
Some of the FAANG stocks, including Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Facebook (FB), also are having tough weeks. Again, it’s regulatory issues dogging FB, but the others could be under pressure from changing money flows as the FAANG sector seems to be losing some of its mojo, according to an article this week on MarketWatch.
Next week will be October, after Monday at least, so let’s look at what the market’s going to be grappling with beyond the China trade and impeachment stories. We’re still a few weeks out from earnings, meaning volatility could be a factor and the market could move up or down quickly based on the latest headlines or tweets. It could still do that after earnings start in mid-October, too, but earnings give people something solid to point at in times of turmoil.
One thing we’ll be pointing to next week is a monthly payrolls report for September. A lot of eyes are likely to be on the numbers a week from today, wondering if those relatively modest job gains back in August were a one-time deal or maybe a sign of something more serious. Even before August, job growth had been slowing this year, but it’s still above the level economists think we need to keep unemployment low.
Other data aren’t so exciting next week, but Chicago PMI on Monday might be interesting when you consider recent data where manufacturing activity appears to be slowing down. Chicago PMI surprised to the upside last time and came in above 50. Anything below that would indicate economic contraction, according to how the report is structured. It was 50.4 in August.
Volatility can sometimes tick up the last days of the quarter, but the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) has dropped below 16 this morning after topping 17 earlier this week.
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Company Caution Crimps Quarter: Normally, the government’s report on gross domestic product (GDP) gets lots of attention. That wasn’t the case yesterday because a few other things were going on (there’ve been some political headlines, if you haven’t noticed). A check of the data showed 2% growth in Q2, which means the slowdown that began early this year continued. As a reminder, gross domestic product was nearly 3% in 2018. To some extent, this downturn probably reflects the trade war with China. Many companies appear to be in a holding state because they’re putting off decisions on business plans. You can’t continue to have companies putting decisions off, because it could start affecting the longer curve of growth. It may already be doing that.
Crude Concerns: The fundamental concerns mentioned above aren’t any easier to dismiss when you consider how crude’s behaved recently. Remember when U.S. crude rose above $60 less than two weeks ago in a 15% one-day rally? Seems like a long time ago, with crude back down in the mid-$50s by Thursday. Rising U.S. inventories apparently caught some market participants by surprise and raised questions about demand. It’s just a week or two of data, so you don’t want to make any broad conclusions, but falling crude demand would possibly be a sign of a slowing economy if it continues. That remains to be seen, but for the moment it’s hurting the Energy sector, which suffered more than a 1% loss yesterday.
Batting 3000: The first time the S&P 500 (SPX) crossed the 2000 level was on Aug. 26, 2014. But it traded below 2000 on an intraday basis 22 months later, on June 27, 2016. The lesson here? Just because an index crosses a big round-number benchmark doesn’t mean you can put that magic number in the rearview mirror and forget about it. We’re getting a reminder of that now, with the SPX struggling to get its head above 3000 after first hitting that mark back in July. At this point, the late July intraday high of 3027 remains the peak, and the SPX has fluttered back and forth above and below 3000 ever since.
This doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll still be wrestling with 3000 in mid-2021, though that can’t be ruled out. And while we’re talking scenarios, one can’t rule out a major test to the downside either. In the near term, it’s very hard to see any move above 3000 lasting long without a China deal. Anticipated weak earnings are another major barrier, because without earnings growth, it gets harder and harder to justify rallies.
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Bitcoin Has Crashed–What Now?
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Bitcoin (BTC) has crashed. No one really knows why but in my model we should be in for “good” news on the China trade war or some such China-related information that is strong for the Chinese currency. This is only a theory but if it is correct, bitcoin will either rally vertically if no news breaks or the news will appear very soon. This is being written at 12 p.m. GMT September 25 and the news ought to be out there by no later than the end of the week.
If I’m wrong and there is no such news and the price stays down or falls more still with no positive trade war news then my bitcoin theory, which has served so well, will be severely challenged. In any event, bitcoin has crashed. The dreaded flag has broken to the downside and the bottom is anyone’s guess. The decision what to do next comes back to the schism between believing BTC will be worth $100,000-plus a coin or $0 a coin. You have to pick your side.
Way back before this year’s rally, I stated there is another way of looking at this price action. In commodities a big bubble is followed by a series of smaller and smaller echoes of the initial price shock which erupt over time as the years pass.
Each new price eruption is smaller than the last until the original bubble is all forgotten about. If this is your model, this BTC bubble echo is now dead and BTC will fall back to the $2,000-$3,000 range or even lower. Then after a year or two there will be another small vertical and on this pattern will go, until bitcoin is all but forgotten.
The alternate model is the tech boom, where the original bubble was replaced by another bigger rally, one we have still not seen the end of. Is bitcoin a commodity or a value added instrument? Bitcoin isn’t like gold or copper, where a price rise creates a glut.
Or is it? For me this is a very tempting model because I experienced it as a youngster and saw it play out all the while everyone continued to wish for the return of the moment when copper or gold went to the moon. However, bitcoin is not going to flood the market as miners pour resources into a race to over produce.
Bitcoin protects itself from exactly the economic reason why high prices are the solution to high prices.The choice is clear for players in this game of speculation, steer clear or buy the dip. I’ll be buying the dip but not in a hurry. This is the chart of what has happened:
Bitcoin has crashed
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The flag got broken to the downside and it’s clear as day that a lot of people took this as a cue to get out, causing a panic. I’ve put some levels equivalent to some zones where the price might settle. I will be buying a little in the coming days and more if we hit $6,000 and a lot if we see $4,000.
Meanwhile, there was been a strange crash in hash rate before this price fall, so everyone is free to link that up with this fall. There may have been a BTC miner who needed to sell a big chunk of BTC and in this fragile market with everyone staring at the same delicate chart pattern, it doesn’t take much to create an avalanche. I must admit to staring at this chart before it crashed thinking I should sell.
This would have been a good move but experience has taught me that you can win on the exit but lose on the reentry. It’s great missing a fall but you can also miss the rally which can end up even more painful. This is the basic lesson of the randomness of markets. Back the direction you believe is the long-term outcome and buy the dips or don’t play at all. Bitcoin is like backing Apple when it was on the edge of going bust: do you believe in the future or not?
If you do, you hold forever and buy the dips. The only thing you mustn’t do with the position is let that put your finances at risk or hurt your sanity. As a believer I will buy this dip, in the same way as I bought the last, little and often. For those who don’t believe in the long term you should stay well clear.Be among the first to get important crypto and blockchain news and information with Forbes Crypto Confidential. It’s free, sign up now.
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Something Very Strange Is Going On With Bitcoin And BTC Google Searches
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices are well known to be closely tied to media and general public interest–-though that could be changing.
The bitcoin price has been climbing so far this year, rising some 200% since January, though has recently plateaued at around $10,000 per bitcoin after peaking at more than $12,000 in June.
Now, it appears Google searches for bitcoin and BTC, the name used by traders for the bitcoin digital token, could be being manipulated–-possibly in order to move the bitcoin price.
This week there has been a massive leap in Google searches for “BTC,” which usually is lower than searches for “bitcoin”–with search volume for “BTC” around the world now far higher than it was even at the top of bitcoin’s epic 2017 bull run.
The trend may have started in Romania, researchers at bitcoin and cryptocurrency news and analysis website Kryptografen found.
“It is reasonable to assume that someone is behind these radical changes,” wrote Kryptografen’s Bendik Norheim Schei.
“That the same pattern can be seen all over the world may indicate that VPN services have been used to distribute the search across the world, thus achieving a global trend. Google Trends points out that changes have been relatively large in Romania. Is this the source, or is it just because there have been fewer searches for BTC previously? Whatever the answer is–something very strange has happened to the interest in the keyword ‘BTC’ this past week.”
The bitcoin price has in the past tracked searches for “bitcoin” and “BTC” quite closely, with a sudden rise in searches for “BTC” without a similar rise in the price highly unusual.
Searches for “BTC” (red) have never been higher, with Romania a possible the source of the surge.
Other bitcoin and cryptocurrency analysts were quick to join Schei in pointing to potential market manipulation.
“Somebody’s trying to game the trading algorithms,” said Glen Goodman, trading veteran and author of bitcoin investment book, The Crypto Trader, who explained how this could be used to move bitcoin prices on the market.
“There are algorithms programmed to look at Google Trends data and try to find correlations between numbers of searches for the word ‘BTC’ and the movements in the bitcoin price.”
“If they detect patterns, it may be profitable to trade off that data. This hacker may be buying some BTC, then sending a ton of ‘BTC’ search queries to Google, the algos see search numbers have risen and are triggered to buy a lot of BTC which pushes the price up, and the hacker then sells their BTC at a profit. Easy money!”
Meanwhile, it seems whoever is trying to manipulate the search results for “BTC” is doing it in an organised way.
The bitcoin price usually moves higher if Google searches for “bitcoin” and “BTC” rise, though this hasn’t happened to a significant degree.
“These searches appear to be timed to coincide with the quietest time in each country–around 4am or 5am, when search traffic is subdued, so the spam search queries will have maximum impact on the graph,” Goodman added.
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Wall Street Wants You To Sell Now. Buy This 7% Dividend Instead
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The most reliable recession indicator in the world just flashed red—and it’s actually setting us up for 33%+ gains in the next two years.
A contradiction? Sure sounds like it.
But history tells us we can expect a fast return like this when the economy and stock market look exactly like they do right now.
I’ve got two ways for you to grab a piece of the action, one of which even hands us a growing 7% cash dividend.
And when I say “growing,” I mean it: this already-huge cash stream has grown 96% in the last 15 years, and it’s backed by the strongest stocks in America (I’m talking about the 30 names on the Dow Jones Industrial Average), so there’s plenty more to come.
More on this cash-rich fund shortly. First, we need to talk about the “recession signal” everyone’s panicking about.
Recession Alert: Red
That would be the yield curve, which just “inverted” for the first time since 2007. This means the 2-year Treasury was briefly yielding more than the 10-year Treasury.
That shift grabbed a lot of headlines because every time the 2-year has yielded more than the 10-year, a recession has followed (though there’s typically a long time lag).
However, there’s a hugely important detail the mainstream crowd is forgetting—and that’s where the 33% gain I mentioned off the top comes in. I’m talking about what happened in 1998, when, like today, the yield curve briefly inverted, then “uninverted.”
What happened then?
Stocks exploded 33% post-inversion before a recession did eventually arrive.
Why the big jump? Because 1998 was unlike most periods of an inverted yield curve: shortly after the yields flipped, the Federal Reserve started cutting interest rates—and that’s exactly the situation we’re in today.
This is the opposite of what happened when the yield curve inverted in 1989, 2000 and again in 2006. During those periods, the Fed kept raising rates, and economists say those hikes made recessions worse—or even started them in the first place.
Only in 1998 did the Fed respond to the inverted yield curve by starting to cut rates—and then, when the central bank went back to raising rates two years later, the recession followed in about a year.
Funny thing is, no one is talking about this right now, and it’s critical, because it tells us that the chances of a recession in the near term largely depend on what the Fed does. And with the Fed now cutting rates, a recession could be delayed for over two years. And that means letting fear get the better of you and moving to the sidelines now could cause you to miss out on a double-digit gain.
Here’s something else that tells us a recession is nowhere near: earnings blew out expectations in the second quarter, and analysts now expect profits to grow in the third quarter of 2019. Sales are still up about 4% across the board for S&P 500 companies, and US GDP growth is slated to come in above 2% this year.
This is where the two funds I want to show you today come in—they position you to profit if it’s 1998 all over again, but, just in case things do take a sudden downward turn, they build in a bit of protection, too.
The first (but not my favorite) fund is a plain-vanilla ETF, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), which, as the name says, holds the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Because of its large-cap focus, the Dow largely tends to track the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) when stocks rise, and it falls less in a declining market.
However, you’re missing a far more important piece of downside protection when you go with DIA: a strong income stream (DIA yields just 2.1% as I write this). And a serious dividend is critical when the next downturn hits, especially if you’re counting on your portfolio to fund your lifestyle. That’ s because a strong dividend reduces the need to sell your holdings in a crash—at fire-sale prices—to access cash.
This is where a closed-end fund (CEF) like the Nuveen Dow 30 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (DIAX) really shines. DIAX also holds the “Dow 30”: household names like Home Depot (HD), McDonald’s (MCD) and Apple (AAPL), but with a big difference from DIA: a 7% dividend yield—over three times bigger than DIA’s payout.
Plus, it offers something few high-yield stocks and funds do: a dividend that’s growing.
Holding DIAX will get you exposure to stocks, no matter what happens, and an income stream you can depend on. That’s a lot better than letting yield-curve fears force you to the sidelines—where you’ll miss out on solid returns.
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‘Extreme’ Bitcoin Warning Spooks Crypto Market
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency traders and investors are nervously watching prices after market sentiment appeared to take a turn for a worse, dropping to its lowest level since December 2018.
The bitcoin price has been hovering around $10,000 per bitcoin for a few weeks, with many hoping bitcoin was becoming a safe haven from turbulent markets.
Bitcoin and crypto investors are worried, however, with the Crypto Fear and Greed Index showing “extreme fear,” and earlier this week dropping to a 244-day low last seen when bitcoin crashed to around $3,000.
The fear index hit an all-time high in late June as excitement around Facebook’s plans for its bitcoin rival reached fever pitch but has since dived as regulators signal their dissatisfaction with the social media giant.
“The current regulatory roadblock on Facebook’s plans for its digital token has dimmed down investor sentiment for cryptocurrencies,” said Christel Quek, chief commercial officer at Bolt Global, a cryptocurrency wallet provider and entertainment company.
The fear index is currently showing a reading of 20, but earlier this week dropped as low as 11 after falling sharply throughout August.
Since the index hit its year-to-date lows, the bitcoin price has fallen a further 2%, while the overall cryptocurrency market has seen more than $30 billion wiped from it over the last week.
Meanwhile, the bitcoin price dropped below the psychological $10,000 per bitcoin mark this week, further worrying traders and investors.
Some in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry pointed out the wider cryptocurrency market has declined along with the bitcoin price.
“Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies including litecoin, ethereum and Ripple’s XRP have declined [this week], weighed down by concerns of a slowing economy,” Quek added.
The crypto fear index hasn’t been this low since bitcoin was trading just over $3,000 per bitcoin.
The fear index, created by website and software comparison company Alternative.me, calculates the index’s value daily on a scale of 0 to 100 using volatility, market volume, social media, survey, dominance, and trends. Zero means “extreme fear,” while 100 means “extreme greed.”
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New Data Reveals Serious Bitcoin Warning
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Bitcoin has been rallying hard so far this year but the latest bull run, which has seen the bitcoin price soar by around 200% in just six months, could be coming to an end.
The bitcoin price, which is now hovering just under $10,000 per bitcoin, has climbed so far this year mostly due to expectations the world’s biggest technology companies, led by social media giant Facebook, could be about to dive headfirst into bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Now, it seems bitcoin could be headed for a sudden fall, with technical data suggesting the bitcoin price could be about to move sharply lower.
Bitcoin earlier this week broke below its 50-day moving average, which it’s thought could mean the bull run that saw the bitcoin price rise from under $4,000 per bitcoin at the beginning of the year to almost $14,000 could be over.
Bitcoin price data also shows it’s trading under the lower limit of the closely watched GTI Vera Band indicator, it was first reported by Bloomberg, a financial newswire.
The bitcoin price began climbing earlier this year as the likes of iPhone maker Apple, micro-blogging platform Twitter, and Facebook looked to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a potential new revenue stream.
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However, the rally was halted in its tracks after regulators around the world poured cold water on Facebook’s ambitious plans to issue its own cryptocurrency, libra, some time next year.
It’s now thought that regulatory issues could completely derail Facebook’s libra project, though it says it’s committed to working with lawmakers around the world to make libra a reality.
“There can be no assurance that libra or our associated products and services will be made available in a timely manner, or at all,” Facebook said.
“[Bitcoin] stands at a key technical juncture,” Miller Tabak + Co.’s equity strategist Matt Maley was quoted by Bloomberg. “[Greater regulatory scrutiny] will become an even more prominent issue (much more prominent) once we move past the summer recess for Congress and into the meat of the 2020 election cycle.”
Bitcoin was pushed into the limelight earlier this month by U.S. president Donald Trump when he unleashed a scathing attack on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, branding them “unregulated assets” in a series of tweets.
Following Trump’s attack and warnings from other global regulators, forensic accountancy firm BTVK warned the bitcoin and crypto “wild west” could be coming to an end, with global regulators closing in on bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges as a result of the spotlight brought by Facebook’s libra project.
Some U.S. presidential hopefuls have though said they’d support bitcoin and the creation of other cryptocurrencies to rival the U.S. dollar, potentially turning bitcoin and crypto into a 2020 election issue.
The bitcoin price has been climbing so far this year but the most recent rally could be coming to an end.
Earlier today, U.S. lawmakers grilled bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain experts on how Facebook’s libra could upset the U.S. economy.
“It’s clear that digital assets don’t really fit in our current financial system, as the current regulatory framework is awkwardly divided between banking regulators and market regulators,” said Christine Trent Parker, partner at law firm Reed Smith, following the hearing.
“It is unfortunate that today’s hearing made clear that Congress is not going to move forward any time soon in rectifying this issue and that in fact, the lack of clarity and uniformity may be intentional to hamper the ability of U.S. consumers to access (and benefit from) these technologies.”
Some bitcoin and cryptocurrency analysts remain upbeat, however, despite regulatory fears.
“Volumes continue to decline in the crypto market as the cool-down seems to be coming to completion,” Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst at brokerage eToro, wrote in a note to clients.
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President of the U.S., 1977-1981
1970s windfall taxes reduced domestic production
Some in Washington want to punish oil companies through so-called "windfall taxes." They forget their history. Jimmy Carter tried a similar approach back in the 1970s, with the predictable result that domestic production fell and our reliance on foreign oil grew. For a lot of reasons, American oil production has already declined from 9.2 million barrels a day in 1973 to 5 million barrels a day in 2007. A basic rule of economics is that if you want less of something, just tax it more. Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.210 , Nov 15, 2010
Installed solar panels on White House roof
Carter claimed to the press that he was saving energy by having solar panels installed on the roof of the White House to heat hot water. "It would not generate enough hot water to run the dishwasher in the staff mess," a White House staffperson says. "It was a fiasco. The staff mess had to go out and buy new equipment to keep the water hot enough. That blew any savings." Source: In the President`s Secret Service, by Ron Kessler, p. 75-76 , Jun 29, 2009
Attempted to inspire conservation by personal example
Carter did not manage to broker an adequate energy policy. He tried to promote conservation by example, turning down the thermostats at the White House and in other government buildings, wearing cardigan sweaters, and installing solar panels and a woodstove at the White House. He also deregulated energy prices, launched a program to develop synthetic fuels, and successfully legislated fuel-efficiency standards. But in an era of soaring oil prices and long lines at the gas pumps, it did not add up to a policy.
In fairness, transforming America's energy consumption would have been a Herculean feat for any president. But Carter lacked two core qualification. He never mastered the art of either inspiring the people or working with Congress. Carter was a man of abiding principle, idealism, and morality. Those qualities shone through in his post-presidency. However, as president, his attempts to appeal to ethical norms often sounded merely reproachful or preachy. His high purpose was not enough. Source: Obama`s Challenge, by Robert Kuttner, p. 56 , Aug 25, 2008
Boycott oil supplied from ANWR
As a consumer of petroleum products, I would make my last choice for a supplier of any of those oil companies who were drilling in our refuge, and there may be several million other environmentalists with the same inclination.
Our nation consumes 7 billion barrels of oil per year, and even if the refuge provided the hoped-for 1 million barrels per day, the slight increase in domestic supply would not significantly lessen our dependence on foreign oil. At best, according to various energy experts, the refuge would yield less than a year's supply of oil for the US.
The tragedy of the decision to savage the Alaska refuge is that when oil from the area might reach peak production, 15 to 20 years from now, it will equal the amount that could be saved by requiring the efficiency of "light trucks" (SUVs) to be the same as that of ordinary cars (20 miles/gallon). Source: Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter, p.167-168 , Sep 26, 2006
Pushed alternative energy program to fight oil shortage
Carter faced a drastic erosion of the value of the US dollar and a persistent trade deficit, much of it a result of US dependence on foreign oil. The president warned that Americans were wasting too much energy, that domestic supplies of oil and natural gas were running out, and that foreign supplies of petroleum were subject to embargoes by the producing nations, principally by members of OPEC. In mid-1979, in the wake of widespread shortages of gasoline, Carter advanced a long-term program designed to solve the energy problem. He proposed a limit on imported oil, gradual price decontrol on domestically produced oil, a stringent program of conservation, and development of alternative sources of energy such as solar, nuclear, and geothermal power, oil and gas from shale and coal, and synthetic fuels. In what was probably his most significant domestic legislative accomplishment, he was able to get a significant portion of his energy program through Congress. Source: Grolier�s Encyclopedia, �The Presidency� , Dec 25, 2000
Invest windfall profits tax in synthetic fuels & solar
Q: US dependence on Arab oil as a percentage of total imports is today much higher than it was at the time of the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Can the US develop synthetic fuels and other alternative energy sources?
CARTER: With the windfall profits tax as a base, we now have an opportunity to use American technology and American ability and American natural resources to expand rapidly the production of synthetic fuels; to expand rapidly the production of solar energy; and also to produce the conventional kinds of American energy. We will drill more oil and gas wells this year than any year in history. We'll export more coal this year than any year in history. This exciting future will not only give us more energy security but will also open up vast opportunities for Americans to live a better life and to have millions of new jobs associated with this new and very dynamic industry now in prospect because of the new energy policy that we've put into effect. Source: The Reagan-Carter Presidential Debate , Oct 28, 1980
Gasoline conservation by oil import fee; rationing if needed
The American people are making progress in energy conservation. Last year we reduced overall petroleum consumption by 8% and gasoline consumption by 5% below what it was the year before. Now we must do more.
We will set gasoline conservation goals for each of the 50 States, and I will make them mandatory if these goals are not met. I've established an import ceiling for 1980 of 8.2 million barrels a day. I expect our imports to be much lower than this, but the ceiling will be enforced by an oil import fee if necessary. I'm prepared to lower these imports still further if the other oil-consuming countries will join us in a fair and mutual reduction. If we have a serious shortage, I will not hesitate to impose mandatory gasoline rationing immediately.
The single biggest factor in inflation last year was from one cause: the skyrocketing prices of OPEC oil. We must take whatever actions are necessary to reduce our dependence on foreign oil--and at the same time reduce inflation. Source: Pres. Carter's 1980 State of the Union message to Congress , Jan 23, 1980
Passed energy policy of some decontrol & some regulation
The total energy package pushed by Carter in 1978 was extremely complicated, but far-reaching in its beneficial effect on our nation. The production of gas-guzzling automobiles would be deterred by heavy penalties; electric utility companies could no longer encourage waste of energy with their distorted rate structures and would have to join in a common effort to better insulate buildings; higher efficiency of home appliances would be required; gasohol production and carpooling were promoted with tax incentives; coal production & use were stimulated, along with the use of pollution-control devices; and the carefully phased decontrol of natural -gas prices would bring predictability to the market, increase exploration for new supplies, & reduce waste of this clean-burning fuel. The new bills also included strong encouragement for solar-power development, and tax incentives for the installation of solar units in homes and other buildings. These and many more provisions now became the law of the land. Source: Keeping Faith, by Jimmy Carter, p.107 , Oct 15, 1978
Increase production; cut waste; use plentiful fuels
Never again should we neglect a growing crisis like the shortage of energy, where further delay will only lead to more harsh and painful solutions. Every day we spend more than $120 million for foreign oil. This slows our economic growth, it lowers the value of the dollar overseas, and it aggravates unemployment and inflation here at home.
Now we know what we must do--increase production. We must cut down on waste. And we must use more of those fuels which are plentiful and more permanent. We must be fair to people, and we must not disrupt our Nation's economy and our budget.
Now, that sounds simple. But the fact remains that on the energy legislation, we have failed the American people. Almost 5 years after the oil embargo dramatized the problem for us all, we still do not have a national energy program. Not much longer can we tolerate this stalemate. It undermines our national interest both at home and abroad. We must succeed, and I believe we will. Source: Pres. Carter's 1978 State of the Union message to Congress , Jan 19, 1978
Proposed Energy Dept. to share sacrifices of rising prices
The proposal by the oil and gas industry for solving our energy shortage was simple: remove all laws and regulations. [But that] would allow OPEC to control both the international market and our domestic oil prices.
We realized that our domestic prices would have to rise in order to stimulate American production and encourage conservation, but the increase needed to be brought about in a predictable & orderly fashion. Also, the unearned profits from higher prices needed to be shared with the consuming public. Even with such protection, some sacrifices among the people would be required, making it doubly important that our proposed plan be fair.
On March 1st, I sent to Congress our proposal for the new Department of Energy. It was like pulling teeth to convince the people of America that we had a serious problem in the face of apparently plentiful supplies, or that they should be willing to make some sacrifices or change their habits to meet a challenge which, for the moment, was not evident. Source: Keeping Faith, by Jimmy Carter, p. 94-97 , Apr 18, 1977
Energy policy needed to avoid kowtowing to oil countries
Under the last Democratic administration 60% of all weapons that went to the Middle East were for Israel. Now 20% go to Israel. This is a deviation from a commitment to our ally in the Middle East and a yielding to economic pressure on the part of the Arabs on the oil issue; and it's also a tremendous indication that under the Ford administration we have not addressed energy policy adequately. We have no comprehensive energy policy. Source: The Second Carter-Ford Presidential Debate , Oct 6, 1976
Develop a varied energy portfolio, including solar
Q: There seems to be a difference between you and the President on the use of nuclear power plants, which you would use as a last priority.
CARTER: We're gonna run out of oil. We now import about 44% of our oil. We need to shift from oil to coal. We need to concentrate our on coal burning and extraction, with safer mines, but also clean burning. We need to shift very strongly toward solar energy and have strict conservation measures. And then as a last resort only, use atomic power.
FORD: In 1975 I submitted to Congress the first comprehensive energy program recommended by any president. It called for an increase in the production of energy in the United States. If you're going to increase domestic oil and gas production--and we have to--you have to give those producers an opportunity to develop their land or their wells. I think you have to have greater oil and gas production, more coal production, more nuclear production, and in addition you have to have energy conservation Source: The First Carter-Ford Presidential Debate , Sep 23, 1976
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Daniel Liam Glyn is a British music composer most known for combining his music writing with Synaesthesia.
Born in Manchester, UK, Daniel began his music studies and composition at the University of Salford where his admiration for the works of Erik Satie, Steve Reich, John Cage, Michael Andrews and Eric Whitacre grew and later inspired him to embark on a career of contemporary composing. Daniel's work has been heavily influenced by his unique way of visualising numbers, letters and words in his mind with specific colours (Synaesthesia). Combining colours with feelings had a very poignant effect when Daniel moved to London, and was the inspiration for his first album, Changing Stations.
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In 2017, Every track from Changing Stations was transformed into an eclectic mix of Electronica, Ambient House, Nu Disco, and Drum + Bass by electronic music producer Damion O'Brien under the aliases Designer Thumbs, Afferent, and Cassini Division. The finished product, Changing Stations: Derailed injects a new lease of life into the original classical piano compositions, with the tracklist re-arranged to form a new 'journey' on the London Underground.
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ABOVE: It is not every day you get to step out of a stretch Hummer limousine and walk down the red carpet. Shall we dance? PHOTO BY NEIL FENELON
For many of us, the high school graduation formal has great significance as a coming-of-age celebration. Unfortunately, many young people miss out on this rite of passage due to mental health issues. This is why a group of Flourish Australia’s youth programs, spearheaded by Elizabeth Harlow, launched the Young People’s Formal Project. Friday the 15th of February 2019 gave them another chance!
The Formal attracted the attention of the ABC which sent a film crew out and produced an item about it on the 7:30 report on 26 February 2019. Featured in the report were two of the young people, Jake Mooy and Jessica Bansgrove.
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ABOVE: Tink painted this flag as a statement about equality PHOTO BY GRANT EVERETT
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Like most of the people who access our services, Tink has a funding package from the NDIS. In addition to New Outlook, Tink has connections with programs such as Partners In Recovery.
Tink is a creative type. She likes playing the ukulele and the djembe (a type of African drum), she sings at New Outlook’s karoke nights, and she creates all kinds of art. Tink is an artist of many different mediums, and has created quite a few works in New Outlook’s dedicated art area. Recently, she’s been drawing snakes with charcoal and pastels.
Most of all, though, Tink’s favourite thing is to make other people happy.
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Late last year, Flourish Australia’s Buckingham House service at Surry Hills, NSW, hosted a series of free talks called ‘Talkin’ Together’ that were put together by Being and the Department of Free Trading. They were aimed at assisting people to get the most out of the new world of NDIS. This article draws mainly on the fourth workshop ‘Making a Complaint.’
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ABOVE: Moving out of home at 16 can often lead to greater difficulty but Jessica found it was ‘the best decision I ever made’ especially as she had support and remained in contact with her family. PHOTO BY WARREN HEGGARTY
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When someone is agitated and emotionally unwell, there’s a lot you can do to ‘de-escalate’ the situation. It involves talking to the person.
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Dr Jeffrey Chan of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission was the keynote speaker for Flourish Australia’s 2018 Annual General Meeting. His address centred around restraint and seclusion, and how commonly these practises are used on people who have a disability for the purposes of behavioural management. Rather than just wanting to reduce the frequency of restraint and seclusion that is currently being used on Australians who have a disability, Dr Chan wants to see the end of their use in this country altogether.
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ABOVE: Donna (left) and Mozzy (right) have alternated between the roles of “carer” and “cared-for.” PHOTO BY WARREN HEGGARTY
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‘I just want to emphasise how much being a part of the CAC has improved my sense of self worth’ says Mozzy. ‘I’d like to see other people take this sort of opportunity when it arises. Give it a go!’
‘I was still very reserved when a peer worker approached me about standing for the CAC. I resisted at first. Then I thought about it. Then I decided I’ll do it…but only if I’m going to make a difference.’
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Queen & Slim Review – A First Date Takes a Hard Turn
by Ren Canga · December 28, 2019
Melina Matsoukas has brilliantly portrayed a mix of themes including prejudice, love and hate in her latest romantic drama Queen & Slim. It takes place in Ohio, starring Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out and Jodie Turner-Smith from Nightflyers. The two play Queen & Slim who’s first date takes an extreme turn after getting pulled over by the police, this starts a dangerous, thrilling and passionate road trip of a lifetime around the US.
The film focuses on the inequality that black people face at the hands of the police in modern day America. It is not a window into these lives but an open door that invites the audience to experience the heart-breaking reality that goes on day to day in that country. I appreciated that it showed not only the black male perspective but the black female perspective too. It was also informative and did not sugar-coat any information necessary, it was as if it was left on a plate giving us the choice to pick up the fork and digest the harsh cold truth or push it away in denial.
I loved how infectious it was, every scene evoked a different emotion according to the themes mentioned. When they were happy, you felt happy and when they were sad, you felt it too. It was all down to the superb performances by the actors who played their parts to a T. The film had me feeling as if I had been living life in a daze before the screening and afterwards it woke me up and reminded me of how valuable life really is. I also think that behind the picturesque towns and landscapes we see, the fitting and soothing soundtrack we hear, possibly one of the main messages that Melina may have been trying to tell us with this film was exactly that.
If you’re a sucker for a great love story that’s funny too than this film is for you. There were many relatable and comedic moments in between the seriousness of the film, just like little hooks that you could hang on to and connect with the characters along the journey. They also served as reminders that Queen and Slim are just like me and you. As strange as it sounds, while they were dating each other in the film, it felt like I was also dating them too in the sense that as they revealed their insecurities, flaws and baggage you got see how human, raw and loveable they are the same way you do in a new relationship.
I would definitely recommend this film, there is sensitive/explicit imagery in it but it’s beautifully shot so you can judge it for yourself when it comes to the audience you’d like to watch it with. However, these films are truly important to keep us aware, empathetic and to activate a willingness to help others with the adversity they are facing on a large and small scale.
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Written by: Lena Waithe
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith
Running Time: 2 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date: US November 27th, 2019 | UK and Ireland January 31st, 2020
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The UVic, Susan Crockford Story Continues
Refuse to talk to the reporter. Afterward, accuse her of ‘multiple factual inaccuracies.’ Isn’t academia grand?
Read Part 1 here and Part 2 is here.
A Canadian zoologist named Susan Crockford gets fired as an Adjunct Professor – a position she’s held for 15 years. A reporter working on a story for a national newspaper contacts the University of Victoria (UVic) about this matter.
A spokesperson says all inquiries must go through Media Relations. He invites the reporter to submit written questions. Then stalls for 18 days. Then refuses to answer even one of those questions.
The article gets published in the newspaper. Calling it “shocking,” the Society of Academic Freedom and Scholarship sends a letter to UVic. Ordinary people won’t “look to a university for information on the problems of the day,” says the Society, “if they believe that researchers at that university must conform to an official line.”
The Society urges UVic to clarify that professors who participate in its Speakers Bureau don’t need to “conform to a UVic orthodoxy in order to represent the university as scholars.”
Catherine Krull, UVic’s Dean of Social Sciences, replies via letter to the Society. She says she’s
pleased to take this opportunity to set the record straight. There are multiple factual inaccuracies in the Oct. 16 National Post opinion piece which prompted your email. The University of Victoria has submitted a letter to the editor outlining these mistakes. [bold added by me]
How’s that for a perverse media strategy? Refuse to talk to a reporter, decline to answer the most basic questions, then accuse the reporter afterward of mistakes and multiple factual inaccuracies.
I attempted to interview Krull on September 13. I sent her e-mail, which included my phone number. I told her I looked forward to speaking with her. But neither Krull (who the UVic website tells us is currently on leave as Dean) or Rosaline Canessa (who the website describes as the Acting Dean) responded. Neither of these women had the courtesy to tell me I should be talking to the Media Relations department, instead. They ignored me. Pretended I didn’t exist.
Now, however, Krull has a story to tell. Her argument consists of four bullet points (read the whole thing here). She says UVic’s Anthropology Department has criteria for academic appointments, and that those criteria “are fairly and consistently applied.” She presents no evidence. We’re supposed to take her word for it.
Krull further declares that unsuccessful applicants “are provided with reasons on request.” Had Crockford only asked why she’d been excommunicated, all would have been explained. How’s that for victim blaming? It’s the lowly Adjunct’s fault. Why would we expect UVic to behave decently as a matter of course? Anyone who still believes workplaces are kinder and gentler when women are in charge needs to pay close attention to this case study.
Krull’s next bullet point suggests Crockford’s loss of an academic affiliation isn’t so bad. In her words, “Dr. Crockford’s work can carry on without this appointment.”
Remember, Crockford has lost full access to research libraries. Like the rest of us non-academics, she’ll now hit paywalls demanding that she pay hard cash per article consulted. Remember, this accomplished scholar believes she no longer qualifies for research grants.
But Dean Krull who, between salary and expenses, cost UVic $293,000 last year, says it’s no big deal (see page 54 here). Crockford wasn’t being paid anyway. And Crockford’s company, she assures us, will still be allowed to continue paying UVic for the privilege of using its animal bones lab.
Which brings us to bullet point three. It begins this way:
The information in the National Post piece regarding the UVic Speakers Bureau is also incorrect.
Also incorrect. Right. Krull has merely provided UVic’s perspective on events. That perspective should have been included in my original article – and would have been if UVic hadn’t spent 18 days stonewalling me. She has not demonstrated that anything I wrote was incorrect.
Bullet point three continues:
Supervisory approval of membership in the Bureau for all adjunct faculty has been in place since 2017 and for graduate students for more than 20 years.
Finally, a straight answer! I had explicitly asked what mechanisms existed to vet Speakers Bureau presentations. Rather than saying so back in September, Dean Krull now declares that, for the past 20 years, graduate students have needed the approval of their department head. She declares that, since 2017, all adjunct faculty have needed permission to participate.
Remember, Crockford had already been giving lectures through the Speakers Bureau for the better part of a decade. UVic says it started treating Adjuncts like grad students in 2017. That was the year Crockford was silenced by the chair of the Anthropology Department.
In the words of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, “A university must not monitor members of its community to see whether they have the correct views.” But that’s exactly what UVic does when it gives department chairs the power to ban Adjuncts from the Speakers Bureau.
Similarly, I received no answer when I asked: “Since 2017, how many other adjunct professors (within and beyond the Anthropology Department) are no longer participating in the Speakers Bureau due to a similar refusal on the part of their department chair?”
Had the answer to that very important question been one or more, the story would have changed dramatically. It would have looked far less as though Crockford had been targeted. UVic’s refusal, to this day, to address this question invites us to think this has all been an elaborate charade.
Bullet point three ends with this statement:
The requirement for adjunct faculty is clearly spelled out on the online application form.
Here, I did make a mistake. I looked at multiple versions of that online form while researching my story. Only now, having been provided with the above information, do I see that a subtle change occurred sometime between March and June of 2017.
The only way that change becomes evident, though, is if you click on a dropdown menu, and select either option #5 or options #10 through #13 on the list.
Only then does a tiny box appear, next to this sentence: “I have recieved [sic] approval from my Chair/Director/Unit head for the presentation(s) described below.”
This is UVic’s idea of spelling out something clearly. In the middle of filling out an online form, a popup suddenly tells you you need a signed letter. And please do note: if you’re a non-academic member of UVic’s staff (the head of the Speakers Bureau, for example), a retiree, a librarian, or an “other,” you aren’t required to jump through these ‘get permission from above’ hoops.
Finally, we come to Dean Krull’s last bullet point, and the end of her letter:
There is no evidence to suggest that Dr. Crockford’s adjunct appointment was not renewed for “telling school kids politically incorrect facts about polar bears.” The University of Victoria, in both word an deed, supports academic freedom and free debate on academic issues.
Some things boil down to a matter of opinion. In my view, the available evidence strongly points toward Crockford having been purged. Universities usually celebrate professors who get published in Science. They don’t jettison them at the first opportunity.
UVic says it believes in academic freedom. But that’s not how it behaves. When seasoned experts suddenly get treated like the greenest of graduate students, something very strange is going on.
My article contained one mistake. Singular. That mistake could have been avoided had UVic behaved responsibly. The fact that Dean Krull’s letter talks about multiple factual inaccuracies is a clue regarding the reliability of her other statements.
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I have been remiss in not providing links to Crockford’s own account of these events before now. Please see:
UVic bows to outside pressure and rescinds my adjunct professor status (Oct. 16)
Unanswered questions on my expulsion from UVic and its Speakers Bureau (Oct. 21)
Delingpole interview on the success of polar bear conservation & failed survival models (Oct. 28)
read the Society of Academic Freedom and Scholarship letter here and see their web page here
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This entry was posted on October 30, 2019 by Donna Laframboise in education, ethical & philosophical, media and tagged media, Susan Crockford.
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Proposing a National Office for Intelligence Reconciliation (NOIR)
NOIR for USA (National Office for Intelligence Reconciliation- NOIR)
Psychology of a Spy, Insider Threat
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Stage 4 – The Post Recruitment Stage
Stage 5 – The Remorse, Morning-After Stage
Stage 6 – The Active Spy Career Stage
Stage 7 – The Dormancy Stage(s)
Stage 8 – The Pre-Arrest Stage
Stage 9 – The Arrest and Post-Arrest Stage
Stage 10 – The Brooding in Jail Stage
True Psychology of the Insider Spy
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THE CHALLENGES AND A NEW SOLUTION
WHY NOIR?
Efforts to stop insider spying have focused mainly on trying ever harder to develop profiles or other indicators for detecting potential or current insider spies, these days favoring high-technology methods.
While profiling has achieved its successes, the Law of Diminishing Returns enters the picture. Investing more and more into profiling and detection starts to approach limitations due to minimal added effectiveness, at the expense of rapidly escalating costs, which include negative impacts on workforce morale due to intrusiveness and false positives.
Time and again, human ingenuity seems able to defeat the most stringent protection regimes. For us to prevail over insider spying, we have room for improvement. There is room for something new.
If anything, recent events have increased the urgency. While the focus here will be on “classic” state-sponsored spying, the recent notorious “whistleblowers,” Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, have shown how easy it is to abscond with vast quantities of classified documents, given our reliance on electronic files. They went for one-time showy splurges of secrets, which is bad enough. Worse still are the usual practices of classic spies, who are still very busy out there.
This highlights the real challenge: how to protect our secrets when we don’t know what secrets have been given away to our enemies by unidentified insider spies, working in the shadows for years on end with no outward drama.
All insider spies come to understand that as soon as their identity gets leaked to us from within the foreign intelligence service they conspired to join—which can happen at any moment despite their best efforts at tradecraft—suddenly, their lives will turn to ruin.
This forces all spies into a convergence of psychology. Even though there may be many psychological strands that lead to spying, inevitably they will get reduced to a single, shared psychology. Awareness of the phenomenon of convergence will make it easier to devise strategies and tactics to influence and persuade trapped spies to exit and come clean.
When someone decides to step over the line to become an insider spy, he or she now find themselves stuck and trapped. It dawns on them that they have no way out. They come to realize it’s unthinkable to beg to be released from their handler because too many bad things can happen. Think of the Mafia.
By the same token, to turn themselves in to their home agency’s security office offers no better prospects. The insider spy cannot expect to be welcomed back. More likely, they spy will face severe punishments leading to career termination and everyone in the intelligence community knows this.
Being stuck in this no-win situation causes the insider spy to resign to stay put, take their chances, and hope for the best. Lacking any viable alternatives, they are forced deeper into the arms of the hostile intelligence service that owns them. And the damages they inflict on our national security accumulate year by year.
What if there were a way out? What if there were an alternative pathway (reconciliation) so an insider spy could voluntarily turn himself or herself in? What if there were a recognized, safe, government-sanctioned exit mechanism? Imagine such a thing.
If reconciliation were made available, what could possibly motivate an insider spy to consider it? The single most important motivator would be that he will not be sentenced to prison. From the perspective of an insider spy, prison would be a deal-breaker.
Reconciliation stipulates that all other punishments be left on the table. Reconciliation would have to be a highly conditional way out.
The reconciliation option would not be on offer to all spies. Certainly not to ones caught the conventional way. Reconciliation would only add an alternative, parallel pathway that would supplement, definitely not replace, current practices that include detection, surveillance, arrest, trial and long prison sentences.
Reconciliation would be reserved only for insider spies not yet identified, who decide to voluntarily turn themselves in.
Reconciliation would be adding another tool to the arsenal.
7 Factors Driving for Reconciliation
10 Rationales for the NOIR Concept
16 Benefits of the NOIR Concept
BACKGROUND OF THE NOIR CONCEPT
The NOIR concepts were developed over many years by Dr. David L. Charney, MD, a practicing clinical psychiatrist in Alexandria, VA whose work permitted him to advance further towards the true psychology of the insider spy.
Over a decade of consulting as a clinical psychiatrist to intelligence agencies and treating employees from all corners of the intelligence community, provided his initial immersion in the world of intelligence.
He was then engaged as a consultant to the defense of three captured insider spies, Robert Hanssen, Earl Pitts and Brian Regan. While at first he had mixed feelings about joining their defense teams, Dr. Charney regarded involvement in these cases as unique opportunities that would enable him to understand the inner workings of the minds of insider spies.
He received cooperation from all three spies because he was working for them on the defense side, and also because of his frequent access: he could visit each for up to two hours weekly over an entire year. The primary basis of Dr. Charney’s findings derives from his unprecedented close-contact experiences with these three insider spies.
In addition, Dr. Charney intensively studied most of the other cases of insider spying in the United States that occurred during the twentieth century and up through the present that were reported upon in open sources. He studied these additional cases from the vantage point of an experienced psychiatrist.
Dr. Charney also had the advantage of his familiarity with these kinds of cases based on his intensive exposure to the insider spies he met with personally. Psychological patterns became apparent to him that might have escaped notice by others not similarly trained or experienced.
All of this combined for Dr. Charney to develop three key idea clusters: the core psychology of the insider spy; the ten life stages of the insider spy; and the existential dilemmas of the insider spy. From these ideas, he has developed and advanced a novel proposal for changing government policy to better manage the problem of insider spies.
The term “NOIR” derives from the name of the proposed new government entity that would actually implement these ideas and concepts: the National Office for Intelligence Reconciliation.
NOIR for USA is a 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to educate and promote the NOIR concepts and ideas which are intended to improve our national security by fixing the problem of insider spies in an innovative way.
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Posted on March 6, 2015 by jessica
Depending on your experience with Long Beach, it will call to mind one of two things:
The majestic Queen Mary, former world class ocean liner, current heritage icon; or
The majestic Snoop Dogg, former world class rapper, current Katy Perry back up singer.
On this visit to Long Beach, we’re checking out Queen Mary. As much as we love Snoop Dogg, he’s a bit hard to pin down (particularly when his marijuana love gets him turned away from performing in countries we’re in).
The construction of the Queen Mary began in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1930. Construction was stalled for several years during the Great Depression. Despite the economic setbacks of the time, she was completed and left Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage on 27 May 1936.
There’s a delightful story around the ship’s naming. Apparently with ship naming conventions, Cunard ships had a tradition of being named with ia as a suffix – Mauretania, Aquitania, Berengeria — and the ship had been intended to be named Queen Victoria.
When the directors asked King George for his blessing of the ship’s name, they explained to him it was going to be named after the greatest queen, but left off the fact they were referring to his grandmother. Instead, he assumed they were talking about his wife, Queen Mary, and told them how delighted she would be to have it named after her.
For years royalties and celebrities stayed aboard this luxury liner. But when World War 11 started, the ship was repainted with camouflage colours and transformed into a troopship, nicknamed The Grey Ghost. After the war, she was returned to her former glory and cruised for another two decades. Her final cruise was in October 1967, and she docked at Long Beach in December 1967.
The former ocean liner is a diverse tourist attraction these days, offering drinks at the deck bar, Sunday brunches, exhibits like Diana: Legacy of a Princess and Bob Hope: American Treasure, and a variety of tours. It’s also a hotel, and you can also state in one of 346 original first class staterooms and suites.
As we’re only around for an afternoon, we choose the Ghosts and Legends Tour. While it is not particularly scary, it is hilarious. The tour guide is theatrical and over the top, and I can barely understand her American accent (sorry American readers, I have as much trouble with your accents as you do with my Aussie one!). But she has a definite tone of seriousness and urgency to her tour.
Our small group is taken on a tour of the underbelly of the ship. We check out the boiler room where the temperatures were sweltering and many emergencies happened. My favourite part of the tour is in the old swimming pool. There’s always something creepy about abandoned swimming pools, and it feels freezing this far down into the ship.
Our guide tells us that people are regularly seen swimming in the pool… despite no water being in it. I giggle at the thought of ghosts, and we get water flicked up on us as we walk past the empty pool.
At one point of our tour, our guide seems slightly exasperated with our little group for not running quickly enough with the “emergency” of flood water that is supposedly careening down the hallway. In fairness to our group, one elderly gentleman does have a walking frame!
After our tour, we settle in for a drink at the authentic 1930s Observation Bar. It’s beautiful and quiet, and we relax with a Pimms Cup. After a quick peruse around the boat and the beautiful sunshine, we’re back on our way.
We’re hoping for a trip back in 2016 – there’s a science center and museum planned which I’m really excited about. And it would be lovely to stay overnight onboard!
NB: I double checked the Queen Mary website for information about the tour we did and saw this note: PLEASE NOTE: Ghosts and Legends is currently down for repair. We will substitute ANY tour for Ghosts and Legends while it is down. Thank you for your understanding.
Hours: MON-THURS 11AM – 6PM, FRI-SUN 11AM – 9PM and takes approximately 35 minutes
Pricing: Available as part of any of our tour packages – The Queen Mary Passport, or the First-Class Haunted Passport. Groups of 15 or more may call 562-499-1623 for discounted group rates.
Parking: $15 (Subject to change based on Special Event schedule here.)
Map: The Queen Mary can get confusing. Download our map and bring it with you!
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8 thoughts on “Queen Mary Long Beach”
Crystal W says:
First, you just made me wish there was a cruise ship called The Majestic Snoop Dog. But second, this sounds like a lot of fun, and the views are gorgeous!
haha! Maybe it’s just a tad too different to the traditional naming conventions for ships 😉 I was surprised at how beautiful Long Beach was, it’s a really nice place to spend a lazy Summer’s afternoon and evening.
Hannah @ CleanEatingVeggieGirl says:
Wow, I love how old that cruise ship is! It’s so cool to see what is now almost an “antique” as far as ships go!
It’s just gorgeous! And it had this fantastic vintage clothing store onboard, too. I really wanted to buy a couple of handbags, but we were in Long Beach to see the Aussie embassy after I’d had my passport stolen, so we had to conserve funds. Good reason to visit again. 😉
Lou @ Mommy Sanest says:
First, I was assuming you meant Snoop Dog’s Long Beach, obvi. And second, I have an accent?!?!?! 😉
The tour sounds fantastic — I like a good ghost story. Did you really get water flicked at you? That sounds a bit spooky.
Haha! You probably have a very mild accent, Lou. When we traveled through the Deep South, you should have seen the confusion when an American and I would have a conversation. They’d scream “you have an ACCENT” because they’d never heard one before (we went to some errrr unusual parts of the deep south, needless to say) and it would take me minutes to decipher what they’d said to me – they may as well have been talking in Thai!
And yes! The water flicking up out of the empty swimming pool was a cool touch. 😀
Tianna says:
gorgeous photos! The Queen Mary is such a cool place to visit. I love going to their Halloween events
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Ahhh I can imagine it would be fantastic on Halloween! It’s creepy enough as it is. Kinda like a mix between the Titanic and The Shining. 🙂
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RYA Yachtmaster Offshore!!
.....And so onto bigger and better things. With the wreckage of Dive BVI firmly behind us and our new found confidence of sailing catamarans, now Sadie and I head back to the UK to get on with what we really want to do.........sailing!! Sadie heads for Cowes in the Isle of Wight to brush up on her cheffing skills and I head for Falmouth in Cornwall to complete my Yachtmaster training. We were now able to press on and fulfill our sailing dreams. So where to start? A good sailing school is generally the right move - but which one to choose? Once you start this search and ask people for advice and recommendations you end up with a short list of about 30 reputable sailing schools all over the south coast of England. In the end my choice was an easy one, I opted for Nick Jordan's school, Cornish Cruising based in Falmouth. It was an inspired choice, it was well away from the mayhem in the Solent and conincidentally was the same school that Sadie's Dad, Jim, independently came up with as his first choice to do the same course. Nick and his team were streets ahead of all his competitors when it came to custmer service and support as well as ensuring that the quality of the training was up to scratch and value for money. Nick was the only school to reply with a full response to our detailed brief literally within hours of getting it. Nearly all of the other schools either didn't even bother replying or send a standard reply simply referring me to their web sites for further details if I was still interested! Needless to say, Cornish Cruising got the business.
Jim and I had a tall order ahead of us. The training schedule Nick put together for us was going to be a tough one. In order to qualify as a Yachtmaster Offshore through the Royal Yachting Association (the RYA), candidates must have at least 2500 sea miles, at least half of which needs to be in tidal waters (i.e. not the Caribbean!), you must have clocked up at least 50 days at sea, of which 5 trips need to be of at least 60 miles each and 2 of these need to be at night. All of this culminates with a min 12 hour practical assessment by an RYA examiner. Both Jim and I had a few gaps in our log books which we were hopefully going to be able to complete over the course of the next 7 weeks.
Our first week bizarely was to be land based. There's a lot of theory to sailing even before you hit the water, all candidates must be up to scratch with the Rules of the Road, Lights and Buoyage, Meteorology and most importantly Navigation. Thankfully you can get to grips with all of this in a classroom first before you have to do it in earnest, down below on a rolling boat pitched over by 45 degrees trying to work out where you are and where you're going to next!! The week passed quickly for us and by the end of it we were ready to sit the exams. Thankfully we both passed with flying colours and were now keen to get on with the real deal - sailing.
Our accommodation for the week was aboard 'Polbream' a 46ft Beneteau. For me the transition from living in the heat of the Caribbean to all of a sudden being aboard a yacht in the south coast of England in April was a bit of a shock. I remember clearly while during our first sea training week standing on the pullpit wearing full wet weather gear, freezing cold, while a heavy hail storm peppered the deck around me with thousands of icy ball bearings, each one threatening to roll me off onto the drink without a moments hesitation! As the marbles of pure white ice managed to find their way down the back of my neck I clearly remember thinking "what the fuck have I done!!". While we were to see some significant weather over the next six weeks, this was undoubtedly the coldest I'd felt in over 5 years.
While our first week at sea was more to do with our Skipper 'Ken the Vicar' finding our levels rather than us getting our teeth into the Yachtmaster course, it was all part of the journey of improving our seamanship skills while also building the necessary tidal miles and passages needed to qualify and sit the Yachtmaster practical assessment at the start of June. We spent the week pottering around in local waters up the River Fal, the Helford, St Mawes, Fowey and then back to Falmouth. For me getting to grips with sailing a monohull for the first time was the biggest challenge. Having spent the last two years solely aboard catamarans getting a feel for the reactions of a monohull took some getting used to, as well as understanding points of sail and doing things like sailing up to mooring balls and recovering a man-over-board under sail. It's fair to say that on reflection I was almost ready to pack it all in at the end of that week - nothing seemed to be sinking into me!
The following two sailing trips however somehow managed to restore the level of confidence that I'd been missing. We did a 2 week trip from Falmouth to the southern coast of Ireland, via the Isles of Scilly and up through the infamous Irish Sea. This was with Peter and his wife Stella, Jim and I and another Andy who joined us on the trip. Talk about night and day from the previous one. We stopped for a night in St Agnes in the Scilly Isles and managed to get ashore in the dingy for a beer or two in the only pub. The pub was rammed. The island normally only has a population of about 60, but with the Annual Gig Racing festival now on to say it was standing room only, and that was just outside, would have been an understatement. Fantastic to be part of these marvelous events and celebrations on which much of the islands historic welfare and prosperity was once based.
The Southern coast of Ireland is a great place to go cruising. There are so many places and hidden gems all along the coast and always somewhere safe to head should the weather coming off the Irish Sea turn a little unfavourable. We visited Kinsail, Cork, Baltimore, Bantry Bay and Castletownbere (the home of the famous MacCarthy's Bar), to name but a few. The whole two weeks were amazing, dolphins and huge basking sharks came our way off of the Mizzen Head as we battled our way through heavy seas with wind against current, and past the famous lighthouse landmark, The Fastnet Rock. To add to the experience we also had our share of boat challenges, from leaking water tanks to a loss of all electrics as well as a night of dense fog and a misreading radar all thrown in for the measure. This was definitely what it's all about. The learning process was well underway.
The final week of mileage and passage building came next, and we headed off to the Brittany Coast in Northern France. It was a challenging crossing for me. I was nominated skipper and my task was to take our boat out of Falmouth and over to France organising the crew and sail as I saw fit. Our new leader that week was Chris a retired instructor but lifelong sailor. He went below to his bunk soon after we left Falmouth as we headed out to sea. The weather was up, it was Force 7 occasionally blowing 8, and the seas were at times 30ft plus. With the sails appropriately reefed we set in for the 24 hour journey ahead over to Treguir in France. With seasickness playing a part for some of the crew it was a tough call to continue. Chris seemed to have confidence in us as a crew and he kept me reassured in my role as skipper. While it was a log overnight passage our sightings of the many lighthouses on the French coastline welcomed us just as dawn was begining to break and we headed up the river in search of some 'vin et du pain' in the fresh spring air. Our journey then took us back to the UK via Guernsey in the Channel Islands and then up the River Dart in England and finally to Falmouth. Our final week of mileage building and passages was complete. Now it was time for some fun......
Sadie and Loretta then joined us for a bareboat week as Jim and I had now to put all the training into practice by skippering the boat for ourselves. We were both given our own yachts for the week and the girls helped out immensly by assiting in the preparation and provisioning of our new 'hotels' for the week as well as taking on the role as 1st mate. With Sadie fresh from chef school and Jim and I desperate to eat something different to sausage casserole our appetites were tingling with anticipation as we both set out from Falmouth on yet another new adventure.
It was a great week and the on board cuisine was excellent, and although the sailing was mixed due to some heavy weather midweek, being able to go sailing just with Sadie made it very special. This was to be our first real taste of what was hopefully lying ahead for us. However the uncertainty of our Yachtmaster's practical examination was now just a week away and the pressure was building even more than it was already.
Having said sad goodbyes to the gilrs and amidst various wishes of 'good luck's' and 'you'll breeze it' Jim and I then set of for the final showdown - A week's preparation getting rid of the bad habits and fine tuning our sailing skills and general seamanship knowledge. The week passed quickly in local waters and on the Friday our assessment began.
Like many things the reputations that preceed examiners are usualy outweighed by the various exaggerated stories that you hear about in the run up to your assessment. Mike Stratton was our examiner, at sea all his life and considered to be 'hard but fair'. Well, at least we knew he wouldn't suffer fools gladly and that we woulod be tested to the limits of our experiences and knowledge. All in it was a 14 hour exam, with all four candidates taking thier turn at skippering the boat, while Mike tested our seamanship with man-over-board drills, mooring, anchoring and blind navigation - all under both power and sail. He covered every single Rule of Road, Lights and Buoyage card with us as well as a detailed review of our Passage Plans and our sailing experiences as per our Sea Logs. It was indeed a thorough examination. As we all stepped off the boat, mentally drained and eager for the results to be known, waiting in silent anticipation and hope for the judges final ruling on our individual performances. It was going to be a good day and a very celebratory night afterall. Jim and I both passed. A huge relief came over us - it was over.
After 7 solid weeks of sea training, some 1800 sea miles, over forty days at sea and numerous hours of study and concentration we definitely had cause to celebrate. A huge door was now open for Sadie and I. We now had the necessary qualifations to start our professional careers in the sailing industry and to continue our dream. The course was probably the most challenging but most rewarding thing I have ever done, there were so many memories, high points and low points that it is impossible to put them all down on paper.
The next big chapter in our lives has definitely started!!
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[Kickstarter] Pathfinder-Compatible Larry Elmore's Sovereign Stone RPG
tmlee15 Apr 21, 2013, 05:14 pm
We at Timeout Diversions just launched a Kickstarter for Larry Elmore's Sovereign Stone RPG, this time as Pathfinder-compatible! Below is the official press release. Please feel free to post your comments and I'll be happy to answer your questions here as well. Thanks!
LARRY ELMORE’S SOVEREIGN STONE RPG COMES TO PATHFINDER®
Now Active on Kickstarter
REDONDO BEACH, CA, April 21, 2013 - Created by iconic artist Larry Elmore (“D&D Red Box”, SnarfQuest), Sovereign Stone is an epic fantasy tale of mortals struggling to cope with the immense power of an artifact given them from the gods. The gripping conflict has been recounted in a novel trilogy by the best-selling author duo of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance, The Death Gate Cycle), as well as in vivid paintings featuring Mr. Elmore’s distinct, breathtaking style. Since its initial release to this day, the role-playing game continues to attract fans and players worldwide.
Now, Timeout Diversions, makers of the #1 pro-wrestling RPG in the world (Wild World Wrestling), aims to merge the exciting saga of Sovereign Stone with the most popular RPG system in the world—the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game!
“Any time you can work with someone of Larry’s stature, you do it,” said Tony Lee, chief operator of Timeout Diversions. “Bringing a fantastic creation like Sovereign Stone to the Pathfinder system will invite even more gaming enthusiasts to discover all the unique personalities, races, history, and stories within this setting. I’m so stoked I can’t wait to see the project unfold!”
“I have known Tony forever and I cannot think of anyone else I would rather work with on Sovereign Stone,” said Larry Elmore. “There are many more stories to tell in the Sovereign Stone universe. With the help of Kickstarter, we can hopefully finish what I started!”
The project is now live on Kickstarter here and set to end at 9pm EDT on May 26, 2013. Initial stretch goals include a commemorative art print autographed by Larry Elmore, and a story penned by the prolific fan-favorite, Matt Forbeck. More star-studded offerings are expected and will be announced upon finalization.
Based in Redondo Beach, California, Timeout Diversions is the home of Killer Thriller, the B-Movie RPG, and the undisputed champ of pro-wrestling role-playing games, Wild World Wrestling. For more information on these games and Sovereign Stone, please check out the Timeout Diversions website and/or contact Tony Lee at info@timeoutdiversions.com.
ShadowcatX Apr 21, 2013, 05:25 pm
I like the fact that you come here and give us some information about who you are some of your credentials. I wish you had given us examples of things you made for pathfinder before, or some spoilers of things you're working on so we can see how you handle mechanics, but still this is a good introduction and I look forward to seeing your products.
I'm not sure I'm going to donate yet, I do think I'll see if I can find the first novel and read through it (thankfully there's plenty of time left on the kick starter) and go from there. I do wish you all luck though I don't think you'll need it.
Hi ShadowcatX!
Thanks for your comment! About Pathfinder, I did have plans to release thru Timeout Diversions a "Heroic Game Options" series that is designed to ramp up any Pathfinder games at the fundamental level. The first in the line would have introduced the "Momentum" mechanic. Basically, you accumulate Momentum Points from a successful die roll and then spend them however you like for a variety of bonuses on your next roll, from to-hit to saving throws to extra move or standard action, for yourself and even all your allies if you scored enough MP! I still want to release it so it will happen... just don't know when yet :)
My Wild World Wrestling, on sale on this site here, is d20-based, but modified to fit the pro-wrestling genre. The Free Fast-Count Demo is available here too, if you want to check out how the rules work. I also designed WWW's predecessor, OGL WWE Know Your Role, which more closely resembled the d20 System.
As for Sovereign Stone, we are currently looking at a departure from the usual spellcasting in term of interpretation. For starter, because classes like the Bard, Paladin, and Ranger are not spellcasters in the setting, we have to come up something else without making up redundant classes, nor do we feel that Pathfinder fans would want them to be "magic-less"... So, we're actually exploring the option to change their spellcasting class abilities into Spell-Like Abilities instead, with proper trade-offs so they're not overpowered.
I'll take the well-wishes, even if we're almost at the pledge goal already as we speak :) Wanna thank you and all the backers for the support, and I hope you'll find the project intriguing enough to pledge. Meanwhile, please let me know if there's anything else I can answer for ya!
tmlee15 Apr 22, 2013, 09:10 am
And we hit our first stretch goal of $15,000 in less than 24 hours! All backers, even at $1 level, will now get a PDF collection of adventure scenarios. Coming up next, at $20,000, is an original story set in the Sovereign Stone world by Matt Forbeck!
Stereofm Apr 23, 2013, 11:11 pm
How different will it be from the 3.5 editions ? Will there be more art ?
Aarontendo Apr 24, 2013, 05:45 am
What sort of page counts are we looking at? I'm quite interested but never saw the old edition :)
silverhair2008 Apr 24, 2013, 09:17 am
Pledged. Strangely I was gifted the 3.0 versions.
Stereofm wrote:
How different will it be from the 3.5 editions?
The main approach we're taking with this version is to make it as friendly to the source game system as we can, so Pathfinder players will find the setting more readily accessible than D&D players found with their incarnations. To that end, we're making this a leaner edition by cutting off extraneous stuff like generic equipment description, duplicates of existing spells, plus other things you could find in the PF Core Rulebook. For replacement, we want to include Sovereign Stone-specific materials. So the elven hirglaif and byrglaif, for example, would be featured rather than tucked away in a sidebar, among other unique weapons and gear (some perhaps newly created) from the races and cultures of Loerem.
Old classes are either greatly streamlined to capitalize on PF innovations like Archetypes (for Stalker, Soldier, and Mounted Warrior) or dropped in favor of similar-in-function but more enticing replacements(e.g., swapping out Noble for the more appealing Warlord, courtesy of Adamant Entertainment). The many human cultures undergo rule mods too, as Culture Traits and other options are added. The pecwae has become more interesting and are beyond being slightly-retooled halflings in game mechanics. Other humanoid races should get the same treatment as well.
Destiny Points will be tweaked to be more powerful and have less restriction on how they're used. For one, they'll double as ki/grit/whatever-class-feature points you have, too.
Sovereign Stone magic is redesigned to fit with the conventional PF magic system, but with options to retain the flavor of the old "Spellcasting Rolls". It will also be streamlined and simplified to make adaptations quicker, easier.
There are other changes in plan as well, such as new background/setting info wherever, however we can manage to include. It is our intention to make it as distinct from the previous edition as possible so old fans won't feel ripped off, and for Pathfinder fans to enjoy.
Will there be more art?
Yes! One of the shortcoming of the 3.5 edition was not enough art... something we want to rectify for the Pathfinder edition. The bestiary at the end of the Core Book should be fully illustrated once again, for instance.
Aarontendo wrote:
What sort of page counts are we looking at?
The Sovereign Stone Core, Bestiary, and Codex Mysterium should each be around 196-224 pages; the five sourcebooks about 64-96 pages each given an improved, efficient layout.
silverhair2008 wrote:
Thank you! We look forward to making this edition the best for you to enjoy!
Christina Stiles Contributor Apr 24, 2013, 11:17 am
Tony, great to see this happening. Best wishes to you guys!
Jadeite Apr 24, 2013, 11:20 pm
You mentioned using archetypes, will you also support the base classes from the APG and UM?
Also, Adamant hasn't the best reputation when it comes to the PFRPG and the Tome of Secrets was a very early supplement. A Cavalier can make a pretty good warlord, especially when you consider archetypes (they also work well as mounted warriors, but so do rangers and barbarians).
How about using Hero Points instead of Destiny points?
As for monsters, will you put the 30 pages of monsters from the Campaign Sourcebook into the Bestiary? That would free some space for setting description (of which the Campaign Sourcebook had rather little). It would distrupt the artwork of the Bestiary, but you could always hire Andy Hopp.
And would it be possible to give the monsters an alignment? Even if SS doesn't use it, it would make it easier to use the creatures in other settings.
Concerning the elven hirglaif and byrglaif, wouldn't it be sufficient to give elves weapon familiarity with katanas and wakizashis?
Don't limit yourself to the Core Rulebook, use the whole PFRPG line. You don't have to use everything, but there's no need to waste space and create redundancy.
That's all for the moment, I'm currently undecided due to the high shipping costs.
bigmac Apr 25, 2013, 01:46 pm
I've been making a list of Sovereign Stone products over at the Other Worlds forum at The Piazza and you can compare the size of unconverted products there, with what Tony just posted above.
Jadeite wrote:
I'm in the UK and often am unable to buy things from US companies, because of the large shipping fees. The US postal service has pulled all of its cheap options and most companies send stuff air-mail now. And air-mail is much more expensive than surface-mail. There are a few companies that have worked out how to use consolidated shipping providers to get much lower international rates, but they are in the minority, because bulk shipping information is not widely promoted.
Dragonhelm Apr 27, 2013, 07:57 am
Hi, all. My name is Trampas Whiteman. I'm helping Tony on this project.
First, I wanted to say that this project is still very much in development, so not everything has been finalized. Your input will help to make it better!
Sovereign Stone's magic system makes it a bit more difficult to use every class from the expanded books. We're definitely covering the core book classes. We also will include the cavalier, which thematically works for the old mounted warrior class. Beyond that, we'll see.
What suggestions do you guys have on how to include the other classes?
Yes, but the warlord they produced had some good reviews and it fits the thematic ground of the noble.
I had not had a chance to talk to Tony about this yet, but that was my thought.
I should probably let Tony tackle your other questions. What I can say is that this edition of Sovereign Stone is going to be a lot more Pathfinder-friendly. We want this version to be recognizable to old fans, and approachable to Pathfinder fans. We hope that Pathfinder fans will look to Sovereign Stone as another great setting to game in.
I have a question. Under "The Rewards" the Scholar of Loerem does not show the print and PDF of the other two core books. However, the sidebar does list the other books as print and PDF. Was their exclusion simply a misprint?
Was their exclusion simply a misprint?
Yes, that was an omission. It has been fixed. Thanks much for catching it!
As for monsters, will you put the 30 pages of monsters from the Campaign Sourcebook into the Bestiary?
As Trampas mentioned, the project is still very much in development, so we don't have anything specific on that yet... It will largely depends on how much room we have left over after all essential campaign information have been included. I do have a hunch the creature description will end up under 30 pages.
And would it be possible to give the monsters an alignment?
If it's in Pathfinder (and monster alignment is), there's a good chance we'll use it :)
Good point. We'll check with writer of the Elves book, Stephen Sullivan, about it.
After another review, yes, we'll likely expand Hero Points so they'll do what we envisioned for Destiny Points and more.
silverhair2008 Apr 29, 2013, 02:53 pm
@ tmlee15,
No problem. It was sort of self serving. That is the level of my pledge and I wanted to find out if something had changed.
We've added a new Reward Level. It is called "Icon of Loerem" because it's your chance to become an icon in the world of Sovereign Stone!
Two of the most formidable forces in Loerem are the Dominion Lords, champions of Light with might granted by the gods themselves, and their Void counterparts, the Vrykyls. Now you can be immortalized in the setting as one of these powerful entities by pledging at the new $500 "Icon of Loerem" level. In addition to print and PDF editions of the books and signed novel trilogy, you'll be a revered Dominion Lord or a feared Vrykyl -- your choice -- featured in the New Vinnengael: Empire of Might sourcebook. This Reward is limited to 9 backers since both Dominion Lords and Vrykyls are the extremely rare chosen few, so grab your spot while you can!
We've also switched the two new stretch goals: New Vinnengael is now at $30k, and Don Perrin story/scenario is at $35k. We should have another new, terrific stretch goal ready to announce soon, as well, so look out for that!
Timeout Diversions
Brandon Verkennes May 6, 2013, 06:55 am
So going to pledge for this after I pre-reg for Gencon.
tmlee15 May 7, 2013, 11:52 am
Thanks, Brandon! Some of us may be at GenCon (Larry definitely is), so look us up at the Elmore Productions booth and maybe we can get in a demo of PF Sovereign Stone or two.
In case you missed it, we've added a new stretch goal for 40K: Sneak Preview PDF of New Potential Post-Novel Story Arcs. This is a compilation of the plotlines discussed in "secret meetings" between Larry and the creative staff. There were some very interesting directions we're looking to take the game after the War with Dagnarus is over. Super-powered PCs, Elemental Oracles, and new continent(s) on the other side of Loerem are among the major developments we want to explore, to which we look forward to having fans old and new aboard!
tmlee15 May 15, 2013, 04:17 pm
We've updated and added a couple of things since last week.
First, we found a way to reduce shipping cost to Canada, U.K., and Europe. If you're in those parts of the world, you can now enjoy a saving of $10-30 off the previous rate!
Second, if you pledge at the Scholar of Loerem level or above, you can get a softcover edition of the new Empire of Might: New Vinnengael sourcebook as an Add-On for $20!
EoM:NV is not a supplement on just the city of New Vinnengael; it is a book on the actual empire of Vinnengael itself. The content presents information about this mighty human realm from history to geography, culture, military, political seats, and the Church that is both influential and integral to the daily functions of Vinnengael. Of course, given its importance to not only the empire but Loerem too, there's a chapter devoted to the capital city as well. It's as comprehensive a coverage on the revived Vinnengael as you can get.
But that's not all. It also sheds some light on the mysterious order of monks known as the Keepers. Fans of Sovereign Stones will recognize them as the enigmatic harbingers who traveled throughout Loerem with the sole purpose of recording major events -- as mystical, animated tattoos on their bodies! More details will be revealed for the first time regarding this respected, virtually untouchable order, as well as their rumored connection to the dragons (which seemed to be their protective benefactors...)
Plus, all Dominion Lords known and/or active in Vinnengael get complete writeups and stats! If you've ever wondered about Sir Ardencoure, Lord of Freedom or any of his six fellow Dominion Lords and what incredible powers they have harnessed, look no further. And, if you pledge at the new $500 Icon of Loerem level, this is where you become immortalized in Sovereign Stone lore as either a Dominion Lord or their Void counterpart, a Vrykyl!
The PDF version of this supplement is FREE to ALL BACKERS when we cross the 30K threshold--which is just less than $500 away, so let's make it happen!
GeneticDrift May 15, 2013, 05:09 pm
Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
I'm sad to see the magic is changing. I loved the old system. Can you give more detail on how this is being changed?
GeneticDrift wrote:
Got good news for ya: It is not completely abandoned! What we're planning to do is to present two systems: one which won't stray too far off the conventional Pathfinder magic so PF players can pick up the tweaks quickly, and one "optional" where "spellcasting rolls" and other ideas from the old system you mentioned are still in effect.
To start off, all spells from the PF Core Rulebook will be divided by elements. So "Cure Wounds" are exclusively Earth spells, "Invisibility" is Air, divination is either Fire or Water depending on end effects, necromantic spells are Void, etc. Some spells will get "elemental overlay"; for example, if you pick up "Magic Missile" as a Fire Mage, it's a "Fire Magic Missile"; as a Water Mage, "Water Magic Missile".
If you're using the PF magic system, spellcasters like Wizards and Sorcerers become Elemental Mages and they must choose an element (similar to how clerics choose Domains), with choice of "multi-classing" into another (or more) element later. From there, they get the spell list for their chosen elements, cast spells and progress like in any normal PF game.
The deviation for using the Sovereign Stone magic system from d20 3.0/3.5 comes after that. Each spell will be given a Casting Threshold (CT) and it goes off once you've matched or exceeded the CT. In other words, the general basis for the old system will remain, but is simplified and more streamlined, with expansion provided in the Codex Mysterium (admittedly with a PF slant since that's rather unavoidable). So yes, while the PF side figures to be more prominent, you can pretty much still have the "old way" of doing magic for your campaign if you want--we haven't forgotten our old fans... :)
GeneticDrift May 16, 2013, 06:24 am
tmlee15 May 16, 2013, 10:19 am
My pleasure, GeneticDrift!
And we have just climbed over the 30K hump in funding. That means if everyone who pledges now, at any reward level, will get the PDF of Empire of Might: New Vinnengael for free -- just like all current backers! Coming up next, at $35,000 is an original story by Don Perrin, then the fantastic post-trilogy story arcs after at 40k. We hope to have as many of you with us as possible on this exciting journey!
It's on! Tony Lee and Ken Whitman will be guests on the Geeerati podcast next week, hosted by Christian Lindke, to talk about Sovereign Stone and the kickstarter. Tune in Wednesday, May 22nd, at 8:30pm PST to hear us talk about the setting, our plans, working with Larry Elmore, and everything else Sovereign Stone!
You can check out the preliminary info here. Let us know if you have any burning questions about Sovereign Stone and we'll do our best to work the answers into our chat. Please pass it on so no fans of Larry Elmore, Sovereign Stone, Pathfinder, and just plain good gaming will miss it!
Thought I'd elaborate a bit on the backstory for Sovereign Stone:
About 200 years ago, the king of Vinnengael, at that time the most powerful empire in the world, got help from the gods to create magic portals that facilitated travel between nations. However, most of them then begin fearing the prospect of invasions through these portals and protested. So, the Vinnengaelean king asked the gods for a way to prevent portal abuse and keep peace between the races. In response, the gods gave him Sovereign Stone, which can grant those chosen by the artifact abilities far beyond mortal man, making them mighty champions called the Dominion Lords.
At first only the humans have Sovereign Stone. But when the dwarves, elves, and orks complained, the pyramid Stone was split into four parts and gifted to those races, with each part corresponding to an element: Air for elves, Fire for dwarves, Water for orks, and the human kept the Earth segment. This enabled them all to create their own Dominion Lords.
One of the Vinnengael king’s sons wanted to be a Dominion Lord himself solely for the power, but after the Sovereign Stone rejected him, he became angry and went straight to learning the forbidden Void magic. He got so dark and good at it, he was able to create evil undead counterparts to the Dominion Lords called the Vrykyls. Eventually, the two sides clashed in a big battle and the human piece of the Sovereign Stone was lost during the war.
The game picks up 200 years after with the antagonist coming back to find the lost piece as well as taking the other pieces from the other races so he can reunite the Sovereign Stone and conquer the world.
A reminder that the Kickstarter ends this Sunday (5/26) at noon. Please feel free to post any questions!
And we're in the final stretch with less than 24 hours to go! With luck, we'll reach $35,000 for every backer to get a new story by Don Perrin of the Theros Ironfeld and The Doom Brigade novel fame as well as being one of the original developers of Sovereign Stone.
The extra swags going to all backers so far include a Sovereign Stone tale by Matt Forbeck, a PDF collection of adventure scenarios, and PDF of the new, never-seen-before New Vinnengael sourcebook. Backers pledging at hard copy levels will also get 8"x10" commemorative art prints.
The reward levels are structured to include all-PDF and PDFs + print books, so you have choices from getting just the PDF of the Core Rulebook at $10, up to both PDF and physical versions of everything (eight books total; nine if New Vinnengael is included as an Add-On) PLUS an autographed three-book novel series. There's even a level to immortalize yourself in the setting as a powerful Dominion Lord (or Vrykyl... your pick) with potential recurring role in future releases.
And if you really feel like splurging, you can get a masonite giclee by Larry Elmore to hang in your room too!-)
Brandon Verkennes May 26, 2013, 08:43 am
Pledged at "SCHOLAR OF LOEREM" Level.
Thanks much, Brandon!
Now we're at 80 minutes and counting... If you know someone who's still on the fence, please let them know there isn't much time left to get it at a good value!
tmlee15 Jun 4, 2014, 04:39 pm
The PDF for the Pathfinder-compatible Sovereign Stone Campaign Setting Core Rulebook will finally be available this Friday (June 6), on Paizo, DriveThruRPG and OBS affiliates. We added several new art and better scans from Larry Elmore himself at last minute so it's going to be 285 pages of goodness for $12.95!
In addition, Bestiary of Loerem and Codex Mysterium PDFs are releasing at the same time, at $12.95 each as well, for you to jump straight into fighting the unique monsters of the world created by Larry Elmore, and explore the new non-Vacian magic system adapted from the original iteration to Pathfinder!
We also offer the entire intro chapter, Setting Primer, here, along with fictions (featuring such authors as Margaret Weis and Matt Forbeck), on the official site. Check it out, and please feel free to ask me questions!
Steleo Jun 5, 2014, 07:01 am
As a backer, I received the PDF two days ago. I'm pumped, I can tell you. The Core Rulebook is 285 pages, filled with lots ... no, make that LOTS of stunning Elmore art. I have not had time to read everything closely, but my first impression is that it's indeed very high quality work (not just the art, but the rules, too). I'm very, very happy with the product I backed ($129 to get the printed books shipped to Europe ... and I can't wait for the printed books, because I think such art deserves being printed).
If you are interested in this world and / or in Larry's art, I think $12.95 is a bargain ... no, I don't work for Tony, I'm just happy that this project was finished in such a great way (despite quite a bit of problems - which Tony dealt with admirably).
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[LOCAL] How Don Rumbotico's international fame is slowly erasing its founders from the narrative
Havana Sun | 7/4/2019
A Local Legacy Forgotten
How Don Rumbotico’s international fame is slowly erasing its founders from the narrative
By Marise Solis
These days, everyone knows Don Rumbotico. Savor Quality. Only the Best. Ads in warm, rich colors, and a logo featuring a well-dressed omnic. But few outside of Havana know of the distillery’s hometown roots and controversial recent history.
“Don Rumbotico was never meant to be a major operation,” says Alicia Diaz, their many-generations-great granddaughter. We sit together in a local bar, and a giant billboard advertising Don Rumbotico—Only the Best!—is visible from the window. “Back then, it really was about quality.”
Almost two centuries ago, Clara and Basilio Diaz used their savings to open a small rum distillery. It was a modest family business, specializing in small batch, barrel-aged rum. Until 2060, few outside of Cuba knew the name Don Rumbotico, but the brand was wildly popular in Havana. Alicia, like the generations of Diazes before her, is an expert rum-maker. The classic Don Rumbotico recipe is a closely-guarded family secret, and one celebrated as a Cuban favorite.
But things have changed in recent years. An anonymous financial group expressed interest in purchasing the company and distillery. “They offered us a lot of money,” Alicia says. “It could have changed our lives. But Don Rumbotico is my family’s legacy, and you can’t put a price on that.”
At first, the Diaz family refused. But then rum shipments began to go missing. When the distillery burned down in a suspected case of arson, the Diaz family was left with nothing. They were forced to sell the company for a sliver of its worth.
Now, Don Rumbotico is a worldwide brand, and its unfortunate history has been sanitized for public consumption. Basilio Diaz’s kindly, familiar visage on the label is gone, replaced by shiny chrome. The distillery has been rebuilt, but the recipes are different. “You can taste the difference. It’s not the same,” says Alicia.
Don Rumbotico isn’t the only beloved local icon to suffer unwelcome changes. The Havana Sea Fort, a historical landmark, has been protected by the Cuban government for centuries. But two years ago, it was bought by the same group who purchased Don Rumbotico and became private property. Like the rum distillery, the sea fort, too, is almost unrecognizable. Now, security guards patrol its grounds and unfamiliar helicopters traffic through its airspace, while its doors remain closed to the public for the foreseeable future.
“The face of Havana is changing,” Alicia says. Throughout our conversation, she hasn’t touched her drink. Don Rumbotico gazes down from the billboard outside, the brim of his fedora casting a shadow across his metal face. “Sometimes it feels like we’re losing a piece of ourselves. Or maybe we’ve already lost it.”
Cuba Braces for Hurricane Fernand
By Ermando Álvarez
Hurricane Fernand swept in from the Atlantic on Tuesday, flooding the Florida coastline and heading south toward the Bahamas. The Category 3 storm is due to hit Guardalavaca by Thursday and work its way up the coast to Havana. Winds of up to 193 kmh are projected, along with substantial flooding.
Communities along the coastline are being evacuated. Hurricane Fernand is expected to cause massive damage, even inland. “It’s not a small storm,” said Governor Oriole Delgado during a press conference yesterday. “Don’t try to wait it out. Take every precaution to ensure your safety and head inland as soon as possible.”
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Paul Waldman (and FP and Vanity Fair) on Why Bannon’s Power is Alarming and Different
Read Waldman. I’ve said before I thought the Clinton campaigned erred by the one note attack on trump’s character (he has none). They could have taken some time to expand on the consequences of electing Trump, what he and the people around him would bring to the WH. They should have expanded the “deplorables” attack and connect Bannon and his way out of the mainstream beliefs to Trump. Putting Trump in the WH put a white nationalist with crazy conspiracy theories and a vision of us at war with Islam right in there with him, next to him.
He’s off to an excellent start. Not only has Bannon quickly become the most influential Trump policymaker, he even got the President to put him on the “principals committee” of the National Security Council, elevating him above the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence. Karl Rove never got that privilege; even in the Bush White House, the idea of a political hack with a post on that committee was a step too far. At the moment, it looks like Bannon is the dominant voice in every policy area, foreign and domestic.
An article in Foreign Policy (subscription needed) states that Bannon is running a cabal in the WH with no paper trail on who is giving the orders.
Vanity Fair notes that Jared Kushner is furious at how Bannon has taken over. Kushner celebrates the sabbath and essentially is out of pocket from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. In that 24 hour period Bannon has almost exclusive access to Trump and the levers of power. It’s no coincidence that these periods so far have been when the Trump WH unravels: calling the National Park Service about inaugural attendance; sending Spicer out to give his press conference about same; the CIA speech; the issuance of the Muslim Ban. Apparently Bannon’s anti-semitism never bothered Jared and Ivanka, but now that he’s taken advantage of their religious customs, they’re feeling it.
Back to what Bannon believes:
On Breitbart News Daily, Bannon’s words often centered on the idea of a global clash of civilizations.
“To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise,” he said in an interview in January 2016 with a Breitbart reporter.
In November 2015, Bannon told his listeners it was time to have an “adult conversation” about national security.
“Some of these situations may get a little unpleasant,” Bannon said. “But you know what, we’re in a war. We’re clearly going into, I think, a major shooting war in the Middle East again.”…
Concern about brewing conflict, he said, was a fundamental concept behind Bannon’s media enterprise. “Our big belief, one of our central organizing principles at the site, is that we’re at war,” he said.
Latest reports are that Bannon and Trump are looking at ways to deport legal immigrants who are on relief.
Trump’s talk of building border walls and keeping out dangerous foreigners was never really about security. It was always about culture, the idea that those people aren’t like us and are changing the country in ways that make us uncomfortable, so if we can toss them out then we can turn back the clock to the way it was when certain people’s primacy in our society was so complete that no one questioned it. Who better to shepherd such a movement than the the leader of the premier white nationalist news site on the internet?
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The tricks animals use to survive Australia's bushfires
by Dale Nimmo, The Conversation
Feral cats can travel kilometres in search of vulnerable prey in a burnt-out landscape. Credit: Hugh McGregor
Have you ever wondered how our native wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity.
Australia's bushfire season is far from over, and the cost to wildlife has been epic. A sobering estimate has put the number of animals killed across eastern Australia at 480 million—and that's a conservative figure.
But let's look at some uplifting facts: how animals survive, and what challenges they overcome in the days and weeks after a fire.
Sensing fire
In 2018, a staff member at Audubon Zoo in the United States accidentally burned pastry, and noticed something peculiar. In nearby enclosures ten sleepy lizards, or Tiliqua rugosa, began pacing and rapidly flicking their tongues. But sleepy lizards in rooms unaffected by smoke remained burrowed and calm.
It was obvious the lizards sensed the smoke from the burnt pastry, probably through olfaction, or sense of smell (which is enhanced by tongue flicking). So the lizards were responding as they would to a bushfire.
In Australia, experiments have shown smoke also awakens Gould's long-eared bats and fat-tailed dunnarts, enabling their escape from fire.
Animals also recognize the distinct sounds of fire. Reed frogs flee towards cover and eastern-red bats wake from torpor when played the crackling sounds of fire.
Other species detect fire for different reasons. Fire beetles from the genus Melanophila depend on fire for reproduction, as their larvae develop in the wood of burned trees. They can detect fire chemicals at very low concentrations, as well as infrared radiation from fires.
The beetles can detect very distant fires; one study suggests individuals of some species identify a fire from 130km away.
Stay or go?
Once an animal becomes aware of an approaching fire, it's decision time: stay or go?
It's common to see large animals fleeing a fire, such as the kangaroos filmed hopping from a fire front in Monaro in New South Wales a few days ago. Kangaroos and wallabies make haste to dams and creek lines, sometimes even doubling back through a fire front to find safety in areas already burned.
Other animals prefer to stay put, seeking refuge in burrows or under rocks. Smaller animals will happily crash a wombat burrow if it means surviving a fire. Burrows buffer animals from the heat of fires, depending on their depth and nearby fuel loads.
From here, animals can repopulate the charred landscape as it recovers. For example, evidence suggests populations of the agile antechinus (a small carnivorous marsupial) and the bush rat recovered primarily from within the footprint of Victoria's Black Saturday fires.
Avoiding fire is only half the battle
The hours, days, and weeks after fire bring a new set of challenges. Food resources will often be scarce, and in the barren landscape some animals, such as lizards and smaller mammals, are more visible to hungry predators.
Birds of prey arrive quickly at fires. Several species in northern Australia have been observed intentionally spreading fires by transporting burning sticks in their talons or beaks.
One US study published in 2017 recorded a seven-fold increase in raptor activity during fire. They begin hunting as the fires burn, and hang around for weeks or months to capitalize on vulnerable prey.
In Australia, introduced predators can also be drawn to fires. Feral cats have been observed traveling up to 12.5km from their home ranges towards recently burned savanna ecosystems, potentially drawn by distant smoke plumes promising new prey.
A 2016 study found a native rodent was 21 times more likely to die in areas exposed to intense fire compared to unburned areas, mostly due to predation by feral cats. Red foxes have an affinity for burned areas too.
So should a little critter hunker down, or begin the hazardous search for a new home?
Perhaps because of the risks of moving through an exposed landscape, several Australian mammals have learned to minimize movement following fire. This might allow some mammal populations to recover from within a fire footprint.
Native mammals have been found hiding in beds of ash after fires.
Short-beaked echidnas seek refuge and, when finding it, lower their body temperature and limit activity, so reducing the amount of food they need for energy. Despite their spiny defenses, echidnas have been found more often in the stomachs of foxes following fire, so staying put in a little refuge is a good move.
Small marsupials such as brown and yellow-footed antechinus also use torpor to suppress their energy use and therefore the need to seek food.
Not all wildlife have adapted to stay put after a fire, and moving in search of a safe haven might be the best option.
Animals might take short, information-gathering missions from their refuges into the fireground before embarking on a risky trek. They may, for example, spot a large, unburned tree that would make good habitat, and so move towards it. Without such cues to orient their movement, animals spend more time traveling, wasting precious energy reserves and increasing the risk of becoming predator food.
Survival is not assured
Australia's animals have a long, impressive history of co-existing with fire. However, a recent study I led with 27 colleagues considered how relatively recent threats make things much harder for animals in fire-prone landscapes.
Some native species are not accustomed to dealing with red foxes and feral cats, and so might overlook cues that indicate their presence, and make the bad decision to move through a burned landscape when they should stay put.
When fires burn habitat in agricultural or urban landscapes, animals might encounter not just predators but vehicles, livestock and harmful chemicals.
And as this bushfire season has made brutally clear, climate change is increasing the scale and intensity of bushfires. This reduces the number of small refuges such as fallen logs, increases the distance animals must cover to find new habitat and leaves fewer cues to direct them to safer places.
We still have a lot to learn about how Australia's wildlife detect and respond to fire. Filling in the knowledge gaps might lead to new ways of helping wildlife adapt to our rapidly changing world.
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JUSTROM2 was a continuation of JUSTROM, a Council of Europe and the European Commission joint programme aims to improve the access to justice of Roma women. The project ran from April 2018 to March 2019
to support the empowerment of Roma women through increasing their awareness about discrimination, complaint mechanisms, the justice system and human rights institutions/equality bodies;
to increase the number of cases of discrimination against Roma women admitted by human rights institutions, equality bodies and courts;
enhance professional resources used at national level by the judiciary, law enforcement and NGOs/human rights advocates regarding the application of anti-discrimination standards with a focus on multiple discrimination, gender equality and Roma women;
increase synergies between the institutional frameworks of the European Union and Council of Europe, including through National Roma Contact Points and CAHROM, and with national and local authorities on national Roma integration strategies, and civil society regarding access to justice.
4 national launch events took place between May and June 2018 with relevant stakeholders to present the project activities and objectives;
legal clinics were established through by associate partnerships in Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria); Athens, Thessaloniki and Xanthi (Greece); Naples and Rome (Italy); and Bucharest and Calarasi County (Romania);
national teams were select with the following format: 1 national coordinator per country and 1 or 2 mediators/facilitators, 1 legal assistant and 1 lawyers per legal clinic;
awareness-raising gatherings with Roma women and other vulnerable groups were organised in the target localities. Each gathering was designed to inform beneficiaries on a particular topic and to discuss issues related to it, such as domestic violence, human trafficking, secon chance schools, etc.;
Info days with the municipalities were organised to provide a platform for exchanges among the Roma communities and municipalities;
3 training of trainers for police officers on non-discrimination, gender and Roma. The first one took place in Romania in June 2018; the second one, in Bulgaria in November 2018; and the third one took place in Greece in early 2019. The ToTs in Romania was an additional contribution to the programme by the CoE (CoE own budget);
a training of trainers for judges and prosecutors took place in Strasbourg, France, in September 2018;
monitoring missions to all the implementing countries took place between late October to early December 2018;
literacy classes for Roma women took place in Naples, Italy, and Thessaloniki, Greece;
4 seminars with lawyers per country to sensitise them on non-discrimination, gender equality and Roma issues;
Sessions on JUSTROM were held in universities;
a study visit from Equality bodies and National Human Rights institutions from the implementing countries took place in March 2019;
training of lawyers of the legal aid bureau in Bulgaria and Romania, lawyers of the bar associations in Greece, and lawyers of the bar councils in Italy took place in early 2019;
Workshops for the Ombudsoffice staff and the National Human Rights Institution in Romania took place in early 2019;
2 country exchanges on best practices in Greece and Romania;
printing of brochures with information on the project and services, and other visibility material;
an end-of-project external evaluation was undertaken in January-March 2019.
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Google Pixel Camera Review
Chris Chavez Oct 20th, 2016 publishUpdated Oct 24th, 2016, 8:49 am
We’ve reached a point in mobile photography where just about every high-end smartphone these days is more or less capable of taking a perfectly good photo. At this point, all we can do is nitpick, zooming into 100% crops and analyzing every last Pixel. By now we’ve all heard Google’s claims that the camera in their new line of Pixel smartphones isn’t just one of the best smartphone cameras on the market — it’s the king of them all.
Well, that’s if DxOMark’s review is to be believed, with the Google Pixel receiving high-marks in just about every area, narrowly beating out even the Samsung Galaxy S7 with its camera prowess. So what’s so special about the Pixel? Well, on camera hardware is on part with most other offerings. The Pixel is equipped with a 12.3MP Sony IMX378 image sensor that features 1.55um pixels and an f/2.0 lens to help capture more light. There aren’t too many devices using this same hardware, but the guys at XDA had a great write up of everything the sensor is technically capable of. But it’s in the software and Google’s finely tuned image processing where the Pixel truly shines.
How does HDR+ work?
We know, most phones these days feature some type of HDR mode in their camera app (with varying results). Even last year’s Nexus devices featured HDR+, but nobody is doing it the way Google does on the Pixel. First off, HDR+ is now instant. There’s no delay when capturing photos like we saw on previous Nexus devices. That’s because the Pixel’s HDR+ is leveraging the Snapdragon 821’s new Hexagon digital signal processor processor.
HDR+ Off, Auto, On
This allows the camera to begin capturing RAW photos in the background as soon as the camera app is opened. These images are all underexposed and once combined (after the shutter button is pressed), produces a much sharper, less noisy shot with dramatically more detail in highlights that would normally be blown out in other smartphone cameras. Unfortunately, this doesn’t do much for lightening up shadows (something the iPhone 7 or Galaxy S7 excel at with their respective HDR methods), but it is what it is. Because the Pixel’s camera doesn’t have to take a single loooong exposure like on other devices, it’s a big reason why Google didn’t feel the need to include OIS on the Pixel — they don’t need it. As for video, we’ll get to that later…
That’s not to say the images the Pixel captures are perfect. There’s a fair amount of noise. A great deal more than what you normally see on competing devices and depending on who you ask, this could be off-putting. This was actually a conscious move by Google to preserve finer details in photos — a stark contrast to the noise filtering you see on most smartphones these days, resulting in a watercolor-like effect that looks artificial. With the Pixel, you’ll see concrete for what it is, couch fibers, hair, pimples — every detail and imperfection. Sure it’s a little more noisy, but it’s a worthwhile trade-off if you ask us.
Although we’d give the Pixel the slight edge in outdoor daytime shots, it’s during moderate to low light situations where the phone absolutely blows past the competition. Simply put, no phone out there can match this level of image quality. We’re not talking about taking photos in pitch darkness, but indoors or restaurant lighting where devices like the iPhone 7 or Galaxy S7 struggle. Not only do they lose much of their detail, photos are mostly washed out at higher ISOs, practically monochrome in some instances.
The Pixel’s HDR+ on the other hand, pulls much richer colors in low light — all without blowing out highlights, a pitfall of other cameras who use slower shutter speeds to capture more light. In almost ever instance we could test, the difference was like night and day. The Pixel’s HDR+ is a force to be reckoned. I will say I think I still prefer the (slower) method on previous Nexus devices, but it’s really hard to compete with zero shutter lag. For more on how the Pixel stacks up against the Apple iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, check out our comparison post here.
The downside to using HDR+ Auto on the Pixel? There really is none — so leave it on 24/7.
My only issue with HDR+ Auto/On
My only complaint is the way Google named the two HDR+ shooting modes. On most devices, “HDR Auto” means the phone decides when is the best time to use HDR (like when there’s a lot of really dark and bright areas in a shot). Sometimes it engages, sometimes it doesn’t. This is much different on the Pixel where HDR+ Auto means HDR+ will always be used. For every shot. The only time it’s not used is when you fire off too many shots and the phone’s buffer can’t keep up. For instance, taking 5 shots in rapid succession will cause HDR+ to skip the 6th and subsequent shots unless you give it a quick second to finish buffering.
I also thought that HDR+ Auto would occasionally trigger that extreme HDR we see with HDR+ On, but it doesn’t. So once again, having HDR+ Auto enabled means it will always be used.
HDR+ On, aka Super HDR+
When it comes to the HDR+ On, you may be thinking that (like with every other camera out there) it simply means HDR+ will be used for every shot. But if that’s already what HDR+ Auto does — what the heck is the difference? Well, think of HDR+ On as a more extreme version of HDR+ Auto. Like Super HDR+ if you will.
Where as HDR+ Auto gently brings down highlights, HDR+ On is much more aggressive. It’s closer to real HDR photographs you see with DSLRs which means it often times comes off as looking artificial. It doesn’t do much to bring out shadows, but sometimes you’ll find a teensy bit more detail in dark areas.
There’s decent shutter lag too, just like with HDR+ on older Nexuses. Shots take about 1 second to fully capture a photo. It’s definitely not for everyone and unlike previous Nexus devices — where HDR+ On was perfect for low lighting conditions — there’s significant noise using HDR+ On in low light (much more than HDR+ Auto). But if you’re taking a picture of a building at night and want to get all the brightly lit details inside, it can be perfect for that.
Front facing camera using HDR+ Off, Auto, On
The front facing camera also reaps the benefits of the Pixel’s amazing HDR+ modes. There’s a crazy amount of color detail (almost to a fault), with selfies that are always perfectly exposed, even in low light. On every other smartphone, I never understood how people could willingly choose to use a sh*tty front facing camera to capture a special moment but on the Pixel, there’s very little sacrifice. Simply put: thanks to HDR+, this is the best front facing camera around, hands down.
Video so stable, it’s like magic
Like most other high-end devices these days, the Pixel is capable of shooting 4K UHD video. The difference is Google is using software tricks to keep the video steady — not OIS. You may think this wouldn’t be as nice a hardware solution, seeing as how traditional EIS zooms in on a video, sacrificing image clarity in an effort to smooth out shakes and jitters.
The Pixel on the other hand uses a combination of the phone’s hardware (gyroscope) and software to help with the rolling shutter and smooth out video. There’s very little “jello” side-effect you see in other EIS solutions. While it works damn near perfect in outdoor daytime situations, it’s all but nullified in low light where the software has a difficult time figuring out what’s going on to keep video stabilized. See our results below.
Video with the front facing camera caps out at 1080p and although the quality is there, doesn’t seem to benefit from the same EIS as the rear camera.
One of my favorite features with video capture is the option to pause in the middle of video, making it perfect for capturing an event, birthday, or wedding, without having to worry about splicing together clips after the fact. There’s also the ability to snap “photos” while recording video, but it’s mostly just a screen cap of the video being recorded.
All in all, video on the Pixel looks great. It’s clean, stable, and one of the best reasons to own the phone (providing you don’t shoot too much footage after dark). My biggest gripe with video on the Pixel has been audio quality, which is still quite average. I have yet to test the audio in a concert setting, but will report back with my findings when I do.
Although the Pixel’s camera software isn’t anywhere near as robust as you’d find on devices like the Galaxy S7 or LG V20, it’s still a big upgrade from previous generation Nexuses.
There’s no pro mode to fine tune every camera setting, but Google did update the app by adding the ability to adjust white balance (presets) and introducing the sometimes handy focus/exposure lock. AF/AE is activated by long pressing anywhere in the view finder and once engaged, allows you to manually adjust the exposure by sliding your finger up or down. It doesn’t give you a full range of exposure control, only 2 stops from where you initially locked it.
Other available shooting modes include:
Slow Motion – 240fps at 720p, or 120fps at 1080p
Panorama – There are 4 options for shooting a panorama: Horizontal, vertical, big, or fisheye
Photo Sphere – Capture a full, 360-degree image
Lens Blur – Create a shallow depth of field effect by blurring out the background of an object
The software is really nothing to write home about. It’s simple and intuitive and there are enough “fun” features to easily give the Pixel camera a leg up on the iPhone. The few manual controls are a nice addition, but we’re hoping this is just the beginning of what Google is planning for their camera app.
The only thing missing — at least for me — was an official Android alternative to Live Photos. Perhaps I’m alone in this, but Live Photos are easily one of my favorite camera features from the iPhone and if there was ever going to be a proper Android alternative, the Pixel would do it. I mean, it’s already shooting off a million photos in the background, just give us the option to turn those into Live Photos.
This is where we’ll talk briefly about the performance of the camera app. Launch times are extremely quick. Tap on the camera app and it launches in almost no time flat. Google also added a handy shortcut where double tapping the power button can wake the phone and launch directly into the app. Fire too quick, and HDR+ Auto might not activate (remember, it takes about a second for the phone to buffer the background photos it needs for HDR+).
When it comes to auto focus, the Pixel uses a combination of phase detection and laser auto focus for mostly stellar results. It’s quick and accurate in most settings, although nowhere near in the same ballpark as the Galaxy S7’s Dual Pixel auto focus. We did find that it can, at times, be somewhat inconsistent and you still get that hunting (focusing in/out) when it attempt to lock onto something. For when it does act up, tap to focus always comes in handy, although it forces the camera app to expose for whatever you just tapped.
The Pixel can also fire off bursts of photos by holding the shutter button, choosing the photo it feels is the “best” of the bunch (along with 7 runner ups). It’s called “Smartburst” and although you wont get the HDR+ benefits by shooting this way, it could be helpful when attempting to capture a fast moving subject. Smartburst can also creation GIFs from these bursts, or allow you to create a collage, which is a nice touch.
Beware the flare
Examples of the weird flaring I occasionally see pop up in some of my shots
Although I didn’t see this mentioned in most of the early reviews, I did notice some pretty apparent lens flares. It’s not all of the time, only whenever light — be it direct sunlight, light from a window, or even a ceiling light — would hit the camera the right way.
The crazy part is not only the rear camera that suffers from this, it also popped up when using the front facing camera as well. Not a huge deal-breaker by any means, but something worth mentioning.
Mobile photography is always inconsistent at best and there’s no single smartphone camera that excels in every area. Whereas most manufacturers are hellbent on tackling the issue with bigger and badder hardware (higher megapickles, dual-cameras, OIS or GTFO), Google is focusing on computational photography. They’re not just working harder, they’re working smarter.
For the first time it feels like Google is finally taking mobile photography seriously. While individual tastes may differ, there’s really no denying the results. From brightly lit environments, to low light, to video stabilization and the like, it’s going to be black magic as far as most people are concerned. That’s how good the Pixel camera is.
Yes, there are plenty of great options out there when shopping around for a great smartphone camera (even mid-range-ish $400 devices), but we can safely say — without a shadow of a doubt — the Pixel safely sits at the top of that list. We’re sure to see further advancements in this space and although it’s not by a huge margin, Google can finally say that for a brief moment in time, they were the best. Good job, Google. You earned it.
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MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio
Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab.
It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Livingston had tweeted that Kik had signed a letter-of-intent with a “great company,” but that it was “not a done deal.”
Now we know the the company: MediaLab. In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger.
“Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. “Whether it be a passion for an obscure manga or your favorite football team, Kik has shown an incredible ability to provide a platform for new friendships to be forged through your mobile phone.”
MediaLab is a holding company that owns several other mobile properties, including anonymous social network Whisper and mixtape app DatPiff. In acquiring Kik, the holding company is expanding its mobile app portfolio.
MediaLab said it has “some ideas” for developing Kik going forwards, including making the app faster and reducing the amount of unwanted messages and spam bots. The company said it will introduce ads “over the coming weeks” in order to “cover our expenses” of running the platform.
Buying the Kik messaging platform adds another social media weapon to the arsenal for MediaLab and its chief executive, Michael Heyward .
Heyward was an early star of the budding Los Angeles startup community with the launch of the anonymous messaging service, Whisper nearly 8 years ago. At the time, the company was one of a clutch of anonymous apps — including Secret and YikYak — that raised tens of millions of dollars to offer online iterations of the confessional journal, the burn book, and the bathroom wall (respectively).
In 2017, TechCrunch reported that Whisper underwent significant layoffs to stave off collapse and put the company on a path to profitability.
At the time Whisper had roughly 20 million monthly active users across its app and website, which the company was looking to monetize through programmatic advertising, rather than brand-sponsored campaigns that had provided some of the company’s revenue in the past. Through widgets, the company had an additional 10 million viewers of its content per-month using various widgets and a reach of around 250 million through Facebook and other social networks on which it published posts.
People familiar with the company said at the time that it was seeing gross revenues of roughly $1 million and was going to hit $12.5 million in revenue for that calendar year. By 2018 that revenue was expected to top $30 million, according to sources at the time.
Anonymous app Whisper lays off 20% of staff to survive
The flagship Whisper app let people post short bits of anonymous text and images that other folks could like or comment about. Heyward intended it to be a way for people to share more personal and intimate details — to be a social network for confessions and support rather than harassment.
The idea caught on with investors and Whisper managed to raise $61 million from investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Shasta Ventures . Whisper’s last round was a $36 million Series C back in 2014.
Fast forward to 2018 when Secret had been shut down for three years while YikYak also went bust — selling off its engineering team to Square for around $1 million. Whisper, meanwhile, seemingly set up MediaLab as a holding company for its app and additional assets that Heyward would look to roll up. The company filed registration documents in California in June 2018.
According to the filings, Susan Stone, a partner with the investment firm Sierra Wasatch Capital, is listed as a director for the company.
Heyward did not respond to a request for comment.
Zack Whittaker contributed reporting for this article.
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277 South Main St (click to enlarge)
Greek Revival farmhouse, two entrances on main structure; one on east fronting So. Main and one facing south. Engaged pillar doorway surround on front.
Themes - Architectural and Community Development.
Property once owned by Benjamin Coburn and sold to Charles Abbott 2nd, later known as Charles Abbott on Feb. 17, 1851. Charles was a farmer but is listed in the 1860 census as a ships carpenter. He transferred the deed to the property to his wife Mary Jane (Burns) Abbott in on Nov. 20, 1886. The property went to Mary's brother Lorenzo Burns then to heirs George Burns and Mary E. Burns of Tiverton, RI. They then sold to Albert Kimball of Methuen in Sept. 1901 for $1050.
Kimball held for four years selling to Joseph Thompson of Lawrence in Aug. 1905. The Thompson family owned for 32 years, 16 years by Joseph and the same number of years by Elizabeth Ella Thompson.
In Sept. 1937 Anna Peabody Schofield of Windom, NH purchased the 3 acre property. She owned for three years, selling off a portion of the property to John Griffin in Dec. 1937, then sold the homestead portion to Vernon R. & Mae V. Walker in Sept. 1940. The Vernon Walker family lived here for 29 years selling after the death of his wife Mae in 1968.
Gerald & Beverly W. Bradford Jr. purchased the home in Jan 1969 and then sold to John D. & Diane C. O'Neil in Oct. 1970.
Lawrence S. & Michele V. Speidell were the next owners on Oct. 29, 1971. Speidells owned for ten years selling to Mary A. Breslin in June 1981. Mary owned for 14 years and sold to Alan S. & Pamela S. Russell on Nov. 29, 1995.
The Russell family did major restoration to the property and added a rear ell and garage. They sold after six years to Stephen & Christine Gross in Sept. 2001.
The property was once numbered as 283 Main Street and then #277 when the town renamed this portion of Route 28 to South Main St.
Essex North Registry Deeds, Lawrence - ENRDL
Essex Registry of Deeds - Salem, MA
1906 - map - J. Thompson
1888 - map - C. Abbott
1890 - tax list - Charles Abbott
1856-1885, map and tax lists and directory owner Charles Abbott, farmer.
Benjamin Coburn house and 2 acres land 1850
Charles Abbott 2nd (Charles Abbott) - Feb. 17, 1851 - b. 441 leaf 126, Salem, MA
Charles S. Parker - Dec. 3, 1885 - b. 89 p. 44
Mary Jane Abbott - Dec. 3, 1885 - b. 89 p. 45
Lorenzo Burns
George O. Burns & Mary E. Burns - heirs
Albert Kimball - Sept. 14, 1901 - b. 190 p. 574
Joseph Thompson - Aug. 1, 1905 - b. 223 p. 390
Elizabeth Ella Thompson - Apr. 6, 1921 - b. 590 p. 495
Anna Peabody Schofield - Sept. 23, 1937 - b.610 p. 106
Vernon R. & Mae V. Walker - Sept. 23, 1940 - b. 634 p. 581
Gerard & Beverly W. Bradford Jr. - Jan. 10, 1969 - b. 1122 p. 470
John D. & Diane C. O'Neil - Oct. 20, 1970 - b. 1160 p. 742
Lawrence S. & Michele V. Speidell - Oct. 29, 1971 - 1182 p. 249
Mary A. Breslin - June 19, 1981 - b. 1512 p. 198
Alan S. & Pamela S. Russell - Nov. 29, 1995 b. 4390 p. 124
Pamela S. Russell - Oct. 26, 1998 - b. 5394 p. 29
Alan S. & Pamela S. Russell - July 28, 1999 - b. 5507 p. 129
Steven & Christine Gross - Sept. 26, 2001 - b. 6384 p. 179
Street South Main St
Historic District Not Applicable
Construction Date 1830's
Outbuildings / Secondary Structures small barn - garage.
Major Alterations front door is replaced, but door frame appears intact. Rear elbow addition in 1990's
Acreage 1.13 acres, 165' frontage.
Map and parcel 78-26
Recorded by Stack/Mofford, James Batchelder
Organization Andover Preservation Commission
Date entered 1975-77, updated 1/2014
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NEWS AND NOTES: Kacey, Chris, Luke, Caylee, Parker, Darius
Caylee Hammack / Chris Stapleton / Luke Bryan / Parker McCollum
Kacey Musgraves is set to appear on The Late, Late Show with James Corden on Thursday night. The talk show host appeared on Kacey’s Amazon Prime Christmas Special, which is available to stream now.
The life and career of Chris Stapleton will be featured in an exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum beginning next year. “I’m proud to get to share pieces of our musical journey at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum,” says Chris. The superstar’s exhibit will open June 26th, 2020. Martina McBride and Bill Anderson will also receive new exhibits.
Luke Bryan joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots’ Tariq Trotter for a funny video skit for NBC’s Tonight Show this week. The clip showcases the three guys wearing mullets and gold uniforms crashing a football-watching party as they rapped snacking ideas.
Caylee Hammack and Parker McCollum have been announced as part of MusicRow’s Next Big Thing for 2020. MusicRow Magazine’s Next Big Thing Class of 2020 has set itself apart from today’s artists with talent and hard work. Some of these NBT artists have just released their first singles, while others are celebrating chart-topping hits. All have broken through by bringing unique styles and by surrounding themselves with team members who champion them.
Darius Rucker is scheduled to perform a pre-race concert before the Daytona 500 February 16th.
Can't freaking wait!! The #Daytona500 y'all! Details at Daytona500.com
A post shared by Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) on Dec 3, 2019 at 7:57am PST
HALLOWEEN LINERS 2019
Adam Hambrick / Billy Currington / Brandon Lay / Brothers Osborne / Carrie Underwood / Caylee Hammack / Clare Dunn / Darius Rucker / Dierks Bentley / Eric Church / Jon Langston / Jon Pardi / Jordan Davis / Kacey Musgraves / Luke Bryan / Maddie & Tae / Parker McCollum / Sam Hunt / Travis Denning
Audio / LINER Adam Hambrick (Halloween)
“Hey! This is Adam Hambrick. Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Billy Currington (Trick or Treat)
“Trick or Treat, baby.”
Audio / LINER Brandon Lay (Halloween)
“Hey everybody! This is Brandon Lay, wishing you a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Brothers Osborne (Halloween)
“Hey! This is TJ, and I’m John, and we are Brothers Osborne. Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Carrie Underwood (Halloween)
“Hi! I’m Carrie Underwood, wishing you a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Caylee Hammack (Halloween) 1
“Hey y’all, I’m Caylee Hammack, wishing all of y’all a Happy Halloween. Boo!”
“Hey y’all! I’m Caylee Hammack, wishing all you goblins and gremlins out there a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Clare Dunn (Halloween)
“Hey! This is Clare Dunn, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Darius Rucker (Halloween)
“Hey! What’s up, y’all? This is Darius Rucker, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Dierks Bentley (Halloween)
“Hey! It’s Dierks Bentley, wishing you a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Eric Church (Halloween)
“Hey! This is Eric Church, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Jon Langston (Halloween)
“Hey y’all! I’m Jon Langston. Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Jordan Davis (Halloween)
“Hey! I’m Jordan Davis, wishing you a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Halloween)
“Hey Y’all, I’m Josh Turner, wishing you a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Kacey Musgraves (Halloween)
“Hey! It’s Kacey Musgraves, and I hope you have a Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (Halloween)
“Hey! What’s up, y’all? I’m Luke Bryan, wishing you a very Happy Halloween. Boo!”
Audio / LINER Maddie & Tae (Halloween)
“Hi! We’re Maddie & Tae. Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Parker McCollum (Halloween)
“Hey everybody, I’m Parker McCollum. Happy Halloween.”
Audio / LINER Sam Hunt (Halloween)
“Hey everybody! This is Sam Hunt. Happy Halloween!”
Audio / LINER Travis Denning (Halloween)
“Hey y’all, it’s Travis Denning. Happy Halloween.”
PARKER McCOLLUM DROPS NEW SONG.
Parker McCollum releases “Pretty Heart” today, his first song since signing with MCA Nashville earlier this Summer. McCollum, who released two highly-acclaimed albums as an independent artist, hasn’t released new music yet this year and his fans have been eagerly awaiting. Listen here.
#PrettyHeart is OUT NOW.🤘🏼 Listen here: https://t.co/FeBOw279VR pic.twitter.com/9v07LysIVW
— Parker McCollum (@ParkerMcCollum) August 30, 2019
“It’s been a while since I’ve put new music out,” shares Parker. “’Pretty Heart’ is for everyone who has ever come out to support us on the road, listened to and shared my music. All I have ever wanted is to write Country songs and sing Country music, and I’m excited for the opportunity to expose even more folks to my music.”
“Pretty Heart” was co-written by McCollum and Randy Montana and was produced by Jon Randall, a GRAMMY-winning producer and multi-platinum songwriter who’s worked with Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, and Brad Paisley.
Earlier this summer, McCollum announced new headlining shows in markets including Athens, GA; Baton Rouge, LA; and Chicago, IL. Stretching from September to late November, those shows will round out a celebrated year whose highlights include a sold-out show at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth — a rare feat for the 5,500-capacity venue, which only hosted five sold-out shows during the previous year — and a record-breaking show in San Marcos, TX, whose attendance marked the city’s largest-selling gig in history.
Parker McCollum’s Fall dates include:
8/30/19 Waco, TX @ The Backyard Bar Stage and Grill
8/31/19 Stephenville, TX @ Twisted J Live with Randy Rogers Band
9/1/19 New Braunfels, TX @ White Water Amphitheater
9/5/19 Manhattan, KS @ The Manhattan
9/6/19 Stillwater, OK @ Tumbleweed Dance Hall
9/7/19 Albany, TX @ CareFest 2019
9/12/19 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
9/13/19 Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Oxford
9/14/19 Fort Worth, TX @ Koe Wetzel’s Incredible Music Festival
9/19/19 Tahlequah, OK @ Medicine Stone Music Festival
9/20/19 Lubbock, TX @ JAB FEST 2019
9/26/19 Nacogdoches, TX @ Banita Creek Hall
9/27/19 Baton Rouge, LA @ Texas Club
9/28/19 Pasadena, TX @ Pasadena Livestock Show and Rodeo
10/18/19 Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
10/19/19 Shiner, TX @ Shiner Music Fest
10/26/19 Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheater
10/30/19 Starkville, MS @ Rick’s Café
10/31/19 Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge
11/1/19 Miami, OK @ Buffalo Run Casino and Resort
11/2/19 Wichita, KS @ Cotillion Ballroom
11/8/19 Odessa, TX @ Dos Amigos
11/22/19 Chicago, IL @ Joe’s Sport Bar
11/30/19 Beaumont, TX @ Ford Arena
For a full tour calendar, please visit: www.parkermccollum.com
About Parker McCollum:
A singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and dedicated road warrior, Parker McCollum began building a following in his native Texas with 2015’s The Limestone Kid. The album track “Meet You in The Middle” became a hit on Texas’ regional radio chart — no small feat for an independent, 22-year-old musician — but it was the album’s widely-acclaimed follow-up, Probably Wrong, that helped Parker find national success. Compared to John Mayer and Jason Isbell by Rolling Stone, Parker supported the album with a string of sold-out shows, bringing record-breaking crowds to venues like San Angelo’s RiverStage and a sold-out Billy Bob’s (May 2019) along the way.
Born in Conroe, TX, and currently based in Austin, the 27-year-old entrepreneurially-spirited artist bridges the gap between Texas’ homegrown music scene and Nashville’s country-industry headquarters. His songwriting, which has been hailed by The Austin Chronicle for “carrying on the traditions of Texas music without pretension or referring to pickup trucks,” earned him a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Nashville in May 2018 and a recording deal with Universal Music Group Nashville in June 2019.
Follow Parker on social media:
https://twitter.com/ParkerMcCollum
https://www.instagram.com/parkermccollum/
https://www.facebook.com/ParkerMcCollumMusic
Audio / Parker McCollum talks about the song, "Pretty Heart."
Parker McCollum (Pretty Heart) OC: …chase this dream. :43
“‘Pretty Heart’ was a song, er hook that I had had and a melody I’d had for a long time that I had forgotten about. I was scrolling back through my Instagram one night, looking for something one night and I had found a video of me singing it that I had posted forever ago. I was like, ‘Man, how did I forget about that?’ I think that was the day before I was flying up here (Nashville) to write with my buddy Randy Montana. I was like, ‘Maybe he’d like that idea.’ I took it to him, and he just fell in love with it and that was like two or three hours that we just cranked it out. We were like, ‘Man! That was it.’ All those songs come from very real-life experiences – good and bad choices and decisions that I’ve made on my own. But they’re all just about past relationships and giving those up to chase this dream.”
Audio / LINER Parker McCollum (Pretty Heart)
PARKER McCOLLUM ADDS FALL DATES TO WHIRLWIND TOURING SCHEDULE.
Six weeks after signing with Universal Music Group Nashville, Parker McCollum has announced a string of headlining shows.
McCollum’s autumn tour will kick off September 12 at Athens, Georgia’s Georgia Theatre. From there, the Texas-based phenomenon will cut a wide circle across the American South and Midwest, making stops in cities like Baton Rouge and Chicago along the way. Tickets for the majority of his performances will go on sale Friday, August 16th, at 10 a.m. local time.
It’s been a year of milestones for Parker McCollum, whom Rolling Stone hails as a “no-holds-barred, confessional singer-songwriter for fans of John Mayer [and] Jason Isbell.” Weeks before announcing his major-label record deal with Universal, the songwriter played a sold-out show at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth — an immense, 5,500-capacity venue that hosted only five sold-out shows during the previous year. In addition, McCollum has recently performed sold-out shows in markets like Corpus Christi, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; and Fayetteville, AK, while also setting a new record for the largest-selling gig in history in San Marcos, TX.
“I like his music, his style and his work ethic, ” said ACM Chairman Ed Warm, on naming McCollum the Breakout Star of 2019.
Although McCollum is currently wrapping up a handful of shows in his home state of Texas, the songwriter’s audience truly stretches from coast to coast. Earlier this summer, thousands of pedestrians in New York City’s Times Square watched as McCollum’s newest video — an emotional duet with fellow country star Danielle Bradbery — premiered on a multi-story electronic billboard. The pair’s updated version of “Shallow,” originally performed by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born, showed a tender side of McCollum, whose songs also shine a light on the road-ready work ethic and Texas-sized hooks that have earned accolades from The Austin Chronicle, Parade, and dozens of national outlets.
9/12/19 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre #
9/26/19 – Nacogdoches, TX @ Banita Creek Hall *
9/27/19 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Texas Club #
11/2/19 – Wichita, KS @ Cotillion Ballroom #
11/8/19 – Odessa, TX @ Dos Amigos #
11/15/19 – Birmingham, AL @ Iron City #
11/22/19 – Chicago, IL @ Joe’s Sport Bar #
* On sale now
# On sale August 16th at 10 a.m. local time
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Andy Isabella Kenyan Drake Kliff Kingsbury Chase Edmonds George Kittle Kyler Murray David Johnson Budda Baker Kendrick Bourne Dante Pettis KeeSean Johnson Patrick Peterson Jimmy Garoppolo Sports NFL football Professional football Football
San Francisco 49ers Arizona Cardinals Miami Dolphins Pittsburgh Steelers
Cardinals' rally comes up short in 28-25 loss to 49ers
By JOHN MARSHALL - Nov. 01, 2019 01:21 AM EDT
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray (1) is tackled by San Francisco 49ers defensive end Dee Ford (55) during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Andy Isabella caught Kyler Murray's pass behind the outstretched hand of a defender and left the rest of San Francisco's defense flailing behind him.
A two-point conversion later, Arizona had pulled within three after trailing all night.
Needing a defensive stop, the Cardinals had no answer for Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers.
Arizona's upset bid came up short. San Francisco's undefeated season remained intact.
Garoppolo threw four touchdown passes and led the 49ers on a clock-winding final drive, helping the 49ers hold off the Cardinals 28-25 Thursday night.
"We just need to figure out who we are as a defense," Cardinals safety Budda Baker said.
The Cardinals (3-5-1) marched for a touchdown on the game's opening drive, fell flat the rest of the half and rallied against one of the NFL's two remaining undefeated teams.
Kenyan Drake had a strong first impression with David Johnson and Chase Edmonds out, accounting for 162 total yards and a touchdown despite having just three days preparation.
"They got me for a reason, to come out here and make plays," said Drake, who was traded from the Dolphins on Monday.
Kyler Murray overcame an unproductive first half — not to mention a near pick-six — by guiding the Cardinals on three second-half scoring drives. He hit KeeSean Johnson on a 9-yard TD pass , put the TD pass to Isabella just out of the defender's reach and hit Drake on the 2-point conversion.
Murray threw for 241 yards and a pair of TDs.
Arizona's defense led to its demise.
A season-long struggle to stop tight ends resurfaced when George Kittle caught a slant, bulldozed Baker and scored a 30-yard touchdown . It was the ninth touchdown by a tight end against Arizona this year.
"Those big guys, you hit them high and don't wrap up, he's going to run over you," Baker said. "On that slant, I was kind of off-balance and didn't wrap up and look what happened."
Garoppolo hit Kendrick Bourne on a 7-yard score and got a second chance on fourth-and-inches when coach Kliff Kingsbury called timeout just before the Cardinals stopped the 49ers. Garoppolo found Emanuel Sanders on a 1-yard TD to give San Francisco a 21-7 halftime lead.
"I wanted to get a Kodak timeout, get one of those looks and have them hopefully run their best play," Kingsbury said. "They ran a play and it worked for us initially, but obviously looking back on it was would have rather gotten that stop. It just didn't work out for us this time."
The Cardinals had a hard time getting much pressure on Garoppolo and allowed the Niners (8-0) to repeatedly convert on third downs. San Francisco finished 11 for 17 on third down.
Patrick Peterson also had one of his worst games as a pro in his second game back from a six-game suspension for performance enhancers. The All-Pro cornerback was repeatedly beat by Niners receivers, including a 21-yard touchdown pass from Garoppolo to Dante Pettis in the third quarter.
"He's still getting back into game shape and understanding our scheme," Kingsbury said. "First time he's ever played in this scheme full speed and live-game reps. He's a very good football player."
Despite their struggles, the Cardinals still had a final chance after Isabella's 88-yard touchdown catch .
They never got the ball back.
San Francisco converted three third downs — one confirmed on review — and ground out the final 4:53 to remain undefeated.
Good news for the Cardinals: They get another shot at San Francisco in two weeks.
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— Aug 28th, 1997
* Library phone number
An incorrect phone number appeared in a story in Wednesday's Sun about Kitsap Regional Library. For information on the library's LinkNet system call (360) 405-9131.
n Mustang Club
An item in Wednesday's Community Calendar gave an incorrect listing for the Kitsap Mustang Club. The club met last Friday and will not meet this Friday.
n Nimitz open house
Due to outdated information used in the Blackberry Festival promotional section in Wednesday's Sun, the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard gates via which visitors to USS Nimitz can enter the shipyard for Saturday's open house were listed incorrectly.
Visitors may enter only the Montgomery Avenue and Charleston/Farragut Avenue gates, not the Naval Avenue and Missouri gates. And parking for Nimitz visitors will not include the lot next to the Missouri gate, which will be available to those wishing to watch an off-shore hydroplane demonstration in the afternoon.
n Wrong winners listed
The Crosby Days competition winners in the men's double (under 14) category published in Wednesday's Central Kitsap Neighbors section was in error because of incorrect information received by The Sun. It should have read:
Winners in the Men's Double (under 14) category: Justin Marsh-Quinlan and Jason Burke, first; Kyle Whitehead and Dustin Andersen, second; and Ashley Claussen and Billy Lee, third.
League urges voter registration
Local governments, encouraged by the Kitsap League of Women Voters, have proclaimed Saturday through Oct. 2 Voter Registration Week throughout Kitsap County. Oct. 2 is the last day to register to vote in November's general election. The League will work with Kitsap Regional Library during ... [Read More...]
NEIGHBORS: Community Calendar
Community calendar runs on Sunday in the A section and on Wednesday in Neighbors. If you want to place an item in the calendar, please submit it in writing one week before you want it to run. Send calendar items to Community Calendar, ... [Read More...]
Port of Manchester Because of incorrect information submitted to The Sun, the wrong date was listed for the upcoming meeting of the Port of Manchester. The meeting will be Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Manchester Regional Library Community Room, 8067 Main St., Manchester. ... [Read More...]
Library foundation Because of incorrect information given to The Sun, it was erroneously reported in a story on Thursday that Kitsap Regional Library would be receiving funds from KitsaParty. Kitsap Regional Library Foundation will be receiving the funds. The money will be used ... [Read More...]
Wrong rate Because of a reporter's error, a story in the Dec. 21 edition of The Sun printed the incorrect levy rate for South Kitsap. The rate for the two-year levy will be $3.23 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. Wrong name Because of incorrect information supplied ... [Read More...]
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A Radical Feminist Diaspora: Speaking of IMELDA, reproductive justice and Ireland
Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A and Mccarthy, L. 2019. A Radical Feminist Diaspora: Speaking of IMELDA, reproductive justice and Ireland. in: Kinna, R. and Gordon, U. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics Routledge.
Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A and Mccarthy, L.
Kinna, R. and Gordon, U.
Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. discuss how they counter restrictive Irish legislation on reproduction from their location in London. Analysing the use of performative resistance, they firstly situate their work within the legacies of 1980s London-Irish feminist activism to reflect on the radical aspects of diasporic communities. I.M.L.E.D.A. then consider the ‘performative activism of “loose” women who both violate and affirm social constructions and projections of “normative” femininity’ (Gale, 2015: 314). Subsequently they argue that I.M.E.L.D.A. actions are a messy alliance between art and politics when a loosely framed DIY aesthetics spills out from artistic representation into crude political propositions that demand a response.
Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics
https://www.routledge.com/9781138665422
© 2019 Routledge.
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics on 07/06/2019, available online: https://www.routledge.com/9781138665422.
This chapter is authored by Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. of which Dr Lynne Mccarthy is a member, along with Helena Walsh, Ann Rossiter, Marian Larragy, Treasa O'Brien, Tina Ní Bhloscaidh and Anna Carnegie. Cite as: Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A (2019) 'A Radical Feminist Diaspora: Speaking of IMELDA, reproductive justice and Ireland'. in: Kinna, R. and Gordon, U. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics Routledge.
https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/86wvx
Under embargo until 16 Nov 2020
Focus E15: Performing Nuisance as a Feminist Narrative of Property
Mccarthy, L. 2020. Focus E15: Performing Nuisance as a Feminist Narrative of Property. Studies in Theatre and Performance.
Nomadic Contagions and the Performance of Infrastructure in Dale Farm's Post-eviction Scene
Mccarthy, L. 2019. Nomadic Contagions and the Performance of Infrastructure in Dale Farm's Post-eviction Scene. in: Walsh, Fintan (ed.) Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance Methuen Drama.
Aesthetics at the impasse: the unresolved property of Dale Farm
Mccarthy, L. 2015. Aesthetics at the impasse: the unresolved property of Dale Farm. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 20 (1), pp. 74-86.
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Research Park Honors Most Valuable Interns of 2012
Outstanding student interns working for companies in the Research Park were honored Aug. 2 at the annual Intern Recognition Event. Supervisors nominated a broad spectrum of interns for this year’s awards; all the awardees are students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At any given time more than 400 highly-skilled student interns work for Research Park tenants, gaining valuable experience while making real contributions to internal corporate research and development programs. The judging team received 38 nominations this year, almost double last year’s total. Five awards were given out, with finalists honored in each category.
Most Valuable Marketing/Business Development Intern: Anne Wessel, junior in industrial design, IPT: Anne designed dramatic innovations in the sewing components of IPT’s prosthetic arm.
(Finalists: Carol Grzych, State Farm; Jon Striegel, State Farm)
Most Valuable Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Startup: John Stratton, PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, MulticoreWare: He has been the primary developer of a new product line that has been getting consistently high interest from clients.
Finalists: Sam Rappeport, Serionix; Philip Jurik, 4D Teleport; Christina Korp, Dioxide Materials
Most Valuable Tech Innovation in the Research Park: Daniel Herber (pictured with manager Hank Roark), graduate student in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, Deere & Co.: Created a significant computational simulation and developed a method for calibration of the models. His work will be the basis for a patent application and/or submitted for publication.
Finalists: Josh Eckhardt, Caterpillar; Hee-Seok Kim, MulticoreWare
Most Valuable Graduate in the Research Park: Jibo He, Psychology graduate student, State Farm: Developed a high functioning smartphone prototype that has the potential to prevent thousands of drowsy driver-related crashes.
Finalists: Saurav Mohapatra, PowerWorld; Rohit Naini, Neustar
Most Valuable Undergraduate in the Research Park: Anna Oldani, recent graduate, Caterpillar: Anna’s modeling and structural analysis work is very comparable to the work done by full-time engineers, and allowed her team to serve more customers that it could otherwise serve.
Finalists: Zack Stone, Waterborne Environmental; Alex Ratcliff, MulticoreWare
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Halogen-Bond Effects on the Thermo- and Photochromic Behaviour of Anil-Based Molecular Co-crystals
Andrea Carletta, Floriana Spinelli, Simone d'Agostino, Barbara Ventura, Michele R Chierotti, Roberto Gobetto, Johan Wouters, Fabrizia Grepioni
N-Salicilideneanilines are among the most studied thermo- and photochromic systems in the solid state. Although thermochromism is a general property of crystalline N-salicilideneanilines, photochromism is known in a limited number of cases. As a method for the construction of thermo- and photo-responsive molecular architectures, the co-crystallisation of 1,2,4,5-tetrafluoro-3,6-diiodobenzene (I2F4) with three selected imines of o-vanillin, named 1, 2 and 3, obtained through a condensation reaction with 3-aminopyridine, 4-bromoaniline and 4-iodoaniline, respectively, is reported herein. All crystals and co-crystals have been characterised by means of solid-state complementary techniques (X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, absorption and emission spectroscopy). The role of halogen bonding and crystal packing in the optical and chromic properties of all solid materials is discussed. All solids exhibit thermochromic behaviour, and three of them (2, 22 ⋅I2F4 and 32 ⋅I2F4) are also photochromic. Imine derivative 3 crystallises in two different polymorphic forms (3 A and 3 B) and a solvate (3Solv ). The bromo and iodo derivatives, 2 and 3 B, are isomorphous and form isomorphous co-crystals with I2F4, but behave differently when exposed to UV light because only crystalline 2 is photochromic. Interestingly, the replacement of bromine with iodine seems to turn off the photochromism because crystalline 3 A and 3Solv , and even the 20.7 30.3 solid solution, do not manifest photochromic behaviour.
Publié - 2017
Imines
Condensation reactions
Emission spectroscopy
Absorption spectroscopy
Solid solutions
X ray diffraction
Carletta, A., Spinelli, F., d'Agostino, S., Ventura, B., Chierotti, M. R., Gobetto, R., ... Grepioni, F. (2017). Halogen-Bond Effects on the Thermo- and Photochromic Behaviour of Anil-Based Molecular Co-crystals. Chemistry - A European Journal, 23(22), 5317-5329. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201605953
Carletta, Andrea ; Spinelli, Floriana ; d'Agostino, Simone ; Ventura, Barbara ; Chierotti, Michele R ; Gobetto, Roberto ; Wouters, Johan ; Grepioni, Fabrizia. / Halogen-Bond Effects on the Thermo- and Photochromic Behaviour of Anil-Based Molecular Co-crystals. Dans: Chemistry - A European Journal. 2017 ; Vol 23, Numéro 22. p. 5317-5329.
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OBAMA SETS FORTH HIS PERSPECTIVE AND AGENDA AND DEFENDS AMERICAN LEADERSHIP WITH OTHERS: WE WELCOME YOUR REACTIONS!
May 28, 2014 August 11, 2014 Harry C. Blaney III
By: Harry C. Blaney, III
“First, let me repeat a principle I put forward at the outset of my presidency: the United States will use military force, unilaterally if necessary, when our core interests demand it – when our people are threatened; when our livelihood is at stake; or when the security of our allies is in danger. In these circumstances, we still need to ask tough questions about whether our action is proportional, effective and just. International opinion matters. But America should never ask permission to protect our people, our homeland, or our way of life.
On the other hand, when issues of global concern that do not pose a direct threat to the United States are at stake – when crises arise that stir our conscience or push the world in a more dangerous direction – then the threshold for military action must be higher. In such circumstances, we should not go it alone. Instead, we must mobilize allies and partners to take collective action. We must broaden our tools to include diplomacy and development; sanctions and isolation; appeals to international law and – if just, necessary, and effective – multilateral military action. We must do so because collective action in these circumstances is more likely to succeed, more likely to be sustained, and less likely to lead to costly mistakes.”
-President Obama in his commencement speech to West Point graduates, May 28.
America faces many major challenges in today’s chaotic world. Making sense of them and trying to find solutions is not an easy job, even for most experts and leaders around the world.
Soon, President Obama will be visiting Europe both for a key G-7 meeting and also for D-Day anniversary ceremonies. Europe has just undergone elections for a EU Parliament with results that raise many concerns. Along with the United States, Europe must craft an effective response to the Ukraine crisis, build energy security, and respond to a new and aggressive Putin. Not least, it must develop a new global response to climate change and nuclear proliferation.
President Barack Obama’s speech today at West Point is the start of an effort to reach out to the American people and explain his policies and objectives. It also signifies an attempt to outline the kind of world that this and future generations will face, and the many challenges that remain of deep concern. During his speech, the President set the parameters for military engagement which in various past statements have been said, but clearly have not been well understood by the public.
His speech was also an effort to reach out beyond his critics on both the right and left, as well as those in the mainstream media. Over the past six years, these politicians and observers have attacked the President’s policies so heavily that it has become difficult for American voters to look beyond the criticisms. Indeed, one poll has left him with just a forty percent approval rating in foreign affairs, in no small part due to the carefully crafted criticisms of his opponents.
Today, what was notable in his argument was that our foreign affairs and national security efforts have been effective, judicious, and well considered; that the tools used have often yielded better results than U.S. unilateral military intervention that his conservative critics have urged. He said what is clearly true: we remain still the indispensable power in the world and, as such, we bear a large responsibility. Though he continues to support the policy of military action when necessary, the President’s clear preference is to work through what has been called “soft” or “smart” power. That is, he continues to prefer cooperating with allies, friends, and international institutions like the UN on a multilateral level.
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Center for International Policy May 30, 2014 / 11:59 AM
From Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post (May 30, 2014): “Everything about the post-post-Cold War world – which dawned, we can see in retrospect, on 9/11 – is messy. Sweeping statements of principle do not translate easily into policy.”
From Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post (May 30, 2014): “In this context, what is needed from Washington is not a heroic exertion of American military power but rather a sustained effort to engage with allies, isolate enemies, support free markets and democratic values and push these positive trends forward. The Obama administration is, in fact, deeply internationalist – building on alliances in Europe and Asia, working with institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, isolating adversaries and strengthening the global order that has proved so beneficial to the United states and the world since 1945.”
Robert Lamoree May 29, 2014 / 5:36 PM
I hesitate commenting on the President’s speech, as I am not privy to the policies and details that motivate and direct our actions. That said . . . I look at our foreign policy over the last dozen or so years and I question what we’ve accomplished. And, in the instance of the President’s speech, I question some of his premises. Permit me a couple of for instances: One, if our military is without peer, in that we have been in Iraq and Afghanistan all these years, have we brought either peace and stability? Two, the President talks of a dynamic, innovative economy. How is the housing industry doing? Where are America’s machine tool manufacturers? Do we make TVs or bearings or clothes these days? Why are our industries spending less on research? And, how dynamic is an economy in which finance is larger than manufacturing and one third of all profits go to Wall Street?
The perception of greatness too often relates military strength, and, if I read the speech correctly, the spread of freedom will make the U.S. and the world safer. The President used the term ‘moral imperative.’ I suggest the world will be better if people and nations prosper. Would the ethnic Russians in Ukraine be revolting if Ukraine had been prospering? Freedom itself won’t cut it.
This administrations foreign policies have not been err free, but compared to the preceding administration . . . excuse me . . . there is really no comparison. The Obama administration, on the whole, has a rational, forward thinking foreign policy.
In that terrorism seems to be our biggest threat, rather than spend five or ten billion training anti-terrorism agents in foreign countries [which surely will be questioned by Congress) . . . now that terrorism exists, to what lengths do we want to go to stop it? We have more secure food and drug containers, police stand guard at schools, we take off our shoes and then get X-rayed before getting on a plane, we went to war in Afghanistan, and what have we stopped. We will get struck again, so I ask two questions: One, how resilient are we to terrorist attacks? Two, why are terrorists striking at us? Could it be that they don’t like us because of who we’ve supported (think dictators) and what are intentions have been?
It is a complicated world and the U.S. is a major player. But if our foreign policy goal is to promote world peace, I think we need to think and act a lot smarter than in the past. The mistakes we’ve made visa vis the Soviet Union/Russia are monumental, and now we’re paying for it. We can lead, but not by dictating. We can lead through understanding and accommodation. If peace among peoples is ever to happen, it will be because the people are satisfied with their lives. How’s that for a goal?
Harry C. Blaney III June 2, 2014 / 12:48 PM
In response to Robert Lamoree,
Thank you for the excellent set of questions!
On the question of what we have accomplished over the last dozen years, I will only respond here about the Obama administration’s actions and policies. First, we got out of the quagmire and tragic, wrong-headed war in Iraq. The alternative is that the Iraq Republican Hawks would have us still there with many added American deaths, many resources lost, and likely little gained. That was an accomplishment of major proportions. Second, the New START agreement lowered both American and Russian nuclear weapons. Third was the pivot to Asia. This was long overdue given the region’s importance and our longstanding need to effectively address China’s rise, work towards its “peaceful” rise, and strengthen our allies and friends in the Pacific. Fourth is the initiatives of the Pacific and Atlantic trade pacts to increase trade and economic growth in all of these regions including in the U.S.
Not least have been the negotiations under Obama and Secretary Kerry with Iran over nuclear weapons which gained at least a temporary agreement and aims for a long-term solution. The effort to make peace in the Middle East was right, though it is currently faltering. Kerry and Obama have rightly declared that our efforts are not stopping. We have addressed other crises with mixed results, but most are complex and difficult. (Syria, where the President has chosen to act with caution and defined tools and under ‘the table” actions” to help the moderate opposition.)
Further, Obama has developed a process of withdrawal from Afghanistan, after getting rid of bin Laden and severely dismantling the Taliban. But of greatest importance, Obama has put America on a path of international cooperation with others (including international organizations) to solve global problems, and he has been careful not to engage us in conflicts that likely can have no certain or good end.
He has NOT abandoned American leadership as some have argued. (See some of the quotes in this blog). Indeed America has never been as active around the world as we are today. We now use a diplomatic front with the military as an option, often in low profile.
On the question of some of his premises: having a military without peer does not guarantee success in wars between religious and ethnic groups (often called “asymmetric wars”), and at last we have a president who understands that. Other long-term tools are being used here, like economic aid.
On the question of economic growth and the modernization of our industrial and civil infrastructure: given the reliance of the right-wing Republican party on the word “No,” and its push to defeat Obama and health care for more than 8 million Americans in the last election, it is no surprise that much of Obama’s efforts to “restart and stimulate” our economy went down in flames. (Except, remember, that he did get a limited stimulus supported largely by the Democrats who were then in charge of Congress and by a few moderate Republican Senators. This gained us back 7 million jobs, saved our auto industry, and for a period added resources for infrastructure, clean energy, teachers, and the unemployed that helped boost our economy and take it out of the recession.) Today, he will announce carbon limits that address global climate change. Given his opposition, these are small miracles.
However. I agree fully with Mr. Lamoree, that we need to do more to bring America to full global competitiveness. He has proposed legislative packages to that end which the Republicans have filibustered to death.
Center for International Policy May 29, 2014 / 2:59 PM
From the New York Times Editorial Board (May 29, 2014): “The president said he wanted to spend $5 billion to train and support armies in places like Libya, Mali, Yemen and Somalia to combat terrorists. The aim is to avoid having to use American troops, and, in theory, it makes sense. But the Untied States has a checkered history in such endeavors, and Mr. Obama made only a cursory mention of other factors crucial to success, including responsible governance and education for all. It was disturbing to hear him gloss over the return of military rule in Egypt.”
From E.J. Dionne Jr of the Washington Post (May 29, 2014): “Responding, perhaps in frustration, to a wave of reproach that has descended upon him because of his reluctance to use U.S. military power, he offered this riposte: ‘Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans’…As for the president’s critics, they have an obligation to answer his challenge. Those who believe that the United States should underwrite a world order friendly to our values and interests need to accept that the promiscuous deployment of U.S. troops abroad is the surest way to undermine support for this mission at home. In calling for restraint and realism – and by insisting on raising the threshold for wars of choice – Obama may yet prove himself to be the best friend American internationalists have.”
From David Ignatius of the Washington Post (May 29, 2014): “Obama was at his best explaining why his policy to contain Russian aggression in Ukraine was correct. Recognizing that America didn’t have military options to stop President Vladimir Putin, Obama used partners, alliances and sanctions. ‘Our ability to shape world opinion helped isolate Russia right away,” he said, describing the path to Sunday’s successful election, which Putin had wanted to torpedo. It was almost a declaration of victory. If Obama can craft his partnerships to contain al-Qaeda, he will have created an important legacy.”
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Heath Cullen is set for significant things further a field of his home in New South Wales, Australia. Following his debut album “A Storm Was Coming But I Didn’t Feel Nothing” with his band The 45 (2011), his second “The Still And The Steep” hosts a cosmos of acclaimed musicians. All the following big names – drummer Jim Keltner who worked with John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, guitarist Marc Ribot who collaborated with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and bassist Larry “The Mole” Taylor of the famed Woodstock band Canned Heat, and also a longtime Waits collaborator have lent their talents to Cullens own.
Check him and his album out. And a big thanks to Richy for the tip!
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Jamie N Commons, 10 May, Papiersaal, Zürich
Jamie N Commons from the video ‘The Preacher’
Born in Bristol and raised in Chicago, Jamie N Commons has an abundance of talent and knowledge packed in his musical suitcase. His gravel voice and musicianship fit well with likening him to Tom Waits and Nick Cave.
He’s already received a lot of attention for his debut EP The Baron in 2011 and his second out early this year; Alex da Kid.
He’s playing at Papiersaal, Zurich, Friday 10 May and is not to be missed. Other dates to be found on his website: http://www.jamiencommons.com/live/
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The Walker Brothers; Scott Engel, John Maus, Gary Leeds
The actual date is contentious, but the Walkers Brothers did bid adieu to fans in May 1967. Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel in Ohio on the 9th January 1944), John Walker (b. John Maus, New York, 12 Nov. 1943) and Gary Walker (b. Gary Leeds, 3. Sept 1944 in Glendale, CA). Leeds – an ex-memebr of The Standells, met Engel (former bassist of Routers) and Maus while they were performing with The Dalton Brothers. The three formed the Walker Brothers and after a dodgy start in the US, they moved to England where they were taken under the wing of manager Maurice King. Maus had debuted as lead vocalist with Pretty Girls Everywhere, but it was Scott Engel’s voice – that can still melt bricks in my opinion, which shot them in the top 20 with Love Her in May 1965.
Right place, right time, helped the Walker Brothers fill Phil Spectres Righteous Brothers shoes as they had enjoyed the success and were now starting to fall in the UK charts. Hits like ‘Make It Easy On Yourself’, ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore‘ followed, but friction in the Walker camp between Maus and Engel was starting to smoke – and the second solo EP ‘Solo Scott, Solo John’ in 1967 signalled their intentions to split. Their flirt with fame as a trio turned to tragic love affair . They attempted to weaken their decline between 1965 and ’67 with tracks like ‘You Don’t Have To Tell Me‘, ‘Another Tear‘, ‘Stay With Me Baby‘ and the film theme tune from’ Deadlier Tan The Male‘ – a James Bond spin-off with a great title, 1967. And the final nail in the coffin came with the farewell song ‘Walking In The Rain‘ – with a diluted review from Musical Express, titled; ‘Walkers Last Not Great’.
Gary Leeds went on to form his own group, Gary Walker and The Rain, in the autumn of 1967. Maus went onto a solo career and wrote songs like ‘Annabella‘ with Graham Nash that received chart success. Scott Engel started taking another route – partying antics with play boy bunnys lead to the music of Jacque Brel and Engel was hooked. He covered 3 songs by Brel, including Jacky, on his first solo album ‘Scott’.
Well, you can’t keep a good man band down and the Walkers walked back on the scene in 1975 with their comeback album ‘No Regrets‘. The follow-up ‘Lines‘ was similar to it’s predecessor but their Swansong Album ‘Nite Flights‘ took on a brave experimental flavour, one which would become better known in Scott Engels future solo work.
Walker Brothers Discography: Take It Easy With The Walker Brothers (1965), Portrait (1966), Images (1967), No Regrets (1975), Lines (1977), Nite Flights (1978), The Walkers Brothers In Japan (1987, rec. 1968). Compilations: After The Lights Go Out- Best Of 1965-1967 (1990), No Regrets – The Best Of The Walker Brothers (1991).
This is just my small way of paying respects to a band I loved as a teenager – born the year they split I can only commemorate a past I’d like to have witnessed. I’ve made a playlist of the tracks I love of theirs, and a couple of others from artists whole played a role in the Walker Brothers lives and vice versa. The Old Man is Back Again has been left out (see post Track of the Day, 27.03.13 ). David Bowie covers My Death (Scott Walker) in 1973. Tom Rush’s original version of ‘No Regrets‘ takes on a lighter, resignated sadness to the high drama of the Walker Brothers. Engel suffered from chronic nightmares which influenced a lot of his solo work. Rawhide could be one them? The Electrician – a political epitaph, written about N. America sending people to train torture in South America. Neko Case covers Engels ‘Duchess‘ in 1997, originally rec. 1969.
SCOTT WALKER THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
THE ROUTERS 1962
THE DALTON BROTHERS WITHOUT YOUR LOVE
JACQUE BREL JACKY
JOHN WALKER ANNABELLA
SCOTT WALKER THE BALLAD OF SACCO AND VANZETTI
TOM RUSH NO REGRETS
SCOTT WALKER THE COLT AND THE ROPE 1969
GARY WALKER THE VIEW
THE STANDELLS
SCOTT WALKER RAWHIDE
DAVID BOWIE MY DEATH
THE WALKER BROTHERS LOVE HER
NEKO CASE DUCHESS
THE WALKER BROTHERS THE SUN AIN’T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE
THE WALKER BROTHERS THE ELECTRICIAN 1978
May Day Playlist
Walter Cranes’ International Solidarity of Labour 1889
The first of May – or May Day, has a load of stuff pinned to it – from way back to raucous pagan celebrations, the Celtic fest of Beltane – or in central northern Europe ‘Walpurgisnacht‘. For me it contours images of getting in a tangle round the school Maypole.
Regarded today as International Workers Day. 1st May celebrations were born out of of commemoration for the Haymarket Martyrs, 1886 in Chicago. As a demonstration gathered during a general strike for the eight-hour day, a bomb was thrown while police tried to disperse crowds – police reacted with pistol fire and 4 demonstrators were killed. Hence, a whole load of demo-ing went on between then and 1904, when the Socialist Party and Trade Unions were called in by the Second International Congress to kind of promote – in all countries, energetic demonstration, for the legal establishing of the eight-hour day, also to respect the class demands of the proletariat and let’s not forget universal peace. Quite a tall order.
As for todays playlist – eight in all, and keeping with the general theme. Never Been In A Riot by the Mekons, written in response to White Riot by The Clash seems like a good place to start.
Mekons Never Been In A Riot
Lee Dorsey Working In A Coal Mine
Merle Travis Sixteen Tons
Woodie Guthrie Talkin Hard Work
The Vogues Five O’Clock World
Jimmy Dean Big Bad John
Merle Haggard Working Mans Blues
Bob Dylan Maggie’s Farm (a totally not-fitting-into-the-dylan-60s poet image – 80’s rendition for Farm Aid)
Tags: 1st may, bob dylan, may day, Mekons, merle haggard, never been in a riot, Woodie Guthrie
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The Life & Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (with a review of his Report To Greco)
Posted on November 25, 2012 by Plainsmann
This man is famous. You may know a lot about him, a little, or nothing at all. But when you see how he viewed life and lived his own, I doubt you will ever forget him. Read but a few of his paragraphs and you can see why. And if you can’t tell this that soon, then he’s not a writer meant for you — at least not until you’ve lived a little more.
There are people whose effect on others is striking. This may be due to their physical appearance, their reputation or something they’ve accomplished, their demeanor and way of bearing themselves, or even, as in our case, a mixture of all these; but the net effect remains the same: they seize our attention and won’t let it go. Nikos Kazantzakis was just such a person.
This was demonstrably true while he lived and has continued for the nearly two generations since his death October 26, 1957. That alone makes him an arresting figure, but when you add to that the unusual nature of his works, it shifts the spotlight to the life of the man behind the writings — turning attention into piqued interest and elevating it into something much more.
Why such a striking impact? A natural enough question to ask but a folly for anyone to try to answer, given the myriad reasons people have for turning to books, and the conflicted and contradictory end-results they meet in reading them. But a sweeping generalization can safely be offered here nevertheless: rather than diversion, entertainment, or the common advantages delivered by fantasy and escape, what any book of Nikos Kazantzakis offers runs in exactly the opposite direction — into mounting intensity, relentless emotional struggling, and costly, high-stakes moral and personal confrontation.
His writings overflow with rare intensity. Not to experience the “ratcheting up” that runs throughout most all his works is — as Goethe once phrased it in making quite another comparison — “to read the words but miss the book.”
His Writings
His boldly original works gather up such admittedly grand and universal themes as — Truth, Life & Death, Chaos, Cosmos, the Sacred & Profane, Earth-Air-Water and Fire — in Land-Sky-Sea and Flame, the dance of Man & Woman, breaking the chains of Slavery, the Cry of the Times, the great whore Hope, Justice & Freedom, the continuing ascent of the Soul, Brotherhood, radical Divine-Human combat and encounters, the Abyss, Epiphanies & Resurrections, the temple-cracking, chest-bursting cries of the Spirit, Deliverance, and . . . “the flame that consumes human beings” — approaching all these and others, as he does, through the ancient and abiding forms and human endeavor (art, philosophy, religion, politics & economics, science, and history), manifested and developed in their many classic manifestations the world over, on page after page of his oeuvre, as the French call it, his entire “body of works” . . . which is filled to overflowing with vivid story-telling, a poetry of epic scale, pointed philosophical inquiry, gripping autobiographical adventure, rigorous ascetic discipline coupled with authentic religious pilgrimage, ardent and copious artistic achievement, passionate pursuit of political reform, interspersed with numerous completed theater works. Only those whose reach is broad enough to embrace all of this can rightly say that they have begun to grasp the fullness of what his writings open up and explore.
None of this is treated in the abstract, but as powerful ever-present realities instead — which, as with animals breaking out of their cages, go prowling about wherever they please, free to range the whole world over, night and day.
Incredibly, this all-embracing meme can be packed into a single word — one of our original four-letter Old English (Anglo-Saxon, German, Frisian, Old Norse, and Scandinavian) ones always there among our deepest language roots — ‘life’. It is the only word of ours big enough to take what we have, what we do, what we are, and bead them together on one string (our DNA), to fashion them all into an organic, living whole. Life is what for humans things of the most lasting significance begin and end with. It’s no surprise, then, that for Kazantzakis, life is what matters most, what existence is chiefly comprised of, and what his works gravitate to and revolve around.
His Character & Person
To come to terms with life, to really deal with it first hand, one must learn to see, know, and handle two essential things: quality and movement. The first is the distinguishing characteristic of something, and the second is the ongoing motion of something. Without the first, the quality, you miss its identity; without the second, the motility, you miss its activity. Every living thing is a specific something, and any living thing is moving, even when just sitting there. These are the two primary aspects of anything alive. To give a name to the quality and to the movement of anything at all is to begin to know it — to start to grasp and take in the full reality of the person (or thing) that is standing there before you.
To come up with names for the specific qualities and movements we see, we each draw on whatever is found in the store of our own experience. For those qualities I see in Kazantzakis, I have come up with some specific names and then matched each of these with certain characteristics. In your own reading of his books, you will, of course, be doing the same, constructing your own picture of him by drawing names from whatever is there in your own experience. And so it goes with human understanding. Here is what I see:
Nikos Kazantzakis had . . .
. . . the zeal and drive of Kierkegaard
. . . the intellectual honesty and integrity of Pascal
. . . the artistic appetite and creativity of Goethe
. . . the passion for social justice of a Biblical prophet
. . . the treasured regard for language of Czeslaw Milosz
. . . the depth of love and fellow-feeling of Saint Francis
. . . the outdoorsy earthiness of Walt Whitman
. . . the dedication to task of an Albert Schweitzer
. . . the assault on assumed reality of a Don Quixote
. . . the opposition to idolatry of Friedrich Nietzsche
. . . the modest optimism of Albert Camus
. . . the lasting loyalty of Brother Leo or Sancho Panza
. . . and the zest for living of Alexis Giorghos Zorba.
That is what I find in his writing. Look and let me know what you see there.
When you gather all of these attributes together, a vivid whole emerges . . . of Kazantzakis’s personal traits as the distinct person he was. This, then, is the first dimension or aspect of a life: its shape. To see the second aspect or dimension, you must then turn to also look into the movement of his life as it stretches across time: its span. This second one is harder to see and takes much more time to discern, but it’s there just as much as the first one is. The challenge in really knowing and understanding any human being is to come to see both aspects — the shape and the span — of that life as a single form, as the living whole it truly is. This can be done. But if you don’t take time to do that, then “you will never get Humpty Dumpty together again.”
So, with Nikos Kazantzakis, to complete our task we must now look at the way his life moved as it stretched across time. Fortunately, he set this down for us in the account he gave near the end of his life — a unique testimony dictated to his wife Eleni, and the closest thing to an autobiography he ever wrote. It is called Report To Greco.
The Span Of His Life
(This is the front and back cover from the very book that introduced me to Kazantzakis almost fifty years ago. The story of how I happened across it is told at the end of this article.)
When Kazantzakis was born, the old midwife brought him close to the light and examined him with great care. Then, as if seeing some mystic sign on him, she lifted him high up and said, “Mark my words: One day this child will become a bishop.” Later, when he learned of this prophecy, Kazantzakis believed it because it matched his most secret yearnings. So from then on, he set out to do only what he thought a bishop might do — until the day he came to see what bishops really do and changed his mind. “Thenceforth, in order to deserve the sainthood I so craved, I wished to avoid all things that bishops do.” And he did. Throughout his life, he would reject anything not big enough to be lived — and the power of life within him would batter and smash against whatever wasn’t. And how would he know what was big enough to allow spirit the breathing room without which it will surely die? There was really only one way—risky, but sure; and he set out doing it about as soon as he learned to walk.
One day in school we read in our primer that a child fell down a well and found himself in a fabulous city with gilded churches, flowering orchards, and shops full of cakes . . . My mind caught fire. Running home, I tossed my satchel in the yard and threw myself upon the brim of the well so that I could fall inside and enter the fabulous city. My mother…uttered a cry, ran, and seized me by the smock just as I was kicking the ground in order to hurl myself headforemost into the well.
All his life, when there was no one to protect or stop him, Kazantzakis would hurl himself into the deepest wells of humankind: Art, Religion, Politics, Philosophy … to find out where it led or drown. He did not calculate shrewdly or bargain like Faust, holding out until the terms were right; instead, he simply handed over his whole existence— body, mind, soul, and spirit—to trying the way of those who have pointed the way for humankind, to see if their paths indeed led to life: Homer, Moses, St. Theresa, Buddha, Dante, Christ, Nietzsche, Muhammed, Genghis Khan, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, Lenin, El Greco, and others. Kazantzakis struggled in his spirit to meet theirs in a no-holds-barred confrontation. Each encounter left a mark on his soul, giving to him and taking from him something so that he’d never be the same again.
Few humans treading this earth ever risk the total abandonment a true pilgrimage requires, let alone undergo the dangerous disintegration of a journey so vast in scope as that undertaken by Kazantzakis. Few who set out on such a journey persist to the end, and of these, only a handful produce anything that transcends their personal search and passes on something that others can use to advance further still. Had he been a man of thought or a man of action, he might have chosen to walk either path to distinction—as thousands of other genuinely outstanding people have done. But both strivings were in him, as they are to a degree in everyone, and they turned up early in his life, when he was still a schoolboy. His response hinted even then that he was one who would choose to live them both.
So audacious did my mind become, that one day I made the harum-scarum decision that next to every word in the French dictionary I would write the Greek equivalent. This labor took me months…and when I finally finished…I took it and proudly showed it to Père Lau rent, the school’s director, a learned Catholic priest. “What you have done, my young Cretan, shows that one day you will become an important man. You are fortunate in having found your road while so young. Scholarship—that is your road. God bless you.”
Filled with pride, I ran as well to the assistant director, Père Lèlievre, a well-fed, fun-loving monk with playful eyes. “Shame on you!” he screamed. “Are you a boy or a doddering old graybeard? Out of my sight! Take it from me that if you follow this road, you’ll never amount to anything—never! You’ll become some miserable round-shouldered little teacher with spectacles. If you’re really a Cretan, burn this damnable dictionary and bring me the ashes. Then I’ll give you my blessing. Think it over and act. Away with you.”
I went away completely confused. Who was right, what was I to do? Which of the two roads was correct? This question tortured me for years, and when I finally discovered which road was the correct one, my hair had turned gray.
This took place when Kazantzakis was still a boy; but holding fast to both strivings, he wandered the world and became a man. When one striving persisted, content in being tended to and followed, then discontent and at times even disease would drive the other one into a resounding lament that soon swelled into a piercing temple-cracking cry that would make him turn and follow it.
Thought and action taunted him like two seductive sirens. Untied to any mast, he took the cotton from his ears, and then followed, living the torment of conflicting lures and screams—until he found, amidst the swell of rage and clamor, the still small voice of his own soul. At times the tension nearly tore his life apart. To ease the wrenching pain, most people would let one of these mighty strivings go, and lob it out of awareness, holding from then on with both hands fixed firmly to the other. But Kazantzakis didn’t. Like a man trying to tame two steeds, each lunging in a different direction, Kazantzakis held onto both. This guaranteed that his life would thus become a pilgrimage, for that is what a pilgrimage is: a journey combining thought with action, a sustained living of both. He undertook this pilgrimage, persisted in it to the very end, and in so doing created the unfolding journey of his life.
And journey he did, starting with . . . Greece —“the filter which, with great struggle, refines brute into man, eastern servitude into liberty, barbaric intoxication into sober rationality”—where, “The spirit has trodden upon the stones…for many, many years; no matter where you go, you discover its divine traces”; Italy and Assisi—where “For the entire extent of this honeymoon with my soul I felt, to a greater degree then ever again in my life, that body, mind, and soul are fashioned of the same clay. Only when a person ages or falls into the grips of illness or misfortune do they separate and oppose one another”; Mount Athos— “…since I myself could not become either a saint or a hero, I was attempting by means of writing to find some consolation for my incapacity”—where he and his poet friend, thinking they were a team of oxen, yoked together and plowing the earth, “plowed the air” in youth’s needful Quixotic assault upon life; Jerusalem—“the sun-baked land where once upon a time a flame had bounded out of a poor cottage in Nazareth, a flame which burned and renewed man’s heart”—the place on the voyage to which, “The ship’s hold seemed like a new catacomb in which slaves had assembled once more—today’s slaves—to conspire to blow the world up all over again…High up in first class, the carefree faithless talked politics…while here below, deep down in the hold, we were carrying as a terrifying gift the seed of a new, dangerous, and as yet unformed cosmogony”; The Desert and Sinai—where an old monk, about to die, entrusts him with the fruit of the monk’s apprenticeship in life to flesh and spirit…“You are rendering up the flame of your entire life. Will I be able to carry it still further and turn it into light?”; Crete— where his father, unsatisfied with his only and wandering son, said, bidding him farewell at the waterfront, “I think you’re like your grandfather…I don’t mean your mother’s father, but mine, the pirate. But he rammed ships…What ships are you ramming?”; Paris—where he studied under the philosopher Bergson, and dove into that martyr to truth, Nietzsche; Vienna—where he discovered Buddha, and was also afflicted by a tormenting illness that swelled his face so that his eyes shut almost completely, which the renowned Freudian, Wilhelm Stekel, diagnosed as “ascetic’s disease,” common in the Middle Ages but almost unheard of in modern times…“because what body today, obeys its soul?”…and which cleared, as Stekel said it would, as soon as Kazantzakis left behind both Vienna and the woman he had met there; Berlin— where his Buddhism was punctured by the great misery of human suffering, hunger, oppression…shaming him into a responsibility which linked him from then on with all the rest of humankind—and where he first met Albert Schweitzer; Russia—Lenin, Marx, and the Slavic soul and land where the awesome bloody experiment was taking place…“Miracle butts against reality, makes a hole, and enters” The Caucasus—where he moved completely into action in taking, as he was asked to, the directorship of Greece’s Ministry of Social Welfare, in order to rescue 100,000 Greeks endangered by the Bolsheviks on the north and the Kurds on the south…“The moment was ripe to test whether action, by slicing its sword through the insoluble knots of speculation, was alone capable of giving an answer”; Crete— returning home…“Having just returned from Russia, I too wished to make this microscopic attempt to emerge from my ivory tower and work with human beings.” And then…“ as if fate was in a mood to play games”… he met Giorghos Zorba …“ this dancer and warrior, the broadest soul, surest body, freest cry I ever knew in my life.” (The account of this pilgrimage, filled with rare and truly magnificent discoveries, is laid out before the reader in the 495 pages of Kazantzakis’s Report to Greco; New York: Bantam, 1966.)
Then he stopped to catch his breath from the grueling pace of the spiritual marathon he had been on for forty years. The air he now breathed in blew like wind across a field of grain, and it shook loose the seed of his soul, which fell to the ground within him, took root, and began to sprout. For years he had had a definite aim.
My aim is not Art for Art’s sake, but to find and express a new sense of life…In the process of writing I feel increasingly relieved. And yet I know that this is by no means enough. To attain my aim, I must make a leap. As soon as this leap is accomplished (which can only be an example of life and not one of Art and writing), I shall find the expression of my soul…
Now that aim took shape. As he began to find his soul, a living form emerged, an actual man . . . Zorba . . .
“Giorghos Zorba …this dancer and warrior, the broadest soul, surest body, freest cry I ever knew in my life.”
. . . whom he then used to refashion an ancient form into a figure big enough to pour his forty years of thought and action into, which was “…Odysseus; he was the mold I was carving out so that the man of the future might flow in.” In this act and work, his “Obra,” a remarkable metamorphosis occurred: what he was struggling to create now began to actualize itself within him. In the fourteen years, he was metamorphosing Odysseus from the issue and happenings of the past, his own substance was transubstantiating itself into the stuff of the future. Sitting down to write out of the odyssey he had lived, he commenced to live the odyssey of which he wrote—and arose a different man.
If he had allotted fourteen years to model his Odysseus, the “future man,” Odysseus, in his turn, had allotted fourteen years to model the future Kazantzakis. And when the umbilical cord was cut, there were two men—mature, serene, walking hand in hand along the rim of the abyss. The osmosis of life and death took place gently, “admirably,” open-eyed. (Helen Kazantzakis, Nikos Kazantzakis, New York: Simon and Schuster: 1968, p. 384.)
Two Lightning Bolts That Cracked My Soul And Opened It To Nikos Kazantzakis
I had never heard of him. I was twenty-seven, a graduating senior sitting in class in an Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, listening as one of our favorite professors expounded on theological matters, scriptural studies, and massive Biblical commentaries. It was 1962. My classmates and I were all getting ready to return to our dioceses in the various states we’d come from. A fellow student had just asked what the single best book on the life of Christ was that we should start saving our money to eventually buy it for our fledgling personal libraries. A tall, angular, quietly intense, always-thinking man with the easy-flowing Mississippi accent, you could see the many wheels of his lifetime of teaching turning as we all waited for his answer. Fifteen, twenty, thirty seconds — only silence. Finally, “Really, there’s been no truly significant life of Christ written in the last half-century. You’d have to go back as far as Ernest Renan’s life of . . . and from the very back of the room came a shout. “Nikos Kazantzakis!” We looked around, then back at the professor, who smiled as he nodded. “I stand corrected. You’re absolutely right. Nikos Kazantzakis has written the most significant life of Christ written in the last fifty years.” It was like a clap of thunder, the first time I ever heard his name. I forgot all about it. Returning to my home diocese in Florida, I was ordained at the Cathedral in Jacksonville, Florida with three men coming from other seminaries, and we were all sent out with our budding young families to the small congregations of our respective churches to begin our ministries.
Four years later, in 1966, our family of five was living in Gainesville, Florida, where I’d gone to college before seminary. The journal I’d started keeping when I began my ministry in 1962, which I was now keeping religiously, reflected on its pages an increasing arc of unrest over concerns within me and proliferating cultural foment and tumult everywhere without. It seemed to be coalescing into something that had no agreed-upon name as of yet but was about to be given the one that finally stuck (“the Sixties”) — perhaps because over the few prior years it was given so many that hadn’t. There was cacophonous talk of Future Shock, The Greening of America, The Age of Aquarius, The Problem That Had No Name, The Making of a Counter Culture, over a gaggle of movements, demonstrations, protests, “happenings,” sit ins, bus ins, wade ins, kneel ins, teach ins, older “Beatniks” alongside a younger new-fangled breed called “Hippies”; there was black power, red power, and, of course, the inevitable white power getting into the fray; there was “do your own thing” mixed in with “tune in, turn on, and drop out” — much of which was simplified in a popular poster of the day: Push, or Pull, or Get Out Of The Way. It got thicker and bigger and moved faster and farther than any who were for, against, or smack dab in the middle of either saw clearly or ever knew just what to do with.
And, while not overly affected by any piece of it, I was unmistakably surrounded by it in every direction. I took myself, with no particular agenda, to the smaller cinema I frequented most because of its array of more interesting films. Whether I’d known anything of what I was about to see, I honestly don’t recall. But after getting my popcorn and taking my seat three-fourths of the way back, I saw that the film’s title was “Zorba The Greek.” I had no idea what was in store.
A great story exists only in being told. If one doesn’t tell the tale but only tries to say what it is about, it disappears and there is no story there. I wouldn’t have then told the story at all. But I didn’t need to because that story never left and stayed in me anyway. It kept on rearranging the furniture of where I lived inside, moving attitudes around and shoving my opinions here and there that I wanted to be left right where they belonged. To be sure, I went on busily attending to my other chores, lists of things to do, and the round of professional and personal activities — but that rearranging inside never stopped even though I wasn’t “thinking about it.”
Browsing the aisles of my favorite bookstore a few days later, I spent a half-hour looking for a book or two to add to my list ones to read at a later time. In putting back the one I’d just looked at, I noticed the back of the one next to it — attracted by its strong colors, with a look of stone and blood mixed together, I skimmed a couple of quote-ads on the back of it, which lured me inside to the book’s starting pages, where my eyes saw these words blazoned in capital letters and standing on a single page all by themselves:
THREE KINDS OF SOULS, THREE PRAYERS:
1] I AM A BOW IN YOUR HANDS, LORD, DRAW ME, LEST I ROT.
2] DO NOT OVERDRAW ME, LORD. I SHALL BREAK.
3] OVERDRAW ME, LORD, AND WHO CARES IF I BREAK!
Stunned at being so startled, I whipped the book over to its cover, my eyes landed on this: “By the author of Zorba The Greek.” I read no more. Securing the book in my hand’s full grasp, I spun around on my heel and headed straight to the counter to buy the book, then swooshed out the door and into my car, and lost no time heading straight for home. Once there, with no intervening ado whatsoever, I plopped myself down in the large, green reclining chair in our living room (a recent birthday gift from my wife), opened the book and dove headlong into its pages. I must’ve read for at least four straight hours. When I finally got back up on my feet to stretch and stir a little, my life was not what it was before I sat down . . . and has never been since.
Debate, conflict, and bitter controversy have surrounded his life from when he died clear on up to today, and it probably always will. (Witness the bitter seven years war in the courts over his literary legacy, decided only last year in favor of his wife Eleni’s case and that of her adopted son Patroclus Stavros.) But Kazantzakis’s real legacy is so boundless and undeniably transcendent that it can never be reduced to or constrained by the merely legal limits of his literary legacy. From birth to death he always lived above such matters anyway, and any who think otherwise are grossly mistaken.
Those who would bend or distort his writings, his oeuvre, to serve their lesser causes and own purposes — and they are legion — will always be contradicted by the works themselves. And the people all over the world whose lives were changed by them, and those yet to come whose lives certainly will be, it is for them that the works were written, and they are the ones to whom they all truly belong. For far more than just being “affected” by his works, those people are the ones whose very lives were deeply changed by the one that was his, and which he unceasingly wrote of right up to his very last breath.
The Way He Manifested It
Kazantzakis found his vitality in a form he thought he was unsuited for and not able to handle: the novel. But a torrent of novels then rushed forth. Still, true to his abiding aim, his primary thrust in this venture of body, mind, and soul was not artistic but religious—but genuinely religious. As Martin Buber defined it: “The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain ‘Religion’ and wills to become life” (The Eclipse of God, New York: Harper & Row, 1952). Instead of using life’s power to create expressive forms, he came at it the other way around, seeking to find expressive forms that the power of life might use. While art is a movement of life into form, religion is a movement of form into life. In the first, spirit becomes matter, and in the second, matter becomes spirit. He was after a way to extend spirit, to stretch it in order that life could have the breathing room in which to form him and all humankind anew, thereby lifting man higher and planting him with both feet on the new ground of the age just dawning.
I used to believe that there must be a great difference between vital literary work and action. A genuine novelist can live only in his own time, and by living this reality he acquires consciousness of his own responsibility and assumes the duty of helping his fellowmen to envisage and solve, as far as possible, the crucial problems of his era. If he acquires consciousness of his mission, the novelist endeavors to compel the reality that is flowing formlessly to take on the form he regards as most worthy of man….
As Kazantzakis labored in the vineyard of this unfamiliar genre, thought and action joined and produced offspring. Each novel was a furthering step in his pain-filled yet joyous ascent, and meant another trip to the rim of the abyss, to look into it unflinchingly and leap, so that he would have to sprout wings to keep from perishing. Each new novel was thus a stretching of his outermost boundaries, a making of still more of his soul into spirit; so each one, a little odyssey in itself, drained more of his life from him. Eleni could plainly see the exhaustion hollowing out the face of her companion as he continued along his chosen path:
I’ve struggled, that’s true, throughout my life. And I’m still struggling to keep my soul from dying. I know how the mortal becomes immortal. And this is precisely the great torment of my life. For it is not enough that you know. You must also become…
Finally, on Saturday, October 26, 1967, sick with fever, while Eleni was at his side, he made his final leap into the abyss and rendered the last bit of his life into spirit.
Confronting death as he had lived, he had just given up his soul. “Like a king who had taken part in the festivity, then risen, opened the door and, without turning back, crossed the threshold.
“I had been struggling for a lifetime to stretch my mind until it creaked at the breaking point in order to bring forth a great idea able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and comfort to men.”
Tomb of Nikos. Kazantzakis in Heraklion.
“My purpose in writing was not beauty, it was deliverance.” –Nikos Kazantzakis
What he had been struggling to do in his lifetime, Nikos Kazantzakis achieved. Faith is that upon which one is willing to act. “We call ‘nonexistent’ whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength.” Early in his life, he had wanted to found a new religion. He failed in that, yet succeeded in doing something far more. Because greater than that which brings in the new is something able to make even the old new once more. The tremendous might of his spirit broke through the crust of what so much religion had hardened into for centuries, exposing again the bread it held underneath, so it could be eaten and nourish the hungry souls of the world to new life once more. And the far-reaching effects of his achievement showed in what happened at his funeral on the island of Crete, which both the church and the state sought, unsuccessfully, to suppress.
They were here from every village and city…50,000 of them, to pay final homage to the writer who had wandered the earth and always returned home to squeeze a clod of Cretan soil in his palm and draw strength from it…
Everything went as planned—the tributes, the placing of flowers— until it came time to lower the coffin into the grave. Then a giant of a man, a veritable Zorba, stepped out of the crowd…Captain Mamousakas…his mustache was large, sweeping, ferocious…“Such a man as this,” he rumbled, “must be put into his grave by heroes.” So saying, he picked up the head of the coffin by himself. His three friends took hold of the other end. Together they lowered Nikos Kazantzakis into his personal abyss. (Frank Riley, “A Cross In Heraklion,” Saturday Review, October 14, 1967, pp. 47-48.)
His life — already turned into the spirit — was stirring the lives here just as it was elsewhere around the world. And that same spirit is found in that flame his life and works still kindle in the souls of men and women today.
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Truly amazing writting’s about Nikos Kazantzakis.
You brought back all the memories of my own Greek husband.
Nikos was many men in one body Some of the most
Wonderful people in history.
I could feel how you described Nikos as if you sat right next to him as a brother or best friend.
You touched my heart!
I had to finish the story at times through tears swelling up in my eyes.
My husband was also a Georgios, dancer, and in his own ways a philosopher.
And sometimes a true character.
The best and yet sad times where when I watched
my husband walk up on stage lights dimmed and dance his dance, alone to his favorite song.
As the musician strummed the strings on the Bouzoki.
And his friends would send the bartender up on stage, holding a tray of 6-7 shots of whiskey.
I looked so hard and long at the photo of the actual Zorba
The Greek.
His Hat torn and worn.
His coat falling apart at the pockets and torn in several places.
I peered down, and for a long time looked at Zorba’s shoes.
And I knew He had walked for years in the only pair of shoes he had.
In Greece everyone walks everywhere.
When I would go to Greece, I would walk down onto the graveled and dirt roads to the Brick ovens to bake my bread and cookies.
How could anyone ever know about Zorba if not for Nikos. Just thinking about his shoes make me cry.
Thank you Gene for bringing light that touched me to tears.
And bringing back my Greek and my life and memories of us.
Zorba his life, and all the element’s of a human being.
Soul, spirit, flesh. Also Nikos Kazantzakis And his life.
How blessed you were to have spent 5 wonderful hours with Eleni Kazantzakis.
Truly an honor and privilege.
Thank you Gene Im so grateful
And feel blessed to know you.
Your friend Linda
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Meeting Eleni Kazantzakis, wife of Nikos, in 1988
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May 1996 (click to enlarge)
This property was once part of a 60 acre parcel that extended from the Shawsheen River on the west, to Pomps Pond to the north and to the east side of the old Andover - Wilmington Railroad to the east then along the north side of Andover St. The large parcel was purchased from the Boston Savings Bank by Joseph Tschauder for $2200 on July 1, 1889. Joseph and his wife Leopoldine, would live in this home set back off the street and to the rear of the properties now built along Andover Street.
Joseph sold off a lot at #246 Andover St. to Emil K. Hofmann for $250. on July 19, 1891 who then built the home on it today.
Joseph Tschauder was born in Feb. 1844 in Dentsch, Nenkirchen, Germany and immigrated to the US in on April 28, 1881. He married in 1866 to Leopoldine Gorlich b. in May 1840 in Austria. They had two children, a son Joseph F. Jr. b.Oct. 1865 and a daughter Annie E. b. Apt. 1874 in Austria. Joseph lists his occupation in 1900 as a farmer. The 60 acre parcel extended down to the Shawsheen River, along the brook up to Pomps Pond and eastward along the former Andover Wilmington rail bed and on out to Andover Street. It appears that only two homes had been built on the north side Andover St. and east of his home prior to his purchase. In the 1910 census Joseph now 65 years of age is a widow. His daughter Annie 35 is a music teacher. A Caroline Heinrrick age 72, Servant b. in Germany also boards in the home.
Joseph Tschauder later sells the property to Frank J. Benoit and James H. Cooper on Aug. 3, 1911. William N. Pike & Sons purchased 28 acres from Mary Ragan (Nov. 1914 b. 348 p.98 - John N., Albert W. & Walter E. Pike). The property then appears to be sold off in parcels through the Henri & Delia Fountaine ownership in Sept. 1912 and later when they sell to Ernest J. Beaulieu & Edward J. & Delvina Beauleau on Oct. 14, 1913. It is the Beaulieu family that begins to sell off large parcels of the former Tschauder farm.
B. Barberian purchases 5.78 acres from the Beaulieu brothers on Sept. 10, 1935 (b. 592 p. 566).
Andover Street Directories
Picture in Bernice Haggerty's Binder at AHS.
Map plan #1425 - May 1943
Map plan #4280 - Apr. 1961 - Harry J. Brouck
George J. Tenney & Samuel Little - land
George W. & Elizabeth Ryley - Dec. 15, 1864 - b. 679 leaf 75 - two parcels
Ella R. & Josiah B. Anderson - July 28, 1875 - b. 36 p. 35 -
Anderson to Boston Savings Bank - July 28, 1875 - b. 36 p. 330 - mtg.
Boston Savings Bank - Mar. 7, 1878 - b. 50 p. 239 - possession
Joseph Tachauder - July 1, 1889 - b. 102 p. 341 - $2200 - 60 acres
Frank J. Benoit & James H. Cooper - Aug. 3, 1911 - b. 307 p. 263
Mary V. Ragan, wife of John J. - Sept. 4, 1912 - b. 321 p. 102
Henri & Delia Fountaine - Sept. 23, 1912 - b. 322 p. 28 - 60 acres
Ernest J. Beaulieu & Edward J. & Delvina Beauleau - Oct. 14, 1913 - b. 335 p. 528
Street Andover St
Place Ballardvale
Historic District Ballardvale Local Historic District
Construction Date circa 1850s
Foundation stone/granite
Wall/Trim clapboards/wood
Roof asphalt - gable
Outbuildings / Secondary Structures garage
Acreage 2.064 acres
Map and parcel 117-11
Recorded by Bernice Haggerty (Ballardvale Historic District Commission), James Batchelder
Organization Andover Historical Society, Andover Preservation Commission
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20 Magical Books Like Harry Potter
After Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released, some of us thought we’d never find another worthy book series again. But little did we know that there are tons of other amazing books like Harry Potter out there — you just have to know where to look!
Fortunately, as Albus Dumbledore (more or less) said, “Help will always be given on the Internet to those who ask for it.” Here are 20 magical books like Harry Potter that will Portkey you right back to your Hogwarts days.
1. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Often hailed as "Harry Potter meets college," The Magicians follows disillusioned 17-year-old Quentin Coldwater as he comes to discover much, much more than the magic of freshman parties. On the day of his supposed Princeton interview, Quentin instead gets interviewed and accepted to Brakebills — a highly selective university of bona fide sorcery.
While he initially finds the Brakebills curriculum frustrating and tedious (they have to study hand positions and phases of the moon), Quentin ultimately rises to its challenges, forming strong bonds with his fellow classmates. Good thing, too, because he’ll need them when trouble comes knocking… trouble which, as we know from HP, is never far away from any given magic school.
2. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
Though he’s best known for his Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series, Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles are just as thrilling as their Greek predecessors. The protagonists of this series are Carter and Sadie Kane, siblings whose Egyptologist father reconnects them with their own ancient roots — that is, that they’re descended from Egyptian pharaohs and magicians.
After their father is captured by Set, the Egyptian god of evil, Carter and Sadie must tap into parts of themselves they never knew existed and battle unimaginably powerful forces. For those of us who had a childhood obsession with Egyptology (Cluefinders, anyone?), this book is a marvelous source of wish fulfillment and entertainment all the way through.
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3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Pullman’s works are perfect for the reader who craves an intellectual challenge. Taking place across multiple universes and containing some pretty complex religious references (not to mention criticisms), His Dark Materials grounds itself in the journey of Lyra Belacqua, a 12-year-old girl with a knack for lying. Lyra and her dæmon (the external, animal manifestation of her “inner self”) travel the worlds of the series in search of kidnapped children, and a mysterious elemental matter called “Dust.” These quests reveal mind-bending twists and turns that Pullman masterfully narrates over the course of this epic trilogy.
4. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Turns out J.K. Rowling didn’t invent the character of Flamel, but based him on an actual person! And she wasn’t the only one to find him a fascinating figure, as evidenced by the depth and intricacy of this six-book series by Michael Scott (not the regional manager of Dunder Mifflin).
Secrets begins with a pair of teenage twins, Sophie and Josh, who realize their employer “Nick” is none other than 700-year-old alchemist Nicholas Flamel — and that their lives are prophetically intertwined with his. As the series unfurls, many more shocking truths come to light about the twins’ destinies and the nature of mortality, all of which are made particularly resonant by Scott’s connections to the real historical legend of Flamel.
5. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Many of us will remember Funke’s work from our elementary school library bookshelves, but it’s also never too late to get into this absolute classic. Inkheart follows young Meggie and her bookbinding father (so quaint!) as they discover their extraordinary power: just by reading aloud, they can bring fictional characters into the real world.
But for every character that comes out of a book, someone else has to take their place. Such dire consequences drive our father-daughter duo on a mission to get all the characters back in their rightful pages — but of course, those characters are not going to go down without a fight.
6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
This novel, originally written as a NaNoWriMo draft, chronicles star-crossed lovers Marco and Celia as they attempt to thwart their shared fate: to go up against each other in a dramatic duel. Their battleground is Le Cirque des Rêves, a nighttime circus with performers whose true sorcery is disguised as mere illusions. As Celia and Marco both grow stronger — and achieve increasingly magnificent exhibitions through their competition, such as an eternal bonfire and a “Wishing Tree” — they realize the true implications of their bond, and start working against it to save themselves and each other.
7. Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
Such is the life of Beatrice Smith, the heroine of this surrealist meta-drama. Beatrice has grown up in the “Theatre Illuminata” surrounded by characters from various plays, especially those from Shakespeare (her best friends are Ariel from The Tempest and the four fairies from Midsummer). But as Beatrice learns more about the theatre, she comes to understand that it may be more prison than playground… and that the fates of its inmates are in her hands.
8. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Cycle combines many fantastical elements: clairvoyance, supernatural occurrences, historical symbolism, and more. Beginning, like many great stories, with an intriguing prophecy about its main character (“If Blue ever kisses her true love, he will die”), Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle goes on to track the intertwining relationships of Blue and the eponymous “Raven Boys” — a quartet of wealthy private school kids whose greatest wish is to find a dead Welsh king. Why they’re so desperate to locate him can only be explained in its pages, but just trust us that this series is a totally wild ride from start to finish.
9. Pennyroyal Academy by M.A. Larson
Created by a former TV writer for Cartoon Network and Disney, Pennyroyal Academy naturally has everything you could ever want in a fun middle-grade fantasy. There’s a combat school for knights and princesses, a memory-wiped girl who emerges from the woods, and of course an all-out war between good and evil. Luckily, the potential heaviness of this scenario is offset by the hilarity of characters like the academy’s “Fairy Drillsergeant,” as well as the delightfully subversive vision of princesses scrabbling through mud and dogpiling on top of each other during combat training.
10. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
If you’ve seen the movie but never read the book, do yourself a huge favor and buy it right now. In this young adult fantasy novel, Levine skillfully weaves the tale of Cinderella into a decidedly darker, less Disney-esque tapestry. Our heroine Ella has been cursed to obey every order she receives, even when it endangers her life. She sets off on a quest to reverse the “gift,” but has to contend with everything from hungry ogres to wicked stepsisters along the way — not to mention the constant threat of strangers discovering the curse and using it against her.
Gloriously imaginative and compulsively readable, Ella Enchanted has become just as much of classic as the fairytale it emulates. It’s tragically a standalone novel rather than a series, but it could be credited with sparking the modern trend of fairytale retellings. Speaking of which…
11. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles series lends a modern voice not just to Cinderella, but also Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White — oh, and did we mention a good portion of it takes place in outer space? From cyborgs and androids to intergalactic tyrants to “lunar gangs” that street-fight on the surface of the moon, every single book in this sci-fi/fairytale mashup packs a serious punch. (The kind you wouldn’t want to face alone in a dark… crater? Or whatever the lunar equivalent of an alley is.)
12. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
This one sounds like a fairytale retelling, but it’s actually a biting, brutal examination of class hierarchies and blood feuds… literally. In Red Queen, the population divides and conquers — or is conquered — based on the color of their blood. Young, red-blooded commoner Mare Barrow is a lowly worker at the “Silver Palace,” until a sudden twist of fate launches her into their upper ranks. The Silvers immediately see that this red-blooded girl threatens their sovereignty, and they hatch a plan to claim her as a "lost Silver princess” and get her on their side. Little do they know that Mare has a few of her own tricks to play — and that she knows that blood alone moves the wheels of history (silver blood, that is).
13. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Though the TV series technically came first, Neil Gaiman’s novelized adaptation of Neverwhere has become a fantasy staple in its own right. Businessman Richard Mayhew gets sucked into the world of “London Below,” a Stranger Things Upside-Down-esque version of the city — where Knightsbridge is not a posh shopping district but an actual bridge with a knight, and where the trains runs on its own random schedule. Though Richard’s only intention is to right the wrongs that have transpired in “London Above,” he quickly becomes wrapped up in the drama of this “neverwhere,” following a mysterious girl named Door (#symbolism) who may or may not lead him to his doom.
14. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
This is another classic fantasy series that you absolutely can’t miss. For those who never read the books, the titular Artemis is a preteen genius-slash-billionaire-slash-criminal-mastermind who kidnaps a fairy (you heard that right) to ransom for gold. Fowl’s nefarious nature is a great twist on the “precocious youngster uses special gifts to save the world” trope so often seen in fantasy YA — not to mention it sets the stage for an extremely satisfying redemption arc.
15. Half Magic by Edward Eager
Coming up next, another nostalgic entry! Indeed, Half Magic (originally published in 1954) is old enough now to be a septuagenarian’s fond childhood memory. But its hilarious premise and timeless story of kids discovering magic have helped it endure. In Half Magic, siblings Jane, Mark, Katherine, and Martha find an enchanted coin that will grant any wish they speak to it — but only halfway.
Eager’s execution of this concept is brilliant, his comic timing top-notch. You’ll laugh nonstop at the children’s hijinks, from making their cat speak gibberish to going back in time to meet Lancelot (only to find that he’s a jerk). But by the end of the book, you’ll also understand — as the kids do too — that wishing itself can only get you so far, and that imagination is the truest source of magic.
16. The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
More fairies, hurrah! The Spiderwick Chronicles is another elementary school favorite, following the adventures of the Grace children after they move into the crumbling, mysterious Spiderwick Estate. They soon find a “field guide” to the magical world around them, full of details about all sorts of spectacular fairy creatures. But this book was never meant to fall into mortal hands — which means the Grace children must learn to use it wisely, or else face terrible consequences.
17. The Uncommoners by Jennifer Bell
A recently released treat for the younger crowd, Bell’s Uncommoners series is a bit of an elementary-appropriate Neverwhere: it too takes us on a journey to a mysterious city under London (though this time the “under” part is literal). The subterranean city of Lundinor is full of enchantments and oddities — and even as our young protagonists Ivy and Seb struggle to navigate this secret world, they find that Lundinor may also hold answers to all their questions.
18. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
One of the most fascinating and original YA debuts in recent years, Children of Blood and Bone is a story set in the West African-inspired land of Orïsha. It’s a place of magic and possibility, but its tyrant ruler King Saran believes that only he should determine its destiny. Enter Zélie: a “divîner” with magical blood, she is one of the last descendants of her maji people after Saran massacred them all — and she is hell-bent on returning magic to Orïsha and defeating the evil king once and for all.
19. Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Did you think we were done with multiple Londons? You thought wrong. The Shades of Magic series involves not two, not three, but four different Londons: Grey, Red, White, and the dreaded Black. Our main character Kell is a magician with the unique ability to traverse among them. And with this great power comes great irresponsibility, at least for Kell — he uses his talents to illegally smuggle things between these Londons. That is until one day, after landing in Grey London, he meets his match in a scrappy pickpocket who’ll change his life forever.
20. These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
This one doesn’t come out until May 2019, but as we Potter fans know, it’s always nice to have something to anticipate. These Witches Don’t Burn is a sharp, contemporary tale of a young Elemental witch named Hannah, whose life is pretty much sunshine and rainbows (well, more like candles and crystals, but you get it), even if she does run into her ex-girlfriend Veronica from time to time. All that changes when Hannah realizes that a shadow of dark magic hovers over her town of Salem (of course)... and she and Veronica (who’s also a witch!) must work together to save it.
It may be impossible to ever completely fill the Harry Potter-shaped void in your soul. But each creative, daring, magical book on this list will give you something brand new to appreciate, and something nostalgic to revisit again years from now. Just remember (to quote Dumbledore one last time — he’s a smart guy!), the written word truly is “our most inexhaustible source of magic."
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HIG WhiteHorse Closes A Loan Fund Of $1.1 Billion
By Noah Long ● January 9, 2020
HIG Capital’s credit affiliate HIG WhiteHorse announced it closed a fund with capital commitments of $1.1 billion
HIG Capital’s credit affiliate HIG WhiteHorse announced it has closed the HIG WhiteHorse Principal Lending Fund with capital commitments of approximately $1.1 billion. This fund will continue HIG’s investment strategy of investing in tailored senior secured financing solutions to primarily sponsor owned companies in North America.
“The strong response from our investors reflects their confidence in the capability of our team and our differentiated strategy. The team has been very active in the market, having already invested in 24 transactions from the fund,” said HIG co-CEOs Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer.
HIG’s Head of US Direct Lending Stuart Aronson pointed out that the firm believes the next several years will present a “compelling opportunity” to partner with sponsor owned companies seeking private credit capital solutions. And the firm will continue to build on HIG’s successful track record as a value-added debt provider to leading small/mid-cap companies. Plus the fund will capitalize on the firm’s synergistic platform and unparalleled deal sourcing network with 19 originators located in 12 North American cities.
This fund attracted a diverse group of long-standing HIG investors along with new limited partners on the platform.
“The investor base includes sovereign wealth funds, public and private pensions, endowments, foundations, consultants, and family offices and across the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East,” added HIG Capital Formation Jordan Peer.
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International Lotteries: Which one to choose?
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If you like the thrill of the lottery but didn’t get lucky playing Australian ones so far, why not try your luck in another country? There are hundreds of lotteries available worldwide and some of them are really worth taking a look at!
Better odds, bigger jackpots or tax free winnings, we’ll tell you everything you need to know to pick the best international lotteries.
Presentation of the main international lotteries
Of all international lotteries, EuroMillions offers Europe’s most impressive lotto jackpots. While the idea of a pan-european lottery was conceived in the ’90s, it only became a reality in 2004. It started with the participation of 3 founding members (France, Spain and Britain) and has soon been joined by many other countries, offering even bigger jackpots.
To play EuroMillions, players have to pick 5 numbers from a range of 1 to 50, and two additional numbers called “Lucky Stars” from a range of 1 to 11. To hit the Jackpot, players must successfully match all five numbers and lucky stars drawn. But that’s not the only way to win cash as EuroMillions offers 13 levels of prizes.
Ticket price: $3
You know how Americans are, they like to think big: with the gigantic sum of $920 million, Mega Millions holds the record of the world’s biggest jackpot! The multi-state lottery became the first one to cross the half billion American dollar mark. But if the number sounds impressive, keep in mind that non-US citizens are subject to a 30% flat fee tax, almost dividing your winnings per 3.
To play this US lottery, participants must choose 5 balls from a range of 1 to 75 as well as an additional number (called Mega Ball).
US Powerball
Originally known as the “Lotto America”, the US Powerball lottery has offered some of the biggest jackpots in lottery history as well! It even became a household name and inspired similar Powerball lottery games around the globe, such as the Australian Powerball and the New Zealand Powerball.
To win the American Powerball, players must find five balls (from a guess range of 1 to 69) and the Powerball, an additional number between 1 and 26.
Super Enalotto
Super Enalotto is one of the most famous international lotteries in Europe and offers impressive jackpots, attracting fans from all over the world. The Italian lottery has no jackpot limit and for that reason holds the record for one of the world’s longest rollovers (8 months!).
It is played by choosing six numbers between 1 and 90. A complementary number is automatically selected for players but is only needed to win the second prize.
Ticket price: $1.50
Oz Lotto
Last but not least, Oz Lotto is Autralia’s leading lottery game and holds the record of the highest lotto jackpots of the country. It is so popular that a TV show was created with the aussie lottery at the center of the plot. Indeed, “Winners and Losers” follows the story of 4 lotto winners and the changes taking place in their lives after hitting the jackpot!
For reality to meet fiction, you will have to select 7 numbers from a guess range of 1 to 45.
International lotteries: what are my chances to win?
If you are playing Australian lotteries and are curious to compare the odds of all of them, you can use this pretty fun simulator of your winnings and losses over time. Try it: it is both hypnotic and depressing.
If you’re too scared to witness this, Business Insider did the maths for you and compared the odds of the different national lotteries over 10 years. Unsurprisingly, the result is not pretty: if you play Oz Lotto once a week for 10 years, you are likely to loose about $20,810.30
Want to find out if international lotteries do any better? Here are the full odds details.
The easiest jackpot to hit: Oz Lotto
That’s right! With odds of only 45 millions to 1 to hit the jackpot, Oz Lotto is most likely to be won than any other international lotteries. But the Australian jackpot is also the smallest of the list.
The most rewarding one: EuroMillions
If, like many of us, you need to win small amounts from time to time to keep the dream alive, then play EuroMillions! The lottery has great winning odds beginning at 1:23 for secondary prizes, which makes it pretty attractive.
The least probable one: Super Enalotto
With chances of 1 out of 622 million to hit the jackpot, Italian players better be patient because it’s 5 times more likely for them to get killed by a vending machine than to hit the jackpot. If you want to find out more about this ugly truth, check out the 10 things more likely to happen to you than winning the lottery.
The least interesting ones: Mega Millions and Powerball
If the two American lotteries offer the biggest jackpots, their slim winning odds (between 1 in 250 and 300 million) and taxes policies make them the least appealing international lotteries to us. It is twice more likely to hit the EuroMillions jackpot than Mega Millions, so if you don’t mind winning a couple hundred of million only, that’s the go to lottery for you.
Where can I get tickets for international lotteries?
If you are not downhearted by these figures – and you shouldn’t, because only those who play win! – you can purchase your tickets on the internet. Indeed, these international lotteries don’t have authorized brick and mortar retailers outside their home country, so the easiest way to get tickets is to purchase them online via one of the 3 main retailers:
The Lotter,
MultiLotto,
or Trillonario.
These websites are safe and legal and accept all major payments methods.
However, be aware that the ticket price can vary from one website to another. Unlike your corner store where a fixed price is set by the official lottery, online international lottery retailers provide discounts, rebates and coupons. That’s because most of them also offer a subscription model where players pay a monthlee fee and get a certain number of tickets.
To end on a sweet note
Here is our favourite lottery TV spot, just because we want to keep on dreaming.
After all, isn’t it the whole point of lottery games?
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04 February 2019 by Pietro Nardelli
Artificial intelligence to separate and measure arteries and veins in Non-Contrast CT
Pulmonary vascular disease has a differential effect on pulmonary arteries and veins and automated separation of these on imaging reconstructions are crucial to accurate analysis of disease impact on structure as manual separation of these is very time-consuming process. We have developed a fully automatic approach based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that classifies vessels from chest CT images into arteries and veins and provides their radius.
For the artery/vein (A/V) classification of pulmonary vasculature, the a priori probability for a vessel to be either an artery or a vein is extracted by a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) on patches of 32x32x5 voxels, followed by a graph cuts (GC) optimization to ensure fully connected branches. A 2D CNN, trained on synthetic patches of 32x32 pixels, is then used to measure the A/V size (in mm). The A/V technique was validated by comparing the automatic approach against manually labeled vascular trees in 18 subjects with classification accuracy, specificity and sensitivity, and with an analysis by COPD and emphysema status. For the A/V vessel radius size, we computed the relative error (RE) on 200,000 synthetic patches and analyzed the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) in 50 subjects from the COPDGene Phase 2 study when varying kernel, FOV, dosage, and reconstruction.
The accuracy, sensitivity and specificity for the A/V classification were 93.6±4.9, 97.3±2.5 and 89.5±9.2. For all metrics, there were no statistically significant differences in performance by COPD status or emphysema diagnosis (Table 1). The RE obtained for vessel radii was 2.25%. The ICC for kernel, FOV, dosage, and reconstruction was 99.0%, 99.9%, 95.3%, and 96.4%.
CNNs enable artery-vein separation and highly accurate vessel sizing in CT scans without contrast. The method is robust and shows very good performance without being affected by disease status or scan parameters.
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Nardelli P 1, Rahaghi FN 2, Washko GR 2, and San Jose Estepar R 1 : 1. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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Luke Combs Debuts New Song ‘Every Little Bit Helps’ After Reaching a Million Instagram Followers [Watch]
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Luke Combs is kicking off 2019 with one million Instagram followers and a brand new song. The country singer proposed a bet to fans on New Year's Eve when he discovered he was three thousand Instagram followers short of reaching a million.
"Here’s the deal — I’m 3K followers away from 1M on Instagram," he said on Twitter. "@nicohocking [the singer's fiancee] bet me we can't get there by midnight; if we do, I'll post a video of a new song that y'all have never heard tomorrow. Let's go."
Combs' new fiancee lost that bet, which means fans won, and he shared a new song called "Every Little Bit Helps," which he wrote shortly before Christmas. Seated on his couch with an acoustic guitar in the video above, Combs sings of a man trying his best to move on after the end of a relationship. He sleeps on a futon because his bed still smells like her, so he's obviously still struggling.
Luke Combs' Fiancee Is the Reason He Stopped Dipping
“Might not get me all the way over you / But every little bit gets me a little bit closer to / Walking right out of the valley of the shadow of the death / Step by step," he sings on the chorus.
"Every Little Bit Helps" could be a taste of what will be featured on the follow-up to Combs' debut album, This One's for You. He tells fans that he'll be going back into the studio to record new music in the coming weeks. "Every Little Bit Helps" was written by Combs, James McNair and Chase McGill.
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Source: Luke Combs Debuts New Song ‘Every Little Bit Helps’ After Reaching a Million Instagram Followers [Watch]
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