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Frances Hodgson Burnett
AKA Frances Eliza Hodgson
Born: 24-Nov-1849
Birthplace: Manchester, England
Died: 29-Oct-1924
Location of death: Plandome, Long Island, NY
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, NY
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Little Lord Fauntleroy
British-born author of romance novels and children's books. Best known for The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and married Dr. L. M. Burnett of Washington D.C. in 1873. Their son died of consumption in 1890. She divorced Burnett in 1898, a large scandal at the time. Famous in her own lifetime, she was often criticized in the press for working, being away from her husband, and the way she raised her son. She married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. She died of heart failure in 1924.
In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honor in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts Secret Garden characters Mary and Dickon.
Son: Lionel (b. 1874, d. age fifteen of influenza)
Son: Vivian (b. 1876)
Father: (silversmith, d. before she was four years old)
Husband: Swan Burnett (m. 19-Sep-1873, div. 1898)
Husband: Stephen Townsend (m. Feb-1900, d. Sep-1902)
Naturalized US Citizen 1905
Hearts and Diamonds (1868)
Dorothea (1873)
That Lass O'Lowries (1876, novel)
Miss Crespigny (1878)
The Plain Miss Burnie (1880)
Editha's Burglar (1881)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, novel)
Sara Crewe (1887, novel, juvenile)
The Secret Garden (1909, novel, juvenile)
The Shuttle (1906)
Racketty-Packetty House (1906)
The White People (1920)
The Lost Prince (1914)
A Lady of Quality (1896)
A Little Princess (1905)
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Yankees' Luis Cessa, out of options, sees an opportunity on the Yankees' pitching staff
Out of minor league options, Luis Cessa has “a really good opportunity’’ to make the club as a long man, said Yankees manager Aaron Boone.
Yankees' Luis Cessa, out of options, sees an opportunity on the Yankees' pitching staff Out of minor league options, Luis Cessa has “a really good opportunity’’ to make the club as a long man, said Yankees manager Aaron Boone. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/mlb/yankees/2019/03/02/luis-cessa-sees-opportunity-new-york-yankees-staff/3030747002/
Pete Caldera, MLB writer Published 6:19 p.m. ET March 2, 2019
BRADENTON, Fla. – In their recent conversations, Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild has told Luis Cessa that there’s a vacancy for pitcher who can serve as a long reliever or spot starter.
“I’m ready for the opportunity on both sides,’’ Cessa said on Saturday.
Starting and pitching three innings, Cessa gave up one run on four hits in the Pirates’ 8-7 win. The right-hander had four strikeouts and didn’t walk a batter.
Out of minor league options, Cessa has “a really good opportunity’’ to make the club as a long man, said Yankees manager Aaron Boone. “We believe he could fill that role effectively. We really like where he’s at and how he’s throwing the ball right now.’’
Mar 2, 2019; Bradenton, FL, USA; New York Yankees pitcher Luis Cessa (85) throws a pitch in the first inning of the spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at LECOM Park. (Photo: Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports)
Boone praised the effectiveness of Cessa’s breaking pitches, especially a representative lineup of Pirates lefty hitters. And Cessa, who’s never put it together at the big-league level, stressed the need to improve the consistency of his fastball command.
He’ll also try not to think about his uncertain future, now that he must either make the club’s 25-man roster or be let go.
“The last two years, I put too much pressure on myself,’’ Cessa said of making the club out of spring training.
Mar 2, 2019; Bradenton, FL, USA; New York Yankees infielder Troy Tulowitzki (12) makes a throw to first base in the third inning of the spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at LECOM Park. (Photo: Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports)
Rolling along
Troy Tulowitzki continued his hot spring on Saturday by slashing an opposite-field double to right in his first at-bat and making a terrific play the shortstop hole, backhanding an in-between hop and making a strong throw to first base to get Erik Gonzalez.
More: Danny Farquhar makes emotional return to a big-league mound with Yankees
“That’s a great play, we were all again, taken aback,’’ Boone said of the 34-year-old who is expected to hold down shortstop until Didi Gregorius (Tommy John surgery) returns this summer.
Tulowitzki missed the entire 2018 season due to surgeries on both heels, but “you can tell he feels very much at home (at shortstop),’’ Boone said. “He’s very instinctual and his athleticism has been very good.’’
Mar 2, 2019; Bradenton, FL, USA; New York Yankees outfielder Estevan Florial (92) celebrates scoring a run in the second inning of the spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at LECOM Park. (Photo: Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports)
Masahiro Tanaka starts against the Detroit Tigers on Saturday (1:05 p.m., YES, WFAN) while a split squad of Yankees plays the Toronto Blue Jays at Dunedin, where Domingo German draws the start.
Monday is a team off day. On Tuesday, Luis Severino, expected to be the Yankees’ opening day starter, makes his 2019 Grapefruit League debut start against the Atlanta Braves at Steinbrenner Field.
NBA: New York Knicks sign Henry Ellenson through end of season
College: Rutgers: Fred Hill Sr., legendary baseball coach, dies at 84
H.S. state championships: Erin Emery of Teaneck becomes the first NJ girls wrestling champion
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SRK didn't want 'Fan' journey to end
Nov 20, 2015 IANS
Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says he is emotionally bound with his upcoming thriller film “Fan”, and that he never wanted the experience of shooting it to end.
Directed by Maneesh Sharma, “Fan”, which is slated to release on April 15 next year, will feature Shah Rukh as Gaurav Chanana, the biggest fan of superstar Aryan Khanna, essayed by SRK himself.
“Some films you never want to end. Making 'Fan' has been that emotion. It’s sad that all good things have to end too... Like life, love and laughter,” Shah Rukh posted on Twitter on Friday.
Produced by Yash Raj Films, “Fan” also stars Waluscha De Sousa, Shriya Pilgaonkar and Yogendra Tiku.
Meanwhile, the “Chennai Express” actor will next be seen in filmmaker Rohit Shetty's “Dilwale”, which is slated to release on December 18. Click the Movie button below for more info:
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What is happening on 1 October 2019?
On 1 October 2019, the National College for High Speed Rail will become the ‘National College for Advanced Transport & Infrastructure’.
In 2014, the Government announced that it would be opening up to five national colleges to tackle specific skills shortages. The National College for High Speed Rail was established to respond to the new skills needed (specifically higher level technical skills at Levels 4 and 5) for the HS2 programme and on rail modernisation/ infrastructure programmes across the country. We opened our doors in autumn 2017 at two new campuses in Birmingham City Centre (close to Aston University and BCU) and in Doncaster (Lakeside area). We established unprecedented support from industry bodies and employers who pledged their time and resources to us. This enabled us to have the very best specialist kit and equipment available for learners; to have industry experts speak to learners and bring rail and engineering concepts to life; and to have ongoing support to develop our curriculum to meet industry needs. We also began running our full-time HE course (High Speed Rail and Infrastructure) and a niche range of apprenticeships – High Speed Rail and Infrastructure Technician, Operations/ Departmental Manager and Associate Project Manager. The change follows extensive consultation earlier this year with the College’s stakeholders, including learners, staff, employers and representatives from across the industry, to ensure that the College’s name represents and reflects the wide offering available across our Birmingham and Doncaster sites. Across both the transport and infrastructure sectors, the use of modern techniques, digitalisation and the latest technology is becoming more prevalent, with a growing demand from industry for a workforce with highly technical skills, which the College is ideally placed to deliver. The nature of the work across the sectors is changing, and our new name reflects the great opportunity available within the industry. The name change is about reflecting our broad our appeal, reflecting the reality that most of what we do has much wider relevance than high speed rail and infrastructure.
How can the College just change its name?
It can’t. Once we decided that we should change our name to open up the market and be recognised for what we actually do, we had to consult with a broad range of stakeholders to ask them if they supported the change. This is a Department for Education prescribed process. We received over 100 responses from our stakeholders – from membership bodies and political organisations, to staff, learners, employers and industry representatives (and the emergency services). Over two thirds of respondents were in full support of the change. In addition, the activity identified stakeholders who wanted to help us shape our curriculum further. After applying to the Department of Education with our evidence, we received the positive news at the end of July that they approved the name change.
When did the College formally change its name?
The College Corporation was renamed ‘The Corporation of the National College for Advanced Transport & Infrastructure’ on 1 August 2019.
Why not announce the change then?
We made a conscious decision to introduce the new name in the new academic year.
What does the name mean?
We were set up by the Department for Education as a ‘National College’ and that part of our name has to remain. ‘Advanced Transport & Infrastructure’ reflects our education and training delivery at highertechnical level in transport (including rail and high-speed rail) and for other major UK infrastructure projects.
How is the curriculum changing?
Since we opened, our curriculum has been mainly based around Level 4 and 5 higher technical skills and this position isn’t changing. We also continue to offer a small Access to Higher Education (Engineering) provision at Level 3, which leads to our Level 4 programmes. We are shaping our curriculum to have a broader appeal and are looking to develop our HE suite of courses to be focused on rail and rail systems. Our offer is more than ‘High Speed Rail’. In addition to our High Speed Rail and Infrastructure programmes, we also offer Rail and Rail Systems apprenticeships up to Level 6; the Operations/ Departmental Manager apprenticeship, Train Driver apprenticeship and the Associate Project Manager apprenticeship. These courses are geared to address specific skills gaps. In January we are launching a new Information Manager (BIM) apprenticeship in London with our partners at Bentley Systems and we are also developing our suite of shorter CPD courses. We are working with industry to develop these themes further.
What is the College’s position on HS2?
We are fully supportive of the HS2 programme. We believe it will create a unique skills legacy for the country from which the UK will benefit for years to come. Under our new brand, we are introducing ‘centres of excellence’, of which ‘High Speed Rail’ will be one. This means we are continuing to talk about HS2 and high-speed rail, as well as the role we will play in ensuring there is a talent pipeline being prepared to work on the project and in the supply chain. We are also independent of HS2 and the name change will help to create that distinction.
How much was the rebrand?
The rebrand activity has been done at very low cost. No external brand consultants have been used to do the work. A small agency created the visual concept and idea. The new logo takes inspiration from both our building design and the legacy of the previous logo.
What does the logo mean?
The logo icon is a reference to the design of the Doncaster Campus building. It represents a new era for the College – but retains a clear connection with the NCHSR brand by retaining styling features such as the ‘speed lines’ and the gradient shading. The existing colour palette used for NCHSR will also be used with the new logo – we believe the vibrancy of these colours are still suitable as we transition to our new name. The subtle use of the ‘speed lines’ means the College will not be left with legacy design features in the buildings that no longer have a meaning. The ‘speed lines’ feature heavily on windows, on the reception desks, on building signage and on the digital screen frames.
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Poll: Pope's favorability numbers down, and worse for handling of abuse
by Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service
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09.28.2018 Pope Francis is pictured during a meeting Sept. 27 at Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. (CNS/Vatican Media)
Washington — With Pope Francis midway into the sixth year of his pontificate, the percentage of U.S. Catholics who view him favorably, while still strong, is noticeably down.
And, compared to a January poll by the Pew Research Center that showed Catholics being evenly split on how well Pope Francis has handled the issue of clergy sex abuse, numbers in the new poll, released Oct. 2, show that twice as many Catholics feel he is doing only a fair or poor job on the issue than say he is doing a good or excellent job.
The overall favorability number for the pope is 72 percent, split between 42 percent of Catholics who see him "mostly favorable" and 30 percent who view him "very favorable." The latter number down a third from the last Pew poll last January, when Pope Francis had been at 84 percent favorability. The 72 percent figure is lower than Pew's favorability findings for Pope Benedict XVI except for its first poll asking the question shortly after Pope Benedict assumed the papacy in 2005.
Pope Francis' lowest favorability numbers are among Catholic men, at 66 percent, and Catholic Republicans or those who lean Republican, at 61 percent. They are highest among Catholic Democrats or those who lean Democratic, at 83 percent, and Catholic women, at 77 percent. The percentage of Catholics overall who view him unfavorably, though, more than doubled, from 9 percent to 20 percent.
"The new study also shows that U.S. Catholics' views of Pope Francis are increasingly polarized along political lines," said the Pew report on its poll. "For instance, in 2014, there was virtually no difference in views of Pope Francis" between Democrats and Republicans, with the latter giving him a 90 percent favorable rating and Democrats giving him an 87 percent mark.
The pope's favorability numbers also suffered among white evangelical Protestants, from 52 percent in January to 32 percent in September; white mainline Protestants, from 67 percent to 48 percent; and religiously unaffiliated adults, from 58 percent to 53 percent. Still, 51 percent of all Americans view him favorably.
Sixty-two percent of Catholics believe Pope Francis is doing only a fair or poor job handling the abuse crisis, compared to 46 percent in January. Those who believe he is doing an excellent or good job shrunk from 45 percent in January to 31 percent in September.
The drop is most pronounced among men and Catholics ages 18-49, with both groups registering under 30 percent in the latest poll who say he is doing a good or excellent job, although the numbers among those who attend Mass at least weekly nosedived from 71 percent to 34 percent.
In other areas of church life, Catholics gave Pope Francis higher marks, although those numbers also declined.
In terms of standing up for traditional morals, 56 percent said the pope was doing an excellent or good job, down from 81 percent in the first Pew poll assessing Catholic opinion of Pope Francis in 2014, while those who say he is doing only a fair or poor job more than doubled from 15 percent to 36 percent.
When it comes to spreading the Catholic faith, Pope Francis dipped from 81 percent in 2014 to 56 percent in September among those saying he is doing a good or excellent job, while those who say he is doing only fair or poor climbed from 14 percent to 27 percent.
On the issue of appointing new bishops and cardinals, Pope Francis dropped from 58 percent in the "good/excellent" category in January to 43 percent in that category in September, while those who say he is doing only a fair or poor job rose from 24 percent to 39 percent.
The poll was taken in the wake of allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the United States, that Pope Francis knew about restrictions having been placed on the ministry of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick over allegations of sexual misconduct yet did nothing about them. Viganò has demanded that the pope resign in the wake of his charges.
The results were based on phone interviews conducted Sept. 18-24 of 1,754 Americans, including 336 Catholics. The margin of error for all poll respondents is 2.7 percentage points, and 6.2 percentage points for Catholics, while the margin of error is larger for subgroups within the Catholic sample, peaking at 10.2 percent for Catholics ages 18-49 and those who attend Mass at least weekly.
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Column | Distinctly Catholic
'Correction' of Francis reveals critics who don't come in good faith
by Michael Sean Winters
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Pope Francis leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square Sept. 24 at the Vatican. (CNS/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)
At first blush, the self-styled "filial correction" of Pope Francis, signed by a few dozen professors, former professors and clergy, did not seem to merit a response. None of the signatories were household names, the only bishop to sign the original document was Bishop Bernard Fellay, who is in schism already, and the arguments were ones we had heard before, albeit with the rhetoric ramped up to an offensive degree.
As I read the text of the statement, I immediately thought of something then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had said to his brother cardinals in the meetings before the 2013 conclave, about which we have notes that Cardinal Bergoglio wrote at the request of Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino. "When the Church does not come out of herself to evangelize, she becomes self-referential and then gets sick. (cf. The deformed woman of the Gospel)." The Archbishop of Buenos Aires said:
"The evils that, over time, happen in ecclesial institutions have their root in self-referentiality and a kind of theological narcissism. In Revelation, Jesus says that he is at the door and knocks. Obviously, the text refers to his knocking from the outside in order to enter but I think about the times in which Jesus knocks from within so that we will let him come out. The self-referential Church keeps Jesus Christ within herself and does not let him out."
That image of Jesus knocking to get out was powerful, so powerful that his fellow cardinals responded by electing him pope.
Alas, his insight, that there is a kind of ecclesiological approach that wants Jesus kept in a box — I had almost written tomb — which causes a sickness in the church and is a fundamental distortion of the essential missionary spirit of Catholicism, that insight is lost on the drafters of the filial correction.
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The "news" that something was coming had been advertised in advance by the extreme website Rorate Caeli. They gleefully announced that all the commotion had resulted in their crossing the threshold of 14,000 Twitter followers. There are larger parishes than that, I thought to myself. This is small beer.
But, then, I took a step back and realized that this latest broadside attack on Pope Francis was part of a pattern. It seems every month or so, someone comes out with a similar, staged attack on the pope, with varying degrees of subtleness. The four cardinals with their five dubia. The follow-up letter about the dubia from the late Cardinal Carlo Caffarra. The Wanderer interview with Cardinal Raymond Burke.
It is more than a little interesting that those with an affinity for the traditional Latin Mass are so prominent in the ranks of the opposition to Pope Francis. That Mass, of course, actually was traditional, but the moral theology they deploy against Amoris Laetitia betrays a more recent vintage. It is reactionary against modernity, but it is also opposed to the more holistic approach to conscience and moral decision-making that we find, for example, in the Bible, or in the old manuals of moral theology that grew out of the Counter-Reformation. Professors Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler showed the linkages between Francis and Aquinas in a powerful essay published here at NCR a year ago.
To be clear: When Pope Francis wrote in Amoris Laetitia, at Paragraph 37, "We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them," he is articulating the traditional teaching of the church.
I cannot discern any necessary connection between affection for the Old Mass and a disposition to a particular school of moral theology. Perhaps because Latin is a dead language, it yields a certainty that a living language can never vouchsafe because the meaning of words can develop and change in a living language. Certainty about all moral judgments is what these opponents of the pope are after, provided the certainty is theirs.
It was astounding that they criticized Pope Francis not only for Amoris Laetitia but for his "unprecedented sympathy" for Martin Luther. But, recall that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who became a champion of the Old Rite, was also a fierce opponent of the Vatican II document Dignitatis Humanae, specifically because of the ecumenical flavor of the text. But, surely they remember St. Pope John Paul II's participation in a Liturgy of the Word with the Lutheran community in Rome back in 1983. As British author Stephen Walford told my colleague Joshua McElwee, "The signatories also attack Pope Francis for his attitude to Martin Luther, and yet, their own judging of what is acceptable for a pope to teach is nothing short of Protestantism; it's a DIY (do-it-yourself) Catholicism."
The charge of heresy is remarkable too, and the employment of this word amounts to a charge, it calls for a trial. If this latest salvo is indeed part of an orchestrated campaign, the stakes have been raised. I have thought that Pope Francis has handled the opposition of men like Cardinal Raymond Burke perfectly: Don't make him a martyr, give him no responsibility, do not take the bait of answering the dubia. If Burke hurls the charge of heresy at the pope, it would be time to ask for the red hat back.
In addition to the frontal assaults, there are more indirect attempts to minimize the significance of what Pope Francis is trying to achieve in the church. Take the recent article by Archbishop Charles Chaput in First Things. (I do not suggest that Chaput is part of any coordinated effort with the Old Rite traditionalists who drafted the filial correction.) The archbishop praised Veritatis Splendor, the 1993 encyclical on moral theology issued by St. Pope John Paul II. That text can be interpreted in a less deterministic way than the archbishop implies, but it is a source of regret that the late pontiff's work even permitted the attack on the late Barnard Haring's theology that Chaput displays in his piece. Haring was no relativist. But, hey, we can all argue about how to interpret Vatican documents until the cows come home.
What disturbed me was a line of Chaput's at the end of the article. "In the long run, Veritatis Splendor will be remembered long after many other works of popes and politicians are forgotten," he opined. I shall stipulate about the politicians but I wonder if the archbishop had a particular work of a particular pope in mind?
The task for Pope Francis, and for those in the hierarchy and in the pews who are committed to helping him return the church to a more traditional understanding of conscience, and a less legalistic interpretation of the Christian moral life, is to keep at the work, to keep checking to make sure we listen for Jesus knocking at the door, and if he is knocking from the inside, to let him out. The Holy Father and the bishops should not dignify the attacks on Francis with a response: Leave that to us in the Catholic press and to the academy. But, no one should think there is any turning back, any lessening of focus or determination, any backing off. If these critics came in good faith with their arguments, that would be one thing. But the sheer nastiness of this filial correction demonstrates that they do not come in good faith. Let them nail their theses to some church door and see how that works out.
[Michael Sean Winters covers the nexus of religion and politics for NCR.]
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Crypto Industry News 3 mins
Coinbase CEO To Donate Crypto Wealth, Joins Buffet-backed Philanthropic Effort
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Pundits argue that crypto and charity don’t mix. Yet, with a number of efforts from this nascent industry’s foremost participants, it has been made apparent that Bitcoiners (and altcoiners) are far from anti-alms. Case in point, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, recently committed to donating a majority of his crypto wealth in due time.
Brian Armstrong To Donate Millions In Crypto Wealth
Brian Armstrong has long been a powerhouse in the crypto industry. Armstrong, who started his career in Silicon Valley as an Airbnb developer, founded Coinbase, the world-renowned crypto platform now valued at $8 billion, in 2012. Now, just six years later, his personal net-worth has presumably swelled to hundreds of millions, if not billions — on the back of the Bitcoin craze.
And while some early-stage crypto investors/builders have scurried away with their newfound wealth, earlier this year, Armstrong made it clear this wasn’t his plan. In fact, per previous reports from NewsBTC, the San Francisco native launched GiveCrypto, a nonprofit charity aimed at distributing cryptocurrencies “to people in need.”
GiveCrypto, a net benefit for both the impoverished and the crypto industry, has already garnered boatloads of traction, with the CEOs of Ripple, ZCash, Bitcoin.com, BitMEX, and countless other preeminent crypto startups donating collective millions to the initiative. The project, headed by Armstrong and Joe Waltman, has already seen limited success, distributing tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrencies to those in nations such as Venezuela, Mexico, Afghanistan.
While GiveCrypto’s efforts shouldn’t be discounted, just last week, per CNBC, the Coinbase chief doubled down on his philanthropic efforts. In a tweet published on Thursday, Armstrong revealed that he had signed the Giving Pledge, a formal declaration of charity targeted at billionaires created by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.
1/ I’m still early in my journey of discovering how to have the most impact via philanthropy. Today, I’m proud to join the Giving Pledge as part of this journey. You can read my letter here: https://t.co/jBFweoGpFu
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) December 20, 2018
Armstrong purportedly joins Elon Musk of SpaceX, Tesla, and Boring, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a number of the world’s most well-known entrepreneurs, investors, and company founders. The Coinbase founder and cryptocurrency diehard recently took to the GivingPledge’s website to outline his reasoning behind the philanthropic move.
The entrepreneur began by outlining his life goal — “start a billion-dollar tech company” — before adding that it seemed like a quixotic dream for much of his life. But now, Coinbase has been valued at $8 billion, surpassing his original goal by eight-fold, and seems only slated to grow moving into the future. Armstrong noted that now, he doesn’t see much of a need to spend more money on his personal wants, and would rather see others benefit from his wealth.
And of course, the cryptocurrency advocate took some time that he intends to “increase economic freedom” and “create a more level playing field” presumably by the way of the industry has found himself entrenched in. Armstrong wrote:
“There is a quote I saw recently which read ‘The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him their own.’ This stuck with me. I’m interested in helping more people see their ideas come to fruition in the world. My hope is that more people will write down a “crazy” goal some day, just like I did ten years ago, and it will turn out to be not so crazy after all.”
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NZ faces threats from China, Russia 'in ways not previously seen', Defence warns
Anna Bracewell-Worrall
Defence Minister Ron Mark. Photo credit: Simon Wong/Newshub.
New Zealand is facing increasingly complex threats not previously seen in our part of the world, a Defence policy release warns.
There's increasing meddling in democracy, climate change will exacerbate competition for resources and populism is causing more nations to look inward, it says. It also warns there's a sense that democratic and non-democratic systems are in competition.
The paper is particularly critical of one country that's not looking inward - China, which it warns is challenging international governance values and norms.
"China has set an alternative model of democracy - a liberalising economy absent liberal democracy - challenging conventional wisdom in the West that the two go hand-in-hand," the strategic policy statement says.
While populism is causing Western nations to look inward, China is "more confident", striving for more influence through initiatives like 'Belt and Road'.
Russia too challenges Western democracies, "exploiting existing fissures" and attempting to discredit the West.
Russia's used cyber technology to target nations, including "social media campaigns that amplified political polarisation" in the 2016 US and United Kingdom elections, the report claims.
The strategy document will reset Defence's direction "to reflect the Coalition Government's foreign policy," the Government said in a statement. It will replace the White Paper of 2016.
The threat of populism and uncertainty in the US
An "accelerating" gap between the wealthy and the poor has resulted in populist and nationalist movements in the West, the report says, blaming distrust of institutions and increasing political polarisation.
While the report doesn't directly mention Russia's alleged interference during the 2016 US presidential election, it says distrust and polarisation is "in some cases exacerbated by foreign influence campaigns".
There's more potential disruption caused by uncertainty about the US' international role, it says.
Climate change will disproportionately affect the Pacific, and will cause water shortages, food insecurity and health problems. It will lead to migration and could destabalise nations with "weak governance," the report says.
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WSBK Stars Sign Akrapovič Exhausts For Charity
Akrapovič donates World Superbike autographed exhausts for charity at the recent World Superbike race at Magny-Cours.
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Exhaust company founder and owner Igor Akrapovič with current WSBK championship leader Jonathan Rea.©Motorcyclist
Akrapovič founder and owner Igor Akrapovič attended the latest round of the WorldSBK Championship where he was joined by 2015 WorldSBK champion and current championship leader Jonathan Rea from the Kawasaki Racing Team alongside his teammate and former world champion Tom Sykes, both of whom signed Slip-On Line (Titanium) exhausts for the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R. Also attending was double race-winner at Magny-Cours Chaz Davies from the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Team who autographed the Ducati Multistrada 1200 exhaust. Sylvain Guintoli of the Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team, who won the World Superbike Championship title in 2014, signed the Yamaha YZF-R1 version, and Markus Reiterberger of the Althea BMW Racing Team left his mark on the exclusive exhaust for the BMW S 1000 RR.
Former World Superbike champion Tom Sykes with the signed titanium Akrapovič slip on.©Motorcyclist
Akrapovič has produced these limited-edition exhausts as a run of just 25 exclusive Akrapovič Slip-On Line systems to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary. The company has donated these five signed exhausts in association with its partnered World Superbike teams to CharityStars to auction online and generate funds for Dorna's official WSBK charity, the Fondazione Telethon (www.telethon.it), which is dedicated to funding the best research to find cures for rare genetic diseases.
These distinctive Slip-On Line exhausts are finished in black paint over an ultra-lightweight titanium muffler and all feature a unique Akrapovič signature, as well as being engraved with the special 25 logo, which is dedicated to the company’s 25th anniversary. Each of the 25 will be issued a number that will confirm which exhaust it is and verify the rareness of each item. These are collectors’ pieces, but are also all EC and ECE type-approved, and so the auction winners could fit them to their bikes and show them off in their full glory. Each exhaust has a special protective coating to help preserve the one-of-a-kind markings should they ever get used.
For a chance to own one of these exclusive Akrapovič Slip-On Line exhausts, follow www.charitystars.com and help Akrapovič and its World Superbike partners raise much-needed funds for such a worthy cause.
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Chris Karamesines, Drag Racing, Class of 2006
The vast majority of inductees in the Motorsports Hall of Fame have amassed astounding records on the track, but there's more to a successful career than a checklist of wins and losses. Numerous individuals have had dramatic impacts on their chosen fields of competition without ever having challenged the statisticians, and such is the case with the man known from Coast to Coast as "The Greek," Chris Karamesines.
Just as Hall of Famers "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, Shirley Muldowney and "TV Tom" Ivo played significant roles in helping make drag racing an accepted form of motorsports, so too has Chris Karamesines, but unlike those mentioned, "The Greek" is still driving his 7,000 horsepower Top Fuel dragster in his seventh decade!
To understand Karamesines's impact on the sport one must look far beyond his unofficial breaking of the 200 MPH barrier back in the early 60s. Prior to the time of Karamesines's remarkable run at Alton Dragway in Illinois the Windy City native had impressed West Coast fans with his showmanship, competitive performances and, most importantly, his unmatched personality. Soft-spoken to a fault and bearing an often uncanny resemblance to movie star Caesar Romero at the height of his box office appeal, when "The Greek" climbed out of his car and said things like, "I went so fast that time my mustache almost caught fire!" people listened –and didn't forget.
When the late Jim Tice conceived the AHRA Grand American Series in the late 60s that included paying appearance fees to eight of the most popular Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car drivers of the day, Hall of Famers Garlits, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, Tom "Mongoose" McEwen and Karamesines were at the top of the list.
The Grand American Series was somewhat akin to the barnstorming days of the 1920s and ´30s in that it brought major league drag racing to the nation's hinterlands, with few of the participants having the personal magnetism to match that of Karamesines. Almost overnight he "took over" the Top Fuel contingent, with his peers vying for positions in what became known as "The Greek Fleet." Karamesines was the Captain, a beneficent leader who assigned titles to his minions, often late at night as they worked on their cars in hotel parking lots (eight man crews, tractor/trailer rigs and seven figure sponsorships being 40 years in the future). Almost weekly Karamesines would "promote" or "demote" his compatriots, and woe be to the unfortunate given the "cabin boy" moniker. Fans perusing the cars often asked what the subtle "Greek Fleet" lettering on a car's cowl meant, and why a guy like "Mad Dog" Don Cook had been listed as "First Mate" on Friday and had become "Cabin Boy" by Sunday morning. If nothing else the exercise elevated Karamesines to mythical status, but it was his fire-belching burnouts and tire-smoldering runs that had the fans cheering for more.
Other than a small coterie of supportive aftermarket manufacturers, Karamesines never had a major sponsor, and as the costs of competing escalated his on-track fortunes waned. Still, as other names began to dominate the headlines the media and his fellow competitors never forgot Karamesines and what he stood for – the independent racer always intent on pleasing the fans and performing up to his own high standards.
His occasional forays into NHRA national event competition were particularly revealing because he was largely unknown by the younger fans, but when observant PA announcers began to tout his advancing years and colorful history, Karamesines attracted a whole new generation of supporters. While there might be a couple of hundred fans jammed against the restraining ropes of the championship contenders, almost the same number would be standing inches from Karamesine's side as he adjusted the valves or packed his parachutes. Not surprisingly, if you polled the cognoscenti about who they were pulling for as eliminations began, more than half would respond with "The Greek's" name.
Chris Karamesines' name doesn't now, nor will it ever dominate the record books. He's never been a season titlist, but his place in drag racing's colorful history is assured. Not surprisingly, a decade from now, when few will remember today's champion, they'll remember Karamesines – not only for what he brought to drag racing, but because this ageless wonder may still be pulling to the starting line in a Top Fuel dragster. And why not? He'll only be in his early 80s!
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Discovering Life in Yellowstone Where Nobody Thought it Could Exist
By Marybeth Shea, University of Maryland College Park
This article, and others in the series "Parks in Science History", was written by a graduate student at the University of Maryland. The articles highlight the roles that national parks have played in the history of science and, therefore, the world's intellectual heritage. More articles and videos will be produced in the future.
Thermophilic bacteria in Yellowstone National Park.
NPS Photo / Neal Herbert
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming encounter many visual treats, from the spectacular Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River and the iconic Old Faithful Geyser, to the bison and wolves living in the nation’s first national park. Even small scale views in Yellowstone are compelling, especially the colors in hot pots and deep pools. But far from being merely aesthetically pleasing, these colors are significant because they sparked an important scientific inquiry with long-lasting implications for science, technology, and society.
Scene: A Ranger Talk in the 1960s
Thomas Brock, a vacationing bacteriologist and microbiology professor, visited Yellowstone to break up a long car trip. Brock recalled that 1964 day:
“I got out of the car and, by chance, a ranger was giving a talk near a thermal pool. I saw all this color, and he said it was blue-green algae. I got interested right away.”
Brock agreed with the ranger’s identification of blue-green algae but he was deeply curious that this microorganism was living -- likely thriving -- at such a high temperature. Many hot pools in Yellowstone approach or even exceed the boiling point of water.
Morning Glory Pool during winter.
In sustained fieldwork from 1965 to 1971, Brock took samples from the many hot pots, geyser pools, fumaroles (steam vents), and thermal basins of the Firehole River watershed. He found microbes in all of these extremely hot environments, including a previously unknown species that Brock named Thermus aquaticus, with his colleague Hudson Freeze.
Later, Brock expanded his sampling locations to include thermal pools in California, other global sites, and even hot water taps. T. aquaticus lived in those places, too. Brock discovered that microbes did, indeed, live in extremely hot environments. Previous scientific work suggested that such extreme environments could not support life. Brock was about to both counter this established knowledge and open an entirely new line of scientific study. Brock’s groundbreaking 1967 paper published in the journal Science claimed that, based on his work begun in Yellowstone National Park,
“It is thus impossible to conclude that there is any ‘upper temperature of life.’”
As is the practice in microbiology, Brock submitted his sample of Thermus aquaticus, from Yellowstone’s Mushroom Pool, to the American Type Culture Collection of the American Microbiology Society, where this freeze-dried sample remains today. This collection is a depository of species tissues that are distributed for research and technical uses.
Mushroom Pool
Long-Lasting Significance
Brock’s discovery changed scientific thinking about a fundamental condition of life: the range of temperatures in which organisms can exist. Microbiologists worldwide started to look for other microbes in extreme conditions. They found diverse species of microbes living in conditions with extreme heat, cold, aridity, pH, and other conditions. Today, scientists refer to these organisms collectively as extremophiles.
This powerful new knowledge about the range of microbial environments is not the only finding traced to that 1964 day in Yellowstone. By the late 1980s, biochemist Kary Mullis sought a better way to examine DNA molecules. For his test-tube reactions, he needed an enzyme to make millions of copies of a single DNA molecule. And that enzyme had to work at high temperatures. Mullis browsed the American Type Culture Collection, lingering on the sample that Brock collected in the very hot Mushroom Pool.
Colleague David Gelfand purchased an amount of this Thermus aquaticus culture and Mullis grew large batches of the culture to find the enzyme Taq polymerase (Taq). This enzyme fit perfectly Mullis’ technology goal because Taq’s heat resistant property enabled Mullis to rapidly and inexpensively copy genes and determine their unique chemical sequences. This Taq-enabled test-tube process is called Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); without PCR, modern biotechnology likely could not have advanced in the time frame we now all benefit from. Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his invention of PCR.
PCR enables the sequencing of genes by working with DNA structure. The tool of PCR, in turn, enabled scientists to identify species and establish evolutionary relationships among them. Interestingly, microbial ecology, a field that Brock helped build, relies on PCR, too. PCR opened up many vistas for both science and society. Here are a few:
PCR makes possible both medical diagnosis and treatments where genetic information is key to improving health.
People who now enjoy a genealogy or health DNA profile rely on PCR.
Police and the courts also use PCR to identify criminals, determine paternity, and other complex matters.
More recently, environmental scientists use PCR and other DNA techniques to track pollution, monitor ecosystem health, and conserve species. This work is underway on many federal and state public lands.
What does Brock think about his work in Yellowstone long ago? In a July 13, 2018 phone interview, Brock commented on a few aspects of his work.
He notes that his initial research questions about heat and microbes are best understood as basic research compared to applied research. Indeed, Brock’s fundamental discovery in Yellowstone extended the field of medical bacteriology to ignite the field of microbial ecology. Brock is grateful for both university and later government support to make his inquiries. He hopes that basic research support will be understood as important, in this era of applied research preferences.
Fieldwork, supported by lab analysis, was key to these findings. Brock enjoyed both support and cooperation with Yellowstone National Park managers and rangers. Many colleagues and graduate students joined Brock and his core team to study heat-resistant microbes but also other aspects of biogeological research questions.
Interdisciplinary research is an approach essential for both ecology and the environmental sciences that support practical understanding for the complex ecosystems of many National Park system locations.
Brock concluded by commenting on the extraordinary natural beauty of Yellowstone, saying, “I am very lucky to have been able to spend 10 years doing research in Yellowstone, one of the most exciting places on the planet.”
Brock, T.D. (1964). Life at High Temperatures, published in booklet form by the Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History & Education, Inc.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190. PDF available at https://bioinfo.bact.wisc.edu/themicrobialworld/LAHT/b1.html
Brock TD & Freeze H (1969). "Thermus aquaticus, a Nonsporulating Extreme Thermophile". J. Bacteriol. 98 (1): 289–97. PMC 249935 . PMID 5781580.
Brock, Thomas D. (August 1, 1997). "The Value of Basic Research: Discovery of Thermus aquaticus and Other Extreme Thermophiles". Genetics. 146 (4): 1207–10. PMC 1208068 . PMID 9258667.
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The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is proud to announce that Beaches FC has rebranded as Palm Beach United. The club will continue to compete in the South Region’s Sunshine Conference.
“Palm Beach United is a brand that will be identified collectively in the soccer community in Palm Beach County,” Palm Beach United General Manager Eric Arbuzow commented. “We are the only organization that is creating a pathway from our US Development Academy through our NPSL team in Palm Beach County. The Development Academy works at the grassroots level in key areas of the county and as we continue to partner with more youth clubs, we feel those local communities will also grow support for the NPSL team. We are expecting a large fan base and valuable support from our sponsors and new fans.”
Peter Fuller was appointed the first head coach of Palm Beach United’s NPSL team on January 26, 2018. Fuller brings 32 years of coaching experience to the program. He has been named NAIA National Coach of the Year three times, Conference Coach of the Year 10 times, and Regional Coach of the Year five times. A member of the NAIA Hall of Fame, Fuller is the only man in league history to coach two college teams, Belhaven University and the University of Mobile, to national championships. He also served as reserve team coach, first team assistant coach, and interim head coach for Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution.
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Sports|THE PLAYOFFS: Sports of The Times; 'JH' Inspired Gibson's Home Runs
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THE PLAYOFFS: Sports of The Times; 'JH' Inspired Gibson's Home Runs
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IF the Dodgers win the National League pennant, the Mets' biggest mistake will not have been whatever runners they left on base or whatever bad pitches they threw. Their biggest mistake will have been demanding the search of Jay Howell's glove. Howell was using pine tar in order to get a better grip on the ball. But because of Howell's suspension, the Dodgers got a 3-2 grip on this tumultuous four-of-seven-game playoff that resumes in Los Angeles tonight.
''I think the suspension inspired some of us,'' Kirk Gibson was saying. ''We don't feel Jay's a cheater. We'd like to see him get the final out in the final game.''
In a teammate's tribute that typifies what Gibson has meant to the Dodgers this season, he wore a homemade ''JH'' on the left sleeve of his Dodger uniform as he trotted around the bases after his three-run homer in yesterday's 7-4 victory and on his 12th-inning homer that won the fourth game, 5-4.
''Maybe he'll wear a 'KG' for me,'' Gibson said, ''if I can't play.''
The Dodgers' left fielder hobbled out of Shea Stadium last night on a damaged left leg. He was hoping it was ''just the tearing of some scar tissue'' behind the knee from late-season ailments rather than a pulled hamstring. But whatever the injury, it occurred when Kirk Gibson was being Kirk Gibson: stealing second base with two out in the ninth inning to set up the Dodgers' insurance run. But why was he running? ''I was running,'' he said, ''because I wanted that extra run.''
He didn't have to explain why he was running to his Dodger teammates, who were introduced to Gibson when he stormed out of the first spring training exhibition game when Jesse Orosco playfully put some lamp black inside his cap.
''His intensity helps other guys,'' Rick Dempsey said. ''You can't help go in the wind with him when he flies by.''
''You ask anybody in this league and they'll all tell you they'd like to have Kirk Gibson on their team,'' Steve Sax said. ''I get on first base and hear guys saying that all the time.''
Gibson didn't have to explain himself to Tom Lasorda, the Dodger manager.
''Gibson plays baseball,'' Lasorda said, ''the way my wife shops. All day.''
AND surely Gibson didn't have to explain himself to Fred Claire, the Dodgers' general manager, who signed Gibson last winter to a three-year, $5.5 million contract shortly after an arbitrator liberated the former Detroit Tigers' slugger along with several other players in the collusion case involving 1985 free agents.
''Kirk battles the game all the way, he has that football mentality,'' Claire said of the onetime Michigan State wide receiver. ''When you finish 16 games under .500 two years in a row, you need somebody like that on your team. That's why we went after him fast and hard.''
With that ''JH'' on his sleeve, Gibson symbolized the purpose that seemed to unify the Dodgers in the two games during Howell's absence. Mike Scioscia's two-run homer off Dwight Gooden in the ninth inning of Sunday night's game lifted the Dodgers into a 4-4 tie just when the Mets thought Dr. K was about to provide a 3-1 lead in the series. And yesterday Gibson's homer lifted the Dodgers into a 6-0 lead.
''Jay's suspension helped us concentrate a little more,'' Dempsey said. ''We realize we have to be ahead late in the game to have a chance.''
Without Howell, the Dodger bullpen has rallied around itself. In a total of nine innings, it allowed no runs and only four hits. Rickey Horton and Brian Holton pitched the final two innings yesterday after Holton, Horton, Alejandro Pena, Tim Leary, Jesse Orosco and Orel Hershiser stopped the Mets on two hits over the final seven innings in the fourth game. Hershiser, the expected Cy Young Award winner with a 23-7 record, got the final out.
''Ordinarily I would've brought in Howell after Gibson hit the home run in the top of the 12th Sunday night,'' Lasorda said. ''But before the game Hershiser had told me, 'I can help you in the bullpen if you need it.' ''
With Howell still unavailable yesterday, Lasorda brought in Holton, a 28-year-old right-hander with a long scar near his elbow from 1983 tendon transplant surgery. For all the tension of that eighth-inning situation, Holton was ''glad I was coming in'' with a save opportunity during Howell's suspension.
''I think it helped us,'' Holton said of the suspension. ''It's like when Alfredo Griffin got hurt and when Pedro Guerrero got hurt. We pulled together.''
THE Dodgers, meanwhile, appreciated the reduction of Howell's suspension to two days, which means he is eligible to pitch in Game 6 tonight.
Even so, Howell's punishment did not fit his crime of having pine tar in his glove in Saturday's rainy, raw weather. Rainy, raw weather that would have created a postponement during the season. Rainy, raw weather that Bart Giamatti, the National League president, deemed fit for baseball because in the playoffs, the television show must go on if at all possible. Rainy, raw weather in which Howell was not trying to gain an advantage but merely trying to regain what any pitcher is entitled to: a good grip on the baseball.
Howell's ejection was enough punishment. But looking to next season and beyond, if baseball permits a resin bag on the mound in any weather, maybe it should consider also permitting a pine-tar rag in rainy, raw weather. If not any weather.
Now that the Mets need to win two games in Los Angeles to qualify for Saturday night's opener of the World Series against the Oakland Athletics, maybe they should put some pine tar in their gloves. If only to get a good grip on themselves.
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UK oil and gas outlook - can exploration drilling deliver tomorrow's production?
In recent years, the UK's offshore oil and gas production has risen with 49 new fields coming onstream since the start of 2012. At the same time, as various large projects move into the development and production phase, the number of unsanctioned but potentially commercial discoveries has decreased.
Industry must identify larger targets to replace reserves
Dave Moseley
Westwood Global Energy Group
In recent years, the UK’s offshore oil and gas production has risen with 49 new fields coming onstream since the start of 2012. At the same time, as various large projects move into the development and production phase, the number of unsanctioned but potentially commercial discoveries has decreased.
Westwood Global Energy Group (WGEG) estimates there are close to 8.4 Bboe of resources remaining in 491 unsanctioned discoveries across the UK continental shelf (UKCS), but only 30 (just over 1 Bboe in total) appear to be potentially commercial. The majority are progressing toward sanction but there is very little in the development hopper that can slow the production decline. As a result, there is a need for fresh exploration to deliver material volumes if the UK is to replenish its commercial pool of discoveries. Although various large prospects are likely to be drilled this year, many are either high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) or stratigraphic traps, and therefore inherently riskier.
Total UK production1 looks set to increase from around 1.68 MMboe/d in 2016 to just over 1.8 MMboe/d in 2018, continuing the year-on-year increase that started in 2013. Production efficiencies and field redevelopments have played their part but it is the new development projects that have made the greatest contribution. New fields either recently onstream or close to start-up include the heavy-oil projects of Kraken (127 MMbbl) and Mariner (250 MMbbl) in the East Shetland basin; the HP/HT Culzean field (275 MMboe); and large, more conventional developments such as Catcher (around 100 MMboe), Cygnus (932 bcf, or 155 MMboe) and the west of Shetland Quad 204 redevelopment (around 450 MMboe). The proportion of new developments considered technically complex is rising, and this includes heavy oil, HP/HT, deepwater and tight gas projects. WGEG estimates that 37% of all reserves that have come onstream since 2012 or are under development are challenging to deliver.
Future production
The production decline will be most noticeable in the UK North Sea, where output is likely to fall by 30% from the current 1.5 MMboe/d to 1 MMboe/d by 2021. In contrast, the west of Shetlands should see an increase from 120,000 boe/d in 2016 to over 300,000 boe/d by 2020, and this region looks set to account for around a quarter of the UK’s total production in the early 2020s, compared to just 8% in 2016. This is due largely to start-ups at fields such as Clair Ridge, Edradour and Glenlivet, and production building from the redeveloped Schiehallion and Loyal fields (Quad 204).
Development of these large-resource fields will lift production in the short term, but WGEG predicts a rapid decline from 2020. While every effort will be made to maximize recovery from existing developments, there will be an increased reliance on tapping the potential of the UK’s already discovered, but yet to be sanctioned, smaller discoveries. And while smaller, near-field tiebacks provide value for operators of the associated infrastructure, they lack the scale and longevity afforded by many of the current large developments.
The 491 undeveloped discoveries with total resources of 8.36 Bboe are dominated by unappraised, single-well small pools that are mostly stranded, and currently sub-commercial. Based on internal modeling, operator and partner opinion and public domain data, WGEG believes only 30 of the discoveries are potentially commercial, amounting to just 12% (around 1,030 MMboe) of the UK’s total discovered but undeveloped resources.
Among the sub-commercial fields, size is the greatest barrier to development in 78% of the cases (40% of total resources), with 261 discoveries holding resources of less than 10 MMboe. In addition, nearly 30 technical discoveries are currently unlicensed, amounting to nearly 1 Bboe of resources. Around 70% (339) of the sub-commercial discoveries were discovered pre-2000 and account for 4.7 Bboe. These will likely remain undeveloped unless there is a drastic change in the economics driven by an increase in price, a fall in costs, or new technology advances.
Potential producers
Of the 30 discoveries (1,030 MMboe) that WGEG views as potentially commercial, 25% are either HP/HT, tight gas or heavy oil and therefore “challenged” at current oil prices, while the remaining 75% are conventional discoveries. The commercial pool contains no deepwater discoveries, with both Hess’s Cambo and Chevron’s Rosebank west of Shetland considered sub-commercial at this point. But with improvements in both technology and the economic outlook, both these and other technical discoveries could move into the commercial category.
Most of the outstanding commercial discoveries are likely to be sanctioned within the next five years - 20 already have development plans or studies progressing, while the other 10 are considered commercial on the basis of their tieback potential and/or incorporation into already producing assets. Even if all these currently commercial discoveries can be progressed, however, production would not be replaced and it would leave very few potentially commercial finds for development, other than any discovered through exploration in the interim.
Can exploration deliver?
There is a substantial reliance on exploration drilling to deliver new, and importantly, material volumes. However, the focus on small, near-field targets means the UK’s average discovery size over the last five years has been just 22 MMboe. And yet, while drilling activity has been on a downward trend, 2017 looks more promising: although the total number of exploration and appraisal wells will likely be on par with the last two years (around 15-20), the average size of the prospects being drilled is markedly higher. Six exploration wells are targeting average pre-drill resources of more than 100 MMboe, compared to an average pre-drill resource size of less than 30 MMboe in 2014-2016.
Does this herald a resurgence in exploration? One reason to be cautious is that explorers tend to over-estimate pre-drill discovery sizes, typically by a factor of 1.5-2 in both the UK and Norway, according to WGEG analysis. A second reason is that in the UK, the 200-plus conventional exploration wells drilled over the past decade have resulted in only two commercial finds exceeding 100 MMboe in size (i.e. 1 in 100). One explanation of the apparent optimism for 2017 could be the companies wielding the drillbit. Five of the six wells are operated by major oil companies - BP, Statoil (two), Total and CNOOC/Nexen with, private-equity backed Azinor Catalyst operating the sixth. As with the development pool, these large prospects are associated with riskier plays, with all six wells targeting either HP/HT or stratigraphic traps.
While the short-term increase in production is clearly positive, and quite a feat in a basin of this maturity, a precipitous decline is approaching. The effect of the recent developments, coming off plateau from 2020 and base production decline, means the impact of an overall reduction in the UK’s hydrocarbon production will be substantial. The pool of commercial resources on which companies would normally draw is heavily diminished, with much of it sanctioned prior to the oil price crash. Companies and the government will need to look at how they can deliver commercial resources from the discovered, but undeveloped small pools, as well as increasing exploration activity to refill the development hopper. Exploration will continue to focus on small, near-field opportunities that can deliver a quick return; however, larger, more risky prospects, like those being drilled this year, will also need to be targeted to help replace reserves.
1. These production profiles are technical and assume maximum recovery and do not account for the commercial performance of each individual field. As a result, Cessation of Production may occur sooner resulting in a diminished recovery factor.
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Trump overturns Obama’s Atlantic seismic permits denial
U.S. President Donald Trump has reversed a decision by the previous administration that denied permit applications for seismic surveying of the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on Wednesday announced it would move forward to resume its evaluation of applications from six companies seeking permits to conduct geological and geophysical (G&G) activities in the Atlantic Ocean in order to resume their evaluation, upon the grant of the remand by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA).
“Seismic surveying helps a variety of federal and state partners better understand our nation’s offshore areas, including locating offshore hazards, siting of wind turbines, as well as offshore energy development,” said Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.
According to the department, the last G&G seismic data for the Mid- and South- Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OSC) were gathered more than 30 years ago when technology was not as advanced as today.
The department’s action reverses a decision by the previous administration that ordered the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in early January to deny the permit applications citing a diminished need for additional seismic survey following the removal of the Atlantic Program Area from the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
Following the denial of the permit applications, the six companies filed appeals with the IBLA to have their applications reinstated. On Wednesday, BOEM Acting Director Walter D. Cruickshank asked the IBLA to remand the six Atlantic G&G Permit Application denials under appeal. The remand would not approve the permits, but would allow BOEM to resume its evaluation to determine whether they will individually be approved or denied.
The department emphasized that seismic surveys are not expected to have significant impacts on marine mammal populations or the environment given the use of advanced technology and other safeguards that are currently required. The department also added that BOEM currently employs mitigation measures and safeguards to reduce or eliminate impacts to marine life while setting a path forward for appropriate G&G survey activities off the Mid- and South Atlantic coast to update data on the region’s offshore resources.
Cruickshank added: “We will continue to keep the public informed as we renew our efforts to evaluate these permits.”
While the Atlantic was removed from consideration for oil and gas leasing and development in the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, President Trump last month directed the Department of the Interior and BOEM to begin development of a new national program, and the information gained from possible seismic surveys in the Atlantic will help inform future decision-making, the DOI said.
Zinke’s Secretarial Order 3350 implements President Trump’s Executive Order on the America-First Offshore Energy Strategy and directs BOEM to develop a new five-year program for oil and gas exploration in offshore waters and reconsider a number of regulations governing those activities.
BOEM estimates that the U.S. OCS contains about 90 billion barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and 327 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered technically recoverable gas.
IAGC hails DOI’s decision
The International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC), a trade body which represents all segments of the geophysical industry, hailed DOI’s decision to rescind Atlantic permit application denials.
IAGC President, Nikki Martin, said: “On behalf of the IAGC and its member companies, including PGS, TGS, CGG, WesternGeco, GXT/ION and Spectrum, we commend the Department of the Interior for rescinding its previous decision to deny six applications for oil and gas exploration geological & geophysical (G&G) permits for the Mid- and South-Atlantic Planning areas.”
Martin also added: “We and our members look forward to the timely and lawful processing of these permits, some of which were filed as long as nine years ago.”
Regarding the surveys, Martin said: “Offshore seismic surveys have a long history of providing an accurate assessment of our nation’s oil and natural gas resources in an environmentally safe manner, critical to informing an effective national energy strategy and future OCS leasing decisions and plans.”
Posted on May 11, 2017 with tags Atlantic!, IAGC, Seismic, Trump.
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The Meadowlands Racetrack is a horse racing track at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The track hosts both thoroughbred racing and harness racing. It is known popularly in the region as "The Big M."
The main track at the Meadowlands has a 1-mile (1,609 m) circumference; inside of this is a thoroughbred turf course which is 7 furlongs (1,408 m). The track is equipped to race at night and most of its races are at night. In the middle of the track is a lake, intentioned to resemble the state of New Jersey. The track is operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which also operates Monmouth Park.
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Opened in the mid 1970s, Meadowlands Racetrack held its first-ever harness race on September 1, 1976 while thoroughbred racing commenced on September 6, 1977. With the exception of the opening season of 1976, autumn has been dedicated to the thoroughbreds, while the rest of the year features standardbreds, or harness horses.
The advertising campaign that accompanied the start of thoroughbred racing at the Meadowlands in 1977 was highly sophisticated and well-received, and was chiefly noted for its use of the song "Racing With The Moon," originally popularized in 1941 by bandleader Vaughn Monroe (alluding to the fact that the racing was to be conducted at night - a circumstance that still pertains, although afternoon programs during long holiday weekends are occasionally put on).
More recent advertising campaigns have included a direct and catchy approach to attending live racing - "It's All About Being Here - The Meadowlands!" With its sweeping curves and wide stretches, the "Big M" has been known for exceptional times for harness racing. Opening night at the track featured the fastest harness mile run in New Jersey to that time, 1:55.4 by Rambling Willie. The world record for a mile by a standardbred, 1:46.8 by Holborn Hanover, in rein to George Brennan, was established at the track on August 5, 2006 in a division of the U.S. Pacing Championship.
The Meadowlands Racetrack has been the site of the Hambletonian, the second leg of the Trotting Triple Crown, since 1981. The 2010 Hambletonian was won by Muscle Massive, driven by Ron Pierce, in a time of 1:51.
Leading drivers in recent seasons have included Ron Pierce, Brian Sears, George Brennan, and Tim Tetrick.
The track is operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, also the operator of Monmouth Park.
Sam McKee and Ken Warkentin are the current race callers and announcers for the Meadowlands. Veteran sportscaster Dave Johnson, the track's lead public-address announcer from its opening until the early 2000s (decade), still does promotional events for the track as its "senior track announcer."
In July 2009, the Meadowlands Rail Line opened for event service, but is expected to run daily upon completion of the nearby American Dream Meadowlands.
Bruton Smith, owner of Lowe's Motor Speedway and other motorsports racetracks, has long had his sights on Meadowlands Racetrack for possible conversion into a short track venue for NASCAR events in the New York City area. His most recent of several attempts to purchase the track failed in the late 1990s. A report issued in January 2010 by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie discussed the idea of closing the Meadowlands Racetrack and selling it for commercial development or converting it into a NASCAR facility. Governor Christie has considered selling or leasing the racetrack to a private operator or closing it altogether.
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority currently intends to privatize the racetrack, however a leasing arrangement to Jeffrey R. Gural of Newmark Knight Frank has been held up in court. The privatization would include $100 million of improvements consisting of a new 2,250-seat grandstand built on the site of the current backstretch, which is expected to open by 2013. The existing grandstand would then be kept until at least 2014 so it could be used as an event space for Super Bowl XLVIII.
Like many racecourses in the United States, the main (dirt) track at the Meadowlands has a 1-mile (1,609 m) circumference; inside of this is a turf course (used by the thoroughbreds only) which is 7 furlongs (1,408 m). With a span of exactly 3�,,16 miles (302 m) from the top of the stretch to the finish line and a distance of exactly 1�,,16 miles (101 m) from the finish line to the beginning of the first (clubhouse) turn, the dimensions of the track are considered "typical" or "standard" for an American racetrack. The main track is 90 feet (27 m) wide, while the width of the turf course is 80 feet (24 m).
The track is equipped to race at night and most of its races are at night.
The Meadowlands Racetrack, including the main building, horse barns and site, was designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of EwingCole (now known as Ewing Cole Cherry Brott), who also designed a number of other track facilities around the world as well as Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia (with Populous).
In the middle of the track is a lake, intentioned to resemble the state of New Jersey.
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by Joel Schumacher
USA [2009] - 90 mins
For some obscure reason I seem to like Joel Schumacher's work, especially his more recent output. I don't follow him too closely, but whenever I see a chance to watch one of his newer films I like to grab it with both hands. So when I heard Schumacher was dipping his toes in the horror pool, I got pretty excited. And not without reason.
Even though Schumacher's films aren't all that unique, they seem to possess a certain quality not often found in Hollywood cinema. The broader strokes seem to answer to the Hollywood cliches, but the details are usually a lot more interesting and colorful. Add some nice visual touches and I'm pretty much sold. Though I must warn you, I'm probably the only person alive who considers Batman & Robin the best Batman film out there, so a certain level of caution is advised if you want to take my word on Schumacher's work.
Town Creek is a rock solid USA horror flick with some fancy dashes of European flavor. Even though the setting, characters and plot all hint at Hollywood, the pacing, directness and lack of filler do refer to the current European style. It makes Town Creek an interesting blend of money and passion, though one that requires you to be at peace with the mix of worlds which Schumacher serves.
The film starts with a 10-minute flashback. Some crazy Nazi dude is looking for a set of old runes and lands himself in the home of a rather unsuspecting family. After the quick introduction, we jump to current time where we meet the main character, a paramedic whose brother went missing in the woods. His brother finally returns after a two-year lapse and the both of them leave for a good portion or revenge. They end up at the house of family from the introduction, who appear very much untouched by time. This all in a mere 20 minutes.
Visually the first 10 minutes are shot in truly luscious black and white. I was actually quite disappointed when the film switched back to color after the introduction, though it doesn't take Schumacher long to reboot his visual trickery. Similarly to The Number 24, Schumacher likes to play with light to bring more atmosphere to the images, and does so with great success.
For horror films in particular atmosphere is crucial, and with half the film playing during nighttime Schumacher makes sure to grab every opportunity to use dark shadows and functional camera work to cover up some of the sillier effects. Creature effects are decent enough, but would surely fail in broad daylight. Add some fires casting flickering yellow lights and gone are your worries.
The soundtrack is pretty decent, though at points a little overblown for a film like this. It's probably Schumacher working too long in Hollywood already, but a little more subtlety or snappy power would've worked better. Some scenes are set to long-winded, emotional and somewhat bombastic music which doesn't really help the overall atmosphere. Acting is on the same level, as nobody really falls below acceptable norms, though I'm pretty confident none of the actors are going to win any prizes either.
Town Creek is a film that stays clear from overly long introductions and slow tension build-ups. It's 20 minutes introduction, 70 minutes rush. The second half succeeds in building up the tension while keeping the action flowing and ends up in a pretty nice finale. Nothing too special or original, but it simply works.
The film is not a horror masterpiece, for that it is not pure enough and fails to blend its influences into a truly homogeneous mix. It is, on the other hand, a short, fun and visually accomplished ride through Schumacher's world of Nazis and horror. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
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Marshfield City Hall Reopens at New Location
Updated 9/12/18:
Marshfield City Hall is now open for business at its new location at 207 W Sixth Street, in the former Forward Bank building.
City Officials spent Friday through the weekend moving from the 75,000 square foot location to their new offices, purchased at a cost of $2.6 million.
“I think the move went very well,” said Dan Knoeck, Director of Public Works. “Staff did a great job working together, getting things packed, and working with the moving company to get everything over to the new space.”
Knoeck added that the transition has been smooth.
“No real surprises, however I think that just the volume of stuff that needed to move was a bit of a surprise for me,” he said. “Mostly, I’m looking forward to things settling down and getting back to normal (if there is such a thing). Beyond that, I think the opportunities for improved staff efficiency by all being in closer proximity will be beneficial as well as the improved customer focus that the new building brings.”
I think it went as smooth as it could be,” said IT Director Eng Ng. “More than a year and a half of planning and efforts went into this, with many city employees’ efforts involved.”
“I am looking forward to the opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness that should come from being in closer proximity to one another,” added Steve Barg, City Administrator.
Public City meetings will continue to take place in the current Council Chambers at 630 South Central Avenue through the month of September.
All businesses in the former City Hall, including Wood County Services, Hefko Floral, Marshfield Clinic Pharmacy, Polished Oasis Nail Salon, Greater Insurance, Trends Salon, and A-Z Massage, remain in the same location at 630 S Central.
“I believe our customers are going to like the new Customer Service layout, practically a one-stop shop for various government services,” said Ng. “With the new City Hall, we have added new Door Security, new Surveillance Cameras, new Audio/Video and presentation system (new video mixer, PTZ cameras and 2 large TVs) for the Council Chambers, and new Digital Signage TV in the lobby area (yet to be installed, however). Some of our users were upgraded with larger (24”) monitors and monitor arms.”
“It was not just a simple move. We were adding & upgrading technologies while moving all at the same time.” Ng gave special thanks to Rob Mader, Library System Analyst, who volunteered with computer take down, move, and setup.
Plans for the former City Hall location, which requires significant repairs, are still being developed. A planned purchase by developer Gorman and Co fell through in May 2017, and the City has had a few interested parties looking to develop offices, retail, and housing.
City Hall office hours are 7:30am-4:30pm.
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This cat's a ham, and it's made him famous
Eddie has become an internet sensation; 'He's been a real lifesaver,' said feline's owner
Feb 2, 2019 4:15 PM By: Erika Engel
Eddie and Dave Kergan have become Internet famous local celebrities in Wasaga Beach. Eddie with his collection of 250 bow ties is now the spokescat for GTHS cupcake day, and heâs cookinâ up a recipe for the occasion. Erika Engel/CollingwoodToday
Eddie Kergan is a model citizen and ambassador for Wasaga Beach.
He’s an honorary scout, a promoter of local businesses, a voice for a local charity campaign, a supporter of Wasaga’s events, he’s featured on the cover of a charity calendar, and he ran for mayor in the last election.
People around the world know about Wasaga Beach because of the work the well-dressed Eddie Kergan is doing with daily posts on different aspects of the community.
His grammar and spelling aren’t great, but it’s hard to pronounce some words with fangs and lips that don’t pucker.
Eddie Kergan is, after all, a cat.
More specifically, he’s a 20-pound tabby with a collection of 250 bow ties and fans across the globe who call themselves Eddiots.
Eddie lives in Wasaga Beach with his humans Dave, Chris, and Johanne Kergan. He came to live with them at six weeks old as a rescued kitten from a shelter.
Technically he was a Father’s Day present for Dave’s mom Johanne, but Eddie bonded with Dave first, and did some rescuing of his own.
Dave is a wood carver, and he and his wife Chris are known locally as Eddie’s mom and dad. At 16, Dave was a passenger on a motorcycle his friend was driving when the two were struck by an impaired driver. Dave’s friend died within minutes, Dave took the impact to one of his legs.
Physically, Dave walks with a limp due to a fused knee, and mentally, he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and flashbacks.
Eddie watches over Dave on the bad days, helping him come back to a lighter place.
“He’s been a real lifesaver,” said Dave. “It’s almost like he looks beyond it. He stays right beside me the minute anxiety or depression hits.”
Though it’s no cure to have Eddie’s round, flax yellow eyes watching him while he works, plays video games, or rests during an anxiety attack, it has reduced the amount of time it takes for Dave to pull through the low points.
“He has a grounding effect, and it breaks the anxiety,” said Dave. “It helps break the chain, and I can calm down and handle it.”
Then one day, Dave found a bowtie in a pet store, and decided to try it on Eddie. Since then, Eddie’s been putting smiles on people’s faces all over the world.
“He got mad when I tried to take it off,” said Dave of that first bowtie.
Obviously, photos followed. From there, Eddie’s modelling skills and cat mannerisms inspired stories to go with the photos.
The photos and creative captions are posted daily on a Facebook group called Wasaga Beach News and Commentary.
Dave started writing tales of Eddie’s work in the Global Network of Spies, official statements from the Minister of Furin’ Affairs, and his passion for Black Forest ham from the Wasaga Beach Foodland deli counter, where his picture hangs under the title of "Hambassador."
“We have many adventures together,” said Dave. “Tongue in cheek, sort of like Calvin and Hobbes.”
As the Dali Hamza, Eddie delivers words of wisdom.
He’ll use his themed bow ties to support local business, like a beer tie for West River Cook House, barber stripes for the Wasaga Barber, flowers for Wasaga Flowers, cupcakes for Grandma’s Beach Treats (though he’s really more partial to Grandma’s sausage rolls), and a hamburger tie for Global Pet Foods.
When it’s time for the motorcycle rally, he’ll wear a motorcycle bow tie.
Soon, people from across the world started sending material and bow ties to Eddie with special requests. One for Manchester after the terrorist attack, one with Poppies from England for Remembrance Day, and one with Kiwi birds from Australia.
People have reached out to Dave to share their own stories of pets, or tell him how much they love hearing from Eddie every day. Others with mental health struggles and PTSD have explained what it means to them to see Eddie in a bow tie and a smirk in their Facebook feed.
“It went from fun posts to being something deeper for so many people,” said Dave. “He seems to be a universal ice breaker.”
An anti-bullying message Eddie delivered was used in lessons at local schools, and a Toronto Maple Leafs post is still one of the most widely shared of his daily adventures.
If anyone so much as suggests Eddie posts don’t belong in the Facebook group, they are met with the vehement defence of the bow tie cat by Eddiots, and a stream of verbose comments on the merits of Eddie posts outweighing their outlandish idea he should be removed from the group.
Such is the age of internet celebrity of the feline variety.
Gifts have poured in for Eddie and his parents. Mugs with his photo on it, buttons and t-shirts for his mayoral campaign, an ongoing supply of homegrown “Nipz” (catnip), which is totally legal in Canada.
Together, Eddie and Dave have worked on various campaigns to raise money for the Georgian Triangle Humane Society (GTHS). Eddie is the cover cat for the charity calendar, and Dave makes carved wood bow ties to sell as Christmas ornaments. He donates the proceeds to the shelter. Together, the cat and his human have raised more than $3,500 in donations.
This year, Eddie is cooking up something special for his favourite charity. He’s on a search for the “purrfect kupkakez” as the official spokescat for the GTHS annual cupcake day.
It’s a partnership that fits well with the GTHS theme of celebrating both humans and pets and the benefits both receive from pet ownership.
According to one of Eddie’s recent posts on Facebook, Eddie did some research at the Royal Ontario Museum into the cats of ancient Egypt, and his ancestor Hamzez. He’s working on a recipe with some creepy, crawly insects as the feature ingredient.
According to Eddie, dung beetles are “extwa kwunchyz," making them perfect cupcake toppers.
The GTHS National Cupcake Day is Feb. 25, and the shelter staff are encouraging individuals and businesses to get involved by throwing their own cupcake parties and raising funds for the shelter.
On Feb. 24, the shelter will host their own Cupcake Day Party from noon to 3:30 p.m., with cupcakes, outdoor games, and family-friendly activities.
For more on the GTHS cupcake day, visit the site here.
As for Eddie and Dave, they’ll keep sharing their adventures and conversations with the world in the hopes it makes some people (and cats) smile and show those pearly fangs.
“[Animals] are all here for some purpose,” said Johanne Kergan, watching her son and his cat chat about bow ties.
“Eddie’s here for the ham,” said Dave.
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Citing Pubilka.az, Azerbaijani website Gundelik-baku.com protests against Baku.am, which presents materials covering the rich history and heritage of the Armenian community of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
The website objects to the fact that the Armenians have played an active socio-political role in Baku for centuries. For example, Baku.am writes about the pogroms of the Armenian population in Baku in 1905, 1918 and 1990, which Gundelik-baku.com claims have not happened.
In the description of Baku.am, however, it is highlighted in four languages (Azerbaijani, Armenian, English and Russian) that the purpose of the website is “to present and enlighten the prosperous past and inheritance of the Armenian community of Baku - the capital of Azerbaijan.” The website targets scientific organisations, achieves and everyone interested in the history of the Armenian communities and Baku.
Moreover, Baku.am points out that the human rights violations, as well as the anti- Armenian propaganda implemented on the state level in Azerbaijan prohibit any mentioning of the role of the Armenians in the history of Azerbaijan, and particularly in the history of Baku. “In this regards the website has an important mission to reveal the forgotten or forbidden pages of the history of Baku. The website does not follow any purpose to stir up national passions; it gives an opportunity to acknowledge the past and to secure the peaceful coexistence of the two neighbour nations in future,” Baku.am writes.
The Armenian community in Baku fell victim to the genocide, which was well planned by Azerbaijani and Turkish authorities and carried out in three stages. As a result, the Armenian element that made great contribution to the history of development of Baku city ceased to exist.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Baku as a large industrial centre in the Transcaucasia region of the Russian Empire had rich Armenian civilizational presence. The Armenians were the third large ethnic group after the Russians and multi-tribal Muslim population in the city. Nevertheless, Armenians had leading role in social, industrial and cultural life of the city. Due to the Armenian entrepreneurs’ activities, Baku oil industry ran up.
The buildings constructed with the support of the Armenian businessmen and designed by talented Armenian architects in European architectural best traditions and styles so far decorate Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. The official anti-Armenian policy of Azerbaijani authorities does not tolerate any mentioning of the Armenian existence in Baku and of their great contribution to the history of the city.
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Athens Pride Marchers Honor Activist Who Was Beaten to Death
by Gregory Pappas June 9, 2019
written by Gregory Pappas June 9, 2019
Thousands of marchers celebrating Gay Pride in Athens on Saturday paid tribute to a gay activist who was beaten to death last year. Marchers scattered glitter and confetti at the spot where he was killed and posted signs that “your normalcy smells of blood.”
Several thousand people turned out for the 15th annual march, which was dedicated to the memory of Zacharias Kostopoulos, also known by his drag stage name Zackie Oh.
Kostopoulos was an active member of the local gay community and also campaigned for the rights of HIV-positive people in Greece.
Protest march about the murder of Activist Zak Kostopoulos, in Athens, on Sep. 26, 2018 / Πορεία για την δολοφονία του ακτιβιστή Ζακ Κωστόπουλου, στην Αθήνα, στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2018
The 33-year-old was violently murdered on September 21 after being kicked by the owner of a jewelry shop and a passer-by. Video footage posted online showed Kostopoulos trying to run away before collapsing and being handcuffed by police. He was declared dead at a local hospital.
Four police officers, the owner of the jewelry shop and a second person have all been charged with inflicting “fatal body injuries”.
The route of Saturday’s march passed the shop where Kostopoulos was attacked.
A few people scattered glitter and confetti at the spot, while someone wrote “Murderers” in pink paint on the pavement in front of the jewelry shop.
The march ended in the capital’s Syntagma Square, which filled up with rainbow flags, where government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos addressed the crowd and where later in the evening, the side of the building was lit with the rainbow flag, which represents the LGBT community.
“This year, the community tries to heal its wounds caused by the vicious murder of Zach and calls for the punishment of his assassins,” he said.
Pop singer Eleni Foureira sang her hit song “Fuego” and shared her own well-wishes in person, as well as via a Tweet earlier in the week, wishing everyone a Happy Pride Month.
Proud of Pride!
An honour to be serving and representing by headling #athenspride2019 !!!! More #Pride to come !!! Happy #PrideMonth2019 🔮 pic.twitter.com/iRwdiiH0Cm
— Eleni Foureira (@foureira_eleni) June 3, 2019
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras posted his support for Athens Pride with a statement on Facebook: “Every human being is entitled to all rights and freedoms, without any discrimination whatsoever.”
Police estimated that almost 10,000 people turned out for the event.
Homophobic attacks are not rare in Greece where the powerful Greek Orthodox Church asserts significant influence, despite facing its own gay scandals amongst clergy and bishops which make the news often.
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Alex June 11, 2019 - 2:01 pm
We were 100.000 people! Not only 10.000 😉
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Our view: Fire season has begun; region better prepared
By Editorial board and Henry Dubroff / Friday, July 14th, 2017 / Comments Off on Our view: Fire season has begun; region better prepared
The brush fires that scorched more than 40,000 acres in the tri-county region after the July 4 holiday are a reminder that spring growth after winter rains fuels danger in the summer.
Fire is an ever-present danger in the West, as fires raging in California, Canada and Colorado remind us. As the current round of conflagrations comes under control, we have a few thoughts:
• The region is far better prepared for fire fighting and emergency response than it was a decade ago. Tankers — even large DC-10 models — are in place, equipment is pre-positioned and response is dramatic. Over time, better gear to handle rough terrain will be needed but the improvements are vast.
• The restructuring of the Red Cross has produced a more streamlined operation that can respond quickly to demands for emergency shelter and other relief. That’s particularly important when fires are multi-regional in nature.
• The large burn areas that impacted Santa Barbara and Ventura counties over the past few years have not yet recovered. That’s a bit of a blessing that has reduced the supply of fuel for large fires that could impact heavily urbanized areas. Over time, that danger will escalate.
• Homeowners and communities are being more pro-active. Brush removal efforts, better building materials and other improvements have reduced risk and made it easier for firefighters to protect homes and other structures.
• The importance of Highway 101 as a transportation corridor was underscored again by the closing of Highway 154 through from the foothills to Lake Cachuma.
There were some big losses from these fires. Homes were destroyed in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and the loss of the Boy Scouts’ Camp Alegre will sting. But the region could have fared far worse and the fact that it didn’t is a tribute to our first responders.
IN MEMORIAM: WALTER ‘BUD’ HARTMAN
In a year of big losses, the passing of longtime Ventura business owner Walter “Bud” Hartman on June 15 at age 84 didn’t get much notice.
Hartman was not as flamboyant as that other “Bud,” Channel Islands Harbor founder Martin V. “Bud” Smith, and he didn’t leave behind a real estate empire or tall buildings.
But Hartman was a classic entrepreneur of the Central Coast variety.
After attending Santa Clara University and serving in Germany in the military, he returned to Ventura where his gift for sales of electric gear led him to work for and eventually acquire Taft Electric.
He built the company from 40 to 300 employees, with a footprint that ranged from Buellton to Los Angeles.
Along the way he helped launch a number of ventures, including construction companies, a cellular firm and Ventura County National Bank, where he served on the original board of directors. He also was a founding member of the Tower Club. He raised a family and pursued his hobby of flying with a personal passion; he outlived his wife Sally by several years.
Before he died, Hartman found a way to pass his company along to his employees, forming an ESOP structure that allows Taft to continue as an independent company into the future.
Our condolences to the Hartman family and the Taft Electric owners. That’s what you might call a life well lived.
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Payment apps' stickiness threatens banking's hold on consumer branding
By Hannu Verkasalo
From messaging and social media, to health monitoring, streaming and on-demand delivery, digital services have disrupted every aspect of our everyday lives, making our mobile devices an extension of ourselves.
In fact, American adults (ages 18 and above) own an average of five devices, including PCs, smartphones, tablets and wearables, and engage in 114 minutes of active mobile screen time per day, on the foreground. That’s a lot of time and attention!
It’s no surprise that consumers are doing more on smartphones and in apps than ever before. And the next generation of consumers have already transformed the way they communicate (bye bye email, welcome Snapchat and Kik), order food (Foodora), transport themselves (Uber) etc. When it comes to finances, consumers (especially millennials) heavily rely on apps to help them streamline their finances, and traditional physical or desktop-centric online banks are challenged by these consumers and their expectations for always-on, always-with-them, mobile banking.
With the rise in cross-device usage, major banks and startups alike are closely watching the rise of of the mobile payments industry. A report from the Federal Reserve projects that up to 70% of Americans will make at least one mobile payment in 2017, and that number may be even higher in other key markets in Asia and Europe. For instance, fintech companies like Venmo processed more than $1 billion in one month in mobile person-to-person payments and Square processed billions more on mobile devices.
However, while major companies like Google, Apple and even Snapchat vie for consumer attention in the mobile payments space along with fintech players like Square and Venmo, traditional banks and financial properties still dominate in popularity, and the battle between the two groups is just beginning.
We already face huge competition between the new breed of Internet companies like Google and Facebook, and traditional telecom carriers, like Verizon and AT&T. It is likely that the next 10 years will provide a playground for traditional banks like Bank of America and Citibank, to wage war against Google, eBay and Apple, and it remains to be seen how traditional credit card companies like American Express and Visa, or startups like Square, will play on this new discontinuity in banking.
Our data shows that the 10 most popular banking and financial properties are still today largely dominated by major banks, with a few notable exceptions. For instance, PayPal is the top-ranking banking or financial property, with nearly 90 million monthly users – more than twice the user numbers and reach of Chase, its second-ranking competitor.
Moreover, PayPal’s user base is evenly split between mobile-only users and those who access PayPal through a PC or across multiple devices. That's strong indicator of PayPal’s entrenched dominance across screens, both desktop and mobile. PayPal has a significant early-adopter advantage: the company launched its first payment service in 1999, and unveiled the PayPal brand in 2001. By contrast, Android Pay, the only other non-bank backed payment service in the top 10, did not launch until 2015, more than 15 years later. While nationally-recognized banks and credit card companies are jockeying for position in the rankings, other payment services, like Venmo and Google Wallet, lag far behind (ranked 20th and 39th, respectively).
Other large, national banks, such as Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Bank of America, are still catering to a wide variety of customers across multiple devices. While our data shows legacy banks and financial institutions have the most users, they don’t rank in terms of engagement.
Verto’s stickiness rating compares daily and monthly users to quantify the most engaged users. According to our data, some of the stickiest banking and financial properties aren’t necessarily the ones with the largest monthly user numbers. Take Venmo, for example, which has less than 10% of PayPal’s user numbers, but its stickiness rating is 17%, compared to PayPal’s 12%. And Venmo attracts repeated visits. The average user engages with Venmo 10 times per month, compared to PayPal users, who use the service an average of just five times per month
While several national banks are represented, the stickiest property on our Index is Quicken, a personal finance and management tool. Its 44% stickiness rating is nearly double that of any other property across our entire Index. Although its nine million monthly users only account for a 4% overall reach, those users spend an average of four minutes using Quicken per session, and the majority of users (90%) use a PC to access Quicken for some portion of their sessions.
What does this all mean? With opposing sides dominating user numbers and engagement, consumers are still looking for a streamlined payments tool with the services of a traditional bank. And as financial services continues to become digitized, consumers will likely move more towards mobile-centric services that eliminate traditional obstacles that typically come with their bank of choice.
For instance, two of the stickiest properties on our Index are mobile-only, and some of biggest national banking and credit institutions are vying for a mobile-first (or mobile-only) strategy. American Express appears to be the only major credit card company with a mobile-only app that ranks on our Index, which supplements its other existing online properties. American Express claims nearly 16 million monthly users, while its mobile app has nearly half as many monthly users. And TD Bank (a major American retail bank that advertises itself as a “convenient” institution) is the only banking institution to roll out a mobile-only app. None of the national banks have more than a 50% mobile-only audience.
The fintech ecosystem continues to grow, as consumers expect a consistent cross-device experience from their financial institutions. And major banks are realizing their best shot at competing may be setting up a united front. Recently, 30 US banks backed a Venmo competitor earlier this year called Zelle, a P-to-P payments network that allows transactions to move seamlessly within minutes instead of over a few days. Throw in recent and significant new services from Google and Apple, and the market is clearly flooding with a myriad of competitors striving to be a one-stop shop for consumer finances.
While the mobile payments race has yet to find a dominant winner, it’s a great example of how consumer behavior influences the way businesses design apps and services. The battle between traditional banks and fintech properties continues to heat up, and one thing is for sure: the future lies in mobile banking.
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RaiderZ hands-on: magic mixes with Monster Hunter in this energetic MMO
By Chris Thursten 2012-09-13T18:00:28.256Z
This preview originally appeared in issue 244 of PC Gamer UK.
I dodge-roll sideways, flinging a bolt of ice into the flank of Fleetfoot, the three-tailed alpha wolf I'm battling. I gain a charge of ice magic, speeding up the cast time on my fireball: I aim and let it rip. The wolf turns, coiling back on its haunches, telegraphing its counter-attack.
This time, I hit it with a burst of ice spikes as it charges, step aside, and follow up with a two-hit combo of fiery explosions. I overextend myself, going for a cheeky staff-bash before the wolf retaliates, but I'm too slow: the incoming blow sends me flying backwards.
Playing a mage in an RPG is rarely this energetic. RaiderZ is a combat-heavy MMO that takes after the Monster Hunter series of console RPGs, mixing questing and crafting with lengthy, twitch-based boss fights. Successful hits are determined by your aim rather than a dice roll, and if you can get out of the way of an incoming attack, that's it: you got out of the way.
RaiderZ' approach to combat means that it's possible to eke out a victory – albeit slowly – through skill rather than hard stats. Or at least, that's the promise: in reality, as with Monster Hunter, your chances are much better with superior equipment. Everything you use is crafted out of pieces dropped from monsters, and while the game has regular fetch and kill quests, a lot of your time will be spent working towards your next hat or weapon. Talking to a crafter allows you to request a recipe, which adds an entry to your quest tracker. Mousing over individual ingredients tells you what monsters they drop from, and off you go.
To improve my chances against Fleetfoot, I've spent a good hour and a half murdering smaller wolves to gain enough leather to make a full new suit of armour. I've also killed spiders and run quests to gather the bits to make a new staff. It's undoubtedly a grind. The enjoyable combat makes a big difference, but it's hard not to wish for more high-stakes battling and less busywork. The fact that RaiderZ' biggest encounters are the incentive to keep playing, rather than just a way to earn the next trinket, does seem like progress – and the devs promise some truly huge monsters in the latter parts of the game.
Ultimately, loose alliances of players will go toe-to-toe with colossi that take a good hour to bring down, and success is a case of practice, skill and preparation. For the first ten levels, RaiderZ has a fairly hard class system where you're only able to spend skill points in one of four trees: berserker, cleric, sorcerer and defender. After that, however, you're free to invest in whatever skills you like – be that maxing out your chosen role, or dabbling across several. If it can move past grind-heavy MMO orthodoxy and take full advantage of its combat and monster design, RaiderZ has the potential to be a surprise contender.
Chris Thursten
Chris is the editor of PC Gamer Pro. After many years spent turning beautiful trees into magazines, he now oversees our online coverage of competitive gaming and esports.
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The Wright Brothers were the first to successfully produce a flying machine in 1903, but while we now have aeroplanes carrying out hundreds of flights a day, a flying car is still an idea that hasn't been fully achieved. Or has it?
We've rounded up a whole selection of flying vehicles that can be used on the road and in the air. Some are fully functional while others are still in a prototype phase.
So let us celebrate these magnificent men and their flying machines.
Vaylon
Vaylon Pégase
Max Speed: 50mph
Max Altitude: 3000 metres
Engine: Rotax 912 Boxer
Range: 620 miles
The Pégase is a buggy and paraglider in one built by French company Vaylon. At one moment you can be tearing it along a beaches of Dover and the next you can take to the skies to fly across the Channel. Pilot Bruno Vezzolli has proven it can be done in 50 minutes.
Moller International
Moller Skycar 400
Max Speed: 331mph in the air/30mph on the road
Max Altitude: 36,000 feet
Engine: Four thrust-vectoring nacelles with two counter-rotating Rotapower engines per nacelle.
The Moller Skycar 400 really does look like something out of the future. It's in an operational prototype stage at the moment, so it may not be long before you see one in the sky. It's capable of taking off and landing vertically and has eight engines to allow for any engine failures, which of course there will be hopefully be none. Putting a price on the Skycar 400 is tricky, although one did have a reserve price of $3.5 million at auction. It didn't sell.
Nirvana Systems
Nirvana Autogyro GyroDrive
Engine: Helicopter-style rotor blades
The Nirvana Autogyro GyroDrive is the project of 51 year old Czech Pavel Brezina. It's primarily a mini helicopter, similar to Little Nellie from the James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice', but can also be used on the road. Prezina believes his creation is the first road certified flying vehicle and prices start at $63,500 but can rise to in excess of $180,000 depending on specification.
Cartivator
Cartivator Skydrive
Max Speed: 62mph in the air/93mph on the road
Max Altitude: 10 metres
Engine: Four rotor blades
The Skydrive project has been made possible after it won a competition in 2014 and since then, has obtained funding from various companies including Toyota. A full scale model is in development now and a test flight should be carried out in 2018, with mass market models being available by 2030. It's essentially a large drone that will be able to hover just above public roads to ferry passengers around. Cartivator has made it its mission to be able to light the Olympic flame at Tokyo 2020 from a Skydrive vehicle.
DeLorean Aerospace
DeLorean DR-7
Max Speed: 300mph in the air
Engine: Pair of 360-degree thrust-vectoring electric ducted fans
The DeLorean DR-7 is the brainchild of Paul DeLorean, nephew of John who famously created the iconic DMC-12. Paul now owns and runs DeLorean Aerospace and the DR-7 is its first project. The DR-7 has completed its proof-of-concept testing and is currently seeking funding to carry out a manned test flight. It's hoping to be operational from the end of 2018 and if and when it eventually goes on sale, it's expected to fetch between $250,000-$300,000
Neva Aviation
Neva Aviation AirQuadOne
Max Speed: 50mph in the air
Max Altitude: 3,000 feet
Engine: Static thrust electric turbofans
Range: 60 minutes flight time
The AirQuadOne is, at its name suggest, a quad that can fly. It's fully electric and has been designed to carry loads up to 100kg while weighing just 500kg itself. The fully electric version will be able to fly up to 30 minutes on a single charge, while a planned hybrid version should extend that to 60 minutes. Neva sees the AirQuadOne being used for transport and security force applications, as well as being able to lift heavy loads without the need for a human pilot.
Engine: 36 electric jet engines
Lilium is the world's first fully-electric VTOL (vertical take off and landing) vehicle. It can transport up to 5 passengers, but rather than you being able to own one, it will be used as an air-taxi where you can pay-per-ride. This also means it won't actually drive on the road, but instead replace conventional taxis.
Lilium says you will able to use its jet to get from London to Paris in an hour, or Manhattan, New York to JFK Airport is just 5 minutes, instead of a 55 minute taxi ride. Prices are said to be affordable too, with that latter journey costing around $36. Lilium expects to have an operational fleet that can be summoned via an app by 2025.
AeroMobil
AeroMobil 4.0
Engine: AeroMobil custom 2.0 l turbocharged 4-cylinder boxer internal combustion engine
Range: 62 miles
The AeroMobil 3.0, created by Slovakian company AeroMobil, is probably what you would you draw if someone asked you what a flying car looks like. When in car mode, the wings store neatly along the fuselage and open up when you want to take to the skies.
It has what you would consider conventional wheels, that are incredibly light and strong enough to handle landings at airports. The interior isn't too dissimilar to cars on the road today, with screens that display road information when in car mode, and switch to flight info when you take off.
AeroMobil says it should be fully operational by 2020.
Terrafugia TF-X
Engine: Two propellers powered by electric motor pods
The Terrafugia TF-X will have folding-wing technology that will allow it to transform from car to flying vehicle in under a minute. Better still, you won't need to head to an airport to take off, as long as you have a clearing of at least 30 metres in diameter, you'll be good to go. The TF-X will have a complete autopilot mode that will take off, fly and land for you. All you need to do is set the course. Pricing has yet to be announced, but Terrafugia says it will be inline with high-end luxury cars.
Ehang 184
Engine: Four propellers powered by electric motors
Range: 25 minute flight time
The Ehang 184 flies in an inverted U-shape, where you set a designated target (it can only fly short and medium distances) and it will go up, across and back down in a vertical line. It's entirely autonomous, so you won't need to get involved with the actual flying and if it detects any problems, it will automatically land in the closest and safest area.
Aerofex
Aerofex Aero-X
Max Altitude: 10 feet
Engine: Normally aspirated three-rotor rotary engine
Range: 1 hour 15 minutes flight time
The Aerofex Aero-X is essentially a flying bike and looks a little bit like a Landspeeder from Star Wars. It can carry two passengers up to 10 feet off the ground, so not exactly stratospheric heights, but Aerofex sees it being used for search and rescue, border patrol or surveying. Or you can take it to an open area and have some fun. When it launches, Aerofex says it will cost a "fraction of the most basic airplane or helicopter".
Pal-V Liberty
Engine: Wind-powered rotor
Range: 817 miles on the road/310 miles in the air
The Pal-V Liberty is the same size as your average car, so aims to not look out of place on the roads. It can transform from car to gyroplane at the press of a button, allowing you take off to the skies in no time at all. Pal-V says if you're flying and you encounter bad weather, you can land, drive to somewhere safer and take off again. Pal-V hasn't said when the Liberty will go on sale, but you can order the Pioneer edition (of which only 90 will be made) for €499,000. A standard Sport version will be available at a later date for €299,000.
Greg Brown and Dave Fawcett
Max Speed: 550mph in the air/100mph on the road
Max Altitude: 12,000 metres
Engine: 50kWh battery on the road/jet engine in the air
Range: 80-120 miles on the road/700-1000 miles in the air
The GF7 is in a concept stage at the moment, but designers Greg Brown and Dave Fawcett believe it could provide incredibly fast travel between cities. It's powered by a 50kWh battery pack that can be recharged when it's in the air via the jet engine. This removes the need to constantly stop and top up power, providing the constant ability to fly and drive. If and when it's operational, it will cost anywhere between $3-5 million, plus the cost of obtaining a pilot's license.
Airbus/Italdesign
Airbus Pop.Up
Engine: Completely battery powered
The Airbus Pop.Up is a taxi service with a difference. Passengers will be able to book a Pop.Up cab via an app and depending on user knowledge, destination, traffic congestion and other factors, will be sent either a car or a flying vehicle to pick them up. However, if you're in a car on the road and congestion increases, you can request a flying module to come and pick you up. The capsule you sit in can disconnect from the road module and you're lifted away and on to your destination.
When passengers reach their destination, the ground and air modules automatically return to the nearest charging station to await the next booking.
Kitty Hawk Flyer
Engine: Eight electronic rotors
The Kitty Hawk Flyer looks like it will be more of a fun recreational vehicle than car replacement. It's currently only designed to fly short lengths over water for health and safety reasons. Kitty Hawk expects to start selling the Flyer by the end of this year and the company has even been backed by Alphabet CEO Larry Page, so it certainly means business. It can only carry one person at a time, but Kitty Hawk is confident you will be able to pick up flying in minutes as you don't need a pilot's license.
Flike
Engine: Electric/hybrid powertrain
Flike is a tricopter that can carry one person with a weight up to 100kgs, Flike says it is capable of unmanned autonomous flight too. It's claimed to be very easy to fly as the onboard computer does most of the work, however you will need a microlight pilot's license in order to fly it. Flike hasn't put a price on its tricopter yet, but says it will be "comparable to sports cars"
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Amtrak's draft plan calls for 19- and 25-day 'outages' at Penn Station
By DANA RUBINSTEIN
Amtrak’s much-dreaded track "outages" at New York Penn Station this summer are acquiring some detail, at least in tentative form.
For 19 days, beginning July 7 and lasting through July 25, at least some portion of Penn Station could be out of service, according to a preliminary Amtrak engineering plan acquired by POLITICO and dated April 2017.
Another outage, this one lasting 25 days, is tentatively planned for Aug. 4-28, and will result in "significant impacts to service," according to the plan.
The hard-to-decipher plan does not make clear how many or which of the tracks at Penn Station — which Amtrak owns but which also serves NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road — will be affected in either outage.
“Clearly they’re looking at essentially taking some significant portion of the station out of service for almost up to a month. At least they’re exploring it,” said Richard Barone, the Regional Plan Association’s vice president for transportation, who reviewed the plan at POLITICO's request.
The presentation also lists several less-severe, 55-hour outages — the sort that are already typical on weekends — starting in May and June. According to the plan, work on the infrastructure undergirding Penn Station, which has been failing at an alarming frequency in recent weeks, could last until June 2018.
Amtrak has repeatedly declined to say how many tracks will be impacted by outages, or when precisely those outages would be, despite repeated requests from both reporters and lawmakers.
Neither the July 4 holiday, nor Labor Day weekend are listed as outage days, which irks New Jersey state Sen. Bob Gordon, who argued that Amtrak should be taking advantage of days when many commuters don’t have to come to New York City.
“My guess is those are important travel days for Amtrak, and if that’s the case, Amtrak appears to be putting their interests ahead of those of NJ Transit customers,” he said.
Christina Leeds, an Amtrak spokeswoman, said the plan remains a work in progress.
"Amtrak has shared its preliminary Penn Station Infrastructure Renewal plan with NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road. ... We are currently meeting with our commuter partners to develop service schedules that minimize impact on the traveling public when we do the necessary repairs to Penn Station," Leeds said in a statement "We are all committed to making sure the public has the best information possible as far ahead as possible. We will jointly communicate this information once a unified approach has been agreed to.
Nancy Snyder a spokeswoman for NJ Transit, said the agency's operating staff is reviewing the plan "to determine the impact on our customers."
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the LIRR, did not respond to a request for comment.
“It looks like they really are looking at putting some significant amount of work during the summer," Barone said. "It will make for a rather rough commute."
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Dear Ex-Best Friend
Fri, 01/19/2018 - 15:34 -- ggoelz
Dear Ex-Best Friend,
I can’t thank you enough for what you did to me.
Yes, it was selfish and rude and incredibly mean.
How do you break up with your best friend of 4 years?
I wouldn’t have done it quite like you did.
And you never told me why you had to do it.
For a while there I was sad.
Upset.
Confused more than anything.
How did this happen to me?
Do you know what it’s like to feel alone in a school with 2,800 students?
But it’s okay.
I forgive you.
I know you feel guilty about it.
I can tell by the way you avoid me in the halls.
And the false kindness our mutual friends show me in pity.
Because, like I said: Thank You.
You gave me the opportunity to branch out, to become who I truly am.
My benevolent nature no longer chokes under the vines of our friendship.
My faith has grown stronger since you’ve last spoken to me.
Perhaps it is free to fly now that the cage of your friendship has disappeared.
But trust me on this:
I still love you.
There might be resentment, but not hate.
I still remember the good times we’ve had together.
I can see through the taint of our abrupt ending.
Thanks to you I know what it feels like to be alone and broken.
I’ve made it a mission to befriend others who are lonely.
Especially if they’ve never had the comfort a relationship like ours brought.
Because I know how it feels
I’ve taken this bad thing you’ve done to be and used it to help others
So thank you,
Not just from me.
But from the no-longer-lonely.
For otherwise, no one would have cared for them in a school full of people like you.
Without what you did to me, they might not be here today.
--Your Ex-Best Friend
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Mundell signals UK will not be bound by CFP after 2020
by Lindsay Razaq
David Mundell
Scottish Secretary David Mundell has said the UK will not be bound by the EU Common Fisheries Policy beyond the end of 2020 “regardless of what else happens”.
Whitehall sources immediately dismissed any suggestion the Tory frontbencher was making a new announcement and simply restating government policy.
But the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) seized on his remarks as confirmation that fishing would be exempted in the event of any extension to the Brexit implementation period.
It is due to conclude at the end of December 2020, but Theresa May told the Commons last month a short lengthening could be “preferable” as the UK tries to reach a deal with the EU.
This prompted fears CFP rules would in turn apply for longer.
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has insisted he is “invincibly” confident the agreed timetable will be honoured.
The prime minister has stopped short of giving this guarantee, however, although she has said the interests of UK fishermen will be at the “forefront of our thinking”.
If the UK is not negotiating as an independent coastal state by the end of 2020, then it will be locked into CFP terms for another cycle, namely throughout 2021.
Asked about the situation, Mr Mundell said Mrs May “fully appreciates” the issue and is “very clear”.
He added: “I have been very clear with her and she has been very clear with me and indeed my colleagues who have raised this issue.
“The UK will be an independent coastal state at the negotiations in relation to fishing in December 2020, regardless of what else happens.”
The SFF claimed the remarks amounted to a ruling-out of the UK being bound by the CFP beyond December 2020 whatever the circumstances.
Chief Executive Bertie Armstrong described the comments as “much needed and welcome news”, adding: “A delay of even one day means a delay of one year until the next round of annual negotiations…We need to take our seat at the international table.”
Banff and Buchan MP David Duguid told the Press and Journal he could not see “any reason” why the UK could not negotiate as an independent coastal state at the December 2020 council meeting.
He added: “That’s about as categoric on the subject as I have ever heard the secretary of state speak.”
But Whitehall sources played down the significance of Mr Mundell’s remarks, suggesting he made them without any reference to the context of a possible transition extension.
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Collins blasted ‘dark money’ groups in Kavanaugh fight. One just paid to thank her for her vote
Judicial Crisis Network says the ad buy will amount to more than $100,000.
By Eli RosenbergThe Washington Post
Sen. Susan Collins talks to journalists after speaking in favor of Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 5. The jury is still out on which party, if either, the Kavanaugh fight will help in midterms in Maine. Washington Post/Melina Mara
A conservative group that poured more than $5 million into a campaign to defend Brett Kavanaugh launched a new ad buy this week: thanking Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, for her vote supporting the nominee.
“In the midst of the chaos one leader stood out,” one of the Judicial Crisis Network’s ads says. “She did the right thing, supporting him. Thanks Susan Collins, for being a reasonable voice in Washington.”
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The ad ends with a phone number for Collins’ Washington office. The group did not disclose the amount of its ad buy but said it would amount to more than $100,000 for television and digital ads.
Judicial Crisis Network is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization – a so-called “dark money” group because it is not required to disclose the sources of its funding regardless of the industry groups or individual donors behind them. It poured at least $5.3 million into its pro-Kavanaugh advertising campaign, much of it targeting vulnerable Senate Democrats in red and swing states. At least $1.5 million of that was spent defending Kavanaugh after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her allegation of sexual assault against him.
A liberal group of a similar stripe, Demand Justice, spent at least $700,000 of a planned $5 million campaign trying to scuttle Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Both groups represented the intense emotion and political energy generated by Kavanaugh’s nomination and confirmation fight, and both were subject to heated denunciations about how moneyed interests were clouding the debate.
Collins, who was the focus of a sustained effort by activists concerned by the prospect of Kavanaugh’s confirmation on the court, was one of the loudest of these voices. During a 44-minute speech from the Senate floor last week in which she announced her support for Kavanaugh, effectively sealing his confirmation, she lambasted special-interest groups that spent an “unprecedented amount of dark money” to oppose him.
On Friday, she did not immediately respond to a request sent to a spokeswoman about whether she disavowed the use of “dark money” in the campaign to support her.
Collins’ reelection chances in 2020 are already the subject of considerable intrigue. Her reputation as a moderate has taken a hit because of her support of Kavanaugh, a distinctly conservative judge who displayed a level of partisan fury during his hearings that raised questions about his fitness for the Supreme Court.
A group of liberal activists raised more than $3.5 million during the course of the nomination fight to be given to her eventual opponent. And Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s former United Nations ambassador and national security adviser whose family is from Portland, Maine, hinted on Twitter that she could be interested in the seat.
This week, Collins broke party ranks to vote with Democrats in a failed attempt to block a plan touted by the Trump administration for short-term health plans as an alternative to Obamacare.
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NeRRe Therapeutics Raises £23 Million in Oversubscribed Series B Financing Round
NeRRe Therapeutics
05 Jan, 2017, 07:00 GMT
STEVENAGE, England, January 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
- New funds to advance unique neurokinin receptor antagonist pipeline towards late-stage clinical development in common, chronic and debilitating respiratory and women's health conditions
- New investors Fountain Healthcare Partners, Forbion Capital Partners and OrbiMed join existing investors Advent Life Sciences and Novo A/S
NeRRe Therapeutics ('NeRRe'), a clinical-stage company developing a unique portfolio of neurokinin (NK) receptor antagonists for the treatment of common, chronic and debilitating conditions caused by neuronal hypersensitivity, announced it has raised £23 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing round.
The funds will be used by NeRRe to generate Phase 2 data on orvepitant, its lead oral NK-1 antagonist candidate as a potential new treatment for a common, chronic respiratory condition; and to advance NT-814, a dual NK-1,3 antagonist, into Phase 2 trials as a potential non-hormonal treatment of distressing post-menopausal vasomotor symptoms.
The financing round involved a syndicate of leading transatlantic life sciences investors led by new investor Fountain Healthcare Partners, and co-led by Forbion Capital Partners and OrbiMed. Existing investors, Advent Life Sciences and Novo A/S also participated.
Dr Ena Prosser, Partner at Fountain Healthcare Partners; Geert-Jan Mulder MD, General Partner at Forbion Capital Partners; and Dr Iain Dukes, Venture Partner at OrbiMed will join Dr Kaasim Mahmood, General Partner at Advent Life Sciences (Chairman), Dr Mary Kerr, NeRRe's CEO and Jo Craig, Vice-President GSK (Board Observer) on the NeRRe Board of Directors.
OrbiMed's Iain Dukes, formerly Senior Vice President, Business Development & Licensing at Merck & Co., said: "We have been impressed by NeRRe's clear strategy, and are pleased to be involved in funding the company to deliver important Phase 2 clinical data on both of these exciting candidates. We look forward to supporting the company in achieving these aims."
Mary Kerr, NeRRe's CEO, said: "NeRRe is delighted to have attracted such a substantial investment from these high profile life sciences investors. Now that we are fully funded to execute the next phase of development, everyone at the company is focused on moving orvepitant and NT-814 closer to the market for the alleviation of these common, chronic and debilitating conditions."
*Biographies of the Board of Directors can be found at http://www.nerretherapeutics.com
About NeRRe Therapeutics (http://www.nerretherapeutics.com )
NeRRe Therapeutics is a private, UK-based clinical-stage company focused on the development of its unique portfolio of NK receptor antagonists for the treatment of common, chronic and debilitating conditions caused by neuronal hypersensitivity.
NeRRe Therapeutics was founded in 2012 as a spin out from GSK, which transferred its NK antagonist portfolio, including clinical data, toxicity, safety and formulation packages, and all associated IP to NeRRe. NeRRe is led by an experienced management team including Dr Mary Kerr (CEO), formerly SVP and Global Franchise lead at GSK and Dr Mike Trower (Co-founder, CSO/COO), formerly VP & Head of the External Drug Discovery Group in the Neurosciences CEDD at GSK.
NeRRe Therapeutics is backed by leading international life sciences investors: Advent Life Sciences, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Forbion Capital Partners, OrbiMed, and Novo A/S.
NeRRe is based at the state-of-the-art Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (www.stevenagecatalyst.com), the UK's first open innovation bioscience campus.
About Fountain Healthcare Partners
Fountain Healthcare Partners is a life science focused venture capital fund with €176 million ($200 million) under management. Within the life science sector, specific areas of interest to Fountain include specialty pharma, medical devices, biotechnology and diagnostics. The firm deploys the majority of its capital in Europe, with the balance in the United States. Fountain's main office is in Dublin, Ireland, with a second office in New York. www.fh-partners.com
About Forbion Capital Partners
Forbion Capital Partners is a dedicated life sciences venture capital firm with offices in The Netherlands and Germany. Forbion invests in life sciences companies in the pharmaceutical, as well as the medical device space. Forbion's investment team has built an impressive performance track record since the late nineties with successful investments in multiple companies. With the new FCFIII fund, Forbion manages well over EUR 700M across six funds, including the new fund FCF III. Its investors include the EIF through its European Recovery Programme (ERP), LfA and Dutch Venture Initiative (DVI) facilities and the KFW through the ERP - Venture Capital Fondsfinanzierung facility. Forbion also operates a joint venture with BioGeneration Ventures, who manages two separate seed and early stage funds focused on Benelux. For further information please visit www.forbion.com.
About OrbiMed
OrbiMed is a leading investment firm dedicated exclusively to the healthcare sector, with over $14 billion in assets under management. OrbiMed invests globally across the spectrum of healthcare companies, from venture capital start-ups to large multinational companies utilizing a range of private equity funds, public equity funds, royalty/debt funds and other investment vehicles. OrbiMed maintains its headquarters in New York City, with additional offices in San Francisco, Shanghai, Mumbai and Herzliya. www.OrbiMed.com
About Advent Life Sciences
Advent Life Sciences founds and invests in early- and mid-stage life sciences companies that have a first- or best-in-class approach to unmet medical needs. The investing team consists of 16 professionals, each with extensive scientific, medical and operational experience, a long-standing record of entrepreneurial and investment success in the US and Europe, and is particularly focused on supporting entrepreneurs and founders to take innovative new medical entities from concept to approval. The Firm invests in a range of sectors within life sciences, principally drug discovery, enabling technologies and med tech, always with an emphasis on innovative, paradigm-changing approaches. Advent Life Sciences has a presence in the UK, US and France. For more information, please visit www.AdventLS.com
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Russia and the West Must Allow Ukraine to Resolve Crisis
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VADUZ, Liechtenstein, February 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
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THE CRISIS in Ukraine has entered a new and dangerous phase. Although Ukraine is still some way from outright civil war, the absence of any sign of willingness on either side to step back and compromise is worrying, writes Professor Stefan Hedlund, Research Director at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden in World Review.
Moscow is bent on ensuring Kiev does not sign any form of agreement with Brussels, which would mark the end of its own ambitions of restored status as a regional great power. The West in contrast is bent on precluding precisely this from happening.
'The real paradox of this game is that neither side appears to have any desire at all of actually integrating Ukraine,' says Professor Hedlund. 'The Ukrainian economy is now in such a terrible state, and Ukrainian politics so ridden with corruption and infighting, that neither of the two outside powers want anything to do with it.'
The impact on Ukrainian politics of this internally inconsistent tug of war has been devastating. Successive governments have realised that playing Russia and Europe against each other is a winning strategy.
'The track record of broken promises and soured relations has now reached a point where outside interest in the future of the hapless country is just the overriding desire to prevent the other side from gaining the upper hand,' he says.
Only days before the bloodshed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned of disaster and called on both sides to effectively step back and allow Kiev to sort out its own mess.
'There is wisdom in this,' says Professor Hedlund. 'Outside involvement has been part of the problem, not the solution.'
Meanwhile, the situation in Kiev is marked by what is best viewed as the last stand of the Yanukovych regime.
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Switzerland improving tax transparency, OECD finds
Emma Rumney
Switzerland is one of ten countries said to have made sound progress toward greater tax transparency in recent years, according to the OECD.
The nation, notoriously a haven for financial secrets, has been rated as “largely compliant” with the international standard on the exchange of tax information by request, the think-tank announced this week.
It said this “confirms the progress [Switzerland] has made of the past years towards greater transparency and exchange of information”.
However, in order to become fully compliant, Switzerland still needs to improve reporting methods to identify the owner of bearer shares, and modify its practices to enable it to fulfil its obligations to exchange information in regard to requests based on stolen data.
Six other countries were also found to be “largely compliant” with the standard, following a review of the second phase of their implementation of OECD provisions for the exchange of information on request.
They are: Albania, Cameroon, Gabon, Pakistan and Senegal. Reasons for an incomplete compliance rating included requirements to improve supervision and enforcement, the availability of information and problems with organisational processes.
The United Arab Emirates was found to be “partially compliant” due to a significant backlog of unanswered requests, but the OECD noted that the country only established a unit for the exchange of tax information in 2014.
Ukraine and Liberia were both considered to have made sufficient progress to graduate to stage two implementation reviews. There are currently seven jurisdictions that remain blocked from moving on to these due to insufficiencies in their legal and regulatory frameworks.
Overall, the OECD’s Global Forum on Tax Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax purposes has completed 235 peer reviews, and assigned compliance ratings to 101 jurisdictions following phase two implementation reviews.
Twenty-two have been rated “compliant”, 67 as “largely compliant”, and 12 as “partially complaint”.
The OECD said this week’s compliance ratings show that the international community is continuing to move toward greater tax transparency.
The forum’s total membership stands at 135, following Egypt’s recent decision to join.
It is intended to support participating countries in implementing internationally agreed standards on transparency and the exchange of tax information.
It is also working to monitor the progress of countries preparing to engage in the automatic exchange of information, which will start next year.
The ability to interrogate information from other jurisdictions and to cross-reference it with national data, will, it is hoped, make the practice of cross-border tax avoidance much easier to spot, and more difficult to carry out.
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West Indies appoint Clive Lloyd as head of selection panel
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have appointed legendary former captain Clive Lloyd as the new convenor of their selection panel.
Lloyd, who marshalled the Windies to the top of world cricket during his illustrious playing career, will head up a new panel that also includes ex-pacemen Courtney Walsh, West Indies' leading wicket-taker in Tests, and Eldine Baptiste.
Courtney Browne, a former Windies wicketkeeper, has been retained on the panel, together with coach Ottis Gibson and the respective captain as a non-voting member.
Clyde Butts, the previous chairman of selectors, and Robert Haynes move aside as part of the changes, which were approved at a WICB meeting in Antigua last month.
In a statement on Saturday, director of cricket Richard Pybus said: "We welcome the introduction of Clive Lloyd - one of the true legends of West Indies cricket - to the selection panel for the first time.
"We are also glad that an iconic fast bowler like Courtney Walsh, and highly-experienced, former international player and coach like Eldine Baptiste have accepted to perform this important function.
"Courtney Browne is retained on the panel as both selector and regional talent manager with a specialist focus on youth and women's cricket.
"We look forward to their input as we continue to work on building a strong and sustainable cricket system that produces elite cricketers for the West Indies senior teams.
"We thank Clyde and Robert for their commitment and professionalism, and the job they have done in a challenging period in West Indies history and we wish them well in their future endeavours."
West Indies have also announced a 13-man squad for this month's three-match home ODI series against Bangladesh.
Dwayne Bravo will captain the side after recovering from the shoulder injury he picked up in the opening game of the 2014 Indian Premier League.
Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Kemar Roach also return from their respective injuries, with Kieran Powell, Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Smith the men to make way.
West Indies ODI squad to face Bangladesh: Dwayne Bravo (captain), Darren Bravo, Kirk Edwards, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Nikita Miller, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons.
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Anirudh Wable
Mr. Anirudh Wable joined Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care as the Group Head, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions on 12th November 2018.
He brings 12+ years of experience across investment banking and management consulting with a focus on the healthcare sector. Prior to joining RSDH, Anirudh was with Credit Suisse, Singapore as Director, Southeast Asia Corporate Finance and Healthcare Coverage. He has extensive experience in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) as well as capital market transactions. Previously, he was with Credit Suisse in New York as a Vice President in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group working on public and private M&A transactions. Prior to Credit Suisse, he was a management consultant with PRTM / PricewaterhouseCoopers in their U.S. Life Sciences Industry Group.
Anirudh received a Master of Business Administration degree with concentrations in Finance and Accounting from The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business in 2010 and earned a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2003.
Trish Hogan
Trish Hogan joined Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care as the Hospital CEO of Subang Jaya Medical Centre on 29th October 2018.
Trish brings with her more than 30 years of extensive experience in senior positions in various healthcare organizations. Her latest position being the CEO for Pindara Private Hospital including Pindara Day Procedure Center, Short Street Day Surgery and The Southport Private Hospital, in Brisbane, Australia, which is part of Ramsay Healthcare.
During her 10 years of leadership, Pindara was transformed to become a major healthcare facility for the Gold Coast, providing a much broader and complex range of services. The facility has seen a number of developments, amongst others, new theatres, the day endoscopy unit, Specialist Medical Centre, expansion of its Emergency Department and introduced new services like neurosurgery, rehabilitation, mental health, interventional neuroradiology, spinal surgery, paediatrics and renal dialysis. In addition, Trish has forged strong links with the Australian Universities and commenced clinical trials and on site research activities.
Trish earned her Master of Health Administration from the University of New South Wales, Australia and was awarded with Honorary Doctorate from Griffith University in 2017.
Ms. Ch’ng Lin Ling
Ms. Ch’ng Lin Ling joined Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care as the Hospital CEO of ParkCity Medical Centre on 27 February 2012. Ch’ng is a seasoned professional having a diversified and rich experience of 20 years working in various industries. Armed with a Bachelor Degree in Accounting from University of Malaysia, she is a chartered accountant and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).
She started her career as a trainee in Audit & Tax in in KPMG Peat Marwick a few years before she was appointed as an Accountant in Hitachi Semiconductor Malaysia from 1989 – March 1992. She then took up the position as Senior Finance & Operations in a subsidiary of DRB-Hicom from mid-1992 – 1999. Ch’ng moved on to Sunway Medical Centre Berhad as the Financial Controller in 2000 – 2001, promoted as Director of Finance from 2002 – March 2006 before the being appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Sunway Medical Centre from April 2006 to mid-February 2012
With her strength in financial management and strong knowledge of the healthcare operations, Ch’ng was brought in to take over the commissioning of ParkCity Medical Centre. In her current role as the hospital CEO, she plays a key role in the development, implementation and evaluation of patient safety measures. Her responsibility is to ensure that every aspect of how the hospital performs is supervised efficiently, managing the day-to-day operations while leading strategic development initiatives required for long-term success. Some of the areas of responsibility include:
Responsible for delivering the best quality of patient care
Leadership while creating a positive and productive culture
Setting a following standards for operational excellence
Hire and retain qualified staff
Implement clinical procedure and policy
Safeguard required compliance with regulations as well as hospital policies
Develop a relationship with outside organizations, including the medical community, referring physicians, and the media
Deliver strong financial performance
Gregory Scott Brown
Gregory Scott Brown is the Group Chief Executive Offcer of Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care (RSDHC) operations in Asia. Brown succeeds Bronte Kumm, who stepped down from his position on November 1, 2017.
In this role, Brown is responsible for leading the operations of RSDHC which include three hospitals and a college in Malaysia and three hospitals in Indonesia. Brown also oversees the management services and operations of Tree Top hospital in Maldives. He reports directly to the Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Board.
He aims to accelerate RSDHC’s efforts toward improving operations, developing the right approach toward patient care, and to instill greater ‘oneness’ and uniformity in operations across the hospitals truly as ‘one RSDHC’ and in line with the company’s tagline – ‘People caring for people’.
RSDHC is looking at expansion in Malaysia and Asia through potential acquisitions in the near future, a move that will be carried out after strengthening its current operations.
Prior to joining Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care, Brown was the Operations Executive Manager of Ramsay Health Care’s Sydney Metropolitan Hospitals, a role he has served since 2015. There, he oversaw seven high acuity hospitals and four mental health facilities. In 2004 Brown joined North Shore Private Hospital as the CEO and co-jointly served as CEO of North Shore Private Hospital and co-jointly served as CEO of Castlecrag Private Hospital and Hunters Hill Private Hospitals from 2006 and 2013, respectively.
With over four decades of experience in healthcare management, Brown has held several senior management roles in a variety of public and private hospitals throughout New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. Among others, Brown served as General Manager of the Radiology, Pathology and General Practice Division of Alpha Healthcare.
He currently chairs the Breath by Breath Foundation, which raises funds for vital respiratory equipment for hospitals across Australia, and serves as a Director with the Kolling Foundation, the Sydney Neuro Oncology Group, the Lincoln Centre, the North Shore Heart Research Foundation, and the Northern Cancer Institute.
As Operations Executive Manager, Sydney Metropolitan Hospitals
In FY2017, the Sydney Metropolitan hospitals as a group increased their total Net Patient Revenue by $29.5 million and EBIT by $13.2 million year on year 2016 to 2017, which equates to a percent increase of 4.1 and 9.9, respectively. In FY2016, the Sydney Metropolitan hospitals as a group increased their total Net Patient Revenue by $11.7 million and EBIT by $5.4 million year on year 2015 to 2016, which equates to a percent increase of 1.6 and 4.3, respectively.
Development of detailed business rules and monthly KPI reports for operating theatres, CSSD, ICU, and maternity, resulting in imporved effciency and financial performance by focusing on outliers and sharing ideas across hospitals. Some specific examples of this are as follows:
North Shore Private Hospital Operating Theatres – Productive hours per combined operating minute have reduced from 0.1209 in April 2017 to 0.1186 in July 2017 by matching staff starting times with start of operating theatre list. Savings of $18,200.00 per month are being realised.
St. George Private Hospital Maternity – Direct labour cost per productive hour has reduced from $51.38 in March 2017 to $50.40 in July 2017 by reducing agency rate from 8% to 1% by sharing casual staff across the Ramsay Sydney Metropolitan maternity units. Savings of $7,200.00 per month are being realised.
Westmead Private Hospital ICU – The issue identified through benchmarking related to the inappropriate admission of patients to ICU who could not be billed to the health funds as they did not have appropriate interventions. The admission criterion was altered and patients are now receiving appropriate interventions, or they are accommodated on the ward with higher nursing ratios, but not at ICU levels. This has resulted in a decrease of other billable patients and an increase in category C patients. In comparing March to July 2017, other billable days have reduced from 102 to 58. Savings of $21,700.00 per month are being realised.
A number of projects have been introduced in Ramsay Australia, both from a revenue increase and cost-saving perspective, and I have been the executive sponsor for those listed. The increased revenue or savings from these projects are listed below:
Clinical Documentation Specialist – Implemented in May 2017, this project is on track to increase revenue in the Ramsay Australian hospitals by over $8 million in the 2017/2018 financial year.
Prosthesis Opened But Not Implanted – Through the negotiation with the suppliers where they will not charge for items opened in error, which will see this initiative realise savings of over $1.5 million in the 2017/2018 financial year.
Procurement Initiatives – Improved supplier pricing/agreements will see savings in excess of $6.3 million achieved through projects such as newspapers, managed print services, stationary, IV pumps and consumables, endoscopy chemicals, surgical and examination gloves, food costs.
CAFAT Contract – Assisted in the negotiations with the new Caledonian Department of Health to create an exclusivity agreement to treat their patients in either a Ramsay NSW Sydney Metropolitan hospital or a public hospital if the service is not able to be provided by a Ramsay hospital. In March 2017, the contract was finalised and this agreement commenced on April 1, 2017. In the first full year of this agreement, an additional $2.4 million revenue was achieved and this year, the increase will be over $3 million.
Erin Lloyd
Erin Lloyd currently works as the Group Head for Nursing, Quality and Risk for Ramsay Sime Darby Healthcare. She is a Registered Nurse, Midwife, has a Bachelor of Nursing and holds a Masters of Health Management. She has worked for Ramsay Health Care since 1996 in various roles which include: Nurse Unit Manager, Hospital Quality Manager and Medical Services Manager. In 2007 she commenced working for Ramsay Health Care in Indonesia and in July 2013 with the joint venture between Ramsay and Ramsay Sime Darby, this changed to Ramsay Sime Darby Healthcare.
Being part of the Ramsay/Ramsay Sime Darby Healthcare, has provided many opportunities and exciting experiences. Erin’s keen interest in patient safety/accreditation materialized in 2011 when Bintaro Hospital in Jakarta Indonesia, became the fourth hospital in Indonesia, to obtain the US Joint Commission International Accreditation. The subsequent accreditation & re accreditation, of all the three Indonesian Hospitals has been extremely rewarding. Secondly, the development of strong quality teams has also been another milestone in her work both in Indonesia and Malaysia and lastly the upskilling of nursing staff from diploma to degree nurses and the professionalization of nursing have been very satisfying.
Erin moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in July 2015 to commence working across both Indonesia and Malaysia. This has provided more challenges, especially dealing with multiple cultures and increased responsibility. In any effort to respond to the increasing rate of nurse turnover and to further improve Asian Nursing Practice, Erin along with her colleagues made a conscious decision in 2016 to commence the journey towards “American Nursing Magnet Accreditation.”
In her spare time, Erin loves to travel and has been very fortunate to visit many Asian countries. She also likes to entertain and enjoys having colleagues and friends come to her apartment in Ara Damansara.
Family is of major importance to Erin and although they all live far away in Australia, modern communication channels and frequent visits by her family to Indonesia and Malaysia, keep her in close contact.
Norzifiah Aziz
Norzifiah Abd Aziz an experienced financial leader took the post of Group Chief Financial Officer at Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care in April 2012 overseeing Malaysia and Indonesia operations
Known to many as Gee, she brings more than 25 years’ experience in executive leadership, consulting and financial management roles. Her experience in auditing and the diverse roles and positions held in many Multi-National Companies prior to joining Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care has given her a thorough knowledge of the financial issues affecting our health system.
During her tenure at KPMG as a Tax Consultant Gee specialized in mergers and acquisition transactions and served a wide range of clients with a focus on investments in several sectors. She joined Citibank in 1994 as their Treasury & Finance Control Manager. Her portfolio covered treasury, finance and risk and all the aspects of ALM and liquidity management.
In 2010 she joined Digi Telecommunications as the Head of Treasury & Finance Operations. Her role ranged from corporate administration, purchasing, treasury processing, compliance reporting to financial statement reporting, finance operations and telco sales operations.
Building her vast experience in the areas of accounting, treasury and risk management Gee served as the Vice President Group Treasury Operations of Sime Darby Berhad from 2012 and was subsequently appointed as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care prior to the joint venture between Australia’s Ramsay Health Care and Sime Darby Berhad on 27 March 2013.
Gee is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
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Dato’ Dr. Jacob Thomas
Dato’ Dr Jacob Thomas, a medical doctor, has a vast experience in hospital management, having served in various capacities at Subang Jaya Medical Centre, including as its Executive Director from 1998 till 2006. He is currently the Group Medical Advisor of Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care.
Dr Jacob Thomas has also been the President of the Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM) since 2008 and is a member of the Consultative Panel of Healthcare sector of the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC). He serves as a Councilor of the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH), a member of the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC). Dr Thomas today works closely with various
NGOs and Government agencies to promote Malaysian Healthcare both locally and internationally. He is a Steering Committee Member of the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) for Healthcare. An initiative of the Malaysian Government Since July 2013, he holds the position of Chairman of the newly formed Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Group. Dr Jacob has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Joint Commission International (JCI) effective 20 June 2014.
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Hong Kong democracy protesters march to China office
Protest leaders are also mulling a trip to Beijing to press Chinese officials more directly
Published 7:50 PM, November 09, 2014
Updated 7:50 PM, November 09, 2014
Pro-democracy demonstrators give a thumb down to pro-China supporters during march to the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Sheung Wan district, Hong Kong, China, 09 November 2014. Jerome Favre/EPA
HONG KONG – Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters marched on Sunday, November 9, to the Chinese government's offices in the semi-autonomous city, demanding direct talks with Beijing officials after six weeks of mass street rallies.
Demonstrators have been camped out on three major road junctions across the financial hub since September 28, calling for free leadership elections in 2017.
China insists that candidates for the city's top post must be vetted by a loyalist committee, which protesters say will result in the election of a pro-Beijing stooge.
Nearly 1,000 protesters marched from a park in the central financial district to Beijing's liaison office several miles away, some holding a banner reading: "We demand dialogue with the central government."
Protest leaders have asked to meet Beijing officials after talks with the local government in Hong Kong last month failed to bear any fruit.
Local officials offered tentative concessions to the protesters, saying they would file a report to Beijing about recent events and suggesting that both sides set up a committee to discuss further political reform beyond 2017. Neither idea met with much enthusiasm from the demonstrators.
"Students were showing good faith that if the Hong Kong government can't handle this, why don't we get in touch with the central authorities to discuss whether or not we can narrow the differences," said Joshua Wong, a teenage activist who has become one of the most prominent faces of the pro-democracy movement.
"But so far, we've been given the cold shoulder."
Protest leaders have been mulling a trip to Beijing to press Chinese officials more directly.
The Hong Kong Federation of Students, which has been at the vanguard of the protests, has ruled out mooted plans to try to gatecrash this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which will see global leaders including US President Barack Obama gather in Beijing.
A later trip to Beijing is still under consideration, although it is not clear whether activists would be allowed to travel there.
Hong Kong student group Scholarism said on Friday that one of its members had been turned back trying to cross the Chinese border, with officials saying he had taken part in "activities that jeopardize national security".
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In Beijing Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping voiced support for Hong Kong's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying and his handling of the protests, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
China "fully affirms and supports" Leung's efforts to safeguard the rule of law and maintain social order, Xi told Leung, who is in Beijing to attend APEC.
Some protesters in Hong Kong marched on Sunday holding yellow umbrellas, a symbol of the democracy movement, while others shouted: "I want true democracy!"
A line of police officers watched from within the complex as the demonstrators tied yellow ribbons to the gates of the Chinese government office.
A British colony until 1997, Hong Kong enjoys civil liberties not seen on the communist-ruled mainland.
But fears have been growing that these freedoms are being eroded, while growing frustrations over the city's huge wealth gap have also fed the protests. – Rappler.com
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A beautifully refreshed and expanded special edition of the Sibert Award–winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina.
Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six—and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance classes at the School of American Ballet, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet while working with ballet legend George Balanchine.
Part family history, part backstage drama, this beautifully updated graphic memoir—which features a refreshed design and a brand-new scrapbook of Siena’s mementoes—is an original, firsthand look a young dancer’s beginnings.
To Dance
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Maintenance worker killed at FCA-PSA Italian joint venture Sevel
MILAN (Reuters) - A maintenance worker was killed on Friday at a plant of Italian light commercial vehicles maker Sevel, according to a spokesman for Fiat Chrysler (FCHA.MI), which operates the unit under a joint venture agreement with France’s PSA (PEUP.PA).
The worker was employed by a subcontractor for Fiat Chrysler’s Comau industrial automation unit, the spokesman said. The FIOM union said he died during maintenance work carried out while production was halted.
Fiat Chrysler said it was cooperating with authorities to determine the causes of the “tragic and exceptional” incident at the plant, which assembles the Ducato light commercial vehicle in Atessa in central Italy.
FIOM called for urgent action and said it was unacceptable that workers should risk injury or even their lives at work.
In October, workers at a Fiat Chrysler factory in Cassino went on strike after a worker died while moving a mould in the cold press area of the plant as part of standard operating procedure.
Last month, Fiat Chrysler finalised an accord with Peugeot maker PSA to complete a tie up to create the world’s fourth-largest automaker.
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Panasonic Lumix G7 Digital Camera Review
A fully loaded Lumix with 4K on a budget...Yes, please!
Written and Tested by Chris Thomas
When picking a body for the long haul, you're often faced with a frustrating dilemma. While it's tempting to grab an older, discontinued camera, you may feel left behind by the breakneck pace of technology. If you shell out for the high-end option, you run the risk of it being obsolete in less than a year.
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The Panasonic Lumix G7 ($799.99 with 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 kit option) is a shockingly good solution for this exact issue. It offers just enough cutting-edge features to hang with today's top-of-the-line cameras, while still coming in at an extremely consumer-friendly price point.
Other cameras below $1,000 generally don't have all of the features the G7 does; things like 4K video, an articulating screen, access to a huge lens library, or high performance rarely all combine in one camera model. $800 may not exactly seem like a "value" proposition, but it's probably the smartest money you can spend if you're looking for a "serious" camera without the "serious" price.
Any way you slice it, this is an awesome camera. Not only does it offer a lot of features, but it does them right. With high marks across the board, it's tough to argue with the G7's performance—save for white balance.
Pint-sized powerhouse
The G7 has one clear goal: deliver an enthusiast experience in an surprisingly light, portable package. Not only does the G7 bring many of pro-oriented features found on cameras like Panasonic's flagship-level GH4, but it also brings a few new features to the table.
The body design of the camera is fairly similar to Panasonic's other high-end mirrorless cameras, though it's much more svelte in the middle and extremely light. On the top you'll find dual control wheels, a shooting mode dial, drive mode dial, and a rather satisfying power switch. While multiple dials might be intimidating for a beginner, don't worry: the G7's control scheme easy to grasp but offers plenty of options that'll help you grow as a photographer. It gives you all the tools to dive right in, and plenty of customization once you feel more confident.
Pros will love the focus mode selector placed on the back of the camera. It sits right where your thumb rests—letting you quickly override the autofocus if you're having trouble getting the perfect shot. If you're a novice, this switch is sufficiently out of the way enough that you won't accidentally hit it.
Powering the whole show is a 16-megapixel Micro Four Thirds sensor with a new Venus Engine processor. This allows the G7 to process the enormous amounts of data required to shoot 4K video, and use ISO speeds up to 25,600. The Venus Engine also enables modes that allow you to pull 8MP stills while shooting video, using Panasonic's unique 4K photo modes.
A beefy drive mode dial lets you switch things up on the fly.
On the back of the G7 is a slew of buttons, including programmable keys, a control cluster that doubles as a directional pad, and a wonderful articulating screen. The display is a 1,040k-dot LCD that can flip out, up, down—basically anywhere you could possibly want it to be. This is a great thing to have if you want to shoot over crowds, around corners, or even in a professional capacity with video. We're starting to see more cameras with this capability, and it's no secret why—it enables shooters in many important ways.
Also on the back is the 2,360k-dot electronic viewfinder. The eye cup surrounding it isn't very plush or comfortable, but it's tolerable. While pros are more likely to gravitate to the viewfinder, features like focus peaking and magnification are also available on the rear display. You can't go wrong no matter what shooting style you prefer, though using the viewfinder is far better for bright days when glare makes shooting with the LCD impossible.
An articulating LCD is a great feature for videographers and stills shooters alike.
For videographers, there's a mic port on the left side of the body, and an HDMI port on the right. While these aren't the fully-fleshed out options you can find on Panasonic's GH4, but they're solid additions. If you do shoot video, you won't get tired after long sessions because the camera is just so damn light. The only notable omissions are a headphone jack and compatability with Panasonic's high-end YAGH accessory. This limits your options if you're a pro, but it's not something that should enter into the equation for anyone else.
Overall, it's very easy to see that Panasonic spent a lot of time polishing this camera. While some might find the plastic a bit too chintzy, to me it feels more like Panasonic tried to combine the best features of a DSLR-like body with the weight reduction of a mirrorless camera. That "best of both worlds" approach is great to see, and it's a real win for the G7.
In our labs, the G7 was able to resolve well over 2000 line widths per picture height with the help of a bit of software oversharpening. Really though, the extra bit of help the camera gives itself isn't enough to cause many headaches when you go pixel peeping.
If we must pick nits, it'll be over the mild haloing visible when you blow shots up to 200% on your computer screen. At that point, you're really just splitting hairs, so why bother?
I will say that it does matter which lens you pair the G7 with quite a bit. Though the sensor itself is very capable, you're going to want a Micro Four Thirds option that can keep up. If you get blurry shots with the camera, it's not the fault of the G7.
The G7 has you covered
If you're worried that an $800 camera might not have all the accoutrements of a modern mirrorless shooter, your fears are unwarranted. This thing has just about everything you could want in a compact system camera, including WiFi, loads of scene modes, and a heavy emphasis on 4K shooting. Panasonic knows how competitive in this part of the market can be, and focusing on video is the right move.
Panasonic knows how competitive this part of the market can be, and focusing on video is the right move.
Beyond the camera itself, the G7 also has access to the entire Micro Four Thirds lens library—no small advantage to have. Not only is there a vast number of lenses available, but there are some pretty special pieces of glass out there for the system. Even third party options like the Sigma 60mm f/2.8 ART will work famously with the G7.
Not getting the focus you want? A flick of the thumb toggles manual focus.
Social shutterbugs will appreciate the WiFi options, though compared to just shooting on your phone they're super clunky and take time to get working right. Where other companies have adapted things like NFC pairing down, this camera requires you to go through the laborious process of pairing over WiFi manually. Once you have the camera paired to your smartphone, though, you can share photos from your camera to smartphone with relative ease. You can also set your G7 up and use your phone to shoot remotely.
Once you've gone through that, Panasonic's rather unimaginatively-named "Image App" does offer you a surprising level of control. You can change focus, picture settings, and even modes with the app. It's a powerful convenience feature if you find that you're always missing from family shots because you wind up being the dedicated photographer (eg; me).
However, the best feature is, without a doubt, Panasonic's 4K photo modes. The G7 even has a brand new feature called 4K burst, with three sub-modes. Essentially, this allows you to use the shutter button to rapid-fire 8-megapixel stills—the same size as 4K video as you shoot it. With this you just have to frame and shoot, and then you can easily yank a still of the exact right moment after the fact.
As I mentioned before, there are three sub-modes here. Regular ol' 4K burst will snap stills while you hold down the shutter release as you take video, and stop when you release the button. 4K "start and stop" is similar: press once to begin and then again when the action is over. But the real star of the show here is 4K pre-burst. If you narrowly miss a moment, pushing down the shutter button will save 60 frames of action: 30 after you hit the shutter, and 30 before you hit the shutter button. Cool, huh?
Looks like a DSLR, but there's no mirror in this body.
The only minor letdown here is that the G7 does skimp a bit on the 4K video shooting—compared to the pricy GH4. You can output the uncompressed 4K footage to an external recorder via the HDMI port, but you can't get 10-bit 4K or 200mbps 1080p like you can with the GH4. Video still looks great, but it's one area where the GH4 surges ahead. Not only will video shot on the GH4 have better color fidelity, but it'll also have less noise and more dynamic range.
Noise performance is great on the G7. While its default noise reduction algorithm is a tad aggressive, you won't really see any garbage data in your snaps until you use ISO 12800, at which point the noise reduction of the G7 will also make your snaps less detailed by destroying fine lines in the name of noise reduction.
Given that we routinely praise cameras for keeping it together until ISO 6400, we're willing to give the G7 a pat on the back here. We've seen cameras do some truly horrific things to snaps in the name of killing noise, so having usable shots up to ISO 12800 is no small feat—especially for a Micro Four Thirds camera.
Though it doesn't boast the best dynamic range we've ever seen in a camera, the Panasonic G7 hangs tough with its competitors. Offering near 8 stops of high-quality DR at base ISO (200), you can expect your shots to handle editing well.
Even if you need to push your ISO speeds a bit, the camera doesn't produce shots with 0 stops of high-quality dynamic range until ISO 12800. Meaning: even shots taken at ISO 6400 will look acceptably good. That gives you a bit more flexibility than many other Micro Four Thirds shooters, and it's a refreshing thing to see.
There's a steady dropoff of dynamic range from ISO 200 to ISO 6400 by about a stop per ISO stop, though the loss of DR from ISO 400 to 800 is a little more severe at two stops lost.
Forget about your camcorder; it's obsolete
The Micro Four Thirds movement has a storied—if relatively short—past, and this model fits right in. Though it has a somewhat small pixel count, this camera is a video and stills hybrid monster. Not only can it call upon the entire Micro Four Thirds lens library, but it's one of the best performing Micro Four Thirds cameras out there—even some of the older high-end models.
Our lab tests and hands-on experience only cement that impression. The images are sharp, color accuracy is spot-on, and the dynamic range is fantastic for a camera at this price point. Really, if there's a weak point, it's the white balance—which is merely decent compared to Panasonic's typical excellence.
The G7's color accuracy is fantastic, but sometimes adding in a little oversaturation is just what the doctor ordered.
Best of all, the G7 really sings with the right lens. There are plenty of great options out there for Micro Four Thirds shooters, and grabbing a high-end kit replacement like the Panasonic GX Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 ASPH will give you unbelievably sharp shots. On top of that, the 4K footage shot by the G7 is among the sharpest we've seen to date, right up there with the GH4.
Stabilization is quite good here, too. However, the downside is that you'll need a Panasonic lens with optical image stabilization in order to make use of it—unlike the new GX8. It's one of the few minor downsides here, but if you do get a stabilized lens, the G7 knocks stills out of the park. You'll be able to take snaps that have longer shutter speeds without any noticeable blur (unless your subject moves). If you can't get a Panasonic OIS-enabled lens, you're going to want fast prime lenses.
Manual focus is a great last resort when the autofocus hunts, but sometimes focus peaking gets confused by high-frequency lines like spiderwebs.
Outside of raw performance, there are a few things that might get in your way. For example, shooting 4K video means needing a new, faster UHS-3 SDXC card. You're going to need one that can handle extremely high write speeds. If you don't use a card like this, you'll find that burst capacity is very low, along with severe troubles with getting your camera to record the video you want. For example, a regular old class 10 card is only going to keep up for a second or two with video or high-speed stills.
Even without a stabilized lens, you'll be able to shoot 4K/30p or 1080p/60p video without too much trouble. Your video clips will look great, and you'll probably wonder why anyone uses a camcorder anymore. Though the camera uses the aging h.264 AVCHD standard, it'll be relatively painless to mess around with—unlike the h.265 used by cameras like the Samsung NX500.
Color accuracy too, is a strong suit of the Panasonic G7. With a ∆C 00 saturation error of 2.12 and an overall saturation of 108.8%, you can expect your snaps to be virtually perfect to the naked eye.
You may notice a bit of de-saturation in yellows and yellow-greens, but otherwise the color performance is great. That is, until you leave daylight.
If you often find yourself in incandescent or mixed lighting, you're probably going to want to avoid using automatic white balance—or just shoot in RAW. If you don't, you can look forward to color temperature errors in your shots of up to 2000 kelvin—leaving a yellow-orange cast over your picture. In fluorescent light, this problem is much less pronounced, but you may notice a slight greenish hue (error of about 300 kelvin).
On a budget but refuse to compromise? This is the camera for you.
Simply put: This is a fantastic camera. Not only does it soundly kick butt performance-wise, but if you care about video this is perhaps the best value around. That may change soon, but as it sits now you're not doing better for the money. The G7 is essentially a diet GH4. If you're looking for a camera that offers greater performance than your entry-level options, but doesn't cost as much as what the pros use—this is the camera you're looking for.
For the moment, there's no better way to get 4K video on a budget than with the G7. That's all there is to it.
If you want to explore your options, you could also look to the APS-C crowd including the Sony A6000, Nikon D5500, or Samsung NX30. But the G7 not only hangs with all of these—but it comes with vastly better video features.
Even if you're willing to spend a little more to get the camera of your dreams, you're still going to be making tradeoffs. Adventurists who need weather sealing will probably elect to go with a higher-end Olympus offering like the OM-D E-M5 mark II or OM-D E-M1, but losing 4K video capabilities among other features is going to be a tough pill to swallow.
In truth, the G7's closest competitor in terms of price, performance, and features is the Samsung NX500. But for all the NX500's strengths, it just doesn't have as large a lens selection, and its 4K usability is better suited to 2016 or 2017 than it is today. Ultimately, the G7 is the ideal compromise for anyone that wants 4K video, superb stills quality, and doesn't want to spend a boatload. Now that I think about it: that's not much of a compromise at all.
To put it bluntly, this camera is an absolute animal when it comes to video. Not only does it support 4K/30p video in a file format that can be read by most computers without much cajoling by codec packs, it does fantastically well.
In bright light, the G7's sensor can resolve about 1600 line pairs by picture height in both horizontal and vertical motion, which is patently bonkers for a consumer-grade camera. And that's just the 4K shooting mode. If you don't have a 4K monitor, you can do your video plenty of favors by downsampling your clips to 1080p.
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Even in motion, the G7 records seriously sharp video.
In low light (60lux), this number drops to just (just?) 1250 LP/PH in both horizontal and vertical motion, but there's a catch. When the light is low, you'll find that either the shutter speeds are too slow for your clips (and cause blurring), or the auto ISO will ramp up the noise quite a bit. This is an extremely capable sensor, but bright light will always be better than low light.
If you do find yourself in the dark, this camera can record a 50 IRE picture all the way down to 3 lux. This is mighty impressive for a Micro Four Thirds camera, but it's possible that this won't be the case with all of the kit options. Be sure to use this camera with a wide-aperture lens for best results here.
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Las Vegas TV personality empowers women after weight loss
Rosie Mercado’s life is overflowing with the types of ups and downs that could occupy Dr. Phil McGraw for an entire sweeps week.
By Christopher Lawrence / Las Vegas Review-Journal
September 1, 2018 - 12:14 pm
From left, Mary Chrzanowski, Dr. Judy Ho, Vivica A. Fox, Rosie Mercado and Areva Martin host the daytime series "Face the Truth." (Sonja Flemming/CBS)
From left, Mary Chrzanowski, Dr. Judy Ho, Areva Martin, Rosie Mercado and Vivica A. Fox star in "Face the Truth." (Sonja Flemming/CBS)
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Instead, the Las Vegas model, who once lost a staggering 249 pounds, has rechanneled those experiences into expertise as a panelist on “Face the Truth,” an upcoming daytime talk show that McGraw executive produces.
“I’ve gone through divorce, heartbreak, been cheated on,” Mercado recalls. “My son has special needs. I’ve gained a lot of weight, lost a lot of weight. I’ve lost my businesses, had no money. Built my career, educated myself, put in hard work. I’m a single mom raising three kids. I’m Latina. I’m bilingual. I mean, you name it. I understand a lot of those perspectives.”
Debuting Sept. 10 and airing locally at 1 p.m. daily on KVVU-TV, Channel 5, the nationally syndicated series features guests seeking help with their most vexing problems from host Vivica A. Fox and her “Truth Team.” A sort of “Charlie’s Angels” of self-help, the panel comprises Mercado, who also works as a life coach, as well as attorney Areva Martin, psychologist Dr. Judy Ho and retired Michigan judge “Scary Mary” Chrzanowski.
“Our biggest thing is not going in there to criticize,” Mercado says of her role while driving to Hollywood to tape another week’s worth of shows. “If we’re going to offer some constructive criticism, we want to offer solutions. It’s about facing the truth. It’s about facing your own fears, your own demons, your own worries, your own stories you created and really helping you get out of where your deepest fears are.”
The words come rushing out of her mouth, almost as if, tired of being cooped up, they saw an opening and made a break for it all at once.
‘My happy moment’
“Face the Truth” is the latest step in an entertainment career that Mercado, 38, once assumed was out of reach.
“I was so overweight,” she reflects. “I wanted to get into TV when I was younger, but Univision and Telemundo kept saying, ‘You have a beautiful face, but from the shoulders down, you’re just not ready. You’re just not quite where we need you to be.’ ”
While she was attending Bishop Gorman, Mercado won tickets to see singer Alejandro Fernandez from a local Spanish-language radio station. Although her parents are from Mexico, Mercado couldn’t speak proper Spanish at the time, a fact that, combined with her personality, made her a hit with listeners. She soon started working at the station, where she was taught voice-over work, improvisation and how to deliver the morning news and weather. The biggest lesson, Mercado says, was how to be “open and raw and just being comfortable in my own skin when I’m speaking.”
“That was,” she says, “my happy moment.”
‘A steppingstone’
Her lowest moment was another life-changer.
In 2011, Mercado was attempting to fly from Las Vegas to New York to shoot the plus-sized modeling reality series “Curvy Girls” when, in a very public way, she was forced to buy a second seat on the plane.
“I was pulled in front of everybody and made fun of because I was overweight,” she says. “They put a sign next to me, you know, this seat is taken, because I had to buy two.”
For years, Mercado had tried to mask her pain and low self-esteem by eating. She weighed as much as 424 pounds.
“There were some really good-looking gentlemen laughing at me,” she says of the nightmarish scenario, although the word “gentlemen” is a pretty substantial misnomer.
“It was a moment that I was going to either get stuck and stay there and be victimized by that moment and hide and not do anything, or I was going to use it as a steppingstone to rise above that situation. And that’s what I chose to do.”
After years of being bullied and being made to feel less than, Mercado brought her weight down to 175 pounds. During yet another trying time in her life, she gained back 25 of those pounds before settling at her current weight of 190.
That range, 175 to 190 pounds, is what Mercado refers to as “my happy place.”
“It wasn’t so much about proving everybody wrong,” she says of her transformation, “but proving to myself that I was capable and more than worthy to achieve what I wanted to do, which was have a national platform that really contributes back and helps women and inspires them and creates breakthroughs.”
To that end, Mercado’s memoir/self-help book detailing her struggles and how she overcame them will be published next year by HarperCollins.
“I think the biggest thing that I can do is share my vulnerability — when I’m doing good and when I’m doing bad,” she says.
“Face the Truth” offers her a daily outlet to do just that, while helping women turn their lives around. Unlike many of its daytime counterparts, Mercado says her show does that in a way that’s free of harmful criticism.
“Look, we’ve got enough people in the world judging us,” she says, drawing upon her decades of being judged. “What we need is solutions.”
Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4567. Follow @life_onthecouch on Twitter.
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Your guide to the 2019 holiday movie season
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You know you’re in for a wild couple of months at the movies when the phrase “Oscar buzz for Adam Sandler” isn’t the most jarringly discordant thing you’ll encounter.
Las Vegas expected to boost energy of ‘Live With Kelly and Ryan’
The show will record four episodes on Sunday and Monday at Paris Las Vegas with guests including Carrot Top, Christina Aguilera and Criss Angel.
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Digitising the CHRISTMAS LECTURES: vote for us!
The Ri’s proposal to digitise our archive of CHRISTMAS LECTURES has been nominated for the EMC Heritage Trust Project 2014. Now we need your votes to help us make happen.
The CHRISTMAS LECTURES
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The Royal Institution needs your help. We are finalists in the EMC Heritage Trust Project and in the running to be awarded a grant to digitise our fantastic and valuable archive of CHRISTMAS LECTURES. The final decision is based on which project gains the largest number of votes, so we need you to click here and vote for us!
The CHRISTMAS LECTURES have long been a tradition at the Royal Institution since they started in 1825. Great names in science like Michael Faraday, John Tyndall, James Dewar, Frank Whittle, Lawrence Bragg and George Porter have stood in the Ri lecture theatre and imparted their scientific knowledge to enthusiastic audiences of children. Since 1966 these lectures have been broadcast on national television and the recordings form a priceless part of the heritage of modern Britain and the Ri. Over the last few years we have started to make available these past recordings through our Ri Channel. Children and adults alike are able to recapture the scientific imagination of Professors such as Eric Laithwaite, Carl Sagan, Chris Bishop, Mark Miodownik and Alison Woollard. However there are many more of the 48 series since 1966 which are still on original 16mm film rolls within the archive of the Ri waiting to be digitised and there are also many series where no known original film exists.
The Ri has been lucky enough to be nominated for the EMC Heritage Trust Project 2014. If we win we are hoping to use the funds to digitise our remaining collections of Christmas Lecture as well as aim to track down the precious missing films, thereby making a unique resource of scientific education available to all online. To achieve this however we need your votes.
The EMC Heritage Trust Project recognizes and supports organisations worldwide that advocate the digitisation, preservation and improved access to significant cultural resources. We are up against 6 other sterling projects so every vote counts. If you would like to see more classic children, science and the occasional animal interactions then please click here and vote. The deadline is August 15, so get in quick!
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[[image:King-Tri-Ralpachen-1.jpg|frame||'''King Tri Ralpachen''']] '''King Tri Ralpachen''' (Tib. ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་, [[Wyl.]] ''khri ral pa can'') also known as '''Tritsuk Detsen''' (Tib. ཁྲི་གཙུག་ལྡེ་བཙན་, Wyl. ''khri gtsug lde btsan'' (9th century, 806–838<ref>As given by Derek F. Maher in his translation of Shakabpa's political history</ref>) — one of the [[three ancestral religious kings]] and one of King [[Trisong Detsen]]'s grandsons.<Ref>It is said that he did not like to cut his hair and so he was called Ralpachen which means 'the one with locks of hair'.</ref> He ruled Tibet from 815 until 838, when he was assassinated. Trisong Detsen had three sons—the oldest was [[Mune Tsepo]], the middle one [[Murub Tsenpo|Murup Tsepo]], and the youngest [[Mutik Tsepo]]. All three spread the Buddhist teachings in Tibet. Tri Ralpachen was one of the five sons of Mutik Tsepo and was said to be an emanation of [[Vajrapani]]. He was extremely devoted to the teachings of the [[Buddha]] and is famous for having built one thousand temples. He invited many scholars from India, like [[Surendrabodhi]], [[Shilendrabodhi]], [[Danashila]]. And to them and the learned masters from Tibet such as Ratnarakshita and Dharmadashila, as well as the [[lotsawa]]s [[Shyang Yeshé Dé|Jñanasena]] and so on, he said: “When the teachings were translated at the time of my forefathers, the scholars used many terms unknown to the Tibetan language. Change those which contradict the teachings or the rules of grammar, and those which are difficult to understand preferably by using familiar terms of colloquial Tibetan. Revise in this way the translations of the [[Mahayana]] and [[Hinayana]] texts.” Accordingly they revised the translations, such as those of the [[Prajñaparamita]]. Yet since the meaning of the [[inner tantras]] cannot be grasped by ordinary persons they did not revise them. ==Notes== <small><references/></small> ==References== Based on the ''History of the Dharma'' by [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] (Wyl. ''bdud 'joms chos 'jung'').'' [[Category:Kings]] [[Category:Historical Figures]]
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Exploring Entrepreneurs
In a course that explores the business of art as a design problem, Illustration faculty memberOren Sherman 78 IL helps students to bridge the gap between what goes on in the studio and the practical concerns of marketing, employment and business savvy.
In a course that explores the business of art as a design problem, Illustration faculty memberOren Sherman 78 IL helps students to bridge the gap between what goes on in the studio and the practical concerns of marketing, employment and business savvy. CalledEntrepreneur, Sherman’s class has evolved in recent years – meaning it doesn’t just walk artists through the ABCs of mission statements and business plans, it helps students to better position themselves and their work by drawing on the greatest asset they already have: design thinking.
“I’m always stunned seeing kids really tackle a business problem as a design problem and seeing what they do with it,” says Sherman. “A big part of what RISD has been about for a long time is this lifelong obsession with the crafted object – the things we make. But to me, what really makes RISD RISD isn’t just the crafting skills. It’s the thought processes.”
Starting this fall, Entrepreneur will be more fully woven into the curriculum, offered as an interdisciplinary course co-taught by Sherman and Bill Foulkes, an adjunct faculty member in Graduate Studies. In introducing students to business basics, the course will challenge them to develop a studio project as a formal business, complete with market analysis and the exploration of issues such as competition, finance, operations and marketing. It’s open to students in Illustration, Graphic Design and Industrial Design and there’s already a waiting list.
The key is creative thinking
“In a lot of circles the idea is finally starting to catch on that it’s not that there’s art over here and business over there. It’s all creative thinking,” says Sherman, who worked for years as a commercial illustrator before reshaping his freelance business into one with an emphasis oncustom artwork and textiles. “Artists can be brilliant marketers if you pose business challenges to them as design problems.”
In last spring’s studio, Sherman asked students to rebrand RISD – a challenge that led in a number of different directions, from a proposal for a traveling RISD pop-up gallery to products like a custom-designed RISD app that would allow students to quickly access campus-related information from their smartphones. “The deliverables weren’t just objects,” Sherman says. “It was about a beautifully explained thought process.” Other student projects included objects made from sustainable materials and campaigns to tie the sale of artwork to disaster relief.
Like previous iterations, the latest round of Entrepreneur helped launch graduating students in new and unexpected career directions, Sherman reports. Many of the award-winning artists, designers and entrepreneurs who visited as guest speakers also gave students leads to internships, interviews and jobs.
Among the participating professionals were John Lloydof Magnet Inc., a specialist in branding and marketing strategy who has worked for organization such as the Metropolitan Opera;Mark Pollack 76 TX, founder and principal of the high-end New York-based textiles firm POLLACK;Joe Ginsberg, head of the interior design firm Tempo Home, whose corporate clients include Sony, Dreamworks, Izod and Steuben Glass; andAndy Cutler,founder of the Providence strategic communicationsfirm Cutler& Company, who helped connect each student in the class with personal contacts in the local entrepreneurial community. Other speakers included RISD’s legal counselSteve McDonald, who offered a primer on copyright law, RISD Trustee Michael Spalter, who champions the digital arts, and Foulkes.
Nationally, recent studies have already begun to dismantle traditional stereotypes about students in the arts failing to find success after college. Last spring a study by theStrategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) found that despite the myth of the struggling artist, graduates of arts programs are likely to find opportunities, good compensation and satisfaction in pursuing creative careers.
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Robert Courts MP
MP for Witney & West Oxfordshire
My Plan for West Oxon
Improving the A40
Since being elected, I have campaigned tirelessly to ensure that we finally address the issue of congestion on the A40.
Making West Oxfordshire's Railways Fit for the Future
People across West Oxfordshire rely on our railways to get to work and to visit family and friends. With heavy congestion on our main roads, it is essential that we have railways that are fit for the future and a transport system that keeps us moving.
On 23rd June 2016 the British people took the historic decision to leave the European Union. The EU referendum was the largest democratic exercise in our nation's history, with more people voting to leave the European Union than have voted for any party or prime minister in history.
Encouraging More People to Get Involved With Their Community
We are lucky in West Oxfordshire to have so many volunteers and groups who want to get involved and make their local community a better place. Since becoming your MP, I have made a strong effort to highlight all the fantastic work they do; it is these community groups that really are the glue th
Protecting and Preserving our Environment for Generations to Come
As a keen conservationist, environmental issues are a priority of mine in Parliament and in West Oxfordshire. One of the reasons West Oxfordshire is so special is the beautiful countryside which surrounds us and the diverse wildlife that inhabits it.
To Raise and Push for Rural Issues in Parliament
As a representative in Parliament for a largely rural constituency, I am acutely aware of a wide variety of issues and concerns which come with modern, rural living. Be that transport links, mobile signal, internet connections and rural schools and shops, and of course wider issues for those who
Future of Oxfordshire's Healthcare
Local healthcare services are important to us all: doesn’t everyone want to know that, if a loved one falls ill, they will receive the very best care?
Maintaining the Highest Levels of Animal Welfare Across the UK
I am proud that the UK already has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world - and these have increased substantially under this Government.
Promote the Benefits of Community Transport
With the geography of our area, many people have to rely on community transport to get to where they need to go, be that to work or the doctors or to visit friends or go shopping.
High Speed Broadband in West Oxfordshire
Fast, reliable broadband for local homes and businesses is not a luxury, it is essential. It is a necessity for our ever-growing businesses and for those in isolated villages to remain connected.
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RPMGlobal unveils XECUTE enhancements to expand short-term planning across the mining value chain
RPMGlobal (RPM) has released a raft of comprehensive upgrades to its advanced mine scheduling software — XECUTE— underpinning increased optimisation across the entire mining value chain.
XECUTE is RPM’s short-term scheduling solution that enables miners to maximise value by using intelligent integration to connect planning with other departments within a mining operation.
RPM has experienced a significant uptick in the adoption of XECUTE in the past 18 months, with the solution now operational across iron ore, coal, oil sands, manganese, gold and copper mines. One of the major reasons for this adoption is the unique Product Optimiser functionality which continues to deliver a key planning advantage to users.
Product Optimiser determines the optimal way to process, blend and stockpile products to maximise value from what is about to be mined. The latest XECUTE release includes upgraded optimiser functionality providing further enhancements when integrated as part of the short-term schedule.
RPM’s Chief Technology Officer Paul Beesley said “XECUTE’s rapidly growing customer base was helping to expedite and expand product functionality.”
“The increasing sophistication of XECUTE’s functionality means XECUTE is now capable of going beyond simply planning extraction from the pit. It can now provide optimisation across the entire value chain,” he said.
XECUTE provides planners with a set of tools that allow users to make dynamic adjustments to mining operations and visualise the impact of these adjustments to mine production as well as the entire downstream value chain. This means that a planner can make decisions based on the impact of planning decisions on not just production in the next shift but also alignment to longer term plans on processing, transport, and shipping.
“With the ability to incorporate processing facilities, transportation and shipments into an XECUTE schedule, the value the robust solution brings to the pit-to-port capability is significantly bolstered,” Mr Beesley said.
RPM’s coal customers will also have increased support with the introduction of coal wash plant features. This functionality allows the planner to schedule the whole way through the plant rather than stopping at the Run Of Mine. This becomes particularly valuable in a multi-product operation and is currently being implemented at one of the worlds most sophisticated coal blending and processing operations.
XECUTE’s innovative architecture means that real-time data is made available through any connected source. By enabling users to have a better understanding of the economic value produced from a commodity, miners are better placed to make decisions about crucial impacts that are generally outside their control.
By way of an example, XECUTE facilitates short term planners visualising changes in the pit through live integration to Fleet Management Systems / High Precision GPS and Drill systems. Deviations from the plan are therefore identified immediately, allowing planners to make adjustments if required. This in turn minimises the time-consuming weekly planning demands on short term planners while helping to deliver high levels of predictability across the value chain.
On top of the Product Optimiser enhancements, other key areas of focus include XECUTE’s User Interface and CAD functionality. Unlike many other linear programming engines, XECUTE has a highly intuitive, user-friendly interface that allows planners to spend more time analysing results, instead of learning how to program the inputs. There are also significant enhancements to speed and usability within this XECUTE upgrade, including an 80% improvement in geology and reserving processing speed.
XECUTE mobile improvements enable users to have integrated data feeds from the pit being used in a mobile application to quickly compare the short-term plan to the actual production. This gives planners and supervisors a plan compliance tool while they are on the move. Information such as drill holes, bucket positions and machine positions are fed straight to the mobile user.
“Our innovative software connects systems with information and when it comes to connecting short-term planning with the rest of the mining operation in our view there is no other product on the market as sophisticated or advanced as XECUTE,” Mr Beesley concluded.
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Tag: Birth Control
Anti-choice is not “pro-life”
Tom Friedman shreds the folks whose idea of the sanctity of life starts at conception and ends at birth.
The prospect of a President Romney seems to have scared Tom Friedman into eloquence:
You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life†and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life†and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life†and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children. You can call yourself a “pro-conception-to-birth, indifferent-to-life conservative.†I will never refer to someone who pickets Planned Parenthood but lobbies against common-sense gun laws as “pro-life.â€
Author Mark KleimanPosted on October 28, 2012 Categories UncategorizedTags Birth Control, Campaign 201247 Comments on Anti-choice is not “pro-life”
Politics and physics
When I was in the eighth grade I had Mr. Nadrowski for science, and one day he called Stephen Chilcote up to the front of the class and told him to push against the cinder-block wall until it fell over. As Chiclet obediently pushed and the rest of us watched, Mr. Nadrowski kept up a descriptive patter: “So there he is, beads of sweat are popping out on his forehead, his muscles all straining; but you know what? He’s not doing any work!â€Â His point was that from a physics standpoint no work occurs unless the object responds to the force; if the wall didn’t move, Stephen’s efforts didn’t count.
This seems to be the definition of “work†Republicans are using to complain that President Obama isn’t doing enough to fix the economy. They build a cinder-block wall of legislative refusal and then criticize him for failing to push it over.
And when he does manage to move objects despite the cinder-block—by the Executive Order modifying immigration or the administrative maneuvers necessary to maintain contraception as a component of basic health-care—his opponents hyperventilate about Obama’s terrifying expansion of Presidential power. From the people who created the Constitutionally bogus “signing statement,†that’s chutzpah enough to topple the canonical instance: the boy who, having murdered his parents, asks for leniency because he’s an orphan.
So let’s do some real work of our own. If you’re interested in actually moving objects—Obama canvassers from Illinois to Iowa, and Iowa Democratic voters from their homes to the polls—please join my Wednesday evening phone bank, beginning this week (July 11) and continuing through the election. Contact me off-line for details, but bear in mind that Iowa votes early, beginning on September 27: if we’re going to knock over the wall, we’ve got to do it over the summer.
Author Kelly KleimanPosted on July 8, 2012 July 8, 2012 Categories Everything ElseTags Barack Obama, Birth Control, Campaign 2012, Constitutional politics, economy, Elections 2010 and 2012, Illinois, Immigration, Language and usage, Lying in politics, Obama, Republican, Republican Party, Rhetoric and Framing, Stimulus, Teaching, unemployment, Vote Casting and Counting, work4 Comments on Politics and physics
The Bishops’ Seamless Garment Frays Some More: Cue Erich Ludendorff
Although I disagree with it on specifics, I have always respected the Roman Catholic Church’s position that its social teachings are a “seamless garment” — that is, it focuses on all aspects of its social teaching even if it does not fit neatly into political boxes.Â
Well, it turns out that the garment’s got a lot of rips in it:
Internal Komen documents reviewed by Reuters reveal the complicated relationship between the Komen Foundation and the Catholic church, which simultaneously contributes to the breast cancer charity and receives grants from it. In recent years, Komen has allocated at least $17.6 million of the donations it receives to U.S. Catholic universities, hospitals and charities.
Church opposition reached dramatic new proportions in 2011, when the 11 bishops who represent Ohio’s 2.6 million Catholics announced a statewide policy banning church and parochial school donations to Komen.
Such pressure helped sway Komen’s leadership to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to current and former Komen officials….
The earliest signs of discord came in 2005, when South Carolina’s Catholic diocese pulled out of the local Komen fundraiser. It was followed over the next four years by individual dioceses in Arizona, Indiana, Florida, Missouri and other states, where bishops either spoke out against Komen or took steps to stem donations to the charity, mainly because of its Planned Parenthood link.
The momentum picked up in 2011 when top Ohio clerics met in Columbus. High on their agenda was the question of whether the state’s nine dioceses should participate in Komen fundraisers.
No Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio receive Komen money. But the bishops decided that diocese funds should no longer benefit the charity, for fear that money sent from local Komen affiliates to the Dallas headquarters could wind up in Planned Parenthood’s coffers or help fund research on stem cells collected from human fetuses, according to church officials.
So — in a probable violation of the Thomist Doctrine of Double Effect, the bishops have decided to refuse all support for any women’s health promoted by Komen for fear that somewhere, somehow, some money might make it into some Planned Parenthood office. And they went even further, telling all of their parishoners not to do anything to help, either. It was, of course, interesting that they did nothing of the kind concerning Republican candidates who vowed to slash funding for programs for the poor, many of which also supported Catholic Charities.
High on the 2011 agenda, of course, was this issue. It’s not clear from the story, but this seemed to be a much higher agenda issue than, say, the truly vicious cuts proposed by Paul Ryan, or John Kasich, or any other right-winger. Some things, you see, are just more important than others.
One of the glories of contemporary religious thought is the Catholic social justice tradition, epitomized by the likes of Dorothy Day but also advanced by thousands of lay Catholics and individual priests throughout the world. Everywhere from US streets to isolated villages in the Congo, Catholics are modeling themselves on Jesus’ life, ministering to the poor, fighting for justice, and bringing the Holy Spirit to earth. They deserve better clerical leadership than what they are getting.
It thus reminds me of a (perhaps-apocryphal) conversation between German World War I generals Max Hoffmann and Erich Ludendorff, about the valiant British infantry cut down through the idiotic strategy of their generals:
Ludendorff:Â The British fought like lions.
Hoffmann:Â Yes; but they were led by donkeys.
Author Jonathan ZasloffPosted on March 15, 2012 March 15, 2012 Categories Health & MedicineTags Birth Control, Health Care, Moral philosophy, Religion and Politics, Spirituality and Religion, Watching Conservatives48 Comments on The Bishops’ Seamless Garment Frays Some More: Cue Erich Ludendorff
Why Republicans are in a box: their base, and nobody else, thinks unmarried people shouldn’t have sex.
Republican self-destruction on birth control has a fairly simple explanation: a majority of Republicans, and no one else, think that unmarried people shouldn’t have sex. That explains a lot about Rush Limbaugh’s tirade—but also about Mitt Romney’s equivocation.
Those who’ve been following the birth control brouhaha may be wondering what on earth Republicans think they’re doing. The answer is that they’re expressing an opinion regarding sexual morality that’s popular among their voters but nobody else: namely that unmarried people shouldn’t have sex at all.
Gallup for many years has been polling Americans on whether certain things are “morally acceptable” or “morally wrong.” Regarding “sex between an unmarried man and woman,” the latest figures I could find (from 2011) show that 60 percent regard that as “morally acceptable” and only 36 percent “morally wrong.” (According to the .pdf of the whole survey, that 24-point spread is up from only 11 points in 2001.)
One reason old Republican men are so out of touch on this is that there’s a huge age gap in attitudes. The Gallup figures show that premarital sex is considered acceptable by 71 percent of 18-34-year-olds, but only 47 percent of those 55 and older. This makes premarital sex the third-most divisive moral issue by age, after pornography and gay or lesbian sex.
But the fascinating part is the partisan split. Gallup in 2011 didn’t break the figures down by party. But it did in 2010 (when the overall “acceptable” figure was almost identical, 59 percent). The result was (press release here, full .pdf here)
67 percent of Democrats think premarital sex is morally acceptable;
64 percent of Independents;
only 47 percent of Republicans.
If one did a separate breakdown by age and sex, I’m sure this would jump out even more. Probably a very small minority of older Republicans think that premarital sex is OK, but an overwhelming majority of young Democrats and Independents think so.
This makes sex and contraception, as I’ve said before, the perfect wedge issue (as well as, I’d add, the perfect issue to motivate the base—a two-fer). No Republican candidate dare imply that it’s OK if young people have sex before marriage. No one hoping to appeal to younger independents dare imply that it isn’t.
That explains why Rush Limbaugh thinks he’ll get a free pass for calling Sandra Fluke a slut: she is, after all, “an [unmarried] American woman who uses contraception.” But it also explains why Mitt Romney, even before he cravenly changed his position on the Blunt Amendment, said that he didn’t want to get involved in contraceptive decisions  “within a relationship between a man and a woman, husband and wife.” Emphasis added. Romney may believe in his heart of hearts (stipulating that he still has such a thing) that it’s not his business whether unmarried couples have sex and use contraception. But he quickly caught himself, because he knows that the Republican base believes no such thing. He’s aspiring to lead an Ozzie and Harriet party in a Big Bang Theory world.
Oh, as for why the Catholic hierarchy is feeling so boxed in on the question: ordinary Catholics are substantially more liberal than the average American on these questions. Orthodox Catholics know this perfectly well, and aren’t happy.
Update: It looks as if Eleanor Clift agrees with me (without having the numbers).
Author Andrew SablPosted on March 2, 2012 March 2, 2012 Categories UncategorizedTags Birth Control, Campaign 201225 Comments on Why Republicans are in a box: their base, and nobody else, thinks unmarried people shouldn’t have sex.
Sauce for the gander
Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy has introduced a proposal requiring men who ask their doctors for Viagra to sit through a film showing treatment of its most common side effects, including that mythical four-hour erection. Apparently it’s not a pretty sight. Her proposed amendment to the Ultrasound Opportunity Act (obviously named by Eric Blair) parallels the Act’s requirement that women go through a medically unnecessary ultrasound before having an abortion.
Rep. Cassidy, a serious and thoughtful legislator, has declined thus far to accept a suggested friendly amendment requiring these same men to have a pointless and un-anesthetized anal probe.  Nor does anyone recommend modifying the proposal to require colonoscopies, because those would actually benefit the men, and therefore not be parallel to a vaginal invasion at all.
As I stood on a street-corner yesterday leading chants of “Birth control is basic health care!” and “Women are not livestock!” (the latter because the ultrasound bill and other Illinois proposals restricting women’s rights have been sent to the reliably and fanatically anti-choice Agriculture Committee), I wondered if I’d somehow fallen through a wormhole and ended up in 1963. Hell, even Mad Men has gone further than that.
But if the Republicans want to fight the presidential election on this issue, they can bring it on:Â Democrats at every level will win in a landslide.
Author Kelly KleimanPosted on February 25, 2012 Categories Health & MedicineTags Abortion, abortion, Birth Control, Feminism, Health Care, Illinois, Law Notes, misogyny, Politics and Leadership, public health, ultrasound, Women19 Comments on Sauce for the gander
Republicans seem unable to admit that birth control, in itself, is a good thing. That inability itself should be highlighted, and endlessly broadcasted.
After reading a transcript of the Republican debate last night, I think the media should ask a very simple question:
“Leaving aside questions of government policy and abortion, do you personally think that the invention of effective birth control technologies—condoms, the pill, diaphrams—has been a good thing for society?”  (I’ve phrased that to leave out all the methods that anybody, however oddly, believes to be abortifacients.)
Mark has already suggested that Mitt Romney should be asked a similar question, but it’s now clear that all the Republican candidates, even Ron Paul, now feel a need to waffle on whether the existence of contraception itself is good or bad. This is simply unbelievable—and, for the party, unsustainable.
I don’t normally think that single questions can determine elections, and I’m as ready as the next person to attribute most of what happens in elections to economic factors. But sometimes position-taking matters. And even lack of position-taking can matter if it suggests a position that’s extreme enough.
Eventually, either the press or the Democrats are going to make sure that the question gets asked in a forum where the follow-up question—”simple question, sir: government policy aside, has it been a good thing?”—can be pursued. And no would-be Republican nominee will have the guts (or, in Santorum’s case, the eccentric conscience) to say yes. At that point, Obama, not to mention Steve Israel, can start running, over and over, a thirty-second spot of the eventual Republican nominee’s refusal to say yes.
Devastating. And the Republicans will deserve the devastation.
Update: I’m not suggesting that candidates be penalized for matters of personal faith if they’re deliberately willing to bracket their faith for public policy purposes. For instance, Catholic politicians whose religion leads them to oppose the death penalty—as allegedly orthodox Catholic Rick Santorum, by the way, rather hypocritically doesn’t—sometimes (like Jerry Brown) say they will impartially enforce existing laws that provide for the death penalty’s existence. In such cases, their religious beliefs are rightly considered irrelevant. But since the Republican candidates are explicitly and loudly unwilling to acknowledge that kind of separation, we are entitled to regard their faith as a direct indication of their policy intent: because they do.
Author Andrew SablPosted on February 23, 2012 February 23, 2012 Categories UncategorizedTags Birth Control, Campaign 2012, Religion and Politics28 Comments on Simple question
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2019 International Communication Association Conference
Місто: Washington
Тези до: 01.11.2018
Дати: 24.05.19 — 28.05.19
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Організатори: International Communication Association
The ICA 2019 conference theme of Communication Beyond Boundaries aims for an understanding of the role of communication and media in the crossing of social, political and cultural boundaries that characterize contemporary society, and encourages research that crosses the boundaries of research domains, of particular fields of research interest, and of academia and the outside world.
Communication and media feature centrally in today’s crossing of boundaries that characterizes societal structures, institutions and cultures, themselves firmly founded in communications technologies, infrastructures and practices. The spatial dimension of the practice of communication, in the past, resulted in legacy media allowing people to be constituted as an ‘imagined community’ within the defined territories of the nation state, while today’s global digital technologies and networks have been central to the expansion in movements of people, capital, commodities, images and ideologies across national boundaries. This contributes, according to optimists like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (channelling Marshall McLuhan), a ‘global community’, while critical voices see them as markers of new forms of social inequality and cultural domination.
Beyond this, communication and media feature centrally in various other forms of social, political and cultural boundary crossing. These include:
the discursive work involved in thinking beyond binary boundaries in contemporary identity politics;
the role of social media in re-defining the boundaries between fact and fake and between science and beliefs, affecting the politics of knowledge and the epistemology of science;
the place of communication technologies in AI and the Internet of Things, questioning what it means to be human; and
the growing recognition of the role of the brain as a window in to attitudinal and behavioural change and its repercussion for marketing as well as children’s well-being.
Communication and media are part and parcel of these trends, sometimes as instigators, other times as the result, most often as important conduits for this crossing of boundaries.
Communication and media in both digital and analogue formats feature in the rise of movements that aim to counter these boundary-crossing developments, for instance, in populist nationalisms that challenges the claims about the irrevocable advance of globalization, as the role of tabloids in promoting the Brexit vote illustrates. Conservative movements employ legacy and social media to rally against political correctness and identity politics, and racism thrives in online hate communities, while activists turn to communication and media to help solve problems of our age, ranging from war and terror, human rights abuses, climate change to fake news, identity theft and (online) sexual predators.
These examples emphasize that it is timely to consider the boundary-crossing nature and relevance/impact of contemporary communication. This require interdisciplinary research that crosses the silos of disciplines and research fields. With the theme of Communication Beyond Boundaries, we encourage research that spans across particular research domains, and across the boundaries constructed by particular fields of research interest.
Within the field of communication, we invite researchers to look beyond divisional and sub-disciplinary boundaries, as diverse examples such as intersectionality and health communications’ current shift of focus to entertainment education have shown to be fruitful paths to new insights. Beyond that, communication has long been a highly porous field, shaping and being shaped by its interaction with many academic disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. With the rapid expansion of digital communication, and growing awareness of the environmental impact of human activity, the extent of its engagement with the Natural as well as the Human Sciences is increasingly apparent.
As communication scholars, we have important insights into areas as diverse as bioethics, artificial intelligence, robotics and cryptocurrencies, as well as how to create more just and equal multicultural societies. The final point also encourages us to think about the role of academics in crossing the boundaries of academia into society, as advisers and activists, reaching out to regulators, industries, civil society organisations and activist groups.
With the conference theme of Communication Beyond Boundaries, we encourage scholars to address key questions related to:
How to understand the role of communication in boundary crossing developments in politics, culture and society?
What is the role of communication in the counter-movements opposing/rectifying globalising boundary crossing?
Where do various strands of communication research need to (re)connected to tackle the issues and problems of contemporary boundary crossing?
How can communication research inform and be informed by other academic disciplines in understanding these boundary crossing trends and their counter trends?
What role for academics in crossing the boundaries of academia into society as policy advisors, activists and NGOs, industry researchers, or end-users of communication services?
Submission for the ICA 2019 theme must:
Focus on the topic of boundary crossing;
Demonstrate the need for research collaboration across boundaries within communication research and between communication and other disciplines and fields;
Panels should include contributions from at least two different countries, and not more than one contribution from a single Faculty, Department or School.
General Proposals
Submissions to theme sessions must follow all general guidelines put forward by ICA (8,000 words, not including tables and references). Proposals for papers and panels on the conference theme are invited from all sectors of the field, and will be evaluated competitively by anonymous referees. Theme-based submissions must be cross-divisional; that is, they must span the interests and purview of more than one ICA division or interest group, and should have broad appeal across all units of the association. Submissions deemed to fit the interests of one division or interest group rather than the conference as a whole will be forwarded to that group for consideration. Papers or panels must not be submitted simultaneously for consideration to any division or interest group.
Panel proposals on the conference theme must include a 400-word rationale explaining how the panel fits the conference theme and 150-word summary of the rationale to appear in the conference program. In keeping with ICA tradition, an edited volume focusing on the conference theme will be published. This volume will draw from presentations in divisions, interest groups, and theme sessions.
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‘La Mami’: IDFA Review
By Amber Wilkinson2019-11-22T19:15:00+00:00
Intimate documentary focusing on the titular matriarch of the women’s powder room at Mexico City’s Barba Azul Cabaret
Source: IDFA
‘La Mami’
Dir. Laura Herrero Garvin. Mexico-Spain. 2019. 80mins
La Mami opens the door to the bustling and fascinating environment of the women’s toilet and powder room at the long-standing Mexico City cabaret and dance hall Barba Azul (Bluebeard). This is the kingdom of Mami, the part-cleaner, part-confidante, no-nonsense guardian of the space where the ficheras — women who dance, drink and flirt with clientele in return for cash — get ready for the night. Having won the Ambulante Award at 2018 Impulso Morelia, which provides post-production funds to documentary filmmakers, Laura Herrero Garvin’s immersive and eye-opening film now competes in IDFA’s feature competition, where its strong female focus should see it get noticed.
Herrero Garvin has evidently built a strong level of trust with all involved
It’s a while before we’re introduced to the heat and energy of the club itself, as Herrero Garvin begins her film where the women also start their evening — in Mami’s realm. In her zip-up cardigan, elderly Mami, who we learn held just about every job in the dance hall business during her younger years, is a stark contrast amongst the girls in their slinky outfits, busy applying make-up like warpaint for the battle ahead. Chief among them is new recruit Carmen who, like all those who work here, takes on a nom de guerre, Priscilla. She needs the cash for, as Mami puts it, “a noble cause”; namely putting her 22-year-old son through cancer treatment.
Although Priscilla’s story is the most prominent, this sense of women taking on this thankless and tiring role in order to look after their families runs throughout La Mami. It also makes clear that, while one or two might decide to give some of the men rather more than a dance, most simply stay on the dancefloor. Men are very much a secondary consideration of the film; Mami acerbically notes they are “good for nothing and to give money”.
When the camera finally follows Priscilla down into the club itself, with its live salsa band and hot colours, it’s clear that this is a serious business. As she is whisked around the floor, the look on her face is closer to grim determination than joy. Back in the ladies’ room, the women swap war stories and offer tips to Priscilla on how to remove the smell of alcohol before her early morning doctor’s appointment with her son.
The relationship between Mami and Priscilla gives an emotional hook to the film, which gradually reveals details about their lives, while the comings and goings of the rest of the crew offer insight into their work. Herrero Garvin has evidently built a strong level of trust with all involved; her camera seems to go unnoticed in the powder room, where Mami carefully measures out tissue paper, urges patrons to “tip as you wish” and rules over the bucket of water used to flush the toilet with a rod of iron.
Often, Mami is a silent presence glimpsed in the back or at the edge of shot, observing everything even if she isn’t responding. In one lovely moment, she dozes at the far side of the frame while Priscilla, her back to her, regales her with a tale from her evening. Herrero Garvin also finds contrast between the heat of the night when the women are working and the cold light of the morning after floors are swilled and naked carved figurines of women are polished to within an inch of their lives.
Production companies: Cacerola Films, Gadea Films
International sales: Dogwoof info@dogwoof.com
Producers: Laura Imperiale, Patricia Franquesa, Laia Zanon
Cinematography: Laura Herrero Garvin
Editing: Lorenzo Mora Salazar, Ana Pfaff
Music: Josué Vergara
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Estonian production is a suprise entry in the 10-film international Oscar shortlist
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French Parliament Approves Amendment to Legalize Filesharing
California Sec. of State Refuses to Approve Diebold Electronic Voting Machines, Asks Company to Submit Code for Federal Review
Buffer Overflow Flaw in Symantec Antivirus Software
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French Parliament Approves Amendment to Legalize Filesharing (22 December 2005)
By a narrow margin, French Parliament members voted for an amendment that could legalize peer-to-peer downloading of digital content. The text of the amendment reads "Authors cannot forbid the reproduction of works that are made on any format from an online communications service when they are intended to be used privately." The amendment is attached to an intellectual property rights bill. French copyright law includes a concept called "private copy" under which people are permitted to make copies for themselves or for friends. A French court recently held that content that has been downloaded for personal use meets the requirements of "private copy." L'Association Des Audionautes, "a French group that defends people accused of improperly sharing music files", supports a royalty tax to accompany the amendment, to be collected from the Internet service providers who would likely pass the cost on by "levying" a fee on users who conduct a certain amount of downloading.
-http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-6005860.html?tag=st.util.print
-http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=avOoTq8aXkU8&refer=e
urope#
California Sec. of State Refuses to Approve Diebold Electronic Voting Machines, Asks Company to Submit Code for Federal Review (21 December 2005)
California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson has refused to approve the use of thousands of touch-screen and optical scanning electronic voting machines. There are "unresolved significant security concerns" with memory cards that store votes in the machines. McPherson's office has asked that Diebold, the maker of the voting machines in question, submit the machines' source code to the Federal Independent Testing Authorities for review. Dave Byrd, Diebold VP of business operations, said the company is happy to comply with the request.
-http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13455648.htm?template=c
ontentModules/printstory.jsp
[Editor's Note (Schultz): Diebold's up-front cooperation with the state of California represents a major shift in Diebold's posture--a much-welcomed change for the better when it comes to assuring integrity in eVoting systems. ]
Buffer Overflow Flaw in Symantec Antivirus Software (22/21/20 December 2005)
A buffer overflow flaw in Symantec's antivirus software could allow attackers to gain control of vulnerable systems. The flaw affects 40 products and lies in a library component, Dec2Rar.dll, involved in processing RAR files. The problem occurs when users' antivirus software scans RAR files, a format often used to store large video and audio files. The flaw can be exploited via email without the need to the user to open an attachment. Users should update their software.
-http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,107270,00.html
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/22/symantec_archive_bug/print.html
-http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=167824,00.asp
-http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.12.21b.html
Department of Energy Faces IT Security Challenges, Says IG (20/19 December 2005)
A recent report from the US Department of Energy's inspector general Gregory Friedman describes a number of problems with IT system security, including ensuring authorized access to department systems and with "verifying that modifications to applications and systems were properly approved and managed." In addition, contingency plans for several systems are incomplete. The report acknowledged that department senior managers "are focusing on upgrading cybersecurity."
-http://www.fcw.com/article91775-12-20-05-Web
-http://appserv.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2&
story.id=37812
-http://www.ig.doe.gov/pdf/ig-0712.pdf
[Editor's Note (Kreitner): Some of the most important information security management metrics that enterprises should implement are those related to stability of operational software images. Research and experience are revealing that the root of many security incidents is inadequate internal discipline of configuration settings and software changes. This is not to suggest a cumbersome change management system, but rather a clear definition of internal responsibilities with regard to software image integrity. ]
FTC Delivers Report on Effectiveness of CAN-SPAM Act (20 December 2005)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday said that the incidence of spam has decreased in the two years since the passage of the CAN-SPAM Act, although much of the decrease can be attributed to the use of blocking services and products. The effectiveness of CAN-SPAM has been questioned, but the FTC says the legislation has helped create standard best practices for commercial email. More than 50 lawsuits have been filed against spammers since CAN-SPAM was enacted. Critics are displeased that CAN-SPAM allows commercial emailers to keep sending unsolicited email until consumers opt out of receiving it. The report also warned that while spam is decreasing, attacks are becoming more malicious and sophisticated.
-http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4547474.stm
-http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/175007086%3Bj
-http://www.ftc.gov/reports/canspam05/051220canspamrpt.pdf
Microsoft Files Lawsuits Against MAPS Partners for Alleged (19 December 2005)
Microsoft has filed a series of lawsuits against people for allegedly breaching the Microsoft Action Pack Subscriptions (MAPS) Initiative software agreement. The initiative provides certain Microsoft partners with discounted software that they agree to use internally for application development and testing and for other business purposes. The people named in the lawsuits allegedly attempted to sell the software they acquired through the program on auction sites. Microsoft has also filed lawsuits against three companies for allegedly distributing counterfeit software.
-http://www.out-law.com/page-6476
Google Repairs Cross-Site Scripting Flaw (21 December 2005)
Google has fixed a cross-site scripting flaw that could have been exploited to hijack accounts or conduct phishing attacks. Google became aware of the problem on November 15 and fixed it on December 1. The problem was in the mechanism used to generate certain error pages; 7-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-7) characters could be used to exploit the vulnerability.
Vulnerability in iTunes and QuickTime (21 December 2005)
A security hole in iTunes and QuickTime could allow attackers to crash these programs and execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. Users would need to be fooled into opening a maliciously crafted .mov file. The vulnerability affects all versions of iTunes and QuickTime. Users can protect themselves from having this flaw exploited by not opening media files from untrusted sources.
GiftCom Worm Spreads through Major IM Networks (20 December 2005)
A worm that spreads through an instant message inviting recipients to view an image of Santa Claus has been sending itself across the MSN, AOL, ICQ and Yahoo instant messaging networks. When users visit the phony web site, a malicious file is downloaded onto their computers. The file has rootkit elements that keep it hidden; it also attempts to disable antivirus products and places a keylogging program on the computer. The worm, known as IM.GiftCom.All, spreads by using the names in the IM contact list.
-http://internetweek.cmp.com/news/175007108
Ford Informs Employees Whose Data Were on Stolen Computer (22 December 2005)
Ford Motor Company sent email messages to 70,000 current and former employees informing then that their personal data, including Social Security numbers, were on a computer stolen from a company facility. Ford is working with law enforcement and says there is no evidence that the information has been misused.
-http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175007673
[Editor's Note (Shpantzer): Encrypting laptops and smartphones that hold sensitive information is important, since these mobile computing assets have virtually no physical security. ]
British Parliament Increases Maximum Fine for Rogue Dialer Convictions (22/21 December 2005)
British Parliament has voted to increase the maximum fine that can be imposed for convictions on charges of premium-rate rogue dialing scams. As of December 30, 2005, the maximum fine will increase from GBP100,000 to GBP250,000. The current cap was found to be an ineffective deterrent to a scam that can generate considerable revenue for the perpetrators. A rogue-dialer is software surreptitiously installed on users' computers that causes their dial up modems to call premium-rate long distance numbers, amassing significant charges.
-http://news.zdnet.com/2102-1035_22-6005760.html?tag=printthis
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/21/premium_rate_phone_fines_surge/print.htm
Sober Variant Scares Man into Surrendering Himself to Police (20 December 2005)
A recent variant of the Sober worm has tricked a German man into surrendering himself to police because the phony message that accompanies the infected attachment made him believe he was being investigated for his possession of child pornography. The message says that law enforcement officials have become aware that the recipient's IP address has been used to log on to illegal web sites. The recipient is requested to answer some questions in an attachment; when the attachment is opened, the worm infects the computer.
-http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11365
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SAYAS > Feeding the Pipeline
a. 1000 Girls – 1000 Futures
A UNESCO report (Access: http://www.uis.unesco.org/_LAYOUTS/UNESCO/women-in-science/index.html#overview!lang=en) indicates that just 28% of the world’s researchers are women. The percentage is pegged at 30% in Sub-Saharan Africa. While more women are enrolling in university, relatively few pursue careers in research. There are many leaks in the pipeline – from stereotypes encountered by girls to the family-caring responsibilities and bias women may face when choosing a career.
The 1000 Girls – 1000 Futures Program is a world-wide effort that pairs motivated, enthusiastic mentors with smart, STEM-focused high school women and gives them access to innovative programming that will help them develop essential 21st century skills.
During the pilot phase of the 1000 Girls – 1000 Futures programme, several South African mentors and mentees took part. A call for a second round of the programme has been made, and a feedback survey is also underway among the first cohort of participants.
The SAYAS members who participated in the programme provided feedback on their experience.
Dr Christine Tshabalala noted that whilst the programme was a noble one, one of the biggest challenges was with connectivity. She experienced challenges connecting with the recommended Big blue button technology several times until eventually they resorted to utilising Skype in the last months. This challenge also works both ways with the mentee experiencing connection issues.
All in all, Dr Tshabalala notes that “it is a great initiative” and would like to see a survey conducted in order to ascertain how other mentors and mentees faired and lessons learnt in order to improve the programme.
Dr Meghan Groome, the Senior Vice President, education from the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) who manages the 1000 Girls – 1000 Futures programme, visited South Africa in July 2016 to investigate better ways to connect with mentees, as well as to speak with potential funders to expand the programme locally. Dr Caradee Wright, SAYAS Member, Edith Shikumo, Young Scientist Liaison Officer and Dr Siyavuya Bulani, Senior Liaison Officer from ASSAf met with Dr Groome. The meeting explored ways of boosting the programme in order to reach 100 girls in South Africa in the coming year.
Project Leaders: Caradee Wright, Amanda Weltman, Christine Tshabalala
b. Science Engagement with Young Learners
Continued engagements by Dr Caradee Wright at the Modiri High School in Garankuwa saw the participation of South African candidates attending the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting engage with young scholars from their Science Club on 12 May.
This was held during a send-off meeting to introduce the five young South African scientists nominated by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) to attend the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting held on 11 to 12 May 2017 at the National Research Foundation’s (NRF) Albert Luthuli Auditorium.
The South Africans will be among 400 young scientists from 76 countries selected to participate in this year’s 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry in Lindau, Germany, from 25 to 30 June 2017.
Deserving young scientists are annually nominated to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings which are designed as a forum for young scientists from all over the world to have an in-depth exchange with Nobel Laureates.
c. Science Spaza at the 3rd Worldwide Meeting of National Young Academies of Science
There was a certain chemistry when young scientists from 40 countries met 60 Science Spaza science club members in the East Rand township of Tsakane near Brakpan on the East of Johannesburg. Bringing together the young scientists and learners inspired hope for both groups and demonstrated the power of science engagement to gain new perspectives on old challenges.
The outreach and engagement was the initiative of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), which partnered with the Science Spaza science clubs programme to facilitate the afternoon’s proceedings. The 60 learners from two independent science clubs, the African School of Excellence Science Club and the Yael Science Club (Isaac Newton School in Johannesburg) were waiting patiently when the delegation of 60 young scientists walked through the door.
How can spaces be created for scientists to engage in conversations with the public? In particular, how can scientists talk to young people to inspire and encourage them to pursue careers in Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and how do they, in turn, hear about the challenges and difficulties these young people face? These were some of the questions on the minds of the delegates of the 3rd Worldwide Meeting of National Young Academies of Science (NYAS), and the purpose of the science outreach and engagement to the African School for Excellence.
Hands-on activities are the hallmark of the Science Spaza experience, and soon the air was thick with paper planes, while the young scientists tried to explain and understand the scientific principles at work. The activities served to break the ice and set the scene for an invigorating discussion between the two generations, which proved to be competitive too at times, but all in good spirit.
The meeting of NYAS under the theme “One Health–Health and Development in the context of an Urbanising Planet and Implications for Science Policy” focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs) 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and 11 (Sustainable Cities). It explored the role of NYAS as a mechanism for national implementation of the SDGs, and how science and technology can be harnessed towards achieving the UN SDGs.
d. Science Spaza -The Origins
Bringing hands-on science engagement to high schools in Gauteng. In partnership with SANEDI and Jive Media, SAYAS reached out to over 20 schools in Pretoria in 2014, and wants to activate this project in more provinces.
This project started in 2014, with a young scientist from the National Laser Centre (CSIR) presented at a Mastery Science Club. Since then, the Science Spaza project has been growing steadily, yet needs the support of more funders to help them reach across the country.
This venture makes use of existing science clubs at schools, and spurs the creation of new clubs. High school students are mentored to lead sustainable science clubs themselves. Our advice ranges from how to hold members to regular meetings to how to invite actual scientists to your school, and conduct practical research on real world topics. The aim is to have fun interactions with science, inspiring not only the students but also their teachers.
We started with Modiri High School in Ga-Rankuwa, where SAYAS helped their Mastery Science Club to become fully established. In 2015, we finalized the School Club manual, which is now available online (see details at www.sciencespaza.org). SAYAS funded the printing of several Science Spaza manuals, which Jive Media is distributing to all registered science clubs throughout South Africa. Together with Smeetha Singh (University of Pretoria and Smitzin Science) Caradee Wright, SAYAS Member, drafted an article for Quest magazine on the benefits of running an extramural science club. They are also sending a letter to all district heads in the Gauteng Province education district describing the benefits of school science clubs, introducing the school science club manual and mentioning the Science Spaza website to register on for free term based resources to run clubs.
Project Leader: Caradee Wright
e. Roadshows
The main objective of conducting outreaches and roadshows is to raise awareness of young scientists opportunities available and raising the profile of SAYAS in order to increase membership uptake. This is especially in previously disadvantaged universities.
1. Initiatives to Enhance the Capacity, Visibility and Participation of SAYAS in Eastern Cape Province
The following universities were visited by Mr Stanley Maphosa, ASSAf Liaison Manager and Ms Edith Shikumo from the SAYAS Secretariat.
23 February, 2017 – University of Fort Hare (UFH), Alice campus
-Meetings were held with the officers from the Research office, Faculty heads of Chemistry, Physics, Economics and Science and Agriculture, an interview on Forte Comm. Radio the university radio station was conducted and a meeting with post-grad students
24 February, 2017 – Water Sisulu University (WSU), Mthatha campus
-Meetings were held with the Vice Chancellor, the DVC Academic Affairs & Research, officers from the Research office and other Deans. A video conferencing facility was utilised to link the East London and Butterworth campuses
We were joined by Prof Philani Moyo and Dr Nosiphiwe Ngqwala at the UFH outreach. Dr Ngqwala was interviewed on Forte Comm. Radio the university radio station in Xhosa –SAYAS’s first indigenous language interview.
From interactions with students, it was realised that they need encouragement from supervisors and lecturers to apply for opportunities. And further, if the latter could read through students’ applications before submitting, it would increase uptake of opportunities and improved success rates. This speaks to SAYAS mandate in mentoring upcoming young scientists.
2. University of Fort Hare
A two-day retreat organised by University of Fort Hare’s, Department of Livestock and Pasture Science for its postgraduate students aimed to primarily address the maximization of research output. Dr Nosiphiwe Ngqwala, a SAYAS ExCo member attended the retreat held on 21 April 2017 at the Fish River Sun in Port Alfred and made a presentation on various engagements within the academy stressing the need for young professionals themselves to be bold enough to mentor one another (peer to peer mentorship) and seek innovative ways of implementing their ideas. To achieve this, Dr Ngqwala noted that there is a need for an initiative that brings young talented professionals together to meet regularly with a view to improving their leadership, technical, entrepreneurial and research skill sets through various activities including workshops, training, speed dating, etc.
3. University of North West
Under the OWSD/ British Council Newton Fund (UK) banner, SAYAS attended a Presentation by one of the students (who is a beneficiary of the Newton Fund Professional Development and Engagement project) at the North West University’s Potchefstroom Campus on June 24, 2016 with Constance Manyeli, Liaison Officer at ASSAf.
Edith Shikumo the Young Scientist Liaison Officer made a presentation on SAYAS and opportunities available for young scientists with a focus on the upcoming Annual Young Scientist Conference and the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry.
Ms. Shikumo also, paid a Courtesy Call to the university’s Research Support Office and met with Me Mpe Meintjes, Cluster Coordinator: General Research Support and Me Buyi Ntaka, Cluster Coordinator: Funding. Ms. Shikumo gave a brief explanation of ASSAf and SAYAS and the benefits for the university’s post-doctorate students and early researchers.
Ms Edith Shikumo giving her Presentation on SAYAS and opportunities for Young scientists
Prof Jan Smit, Professor and Manager Science Centre at North West University demonstrating some Science experiments
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What does Facebook’s #tenyearchallenge tell us about public awareness of data and algorithms?
Helen Kennedy reflects on the recent #tenyearchallenge trend. Looking at responses to the challenge, she considers what they tell us about the public understanding of data and the companies that utilise it. Drawing on qualitative and survey data on the levels of public awareness, she finds that what the public knows about data continues to be unclear.
Facebook, Instagram and other platforms recently set their users a 10 year challenge: post your first ever Facebook photo and another one of you today. Whilst some users were quick to comply, others responded in unexpected ways. Some reactions were funny: Jennifer Aniston in 2009 is Iggy Pop in 2019. Some had a political message: an attractive underpass in 2009 is run down and occupied by homeless people in 2019; vibrant cities in Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria in 2009 are warzones in 2019. Some aimed to tell it like it is, such as this fictitious conversation at Facebook HQ:
@facebook: "Sir. Our facial recognition algorithms are becoming less accurate due to aging of users.”
Zuckerberg: "Tell @BuzzFeed to create a viral trend which gets people to post both their very first and current profile pics side by side. Adjust algorithms accordingly".
Or, as tech writer Kate O’Neill posted on Twitter:
Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram
Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train facial recognition algorithms on age progression and age recognition.
These suggestions of foul play, have in turn spawned retorts that point out that such data is already available to Facebook in all of the profile pictures and other photos we have already posted on the platform. To which O’Neill replies: this messy existing dataset has been superseded by the captioned new posts, which are far more helpful to Facebook’s aim of honing its facial recognition software. O’Neill concludes that while this mission of Facebook’s may not be cause for concern, it would be a good thing if we were all a bit more aware, and a bit more critical, of what happens to our data.
Critical, political or just plain mocking, responses to the challenge could be seen as evidence of the very thing that O’Neill says we need more of: public awareness of algorithms, data mining and analytics. High-profile coverage of stories, such as the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, may have shifted the ground in terms of what people know about how their data is used. So are responses to #tenyearchallenge a sign of growing public awareness of data and algorithms? The answer is simply, we don’t know: robust evidence about whether and how data analytics and related technologies like AI are understood by non-experts is seriously lacking.
Attitudes and understanding
A number of national and international surveys and polls have been carried out, but most of these focus on attitudes and perceptions, rather than knowledge and understanding. Some draw conclusions that do not appear to be backed up by their own data, others ask leading questions, and findings across surveys are inconsistent. For instance, the independent think tank doteveryone’s 2018 digital attitudes survey found that the majority of respondents knew that personal information is used to target advertising (70%), but fewer realised their data could also be sold to other companies (56%), or may determine the prices they are charged (21%). A minority inaccurately believed that invasive data collection takes place: 7% believed phone conversations are collected and 5% believe their eye movements when looking at the screen are collected. Doteveryone concludes that there is a link between trust and understanding, stating that ‘Without this understanding people are unable to make informed choices about how they use technologies. And without understanding it is likely that distrust of technologies may grow’, but it’s not clear that they have data to back up this claim.
An Ipsos MORI Global Trends survey found 83% of the UK respondents were unsure what information companies had on them. Trust in Personal Data: A UK Review by Digital Catapult (2015) notes that 96% of respondents to its survey claimed to understand the term ‘personal data’, but that when it came to describing it, less than two thirds (64%) chose the correct definition. Moreover, 65% of people surveyed ‘are unsure whether data is being shared without their consent’. The report concludes that their study highlights an increase in data knowledge, although there is no temporal comparison in their survey on which to base this claim.
Qualitative research paints a more nuanced picture. Taina Bucher’s study of Facebook users’ engagements with the platform’s algorithms identified both more knowledge than participants themselves acknowledged that they had and a range of playful interactions with the algorithms. Terje Colbjørnsen’s study of how people talk on social media about algorithmic moments on Spotify, Netflix and Amazon found similar knowledge and playfulness, with shrewd statements such as “go home algorithm your’e drunk”, users describing algorithms as like a ‘smug older brother’, or wishing they were a little ‘gayer’. Likewise, my own research in Post, Mine, Repeat and ‘The Feeling of Numbers’ with Rosemary Lucy Hill (2017), suggests that knowledge and experiences of data are more complex, diverse and nuanced than simple statistics suggest.
Knowing whether people understand the mining of their personal data is important for many reasons. First, as suggested above, there is a relationship between understanding and trust, the holy grail of data research. Elsewhere, I’ve argued that understanding what people feel about what companies do with their data is as important as understanding what they know, because hopes, fears, misconceptions, and aspirations play an important role in shaping attitudes to data mining. But we also need to know what people know. We need to move beyond a hunch that awareness is growing, as #tenyearchallenge responses suggest, to more concrete knowledge of what is known and what is not, where the gaps in knowledge and understanding are, and how to fill them. Only then can we start to envisage a participatory, data-driven society, of the kind that many of us would like to see.
The second reason this question matters relates to new initiatives which aim to influence uses of data, AI and their governance, like the government Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) and the independent Ada Lovelace Institute (Ada). Such initiatives claim that understanding public views and how data affect people will be at the heart of what they do, but this is only possible if such understanding actually exists. To ensure data works ‘for people and society’ (Ada’s mission) and is ‘a force for good’ (a CDEI aim), we need better evidence of what people really know about what happens to their data.
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Logan Ryan’s Unique Viewpoint of Tom Brady
After practicing against Tom Brady for four seasons, Titans CB Logan Ryan explains what it was like to face his former quarterback in a game—a rather important game, at that.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — There may not have been a more unique set of eyes on Tom Brady Saturday night than the ones in Tennessee’s defensive backfield.
Logan Ryan—who played for New England from 2013-16, won two Super Bowls and graduated to free agency with a four-year masters degree in working against the best quarterback in NFL history in practice—noticed one significant difference in seeing Brady in workouts every day and facing him with a trip to the conference title game on the line.
“The points count in the game,” Ryan said. “When he’s scoring touchdowns in practice they don’t count. But he got going man. He got in his rhythm. It wasn’t just one guy who played bad defensively. It wasn’t the scheme. He continued to attack, continued to attack. It’s what he does well. He executed as well as I’ve seen him.”
Here’s something those who analyze Brady on a regular basis fail to consider: There is a weight to his constant success and to this offense. The Patriots scheme is maddening to stop, and its conductor is a stone-cold killer. Imagine being the opposing defense, crafting the perfect coverages in meetings all week, putting a theoretically sound defense on the board and then watching it get dismantled play by play. As Ryan noted, it’s almost never just one person’s fault. It's an equal opportunity dressing down.
On the first play of the game Saturday, Ryan lined up in the slot and stepped into his man, wide receiver Chris Hogan. Ryan was textbook, elongating his arms, popping his target right in the shoulder pads to get him off the route. Except, the Patriots were running right at Ryan. Hogan was simply clearing the area for Danny Amendola, who motioned from the opposite side, caught a swing pass and glided for six yards.
On the next drive, Brady pointed at the cornerback pre-snap. Ryan faked a blitz and dropped back to cover Amendola, who appeared to be running a route toward the middle of the field. Without much of a pass rush, Brady was free to scan the field and settle back on Amendola once the receiver broke out of his route and made a brief cut toward the sideline. Ryan had his mark played perfectly, protecting the inside leverage. Alas, there is no better internal timing mechanism in football than the one in Brady’s mind. He shimmed the ball in at the perfect moment once Amendola twisted outward.
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“There were some good battles in there. He got me a couple times, I got him some. It’s the game within the game. He’s a great Hall-of-Famer. The GOAT,” Ryan said. “I firmly believe that because of the work he puts in. I know that. He came out there and he loves the big stage.”
Brady threw the ball 53 times on Saturday, completing 35 passes for three touchdowns and no interceptions. He also threw four “deep” passes after the Patriots had already built a 28–7 lead. In the fourth quarter, up 35–7 on a third-and-nine from the Patriot 43-yard line, Brady was still playing games, shifting James White into the backfield and pushing Brandin Cooks out wide, giving his deep ball threat a chance to burn down the sidelines and catch a “go” route in double coverage. The ball fell incomplete, but as it was in the air, play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz seemed to convey well the frustration and confusion of the moment felt by Tennessee’s defense.
“Oh, look at this,” he said.
When those plays layer on top of one another, it’s hard to wonder how a secondary could sustain itself mentally throughout a 60-minute period. Even when you’re technically sound, Brady finds a way to run up points. Even when he runs up points, he’s going to find a way to run up more points.
After the game, Ryan admirably remained by his locker aware that he’d be part of the story. A reporter late to the scrum asked how a team could start with a 7–0 lead and give up 35 unanswered points after such a positive beginning.
“Number 12,” Ryan said. “Number 12 got going.”
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Woodlands pilot to allow more flexible use of industrial space
In response to demand for more flexible use of industrial space, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and JTC will be piloting new land use guidelines at a multi-tenanted building to be developed by JTC and located within Woodlands North Coast on a site zoned Business 1-White.
The Woodlands pilot development will support manufacturing companies in co-locating their service-driven activities like R&D and after-sales support alongside their manufacturing operations. Companies that have offshored their lower value-added activities can also maintain their more knowledge-intensive activities here, while retaining close oversight of their operations overseas.
In addition, a wider range of uses will be allowed within the Business 1 component, including industrial-related uses that are closely linked to or provide critical support for the industrial sector. For example, engineering and industrial design activities that are currently not allowed in an industrial development would be allowed in the Woodlands pilot development, given that these activities play a key role in the manufacturing value chain.
Clear-cut commercial and other non-industrial activities will continue to be disallowed within the Business 1 component. For example, commercial uses such as accountancy firms, insurance companies, property consultancy companies, maid agencies, travel agencies, and tuition centres will not be supported in the Business 1 component. If such uses are proposed, they would have to be within the White component of the pilot development.
Given the constraints of land in Singapore, the Government has always safeguarded for industrial activities through land use zoning1. However, we recognize that business structures and needs are evolving. More manufacturing companies are shifting their business models from production-led to service-driven activities, or agglomerating their functions across value chains – some are growing their R&D, prototyping, sales/after-sales and other “services”-type activities, and do so alongside their core manufacturing activities so that all functions across their product development cycle are well-integrated.
This is why over the years, URA has progressively updated and revised its industrial land policies. In the 1990s, URA introduced the Business Park zone to better integrate manufacturing with knowledge-intensive activities. In the 2000s, URA introduced e-business and media guidelines (which were further updated in 2014) to better cater to IT and media-related business activities. Zones like Business Park-White and Business-White were also introduced in 2001 and 2003 to provide greater flexibility to combine industrial uses with other compatible uses such as commercial activities. Hence, the existing guidelines already provide flexibility for companies to carry out a range of production, assembly, and warehouse functions, including Industry 4.0 technologies and processes such as autonomous robots, big data and analytics, additive manufacturing, as well as horizontal and vertical system integration.
This pilot represents a continuation of the efforts to respond to changing industry needs. The government will closely monitor the market receptiveness and feedback for the pilot and study the applicability of various features to other locations. Meanwhile, it will also continue to review land use policies for industrial zones to ensure they remain relevant, taking into consideration trends in the manufacturing sector, other emerging sectors, as well as the needs of industrialists.
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Master Paintings Evening Sale
PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK ESTATE
Nicolas-Didier Boguet
AN ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE WITH SHEPHERDS PLAYING PIPES, RESTING ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, WITH MOUNTAINS BEYOND
LOT SOLD. 75,000 USD
01 February 2018 | 6:00 PM EST
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CHANTILLY 1755 - 1839 ROME
signed and dated lower right: Boguet 1792;
inscribed on tomb: Daphnis ego in silvis, hinc usque ad sidera notus/Formosi pecoris custos, formosior ipse1
21 3/4 by 30 1/4 in.; 55.2 by 76.8 cm.
Hauser Collection, Caracas;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 4 June 1980, lot 207;
There acquired by the late owner.
New York, Colnaghi, Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, 1 November - 15 December 1990, no. 56.
A. Wintermute, ed., Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, exhibition catalogue, New York 1990, pp. 259-161, cat. no. 56, reproduced p. 260, plate 56.
Nicolas-Didier Boguet was one of the leading French classical landscape artists working in Italy around the turn of the nineteenth century. Born in Chantilly in 1755, he enrolled at the age of twenty-two at the Académie Royal in Paris. After completing his studies in 1782, Boguet received a number of commissions, including one from Louix XVI's ambassador, Cardinal de Bernis, that brought him to Rome. Intending to stay for only six months, Boguet was seduced by the country and remained in Italy for the rest of his career, later becoming a member of the Academy of St. Luke in Rome as well as a member of the Florence Academy. Although he trained as a history painter, he established his reputation in Italy as a painter of landscapes. Such works arose after spending his summer months roaming the Tuscan countryside, sketching the natural world around him, from peaceful vistas, to rolling mountains, lush foliage, and gentle streams. Just as they were popular during his lifetime among aristocratic clientele, which included Napoleon, Boguet's enchanting views continue to captivate audiences today.
Dated 1792, this verdant and warm Arcadian landscape arose during Boguet's first Roman period (1789-1797), during which time he often included episodes from Roman history and mythology. Here, he illustrates a scene from Virgi's fifth Eclogue in which two shepherds, Menalcus and Mopsus, stumble upon the tomb of Daphnis, a famed poet and Sicilian shepherd known for Bacchic revelry. The Latin inscription found on his tomb reads, in translation, "I woodland Daphnis, blazoned among stars, guarded a lovely flock, still lovelier I" (Virgil, Eclogues, V, 43-44).1
This composition was engraved by Boguet in 1792, and a comparable drawing, likely preparatory in nature, is now preserved in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe in Rome.2 To meet the strong demand of his clientele, Boguet is known to have made repetitions and variations of his works, and another version of this composition, titled Paysage du Latium, is recorded in a Viennese private collection.3
1. See Wintermute, under Literature, p. 261. See also P.J. Alpers, The Singer of Eclogues: A Study of Virgilian Pastoral with a new translation of the Eclogues, Berkely, 1979.
2. See G. Fusconi, I Paesaggi di Nicolas-Didier Boguet e I Luoghi tibulliani, dale collezioni del Gabinetto Nazionale delle stampe, exhibition catalogue, Lungara 1984, p. 110, cat.no. 70, reproduced p. 108.
3. 56 by 77 cm. See M.M. Aubrun, “Nicolas-Didier Boguet (1755-1839) un emule du Lorrain,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXXXIII, 1974, p. 326, cat. no. 3, reproduced.
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work is in lovely condition. The canvas has a European lining. The painting seems to be clean and lightly varnished. The cracking in the sky is very slightly raised, but it is certainly not disturbing. There is one tiny unrestored paint loss in the upper center of the sky. Throughout the remainder of the painting, although some of the foliage reads quite strongly under ultraviolet light, the only retouches are to two losses in the tree trunk behind the figure group and to one loss to the right of the male figure on the far right of the painting.
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
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Drug court grad sent to prison
Friday, July 19, 2019 2:22pm
Two years ago, South Whidbey resident Kody Schwiger graduated from adult Drug Court, was off heroin and talked about becoming a lawyer.
Judges, attorneys and court employees gathered at Island County Superior Court to congratulate him for completing the program, which combines close monitoring with drug treatment. It seemed he had finally kicked a habit that had devastated his promising young life.
Last week, the 26-year-old was back in court to be sentenced for a series of crimes he committed on South Whidbey. He had earlier pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a stolen car, theft in the first degree, residential burglary and criminal trespass in the first degree.
Churchill Vickie Churchill sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
Deputy Prosecutor Michael Safstrom said Schwiger chose to serve a longer sentence rather than agree to a prison-based drug offender sentencing alternative, which would have meant drug treatment.
One of Schwiger’s victims spoke at length about the traumatic effect the crimes had on him and his family. In January, Schwiger burglarized his home, stealing a gun, a crossbow, jewelry, a Civil War sword and other items.
“I just can’t get over the feeling you were in my bedroom, without permission and with ill intent,” the man said, addressing Schwiger. “Going through our most personal space. Taking what could never be replaced.”
The man said Schwiger has had multiple chances to turn his life around, but now needs a long sentence and treatment.
“Help him see, with a severe sentence, he has hit bottom and maybe, just maybe, he will choose to turn his life around,” he said.
A video doorbell captured Schwiger as he entered the house in Freeland. The video clip was posted on the sheriff’s office Facebook page and other social media. An anonymous caller identified Schwiger.
Two days later, an interrupted burglary was reported on Lone Lake Road. The homeowners saw a man driving away in their car; thousands of dollars worth of silver coins and jewelry were also taken.
A couple of days later, deputies found Schwiger and his girlfriend sleeping in the stolen vehicle in the parking lot of Ken’s Korner. The stolen gun, stolen silver coins and some of the stolen jewelry were found inside the car.
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How certain country houses allow HNWs to experience a 'unique sense of place' - Spear's Magazine
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How certain country houses allow HNWs to experience a ‘unique sense of place’
30th July 2019 by William Cash
For HNWs, certain country houses offer the holy grail of historic charm combined with modern luxury service, writes William Cash
Anybody can tell you that if you need to be in the Normandy village of Colleville-sur-Mere early in the morning for a memorial service to honour Americans killed during the D-Day landings, it doesn’t make sense to spend the night in Ireland.
But Donald Trump was never going to miss out on an opportunity to promote his luxury golf resort hotel of Doonbeg. ‘It’s convenient and a great place,’ the president said. I suppose ‘convenient’ can mean what you like when you have two presidential jumbo jets and a fleet of helicopters at your disposal. But then having a president to stay is also good for business.
When I visited the swanky Ashford Castle hotel in County Mayo last year, there were (alongside photos of my country singer cousin Johnny Cash) framed signed photos of President Reagan, who stayed there in the Eighties on a trip to ‘rediscover’ his Irish heritage.
But staying at Doonbeg wasn’t part of the original plan. As I learnt while aboard HMS Victory in Portsmouth to watch the Red Arrows fly over the D-Day memorial event attended by the Queen, the president was meant to have had an intimate VIP dinner onboard HMS Victory hosted by royalty and eating in Nelson’s dining cabin. ‘The president changed his mind at the last minute,’ I was told.
Nelson’s dining room is impressive, in duck-egg blue with 18th-century crystal decanters and the Georgian chairs that Nelson and his officers sat on. When I casually asked if the room was available for private hire, I was told: ‘Yes, but it will cost you £40,000 before any food or wine.’
That got me thinking about where an HNW with a sense of history might choose to celebrate a special occasion. Certainly sending out invitations with the address ‘HMS Victory’ would take some beating. But where would your guests stay? The hammocks below deck aren’t for hire and the secret to a great celebration is not to break up the party, so you need to provide accommodation for guests. The best solution is probably a country house party, so long as you don’t have to cook, wash up, take the champagne bottles out to the recycling bin or make the beds.
HNWs often become afflicted by the ‘room-service’ mentality, wanting a butler and chef on 24-hour-call. That’s why I think the best exclusive place in Europe to celebrate a very special occasion (up to 20 guests in ten luxury bedrooms) is Hound Lodge on the Duke of Richmond’s 12,000-acre Goodwood estate.
Yes, the chic converted ‘sporting lodge’ used to be the former ducal dog kennels. It costs £10,000 a night (excluding wine), but having been to stay twice now I can vouch that the 18th-century lodge is now one of the most exclusive ‘serviced country house’ venues in the world. Hound Lodge plays on the Downton-esque dream of what an English or Scottish house party should be like, rather than the reality (a dribble of bath water, draughts, curtains yellowed by badly behaved dogs and night storage heaters). It feels like a private house, but with none of the discomfort that often goes with a stay in a real English country house.
Fully staffed but totally private, this is an English fantasy but authentic. You could be in a Scottish Highlands hunting lodge, but you’re less than 70 miles from London. My wife loved that the rooms had name cards on each door. The beds have huge oldfashioned eiderdowns, linen sheets and proper blankets – no duvets. The mattresses are stuffed with wool from sheep grazing on the Goodwood estate, and the bath products are branded from Gordon Castle (which the duke’s family also owns) in Scotland.
We liked the ‘butler buzzer’ in each bedroom, the decanter of whisky by the bottle of water and shortbread, the old-fashioned board games, the card table, and the way you can help yourself to a drinks tray. You can also play a round of golf, rent the private cricket ground, take a day’s driven pheasant shooting (another £10,000 or so), have flying lessons, or drive classic racing cars around the Goodwood motor racing circuit.
The other clever thing organised by the lodge’s major duomo, Neil Georges (a former pro golfer), is that dogs are as welcome today at Hound Lodge as they were in the 18th century. Dogs are given their own super-luxurious beds, ‘personalised bowls’ and a dog sitter. Each room is named after one of the hounds from the famous chase of the 1739 Charlton Hunt.
More than anything else, HNWs today want to experience a unique sense of place. The idea of luxury New York or London ‘serviced’ apartments is hardly novel, but the idea of a fully serviced country house with uniformed butlers is something new.
A ‘multi-generational’ trip away for two nights (max) with the grandparents, extended family members and children ‘all included’. Which is why Trump brought his entire family to London on his June state visit.
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Texas A&M WR arrested
Written By Ken Bradley
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Texas A&M receiver Ricky Seals-Jones has been suspended indefinitely after being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct early Sunday in College Station.
According to the police report obtained by KBTX-3 in Bryan, Texas, Seals-Jones was being “carried away by his friends” as bars were closing and after someone bumped into him, Seals-Jones exchanged words and motioned as if he wanted to fight.
A police officer observing the altercation arrested Seals-Jones on the misdemeanor charge.
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A Texas A&M spokesperson told KBTX that the indefinite suspension is athletic department policy.
Seals-Jones arrived at Texas A&M last season as one of the nation’s top receiver recruits. He caught three passes for 84 yards, including a 71-yard TD in the season opener. But he injured his knee on the TD catch when he was hit from behind as he slowed down as he neared the goal line. The injury kept him out the rest of the season and he was given a medical redshirt.
On March 28, Texas A&M QB Kenny Hill was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge.
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Anthony's Week 5 NFL Pointspread Picks
Last week: 5-10. Season totals: 28-35, Pct. .444. Best Bets: 7-5, Pct. .583.
Home team in capital letters; point spreads (opening line) in parentheses after underdog team; selections with point spreads in bold.
HOUSTON 13 (P), Indianapolis 10 - If there is nothing wrong (physically) with Andrew Luck, then why did the Colts re-sign Josh Johnson two days after having cut him? And they're 0-5 against the spread dating back to January's "Deflategate Bowl," which they will get the chance to avenge next Sunday night. Hillary Clinton is more trustworthy than Indianapolis is right now, even with the Colts having won and covered in their last five against the Texans.
New Orleans 42 (+5), PHILADELPHIA 12 - Who did they get this line from - Mark Watney, the character played by Matt Damon in the Martian movie? After being named NFC Offensive Player of the Week in Week 4, Drew Brees is liable to make it two in a row facing the smallest, weakest, softest, least aggressive defense in the NFL - and a team he has personally beaten in five of six as a Saint. A most emphatic best bet.
ATLANTA 38, Washington 14 (+8) - Another lopsided win by a member of the suddenly on-fire NFC South: The Falcons have owned The Team That Dares Not Speak Its Name recently, with four straight wins over them, and three covers - and the latter has owned only misery of late both on rugs (1-8 straight up and 2-7 against the line since 2013) and in domes (3-13 and 6-10 since 2009). Another best bet.
Jacksonville 16 (+3), TAMPA BAY 13 - Can't wait for this one: The team with the longest-active road losing streak, at eleven games, at the team with the longest-active home losing streak, also a tweaker's dozen games. But the Jags are 4-1 straight up and 5-0 against the spread in the lifetime series, and Blake Bortles is less interception-prone than Jameis Winston, who most definitely is not tasting good like a quarterback should right now.
CINCINNATI 24, Seattle 17 (+3) - Who saw this coming: Seattle's offensive line allowing 18 sacks this season, second most in the league (Kansas City has given up 19)? And the last time the zebras gift-wrapped a Monday night victory for the Seahawks at home (vs. Green Bay in 2012), they lost, on the road, the week after.
BALTIMORE 27, Cleveland 10 (+6 1/2) - Johnny Manziel is in the news this week, but only because his grandfather's house burned down Wednesday morning - so look for the Browns to continue to go up in flames in Baltimore, where they've lost seven in a row and 13 of the last 14, covering in just four. Artificial turf has also been a problem for Cleveland, which is 3-13 straight up and 6-9-1 against the line since 2012 as a visitor on the carpet.
TENNESSEE 21 (+3), Buffalo 17 - The bloom didn't take long to fall off Tyrod Taylor's rose - and Buffalo's long-term grass woes, already documented in these lines two weeks ago, include the 0-for-4 collar the Bills have taken in Tennessee, and they have dropped five straight to the Titans all told. Marcus Mariota, getting three points against Taylor, at home? Why the hell not?
GREEN BAY 44, St. Louis 20 (+10) - It will be letdown city for the Rams in the wake of another huge upset win within the division (they lost by two touchdowns to lowly Washington after their opening-day shocker over Seattle) and they have lost their last four both ways to Green Bay by a combined 123-54.
KANSAS CITY 23, Chicago 16 (+10) - The Chiefs aren't 10 points better than Temple! Take the points.
DETROIT 24 (+3), Arizona 20 - Before writing the 0-4 Lions off as "lousy," they have been underdogs in all four of their games despite coming of an 11-5, playoff-making season. That's not easy to pull off - and the road team covering a spread in this series has been absolutely impossible to pull off for a long time, as in not once since 1998, spanning a staggering twelve games, of which it has also lost eleven straight up. And the Cardinals have struggled mightily on artificial turf for almost as long a time - 18-41 outright and 27-31-1 pointwise since 2002.
New England 21, DALLAS 16 (+7) - Here's an interesting stat: The Cowboys are 16-5 straight up in "fatigue games," which befall a team that is not coming off a bye while facing an opponent that is. The second best team in that situation by percentage, Pittsburgh, is 8-4; and despite having won the "Deflategate Bowl" 45-7, the revenge onus may very well fall on the Patriots for the Colts going "sbirro" on them, as they say in the Old Country - and therefore, potentially worth looking ahead to.
Denver 42, OAKLAND 7 (+5 1/2) - The Raiders got exposed big time last week and they have been outscored 260-109 during their current seven-game losing streak both ways versus the Broncos, who for their part have won 16 consecutive road games on natural grass, with a 15-1 spread record therein. This has all the makings of another one-sided affair at a square price.
N.Y. GIANTS 24, San Francisco 14 (+7) - It was kind of funny, if somewhat out of character for Clay Matthews, the way Matthews went all Lloyd Bentsen on Colin Kaepernick in their game last week. But the Giants have back-to-back NFC East games coming up so keep any action light; in fact, with an outright majority - eight out of 14 - of this week's games having (opening) lines of 3, 7 or 10, if you can find a book that offers the proposition that at least one game will end in a push against the spread, bet on the "yes," with this game quite possibly being the game (or one of them) that makes that bet a winning one.
Pittsburgh 20 (+3 1/2), SAN DIEGO 17 - Le'Veon Bell is still quite startable for fantasy owners because defenses will respect Michael Vick enough not to do the eight-in-the-box thing. And teams having played on Thursday night the previous week are 5-1 both ways so far in 2015 (this applies to Baltimore this week as well), and the Steelers will have an extra day still as they go from Thursday night last week to Monday night this week. San Diego's cogs on offense are starting to show their age in a big way.
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Jyotirmoy Halder
Sep 02, 2019 IST
Former Chelsea and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has provided his verdict on the enthralling 2-2 draw between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday evening, labelling the game as "funny".
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Arsenal hosted Tottenham Hotspur in the 185th edition of the north London derby last night. Both sides entered this clash on the back of disappointing defeats and were looking for the three points as a result. Although Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane gave Spurs a 2-0 lead in the first half, Alexandre Lacazette's sharp finish ensured the Gunners trailed by a single goal heading into the break.
In the second half, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang managed to get on the end of Matteo Guendouzi's lofted pass, slotting the ball past Hugo Lloris to even proceedings. Neither side could produce the winner though and had to settle for a share of the spoils.
Mourinho, who has been working with Sky Sports since the beginning of the 2019-20 season, gave his verdict on the game.
"It was funny, emotional and good to watch. If you go a bit further than that and you try to analyse the game, there were some principles of play that were incredible to watch at this level but what matters is the millions of people watching this game, everybody at home and the thousands that were here, they would've enjoyed it."
Mourinho went on to add that he likes many things about the current Arsenal squad, but still feels Spurs will end the season higher than their north London rivals.
"I still think Tottenham. It's Man City and Liverpool and I still think Spurs are the third-best team. However, I like many things in the Arsenal squad."
After the international break next week, Arsenal will travel to Watford, while Spurs have a home fixture against Roy Hodgson's Crystal Palace.
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Fake names, non-existent racehorses in council corruption: IBAC probe
By Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar
Updated November 19, 2019 — 4.20pm first published at 12.28pm
The property developer at the centre of a Victorian anti-corruption inquiry has been confronted with evidence he used a fake name to deposit cash in the bank account of Casey councillor and former VFL footballer Geoff Ablett.
John Woodman was shown a bank slip from Port Douglas in late 2013 where he withdrew $5000 from the Commonwealth Bank in his own name. He was then shown another bank slip from five minutes later, at the ANZ Bank in Port Douglas, where $5000 under the name of G Williams was deposited in Cr Ablett's account.
Geoff Ablett at Casey Fields in Cranbourne. Credit:The Age
Under questioning Mr Woodman admitted the fake signature of G Williams was in his hand writing. "Yes sir, I believe so." But when counsel assisting IBAC, Michael Tovey, QC, asked if this was "clear evidence of corruption", Mr Woodman said he could not "recall doing that."
IBAC’s Operation Sandon is the most significant probe into alleged planning-related corruption in Victoria in decades with its examination of land deals in Melbourne’s sprawling south-east.
Mr Woodman on Tuesday was confronted with a number of other payments to Mr Ablett including one of $17,500. He also admitted an elaborate scheme to pay another councillor $5000 per month so that he could supposedly procure racehorses for wealthy Chinese buyers.
But under questioning Mr Woodman said the payments to Casey councillor Sam Aziz were really about his role as a councillor, not for his ability to sell racehorses, and that he was given no evidence that Cr Aziz had ever contacted would-be buyers.
Sold his house and quit the country: Former Casey mayor Sam Aziz. Credit:James Taylor
The payments to Cr Aziz had been funnelled through Spicer Thoroughbreds, a Victorian horse breeder, the IBAC hearing was told. Mr Woodman said he had been told previously by then Spicer employee Bernard Lee, the boyfriend of his Liberal-linked lobbyist Lorraine Wreford, that Cr Aziz had been working on selling racehorses. He now realised this was not the case, Mr Woodman said.
The inquiry heard that the owner of Spicer Thoroughbreds, Brad Spicer, had told IBAC investigators the payments to Cr Aziz were “totally unauthorised” and he knew nothing of them.
Cr Aziz was separately paid $25,000 per month by companies linked to Mr Woodman for supposed consultancy work on a scheme for a satellite city at Little River, west of Melbourne. Mr Woodman, when pressed by counsel assisting on Tuesday, denied any knowledge of another $80,000 payment to Cr Aziz.
Mr Woodman told the inquiry that he made donations to major parties and paid money to Labor and Liberal linked lobbyists to gain favourable access for his own interests and his clients. He said the system was stacked against those who could not pay for access and that he had used his financial clout and lobbyists to get that access.
He said current laws were not adequate to control that access-buying. "My experience since the early 90s has been that supporting political parties during an election campaign will promote the opportunity during the elected time to meet with people and discuss a particular issue."
Labor-linked lobbyist Phil Staindl. Credit:Joe Castro
His lobbyists were Labor-linked Phil Staindl who received a $3000 per month retainer and was to receive a $250,000 success fee for his work on the project to get a large property owned by construction giant Leighton rezoned from industrial to residential. The proposed success fee was withdrawn after the state government later banned payments of this type.
Mr Woodman’s other lobbyist was former Liberal state MP Lorraine Wreford who was on a retainer of $3000 per month, later increased to $5000 a month, and a promise of a trip to Europe for her and her boyfriend if the Leighton rezoning was successful. The Cranbourne West rezoning could have led to a $100 million windfall for Leighton, which later changed its name to CIMIC.
The inquiry also produced an email from Mr Woodman to the private email addresses of Casey councillors Aziz, Ablett and Amanda Stapleton that included a draft motion to council on the Cranbourne West rezoning. Mr Woodman conceded it was improper. "I'm taken back that I had suggested that motion," he said.
However, Mr Woodman defended payments, through a consultant, worth $60,000 a year to the head of local residents' group, Ray Walker, who advocated against it remaining an industrial precinct. Mr Walker was paid to collect real estate sales data, despite him having no expertise in that field.
In an explosive day of evidence, former Liberal MP Gary Rowe became the third councillor at the City of Casey to become caught up in the saga.
The inquiry also heard that senior Labor minister Martin Pakula, an MP in Melbourne’s south-east, received a donation of $20,800, while Labor’s successful candidate for the state seat of Cranbourne, Pauline Richards, received a donation of about $20,000. Mr Pakula has denied this but confirmed that Watsons paid $3300 too attend a fundraiser in April 2018.
At an IBAC public hearing on Tuesday developer Mr Woodman confirmed he raised more than $10,000 at Crown Casino for Cr Rowe in the Casey council election in 2016.
Cr Rowe had initially been a key critic of a proposal to rezone a large property owned by construction giant Leighton from industrial to residential in Cranbourne West. Cr Rowe later changed his position on the rezoning, which could have led to a $100 million windfall.
Lorraine Wreford
The council had opposed the rezoning in 2014 but back flipped and supported it the following year. The rezoning proposal is now with planning minister Richard Wynne.
Cr Rowe hung up when called for comment by The Age on Tuesday. Mr Woodman denied to the inquiry that Cr Rowe had been a thorn in his side or had felt displeasure towards him.
The inquiry heard that Woodman-linked companies dramatically switched support to Victorian Labor ahead of the 2018 state election and away from the Liberal Party. Donations to Labor and its candidates shot up from $94,500 in 2015 to $157,900 in 2018. Donations to the Liberals for the 2018 election fell from $80,000 to $63,000.
The class of 2012: Cranbourne councillors. Left to right, Geoff Ablett, Amanda Stapledon and Gary Rowe. All have been mentioned in the IBAC hearing. Credit:Ted Kloszynski
Mr Pakula on Tuesday confirmed he had received the donation but denied approaching Mr Woodman for it.
"I've never approached him for a donation," the Racing Minister said. "What may have occurred is that people organising a fundraiser for me may have invited him to attend a fundraiser."
On Monday the hearing revealed that companies linked to Mr Woodman paid two councillors at Casey council more than $1.2 million. A lawyer for the Victorian anti-corruption commission said this was an attempt to win favourable planning decisions.
Cr Aziz wrote in a social media post on Monday that stories he had "fled Australia" to Egypt, having sold his house, after being questioned by IBAC, were "rubbish".
“Nothing unusual about me travelling abroad. These are the facts,” he wrote, adding that “I intend to vigorously defend all and any allegations made against me only through the legal process, not through media commentary”.
Mr Tovey said some payments were in cash and appeared to be "patently corrupt".
Key issues of interest were central to stories in The Sunday Age in October and November last year, including the proposed rezoning of land in Cranbourne West owned by construction giant Leighton, and council decisions favourable to Woodman-linked company Wolfdene, including at the Pavilion housing development and the construction of an intersection at Hall's Road in Cranbourne.
Called to give evidence, Mr Woodman denied he used money to gain favour with councils and said his generous political donations were intended to encourage "good governance".
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Irving has been out since Nov. 14 with a shoulder impingement
By Colin Martin | Jan 9 | 4:00PM
Nov 14, 2019; Denver, CO, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first quarter against the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports (Ron Chenoy)
Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving spoke to reporters on Thursday after practice and gave some insight to his potential return.
"Hopefully I can get some game reps, in addition to this practice, but probably in the next week or so," Irving said. "It could be less than that. But I'm going to give myself a week, and see where we go from there after another evaluation."
Irving has been dealing with a shoulder impingement and shoulder bursitis that has kept him sidelined since Nov. 14.
Nets' Kevin Durant claps back at radio host, fans on Twitter
Among Brooklyn's injuries, Durant is recovering from a torn Achilles
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 8 | 9:51PM
Jan 7, 2020; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant (7) after the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Nicole Sweet-USA TODAY Sports (Nicole Sweet)
Kevin Durant has not been hesitant to speak his mind on Twitter, and the injured Nets star was back at it again Wednesday when a radio host suggested that no one cares about Brooklyn's success or failures.
Brandon Tierney, a New York-based national media type for CBS Sports, said on Twitter early Wednesday that "no one cares" about the Nets' seven-game losing streak and that it "speaks volumes" to Brooklyn's relevance in a city shared by the Knicks.
Evidently brought to the attention of Durant, the former Oklahoma City Thunder and Golden State Warriors forward who signed with the Nets over the Knicks and others for a four-year deal worth more then $164 million, the 10-time All-Star and four-time scoring champ unloaded.
Former Net Jared Dudley believes team's focus this season should be player development
Dudley also discussed team's changing culture and Knicks' practice facility
By Ian Begley | Jan 7 | 11:15PM
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LOS ANGELES - Jared Dudley's with the Lakers now, but he's more than qualified to analyze what's happened with the Brooklyn Nets this season.
Dudley was an important on and off-court contributor for Brooklyn last season. He averaged five points in 20 minutes off the bench for the Nets and provided veteran leadership for young players like Caris LeVert and D'Angelo Russell.
So his thoughts on the Nets carry more weight than others.
Tags: Caris LeVert, D'Angelo Russell, Jarrett Allen, Spencer Dinwiddie, Ian Begley
Nets fall in OT despite Allen's strong effort
By Coby Green | Jan 7 | 10:10PM
Jarrett Allen was a non-stop human highlight reel for the Nets Tuesday night against the Thunder, putting up poster dunks and big blocks as Brooklyn lost a tight game in overtime at Barclays Center.
Allen put up 12 points, seven rebounds, and two blocks on the night, but his real highlights came in the air.
Early in the first quarter, Rodions Kurucs drove under the basket and threw a short shuffle pass to Allen, who then put Mike Muscala on a poster, on what is now in the running for dunk of the year.
Jared Dudley defends Nets staff's handling of Kyrie Irving, Caris LeVert injuries
Dudley spent just the 2018-19 in Brooklyn, but has raved about the staff
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 5 | 10:07PM
Nov 6, 2018; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Brooklyn Nets forward Jared Dudley (left) grabs a rebound against Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker in the second half at Talking Stick Resort Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
As the Nets gradually get Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert back into the fold from respective injuries, one former Brooklyn player spoke out to defend the team's handling of the recovery processes.
Jared Dudley spent just one season -- the 2018-19 campaign -- with the Nets, but saw enough to know how players with injuries are taken care of.
Now with the Los Angeles Lakers, Dudley spoke out Sunday on Twitter when one fan account appeared to be critical of how the Nets' have approached Irving's and LeVert's injuries.
Tags: Caris LeVert, Jared Dudley
Here's how Caris LeVert played in his first game back for Nets since thumb injury
Guard hadn't played since Nov. 10, missed last 24 games
By Coby Green | Jan 4 | 8:44PM
Caris LeVert finally made his return to the court for the Nets on Saturday night against the Raptors, after missing the last 24 games with a thumb injury.
LeVert, who had surgery on his thumb on Nov. 14, was expected to be back within four-to-six weeks, but the recovery time went a little longer than expected and slid into a seventh week before Saturday.
In his first game, LeVert played 16 minutes off the bench and was very efficient with his time on the court, scoring 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting -- including hitting both his attempts from beyond the three-point line.
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5 Takeaways from Nets' Kyrie Irving's press conference, including opting for a cortisone shot over surgery
Surgery could still be in play for the All-Star guard
Kyrie Irving addressed the media at Barclays Center for the first time since injuring his shoulder in early November.
Irving, who has missed the Nets' previous 22 games (with Saturday's game against the Raptors being game 23), spoke about his shoulder impingement, confirming that he also had shoulder bursitis, which has been previously reported. Irving also explained how he opted for a cortisone shot over surgery, although surgery could still be in play.
Here are the five biggest takeaways from Irving's Saturday press conference:
Ellenson played in just five games for the Nets
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The Nets have waived two-way forward Henry Ellenson, it was reported by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday.
Ellenson averaged three minutes of play in just five games for Brooklyn this season.
Wojnarowski added that the Nets, who recently lost guard David Nwaba for the season due to a torn Achilles, will likely add another backcourt player on a two-way or 10-day contract.
Tags: Henry Ellenson
Nets' Caris LeVert reportedly set to return Saturday vs. Toronto
Fourth-year guard had thumb surgery November 14
By Alex Smith | Jan 3 | 12:52AM
Apr 10, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert (22) brings the ball up court in the first quarter against the Miami Heat at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports (Wendell Cruz)
While the Nets still patiently await the return of Kyrie Irving, the team is set to regain the other key piece of their starting backcourt.
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, Caris LeVert is expected to return to the lineup on Saturday against the Raptors.
LeVert has missed seven weeks due to right thumb surgery, which he underwent on November 14. His recovery process has lasted slightly longer than the team's initial four-to-six weeks diagnosis.
Nets waive David Nwaba, who tore his Achilles in December
Nwaba will miss the remainder of the season
Dec 14, 2019; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Brooklyn Nets guard David Nwaba (0) drives to the basket as Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam (43) tries to defend during the third quarter at Scotiabank Arena. Mandatory Credit: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports (Nick Turchiaro)
The Nets are waiving G/F David Nwaba, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Nwaba ruptured his right Achilles tendon on Dec. 19, 2019 against the San Antonio Spurs, and underwent successful surgery the following day.
The 26-year-old averaged 5.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13 minutes per game off the bench for the Nets.
Brooklyn's starting guards have been out since mid-November
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 2 | 9:55AM
Nov 4, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) and guard Caris LeVert (22) and head coach Kenny Atkinson react in the fourth quarter against the New Orleans Pelicans at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Nicole Sweet-USA TODAY Sports (NICOLE SWEET)
Out of action since mid-November, Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert remain out as the Brooklyn Nets' three-game road trip continues.
Ahead of Thursday's 8:30 p.m. ET game against the Dallas Mavericks, the Nets had a stacked injury report with six players on the list.
Among the handful, Garrett Temple is questionable with a right knee contusion. Nicolas Claxton is out due to left hamstring soreness.
Stern, who oversaw the league for 30 years, retired in 2014
Former NBA commissioner David Stern died Wednesday afternoon, 20 days after he was hospitalized Dec. 12 in New York upon suffering a brain hemorrhage, the league announced. He was 77.
Stern collapsed while at Brasserie 8 1/2 in Manhattan and was then rushed to the hospital for surgery, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported Dec. 12.
The NBA released the following statement from current commissioner Adam Silver.
Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson on loss to Timberwolves: 'Just an unacceptable performance by us'
Team has lost three straight games and four of its last five
By Corey Hersch | Dec 30, 2019 | 11:34PM
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The Nets lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in overtime on Monday, 122-115, their third straight loss and fourth in the last five games.
Head coach Kenny Atkinson was less than enthused with his team's effort in the loss.
"Just an unacceptable performanace by us," Atkinson said. "We were lucky to get to overtime, to be honest. Even at halftime, I thought that. We're just not playing at a high level. We're not playing up to Nets standards and it's hard to figure out why."
Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie on loss to Rockets: 'If I do my job, we win this game'
Guard shot 6-for-20 in loss on Saturday
By Corey Hersch | Dec 29, 2019 | 11:02AM
Dec 28, 2019; Houston, Texas, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie (8) shoots the ball as Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook (0) defends during the first quarter at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports (Troy Taormina)
As Kyrie Irving continues to remain out of the Nets lineup, Spencer Dinwiddie has continued to see more and more usage on offense.
With that comes different looks on defense, and following Saturday's 108-98 loss to the Rockets, Dinwiddie took the blame for not being able to adjust to what Houston was throwing at him.
"We boxed-and-1 [James] Harden and Harden had 40. He still found a way to manufacture points for his team," Dinwiddie said. "There are no excuses. … If I do my job, we win this game. That's kind of what it is at the end of the day."
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NBA analyst Ric Bucher: There's 'more going on' with Nets' Kyrie Irving than just physical issues
Irving has not played since Nov. 14
Nets guard Kyrie Irving has now missed the team's last 19 games, with the most recent being Thursday's 94-82 loss to the Knicks.
And while the team has said that Irving has not yet been cleared for contact because of his shoulder impingement injury, could there be more to the All-Star's absence?
NBA analyst Ric Bucher was a guest on WFAN on Friday, and when asked about Irving's status, Bucher said that he's been hearing that there's more than meets the eye with the situation.
Nets Takeaways from Thursday's 94-82 loss to the Knicks, including a dismal shooting performance
Nets shot just 26.9 percent from the floor
The Knicks took advantage of an awful shooting night by the Nets, topping Brooklyn 94-82 at Barclays Center. >> Box Score
1) Neither team shot the ball particularly well on Thursday night. In the first half, the Nets shot just 26.7 percent from the floor, and while the Knicks were only slightly better at 34 percent, New York was able to take advantage of a red-hot half from Julius Randle to jump out to a 46-41 lead at the half.
In the third quarter, the Knicks began to pull away. Randle stayed hot, while Elfrid Payton and Marcus Morris also had some key plays, and the Knicks jumped out to an 18-point lead after three, outscoring the Nets 33-20 in the third quarter. In the fourth, the Nets' shooting woes continued, and the Knicks were able to maintain a double-digit lead, hanging on for the win.
Tags: Mitchell Robinson, Spencer Dinwiddie
Nets coach also shot down reports of Irving having thoracic bursitis
Oct 27, 2019; Memphis, TN, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) celebrates making a shot against the Memphis Grizzlies during the first quarter at the FedExForum. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports (Jerome Miron)
On Tuesday, reports came out that Nets guard Kyrie Irving could be out another two to three weeks due to his shoulder injury, but head coach Kenny Atkinson said on Thursday that's not the case.
The original report stated that the Nets are now referring to the injury internally as a "thoracic bursitis," though a "shoulder impingement" was the initial diagnosis given by the team.
"I don't want to comment on a report because what you're telling me - whatever that report said is not true. We're still in the same place the last time I talked," Atkinson said before Thursday's game against the Knicks. "Like I said, the thing is we haven't gotten to the contact with him. We're on-court workout situation but the contact just hasn't been cleared yet. I think that's the next hurdle. I wish I could tell you when that is. Hopefully sooner rather than later."
Nets' Kyrie Irving could reportedly be out another two to three weeks
Point guard has been out since Nov. 14 with right shoulder injury
Kyrie Irving (Jerome Miron)
Kyrie Irving's road to recovery appears to still be a bumpy one.
Sidelined with what had initially been termed a "right shoulder impingement," Irving could remain out of the lineup for another two to three weeks, according to a report cited in the New York Daily News. The original reporting comes from Heavy.com.
The report also indicates that the organization is now privately referring to Irving's injury as "thoracic bursitis."
All-Star guard will miss his 18th straight game
Nov 14, 2019; Denver, CO, USA; Brooklyn Net head coach Kenny Atkinson and guard Kyrie Irving (11) talk in the fourth quarter against the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports (Ron Chenoy)
Saturday night's game against the Atlanta Hawks will be the 18th straight game that Kyrie Irving has missed, and it doesn't sound like he's getting any closer to a return.
Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson told reporters at Barclays Center that Irving has still not been cleared for contact due to his shoulder impingement. Originally, Atkinson said that the Irving would be cleared for contact within a week or two, but that clearly has not been the case.
Irving originally suffered his injury against the Utah Jazz on November 12, but he attempted to play through the pain. He played 35 minutes against Denver two nights later, but was sidelined after that.
In his first season with the Nets, Irving has averaged 28.5 points, 7.2 assists and 5.4 rebounds per game. The All-Star guard scored 50 points in his Nets' debut, though the team dropped the game to Minnesota.
Nwaba's scoring had been up over the past six games
Dec 15, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard David Nwaba (0) goes to the basket against Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris (12) and guard Josh Richardson (0) during the first half at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
The Nets announced that guard/forward David Nwaba underwent successful surgery on Friday to repair his ruptured right Achilles, ending his season. The surgery was performed by Dr. Martin O'Malley at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Nwaba down during the opening minutes of the fourth quarter in Thursday's 118-105 loss to the Spurs in San Antonio.
"We can talk about the game, but I'm concerned about David Nwaba, (he) hurt himself out there tonight," Kenny Atkinson told reporters after the game. "That's really where our thoughts are. It's tough to focus on the game right now. He's playing as well as anybody on our team, so tough blow. That's kind of where our hearts and mind are right now."
In his first season with Brooklyn, the 26-year-old has averaged 5.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13 minutes per game. He's come on strong for the Nets in his last six games, averaging 9.3 points while shooting 50 percent from the floor.
Kyrie Irving not cleared for contact as Nets monitor potential return to practice
He misses his 13th straight game Wednesday as the Nets host the Hornets
By Garrett Stepien | Dec 11, 2019 | 6:29PM
Nov 29, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets injured players Kyrie Irving (left) and Kevin Durant talk during a timeout against Boston Celtics during the second half at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Andy Marlin-USA TODAY Sports
While the Nets entered the week on Sunday hopeful for Kyrie Irving's return to practice, Brooklyn's star point guard is not quite ready.
Prior to Wednesday's 7:30 p.m. game against the Charlotte Hornets (10-16), Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson told reporters that Irving is not cleared for contact.
Out for 13 straight games, Irving has not played since Nov. 14's 101-93 win over the Denver Nuggets.
Nets' Kyrie Irving could return to practice within next week or two, Kenny Atkinson says
Brooklyn's star point guard is working back from an injury after missing 12 games
By Garrett Stepien | Dec 8, 2019 | 10:00PM
Nov 18, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) watches game against the Indiana Pacers from the bench during the second half at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
Out for 12 games since he last played in Nov. 14's 101-93 loss to the Denver Nuggets, Kyrie Irving has missed almost the past month of the Brooklyn Nets' early 2019-20 season.
But as his right shoulder impingement recovery progresses, the star point guard is trending in the right direction.
While the Nets are likely to be without him on the court for the next week, head coach Kenny Atkinson provided a positive update on Irving, who could be back at practice within the next week or two.
Kyrie Irving's injury reportedly could keep Nets star out 'a few more' weeks
Irving has not played for Brooklyn since Nov. 14, missing 10 games
By Garrett Stepien | Dec 4, 2019 | 9:34PM
Nov 14, 2019; Denver, CO, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) warms up before a game against the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports (Ron Chenoy)
Kyrie Irving's injury has kept the star point guard out for the Nets' past 10 games, including Wednesday's 130-118 win over the Hawks at State Farm Arena, and the absence could extend "a few more weeks."
Irving, who has been sidelined with a right shoulder impingement since starting Nov. 14's 101-93 loss to the Denver Nuggets, would be "lucky" if he could return several weeks from now, according to Brian Lewis of the New York Post.
Head coach Kenny Atkinson addressed Irving's injury before the team's leading scorer and facilitator missed his third straight game Nov. 20, when he sat for the Nets' 101-91 win over the Charlotte Hornets.
Kevin Garnett not fazed by Kyrie Irving leaving Celtics to play for Nets
"Boston's a tough town, dawg. You have to have some major cojones to be there"
By Ian Begley | Dec 3, 2019 | 3:08PM
Jan 19, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett reacts from the bench during the second half of a game against the New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center. The Pelicans defeated the Timberwolves 114-99. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports (Derick E. Hingle)
Former Celtics great Kevin Garnett wasn't surprised that Kyrie Irving left Boston in the offseason to sign with the Brooklyn Nets.
"No," Garnett said during an interview in New York to promote the film, 'Uncut Gems,' which stars Garnett and Adam Sandler and will be released on Christmas.
Garnett explained why he wasn't shocked that Irving didn't want to re-sign with the Celtics.
Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie thriving in Kyrie Irving's absence
Dinwiddie has started each of last eight games for Nets
By Corey Hersch | Nov 30, 2019 | 1:09PM
Kyrie Irving has been out of the lineup since Nov. 14 with a right shoulder impingement. The 27-year-old was averaging 28.5 points over his first 11 games in a Nets uniform, and his absence left a major void in the team's offensive production.
Enter Spencer Dinwiddie. Since being inserted into the starting lineup, the Colorado product has been the Nets' linchpin, averaging 24.5 points and 7.8 assists over the last eight games. The Nets are 6-2 in those games.
"The role is completely different so obviously, there is a change there," Dinwiddie said after Friday's 112-107 win over the Celtics. "My approach to the game is very similar either way. It's whatever the team needs to win and then the role kind of dictates what that is. Sometimes it will be defense, sometimes it will be offense."
Celtics' Marcus Smart, Robert Williams speak highly of Nets' Kyrie Irving after Friday's game
Irving played for the Celtics from 2017-19
By Colin Martin | Nov 29, 2019 | 6:01PM
Feb 13, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; Dressed in street clothes, Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (11) has a laugh with guard Marcus Smart (36) during the second half against the Detroit Pistons at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports (Winslow Townson)
On Wednesday, Nets point guard and former Celtic Kyrie Irving was booed throughout the game, despite not even being in attendance as he recovers from a shoulder injury.
After the game, Irving spoke out on his Instagram story, calling the criticism from Boston fans "ignorant and obtrusive." Even Celtics guard Jaylen Brown -- a teammate of Irving's in Boston -- said there was no need for Celtics fans to boo Irving.
The Nets and Celtics played each other again on Friday, as Irving was in attendance at the Barclays Center, but did not play. Some of his former Celtics teammates, including guard Marcus Smart and center Robert Williams, shared hugs with Irving and spoke about their relationship with him after the game.
Nets' Kyrie Irving ruled out for Sunday's game against Heat
Head coach Kenny Atkinson said Irving has "started on-court work"
After the Nets' 112-107 win over the Celtics on Friday afternoon, head coach Kenny Atkinson told the media that Kyrie Irving will not play on Sunday against the Heat in Brooklyn.
"First thing about Kyrie, he started on-court work, which is a real positive sign for us," Atkinson said. "He will be out for Miami. And then we'll see how it progresses. The fact that he started the oncourt work is good news for us. Out for Miami and then we'll see going forward."
It will be the ninth-straight game that Irving has missed, as the point guard is dealing with a right shoulder impingement that has kept him out since Nov. 14.
Nets' Kyrie Irving to miss Friday's game against Celtics
Irving hasn't played since Nov. 14
Kyrie Irving (Nicole Sweet)
Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving will miss his eighth-straight game on Friday when the team plays the Celtics in Brooklyn, the team announced.
Irving hasn't played since Nov. 14 against the Nuggets, as the New Jersey native has been dealing with a shoulder injury.
It was announced on Nov. 22 that Irving would not play in the team's next three games -- against the Knicks, Cavaliers, and Celtics.
Nets' Kevin Durant defends Kyrie Irving on Twitter after Celtics game
Durant took to Twitter after Irving's lengthy message on Instagram
By Garrett Stepien | Nov 28, 2019 | 12:17PM
Feb 16, 2019; Charlotte, NC, USA; Team Lebron forward Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warrior (35) handles the ball against Team Lebron guard Kyrie Irving of the Boston Celtics (11) during NBA All-Star Game practice at the Bojangles Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports (Bob Donnan)
Kyrie Irving took to Instagram after Wednesday's 121-110 loss for the Nets against the Celtics at TD Garden in Boston featured boos and chants directed toward the point guard, and the actions evidently did not sit well with teammate Kevin Durant.
Irving, who fired back at Celtics fans' criticism by calling the actions "ignorant and obtrusive," was not in attendance for the anticipated return to face his former team as he missed the Nets' seventh straight game with a right shoulder impingement.
Irving's absence did not stop Celtics fans' negativity, despite Boston head coach Brad Stevens' pregame plea and wing Jaylen Brown's postgame take.
Nets' Kyrie Irving fires back against Celtics fans' criticism, calling it 'ignorant and obtrusive'
Irving posted his message on his Instagram story
Kyrie Irving was the subject of boos and chants from Celtics fans on Wednesday night as the team hosted the Nets.
Irving, who wasn't even traveling with the team as he continues to sit out with a shoulder injury, drew the ire of Celtics fans for electing to leave the team to sign a max contract with the Nets this past offseason.
Following the Celtics' win over Brooklyn, Irving fired back against all the criticism coming his way, via a post to his Instagram story.
Kyrie Irving with thoughts on his return to Boston (via kyrieirving/IG) pic.twitter.com/SKSNGaeixs
- SNY (@SNYtv) November 28, 2019
Celtics' Jaylen Brown says fans shouldn't boo Nets' Kyrie Irving
Brown and the Celtics handed the Irving-less Nets a 121-110 loss
Jan 16, 2018; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (11) congratulates guard Jaylen Brown (7) after a score during the second half against the New Orleans Pelicans at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports (Greg M. Cooper)
Kyrie Irving did not play -- let alone attend -- at TD Garden in Boston, where the Nets suffered Wednesday's 121-110 loss to the Celtics, but the crowd of 19,156 let their feelings be known about the team's former star point guard as they booed throughout the night.
Irving missed his seventh straight game as he recovers from a right shoulder impingement, but Celtics fans still chanted "Kyrie sucks" among other actions to share their thoughts on the former Boston star, who spurned the team for the Nets after two years from 2017-19.
But one of Irving's former teammates, Celtics guard Jaylen Brown, believes that the fans should focus less on frustrations from the past two seasons and instead pay attention to Boston's strong start.
Kyrie Irving was not even with the team due to injury
By Alex Smith | Nov 27, 2019 | 7:48PM
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Kyrie Irving isn't playing for the Nets on Wednesday night. In fact, he's not even with the team in Boston.
But Celtics fans didn't seem to care.
As the Nets and Celtics matched up at TD Garden in a game that was supposed to be Irving's first trip back to Boston since leaving the Celtics for the Nets in free agency, the Boston fans had a lot to say about their former point guard.
During the first quarter, loud "Kyrie sucks!" chants broke out throughout the TD Garden.
Celtics' Brad Stevens on Nets' Kyrie Irving: 'The level of scrutiny is unfair'
Stevens says Boston's lack of success was collective, not on Irving
Dec 19, 2018; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (11) talks with head coach Brad Stevens during the second half against the Phoenix Suns at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports (Winslow Townson)
Kyrie Irving is not with the Nets in Boston for Wednesday's 7 p.m. game at TD Garden against the Celtics, but Brad Stevens received plenty of questions before tip-off about the team's point guard from 2017-19.
Out for the seventh straight game as he nurses his right shoulder impingement, Irving misses his return to Boston but he still gets backlash from fans, including signs posted outside the arena calling Irving a "coward."
Stevens, who coached Irving for the past two seasons in Boston and has been with the Celtics since 2013, said during his pregame media availability that the team's lack of success did not fall on the point guard.
Nets' DeAndre Jordan joins Kyrie Irving as out for Wednesday at Celtics
Brooklyn is now without Jordan, Irving and Caris LeVert in Boston
Oct 30, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets center DeAndre Jordan (6) reacts after a technical foul during the second half against the Indiana Pacers at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
As the Nets get set to take on the Celtics, Kyrie Irving is not the only Brooklyn player who will miss Wednesday's 7 p.m. tip-off at TD Garden in Boston.
Along with their star point guard, who is out for the seventh straight game as he recovers from his right shoulder impingement, they revealed Wednesday afternoon that center DeAndre Jordan would also sit due to left ankle soreness.
Starting shooting guard Caris LeVert (right thumb surgery) remains out indefinitely while star forward Kevin Durant (right Achilles rehab) is still unlikely to return in time for the 2019-20 season.
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Knicks' Mitchell Robinson laughs at idea that Jarrett Allen is best young center in New York
Robinson has the edge in some areas, while Allen has it in others
By Danny Abriano | Nov 25, 2019 | 11:21AM
Nov 24, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson (23) fouls Brooklyn Nets center Jarrett Allen (31) during the second half at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
Mitchell Robinson and Jarrett Allen are both terrific players who should be impact players for the Knicks and Nets in the coming years. But Robinson finds the notion that Allen has emerged as the best young center in New York to be laughable.
After the Nets won on Sunday night -- the second time they've beaten the Knicks this season in as many tries -- @NetsDaily tweeted that Allen had "proven" himself to be better than Robinson, writing:
"In 3-game winning streak, @_bigjayy_ has averaged 17 and 12. He's also the NBA leader in shooting percentage so far this season."
Tags: Jarrett Allen, Mitchell Robinson
Former Nets SF Richard Jefferson says he chose to retire from NBA instead of sign with Knicks
Jefferson said Sunday he would have rather called it a career than be a Knick
Dec 23, 2016; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers forward Richard Jefferson (24) warms up before the game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Brooklyn Nets at Quicken Loans Arena. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports (Ken Blaze)
Imagine if Richard Jefferson played for the Knicks?
The former Net from 2001-08 joked that he knew his time in the NBA would be over if New York were to express interest.
Jefferson retired after the 2017-18 season with the Denver Nuggets, but revealed on the YES Network broadcast of Sunday's game at Madison Square Garden in New York between the Knicks and Brooklyn Nets that the former gave him a call before he decided to end his 17-year career.
NBA considering playoff reseeding, in-season tournament, other dramatic changes: report
League is pushing for changes to be made for 2021-22 season
May 8, 2019; Milwaukee, WI, USA; NBA Playoffs logo on a Milwaukee Bucks bench seat prior to game five of the second round of the 2019 NBA Playoffs against the Boston Celtics at Fiserv Forum. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports (Jeff Hanisch)
Big changes could be coming to the NBA in the near future.
According to a report from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the league is considering making sweeping changes that include a shortened regular season, an in-season soccer-style, tournament, reseeding in the playoffs, and a new play-in scenario for the playoffs.
Wojnarowski reports that the NBA is in "serious discussions" with the NBA Players Association and broadcast partners in regard to these new proposals, with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver behind the majority of the changes, and that the league is hoping to implement them for the 2021-22 season, with the framework needing to be established by this April's board of governors meeting.
WATCH: Kenny Atkinson happy with Nets' defense, play of Spencer Dinwiddie in win over Kings
Dinwiddie shined in place of Kyrie Irving
The Nets held the lead from start to finish in Friday's 116-97 win over the Sacramento Kings at Barclays Center.
After the game, head coach Kenny Atkinson was proud of the active defense played by his team, and also singled out the performance of Spencer Dinwiddie, who scored 23 points and added seven assists, starting in place of the injured Kyrie Irving.
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Home Blog Amundsen and Scott South Pole Centenary Celebration
Amundsen and Scott South Pole Centenary Celebration
Sue Grimwood
*Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans* & *Robert Falcon Scott*
Always referred to as “Scott and his men” those unnamed men who died with Scott on their fateful return journey were no less important.
Dr Edward Wilson who was fondly known as Uncle Bill was a Bachelor of Medicine, and had a first-class degree in Natural Sciences as well as being an accomplished artist. He is credited as being one of Scott’s closet friends, he had travelled to Antarctica on Scotts earlier Discovery Expedition and was one of the three who took the “worst journey in the world” with Henry Bowers and Apsley Cherry Garrard, to collect Emperor penguin eggs.
Henry “Birdie” Bowers had never travelled to Antarctica prior to this trip and was not originally listed for the expedition to the pole, but during the voyage he proved to be exceptionally organised with extraordinary powers of memory and an excellent navigator. He had accompanied Wilson on the winter trek to collect Emperor penguin eggs.
Lawrence (Titus) Oates will forever be known for saying “I am just going outside and may be some time”. Knowing that his deteriorating health was compromising the group, he selflessly walked out into the blizzard in the hope that his friends would make it back. His chief role on the expedition was to look after the horses.
Edgar Evans nearly missed the entire expedition by falling into the sea while drunk; he was forgiven his misdemeanours due to his resourcefulness and hard-working nature. He suffered a number of accidents and died of a head injury during the return journey near the base of the Beardmore Glacier.
If you have been inspired by these brave men or Roald Amundsen who successfully returned from the South Pole, then 2012 is the centenary year and the ideal date to consider travelling.
For a lucky few there is the chance to stand on the South Pole one hundred years to the day after either Amundsen’s party on the 14th of December 1911 or Scott’s party on the 17th of January 1912. You can either take a challenging two-week ski-in option or a more comfortable 8 day fly-in option. Celebrate these great achievements at the South Pole and learn about the current research that is being carried out. We also offer cruises to the Peninsula region at this time.
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The future of St Just Library has been safeguarded for residents as part of a new partnership starting today between Cornwall Council and St Just Town Council.
Under the agreement the library has transferred to the Town Council after alterations were completed.
The changeover will also include the relocation of the Town Council office into part of the library building in January so visitors will have access to a range of services in one place.
Completed improvement work included re-roofing the central flat roof, replacing the entrance porch, remodelling the library space and creating new office space for the Town Council.
Under the new partnership, which is part of Cornwall Council’s devolution programme, St Just Library will continue to provide all the key services essential to a modern library as well as offering the potential to increase access to a range of Town Council services.
St Just Library will remain part of the countywide service meaning customers will keep their existing library cards and can still visit, borrow and order books online from other libraries in Cornwall.
Reservations and renewals can still be made online at www.cornwall.gov.uk/library.
St Just Town Mayor Marna Blundy said: “I’d like to welcome Library staff and volunteers under the wing of the town council, and I look forward to developing our partnership to benefit everyone in our community.”
“We know just how much the Library is valued here, and I’m delighted that we have been able to secure its future, whilst giving us opportunities to grow and develop services locally. Today is a good day to celebrate!”
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“It is always good when campaigns have a happy ending and I believe having local control of the Library will allow us to move from defending it to making plans for it to flourish, our own St Just way.”
Like all local authorities throughout the UK, Cornwall Council has had some tough decisions to make when faced with substantial cuts in funding from central Government.
Rather than close libraries, however, the Council has worked with town and parish councils and community groups throughout Cornwall to transfer ownership of these much-loved services to local communities.
Edwina Hannaford, Cornwall Council Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, said: “I’d like to thank St Just Town Council for working with us to take on the local library at St Just which protects this valuable service for the community for the future. In our other devolved libraries, services have not only been protected but in many cases they have been developed with refurbished buildings, increased opening hours and more community events being delivered.
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Care home residents off to the panto (oh yes they are!)
Ridgeway House residents receive £300 pantomime donation from Sainsbury's
By Levana Hayes Reporter
A SUPERMARKET donation has brought early Christmas cheer to residents at a Royal Wootton Bassett care home.
Those living at Ridgeway House, The Lawns, will be going to watch Michelle Collins of EastEnders fame tread the boards in panto at the Wyvern Theatre.
Their visit has been made possible by Sainsbury’s, which gave the care home £300 to spend on its residents during the festive season.
Ridgeway House activities coordinator Emma Constables told the Adver: “It’s massively important to do these things as Christmas approaches.
“A lot of residents who have lost family feel quite lonely at these times. Even though they’re in a setting with friends, it’s still nice to meet new people and everyone loves a good panto.
“For patients who live with dementia they need things that are interactive and so this will work really well for them. It’s a good laugh and it gives them a good buzz.”
Michelle, who made her name as Cindy Beale in the BBC One soap, is starring alongside CBeebies favourite Chris Jarvis in Sleeping Beauty at the Wyvern.
Ridgeway resident Margaret Clark, 81, said: “It’s brilliant that we get to go because it’s a night out for us all.
“My daughter is coming with me so that will be lovely and she’s excited about getting the chance to go.
“I used to go watch pantomimes years ago when my children were small so this will be a nice, memorable thing.”
Sainsbury’s has helped the care home organise events as part of the superstore’s 150 Year Community Challenge, keeping patients busy and helping them to spend time with their family.
Jordan Riley is a manager at Sainsbury’s at the Borough Fields Shopping Centre.
He said: “We chose to do community group work with Ridgeway House and we came for a barbecue in the summer.
“We’ve done an afternoon tea with them and today we have donated the rest of our budget, which was £300.
“They’re spending that on a pantomime and it’s really important to help homes like this to be involved in the community.
“Everyone looks after everyone in Wootton Bassett, it’s a really close town.”
Sleeping Beauty opens at the Wyvern Theatre on December 7 and runs until January 5. Tickets are available from swindontheatres.co.uk
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By Susannah Bryan
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Trapper Paul Zambrano captured this coyote in western Boca Raton in 2015. (Courtesy: Paul Zambrano)
Pet owners, beware the coyote that may be lurking in some South Florida neighborhoods.
A pair of coyotes recently attacked and killed a cat inside a gated community in Palm Beach Gardens.
Trappers have been getting calls about coyotes in recent months from Hollywood to Boca Raton and beyond.
Because of Florida's temperate climate, mating season for coyotes is pretty much year-round, said Paul Zambrano, a trapper with Bandit Wildlife Management. And that means pet owners need to be on the alert throughout the year, he said.
Jill Jackson, a resident of the Garden Oaks neighborhood in Palm Beach Gardens, saw two coyotes killing a neighbor's cat and dragging its body out of a yard in late January, she told Sun Sentinel news partner WPEC-CBS 12. The coyotes "were definitely working in a pair," she said. "We couldn't believe what we were seeing."
The neighborhood looked into hiring a trapper but decided to wait and see if there was a second sighting. So far, the coyotes have stayed away, said Morris Tobias, president of the Garden Oaks Homeowners Association.
"I've lived in Garden Oaks for 19 years and this is the first time we've had a coyote," Tobias said.
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Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control gets complaint calls about coyotes year-round and refers them to state wildlife officers, said Capt. David Walesky, operations manager with the agency.
Coyotes are native to North America and roamed Florida until about 10,000 years ago.
They returned to the state more than 40 years ago after expanding their range from western states, said Carol Lyn Parrish, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Now they can be found in every county in the state, including the Florida Keys and all the way to the beach.
"I've trapped coyotes west of the Turnpike and I've trapped coyotes east of I-95," Zambrano said. "Coyotes are urbanized and they're smart. They roam pretty much everywhere."
Zambrano, who makes around $1,000 every time he traps one, often gets calls from concerned homeowners when the animal is aggressive, usually because it's sick or excessively hungry.
Coyotes tend to be shy and elusive, but are known to attack pets when on the hunt for food.
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"Be aware of your surroundings," Zambrano said. "Don't leave your pets out at night or unattended. Don't leave any food out. Make sure your trash can is closed."
Parrish advises pet owners to keep their cats inside and walk their dogs on a leash.
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"If you come across a coyote, you can yell at the coyote, bang pots and pans together," Parrish said. "Do your best to let it know it's not welcome."
Whatever you do, don't run, Parrish said. Just like with dogs, coyotes will give chase if you do, so it's better to pick up your pet and back away slowly.
"We do not recommend you run," she said. "That will trigger a predatory response with a coyote."
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Panthers' Rowe says youth contributed to 5-1 loss to Pittsburgh
By Matthew DeFranks
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Panthers coach Tom Rowe discusses his team's youth in a performance against Pittsburgh, plus upcoming lineup changes.
The Panthers' youth was a driving force behind their unexpected rise through the Eastern Conference a season ago. It offered optimism entering this season that Florida would not be a one-year wonder.
But might it be affecting Florida against seasoned teams such as Pittsburgh, which drubbed the Panthers 5-1 on Thursday night?
"I thought we sat back a little bit too much," Panthers interim coach Tom Rowe said after Friday's practice. "We're just trying to get some consistency there. I'm not worried about the veterans, they know how to handle that. It's just teaching some of the younger guys [that] when you're playing a team like Pittsburgh, you can't change your game.
"You can't show them too much respect. You just got to go out and play and pressure the puck like we have been."
Rowe pointed to players like Aleksander Barkov (21 years old), Aaron Ekblad (20) and Denis Malgin (19) as players still figuring out the NHL.
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"Believe me, every day I come in here and I look at Barkov and look at his age," Rowe said. "Malgin's only a 19-year-old kid. Even Ekblad's still a young guy. … They do a great job, obviously they're elite-level players. But because of their youth, there are still some things that they need to learn as well."
Last year, 43-year-old Jaromir Jagr and 32-year-old Jussi Jokinen led the Panthers in scoring, but were followed by six players younger than 25. The Panthers finished with a franchise-best 103 point last season.
This season, just two of Florida's top eight scorers are younger than 25. The loss to the Penguins extended the Panthers' winless streak to four games, the longest stretch of the season so far.
"[Thursday] night was just one of those nights I'm sure we're not going to be repeating [Saturday] against Vancouver," Rowe said.
Line shifting
Third-year forward Seth Griffith will jump to the top line alongside Barkov and Jagr, Rowe said. Griffith, claimed off waivers from Toronto last month, has spent time on Florida's third and fourth lines.
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"[We want him to] use his skill, use his speed," Rowe said. "He's got real good hands and we figured we'd put him with Barkov and Jagr. I talked to both Barkov and Jagr about it and they were very excited about playing with him because they know he has a good skillset. We just want to give him an opportunity there to see what he can do in the top six [forwards]."
Griffith has one assist in nine games as a Panther. He has 12 career points.
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With Griffith joining the top line, Reilly Smith will rejoin linemates Vincent Trocheck and Jussi Jokinen on the second line, Rowe said. The trio spent much of last season together, but was split up for the past three games.
"Yeah, we're going to get them back together," Rowe said. "We want to give Griffith an opportunity with Barkov and Jagr. Give him a look up there. He's still a kid and we want to see what he can do with those guys."
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Tears For Fears / MASSIVE “Songs From The Big Chair” box set coming
September 29, 2014 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, tears for fears
Universal team up with SuperDeluxeEdition.com to create stunning 6-disc super deluxe editon box set.
Roland Orzabal: (speaking to Paul Sinclair in 2014)
“We had let go of any Tears For Fears ideology, because it all came out in The Hurting. We were getting older, we had a bit of money, so life wasn’t that bad [laughs]. I mean, I bought my first house at 21. There wasn’t the ‘difficult second album syndrome’. It was an easy second album syndrome. You know, instead of being so het up by ‘the message’ we started to relax.”
Universal Music will reissue Tears For Fears‘ second album Songs From The Big Chair in November as a six-disc super deluxe edition box set that, amongst all the bonus material, delivers every commercially issued b-side and remix of the era, previously unreleased radio sessions and early mixes and a high-resolution 5.1 surround sound mix courtesy or highly respected remixer and engineer Steven Wilson.
As with last year’s The Hurting reissue, Universal brought SuperDeluxeEdition editor Paul Sinclair on board to assist with the reissue project. He has not only had access to the archives to help with the track selection, but has also interviewed the key players from the era, including band members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, producer Chris Hughes and A&R man Dave Bates. The result of this work is an extensive “In their own words” track-by-track guide to Songs From The Big Chair within the 32-page booklet. Additionally, Paul has written a guide to every bonus track within the box set, so as well as knowing what has been included, fans will understand why each extra track has been included.
Disc one within the box set contains the remastered album and includes all the original Songs B-sides. In fact, the first 14 tracks deliberately replicate the original running order of the limited edition UK cassette version of Songs From The Big Chair that added six bonus songs to the eight-track album.
The second CD – Edited Songs From The Big Chair – largely contains various single versions/edits released around the world, including the U.S. Remix (actually a re-recording) of Mothers Talk (a song that was both the first and last single from the album), and I Believe (A Soulful Re-recording). Previously unissued on any audio format – but included on this disc – is the ‘Video Version’ of the American remix of Mothers Talk which contains a unique intro, as well as a promo-only ‘Radio Version’ of Head Over Heels that has never been commercially released. Charity single Everybody Wants To Run The World finally makes it onto a Tears For Fears deluxe edition (along with the semi-instrumental B-side ‘Running Version’ of the same song) and stunning album closer Listen is included with a clean intro so it can be enjoyed without the normal cross-fade. A Curt and Roland interview with short audio clips (originally included on the UK seven-inch double-pack of Everybody Wants To Rule The World) completes disc two.
Songs From The Big Chair / 6-disc super deluxe
Remixed Songs From The Big Chair is an appropriate title for the third CD which is packed full of twelve-inch remixes. The UK extended versions of The Way You Are (a non-album single), Mothers Talk and Shout are all included (having all been omitted from the 2005 deluxe edition) along with the ‘Acappella’ Mix of Shout and the instrumental version of Everybody Wants To Rule The World – both previously unreleased on CD. The alternate US Remix of Mothers Talk which (apparently inadvertently) appeared on the 2005 deluxe in place of the standard US Remix is also repeated here.
A fourth and final CD contains 14 tracks that have never been commercially available. Unreleased Songs From The Big Chair treats listeners to 1984 BBC radio sessions, the three tracks included on the Canadian promo-only Live At Massey Hall twelve-inch, along with three further tracks from Massey Hall (Shout, Mothers Talk and The Working Hour) newly mixed from the multi-track tapes. For the first time the band have authorised lifting the lid on some of their work-in-progress. To that end, early mixes of Mothers Talk, The Way You Are, Broken and Shout are included on disc four along with an unheard, rejected seven-inch edit of Everybody Wants To Rule The World.
Hi-res 5.1 surround mix / Cover to disc 5
A fifth disc is a DVD that contains a brand new 2014 5.1 surround sound mix of Songs From The Big Chair created by Steven Wilson and personally approved by Roland Orzabal. A new 2014 stereo mix is also included. Both mixes are flat transfers with no additional mastering EQ or compression applied. Paul Sinclair encouraged Universal to issue this as
a DVD-A (DVD Audio) to allow fans with the appropriate hardware (DVD-A compatible DVD player) to enjoy a lossless hi-res surround version of Songs From The Big Chair. The disc remains fully compatible with standard DVD players which will still be able to deliver the surround mix in Dolby 5.1 and DTS. A hi-res stereo mix can be enjoyed by all. This DVD is region free.
A standalone Pure Audio blu-ray audio is also being released that includes the 5.1 and stereo mixes in hi-res as well as the original album mix.
A sixth and final disc is another DVD that delivers the classic Scenes From The Big Chair documentary, along with the 2005 interview with producer Chris Hughes that was added to the standalone DVD reissue). Additionally, all the promo videos from the album are featured separately, including the rare early UK promo and US versions of Mothers Talk and non-album single The Way You Are). The icing on the cake is a selection of eight performances on BBC TV including six appearances on Top Of The Pops and a couple of spots on eighties chat show Wogan.
Songs From The Big Chair super deluxe box set and other formats are released on 10 November 2014. This BIG box is currently available for a relatively SMALL price from Amazon UK. See links below along with the full track listing.
6-disc super deluxe edition box set
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Vinyl Edition
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2014 Stereo Mix on vinyl
Pre-order exclusively from Universal Music
01. SHOUT : 6:31
02. THE WORKING HOUR : 6:29
03. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD : 4:09
04. MOTHERS TALK : 5:04
05. I BELIEVE : 4:54
06. BROKEN : 2:38
07. HEAD OVER HEELS : 5:02
08. LISTEN : 6:54
09. THE BIG CHAIR : 3:20
10. EMPIRE BUILDING : 2:41
11. THE MARAUDERS : 4:13
12. BROKEN REVISITED : 5:15
13. THE CONFLICT : 4:02
14. THE WORKING HOUR – Piano Version : 2:08
15. PHARAOHS : 03:42
16. WHEN IN LOVE WITH A BLIND MAN : 2:22
17. SEA SONG : 3:51
DISC TWO – Edited Songs From The Big Chair (this is second CD in the 2CD deluxe)
01. THE WAY YOU ARE : 4:49
02. MOTHERS TALK – Single Version : 3:53
03. SHOUT – Single Version : 5:58
04. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Single Version : 4:14
05. HEAD OVER HEELS – Remix : 4:15
06. I BELIEVE (A Soulful Re-Recording) : 4:39
07. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN THE WORLD : 4:30
08. THE WAY YOU ARE – Short Version : 4:21
09. MOTHERS TALK – U.S. Remix : 4:14
10. SHOUT – U.S. Single Version : 4:51
11. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN THE WORLD – Running Version : 4:30
12. HEAD OVER HEELS – Radio Version : 4.20
13. MOTHERS TALK – Video Version : 4:14
14. SHOUT – Short Version : 4:03
15. LISTEN – Clean Intro : 6:52
15. INTERVIEW WITH CURT & ROLAND : 7:35
DISC THREE – Remixed Songs From The Big Chair (exclusive to box)
01. THE WAY YOU ARE – Extended Version : 7:37
02. MOTHERS TALK – Extended Version : 6:18
03. SHOUT – Extended Remix Version : 7:40
04. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Extended Version : 5:40
05. BROKEN / HEAD OVER HEELS / BROKEN – Preacher Mix : 8:00
06. MOTHERS TALK – Beat Of The Drum Mix : 8:54
07. SHOUT – U.S. Remix : 8:02
08. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Urban Mix : 6:06
09. MOTHERS TALK – U.S. Remix alternate : 4:12
10. SHOUT – Dub : 6:49
11. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Instrumental : 4:21
12. SHOUT – Acappella : 5:02
DISC FOUR – Unreleased Songs From The Big Chair (exclusive to box)
01. HEAD OVER HEELS : 4:14 Richard Skinner Session
02. THE WORKING HOUR : 6:06 Richard Skinner Session
03. BROKEN : 3:19 Richard Skinner Session
04. MOTHERS TALK : 4:05 Live At Massey Hall
05. BROKEN / HEAD OVER HEELS : 5:01 Live At Massey Hall
06. MEMORIES FADE : 6:50 Live At Massey Hall
07. THE WORKING HOUR : 7:31 Live At Massey Hall
08. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD : 4:19 Live At Massey Hall
09. SHOUT : 7:50 Live At Massey Hall
10. MOTHERS TALK – Early Mix / Instrumental : 4:39
11. THE WAY YOU ARE – Early Mix : 4:25
12. BROKEN – Early Mix : 5:38
13. SHOUT – Early Mix : 5:08
14. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Alternate Single Version: 4.20
DISC FIVE (DVD-A)
5.1 and Stereo mix
SHOUT : 6:32
THE WORKING HOUR : 6:31
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD : 4:11
MOTHERS TALK : 5:10
I BELIEVE : 4:54
BROKEN : 2:38
HEAD OVER HEELS : 5:20
LISTEN : 6:49
DISC SIX (DVD-V) (exclusive to box)
01. SCENES FROM THE BIG CHAIR – Documentary : 1:14:43
02. INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCER CHRIS HUGHES : 35:00
03. THE WAY YOU ARE – Music Video : 3:57
04. MOTHERS TALK – Alternative UK Video : 4:00
05..MOTHERS TALK – Music Video : 4.49
06. SHOUT – Music Video : 6:31
07. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Music Video : 4:52
08. HEAD OVER HEELS – Music Video : 4:26
09. I BELIEVE – Music Video : 4:45
10. MOTHERS TALK – US Mix – Music Video : 4:52
11. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN THE WORLD – Music Video : 4:52
BBC TV Appearances
03. THE WAY YOU ARE : 4:11 Top Of The Pops
04. MOTHERS TALK : 3:48 Top Of The Pops
06. SHOUT : 4:20 Top Of The Pops
07. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD : 4:08 Wogan
08. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD : 3.35 Top Of The Pops
10. THE WORKING HOUR : 4:28 Wogan
312 responses to Tears For Fears / MASSIVE “Songs From The Big Chair” box set coming
Scott DeAscentis says:
Mr. Sinclair,
Are the promos videos and live performances on the dvd portion of the box set have DD 5,1 or DTS 5.1 audio options?
No, they don’t.
Robert Molema says:
Any news, updates or scheduled release date for the Seeds box set? Still patiently waiting….for many years now :-( Pst: I’ll keep waiting!
“Next year” is about as accurate as I can be right now (I know, I know…)
Any news,updates or scheduled release date for the Seeds box set? Patiently waiting….
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Can you tell me which track are ‘remastered’ on the first four discs please.
They all are, although some of the unreleased stuff is mastered for the first time.
At least I know the first three discs are remastered. Thanks, I appreciate it.
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Vils says:
Trawled through these comments whilst waiting for my box set to arrive.
There is some useful information here that could usefully be consolidated somewhere more accessibly – particularly the explanation of the DVD sources and the compromises that had to be made.
Paul I forgot to ask, in the Shout mixes/acapella what is Roland saying in the break. It sounds like some type of chant.
Paul, what’s the difference between the 8:58 version of the” Beat of the Drum Mix” of “Mothers Talk” and the longer 9:18 “full version” that only appeared on acetate?
Good question. I’ve never heard the long version – probably a few extra ‘James Browns’ at a guess. I’m not losing sleep over it, although we did try unsuccessfully to get it for the ‘Songs’ box!
I see. I thought it might have been a little different mix. It’s a very bizzare mix and strange that they chose to do it instead of extending certain things here and there and thwing in some reverb etc. like the 12″ mixes of this time.
Julian H says:
The Extended Version basically is what you describe.
Paul, I was curious when I saw some of the promo clips on the DVD having title cards and credits. They also look like they come from VHS sources. What are the sources for these especially Head Over Heals where you can just see credits start to roll at the end and why did you choose these sources. Also, any chance of ever hearing those versions of Run The World with the soundbytes and the Mother’s Talk version you too late to include?
Nothing was from VHS. I know some of them were from a 1″ reel. Up to Universal Music about those other tracks, I’m afraid. It will be a while before another “Songs” reissue :)
Very interesting to see them from those sources and yes I think this is the final word on “Songs” as this set really can’t be beat.
is there a possibility to have a new relased of the DVD in PAL ?
and in 4:3 aspect ratio to have the full cinematography seen on the screen?
all clips were 4:3 and all 16×9 TV’s have aspct ratio buttons to
display 4:3 content correctly
Can the DVD with all the promos also be had in PAL format ?
I’m asking because most of the clips were filmed 25 fps.
PAL would faithfully represent the work of the Director.
Jonah McGarva says:
So, I now have this box, and although I am quite happy with it (despite NOT including the proper We Are Broken and featuring some vinyl rips of the Massey show, which makes no sense as the rest of the trax are sourced from master tapes) – I have discovered another “error”
The original songs from the album (CD1 tracks 1-8) have a weird volume fluctuation going on.
If you listen carefully and examine the WAV files, yuo can plainly hear and see that the Left channel is approx. 1-2.5 dB louder than the right channel.
Why? This is a crazy expensive box set, and the content is amazing – and even the sound of the remastered album is great (finally some low end bass!) – but it is a pain to have to go into a sound editor to fix a mistake, that the mastering engineer should have caught.
Being a mastering engineer myself, I find this appalling, as a lot of deluxe editions and box sets have come out with errors in the mastering (the Frankie box from a few years ago comes to mind, where the first 5 songs were transferred with only the left channel intact) and the fact that we, as consumers who put our hard earned money into the labels’ coffers, get left out in a lurch – having spent large sums of money to get a faulty product.
I have researched this issue with this particular box, and I am not the only one who has heard this issue, as it has been reported on many music forums.
Any ideas on if this will be fixed? or if better attention will be paid for the Seeds box?
Excellent release and wonderfully put together. I treated myself to the box set. The following may interest aficionados of the album: I noticed that on the DVD’s Stereo Mix, ‘I Believe’ ends by fading out completely, rather than running into ‘Broken’, giving ‘Broken’ a clean intro possibly for the first time ever.
I noticed it too and I didn’t like it.
Dan Stapleton says:
Hi Paul, sorry if this has already been addressed, but can you please let us know exactly which version of the album is on CD1? I gather it’s the “original” mix, but has it been compressed/EQed/normalised for this reissue?
Robert Goodman says:
Hi Paul! Excellent job here! I got this for Christmas and there is soooo much to love! I’ve going through the rare tracks first – have a new 7.1 system on the way so this will be the first surround mix I try on it.
I have a question that was skipped waaay above that I can’t find the answer. The “single version” of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”… what’s the difference between that and the album version? It’s almost identical running time and I can’t tell any differences. Not sure if this was added because it was a different mix on paper?
My only minor gripe is yeah like someone said above – some of the BBC vids are like widescreen, made full screen, then made widescreen again, which is the effect of when you watch full screen stretched to a wide screen, but then put a black bar around it… pretty sure most tv stuff would have been 4:3. It’s an OCD thing mainly. But I fully understand what a nightmare it can be getting those right in a time constraint – I have a compilation that was all wrong like that and fixing it was a headache and a half. Again MINOR in a box full of major triumph. The sound – beautiful! The extra mixes… US and UK both… the promo vids I hadnt seen like the first Mothers Talk. Top Notch box set!
Thanks Robert. My memory is that there are some very minor mix differences on the single version of EWTRTW, although I agree they are very similar. What was used was definitely the single version, so it’s a case of ‘it is what it is’. Hopefully, historically accurate, even if not that that satisfying as a single mix!
It’s a 2014 remaster of the original mix. From all the comments I’ve read, everyone seems happy with the new mastering – in fact I don’t think I’ve read any criticism, so you can rest easy if that’s a concern.
Well I’ve been listening to this, and as a lover of 5.1 mixes it is actually the huge amount of stereo bonus material that I’m really enjoying. I particularly enjoyed the regular 12″ version of Mother’s Talk, and the US mixes. I was also surprised, having not listened to the 12″ of The Way You Are for years probably how much I enjoyed that too. Meant in the nicest possible way, it could have been a classic b-side.
I am also getting my refund as they have confirmed I was sent the wrong one. Still would be great to have that vinyl mix though.
pocox says:
the turquoise 2014 stereo mix vinyl can be ordered from here:
http://store.universal-music.co.uk/euro/tears-for-fears-songs-from-the-big-chair-vinyl-2014/invt/0602547005915
this is where I ordered it from and got it correctly!
Can anyone confirm that the U.S. 12″ version of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” is different than the U.K. 12″ version? In one of my Amazon.com reviews, a fan states that his U.S. 12″ of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” is different: “the most striking difference is the beginning”.
I would guess they are talking about the Urban Mix versus the standard 12″ extended mix. There is no other extended remix outside those two.
Thank you, Paul. That’s what I thought.
Kelton says:
Can someone help me sort out Disc 5? My surround equipment isn’t high end, but I’m trying to understand exactly what’s on the disc. According to my player, it looks like:
Title 1 = Original Mix (What is this exactly? The same mix as on Disc 1?)
Title 2 = 2014 Mix (With 2 audio choices? PCM stereo and DTS 5.1?)
Title 3 = 2014 Mix (In Dolby 5.1?)
Is that right or am I way off? Sorry for sounding like an idiot, I’m new to surround/5.1 stuff.
Hi Kelton – you’re more or less correct…
Original Mix – same as disc 1 but this version better quality being in hi-resolution stereo (96/24).
2014 Mix (Stereo) – this is the new Steven Wilson remix in hi-resolution stereo (96/24)
2014 Mix (5.1) – this is the Steven Wilson surround mix. This is available in Dolby 5.1, DTS, and lossless MLP. The last version (MLP) is only accessible if you have a DVD/Blu-ray player that supports the DVD-Audio format and is equal in quality to the blu-ray edition which is available separately.
Which is debatable (at least the profit of a higher sample frequency) due to the use of that digital compressor.
i got same letter saying their is no turquoise 2014 vinyl available.
any idea where to get one?
Heinerich says:
Sigh* I received the standard “grey” vinyl instead of the turquoise 2014 remix, which I preordered from Universal… Today I got the “standard e-mail from them, telling me that they don’t have it any longer…
Is there any way to get this resolved and receive the correct LP? Please
I received my 4-CD/2-DVD box set today. It is wonderful! Beautifully packaged and loaded with information and music, of course. Nice work, Paul and everyone involved in the project. You guys truly did an overall fantastic job!
With that said, I have to admit that I am puzzled with the inclusion of a vinyl transfer for the U.S. Single Version of “Shout”. In my own collection, I have it in digital form (not vinyl transfer) on Universal’s own “More Pure 80’s” CD, released in 2000 on UTV Records, plus a few other compilations (no vinyl transfers either). I am thinking that the U.S. Division of Universal Music has it readily available in digital form, since it just recently appeared on the 2014 release, “ICON: ’80s Hits”, released by Universal Music (U.S.) as well.
If one glances over the All Music (www.allmusic.com) page for the various versions of “Shout” featured on compilations, one will see that the U.S. Single Version (often running 4:03-4:07) has appeared on CD numerous times over the years. I doubt that they are all vinyl transfers either since, as I mentioned above, all the ones in my music collection are not from vinyl.
Any ideas, Paul?
Don’t know to be honest. The whole finding-the-right-tapes situation is a nightmare and you are dealing with a major label going back and fourth on various things. Sometimes a tape will turn up but the whole thing is too far along to stop the process and correct. Not saying that is what happened here, but sometimes ‘business’ stuff or deadlines or budget ‘trump’ other things. We found a great version of Mothers Talk too late to include, which was very annoying!!
Thank you for the response, Paul.
Fear Of The Dark says:
Okay, I’m curious – what was the great version of Mothers Talk that was found too late? (Fair enough if you are not at liberty to say.)
I’d like to know as well. :)
Ronen says:
I also received the ‘grey’ LP from Universal instead of the ‘blue’ 2014 remix. Can you please let me know who I need to contact in order to get this resolved and receive the correct LP? A direct email address would be great. Many thanks.
have a look back at the comments – I posted an email address. Thanks.
axs says:
Just noticed a 2014 mix vinyl sold on eBay for over £100!! Still seems to be available on the record label website though.
Hi Paul –
Just received the correct vinyl version. Not had a chance to play it yet but it ‘looks’ great.
I can’t thank you enough for sorting this out for me (and others), you really went the extra mile. Please convey my thanks to the product manager also.
P.S. By the way, do you happen to know if the MP3 download mentioned on the front cover is a download of the standard mix or of the Stereo Mix?
You’re welcome. Don’t think that download works yet, but I’m not expecting it to be the 2014 version, even though that would be logical!
does somebody know where can I order the :
Tears For Fears – Songs From The Big Chair (2014 Stereo Mix)
Label: Mercury – 4700591, vinyl?
I followed the link for preorder that was here in the article. It was working I ordered the vinyl, it was showing the green cover one on the site. Then i received today and it is the grey one:
Tears For Fears – Songs From The Big Chair
Label: Mercury – 3794995, backtoblack vinyl.
I checked the Udiscover link here again and the item is not available anymore…can I be so unlucky that they mixed up my order, and this is sold out already and i can only buy it for hundreds of euros??? sometime..????:((
This seems to have happened to a lot of people / everyone. I’ve given up trying to figure out what’s going on to be honest. Sorry.
If you have a spare one for me i would be very happy to get one and pay you the price. (Only now i went through the comments..sorry)
Email me your address (via ‘get in touch’ button) and I’ll try and get one to you.
Stumbled upon this amazing site and had to run out to get the BR-audio! It states that the “original mix” is included, in addition to the Steven Wilson 2014 Stereo Mix & 5.1 Mix. Does anyone know if this “original mix” is the 1985 version or the new 2014 remaster by Chris Hughes?
Anyway, am super chuffed with the reissue and now cant wait for Seeds of Love to come next yr!
Hi Keith. The ‘original mix’ is the Chris Hughes version from 1985 but it’s remastered in 2014 by Andy Walter. Despite people worrying about the remaster I’ve read that most are pleased with how it sounds. thanks, Paul
Thanks Paul. Email sent. This is most gracious of you.
Got your email. Will be in touch. P
Hi Paul. Got the 2014 mix vinyl today! Thanks again for all your help.
Excellent – glad it got there safely.
Hi Paul.
Got an email reply this morning. Same reply Trash got. Simply said they are not available and that I’d get a refund in 3-5 days and to keep the vinyl received. Would love to get what I pre-ordered. If you know of a way to get me a copy it would be greatly appreciated.
Email me your address (use ‘Get In Touch’ button on the site) and I’ll get a copy sent to you. I’m bypassing official channels and doing this renegade SDE style :)
Thank you so much Paul.
You’ll see my message subject:
“Message from ‘Trash’ re: TFF 2014 stereo mix”
Really appreciate this.
Just received my pre-order vinyl of the 2014 mixes, but received the Back To Black version instead. Sent an email to the support email listed above. Will see what happens. Very disappointed that this has happened.
Yes, it seems to have happened to quite a few people. Let us know what happens.
Did you see my comment above – even after insisting and mentioning the conversation you had with the product manager they are still insisting that there is no stock :-(
Somehow I don’t see this being resolved…
This is ridiculous. I don’t know WTF is going on. They’ve got 400 of them apparently. Anyway, email me your address and I can get one sent to you because I know a man who has a few spares.
P.S. Maybe someone is hoarding the 400 in the hope they may be valuable one day :-)
No worries. Got your email. I’m reckon the ‘missing’ vinyl will surface at some point…. P
Had a response from Universal who are still insisting that the item is out of stock. Can you get the product manager to have a word with them – this seems ridiculous.
FYI here is the latest response:
We are sorry as stated in the email below, we have no further stock left and are unable to send this out to you.
We have therefore issued a full refund and the payment will process within 3-5 days. Please note that there is no need to return the wrong record.
We apologise for the inconvenience and disappointment caused by this.
Digital Stores Customer Services
Incidentally I now notice that the product has now been removed from the site…
This is all so so strange…
Many thanks for any further insights you can glean on this Paul.
Wayne Carter says:
Hope I am not asking something a second time…
Does anyone know where I can get good jpegs of all the covers for the Super Deluxe Box Set? Have imported all into my digital library and am a bit of a perfectionist..
fanart.tv
Paul Chapman says:
Not wanting to take away from the fantastic audio content, but the DVD is awful, looks like awful youtube clips, ratio is all over the place.
Very disappointing, wouldn’t a simple port from any of the few available dvds been easier than what Universal served up
10/10 for the audio 0/10 for the dvd
Hi Paul – I’ve had a couple of comments about the DVD so I went back and had another look.
Putting to one side the whole aspect ration situation, I have to say I completely reject the idea that anything looks like “awful youtube clips”. They don’t. They look like ’80s videos and an ’80s documentary much of which was almost certainly shot on video tape and not film. But even with that proviso I still think they look fine. I’ve watched them on a 40″ HD TV as well.
I’d go further and say “The Way You Are” looks really good. So does the video for the US mix of “Mothers Talk”. I mean, how “good” do you expect these things to look? I don’t see how the quality of that US version of Mothers Talk could be improved, short of going back and colour correcting all the promos. If this was a £100 box set perhaps the budget would have been there to do that.
All of the Top of the Pops and Wogan clips also look quite clean and sharp. Only “I Believe” does look a bit crap and grainy, but that’s mainly because it’s so dark.
On to the aspect ration ‘situation’. Four videos aren’t 4:3. That’s probably about 16 minutes out of 160 minutes of promo/documentary/interview. Two of those four videos (Everybody Wants To Rule The World and I Believe) look like they might be the original aspect to me, which leaves just the second Mothers Talk and Shout
as promos that look a bit cropped. Yes, it would be better if they were 4:3, but a couple of videos at a sub-optimum ration does not make for an “awful” DVD.
The Top of the pops all LOOK fine except nearly all of them are widescreen and not 4:3. Only both clips of Everybody Wants To Rule The World are the exception.
Ideal? No. A disaster/travesty/something worth writing to your local MP about? Hardly.
In short we will have to agree to differ on this. In my opinion the quality is in general FINE, often better than fine. The odd video is cropped and for some reason virtually all the BBC stuff isn’t 4:3. It’s not perfect, but the only reason I’ve answered this point at such length is because I’m worried people with think it’s horrendous and it’s miles from that.
I have the videos from multiple sources over the years & my comments are based what I’ve seen over the years.
Using Mothers Talk (US Version) as you have highlighted it I have in far better quality, so it’s out there.
The incorrect ratio of the clips is terrible quality control, there are many 80’s artists where a professional job has been carried out, Frankie’s – Frankie Said recently being a good example, BBC footage in a ratio that wasn’t in different ratios??
The quality isn’t so much the issue, it is what it is.
Couldn’t Universal have done just a simple port of the Promos etc?, would have been easy & cheaper.
This isn’t a criticism aimed at you Paul in any shape or form & I hope you haven’t taken it that way.
It’s an outstanding Box Set as I’ve said several times over the last couple of weeks, all over Twitter etc
But the DVD isn’t of the same quality , a simple fact
Paul, the 24/96 stereo 2014 mix is divine, thank you.
Is there a 24/96 stereo mix of the Hurting lurking about? The hurting box set did not have a DVD-A disc?
Thanks. There is a 24/96 version of the standard Hurting mix on blu-ray audio, but that’s obviously nothing like the 2014 stereo mix of “Songs” which was a proper remix.
Thanks Paul, I wonder if Universal will release this to HD Tracks as they have with SFTBC, where you can buy the two 24/96 stereo mixes.
John Drake says:
SFTBC is available over at HDTracks now. Stereo only, but both the original recording remastered as well as the stereo Steve Wilson 2014 mix.
http://www.hdtracks.com/songs-from-the-big-chair
At first I wasn’t all that interested, as I’d always assumed from the sound of it that SFTBC was a digital recording (or had been entirely processed thru a Fairlight or something). However, I found this curious note at HDTracks:
“Songs From The Big Chair was originally recorded on 1/2″ analog tape in 1983 using a digital compressor that cut frequencies higher than 20hKz before being written to tape. This 2014 remaster was done by Andy Walter, at Abbey Road Studios from these same analog tapes which were transferred to digital at 96kHz/24-bit.”
So it sounds like the original master, having gone thru probably a 44.1kHz/16-bit digital compressor back in the ’80s, might as well be a digital recording. In other words, there’s little to no advantage to doing a high-resolution edition of the original master.
However, now I’m very interested in Steve Wilson’s 2014 remix, since that would have been taken from the original analog multitracks which were NOT run thru a digital compressor. So, apart from anything that had been sampled thru a Fairlight on the recording, you should see quite a bit of improvement in any 24-bit, 96kHz version of Wilson’s remix. The bass in particular should be a lot more realistic at 24-bit.
That’s really interesting – thanks John.
Am I wrong or the track list in cd 2 is wrong? Track 14 should be the short version of shout while my player reports 4.40 time while track 9 that should be the us version reports 4.04
That’s correct. The Short Version is longer than the US Single Version.
We’re the original studio recordings analogue or digital and if digital does this mean the source for the 24/96 2014 remaster was actually 16/44.1?
They were analogue. You can see a photo of the box that the tape was in within this post https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/feature/exclusive-remixing-tears-for-fears-and-the-stereo-channel-saga/
By the way – with all my whining about not get the correct vinyl edition I think I may have totally neglected to say what a great job you have done on this Paul.
– The packaging is great – I liked The Hurting packaging too and it is nice that the boxes are consistent. Loved the Gold sticker :-)
– My CDs were held together with a white band which was a nice touch as these things often come loose in transit.
– The content is superb – I have not worked through everything yet but, being a huge fan rather than a detailed completist, it certainly contains all I could want (perhaps more demos would have been nice but I suspect they don’t exist or they would have been included).
– Soundwise: I do most of my listening on headphones and to my ancient ears things sound very nice indeed – balanced and full with nice separation and no remastering artefacts (of the type that unfortunately still seem to blight some remasters).
– I’ve only skimmed the booklet so far and it’s nice to have the artist commenting on their work especially with the benefit of distance. I look forward to reading it all.
– The reproduction program…. hmmm….. I guess it’s a nice addition but as I flicked through it, it really reminded me of why I always found programmes a bit of a rip off (especially as an impoverished student). Still it could have been worse – at least there are no glass marbles in sight :-)
Overall a fitting tribute to a great album. As much as I rave about Elemental, SFTBC is still my favourite TFF album and this reissue *finally* does it justice.
Thanks again Paul.
Thanks, much appreciated. You’re right about the demos!
Dave Harris says:
Quite annoyed to get the black and white version of the vinyl…thought the blue version LOOKED great as well as I’m sure sounding great. Hope universal pit this right!
The box set though is ACE!!
This is indeed annoying as mine was posted late last week and received the next day. I email them straight away to say there had been an error and yet they are clearly still sending them out.
Perhaps they think/hope we wouldn’t notice :-)
I’ve contacted Universal and this is the email address that you need to contact if you have received the wrong SFTBC vinyl: storesupport@umusic.com
Apparently you need to just explain the situation and include some kind of receipt number or proof of purchase and they will sort. You’d hope they might let you keep the other vinyl as a gesture of goodwill, but I’m not promising that that will happen…. let me know how you get on. thanks, Paul
Thanks for doing this. I have been using the web from up until now which seems to send emails into a black hole.
I have now contacted them using the email above as you suggest. I’ll let you know when/if I hear anything.
P.S. Ordered the David Rhodes album :-)
Yeah, let me know. Hope you enjoy David Rhodes!
Just received this fromUniversal:
We are sorry to hear that you have received the wrong album.
Unfortunately we have no remaining stock left and are unable to arrange a replacement.
I’m kind of suspicious as I pre-ordered this pretty much straight away. I’m wondering was it ever *actually* available?
Oh well disappointed but at least I won’t be out of pocket. :-(
Thanks again for your help with this.
Really sorry for you re this. It’s poor from Universal I have to say. I’ll make a few further enquiries…
What were you offered? Refund, but return the black LP? Or refund and keep the black LP or what?
Sorry about lots of messages. Here’s the situation, there are PLENTY of the limited edition 2014 mix vinyl left in stock. Please contact them again and if necessary say James Meadows in UK marketing has confirmed that.
Tony Law says:
I got the same reply as trash. Thanks for the advice Paul – I will try that as well and hope they don’t now suggest an exchange as I have now unwrapped the black vinyl!
Thanks for the continued updates on this Paul – I really can’t believe the effort are having to o through just to to get a simple order fulfilled.
Luckily I I have kept the album intact and unopened (as I really have no interest in replacing my original with a repressing).
I’ve taken your advice and written in again. I let you know what I hear…
No reply yet. Meanwhile, I notice that the album seems to be available here: http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/tears-for-fears-songs-from-the-big-chair-vinyl-2014/invt/0602547005915
I wonder if I should place an order or whether I will get yet another black album…
Just got my vinyl and it too is the black cover vinyl version instead of the 2014 Stereo version. Really disappointed after the long wait.
Steven Roberts says:
“Do deluxe editions get any better than this?”
Yes – IMHO, the XTC CD/BD release are still the yardstick by which other SDEs need to be judged…
Totally agree – The XTC reissues certainly set the benchmark in terms of quality and value for money…
But not packaging. XTC isn’t as nice as this. And the booklets just fall out when you open the digi-packs ?! Can’t argue with content though and obviously a great price.
I’ll tell you why the XTC edges out the Tears for Fears, and it’s not (just) the price – it’s the fact that all the music (original mix, remix, 5.1, demos, b-sides) is on the XTC Blu-ray in hi-res.
I think Universal have missed a trick with the Tears box set – if I had been in their shoes I would have pushed to put everything on the CDs on the included Blu-ray as well (at least in hi-res if not in 5.1), and included this expanded Blu-ray only in the box set.
So the casual fan gets the option of the standalone 5.1 Blu-ray in hi-res – and the dedicated collector gets *everything* in hi-res.
Will there be a CD of the 2014 stereo mix?
‘Fraid not.
Mine has just dropped through the door.
I went straight for the DVD-A 2014 stereo mix as I don’t really do surround. It’s clearly less compressed and more detailed than the previous deluxe edition without even running it through the Dynamic Range Meter.
It’s not a big an upgrade as the Hurting but it’s one of my favourite albums so any sound improvement is welcome.
Probably could’ve lived without the tour programme but the booklet is a good read with a lot more detail than you usually get with these sort of things.
Will work my way through the cds next week.
spaceboy says:
So glad to hear they’re going to do this for ‘Seeds.’
Really? Where did you hear that out of interest. I hope it’s true.
Seeds would be good but I would be even more interested in a remaster of Elemental – a great album with a really strong set of b-sides. I’d love to hear the demos for this album too.
Paul said this, it’s the first or second comment on this page :-)
Oops – sorry.
September was so long ago… :-)
NeilKelly says:
Bad feedback already?
I received my copy today, looks good and sounds good.
My only comments ate the booklets feel like fanzines, other Universal box sets I have like this are hard back books.
Why no CD of the 2014 Stereo Mix? Its not even available to download, poor. I’m not an audiophile who has a surround set up and don’t fancy sitting in front of my tv to hear this new mix. Poor.
The booklet says the footage on the DVD was restored, but it looks like straight transfers from the old ‘Tears Roll Down’ VHS compilation complete with bad blurry graphics and at one point you see credits for it before they fade out quickly. I’m disappointed with the TOTP’s clips, the ratio for most of them have been recreated as widescreen but while others aren’t, strange. they are also poorer quality, probably due to the disc being a DVD9 and compression. The same happened with Universal’s Big Country BBC box set.
However, saying this its a great box to have and look forward to the next one one.
Thanks for your comments… a few further comments in response…
I like the soft-cover booklets. Much easier to actually read (the whole purpose after all) and I always think the spines on the hardcover ones will fall apart quite quickly!
You don’t need a surround sound set-up to hear the new stereo mix – just a DVD player which is connected to two speakers or your TV. You have to draw the line somewhere with these sets… a CD of the new mix would have meant 7-discs! It’s on vinyl if you have a turntable.
The videos came from various sources – it wasn’t a straight transfer from the Tears Roll Down compilation as you suggest. Some are better than others – I think The Way You Are is very good for example. Some of TOTPs are 4:3, some aren’t. I can’t recall all the details but if Neil Wilkes reads this he might be able to offer some further comment. We did the best we could with the deadlines and budget etc.
As I said, I don’t want to sit in front of my TV to listen to this new mix. I’d rather have it on the go, car, mp3 player etc.
I don’t have a turntable and its a bit much to buy just to have the download of the new mix. I know, everyone is different but if it was me compiling I wouldn’t have included the bsides from The Hurting, regardless if they were on a SFTBC cassette because they shouldn’t have been included on that anyway. They are on The Hurting box set already. I don’t need a disc of single edits either. A new stereo mix is far more interesting than those, but I know there are completists for these things.
I’m going to rip the new stereo mix from the DVD with with some software and burn it to a disc assuming there is a LPCM layer on the DVD. I do agree though that the new stereo mix should have been released on CD because for the life of me i cannot see why anybody would be interested in buying the 2 disc edition to get a bunch of edits and i agree The Conflict should not be on this.
I have a 2nd copy secured at £37.99 but i may cancel it. Was hoping it would go back to £31.90 at some point. It’s currently about £45.99. I may be able to make a few quid towards my first copy but don’t think it’s worth the risk!
Just received my supposed 2014 Stereo Mix blue cover vinyl edition – ordered specifically from Universal. Was very excited until I opened only to find it looks like a reissue of the standard edition – despite the fact that this is not actually listed on their site!
Still waiting to hear what they have to say about it – I still have my original so I’m not interested in a reissue of the same thing!
Do you mean you got the black cover vinyl version by mistake?
Yes indeed – I got sent the black cover version which is not listed on the site so I don’t see how I could have ordered it in error.
To be clear – I ordered directly from Universal using the link posted above…
The link still points to the new Stereo mix version (and Universal don’t seem to be selling the normal version) so I think someone screwed up – but I’ll see what they have to say when they eventually get back to me.
You may get to keep that one too, so might work out….
Hi Trash. The same happened to me! I’m not happy either. Ordered the “blue version” and today received the normal black and white version.
I’ve made some enquiries about this for you at Universal. Will let you know what they come back with.
I’ve sent three emails to Universal so far and heard nothing (not even an acknowledgement that they have received my emails).
Thanks for following up on this Paul – anything you can find out will be much appreciated.
Dave, if I hear anything I will post back here…
the same thing happened to me. They sent me the normal black and white edition. Not the green color tinted package. i emailed them now
Slightly annoyed Amazon just jacked the price up for the 6 disc set by £10 over the last few days.
I was over the moon it was £35, now it’s £45 I’m a little more “wait and see”. I’ll still get it mind you, I just will need to wait.
Why didn’t you get an early pre-order in to secure the lower price? It doesn’t cost anything to do that.
Jose, I believe the b-sides of that era are the original Hughes/Stanley material.
@ Neil – yes i have seen the ‘new’ price too! I was sure I had pre-ordered it at £31-32 pounds. No such luck, that was the new PF album I ordered.
What on earth is Amazon playing at with a near 50% increase? Monolopy arrogance? Where is that SDE shop Paul! We need alternatives to Amazon.
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Paul, congratulations for fantastic job! I remember that I’ve read in 1987/1988 that Tears for Fears had abandoned a project because the songs were sounded very similar to “SFTBC” album. They’ve started all over again and finally released “TSOL” in 1989. Is it possible to confirm these information? If it’ true, is there any possibility for those previous unreleased material (After SFTBC and Before TSOL) to be release next year on the “TSOL” Super Deluxe version?
The price has gone up to £45.99 on Amazon.
negative1 says:
always thought this song was great,
and i found a japanese EP that had
other cool tracks:
A1 The Way You Are 7:44
A2 Pale Shelter (New Extended Version) 6:52
B1 The Marauders 4:16
B2 We Are Broken 4:02
B3 Start Of The Breakdown (Live) 5:52
Then got the UK 12″, it was ages before i even
knew about the 7″ edit. but got it eventually
on vinyl.
it was on : Living In Oblivion: The 80’s Greatest Hits – Volume 3
the extended mix was on cd : Richard Blade’s Flashback Favorites Volume 4
this was before all the re-releases.
i don’t mind the band didn’t think too highly of it,
a lot of bands put out non album stuff – u2 – a celebration,
new order – confusion, murder, blue monday, etc. so if it works
for the fans, fine.
Rob Plunkett says:
Thank you for all your hard work Paul. This is how deluxe editions should be done. I am really looking forward to the informative booklet with the track details and interviews. Regardless of what some people say, I think a lot of these remasters would be worse off without your involvement. Of course there are some concerns about the sound of the remastering but that is outwith your control and you can always keep your original CD and enjoy them both.
Does Universal have the rights to the ABC catalogue? Would you consider being involved in a Lexicon of Love SDE? I am sure Martin Fry would be happy to assist also.
Daniele Paladini says:
The actual link in the article to buy from amazon italy is the import version, the regular super deluxe it’s much cheaper, 34,99 euro right now. Can’t copy/paste the link from my smartphone, but if you make a search will find, it’s not listed very well, has the picture of the regular cd and is listing 4 cds content, but being released in November you can’t go wrong
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Gareth Greenwood says:
Hello Paul
I noticed that you mention an alternative “Mother’s Talk” US Remix on here that’s never been out before. I think it may have been as I have 2 different (but quite similar mixes) myself. I think the one you mention is probably on the CDV Single of “Head Over Heels” http://www.discogs.com/Tears-For-Fears-Head-Over-Heels/release/1571682
I will check myself when I get the box set :)
I’m also quite pleased that the 2 oddities from the MFSL CD of the album are not on the box set as it makes that CD quite unique still.
Both versions of the US Mix of Mothers Talk have been out before, but not on the same reissue! There is a completely unreleased version of Mothers Talk on disc four which is instrumental.
D.A. Siano says:
A point of clarity would be appreciated, because I am confused about something (or rather, it’s not readily apparent to me from this post, nor was I able to find something in the comments):
The single CD version or disc 1 of the 2CD and boxed set versions is NOT the Wilson stereo remix? It is simply a remastered version of the original mixes?
If I am understanding correctly, the only way to get Wilson’s stereo remix is on the DVD-A in the boxed set, the Blu-ray, and the vinyl.
I certainly plan to get the Blu-ray as I am a huge on both Wilson and TFF (this is something of a “worlds colliding” moment for me). But I would also like Wilson’s stereo remix on CD, admittedly mostly to rip for portable reasons.
Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
Your understanding is basically correct, which means you should probably worked out that you can’t get the new 2014 mix on CD, unfortunately.
What are the choices for sound selections in the Blu-ray Audio?
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and PCM Stereo 2.0?
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Universal have just announced a Limited edition coloured vinyl version if this too now….
LedMan says:
Great Job Paul!
I hope this is just the beginning and that Universal will at least consider including a true DVD-A in future “SD” edition box sets including many future Classic Rock reissues. Even if there won’t be 5.1 mixes included, I hope these future sets will include a hi rez stereo mix including flat transfers of the original mixes.
Will the DVD-A in this SD edition set also include a flat transfer of the original mix or is that only available on the Blu-Ray disc? I pre-ordered the box set and probably will order the Blu-Ray too which hopefully will be available in the U.S. soon.
Glad to hear that you’re working with Universal!
“Will the DVD-A in this SD edition set also include a flat transfer of the original mix or is that only available on the Blu-Ray disc?”
Good question. Conflicting bits of information on here and other sites. Clarification, please?
It includes the 2014 remaster of the original mix – i.e. what’s on CD 1 in the box / deluxe edition. It’s not a flat transfer but it is high res being on the DVD.
“but it is high res being on the DVD.”
I’d rather have a flat transfer in non-hi-res than a bad remaster in high res (I doubt I can hear the difference between CD and higher res anyway… my hearing stops at around 17 kHz which is well below the CD Nyquist freq), but we’ll see how it sounds. If it is compressed to death that will not be good when you’re switching on the DVD-A!
Paul, is there any chance that even though they put out a deluxe of ‘The Hurting’ the one thing that was missed was a 5.1 surround for it. Now that they got Steven Wilson to do SFTBC in 5.1 is there any chance for a 5.1 of ‘The Hurting’ and Steven Wilson please for the remix.
I did suggest that, but don’t think it’s going to happen (unfortunately).
Derek Langsford says:
That is unfortunate. Just gong through my SFTBC Box that I received for Christmas and love the 5.1 mix, and seeing TSOL is going to get the SDE treament, presumably with a 5.1 mix, it leaves Hurting out in the cold with no 5.1 mix. Perhaps a future Blu-Ray issue? Though having an existing 2.0 Blu-Ray and a boxed set surely must shrink the market for another disc. Very unfortunate state of affairs for the 5.1 fan.
I haven’t unwrapped mine yet.
Michael Bird says:
Paul, if you are in contact with such people, I would like to know if it was intentional that The Hurting box boasts just enough empty space to accommodate the blu-ray being tucked inside it, which is where mine now lives.
The UK wowhd site shows there is a sale on, but none of the prices are discounted!
Mike Williams says:
Little nudge also to wowhd Ireland offering 15% off, a little under £26
Heads up US buyers, head to Wow HD for the sale today. I only paid $42.49 with the discount added. More than half off what Amazon is charging!
Rob Puricelli says:
I’m getting a little confused by some of the various retailers and their marketing.
UVinyl, Universal’s vinyl reissue brand, are offering the box set AND an exclusive vinyl release of the SW new 2014 stereo mix (I presume the regular vinyl release is the original stereo mix?), as a bundle for £49.99. Or you can by this green tinged vinyl release on its own for £15.99
http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/tears-for-fears-songs-from-the-big-chair-vinyl-2014/invt/0602547005915
So, more editions! ;-)
Then there’s the Blu Ray which Amazon UK still don’t list, yet Amazon Germany and France do, albeit that the German’s are charging twice as much as the French. Even Universal’s own HFPA store isn’t showing it.
Lots of confusing messages, all compounded by the official video trailer failing to mention the Blu Ray too.
If you can enlighten us in any way on this Paul, I’d be incredibly grateful :-)
What do you want to know exactly and I’ll do my best!!
Great news but avid TFF fan has a few quibbles:
– PLEASE listen to all the cds! No more glitches, please…
– Is the “Beat of the Drum Mix” of “Mothers Talk” the 8:58 version also found on the 2006 deluxe edition or the longer 9:18 “full version” that only appeared on acetate?
– “Broken Revisited” was on SFTBC 1999, on SFTBC deluxe 2006 and on Hurting deluxe 2013 (although mislabeled as “We are Broken”). I know it belongs here but it would be nice to finally have “We are Broken”. After all, it was the early version of a SFTBC song…
– What is the difference between the 7″ and album version of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”?
– I don’t have the MFSL version but it has been repeatedly stated that “Head over Heels” has a longer chorus on that CD. Would have been nice to have this alternative version here but I see it would have been hard to integrate it.
But largely, this is really on the plus side – especially when considering the missed opportunities on the Hurting deluxe editions:
– A 5.1 Mix by Steven Wilson! This is not just “another” 5.1 mix. It actually raises TFF up into the league of respected progressive acts such as Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Caravan, Gentle Giant, XTC etc.
– Many rarities! (including oddities such as the interview and short versions) I’ve counted at least 12 rare tracks on discs 2 & 3, and the complete disc 4! Amazing when you consider the 2006 deluxe edition already included 20 extra tracks.
– All the videos! Again this makes me wonder why that wasn’t done for The Hurting…
– More rare material on the DVD (ok TOTP were playbacks but nice to see anyway).
Hi Julian… some answers
Is the “Beat of the Drum Mix” of “Mothers Talk” the 8:58 version also found on the 2006 deluxe edition or the longer 9:18 “full version” that only appeared on acetate? ANSWER: It’s the 8.58. We tried to find the tapes to 9.18 but to no avail. Presumed no one wants a scratchy version from an acetate?
– “Broken Revisited” was on SFTBC 1999, on SFTBC deluxe 2006 and on Hurting deluxe 2013 (although mislabeled as “We are Broken”). I know it belongs here but it would be nice to finally have “We are Broken”. After all, it was the early version of a SFTBC song… ANSWER: There is a cool demo/early mix of We Are Broken that no one has ever heard on disc 4 (we’ve called it “Broken (Early Mix)” so as not to confuse. It lasts for about a minute longer (it doesn’t have the backwards tape intro) and features saxophone. Hopefully that will make up for the lack of the proper We Are Broken :)
– I don’t have the MFSL version but it has been repeatedly stated that “Head over Heels” has a longer chorus on that CD. Would have been nice to have this alternative version here but I see it would have been hard to integrate it. ANSWER: Took a similar view to this as the extended version of Shout on the same disc. An interesting quirky error that doesn’t really belong on here since not an official remix or even an official promo. And an element of ‘you have to draw the line somewhere’ most of the discs are already full on this set.
Ok… thanks Paul. I’m definitely looking forward to this.
As long as there’s a blu-ray or dvd-a in deluxe boxsets with 24bit audio, I’m very happy. A hires DL would be a bonus with that, but actually necessary when it’s not on one of the physical discs.
Jos says:
Great Job Paul, you are a true example for the whole musicbusiness. THIS is how a box should be compiled, by a musiclover!! Welldone!!!!!!
I forgot to thank fisonic as well.
By the way: the MFSL uncut version can be heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e02LXQid4aU
@ Jason & Paul:
Thanks for the info. Yesterday I analyzed both versions (the 7:38 and 8:02 mixes) and found, that the So80s 8:02 mix not only fades later, but also has a longer intro! It adds about 10 seconds of instrumental build-up. Not that it adds something new, it just repeats the gimmicky bass line at around 11 seconds into the songs one time more than the shorter version. Additionally, as you both pointed out, it fades out later. so mot just a later fade out but also a longer intro.
Wow. I had not noticed this previously. I will pull out my “so80s 8” CD and take a listen. Interesting that the compilers decided to extend that section. Strange. Thanks for pointing that out!
Now I must get my hands on that longer version of “Head Over Heels” from the MFSL CD. It can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUv-W-Gbx1A&feature=youtu.be
So, I pulled out my “so80s 8” disc, and I don’t hear the extended section in the intro to which you are referring. It sounds exactly the same as the MFSL version, except that it fades out at 8:02 instead of 8:17. Are you sure about this? Or, am I missing something?
I will check again, but when I analyzed them, I noticed that in the so80s version all the elements (singing, drums, solos etc.) after this point happen 10 seconds later… I really stood there with my watch and for me there is a longer intro. But, as I said, I will check again to make absolutely sure, I don’t want to add confusion to all these various mixes.
I now checked again, I compared the ‘Extended Version’ from the so80s 8 CD to the version from the Pearls Of The 80s CD and they are indeed different insofar as former fades out later AND really has a longer intro.
After 10 seconds the melody stops and there is just a goofy bass solo. The so80s version repeats this solo twice whereas the Pearls Of The 80s CD plays it only once. Hence the time difference of 10 seconds.
Can’t talk about the original 12″ versions, but the same mix on these two CDs is indeed different!
Dutch readers can get a good deal at bol.com. The deluxe set is there for just under € 63,00. I had a € 5,00 gift so € 58,00 is a great deal for this box.
With the Donna Summer, Another Place And Time also underway this was a great year for me in the form of Re-issued 80’s albums.
Still hoping for Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night coming anytime soon.
Pharaoh says:
THANK YOU – This is wonderfully exciting!!!
I really hope that the complete Massey Hall gig may come out as a stand-alone release as DVD/BLU-RAY/LP but with the few tracks included in this set, it seems unlikely.
“The Seeds Of Love” box release will no doubt blow us away! Can’t wait!
gary c says:
What is the track-listing for the vinyl, will it have a DL card, and what will be on it?
Vinyl is standard album. Don’t know about DL, but will try and find out. Quite likely I think.
Or is this an edit of the aforementioned MFSL CD version?
My understanding is that the MFSL CD version from 1998 featured the full, uncut “Extended Version” (A.K.A. “UK Extended Remix”) of “Shout” at 8:17. (Some person was kind enough to send me a FLAC copy of this 8:17 version from the MFSL CD a few years ago). The original 12″ ran about 7:37 because it simply faded out earlier. That’s the way that it was heard at that time and for years (7:37 of playing time, that is) … until 1998 when MFSL put out a full, uncut 8:17 version.
“So80s8”, which apparently used the MFSL CD as a source, simply faded the song at 8:02 before it faded out, went back up in volume again, and faded out again. In other words, the ending sounded a bit sloppy by going up and down in volume, so the creators probably decided to get rid of those last 15 seconds, opting to fade out early. My understanding is that this “Super Deluxe Edition” of “Songs from the Big Chair” will feature the original 7:37 version of “Shout” as it was originally pressed and released at the time.
That is what I have gathered from all of this, unless someone can confirm or comment otherwise.
This is all correct.
Being not a hardcore Tears For Fears fan, but always a great admirer of their song “Shout” I noticed that the ‘Extended Version’ of this song (track 3 on the third CD) runs 7:37 minutes.
At the same time this same mix can be found on Volume 8 of Blank&Jones ‘S080s’ series but here the running time is given with (and actually is) 8:02 minutes. The 12″ info on Discogs also has the 7:37 minute info, so is the mix on B&J So80s CD another, longer version? It definitely is not the’ US Mix’ (which also runs 8:02 minutes), as it starts and ends like the ‘Extended Version’, still it is 25 seconds longer…?
Has anybody any information about this?
As far as I can tell, the So80S 8 version of Shout is the UK Extended Version, but has a longer fade-out. Not totally sure if it’s otherwise 100% identical, but from a quick comparison it seems to be.
Lonewolf says:
Great news!!! The new mixes look tempting, I hope the mastering engineer do not apply a lot of compression on the tracks like the ’99 & the ’05 releases…
This seems simply perfect!
Thanks for doing it with style, Paul. And thanks for convincing Universal to do it the right way.
Great work! I can only second DJ Salinger’s words from above. :-D
Is the stereo remix on the DVD-A?
I’m deffo up for hearing that!
Yes it’s on there!
Cool! I’ll get this as soon as possible :D
By the way, considering that We Are Broken wasn’t really included on The Hurting boxset, wouldn’t it be possible to release it now?
I had an email this afternoon from Amazon stating that the release date has been put back to 10 November 2014
Yes, I said it was the 10th in the post! :)
Dan Slattery says:
Has the Pure Audio release been pulled? I see there’s just an Amazon.de link now, and it has a “sign up to be notified when this item is available” message on the product page.
roberto bessa says:
And now waiting for the seeds of love, money for nothing, the head on the door, the dream of the blue turtles……all with 5.1 and of course with mr.wilson
Well done Paul on this great achievement and I hope you continue to be involved in future TFF releases. Do you know if the dimensions of the actual box itself is the same as the hurting box set? Also is it a lift-lid style like tho hurting? Hoping that it is as they would look great beside each other on the shelf. Hoping as well that TSOL will be the same to complete the trilogy!! ;-)
Thanks Joe. Yes, I’m almost certain the boxes are the same, so hopefully will look cool next to each other on the shelf!
Paul, someone mentioned that on the MFSL cd version of the Big Chair, the Shout – Extended Version is actually almost 40 seconds longer, totalling 8 min.17 s. So why is that one not in the boxset?
Because it shouldn’t have been 40 seconds longer. That was simply an error where someone accidentally left the tape running. It sounds terrible, and is in no way an official remix. It was never released in the 1980s for a start.
Thanks a lot, Paul, for all your efforts and comments here in the post.
I appreciate it very much that you take the time to answer all our questions. I really get the impression that you try to make the best boxset possible. Kudos!
So what were the glitches on the Hurting box set please, Fedge?
I have it and I only noticed the shitload of background noise on Change (New Version)
The glitches were on Ideas as Opiates (album version). One halfway into the song, right before the sax solo; the other one in the crossfade to Memories Fade.
I for one am very pleased with the DVD-A/V choice – thank you Paul. Also, it’s not clear to me, but is the new Steven Wilson stereo mix on the DVD?
I’m looking forward to the interviews you mentioned, and your track by track commentary for that matter. I’m really pleased to see such a fan oriented set. It ticks pretty much all my boxes (lyrics aside, but then maybe that’s a publishing/money thing. I’d rather pay less than have the lyrics for this) with the edits, remixes, unreleased stuff associated video stuff and 5.1. Delighted there’s going to be 5.1 mix. So thanks for your involvement Paul. This looks like a really, really good set.
Mike the DVD has everything: Steven Wilson 2014 Stereo Mix (hi-res), the Steven Wilson 5.1 mix (dolby 5.1, DTS and MLP lossless for DVD-A) and it has the original mix in hi-res stereo.
Paul, thank you for your effort & involvement in this project! Very excited about, but missed out the 15% discount offer when buying 2 items on wowhd. I’ll wait for the next offer.
Very happy about this release. But less happy that the record company took/takes 3x of my money (original release/2CD deluxe/now 6CD deluxe)! I hope all other future deluxe editions by all record companies will be “last time”, that means it will include everything, released, unreleased, first time on CD, unused etc. So they won’t be taking our money every 5 or 10 years. They have to do right the first time around, especially with help/involvement by the fans/Paul would be even better!
paul, am not buying this as you have let us down and not included the Venezuelan 1986 Dub Acappella edit from the limited 12” release of Shout…
Wow, amazing set, amazing value and utterly definitive. Congrats!
Hi Paul, what a great lavish set.
I think it’s great that Universal let you have input and make it a boxset that fans would love to have, as you are probably a big fan yourself.
I pre-ordered it straight away and I can’t wait for the Seeds box set as well.
So I read you pushed for a DVD-A, instead of blu-ray audio.
Is the content still uncompressed 24bit, as a blu-ray would be?
I do have blu-ray at home, but if not higher res than the DVD-A, there is no incentive to order that one as well. Am I wrong?
Pushed for DVD-A instead of DVD-V. Blu-ray in the box wasn’t on the agenda.
peter z says:
A BIG THANKYOU for pushing for Dvda for the box and Steven Wilson 5.1 mix, this is golden indeed.
If Seeds of Love is scheduled and another 5.1 and Steven Wilson involved, thats another buy as long as I can afford these special releases.
For next release(hoping for Seeds of Love) is it possible to have a cd\dvda or DVDA by itself as seems to be working for Yes,Xtc,King Crimson releases to come out like that and they must be making money s o I am not only person that loves surround 5.1 Dvda’s.
Daveyman19 says:
Superb box-set – ordered mine with Amazon UK just before the price increase. One of the best 80’s albums and great to see lots of new and unavailable additions for collectors.
Edu says:
Why the blu ray audio is not included in the box?
It was going to be ‘just’ a standard DVD, so at least DVD-A is one up from that.
Paul, just saw that your comment about was only going to be standard DVD, well that would have been crazy, DVDA format is fantastic, no difference than Bluray in sound quality other than Bluray has way more space, so a BIG THANKYOU if you helped to make this happen. Only thing that would have been better for my pocket book is if they could have done a stand alone DVDA or cd\dvda format, as good as the box is the 5.1 DVDA is the prize in the box for me. Keep up the good work, look forward to The Seeds of Love and if in 5.1 and Steven Wilson, instant buy.
Thanks Peter. You definitely won’t see any standalone DVD-As from Universal I don’t think. Their format of choice for that now is blu-ray audio (Pure Audio).
Piet Blank says:
fantastic job! orderd mine! good luck with this!
Thanks Piet!
fedge says:
I’d like to add in my concerns that Mike the Fisher and Kevin brought up regarding the mastering. I really do hope the band and management LISTEN CAREFULLY to the the test pressing as the glitch from The Hurting box set stuck out like a sore thumb – yet both the band and management both “approved” it all. It’s like the audio glitch on the Paramount US Titanic Bluray mere seconds into the movie – one glitch can pretty much ruin the whole presentation.
Robert van Diggele says:
Hi Paul, great work on this box set! Looks fab with a very decent Price. Great to see my favorite surround mixer is present as well. Hopefully Steven will be involved in the Seeds of Love reissue you mentioned in the comments. Thanks, looking forward to the box.
David Martin says:
It appears the Companies are belatedly learning, and it took the influence of music lovers, and not bean counters to make it happen.
Just to say then Paul, if possible can that California ‘shed’ concert be included on the Seeds box set. It perhaps is a better fit on that tbh. As mentioned it is just that it was included on the ltd edition Scenes DVD so it has been tagged into that era (probably in error really with hindsight).
I think ‘California’ is almost certainly going on Seeds, which will be next. As you say it really didn’t belong on the Scenes DVD, but was a welcome bonus at the time. It would have made no sense to include as part of the Songs box set.
Well done Paul. For some reason I never got around to buying SFTBC, my ony TFF omission. That will be put right with this box set.
One question though Paul – I am lucky enough to have the ltd edition DVD of (Scenes)FTBC with the included Going To California concert on it (which think was only relisted as a stand alone title in USA?). Was there any chance to include either the whole concert or just the relevant featured album songs from it on the included box set DVD’s? I know that concert was from the Seeds era, but TFF themselves put it in with the Songs… material and it would have been nice for others to be able to have it too. Although there is some live material included in the Scenes documentary.
Paul you have done a tremendous job on this. Only complaint I would have is that since there is so much room to put extra stuff on the bluray and it could all be put on at 24/96 why would they not have put more stuff on the bluray , just take a look how fully loaded XTC-Drums and Wires cd/bluray is(you get all bonus songs in 5.1) get all songs in 24/96 and priced much lower than even the best price on this boxset. Then you can still order a cd\dvda, I have ordered both versions for Xtc as dvda can play in car/home and bluray in home all in glorious 24/96. The quality of stuff in the box as fantastic but to me hearing songs in best possible sound 24/96 for stereo and lossless 24/96 5.1 trumps everything so they got that part right for regular album on dvda and bluray.
I think it’s just the difference between a major label and smaller labels that license the content in. Different approaches and strategy to the material etc. The Grace Jones release seems to be the exception (and there was no super deluxe for that release) but Universal consistently stick to ‘just’ the album for their Pure Audio blu-ray. Having all three mixes of Songs From The Big Chair (original, 2014 stereo mix and 5.1) is much better than some offerings. Thanks for your comments!
Stephen K. says:
Wow, Paul, thanks! I do have some questions, but let me say first that the box set looks fantastic! Okay, so usually I might have some minor quibble about the running order of the remixes and b-sides… but not in this instance, since I’ve been making my own tracklists for ages, and none of them have ever come off just right… so, I give up on that front. Thanks for: some rare music videos, the Massey Hall live tracks, the 5.1 mix, demos, radio sessions, and Shout (Acappella), all free of compression!
The double 7″ of I Believe uniquely featured a non-crossfaded (“clean outro”) version of the LP mix of I Believe. It also is more of a cold stop version than a fade out. Very interesting. Maybe you can still get it? It’s the most ‘in demand’ track from my wantlist not to appear on here.
Also, shouldn’t Broken/Head Over Heels/Broken (Massey Hall Live Version) be 7:36, not 5:01? In fact, 5:01 (or 5:02) would be the running time of the album version of Head Over Heels/Broken (Live).
A popular circulated discography has long shown a Japanese 12″ of Shout that included live versions of Shout and I Believe (otherwise unreleased)… I don’t know, since I’ve seen no other proof, and they don’t list a catalog number for it. It would be nice to hear these live versions… I don’t even know which show they’re from. With the caveat, I have no proof that this release really exists!
The same discography also lists something I have heard, a fairly decent Tears for Fears MegaMix (I would imagine it would make the band cringe, though):
12″: 1986 UK (Mercury; DMC42/2)
?:?? Head Over Heels
?:?? Shout
?:?? Everybody Wants To Rule The World
?:?? Everybody Wants To Run The World
?:?? Mad World
?:?? Change
Total run time around 8m55s.
Also, a brief re-request: maybe the band can do a stand-alone CD single for Mad World, since none of the tracks from the 12″ (the clean outro single mix, the single version of Ideas as Opiates, and the “unjustly maligned?” Saxophones as Opiates) appear on the box set of The Hurting.
Lastly, I own some DVD-A releases which I can play on my regular DVD player, mainly because the 5.1 content was also released as a DVD-V track. It looks like that is not the case here? Is the 5.1 material on the DVD-A layer only? No big deal, I wouldn’t mind the Blu-Ray.
Hey, thanks for your fantastic work! I love this box set!!!
Hi Stephen – thanks for your comments. I’ll address the things I definitely know about.
Broken/Head Over Heels/Broken at Massey Hall is 7.26, so 5.01 is just an error which I will correct.
The DVD-A does have the surround mix on a DVD-V layer, so everyone gets to hear it. It’s just that the DVD-A players play a lossless hi-res version where everyone else gets Dolby 5.1 or DTS (still good!).
Thanks for your response, Paul!
My stereo set-up developed a technical fault and lost its capacity for surround sound a while back. No big deal, I’ve been happy enough with 2 channel sound (on an otherwise prosumer setup) for the past 3 years.
However, with the SFTBC 5.1 mix, I think I finally have an urgent and compelling reason to update my system!
“Listen (Clean Intro)” lasts for 6:50 on that CD single. They seriously haven’t butchered it have they ?
No sorry, that is just an error. It’s definitely 6.52. Have now corrected the tracklisting.
Paul Brown says:
Yay! Have pre-ordered the deluxe set today, great price, thanks Paul for your work on this release and the web site!!
Cyrille says:
This set truly looks incredible !
Thanks Paul for your dedication to make sure Tears For Fears’ reissues get the Super deluxe treatment ! I stumble accross the tracklisting on a forum some days ago and thought it was fan-made because it was too good & complete to be true. I’m so glad I was wrong ;-)
I have one small question regarding “Listen (Clean Intro)” on CD2. The track duration 4’03 seems weird. Is it a typo or is it a different (edited) version than the one released on the CD Single for “Famous Last Words” ?
That must be a mistake. It’s the same as the one on the Famous Last Words CD – about 6.52.
Great ! And thank you for the fast answer Paul !
Incredible touch replicating the cassette running order. I threw all my tapes out 10 years ago apart from three … and if I’d only got to keep one it would have been SFTBC for the extra tracks.
Sorry to be coarse but you must feel like a dog with two dicks getting involved with this stuff, Paul! More power to you.
So are there any bonus tracks with the Blu-ray audio? It doesn’t say. Great if it was like Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing.
Unfortunately not, but you do get THREE mixes of the album: Original, 2014 Stereo Remix and 2014 5.1 remix! Not too bad :)
Mike Cox says:
Congrats and thanks for helping out Paul!! This set looks awesome. The price will hold me back for now but maybe I’ll pick it up later—no rush.
ChuckO says:
Would have made more sense to me to have disc 3 with the 12″ versions as the 2nd disc in the 2-disc version, but I’m just glad it’s all finding its way out finally. Hopefully I can download the extended mixes from itunes (no interest in all those 7″ mixes or other extra stuff)
Wow! This is the way a boxset should be done. Great work Paul.
Just like to add my thanks to Paul for the work on this.
I already have this album 4 times:
– Original vinyl release
– 1999 CD reissue (single CD with bonus tracks)
– Ultradisc II 24 Karat (sic) edition
– 2006 2CD reissue
But this release is to0 good to resist (almost too good to be true)!
It’s sad that the flat transfers are limited to the DVD-A disc. To me, that sounds like the CD discs *have* been subjected to mastering EQ and compression—which shouldn’t be necessary, except perhaps to the extent required to ensure the bonus material fits with the album proper.
I’d rather see a flat transfer remastered in a high-resolution format with volume the only real adjustment made—I haven’t opened up this album in an editing program to check, but some 1980s CD releases kept peaks well below 0 dB, in which case volume could be increased accordingly *without* affecting dynamic range.
Then again, I seem to be one of the few people who think that remastering ought to be primarily about getting the highest quality reproduction possible from the original masters, not trying to get older material to conform to current production/mastering practices.
_mostlybobbins says:
I think a little bit of wee just came out…
Gerry Forrester says:
Wow..that’s how you do a deluxe edition folks…
Indeed! I will be getting the 6-disc edition for sure! Absolutely amazing. Congratulations to the team behind this deluxe edition for getting it right and making it more than complete! Thank you!!! This is one of my favorite albums/eras.
Barrie Sillars says:
This is one of the box sets of the year. With Steven Wilson on board and the plethora of material included this box is what this classic album deserves. Ordered straight away!
Just gone to order another and it’s now £37.99 lol
paul griffiths says:
ordered mine from amazon
are universal music doing a ltd 7″ single like they did with the hurting???
are they gonna tour this album…..there were rumours when they issued the hurting box set??
No and they are doing some dates in the US at the moment.
Can you confirm the release dates, Paul?
Your article states the 10th, Amazon UK state the 3rd and the TFF FB page state the 7th (I’m presuming that’s the U.S.)
It was the 3rd in the UK but I think that’s gone back to the 10th (That’s what Universal told me on Friday).
Thanks :-)
Bloody hell.
I didn’t think anything could tempt me to buy yet another version of my all-time #2 album….but you just have. And the biggest 6-disc version too!
All this makes my 2006 deluxe edition seem pointless. I wish there was also a 3cd version which includes the first three discs.
Any word on if the DVD will be region free NTSC like The Hurting is? I ordered from Amazon UK due to the much lower price but live in the US.
Both DVDs are region free.
Fantastic! Thanks for all your work on this!!
Paul – have the got the channels the right way round in this re-issue? The only cd release of SFTBC with the correct polarity was the Musical Fidelity one.
A-ha! Was waiting for someone to ask this! The answer is the channels are correct, but everything you know is wrong! Separate post all about the channels coming soon! :)
look forward to it :-)
Paul, I think this now makes you the king of re-releases. Congrats. :) What’s next in your bag? Can you end up working on Malcolm McLaren Duck Rock or Grace Jones – Slave To the Rhythm?? :D
Thanks. Steve Hammonds at Universal also deserves a big pat on the back for his work on this set.
Lovely Paul. Are there plans for Universal to do a limited 7″ again like The Hurting?
Nope, but the Steven Wilson 2014 Stereo Mix is available on limited vinyl
Even the extended version of everybody is quite hard to find.
Has every single 12″ mix been included on here nothing missing?
Mike the Fisher says:
Wow, great job everybody. Now, somebody remember to include the lyrics and check the audio this time!
And please can done people here stop telling companies they can raise their prices!
You might be disappointed with the lyrics situation (there are none) but you will not be disappointed with the new interviews with Roland, Curt, Chris Hughes and Dave Bates. It’s REALLY interesting.
I just don’t understand why the lyrics can’t be included. It was possible for the 1999 remasters (at least the album tracks) so why not in what is supposed to be the definitive version of an album?
What do you want the lyrics for? Do you really need to see ‘Shout, Shout let it all out…” written down?
This new edition has over 10,000 words of in-depth interviews with all the key players, extensive guide to the bonus tracks… gimme a break!!
No, I just think they are an integral part of the piece of art that is SFTBC. TFF were always putting a lot of thought into their lyrics. Now, I have all the lyrics (from various internet sources) but I did find the lack of lyrics annoying already on the 2006 deluxe (as well as on RATKOS’s reissue, especially with Roland’s distorted vocals on many tracks). As a “Not quite native speaker” it isn’t always easy for me to understand all the lyrics if I don’t have them written down, and in many cases reading the lyrics while listening to the songs makes me understand the intention of the songwriters a lot more (sometimes very drastically, as recently with Rush). Pink Floyd did this with all their Immersion boxes, whatever flaws they had apart from that. Try to listen to Curt’s singing on “Listen”: Would you understand all the words if you didn’t have the lyrics?
I appreciate all the effort from you and the other collaborators that went into this, but I still think that even a little reprint of an original lyric sheet or sth. similar wouldn’t have hurt.
Anybody who likes to play his/her favourite songs on the piano and sing along should know what I’m talking about…
(Also, I think that many of the bonus tracks have never ever had their lyrics printed anywhere, apart from that japanese deluxe edition you wrote about awhile ago…)
I know I’m searching for something to gripe about and this set will be incredible value but it still doesn’t explain why no TFF re-release since 2006 has included any lyrics.
Le Baron says:
Paul Sinclair for President!!
I’ll buy this box set just to make Universal Records sure that there is still a massive interest in tears For Fears reissues…so that Seed of Love will be their next project ! :)
Paul, you’re my hero !! ;)
whaoh ! Can’t believe it ! Simply Awesome !
I Don’t really care about a DVD mix of the album, but apart of this, the content is just “more than meets the eyes” ! We couldn’t even have thought we would have the canhe to hear the early versions of some tracks of this wonderful album!
DJ Salinger says:
Really rather good news, Paul – at last a chance to redress the cock-ups of the 2005 Deluxe Edition, and add a lot more value besides. Comprehensive is the word that springs to mind – even the ‘clean intro’ version of Listen is there.
Last year’s ‘The Hurting’ box set was a great effort; this looks like it’s raising the bar higher still. An object lesson in what can be achieved when people who know what they’re doing are actually allowed to get involved with a reissue project…
Excellent work Paul, looks to be interesting. Thanks for working to improve the standards of what a Super Deluxe Edition is to be!
Thanks. I try :)
A fantastic album and set at an amazing prize!! Pleased that I did not buy the last “Deluxe” version and held out with the ‘original’ re mastered version for the past 10 years :-)
The 5.1 mixes will be epic!!
I was listening to this album just recently and it’s great how the songs have held up after all these years.
I agree with the other comments – here’s hoping for a Seeds of Love box set! I presume there will be recorded versions/songs related to the aborted recording sessions in the archives and that would be very interesting to hear.
E.X.C.E.L.L.E.N.T.
Really hope this is a prelude for a box with lots of seeds of love.
chdx says:
Reconsidering my preorder as I suspect an even more massive edition around christmas…One with tote bag & key ring…
Dave Van MusicMaster says:
I’ve many happy memories of this album – I was working in a record shop at the time of release, so this was on constant rotation :D
Great to see a reissue with all the associated tracks from the 7s 12s added in.
Of course I bought them all at the time in all the formats.
Everybody Wants To Run The World making a welcome return to CD after 28 years – the only previous way to get it on CD is here: – #Now That’s What I Call Music ’86 (Virgin-EMI CD NOW 86) – single disc compilation released in late 1986 – this CD is impossibly rare to find now, I bought mine in about Nov 1986 from Our Price for £10.99, although I suspect it’s worth substantially more now.
#- not to be confused with NOW 86, or NOW 1986 Millennium Series as these are both double CDs produced much later.
Really looking forward to the reissue in November – of course I’ve ordered the 6 disc edition :D
what on earth are Amazon up to ?
I bought this at £31.90 less than an hour ago – and nor it’s gone up to £37.99!!!!
Glad I got it at the lower price – but adding another £6.09 to the price is just profiteering!!!
This is an amazing set. Can’t wait to hear it! And yes, I’m also hoping for a similar Seeds of Love box.
Ok Paul, please settle this once and for all. Is there any difference whatsoever between the album version of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and the “Single Version” on Disc 2?
Aevion says:
Yes I would love to know the story behind this one as well.
Why is The Conflict on this when it was on the recent deluxe of The Hurting and was the b side to Change and has nothing whatsoever to do with SFTBC even if it was on the cassette why replicate it ?
It doesn’t have ‘nothing whatsoever’ to do with SFTBC if it was on a SFTBC tape. I understand what you mean of course, but there are probably loads of people who that tape was ‘their’ version of the album. Why deny them an opportunity to ‘relive’ that running order on CD. If we’d removed it there would have been nothing else to replace it with anyway.
You could have removed it and replaced it with We Are Broken which wasn’t even on the deluxe of The Hurting instead we were subjected to the Revisited version yet again. Anyway despite my moans i have still bought it.
Unfortunately you are right. Great set still :)
Great point, Paul!
Wow, this is absolutely amazing stuff!
Roll on The Seeds of Love deluxe box!
I noticed yesterday and since the price I bought it immediately, today the price was reduced ! Ask soon amazon.uk to adjust the price – ).
here is what Steven Wilson says about it:
http://stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/tears-for-fears-songs-from-the-big-chair-remix/
Runicen says:
This is an amazing set. Even as someone only aware of the band by the singles, this represents an amazing package.
Without a doubt, one of the best albums of the 80’s. The Working Hour is just sublime!
Eh… is ok I guess….
JK !WOW! Paul can you be in charge of every reissue box for every act from here on out! Looks amazing.
It’s significantly cheaper to import from the UK than it is to buy domestically in the US. Cancelling my domestic order now.
Ok I am sold…Preorder From The Big Chair…see you for The Seeds Of Love box set :-D
Surely Amazon must have underpriced the 6-disc edition? It can’t be THAT cheap, can it? If so it’s utterly amazing value and would still be cheap at more than twice the price they’re charging, considering some of the dross we get subjected to in some so-called ‘Super Deluxe’ editions! A brilliant example of how to do a deluxe edition properly – no stupid badges, coasters, bags, t shirts – just the music! Order it now before they change their minds!!!
Roelant says:
Oh dear, I hate the person who phoned me during the order process… it did cost me a 6 GBP increase from Amazon :(
Is the blu-ray higher res than the DVD-A? Obviously the box is a purchase, but I’m wondering if the data on the blu-ray makes use of the capacity or if it’s just a port of the DVD-A content pressed to blu-ray.
Nope the DVD-A and blu-ray are the same but only if you have a DVD-Audio compatible DVD player. If you don’t then blu-ray trumps the DVD.
^Paul Rymer….yes, that’s the same Steve Wilson. He’s also been doing 5.1 mixes for Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Yes, XTC and others. He’s one of the most highly acclaimed surround sound producers.
eric slangen says:
very good work. This is a real superdeluxe boxset with many gems and no shit like scarfs or marbles.
Ok I am sold…see you for The Seeds Of Love box set :-D
Paul Rymer says:
Superb. Just want to check, is Steven Wilson the same guy that’s the leader of Porcupine Tree? I know he’s into doing 5.1 mixes of his own material.
Lanny Justice says:
I just wet myself a little. Am I dreaming?
Er, wow!
Paul Anthony Chapman says:
The box set I’ve been waiting for ! , hopefully this edition will give the album the remastering it deserves & what a track listing!!
Excellent work Mr Sinclair!!
And there was much rejoicing!!!! Finally TFF have their material mixed into 5.1. If ever there was a band that deserved this treatment, it’s certainly them. And to have Steve Wilson doing it, I’m sure this will be one of the best 5.1 mixes ever.
And the bonus content…..dear me……this is the mother of all box sets! So psyched that the A Cappella mix of “Shout” is included as that one always seems to get overlooked. Also, the Live at Massey Hall EP is one of my favorites, especially the live version of “Memories Fade” which is an amazing version. It will be nice to have Massey upgraded as the vinyl pressing never sounded too good, despite the amazing performances.
This is a box set done right! The way all box sets should be. Good job Paul for helping them to steer this in the right direction!
So November 2015 is Seeds of Love, right? :-)
I had to check the price three times there, that is pretty amazing value.
I’m ordering one for my brother too, he will love this. Well done all concerned!
One question. What is the track-listing for the vinyl, will it have a DL card, and what will be on it? Sorry three questions…
Excellent work, Paul.
The box set is already on pre-order and I’m just waiting for the Blu Ray :-)
Count me in for the big box!
Any plans to follow it with mome Seeds ?
Yes, Seeds is next :)
Todd R. says:
YES YES YES YES YES!!!
Paul you are a life saver – after the craziness of 99 and 05 reissues, finally getting this one right will be a fantastic adventure. Live period recordings and demos have me thrilled. After your great work on THE HURTING, I was hoping that you would be a part of this project – when I heard of it coming down the pike – crossed my fingers and ta da!!!
Thrilled to see Seeds for next year (or this – as it is 25 -gasp- years on). Obviously the inclusion of GOING TO CALIFORNIA would be ideal, but what about a reprint of the VIRGIN BOOKS “Seeds Of Love” volume that is now all-too-hard to find? Even some of the promo items (logo pins, iconography postcards set etc) would be nice to see in some way. Thank You Thank You Thank You!
Poul-Erik Borre says:
Any plans for at 5.1 mix of Seeds?
Is there any reason why ‘The Hurting’ was only issued as Hi-def stereo on Blu-ray.
Any chance that it may be released as 5.1 mix at a later stage.
I’m excited about the BIG CHAIR box set.
I am ECSTATIC that there is going to be a SEEDS box!
Hopefully a candid documentary about the ins and outs of the production of that album will be included! :)
Skip James says:
Hi Paul – any word on plans for Seeds?
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Energy bill-payers face hundreds of millions of pound charges for 'pointless' smart meter displays
Consumers face paying hundreds of millions of pounds in unnecessary energy bill levies to fund household “smart meter” displays that companies have warned could be largely redundant
Smart meters communicate remotely from households to energy companies Photo: REX
By Emily Gosden
9:23AM GMT 26 Dec 2013
Consumers face paying hundreds of millions of pounds in unnecessary energy bill levies to fund household “smart meter” displays that companies have warned could be largely redundant.
Ministers want smart energy meters, which take automatic gas and electricity usage readings and send them back to energy companies, installed in every household in Britain by 2020.
Bills will initially rise to pay for the £12bn programme, which will fit meters in 30 million homes and businesses.
However, the Government claims it will eventually save consumers money because they will also be provided with an “in-home display” which enables them to see their energy usage in real-time, encouraging them to cut back and be more efficient.
But critics fear the Government has failed to keep up with the pace of technology and the rise of smart-phone apps.
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They argue it is pointless to give customers separate display panels when using smart-phone apps could be a cheaper and more popular alternative.
Major energy company ScottishPower told the Telegraph that the displays, which cost £15 to £25 or even more, could be a waste of money and has called for a review of the entire £12bn programme to reduce costs for consumers.
Neil Clitheroe, ScottishPower’s chief executive of generation and retail said: “Removing the obligation of the mandatory requirement of in-home displays could significantly reduce the costs of the smart meter programme to consumers.
“Displays could be offered where appropriate but costs can be reduced by offering alternative information sources such as apps.
“We would like to see a careful review of the entire smart metering programme in order to reduce costs."
More than one million smart meters have already been installed, mostly by British Gas.
The national rollout of smart meters, originally due to begin in summer 2014, has now been delayed to autumn 2015 so that communications systems to transmit the data from meters can been installed.
Small energy supplier First Utility echoed ScottishPower’s calls for a rethink of the smart metering programme and use of in-home displays.
Darren Braham, founder and chief financial officer, said: "The benefit of smart meters is in the data and the insights they can give into individual energy use. It’s only by being informed about actual usage that we can understand what behaviour we can change to reduce energy consumption. The key to this is how data is presented to be visible, simple, engaging and insightful.
"We are already delivering this information to smart meter customers via an online portal and trialing a mobile app to give consumers the choice to consume this information in way that is best for them.
"We are also evaluating and trialing a number of IHDs which cost about £25 per unit. This cost will need to be funded within energy tariffs and some customers will be very happy to pay for them. However others may not, so its important that we have a debate about the best way of delivering usage information balanced against the cost of doing so."
A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: “In Home-Displays will give consumers easy access to information on their energy consumption in pounds and pence, to help them manage and control their energy use.
“Although suppliers will be required to offer in-home displays to their domestic customers alongside a smart meter, customers don’t have to accept one if they don’t want to.”
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FORT WORTH, Texas (Aug. 24, 2016) - It’s a whole new race for the Verizon IndyCar Series championship and the resumption of Saturday night’s Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway is going to play a pivotal role in determining the eventual champion.
By winning the weather-delayed race at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway on Monday, Team Penske’s Will Power claimed his fourth victory in the last six races to close to 20 points of teammate and championship leader Simon Pagenaud.
Power held off pole sitter Mikhail Aleshin by 1.1459 seconds on the 2.5-mile “Tricky Triangle” oval to collect the 29th win of his Indy-car career. It tied him with a pair of Team Penske greats for 11th on the all-time victory list - Rick Mears and Helio Castroneves.
Meanwhile, Pagenaud crashed out of the race on Lap 158 and finished 18th. The result severely trimmed the Frenchman’s lead over Power by 38 points with three races remaining – Saturday night at Texas, Watkins Glen (Sept. 4) and Sonoma (Sept. 18).
Pagenaud entered Monday’s race at Pocono with a 58-point lead over Power, but lost nearly two thirds of that cushion after ending his race against the wall on lap 158.
“The car bottomed and I went straight to the wall,” he said. “It was really weird because I had bottoming, but not to that extent. I just lost control of the steering. It felt OK leaving the pits. Turn 1 was fine. Turn 2 was fine. I don’t know. We didn’t have a really good car, but still it was important to score points. It was important to save fuel and stay in the top seven.”
“We still have this championship [lead],” Kyle Moyer, Pagenaud’s race strategist, said. “It’s going to be a big fight leaving here.”
Moyer is correct, as a closer look as to how 20 points can be overcome shows there is little margin for error in the final three races.
The difference of 20 points is first to fourth in a regular race, first to second when the points are doubled. Also keep in mind that Power has won at Texas Motor Speedway (2011) and Pagenaud has not. The next race is at Watkins Glen, where Power has won but Pagenaud has not, and Sonoma, where Power has won three times and Pagenaud has not.
It’s not like Pagenaud is giving Power the legitimate chance to win a second title; his first was in 2014. The Frenchman won recently at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the accident in Monday’s race was his first of the season. Until that point, he had completed all but one of the laps this season, that coming in the Indianapolis 500. He’s under fire now, and he knows it.
“There’s nothing we can do about it now, so we’ll move on to Texas,” he said. “I don’t think it changes anything. We’ve gone all out all season and that’s not going to change.”
Team Penske started the race at Pocono with three drivers holding the top three positions in the championship, but that trend was broken when Helio Castroneves was involved in a scary pit lane crash with Indy 500 champion Alexander Rossi that ended their days just 63 laps into the 200-lap contest.
Josef Newgarden took over third in the standings from Castroneves with a fourth-place finish Monday. His rise into the top three is likely to be temporary, however, because Saturday night’s race at Texas is set to run without the No. 21 Chevy in the field due to his crash with Conor Daly prior to the rain stoppage in June.
Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon, who started 19th, motored to sixth at Pocono and used those points to move to fourth in the championship. Castroneves is now fifth.
And while it might just be the two Penske teammates fighting it out at the top, there is not much distance between the next group of drivers. Newgarden (-100 behind Pagenaud), Dixon (-111), Castroneves (-113) and Tony Kanaan (-117) have the most realistic shot at breaking into those top two spots with the final three races – starting at Texas Saturday – on the horizon.
Looking ahead to Saturday’s conclusion of the Firestone 600 that will resume on Lap 72 of 248, Power will re-start the race in fourth after starting seventh. Pagenaud, who started one place ahead of his teammate, has dropped back to 15th.
Championship facts:
Ӣ Simon Pagenaud leads the Verizon IndyCar Series championship with three races to be completed for the first time in his career.
Ӣ Simon Pagenaud leads Will Power by 20 points. Pagenaud has led the championship since the second race of the season at Phoenix. With 54 maximum points available at Texas, the points lead could change for the second time in 2015.
Ӣ There are 15 drivers still mathematically eligible for the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series championship: Simon Pagenaud, Will Power, Josef Newgarden, Scott Dixon, Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Carlos Munoz, James Hinchcliffe, Graham Rahal, Charlie Kimball, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi, Juan Pablo Montoya, Sebastien Bourdais and Mikhail Aleshin. Any driver who trails the points leader by 158 points or more following the race will be eliminated from contention.
Ӣ Three drivers were eliminated from championship contention at Pocono on Aug. 22 - Takuma Sato, Marco Andretti and Conor Daly.
Ӣ Since the first Indy car race at Texas in 1997, the winning driver has won the championship six times: Sam Hornish Jr (2001 Race 2; 2002 Race 2); Tony Kanaan (2004 Race 1), Scott Dixon (2008 and 2015) and Dario Franchitti (2011 Race 1).
Key championship point statistic: The driver who has led the championship with three races to go has failed to win the championship in five of the last six seasons. Will Power in 2014 is the exception.
Point differential: The 20 points which separate Simon Pagenaud and Will Power is the third smallest margin with three races remaining since 2010. Will Power led Helio Castroneves by four points in 2014 and Ryan Hunter-Reay by five points in 2012. The average deficit with three races to go since 2010 is 23.16 points.
Championship-eligible drivers' results at Texas: Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan and Will Power have all won races at Texas Motor Speedway. Castroneves, Dixon and Kanaan have seven podium finishes. Pagenaud's best finish was fourth in 2014. Newgarden (who will not participate in the race's resumption due to crash on June 12) has never finished better than eighth.
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BRILLIANT!! The Fast Show is returning! Nice.
Traxy Thornfield 6 September 2011 News & Announcements
We interrupt the Jane Eyre-centred week with an important announcement! For those who remember the 1990s and in particular, a British comedy show called The Fast Show, and to those who enjoyed it as much as I did – good news! There’s some deal with Foster’s (the beer brand) to bring the show back … on the internet, at least. It seems the whole gang has come together for it too, aside from Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley in Harry Potter). I would say “Which is nice”, but I’m disappointed he won’t be in it.
The Fast Show was a sketch show mainly made up of catchphrases, but it was absolutely hilarious. I have all the three series on DVD, including the Christmas Special and the live show. For those who have never seen it, look them up on YouTube.
Any bets on which characters we’re going to reacquaint ourselves with? Rowley Birkin, the doddering old drunk? (“[Mumble mumble] ‘Stand aside, I say!’ [mumble mumble] with a great big elephant [mumble mumble mumble] but of course I was very, very drunk.”) Ron Manager? (“Jumpers for goal posts.”) Swiss Toni? (“…is like making love to a beautiful woman.” The Squeeze is great at making up Swiss Toni stuff, by the way.) Chanel 9 Neus? (“Scorchio!” – a word that has entered the general British vocabulary.) Jessie and his random diets? (“This week, I’ll be mostly havin’…”) The ‘Suits You’ clerks? Bob Fleming? Colin Hunt? Jazz Club? Ted and Ralph? “Does my bum look big in this?” “BRILLIANT!!” “Someone’s sittin’ there, mate.” Ohh, and the overachieving dad.
“Ohh! Suits you, sirs!”
A selection of tweets from one of the show’s creator, Charlie Higson:
A lot of you have been asking when we will be bringing the fast show back #thefastshow
And if so, when #thefastshow
The answer is “yes – we are bringing #thefastshow back. On November 14th.”
We will have all the old team back together, including Caroline, but sadly not mark Williams. All the popular characters #thefastshow
to clarify. I only have 140 characters here. when I say ‘all the popular characters’ I mean all those not played by Mark Williams obviously
we would have loved Mark to be involved but he didn’t want to do it
we will not be doing any new characters on the new #thefastshow project – not yet anyway. we decided to stick to old favourites.
This is where you will be able to watch our new #thefastshow series http://fosters.co.uk/
To follow the cast members on Twitter:
Arabella Weir: @ArabellaWeir
Charlie Higson: @monstroso
John Thomson: @JohnnyThomson2
Paul Whitehouse: not on twitter
Simon Day: @simonday24
…I’ll get me coat! And wait for November!
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A response to Strindberg, script by Sarah Bedi and the company.
A mysterious woman arrives on Earth, intent on uncovering the truth about human suffering. Her dream-like quest leads her through shifting landscapes and into contact with a host of disturbing characters as she searches for the ever elusive Door, behind which she is certain the answer lies ... Can she discover the unconscious truth and return home?
BAZ brings its unique brand of magic to the Southbank, inviting you to an exploration of our dreams, desires and anxieties in a re-imagining of Strindberg's epic play in the tunnels underneath Waterloo Station.
BAZ Productions was formed in 2009 with the aim of making theatre for an audience seeking something alive and limitless, plunging them into the heart of the story. BAZ explore this through site-responsive projects that are inspired by classic texts; working in this way allows us to create unique and visceral events. Our work to date has seen us take over a crypt in Central London, an art gallery in Shoreditch and a Lookout Tower on the coast of Aldeburgh. We have dabbled in Shakespeare, woven Greek myths together and delved into the nightmarish dreams of Strindberg. Our quest is always to make work that fizzes with life.
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Cajun cornerback Thomas will wait until 2016 for return
UL cornerback Simeon Thomas, recently granted restored NCAA eligibility, won't play Saturday against New Mexico State
Cajun cornerback Thomas will wait until 2016 for return UL cornerback Simeon Thomas, recently granted restored NCAA eligibility, won't play Saturday against New Mexico State Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/ul/2015/11/16/cajun-cornerback-thomas-wait-until-2016-return/75883114/
Tim Buckley, tbuckley2@theadvertiser.com Published 6:04 p.m. CT Nov. 16, 2015 | Updated 7:53 p.m. CT Nov. 16, 2015
UL safety T.J. Worthy (27) celebrates with cornerback Simeon Thomas (2) after Thomas broke up a pass intended for Tulane receiver Justyn Shackleford (80) during UL's 2013 New Orleans Bowl win.(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)Buy Photo
UL cornerback Simeon Thomas, whose eligibility was recently restored by the NCAA effective Saturday against New Mexico State, will not play in 2015, Ragin’ Cajuns coach Mark Hudspeth said Monday.
Current plans, according to Hudspeth, are for Thomas to take the season as a redshirt year rather than play in UL’s final three regular-season games and a potential bowl game.
It’s what Hudspeth wanted as soon as he learned of the NCAA’s ruling.
The decision to wait allows Thomas, an NFL prospect and would-be starter for the Cajuns had he been eligible for the beginning of the season, to play two more years at UL instead of just one.
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Thomas hasn’t played since the 2013 New Orleans Bowl, during a true freshman season in which the highly hyped Floridian missed the year’s first three games while awaiting NCAA academic eligibility clearance and a fourth game because of the timing of the decision.
Thomas also missed all of last season due to an NCAA ruling and violation of an undisclosed team rule.
The decision to not play this year, Hudspeth suggested when asked Monday, was not made any tougher by the fact UL needs to win at least two of its next three games to become bowl eligible for a fifth-straight season.
“No, because here’s the thing: Where do you put him?” Hudspeth asked. “Where’s he playing?
“We might could play him at safety (safeties Tracy Walker and T.J. Worthy both have missed time with injuries), but (which cornerback) do you put on the bench? Savion (Brown)? It would be hard to take him off the field.”
Brown's night, UL's season comes with fight
Brown has a team-high three interceptions this season, including an 85-yard pick-six in UL’s loss last Thursday night at South Alabama.
“Troy McCollum? It would be hard to take him off the field,” Hudspeth said.
McCollum has started five games this season, including the last two after Jevante Watson went down with an ankle injury.
“Here’s a guy (Thomas) that hasn’t played all year long, who’s probably rusty as a barn nail,” Hudspeth said. “And you’ve got two guys (Brown and McCollum) who have played 70 snaps a game. So, I don’t know where he would fit right now.”
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Hudspeth does, however, envision a high-profile place for Thomas beginning next season.
“(That’s) not to say he’s not gonna be a great player for us,” the Cajun coach said. “We will put our best four on the field in the future, and he will factor into our defense in a big way.
“But those other two kids (Brown and McCollum) have earned their stripes… Our secondary right now on the corner positions (has) really lived up to my expectations these last six weeks.”
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How to Belong in America
The Pulitzer finalist Laila Lalami’s latest novel traces the story of one immigrant family and the seemingly inexplicable tragedy that ruptures it.
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The Other Americans by Laila Lalami Pantheon
The Other Americans begins with blood. In the first pages of the Pulitzer finalist Laila Lalami’s new novel, a Moroccan immigrant named Driss Guerraoui is struck by a vehicle one evening while leaving the diner he owns, near California’s Mojave Desert. The car speeds off, its driver either unconcerned—or, worse yet, satisfied.
Through the perspectives of nine alternating narrators, including Driss himself, Lalami threads together an account of the slain man’s journey to America and the life he toiled to build after his arrival. The first character introduced is Nora, Driss’s American-born daughter, who moves back to her hometown after her father’s suspicious death. Her thoughts are crisply relayed, her grief overwhelming in its clarity: “My father was killed on a spring night four years ago, while I sat in the corner booth of a new bistro in Oakland,” the novel opens. “Whenever I think about that moment, these two contradictory images come to me: my father struggling for breath on the cracked asphalt, and me drinking champagne with my roommate, Margo.”
After Nora’s initial recounting of the news, Lalami introduces her other narrators—among them, Jeremy, an old school friend of Nora’s, who is white; Efrain, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who witnessed the hit and run; Maryam, Driss’s wife; and Coleman, the black woman detective working Driss’s case.
The Other Americans is, on its face, a novel that traces the story of one immigrant family and the seemingly inexplicable tragedy that ruptures it. But through her many characters’ specific and overlapping perspectives, Lalami also questions the feasibility of any centralized American identity. None of the novel’s narrators, even those who are citizens, ever quite measures up to the expectations they feel their immediate community, or their country, has of them. They are too loud or too brown or too soft. Too different. Nobody is ever enough.
Thankfully, the distinctions between their reasons for feeling like outsiders are still important: Lalami doesn’t conflate Jeremy’s unease in some hypermasculine spaces, for example, with Efrain’s all-consuming fear of deportation. For readers with their own experiences of immigration, whether direct—such as Driss, Maryam, and Efrain—or via family, like Nora, perhaps some of Lalami’s core considerations will be familiar. As Nora and the other characters unravel the real story of Driss’s killing, Lalami weighs heavy questions: Will America ever live up to the dream it sells would-be immigrants around the world? Is it possible to belong in a country that so readily kills people like you? Who is sufficiently American?
These are difficult considerations, and a less skilled author might have produced an overly didactic text in the hope of exploring them. But Lalami largely avoids this impulse by imbuing her characters with a vitality that bridges the gaps between their identities and their interiority. They occupy a range of different social positions, but Lalami’s characters most often read like people, not avatars of representation. They are funny, cantankerous, and affecting. They keep secrets from one another, and, most thrillingly, from themselves. Her characters speak with distinct cadences. Together, the narrators sketch out a vision of a community shaken by Driss’s killing, and a family whose life in America always existed against a backdrop of similar violence.
One of the novel’s most poignant successes is how deftly Lalami builds a sense of inexorable terror as the characters recount their lives before Driss’s killing. His death was not, the book suggests, an isolated incident. Early in the text, Nora describes having witnessed a fire at the donut shop her parents opened when they first arrived in the United States after fleeing political violence in Casablanca. In the days following 9/11, the young Nora had ridden to work with her father to escape the onslaught of post-attack news:
We turned onto Kickapoo Trail to find Aladdin Donuts burning like a stack of hay. In a single motion, my father jumped out of the station wagon and pulled out his cell phone, just as Mr. Melendez at the 7-Eleven across the street came running toward us. “I called 911,” he said. He told us he’d been changing the paper in his cash register when he heard the sound of screeching tires. He’d thought nothing of it until the smell of smoke came drifting in through the doorway, a mix of gasoline, ash, melting plastic, and caramelizing syrup. Years later, a whiff of smoke, even if only from a beachside barbecue, can still conjure up my memories of the arson.
It’s a devastating image, an encapsulation of how easily some immigrants’ American Dream™ can be wrested away by people who believe in a singular vision of Americanness. Driss, and Nora for that matter, could have easily died in the attack on the family’s shop. The Other Americans references 9/11 often, the attack a bellwether for rising anti-Muslim sentiment in the country. The book was published in March and written well before then. But it’s a particularly jarring read now, in the days following the New York Post’s dangerous decontextualization of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar’s comments about Islamophobia, as well as after the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 50 Muslim worshippers dead last month. The threats facing the Guerraoui family, and people like them, are evergreen.
Throughout the novel, Lalami’s attention to contrast and contradiction is stunning. Her prose is incisive and lived-in, as though culled from decades of listening in on private conversations between older family members. In this, Nora’s chapters are the strongest. Through her voice, readers most clearly feel the central tension of the novel: the Guerraouis’ deep desire to belong to a country that vilifies people like them. (It’s worth noting that not all immigrant families depicted in the book hold particularly romantic views about the country; Lalami’s story lines will impress upon readers that the pursuit of safety is often a far more common motivator.)
For Nora, the fear stoked by the attack on her father’s shop, and by the deepening culture of anti-Muslim bias in California, has tainted even the most joyful California endeavors: trips to the beach. It’s easy to see, then, how a child traumatized by the experience might, years later, come to resent her parents’ investment in the country she’s beginning to see as a threat. Still, it’s no less heartbreaking when Nora explains this dissonance to Jeremy when he comes to visit the family after Driss’s death:
“I knew something terrible would happen. You remember his business was arsoned after September 11th? They never found out who did it. And then he put up a huge flag outside his restaurant, like he had to prove he was one of the good ones. I told him over and over that he should sell. But he refused, he loved it here. God only knows why.”
The novel does answer some of Nora’s questions, through Driss’s voice. After the donut-shop arson, Driss had worked to establish a sense of rhythm and safety for his family that the political upheaval of Casablanca denied them. He labored to establish his new diner as a friendly, all-American outpost. That he was later killed outside this flag-flying establishment is as much an indictment of his new community’s xenophobia as it is a personal tragedy.
To the extent that The Other Americans is a mystery or procedural, the novel does offer an answer to its central case, a nudge toward some small amount of justice. Even so, the book’s conclusion about American identity is a far more tenuous one than this legal resolution: For people on the country’s margins, particularly immigrants, no gesture of patriotism will ever be enough.
Hannah Giorgis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture.
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Tag Archives: Politics of Spain
An open letter to Societat Civil Catalana
March 4, 2015 Catalonia, coup, Politics, QuestionsCarlism, Falangism, Politics of Spain, Question, Societat Civil Catalana, Spanish nationalismTom
Dear SCC,
Firstly, congratulations for the European Parliament medal and everything. I’m not entirely sure why you were nominated. You don’t seem to have done anything. Except publish press releases and organize two or three sparsely attended demonstrations at which pretty much the only reliable will-shows were the boot boys from Democracia Nacional and Plataforma per Catalunya. Still, it’s not for me to explain the workings of the European Parliament, and I won’t ask you to either.
But I do have a question or two for you. They’re about one of your founding members. No, not Josep Ramon Bosch. I couldn’t care less if the alleged highlight of his Dad’s year was organizing a mass in honor of General Franco. The sins of the father, etc.
No, I’m more interested in Javier Barraycoa, listed as a founding member on Wikipedia. He is, apparently, also the secretary of the Catalan section of the Carlist party ‘Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista’, a party dedicated to ‘God, Fatherland, Charters and King’. CTC promotes a sort of ‘organic democracy’, (known by pretty much everyone else as ‘authoritarian democracy’), generally considered to be a key component of Mussolini and Stalin’s respective brands of totalitarian dictatorship. He’s on the record as saying that he “doesn’t believe in elections”.
Question 1: Is Javier Barraycoa a member or official of SCC? I ask because a search of your organization’s website shows no sign that he has any connection with you. But at the same time, I can’t find any press stories detailing his expulsion from SCC. So I have to ask. You understand.
Question 2: Do the values of Carlism fit with the values of the SCC?
Question 3: Did you never worry that linking your so-called ‘plural’ organization with someone from Spain’s traditionalist far right wing could look bad? Is that perhaps why his name doesn’t appear on your website?
Question 4: As proud members of a plural Catalan and Spanish society and defenders of democracy, do you as an organization condemn the military rebellion of 1936 and the dictatorship it led to?
I look forward to your responses! Have a great week!
From the left towards Catalan independence
November 24, 2014 Capital, Catalonia, Politics, SpainArtur Mas i Gavarró, Catalan independentism, Catalan nationalism, Catalonia, Kate Shea Baird, Mossos d'Esquadra, Politics of Catalonia, Politics of Spain, Social Issues, SpainTom
Fellow traveler Kate Shea Baird sums it all up quite well. I feel it’s important for those of us on the left who support Catalan independence to remember that we want independence in order to deliver a better country. Not just any country. An independent Catalonia, sí o sí, is not the aim and never should be. I don’t consider Catalans to be living under a repressive regime (unless you mean the Mossos) and so I don’t buy the liberation trope. And while I wouldn’t like to see Artur Mas behind bars for organizing the consulta, I’d crack the cava open if he and the rest of his party were sent down for corruption.
The pro-independence left (mainly the CUP and elements of Iniciativa and a handful of people at ERC) must maintain its focus through all the twists and turns in this process. We must, above all, fight for our values as the keystone of our support for independence: we want a better country. We want a country that helps the poorest, defends labor, looks after its citizens’ health, educates its young people, invests in the arts and culture, promotes sustainable living and tourism, and rejects CiU’s corruption and the neo-liberal model. And because we’re on the left, we must want all these things for Spain as well.
That’s the Catalan republic that I defend.
Juan Carlos I abdicates: Spain enters a new era
June 2, 2014 Catalonia, Politics, PP, SpainGovernment of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, Politics, Politics of Spain, Spanish Socialist Workers' PartyTom
So Juanca has finally abdicated, official immediately. It was a ‘surprise’ announcement which shouldn’t really have surprised us at all. The timing was obvious: a week after the EU elections, so as not to get people thinking too hard about how they want to be governed. This would have been agreed by the twin pillars of a crumbling political system: the PP and the PSOE.
This is the key gesture launching a process which will attempt to preserve the status quo against serious threats including the royal family’s declining popularity, the failure of the bipartisan political system and the Catalan independence movement. The plan is probably to have a quick succession, coronation and then a series of constitutional changes ‘proposed by the new king’ in order to reduce the increasing discontent across the country. I’m not sure that they haven’t left it too long.
Has no one told Rajoy that he should be next?
PP u-turn to offer Catalonia a new fiscal pact – what now?
March 29, 2014 Catalonia, Politics, PP, SpainArtur Mas i Gavarró, Catalonia, Estelada, Government of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, Mas, Politics of Catalonia, Politics of Spain, ReferendumTom
It looks likely that next week will see Mariano Rajoy offer Catalonia a new fiscal settlement in an effort to deflate growing support for independence. This would represent a huge policy shift for the PP, which until now has refused to discuss any possibility of changes to how much tax revenue Catalonia receives from central government.
The aim behind this offer is obvious and it underlines the serious strategic mistake the Spanish government has made in dealing with Catalonia. Refusal to negotiate since 2012’s September 11th demonstration has fostered significant unity and growth in the pro-independence camp. The PP effectively killed off any chance of returning to the days of ‘la puta i la ramoneta‘ – the traditional model that CiU has used to get more cash from Madrid by pretending to be pro-independence. This shift aims to reintroduce a ‘third way’, with the intention of undermining Unió support for Artur Mas pressing on with plans for an unlikely referendum this November.
The question is, how successful will this manoeuvre turn out to be? Independentists will insist that Mas takes ‘ni un pas enrere’. Popular support for a referendum is around 80%. Can the PP really deflate this to acceptably low proportions? The fairest way to judge this would be to include any such offer as a third way in a consultative referendum which includes independence as an option. But the offer will almost certainly be linked to dropping plans for the ‘consulta’.
I’m not certain but I get the feeling that the PP has left it too long to change its mind. Artur Mas’s constituency has shifted significantly and he knows it. I say this because I don’t see Mas as the evil genius mastermind behind the independence movement which seems to be an indispensable position for anyone who seriously doubts the level of popular support for independence here. I think he’s an opportunist who has hitched his wagon to the estelada. The Spanish government is clearly hoping that Mas will see sense and unhitch that wagon. Or at the very least, that Mas won’t be able to swan around complaining that Madrid won’t talk.
As in any political decision, of key importance here is the personal ambition of those involved. I find it difficult to believe that Mas will back down now. And populist that he is, he’ll be thinking hard about his changed constituency and his legacy.
Catalonia independence referendum: date, questions and Spanish response
December 13, 2013 Catalonia, Politics, PPCatalan independentism, Catalonia, Jordi Cañas, Parliament of Catalonia, Politics, Politics of Catalonia, Politics of Spain, Referendum, United and Alternative LeftTom
As you’ll have heard by now. A referendum on Catalan independence “will be held” on November 9 2014. It will consist of two questions: “Should Catalonia be a state? And if so, should it be an independent state?”. CiU, ERC, ICV-EUiA and CUP agreed these terms. This represents a plurality of the parties in the Catalan parliament. The agreement came days before the potential collapse of the CiU government over a budget vote due next week.
The response from Rajoy was immediate: “It’s not negotiable. It won’t happen”.
Jordi Cañas of C’s (such a fitting name) maybe hinted at the unionist approach on TV3 just now: “There won’t be a referendum in November next year” he said, “there will be elections”. And as suggested here before, this is the most likely strategy of Spanish opposition to Catalan independence: deny the right to a referendum and thereby encourage the ‘other path to independence’ – elections followed by a unilateral declaration of independence. This would put Madrid in a much better position in terms of international support and negotiating power. It is, I reckon, the preferred outcome in Madrid because of how easy it would be to paint the Catalans as thoroughly antidemocratic, as well as sowing disagreement between the pro-referendum parties (Iniciativa won’t agree to a UDI as an election pledge, I shouldn’t think).
So, in short: this time next year, we’ll still be talking about what might happen.
Where is Catalonia’s Rubicon on the road to independence?
November 14, 2013 Catalonia, Politics, PP, SpainCatalonia, European Union, king, Politics of Catalonia, Politics of Spain, Referendum, Spain, Spanish government, Unilateral Declaration of IndependenceTom
So the gradual creep towards independence continues in Catalonia. A referendum remains highly unlikely as the only remote possibility of one being held is it being approved in the Congreso in Madrid, which won’t happen because the PP has an absolute majority (and anyway, the PSOE is in total disarray, and so can’t be relied on, except to be unreliable). Duran i Lleida – ‘king troll’ – warns frequently of the risks and possibilities of a unilateral declaration of independence. CiU is trying to slow the process, probably at least partly so it can carry on privatising everything in Catalonia, and ERC is chomping at the bit.
Legal consequences
All of this has me thinking: if we know, more or less, that a referendum cannot be legally held (the Catalan parliament will pass a law allowing it but this is understood to not be within an autonomous region’s capacities), then maybe we start to see the Spanish strategy. They want to force Catalonia into acting illegally if they want to proceed towards independence. The question is: is Artur Mas really willing to take this step? And if he is, when will it come?
For Mas, I imagine it must be tempting. If everything went according to plan, he’d be remembered by Catalans for taking a stand, not for corruption and the destruction of Catalonia’s social services. He’d be like a new Jordi Pujol! On the other hand, if there’s an expert at saving his own skin, it’s Artur Mas. We can be sure that some of the time he spends drumming up contracts on foreign visits is dedicated to establishing Artur Mas as a Reasonable Man in the eyes of foreign officials.
Where is the Rubicon?
In the end, Catalonia’s Rubicon has two potential locations: an illegal referendum or a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI). If Catalonia attempts to hold a referendum without Spain’s permission, the vote will not be accepted as legal by the Spanish government. This would probably damage the potential turnout, currently reckoned to be really large. I can’t see Madrid suddenly agreeing to a referendum. But would it act to prevent one? It’s difficult to say. Spain’s already pretty unpopular in the EU, and preventing a referendum from being held, even though it would be an internal, legal issue, wouldn’t look good. But that probably wouldn’t be enough to stop Spain from intervening.
Unilateral declaration of independence
I expect that if Catalonia says it will hold a referendum, the Spanish authorities will warn that to proceed would lead to grave legal consequences. I also suspect that if Catalonia insisted, Madrid would find itself under enormous pressure to intervene. In the end, I’m not sure that a referendum will ever be held. I think it’s much more likely that fresh elections will be held with a UDI as the deciding factor. If this happens, expect ERC to win, CiU to drop, C’s to rise, ICV to remain more or less in place, and the CUP to see a rise. The PSC and PPC will both decline even further.
But a UDI is also illegal and far more so than a referendum. Surely Spain would have to act against a UDI, but how? Suspending Catalonia’s autonomy? Arresting the president and govern?
I’ve always been against UDIs because while I agree that sovereignty resides in the people, not in the Spanish crown, I feel that international support will be difficult to obtain without a clear, free and fair referendum. If Spain blocks a referendum, then, it is of prime importance for Catalonia to make clear that it has exhausted the legal possibilities open to it.
International opinion will be vital and, while not exactly popular, Spain has far more clout in that area than Catalonia does. 2014 might still be an interesting year.
Latest allegations in the Bárcenas case: Rajoy stays put
July 15, 2013 Politics, PP, SpainEl Mundo, Government of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, Politics of SpainTom
The most recent allegations made in the PP corruption case, first over last weekend in El Mundo and today in court, have been explosive. Luís Bárcenas, having denied that he wrote the alleged ‘B accounting’ books of the PP, today admitted that they were his work. He deposited digital copies of – apparently – all the documents related to the case with the judge. He went on to claim that Rajoy and party secretary Maria Dolores de Cospedal did receive cash payments from his slush fund in 2008, 2009 and 2010, totalling €90,000.
Rajoy, in a dodgy press conference tactic, took a question from the friendly ABC newspaper instead of from El Mundo, and read a prepared statement. He won’t resign. Of course he won’t. And nobody was expecting that he would. But the PSOE has again called for his immediate resignation. They’re also trying to get enough cross-party support for a censure motion against Rajoy in parliament. I can’t see how this would achieve anything but a symbolic defeat because the PP has an absolute majority.
If Rajoy has one political instinct, it is to ignore everything and carry on regardless. While often seen as burying his head in the sand, El Jueves had a better metaphor for the man today.
But stepping back from the excitement of what seem to be such clear grounds for Rajoy’s resignation, we’re faced with two problems. The first is the source of all this information: Luís Bárcenas. The problem with him is that he’s clearly – evidently – a very dishonest man. So why should we trust him now when half of what he denied previously he now admits? The same goes for El Mundo and its crusading editor, Pedro J. Ramírez. El Mundo has a decent reputation for exposing some big corruption cases. But Pedro J.R. is a PP sectarian who loathes Rajoy. He also pushed bizarre conspiracy theories about the 11M bombings for years, and backed them up with some alleged documentary evidence.
So should we trust Bárcenas and El Mundo this time? Well, the question is whether we trust the documentary evidence that Bárcenas has apparently submitted to the court today. He now says it is a full secondary accounting system which he maintained (why? self preservation?) as he handed over millions of Euros in unregistered donations to party officials over 20 years. Trusting this evidence is key. So why do I?
Well, because two PP officials have already admitted to receiving these ‘extra payments’. Eugenio Nasarre and Pío García Escudero both made this admission in May. To now say that the documents that Bárcenas has produced are false would suggest a conspiracy at a much higher level, including various PP officials in an incredibly elaborate anti-Rajoy plot. No, the more believable version is that Bárcenas, realising he has no protection whatsoever from the party he gave so many years to, has decided to sink them all.
And this leads us to the second problem. Assuming we do trust the ledger books, what other corroborating evidence is there? It will be easy for Rajoy, Cospedal et al to insist that whatever the court says, the documents are false. They could string this case out for decades. So we need some evidence other than the ledgers and it’s still not clear that Bárcenas has this. The PP has talked about releasing tax statements for all its MPs to prove their immaculate record. This, naturally, is insulting. If they want us to believe that their tax records prove that they didn’t get envelopes full of cash, they’re sorely mistaken.
So this is where we are: what seems to be clear incrimination for the head of Spain’s government, and no solution in sight. We can only hope that Bárcenas has something else hidden under his blanket.
Mas making love to France
June 4, 2013 Capital, Catalonia, Politics, SpainArtur Mas i Gavarró, Catalan independentism, Catalonia, France, Politics of Catalonia, Politics of Spain, public infrastructure, RENFE, Rodalies Barcelona, SNCF, VilawebTom
Artur Mas has been on an official visit to France. He celebrated that Spain has permitted Catalonia its own sub-representation at UNESCO in Paris. He also took the opportunity to suggest that the concession for Rodalies commuter trains in Barcelona might be sold to SNCF when Renfe’s license expires in 2015.
Similar noises were made a while back when it was suggested that France be the defender of Catalan independence and territory, rather than Spain or Catalonia itself. A proposed meeting with the French minister of defence was cancelled – allegedly after pressure from Spain.
So it’s privatisation of public infrastructure, but done in a clever way that in theory could help get the French on-side when it comes to independence (and thus make us forget that we’re talking about basic state services). Going further down that road could be risky: an independent state with no infrastructure to call its own isn’t much of a state.
[I’d like to add that I raised the France question a while back on this blog, and had a lot of comments from Catalans who thought France’s position was utterly irrelevant. Rather short-sighted of them, in my opinion. I assume they’ll be writing to Vilaweb to complain, now that the pro-independence website has published an editorial entitled ‘France is key for Catalonia’s diplomatic recognition‘.]
Can Rajoy survive the Bárcenas case?
January 31, 2013 Capital, Politics, PP, Spainbank accounts, Congress of Deputies, Government of Spain, Luis Bárcenas, Mariano Rajoy, Palau, Political corruption, Politics of Spain, PP, Rajoy's governmentTom
I’ve been meaning to write about the political corruption cases rocking CiU and the PP over the last few weeks, but every time I start an article, a new case appears. Since Gürtel, we’ve had (to name a few) Palau, Sabadell, Lloret… and Bárcenas. All the cases are serious but Bárcenas is the big daddy of corruption scandals. It’s is a case which could – and should – bring down the government.
Originally linked with Gürtel, the Bárcenas case involves significant cash payments made on a monthly basis to senior members of the PP by its then treasurer, Luis Bárcenas. The money, mainly party donations and kickbacks, was handed out in envelopes. This went on for about 25 years until it suddenly stopped a few years ago, apparently on Mariano Rajoy’s orders.
Bárcenas also benefited from the tax amnesty which was one of Rajoy’s first policies. He managed to legalize millions of Euros kept previously in Swiss bank accounts.
What’s stunning about this case is that firstly, this isn’t mere anonymous claims made in El Mundo. It’s stuff that Bárcenas and his legal team seems to be admitting to. Secondly, Mariano Rajoy himself allegedly received €25,000 a year for 11 years in dodgy money. And this may have gone on until 2009.
With a spring and summer of protests on the way, I’m starting to wonder if Rajoy’s government can survive. If it does, it will be through our failure to act as citizens and residents of this corrupt country.
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Wesley Snipes Talks About Blade as Black Panther Explodes
by Robert Kingett February 20, 2018, 10:00 am 1.2k Views
WHAT? IT’S BEEN 20 YEARS SINCE BLADE HIT THEATERS
Ok, let’s just get this out of the way. Blade rocked. It was good. It was even better than good, though maybe not all the Blade movies could be called amazing. But the first film was twenty fucking years ago. It’s been two DECADES since a black man, Wesley Snipes, appeared as an anti-hero hero. A daywalking, vampiric, taciturn asshole hero. So as everyone runs around loving Black Panther, which is fine, let’s all remember that there was already a footprint of a black man as hero film franchise that did well.
BLADE WAS FIRST MARVEL UNIVERSE SUCCESS WITH BLACK HERO
One thing that does separate the two is that Black Panther has a mostly black cast and the director is black as well. Blade was mostly black because of the lead character, played by Snipes. Mostly. But the first film with a black lead from the Marvel universe was…… Blade. Twenty years ago! Why did it take so long to get to Black Panther? Snipes talked about his perspective on that recently. Evidently, studio heads just didn’t understand how a movie about a black vampire could do well at the box office. Snipes said:
I remember, one of the executives of the studio at the time, in the screening, commented after they did the focus group, and they got back the numbers, and they saw how the numbers was so high, and there was so much appeal for the character and the world, he commented, ‘I don’t understand why people like this.’
Smoking Close to a Boob Job Might Make Your Nipples Fall Off
WESLEY SNIPES REFERRED TO RYAN REYNOLDS AS “THAT CRACKER”
They liked it because it was great fun. It was different. They liked the second Blade because, well, great cast and Guillermo del Toro. Bang. Zoom. But then you’ve got the third Blade movie (Trinity) where Snipes was the wrong kind of diva in production. I mean, seriously, what kind of dick refers to co-star Ryan Reynolds as “that cracker?” Wesley, that’s who. Oh, and Snipes also sued New Line Cinema, writer-director David Goyer and Toby Emmerich for $5 million, saying they violated his contract. Because they’re why the movie sucked. Right.
SNIPES LOOKS FOR LOVE WITH BLACK POPULARITY AFTER FEDERAL PRISON, BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE
Of course, Wesley Snipes also sued the IRS. But that was after 3 years in a fed resort in Pennsylvania for failing to file his taxes for three years. So why is it again, that it took so long to get a major blockbuster movie with a black lead from the Marvel universe? Maybe because Wesley Snipes is an asshole who shat the bed and robbed us of a franchise that should have been. But you do notice, don’t you, that he’s jumping on the coattails today? Too bad nobody wants to work with him.
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Actor Naveen Andrews, who starred in the hit show Lost and will be in the upcoming Sense8, in a file photo. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Sense8 Netflix Show: Cast, Plot Revealed for Upcoming Series From ‘Matrix’ Creators; Naveen Andrews, Daryl Hannah Included
June 24, 2014 Updated: July 18, 2015
New details about the cast and plot of the upcoming Netflix series Sense8 have finally been revealed.
The show has a huge scope, filming in nine locations on four continents–Chicago, San Francisco, London, Iceland, Seoul, Mumbai, Berlin, Mexico City, and Nairobi.
For the first time, cast members have been revealed for the show–and they include Naveen Andrews from Lost and Daryl Hanna from Blade Runner.
Also appearing are:
-Tuppence Middleton (Jupiter Ascending)
-Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who, Torchwood)
-Tena Desae (Yeh Faasley)
-Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas)
-Max Riemelt (Im Angesicht des Verbrechens)
-Alfonso Herrera (Obediencia Perfecta)
-Erendira Ibarra (El Diez)
-Jamie Clayton (Scissr)
-Miguel Silvestre (I’m So Excited!)
-Terrence Mann (All My Children)
J. Michael Stracyznski, showrunner of the series along with Matrix creators Lana and Andy Wachowski, previously told Comic Book Resources some about the plot.
“The story is about eight characters around the world who one day find themselves empathically or telepathically connected — and that there’s a multinational organization trying to kill them,” he said, calling it “the single biggest project I’ve ever been involved with since I started writing at age 17–The scale is ridiculous.”
Stracyznski has elaborated in a new interview with Deadline.
“The series follows eight characters around the world who, in the aftermath of a tragic death, find themselves linked to each other mentally and emotionally,” he said
“They can not only see and talk to each other as though they were in the same place, they have access to each other’s deepest secrets. Not only must they figure out what happened and why and what it means for the future of humanity, they must do so while hunted by an organization out to capture, kill or vivisect them.”
The eight people at the center of the show are Smith, Middleton, Ameen, Bae, Silvestri, Desae, Riemelt and Clayton.
Filming was set to start this month and go straight through November, with a release pegged for sometime next year.
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Did you know that toning shoes actually may not provide additional fitness benefits and could even cause a wearer injuries? If you believe that you got hurt because you were wearing toning shoes, you should contact our products liability lawyers right away.
According to SportsOneSource, buyers spent over $1 billion on these shoes last year, which its manufacturers claim provide a better walking experience while helping tone the thigh, calf, and buttock muscles. However, the use of toning shoes has also resulted in reports of injuries.
Consumer Reports says that in its analysis of the Consumer Product Safety Commission database SaferProducts.gov, as of May 22, 2011, 36 people reported toning shoe injuries—more than for any other product in the database, which was just started in May. While most of the toning shoe-reported injuries were minor (foot, hip, or leg pain, and tendonitis), 15 of the injuries were broken bones. Some of the injuries required surgery.
The American magazine’s medical experts say that although toning shoes do force wearers to exercise muscles normally not used when walking, their “rocker-style” bottoms that are designed to create instability can also lead to fall accidents, turned ankles, and other injuries. Also, the American Council on Exercise, which conducted its own testing last year, found that there is no evidence to support claims that toning shoes actually help burn calories or strengthen and tone the muscles. The council also wondered whether wearing toning shoes for too long could alter user’s walking gait mechanics.
Elderly seniors experiencing balance problems are most likely to get hurt from toning shoes. However, seeing as 46 is the average age of those who submitted reports to Saferproducts.gov, younger people are not necessarily immune to toning shoe injuries.
Skechers, Avia, Danskin Now, and New Balance are some of the brands that sell toning shoes. American Apparel and Footwear Association Executive Vice President Steve Lamar has said that the shoes are exercise products and that wearers should follow the instructions on how to use them correctly. That said, if the directions provided are inadequate, there is no accompanying warning of injuries and risks, or the shoes have a design defect, the shoes manufactures could be held liable for products liability if someone were to get hurt.
Are toning shoes unsafe? Reports of injuries raise concern, Consumer Reports, May 25, 2011
Toning shoes: toning unclear, injury risk real, ABC Local, May 25, 2011
A revolutionary sneaker, or overhyped gimmick?, USA Today, June 30, 2010
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Finnish Dark Metallers EVEMASTER join The Goatmancer!
EVEMASTER was formed during the bleak autumn of 1996. Tomi Mykkänen (music) and Jarno Taskula (vocals) formed the band from the ashes of Finnish death/thrash band Mortal God.
After releasing the highly acclaimed demo “In Thine Majesty” early 1997, the debut album “Lacrimae Mundi” in 1998 and the second album “Wither” in 2003 it was time for a new album which was entitled “III”. It was released in Scandinavia in June 2010. The album features more mature song writing which had evolved melodically and added heavier parts in the music. The album has received rave reviews especially in Finland. The album features Dan Swanö on vocals on 2 songs (he also mixed and mastered the album) and Markus Vanhala (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum) doing 2 guitar solos.
After the demise of Supernova Records the band felt the album didn’t get the deserved recognition they decided to work with up and coming Italian label THE GOATMANCER with the re-release of the album in 2015. This re-release is to boost the band for their next release which should be out in 2016.
Since the beginning EVEMASTER have played concerts with bands such as Anathema, Grip Inc, Pain of Salvation, Throes Of Dawn, Samael, Enochian Crescent, Profane Omen, Vader, Lacuna Coil etc.
Some advertising:
III was voted the 10th best Finnish metal album of 2010 in Inferno magazine.
“III is not only the best Evemaster album so far but also one of the highlights of the whole genre, if we are talking about dark metal or the whole atmospheric metal genre.” – Imperiumi.net 9/10
“III album grows into a magnificent thematic epic of which multidimensionality challenges and rewards the listener time after time. Very strong Finnish knowhow!” – INFERNO Magazine 4½/5
“This is quite likely the best Evemaster have yet had to offer us. The songs are mature and catchy, so that right there will probably have a number of jaded metal fans immediately writing off the band, but if you enjoy the accessible sounds of Insomnium, Noumena, Rapture, or even mid period Katatonia you may find a lot to enjoy in III.” – Autothrall 8/10
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RTÉ to get extra €10m after Government announces public service broadcasting Commission
“This is Government meeting RTÉ halfway,” Communications Minister Richard Bruton said.
By Cónal Thomas Tuesday 10 Dec 2019, 1:30 PM
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RTÉ WILL RECEIVE an additional €10 million in funding per year after the Government announced the establishment of a Commission on the Future of Public Service Broadcasting today.
The Commission is set to review the broadcaster’s current approach and will make recommendations to the Government on “setting a new strategic direction for public broadcasting provided at national, regional and local level,” a statement from the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment said.
Providing the additional funding – €10 million per year for five years – will coincide with new reporting requirements and monthly meetings between RTÉ and the Department, it said today.
Last month, news broke that RTÉ was due to make a series of major cuts in order to deal with its dire financial situation.
As part of a major restructuring plan, it will cut the pay of its top presenters by 15%, cut 200 jobs (through voluntary redundancies), move production of Lyric FM from Limerick to Cork and Dublin and reduce RTÉ executives’ pay by 10%.
The broadcaster has been trying to return to profit for years now, selling off land at its Montrose site in Donnybrook, and more recently putting acclaimed pieces of art up for auction.
RTÉ submitted a revised strategy to the Government with €9 million of the additional five-year annual funding earmarked so it can implement its new plan.
Earlier today, RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes renewed her appeal for TV licence reforms when she appeared before a panel of TDs and senators in Leinster House.
Forbes has spoken about RTÉ’s controversial cost-cutting measures and argued the case for reforming the €160 annual licence fee.
Forbes also criticised the 13% of households which are evading the licence fee and argue that the current rate of 44c per household per day is not an unreasonable amount.
The Commission which was announced today will be tasked with:
Deciding how public service broadcasting aims will be delivered over the next 10 years.
How it should contribute to supporting Ireland’s cultural and creative sectors.
Examine how work can be funded in a sustainable way, allowing for security of funding and delivering value for money.
Make recommendations on RTÉ’s role, financing and structure.
Speaking today, Communications Minister Richard Bruton said:
“RTÉ must change to reposition itself. However, it is also important that a careful assessment take place of what are the models and funding mechanisms that can best support the continuing important public service goals.
“This is Government meeting RTÉ halfway on the financial challenges they face,” Bruton said.
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Bruton said “revised estimates” for the additional funding for RTÉ will be published shortly and that the Commission will report back to Government ahead of Budget 2021.
The Department also said today that RTÉ should not sell off part of its land until the Commission has completed its work.
Membership of the Commission will be decided shortly.
With reporting by Christina Finn
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What Went Wrong at Russia’s Latest Military Drills?
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Russia staged the Grom-2019 military exercise last week to test the readiness of its military command structure and the efficiency with which orders are carried out.
Instead, last week’s drills overseen by President Vladimir Putin raised more questions than answers following two reports of mishaps involving ballistic and cruise missiles.
First, a nuclear-powered submarine fired only one ballistic missile into a test range instead of the two that the military had announced, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Monday.
Russian Nuclear Sub Misfires During Putin-Supervised Drills – Reports
Then, a frigate and a corvette had trouble launching the touted Kalibr cruise missile, the RBC news website reported later that day. An unnamed source close to Russia’s security services said the drills had tested new systems designed to reduce the Kalibr’s launch preparation time from three hours to 15 minutes.
“The missiles eventually did fly, but not on the first try and only after backup launch systems were activated,” RBC cited the source as saying.
Another unnamed source close to Russia’s General Staff said that the Kalibrs had launched on their second and third attempts.
The Defense Ministry denied reports on Monday that any contingencies had happened at the exercises and said that everything had gone according to plan.
Russian military expert Dmitry Stefanovich contrasted the “normal story” of the Kalibr launches and the R-29R incident.
“It’s different with the R29RK, as there could have been some technical malfunction, since the rockets and submarine are old,” Stefanovich told The Moscow Times.
The R-29R is a Soviet-era missile that was first deployed in 1977. The Ryazan Delta III class nuclear-powered submarine that launched the ballistic missile was commissioned in 1982.
“The other thing is that we shouldn’t be insecure following these incidents, like when the Defense Ministry denies everything,” Stefanovich told The Moscow Times.
“That’s not the wisest position, as it leads to talk that nothing works while [the Russian military] lies to us,” he said.
The three-day Grom (Thunder)-2019 exercises involved five submarines, more than 100 aircraft, 200 missile launchers and 12,000 Russian troops.
The drills come at a time when Putin has warned of a burgeoning arms race spurred by the unraveling of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, something he blames on the United States. Washington rejects the charges and says it was Russia that flouted its arms control commitments.
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Flag Football Game: Lady Cougar Power
Mukadus Hayat, Reporter
Recently at FDR, many events took place. These events include the Hispanic Food Festival, Homecoming, the Breast Cancer Walk, Hygienic Supply Collection for Haiti, and Senior Spirit Week. The most recent event was the Flag Football game between the Lady Cougars of FDR (staff and students). This game took place after 9th period on November 10,2016 at the FDR football field. The team color for the staff was black, and for students, it was pink. To distinguish the staff’s supporters, from the students’ supporters, the student government sold shirts of pink and black for $10. All the money collected during the game, including the $5 admission, was donated to fight breast cancer.
At the beginning of the game both the teams, student and the staff, seemed really confident. Mr Rienzie coached the students, while Mr Klyap coached the teachers. The coaches were seen advising their players throughout the game. At first, the students seemed to take the lead by giving their opponents a tough time. However, the teachers understand their students, very quickly they were able to slow the pace of the game. The scoring was exciting during the first half.
Many teachers participated including Ms. Galante, Ms. Lyngo and Ms. Nuddelman. From the students team Nancy, Kalanie, Myia, Sarah and Sanassa really seemed to be favorites, as their names were shouted again and again for scoring points. These supporters weren’t just the FDR students, but also the parents of our players and the kids of our teachers. The game was very exciting and entertaining. Both the teams played very well and tried to do their best. However, in the end there was only one winner. The winner of this game were the Lady Cougar students, who defeated the staff by the score of 22 to 8.
This was the first Student vs Staff game of the semester. Many people who came, seemed to love the enthusiasm of our players. A special Cougar thank you to all the staff and students who made this such a great event. See you at the next Cougar fundraiser!
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WHY WE'RE REHABILITATING AGBOWO SHOPPING COMPLEX -OYO GOVT
By NBF News
The Oyo State Government yesterday explained reasons it is rehabilitating Agbowo Shopping Complex. It stated that the decadence in the infrastructure of the expansive Agbowo Shopping Complex in Ibadan, coupled with the abuse of some dilapidated structures within the complex, which were being used for illicit sexual exercise by some teenagers necessitated its rehabilitation. The complex was built by the late Chief Bola Ige government in 1983.
The explanation was contained in a release signed by the Special Adviser on Media to governor, Festus Adedayo.
According to the release, when the current government took over the administration of the state, it set up a committee headed by the Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mr. Ajiboye Omodewu, which returned a damning verdict on the state of infrastructure in the complex.
'In line with the transformation and reformation agenda of the present government, we decided that the current state of that foremost shopping complex is unacceptable to us. The infrastructure has collapsed completely. The entire property has not been renovated since 1984. The centralised air-conditioning system is moribund. Owners of shops make use of individual generators, with its hazardous implications. The toilets are bad and st*nking,' the release said.
The government said further that when it came on board, it asked the management of the State Housing Corporation to furnish it with a proposal for the renovation of the complex, which it said amounted to N209 million.
The statement said the bill was not agreeable to government as the yearly revenue from the shopping complex was just slightly above N20 million, necessitating it to seek private investors who would develop the shopping complex, which also has a high-rise building, into a befitting complex that would not only be a revenue-earner but which would confirm its rating as a monument of reckoning in the state.
According to the statement, one of the private concerns, which the state government was speaking with intended to develop the complex's high-rise building into a luxury apartment, renovate the shops to be in tune with modern trend, provide boreholes and activate the fire-fighting office within the complex.
The government said the renovation gave rise to its giving the tenants in the shop a six-month quit notice, which it said took effect from March 2 and which would expire in December.
'In doing this, government, being a humane administration, promised, in a letter written to individual tenants at the complex, that upon the completion of the renovation, existing tenants would be given priority in recruitment of tenants. Further to this, government has also called for a stakeholders meeting to allay fears of the shop owners, as a demonstration of its sincerity and humane disposition,' the statement said.
Lekan | 3/22/2012 9:15:00 AM
Agbowo Shopping Complex Ibadan and Government of Oyo State. by Lekan Wasiudeen on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7:16pm · I could remember vividly the frenzy that went into the announcement of the winner of Oyo State governorship election; it was obvious that the wish of the majority and good people of Oyo State prevailed at the poll. More importantly the occupant of Agbowo Shopping Complex located opposite the gate of the premier University, the University of Ibadan, breath a final sense of relief. You may wonder why they in particular, but the strong rumour had it that the then outgoing government had concluded plans to sell the state edifice as done to some other state properties. The implications of this purported sale were not lost on us that make legitimate income in doing business in this government owned edifice. So, it was with great Joy as we noticed a renewed effort in maintenance on the part of the official of Oyo State Housing Cooperation that manage this property since the advent of this people installed government. It was so intense that people started panicking that it has never happened before. I had to put the fear of a co-tenant to rest that is the dividend of real democracy. But our recent joy was cut short by the sudden letter of eviction served on all the occupants of the complex by the management of Oyo State Housing Cooperation, with a six month notice. The reason given in the letter is that the cooperation needed to carry out a comprehensive structural renovation, with a promise that the existing tenants shall be given priority at the end of renovation exercise. There are factors that are not taken into consideration in this exercise and which I think your good government should consider as government of the people. I shall below state these factors as succinct as possible. Firstly, I am very much aware job creation top the agenda of this government and as such government will not do anything that will throw away over five thousand direct jobs this complex offer the good people of Oyo State and by extension over fifty thousand dependent jobs that survive on business done in the complex. The complex in the last decade has given room to entrepreneur like me to create jobs and to show to so many young people that success could be achieved without waiting to be spoon fed by the government. That we can ride on the back of hard work to make ourselves and people around us happy. Over the years the number of young entrepreneur that has taken office in the complex has grown with each providing more employment and empowerment to the good people of the state despite the huge challenges of doing business in Nigeria. Shutting the door of the complex on us will make nonsense of the progress we have made so far and will throw so many people out of job with no means of survival. Secondly, the complex has the highest concentration of internet presence in the whole state as such command the presence of every other computer related business. It is fast turning to a huge e-centre and with proper intervention and purposeful grooming can become Oyo State Silicon Valley. Also because of this, so many secondary school leavers have taken to learning one or two skills as regard computer usage, software design, desktop and laptop repair, sales of computer accessories et al. This has taken them off the street, away from crime and so many other social vices that could increase crime in every other society that do not give room for skill acquisition. Sir, all these are private and small scale driven but could be aborted by the eviction notice given to the drivers of these social revolutions. We need encouragement not discouragement. Thirdly, because of the peculiar nature of Agbowo and power supply problem of our nation, throwing the entire tenants of the shopping complex out will leave a very big dark vacuum that will be quickly occupied by hoodlums and other crime minded individuals. The darkness and void created will as such increase the case of rape, robbery and general harassment of individuals (that include boys and girls of University of Ibadan that reside in large number off campus in the area). This will present a new security challenge to the state and hence will require spending the mean resources of the state on avoidable problems. As it is hoodlums and loafers parade the vicinity of these complex but because the tenants light up this huge edifice till late in the night and also because so many of them get handout (as gift) from shop owners it is unwise for them to disturb the peace of the community. If enquiries is made to the crime rate in the complex before the aggressive efforts of the young entrepreneurs that has taken over in the last decade, the government will be expose to crime that were committed by cult members in year past, height of it were reported murder cases. Fourthly, I think the people and occupant of the complex should be carried along in this wonderful Idea of renovation by our government as we are the user of this property and will be in better place to give one or two advice on how best government will get value for money it intend to spend on this edifice. As money not spend on a tailored need will be a waste and I am sure your government is not a wasteful one. Fifthly, I am of the opinion that the money government intend to put on what may later become a white elephant project should be channeled into some other job creating ventures by the government as so many of it abound in area of Agriculture and infrastructural development. My market knowledge of this vicinity tells me that no marginal increase in patronage will be achieved by the proposed "Comprehensive structural renovation" and it may as well turn out to be another abandoned project or such that will put hole in the pocket of government. Or better still a venture sold by some people to hoodwink the government to throw away much in getting little all in the guise of revenue drive. Truth be told this structure has been neglected over the years and it is in need of renovation especially its external walls that cries for new layers of paint and its infrastructure, especially water and toiletries that is in need of repair. For the detail engineering that went into the construction of this complex am not sure a "comprehensive structural renovation" is needed that will warrant turning out the occupants of the complex. Even structures that predate the shopping complex and are located in the state secretariat have not had its occupants turn out for "comprehensive structural renovation". If the management of Oyo State Housing Cooperation continue at the pace they have being going since the inception of this administration I am sure a lot will be achieved in making our complex a better place. Government need to avoid throwing away so much jobs and truncation of the emergence of "Oyo state silicon valley". People had maintained a very good interior of the shops and what is needed by the government is to maintain good and presentable exterior. Helping to solve power problem will also add so much value. We want renovation done without ejecting businesses, it was done in Gbagi market and could be done here. Any government that does not have the welfare of its people as the motive of actions and inaction has lost the morality of leadership, though it could hold on to power. Ijoba Ajumose is our government and should be about the people.
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Oshkosh Corp. bid challenge continues
Oshkosh Corp.'s multibillion contract win in August faces a renewed challenge next year.
Oshkosh Corp. bid challenge continues Oshkosh Corp.'s multibillion contract win in August faces a renewed challenge next year. Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: https://oshko.sh/1R1ZihZ
Nate Beck, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 10:07 a.m. CT Jan. 1, 2016 | Updated 6:06 p.m. CT Jan. 2, 2016
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Oshkosh Northwestern Media reporters were asked to predict what the biggest stories of 2016 would be. This is part of that series.
Though the U.S. Army in August awarded Oshkosh Corp. a $6.7 billion contract to build the Humvee’s replacement, the fight over that contract is not over.
Lockheed Martin – who sought that bid with Indiana’s A.M. General — dropped a Governmental Accountability Office challenge to the Army’s move to award Oshkosh Corp. the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV, contract in mid-December. But the company, just a day or so later, filed a challenge in federal court over the contract award.
Because the GAO dismissed Lockheed’s challenge, the Army told Oshkosh Corp. to resume work on the JLTV contract.
It’s unclear, though, how Lockheed’s court challenge would affect Oshkosh Corp.’s contract. Lockheed has filed a motion for injunction — which is sealed in court files — that could halt Oshkosh’s work on the JLTV contract pending the lawsuit. Oshkosh Corp. attorneys have joined the case.
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has not yet ruled on that injuction. Here in Oshkosh, there’s a fair amount of confidence that the company would retain the contract.
Still, Lockheed is the single-largest American defense contractor. And with defense spending shrinking, a contract this large won't be won without a fight.
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FILE - This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F, in Paris. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to speak on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, with new Corp CEO Robert Thomson. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
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Facebook launches a news section — and will pay publishers
By Barbara Ortutay and Tali Arbel The Associated Press
Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them for video projects it subsequently abandoned, and then largely cut their stories out of its newsfeeds .
Now it plans to pay them for news headlines — reportedly millions of dollars in some cases.
Enter the "News Tab," a new section in the Facebook mobile app that will display headlines — and nothing else — from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, NBC, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Local stories from several of the largest U.S. cities will also make the grade; headlines from smaller towns are on their way, Facebook says.
Tapping on those headlines will take you directly to publisher websites or apps, if you have any installed. Which is more or less what publishers have been requesting from Facebook for years.
It's potentially a big step for a platform that has long struggled with both stamping out misinformation and making nice with struggling purveyors of news. Though media watchers remain skeptical that Facebook is really committed to helping sustain the news industry.
Facebook declined to say who is getting paid and how much, saying only that it will be paying "a range of publishers for access to all of their content." Just last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wasn't sure it "makes sense " to pay news outlets for their material.
But now, as Zuckerberg told The Associated Press in an interview, "there's an opportunity to set up new long term, stable financial relationships with publishers."
The Associated Press is not participating in the initiative.
News executives have long been unhappy about the extent to which digital giants like Facebook make use of their stories — mostly by displaying headlines and short summaries when users post news links. A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this year would grant an antitrust exemption to news companies, letting them band together to negotiate payments from the big tech platforms.
"It's a good direction that they're willing for the first time to value and pay for news content," said David Chavern, head of the News Media Alliance, a publisher trade group. "The trouble is that most publishers aren't included."
Zuckerberg said Facebook aims to set up partnerships with a "wide range" of publishers.
"We think that this is an opportunity to build something quite meaningful here," he said. "We're going to have journalists curating this, we are really focused on provenance and branding and where the stories come from."
In a statement, the Los Angeles Times said it expects the Facebook effort will help expand its readership and digital subscribers.
Facebook killed its previous effort to curate news, the ill-fated Trending topics, in 2018. Conservatives complained about political bias, leading Facebook to fire its human editors and automate the section until it began recycling false stories, after which the social giant shut it down entirely.
But what happens when the sprawling social network plays news editor? An approach that sends people news based on what they've liked before could over time elevate stories with greater "emotional resonance" over news that "allows public discourse to take place," said Edward Wasserman, dean of the graduate journalism program at the University of California-Berkeley.
"It deepens my concern that they'll be applying Facebook logic to news judgment," he added.
The social network has come under criticism for its news judgment recently. In September, it removed a fact-check from Science Feedback that called out an anti-abortion activist's video for claiming that abortion is never medically necessary. Republican senators had complained about the fact check.
Facebook says a small team of "seasoned" journalists it employs will choose the headlines for the "Today's Story" section of the tab, designed to "catch you up" on the day's news. The rest of the news section will be populated with stories algorithmically based on users' interests.
That sounds similar to the approach taken by Apple News , a free iPhone app. But Apple's effort to contract with news organizations has been slow to take off. Apple News Plus, a $10-a-month paid version, remains primarily a hub for magazines; other news publishers have largely sat it out.
Apple's service reportedly offered publishers only half the revenue it pulled in from subscriptions, divided according to how popular publishers were with readers.
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by Martin Parrin
Legal Service Robots Are On The Rise
The rise of the robots has plagued the imagination of science-fiction since its inception. Whether it involved Asimov’s three rules of robotics or the time travelling robotic psychopaths in the Terminator franchise, the world has worried about the role of robotics.
The world has prepared itself for the robotic invasion with many low skilled jobs in retail, customer services and industrial industries like factories all replacing humans with robotic counterparts to some extent; many of which improve efficiency, productivity and costs.
Shockingly, San Francisco-based company, Atrium, believe that robots have the potential to supersede and complete the job of some high-paid legal service workers.
As young as 14 months, Atrium, along with the $65 million investments from adventure capitalists, are set to revolutionise the legal sector by using artificial intelligence to work alongside legal service professionals, and in some cases, replace them.
The law firm specialises in corporate law that will use AI technology to do much of the legal work. The software uses machine learning code to help it decipher many legal documents, creating an automated and repeatable process.
The use of machines creates many benefits for both the company and its consumers. Firstly, customers will face significantly reduced fees as the legal service professional, that would once have completed the documentation, can now be filled out by the free work of robots.
Additionally, the company is able to reinvest and utilise their human talent in more difficult cases, thus maximising efficiency and productivity.
Justin Kan, one of the 110 firm founders, said: “It is tedious work and often subject to human error – this isn’t a skill they teach in law school. But from a programmer’s perspective, these are documents with similar structure, over and over. So, we built a model that takes in these convertible securities, then make a schema for the data expected in these docs.”
AI can be used to automate and support in routine tasks. We have seen that online signatures are becoming more popular in the conveyancing world and a way to reduce the monotony of form filling, however essential and important, should be a welcome relief. However, the skilled legal services practitioner should rest assured that, in spite of the support and help robots can offer, they remain our faithful and obedient workers lacking the relevant expertise to usurp other legal service roles.
Can you see a way for conveyancers to embrace AI technology in this way? Would this reduce time wasted completing forms? Can you see this technology as a way that could speed up the conveyancing process?
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Alasdair Jones 18/11/2019 86comments | Jump to last
Regular readers of ToffeeWeb will no doubt have noted that contributors return again and again to two concerns about the present regime at the club:
a) The high expectations that attach to incoming players, often signed from abroad on exorbitant fees and wages, which are not matched by their subsequent displays in a Royal Blue shirt... eg, Schneiderlin, Walcott, Lookman... and most recently, Kean.
b) The frustration amongst many about the reluctance to use young players who have graduated from the Everton Academy, and who now star in the Under-18s or Under-23s. Allied to this is a disappointment that a good number fall away following their introduction to the rigours of the Premier League.
Reading these comments, I am prompted to try and recall how the club performed in relation to these matters during my earlier years as a Blues supporter. This in turn led me to consider the way in which previous teams were assembled. How successful or otherwise was Harry Catterick in the 1960s in his quest to rejuvenate and remodel his Championship team of 1963, for example?History tells us that he was… but, nevertheless, there was a long gap of seven years between the two Championship-winning sides. Indeed the jigsaw of the 1970s side was put together for the most part by 1967.
So how did the new mix of players fare on introduction to the first team? Were they able to "cut the mustard", as it were, from the off? In order to make this muse more digestible, I will focus on the famed Holy Trinity.
Colin Harvey was the initial member of the triumvirate. He joined the club in 1960 and made his debut for the club's first team in September 1963, age 18, in the 1-0 defeat by Inter Milan in the European Cup away leg. His league debut came much later in the season at Blackburn, replacing the injured Roy Vernon. The game was won 2-0.
The following season, however, he began to cement his place as a wing-half, after appearing for the Blues in the away fixture at Manchester United on 16 September 1964 and three days later scoring in the famous 4-0 win at Anfield. On Boxing Day that year, the Blues played at home against West Brom, a game I attended. Breaking with tradition, I stood in the Bullens Road Paddock. 2-0 down at half-time, all was not well and the conditions were deteriorating, light rain turning to sleet and then snow.
For me, however, Colin Harvey came of age that day. He got a grip on the right side of the midfield and started to work some magic with Alex Scott. The match turned around. Temple, Pickering and Scott scored to secure a 3-2 win.
The following day, the <em>Sunday Express</em> sub-headline to the match report carried the view that "Colin Harvey proved that power can be pretty at wing half." In an era of tough tackling wing-halves, I sort of knew what they meant.
Over a period of 3 months or so, he had carved out an indispensable role in the team. A promising lad who proved to be the first of a long line of Bellfield juniors who Catterick introduced into the team: Hurst, Husband, Wright, Royle…Alan Ball was the second piece of the jigsaw. He was signed from Blackpool in August 1966 for a then-record fee of £112,000. Harry Catterick, as was his style, quietly acquired the player from under the nose of Leeds United, his stock having soared following his appearance in the 1966 World Cup Final.
Alan Ball was brought in to inject some pace and energy into the midfield to complement the by now established Colin Harvey. It worked… but not immediately. The opening game of the 1966-67 season was against Fulham at Craven Cottage where Alan Ball scored his first goal for the club to secure a 1-0 win.
However, that was followed by a curious mix of results. The first home game against Manchester United was lost 2-1, followed by a 3-1 win in the home derby game, where Ball scored twice and gave Yeats and Smith a torrid time. Subsequent games until mid-September were lost or drawn: Man Utd away, Stoke City at home… lost. Burnley at home and Sheffield Utd away… drawn.
On 17 September, a thrilling 5-4 victory was secured against West Brom. The winner was scored by Alan ball – a penalty in the 85th minute. However, despite the mixed bag of results subsequent to his arrival, his position was never in doubt.
The final piece of the midfield jigsaw was Howard Kendall. He was signed from Preston North End for £85,000 in March 1967. His claim to fame at the time was his appearance in the 1964 FA Cup Final against West Ham, being the youngest player to have appeared in a Wembley Final. His first game for the Blues was on 18 March against Southampton at home. The game was lost 1-0 and I recall that to some extent he struggled to get into the game and that maybe Harry Catterick had got this one wrong.
The following home game against Tottenham Hotspur at home was also lost 1-0 but was followed by a 2-0 win at Sunderland. On 19 April, he made his last appearance of the season at home in a win against Chelsea during which he was subbed by Jimmy Gabriel. The following season, he was in from the off, having been determined to up his fitness levels during the close-season. The rest is history – and Catterick was proved to be right.Harry's plan, and the gradual introduction of imports and juniors, proved ultimately to be successful.
Over 4 years to 1967, the 1963 team was transformed into the 1970 team. In the interim, there was of course an FA Cup win in 1966, from which Colin Harvey, Ray Wilson, Sandy Brown, Gordon West, Tommy Wright and Brian Labone made it into the remodelled team. But despite, that 4-year gap, it was only in the January of 1966 that Catterick came under pressure from the media and fans. I cannot recall any time subsequently when there were siren calls for his removal.
Compare that to today's environment of media pressure and instant rushes to judgement following a less than satisfactory result. As Catterick was wont to remind the press on many occasions, his young team needed time to develop. It is easy to speculate that, under the present smothering blanket of media attention, Catterick would not have got that time and would have been called out at the end of the 1966-67 season for having finished 6th and spent record sums on two players. Sounds a bit familiar?
But then the media and fans were a bit more circumspect. The new players showed levels of energy and commitment that few could question. Furthermore, in the absence of a large squad from which to draw, Catterick had to get his signings right – which, for the most part, he did – save for some exceptions: eg, Ernie Hunt. That may have given him some latitude.In terms of results, none of the famous triumvirate cut the mustard from the off. But it seems to me that fans and the media had a more patient view and were ultimately rewarded by some displays of skill, energy and style.
So maybe Silva needs just a little more time. I await the views of others. Is my perception right and should we be more circumspect in our assessment of Silva's circumstances? Harry Catterick was, after all, remodelling his own team and not an assembly of players put before him. But he still needed time.
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Mark Guglielmo
Nice article, Alisdair, it may be the first time I enjoyed reading about "years gone by." Most of the time it's just comments pining for a return to the olden days, or some such. But the way you used a specific era (which I knew nothing about, so some additional thanks for the education are in order) to illustrate how patience can ultimately lead to the rewards we all want.
BUT (there's always a but, isn't there?), in the lexicon of words used to describe 2019, patience won't be on that list. I personally have it, but I think so many do not because of the age we actually live in. News has been replaced by news nuggets to be digested in 24 hours before we're on to the next thing. Social media in particular, has made 240 word count mini-blogs the rule of the day, and genuinely given pretty much anyone the ability to stoke the fire with this complaint, or that complaint, or all the complaints. IMO this all leads to absolutely no patience at all. It feeds general fan sentiment, causing Clubs & their owners & Boards to feel the heat even more, causing THEM to lose patience, and sack managers like they grow on trees. It's a vicious cycle.
I recently watched (and loved) Howard's Way, and if you have as well (or better yet, lived it) you'll recall that leading up to that turning point Oxford United match, the daily papers were calling for Howard's head on a pike. But that was ALL he had to deal with. Could you imagine if Twitter had existed? It's very, very likely that the amazing team of 1984-87 would never have been given the time to gestate and thrive.
I've been voting for patience re: Silva since day 1, or at the very least until this campaign is sorted and done. Unfortunately, for many of the reasons I listed above, I'm in the minority here. I guess we'll see what happens.
Last note, all of the above is just my observation, and opinion. I'm 46 years old, so while I still remember the Dewey Decimal system, rotary-dial phones, and looking up information in my father's Britannica encyclopedia, I'm also very much cognizant of the technology revolution we're currently living in, where everyone has all they need to make snap judgments in the palm of their hands.
The Catt did a lot different. He often bought players with style and ability, like the two Newtons, when more full backs were not really required, George Heslop was a Central League player for us before getting success at City, Tommy Jackson a regular N.Ireland international only played because of injuries to others and rarely it seems did he introduce youngsters who failed, and when they didn't look like they might make it he took them to one side and found a way to move them on, Gerry Humphries being a particular example.
Of course, he had John Moores backing him to the hilt but that also meant having to sign a Walsall player, Bernie Wright, because they were in danger of going bankrupt, EitC of their day or the player Bury didn't have?
So, was the introduction of home raised youngsters the product of his non-hands on coaching, just better judgement of players and/or fearlessness in giving them the opportunity, something I think our present day manager might consider trying.
Such is the EPL this season..
We are only three points behind 5th place and 6th place, Therefore there are only three points separating 15th place right up to 5th place.
The VAR incident at Brighton, really did cost us the game, that three points puts us in the top six and the conversations become very different.
I'm not excusing some very dire performances from Everton but there are a lot of under performing teams.
Another fact ( I haven't compared opposition ) we have won one more game than Spurs and the same amount of games as Arsenal and Man Utd.
In six weeks time, as 2020 dawns and we have played another eight league games and one cup game, including Liverpool, Leicester (twice), Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal we really will know whether patience is a virtue or sheer tomfoolery.
I don't know if Marco Silva is the man.
But if we sack him and get someone else, it's another 100 -200 million and will that work?
I enjoyed the post. I went to the same school as Colin Harvey, Cardinal Allen Grammar school, He was playing for Everton by the time I got there in 1964.
It was the only school in Liverpool that didn't play football. We played in the yard at break and lunchtime. But the school played rugby union. I knew nothing about the game.
One of the teachers was an ex-England and Barbarians player. It shows you how unique Colin Harvey was, no coaching in football at school, just bloody union.
After I left school the only union I was ever involved with again was a trade union.
Everton, putting a big wide smile on your dial, or breaking your heart, since 1878.
Three of the payers you name Scheiderlin, Walcott and Lookman were not sourced from abroad. All were plying their trade here and the first two had fallen down the pecking order at their respective clubs.
I would suggest that wages don't come into it, as I doubt Lookman was on big bucks, but one pattern is the quality. Iwobi was a bit-part player at Arsenal, Sigurdsson had failed at Spurs and was a big fish in a little bowl at Swansea. Gnabin was in a mid-table French team, and then there are the guys who couldn't get into the Barca side( Iknow that is forgivable but they still were bench-warmers).
Young lads like Kean, and Lookman are not the finished article.
We are buying at Marks and Spencer while City and Liverpool can shop at Saville Row.
The pressures on staying in the top flight mean coaches are reluctant to stick with the kids. It's all short termism.
However, partly due to the transfer embargo and partly because they have hoovered-up so many good youngsters, Chelsea are showing everyone that it can work.
Alan J @ 2; We bailed out Walsall by buying Bernie the Bolt...thats a first, I never knew that. I always thought it was a rash decision on the strength of his performance in the cup game where he put himself about a bit - well quite a lot actually, rip, shit and bust covered it.
Not that I doubt you for a minute, but by virtue of my Surname...and the fact I'm a walking stereotype and can't help myself, I'd like a confirmation on that.
I remember Kendall's debut, you could see he was good but was maybe trying too hard. He wasn't helped by;
a) Ousting crowd favourite Jimmy Gabriel and...
b) Missing an open goal from 6yds in front of the Gwladys St.
But (on the OP)...does lightening strike twice, past performance is no guarantee of future performance, etc.
There can only be by definition, be one Kevin Brock moment.
For every Harvey and Husband that comes through there are ten that don't.
Catterick and Kendall to some extent, had the good luck to get International grade youngsters coming through...the fact that some got little or no England recognition is neither here nor there and for another day...all mixed in with bargins and the odd big money signings.
They say you make your own luck...Kendall Mk II & III, shows there is no magic formula.
I'm not sure Silva even has a formula and I don't think he's lucky. Nor am I sure this whole DoF formula is correct either.
Patience is in short supply nowadays...even from people old enough to remember and know better.
Who knows how much Moshiri has left...until we stumble over the line in May is my guess...and after that its who can tell.
Alasdair Jones
Firstly apologies to all readers but there appears to be no para spacings as originally written.
To those who have posted comment so far there is little there I do not agree with. Ultimately we live in different times, for better or for worse.
I agree with Eddie's observation re modern day Chelsea. I suspect that the recent introduction of youngsters had a lot to do with Lampard coming in as manager as well as the embargo. Some of those lads have been knocking on the door for some time however during which time they got the odd appearance.
I smiled at the recollections about Bernie Wright. What a curious signing. I think by then HC was suffering from declining health. which if I recall correctly may have first come to the fore on Cup Semi-Final Day in 1971 when he was notable by his absence.
Brian Harrison
Seeing your post is titled patience, I thought I would list the honours that we have won since I started going the game in 1957 and what our neighbours have won in the same timescale. Bearing in mind that they were still in the old 2nd division when I started watching the blues in the top division.
LIVERPOOL TROPHIES
1ST Division winners,
1965/66, 72/73, 75/76, 76/77, 78/79, 79/80, 81/82, 82/83, 85/86, 87/88, 89/90
FA Cup winners
1964/65, 73/74, 85/86, 88/89, 91/92, 2000/01, 2005/06.
League Cup winners
1980/81, 81/82, 82/83, 83/84, 94/95, 2000/01, 2002/3, 2011/12
European cup/ Champions league winners
1976/77, 77/78, 80/81, 83/84, 2004/05, 2018/19
UEFA Cuo winners
1972/73, 75/76, 2000/01.
EVERTON TROPHIES
1st Division winners
1962/63, 69/70, 83/84, 86/87
1965/66, 83/84, 94/95
European Cup winners Cup
The sad thing is that my generation is supposedly the lucky generation seeing some of our best teams. I think our fans have shown patience over the years, and non more so than todays younger fans. Its not patience we need its trophies.
Brian, don't spend so much time worrying about, or comparing us to Liverpool. It's only going to give you agita (as my dearly departed Grandma used to say). You seem like a nice guy, I don't want you to have agita. 🙂
Stan Schofield
After Martinez' first season, our football has been fairly awful apart from isolated flourishes. One or two games under Koeman were characterised by cohesion and fluid football through midfield, but most of the other games were quite tedious. Games under Allardyce were never characterised by entertaining football, from what I recall.
Under Silva, we have had more games where the football is fluid and entertaining. To be sure, they are fewer games than the ineffective, slow and dull ones with too many sideways and back passes, but they happened nonetheless. Some of the best were against top-6 sides, and the one at Anfield seemed to silence all the reds I know, even with the goalkeeping blunder.
The nature of these relatively good performances has made Silva's presence a tantalising one, certainly in my eyes. They make me think, we can do it, we can compete with the best, but we just need more consistency. Also, bad luck with injuries, and some appalling officiating against us, adds to my thought that we could come good under Silva if our luck changes and we see better officiating. Every team needs luck, and officials to be 'reasonably fair', otherwise it's a struggle.
The above is my own reasoning for having patience with Silva, a belief that there are reasons to think that we could well come good, especially with better luck etc. The alternative is to dispense with him, and basically start all over again with a new manager, which carries its own risks, as we're all too aware from the previous three incumbents.
In terms of the account of how we developed in the 60s, there are definite similarities, in terms of building a side, bedding new signings in, and gradually gelling as a team, towards an identifiable and consistent style. We have some high quality players who would easily perform better in well-functioning sides, and who would easily find a place in top-6 sides. They just need to gel consistently, aided by better luck. Plus, we probably need two or three further quality signings to provide the strength in depth that would give a greater chance of consistency, especially in light of injuries.
Brian@7: I don't think there is anything sad about Everton. Frustrating for Evertonians, and irritating to see the other lot win stuff, but not sad. We were indeed lucky. I've witnessed 8 trophies, and from a quality viewpoint the 60s sides are unequalled for great football apart from the current City side. Supporters of most other teams would love to be in our position.
Being 'mediocre' is clearly unacceptable to Evertonians, which to me simply underlines just how good we were when we were good. When you compare us to Liverpool, you're comparing us to the second most successful British club of all time. It's a pain in the arse, especially if you live amongst that lot, but not sad, not by a long way.
Kevin Prytherch
I’d be more inclined to show more patience with the current setup if I could see where it was going...
If Davies has been played on merit rather than when injuries took ever.
Likewise with Holgate, Kenny etc...
If off form players were out quicker, if we looked like we even had half an answer to playing against poorer teams, if substitutions didn’t consist of throwing everyone up front and hoping for the best...
At present I have very little patience because we plod on with a tried and tested unsuccessful formation, labour on with perennial under achieving mercenaries playing week in week out, persist in ignoring a successful youth setup, watch dumbfounded as we end up playing a 3-1-6 formation searching for a goal.
What will being patient with Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin and Walcott get us? (And to some extent Tosun and Keane). I’m more prepared to be patient with Brands as there is real potential in Digne, Mina, Gomes, and Kean.
Russell Smith
I was lucky enough to see both the Catterick side developing from 1967 through to 1971, and Kendall's side in the mid-eighties.
I think Alasdair is correct that Catterick had 4 years to mould "his" team, due in part from the FA cup win in 1966 giving him some breathing space, but without the constant 24hr pressure that all managers suffer in the current world.
As mentioned above Kendall was living on borrowed time when "his" team finally clicked, some 3 years, and quite a few dud signings, later. But in the eighties whilst the press were fierce there was not the constant "doubts" being raised by pundits on an almost daily basis coupled with 24hr news coverage.
In the current world neither of these two great managers would have survived long enough to become great managers.
When Allardyce was in charge many contributors on this site talked about bringing in someone fresh and giving them time to correct all the miss buys, the ageing spine of the team, and the miserable football we were playing. We seem to have forgotten that within 18 months.
We have a terrible long term injury list to players who were bought to fit into "his" side. He wanted another centre half before the season started, he didn't get one, so has to make do with what he's got. He wanted a striker, the DoF bought Moise Kean based more on potential/resale value than on proven ability. So here again he is making do with what he has got.
Silva may not be the answer but, as with Catterick and Kendall, given time to mould "his" side he may just lead us back to the top spot.
Derek Knox
Good and well researched article Alisdair, ah the good old days, which seems ages ago now, well come to think of it, it was ages ago sadly.
Unlike my fellow Tw'ers, I just can't see where Silva is taking us, and strongly believe, as I have since his appointment, that he is not the one to lead us anywhere but between mediocrity and the relegation trap-door.
[BRZ]
Anyone watching Holland v England U-21?
Tom Davies dropped to the bench, Holland 1-0 up midway through the first half.
Watched the Brazil-South Korea game earlier today. Richarlison with 7 on his back played centre forward. Gabriel Jesus with 9 on his shirt played right sided forward.
Brazil arrested a 5 match winless run since lifting the Copa Sul Americano in July with a much needed 3-0 win. Brazil has been playing like Everton this season. Slow, ponderous build up and no incisiveness. Today, they were a little better.
Our boy whilst not doing much wrong, didn't really shine either. One of his quieter performances in a Brazil shirt. He played the full 90, but only got 10 minutes on Friday v Argentina. The games were in the Middle East, so not too long a haul back to the UK.
If possible, I strongly suggest people should try to watch the Libertadores final on SATURDAY (I've mistakenly been saying Wednesday in recent posts, mixing up my dates with the Copa Verde final - a competition here in Brazil - in which my father-in-law's team is playing).
If you do take in the game, look at Flamengo's Gabigol who, IMO, would be a very good fit with Everton. 23 goals and counting in the Brazilian League, 7 more in the Libertadores - Latin America's CL equivalent. Just turned 23-years-old, loan spell from Inter Milan ends in December, Flamengo could land him for €23 million.
Why’s Davies on the bench? I hope it’s so he’s fresher for us.
Most of the players were back in training today, specifically the European internationals like Digne and Sigurdsson.
I believe Kean missed the Italy games so let’s hope he’s been spending extra time with the manager and there’s a better plan now on how to maximise his use.
BTW, link to the Holland-England game. It's on BT Sport for those who have it.
Wish I could watch it. I’m in hell, otherwise known as the Trafford Centre.
Jason Wilkinson
Has she put you in the man crèche? Aka the pub by the food hall. I presume you are with "her who must be obeyed" ??? If you aren't what on earth???
Don't know where to put this, but Poch has just been sacked! We'll have him at Everton!
Brent Stephens
Spurs sack Poch.
Stu Gore
They’ll lose Kane in the summer and be back to being proper Spursy. Levy is the problem at that club.
Rob Halligan
Joe #19. You're probably on the right thread, as clearly Levy has run out of Patience with Pochettino.
Wow. Can’t believe Spurs have done that. And why wait 9 days into the international break? Surely you’d do it on day one?
Spurs need to make a good appointment otherwise they are going backwards fast.
Is there no such thing as credit in the bank for success anymore?
Steve "Can’t believe Spurs have done that. And why wait 9 days into the international break?"
Maybe they've only just become aware that Silva is now available!! They'd be bound to go for him.
Jason, worse mate. I’m carrying the bags and paying!
I’d swap for Pochettino, Brent. But it’s likely he’ll end up at Real Madrid.
The next 'breaking news' headline will read: "Mourinho to take over as Spurs manager"
And Poch will go to Bayern, mark my words.
Derek Taylor
Alan @2; You can take it from me, Harry Catterick had nothing to do with the drastic signing of Bernie Wright in 1972.
I met The Catt only once and that was at a Sportsman's Dinner at Deepdale when he was manager of PNE in the mid-seventies.
Contrary to all my expectations, I found him to be most affable and more than prepared to talk to me and my fellow guests about his glory days with Everton. Strong drink had made brave one of my fellow guests ( a RS ! ) and he decided to take the' gypsy's kiss'. The names of Kay and Wright were brought into the conversation and whilst Harry was loathe to offer much more than a gesture at the mention of the former, he was very anxious to tell us that he' had nothing to do with the signing of Wright but everything to do with his quick departure! Without naming Tommy Eggleston, he told us that 'a caretaker' had been put in charge whilst he was off sick and, not impressed with David Johnson, he had taken Everton's Midlands scout's recommendation to sign Wright. Apparently, he, Catterick, had seen enough of him' arsing about' in just a couple of training sessions at Belfield to literally chase him off the premises !
Subsequently, a number of our players have confirmed to me that was exactly how Bernie 'got the bolt !'
Spurs must have someone lined up not Mourinho too big a personality for Levy.
Paul,@28, Nagelsmann has been mentioned today. Who knows? I've always thought Levy wasn't quite the full shilling.
Bill Gall
Typical behavior from a top six side when they start to struggle. Shows that their finances are set up with top six finish and European cup qualification.
Levy is already starting to worry with what he believes is a financial loss unless improvements are shown.
Unless they had someone already lined up I think any other manager who is approached will be very weary of taking over Spurs considering Poch's record and his be given no chance to turn their season around.
Liam Reilly
Can't believe they've sacked Pochettino. Best manager in the league in my opinion, outside of Klippety. Would put Rogers up in that category also.
I'd like Silva to succeed and think he needs more time, but it's rare such a Manager would become available.
He'll not be short of suitors.
Lenny Jameson
Mr. Taylor (27)
Just a note.
It was Tommy Casey who was the caretaker manager who signed Bernie Wright. I think Catterick sacked him when he got well and saw how bad Bernie was!!!
Liam @31 hang on a second here... "Can't believe they've sacked Pochettino. Best manager in the league in my opinion, outside of Klippety. Would put Rogers up in that category also."
So you don't even have Pep in the top 3? Not sure what to think about that other than most would consider him the best manager in the world, let alone the EPL. Did you forget him by chance?
edit: in other news, Kean has 2 1st half goals for Italy's U21 side today (in the Euro qualifying rounds).
Paul Birmingham
That’s staggering based on his achievements but it seems that their dip in form and perhaps losing momentum during this year and the RS doing them in the Champions League, probably hasn’t helped.
Levy has always been an axe man when he deems right. Maybe the preseason antics may have broken the players spirit.
Well likely never know.
Let’s hope we can beat Norwich well on Saturday.
Tony @29, I can’t see julien Nagelsmann walking out on Leipzig just 4 months into taking the job. Maybe in the summer, but even then, he turned down Bayern’s advances before to complete his project.
Mark @33, Guardiola is probably my pick for worlds greatest. That said, he’s never proved he can build something other than take a great side to even more greatness, which very few in history have done.
Kevin Latham
I posted this on another thread but it’s probably more appropriate on this one.
So Pochettino is now available. Maybe a test of our ambition would be to try to replace Silva with him. When Klopp became available the rs were doing fairly well under Rodgers but they didn’t think twice about kicking him into touch for Klopp, and look what happened. This is what real ambition is about, even though Rodgers had nearly won them the league - but somehow I think that plucky old Everton will labour on. and on
Steve @35, it's worth noting that he's never been asked to do that though, so we really can't say. How's the saying go? You can only be judged by the body of evidence.
Drew O'Neall
How’s what saying go?
Agreed Mark which is why I’d say he’s probably the worlds best.
Kevin, answered you on the other thread. How can we get him here ahead of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich ant Man Utd. We can’t offer more wages, more transfer funds and we definitely can’t offer champions league football.
Sam Hoare
Steve F, will those teams necessarily want him now though? He’s still not won anything and this season has been disastrous for Spurs.
Most of those teams will want managers with trophies on their record.
I’m not saying it’s at all likely he’ll end up with us or a team of similar caliber but I don’t think it’s impossible.
How good is Pochettino? He’s lived off the back of Harry Kane for 4 years. Would Spurs have been even half the team without him and would Pochettino have even half the reputation without him?
Sam, Bayern have a vacancy right now. Real have been after him for a while now. Man Utd too. They might not have a vacancy right now but neither are far off. Zidane left Real due to clashes with the president and it’s only a couple of bad results before they part company again. Man Utd would jump at the chance to get Pochettino in. A short break “to give Ole time” and a holiday for Pochettino until they hit another bump in the road might suit all concerned.
So yes, I think all three will be on the phone to him already.
Kevin, go on twitter and ask some spurs fans. Let me know how you get on!
Steve, I take your point, but who knows, he might want to stay in the Premier league. Real Madrid don’t keep managers long whatever they win so it might not necessarily be his preferred option, and Man U seem happy with OGS as they’re currently a work in progress. Bayern, well maybe. I know I’ve put a couple of ‘mights’ in here but you just never know in football. But that aside, unless Silva can turn the corner big time and make us truly competitive - surely something we all want him to do as Evertonians - then if we stay outside the Champions League we’d never be able to attract a top class manager in the future. And I think that’s what frustrates me, the thought of this great club accepting second best. I just want, I really want, Silva to prove me wrong and put us back at the top table and I’d have no problem in holding my hands up and asking ‘Whatever happened to that Pochettino fella?’
Kevin, I just get the feeling that Man Utd don’t want to be seen as a sacking club. However, Pochettino is exactly what they need. A man who can take a team that’s outside the top 4 and put them back there. They would hope with their resources and their academy he can bring success on top of that. I think with their resources and the wages they will offer, he won’t say no. I think the job is perfect for him.
Steve, I wouldn’t bet against what you say. But I think it may be a bit less clear cut than it looked about 6 months ago. I think all of those teams might have some reservations about him now and there are a lot of good, available managers out there who have won more than him: Mourinho, Allegri, Ancellotti, Wenger etc possibly Emery soon. Poch’s star has fallen somewhat and most of those clubs may want someone in the ascendancy. Time will tell
Mourinho is far from in the ascendancy. Allegri is finding he's not got the kudos he thought he’d have. The biggest clubs seem to dismiss his honour roll like he’s been manager of Celtic or something. Also, they point to his less than exciting brand of football.
Ancelotti’s star has been on the wane for a little while now. Interestingly Napoli is a mess right now and it looks like his relationship with the President is in tatters. I therefore think he’s a very real possibility for Spurs.
Wenger is now in full time employment and works for UEFA or something and made it sound like that’s it for him. Emery would be far behind Pochettino for any job.
Pochettino to Man Utd seems nailed on to me. They can wait until Christmas and wait for Solskjaer to mess up further meantime Pochettino recharges his batteries. Maybe they even do a deal now for the summer and give Solskjaer the chance to see the season out and bow out with a bit of pride.
Most of us have long since ran out of patience with Silva. Moshiri has probably ran out of it too. The club now seems to be paralyzed by indecision.
The problem is easy enough to understand, we have had three bad managers on the run and there is no obvious better replacement who will take the job, or any easy answers to our long term march into mediocrity.
Spurs stock however, has risen for many seasons now, so
ironically, they are able to sack the very manager many of us have craved for and will get a good replacement, just wait and see.
Talkshite saying Spurs to conclude Maureen deal tomorrow
Tom Bowers
Pretty sure the revolving door will keep turning at other clubs now where results are going wrong.
With Poch. going what price some of the others much lower in the table getting the shove?
Poch did have some success and it is somewhat of a surprise they didn't give him a little longer but I think eyebrows were being raised a while back when Erikson was left out and then started talking about moving. Whilst that may have been only one question about some of Spurs results as Erikson is a key player (much like David Silva at City) they have only been a shadow of the team they were last season.
Spurs probably have the replacement lined up already but sadly it won't be Silva at Everton. (boo-hoo)
Steve 43 - ask former clubs how good Ranieri was. Just because Spurs fans like him doesn’t mean he was as good as people make out.
He struck lucky having one of the best English goal scorers ever (who he only made a regular after he started scoring in the Europa league and was hounded by fans into playing him) He also walked into Christian Erickson.
He has also struggled repeatedly when it matters most and the wheels have well and truly fallen off this last year.
Maybe he’s not quite as good as some make out and has been a happy benefactor of circumstance.
Ranieri is a peculiar one. He's like marmite. Some love him. Some hate him. Some think he's great. Some think he's overrated.
Leicester performed a miracle. It had three men at the centre of it. Raneiri, Shakespeare and Walsh. The latter two we picked up shortly afterwards. Clearly they were less effective than we thought. So, that leaves Ranieri or the biggest piece of luck football has ever seen.
FWIW, Bayern has been in love from afar with Poch for a long time. I've seen odds (if you care about those things) that have had him squarely in the "favorite" spot for their next manager long before today's sacking. Even before they sacked Kovac.
Trevor @48 "Moshiri has probably ran out of it too." Curious what you're basing this on?
Lee Paige
Poch please.
Mark#53.
Probably our league position Mark, I think Moshiri was hoping we might be in the top six by now, not the bottom six.
Pochettino brought Spurs up to the level of a 'nearly team' who never actually win anything. Liverpool are not much better than that, and their supporters are only now becoming less frustrated than they've been for a long time. If they fail to win the Premier League this season, who knows, perhaps Klopp could be sacked. Liverpool supporters were calling for his head only two seasons ago, they're a fickle lot, like most supporters.
Clearly the best manager in the Premier League, by a country mile, is Guardiola. City win loads of silverware, and do it in style, with real footballing panache. In comparison, the rest are ordinary. Pochettino being sacked is no surprise.
Regarding Ranieri, he was certainly a lucky benefactor of circumstance. Leicester made good use of the luck to be sure (with the top teams of Utd, City and Chelsea performing well under par), but luck it most definitely was.
Poch has not become a shit coach/manager overnight. There have been rumblings coming from him prior to Spurs CL final.
Any coach/manager needs three things to happen.
1/ Some top quality youngsters to come through the academy.
2/ Some quality signings who achieve far better than expectation.
3/ An injury free campaign (starting 14-16 players)
Poch, Klopp and Pep have had all the above.
Ranieri had a similar situation at LCFC.
We have had DCL, Tom, Jonjoe and Barkley.
As for signings out stripping their expected performance er!!! Rom?
Injury free campaign? The A&E at the Royal is quieter than our physio room.
Jer Kiernan
I think it was Jack Charlton who said about management that after about 5yrs players tend to stop listening, I think Poch is a top coach and man manager but is the right move for both parties
They both come away without too much damage to their reputations, Poch will still be in high demand and Spuds get to send out a message that they have very high standards and don't (unlike some clubs) do sentimentality
i have begrudging admiration for Levy also I must admit, he has great business acumen and is not afraid to make a call
Although I feel he didnt back Poch just when they were making that last big step, however Levy would point to the impressive new stadium
Sooner or later somebody has to take a punt on Eddie Howe, I am hoping it will be us
Mark @ 26; That frees up Pep and Arteta for us in June.
WHU to get the Spurs 'new manager' bounce.
The manager merry go round will start, when the music stops and the picking's done, we'll be left with the fat kid with the glasses - or Silva.
Go speccy, lead us to glory.
Mike Gaynes
Hey, you know, another well-known manager became available today as well. World Cup winner, Serie A Champion, could certainly teach our strikers something about finishing. With any body part available.
And yes, I'm kidding.
Don Alexander
Re Spurs, Levy & Pochettino, the fact is that they're both minions of billionaire Joe Lewis, whose wealth is at least double that of Moshiri's, and possibly triple or quadruple it.
Lewis owns the club, ground, brand and whatever else is Spurs but, with his wealth, can afford not to fanny about when things start going pear-shaped.
We, as we know, are nowhere close to that situation. We fans/supporters have to endure year-on-year ineptitude at the top of the club whilst we close in on 25 years without a trophy, in an inadequate ground.
Still, there's only a few weeks max to go before the Bramley-Moore Dock planning application goes public, so what's to worry about... eh?
Trevor @55, that may be it. Do you think he also knows we're closer to 5th than 18th on points?
Derek @59, while that was a good one, I'd drive the black car to greet Pep & Arteta at Finch Farm, and you can serve them cocktails. Wait, you better drive and I'll serve cocktails. Wrong side of the road and all :)
Oh, and the latest swirling rumor is that WHU is going to go after Rafa.
Derek (#27) & Lenny (#32); I was told at the time of the circumstances of Wright's signing by a journalist and I'm not too sure you have that right about his departure.
If memory serves, he was one of three players involved with young ladies from Holy Cross, I think, at training and two of whom were transferred out almost immediately while the third was a lot more difficult to replace.
If anyone has a clearer recollection, then I'll stand corrected but those were my recollections.
John Boon
Steve Ferns, you amaze me. You recently wrote an interesting and thought provoking fan article, "Not as bad as you might think". Well written and deserving of the responses you garnered. You even replied to many of those who agreed or disagreed with you.
Now another fan Allasdair writes his own sincere and well presented article which I read and appreciated. I hope he knows that. You have since presented eleven (I counted them) responses supposedly about his article.NOT ONE was about his fine presentation but all about what you think about various managers etc etc etc
To me you have reached far beyond the sublime degree of arrogance. Do you really think you are the only Evertonian in the room? You always have lots to say, some of it worthwhile. Please respect other contributers. IT WAS HIS ARTICLE not yours.
Jim Bennings
Marco Silva can really make a name for himself in December and remove any instant pressure by picking up points in these big games.
December shaped our season last year, it destroyed us for three months.
Hopefully lessons are learned and we can really go out there and do something.
Poor start to the season well now is our chance to really put that right.
Oh dear. I trust I will not be marked down as psychic in some way following Mr Levys impatient sacking of a manager who did some good things for Spurs and navigated/sustained a Spurs team through the difficulties of a stadium move including having to adjust to playing at Wembley. And Final of the European Cup. What more does he want.
I gather Mourinho has been appointed in his stead. Well there's a man with little or no patience. He is capable of falling out with the team and Mr Levy at the drop of a hat.
John@64. Thanks for your supportive remarks. However I am not in any way disturbed that my posting has provided a hook for numerous comments re the Spurs debacle.
Thanks also for the comments of Mark, Lenny and others about who should take the can for signing Bernie Wright. I saw him play for the Blues at Coventry and was dismayed that the management thought he was fit to wear a Royal Blue Shirt.
Thanks for your positive feedback on my recent article John. It is appreciated since most of it was more than negative. As for Alasdair's article, I didn't disagree with any of it. Regarding the Pochettino stuff, if I was the first poster with reference to that, I would have filed it under the "Premier League" thread. I expect Michael and Lyndon might well tidy up the threads later. I meant no offence to Alasdair for hi-jacking his thread and for causing you offence.
Could not agree more Alasdair. I remember raising the point of "credit in the bank" when Martinez was being criticised in his second season. How much time does your previous good work buy you to turn things around?
David Moyes was given plenty of chances, his bad season after 7th (when we finished 17th) and then the collapse after we finished 4th (when we recovered to 11th - I think). He ultimately repaid the faith by delivering consistent top 6 finishes.
Whether or not he over stayed his welcome by failing to break through the glass ceiling is a different story.
I think if you give a decent manager time they will get things right. And as for Pochettino, I think Spurs have done the wrong thing, not only sacking one of the best managers in the world, but also by replacing him with the wrong one.
Alasdair, great article and it sets out eloquently the development of the 1970 title-winning team that was built and bought from young talent over a period of 6 years. This great team was before my time, but I see parallels with the incremental steps that Howard Kendall took to build a young title-winning side in 1985.
As Mark @ 1 says, patience is very hard now in the social media age of instant news, reactions and mob hysteria. But a clear-headed strategy built on developing young talent is sustainable, as Borussia Dortmund have demonstrated over many years.
On Pochettino, a Champions League final and four successive top-four finishes in 5 years - all with a £95 million net spend due to the one billion stadium costs. He is an extraordinary manager and the Levy - Mourinho relationship has "car crash" written all over it.
I would love Pochettino at Everton, but doubt he would want to step into the same "stadium-financing" limitations to squad development that he has just experienced.
Jerome Shields
This is an interesting and thought-provoking article, Alasdair. I can remember the under heralded, as I remember, winning of the League in 1970. I also remember the 1968 FA final against West Brom and Tony Brown's sickening goal, which on reflection scared me for life.
Catterick did gradually get the right mix of players, as you suggest. His sides where always consistently competitive and a handful to play against. Catterick as a Manager was competitive at the top of the game at that time. What's more, he proved it. The Club had a winning mentality at that time, which today only exists amongst fans who where brought up on the mentality of that era and the 80s.
Everton as a Club are now defined by their Premier League position and whether they are top this or that – or aiming at top this or that. In the successful era you have mentioned, Everton's aim was to win any competition it entered and they had the overall management to do it.
During the Kenwright era, the sole aim was to stay in the Premier League and employ glass-ceiling managers. In some cases, it was hoped that the manager may perform beyond it, on glass-ceiling expectations and budget. Instead of staying where they were, Everton started to slip into the era of no investment in facilities, players or management. Everton became a selling Club. Everton needed a billionaire to fill up the bare cupboard as a result of the poor management who squandered its contents.
So the situation is that Everton are in the middle of a three-year plan to set the foundations of a winning club. The manager they have is the only suitable manager and there isn't the stomach or an available manager to rep!ace him, to start the three-year plan over again. What's more internally most believe that Everton's main objective is to survive in the Premier League – probably the lowest acceptable achievement that the new owner would accept in his overall plan. Which is the highest level of achievement that most of the Everton management is capable off.
How does this compare with Tottenham? Pochettino is a similar Silva-type placement. Brought in to build a team that would challenge in the top four. He was very successful in doing this and Tottenham's projected prosperity was enough to finance a new Stadium, but the previous glass-ceiling expectations that existed before Pochettino arrived proved restrictive in bringing Tottenham to the next level – the winning mentality level.
Their European Cup final performance was of a tired-looking side way beyond any performance peak. Employing Mourinho is not going to make that much difference, because the mentality of the club has not changed.
In Everton's case, there will be expectations of Everton moving to the next level next season. This will only happen if there is a wholesale change in competitive performance and attitude. Silva would need to be thinking of showing signs of such a change this season.
Pochettino's mistake was accepting Tottenham's club mentality and not moving on. Maybe he didn't have any offers, though there were rumours he was looking. Silva will have to decide at the end of his contract whether it is time to move on and Moshiri will have to decide if he wants to move to the next level or is the present manager suitable?
Moshiri is probably happy with his Everton investment, more valuable shares, and a front seat in a Dockland development, but it will become apparent that Everton as a club will have to move to a higher level, if he is to realise more profits.
Patience is necessary. . . winning is a must.
Jerome #70, if you remember Tony Brown's goal in the 1968 FA Cup Final, then you were dreaming it or watching a different game to the rest of us.
Eddie #4, not only were Walcott and Lookman not sourced from abroad, they are both English and had never played abroad before joining us.
It was Jeff Astle who scored in the 1968 FA Cup Final. I also remember Jimmy Husband heading over in front of an open goal.
I was at the 1968 final against West Brom I am not sure if I spell it rite but I thought I was sickened by the J.Astle goal
Eric, you are right. It was Jeff Astle's goal. Tony Brown tortured us on the left wing. His performance just stuck in my mind over the years.
That West Brom final was sickening. We had beaten them twice in the league but somehow I knew it was not going to be good once it went to extra time. One heave of the boot and Astle did us in.
One of the very few goals Jeff ever scored with his left foot in the 68 final. He famously missed a big chance for England against Brazil in that fine game in 1970.
As for the neurological issues, Steve, I don't have any knowledge but it's obviously sad to see footballers who suffer in later life. A significant number seem to do so in a variety of ways and they certainly took a battering in the 70s. They still do, I guess.
Does it happen in rugby where you would think head impacts are more consistent by far? How many boxers develop dementia?
I was only a young teenager at the 1968 cup final but if memory serves me right we totally dominated the game but couldnt break West Brom down unlike the two previous league games then along comes Astle and knocked the stuffing out of us.
We did Jay, it was horrible. That was an excellent Everton team but you knew we were not going to score. Husband's miss was a shocker.
Ken Kneale
Steve.
I note you say David Moyes was given time but in reality it was treading water or going backwards and was typical of the mentality and approach of the Kenwright era which is characterised by our reduced status as a footballing institution. I am of the view that Moyes was part of the problem in that overall approach with his predominantly negative tactics and love of playing the underdog.
I have little faith in Silva but if your optimism is proved correct and he can develop a front-foot team that restores Everton as a footballing force, I will be the first to buy the man a drink!
Ken where were we when Moyes took over? Because we were towards the bottom, and he left us a team that regularly finished 5th to 8th. If you want to say that he could only take us so far, then yes I wholeheartedly agree. But Moyes mainly took us forwards, as to go backwards would have been to go down, surely.
Anyway, I think Silva is more suited to breaking through that glass ceiling that Moyes could not and I still believe he will.
David Moyes did well at Everton, given the considerable constraints he operated under. That said, he also did very well out of Everton also. 11 years without a trophy and seldom competing in Europe on league position. Nice work, if you can get it, with no threat of the sack in all those years.
Between them, Moyes and Kenwright established an accepted narrative of 'plucky little Everton, punching above their weight'. It enabled both of them to cast themselves in a good light.
And all the while our historical peers and competitors were running away in the distance, over the horizon, whilst other lesser clubs caught us up and indeed overtook us.
'Patience' is the title of this thread. Everton has reduced most of us to be 'Patients', more's the pity.
Jay – that last line is comedy and tragedy and oh so true!
Jay #83,
That's exactly what happened.
From 61 to 70 we won the league twice. We also finished outside the top 6 once in that period and from memory that season we won the FA Cup.
I don't think you could honestly say Silva should be afforded patience because Catterick was showed some apparently. The man won 2 league titles and the FA Cup within 7 or 8 years. Does anyone honestly expect Silva to get anywhere near what Catterick achieved?
It could be said that 'patience' has got us where we are today. Nine trophies in 65 years is obviously seen as success by the many! But sadly laughable when judged against the achievements of certain other clubs who claim to be great!
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Europe Day 2019 Vienna
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Europe Day 2019 Carinthia
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Carinthia, a crossroads of nations
We are a group of Movements belonging to diverse Churches in Carinthia. Our praying together and a fruitful dialogue helped us to reflect upon how to celebrate the “Europe Day 2019”.
Through the contact with the “Europahaus” (House of Europe) at Klagenfurt we found a suitable place and this allowed us to outline our project.
The central theme will be “Europe without Christ?” By presenting our 7 Yeses, we aim at inspiring a reflection upon the contribution we could provide toward a sustainable Europe.
We live in Carinthia which is a crossroads of Europe and where three nations feel at home. For centuries there were here Romans, Slavs and German tribes. For this reason we have invited guests from Lublin, Trieste and Graz so as to meet together and share our experiences.
On May 3, 2019, we shall have the opportunity to celebrate a journey of relationships and harmony, which resulted in 70 years of peace. Together we will be able to appreciate how the diversity of nations in Europe enriches us.
While celebrating our “Europe Day”, we want to show our gratitude for all this and to express our hope for a peaceful future.
Manfred and Fini Wieser, team of Together for Europe, Carinthia
Download the invitation here (available only in German)
Vienna: Citizens of Europe are getting ready ‘together’
Different important events are taking place from 19 March to 5 May at various locations in the Austrian capital. The aim is to give citizens and parliamentarians the opportunity to discuss politics together in a constructive way in view of the forthcoming European elections.
What do our friends in Vienna have in their hearts?
“The current problems regarding the politics, economics and structure of the European Union concern all of us. As members of Together for Europe we feel compelled to add our voices to the debate on the continent’s future by putting in practice “our vocation for unity and our Culture of Togetherness”. We are convinced that the gift of “unity in diversity” we received in the moving process of reconciliation is God’s response to the needs of our time. With this confidence we wish to invite citizens, experts and Members of the European Parliament to dialogue together and bear positive witness to the politics of reconciliation and solidarity.”
The topics selected for discussion are very stimulating:
Erasmus – shaping Europe
Judaism in Europe today – old and new anti-Semitism
Migrants and the homeland
“Word and bread” – the social dimension
The conclusive evening will be celebrated on 11 April in the “House of the European Union” where amongst other things we will collect and present messages from the various political and ecclesiastical representatives who were present at the different meetings.
An ecumenical service of prayers for Europe will be held on 5 May in a church in the city centre.
Each meeting will have a different format and be held at a different location. There will be different movements and experts, different topics for discussion and different ways to get involved but beneath it all is a shared desire not to miss the opportunity to say: TOGETHER we can!
Let us pray that many others will be inspired by Vienna’s example.
Taken from the invitation: A Prayer for Europe (Carlo Maria Martini)
Father of mankind, Lord of History,
Look upon this continent to which you sent
philosophers, lawgivers and people endowed with wisdom,
precursors of that faith in your Son, fallen and risen.
Look at these people evangelized by Peter and Paul,
by prophets, monks and saints.
Look at these regions drenched in the blood of martyrs,
moved by the voice of reformers.
Look at these people linked by so many bonds and ties,
yet divided by hatred and war.
Assist us in committing ourselves to a Europe of the Spirit
founded not just on economic treaties,
but also on values which are human and eternal;
a Europe capable of ethnic and ecumenical reconciliations,
quick to welcome the stranger, respectful of human dignity.
Give us confidence to see it as our duty
to encourage and promote understanding between peoples,
which provides for all continents justice and bread,
liberty and peace.
Miteinander Für Europa - Einladung Wien (2.1 MB)
Small prophetic steps for Europe
We have experienced many times that European unity is not a utopia and does not solely depend on institutions. European unity is generated through encounters between people: encounters without prejudices, with a willingness to uncover the riches in the other which brings us to discover, surprisingly, our own identity in deeper way.
That is what happened on 3rd June during the visit of Ljubljana (Slovenia) by sixteen representatives of Together for Europe from the Styria and Carinthia regions of Austria. The guests were members of different Ecclesial Movements and Communities such as Schoenstatt Movement, Focolare Movement, Charismatic Renewal, Freie Christengemeinde and Kloster Wernberg.
The visit began with a morning tour of the historical centre of Ljubljana led by a cultural expert, Silvester Gaberscek. A typical Slovenian picnic followed with fifteen members of different Slovenian Movements and Communities. There were beautiful moments of brotherly and sisterly friendship among the participants that gave a taste of what a united Europe could look like.
The visit continued with a programme in one of the local halls with a meeting which opened with some traditional Slovenian songs. The participants introduced themselves and shared their spiritual experience as well as their commitment and concrete initiatives in different areas (such as refugee welcome, youth initiatives aimed at citizen bonding, pro-family referendum initiatives). There were also moments of prayer as well as musical interludes. The Austrian guests asked to learn how to sing a prayer in Slovenian. We all felt encouraged and full of enthusiasm to keep working for unity in Europe.
That evening we parted mutually enriched and with the intention to meet as often as possible. We are delighted to have that opportunity next November in Prague.
Mariana and Pavel Snoj, Coordinators of Together for Europe in Slovenia
TfE_Slovenia_Austria_2018_06_03 ©Foto: Christoph Fürböck
Vienna, a Bridge between East and West
Place of origin: countries of Europe. Shared objective: reconciled unity among different Churches and cultures, solidarity and European integration.
From 9th to 11th November 2017 in Vienna (Austria), the annual conference of ecumenical network Together for Europe (TfE) took place, with 130 participants from 44 Movements, Communities and Associations.
They met to reflect upon the past, present and future of their ‘togetherness’. “What we need is an action through dialogue,” said Ilona Tóth, member of the Steering Committee of TfE, on 29th October 2017 following the COMECE meeting in Rome entitled ‘(Re)thinking Europe’, “that is look at issues together and together seek solutions”. This is precisely what they did in Vienna.
Ecumenical Prayer for Europe
On 9th November, the conference participants met in the Stephansdom, the Catholic Cathedral of Vienna, for a prayer presided by Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn who was also joined by a sizable group of ecclesial authorities and a few hundred faithful. The solemn prayer of Together for Europe for togetherness between cultures and generations and for peace was very well received. The date of the event carries a meaning in itself: following 9th November 1938 (Night of Broken Glass) and 9th November 1989 (fall of the Berlin Wall), the ecumenical prayer held on 9th November 2017 represents a significant moment on the path of Together for Europe and a sign of peace for Europe. See article, photos and video>
Exchange of views at the conference
In the following days, prayers and lectures as well as a lively exchange of views set the tone for the programme.
Fr. Heinrich Walter (Schoenstatt Movement) spoke of the eighteen-year history of Together for Europe. “On deep roots a fertile tree of unity for Europe is growing,” he said, as he reminded the conference of the year 1999, when Christian Communities, Movements and Association belonging to different Churches started working together in the context of the celebration of the ‘Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification’ in Augsburg.
Gérard Testard (Efesia, France) clearly and succinctly spoke about the crises and hopes in Europe today.
Gerhard Pross (YMCA Esslingen) then spoke of a ‘Europe at stake’. “Our ‘togetherness’ is a prophetic message, which marks the culture of Together for Europe”. Pross recalled the seven Yes-statements proclaimed by the network… “We say Yes to a Europe to which God has entrusted a vocation in the course of history: the togetherness of heaven and earth, of faith and shaping of the world: for heaven and earth meet in the crucified one.”
Pál Tóth (Focolare Movement Hungary) looked at the future of Together for Europe in his contribution entitled “A culture of encounter and dialogue between East and West,” followed by a well-attended panel discussion with participants from the Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Russia. Communication scientist Tóth pointed out some differences between the Eastern/Central European countries and the West of Europe and put forward a daring proposal: “Together for Europe can increasingly become a platform for dialogue, or rather a school of inter-European dialogue.” “Under the headline of equality and mutual recognition a kind of wisdom discourse might emerge in which misery and shortcomings can be viewed from the view point of redemption and resurrection.”
There were numerous reflections in plenary sessions and in language groups, in which each participant was asked to actively contribute in the course of the actions his/her own opinion and experience.
On the last day, Thomas Roemer (YMCA Munich) and Sr. Vernita Weiss (Schoenstatt Movement) asked: “Now, where do we go from here?” After having prayed together to the Holy Spirit, the assembly decided almost unanimously to intensify encounters and mutual visits among Movements and Countries, and to strengthen the spirit of living ‘togetherness’. Another idea came from Jeff Fountain (Robert Schuman Centre, the Netherlands) and the Together for Europe group from Rome, who suggested using the date of 9th May – which in many countries marks Europe Day – to spread the message of ‘togetherness’ in local actions.
At the end, the gathering renewed its pact – a solemn promise of mutual love. With it they pledged before God their shared commitment and asked for courage and confidence to go ahead.
The next meeting of ‘Friends’ of Together for Europe aimed at furthering dialogue between East and West of Europe will take place in Prague (Czech Republic) from 15th to 17th November 2018. Together we set out on a path to a promising future.
Download and read some of the contributions:
Gérard Testard_The political situation of Europe_Nov 10, 2017 Vienna 17 November 2017
Gerhard Pross_Europe is challenged_Nov 10, 2017 Vienna 17 November 2017
Pál Tóth_Culture of encounter and the dialogue_Nov 10, 2017 Vienna 17 November 2017
Fr Heinrich Walter_Fruits of Together for Europe_Nov 10, 2017 Vienna 17 November 2017
TfE Vienna 2017 Foto: Annemarie Baumgarten
TfE-Vienna-2017_Foto-A. Baumgarten
TfE-Vienna-2017_Pál Toth Foto-A. Baumgarten
Vienna Cathedral at the Centre of Europe
An ardent ecumenical prayer service. On the 9th November, 2017, Vienna Cathedral – dedicated to St Stephen – became the focal point for Europe.
Visible, inviting, and European – this is how this “Ecumenical Evening Prayer for Europe” came across in the cathedral church of Vienna, the Stephansdom.
Members of the ecumenical network Together for Europe at the heart of the Austrian capital city, at the vigil of their annual Congress. They came from countries such as Portugal, Russia, England, and Greece.
Their aim: unity and reconciliation among various Christian denominations and cultures, as well as solidarity and integration within Europe.
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn lead an ecumenical group of representatives of various Churches: hundreds of people gathered under the “Lettner” Cross which is a significant memorial of the victims of the two world wars. “People today do not expect us to rule, but to serve,” the Cardinal emphasized in his speech. The solemn prayer for a TOGETHERNESS of cultures and generations and for peace resounded powerfully.
“This moment of prayer was a multilingual, visible, and European sign of hope,” said one of the participants, “and it gives us hope for the future.”
Video Ecumenical Prayer Vienna (German)>
At the reception that followed the celebration, Thomas Hennefeld, Superintendent of the Reformed Church of Austria and President of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria, and Joerg Wojahn, Head of the European Commission Representation in Austria, underlined that Christian values are the basis for a united Europe. “We need everybody,” exclaimed the representative of the EU.
After November 9, 1938 (the Night of Broken Glass) and November 9, 1989 (fall of the Berlin wall), couldn’t November 9, 2017, day of the ecumenical prayer, be a significant step on the road of Together for Europe and a sign for Europe?
555th year anniversary
“Hidden treasures” in Vienna
555th anniversary on 31st October 2017! What am I talking about? Let me explain: 500 years since Luther’s Reformation, 50 years since I was born and 5 years since I have moved to Austria.
When I realised this coincidence, I wondered how to celebrate the big round anniversary uniting my personal history with the ecumenical one.
I am a Swiss citizen; my mother is reformed and my father Catholic. My siblings and I were baptised into the Reformed Church, but after we went our separate ways. As a child I joined the Catholic Church, hence my strong passion for the unity of Churches. I now live in a Focolare community in Vienna.
Some time ago, in a meeting of consecrated people in the Ecumenical Centre in Ottmaring, attended by the Lutheran Bishop Emeritus Herwig Sturm, I presented a performance on Luther, based on images, spoken word and dance (I am a ballet dancer by profession). It occurred to me, why not celebrate my birthday by offering the same performance to the public?
Roswitha M. Oberfeld Foto: privat
On 29th October, more than 60 people gathered in Am Spiegeln, in the Meeting Centre of the Focolare Movement in Vienna, for my ‘ecumenical birthday show’. Instead of bringing birthday gifts, I asked my guests to offer a contribution towards translations of the meeting of Friends of the ecumenical network Together for Europe which was to take place in the Meeting Centre a few days after my birthday.
What a joyful occasion it has been to bring the money raised through the show to the International Steering Committee of Together for Europe!
Roswitha Oberfeld, Vienna (Austria)
Friends of Together for Europe meet in Vienna
From 9th to 11th November 2017, the Friends of Together for Europe will come together in Vienna, a bridge between Easter and Western Europe, for their annual congress.
A total of 120 participants from around 20 Eastern and Western European countries and 40 Movements are expected to attend. Their main aim will be to pool ideas on three topics:
What culture is generated by the history of Together for Europe?
What is our specific contribution to Europe?
Dialogue between East and West: a mutual enrichment
This network of people embraces all of Europe from England to Russia, from Portugal to Greece. Their shared mission: through the upcoming meeting, to strengthen communion among their individual charisms and build united and multifaceted Europe, with strong social cohesion and cultural diversity.
The meeting will open, on 9th November 2017, in the Stephansdom Cathedral of Vienna, with an Ecumenical prayer for Europe. All those who wish for peace in Europe and in the world, are invited to take part in this moment of prayer.
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Helmuth Kraetzl, Catholic Church, Archpriest Vicar Ivan Petkin, Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Austria, Chorbishop Emanuel Aydin, Syrian Orthodox Church in Austria, Patriarchal Delegate Tiran Petrosyan, Armenian Apostolic Church, Patrick Curran, Archdeacon of the Eastern Archdeaconry of the Anglican Church in Europe, together with all the present will bring before God needs and opportunities of our continent. The intention of the prayer is extremely timely: unity in diversity, peace in justice.
Following personalities will address the gathering: Thomas Hennefeld, Superintendent of the Reformed Church of Austria and President of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria, and Joerg Wojahn, Head of the European Commission Representation in Austria.
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Welcome to Vienna!
WILLKOMMEN, BENVENUTI, WELCOME, VITAJTE, BIENVENUE…
The group „Friends of Together for Europe” will meet in Vienna.
We are looking forward to this being a great, profound, visible, inviting, serene and European event held Together.
The TfE Coordination Team in Vienna has reflected and consulted at length with the International Steering Committee in preparation for this meeting. Our focus recently has been preparations for the opening of the meeting on 9th November in St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Stephansdom) which will take the format of an ecumenical prayer. We have picked a location in the centre of Vienna and have invited public figures to attend. The Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Schönborn has confirmed his participation while the mayor of Vienna issued an invitation to an “Agape” to follow after the liturgy.
“9th November, Stephansdom – you are coming, aren’t you?” – everyone we speak to is eagerly looking forward to the event.
Will we succeed in filling the Stephansdom Cathedral? We entrust this aspiration in the spirit of what Chiara Lubich used call: “The music sheet already written in heaven”.
Coordination Team of TfE, Vienna
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Prayer for Carinthia in the Provincial Government building
On Friday 27th January 2017, in the “Green Room” of the Provincial Government building of Carinthia (South Austria) an unusual event was held: a gathering to pray for the province.
The initiative came from the group Together for Europe, which has as its aim to give expression to Europe’s Christian identity. Representatives of different Churches and from different social, political and cultural spheres came together in prayer. The Outi & Lee duo provided musical accompaniment at the event.
“We hope this initiative will benefit this House”, commented Mr Reinhart Roth, President of the Provincial Government of Carinthia, while thanking organisers of the event. Local Councillor Ms Ruth Feistritzer, representing the Mayor, was also in attendance.
Together for Europe numbers more than 300 Christian Movements, Communities and Missionary Works around Europe. “We seek that which unites – among Christians and in society in general; we say Yes to Life, Family, Creation, Fair Economy, Solidarity, Peace and Responsibility”, said Manfred and Fini Wieser, Coordinators of the Together for Europe group of Carinthia.
(Italiano) In Österreich – Gemeinsam auf dem Weg der Versöhnung
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(Italiano) Noi Tirolesi andremo a Monaco – chi viene con noi?
Why are you afraid?
“Christians’ hope for Europe” is the subtitle for the evening gathering at the YMCA’s Hall of Fame, Vienna, February 11th, 2016
Introducing the evening’s welcoming address, the piano and saxophone performance conveyed an immediate sense of enthusiasm and professionalism. In her address, the host Sascha Becker (YMCA), transmitted the spirit underlying the Together for Europe events in Stuttgart in 2004 and 2007 and invited the audience to the upcoming event “Munich 2016”.
The theme of the evening was modeled on the question Jesus asked of his wavering disciples: Why are you afraid? (Matthew 8:26) Whilst the “boat of Europe” rocks amidst a storm of discouragement and resignation, the contribution offered by Together for Europe to help face the current challenges of our continent was summed up by the subtitle of the evening “Christians’ hope for Europe”. Pastor Eduard Griesfelder’s illustrated the point further in his talk entitled “Ways of Reconciliation – Round Table – Austria” which spoke of a meeting among free Churches and Communities of diverse traditions and the acknowledgment they received from the Austrian State.
The picture of a recurring failure of politics in the face of the inevitable influx of refugees was painted with openness and sincerity by Heinz K. Becker, MEP. As spokesman for matters of Security for his fraction of the European Parliament Mr. Becker acknowledged the concerns of many, whilst observing how: “Christian values such as availability and solidarity are becoming increasingly valued”.
Examples were offered of how this can translate into practice helping politics and civil society work together, by the deputy mayor as well as by an active citizen with whom she collaborates and by a refugee from Eichgraben.
At the end of the event, the stage resounded with the hopeful feedback of participants. The meeting concluded with a moment of prayer expressing the hopes and concerns of the participants as well as their gratitude for the experience of being Together.
Herwig Sturm – Coordination team of Together for Europe for Vienna and Austria
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Miteinander für Europa: Ein Kongress für christliche Werte
Der internationale ökumenische Kongress von “Miteinander für Europa”, verbunden mit einer öffentlichen Kundgebung, findet vom 30. Juni bis 2. Juli in München statt. Bischof i.R. Herwig Sturm (Evangelische Kirche A.B.) und Chiarina Marent (Fokolar-Gemeinschaft) gehören der österrichischen Koordinationsgruppe dieser europaweiten Initiative an. Sie geben einen Ausblick auf die kommende Großveranstaltung in München und vermitteln einen Einblick in die Anliegen von “Miteinander für Europa” auf geistlicher und politischer Ebene.
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Willkommen bei Miteinander für Europa – Österreich
Wir erleben in unseren Kirchen und Gemeinschaften, dass Einheit in Verschiedenheit möglich ist. Mit diesen Erfahrungen wollen wir auch in die Gesellschaft hineinwirken, um Trennungen und Vorurteile zu überwinden. Versöhnung ist unsere Hoffnung und unser Weg.
Wir, das Netzwerk Miteinander für Europa, laden ein zu Begegnung und Gesprächen mit Heinz Karl BECKER, Abgeordneter zum Europäischen Parlament, mit „Weg der Versöhnung“, Bürgermeister und Flüchtlinge aus NÖ.
Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2016, 19:00 bis 21:00 Uhr im Festsaal des CVJM (Christlicher Verein Junger Menschen), Kenyongasse 15, 1070 Wien
Runder Tisch Österreich – "Weg der Versöhnung" – Pastor Eduard Griesfelder
"Europa – Kontinent der Hoffnung" - BECKER Heinz Karl, MEP
"Europa konkret" – Bürgermeister und Flüchtlinge aus NÖ
"Was macht mir Hoffnung" – Plenum
"Gebet für Europa"
Musik Trio: Klavier, Saxophon, Cello Agape
Weitere Infos unter https://www.erzdioezese-wien.at/pages/inst/14431715/informationenueber/miteinanderfuereuropa
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TOGETHER FOR EUROPE
…brings together Christian Movements and Communities – over 300 in number spread across the Continent – belonging to different Churches. While preserving their independence, collectively they form a network to pursue shared goals, each bringing a contribution specific to their own charism. Read More>
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Here's How Powerful the Nokia 9 Will Be
By Don Reisinger 2017-08-01T15:50:02Z
Based on leaked benchmarks, it looks like the Nokia 9 will be a workhorse, capable of delivering ample processing muscle.
Nokia licensee HMD Global has some big plans for its upcoming flagship.
A benchmark purporting to show what the Nokia 9 has in store has leaked to benchmarking site AnTuTu, according to Android Headlines, which earlier reported on the leak.
(Image credit: Nokia Power User)
Chief among the device's specs is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, the same chip you'd find in the flagship Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. It's also the same chip coming to the upcoming Galaxy Note 8, according to reports.
Aside from that, the device will ship with a dual-camera array, featuring two 13-megapixel cameras, according to the benchmark leak. You'll also find 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage, matching other higher-end handsets. On the graphics side, you can expect to find the Adreno 540 GPU, a solid video chip for most uses.
The benchmark didn't say how big the Nokia 9's display will be, but did say that it will come with a 2,560-by-1,440 resolution. It'll also be running on Android 7.1.1 when it's made available.
MORE: Nokia 9 Could Beat Galaxy S8 with This
HMD Global has signed on to be the sole licensee for Nokia's branding. Nokia is no longer making smartphones, leaving HMD Global to carry that banner under the Nokia brand.
(Image credit: AnTuTu/Android Headlines)
While HMD Global has unveiled lower-end Nokia handsets this year, a flagship has been conspicuously absent. However, rumors surfaced in recent weeks suggesting a flagship is coming with the Nokia 9 branding.
Luckily, we won't need to wait long on the Nokia 9. HMD Global is expected to announce the Nokia 9 on August 16. The company hasn't revealed details about the device, so we're left with rumors and now, the latest benchmark.
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“Great tone starts in the hands and
with a great guitar and amp. As
guitarists, we search our whole
lives for something to make things
sound better. The Distillery enhances
my sound while still allowing the true
character of my guitar to shine."
Vince's Story
The Distillery 'Classic'
NEW 2017 Edition
The Original Tone-Shaping Pre-Amp Boost
Trusted by Artists Worldwide
New and Improved for 2017
“I like to think of The Distillery as having volume knobs for the feel and character of sound. As the name suggests, The Distillery will help extract the purest fundamental elements of your guitar and amp tone and allow you to musically enhance them.”
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Dweezil's Story
“It makes the whole rig sound better. It’s like moving to
heavier strings, the sound becomes fuller and more
responsive. And the built in overdrive is very tasteful.
The Distillery is perfect for rock, metal, blues or any
other tone with a high gain.”
Alex Skolnick's Story
“Strong Tones! Excellent Sustain! The sounds achievable are great! “Guts” is killer! It really IS like an amp in a box that produces a lot of varied and appealing tones and that it has OOMPH, too. I’m seriously excited about the thing!”
Nels' Story
“The Distillery makes my amp sound
like it was on legal steroids!
Thank you ToneConcepts,
you’ve done it again!”
Jim Campilongo Black Label Ltd. Ed.
Jim's Story
Guitar World's
Gold Award Winner
"The ToneConcepts Distillery is truly different,
from the way that it virtually becomes an
integrated part of an amp to the incredible
variety of natural-sounding tones it delivers."
The Distillery: The World’s Best Tone-Shaping Boost
THE DISTILLERY 'CLASSIC' (2017 EDITION)
In line with our development plan and feedback from customers and artists, ToneConcepts Inc. has released a new version of our award-winning The Distillery for 2017. Acclaimed as the best pedal in its class, The Distillery “Classic” 2017 Edition is now better than ever!
Our goal was to improve functionality and performance without altering the heart and character of an already successful product that is loved by some of the world’s greatest artists. We included key upgrades such as improved control knob functionality, interaction, smoother operation and finer adjustments at even at close to unity volume levels. These enhancements allow The Distillery “Classic” 2017 Edition to produce an even wider range of an incredibly rich tonal palette. The added tonal enhancements, in addition to several key audiophile components, raise The Distillery “Classic” 2017 Edition to a new level of unparalleled musicality, transparency and feel.
The Distillery gives players 20dB+ of pure volume boost as well as a range of sophisticated tone-shaping options. From subtle enhancements to drastic tonal changes, The Distillery unleashes your guitar’s range of possibilities, while allowing the true character of the player, the guitar and the amp combination to shine.
The Original and Acclaimed as the World’s Best Tone-Shaping Pre-Amp Boost.
Developed with and played by some of the world’s greatest guitar players.
New and Improved for 2017.
Hand Built to Order in Toronto, Canada.
$269.00Read more
ToneConcepts Inc. designs and manufactures guitars, effects and amplifiers for professional guitar players and discerning tone hunters that deliver the tone, dynamics, musicality, quality and bullet-proof reliability demanded by the world’s greatest guitar players. Since 2008, we have tested and developed gear with some of the world’s leading guitar players on the stage and in the studio. We’ve put new and vintage tones into their hands, under their feet and through their amps. Starting in early-2013, we collaborated with several key artists to develop a tool that addressed a common need and desire. The Distillery was the result! A new class of pedal that makes them sound great on stage and in studio, all while retaining the true character of a great player, guitar and amplifier combination.
Designed and manufactured by ToneConcepts Inc. in Toronto, Canada, The Distillery was the first in a series of products developed in collaboration with some of the world’s best guitarists. This innovative new line addresses the needs of professional touring and recording musicians.
ToneConcepts The Distillery is The Original Tone-Shaping Pre-Amp Boost for Guitar. When The Distillery was launched in 2013, it created and set the standards for a new class of effects, forever changing the way players think about a boost pedal.
Our goal was to improve functionality and performance without altering the heart and character of an already successful product that is loved by some of the world’s greatest artists. We included key upgrades such as improved control knob functionality, interaction, smoother operation and finer adjustments at even at close to unity volume levels. These enhancements allow The Distillery “Classic” 2017 Edition to produce an even wider range of an incredibly rich tonal palette.
The added tonal enhancements, in addition to several key audiophile components, raise The Distillery “Classic” 2017 Edition to a new level of unparalleled musicality, transparency and feel.
The Distillery gives you 20dB+ of the purest, zero coloration volume boost as well as a range of sophisticated tone-shaping options. From subtle enhancements to drastic tonal changes, The Distillery unleashes your guitar’s range of possibilities, while allowing the true character of the player, and a great guitar and the amp combination to shine.
That’s why artists like Steve Lukather, Vince Gill and David Hidalgo will always have The Distillery ON in their signal chain, and why The Distillery is an important and essential integrated part of their sound along with their custom, precious, vintage, and boutique amps and guitars.
Designed for professional touring and recording guitar players, “The Distillery”, is considering by many artists as the world’s most transparent and musical tone-shaping pre-amp boost.
THE DISTILLERY FUNCTIONS:
BOOST CIRCUIT:
The BOOST section is the heart of The Distillery. With the combination of +20db of super transparent musical volume amplification along with sophisticated tone shaping options, The Distillery has created a new class of effect, changing the way players think about a boost pedal.
ON/OFF: A True By-Pass Switch
BOOST: Up to +20dB of pure, transparent, musical volume boost.
GUTS: Tweaks and adjusts the maximum possible gain and tone structure of the boost circuit. An extra gain, tone structure pre-amp control. It will tighten up the signal, adds definition, harmonic detail, sensitivity, and mild natural compression. Adds presence to humbuckers, boldness to single coils. Your leads will cut through the mix without altering your original tone and feel. Magic.
BLEED: Variable Z Control. It can be used as a subtle tone control, matching your humbuckers or single coils output, or replicating the input of many classic beloved stompboxes of the past.
SHAPE CIRCUIT:
Like the BOOST section, the SHAPE EQ section has been designed and tuned with the goal of replicating sound and feel you get by adjusting your guitar’s tone and volume and your amplifier’s controls directly. The Distillery integrates itself into a great guitar-amp combination.
Resonant low-pass Filter – The Frequency and Q controls allows you to get tones from a smooth, warm and fat sound to a frequency curve that simulates the tonal signature and response of different passive pickups and guitar speakers, which makes it a both greatly effective and the most natural equalisation for electric guitar
Some users will even claim that in combination with BOOST section, the SHAPE section controls will feel and sound, like swapping the pickups on their guitar.
Designed to work ideally with an electric guitar’s magnetic pickups, The Distillery is most effective when placed first in the signal chain, but the SHAPE section can also be extremely effective when The Distillery is placed after an effect like an overdrive, distortion or fuzz pedals that are harmonicly rich.
ON/OFF: Switchable Filter EQ : It will engage the EQ section.
CONTOUR: Low Pass Filter Control, gives you a range from airy highs to low fat tones
EDGE: Q Control. Adds Air, Sparkle, or focused Vocal Mids.
ON/OFF: True By-Pass Switch
BOOST: up to +20dB of pure, transparent, musical volume boost
GUTS: Extra Input Gain Control
BLEED: Variable Z Control
On/Off: Switchable Filter EQ
Contour: Low Pass Filter Control
Edge: Q Control
Exceptional Build Quality:
Hand Made in Toronto, Canada
100% Analog Circuit
PCB’s Made in Toronto, Canada
All Through Hole Components
Hammond Canada Cast Aluminium Cases for Quality and Durability
Power Requirements:
“The Distillery” can be powered by a 9V DC regulated power supply, center pin negative, as supplied by most standard Boss™, Ibanez™, etc., power supplies. Power through a 9V battery is possible through a custom ordered optional extra.
Warning: Using an incorrect power adapter can lead to damage and will void the warranty. Please use a professional quality power adapter for optimal performance and safety. To avoid damage to the pedal, do not exceed 9V DC.
Warranty and Support:
The Distillery pedal carries a 2-year, non-transferable warranty that covers defects due to parts and labor and begins at the date of purchase. The Distillery has been Tour Tested and is Artist Approved for professional use on tour worldwide.
REGISTER YOUR PEDAL: www.toneconcepts.com/product-registration
NOTE: Production registration is required for warranty and support.
“The Distillery makes my amp sound like it was on legal steroids!
“Strong Tones! Excellent Sustain! The sounds achievable are great! I’m seriously excited about the thing!”
“I have it on all the time. It is my favourite pedal!”
David Hidalgo
“The Distillery enhances my sound while still allowing the true character of my guitar to shine. It is the best I’ve ever heard or played.”
“Love it! The sound is killer!”
“This is one of my new go-to pedals. The Distillery can make your amp sound great!”
“It makes things sound better. It’s like moving to heavier strings, the sound becomes fuller and more responsive. And the overdrive is very tasteful.”
“The Distillery does for my Tele what Wes Montgomery’s thumb did for his L-5; it adds body and character while surrounding the tone with a sugary, natural sort of air. It’s one of the first gain stages I’ve used that fully supports me when I’m improvising instead of forcing me to come up with ideas to suit the pedal. I love that it follows my lead and lets me play anywhere on the fretboard without sounding muffled or ice-picky. It’s a new mainstay.”
Zane Carney
Read More Artist Testimonials
“For me, The Distillery has three distinct uses: as a tone shaper to approximate the sounds of a humbucker or lipstick pickup using my tele; as a clean boost to push an amp; and as a stacker to push and eq fuzzes and OD pedals. The Distillery is musical and open sounding (not too compressed) in all three applications and is one of the most useful pedals I have… a keeper for sure. Looking forward to more offerings from ToneConcepts.”
Redgold (Source) NY, USA
“Just got one of these.. Two minutes of dialing and I was inspired. A half hour of jamming before I messed with the knobs again. This pedal can change the voice of an amp.”
Sounddjin, (Source) Minnesota, USA
“I got one a couple months ago. Seems to work well to dial-in/fine tune your tone. I’ve been using it in front of my Okko Diablo and Rook Royale & a couple of other OD’s I have. Seems to make my guitar jump out more in the band mix.”
ToneM1 (Source) Santa Clarita, CA, USA
“GREAT pedal, one of the best of this category, current or vintage. It’s one of the rare but refreshing examples of something that actually exceeds claims and praise; whether made by the company, the press/forums, or endorsers. It does what the rest promise, but either: don’t, can’t, won’t or just barely deliver, regardless of price point or era.”
Jim Cord, (Source) Plainfield, IL, USA,
“It seems like one of those pedals that you don’t realize it’s on until you turn it off.”
Stratburst, (Source) Toronto, ON, Canada
“I’ve used the Distillery since June, love it. Does just what it’s supposed to. The right side is a 20 db boost, guts punches it up, bleed tweaks the highs. I keep this on all of the time with the controls pretty low usually (9 o’clock-ish). I use the left side to change my sound during solos sometimes, the contour knob is pretty useful to fundamentally change your single coil vs. humbucker tone… so you can just hit that left switch and sound like a different guitar. I usually play a P90 Les Paul and a 52 hot rod Tele through one of those tweed covered Jensen Blues Jrs. I expect it’d let you dial in “your sound” easier on amps you don’t care for but have to use for whatever reason.”
binkydognose, (Source) Glendale, Arizona, USA
“I got the pedal today. It took a while to get here because they build them to order which is pretty cool. I’ll be doing a full video demo for my YouTube channel but for now just my first impressions.
I really like it. I finally get what it is (I think) and it’s exactly what I was hoping. It has 5 knobs and two foot switches. I think the two knobs on the right and the middle knob (3 total) are all affecting the boost function which is activated by the right hand foot switch. The “boost” knob controls the amount of boost (up to 20db I think). The “guts” knob is basically a gain knob and the “bleed” knob is a tone knob for the boost/gain function. It’s a great boost, if this section was the whole pedal it would still be pretty cool.
But then there’s the “contour” and “edge” knobs which make up the “shape” section of the pedal activated by the left foot switch. This really makes the pedal special IMO. The coolest thing is how the edge and contour knobs interact with each other. The manual had some suggested settings that were really helpful and really well described. Basically it shows 3 settings, one to add “sparkle”, one to add “presence” and one to add thickness or something (they have a better adjective in the manual I just can’t remember it right now). All the settings were right on. It was kind of unreal how accurately they were described and then how precise the sound was on each setting.
The biggest thing I kept hearing before I got it was that it’s a really subtle pedal that you barely notice is on. I didn’t find that to be true at all. Sure you can set it that way but I found it to be very noticeable at most settings.
I’m still getting used to the pedal. My fav thing so far is to use the shape side to thicken up my Tele’s neck pickup and then kick on a little bit of a boost. It sounds soooo good.
Like I said I’ll make a video and show some of the sounds, there’s a lot of them in this box. So far I really like it, it seems insanely versatile. Now I just have to figure out how to fit it in my tiny PT mini!”
Gary Osborne, (Source), Nashville, TN, USA
“I recently picked one up and love it. I play mainly 50s/60s Honky Tonk and Rockabilly music these days as my two main gigs keep me busy full time; so my days as half a dozen band’s hired gun are pretty much done.
Even though I primarily play solid state amps anymore, this pedal STILL does what it’s supposed to do. I leave the first channel on all the time. It’s gives me the liveliness and rich tone I love. I’m very much a “Fender” amp type of guy and this gives me that sparkle and chime and the fine tuning to not be an ice pick’y nuisance.
The 2nd channel adds a ton of flexibility that I’ve yet to really make use of, but so far I like dialing it in for a more 40’s Tweed tone..a bit more mid’y and honky a la Junior Barnard (while my main tone is more Campilongo/Roy Nichols/Kenny V into Gatton territory a la the Humbler Rockbilly era).
Essentially it not only gives me flexibility but consistency from room to room and amp to amp.
As a solid state guy, the one adjustment I made was putting it in the fx loop. MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
As of now my rig is ALWAYS and ONLY a Hahn 228 with single blade pickups by Carl Bradychok, USUALLY a Tech 21 Trademark 60, and a Korg Pitchblack tuner > Wampler Reverb > Midnight 30 Starry Night Delay > Distillery all through the fx loop.”
Adam Lopez, (Source) Denver, CO, USA
“Incredible “resource”, not simply a pedal. Those who dismiss with no personal experience with the pedal hold zero credibility to judge. The ability, tone, quality, singularly unique, results-reverse engineered development heritage of this game changer are without peer. Add to that the pedigree of the truly devoted all-star performing artist team onboard from concept to stage/studio, and there should remain no doubt around this miesterwerk.”
Compulsor (Source) YouTube
“I have had this pedal since it was initially released about 6 months ago
or so. Still getting a handle on it. I will say it works wonder with Fuzz.
Fuzz that doesn’t “cut through the mix?” Solved.
Fuzz with “not enough mids?” Solved.
Fuzz that is a little woofy in the low-end? Solved.
Fuzz that needs a little more bite in the upper register? Solved.
I am keeping mine on my board, because I have not
found anything I like better—including the Timmy.
I like it for how it allows me to shape my dirt section to suit whatever room I am playing in.”
la noise (TGP)
“I have The Distillery for a week now and I cannot remember having more fun with a pedal. I play mostly clean, but I also like a little hear every now and then. The Distillery really and truly makes you feel plugged right into the amp. And it makes you sound like you are plugged in directly too. The tone shaping is subtle but works wonders. If you played thru the pedal for a while and turn it of your guitar will sound lifeless and you cannot get that great sound back without switching the pedal on again. In other words, it is really addictive. You can get a decent amount of overdrive from the pedal by adding mids in the tone shaping section. But a mostly use a Jan Ray and Minibone for anything with more grit.
I really like this pedal for two reasons: fatten up my strat bridge pickup and leveling the output of my clean tone (with Distillery on) with my Jan Ray and and Minibone. The latter two need to be set up pretty loud…”
DJ_61 (TGP)
“I think it is a truly great and versatile pedal. If you have a single coil, you can get faux humbucker tones. You can use it as a clean boost (I would love for someone to do a vid shoot out with a Klon/Klone dialed clean). You can use it to goose fuzz and OD pedals, and/or radically change their eq. I’ve sold off a lot of OD/Fuzz pedals since getting the Distillery. And, as you said, it can help a subpar rig. It always sounds musical.”
redgold (TGP)
Got the Pedal today and just wanted to post some initial observations.
Before I start, I must in all fairness admit that I am not a huge fan of OD/Dist/Fuzz pedals, though they have their uses and others have made them sound much better than me! I fell in love with amp OD and have purchased a number of amps in different power ratings to satisfy my needs. (I guess I’ve never heard an attenuator that I like, though I’ve never played through any of the really high-end ones – so there you go.)
That said, the Distillery is not an OD, but a boost that can really hit the amps front end hard (20db). I could very happily use this pedal with, for example, a tweed amp to get to pre-Eliminator ZZ Top territory, but that’s just scratching the surface, as it’s the second stage, or what they term “shape” where the fun really starts.
The pedal feels pretty substantial. The switches seem sturdy, and it looks built to last. The paint job is nice and the distillery graphics are pretty cool! I popped off the bottom (4 screws a la MXR), and the pots, PCB etc, are all clean and nothing seems cramped or jammed in. So far, so good!
The two page (each back and front) manual gives sample settings, and gave me a good place to start.
The available boost is quite substantial, and luckily the boost level is smooth and not at all jumpy. The “guts” knob is an extra gain stage and doesn’t seem to mush out. The boost side’s tone control (“bleed”) has a nice sweep – does,t seem to muddy up neck HBs. OK, so much the better!
The second stage, or “shape” is where the power lies. Essentially, it’s a filter (“contour”) and a Q control (“edge”), but this isn’t like any I’ve used outside of studio equipment. Unlike something like the old Systech Harmonic Energizers, this is more of a scalpel to the Systech’s Bowie knife. It’s seems to have been designed as a sculpting tool to be used directly on pickup signals, if that makes sense. I think I’m going to have to play with these settings on each set of pickups I own. That said, I could get one Strat’s bridge pickup to sound darn-near a second one with a Callaham base plate -fatter, yet more focused. Actually, I could dial in much more of that effect without screwing with the basic sound of the pickup itself. Cool.
I was very pleasantly surprised at what it can do with a Barden Gatton bridge pickup. I was considering swapping it out for the newer version that is designed to be a bit fatter. I don’t feel I have to do so now. The pickup does sound fatter, though not “bigger.” (I don’t think it’s possible for a Barden to sound bigger!) What I’m excited about is that I feel I may b able to dial in alnico “warmth” as desired. The ability to do that at will alone makes the pedal worth it for me, but I’ll have to experiment more before I can categorically state this to be possible. I am stoked, though!
I’ve only very briefly played a PAF-style HB through the box (Duncan Seth Lover) but there appears to be a lot of shaping to be had here as well. Again, lots of experimentation is the order of the day.
One slight disappointment is that it appears that you cannot engage the shape controls independently of the boost function – only with the boost engaged. The good news is that the boost is wonderful, and if desired, can be set to unity, so that between the boost’s own controls and the shaping features, you can have two sounds that are either subtly different or substantially so.
This weekend I will have access to a friend’s Klon, so I’m interested to see how close one can come to it’s boost signature. Hmm…
OK, this isn’t a full review, but my interest is certainly piqued. Some more experimentation is needed, but this is a very clever design that has a lot of potential applications. This doesn’t seem to be an effect that will “sit” on your sound, nor does it seem that there should be any problems with how you sit in a mix – actually, this pedal seems perfect for making this better. Again, we’re not dealing in vast differences, e.g. those between a clean signal and one through a high gain OD, but it seems to be able to do things I’ve never been able to do with a floor pedal. More to follow, for sure.
Duckbunny (TGP)
“The Distillery is hard to categorise except to say it is an unorthodox EQ box that offers a little compression, boost and distortion.
The Distillery operates as an up to 20dB boost on the right button. The left button adds its tone-shapingg tools. There is a Contour control that operates as a parametric frequency center, but it doesn’t just sweep low to high frequencies. It seems to sweep clusters of frequencies in the same range, but not linearly – again, a very musical control. The Edge knob seems to control the amount of oomph you get from the Frequency cluster while the Bleed Knob lets you roll off some high frequencies. Once more, it’s not a treble control – it just seems to help with harshness rather than darkening the sound overall. The Guts control pushes a midrange saturation. Depending on how hot your chain is, you can introduce a bit of distortion here to use as an effect, but you’d be better served using an overdrive or distortion box.
The goal from The Distillery isn’t really to be an ‘effect’ per se, but to give you a reshaped sound – sometimes as dramatic as changing from a humbucking to single coil sound and vice versa. Or rounding the notes. Or giving you that piano attack on the low strings without thinning out everything else. For me, The Distillery is an essential on-all-the-time boxes.
The Distillery has become indispensable for my main board.”
Bob (uburoibob on JazzGuitar Online), YouTube, Rochester, NY, USA
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By Patrick Rall G+ Oct 15 2013 - 11:05am
2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Sets a Blistering Nürburgring Time - in the Rain (Video)
General Motors has just announced the results of their team’s testing session with the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 at the Nürburgring and with a time of 7:37.47 – making the new Z/28 the fastest American muscle car around the famous German track and what makes this time even more impressive is the fact that this record lap was achieved in the rain.
When the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 was introduced back in April, it was being billed as the most track capable Camaro ever and a claim like that comes with the expectations of the car in question putting down great numbers on a race track. As is the case with pretty much every other performance car sold in the world, General Motors chose the German Nürburgring as their proving grounds to show off the extreme levels of performance offered by the 2014 Camaro Z/28 and even though the team faced crappy, rainy conditions – the new Z/28 was able to put down the best Ring time ever by a Camaro. That time of 7:37.47 was also the best time turned in by an American muscle car and the only American cars that have ever turned in a better time than 7:37 were the Dodge Viper and the Chevrolet Corvette.
“Our cars' performance and capability have advanced tremendously in the past 20 years, which required us to continually improve the parameters of the 24-Hour Test," said Wayne McConnell, director of global vehicle performance. "Today’s test pushes the car harder than the vast majority of customers ever will. As a result, when we call a car ‘track capable’ we are confident that it will perform reliably and consistently for our customers.”
Before tackling the Nürburgring with the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the fastest American muscle car to lap The Ring was the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, which turned in a time of 7:41.27…almost four seconds slower than the new Z/28 even though the ZL1 has considerably more power. However, the various weight reduction efforts allow the Z/28 to hit the track some 300 pounds lighter than the ZL1 and when combined with the many other track-ready features of the new Z/28 – it has comfortably proven itself as the fastest muscle car to ever lap the Nürburgring.
In turning in a record time of 7:37.47, the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is comfortably the best performing American muscle car to ever hit that track but when you look at some of the cars that turned in comparable times on the Nürburgring, you really get a good picture at just how impressive that time really is. Below is a list of some of the vehicles that the 2014 Z/28 has effectively beaten around the Ring in terms of recorded laps. It should be noted that in the case of the Corvette ZR1, the Nissan GT-R and the Ferrari 458 Italia, these models turned in quicker times while being tested by other sources but these numbers help to show the kind of company the new Z/28 joins in terms of capabilities.
2013 Porsche 911 Carrera S - 7:37.9
2011 Lexus LFA - 7:38
2010 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 – 7:38
2010 Nissan GT-R – 7:38
2011 Ferrari 458 Italia – 7:38
Most importantly, this record Nürburgring lap time set by the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 was achieved while portions of the track were soaked with rain. Towards the event of the video below, you can see that it is raining quite hard and that causes some obvious traction issues while cornering and accelerating.
"One of the challenges of testing at the 'Ring is that the track is so long that conditions can change radically in a single lap," said Al Oppenheiser, Camaro chief engineer. "Adam Dean, the development driver for Z/28, did a heroic job driving in deteriorating conditions. Based on telemetry data from our test sessions, we know the Z/28 can be as much as six seconds faster on a dry track."
If GM should go back to the Nurburgring with the new Camaro Z/28 and actually shave 6 seconds from their current record time, that would give the 2014 Z a best time in the area of 7:31. That time would put the newest Z/28 in the same discussions as the Porsche Carrera GT and a variety of previous generation (2008) Porsche 911 GT2 race cars while also being faster at the Ring than the infamous Koenigsegg CCR and CCX supercars.
Speculation aside, even while racing in the rain, the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 has clearly staked its claim as being not just the best performing Camaro of all time but also the best performing American muscle car ever and the video below offers a great look at the new Z/28 as GM test driver Adam Dean rips through the 12+ mile road course. Crank up your speakers (as the LS7 engine under the hood of the Z/28 sounds terrific) and enjoy!
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Q&A with The MacArthur Foundation and the 100&Change Big Bet
Global Philanthropy
Sometimes, in philanthropy, we can begin to question the pace of our impact. We see important incremental progress, but we get frustrated by the steady work towards the solution to a problem we’re trying to tackle. So we begin to dream. We think of the significant project that could make a major dent, or even solve, a problem we care about. We begin to wonder: Is it even possible? What would it take?
Here at The Philanthropic Initiative, we love when we’re able to do this - dreaming together with our clients, helping funders of all shapes and sizes go big and bold while also being smart and strategic with their grantmaking. And we get excited when we come across others who are out there in the world, inspiring us to think big and help our clients to act boldly. This year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago has been one such inspiration. They have put a stake in the ground showing us all that, yes, there are thoughtful and strategic ways to underwrite really ambitious ideas that could have significant and lasting social impact.
The Foundation has launched a new, daring initiative called 100&Change – a competition for a $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that lays out a significant problem and proposes a detailed solution to either significantly address it or solve it completely. The Foundation put no restrictions on the geography or sector of the initiative, inviting proposals from around the world and across fields. To select the eight semi-finalists, the Foundation staff, Board, and a panel of 413 judges have reviewed the more than 1,900 applications and shared information publicly as much as possible along the way. You can view videos submitted by those semi-finalists on the MacArthur Foundation’s website.
Recently, we were able to learn more about 100&Change from MacArthur’s Cecilia Conrad, Managing Director, Fellows, Awards, and Exploratory Philanthropy. Cecilia shared that the Foundation did not anticipate the level of interest it received from other funders and, given this interest, has put time and resources into making the information accessible and useful online. She also told us about the decision-making process behind 100&Change and the associated risk analysis, and she shared advice for other funders interested in taking bold chances with their philanthropy.
What was the impetus for the MacArthur Foundation to develop the 100&Change program? What inspired the Foundation to develop this bold, ambitious program?
Philanthropy is best positioned to provide society’s “risk capital,” according to MacArthur’s President Julia Stasch. Taking more risk is imperative for philanthropy, especially in the current era of sweeping national and global change and declining trust in key institutions. Foundations should be less risk averse than government, which invests public dollars, or the private sector, which must answer to shareholders.
When the MacArthur Foundation designed the 100&Change competition, we set out to do something audacious. We knew it would require significant resources – risk capital. Some problems can’t be solved by the $100,000 grants foundations typically provide. By funding at a $100 million level, MacArthur can address problems and support solutions that are radically different in scale, scope, and complexity.
100&Change is also an expression of our humility. We realize we do not have all the answers. We are choosing to look beyond—indeed far beyond—our own small number of programmatic areas to focus on a serious problem and its solution in a meaningful and lasting way.
Giving such a significant grant comes with significant risks, which many foundations are hesitant to take. What did your risk analysis look like?
The focus of 100&Change was to support tested, evidence-based solutions that were ready to scale. We required applicants to provide rigorous evidence that their proposed solution would effectively address the problem they identified. Compelling evidence could include:
Data from an external evaluation of a pilot project or experimental study;
Citations in peer-reviewed research indicating a strong scientific consensus; and
Documentation of a detailed pathway from the proposed actions to specific outcomes.
We wanted to mitigate the risk of picking a proposal that was completely untested or untried. There is a space for competitions like the XPrize, which is focused on breakthrough innovations. MacArthur was not seeking to occupy that space.
In philanthropy, there is a tendency to want to be the first to fund an idea or project. But we perceived a gap in the philanthropic field, a need for funding to take tested ideas to scale. We saw 100&Change as a way to address that gap. Having evidence a proposal worked—at least once, somewhere and on some scale—was important to us.
What steps are you taking to minimize risk as you consider the semi-finalists?
With 100&Change, we recognize we are taking a bold step by awarding a single organization a significant amount of money in order to solve or significantly impact an intractable problem. This, by its very nature, is risky. We are excited to take the kind of risk that will help alleviate a critical problem of our time. As with all awards made by the foundation, due diligence is an important part of our process to minimize risk. Our due diligence for each organization includes a legal review, understanding its financial stability, and investigating its technical capacity to deliver on the proposed project. In addition, Management Systems International is working with each semi-finalist to strengthen proposals so teams can expand, adapt, and sustain projects over time to benefit a greater number of people. You can read more about the MacArthur and MSI partnership on the 100&Change perspectives blog. We will work closely with the institution to identify obstacles to success, assist with problem solving, and use the Foundation’s reputational assets to bring people to the table if needed.
What advice would you offer other funders interested in being big and bold with their giving?
Being bold with your giving takes courage, patience, a desire to learn, and most importantly, transparency. These four elements have played a critical role in helping us to build and execute a strong competition. As part of the Foundation’s design-build philosophy, we continue to learn daily about what went right and how we can improve the competition. So, our advice would be to think big, be courageous, and be prepared to learn from both your successes and your mistakes. For us, it has been an exciting journey. We look forward to learning from other funders who are taking bold steps with their funding decisions.
Like so many others, TPI will be excitedly following 100&Change to see which project is selected and how the implementation goes. We invite you to follow along with us, including through these upcoming live, online events and on the MacArthur Foundation’s Perspectives on 100&Change Blog. You can also learn more about the other applications they received through their Top 200 interactive map and online searchable database. We hope this initiative inspires you to take chances and be bold in your own philanthropy!
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