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Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, Europe, extremism, humanity, support, terrorism, tragedy, unity
Our hearts go out to the Norwegian people
Picture: EPA Our hearts go out to the Norwegian people. In this horrific atrocity, there is a poignant reminder that we need to stand together in solidarity, opposing all forms of violent extremism. The Association of British Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, America, appeal, awareness, dialogue, Faith, humanity, insight, Islam, Muslims, religion, respect, society, support, United States, unity, video
My Fellow American
Take the pledge now http://www.myfellowamerican.us The climate of suspicion towards American Muslims compromises the great values the United States of America was founded upon. Take the pledge http://www.myfellowamerican.us Follow on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/MyFellowAmericanProject Follow on Twitter http://twitter.com/usmuslimstories
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, appeal, charity, human rights, humanity, justice, law, Muslims, Pakistan, support
Reprieve | Pakistan Police Torture Project
When a YouTube video emerged last summer showing Pakistani policemen taking turns to beat prisoners in their custody, it sparked a surge of anger among Pakistanis around the world. In the weeks following, a notable Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, appeal, charity, disaster, support, tragedy, unity
Japanese Red Cross Society | Japan/Earthquake Donation
We heartily appreciate your kind offer of support. If you want to donate money to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami, please contact your national Red Cross/Red Crescent society, which may have already launched a Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, appeal, disaster, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, Islam, Muslims, news, support
Islamic Relief: Japan Tsunami Appeal
People are being urged to help Islamic Relief get much-needed aid to the people of Japan, as the country struggles in the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami, and a growing nuclear crisis. The full scale of Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, appeal, Bahrain, human rights, humanity, Middle East, Muslims, news, peace, support, unity
Free Libya!
The Association of British Muslims calls upon the Libyan people and people of all nations to rise up in every peaceful way to end the ruthless regime of Libyan Dictator Colonel Gaddafi, who must be Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong Egypt, event, human rights, Middle East, Muslims, news, society, support, Tunisia, unity
THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH MUSLIMS SUPPORTS THE AWAKENING!
“All God’s creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who doeth most good to God’s creatures.” – Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) The Seal of The Prophets Egyptian people, in particular young people, are Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong diversity, Faith, human rights, humanity, peace, poetry, respect, society, support, tragedy, unity
Untold Stories : Holocaust Memorial Day 2011
It’s Going to Rain Valdemar Kalinin It’s about to rain, getting darker, The leaves have long fallen from the trees, Leaving desolation where just an old man Roams, Picking handfuls of earth where Roma Perished. During this war Nazis shot them dead, Roma seized Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 2011, appeal, Australia, charity, disaster, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, humanity, support, tragedy, unity
Please Donate to Australian flood relief appeal
The Queensland Government has launched an appeal to help fellow Queenslanders affected by the recent floods. Many communities have been devastated. Some families have lost everything. You can help make a difference by donating to Read more…
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong appeal, children, disaster, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, support, tragedy, video
Update: Floods in Pakistan
Every day the magnitude of this flood disaster in Pakistan is increasing. Some 20 million people have now been effected. Pakistan and its people are going through a terrible time, especially with this flood. The Read more…
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While the Auto Waits
Promptly at the beginning of twilight, came again to that quiet corner of that quiet, small park the girl in gray. She sat upon a bench and read a book, for there was yet to come a half hour in which print could be accomplished.
To repeat: Her dress was gray, and plain enough to mask its impeccancy of style and fit. A large- meshed veil imprisoned her turban hat and a face that shone through it with a calm and unconscious beauty. She had come there at the same hour on the day previous, and on the day before that; and there was one who knew it.
The young man who knew it hovered near, relying upon burnt sacrifices to the great joss, Luck. His piety was rewarded, for, in turning a page, her book slipped from her fingers and bounded from the bench a full yard away.
The young man pounced upon it with instant avid- ity, returning it to its owner with that air that seems to flourish in parks and public places - a compound of gallantry and hope, tempered with respect for the policeman on the beat. In a pleasant voice, be risked an inconsequent remark upon the weather that in- troductory topic responsible for so much of the world's unhappiness-and stood poised for a mo- ment, awaiting his fate.
The girl looked him over leisurely; at his ordinary, neat dress and his features distinguished by nothing particular in the way of expression.
"You may sit down, if you like," she said, in a full, deliberate contralto. "Really, I would like to have you do so. The light is too bad for reading. I would prefer to talk."
The vassal of Luck slid upon the seat by her side with complaisance.
"Do you know," be said, speaking the formula with which park chairmen open their meetings, "that you are quite the stunningest girl I have seen in a long time? I had my eye on you yesterday. Didn't know somebody was bowled over by those pretty lamps of yours, did you, honeysuckle?"
"Whoever you are," said the girl, in icy tones, "you must remember that I am a lady. I will excuse the remark you have just made because the mistake was, doubtless, not an unnatural one -- in your circle. I asked you to sit down; if the invitation must con- stitute me your honeysuckle, consider it with- drawn."
"I earnestly beg your pardon," pleaded the young ran. His expression of satisfaction had changed to one of penitence and humility. It was my fault, you know -I mean, there are girls in parks, you know - that is, of course, you don't know, but -- "
"Abandon the subject, if you please. Of course I know. Now, tell me about these people passing and crowding, each way, along these paths. Where are they going? Why do they hurry so? Are they happy?"
The young man had promptly abandoned his air of coquetry. His cue was now for a waiting part; he could not guess the role be would be expected to play.
"It is interesting to watch them," he replied, pos- tulating her mood. "It is the wonderful drama of life. Some are going to supper and some to -- er -- other places. One wonders what their histories are."
"I do not," said the girl; "I am not so inquisi- tive. I come here to sit because here, only, can I be tear the great, common, throbbing heart of hu- manity. My part in life is cast where its beats are never felt. Can you surmise why I spoke to you, Mr. -- ?"
"Parkenstacker," supplied the young man. Then be looked eager and hopeful.
"No," said the girl, holding up a slender finger, and smiling slightly. "You would recognize it im- mediately. It is impossible to keep one's name out of print. Or even one's portrait. This veil and this hat of my maid furnish me with an incog. You should have seen the chauffeur stare at it when he thought I did not see. Candidly, there are five or six names that belong in the holy of holies, and mine, by the accident of birth, is one of them. I spoke to you, Mr. Stackenpot -- "
"Parkenstacker," corrected the young man, mod- estly.
" -- Mr. Parkenstacker, because I wanted to talk, for once, with a natural man -- one unspoiled by the despicable gloss of wealth and supposed social su- periority. Oh! you do not know how weary I am of it -- money, money, money! And of the men who surround me, dancing like little marionettes all cut by the same pattern. I am sick of pleasure, of jewels, of travel, of society, of luxuries of all kinds."
"I always had an idea," ventured the young man, hesitatingly, "that money must be a pretty good thing."
"A competence is to be desired. But when you leave so many millions that -- !" She concluded the sentence with a gesture of despair. "It is the mo- otony of it" she continued, "that palls. Drives, dinners, theatres, balls, suppers, with the gilding of superfluous wealth over it all. Sometimes the very tinkle of the ice in my champagne glass nearly drives me mad."
Mr. Parkenstacker looked ingenuously interested.
"I have always liked," he said, "to read and hear about the ways of wealthy and fashionable folks. I suppose I am a bit of a snob. But I like to have my information accurate. Now, I had formed the opin- ion that champagne is cooled in the bottle and not by placing ice in the glass."
The girl gave a musical laugh of genuine amuse- ment.
"You should know," she explained, in an indul- gent tone, "that we of the non-useful class depend for our amusement upon departure from precedent. Just now it is a fad to put ice in champagne. The idea was originated by a visiting Prince of Tartary while dining at the Waldorf. It will soon give way to some other whim. Just as at a dinner party this week on Madison Avenue a green kid glove was laid by the plate of each guest to be put on and used while eating olives."
"I see," admitted the young man, humbly.
"These special diversions of the inner circle do not become familiar to the common public."
"Sometimes," continued the girl, acknowledging his confession of error by a slight bow, "I have thought that if I ever should love a man it would be one of lowly station. One who is a worker and not a drone. But, doubtless, the claims of caste and wealth will prove stronger than my inclination. Just now I am besieged by two. One is a Grand Duke of a German principality. I think he has, or has bad, a wife, somewhere, driven mad by his intemperance and cruelty. The other is an English Marquis, so cold and mercenary that I even prefer the diabolism of the Duke. What is it that impels me to tell you these things, Mr. Packenstacker?
"Parkenstacker," breathed the young man. "In- deed, you cannot know how much I appreciate your confidences."
The girl contemplated him with the calm, imper- sonal regard that befitted the difference in their sta- tions.
"What is your line of business, Mr. Parken- stacker?" she asked.
"A very humble one. But I hope to rise in the world. Were you really in earnest when you said that you could love a man of lowly position?"
"Indeed I was. But I said 'might.' There is the Grand Duke and the Marquis, you know. Yes; no calling could be too humble were the man what I would wish him to be."
"I work," declared Mr. Parkenstacker, "in a res- taurant."
The girl shrank slightly.
"Not as a waiter?" she said, a little imploringly. "Labor is noble, but personal attendance, you know -- valets and -- "
"I am not a waiter. I am cashier in" -- on the street they faced that bounded the opposite side of the park was the brilliant electric sign "RESTAU- RANT" -- "I am cashier in that restaurant you am there."
The girl consulted a tiny watch set in a bracelet of rich design upon her left wrist, and rose, hurriedly. She thrust her book into a glittering reticule sus- pended from her waist, for which, however, the book was too large.
"Why are you not at work?" she asked.
"I am on the night turn," said the young man; it is yet an hour before my period begins. May I not hope to see you again?"
"I do not know. Perhaps - but the whim may not seize me again. I must go quickly now. There is a dinner, and a box at the play -- and, oh! the same old round. Perhaps you noticed an automobile at the upper corner of the park as you came. One with a white body
"And red running gear?" asked the young man, knitting his brows reflectively.
"Yes. I always come in that. Pierre waits for me there. He supposes me to be shopping in the de- partment store across the square. Conceive of the bondage of the life wherein we must deceive even our chauffeurs. Good-night."
"But it is dark now," said Mr. Parkenstacker, "and the park is full of rude men. May I not walk -- "
"If you have the slightest regard for my wishes," said the girl, firmly, "you will remain at this bench for ten minutes after I have left. I do not mean to accuse you, but you are probably aware that autos generally bear the monogram of their owner. Again, good-night"
Swift and stately she moved away through the dusk. The young man watched her graceful form as she reached the pavement at the park's edge, and turned up along it toward the corner where stood the automobile. Then he treacherously and unhesitat- ingly began to dodge and skim among the park trees and shrubbery in a course parallel to her route, keep- ing her well in sight
When she reached the corner she turned her head to glance at the motor car, and then passed it, con tinuing on across the street. Sheltered behind a con- venient standing cab, the young man followed her movements closely with his eyes. Passing down the sidewalk of the street opposite the park, she entered the restaurant with the blazing sign. The place was one of those frankly glaring establishments, all white, paint and glass, where one may dine cheaply and conspicuously. The girl penetrated the restaurant to some retreat at its rear, whence she quickly emerged without her bat and veil.
The cashier's desk was well to the front. A red- head girl an the stool climbed down, glancing pointedly at the clock as she did so. The girl in gray mounted in her place.
The young man thrust his hands into his pockets and walked slowly back along the sidewalk. At the corner his foot struck a small, paper-covered volume lying there, sending it sliding to the edge of the turf. By its picturesque cover he recognized it as the book the girl had been reading. He picked it up carelessly, and saw that its title was "New Arabian Nights," the author being of the name of Stevenson. He dropped it again upon the grass, and lounged, irresolute, for a minute. Then he stepped into the automobile, reclined upon the cushions, and said two words to the chauffeur:
"Club, Henri."
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Big Bird Voice Actor Caroll Spinney Passed Away
The voice behind the iconic 'Sesame Street' puppets Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch is announced to have passed away at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut.
AceShowbiz - "Sesame Street" legend Caroll Spinney has died, aged 85.
The puppeteer, who was the voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the kids show for five decades, passed away on Sunday, December 8 at his home in Connecticut.
"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending," a statement from "Sesame Street" bosses reads.
"His enormous talent and outsized heart were perfectly suited to playing the larger-than-life yellow bird who brought joy to generations of children and countless fans of all ages around the world, and his lovably cantankerous grouch gave us all permission to be cranky once in a while."
Spinney was forced to quit Sesame Street in 2015 due to chronic health issues, but he continued to provide the voices for Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
"Caroll Spinney's contributions to Sesame Street are countless. He not only gave us Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, he gave so much of himself as well," Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said in a statement.
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What's behind the exec exodus at Comscore
Two new C-suite departures follow a senior-leadership shakeup just two months ago
Two new C-suite departures follow a senior-leadership shakeup at Comscore just two months ago.
Credit: Illustration by Ad Age
Comscore remains the best hope for a serious challenge to behemoth Nielsen in U.S. TV ratings or cross-media measurement. But that hope grows dimmer as the stock nears record lows amid two new C-suite departures that follow a senior-leadership shakeup just two months ago.
Chief Operating Officer Kathryn Bachmann left Comscore at the end of May after less than two months on a job she assumed in April, shortly after CEO Bryan Wiener and President Sarah Hofstetter resigned, citing “irreconcilable” strategic differences with the board.
Chief Product Officer Dan Hess is preparing to follow her out the door. He’s tendered his resignation, according to people familiar with the matter, though he remained at Comscore as of this week. Bachmann couldn’t be reached for comment, and Hess declined to comment.
What’s making the C-suite door spin so fast at Comscore is up for debate. Some people familiar with the company say Vice Chairman Bill Livek, who’s been on the board since his own company Rentrak was acquired in 2016, has wanted to be CEO since before Wiener took the job last year. Livek is said to be the key board member with whom Wiener and Hofstetter had the strategic differences that prompted their exit. Those differences are said to center on Wiener’s interest in aggressively pursuing investment in cross-platform measurement, including acquisitions, according to people familiar with the company, while the board favored going slower and focusing more on fixing Comscore’s legacy businesses.
Livek didn’t return a call for comment. Wiener and Hofstetter declined to comment.
Comscore board member Dale Fuller remains as interim CEO amid a successor search. “We are moving forward with the team that best supports our mission," Fuller said in statement. "Our current team is well-known in the industry for its broad and deep experience, and we feel Comscore is now very well-positioned organizationally to ensure exceptional customer service and to meet our aggressive customer acquisition goals.”
Fuller handled the company’s first-quarter earnings call last month, where he discussed a 10-percent companywide headcount reduction amid falling revenues. But Livek has since represented the company at two investor conferences, including this week alongside former GroupM Chairman and fellow board member Irwin Gotlieb.
On the May call, Fuller suggested he’s focused on shoring up Comscore’s declining syndicated digital audience measurement business. But several people in the industry say that business has fallen well behind IAS, Oracle’s Moat and DoubleVerify, and will be hard-pressed to catch up.
Neither of those presentations were webcast. A spokeswoman for Comscore says nothing of material importance was discussed at either conference that wasn’t covered in the earnings call, since that would violate Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation FD.
Comscore’s stock was re-listed on Nasdaq a year ago after being de-listed in 2017 after financial reports were delayed by the accounting problems.
The stock plummeted 30 percent the day after Wiener and Hofstetter resigned and has shed another 40 percent since, this week nearing all-time lows set in 2009 as shares traded at less than half what they were worth immediately after news of the accounting issues broke in 2015.
A possible silver lining is that Comscore stock is now so cheap–its market capitalization is just over $500 million–that some people close to the company believe it’s in play for takeover. Comscore declined to comment on this.
Speculation by some company watchers focuses on Integral Ad Science and its private-equity owner Vista Equity Partners, which could combine Rentrak’s TV measurement with its IAS digital audience measurement. But in a market where heavyweights Nielsen and WPP’s Kantar are openly up for sale--with various private-equity players circling--many options are in play.
Recent research questioning the value of behavioral targeting could actually boost the value of Comscore’s demographic-focused Validated Campaign Essentials or Nielsen’s cross-platform products. But Nielsen’s announcement last week of expanding the global reach of its YouTube ratings measurement to more than 30 countries puts Comscore further behind on the digital and cross-platform demographic ratings front.
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AU WA A1027 - HON. COLIN JAMES BARNETT MLA (1993-02-16 - 2001-02-16)
The Honourable Colin James Barnett MLA became Minister for Resources Development; Energy; Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly in the Court Ministry on 16 February 1993. Between 25 August 1993 and 25 January 1994 the Minister held the additional portfolio of Tourism, and following the reconstitution of the Ministry on 26 April 1996 he also held the Education portfolio.
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1964-65 Season >
1965 Jul 03 / Promenade / Kostelanetz
Kostelanetz, Andre
"S" = Soloist
"A" = Assisting Artist
Tyler, Veronica / Soprano / S
Mosley, Robert / Baritone / S
Lettvin, Theodore / Piano / S
Schola Cantorum of NY / Chorus / S
Show First 3
Gershwin / Cuban Overture
Gershwin / "Mine" from Let 'em Eat Cake (Huxley, Carroll)
Gershwin / Promenade ("Walking the Dog") from Shall We Dance (Montenegro, Hugo)
Gershwin / "Strike Up the Band" from Strike Up the Band (Rose, Don)
Gershwin / Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
Gershwin / Porgy and Bess
Act I, Scene 1: Introduction
Summertime, Clara, Act I, scene 1
A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Jake/Chorus, Act I, scene 1
Come On, Sister, Come On Brother, Act I, scene 2
My Man's Gone Now, Serena/Chorus, Act I, scene 2
Leavin' for the Promise' Lan', Bess/Chorus, Act II (Train song)
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', Porgy/Chorus, Act II, scene 1
Bess, You is My Woman Now, Porgy/Bess, Act II, scene 1 (Encore)
Oh, I Can't Sit Down, (Chorus), Act II, scene 1
It Ain't Necessarily So, Sportin' Life/Chorus, Act II, scene 2
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York, Sportin' Life, Act III, scene 2
Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way, Porgy/Chorus, Act III, scene 3
Gershwin / "Fascinating Rhythm" from Lady, Be Good! (Glover, Joe) (Encore)
Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess, Porgy, Act III, scene 3 (Encore)
Sousa / The Stars and Stripes Forever (Encore)
Dates / Event Types / Venues
Jul 3, 1965 / 8:30PM / Promenade / Philharmonic Hall / Manhattan, NY
GERSHWIN PROMENADE
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF NY; HUGH ROSS, DIRECTOR
TIMING: "Porgy and Bess" Gershwin, 31:00
Promenades Season Index
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Leon Levy Foundation
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AlgomaTrad 2018 Staff Concert, Tuesday, August 14
The 15th Annual Algoma Traditional Music, Dance, Arts, and Heritage Craft Family Camp (AlgomaTrad 2018) is tuning up for an inspiring week of workshops, concerts, dances, and heritage arts, all happening in Richards Landing on St. Joseph Island. The camp runs from Sunday evening, August 12 to Saturday morning, August 18. Full Camper registrations are now closed but Day Camper classes without meals are still open until Aug. 9th.
Several evening events are open to the public including the always-superb annual Staff Concert, Tuesday, August 14, 7:30 PM at the Centennial Grounds in Richards Landing. Admission at the door is $20, children 10 and under free. Download a concert poster HERE. Featuring over 15 world-class musicians, the Staff Concert line-up will include:
Tom Fitzgerald
Virtuoso Canadian fiddler Tom Fitzgerald, 2012 Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champ and member of the renowned fiddle and stepdance family group, The Fitzgeralds (thefitzgeralds.net);
Cape Breton fiddler Dan MacDonald (danmacdonald.org), who recently released his new CD Urban/Rural to a sold-out audience at Hughes’ Room in Toronto;
Singer and guitarist Andy Hillhouse, Artistic Director for the Harrison
Andy Hillhouse
Festival of the Arts, founder of the Canadian Celtic group Mad Pudding, and regular accompanist for Pierre Schryer and Celtic rock band The McDades;
Michael Ball and Jody Benjamin
Michael Ball and Jody Benjamin (ballandchain.ca), who have been performing and recording on the Canadian music scene for years with their own projects, running the gamut from old country and alt country to cajun and zydeco and from bluegrass to American Old-time;
Kyle Waymouth
Kyle Waymouth (kylewaymouth.com), 5-time Canadian Open Stepdance Champion and multi-instrumentalist who tours with The Fitzgeralds and international sensation Step Crew;
Emilyn Stam
Fiddler, pianist, and accordionist Emilyn Stam (emilynstam.com), with 4 Canadian Folk Music and 2 Juno Award nominations to her credit and whose creative musicianship has been heard around the world with the Eastern European party-punk-super-band Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Dutch band Té, Canadian award-winners The Shoeless, and Italian accordionist Filippo Gambetta;
Andrea Cooper and Mark Roberts
Old-time banjo and Irish flute players Mark Roberts, who was part of seminal Irish-American group Touchstone, toured with the Red Clay Ramblers, and has performed on Broadway, and Andrea Cooper, who doubled the fun when she met Mark as they have performed music on two flutes, twin penny whistles, and double banjos from Vancouver to Cotuit.
Joseph Phillips
Joseph Phillips, returning this year to work his Bass and Guitar magic with all the staff musicians. Joe performed regularly with the Pierre Schryer Band and the London Symphony Orchestra and tours with Jayme Stone’s Folklife;
Citizen Jane
Citizen Jane (citizenjanemusic.com) – featuring songwriter Reenie Perkovic, a semi-finalist in the 2016 UK Songwriting Contest, accompanied by one of AlgomaTrad’s favourite musicians on fiddle and viola, Lea Kirstein;
Zach, Áine, and Benoit of The O’Schraves
The O’Schraves – Julie Schryer, Pat O’Gorman, Benoit and Zach Schryer Lefebvre, and Áine Schryer O’Gorman.
Other evening events include Community Dances and the always entertaining Live Auction, slated for Thursday evening, August 16, which raises funds for the Nicholas Missere Bursary Fund, a fund that helps families and individuals take part in AlgomaTrad events and workshops.
Check out an evening schedule for events open to the public HERE.
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Alianza Minerals retains 100% interest in BP and Bellview projects, provides an update on the Tim Project
Nov 26, 2019 | 2019 News
BP and Bellview, Nevada Gold projects, recovered 100%.
Tim Silver Project earn-in agreement deal not yet complete.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Alianza Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: ANZ) (OTC: TARSF) (“Alianza” or the “Company”) reports that it has been informed by partner Hochschild Mining PLC (“Hochschild”) that Hochschild will not be going ahead with the earn-in on the BP and Bellview gold projects in Nevada. However, Hochschild will maintain the earn-in on the Horsethief Gold Project in southeast Nevada and will commence a drill program as soon as feasible in 2020. Thus, Alianza retains its 100% ownership of the BP and Bellview projects and will complete an assessment of the projects to outline the next steps to move these projects forward.
Further to the announcement issued by Alianza on June 20th whereby a Letter of Intent (LOI) pertaining to an option agreement on the Company’s Tim Silver Project in southern Yukon Territory, a definitive agreement has not yet been completed with the optionee. Alianza believes that that this agreement will be completed and will work to complete the agreement but remains free to consider other options for this project.
“I would like to thank Hochschild for their efforts to advance the BP and Bellview properties. Even though these two early-stage targets don’t fit their criteria to continue funding exploration, we see excellent potential to advance them and are prioritizing our next steps,” stated Jason Weber, P.Geo., President and CEO. “We look forward to our continued relationship at Horsethief and to our first drill test of this exciting gold property as soon as weather conditions allow.”
BP and Bellview Gold Projects, Nevada
Hochschild funded the 2019 exploration campaign consisting of mapping and sampling on the BP gold project located 57 kilometres south of Carlin, Nevada and 41 kilometres northwest of Kinross Gold Corporation’s Bald Mountain Gold Mine. Exploration focussed on stratigraphic mapping to determine the ages of units present on the property and to identify lithologic characteristics that may provide conduits and traps for gold-bearing fluids. Additionally, structural and alteration mapping was completed and 150 rock samples were collected. Mapping confirmed the presence of a northwest-trending central graben on the property that is bounded by Simonson dolostone on either side. Within the graben, mapping indicates the presence of down-dropped Chainman siliciclastic rocks, Webb Formation/Pilot Shale and Guilmette Formation carbonate rocks, suggesting that prospective stratigraphy analogous to that hosting mineralization at nearby deposits such as the Rain Mine may be present within 50-200 metres of surface. Anomalous arsenic and antimony pathfinder signatures in rock samples demonstrate NNW and NE linear trends which appear to be associated with mapped features including bedding, faulting, and jasperoid breccias.
At Bellview, Hochschild funded a magnetics geophysical survey with a small mapping and sampling program.. The magnetic response was muted and as such did not identify any magnetic high features. However, mapping and sampling refined the CS target where gold mineralization associated with jasperoid alteration and evidence of decalcification within the Secret Canyon Formation confirm the target area’s potential to be linked to buried mineralization. This target is now considered the highest priority of the three targets (Cherry Springs, Saddle and CS targets) identified on the property.
Tim Silver Project, Yukon
In 2013, Alianza’s exploration program at the Tim Silver Project focussed on a historical zone of silver-lead-zinc mineralization exposed in trenching in 1988. Historical chip sampling across the zone returned 352 grams per tonne silver and 9.12% lead across 4.0 metres and resampling in the trench returned 3.7 metres assaying 365 grams per tonne silver and 7.5% lead from a channel sample. Two additional trenches were completed 180 and 250 metres on either side of the original trench and similar mineralization was reported there. None of these areas have been tested with drilling.
Alianza employs an exploration model of joint venture funding and self-funded projects to maximize opportunity for exploration success. The Company currently has gold, silver and base metal projects in Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Nevada and Peru. Alianza currently has four projects optioned out in Nevada and Yukon Territory, and is actively exploring on two others. Alianza’s current partners include Hochschild Mining PLC and Coeur Mining, Inc.
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KARAMO My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
by Karamo Brown | Read by Karamo Brown
Biography & Memoir • 6.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2019
In deep tones that will be familiar to viewers of Netflix's "Queer Eye," social worker and cultural commentator Karamo Brown narrates his debut audiobook. Blending memoir with inspirational lessons, he recounts the joys and challenges of his life, including his unorthodox routes to fame and fatherhood, his experiences with addiction and abuse, and his ambitious drive. He describes how each of these qualities and experiences shaped his worldview and empowered him to help others. Although Brown's narration style doesn't achieve the level of charisma listeners might expect based on his television work, his delivery is straightforward and accessible, with occasional bursts of warmth and humor. Overall, fans will be fascinated by this dive into Brown's personal history, particularly the lengthy final chapter, which focuses on "Queer Eye." R.A.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2019]
Trade Ed. • Simon & Schuster Audio • 2019
DD ISBN 9781508286226 $17.99
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Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Group
Principal Investigator: Dr Alex Alvergne
Dr Alexandra Alvergne
alexandra.alvergne@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Alex is an Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College.
Her interests include evolutionary medicine and public health, applied evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, reproductive ecology, evolutionary epidemiology and cultural evolution.
In the School, she teaches a lecture series in Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health as well as an Introduction to Quantitative Methods (together with Laura Fortunato).
She is an Associate Editor for the open access journal Evolutionary Human Sciences and is the current chair of the Oxford Biological Anthropology Initiative
Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?
PLoS Biol
Why a postfertile stage has evolved in females of some species has puzzled evolutionary biologists for over 50 years. We propose that existing adaptive explanations have underestimated in their formulation an important parameter operating both at the specific and the individual levels: the balance between cancer risks and cancer defenses. During their life, most multicellular organisms naturally accumulate oncogenic processes in their body. In parallel, reproduction, notably the pregnancy process in mammals, exacerbates the progression of existing tumors in females. When, for various ecological or evolutionary reasons, anticancer defenses are too weak, given cancer risk, older females could not pursue their reproduction without triggering fatal metastatic cancers, nor even maintain a normal reproductive physiology if the latter also promotes the growth of existing oncogenic processes, e.g., hormone-dependent malignancies. At least until stronger anticancer defenses are selected for in these species, females could achieve higher inclusive fitness by ceasing their reproduction and/or going through menopause (assuming that these traits are easier to select than anticancer defenses), thereby limiting the risk of premature death due to metastatic cancers. Because relatively few species experience such an evolutionary mismatch between anticancer defenses and cancer risks, the evolution of prolonged life after reproduction could also be a rare, potentially transient, anticancer adaptation in the animal kingdom.
Kinship Ties Across the Lifespan in Human Communities
Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
Stochastic dynamics of an epidemic with recurrent spillovers from an endemic reservoir.
J Theor Biol
Most emerging human infectious diseases have an animal origin. While zoonotic diseases originate from a reservoir, most theoretical studies have principally focused on single-host processes, either exclusively humans or exclusively animals, without considering the importance of animal to human transmission (i.e. spillover transmission) for understanding the dynamics of emerging infectious diseases. Here we aim to investigate the importance of spillover transmission for explaining the number and the size of outbreaks. We propose a simple continuous time stochastic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model with a recurrent infection of an incidental host from a reservoir (e.g. humans by a zoonotic species), considering two modes of transmission, (1) animal-to-human and (2) human-to-human. The model assumes that (i) epidemiological processes are faster than other processes such as demographics or pathogen evolution and that (ii) an epidemic occurs until there are no susceptible individuals left. The results show that during an epidemic, even when the pathogens are barely contagious, multiple outbreaks are observed due to spillover transmission. Overall, the findings demonstrate that the only consideration of direct transmission between individuals is not sufficient to explain the dynamics of zoonotic pathogens in an incidental host.
Animal-human interface, Branching processes, Emerging infectious diseases, Multi-host processes, R(0), Spillover transmission, Zoonotic pathogens, Animals, Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Epidemics, Humans, Models, Biological, Zoonoses
Humans Are Still Evolving, But We Need More Than Evolutionary Genetics to Predict Our Future
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation.
Trends Ecol Evol
Why do some females menstruate at all? Answering this question has implications for understanding the tight links between reproductive function and organismal immunity. Here we build on the growing evidence that menstruation is the byproduct of a 'choosy uterus' to: (i) make the theoretical case for the idea that female immunity is cyclical in menstruating species, (ii) evaluate the evidence for the menstrual modulation of immunity and health in humans, and (iii) speculate on the implications of cyclical female health for female behaviour, male immunity, and host-pathogen interactions. We argue that an understanding of females' evolved reproductive system is foundational for both tackling the future challenges of the global women's health agenda and predicting eco-evolutionary dynamics in cyclically reproducing species.
Evolutionary medicine and public health, ecoimmunology, inflammation, menstrual cycle, pathogen evolution, reproduction–immunity trade-offs, Adaptive Immunity, Animals, Biological Evolution, Female, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Humans, Mammals, Menstrual Cycle, Social Behavior
Do sexually transmitted infections exacerbate negative premenstrual symptoms? Insights from digital health.
Evol Med Public Health
Background and objectives: The underlying reasons why some women experience debilitating premenstrual symptoms and others do not are largely unknown. Here, we test the evolutionary ecological hypothesis that some negative premenstrual symptoms may be exacerbated by the presence of chronic sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Methodology: 34 511 women were recruited through a digital period-tracker app. Participants were asked: (i) Have you ever been diagnosed with a STI? (ii) If yes, when was it, and were you given treatment? Those data were combined with longitudinal cycle data on menstrual bleeding patterns, the experience of pain and emotions and hormonal contraceptive use. Results: 865 women had at least two complete menstrual cycle data and were eligible for analysis. Before diagnosis, the presence of an infection predicts a ca. 2-fold increase in the odds of reporting both headache, cramps and sadness during the late luteal phase and sensitive emotions during the wider luteal phase. After diagnosis, the odds of reporting negative symptoms pre-menstrually remain unchanged among STI negative individuals, but the odds of reporting sensitive emotions decrease among STI positive individuals receiving a treatment. No relationships between STIs, pain and emotions are observed among hormonal contraceptive users. Conclusions and implications: The results support the idea that a negative premenstrual experience might be aggravated by the presence of undiagnosed STIs, a leading cause of infertility worldwide. Caution is warranted in extrapolating the results as the data are self-reported, inflammatory levels are unknown and the tracker is biased towards recording negative premenstrual symptoms among Western individuals.
evolutionary immunobiology, reproduction and hormones
Stochasticity in cultural evolution: a revolution yet to happen.
Hist Philos Life Sci
Over the last 40 years or so, there has been an explosion of cultural evolution research in anthropology and archaeology. In each discipline, cultural evolutionists investigate how interactions between individuals translate into group level patterns, with the aim of explaining the diachronic dynamics and diversity of cultural traits. However, while much attention has been given to deterministic processes (e.g. cultural transmission biases), we contend that current evolutionary accounts of cultural change are limited because they do not adopt a systematic stochastic approach (i.e. accounting for the role of chance). First, we show that, in contrast with the intense debates in ecology and population genetics, the importance of stochasticity in evolutionary processes has generated little discussion in the sciences of cultural evolution to date. Second, we speculate on the reasons, both ideological and methodological, why that should be so. Third, we highlight the inadequacy of genetically-inspired stochastic models in the context of cultural evolution modelling, and ask which fundamental stochastic processes might be more relevant to take up. We conclude that the field of cultural evolution would benefit from a stochastic revolution. For that to occur, stochastic models ought to be developed specifically for cultural data and not through a copy-pasting of neutral models from population genetics or ecology.
Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural evolution, Population ecology, Population genetics, Stochastic processes, Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Evolution, Ecology, Genetics, Population, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Stochastic Processes
Side effects and the need for secrecy: characterising discontinuation of modern contraception and its causes in Ethiopia using mixed methods.
Contracept Reprod Med
Background: Contraceptive discontinuation is a major barrier to reducing global unmet needs for family planning, but the reasons why women discontinue contraception are poorly understood. Here we use data from Ethiopia to investigate (i) the magnitude of contraceptive discontinuation in 2005-2011, (ii) how the risk of discontinuation varies with method type and education level and (iii) the barriers to continuation. Our main hypothesis is that contraceptive discontinuation is driven by the experience of physiological side-effects associated with the use of hormonal contraception, rather than a lack of formal education. Methods: We used a mixed methods explanatory sequential design to explain the quantitative results in more details through the qualitative data. First, we analysed quantitative data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey to study patterns of contraceptive discontinuation and method choice using multilevel multiprocess models. Second, we conducted semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions in the 3 most populated regions of Ethiopia with individuals of reproductive age and health professionals. Results: The analysis of EDHS data shows that the rate of discontinuation has not reduced in the period 2005-2011 and remains high. Discontinuation mainly takes the form of abandonment, and is a function of method type, age and wealth but not of educational level. Interviews with women and health professionals reveal that the experience of debilitating physiological side effects, the need for secrecy and poverty are important barriers to continuation. Conclusions: Our findings together suggest that physiological and social side-effects of contraceptive use, not a lack of formal education, are the root causes of contraceptive abandonment in Ethiopia.
Contraceptive discontinuation, Education, Ethiopia, Family planning, Mixed methods, Multilevel multiprocess modelling, Reproductive ecology, Semi-structured interviews, Side-effects, Unmet needs
Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine From Research to Policy and Practice
The aim of this edited book is to provide health professionals, across a wide variety of specialisms, with a targeted access to evolutionary medicine.
Correction: Beyond Rational Decision-Making: Modelling the Influence of Cognitive Biases on the Dynamics of Vaccination Coverage.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142990.].
Beyond Rational Decision-Making: Modelling the Influence of Cognitive Biases on the Dynamics of Vaccination Coverage.
BACKGROUND: Theoretical studies predict that it is not possible to eradicate a disease under voluntary vaccination because of the emergence of non-vaccinating "free-riders" when vaccination coverage increases. A central tenet of this approach is that human behaviour follows an economic model of rational choice. Yet, empirical studies reveal that vaccination decisions do not necessarily maximize individual self-interest. Here we investigate the dynamics of vaccination coverage using an approach that dispenses with payoff maximization and assumes that risk perception results from the interaction between epidemiology and cognitive biases. METHODS: We consider a behaviour-incidence model in which individuals perceive actual epidemiological risks as a function of their opinion of vaccination. As a result of confirmation bias, sceptical individuals (negative opinion) overestimate infection cost while pro-vaccines individuals (positive opinion) overestimate vaccination cost. We considered a feedback between individuals and their environment as individuals could change their opinion, and thus the way they perceive risks, as a function of both the epidemiology and the most common opinion in the population. RESULTS: For all parameter values investigated, the infection is never eradicated under voluntary vaccination. For moderately contagious diseases, oscillations in vaccination coverage emerge because individuals process epidemiological information differently depending on their opinion. Conformism does not generate oscillations but slows down the cultural response to epidemiological change. CONCLUSION: Failure to eradicate vaccine preventable disease emerges from the model because of cognitive biases that maintain heterogeneity in how people perceive risks. Thus, assumptions of economic rationality and payoff maximization are not mandatory for predicting commonly observed dynamics of vaccination coverage. This model shows that alternative notions of rationality, such as that of ecological rationality whereby individuals use simple cognitive heuristics, offer promising new avenues for modelling vaccination behaviour.
Cognition, Communicable Diseases, Decision Making, Humans, Models, Biological, Vaccination
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Ecological variation in wealth-fertility relationships in Mongolia: the 'central theoretical problem of sociobiology' not a problem after all?
Proc Biol Sci
The negative wealth-fertility relationship brought about by market integration remains a puzzle to classic evolutionary models. Evolutionary ecologists have argued that this phenomenon results from both stronger trade-offs between reproductive and socioeconomic success in the highest social classes and the comparison of groups rather than individuals. Indeed, studies in contemporary low fertility settings have typically used aggregated samples that may mask positive wealth-fertility relationships. Furthermore, while much evidence attests to trade-offs between reproductive and socioeconomic success, few studies have explicitly tested the idea that such constraints are intensified by market integration. Using data from Mongolia, a post-socialist nation that underwent mass privatization, we examine wealth-fertility relationships over time and across a rural-urban gradient. Among post-reproductive women, reproductive fitness is the lowest in urban areas, but increases with wealth in all regions. After liberalization, a demographic-economic paradox emerges in urban areas: while educational attainment negatively impacts female fertility in all regions, education uniquely provides socioeconomic benefits in urban contexts. As market integration progresses, socio-economic returns to education increase and women who limit their reproduction to pursue education get wealthier. The results support the view that selection favoured mechanisms that respond to opportunities for status enhancement rather than fertility maximization.
contraception, demographic–economic paradox, life-history trade-offs, socio-economic success, somatic capital, Adult, Age Factors, Educational Status, Family Characteristics, Female, Fertility, Humans, Mongolia, Population Dynamics, Reproduction, Social Class, Sociobiology, Socioeconomic Factors
Associations between family size and offspring education depend on aspects of parental personality
Personality traits have been associated with fertility rates, but little is known how parental personality is associated with trade-offs between family size and offspring outcomes. Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n= 5422 parents with 17,253 adult biological offspring), we examined whether parental personality traits assessed with the Five Factor Model (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) modified associations between family size (measured as offspring number and birth order) and offspring education. Compared to low parental neuroticism, high parental neuroticism was associated with stronger trade-off between number of offspring and offspring educational achievement. High parental openness to experience, in turn, was associated with higher educational achievement of early-born offspring but not of later-born offspring. These personality-dependent differences in trade-offs between family size and offspring outcomes may help to explain why some personality dimensions are associated with low fertility rates. © 2013.
Identification of visual paternity cues in humans.
Biol Lett
Understanding how individuals identify their relatives has implications for the evolution of social behaviour. Kinship cues might be based on familiarity, but in the face of paternity uncertainty and costly paternal investment, other mechanisms such as phenotypic matching may have evolved. In humans, paternal recognition of offspring and subsequent discriminative paternal investment have been linked to father-offspring facial phenotypic similarities. However, the extent to which paternity detection is impaired by environmentally induced facial information is unclear. We used 27 portraits of fathers and their adult sons to quantify the level of paternity detection according to experimental treatments that manipulate the location, type and quantity of visible facial information. We found that (i) the lower part of the face, that changes most with development, does not contain paternity cues, (ii) paternity can be detected even if relational information within the face is disrupted and (iii) the signal depends on the presence of specific information rather than their number. Taken together, the results support the view that environmental effects have little influence on the detection of paternity using facial similarities. This suggests that the cognitive dispositions enabling the facial detection of kinship relationships ignore genetic irrelevant facial information.
facial similarities, kin recognition, paternity uncertainty, visual phenotype matching, Adult, Biological Evolution, Cues, Face, Female, Humans, Male, Paternity, Recognition, Psychology, Social Behavior, Uncertainty
Fertility, parental investment, and the early adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia.
Am J Hum Biol
OBJECTIVES: What triggers initial shifts to fertility limitation as populations undergo socioeconomic development remains poorly understood. Alternative models emphasize the social contagion of low fertility ideals, or the individual perception of economic and/or fitness benefits to fertility limitation. Few micro-level studies in communities experiencing the earliest stages of the demographic transition are available. In a previous study, we found little support for the role of social transmission through friendships and spatial networks in explaining contraceptive uptake in rural Ethiopia, where contraceptive prevalence is low (<20%). Here, using data from the same population, we investigate the possibility that early contraceptive uptake is best understood as a manipulation of parental investment in response to local environmental change. METHODS: We used data on >800 women which recorded fertility, birth spacing and offspring survivorship. We first investigated whether ever-users and non-users differ in their reproductive behavior and success prior to contraception use. We then conducted a within-women analysis to investigate the impact of contraceptive uptake on reproduction and child survivorship. RESULTS: Women who have experienced higher fertility and higher child survival adopt modern contraception sooner rather than later, and contraceptive use among early adopters is predictive of greater birth spacing. However, contraceptive uptake does not have an impact on offspring survivorship. CONCLUSIONS: Our data provide support for the idea that preferences for low fertility emerge in response to increasing competition between offspring. The study has implications for our understanding of the emergence of local fertility norms and the spread of modern birth control.
Adolescent, Adult, Birth Intervals, Child Mortality, Child, Preschool, Contraception Behavior, Ethiopia, Female, Fertility, Humans, Infant, Middle Aged, Parenting, Parity, Rural Population, Surveys and Questionnaires, Young Adult
The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival.
Evolutionary models of human reproduction argue that variation in fertility can be understood as the local optimization of a life-history trade-off between offspring quantity and 'quality'. Child survival is a fundamental dimension of quality in these models as early-life mortality represents a crucial selective bottleneck in human evolution. This perspective is well-rehearsed, but current literature presents mixed evidence for a trade-off between fertility and child survival, and little empirical ground to evaluate how socioecological and individual characteristics influence the benefits of fertility limitation. By compiling demographic survey data, we demonstrate robust negative relationships between fertility and child survival across 27 sub-Saharan African countries. Our analyses suggest this relationship is primarily accounted for by offspring competition for parental investment, rather than by reverse causal mechanisms. We also find that the trade-off increases in relative magnitude as national mortality declines and maternal somatic (height) and extrasomatic (education) capital increase. This supports the idea that socioeconomic development, and associated reductions in extrinsic child mortality, favour reduced fertility by increasing the relative returns to parental investment. Observed fertility, however, falls considerably short of predicted optima for maximizing total offspring survivorship, strongly suggesting that additional unmeasured costs of reproduction ultimately constrain the evolution of human family size.
Adolescent, Adult, Africa South of the Sahara, Biological Evolution, Child Mortality, Child, Preschool, Demography, Family Characteristics, Female, Fertility, Humans, Infant, Male, Marital Status, Maternal Age, Parents, Socioeconomic Factors, Young Adult
Facial attractiveness and fertility in populations with low levels of modern birth control
Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolutionary models of human mate choice generally assume that physical attractiveness has evolved through sexual selection, i.e., it has been associated with higher mating opportunities and subsequent reproductive success across our evolutionary history. Here we investigate whether facial attractiveness is related to fertility in order to understand the extent to which selection can operate on attractive traits in modern populations. We used data from two populations where the prevalence of modern birth control methods is low and thus unlikely to disconnect mating opportunities from reproductive success: men and women from contemporary rural Senegal and men from the West Point Military Academy in the USA who graduated in 1950. We found that facial attractiveness negatively predicts age-specific reproduction in both sexes in Senegal and is independent from lifetime reproductive success in men from the USA. Overall, the results suggest that facial attractiveness is not under positive selection and raise questions about methodological approaches currently used to assess attractiveness. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.
Female reproductive competition within families in rural Gambia.
Many studies show that the extended human family can be helpful in raising offspring, with maternal grandmothers, in particular, improving offspring survival. However, less attention has been given to competition between female kin and co-residents. It has been argued that reproductive conflict between generations explains the evolution of menopause in cooperatively breeding species where females disperse, and that older females are related to the offspring of younger females through their sons, whereas younger, incoming females are unrelated to older females. This means the pattern of help will be asymmetric, so older females lose in reproductive conflict and become 'sterile helpers'. Here, we seek evidence for female reproductive competition using longitudinal demographic data from a rural Gambian population, and examine when women are helping or harming each other's reproductive success. We find that older women benefit and younger women suffer costs of reproductive competition with women in their compound. But the opposite is found for mothers and daughters; if mother and daughter's reproductive spans overlap, the older woman reduces her reproduction if the younger woman (daughter) reproduces, whereas daughters' fertility is unaffected by their mothers' reproduction. Married daughters are not generally co-resident with their mothers, so we find not only competition effects with co-resident females, but also with daughters who have dispersed. Dispersal varies across human societies, but our results suggest reproductive conflict could be influencing reproductive scheduling whatever the dispersal pattern. A cultural norm of late male marriage reduces paternal grandmother/daughter-in-law reproductive overlap almost to zero in this population. We argue that cultural norms surrounding residence and marriage are themselves cultural adaptations to reduce reproductive conflict between generations in human families.
Adolescent, Adult, Competitive Behavior, Family, Female, Gambia, Humans, Infant, Infant Mortality, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Menopause, Middle Aged, Mothers, Nuclear Family, Reproductive Behavior, Residence Characteristics, Rural Population, Social Behavior, Women, Young Adult
Men's preference for women's facial features: testing homogamy and the paternity uncertainty hypothesis.
Male mate choice might be based on both absolute and relative strategies. Cues of female attractiveness are thus likely to reflect both fitness and reproductive potential, as well as compatibility with particular male phenotypes. In humans, absolute clues of fertility and indices of favorable developmental stability are generally associated with increased women's attractiveness. However, why men exhibit variable preferences remains less studied. Male mate choice might be influenced by uncertainty of paternity, a selective factor in species where the survival of the offspring depends on postnatal paternal care. For instance, in humans, a man might prefer a woman with recessive traits, thereby increasing the probability that his paternal traits will be visible in the child and ensuring paternity. Alternatively, attractiveness is hypothesized to be driven by self-resembling features (homogamy), which would reduce outbreeding depression. These hypotheses have been simultaneously evaluated for various facial traits using both real and artificial facial stimuli. The predicted preferences were then compared to realized mate choices using facial pictures from couples with at least 1 child. No evidence was found to support the paternity uncertainty hypothesis, as recessive features were not preferred by male raters. Conversely, preferences for self-resembling mates were found for several facial traits (hair and eye color, chin dimple, and thickness of lips and eyebrows). Moreover, realized homogamy for facial traits was also found in a sample of long-term mates. The advantages of homogamy in evolutionary terms are discussed.
Adolescent, Adult, Choice Behavior, Family Characteristics, Family Relations, Female, Fertility, Humans, Male, Marriage, Paternity, Reproduction
Reproductive behavior and personality traits of the Five Factor Model
European Journal of Personality
We examined associations between Five Factor Model personality traits and various outcomes of reproductive behavior in a sample of 15 729 women and men from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) and Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) survey. Personality and reproductive history was self-reported in adulthood (mean age: 53 years). High extraversion, high openness to experience, and low neuroticism were associated with larger number of children in both sexes, while high agreeableness and low conscientiousness correlated with larger offspring number in women only. These associations were independent of marital status. There were also more specific associations between personality and timing of childbearing. The findings demonstrate that personality traits of the Five Factor Model are systematically associated with multiple reproductive outcomes. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Left-handedness and male-male competition: insights from fighting and hormonal data.
Evol Psychol
Male-male competition can shape some behavioral or morphological traits of males. Here we investigate if this competition could play a role in the persistence of the polymorphism of handedness in human populations. A negative frequency-dependent selection mechanism has been hypothesized, based on the fact that left-handed men may benefit from a "surprise" advantage during fighting interactions because they are rare in human populations. This advantage may thereby enhance the probability of survival of left- handed men and/or their reproductive success through an increase in social status. In this study, we first explored the association between hand preference and lifetime fighting behavior in a population of 1,161 French men. No effect of hand preference on the probability of fighting was detected, suggesting that the innate propensity to fight does not differ between left- and right-handers. However, among men who had been involved in at least one fight during their lifetime, left-handers reported significantly more fights than right-handers. To explore the biological basis of this behavior, we also investigated the testosterone concentration in saliva samples from 64 French university students. Consistent with frequencies of fights, we found a significantly higher average testosterone concentration in left-handers than in right-handers. We suggest that these behavioral and hormonal differences may be acquired throughout life due to previous experiences in a social context and may favor the persistence of left-handers in humans.
Adult, Aggression, Cohort Studies, Competitive Behavior, France, Functional Laterality, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Saliva, Students, Surveys and Questionnaires, Testosterone, Young Adult
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Pp. 422. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2009.) £19.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03299-6, hardback.
Journal of Biosocial Science
Social transmission and the spread of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia.
Socio-economic development has proven to be insufficient to explain the time and pace of the human demographic transition. Shifts to low fertility norms have thus been thought to result from social diffusion, yet to date, micro-level studies are limited and are often unable to disentangle the effect of social transmission from that of extrinsic factors. We used data which included the first ever use of modern contraception among a population of over 900 women in four villages in rural Ethiopia, where contraceptive prevalence is still low (<20%). We investigated whether the time of adoption of modern contraception is predicted by (i) the proportion of ever-users/non ever-users within both women and their husbands' friendships networks and (ii) the geographic distance to contraceptive ever-users. Using a model comparison approach, we found that individual socio-demographic characteristics (e.g. parity, education) and a religious norm are the most likely explanatory factors of temporal and spatial patterns of contraceptive uptake, while the role of person-to-person contact through either friendship or spatial networks remains marginal. Our study has broad implications for understanding the processes that initiate transitions to low fertility and the uptake of birth control technologies in the developing world.
Adolescent, Adult, Contraception, Decision Making, Diffusion, Ethiopia, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Theoretical, Perception, Rural Population, Social Support, Time Factors, Young Adult
Personality and testosterone in men from a high-fertility population
Extraversion, a personality dimension associated with sociability, activity and dominance, predicts a man's mating effort in various human populations. At a proximate level, individual differences in extraversion are likely to be mediated through testosterone, a strong hormonal correlate of men's reproductive effort. However, the rare attempts to address this question have all been conducted in populations with low-fertility schedules, thus limiting the generality of the results. Using demographic, questionnaire and hormonal data from a high-fertility polygynous human population of Senegal, we first show that extraversion, a personality dimension predicting men's mating behavior in this population, is associated with inter-individual differences in testosterone profiles, with men in the top quartile of extraversion distribution having 29% higher testosterone levels. We then show that personality profiles for neuroticism, openness and agreeableness are independent from testosterone levels. Since extraversion is the only personality dimension predicting men's mating and reproductive success in this population, we suggest that variation in testosterone levels is primarily relevant for personality traits related to reproductive effort. The results have further implications to discuss possible evolutionary scenarios for the maintenance of variation in personality traits. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Response to Carere et al. Human mate preference: Inconsistency between data and interpretations
Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
The existence of interindividual differences in personality traits poses a challenge to evolutionary thinking. Although research on the ultimate consequences of personality differences in nonhuman animals has recently undergone a surge of interest, our understanding of whether and how personality influences reproductive decisions in humans has remained limited and informed primarily by modern societies with low mortality-fertility schedules. Taking an evolutionary approach, we use data from a contemporary polygynous high-fertility human population living in rural Senegal to investigate whether personality dimensions are associated with key life-history traits in humans, i.e., quantity and quality of offspring. We show that personality dimensions predict reproductive success differently in men and women in such societies and, in women, are associated with a trade-off between offspring quantity and quality. In women, neuroticism positively predicts the number of children, both between and within polygynous families. Furthermore, within the low social class, offspring quality (i.e., child nutritional status) decreases with a woman's neuroticism, indicating a reproductive trade-off between offspring quantity and quality. Consistent with this, maximal fitness is achieved by women at an intermediate neuroticism level. In men, extraversion was found to be a strong predictor of high social class and polygyny, with extraverted men producing more offspring than their introverted counterparts. These results have implications for the consideration of alternative adaptive hypotheses in the current debate on the maintenance of personality differences and the role of individual factors in fertility patterns in contemporary humans.
Anthropology, Biological Evolution, Child, Preschool, Extraversion, Psychological, Female, Fertility, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Marriage, Models, Psychological, Neurotic Disorders, Parity, Personality, Pregnancy, Reproduction, Rural Population, Senegal, Sex Characteristics, Social Class
Detective mice assess relatedness in baboons using olfactory cues.
J Exp Biol
The assessment of relatedness may be crucial in the evolution of socio-sexual behaviour, because it can be associated with fitness benefits mediated by both nepotism and inbreeding avoidance. In this context, one proposed mechanism for kin recognition is 'phenotype matching'; animals might compare phenotypic similarities between themselves and others in order to assess the probability that they are related. Among cues potentially used for kin discrimination, body odours constitute interesting candidates that have been poorly investigated in anthropoid primates so far, because of a mixture of theoretical considerations and methodological/experimental constraints. In this study, we used an indirect approach to examine the similarity in odour signals emitted by related individuals from a natural population of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). For that purpose, we designed an innovative behavioural tool using mice olfactory abilities in a habituation-discrimination paradigm. We show that: (i) mice can detect odour differences between individuals of same sex and age class in another mammal species, and (ii) mice perceive a higher odour similarity between related baboons than between unrelated baboons. These results suggest that odours may play a role in both the signalling of individual characteristics and of relatedness among individuals in an anthropoid primate. The 'biological olfactometer' developed in this study offers new perspectives to the exploration of olfactory signals from a range of species.
Animals, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Male, Mice, Odorants, Papio, Smell
Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?
Female and male mate choice preferences in humans both vary according to the menstrual cycle. Women prefer more masculine, symmetrical and genetically unrelated men during ovulation compared with other phases of their cycle, and recent evidence suggests that men prefer ovulating women to others. Such monthly shifts in mate preference have been suggested to bring evolutionary benefits in terms of reproductive success. New evidence is now emerging that taking the oral contraceptive pill might significantly alter both female and male mate choice by removing the mid-cycle change in preferences. Here, we review support for such conclusions and speculate on the consequences of pill-induced choice of otherwise less-preferred partners for relationship satisfaction, durability and, ultimately, reproductive outcomes.
Contraceptives, Oral, Female, Humans, Male, Marriage, Menstrual Cycle, Sexual Behavior
Are parents' perceptions of offspring facial resemblance consistent with actual resemblance? Effects on parental investment
Human fathers face paternity uncertainty and are expected to use cues of relatedness to adjust their investment. So far, the main cue hypothesised to account for paternity assessment is facial phenotypic resemblance between a father and his child. However, previous studies showing a discriminative paternal investment either relied on fathers' perceptions of resemblance (which differs from actual resemblance, as perceived resemblance could be socially biased), or manipulated facial resemblance. In this study, we investigate in a real-life situation, whether (1) the perception of child facial resemblance and (2) the likelihood of parental investment were predicted by actual facial resemblance to self, for both parents. The actual facial resemblance of 79 French children was quantified by testing external judges. Data on ascription of resemblance and parental investment were collected in private for each parent. First, ascription of facial resemblance was found to be consistent between the two parents and to match actual resemblance to the father. Second, emotional closeness as reported by fathers, but not by mothers, was found to be predicted by actual facial resemblance to self. This suggests that paternity uncertainty has favored the use of facial phenotype matching in fathers. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
More than friends? Behavioural and genetic aspects of heterosexual associations in wild chacma baboons
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
In mammals, fathers are facultative caretakers, and male care is expected to evolve only if it is directed towards related young. Yet, in several promiscuous primate societies, males seem to care for infants despite a presumably low paternity confidence. In cercopithecines, cohesive associations ('friendships') between a lactating female and an adult male are frequent and provide the female and her infant with protection against various sources of aggression, including infanticide. However, the benefits gained by males through such relationships remain unclear, in part, because the relatedness between males and their protected infants has rarely been examined. Moreover, little is known about the nature of the cues underlying kin discrimination by males in societies where females mate polyandrously. In this study, we combine behavioural and genetic data from wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Namibia to investigate (1) whether males are related to their friend's infant and (2) whether similarity between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genotype of males and infants (potentially perceived through odour phenotype) favours the establishment of friendships. We first show that males share close genetic ties with their friend's infants, most often by having sired the infant. Secondly, we find that male-infant MHC (Class II-DRB) similarity, in contrast to paternity, does not predict male-infant associations. Overall, our results clarify the nature of the evolutionary benefits gained by males in these heterosexual associations, which can be considered as true paternal care. However, the proximate mechanisms underlying paternity recognition remain to be identified. © Springer-Verlag 2009.
Variation in testosterone levels and male reproductive effort: insight from a polygynous human population.
Horm Behav
Recent evidence suggests that, in humans, variations in testosterone (T) levels between men reflect their differential allocation in mating versus parenting efforts. However, most studies have been conducted in urbanized, monogamous populations, making generalizations from them questionable. This study addresses the question of whether indicators of male reproductive effort are associated with variations in salivary T levels in a polygynous population of agriculturists in rural Senegal. We first show that pair-bonding and/or transition to fatherhood is associated with T profiles: married fathers (N=53) have lower morning and afternoon T levels than unmarried non-fathers (N=28). Second, among fathers, individual differences in parenting effort, as well as variations in mating effort, predict morning T levels. Indeed, men highly investing in parental care show lower morning T levels. Moreover, among men under 50, polygynous men show higher morning T levels than monogamous men. Taken together with previous results in monogamous settings, these findings suggest that the endocrine regulation of reproductive effort is probably a general feature of human populations.
Adaptation, Physiological, Circadian Rhythm, Fathers, Humans, Male, Marriage, Parenting, Paternal Behavior, Saliva, Sexual Behavior, Testosterone
Father-offspring resemblance predicts paternal investment in humans
In species in which paternal care of offspring is important but paternity is uncertain, evolutionary theory suggests that kin recognition mechanisms (e.g. phenotype matching) should evolve. Fathers are expected to discriminate between their children and others' on the basis of phenotypic similarities, and they should allocate resources accordingly. However, studies showing that males assess paternity by phenotype matching are rare. In a polygynous human population of rural Senegal, we examined the relationships between (1) actual father-child resemblance through both the facial and the olfactory phenotypes; (2) fathers' investment of resources in each child; and (3) child nutritional condition. We found that paternal investment was positively related to both face and odour similarities between fathers and children. Additionally, such discriminative paternal investment was linked to the children's health: children who received more investment had better growth and nutritional status. This is the first evidence that paternal investment is associated with father-child resemblance in real human families, and, furthermore, that these discrepancies in paternal investment result in differences in fitness-related traits in children. © 2009 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
Cross-cultural perceptions of facial resemblance between kin.
J Vis
Humans use facial comparisons to identify their relatives and adjust their behavior accordingly. However, the mechanisms underlying the assessment of facial similarities are poorly known. Here, we investigate the role of exposure to particular faces for the detection of facial similarities by asking judges to detect parent-child pairs using faces from different origins. In a first phase, French and Senegalese judges assessed facial resemblance in French and Senegalese families. In a second phase, Senegalese judges who had immigrated to France, as well as French and Senegalese stationary judges, were asked to rate a second set of Senegalese and French families. The judges showed no differences in their ability to detect parent-child pairs in French and Senegalese families in both the first and second phases. For judges who changed their country of residence, the answer time and duration of stay in the new country were not associated with correct assignment rates. Our results suggest that exposure has a limited role in the ability to process facial resemblance in others, which contrasts with facial recognition processing. We also discuss whether processing facial similarities is a by-product of the facial recognition system or an evolved ability to assess kinship relationships.
Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Emigrants and Immigrants, Face, Family, Female, France, Humans, Judgment, Learning, Male, Parents, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Senegal
Studying shape in sexual signals: The case of primate sexual swellings
Despite extensive research on animal signals, their shape has been largely overlooked compared to other components such as size or colour. This may represent a substantial gap in our understanding of animal communication, since shape perception is believed to influence various processes in behavioural ecology, from prey-predator interactions to mate recognition. The technical challenge of measuring shape may explain this bias. This study introduces a morphometric method for the analysis of shape in animal signals and applies it to the study of patterns of shape variation in a classical sexual signal: the sexual swellings of female primates. Using elliptic Fourier descriptors (EFDs), we derived quantitative estimates of the two-dimensional shapes of sexual swellings in two primate populations: wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) from Namibia and captive mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon. Despite intra-specific variability, the two species exhibited consistently different swelling shapes. Within species, our analysis further showed more variation in swelling shape between females than across consecutive oestrous cycles of the same female. Using human judges, we confirmed that individual shape differences were visually detectable within both species. Finally, the relationships between individual traits and swelling shape were investigated, revealing age-associated variation in swelling shape in both species. Our study illustrates the high potentialities of EFDs to analyse patterns of shape variation at various scales: not only between species but also between and within individuals. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.
Human Ability to Recognize Kin Visually Within Primates.
Int J Primatol
The assessment of relatedness is a key determinant in the evolution of social behavior in primates. Humans are able to detect kin visually in their own species using facial phenotypes, and facial resemblance in turn influences both prosocial behaviors and mating decisions. This suggests that cognitive abilities that allow facial kin detection in conspecifics have been favored in the species by kin selection. We investigated the extent to which humans are able to recognize kin visually by asking human judges to assess facial resemblance in 4 other primate species (common chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas, mandrills, and chacma baboons) on the basis of pictures of faces. Humans achieved facial interspecific kin recognition in all species except baboons. Facial resemblance is a reliable indicator of relatedness in at least chimpanzees, gorillas, and mandrills, and future work should explore if the primates themselves also share the ability to detect kin facially.
Developmental plasticity of human reproductive development: effects of early family environment in modern-day France.
Physiol Behav
In a first study, we investigated how the absence of a father and the presence of a stepfather during early childhood affected physiological and behavioral traits related to reproductive development (such as age of menarche, age of first sexual intercourse and number of sexual partners) in a large sample set of male and female French university students. We evaluated which ages were sensitive to modifications in the family composition and found that menarche occurred earlier when the father was absent, particularly when the child was between 0 and 5 years of age. Father absence during early adolescence was associated with a younger age at first sexual intercourse and an increased number of sexual partners, for both sexes. The presence of a stepfather during this period further advanced the age of first sexual intercourse. We also measured testosterone levels in both sexes and analyzed their association with parental separation, and found that young women with separated parents had significantly higher afternoon levels of testosterone. In a second study, we analyzed direct fitness measures (such as number of children and grandchildren) in a large sample of French workers and found that parental separation during childhood was not associated with fitness variation. We discuss whether the reproductive outcomes of individuals having experienced modifications in the early family environment are the expression of costs or adaptive strategies.
Adolescent, Adolescent Development, Adult, Child, Cohort Studies, Family Characteristics, Family Relations, Fathers, Female, Humans, Linear Models, Male, Psychosexual Development, Reference Values, Saliva, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Maturation, Social Environment, Testosterone, Young Adult
Inter-specific kin recognition: Are humans able to identify family relatives among other primate species?
FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA
kin recognition, facial resemblance, chacma baboons, chimpanzees, lowland gorillas, mandrills
Differential facial resemblance of young children to their parents: who do children look like more?
In humans, paternal investment is highly variable and is modulated by paternity uncertainty. Facial phenotypic similarity between a father and a child is one possible paternity indicator. However, whether such paternal-biased traits are expressed in children is unclear, as previous empirical results are contradictory. Therefore, we quantified the facial resemblance between a child and each of his or her parents, from birth to 6 years old. Resemblance was assessed from pictures of the face by nonrelated judges. We found that, at all ages, children resemble both their parents more than would be expected by chance, although there is a differential resemblance toward one or the other parent depending on the age and sex of the child. For newborns, boys and girls resemble their mothers more, this differential resemblance persisting through time for girls. For boys, an inversion occurs and they resemble their fathers more between 2 and 3 years of age. The resemblance ascribed by the parents shows that, at birth, mothers ascribe a resemblance to the father, as previously found, although assessment by external judges revealed the opposite. These results suggest that facial appearance is a cue for kin recognition between a father and a child. Patterns of differential resemblance are discussed within the context of evolutionary theories on parental investment. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Handedness and reproductive success in two large cohorts of French adults
Left- and right-handers in humans coexist at least since the Paleolithic, and this variation in hand preference has a heritable basis. Because there is extensive evidence of an association between left-handedness and several fitness costs, the persistence of the polymorphism requires an explanation. It is not known whether the frequency of left-handedness in Western societies is stable or not. If the polymorphism is at equilibrium and maintained by frequency dependence, it implies that the fitness of left-handers equals that of right-handers. On the contrary, if left- and right-handers have a different fitness, the polymorphism will evolve. Using two large cohorts of French adults (men and women), we investigated the relations between handedness and several estimators of the reproductive value: marital status, number of sexual partners (of the opposite sex), number of children, and number of grandchildren. Left-handers seem to have disadvantages for some life-history traits, such as marital status (for women) and number of children. For other traits, we observed sex-dependent interactions with socioeconomic status: for high-income categories, left-handed women report less sex partners and left-handed men have more grandchildren. These kinds of interactions are to be expected under the hypothesis that the polymorphism of handedness is stable. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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WhatsApp isn’t just a messenger anymore. In past years, it has developed a reputation of an influencer. It’s a social channel that can impact billions with one message. And it has its own advantages as well as disadvantages of being an influencer. Just the fact that over past two years, there have been around two dozens killings in India just because of the violent mobs spurred by the Facebook-owned app.
Notably, there are over 1.5 billion WhatsApp users globally. The disinformation campaigns are not limited to India. Recent reports confirmed that its influence has been around the globe including countries such as Pakistan, Brazil, Mexico, and many others.
Moreover, unlike the false and disruptive social media campaigns on Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp messages travel privately and encrypted. This leaves the company or any outside expert fewer or no ways to find out where these inflammatory messages start.
Previous Steps by WhatsApp
WhatsApp has taken a step to stop the spread of false information by restricting the forward count to five. A user can forward a message only five times at once. This new global forward restriction came after company tested a cap on message forwarding last year in July. Facebook-owned messaging app restricted forwards to five in India and 20 in other countries last year in July. According to WhatsApp, India is home to the highest message forwards for all formats including texts, photos, and videos.
WhatsApp cleared in a blog post on Monday that after evaluating results of restrictions over the six months period, they found that it “significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world.”
“Starting today, all users on the latest versions of WhatsApp can now forward to only five chats at once, which will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts,” WhatsApp said. “We’ll continue to listen to user feedback about their experience, and over time, look for new ways of addressing viral content.”
The policy change is the latest effort to defeat misinformation spread around the globe. But how much this can help a messaging app like WhatsApp that runs on end-to-end encryption for all the messages.
Facebook Removing Over 300 Users
Last week, in a similar move, Facebook removed over 300 pages pretending to be independent news sites or hubs. In fact, most of them turned out to be an online Russian network allowing state-owned media of Russia to reach users from all fronts privately.
While Facebook has been actively fighting misinformation since it faced the 2016 US presidential election aftermath, it is hard for WhatsApp to follow the flow of misinformation with a closed infrastructure of the app. WhatsApp said that restricting forwards is their first step to stop the misinformation spread along the platform and security teams involved will take more steps in future to keep it safe and simple.
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that's a lot of cores —
Apple’s A9X has a 12-core GPU and is made by TSMC
A big GPU is fed by a 128-bit memory interface but not an L3 cache.
Andrew Cunningham - Nov 30, 2015 7:04 pm UTC
Enlarge / A die shot of the A9X. The ratio of GPU to CPU is becoming pretty insane.
Chipworks via AnandTech
iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS
Apple makes interesting chips for its mobile devices, but it doesn't talk about them much aside from extremely high-level relative performance comparisons. That means it's up to experts like the ones at Chipworks to open them up and figure it out, and they've partnered up with AnandTech to dig into the A9X in the iPad Pro.
The most significant news is about the GPU, which is a 12-core Imagination Technologies PowerVR Series 7XT design. The company doesn't generally offer a 12-core design, as shown in the chart below, but the architecture is designed to be easily scalable, and it wouldn't be the first time Apple had gotten something from a supplier that other companies couldn't get. The standard A9 in the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus uses a 6-core version of the same GPU. Apple feeds that GPU with a 128-bit memory bus, something it also included in other iPads to boost memory bandwidth and GPU performance.
Enlarge / The Series 7XT lineup. The iPad Pro's GPU falls somewhere in between the stock 8-cluster and 16-cluster designs.
Imagination's chart for the Series 7XT GPU puts a hypothetical 12-core design in the same general performance neighborhood as an Nvidia GeForce GT 730M, a low-end discrete GPU that's a bit slower than the stuff Apple is shipping in its high-end MacBook Pros. Our own graphics benchmarks place it a bit higher than that, but as some of you have pointed out, iOS may have a small advantage in some of these tests because of differences between the mobile OpenGL ES API in iOS and the standard OpenGL API used in OS X.
Chipworks also notes that the A9X it looked at was manufactured on TSMC's 16nm process, and the die measures a relatively large 147mm squared (compared to roughly 128mm squared for the A8X and 104.5mm squared for the TSMC version of the A9). Apple is dual-sourcing the A9 from both Samsung and TSMC, and it could be doing the same thing for the A9X, but as AnandTech points out the A9X is going to be a much lower-volume part. In that light, there's no real need to put in the extra work required to make it on more than one process.
One final oddity of the A9X design is that it doesn't seem to include an L3 cache, the small bit of memory used in the A9 chips (as well as the A7-series, A8-series, and many CPUs from many other companies) to save the CPU and GPU some trips out to the main system memory. AnandTech speculates that a larger L2 cache, faster LPDDR4 memory, and the wider 128-bit memory bus could all have sped things up enough to reduce the need for an L3 cache.
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baobrain Ars Centurion
Dynamic RAM is still much slower than the static ram used in cache. But maybe the larger L2 cache makes up for no L3 (probably not)
Exordium01 Ars Tribunus Militum
The Anandtech article had more detail. They hypothesized that the L3 Cache in the A9 was used more to reduce power use from memory operations, and that a wider memory bus makes up for the performance hit, and the power envelope isn't as important in a tablet. Their final conclusion was that the lack of L3 cache didn't change the "chart-topping performance."
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OrangeCream Ars Legatus Legionis
The strange part about our modern expectations is what constitutes slow or fast.
The A9X can access all it's 4GB of RAM in a 10th of a second (51GB/s but only 4GB). Reading from NAND is dramatically slower at only 402MB/s (tested on the A9 and the iPhone 6S).
It wasn't even a decade ago when we were using DDR3 limited to 15GB/s! It was only 2013 when a Xeon with 51GB/s was a big deal.
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tipoo Ars Tribunus Militum
OrangeCream wrote:
To be fair that Xeon from 2013 wasn't trying to power a graphics chip. CPUs are less bandwidth hungry, that 50GB/s will be mostly to ensure the GPU can be fed, particularly with that high resolution.
Wish we had a bit more detail...As I always do. Perhaps additional GPU L2 and buffers make up for it, like how Maxwell can have less bandwidth for the same performance than the previous architecture from Nvidia thanks to more L2.
My point being that even Intel's current CPUs with integrated GPUs only have a supported bandwidth of 34GB/s! The base frequency of 2.5GHz is slightly faster, the turbo frequency of 3.1GHz is significantly faster (but with only a single core I think), the number of cores is the same, while the number of threads is higher, and the GPU is weaker.
Apple is dramatically powering up their designs to be in the same ballpark as Intel at the same power consumption level.
Yeah, not saying it's not very impressive, it is. Just the Xeon comparison was a bit unfair as the Xeon woudln't have been trying to do much with it's iGPU, if it even had one back then. CPUs demand less bandwidth than GPUs. A9X is certainly impressive per watt compared to current Intel designs, and that 128 bit memory bus does get around a sore spot in integrated graphics with 64 bit busses and low bandwidth.
Another comparison would be the 8800 had 86.4 GB/s, near a decade ago now.
Last edited by tipoo on Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:58 am
nj_kruse Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
If the 8 replicated strips around the edge are DRAM interface, it is interesting to see that they add up to more area than the CPU cores, L2 cache included.
daggar Ars Tribunus Militum
nj_kruse wrote:
Outstripping the L2 cache area might be a new thing, but outstripping the CPU is to be expected these days. Cache has been eating up more and more of the CPU die for awhile now. We are truly in the age of dark silicon.
AndrewZ Ars Legatus Legionis
Doesn't Imagination make mostly MIPS CPUs? Or is this ARM?
AndrewZ wrote:
Imagination also makes PowerVR GPUs, which is the relevant part to the A series from Apple, which use custom ARM CPU cores. Imagination is getting into MIPS CPUs though, yes.
Last edited by tipoo on Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:26 pm
satai Seniorius Lurkius et Subscriptor
(deleted: I put misleading comment, thanks tipoo for clarification)
Last edited by satai on Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:00 pm
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satai wrote:
Anandtech updated info - the L3 is probably present as victim cache: http://anandtech.com/show/9825/correcting-a9s-l3-cache
That's not an update to the A9X article, that's for the A9. The A9X no L3 was derived from a die shot and their own latency tests. A9 was known to have an L3, but they thought it was 8 rather than 4 (and inclusive rather than victim).
atlantico wrote:
If AMD is to be sued by some idiot for calling the Bulldozer an 8-core CPU, some idiot is going to sue Apple for calling this a 12-core CPU.
Except Apple doesn't call it a 12 core CPU.
I don't even think they mention the cores at all on their iPad Pro page.
Benji XVI Ars Centurion
tipoo wrote:
Yeah – as a rule, CPUs are more memory latency sensitive; GPUs more bandwidth sensitive (hence, HBM).
If GPU performance is the goal, it’s reasonable to think the higher bandwidth memory should more than make up for the lost 4MB of cache.
For some memory latency sensitive CPU operations, getting rid of the L3 cache will presumably hurt performance, but you can’t have everything.
Maury Markowitz Ars Praefectus
My complain remains: the new Apple TV should have used this part. The ATV is a low-volume machine with a long refresh cycle, so whatever you release sets the bar for some time to come. Setting that at the A8 (not even X) point means the machine has significantly less power than it could have, and it could have that without placing any more pressure on the supply chain. The A9X would have set the bar much higher and allowed for far more impressive gaming, at the minimum.
VengenceIsMine Ars Centurion
Maury Markowitz wrote:
0% Chance. 147 mm square @ 16nm process is an enormous (& very expensive) SOC. For comparison's sake a dual core Skylake Core i5 ultra book CPU is 97mm square @ 14nm and retails for over twice what an entire Apple TV does. Apple is getting a lot of their performance by throwing tons of die area (via cache & GPU cores etc) in there. Die area is expensive, it is only worth it to build an SOC of this size for an expensive and high margin product like the iPad Pro.
t_newt Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
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dfjdejulio Ars Praefectus
The A9X would have set the bar much higher and allowed for far more impressive gaming, at the minimum.
...and virtually nobody would have purchased them, because it would have made the price point too high.
Frankly, I'm surprised the specs were as high as they were -- the "magic price point" for this kind of device is $99.
Walt French Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
VengenceIsMine wrote:
Curious about the rules of thumb for power/speed from here. Is it about right that if the clock were turned from 2.3 to 3.5GHz, about 50% faster, that power requirements could double?
Not that Apple, or any competent engineering outfit, would attempt to scale a single dimension. But it leaves me wondering about the most likely way these parts get into higher-performance-demanding functions.
petersphilo Ars Centurion
So ironic that Apple is ensuring that iPads and iPhones have powerful GPUs while Macs (particularly the portables) have woefully underpowered GPUs compared to what's out there!
Of the entire Mac portable lineup, only one variant of one model has a discrete GPU capable of modestly handling today's games!
And the Mac Pro has 2 GPUs, but only one can be used while gaming!
tsk...
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svgpithon Ars Scholae Palatinae
Interesting that they seem to be experimenting with removing L3 cache while Intel has been experimenting with adding L4.
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theSeb Ars Tribunus Militum
petersphilo wrote:
I use them both in Windows quite happily.
koolraap Ars Tribunus Militum
Exciting times (at last) in the CPU world! Yay! I don't think we'll see a Mac powered by ARM in the next two years, but in five? Sure, why not.
name99 Ars Praefectus
Walt French wrote:
Doubling the frequency simply by cranking up the voltage will (to simplest approximation)
- increase the ENERGY used to perform a given set of computations by 4x
- increase the POWER used to perform those computations by 8x.
It remains an open question whether this is actually feasible if you were willing to burn that much power.
The first issue is whether there are enough wires to pump that much power into the SoC.
If so, are there parts of the SoC where *something* (maybe some capacitor? maybe thin oxide films?) has the potential to short out when an excess voltage is applied to it?
The third issue (assuming the two previous issues are not problems) is whether the transistors will actually ALL run fast enough at the higher voltage. This third issue is usually considered *the" problem; I'm not at all convinced. Once upon a time, getting the transistors to run fast enough was a big deal; now I think they pretty much can always run fast enough and you just dial them to the heat generation you care about.
But this is not the question that matters. Apple have no obvious plans to run the A9X at 3.5GHz. The question that matters is COULD they create a competitive 3.5GHz CPU given the assets available (the A9X design and TSMC/Samsung's process). Such a design targeting 3.5GHz would probably have some changes, not necessarily to the micro-architecture, but to the specific transistor characteristics used in some parts of the design.
I'd say there is no reason to believe this is not feasible. GloFo (which appears to be behind Samsung and TSMC) can make POWER8 CPUs that run at 5GHz.
The question then becomes when will Apple switch?
I'd say there are at least three pieces that still need to be added before they'd feel comfortable with that.
- they need to be sure they can front a high-bandwidth solution competitive with Intel's HMC. Rumors are this is on track and will be seen next year. We shall see.
- they need to put in place on the chip a reasonably high performance glueless MP solution (so that they can build one CPU, call it the A12M, with say 3cores, for the low-end macbook line; use two of them giving you six cores, for the macbook pro and iMac lines; and use foure of them for the mac pro). The alternative of building custom 6 and 12 core CPUs that will ship in small numbers (low millions for the 6 core, maybe a hundred thousand for the 12 core) seems much less desirable.
- they need to have a solution in place for forthcoming persistent RAM (things like ReRAM, MRAM, or PCM). These look like RAM but are still about 10x slower to read AND will have file systems on them. This means that
(a) you want to read from them somewhat differently from reading from RAM. Instead of extracting a cache line at a time, you probably want to extract 4KiB or 16KiB at a time, dumped into LLC, with only the precise 64B line addressed pulled all the way down to L1. You also need a new kind of write barrier to force all writes before the barrier to be pushed out to the PRAM before any writes after the barrier.
- a fourth feature Apple MAY (I'm not sure) want before they pull the trigger is transactional memory, and
- a fifth feature they MAY want is fully coherent interaction between the GPU and the CPU.
Until they have most of this set of features, they will be behind Intel, and these features are not trivial --- it would be silly to switch over and risk being behind in an obvious way for a few years. Better to be sure you have the tech working before you transition.
svgpithon wrote:
Different use cases. Most iOS apps and workloads are comparatively tiny, highly accessed code and data will fit in L2. Full size OS applications that run on Windows/Linux/MacOS are different. This is the crux of why Geekbench scores overweight performance of phone/tablet SoC's vs Intel, tiny repetitive data sets and algorithms favor the shorter pipelines of those SoC's. Linus went off on Geekbench in detail here: http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curpostid=136666
L4 is not a specifically Intel thing. IBM has the same thing with their Centaur chip.
The Intel L4 remains somewhat problematic. It's rarely used, shows pretty much no effect on most CPU benchmarks, and Intel changed the details between Broadwell and Haswell. My guess is that it's not, for now, a cost effective solution (in either dollars cost or energy cost).
If it worked well (for either CPU or GPU) for the sorts of loads Apple cares about, I expect Apple would be happy to embrace it once the dollar costs are reasonable AND if the energy cost is not unreasonable. If Apple utilizes some sort of HBM solution next year, and thus has the CPU on interposer with DRAM, there's scope for adding an eDRAM LLC at lower cost (and probably also somewhat lower energy), and it will be interesting to see if that changes Apple's calculations.
You are making some dramatic claims based on gut instinct, not data.
(a) Apps that run on mobile utilize large frameworks which have much the same capabilities as their desktop counterparts. If you're going to claim they have smaller I-cache footprints, I think the onus is on you to prove this, not to simply assert that it is true.
(b) Even given large I-cache footprints, that's still not the actual issue that matters, because obviously some degree of pre-fetching can occur into the I-cache, and we know from academic research that I-cache prefetching has the potential to be extremely effective. So you next have to demonstrate that there is not just a substantially larger I-cache footprint on real-world desktop apps than on mobile, but that the difference is material, that it leads to substantially higher I-cache miss rates, and that those higher I-cache miss rates materially affect app performance.
We do know, as an example of large complex apps, that Safari performance on iOS on the A9X is comparable to Safari performance on a slightly higher clocked x86 CPU running OSX. Which rather destroys your thesis.
NetMage Ars Scholae Palatinae
If Apple wanted the AppleTV to be more future proof, they would have made it 4K (and possibly 3D). As it is, the A9 would have been nice, but the 1920x1080 resolution means it doesn't need nearly the GPU power the iPad Pro needs.
thebonafortuna Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
name99 wrote:
Comments like this are a big part of why I love this website.
jrose Ars Praefectus
I think apple switching from x86/x64 is not likely to happen unless there are some very, very compelling reasons (and I do not believe that $/performance or independence from Intel are enough), and Intel are by no means standing still.
Switching from x86 will kill virtualization of x86 apps, and kill native Windows which instantly means no bootcamp, no VMware fusion, etc.
It would also kill the (relative) ease of porting games and other performance sensitive software to OS X (vs. when it was PPC).
A very big part of why I bought a Mac in the first place after the x86 switch was that I could now run any common OS. I could use one machine for supporting virtually every platform out there.
Switch away from x86 and that goes right out the window.
There would have to be some VERY compelling other reasons to do it, and a marginal performance improvement is not it, IMHO. Besides, unless they have an architecture that can replace the Xeons in the Mac Pro, they're just going to either kill the Mac Pro (which I doubt, given the recent total redesign) or end up fragmenting OS X to shit.
Nope... this will stay iOS only I suspect. the benefits for putting it in OS X machines just aren't there.
Constructor Ars Tribunus Militum
But this is not the question that matters. Apple have no obvious plans to run the A9X at 3.5GHz.
About as much as they had no obvious plans to leapfrog the entire industry with an ARMv8 64bit CPU – until they did exactly that. So I wouldn't take out large bets against that.
By very far it would still beat the alternative of having to deal with multiple CPUs with correspondingly multiple sets of RAM and infrastructure around them and a complex and performance-sapping interconnect between them – in large servers you've got no other choice, but if the Ax chips (and even Macs) have demonstrated one thing it is that fewer cores with higher single-threaded performance aided by quick GPUs is the way to go in almost all user-facing cases (server and workstation use is the exception to an otherwise pretty well established rule).
Constructor wrote:
For fsck's sake dude. Is it too much to ask that you READ what I write?
I did not claim that Apple has no plans for an A- SoC at 3.5GHz. I said there were no plans to run the A9X at 3.5GHz. A9X refers to a very particular SoC here; it's not a stand-in for some future Apple.
Do you have the slightest reason to contradict my claim about the A9X?
And it's not like this is a subtle point. The entire rest of the post was about the issues related to when Apple might do exactly this...
jrose wrote:
No, but compared with Apple's own CPUs Intel is moving at a snail's pace and Apple doesn't have much patience for Intel prioritizing a plethora of CPUs for every conceivable niche in the Windows PC market over the few distinct CPU models Apple wants (and would want exclusively, ideally).
Being chained to Intel's PC-market-driven desktop and notebook CPU roadmap is anathema to Apple's wants and needs – they just have to live with it right now, but it's not an easy dependency to bear for Apple.
It is practically certain that Apple is working hard on overtaking Intel to the point where a switch to their own CPUs becomes feasible.
Nope. A switch becomes feasible when legacy software runs at an acceptable performance, and that means both existing Intel Mac binaries and PC emulation alike.
Apple has dne that two times already. They won't shy away from a third if they've got the CPUs and the software to enable it.
Sure. Until they are.
And at the much greater speed at which Apple is driving their own architecture forwards relative to a mostly stagnant Intel – almost dozing off on its monopoly position in the PC and server markets – that point isn't very far ahead any more.
I give it about 2-3 years.
ppayne Ars Praetorian
Nerds, nerds all of you. I love you guys. ^_^
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Timchi Seniorius Lurkius
Having a device be able to switch from OS X to iOS when you lift the screen would be pretty nice, only a matter of time.
This obsession with x86 legacy software is ridiculous.
(a) It's not Apple's problem if you want to run Linux or Windows. They're happy to provide that for the FEW people who really need it, when it's easy; but they're not going to let it drive their roadmap.
(b) Most people's need for legacy x86 software decreasing every year. Some of the enterprise stuff moves to the web. Some moves to mobile clients. Much can be run remotely using Citrix.
(c) For many of the remaining use cases, Apple has much better ways of providing this feature than sticking with x86. For example, Parallels could provide a KVM suite over USB-C, talking to a PC on a flash stick. That way it's not Apple's problem at all. Apple provides a few low-level HW/driver hooks, Parallels provides the SW, and you buy the PC on a stick you like.
Compute sticks already cost less than $100, and while this year's models are targeted at HDMI, there's no reason they couldn't move up in the world to target video-over-USB-C.
So what's left? The same gamers who tell us every year that Macs suck for gaming because Apple doesn't buy the right 500W GPUs are now going to complain that it's the end of the world if they can't play PC games on their Macs?
Mr Bigglesworth Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Just a few questions:
1. How big is the Geekbench package for IOS, Mac OSX and Windows?
2. Since when is Safari considered a large complex app? Especially on the IOS side?
3..How does Safari performance measure CPU and GPU performance?
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Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch
Behind the scenes as a speedrunning robot breaks in to modern consoles.
Kyle Orland - Jan 11, 2020 12:15 pm UTC
Secrets and lawyers
Compared to some of our previous explainers on TASBot, you may have noticed I didn't go into detail on the actual method the TASBot team used to solve its Switch timing problem. That's because the solution—which requires a bit of extra video signal analysis hardware that the team is keeping hidden in a literal "black box"—could lead copycats to unleash utter chaos on some active Switch online leaderboards, including the recently launched Ninji Speedrun competitions on Super Mario Maker 2.
"This has a higher risk of widespread damage because Nintendo has not always been attentive to illegitimate leaderboard entries," Cecil said. "If a troll wanted to, they could make it impossible for a human to obtain the fastest time in the regularly released Ninji speedrun levels."
A TASBot team member (who asked to remain anonymous) went even further. "The knowledge of how to do this can and will affect records on some of the most difficult levels in the game... This tool could allow an individual the ability to trial and error their way through a level, and then release a perfect run to anyone on the Internet that also wishes to 'beat' a level. This would ruin the experience players have, as no one would know if a top record on a level is real or if it was done by a user in a malicious way."
The team's concern for methodological secrecy also mean this is one of the first TASBot projects where the team won't be releasing its source code publicly. That's a decision Cecil says he didn't take lightly. "As the President of the North Bay Linux Users' Group and an advocate for open source software, I always ensure we release what we create as open source and open hardware so others can replicate it," Cecil said. "In this case, doing so is both risky and unwise due to the potential damage to the community... I made this decision after consulting with a diverse range of community members and experts, including paying for a consultation with a lawyer who specializes in video game lawsuits."
A 3D model showing TASBot's new prototype design.
Potential color scheme for the new TASBot
A look inside TASBot's innards
TASBot's upcoming LED eyes can show multiple colors and emotions.
An alternate color design for the Yettee TASBot shirt.
New logo design.
Hanging by a thread: How the online nerdy T-shirt economy exists in an IP world
That bit about lawsuits isn't a theoretical concern, either. "There are a number of situations in the past where Nintendo's lawyers have been overly aggressive and we can't predict what they might do or how they might respond," Cecil said. "We're mitigating this risk by ensuring we're doing everything offline and in full compliance with their terms of service, but they could still pursue legal action against us if they chose to."
(The threat of legal complications has also led the TASBot team to redesign the robot's public-facing shell, which is built off a repurposed NES R.O.B. controller. A new prototype design retains the same general feeling while being distinct enough for independent trademarking by the charity-focused TASBot L3C, Cecil said. The new design is also featured on an exclusive Yetee t-shirt, with proceeds going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation).
Who to tell
Cecil, who works as a security consultant at Bishop Fox, said the team discussed reaching out to Nintendo before publicizing its Switch-control method, but it "chose to not poke the bear." That's in part because controlling the Switch with a robot—using completely unmodified Switch hardware and software and standard controller input signals through the USB port—doesn't completely match the usual definition of a "security vulnerability."
Nintendo to ROM sites: Forget cease-and-desist, now we’re suing
"Nintendo has a vulnerability disclosure program, but the methods we're using don't fall under the category of issues that can be reported," Cecil said. "We're using Nintendo's hardware in a fully standards-complaint way and there is no way for them to prevent what we are doing without disabling all external devices. In other words, most companies don't have a big enough imagination to contemplate something so out-of-the-box, and there is no way for them to do anything about it even if we did provide a disclosure. So we have to take other precautions."
Cecil said he and the TASBot team have gone back and forth over whether to even show TASBot controlling the Switch at AGDQ (or last week's similar MAGFast speedrun marathon). Now, though, Cecil says he thinks there are enough precautions in place to "keep low effort script kiddies and copy and paste trolls from ruining the fun for everyone else." AGDQ management initially pulled the Switch demo due to time constraints, Cecil said, but the event recently added it back in as a donation incentive following the standard Super Mario Maker 2 demonstration on Saturday night.
How to keep a charity gaming marathon going for 160 hours straight
Not everyone is convinced the TASBot team's efforts at operational secrecy will be enough, though. "Lots of 'fake' input devices have been made that have the possibility for [Switch] TASing, but none (that we've seen) have used [that potential]," TASBot team member Britmob said. "Frankly, I'm surprised no one else came up with it. But I don't expect people to be very far behind us, especially if they see if it's possible, regardless of us not disclosing methods."
"We will not be discussing the abuse concerns we have during the presentation because we do not want to draw attention to them," Cecil said. "But we do want to be open about the risks we face. Pretending the risks don't exist will not help us.
"We want to continue to show what we consider art at charity events and it's important to us to find the right balance of openness even on content designed for newer consoles," he added. "The TASBot community has become so much larger than anything I could have hoped for or done on my own and I truly feel like I've been given a wonderful opportunity to live beyond myself."
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Kyle Orland Kyle is the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica, specializing in video game hardware and software. He has journalism and computer science degrees from University of Maryland. He is based in the Washington, DC area.
Email kyle.orland@arstechnica.com // Twitter @KyleOrl
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You are here: Home / Featured / Poetry Review: Paul Muldoon’s “Frolic and Detour” — Making the Intricate and Difficult Seem Easy
Poetry Review: Paul Muldoon’s “Frolic and Detour” — Making the Intricate and Difficult Seem Easy
By David Gullette
Frolic and Detour contains a few poems that I judge to be instant classics of English-language poetry.
Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon. Farrar Strauss Giroux, 144 pages, $25.
I confess I’ve taken Paul Muldoon for granted in recent decades, have read the occasional poem in Ploughshares or The New Yorker, but haven’t sat down to work through an entire collection of his poems. Big mistake. That has now changed with the arrival of Frolic and Detour, which contains poems from 2015 to the present, including a few that I judge to be instant classics of English-language poetry.
Take “Encheiresin Naturae,” a smooth, stunning reimaging of harvest time for wheat somewhere in Northwestern Ireland, in 15 stanzas that turn out to be 15 of the most elegant sonnets you can imagine, in a hybrid format — octaves of ABAB CDCD followed by sestets of EFG EFG. This begins to explain why Nick Laird calls Muldoon “the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets.” But only begins. The last word of each sonnet/stanza is repeated (or echoed) in the first line of the next sonnet/stanza. And certain words/ideas keep popping up in the sequence: pigs, pegs, doors. In fact the barn door is wrested off its jambs in the first line of the sequence, but we only discover why in the final sonnet/stanza. We are also treated to a sprinkling of odd and archaic and even regional sort-of-English words, as so often happens in a Heaney poem. Here we come upon brangle, stooks, halberd, hauberks, scurf, hames, withie, clegs, felloes, besomed. . . But this all takes place in an easy flow of language that feels like regular spoken English: We flailed away at wheat sheaves that were bound/ with straw ropes and stacked/ against the future; or: Our two-roomed cabins were thrown up in the spring/ in a matter of days; or Despite the pact/ between us, God’s advances/ were mostly unwelcome.
What I’m getting at here, as an American poet raised on a poetry mostly shorn of tradition and gimmicks, is that Muldoon’s formal ambitions and technical innovations in the poem are so unobtrusive and easy to swallow. “The art that conceals art,” it might once have been called. What the Italians call sprezzatura — making the intricate and difficult seem easy.
“Encheiresin Naturae” draws its name from “a technical term in alchemy having to do with the supposed way in which the spirit joints the soul to the body.” More simply, it means “manipulating nature.” Goethe uses it in Faust. In Muldoon’s hands, it becomes mildly ironic, since a “famous poet” (obviously Yeats) “commonly used his Oiuja board/ to conjure spirits where they threshed/ upon the threshold of this world.” But for the people doing the actual threshing in the poem, this spiritualist mumbo-jumbo “went right over our heads like a partridge/ taking off over the barn before once more falling hard.” And yet a thread of near mysticism links these Irish threshers and their wooden cart with an Egyptian chariot that “would convey/ a king to the other side, along with his nest egg/ of gold, hawks, combs, beer, a ration of wheat per day// forevermore.”
The poem appeared in a deluxe edition of 50 copies ($5,700 a pop!) with 15 engravings by Barry Moser, published by Nawakum Press in Santa Rosa CA. They must have sold some copies, but lament the “Remaining Copies Lost to the October 9, 2017 Sonoma County Firestorm.”
Poet Paul Muldoon. Photo: Princeton.edu.
By the way, the barn door that was wrested off its jambs at the start of the poem returns in the final sonnet, doubling as a threshing floor. The remnant straw will “thatch/ our mud-walled cabins the following spring” and the wheat itself make “bread for a wake- or wedding-fling.” But at the end of the long day the door will turn into a dance floor and afford “a slack-jowled farm boy the chance to win/ one of the girls who’d shown, and shaken, their legs// and danced their hearts out on its sounding board.” But not before Ted Burke has “dusted off his violin/ and, one by one, tightened the tuning pegs.”
I can only say that for me, it’s one of the best poems so far of the new century.
The rest of the book has some real gems, like “Belfast Hymn,” that celebrates that coming-alive-again old city’s legacies of commerce and poetry (and names the poets!), a series of World War I poems, tributes to Robert Lowell, C. K. Williams, Leonard Cohen, and Bruce Springsteen, and a grand finale, the title-poem “Frolic and Detour” — tuned to the tink tink, tink tink of a house wren:
Just as, at the Black Cat Café and Bakery,
Tony Dauo offers “Thanksgiving Sandwiches” all year round, so wren-music
offers druids a permanent link between
this world and the one nearby.
Do yourself a favor: go out to the Grolier and buy yourself this book.
David Gullette was an early editor of Ploughshares, and is Literary Director of the Poets’ Theatre. His poems are collected in Questionable Shapes (Cervena Barvá Press).
By: David Gullette Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: David Gullette, Frolic and Detour, Paul Muldoon, Poetry
Margot Green says
David, thanks so much for your review! What a terrific poet, Muldoon. It’s wonderful to hear your voice, too, in praise of this collection. I am looking forward to reading the volume, but a more affordable one. Gail Mazur reminded us of on the anniversary of JFK’S death: “power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
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• Surnames A–D
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Books about spelling reform
(In alphabetical order of author)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, A report upon phonotypy, 1847
Andersson, M, To knock the eye out of a friend: assessment of an orthographic reform upon the English language, 2014
“The public might not be ready to let go of what is familiar, even with such a large number of irregularities as English traditional orthography possesses. A spelling reform would advance English into the 21st century and spare future generations of learners from difficulties that arise as a consequence of the distance in between English orthography and spoken language. Either way, spelling will change sooner or later: the only question is when and how. I would only hope that English learners in the future will be spared the burden of long and outdated spelling patterns, because of the wicked humour of Englishmen.”
Baker A, The life of Sir Isaac Pitman (inventor of phonography), 1919
“He did not live to see success attend his proposals for a drastic reform of English spelling on a strictly phonetic basis. But it is only just to his memory to point out that, to his work as a pioneer, is to a large extent due the revived interest in simplified spelling manifested in our own time.”
Baugh, A C and Cable, T, ‘The nineteenth century and after,’ in A history of the English language, 1951, 5th ed. 2002
“It is probably safe to say that if our spelling is ever to be reformed, it must be reformed gradually and with as little disruption to the existing system as is consistent with the attainment of a reasonable end.”
Bell, M, The problems and costs of English spelling, 2012
Bickers, A V W, On spelling reform, 1877
Carney, E, ‘Spelling reform,’ in English spelling, 1997
Craig, R, and Alexander, A, ‘A History of English Spelling Revision,’ in Lango: Language Organization, 1996
“A number of scientific studies have proved that, all other things being equal, children learn to read more easily and quickly when the spelling system of a language is regular and logical. They have also shown that the incidence of dyslexia is correspondingly reduced. Needless to say, the English language has long come out badly in these comparisons, as it has wherever orthographic regularity is an issue. People have been complaining about English spelling for centuries – why has nothing been done? A cursory look at history might help to answer this question.
“[…] Why has it all come to nothing apart from a few minor revisions in America?Firstly, English reform is unlikely as long as the language still largely centres upon a country whose social order is greatly influenced by class, as well as wealth, religion etc.. Thus the divergence between spelling and pronunciation functions as an educational and cultural shibboleth, to the despair of students from societies where such a device is irrelevant, and the difficulty of children learning to read. This observation is equally valid if the upper-middle class accent is deprecated and proletarian ones are fashionable.
Secondly, the social forces which have been transforming the English-speaking world since the 1960s, shaking many ancient institutions, customs, mores and beliefs to the foundations, dispossessing much of the old aristocracy and middle-class, and raising up previously disadvantaged sections of society along with new media interests and extensions to state sovereignty, have not operated primarily through the traditional rational arguments of literary culture. Rather have they fashioned their emotional appeals into images, focused via the new electronic media directly into the heart, using the spoken form of language about which rational orthography has very little to say.
Thirdly, the majority of people are simply not interested in spelling reform, because there is nothing in it for them. Since the advent of mass electronic entertainment most people seldom read anything much other than magazines and tabloid newspapers anyway. They had difficulty learning to read at school; but it never did them any harm – so their children might as well experience the same! In fact, within the English-speaking world, the idea of language reform is inconvenient or irrelevant to nearly everyone except primary schoolteachers and the organised English Language Teaching (E L T) industry, with its T E F L (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language) and T E S O L (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) qualifications.
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‘Learning the System,’ in Spell it out: the singular story of English spelling, 2012
“The radical arguments presented by spelling reformers have never persuaded, with the sole exception of Noah Webster. As a result, learning to spell English today seems just as hard as it ever was. There is still a huge amount to learn…”
‘Twittersphere,’ in The story of English in 100 words, 2011
“As for Twitter, if you had asked me as recently as 2005 whether I thought that there was anything interesting about the consonant cluster tw, I should have said “nothing at all”. If you had suggested that one day it would be the basis for coining hundreds of new words, I would have said you were mad. Moral: word buffs should never try to predict the future.”
‘Delusions of simplicity,’ in The stories of English, 2004
‘Spelling reform: A guided tour of the language,’ in The English language, 1988, 2nd. ed. 2002
Dewey, M, ‘Four guidelines for spelling reform,’ in Fulford, J J, Spellopedia: The definitive guide to English spelling rules, 2014
Deutscher, G, ‘Perpetual motion,’ in The unfolding of language: the evolution of mankind’s greatest invention, 2005
“It is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it is only that it renders the speech of the sixteenth century.”
Speaking of which:
Eastman, M, ‘Why English does not simplify her spelling,’ in Journalism versus art, 1916
Essinger, J, ‘The recent past, the present and the future,’ in Spellbound: The surprising origins and astonishing secrets of English spelling, 2006
“All attempts to reform English spelling have one thing in common: they’re failures [……] We are destined to be spellbound by English spelling for ever.”
Everson, M (ed), Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – in the Unifon Alphabet, 2014
Everson, M, and Jenkins, J H, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – in the Deseret Alphabet
Gooden, P, ‘English: right and wrong,’ in The story of English: how the English language conquered the world, 2009
Gladstone, J H, Spelling reform from an educational point of view, 1878Follick, M, The case for spelling reform, 1965
“English speaking adults come near the bottom of the table in international studies of literacy and this is often ascribed to the vagaries of the way in which words are spelled (or spelt).
[…] But the campaign will not succeed. A few small changes may occur but there can be no root-and-branch revolution in English spelling. There are several highly practical reasons for this.[…] The erratic, peculiar byways of English spelling are a fitting reflection of a language which, whatever else it may be, is not homogeneous or orderly, and is never going to be either of those things. Yes, spelling changes over time but the changes come from the bottom up and they are not piecemeal and small-scale.”
Harley, G, Rational spelling: a conservative scheme for national spelling reform, 1878
Heffer, S, ‘The essence of good style,’ in Strictly English: The correct way to write… and why it matters, 2010
“I see no reason for orthography to be varied, since we have had a completed [sic] standard dictionary for over 80 years.”
Horobin, S, ‘Spelling today and tomorrow,’ in Does spelling matter? 2013
Kessler, B, and Treiman, R, ‘Is English spelling chaotic? Misconceptions concering its irregularity,’ in Reading Psychology, 2003
“In this paper we wish to state the case for English spelling. We do not want to claim that the English writing system is ideal, nor do we wish to gloss over the real challenges it poses for children. But it is important to understand the nature of English spelling, for it is seriously misunderstood. English spelling is by no means irrational or pathological, but serves several goals other than that of one-to-one phoneme–letter correspondence […] We will argue that English is not nearly as irregular as people think, and will put forward our own ideas about how to measure the regularity, or consistency, of English orthography.”
Lounsbury, T R, English spelling and spelling reform, 1909
March, F A, The spelling reform, 1893
Mencken, H L, ‘Simplified spelling,’ in The American Language, 1921
“The current movement toward a general reform of English-American spelling is of American origin, and its chief supporters are Americans today. Its actual father was Webster, for it was the long controversy over his simplified spellings that brought the dons of the American Philological Association to a serious investigation of the subject. In 1875 they appointed a committee to inquire into the possibility of reform, and in 1876 this committe reported favorably. During the same year there was an International Convention for the Amendment of English Orthography at Philadelphia, with several delegates from England present, and out of it grew the Spelling Reform Association. In 1878 a committee of American philologists began preparing a list of proposed new spellings, and two years later the Philological Society of England joined in the work. In 1883 a joint manifesto was issued, recommending various general simplifications. Among those enlisted in the movement were Charles Darwin, Lord Tennyson, Sir John Lubbock and Sir J. A. H. Murray. In 1886 the American Philological Association issued independently a list of recommendations affecting about 3,500 words, and falling under ten headings. Practically all of the changes proposed had been put forward 80 years before by Webster, and some of them had entered into unquestioned American usage in the meantime, e. g., the deletion of the u from the -our words, the substitution of er for re at the end of words, and the reduction of traveller to traveler.
“The trouble with the others was that they were either too uncouth to be adopted without a long struggle or likely to cause errors in pronunciation.”[…] Obviously this list is far ahead of the public inclination. Moreover, it is so long and contains so many exceptions […] that there is little hope that any considerable number of Americans will adopt it, at least during the lifetime of its proponents. Its extravagance, indeed, has had the effect of alienating the support of the National Education Association, and at the convention held in Des Moines in the Summer of 1921 the Association formally withdrew from the campaign. But even so long a list is not enough for the extremists.”
Millward, C M, & Hayes, M, ‘The question of spelling reform,’ in A biography of the English language, 3rd ed. 2011
Peters, M.L., ‘Would spelling be caught more easily by a simplified spelling system’, in Spelling: Caught or taught, 1967, 1985
“The difficulty with any simplified spelling system is that it would, once children had learned to decode it, also reduce our reading efficiency.”
Read T A, A biography of Isaac Pitman (inventor of phonography), 1890Millward, C M, & Hayes, M, ‘The question of spelling reform,’ in A biography of the English language, 3rd ed. 2011
Extract from The Phonetic Journal, 1873
Peterson, D J, The art of language invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the words behind world-building, Penguin, 2015
English orthography was “devised by a team of misanthropic, megalomaniacal cryptographers who distrusted and despised one another, and so sought to hide the meanings they were tasked with encoding by employing crude, arcane spellings that no one can explain”. (p. 34)
Sampson, G, ‘English spelling,’ in Writing systems, 1985
Sebba, M, ‘Reform or revolution: where angels fear to tread,’ in Spelling and society, 2007
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Suárez, S D, The English spelling reform in the light of the works of Richard Mulcaster and John Hart, 1996
“Two conclusions can be drawn from our analysis: on the one hand, in the light of present Spelling Reforms, the work of past authors does not look so old-fasioned: Mulcaster and Hart’s arguments are, for the most part, still valid, differences in this respect having to do with the new status of English and with technological changes. On the other hand, the work of past reformers also throws light on the future development of orthography planning. In view of the disappointing failure of the schemes so far designed, most sensible reformers are now aware that the future lies with interdisciplinary research, bearing in mind Upward’s words that ‘like a garden, a writing system cannot be left neglected for ages’.”
Upward, C, & Davidson, G, ‘Reformers, lexicographers and the parting of the ways,’ in The history of English spelling, 2011
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March should be a Arcade update IMO
I was just thinking about the content past February and believe that more arcade content is needed especially when the player base shrinks and arcade become the main game mode. So a arcade update in March would be good with private matches and also if April is a skin update for hero’s with barely any skins like Luke sky walker and Darth mail then I would be happy.
I agree but March is more likely to be the month when the new mode is released as things are proceeding
They do need to upgrade Arcade
Just another mode neglected and forgotten about
February 9, 2019 2:14PM
Yeah and some stuff is very simple like private matches and the ability to change skins ect..
ZanisDust
There won't be any significant arcade content anymore. They might release one small blast map but there won't be any new game modes or anything like that. They might drag this show on with empty promises like they have done so far, but that's it. Except that they haven't said anything significant about the arcade in a long time. I have abandoned this game a long time ago like they did abandon the arcade, but I still occasionally follow this forum since it is the only entertainment this game gives me anymore. It is kinda sad since I've loved Star Wars 35 years, only these days I'm not so sure anymore.
I even hope that Anthem flops and Bioware dies with it, even though I used to love the games they used to make. I loved Westwood's games also - Lands of Lore still has a special place in my heart. But I do get some comfort of the thought that when a company as big as EA finally collapses the crash will be huge. And eventually it will collapse, just like Roman Empire.
But here's a little joke to light up the mood: What's the difference between "Weird" Al Yankovic's The Saga Begins and Dice's Battlefront? Well, they're both jokes but only one of them makes me laugh.
I don't mind getting banned.
ZanisDust wrote: »
I'm with you, I can't wait for the death of casual gaming and have a new golden age where game play becomes the priority instead of graphics and gimmicks.
Icedragon7897
Cadoth wrote: »
April/ may is more realistic since there are lightsaber changes, emote wheel coming
AuraStorm
Arcade is a tacked on mode they won’t waste an entire month updating it
Story and gameplay over graphics all day long but the pc brigade only care about resolution and FPS is sad and pathetic
It's solely EA/ Disney that's the cause of all this yet people blame DICE and whatnot when there hands are tied and they are lubed up...
Icedragon7897 wrote: »
I know and I thought about writing EA's Battlefront but nevertheless Dice is the company that makes the game. And I'm definitely not thrilled about the way Disney and EA treat Star Wars - it is a franchise that deserves much more. Now it is just another cash cow that the force has abandoned - or at least the light side has abandoned anyway.
February 9, 2019 11:30PM
They already pushed it back from fall, they can't go all the way out til May
DarthXyno843
With the seemingly like 5 person BF2 crew, I don’t think they care about arcade. This is a multiplayer game after all
TheBearShow1
DarthXyno843 wrote: »
I would buy a season pass equlivant today if they bring a large arcade game mode. It's a shame because there should be no reason why they don't have multiplayer and single player/co op instant action. There was a huge instant action following on this forum and it would bring a lot to satisfy the pve crowd. I can't state enough how disappointed I am in the direction of multiplayer only generation. It is basically eroding what made the 2000 BF titles so amazing. There was something for everyone, and everyone could play no matter there preference.
TheBearShow1 wrote: »
I feel the same way. I only bought this game because I let Dennis' comments fool me. I remember how he said that there would be full fleshed skirmish in Battlefront 2 at the beginning of 2018. I never wanted campaign and I believe that the majority of the players who wanted single player experience wanted instant action. But mediocre campaign we got with arcade which is anything but full fleshed skirmish. To think that there were three studios working on this underwhelming game... And I used to think that the 2015 Battlefront was a disappointment but compared to this it is almost a masterpiece.
Sure, I remember the micro transaction fiasco and I know reworking the system took some time. But the whole thing just shows where their priorities were in the first place. It would be interesting to know how small the team was at that time and how much smaller it is now. It is clear that after that mtx failure EA lost interest in this game and now they just deliver the bare minimum stretched as thin as it can be stretched. I'm really surprised if the support for this game continues as far as summer.
And I'm not sure should I even mention the communication. Sure, it has gotten little bit better: Now we get some answer that really doesn't answer anything. But that really is just a way to try to keep up some interest to the game. The reason they don't answer questions about the arcade is that there's nothing to answer - arcade has been abandoned. Sure it has gotten couple of blast maps since launch and bare bones star fighter assault but there won't be any large scale modes in the works for it. They know that the silence and some occasional vague answer about the arcade keep the hope up at some extent and that's enough for them. They know that every broken promise will be forgotten when they show the first gorgeous cinematic trailer for the next battlefront with new promises. That's exactly what happened last time. History will repeat itself as long as we don't learn from it.
I really don't care about online gaming but that has been the only way to experience bigger maps and modes (well, the only bigger mode). But these days I don't play the game at all. I tried Geonosis on arcade couple of times but it got really boring in few minutes like everything in arcade does. After that I tried campaign with 3D Vision for couple of minutes and that's about it for these last 6 months.
I'm really glad that I bought this shallow game on SALE for pc and USED for Xbox (I was naive and though this would bring some local co-op fun with my wife but oh boy I was wrong). My bet is that EA shows Battlefront 3 this summer and it will be released with the new movie with shallow content, battle royale mode and all kinds of promises. But I couldn't care less. They can even bundle it with astro droid but I won't be buying it. It is clear that EA/Dice doesn't either listen the single players or care what we have to say.
I buy many games annually and when I find a game studio that I like, I can be loyal for decades. But I also have a long memory. EA has brought me a lot of sorrow since the day it bought Westwood. It has ruined Bioware which hasn't produced anything note worthy since first Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins (I tried Dragon Age 3 and Andromeda and I just couldn't get into them no matter how hard I tried - if I want to get mmorpg-like experience, I will play mmorpg, which I won't do anyway). I couldn't care less about Anthem or anything that Bioware does in the future. And now finally EA has ruined Star Wars.
These really are dark times for single players who want to experience the Star Wars universe with modern technology. I'm afraid that Disney will renew the contract with EA but that's how the world works these days. At least I can stop supporting this nonsense and keep my wallet closed. I guess that whenever I want to experience Star Wars universe, I will play the 2005 Battlefront 2 with lots of mods or Kotor and watch those Lucas' era movies. At least in the end EA makes it very easy for me to NOT support their actions or products, no matter how much I love Star Wars. I guess that finally I am starting to learn something from the history. I hope that others will too.
I could go for some more arcade. It will be a shame to never play again the day the servers shut down multiplayer. I want to enjoy this game years into the future like I did the old pandemic one
But won't be
Let's hope the new mode hits the spot
It's what we are waiting for
I disagree. Arcade is only good for practicing with new heroes. It was good for farming credits when there were lootboxes, but not anymore. Anytime spent adding Arcade content is time not adding multiplayer content. Imo, time spent on Arcade is wasted developer time.
Just like when they released Ewok Hunt. I wish that time had been spent porting over or creating more Extraction maps.
The OG's were made when mp was mostly just a few people on a sofa.
Sad part is as bad as the ai is in this game, it is still better than most of my mp team mates.
AI is not a Dice strength, EA should have kept on the studio that did the campaign (I forget who did what, nah, I never cared) to do arcade.
The campaign wasn't memorable, and I only did it on easy mode, so I can't judge the ai in the campaign. Feel free to bash them too.
WildWMG
You know...I have enjoyed this game ever since I got it (December 2017). I thought, and still think that it has all the things that the new Battlefront 1 should have had. (Classes, point system, story mode, multiple eras... )
However, one of Battlefront 1's most endearing qualities, in my opinion, was the availability of large scale, objective based game modes in Arcade.
If there is anything that they need to add, it is Galactic Assault, Strike, and Capital Supremacy in Arcade.
JayJedi
Saw this on twitter this morning. It looks like they are still working on the large scale offline mode.
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The next two months could be make-or-break for Huawei
Andy Meek @aemeek
August 3rd, 2019 at 2:07 PM
Huawei chairman Liang Hua at a press conference a few days ago deftly avoided giving a direct answer when asked by a reporter whether the Mate 30, expected in October, will launch with a Huawei-designed mobile operating system if the current US ban stays in place. The ban whose effects have included Google not being allowed to provide Android updates to Huawei going forward, once a temporary reprieve expires later this month.
“If the US allows us to use Android OS for our smartphone, that ecosystem is always our preferred choice,” Liang told the reporter, according to an account from the South China Morning Post. “If the US won’t allow us to use it, we need capabilities to develop (our own) and an ecosystem.”
It was one more reminder, as if one was needed, that the next two months or so are shaping up to be among the most consequential for the Chinese electronics giant — indeed, almost a make-or-break time for the company’s smartphone business.
Image Source: Photo by Sipa Asia/Shutterstock
The forthcoming additions to Huawei’s Mate series, namely the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro that are both packed with a slew of new features and technologies, are among the most exciting smartphone launches anticipated for the latter half of 2019. Meanwhile, the US position still seems to be firmly entrenched against Huawei, with even President Trump saying in recent days he remains no closer to lifting the ban — which would allow companies like Google to resume business with the company.
Existing Huawei handsets can still run Android, Google proprietary apps and the like. The problem is that Google won’t be able to supply new Huawei handsets with Android and security patches once the temporary reprieve runs out this month — and then the question becomes whether Huawei postpones the Mate 30 launch or if it will press ahead with an OS of its own.
“As for new product launches,” Huawei’s chairman told reporters, “you will be able to see with your own eyes how ready we are by then.”
Huawei has said steps it’s taken to mitigate the effects of the US ban have actually had a surprising effect — a big chunk of the company’s sales actually come from outside China, and yet Huawei said revenue for the first half of this year is actually up 23%. The back half of the year, meanwhile, is another matter.
To describe itself right now, the company frequently uses the metaphor of a warplane that’s been raked with bullets and yet is continuing to fly. Because of the time needed to test new handsets, though, the SCMP notes that Huawei typically has to apply for Android licenses from Google months ahead of a new phone launch — which means the sand is quickly slipping through the hourglass.
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The idea of everyone being connected by the internet once had positive connotations. The films that showed the supposed dangers of the digital world like The Matrix seemed so preposterous. But in a post-Edward Snowden and Wikileaks world, the dangers of the internet are now all too real.
There have been several documentaries in recent years about the acquisition of private information online and today we are going to be looking at Netflix’s newest offering to this particular subject, The Great Hack.
Cambridge Analytica was at the centre of several world-altering campaigns in the last few years. Leave.EU in the UK Brexit debate and the Donald Trump Presidential campaign in the USA. But while they had a huge impact on these campaigns, their methods were far more nefarious. Analytica harvested personal information from thousands of Facebook users, without their consent, and then used this to create targeted marketing.
The film follows several people involved in the unravelling of the CA scandal. Including David Carroll, who sued CA to get back the data CA had on him. Former CA employees such as Brittany Kaiser who have decided to blow the whistle on the company. And journalist Carol Cadwalladr.
What did I like?
There are two things that The Great Hack does very well. The first is the way it uses graphics and montages. Throughout the film, graphics are used to impart/illustrate information quickly in a way that doesn’t intrude on the action. And along with graphics the film also uses montages of websites and news stories to give a sense of mood. The montage of various targeted Facebook adverts showing how CA was able to manipulate how people see the world and the use of small square particles to indicate the passage of online info, effectively illustrates how much of our personal daily life is part of and reliant on the internet. Making the points made about CA more threatening.
The second positive is the presentation of the emotional arc of one of the principal participants, Brittany Kaiser. Kaiser, once a key player inside Cambridge Analytica, later came forward with information about how CA conducted their operations. The presentation of her arc from an idealist working on the Obama campaign to being part of the unethical practices of CA is fascinating. Because her motivations are so human. She switched sides in political marketing because she needed money to support herself, which the Obama campaign apparently would not give her. She enjoyed working with who she worked with, so she didn’t see all the negative implications that we can see as outsiders. But she admits her flaws and in the end, stands up for everyone’s right to privacy. Honestly, the film owes much of its success to Kaiser’s inclusion.
However, this leads me into The Great Hack’s problems.
What did I not like?
The Great Hacks first major problem is its pacing. The films key arguments: The dangers of companies using personal information to target you with marketing on social media; Our overreliance on the internet & What CA was up to and how it impacted the world. Are all covered within the first hour. The film then spends another hour repeating the same points. And it begins to get frustrating. This wouldn’t be so bad if the film employed new ways to engage us. But the camerawork is standard, the music is unengaging and the visual flourishes are too infrequent.
Secondly, because the documentary focuses on peoples journeys with CA, it’s critical to get the audience on side with the participants. But Kaiser is the only participant who manages to engage with the audience because she acts like a normal person. Carol Cadwalladr isn’t given enough screentime for us to care about her involvement. And David Carroll, who blatantly tells the audience, that companies having access to private information without consent is bad as if we didn’t already know, projects a very condescending attitude. Which is nothing but off-putting. Not helped when he consistently takes jabs at Kaiser.
There is also a problem with some points being over and underexplained. It expects you to already subscribe to the belief that Trump and Brexit were a bad idea, without giving any contextual information. But they spend an inordinate amount of time talking how information is gathered online and the dangers it poses to privacy. Something that is common knowledge by this point.
Finally, The Great Hack appears to argue that the Trump and Brexit campaigns were wholly won by targeted social media. Ignoring the larger issues of social division and the growing disillusionment with so-called experts and politicians. Electing to solely focus on technology as the purveyor of misfortune. Which seems a little reductive of a complicated issue.
Overall while The Great Hack does have some minor visual flair and one incredibly well-told arc, it’s not enough to carry the film. Perhaps as an hour-long TV special it would have faired better. The stripped-down, just the facts version of the story would have been at least novel as a piece of unfolding news.
But as a film, The Great Hack is severely sloppy as it drags its points out and operates from a condescending and in some ways reductive viewpoint, that ultimately will leave most viewers either cold or frustrated.
Verdict: (2 / 5)
Also Read: Five Documentaries To Watch On Netflix
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Kylo Ben
I have three main hobbies; coding, video games, and LEGO. With the first, I’m fortunate to have a flexible job that allows me to code on tons of different and varied projects every day. With the last, I’ve literally run out of space for the models I already have (most of which are over 2000 bricks in size). Video games, then, are really my main hobby. In the last year I’ve started a podcast on co-operative gaming, built a powerful gaming PC, and spent somewhere in the region of 900 hours playing games. Today I’m happy to announce a new website I’ve been working on dedicated to my gaming hobby; it’s called Kylo Ben:
Kylo Ben is divided into several different sections:
I’m currently varying between reviews, things I’m excited about, and general thought pieces on the industry. So far, I have published:
A look ahead at the achievements in Titanfall 2 (compared to Titanfall)
A review of minimalistic transport sim, Mini Metro
A piece about my first refund on Steam in 11 years
Some thoughts on the Nintendo Switch announcement
A review of the Doctor Who LEGO Dimensions level pack
A roundup of the games in the October Humble Bundle
I’m trying to write new pieces every couple of days and it has proven to be a good way to practice my writing and get some long form thoughts out that don’t fit neatly into a 140 character tweet. It also means I can keep these game centric pieces away from my more work-oriented blog here at bendodson.com.
I’ve listed a few things about my current gaming setups on my about page. It details the components in my gaming PC, my current console and mobile gaming systems, and a look through the various consoles I’ve owned since I started gaming in 1991.
I have a single page which lists all of the games I currently own on both Steam and my Xbox One. Each game has more details including purchase date, last played, total gaming time, and a short note about where I’m currently at with the game. I also list any articles related to that game for easy reference (and vice versa). For example, here is the entry for Mini Metro.
Gaming Time
This is perhaps my biggest achievement; a complete log of time spent on each game. The page updates daily and will list each game I’ve played over the last 2 months along with duration and a link through to more details. This is done through a combination of two custom scripts I wrote to scrape both my Steam library and Xbox Live / Windows 10 account periodically for changes. It’s been fascinating for me to see exactly how long I’ve spent on certain games (*cough* Peggle 2 *cough*) and will allow me to easily write a regular piece on games I’ve played over the previous month.
I’m really excited to be writing regularly about my biggest hobby and I’m looking forward to posting frequently for the foreseeable future. I have a few extra things to announce soon including some apps and game mods so follow me on Twitter for the latest updates. Alternatively, there is an RSS feed available for Kylo Ben which will keep you up to date on any new articles. If you have any thoughts or suggestions for improvements, please get in touch.
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Book Review–The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Lee
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5/5*
Pub Aug 2017
I’m very late to the party on this book, and I wish I’d read it before now. I *need* a sequel, STAT.
TLDR–LOVED this book. Full on considering re-reading it right away loved it. Couldn’t go to sleep until I finished it so I didn’t get much sleep and now have a book hangover loved it. Put down writing my book to finish this one loved it. Like, really, really, really loved it.
Genie Lo is a Chinese American teen in the Bay Area of California (near San Francisco) whose biggest concern is getting into an Ivy League college…until Quentin shows up to tell her he’s the Monkey King and she’s his staff, reincarnated as a human. She thinks he’s out of his mind, and rightfully tells him to go away. Until a demon shows up, and all of this Monkey and Staff thing starts to sound a little more plausible.
The story uses Chinese mythology to fuel the magic, and it’s nice to see a break from Western mythos. To be fair, though, for me Chinese mythology is the next most familiar thing after Western because of living in Singapore for seven years and participating in Chinese culture.
Genie is a great, relateable character. She really just wants to live her life, be a good friend to her bff Yunie, and get into a good college. She’s frustrated by her Chosen One-ness, especially when it starts to interfere with her schooling, her friends, and her family. For adult readers, it will feel familiar to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, down to the snappy dialogue.
Maybe he thought I’d stay quiet in front of my mother for the sake of decorum. That a boy’s good name was more important than a girl’s safety. If so, he was dead effin’ wrong.
“My true name,” he said, “…is SUN WUKONG.”
A cold wind passed through the open window, rustling my loose papers like tumbleweed.
“I have no idea who that is,” I said.
Quentin was still trying to cement his “look at me being serious” face. It took him a few seconds to realize I wasn’t flipping out over whoever he was.
“The Sun Wukong,” he said scooping the air with his fingers. “Sun Wukong the Monkey King.”
“I said, I don’t know who that is.”
His jaw dropped. Thankfully his teeth were still normal-size.
“You’re Chinese and you don’t know me?” he sputtered. “That’s like an American child not knowing who Batman is!”
“You’re Chinese Batman?”
“No! I’m stronger than Batman, and more important, like–like. Tian na, how do you not know who I am?”
I didn’t know why he expected me to recognize him. He couldn’t have been a big-time actor or singer from overseas. I never followed mainland pop culture, but a lot of other people at school did; word would have gotten around if we had a celebrity in our midst.
Plus that was a weird stage name. Monkey King? Was that what passed for sexy among the kids these days?
Quentin, for his part, is a great foil. He imparts knowledge, but not in a boring exposition-y way. But he’s also fallible, and a bit of a douche at times. I like that he’s not perfect, that he sometimes (maybe more than sometimes) complicates Genie’s life like crazy.
There are two gods hanging around as secondary characters. One is Guanyin, who achieved enlightenment, but turned her back on it to help humanity. The other is Erlang Shen, the nephew of the king of the gods, The Jade Emperor. They are often..helpful, but not in the ways that Genie hopes. For one, neither is going to directly interfere to help catch the ~100 or so demons running around the Bay Area.
The non-celestial-being secondary characters are well fleshed out–we understand, more or less, why her parents broke up and what sort of relationship they have now, what Genie’s BFF’s hopes and dreams are and how their friendship works.
The pacing is solid, the setting is well described (I do live in the Bay Area, so take that one with a grain of salt), and I think the book has broad appeal. The prose sparkles.
Seriously. Go read it. You won’t regret it.
This entry was posted on January 25, 2019, in 5* Reviews, Books I Love, Creatures, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Favorites, Favorites, Mythological Creature, Paranormal, Romance, Romance, Strong Female Leads, YA Books and tagged 5*, Chinese mythology, contemporary YA, F.C. Yee, Fantasy YA, favorite books, five stars, Romance YA, The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, YA, YA Fantasy, YA Romance. Leave a comment
I’ll be posting a review of this soon, but I’m just popping in to say that if you like fantasy or YA, you really need to be reading The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee. The magic system is grounded in Chinese mythology, but because Genie is more or less ignorant of it, we learn what’s important as she learns. Genie’s voice is hilarious–I’ve already sent quotes I highlighted to two different friends and I’m only a third of the way through the book.
“That doesn’t matter,” I hissed. “You are not entitled to my thoughts, emotions, or any other part of my life unless I say so. What you get from me is jack and squat, regardless of whether or not you understand. Ming bai le ma, dickhead?”
“From what I could gather from you friend, however, the two of you are only doing this to gain access to a magical kingdom called Harvard.”
“Pfft. Yale would also suffice.”
Strong female protagonist who’s a badass for the win!
This entry was posted on January 23, 2019, in Books I Love, Creatures, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Mythological Creature, Paranormal, Strong Female Leads, YA Books and tagged F.C. Yee, Fantasy, The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, YA. 1 Comment
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Bombay Dyeing picks TOI for #TakeBackSleep
The campaign highlights the importance of sleep for physical health and mental agility and calls for attention to the apathetic attitude young adults have towards their sleep routines. The campaign is mainly being amplified on digital platforms of TOI, followed by print and other mediums
BestMediaInfo Bureau Mumbai, October 18, 2019
A good night's sleep is incredibly important for one’s health, but often it is not given due importance.
Taking this conversation ahead, and reinstating the importance of good sleep habits, Home décor brand Bombay Dyeing and English daily The Times of India have joined hands to launch a unique cause called #TakeBackSleep.
The initiative is geared to jolt people out of their neglectful sleep habits and urge them to re-think their sleep patterns and make good sleep habits a part of daily routine.
Launched just before Diwali, #TakeBackSleep highlights the importance of adequate sleep for physical health and mental agility and calls for attention towards the apathetic attitude that young adults have towards their sleep routines.
The multimedia campaign is divided into three phases. The first phase aims to make India realise the need for proper sleep habits, and not fall into a ‘sleep debt’. It will engage with millennials across print, radio, digital and television till December.
The remaining two phases will be planned after seeing the result and effectiveness of the first phase of the campaign.
The creative part of the campaign has been handled by Percept media and TOI’s internal creative team. Zenith Optimedia has amplified the campaign.
The brand picked TOI’s communication mediums for campaign awareness. 50% of the total marketing budget of #TakeBackSleep has been allocated to TOI’s social media platforms. “We have made three videos, which is largely for social media and will also be used on television,” said Aloke Banerjee, CEO, Retail, Bombay Dyeing.
(L-R) Mr. Sanjeev Bhargava (Director - Brand TOI) and Alokendra Banerjee (CEO of Bombay Dyeing) pose with sleep-masks at the launch of the #TakeBackSleep campaign
“We are trying to imbibe everything in the campaign which develops a talking point to the consumers,” he said.
According to Banerjee, the brand approached TOI with the concept of #TakeBackSleep. “It’s not our product advertising but a cause we want to work for and make aware millennials about the importance of adequate sleep,” he said.
Sanjeev Bhargava, Director, Brand TOI, said, “The message we want to give through the campaign is that your life will be better provided you give sleep the importance that it deserves. The main agenda of the campaign is to start a conversation today that doesn’t exist today. Even though it does, the awareness on a larger scale is not there and we need to change that.”
Speaking on the collaboration, Bhargava and Banerjee said, “We want to precipitate the change and both of us have a belief that campaign will make a change in people’s behaviour.”
Through a series of short films, conversations, interviews and debates, #TakeBackSleep is designed to educate, sensitise and showcase the need to adopt good sleep habits along with diet and fitness routines. The campaign dons an optimistic and sensitive tone as it presents relatable situations from daily lives of millennials when they have been neglecting sleep. The campaign is supported by a panel of sleep experts to share deep insights and advise on good sleep habits. An interactive Sleep Quiz has been designed keeping in mind the modern lifestyle habits. Using contemporary scenarios, this Sleep Quiz draws attention to triggers for sleep deprivation. Visit www.takebacksleep.org and take the Sleep Quiz.
The statistics on sleep deprivation was quite astonishing and the brand knew that it could help make a difference. #TakeBackSleep is an endeavour towards building a fitter and healthier India, especially the urban Indian population. Keeping in mind this aim, the brand is glad to have partnered with The Times of India to help extend the reach of our campaign across the nation.
According to Bhargava, TOI takes up causes neglected by the society from time to time. There is a lot of chatter around diet and fitness routines, but one rarely reads about the need to rest and sleep well. “We are glad to partner with Bombay Dyeing for this campaign that rightly urges the ‘always-on’ generation to adopt good sleep habits, so that they rest well and are ready to soar to higher echelons of success,” he said.
Speaking about the campaign, Jeh Wadia, MD of Bombay Dyeing, said, “For 140 years, Bombay Dyeing has provided comfortable sheets, duvets, pillow cases, mattresses and pillows that have helped millions of Indians to have a sound sleep. As a market leader, I feel it is incumbent on Bombay Dyeing to make everyone realise the importance of eight hours of sleep — 1/3rd of our lifetime. And by the way it is one of the longest and most consistent activities in our lifetime. Our internal research shows that millennials are sleep deprived due to variety of reasons. Bombay Dyeing presents #TakeBackSleep campaign, where we intend to educate the virtues of adequate and sound sleep. My biggest learning is that leading a fit lifestyle is not limited to working out, eating healthy and meditating, it is also about giving your body the rest. I choose to spend 1/3 of my lifetime with Bombay Dyeing, I hope and suggest you do too.”
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Which Side Are You On? 2009 APALA Convention
Sergeant-at-arms, 2009 APALA convention, Las Vegas
Just got back from a long weekend in Vegas, but I didn’t do any gambling, see any shows or go to the Liberace Museum (though I did eat at a couple buffets). Instead I spent most of my time consorting with a crowd of fired-up labor union activists at the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) convention. Equal parts awards ceremony, strategy session, and revival meeting, the APALA convention rocked the old-school trade unionist rhetoric with more than 300 delegates from across the country. I got a crash course in union acronyms—represented at the convention were IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), SEIU (Service Employees International Union), AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees), IFPTE (International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees), and CWU (Culinary Workers Union), to name just a few. I met homecare workers, teachers, electricians, lab techs, hotel and restaurant workers, longshoremen, nurses, ironworkers (not to be confused with steelworkers, who were also in the house), and straight-up union organizers, all of whom were dedicated to the cause of uplifting and honoring the worker and making sure we all get paid a living wage.
John Delloro brings 'em to their feet, 2009 APALA convention, Las Vegas
Some of the convention’s most interesting aspects were the various forms of creative expression, both subtle and overt, that repeatedly surfaced during the weekend. Songs and poetry by labor unionists go way back, and one of the convention’s speakers, Johanna Puno Hestor, referenced this long history by quoting from a poem by famed Pinoy farmworker and organizer Philip Vera Cruz. Chants and unions also go together hand in glove and one of my favorite moments was when John Delloro of the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute let rip with a full-throated rendition of the old picket-line chant, “We Are The Union,” getting the whole convention to swing it with him. Several other times during the proceedings a speaker would spontaneously bust out with a rousing chant in various languages including Spanish, Tagalog, and Mandarin as well as English.
APALA convention presenter Kiwi and tats
The connections between art and activism were further explicated throughout the convention. Rapper Kiwi, formerly of Native Guns, and Geo Quibuyen, aka Geologic, aka Prometheus Brown, blogger and a member of Seattle’s isangmahal arts kollective and one-half of the rap duo Blues Scholars, led a standing-room-only workshop entitled “Cultural Activism and The Fight For Workers’ Rights,” which looked at the work of sansei singer/songwriter Chris Iijima, Pilipino filmmaker Lino Brocka, Tupac Shakur, and writer Carlos Bulosan, linking their creative work to issues of human rights and social justice. Rick Rocamora gave a slide show of his luminous and evocative black-and-white photographs from “Filipino World War II Soldiers: America’s Second-Class Veterans,” his book about the Pinoy soldiers’ struggle to receive benefits from the U.S. government. On the filmmaking tip, Tam Tran screened “Lost And Found,” her poignant short documentary (see below) about Stephanie Solis, a UCLA undergraduate and undocumented immigrant who entered the U.S. as a child. Both Tran and Solis spoke in support of the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act, which would facilitate legal status for many young people who are, due to the peculiarities of U.S. immigration law, in permanent non-citizen limbo.
All in all the convention was pretty informative and enlightening, with much more lively speeches than the dry-as-dust presentations I’m used hearing at, say, your standard academic conference. I enjoyed the convocation being referred to as “sisters and brothers” and it was fun to hear the boos and gasps of shock when particularly nefarious employers were called on the carpet for their various transgressions (ten-hour work day! no lunch break! no overtime!). The topics discussed were particularly relevant to me since my own union, the California Faculty Association, just voted on whether or not to accept work furloughs equaling a 10% pay cut. Trade unions may seem outdated and retro but with the Republican policies of the last presidential administration resulting in the current economic meltdown, maybe there’s something to be said for fairer labor practices and a return to honoring workers instead of exploiting them. In the end, it’s all about doing right by as many people as possible instead of only looking out for yourself, which really isn’t a bad thing at all.
A few fun facts:
Only 12% of U.S. workers are union members, with only 9% of the private sector unionized.
All of the hotels on the Vegas strip save one (The Venetian, boooo!) are union shops.
It took more than six years to unionize the MGM Grand Hotel.
Here’s Tam Tran’s short about Stephanie Solis and the DREAM Act.
UPDATE: May 16, 2010: Terrible news–Tam Tran was just killed in a car accident in Maine today when a pickup truck crossed the meridian and crashed head on into a car she was riding in. I’d only met Tam once, after she showed the above video, and she was a promising young filmmaker and activist. All thoughts to her family and friends.
UPDATE 2: June 6, 2010. More incredibly bad news–just found out today that John Delloro died of a heart attack yesterday. This is quite shocking to me since John was an incredibly vibrant person who was literally bursting with life. I’d only met him once, at the APALA convention last year, but I was more than impressed with his incredible energy, dedication, and optimism. The Asian American community has lost a a potentially great leader who has passed long before his time. We can only hope that in his memory we will all continue his work toward peace, justice, and the betterment of the world for all.
And for good measure, the lyrics to Which Side Are You On?, written by Florence Reece in 1931 during a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in which her husband, Sam Reece, was an organizer.
Come all you good workers,
Good news to you I’ll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell.
My daddy was a miner,
And I’m a miner’s son,
And I’ll stick with the union
‘Til every battle’s won.
They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there.
You’ll either be a union man
Or a thug for J. H. Blair.
Oh workers can you stand it?
Oh tell me how you can?
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?
Don’t scab for the bosses,
Don’t listen to their lies.
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance
Unless we organize.
July 17, 2009 at 7:56 am 4 comments
No Regrets: San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, part two
Xun Zhou abuses her lungs, The Equation of Love and Death, 2008
I’m sick as a dog this week with a pernicious chest cold and I blame it all on the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. I’d just started recovering from version one of this malaise when the Film Fest started last Thursday. But I had so much fun at the Opening Night party, the screenings, the receptions and the afterparties that I made myself thoroughly ill again. So now I’ve got version two, with a hacking cough that won’t go away. I’m chugging Wal-Tussin straight from the bottle and using up all of my Tiger Balm to try to get some sleep at night. But I’ve got no regrets, even when I’m coughing uncontrollably at three in the morning.
The SFIAAFF was especially good this year, with an embarrassment of riches of Asian American and international features, documentaries and shorts. I previewed several programs before the festival but I also went to see a bunch during the festival itself. It’s a testament to the depth and quality of the programming that the festival could only find a slot at noon on Saturday for an excellent film like Cao Baoping’s The Equation of Love and Death, starring chain-smoking A-list Chinese actress Xun Zhou, which in other years or at other festivals might have been an Opening Night movie. It’s equally telling that the screening at the cavernous Castro Theater was crowded with viewers despite its off-hour scheduling. It was like that for every show that I went to, including a Wednesday night short film program, the romantically inclined It’s Easy Because You’re Beautiful, which included Object Loss, A. Moon’s excellent, wistfully sad meditation on adoption, loss and patterns of behavior, as well as several slick Korean shorts that played like miniature versions of Coffee Prince.
Anushka Sharma & Shak Rukh Khan get down, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, 2008
I also had the pleasure of experiencing my very first Shah Rukh Khan film, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, which has made me a fervent fan of the sexy and charismatic King of Bollywood. I’m a sucker for men who can dance and Shah Rukh Khan brings it on that count in spades.
The parties, social events, and casual meet-ups with old friends make up the other half of the festival and they were especially fun this year–sometimes the SFIAAFF feels like one big frenetic Asian American filmmaking convention. I talked to a half-dozen people who had specifically planned their vacations around attending the festival, including journalist, author and muckracker Pratap Chatterjee, who showed me his string of tickets to about two dozen festival shows.
I also noticed the latest trend in headgear for fans of Asian American cinema. Everywhere I went there were stylin’ dudes sporting porkpie hats—at one party I counted twelve wearers of this little topper, including two of the bartenders.
Queues and toppers, San Francisco Chinatown, Arnold Genthe, 1895
Of course porkpies and other fashionable hatwear go way back in Asian American history. Turn-of-the-century San Francisco Chinatown was full of men in queues and felted hats.
Carlos Bulosan, fashion plate
Famed Pinoy author and poet Carlos Bulosan often wore a tasteful fedora in his publicity stills, and the porkpie was favored by other manongs as well.
Kaba hat, 2008
And Kaba Modern brought the porkpie to last year’s edition of America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV.
Tad Nakamura and Kevin Lim, porkpiers
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the porkpie has found favor in the Asian American scene. Here’s a couple natty porkpie wearers at the festival.
Mas porkpie, Temple Nightclub, SFIAAFF Closing Night Party, 2009
And here’s the picture I wished I’d taken that I cribbed from the festival’s Best Photo contest website.
So I’m laid up with a cold this week, rewatching my collection of Francis Ng dvds and trying to keep up with my responsibilities like feeding my children and editing my film. But even though I overdid it, the festival only comes around once a year and I’m glad to have been able to participate in such an excellent, significant event. As someone once observed, Chuck D. claimed that rap music is the CNN of the black community and filmmaking has become the Asian American equivalent. Maybe it’s because it’s a little less scary for Asian American parents if their kids want to make movies instead of, say, becoming performance artists or abstract painters, but the Asian American film community is alive and kicking and the SFIAAFF’s continued health and well-being is a testament to that fact. Here’s hoping it continues to successfully channel our cinematic glories for many more years to come.
Update: Xun Zhou just won Best Actress at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong, for The Equation of Love and Death.
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Qualcomm Scraps $45 Billion NXP Deal After No Response from China
San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm has walked away from buying Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors for $45 billion after the Chinese regulators did not grant last-minute approval to the deal.
The two companies entered into a deal in October 2016, with the deadline to close the deal extended several times as the companies waited for China to approve or deny the merger.
Eight of the nine countries where Qualcomm has businesses had approved the deal.
With no answer from China’s Ministry of Commerce as the deadline passed (it was 9.30 a.m. Indian time on Thursday), it was clear that the merger was officially dead.
“We intend to terminate our purchase agreement to acquire NXP when the agreement expires at the end of the day today, pending any new material developments,” Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, said in a statement late on Wednesday.
“In addition, upon termination of the agreement, we intend to pursue a stock repurchase program of up to $30 billion to deliver significant value to our stockholders,” he added as the company announced results for its fiscal third quarter that ended June 24.
However, Qualcomm will shell out a break-up fee of $2 billion to NXP Semiconductors that makes automotive, security and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
The chip-maker reported revenue of $5.6 billion, saying the revenue in the third quarter grew four per cent year-on-year. The net income was $1.2 billion.
“We reported results significantly above our prior expectations for our fiscal third quarter, driven by solid execution across the company, including very strong results in our licensing business,” Mollenkopf said.
The company also announced that it does not expect to supply wireless chips for upcoming iPhones. Qualcomm is a major supplier of 4G chips for smartphones. According to CNET, Apple has been using Intel 4G chips for some iPhone models and Qualcomm chips for others.
“We believe Apple intends to solely use our competitor’s modems rather than our modems in its next iPhone release,” Qualcomm Financial Chief George Davis was quoted as saying.
Apple and Qualcomm have been fighting over patents since the beginning of 2017.
“Qualcomm didn’t say which company will supply modems for the next iPhone, but it is believed to be Intel,” the report added.
With iPhone 7 and 7 Plus launch in 2016, Apple began using Intel chips in some variants of iPhones.
However, some media reports said Apple has reportedly conveyed a message to Intel, saying it will not be using the chip-maker’s 5G modems for 2020 iPhone models.
Earlier reports suggested that Apple was turning to Taiwanese mobile chipset maker MediaTek for its communications components and that the California-headquartered tech giant was looking to move away from using Intel processors altogether by 2020.
Apple started using Intel components in modern iPhones as it wanted to reduce its dependence on chips from Qualcomm, with which it got entangled in a long legal battle.
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Home News Robert Downey Jr. Unveils Tech Initiative to Save Earth
Robert Downey Jr. Unveils Tech Initiative to Save Earth
“Iron Man” actor Robert Downey Jr. has announced a new initiative called The Footprint Coalition that would help clean up the planet using advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and nanotechnology.
In a keynote address on Tuesday at Amazon’s first-ever AI, robotics and space conference titled “Re:Mars” here, Downey Jr. said the coalition would officially be launched by April 2020.
“Between robotics and nanotechnology, we could clean up the planet significantly, if not totally, in 10 years,” Downey told the audience.
According to the actor who has played the character of Tony Stark aka Iron Man for the past 11 years — the latest being the mega-hit “Avengers: The End Game” — AI gives him hope to tackle the climate problems.
The actor delivered a 20-minute talk that covered history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the evolution of Stark’s Iron Man suits, the actual history of AI and its pioneers.
“Quick disclaimer, I don’t pretend to understand the complexities we face as a species, just because I portrayed a genius in my professional life. My scholastic achievement peaked at a correctional finishing,” the actor told a packed house here.
“I’ve got to do something. I’m unemployed,” he quipped in a reference to the ending of the popular “Avengers” series.
In between the talk were jokes using Amazon Alexa and actor Matt Damon (who joined via video chat).
“I thought you were a call and response device, has that changed?” Downey asked Alexa.
Alexa responded: “I took the initiative, please don’t imagine I conform to your demeaning limits.”
Earlier, Dave Limp, SVP of Amazon Devices and Services said that “we really do believe we can solve the most interesting and challenging problems facing us today using AI”.
Those attending the inaugural Re:Mars event include “astronauts and CEOs, artists and engineers, PhDs and politicians,” Limp said.
Kicked off on Tuesday, the Re:MARS would see more than 100 sessions keynotes and interactive workshops, deliberating on the latest AI and ML trends and innovations.
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Durham Rescue Mission works to keep homeless warm during cold snap
Crews from the Durham Rescue Mission scoured the area on a race against frigid temperatures and dangerous wind chill.
"I've seen men frostbit. I've seen men near death," said Rev. Rob Tart, the Chief Operating Officer of the Durham Rescue Mission.
The teams checked woods and the backsides of buildings -- anywhere the homeless might gather.
"You know the homeless community doesn't really keep up with the weather and they often can get flat-footed in a time like this, and this is the kind of weather that can kill people," said Tart.
The volunteers are inviting the homeless inside for a place to get out of the elements. It's all part of Operation Warm Shelter. Clients are given coats, gloves, clean clothes and hot food.
"It's the best thing I ever did," said client Gavin Clap, who checked in last week when the cold became too much to bear. "It's not very fun trying to find a place to stay like on an abandoned porch or under the eve of a house, just wherever you can get out of the cold."
The mission is already housing nearly 450 people. The beds are filling up, but they won't turn anyone away especially this week when the weather can be fatal.
"Come on in. Get out of the weather," said Tart. "We'll take them. We'll get them through the bitter part of the cold, and what they want to do after that is up to them."
The doors at the Durham Rescue Mission are open to anyone.
If you'd like to help feed the homeless, officials say all it takes is $2.05. Click here to donate.
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Mitt Romney, the bane of Sesame Street
Forums: Politics, Romney, P B S, Big Bird, 2012 Election
DrewDad
Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2012 09:49 am
Cut PBS funding? Really?
Maybe Mr. Romney needs some remedial math, if one of his "big ideas" is to balance the budget by cutting it by 0.012%.
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[+4] - sozobe - 10/05/2012Sure, and Obama has done a bunch of those. He's cut a lot of waste out of the government. The question is, should PBS be one of those cuts? Is there nothing else that could be cut first? I...
[+4] - DrewDad - 10/05/2012[quote="Linkat"] if it is quick and painless why not? [/quote] Painless? I think you have no idea what PBS means to low-income people.
[+4] - sozobe - 10/05/2012[img]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/527832_533386060024185_1328007525_n.jpg[/img]
[+3] - DrewDad - 10/04/2012[img]http://americablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/romney-bigbird.jpg[/img]
[+3] - DrewDad - 10/05/2012So... you cut the catsup and mustard packets, and pat yourself on the back for your cost-saving measures? Way to go.
[+3] - revelette - 10/05/2012PBS has been more than just "nice to have" as has been said many times already. It does a lot of good with very little federal spending; most of its funding comes from private sources...
Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2012 03:50 pm
@DrewDad,
Obama on downsizing Big Bird:
In his Denver speech, he jabbed back at Mitt Romney's statement from last night's debate that the former governor would take away funding for PBS's Sesame Street Show, despite his fondness for Big Bird.
"Thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird," he said to laughs. "It's about time."
By cutting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appropriation, Mr. Romney will save a whopping $445 million dollars... or just South of $1.50 per person.
farmerman
roughly half the cost of 1 F35
Reply Fri 5 Oct, 2012 08:30 am
@farmerman,
So Big Bird is about half the cost of a big bird for the military.
Screw the children, the "adults" want a plane.
revelette
It's not just big bird which would be eliminated if Romney gets his way, but also free educational programs and GED.
In a statement issued today, PBS said “We are very disappointed that PBS became a political target in the Presidential debate last night. Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation. We think it is important to set the record straight and let the facts speak for themselves.”
Other excerpts from the PBS statement:
–”The federal investment in public broadcasting equals about one one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget. Elimination of funding would have virtually no impact on the nation’s debt. Yet the loss to the American public would be devastating.”
–”As a stated supporter of education, Governor Romney should be a champion of public broadcasting, yet he is willing to wipe out services that reach the vast majority of Americans, including underserved audiences, such as children who cannot attend preschool and citizens living in rural areas.”
–”For more than 40 years Big Bird, has embodied the public broadcasting mission – harnessing the power of media for the good of every citizen, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. Our system serves as a universally accessible resource for education, history, science, arts and civil discourse.”
–”Each day, the American public receives an enduring and daily return on investment that is heard, seen, read and experienced in public media broadcasts, apps, podcasts and online – all for the cost of about $1.35 per person per year.”
Voters Oppose Eliminating Government Funding For Public Broadcasting
PBS Stretches Across American Communities
I agree that PBS funding isn't going to help - but why is the government supporting this? I think in times when there is a recession you do need to consider cutting where ever you can - is it necessary to fund PBS? I'd rather use that money to feed people.
Doesn't sesame street make any money off things like tickle me elmo that would/could support the show?
Cycloptichorn
@Linkat,
Well, we're not in a recession, so I can't agree with this.
Also, instead of cutting funding for a public service for kids, maybe we could make one less jet fighter that we don't need? Yeah. Priorities.
If you agree cutting PBS federal funding is not going to do anything for the federal budget. (I assume that whats you meant?" Then why do it when the PBS has privided so much good free service for those who need it the most? We should be able find real money elsewhere where it will actually do some good.
@revelette,
The Muppets Strike Back
http://millionmuppetmarch.com/
sozobe
The amount spent on PBS is tiny in context -- 0.012% of the budget.
Romney's full quote was:
"I'm sorry, Jim, I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. Actually I like you, too. [Moderator Jim Lehrer whose show is on PBS.] But I'm not going to -- I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for [it]."
That's stupid in a number of ways, but one of them is "I'm not going to keep on spending money on things..." If he becomes president, he's not going to stop spending money altogether! Defense, roads, social security, spending is going to happen. It's a matter of prioritization.
So I could believe he just said that badly and just meant that some difficult cuts should be made -- I understand that. But he has to make a case for prioritizing cutting the PBS subsidy over, for example, cutting out a single warplane from the defense budget.
Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote:
Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive
Linkat wrote:
I agree that PBS funding isn't going to help - but why is the government supporting this?
Presumably for the same reasons that "the government" supports schools, roads, bridges, rural electrification, 911 access, police, and firefighters. It is good for our society. Educated kids are good for our society. Socialized kids are good for our society. Knowledgeable adults are good for our society.
CPB/PBS has tons of free educational shows. It has tons of free news. Free music concerts. It is tremendously culturally enriching, especially for folks who can't afford cable, or the Internet.
I think in times when there is a recession you do need to consider cutting where ever you can - is it necessary to fund PBS? I'd rather use that money to feed people.
One flaw in this reasoning is that Romney isn't talking about using that money to feed people. He's just talking about cutting the budget (which also doesn't help in a recession).
Sesame Street has become a talking point, but it's hardly the only program that gets CPB grants. Somehow I don't think they're going to come out with "tickle me algebra" or "tickle me David Attenborough" dolls.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/fact-check-mitt-romneys-pbs-cuts-wont-fire-big-bird/
Big Bird won't be hurt but goodbye Antiques Roadshow.
@parados,
“Stations in rural parts of the country, where their parts of the federal funding is 40, 50, 60 percent, those stations will go off the air,” PBS chief executive Paula Kerger told CNN this morning. “The reach of our work is so extensive and so deeply rooted in education … the fact that we are in this debate at all is just incomprehensible.”
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What are the differences between carnitine forms?
I've heard of L-carnitine, acetyl L-carnitine and L-carnitine L-tartrate. What form(s) occur in meat? What form does the human body manufacture?
Is L-carnitine just a shortened name for L-carnitine L-tartrate?
biochemistry metabolism fat-metabolism
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$\begingroup$ L-carnitine and L-tartrate are two separate compounds - though a lot of "nutritional supplements" will package them together and seem to refer to them like they are one compound. $\endgroup$ – Vance L Albaugh Oct 6 '15 at 14:03
Carnitine tartrate is a salt between carnitine (cation) and tartrate (the conjugate base of tartaric acid, anion). So in this case, tartaric acid is not covalently bound to carnitine.
The salt formulation is a little tricky, because carnitine is itself a zwitterion at physiological pH (it has both a positive and negative charge) and so is overall uncharged in pure form. I think the tartrate salt is formed because tartaric acid is more acidic (first pKa = 2.89) than the carboxyl group of carnitine (pKa = 4.09), which leads carnitine to become protonated and therefore +1 charged in a concentrated mixture. The formulation sold by Lonza (which seems to be a major provider) appears to be a ratio of 2 cartinine (68%) to 1 tartrate (32%), which would indicate that tartrate acts as a -2 anion in this mixture (this is a bit surprising as the second pKa of tartaric acid has pKa = 4.40, but maybe I'm missing something).
You can recognize that this is a salt from the naming: the form tartrate indicate a conjugate base of an acid (as in lactate, acetate), and when used in a two-component name like carnitine tartrate (or, sodium acetate) refers to a salt. On the other hand, a carboxylic acid covalently bound to another group is given the suffix -yl, so tartryl carnitine would indicate tartaric acid bound to carnitine, as in fatty acid oxidation.
RolandRoland
Carnitine is a molecule that allows transport of carboxylic acids (including fatty acids) across mitochondrial membranes and is involved in fatty acid metabolism. Like many biomolecules it exists as the L-enantiomer in the cells. It can be coupled to any carboxylic acid and in that case is called acyl-carnitine. L-Carnitine L-tartrate is a drug formulation and is a mixture of L-carnitine and L-tartarate (tartarate is not covalently coupled to tartaric acid).
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Budd Schroeder SCOPE Board Chair on Micro-Stamping
Buffalo , NY 14240
The Another View article on microstamping by Derek P. Champagne stated that a law requiring the process in all semi-automatic pistols sold in New York would be a valuable tool in solving violent gun crimes. This is not true. If it was true there would be some data proving its effectiveness. There are no credible studies to back up this opinion.
As far as New York is concerned, his statement that 60 percent of guns used in crimes upstate were sold in New York must include rifles and shotguns. Only government and individuals with pistol permits are allowed to purchase handguns in New York . The violent crime rate of people who have pistol permits is so low that there is no category for it,
Mayor Bloomberg has stated that most of the criminal's handguns used in New York are illegally imported from other states. Therefore a microstamping bill would not affect those weapons and would be totally useless.
If all the states passed the bill and microstamping worked, the big problem is that it is easily defeated. Most semi-automatic pistols have easily replaced barrels and firing pins and can be changed in a few minutes.
If the gun has a fixed barrel, the microstamping can easily be removed with the use of a file, power drill, valve grinding compound and about a half hour or less of time. The process is so simple it does not need the skill of a gunsmith or even a good mechanic.
The third weakness is that a person who intended to commit a violent gun crime could go to a range (even a police range) and pick up a handful of cases. He can then use a brass catcher on the gun used in the crime and scatter the picked up cases at the scene. This could really confuse the investigation of the crime.
We were told a decade ago that the Combined Ballistic Information System (CoBIS) would aid police agencies when a gun was involved in a crime. The taxpayers have wasted about $40 million for this system and so far, it has not resulted in aiding any shooting investigation and the conviction of a criminal.
The downstate legislators are always looking for new “gun control” bills. New York is in the top percentage of states having strict and draconian gun laws, but they have little effect on violent gun crime. The reason is because criminals don’t obey gun laws any more than they obey other laws.
Forty million dollars wasted on CoBIS could have been better used by spending it on technology that actually worked. The funding for it should be ended now and the money directed to better law enforcement that takes criminals off the streets.
Those who write about gun laws and suggest passage should learn about technology, examine credible data and not confuse opinion with facts.
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13th Lake Region NY DEC bias proposal
N.Y.S. Conservation Council
D.E.C. Proposes Precedent Setting Outboard Motor Ban
Good afternoon:
The D.E.C. is proposing a precedent setting regulation to ban outboard motors from Thirteenth Lake. The lake is a popular trout fishing and hunting area that currently is only accessible with car top boats, as the boats must be carried about 200 yards to the lake. Reasons given for the action are "the need to create an environment consistent with the surrounding wilderness area, gas powered boats can create noise that can be heard in areas within the Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area which can negatively affect the wilderness experience of users. Water and air pollution from gas powered boats can also negatively impact the lake. In addition, the wake created from these boats can harm nesting loons and can create difficulties for those canoeing". The proposed regulation sets some dangerous precedents that could be expanded to any other lake in the Adirondack Park that borders a wilderness area.
To access the proposed regulations go to: http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/2359.html Scroll down to Thirteenth Lake . Deadline for comments is July 2, 2011. Please weigh in and forward to others who utilize boats and outboard motors for fishing and to access hunting and trapping areas or to enjoy the out of doors! To send a letter to the DEC and elected officials:
1. Highlight the letter below starting with the date and ending before the solid black line across the page. Then click edit then copy.
Peter Frank, Bureau of Forest Preserve
NYS DEC, Division of Lands & Forests
625 Broadway, Albany , NY 12233-4254
lfadk@gw.dec.state.ny.us
RE: Opposition to proposed regulation to ban outboard motors on Thirteenth Lake
Dear Mr. Frank:
As a sportsman and taxpayer I oppose the proposed regulation to ban the use of outboard motors on Thirteenth Lake for the following reasons:
1. There is no documented scientific evidence that the lake requires this additional protection or that water or air quality is being negatively impacted;
2. The regulation does not provide equitable consideration for all user groups and instead favors the paddlers and hikers; needs of fisherman and hunters are an afterthought.
3. The statement that outboard motors wakes are negatively impacting on nesting loons is hollow rhetoric and without merit;
4. The actions to protect the wilderness boundary are simply action on the Departments part to further a protectionist agenda and appease the green groups;
5. The regulation, which promotes the use of electric motors, will place the sport fishing public and hunters at risk as electric motors do not have the thrust or sustainability to get the sporting community safely to shore in high winds or when traveling long distances;
6. Citing the Forest Preserve Advisory Board as a group who has endorsed this regulation raises some very serious questions about the legitimacy and legality of this group. The Board is stacked with Green Groups, keeps no minutes that are available to the public and does not allow or invite the press or the general public to its meetings. Yet is a board involved in recommending regulations and policy!
7. The current lake access requires boats to be carried approximately 200 yards and as such limits lake access to car top boats and small motors; which are appropriate for a lake of this size.
8. Restricting motors will limit fisherman and prohibit hunters from accessing the remote sections of the lake.
9. The regulation will negatively impact on small businesses in an area that depend on sport fishing and hunting for business traffic.
Please stop this deceitful attempt at establishing precedent to further the D.E.C.’s “quiet waters” initiative and please consider the needs of all user groups in an equitable manner. Withdraw this proposal!
cc: Senator Mark Grisanti, Chair Encon. Committee
Senator Betty Little
Senator David Carlucci, Chair Admin. Reg. Review Com.
2. Click the link below on the far left to open an email message. When the email opens be sure all recipients are listed. Add others as you see fit, such as your state eleccted officials.
lfadk@gw.dec.state.ny.us;carlucci@nysenate.gov;grisanti@nysenate.gov;little@nysenate.gov;
3. In the subject box type: Opposition to Outboard Motor Ban on Thirteenth Lake
4. Move your cursor to the text box and go to edit then paste to place the comment in the email. Feel free to modify comments as you see fit and add your own lead in and closing statements.
5. Fill in your name and address, title, etc. at the bottom of the e-mail.
6. Hit send and your comment will be sent to the D.E.C. and Elected Officials.
7. It is important that the D.E.C. receive some hard copies; they must respond to comments received by mail. To send a hard copy open the attachment and print.
8. If you would like to send an additional comment to Commissioner Martens click the link below.
http://www.dec.ny.gov/about/407.html
If you need assistance or have questions, please let me know.
Thank-you for weighing in on this very important issue. Deadline for comments is July 2, 2011
Walt Paul
Access and Land Use Specialist
For more information and updates visit us at www.nyscc.com. The New York State Conservation Council is the oldest conservation organization in N.Y.S. The mission of the Council is to conserve, protect, restore and perpetuate forests, wildlife and scenic and recreational areas.
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HSUS CEO his plan from the beginning!
The antis plan is the total illimination of sportsmen,animal owners based on Zero population. No consumers = no consumption.
Excerpt: “Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt,” Ted Kerasote, 1994
This file contains two brief excerpts (pp.250-257; 266-267) from Ted Kerasote's book Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt (Kodansha Globe, 1994, out of print).
Bloodties is the source of several controversial quotes attributed to Wayne Pacelle, CEO of HSUS. They resulted from in-person interviews the Kerasote conducted with Pacelle in January 1992.
Among the most interesting bits of Bloodties:
1.[Pacelle:] "I've always had an affinity for wildlife, and the direct assault made on that wildlife by hunters and trappers has always infuriated me ... At the same time, I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals..." (pp. 250-251)
2.—"Do you think that people were once a natural, interactive part of their ecosystems?" I ask.
—"Maybe before the invention of agriculture," he says. (p. 253)
3.—"[W]ould you let people hunt for food if they did it respectfully?"
—"Well, it's a good question," he says, pondering what he's about the say. "I think that I would campaign against it. Yes, I think that I would." (p.254)
4.—"[A]re you a proponent of endless agriculture for endless people?"
—"Oh, no, no. I don't believe in the green revolution as a means of feeding the world, and I certainly don't plan to have children. I take it as a very serious personal responsibility not to put another consumer on this planet." (p. 255)
5.After stopping for potato chips, pretzels, and beer, and making only two more wrong turns, we find Heidi Prescott's town house. She's the national outreach director for the Fund [for Animals] and is famous—the first person to go to jail for animal rights. Rustling leaves with her feet, during a public hunt at a Maryland wildlife management area, she was fined five hundred dollars under a state law that forbids the harassment of hunters. Refusing to pay the fine, she spent fifteen days in jail, which opened her eyes to the plight of inmates.
Heavy set, jovial, and blonde, she has told me, "If I gave up animal rights and zero population work, I'd go into prison reform." At twenty-nine, she's already had her tubes tied for four years and declares that she's "never regretted the decision." After all, "population is the bottom line." (pp. 255-256)
6.—"About fishing ... do you avoid campaigning against it because there isn't a ground-swell movement in our culture to eliminate it?"
—"That is correct. We're out to minimize suffering wherever it can be done, and wherever our limited resources can be utilized most effectively—abusive forms of hunting for now, all hunting eventually."
—"And fish aren't furry and cute."
—"That's right."
—"How about pets, Wayne? Would you envision a future with no pets in the world?"
—"I wouldn't say that I envision that, no. If I had my personal view perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another cat or dog born. It's not something I strive for, though. If people were very responsible, and didn't do manipulative breeding, and cared for animals in all senses, and accounted for their nutritional needs as well as their social and psychological needs, then I think it could be an appropriate thing. I'm not sure. I think it's one of those things that we'll decide later in society. I think we're still far from it." (p. 266)
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Editor Alan Baumgarten on Blending Archival and Shot Footage in TRUMBO
Written by Peter Bowen
The use of archival footage was one of the most challenging and fun aspects of telling the story of TRUMBO. After consulting with director Jay Roach, I started a few weeks before shooting, breaking down the script and finding all the places where there might be a use or need for archival material and stock footage. There were quite a few and some of them were already included in John McNamara’s wonderful script. Next, my 1st assistant Andy Jurgensen and I began working with archive supervisor Deborah Ricketts. Ricketts sent us hours of material on the topics we needed and worked on figuring out what was clearable, what could be altered, etc.
Re-creating the HUAC Hearings
There were quite a few areas in the film where we needed historical material. Obviously the HUAC [House Un-American Activities Committee] hearings were a big part of the film. The challenge there was that we could not use footage that included the actual Hollywood Ten because we had our own actors playing those characters. The same was true for the committee chairman, J. Parnell Thomas [played by James DuMont], and the lead investigator, Robert Stripling [Johnny Sneed]. So first we all reviewed that material to get a sense of the time and place. Next I gathered materials that included photographers, reporters, and spectators at the hearings, footage that I could cut in with our footage. There was also the work of finding the footage of stars, like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who attended the hearings.
In addition to our production design Mark Ricker, costume designer Daniel Orlandi, and cinematographer Jim Denault, a lot of credit for getting these scenes to work goes to our visual effects supervisor Dave Johnson. He was there from the beginning and any point along the way when we needed him. He helped us blend all the footage and do the final compositing. At the HUAC hearing, we were filming on a set with green screen far in the background. To finish off the scene, we had to extend the audience and put in the back walls, sidewalls, and windows to make the room complete. The art department, production design, and cinematography made the set look great, but we were still “missing” parts of the frame. Dave had a still photographer go to Washington, D.C., to shoot the missing wall in the actual congressional room, which thankfully hadn’t changed very much over the years. He then composited the walls into the background, making them believable, as if it were the original Congressional Hearing room.
Creating Newsreels
We created a number of newsreels for the film. We did not want to use existing newsreels intact, because the existing ones had tied-in music and voice over, some of which was good and appropriate for us, and some of which was a little too much or not quite right. So we created our own. We looked at actual newsreels for reference, and then pulled accessible archival material to reconstruct them to say exactly what we needed. Our music editor, Tom Drescher, found library music that was similar in fanfare or style to what the newsreels had used. He then edited this music to ‘score’ our original newsreels and we licensed this music for use in the film. With Jay’s help, we also wrote our own narration and voice over for the newsreels. We cast actors from our loop group, The Looping Division, to be the newsreel announcers, as well as TV commentators when we created TV programs. Editorially the challenge was getting the newsreels to be concise and representative of what we wanted them to say, but also have the feel of a real newsreel, including the graphics. Technically we degraded our material to match the archival material. The archival footage had a beat-up degraded look since it was shot on old stock and had weathered over time, so we had fun matching that look.
One of the first newsreels we created was modeled after Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood, a short film in which she would emerge out of a graphic of her newspaper column and start talking about whatever topic she wanted to cover at that time. In our case, she was talking about the spread of communism and the threat right here at home. We used archival footage of Stalin as well as images of tanks, soldiers marching down the street, and planes flying overhead––a classic hawkish take on what the threat might be. Then we added footage we shot of our politicians, like J. Parnell Thomas saying, “the danger is at home and the traitors are among us.” We blended historical footage with our footage through that entire newsreel. We see Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg) at a strike we recreated. We used archival footage of picketing labor union workers in Hollywood during a carpenters’ strike, then we popped in tighter with the footage we created with Trumbo and Robinson at a more contained, smaller rally outside of the studio gate.
We also created stand-alone newsreels––one on the Korean war that didn’t make it in and one on Joseph McCarthy and the Rosenbergs. While these were not written into the original script, Jay had the idea they would open up the story and provide context to what was going on at the time. It also allowed us take a breather for some time passage that happens in the story. Since we had been using newsreels previously, it made sense to go to them in the abstract, that is in a way that they weren’t related to a scene or character. They helped give a time stamp and a historical frame of reference.
When Trumbo is in prison, we go to the newsreel that explains that the Rosenbergs have been sentenced to death and McCarthy is on the march. We created this from bits and pieces. The actual newsreel story about the Rosenbergs was a much bigger story, but we just extracted a few shots from it and wrote our own voice over. We didn’t want to stray too far into these historical stories before coming back to our characters. And as wonderful as that material is, it can break the spell of being in our story.
Making a John Wayne Film
We created a John Wayne film called Gung Ho that Trumbo and the others watch in prison. Deborah Ricketts found four World War II films that were in the public domain that we could use for our film. We found a couple of wide shots which you might believe John Wayne was in. Then Jay worked with the actor David James Elliott (who played Wayne) to create some close up coverage to match what we had mocked up based on actual footage. They had the mock-up on set and used it pretty carefully so we could match shots.
Mixing Archival with Shot Footage
In other places we licensed stock footage for TV playback. For example, the civil rights demonstrations that were playing on TV while Nikki Trumbo watched. The Academy Awards footage in which Roman Holiday won was licensed from the Academy, but we inserted our own Kirk Douglas [who actually presented the Oscar for Writing (Motion Picture Story)]. We found the clip and then Jay, Jim Denault and Dean O’Gorman (who played Douglas) created footage that matched the original.
At one point, a studio executive and others are watching the gladiator fight from Spartacus in a screening room. To create the scene they are watching, we had to shoot actor Dean O'Gorman again to match Kirk Douglas. We see Kirk Douglas in a wide shot from the actual Spartacus footage. Then we cut to a close up where he is against a wall, and it is our Kirk Douglas (Dean O'Gorman) intercut. That was a case of matching shot for shot. We made sure that we found a clip that had isolated close ups of Kirk Douglas so that we could cheat in a shot of O’Gorman. We wanted to be more realistic and linger on the shot in close up, so we didn’t use a lot of digital tricks.
For the Spartacus premiere we mixed archival and shot footage. Inside, we filmed Trumbo (Cranston) and Douglas (O’Gorman), but for the exteriors we used archival footage showing the protestors. The scene of Kennedy leaving the theater after having seen Spartacus was completely shot by production. We had looked into using another screening for which we had footage. There was a special screening for foreign ambassadors, which were all being introduced in newsreel fashion. We mocked up a version in which we would have Kennedy leaving that premiere and getting into a car, but ultimately research showed that he wasn’t at that screening, so we followed the research and depicted him leaving the movie theater as it actually happened.
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Weapons of Redemption (Box Set)
Saloni Quinby
Five men, enslaved by a vampire pirate and forced to do his bidding, rebelled against their master and earned the wrath of a monster. Now, while plotting to destroy the man who, centuries later, still thinks he owns them, they use their powers to protect other victims.
Whips and Chains: In a seedy underworld of sex and violence, a serial killer is stalking men and Guy is called upon to find the murderer. Ryan, a professional Dom known as the Beast Tamer, specializes in meting out pleasure and pain to oversized men. Is the sexy young man with a mysterious past the next victim -- or the killer?
Sword and Shield: Rule coped with his abduction by the vampire pirate Tarun by cutting off his emotions. After centuries of self-control through punishment, he found a man who finally reached his heart. Now it's up to Rule to save his former lover, but once he sees Joel again, will Rule be able to resist him?
Cloak and Dagger: When police detective Bryce Tarunson arrests a man who looks just like his lover from two thousand years ago, he's pulled closer to the vampiric master he hates. The bond between Bryce and Shane forces them into a battle that might end in the destruction of the Weapons of Redemption.
Marksmen: Ansley and Brayden were stolen as boys by the hated vampire pirate, Tarun, to work aboard his ship. As men, their friendship blossomed into a deep, undeniable love. In the final battle between the vampire pirate and the Weapons of Redemption, Ansley and Brayden's love for each other will either save or destroy them.
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How Long Is Your Story?
Posted on March 15, 2011 by Deborah J. Ross
Once The Idea Fairy has deposited a packet beneath your pillow, or you’ve unwrapped the latest mail-order from Schenectady, you must decide, among other things, whether you’ve got a short-short or a multi-volume epic on your hands. Story ideas have been likened to different kinds of wood or sculpting materials. Some ideas are lightweight, like balsa or pine (or aluminum); others are more dense (oak, plaster, copper). Some are brittle, others more fluid and malleable. Some are uniform in texture, others richly varied.
As a general rule, if anything like a rule can be applied to storytelling, the stronger the basic material, the greater length and complexity it can support. What that means is that–again, in general–a gossamer, undifferentiated concept might package up nicely in a few thousand words, but if you try to stretch it out to a novella, it will turn thin and tinny. (Composers work around this by using Theme and Variations, which is certainly possible in writing as well, but still requires a theme that has enough substance to make it worthwhile.)
It took me a number of years after I’d started selling professionally to be able to look at a new idea and get a sense of its best length. Part of the problem was that I hadn’t had enough experience to “size it up.” Also, I had only a few story-lengths in my repertoire, basically short story (3-5,000 words) and novel (80,000). It was like driving a car with only two gears or, to quote the adage, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. As a consequence, some of my short stories read like condensed novellas, and I was accumulating a pile of unfinished novels–unfinished because once I’d hit 5,000 words, I’d said everything there was to say.
To my credit, I began noticing these problems. I also experimented with different ways of sketching or outlining a story. My favorite method was a flow chart, preferably done in different colored inks. Seeing the scenes laid out like that helped me to think in terms of how much of the overall length I was devoting to each part (set-up, complications, climax…) and also the total length. Without actually having written the whole story, I began to be able to guess its final wordage. I made a lot of bad guesses, but an increasing number of good ones. Eventually, I was able to say, “This is mahogany and should come in at about 10,000 words,” and be right.
As I paid closer attention to the qualities of the story idea, I also started writing at different lengths, as indicated above. As I became more skillful, I learned how to play out crucial scenes and flesh out what is true and deep and delightful: hence, longer and more satisfying stories. I’ve never written a lot of short-shorts, and flash fiction remains terra incognita, but I discovered the joys of the novelette, a really wonderful length for ideas too meaty for that 5,000 spot and pretty well wrapped up well below novella length. It remains one of my favorite story lengths.
On a few instances, I was able to take a failed story and rework it successfully at a different length. “Transfusion,” a tale of friendship between a vampire and an observant Jew (first published in Realms of Fantasy, 1995) began life as one of those fizzled-out novels. As fate would have it, my floppy drive went gonzo and wouldn’t read the diskette on which it had been stored. When I rewrote it, I discovered how much better it worked as a novelette.
Deborah J. Ross has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 1982. Her novels Jaydium and Northlight are available as multiformat ebooks here on Book View Cafe. Her most recent print publication is Hastur Lord, a Darkover novel with the late Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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About Deborah J. Ross
I began writing professionally in 1982 as Deborah Wheeler with Jaydium and Northlight, (and the omnibus edition, Other Doorways: Early Novels), and short stories in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy and Star Wars: Tales from Jabba's Palace. Now under my birth name, Ross, I have written an epic fantasy trilogy, The Seven-Petaled Shield. My collection Azkhantian Tales, includes four short stories set in that world. Book View Cafe also offers my nonfiction Ink Dance: Essays on the Writing Life.
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How Long Is Your Story? — 11 Comments
Brenda Clough on March 15, 2011 at 9:51 am said:
My theory is that most writers have their natural length — the way many horses have their natural race. Derby winners are bred to run the Kentucky Derby, and steeplechase horses are bred to run and jump for several miles at one effort. You cannot swap horses out; putting a racing thoroughbred into a steeplechase simply leads to grief.
And so it is with writers. Some are so natural at one length that you rarely see them at any other — Kate Elliott is the quintessential example of the natural Fat Fantasy Trilogy gal. If she writes short-shorts I have never seen one; she has said that when she hits 200,000 words the work is finally hitting its stride.
My natural length is about 100,000 words — a standard novel length, thank heaven. And luckily I have two ‘gaits’, so I am comfortable writing at about 7-10K as well. One of the many tasks of the new writer is to discover her natural length. Only then can she work to expand (or shrink) it, if she wants to.
Phyllis Irene Radford on March 15, 2011 at 11:05 am said:
I rarely think short. All of my short stories have sold to themed anthologies. They give me an idea. I run with it. Very few of my own ideas succeed short.
Deborah has commented on several over the years that my short fiction reads like a novel excerpt and she wants to see the whole thing <-:
As I mature as a writer I find even my novel length is changing. The early dragon books all came in at around 100-125 K. The Merlin books averaged 200 K. Other series wandered between 150-175. Now I'm into Pixies and struggling to find 100 K.
It all depends on the story. But I rarely try to write short unless asked to perform my juggling trick on a specific topic.
Deborah J. Ross on March 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm said:
Brenda–wonderful image, especially for this horse-lover’s heart! I think of 100-m dashes vs marathons in terms of how I work writing into my day, but the metaphor is equally applicable to story length.
Phyl–you’re in great company as a natural novelist! I agree that a skill that comes with maturity is learning to pace oneself down as well as up in length. Marion used to talk about writing for Ace Double editions. I think those novels ran 50-60K, so they had to be plotted within an inch of their lives. Then novels got longer and there was room to elaborate, play with sub-plots. Now market demands seem to be pushing the other way: crisp, succinct.
Mary on March 15, 2011 at 2:05 pm said:
I agree that writers have their natural metier, although mine has grown longer and longer. . . .
OTOH, I don’t think it’s so much the strength of the original idea as how many ideas there really are there. Stuck together. (A topic I go on about at length here.)
Brenda Clough on March 15, 2011 at 3:15 pm said:
Well, I think it was your story for SHADOW CONSPIRACY I was reading, Phyl — it was plain that it had extra stuff that would help to tie a 150,000 word epic together. But for a short piece those bits were going nowhere and connecting to nothing, and were candidates for the high jump. You are obviously a natural novel-length writer.
I am quite good at pruning and squeezing, from doing hard time with student mss.
widdershins on March 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm said:
What a wonderful analogy using the ‘materials’.
I’m definitely and Ironwood tree writer. Ironwood is a type of tree found in Australia, and like the name suggests, almost indestructible.
I like the complexity and length of George R R Martin’s work, but please dear Goddess, not so long between volumes.
Mind you trying to split an Ironwood log is an exercise in controlled impossibility, so maybe I could go with a slightly softer wood.
@widdershins–or work with the grain of the wood, the way it wants to be shaped?
Interesting you should say that … when I was a young thing I worked a season splitting logs to make fence-posts, the old fashioned way, with a sledge-hammer and steel wedges. (my ears still ring just at the thought of the sound those two pieces of metal coming together with all the force a body could muster) It was hard, hard work. Raised on a farm I was no slouch, none of the women on that crew were, but even the burliest of the blokes needed help on occasions.
We came across a log that had a 180 degree twist along its length, and, I dunno, insanity took over and we decided to split it without cutting it into shorter lengths, which we all agreed would be cheating. Being of a logical mind I made ’em plan it out first. Which wedge would go where and in what order. Finally we were ready. The first wedge slid in like butter, and the second, and the third. The log slowly parted as though it had chosen to.
We split it into four lengths, (It was a big log) and drew lots as to who would get them. I lost unfortunately, but one of the winners was a woodcarver who made his bit the centerpiece of his home that he built with his own hands, with a lot of help from the hands of the rest of us! It still stands to this day, a metaphorical and physical testament to working WITH the wood.
And that illustrates clearly a metaphor mostly lost to us now. When we say ‘working with the grain’ we really don’t know what we’re talking about!
And that ties into something I posted in reply to LAG’s post — that sometimes the fence is too high. Yes, you can work in a story that is totally not you. You can fight the grain of the wood all the way. But: is this an efficient use of your energy? Do you really want to spend five years learning all the minutiae of, say, baseball statistics or coral reef maintenance or Worlds of Warcraft, knowing that there are hundreds of people who have been doing this all their lives who you will never catch up with?
Surely it is better for us to Write What You Know, to some extent.
Amrit Prashar on March 17, 2011 at 11:16 am said:
We must write on the topics of human concern.
As today the Japanese facing a great nature’s fury or disaster due to the sspreading of contaminated air and poluted water due to the earth quack and tsunami disasters.
All the countries must try to help the people of Japan by providing them ENOUGH SPACE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES i.e. big countries like China may provide this space for a million japanies and small countries provide space for less than one million countries to live till the End of the poluted atmosphere
Whole world must behave like a smallo VILLAGE as it has become now due to the spread of the Techonology, and come forward to help the needy Japanise at this time of great Trouble.
green_knight on March 19, 2011 at 10:13 am said:
As a natural trilogist I struggle even with novel-length ideas. The other other thing I can do is short-short – but writing ‘normal’ short stories are something that has eluded me for a very long time, and I’m still working very hard at the concept.
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Are the days of traditional birthday presents behind us? Fiver parties are a distinctly millennial trend that’s turning tried-and-true party rituals on their heads.
What are Fiver Parties? The hottest birthday party trend of the year, Fiver Parties alleviate the gift giving stresses that parents across the nation have faced for decades. Rather than spending $20 on The Toy, hosts ask for a $5 bill. The money is pooled together, and can be put towards one big, much more significant gift, instead of many smaller, less meaningful things. The idea is simple enough, but it’s left blogs raving about how Fiver Parties are poised to dramatically shift birthday norms.
Having gained a great deal of traction over the past few months, Fiver Parties mark, for many parents, the beginning of a new generation of gift giving. To fully understand what they are, we first have to take a look at where they come from…
It starts with trying to come up with a good idea for a gift. Googling “best gifts for 4 year olds” or “gifts 5 year olds love” and not finding anything useful. Then, we’ve all been there: racing down the aisles of your local toy store, scouring the shelves for something your child’s friend Johnny might want for his birthday. The party starts in twenty minutes, and the only person with less of an idea of what to purchase is, yes, your child.
You ask them what Johnny likes, what he’s into, what TV shows he watches or what games he likes to play. They shrug.
With fifteen minutes until the party starts, you stumble across The Toy. A $20 trinket that Johnny might love, but one that he could just as easily hate. Or maybe it’s one he already has. Or maybe he’ll use it for an hour or two before tossing it into the sea of plastic the rest of The Toys have created in the corner of his playroom, never to be seen again.
With an air of hesitation and five remaining minutes, you part ways with your twenty, hard-earned, dollars.
The birthday party routine takes its toll on even the savviest parents. From the time to purchase a gift, to the money going into the gift, and the almost inevitable fate of that gift, the cycle has become a headache for moms across the country. From this very conflict, the Fiver Party was born.
Reactions to the Fiver Party Fandom are mixed. There are reasonable concerns about the psychological implications of children expecting anything at their birthday parties, even if it’s a $5 bill. There’s also the question of etiquette, since asking your guests to bring something for your child can easily come across as “tacky,” or rude.
Thought-leaders in the community, however, disagree. Most would argue that $5 contributions towards one extra special present takes away from the birthday-party-materialism that several $20 gifts perpetuate. The distraction of presents is removed from the party altogether, such that your child can enjoy quality time with their guests. When it comes to actually asking for the money, parents have described that the most important element of throwing a Fiver Party is exactly how you tell your guests that what’s being thrown is, in fact, a Fiver Party. There is a fine line between tasteful and tacky when it comes to the invitations, but with the right words, the proposal can leave guests feeling not awkward or uncomfortable, but excited. Inspired even. Most parents agree that Fiver Parties are more convenient, less wasteful, and create an overall more educational birthday party experience.
So it’s been a week. Your child comes home from school with a small, handwritten thank you note from none other than the birthday boy himself, Johnny:
“Hi! Thank you for coming to my party! I had a lot of fun, and I hope you did too. Thank you so much for the $5. You helped me get a new puppy! I hope you come to meet him soon!”
Party trends, much like the $20 you’d spend on each present, come and go. With a community of supporters and a nation of parents fed up with the traditional birthday gift format, Fiver Parties aren’t like other trends, they’re here to stay.
What do you think about Fiver Parties? Have you been to one? Do you plan on throwing one? Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to share your thoughts and ideas!
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How Spendesk built a winning employee onboarding plan
Inside Spendesk • 5 min read
By Romain Dalmasso
At Spendesk, we’re dead set on growing our business. That means helping even more companies spend smarter.
To do this, we need the most capable, talented, and energetic people out there.
One other thing we need? An onboarding process that makes our new hires feel at home, introduces them to all the day-to-day fundamentals, and primes them to contribute to our exciting mission right off the bat.
That’s why we’ve built a well-oiled onboarding machine from the ground up, and focused our onboarding on our unique workplace culture at every step.
In this post, I’ll tell you all about why we’re so detailed in our onboarding process, and how we landed on the perfect formula for us.
It all started three years ago…
We knew fairly early on that this process would be vital for us. At that point, Spendesk was already a team of 15, working out of the eFounders studio in Paris.
The big catalyst was the decision to leave the studio and move into our own office. The company had good traction, and it was clear that a lot of growth was coming soon.
Until this point, everything was done for us. It felt more like being onboarded by eFounders than by Spendesk. Now, it was time to grow up.
I sat for three hours in front of a whiteboard and sketched out what I felt were the essentials of joining Spendesk. What it should feel like to join this company we already loved, and how this could be achieved smoothly.
From this initial exercise through until today, there are several key principles that govern our onboarding process.
1. Timing is everything
At plenty of companies, the first question is: “how soon can you start?” Of course, we want our new people to join us as quickly as possible. But we also want them to arrive in an office and team that’s ready for them.
That’s why we arrange for all our new hires to start together on Mondays, and we welcome new hires once every two weeks at the most. We want to make sure we have small, intimate groups going through the process together, so nobody feels overwhelmed.
Plus, we don’t want to be presenting the same workshop every single day. So, once every two weeks feels about right. Any more often, and it starts to lose its special flavour.
2. It should be 70% doing
When designing our onboarding process, we needed something that would work equally well for all our new hires. No matter their skills, nationality, or mother tongue, we wanted to make sure our new people got started on the right foot.
That’s why the first few weeks for new hires focus on hands-on workshops:
To kick things off, our CEO Rodolphe presents the company vision on day one. We used to do this first thing in the morning, but we’ve now moved it to Monday afternoon to give people time to settle in and explore their new surroundings.
Next up, we take people through our product. This means demonstrating not only the key features, but the technology behind it, too. To do this, we introduce new hires to our co-founders and senior product people.
We then shift on to our customer profiles, including looking at the people we want to serve, and exactly how we hope to change things for them.
Finally, we finish up with our sales and marketing strategies, showing people how we plan to get our product out into the world.
We think the best kind of onboarding consists of 70% doing, 20% discussion with peers, and a maximum of 10% reading notes on your own.
We’re an action-oriented group of folks, and we like our onboarding to reflect that.
But to support this, we also have a comprehensive internal knowledge base. Everything that any Spendesker (new or old) needs to know about their job, the company, and life at Spendesk should be easy to find.
Everybody knows that they should ask questions when they have them. But we also want to let new employees find answers themselves.
Hoodies, buddies, and handwritten notes: What makes our onboarding unique?
Every company approaches onboarding a little differently. At Spendesk, our onboarding is all about flexibility, informality, and adding a personal touch.
A flexible buddy system
A buddy system is a pretty common feature of a lot of onboarding processes, but we let people approach this in whichever way works best for them.
Some pairs stick close to each other for weeks and even months, while others have a few coffees and naturally slide into their own teams as they settle in. (A few have even become roommates). Either way, newcomers have someone they can go to if they have questions.
A focus on informality
Our onboarding includes a strong focus on informal discussions with people from different teams, and on making new friends in diverse parts of the business.
This isn’t just a question of having a good time - it’s about building relaxed and functional relationships between teams. We think this is far more important than formal seminars or presentations.
And of course, we have added extras like Thursday drinks and two company retreats per year to make sure we all get to know each other well.
A personalised welcome from the CEO
In a lot of companies, it’s normal for newbies to find their desk covered in goodies.
At Spendesk, we’re not super focused on burying newcomers under a pile of stuff. Besides the essentials like work computers, we make sure everyone gets a Spendesk hoodie, and - most importantly - a handwritten note from our CEO Rodolphe.
These notes are personalised for each new hire - trust me, I read most of them - and are always tailored to the specific goals and challenges they can expect to find waiting for them. This makes people feel welcomed and valued right from day one, and demonstrates how much we care about our new hires.
Feedback for the whole crew
After the first month at Spendesk, each new person is asked to write a review of their onboarding process. This sets out what they’ve learned, which parts of the process were most effective, and how we could improve things. So far, pretty standard, right?
Well, we don’t just share these discovery reports with managers and the CEO - they go out to the entire company. We think great onboarding is everyone’s responsibility, and we want everyone to know how they could improve things.
Our top tip for growing startups: Focus on onboarding early!
In growing startups, every day can feel like a new challenge. When you’re raising money and building out your business, it can be easy to forget about onboarding.
Trust us: If you can find an onboarding framework that suits your company nice and early, the process will be a lot easier for your new people. If you wait too long and try to set up an onboarding system when you’re already 50+, you’ll really struggle to get things right.
Because we started thinking about onboarding early in our journey, everyone had a strong grasp of our workshops and our buddy system, and knew exactly how to make people feel welcome.
This not only meant new people had a clear sense of the business - it also emphasised the importance of great onboarding for everyone across the office.
What else have we got in the works?
We think our onboarding process is pretty great, but we’re not done fine-tuning it yet.
In the next year, we’ll be onboarding more of our new hires than ever before. Following our Series B fundraising, we’ll now have more Spendeskers based outside of Paris, but we still want everyone to start their time with us by coming to HQ and spending time together first.
At the moment, all non-Paris staff come to stay with us for their first month, and sometimes even longer. At times, their onboarding isn’t quite finished by the time they go back to their offices, so we need to send our people out to make sure they complete their learning.
Given we’re now working across different offices, it’s only fair that HQ does some travel too!
Conclusion: Great onboarding is everyone’s responsibility
As Spendeskers, we’re all focused on doing amazing things for our clients, and changing the universe of business expenses. We can’t do this without attracting great new hires, and without introducing them to life at Spendesk through a fantastic onboarding system.
We think great onboarding is everyone’s job, and not just something for HR and the CEO. We’re all responsible for the future of Spendesk, and we have to help new hires understand the company’s mission, meet all the right people, and have fun.
It’s not the new person’s job to get up to speed on their own. Instead, it’s the responsibility of the whole team to create links with them, and make sure they have what they need.
Of everything I’ve worked on during my time at Spendesk, our onboarding model is the thing I’m most proud of. I’ve been developing and fine-tuning it for the last three years, and I really think it works well!
If you’re part of a startup looking to set up an onboarding process, then take note of what’s worked for us in the past.
And if you'd like to join the adventure yourself, check out our open positions.
Romain Dalmasso
Romain Dalmasso is Head of Operations at Spendesk. He makes Spendeskers' work lives smoother and more enjoyable, little by little.
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A season for bad ideas
One feature of each period of turbulence is that we get an upsurge of out of the box thinking. While it is always good to think out of the box, these innovative ideas must also make sense. If I were a teacher of economics, I would use these in class as demos of how not to do economics:
Coordinated intervention by emerging markets. Andy Mukherjee nails this one.
Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian want an import tariff -- that they term a `third best measure' -- to do things that exchange rate depreciation does better.
Veerappa Moily says we should close down petrol pumps at night so as to reduce consumption of petrol.
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar thinks there is a second Asian Financial Crisis in store. But Asia has substantially moved away from exchange rate rigidity. He says depreciation is recessionary. No, depreciations are expansionary. He implies that depreciation is a problem in India today as corporations have large unhedged foreign currency borrowing. The existing evidence does not support this.
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Anonymous Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 17:12:00 GMT+5:30
my understanding is depreciation can be both expansionary(non-tradables) and recessionary (due to trade deficit) in case of india given the CAD it would be more recessionary isn't it ?
http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/1999/october/depreciations-and-recessions/
Anonymous Wednesday, 4 September 2013 at 01:07:00 GMT+5:30
It's like treating the symptom, not the disease
I'm bothered by something to the extent that I'm going to comment on it everywhere, where relevant!
It was amusing to see in the news: "The Union cabinet has approved an accord with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to nearly quadruple airline seats between the two countries over three years."
What the... ? Does no one find it ridiculous that the govt decides how many seats are going to be available between two countries? Does it do this for every country? I was making fun of Chidambaram's trips abroad last year as his attempt to find new, foreign bakras to invest in India, since no one in India is investing. It seems this is one example where they found a willing bakra, although UAE likely isn't naive.
But, this raises all sorts of questions. What is the likelihood that UAE did not bribe someone in govt for this? Surely close to zero?
I don't understand why the govt sits and approves individual deals. It is a recipe for corruption. Why don't they set policy and then stand back and let the markets work? Of course we know why, but how is it going to change?
The hope has been that with the exposure of the scandals of the last few years, governance will change for the better. This example shows that there is no chance of that? Will the media attack this way of governance. Likely not, in which case, who will?
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Using God-Talk in a Secular Society: Time for a New Conversation on Public Issues?
Author: Andrew Bradstock
The role that religious language should play in the ‘public square’ has long been a matter of debate. As Rawls, Rorty, Audi and others have long argued, albeit with subtle variations, discussion on public issues must be truly ‘public’ and therefore employ vocabulary, principles and reasoning which are intelligible to any reasonable person and based on public canons of validity. But does this argument do justice to religious voices? Can the growing number of such voices clamouring for the right to be heard continue to be ignored? Does excluding conviction-based language from public debate lessen the quality of that debate and the potential to find effective solutions to policy challenges? Drawing upon recent work by Jonathan Chaplin, Rowan Williams, Roger Trigg and Michael Sandel, this article examines the current state of scholarship on the question of language in public discourse, and concludes that the case for ‘confessional candour’ to be accepted in such discourse is overwhelming and could have a positive effect on policy outcomes. A prerequisite to this, however—at least within the context of New Zealand—will be a fresh debate about the meaning and scope of the term ‘secularism’.
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Getting out of the ditch in 2010
Mr. Hale cut me off at the pass with his “hot seat” post this morning – it was a subject I was set on exploring this week, but he’s done such a good job locating the sources of the discontent that I’ll just refer you to it.
That being said, his summary begs a response.
So here’s my question: Have all the offseason moves left you with as much confidence in Richt as you ever had? Or did two years of stubborn insistence on a largely unsuccessful approach shake your belief?
Or perhaps more to the point — will you stick by Richt if Georgia finishes 8-5 again this year, but does it with a more fundamentally sound D, a better approach to kickoffs and a duo at tailback that understands how to play the position?
Barring a rash of injuries (and at certain key positions, it might not even take that much), an 8-5 result this season isn’t going to sit well with me. I say that primarily for two reasons. First, the schedule is considerably more favorable than last year’s. And second, if last year’s team could win eight games despite a minus-16 in turnover margin, I expect better results if the turnover situation improves. Which it should…
45 responses to “Getting out of the ditch in 2010”
Agree. Every body else has problems also. We should be in the thick of things. Close enough where a couple of breaks could land us in the dome. If we’re not I will be very disappointed.
Leave it to you Senator to give me some perspective I hadn’t considered. I’ve already responded to Hale’s piece in his Blog, and said I’d be fine with 8-5 so long as improvement was evident, effort was strong, and the defense progresses as the season goes along. Your post had me rethinking that a bit. But the rational side of me says that 8-5 may still not be reason to panic so long as those losses come early in the season. Of course, I’m one of those that would be happy with a one win season, but only if that one win is in Jacksonville.
We’re breaking in a freshmen QB with a new defensive coordinator with a new scheme, so I’ll hold my judgement on whether a certain win-loss record is acceptable or not. If we’re competitive, if we look good, well coached, etc. and a couple of breaks just don’t go our way and we end up 8-5 I won’t be happy, but I won’t have a problem with it. With that said, I feel if we’re well coached even with our issues we shouldn’t be worried about 8-5.
I am in this camp as well Jordan. 10 wins look like the number for me, but one game plus or minus wouldn’t surprise me since there are many unknowns for both us, and teams on our schedule. 8-5 looks like a shock level to me, but factors that cause that would have to be considered. I wouldn’t be happy about it but let’s say a game gets stolen like LSU did last year, we lose a couple of critical players for a key game, and keep every game competitive while looking solid on both sides of the ball. Slipping from 10 to 8 might be something I can rationalize if those factors played out.
I still expect us to win 10 with what I see now, but agree there are circumstances where 8-5 shouldn’t cause us to go Finebaum on CMR.
I certainly won’t be happy going 8-5 this year, but given Murray’s inexperience, and our entire D’s inexperience with the 3-4, I think it’ll take an equally disappointing 2011 season for me to begin thinking about Mark Richt’s job security.
He has two years but I am guessing we will do much better than 8-5 this year.
Barring injuries (the Mike Bobo AND Robert Edwards variety) I’m hard pressed to see a scenario where we go 8-5. Maybe Aaron Murray could be a total bust, maybe the defense could be the 1974 variety (good years to come). My seat of the pants tells me we’ll be much better than last year.
If your standard for a coach and a team are UF / Myers and UA / Saban, you are setting yourself up to be more than critical of any result. And apparently that has become the mindset. Coach Richt is an outstanding coach and so have his teams since he has been there. If the investors, shareholders, and managers in a business had the unreasonable expectations a lot of people have about a D1 football program, they would get out. Unreasonable! Some of your commentators are on point. New D coaches and system, young and inexperienced QB, RB tandem with one that has injuries, thin depth at certain positions, the stars may not align for us on kickoff, and etc…personally I just enjoy the games, buy tickets, give to the program, give to UGA, and hope everyone of those student-athletes at UGA enjoy their days at UGA like I did. 8 & 5. That is over 600 ball. Coach Richt’s numbers speak for themself… very good. If you want more than that, start a program of your own.
You honestly believe it’s unreasonable to expect more than eight wins this season, Will?
I guarantee you the coaches don’t.
JC in Powder Springs
With several SEC teams rebuilding, UGA’s 10 starters returning on O, a talented D, 2 top special teamers, and an easier schedule – 8-5 would be a catastrophe. Back-to-back 8-5’s culminated by a loss to gt in game 12, would reduce CMR to the level of Jim Donnan or Ron Zook. I don’t even think injuries would work as an excuse.
For reporters to say CMR is on the hot seat right now is foolish. But to say that after another 8-5 would be a huge understatement. CMR damn well better win 10+ games this season. He has no national championships and is too young to pull a Bobby Bowden ‘I’ll leave when I’m ready’.
tidefan
Isn’t “CMR damn well better win 10+ games this season” the definition of the hot seat?
I just don’t see a real strong difference between “on the hot seat” and putting someone on notice that the hot seat is looming.
HamDawg11
You’ve got them kinda fans, too….in bunches over in Bama!
We certainly do, and I imagine Finebaum has already pre-scripted the “Nick Saban is over-rated” episode of his show and will just fill in the name of the team that beats Alabama that Monday morning.
But the point here isn’t that a fanbase is being too critical (it’s not). It’s that there seems to be a certain fan characterized by JC here who wants the best of both worlds: he doesn’t want to be the fan that the Senator is critical of by saying Richt is on the hot seat, but then turns around to basically say the same thing: Richt better win this season.
Personally, I think ten wins is pretty reasonable considering the schedule, but I don’t think falling short of that is necessarily an indication of Richt’s inability to coach.
With that said, once the games are being played, I don’t think the “learning a new scheme” argument is really going to satisfy folks. Both Tuberville (whose tenure was the same length as Richt’s) and Fulmer were fired after the first season with a new coordinator, and both did so with a more satisfying record against their conference rivals than Richt enjoys. Fulmer could reasonably be dismissed from that comparison as Tennessee fans were disgruntled for a couple seasons, but when it was suggested Tuberville was on the hot seat in his final season, the average Auburn fan responded with “you wish.”
Keep in mind, I think Richt is an excellent football coach and I don’t believe he has proven any sort of deficient tendencies to believe he’ll never be a championship coach. But with that said, I could see someone like, say, Michael Adams disagreeing with me should UGA find itself in the Liberty Bowl this season while Tech and Florida head to the BCS again. If that’s the case — and I’m not suggesting it is considering it depends on the undetermined outcomes of two other teams — then Richt is in fact on the hot seat, deserved or not.
Going from 10 wins down to 8 wins can be excused somewhat as a ‘bad year’. Fans may accept excuses like tough schedule, rebuilding, ‘we made mistakes’, upsets, etc. Back to back 8-5’s with easier schedule and 10 returners on O says you haven’t learned from mistakes and are underperforming. Wouldn’t that be considered a “strong difference”.
JC, you’re arguing what would justify a hot seat, which is different from what I’m saying. I’m saying it’s splitting hairs to say someone is not on the hot seat (“hot seat” defined as pressure to win immediately) and saying that if someone doesn’t win now, they will be on the hot seat (or “damn well better win 10+ games”).
No. You’re not on the hot seat until you actually lose those 5 games in 2010, imho. But it depends upon one’s definition of hot seat, and I agree with others that it’s premature at this time. The games haven’t been played yet and we’re all speculating.
8-5 would be a total failure. Freshman QB? Lets be clear… he’s a red-shirt freshman, not a true freshman, and after horrible QB play last year there should be an improvement there.
We have a veteran offensive line, and tons of talent all over the place both on O and D.
Yeah, we are changing to a 3-4 defense and a new D coordinator, but those are good things compared to last year.
So another 8-5 year would be a total disaster.
We have 8 gimme wins: UofL-L, at SC, at MSU, at Colorado, Tenn, Vandy, at Kentucky, Idaho.
That means to get to 10 wins, we only need to win 2 of these: Arkansas, at Florida, at Auburn, Ga Tech
We have a GREAT schedule this year. Honestly, anything less than 10 wins is a disappointment, and 11 is extremely possible.
@ SC is a “gimme” win? Even Georgia’s best teams have struggled in Columbia. Playing them early in the season before Murray and the D have any quality game experience would hardly make this a “gimme” win in my book.
That being said, with the schedule, a regression the mean on turnovers, and a reasonable amount of injuries I fully expect this team to win 9-10 games. If it makes it through September unscathed I think 10+ is very realistic.
I also feel you can’t just throw out a record of 8-5 and say that will equal a failure as far as the season is concerned without knowing under what circumstances it occurred.
that would be “regression to the mean”
We know that Hale is not a dawg and likes to create issues. We have many foolish people who do not realize the quality head coach we have at UGA. I wonder what coach who has averaged over ten wins a season for the last ten years that they feel sure they can bring in to UGA. I think some people have been hitting the bottle a little to much.
We know that Hale is not a dawg and likes to create issues.
Walker07
Hahahaha. Wow. What a joke.
I thought I have read several times when Hale said he is not a Dawg fan too. I could be wrong though…
Not being a dawg fan isn’t the problem. The problem is that he likes to ‘create issues’. Hale is a reporter, and a really good one at that. He isn’t a Georgia fan which allows him to take an objective look at our program, and he states what he finds.
He’s definitely not the type who likes to ‘create issues,’ whatever that means.
He’s pretty good at analysis. I don’t know that reporting is really his thing.
The Richard Samuel stuff is tiresome. Look at Georgia’s RB depth chart in 08-09. Knowshon was almost certainly going to leave early. You’ve got brittle Caleb King and non-existent Dontavius Jackson. Why the hell would you NOT put Richard there as a freshman, hoping he could grow into the job once Knowshon flew the coop, for depth purposes alone?
And then this year, same situation with Caleb being brittle, Jackson a non-entity and Ealey an unknown quantity. If Richard opened last season at LB, Richt’s staff would have looked completely inept for not having enough RB depth.
They’ve made some bad personnel decisions through the years — every staff has — but the Samuel stuff is half-cocked Sunday morning quarterbacking at its worst.
Caleb King played a goodly part of last season with a busted jaw, so I’m not sure “brittle” is the best adjective you could use to describe him.
Hale didn’t put Richard Samuel in play. Mark Richt did. All Hale did was report on what the man said and put it into context. Last time I looked, that’s part of his job description.
That Samuel comment was not in reference to Hale. It’s in reference to all the hand-wringing over Samuel in general. Nothing more than not understanding the depth chart and revisionist history. There was a good reason he was there, even if it isn’t where he has the best potential.
Broken jaw notwithstanding, Caleb has a well-earned reputation for being injured with regularity. Remember, he missed a good portion of last season before he ever broke his jaw. The reputation goes back to his days in high school, and not just when he broke his leg as a senior. He has the potential to be phenomenal if he can stay healthy. He hasn’t done that for a full season in quite a while.
I’m really surprised by the responses and seeming acceptance of mediocrity. Seems like a lot of fans are willing to watch fl, bama and gt(!) advance their programs to national prominence – while Dawgs go 8-5 again?! Is it too much to expect top national recruits and highly paid coaches at UGA to actually produce top results?
Since CMR’s been at UGA, 3 coaches have been hired at other SEC programs and have gone on to win national championships! Which coach gets a national championship next – Dooley, Chizik, Johnson or Richt? I’ve heard excuses for 9 years. A great coach finds a way to overcome all the problems. CMR needs to win and win big – now. No more screw-ups and excuses.
Once you compared GT to UF and Bama I stopped reading.
I sure as hell am not going to sing the praises of yech, but they have had consecutive seasons of improvement and finished with a better record. I’m making the point that CMR is running out of chances to get it together and bring the Dawgs back to the top of the heap. 8-5 sucks!
“they have had consecutive seasons of improvement and finished with a better record”
I still wouldn’t call that National Prominence.
As far as Richt, he’s earned at least the three years on Grantham’s contract to turn it around. After that, who knows?
8-5 tends to happen against SEC competition when your QB and TB decide to be top NFL picks, you lose several other key players on your team to graduation, the draft and injury, then get hosed by inexplicably bad calls, and have the pointy ball bounce away from you all season.
None of these can be blamed on CMR, directional kicking and fair-catching notwithstanding.
If the NorthAve Dilberts don’t win their panty-waist conference, they probably don’t sniff a BCS at-large bid (and get the shit kicked out of them for the second straight year).
If karma is out there, CMR’s handling of discipline, bestowing well-deserved scholarships to walk-ons, and wooing high-character, kick-ass athletes this off-season should soon pay dividends for all true Dawg fans.
4 tickets, 4 hotdogs, 4 Cokes
GT. National prominence. Tee-hee.
Tom Osborne and Bobby Bowden agree. Going this long without a national title is just embarrassing.
Interesting point, but that era is long gone.
Do you really think schools will wait and be teased that long without a title?
MauiDawg
This is the first year I can honestly say that looking at the off season and the issues at hand, Richt has correctly addressed every one of them. Or at least made cognitive decisions on how to deal with them that makes sense to every one else “outside the arena”.
Enough of this b.s. “Richt on a hot seat” talk. Pretty much ALL Bulldog fans I know or have met..support Richt wholeheartedly. The program would have to have 2-3 really down seasons before that could even come into question. Richt has shown the ability to successfully evolve the program and when he has, it’s really paid dividends.
MauiDawg, I totally agree. CMR is not on a hot seat or even a warm seat. The 2011 class is coming in knowing that CMR & all of his coaching staff will be around for several more years. Personally I am very excited about the program for the next 4 years.
Saban was shocked when Tubbs left Auburn. If I remember correctly Saban said “well, I guess I am just one 7-5 season from getting fired!” So which SEC coach is on the hot seat? All of them! We have ESPN and Fox Sports and all the newspapers and web sites out there throwing bombs at coaches, plus a new generation of fans that think they “deserve” a BCSNT and want it now! How can a fan that has never had his ass busted out on that field think he deserves a title. Mr fan, you don’t deserve crap, except a possible drunk and disoderly! No coaches job could be considered safe today. If Richt is fired after one or two “bad” winning years it will be the ultimate in stupidity.
dawg4life
I agree with JC in Powder Springs!
Dawgaholic
How you get to 8-5 is very important. A year similar to 2001 (8-4) would not be problematic as we were in every game that year (lost 3 in the last minute), won a big game and were competitive against a Spurrier coached UF team.
A year where we get blown out by two or three of Auburn, UT, UF, or GT and lose to SC, KY, Vandy, or Arky to end at 8-5 would be very dissappointing. IF that happened and Evans did something stupid with CMR, I would not contribute another dime until Evans was gone.
IMO opinion Evans is very good AD moving towards great and would not do anything like that.
Ah UGA fans, gotta love them. No one ever answers the prime question “who do you get to take CMR’s place????” Name names and let us share the laughs. There are only 4 coaches with better records over the 10 year span and trust me 1-4 are not going to give UGA the time of day. This hot seat thing is around because there are only two SEC coaches that have been around long enough to be mentioned, CMR and The Hat.
Let’s just stop the stupid talk about hot seats, it’s much ado about nothing.
Fewest words = most walking ’round sense.
Thank you, ’69.
69Dawg, Sounds like you may have been around nearly as long as I have. Butts had Sinkwich & Trippi. Dooley had Herschel. CMR has done more with less than any other Dawg coach,period. Whoever the next Dawg coach is, He will not do as well as CMR. He is the best coach the Dawgs have had in my lifetime & better than any I ever expected My Dawgs to have.
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It’s an innocent question.
Just wondering – if the LSU-Alabama rematch talk continues to heat up as key teams take hits, shouldn’t Oregon get similar consideration?
In fact, if both the Tide and the Ducks win out, isn’t it fair to argue that Oregon would have the stronger case, as the team with the better record and conference title?
Again, I’m just wondering…
155 responses to “It’s an innocent question.”
Too bad you have to troll on your own blog. From looking at the power polls on some of the SEC SB Nation blogs, they’re all thinking hard about the rematch.
I guess I need to get out more. 😉
As a blogger and a lawyer, that’s just not allowed 🙂
Besides, under the authority of Michigan-Ohio State vs. Florida (BCS 2006), Oregon gets the nod.
The fix is in. The BCS is controlling the ranking system to get the outcome they want which is a rematch between Bama and LSU for TV reasons. The tipoff was when Bama only dropped one spot when it lost the “Game of the Century.” If there is a Bama rematch with LSU in the BCS National Championship Game the SEC gets both teams’ $21 Mil payout. Plus that guarantees that the SEC will win a 6th BCSNC in a row. The Arkansas-LSU game will be hanky heaven as will the SECCG between LSU and UGA. I’ll leave it to you to figure out who will be getting flagged. Bama should be able to take care of Auburn without help but it will be there if the Tide needs it, too. The BCS + SEC = Symbiotic Relationship.
Bulldog Bry
“PAAAWLL, Or’gun sux, they jest ain’t abletah HANG with us. We DUH-ZERVE a rematch!!!!”
If Oklahoma State wins out it won’t matter unless Georgia can drop LSU in the SECCG
Oklahoma is going to kill Okie St.
That’s my guess, too — though maybe not Kill ‘Em, just knock them off in some Wild West shootout kind of manner.
Darrron Rovelll
I think OU will have a tough time outscoring them w/o their #1 Wideout and #1 RB.
OSU has a bad habit of beating the Sooners in recent years, even with considerably less talent than the current Cowboy squad.
The Lonesome Stranger
By my reading OSU has lost the past 8 games, but they’ve kept it close at home. Also, and interesting, HC Gundy is 0-10 (including 4 losses as QB) vs. the Sooners. Imagine the size of the monkey he is hauling around.
I imagine Boom MF knows a little how it feels.
LSU will drop a game. Either Arkansas or Georgia will take them out. More likely that it will be UGA. Our defense is playing at another level right now and the offense has found its mojo.
Wouldn’t it be crazy to have a BCS title game without a participant from the SEC after the domination on top of the polls this year. You could see Okie State take on Oregon.
Oklahoma State is losing. The Hogs are not beating LSU in Baton Rouge. No way. That leaves UGA. While we just put in our best performance of the year, we haven’t come close to playing a team as good as LSU. Our defense is playing well, but LSU’s defense has been playing on this level all year with no drop offs (see Boise, SC, Vandy). I’m not saying it can’t happen, but we will be likely 8-14 point underdogs there for a reason.
I don’t think Bama’s O is nearly as good as UGA’s, Our RBs compare well with Oregon..QB and receivers are better than both. Uga has and will beat an LSU team that doesn’t match up on O.
Don’t let the NC buildup by ESPN overcome your ability to analyze the point to which this team has matured. Sure, a game with LSU will be a fight, but one we are capable of winning. Don’t let the D hype for LSU overweigh what your eyes see with UGAs D. Just because ESPN shuns Georgia and makes no comparisons doesn’t mean we can’t gauge for ourselves. Mathieu wasn’t all that good against Bama or couldn’t you see. Their overall D won that game and the tossup call on reception/strip is still reviewed on local sports shows LSU is not a juggernaught, just a good team as we are. We lead the SEC in a couple of D categories just like LSU and Bama. This team being a late comer w/o hype lets us float under the radar. Good! But don’t kid yourself, this is not a one-pony show. This D can bring it to LSUs O while we have a better O that they haven’t faced yet. Time to hype these Dawgs that were trashed three weeks ago. They have earned it.
I have to say, your avatar scares the crap out of me. I hope that’s not really you. 🙂
It is me. I dressed up as professional wrestler Sting “The Insane Icon” for Halloween this year. I promised my son I would. We like to watch wrasslin’.
The SEC will not allow LSU or Ala to lose to UGA if it is within it’s power. Look for the flags to fly in the SECCG.
^ This. That said we can overcome it with outstanding play to the point that it will become so obvious what the refs are trying to do that the whole rotten mess gets exposed to the nation and maybe a governmental agency gets interested in investigating. Plus, if the Dawgs beat ’em convincingly the refs won’t be able to flag ’em enough to cause a loss.
Don’t underestimate the power of the holding call. You can call it on any play. Especially the big ones.
And not call it when it results in a big gainer for the other team which is exactly what the refs have been doing. Pass interference, too–no call when the receiver gets tackled and it would have been a TD for the team the refs are against (eg. this year’s Vandy-FLA game). The new thing is “helmet to helmet” which the refs can call on almost every play if they want to. These have taken the place of the bogus “celebration” call since that now is under so much scrutiny.
Gary Cooper (@GdCooper1980)
Not going to happen in a SEC Championship game when most eyes will be on the game itself. That will be cleanest officiated game of the season. Slive and the powers that be would be stupid to have the media question the officiating with any controversial calls.
I hope you are right but fear the worst.
Who would be the SEC West winner if Ark. takes down LSU? It is confusing to me.
After all the procedural stuff and think it boils down to the higher ranked BCS team.
So… Alabama, right?
unless they are within 5 spots of each other. Then it goes to the head to head matchup.
The problem is if LSU loses to Arky but manages to stay within the 5 team range as Alabama is already in the top 5. Then you’d still have the A beat B but B lost to C who beat A. Not sure where it goes from there.
We had this in 03 I think (?). Maybe it ends up a vote of ADs or presidents?
That is what is confusing me. There doesn’t seem to be a scenario where the three teams all have the same record and are all in the top 5 of the BCS. Who goes at that point? I would think they have to default to the highest BCS ranking like it does with a two way tie.
My biggest issue with these rules is the fact they threw in the head to head if two teams are within five spots on the BCS. Why? I suppose nobody ever thought it would come down to this level of tiebreaker so nobody gave a shit when they put that one in there.
I thought if the three treams are within five spots, they take the head to head record of the top two. Did I misread that?
I think that is right PD. Arkansas would have to beat LSU and also jump Bama in the poll to get to go. If Bama stays above Arkansas then LSU goes. If LSU sinks below both Arkansas and Bama then Bama would go.
Here is the three team tiebreaker…
The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game, unless the second of the tied teams is ranked within five-or-fewer places of the highest ranked tied team. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the SEC Championship Game.
It says nothing about what happens if all three are within 5 spots, which is possible at this point if Arkansas beats LSU. But my point is why does it even have to be like this? The two team tiebreaker does not have the “five-or-fewer places” restriction.
Two team tiebreaker…
The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game.
It’s junk. They should go with the highest BCS ranking. Period.
Then you run into the problem that faced OU, Texas, and Texas Tech in 2008. Texas beat OU, but lost to TTech. OU beat TTech and ended up going to the Big 12 Championship game because they were the top BCS ranked despite Texas being right below them. The SEC has the best scenario here. If LSU loses to Arkansas and then drops below them and Alabama, then Bama goes to the SECCG because it beat Arkansas who would then be the closest to them in the BCS. In no scenario should Arkansas jump Bama and be in the SECCG if they are close in rankings. It takes away the head to head which should still count.
What is really crazy is the following scenario:
Okie State loses. LSU loses to Georgia in the SEC title game. LSU and Bama are the highest ranked teams and neither won their conference. And there is a small, relatively unknown BCS rule that in this case only allows a conference to send a 3d team to the BCS Bowl game if the other two are ranked 1 & 2 and neither is the conference champion. Under this it is possible that Georgia would also go to the Sugar Bowl.
A more possible scenario. Okie State wins out. LSU loses to UGA. The other two highest ranked teams are Oregon and Bama. Unless UGA wins in a rout I expect LSU is not going to be ranked behind two teams they beat.
If 3 SEC teams (maybe even just the 2) land in the BCS then the SEC will have trouble filling 9 bowl slots.
And that endgame would feel a lot like ’07 (re: challking up the Dawgs exclusion to an inexplicable meltdown early in the season) and will ultimately suck bad.
Saint Johns Dawg
Yep … and if the “UGA beats LSU in the SECC” scenario happens, I can’t wait for the ESPN jerks to spin why it shouldn’t matter that neither Alabama nor LSU won their conference … it will be BIZARRO BCS WORLD for our Dawgs yet again.
It’s more than possible. If we best LSU, we go to Sugar. Period.
Yep…then it will be Oklahoma 2003 all over again, so there is precedent to allow LSU to play for the BCS even if they lose to UGA in the SEC Championship Game.
If one half of the BCS title game is LSU, then Oregon and Bama should be out of consideration. That’s not fair to LSU who has already proven on away from Tiger Stadium that they’re better than both. “Regular season” “every game matters” etc. etc.
(I get that neither team is out of the picture, though).
Given that I’m a Georgia fan, then clearly a conference title (or, at the very least, a division title!) is understood to be required for participation. So, yeah, IF a rematch is under consideration, then Oregon has a much better argument.
I think Okie State is losing to OU. I don’t think they can handle the pressure. I’d rather see a one-loss BigXII champ OU or ACC champ Clemson/Va Tech in the game than a re-match. (And that’s saying something considering how I feel about OU and Clemson).
Have to disagree on Okie St. They have had a few pressure games and they can beat Chokelahoma.
Okie State and Oklahoma have comparable offenses but Okie State has no D at all. Under that analysis Oklahoma should win but the choke factor of the Sooners is ever present.
They may not have a D, but they only gave up 6 to Tuberville – who beat the sooners. Considering the Big 12 (minus 4, plus 2) doesn’t have a championship game this year, it really worked out well for them having Ok and OSU face off like this (almost like it was fixed that way,….hmmm). That is, if they both continue winning.
No way on earth could anyone put a one-loss ACC champion in the BCS NC game. UGA would have a better claim, which is close to zero.
If LSU is one half of the BCS NC game, then the winner of the Ok State-OU game will be the other half. You’re right that it would not be fair to LSU that they would have to rematch a team that they already beaten on the road. People still complain about FSU/Florida in 1996 and the precedent was set in 2006 against rematches and the following year with having a conference champion jumping four spots to get into the game, which is what OU would do if they beat Ok. State.
Good troll — Yeah. Okie St. is going to get 60 scored on them by Oklahoma, and they won’t keep up. Honestly, Bama didn’t allow LSU to score a TD, while Oregon pretty much got manhandled. Like stoopnagle says, it shouldn’t be Oregon or Bama so I would put Oklahoma in it (cringe).
Okie St. is going to get 60 scored on them by Oklahoma, and they won’t keep up.
What exactly have you seen that makes you believe this? Oklahoma is down their top running back and receiver. They are thin on “defense” and allowed 41 points (at home) to a team Iowa State held to 7 and Okie State just held to 6. The Cowboys don’t have much of a defense, but I think they have enough to beat Oklahoma. Particularly since OSU’s offense is miles ahead of Oklahoma’s at this point.
DawgGoneIt
Yes, a rematch is possible. Its not like you have to win your division to go to the big game. You just need all the teams between you and #1 to lose and that automagically moves you up to # 2. Right?
+1 Yes, should this ever happen surely what you describe is logical…oh yeah…my bad, never mind…@&*% again.
2007 called and said, “Exactly. Wait…what?”
Tell 07 I’ m still bitter about how our relationship ended.
I wonder if the fans who were against an Michigan-Ohio St. rematch from a few years ago are now pulling for an Alabama-LSU rematch just because these are SEC teams.
After 07 I won’t be able to stomach talk of a non-conference champion in the title game. ESPN, though will fall all over themselves to make it happen.
I thought Herbstriet and ESPN made a decision in 07 that to play in the title game you had to be a conference champion? After all don’t they rule on all matters conserning NCAA footbal, reguardless of what Embert thinks.
goalinestalker
Great word! Right after Les Miles went on CBS and nut punched ESPN and the boy wonder Herbstriet. The entire ESPN mohter ship flipped and went rouge on UGA! Now they are all on Bama nuts again.
That was Lou Holtz’ constant and loud refrain in 2007. “Georgia didn’t even win their DIVISION!”
Which was false. They did win their division. They just lost the chance to play in the SECCG on a tie breaker.
As Richt painfully learned in 07′. You are not going to go to the BCS without winning your conference championship if your conference has a championship game. I don’t care to see a rematch of UO or AL if LSU wins out. And if no SEC team makes it in because Georgia wins the conference, I won’t lose any sleep that’s for sure.
2001 Nebraska is holding on Line 1 for you (they couldn’t seem to get through to Herbstreit in 2007).
It happened in the 2003 season with Oklahoma, too. Oklahoma was announced to be in the BCSNCG, then lost to Kansas State 35-7 in the Big 12 Championship game but still got to play in the BCSNCG.
I think you should have to win your conference to be in the BCS Championship game. I’m not rooting for an Alabama rematch for that reason. Plus, they already lost on their home turf. The Sugar Bowl is a tough consolation, but that’s the breaks. Georgia has been getting those breaks for the past 10 years.
If SEC West-runner up Alabama ends up in the BCS Championship Game against LSU, then I demand a retroactive 2007 National Championship. The Herbstreit Doctrine apparently states that it’s OK to play for the title if you didn’t win your conference (just like Nebraska!)… unless you’re Georgia.
IF you’re going to have a rematch (and clearly, that’s not a given), I think it’s a no-brainer for Alabama over Oregon. Alabama played LSU close. They didn’t allow a TD, held them to their lowest scoring of the season, and played in overtime.
Oregon got trucked by LSU, and there’s no real compelling reason to believe they wouldn’t again.
Now, as a Bama fan, I’m still not sure about the whole rematch thing. If there was, and Bama won, the teams are still 1-1 against each other. So, who should be champ?
It sucks that losing that game, in that fashion will likely mean no chance for a title for Alabama. If there was a playoff, it certainly wouldn’t be that way. But this is what we have for now.
Other than that the Ducks just kicked Stanford’s ass, you’re probably right. 😉
That result is the clincher in the subjective arguments for me — an impressive road victory that will stick in the minds of poll voters this late in the season. (Plus, the Ducks knocked around the putative Heisman winner on his own field)
The Alabama schedule doesn’t knock me out, even though it is an SEC slate.
Well, Alabama beat Arkansas (#6), Penn State (#21), and presumably would have to beat Auburn (#24) for there to be any discussion. They also lost by 3 to LSU(#1).
Oregon beat Stanford (#9). They also lost by 13 to LSU in a game that frankly, wasn’t that close (Oregon scored the last 14 points in the game after it was out of reach). They’ve not beat anyone else in the BCS top 25, and will have a likely rematch with Arizona State in the PAC 12 title game.
I can hear arguments for Oklahoma (I guess, although that Texas Tech loss is TERRIBLE), but Oregon’s schedule makes Alabama’s seem downright murderous.
Auburn is no longer ranked.
#24 in the BCS according to this ESPN link.
I should add that Auburn is overrated (as you guys found out first-hand this weekend), but that’s where they are. The PAC 12 doesn’t even have any other teams good enough to be overrated.
USC & ASU (which is probably more talented than Auburn). Incidentally, the discussion could be rendered moot after this weekend should USC take out the Ducks, which wouldn’t surprise me. A win wraps up the Pac-12 South for Southern Cal, although they will not be participating this year.
Who did Stanford beat before said ass-kicking?
Does USC meet Ore or can’t they play in a chumpionship game?
They can’t play – on probation. As such, they’re not even in the BCS standings.
USC — granted in OT and controversially to boot. But like you said they had their helmets handed to them at home, in prime-time with all the Heisman hype swirling around. I am not saying that I buy into Stanford as a Top 5 team, but am providing the argument that can be used to rationalize Oregon’s inclusion in the debate for the MNC.
And, also, it is possible that people (who vote/program computer models) are becoming fatigued by SEC dominance. Then, too, there.’ is the ‘Nike effect.’
Stanford = Overrated.
If UGA had thrashed Stanford like that, the story line would be how overrated Stanford was, rather than how good we are. Sort of like Boise State 2005. Or Hawaii 2007. If they beat us? Greatest. Team. Ever. (see West Virginia, 2005, Boise State 2011).
Sure, give Oregon another shot. I’d just like to see what crazy uniforms they could trot out for the championship game. Not Alabama, because, well, they’re Alabama. Lost at home, more recently, no sign of improvement over the season.
what would it take (besides continued wins) for UGA to move up to the title game? As long as we’re speculating on wildly improbably scenarios, lets at least try something interesting.
I think there are too many one-loss teams this season. But it’s not over yet!
Dawgs would need all these to lose: LSU (maybe twice), Ok. St., Stanford, Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, & possibly even whoever ultimately wins the apparent Clemson/Va. Tech ACC title game.
Ell. No.
So, what’s your counter? That we just shouldn’t have a re-match? The logic there is that losing to a Texas Tech team that got beat 66-6 by OK State this weekend is better than losing by 3 to LSU in OT?
I’m not trying to be an ass, just trying to figure out if there’s substance here.
If your argument is that UGA’s offense is better than Alabama’s, I’d tend to agree. BUT we’ll see what they look like against LSU if UGA can hold off the upset bids from the patsies.
I don’t think UGA’s defense is in the same universe as Alabama or LSU.
See inserted comment way above.You have your ESPN hat on which means you ignore Georgia and make all kinds of excuses for other teams. Your take on UGA is dead wrong. If you can’t see a D that’s the equivalent of Bama AND LSU, then don’t speculate any more. Take your blinders off and look at individuals on Georgia’s D plus the experience of backups. It’s all good, folks.
Don’t get me wrong, I think UGA is playing lights out on D and is hitting it’s stride. But I don’t think LSU or the Dawgs play D like Bama. We’re about 90 yards per game better on D. That’s huge.
Offense, eh, that’s another story…
I’m ignoring UGA for national championship talk because they’ve lost twice.
UGA’s D is 11th on Football Outsiders. It’s totally based on stats and the stats of the teams you’ve played. Kinda an RPI for D. It eliminates garbage time and is generally considered a very fair measure. The only caveat is it doesn’t include this weekend’s games.
Alabama is second to LSU on the same list. They sit at 179 and 172. The difference between Alabama and third place (Boise) is 21 points. That’s roughly the same difference between 3rd and 12th.
LSU and Alabama have D’s that are significantly better than anyone else. I’m not saying that UGA’s isn’t good – they are. They’re just not as good as Alabama’s.
I agree. And I don’t even need the stats to say that.
Theoretically it is possible for UGA to get in the #2 spot in the BCS but literally every team above UGA would have to lose another game. I haven’t looked at all the schedules but it seems unlikely that would happen and maybe cannot happen because some of those teams play each other meaning that 1 would have to win, LSU-Arkansas for example.
Truly sucks that UGA would be all up in the BCSCG mix had they not shot themselves in the foot about 4 times in the SCe game.
It was the Boise game that did us in as far as the BCS. We never should have even played Boise in the first place.
if any one of three disasterous mistakes in the S Carolina game dont happen (and they did, no getting around it), and we win a shootout….or a blowout in week 2, then the rest of the season had gone exactly the same, I am guessing we would be a top 5 team now and in perfect position to jump in the BCS title game with two more regular season wins and an SECC win.
We’re a blown fake punt from being contenders. Life is a funny old dog sometimes.
No it would not be a no-brainer. Oregon would be a conference champion and Bama would not. Better to have an out of conference rematch than to have a rematch with a team from your own conference.
“Oregon would be a conference champion and Bama would not. Better to have an out of conference rematch than to have a rematch with a team from your own conference.”
WHY???
Oregon has played a weaker schedule and was annihilated by LSU (seriously, look it up – LSU was up 27 to start the 4th and let the air out of the ball).
Arkansas is better than any team Oregon has beaten. Penn State is probably as good as most teams Oregon has beaten. Clearly, when we start comparing third and forth best wins, Alabama is going to win in a wash.
So, why is it better that a “conference champion” plays again? I’ve had this argument offline already today, and I frankly just don’t get it. By the benefit of geography Oregon gets a rematch, but Alabama doesn’t?
Coastal Dawg
Well if geography has you in such a snit, Alabama good jump to the Big East. I think they could win thaty conference every year and you get your BCS bid.
Its not about georgraphy. It is about winning your conference or at least your division. It sucks , but you lost to LSU just like it sucked for us that we lost to Tenn on 07 and Sc this year and it sucked for Mich that they lost to Ohio State.
To tell you the truth, Oregon’s defense didn’t look exactly stout against Stanford, but Stanford’s looked even worse. That game could have gone into the 50s for each team, except for turnovers. I don’t think either team has an SEC-caliber defense, which I think you may need to win a national championship. I’m also not too excited about a rematch between LSU and Alabama for a title game. I guess I’ll be hoping Okla. State and LSU win out. If EVERYBODY has 1 loss, though, woah…
Obviously we still need to beat uk and tech which is far from a given and the sec west champ will and should be favored but…..does anybody else notice that if we had simply taken care of the football against usc we would have a path to the national title?
This. And the WWL is already hyping Bama with the “they are undefeated in regulation” argument.
Which is kind of compelling, in a way. Wut u say Pawwwlllll?
Hey – I had not thought of that angle yet. Thanks.
It’s the angle Les Miles used in 2007.
I think about that every day.
Well, actually the mistake was booking a game as the opener against a top-5 team when we were coming off a 6-7 season. If we play a walkover team in the first game of the season UGA is 9-1 even with the loss to South Carolina and right in the mix for going to the BCSNCG if the Dawgs win out.
Right on, Mayor.
Yeah which is why I think those rumors about the disagreements between Richt and McGarrity were true in the beginning. I don’t think Coach Richt wanted that game against Boise St. Maybe next year he would have, but not this year given that his team was so young going into the season.
TChamp
Which leads to the obvious question: By taking the Boise game was McGarity trying to set up CMR to get rid of him at the end of the season? Even after the Florida game McGarity was making noises about “waiting until the season was over” to make a decision on CMR and at that point UGA had won 6 in a row and beaten Florida.
Well, what IS likely to be the scenario if a red-hot UGA stuffs LSU?
I’m not generally in favor of rematches. Hey, we had our chance.
But on the other hand, it’s not that simple. Oregon did get manhandled by LSU. Ok State would have lost to OU that lost to Texas Tech. I think our loss looks better.
However, that assumes LSU wins out. I still think Arkansas will beat them.
Yes, UGA, you should be kicking yourselves for the USC debacle. You could be in the debate now, too.
If that somehow puts Alabama in the title game despite not winning their division, I’ll be totally disgusted with the BCS.
So, you’d prefer an Oregon team was down 27 to LSU when the 4th quarter started?
This because Alabama didn’t win their division – a division that:
1. Is totally an artificially constructed thing.
2. Has 3 of the top 6 teams in the country.
Ell, you need to remember where you are and the year 2007. 🙂
Touche, amigo.
This. Also, I agree with the fact that it’s unfortunate the SEC is so loaded and Bama is probably better than most other conference champs. Unfortunately, I don’t see how you can proclaim to be the best team in the country if you weren’t the best in your conference. As much as I hated it, I don’t think we had much of an argument in 2007. We didn’t take care of business when we had the opportunity, much like Bama in 2011 did not.
I think the whole “didn’t win your division” argument is bunk. I thought it was bunk in 2007. I’ll think it’s bunk every year even if it keeps Auburn out of the national title game (which we can all agree is a desired outcome).
I am WAY more sympathetic to the no rematches argument. Like I said in my original post, even if Alabama were to beat LSU, they’d still only be 1-1 versus them this year.
But to say Oregon deserves it more because they beat up on the exceptionally weak PAC 12 is just hooey.
Why should LSU have to beat Bama twice to win it (if LSU wins the SEC, I mean)?
If that happens, give someone else a shot. Many people outside of the SEC thought that Michigan and Ohio State deserved a rematch in 06 because the game was so close. ESPN argued that someone else should get a shot and Florida ran OSU out of the stadium. Someone else should get a shot.
I don’t necessarily disagree. My point is it’s absurd to say Oregon deserves to play LSU more simply because they win a terrible PAC 12.
I agree with you about Oregon and that’s one of my big probelms with a playoff. One proposed way to combat bracket creep is to limit the field to just conf champs. This makes sense on the surface until to consider not all conferences are created equal. Unfortunately, the ACC champ, for example, is rarely a better team than the second best SEC team. So why do they get in the tournament to determine the best team. If you include ACC Champ, you must included SEC 2nd place. And thus bracket creep begins!
Ell, if LSU beats Arky, and then UGA beats unanimous #1 LSU, who should represent the SEC, and why…? Just curious your thoughts.
That’s a great question. Really excellent. There are 2 different questions there really – should and would.
UGA WOULD get an automatic bid and play in the Sugar Bowl. Barring Armageddon everywhere else, a 2 loss UGA team doesn’t get into the championship game.
I’d bet Alabama would have a great shot at it. They’re the only 1 loss team in the best conference, and their lone loss is by 3 points in a game that literally turned on 4 missed FGs and an interception that could have been called either a pick or a first and goal at the one and there’s no way the replay official changes the call.
I think that Alabama is so dangerously close to winning that game and being undefeated gives them the BCS berth.
Now, if we talk about should, then it certainly gets a ton more complicated. My bottom line is this: an SEC team should play for the title. The three teams at the top of the west and UGA are better than any other conference champ – with the possible exception of OK State.
Obviously, my preference would be that Alabama be that team. But I could certainly hear an argument for LSU as well. It gets just really damn complicated.
That’s when I jump off the “this is more fun to talk about and dissect” bandwagon and jump on the “just have a damn playoff” bandwagon. Someone inevitably gets screwed; LSU goes to the Capitol One Bowl and beats Penn State by 40, Alabama beats Oklahoma (or somebody equally good) in the Cotton Bowl by 40, and Ok State loses to Oregon 95-90 in a BCS game that no one really thinks has the best 2 teams.
That’s just gross.
That is a fair (if not partial… :)) answer. But it begs the question, what should be the criteria for getting into the BCSNCG? Is it the team with the best resume? Is it the hottest team? Under the hypothetical on the table, UGA would undoubtedly be riding the largest wave of momentum. And UGA would have done something away from home that Bama was unable to do at home: beat LSU. Granted, we’d have two losses to yours and LSU’s one, but would there be any real seperation in the three? I’d say tie goes to the conf champion.
As to your comment about somebody being screwed, that’s what makes all this so great, in my opinion. EVERYBODY in the discussion would have or already has screwed themselves. If there’s a playoff, LSU/Bama isn’t what it was. Despite losing, you’ll probably agree that was as close to a Super Bowl atmosphere as you’re going to get. Winner stays alive loser likely goes home. I’ve been to Tuscaloosa. I know how nutty you people are. 🙂 That’s what differentiates college football from every other sport out there.
When reading my response, please take into consideration how “you must win your conference to make the BCSNCG” is embedded into my head from 2007.
I really do feel for you guys about the 2007 stuff. That team just jelled a little late, or could have been really exceptionally special. And, FWIW, UGA is one of the handful of teams I do always root for when they’re not playing Bama. I’ve always had a special place in my heart for you Hairy Dawgs.
The first tiebreaker is number of losses. I don’t see how it can’t be. I mean, you guys played BSU, but Bama played PSU – and a MUCH tougher conference schedule (UGA has avoided the big 3 in the west and that’s huge).
My years of watching this crap tells me it doesn’t matter that LSU beat Alabama, LSU lost AFTER Alabama, so Alabama would jump them and be in place to play for the BCS.
The whole round-robin loss thing makes me nuts. To me, the real insanity comes if Arkansas beats LSU. Then, it all gets real strange. And someone has a real gripe: whoever beat the West team that goes.
I do agree that a playoff would decrease the excitement about those huge regular season matchups. And LSU was incredible here. I’ve been to a couple of national title games, and the atmosphere wasn’t any less insane. Just awesome.
I think that the Death to the BCS plan preserves a lot of that (home field advantage is HUGE in those games, despite what happened here a few weeks ago).
There’s no perfect solution, but I think a playoff gets us to the “fairest” champion. But hell, even in an absolute playoff, if Bama beats LSU, they’re still 1-1… so yeah, it’s obviously complicated.
UGA needs Arkansas to beat LSU then UGA needs to beat whomever the West Champion is in the SECCG, probably Bama at that point. At least UGA would be SEC Champion and the last 5 SEC Champions (one with 2 losses) played in the BCSNCG. Then several other teams need to lose for UGA to even have a chance.
Ell. Yes.
Nope I prefer an Oregon team that would be a conference champion over a Bama team that did not.
I guess I don’t understand the reaction “UGA got boned by this specific hardline interpretation to a non-rule” being “that non-rule should be in place forever”.
I cannot fathom for the life of me why, when you evaluate two teams, side-by-side, one would prefer Oregon to Alabama. Common opponents – check, but Alabama handled it immeasurably better. Strength of schedule is tilted way in the Tide’s favor.
So, let me re-phrase the question. In a world where Boise wins last weekend and is undefeated – would you prefer Boise to any non-undefeated conference champ?
Yep, but ESPN can kick up the angst we have suffered under for years. They have made an EFFORT to not give UGA any hype going back to preStafford/Moreno. They wouldn’t even interview Richt after big wins 10 years ago. They eschewed his wearing his religion on his sleeve.
There is something anti-UGA going on at ESPN and there has been for quite some time. It could be as simple as all the people that work there from rival teams such as Holtz, Jesse Palmer, Mark May (who played for Pitt when UGA seemed to play Pitt almost every year) Charles Davis of UT and others, but I suspect something more sinister. I think there is someone high up at ESPN on the business side who has had it in for the Dawgs for years. Who? I do not know. But if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck–it’s a duck. Too much negative stuff directed against UGA has come out of the WWL over the years for it to just be a coincidence. When was the last time you saw any sports network CAMPAIGN against a team playing in the BCSNCG like the ESPN talking heads did against Georgia in 2007? Never–before or since.
Holtz has been supportive of Richt going back to his SC years. He was supportive right after this year’s FU game.
They eschewed his wearing his religion on his sleeve.
@Cojones, there’s just no basis for that comment. I loathe the Weasels as much as the next Dawg for 2007 and the aforementioned Herbstreit Doctrine (which should be considered for lexicon status, I think), but Tim Tebow is a perfect argument against this line of thinking. They couldn’t talk enough about that guy… or have you forgotten? And, if so, what brand of brainwipe did you use?
The basis for the comment is 9-10 yrs old. My Rick Perry block won’t allow the names that knocked Richt for that at that time , but certainly Jim Rome’s name comes to mind. They tied it in with Bowdin at the time. “Reverend Richt” was used as a slur and exact words were said and or printed relating to him wearing his religion on his sleeve. The fear was that he would use it as a recruiting weapon. The first three years of Richt’s tenure were rife with innuendo and outright comments about him thanking”My Lord Jesus Christ” for his wins. That’s pretty imprecise documentation, but that’s where the remark came from.
If Ok State goes down, how long til Mark May starts touting Houston?
If Case Keenum throws his 20th TD and there is no defense there to see it, did it actually happen?
And one more thought. The “BCS” isn’t capable of rigging ranking for TV ratings, unless you’re talking about a fairly massive conspiracy between one or more of the computer rankings folks and the BCS.
This would constitute fraud at a massive level and would 100% be a federal crime considering the cash involved.
What you’re doing is accusing the BCS and several of the computer rankings (it’d need to be several since they drop the highest and lowest rankings) of committing a federal crime.
It’s important to note that I think only Sagarin (at USA Today) is paid for his rankings.
That just isn’t happening folks. No matter how paranoid you might be.
No, there’s no “conspiracy” per se. What there is, is inconsistency on the part of the BCS and its cheerleader, the WWL, and if you’re inconsistent on building the foundation of a “national championship,” what credibility is there?
You’re right, because just in the past year we haven’t seen massive federal crimes of finance and sports (!) perpetrated very nearly out in the broad light of day.
People are simply too virtuous for all of that graft.
There’s ABSOLUTELY NO motivation for the folks who run the computer polls to put themselves at risk is my point. They don’t make any money off the BCS or the polls themselves even.
It’s not about virtue, it’s about competence and spread. You’re implying that the BCS would pay off independent computer pollsters to generate numbers that would possibly give them the matchup they want. And they have to do this subtly or someone will point out that the numbers are odd.
Ostensibly they’d do this to goose ratings – by a handful of points. Well, the broadcast rights are already sold, so they’d be doing this to possibly increase how much the rights are worth down the road? Because let’s be honest – by in large, the folks in Birmingham/Tuscaloosa/Baton Rouge/New Orleans are going to watch the BCS championship game NO MATTER WHAT.
So yes, I think it strains credibility to imply that there’s a vast conspiracy between the BCS and the computer pollsters.
Not implying that there are vested interests or orchestrated schemes at play. But a theme or script can be introduced by certain media outlets that happen to own the rights to conference games. Once the germ is introduced, and humans acting only as humans can, voters may pile on the most ‘convenient’ set of circumstances. The convenience is that because they have a ‘vote’ and a say in the process that selects the MNC participants the voters/reporters can also thrive on the possible controversy that their votes create.
I would need more time to imagine a scenario weaving in computer polling collusion.
What in Hell are you saying? You don’t think that those TV suits wouldn’t kill their own mothers for a single rating point increase? And those guys control the polls. I know first hand about how ruthless TV is. Every week it’s dog eat dog, no pun intended. At least I have never been asked by any of those important business guys to compromise my virtue with any of that “casting couch” business…wait…ah… what….?
Ok let’s say OKIE ST wins out and LSU loses to UGA (Yeah) in the SEC Championship game. Who plays OSU? I think AL would have a good case here to play over Oregon St. Or would a one loss LSU still make it? Is losing the Championship game worse than losing a regular season game?
Damned interesting question.
If LSU proceeds to the SECC, then it has already accomplished more than Bama. So, as I see it, a loss to the Dawgs can never be worse than a regular season loss.
I have an off the wall answer to this question: Georgia.
We can all agree there should be a representative of the SEC in the BCSNCG. There is little debate about that, even outside the SEC. If LSU is better than Bama, which they proved on the field, and UGA is better than LSU (having proved it on the field, hypothetically), why not UGA, despite on emore loss? Yes, we slipped bad out of the gate, but would there be any doubt at that point we are one of the best teams in the country? And we’d be the SEC champ… I don’t know. I don’t think that’ll fly nationally, but I think we’d have just as good if not better argument than LSU and Bama, under the situation. For all the arguments against us in 2007, we should get benefit of the doubt in the opposite direction in 2011. Anybody here think Les Miles would lobby for us under those circumstance like he did for conference champ LSU in 2007?
And perhaps, perhaps, the Dawgs get a margin of ‘payback’ or restitution consideration from the punditry all these long years after ’07. Is there even a chance?
Unfortunately, I do not think there is. But, let’s say we go in and beat LSU 24-10 or something like that. I’m not predicting that, but it’s possible I suppose. Remember 2005. If we did something like that, beating the unanimous # 1 team in the country, I think we’d warrant serious consideration.
Agreed (incredibly, really, given the consistent yet unspectacular way this season has developed). Though so many dominoes have to fall exactly that focusing on Kentucky is more of where I am headed at the moment.
Oregon loses the civil war.
Oklahoma beats OkSt.
Clemson loses to USuCk but beat VaTech.
Dawgs Win out. SEC Champs
Dawgs V Oklahoma
Dawgs get to extract their pound of flesh from ole Wille.
I like the young pup WRs vs. Willie Mart. That is kinda intriguing to consider.
But the Beavers taking out Oregon on the road would be on the order of Pitt (+29) beating WVU, 13-9, or Stanford (+41) taking out USC, 24-23, in 2007. The greatness of the college game is that it has happened before and will happen again.
And, just like 2007, UGa may be reflecting darkly on the early season fiasco against the Cocks.
The Dawgs would have 2 losses. Lots of 1 loss teams left. Just sayin.’
None of those 1 loss team would be SEC champs and have just beaten the #1 team in the country. if that isn’t good for a bump, I dont know what is. If LSU can go from 7 to 2 with 2 losses with a close win over a questionable Tennessee team, surely the Dawgs get a little bump after throttling the #1 team in the country….might as well dream big.
And to think there is anybody on this planet who wants a playoff?!? You would have lost all this discussion and all these “angles” of who will play who and who deserves it and who doesn’t….you gotta be kidding me…who wants to loose all this debate and discussion b/c now you have an NFL playoff in which teams mail-in their last few games to “gear-up” for the playoffs. (Just to clairify – I am NOT being sarcastic).
Absolutely agree, and proud to be a playoff debunker.
Ser. This stuff is so much better than talking playoff positions.
I’ve got a kernel of a thought here so bear with me. The Dawgs win out and upset,and yes it would be a huge upset, LSU. By every permutation I can come up with it means we have some strange BCSCG like OK/Oregon than every pundit on ESPN screams for a play-off because we all know the SEC teams are better but as always beat each other up. The screaming reaches a level where the NCAA and ESPN can’t and don’t want to ignore it. We than end up with a playoff and it actually will be ….wait for it……Bobo’s fault for winning the the SEC crown when we were not suppose to. It took a little but it is Bobo’s fault.
and what kind of innocent question gets 120 responses. Someone’s stirring the pudding
I just assume the Senator needed to refill his Scrooge McDuck style money bin with all these google adword dollars and threw out some red meat for the masses…I mean dawgs can be all “what-if” with stars in their eyes, bammers can talk about could’ves and the playoff people can chime in with a playoff takes proves it on the field.
I won’t speculate. There’s too many big games left to play – which is terrific if you love college football. I’ll start thinking about it when I’m immobilized from overeating turkey dinner.
I’d love to hear Rick Reilly’s take on all this…
https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/theres-a-reason-you-shouldnt-write-bcs-title-game-tirades-in-the-middle-of-october/
Reilly proves on a daily basis that he is a complete idiot. How can a dumbass like him get a job that gives him a venue to spew his stupidity nationwide like that?
I think the answer to that question is easy – who would Les rather play? The team that had to shoot itself in the (kicker’s) foot to lose, or the team that you ran out of the stadium without Jefferson or Shepard in pads?
LSU ran clock the entire second half. Whoo, can’t wait to see that one again.
I’m not sure any of this matters, really, if LSU wins out. If they do, I suspect the winner of OK-Ok St is a shoe in. In the one loss sweepstakes, Oregon will be eliminated based on their loss to LSU and Bama will be eliminated based on them not winning the conf championship. I’m not saying any of this is fair, but it is probably what will happen.
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You’re not in the Big Ten anymore, son.
I guess Bret Bielema thinks this is a clever argument, but…
“The reason the SEC is talked about all the time is one team, because of their dominance. But I didn’t come here to play Alabama. I came here to beat Alabama.
“You can take Saban’s record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can’t compare.”
The SEC finished with four teams in the top ten last season. I can’t wait for somebody to start comparing Bielema’s and Saban’s SEC records after this season plays out.
Friday morning buffet
The tidbits, the tidbits!
So how’s that whole Dream Team thing working out?
Malik Ramik Wilson progresses at inside linebacker.
Of all the lists I’ve seen, this is certainly one of them.
Mike Gundy almost left Oklahoma State for Tennessee because of non-conference scheduling.
Tony Barnhart wants you to know something: “The SEC West is the toughest division in the toughest college football conference in America. This is not debatable.” They don’t call him Mr. Conventional Wisdom for nothing, folks.
Florida State’s DeMarcus Walker claims Alabama jammed him up with the NCAA. Is there anything to that? John Infante says the Tide had the means, but there’s no way to know about the motive.
Todd Gurley was banged up at the end of last season… not that you could have known from his production on the field.
Jeez, this is a creepy story.
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Your daily dose of Dawg porn
Artie Lynch peddles the good stuff about Tray Matthews, who really does seem to be the early sensation of spring practice:
“He hits everything even when we’re not supposed to be hitting,” tight end Arthur Lynch said. “He’s just a physical kid, and he doesn’t talk much. He loves to compete. He kind of reminds me of Shawn Williams, but even more explosive. And Shawn was a pretty heavy hitter.
“For (Tray), his ability as an 18-year-old to make plays against SEC veterans is pretty impressive.”
You know what I like, brother.
And remember – just because it’s porn doesn’t mean it can’t also be accurate. Shawn Williams’ comparison of Todd Gurley to Trent Richardson may have had us rolling our eyes early, but by the end of the year it sure looked like Williams knew what he was talking about.
Grantham’s throwing Matthews out there, so he must see something he likes, too. Does a true freshman safety really have a chance to start against Clemson? I’m skeptical, given Grantham’s track record. So Matthews’ progress bears watching.
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Yep, Human Workers Are Listening To Recordings From Google Assistant, Too
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A report from Belgian public broadcaster VRT NWS has revealed how contractors paid to transcribe audio clips collected by Google’s AI assistant can end up listening to sensitive information about users, including names, addresses and details about their personal lives.
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How US Tech Giants Are Helping To Build China’s Surveillance State
The OpenPower Foundation, an American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens.
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F.E.C. Allows Security Company to Help 2020 Candidates Defend Campaigns by NICOLE PERLROTH
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Federal lawyers previously advised the commission to block the company, Area 1, from providing services to presidential candidates at a discount.
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Data Center Changes Push Cyber Risk to Network’s Edge
Changes in fundamental enterprise architectures coupled with shifts in human resources mean that companies are considering new risks to their infrastructure.
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Some advanced persistent threat actors can spend north of $1 million on attacks, but the return on that investment can be huge.
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FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services
The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today political campaigns can accept discounted cybersecurity services from companies without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided those companies already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election.
Current campaign finance law prohibits corporate contributions to campaigns, and election experts have worried this could give some candidates pause about whether they can legally accept low- to no-cost services from cybersecurity companies.
But at an FEC meeting today, the commission issued an advisory opinion (PDF) that such assistance does not constitute an in-kind contribution, as long as the cybersecurity firm already offers discounted solutions to similarly situated non-political organizations, such as small nonprofits.
The FEC’s ruling comes in response to a petition by California-based Area 1 Security, whose core offering focuses on helping clients detect and block phishing attacks. The company said it asked the FEC’s opinion on the matter after several campaigns that had reached out about teaming up expressed hesitation given the commission’s existing rules.
In June, Area 1 petitioned the FEC for clarification on the matter, saying it currently offers free and low-cost services to certain clients which are capped at $1,337. The FEC responded with a draft opinion indicating such offering likely would amount to an in-kind contribution that might curry favor among politicians, and urged the company to resubmit its request focusing on the capped-price offering.
Area 1 did so, and at today’s hearing the FEC said “because Area 1 is proposing to charge qualified federal candidates and political committees the same as it charges its qualified non-political clients, the Commission concludes that its proposal is consistent with Area 1’s ordinary business practices and therefore would not result in Area 1 making prohibited in-kind contributions to such federal candidates and political committees.”
POLICY BY PIECEMEAL
The decision is the latest in a string of somewhat narrowly tailored advisories from the FEC related to cybersecurity offerings aimed at federal candidates and political committees. Most recently, the commission ruled that the nonprofit organization Defending Digital Campaigns could provide free cybersecurity services to candidates, but according to The New York Times that decision only applied to nonpartisan, nonprofit groups that offer the same services to all campaigns.
Last year, the FEC granted a similar exemption to Microsoft Corp., ruling that the software giant could offer “enhanced online account security services to its election-sensitive customers at no additional cost” because Microsoft would be shoring up defenses for its existing customers and not seeking to win favor among political candidates.
Dan Petalas is a former general counsel at the FEC who represents Area 1 as an attorney at the law firm Garvey Schubert Barer. Petalas praised today’s ruling, but said action by Congress is probably necessary to clarify the matter once and for all.
“Congress could take the uncertainty away by amending the law to say security services provided to campaigns to do not constitute an in-kind contribution,” Petalas said. “These candidates are super vulnerable and not well prepared to address cybersecurity threats, and I think that would be a smart thing for Congress to do given the situation we’re in now.”
‘A RECIPE FOR DISASTER’
The FEC’s decision comes as federal authorities are issuing increasingly dire warnings that the Russian phishing attacks, voter database probing, and disinformation campaigns that marked the election cycles in 2016 and 2018 were merely a dry run for what campaigns could expect to face in 2020.
In April, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that Russian election meddling posed an ongoing “significant counterintelligence threat,” and that the shenanigans from 2016 — including the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the phishing of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the subsequent mass leak of internal emails — were just “a dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020.”
Adav Noti, a former FEC general counsel who is now senior director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said the commission is “incredibly unsuited to the danger that the system is facing,” and that Congress should be taking a more active roll.
“The FEC is an agency that can’t even do the most basic things properly and timely, and to ask them to solve this problem quickly before the next election in an area where they don’t really have any expertise is a recipe for disaster,” Noti said. “Which is why we see these weird advisory opinions from them with no real legal basis or rationale. They’re sort of making it up as they go along.”
In May, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the Federal Campaign Cybersecurity Assistance Act, which would allow national party committees to provide cybersecurity assistance to state parties, individuals running for office and their campaigns.
Sen. Wyden also has joined at least a dozen other senators — including many who are currently running as Democratic candidates in the 2020 presidential race — in introducing the “Protecting American Votes and Elections (PAVE) Act,” which would mandate the use of paper ballots in U.S. elections and ban all internet, Wi-Fi and mobile connections to voting machines in order to limit the potential for cyber interference.
As Politico reports, Wyden’s bill also would give the Department of Homeland Security the power to set minimum cybersecurity standards for U.S. voting machines, authorize a one-time $500 million grant program for states to buy ballot-scanning machines to count paper ballots, and require states to conduct risk-limiting audits of all federal elections in order to detect any cyber hacks.
BIPARTISAN BLUES
Earlier this week, FBI Director Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats briefed lawmakers in the House and Senate on threats to the 2020 election in classified hearings. But so far, action on any legislative measures to change the status quo has been limited.
Democrats blame Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for blocking any action on the bipartisan bills to address election security. Prior to meeting with intelligence officials, McConnell took to the Senate floor Wednesday to allege Democrats had “already made up their minds before we hear from the experts today that a brand-new, sweeping Washington, D.C. intervention is just what the doctor ordered.”
“Make no mistake,” McConnell said. “Many of the proposals labeled by Democrats to be ‘election security’ measures are indeed election reform measures that are part of the left’s wish list I’ve called the Democrat Politician Protection Act.”
But as Politico reporter Eric Geller tweeted yesterday, if lawmakers are opposed to requiring states to follow the almost universally agreed-upon best practices for election security, they should just say so.
“Experts have been urging Congress to adopt tougher standards for years,” Geller said. “Suggesting that the jury is still out on what those best practices are is factually inaccurate.”
Noti said he had hoped election security would emerge as a rare bipartisan issue in this Congress. After all, no candidate wants to have their campaign hacked or elections tampered with by foreign powers — which could well call into question the results of a race for both sides.
These days he’s not so sanguine.
“This is a matter of national security, which is one of the core functions of the federal government,” Noti said. “Members of Congress are aware of this issue and there is a desire to do something about it. But right now the prospect of Congress doing something — even if most lawmakers would agree with it — is small.”
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March 14, 2019 | Commercial Real Estate Loans
Are you a lender who provides SBA 504 real estate loans, a small business looking to buy a building, or in any way involved with the 504 industry?
If you answered yes, you’ll want to get up to speed on the latest version of the SBA’s 504 SOP, or standard operating procedure. (A 504 loan, for the uninitiated, is low-cost, low down payment financing for buildings, land or major equipment backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration.)
Download the SOP
Click here to get a full copy of the 2019 SBA SOP document.
Think of the SOP as a living rulebook that evolves as new industry issues or questions emerge. Like clockwork, it’s updated every year to set into stone the past year’s SBA policy tweaks and clean-up. This year’s SBA 504 revisions touch on everything from a change in the credit-elsewhere rule to clarification on marijuana-related businesses and debt refinancing guidelines.
Many of the updates should help streamline the SBA 504 process, making it easier for small business borrowers to get the financing they need quicker, said Mike Owen, chief credit officer at CDC Small Business Finance, who’s been a leading SBA 504 lender since 1978.
“When you’re unsure about an SBA 504 policy, always default to the SOP,” Owen said.
“It’s a roadmap that is continually refined and revised,” he added. “You’ll want to make sure whatever decision you make in a lending context with an SBA product, it’s in alignment with this federal document.”
Focus on these main takeaways from the 2019 SOP update, formally known as SOP 50 10 5(K), which is set to go live on April 1, 2019:
Increasing credit-elsewhere ownership threshold to 20%
Mike Owen
As part of the underwriting process, SBA 504 lenders must conduct a “Credit Elsewhere” test to ensure the borrower applicant is truly unable to obtain conventional financing and thus needs a government-backed loan.
One part of this required test is to review the personal resources, or liquidity, of owners with a 10% stake in the business. The latest SOP increased that percentage threshold to 20%. “The increase was meant to make the loan process less cumbersome for potential borrowers since only the biggest-stake owners would be vetted, which theoretically would shorten the loan process,” said Owen, CDC’s chief credit officer.
For turnkey properties, you can use escrow account to close
Say you are a small business using an SBA 504 loan to acquire a turnkey building you plan on occupying right away. In the past, your only option to close more quickly would be very short-term, interim financing, also known as a bridge loan. In other words, you’d use the interim financing since there is usually a standard-logistics delay between an Escrow closing deadline and SBA’s funding.
Now, according to the revised SOP, you’ll have the option of using proceeds from an SBA-approved Escrow account, which will require an additional, temporary 10% deposit above the borrower’s standard purchase down payment for SBA’s compliance to use.
Also, consider this important disclaimer from the SBA: “NOTE: Escrow closings with no interim financing will not be available for use until SBA has announced that the necessary forms have been created and/or revised, as appropriate.” In other words, stay tuned.
Marijuana-related firms ineligible for SBA loans
Many have wondered if you can use an SBA loan to fund a marijuana-related business. The answer is still a no though the SOP clarifies there’s one limited exception.
While several states have legalized marijuana as a recreational drug, cannabis remains illegal on the federal level. This means businesses that profit from marijuana-related activities or that support the production or distribution of marijuana or one of its by-products cannot qualify for SBA financing such as a 504 real estate loan.
Examples of banned businesses include marijuana dispensaries and cannabis growers, among many other examples listed here. You also cannot fund a building with an SBA 504 loan if one of your tenants is someone whose business is tied to marijuana-related activities.
There are exceptions to this rule. Say you are an entrepreneur that provides so-called “normal business services” such as a plumber. If a marijuana dispensary happens to be one of your plumbing-service customers, then that alone would not disqualify you from getting an SBA loan. Another hypothetical example would be a box manufacturer that typically contracts with manufacturers who box their product for retail/wholesale distribution. If one of the clients of this box manufacturer happens to be a cannabis seller who distributes through box containers, then the same logic would apply.
Jobs-to-504 debenture ratio changes
Since 1986, the focus of the SBA 504 program has always been spurring economic development by way of job creation. As a result, each SBA 504 project must commit to creating or preserving one job for every $75,000 of project debenture, according to the SOP update. Before, that threshold was $65,000. For manufacturers, the dollar-to-one-job measurement increased to $120,000, up from $100,000.
“The increase will allow more small business owners to qualify,” said Owen, a nationally recognized SBA 504 expert.
The latest version of the SOP also added “Opportunity Zones” as a special geographic area and increased the job ratio to one job for every $85,000 of project debenture. The IRS defines one as an “economically-distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment.”
Residential care facilities need medical element
If you want to finance a residential care facility with an SBA 504 loan, you’ll need to incorporate a medical element to your services to qualify.
In other words, your business would need to go beyond just room and board. Having a 24-hour licensed nurse on staff and providing healthcare can help you gain eligibility.
Related: Buy vs renting commercial real estate checklist
Clarifying SBA 504 loan-to-value refinancing rules
The SBA 504 SOP also clarified the maximum percentage of working capital, or WC, a lender could provide a borrower seeking a debt refinance. The maximum loan-to-value when working capital is part of loan disbursements is now 85%, and the cap for the working-capital requirement is limited to 20%, slightly down from 25%. As a positive change in refinance, the maximum loan-to-value for existing debt refinance-only projects remains 90%.
Key change to energy production projects like solar
If a project qualifies for public policy for energy production, solar being a prime example, the qualifying criteria for energy produced has increased from 10% to 15% as a measure of qualification.Solar panels to increase SBA lending authority is a common justification.
Stumped by the latest SBA SOP updates and what they mean for you? CDC Small Business Finance, a longtime leader in the SBA 504 field, can help you understand the latest policy changes with ease. Reach us at loaninfo@cdcloans.com or (619) 243-8667.
Are you ready to buy a building now? We have a team of in-house loan experts who can help. This link will take you directly to our SBA 504 loan officers who service all of California, Arizona and Nevada. Reach out to one of our loan experts today.
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LEVEL enters Amsterdam Airport at the expense of Vueling
IAG's low cost brand LEVEL plans to operate four services from Amsterdam Schiphol starting in Apr-2019. The routes are to London Luton, Rome Fiumicino, Valencia and Vienna and will be operated by LEVEL Austria with A321s.
After Vienna, Amsterdam will be the second short/medium haul base for LEVEL and the second where its growth is at the expense of its sister company and IAG's other low cost brand Vueling. On three of the Amsterdam routes LEVEL is replacing some or all of existing Vueling operations. In a further ironic twist, LEVEL Austria is operated by Anisec Austria – itself legally a subsidiary of Vueling (although not organisationally).
Vueling does not make IAG's target return on invested capital of 15% (it made 13.3% in 2018 after six quarters of no improvement). The latest development reflects the group's policy to allocate capital where it can generate the best returns.
IAG also appears to be confirming once again that it has dropped any interest in acquiring Norwegian, preferring to develop LEVEL in both long haul and short/medium haul low cost markets. LEVEL's new services at Amsterdam, which has greater LCC penetration than any other major Western European hub, are likely to be followed by long haul routes.
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Posted on 13 August 2019 by Charlotte Nash
All the Bek & Char movie reviews …
A while back, my writing bud Bek and I did a series of fun movie reviews for the Escape blog, complete with witty meme art and good-natured snark. Here’s all of them in one place, because I’m feeling a bit of nostalgia today. THEY ALL CONTAIN SPOILERS. You have been warned. But fun, loads of fun.
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… why Jurassic World is actually pretty good …
In typical internets fashion, there’s been invective and outrage lurking in my Facebook feed this last week. But rather than the PM’s latest gaffe, this time it was all over an action flick. Resoundingly, many whose opinion I value think Jurassic World is an awful film. Or at least mediocre.
So, I’ll begin by declaring my bias. I’m a pretty huge Michael Crichton fan, no mistake. I read Jurassic Park when I was thirteen or so and then rapidly read everything else in his catalogue. Some people think this is just one of my teenage fetishes that I never shook off, like Bryan Adams’ music (love you BA), or mock cream donuts. Having read ever published MC book, I can argue with confidence that Jurassic Park is the pinnacle of his work. This bias, however, is more likely to work against films – I’ve never been a fan of the earlier movies. The first one stripped out all the book’s thinky stuff and made it for kids, and all suffered from banal scripts and plotting, relying on the non-speaking cast to do all the heavy lifting. Even Jeff Goldblum quite frankly couldn’t make them shine. Glitter on a turd and all that.
So now we come to *episode 4*. My expectations were set by other examples of craptacular fourth movies, like Alien Resurrection, and Terminator Salvation, which nicely flushed any of my remaining enthusiasm for what began in those franchises as two fave films of all time. And so, knock me down when Jurassic World defies those expectations. Here’s why. ***a few spoilers ahead***
First, it’s funny. And not so-bad-it’s-good funny. There’s good jokes in it, and most of the characters get one, not just some comic relief guy. Let’s face it, if you have a film that’s about people getting eaten by dinosaurs, a few laughs are probably warranted to balance the tone. It gave me the same feel that Avengers did (don’t hate me, people) – it’s let’s not take this too seriously, but let’s not be stupid, either. So no, no to slapstick. Yes to self-depreciation. It avoids many lazy cliches it could have indulged, and doesn’t dwell on its potential shortcomings. Explanations are punchy, and oh hey, it’s Chris Pratt! He’s kind of a badass, and I loved GoTG … hey I can’t remember what you were saying, so let’s move on. People in the cinema were laughing. Out loud. OMG. Hell, even one of the numerous extras gets a gag, fleeing aerial death while clutching two frozen margaritas. Top marks, sir.
Second, it’s competently structured. The characters are all given some development to care about up front and that makes sense (mostly) with who they are. There’s human moments, especially from the kids (but not too many). The dialogue is pretty well written, especially by the standards of the genre. There’s some great actors in it. The kids are not annoyingly front and centre (no, no, there we have the deliciousness of Chris Pratt [yes even acknowledging this]). Everything moves with a pleasing rhythm, like going for a yacht cruise on a fine day. Despite a multiplicity of threads, no one gets mentally sea sick from a screenplay lurching all over the damn place.
Third, it’s nostalgic … and modern at the same time. Crichton novels are all about the cautionary tale (let’s face it, that’s what he did best). The park’s vision is never to be realised – John Hammond was created only to court hubris. Now, until I saw this film, I’d have said that’s the point. But Jurassic World does a fantastic job of showing the realised park (before it goes to shit). There’s some real thought in that vision. It feels plausible (honestly, if this were real, there’d be a dino petting zoo for shiz) and it’s dragged the original MC story (which let’s face it, was created when Crays were the most impressive computers) into the modern world. Not only that, but there’s some hat tips to the first movie that feel natural. Even the ending respects the heritage of the story, while adding a little twist on for good measure.
Look, it’s not the f-ing majesty that is fourth-franchise-film Mad Mad Fury Road. There’s some stupid stuff – I mean, a Triumph Scrambler keeps pace with raptors in the jungle?? (I can only assume because product placement) (but hey, love you Triumph). Bryce’s hair’s one-scene transformation from slick-bitch-bob to wavy heroine grated (I suppose frizz is fast in the jungle, but ain’t no one got an Instyler out there). Inconsistencies. Blah blah. But much of that is forgivable, even perversely enjoyable.
Jurassic Park the novel was a perfect storm – a big idea in the hands of a writer who could render it into the right scenes. Jurassic World keeps the cautionary spirit of the original book but with a fresh take. This is not a kiddie film, and it’s a long way from frachise ruining. Given the choice of watching any of them again, I choose this one.
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National Beverage Corp. (NASD:FIZZ) Seasonal Chart
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Analysis of the National Beverage Corp. (NASD:FIZZ) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of February 15 and a Sell Date of July 11 has resulted in a geometric average return of 7.79% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 15 of those periods. This is a good rate of success, but the return underperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 3.84% per year.
The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Consumer Staples sector, which runs from April 25 to November 23. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Consumer Staples Sector Seasonal Chart.
National Beverage Corp makes a variety of nonalcoholic beverages. It distributes its products in the United States. Its main brand is LaCroix Sparkling Water. Other brands include Shasta (sparkling water), Everfresh and Mr. Pure (juices), Rip It (energy drink), and Shasta and Faygo (carbonated soft drinks). The company has a vertically integrated model that goes from procuring raw materials to make concentrates to producing finished products at one of its 12 United States production facilities. It then delivers its product through three distribution channels: take-home (includes grocery stores and other retailers); convenience (includes convenience stores and gas stations); and food-service (independent distributors sell to hospitals, schools, hotels, and airlines).
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Lizards from Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, a remnant of Cerrado in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
Cybele O. Araujo‡, Fábio Maffei§, Décio T. Corrêa|, Guilherme M. Moya¶, Bruno T. M. Nascimento§, Selma Maria A. Santos#
‡ Instituto Florestal, Seção de Animais Silvestres, Brazil§ Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Brazil| Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil¶ Instituto Pró-Terra, Brazil# Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto Butantan, Brazil
Corresponding author: Cybele Araujo ( cyaraujo@usp.br )
© 2018 Cybele Araujo, Fábio Maffei, Décio Corrêa, Guilherme Moya, Bruno Nascimento, Selma Santos.
Citation: Araujo C, Nascimento B, Maffei F, Moya G, Corrêa D, Santos S (2014) Lizards from Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, a remnant of Cerrado in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Check List 10(5): 1038-1043. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.5.1038
Although the reptile fauna in the state of São Paulo is the best known in Brazil, there are still important sampling gaps, especially within the natural remnants of the Cerrado. Only 0.5% of this region is protected in the state, and the remaining fragments suffer threats that include risk of extinctions due to fragment isolation, risk of fire, and invasion by exotic plant species. In this study, we provide information on lizard diversity from the Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, one of the few remaining remnants of Cerrado in the state of São Paulo. We sampled lizards using pitfall traps monthly from October 2008 to March 2009 and October 2011 to November 2012. We recorded 12 lizard species from nine genera and five families (Gymnophthalmidae, Polychrotidae, Scincidae, Teiidae, and Tropiduridae). Our study expands the knowledge about lizard diversity in the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot.
Gymnophthalmidae; Polychrotidae; Scincidae; Teiidae; Tropiduridae
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Tang Danhong
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Tang Danhong. (Source: Xin Nü Bao)
Mercy to my lungs blowing white gales,
Always the anxious prisoner.
–Tang Danhong, "You Might Have Been My Brother"
Tang Danhong is a feminist poet, avant-garde filmmaker, and ally of the Tibetan people. She has written extensively about Tibetan history and culture, especially the conflict between Tibet and China. She boldly confronts her own relationship to the Tibetan people as a Han Chinese woman.
Tang was born in 1965 in Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan. Her parents' abuse when she was a child is a major theme of her controversial 2000 documentary, "Nightingale, Not the Only Voice." Before Tang became a filmmaker, she studied Library Science at Sichuan University, then went on to become an important poet in the 1980s. She won the Liu Li'an Poetry Prize in 1995. She also opened the Kafka Bookshop in 1994, which quickly became a gathering place for Chengdu intellectuals.
Tang started traveling to Tibet and befriended Tibetan writer and activist Tsering Woeser. Tang's first documentary, "At Tsurphu Monastery" (在楚布寺), came out in 1998. She has made several films about Tibet, including "Nima Incarnate" (降神者尼玛), "At Samsara's Door" (在轮回之门), and "Zhaxika" (扎西卡). More recently, Tang traveled to India with exiled writer Sangjey Kep to collect oral histories from elderly Tibetan exiles who had fled Tibet as the People's Liberation Army entered and tightened control of the region in the 1950s. Kep and Tang published 11 interviews in the book "Troubled Times: Voices of Tibetan Refugees," released in 2014 in Taiwan by Snowland Publishing House. (CDT translated four of the interviews into English.)
Tang argues that hostility toward Tibetans and institutional repression of the Tibetan people only push more Tibetans to favor independence over autonomy within the Chinese state, and to protest their repression in brutal ways, like self-immolation. In response to the March 2008 riots in Lhasa, Tang wrote:
Tibet is disappearing. The spirit which makes her beautiful and peaceful is disappearing. She is becoming us, becoming what she does not want to become. What other choice does she have when facing the anxiety of being alienated? To hold onto her tradition and culture, and revive her ancient civilization? Or to commit suicidal acts which will only add to Han nationalists' bloody, shameful glory? [Source]
Tang currently lives in Israel, where she teaches Chinese at Tel Aviv University. She blogs at Moments of Samsara and tweets @DanHongTang.
Tang Danhong at CDT
Three Poems by Detained Uyghur Poet “Tarim” 14 March 2019, by Josh Rudolph
Translation: Tarim, a Uyghur Poet (Excerpt) 13 March 2019, by Josh Rudolph
Translation: “He Deserves Respect” 13 March 2019, by Josh Rudolph
Person of the Week: Tang Danhong 9 March 2017, by Josh Rudolph
Troubled Times: Voices of Tibetan Refugees 1 July 2016, by Sophie Beach
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Riddick also known as “Riddick 3”
MPAA Rating: for strong violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.
Reviewed by: Andrea McAteer
Sci-Fi Action Adventure Thriller Sequel
USA Release:
September 6, 2013 (wide—2,800+ theaters)
DVD: January 14, 2014
fighting for survival against great odds
Aliens (extraterrestrials)
What does the Bible say about intelligent life on other planets? Answer
Are we alone in the universe? Answer
Does Scripture refer to life in space? Answer
questions and answers about the origin of life
Featuring: Vin Diesel … Riddick
Katee Sackhoff … Dahl
Karl Urban … Vaako
Dave Bautista … Diaz
Nolan Gerard Funk … Luna
Antoinette Kalaj
Jordi Mollà … Santana
Bokeem Woodbine … Moss
Raoul Trujillo … Lockspur
Noah Danby … Nunez
Neil Napier … Rubio
Lani Minella … Aereon VO-Judy Dench soundalike
Matthew Nable … Boss Johns
Conrad Pla … Vargas
Andreas Apergis … Krone
Director: David Twohy—“The Fugitive,” “Pitch Black,” “The Chronicles of Riddick”
Producer: One Race Productions
Radar Pictures
Riddick Canada Productions
Camille Brown … co-producer
Vin Diesel … producer
Mike Drake … executive producer
Ted Field … producer
Jimmy Finkl … co-producer
Samantha Vincent … executive producer
Samantha Vincent … producer
Mike Weber … co-producer
George Zakk … executive producer
“Survival is his revenge.”
Films in this series: “Pitch Black” (2000), “The Chronicles of Riddick” (2004), “Riddick” (2013)
We first meet Riddick (Vin Diesel) in “Pitch Black,” a convict being transported on a vessel that crash lands on a planet with two suns and some pretty hungry creatures. Riddick has eyes that have night vision, something he says he had surgically done in prison. This is a great help in fighting off the creatures that come out in full force once the planet goes black. Forward to “The Chronicles of Riddick” where Imam, the priest from “Pitch Black,” seeks out Riddick’s help as a war rages on where civilizations are being overthrown and the only hope is someone of Furyan descent (which we find out Riddick is). He also crosses paths with “Jack” from the first film. When we left Riddick in “…Chronicles…,” he had defeated the Marshal, and in following the motto “You keep what you kill,” he had become the new Marshal.
I had heard “Riddick” would pick up at this point but would also harken back to the first film and be on a remote planet. I was disappointed to find only a quick flashback of a coup to Riddick’s reign. I had hoped there would be a storyline about Riddick and Vaako (Karl Urban), his nemesis in “The Chronicles of Riddick.” Instead Riddick desires to find Furya, his home planet, but all the maps have been destroyed and all that is left is what Vaako remembers. Making a deal to be taken to this planet finds Riddick wounded and stranded on a desolate planet with minimal water, wild dogs and scorpion-like creatures to contend with. He takes his time getting to know the lay of the land, returning to his primal instincts while healing and taking care of a dingo-like puppy he finds. Seeing water and vegetation on the other side of the planet and a storm headed his way, he begins a trek across the terrain to the other side where he finds a mercenary camp. Realizing that using the emergency beacon will bring mercenaries…. With ships… he plans his escape.
Two sets of mercenaries arrive. As they track Riddick, he tells them “It’s not me you have to be afraid of,” which is a line right out of “Pitch Black.” Something worse than Riddick is on that planet and once again, his night vision and ruthless animal nature give him the advantage.
There are various homages to the first film in this series—while in chains, Riddick rhythmically clangs his shackles against his restraints as the danger of the situation intensifies, being destitute on an unyielding dangerous planet with monstrous creatures, the character named Johns (that at first had me scratching my head, but gets explained as the movie progresses), and the opening of the gate on the ship after the battle, wondering who has survived. All these scenes are reminiscent of “Pitch Black.”
I was hoping for something different with this installment in the Riddick story. I was hoping this film was more of a blend of his time as Marshal to the Necromongers (the race that sought to overthrow all others in “The Chronicles of Riddick”), perhaps leading to a battle between Vaako and Riddick, which would result in exile on the planet. Another thought was that Vaako would follow Riddick to Furya to finish him off once and for all. I like Karl Urban, so I was disappointed to see his reprisal as Vaako was just a bit part. I was also disappointed that this felt more of a rehash of “Pitch Black,” but not as endearing and much more crude. In “Pitch Black,” Riddick, although a convict, more or less sits back and watches what happens, looking for his way out. He gets his hands dirty, but does so defending a young girl. He is given the opportunity for redemption. In this film, he’s not an antihero you root for. He’s more than happy to kill his way to freedom.
One thing that set this film apart from its predecessors is the nudity and crude talk. Here we see 3 women in bed, full frontal nudity on one of them, another shot of a naked woman shown above the waist, the female mercenary “Dahl” (Katee Sackhoff—“Battlestar Galactica” TV series) is a lesbian and crudely makes reference to the fact that she does not sleep with men, another man attacks her in an attempt to rape her (fully clothed, in relatively short scene, but a vulgar reference is made that shows the intentions of the man) and a very lewd comment Riddick makes to the woman “Dahl” that made me very uncomfortable.
There is plenty of blood and violence in this film. A face is sliced in half, foul language abounds with the “F” word being the one used the most, referencing both a sex act as well as used as an expletive.
Once again Riddick’s disdain for God surfaces when he tells a young mercenary “Leave God out of this kid. He wants nothing to do with what happens next.” This young, clearly new, mercenary is the only representation of faith. Interestingly, there was also one character in “Pitch Black” that had faith, albeit in Allah, not God, who would speak of such things with Riddick, and it is that character who was carried over into “The Chronicles of Riddick.” So, whereas my first impression of the films and main character are that they are Godless, upon further consideration there is always a character present that has faith.
We can face countless situations where those around us, friends, family, coworkers, do not have faith in God. Yet we are called to be that one who does show God to others, to point the way. Matthew 5:14-16 says,
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (NIV)
In spite of the decline of moral values and in spite of those around us, we are to be that beacon. An old saying says “You’re the only Jesus some will ever see.”
In the end, I prefer the first film, “Pitch Black.” I thought it was a great sleeper film and launched Vin Diesel and Radha Mitchell in their careers. Riddick, on the other hand, was a bit of a disappointment. It was okay but not great. Perhaps it’s the classic case of a movie that is successful, so sequels are made, but they can never quite hit the mark like they did with the first. “Riddick” is grittier and less redemptive than the other films in the series. If you like the series, you will probably want to see this. If you haven’t watched the first film, you may be a bit confused. I for one wish they had gone in a different direction with this one.
Violence: Heavy to extreme / Profanity: Extreme—“G*d-damn” (4), “Jesus Christ” (2), “damn”(2), f-words (60+), s-words (15), and various other vulgarities / Sex/Nudity: Heavy
See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.
Positive—Other than the offensive taking God’s name in vain and the crack about “God doesn’t want to get involved” I liked the film. It has it’s problems. The opening sequence was too long before the story got started, and, of course, now every movie or TV show has to show a homosexual character in a positive note, but I just ignore it. I like Kaitee Sackoff in anything she plays. It would of been better if Riddick called down on God’s help Sampson style instead of ignoring him. If you like Sci/Fi, you will like the film.
My Ratings: Moral rating: Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 4
James, age 39 (USA)
Neutral—Riddick is a graphic portrayal of the plight of a fugitive on the run from mercenaries who believe they have what it takes to capture and kill him. He only wants to return to his planet and gets involved with them in order to steal their ship. There are many great scenes where Riddick evades certain death by fighting off deadly creatures and times when he uses his prowess to out trick the mercenaries in their own game of capturing him.
This film is deservedly “R” rated for bad language, violence, brief nudity and is not for the squeamish. Some of the situations Riddick got through were admirable in that he always seemed to overcome his enemies in every situation. These became for me an image of courage and determination though in his case not for any righteous cause. If you see the film hopefully you can take away with you a redeeming message if you look for it.
My Ratings: Moral rating: Very Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 4½
Liz Bartee, age 50 (USA)
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NEXT | The Queue: Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood
Editorial > WoW > WoW ClassicSep 13, 2019 2:00 pm CT
Leveling in World of Warcraft is horribly broken and I still adore it
I don’t think it’s disputable that leveling in World of Warcraft is utterly and completely disjointed. And the current hotness, WoW Classic, is a 15-year-old game with the leveling curve that originally drove me to near frenzy around level 51, so frankly it’s not better. I played it on the beta. I played it back when it was new. I know how long leveling takes there, and I know I no longer have the time in my schedule for nine-hour playing jags. But the retail game, with its full heirlooms and zone scaling, is just plain incoherent.
Go ahead and try to sit down and level a new character in World of Warcraft. It’s disjointed enough when you’re in the 1-to-60 game, but once you start hitting expansions it gets really weird. You can level from 60 to 80 without finishing either expansion around which those levels were centered. I did one Burning Crusade zone and one Wrath zone, and that was it — I was level 81 and ready to go straight to Pandaria, skipping the entirety of Cataclysm. And the thing is, I’m not even convinced this is a bad thing.
Wonderful chaos
In terms of how leveling works in Classic, I’m fine with it being awful. It was awful then — it absolutely should be awful now. That’s both because some people enjoy that — I mean, looking at Twitch, you’d think everybody enjoyed it — and because that’s what Blizzard promised. An authentic original WoW experience. And there was a lot there I loved — if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have done it so many times on so many different Warriors. And one poor, stupid Paladin.
As for modern World of Warcraft, I’m okay with leveling being haphazard. I am okay with being able to pick and choose a few zones and get leveled up without having to stay and exhaustively complete the entire expansion. If anything, I think that instead of heirlooms, we should have the bonus XP baked right in once we level our first character to max level — I think heirlooms keep serving as a gold sink so that you have to buy them for the current max-level every expansion, when instead getting to whatever max level currently is should simply give you a bonus to XP once you achieve it. But even without heirlooms of any kind, leveling now isn’t nearly so grueling that you need to grub for every quest and clear out every zone, and that’s fine.
Embrace the madness
There’s nothing inherently virtuous about having done everything.
I’m going to say that one again. There’s nothing about having cleared every zone in Northrend or on Pandaria for the tenth time that in any way justifies making players have no recourse but to do it. The fact that you can skip almost all of alternate Draenor now is a feature of the leveling system. The cost of a disjointed leveling system is worth it for the benefit of being free to pick and choose what you want to do. There are so many quests and so many expansions — it’s good that we have the ability to choose which ones we feel like taking part in.
The leveling game in World of Warcraft is a mess because it’s trying to keep twelve years of expansions relevant. It will always be a mess. That’s fine. The idea that every quest and every dungeon should be relevant on your 20th character feels like it misses the point. The more options we have, the more we can choose to skip, and that choice isn’t inferior. And choosing to not do it — or lobbying to remove it — doesn’t ennoble anyone. If you want to play the game on hard mode, feel free to drop all your heirlooms and finish every zone in order. No one is going to stop you.
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The CDC is investigating a cluster of teen suicides in Palo Alto: In Millbrae, California, mental health professionals are staging skits to help parents deal with mental health for their teens.
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Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis
Posted by Vitalik Buterin on October 30, 2016
One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the gas usage of a transaction. In all blockchains of the Satoshian proof-of-work variety, any block that is published has the risk of howbecoming a “stale”, ie. not being part of the main chain, because another miner published a competing block before the recently published block reached them, leading to a situation where there is a “race” between two blocks and so one of the two will necessarily be left behind.
One important fact is that the more transactions a block contains (or the more gas a block uses), the longer it will take to propagate through the network. In the Bitcoin network, one seminal study on this was Decker and Wattenhofer (2013), which found that the average propagation time of a block was about 2 seconds plus another 0.08 seconds per kilobyte in the block (ie. a 1 MB block would take ~82 seconds). A more recent Bitcoin Unlimited study showed that this has since reduced to ~0.008 seconds per kilobyte due to transaction propagation technology improvements. We can also see that if a block takes longer to propagate, the chance that it will become a stale is higher; at a block time of 600 seconds, a propagation time increase of 1 second should correspond to an increased 1/600 chance of being left behind.
In Ethereum, we can make a similar analysis, except that thanks to Ethereum’s “uncle” mechanic we have very solid data to analyze from. Stale blocks in Ethereum can be re-included into the chain as “uncles”, where they receive up to 75% of their original block reward. This mechanic was originally introduced to reduce centralization pressures, by reducing the advantage that well-connected miners have over poorly connected miners, but it also has several side benefits, one of which is that stale blocks are tracked for all time in a very easily searchable database - the blockchain itself. We can take a data dump of blocks 1 to 2283415 (before the Sep 2016 attacks) as a source of data for analysis.
Here is a script to generate some source data: http://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/uncle_regressions/block_datadump_generator.py
Here is the source data: http://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/uncle_regressions/block_datadump.csv
The columns, in order, represent block number, number of uncles in the block, the total uncle reward, the total gas consumed by uncles, the number of transactions in the block, the gas consumed by the block, the length of the block in bytes, and the length of the block in bytes excluding zero bytes.
We can then use this script to analyze it: http://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/uncle_regressions/base_regression.py
The results are as follows. In general, the uncle rate is consistently around 0.06 to 0.08, and the average gas consumed per block is around 100000 to 300000. Because we have the gas consumed of both blocks and uncles, we run a linear regression to estimate of how much 1 unit of gas adds to the probability that a given block will be an uncle. The coefficients turn out to be as follows:
Block 0 to 200k: 3.81984698029e-08 Block 200k to 400k: 5.35265798406e-08 Block 400k to 600k: 2.33638832951e-08 Block 600k to 800k: 2.12445242166e-08 Block 800k to 1000k: 2.7023102773e-08 Block 1000k to 1200k: 2.86409050022e-08 Block 1200k to 1400k: 3.2448993833e-08 Block 1400k to 1600k: 3.12258208662e-08 Block 1600k to 1800k: 3.18276549008e-08 Block 1800k to 2000k: 2.41107348445e-08 Block 2000k to 2200k: 1.99205804032e-08 Block 2200k to 2285k: 1.86635688756e-08
Hence, each 1 million gas worth of transactions that gets included in a block now adds ~1.86% to the probability that that block will become an uncle, though during Frontier this was closer to 3-5%. The “base” (ie. uncle rate of a 0-gas block) is consistently ~6.7%. For now, we will leave this result as it is and not make further conclusions; there is one further complication that I will discuss later at least with regard to the effect that this finding has on gas limit policy.
Gas pricing
Another issue that touches uncle rates and transaction propagation is gas pricing. In Bitcoin development discussions, a common argument is that block size limits are unnecessary because miners already have a natural incentive to limit their block sizes, which is that every kilobyte they add increases the stale rate and hence threatens their block reward. Given the 8 sec per megabyte impedance found by the Bitcoin Unlimited study, and the fact that each second of impedance corresponds to a 1/600 chance of losing a 12.5 BTC block reward, this suggests an equilibrium transaction fee of 0.000167 BTC per kilobyte assuming no block size limits.
In Bitcoin’s environment, there are reasons to be long-term skeptical about the economics of such a no-limit incentive model, as there will eventually be no block reward, and when the only thing that miners have to lose from including too many transactions is fees from their other transactions, then there is an economic argument that the equilibrium stale rate will be as high as 50%. However, there are modifications that can be made to the protocol to limit this coefficient.
In Ethereum’s current environment, block rewards are 5 ETH and will stay that way until the algorithm is changed. Accepting 1 million gas means a 1.86% chance of the block becoming an uncle. Fortunately, Ethereum’s uncle mechanism has a happy side effect here: the average uncle reward is recently around 3.2 ETH, so 1 million gas only means a 1.86% chance of putting 1.8 ETH at risk, ie. an expected loss of 0.033 ETH and not 0.093 as would be the case without an uncle mechanism. Hence, the current gas prices of ~21 shannon are actually quite close to the “economically rational” gas price of 33 shannon (this is before the DoS attacks and the optimizations arising therefrom; now it is likely even lower).
The simplest way to push the equilibrium gasprice down further is to improve uncle inclusion mechanics and try to get uncles included in blocks as quickly as possible (perhaps by separately propagating every block as a “potential uncle header”); at the limit, if every uncle is included as quickly as possible, the equilibrium gas price would go down to about 11 shannon.
Is Data Underpriced?
A second linear regression analysis can be done with source code here: http://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/uncle_regressions/tx_and_bytes_regression.py
The purpose here is to see if, after accounting for the above computed coefficients for gas, there is a correlation with the number of transactions or with the size of a block in bytes left over. Unfortunately, we do not have block size or transaction count figures for uncles, so we have to resort to a more indirect trick that looks at blocks and uncles in groups of 50. The gas coefficients that this analysis finds are higher than the previous analysis: around 0.04 uncle rate per million gas. One possible explanation is that if a single block has a high propagation time, and it leads to an uncle, there is a 50% chance that that uncle is the high-propagation-time block, but there is also a 50% chance that the uncle will be the other block that it competes against. This theory matches well with the 0.04 per million “social uncle rate” and the ~0.02 per million “private uncle rate” finding; hence we will take it as the most likely explanation.
The regression finds that, after accounting for this social uncle rate, one byte accounts for an additional ~0.000002 uncle rate. Bytes in a transaction take up 68 gas, of which 61 gas accounts for its contribution to bandwidth (the remaining 7 is for bloating the history database). If we want the bandwidth coefficient and the computation coefficient in the gas table to both reflect propagation time, then this implies that if we wanted to really optimize gas costs, we would need to increase the gas cost per byte by 50 (ie. to 138). This would also entail raising the base gas cost of a transaction by 5500 (note: such a rebalance would not mean that everything gets more expensive; the gas limit would be raised by ~10% so that the average-case transaction throughput would remain unchanged). On the other hand, the risk of worst-case denial-of-service attacks is worse for execution than for data, and so execution requires larger safety factors. Hence, there is arguably not sufficiently strong evidence to do any re-pricings here at least for the time being.
One possible long-term protocol change would be to introduce separate gas pricing mechanisms for in-EVM execution and transaction data; the argument here is that the two are much easier to separate as transaction data can be computed separately from everything else, and so the optimal strategy may be to somehow allow the market to balance them; however, precise mechanisms for doing such a thing still need to be developed.
Gas Limit Policy
For an individual miner determining their gas price, the “private uncle rate” of 0.02 per million gas is the relevant statistic. From the point of view of the whole system, the “social uncle rate” of 0.04 per million gas is what matters. If we did not care about safety factors and were ok with an uncle rate of 0.5 uncles per block (meaning, a “51% attack” would only need 40% hashpower to succeed, actually not as bad as it sounds) then at least this analysis suggests that the gas limit could theoretically be raised to ~11 million (20 tx/sec given an average 39k gas per tx as is the case under current usage, or 37 tx/sec worth of simple sends). With the latest optimizations, this could be pushed even higher. However, since we do care about safety factors and prefer to have a lower uncle rate to alleviate centralization risks, 5.5 million is likely an optimal level for the gas limit, though in the medium term a “dynamic gas limit” formula that targets a particular block processing time would be a better approach, as it would be able to quickly and automatically adjust in response to attacks and risks.
Note that the concern about the centralization risks and the need for safety factors do not stack on top of each other. The reason is that during an active denial-of-service attack, the blockchain needs to survive, not be long-term economically centralization-resistant; the argument is that if the attacker’s goal was to economically encourage centralization, then the attacker could just donate money to the biggest pool in order to bribe other miners to join it.
In the future, we can expect virtual machine improvements to decrease uncle rates further, though improvements to networking are eventually going to be required as well. There is a limit to how much scalability is possible on a single chain, with the primary bottleneck being disk reads and writes, so after some point (likely 10-40 million gas) sharding will be the only way to process more transactions. If we just want to decrease equilibrium gas prices, then Casper will help substantially, by making the “slope” of uncle rate to gas consumption near-zero at least up to a certain point.
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MouseBelt blockchain accelerator launches education initiative across three UC campuses
The initiative will support education, research, and entrepreneurship at UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, and UC Santa Barbara
San Francisco. 22nd August 2019 – MouseBelt Blockchain Accelerator — an ecosystem that promotes blockchain innovation by supporting hands-on development for the projects, individuals, and emerging leaders that are pushing the industry forward — has announced an initiative with UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, and UC Santa Barbara to support blockchain-focused education, research, and entrepreneurship. The programme is spearheaded by MouseBelt’s accelerator and engineering arms, which seek to advance blockchain technology through strategic academic partnerships.
Through this initiative, MouseBelt will provide an initial donation to be divided between the three universities’ engineering schools. It also plans to invest $500,000 for student projects and raise another $500,000 to directly fund researchers. It will support up to five early-stage companies with up to $100,000 in investment through an exclusive UC Blockchain Entrepreneurship programme.
“As a blockchain industry leader, MouseBelt is excited to collaborate with world-class universities like UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, and UC Santa Barbara,” says Ashlie Meredith, Programme Director at MouseBelt University. “We aim to help these universities become a driving force for innovation in the blockchain space, as well as provide students and researchers with the opportunity for both theoretical and industry experience.”
MouseBelt aims to encourage collaboration across college campuses and enrich the quality of blockchain projects being undertaken. Educational courses, workshops, and advising on best practices will be made available to students, while researchers and early-stage companies will be able to receive funding and resources needed to build scalable solutions and foster meaningful blockchain adoption.
The academic grant initiative will connect researchers with industry partners to fund projects in areas such as alternate cryptographics, post-quantum cryptography, distributed systems research for blockchains, blockchain peer-to-peer networks, and proofs-of-concept for general business use cases.
In addition, MouseBelt will fund the second UCLA blockchain engineering course taught by Professor Eli Gafni, from the Samueli School of Engineering. It will also assist Professor Rich Wolski in the College of Engineering; Christopher Russo, Associate Director of Corporate Business Development at UC Santa Barbara; and Professor Mo Shadoghi at the College of Engineering at UC Davis with various research proposals.
Christopher Russo, Associate Director of Corporate Business Development at UC Santa Barbara comments: “MouseBelt has been actively involved in supporting student organisations and entrepreneurs in bringing blockchain to UCSB,” says Christopher Russo, Associate Director of Corporate Business Development at UC Santa Barbara. . “We look forward to seeing how broader collaborations between researchers, faculty, and administrators across multiple UC campuses will continue to foster blockchain innovation on campus.””
MouseBelt will also work closely with on-campus groups to identify outstanding startup founders and provide a unique educational experience exclusively for early-stage companies from these campuses. Its leadership and industry partners will mentor up to five companies on technical, academic, and business best practices. In return for up to $100,000 in investment per company, MouseBelt will take a percentage of equity. As projects are incubated at the student organisation and research level, it will partner with groups such as PLASMA accelerator at UC Davis and Startup Labs at UCLA to participate in co-investment and advising.
MouseBelt’s ongoing relationship with these universities began with partnerships between Blockchain at UCLA, Startup Labs at UCLA, Blockchain at UCSB and Blockchain at Davis. They funded the first ever blockchain engineering course at UCLA and have invested in several student projects from these groups. This initiative addresses the growing demand from students, faculty and administrators for blockchain education and resources.
For individuals interested in partnering with MouseBelt, following are key dates for academic grants and its entrepreneurship programme.
Academic grants
Sept 15 – Cross-campus meetings
Nov 1 – Research proposals due
Nov 21 – Introduction to external funding partners
Entrepreneurship programme
Sept 15 – Programme launch
Jan 1 – Proposals due
Feb 1 – Announce investment companies.
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'Avengers: Endgame' Theory Looks to Black Widow's Hair to Backup Time Jump
By Jamie Jirak - December 13, 2018 09:15 pm EST
One of the easiest ways to determine where you are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is by looking at Black Widow’s hair. From her moppy red curls in Iron Man 2 to the new blonde disguise in Avengers: Infinity War, no one changes their locks more than Natasha Romanoff.
Based on the first trailer for Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) seems to be keeping her blonde look from Infinity War. However, one eagle-eyed redditor has noticed that there’s more than meets the eye to her upcoming hairstyle.
Posted to the /r/MarvelStudios subreddit, /u/marvel20geek breaks down Natasha’s hair in the trailer as well as the film's concept art, which leads them to theorize that there will be a time jump.
(Photo: Marvel)
First, they use this image to show that Natasha appears to be rocking the exact same hairdo from Infinity War. This is extremely uncommon for the character, who always comes into a new movie with at least some hair alterations. However, the redditor notices a change as the trailer progresses...
“But here, as she greets Hawkeye in the middle of an Asian country (maybe Japan) her hair looks like it is braided and long,” they point out. This is an excellent observation as the hair seen in the first image would be too short for the style seen in the second photo.
Finally, the redditor includes the concept art image, which shows Black Widow going back to her roots (pun intended!).
“Maybe she colours it or something, but does this mean that Endgame starts with the aftermath of the decimation and then we have a time lapse of a few years (or maybe some months?).”
Since the concept art shows her hair as both longer and darker, this could definitely indicate a time jump. Many speculate the movie will take place a couple of years after the events of Infinity War, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see the immediate aftermath before jumping ahead.
The redditor also points out that Hawkeye’s look in the concept art doesn’t quite match with the trailer either, however, they suggest that maybe “he reverts back from Ronin to Hawkeye after the time lapse.” Of course, there's always the possibility that this was early artwork that eventually changed.
While some fans think this hair/time jump theory could be true, other commenters weren’t quick to buy it. /u/Wakaflockaisaac points out that it’s possible Marvel “could have edited/shot some scenes for the trailer with Natasha having different color hair to throw of the fans.”
/u/XOpelX writes that people are “focusing on her hair WAY too much” and that the mysteries of the upcoming films won’t be solved by hair styles.
However, some people think these observations are definitely pointing us in the right time jump direction. “I think you're pretty spot on with this theory,” writes /u/FundoBundo.
Whether or not these Black Widow hair changes are important, we can all agree on one thing: Scarlett Johansson is capable of pulling off pretty much any hairstyle.
Avengers: Endgame lands in theaters on April 26, 2019. Other upcoming Marvel Studios films include Captain Marvel on March, 8 2019, and Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 5, 2019.
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Young Ahmed: the fear and anguish of a young radical working-class Muslim
Written by Rita Di Santo
Rita di Santo reviews Young Ahmed, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes recently
Like Britain’s Ken Loach, Belgium’s most renowned filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make movies bursting with concern for the struggles of the working class and the most vulnerable in society. Their protagonists often teenagers who find themselves in the midst of a dysfunctional economic system, misjudged and alienated. Young Ahmed, the Dardennes' latest, premiered to great acclaim at this year’s Cannes film festival, bringing the Best Director prize to the brothers.
The movie is about a 13-year-old Muslim caught between moral crisis and emotional change. Ahmed’s mother struggles to understand how, in only one month, his attention has turned from his PlayStation to the Koran, while a local extremist imam pushes him to follow the example of his cousin and become a jihadi fighter. His radicalisation leads him to refuse to shake hands with his thoughtful teacher Inès “because women are impure” and Inès’s boyfriend is “a Jew”, but Inès understands Ahmed - who is also affected by dysplasia. When Ahmed tells the imam that Inès teaches Arabic and Koranic verses using music, the imam denounces her and Ahmed responds with a violent assault. Arrested and committed to youth custody, where therapeutic treatments appear to be working miracles, he convinces the authorities that he’s sufficiently reformed for a “making amends” encounter with Inès herself. While in the custodial centre, Ahmed works on a farm where he meets another teenager, Louise. There is a spark, but when she kisses him, he is wracked with guilt. He asks her to become a Muslim so his sin will be less serious. But the tremors of love make him to lose control, and violence could again be his outlet.
It’s an intense drama rendered shocking by the youth of its violent radicalised protagonist, a child, an innocent, abandoned and manipulated. The conclusion shows the Dardenne brothers at their best. Their style is austere, methodical, simple, hand-held camerawork, use of available light, absence of non-diegetic music, the observation of everyday tasks, and a sense of moral weightiness centring on a taciturn protagonist.
The Dardennes offer no answers, but make clear who is to blame, casting the teenager as victim and revealing a series of abuses, including psychological abuse from the imam, who constantly lectures and manipulates Ahmed on how to live his life and what is a sin. Other institutions are cruel, such as the rehabilitation centre, which puts Ahmed to work on a farm, where though only 13 he is treated as an adult worker; or the psychiatrist who must determine if Ahmed “is a danger to society”.
The film alludes to some of the challenges of integration for Arabic-speaking child refugees. The form of Arabic taught comes from the Koran, which is ancient Arabic, but only modern Arabic, a completely different language, would help them get a job. They also need to master French, but few are familiar with the language. This movie provides a powerful insight into the life of a teenager that is both sympathetic and urgent.
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Calm before the storm? DRC goes to the polls
Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo go to the polls on Monday in the country’s second election since civil war. Kinshasa had returned to calm on Sunday after a standoff at the capital’s international airport and violence that left up to eight people dead. The DRC’s electoral commission chief has once again said everything will be ready in time.
Q&A: Malefetsane Nkhahle, SADC ECF
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After emerging unscathed from a standoff with police at the airport, Etienne Tshisekedi, the main challenger to incumbent president Joseph Kabila, told journalists on Sunday that he would hold a rally at the capital’s main stadium. Despite campaigning having finished.
This never materialised and Kinshasa remained quiet and calm. RFI toured the Tshisekedi stronghold of Limete. Although there was a significant presence of riot police, life continued as normal.
The head of the electoral commission once again told journalists that they are working around the clock and preparations for the polls will be finished.
“From our side, we’re certain that everything has been done correctly and Monday the polling stations will be open,” said Daniel Ngoy Mulunda.
“We might have some issues – there have never been elections 100 per cent perfect – but we’d like to assure you that 99 per cent is going well,” the commission’s president added.
There are a number of international election observation missions in the DRC. A representative from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) told RFI that they have concerns about more violence during the count.
“Yes, we are concerned. The counting and the tallying of the results might bring with it something a bit unsavoury. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that it won’t come to a situation that would prove disastrous for the country,” said Malefetsane Nkhahle, who is leading Sadc’s Electoral Commissions Forum mission in the DRC.
Nkhahle also acknowledged that there are worries that some people might not get to vote at some polling stations due to demand. He said the numbers they’ve seen on polling station lists does not indicate that they will be “overwhelmed”, although he did not comment on the electoral commission’s recent change in voting rules.
Incumbent president Joseph Kabila is widely tipped to secure re-election in Monday’s polls with the main opposition parties having failed to unite faced with a single round of voting.
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The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) is unequivocally opposed to the imposition of the three-language formula from primary level of school education as proposed in the Draft National Education Policy released by the HRD ministry. The CPI(M) is of the firm opinion that the opposition is not to any particular language but for ensuring the opportunity for all Indian languages to develop and thrive.
In response to this insensitive idea contained in the draft, there has been widespread reaction particularly from the southern states. The CPI(M) strongly feels that such forcible imposition will only lead to feelings of linguistic chauvinism detrimental for the unity of our people and the country.
Stung by the strong criticism, the government has issued a clarification to the effect that the document is only a draft. Given the extremely sensitive nature of the issue, the government must withdraw the current draft and come out with a fresh one setting the controversy to rest.
The Polit Bureau appeals to all democratic and right-thinking citizens, organisations, groups and individuals in the education and cultural sphere to raise their voice to force the government to roll back this disturbing initiative.
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Development of heat economy and construction of facade elements
Juhani Olin, Juha Ratvio, Jukka Jokela
Research output: Book/Report › Report
The research project is based on energy-saving efforts, which for their part can be carried through reducing e.g. thermal losses through the wall. The need for developing the facade elements was created, moreover, by changes in the house building sector, with a shift in emphasis on small house construction and with requirements for more attractive outward appearance. This research tends to examine the wall structure as an independent structural entity by studying the possibility of developing the wall structure and means of making it competitive. An improved heat economy will also cause changes in other properties of the wall. The properties of the most commonly used insulating materials such as mineral wool, polystyrene and polyurethane, and their possible use as insulation in concrete facade elements are also studied. Along with the traditional mineral wool insulation, the plastics insulation make new applications possible in certain areas, for example, in cases where the thickness of the concrete wythe and the number of wall ties can be reduced by turning to advantage the strength of plastics insulating materials. The interaction between the concrete wythes influences the carrying capacity of the load-bearing facade element. Depending on the wall ties, the interaction between the wythes can be complete, partial or nil. The best carrying capacity is attainable with a complete interaction, which is produced e.g. by the diagonal truss reinforcement used as wall ties. The diagonal reinforcement induces, however, cold bridges and indirect forces between the wythes. Therefore more flexible anchoring methods are recommended when the sufficient carrying capacity is achieved by them. The purpose of anchoring between the inner and outer concrete layer of the non-bearing element is generally to suspend only the outer layer from the inner layer. It is then advisable to try to arrange the anchoring as flexible as possible, in which case the indirect forces, as well as cracks and deflections induced through these forces can be avoided. The outer layer can also be suspended either partially or completely by means of plastics insulation, when the strength and deformation capacity of the bond between the insulation and the concrete, and those of the insulation, together with the long-term durability of anchoring are ensured. The carrying capacity of the element and the size of the indirect forces due to temperature differences with different types of truss reinforcement were evaluated by means of computer calculations. The strength of truss reinforcement was examined further in laboratory tests, in which the outer wythe of the element was loaded. The external concrete wall is basically of compact structure, but with regard to the heat economy and moisture conditions of the structure it is important that the joints and seams are also tight. On the other hand, by ventilating heat insulation care is taken that the moisture in the structure can escape outdoors. Instructions for design, manufacture and assembly are given in the report, by means of which these requirements can be fulfilled. The development of manufacturing techniques is possible by applying prestressing and sliding form construction techniques, fibre concrete and vacuum concrete techniques, together with the sprayed insulating materials and pastes. The above methods require, however, that standardized products and large manufacturing series are used. In the report, a number of ideas of developing the concrete facade element are proposed. Most favourably judged were: the prestressed wall element of sliding-form construction, the element based on the bearing capacity of plastics insulation and connecting pins, and the element provided with the concentrated anchoring. Bearing capacity, manufacturing techniques and costs of new structures are also discussed.
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Olin, J., Ratvio, J., & Jokela, J. (1984). Development of heat economy and construction of facade elements. Espoo: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus. Tutkimuksia - Research Reports, No. 28
Olin, Juhani ; Ratvio, Juha ; Jokela, Jukka. / Development of heat economy and construction of facade elements. Espoo : VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1984. 166 p. (Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus. Tutkimuksia - Research Reports; No. 28).
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AP IMPACT: Past medical testing on humans revealed
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In this June 25, 1945 picture, army doctors expose patients to malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the malaria ward at Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill, Ill. Around the time of World War II, prisoners were enlisted to help the war effort by participating in studies that could help the troops. A series of malaria studies at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois and two other penitentiaries were designed to test antimalarial drugs that could help soldiers fighting in the Pacific. Shocking as it may seem, government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates.
By MIKE STOBBE,
ATLANTA – Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.
Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government’s apology last fall for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis 65 years ago.
U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States — studies that often involved making healthy people sick.
An exhaustive review by The Associated Press of medical journal reports and decades-old press clippings found more than 40 such studies. At best, these were a search for lifesaving treatments; at worst, some amounted to curiosity-satisfying experiments that hurt people but provided no useful results.
Inevitably, they will be compared to the well-known Tuskegee syphilis study. In that episode, U.S. health officials tracked 600 black men in Alabama who already had syphilis but didn’t give them adequate treatment even after penicillin became available.
These studies were worse in at least one respect — they violated the Read more…
Categories: disease and pestilence Tags: Alabama, cancer, disease, gonorrhea, Guatemala, influenza, Jews, malaria, Maryland, Nazi, New York, pandemic flu, penicillin, syphilis, Tuskegee, United States, virus, World Health Organization
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Evans, Christian, Christian faith, Christian Standard, Christian Union, Christianity, Christine Deriso, Christine Deriso: Dreams to Grow On, Christopher Andrews, Chronic Suffering, chronically unemployed, chronicle.augusta.com, Chuck Clay, chuckle, church, Church as Business, church burnings, church services, Church vs. Business, Church/Religion, churches, Cigarette, cigarette ta, Cigarette tax, Cigarette taxes, Cincinnati, circle of friends, circumstances of the crime, Citgo, Citgo gas station, cities, Citizens can help, citizens demand, citizens demand we stop criminals from walking out early, Citizens Medal, Citizens Medal recipients, citizens speak, citizenship workshops, city, civil cases, civil liberties, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, civil rights activist, civil rights attorney, civil rights hero, Civil Rights Leader, Civil rights movement, Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights Project, Civil Rights Project at UCLA, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, civil rights standards, civil rights struggle, civil rights struggle was multicolored, claimed, claimed lives, Claiming A Street Named King, claims our youngest talent through homicide, Claims racist response to violence, Clarence Alexander, Clarence Davis, Clarisa Lee, class, Class of 1968, classes, classroom, Claude Wiggleton, Claude Wiggleton Jr., clean record, Clearwater, clerk of the Georgia House office, Clerk Of The House Office, client base, climate of voters, clinical, clinical psychologists, Clint Bryant, closure, closure of numerous open-burning dumps, clouds, co-founded, co-founded Blacks Against Black Crime, co-founded Blacks Against Black Crime in 1991, co-founded Blacks Against Black Crime Inc., Co-Founder, co-founder and president of Blacks Against Black Crime, co-founder and president of Blacks Against Black Crimes Inc., co-founder of Blacks Against Black Crime, co-founder of Blacks Against Black Crime Inc., co-workers, Coach James Quarles, Coaches, coaching, coaching a baseball team, coastal Georgia, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, cocaine, cocaine use, Cohesion, cold-blooded, cold-blooded killer, cold-blooded killers, collaboration, collect a drug debt, collect data, Collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, collective dream, college, college bound, College Park, college scholarships, college student caught in a cross-fire, college tuition, Color of Change, color of her skin, color of his skin, Colorado, ColorofChange.org, Columbia, Columbia County, Columbia County Court Calendar, Columbia County Court Calendars, Columbia County sheriff's Capt. 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Charles Walker, convicted Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, Convicted Georgia Senator Charles Walker, convicted killer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin had killed before, convicted once, convicted se, conviction, conviction overturned, Core Rights, Coretta Scott King, Cornell, Cornell Drive, Cornell Harris, Cornell Harris: Dare 2 Dream Like King, Corporate America, Corporate Greed, correct disparities, cost, cost is high, cost of firearm injuries, cost of firearm injuries in the United States, cost of firearms, cost per firearm death, cost the state, costly, couldn't wait, counseling, counsels, counted the numbers, counterproposal, Counties, country, country a better place, County, county legislative delegation, County Sheriff, county's legislative delegation, courage, Courage defined the life of Barbara Ann Thurmond, courage was an inspiration, courageous, courageous activist, court, Court Calendar, Court Calendars, Court of Law, courtroom, courts, cousins, covered, covers courts, covers crime, crack cocaine, crack-cocaine statistics, crack-cocaine stats, craving for respect, Create, created, creating, creating more a violent society, creating new life is taken so lightly, creating new life is taken so lightly that school children sing about it, Creation, Creations of FireKawand Crawford, Creative Impressions, credit for the drop in black homicides, crime, Crime Affects Our Nation, Crime and health care, Crime and the Law, crime and violence, crime can happen to someone you know or love, crime committed, crime committed against their souls, crime decrease doesn't mean anything to victim’s families, crime drugs, crime experts and political appointees to revamp sentences, crime happens to someone else, crime has since subsided, crime has wreaked on our community, Crime in America, crime in black community, crime in the black community, crime in their streets, Crime is a Societal Problem, crime is allowed in the black community, crime is in our faces, Crime is no longer someone else's problem, crime is someone else’s problem, Crime is Something That Happens to Someone Else, crime lab, crime might go up again next year, crime must STOP, crime nightmare, crime numbers might be down this year, crime prevention, crime rate, crime rate falls but not rape and sexual assault, crime rate falls except rape, crime rate is like the stock market, crime reporter, crime spree, crime traces, crime victim, crime victim’s rights, crime victims, Crime Victims Advocacy Council, crime victims and their families, crime victims and their families are treated with compassion and dignity, crime victims and their families treated with compassion and dignity, Crime Victims United of California, crime victims’ families, crime-ridden, crime. 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Johnson, depart, Department of Psychology at Augusta State University, deprived, deprived children, deprived of development, deputy, deputy prosecutor, Derek Alderman, dermatologist, describes, desensitizes young people, desensitizes young people to death, desensitizes young people to violence, desensitizing young people to death, desensitizing young people to violence, deserves, deserves America’s highest civilian honor, designed, despair, Despite, despite being poor, destitution, destruction, details how, detention, determination, deters voters, deters voters from casting ballots, deters voters from casting their ballots, Devastating, develop, develop trust, developed, developing community, developing family, developing family and community, development, Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues of Families and Community, deviance, diagnosed, diagnosis, did just that, did not attend the NAACP Convention, did not pass, did not pass state requirements, did not pass state requirements for reading and language arts, did not vote, didn't embarrass him, didn't have any say-so, didn't know how, didn't want her to have the baby, didn’t work, died, died at a very young age, died at the scene, died later at the hospital, died that day, died this summer, died too young, different technology, difficult, difficult for most people to fathom, difficulties, difficulties and challenge, dignity, dinner, direct social activism, Director, Director Of Rape Crisis And Sexual Assault Service, director of Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services in Augusta, director of the Victims Assistance Department of the Augusta Richmond County judicial system, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, dirty, disabilities, disabled, disabled Navy veteran, disagreement, disappointed to learn, disciplinarians, discipline, discuss, Disgraced Georgia Sen. Charles Walker, disgraced Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, Disgraced Georgia Senator Charles Walker, disgusted by homicides, disgusted by homicides in her community, disgusted by murder, disgusted by murders, Disney movies, disparate treatment of black victims, disparate treatment of victims, disparities, disparities among bond amounts, disparities in health outcomes, disparities in health outcomes and treatment, disproportion, disproportionate number of African-American males in Georgia prisons, disproportionate number of African-American males in prisons, disproportionate number of African-American males in prisons in the state of Georgia, disproportionate number of African-Americans in Georgia prisons, disproportionate number of black male victimizers, disproportionate number of black males in Georgia prisons, disproportionate number of black males in prisons, disproportionate number of blacks assigned to special education, disproportionate number of blacks in Georgia prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons in the state of Georgia, disproportionately impact low-income, disproportionately impact minorities, disrespect for the black church, disrespecting the black church, disrupted, disseminate electronic information, distance between Augusta and Birmingham, District 9 at-large seat, District Attorney, District Attorney Danny Craig, District Attorney Danny Craig has prosecuted homicide cases equitably, District Attorney Danny Craig listens to the voices of all crime victims, District Attorney of the Augusta Judicial Circuit, District of Columbia, District of Columbia Police, District Of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, Divided City, DividedCity.US, Divine Order/Decree, Divine Revelation, do not feel good about themselves, do not feel safer, do not forget, Do you know someone who you can help, Do-Over, doctorates, documented black family could not be sold, Does that sound like someone you know, doesn't even touch college tuition, doesn't take into account, doing her part, doing his part, dollar an hour, domestic cases, Domestic Violence, domestic violence cases, dominance, Domonique Benn, Don Cheeks, don't condone crime, don't have any answers, Don’t forget, Donna Brown, Donzella James, door kicked in, double standards, double standards in the criminal justice system, double standards of the criminal justice system, double standards within the justice system are contributing factors to black-on-black violence, Downsizing, Dr. Charles Bullock, Dr. Deborah Austin, Dr. James Lesher Jr., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Behavior, Dr. Jim Cruickshanke, Dr. King might remind us that the civil rights struggle was multicolored and moving forward must be as well, Dr. King would have a few choice words for today's music, Dr. King would no doubt take note of how far we have to go, Dr. King would say we need to keep the spirit of Barbara Thurmond alive, Dr. King would take note of how far we have to go, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Martin Luther King would say ‘no’ Augusta has not lived up to his dream, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Robetta McKenzie, Dr. Steve Hobbs, dragged the victim down an embankment, Dramatic Unities, drastic changes, drawn, drawn into, drawn into the daily lives of a people who lived in hideous conditions under apartheid, dream, Dream Speech, dreamed, dreams, Dreams to Grow On, drive-by, drive-by shooting, Driver, drop-out, dropping out of school, drown, drowned, Drug crime, drug deal gone bad, drug dealer, drug dealers, drug dealing, drug deals, drug debt, Drug Lords as Leaders, drug-related crime, drug-related disagreement, drug-related robbery, drugs, drugs and alcohol, duplex, During this century American justice has been a mockery for black people, during what police said, dying, each slaying, early education, earmarked, Earnestine (John) Covington, Earnestine Covington, easily recognize, East Central Georgia Learning Resources System, east 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of an American Bad Boy, effect of crime on victims, Effect of the Northern Migration on the black Family, effective, effective programs, effectively, effectiveness, effort, efforts, Eighth Amendment, Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive bail or fines, Elaine and Gordon Rondeau, Elaine Mitchell, Elaine Mitchell: Powerful Words of Wisdom, Elaine Rondeau, Elders respected and honored, Eldwin Griffin, elected, Election, Election Day, Electoral College, electronic government information, elementary school, eliminate injury, eliminate injury where people learn, eliminate injury where people live, eliminate injury where people play, eliminate injury where people work, eliminate violence where people learn, eliminate violence where people live, eliminate violence where people play, eliminate violence where people work, Elitism, Elmer Singley, Elouise Golphin, Elouise Golphin: Poetry for All Reasons, Emancipation on the Black Family, Embarrassment, emergent telemedicine 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your grandchildren, enlisting in the Army, enraged, ensure, Entered into rest, Entry, environment, environmental, Environmental Justice, environmental pollutants, Environmental Racism, epidemic, epidemic of black violence, epidemic of black-on-black violence, epidemic of teen pregnancy, equal education, equal justice, equal rights, equity, equity and well-being, Erich Olaf Tate, Erich Olaf Tate pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic guns, Ericka (Jessie) Covington-Wright, Ericka Covington-Wright, Ernest (Angela) Covington, Ernest Covington, Ernest Thurmond, Erroneous Publicity, escalating violence, escaped, espoused, Essence Award, Essence Award from Essence Magazine, Essence Magazine, established, Established brotherhood, established rules, estates, esteem, Estella Wright, Estelle Wright, estimated, estranged husband, ethical conduct, Eunice Harris, Eunice Harris: Love Pearls, Evan Tanks Johnson, Evans, Evans murder victim Gary Collins, Evans murder victim Gary Collins remembered, even a blind person could see, evening church service, Event, eventually, eventually convicted, every book they read, Every two seconds a gun comes off the American assembly line, Every two seconds a gun comes off the assembly line in America, every word, everyday Americans making a difference, everyday embarrassment, Everyone, Everyone must find and play a role in the development of the community, everyone who cares about our youth, everything, evil, Evil ALEC laws, Evil Apartheid, evils of oppression, evils of poverty, evils of racism, evils of slavery and evils of militarism, evils of the past, evolving here, ex-boyfriend, example of courage, examples, exception to the rule, excessive, excessive bail, excessive bail or fines, excessive crime, excessive fines, exchange, exchange for food, Exchange Value of Children, excited, excuses, exemplary deeds, exempt, Exodus From Pity to Power, expanded, expansions, expected, Experiences, express themselves, expressing concern about their safety, Expression of Love, Extending education into the African American community, extraordinary Americans, Eyes of a Child, eyes of children, face, face of youth violence, Facebook page, facing charges, facing murder and weapon charges, fact, facts, fail, failure, Failure to Give Back, Faint-heartedness, fairness, Faith, faith in the criminal justice system, falling, Falling Stars, Falling Stars: Air Crashes that Filled Rock & Roll Heaven, families, families cannot begin the healing process, families headed by a single females, families of those killed, families of those killed by Georgia's guns, families of those wounded, families of those wounded by Georgia's guns, families who lost a loved one, Families with Adolescents, Family, Family And Community, Family and Community Book Fair, Family and Community Book Fair at Murphey Middle School, Family and Community the African American Experience, family and individual development, family bond, family bonding, family bonds, Family 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feeling in the black community, Feelings, feelings about life and death, feelings about life and death are different, feisty spirit, felonies, felons, felons convicted a second time, felony, felony assault, felony charges, felt, felt a sharp pain, Females, females became dominant, Few Positive Images for Youth, fewer, fi, fiancée, fidgeting, fifty percent chance of being right, fight, fight against cancer, fight crime, fight for better gun control, fight for better gun control. better gun control, fight the bill, fight violence, fight violent crime, fighting, fighting cancer, Fighting Disease, fighting militarism, fighting oppression, fighting poverty, fighting Racism, fighting slavery, fights disease, figures, filling a wading pool, filth, filthy, final result, finally convicted, financial, financial advice, financial assistance, financial assistance for burial of crime victim, find a candidate, find love in the world, fines, finger-paint, firearm, firearm fatality, firearm injuries, firearms, firearms escalated, fired, fired a gun, fired a pistol, fired a revolver, fired handgun, First, First Christian Church, first encountered, first-grader, first-graders, firsthand, fistfight, fix, flame, fled the inner city, flowers schoolwork under refrigerator magnets, flyer, flying kites, focus, focus on victims, follow-up, follow-up to the Million Youth Movement, followed them, food, For now, for resentment, For whom does the bell of victimization toll, force, forced, forcing, forever, forgave, forget the people they represent, forgive, form to fill out, former, Former Augusta Judicial Circuit D.A. Danny Craig, former Augusta Mayor Ed McIntyre, former Augusta police officer, former Augusta Police Officer Frank Howard, former city police officer, former congressional candidate, Former Georgia Sen. Charles Walker, Former Georgia Senator Charles Walker, Former Neonatal ICU nurse, former police officer, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former WAGT-TV anchor, former WAGT-TV anchor Rich Everitt, Fort Gordon, Fort Valley, Forty authors from the Southeast, foster equity, foster equity where people learn, foster equity where people live, foster equity where people play, foster equity where people work, fostering learning, fought fiercely, found, found by her brother, found dead, found dead of a gunshot wound, found floating in Lake Olmstead, found guilty, found not guilty, found shot, foundation, Foundations, founded, Founder, four grandchildren, fragile, fragile ego and a gun are ingredients for a homicide, fragile ego and a gun are ingredients for a murder, Frank Howard, Frank Johnson, Frank Johnson Sr., Frank M. Johnson, fraternities, Fraud, Free, Free at Last, free from poverty, free to walk the streets, freed from jail, freedmen, freedmen vote, Freedom, freedom and civil liberty, freedom fighter, Freedom Parkway, freedoms, freedoms and civil liberties, Friday August 25 2006, Friday September 1, Friday September 1 2006, friend, Friends, Friends and Diverse Neighbors, Friends may call the residence, friendship, From Bliss to a Blizzard, From Colored Water Till Now, front door of the apartment had been kicked in, Front Row Seat, frontal assault on black youth, Fruit of Life/Living, frustrated, frustration, fulfillment, fulfillment of duties, full agenda, Function, fundamental commitment to human rights, fundamental rights for all crime victims, funded, funds for burial, funeral, funeral homes, Funeral Services, Further victimization against blacks then occurs in the court system, future, G.K. Chesterton, GA, GA state Board of Pardons and Paroles, GA state Sen. Donzella James, galvanize the community, galvanize the community against violence, gang-reduction zones, gang-related, gang-related apartment shooting, Garden City, Gary Collins, Gary Collins killed, Gary Collins murdered, Gary Payne, Gas Station, gatfl.org, gathered, gathered at the church, gave birth to a baby boy, gave birth to a baby girl, gay marriage, Gender, General, General Assembly, general manager, general manager of the James Brown Arena, genocide, genocide through our music, gentle, Gents Technology Services, Geographic, George, George (Deidra) Johnson, George (Deidra) Johnson II, George Johnson, George Johnson II, Georgia, Georgia 10th Congressional District, Georgia Assistive Technology Act, Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, Georgia black males make up 30 percent of the state's population and 70 percent of the state's prison population, Georgia blacks make up 30 percent of the state's population and 70 percent of the state's prison population, Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, Georgia Capitol, Georgia Capitol dome, Georgia Center for Children and Education, Georgia Center for Children and Education, Inc., Georgia cities, Georgia city, Georgia colleges, Georgia Democratic leadership, Georgia elected officials protect gun manufacturers, Georgia General Assembly website, Georgia gun crimes, Georgia gun sales, Georgia gun violence, Georgia gunrunners take toll on state, Georgia gunrunning, Georgia House, Georgia House Bill 162, Georgia House Bill 62, Georgia House Bill 96, Georgia House Health and Ecology Committee, Georgia House of Representatives, Georgia is a high-volume gun state, Georgia is the gun belt, Georgia is the gun belt of America, Georgia is the gun-running state, Georgia is the nation’s gun-running state, Georgia labor camp, Georgia law protects the gun industry, Georgia lawmakers, Georgia lawmakers protect gun manufacturers, Georgia leads the nation in gunrunning, Georgia Learning Resources System, Georgia Legal Services, Georgia Legal Services Program, Georgia Legislature, Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault, Georgia on March 19 1950, Georgia physicians, Georgia prohibits cities from suing gun manufacturers, Georgia protects gun manufacturers, Georgia Psychological Association, Georgia recently passed a law prohibiting cities from suing gun manufacturers, Georgia Reconstruction, Georgia Relay Service, Georgia Rep. 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MU remembers
April 7, 2013 October 10, 2014 clandsbaumJournalism, Mizzou, MU remembers, personal life
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
― William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
We live in death’s shadow every day, but rarely acknowledge it. Occasionally, though, we (us budding journalists) are handed an assignment that forces us into this realization.
The assignment: “MU remembers,” in which the Missourian writes about the lives of students who have died in the past calendar year. In this case “the Missourian” refers to yours truly.
Never have I been more nervous for a story. Never have I so successfully procrastinated. Never have I picked up the phone and had it slip out of my hand due to the amount of sweat that had accumulated on my palm.
I did all of these things, but in the end shelved my nerves and made the first phone call.
It was to Kate Bauche, Event Coordinator at the rec. (“MU Student Recreation Complex” in print, but everyone says “the rec.”) She had supervised Kelly Needham, a wonderfully outgoing 21-year-old finance major and rising senior who was killed in a car crash last August.
She told me as much as she could about him, including about the time he goofed off with a power washer, and the rec staff captured it on camera. She was kind, open, and full of hilarious and touching stories. I listened, took careful notes, hung up the phone and sobbed.
Through phone calls, voicemails, email, and even (where it couldn’t be avoided) Facebook message, I contacted those people who would become my sources: Hannah Cusack, a close friend of Kelly’s; Christine Ricaña’s brother and father — the latter one of the most heartbreaking conversations on record between two people; Stephanie Schroder’s mother, Phyllis, whom I spoke with six or eight times; April Swagman, Rachel Winnograd, and Dr. Kenneth Sher, all friends and teachers of Stephanie’s; Mary Burgess, the principal of Cole Patrick’s elementary school; Isaac Justin, Cole’s friend-turned-brother, who bowled me over with his friendly and open demeanor.
Each of these people bared their hearts to me while I took notes.
As difficult as it was to listen, I cannot imagine the strength it took to discuss friends, daughters, sisters and students — people they had loved and lost. Many laughed, some cried, but all were forced to look death in the face and to remember what it had taken from them.
Through adjectives and through anecdotes I came to know Kelly, Christine, Stephanie and Cole. I can’t imagine why they died, what twisted logic allowed it to happen, but I can honestly say that the world in their absence is a bit darker.
The story, entitled “MU remembers lost students” in print and “MU remembers nine students who died in the past year” online, came out Friday, April 5. It corresponded with the “MU Remembers” event in Stotler Lounge that same day at 2 p.m.
That afternoon I received a text message from Mrs. Schroder. “Hi Claire, I really liked the article you wrote about Stephanie,” it said. “It was a wonderful tribute to her. Thanks! Phyllis”.
As long as I am a journalist (and probably even longer), I will save that text. We take difficult stories, we stare down death because, in the end, it’s worth it. Stephanie deserved a tribute; she deserved to be remembered. They all did.
My job was to listen, and to try to do them justice.
← Zen for reporters
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Room 402: Gehenna Comes to New York
(On Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Jan. 22,2019 repeal of New York’s Public Health Law § 4164)
Note: “Room 402” does not refer to any specific event happening in a certain room, but was chosen at random to represent any room in which a late-term abortion takes place. “Gehenna” and “Tophet” are Biblical metonyms for hell, and also refer to a valley near Jerusalem where Israelites once participated in the sacrifice of their own children, burning them alive in the hands of the Canaanite idol Molech (also Moloch, Malcam, or Milcom).
The children of her forebears died
___more expeditiously
when fires of infanticide
___consumed them viciously.
Oh, sure, they suffered in the haze
___of smoke and drums and song,
but life surrendered to the blaze
___of heat before too long.
Each spirit quit its tiny frame
___of flesh, so charred and black.
The mercy of the eager flame
___lies in its swift attack.
It’s cold in Molech’s hands today;
___she startles, shivers, stills
upon the counter in a tray
___of blood that quickly chills.
Once swaddled warmly in the womb,
___now naked, head to toe,
extracted to this sterile room
___about an hour ago.
“No doctors will be called,” they said,
___while cleaning up the mess.
“In just a moment she’ll be dead;
___we’ll call this a success.”
And now they’ve left; the door is shut;
___the lights have been turned off:
Room 402 abandoned, but
___she waits, in stainless trough
for Tophet’s god to stop the breath
___within her lungs so small.
This isolated, frigid death
___is cruelest of them all.
Amy Foreman hails from the southern Arizona desert, where she homesteads with her husband and seven children. She has enjoyed teaching both English and Music at the college level, but is now focused on home-schooling her children, gardening, farming, and writing. Her blog is theoccasionalcaesura.wordpress.com
Sathyanarayana March 12, 2019
A very touching poem. So poignant with every line breaking our hearts. Kudos.
Amy Foreman March 12, 2019
Thank you, Sathyanarayana.
Joseph S. Salemi March 12, 2019
Mrs. Foreman, this is a profoundly sad poem, and the imagery is appropriately excruciating.
Andrew Cuomo is, like his father Mario, a corrupt and evil piece of garbage. He will do anything to appease the left-liberal fanatics who dominate New York politics. This is why he has approved infanticide.
Thank you, Joseph Salemi. I wish there was no need to write such a poem.
Ironically, the same liberals who push this evil agenda also push strongly for young children to have complete “body autonomy,” even going so far as to tell parents to ask their babies for consent before changing a diaper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxiSuNMtm8 Do they ever step back and see how asinine they are?
Any almost-born or already born child who is unfortunate enough to face a doctor who kills rather than a doctor who heals has ZERO “body autonomy” and no opportunity to give consent.
E. V. March 12, 2019
Well said, Prof. Salemi!
Hugh Maclean March 13, 2019
A woman should have the right to choose. Mothers forced to have children every year under certain religions are akin to domestic slaves. Let the woman choose its her life as well.
Back again, Hughie?
Why don’t you just go back to stuffing envelopes for your favorite anti-Semite, Jeremy Corbyn? That’s more your speed.
Martin Rizley March 13, 2019
A woman’s choice concerning her life must respect the child’s right to live. Some women, feeling themselves incapable of raising a child, have made the very painful decision of surrendering the child to be adopted by loving, worthy parents. But how can it ever be considered a legitimate option for a woman to make a choice regarding her own life that involves taking the life of another human being– even her own child? Hamster moms may eat their own babies, but how can the irrational behaviour of beasts provide a model for human conduct? God calls us to a higher road than that of the hamster.
C.B. Anderson March 12, 2019
It’s ironic that such abominations, which in China are carried out by the use of force, are here in the USA simply an option available to any mother who chooses to exercise it. What kind of choice is that?!
Apologies, C.B., that my reply to you ended up several comments down.
Amy, when we speak about “the power of the pen”, we’re referencing the skills of poets and writers like you. Other than SCP, I don’t know of any other venue that would be brave enough to publish this powerful truth.
Thank you, E.V., and thanks to the SCP for publishing on topics like this.
Martin March 12, 2019
An expertly crafted and powerful exposé of a great evil being tolerated in our day– an evil lies under the veil of euphemisms by which the left tries to cover up the murder of infants whose births are judged by adults to be “inconvenient.” Heartwrenching images painted with an economy of words. I hope this poem is widely read. Thank you for posting it.
Thank you, Martin, for your kind words.
Exactly, C.B. Anderson. China’s communism and the growing movement of the left (socialism) within our own country are two sides of the same ugly coin. Forced abortions in China achieve the same result as voluntary “chosen” abortions in the U.S.
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” (Ayn Rand)
James Sale March 13, 2019
A very powerful and disturbing poem, Amy, well done. I note too your comments on the total contradiction in the left-wing liberal’s position on this, which shouldn’t surprise us since the absence of consistency is one of the left-wing liberal’s defining characteristics: liberal but totalitarian. In the UK it is the liberals who most adamantly are insisting on supporting democracy by invalidating the democratic decision to leave the EU. And I like your Ayn quote, and here’s another for you and us to think about: “The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face” – Kevin Williamson
This applies equally to right wing dictatorships. Need a bit of balance here please.
The quote by Williamson is excellent, James. And thank you for your kind comment.
Capitalism enslaves people if you are among the many trapped by poverty. America is one of the most unequal societies in the Western world. Communism at least did not abandon you to such degradation. State protections were built in such as housing, medical care, and work. Yes it was not a lavish western lifestyle but is was basic security. And yes I know Stalin killed many, and sent thousands of dissidents to the gulag. However this is how all dictatorships work left and right. Look at Chile under Pinochet where many citizens disappeared.
When you see people defending communism in this way – Stalin killed a few thousand, apparently – ignoring the fact that he, Mao, and others killed tens of millions then we are beyond debate: we are in our ideological fantasy world. It is true that cartel capitalism has corrupted the West and we need to return to a real form of capitalism, because only capitalism actually provides our freedoms and services. As the great Jordan B. Peterson expressed it: “If there was any excuse to be a Marxist in 1917, there is absolutely and finally no excuse now”. Anyone who cannot see that is blind to history. And so far as the other issue is concerned, women – no more than men – do not have an absolute right with their bodies; some things are in themselves wrong. Committing suicide being one of them (except of course in certain very extreme situations: e.g. kami kazi in WW2 committed but for a higher cause); killing foetuses – real, about-to-be human beings is another. And Amy’s parallel with Moloch is very apt: secularisation is actually and bizarrely producing a pagan society rather than a godless one.
Inequality in outcomes is nothing, Hugh. There will always be outcome inequality: one person is naturally intelligent, good-looking, strong, or savvy . . . another is naturally unattractive, weak, sickly, or feeble-minded. There will be those who are, from the cradle, backed by money and there will be those born into poverty. “The poor you will always have with you.” (Jesus Christ)
America does not function to provide equality of outcome. Instead, America provides freedom of opportunity: “the pursuit of happiness,” not “happiness.”
Having traveled the former USSR, staying in the homes of many residents there and hearing their stories, I will never be convinced that citizens of a country scarred by communism will have the opportunity present in America, not unless their country completely transforms into another America.
Unlike those former Soviet block nations, in America, if you don’t like your situation, you are free to try to change it, to better yourself and those you love. You might succeed at changing your situation, or you might fail; it is not the duty of America to make sure that you succeed or to prevent you from failure. It is only the function of America to grant you the “inalienable right” to make the attempt.
You will notice the constant stream of Latin American immigrants rushing the southern border of our country, desperate to enter and work in a country that provides freedom of opportunity. You will also notice that there is no rush of U.S. citizens streaming down to slip across Mexico’s northern border, desperate to enter Mexico so that they can work a minimum-wage job and send back paychecks to their starving families in the U.S. Of course, if people like Alexandra Ocasio Cortez come into power, we may very well see mass emigration . . . 😉
The sentence “Communism at least did not abandon you to such degradation” is rubbish, and unless you are living in a culvert under a rotting bridge in subzero weather, you know it is rubbish. I have spent time with children living in a four foot high dugout cave in Moldova; I have never seen children living in such conditions in America–though I have seen and worked with the poorest of the poor.
One more thing, Hugh. It is an offensive travesty when leftists cry crocodile tears for the poor illegal immigrants seeking asylum in this country, saying that these are the most vulnerable among us, and that we must protect them, when simultaneously they push for each woman’s right to destroy the absolutely most vulnerable among us: the defenseless child in her womb, who only seeks asylum and a “safe space.”
Walk away from such nonsense, Hugh, and open your heart and mind to the truth.
Thanks for your response Amy. I feel we are politically very different in particular on the causes of inequality. Your argument on people born into lesser stations in life as a result of innate qualities signifying inferiority to others is flawed. Most research points to the social circumstances one is born into- poverty, poor housing, limited education, as well as parental levels of education and employment status that predisposes many to disadvantaged lives. Where the state intervenes to improve conditions in deprived areas evidence suggests outcomes are much improved for upward mobility of many.
In Britain the introduction of comprehensive schools as well as expansion of higher education saw a generation benefit in employment opportunities and social status. The Open University, introduced by a Labour Government, allowed opportunities for those who missed out on earlier education.
Most of the improvements in our society since the war have been the result of state intervention by Labour governments to address areas of the economy where the market fails to work. However since Thatcher and Reagan imposed neoliberal systems curtailing state action Britain has become unequal in alarming measures. A decent society has been left to the brutal market with the wealthy taking ever more of the national income for themselves.
I am not a communist or particularly socialist just an advocate of proper controls on capitalism that is destructive of many lives abandoned to poverty and no opportunities.
Thank you, Hugh. You state: “Most research points to the social circumstances one is born into- poverty, poor housing, limited education, as well as parental levels of education and employment status that predisposes many to disadvantaged lives.”
What is your definition of a “disadvantaged” life, Hugh? Do you mean someone lives below the United States’ national poverty level? Do you refer to someone who never finished high school or got a college degree? Do you mean a person who works a minimum wage job?
And can you, with intellectual and factual honesty, say that the poorer citizens of capitalistic countries are more disadvantaged than even the middle-class citizens of communist regimes like North Korea, where the GDP per capita is $1800? If any middle-class North Korean were given the opportunities and freedom we have every day in the U.S., you can bet that he would gladly trade his current lot and embrace capitalism, warts and all. From malnutrition, backyard privies, and lack of electricity to the potential for steady employment with opportunity for advancement, reliable electricity, and indoor plumbing: there is really no comparison.
Let me share a personal story with you, Hugh.
I have seven children, and though our family’s income has, throughout the years, occasionally slipped below the national poverty level, I would never consider that we are disadvantaged. Never. The freedom to raise our children as we see fit, the opportunities always around each next bend: these are distinct ADVANTAGES for which we are consistently grateful.
We enjoy singing together for pleasure and for social events. I remember, years ago, at one of those events, I got a glimpse into the lives of three women visiting from Red China, who left their fellow tourists to come with their interpreter and speak to me.
I remember how we were that day, our seven children, some still babies, lined up, seated, next to us and on my lap. We had whispered, giggled, burped the littlest one, stayed as still and quiet as we could for the speaker, and then had sung, my harmony joining with their treble angel voices.
Afterward, those Chinese sisters came and stood before me, shyly smiling. I returned their smile, but didn’t speak, wondering what they needed. A picture with the singing family? A “thank you” for our part in the program?
Then their interpreter, an American man, stepped forward. He looked at me sadly, and said, “These women have been staring at your family for the last two hours. They have never had the chance to see a big family, and some of them have been crying.”
He looked at the women, who glanced self-consciously at me and then returned their gazes to the floor. “You see,” he went on, “Some of the women in our group wanted a family like this, but in China, it is forbidden. So they want to talk to you.” With that, he walked away.
The next twenty minutes of my life was spent with three beautiful and gentle almond-eyed women, who, in very broken English, told me of their mostly disappointing love affairs with babies. One of them had moved to a remote spot in the country, hoping to have her babies in privacy, without the government’s intrusion. She had given birth to her first-born, a son, in the city, thinking the one would be enough.
But once initiated to the addictive joys of motherhood, she had craved more. There, in the country, she had soldiered through her second, third and fourth pregnancies, hoping for the anonymity that would let those little ones enter her family in peace. But the Communist arm was too long for her. Each time, toward the end, when her condition could no longer be denied, she was arrested, drugged, and divested of her “burden.”
She held up four fingers to tell me that this had happened four times. She would have had five children now. Five.
Another woman held up three fingers. The last had forgotten how many times she had undergone the state’s forced abortions, but, she said, through tears, “If I live in America, my family like yours.” So she would have had, perhaps, seven beautiful babies; she would have had that pleasure, that highest of joys, that I celebrate every day.
Shaken by their narrative, I began to cry, in sorrow for their loss and in anger and for their powerlessness against the cruel regulation of a faceless government.
Those women would have given anything, anything, to have carried those tiny lives safely into this world. But they were thwarted in that wish, not by Nature or the culpabilities of their own health or strength, but by an external Hand of Evil, reaching into their most private parts, violating them, snuffing out the life they carried, extinguishing all hope.
I was reminded then, and I am reminded now, in this conversation, that we are blessed to live in a land where we have an “inalienable right” to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Anyone who promotes the alternatives of Communism or Socialism needs to spend twenty minutes talking to three women who have had their liberty trampled, their children’s lives forcibly terminated, and their pursuit of happiness squashed by an Evil state.
No “disadvantage” in a free country can compare to the gross injustice of a powerful centralized government.
Yolanda Elder March 12, 2019
I hurt with the images painted by this author.
So did I, in writing this, Yolanda. Thank you for your response to the poem.
David Watt March 13, 2019
A direct and confronting poem, which undoubtedly required great strength to write. Well done Amy for harnessing your poetic skills to the carriage of truth.
Thank you, David.
Wilbur Dee Case March 13, 2019
Ms. Foreman’s poem is excellent, worthy of a New Millennial anthology. She likewise sees the value of the ballad for docupoetry. Here is why I admire the poem, stanza by stanza:
1. The opening stanza, rhetorically historical, inaugurates the serious tone.
2. S2 moves directly from the latinate opening to a simpler, anglo-saxon diction.
3. The clinical tone of S3 is remarkable for its understatement.
4. In S4 the use of the Biblical Moloch, more restrained than Ginsberg’s use in “Howl”, contributes to the ruthless situation described dispassionately, and which therefore, is all the more passionate in its sympathy.
5. The use of the alliterative labial glide in L17 of S5 vividly contrasts with the bluntness of the following lines. For that reason it reminds me of Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”.
6. S6 is as brutally frank as Stephen Crane’s terse, free-verse poems, but with the added depth of meter and rhyme. Her use of “success”, though not the same, reminded me of Emily Dickinson’s “Success is Counted Sweetest”. The off-handed quotes add to the horror of the situation.
7. In S7 the short main clauses, the random number, and the unfinished sentence all add to the intensity of the situation, and
8. the echo of the second Biblical god from L13-S4 to L29-S8 demonstrates remarkable poetic technique. With “cruelest”, an Eliotic echo, I am convinced, in Ms. Foreman’s poem, that she is writing about our present moment while working through the American tradition.
Really, I think about my only qualm with the poem, which is my favourite @ SCP this year, is its title.
Bruce, thank you so much for this detailed and accurate analysis of “Room 402.” I am honored that you gave it your attention and expertise.
David Paul Behrens March 13, 2019
Although the subject is not at all funny, I say this in jest: I am dreadfully waiting for the day when some liberal proposes post-birth abortion, whereby you will be allowed to kill a child before it can talk, because if it can’t talk, it is not really a person.
Amy, this poem is excellent in every way.
” . . . if it can’t talk, it is not really a person” reminds me of the “poetry” of Hannah Silva we were treated to yesterday on the SCP, and I wonder (also in jest): Would a future “talk-ability” abortion law apply equally to adults who move their mouths but say nothing?
Thank you for your comment, David.
Theresa Rodriguez March 18, 2019
Thank you Amy for your bravery and courage in writing this poem. The subject of abortion is heavy on my heart as well. If you look up my name in the search here on the website you will find a sonnet I wrote entitled “Goodbye, Sweet Fetal Child” which was published on March 18, 2015. It echoes much of your sentiments. I hope you would like to read it. God bless you and your family.
The Society March 18, 2019
https://classicalpoets.org/2015/03/18/goodbye-sweet-fetal-child-by-theresa-rodriguez/
Your poem is moving, heartbreaking, and eloquent, Theresa. Thank you so much for directing me to it. I would like to reproduce it here, since it fits the topic so aptly and poignantly:
‘Goodbye, Sweet Fetal Child’ by Theresa Rodriguez
Goodbye, sweet fetal child— for you shall die,
Because a mother’s love is also dead:
The hallowed place of nurture where you lie
Shall soon become the ground where blood is shed.
The battle to reject the womanly,
Or motherly, for ‘me, myself and I’
Shall forfeit noble care of progeny
(That greater good): hence hearts have gone awry.
The battlefield where ‘what is hers’ to keep
Claims hedonistic ‘choice’ its weaponry;
But poison, scalpel, pill or force will reap
That fruit, bare yet the casualty.
For those untimely born, it must suffice
That they, not choice, become the sacrifice.
Thanks so much for re-posting it Amy. It is an honor to be included within the comments for your excellent poem.
Your poetry is wonderful, Amy, and your commentary is measured, appropriate and virtually irrefutable on the issue of motherhood versus murder. However, this is not what the compatriots of the Left wish to hear as they blindly pursue their dogma. I imagine that Hugh from his last comments must be British, since he presumes to comment on the British scene so knowledgeably; however, I am British too, or rather as I prefer, English, and before going into business 25 years ago was deputy Principal (or Headteacher as we call them) of two large English Comprehensive Schools and taught for 15 years. His account of the ‘benefits’ of the Comprehensive school – as they abolished the traditional Grammar Schools – misses out quite a lot, including the subsequent lack of social mobility for children in these schools. Equally, his account of the politics of Britain at the time is also highly selective: I was there in the 70s when we had the miner’s strike, the blackouts, the almost total political paralysis (which we are heading into now) and a trade union under Jack Jones far more powerful than the government of the day. Levels of service in just about everything were dire. It was Thatcher who unpicked all of that. But what can we say to these people? The fatuous idea that we give government more power and control and they’ll make things fairer and more ‘equal’ has – what? – ever been witnessed, anywhere? Put politicians in charge of us and they conspire with the plutocrats, or wipe the plutocrats away and create the oligarchs. Jeez! Save us, please.
Absolute nonsense from start to finish. Comprehensive schools ended the 11+, an exam at age 11 to decide if you erecacademic or not. If you were classed as not social mobility ended. Rather young for such huge decisions I would say.
The Tory fallacy of the 1970’s winter of discontent, almost as ludicrous as the new Tory fallacy of Labour causing the world financial crash in 2008, suggests James is victim of Mr Murdoch’s propaganda machine. Yes there were problems in 1979 with unions who had agreed to Barbara Castle’s social contract and had accepted wage controls for the three previous years, very modest and reasonable union behaviour, however in the fourth year the unions had had enough of the pay freeze and asked the government to restore pay to acceptable levels. This led to widespread strikes when the government refused.
Thatcher along with Reagan introduced austerity and high interest rates that closed most of Britain’s manufacturing industries creating 4 million unemployed. Her government began the policies of derugalation that led to the financial crash; removed workers rights and allowed some 25% of the national income to shift from makers(workers) to takers(the extremely rich); decimated public services by allowing incompetent private companies to run services down to maximise profits and shareholders payouts; privatised utilities where ordinary people cannot afford to heat their homes and feed themselves.
James you sound as though you have lived in a gated community for the last 40 years nd consequently are indifferent,and pretty clueless, about how people actually live in the UK and That other country England. I repeat all the decent and progressive things that have happened in the UK since the war were put in place by state action through the Labour Party considering ordinary people.
Thank you for your words, Amy. My default position is always to listen and respect another person’s POV. But I find it very difficult to respect Hugh Maclean’s aggressive and ill-informed ‘certain certainties’. Amy has given an incredibly personal and moving testimony, involving her motherhood, her travels and various experiences. What has Hugh to say? Has he said, ‘I understand – perhaps I may be mistaken.’ Or something, conciliatory. Or in my case, having established that I was a deputy principal in 2 comprehensive schools, you’d think he might enquire as to what my experience exactly is. Indeed, not only was I a principal in 2, but I have actually been in over 100 State schools in England either as a teacher, or trainer or coach. And I have had over 30 educational books published, including one best seller with Pearsons, the world’s biggest publisher. You’d think that anyone with any sense would just pause before striking out at their adversary, might just give them some credit for knowing something, for having a view that may be interesting. But no. The Left just has this ideological and theoretical view of the world in which there are no shades of grey and so they virtue-signal their self-righteousness and dismiss everyone else’s experience. People like you Hugh, sadly, are going to lead us all into the fascism of communism unless enough of us resist your cant. That is all I have to say here, because these pages are for poetry, not deluded communists trying to prove they’re ‘right’.
Yes, James, given your extensive experience in the English school system as educator and author, it would seem that anyone conversing with you would refrain from responding with the obviously nescient generalization: “Absolute nonsense from start to finish.”
But “perhaps I may be mistaken” is so much harder to say! 😉
Thanks Amy, appreciate what you are doing and writing.
James, thank you for adding your experiential knowledge of the Comprehensive Schools and of the trade unions and strikes of the seventies, before Thatcher. I know little of British education or politics and didn’t feel comfortable commenting on either.
Ultimately, it comes down to the philosophy/belief system behind each type of government. And I would argue that when any governmental philosophy starts with the “particulars”–starts with humanity–and then seeks to extrapolate, from their own humanity, the “universals” by which they create the laws for their society, their entire structure is built on the sand, and destined for destruction.
Both socialism and communism, which are based upon humanist, “particular” worldviews, can stand up to light foot traffic and fair weather. But when the 10 ton trucks and the storms of life come, socialism and communism are revealed for what they are: invasive, totalitarian, elitist machines built on nothing but the pleasure of the ones in power. And even the communists and socialists realize that their greatest enemies are those with a worldview anchored on the rock of absolute Truth.
On the other hand, when governmental philosophy’s begins with the absolute (God), and then applies that absolute to the particulars, as the founders of the United States of America did, that government will, to the best of its ability, allow its citizens the right to live, the right to be free, and the right to pursue happiness.
Basically, when those in power realize that and absolute (God) exists, and that THEY ARE NOT THAT GOD, and that each person has intrinsic value equal to their own value, they can allow their citizens to, according to the standards of that absolute, chart their own individual destinies.
Monty April 4, 2019
Good day, Amy.
I was recently in Asia for 17 weeks (5 in India: 12 in Nepal) with typically-primitive wifi; thus I missed many SCP offerings during that time.
I’m now back in France; wifi-ed to the hilt; and back-pedalling through recent SCP submissions . . and I’m so pleased to find yours (the thought of missing an Amy Foreman offering is most unwelcome).
‘ . . 402’ contains what has now become the norm for you: high-class poetry.. the strictest of all the poetic disciplines.. a strong and heartfelt subject-matter.. clear and concise diction.
I don’t wish to comment on the subject-matter itself (it’s only indicative of the basic and everyday hypocrisy of Western governments.. and it doesn’t concern me); but I would like to say how profound I found the quote by Ayn.
One point above to which I simply can’t keep quiet is the outrageous and ill-considered claim by Mr Sale that “only capitalism actually provides our freedoms and services”.
As America can prove indubitably: the one thing that capitalism can surely and unfailingly provide . . is for a sizeable chunk of its female population to be screwed-up on Prozac, or its equivalents. A life-sentence of drugs designed to further screw-up the screwed-up; where’s the “freedom” in that.
One daren’t ask what the males are taking to get themselves through each capitalistic day; but one imagines that it’d be something equally mind-numbing.
I was genuinely touched by your above account of the encounter with the Chinese women; and I whole-heartedly applaud you and your man for carving-out an alternative and independent existence for your family . . and seemingly with great success (self-teaching your kids, etc).
But you’re in a clear (and fortunate) minority: for most citizens of a patently capitalistic country, the words ‘alternative’ and ‘independent’ are either steadfastly avoided . . or are out of reach.
‘Steadfastly Avoided’ by the rich, ‘cos they don’t wanna rock the lucrative boat they’re on . . and ‘Out of Reach’ to the poor.. ‘cos of their hopeless disability to ever attain such social luxuries.
I don’t wish – and I ain’t qualified – to get involved in the futile and endless squabble of capitalism versus communism; but if there’s one unanswerable example of the pitfalls and inequalities of capitalism . . . I’ve been going to Nepal in the winters for about 13 years now (I’ve got a 2nd life there): it’s one of the poorest countries on the planet . . and yet it contains (in my eyes) the friendliest people on the planet! How can that be?
They’re such beautiful, happy, warm, family-orientated people (to this day, I can sometimes sit alone on a wall for 40 minutes, and just observe Nepalese life going on around me; how warmly and uninhibitedly they interact with each other; be it with friends or strangers); and yet they live a most basic and frugal existence.
Why are they like this? ‘Cos they’re all EQUAL, that’s why! Nobody’s got anything (apart from the inevitable small ‘elite’ rich). And when no one’s got nothing, they’re all just EQUALLY happy to be alive, and grateful that they can work the land to survive.. and feed their young. It’s the perfect EQUALITY.
Equality can only work in a country if either everyone’s got everything; or no one’s got nothing. It can never work in a country where half have got everything and half have got nothing; that can only breed resentment, jealousy and crime.
I feel that the deep, institutionalised problems that capitalism has produced in America are irretrievable. What’s more, it can and will only get worse; there’s no other way.. it’s too late.. and too firmly entrenched.
America’s last chance at salvation was in the 60’s: when many songwriters, poets, writers, etc were trying earnestly to warn everyone of the future consequences of capitalism. And what did America do? It dismissed them as drug-crazed hippies; and made new laws to shut them up . . and even shot some dead (Kent College). “Freedom”?
That was America’s last chance; after that, it could only lead to where America is today . . . out of control.
Amy Foreman April 7, 2019
Thanks, Monty, for your kind comments, as always! Welcome back to the West.
You might enjoy reading Ayn Rand’s “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.” Here is a brief overview of it, from https://www.aynrand.org/novels/capitalism-the-unknown-ideal#excerpt-1:
“Laissez-faire capitalism, according to Ayn Rand, is not just an ideal but an unknown ideal. Few grasp its meaning, history, economics, or moral justification. In Capitalism, Rand sets out to remedy that.
Rand argues that capitalism is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.” In practice, this means that a capitalist society is one in which the government performs a single function: it protects individual rights by banning “physical force from human relationships.”
Pure capitalism, she concludes, has never existed: but in the countries that approached it, with America in the second half of the nineteenth century leading the way, the individual was able to flourish. This is because capitalism is the only system that fully recognizes that man is the rational being who “has the right to exist for his own sake,” free from coercion by others.”
Monty April 13, 2019
I had a quick peek at Rand’s claims, Amy: and while they undoubtedly painted a rosier picture of Capitalism, I felt they only applied to it in its purest form; and maybe its original ideals. My point is that the consequences of these ideals – the realities – are somewhat different. This was exeplified in the very claim from Rand which caused me to read no further: “. . it’s the only system that enables each individual to reach his full, glorious potential.” Try telling that to those who’re destined to spend their whole life in the Projects (with the emphasis on the word ‘destined’)!
I should qualify my initial comment by saying that I’ve never had any qualms with the original ideas and ideals of either Capitalism or communism; they both must’ve seemed applaudable in their day. And I concur with Rand’s observations on the origins of such. But they’ve both been used by subsequent generations to create (in some cases) the opposite of their initially-intended benefits. No individual country can be blamed for that . . only the humans within them.
I wasn’t citing America as being ‘to blame’ for Capitalism; only as being the clearest example of its failings.
You say how “grateful” you are for the “distinct advantages” you’ve had in being able to raise your kids “as you see fit” . . . but you and your man should be grateful TO YOURSELVES.. not to America. It seems to me that the evident success you’ve had in raising your family (the home-schooling, etc) was not BECAUSE of the system . . but IN SPITE of the system.
Butch Glancy May 28, 2019
At least the babies killed abortion are worthy of those tears.
Amy Foreman May 30, 2019
Thank you, Butch.
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Board index SEPTEMBER CLUES AND 9/11 Truthers and shills
Jim Fetzer on media fakery
How the controlled opposition was designed to be part of the 9/11 hoax
Re: The SC shills' DISCREDITING TACTICS
Unread post by Libero » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:17 am
Brutal Metal wrote: ^^ Don't kid yourself he's seen it and probably more than once, if there is an ANYTHING conspiracy this dude will dive head first into it..
Yes.. we know that. But do the loyal readers of Veterans Today? It seems logical that anyone who would even speak of media fakery would undoubtedly be shunned by anything even representing the official media whether it be mainstream or under the guise of being something more alternative. He's not looking to expose the truth. It would affect his paycheck.
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Unread post by repentantandy » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:13 am
Look. Simon has already verified the instances in which Dr. Fetzer first asked Simon to do a radio interview (refused) and then to speak in person at a conference (refused again). Simon says he has his reasons for refusing, and I'm sure they are substantial.
Meanwhile, on Fetzer's own blogs other people occasionally DO bring up the fake-victim theory AND HE ALWAYS IGNORES THE POSTINGS (but he also doesn't delete the postings.)
Maybe he's patiently waiting for a chance to discuss the issue with Simon in a real-time conversation -- before taking a position (other than casually refering to the "three thousand") that directly addresses the many clues suggesting victim fakery.
If Simon's worried about how such a potentially confrontational encounter would turn out, I would like to remind him of the two (rare) radio interviews he DID consent to, several months ago. IMHO, both went quite smoothly and informatively, even when one of the questioners became overtly hostile.
Simon handled himself in a very dignified, informative and confident manner, and even appeared to be "winning over" one of the other interviewers by the end of the program.
Unread post by hoi.polloi » Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:40 am
What interviews were those? I'd like to hear them too, please. Mind linking, if possible?
Unread post by repentantandy » Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:56 am
Simon publicised them himself and posted the links earlier this year. If he doesn't respond to your question, Hoi, I'll search for them myself (assuming they haven't been deleted, of course).
Unread post by repentantandy » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:27 am
I see Simon hasn't re-posted the links to his prior radio interviews yet.
But while we're waiting, here's a curious excerpt from the most recently archive-posted episode of Jim Fetzer's radio program. The guest identified himself as Onebornfree (OBF) an “independent researcher” who also said he was definitely NOT part of the established 9/11 truth community.
JIM FETZER interviews ONEBORNFREE
http://nwopodcast.com/fetz/media/jim%20 ... fakery.mp3
Fetzer: “...what we're talking about here (the CBS dive bomber shot) is a fabricated image.”
OBF: “I believe it is. It's totally fabricated. I believe what Simon Shack has uncovered. I believe that everything in that original CBS footage is a part of a video composite. No part of that video is real. The buildings are fake. WTC Two is fake. The (WTC) One is fake.”
Fetzer: “What do you mean when you say that the buildings are fake? (Do you mean) there were real buildings there (in lower Manhattan) but you don't think that those were what is seen in the videos?”
OBF: “No. They are video composites.”
Fetzer: “Could that have been done in advance?”
OBF: “Yes. The whole video would have been made in advance, including the plane. There's no plane insert. The plane is part of the original construction. The whole thing is a construct. The sky, the background, the foreground of the other buildings, the WTC Two, the two towers, and the plane itself –everything – and the smoke coming out. Because the first alleged strike has occurred by this time. This is the second strike.”
Fetzer: “Okay... okay. I'm open to the possibility that that particular piece of footage was done in advance. And that they played it. And that it wasn't quite consonant with what it was they were actually going to project. Maybe they weren't confident the hologram was going to hold... so they had that (CBS video) available and they ran it.”
OBF: “Jim, none of them are (real). If you look at Simon Shack's work – I can give you a link if you want – the original networks' footage, all of the major networks that broadcast, none of them really broadcast the strike. That's only available on the so-called amateur footage of Hezarkhani and
Fairbanks and similar. But the original networks' footage is not really (genuine), except for maybe the Fox 5 footage, but even (on) that you can't really see the plane clearly striking on the actual face (of the building). But regardless of that, 175 is portrayed in every one of them as taking a different path. So they're all in opposition to each other – if you totally disregard the amateur footage.”
Dr. Fetzer, obviously distressed and perplexed by the guest's direct assertion of TOTAL TV fakery, recovers his composure and says he (Fetzer) is going to supply a copy of the interview to researcher Richard Hall (whose recent hologram-supporting “findings,” strongly criticised by the current guest, are based on assuming that the videos are real) to come on the program to respond. Fetzer then goes on to express his profound disappointment that Simon Shack, however, has refused “for his own reasons” all previous requests to be interviewed on the show.
The program concludes with the guest pointing Fetzer to a website exposing major impossibilities in the Hezarkhani footage and Fetzer seeming to be genuinely impressed with “how the building appears to be moving to meet the perfectly centered plane”.
Sadly the guest OBF (an obvious fan of September Clues) never does get around to raising the vicsim issue before the time runs out, but despite the contentious nature of his conversation with Fetzer in the early sections of the broadcast (with way too much arguing over why ANY media images or official flight data should be believed) Fetzer's initial, less-than-cordial attitude toward the Clues fan softens and warms markedly – after the above-quoted exchange takes place and the expose' of the bogus Hez. footage is examined. Fetzer ends the show by stating that he wants to have the (rather soft-spoken) Clues fan (whom Fetzer had earlier treated quite dismissively) return as a guest very soon!
Although it all could be just an “act” on Fetzer's part, he certainly did speak during this particular episode as if he were only superficially aware of the septemberclues.info research, depending instead on the recommendations, attacks, summaries and oversimplifications of others. It seemed as if he had not yet taken the time to actually read the detailed articles on the site and watch the videos carefully and completely.
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Unread post by teriyaki taryaki » Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:18 am
This is the only one I could find online:
Simon Shack Interview - Brian S Staveley, Justin Cooke - 04 / 08 / 2012
http://www.therealnewsonline.com/upload ... 4-8-12.mp3
Brian has an interview scheduled with Fetzer in a few days. I'm pretty sure, being from Clues forum, he will bring up the vicsims reports to Mr. Know-It-All
"Next Week Our Guest Will Be Professor James Fetzer. Tuesday The 25th at 9PM ET"
http://www.therealnewsonline.com/dose-o ... -show.html
Here's the latest shillery expedition by Judy Wood groupie Andrew Johnson:
The problem with Andy J. is that he doesn't mention whether the collapse footage, the rubble footage and Judy's Wood's hundreds of photos have been authenticated once in any of the interviews he does, only that Simon Shack and certain others are calling them 'fake' and this is, somehow, beneath contempt, given the 'irrefutable evidence' in Judy's book.
When asked directly about the photos, he claims they are all 'sourced' to a photographer as if that makes any difference to authentication and then brings up Hurricane Erin, the seismic footprints, the bathtub destruction would result in flooded Manhattan, etc., as if this other stuff put together can then magically authenticate fake videos & photos:
Deanna Spingola - Tuesday, 9/11 / 2012: Andrew Johnson talks about 9/11
http://www.spingola.com/AJohnson_2012-09-11.mp3
I don't know if any of you here have heard the Deanna Spingola show on RBN network before but, in my opinion, she has, by far, the best show on that whole network. I'd say she has about 86 % shill clearance in my book, a very high percentage as far as truth-movement radio show hosts go (she passes most of the litmus tests and covers many subjects the other hosts will not touch) and I would have to say that at least half that negative 14% comes from her rather unwitting and not too discriminating over-promotion of Judy Wood and her number one groupie Andrew (the other half comes from some of the lunatic Christian Identity ministers she's had on). Christopher Holmes has also been on Deanna's RBN show. Apparently Judy Wood has not sent the word down that she's at war with Holmes or maybe she doesn't even know who Holmes is yet, so he's ok to have on, but Simon Shack, Fetzer, Ace Baker and some of these other guys who have 'attacked her' are off limits.
Some shillery highlights and other tomfoolery :
At the 28 minute mark Andrew talks about 'this Jim Fetzer character' who has the audacity to first spend years popularizing and then turn around and criticize her highness Dr. Judy Holly Wood herself for not meeting the 'Hutchison Challenge,' among other problems with her theory.
A little while later:
Deanna: You cannot argue with the facts, you cannot argue with the 'photos' -- (huh ? Sorry lady, but since when are photos automatically facts ? I thought she had seen "September Clues" and "Fabled Airplanes" many times and knew how easy it is to fake images).
Andrew: What is said is that what was shown on 9-11 is physically impossible in the real world, therefore the only conclusion is that the videos of the plane impacts are fraudulent.
That's actually NOT the only conclusion because one thing we have not spoken about is 'my friend' Richard D. Hall's analysis, because, earlier this year, he published a new analysis, I mean, God Knows, how he did this, it's Amazing ! I know Richard very well, I've spent a lot of time with him, I actually do know how he did it (?), he gave me all the files to do this, but, he took probably SIX months to do this.
What Richard D. Hall did, he has an engineering background, similar to mine, actually, is he decided to look at this PLANE ISSUE more carefully. He got all the video clips of this supposed 2nd plane crash and I think there are about 56 of them altogether. He got them all, he edited them all into these short clips, and then he went onto Google-Sketchshop which is a program you can download, that's a 3-D modeling package, it's free. He then plotted WHERE these videos were taken from and met the footage onto the 3-D model. He matched that up with the disclosed radar data of flight 175 which he'd also got from a record by Daniel Aurboa (?). So, in other words, what he did was he matched up the official radar trace with all these 56 video clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DgFcpsxes
http://www.richplanet.net/911.php
Simon Shack's analysis and debunking of Richard Hall's silly 'New Hologram Theory' earlier on this very thread:
http://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1246
Andrew: What he actually proved (Richard) is that the radar data and the video clips match very, very closely. Very Closely. I found that very, very interesting because from Dr. Judy Wood's research and bits and pieces that I've looked at, we were getting the feeling that all this talk of 'Video Fakery,' NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG, I do think there was some video fakery, I'm not quite sure how much, but all this talk of 'video fakery' was a cover for something else, and I thinks it's a cover for 'another type of technology.'
Now, I'll give it the name 'Image Projection.' Now, when you think about 'image projection,' some people will call it 'hologram technology,' again, we don't know the exact technology, but what is interesting is that people have been, sort of, trying to talk about this, and this happened to David Shayler, who's a former MI5 officer. He was talking about holograms and planes and in 2006 and not long thereafter something happened to David Shayler and then he claimed to be the new messiah.
... his partner was called Annie Machon and I could tell you more about that because they actually both stayed at my house. My own understanding of this is that Annie Machon does not have an innocent role in this . I think she's involved and I don't know how but from her reaction to what I was trying to do, I was trying to 'present,' I could see that she was not being totally honest with me, perhaps I'll leave it at that for now.
If you look at Richard's film, it's a very, very good analysis, very thorough.
And what is interesting is a few months prior to this, you might be familiar with a film called "September Clues." I've given out many copies of that film on DVD, but some Red Flags were raised for me because I began to interact two or three years ago with the creator of that film whose name is Simon Shack, although originally he didn't give his name, he then gave his name as Simon Shack but his 'real name' is actually Simon Hytten and he's of Norwegian descent.
Now, I originally gave him some web-space because he appealed for that on his forum to store his video clips. I gave him that web-space in 2009 or 2008, yes 2008, I've got the date here and what then happened with Simon Shack is, ultimately, without going through the whole story, he turned around and started attacking Judy Wood.
What he said is: I see that Judy Wood has published a new book. However, her research is based on fake pictures. The sole purpose of her is, in my humble opinion, to provide a plausible explanation for the very stupid looking WTC pulverization animations.
And that's the way that he's described it.
I interacted with him via Skype and I published some of these communications which he wasn't very happy about, but I felt I had to do it because you can clearly see that he's up to something, in other words, he's being disingenuous. He later claimed on his forum, ah, no, he wrote to me : I and no one else will ever be able to prove exactly how the WTC complex was demolished, do you understand ? That's why Richard Gage concentrates on his own provable matter.
Well, I didn't even mention Richard Gage to him and I know that what Richard Gage says is unprovable because I know that it's false. That's been established.
This is another thing: Simon Shack never had a forum originally and it was set up when a couple of older forums closed down.
Let me get the comment from Simon Shack because it's quite revealing.
Somebody had posted some comments about Dr. Wood's research on Simon Shack's forum and Shack commented: I'll stop here for now. Please reply to this post before you spam any other links to Judy Wood's blatant disinformation bullcrap (pardon the language, but that's his language) on this forum, thanks.
And this is the guy who spent months and months making a film called "September Clues," a very good film, very well-made, very well-produced and he highlights significant anomalies, and I still think that, despite what I've just been pointing out here.
But what I'm trying to bring out in the comparison between these two things is: we have Steve Deyak (? ), specifically focused on the crash issue and then he's just disrespectful to the other researchers. This is the same feeling I got from Architects and Engineers. Let's get some money together, get this 'crash test' done and then everything will be fine. This is a theme I've seen emerge and then re-emerge over the last few years and I think it's important that we remain vigilant on this anniversary. We need to focus on what 'actually happened' and getting a 'clear picture' of that. And that job has essentially been done with the publication of the book "Where Did The Towers Go-Go." A lot of people say that it's 'too expensive,' 'too complicated' and all these other sorts of criticisms but if people write to me I'll send them dvds for free.
This shows you how sophisticated the psychology is because as you said the truth isn't coming out. What you've got is a different lie with maybe a little bit more truth in it in certain small parts of it. The whole title 'Explosive Evidence': we're not dealing with an explosion here, the towers didn't explode ! I mean if you simply look at the title and look at the psychology, the choice of words, I mean, I'm sorry but it's not. If the title was '9-11 Pulverization' or '9-11 Dustification' then we'd know that we're dealing with perhaps something a little bit closer to what 'actually happened' to the towers.
Alleyways have clearly been set-up ahead of time. Steven Jones was put in there at a specific point in the development of the cover-up to soak up some of the inquiring minds at precisely the time when these 'technical reports' came out. Now, I can't prove that but that's my own speculation.
I suppose we're a little bit further along in that they've got to produce something on PBS which is just a regurgitation of the official story, changed slightly.
Replacing one lie with another lie doesn't get you farther down the line. It's arguably even worse because people are more convinced they're getting the truth and actually they're not, they don't realize it.
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Unread post by repentantandy » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:23 pm
Thanks very much for your contributions, Teriyaki. The Judy Wood cult has some really devoted, true believers, doesn't it? And according to their creed, their sacred text (the 9/11 photos and videos) MUST NEVER BE QUESTIONED!
In retrospect, however, I think many of us (including me) have been a bit too free with the derogatory term "shill," since it implies certainty of someone's deliberate complicity with corruption. Perhaps "mistaken," or more strongly put, "wrong-headed" is a fairer appraisal in some cases. It seems unlikely that Cass Sunstein is funding ALL of the image-and-victim-fakery detractors.
BTW, could you possibly go back and slightly re-edit your above posting to make it more clear as to which are your words and which are quotes? Thanks again.
reichstag fireman
Unread post by reichstag fireman » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:59 pm
Why should Simon Shack debate anything with Jim Fetzer? The Flabby Fibber has a long history of denial in the 911 Fraud. He's ignored countless requests to expose the media and its instrumental complicity in the whole sordid affair. After all, no media, no hoax. The media is the trillion dollar elephant on the sofa that Fetzer still cannot, or rather will not see? Recall the times he scorned queries over fake footage with flippant replies like: "Didn't you see the sign on the door? DO NOT DISTURB!" That means Professor Fetzer is busy today (again, as he always will be)!
Fetzer has wasted everyone's time for over a decade, leading millions into dead end alleys of ignorance. He's a disgrace to academia. Yet now he and his crew suddenly want to chat?! Sounds more like his handlers are sharpening their swords, in readiness for a hostile radio show. A carefully planned ambush to eviscerate the robust research behind September Clues. One where Fetzer & Co micro-manages every second. Calls for a 'Grand Debate' sound suspiciously like the laying of a Honey Trap.
Besides, what relevance Fetzer? Not a lot. And for those feeling otherwise, surely it's their duty to take the truth to the Big Fat Deaf Man. Good Luck with that!
A-BOMB HOAXSTER: Jim Fetzer
Unread post by brianv » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:34 pm
reichstag fireman wrote: Why should Simon Shack debate anything with Jim Fetzer? The Flabby Fibber has a long history of denial in the 911 Fraud. He's ignored countless requests to expose the media and its instrumental complicity in the whole sordid affair. After all, no media, no hoax. The media is the trillion dollar elephant on the sofa that Fetzer still cannot, or rather will not see? Recall the times he scorned queries over fake footage with flippant replies like: "Didn't you see the sign on the door? DO NOT DISTURB!" That means Professor Fetzer is busy today (again, as he always will be)!
Looks like he swallowed Evan Fairbanks. Which so-called govenment buiilding is that he is screened against?
Unread post by maggie » Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:01 pm
The domed building in the background to the left is Madison, Wisconsin's State Capitol building. That was where there was a dress rehearsal for the Occupy Movement, in the spring of 2011, to protest cuts to the wages and rights of union workers, including teachers, when people flooded into that building and made a stink. Not that anything improved for anyone since.
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Unread post by Terence.drew » Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:08 pm
Spot the real nutty professor.
Spot on reichstag fireman. Screw the entire circus; the nutty professor and all the rest of the idiots and lets not forget all the hammy 'expert' groups. Water pump installers for truth would have more cop on.
Unread post by brianv » Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:31 am
Had to! You cracked me up Terence!
Unread post by reichstag fireman » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:56 am
repentantandy wrote: Here's Dr. Fetzer's most recent political analysis article, Reichstag boy. http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2012/09 ... d-war.html
Oh dear. Barely two paragraphs into Fetzer's sewerhole output and he's already citing his first shill - "Mike Rivero" of whatreallyhappened.com.
Whose biography speaks for itself. From http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729489/bio :
Michael Rivero..left film work after High School to follow a career in science, working for NASA on the Viking and Voyager projects, among others. Following the post-Apollo crash of the aerospace industry, Michael went back into film work arriving at the exact time Hollywood was beginning to employ more computers for visual effects; a classic case of being in the right place at the right time, with the right skills. Having paid for college as a professional stage magician, Michael brings an awareness of how an audience perceives what they see to his designs for visual effects..."
Amazing! What coincidence! Fetzer's friend is an old hand at Hoaxing.
If anyone should see 9/11 for what it truly was - a hideous computer-generated video fraud - then it is Michael Rivero, ex-NASA, ex-Hollywood CGI producer.
But perhaps Fetzer has been too busy (with his most recent political analysis) to share notes?
P.S. note how Professor Plumpy yet again weaves in the A-Bomb Hoax, for that extra bonus point.
Unread post by repentantandy » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:31 pm
But what did you think of the main point of the article, Reichy, the warning of a possible, massive new false-flag FRAUD performed by Israel to draw the U.S. into a huge new mideast war? Or did the Rivero quote (which I agree was unfortunate) prevent you from reading the rest -- so you could quickly and gleefully resume this thread's banal-but-humourous, ad hominem attack on ol' "Professor Plumpy"?
I restate my question, since you said he's a "disgrace". Who in academia has been doing a better job (flawed as Fetzer's gradually improving vision still is, regarding total fakery) in lifting the veil on the perps' many FRAUDS of assassination and war?
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Unread post by brianv » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:46 pm
repentantandy wrote: But what did you think of the main point of the article, Reichy, the warning of a possible, massive new false-flag FRAUD performed by Israel to draw the U.S. into a huge new mideast war?
The warning of a possible yawn! Is that you Fetzer?
In years gone by nutters like this used to walk the streets wearing a sandwich-board which read "The end of the world is nigh", "Prepare for war" or "We are Doomed". I see no difference in fact.
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Posted on October 31, 2018 November 7, 2018 by A very clever person
Adventures in Singapore
Well I cant believe that its been a month since we took A Square World to Singapore… and what an adventure it was!
After the 13 hour flight we arrived in good spirits, there was no arguing on the flight, Jon behaved himself. Well to be fair we mainly just sleep, which is a shame as I always try and catch up on my movie watching on long haul flights.
But we landed and were met by our most amazing Artist Liaison, the wonderfully funny and warm Nor. She made our experience in Singapore so easy and was incredibly funny.
Over the course of 7 days we had 6 performances and delivered a Masterclass, so we also had time to explore what Singapore had to offer.
As well as performing as part of Octoburst we also took to the show out to the Arc Children’s Centre. This centre is supporting children who are undergoing treatment or recovering from cancer.
Of course with the children’s immunity being low, we had to take precautionary measures to stop the spread of germs. I don’t think myself or my chair had been so clean. It was such a great way to start our time in Singapore, it was perfect setting and reasoning for why we made this show in the first place, a story of being left out through no fault of your own.
We met lots of amazing artists through our masterclass and got a real sense that they were thirsty to think about their own practise and how they can make work that is more inclusive, a varied and diverse of people and arts practise.
Every show was sold out, there were waiting lists! Always a great feeling. The audiences were so incredibly appreciative and thankful. After every show we were swamped with people wanting their photo taken… it was like being papzz’d but by 4 year olds.
ArtJam, a student-run publication that aims to introduce the local arts scene to students and young people came along and wrote up a review. “Though the show is pitched as a show for children aged 3 to 6 years old, I was certainly enthralled to relive my childhood memories” You can read the full review HERE
One audience member’s dad wrote a review of the show straight after he came out, titled ‘A Square World’ Is Storytelling At Its Purest. You can read it HERE but my fav quote will always be
“Despite his slightly confrontational look; beard, tattoos, flesh tunnel in one ear, septum ring through his nose, his utter sincerity shone through the accoutrements and the kids couldn’t wait to be near him. Much like his look, Daryl’s performance wasn’t soft or cuddly either; the sinews in his powerful arms bulged and the sweat poured off his brow as he gave everything to these kids in a truly, deeply impactful performance”
Outside of the work thing, we did as much exploring of Singapore that was humanly possible (Thanks to Jon and his pre-planning) within the time we had. We ate at the hawkers, we ate in Little India, we ate in China Town, we ate pizza… we ate a lot…. food is a big thing in Singapore.
When we weren’t eating we were sightseeing. We went on long walks around the city, we went to the Bays on the Garden, we watched the city light up at night and we went on rollercoasters at Universal Studios.
The most memorable adventure was to Haw Par Villa! OMG it was amazing and surreal. It’s an 8.5-hectare Asian cultural park, the last of its kind in the world. Built in 1937, the brainchild of Aw Boon Haw, who invented Tiger Balm. It’s basically a very steep hill covered in hand made massive and oversized retro statues that are hard to describe! This eclectic park is a treasure trove of quirky yet enlightening crazy shit. With a whole gory section dedicated to the ’10 courts of hell’
There was so much of Singapore we didn’t see, but for 8 days we were made to feel like locals thanks to the wonderful Esplanade team of Glenda, Rachel and Nor.
It may have been a month ago but the memories are still as vivid as if it were yesterday.
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How to get down at Carnaval San Francisco
Montse ReyesMay 23, 2019Updated: May 27, 2019, 11:05 pm
A group dances during the annual Carnaval parade in San Francisco in 2016. Photo: Connor Radnovich, The Chronicle
Carnaval San Francisco has come a long way from its nascent years.
Artist and performer Adela Chu called upon a group of fellow artists and musicians to bring an iteration of the massive Latin American and Caribbean festivities known as carnaval to the Bay Area in 1979. Back then, only a few hundred gathered at Precita Park. Now 40 years later, the two-day celebration draws thousands to the heart of the Mission and is known as the largest multicultural celebration on the West Coast.
This year’s theme of “La Cultura Cura,” a Spanish saying that means “culture heals,” is a nod to the restorative power of the arts and is meant to provide a “social and moral statement to counter the polarized political environment in the U.S. today,” organizers said.
The 41st annual Carnaval San Francisco is hosted on Saturday-Sunday, May 25-26, in the city’s Calle 24 Latino Cultural District.
What’s the vibe?
There’s something for everyone at Carnaval. Families can be entertained by games and crafts, foodies can sample the Bay Area’s best global cuisine — from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti and beyond — and everyone can move to the music, which will be blasting all weekend long.
And, of course, there will be plenty of spectacular costumes and floats during the parade for those who love to people-watch.
Colorful costumes are all the rage at Carnaval San Francisco. Photo: David Yu
Saturday’s action is all along Harrison Street, between 16th and 24th streets. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., attendees will have a stacked slate of local artists, dance groups and DJs to choose from at eight stages.
The day’s scheduled performers run the gamut from mariachi ensembles, Panamanian dance troupes and Latin rock to the samba-reggae-funk fusion of SambaDá and hip-hop artist and community organizer Chhoti Maa.
But the main attraction at the festival will be Los Tigres del Norte, the legendary Norteño group from Sinaloa, Mexico, by way of San Jose.
Formed in the late 1970s by vocalist and accordionist Jorge Hernandez, his siblings Hernan, Eduardo and Luis, and their cousin Oscar Lara, Los Tigres del Norte have come to encapsulate música norteña, the accordion-heavy style of Mexican folk music that riffs off German polka while often recounting long, poetic ballads of outlaws, heroes and resistance.
Over more than five decades, the band has sold more than 30 million records, won seven Grammys, earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and spun poetry out of the immigrant experience in a way that’s linked generations of Latino immigrants and their families.
Former undocumented immigrants themselves, the group has used its music and platform to champion the rights of immigrants in the United States and the LGBT community.
The Grand Parade on Sunday starts at 9:30 a.m. at Bryant and 24th streets.
From there, the dozens of contingents and spectacular floats led by grand marshals Archbishop Franzo King of the St. John Coltrane Church, Executive Director of Instituto Familiar de la Raza Concha Saucedo Martinez and musician Jorge Perez Molina will make their way west to Mission Street and turn east on 15th Street before wrapping up at Harrison Street.
A man in a low rider holds a “Made in the Mission” sign out of his window while driving down Mission Street during the annual Carnaval SF parade in 2016. Photo: Connor Radnovich, The Chronicle
In the procession, attendees can catch a glimpse of tricked-out, candy-paint lowriders; Brazilian-style samba schools with up to 300 members; Afro-Latin drummers of youth art organization Loco Bloco; and dancers representing Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia and more.
After the parade, there will also be a second party on Harrison Street featuring DJs and local artists performing across eight stages.
A group of parade participants dressed in traditional garb walk down Mission Street during the annual Carnaval parade in San Francisco in 2016. Photo: Connor Radnovich, The Chronicle
With the road closures necessary to host this massive celebration, your best bet is to avoid driving and use public transportation.
If you’re riding Muni, all of the following routes will get you right where you need to be: 9 San Bruno, 12 Folsom-Pacific, 14 Mission/14R Mission Rapid, 22 Fillmore, 27 Bryant, 33 Ashbury/18th St., 48 Quintara/24th Street, 49 Van Ness/Mission, 55 16th Street and 67 Bernal Heights.
The 27 Bryant, 48 Quintara, 49 Van Ness and 14 Mission will be rerouted on Sunday to accommodate the festival route.
If you’re riding BART in from around the Bay Area, either the 24th Street or 16th Street stations will place you along the parade route. And for Saturday’s festival, each station is just a short walk away from the Harrison Street festivities.
A woman riding in a BART train smiles and waves to the crowd during the Carnaval SF parade in 2016. Photo: Connor Radnovich, The Chronicle
Before you go …
While the parade and festival are free, grandstand seating tickets for Sunday’s parade can be purchased online for $29.99 at www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org.
Montse Reyes
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Dating app may have been used to lure men to deaths, Texas investigators say
August 9, 2017 Category: In The News
Two Texas men who were killed earlier this year may have been lured to their deaths by an online dating app used by the pair’s killers, investigators said Monday.
Harris County sheriff’s investigators said the app, which was not named, might have been used to entice Glenser Soliman, 44, and An Vinh Nguyen, 26, The Houston Chronicle reported
Soliman, a nurse at St. Luke’s Medical Center, was found dead a few miles from his residence on Feb. 25 after being declared missing on Feb. 16. Nguyen, a student studying hotel and restaurant management at the University of Houston, has not been seen since March 31. Deputies believe the student is dead, but his body has not been found.
The two victims’ cars were found in Spring, a census-designated place of Houston in Harris County. Nguyen’s credit cards were stolen but it was not clear if anything was taken from Soliman.
Allen has been “sought on a charge of unlawfully using the student’s credit cards,” detectives said. He was last seen in El Paso in April.
Investigators said the two men could have been murdered by serial killers, but robbery has been cited as the probable motive, Ritchie said.
Chief Deputy Edison Toquica and Ritchie have cautioned people who use dating apps, chat rooms, etc. to meet up in a public area or bring a friend or family member when meeting a stranger. They also advised people against gathering at the person’s home.
Soliman was found dead a few miles from his residence and police said they did not find any disorder in his house or indications of a break-in. But a friend of the nurse said the man’s bedroom was disorganized, which was unusual for Soliman.
Nguyen’s family reported the student missing April 1 after they could not reach him.
“He’s very close to his family,” Ritchie said. “They’re tight-knit; they talk often. He had a job interview in Florida just a few days before he disappeared and he did not show up for that job interview. So he had a lot of things going for him, was a U of H student, a good family person and this is unlike him.”
The murders follow a case in Dallas where four men were accused of making a hoax Grindr account to perpetrate at least four home-invasion robberies in the surrounding Dallas area. Grindr is an online dating application used by gay and bisexual men.
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Label: Interscope
Released when she was only 18, Mya's self-titled debut album established her as one of the most promising young voices in the crowded female R&B marketplace. Sultry crooning and wise-beyond-her-years lyrics dominate the record, which benefits from catchy production and collaborations with Missy Elliott, Wyclef and Sisqo.
What Cha Say
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200 Dozen Quails, Larded and Roasted. . . .
Posted in Leadership by Andy Hall on July 15, 2010
President Grant reads his Second Inaugural Address at the East Front of the Capitol, March 4, 1873. Seated, bareheaded, to Grant’s immediate left is Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who had run against Grant the previous November. Image: Library of Congress.
In the U.S. presidential election of 1872, Ulysses S. Grant coasted to an easy victory, with 55% of the popular vote and 286 electoral votes, more than a hundred more than needed to win the White House. Washington prepared for a grand inaugural, the first for a president reelected in peacetime since Andrew Jackson. Trains to Washington was swarmed with “inauguralists,” carrying with them only enough hand luggage to accommodate a couple of nights’ stay in the city. But that first week of March 1873 proved to be bitterly, bitterly cold. The president’s speech, delivered on the East Front of the Capitol, was mercifully short at just 1,338 words.
Grant’s inaugural procession marches up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol. Image: Library of Congress.
But the preparations, months in the making, proceeded apace. The correspondent from the Titusville, Pennsylvania Herald got a sneak peek at the ballroom under construction a few days before the big event:
The ball room, with its sixty chandeliers is nearly completed; the arched ceiling being one mass of crimson and gold ornaments, on a back ground of white muslin. The bases of the arches that span the building and in support the roof, some thirty in number, are covered with a framework running up some twenty feet, and coming to a point at the top, not unlike the gable ends of the ancient buildings of Nuremberg. The woodwork m painted in imitation of columns, the colors used being light brown and yellow. On tho space at the top are painted patriotic legends, such as ”Pro Bono Publico,” “Ecce Homo,” etc. At the back of these the sides of the ball room are covered with white muslin so that the decorations stand out in bold relief.
The designs for the ends of this room are also very elegant. The one at the north end will represent an arch supported by columns, under which a [illegible] ground of red, white and blue will bear the names of Grant and [Vice President-elect Henry] Wilson. The whole finished off with the coat of arms of the United States, banners, festoons, gas-jets, transparencies, etc. The design at the opposite (south) end is not so elaborate, but still very neat. From a red Maltese cross in the center will radiate festoons of the national colors, bearing appropriate inscriptions in frames of laurel and gold. Looking down the immense hall, tbe effect produced is very beautiful.
The planned menu was no less grand. From the Waikato Times (New Zealand), 15 July 1873:
Presidential Bill of Fare — The grand “inauguration ball” in honor of President Grant, was given at Washington on the 5th inst., and if the assembled|guests consumed all the supper provided for them they must hare got almost satisfied by the close of the entertainment, and let us hope comfortable on the morning of the 6th inst. The following is the list of things, which, according to the New York Herald, of the 2nd inst., had been forwarded from that city to Washington in preparation for what it terms ” the grand blowout:” — 10,000 fried oysters; 8,000 scalloped oysters; 8,000 pickled oysters; 65 boned turkeys of 12lb each, 150 roast capons, stuffed with truffles; 15 saddles of mutton, about 10lb each; 40 pieces of spiced beef, 40lb each ; 200 dozen quails, larded and roasted; 100 game pates, 50lb each; 300 tongues, ornamented with jelly; 30 salmon, baked; Montpelier butter; 100 chickens; 400 partridges; 25 bears’ heads, stuffed and ornamented; 40 pates de foie gras, 10lb each; 2,000 head cheese sandwiches; 3,000 ham sandwiches; 3,000 beef tongue sandwiches; 1,500 bundles of celery; 30 barrels salad; 2 barrels lettuce; 350 chickens boiled for salad; 1 barrel of beets; 2,500 loaves of bread; 8,000 rolls; 21 cases Prince Albert crackers; 1,000lb butter; 300 Charlotte russes, 1½lb each; 200 moulds white jelly; 200 moulds blanc mange; 300 gallons ice cream, assorted; 200 gallons ices, assorted; 400lb mixed cakes, 150lb large cakes, ornamented; 60 large pyramids, assorted; 25 barrels Malaga grapes; 15 cases oranges; 5 barrels apples; 400lb mixed candies; 10 boxes mums; 200lb shelled almonds; 300 gallons claret punch; 300 gallons coffee; 200 gallons tea; 100 gallons chocolate; besides “oil, vinegar, lemons, and trimmings of all sorts.” The cost of this feast had not vet been estimated, but for the baking and preparing alone $10,000, and for the hire of the dishes $5,200 (with breakage and damage to be made good) had been paid. The supper would of course have been a little more bountiful, but that unfortunately the Americans are at present clothed in sackcloth, and engaged in rigidly observing the Lenten fast.
Despite such a vast and remarkable menu — and really, who wouldn’t be proud to lay out “25 bears’ heads, stuffed and ornamented” for a few thousand of your closest friends — the inaugural ball didn’t go well. Learning a lesson from his first inauguration, where the space allotted had been insufficicient for the crowds, a cavernous temporary structure was built on Judiciary Square. It was magnificently outfitted and decorated (above), but lacked one critical feature: it had no heat. On the evening of the ball, the mercury dropped to four degrees below freezing. A strong wind rippled through the huge building as guests put on their overcoats and bundled up against the chill. Hundred of canaries, brought in to sing and chirp happily, dropped to the bottom of their cages, frozen.
President Grant’s second inaugural ball, March 5, 1873. Library of Congress. The artist discretely omitted the fur coats, overcoats and hats donned by the attendees to keep out the cold. Image: Library of Congress.
Reflecting Grant’s own emphasis on civil rights, the inaugural committee had insisted that the ball be opened to all, “without distinction of race, color or previous condition.” But news reporters recorded disdainful descriptions of well-dressed African American couples, and commented on Naval Academy midshipmen dancing with “the wives of colored congressmen.” The dancing for all, to be sure, was enthusiastic; everyone took regular turns on the dance floor to keep the blood flowing in the deep winter chill. Little of the food was touched, and it soon congealed into a cold mess. Party-goers swarmed the hot coffee, tea and chocolate, which soon were exhausted. The guests, who’d purchased tickets at $20 each (about $370 today), had almost all gone home by midnight.
The Boston Daily Globe reported on March 7 that the ball had posted a net loss of $20,000.
h/t: Suzy Evans, Lincoln’s Lunch.
Tagged with: ball, Capitol, D.C., election, inauguration, party, Salon P. Chase, Ulysses S. Grant, Washington, White House
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Born 1957, Paul D. Gibson started his artistic vision under the guidance of his Mother, Gerda, an immigrant from Paraguay, South America, who was a cake maker specializing in wedding cakes, “her artistic purity lives inside of me.”
Paul was educated at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, in Architecture, where at the age of 22 he was offered a partnership at Greg Wilhelm AIA Architectural Firm, however, he decided to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, receiving a BFA. Following his passion for arts, he decided to move to New York City. Paul received a full-time painting scholarship at the prestigious National Academy of Design in New York. Paul lived in New York for five years and became a believer in the visual arts and a collector of works on paper.
Paul moved to San Francisco in 1989, established a studio in the city and began teaching at the Academy of Art University, where he instructed students in the art of drawing for over 18 years.
Over the last several years Paul has exhibited widely, including at the Allan Stone Gallery, New York, SFFine Arts Fair, ARTMK, Art Hamptons, Red Dot, Art Basel Miami, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, LA Contemporary Art Show, San Diego Fine Arts Show, Art Silicon Valley, Triton Museum, Arthaus, George Krevsky Gallery, Melissa Morgan Fine Arts Palm Desert, New Museum Los Gatos, Firehouse Art Center Pleasanton, and at the Andrea Schwartz Gallery, where he has had five solo shows. His work can be found in many private and public collections which include the National Building Museum Washington DC, Achenbach Collection SFA Museum, 9’ Public Bronze Sculpture, 77 Van Ness Street, San Francisco, and the Seven Bridges Foundation, CT.
He is currently working on an 18’ bronze sculpture monument for VMware “impossible is possible,” Palo Alto, CA. Paul also recently showed three life-size portraits “3 Lawyers” at Rocking Horse Gallery North Beach, CA as part of a group show with artists Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Gustavo Rivera, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Brian Wall.
Paul and his wife Sharon are avid collectors of works on paper and paintings with more than 150 works in their collection. His home is an art sanctuary with works by Lucian Freud, Paul Wonner, Chris Brown, Kathy Kollwitz, Gustavo Rivera, Manuel Neri, Raymond Staprans, John Sloan, Jerome Witkin, Susan Hauptman, and many others.
He states: “I am a painter of spatial ambiguity, picture plane, perceptual perspective and representation of space, creating pictures from the art of history.”
Paul works and lives with his wife in San Francisco, California, where they raised four children now living in London, NYC, and SF.
My current work focuses on ordinary objects, light, shadow, settings and perspectives that depart in varying degrees from how they typically exist or are experienced. The compositions shift everyday expectations in unconventional ways, the portrayals purposefully intended to stimulate, engage and even challenge viewers to resolve the settings and get comfortable with new rules of engaging their surroundings. At times, arrangements are distorted, balanced in impossible ways, or float in space against abstracted backgrounds. No matter how far truth may be stretched, reality and fantasy still combine in reasonably believable ways. Every scenario remains accessible enough for anyone to step into the action, become part of the plan, contemplate the larger narrative, and hopefully be intrigued by visual adventures they may have never encountered before.
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October 1, 2015 Johara Al Mogbel
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A sneak peak into the lives of two of the best Saudi food bloggers.
YASMEEN ALFOUZAN
Our first choice was, of course, Yasmeen Alfouzan. Born in Abu Dhabi, Alfouzan’s an MIS analyst who started a food blog she built herself in 2008, which we’ve been crushing over ever since we discovered it. In her own words, she attempts everything and rarely finds something that sticks. She believes there’s nothing you cannot learn from the Internet and books, and from the looks of her blog, we wholeheartedly agree.
Why’d you pick up cooking?
I harbor a fascination in both the artistic and scientific side of things equally. On one hand, I love music, visual arts, literature and movies; on the other, I love astronomy, physics, mathematics, programming and chemistry.
Naturally, I just had to pick culinary arts, since it’s THE art that relies on both science and creativity to produce something extraordinary. I’m obsessed with learning about food chemistry and utilize that nerdy side of me to create simple, beautiful, homemade dishes. However, I don’t believe that you need to know about the science of food in order to create something insanely delectable, you just need to really love food.
What’s your idea of a favorite meal?
The answer to this question changes by season, day and hour. Right now, my idea of a favorite meal is: slow-cooked lamb shanks, on top of buttery couscous and steamed veggies, with a side of a vibrant green salad tossed with an herby vinaigrette.
What is it about food that excites you?
What doesn’t? Everything. From the raw ingredients, to the finished dish – every stage of preparing and eating food gets me excited. I love it all.
What do you crave and how many times do you crave it?
I have a sweet tooth, so my answer is naturally: cake. I crave it all the time. Would never say no to good cake. Or ice cream.
Who does the photography for you? If you do it yourself, how did you learn the process?
I do the photography myself, though, many times I wish I had an assistant photographer. Cooking and baking is a very involved process, so doing both at the same time can be quite challenging. I learned gradually, as I started with an entry-level point and shoot camera, and then found myself using a DSLR and processing RAW images on Lightroom.
I still don’t think I take amazing photos, but I feel like they tell the story of the dish better, since I made it and could probably highlight its best features. Photos can be made art by some very talented individuals, but to me, they just encapsulate the visual appeal of a dish.
What advice do you have for aspiring food bloggers?
I say do not get discouraged by the large number of food bloggers that are already there and established. The world cannot have enough food bloggers. Self-publishing is the greatest tool we are blessed with. Trust me, even if you get very little audience out of it at all, it’s something worth keeping up with and pursuing. It changes the way you think about food, and the way you interact with it. Make sure you deliver good, authentic content and the rest will fall in place.
Are you planning on making a cookbook?
Yes! I’m in fact in the process of writing it right now, and I’d say I’m about 75 percent done. I can’t express how excited I am. It’s a baking book in Arabic that focuses on quality-baked goods with proper methods, real ingredients and deliciousness all around is the top priority. Photos included, of course.
If you had to choose between a kitchen aide add-on and a fancy shoe, which one would you choose?
I’d go against my first instincts and choose a fancy shoe, because my kitchen is overflowing with equipment and tools.
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NOOR ALQAHTANI
Ya Salam is another beautifully polished food blog that caught our eye. Run by Noor Alqahtani, an American freelance graphic designer married to a Saudi, she’s been residing in Riyadh since 2008. She’s an avid doodler and painter drawn to the culture of the gulf, which shows in her posts.
To impress my husband of course! He had been living in the USA for quite a while and missed his favorite foods. Honestly, I had no idea how to cook little on Saudi cuisine and at the time you could not find anything about it online. I made it my mission to learn all about the food and history and to teach others along the way.
I think I’ve done pretty well when my Saudi mother in law tells me I know more recipes from here than she does. And now when you search Saudi recipes you will find them everywhere.
I think we’re all drawn to comfort food, you know the best meals our moms make. I’m a country girl so I will always want my moms fried chicken and cornbread over everything else. Thank God, Saudis love fried chicken too.
I love the fact that food can bring people together. To me, that’s what it’s all about and definitely makes the time worth it in the end.
I love soups and breads of any kind and it’s something that I could eat daily. Biscuits, cornbread, pita, French bread; whatever kind I will eat it.
I do everything myself from prepping, cooking to the photography. I’m not a pro by any means and honestly I’m not all that interested in photography. I do like a clear image though so a DSLR is a must. And like most things, I taught myself.
If you’re living in a region like the Gulf then I urge you to start a food blog. You would not believe how hard it is to learn about traditional cooking. For example I have a small online cooking club MENA (menacookingclub.org) and each month we make a recipe from a selected country.
It has been really hard for us to find recipes for countries like Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. Eight years ago when I started Ya Salam Cooking it was the same for Saudi. Invite people into your country and allow them to know the cuisine and tradition. I see so many Gulf bloggers talking about fashion and makeup, try something new and stand out. The world is really interested in this area and what it’s all about.
This has been a thought of mine for a while now so yes, it’s something that I want. I just know that a cookbook on Saudi cuisine would be a big hit. People are constantly asking me to go for it. However, I do not know the first step to take when it comes to publishing a book.
I think you all know my answer! As much as I love shoes I would go for the kitchen tool every time.
Web: yasalamcooking.com
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In 2018, Volkswagen produced 6.24 million cars, including bestsellers like Golf, Tiguan, Jetta and Passat. Currently 198.000 people work in Volkswagen around the world. The brand has 7,700 dealerships with 74,000 employees. In 2019, the demand for Volkswagen cars in Russia is steadily growing.
Volkswagen traditionally supports the Dresden Ball from 2006, providing cars for guests of the event. Usually this cooperation takes place in Germany, but this year the Dresden Ball is held for the first time in St. Petersburg, and for Volkswagen Russia it is a great honor to support the ball in Russia. As an official car partner of the event, Volkswagen provides the organizers with the Multivan, Caravelle and Touareg models, which will provide guests of the ball with the most advanced automotive technology, comfort and safety. For example, the Volkswagen Touareg has IQ.Light matrix LED headlights, Side Assist rebuilding assistance system and Lane Assist hold system, adaptive cruise control, and PreCrash preventive safety system.
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The Mikhailovsky Theatre is one of the oldest theatres in St. Petersburg. Founded in 1833 as an imperial theatre, for many years, it was home to French and German theatre companies. After the October Revolution, the decision was made to turn the theatre into an opera house: operas have been regularly staged here since 1918, and the first ballet was performed on the Mikhailovsky stage in 1933. In the 1930s, the Mikhailovsky became a ‘laboratory of Soviet opera’, hosting world premières of operas by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Dzerzhinsky. During the Soviet period, the theatre was the venue for performances of legendary ballets such as The Bright Stream, with a score by Shostakovich, Yaroslavna, with music by Boris Tishchenko and Yury Lyubimov as director, and Tsar Boris, performed to music by Prokofiev.
The twenty-first century saw the theatre become one of Russia’s leading artistic collectives. From 2009, the ballet company was led by Mikhail Messerer, scion of a renowned ballet dynasty and now the company’s Guest Principal Ballet Master. Today, the well-known Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato serves as Artistic Director of the Mikhailovsky Ballet. The post of Musical Director and Principal Conductor is held by Alexander Vedernikov, who has been recognized by the Russian Federation for his services to the arts, and the Artistic Director of the Theatre is Vladimir Kekhman.
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University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry study: Pet exposure may reduce allergy and obesity
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Pediatrics article: Sexual abuse prevalent in teen population
Moi wrote about teen dating violence in Study: 1 in 3 teens are victims of dating violence: Many adults would be shocked by this report from the Chicago Tribune that many teens find dating violence normal
Ed Loos, a junior at Lake Forest High School, said a common reaction among students to Chris Brown‘s alleged attack on Rihanna goes something like this:
“Ha! She probably did something to provoke it.” In Chicago, Sullivan High School sophomore Adeola Matanmi has heard the same. “People said, ‘I would have punched her around too,’ ” Matanmi said. “And these were girls!” As allegations of battery swirl around the famous couple, experts on domestic violence say the response from teenagers just a few years younger shows the desperate need to educate this age group about dating violence. Their acceptance, or even approval, of abuse in romantic relationships is not a universal reaction. But it comes at a time when 1 in 10 teenagers has suffered such abuse and females ages 16 to 24 experience the highest rates of any age group, research shows.
The teens interviewed by the Chicago Tribune placed little worth on their lives or the lives of other women. If you don’t as the old ad tag line would say “don’t think you are worth it” why would anyone else think you are worthy of decent treatment? https://drwilda.com/2013/08/05/study-1-in-3-teens-are-victims-of-dating-violence/
Nancy Shute reported in NPR’s Many Teens Admit To Coercing Others Into Sex:
Almost 1 in 10 high school and college-aged people have forced someone into sexual activity against his or her will, a study finds. The majority of those who have done it think that the victim is at least partly to blame.
The results come from a multiyear study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was designed to look for the roots of adult sexual violence. Most adult perpetrators say they first preyed on another while still in their teens.
In adulthood, more than 1 million people are the victims of rape or sexual assault each year, according to the National Institutes of Justice. Domestic violence affects more than 2 million adults a year.
A multiple-choice online survey conducted in 2010 and 2011 asked 1,058 teenagers and young adults, ages 14 to 21, whether they’d ever “kissed, touched, or done anything sexual with another person when that person did not want you to?”
Nine percent said yes. Eight percent had kissed or touched someone when they knew the other person did not want to. Three percent got someone to give in to unwilling sex. Three percent attempted to rape the person, and 2 percent completed a rape. (The numbers don’t add up because some perpetrators admitted to more than one behavior.)
This may be the first survey to ask questions like these, and the researchers caution that because of the relatively small number of youths involved, the results aren’t definitive. But they are certainly chilling.
“I don’t get creeped out very often,” says Michele Ybarra, lead researcher of the study, which was published online in JAMA Pediatrics. “But this was wow.”
When asked who was to blame, half of the perpetrators said the victim was completely responsible; one-third said it was their own fault. “If half of the perpetrators felt the victim was responsible for this, we need to do something,” Ybarra, who is president and research director of the Center for Innovative Public Health in San Clemente, Calif.
Sixteen seems to be the age when sexual coercion becomes a real possibility, at least for boys. Almost half of the study participants said they first forced someone to have sexual activity when they were 16. But by age 18, girls had become much more involved in preying on others, to the point where they were almost as likely to be perpetrators as were boys.
Three-quarters of the victims were in a romantic relationship with the perpetrator.
The coercion used was almost always psychological, not physical. The most common tactics for forcing or trying to force sex were guilt, deliberately getting the victim drunk or arguing with or pressuring the victim. Five percent threatened to use physical force, and 8 percent did. The survey used the federal Bureau of Justice definition of rape, which includes psychological coercion as well as physical force.
The survey also looked at media use and found that perpetrators of sexual violence were more likely to watch violent X-rated materials than were the others.
By now most parents reading this are probably ready to hide. But Ybarra tells Shots these numbers show that parents need to act and well before their children are 16.
“We absolutely need to have conversations with our kids about what healthy sex is and what unhealthy sex is,” she says. Parents could say, “‘If you have to convince your partner, maybe that’s not the right way to have sex.’ Even simple messages like that are important.”
Teen Sexual Assault: Where Does The Conversation Start?
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/28/179671126/teen-sexual-assault-where-does-the-conversation-start
How Should We Be Talking About Sex?
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/27/175466868/how-should-we-be-talking-about-sex
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/08/230428115/many-teens-admit-to-coercing-others-into-sex
Prevalence Rates of Male and Female Sexual Violence Perpetrators in a National Sample of Adolescents ONLINE FIRST
Michele L. Ybarra, MPH, PhD1; Kimberly J. Mitchell, PhD2
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1Center for Innovative Public Health Research, San Clemente, California
2Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham
JAMA Pediatr. Published online October 07, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.2629 Text Size: A A A .Published online
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ABSTRACT | METHODS | RESULTS | DISCUSSION | CONCLUSIONS | ARTICLE INFORMATION | REFERENCES ..Importance Sexual violence can emerge in adolescence, yet little is known about youth perpetrators—especially those not involved with the criminal justice system.
Objective To report national estimates of adolescent sexual violence perpetration and details of the perpetrator experience.
Design, Setting, and Participants Data were collected online in 2010 (wave 4) and 2011 (wave 5) in the national Growing Up With Media study. Participants included 1058 youths aged 14 to 21 years who at baseline read English, lived in the household at least 50% of the time, and had used the Internet in the last 6 months. Recruitment was balanced on youths’ biological sex and age.
Main Outcomes and Measures Forced sexual contact, coercive sex, attempted rape, and completed rape.
Results Nearly 1 in 10 youths (9%) reported some type of sexual violence perpetration in their lifetime; 4% (10 females and 39 males) reported attempted or completed rape. Sixteen years old was the mode age of first sexual perpetration (n = 18 [40%]). Perpetrators reported greater exposure to violent X-rated content. Almost all perpetrators (98%) who reported age at first perpetration to be 15 years or younger were male, with similar but attenuated results among those who began at ages 16 or 17 years (90%). It is not until ages 18 or 19 years that males (52%) and females (48%) are relatively equally represented as perpetrators. Perhaps related to age at first perpetration, females were more likely to perpetrate against older victims, and males were more likely to perpetrate against younger victims. Youths who started perpetrating earlier were more likely than older youths to get in trouble with caregivers; youths starting older were more likely to indicate that no one found out about the perpetration.
Conclusions and Relevance Sexual violence perpetration appears to emerge earlier for males than females, perhaps suggesting different developmental trajectories. Links between perpetration and violent sexual media are apparent, suggesting a need to monitor adolescents’ consumption of this material. Victim blaming appears to be common, whereas experiencing consequences does not. There is therefore urgent need for school programs that encourage bystander intervention as well as implementation of policies that could enhance the likelihood that perpetrators are identified.
Advice to Teens in Abusive Relationships
Terry Miller Shannon gives teens advice about avoiding abusive relationships She advises teens to watch for the following danger signs:
1. Sweeping you off your feet and declaring love immediately. This is the number one sign of a potentially battering relationship.
2. Jealousy: Not wanting you to have other friends. Thinking everyone around WANTS you. Expecting you to spend every second with him. Sorry, extreme jealousy isn’t a compliment – it’s a problem.
3. Controlling behavior: Keeping track of whom you’re with and where you are. Telling you what to wear. Picking your friends. Keeping you from getting a job. Taking your money. Threatening to commit suicide, to spread gossip about you, or out you if you’re part of a same-sex couple (gay and lesbian dating violence is under-reported due to pressures not to go public).
4. Violence (physical, mental, or sexual): Punching the wall. Yelling. Insults. Name-calling. Isolating you from family or friends. Slamming the door. Insisting on any kind of unwanted sexual activity. Throwing things. Pinching, pushing, spanking…enough said?
Bottom line: If you’re uncomfortable with your relationship, something’s wrong. Mind your instincts. Be realistic – don’t expect your mate to change. Don’t believe him when he tells you the way he acts is your fault. http://teenadvice.about.com/library/weekly/aa061002a.htm
Popular culture makes teens who are not involved in activities as “couples” seem like outcasts. Too often, teens pair up before they are mature enough and ready for the emotional commitment. The more activities the girl is involved in and the more sponsored group activities, where teens don’t necessarily have to be in dating relationships, lessen the dependence on an abusive relationship.
The ‘Animal House’ attitude of some college administrators doesn’t take rape seriously
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NCCU graduate student Hassan Shehata, MSc, who’s researching inflammatory breast cancer, said the opportunity to attend an AACR Health Disparities conference in New Orleans last fall with other C-REP students made a particular impression on him. It gave him “a better understanding of health disparities from an academic perspective.”On Wednesday, February 27, a cohort of six graduate students from Duke and six from North Carolina Central University plus one postdoctoral fellow from each school — gathered for a mentor-mentee communications workshop — the third in a series of trainings designed to engage underrepresented minorities from both universities in cancer research.
The workshop, held at NCCU, was part of the Cancer Research and Education Program (C-REP), the education piece of a $2 million, four-year, National Cancer Institute P20 Translational Cancer Disparities Research Partnership grant jointly awarded to Duke Cancer Institute and NCCU in 2017 for lab-based translational research projects on the molecular aspects underlying the increased lethality of prostate and inflammatory breast cancer in African Americans.
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Vancouver, BC — June 8, 2011 — Ethos Capital Corp. (the “Company” or “Ethos”) (TSX-V: ECC) (OTCQX: ETHOF) (FRANKFURT: 1ET) is pleased to announce the commencement of 2011 exploration activities on its properties in the White Gold District, Yukon. The Company has five separate properties in the White Gold District totalling 3,647 mineral claims covering 763 square kilometers in area. To view the location of our claims please CLICK HERE.
Ethos has budgeted $6.0 million to initiate the 2011 exploration work on its White Gold District properties (see May 10, 2011 News Release). A comprehensive and systematic exploration field program is planned. The program is comprised of soil sampling, detailed soil type mapping, airborne and ground geophysics, trenching, geology and prospecting, orthophotography and digital elevation (terrain) modeling, and 2,000 meters of diamond drilling on significant gold-in-soil anomalies at the Wolf property.
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The regional soil sampling program, a major early component of the field season, has begun. Ethos plans to collect approximately 33,000 soil samples equivalent to approximately 1,500 line kilometers of sampling to provide coverage of all areas of all properties this summer. The Phase 1 soil program is underway with crews collecting approximately 16,000 soils in total including 13,500 collectively from the Betty and Bridget properties and another 2,500 soils from the Hen property at a collection rate of approximately 2,000 soils per day. Soil samples are submitted daily to Acme Analytical’s preparation laboratory located in Dawson City, Yukon. Once prepared the soil pulps are flown to Acme’s Analytical Laboratories Ltd. located in Vancouver for analysis.
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The geology and prospecting program is underway. The initial target to be evaluated is the Bridget porphyry target originally discovered by Silver Standard in 1970 who described chalcopyrite (copper), molybdenum, and “visible gold in thin quartz veinlets” from the prospect. Soil sampling by, the optionor, Shawn Ryan between 2005 and 2008 identified a copper-molybdenum soil anomaly 1,000 meters in length and open beyond the ends of his survey. This is the initial prospecting and mapping target. A trenching program plus detailed soils and ground geophysics is planned to further test the area following the geological evaluation. The Bridget porphyry target conceptually has similarities to the Casino copper-molybdenum-gold porphyry project located 20 kilometers to the south which contains NI43-101 mineral resources of 8.5 million ounces gold, 4.5 billion pounds copper, and 500 million pounds molybdenum (Western Copper, December 2010).
Updates and further details pertaining to the various components of Ethos’s $6.0 million exploration program in the White Gold District will be provided as these programs begin or achieve significant milestones.
The technical information contained within this News Release has been reviewed and approved by Peter Tallman, P.Geo, Chief Operating Officer of Ethos Capital Corp. and Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 policy.
About Ethos Capital Corp.
Ethos’ principal assets are its substantial mineral land positions in the heart of the emerging White Gold / Klondike gold district, as well as its Santa Teresa and Corrales silver-zinc-lead properties in Mexico. Ethos currently has approximately 40.7 million shares issued and outstanding, and working capital of approximately $20.0 million.
For additional information please contact Gary Freeman or Andy Hay at 604-682-4750, or visit the company website at www.ethoscapitalcorp.com.
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Forging an effective grand strategy requires not just that we know ourselves (difficult) but that we see ourselves — and our actions — as others do. This is a commonplace in history, as national leaders often fail to understand how aggressive or threatening their defensive actions appear to other nations. The nuclear arms race during the Cold War was a potentially cataclysmic example of this.
How do the people of other nations see our airborne fleets of drone assassins? Tom Engelhardt discusses this in his TomDispatch “Filling the skies with Assassins“, 7 April 2009. An excerpt appears below; I recommend reading it in full. To have TomDispatches delivered to you via email go to there and complete the “Sign Me Up Today” box.
In 1984, Skynet, the supercomputer that rules a future Earth, sent a cyborg assassin, a “terminator,” back to our time. His job was to liquidate the woman who would give birth to John Connor, the leader of the underground human resistance of Skynet’s time. You with me so far? That, of course, was the plot of the first Terminatormovie and for the multi-millions who saw it, the images of future machine war — of hunter-killer drones flying above a wasted landscape — are unforgettable.
… Meanwhile, hunter-killer drones haven’t waited for Hollywood. As you sit in that movie theater in May, actual unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), pilotless surveillance and assassination drones armed with Hellfire missiles, will be patrolling our expanding global battlefields, hunting down human beings. And in the Pentagon and the labs of defense contractors, UAV supporters are already talking about and working on next-generation machines. Post-2020, according to these dreamers, drones will be able to fly and fight, discern enemies and incinerate them without human decision-making. They’re even wondering about just how to program human ethics, maybe even American ethics, into them.
Okay, it may never happen, but it should still make you blink that out there in America are people eager to bring the fifth iteration of Terminator not to local multiplexes, but to the skies of our perfectly real world — and that the Pentagon is already funding them to do so.
Assassination by Air
… According to Christopher Drew of the New York Times, who visited Davis-Monthan where Air National Guard members handle the controls, the pilots sit unglamorously “at 1990s-style computer banks filled with screens, inside dimly lit trailers.” Depending on the needs of the moment, they can find themselves “over” either Afghanistan or Iraq, or even both on the same work shift. All of this is remarkably mundane — pilot complaints generally run to problems “transitioning” back to wife and children after a day at the joystick over battle zones — and at the same time, right out of Ali Baba’s One Thousand and One Nights.
In those dimly lit trailers, the UAV teams have taken on an almost godlike power. Their job is to survey a place thousands of miles distant (and completely alien to their lives and experiences), assess what they see, and spot “targets” to eliminate — even if on their somewhat antiquated computer systems it “takes up to 17 steps — including entering data into pull-down windows — to fire a missile” and incinerate those below. They only face danger, other than carpal tunnel syndrome, when they leave the job. A sign at Creech warns a pilotto “drive carefully”; “this, it says, is ‘the most dangerous part of your day.'” Those involved claim that the fear and thrill of battle do not completely escape them, but the descriptions we now have of their world sound discomfortingly like a cross between the far frontiers of sci-fi and a call center in India.
The most intense of our various drone wars, the one on the other side of the Afghan border in Pakistan, is also the most mysterious. We know that some or all of the drones engaged in it take off from Pakistani airfields; that this “covert war” (which regularly makes front-page news) is run by the CIA out of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia; that its pilots are also located somewhere in the U.S.; and that at least some of them are hired private contractors.
William Saletan of Slate has described our drones as engaged in “a bloodless, all-seeing airborne hunting party.” Of course, what was once an elite activity performed in person has been transformed into a 24/7 industrial activity fit for human drones.
Our drone wars also represent a new chapter in the history of assassination. Once upon a time, to be an assassin for a government was a furtive, shameful thing. In those days, of course, an assassin, if successful, took down a single person, not the targeted individual and anyone in the vicinity (or simply, if targeting intelligence proves wrong, anyone in the vicinity). No more poison-dart-tipped umbrellas, as in past KGB operations, or toxic cigars as in CIA ones — not now that assassination has taken to the skies as an every day, all-year-round activity.
Today, we increasingly display our assassination wares with pride. To us, at least, it seems perfectly normal for assassination aerial operations to be a part of an open discussion in Washington and in the media. Consider this a new definition of “progress” in our world.
Proliferation and Sovereignty
… Of course, when you openly control squads of assassination drones patrolling airspace over other countries, you’ve already made a mockery of whatever national sovereignty might once have meant. (When a “target” is found and agreed upon — in Pakistan, the permission of Pakistani officials to fire is no longer considered necessary.) It’s a precedent that may someday even make us distinctly uncomfortable. But not right now.
If you doubt this, check out the stream of self-congratulatory comments being leaked by Washington officials about our drone assassins. These often lead offnews pieces about America’s “covert war” over Pakistan (“An intense, six-month campaign of Predator strikes in Pakistan has taken such a toll on Al Qaeda that militants have begun turning violently on one another out of confusion and distrust, U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism officials say…”); but be sure to read to the end of such pieces. Somewhere in them, after the successes have been touted and toted up, you get the bad news: “In fact, the stepped-up strikes have coincided with a deterioration in the security situation in Pakistan.”
In Pakistan, a war of machine assassins is visibly provoking terror (and terrorism), as well as anger and hatred among people who are by no means fundamentalists. It is part of a larger destabilization of the country.
To those who know their air power history, that shouldn’t be so surprising. Air power has had a remarkably stellar record when it comes to causing death and destruction, but a remarkably poor one when it comes to breaking the will of nations, peoples, or even modest-sized organizations. Our drone wars are destructive, but they are unlikely to achieve Washington’s goals.
The Future Awaits Us
… By 2020, so claim UAV enthusiasts, drones could be engaging in aerial battle and choosing their victims themselves. As Robert S. Boyd of McClatchy reported recently, “The Defense Department is financing studies of autonomous, or self-governing, armed robots that could find and destroy targets on their own. On-board computer programs, not flesh-and-blood people, would decide whether to fire their weapons.”
It’s a particular sadness of our world that, in Washington, only the military can dream about the future in this way, and then fund the “arms race” of 2018 or 2035. Rest assured that no one with a governmental red cent is researching the health care system of 2018 or 2035, or the public education system of those years.
In the meantime, the skies of our world are filling with round-the-clock assassins. They will only evolve and proliferate. Of course, when we check ourselves out in the movies, we like to identify with John Connor, the human resister, the good guy of this planet, against the evil machines. Elsewhere, however, as we fight our drone wars ever more openly, as we field mechanical techno-terminators with all-seeing eyes and loose our missiles from thousands of miles away (“Hasta la Vista, Baby!”), we undoubtedly look like something other than a nation of John Connors to those living under the Predators. It may not matter if the joysticks and consoles on those advanced machines are somewhat antiquated; to others, we are now the terminators of the planet, implacable machine assassins.
I particularly recommend the Christopher Drew New York Times piece cited above, “Drones Are Weapons of Choice in Fighting Qaeda,”which gives a vivid picture of our drone wars at home. In addition, let me offer a small bow to Nick Turse, who, back in 2004, began writing at this site about the way our government has restrictedblue-skies dreaming to the military. To keep up on drones and drone warfare, there is no better place to start than Noah Shachtman’s Danger Room blog at Wired.com. It’s a must. To keep track of drone strikes as they occur in our world, keep an eye on Antiwar.com.
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. He is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. He also edited The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire (Verso, 2008), an alternative history of the mad Bush years. To catch an audio interview in which he discusses our airborne assassins, click here.
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6 thoughts on ““Filling the skies with Assassins” by Tom Engelhardt”
TomDispatches do a great job of holding up a mirror to America. By imposing a civilizational view on things, he forces Americans to consider the significance of our actions, not simply the actions themselves.
Few people today would dispute the benefits of predator drones, just like very few people disputed the benefits of our late Wall Street economy. The best kind of killing is the type you don’t have to risk your own life for, just like the best kind of money is, of course, the kind you don’t have to produce anything to make.
Perhaps it makes no difference whether you’re a Wall Street alchemist sitting at a magic loom and spin gold from straw, or an Air Force pilot sitting at a computer screen extinguishing life like gods.
Of course, when all this blows up in our faces (they call it blowback?), we knee-jerkedly demonize all which we had praised and wonder why we never saw it coming in the first place.
Perhaps we didn’t see it coming because we avoided looking into the likes of Tom Englehardt’s or Nouriel Roubini’s mirrors.
Drones can also greatly blur theater of operations lines. Assume a predator drone operator works out of some location (e.g. Langley, Virginia). Is that operator a legitimate target of war? Does it make the building he works out of also a legitimate target? Now, assume that the operator finishes his shift and drives home.
Is he still a legitimate target in his house? What happens if he telecommutes? What if he attends a PTA meeting (or goes to church on Sunday)?
Fabius Maximus replies: IMO these are exactly the sort of questions we should be considering. I suspect we will be shown the answers during the next few decades.
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I have an ignorant civilian q re drones. Why cant they be radio jammed , or shot down ? If the operators can ‘ see the expressions ‘ of their prey , they must descend relitivly low , to strike ? A couple of years ago some ( alleged ) prankster set up a website , claiming one could shoot game on his Texas game farm , sitting at home at one’s PC and firing the gun with a mouse click . This was officially laughed out of court because of the ‘ electronic delay ‘ . If there is electronic delay , it would mean the drone flies fairly slowly at the strike .
The drones I’ve seen in pictures look tin can-y, not armoured .
Er , dont the prey yet have any anti-aircraft guns , even left overs from WW2 ? Explode-in-air rockets ? Catapaults ?
Fabius Maximus replies: Drones’ communications can be jammed, if one has sufficiently high-tech equipment. Insurgents in neither Afghanistan nor Iraq have either high-tech jamming or any subtantial anti-air capability. If they did obtain such aid, these wars would drastically change course.
Well what we’re dealing with here is part of the paradox of asymmetric warfare.
1. The powerful side is expected to suffer low or even no casualties against a weak adversary.
2. When the powerful side has enough of an advantage, war turns into slaughter.
3. In asymmetric warfare success can be failure and failure success.
This is further aggravated by fear of new technology. In an attempt to limit casualties to US forces drones are used as standoff weapons. The very standoffish nature of these weapons is turning a war into slaughter.
Thus the success of US forces in limiting their casualties turns into a media failure.
Much the same thing happened during Israel’s recent operation in Gaza, where Israeli success in limiting its own casualties became a media disaster, fueling claims of slaughter if not genocide.
Thus we come to the fear of new technology. Many laymen already believe that the drones are robots, and don’t know about the man in the loop. I too fear the point when life and death decisions will be made by a machine. As we well know, computers made very fast and very accurate mistakes. However, when a man makes one of these life and death decisions he is working according to knowledge gathered by sensors and a decision making process that must be regulated in order to be legal.
Can’t the parameters used by a man to make his decision be programmed into a computer? It’s easier with structures and vehicles because databases of their signatures are available and even today a fighter’s computer will help the pilot priorities air targets on his radar according to their type and level of threat.
Computers are already capable of recognizing individuals in pictures, but I’m not sure that drones supply that kind of resolution. It will be some time before a computer can make life and death decisions in the confusing and cluttered environment of asymmetric warfare.
If these terrorists are so uninventive they cant buy ( they have mobile phones )some yacht radar , elephant guns , load some fireworks with smoke/ink etc ( drones have ‘eyes’? ), how did they have the nous to organise 9/11 ?
Fabius Maximus replies: Look at the operating specifications. If you think your combo of toys are an effective anti-air against US UAV’s, you are kidding yourself — MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper.
These Drones are no RC toys. They are military aircraft originally designed to go where it is too dangerous to send a manned aircraft. They generally operate at altitudes above the range of AAA (Anti Aircraft Artillery) or man portable SAMs (Surface to air Missiles).
Irregular forces such as the Taliban are unlikely to obtain a full size vehicle mounted or stationary SAM battery. If they did make this mistake, such SAMs emit Radar signals that give away their position and nature, and the USAF has squadrons dedicated solely to their detection and destruction.
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Sheriff: School shooting outside Denver injures at least 7
By Insider Last updated May 8, 2019 125
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — A shooting at a suburban Denver middle school injured seven people Tuesday, and two suspects were in custody, authorities said.
Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth says there is a possible eighth injury and doesn’t believe there are any other shooters, but tactical teams were still searching room by room. She did not know if there were fatalities or other details about the victims or the extent of their injuries.
Lines of firetrucks, ambulances and law enforcement vehicles from multiple agencies were at the school and medical helicopters landed on a grassy field.
The shooting occurred at the middle school at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a public charter with more than 1,850 students in kindergarten through 12th grades.
The sheriff’s office said deputies responded around 1:50 p.m. to the school in the Highlands Ranch community about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Denver.
Nicholson-Kluth said police and deputies got there almost immediately and heard shots as they arrived. The school is near a sheriff’s department substation.
The sheriff’s office directed parents to a nearby recreational center to pick up their children.
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Vertical Buildings by Lorenzo Linthout
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Lorenzo Linthout is an artchitect, born and currently based in Verona. Although an architect, his dedication to photography made him an architectural photographer having several…
Sensual Collages by Katrien de Blauwer, Exhibited in the Netherlands Fotomuseum Museum
Art, Creativity, Photography
Katrien de Blauwer is a Belgian photographer “without a camera” as she explains. She studied at Ghent School of Arts and currently lives in Antwerp….
BIALA II, Elements of Urban Architecture
Gustav Willeit is an Italian photographer that currently lives in Zurich. He studied at the F+F School for Art and Design in Zurich, Switzerland. The…
California Dream by François Fontaine and Jeff Divine
Surfing thrives in California. Two contemporary photographers, François Fontaine and Jeff Divine have captured several moments of Californian surfing. A new space dedicated to photography…
Modern Paradise, Los Angeles, California
Two photographers, Mijoo Kim and Minjin Kang, based in New York reshaping paradise. “>As visual artists, we are interested in reconstructing images through geometry and…
Fresh Meat, Identifying Self-Portraits by SHSadler
Culture, Photography
SHSadleris an artistic collaboration between Julia SH and Nic Sadler. Julia is originally from Stockholm, currently living in Los Angeles. She has studied theatre in…
Alternative Perspective by Cristina Coral
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Cristina Coral is a photographer that lives and works in Italy. After graduating and gaining work experience, she chose to use the camera as the…
Surreal Photographs of London’s East End by Chris Dorley-Brown
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The Exchange is a newly built community venue with a 300 seat theatre, 6 studio rooms, a cafe and a bar. Situated opposite Twickenham station, The Exchange is owned by Richmond Council and managed by St Mary’s University.
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Upcoming events at The Exchange, Twickenham.
Helen Scales & Tim Pond – Wondrous Forms of Life
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Join us for a fun evening exploring the diversity of animal life we share our planet with, both through artistic and scientific observation. The evening will be broken down into two engaging presentations. The first will be given by Tim Pond author and illustrator of the field guide to drawing and sketching animals. In this inspirational book, Tim Pond shows you how to observe and draw animals in zoos, farms, wildlife parks and aquariums, teaching you some fascinating facts about the animals along the way and ultimately bringing you closer to nature.
Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales will transport us beneath the waves, to meet a remarkable group of animals that are responsible for some of the most intricate and stunning shapes in the natural world. In her bestselling book, Spirals in Time, as featured on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, Helen uncovers the secret lives of the animals that make sea shells — the molluscs. She ponders how people have used sea shells for millennia as symbols of sex and death, as money, and as the inspiration behind new materials and medicines.
Sea shells come in a tremendous variety of shapes and patterns. Exactly how molluscs have come to be such champion architects is a puzzle that many great thinkers have considered. For centuries, scientists have tried to understand the shapes of sea shells and they’ve searched for mathematical truths to explain how molluscs make their shells and how they have come to be so diverse. While some mysteries still remain, much is now known about the shell makers’ craft. Helen will lead us on a journey through the imaginary ‘Museum of All Possible Shells’, and show how the humble mollusc has taught us a lot about evolution and the possibilities of life on Earth. Helen will explore many other aspects of marvellous molluscs, which are some of the toughest, oldest and smartest animals on the planet.
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facebook advert tynedale hospice at home
Facebook advert created for Tynedale Hospice at Home, who are a charity based in Hexham, Northumberland. They provide palliative nursing care to people in their own homes. As well as, bereavement support for their families. At Tynedale, they also have a group of volunteers who provide hospital transport for people who live in the rural community surrounding Hexham.
The brief was to create a social media and print campaign. The aim of which, was to increase awareness of the work of Tynedale Hospice and get new regular donations via text. The campaign we produced focused on “Where would you prefer to spend your last days?” in a hospital or at home.
From creating the separate slides, when then set about producing and managing the Facebook/Instagram campaign for them. This involved producing the artwork, specify the cost they wanted to spend per day and setting the target audience. The latter involved assigning a target area, specifying the target age group and the likely interests of the people we were trying to target. The campaign ran for a week and reached over 6,000 people, of who 126 actively clicked the advert.
Along with the social media campaign, we also converted the slides into a 30-second cinema advert.
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‘Jurassic World’—Shame, Shame, Says a Velociraptor
By Ted Hoover - June 16, 2015
To: mlouis@talentcorp.com
From: tiffanyv@lizardland.com
Subject: Apology
Murray:
This is to follow up on our lunch today. Sorry I stormed out but I was upset and you know the last thing I want is to rip your head off. And I mean that literally.
I wasn’t mad at you, Mur, I hope you know that. You’ve been my agent from, well, it seems like the Mesozoic Era, and you’ve always looked out for me. I know you were excited getting me the Jurassic World gig. I was, too. “It’ll be different this time, Tiffany,” I said to myself. Especially since I’d be playing “Blue,” the lead velociraptor. I may be a ruthless carnivore but I do try to look on the bright side.
I don’t know if I ever told you this but my parents met on the first Jurassic Park ‘way back in 1993: They were stand-ins for the lead raptors. Sure, that movie about a theme park where humans genetically exhume extinct dinosaurs and then screw it all up is one of the reasons the public has such a low opinion of the raptor community—but it was 22 years ago, and as my therapist is always telling me, the world evolves and I’ve got to evolve with it.
I figured that since the first three movies had pretty much bled dry the theme of human greed outstripping human innovation, the writers and director (and executive producer Steven Spielberg) would try something new. But as I sat at the screening last Friday my temperature just kept rising and rising. Which is amazing when you consider that I’m a cold-blooded reptile.
I know you humans are always looking for more violence, more blood, more explosions. (And yet it’s velociraptors who are described by Wikipedia as vicious and cunning killers!) I sort of expect that from your kind. The injustice of World is that even though dinosaurs are supposed to have brains the size of a walnut, every human in this movie is dumber than a stuffed and mounted wooly mammoth.
The theme park of the title is set on an island where people come seeking bigger thrills. But if you ask me, it’s where they go to recuperate from lobotomies.
Shame, Murray. That’s what I felt as this movie unspooled—utter shame.
In the first 15 minutes we find out that some of the perimeter fences aren’t functioning, the park owner is two days away from receiving his helicopter-pilot’s license, and the scientists in the Jurassic lab have created a dino that’s bigger, uglier, and more evil than any previous dinosaur.
You think that doesn’t hurt a lizard’s pride? Regular dinosaurs aren’t enough for you people. No, you’ve got to splice our genes, picking and choosing our most lethal traits, and throw it up on the big screen! How would you feel if I combined parts of Justin Bieber, Octomom, and any one of the Kardashians, and then paraded that in front of the cameras as the ultimate in humanity?
I’ll tell you what, if I traveled to a vacation spot and heard that the security fences were down, the owner of the island was flying above me without a license, and somewhere out in the bushes a lethal eating machine was rampaging … you wouldn’t find me in the gift shop buying a plushy toy, Mur. I’d be on the first boat back to civilization.
But the people just keep on coming—including the two teenage brothers the filmmakers have hung this story on. They’ve been sent to “Jurassic World” alone, which means their parents haven’t been to a movie in the last 30 years. The older boy is a surly, moronic slacker who can’t stop texting during the whole vacation. Once the dinosaurs get loose and everyone is told to go back to the main compound, this idiot, driving through the dino-pasture with his kid brother, says “Oh look, there’s a hole that’s been ripped through that 40-foot fence! Let’s go there instead.”
As you know Murray, it’s not my place to fix Homo sapiens sapiens, but would it be a crime to remove such a twit from the gene pool? We’re supposed to be rooting for these mammalian morons yet at every turn they reject safety measures and take the path leading right into the back molars of this über-lizard. (Who, and I’m not making this up, is dubbed “Indominus rex.” Imagine the shame of putting that on your resume! I know the lizard cast in the role; he used to do a lot of Shakespeare in the Park and came out of retirement for this. Totally lovely and, as a vegan, wouldn’t hurt a fly. How he suffered every day on set having to wear that dreadful Indominus drag. It must have weighed a ton!) Meanwhile, in between narrow escapes, big bro finally comforts little bro by saying he’ll never leave him. Of course, that might be because Indominus has crushed his smartphone and he has no one else to talk to.
Bad security, villainous monsters, repugnant children …
I thought to myself: “How can it get worse?”
Say hello to the boys’ aunt. She’s the managing director of “Jurassic World” and, as played by Bryce Dallas Howard, would have trouble running a PTA meeting, let alone an amusement park with killer attractions. She’s supposed to be looking after her nephews, but instead hands them over to her assistant because, dammit, she has a park to manage and shareholders to appease. With her blunt cut and excessively tailored wardrobe we know she’s lost touch with her femininity, and—evolutionarily speaking—that can’t be good. One wonders if she purposely screws up every management decision so she won’t hear the ticking of her biological clock over the screams of the guests.
Howard has her priorities, however, and even when running through field and forest away from Triassic period predators she’s not going to take off her 6-inch spike slingbacks. Imminent death is one thing, but good pairs of Manolo Blahniks don’t grow on prehistoric trees.
But there is someone to rescue Howard from the dinos, the danger, and her disregard for female biological imperative. It’s Chris Pratt playing John Wayne playing Marlin Perkins playing a zookeeper at the park. He’s in charge of, you guessed it, me and the three other velociraptors. He’s supposedly bred us from eggs and now we’ve become his posse. (And by the way, Murray, I don’t like to judge but where did they find those three amateurs? What dinner theater production of The Valley of Gwangi did they come from?)
I got to know Pratt pretty well during the shoot and he’s a totally cool dude. Even he was slightly embarrassed having to pretend me and my supporting players were nothing more than a bunch of nasty cocker spaniels. It is Pratt’s job to tame not only velociraptors but Howard as well. He takes her to see a dying Brontosaurus and there, in the dappled sunlight, she starts to cry when she realizes that as a woman it’s her job to care for the less fortunate, not bark out orders to the men in her charge. From that point on, she moons and simpers at Pratt, even, I think, throwing away her shoes.
Vincent D’Onofrio shows up as some sort of Colonel Kurtz-like military nut job who hopes to turn Pratt’s pack into a fighting force on the field of battle. (If they think I’m signing up for that sequel, they’ve got another think coming.)
Finally all this nonsense comes to a head, and what do you know?
It turns out they need me to rescue them from two hours of bad choices, like I’m Lassie with PMS. They even pair me up as a sort of crime-fighting duo with a T-Rex. (Incidentally she was played by the same artiste from the original. I’m not one to complain, but not only is she 20 years older, she’s also a few stairs short of her 12 steps.)
Honestly, these people are so stupid it seems a cosmic injustice that a giant meteor wiped out my ancestors, not theirs. I wouldn’t save these characters a seat on the bus, let alone risk my life to interfere with what is clearly natural selection at work.
So, Murray, what I was trying to tell you at lunch today is that I’ve decided it’s time for me to get out of the business. Please don’t take it personally. You’ve done what you could but it’s become apparent there is no place in L.A. for a dromaeosaurid theropod with any sense of artistic integrity. I’ve saved up some cash and am hoping to open a little scented-candle-and-soap boutique out in Marina del Rey. It’s not too late to find some sort of inner peace. Don’t be mad, Murray—
Or I’ll bite your head off.
Rapturously Yours,
Ted Hoover is a Pittsburgh based writer and critic.
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Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 30 Nov 2018: Slight Tweaks to the Netflix Model
EntertainmentStrategyGuy on November 30, 2018
This week was a battle for the most important story between three related streaming stories. Who won? Well, Netflix, but not for the story you think.
Most Important Story – The First Netflix Original on Linear Broadcast
To steal from my own Twitter feed, Netflix is lauded as THE truly innovative company in entertainment. I read this all the time. And when they launched (ten years ago!) they really did change a lot of things: tons of episodes to watch on demand. All episodes released at once. Thousands of shows with scrolling. Recommendation algorithms. That really was a change in how the model worked.
Since then? Well, they’ve taken a lot of hard line stances:
– Never releasing originals in a week-to-week format.
– Never introducing live streams of shows.
– Never doing sports programming.
– Never releasing movies in theatrical windows.
– Never releasing original programming on linear or other platforms.
That’s a lot of “nevers” for a company that’s trying to be innovative. (In my head, I want to write a satirical HBR article called, “Innovation comes from Never”.) But it looks like the last two points may change, just very gradually. And not by Netflix’ choosing.
You probably missed this, but starting on this week, Bojack Horseman, the critically-acclaimed (?) Netflix original animated series is now airing on Comedy Central. The short explanation is that the distributor and production company retained linear rights after a hold back window for Netflix. So they sold it to the highest bidder.
Personally, I don’t mind this for Netflix. They don’t have a say either way, but they should really how premieres of existing shows off network help boost the ratings. Let me provide a personal anecdote to explain. I’ve wanted to watch The Magicians for a while now, but don’t currently have a Netflix subscription (we just weren’t using it). As a result, I never went over there to catch up on the previous seasons. So as each new season is released, I never bothered to catch up becuase Syfy never did a marathon of previous episodes to let me catch up.
But, for some reason, reruns of the season 1 recently appeared back on Syfy’s linear broadcast. Now my wife and I are debating turning Netflix on just for that show. (Or apparently the Syfy Now app has those episodes. We’ll see.) As a result, I may watch season 4 next season if I can catch up in time.
The point is that allowing sampling for bingeable shows will push people back to whoever has the most episodes. If you don’t have Netflix, then Bojack Horseman is dead to you…but for the people who just watch Comedy Central, they may get hooked and join. I’m sure there are other examples of streaming shows appearing on other platforms. I know HBO has put some of their very library shows into broadcast, and maybe some other Netflix originals appeared in other countries in different platforms. Either way, I’d say this is an experiment worth taking. Good luck Netflix, even if you didn’t want this.
Other Contenders for Most Important Story – WarnerMedia will have three tiers
I’m tempted to start this sub-section by blasting Warner Media and being as snarky as I can. It’s easy to make fun of them because they are doing something different, and different is easy to mock. The blink reaction I had was, “You’re going to try to go up against Netflix with three different, confusing price tiers? Really?”
Category: Weekly News Update
Don’t Kill Mickey Mouse! A Simple Solution to Copyright Law EVERYONE Will Love
Let me paint a nightmare scenario:
“Evil corporations realize they have extremely valuable intellectual property. Famous characters like Superman, Batman, and most of all, Mickey Mouse. These corporations employ armies of lawyers and lobbyists and they get to work on Congress. They extend the copyright on all works indefinitely. This means potentially millions or tens of millions of works that could enter the public domain…never do.
Creativity dies.”
Now imagine the other side:
“Mickey Mouse enters the public domain. There is a flood of Disney merchandise on the market. Evil companies have him start doing pornography. Disney loses billions in market capitalization.
Mickey Mouse dies.”
Scary stuff, right? It’s a classic dilemma. Either we radically improve copyright law and free creativity and Mickey does pornography—what the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants—or we keep the status quo forever and creativity is permanently stifled—what The Walt Disney Company wants.
If I haven’t written it before, I hate dilemmas. Not the idea of having to choose between two bad options, but the concept of dilemmas. Usually “either or” ethical scenarios are the stuff of lazy polemicists. They force someone’s opinion on you by making it seem inevitable.
The above two scenarios do that perfectly. Nightmare scenario one is corporations run amok, ruining creativity for the rest of us. Nightmare scenario two feels better to me, but is still pretty yucky. I don’t want Mickey Mouse in pornography either.
Neither side will win. Again, the “free the content” folks—who I’ve mostly heard on On The Media or read in blogs—have great points about creativity. But being an absolutist on this issue will just drive them into the brick wall of giant corporations with billions on the line. They will NOT give up without a fight. As a result, the corporations have taken the hardest of hard lines. As a result…
Copyright protection dates back to 1923.
To quote TV pitch men, there has to be a better way.
Think about that, for 150 years of American history, copyright extended for a creators live, then it absolutely froze at an arbitrary date that happens to protect Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh. As long as that is the case, we can’t push the copyright law forward in time. Disney won’t let us.
The key to break through the logjam is to understand the true losers. One of my themes of this website will be “understand the economic incentives.” Most problems are clarified, if not solved, when you do this. So while there could be lots of winners by improving copyright, there are some clear losers who will fight this tooth and nail. The studios like Disney, Warner Bros. and others could hemorrhage billions in market capitalization.
So what we need a compromise. We need to realize that the two positions staked out currently in the debate are NOT the only two positions we could have. We could craft a proposal that will free millions of creative works from copyright jail, while allowing Disney and the studios to keep control of their IP, and we can do it for free. In fact, we’ll make some money on it. So here it, trying to get it to fit onto a post card to make Paul Ryan happy:
Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 23 Nov 2018: Here Comes the Retailers
If you own a retail company, you know what you should do? Enter the TV business. In the glorious tradition of electric companies and liquor salesmen, now the big box and online retailers are entering the biz. Here come the retailers!
Other Contender for Most Important Story of the Week – Retailers Enter the Streaming Fray
When we think of strategy in the business context, we usually imagine an innovative business leader sitting down with his team, brainstorming plans, debating options and making a bold call. This sometimes happens in corporate America. The ur-example is Steve Jobs deciding to make the iPod and then the iPhone. Revolutionary!
You know what happens a lot though? (And isn’t the subject of books or HBR articles.) Instead of all that thinking, someone asks, “What are our competitors doing?” Then says, “Why don’t we do that too?” (Notably, the iPod followed the Zune and the iPhone followed the Blackberry. Apple just made both products much, much better.)
Disney launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I’d call that a truly remarkable strategic initiative. Of course, Universal tried to launch a monsters-verse, Warners is trying to launch DC universe and a “big monsters”-verse, and Paramount even flirted with a GI Joe/Transformers universe. That’s not creative strategy, that’s copying.
Netflix decided to binge release all its shows. Amazon thought about going week to week, then said, “Nah, we’ll just follow Netflix’ lead.” Now lots of platforms are aping the binge-release model without understanding the strategic ramifications. Again, that’s not creative strategy, that’s copying.
Which brings us to retailers. Amazon sells lots of things, and at some point launched a video streaming service to help improve the Prime memberships and presumably sell more memberships. As a result, early this year there was news that Walmart would enter the fray to launch its own streaming service. (It had purchased Vudu, a transactional video-on-demand service earlier, so this was an evolution of the strategy.) Not to be left out, there are now rumors that Costco may also start its own streaming service. Can Target and eBay and Kroger and others be too far behind?
(The Ankler pointed me to the CNBC article from October which inspired this section. This isn’t exactly breaking news, but a topic I wanted to cover nonetheless.)
The Costco news has been generally overhyped. They haven’t actually announced a streaming service and it seems very clear their goal is to partner with a streaming platform to offer it for free to their customers as a bonus for renewing. Then they get all the benefits of a streaming platform without having to do the work. (And don’t neglect the work all you aspiring streamers. If you have a sub-par product from a user experience, customers won’t use it. Netflix has usually excelled in this area, until autoplay trailers started.)
But guess what? They haven’t actually announced a partnership and it seems like negotiations stalled with the potential streamers. And I think I know why: Costco realized that offering a ten dollar a month streaming service won’t actually help boost the amount of memberships they sell. Getting people to pay $100 a year for a membership is great because they buy tons of stuff at your locations, and pay you for the privilege. But if you give all that away in costs for streaming–that your customers may not even use–well you lost all your revenue. Even at a discounted price, the economics are really tough. Walmart is likely realizing this too.
Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 16 November 2018: Goodbye to FilmStruck
The streaming wheel keeps spinning. More and more companies want to join the future of entertainment and release their shows on-demand. Yet, what intrigued me most was one of those massive conglomerates not announcing new businesses, but shuttering old ones.
Most Important Story of the Week – WarnerMedia shut down FilmStruck
Wait, did Warner Media just close FilmStruck? Did it really close DramaFever? What’s going on?
(Punctuation aside: in the age of digital websites, I never know if names of companies are one word or two. According to Wikipedia, both of these companies are joined words.)
As I mentioned in my article on the very vague announcement by AT&T/Warner Media, this generally augurs a smarter strategy by AT&T/Warner Media (a name I hate typing because it doesn’t make sense). Here’s the list of at least 13 streaming services currently run or planning to launch by the conglomerate: WarnerTBD, DirecTVNow, HBONow, Boomerang, DCU Streaming Something, Machinima, Uninterrupted, VRV, Stage 13, Ellen Digital Ventures, CrunchyRoll, FullScreen, Rooster Teeth and I’m sure there are more. And get this: Turner (with CNN, TNT, TBS and the NBA channel) has its own set of digital initiatives.
How did Warner and AT&T manage to launch so many simultaneously? And all for different price points? (Though, Otter Media did launch VRV to make one price point for multiple streaming options.) Warner Bros. and AT&T separately tried to launch streaming services, they just took a wildly different path than Netflix, Amazon and others by trying to micro-target a lot of these streaming services.
Now that they’re together under one roof, they’re consolidating. This is natural; as part of a “micro-target” strategy, though, if something doesn’t work you need to pull the plug. Closing down the least successful options should make sense if they weren’t profitable–but as long as the next step also makes sense: which is continuing to consolidate all the brands under one roof. There are two really compelling reasons to do this. First, recreating the bundle is ultimately what customers want. Sure, you may not like the idea of paying for ESPN if you don’t watch sports, but many viewers don’t want to pay for your Bravo or Syfy or History Channel fix either. The bundle ultimately spreads the wealth; everyone suffers and wins together.
More importantly, Netflix set that expectation for consumers. When I’ve spoken with legacy media companies, they’ve always insisted that they just can’t lose money the way Netflix does. Fair enough, but customers expect a product like that. Charging $3 a month for access to only cartoons or only DC, when Netflix charges just $11 for both superheroes and cartoons and sitcoms, well what would you rather buy? You may not like that Netflix has set unrealistic expectations, but there you have it.
2019 will be fun to see how these different strategies finally collide.
Side Note: Really DramaFever is closed? This is one of those companies that two years ago seemed like the “hot new thing”. But like many things that are reported in the growth phase and ignored in the death phase, seems to not quite have matched the hype of its initial growth.
Side side note: Just because Netflix and Amazon Prime/Video/Studios have a “big tent” approaches doesn’t mean that they aren’t losing the equivalent amount of money on their international programming. Essentially, snapping up a bunch of international originals from Japan to Korea to Latin America–which both have done–is the same thing as launching your own channel, you just cover the costs in the upfront fee. The key becomes “allocation”. How much of an original productions costs are allocated to the US, UK, EU and other foreign territories versus the country of origin? If it’s a lot–and from Netflix and Amazon’s statements this seems to be true–and no one tunes in, well you’re losing money on those bets, even if shareholders can’t see those losses. But if they are over-indexing in viewers globally, they could be making money. At the end of the day we don’t know enough to say, but it is a risk.
Context Update – WeWork is Too Big To Fail…Who Else is?
This is a new feature for me: the context update. I’ve been seeing a lot of general economic stories that had me thinking. Stories about a possible recession, about a possible stock market crash, and about the debt markets. Just last week, I had an update on how the election could impact regulation of media & entertainment. So in addition to strategic moves, it felt right to regularly make room from “context” updates, stories I want to call out because I think they could change the context in which we conduct the business of entertainment.
NBA-to-Entertainment Company Translator: Part III “The Rest”
(Read Part I and Part II here and here.
The only downside of my NBA-to-Entertainment translator was that I only had 30 NBA teams to unleash my snark. In entertainment, we have many more companies that just couldn’t make the cut. So I had to expand the world of the NBA just a little bit to fit in a few remaining “just too perfect to exclude” translations.
Here you go: the Rest.
The G-League – Discovery (Scripps) and A&E Networks
I’m a hard core basketball fan like many people. But if you asked me to tell you how many teams are in the G-League, I couldn’t do it. (It turns out there are 27.)
I follow entertainment pretty closely. I couldn’t tell you how many channels Discovery (with Scripps post acquisition) and A&E Networks have either. So I looked it up:
19! For just Discovery (with Scripps).
10! For A&E.
That’s more than I would have guessed for both, and you know what, that gives these two a lot in common. Sure, they have a lot of channels/teams you can’t name, but they keep doing their thing. (The difference is a lot of Americans still watch a lot of these channels, which can’t be said for the G-League.)
LeBron James – Marvel Studios
Not the whole enterprise, just the part run by Kevin Feige. Consider these fun connections:
Both LeBron and Marvel started making waves in the early 2000s. Spider-man and X-Men made a lot of news, and you could tell something was brewing, just as LeBron was being called the greatest high school prospect in the world. Marvel Studios released the mammoth hit Iron Man in 2009, the first year LeBron won the MVP. Marvel Studios released the mammoth world building Avengers in 2012, the first year LeBrown won a championship. In 2014, nobody thought LeBron would leave Miami, but he did, and no one thought Guardians of the Galaxy would be a smash hit, but it was. Either way, both LeBrown and his 14 straight All NBA appearances is the equivalent of Marvel Studios launching all successful films since 2009.
In the present times, LeBron coming to the Lakers was the event of the season, like Black Panther or Avengers: Infinity War, take your pick.
Yet, the questions remain for the future. Can LeBron’s health last? Will Kevin Feige keep churning out the hits? So enjoy the ride of Marvel Studios and LeBron while it lasts.
The ABA – 21st Century Fox
Their spirits live on! The ABA brought us the Brooklyn Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs. And 21st Century Fox will live on in Avatar and Spider-Man.
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Disney-Lucasfilm Deal Part VIII: The Theme Parks Make The Rest of the Money
EntertainmentStrategyGuy on November 9, 2018
(This is Part VII of a multi-part series answering the question: “How Much Money Did Disney Make on the Lucasfilm deal?” Previous sections are here:
Part I: Introduction & “The Time Value of Money Explained”
Appendix: Feature Film Finances Explained!
Part II: Star Wars Movie Revenue So Far
Part III: The Economics of Blockbusters
Part IV: Movie Revenue – Modeling the Scenarios
Part V: The Analysis! Implications, Takeaways and Cautions about Projected Revenue
Part VI: Disney-Lucasfilm Deal – Television
Part VII: Licensing (Merchandise, Like Books and Comics and Video Games and Stuff))
If you’ve been reading along after 47 pages and six months of writing, you know that Disney more than made its money back on its purchase of Lucasfilm through releasing wildly successful Star Wars sequels, and then making another $1.7 billion in licensing revenue. So they made their money back.
But to truly get a great return on investment—as I wrote in the introduction in my “gut” section and again when referring the licensing & merchandise—theme parks are the whipped cream and cherry on top. In 2019, if it stays on track, in Disneyland and in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Disney will open Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, which have been under construction since 2016.
And they could be huge money makers.
Theme parks allow The Walt Disney Company to make more off its IP than any other studio. (That’s its competitive advantage.) So let’s figure out how to quantify that benefit. Then, we’ll figure out the costs.
The Challenge: Disentangling the Marginal Benefit of new Theme Parks
With movies, calculating the revenue is messy, but we have lots of data. With toys, forecasting the revenue is easy, but we have way less data. What about for theme parks? In this case, the toughest part of the process is assigning the value.
Think of it like this. We know that putting in a Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland will drive attendance and revenue. The problem with theme parks is untangling how much revenue they will drive.
In other words, the “marginal benefits”.
Some day I’m going to write “Marginal Benefits Explained!” because it’s a core economic principle—the core principle?—and I’ve seen 7-figure-earning business execs screw it up. Marginal benefits are the additional revenue a business generates by changing an input. So if you’re making a million dollars a year and raise prices, and it goes up to $1.2 million, your “marginal benefit” for the price raise is $200K, the additional revenue you generated.
(You want to know my biggest frustration/pleasure with this website? Every time I write a new article, I think of two more posts to write inspired by it. The “hydra problem” of the Entertainment Strategy Guy.)
This idea is what stymies the analysis with theme parks. Let’s visualize it with an example.
Next year, I’ll walk into Disneyland in the off-season (probably September-ish). I’ll be wearing a Star Wars shirt. My brother will probably rock a Marvel shirt. That said, I’ll also have a three year old wearing, if current trends hold, either an Elsa (Frozen) or Belle (Beauty and the Beast) dress.
So how much of that trip do you allocate to the opening of Galaxy’s Edge? (Punctuation side note: do you italicize theme park lands? I did, but should I?) My family already averages one trip to Disneyland every year, and my daughter knows that Mickey lives at Disneyland. So she’d go anyways. But what about me? I’ll definitely go to see the new park at some point. We could make an analogy of a theme park to a content library on a streaming platform. People pay for the whole thing, not the parts. With content libraries—which is essentially what a theme park is—untangling and clarifying the value offered by each piece can be tough.
The Economics for Theme Parks
When in doubt, I like to boil things down to a simple formula. So let’s do the rough “business model” for a theme park. I came up with this:
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Most Important Story of the Week and Other Good Reads – 9 November 2018: How the Elections Could Impact Hollywood
Over the last few weeks, there were big stories (elections), tragic stories (devastating forest fires in the southland), and heart-breaking stories (the shooting in Thousand Oaks). So many stories that it gets hard to stay focused on the business of media and entertainment. So a few days/weeks late, here is my round up of stories I’ve been following. I won’t touch the personal tragedies as they’ve been covered better by other news outlets.
I struggled to call out a “most important” story, with the election gobbling up media coverage. So you know what…
Most Important Story of the Weeks – How the Election Could Change Regulation
As everyone knows, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives while Republicans held onto the Senate in the American elections of last week. (Then came a bunch of other political news. If you follow most entertainment journalists on Twitter, you don’t need me to repeat it for you.)
The key is the ramifications for business. First, what I don’t think will happen. I don’t think there will be a sudden wave of anti-trust regulation. I don’t think there will be a wave of pro-consumer legislation like finally addressing the United States unwieldy IP/patent/copyright law. The Democrats only control one branch of the Federal government, and will still battle a hostile Senate and hostile President Trump to pass any new legislation. Betting on the status quo is always a good bet in our current political climate.
What could happen? Well, caution in rolling back some regulations. The chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai may be just a little be more worried than before the election about his agenda of wholesale deregulation of media & entertainment. (In fact, he’d already blocked one merger in the broadcast space.) Under threat of testifying on the hill multiple times, he may dial back a few of his more controversial proposals. With their newfound agency, Democrats could tie some consumer-protection measures to budget bills, such as support of municipal broadband or, gasp, net neutrality. Again, I’m skeptical but they could try. Also, as Variety noted here, Hollywood could pressure Democrats to put pressure on tech giants to fight piracy. Again, could, but likely no bills will result.
Then you have the wildcards. Not saying they will happen–I mean, is a wildcard a 10% or less probability?–but I’m thinking about them. My first wildcard is President Trump going crazy with antitrust legislation on his enemies: AT&T/Warner (cause CNN), Comcast (cause MSNBC) and Amazon (cause Jeff Bezos). I think he isn’t focused enough to follow through, but wouldn’t bet against him, especially if his new Attorney General sticks in the role. At the local level, I’d look at “municipal broadband”. Since everyone hates their cable providers, with lots of new Democratic gains in state houses, more states and cities could try their hands at alternatives to traditional cable companies.
The final wildcard would be legislation that finally addresses robocalls. Any politician who stopped all the annoying phone calls would become a hero to consumers. (That’s a hint for politicians already thinking about 2020.)
Other Contender for Most Important Story – BlumHouse Does it Again
Another horror film by Jason Blum, another box office smash. (Current numbers are $76 million opening weekend and $151 domestic box office to date.) That said, this one feels a bit more expensive production-wise (Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween franchise owners) than past BlumHouse super hits. Still, he’ll definitely make his money back. Again. (Blum was rightfully feted in THR in a good read.)
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"Crisp" redirects here. For other uses, see Crisp (disambiguation).
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Potato chips (known as crisps in British and Hiberno English; either chips or wafers in Indian English; and chips in American, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Singapore, South African, and Jamaican English) are thin slices of potato that are deep fried. Potato chips are commonly served as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. The basic chips are cooked and salted; additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including seasonings, herbs, spices, cheeses, and artificial additives.
Crisps, however, refer to many different types of snack products in the UK and Ireland, some made from potato, but may also be made from maize and tapioca. An example of these kinds of crisps is Monster Munch.[1] Crisps is also used in North America to refer to potato snacks made from reconstituted dried potato flakes and other fillers,[citation needed] such as "baked Lay's" and Pringles, although Pringles are technically "quick-fried" in oil.
Potato chips are a predominant part of the snack food market in English-speaking countries and numerous other Western nations. The global potato chip market generated total revenues of US$16.4 billion in 2005. This accounted for 35.5% of the total savory snacks market in that year (US$46.1 billion).[2]
1.1 Flavored chips
2 Nomenclature
3 Health concerns
4 Examples of regional varieties
5 Similar foods
6 Gallery of production
According to a traditional story, the original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. Agitated by a patron repeatedly sending his fried potatoes back because they were too thick, soggy and bland, resort hotel chef, George Crum, decided to slice the potatoes as thin as possible, frying them until crisp and seasoning them with extra salt. Contrary to Crum's expectation, the patron (sometimes identified as Cornelius Vanderbilt) loved the new chips[3] and they soon became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name "Saratoga Chips".[4]
In the 20th century, potato chips spread beyond chef-cooked restaurant fare and began to be mass produced for home consumption. The Dayton, Ohio-based Mike-sell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, calls itself the "oldest potato chip company in the United States".[5] New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.[6] Chips sold in markets were usually sold in tins or scooped out of storefront glass bins and delivered by horse and wagon. The early potato chip bag was wax paper with the ends ironed or stapled together. At first, potato chips were packaged in barrels or tins, which left chips at the bottom stale and crumbled. Laura Scudder,[7] an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California started having her workers take home sheets of wax paper to iron into the form of bags, which were filled with chips at her factory the next day. This pioneering method reduced crumbling and kept the chips fresh and crisp longer. This innovation, along with the invention of cellophane, allowed potato chips to become a mass market product. Today, chips are packaged in plastic bags, with nitrogen gas blown in prior to sealing to lengthen shelf life, and provide protection against crushing.[8]
Potato chips and other snacks at a store in the United States
In an idea originated by the Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd, formed in 1920,[9] Frank Smith originally packaged a twist of salt with his crisps in greaseproof paper bags, which were then sold around London.
The potato chip remained otherwise unseasoned until an innovation by Joe "Spud" Murphy (1923–2001),[10] the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture in the 1950s. After some trial and error, Murphy and his employee, Seamus Burke,[11] produced the world's first seasoned crisps, Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar.
The innovation became an overnight sensation in the food industry with the heads of some of the biggest potato chip companies in the United States traveling to the small Tayto company in Ireland to examine the product and to negotiate the rights to use the new technology. Companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to Tayto's technique. The sale of the Tayto company made the owner and the small family group, who had changed the face of potato chip manufacturing, very wealthy.
An advertisement for Smith's Potato Crisps
The Tayto's innovation changed the entire nature of the potato chip, and led to the end of Smith's twist of salt. (Walkers revived the idea of "salt in a bag", following their takeover of Smith's (UK) in 1979, with their Salt 'n' Shake potato crisps.[12]) Later chip manufacturers added natural and artificial seasonings to potato chips with varying degrees of success. A product that had had a large appeal to a limited market on the basis of one seasoning now had a degree of market penetration through vast numbers of seasonings. Various other seasonings of chips are sold in different locales, including the original Cheese and Onion, produced by Tayto, which remains by far Ireland's biggest manufacturer of crisps.
The Bangladeshi potato chips
There is little consistency in the English speaking world for names of fried potato cuttings. American and Canadian English use "chips" for the above mentioned dish—this term is also used (but not universally) in other parts of the world, due to the influence of American culture—and sometimes "crisps" for the same made from batter.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland crisps are potato chips while chips refer to thick strips similar to french fries (as in "fish and chips") and served hot. In Australia, some parts of South Africa, the south of New Zealand, India, the general West Indies especially in Barbados, both forms of potato product are simply known as "chips", as are the larger "home-style" potato crisps. In the north of New Zealand they are known as "chippies" but are marketed as "chips" throughout the country. Sometimes the distinction is made between "hot chips" (fried potatoes) and "potato chips" in Australia and New Zealand. In Bangladesh, they are generally known as chip or chips, and much less as crisps (pronounced "kirisp") and locally Álu Bhaja.
Potato chips were originally fried and seasoned without concern for trans fats, sodium, sugar, or other nutrient levels. As nutritional intake guidelines were created in various countries and the nutrition facts label became commonplace, consumers, advocacy groups, and health organizations have focused on the nutritional value of so-called junk foods, including potato chips.[13]
A recent long term study associates potato chips consumption as most important contributor to weight change, before potatoes and soft drinks.[14]
Some potato chip companies have responded to the criticism, both informal and legal, by investing in research and development to modify existing recipes and create health-conscious products. Kettle Foods was founded in 1978 and currently sells only trans fat-free products, including potato chips. PepsiCo research shows that approximately 80% of salt on chips is not sensed by the tongue before being swallowed. Frito-Lay spent $414 million in 2009 on product development, including development of salt crystals that would reduce the salt content of Lay's potato chips without adversely affecting flavor.[13]
Examples of regional varieties
Hedgehog brand flavored crisps
In Australia, popular flavors include plain (salted), roast chicken, barbecue, and salt & vinegar. In recent years, other flavors have become popular, including lime and pepper, chili, sour cream & chives, sweet chilli sauce & sour cream, honey soy chicken and Caesar salad. Until recently, a doner kebab flavor was manufactured by Arnott's.[citation needed]
In Austria, garlic flavored potato chips are available.
In Bulgaria, plain salted, paprika, sour cream and onion, and cheese and hot chili are popular flavors. Barbecue and ketchup flavored chips are also available.
In Canada, seasonings include dill pickle, ketchup, barbecue, Buffalo wings and blue cheese, onion and garlic, jalapeño and cheddar, all dressed, salt and vinegar, salt and pepper, sour cream and bacon, sour cream and cheddar, sour cream and onion, roast chicken, fries and gravy, and curry. In Toronto and Vancouver, Lay's offers wasabi chips.[15]
In mainland China, Lay's has introduced potato chips flavored in Chinese cuisine, world cuisine, and flavors such as cucumber.
In Colombia, the five main flavors of chips are natural (ready salted), barbecue, chicken, mayonnaise and Limón.
In Egypt, Chipsy is the most popular brand of potato chips. It has some flavors inspired by the local cuisine, such as Kebab, Stuffed vine leaves, etc.
In Finland, the market leader in potato chips business is Åland based Taffel (known in Denmark and Norway as KiMs and marketed in Sweden under the name OLW) with popular cheese flavored "Juusto Snacks", salt flavored "Chips", sour cream and onion flavored "Broadway", and barbecue flavored "Grill Chips", in general sour cream & onion- and barbecue -flavored potato chips are among the most popular flavors regardless of the manufacturer, popular brands include, in addition to domestic Taffel, few foreign brands such as Estrella and Pringles.
In Germany, the most common flavor is paprika. More exotic varieties are also beginning to appear, including salt & vinegar and Asian flavors. The most recent development is the Salt & Pepper-flavor and product lines from organic farming. The legendary beer flavored chips seem to be more of a myth, the most recent general availability of beer flavored chips was a soccer world cup 2006 special edition by Lorenz Snack-World. The dominating brands are Chio Chips and funny frisch, both manufactured by Intersnack, Crunchips, manufactured by Lorenz Snack-World, and Pringles. Other foreign brands like Lay's or Kettle are available sporadically, but do not usually play a major role.
In Greece, oregano flavored chips are very popular.
In Hong Kong, the two prominent potato chips are the spicy "Ethnican" variety by Calbee,[16] and barbecue by Jack'n Jill. Lay's are also popular in Hong Kong. (With the most popular being BBQ and sour cream and onion.)
In India and Pakistan, there are a number of flavored varieties both in locally made and multi-national brands, such as Lay's. Some flavors are tomato, pudina (mint), masala, coriander, salt and pepper, and red chili powder. The most popular chip varieties are potato, tapioca, and plantain (yellow or green, each with its own distinct taste).
In Indonesia, barbecue, corn, and roast chicken are the favorites. Another variety of chips are cassava chips.
In Ireland, the common varieties of crisps are similar to those sold in the UK. However in Ireland, the word Tayto is synonymous with crisps after the Tayto brand and can be used to describe all varieties of crisp, including those not produced by Tayto. Owing to the dominance of Tayto in the Irish market, the word has become a genericized trademark. Walkers crisps were launched there several years ago, but have failed to dominate the market. Hunky Dorys and King crisps are other popular Irish brands. In Irish, crisps are known as criospaí.
In Japan, flavors include nori & salt, consommé, wasabi, soy sauce & butter, garlic, ume, barbecue, pizza, mayonnaise, and black pepper. Chili, scallop with butter, teriyaki, takoyaki and yakitori flavored chips are also available. Major manufacturers are Calbee,[17] Koikeya[18] and Yamayoshi.
In Mexico, many flavors are spicy. Popular flavors are salt, lime, habanero, 'Chile y Limón' and cheese.
In some Middle Eastern countries,[clarification needed] many popular American flavors and chicken-flavored chips are available. In others, salt and salt and pepper varieties are the most popular.
In the Netherlands, the market is dominated by Lay's; they offer many flavors, such as: natural (salted), paprika, bolognese (Italian herbs and tomato), barbecued ham, cheese & onion, Mexican herbs, Heinz tomato ketchup, chili, spareribs, Mediterranean herbs, Thai sweet chili, Oriental spices, pepper & cream, chicken & thyme, and spices & lime. Natural (salted) and paprika crisps are the most popular.
In New Zealand, the most popular varieties of potato chips are ready salted, salt n' vinegar and chicken. In 2009, Bluebird Foods Limited released a unique range of chips made of classic New Zealand flavors such as 'Meat Pie and Ketchup' and 'Reduced Cream and Onion Soup Dip 'Sunday Roast'. The range is named 'Kiwi As'.
In Norway, most chips are flavored with salt, salt and pepper or paprika. More exotic flavors like mushroom and horseradish are also available. Major brands include KiMs, Maarud and Sørlandschips.
In Philippines, favorites include cheese, barbecue, and sour cream and onion.
In Russia, popular flavors are plain (salted), onion, paprika, black pepper, and sour cream, more unusual varieties are bacon, shashlik, crab, and caviar. Both Lay's and Pringles brands are widespread. Russian companies like Perekrestok also manufacture their own chips.
In Singapore, popular brands are barbecue flavored Jack and Jill Potato Chips, Sour Cream and Onion Lays, Chipster and the brand Lay's Kettle Cooked Chips.
In Serbia, popular potato chips are plain (salted), pizza, grill and ketchup flavored. The Chipsy company holds most of the Serbian potato chip market.
South Africa has many potato chip flavors, including "fruit chutney", "biltong" (beef jerky), "sausage", "Worcestershire sauce", "peri peri" (Mozambican/Portuguese hot sauce flavor) and tomato sauce (ketchup flavor) among many others.
In Spain, the most popular flavors are plain (fried with olive oil and salted), and ham.
In Sweden, the two dominant companies are Estrella (owned by Kraft Foods) and OLW. The most popular flavors are salted, grill (onion flavored), sour cream & onion, and dill. Exotic flavors include sour cream & bearnaise and hot sweet chili. Chips made of unpeeled potatoes, called lantchips, are also common. Another common chips-brand is Pringles.
The market in the United Kingdom is dominated by Walkers (a regional brand of Lay's) which is known for its wide variety of crisps. The three main flavors are ready salted, cheese & onion, and salt & vinegar; however, other examples are prawn cocktail, Worcestershire sauce (known by Walkers as Worcester Sauce), roast chicken, steak & onion, smoky bacon, lamb & mint, ham & mustard, barbecue, BBQ rib, tomato ketchup, sausage & ketchup, pickled onion, Branston Pickle, and Marmite. More exotic flavors are Thai sweet chili, roast pork & creamy mustard sauce, lime and Thai spices, chicken with Italian herbs, sea salt and cracked black pepper, turkey & bacon, caramelized onion & sweet balsamic vinegar, stilton & cranberry, mango chili, and special flavors such as American Cheeseburger and English Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pud.[19] Kettle Foods Ltd's range of thick-cut crunchy crisps include gourmet flavors: Mexican Limes with a hint of Chilli, Salsa with Mesquite, Buffalo Mozzarella Tomato and Basil, Mature Cheddar with Adnams Broadside Beer, Soulmate Cheeses and Onion, and other previously listed flavors. Most seasonings contain only vegetarian ingredients, although some recent seasonings such as lamb & mint sauce contain meat extracts. In the early 1980s, Hedgehog brand flavored crisps were widely on sale and received much publicity. McCoys Crisps are also popular in the UK. In Northern Ireland Tayto (NI) Ltd. dominate the market.[citation needed] This company is entirely unrelated to the Tayto company in Ireland. In the north of England, Seabrook Potato Crisps are popular, but they are much less common in the south.
In the United States, popular potato chips flavors include original (plain or with salt), sour cream and onion, barbecue, ranch dressing, salt and vinegar, and cheddar and sour cream. Stores in regions with a significant Hispanic population sell lime flavored chips using the Mexican name, limón.[20]
Similar foods
Another type of potato chip, notably the Pringles and Lay's Stax brands, is made by extruding or pressing a dough made from ground potatoes into the desired shape before frying. This makes chips that are very uniform in size and shape, which allows them to be stacked and packaged in rigid tubes. In America, the official term for Pringles is "potato crisps", but they are rarely referred to as such. Conversely Pringles may be termed "potato chips" in Britain, to distinguish them from traditional "crisps".
An additional variant of potato chips exists in the form of "potato sticks", also called "shoestring potatoes". These are made as extremely thin (2–3 mm) versions of the popular French fry, but are fried in the manner of regular salted potato chips. A hickory-smoke flavor version is popular in Canada, going by the vending machine name "Hickory Sticks". Potato sticks are typically packaged in rigid containers, although some manufacturers use flexible pouches, similar to potato chip bags. Potato sticks were originally packed in hermetically sealed steel cans. In the 1960s, manufacturers switched to the less expensive composite canister (similar to the Pringle's container). Reckitt Benckiser was a market leader in this category under the Durkee Potato Stix and French's Potato Sticks names, but exited the business in 2008.
A larger variant (approximately 1 cm thick) made with dehydrated potatoes is marketed as Andy Capp's Pub Fries, using the theme of a long-running British comic strip, which are baked and come in a variety of flavors. Walkers make a similar product called "Chipsticks" which are Salt and Vinegar flavored. The Ready Salted flavor had been discontinued.
Some companies have also marketed baked potato chips as an alternative with lower fat content. Additionally, some varieties of fat-free chips have been made using artificial, and indigestible, fat substitutes. These became well known in the media when an ingredient many contained, Olestra, was linked in some individuals to abdominal discomfort and loose stools.[21]
The success of crisp fried potato chips also gave birth to fried corn chips, with such brands as Fritos, CC's and Doritos dominating the market. "Swamp chips" are similarly made from a variety of root vegetables, such as parsnips, rutabagas and carrots. Japanese-style variants include extruded chips, like products made from rice or cassava. In South Indian snack cuisine, there is an item called HappLa in Kannada/vadam in Tamil, which is a chip made of an extruded rice/sago or multigrain base that has been around for many centuries.
There are many other products which might be called "crisps" in Britain, but would not be classed as "potato chips" because they aren't made with potato and/or aren't chipped (for example, Wotsits, Quavers, Skips, Hula Hoops and Monster Munch).
Kettle-style chips (known as hand-cooked in the UK/Europe) are traditionally made by the "batch-style" process, where all chips are fried all at once at a low temperature profile, and continuously raked to prevent them from sticking together. There has been some development recently where kettle-style chips are able to be produced by a "continuous-style" process (like a long conveyor belt), creating the same old-fashioned texture and flavor of a real kettle-cooked chip.
Non-potato based chips also exist. Kumara (sweet potato) chips are eaten in Korea, New Zealand and Japan; parsnip, beetroot and carrot crisps are available in the United Kingdom. India is famous for a large number of localized 'chips shops', selling not only potato chips but also other varieties such as plantain chips, tapioca chips, yam chips and even carrot chips. Plantain chips, also known as chifles or tostones, are also sold in the Western Hemisphere from the United States to Chile. In the Philippines, banana chips can be found sold at local stores. In Kenya, chips are made even from arrowroot and casava. In the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and Australia, a new variety of Pringles made from rice have been released and marketed as lower in fat than their potato counterparts. Recently, the Australian company Absolute Organic has also released chips made from beetroot.
Gallery of production
The process of making homemade chips
Potato is sliced by rotating the blade
Long and narrow slices are produced
The potato slices are fried in hot oil
Frying takes several minutes
The finished product
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potato chip — ☆ potato chip n. a very thin slice of potato fried crisp and then usually salted and sometimes flavored: also Brit. potato crisp … English World dictionary
potato chip — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms potato chip : singular potato chip plural potato chips American a crisp II, 1) … English dictionary
potato chip — potato chips 1) N COUNT: usu pl Potato chips are very thin slices of potato that have been fried until they are hard, dry, and crisp. [AM] Syn: chips (in BRIT, use crisps) 2) N COUNT: usu pl Potato chips are long, thin pieces of potato fried in… … English dictionary
potato chip — noun a) potato cut into elongated cubes and fried, a chip or chipped potato, usually larger than the US French fried potato. b) potato cut slices and fried, similar to a UK potato crisp. See Also: fish and chips, French fries … Wiktionary
potato chip — po tato ,chip noun count AMERICAN a food made by cooking small very thin pieces of potato in oil. British crisp: a bag of potato chips … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
potato chip — noun a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat • Syn: ↑chip, ↑crisp, ↑Saratoga chip • Derivationally related forms: ↑crisp (for: ↑crisp), ↑crispy ( … Useful english dictionary
potato chip — a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted. Also called Saratoga chip. [1835 45] * * * … Universalium
potato chip — pota′to chip n. coo a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usu. salted … From formal English to slang
potato chip — noun Date: 1854 a thin slice of white potato that has been cooked until crisp and then usually salted … New Collegiate Dictionary
potato chip — piece of thinly sliced and fried potato that is eaten as a snack food … English contemporary dictionary
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Amar Chitra Katha
Ganesh Chaturthi Special - Ganesha
Ganpati Bappa Morya! The most revered and popular God of Hinduism is Lord Ganesha. Devdutt Pattanaik discusses the significance of the elephant-headed god, the legends that encapsulate the idea of Ganesha being the supreme consciousness that pervades all beings. He also talks about how as the son of Shiva, the Destroyer and Parvati, one of the many incarnations of Shakti, Ganesha becomes the symbol of unification for the followers of Shiva and Shakti
Sakshi looks for her mother's prized recipe diary, the invaluable gift she was was given when she left home to come and work in Mumbai. She decides that she will celebrate one festival a week based on the recipes in her mother's book. She decides to begin this journey by celebrating 'Ganesh Chaturthi'. She makes Modak and Pappaya ka halwa.
Along the beautiful Konkan coastline of Maharashtra is the quaint hamlet of Ganpatipule - the abode, according to popular belief, of a self-manifested idol of Lord Ganesha. Worshipped as the eternal guardian of the entire western region of India, the Ganesha idol here is said to be about 400 years old. Thousands of devotees who throng the Ganpatipule temple every year have one thing in common - the everlasting faith that even a small glimpse of their beloved Lord Ganapati can bring them peace and happiness. With the sound of waves that calms your soul and serenity that surrounds your being, the Ganpatipule temple is sure to connect you with the divine.
Fish, Rat, Boar, Tortoise
The first avatar of Vishnu, the fish is part of many Indian legends and appears often in Hindu iconography. The rat is Lord Ganesha’s chosen vehicle and there are some intriguing stories of how that came to be. The boar another avatar of Vishnu is usually portrayed as a feisty beast. The tortoise is depicted as the epitome of patience and stability. Learn more about the legends surrounding these intriguing creatures in this episode of Animals in Mythology.
Ganesha's Secret - Part 1
7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art by Devdutt Pattanaik as a Video Book - an innovative new format that makes for a rich literary experience. Explore the book in the form of videos.This is Part 1 of Chapter 1: Ganesha's Secret - Different People See God Differently
7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art by Devdutt Pattanaik as a Video Book - an innovative new format that makes for a rich literary experience. Explore the book in the form of videos.This is Part 2 of Chapter 1: Ganesha's Secret - Different People See God Differently.
7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art by Devdutt Pattanaik as a Video Book - an innovative new format that makes for a rich literary experience. Explore the book in the form of videos. This is Part 3 of Chapter 1: Ganesha's Secret - Different People See God Differently.
Anant Chaturdashi
Anant Chaturdashi is the last day of Ganesh Chaturthi and also a time to eat Khoba Roti in Rajasthan. The day after, Jains celebrate a special day, kshamavani, where they apologise to each other. She makes Khoba Roti and Alvathi.
"In this episode, Devdutt Pattanaik introduces us to the various siblings in Hindu mythology. The most famous ones like Ravan-Surpanakha and Krishna-Subhadra are discussed. But the emphasis is on the many more siblings that appear vaguely in the epics. We are introduced to Yama and Yami, Draupadi and Dhrishtadyumna, the sister of the Pandavas, Duhsala, Kripa and Kripi, Hidimba and Hidimbi, Rukmini and Rukmi. Devdutt narrates interesting stories about these characters, explaining how and what role they played in the larger scheme of things. He also tells us about Santoshi Maa, who was essentially brought to life to provide Ganesha and Karthikeya with a sister."
Gods And Food
The numerous gods in Hindu mythology, although manifestations of one supreme being, are very varied by ways of their personalities. Generally speaking, the devas and devis are benevolent beings who support the physical world. Hindus consider it important to keep their deities happy and content by way of offering them food. Every deity is associated with one of more food items (either raw or cooked). In his episode, Devdutt Pattanaik talks about these deities and their favorite foods. He also explores the stories and folk tales behind Krishna's association with maakhan, Ganesha's love for modaks and Shiva's affiliation with the bel leaf.
Sankashti Chaturthi
Sakshi is celebrating Sankashti Chaturthi for which she prepares Valachi Bhaji. While preparing this Maharashtrian speciality made with fava beans, dry coconut, onion paste and Malvani masala, she narrates the significance of the name Sankashti and also the reason behind Lord Ganesh’s name. Sakshi then makes Alu Wadi by layering colocasia leaves with a tamarind and jaggery paste. It’s prepared on Angarki Chaturthi and Sakshi tells us the story behind this auspicious day.
Which Direction is associated with Lord Ganesha?
Devlok Mini with Devdutt Pattanaik explores fascinating titbits of Indian mythology and legends with a narrative that is both, quick to watch and easy to absorb. In each episode, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik narrates stories, discusses popular beliefs, and provides his insights into the meaning behind various mythological tales.
Ganesha and the Symbolism around Him
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Project acronym ACCUPOL
Project Unlimited Growth? A Comparative Analysis of Causes and Consequences of Policy Accumulation
Researcher (PI) Christoph KNILL
Host Institution (HI) LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Summary ACCUPOL systematically analyzes an intuitively well-known, but curiously under-researched phenomenon: policy accumulation. Societal modernization and progress bring about a continuously growing pile of policies in most political systems. At the same time, however, the administrative capacities for implementation are largely stagnant. While being societally desirable in principle, ever-more policies hence may potentially imply less in terms of policy achievements. Whether or not policy accumulation remains at a ‘sustainable’ rate thus crucially affects the long-term output legitimacy of modern democracies. Given this development, the central focus of ACCUPOL lies on three questions: Do accumulation rates vary across countries and policy sectors? Which factors mitigate policy accumulation? And to what extent is policy accumulation really associated with an increasing prevalence of implementation deficits? In answering these questions, ACCUPOL radically departs from established research traditions in public policy. First, the project develops new analytical concepts: Rather than relying on individual policy change as the unit of analysis, we consider policy accumulation to assess the growth of policy portfolios over time. In terms of implementation, ACCUPOL takes into account the overall prevalence of implementation deficits in a given sector instead of analyzing the effectiveness of individual implementation processes. Second, this analytical innovation also implies a paradigmatic theoretical shift. Because existing theories focus on the analysis of individual policies, they are of limited help to understand causes and consequences of policy accumulation. ACCUPOL develops a novel theoretical approach to fill this theoretical gap. Third, the project provides new empirical evidence on the prevalence of policy accumulation and implementation deficits focusing on 25 OECD countries and two key policy areas (social and environmental policy).
ACCUPOL systematically analyzes an intuitively well-known, but curiously under-researched phenomenon: policy accumulation. Societal modernization and progress bring about a continuously growing pile of policies in most political systems. At the same time, however, the administrative capacities for implementation are largely stagnant. While being societally desirable in principle, ever-more policies hence may potentially imply less in terms of policy achievements. Whether or not policy accumulation remains at a ‘sustainable’ rate thus crucially affects the long-term output legitimacy of modern democracies. Given this development, the central focus of ACCUPOL lies on three questions: Do accumulation rates vary across countries and policy sectors? Which factors mitigate policy accumulation? And to what extent is policy accumulation really associated with an increasing prevalence of implementation deficits? In answering these questions, ACCUPOL radically departs from established research traditions in public policy. First, the project develops new analytical concepts: Rather than relying on individual policy change as the unit of analysis, we consider policy accumulation to assess the growth of policy portfolios over time. In terms of implementation, ACCUPOL takes into account the overall prevalence of implementation deficits in a given sector instead of analyzing the effectiveness of individual implementation processes. Second, this analytical innovation also implies a paradigmatic theoretical shift. Because existing theories focus on the analysis of individual policies, they are of limited help to understand causes and consequences of policy accumulation. ACCUPOL develops a novel theoretical approach to fill this theoretical gap. Third, the project provides new empirical evidence on the prevalence of policy accumulation and implementation deficits focusing on 25 OECD countries and two key policy areas (social and environmental policy).
Project acronym ACETOGENS
Project Acetogenic bacteria: from basic physiology via gene regulation to application in industrial biotechnology
Researcher (PI) Volker MÜLLER
Host Institution (HI) JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITATFRANKFURT AM MAIN
Summary Demand for biofuels and other biologically derived commodities is growing worldwide as efforts increase to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to limit climate change. Most commercial approaches rely on fermentations of organic matter with its inherent problems in producing CO2 and being in conflict with the food supply of humans. These problems are avoided if CO2 can be used as feedstock. Autotrophic organisms can fix CO2 by producing chemicals that are used as building blocks for the synthesis of cellular components (Biomass). Acetate-forming bacteria (acetogens) do neither require light nor oxygen for this and they can be used in bioreactors to reduce CO2 with hydrogen gas, carbon monoxide or an organic substrate. Gas fermentation using these bacteria has already been realized on an industrial level in two pre-commercial 100,000 gal/yr demonstration facilities to produce fuel ethanol from abundant waste gas resources (by LanzaTech). Acetogens can metabolise a wide variety of substrates that could be used for the production of biocommodities. However, their broad use to produce biofuels and platform chemicals from substrates other than gases or together with gases is hampered by our very limited knowledge about their metabolism and ability to use different substrates simultaneously. Nearly nothing is known about regulatory processes involved in substrate utilization or product formation but this is an absolute requirement for metabolic engineering approaches. The aim of this project is to provide this basic knowledge about metabolic routes in the acetogenic model strain Acetobacterium woodii and their regulation. We will unravel the function of “organelles” found in this bacterium and explore their potential as bio-nanoreactors for the production of biocommodities and pave the road for the industrial use of A. woodii in energy (hydrogen) storage. Thus, this project creates cutting-edge opportunities for the development of biosustainable technologies in Europe.
Demand for biofuels and other biologically derived commodities is growing worldwide as efforts increase to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to limit climate change. Most commercial approaches rely on fermentations of organic matter with its inherent problems in producing CO2 and being in conflict with the food supply of humans. These problems are avoided if CO2 can be used as feedstock. Autotrophic organisms can fix CO2 by producing chemicals that are used as building blocks for the synthesis of cellular components (Biomass). Acetate-forming bacteria (acetogens) do neither require light nor oxygen for this and they can be used in bioreactors to reduce CO2 with hydrogen gas, carbon monoxide or an organic substrate. Gas fermentation using these bacteria has already been realized on an industrial level in two pre-commercial 100,000 gal/yr demonstration facilities to produce fuel ethanol from abundant waste gas resources (by LanzaTech). Acetogens can metabolise a wide variety of substrates that could be used for the production of biocommodities. However, their broad use to produce biofuels and platform chemicals from substrates other than gases or together with gases is hampered by our very limited knowledge about their metabolism and ability to use different substrates simultaneously. Nearly nothing is known about regulatory processes involved in substrate utilization or product formation but this is an absolute requirement for metabolic engineering approaches. The aim of this project is to provide this basic knowledge about metabolic routes in the acetogenic model strain Acetobacterium woodii and their regulation. We will unravel the function of “organelles” found in this bacterium and explore their potential as bio-nanoreactors for the production of biocommodities and pave the road for the industrial use of A. woodii in energy (hydrogen) storage. Thus, this project creates cutting-edge opportunities for the development of biosustainable technologies in Europe.
Project acronym AppSAM
Project A Flexible Platform for the Application of SAM-dependent enzymes
Researcher (PI) Jennifer Nina ANDEXER
Host Institution (HI) ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG
Summary AppSAM will unlock the synthetic capability of S-adenosyl¬methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferases and radical SAM enzymes for application in environmentally friendly and fully sustainable reactions. The biotechnological application of these enzymes will provide access to chemo-, regio- and stereoselective methylations and alkylations, as well as to a wide range of complex rearrangement reactions that are currently not possible through traditional approaches. Methylation reactions are of particular interest due to their importance in epigenetics, cancer metabolism and the development of novel pharmaceuticals. As chemical methylation methods often involve toxic compounds and rarely exhibit the desired selectivity and specificity, there is an urgent need for new, environmentally friendly methodologies. The proposed project will meet these demands by the provision of modular in vitro and in vivo systems that can be tailored to specific applications. In the first phase of AppSAM, efficient in vitro SAM-regeneration systems will be developed for use with methyltransferases as well as radical SAM enzymes. To achieve this aim, enzymes from different biosynthetic pathways will be combined in multi-enzyme cascades; methods from enzyme and reaction engineering will be used for optimisation. The second phase of AppSAM will address the application on a preparative scale. This will include the isolation of pure product from the in vitro systems, reactions using immobilised enzymes and extracts from in vivo productions. In addition to E. coli, the methylotrophic bacterium Methylobacter extorquens AM1 will be used as a host for the in vivo systems. M. extorquens can use C1 building blocks such as methanol as the sole carbon source, thereby initiating the biotechnological methylation process from a green source material and making the process fully sustainable, as well as being compatible with an envisaged “methanol economy”.
AppSAM will unlock the synthetic capability of S-adenosyl¬methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferases and radical SAM enzymes for application in environmentally friendly and fully sustainable reactions. The biotechnological application of these enzymes will provide access to chemo-, regio- and stereoselective methylations and alkylations, as well as to a wide range of complex rearrangement reactions that are currently not possible through traditional approaches. Methylation reactions are of particular interest due to their importance in epigenetics, cancer metabolism and the development of novel pharmaceuticals. As chemical methylation methods often involve toxic compounds and rarely exhibit the desired selectivity and specificity, there is an urgent need for new, environmentally friendly methodologies. The proposed project will meet these demands by the provision of modular in vitro and in vivo systems that can be tailored to specific applications. In the first phase of AppSAM, efficient in vitro SAM-regeneration systems will be developed for use with methyltransferases as well as radical SAM enzymes. To achieve this aim, enzymes from different biosynthetic pathways will be combined in multi-enzyme cascades; methods from enzyme and reaction engineering will be used for optimisation. The second phase of AppSAM will address the application on a preparative scale. This will include the isolation of pure product from the in vitro systems, reactions using immobilised enzymes and extracts from in vivo productions. In addition to E. coli, the methylotrophic bacterium Methylobacter extorquens AM1 will be used as a host for the in vivo systems. M. extorquens can use C1 building blocks such as methanol as the sole carbon source, thereby initiating the biotechnological methylation process from a green source material and making the process fully sustainable, as well as being compatible with an envisaged “methanol economy”.
Project acronym BHIVE
Project Bio-derived HIgh Value polymers through novel Enzyme function
Researcher (PI) Emma Rusi Master
Summary Recent advances in systems-level study of cells and organisms have revealed the enormous potential to live more sustainably through better use of biological processes. Plants sustainably synthesize the most abundant and diverse materials on Earth. By applying recent advances in life science technology, we can better harness renewable plant resources and bioconversion processes, to develop environmentally and politically sustainable human enterprise and lifestyles. At the same time, the global market for high-value biochemicals and bioplastics from forest and agricultural sources is rapidly increasing, which presents new opportunities for forest and agricultural sectors. The overall aim of BHIVE is to illuminate uncharted regions of genome and metagenome sequences to discover entirely new protein families that can be used to sustainably synthesize novel, high-value biomaterials from renewable plant resources. The approach will include three parallel research thrusts: 1) strategic analysis of transcriptome and metagenome sequences to identify proteins with entirely unknown function relevant to biomass (lignocellulose) transformation, 2) mapping of uncharted regions within phylogenetic trees of poorly characterized enzyme families with recognized potential to modify the chemistry and biophysical properties of plant polysaccharides, and 3) the design and development of novel enzyme screens to directly address the increasing limitations of existing assays to uncover entirely new protein functions. BHIVE will be unique in its undivided focus on characterizing lignocellulose-active proteins encoded by the 30-40% of un-annotated sequence, or genomic “dark matter”, typical of nearly all genome sequences. In this way, BHIVE tackles a key constraint to fully realizing the societal and environmental benefits of the genomics era.
Recent advances in systems-level study of cells and organisms have revealed the enormous potential to live more sustainably through better use of biological processes. Plants sustainably synthesize the most abundant and diverse materials on Earth. By applying recent advances in life science technology, we can better harness renewable plant resources and bioconversion processes, to develop environmentally and politically sustainable human enterprise and lifestyles. At the same time, the global market for high-value biochemicals and bioplastics from forest and agricultural sources is rapidly increasing, which presents new opportunities for forest and agricultural sectors. The overall aim of BHIVE is to illuminate uncharted regions of genome and metagenome sequences to discover entirely new protein families that can be used to sustainably synthesize novel, high-value biomaterials from renewable plant resources. The approach will include three parallel research thrusts: 1) strategic analysis of transcriptome and metagenome sequences to identify proteins with entirely unknown function relevant to biomass (lignocellulose) transformation, 2) mapping of uncharted regions within phylogenetic trees of poorly characterized enzyme families with recognized potential to modify the chemistry and biophysical properties of plant polysaccharides, and 3) the design and development of novel enzyme screens to directly address the increasing limitations of existing assays to uncover entirely new protein functions. BHIVE will be unique in its undivided focus on characterizing lignocellulose-active proteins encoded by the 30-40% of un-annotated sequence, or genomic “dark matter”, typical of nearly all genome sequences. In this way, BHIVE tackles a key constraint to fully realizing the societal and environmental benefits of the genomics era.
Project acronym CIVILWARS
Project Social Dynamics of Civil Wars
Researcher (PI) Gilles DORRONSORO
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE PARIS I PANTHEON-SORBONNE
Summary Each year, civil wars cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, ecological disruptions, regional instability. These conflicts encompass many players and their effects are felt not only at the regional level but also within Western societies (refugees, terrorism, sectarian tensions). Despite this, no systematic comparison of civil wars have been conducted using a qualitative method. Social scientists are struggling to understand these breakdowns of the social order, which are fertile from a theoretical perspective because they de-trivialize the social functioning. In civil war, the partial or total institutional collapse marks the end of the (imperfect) monopoly of the state with regards to violence and justice, challenges the social and ethnic hierarchies and also provokes fluctuation of the economic and social capital. Accordingly, we will address three questions. First, the sudden and non-anticipated reconfiguration of modes of accumulation and conversion of capitals and the relationship between social fields. Next, the formation of competing institutions by politico-military movements involved in the construction of an alternative political order. Finally, individual adaptations to risks and uncertainty affecting the ability of actors to anticipate the consequences of their actions and reassess their own values and engagement. The implementation of this program of comparative sociology of civil wars will draw on extensive fieldwork. This requires an adapted methodology for researchers faced with unpredictable situations, where quantitative methods fall short. Prosopography, semi- or unstructured interviews and participant observation are therefore prioritised. The creation of an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists will be able to carry out research based on thick description, following 25 years of experience by the PI in collecting data and supervising researchers in areas afflicted by civi
Each year, civil wars cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, ecological disruptions, regional instability. These conflicts encompass many players and their effects are felt not only at the regional level but also within Western societies (refugees, terrorism, sectarian tensions). Despite this, no systematic comparison of civil wars have been conducted using a qualitative method. Social scientists are struggling to understand these breakdowns of the social order, which are fertile from a theoretical perspective because they de-trivialize the social functioning. In civil war, the partial or total institutional collapse marks the end of the (imperfect) monopoly of the state with regards to violence and justice, challenges the social and ethnic hierarchies and also provokes fluctuation of the economic and social capital. Accordingly, we will address three questions. First, the sudden and non-anticipated reconfiguration of modes of accumulation and conversion of capitals and the relationship between social fields. Next, the formation of competing institutions by politico-military movements involved in the construction of an alternative political order. Finally, individual adaptations to risks and uncertainty affecting the ability of actors to anticipate the consequences of their actions and reassess their own values and engagement. The implementation of this program of comparative sociology of civil wars will draw on extensive fieldwork. This requires an adapted methodology for researchers faced with unpredictable situations, where quantitative methods fall short. Prosopography, semi- or unstructured interviews and participant observation are therefore prioritised. The creation of an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists will be able to carry out research based on thick description, following 25 years of experience by the PI in collecting data and supervising researchers in areas afflicted by civi
Project acronym COSMO-CLIMATE
Project Methodological Cosmopolitanism - In the Laboratory of Climate Change
Researcher (PI) Ulrich Wilhelm Beck
Summary Climate change, framed in social scientific terms, offers a causal and moral narrative which connects, for example, users of electric toothbrushes in the USA and couples quarrelling about habits of consumption in Europe and Japan, with representatives disputing about a post-Kyoto agreement at global climate conferences, all the way to victims of flooding and draught events in Australia, China, India and Bangladesh. Even climate sceptics react to and thereby affirm the dominance of such a climate narrative. This coercive inclusion of the excluded ‘distant other’ is what I define as the social scientific fact of ‘cosmopolitization’ – in distinction from ‘cosmopolitanism’ as a philosophical norm. By taking climate change as a comprehensive case study experiment, this research project aims at reinventing the social sciences for the ‘age of cosmopolitization’. The ground-breaking nature of the project is to advance the present state of debate by validating the new theoretical, methodological and empirical tools needed for such a ‘cosmopolitan turn’. Since their inception in the late 19th century, the social sciences remain caught in a resilient methodological nationalism bound up with the presupposition that the national-territorial remains the primary container for the analysis of social, economic, political and cultural processes. Methodological nationalism is built into the basic concepts of modern sociology and political science, as well as into routines of data collection and analysis. Building on my previous work on methodological cosmopolitanism, this project undertakes a full-scale cosmopolitan case study of climate change, thereby rendering operative a new mode of transnational research cooperation, data generation, and theory validation.
Climate change, framed in social scientific terms, offers a causal and moral narrative which connects, for example, users of electric toothbrushes in the USA and couples quarrelling about habits of consumption in Europe and Japan, with representatives disputing about a post-Kyoto agreement at global climate conferences, all the way to victims of flooding and draught events in Australia, China, India and Bangladesh. Even climate sceptics react to and thereby affirm the dominance of such a climate narrative. This coercive inclusion of the excluded ‘distant other’ is what I define as the social scientific fact of ‘cosmopolitization’ – in distinction from ‘cosmopolitanism’ as a philosophical norm. By taking climate change as a comprehensive case study experiment, this research project aims at reinventing the social sciences for the ‘age of cosmopolitization’. The ground-breaking nature of the project is to advance the present state of debate by validating the new theoretical, methodological and empirical tools needed for such a ‘cosmopolitan turn’. Since their inception in the late 19th century, the social sciences remain caught in a resilient methodological nationalism bound up with the presupposition that the national-territorial remains the primary container for the analysis of social, economic, political and cultural processes. Methodological nationalism is built into the basic concepts of modern sociology and political science, as well as into routines of data collection and analysis. Building on my previous work on methodological cosmopolitanism, this project undertakes a full-scale cosmopolitan case study of climate change, thereby rendering operative a new mode of transnational research cooperation, data generation, and theory validation.
Project acronym CUMTAS
Project Customized Micro Total Analysis Systems to Study Human Phase I Metabolism
Researcher (PI) Tiina Marjukka Sikanen
Summary The goal of this project is to develop inexpensive, high-throughput technology to screen the thus far unexplored metabolic interactions between environmental and household chemicals and clinically relevant drugs. The main influential focus will be on human phase I metabolism (redox reactions) of common toxicants like agrochemicals and plasticizers. On the basis of their structural resemblance to pharmaceuticals and endogenous compounds, many of these chemicals are suspected to have critical effects on cytochrome P450 metabolism which is the main detoxification route of pharmaceuticals in man. However, with the current analytical instrumentation, screening of such large chemical pool would take several years, and new chemicals would be introduced faster than the old ones are screened. Thus, the main technological goal of this project is to develop novel, practically zero-cost analytical instruments that enable characterization of a compound’s metabolic profile at very high speed (<1 min/sample). This goal is achieved through miniaturization and high degree of integration of analytical instrumentation by microfabrication means, an approach often called lab(oratory)-on-a-chip. The microfabricated arrays are envisioned to incorporate all analytical key functions required (i.e., sample pretreatment, metabolic reaction, separation of the reaction products, detection) on a single chip. Thanks to the reduced dimensions, the amount of chemical waste and consumption of expensive reagents are significantly reduced. In this project, several different microfabrication techniques, from delicate cleanroom processes to extremely simple printing techniques, will be exploited to produce smart microfluidic designs and multifunctional surfaces. Towards the end of the project, more focus will be put on “printable microfluidics” which provides a truly low-cost approach for fabrication of highly customized microfluidic assays. Numerical modelling is also an integral part of the work.
The goal of this project is to develop inexpensive, high-throughput technology to screen the thus far unexplored metabolic interactions between environmental and household chemicals and clinically relevant drugs. The main influential focus will be on human phase I metabolism (redox reactions) of common toxicants like agrochemicals and plasticizers. On the basis of their structural resemblance to pharmaceuticals and endogenous compounds, many of these chemicals are suspected to have critical effects on cytochrome P450 metabolism which is the main detoxification route of pharmaceuticals in man. However, with the current analytical instrumentation, screening of such large chemical pool would take several years, and new chemicals would be introduced faster than the old ones are screened. Thus, the main technological goal of this project is to develop novel, practically zero-cost analytical instruments that enable characterization of a compound’s metabolic profile at very high speed (<1 min/sample). This goal is achieved through miniaturization and high degree of integration of analytical instrumentation by microfabrication means, an approach often called lab(oratory)-on-a-chip. The microfabricated arrays are envisioned to incorporate all analytical key functions required (i.e., sample pretreatment, metabolic reaction, separation of the reaction products, detection) on a single chip. Thanks to the reduced dimensions, the amount of chemical waste and consumption of expensive reagents are significantly reduced. In this project, several different microfabrication techniques, from delicate cleanroom processes to extremely simple printing techniques, will be exploited to produce smart microfluidic designs and multifunctional surfaces. Towards the end of the project, more focus will be put on “printable microfluidics” which provides a truly low-cost approach for fabrication of highly customized microfluidic assays. Numerical modelling is also an integral part of the work.
Project acronym CUSTOM-SENSE
Project Custom-made biosensors – Accelerating the transition to a bio-based economy
Researcher (PI) Jan Marienhagen
Host Institution (HI) FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH
Summary How will we meet the globally growing demand for pharmaceutically active compounds, nutrients and fine chemicals when crude oil resources are dwindling? For decades, biotechnologists have been engineering microorganisms to produce valuable compounds from sugar and biomass. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the host cell metabolism as well as long and laborious development times render this approach challenging to this day. I want to establish a platform to engineer transcriptional biosensors for the intracellular detection of heterologous compounds in single cells. The application of these sensors in combination with flow cytometry and next-generation sequencing will enable high-throughput engineering of microorganisms at the single-cell level with unprecedented speed and simplicity. In the field of biotechnology, this new technology will be a powerful tool for the (i) accelerated directed evolution of genes and pathways in vivo, (ii) functional integration of heterologous genes or whole synthetic pathways into the metabolism of microorganisms for the production of small valuable metabolites, (iii) genome engineering of industrially relevant microorganisms and (iv) adaptation of production strains to process conditions. Furthermore, during CUSTOM-SENSE, biosensors will also prove to be a valuable tool to answer questions in basic science because they will help to elucidate the function of unknown genes and aid the discovery of novel and unexpected functional links in cellular metabolism. I am in an exclusive position to pursue this goal of developing an engineering platform for custom-made biosensors due to the previous invention of biosensors at IBG-1. The starting grant would allow me to compete with Patrick D. Cirino (University of Houston, USA), who is working on a similar approach, and Christina D. Smolke (Stanford University/Caltech, USA), who is focusing on RNA devices for metabolite detection.
How will we meet the globally growing demand for pharmaceutically active compounds, nutrients and fine chemicals when crude oil resources are dwindling? For decades, biotechnologists have been engineering microorganisms to produce valuable compounds from sugar and biomass. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the host cell metabolism as well as long and laborious development times render this approach challenging to this day. I want to establish a platform to engineer transcriptional biosensors for the intracellular detection of heterologous compounds in single cells. The application of these sensors in combination with flow cytometry and next-generation sequencing will enable high-throughput engineering of microorganisms at the single-cell level with unprecedented speed and simplicity. In the field of biotechnology, this new technology will be a powerful tool for the (i) accelerated directed evolution of genes and pathways in vivo, (ii) functional integration of heterologous genes or whole synthetic pathways into the metabolism of microorganisms for the production of small valuable metabolites, (iii) genome engineering of industrially relevant microorganisms and (iv) adaptation of production strains to process conditions. Furthermore, during CUSTOM-SENSE, biosensors will also prove to be a valuable tool to answer questions in basic science because they will help to elucidate the function of unknown genes and aid the discovery of novel and unexpected functional links in cellular metabolism. I am in an exclusive position to pursue this goal of developing an engineering platform for custom-made biosensors due to the previous invention of biosensors at IBG-1. The starting grant would allow me to compete with Patrick D. Cirino (University of Houston, USA), who is working on a similar approach, and Christina D. Smolke (Stanford University/Caltech, USA), who is focusing on RNA devices for metabolite detection.
Project acronym DeCoCt
Project Knowledge based design of complex synthetic microbial communities for plant protection
Researcher (PI) Eric Kemen
Host Institution (HI) EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN
Summary "Complex microbial communities (""microbiota"") that populate surfaces of higher organisms critically impact health of their hosts: They contribute to vital functions such as host fitness, nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance and pathogen resistance but are, at the same time, reservoirs for facultative pathogens or can promote pathogenesis. How and why communities shift from a beneficial to a detrimental state is largely unknown and we are far from utilizing identified mechanisms. In order to cure detrimental microbiota, that were damaged or reverted through stress factors including previous diseases, decoding the complex processes governing microbiota dynamics is a key challenge. To develop durable probiotics, communal stability or the ability of a community to return to a steady state following perturbation is a key factor. Our lab has broad expertise in studying microbial communities through lab experiments and analyzing factors that shape the microbiota of Arabidopsis thaliana plants under natural conditions and common garden experiments. We have discovered a hierarchical order in microbial community networks with hub microbes as key elements. A recent breakthrough was the discovery of microbial taxa that persist throughout the life of A. thaliana plants and their importance in network stability. In this project we will use our expertise to identify key stability factors and drivers of communal dynamics to reconstitute synthetic communities. How to seed microbial communities that develop into functional probiotics is a key challenge. We will use knowledge based assembly of complex communities to seeds protective microbiota. We will challenge those through pathogens and abiotic factors to refine and test the predictive power of our analyses. Therefore, DeCoCt represents a highly innovative approach that holds the potential to gain novel insights beyond the current scope of microbiota and probiotics research."
"Complex microbial communities (""microbiota"") that populate surfaces of higher organisms critically impact health of their hosts: They contribute to vital functions such as host fitness, nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance and pathogen resistance but are, at the same time, reservoirs for facultative pathogens or can promote pathogenesis. How and why communities shift from a beneficial to a detrimental state is largely unknown and we are far from utilizing identified mechanisms. In order to cure detrimental microbiota, that were damaged or reverted through stress factors including previous diseases, decoding the complex processes governing microbiota dynamics is a key challenge. To develop durable probiotics, communal stability or the ability of a community to return to a steady state following perturbation is a key factor. Our lab has broad expertise in studying microbial communities through lab experiments and analyzing factors that shape the microbiota of Arabidopsis thaliana plants under natural conditions and common garden experiments. We have discovered a hierarchical order in microbial community networks with hub microbes as key elements. A recent breakthrough was the discovery of microbial taxa that persist throughout the life of A. thaliana plants and their importance in network stability. In this project we will use our expertise to identify key stability factors and drivers of communal dynamics to reconstitute synthetic communities. How to seed microbial communities that develop into functional probiotics is a key challenge. We will use knowledge based assembly of complex communities to seeds protective microbiota. We will challenge those through pathogens and abiotic factors to refine and test the predictive power of our analyses. Therefore, DeCoCt represents a highly innovative approach that holds the potential to gain novel insights beyond the current scope of microbiota and probiotics research."
Project acronym DELPOWIO
Project Delegation of Power to International Organizations and Institutional Empowerment over Time
Researcher (PI) Eugenia Viana Da Conceicao Heldt
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Summary In recent decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of international Organizations (IOs). At varying levels states have surrendered some authority to IOs, giving them different levels of institutional empowerment. While in the EU, IMF and World Bank there has been a steadily extension of their competences, in the GATT/WTO-Secretariat, NATO and WHO the degree of delegated authority has remained constant. How can we explain these different degrees of authority granted to IOs and their evolution over time? We argue that institutional empowerment is a function of temporal dynamics, the degree of cohesion among principals, and the institutional design of the delegation contract. On the theoretical side, the aim of the proposed interdisciplinary project is to produce theory-driven knowledge by developing a model of power delegation to IOs that integrates a temporal dimension into the principal-agent approach. This will be done by resorting to four different disciplines: political science, economics, law, and organizational sociology. On the empirical side, the main novelty of the project consists in adopting a comparative research design and a longitudinal perspective. We will analyse the institutional empowerment of six different IOs (EC/EU, GATT/WTO, IMF, WHO, UNESCO, and World Bank) over a period of 65 years (1950-2015). Given the aim and scope of this research, the project is to be regarded as theory-building and hypothesis-testing research. It will be based on extensive qualitative work conducted in the archives of these four IOs as well as on elite interviews with national and international officials. With this project we will gain new insights into the following fields: consequences of power delegation to IOs; temporal dimension of the interaction between states and IOs; preference formation of states; comparison of different types of IOs. This will allow us to answer the broader and more general question of the conditions under which IOs can operate as independent actors in world politics and to advance theoretical insights and empirical research in International Relations.
In recent decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of international Organizations (IOs). At varying levels states have surrendered some authority to IOs, giving them different levels of institutional empowerment. While in the EU, IMF and World Bank there has been a steadily extension of their competences, in the GATT/WTO-Secretariat, NATO and WHO the degree of delegated authority has remained constant. How can we explain these different degrees of authority granted to IOs and their evolution over time? We argue that institutional empowerment is a function of temporal dynamics, the degree of cohesion among principals, and the institutional design of the delegation contract. On the theoretical side, the aim of the proposed interdisciplinary project is to produce theory-driven knowledge by developing a model of power delegation to IOs that integrates a temporal dimension into the principal-agent approach. This will be done by resorting to four different disciplines: political science, economics, law, and organizational sociology. On the empirical side, the main novelty of the project consists in adopting a comparative research design and a longitudinal perspective. We will analyse the institutional empowerment of six different IOs (EC/EU, GATT/WTO, IMF, WHO, UNESCO, and World Bank) over a period of 65 years (1950-2015). Given the aim and scope of this research, the project is to be regarded as theory-building and hypothesis-testing research. It will be based on extensive qualitative work conducted in the archives of these four IOs as well as on elite interviews with national and international officials. With this project we will gain new insights into the following fields: consequences of power delegation to IOs; temporal dimension of the interaction between states and IOs; preference formation of states; comparison of different types of IOs. This will allow us to answer the broader and more general question of the conditions under which IOs can operate as independent actors in world politics and to advance theoretical insights and empirical research in International Relations.
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Tonga holds state funeral for climate change campaigner PM
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FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Samiuela Akilisi Pohiva of Tonga addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York September 26, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Ornitz/File Photo
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Tonga observed a day of national mourning on Thursday for the state funeral of Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva, known as a pro-democracy and climate change campaigner in the South Pacific.
Pohiva, 78, died last Thursday in a New Zealand hospital to which he had been admitted with pneumonia, after being diagnosed this year with a liver complication.
People lined the streets of the capital city, Nuku’alofa, to bid Pohiva farewell, while members of the Tongan royal family and regional dignitaries attended the funeral, New Zealand’s state broadcaster TVNZ said.
Pohiva’s political career was marked by constant battles against the monarchy of Tonga, where he was the longest-serving member of parliament since first being elected in 1987.
Outspoken about climate change, Pohiva urged world leaders to help island nations, some of which are battling rising sea levels. He also flagged concern about the mounting Chinese debt in the South Pacific.
Tonga is heavily indebted to China, with more than 60% of its external debt owed to Beijing through bilateral loans, its 2019-20 budget showed.
After Pohiva’s death, his deputy, Semisi Sika, has taken over as acting prime minister.
(Reporting by Praveen Menon; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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An Dương Vương
An Dương Vương (Hán Việt: ; literally "Peaceful Sun King") is the ruling title of Thục Phán (), who presided over the ancient kingdom of Âu Lạc as its only Thục Dynasty monarch from 257 to 207 BCE, after defeating the state of Văn Lang and uniting the two tribes of Âu Việt and Lạc Việt. His longevity, said to have been approximately 100 years, is quite disputed.
According to Chinese historical records, Thục Phán was a prince of the Chinese state of Shu, sent by his father first to explore the southern Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan and second to move their people to modern day northern Vietnam during the invasion of the Qin Dynasty. However, modern Vietnamese scholars claim that "Thục Phán" was a native Austro-Asiatic name which meant "God of crossbow", and that he was an ancient Vietnamese.Fact|date=February 2008
Thục Phán apparently came upon the Âu Việt (甌越) territory (modern-day northernmost Vietnam, western Guangdong, and southern Guangxi province, with its capital in what is today the Cao Bang Province). [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=Jskyi00bspcC&pg=PA13&dq=%22au+viet%22+%22xi+ou%22&sig=ACfU3U27CLo28r4xTtw6Fn2QigI86SngQg] ] After assembling an army, he defeated King Hùng Vương (雄王) XVIII, the last ruler of the Hồng Bàng Dynasty, around 257 BCE. He proclaimed himself An Dương Vương (安陽王), "King An Dương". He then renamed his newly acquired state from Văn Lang to Âu Lạc (甌雒/甌駱) and established the new capital at Phong Khê in the present-day Phú Thọ Province in North Vietnam. Cổ Loa Thành (Co Loa Citadel), the spiral-shaped fortress/barricade which he also built, lies approximately ten miles north of that new capital.
Thục Phán and Âu Lạc’s Administration
There is not much recorded and or written about how the new Âu Lạc was administered and organized. Historians admit there are a lot of writings about other Vietnamese National dynasties such as the Lê, Lý, Trần, Hồ, etc. except for the period of 257 to 207 BCE, which was under his rule. Nonetheless, based on Thục Phán's accomplishments, he must have been an astute, clever, and significant figure. Certainly he was a talented general who knew how to exploit the confusion and turmoil in China during that period, not only to grab a piece of land for himself but also to secure his state's prosperity and survival. Around that same time, circa 260 - 250 BCE, when Thục Phán ascended to power, further north in China, various states are fighting each other to take control of China. Eventually, the Qin state rose to power and unified China under Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Upon Qin Shi Huang's ascension to the imperial throne, he descended into paranoia-fueled Legalist practices. Hoping to prevent potential civil unrests and rebellions, he ordered the burning of millions of books, other significant official documents from previously conquered warring states, and forced thousands of intellectual officials to be buried alive. Qin Shi Huang also ordered the beginning of the construction of the Great Wall, and around the same time, further south, An Dương Vương had begun the construction of a spiral-shaped fortress called Cổ Loa Thành to fend off future northern invasions and attacks.
The Legend of Cổ Loa Thành and the Magic Crossbow
Cổ Loa Thành and Âu Lạc
After Thục Phán defeated the last Hùng Vương King and ascended to the throne as An Dương Vương, he renamed Văn Lang to Âu Lạc and established Co Loa Citadel (古螺) as the new capital. He saw the strategic and geographic importance of Cổ Loa. On two of its sides, Co Loa was surrounded by impenetrable mountains and forests. There was also a river flowing by. No one knows why did An Dương Vương favored the spiral, shell-like shape of Cổ Loa Thành, but legend has it that its construction was extremely tough, and difficult to complete. Each time it seemed it was almost done, it was undone at night by a coalition of spirits which were thought to be allied to the son of a previous king.
The Legend of Cổ Loa and the Magic Crossbow
An Dương Vương burnt incense, prayed, made offerings, and evoked all the gods of those days to help him. One night, in a dream, a very, very old and venerable man with long, white hair came to him and told him the only person who could help him out of this conundrum was a golden turtle that lived somewhere around Cổ Loa.
A few days later, while wandering in a boat on the river and thinking about the meaning of his dream, a gigantic golden turtle appeared suddenly at the surface of the water. The golden turtle told An Dương Vương that he would need one of its claws in order to accomplish anything in his life. Pulling out one of its claws and throwing it to An Dương Vương, the turtle vanished.
An Dương Vương had Cao Lỗ, his weaponry engineer, build a crossbow incorporating this claw. It is said a single arrow shot from this crossbow of the Kim Qui (Golden Tortoise) could kill hundreds, even thousands of enemies. Indeed right after obtaining this claw, An Dương Vương saw his fortunes change. His capital started taking shape. His kingdom prospered and soon was coveted by neighboring states. Among one of those who coveted his territory was Zhao Tuo (Triệu Đà in Vietnamese), a Qin general under the reign of Qin Shi Huang and his successor. For a period of ten years around 217 to 207 BCE, Triệu Đà attempted many invasions to conquer Âu Lạc state, but failed each time due to An Dương Vương's military skills and defense tactics.
Triệu Đà's Scheme
Triệu Đà (趙佗), having been beaten several times, devised a new plan. Keeping to himself that it was just a temporary ploy to buy time, he negotiated a peace treaty with Âu Lạc (甌雒/甌駱) state. He set out to determine where lay the strength and strategies of his foe. He even went so far as to propose marriage between An Dương Vương’s daughter, Princess Mỵ Châu () and his son Trọng Thủy (). In time Triệu Đà found out through his daughter-in-law Mỵ Châu that An Dương Vương had a magic crossbow that made him almost invincible. In reality, the secret military technology of bronzed-cast arrows with some kind of fire-attachment invention by the Âu Lạc state was one of their famous arsenals that was used against the Qin armies and soundly defeated them on many occasions in the past. Eventually, when Triệu Đà figured out a new scheme to infiltrate the war arsenal secrets and military tactics of Âu Lạc was when he told his son Trọng Thủy to sneak into his father-in-law's armory and steal this "magic crossbow", replacing it with a fake. Triệu Đà, with the magic crossbow in his hands, launched a final, decisive attack on his foe and in-law An Dương Vương.
The loss of Cổ Loa and the Magic Crossbow
Miraculously enough, Cổ Loa fortress fell into Triệu Đà's hands. For An Dương Vương this was a major disaster. He grabbed Mỵ Châu, his only daughter, and fled the scene of the battle. Riding on his horse with Mỵ Châu behind him he called out in despair, “What happened to my crossbow? It does not work anymore! Why? Why?” At that very moment, the giant golden turtle An Dương Vương had not seen for years and years, suddenly reappeared in the river. He replied to An Dương Vương, “The person responsible for this disaster, the enemy you are looking for, is sitting right behind you, your majesty!”
An Dương Vương reined in his horse and confronted his daughter, who was in tears. Angered, feeling betrayed by his daughter and son-in-law, the king slew his daughter (in a popular version of the tale he beheaded her). Then he jumped into the river with the giant golden turtle. Some say he drowned himself; some say his faithful servant the golden turtle took him to the depths of the river.
Trọng Thủy, searching for his beloved wife, arrived a few minutes later at the scene. The body of his beloved wife was lying in a pool of blood and his father-in-law was nowhere to be seen. In accordance with conjugal fidelity and devotion, he drew his sword and killed himself as well, in order to be with his wife forever and eternity.
Having achieved the defeat of his rival, Triệu Đà annexed the newly conquered territory to his own, ascended to the throne, and proclaimed himself a new emperor, founding the Triệu Dynasty (207-111 BCE).
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Ilion is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 8,610 at the 2000 census. Ilion is a name for the ancient city of Troy.
The Village of Ilion is at the north town line of the Town of German Flatts. The Erie Canal is north of the village.
The area where Ilion is was first settled by Palatine Germans under the Burnetsfield Patent around 1725. Settlers first established residencies along Steeles Creek, which flows through the current village into the Mohawk River. Many mills were set up along the creek. After the American Revolution, a small community was set up in the area named New London. This area of the village still has buildings which use the name London.
The community began to flourish starting around 1816 when Eliphalet Remington created his first gun, which would later grow into the Remington Arms company. The community was even further advanced with the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.
In 1843 a post office was desired, so a name needed to be chosen. Remington rejected the use of his name as a name for the village, and it was eventually named Ilion. A popular, yet unverified rumor is that the application said "Illium", but due to a misspelling or bad penmanship was interpreted as "Ilion".
The Village of Ilion was incorporated in 1852.
chools
The Ilion Central School District is composed of three buildings: Remington Elementary, Barringer Road Elementary, and Ilion Jr/Sr High School. The athletic team's nickname is the Golden Bombers, the mascot is the Bomber Bear, and the school colors are gold and brown. For the 2005-2006 school year, total K-12 enrollment was 1673 students.
* [http://www.ilionny.com/ The Village of Ilion, NY] dead link|url=http://www.ilionny.com|date=June 2008
* [http://www.ilioncsd.org/ The Ilion Central School District]
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Samo’s Stirling – Grand Opening of Samo Stadium
08/05/2018 ~ Samo
Having successfully established Stirling as one of the best clubs in Scotland on the pitch, it was time to do this off the pitch too. We’d quickly outgrown our 3,808 capacity Forthbank home, we were unable to play our home European matches there (because home European matches are a thing now for the club!), and halfway through my seventh season in charge the board sanctioned a request to have a new stadium built. Just in time for the beginning of my ninth season in charge of Stirling, we’ll move into our brand spanking new 14k capacity home (you noticed the background image change, didn’t you?).
Nobody wants to be playing in the Stirling Albion Stadium. It’s uninspiring and the game needs to get better on things like this. So I went out and bought the in-game editor purely to change the name of our new stadium. Pure mad mental? Aye, probably. But fuck it. Welcome to the Samo Stadium.
It’s customary to open a new stadium with fanfare, fireworks and a fancy friendly match. You’ll have read what happened when I took my Stirling side to Argentina to face Bastardo’s Estudiantes side to celebrate the 75th anniversary of our club forming. Having kept in touch in the years since, including his recommendation to Walter Samuel to join as my new assistant manager last season, I felt it was only right to invite Bastardo’s bastards to Stirling to crack open the champagne bottle on the side of the Samo Stadium. Oh, and to play some football too of course.
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FMGrasshopper gave a perfect summary of Scotsmen, the Watson Hutton’s, and their influence on bringing football to Argentina. With Alexander being the founding father of the AFA, and also father to Arnold, who starred up front for the Albicelestes in the early 1900s. Being a keen student of football, I have of course read that copy of Angels with Dirty Faces that Bastardo kindly gifted to me when we locked horns previously so I’m well versed on the origins and history of Argentine football myself. Since Neil McBain left La Plata to return to Ayr in 1951, Scottish and Argentine football have only flirted with each other again on a couple of occasions.
In 1978, Scotland was on the march with Ally’s Army. Before they flew out to compete in Argentina the squad paraded around Hampden to bid farewell to fans, and thousands more lined the streets en route to the airport. Manager, Ally MacLeod, had declared that the squad, containing Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Joe Jordan and Archie Gemmill, would come home with a medal and they were classed as contenders by the likes of Rinus Michels. Royal Mail even designed and produced commemorative stamps!
Image from the BBC
Glorious failure ensued, as we’ve got used to by now. After gaining a solitary point from the first two group stage matches in Cordoba against Peru and Iran, Archie Gemmill served up one of the greatest moments in Scottish football history in Mendoza against the Netherlands. It secured a 3-2 win for us against the eventual tournament runners up, but we needed to win by three clear goals. Out we went on goal difference and MacLeod resigned later than year with his tale between his legs.
Fast forwarding to the late 1990s/early 2000s and we had an influx of Argentines joining Scottish football. Journeyman Italian, Ivano Bonetti, joined Dundee as player/manager and set about trying to establish them as challengers at the top end of Scottish football. Beto Carranza, Pascual Garrido, Walter del Río, Juan Sara, Fabián Caballero and Julián Speroni were joined by ex-Argentine World Cup star, Claudio Caniggia. Scorer of two goals at the 1994 World Cup, he only ended up being with the Dees for a short time but very quickly became a fans favourite. Remarkably after a move to Rangers, where he also became a hit with the fans, he was called up by Bielsa for Argentina’s squad for the 2002 World Cup. He didn’t end up making an appearance, but he’d certainly cemented himself as a cult hero amongst Scottish football fans.
That period of Scottish football was rife with clubs spending beyond their means, with Dundee eventually going into administration and getting relegated. Scottish football ahead of the 2025/26 season though is in rude health, with the opening of the Samo Stadium highlighting that. How would we fare against Bastardo this time round after our 4-2 defeat in La Plata previously?
A few years on and there’s still some survivors in the Stirling side. Ryan Porteous continues to captain the side, alongside LB Owen Hughes, Deep Lying Destroyer Aaron Bolger and star striker #Rog. Wonderkids, Ahmed el Sayed aka the Pharaoh and Edvin Horvat are accommodated in the same starting 11, with Horvat being pushed out left and homegrown Stirling lad, Cairnseh, dropping to the bench. Those of you with good memories will be happy to see that David Jablonsky is no longer at the club, with his horror show in La Plata signalling the end of his Stirling career. Similarly to that match in La Plata, I set out in the Samo 4-4-2. As I said back then, “we’ll set up in the way we like to play and see what happens.”
There would be no Lattanzio for Estudiantes this time round, who terrorised us with a hattrick in the last match, as he’d been given the boot by Bastardo. The dangermen to watch were promising young striker, Renzo Taborda, midfield controller, Raúl Rolón and the returning wide man, Fernando Zuqui.
Bastardo’s men were more than capable of dishing out another defeat against us here, and the opening minutes proved it.
An initial cross from the right hand side is dealt with, but that second ball isn’t closed down quick enough. Aparicio’s cross looks like it’s overhit and going out, but Jesus Medina is alert and somehow picks out Zuqui. Owen Hughes isn’t great in the air, and he’s easily beaten for Estudiantes’ opening goal after just two minutes and 17 seconds. A full 52 seconds before the opening Estudiantes goal in the previous match. Why don’t we start well against Bastardo’s men?
Things went from bad to worse in the eleventh minute. Ryan Porteous does well to deal with an incoming Medina corner, but the ball falls right to Reynoso’s feet.
Usually I see my players blasting it over the bar or wide of the post from these second ball wins on the edge of the box from a corner. Reynoso is given time (what is Aaron Bolger, #22, doing?) and space to do whatever he wants with it. His strong decision making attribute, coupled with excellent vision and passing sees him pick out Remedi, #7. With our zonal marking on defensive corners spectacularly failing here as six of my players in the box are nowhere near any of the opposing players, Remedi slots it easily past Robby McCrorie in goals. 2-0 Estudiantes.
We kick off, play a couple of passes in midfield before a slack one out left to Horvat from Bolger is pounced on by Zuqui. The away side play keep ball just inside our half, before Reynoso tries to find Zuqui with a lofted pass out right.
Hughes wins that aerial battle, but the loose ball falls to Remedi who finds Zuqui’s feet this time. Hughes doesn’t get tight or close down well enough, giving Zuqui time and space to cross. Taborda beats Nicholl to the ball in the box and hits the back of the net with a fine finish to make it three. It’s a shocking start to life in the Samo Stadium as we’re second to every ball and looking abject. That’s how the score stays until half time, with McCrorie tipping a fierce shot from Taborda onto the post in the only other chance of the half.
Remarkably, that’s how the score stayed for the remainder of the match. Stirling 0-3 Estudiantes. A (pretend, because we played on FMTouch) bollocking in the halftime teamtalk reminded the Stirling players that this was the grand opening of our new stadium, and we could do with not being embarrassed any further. The match was played in good spirits, but I couldn’t help feeling disappointed we couldn’t at least score for the newly increased capacity crowd of 14k that turned up. #Rog did have a glorious clear cut opening with 20minutes to go, but couldn’t find a way past Axel Werner in the Estudiantes goal. We’d have to put up a much better fight if we want to challenge at the top of the SPL again this season.
I shouldn’t have been surprised really, Bastardo hails from a country that is renowned for its tactical expertise and will to win. When he spoke to the waiting press after the match, he underlined this. “I envisaged possession to be an issue today, and perhaps needed to tone down our risk to ensure we keep the ball for longer periods. I told Reynoso not to play the ball so riskily, and asked Rolón to mark Stirling’s forward dropping into the hole tightly. I wanted to negate the threat of their two up top.”
“Remedi is a tough tackling midfielder and he was instructed to stick tight to Stirling’s Pharaoh. I didn’t know much about him prior to today, but had heard it was worth going in hard to keep him from threatening. Horvat’s quality is wasted out on the left hand side, plus he’s very one footed so I asked the players to show him onto his right. The game was won early on, but we shut it down completely with 10 minutes to go. Stirling, unfortunately for their fans, offered no threat today.” Brutal honesty from the Argentine, as per usual.
Scotland has struggled internationally, continentally and even domestically in recent times. We have been accused of not moving with the times, not progressing our game. The reintroduction of the SPL ahead of the 2017/18 along with restructuring the leagues and incorporating all of Scotland’s football clubs into one big pyramid attracted increased levels of income from sponsorship and television money. It gave our game the jolt it needed. My Stirling side might have been outfoxed and outplayed by Bastardo and his Estudiantes side twice now, but luckily for us these were only exhibition matches. Our aim is to compete domestically, to keep growing the club and the opening of the Samo Stadium is a huge part of that. Thanks to Bastardo for agreeing to travel to Scotland and play against us on this historic day for Stirling Albion. Hopefully they’ll actually be some Stirling goals for the 14k fans to cheer in the near future…
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MakeMusic Forum > Public Forums > Finale - Macintosh - FORUM HAS MOVED! > Feature or Bug? Forum Quick Jump
John Ruggero
Date Joined Mar 2000
When I adjust a beam using the beam angle tool and the secondary beam angle tool in Finale 2014, the original beam position remains visible while the adjustment takes place. (I found the phenomenon difficult to describe, so I hope I have done it successfully. If not, a simple trial will demonstrate.)
I wonder if this is intended to be a helpful feature, or is it a bug? In case, it is a feature, can it be turned off? I find that it makes fine beam adjustments more difficult as the two beams merge into a black mess.
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Try it at a different magnification.
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It is the same in all the zoom percentages I tried, Mike.
I have attached an example what I see, AS I adjust the beam.
It is not like this in Finale 2011. There is only the adjusted beam visible, not the original position as well.
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Feature or Bug.pdf 14KB (application/pdf)
This file has been downloaded 227 time(s).
I don't know what else to suggest. You might have to boot that one to tech support.
mknoll
I think this change was made in 2012. I too wish that the earlier behavior would return for exactly the reason you state--for making precise adjustments.
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Zuill
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Posted 8/6/2015 10:43 PM (GMT -6)
What is then done to get rid of the residual beam?
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It should help to use the arrow keys to nudge the beams instead of using the mouse to drag them. The screen will redraw immediately and you shouldn't get ghost images. With today's faster processors, it shouldn't be any slower to use the arrow keys and it can be more accurate.
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Thanks Vaughan, that was the solution. Arrow keys and no more "residual beam", as Zuill termed it.
So is this a bug or a feature?
If this is a ghost image (bug), why is it happening only with these tools? And why didn't it happen in Finale 2011?
Actually, I believe I have seen it happen with dynamics at times. What is going on?
Posted 8/7/2015 10:07 AM (GMT -6)
I doubt if it's a feature. MM has tried to increase speed and screen redraw functions and this may be a result. There's still a lot of old code digging its heels in. Fortunately it's not too difficult to get used to using the arrow keys, nor does it interfere with one's workflow.
That seems like a reasonable explanation, Vaughan. Thanks.
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This must be some issue with the Mac--the Windows version works as expected.
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Looks more and more like a bug. I am glad that someone at MM didn't think that this behavior was helpful.
silly bear
It's a redraw issue. If you're making precision edits, I don't think it makes any sense to use a mouse in the first place, though.
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Vaughan said...
…Fortunately it's not too difficult to get used to using the arrow keys, nor does it interfere with one's workflow.
Flint said...
…If you're making precision edits, I don't think it makes any sense to use a mouse in the first place, though.
For what it is worth, I always use the arrow keys while monitoring the precise beam coordinates in the Message Bar.
Often I need to nudge up/down by precisely one scale step (= 3 Points).
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Flint, I just tested myself and according to the Beam adjustment coordinates at the bottom of the window, I am just as precise by mouse as with the arrow keys; and I am a lot faster by mouse than with the arrow keys. So I would prefer that the program work correctly but will have to put up with the work-around when making fine adjustments. For other beam adjustments, I will continue to adjust by mouse.
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Cobalt60
his analogy was totally different -- I didn't quote him at all, I just used the same candy.
read the thread again.
Vicarious_Fan
Cobalt60 said:
right... anyhow still waiting for you to show a quote that says they cast Jon Boyega because he is black.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/03/jj-abrams-bad-robot-diversity-quota-oscarssowhite
"JJ Abrams has signalled his ongoing efforts to help improve Hollywood diversity after instituting a new policy to ensure people of colour and women always make the final shortlists for openings at his production company Bad Robot."
^^ behold: the ongoing & historic "sorting" of humans , a common practice for over 10.000 years (with NO END in sight).
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"why do I care"?
because I have bi-racial children so the ongoing and historic "sorting" of humans is both disgusting and dangerous to me, on a PERSONAL level.
I have a personal stake in the future of "human sorting". do you?
ok... so still waiting for the quote that says John Boyaga was hired because of his race and not his acting ability. The story you linked and quote you posted say nothing to that sort.
Your quote says people applying for jobs at his production company not for casting in the new Star Wars.
So if you have bi racial kids why are you looking at skin color?
I never mentioned Jon Boyega. you did. read the thread again.
you are saying KK is waging a war of black v white by purposely hiring people of color. So John wasn't one of them then who was?
Who specifically was hired because of their race like you claim.
you can probably figure that out for yourself.
I'm "saying", (as I said already), that KK is concerned with "creating" diversity by way of "one of each color".
KK believes 'humans need sorting' -- (a racist practice that has been ONGOING for over 10,000 years, with NO END in sight).
--> she is perpetrating an ancient myth that has been DEBUNKED by science -- the myth that "humans need sorting".
no I can't because of the 3 leads in TFA only 2 of them are of color one of them a young actor from a critically aclaimed indie film and Oscar Issac who is criticially acclaimed actor who has been nominated for numorous awards prior to SW.
Are you claiming Oscar Isaacs was only hired becasue of his skin color and not his acting tallent?
yeah. I guess we're done here. good effort man. kudos for trying!
concession accepted. I 'm glad I could prove that your claim KK and the new SW movies are doing a black v white thing is completely utterly stupid.
because otherwise it would be REALLY easy to point out who in the TFA cast was hired because of their skin color
self delusion is a wonderful thing. you keep at it. cheers!
(the only way for me to answer you , would be to repeat myself.
--> go back and read the thread again.
you'll get it eventually. or not).
real simple here kid, you claimed that
even KK's predictable "white v black" and "man v woman" rhetoric is all just part of a marketing ploy. don't be fooled.
and I asked you what white v black and you came up with hiring pracitces.
Then you couldn't tell me who in TFA was hired because of color.
Oh also this little gem.
yeah, regardless of what one thinks of Harry Potter on the whole, I kind of like JK.Rowling's "no ****s given" attitude when it comes to political correctness.
So how does JK Rowling's casting of a black woman for Hermione in the stage play fit into your theory?
JK is colorblind. you're not.
good for her. bad for you.
haha so by JK Rowling doing the most PC thing one could possibly do, you consider it not being PC. But you can't even answer who in TFA was hired because of their race.
this is bad even for you.
good try trolling. Concession accepted.
(the only way for me to answer you , would be to "repeat myself".
do you want me to quote where you specifically stated the black v white was because of the casting by the director? or where you tried to stealth edit?
end of solo: tank is full. rebellion has "hyper fuel".
end of 8: tank is empty. rebellion runs out of "hyper fuel".
do I think the actual physical gasoline in my vintage mustang,
is the same actual physical gasoline that I pumped into it when I bought the car?
do I think it's the same "MacGuffin", being used by 2 movies, released back-to-back?
in a failed attempt to connect them?
I only called it a "lame" attempt at world building.
but silly me, I'm arguing with someone who did NOT notice that these 2 "plot points" from the same franchise were actually intended to "rhyme" with each other.
(it's just a random coincidence that 2 SW movies, released back-to-back, share the same MacGuffin).
(yeah. that's a very... "intelligent" analysis.. you keep it up. good job. you're not a "moron" at all).
so... first off fuel is only the mcguffin in one movie Solo. In TLJ Fuel is the ticking clock. So it seems like you don't really know what a mcguffin is.
A Mcguffin or Macguffin is an item used to advance the plot usually in the form of something the protagonist desires ie the Maltise Falcon.
In TLJ the Mcguffin isn't the fuel they aren't trying to get more fuel, they are trying to escape the FO. I mean you could say its the secret rebel base but that isn't reviled till the third act. I would say TLJ doesn't have a Mcguffin (not all movies have one)
It does have a ticking clock, a plot device that moves the plot forward by giving a time limit in which the protaginist must complete their task before time runs out.
Now on to your statements on how White V Black is about racial casting in TFA.
I already told you. it's in the casting decisions which are based on creating a diversity model, "one of each color", like so many skittles.
as explained, this practice is rooted in the fundamental idea that "colors" are not equal.
So there you are saying the director had race based casting decisions.
Then you link to as your proof JJ Abrams interviewing more people of color for jobs at his production company.
Inferring that JJ Abrams did race based casting.
So I ask again who in TFA was cast based on their skin color.
now I know you are just going to reply with "reread the thread" but that's because someone finally called you out on your racist BS. So i'm just happy that you let me go this far and you trapped yourself into a corner.
Have a good night.
BoneFett
Vicarious_Fan said:
Wow talk about projecting!
CellBlock1138
Also show me proof that they only hired Jon Boyega because he is black.
Nobody is ever going to find the smoking gun you require. But, I think it's pretty safe to say (not to mention honest) that Boyega and Ridley were hired because a large consideration was placed on their skin colour and sex respectively, in an attempt to "right" a (non-existent) "wrong" of previous Star Wars films.
I know right? his only defense was to claim KK's rainbow agenda doesn't exist at all in the first place. he wants me to tell him again what I mean by "sorting".
I suppose I could copy/paste huge blocks of text over and over again. but it's really just easier if he goes back and reads it again.
I think the biggest problem is, he doesn't feel the act of "sorting humans" is wrong because he does it himself on a daily basis as part of his latent thought process.
he thinks Racist "sorting" just a normal thing that everybody does. like 'breathing'. he finds it perfectly acceptable. (so argue THAT point then LOL).
but to claim its not happening in the first place (in the wake of KK's blathering on about 'diversity' for 4 years running) is "intellectual dishonesty"
it's like telling someone the sun rises in the east , and he says "..that's not the sun. the sun doesn't exist. if you can't prove that's the sun up there, then you've painted yourself into a corner".
(I've actually painted the whole room twice. there's really just nothing left to say).
at this point the only course of action is to 'disengage' and walk away. (and go hang out on an island drinking blue milk from a sea cow).
it's not a concession of victory :whistling: (apparently someone didn't see TLJ) :whistling: LOL
CellBlock1138 said:
It's not a smoking gun it's just asking him to provide any evidence of his wild claim that the actors in TFA were hired based on race and not talent.
Which is a really hard thing to do since John Boyega was nomintated for several awards prior to TFA.
But of course if Race and gender don't matter at all as Cobalt is claiming then his entire argument is bunk. In reality he is just a concern troll.
he thinks Racist "sorting" just a normal thing that everybody does. like 'breathing'. he finds it perfectly acceptable. (so say THAT then LOL).
no i understand what you are saying even though by saying it proves you don't actually believe it since if you truly believe that race and gender don't mater you wouldn't be complaining about race or gender.
I'm asking you to provide PROOF of your claims. You claim that people in TFA were only hired to meet quotas and not because of their talent. So provide proof to back it up.
It's extremely simple. You make a claim you back it up with evidence.
HothHan
I don't see the issue with trying to be inclusive of all people when casting for movies as long it makes sense and doesn't take anyway from the actual story. If Finn was white or an alien species or a whatever would it change anything about his character arc? I don't think so. So if that character being portrayed by an black male diversifies the cast I'm all for it. Sure there is the historical atrocities that we have to allude to that black people were once taken from their homeland against their will and enslaved...and yes that parallels with the Finn/First Order story. I don't think it defines the character. Finn is my favorite character from the sequels.
I have no opinion one way for the other on Rey. The primary protagonist is a woman - not the first time, not the last...I really don't care. I remember being a bit taken back, and even saying it here, when I saw the primary protagonist for Rogue One was also a woman. Not that it was a bad thing. In my head I always pictured that story being lead by a male. It turned out that Rogue One was a great Star Wars movie (one of my favorites) and Jyn is a fine addition to the canon.
Now...Rose. Rose bothers me. The character served no purpose and the fact that were constantly told from the day she was cast that this was the "first minority female lead" in a Star Wars movies over and over and over again got annoying real quick. Rose is a check mark and it was blatant. Any female minorities that see Rose as empowering or breaking down some kind of wall are delusional.
I'm sure my words here will be twisted and turned into being racist, misogynistic etc etc but that is par for the course with the members who post regularly int this thread.
That's the thing. It's not a "wild claim" at all. It's a perfectly rational one and, I think a valid one too. For years, it's been the claim of certain quarters that a "problem" with Star Wars was was a lack of black actors and that Leia was the "only woman" in the galaxy. Ffs, Lando was written and cast purely because of the "no blacks" criticisms levelled at George originally.
It's nowhere near a leap to understand that, given the current cultural zeitgeist, that Disney's new characters were going to be a "person of colour" and a female, first and foremost, above all else. This is also compounded by the fact that their actual characters are so poorly written too. They started out as a skin colour and a gender, but somebody forgot that good characters need good writing and stories too.
I know right? his only defense was to claim KK's rainbow agenda doesn't exist at all in the first place.
Well, I don't know if Kathleen Kennedy has any "agenda" beyond more revenue and a wider business acumen. I don't truly believe that she's some sort of SJW ( I hate that term) queen that's trying to force diversity and ruin Star Wars for white blokes, or to force some sort of racial profiling or tension. I can't see that. To me, her "agenda" is about more diverse sounding cash registers, bolstered with non-white and non-male money. I don't think her aim is anything beyond that. Which, to me, is even more lamentable. At least if she was trying to open up Star Wars to a wider audience for racial and gender reasons, that would be a principled approach. As opposed to just a "more money" approach.
At the end of the day though, I think it's obvious that Disney's Star Wars has had a "quota" bolted onto it, in a way that never existed before. It's very clear that they are trying to open up a large female market place, and they sure want all of that lovely Chinese money too. Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen weren't cast simply because they were good actors that just happened to be from China.
Ok then perhaps you can answer this since Colbilt can't.
Who in TFA was hired just because of their skin color.
HothHan said:
I don't see the issue with trying to be inclusive of all people when casting for movies as long it makes sense and doesn't take anyway from the actual story.
There's nowt wrong with it all. But, it should happen as a matter of course. Not as a matter of a quota to be filled. Forcing something like that never works, because you're only forcing at a base level.
If Finn was white or an alien species or a whatever would it change anything about his character arc? I don't think so.
It wouldn't make any real difference if the character was good. But, both him and Rey are not well written characters. Boyega and Ridley seem like nice folk and they do the best with what's put in front of them. But, I'd say the primary reason for those characters existence was because one was black and one was female. Everything else was a secondary or even tertiary concern and that's revealed in the poor nature of the writing for those characters. They're terribly written, with even a basic examination into how they operate. Poor John's been lumbered with a character that nobody knows what to do with now, because Finn's story is essentially over. And Daisy has to play a character that's so empty, it's depressing. But, it has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in their skin or the junk between their legs. It's just poor character genesis, coupled with awful writing.
Rose was a truly wretched character and I feel sorry for Kelly Marie Tran, who seems like a nice girl. But, she was literally written so that Finn would have someone to talk to on their useless side plot. She could have been a robot, or a walkie-talkie and nothing would have changed. Plus, she was landed with one of the most awful lines ever to have been uttered by a Star Wars character (and that includes Jar Jar and Anakin). Poor girl. Maybe in the next one, she can have her quality upped. But, seeing as Abrams is at the helm, I wouldn't put any money on it.
https://forum.rebelscum.com/showthread.php?t=1105656&p=20131592&viewfull=1#post20131592
And that's the point if Colbot is going to make claims of people being hired just because of race he needs to back it up with evidence.
As we know the two people of color in TFA we're both highly nominated for other movies. They aren't just some people they pulled off the streets.
Because that is the accusation that Colbolt is making that they were only hired because of their skin color and their talent has nothing to do with it.
Now as far as Rey is concerned I wonder if people would still complain if her name was Jania Solo.
Again, you're asking for something that nobody can reasonably possess. But, it still doesn't diminish the observations.
They were practically unknowns. They're not veteran actors by any stretch, or that "highly nominated" either and I don't think anyone has claimed that they were "pulled off the streets".
And I think that assertion is probably correct, apart from the talent aspect. I'd say it's a given that a black lead was high on the check list, as was a female one. There's no doubt in my mind that that was the genesis of the two main leads for Disney's Star Wars.
I know nothing about Jania Solo, nor do I care to, but if she was as badly written as Rey, then yes. The criticism, in the main, of Rey is not because she's a female. It's because she is terribly written. It could have been Ray and if he exhibited the same poorly written attributes, the character still would have been criticised.
^^ this whole time you're just trying to divert the argument because either, you don't understand the crux of the issue, or you don't know how to defend against it.
the issue being discussed is : producers who believe in diversity quotas are racist. why?
because this act of "human sorting" comes from a belief that humans PREFER to be around those who "look like them".
--> IF your brain sorts people into color stripes (AND you "prefer" to see a certain representation of people who "look like you") then you are a Racist. By Definition.
((Racism is defined a "preference" for one race over another -- (a belief that one race is "better", in ANY given application, including casting) -- a "preference", for ANY reason)).
now: the only thing you have offered in this entire thread is, 'nobody at Disney cares what color Jon Boyega is', and everyone can see this is patently ridiculous.
of course Disney cares about "Representation" LOL -- (even if ONLY from a marketing POV) -- KK and JJ talk about it explicitly.
so: you're either a blithering idiot, or you are being intentionally "cheeky", to distract from the actual argument -- aka: intellectual dishonesty
whether this is a personal belief on KK's part , or simply just a marketing ploy to make money like Sylvester McMonkey McBean, (which is morally 'worse' as Cellblock1138 pointed out), either way she is still spreading RACISM.
the historic and ongoing "Sorting" of humans has been going on for over 10,000 years. with NO END in sight.
this practice is NOT supported by science.
it's shameful.
"..but we CAN"T have a discussion about Global Warming until you PROVE that the earth is round. you think it's "obvious"? bah! it's not obvious to ME! prove it!" (etc).
^^ (you're either an absolute idiot or you're just being dishonest).
and that is why "we're done here". cheers.
we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
.1. so it's not being presented as an observation he is stating it as an indisputable fact which is why I am asking him to back up his claim.
2. Sort of. Course Star Wars is famous for casting unknowns. Boyega is famous for being in a criticially aclaimed movie and being nominated for several awards. He was more famous then Natalie Portman was.
Oscaar Isaacs was not an unknown and I would consider an vetren actor.
The only one that would be truly unknown would be Ridly but even she had acting experience and getting any actress that young would be an unknown.
3. Except Even in George's original story drafts for the Sequels it was always a female lead. Unless you are claiming George had a quota then that theory is bunk.
4. Now you are talking about writting. That has nothing to do with casting.
Again we aren't talking about the character but that KK AND JJ hired based of race or gender. It doesn't matter if the character was written poorly because that wouldn't have anything to do with the casting decision as Colbolt claimed.
Colbolts critisim IS that she is a female and hired because of that. NOT because she is a good actress
But yeah ALL the characters in the EU are Mary or Marty Sue's. Even the OT characters become super human parodies of themselves.
I'm sorry that you have been put in a position trying to defend Colbolts riddiculus and we'll racist talked ng points taken directly from the daily stormer. No one should have to do that
sonofrebel
This is my basic and simple way of looking at all movies made after ROTJ:
RO connects very well with the OT.
Solo tries to connect with the OT and PT, but seems forced in this connection near the end of the movie.
TFA and TLJ seem very disconnected from the OT.
PT also seems disconnected from the OT.
I have more distaste for TFA and TLJ than the PT because they involve the characters of Luke, Leia and Han in a negative way. Although I can say the same for Anakin/DV in the PT, it’s harder to watch it done with Luke, Leia and Han.
Only my opinion and not saying those that disagree are wrong.
I'm not here to speak for Cobalt. But I think the assertion that a black and female lead being of the utmost importance to Disney's Star Wars is correct, even if I'm not in complete agreement with everything else. However, if all you have to cling to is "prove it", then I'm afraid the conversation is over for you. Nobody here is in a position to provide the proof you demand.
Sort of. Course Star Wars is famous for casting unknowns. Boyega is famous for being in a criticially aclaimed movie and being nominated for several awards. He was more famous then Natalie Portman was.
Boyega was absolutely not more famous than Natalie Portman. That's nonsense. She was acting since she was a child and shot to fame in her first role. Her name was well known before she even read a Star Wars script. Her involvement in the prequels even encouraged other actors to sign on. That cannot be said for John Boyega. As for Isaac, he wasn't a lead. He was a secondary character. He was even set to die in 'The Force Awakens' only for JJ to hang fire at the last minute, because he liked him. In any case, this is all neither here nor there. The acting ability of the new Star Wars cast is not in question.
Disney's desire to have a black person and a female in the lead is.
Except Even in George's original story drafts for the Sequels it was always a female lead. Unless you are claiming George had a quota then that theory is bunk.
Disney didn't care for George's treatments. They threw them in the bin.
In addition, George has come under fire for his original Star Wars being too white and too male, despite having no intention to engineer it that way. That's why he created Lando. There's certainly a possibility that he may have wanted to avoid such accusations again, especially in the current political landscape of hollywood. I'm afraid such a thing isn't "bunk" at all.
Now you are talking about writting. That has nothing to do with casting.
The writing for the character was done before the casting. If that's not the case, then Diswars is in even a poorer state than I first thought.
I'm not trying to defend Cobalt's posts. He can do that himself. I don't even agree with everything he's saying. Nor do I think he's being racist, or saying racist things and I don't think such an accusation is warranted. But, it's clear that you aren't fully understanding what he's writing and that you aren't really interested in expanding the discussion. So why are you replying to him?
Oh my God Cobalt, you must have the patience of a Lama… the term casting pearls before swine perfectly sums up your response to certain posts that do nothing but lack common sense, in their blind worship/defence of the Disney corporation LOOL
BTW, JK was dragged on SM by the usual SJW children desperate for woke points, shouting her down for casting a Korean actress to play a “stereotype" of the "Asian snake lady”. Rather than clap back, and mock/troll/antagonize the children (like a certain caricature of the “supposedly” woke man does on SM), JK very cooly schooled the ignorant children on the Asian mythology of “women who transform into snakes” (and how the casting of Claudia Kim relates to her character's context) In a single tweet, she shut them down with knowledge-- like Sharaya J shuts them down when she comes through. JK is ferocious without missing a beat.
(Yes children, Hollywood only ever casts actors who are talented. Not because of hype nor because of insider support. And all awards doled out are genuinely in praise of true talent— not at all because of insider political maneuvering to promote their investments: whether that be actors or films. A powerful editor of a frighteningly revered publication matter-of-factly said to me when I thanked her for supporting a friend that these awards are “all politics”. But keep on believing that industry awards are all about the celebration of “true and genuine talent” though LOL)
1. Ok the. How come there was no black lead in Rogue One or even a black actor in the cast? If it is so important why would they have one there. I thought.they needed to fill quotas?
Why did they do Solo instead of Lando?
Why is the lead in Rebels a white male? There is no black character there either.
Or is this quota only apply to the 3 saga movies?
I only say prove it if one is asserting it as a fact. You do not seem to be doing that however Colbolt is.
Boyega was in a criticially acclaimed movie that side wide digital distribution and gaine d alarge following .
Portman's claim to fame prior to TPM was The Professional which saw a limited relase and Mars Attacks largly considered a bomb and Tim Burton's worst movie.
She hadn't done anything that gained her the respect that Attack the Block did.
Granted we are talking about greatly different time periods. A lot has changed just I'm terms of online distribution and the movie industry in general.
Ok I have to know where you heard Portman's involvment got others interested. I have never heard that before.
3. They still took ideas from it such as the main protagonist being female and living on a desert planet. That can't be ignored.
4. Yeah the point is if you made Rey male nothing about the movie would change. If you feel it's poorly written making Rey male wouldn't make it a better character. All the same complaints would still be there. Unless it is just about gender.
Same with Finn making him white changes noting.
So that is why the writting has nothing to do with the casting.
5. He could but he isn't. Problem is he is using racist talking g points from places like daily stormer l, saragon of akkad, Lauren Southern, and Been Shapiro.
He might not be racist but he is saying the same things racists are saying.
I understand what he is saying all to well, it is a argument pushed by racists who try to concern troll.
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Posted By: Scott Bettencourt on December 26, 2019 - 10:00 PM
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Adios - Zeltia Montes - Quartet
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Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy - Fabio Frizzi, Walter Rizzati - Beat
Noah Land - Leon Gurvitch - Kronos
Sette Contro La Morte - Carlo Rustichelli - Saimel
Seven Worlds, One Planet - Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea - Silva
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War in Space - Toshiaki Tsushima - Cinema-Kan (import)
IN THEATERS TODAY
Just Mercy - Joel P. West - Score CD-R on WaterTower
Little Women - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD on Sony
1917 - Thomas Newman - Score CD on Sony
The Song of Names - Howard Shore - Score CD on Decca
Spies in Disguise - Theodore Shapiro
The Addams Family - Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna - Lakeshore
Bliss - Steve Moore - Relapse (import)
Go Fish - George Streicher - Notefornote
The Musical Anthology of His Dark Materials - Lorne Balfe - Silva
Anne with an E - Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner - Varese Sarabande
I Lost My Body - Dan Levy - Lakeshore
At Eternity's Gate - Tatiana Lisovskaya - Filmtrax (import)
Better Watch Out - Brian Cachia - Howlin' Wolf
Finis Terrae - Christoph Zirngibl - Kronos
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
December 27 - Oscar Levant born (1906)
December 27 - Benedetto Ghiglia born (1921)
December 27 - Victor Young begins recording his score for The Proud and Profane (1955)
December 27 - John Williams begins recording his score to The Empire Strikes Back (1979)
December 27 - Kenneth Wannberg records his score for the Twilight Zone episode “Still Life” (1985)
December 27 - Buxton Orr died (1997)
December 27 - Isaak Shvarts died (2009)
December 28 - Mischa Spoliansky born (1898)
December 28 - Captain Blood released in theaters (1935)
December 28 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score to Invitation (1952)
December 28 - Richard Band born (1958)
December 28 - Alex North begins recording his score to All Fall Down (1961)
December 28 - Paul Hindemith died (1963)
December 28 - Rahman Altin born (1971)
December 28 - Max Steiner died (1971)
December 28 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Loud as a Whisper" (1988)
December 28 - Milton Rosen died (1994)
December 28 - Michel Michelet died (1995)
December 29 - Roman Vlad born (1919)
December 29 - Ron Goodwin begins recording his score for Submarine X-1 (1967)
December 29 - George Duning's score for the Star Trek episode "Return to Tomorrow" is recorded (1967)
December 29 - Ryan Shore born (1974)
December 29 - Wojciech Kilar died (2013)
December 30 - Dmitri Kabalevsky born (1904)
December 30 - Alfred Ralston born (1907)
December 30 - Paul Bowles born (1910)
December 30 - Ray Cook born (1936)
December 30 - Michael Nesmith born (1942)
December 30 - Harry Geller records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night the Dragon Screamed” (1965)
December 30 - Richard Rodgers died (1979)
December 30 - Patrick Gowers died (2014)
December 31 - Frank Skinner born (1897)
December 31 - Gil Melle born (1935)
December 31 - Anthony Hopkins born (1937)
December 31 - Andy Summers born (1942)
December 31 - Duel in the Sun premieres in Los Angeles (1946)
January 1 - David Broekman died (1958)
January 1 - Halli Cauthery born (1976)
January 1 - Adolph Deutsch died (1980)
January 1 - David Buttolph died (1983)
January 1 - Hagood Hardy died (1997)
January 2 - Lalo Schifrin records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “Takeover” (1970)
January 2 - Christopher Lennertz born (1972)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
AWAY - Gints Zilbalodis
"An inspirational work of do-it-yourself computer animation that suggests the sky’s-the-limit potential of the medium for anyone with big ideas and a boundless amount of time on his hands (plus access to Maya or an equivalent CG super-tool), 'Away' represents more than three years of imagination and labor by 25-year-old Latvian prodigy Gints Zilbalodis, who earns every aspect of his “a film by” credit: He conceived, designed, animated and scored -- and what a score! -- this hypnotic hero’s journey, which treats Joseph Campbell’s monomyth as a kind of waking dream. The surrounding terrain can be absolutely stunning at times, especially when viewed at a distance. By contrast, the boy’s face is an inexpressive pink expanse, barely accentuated by his ever-so-slightly rosy nose and ears and floppy brown hair, the bangs of which tickle his forehead like chocolate Cheetos, or loose, leather-gloved fingers. More detail might have been nice, but it isn’t necessary. Even though the character doesn’t speak, we can get a pretty good idea of what he might be thinking from the various clues on offer: a flashback to the plane crash of which he was the sole survivor; a backpack containing a map, a canteen and an auto key of some kind; and Zilbalodis’ lovely, low-key score, which alternates between tones of anxiety and exhilaration."
Peter Debruge, Variety
"Beyond the above-mentioned references, another work that comes to mind is Michael Dudok de Wit’s very Miyazaki-influenced 2016 feature 'The Red Turtle,' which, like this movie, was a dialogue-less affair set on an island populated by strange creatures. The latter film, which premiered in Cannes, was the kind of contemplative work that puts you more in a mood than it grips you with its thrilling story. Likewise, 'Away' plunges the viewer into something close to a meditative state, with Zilbalodis’ inspired self-composed score creating rushes of transfixing intensity."
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
FLOWER - Joseph Stephens
"Featuring a vibrant soundtrack (Angel Olsen, Jamie xx, I Monster) and score by Joseph Stephens ('Eastbound and Down') the pulsing, daydreamy electro pop of 'Flower' further fuels its romantic, lively, floating-on-air feeling. Perhaps most eye-catching is the film’s loose, raw, hand-held filmmaking. Imbuing the film with vivacious energy and yet never too flashy, this verve nearly matches Deutch’s own off-the-charts swagger. Further impressive is the 180 it marks for its director. Winkler’s last film, the underrated 'Ceremony,' was Wes Anderson-and Paul Thomas Anderson-influenced with sharp whip pans, long tracking shots and hyper-controlled and designed camera movement. Winkler demonstrates his versatility by crafting a freeform and wild movie that could easily be mistaken for the work of a completely different filmmaker."
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
"'Flower' is cloying, simplistic, clueless, and indifferent to most of the suffering that it chronicles. It only comes alive in a handful of dramatic showpiece moments that are likely the reason the actors signed on to do the movie (Scott and Hahn win Best in Show), but these are unfortunately hamstrung by intrusive underscoring that seems meant to take the sting out of a movie that needs all the sting can get. Deutch overplays Erica as a wisecracking femme tomboy, telegraphing every 'outrageous' line and cheeky reaction, pushing her right up to the edge of caricature in a borderline-Nicolas-Cage-like way, as if trying to force the movie to become the bad-taste comedy-drama that it probably needed to be in order to succeed. It's a bold play that doesn't work, but it's more compelling than anything the script or direction can offer."
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
GRINGO - Christophe Beck
"Featuring a fittingly shallow funk-lite score by Christophe Beck, 'Gringo,' is ultimately like a Taco Bell version of the ‘90s crime genre; tasteless, cheaply made and just as inauthentic."
HELL ON THE BORDER - Sid De La Cruz
"In the overly long and convoluted plot, Reeves sets out with Charlie Storm (Ron Perlman) in pursuit of outlaw Frank Dozier (Grillo), who taunts the lawmen with bloody trophies. Their journey offers Reeves and Storm the opportunity to bond and for Reeves to speak to his life experiences of slavery and racism. At the center, Gyasi is an oasis of stillness and solemnity in a naturalistic performance, but the surrounding action never hangs together in anything authentic, especially with the unnecessarily flowery script and laughably heightened score."
Los Angeles Times [critic uncredited]
I SEE YOU - William Arcane
"This isn’t a supernatural film, though, and Devon Graye’s script ultimately ties together 'I See You''s disparate threads -- family drama, crime thriller, home-invasion horror -- by grounding them in the perils and traumas of the real world. Under the direction of Adam Randall, the film’s tone is extremely eerie, with creeping camera movements, striking imagery, abrupt edits, and a delicately sinister score by William Arcane. They all help to elevate the domestic drama at the story’s core and make it much more compelling than it might otherwise be."
Henry Stewart, Slant Magazine
"This is the work of director Adam Randall, who is more of a poor salesman with this script from Devon Graye than an inventive storyteller. Randall has a comical bounty of drone shots that swoop around locations and sometimes look they’re going to crash into the Harper house; Philipp Blaubach's score [sic; Blaubach was the cinematographer, not the composer] emphasizes the importance of every one of the script’s ominous visuals, and sounds like a steel mill in space. 'I See You' loves to use these components to tease that a supernatural force might be lurking in the shadows, and then abruptly cut -- like it does right before wielding its title card. But it doesn’t build promise that Something Scary is happening, so much as pile on a very tedious atmosphere."
Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
"Strong performances down the line provide psychological credibility to an astute overall package that manages to eke considerable sinister atmosphere from any number of perfectly pleasant locations in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. A particular plus is William Arcane’s unsettling score."
Dennis Harvey, Variety
PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING - Lorne Balfe
"'Pacific Rim Uprising' has zero emotional pull. The musical score by Lorne Balfe ('The Hurricane Heist') keeps telling us that something exciting is happening when the images beg otherwise. There are no stakes here, just lots of robots and then dinosaurs who rise up out of the sea and place their large feet down onto pavement that rises up as random people run away and try to escape. The main imagery in this movie is of large office buildings falling down neatly or getting clawed or scooped from the middle by these ugly and uninteresting monsters. If that’s your thing, step right up."
Dan Callahan, The Wrap
"While Lorne Balfe’s score provides requisite bombast, what resounds loudest about 'Pacific Rim Uprising' is its lack of adventurousness, to the point that it neuters its genre-splicing conceit’s weirdest ideas -- such as the metaphysical 'drift' that binds the minds of Jaeger pilots, which here serves as just a tossed-off means of dispensing expository backstory. At least DeKnight is shrewd enough to make one of his mortal characters the true harbinger of doom (albeit one with a sketchy motivation). In the end, however, that individual’s apocalyptic scheming is less distressing than the film’s paint-by-numbers approach to franchise construction, replete with a formulaic promise of future installments that, on the basis of this entry, feels mostly like wishful thinking."
Nick Schager, Variety
7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE - Rodrigo Amarante
"'7 Days in Entebbe' wisely brings on technical collaborators that have served its director well in the past, including cinematographer Lula Carvalho, editor Daniel Rezende and composer Rodrigo Amarante. A great deal of dramatic responsibility falls to Rezende and his arrangement of the film’s climax, which crosscuts between rescue operation Thunderbolt and a dance performance introduced at the film’s outset. The piece, which involves the performers removing their Orthodox wardrobe to the tune of 'Echad Mi Yodea,' is meant to symbolize the challenge of escaping one’s ideological trappings. The device -- an addition acknowledged to be fabricated by the director in his press appearances -- is transparent but effective."
Bradley Warren, The Playlist
"A distinct air of staleness permeates the whole enterprise -- even the palette is brown as an old biscuit, and Rodrigo Amarante’s minimal score is so politely low in the mix that it’s hardly even there. Brühl brings his usual earnestness to a role that’s already too earnest, and a shark-eyed Pike somehow fares even worse, with a flashback love interest doing little to add color to her waxen character. She is also cursed with the film’s very worst scene where she wanders in a daze into the airport terminal, and phones her boyfriend long-distance, monologuing somnolently into a broken payphone."
Jessica Kiang, Variety
THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT - Adrian Johnston
"Part of what made 'The Strangers' seem so singular is because it was just that: singular. Like the killers at the film’s end, it just sort rode off into the sunset without a hint of when or if it might return. 'The Strangers: Prey At Night' undoes that, and though it doesn’t come close to touching the original, it’s not the years-late embarrassment it might have been. That’s in part because it aims much lower than its predecessor. From the first notes of Adrian Johnston’s John Carpenter-inspired score to the retro font used for the title card, 'Prey At Night' sets itself up as an homage to classic slasher films, and mostly does right by its inspirations."
Keith Phipps, Uproxx
"A sequel to 2008’s spooky 'The Strangers' in baby-doll masks alone, director Johannes Roberts’s generic slasher film flaunts a deep nostalgia for John Carpenter’s 'Halloween' and 'Christine,' but scant ideas of its own. It desperately wants you to pretend that these fog-laden midnight streets -- perfect for chase scenes involving relentless knife-wielding nuts and a terrified teenage girl (TV actor Bailee Madison, who really should learn how to flee without panting so loudly) -- are as fresh as a daisy. As for composer Adrian Johnston’s seesawing synthesizer score, Carpenter’s lawyers will be in touch directly. In a moment when horror movies like 'Get Out' and the forthcoming 'Hereditary' earn praise for their adventurousness, these retro scares feel especially out of touch."
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS - West Dylan Thordson
"The degree of candor afforded by the central characters prove extraordinary as the documentary captures many intimate moments, both personal and professional. Toward the end of the film, Asan is seen breaking down in tears, overwhelmed by the pressures he faces on a daily basis. Indeed, there are times when the doc has an almost scripted, narrative feel, enhanced by the atmospheric lensing and West Dylan Thordson's emotive music score. One of the most powerful scenes features X and Lukas excitedly happening upon a herd of some 50 elephants, including adults and babies, slowly walking across the African plain in all their majesty."
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
A WRINKLE IN TIME - Ramin Djawadi
"The early scenes of 'A Wrinkle in Time' -- before we’re introduced to the 'tesseract' and the spatial-temporal bounding begins -- are relatively grounded, but only compared to what follows. They still have a trace of that theme-park-Disney wooziness, along with a score by 'Game of Throne''s [sic] Ramin Djawadi that’s off in the ether before the first astral being lands. That being -- 'Mrs. Whatsit' -- is played by Reese Witherspoon, whose frilly gown is meant to look as if the character had invaded a high-school theater department’s costume room, but whose acting is less intentionally high-schoolish. Things pick up with the next entity, Mindy Kaling’s dreamy 'Mrs. Who,' who spouts quotations from Rumi and Lin-Manuel Miranda before a giant pall descends on the movie in the form of Oprah Winfrey as 'Mrs. Which.' When Winfrey’s Mrs. Which first shows up, she’s several sizes larger than her co-entities, which is symbolically apt."
David Edelstein, New York
"Which is one of 'Wrinkle''s biggest issues: the performances are virtually all loud and strident, pitched with the energy of people in a Broadway musical trying to make sure their smiles still play for the ticketholders in the nosebleed section. Everything about the film operates at the same intense fever pitch: the glistening score urgently batters the audience in every direction, the colors are eye-bleedingly bright, and the emotions are big enough to play on the tiniest phone screen. This is a big, big movie, full of shouted lines and exclamation points. And that perpetually works against the intended personal qualities of the story, which is theoretically as much about one girl navigating her own self-loathing as it is about a huge, symbolic battle between good and evil."
Tasha Robinson, The Verge
"Let this be a warning: Keep your expectations in check, and you might be pleasantly surprised. Despite such bold choices as casting Oprah Winfrey as an all-wise celestial being and rejecting the antiquated assumption that the lead characters ought to be white, 'A Wrinkle in Time' is wildly uneven, weirdly suspenseless and tonally all over the place, relying on wall-to-wall music to supply the missing emotional connection and trowel over huge plot holes...That’s the risk of any science-fiction adaptation, of course, seeing as how cinema replaces the most evocative descriptions with concrete images. Except in this case, a bad sound mix and over-reliance on music drowns out a good deal of the film’s dialogue. At the same time, the design aspects of the film are so consistently distracting that we risk losing sight of its best ideas -- not just literary, but also a color-blind agenda that has the potential to change the landscape entirely."
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, Alamo Drafthouse, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, Arclight, Arena Cinelounge, Laemmle, New Beverly, Nuart, UCLA and Vista.
THE AWFUL TRUTH (Ben Oakland), THEODORA GOES WILD (Morris Stoloff) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE EXORCIST [Nuart]
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Johan Soderqvist) [New Beverly]
RESERVOIR DOGS [New Beverly]
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
NINOTCHKA (Werner Heymann), HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Alfred Newman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
PHANTOM THREAD (Jonny Greenwood) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 (Michael Armstrong) [New Beverly]
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Lennie Hayton, Nacio Herb Brown) [New Beverly]
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Maurice Jarre) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [New Beverly]
GOLDFINGER (John Barry) [Laemmle Royal]
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (John Williams), BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (Jerry Fielding) [New Beverly]
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT [New Beverly]
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Herbert Stothart), A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA (Werner Janssen) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart), WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Leslie Bricusse, Walter Scharf) [New Beverly]
CHRISTINE (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth) [Vista]
DEMONS (Claudio Simonetti) [New Beverly]
DJANGO UNCHAINED [New Beverly]
LADY BIRD (Jon Brion) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Danny Elfman) [Nuart]
SAFE IN HELL (Leo F. Forbstein), PARTY HUSBAND (David Mendoza) [UCLA]
CARRIE (Pino Donaggio) [Vista]
42ND STREET (Harry Warren, Leo F. Forbstein), GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (Harry Warren, Leo F. Forbstein) [UCLA]
MEAN STREETS [New Beverly]
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Joe Hisaishi) [New Beverly]
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Daniel Pemberton) [Vista]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Ben-Hur: Tadlow re-recording (Rozsa), Arrow: Season 3 (Neely), Instant Family (Andrews), It (Wallfisch), La Banda J & S, Cronaca Criminale Del Far West (Morricone), Spooks: The Greater Good (Lewis), Dial M for Murder (Tiomkin), Rebel in the Rye (McCreary)
Read: Self-Defense, by Jonathan Kellerman
Seen: The Bishop's Wife; Black Christmas [2019]; What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael; Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; The Apollo; Invisible Life; Cats; Richard Jewell; A Hidden Life; Jumanji: The Next Level; 1917; Duck Soup; Horse Feathers; Little Women [2019]; Just Mercy
Watched: Mystery Science Theater 3000 ("Mac and Me," "Atlantic Rim," "Lords of the Deep," "The Day Time Ended")
I just started watching the most recent (and possibly final) season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Blu-Ray, which begins with the infamous E.T. ripoff Mac and Me, scored by Alan Silvestri. One early remark from the 'bots during an especially lively Silvestri cue should strike a chord (no pun intended) with film score fans:
"I want to see the movie the composer thought he was scoring."
The next film in the MST3K set, Atlantic Rim, is of course a Pacific Rim imitation (to put it politely) produced by The Asylum, the noted makers of "mockbusters" like Transmorphers. This was the first Asylum film I'd ever seen -- I spend most of my free time seeing films in theaters, so watching direct-to-video releases is a low priority in my life -- and I found it deeply depressing. In general, I find the shot-on-video B-movies of the modern age much less enjoyable than the B-films of the 50s, 60s and 70s, but there's something almost soul-destroying about Atlantic Rim, which was reinforced when I watched the next film in the MST3K set, Lords of the Deep.
Lords of the Deep was a Roger Corman-produced (he even has a cameo) attempt to climb onto the underwater sci-fi bandwagon (I'm sure there's a mixed metaphor there somewhere) of 1989, a year that saw the release of Deepstar Six, Leviathan and The Abyss. Lords of the Deep is in no way good, but it has charm. There's something about the earnestness of the acting, the sets, the miniature and puppet effects that, silly and forgettable as the film is, make the viewer feel like the people who made it actually cared about it. (And since it's a Corman genre film from the '80s, it has some Horner music, a brief cue from Humanoids from the Deep).
Atlantic Rim, on the other hand, feels like no one cared at all, except to get the film made as quickly and cheaply as possible to hit video stores before Guillermo Del Toro's lavish and visually sumptuous kaiju epic hit theaters. Pacific Rim's Charlie Hunnam may not have been the most dynamic movie hero, but in Atlantic Rim, Baywatch's David Chokachi is such an extraordinarily unlikable protagonist that you wonder if his character was some sort of private joke among the filmmakers. On the other hand, his casting does give the film a small amount of mystery, as you look at him wondering, "Where have I seen him before? Who is that guy? Casper van Dien? Sean Patrick Flanery?" Seeing Dances With Wolves Oscar nominee Graham Greene in a key role is depressing enough (though at least he aquits himself with more dignity than Bradford Dillman in Lords of the Deep), but between the cheapness of the CGI combined with the overall cynicism of the film it's hard to have a good time watching it, and even the 'bots seemed defeated (they were much more inspired during Mac and Me and Lords of the Deep).
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Posted by ZardozSpeaks on December 27, 2019 3:16 PM Reply
Will there be a CD checklist forthcoming on year 2019?
Posted by Scott Bettencourt on December 27, 2019 8:15 PM Reply
Already finished, should appear on Sunday, with a new Top 40 Composer Countdown on Monday and Oscar predictions on Wednesday.
Posted by Mr. Jack on December 27, 2019 9:01 PM Reply
Will we get a "best/worst of 2019" movie list in January? I've always enjoyed those, and in fact would love to have a handy itemized list of them.
The end of year lists is always part of the Oscar predictions. Currently working on them.
I know everyone will be shocked that Cats made my worst of the year list. As I like to say, I have no idea what a good movie version of Cats would look like, but then neither does Tom Hooper. I'm only disappointed that I didn't see it on its second night when I had the chance, since I could have seen the original version with all the VFX flaws that were fixed by the time I finally saw it Tuesday.
I like to imagine that whoever it was at the lab that let the unfinished version go to theaters was a Fincher fan/crony who is still bitter that King's Speech beat Social Network for Picture and Director.
Posted by joan hue on December 27, 2019 10:35 PM Reply
Scott, I love your top 40 composer countdown information that you provide us each year as well as your Oscar predictions. Every Friday all year round, you provide us with massive amounts of information. I've always been in awe of your ability to gather so much material related to scores and movies.
We probably all are guilty of taking your Friday reports for granted. Know you and your work are appreciated by many of us.
Posted by Mark R. Y. on December 27, 2019 10:38 PM Reply
Tyler Durden lives!
I think Cats could actually make some money if they kept the flawed version in the theaters and made a point of advertising that.
Posted by Scott Bettencourt on December 27, 2019 10:43 PM Reply
Joan, you are too kind.
As far as bringing the un-fixed version of Cats back to theaters, it's only VFX geeks like me who would get that strange pleasure from seeing an accidentally unfinished movie on the big screen.
I'm still amazed that it happened.
Posted by Mr. Jack on December 28, 2019 5:49 AM Reply
I'm not. F/X houses are stretched thin with so MANY movies often requiring hundreds upon hundreds of individual shots that sub-par or even unfinished work was bound to start popping up eventually. And since a lot of these talented CG artists are being worked to the bone (often with unpaid overtime), mistakes are to be understood, especially for a who-cares? film as ghastly and misconceived as Cats.
Posted by SBD on December 28, 2019 9:20 AM Reply
I know everyone will be shocked that Cats made my worst of the year list.
About as shocked to find that gambling is going on at Rick's.
Can't wait for the rest.
Posted by Zoragoth on December 28, 2019 8:37 PM Reply
Bradford Dillman loses his dignity in LORDS OF THE DEEP?? Say it ain't so! He's one of my favorite actors of his era, and I've always wanted to see the scarcely distributed LOTD because he stars in it.
I think he retired from the screen soon after - small wonder, most likely...
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The Revolutionary Transition Towards New Leasing Standards By Icai
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ICAI has drawn attention towards whole new Ind AS 116 – Leases and notified the same which will be applicable from 1st April 2019 which will replace the existing Accounting standard 19 on Leases. Here is everything you need to know about the new Leasing Standards by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) by FinanceShed.
The new standard will require lessees to recognize leases on their balance sheets. Lessees will use a single accounting model for all leases, with limited exemptions. It is important to decide when a customer has the right to direct the use of an identified asset and also to take judgment for arrangements that include significant services. Ind AS provides new criteria for determining whether an arrangement meets the definition of a lease.
Source: cfo-india.in
The decision to lease or own an asset has often been assisted by the available financing options, the tax treatment, and the accounting implications. This can be an off-balance sheet treatment of the underlying asset and associated debt. Under the existing rules, lessees account for leases either as operating leases or as finance leases, depending on complex rules and tests.
Applicability Of Ind AS 116
Source: applegrowth.com
According to the notification, this standard applies to each and every lease transaction which also includes leases of right-of-use and sublease. This standard is applicable to nearly each and every lease transaction but excludes lease to explore or use mineral, oil and natural gas and such other non-regenerative resources. The standard is also not applicable to lease of biological assets that fall within the scope of Ind AS 41. The non-application continuous to lease of intellectual property which falls within the scope of Ind AS 115.
Also Read:- 7 Must Follow Tips On How To Get Out Of A Lease
Key Aspects
Source: valleyofficesystems.com
The key changes in lessees accounting relate to the introduction of a single lease accounting model by the elimination of classification between operating and finance leases. Also, a single lease accounting model is used for recognition of gain/ loss for sale and lease-back transactions. ICAI always tries to ensure that Ind AS or Indian Accounting Standards framework remains acceptable at the global level and accepted as IFRS standards. The core change in the standard is that this model lessee the majority of leases will be recognized on the balance sheet by recognizing a lease liability with a corresponding right-of use asset.
The standard is constructed in such a way that it will have its effect on all the three components of financial statements that include Balance Sheet, statement of Profit and loss and Cash Flow Statement. The extent to which this standard will affect depends on industries and varies depending on financing and leasing structures in the said industry.
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Leasing is considered to be one of the long-established forms of obtaining finance. The new standard on leases ushers in a substantial change in the accounting for operating leases by lessees and few improvements in the disclosure related aspects for lessors accounting. There are various low- value and short term leases that are exempted from the applicability criteria to provide substantial relief from operational complexities.
Ind AS 116 is expected to have a significant impact on various industries But the industry which is going to affect more is aviation where airlines mostly operate planes on lease. As the common practice here is the leasing of aircraft rather than purchasing one.
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Enderal: The Shards of Order (archived)
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Enderal first time, impressions
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dyslexicfaser
Beitrag von dyslexicfaser » 06.02.2019 07:40
- We wake up on the other side of a pile of rubble, Tealor, Sha’Rim and I. Their models are spattered with blood, looking pretty cool. Jespar is nowhere to be seen.
Tealor tries to soothe me that we’ll look for him on the way to the Pyrean Beacon, but I get the feeling it’s mostly a sop to my feelings. Tealor’s a rock; the only part he cares about is that we’re down one of our four-man party, I think.
I’m not sweating it, though. I’m pretty sure Jespar is on the same immortality train as Calia and I. I’d be pretty damn surprised if he died offscreen like a mook (poor Natara).
- The ruins are largely empty save for dozens of the carbon-black human figures, almost all looking or running forward in the same direction I’m going. It gives a weird feeling of being dragged forward to your destination, like you’re a salmon swimming in a school of fish.
Whoever on staff was responsible for cute skeleton placement is getting to flex his design muscles here, I bet.
For example, I appreciate the one guy who, when the world was ending, said ‘Fuck it, Imma have a seat.’
- The ruins are empty except for the black figures, one Conjured Guardian and approximately three Mad Rats. The ghost-like guardian, sure, no big deal. But what the hell have the rats been subsisting on down here all this time?
I guess SureAI just wanted to get us to flex our trigger finger now and then, to remind us during this cutscene-and-walking segment that we were playing a video game instead of a movie, but still. Why rats?
- The lighting is weirdly good, considering we're in the ruins underneath the Undercity which is underneath Ark. The purple braziers are a given (although I wonder where the crystal that has always plagued Pyrean ruins until now got to), but also there's a lot of light streaming down through cracks in the walls and ceiling.
I'm wondering how far the City of a Thousand Floods extends. Are we under Ark at all anymore?
- This close, it’s not just me getting the visions. Everyone does.
That’s inexplicable, but neat. Something something approaching the endgame, something something Cycle, something something the time-space dimensions are thin, I guess?
- So we wander on down to a Beacon, identical to ours save for the ravages of age. And Tealor tells me I need to induce myself into having a vision here, and somehow that’ll provide the connection to the High One for us to do our thing. I’m kind of just going along with things, now.
Also I feel like he’s maybe not 100% sure how being the Prophetess works, but that’s fair I guess. Neither do I.
So I wander around the room for a minute, point-and-click adventure style, clicking on discarded helmets and interesting bits of crystal that provoke bits and pieces of visions. Mostly just reiterating how eerily similar the Cycle is to the one that came before it. They had a Coarek, and a Natara who let him into the city, and a female voice who has more than a bit of a Tealor vibe to her.
And off we go! Tealor directs Sha’Rim to use the Word of the Dead, now that I’ve got the right Echo.
There is a scream, not endless, but fading in and out of existence, intercut by a woman weeping, or maybe laughing. A heartbeat begins to sound, slow at first, before getting louder and louder.
And then… well.
Kansas, it ain’t.
The High Ones are apparently weird red stuff all the way down. It is pretty interesting that we've taken on a similar ghostly red glow to the way the High Ones appear.
Also it sort of looks like Tealor has black hair again, like he reverted to a younger self, but I think that's just the weird lighting.
- Tealor orders Sha’Rim forward to try and collect the High One’s consciousness in the Word, but Sha’Rim has decided it’s time to get some character growth up ins.
The thrust of his question is: ‘Do you regret it?’
The thing with his son. I am suddenly reminded that Sha’Rim, as with all the other Nehrimese mages, was a follower of Narathzul first. And that Sha’Rim, as the last living member of that order, might have something to say about that at last. I can’t say he didn’t pick his moment, standing on the cusp of triumph or defeat for all Enderal and going ‘Now let’s talk about our feelings, Arantheal.’
Sha’Rim is of the opinion that that Arantheal doesn’t regret. That it was agitation at being reminded of his failures, not true regret or anger, that colored that exchange with the High One in front of the temple.
- That’s a pretty strong and subtle point about Tealor’s character.
Anger at the High Ones for throwing his failures in his face, absolutely. But regret… yeah, I think Sha’Rim’s right on that. Tealor feels like the kind of guy to regret a lot about everything that happened, but regret at the result, at the fallout his choices had, rather than regret at ever having made the choice in the first place.
For a guy who recognizes he’s made as many mistakes as he has, Tealor doesn’t tend to doubt himself much. Equal parts virtue and vice.
Okay, Sha’Rim, where are you going with this in the end? I feel like this is the prelude to a betrayal, but I’m not sure if there’s room for vengeance here, at the end of the world.
- Of course, turns out there’s always time for vengeance.
Sha’Rim was the one who hired those mercenaries to set fire to Lishari’s research, and then he killed her when she caught on. He’s been working against us from the start, and even before then.
Huh. The man’s a better actor than I thought, that’s for sure; he seemed genuinely distraught back then.
I thought this was about Narathzul, but it’s not: it’s about Tealor, and his fuck-up in Qyra that led to the civil war. Apparently, Sha’Rim was one of the very few survivors of that first purge, when the farmers were whipped into a rebellion and Young Tealor commanded them to be put down; his wife and daughter weren’t so lucky.
Why Sha’Rim brought his wife and daughter to an open revolt against the tyrannical god-kings, I have no idea. Presumably there’s at least a little more to this story than I’m getting.
The point is, Sha’Rim has been trying to sabotage Tealor all this time and has been mostly failing at it, Wile E. Coyote style, thanks to yours truly.
- Now this bit is clever. Tealor straight up asks why the hell Sha’Rim is doing this when Coarek would be killing Tealor within the day. Why kill the whole goddamn world just to kill a guy who’s going to die anyway?
Sha’Rim though… he thinks, doesn’t it taste sweetest this way?
Tealor wants to be a martyr. Tealor Arantheal, savior of the world. What a nice ring to it.
But, uh oh, look who’s here right at the very end to spoke his wheel at the cusp of his great triumph against the High Ones? Fucking Sha’Rim.
He could have exploded Arantheal in his sleep years ago if he just wanted to kill the man, probably. Sha’Rim is stupidly strong; he’s been holding off the Nehrimese invasion by himself for weeks.
But no, Sha’Rim doesn’t want Tealor to die. He wants him to hurt.
You kind of have to admire spite like that.
- So Sha’Rim does… something or other. Merges with the Numinos, or wakes it up, or… something. He vanishes in an explosion of energy, the red of the High Ones with a touch of the green lightning of Sha’Rim’s Entropy magic, and we get kicked back out into the waking world.
Sha'Rim's corpse on the right manages to look amazingly smug, somehow.
Oh, also, Sha’Rim is possessed by the High Ones. Just now? All this time? Hard to say.
What’s easy to see is that this High One is one of the sassy ones. Some High Ones just have such a good time fucking with the mortals. Lots of good sneers and smirks and such in the conversation ahead.
We must make this guy’s millennium.
- Arantheal reckons he’s not out of this race yet, though. See, we’re doomed. Sha’Rim won… up to a point. We have no Numinos, so we can’t aim the Beacon. What we can still do, though, is turn it on.
That’s going to basically nuke Enderal. But Tealor reckons that’s a risk he’s willing to take.
He believes – hopes – that there are other people out there like us. Somewhere, on some other continent-nation, there’s somebody who can figure this High One thing out.
He thinks there’s a reason the High Ones sent Coarek here, that if he gets to the Beacon he can somehow steer it into the ending he/the High Ones want, and birth a new High One. But if Coarek and the Beacon and everything else are wiped off the map, maybe the High Ones won’t be able to complete the Cleansing on their own, and we buy the rest of the world time to get its shit together.
- I’m feeling not so good about this course of action, of course, but I’m still mostly dead and Tealor has no time to drag me to the surface with him. He needs to get to the Beacon and activate it before Coarek punches through our guards up topside. It's a cause worth dying for, but Tealor is sounding just a little too eager, you know?
I have a couple of conversation options, the ‘Go on, Tealor, you can do it!’ or the ‘Are you fucking nuts?’ option, neither of which quite fit what I’m thinking. Which is that he's basing a lot of his reasoning on guesswork and hope, and he came up with this plan in about 30 seconds while being heckled by Sha'Rim's corpse. But Tealor doesn’t really care what I think, anyway. Tealor has a plan.
We? We are gonna be heroes, Tealor assures me.
All aboard the Martyr Express, I guess.
I do feel like this would have more punch if we knew more about Sha’Rim prior to this. If we'd previously talked about his family, or life in Qyra, or something that would make us go, ‘Ohhh’ in hindsight. Instead, most of his conversation options around the Sun Temple were questions about how various disciplines of magic works.
I mean if this was Archmage Lexil pulling this betrayal, I’d be feeling it more. But it’s still good stuff.
Tealor’s character pivot was even better. Because I still like him, even if it’s starting to look like we’re going to have to duke it out over the Beacon. The character traits that made him such an unflinching badass in the face of the Red Madness, the Reapers showing up and the end of the world are the same ones that are causing all his problems now.
... Well, not that I think Sha'Rim would have stopped his 15+ year revenge plot if Tealor had seemed more sensitive and regretful, but you never know.
That edge of martyrdom that was in Tealor's heroic speech up in the Temple has broken open and revealed itself to be just as much vice as virtue too. It’s kind of like a depressed person thinking suicidal thoughts about how the world would be better off without them. When you can’t see any other way out, then dying well doesn’t sound so bad. Maybe people will think well of you, afterwards. Is it a legacy thing, I wonder? Or is he so sure it’s the right thing that he's getting tunnel vision? Or is it just that in this floundering Order dedicated to a God-king that no longer exists, with all his old friends and lovers turned traitor or dead, you might as well go out with a bang, saving the world?
What a Hero, they’ll say of us after we die saving the world. Tealor almost can’t wait.
badgesareus
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Wohnort: The Great Chihuahuan Desert
Beitrag von badgesareus » 06.02.2019 17:28
Just curious, do you plan to continue or amend your analysis after Forgotten Stories comes out, since apparently it will require a new game ab initio?
Eledwen
Beitrag von Eledwen » 07.02.2019 11:48
Your thoughts and characterisations are very spot-on, is all I will say. Very interesting reads, as always! Would love to see / read your take on the Forgotten Stories.
Freedom is not just another word for nothing left to lose - it means having nothing left to prove...
06.02.2019 17:28badgesareus hat geschrieben:
Gosh, I dunno. Its taken me like a year and a half to get to this point!
I'd probably want to take a break after I finish this, but when it comes out is gonna be the best time to play it alongside everybody...
gnewna
Bettler
Beitrag von gnewna » 10.02.2019 09:07
Ah, so glad to see you've been updating again (I think I read through the entire thread months ago, hadn't seen the newer posts)! Great thread
when it comes out is gonna be the best time to play it alongside everybody...
Yeah, join the rest of us delta testers. [Delta testers are those of us who discover bugs by trying to do things that the devs, the beta testers, and no one in their right mind, would ever think of trying.]
- When I jump back into it, the loading screen helpfully informs me that gamblers that win at the card table only take a portion of their winnings home with them.
SureAI is sure that anyone who loses at the gambling table is going to follow the winner home and beat them to death in an alley, and is warning them that they will only get part of their lost money back.
That’s kind of awesome.
But now, buckle in, children. We’ve got some heavy exposition to work through.
- So Tealor leaves and I fall over and presumably die again, only to wake up to the Veiled Woman doing her hoodoo.
She informs me that it all begins with dreams, which is clear as mud, but about par for the course with her.
She throws up a portal, and in the process of heading to it there’s some visions – well, auditory hallucinations – that make it pretty clear that last time with female Tealor is exactly the same as this time. They headed down here, they were betrayed, and female Tealor resolved to set off the Beacon without the Numinos.
Looks like we’re doomed, probably. Ah, well.
- At first I think the portal takes me to the surface, or perhaps to the Great White North, since it appears to be cold enough for snow.
- And in the depths of the earth I run into this.
And I thought Horst was a big fella.
- The giant centurion talks, too.
It’s a good thing his voice has something of the quality of melting chocolate – possibly the best voice talent in a game packed with it, or at least the most attractive voice – because this is a looooong conversation and you can’t skip any of it.
He’s kind of our Star Kid, to go back to the kinda unavoidable Mass Effect comparison. He’s here at the end to exposit all over the place and wrap up any loose threads.
Well, most loose threads. Still no word on what the hell the Aged Man was about.
- And he’s the Black Guardian. God damn it.
I wonder if he sometimes passes the time in between the endless aeons with mindless howling in the depths, or what. It kind of sounds like he was asleep, but then he also claims that with the “Eye” (his equivalent to my Echo, so he's also an Emissary I guess?) he can see all things on the surface and he certainly knows enough about what’s going on to have been watching all along. Well, he says it's more of a 'seeing schemes and feeling emotions' thing rather than sight, but whatever. Close enough for government work.
Back in the day, he was planning to hide from his cycle’s Cleansing and be a glorious golden god-king for the next, to protect them from the High Ones.
Basically, this is last cycle’s Yerai, or possibly their Pahtira? Well, not last cycle. Many, many, maaaany cycles ago, perhaps the very first cycle. So if it’s been 50,000 years since the Pyreans, and he claims there’s been 1,000 cycles... he’s been down here for in the ballpark of 50 million years.
How he’s not mad as a bag of clams by now, I have no idea.
- I can't remember, do normal centurions have the Guardian's bitchin' 3-4 inch long goat? It makes him look all old and distinguished and stuff.
- He’s shocked I’m here. Apparently, the Prophet always dies after the Emperor leaves her.
He knows of the Veiled Woman, but as far as he’s concerned she doesn’t even have a mind, so he has no idea why she would be helping out this time.
I really wish I could probe him for more information on the Veiled Woman, but along with the Aged Man she’s the other big hole in his block of exposition.
Anybody who can hold up a conversation like she did after Jespar bit the dust and during Calia’s backstory certainly isn’t mindless. But he talks about her, the brief amount he does, like a force of nature rather than a person.
I suppose it’s more realistic that even the giant robot that’s been watching everything all along can be wrong. It marks him as an unreliable narrator, and that you should at least take even his version of events with a grain of salt.
- The Prophetess seems weirdly shocked when the Black Guardian explains that she’s dead. Like… people told you you were dead, and you saw your own corpse. What did you think happened?
The actual news here is that the Black Guardian claims that the Emissaries are all dead people – which he calls Fleshless – that the High Ones turned into projections indistinguishable from other people. The Prophetess died in the ocean, obviously. Tealor died in prison. Coarek probably died during the rebellion or something. I wonder how many other Emissaries – and therefore undead – are kicking around? I never got a list or anything…
This doesn’t seem to be a ‘High One puppet’ situation, more of a ‘jumpstart the corpse and watch it go’ thing. They don't appear to control us from the inside out, it's more of a top-down kind of thing where they poke at us from above until we do what they want.
And this isn’t a Veiled Woman versus High One setting like I half expected, but rather the High Ones orchestrating both sides from the beginning.
- There's an actual cutscene right around here, except that my computer can only barely chug its way through it; I get audio but no video, and if I touch the keyboard during the cutscene Enderal crashes.
Skipping ahead...
- See, the Black Guardian has noticed that the High Ones don’t have any powers at all, besides kickstarting Emissaries and talking to people. Uh, and the Red Madness I guess. And raising the dead as Lost Ones, and there was that thing with Rynaeus where the High Ones portaled in an Oorbaya or something. And they’re behind the dreams, of course. And then just outside the temple, when they summoned like 20 wraiths and a ghost-dragon to bully us.
So really, that’s a lot of powers.
But they don’t have much in the way of physical powers. You’ll never see the High Ones throwing down, themselves. There will be no High One boss battle.
And they can’t start the Cleansing. The Beacon will either deliver salvation or doom, and it has to be activated by human hands. Tealor Arantheal works just as well as Coarek for their purposes. The second someone turns on the Beacon with all the Black Stones but no Numinos, the Cleansing begins and the world dies again.
The Black Guardian sees this whole thing, the High Ones and the Beacon and the Cleansing and so on, as a sort of trial from some ineffable higher power. Which, I guess? The rules for this thing with the Beacon and the High Ones feels too artificial to just be a natural part of the world. If the world reset every 50,000 years and the High Ones were just some aethereal parasites sponging off the process somehow, that’d be one thing. But the Beacon itself coming pre-built and the whole ‘save the world / destroy the world’ dichotomy feels too structured.
And a little bit rigged. This is some Mortal Kombat-style Earth Realm/Outworld tournament stuff, here. Except Shao Khan won 1,000 times to our 0. And our Raiden is completely inscrutable and possibly non-sentient.
- Which, by the way: Tealor was under the impression that turning on the Beacon was effectively a nuke, but the Black Guardian explains that what actually happens is a light begins to shine from the Beacon, the sky will open up in response, and everyone on the planet will begin to burn from the inside out.
Which is way more metal.
- We can’t ask about the Aged Man or the Veiled One, but we can ask about the Ancient Starlings, or the 'Yalam-Rashai' as they were known back in the day.
Although the Black Guardian cautions that their floating city is at the very outermost edge of what he can perceive, so he doesn’t know everything.
He knows that they survived their cycle in the same way he did; by refusing to play. He turned into a robot; they tore their city out of the ground and flung it into the sky, and protected it from the Cleansing, somehow.
For a time, their city was the light of civilization; the greatest and most enlightened and the most advanced humankind has ever been.
But then the societal rot set in and they started getting overpopulated, so they started setting strict birth limits and mind wiping and exiling anyone who committed crimes back down to the world below. As you do.
That’s where our Starlings come from, of course. Their drive to return to the stars is a kind of race memory of what they lost.
And the Black Guardian doesn’t know why the Ancient Starlings died, either. Way to blueball me right at the end of the story, man. The ending is the best part!
- Also, the Black Guardian’s plan is to put me back in the ball and send me up to the Starling City. The escape pods can do that, apparently; he has seen the Ancient Starlings use them that way.
So I think my headcanon of the Ancient Starlings hitting up Riverville on beer runs is true!
- So yeah, it looks like we’re coming to a binary choice. Let’s take it piece by piece, shall we?
- The Black Guardian’s recommendation is that I flee to the Star City, to survive and live an ageless and endless life until human life returns in the next cycle, and then guide them into being a better people, who will not fall prey to the machinations of the High Ones by dint of being morally superior.
This is a load of bollocks, frankly. I have zero faith that I could take the selfishness and greed out of a human civilization, no matter how many centuries I had to plan it out. Trying to create a world of nothing but altruism is a foolish dream.
On the upside, this means I would survive the Cleansing. I'm in favor of that.
On the downside, this means I would survive the Cleansing to live for 30,000+ years alone in a crumbling sky-city, alone except for occasionally murderous robots.
He says he’d contact me once I got there, so maybe I wouldn’t be totally forever-alone.
Except that he also finishes the conversation by requesting I throw this lever and kill him because he’s tired of an endless vigil with no hope of change.
I’m not sure if that’s a screw-up on SureAI’s part, or if the Black Guardian has gone a little screwy all alone down here for 50 million years after all. Could go either way.
- The other option is to run on up there and break the Beacon.
Tealor has activated the bloody thing, but it’ll still take a little while to start burning people from the inside out, and me one of the last of all.
I’d die. I think maybe Enderal would die too? Maybe just the city, since the Black Guardian is sure this plan would kill Coarek too. And he’s of the opinion that what humanity needs is a knowledgeable immortal looking down from on high to guide them more than a few previous years before the High Ones start whispering in the ears of Kileans or Qyrans or whoever, to swerve back around and take another crack at this Cleansing thing.
Of course, this is also the guy who tried to become the Enlightened Golden God-Robo, so of course he would think that.
Uh, but just going by my own personal experience here, yeah, this would probably spell doom for humanity too. There’s always going to be a Coarek out there willing to do horrible things for the promise of some vague ascension, or whatever other lever the High Ones need to use. That’s just humanity for you.
The High Ones are 1,000 to 0 on this plan working.
- Oh, but maybe I’m not going to have to worry about any of this, because when I flip the switch I start to get sucked into the robot and the Black Guardian wants my body. And not in the fun way.
Yeah, that’s a thing.
Today has just been one thing after another.
The simple fact that they needed some rando to show up and fill in the gaps in the plot all in one exposition dump is something of a hammer, writing-wise. Nothing’s perfect, though, and this joker is leagues above some other examples I could name from AAA titles.
This isn’t some villain expositing about his master plan; the Black Guardian is a victim of the cycle as much as I am. I don’t hate him, even as he tricked me into the robot. I’d do the same to him in a heartbeat. That’s just how humanity rolls. This ‘ha haaaa, now I will be the immortal god-king of humanity!’ nonsense at the 11th hour is just playing into the same themes this game has been working with for ages. This is Sigil Leader Jorek and Natara and Sha’Rim all over again.
Though he’s been present for many events in ‘history’ he’s still fallible. Because he’s fallible, it’s no big deal if he can’t answer the innumerable questions a player might want to ask and the writer can’t anticipate (‘What was up with that Living Temple, seriously’ or ‘But what about Natara tho’). Although he still does a better job of answering pertinent questions than Mass Effect’s Star Kid ever did.
And unlike Star Kid, we don’t have infinite power at our fingertips only to boil it down into simple choices; we might be a lich and a giant robot, but we have limited choices because we still only have the limited power of humans.
He was properly foreshadowed as a part of the world, too, which is pretty nice. I even said last week that I was probably going to end up having to fight a Black Guardian, and boy if it isn’t looking like that’s going to be true. I even kind of like that he’s a giant robot, because that’s established as a thing people can do in this setting. Yerai was maybe smarter than the Guardian, even, since he made a much smaller robot but at least that one has working legs. This isn’t really coming out of left field at all.
Zuletzt geändert von dyslexicfaser am 12.02.2019 06:45, insgesamt 1-mal geändert.
So after all the long hours to get to the Black Guardian, expecting all mysteries such as the veiled woman and the aged man to be revealed, basically you get "who's on first, what's on second." [anyone who doesn't get this, just google it.]
because this is a looooong conversation and you can’t skip any of it.
This is one thing that really annoyed me, as I tend to do multiple playthroughs. I listened to the whole 40 -minute speil the first time, but I didn't want to sit through it over and over again on successive playthroughs. Painful!
Beitrag von Ragnarok » 12.02.2019 08:23
Call me whatever but this long conversation with the Black Guardian is one of my favorite and most awaited segments in a videogame, when I start a playthrough. One of the aspects I most enjoyed in Enderal's writing is the fact that every character exposes the story from their intended point of view, their agenda. Nobody tells the truth. The bards sing propaganda songs, Tealor only tells you what you need to know, and he wants you to know, to ensure you do what he wants and the Black Guardian tells you what he can "sense" limitedly and soothes you with answers you'd like to hear to make sure you press that switch, etc.
So in that sense, it does not fall into the same trope as Star Kid.
And dyslexic: this conversation already unveiled who the aged man is
12.02.2019 08:23Ragnarok hat geschrieben:
Honestly, 'Better than Star Kid' is selling Enderal short, because that was one of the biggest endgame bungles of recent years. And endings are hard to do right to begin with.
I figure I'll come back and talk about the game as a whole once I'm done, that'll definitely include the ending.
Is he supposed to be the asshole over-god who set up this trial thing to begin with?? He always struck me as a little too human for that, with his girlfriend stuck under glass and stuff. Just rez your waifu as a Fleshless if the High Ones work for you, man, jeez.
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Ghost House Eugene
This history is being written because histories of Goth nights are rare, and because it shows that what starts as a small fun thing can branch out into an event with unimagined impact across years, places, and lives.
In 2004, C. Bila and DJ Refugium move to Eugene. They are shocked to find that there is no place to go dance, other than 80s Night at John Henry’s, which is not dark enough for their tastes. Several years pass during which they resign themselves to the occasional 2-hour commute to Portland clubs.
Around 2008, Refugium hears John The Revelator play the Revolting Cocks on the radio. She calls him at the station and grills him about where and what he DJs, and an unlikely friendship forms. That same year, in March, C. Bila and Refugium are invited to a Pisces Party at Cece Borrego’s house. The music is great. Cece suggests that a dark dance night would totally take off, if someone organized were to find a venue and do it. Cece and Refugium make a dinner date for further discussion and Oak Street Speakeasy is suggested as a venue. The first of several warehouse parties are organized in 2009. These are known as Bog Parties, a double reference to the swampy location of the warehouse and Bigod 20’s single The Bog. The infamous Heaven Vs. Hell Halloween party ends up with something like 45 people in attendance. It is even now remembered fondly by those who were there. DJs are John The Revelator and The Curmudgeon.
Oak Street Speakeasy agrees to give Ghost House 1 weeknight a month. We were given the first Wednesday. We expect that no one will show up. The first night is November 4th, 2009. There is no Facebook started and posters have been up for only a week, but we invite a lot of people through word of mouth. We are pleasantly surprised, and so is Mac. During this night it becomes clear that John The Revelator thought that Refugium knew how to DJ, when in fact she did not. He tells her he’s going to walk offstage and she will start playing. Much to her own surprise, she enjoys it. She is known for the first year as DJ Thete. No one can pronounce it.
Change is in the air. Through the subsequent year the concept gels, spawning artwork, music, video backdrops, and an overall aesthetic that is unique to Eugene, but very much in keeping with the global Gothic aesthetic. We claim responsibility for introduction of new/obscure music, while giving the old bands (the “Ghosts”) a place to be heard. We also play quite a bit of industrial. It is through our loyalty to English noise (Coil, Psychic TV) and Soviet-border creativity (Einsturzende Neubauten and the NSK) that we forge greatly valued connections with the Eugene Noise scene, an amity we continue to enjoy.
The poster for the first year anniversary of Ghost House is an homage to the cover of the This Mortal Coil album 16 Days/Gathering Dust, which also features Song To The Siren. Much of our poster art is referential to the bands we play, so that it is recognizable to people who also enjoy them. This is intentional and done with much respect. Some bands whose artwork we have shared: Joy Division, Skinny Puppy, Bauhaus, This Ascension, The Cure. Pictures of musicians on our flyers include: Siouxsie Sioux, Mick Karn, Skinny Puppy. Many flyers also include vintage 1920’s and 1930’s photography, or fashion photography from the Goth and Modern Industrial scenes.
In the second year, Ghost House continues to expand and draw in more people. C. Bila’s excellent taste in video art causes him to search for film that makes a great backdrop as well as lighting to finish the space. Metropolis and Blade Runner and The Hunger are favorites, as are old Bela Lugosi films and 1930’s expressionist classics such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Golem. It’s through the noise and radio scenes that DJ Abulikah joins the crew and brings his amazing record collection and superb taste.
During this year, a friend who is organizing nights at Diablo’s starts Nemesis Underground. He predicts that a weekend Goth night will draw over 100 people, and hires security and starts charging at the door. John The Revelator and Refugium along with DJ Parabal, Spidersound and others are recruited to play. Probably due to the unpopularity of the bar itself, the night proves to be dead, and not in a good way. One of the best things to come out of Nemesis was a series of gigs at the Diablo’s Fetish Balls for Refugium and John The Revelator, who regularly played both upstairs and downstairs slots for more than a year before the bar closed. RIP Nemesis, RIP Diablo’s.
Years 3 and 4 continue to bring acclaim to Ghost House. In the latter part of year 3 we were part of spawning another spinoff. It is suggested by DJ Parabal that a metal/industrial/harsh EBM night would be a hit. We are not sure about this, as much of the new industrial we’ve been playing has not gone over well, but cautiously lend our support. After a long beer meeting at the Flying Squirrel, Rivet House is christened with the idea that the inclusion of the word “House” makes it consonant or cohesive with Ghost House so that people will identify the two nights with each other, being at the same bar. However, the nights have always been separate efforts. Rivet House takes up third Wednesdays at Oak Street. Ghost House DJs are featured in early iterations of this night, but we find that we are too busy with other work (one of us is starting graduate school and another is in demand all over town including Blairally, Cowfish, and other bars) and so we bow out and end any affiliation we have had with Rivet House as DJs.
During this time we are also doing Electric Dreams alternate Saturdays at Blairally, a synth driven night played entirely from vinyl. Electric Dreams ends when John Henry’s is sold, and Church of 80s at Blairally starts up every Friday night, which continues. RIP Electric Dreams.
We dj sets for The Spiritual Bat, a great Italian death rock band that plays at Cozmic. At the end of year 4, Oak Street Speakeasy closes. It is the victim of a change in landlords and Mac decides to close it of her own volition. We are informed of this with less than a few weeks’ notice, leaving us scrambling for a place at which to continue. The last Ghost House at Oak Street Speakeasy is a huge success, with the last song bringing actual tears to those still on the dance floor (it is Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths). RIP Oak Street. We miss you terribly.
Popular demand drives us forward and DJ Parabal connects us with The Green Room just in time for us to continue our history without missing a single night. Our next home, The Green Room, features a classic disco/sports bar ambiance which often seems to clash with the music we play- yet dancers continue to come spend their evenings with us, to the tune of 50+ people over the course of a night. We incorporate more modern industrial and minimal wave into our sets. We continually evaluate and upgrade our equipment and add to our already fantastic record collections. The Green Room is the scene of our 5th anniversary. Huge thanks to Dan Craig and George Turpin for the management and use of a great sound system, and to our awesome bartender Nicole.
A new venue comes on the scene in the spring of year 5. We are excited because it is a bona fide live venue with a great booker who is open to live bands as part of Ghost House. This was not possible at the Green Room due to space and sound limitations. C. Bila labors behind the scene to aid in the successful opening of Old Nick’s. Refugium paints and primes as she can on her days off. A collective effort pays off when Ghost House moves to Old Nick’s in May of 2015. We’re honored to support several bands in this year including Trance To The Sun, Mercury’s Antennae, [product], Black Magdalene, and Ugly Sex God.
Many guest DJs have been featured through the years. Among them are DJ Ultrajet, an old friend from Portland who can play any Cure song on guitar; DJ Abulikah, who is known as I Died in the noise scene, owner of an epic record collection; DJ Spidersound, whose requests were so good that we pressured him to start DJing, and he did; DJ Parabal, now known best for Electronic Swing nights, but at the time playing a gritty combination of metal and industrial; DJ Ian Dustrial, host of the infamous Whitaker Halloween parties; DJ Zahra, with her ear for a good beat; DJ Echo, who wasn’t old enough to come to Ghost House until year 2 or 3, but came in wanting to DJ (so we gave him a spot); DJ Owen, still a god among Goths, now playing multiple nights in San Francisco to great acclaim; DJ Mark Panic, currently carrying the Witchhouse flag in Portland at the Lovecraft; DJ Jon Smith, who needs no introduction in Eugene, and can mix anything into anything; Ghrimm, a mild-mannered geneticist by day and a fierce proponent of new industrial by night; DJ Perfidia, now on the stage instead of the radio; Christie Hill, whose sets are creative and interesting; DJ Wednesday, the fantastic force behind Brickbat Mansion; DDDJJJ666 and Vampirella from Portland who are the Joneses that we can NOT keep up with as they do radio, clubs, and run a record store.
Thanks to all of you who have labored for making this night happen!
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