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__label__cc	0.71513	0.28487	Home / General / Federally Guaranteed Employment Federally Guaranteed Employment As I have stated several times, the best possible solution to employment problems, including the upcoming automation crisis, is a federally-guaranteed employment program. It’s not a simplistic utopian idea–the details of course would all have to be worked out and would be complex in reality–but there is plenty of history of full employment ideas to work from and all sorts of ways in which such a policy can be implemented. I find a federal job guarantee far more convincing than more utopian Universal Basic Income ideas, which are totally disconnected from the centrality of work to American culture, gendered norms, the history of the welfare state, etc. Moreover, a guaranteed job is in fact a version of UBI that could actually gain political support outside of techbros, libertarians, some leftists, and people hate their jobs. That’s why I think we need to embrace the early drafts of the 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins as a useful model. While the details won’t be known until Sean McElwee publishes his piece tomorrow, this is incredibly promising: News: @SenGillibrand tells me she supports a job guarantee. “Guaranteed jobs programs, creating floors for wages and benefits, and expanding the right to collectively bargain are exactly the type of roles government must take to shift power back to workers and our communities." — abolish ice. send homan to the hague. (@SeanMcElwee) March 19, 2018 Whatever this looks like, it’s going to be a huge advance. It’s a demonstration of how left organizing over concrete policy matters can move senators to supporting them, which is also why I want to reiterate the need for a Corporate Accountability Act for international labor and environmental problems that would go far to stop the global exploitation of workers. Putting these ideas in front of our politicians is absolutely critical to moving the ball forward on both social and economic justice issues. Also, my earlier call that Kirsten Gillibrand is the best possible 2020 candidate is now heavily reinforced. employment, full employment, kirsten gillibrand Men Were Made for Silence Undue Burden	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9944
__label__wiki	0.540524	0.540524	Does a ketogenic diet confer the benefits of butyrate without the fibre? Tenuous arguments from fibre apologists According to many plant-eating enthusiasts, we must eat fibre to be healthy for the following reasons: Note: These are not the only arguments people make for eating fibre. These are only reasons related to butyrate. Fibre is the only way to get butyrate. Butyrate prevents colon cancer. Butyrate in the colon treats colitis. Butyrate is the preferred fuel of the colonocyte, therefore it is essential. Without butyrate your colon cells will die off. Of the above statements, only one of them seems well-justified to me, but it also seems irrelevant. Let's start from the end. This idea (a quote from Wikipedia) seems to to be an exaggerated interpretation of a study by Donohoe et al.. The authors are studying germ-free mice, who don't, of course, have bacteria synthesising butyrate. They describe what looks to them like impaired colon cell energetics in the mice and ultimately autophagy upregulation, meaning the cells are eating themselves. They reverse these effects with butyrate. I've already written about some of the curious paradoxes inherent in the study. To summarise, other studies consistently find germ-free mice to be healthier than wild mice by many a measure, including appearing to be more energetic, and living longer. There seems to have been a conflation of cell energy with mitochondrial energy, by not looking for mitochondrial density changes. So, I'm not convinced the butyrate made things better. Likewise, the reported evidence of autophagy (increased autophagosomes attributed to upregulation of AMPK), insofar as it indicates autophagy, could equally be a desirable result, given the role of autophagy in maintaining healthy tissues. See, e.g. [Miz2011]. Certainly unrestrained autophagy, with no homeostatic mechanism, should result in total loss of tissue, but that doesn't seem to happen with the germ-free mice. Germ-free rodents have freakishly large caecums, and somewhat reduced small intestines, but so far as I can tell, no colon abnormalities worth mentioning. For an extensive review of the data already available in 1971 on germ-free animals, including the structure and function of various organs, see The gnotobiotic animal as a tool in the study of host microbial relationships.. In any case, if the colons of germ-free mice are at any disadvantage there are clearly more differences that might be attributable to than mere lack of butyrate. Are there other reasons to worry about colon cells that don't get any? If you haven't read my thoughts on the term "preferred", the point is that what a cell will consume first isn't necessarily the fuel that is the healthiest, though it certainly can be. Other reasons could be to get rid of it, or to access the metabolites. I'm not really suggesting that butyrate is toxic to colon cells. (Though as soon as that thought occurred to me I looked for evidence that it can be, which, of course there is [Pen2007]. Apparently it can accumulate due to maldigestion or bacterial overgrowth and cause serious epithelial damage. But I digress.) All I'm saying is that habitual heavy use doesn't imply something is needed. The same argument has been made about glucose in the brain, and we all know that the brain actually needs only a very small amount of glucose, if β-hydroxybutyrate is in good supply. It's still possible that other fuels are as good or better than butyrate for the colonocyte. Normally, colonocytes do metabolise butyrate, mostly into CO2 and ketone bodies, but this is impaired in ulcerative colitis [Roe1980], [Roe1993], [Ahm2000], such that ketogenesis is is inversely proportional to the severity of the disease [Roe1980]. This impairment may explain the mixed results in treatments involving butyrate. Some researchers have tried to treat colitis by adding more butyrate for substrate, by enema. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that has not met with much success. Or has it? I read a somewhat confusing review [Mal2015] that has several citations in it that don't appear to line up with the claims preceded by the citations, including citing the same paper that I've cited above (Roe1980), as showing "that restoration of butyrate levels by intracolonic infusion treats UC", which I can find no mention of in the paper, and citing a single paper twice, ([Ham2010]), once to say that enemas had very limited effect (which I think is correct) and once, later, to say it was a "well demonstrated" "cure". These are probably just simple citation errors on my part or theirs. There have been some successes using enemas, but the results are mixed [Ham2008]. Insofar as there are successes, it is worth noting that the butyrate was taken in by rectal cells, not colon cells, and so the effect was post-absorptive. In other words, it must have come systemically. In fact, when the butyrate is applied directly to impaired cells it seems to worsen the situation. These points are noted in the review, and motivates their own contribution. The researchers used intraperitoneal injections of butyrate to apparently almost completely restore colonocyte integrity in rodent models of colitis. At face value, this would suggest that it is not the butyrate that helped, but a metabolite of butyrate, i.e. ketone bodies, since peritoneal injections normally pass through the liver [Tur2011]. If it's systemic ketone bodies we want, we know how to do that! Also, this method is rarely used in humans, so it may not be easy to make any practical use of. In any case, none of this would suggest that eating plant fibre will help colitis in any way, given that the issue appears to depend on inability to use the butyrate. Ulcerative Colitis UC and Crohn's Disease (CD) constitute the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). There is not clear evidence that fibre intake helps with IBD, and in fact, "low residue" or "low fibre" diets are usually recommended (see below). In case you were wondering, "residue" means anything that survives digestion, and comes all the way through the intestines. That includes fibre , but also microorganisms, and secretions and cells shed from the alimentary tract. While there are studies that support the benefit of fibre in IBD, there are others showing harm. The evidence is mixed enough to be called weak and inconclusive [Kap2016]. Anecdotes such as the "Crohn's Carnivore" suggest a different solution might hold for some: "Eight years ago I decided to eat nothing but meat for a year. Now I have a perfectly normal colon. If those two events are indeed correlated, and someone could figure out exactly how, a whole lot of people would be able to find relief from a terrible disease." That experience runs both with and possibly against current dietary guidelines for IBD. In a 2011 review [Bro2011], the authors show that most guidelines advise low fibre intake, especially during flares. Some also advise low fat intake, and in particular, to eat lean meat. I'm not sure whether the Crohn's Carnivore was eating lean or fatty meat during his year of healing. At first blush, the low fat advisory looks like just another "extra-mile" kind of recommendation, in which guideline writers are throwing in other ideas about healthy diet for good measure. However, they state that it comes from the reported reactions of some patients. They also cite patient surveys which list meat as a provoking food in 25% of respondents. (The most common response was vegetables, at 40%). One wonders if there are conflations. Later, the authors specifically say that there is little to support or refute a low fat recommendation. Another anecdote, this time elevated to "case study" level, because physicians penned it, comes from the Evolutionary Medicine Working Group, in Budapest, Hungary [Tot2016]. They report complete resolution of symptoms in a child with Crohn's and cessation of medications from an essentially meat-only diet. The exception was that patient was allowed some honey, but it was low enough that ketosis was maintained. This was a 2:1 fat:protein diet, so definitely not low fat. The child had previously tried low fat, low fibre, and several medications without improvement. It is interesting to note that even one dose of "paleo approved" fibre caused a flare up. "Given the patient's severe condition upon the first visit the paleolithic ketogenic diet was started in the strictest form thus containing no vegetables and fruits at all. Such a diet may first sound restrictive but our previous experience indicate that a full fat-meat diet is needed in the most severe cases of Crohn's disease. In addition, our experience shows that even a single occasion of deviation from diet rules may result in lasting relapse. This was the case in the present patient too where breaking the strict rules (eating the "paleo cakes") resulted in a thickening of the bowel wall. Based on our experience this is due to the components of the popular paleolithic diet including coconut oil, oil seeds and sugar alcohols which may trigger inflammation." In other words, a fibre-free ketogenic diet appears help IBD more than a diet including fibre, even a ketogenic diet including fibre. The idea that butyrate might be protective of colon cancer seems to have started in the 1980s (see, e.g., [Sen2006]. This area of research is extensive, and I am by no means an expert. If you haven't guessed, that butyrate has a protective effect on colon cancer is the one statement I think is entirely defensible. It's not known exactly how butyrate exerts its protective effects, but some mechanisms held to be important are also induced by β-hydroxybutyrate. For example butyrate's histone deacelytase (HDAC) inhibition is considered an important mechanism [Hin2002], [Blo2011]. β-Hydroxybutyrate is also an HDAC inhibitor [Shi2013]. Gpr109a receptor activation is a recently identified mechanism [Sin2014]. Gpr109a has many aliases, including hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 2 (HCA2) or niacin receptor 1 (NIACR1), and HM74a/PUMA-G. Gpr109a is activated by β-hydroxybutyrate [Tag2005], [Rah2014], [Gam2012]. It is sometimes simply called the β-hydroxybutyrate receptor. In fact, the argument behind the relevance of the Gpr109a discovery is just as strong an argument for a ketogenic diet as for eating fibre! (This sentence is incorrect. See Edit.) That is, the researchers demonstrated that butyrate could substitute for niacin in activating these receptors, and that just as niacin activation of Gpr109a in fat cells is protective of cardiovascular disease, it may also be in diseases of the colon, and this argues for eating fibre to substitute for pharmalogic doses of niacin. From a press release: "We think mega-doses of niacin may be useful in the treatment and/or prevention of ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and colorectal cancer as well as familial adenomatous polyposis, or FAP, a genetic condition that causes polyps to develop throughout the gastrointestinal tract" "Research teams at GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Heidelberg, Germany showed in 2003 that Gpr109a receptors on the surface of fat cells mediate the protective cardiovascular effect of niacin, including increasing good cholesterol, or HDL, while decreasing levels of disease-producing LDL. Their search for other activators identified butyrate, which led Ganapathy to find that not only is the Gpr109a receptor expressed on the surface of colon cells, but that with sufficient fiber intake, butyrate levels in the colon can activate it." 2018-01-04: A critic pointed out that the cell receptors for SCFAs are facing the lumen, and therefore argued that beta-hydroxybutyrate from the portal side would be irrelevant. Indeed, the researchers using niacin also assume that the extremely high dose of niacin does not act sytemically, but rather reaches the lumen because of the super-high doses. So the statement I made above, about the argument for beta-hydroxybutyrate being equal to that for niacin is not correct. The argument still stands that the beta-hydroxybutyrate metabolites activating targets inside could be where the majority of the benefits of butyate come from. That is where the HDAC inhibition occurs and where the immune cell receptors are. At least one research group agrees with my speculation that the interior metabolites may be important for the effect [Siv2017] " "As the cell-surface receptors for SCFAs are located on the lumen-facing apical membrane of colonic epithelial cells (see below), the luminal concentrations of these agonists are physiologically relevant. SCFAs are low-affinity agonists for these receptors, and the normal luminal concentrations of these bacterial metabolites are in the millimolar levels, sufficient to activate these receptors from the luminal side. However, some of the molecular targets for these metabolites are either inside the cells (e.g., HDACs) or on the surface of the immune cells located in the lamina propria. Therefore, concentrations of these metabolites inside the colonic epithelial cells and in the lamina propria are relevant to impact these molecular targets. The intracellular target HDAC is inhibited by butyrate and propionate at low micromolar concentrations. There are effective transport systems for SCFAs in the apical membrane of colonic epithelial cells (e.g., proton-coupled and sodium-coupled monocarboxylate transporters) [47], thus making it very likely for these SCFAs to reach intracellular levels sufficient to inhibit HDACs. Even though the luminal concentrations of SCFAs are in the millimolar range, it is unlikely that they reach lamina propria at significant levels to activate the cell-surface receptors present on the mucosal immune cells. These metabolites are present only at micromolar levels in the portal blood [57], indicating that they undergo robust metabolism inside the colonic epithelial cells. This raises the question as to the physiological relevance of these bacterial metabolites to the activation of the cell-surface SCFA receptors in immune cells located in the lamina propria. With regard to this issue, it is important to note that colonic epithelial cells are highly ketogenic; they use acetate and butyrate to generate the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate [58]. This ketone body is released from the cells into portal blood. As β-hydroxybutyrate is 3–4 times more potent than butyrate in activating its receptor GPR109A, it can be speculated that the colon-derived ketone body is most likely involved in the activation of the SCFA receptor in mucosal immune cells." Moreover, see the preliminary systemic evidence below. Interestingly, as in the case of colitis, colorectal cancer appears to involve a dysfunction in ability to use butyrate. Specifically, there are detrimental changes in membrane transport that reduce its entry into the cell [Gon2016]. Therefore, it's unclear that once the disease process has begun, increased fibre intake will be of any use. Beta-hydroxybutyrate in the bloodstream, however, might. There is at least some preliminary evidence that butyrate in the bloodstream has similar effects on intestinal tissue as butyrate coming from the colon itself [Kor1990], [Rol1997], [Bar2004], as does infusion of glutamine and acetoacetate, another ketone body [Rom1990]. Ketogenic diets do increase blood acetoacetate. If bloodstream infusion of butyrate is as effective as absorption of butyrate in the intestines in protecting colon cells from degradation, then it seems reasonable to hypothesise that β-hydroxybutyrate in the bloodstream would also have this effect. These common mechanisms suggest that much or even all of the benefits obtainable by butyrate are equally achievable simply through ketogenic diets, making additional butyrate in the context of a ketogenic diet potentially superfluous. Even though it seems likely that a fibre-free ketogenic diet is not only sufficient for colon health, but better for treating colon disease, we might feel cautious about going without the butyrate from fibre, given the dire pronouncements from nutritional scientists. Is there any other way to get butyrate? The most significant food source, butter, doesn't give much. Only about 3-4% of butter is butyric acid. According to [Sen2006] we produce >200mmol per day. That would take about a pound of butter! Stepping back, it should be obvious that carnivores such as felines and canines provide an important source of data relevant to this question. Carnivores have colons, and they are not normally in ketosis unless food is scarce. Either their colons don't need butyrate, or they are getting sufficient butyrate from some other source. As it happens, there are microbes that ferment amino acids in to short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), including butyrate. Carnivores are known to get "animal fibre" from their prey. That is, amino acids from incompletely digested animal parts reach their colons and are fermented. In particular, in cheetahs, casein, collagen, and glucosamine have been shown to result in butyrate production comparable to fructo-oligosaccharides [Dep2012]. Beyond poorly digested animal sourced fibre, many amino acids are fermented into SCFAs, including butyrate [Ras1988], and these amino acids are abundant in human intestines and colons and are fermented there [Vit2014], [Dai2015], [Nei2015], [Wie2017]. I was unable to determine how much butyrate this would account for. I did find research comparing the SCFA levels produced in dogs under conditions of high fibre vs. meat alone showing that they produced almost as much VFA (another word for SCFA) in their colons eating meat alone [Ban1979]. In any case, we certainly do generate butyrate in the absence of dietary fibre. Although many in the medical community consider butyrate an essential fuel for colon cells, there may be a parallel to glucose and brain cells, in that some or all of this functionality could be replaceable with β-hydroxybutyrate. This idea is supported by these observations: Carnivores and even germ-free mice have intact, working colons without contributions from fibre-derived butyrate, so it stands to reason that humans may not need it either. Although not discussed in this post, some recent societies thrived on animal-based diets with little and infrequent plant intake. β-hydroxybutyrate triggers many of the same mechanisms that butyrate does; those very mechanisms thought to explain its role in preventing colon cancer and the intestinal degradation seen in diseased colons or the colons of those receiving reduced fibre diets to promote bowel rest. β-hydroxybutyrate may even be the pathway through which butyrate exerts its beneficial effects, given that it is a direct metabolite of butyrate, and that systemic butyrate appears to be as effective or even more effective in treating colitis, than direct application of butyrate to the cells. Even without eating fibre, our intestinal microbes produce butyrate from amino acids. If systemic ketone bodies supplant or even just reduce the need for butyrate, amino acid derived butyrate may supply this need, even if the quantities turn out to be less than we would get from fibre. End-to-end citations [Ahm2000] Evidence type: non-human animal experiment Butyrate and glucose metabolism by colonocytes in experimental colitis in mice. Ahmad MS, Krishnan S, Ramakrishna BS, Mathan M, Pulimood AB, Murthy SN. Gut. 2000 Apr;46(4):493-9. "BACKGROUND/AIMS: "Impaired colonocyte metabolism of butyrate has been implicated in the aetiopathogenesis of ulcerative colitis. Colonocyte butyrate metabolism was investigated in experimental colitis in mice. "Colitis was induced in Swiss outbred white mice by oral administration of 4% dextran sulphate sodium (DSS). Colonocytes isolated from colitic and normal control mice were incubated with [(14)C]butyrate or glucose, and production of (14)CO(2), as well as of intermediate metabolites (acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate and lactate), was measured. The effect of different substrate concentrations on oxidation was also examined. "Butyrate oxidation (micromol/h per mg protein; mean (SEM)) was significantly reduced in DSS colitis, values on day 7 of DSS administration being 0.177 (0.007) compared with 0.406 (0.035) for control animals (p<0.001). Glucose oxidation (micromol/h per mg protein; mean (SEM)) on day 7 of DSS administration was significantly higher than in controls (0.06 (0.006) v 0.027 (0.004), p<0.001). Production of beta-hydroxybutyrate was decreased and production of lactate increased in DSS colitis compared with controls. Increasing butyrate concentration from 10 to 80 mM enhanced oxidation in DSS colitis (0.036 (0.002) to 0.285 (0.040), p<0.001), although it continued to remain lower than in controls. Surface and crypt epithelial cells showed similar ratios of butyrate to glucose oxidation. When 1 mM DSS was added to normal colonocytes in vitro, it did not alter butyrate oxidation. The initial histological lesion of DSS administration was very patchy and involved crypt cells. Abnormal butyrate oxidation became apparent only after six days of DSS administration, at which time histological abnormalities were more widespread. "Colonocyte metabolism of butyrate, but not of glucose, is impaired in DSS colitis, and may be important in pathophysiology. Histological abnormalities preceded measurable defects in butyrate oxidation." [Ban1979] Sites of organic acid production and patterns of digesta movement in the gastrointestinal tract of dogs Banta, C. A., Clemens, E. T., Krinsky, M. M., and SheiIy, B. E., 1979, J. Nutr. 109:1592-1600. "Two commercial type diest, one a cereal based dry food, the other a fortified all meat canned food were fed to male and female adult beagle dogs to evaluate effects of diet on rate of digesta passage and organic acid concentration along the gastrointestinal tract. [...] Concentrations of VFA were highest in the cecum and colon and were not significantly affected by diet." "Symbols on the abscissa denote sec tions of tract as follows : cranial stomach ( Si ) ; caudal stomach ( 82) ; proximal ( Sii ), middle (SI2) and distal (SL) thirds of the small intestine; cecum (Ce); and proximal (Ci) and distal (CÂ«) halves of the colon ( n = 3 )." "It was surprising to see high concentrations of VFA produced in the lower gut of dogs fed the meat diet. It was logical to assume that liver and muscle glycogen could serve as the fermentable substrate for lactate production in the stomach, but most of this should have been digested and absorbed by the small intes tine. Another possible source of ferment able substance which could survive passage through the small intestine is the protein- polysaccharides of the connective tissue ground substance found in abundance in the meat by-products and whole ground chicken. The ground substance is made up of chondroitin sulfates and hyaluronic acid. The polysaccharide portion of these substances is composed of long chains of disaccharide units consisting of glucosa- mine or galactosamine and glucuronic acid. The linkages of these polysaccharides are not such that they can be cleaved by the endogenous digestive enzymes found in the gut but they could be split by microbial enzymes." [Bar2004] Supplementation of total parenteral nutrition with butyrate acutely increases structural aspects of intestinal adaptation after an 80% jejunoileal resection in neonatal piglets. Bartholome AL1, Albin DM, Baker DH, Holst JJ, Tappenden KA. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2004 Jul-Aug;28(4):210-22; discussion 222-3. "BACKGROUND: "Supplementation of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) with a mixture of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) enhances intestinal adaptation in the adult rodent model. However, the ability and timing of SCFA to augment adaptation in the neonatal intestine is unknown. Furthermore, the specific SCFA inducing the intestinotrophic effects and underlying regulatory mechanism(s) are unclear. Therefore, we examined the effect of SCFA supplemented TPN on structural aspects of intestinal adaptation and hypothesized that butyrate is the SCFA responsible for these effects. "Piglets (n = 120) were randomized to (1) control TPN or TPN supplemented with (2) 60 mmol/L SCFA (36 mmol/L acetate, 15 mmol/L propionate and 9 mmol/L butyrate), (3) 9 mmol/L butyrate, or (4) 60 mmol/L butyrate. Within each group, piglets were further randomized to examine acute (4, 12, or 24 hours) and chronic (3 or 7 days) adaptations. Indices of intestinal adaptation, including crypt-villus architecture, proliferation and apoptosis, and concentration of the intestinotrophic peptide, glucagon-like pepide-2 (GLP-2), were measured. "Villus height was increased (p < .029) within 4 hours by supplemented TPN treatments. Supplemented TPN treatments increased (p < .037) proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression along the entire intestine. Indicative of an antiapoptotic profile, jejunal Bax:Bcl-w abundance was decreased (p = .033) by both butyrate-supplemented TPN treatments, and ileal abundance was decreased (p = .0002) by all supplemented TPN treatments, regardless of time. Supplemented TPN treatments increased (p = .016) plasma GLP-2 concentration at all time points. "Butyrate is the SCFA responsible for augmenting structural aspects of intestinal adaptations by increasing proliferation and decreasing apoptosis within 4 hours postresection. The intestinotrophic mechanism(s) underlying butyrate's effects may involve GLP-2. Ultimately, butyrate administration may enable an infant with short-bowel syndrome to successfully transition to enteral feedings by maximizing their absorptive area." [Bro2011] Existing dietary guidelines for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Brown AC, Rampertab SD, Mullin GE. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2011 Jun;5(3):411-25. doi: 10.1586/egh.11.29. "In terms of existing guidelines for dietary modifications, three suggested limiting dairy if lactose intolerant, two suggested limiting excess fat, one indicated decreasing excess carbohydrates, and five suggested avoiding high-fiber foods, especially during flares. The question of whether or not to use probiotics continues to be debated." "Reducing high-fiber foods during symptoms appears to have generated the most support in the dietary guidelines. It may be important to communicate to IBD patients that high-fiber foods are not recommended, especially for those with CD, during flares or in the presence of active disease states, fistulas or strictures. There appears to be a tendency among the dietary guidelines to restrict foods such as raw fruits, raw vegetables, beans, bran, popcorn, seeds, nuts, corn hulls, whole grains, brown rice and wild rice. Although not mentioned, raw salads would also fall into this category." "Some patients with IBD react to excess dietary fat and perhaps this is where the recommendation is derived. Few research studies are available to support or refute such a recommendation. The topic needs further investigation because patients with malabsorption may be at risk of not obtaining their necessary essential fatty acids. Perhaps saturated fats should be limited, with more of an emphasis on more healthy fat intakes." [Dai2015] Amino acid metabolism in intestinal bacteria and its potential implications for mammalian reproduction Zhaolai Dai Zhenlong Wu Suqin Hang Weiyun Zhu Guoyao Wu MHR: Basic science of reproductive medicine, Volume 21, Issue 5, 1 May 2015, Pages 389–409 "Recent studies with the human colonic bacteria have shown that protein- and AA-fermenting bacteria are abundant and diverse in the colon. The abundance of the AA-fermenting bacteria in the large intestine is very high and their number can reach up to 1011 per gram dry feces (Smith and Macfarlane, 1998). Using the traditional plate counting technique, the authors have also reported that the dominant bacterial species for the utilization of single AA or pairs of AA are very different. For instance, Clostridium bifermentans is the predominant bacteria for the utilization of lysine or proline, and pairs of AA (e.g. phenylalanine/leucine, isoleucine/tryptophan and alanine/glycine), whereas Peptostreptococcus spp. bacteria are predominant for the utilization of glutamate or tryptophan. Many species of bacteria utilize the same AA as substrates for growth (Smith and Macfarlane, 1998). Overall, bacteria belonging to the Clostridium spp. dominate in AA fermentation in the human large intestine, but other bacterial species, such as Fusobacterium spp., Bacteroides spp., Veillonella spp., Megasphaera elsdenii and Selenomonas ruminantium, may also be important for AA metabolism in the large intestine (Smith and Macfarlane, 1998; Dai et al., 2011)." [Dep2012] Fermentation of animal components in strict carnivores: A comparative study with cheetah fecal inoculum. Depauw, S., G. Bosch, M. Hesta, K. Whitehouse-Tedd, W. H. Hendriks, J. Kaandorp, and G. P. J. Janssens. 2012. J. Anim. Sci. 90:2540-2548. doi:10.2527/jas.2011-4377 "End-product profile per unit of OM differed among substrates (Table 3). The greatest total SCFA production was recorded for FOS (P < 0.05), followed by collagen, casein, and glucosamine (P < 0.05). The FOS and collagen showed comparable acetate production. Collagen not only had a high production of total SCFA but also resulted in a greater acetate to propionate ratio relative to all other substrates (8.41:1 for collagen and 1.67:1–2.97:1 for other substrates). Chicken cartilage and glucosamine-chondroitin produced similar total SCFA production, which was moderate compared with FOS (P < 0.05). Total SCFA production from incubated rabbit bone and skin was low (P < 0.05), whereas total SCFA production from rabbit hair was negligible and comparable with the negative control cellulose. Butyrate production was greatest for casein and glucosamine (P < 0.05). Incubation with casein resulted in the greatest total BCFA production (P < 0.05), which was more than double compared with all other substrates that had similar total BCFA production. Considerable variation in BCFA ratios was observed among substrates. In all animal substrates, isovalerate was the main BCFA, whereas fermentation of FOS, glucosamine, and glucosamine-chondroitin led to valerate as the main BCFA. The greatest amount of ammonia production was observed for casein, collagen, and rabbit bone (P < 0.05), whereas the least ammonia production was detected for FOS, cellulose, and rabbit hair (P < 0.05)." [Gam2012] Evidence type: non-human animal and human cell in vitro experiments GPR109A as an Anti-Inflammatory Receptor in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells and Its Relevance to Diabetic Retinopathy. Gambhir D, Ananth S, Veeranan-Karmegam R, et al. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2012;53(4):2208-2217. doi:10.1167/iovs.11-8447. "GPR109A is the G-protein–coupled receptor responsible for mediating the antilipolytic actions of niacin (nicotinic acid), a B-complex vitamin and also a drug used widely to lower blood lipid levels.1 β-hydroxybutyrate (β-HB) is the physiologic ligand for this receptor.2 GPR109A expression was initially thought to be limited to adipocytes, the cell type in which its antilipolytic functions are most warranted, and immune cells.3–5 Recent reports, however, have described expression of the receptor in a number of other cell types, including hepatocytes6 and epithelial cells of the small intestine and colon.7,8 In addition, we demonstrated GPR109A expression in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), localized specifically to the basolateral membrane.9 Although GPR109A is most noted functionally for its antilipolytic effects in adipocytes, recent studies suggest that activation of the receptor also is associated with novel immunomodulatory responses.10–12 We have characterized expression of GPR109A in RPE; however, the functional significance of receptor expression in this cell type remains unknown." [Gon2016] Regulation of colonic epithelial butyrate transport: Focus on colorectal cancer Pedro Gonçalves and Fátima Martel Porto Biomedical Journal Volume 1, Issue 3, July–August 2016, Pages 83-91 "The most important molecular mechanisms involved in the anticarcinogenic effect of BT are dependent on its intracellular concentration (because HDAC expression is overregulated,41,42 while BT membrane receptors (GPR109A and GPR43) are silenced or downregulated in CRC34,38). So, knowledge on the mechanisms involved in its membrane transport is relevant to both its physiological and pharmacological benefits. Also, changes in transporter expression or function will have an obvious impact on the effect of BT, and therefore, knowledge on the regulation of its membrane transport seems particularly important. "[D]ifferences in MCT1, SMCT1 and BCRP expression between normal colonocytes and tumoral cells contribute to the different effects of BT in these cells (‘the BT paradox’). More specifically, BT is transported into normal colonic epithelial cells by both MCT1 and SMCT1, but its intracellular concentration is kept low because it is efficiently metabolized and effluxed from these cells by BCRP-mediated transport. In contrast, colonic epithelial tumoral cells show a decrease in SMCT1 protein expression, and BT is taken up by these cells through MCT1. In these cells, BT accumulates intracellularly because it is inefficiently metabolized (due to the fact that glucose becomes the primary energy source of these cells) and because there is a reduction in BCRP expression." [Hin2002] Evidence type: human cell in vitro experiment The Effects of Short-Chain Fatty Acids on Human Colon Cancer Cell Phenotype Are Associated with Histone Hyperacetylation Brian F. Hinnebusch, Shufen Meng, James T. Wu, Sonia Y. Archer, and Richard A. Hodin J. Nutr. May 1, 2002 vol. 132 no. 5 1012-1017 "The short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) butyrate is produced via anaerobic bacterial fermentation within the colon and is thought to be protective in regard to colon carcinogenesis. Although butyrate (C4) is considered the most potent of the SCFA, a variety of other SCFA also exist in the colonic lumen. Butyrate is thought to exert its cellular effects through the induction of histone hyperacetylation. We sought to determine the effects of a variety of the SCFA on colon carcinoma cell growth, differentiation and apoptosis. HT-29 or HCT-116 (wild-type and p21-deleted) cells were treated with physiologically relevant concentrations of various SCFA, and histone acetylation state was assayed by acid-urea-triton-X gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting. Growth and apoptotic effects were studied by flow cytometry, and differentiation effects were assessed using transient transfections and Northern blotting. Propionate (C3) and valerate (C5) caused growth arrest and differentiation in human colon carcinoma cells. The magnitude of their effects was associated with a lesser degree of histone hyperacetylation compared with butyrate. Acetate (C2) and caproate (C6), in contrast, did not cause histone hyperacetylation and also had no appreciable effects on cell growth or differentiation. SCFA-induced transactivation of the differentiation marker gene, intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP), was blocked by histone deacetylase (HDAC), further supporting the critical link between SCFA and histones. Butyrate also significantly increased apoptosis, whereas the other SCFA studied did not. The growth arrest induced by the SCFA was characterized by an increase in the expression of the p21 cell-cycle inhibitor and down-regulation of cyclin B1 (CB1). In p21-deleted HCT-116 colon cancer cells, the SCFA did not alter the rate of proliferation. These data suggest that the antiproliferative, apoptotic and differentiating properties of the various SCFA are linked to the degree of induced histone hyperacetylation. Furthermore, SCFA-mediated growth arrest in colon carcinoma cells requires the p21 gene." [Blo2011] Evidence type: in vitro experiments Butyrate elicits a metabolic switch in human colon cancer cells by targeting the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Blouin, J.-M., Penot, G., Collinet, M., Nacfer, M., Forest, C., Laurent-Puig, P., Coumoul, X., Barouki, R., Benelli, C. and Bortoli, S. (2011) Int. J. Cancer, 128: 2591–2601. doi:10.1002/ijc.25599 "Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid produced by the colonic bacterial fermentation is able to induce cell growth inhibition and differentiation in colon cancer cells at least partially through its capacity to inhibit histone deacetylases. Since butyrate is expected to impact cellular metabolic pathways in colon cancer cells, we hypothesize that it could exert its antiproliferative properties by altering cellular metabolism. We show that although Caco2 colon cancer cells oxidized both butyrate and glucose into CO2, they displayed a higher oxidation rate with butyrate as substrate than with glucose. Furthermore, butyrate pretreatment led to an increase cell capacity to oxidize butyrate and a decreased capacity to oxidize glucose, suggesting that colon cancer cells, which are initially highly glycolytic, can switch to a butyrate utilizing phenotype, and preferentially oxidize butyrate instead of glucose as energy source to produce acetyl coA. Butyrate pretreated cells displayed a modulation of glutamine metabolism characterized by an increased incorporation of carbons derived from glutamine into lipids and a reduced lactate production. The butyrate-stimulated glutamine utilization is linked to pyruvate dehydrogenase complex since dichloroacetate reverses this effect. Furthermore, butyrate positively regulates gene expression of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases and this effect involves a hyperacetylation of histones at PDK4 gene promoter level. Our data suggest that butyrate exerts two distinct effects to ensure the regulation of glutamine metabolism: it provides acetyl coA needed for fatty acid synthesis, and it also plays a role in the control of the expression of genes involved in glucose utilization leading to the inactivation of PDC." [Jas1985] Evidence type: armchair Diet, butyric acid and differentiation of gastrointestinal tract tumours. Jass JR Med Hypotheses. 1985 Oct;18(2):113-8. "Butyric acid has two contrasting functional roles. As a product of fermentation within the human colon, it serves as the most important energy source for normal colorectal epithelium. It also promotes the differentiation of cultured malignant cells. A switch from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism accompanies neoplastic transformation in the colorectum. The separate functional roles for n-butyrate may reflect the different metabolic activities of normal and neoplastic tissues. Relatively low intracolonic levels of n-butyrate are associated with a low fibre diet. Deficiency of n-butyrate, coupled to the increased energy requirements of neoplastic tissues, may promote the switch to anaerobic metabolism. The presence of naturally occurring differentiating agents, such as n-butyrate, may modify the patterns of growth and differentiation of gastrointestinal tumours." [Ham2008] Review article: the role of butyrate on colonic function. HAMER, H. M., JONKERS, D., VENEMA, K., VANHOUTVIN, S., TROOST, F. J. and BRUMMER, R.-J. (2008) Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 27: 104–119. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2007.03562.x "Although some controlled studies with enemas containing butyrate or SCFA mixtures in UC patients did not find beneficial effects121 or only trends towards clinical improvement,46, 118, 119 various other studies revealed a significant improvement in clinical and inflammatory parameters.45, 115, 120, 124, 126 Studies in patients with diversion colitis reported inconsistent results with regard to improvement in clinical symptoms and inflammatory parameters in response to administration of mixtures of SCFAs vs. placebo.96, 114 Two other human intervention studies determined mucosal cell proliferation in patients after Hartmann’s procedure and found trophic effects of SCFA mixtures in the mucosa of the closed rectal and sigmoid segment.73, 116" "The effects of butyrate containing enemas on radiation proctitis113, 117, 122, 125 and pouchitis123 have been studied in small groups and besides one report125 that showed that butyrate was an effective treatment of radiation proctitis, other studies did not report clear-cut beneficial effects of SCFA irrigation in these two patient groups." Evidence type: human experiment Effect of butyrate enemas on inflammation and antioxidant status in the colonic mucosa of patients with ulcerative colitis in remission. Hamer HM, Jonkers DM, Vanhoutvin SA, Troost FJ, Rijkers G, de Bruïne A, Bast A, Venema K, Brummer RJ. Clin Nutr. 2010 Dec;29(6):738-44. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2010.04.002. Epub 2010 May 15. "BACKGROUND & AIMS: "Butyrate, produced by colonic fermentation of dietary fibers is often hypothesized to beneficially affect colonic health. This study aims to assess the effects of butyrate on inflammation and oxidative stress in subjects with chronically mildly elevated parameters of inflammation and oxidative stress. "Thirty-five patients with ulcerative colitis in clinical remission daily administered 60 ml rectal enemas containing 100mM sodium butyrate (n=17) or saline (n=18) during 20 days (NCT00696098). Before and after the intervention feces, blood and colonic mucosal biopsies were obtained. Parameters of antioxidant defense and oxidative damage, myeloperoxidase, several cytokines, fecal calprotectin and CRP were determined. "Butyrate enemas induced minor effects on colonic inflammation and oxidative stress. Only a significant increase of the colonic IL-10/IL-12 ratio was found within butyrate-treated patients (p=0.02), and colonic concentrations of CCL5 were increased after butyrate compared to placebo treatment (p=0.03). Although in general butyrate did not affect colonic glutathione levels, the effects of butyrate enemas on total colonic glutathione appeared to be dependent on the level of inflammation. "CONCLUSION: "Although UC patients in remission were characterized by low-grade oxidative stress and inflammation, rectal butyrate enemas showed only minor effects on inflammatory and oxidative stress parameters." [Kap2016] Fiber and the Risk of Flaring in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Lessons From the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America Database Gilaad G. Kaplan, MD, MPH, FRCPC Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , Volume 14 , Issue 8 , 1137 - 1139 "After reviewing the study from Brotherton et al and prior literature, information for patients with IBD on the effects of fiber on the risk of flaring is unclear. The current article adds to this discussion but does not definitively answer the question. Overall, the data suggest that in the absence of a known fibrostenotic stricture with obstructive symptoms, a high fiber diet is likely safe in patients with IBD and may impart a weak benefit. Yet, answering these clinically relevant questions with more confidence and detail is within our grasp. The advent of e-cohorts offers the potential to transform research in the future by allowing investigators to design cost-efficient Web-based clinical studies, particularly for interventional environmental clinical trials." [Kor1990] Parenteral nutrition supplemented with short-chain fatty acids: effect on the small-bowel mucosa in normal rats. Koruda MJ1, Rolandelli RH, Bliss DZ, Hastings J, Rombeau JL, Settle RG. Am J Clin Nutr. 1990 Apr;51(4):685-9. "When enteral nutrition is excluded from animals maintained solely with total parenteral nutrition (TPN), atrophy of the intestinal mucosa is observed. Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are produced in the colon by the fermentation of dietary carbohydrates and fiber polysaccharides and have been shown to stimulate mucosal-cell mitotic activity in the intestine. This study compared the effects of an intravenous and an intracecal infusion of SCFAs on the small-bowel mucosa. Rats received standard TPN, TPN with SCFAs (sodium acetate, propionate, and butyrate), TPN with an intracecal infusion of SCFAs, or rat food. After 7 d jejunal and ileal mucosal weights, DNA, RNA, and protein were determined. Standard TPN produced significant atrophy of the jejunal and ileal mucosa. Both the intracecal and intravenous infusion of SCFAs significantly reduced the mucosal atrophy associated with TPN. The intravenous and intracolonic infusion of SCFAs were equally effective in inhibiting small-bowel mucosal atrophy." [Mal2015] Intraperitoneal administration of butyrate prevents the severity of acetic acid colitis in rats Joshua J. Malago and Catherine L. Sangu Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2015 Mar; 16(3): 224–234. doi: 10.1631/jzus.B1400191 "Earlier studies that linked the development of UC and butyrate levels in the colon, observed that deficiency of butyrate leads to disease development and that restoration of butyrate levels by intracolonic infusion treats UC (Roediger, 1980). Since then, butyrate enemas have popularly been used as medicaments stemming from their potential to impart beneficial attributes to the colon. This potential involves an increase in mechanical strength of injured colonic mucosa to hasten the healing process (Bloemen et al., 2010; Mathew et al., 2010), suppression of IL-8 production by intestinal epithelial cells to protect against the inflammatory process (Malago et al., 2005), and clinical remission of UC by protecting against inflammatory and oxidative stress parameters of the disease (Hamer et al., 2010b). Much as butyrate tends to impart a protective effect, several authors have indicated failures or limited success of butyrate to relieve IBD patients (Harig et al., 1989; Sanderson, 1997; Hamer et al., 2010b)." "Topical administration of butyrate to cure colitis has been fairly well demonstrated (Scheppach et al., 1992; Hamer et al., 2010a; 2010b). This is done mainly through intrarectal administration of enemas that contain butyrate. The procedure is one of the earliest approaches to treat UC even in patients who had been unresponsive to or intolerant of standard therapy (Scheppach et al., 1992). The intrarectally administered butyrate needs to be absorbed before it works. Normally butyrate absorption mainly occurs in proximal colon whose function is impaired during UC. This hinders absorption of topically administered butyrate and may not benefit UC patients. However, butyrate absorption in the colon can be increased by manipulating electrolyte composition in the rectal lumen (Holtug et al., 1995) since rectal butyrate absorption remains normal during UC (Hove et al., 1995). Thus, topical butyrate, given intrarectally in form of SB, plays a double role; firstly by employing sodium ions, it accelerates rectal absorption of SB and secondly, the absorbed butyrate imparts healing to the colonocytes. The end result is epithelial proliferation to restore the damaged epithelium, especially the lost colonic epithelial continuity." "We have demonstrated the potential of intraperitoneally administered butyrate to prevent the severity of AA-induced UC lesions. To the best of our knowledge, this finding has not been reported before. However, the systemic effect of butyrate to other body systems and organs has been reported. For instance, intraperitoneal injection of butyrate at 50–200 mg/kg body weight decreases gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicity in rats by enhancing renal antioxidant enzyme activity and expression of prohibitin protein (Sun et al., 2013). When given at 1200 mg/kg, intraperitoneal butyrate ameliorates an aging-associated deficit in object recognition memory in rats (Reolon et al., 2011). Silingardi et al. (2010) further demonstrated that chronic intraperitoneal administration of butyrate to long-term monocularly deprived adult rats causes a complete recovery of visual acuity. A more recent study has also reported that intraperitoneal injections of butyrate for 28 d to adult C57BL/6 mice prevent repressed contextual fear memory caused by isoflurane (Zhong et al., 2014). All these facts and our own study affirm that butyrate has a potential to impart protective roles to various body organs and systems through systemic administration." [Mil2017] Supplementation of Low- and High-fat Diets with Fermentable Fiber Exacerbates Severity of DSS-induced Acute Colitis. Miles JP, Zou J, Kumar MV, Pellizzon M, Ulman E, Ricci M, Gewirtz AT, Chassaing B. "Lack of dietary fiber has been suggested to increase the risk of developing various chronic inflammatory diseases, whereas supplementation of diets with fiber might offer an array of health-promoting benefits. Consistent with this theme, we recently reported that in mice, compositionally defined diets that are made with purified ingredients and lack fermentable fiber promote low-grade inflammation and metabolic syndrome, both of which could be ameliorated by supplementation of such diets with the fermentable fiber inulin. "Herein, we examined if, relative to a grain-based mouse diet (chow), compositionally defined diet consumption would impact development of intestinal inflammation induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) and moreover, whether DSS-induced colitis might also be attenuated by diets supplemented with inulin. "Analogous to their promotion of low-grade inflammation, compositionally defined diet of high- and low-fat content with cellulose increased the severity of DSS-induced colitis relative to chow. However, in contrast to the case of low-grade inflammation, addition of inulin, but not the insoluble fiber cellulose, further exacerbated the severity of colitis and its associated clinical manifestations (weight loss and bleeding) in both low- and high-fat diets. "While inulin, and perhaps other fermentable fibers, can ameliorate low-grade inflammation and associated metabolic disease, it also has the potential to exacerbate disease severity in response to inducers of acute colitis." [Miz2011] Autophagy: renovation of cells and tissues. Mizushima N, Komatsu M. Cell. 2011 Nov 11;147(4):728-41. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.026. "Autophagy is the major intracellular degradation system by which cytoplasmic materials are delivered to and degraded in the lysosome. However, the purpose of autophagy is not the simple elimination of materials, but instead, autophagy serves as a dynamic recycling system that produces new building blocks and energy for cellular renovation and homeostasis. Here we provide a multidisciplinary review of our current understanding of autophagy's role in metabolic adaptation, intracellular quality control, and renovation during development and differentiation. We also explore how recent mouse models in combination with advances in human genetics are providing key insights into how the impairment or activation of autophagy contributes to pathogenesis of diverse diseases, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson disease to inflammatory disorders such as Crohn disease." [Nei2015] The Role of Microbial Amino Acid Metabolism in Host Metabolism. Neis EPJG, Dejong CHC, Rensen SS. Nutrients. 2015;7(4):2930-2946. doi:10.3390/nu7042930. "Although protein breakdown followed by amino acid absorption in the small intestine is a rather efficient process, substantial amounts of amino acids seem to escape assimilation in the small intestine in humans [38]. These amino acids can subsequently be used by the microbiota in the colon, or transported from the lumen into the portal blood stream. In addition, the host itself produces substrates such as glycoproteins (e.g., mucins) which contribute to the available amino acids within the colon [39]. " "Regarding the large intestine, it appears that amino acids are not significantly absorbed by the colonic mucosa, but rather are intensively metabolized by the large intestinal microbiota [23]. This higher rate of bacterial protein fermentation has been related to high pH and low carbohydrate availability in the large intestine [22]. The preferred amino acid substrates of colonic bacteria include lysine, arginine, glycine, and the BCAA leucine, valine, and isoleucine [32], resulting in the generation of a complex mixture of metabolic end products including among others ammonia, SCFA (acetate, propionate, and butyrate), and branched-chain fatty acids (BCFA; valerate, isobutyrate, and isovalerate). " [Pen2007] Effects of Butyrate on Intestinal Barrier Function in a Caco-2 Cell Monolayer Model of Intestinal Barrier Luying Peng, Zhenjuan He, Wei Chen, Ian R Holzman and Jing Lin Pediatric Research (2007) 61, 37–41; doi:10.1203/01.pdr.0000250014.92242.f3 "In premature infants, the maturation of the intestinal barrier function does not develop properly in the absence of enteral nutrients (6). Intestinal barrier function is significantly less developed in full-term newborn piglets receiving total parental nutrition compared with those receiving enteral nutrition (7). Production of SCFA in the bowel may be crucial for gastrointestinal adaptation and maturation in the early stage of postnatal life (8). However, overproduction and/or accumulation of SCFA in the bowel due to maldigestion and bacterial overgrowth may be toxic to mucosal cells and cause intestinal mucosal injury (9,10). Overproduction and/or accumulation of SCFA in the bowel and inability to clear the intraluminal SCFA because of poor gastrointestinal motility in premature infants have been hypothesized to play a role in the pathogenesis of neonatal NEC (11)." [Rah2014] The β-hydroxybutyrate receptor HCA2 activates a neuroprotective subset of macrophages. Rahman M, Muhammad S, Khan MA, Chen H, Ridder DA, Müller-Fielitz H, Pokorná B, Vollbrandt T, Stölting I, Nadrowitz R, Okun JG, Offermanns S, Schwaninger M. Nat Commun. 2014 May 21;5:3944. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4944. "The ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) is an endogenous factor protecting against stroke and neurodegenerative diseases, but its mode of action is unclear. Here we show in a stroke model that the hydroxy-carboxylic acid receptor 2 (HCA2, GPR109A) is required for the neuroprotective effect of BHB and a ketogenic diet, as this effect is lost in Hca2(-/-) mice. We further demonstrate that nicotinic acid, a clinically used HCA2 agonist, reduces infarct size via a HCA2-mediated mechanism, and that noninflammatory Ly-6C(Lo) monocytes and/or macrophages infiltrating the ischemic brain also express HCA2. Using cell ablation and chimeric mice, we demonstrate that HCA2 on monocytes and/or macrophages is required for the protective effect of nicotinic acid. The activation of HCA2 induces a neuroprotective phenotype of monocytes and/or macrophages that depends on PGD2 production by COX1 and the haematopoietic PGD2 synthase. Our data suggest that HCA2 activation by dietary or pharmacological means instructs Ly-6C(Lo) monocytes and/or macrophages to deliver a neuroprotective signal to the brain." [Ras1988] Evidence type: in vitro experiment Degradation of amino acids to short-chain fatty acids in humans. An in vitro study. Rasmussen HS, Holtug K, Mortensen PB. Scand J Gastroenterol. 1988 Mar;23(2):178-82. "Short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) originate mainly in the colon through bacterial fermentation of polysaccharides. To test the hypothesis that SCFA may originate from polypeptides as well, the production of these acids from albumin and specific amino acids was examined in a faecal incubation system. Albumin was converted to all C2-C5-fatty acids, whereas amino acids generally were converted to specific SCFA, most often through the combination of a deamination and decarboxylation of the amino acids, although more complex processes also took place. This study indicates that a part of the intestinal SCFA may originate from polypeptides, which apparently are the major source of those SCFA (isobutyrate, valerate, and isovalerate) only found in small amounts in the healthy colon. Moreover, gastrointestinal disease resulting in increased proteinous material in the colon (exudation, mucosal desquamation, bleeding, and so forth) may hypothetically influence SCFA production." [Roe1980] (1, 2) The colonic epithelium in ulcerative colitis: an energy-deficiency disease? Roediger WE. Lancet. 1980 Oct 4;2(8197):712-5. "The view that UC might be due to a metabolic defect in the epithelial cells[5,6] has received little general recognition. The present study was undertaken to assess the metabolic performance of the mucosa in UC and especially to explore whether a metabolic abnormality could be detected. To facilitate this approach a method of preparing suspensions of colonocytes was devised.[7] Colonocytes have been used to determine the utilisation of respiratory fuels by the non-diseased ascending and descending colon in man.[8] The results showed that short-chain fatty acid (SCFA), especially n-butyrate of bacterial origin, was the predominant contributor to cellular oxidation and that a large proportion of the carbon atoms of colonocyte respiration was derived from SCFAs. Mucosa of the distal colon depended metabolically mostly on n-butyrate, whereas the proximal colonic mucosa depended mostly on glucose and glutamine for respiratory fuel.[8] These same respiratory fuels were chosen for the investigation of colonocytes prepared from the mucosa of patients with ulcerative colitis. "Generation of 14C02 from radioactively labelled butyrate was observed for at least 40 min. Production of 14C02 was linear whenever this could be tested for 60 min. Generation of 14C02 was significantly less in quiescent and acute-colitis cells than in controls (p = <0.001) (table II). Some of the oxidised butyrate appeared as ketone bodies (acetoacetate and β-hydroxybutyrate, table III). The diminished production of ketone bodies mirrors the decreased oxidation of butyrate to CO2. Ketogenesis was significantly lower in the quiescent-colitis group than the control group and lower still in the acute-colitis group. "The metabolism of colonocytes from patients with UC seemed to differ in three respects from the metabolism of colonocytes prepared from non-ulcerated and apparently normal mucosa. In UC: 1. Butyrate oxidation to C02 and ketone bodies was significantly impaired, and the impairment correlated with the acute or chronic involvement of the mucosa. 2. Glucose oxidation was increased. 3. Glutamine oxidation was increased." "Ketogenesis was significantly lower in the quiescent-colitis group than the control group and lower still in the acute-colitis group." [Roe1993] Sulphide impairment of substrate oxidation in rat colonocytes: a biochemical basis for ulcerative colitis? Roediger WE, Duncan A, Kapaniris O, Millard S. Clin Sci (Lond). 1993 Nov;85(5):623-7. "Isolated colonic epithelial cells of the rat were incubated for 40 min with [6-14C]glucose and n-[1-14C]butyrate in the presence of 0.1-2.0 mmol/l NaHS, a concentration range found in the human colon. Metabolic products, 14CO2, acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate and lactate, were measured and injury to cells was judged by diminished production of metabolites. 2. Oxidation of n-butyrate to CO2 and acetoacetate was reduced at 0.1 and 0.5 mmol/l NaHS, whereas glucose oxidation remained unimpaired. At 1.0-2.0 mmol/l NaHS, n-butyrate and glucose oxidation were dose-dependently reduced at the same rate. 3. To bypass short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity necessary for butyrate oxidation, ketogenesis from crotonate was measured in the presence of 1.0 mmol/l NaHS. Suppression by sulphide of ketogenesis from crotonate (-10.5 +/- 6.1%) compared with control conditions was not significant, whereas suppression of ketogenesis from n-butyrate (-36.00 +/- 5.14%) was significant (P = < 0.01). Inhibition of FAD-linked oxidation was more affected by NaHS than was NAD-linked oxidation. 4. L-Methionine (5.0 mmol/l) significantly redressed the impaired beta-oxidation induced by NaHS. Methionine equally improved CO2 and ketone body production, suggesting a global reversal of the action of sulphide. 5. Sulphide-induced oxidative changes closely mirror the impairment of beta-oxidation observed in colonocytes of patients with ulcerative colitis. A hypothesis for the disease process of ulcerative colitis is that sulphides may form persulphides with butyryl-CoA, which would inhibit cellular short-chain acyl-CoA deHydrogenase and beta-oxidation to induce an energy-deficiency state in colonocytes and mucosal inflammation." [Rol1997] Intravenous butyrate and healing of colonic anastomoses in the rat. Rolandelli RH, Buckmire MA, Bernstein KA. Dis Colon Rectum. 1997 Jan;40(1):67-70. "PURPOSE: "Intracolonic infusions of short chain fatty acids promote healing of colonic anastomoses. Because the intravenous route may have wider clinical application, we studied the effect of intravenous n-butyrate on the mechanical strength of colonic anastomoses in the rat. "After placement of an indwelling intravenous catheter, the descending colon was transected and an anastomosis was performed. Rats were then randomized to receive total parenteral nutrition (TPN group; n = 15) or total parenteral nutrition plus 130 mM/l of n-butyrate (TPN+BUT group; n = 13). On the fifth postoperative day, bursting pressure and bowel wall tension of the anastomoses were measured in situ. Anastomotic tissues were analyzed for hydroxyproline. "The TPN+BUT group had a significantly higher bursting pressure (107.5 +/- 30.3 vs. 83 +/- 41.0 mmHg; P = 0.04) and bowel wall tension (20.7 +/- 7.6 vs. 14.1 +/- 9.9 Newton; P = 0.03). Tissue hydroxyproline was not different between the two groups (TPN, 45.8 +/- 9.2, and TPN+BUT, 47.9 +/- 2.9 microg/mg tissue nitrogen). "We conclude that intravenous butyrate improves mechanical strength of a colonic anastomosis without a detectable change in total collagen content." [Rom1990] Short-Chain Fatty Acids. Rombeau J.L., Kripke S.A., Settle R.G. (1990) In: Kritchevsky D., Bonfield C., Anderson J.W. (eds) Dietary Fiber. Springer, Boston, MA "As mentioned previously hepatic metabolism of butyrate and acetate results in the production of glutamine and the ketone bodies acetoacetate and which are the preferred oxidative fuels of enterocytes (Windmueller and Spaeth, 1978). The enteral or parenteral provision of glutamine and acetoacetate has been shown to be trophic to both small and large intestinal mucosa (Fox et al., 1987; Kripke et al., 1988a)." [Sen2006] (1, 2) Does butyrate protect from colorectal cancer? Sengupta S, Muir JG, Gibson PR. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006 Jan;21(1 Pt 2):209-18. "Butyrate, the four-carbon fatty acid, is formed in the human colon by bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates (including dietary fiber), and putatively suppresses colorectal cancer (CRC). Butyrate has diverse and apparently paradoxical effects on cellular proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation that may be either pro-neoplastic or anti-neoplastic, depending upon factors such as the level of exposure, availability of other metabolic substrate and the intracellular milieu. In humans, the relationship between luminal butyrate exposure and CRC has been examined only indirectly in case-control studies, by measuring fecal butyrate concentrations, although this may not accurately reflect effective butyrate exposure during carcinogenesis. Perhaps not surprisingly, results of these investigations have been mutually contradictory. The direct effect of butyrate on tumorigenesis has been assessed in a number of in vivo animal models, which have also yielded conflicting results. In part, this may be explained by methodological differences in the amount and route of butyrate administration, which are likely to significantly influence delivery of butyrate to the distal colon. Nonetheless, there appears to be some evidence that delivery of an adequate amount of butyrate to the appropriate site protects against early tumorigenic events. Future study of the relationship between butyrate and CRC in humans needs to focus on risk stratification and the development of feasible strategies for butyrate delivery." [Shi2013] Suppression of Oxidative Stress by β-Hydroxybutyrate, an Endogenous Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor. Shimazu T, Hirschey MD, Newman J, et al. Science (New York, NY). 2013;339(6116):211-214. doi:10.1126/science.1227166. "Concentrations of acetyl–coenzyme A and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) affect histone acetylation and thereby couple cellular metabolic status and transcriptional regulation. We report that the ketone body d-β-hydroxybutyrate (βOHB) is an endogenous and specific inhibitor of class I histone deacetylases (HDACs). Administration of exogenous βOHB, or fasting or calorie restriction, two conditions associated with increased βOHB abundance, all increased global histone acetylation in mouse tissues. Inhibition of HDAC by βOHB was correlated with global changes in transcription, including that of the genes encoding oxidative stress resistance factors FOXO3A and MT2. Treatment of cells with βOHB increased histone acetylation at the Foxo3a and Mt2 promoters, and both genes were activated by selective depletion of HDAC1 and HDAC2. Consistent with increased FOXO3A and MT2 activity, treatment of mice with βOHB conferred substantial protection against oxidative stress." [Sin2014] Activation of Gpr109a, Receptor for Niacin and the Commensal Metabolite Butyrate, Suppresses Colonic Inflammation and Carcinogenesis Singh, Nagendra et al. Immunity , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , 128 - 139 "The most widely studied function of butyrate is its ability to inhibit histone deacetylases. However, cell surface receptors have been identified for butyrate; these receptors, GPR43 and GPR109A (also known as hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 2 or HCA2), are G protein coupled and are expressed in colonic epithelium, adipose tissue, and immune cells (Blad et al., 2012, Ganapathy et al., 2013). GPR43-deficient mice undergo severe colonic inflammation and colitis in DSS-induced colitis model and the GPR43 agonist acetate protects germ-free mice from DSS-induced colitis (Maslowski et al., 2009). Although GPR43 is activated by all three SCFAs, GPR109A (encoded by Niacr1) is activated only by butyrate (Blad et al., 2012, Taggart et al., 2005). GPR109A is also activated by niacin (vitamin B3) (Blad et al., 2012, Ganapathy et al., 2013). In colonic lumen, butyrate is generated at high concentrations (10–20 mM) by gut microbiota and serves as an endogenous agonist for GPR109A (Thangaraju et al., 2009). We have shown that Gpr109a expression in colon is induced by gut microbiota and is downregulated in colon cancer (Cresci et al., 2010, Thangaraju et al., 2009). Gpr109a in immune cells plays a nonredundant function in niacin-mediated suppression of inflammation and atherosclerosis (Lukasova et al., 2011). Gut microbiota also produce niacin. Niacin deficiency in humans results in pellagra, characterized by intestinal inflammation, diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia (Hegyi et al., 2004). It is of great clinical relevance that lower abundance of GPR109A ligands niacin and butyrate in gut is associated with colonic inflammation." "Activation of Gpr109a Suppresses Colonic Inflammation and Carcinogenesis in the Absence of Gut Microbiota or Dietary Fiber "We then examined the relevance of niacin, a pharmacologic agonist for GPR109A, to colonic inflammation. For this, we first depleted gut microbiota with antibiotics, which reduces the production of butyrate, the endogenous agonist for GPR109A. Antibiotic treatment resulted in >300-fold reduction in aerobic and anaerobic bacterial counts in the stool (data not shown). Antibiotic treatment increased DSS-induced weight loss, diarrhea, and bleeding in WT mice (Figures 7B and S6A). Consistent with increased inflammation, we found that antibiotic treatment increased the number of polyps (8.2 ± 2.2 polyps/mouse with antibiotics; 1.6 ± 1.5 polyps/mouse without antibiotics) in WT mice (Figures 7C and 7D). We then tested whether administration of niacin protects antibiotic-treated mice against colonic inflammation and carcinogenesis. Niacin was added to drinking water along with antibiotic cocktail. Niacin ameliorated AOM+DSS-induced weight loss, diarrhea, and bleeding and reduced colon cancer development in antibiotic-treated WT mice (Figures 7B–7D and S6A). Consistent with a role of niacin in IL-18 induction, the protective effect of niacin in DSS-induced weight loss and diarrhea in antibiotic-treated Il18−/− mice was significantly blunted (Figure S6B). Niacin did not alter the development of weight loss, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and colon cancer in antibiotic-treated Niacr1−/− mice, suggesting an essential role of Gpr109a in niacin-mediated promotion of colonic health (Figures 7B–7D and S6A). Antibiotic treatment reduced colonic inflammation and number of polyps in Niacr1−/− mice. This may be due to the presence of altered colitogenic gut microbiota in Niacr1−/− animals. " "Although it has been known for decades that the commensal metabolite butyrate suppresses inflammation and carcinogenesis in colon, the exact identity of molecular target(s) of butyrate in this process remained elusive. The present studies identify Gpr109a as an important mediator of butyrate effects in colon and also as a critical molecular link between colonic bacteria and dietary fiber and the host. These findings have important implications for prevention as well as treatment of inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer and suggest that under conditions of reduced dietary fiber intake and/or decreased butyrate production in colon, pharmacological doses of niacin might be effective to maintain GPR109A signaling and consequently protect colon against inflammation and carcinogenesis." [Siv2017] Cell-Surface and Nuclear Receptors in the Colon as Targets for Bacterial Metabolites and Its Relevance to Colon Health. <http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5579649#B58-nutrients-09-00856> - Sathish Sivaprakasam, Yangzom D. Bhutia, Sabarish Ramachandran, and Vadivel Ganapathy Nutrients. 2017 August; 9(8): 856. "As the cell-surface receptors for SCFAs are located on the lumen-facing apical membrane of colonic epithelial cells (see below), the luminal concentrations of these agonists are physiologically relevant. SCFAs are low-affinity agonists for these receptors, and the normal luminal concentrations of these bacterial metabolites are in the millimolar levels, sufficient to activate these receptors from the luminal side. However, some of the molecular targets for these metabolites are either inside the cells (e.g., HDACs) or on the surface of the immune cells located in the lamina propria. Therefore, concentrations of these metabolites inside the colonic epithelial cells and in the lamina propria are relevant to impact these molecular targets. The intracellular target HDAC is inhibited by butyrate and propionate at low micromolar concentrations. There are effective transport systems for SCFAs in the apical membrane of colonic epithelial cells (e.g., proton-coupled and sodium-coupled monocarboxylate transporters) [47], thus making it very likely for these SCFAs to reach intracellular levels sufficient to inhibit HDACs. Even though the luminal concentrations of SCFAs are in the millimolar range, it is unlikely that they reach lamina propria at significant levels to activate the cell-surface receptors present on the mucosal immune cells. These metabolites are present only at micromolar levels in the portal blood [57], indicating that they undergo robust metabolism inside the colonic epithelial cells. This raises the question as to the physiological relevance of these bacterial metabolites to the activation of the cell-surface SCFA receptors in immune cells located in the lamina propria. With regard to this issue, it is important to note that colonic epithelial cells are highly ketogenic; they use acetate and butyrate to generate the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate [58]. This ketone body is released from the cells into portal blood. As β-hydroxybutyrate is 3–4 times more potent than butyrate in activating its receptor GPR109A, it can be speculated that the colon-derived ketone body is most likely involved in the activation of the SCFA receptor in mucosal immune cells." [Tag2005] Evidence type: in vitro non-human animal experiment (D)-beta-Hydroxybutyrate inhibits adipocyte lipolysis via the nicotinic acid receptor PUMA-G. Taggart AK1, Kero J, Gan X, Cai TQ, Cheng K, Ippolito M, Ren N, Kaplan R, Wu K, Wu TJ, Jin L, Liaw C, Chen R, Richman J, Connolly D, Offermanns S, Wright SD, Waters MG. J Biol Chem. 2005 Jul 22;280(29):26649-52. Epub 2005 Jun 1. "Here we show that the fatty acid-derived ketone body (d)-β-hydroxybutyrate ((d)-β-OHB) specifically activates PUMA-G/HM74a at concentrations observed in serum during fasting. Like nicotinic acid, (d)-β-OHB inhibits mouse adipocyte lipolysis in a PUMA-G-dependent manner and is thus the first endogenous ligand described for this orphan receptor. These findings suggests a homeostatic mechanism for surviving starvation in which (d)-β-OHB negatively regulates its own production, thereby preventing ketoacidosis and promoting efficient use of fat stores." [Tot2016] Evidence type: human case study Crohn's disease successfully treated with the paleolithic ketogenic diet Tóth C, Dabóczi A, Howard M, Miller NJ, Clemens Z. Int J Case Rep Images 2016;7(10):570–578. "Given the ineffectiveness of standard therapies the parents of the child were seeking for alternative options. When we first met the patient he reported bilateral pain and swelling of the knee, frequent episodes of fever and night sweats as well as fatigue. He looked pale. We offered the paleolithic ketogenic diet along with close monitoring of the patient. The patient started the diet on 4 January 2015. The diet is consisting of animal fat, meat, offal and eggs with an approximate 2:1 fat : protein ratio. Red and fat meats instead of poultry as well as regular intake of organ meats from pork and cattle were encouraged. Grains, milk, dairy, refined sugars, vegetable oils, oilseeds, nightshades and artificial sweeteners were excluded. Small amount of honey was allowed for sweetening. The patient was not taking any supplements. Regular home monitoring of urinary ketones indicated sustained ketosis. Regular laboratory follow-up was used to monitor the course of the disease as well as for giving feedback how to fine tune the diet. The patient was under our close control and gave frequent feedbacks and so we could assess the level of dietary compliance. The patient maintained a high level dietary adherence on the long-term, yet on his birthday, he made a mistake: he has eaten two pieces of commercially available "paleo" cake which contained coconut oil, flour from oilseeds as well as sugar alcohol. Clinical consequences are discussed later. From July 2015 onwards he also consumed small amounts of vegetables and fruits. Given the persistence of certain alterations in laboratory values (mild anemia) on 10 November 2015, despite 10 months on the paleolithic ketogenic diet, we suggested to tighten the diet again. From this time on he did neither consume vegetables and fruits nor vegetable oil containing spices such as cumin and cinnamon. "Discontinuing medication "Within two weeks after diet onset the patient discontinued azathioprine, the only medicine he was taking at this time. Currently, he is without medicines for 15 months. "Symptoms "The frequent night sweats of the patient disappeared within three weeks after diet onset and thus his sleep improved significantly. The knee pains of the patient began to lessen at 4th week on the diet and completely disappeared by the third month. From this time onwords he regularly went to school by bike (20 km daily). He reported restored energy and increased physical and mental fitness. Although during the eight months before diet onset his weight was declining, following diet onset he began to gain weight. At diet onset his weight was 41 kg and was 152 cm tall (BMI = 17.7). At 12 months after diet onset, his height was 160 cm and weighted 50 kg (BMI: 19.5). The change in his height and weight is depicted in Figure 5. At the time of writing the article he is on the diet for 15 months and is free of symptoms as well as side effects." [Tur2011] Administration of Substances to Laboratory Animals: Routes of Administration and Factors to Consider Patricia V Turner, Thea Brabb, Cynthia Pekow, and Mary Ann Vasbinder J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 2011 Sep; 50(5): 600–613. "Intraperitoneal administration. "Injection of substances into the peritoneal cavity is a common technique in laboratory rodents but rarely is used in larger mammals and humans. Intraperitoneal injection is used for small species for which intravenous access is challenging and it can be used to administer large volumes of fluid safely (Table 1) or as a repository site for surgical implantation of a preloaded osmotic minipump. Absorption of material delivered intraperitoneally is typically much slower than for intravenous injection. Although intraperitoneal delivery is considered a parenteral route of administration, the pharmacokinetics of substances administered intraperitoneally are more similar to those seen after oral administration, because the primary route of absorption is into the mesenteric vessels, which drain into the portal vein and pass through the liver.74 Therefore substances administered intraperitoneally may undergo hepatic metabolism before reaching the systemic circulation. In addition, a small amount of intraperitoneal injectate may pass directly across the diaphragm through small lacunae and into the thoracic lymph." [Vit2014] Experiment type: metagenomic analysis Revealing the Bacterial Butyrate Synthesis Pathways by Analyzing (Meta)genomic Data Marius Vital, Adina Chuang Howe, and James M. Tiedje mBio. 2014 Mar-Apr; 5(2): e00889-14. Published online 2014 April 22. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00889-14 "Diet is a major external force shaping gut communities (33). Good reviews of studies investigating the influence of diet on butyrate-producing bacteria exist (11 and 34) and suggest that plant-derived polysaccharides such as starch and xylan, as well as cross-feeding mechanisms with lactate-producing bacteria, are the main factors governing their growth. Our metagenomic analysis supports the acetyl-CoA pathway as the main pathway for butyrate production in healthy individuals (Fig. 4), implying that a sufficient polysaccharide supply is probably sustaining a well-functioning butyrate-producing community, at least in these North American subjects. However, the detection of additional amino acid-fed pathways, especially the lysine pathway, indicates that proteins could also play an important role in butyrate synthesis and suggests some flexibility of the microbiota to adapt to various nutritional conditions maintaining butyrate synthesis. Whether the prevalence of amino acid-fed pathway is associated with a protein-rich diet still needs to be assessed. It should be noted that those pathways are not restricted to single substrates, as displayed in Fig. 1, i.e., glutarate and lysine, but additional amino acids, such as aspartate, can be converted to butyrate via those routes as well (26). Furthermore, the acetyl-CoA pathway also can be supplied with substrates derived from proteins either by cross-feeding with the lysine pathway (as discussed above) or by direct fermentation of amino acids to acetyl-CoA (35). However, whereas diet-derived proteins are probably important for butyrate synthesis in the ileum, where epithelial cells use butyrate as a main energy source as well (36), it still needs to be assessed whether enough proteins reach the human colon to serve as a major nutrient source for microorganisms. Another possible colonic protein source could originate with lysed bacterial cells. Enormous viral loads have been detected in this environment, suggesting fast cell/nutrient turnover, which might explain the presence of corresponding pathways in both fecal isolates and metagenomic data (Fig. 1, 4, and 5). Detailed investigations of butyrate-producing communities in the colon of carnivorous animals will add additional key information on the role of proteins in butyrate production in that environment. It should be noted that diet provides only a part of the energy/carbon sources for microbial growth in the colon, since host-derived mucus glycans serve as an important nutrient source as well. Several butyrate-producing organisms do specifically colonize mucus (37), and for some, growth on mucus-derived substrates was shown (38). " [Wie2017] Amino Acid Absorption in the Large Intestine of Humans and Porcine Models. van der Wielen N, Moughan PJ, Mensink M. J Nutr. 2017 Aug;147(8):1493-1498. doi: 10.3945/jn.117.248187. Epub 2017 Jun 14. "Protein digestion and fermentation in the large intestine. Intact proteins that escape the small intestine or produced in the large intestine (mucus, cells, microbial proteins) are digested further in the large intestine by bacterial enzymes and the surviving pancreatic proteases and peptidases (35, 36). This protein degradation has been reported to be highest in the distal large intestine and is m ost likely related to the pH in the different regions (37). The di gested proteins can be used by the microbiota, which produce several metabolites such as SCFAs, ammonia, and amines. These metabolites may be linked to several health outcomes (38)." "The large intestine is important for whole-body protein and nitrogen metabolism, in particular via bacterial metabolism. Both small and large intestinal microbiota are capable of synthesizing AAs, and absorption of microbial AAs has been demonstrated to take place in the intestine." 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__label__cc	0.657263	0.342737	(503) 399-4833 Contact Our Construction Experts K & E Rock K & E Alaska Highway 97 near Klamath Falls at Modoc Point Infrastructure roadwork and retaining wall construction in Oregon is part of K&E’s DNA. The company’s long history has given us the depth of experience to professionally manage traffic and complexity on any scale. This project, just North of Klamath Falls, included the widening of a 4.5 mile stretch of Highway 97. It required 8,576 linear feet of Oregon retaining wall construction and cast-in-place concrete “moment slab” on top. Another independent task was erecting a reinforced soil slope (RSS) to alleviate rocks falling on the highway and causing hazards to motorists. Scheduling all excavation and concrete pouring at night to minimize traffic delays was definitely a challenge. Another challenge was the tight quarters of our work zone, which was between a mountain and lake making it difficult to schedule many trades at the same time. Both challenges were overcome without lost time, accidents or injuries. The result was the successful widening of a major highway connecting Oregon and California—and the building of the largest RSS wall in the U.S. Back to Current Projects » "K&E’s product was installed exactly to the plans and specifications and their flexibility in executing the overall project schedule was outstanding. This project required significant coordination with the electrical and H-pile installation contractors, K&E’s support in this area contributed heavily to the success of the project." - James W. Stone Stantec Consulting Services (Project refers to two solar powered generation facilities in Amity, Oregon.) K&E Excavating Inc. 3871 Langley St. SE Salem, OR 97317 phone (503) 399-4833 \| Contact Us \| Site Map \| Employee Portal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9956
__label__wiki	0.556869	0.556869	POUR LA DISTRIBUTION IMMEDIATE Kevin Solez solez@UAlberta.CA Kim Solez, M.D. Kim.Solez@UAlberta.CA EDMONTON, Alberta -- Hallelujah! Leonard Cohen Night, a celebration of Cohen's music, poetry and life, returns to Edmonton for his 69th birthday on September 21, 2003. It will be a joyous evening of music, poetry, visual arts, food and drink, taking place at the Hellenic Canadian Community Centre, 10450 116th Street, Edmonton. The Leonard Cohen Nights Foundation was founded on the belief that Cohen is the foremost literary and musical figure in Canada. Festivities will start at 4:00 PM and refreshments will be served, including Cohen's signature drink, the Red Needle. Bob Chelmick, host of CKUA’s “Alberta Morning” and “The Road Home” will emcee the celebration, which last year drew a capacity crowd for the inaugural event. Featured performers include Dale Ladouceur, Ben Sures, Al Brant, Paul Bromley, Babe Lloyd, and Craig Shafer. Well-known Cohen fan Nancy White, who performed in Edmonton last winter at the Comedy Festival, is flying in from Toronto to sing her mini-hit "Leonard Cohen's Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In" and host the after dinner portion of the evening. Nancy did a concert at the Cohen 2000 event in Montreal and hosted the recent Leonard Cohen tribute show in Toronto. Other activities planned for the evening include musical and spoken-word performances, open stage and Greek dancing, an art exhibit featuring the Cohen-inspired paintings of Calgary artist Elizabeth Laishley and deli-style fare flown in from Montreal, Cohen's hometown. Tickets are $49, $25 with student ID, available at (780) 407-6862 and at Tix On The Square. For more information, visit www.leonardcohennights.org/2003.htm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9959
__label__wiki	0.628612	0.628612	CUNA - Credit Union National Association picks up VSECU's story on The Lightning Jar CUNA, VSECU's trade association, recently picked up the Bennington Banner's story on The Lightning Jar. Read the full story here on the CUNA website. The Lightning Jar, Inc. It's official, The Lightning Jar, Inc. has been awarded a certificate of incorporation by the Vermont Secretary of State. Our legal entity is now in place, and we're one step closer to being up and running later this summer. Visit The Lightning Jar's future home at VSECU on June 9 Come see The Lightning Jar's future home and meet the team. The Lightning Jar is powered by VSECU, a credit union for everybody in Vermont. VSECU's Bennington branch is now open at 194 North Street in Bennington. The community is invited to attend the branch Grand Opening Celebration on June 9 from 9am to 5pm. The celebration will include branch tours, refreshments, ribbon cutting and recognition, and the community will have the opportunity to see The Lightning Jar's future home located within the branch. Read the full story on VSECU's website here, and VSECU's press release here. Subscribe to The Lightning Jar's Newsletter The Lightning Jar's newsletter is now up and running. Subscribe to receive regular news, updates and happenings. Sign up using the form below, and you can update your subscription settings or unsubscribe at any time. Please Share Your Ideas The Lightning Jar is looking for ideas from interested members and from the community on how to structure our coworking space. Do you have any ideas for how the space should be designed, for the types of programming and events you would like to have available, possible membership models, or anything else you would like to see in a coworking space? Please share your ideas with us by commenting on this post. We look forward to hearing from you. The Lightning Jar Team	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9960
__label__wiki	0.525296	0.525296	The Penny Black Restaurant & Bar Shops near The Penny Black Restaurant & Bar The Penny Black Restaurant & Bar, 212 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London SW10 9PJ All The Best Antiques Art and Design Arts and Crafts Baby Care Bags and Accessories Bath and Kitchen Bicycle Shops Books Catalogue and Mail Order Chemists Children's clothes Children's Gifts and Toys Cleaning and Repairs Clothing Delicatessens Department Stores Electronics Eyewear Fancy Dress Florists Food and Drink Shops Games and Hobbies Gifts and Luxuries Hair and Grooming Health and Beauty Hire Shops House and Garden Jewellery Ladies Fashion Markets Menswear Motoring Music Shops Musician Supplies Office Supply Opticians Perfume and Cosmetics Pet Care Photography Shoes Shopping Centres Specialists Sporting Goods Street or Area Supermarkets Wine Merchants The Pro Centre London > Shopping > Photography Chelsea Wharf, 15 Lots Road, Fulham, London SW10 \| 6 minutes walk from The Penny Black Restaurant & Bar Owned by Hasselblad (UK) this shop certainly lives up to its name in catering for the professional. 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__label__cc	0.634123	0.365877	Improve setback to resource payments: PNGEITI 04:00, October 6, 2017 Revenue from petroleum and mineral sectors have the potential to cure the economic ills of the country when robust regulatory mechanisms are put in place. In a statement, head of the PNG Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), Lucas Alkan, said reports indicate that a generation of resource projects will boost PNG’s economy on a massive scale however, many mistakes and setbacks needed to be rectified. Alkan made the comments when responding to comments by Oil Search managing director Peter Botten about the systems hindering PNGLNG landowners’ access to benefits in a timely manner. Botten said more than one billion dollars in development levies and royalties were not paid due to opaque nature of government processes getting in the way. Alkan said this was a major concern which needed cooperation from all parties from the public sector to the private sphere as well as development partners. “One of the ways in which the country can move forward is to correct common mistakes and setbacks. And that requires everyone’s effort, whether it be the landowners, the government or the industry player to build firmer footprints to tackle more complex issues facing the industry,” Alkan said. “Our job at EITI is to make pubic, primarily through our annual report, updates on what is happening in the industry to stimulate public discourse around pertinent issues worth discussing. “Our belief is that we are not that late, devoid of the anxieties that have been caused by the slow process, to make things work better for everyone. “PNGEITI work so far has zoomed in on what the processes and systems are like for the people to see for themselves and we have made considerable progress in this regard.” Currently a working committee is preparing a draft legislation to give effect to the EITI to carry out its role of promoting transparency and accountability regarding resource revenue. PNGEITI	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9962
__label__wiki	0.880896	0.880896	NiuPower Plant 80pc complete 20:30, November 3, 2018 The 58.7 Mega Watt ‘NiuPower’ Power Plant outside of Port Moresby is near completion with commissioning expected before the end of the year. This was revealed following a site visit by NiuPower Joint Venture owners Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited and Oil Search limited. Deputy Prime Minister, Charles Abel, was also on the tour. NiuPower Project Director, Michael Krause, said the project is 80% complete and will handed over early next year. “The plant will be handed over to NiuPpwer’s ownership in the first quarter of next year and then be available to provide reliable low cost, clean energy, to the grid for the Port Moresby business sector and the public,” he said. The Joint Venture project by KPHL and Oil Search, at 50-50 ownership, costs K100 million. KPHL Managing Director, Wapu Sonk, said since the launching a year ago, the project has come along well to utilize PNG’s own gas to generate power. “So its the first use of our gas outside of the PNG LNG Project, so its good to see the use of gas into power and hopefully other industries in the years to come,” he said. Oil Search Managing Director, Peter Botten, said the project was competitive and the Power Purchasing Agreement in place will save PNG Power millions of Kina and in turn make the utility company more financially viable. “There is a power purchase agreement with PNG power and there’s still a bit to do in terms of tying and making the power station operable but look, were very much on track to meet the deadline for commissioning later this year onto full production in the first quarter,” said Botten. Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister, Charles Abel, said it was the Governments agenda to see more domestic use of the country’s natural resources and the project was a testament to that. “As we negotiate the new LNG project going forward it very important that we have an element of domestic market obligation so the we have the ability to retain gas back for Papua New Guinea abut also for other downstream processing,” said Abel. NiuPower Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (KPHL) Oil Search Ltd (OSL) Wapu Sonk Peter Botten Deputy Prime Minister Charles Abel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9963
__label__wiki	0.587924	0.587924	Home / Social / Blog / Developing Strong Hamstrings According to the Journal of Sport and Health Science, hamstring strains are one of the most common sports injuries. The journal reports that, “a review of the medical database of the National Football League (NFL) between 1987 and 2000 indicated that 10% of all injuries in American college football players likely to play in the NFL were hamstring strain injuries.” It’s also been reported that “12% of all injuries in NFL training camps were hamstring strain injuries, making it the second most commonly seen injury.” One of the main causes of hamstring injury is fatigue—both systemic and muscular. The December issue of the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research reported that, “47% of hamstring injuries were sustained during the final 15 minutes of the first and second halves of match play in soccer.” Combine excess fatigue with deficits in hamstring strength-endurance and the athlete is at greater risk to sustain a hamstring strain, or tear, which takes significantly longer to recover. One exercise, the Single Leg Hamstring Bridge, has been used as a gage to hamstring risk relative to strength-endurance, when the test subject fails to perform at minimum 25 repetitions in each leg. Single Leg Hamstring Bridge: In a supine position with one heel of your foot on a 60-cm box or supported chair—place the elevated, working leg at a 20-degree bend into knee flexion. The non-working leg is bent and in close proximity to working leg. Place your arms across the chest and push through their heel to lift their hips off the ground, such that the working hip achieves full hip extension. Then lower down again. If you need additional support, the heel of the bent, non-working leg can be in contact with the ground to aid the lift of the working leg. Perform repetitions to tolerance.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9966
__label__cc	0.666017	0.333983	Gas producers meet for Ministerial roundtable Resources Minister Matt Canavan today met with east coast gas producers at a second Ministerial roundtable meeting aimed at securing reliable and affordable domestic gas supplies for Australian users. Last month, Minister Canavan hosted a meeting of major gas users and peak bodies, with feedback reinforcing the importance of affordability and reliability for Australia’s industrial and manufacturing sectors. Today’s roundtable was part of Minister Canavan’s ongoing consultation on the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism (ADGSM). “Today’s conversation was about what more can be done to bring on new domestic gas production and gas supply,” Minister Canavan said. “A few weeks ago I heard directly from gas users about their real world experiences of gas prices and availability. I put these concerns to gas producers and highlighted the critical importance of the gas industry itself taking action to boost production before I make any decision on controlling gas exports next year. “Issues discussed included the gas supply outlook, availability of affordable gas supply offers and concerns by users about how gas was made available to the market. “We had productive discussions about the existing agreement between the Government and east coast LNG exporters to guarantee domestic supply for 2019 and options for ensuring supply in coming years. “The gas industry recommitted to the Peak Electricity Demand Gas Supply Guarantee which ensures that there is sufficient gas available to keep the lights on at times of high electricity demand. “There was also in principle support for recommitting to the Heads of Agreement that provides domestic gas users with a first option to buy uncontracted gas. The government will seek to finalise a new agreement with the industry in the coming weeks. “I thank the gas producers for their constructive approach to today’s discussions. The Government is committed to protecting the thousands of manufacturing jobs that rely on gas supplies as well as ensuring adequate affordable gas for domestic consumers. We also recognise the importance of the LNG industry to the national economy and many parts of rural and regional Queensland in particular. “Today I also reiterated my call for all states, in particular Victoria, to lift their moratorium on conventional and non-conventional on-shore gas exploration and production. “Their intransigence is costing Australia export revenue, jobs and affordable household gas prices.” Minister Canavan said the Coalition’s hard work in firming up gas supplies and working with users, suppliers and peak bodies had helped rein in ballooning gas prices. “Around 18 months ago, gas prices were on the rise and there were real concerns about the security of gas supplies for the domestic market. However, government action over the past 12 months, including the establishment of a gas export control framework and a Heads of Agreement with LNG exporters has helped bring domestic spot gas prices down by 25 per cent and gas offer prices by more than half. Under the ADGSM there are a number of steps the Minister must undertake before export controls can be imposed for the following year, including making a notification of intent to make a determination on the state of the domestic gas market before 30 September. As part of this notification, the Minister can formally request information from LNG projects on their gas production outlook and planned export volumes, and from large gas users on their planned gas use and experiences with securing supply. A determination must then be made before 1 November 2018, on whether there will be a gas shortfall in 2019. If the Minister finds the domestic market is in shortfall, export permissions will be required by LNG exporters to continue to export LNG in a relevant market for the 2019 calendar year. Katinka Mitchell commented 2019-02-07 17:57:57 +1000 Dont agree with your policies the mess both governments have got this country in with selling off our resources to multi nationals is a disgrace I worked at wheatstone gas plant in WA and it is well known that Chevron are running away with massive profits what a joke. Furthermore no one and I mean no one can guarantee the safety of our environment with their extratcion process heaven help the next generation!!! MMMMM jobs what saw was alot of jobs where given to non Australians!!!! Check out a book written on Chevrons’S track record!!! You really believe that we believe your BS that put out!! You lot are forcing the NT into so called profits from FRACKING , check out the damage already done in Queensland where farmers can light up their Dams, also, check what the Multi nationals have done in their own backyard in the US the evidence is there! Talk about an environmental disaster waiting to happen!!! As the Aboriginal female Elder said to the NT MP as he got into his chaffuer driven car What dont you understand NO means NO regarding fracking their land!!!!!!!!!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9967
__label__wiki	0.766087	0.766087	Increase in India’s Tigers but Decline in Habitat At August 5, 2011 An Indian government report entitled Status of Tigers, co predators and prey in India, 2010 was released last week showing results suggesting that the native tiger population in India has grown from an estimated 1,411 in 2006 to 1,706 which constitutes a 20% increase in numbers. On the other hand, the report went on to say that although tiger numbers have increased, their natural habitat has declined. The report which constituted the largest of its kind included all of the 17 tiger states and involved 477,000 work days by forest staff and 37,000 work days by professional biologists. “After the 2006 pan India tiger population estimation, the present exercise is even more comprehensive in terms of the area covered and methodologies used. The involvement of conservation partners, including WWF, has led to broad based efforts and built a stronger constituency and capacity for tiger conservation in India,” said Mr. Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO of WWF India. Although the results on the increase of tigers is encouraging, the reported 12.6% reduction in the tiger’s natural habitat is a major area of concern because it will squeeze the tiger population into an ever dwindling environment which could lead to a loss of genetic exchange between future populations of the big cat. WWF India worked with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to formulate the massive survey and clearly more work is needed to help preserve the natural habitat in the region. Do you bit to help by sponsoring a tiger through the WWF adoption program. DONATE TO A NATURE CONSERVATION CHARITY TOP DAYS OUT – NORTH Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden TOP DAYS OUT – MIDLANDS Visit Attingham Park in Shropshire TOP DAYS OUT – SOUTH Visit Stourhead in Wiltshire MOST POPULAR CHARITY MEMBERSHIPS Privacy Policy \| About Us \| Contact Us \| © Copyright NatureConservation.org.uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9971
__label__cc	0.537826	0.462174	2016 UDFA Patriots Draft Resources 2015 Patriots Draft Contacts 2015 Patriots NFL Draft Picks 2014 Patriots Draft Picks NFL Draft Trade Value Chart Draft Sites Network NEPD on FB Follow NEPD on Twitter About NEPD « Holiday Homework: Nebraska vs South Carolina Film Room: Illinois vs UCLA » Holiday Homework: Rose Bowl Edition Bill Belichick would approve of the Darth Vader-esque uniforms employed by Oregon in the Rose Bowl. NEPD Staff Writer: Mike Loyko This year’s Rose Bowl figures to be one of the best bowl games of the year – featuring the Wisconsin Badgers vs. Oregon Ducks. Both teams feature many 2012 NFL Draft prospects–here are the top ones we will be watching: Wisconsin’s Top Prospects #66 C Peter Konz In a game loaded with NFL prospects, Konz is the only likely first rounder. The best center in the country combines his excellent size with elite mobility. His mobility and footwork set him apart from other centers #70 OG Kevin Zeitler Like most Wisconsin lineman Zeitler is a fundamentally sound guard prospect who has dominated at times this year. Plays with a mean streak that has opened holes for the best run game in the nation. Has loads of NFL potential and will likely be one of the first guards drafted this year. #1 WR Nick Toon Toon is a tall, physical WR who possesses a well rounded game. Doesn’t wow anybody but does a lot of things very well. He is the son of former Jets WR Al Toon, so he has NFL genes. Toon is a second tier WR prosepct and locked in to rounds 2-3 in the upcoming draft. #28 RB Montee Ball Ball is a workhorse runner, who runs hard on everyplay. Doesn’t have elite speed or size, but what he does have is an understanding of the game. At 5’9″ 210+ Ball’s low and powerful running style make him very tough to tackle. Ball is a touchdown machine, once he smells the endzone he powers it across. Ball is contemplating entering the draft and would likely be a mid round pick if he did. Oregon’s Top Prospects #21 RB LaMichael James James is the most dynamic RB in college football. James has elite burst and agility making him almost impossible to tackle in the open field. James has added a lot of muscle and bulk over the course of his college career and is a more powerful runner than given credit for. Will run between tackles, but excels off the edge and in space. A very natural pass catcher can take it the distance on any play. James is already declared for the draft and I think one team will fall in love with him as an all purpose offensive threat. Most likely a second to early third round pick #56 OLB Josh Kaddu Kaddu is a tall and athletic OLB. At 6″3″ Kaddu has a very good frame, which he can add bulk to. Impressive speed for his size. Has really long arms which he uses very well to shed blocks and get free. Not a natural pass rusher and doesn’t create much pressure on the QB. Kaddu is a raw OLB prospect but his combination of size and speed will get him drafted. #11 S Eddie Pleasant Pleasant is one of the more underrated Safety prospects in this years draft. A LB convert Pleasant now plays the rover position on the Ducks defense, similar to what Patrick Chung did for them in 2008. Pleasant has good instincts and anticipates routes and reads well. Might be too big and thick to play safety at the next level; a real SS/LB tweener. Tags: 2012 NFL Draft, Holiday Homework, Kevin Zeitler, LaMichael James, Nick Toon, Peter Konz This entry is filed under the category: College Football, NFL Draft. Both comments and pings are currently closed. 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__label__wiki	0.84751	0.84751	Fantastic Beasts 2: 10 Times Ezra Miller Was A Bigger Harry Potter Fan Than You Get back to us when you've cosplayed Hedwig on a red carpet What’s that? Think you’re the biggest Harry Potter fan in the entire muggle universe? As much as you might love writing fanfic, cosplaying Hermione Granger, and fighting off anyone who points out some of the more challenging plot-holes in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, there’s no denying that Ezra Miller is more clued up about JK Rowling’s universe than the average fan. Here are ten times he proved himself to be a Gryffindor at heart. When he was too scared to be sorted "I respect the sorting process and I’m so on board with Pottermore — you guys are like Dumbledore’s Army, keeping it all alive," he said in an interview with Pottermore. "I know the Sorting [ceremony] was written by J.K. Rowling, but I still can’t risk it. What if I get Slytherin? I couldn’t live with myself. I need to be in Gryffindor. If I didn’t get Gryffindor, I wouldn’t know who I was anymore." When he geeked out after meeting JK Rowling "Meeting her was unreal. I had so many questions. Talking to the person who created the world I’ve spent so much time in ... it just didn’t feel real." As for whether he asked her to spill a load of secrets: "I tried to stop it, but you can’t stop all of it. The filter can only be so foolproof and then things start to bubble up," he added in an interview with SnitchSeeker. When he cried about Dumbledore’s death “I remember going on a trip with my father, and that we were listening to the sixth book,” he told Collider. “But I remember that the campsite got rained out. And so, we woke up in the middle of the night and we just started driving ’cause it was raining too hard for us to camp. "And we listened to the rest of the book. I had read it many times and listened to it many times, but he hadn’t. And I just remember, honestly, the two of us, weeping and weeping and weeping and weeping. Just going through a genuine grief process for Dumbledore.” When he freaked out over his casting in Fantastic Beasts “It was a very special moment in which there was so much joy in my body that I could have burst,” he told Entertainment Tonight Canada. “I sort of had a moment of temporary insanity and jubilee on the streets of New York City. Got a couple awkward stares and had to evacuate the premises quickly after recovering.” When he watched Deathly Hallows to process real world events “Me and my friends watched 'Deathly Hallows' last night," he told BuzzFeed after the 2016 US Presidential Election. "Not because it was thematically appropriate to my life because I was doing this today; because some of my friends genuinely needed that. The fear that a lot of people are feeling right now is so palpable and so real.” When he could’ve written an essay about his favourite novel “For me, it’s the Deathy Hallows, because it ties it all around and brings it all together and for me, the whole journey was so important that when I was that age, seventeen, and when this story was evolving to the place where the young people in it were really having to stand up to injustice in their world, in this desperate situation... "It just felt like I’d been taken on this journey to a really important understanding which I would always carry with me. And I think I have, I think I do, I think I will. And that’s something I’m really grateful for.” Ezra Miller aka 'The Flash' reveals his favorite Harry Potter book pic.twitter.com/GEOysGIgaM — Variety (@Variety) November 11, 2016 When he made his own merch "dumbledore's army still recruiting" this is ezra's shoes IM SCREAMING pic.twitter.com/DvP2IWBIOg — best of ezra miller (@bestofezra) November 7, 2016 When he walked the red carpet as Hedwig And an inflatable dementor. When he summarised his feelings for the role of Credence Barebone "I would have played an inanimate object in this movie," he admitted. "I would have played one of Gnarlack’s ears." And above all, when he was scared of ever disappointing the fandom "I was scared [upon being cast in the series] because as a big Harry Potter fan, I felt like I was running the risk of being compelled to loathe myself, because if I were to disappoint HP fans, I’d have to join their ranks." More From Harry Potter Watch a World Exclusive behind-the-scenes Fantastic Beasts clip Daniel Radcliffe’s Favourite Harry Potter Film Is A Controversial Choice The Harry Potter Movies Will Definitely Be Rebooted, Claims Daniel Radcliffe A New Meme Is Trolling JK Rowling's Woke Updates About Harry Potter Tom Felton Reunites With Emma Watson ‘All The Time’ And Harry Potter Fans Have Questions Harry Potter Fans Will Be Shook By How Much Money JK Rowling Makes Per Hour Fantastic Beasts 2 Cast Reveal ALTERNATE ENDING & DELETED PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL SCENES \| MTV Movies Watch The FIRST Trailer For Pokémon Go-Style Harry Potter Game, 'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' Harry Potter's Tom Felton Reveals The Weird Fan Request That Left Him Stunned A Harry Potter Fan Just Fixed One Of The Books' Most Hated Scenes Harry Potter Fans Are Mad Over This Continuity Error In Fantastic Beasts 2	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9974
__label__cc	0.713318	0.286682	TOY REVIEW ARCHIVE LIVING WITH LATE FEES FEATURES LINKS BIO MISSION EMAIL MAIN PAGE > K-9 Corps Malice and Eclipse I can't remember the last time I saw a really good idea for a kid's based line of action figures. No, not some licensed stuff - hell, there's plenty of that. What I'm talking about is a non-licensed line of action figures based on a genuinely interesting concept that's executed well. There were Stifkas and Xevoz of course, both of which were solid but unable to convince kids to jump on board in any big way. Other than that? I'm coming up dry. That's a big reason why I was so excited when I found the new K-9 Corps figures at K-mart. From Lanard, makers of cheaper sixth scale figures for years (and some 3 3/4" military stuff too), the K-9 Corps is a relatively simple concept - war has gone to the dogs, literally. These figures are 12" tall from paw to ear, and run $13 each. There's eight different basic figures I believe (I'm going from memory on that one), and of course half are on the bad side, and half are on the good side. Each one is a different breed of dog, but if you're a big poodle or Pomeranian fan, don't expect to see your breed represented. These are shepards and dobermans and bulldogs - the tough guys. There are also two 'deluxe' figures, General Taurus on the bad guy side, and the scientist, Elliot, who started the whole thing. You see, he developed some sort of human/dog dna experiment for the government to create the ultimate fighting machine (it's always about the ultimate fighting machine, isn't it?), but things to wrong. One of the new doggies goes rogue, steals the formula and splits, creating his own army of evil pooches. These two deluxe figures also include a chunk of what looks like lab equipment, about the height of the figures themselves. Each dog comes with dog tags, of course, and if you put the tags in the pillar, it 'reads' the tag and says special lines. I picked up two of the basic figures - Malice (leader of the bad guys) and Eclipse (one of the good guys). You can find these in the action figure aisle at K-mart, and I've heard rumors that they are exclusive to that chain right now. Packaging - * For boxes, they show off the figures pretty well. There's also a nice clear explanation of the line and who's who, including photos of the entire line on the back. Each box also is personalized somewhat to the character included, and for a relatively cheap line, it's nice work. They aren't collector friendly of course, since this is most definitely not a line aimed at collectors. Sculpting - * This actually varies by dog. I grabbed these two because the sculpts were the best, looking the most like dogs yet getting the anthropomorphic nature of the line across nicely. There's another one that looks like a giant werewolf - he's actually some sort of wolf/dog mix - that was pretty sharp, but others, like the human scientist and Taurus the bulldog, were weak. Malice has a nice, malicious appearance, still clearly all dog, but with evil intent in his eye. He's going to chew you a new one if you aren't careful, and they manage to pull off a fairly scary sculpt in a kid's toy. His left hand is sculpted as a mechanical device, and his right hand is designed to hold the weapons. BTW, when you find out how Malice ended up with that mechanical hand, you'll be grossed out. Unfortunately, both paws are a little big to hold the weapons well, but he can manage if you work at it. Eclipse has a great head sculpt - the best of the line, I thought. He looks like a dog, but has an intelligence and determination sculpted into his face that is all human. He's not evil - just serious. His hand sculpts don't work as well with the weapons though, which is too bad since he has so many. He has trouble holding just about everything, so you may want to keep those little rubber bands handy to tie the weapons in. Scale on these is about right to fit in with other Hasbro, Lanard and other general sixth scale lines. There's some variety across the line as well, and the wolf character is quite a bit larger and taller than the others. Paint - * For a line aimed at the kid's mass market, the ops are surprisingly good. Of course, this is predominately on the head, because the bodies, hands and feet are your basic blacks and browns. There is a little slop around the teeth on Malice, and the fur tones are a little to broad, lacking any subtle color changes or transitions from one color to the next. But considering the intended market, these prove that just because it's for kids doesn't mean it can look great. Articulation - * The underlying body has good articulation for play, including a cut neck, ball jointed shoulders and hips, elbows, waist, cut AND pin wrists and ankles, and double jointed knees. The only joint I found myself wishing they had was a ball jointed neck, since the sculpt tends to have them looking down a bit too much. The hands and feet actually pop off, to allow for easy removal of the outfits. You could swap them around as well, if you were so inclined, but if I was still 10, I suspect that Obi-wan might slice a hand right off Malice during battle. The other negative to the articulation was the extremely loose knees. They won't hold the weight of the figure in any straight leg pose. Now, part of this is okay, because the calves are sculpted like a dogs, which pushes the knee forward anyway, making a crouch of some sort the only choice. Still, the weak knees further limits the number and type of crouches the dogs can hold. Accessories - Malice *; Eclipse 1/2 Each character comes with a nice assortment of deadly weapons. These pooches aren't lap dogs. Malice has a wicked looking knife, excellent handgun with silencer (not removable), his dog tags, and a trading card explaining who he is. As I mentioned earlier, the dog tags work with the hunk of lab equipment that comes with either deluxe character. Eclipse comes with a knife and handgun as well - but they are NOT the same sculpts! That's a nice touch, although without picking up the other figures I can't guarantee there isn't some reuse across the board. His outfit has a Navy Seal appearance, and the knife is based on a diving knife design. The handgun fits nicely in a cool rubber chest belt, which I'll discuss more in the next section. He also comes with an automatic rifle, with folding stock, and removable silencer, clip (with extra removable clip attached) and scope. I was surprised that the gun broke down like that, since it is fairly unusual to see such details in a kid's line. Eclipse also has the dog tags and the trading card. Finally, he comes with a metal canister that fits in his belt as well, which could be a lot of things - I'm betting the box told me what it was (which is now in the trash), but your kids can use their imaginations to make it a flashlight, canister bomb, or document canister. I almost forgot to mention it, but they also both come with a 'video CD'. The CD gives some background info, including the general story, and the biographies. Mine was a bit scratched up though, and had some issues when playing. As is common for 12" military figures aimed squarely at kids, these weapons are oversized and slightly cartoony. But I was happy surprised that while they are big, they aren't as goofy looking as past attempts. Sure, the knives are huge - but they look deadly as well. The hand guns are big - but they are very cool in sculpt and design. Outfit - Malice 1/2; Eclipse * Both dogs come in nifty outfits, well designed and well fitted. They aren't super complicated, but they are removable, and show some thought went into the appearance of each character. Eclipse is done in Navy Seal style, with a tight fitting body suit that resembles a wet suit. Over this he has a chest belt and a waist harness, with loops to hold all his accessories. There's a cool holster for his handgun on his chest, and the belts have large connectors that make taking them on and off fairly easy. Malice is wearing the latest in evil leader dog fashion. His body suit is colorful without being goofy, and the belt and sash attach with small velcro strips. The topper here though is the cool cape - capes are always cool, and this one is extremely well designed, not too long, not too gaudy, just right for impressing the ladies and striking fear into the hearts of opponents. Both figures use velcro to hold things in place, but there's no huge bulging strips in obvious sight. The stitching is good all around, with decent quality materials and good tailoring. Fun Factor - * This line has tons of potential. It has a reasonable amount of back story that sets up the characters and creates a general conflict, but it doesn't force feed anything onto the imagination of the child. The designs are eye catching and interesting, and since they fit in with other sixth scale lines aimed at kids, they have cross over appeal. The only thing holding them back are the floppy knees and the inability to hold the weapons. Fix those problems, and there isn't a 8 year old kid out there that won't find these fun. Value - 1/2 Ten bucks would be the sweet spot for these, and I suspect that if they had a wide run at stores like Wal-mart, Target and Toys R Us, they could get the price in that neighborhood. At thirteen, they aren't quite as good of a value, and will be a slightly tougher sell for kids, working on their parents for that extra three bucks. Things to Watch Out for - No issues here, other than possibly losing the various parts that come with Eclipse's rifle. I think I've already managed to lose the silencer, although I'm going to look some more tonight. Overall - * The line has potential for kids, particularly if you're looking to get them interested in 12" figures. The character designs are well thought out, there is just enough back story to make the idea interesting without laying it all out, and the actual playability is fairly high. However, I was expecting a higher fun factor when I saw them in the box. The floppy knees and difficulty holding their weapons brought that down for me, since I think kids will get frustrated by both pretty quickly. Still, the line has real potential, especially if you're looking to introduce your kids to this scale. There are also several of the figures that will go great with any young G.I. Joe fan looking for a unique character to battle with - and against - his existing army. SCORE RECAP: Sculpt - * Where to Buy - K-mart appears to be the store of choice right now for this line. I saw everything there except for the vehicle pictured on the back of the boxes. Regular figures are $12.99, and the deluxe figures are $19.99. Related Links - Not like I've ever reviewed a canine military figure before, but: - there is a site for the line with much of the same info as the included CD. Figure from the collection of Michael Crawford. This page copyright 2003, Michael Crawford. All rights reserved. Hosted by 1 Hour Hosting.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9975
__label__wiki	0.641856	0.641856	Scott Mahorsky Richard Dobbs Russ Wilson Stephanie DiGrazio Jack Beecher Jeff Revis Ernest Woodward Ashley Acquaviva Baylee Ramirez Christine A. Hartung Jesse Bingaman Ian Hayden Rohan Nabar Kim Rively Catharine Roberts Erika Brett Abigail Smith Operations Manager - Mid-Atlantic Region 757-995-5517 jbeecher@mahorskygroup.com Jack is a lifelong resident of Virginia and currently resides in Chesapeake. After a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968-1969, he landed a job with the Corps of Engineers Norfolk District in 1970 as a Surveying Aid. He has been with the Norfolk District ever since. Jack’s career with USACE includes 20+ years as a Contracting Officer and 15+ years as the Chief of the Norfolk District’s Small Business Program. In FY08 Jack was named the SDV Program Coordinator by the CORPS Commander. That year the CORPS increased its SDV Dollars by 150% from $217M in 07 to $543M in 08. From FY07 ($217M) to FY10 ($900M) the CORPS has increased its SDVSB Dollars by 400%. In FY09 Jack was selected as the Army Small Business Specialists of the Year for his leadership in helping the CORPS have its best year on record in terms of total Small Business Dollars awarded – approximately $9.7 billion nationwide – as well as approximately $756 million in Service Disabled Veteran Dollars which led all Army Commands. In FY`11 USACE had its best SDVSB year awarding approximately $983M to SDVSBs across the US and exceeding the 3 percent SDV Goal by finishing FY11 at 5.17% of its total contract awards going to SDVSBs. In FY11 Jack was named, by the Small Business Administration, as the Virginia Veteran Small Business Champion for his leadership in this important Small Business category. In FY11 Jack was also awarded the Bronze De Fleury Medal by the Chief of Engineers for his leadership in the USACE SDVSB Program. Jack is married. He and his wife of 43 years, Karen, have two grown children. They also have one grandson and one granddaughter. Jack enjoys the outdoors, sports, gardening, and is an avid Redskins fan. © 2020 Mahorsky Group. All Rights Reserved. Site by JH.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9978
__label__cc	0.749944	0.250056	Hong Kong Teenager 20th September 2017 MaximaBirkholz Aug 17, 2017 · The youthful figurehead of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, Joshua Wong, was jailed Thursday for his role in the 2014 protests known as the Umbrella Revolution. Wong, 20, was sentenced to 8 months for assembly alongside his party colleague, the ousted legislator Nathan Law, 23, who received Joshua Wong is a free man, and a very one, when he arrives Wednesday afternoon in front of a plaza in Hong Kong that he calls Citizen’s Square. Hong Kong House restaurant located in South Windsor, CT. Menu, address, phone number and directions are available. Our guide on how to get a Chinese VISA in Hong Kong, the costs and the best VISA agencies Hong Kong teen free. .com – the best free porn videos on internet, 100% free. Winnie is a Chartered Psychologist and a Life Coach. In the past 12 years, counselling with adults, ren, & teenagers resolving psychological & life issues, such as anxiety, stress, depression, marriage relationship issues, sleeping problem, PTSD, bereavement & loss, sex issue, addiction, self confidence, work performance, personal growth Jan 27, 2018 · HONG KONG — Hong Kong has disqualified a 21-year-old democracy advocate from running for the local legislature, the latest in a series of politicians to be barred from public office over their resistance to the Chinese government’s authority over the city. The pro-democracy party Demosisto Nov 20, 2014 · Authorities hit Hong Kong protestors with tear gas. The intense skirmishes inside Hong Kong’s Occupy Central protests haven’t just taken place on the streets, but online too. The largest cyber attack in history has been carried out against independent media sites in Hong Kong over the past few Apr 29, 2018 · Hong Kong (CNN)He just wanted help, but it proved much harder to find in Hong Kong than at home. Despite the numbers, Laurence Grant discovered that the amount of resources available to those in need of mental health support was not enough. In October, his teenfriend, Olivia Parker, found him dead Family of 15-year-old teen accuse United Christian Hospital of neglect after she was left unable to move the left side of her body following a blood plasma exchange procedure Previous Post: Hot Toys Iron Man Mark Next Post: Tone Damli Nude Lela Star Fuckin Fucking At College Big Tits Or Boobs Gay Doctor Sex Teen Panties Free Daily Teen List Links Russian Scam	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9985
__label__wiki	0.967949	0.967949	More The Pit Bull's Daily Briefing Articles Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya and a heckava lot of drivers left Daytona nursing bad bruises. And Penske still reviewing Allmendinger's situation If you're dazed and confused after this Daytona Coke 400, rest assured these drivers are too Matt Kenseth wins the Daytona pole, and NASCAR busts Tony Stewart The state of the sport? Confusing..... Brad Keselowski again a title contender, and he's got quite a sharp edge right now: Drivers Beware Jack Roush: Surprised and 'disappointed' with Matt Kenseth's decision to leave Losing Matt Kenseth to a rival? Looks like major blow for Ford Quite unexpected: A Clint Bowyer victory, and a magnanimous, emotional Kurt Busch Furious fender-bending action? Well, Sonoma has become famous for its angry drivers... Boris Said: once a power to be reckoned with on NASCAR road courses. Is he still? Posted Jun 22nd, 2012 Once fearsome, passionate Boris Said: what can he do this weekend at Sonoma? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) SONOMA, Calif. The best pure road racer in NASCAR? No fear....Boris Said is here. Said, the 6-4 racer with that wild head of hair and an irrepressible curiosity about road racing that has taken him around the world, has won more road races around the world than most of these guys have even raced in. And Said is back here this weekend to try once again to make his mark in stock car racing. You could call him one of those road course 'ringers,' guys who show up every now and then, with good credentials and talent but not much time in this branch of the sport. But that doesn't really tell the real story about Boris Said. Said has been tinkering with NASCAR for several years now, once hoping to break into the Sprint Cup series as a full-time regular. And some of his work has been admirable. This will be his 14th year on NASCAR's road courses. His best Cup finishes were third at Watkins Glen in 2005, and fourth at Daytona in the summer of 2006 (after qualifying on the pole). His NASCAR highlight was winning the Nationwide race at Montreal in 2010. Along the way of course he's taken his lumps. More than once, angry drivers have stormed over to his car after the race to confront him. Boris Said battling Jeff Burton at Sonoma a few years back....in a battle that got pretty darned heated...after the race. But then Said inspires emotions....(Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) But what makes Said so entertaining is -- no, not the Said Heads, that bunch of groupies that follow him, like DeadHeads used to follow Jerry Garcia's guys -- that he's just, well, so darned entertaining. Even off the track. What to expect here this weekend? It could be interesting to see just what owner/crew chief Frankie Stoddard has for Said. Expectations are modest, given the finances involved. A top-15 would be just fine, Said says. That's a far cry from the way things used to be, when Said would arrive here fired up to win. However now he's nearing 50, and it's hard to tell just how much fire there still in the belly, how much he has to temper what he'd like to do at the wheel here with what his team can afford for him to do. Once upon a time a really great road racer could make up for weak equipment on this tour. No longer. Top teams have cars with the best technology money can buy. Formula One has nothing on these guys. So Said has to temper his fire. The Said Heads out in force (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) Said this year has been running the Rolex Series, the Continental Challenge for BMW, Corvettes in GT...."And now to get to drive with Hendrick.com on the side of my cars is pretty exciting," he says. Hendrick.com of course is a Rick Hendrick enterprise....while Stoddard fields Fords. Said's goals here? Once, not so long ago, that was to win....and he came close a couple of times. But NASCAR is still an old boys' club, and newcomers play at their peril. "Hopefully I can do a good job, and not get in any trouble with the regulars, and just have a good weekend," Said says. Trouble is, as Kevin Harvick points out, Sonoma Raceway has become the meanest, roughest track in the sport the past two or so years. Those double-file restarts, on the tight, twisting layout, make for bruised feelings....and typically payback. Marcos Ambrose says this is the perfect track for payback, for any of those indiscretions accumulated so far this season. Nobody here really expects to be able to stay out of trouble in Sunday's 350. "Those double-file starts are the single biggest thing they've done to spice up the show," Said says. "At Watkins Glen they're not so bad; but here, for some reason..... "You can go two-by-two for a long time, and if you try to be easy, you'll just get run over. So you've got to be aggressive, and hope for the best, and hope you don't get turned around, and hope nobody wheel-hops into you, or tries for that three-wide pass... "But really I think some of it is just luck." Said, victorious in Montreal two years ago (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) Hanging over most everyone here is the approach Tony Stewart took here last summer -- after one too many blocks by Brian Vickers, Stewart simply spun him out. Of course it's almost impossible here to get away from anyone, and when Vickers finally caught him, at the end off the high-speed esses, he simply bumped Stewart up on top of the wall and out of contention. Stewart, though, made his point. And that he came back from that poor points day to win the championship would seem to show rivals that this place is not a graveyard for title hopes, perhaps giving them impetus to get even wilder. "If I saw Tony Stewart coming up in my rear view mirror, I would let him go, personally," Said says. "But now at the end of the race, five laps to go, man, it's your job. Frank isn't paying to pull over and let anyone by. "So then stuff can happen. "But I think it's silly before the end of the race." Ambrose is one of the most aggressive guys on the tour on a road course. "But I don't think any of these guys aren't aggressive," Said says with a laugh. "I remember the first time I ever did a Cup race, just the way they left the pits they were wide open. "Regular road racers take a while to get up to speed. But from the moment they wave the green, these guys are just on it, 100 percent." Strategy here? Some teams think they can do the 110-lap race on just two pit stops. Said: "Tires are a big deal here...but it all depends on where in the pack you're running. If you can make it 40 laps on gas, you'll pit (the last time) with 40 to go. "But if you're running mid-pack and the caution comes out with 20 to go, there will be guys pitting for tires and others staying (to keep track position). "I think you'll see a lot of different scenarios...and that's when you see a lot of contract. When some guys are on old tires and others are on new tires. That really makes it interesting." Said's list of NASCAR's top road racers: Marcos Ambrose, Robby Gordon, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne and Carl Edwards, Said says. "And Jimmie Johnson is the best in these cars who's ever lived." "To come in here, no matter how good a driver you think you are, these guys are for sure the best in the world....and to come in here just twice a year is tough," Said says. "I haven't been in one of these cars since Watkins Glen last August. And that wasn't my best result ever..." Last summer Said ran 28th here and 22nd at the Glen. "I relish the challenge; it's a privilege I get to do it, and I've had a great career doing it...even though I may not have won a lot of races, but I love competing, and I'm very competitive. If I can run in the top-15, it would feel like a win. "If I can stay out of trouble and not make Greg Biffle mad, and run in the top-15, and bring it home without knocking the fenders off it, I think Frankie will be happy." Boris Said: best road racer in NASCAR? If given the right equipment..... (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) Never-Been Boris Submitted by Mike Daly on Fri 06/22/2012 - 18:50. Boris Said was a "power" only in that his road racing reputation was better in prerace than in the actual race. He's been in NASCAR since his abysmal 1997 run in the Truck Series and he still gets chances he objectively speaking doesn't deserve. Why people still think he's worth anything is baffling.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9993
__label__wiki	0.564279	0.564279	Login \| Sign Up\| Lost Password? \| Nigeria Village Square Authors' Profiles Nigeria 2019: Have we learnt any lessons? The Forgotten and Lonely Change-Agents Bauchi: The Gang Up Against Governor M.A. Abubakar President Bouteflika, Dehors! How Buhari is Turning Nigeria into a Fascist State Pius Adesanmi: A Tribute and a Debt Pseudo Democracy, Pseudo Democrats! Why Pius Adesanmi’s Death Shook Us to our Roots I knew Pius PIUS ADESANMI .... And I Cried! Articles & Comments Books & InkPot InkPots Palava Hut Remi Oyeyemi PIUS ADESANMI…. … And I Cried! - By ‘Remi Oyeyemi "Do not go to my grave ......I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people's lips. Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house - I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there." - Kamand Kojouri (Author of "Eternal Dance") It was not a busy day. I had finished very early from the Adetokunbo Ademola Avenue office of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign in Abuja. Ayo, the guy who drives me around Abuja when my brother Olusola Sanni was too busy, had picked me up and dropped me at the estate where I had been hibernating, with a promise to be timely the following day. To my hosts disappointment, I had chosen not to go with him to the Ibrahim Babangida Golf Course today. The time was around 7.30 pm. My host was yet to return from the Golf Course. His wife that I had christened “Madam Justice” since she became a judge several years back was home in her library working on some judgments to be delivered. I peeped in to alert her of my intention. She gave me a judicial approval to exercise that fundamental right of freedom of movement. I had put on my jalamiya and a pair of slippers to take a stroll through the estate. As I stepped out of the palatial compound, the glittering neon lights percolating the fences of the buildings that lined the streets stood a guard of honour as I sauntered along lackadaisically. My steps were measured. I was slow, steady and calculated in my strides. It was a perfect study in ìrìn fàájì. As has become my practice, I had my cell phone with me. But I was not really expecting a call, sùgbón a kìí mò. The humidity was lenient to the quiet neighbourhood this evening. There was no excessive heat. There was no cold wind. The atmosphere was copacetic. Unbounded by the humidity, the breeze took advantage of that magnanimity as it gently bruised my arms, exerting its will, which in itself was comforting and pulsating in its subtle aggression. The sky, illuminated with stars, glittered in its darkness. It was lusciously alluring, despite being expressionless in its mien, as it commixed its colours behind the clouds. The air, freshly minted by nature, oozing a genre of strange aroma akin to that of my favourite champagne, was irresistible. I intermittently inhaled in pleasure, taking deep breaths in relish, to strengthen my lungs. And my telephone rang. It came in from Canada. And the person putting the call through was no other person than Professor Pius Adesanmi. Immediately, I had to put him in the dock, asking how he was able to trace me. He told me if I ever thought that I could hide from a dear brother like him, I must have missed it. And we laughed. Then, he said, “Egbon, I am calling you because of Omoyele Sowore.” He informed me that he met Sowore in Ghana a day before the latter was in Nigeria to declare his Presidential interest. He asked me a number of questions as we discussed. Some of our colleagues’ names also came up in the discussion. But he was very particular about Rudolf Okonkwo, our fellow contributor on Saharareporters. The kernel of that discussion was about the coming Presidential Elections in Nigeria and wanted to find out some information which I readily provided. He expressed surprise about some of the things that had happened at and to that point. He expressed the hope that we would have to meet to review the situation again. I told him that I had been in Canada three times already that year, though I did not make attempt to see him or other friends, because those were business trips that left little or no time for socializing. I informed him that I did not see myself paying another visit until 2019 after the elections. He made me promise to call if I came to the US before the Presidential Elections may be we could arrange to meet and with others. I did. We never got to have that meeting. Then, I learnt he had an accident on Oyo – Iseyin Road. This was the following day of my own return from Shaki where I had gone for an assignment. We had missed each other because he said he thought I was in Abuja. I was aghast on learning of the accident. I knew the roads either from Akinyele end or from the Oyo City end to Oke-Ogun area. The roads were and are still treacherous. We thanked God for escaping with his life. We had continued to exchange calls intermittently. I was having breakfast at a Hotel on the border of the State of Maryland and Delaware on this Sunday morning. I decided to see what was going on as I visited the social media. First it was Facebook. Barr. Ayo Turton page was the one that first came up. And he was posting parables. He was writing in tongues. He was raising suspicions. He was keeping many in suspense. I kept trying to figure out what was going on. Who could he be speaking about? I was gripped with a degree of fear. Anxiety was ruthlessly ripping my physiology relentlessly. I kept reading and searching for an answer. Then, Barr. Turton posted, “I have been calling his line and there is no answer.” I still did not know who the subject matter was. In my apprehension, I found out it was my brother, Prof. Pius Adesanmi. Now, I became more nervous. Great unease enveloped me. A cocoon of cruel cold encapsulated my vicinity. At this point there was no confirmation. There were speculations here and there. I scanned to and fro, up and down to see if anyone could confirm the situation. No one was sure. My legs began to shake. My hands began to tremble. My tummy began to throb. I was palpitating. I was rattled. I became jittery. I could not wait any longer. I put a call through to Barr. Turton. He did not pick up the first time. I called again, and he picked up. He confirmed my worst fears. My own Pius Adebola Adesanmi had died in the crash! And I cried…. And cried! Omije kíkorò! I was shocked. I was bewildered. And I became numbed. While many sympathizers were posting condolences, I could not. I was simply numbed. The reality of this was too blistering to me emotionally. It was scalding and scorching. It was very sweltering. I probably would not have felt this devastated if hit by howitzer. I began to ask “Why?” “Why?” “Why?” This was a nightmare. It did not qualify as a dream by any stretch of imagination. It was a hobbling nightmare. How could this happen? How did this happen? Why my own Pius? Why? Prof. Adesanmi was a brilliant mind, and dazzlingly so. He was deep and expansive in his intellect. He was an intellectual giant. He was scholarly and effervescently so. His literary works exuded liveliness and mirthfulness. Like a cascading charming cataract, Pius poured his prose quixotically, to inebriate in its beatification. He penned his poetry purely piusly, to pierce the pulse of the primer in a manner only Pius could do it. He was simple. He was smooth. He was silky. He was lucid, luminous and limpid. He was racy in a very steady manner. Deliberate in his cautious celerity, his style of rapidity was ringed with conscious torpidity. He often flavoured his writings with beautiful Yoruba words, something I have begun to copy, as one would have done with Latin or French to get the message across without any adumbration. He was very sincere. He was committed. He was consistent. He was determined. He was dedicated to the struggle to make our society better. He was driven, propelled and possessed by the objective of a sane society. He wrote in search of a society that is functional, fair and frank with its citizens; a society that is motored by justice and sanctity of life. He was an advocate of intellectual honesty in public discourse. Impatient and unable to tolerate foolishness, he still found a way to usher them away from his social media vicinity with some degree of civility without mincing his words. He suffered the untutored very gladly and with a controlled but ferocious intensity. Pius Adebola Adesanmi was born in Isanlu - Makutu, in Yagba East Local Government area of Kogi State. (Yagba has a reputation to have an educational institution in the distance of every 500 metres radius). Professor Adesanmi attended Titcombe College, Egbe (named after Rev. Tommy Titcombe, a British – Born Canadian missionary who came to Egbe in 1908). He had a BA (First Class honours) from University of Ilorin in 1992, a Masters in French from the University of Ibadan in 1998 and a Ph.D. in French Studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, he was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania (Penn) State University, USA. 2006, he joined the Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada as a Professor of Literature and African Studies. Earlier, between 1993 and 1997, he has been a fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA). He was also a fellow of the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) in 1998 and 2000. He was the author of “The Wayfarer and Other Poems” which in 2001 won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize. In 2010, his book “You’re Not A Country, Africa,” a collection of essays won the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in the nonfiction category. He also authored “Naija No Dey Carry Last” in 2015. In 2017, Adesanmi was a recipient of Canada Bureau of International Educational Leadership Award. In his last post on Facebook on Saturday March 9, 2019, Pius must have had the immortal words of Eric Pevernergie in mind while he penned his own immortal words. Pevernergie had posited, "Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity." And Pius with his last post did exactly that as he put forth the following: "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. - Psalm 139:9-10" He was a proud Yoruba man. He was a proud African. He was a world class citizen. Passionate about his people. Passionate about their well being. Passionate about knowledge and its deployment to changing and improving the polity. He was a focused fighter, tireless in his efforts, humorous in his style, but dead serious about his intentions. The words of Neetal Parekh, an Electronics Engineer, rings so true for our own Pius Adesanmi. "We are here for a second, but our impact ripples through time." Pius was here for a second, played his own roles, left his indelible footprints in the sands of time and his impact is already rippling through time; and will do through eternity. Prof. Adesanmi is a great loss to Isanlu. He is a great loss to the Yoruba Nation. He is a great loss to Nigeria. He is a great loss to Africa. He is a great loss to forces of social change. He is a great loss to the civic society. He is a great loss to his genre of academics. He is a great loss to Journalism. He is a great loss to his readers. He is a great loss to his friends. He is an irreplaceable loss to his beautiful daughter, Tise. He is an irreparable loss to his wonderful wife, Muyiwa. He is an immeasurable loss to Mama Isanlu. I feel greatly deprived by his demise. It is a very painful loss. A very hurtful one. May his brilliant, passionate, kind and beautiful soul rest in perfect peace. May Eledumare, the God of my fathers, grant us all the fortitude to bear his loss. Ase. Once again, I have to end with a verse of John Donne's immortal lines: “Each man’s death diminishes me, 'Remi Oyeyemi Join the conversation through disqus comments or via our forum. Click on any of the tabs below to select your desired option. 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__label__cc	0.664686	0.335314	Tag Archives \| Cassie House Area sophs get nod from PrepVB.com By Rich on March 24, 2011 in Prep – Player News PrepVolleyball.com recently published their “Soph 79” list; a comprehensive list of the top 420 sophomores in the nation active on their varsity squad during the 2010 prep season. The list, described by John Tawa, operator of PrepVolleyball.com, as “massive, thanks to the incredible talent,” didn’t feature any area players in the top 79, but four […] Cassie House Metro POTW By Rich on September 14, 2010 in Prep – Player News Congratulations to Cleveland’s Cassie House for recently being named the Albuquerque Metro Player of the Week. Cassie, a freshman playing for Ben Wallis, earned the honor for her performance at the Margaret Hussmann Tournament of Champions and being a wicked playmaker on the court. Through the first four matches of the season, Cassie had earned […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9999
__label__cc	0.612353	0.387647	Patent application title: Method and Apparatus to Cement A Perforated Casing Inventors: Philippe Gambier (Huston, TX, US) Simon James (Le Plessis-Robinson, FR) Christophe Rayssiguier (Melun, FR) IPC8 Class: AE21B4316FI Class name: Wells processes cementing, plugging or consolidating Method and Apparatus to Cement A Perforated Casing - Patent application <?php require_once('/home/patents/php/mtc.config.php'); require_once('/home/patents/php/mtc.class.php'); $MTC = new MTC(); $MTC->init(); ?> List by place Top 100 Agents Inventors: Christophe Rayssiguier Simon James Philippe Gambier Agents: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION;David Cate Origin: SUGAR LAND, TX US A method of and an apparatus for treating a near zone and/or a far zone of a well is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. (1) A tube that is permeable to a material is placed inside a wellbore, forming an annulus inside the wellbore. (2) A setting section surrounded by a sleeve is placed inside the tube. The sleeve is expandable and impermeable to the material. (3) The sleeve is inflated so that the sleeve is in contact with the tube, ensuring for a first zone of the tube is impermeable to the material, but leaving a second zone permeable to the material. (4) A treatment fluid is pumped to the zones that passes through the second zone still permeable to the material. (5) The near zone in the annulus and/or the far zone in the surrounding formation is treated with the treatment fluid. 1. A method of treatment of a near zone of a well, a far zone of a well or both a near zone and a far zone of a well comprising a wellbore and wherein the method comprising:(i) placing inside the wellbore a tube which is permeable to a material, so that the tube forms an annulus with the wellbore, a first zone being inside the annulus and a second zone being in the formation adjacent the wellbore;(ii) placing inside the tube a setting section surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve being expandable and impermeable to the material;(iii) inflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is in contact with the tube, ensuring that the first zone of the tube is impermeable to the material, but leaving the second zone permeable to the material;(iv) pumping a treatment fluid to the near and far zones, the treatment fluid passing through the second zone still permeable to the material; and(v) treating the near zone, the far zone or both near zone and far zone with the treatment fluid. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second zone is a void making communication with the near zone to treat. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second zone is an element permeable to the material. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second zone is a part of the tube. 5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:deflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is no longer in contact with the tube near the near and far zones. 6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:removing the setting section surrounded by the sleeve. 7.-41. (canceled) 42. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:deflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is no longer in contact with the tube near the near and far zones. 43. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (ii) of placing a setting section surrounded by a sleeve is performed by first placing the sleeve inside the tube and then placing the setting section inside the sleeve. 44. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (ii) of placing a setting section surrounded by a sleeve is performed by placing into the tube the setting section already surrounded by the sleeve. 45. The method according to claim 1, wherein the well has a longitudinal axis (A) and wherein the step (ii) of placing a setting section surrounded by a sleeve further comprises the step of deploying the sleeve longitudinally to the axis (A). 46. The method according to claim 1, wherein the setting section has an upper part and a lower part, the setting section being connected to a delivery section going on surface at the upper part, and being in communication with the inside of the well at the lower part through a delivery opening, and wherein the step (iv) of pumping a treatment fluid to the near and far zones is performed by:delivering the treatment fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening;filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part with the treatment fluid, until the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via the second zone still permeable to the material; andrising the treatment fluid into the near zone, the far zone or both. 47. The method according to claim 1, wherein the setting section is a member of the list consisting of: coiled tubing and drill pipe. 48. The method according to claim 46, wherein the delivery section is a member of the list consisting of: coiled tubing and drill pipe. 49. The method according to claim 1, wherein the setting section has an upper part and a lower part, the setting section being connected to a delivery section going on surface at the upper part, and being in communication with the inside of the well at the lower part through a delivery opening, and wherein the step (iv) of pumping a treatment fluid to the near and far zones is performed by:delivering a first fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening;filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part with the first fluid, until the first fluid becomes a plug inside of the well;delivering the treatment fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening;filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part and uphole from the plug, with the treatment fluid, until the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via the second zone still permeable to the material; andrising the treatment fluid into the near zone, the far zone or both. 50. The method of claim 49, wherein the first fluid is a member of the list consisting of: viscous bentonite fluid, a delayed-gel fluid and a reactive fluids system. 51. The method according to claim 49, wherein the setting section is a member of the list consisting of: coiled tubing and drill pipe. 53. The method according to claim 1, wherein the setting section has an upper part and a lower part, the setting section being connected to a delivery section going on surface at the upper part, and being in communication with the inside of the well at the lower part through a delivery opening, and wherein the step (iv) of pumping a treatment fluid to the near and far zones is performed by:deploying a plug inside of the well;plugging the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part with the plug;delivering the treatment fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening;filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part and uphole from the plug, with the treatment fluid, until the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via the second zone still permeable to the material; andrising the treatment fluid into the near zone, the far zone or both the near and far zones. 54. The method of claim 53, wherein the plug is a device with an expandable sleeve which acts as a plug when the expandable sleeve is inflated. 57. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tube is a member of the list consisting of: perforated casing, perforated tubing, perforated pipe, perforated conduit, slotted liner, screen, expandable casing, expandable screen, tube comprising an opening, tube comprising a permeable component, and a permeable component. 58. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material is one or more members of the list consisting of: oil, water, cement, sand, gravel and gas. 60. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sleeve is made of rubber. 61. The method according to claim 1, wherein the treatment fluid is a settable fluid. 62. The method according to claim 1, wherein the treatment fluid is a settable fluid and further comprising:(vi) allowing the treatment fluid to set;(vii) deflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is no longer in contact with the tube near the near and far zones; and(viii) removing the setting section with the sleeve by putting it out. 63. The method of claim 62, wherein the settable fluid is a member of the list consisting of: conventional cement, remedial cement, permeable cement, phosphate cement, special cement, inorganic and organic sealants, remedial resin, permeable resin and geopolymer materials. 64. The method of claim 62, further comprising:(ix) drilling the well with a drilling tool. 66. An apparatus for treatment of a near zone of a well, a far zone of a well or both a near zone and a far zone of a well, comprising a wellbore, and the apparatus comprising:(i) a setting section surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve being expandable and impermeable to a material;(ii) a tube which is permeable to the material, wherein the tube surrounds the sleeve;(iii) an inflating means for inflating the sleeve, the inflating means ensuring that the sleeve is in contact with a first zone of the tube so that the first zone of the tube becomes impermeable to the material; and(iv) a delivery opening for delivering a treatment fluid to the near and far zones, the delivery opening ensuring that the treatment fluid passes, via a second zone still permeable to the material, into an annulus formed between the tube and the wellbore. 67. The apparatus of claim 66, wherein the delivery opening ensures that the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via a void making communication with the near zone. 68. The apparatus of claim 66, wherein the delivery opening ensures that the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via an element permeable to the material. 69. The apparatus of claim 66, wherein the delivery opening ensures that the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via a part of the tube. 70. The apparatus according to claim 66, further comprising:a deflating means for deflating the sleeve, the deflating means ensuring that the sleeve is no longer in contact with the tube. 71. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the setting section has an upper part and a lower part and wherein the apparatus further comprises a delivery section going on surface connected to the upper part. 72. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the tube is a member of the list consisting of: perforated casing, perforated tubing, perforated pipe, perforated conduit, slotted liner, screen, expandable casing, expandable screen, tube comprising opening, tube comprising permeable component, and permeable component. 73. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the material is one or more members of the list consisting of: oil, water, cement, sand, gravel and gas. 74. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the treatment fluid is a settable fluid. 75. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the sleeve is attached to the tube with connecting means at the upper part, with connecting means or both at the lower part. 76. The apparatus of claim 75, wherein the connecting means are removable connecting means. 77. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the sleeve is attached to the setting section with connecting means at the upper part or with connecting means at the lower part, or with connecting means at the upper part and at the lower part. 79. The apparatus according to claim 66, wherein the tube is attached to the setting section with connecting means at the upper part, with connecting means or both at the lower part. 81. An apparatus for treatment of a near zone of a well, a far zone of a well or both a near zone and a far zone of a well, comprising a wellbore, and the apparatus comprising:(i) a stinger assembly comprising a stinger mandrel at the lower part, and a seal and a first thread at the upper part;(ii) a bladder assembly comprising a bladder which is expandable and impermeable to a material, a check valve for inflating the bladder, a lower attachment assembly and an upper attachment assembly, wherein the stinger mandrel fits in the lower attachment assembly and the seal fits in the upper attachment assembly;(iii) a liner string comprising a tube which is permeable to the material and comprising a delivery opening for delivering a treatment fluid, a guide, a seat and a second thread, wherein the lower attachment assembly fits in the guide, the upper attachment assembly fits in the seat and the first thread fits in the second thread; and(iv) a running tool going to surface and connected to the stinger assembly at the upper part, wherein the check valve ensures inflation so that the sleeve is in contact with a first zone of the tube so that the first zone of the tube becomes impermeable to the material and the delivery opening ensures delivery so that the treatment fluid passes, via a second zone still permeable to the material, into an annulus formed between the stinger assembly and the wellbore and into the near and far zones. 84. The apparatus according to claim 81, wherein the check valve delivers a gas, a liquid or both inside the bladder. 86. The apparatus of claim 85, wherein the settable fluid is a member of the list consisting of conventional cement, remedial cement, permeable cement, special cement, remedial resin and permeable resin. [0001]The present invention broadly relates to well cementing. More particularly the invention relates to servicing apparatus for completing downhole wells from a subterranean reservoir, such as for instance an oil and gas reservoir or a water reservoir. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART [0002]After a well has been drilled, the conventional practice in the oil industry consists in filing the well with a metal casing. The casing is lowered down the hole and cement is pumped inside the casing and returns through the annulus where it is allowed to set. Lining the well aims at a dual purpose: preventing the bore walls from collapsing and isolating the various geological strata and thus, avoiding exchange of fluids between them. Furthermore, it can be useful also for different reasons to fill the well with a permeable screen (meaning not impermeable as metal casing) as perforated tubular, tubular with other openings, slotted liner or expandable screen. Use of such permeable screen aims for example in allowing the oil to pass the bore walls from production zones into the hole by retaining debris. However, when a permeable screen is present downhole, there is no simple way to cement the annulus. Effectively, conventional technique where cement is pumped inside the permeable screen to be returned through the annulus will not work, because the cement will pass through the first openings of the permeable screen and no cement will be pumped at the other extremity. Further cement would fill the inside of the permeable screen and extra drilling, which is costly and time consuming, will be required after the cement is set. Even this conventional technique does not apply to other types of fluids and there is no simple way to make a treatment to a zone of the borehole behind a permeable screen. [0003]Hence, it remains the need for a method of cementing the annulus or a method of treatment of the earth formation, behind a perforated casing, a slotted liner or an expandable and permeable screen. [0004]According to one aspect of the invention, the invention provides a method of treatment of a near zone and/or a far zone of a well comprising a wellbore and wherein the method comprises the steps of: (i) placing inside the wellbore a tube which is permeable to a material, so that the tube forms an annulus with the wellbore, the first zone being inside the annulus and the second zone being beyond the wellbore; (ii) placing inside the tube a setting section surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve being expandable and impermeable to the material; (iii) inflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is in contact with the tube, ensuring for a first zone of the tube impermeability to the material, but leaving a second zone permeable to the material; (iv) pumping a treatment fluid to the zones, the treatment fluid passing through the second zone still permeable to the material; and (v) treating the near zone and/or the far zone with the treatment fluid. [0005]According to a second aspect of the invention, the invention provides a method to consolidate a near zone and/or a far zone of a well comprising a wellbore and wherein the method comprises the steps of: (i) placing inside the wellbore a tube which is permeable to a material, so that the tube forms an annulus with the wellbore, the first zone being inside the annulus and the second zone being beyond the wellbore; (ii) placing inside the tube a setting section surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve being expandable and impermeable to the material; (iii) inflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is in contact with the tube, ensuring for a first zone of the tube impermeability to the material, but leaving a second zone permeable to the material; (iv) pumping a treatment fluid to the zones, the treatment fluid passing through the second zone still permeable to the material; and (v) treating the near zone and/or the far zone with the treatment fluid. [0006]According to a third aspect of the invention, the invention provides a method to isolate a near zone and/or a far zone of a well comprising a wellbore and wherein the method comprises the steps of: (i) placing inside the wellbore a tube which is permeable to a material, so that the tube forms an annulus with the wellbore, the first zone being inside the annulus and the second zone being beyond the wellbore; (ii) placing inside the tube a setting section surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve being expandable and impermeable to the material; (iii) inflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is in contact with the tube, ensuring for a first zone of the tube impermeability to the material, but leaving a second zone permeable to the material; (iv) pumping a treatment fluid to the zones, the treatment fluid passing through the second zone still permeable to the material; and (v) treating the near zone and/or the far zone with the treatment fluid. [0007]There are possible uses of the methods, in one case, the second zone is a void making communication with the zones: this configuration can appear when the zones is at the bottom of the well and when the tube ends leaving direct communication between the inside of the well and the earth formation; this configuration can also appear in the well when an unconsolidated zone is in direct communication with the earth formation. In a second case, the second zone is an element permeable to the material, for example the permeable element can be the tube: this configuration can appear when a part the tube is made impermeable and another part of the same tube is used to ensure flow of the treatment fluid from the inside of the well to the annulus and to the zones. [0008]Preferably, the method according to the invention further comprises the step of deflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is no more in contact with the tube near the zones; also preferably, the invention further comprises the step of removing the setting section surrounded by the sleeve from the zones. The inside of the tube is left unchanged after the zones have been treated or consolidated or isolated. [0009]In a first embodiment, the step of placing the setting section surrounded by a sleeve is done by placing first the sleeve inside the tube and after the setting section inside the sleeve. The sleeve can be lowered in the well first, positioned near the zones; and after the setting section can be positioned inside the sleeve so the step of inflating can begin. In a second embodiment, the step of placing the setting section surrounded by a sleeve is done by placing into the tube the setting section already surrounded by the sleeve. The sleeve can be positioned on the setting section before to be positioned near the zones. Preferably, in a configuration where the well has a longitudinal axis (A), the step of placing the setting section surrounded by a sleeve further comprises the step of deploying the sleeve longitudinally to the axis (A). The sleeve is arranged like a fan on the setting section and can be deployed on its length to cover the part of the tube or all the tube to be impermeabilized. [0010]In one example of realization, the setting section has an upper part and a lower part, the setting section being connected to a delivery section going on surface at the upper part, and being in communication with the inside of the well at the lower part through a delivery opening, and the step of pumping a treatment fluid to the zones is done by: (i) delivering the treatment fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening; (ii) filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part with the treatment fluid, until the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via the second zone still permeable to the material; and (iii) rising said treatment fluid into the zones. [0011]In a second example of realization, the setting section has an upper part and a lower part, the setting section being connected to a delivery section going on surface at the upper part, and being in communication with the inside of the well at the lower part through a delivery opening, and wherein the step of pumping a treatment fluid to the zones is done by: (i) delivering a first fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening; (ii) filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part with the first fluid, until the first fluid realized a plug inside of the well; (iii) delivering the treatment fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening; (iv) filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part and uphole from the plug, with the treatment fluid, until the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via the second zone still permeable to the material; and (v) rising the treatment fluid into the zones. The first fluid can be a viscous bentonite fluid, a delayed-gel fluid, or a reactive fluids system. [0012]In a third example of realization, the setting section has an upper part and a lower part, the setting section being connected to a delivery section going on surface at the upper part, and being in communication with the inside of the well at the lower part through a delivery opening, and wherein the step of pumping a treatment fluid to the zones is done by: (i) deploying a plug inside of the well; (ii) plugging the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part with the plug; (iii) delivering the treatment fluid inside of the well through the delivery section, through the setting section and through the delivery opening; (iv) filling the inside of the well located downhole from the lower part and uphole from the plug, with the treatment fluid, until the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via the second zone still permeable to the material; and rising the treatment fluid into the zones. The plug is a device with an expandable sleeve which acts as a plug when the expandable sleeve is inflated. The plug can be deployed inside the well with the apparatus of the invention or with another apparatus. [0013]In various possible examples of realization, the methods of the invention work when the tube is taken in the list constituted by: perforated casing, perforated tubing, perforated pipe, perforated conduit, slotted liner, screen, expandable casing, expandable screen, tube comprising opening, tube comprising permeable component, and permeable component; when the material is taken in the list constituted by: oil, water, cement, sand, gravel, gas; when the setting section is taken in the list constituted by: coiled tubing, drill pipe; when the delivery section is taken in the list constituted by: coiled tubing, drill pipe; when the sleeve is made of rubber; when the treatment fluid is a settable fluid or a non settable fluid; when the settable fluid is taken in the list constituted by: conventional cement, remedial cement, permeable cement, phosphate cement, special cement, inorganic and organic sealants, remedial resin, permeable resin, geopolymer materials; when the non settable fluid is taken in the list constituted by: acid, washer. [0014]In the case where the treatment fluid is a settable fluid, the method further comprises the steps of: (v) allowing the treatment fluid to set; (vi) deflating the sleeve so that the sleeve is no more in contact with the tube near the zones; and (vii) removing the setting section with the sleeve from the zones by putting it out. In a preferred embodiment, the method further comprises the step of: (viii) drilling the well with a drilling tool. [0015]According to a fourth aspect of the invention, the invention provides an apparatus for treatment or to consolidate or to isolate a near zone and/or a far zone of a well, comprising a wellbore, and the apparatus comprising: (i) a setting section surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve being expandable and impermeable to a material; (ii) a tube which is permeable to the material, wherein the tube surrounds the sleeve; (iii) an inflating means for inflating the sleeve, the inflating means ensuring that the sleeve is in contact with a first zone of the tube so that the first zone of the tube becomes impermeable to the material; and (iv) a delivery opening for delivering a treatment fluid to the zones, the delivery opening ensuring that the treatment fluid passes, via a second zone still permeable to the material, into an annulus formed between the tube and the wellbore. [0016]There are possible configurations of the delivery opening, in a first configuration they ensure that the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via a void making communication with the zones to treat; in a second configuration, they ensure that the treatment fluid passes into the annulus via an element permeable to the material, preferably the permeable element is a part of the tube. [0017]Preferably also, the apparatus comprises: a deflating means for deflating the sleeve, the deflating means ensuring that the sleeve is no more in contact with the tube. [0018]Preferably, the sleeve is attached to the tube with connecting means at the upper part and/or with connecting means at the lower part. In one embodiment, the connecting means are connected permanently to the tube; in a second embodiment the connecting means are removable connecting means; in a third embodiment the connecting means are floating means. [0019]Preferably, the sleeve is attached to the setting section with connecting means at the upper part and/or with connecting means at the lower part. In one embodiment, the connecting means are connected permanently to the setting section; in a second embodiment the connecting means are removable connecting means; in a third embodiment the connecting means are floating means. [0020]Preferably, the tube is attached to the setting section with connecting means at the upper part and/or with connecting means at the lower part. In one embodiment, the connecting means are connected permanently to the setting section; in a second embodiment the connecting means are removable connecting means; in a third embodiment the connecting means are floating means. [0021]In another configuration, the setting section has an upper part and a lower part and the apparatus further comprises a delivery section going on the surface connected to the upper part. [0022]In various possible examples of realization, the apparatus of the invention works when the tube is taken in the list constituted by: perforated casing, perforated tubing, perforated pipe, perforated conduit, slotted liner, screen, expandable casing, expandable screen, tube comprising opening, tube comprising permeable component, and permeable component; when the material is taken in the list constituted by: oil, water, cement, sand, gravel, gas; when the setting section is taken in the list constituted by: coiled tubing, drill pipe; when the delivery section is taken in the list constituted by: coiled tubing, drill pipe; when the sleeve is made of rubber; when the treatment fluid is a settable fluid or a non settable fluid; when the settable fluid is taken in the list constituted by: conventional cement, remedial cement, permeable cement, phosphate cement, special cement, inorganic and organic sealants, remedial resin, permeable resin, geopolymer materials; when the non settable fluid is taken in the list constituted by: acid, washer. [0023]In examples of realization, the inflating means is a device delivering a gas and/or a liquid inside the sleeve; is a check valve delivering mud into the inside of the sleeve; is a pump delivering mud into the inside of the sleeve. [0024]In other examples of realization, the apparatus further comprises a deflating means for deflating the sleeve, the deflating means ensuring that the sleeve is no more in contact with the tube and wherein the deflating means is a device releasing the gas and/or the liquid from the sleeve. [0025]According to a fifth aspect of the invention, the invention provides an apparatus for treatment or to consolidate or to isolate a near zone and/or a far zone of a well, comprising a wellbore, and the apparatus comprising: (i) a stinger assembly comprising a stinger mandrel at the lower part, and a seal and a first thread at the upper part; (ii) a bladder assembly comprising a bladder which is expandable and impermeable to a material, a check valve for inflating the bladder, a lower attachment assembly and an upper attachment assembly, wherein the stinger mandrel fits in the lower attachment assembly and the seal fits in the upper attachment assembly; (iii) a liner string comprising a tube which is permeable to the material and comprising a delivery opening for delivering a treatment fluid, a guide, a seat and a second thread, wherein the lower attachment assembly fits in the guide, the upper attachment assembly fits in the seat and the first thread fits in the second thread; and (iv) a running tool going to surface and connected to the stinger assembly at the upper part; wherein, the check valve ensures inflation so that the sleeve is in contact with a first zone of the tube so that the first zone of the tube becomes impermeable to the material; and the delivery opening ensures delivery so that the treatment fluid passes, via a second zone still permeable to the material, into an annulus formed between the stinger assembly and the wellbore and into the zones. [0026]In various possible examples of realization, the apparatus of the invention works when the tube is taken in the list constituted by: perforated casing, perforated tubing, perforated pipe, perforated conduit, slotted liner, screen, expandable casing, expandable screen, tube comprising opening, tube comprising permeable component, and permeable component; when the material is taken in the list constituted by: oil, water, cement, sand, gravel, gas; when the running tool is made of part of elements taken in the list constituted by: coiled tubing, drill pipe; when the bladder is made of rubber; when the treatment fluid is a settable fluid or a non settable fluid; when the settable fluid is taken in the list constituted by: conventional cement, remedial cement, permeable cement, phosphate cement, special cement, inorganic and organic sealants, remedial resin, permeable resin, geopolymer materials; when the non settable fluid is taken in the list constituted by: acid, washer. [0027]Preferably, the check valve delivers a gas and/or a liquid inside the bladder; the liquid can be mud. [0028]Further embodiments of the present invention can be understood with the appended drawings: [0029]FIG. 1A to FIG. 1G show a schematic diagram illustrating the method according to the invention. [0030]FIG. 2 shows a view in details of the apparatus according to the invention in a first embodiment. [0031]FIGS. 3 to 5 show a view in details of the apparatus according to the invention in a second embodiment: [0032]FIG. 3 shows a view in details of a liner string used in the method of the invention. [0033]FIG. 4 shows a view in details of a bladder assembly used in the method of the invention. [0034]FIG. 5 shows a view in details of a stinger assembly used in the method of the invention. [0035]FIG. 6 shows a schematic diagram illustrating the method of the invention in a preferred embodiment. [0036]The present invention involves the use of an expanding sleeve that selectively isolates a portion of a permeable tube such as a perforated casing, or a slotted liner or an expandable and permeable screen, this isolation allowing the further treatment of the annulus zone between the permeable tube and the borehole, such treatment can be a cementing operation. The typical applications for which the apparatus and method of the invention can be used include sand control and support of wellbore producing formations, in water, oil and/or gas wells. The apparatus and method of the invention can be used also in all type of geometry of wellbores, as highly deviated and horizontal wellbores. [0037]FIGS. 1A to 1G are an illustration of the various steps of the method according to the invention. The method is intended for application in a well 1. The well is made of a wellbore 10 which is in communication with an earth formation 11, the earth formation comprising various strata of materials (110, 111 and 112). A casing 12 surrounded by an annular space filled with cement isolates the various producing zones from each other or from the well itself in order to stabilize the well or prevent fluid communication between the zones or shut off unwanted fluid production such as water. The inside of the well 1 is filled with a fluid 700 which is for example mud or drilling mud. [0038]FIG. 1B shows the deployment of a permeable tube or screen 20 such as a perforated tubular, a tubular with other openings, a slotted liner or a screen (standalone, expandable or prepacked). The permeable tube 20 is placed inside the well 1 and forms an annulus 2 between said tube 20 and the wellbore 10. The tube 20 is at least permeable to one material--permeable, meaning allowing the flowing of said one material through said tube--. Further, the tube 20 can be impermeable or can play the rule of a barrier to another material--impermeable, meaning not allowing the flowing of said another material through said tube--. The tube 20 can also be for example a type of sieve, where the tube allows the crossing of a material or morphology of material, as water or fine sand; and blocks the crossing of another material or another morphology of material, as stone or medium sand. The method according to the invention can be deployed when the tube 20 is at the bottom of the well or anywhere in the well, or when the tube 20 is further associated downhole and/or uphole with a casing. When referring to uphole, it is meant going towards the surface and downhole, it is meant going away from the surface. [0039]The method of the invention is a method of treatment of a zone of the well which is located below the placed tube 20. Zone is defined as a part of the well or a region of the well which is delimited, but which can be quite small--from one cubic meter to ten cubic meters--and which can also be quite large--from hundred cubic meters to ten thousand cubic meters--. [0040]FIG. 1C shows the deployment of an apparatus 40 according to the invention. The apparatus 40 is lowered in the well from the surface, it comprises a setting pipe 19. The setting pipe at its lower section is surrounded by an expandable sleeve or bladder 50. The sleeve 50 is at least impermeable to the said one material that the tube 20 is permeable--impermeable, meaning not allowing the flowing of said one material through said sleeve--. Further, the sleeve 50 can be permeable to another material--permeable, meaning allowing the flowing of said another material through said sleeve--. Preferably, the sleeve 50 is cylindrical and connected to the setting pipe 19 by one connecting means at the upper level and with a second connecting means at the lower level. The connecting means ensure tightness of the system {sleeve and setting section}. The connecting means are distant from some meters to several meters; preferably the connecting means are distant from a length D varying from 1 meter to 200 meters; more preferably between 1 meter and 50 meters. As it can be understood when the length D is of some meters (for example up to 10 meters), the lower section with sleeve can be mounted on the surface, and the apparatus 40 can be lowered and run in the well and finally, deployed when required near the zone to treat. However, when the lower section of the apparatus 40 has a length D of several meters (below 10 meters or 100 meters for example), it is becoming hard to mount the setting pipe directly with the sleeve fully deployed on the surface. In a first aspect of the invention, the lower section of the apparatus 40 has a setting pipe already surrounded and mounted with a sleeve, the assembly being done at the surface or directly at the factory, the apparatus being lowered as such in the well. In a second aspect of the invention, the lower section of the apparatus 40 has a setting pipe surrounded with a sleeve, but not fixedly pre-mounted. The sleeve is deployed inside the well near the tube first, and the setting pipe is positioned inside said sleeve after. Further, the sleeve can preferably be arranged as a fan and can be deployed gradually on the setting section at the surface when lowered into the well or in the well when deploying near the tube. This second aspect of the invention will be explained below in more details. [0041]The sleeve 50 is positioned inside the tube 20 in a zone 60. The zone 60 delimits the location where the sleeve 50 has to be positioned to ensure an efficient method of treatment. The zone 60 is defined by a cylinder inside the well, wherein the external surface of the cylinder is delimited by the tube 20. The zone of treatment can be delimited by a near zone 60B and a far zone 60C. The near zone 60B is defined by an annulus surrounding the zone 60, delimited by the tube 20 and the wellbore 10. The far zone 60C is defined by an annulus also surrounding the zone 60B, delimited at one side by the wellbore 10 and stretching into the earth formation from a fixed length L, varying from few centimeters to few meters, preferably the length L is between 2 centimeters to 15 meters and more preferably between 10 centimeters to 5 meters. [0042]FIG. 1D shows the further step of deployment of the apparatus 40 according to the invention. The sleeve 50 is inflated thanks to an inflating means located on one connecting means. The inflating means can also advantageously be located on another portion of the tool communicating with the inside of the system {sleeve and setting pipe}. The sleeve 50 is inflated with a component 13, which can be mud, water, Nitrogen or any type of gas or liquid. In one embodiment, the inflating means is a check valve or any type of valve allowing circulating mud from the inside of the well into the inside of the sleeve 50 but not the reverse. In a second embodiment, the inflating means is a pump in communication with the inside of the well delivering mud as component 13. In a third embodiment, the inflating means is a reservoir delivering gas as component 13, said gas can be Nitrogen, carbon dioxide or air. The inflating means can be self activated or activated remotely from surface or activated by a timer or by another device located in the well. When inflated, a part of the sleeve is in contact with a zone of the tube 20, said contact zone or interface is called zone 60A. The zone 60A should be comprised in the surface defined by the intersection of zone 60 and zone 60B. The sleeve 50 is inflated enough to ensure a tight contact. Said tight contact ensures that the zone 60A made of the interface sleeve/tube becomes impermeable to the said one material that the tube 20 is permeable. A zone 6 is left permeable to the said one material, so the material can flow from the inside of the well to the annulus 2 and to the zone 60B through the zone 6. The zone 60A can cover the entire tube 20 and the zone 6 can be a zone, located downhole compared to apparatus 40 or below the setting pipe 19 and the sleeve 50, void of casing or tube directly in communication with the annulus and with the zone 60B. Also the zone 60A can cover a part of the tube 20 and the zone 6 can be another part of the tube 20 still permeable, said another part located downhole compared to apparatus 40 or below the setting pipe 19 and the sleeve 50. The sleeve 50 follows the shape of the setting section when deflated and has a shape practically cylindrical when inflated. [0043]FIG. 1E shows the pumping of a treatment fluid 70 into the well. The treatment fluid is a component that flows through the tube 20--the tube 20 is permeable to this treatment fluid 70--. The treatment fluid flows into the well through delivering means or delivery opening positioned at the lower end of the setting pipe 19 below the sleeve 50. Once arrived below the setting pipe 19, the treatment fluid 70 tends to returns to the surface. Ideally the treatment fluid 70 should have the same density as the fluid 700 already in the well. As the sleeve 50 plugs the inside of the tube 20, the treatment fluid 70 is forced to circulate through the tube 20 or at least through the part 6 of the tube 20, and the treatment fluid 70 will flow all along the annulus 2 between the zone 60A and the wellbore. If the treatment fluid has not the same density as the fluid 700 already in the well, there is a risk that by gravity the treatment fluid 70 will first fill part of the well below the setting pipe 19 and the sleeve 50 (said zone below zone 60 is called zone 70A--FIG. 1G--) despite the fact that said zone 70A is closed volume already filled with the fluid 700. For example, to limit this risk, as it will be explained below in more details, few barrels of a viscous fluid can first be pumped into said zone 70A or at least into a part of said zone 70A. [0044]Aim of the impermeabilisation of the zone 60A allows the treatment fluid 70 to rise into the zone 60B instead of rising into the inside of the well via zone 60. Once the entire zone 60B to be treated is filled with the treatment fluid, the pumping of the treatment fluid is stopped. Advantageously, depending on the composition of the treatment fluid 70 and on the composition of the earth formation beyond the wellbore (in the zone 60C), the treatment fluid can, after having filled the zone 60B, flow into the zone 60C. The pumping of the treatment fluid can be re-launched if needed to compensate for the fluid treatment flowing into the zone 60C and re-stopped when required. This step can be further re-executed a number of times, as needed. All along this time, the sleeve 50 is left inflated, ensuring impermeability of zone 60A, the time needed that the treatment fluid 70 makes its action in zone 60B and/or in zone 60C. As a first example of realization, the treatment fluid can be an acid for acid fracturing of the zone 60C or a chemical activator for activating zone 60C. As a second example of realization, the treatment fluid can be a settable fluid to set in zone 60B and/or in zone 60C, the settable fluid can be a permeable cement, a remedial cement or any type of cement or other sealant e.g. epoxy or furan resin. Further type of treatments can also be combined. [0045]After the zone 60B and/or the zone 60C is treated, the sleeve 50 is deflated (FIG. 1F). The sleeve 50 is deflated thanks to a deflating means located on one connecting means. The deflating means can also advantageously be located on another portion of the tool communicating with the inside of the system {sleeve and setting pipe}. Preferably, the deflating means and the inflating means are the same means allowing choice between inflation or deflation of the sleeve. For the first example of realization, when the treatment fluid is a non-settable fluid, but an acid or activator, the deflated sleeve allows the treatment fluid to flow back into the well. Advantage of the use of the sleeve, is that the treatment of the zone 60B and/or the zone 60C can be done with a lesser quantity of treatment fluid than will be needed without sleeve--without sleeve, the entire zone 60 would have needed to be filled with the treatment fluid--. For the second example of realization, when the treatment fluid is a settable fluid, the deflated sleeve leaves the zone 60B and/or zone 60C with the set fluid. Advantage of the use of the sleeve, is that the inside of the tube 20 is left void of any type of pollution, as set fluid--without sleeve, the entire zone 60 would have been filled with the set fluid, requiring a further step of drilling the entire zone 60--. FIG. 1G shows the same well as in FIG. 1A after placement of the permeable tube and treatment with the method and apparatus according to the invention with a settable fluid. The apparatus 40 with the sleeve 50 has been removed from the well. The zone 60B and/or the zone 60C have been treated and the entire zone 60 remains unaffected by the treatment. [0046]In a first embodiment, the method and the apparatus according to the invention are deployed at the bottomhole of the well, all the volume of the zone 70A left downhole of the apparatus 40 can be filled with the treatment fluid. After the treatment is finished, if a settable fluid is used, the set fluid remained in zone 70A can be drilled with a drilling tool lowered into the well from the surface. [0047]In a second embodiment, the method and the apparatus according to the invention are deployed anywhere in the well, the volume of the zone 70A left downhole of the apparatus 40 is unknown and considered big. If the treatment fluid 70 has the same density as the fluid 700 already in the well, there is no risk that the treatment fluid fills first the zone 70A. However, if the treatment fluid 70 has not the same density as the fluid 700 already in the well two solutions can be used. One solution can be to pump few barrels of a viscous fluid into a part of said zone 70A, for example viscous fluid can be viscous bentonite pill, a delayed-gel, a reactive fluids system (RFS). If this is not sufficient, a second solution can be to mechanically isolate a part of said zone 70A with a second apparatus. Said second apparatus will be deployed first and will act as a plug so to limit the zone 70A to a smallest volume. An example of such a second apparatus can be found in U.S. Pat. No. 3,460,625; U.S. Pat. No. 2,922,478 and preferably in the co-pending European patent application from the Applicants under application number 05291785.3. Preferably, said second apparatus is deployed with the apparatus 40 and is positioned downhole compared to the apparatus 40; the second apparatus acts as a plug and the apparatus 40 can be used as described from FIG. 1D to 1G. The plug can be reusable or releasable. As a first example of embodiment, when the treatment fluid is a non-settable fluid, the second apparatus can be connected to the apparatus 40 and can have a reusable plug which is deployed the time the sleeve 50 is inflated. When the sleeve 50 is deflated, the plug is removed also--the plug can also be an expandable sleeve for example--. So, the treatment fluid falls into the well when the apparatus 40 and the second apparatus are removed from the well, leaving the zone 60B and/or the zone 60C treated and the inside of the tube near zone 60 void of any pollution. As a second example of embodiment, when the treatment fluid is a settable fluid, the second apparatus can be connected to the apparatus 40 and can have a releasable plug which is deployed the time the sleeve 50 is inflated. When the sleeve 50 is deflated, the apparatus 40 and the second apparatus are removed, the plug is released. Either the volume of the set fluid in zone 70A is sufficient to push the plug downhole and the plug falls lower into the well or zone 70A with the plug can be drilled with a drilling tool lowered into the well from the surface. [0048]In a further step, a permeable tube can be placed in another zone of the well and said another zone can be treated with the method according to the invention by deploying the apparatus, if for example there are multiple and separated zones in the well or if the zone to be treated is too long to be treated with a single treatment. [0049]FIG. 2 shows a view in details of the apparatus according to the invention in a first embodiment. The apparatus 40 is lowered in the well from the surface, it comprises an upper section 41 made of a delivery pipe 17 and a lower section 42 made of a setting section 18, with the bladder 50 and the permeable tube 20. The delivery pipe 17 can be a drill pipe or coiled tubing. The setting section 18 can be a drill pipe or coiled tubing, it can be also a tube made of metal or a rigid and resistant material as composite. The setting section 18 is surrounded by an expandable sleeve or bladder 50. The expandable sleeve 50 can be formed from an elastic but resistant material, for example rubber. The expandable sleeve is connected to the setting section 18 by one connecting means 50A at the upper level and with a second connecting means 50B at the lower level. The connecting means 50A and 50B are systems of fixation of the expandable sleeve 50 to the setting section 18 as screwing, hanging, sticking, crimping, hooping. The sleeve 50 is inflated thanks to a check valve 51-52 located on the connecting means 50A. The sleeve 50 is inflated with mud 13 present inside the well. The sleeve is deflated thanks also to the check valve 51-52 when it is unlocked and allows exit of mud. Alternatively, a straight pull can shear and disconnect the connecting means 50B to deflate the sleeve. The expandable sleeve 50 is surrounded by the permeable tube 20. The permeable tube can be connected to the setting section by one connecting means 200A at the upper level and with a second connecting means 200B at the lower level. And/or alternatively, the permeable tube can be connected to the bladder 50 through the connecting means 50A by one connecting means 210A at the upper level and can be connected to the bladder 50 through the connecting means 50B by a second connecting means 210B at the lower level. The apparatus 40 comprises a hole 55 at the lower level of the lower section 42 to ensure delivering of the fluid treatment inside the well. [0050]FIGS. 3 to 5 show several detailed views of the apparatus according to the invention in a second embodiment. The apparatus 40 is made of four principal elements: a liner string 300, a bladder assembly 400, a stinger assembly 500, and a running tool 600. Referring to FIG. 5, the stinger assembly 500 corresponds to an improvement of the basic setting section 18. The stinger assembly is connected to the running tool 600 via a liner hanger running tool 515. The running tool 600 corresponds to the upper section 41 of the apparatus 40. Also, the running tool 600 can be embodied as a simple drill pipe or coiled tubing. The FIG. 4 shows the bladder assembly 400 and the FIG. 3 shows the liner string 300. The liner string 300 comprises the permeable tube 20. The apparatus 40 is lowered in the well from the surface the four principal elements directly mounted or the apparatus 40 is mounted inside the well by lowering successively each of the four principal elements constituting it. [0051]FIG. 3 shows a detailed view of the liner string 300. The liner string comprises the permeable tube 20 or an assembly of permeable tubes mounted with additional elements to ensure easy use of the method of the invention. The liner string is made of a standard shoe 301 with check valve, a guide 302 for a lower attachment assembly 400A (part of the bladder assembly 400, FIG. 4) of the bladder or sleeve 50. The liner string further comprises any number of permeable tubes 20, connected together with couplings 304 or connected to a standard tube 120 also with a coupling 304. Those non-permeable tubes form an extension to the permeable tubes, to allow pumping some excess of treatment fluid without filling the space above the tool 400. This is important when the treatment fluid can set such as cement. On the FIG. 3, two permeable tubes embodied as perforated casing joints 303 are present and the standard tube 120 embodied as a standard casing 306 located upper is present. The coupling 304 can further receive a centralizer 305 so that the liner string is correctly centralized in the wellbore 10. The liner string further comprises a nipple 307 for a liner hanger running tool 515 (FIG. 5), with a seat 310 and with a left-hand thread 309. Several ports 308 communicate with the upper attachment ports for test and filling purposes. [0052]FIG. 4 shows a detailed view of the bladder assembly 400. The bladder assembly comprises the bladder 50, the lower attachment assembly 400A with a telescopic latch tube, and an upper attachment assembly 400B with filling ports. The lower attachment assembly is composed of a sleeve 401 with a large chamfer 402 to guide it while running inside the liner string 300, a mandrel 404 with a specific profile 403 that fits the profile cut in the sleeve, which allows to secure the bladder 50, and a telescopic latch tube 406. This latch tube 406 has an internal recess 407 so that a stinger mandrel 501 (part of the stinger 500, FIG. 5) can catch the latch tube 406 and pull it upward. The latch tube 406 is maintained in the lower position by a set of shear screws 410 whose extremities engage a groove cut 410A in the mandrel 404. When the tensile load applied by the latch mandrel 501 exceeds the setting of the screws, they shear and the telescopic latch tube 406 can move upward until a shoulder 409 stops against a mandrel shoulder 408. In that position, several large ports 411 are located on the latch tube 406 to create a path for fluid circulation. The bladder 50 is respectively trapped between a male profile 403A of the sleeve 401 and a female profile 403B of the mandrel 404. As an example of implementation, the outside diameter of the sleeve has been crimped over the mandrel, compressing the bladder to maintain it in place. [0053]The upper attachment assembly is composed of a similar fixation of the bladder between an upper mandrel 412 and an upper sleeve 413, comprising a male profile 420A and a female profile 420B. The upper mandrel 412 has an external shoulder 414 whose diameter is slightly larger that the diameter of the seat 310 (part of the liner string 300, FIG. 3) in order to prevent the upper attachment assembly to fall down into the well. A sealing tube 415 is secured and sealed on the upper mandrel 412 by standard means (thread and seal 419). The internal diameter of the sealing tube 415 is accurate enough for seal compatibility. A port 417 located on the upper mandrel 412 allows a fluid such as water to be pumped into the bladder 50 through an annulus 416 and through a gap 418. In another embodiment, a second port located also on the upper mandrel 412 can be used to vent the air trapped in the bladder 50 during inflation. [0054]FIG. 5 shows a detailed view of the stinger assembly 500. The stinger assembly is basically an extension to the drill pipe. The stinger assembly should have the same internal diameter as the drill pipes, so that conventional rubber plugs, usually called darts, used to separate fluids can easily run through. The bottom of the stinger assembly is a conventional liner hanger running tool. It has two main functions: it seals the running tool and the lower attachment assembly 400A (part of the bladder assembly 400, FIG. 4), and it connects the stinger assembly and the lower attachment assembly 400A, thanks to the internal recess 407, to actuate the latch tube 406 and to retrieve the bladder 50 at the end of the job. [0055]The stinger assembly has an upper part 500B and a lower part 500A. The lower part 500A is made of a stinger mandrel 501 with a seal assembly 502 to fit into the mandrel 404 (part of the bladder assembly 400, FIG. 4). There is a collet 503 where several slots have been cut to form a set of elastic fingers 504 with a profile 505 to catch the internal recess 407 (FIG. 4) inside the latch tube 406 (FIG. 4). The collet 503 is pushed downward by a spring 506 so that the fingers 504 are located on a shoulder 540 on the stinger mandrel 501 that prevents them to collapse. When the stinger assembly is pushed downward through the latch tube 406 (FIG. 4), the fingers 504 stop against the internal recess 407 (FIG. 4), then the spring 506 is compressed and the fingers 504 are located in front of the smallest diameter 550 of the stinger mandrel 501. The front chamfer of the fingers 504, pushing on the latch tube upper chamfer, forces the fingers 504 to collapse. The fingers 504 can now engage through the internal recess 407 (FIG. 4). Once engaged, the spring 506 returns the fingers 504 to their original position, on the shoulder 540 on the stinger mandrel 501. The stinger assembly is latched, and the only way to release it is to compress the spring 506 and to collapse every finger 504 with a specific tooling. [0056]A coupling 507 is connected on top of the stinger mandrel 501. A check valve assembly 507A, made of a puppet valve 508 pushed by a spring 509 and a nut 510, is installed in the thickness of the coupling. The check valve 507A ensures that the pressure inside the bladder 50 will never be lower than the pressure inside the stinger assembly. The drawing shows a very basic check valve located in the thickness of the coupling. However a concentric design with a sliding sleeve would be preferred to provide a larger flow area within the geometry of the tool. At the beginning of the job, the bladder 50 is filled with water at a very low pressure and the check valve 507A is closed. While the bladder is lowered downhole, the hydrostatic pressure increases and the bladder 50 is collapsed to increase its internal pressure. When the fluid is pumped through the drill pipes and the stinger assembly, the pressure inside the stinger assembly is slightly higher than the pressure inside the well, due to friction losses. So some fluid enters into the bladder 50 to increase its pressure, maintaining the bladder against the permeable tube 20. [0057]Above the coupling 507, several tubular joints 511 are connected to obtain the same length as the permeable tube 20. The overall length can be adjusted by selecting short joints and/or an adjustable joint, so that the seals 502 engage the mandrel 404 (part of the bladder assembly 400, FIG. 4) when the liner hanger running tool 515 is secured in the nipple 307 (part of the liner string 300, FIG. 3). [0058]Alternatively, the attachment of the liner hanger running tool 515 on the upper attachment assembly 400B (FIG. 4) can be made up on the rig floor: the bladder 50 is marked at surface when the lower attachment assembly 400A seats in the guide 302 (part of the liner string 300, FIG. 3), then it is slightly pulled of the hole, cut at the correct length, the sleeve 413 is crimped onto the bladder to secure it, and the liner hanger running tool 515 is run into the well. [0059]The liner hanger running tool 515 shown in details on FIG. 5 is a conventional liner hanger running tool: a liner mandrel 521 has a spline 512A to link a left-hand thread nut 517 in rotation. The liner mandrel 521 can further be connected to a drill pipe or a coiled tubing. The nut 517 can translate in a rotating cage 519 with a thrust bearing 520. A spring 518 pushes the nut 517 out of the cage 519 to help engaging the left-hand thread nut 517 in the corresponding left-hand thread 309 (part of the liner string 300, FIG. 3). Then, even with some weight pressing the liner hanger running tool 515 down onto the nipple 307 (part of the liner string 300, FIG. 3), a right-hand rotation can easily unscrew the nut 517 that retracts inside the cage 519 until the liner hanger running tool 515 is totally disconnected from the liner string 300. Torque shear pins can be added to avoid any premature disconnection. The liner hanger running tool 515 also includes a seal assembly 513A made of a short stinger 513 with one or several seals 514 that engage inside the secure tube 415 (part of the bladder assembly 400, FIG. 4). A crossover 512 secures the stinger assembly 500 and the hanger liner running tool 515. [0060]The apparatus 40 according to this second embodiment can be used for various types of permeable tubes as: perforated casing, perforated tubular, a tubular with other openings, a slotted liner or a screen (standalone or prepacked). The apparatus 40 can also be used for expandable permeable tubes as expandable tubular. However, the difference is that the expandable tubular is run and expanded first. Then the bladder is hanged at the rig floor level while the stinger assembly is made up. Finally the upper attachment assembly is secured on the stinger assembly. In order to bleed off the bladder at the top, a second telescopic latch tube, similar to the one in the lower attachment assembly, can be added to disengage the seals and vent the bladder. [0061]FIG. 6 shows a preferred embodiment of the method of the invention. Said a preferred embodiment of the method can be deployed inside the well with the second embodiment of the apparatus of the invention. [0062]In the first step, the permeable tube 20 is made up with the guide 302 above the shoe 301 and the nipple 307 on top. External centralizers 305 are installed all along the permeable tube 20. The running tool is used to connect it to drill pipes. Optionally, the liner hanger running tool and/or a packer is made up. [0063]In the second step, the bladder 50 is run inside the permeable tube 20. It is made of a flexible hose connected to two attachment assemblies (400A of the lower and 400B for the upper). The bladder is spooled on a reel and a pulley is guiding it during deployment in the permeable tube, until the upper attachment assembly seats into the nipple 307. [0064]In the step three, the apparatus 40 is prepared: the stinger assembly 500 is assembled inside the bladder 50. The stinger mandrel 501 fits into the lower attachment assembly 400A. Then the running tool 600 is secured in the nipple 307 at the top of the permeable tube 20 and at this moment, the several seals 514 engage into the upper attachment assembly 400B. [0065]In the step four, the bladder 50 can now be inflated with any liquid for test purpose, through the filling ports 308 and 417. The check valve 51-52 prevents the bladder to deflate into the well. [0066]In the step five, the apparatus 40 is run in the well with drill pipes. The pressure in the bladder automatically raises up to the hydrostatic pressure, thanks to the check valve. In the step six, once the lower section 42 is at the desired depth, the liner hanger running tool (if any) is set and the running tool disconnected (but left in place) for safety reasons. In the step seven, the cement slurry 70 can be pumped through the drill pipes and the stinger assembly 500. It is circulating through the shoe 301 and back up the annulus 2. The stinger assembly pressure is always slightly higher than the annulus pressure. As the bladder is inflated by the stinger assembly pressure, it is maintained against the permeable tube thanks to the check valve 51-52, so it prevents the cement slurry 70 to circulate between the outside of the bladder and the inside of the permeable tube. In the step eight, the apparatus is left in place until the cement is set. In the step nine, by pulling on the drill pipe, the stinger assembly pulls on the stinger mandrel 501 and the fingers 504 which finally disengage latch tube 406 to create a path for fluid circulation so to vent the bladder. [0067]In the step ten, by pulling more on the drill pipe, the running tool 600, the stinger assembly 500 and the lower attachment assembly 400A are coming out of the well, while the bladder bleeds off and turns inside out, hanging below the lower attachment assembly 400A. The whole apparatus can be retrieved, except the permeable tube. No cement is located inside the permeable tube. [0068]In the above sequence, the bladder was pre-inflated at surface on the step four for test purposes. Alternatively, that test can be eliminated to save time, and the bladder will inflate by circulating the mud through the check valve 51-52, once it is arrived at desired depth. Optionally, a ball or a dart can be pumped down to close the bottom of the stinger assembly and to apply some pressure into the bladder. Then the ball seat can shear to establish the free circulation, but the bladder stays pressurized because the check valve is now closed. <?php $MTC->comments("1"); ?> <?php $MTC->comment_form("1"); ?> Patent applications by Christophe Rayssiguier, Melun FR Patent applications by Simon James, Le Plessis-Robinson FR Patent applications in class Cementing, plugging or consolidating Patent applications in all subclasses Cementing, plugging or consolidating 2009-01-15 Method to cement a perforated casing 2013-03-28 Method and apparatus for treatment of a perforated casing 2012-11-22 Hybrid buoyed and stayed towers and risers for deepwater 2013-05-16 Weight-based interlock apparatus and methods 2010-07-29 Geologic features from curvelet based seismic attributes 2016-05-19 Multi-stage cementing tool and method 2016-05-19 Lost circulation material 2016-04-28 Methods and apparatus related to an expandable port collar 2016-04-28 Remedial second-stage cementing packer 2016-04-21 Apparatus for zonal communication interruption 2012-06-14 Compositions and methods for servicing subterranean wells 2012-01-05 Methods and apparatus for improved cement plug placement 2012-01-05 Apparatus and methods for improved cement plug placement 2011-11-24 Apparatus and methods for completing subterranean wells Top Inventors for class "Wells" 1 Michael L. Fripp 2 Michael H. Johnson 3 Jean Marc Lopez 4 Jørgen Hallundbaek 5 Dinesh R. Patel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10011
__label__wiki	0.9387	0.9387	Take the Keys and Lock Him Up (to the tune of "Lon... Red Bull Races to Return to Detroit: 3-Year Contra... New $431-million terminal adds pizzazz to Detroit ... US House committee approves Great Lakes compact Oakland University and Beaumont Hospital To Open M... GM and Chrysler Announce Major Sale Incentives Take the Keys and Lock Him Up (to the tune of "London Bridges"). Kwame's In Jail, Folks! 'Nuff said, though I was really looking forward to the Lincoln Navigator high speed police chase.... It even made the NY Times. Let the progress in Detroit begin! Posted by Erin Rose at 5:23 PM Links to this post Red Bull Races to Return to Detroit: 3-Year Contract In The Works Officials in Detroit who helped bring the Red Bull Air Race to this area appear to be in no rush to win back the event's return next year, but applauded Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis for travelling to London this weekend to meet with the company. "Anything he can do to get them to seriously consider coming back to Detroit is positive," said Chris Baum, senior vice-president of sales and marketing for the Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau. Red Bull came to Detroit on a one-year deal thanks to Detroit Air Racing, whose leaders spearheaded the effort to form a committee and pursue the event. That same committee is in the midst of assembling a three-year contract for Red Bull to return, Baum said. "There is a committee and process in place," he said. "In terms of the proposal, it will be Detroit Air Racing's call on how to approach this." Francis and Windsor's tourism boss Gordon Orr went to London this weekend because they felt Red Bull is leaning to moving the event elsewhere because of some operational concerns. The company is poised to lock in its 2009 global air race schedule sometime within the next week or so, the mayor said. But Baum did not seem overly concerned, noting this year's air race event in Detroit was not finalized until sometime around last Christmas. Red Bull media officials could not be reached Friday, with a company spokesman indicating they were busy in Ottawa with its Flugtag event -- where everyday people build homemade flying machines and pilot them off 22-feet-high ramp. Baum said everyone in Detroit was very pleased to host the Red Bull Air Race and are poised to gladly welcome them back. "They drew large crowds -- paid and unpaid," he said. Red Bull officials alone booked 5,000 room nights at the Ren Cen's Marriott Hotel, Baum said. "From our perspective we are always interested in filling rooms. it was a very positive event, no negatives. The fact we outdrew San Diego (the only other U.S. stop) by a wide margin bodes well for a return to Detroit." New $431-million terminal adds pizzazz to Detroit Metro Airport The new $431-million North Terminal is expected to open Sept. 17, right on schedule, at Detroit Metro Airport, ending the era of the shabby Smith and Berry terminals. "With the McNamara and North terminals, we now have two beautiful front doors for anyone arriving in our region by air," Michael Conway, Metro Airport spokesman, said as the Free Press got a sneak-peek tour Friday. On Sept. 16, after their last flights, airlines will transfer during the night to the new terminal. North will open for business Sept. 17 with 24 gates open and two more to follow next summer. Built directly across the street from the Big Blue Deck parking structure, the terminal is about half the size and with a fifth as many gates as McNamara. Yet in many ways it looks like McNamara -- light, lots of glass, straight-line design, lots of stainless steel. The main thing passengers will notice is that the terminal will be easier to navigate than McNamara. Because it is smaller, it's easy to find the passenger walkway to the parking deck, baggage claim and the right gate. The new terminal likely won't be named North very long, either. The airport is selling the naming rights to the terminal, perhaps even before it opens. The new terminal is about a half-mile-long end to end. It won't have a tram. • Far more color than the understated McNamara. Many of North's walls, jetways and part of its terrazzo floor are a bright shade of royal blue. Funky white orb lights decorate the terminal at both ends. • Four sets of moving walkways and 50,000 square feet of stores and restaurants, including a Hockeytown Café, a Borders and a Ruby Tuesday. Unlike McNamara, there also will be a restaurant at baggage claim and restrooms in the departures area before security. • Many electrical outlets so travelers can plug in their laptops. (Like the rest of the airport, it also will have terminal-wide Wi-Fi.) • Like McNamara, a transit center for airport shuttles, taxis and limos will be across the pedestrian bridge adjacent to the parking deck. North does have some things McNamara doesn't, including the newest passenger screening machines, a hidden high-tech luggage screening system and a modular construction that makes layout changes easier. Each gate also will have sophisticated, energy-efficient jet-refueling and power stations that save airlines fuel and electricity. "We tried to take lessons learned from McNamara, which was built pre-9/11," said Scott Roberts, deputy director of public affairs who has been involved in the North project since it took off in October 2005. From the main lobby, there are two security checkpoints on either side of the ticket counters. The terminal will be able to take international flights and have a complete customs and immigration facility. North will service Spirit, Southwest, American, United, USAirways, Frontier and Air Tran, all of which have been forced to operate out of the 51-year-old Smith. USA 3000 airlines will transfer from the virtually empty Berry Terminal. Lufthansa and Royal Jordanian airlines, now based at McNamara, also will move there. Northwest Airlines and its partners will remain at the McNamara Terminal. Smith and Berry terminals will be demolished in the coming months. The new terminal is built for 7 million passengers. About 4 million are expected to pass through it the first year. Five more gates could be added if necessary, Roberts said. One other change? "Airlines aren't going to chisel their logos into the finish" at the gates, said Scott Wintner, another Metro spokesman. In a nod to the swiftly changing airline picture, electronic signs will tell passengers which gate and ticket counter belongs to which airline. North Terminal is being paid for with bonds that will be repaid by a $4.50 surcharge on passenger tickets. The new terminal may draw new airlines to Metro, Roberts said. "If a new airline wanted to come in, they could start right away," he said, "which gives more service at the airport, keeps the prices down and gives travelers another option to get someplace." WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee approved a compact Wednesday to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, one of the world's largest sources of fresh water. The House Judiciary Committee approved the compact, building momentum in Congress for the Great Lakes agreement. "The compact will ensure that our Great Lakes will remain stabile and vibrant for generations to come," said Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and the committee's chairman. The agreement was negotiated by eight Great Lakes states and bars countries or remote states from tapping into the lakes from their natural drainage basin with rare exceptions. It also requires the states to regulate their own large-scale water uses and promote conservation. "The sooner this compact can be ratified by the Congress, the sooner it will become effective and the greater protection will be given" to the lakes, said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. The Senate Judic iary Committee was expected to hold a hearing on the compact later Wednesday as lawmakers hope to act on the interstate compact before the end of the year. State leaders in the region developed the plan amid concerns that the worldwide freshwater shortage would lead thirsty regions to attempt to access the lakes. Governors in the region negotiated the compact for more than four years before reaching an agreement in December 2005. Michigan was the last of the eight states to approve the pact earlier this month.President Bush has urged Congress to approve the agreement, and both major presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, have said they support the compact. House and Senate leaders from the region have said they are not aware of any significant opposition to the plan, which is common among states. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia currently belong to at least one interstate water compact, and many state s belong to more than one. Oakland University and Beaumont Hospital To Open Medical School in 2010 Oakland University and Royal Oak-based William Beaumont Hospitals have raised $25 million in donations to launch their joint medical school in fall 2010, leaders of both institutions announced Thursday. The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine will open with an inaugural class of 50 students, presuming it obtains accreditation from the Liaison Committee for Medical Education sometime next year. Beaumont and OU also announced the appointment of Robert Folberg, currently professor and department head of pathology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as the school’s first dean. Gary Russi, president of OU, estimated that “about 25” private and corporate donors have committed the first $25 million toward the $100 million in operating costs needed before the institution can fully fund itself through tuition and other sources. Russi estimates the institutions will need another $100 million or more, in addition to the operating costs, for two construction projects — an instructional building at the OU campus, and a clinical building devoted to medical education at Beaumont’s main medical campus in Royal Oak. “But with the $25 million we already have in place, there’s enough to get it going,” Russi said.The medical degree program at OU-Beaumont could help change the mix of local doctors and turn more Michigan residents into medical professionals, according to OU Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost Virinder Moudgil, and John Musich, vice president and director of medical education programs at Beaumont. More than 70 percent of students who graduate from OU’s current pre-med programs and apply to medical schools elsewhere are successful, though many end up enrolling out of state. At the same time, Musich noted, less than 50 percent of any given class admitted to the University of Michigan’s medical school are in-state residents.Moudgil said the university cannot legally give preferential admission treatment to its own pre-med students, but he hopes to see the university help pre-med students prepare for the OU-William Beaumont program. Moudgil said the university will apply for its LCME accreditation sometime later this year and hopes to obtain at least a probationary approval by 2009, allowing the school to begin recruiting students. According to Automative News: GM: -Cash incentives to move trucks, including hybrids. Chrysler: -Zero percent financing for 72 months for customers with A credit rating on five 2008 vehicles. -40 percent off sticker price for the Dodge Ram, 25 percent off the Aspen, 24 percent off the Town & Country minivans and 28 percent off Grand Cherokees. -A lease loyalty incentive former lease customers can apply toward a purchase, including waiver of a $425 lease disposition fee.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10018
__label__wiki	0.584557	0.584557	Professional Composers of America No relation to any existing organization Classical music used in EDM EDM is an abbreviation for electronic dance music which entails a wide range of electronic bass beat music genres mainly produced for festivals and night clubs. The foundation of electronic dance music is a combination of beats and lyrics from different genres to produce a unique hybrid. In fact, electronic dance music borrows from across many genres including techno and classical music. Classical music is not well understood by most people and has been perceived as a complex genre that demands cognitive analysis to understand and relate to in a sublime emotional perspective. The sublime appeal of classical music makes a top candidate for electronic dance music. In reality, innovative music DJs have sampled widely celebrated renaissance renditions of classical music and mixed these records with rococo and romantic compositions to produce a unique taste of club hopping music. For instance, literature enthusiasts will recount the popular 1876 Edvard Grieg’s classic music hit song “In the hall of the Mountain King” that was adopted for the Peer Gynt play by Henrik Ibsen. This hit song has been improvised and worked into electronic dance music to a breathtaking refinement. It is among the most popular pieces of classical music that has proven how fine and entertaining classical music is. It also presents us with a chance to appreciate classical music at a deeper level and validate its authenticity. This is not the only example of classical music used in EDM. On the contrary, Mozart’s iconic music has been welcomed and largely incorporated into electronic dance music mixes. The most renowned piece of Mozart’s music is the Requiem Mass, which was partially completed by Franz Xaver Sussmayr. Ideally, the use of classical music in electronic dance music uplifts it by putting it in front of massive audiences. If you are not familiar or deeply interested in classical music, you will definitely go digging deeper into the remixed versions of classical music after listening to its electronic versions due to its high quality and appeal. Renowned American composer and icon Samuel Osborne Barber II made the case for classical music and its use in electronic dance music through his collaboration with Dj Tiesto. His adagio for strings was converted into string orchestra and mixed into an unidentifiable form of modernist classical music by Dj Tiesto. This highlight shines the spotlight on the uniqueness and evolution of classical music as it blends with other genres and modernist variations. Perhaps, the climax of classical music used in EDM is the popular Moonlight Sonata composition by Beethoven. This masterpiece is among the most renowned piano piece that predominantly features the classical music hall of fame. It was produced in 1801 and it is still relevant in the 21st century wherein it has been mixed into trance dance format. It is widely enjoyed by party goers in full moon beach clubs. The pieces of classical music used in EDM have made interesting music libraries that are thrilling to listen to whether in a discotheque or at home in front of your fireplace. It is definitely a unique taste of music that blends naturally with other genres. Author tamerackPosted on November 9, 2016 October 25, 2019 Categories Classical Music Previous Previous post: The 5 Best Tools For Composing Music Next Next post: Why The Violin Is The Ultimate Instrument. Why Composers Need Fake TV Simulators And Security Equipment The Greatest Composers Of All Time Improve Your Orchestral Singing Why The Violin Is The Ultimate Instrument. Radiohead have launched their own public library Stormzy gets emotional about ex onstage Chris Martin blasts autograph hunters in foul-mouthed rant Sharon Osbourne thanks friends, family and fans for their 'outpouring love' Megadeth play first show since Dave Mustaine's throat cancer diagnosis Taylor Swift was 'terrified' about sharing political views following Dixie Chicks controversy Kelly Clarkson shows support for Pink after the singer admitted she feels 'weird' about ageing Taylor Swift says her award show run in with Kanye West affected her 'more than anyone knew' Meghan Trainor started meeting with therapist after suffering health scare Taylor Swift's mum battling brain tumour Professional Composers of America Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10021
__label__wiki	0.515006	0.515006	Facebook Says Conversations Are Now More Important Than Reactions By Rob Uncategorised No Comments Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement about the upcoming changes to Facebook’s newsfeed has a lot of us talking. Coincidently, that’s exactly the desired outcome that he wants for the platform. These latest updates will place higher value on comments and sharing, so any content with an empty comments stream will reach less people. Ultimately, he believes these changes will ensure “the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.” He says that Facebook was built to connect family and friends. These types of connections make us happier and that’s important. Yet somehow, we’ve ended up in a place where there’s more brand and publisher content than personal content. To fix this, the ranking system in Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm will be adjusted. How it is now? Rankings place high value on clicks and reactions, placing content that attracts a lot of these types of engagement higher up in our newsfeeds. Sponsoring this type of content almost certainly earns you a place in people’s newsfeeds based on the type of targeting you employed and any engagement will increase reach. How will it be after the changes? More value will be placed on content that people share with friends, as well as content that they comment on. Sponsoring will not necessarily guarantee you a place in your audience’s newsfeed any more, unless a certain amount of active engagement is garnered first. Why? Because Facebook wants us to talk to each other more, click on website links less and actively engage with content. According to Zuckerberg, watching a video or clicking like is considered passive engagement, commenting and sharing is considered active engagement. This move is back-tracking from previous strategies, in the past 12 months Facebook has pushed video content and supported publishers, relaxing restrictions on sponsoring content. At this point, it’s clear that the platform had lost much of its original purpose. Users are sharing less of their personal stories, and even if they do, they will often get buried under sponsored content. These proposed changes will reverse this effect, bringing us closer to how the platform used to operate a few years ago. What does that mean for a brand’s PR and social strategy? It means that content posted on social channels needs to focus on things that are sharable and start conversations. Any content that purely drives to websites will most likely suffer a sharp decline in reach. Content that typically drives a lot of reactions (likes, loves, laughs, etc.) will probably suffer the same. Videos may also suffer if they do not generate any “active” engagement. At this point, before the changes kick in, current evergreen social strategies need revising, especially if it is sponsored content. These new changes will make it much trickier to reach people unless share-ability and conversation are at the core of the content. However, it’s important to remember that, at this point, we have no true understanding of how these changes will manifest. Each brand page will be affected differently and whilst content calendars should be revised, it’s a matter of adjustment, not abandonment. The Brand Launch By Rob Uncategorised The brand launch: while it’s not rocket science, even the minds at NASA – you know, the guys who sold a nation on ‘The Moon’ – will tell you that there’s an art to telling a story that people connect with. Of course, not every brand has the benefit of captaining one of mankind’s greatest achievements, but with some careful planning and consideration, any story worth hearing can find its audience. When we were given the task to launch Alternative Meat Co’s range of plant-based meat alternatives to market, one approach might have been to lob their brand story aimlessly into the sky and hope it would take off. We decided against this. Instead, we opted to create a campaign that would get people fired up and create a bit of controversy, and ultimately drive consumers in-store to purchase the product. The premise of the campaign was to ignite a conversation with two tinder sparks: 1. Meat alternatives are inferior in taste 2. Eating meat makes you more Australian Based on these insights, we rolled out a two-part integrated campaign that used well-known Aussie comedian and vegetarian Dave Hughes to kickstart the conversation. Phase one of the campaign saw a disguised ‘Hughesy’ serving kebabs to unknowing customers, grilling them on what they thought of the taste, before revealing the kebab was made with a plant-based substitute. Video of the Kebab prank divided an impassioned audience on social and traditional media and was viewed more than a million times. Phase two successfully newsjacked the launch of Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) annual ‘Eat Lamb on Australia Day’ campaign. With Hughsey again at the helm, our video parodying MLA ads hit on a hot topic and was distributed to a selection of key media outlets. Having reshaped the narrative, we worked with popular millennial publisher Junkee Media to create a native content video depicting ‘What Australia Day looks like without meat’, which positioned the brand as an Australia Day meat alternative. The video attracted more than 80,000 views and 750 engagements. While the campaign didn’t put man on the moon or cultivate a nation of would-be astronauts, it did successfully generate significant amounts of coverage and conversation across traditional and social media, with a total combined reach exceeding 90 million. The result of this being a tangible increase in brand awareness and, perhaps more importantly, consumer action – sales figures quadrupled in the week following phase one of the campaign and almost tripled in the week following phase two. We also picked up a shiny award for Launch Campaign of the Year at Mumbrella’s CommsCon. Winner, winner, (faux) chicken dinner. Should PR degrees go the way of dinosaurs? By Rob Food for thought Is the PR degree going extinct? When I embarked on my university journey in 2016, I chose to study public relations because I thought it sounded cool. Apart from the information collected by skimming through university brochures, I wasn’t exactly sure about the content of a PR degree and its worth to the market. This choice was especially challenging considering some of the latest publications on the industry. Companies such as IBM have challenged assumptions that college degrees are necessary assets for successful careers. From a personal perspective, I have encountered many people asking me why I was studying PR at all. During an interview for an internship position in a Public Relations company, the director questioned the worth of having a PR degree and told me that he got into PR ‘by accident’, working his way through. I discovered later that he had a degree in archeology. So what is the relevance of a public relations degree today? For me, it comes down to three things; competitive edge for job seekers, market respect and attracting a certain kind of person. The PR industry is growing at an average of seven per cent annually, and its ranks have swollen to nearly five professionals to every single journalist, a ratio that has more than doubled over the past decade. While journalism is facing difficult times – Fairfax Media management’s recent announcement to cut a quarter of all editorial jobs comes to mind. As the industry is growing, the job market is becoming increasingly competitive with more professionals on the look-out for qualified students. One of the arguments made after the recent 457 visa changes suppressing ‘PR Manager’ title from the skilled visa list was the surplus of qualified Australian students. In the future, it will therefore be nearly impossible to climb to the top of the PR professional ladder without the appropriate qualifications. From a market perspective, hiring PR students is a testament to the value of the profession. Regardless of the growing relevance of Public Relations as a profession, the industry is not always labelled as fully mature because no consensus has been reached on how best to evaluate a PR campaign’s contribution to results. Hiring PR professionals who don’t have a degree could potentially contribute to the wider market questioning the profession’s value and legitimacy. Finally, students that study PR are worth much more than their qualification. Most people drawn to PR possess skills beyond writing and research such as creative thinking, strategic development, the ability to communicate, open-mindedness and curiosity making them attractive on the job market. Gina Ramson-Williams, group talent director, Europe, at Weber Shandwick explained that she looks above all for inquisitive minds and drive when she hires PR graduates. I was struck by the importance of creativity in the profession. A career in PR offers countless opportunities to be creative, not only in terms of writing but also in coming up with new ways to promote businesses and approaching new clients. PR is a profession which constantly calls for fresh ideas and lateral thinking so having those skills can be crucial to bring career success. Having studied PR and had on the job training, my one concern is that educators work closely with PR operators on a regular basis to ensure the skillsets taught in PR degrees are always updated and kept relevant. PR continues to change so quickly, that a rounded practical education across social, digital, creative and strategy is essential. Although some doubts prevail upon the future direction of PR in a fast-changing media environment, one thing is certain; PR degrees will not meet the same fate as the T-rex. Just like the PR market itself, the degree will adapt, evolve and flourish – rather than die out. ‘Like a ship emerging from the fog’ By Rob Poem news The dictionary definition of ‘emerging’ is to… ‘come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity – like a ship emerging from the fog.’ 14 months ago Poem wasn’t concealed or obscured; it just didn’t exist. Today we’re sailing hard like we’ve been in business for the last five years, working with the likes of Google, Expedia, Cartoon Network and The Cancer Council. And amazingly, through all this hard work, we’ve been noticed. A couple of weeks ago we sat at the Mumbrella Awards with all our peers as finalists for Emerging Agency Of The Year, against The Special Group and Emotive; two highly successful Australian agencies that we hugely admire. What a privilege and reward for what’s already been the best year of our careers. Our friends at Special took home the final honours, but that didn’t stop us from celebrating like we’d won, because we still felt like we had. Can agencies have a role in their staff’s personal development? A couple of weeks ago we celebrated completing Poem’s 1st year of business by taking the whole team skydiving. Is that weird? It’s definitely not normal, but we figured we had to do something epic to match what’s been an epic year. We were all up in that plane together. We jumped out one after the other. We shared that stomach churning anticipation followed by the exhilaration of landing and the three day high that follows. It was truly the best thing that I’ve done at work with colleagues and for some, it was a real personal challenge and life changing experience. What is strange though for me, is that it’s led to a whole lot of thoughts in my head about what a work place’s role in its staffs’ lives should be and where to draw the boundary. My first media world job was in London fifteen years ago at Freud Communications. I was there for over five years predominantly because I had great mates there, I knew the work was forward thinking and the place inspired me. We worked hard, played hard and Matthew Freud, the owner did some kick ass motivational talks. I wouldn’t say it helped grow me as a person, but it was a key stage of my life and gave me a good work ethic. Since then I’ve worked for a total of four other companies until deciding to start Poem, however they’ve all been steps up on the career ladder as opposed to life changing periods. I wonder whether there is actually a role for companies to have in staff’s personal growth rather than just career. Can we be more than just a wage, fair working environment and career progression? Can we inspire and encourage staff to be more and develop as people? I don’t know. Maybe not as we grow bigger. But right know I feel like we have an opportunity to do something amazing. I’m not saying it’s about extreme sports at a once a year party. But since we’re starting from scratch, can we build in ways to give staff more trust, flexible time, annual leave without policies. I think my biggest bug bear about climbing the career ladder, has been the policy on a 20 day a year holiday allowance with two weeks maximum to be taken at any one time. It limits you to holidays as opposed to meaningful travel experiences that can’t be had within just two weeks. We want to change that. Everything is changing (I guess everything always is), however right now because of new technology, commonplace high speed internet and changing demands of a Millennial generation, it feels like we’ve hit a real high step change, which a lot of established agencies are struggling to see over. I’m hoping that agency and career life changes for the better and that we manage to break the restrictive mould that’s existed in offices since the 60s. Being a year old I reckon we’re in a good position to help that change happen. – Rob The launch of the world’s first cold pasteurised milk. By Rob Client news, Poem news This month we launched Made By Cow, a world first innovation by an Australian company that’s used cold pressure to kill all the bad stuff in untreated milk as opposed to boiling it. It’s totally safe to drink, contains more of milk’s natural goodness and it’s unhomogenised, so there’s a tasty layer of cream on top – just the way it should be. There was a lot of preparation that went into this campaign. The messaging had to be perfect and how, when and which media we went to in order to break the story was key, as milk surprisingly, is a complex subject full of polarised points of view and passionate opinions. We decided on ABC News and Fairfax as the two exclusives. They were given access behind the scenes to the farm, the cold pressure technology and interviews with Saxon, the founder and our nutritionist, Lyndi Cohen. These two opinion forming media let the rest of the country know we were onto something serious, so the rest of the country and then the rest of the world’s media also got on board. By the end of the week we been across the whole of Fairfax, News Corp, The Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Mashable, Ch 7 News, Ch 10, ABC TV / radio and online amongst many others. To help educate people about the process and why cold pressure is so much better than heat pasteurisation, we worked with The Explainers to create a short 1 minute animation made for Facebook and targeted relevant geographical and interest-based audiences. As a result of this publicity and social content only, Made By Cow sold out within the first three days and is still hard to find in store. Whilst initially being stocked in just Harris Farm Markets and About Life Stores, retailers both here and abroad have been requesting further product every since. The issue now, which is a good issue to have, is keeping up with demand. Breakfast inspiration from our recent nudie™ Coconut Yoghurt launch. Last month we helped launch nudie juice’s new coconut yoghurt (now available in Woolworths). You might think that coconut yoghurt is made from cows fed on coconuts, but you’d be wrong; it’s totally dairy free, meaning cow’s can take a holiday. Check out how it was received below. Pheebsfood Clean Eating Survival Guide ninemsn Coach Are we storytelling – or just telling tall stories? I remember first hearing people talk about ‘storytelling’ a few years ago. I never quite understood it then and I still don’t fully understand the term now. In fact, like many others, I think it’s overused marketing jazz. A story to me, typically has a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s structured. It depicts an event or series of linked events. I can think of a handful of campaigns that do that; AAMI’s Rhonda and Ketut, the New Zealand Transport Agency’s ‘Mistakes’ Car Crash ad and their ‘Tinnyvision’ Snapchat content series, but there’s not much of it and not many people do it effectively. I don’t know who first coined the term ‘storytelling’, and I’m sure it helped serve a purpose at the time in selling in a campaign, but why do the rest of us still insist on white washing our campaigns with it? I don’t think people have taken the time to question why storytelling might be effective on motivating consumers in the first place. My belief is that some stories, if told well, can inspire emotions in their listeners. When bards travelled medieval England, telling stories, singing songs and reciting poetry, there was a similar intention, to pass on information and entertain people. People listened because what they said inspired excitement, fear, hope and wonder. All strong emotions. And in fact, it’s emotions, not stories, that influence people. This is what I believe we’ve failed to acknowledge. Emotions have greater influence on consumers than rational fact. Mary Agenou, an American poet and author, once said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” The same goes for brands. I choose Nike because the brand inspires me to lead a healthier life, not because it makes better sneakers. I choose Apple products because I feel its single-minded ethos reflects on my own work standards, however I’m sure Samsung phones do just the same thing. I believe that what people mean, when they talk about ‘storytelling’, is that their campaign will inspire some emotion in the consumer. However this doesn’t necessarily make it a story. Psychologists have for many years acknowledged that it’s emotion, not rationale thought, that leads people to chose one brand over another. In 2013, Psychology Today published an article that said, “For consumers, perhaps the most important characteristic of emotions is that they push us towards action.” The thought goes as far back as the 17th century when the French mathematician and philosopher, Pascal said, “The heart has reasons, which reason doesn’t understand.” What we’re really trying to do as marketers, is move people. And this is why there’s been a trend recently towards cause related campaigns that show brands doing something good for society, such as Always’ ‘Like a girl’, or tear jerkers like Samsung’s ‘Hearing hands’. They’re emotional and from a cynical point of view, they’re designed to create emotional connections with the consumer and ultimately sell more product. When Matt and I launched Poem, just a couple of months ago, we set out with the intention of offering a more human PR offering. To us that means having a human (and therefore more emotional) insight at the core of everything we do. Whether that be social content, a stunt, launch event, influencer involvement, press office tactic or online video, everything we do has a cultural tension that’s relevant to the interests of the people we’re trying to engage. Brands can’t just make noise anymore. They need to start acting in a more human way in order to gain social currency. They need to be authentic and culturally relevant. Droga 5 ex CEO, Sudeep Gohil put it well at a Google Fire starters event, “Understanding humans is one of the future aspects of planning,” Gohil told the audience. “Being part of culture is more important than any strategy you can come up with because no one turns around and says I love that strategy or I love that ad, instead they talk about things they love which is generally not the stuff we create.”. From our previous integrated agency experience and the award winning campaigns we’ve both led, we came to believe that this emphasis on a more human approach is far more effective and cost efficient than shouting at people or telling tall stories about storytelling. It’s also just as relevant to all communications, whether that be paid, owned or earned media channels. This opinion piece was first featured on Mumbrella. Read the full article and comments here. Behind the eyes – the story of our logo Deciding on a name for an agency is like naming a baby. You create lists. You look at what else is popular because you want to be unique, check the initials don’t spell something funny and see what it rhymes with to try and prevent any playground bullying. As with all great businesses, the name was decided on a cliche by writing down our preferred choice on a napkin in a pub over a couple of beers. The napkin’s since disintegrated but the picture’s up on Insta. Even our logo design has a story. The dots beneath the M represent eyes, as it’s what we see in people’s eyes that make them human. The font for the logo is the same as the one used on the London Underground logo and having both been brought up and started our careers in London, it felt right. We even use Royal Blue and Royal Red from the Union Jack in some iterations of the logo. Hello from Poem – it’s been emotional. After six months of cafe meetings, schooners, accountants, lawyers, bank managers, agency names on beer mats, domain registrations, email servers, web and logo designs, brand positioning, ten rounds of credentials and chats with friends, family and peers throughout, we’ve finally done it. Poem is a thing. And it feels great. The reaction we’ve had from the industry’s been heart warming and genuinely the feeling of coming into work each day is immensely exciting and refreshing. Here’s the first trade media article we had in Mumbrella about the launch. Special thanks to a few people below who deserve credit for their outstanding work in bringing the Poem website and logo to life: Jason Ierace for the amazing photography on the website. We’re still waiting to be included within his next fashion and beauty portfolio. Pimm Van Nunen for our logo James McIntosh for the quick turn around on a great looking site – he also does great video content if you’re looking I moved from advertising to PR for one reason: social media Social Media Strategy & The Decline of Organic Reach Poem news © 2020 Poem Group. Get in touch with a human to hear more about work we’ve done and how we can help. rob@poemgroup.com.au matt@poemgroup.com.au 270 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills // Sydney, NSW 2010. ©Poem Group Limited	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10025
__label__wiki	0.772161	0.772161	[SAM TAYLOR] from Body of the World > Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls from Nude Descending an Empire > The Book of Endings The Book of Poetry Celebration in Autumn America: An Autobiography Slugs Mating American Mystic from The Book of Fools > [First Taxi] [Friend] New Poems > Postcards from Babel Poem in Search of an Ending Nude Descending an Empire Body of the World The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse Pitt Poetry Series, Fall 2014 Nude Descending an Empire is a collection of 42 poems that develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet engaged with history, politics, and the urgency of our contemporary moment. Speaking not only as a citizen of the United States, but as a citizen of the world—and of what Martin Espada has called "The Republic of Poetry"— Taylor constructs a poetry that is political in that it recognizes that everything in our world is political, but that remains governed by mystery. Begun during years the author spent caretaking a snowed-in wilderness refuge and completed after his reentry into the twenty-first century, the collection spans a gamut from primitive silence to hyper-modernity. Advance Praise for Nude Descending an Empire "Sam Taylor’s Nude Descending an Empire is a book that has large ambitions—and overwhelmingly succeeds at all of them. The voice here works at so many dimensions: spiritual, political, erotic, sensually worldly and quietly lyrical—and probably a dozen more! Few poets are able to write well in just one or two of these realms. That Taylor can do so much—he marries Frank O’Hara and Merwin, Whitman and Dante, your latest local radio report and science fiction!—is amazing in and of itself. And, then, when you take a breath and sit down hard reading this book, his gift at incantatory syntax takes this amazement to a wholly different level—you stand up, you read these poems aloud. I love the many lives of this book: his life as Sioux, Jew, a Christian peasant, and many others. I love how he curses and praises and sexes in the same poem, often in the same moment. Sam Taylor is a poet to reckon with, a poet to live with, a poet to marvel at. This is a wonderful book." —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa Sam Taylor’s language is spare, urgent, and decorated only by the essential. The result is poems that feel almost timeless to me, as if they could have been written in any century: past, present, or future. His engagement with his subjects is emotionally, intellectually, imaginatively, and linguistically profound. Once in a while a book appears that seems forged from the truth. This is one. The poems entirely bypass the Adventures of Self so common in contemporary poetry. They take head-on the end of nature, for one thing, and the significance of human life in a world changing so perilously fast that it’s barely recognizable from one moment to the next. In order to do this, a poet must forego all kinds of vanities and impersonations and write unlovely language in a voice that is itself a musical instrument. More than a few poems made me wish I’d written them. —Chase Twichell "Nude Descending an Empire is a stunning book, in all the varied shades of “stun.” The nude descending an empire enacts an apocalyptic prophecy where the earth’s inhabitants are scampering about barefoot and naked sheltering in the shades of the towers they had competed to build. But Sam Taylor is too astute a poet to only horrify us with the facts, with the impending damage. His voice is elegiac for all of us, for life on this planet, and his ironic sleights of hands point to the end of irony, apathy, or whatever we call the unconscionable ways that have sustained our consumption and violence. Indeed, the poet implicates himself first with wrenching and moving self-indictments, but I know that when it comes to reciting and composing the psalms of our age, Taylor is the one I want to lead us in prayer." "It's wonderful enough that Nude Descending an Empire is so bountifully true to the implications in both halves of its title: the embodied, erotic, intimate, naked self of the first half; and the public, political, historical, global-minded sensibility of the second half. But that's merely to admit the reach and mix of subject matter. Equally wonderful is the language here, as it wanders from reflective to declamatory, from mallspeak to the feel of ancient wisdom literature, from rambunctiously comic to quietly philosophical...all of it somehow fitting together into something very much its own, the samtaylorese that awaits you in this fine, engaging—and important—collection." —Albert Goldbarth "Sam Taylor’s poems make me shudder at the horror and pleasure of this world. In the face of the American imperial project, the poems sing every song imaginable – dirge, praise song, ecstatic chant. The antidote to despair, then, is more – more of the body, heart, more mystery, fear. “Don’t say impossible,” says the poet, and these hurting, gorgeous poems never do." —Sarah Browning, Director of Split This Rock Read Excerpts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10026
__label__wiki	0.748603	0.748603	2011 World SCRABBLE Championship Canadian qualification system Revision as of 12:38, 17 May 2011 by Davidboys95 (talk \| contribs) (→‎Registered Players and Standings: Jeremy H only eligible for CNSC berth) This page outlines the criteria that will be used to select the players who will represent Canada at the 2011 World SCRABBLE Championship (WSC). 1 Eligibility 2 Registering for the qualification process 3 Qualification period (QP) 4 Available spots 5 Criteria (in order) 5.1 1. World English-language Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) bye(s) 5.2 2. Top finishers from the 2009 World SCRABBLE Championship 5.2.1 WSC tie-breakers (if tied on wins and spread) 5.3 3. Canadian Champion 5.4 4. Peak rating (PR) 5.4.1 PR tie-breakers 5.5 5. Qualification tournament (QT) 5.5.1 QT tie-breakers (if tied on wins and spread) 6 Registered Players and Standings 6.1 Qualified via WSC 2009 6.2 Peak Rating Standings 6.3 Other Registered Players 6.4 Eligible to win berth based on CNSC 7 Alternates 8 Obligations 9 Disputes All players wishing to qualify must be NASPA members in good standing. Canadian citizens and permanent residents are eligible. Temporary Residents (TRs) are eligible with the following restrictions: TRs must register for the qualification process on or before December 31, 2009. TRs must reside in Canada for the entire period between the start of the QP and the end of WSC 2011. TRs are only eligible for spots that are awarded based on Peak Rating (PR) or the qualification tournament (QT). Registering for the qualification process Players wishing to register for the qualification process can do so by contacting any member of the Canadian Committee. Qualification period (QP) The qualification period begins on January 1, 2010 and ends June 13, 2011 (following the 2011 CNSC). A qualification tournament (QT) will be held sometime in the summer thereafter. Note: Tournaments that are in progress at the beginning or end of the QP will be considered to fall within the QP. For example: Albany 2009/2010 — The main event will be in progress on January 1 and will be considered to fall within the QP. Available spots Canada will be represented by eight players in 2009. This means that the number of spots available is expected to be between seven and nine in 2011. Criteria (in order) 1. World English-language Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) bye(s) These are spots awarded by WESPA, typically for being a finalist in the previous WSC. Any spots awarded by WESPA do not count against Canada’s allotment. 2. Top finishers from the 2009 World SCRABBLE Championship These spots will be awarded to eligible players who finish in the top quarter of the field in WSC 2009 while representing Canada. The maximum number of spots awarded based on this criterion will be three if Canada’s allotment for 2011 is seven or eight, and four if Canada’s allotment increases to nine. The spots will be awarded in the order in which players performed at WSC 2009 as determined by the final standings. Players who wish to accept one of these spots must register their intention to do so by April 30, 2011. Players already awarded WESPA byes are not considered part of Canada’s allotment and do not count against the maximum number of spots to be awarded. Players who withdraw from WSC 2009 without a valid reason will not be eligible for any spot granted using this criterion. WSC tie-breakers (if tied on wins and spread) WESPA Rating achieved at the conclusion of WSC 2009. Record against common opponents at WSC 2009. Head-to head record at WSC 2009. Drawing of Lots. 3. Canadian Champion The winner of the first Canadian Championship held within the QP earns a spot unless that player has already earned a spot from any of the preceding criteria. Any player wishing to take this spot must register for the qualification process within one month of winning the CNSC or by May 31, 2011, whichever comes first. 4. Peak rating (PR) The number of spots awarded on the basis of peak rating will depend on the number of spots remaining once the spots awarded by criteria 1–3 have been established. If there are more than three spots remaining, then two spots will be reserved for the qualification tournament and the remainder will be awarded based on PR. Otherwise, one spot will be reserved for the qualification tournament and the remainder will be awarded based on PR. A player’s PR is their highest tournament rating that is achieved after a player has played at least 68 games in fully rated tournaments during the QP. Only ratings achieved in fully rated tournaments will be allowed to be considered a PR. Ratings achieved at the midpoint of split rated tournaments will be allowed to be considered as a PR. Players wishing to qualify based on PR must register for the qualification process by April 30, 2011. NASPA has implemented a separate sowpods rating system for those players who wish to play rated games using the international word list. Games played in either rating system count towards the 68 game participation requirement. Players who have two PRs will use the higher of those two as their qualifying PR. PR tie-breakers Second highest rating achieved after playing at least 68 fully rated games in the QP. Highest rating achieved after any fully rated tournament in the QP. Note: Tie-break ratings can be taken from either rating system. 5. Qualification tournament (QT) A qualification tournament will be held sometime in July or August 2011, at a location to be determined by a vote by players registered for the qualification process as of April 30, 2011. The remaining spots (1 or 2) will be awarded on the basis of the standings of this QT. Any player who fulfills the eligibility requirements who has not already been awarded a spot may play in this tournament. Any player registering for this tournament will be considered registered for the qualification process and need not do so formally. If the number of interested players is fewer than six, players who have already earned spots through criteria 1–4 may also play in this event. QT tie-breakers (if tied on wins and spread) If two or more players are tied then that tie will be broken based on PR and PR tie breaker procedures will be in effect. Registered Players and Standings Qualified via WSC 2009 David Boys Joel Wapnick Peak Rating Standings Adam Logan 2100 Tony Leah 1929 Dean Saldanha 1897 Nick Ball 1895 Dielle Saldanha 1848 Ron Hoekstra 1847 Sinnadurai Vijayakumar 1832 Jesse Matthews 1804 Andrew Golding 1718 Priya Fernando 1456 See also the automatically generated qualification list, updated weekly. Other Registered Players Albert Hahn 1778 after 0 GP Eligible to win berth based on CNSC The following players have registered on time to be eligible to earn a berth by virtue of winning the 2011 CNSC, but are not eligible to win a berth based on Peak Rating. Jeremy Hildebrand These standings were last updated on May 17, 2011. Any errors should be reported immediately to David Boys. Players who accept an allotted spot under criteria 2, 3, or 4, and who withdraw before the QT will be replaced based on PR. Otherwise, alternate spots for the Canadian team will be awarded based on the standings of the QT. Any further alternate spots will be awarded based on PR. Any further alternate spots will be awarded by the NASPA Canadian Committee. Players who accept an allotted spot under criteria 2, 3, or 4, and who withdraw without a valid reason after the QT will not be permitted to qualify for the 2013 World SCRABBLE Championship except through the QT. Any dispute regarding the interpretation of any of the above rules and criteria will be resolved by the NASPA Canadian Committee, whose decision will be final. Retrieved from "http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/wiki/index.php?title=2011_World_SCRABBLE_Championship_Canadian_qualification_system&oldid=6047"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10030
__label__cc	0.529636	0.470364	Week 8 Recap: Scribes Earn Split Against Rowers WEEK #8 RECAP A light snowfall descended upon Gordon Park on Saturday afternoon as the Scribes Men lined up against Rowers. The home team started well in defense, turning away the Rowers opening attack and then marching swiftly into the opposition 22. Setting a physical tone early on, Scribes were able to earn a penalty near the uprights, and Dadou Delachou made no mistake, putting the Scribes ahead 3-0. Rowers responded, however, making use of a quick tap penalty under the Scribes posts, which caught the defense a bit flat footed to claim a 7-3 lead. A few minutes later, Scribes were able to apply pressure deep in Rowers territory, and while they were turned away at the line once, the Scribes forwards would not be denied a second time. Eight-man Artur Farini plunged over the line to claim his fifth try of the season. Farini has shown an unmatched enthusiasm for try scoring, and he should have his eye on Brazilian national team aspirations if his rugby skills continue to progress. The Rowers were quick to reply, though, with a try of their own to go up 14-10, which held up as the half-time scoreline. Scribes worked hard to reclaim the lead, but at the 60 minute mark Rowers managed to score in the corner on an overlap. They then sealed the game on a penalty try with two Scribes already in the sin bin. Final score: Scribes 10-26 Rowers. This was the first-ever women’s match between Scribes and Rowers, and full credit needs to be given to both clubs for their efforts in developing, encouraging and promoting women’s rugby. This was clearly a match between two teams on the rise. Scribes started well, with a solid scrum leading to a clean ball for Didi Dufresne and a casual pass to speedster Whitney Paronish-Rowe, who took care of the rest. Paronish-Rowe was later the beneficiary of some classy running and passing by Scribes centres Ely Wilson and Marina Gray, pushing the team’s lead up to 12-0. Another first-half try from Paronish-Rowe stretched the lead to 17-0, but Rowers were far from fading away quietly. The visitors put in a strong, physical shift in the second-half, including a hard-earned try in the corner, but the Scribes forwards carried the day in the breakdown and set pieces. Cat Power and Ely Wilson marked tries in the second half to help boost Scribes to a 27-5 victory. It was a cold, crisp autumn morning that greeted the contingent of Mini’s players and parents gathered on Sunday at Burnaby Lake. While it may have been hard at first to discern the chattering teeth from those with genuinely smiling faces, the kids were soon making the most of the frosty conditions. It’s been a great season for the Scribes Mini’s, and this Sunday was no different. Thanks to the Lakers for hosting, and to everyone who came out to support the Mini’s program. Comments Off on Week 8 Recap: Scribes Earn Split Against Rowers Men's Rugby • Mini Rugby • Women's Rugby Scribes RFC Update. March 4 News • Women's Rugby Scribes Women Season Preview	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10031
__label__cc	0.582143	0.417857	Case Study: GRID4EU optimises the medium voltage grid Figure 1. Autonomous Switching System. Figure 2. Optimum module positions. A FIONA cabinet for flexible intelligent local network automation. Figure 3. Simulation result for voltage violation. GRID4EU Renewables in smart grids: Part I Renewables in smart grids: Part II Smart grid technology innovation is gathering momentum Jochen Kreusel GRID4EU recently collaborated with ABB to explore the feasibility of introducing smart grids across Europe. Dipl Ing Peter Noglik, Principal Scientist at ABB R&D Germany, Professor Dr Lars Jendernalik, Lead Operations for Ruhr-Niederrhein at Westnetz GmbH and Dipl Ing Anton Shapovalov, Research Associate at TU Dortmund University explained to ABB’s Jochen Kreusel the outcome of the project and what it means for the energy landscape in Europe. New technology on RWE’s Reken network in Germany has been introduced to assess the potential to increase the penetration of renewables, reduce losses and minimise the impact of faults through automatic fault detection, isolation and restoration (FDIR). Growing penetration of renewables across Europe’s distribution grid over the past few decades has led to growing challenges in maintaining the stability and reliability of the grid. Looking ahead, the European Commission’s (EC’s) goal is to meet at least 40 percent of the continent’s demand for electrical power by renewables by 2030. To achieve this ambitious target, distribution system operators (DSOs) will need to make major changes to the way they run their networks. Recognising this, the EC brought together six major DSOs along with 21 specialist technology firms and academic partners under the GRID4EU project, which was co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research and Innovation funding programme. GRID4EU stands for "large scale demonstration of advanced smart grid solutions with wide replication and scalability potential” and its ultimate goal was to test the potential for smart grids in Europe and lay the foundations for large-scale roll-out of smart grid technology. With this in mind scalability and replicability were central to the project. Over 51 months from November 2011 to January 2016, each of the six DSOs worked with partners to evaluate the real-life performance of different smart grid technologies in a variety of climates, grid topologies, population densities and regulatory conditions. A common approach meant that the results of the individual projects could be compared in spite of different climates, technologies, regulatory environments and grid topologies. It also led to better understanding of the business case for smart grid technologies across Europe and the barriers to large-scale roll-out of the technologies. Increased automation and renewable integration The principle behind Demonstrator 1 (Demo 1) was that by increasing automation on the MV network, the grid will be able to reconfigure itself to optimize operations. Its objective was to improve automation on the medium-voltage (MV) grid while enabling growth of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). It was led by RWE Deutschland AG with the support of ABB and the Technical University of Dortmund (TU Dortmund). Additional objectives were to achieve higher reliability on the grid through faster recovery from outages, avoiding overloads and maintaining voltage stability, as well as to reduce network losses. ‘Reken’ in North Rhine-Westphalia, in north western Germany, was selected because the renewable energy generation already exceeds the maximum load by around 20 percent, with further growth in renewables expected. In addition, there was very little monitoring or automation in place already. Together, these aspects made Reken typical of the issues faced by many grid operators across Europe. During the project a network of monitoring and switching modules was deployed at secondary substations in the field, as well as a central controller at the primary substation. In operation, the measuring modules feed data to the central module. When a fault is detected, the central controller autonomously generates instructions to switching modules to open or close. In doing so, the scheme acted as an autonomous switching system and opened up the potential for dynamic topology reconfiguration, which is a new concept for operation. Module positioning One of the key factors of the project was optimising the location and minimising the number of measurement and switching modules in the MV network. To achieve this, two approaches were applied separately and compared. Under the first approach, a set of practical rules gave recommendations on where to position separation points in the network depending on the network topology, location of DERs (distributed energy resources) and different operational scenarios. Under the second approach, an engineer starts with a completely meshed network structure and adds separation points until the overall topology becomes radial. Both methods led to very similar results where the positions of switching modules are selected to separate larger loops. Measuring modules are mostly placed at distant parts of the network or where there is a high level of renewables penetration. . Based on comparison of the two techniques, a total of seven of the 85 substations on the Reken grid were equipped with switching modules and an additional 11 substations were equipped with measuring modules. Hardware selection With GRID4EU’s overall philosophy being to develop projects that are scalable and replicable, ABB recognized the importance of designing a system with the right technology, particularly the switches and the decision-making algorithms. Simulations over the course of one year indicated optimal grid operation would require more switching operations than are usual for switchgear in secondary substations. This meant that power circuit breakers were required to deliver the number of operations that would be experienced by the new or modified substations. The secondary equipment was build up around ABB RTU500 remote terminal units (RTUs) together with measurement devices, short circuit indicator, digital inputs and outputs and a small UPS (uninterruptible power supply). The family of RTUs was designed for introducing measurement and automation to distribution grids. Being modular and highly customizable, the RTUs can be used for many monitoring and automation applications. The philosophy behind the software was to use the RTU500s to implement an autonomous system that can manage the grid without a high level SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system. TU Dortmund and ABB AG developed and tested a complete software architecture structure as well as the core algorithms for the RTUs. The partners considered two alternative approaches. The first of these was a centralized architecture, where the ‘intelligent’ functions are concentrated at the master module in the primary substation. Slave modules in the field perform only measurement acquisition and execution of control signals. The second alternative was a decentralized architecture. Under this approach, all functions are implemented through the modules in the field as a multi-agent system. Both approaches have their pros and cons and a hybrid solution was implemented. At the lowest level, slave modules are responsible for acquisition and transmission of measurements, fault indications and breaker status signals. On the next step up, selected units in the field are in charge of supervising the local limits for current and voltage. In case of a limit violation, data is sent to the master module, where local forecasting predicts the most probable trend of the power flow for the next few hours. At the top level, a master module on an RTU at the primary substation "Groß Reken" supervises the underlying system and reacts to operational situations. It has four main tasks: monitoring for faults across the overall system; controlling the network topology to minimise losses; managing switching operations; and forwarding information to RWE’s SCADA system. With the technology in place to automate changes to the network topology, it was natural to implement Fault Detection, Isolation and Restoration (FDIR). When a fault is detected, an FDIR algorithm on the RTUs will swing into action to initiate switching to change the network topology to isolate the fault, restore power to unaffected sections of the network and minimise the extent and duration of outages. As well as standard communication between master and slave modules, FDIR required peer-to-peer communication between neighbouring slave modules.. Laboratory simulation Before implementing the RTUs and control software in the field, they were tested together in the laboratory at TU Dortmund. During testing, the performance of the system was evaluated by monitoring its reaction to simulated events. For example, figure 2 shows how the system reacted quickly to a simulated voltage violation by automatic switching operations to re-route and optimize power flows. Another simulation studied the switching pattern required to minimise energy losses from the grid, which was one of the main objectives of the project. The simulation found that almost 18,000 switching actions would be required per year over the seven substations equipped with switching modules. This level of switching would lead to excessive wear on switchgear and so the team minimised the number of switching operations by integrating local forecasting. This compromise significantly reduced the number of switching operations while still making a major reduction in losses. Network losses Switching actions* Average switching action* per station Static topology Optimal switching pattern Forecast based *) one switching = switch on/off Figure 4. Loss reduction: result of a yearly simulation. Field deployment and testing The roll out of the system started in 2014 with the modification of seven existing substations to accommodate the new switching modules. Because of wide variation in the type and age of the existing substations, three different approaches were used. With GRID4EU having the overall objective of scalability and replicability, the project partners wanted to retain as many of RWE’s existing assets as possible, such as the transformers and low voltage distribution panels. For some substations, a new switchboard was installed next to the existing equipment on the site, whereas other secondary substations were completely replaced. Existing switchgear was replaced at the remaining substations. Communication between the RTUs was established using GPRS data communication on the GSM network. An important aspect of the project was passing RWE’s stringent security assessment of the project itself and individual devices. The entire system went live in September 2015 and the first tests of the autonomous switching system has demonstrated promising initial results when the GRID4EU project reported its conclusions in January 2016. So far, the system has demonstrated its capability to record measured values and signals. Although the official GRID4EU programme is now complete, full testing of the live system in Reken is still underway. Future tests will evaluate the success of different modes of semi-automatic switching before proceeding to autonomous switching. Ultimately, the goal of GRID4EU was to learn lessons for the future large-scale roll-out of smart grids. By evaluating the cost of the project versus the benefits, operators across Europe now have greater insight into how autonomous switching systems can benefit operations. Results of the project indicate that autonomous switching can make a significant improvement to the quality of supply in Reken in terms of shorter outages, as measured by SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index), which dropped from 12.8 to 6.1. The project also showed that the technology potential to delay major investments in grid expansion in the Reken network by up to four years. However, while autonomous switching is still undergoing evaluation, the investment case is not clear. SAIDI in min/a ASIDI in min/a State of today System applied Figure 5. Impacts of the autonomous switching system on the quality of supply. In conclusion, the demonstrator was the first implementation of an automated switching system in the field. Testing is due to continue until the end of 2016 and will demonstrate how operational reality compares with desk-based simulations. Dipl Ing Peter Noglik is Principal Scientist at ABB R&D Germany. Professor Dr Lars Jendernalik is Lead Operations for Ruhr-Niederrhein at Westnetz GmbH. Dipl Ing Anton Shapovalov is Research Associate at TU Dortmund University. GRID4EU http://www.grid4eu.eu/ ABB http://new.abb.com/uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10032
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__label__wiki	0.502741	0.502741	Home Databases Community Blogs Tools Submit About Donate Stadia \| Modern Gaming \| Site News \| Nintendo \| Sony My Experience As A Google Stadia Founder Posted on Dec 5th 2019 at 08:00:00 AM by (zophar53) Posted under Stadia, Google, cloud gaming When Google held their own press conference at E3 this year, they talked a big game, promising experiences equal to, if not better, than anything you could find on a home console. Personally, it was easy to buy into the hype, even if I was skeptical. Media is getting more and more disconnected from the material world every year. It's inevitable that games will some day join the likes of music and movies in some digital streaming landscape. But after their E3 grandstanding Google went all but silent. I'd plunked down money to pre-order their "Founder's Edition" and still knew nothing more than what I'd heard in June. Only a few weeks ago did news break of more games being added to their lineup and shipping confirmations started going out to initial customers. After playing with Stadia for a while, I'd say some skepticism is still warranted. Upon initial receipt I had no complaints. The Stadia package includes the controller, a Chromecast Ultra, and power cords for them both. Packaged in the clean, minimalist style that has become the norm for most upscale electronics these days, it's not difficult to figure out how it's all supposed to be hooked up for anyone who's bought a new cell phone or tv in the past couple of years. That said, it's worth keeping in mind that the Chromecast has been around for a while now, so much like the PlayStation VR, it's clear that new tech is being mixed with old tech in a way that isn't as clean as it should be (e.g. the power cord for the Chromecast uses micro USB instead of USB-C). While hooking up the physical bits of Stadia are straight forward, setting the whole thing up is anything but. First you have to set up the Chromecast, which requires the Google Home mobile app. Then you download the Stadia mobile app, create an account (if you haven't done it on your PC yet), and use that to set up the controller with your wifi. Next, you sync the controller up to the tv. Finally, you assign your Stadia account profile to the Chromecast. Once you've done all that, everything talks to each other and syncs up without a problem, but it's quite the process. I'm pretty tech savvy and have a lot of smart home and cloud-based services already, so it wasn't too big of an issue, but I wasn't able to get my controller and Stadia app to "see" each other when I first went through the set up process. I must've tried a dozen times. Restarting the app, restarting both the phone and the controller, nothing I tried worked. It was only after I plugged the controller in to my PC and played a few games on it that way that I went back to the Chromecast and they all of a sudden synced up without a hitch. It was annoying, and I could definitely see how someone not already familiar with the way modern wireless tech works could get fed up. The good news is once everything was synched together properly it was a good experience. My PC has a wired internet connection and I have a decent 200 Mbps service, so the games I played in my Chrome browser worked admirably. They didn't match the resolution or framerate a beefy gaming PC can muster, but I didn't notice any major hitches in how they ran. Gylt, Stadia's only exclusive so far, is a narrative-heavy stealth game with a lot of dark shadows and creepy soundscapes. I noticed one or two instances of texture pop-in, but other than that it looked great. Even more demanding games like Destiny 2 and Tomb Raider performed well. Again, they can't hold a candle to a fancy new gaming desktop, but they were more than capable for a viable alternative to spending gaming rig-level money. I even tried playing the games while simultaneously watching an hour-long YouTube video and didn't notice any major problems. When I moved to playing off the Chromecast, things got a little funky. My living room is about 40-50 feet from my office where the router is, and as nice as it would be to have a wired connection there, I doubt I'll ever go to the hassle of doing that, so wireless it was. On the bright side, load times for all of the games were very quick, and for the most part the games themselves looked good. The Chromecast Ultra was made for 4k streaming content, and while it handles that well, the games are upscaled to that resolution, so it's kind of cheating. And when things got hectic on screen there were pretty obvious hitches and framerate dips. It never got to the point of being unplayable, but it didn't do a good job selling itself as a console replacement. Even Gylt, with it's slower pace, wasn't completely unaffected. The intro to Tomb Raider is a good test. Lots of steady cam, fire & water effects, and dynamic action No issues with the fast-paced combat of Destiny 2 on the Chrome browser The Stadia controller, for its part, is a good controller. Not good enough to equal the Xbox One, Dualshock 4, or Switch Pro controllers, but it's comfortable in my hands. The face buttons, triggers, and sticks feel nice, but the bumpers and D-pad have too little travel for my liking. Playing Samurai Showdown, my biggest thought was that I wouldn't want to use the Stadia D-pad for another fighting game. Thankfully, I couldn't detect any lag in the controller input, even when playing on the Chromecast. As far as mobile gaming goes, Stadia is only available on Pixel phones for now, so I wasn't able to try it there. Aside from the games, I found Stadia's user experience pretty lackluster. Along with the less-than-promised performance, the gaming press has not been shy about calling Google out on this, and after using it myself I can confirm that it just feels half-baked. I found a way to get to the Stadia store on the Chrome browser through Destiny 2, and it appeared that I could buy DLC, but most other functions in the Chrome menus are either not functioning or simply not an option. On the Chromecast, it's no better. I like the fact that screenshots and gameplay videos are easy to take and stored in Google's cloud, but you can't share them, post them, or do anything other than look at them. And even that's only available on your phone. The only workaround so far is to go to Google Takeout and download your Stadia data like you would everything else Google has on you. Once you've done that, you're free to do with them what you will, but it's a poor solution in this age of social media sharing. So many grayed out menus You can only take screenshots while a game is running The Stadia store mobile app is fine for what it is; it has the things you'd expect from an online game store. There are sections for featured, new, and sale titles, and a section for the games that get discounted for being a Stadia premium member, displayed in a card-like aesthetic that's become common on mobile storefronts. There's a friend list, but with such a limited user base there's not much to do with it at the moment (if you're a fellow Stadia founder, friend me!). Supposedly there's an achievement system running under the hood, but none of the menus I found alluded to such a thing and I didn't see a single achievement notification pop up when I was playing, so either I didn't trigger any, they haven't been implemented yet, or when they do figure out how to surface the info I'll already have a bunch sitting on my profile. Lastly, there appears to be a reward system for buying things within Stadia. The rewards points can be used for microtransaction content in mobile games or added to your Google Play store balance, which should be able to be put towards future game purchases. All in all, I was left with the impression that this Founders Edition launch is basically just an expanded beta. I'd rather not echo the rants of other games media folk, but Stadia's faults are glaring. The thing is, I can genuinely see the building blocks of something cool here. Fundamentally, Stadia works, and at certain times and under certain conditions, it works well. In a world where I have no doubt all new media will be digitally streamed in the next couple of decades, it's impressive to see this tech start to take shape. But it's not ready yet. There are still a LOT of variables that need to be ironed out before cloud gaming can rival the experience of playing games on physical consoles and PCs, and my suspicion is that Google rushed Stadia out to beat Microsoft to the punch. Stadia hasn't lived up to their promises yet, and it's felt more than a little disingenuous to see them pass the buck. I'm left wondering what kind of person will want to use Stadia as their primary (only?) gaming platform. On the one hand, if you love games or tech, have a good internet connection, and can't or don't want to shell out the funds for new gaming hardware, Stadia might in fact be a good option for you. On the other hand, I wonder how many people are currently in the middle of that venn diagram? Smart home and cloud-based tech is still new, and the landscape is a bit of a wild west that's only just now starting to coalesce in ways that make everything talk to each other seamlessly. It's hard to see someone who isn't already in that ecosystem wanting to make gaming their first foray into that realm. And for those who are willing to give it a go, they more than likely already have better options. I'm the kind of person who loves trying dumb new tech simply for the cool factor, and I'm not upset I have a Stadia setup now. I'll probably even check in on things every now and then to see how the service progresses. But there's nothing about the experience that makes me want to ditch my consoles or PC. And that's not even going into the embarrassingly inconsistent broadband coverage/availability we have in the US. We may get there someday; in a world where high speed broadband is plentiful and playing a game via the cloud feels no different than doing so on a physical console, I would very much welcome not having to spend the money on new consoles and PC upgrades every few years. But for now, unless Google makes some major headway in filling out Stadia's feature set in the next three months, I don't plan on continuing my premium subscription. 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__label__wiki	0.669438	0.669438	Concurrent Session 4, 1050-1220, Wednesday 31 January Poor Wheat Yield Response To Conservation Cropping –&nbs... Poor Wheat Yield Response to Conservation Cropping – Causes and Consequences during 10 years of the Harden Tillage Trial J.A. Kirkegaard1, G.N. Howe1, S. Simpfendorfer3, J.F. Angus1, P.A. Gardner1 and P. Hutchinson2 1 CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra ACT. 2 CSIRO Land and Water, Griffith NSW. 3 NSW Agriculture, Wagga Wagga NSW. A long-term tillage trial was established in 1989 on a red earth soil at Harden on the southern slopes of NSW, which has been cropped continuously in a breakcrop/wheat rotation. Stubble retention and direct-drilling (SR/DD) consistently reduced the early vigour and yield of wheat compared with late stubble burning and minimum cultivation (B/C) despite similar plant populations and improvements in a range of soil attributes often associated with “soil health.” These effects did not diminish over time. Inhibitory Pseudomonads, and to a lesser extent Rhizoctonia, have been implicated in reducing the early vigour of direct-drilled wheat, and foliar diseases (e.g. yellow leaf spot) often survived on stubble through the breakcrop year and infected the following wheat crop. A consequence of both the reduced vigour and yield of wheat and the increased water infiltration on the SR/DD plots was an increase in residual subsoil water (up to 70 mm) remaining at harvest. In 2000, drainage during winter below 1.1 m was 77 mm on SR/DD compared with 25 mm in B/C. On permeable soils in high-rainfall areas, the risk of increased drainage may be an unfortunate but important consequence of adopting conservation farming systems if the attendant growth constraints cannot be overcome. Conservation cropping, wheat, soil health, direct drill, stubble, drainage. Direct-drilling and stubble retention are widely promoted throughout the Australian grains industry as components of conservation cropping systems to sustain soil fertility and crop production. Despite the established benefits in terms of erosion control and improvements in a range of soil properties, crop yield responses to conservation cropping are small in south-eastern Australia (8). The failure of crops to respond to the improved soil conditions not only discourages and slows adoption, but may also have significant impacts on other aspects of the cropping system. Cropping systems which promote greater water infiltration and storage but do not increase the use of that water by crops may increase the risk of deep drainage and N leaching, particularly on highly permeable soils in higher rainfall areas. We established a tillage trial in the higher rainfall zone at Harden (600 mm) in 1989, to investigate the effects of stubble and tillage management on soil conditions and crop growth. We have previously reported reduced early vigour and yield and associated increases in residual subsoil water and N under SR/DD treatments (7). This paper summarises results from a further 10 years at the site and considers the causes and consequences of poor yield response to conservation cropping, in particular the potential for increased drainage and N leaching. The site was established on a red earth soil at Harden on the southern slopes of NSW and has been continually cropped in a wheat/breakcrop rotation since 1989 as follows: Oat/Wht/Lup/Wht/Can/Wht/Lup/Wht/Pea/Wht/Can/Wht. A factorial combination of stubble burning (April) or stubble retention (bashed flat immediately following harvest), and cultivation (one pass 2 weeks prior to sowing) or direct-drill treatments (no pre-sowing cultivation) have been maintained and monitored at the site. In this paper we present data for wheat crops under the Burn/Cultivate (B/C) and Stubble retain/Direct drill (SR/DD) treatments only. During the wheat phase, soil Min-N and water were measured gravimetrically at sowing and harvest and routine plant growth measurements included: establishment counts; biomass at DC30, anthesis and final harvest; maximum rooting depths; yield components; and grain protein. Detailed descriptions of the site, soil type and the general methods used have been reported previously as follows; treatment description, plant growth, root growth, root disease, soil Min-N and soil water (7); soil N and C, microbial biomass (3); soil biota (5, 10, 11); inhibitory activity of Pseudomonads (12). In 2000, soil drainage below 1.1 m was measured in the B/C and SR/DD treatments using a new instrument called a “tube tensiometer”, the installation and operation of which is described by Hutchinson and Bond (6). Pairs of these instruments were buried at a depth of 1.0 m and 1.2 m where soil water potential and hydraulic gradient were continually measured. Deep drainage was estimated from these data using Darcy’s law, and an estimate of hydraulic conductivity for subsoils typical of the area (2). The model for hydraulic conductivity was that of van Genuchten (13) with Ks = 3 cm/hr, α =0.08, n = 1.1, m = 0.091 and l=0.5. Soil conditions A range of soil physical, chemical and biological measurements have been taken at the site during the course of the experiment. The bulk density of the seedbed (0-10 cm) measured in winter was higher in SR/DD plots (1.48) compared with B/C (1.35) which led to higher soil strengths measured during establishment (7,9). There were no differences in a range of chemical properties including EC, pH, Min-N, P, K, CEC, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, after 6 years (11), nor in soil Min-N at sowing in any year (data not shown). Although Min-N did not differ, the total N in the 0-5 cm layer after 10 years had declined from 0.185% to 0.118% in the B/C treatment and 0.151% in the SR/DD treatment. This represents decline rates of 45.2 and 25.2 kg N/ha/yr which are greater than those reported for similar treatments at a long-term tillage trial at Wagga (4), possibly due to fewer legumes in the rotation. In association with the maintenance of higher total N and C on SR/DD treatments, there were generally higher levels of different classes of soil biota including microbial biomass (3,11), earthworms (1), and the abundance of nematodes, mites and collembola (5,10,11). Rhizoctonia solani infection was evident at the site in 1990 (7), with minor incidence in DD plots only since that time. Yellow leaf spot (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis) was severe in 1996 and infection was more severe on SR treatments. Poor seedling vigour A feature of the study has been a consistent reduction in the early vigour of the wheat crops in the SR/DD treatment compared with B/C treatment. This occurred in all years despite no differences in the established plant populations. More detailed studies using intact cores taken from the site have demonstrated that these effects could not be overcome with added water or nutrients but could be completely alleviated with irradiation or fumigation, indicating a biological limitation (9). Although the increased incidence of Rhizoctonia contributed to this effect in some years, the poor vigour occurred in its absence. Recently it has been shown that the poor early vigour in direct-drilled crops at sites throughout southern NSW is highly correlated with growth inhibition by Pseudomonas spp. on DD soil (12). In 1998 and 2000, microbial measurements on wheat rhizosphere soil at the Harden site showed few effects on general soil organism groups, but increased inhibitory activity of the pseudomonad populations in SR/DD soil. (Table 1). Table 1. Effect of tillage treatments on rhizosphere microbial counts and the inhibitory activity of Pseudomonas spp. isolated from wheat roots at 5-leaf stage at Harden in 1998 and 2000. AInhibition of root (seminal root length) and shoot growth (leaf area) of wheat cv. Janz grown in agar tubes inoculated with whole communities of Pseudomonads isolated from each treatment as % of uninoculated tubes. * Means different at P=0.05; CFU=colony forming units. Crop growth, water and N use The reduced early vigour in SR/DD treatment persisted in most years and was reflected in reduced DC30 biomass and yield (Table 2). The exceptions for yield were the 1994 drought and the early sown crop in 1996. In the 1994 drought, the SR/DD treatment utilised residual stored water resulting from poorer growth in the previous seasons to outyield the B/C crop. In 1996 the split sowing time revealed that earlier sown crops compensated for reduced early vigour while the later sown crops did not. The average yield reduction for the SR/DD treatment compared with B/C was 9.4% while grain protein content did not differ. Although rooting depth differed in some years, the average maximum rooting depth was similar in both treatments. A consequence of the reduced growth and yield of SR/DD treatment was higher levels of residual water left in the subsoil at harvest in some years. The difference, first reported in 1990 (21mm) (7) was higher in 1992 (71mm) and 1998 (28mm) but was not evident in the 1994 drought or in any of the 1996 sowings. The magnitude of the difference is highly dependent on the distribution of rainfall but indicates that a combination of improved infiltration, less evaporation and reduced crop growth results in less water use and greater residual water in some seasons, potentially increasing the risk of drainage in subsequent seasons. There was some evidence that increased residual subsoil water coincided with residual subsoil Min-N in 1990 and 1994, however significantly more Min-N remained in the B/C treatment in 1996 (Table 2). This appears to have resulted from cultivation-induced mineralisation of N from the 1995 lupin residues followed by leaching by the high rainfall in autumn and late spring in 1996. Thus despite potential for greater drainage in the SR/DD treatment, N leaching may be exacerbated by cultivation, particularly following legumes. Table 2. Effect of tillage treatment on growth, yield, rooting depth and residual water and N in the subsoil (50-160cm) for wheat crops at Harden from 1990-2000. *Means different at P=0.05. A water present above the lower limit of 190mm; GSR=April-October rainfall; Long-term GSR mean for Harden = 385mm; SD=sowing date. Drainage in 2000 At the time of sowing wheat on 21 May 2000, there was more water in the profile (0-160cm) in the SR/DD treatment (435 mm) compared with B/C treatment (387 mm) and the difference was greatest in the 80-120cm layer. The mean soil water potential at 110 cm was also marginally higher in the SR/DD treatment (-4.93 kPa cf -5.15 kPa) and the hydraulic gradient was five times larger, resulting in an increase in drainage in week 1 (Table 3). This trend continued throughout winter, and by week 16 when the wheat had reached DC30, the total drainage was 77 mm for SR/DD, compared with 26 mm for B/C. Rainfall during this period (256mm) exceeded the long term mean (202mm), however 256 mm or more for the period could be expected in 20% of years.. Although the initial difference in water content (48 mm) contributed to the early differences in drainage, both profiles were above field capacity by week 5. The higher drainage from the SR/DD treatment which persisted beyond week 5 appears to have resulted from higher infiltration due to water entrapment by stubble, and the improved macroporosity of the soil, which reduced surface runoff. Table 3. Rainfall and weekly drainage below 1.1 m estimated using tube tensiometers at Harden in 2000. On permeable soils in high rainfall areas, the risk of increased drainage may be an unfortunate but important consequence of adopting conservation farming systems which improve the infiltration of water, but reduce water use by crops as a result of constraints to vegetative growth. Further research to overcome these constraints, and to develop other agronomic options to increase water use by crops is required. The authors gratefully acknowledge the O’Connor family, “Oxton Park” Harden for provision of land and assistance in site management during the 10 years of the trial. Assistance with site management by staff of Gininnderra Experiment Station, and technical assistance of T. Parker, S. Clayton, A. Ingram, T. Ciaveralla, and S. Hely is also gratefully acknowledged. 1. Doube, B.M., Buckerfield, J.C. and Kirkegaard, J.A. 1994. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 45, 1587-1600. 2. Geeves G.W., Cresswell H.P., Murphy B.W., Gessler P.E., Chartres C.J., Little I.P., Bowman G.M. (1995) NSW CALM/CSIRO Occasional Report. 3. Gupta, V.V.S.R., Roper, M.M., Kirkegaard, J.A. and Angus J.F. 1994. Aust. J. Soil Res. 32, 1339-1354. 4. Heenan, D.P., McGhie, W.J., Thomson, F.M., and Chan K.Y. 1995. Aust J Exp Agric 35, 877-884. 5. Hodda, M. Stewart, F. FitzGibbon F., Reid I. Longstaff B.C. Packer I. 1997. RIRDC Project CSE-73A 6. Hutchinson P.A. and Bond W.J. 2000. Aust. J. Soil Res. (in press). 7. Kirkegaard. J.A., Angus, J.F., Gardner, P.A. and Muller W. 1994. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 45, 511-528. 8. Kirkegaard, J.A. 1995. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 35, 835-848. 9. Kirkegaard. J.A., Munns, R., James, R.A., Gardner, P.A., and Angus J.F. 1995. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 46, 511-538. 10. Longstaff B.C., Greenslade, P.J., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. and Packer I. 1999 RIRDC Report 99/18 11. Pankhurst C.E., Kirkby, C.A., Hawke, B.G. and McDonald H.J. 1997. RIRDC Project CSO 6A 12. Simpfendorfer S., Kirkegaard J.A. and Heenan D.P. 2000 Aust J Agric Res (in press). 13. van Genuchten, M. Th. (1980) Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 44, 892-98.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10048
__label__cc	0.680578	0.319422	SpArC Theatre Bishops Castle, Shropshire Afternoon Film: From Time to Time (PG) Tuesday 21st January 2pm Royal Opera House : La Boheme ( Puccini) Wednesday 29th January 7.45pm Live: THE LITTLE PRINCE FROM LUCA SILVESTRINI'S PROTEIN DANCE Friday 31st January 6pm Where to eat/stay Past Events › Music Live Music: The Bishop’s Castle Orchestra & Friends (SpArC Fundraiser) Fri, 16th November, 2018 @ 19:00pm - 21:30pm £1 – £7.50 Bishop's Castle Orchestra and Friends presents An Music Hall entertainment for all the Family: Featuring! Sonny Pennington: Prestidigitator Extraordinaire. (Magician) Eastern Mystique: Belly Dance meets the Charleston. Val Little Hales: Raconteur of Great Renown With Songs From.... Trevor and Kay Hedges Ian WallJane Pugh Penny Nicholson Arlette Cox-Harmsworth David Griffin All proceeds will go to the 'Don't Let The SpArCGo Out ' Fund Plus lots and lots more! A great fun evening for all the Family! LIVE MID WALES OPERA SmallStages ‘L’heure espagnole’ (Ravel) Thu, 29th November, 2018 @ 19:30pm - 21:30pm SOLD OUT! Tickets Still availble for perfromances at Abermule Dec 6th (tickets £10/8 from www.thehafren.co.uk 01686 614555) – or Ludlow Dec 7 https://ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk 01584 878141 Shropshire Music Trust brings MID WALES OPERA SmallStages 'L'heure espagnole' By Ravel to SpArC Theatre Live! We are very excited to be able to bring this to the SpArC audience. MWO’s SmallStages returns this autumn, bringing live opera to the heart of communities across Wales and the Borders with Ravel’s exhilarating one-act clock shop comedy, L’heure espagnole. With five singers… LIVE: David Gibb – Climb That Tree Fri, 22nd February, 2019 @ 17:00pm - 18:00pm Sparc Theatre, Brampton Rd Bishops Castle, SY9 5AQ £7.50 – £30 David Gibb is on a one-man mission to make brilliant, engaging and high quality music for families and children. Join David on a musical journey through his hilarious and often surreal imagination, where bears live in the cupboard under the stairs, wolves are roaming the corridors at school, and trips to the moon are a regular occurrence. Climb That Tree builds on the success of his critically acclaimed debut album Letters Through Your Door which had families across the UK… FILM : Bohemian Rhapsody (12A) Thu, 7th March, 2019 @ 19:00pm - 21:15pm £4 – £5 This Event has SOLD OUT The SpArC Centre will be very busy on this night please leave time to find somewhere to park if the Leisure centre/theatre car park is full. There are other local screenings with tickets still available! Craven Arms Discovery Centre have added another date: Saturday 16th March 7.30- 01588 676060 Knighton Community Centre Friday 22nd March 7.30: 01547 520602 Clun Memorial Hall: Wednesday April 10th 7.30 01588 640109 FLICKS IN THE STICKS-CLICK FOR SCREENINGS AND… LIVE MUSIC: Gwenifer Raymond with Support from Alula Down Sun, 24th March, 2019 @ 19:00pm - 21:30pm ★★★★★ ‘…a profound talent.’ The Guardian ★★★★ ‘an immersive debut’ The Observer 8/10 ‘…stunningly confident, in full possession of its art’ Uncut ‘…raw, virtuosic…’ Mojo Gwenifer Raymond is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist, She started out playing in punk bands before she discovered the blues of Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, which led her to the world of John Fahey, and the discovery that a solo acoustic guitar could become a band in itself. She has since been… LIVE: Craven Arms Big Band Sun, 31st March, 2019 @ 14:30pm - 16:30pm It don't mean a thing, if Craven Arms Big Band can't swing ! We have a passion for the swing music of the 30’s and 40’s but that doesn't stop us playing more modern music if it “swings”! Join us for a wonderful afternoon of music! Tunes including: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Hot Toddy, Spinning Wheel, In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, April Paris, Anything Goes, Hound Dog, Pennsylvania, That Old Black Magic, You Do Something, Misty Spinning Wheel- and… Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Thu, 2nd May, 2019 @ 19:00pm - 21:30pm Filmed live at the Apollo Theatre on SpArC's big Screen Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the new award-winning five-star hit musical for today. Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. He is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of… LIVE: For Another Song Thu, 23rd May, 2019 @ 19:15pm - 21:00pm Singing is a great Joy! We enjoyed the evening it so much last time we are doing it again! We are going to celebrate it with an evening of singing from three of our amazing local singing groups. We have The Men from Off, The Castle Voices and The Bishop's Castle Primary School Choir all performing Profits from the evening will be donated to the Primary School and the Community College Exclusive collaborations and some chances to join in! Here's… LIVE MUSIC: Rachel Newton Sat, 25th May, 2019 @ 19:30pm - 21:30pm Sparc Theatre Bishop's Castle, United Kingdom We are very excited to welcome award winning multi instrumentalist Rachel Newton ‘Musician of the Year’ – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’- Scots Trad Awards 2016 SAY Award (Scottish Album of the Year) Shortlisted Album 2017 (with Here's My Heart Come Take It) Rachel Newton's feature on BBC Radio 2's The Folk Show 27/2/2019 (from 21 minutes in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002s5w Singer and harpist Rachel Newton specialises in interpreting traditional folk songs in both English and Scottish… LIVE MUSIC: Cup’O’Joe Fri, 28th June, 2019 @ 19:30pm - 21:30pm Cup O'Joe, rising stars of the international bluegrass scene and BBC Young Folk Award nominees. This Northern Ireland-based trio is made up of siblings Benjamin, Reuben and Tabitha Agnew. They perform an original and energetic mix of bluegrass & gypsy jazz. If you recognise Tabitha it's because she wowed us with her Banjo playing with Midnight Skyracer last summer- We are thrilled to be able to welcome her back. The siblings were raised on a healthy diet of music festivals…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10051
__label__wiki	0.601086	0.601086	‧Business Tue, Sep 13, 2016 - Page 11　News List Asian shares fall after US stocks tumble on volatility Asian stocks headed for the biggest drop since June, following a rout in US shares, as policy officials at central banks signaled a reluctance to extend stimulus. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 2.1 percent to 137.38 as of 5:06pm in Tokyo, as benchmarks in Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand all sank more than 2 percent. The losses followed a 2.4 percent tumble on the S&P 500 on Friday last week, as volatility surged after Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said the economy could overheat if they waited too long to raise interest rates, spurring bets on a hike by the end of the year. All eyes now turn to US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard, who was yesterday to speak in Chicago in what is to be the final appearance by a Fed official before its policy meeting next week. Rosengren’s comments propelled the probability of a rate increase by December to 60 percent, coming a day after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi surprised markets by playing down the prospect of further stimulus. “Central banks are reluctant to add additional stimulus and that’s causing a lot of concern,” Niv Dagan, executive director at Peak Asset Management LLC, told Bloomberg Radio. “We expect additional downside in the near term. You want to wait and see and remain cautious,” he said. The TAIEX slid 1.2 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index slumped 3.4 percent, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index of mainland Chinese firms listed in the territory lost 4 percent. Japan’s TOPIX fell 1.5 percent, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 2.2 percent and South Korea’s KOSPI declined 2.1 percent. New Zealand’s S&P/NZX 50 Index slid 2.5 percent, the most in five years after reaching a record high last week. The abrupt selloff and surging volatility is testing investors’ nerves following an extended period of relative calm before Friday. The CBOE Volatility Index, a measure of price turbulence known as the VIX, soared 40 percent on Friday, the most since the Brexit vote. That took the measure above its average level this year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10060
__label__wiki	0.727233	0.727233	Diecast #182: Looking Back at 2016 By Josh Posted Monday Jan 2, 2017 Filed under: Diecast 147 comments  Diecast #181: Rogue One, Super Mario Runner, VRPrevious Post Next PostDiecast #183: Jokes, Final Fantasy XV, Dishonored 2  Direct download (MP3) Direct download (ogg Vorbis) Podcast RSS feed. Hosts: Josh, Rutskarn, Campster, Mumbles. Edited by Josh. The year of 2016 is officially behind us now, and for whatever else you could say about all the crazy things that happened over the year, you can definitely say that 2016 was a year in which some video games were made. In this episode, we talk about some of those games that stood out to us. Unfortunately, partway through, Chris had to leave; apparently he has some real life friends that came over, though I remain suspicious. Just in case you were wondering why he just stops talking halfway through. Show notes after the jump. 0:04:05 Overwatch 0:17:50 Pokemon Go 0:21:00 Tyranny 0:32:45 Romance in Games 0:38:50 Mystic Messenger 0:46:20 Mirror’s Edge Catalyst 0:49:20 Deus Ex Mankind Divided 0:55:25 Rise of the Tomb Raider 0:56:25 Dishonored 2 0:59:30 Oxenfree 1:04:50 Mysterium (Which is a board game apparently.) 1:10:30 VA-11 Hall-A 1:12:00 DOOM 1:13:30 Final Fantasy XV 1:15:40 Watch Dogs 2 Josh Viel is the primary editor and producer of the Spoiler Warning video series. You can support the show by backing the Patreon. PC Gaming Golden Age It's not a legend. It was real. There was a time before DLC. Before DRM. Before crappy ports. It was glorious. Joker's Last Laugh Did you anticipate the big plot twist of Batman: Arkham City? Here's all the ways the game hid that secret from you while also rubbing your nose in it. Internet News is All Wrong Why is internet news so bad, why do people prefer celebrity fluff, and how could it be made better? Quakecon Keynote 2013 Annotated An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders. 147 thoughts on “Diecast #182: Looking Back at 2016” MichaelGC says: Monday Jan 2, 2017 at 3:43 pm Cool! A nice surprise. Hope everyone has a good trip ’round the Sun. Andy_Panthro says: Much like Rutskarn, I’m far more keen to see Bannerlord than I am to see HL3. Unless they change it up completely and remove all the FPS stuff and instead make the game a Firewatch/Gone Home/etc. style adventure game. Gordon back at Black Mesa, wandering through the empty base listening to audio logs and reading notes. Echo Tango says: They already made a sci-fi game full of audio logs and not many monsters – SOMA. :P IFS says: Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 10:49 am And yet they still had too many monsters. Ninety-Three says: Re: Overwatch: You can’t tell much about the characters because they essentially have no personality, and that’s by design. I think the Overwatch characters are so well-liked because they are nearly but not quite blank slates. They’re slates painted with a single primary colour. Tracer is spunky, Reinhardt is crotchety, Zenyatta is Buddhist, each of them gives your imagination a kernel to build with, and nothing but room to build. It’s a brilliant design strategy for generating engagement, but I think this is why some of the cast doesn’t care: there’s no substance there. If you’re not interested in projecting onto a blank slate, you’re left with, well, a blank slate, and that’s not terribly interesting. I feel like if that’s what they were going for when making the game / heroes, they should have set the expectations better. Expecting to play as Mercy and getting a blank slate is disappointing; Expecting to play as Medic and getting a blank slate isn’t. I have no idea how you’d name all the different champs in one- or two-word descriptors, though. TF2 had it easy with only the 9 people to pick from; Overwatch would feel like a thesaurus if they tried using class names/descriptors instead of character names. Tintenseher says: Monday Jan 2, 2017 at 10:12 pm I’m bored and I like naming things, so let’s give it a shot. Ana: Sentinel or Watcher. Bastion: Could stay as Bastion, I think. D.Va: Gamer is the obvious one, but I think Mecha or Pilot (or Mecha Pilot/Mechapilot) are more indicative. Genji: Ninja, of course. Cyborg Ninja if multiple words are allowed. Hanzo: Archer, Samurai, or Ronin. Junkrat: Mad Bomber. Làºcio: DJ, I guess? McCree: Cowboy, Ranger. Mei: Snow…woman? Ice Queen? I like Ice Queen. Mercy: Angel, duh. Pharah: Rocketeer. Reaper: This could probably stay the same. Reinhardt: I like Crusader because of his armor, but Knight is the obvious one. Roadhog: Eh…Biker? Scrap Shooter? This one is difficult. Soldier: 76: Soldier! Maybe Vigilante if we want to avoid TF2 names. Sombra: Hacker. Symmetra: Tech Support. (Architech/Architect for realsies.) Torbjà¶rn: Engineer, but if we want to avoid TF2 names, Inventor, or Wrench Dwarf. Tracer: Racer? Speedster? Blinker? Temporal Anomaly-er? Kinda tough unless you want to go right to gameplay roles, like, Harrasser, Flanker, Tickler. Widowmaker: Sniper. Assassin to skip TF2 names. Winston: Monkey. (Gorilla? Scientist? Moon Monkey? Also difficult.) Zarya: Gravity Girl? Weightlifter? Why are the tanks the hardest ones? Zenyatta: Buddhabot! Clearly. Benjamin Hilton says: Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 3:50 pm I think the main issue is that they go too far. Like Rutskarn said, TF2 characterization is subtle. Overwatch characters very much are not. TF2 has characters, Overwatch has Charicatures. That’s what works though right. If you had characters who were also blank slates, no-one would care about them. Whereas caricatures are perfect for memes and viralness. It’s a half measure though. they have this whole world and histories for the characters with little vignettes and everything, then they also want blank slates. They want to have their cake and eat it too, and to me, they don’t quite succeed. JakeyKakey says: Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 2:21 pm Double-down on the back/main story or ditch it. Right now Overwatch is: a) A meaningless arena shooter in which characters team up with their ‘supposed enemies’ in order to kill their ‘supposed friends’ b) Something they’re trying to pass off as this deep extended universe story & lore, when all they really have is a bunch of half-assed trite bullshit. There’s just about enough of it to thinly spread throughout and pretend it’s a semi-coherent setting if you squint really hard and just kind of fill in the blanks, but it’s all kinda awful. A doesn’t work in context of B, B doesn’t work in its own right and violently clashes with A. The characters need to be either more superficial or less, but they can’t really remain in their current state. I don’t care about Tracer’s sexuality in the context of A and I care even less about it in the context of B, because that comic was one of the worst attempts at lore/worldbuilding I’ve ever seen. Nice to hear that Tyranny is “less boring” than Pillars. I pushed through most of pillars trying to finish it (still haven’t), but while I quite liked the world and some of the plot, it really struggled to inspire me with the gameplay and I feel like a lot of the interesting ideas are really underdeveloped. My main worry with Tyranny is that it would have the same huge amount of dull combat encounters that Pillars has, but perhaps it won’t be so bad if they’ve learned from their mistakes. Well, from the Rock, Paper, Shotgun review: “incessantly interrupted by dull combat.” So, not especially encouraging, although it would imply that which is being interrupted is the good stuff. 4th Dimension says: Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 8:37 am Simply put it on Easy and combat becomes a non issue. Daemian Lucifer says: Not true.Its still an issue,only an issue that does not require your full attention.But you still have to wait for it to play out. That is true, but even big fights don’t last that long and you can help by seting up a combo or two. I read the RPS review and set the game to easy from the beginning and never looked back. That’s what I did with Pillars too in the end, but Pillars isn’t very dense in it’s story or worldbuilding once you remove the combat and it made the game a bit hollow in a way Tyranny wasn’t. tmtvl says: I haven’t played all the way through Tyranny yet, but so far the combat/non-combat balance feels a tremendous amount better than in PoE. The people who installed the Tactics mod for BG(2) will probably prefer PoE, but for people with a life Tyranny is better IMHO. Wide And NerdyÂ® says: I played through POE and was spellbound for most of it. I’m playing through Tyranny now and want to shoot myself. Its too real. Tyranny is the driest game I’ve ever played, aside from maybe Papers Please (I didn’t get far into that one). I actually sought a refund for it. First Obsidian game I’ve ever wanted a refund for. Alas, I’d accidentally left the game running for a while so Steam thought I played it more than I actually did. So I’m stuck with it and I’m playing. What is supposed to be fun about being a mid level bureaucrat working for tyrants? I do that in real life and its just as depressing. The main difference between me and my character is that I don’t like being in charge of people and decline those opportunities when presented. You can say my character is more than a mid level bureaucrat but it sure doesn’t feel like it. My job is to be the guy people resent for delivering the orders of the people who are actually in charge. What a great fantasy. Just kill me now and be done with it. What happened to the guys who made New Vegas? Or Pillars for that matter? I don’t know why the Diecast was bored by Pillars. I don’t think they gave it the chance. It has some fascinating stuff going on with its world. By the way, that Kyros deadline is bullshit. I’ll tell you how to break it. Sleep for 8 days, till the day after Kyros Day of Swords. THEN deliver the Edict. Congratulations, you now have 363 days to complete the assignment instead of 8 because Kyros forgot to specify a year in his/her edict. I do this guilt free because Kyros is both a dick and a moron. Ringwraith says: By the way, congratulations on your latter bit of breaking things. That is entirely the point. Wide And Nerdy â™¤ says: The game doesn’t in any way signal that. In fact it seems to suggest that if you do that, Kyros will destroy you. So I assumed this was a bug. Wouldn’t be the first time an Obsidian game had one. It becomes more apparent later. Kyros’ motivation is the coolest thing about the game. It’s really well founded and make geopolitical sense as well as in the moment sense. They did help themselves by pushing the conclusion of his plans to beyond the end of the game though. You’re left questioning whether he knew what would happen all along or whether he overstepped himself. Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 7:07 am It was originally planned to have an entire extra act, probably explains some things. What happened to the guys who made New Vegas? Or Pillars for that matter? Nothing.Obsidian always had a streak of dreariness in it.Sometimes it works for you,sometimes it doesnt. I don't know why the Diecast was bored by Pillars. I don't think they gave it the chance. It has some fascinating stuff going on with its world. Gameplay mostly.It wasnt that good.Not as bad as some other obsidian titles,but not impressive either. Henson says: I don't know why the Diecast was bored by Pillars. I don't think they gave it the chance. Well, for myself, I was invested in Pillars for about the first five to ten hours. But there was something about the game that just didn’t click like I expected. Yes, the combat kinda got on my nerves for being so dry, but it was also in other ways. I kept envisioning how my character would relate to the world, but the dialogue would often only have options that didn’t fit my mold. I could never figure out how my character fit into the world. The story elements with ‘souls’ were awkward, as it never seemed clear whether souls’ connection to their past lives had any significance or not (does my past life as a ______ have any bearing on who I am now?). The story seemed to want be introspective, but never seemed to delve deeply or specifically enough. And in the end, there were a bunch of things to do and learn about, but not enough resonance to motivate me to explore them. I did finish the game, but I really had to force myself. Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 12:02 pm Thats a very good point. It makes sense to be something of a stranger at first since you’re coming here from elsewhere but it never gets around to feeling like you’re a person who lives here, who cares about the people here and who is cared about in return. The companions come closest and even they can tend to exhibit a strange academic detachment when interacting with you. Some of them had potential via their personal quests. The problem is that they’re either underdeveloped (Eder) or wall of text philosophical stuff (Durance). Aloth comes the closest to pulling it off. They finally hit the right beat in the DLC when you awaken another character on purpose and Aloth looks on you with horror. I was hoping that there’d be more fallout from that with him but sadly there isn’t. I know both myself and a number of other people have felt the urge to stop upon getting to Defiance Bay (the “Baldurs Gate” of Pillars). For me at least its because everything I cared about up to that point was left behind in the starting village. Narratively you should be feeling urgency because you’re at risk of losing your sanity and the answers lie with the man you’re supposed to be hunting but somehow that ends up being easy to lose track of, I think partly because the guy has zero personality. But even then they could have pulled it off. Baldur’s Gate 2 does it brilliantly with Irenicus. Even if he hadn’t been played by David Warner, Irenicus was set up very well for you to want to hunt him given the things he does to you at various points in the game. Thaos and the Watcher are perfectly compatible with those kinds of story beats but they just aren’t there. What we needed was Thaos kidnapping the Watcher to try to perform a ritual on him or something. Maybe even succeeding. Or the game could have played more on the revelations about the Watcher’s past life and consequent relationship with Thaos. Or we needed the Watcher to bond more with recurring characters in the setting to become invested in their struggles. Or both. Admittedly, I might be being unfair. Mass Effect 2’s companion quests set a high bar for me that even other Bioware titles routinely fail to clear. Obsidian is better at world building and central plots than they are with characters. What got me interested into it, and is something that the game sort of does well in the beggining but DOES NOT stick to at the end, is basically play like an Roman Empire administrator being handed control over a newly conquered province, with the orders to sort things out, crush the resistance and incorporate the province in the rest of the Empire. And in order to bring order and prosperity to the region by incorporating it into something bigger you WILL have to use drastic measures to crush the ressistance and make the carrot much more palatable. And it does that in the beggining. You can sort of navigate using that standard. Stepping on Chorus whenever they are being too bloody. Reigning in Disfavoured excesses. Basically doing thing Tunon likes. Unfortunatelly the game does not continue down that path, but has to do the fantasy trope and turn you into some sort of big hero powered by a mcguffin, and more annoyingly it gets depressingly railroady as i gets towards the end. One of the last quests before the ending on the Disfavoured path involves a really ugly and stupid event in which you are not really given any option of telling Ashe that the plan is stupid and is in direct opposition to the rules of Kyros. It’s not his decision to decide which province will get ruined by eternal drought just so he can sap Chorus’s strength. And also imporant for me was the fact that Tyranny is not really that long, which allowed even me to finish it. Re: Oxenfree: I’m interested in it, but I’ve seen about an hour of gameplay and am very wary of the direction it seems to be going in. Can someone tell me if I’m right about this? I find it very hard to care about the stakes when it feels like the author could make literally anything happen at any moment and simply file it under “There’s some spooky shit going down”. There’s no sense of rules, limits, or even just consistent theming to the supernatural stuff: if there is a willful entity behind this, it is all but omnipotent. I worry that the plot will play out rather like Evil Within, where reality-warping spooky stuff keeps randomly getting in the protagonist’s way until the end when it randomly doesn’t so the protagonist finally wins. If I don’t like a plot centered on all-powerful supernatural forces messing with humans, is Oxenfree going to disappoint me? I got a clear sense of the rules and what the supernatural force was, but it’s definitely a supernatural force messing with humans. It’s not all-powerful. Really? It can generate a magic radio frequency, give visions, teleport people, make weird stuff appear in reflective surfaces, possess bodies, telekinetically interact with the environment, cause Groundhog Day time loops (which both begin and end for no apparent reason)… that’s a more disjointed grab bag than Silver Age Superman, and it feels about as overpowered. I’m not saying they’re balanced, but there’s a clear reason why the kids aren’t instantly dead and what weaknesses the supernatural force has, as well as its origin. “Junkrat! Is he a sofisticated man? Who knows!” That Overwatch conversation, holy crap. I’m in tears! Lol the backwards ol’ TF2 time of 2007, though. I figure they were all men because their aesthetic for that game was an old-timey military thing. It’s not like they themselves avoided women for Portal or Left for Dead even. I get it if Rutskarn doesn’t want to play Overwatch because of the aesthetic, because the aesthetic is pretty much the only reason I want to play it. It’s like I’m getting Shooter Street Fighter. I could only be more pleased if all those characters were in a fighting game instead. They managed to make a huge cast where only a couple of the characters actively annoy me and I really like the look of several of them. Having said that… whenever I have heard the characters speak, everything they say has been unbearable. Given how goofy the Team Fortress 2 characters are, that doesn’t really match up. And even with the World War 2 aesthetic it would perhaps be more thematic for the spy and medic to be female (although I don’t know how I would have felt if they did that?) Perhaps it was because it originally had a gritty counterstrike look, but surely they had to remodel and voice everything, in which case they could gender swap a character. I think it probably just didn’t occur to them. I always just chalked it up to differences in political landscape at the time. You could feasibly justify a female Medic/Spy, but nine male classes is just something they decided to go with and no one really cared enough for there to be any backlash. “What do you mean women can’t be comedic psychopath idiot assassins blowing each other up to bits?’ is a much more gender-representation-conscious rhethoric that TF2 actively predated. At 46:55, making Mirror’s Edge open world was a common fan request for a Mirror’s Edge sequel back then Always listen to the fans, except always, when you should never listen to the fans. Wasn’t removing the combat also a big request? Come on, they couldn’t listen to every little idea that the fans dreamt up! :P Removing the guns was, yes. On Overwatch vs. Team Fortress 2: The Team Fortress 2 designs resonated with me instantly. They drew from cultural cues that were meaningful to me. I was born in ’71, so I grew up surrounded by the 60’s spy aesthetic. I watched 80’s action movies, so these characters fit neatly into existing stereotypes for me. In contrast, Overwatch is very clearly aimed at millennials and millennial cues. Some of them feel like lost 90’s cartoons. Others (like the gamer) are drawing from parts of today’s culture that I’m not a part of. That’s not bad or anything, but it does sort of explain why the Overwatch characters don’t do anything for me. I thought Rutskarn was talking about them having easily recognisable silhouettes in the middle of a firefight. Ended up having to rewind! – I thought they’d all lost it or shown up drunk or somesuch… XD Ranneko says: This has definitely bugged me a couple of times with the Young skins for some of the Overwatch characters. They can really change what the characters look like, especially when you aren’t too familiar with the game. I remember a number of times for example thinking Young Reaper was Soldier 76, which given the very different engagement range of those two characters, is not a healthy mistake to make. So according to Steam Spy, Tyranny has sold about 120,000 copies, whilst Pillars of Eternity sold around 800,000. Obviously PoE has been out longer, and has presumably been through a few Steam sale cycles. But it’s weird – it’s almost as if the initial difficulty getting Pillars made – and all the fol-de-rol which surrounded the Kickstarter – hugely helped sales there, whilst the (apparent) relative ease and speed with which Tyranny was created has if anything been counterproductive. (Although against that, if it was easier & quicker to produce it was also no doubt cheaper, too.) There’ll be other factors – perhaps some folks were turned off expecting another Pillars, and perhaps others didn’t like the sound of the whole ‘evil wins’ gig. Maybe it just came too quickly and everyone is still busy playing PoE. But (whilst I don’t feel good about suggesting this) I do wonder if they’d faffed around a bit more and allowed hype & expectation to build, there might not be quite such a huge discrepancy. Sleeping Dragon says: I think the kickstarter coverage, and the fact that more people head a stake in it due to crowdfunding and kept talking about it, might be the reason. I have no idea how representative my experience is but while I heard of Pillars relatively early on Tyranny nearly slipped past my radar. Matt Downie says: My theory: a lot of people were thinking: “Pillars of Eternity? Finally! A classic RPG like early Bioware used to make!” Then they played Pillars of Eternity. “Oh, wow: this type of gameplay isn’t as much fun as I remember. And those Kickstarter-backer-rewards where members of the public got to add their own bits of writing are really intrusive. Should I force myself to keep playing?” Then Tyranny is announced. “Hm. Another one? Already? Meh. And you have to play as a villain’s minion choosing between different awful things happening? Not really my idea of a good time.” It did hardly have any coverage from places, also it seems it might’ve gotten shoved out a bit earlier than anyone would’ve liked and some of the marketing just wasn’t very good. “Sometimes, evil wins” is not a great tagline. One of the devs had a better description for it, which you couldn’t market directly, but still: ‘Bronze Age Judge Dredd’. (Something along those lines anyway). Yeah, Bronze Age Judge Dread is a much better descriptor for like the first 66% of the game, where one of your main functions in quests is to arbitrate and then when necessary execute often times rough justice to bring order to a land in turmoil due to war. xedo says: Used well, Kickstarter is even better as a marketing tool than it is as a fundraiser. Devs like Double Fine and Obsidian can get a round of articles for teasing that a kickstarter is coming, for launching it, for hitting the first funding goal, for hitting each major stretch goal, and for the conclusion of the campaign. Tyranny definitely flew under the radar without one. Which is surprising because the PoE campaign had the brilliant back count stretch goal where another floor was added to the big underground dungeon for every few thousand backers they got. It’s interesting Obsidian chose not to use kickstarter again after knocking their first one out of the park. Taellosse says: I suspect that’s largely a function of the relative timings each game was begun. PoE was one of the first really successful Kickstarter games (in terms of fundraising – whether it is a successful game is a subjective matter), and had it’s time in the press largely before the high-profile string of failures (games that failed to fund, others that funded but failed to deliver on time, or what was promised, etc.) that followed in the subsequent couple years. The general gaming public is a LOT more skeptical about Kickstarter now than they were then, and are far less willing to throw their money at a hypothetical game, even one from developers with a proven track record of finishing games like Obsidian has. As such, a crowdsourced funding campaign for Tyranny probably would not have done nearly as well as PoE did, even before accounting for the subset of people that backed PoE and regretted it and the different climate now for indie games in general (Obsidian isn’t precisely an indie studio, but they straddle the line these days. And these isometric RPGs they’re doing are on the indie side of that line, even though they’re doing stuff with major publishers as well). On top of all that, they probably felt they didn’t need it. Kickstarter made PoE possible, but it sold pretty well over and above backer buy-in. Tyranny appears to use essentially the exact same engine (and I don’t just mean Unity – they built on top of Unity a fair bit for Pillars) and some of the same art assets, and I suspect it cost a great deal less to produce. It’s quite likely that the sales of PoE were largely what funded development of Tyranny. Sannom says: Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 11:39 am Based on comments by Feargus Urquhart, Obsidian never had the intention to become fully crowd-funded, unlike inXile. Hence why Tyranny was paid for, owned and published by Paradox, not Obsidian. I would expect a crowd-funding campaign for PoE 2, even if a smaller one. Since I’m a massive Obsidian fan actively anticipating Tyranny and I almost missed it’s release date (I thought it would be next year), it’s safe to say Tyranny’s marketing probably wasn’t very good. And the coverage they did get from sites like RPS and Kotaku was weirdly unenthusiastic. I don’t think it’s been so obvious that they were retyping press releases as it was with Tyranny. It had a bad tagline, it was the wrong year and wrong decade for their hook and it came out clashing with Dishonoured 2 so even the sites that did want to review it, reviewed it late. (It was so universally reviewed late that I wondered if it had a post-launch embargo) Tyranny also got ‘fair to middling’ reviews – at least from those review sites I read… that certainly put me off as someone keen on the ‘evil winning’ side of things but with increasingly limited gaming time. I’ll just stick to witching and dishonouring I’m not interested in playing a dark “evil wins” game for my fantasy escapism. If I remember correctly, PoE does not support Windows XP, so I have nothing to play Pillars on except my work laptop (not going there). PoE works wonderfully on Linux, and Windows XP is no longer officially supported, so you shouldn’t be running it anyways. And basically all software that runs fine on Windows XP runs just as well under Wine. And if you really need something that Wine doesn’t handle well you can always install Windows XP in a VM so you can take snapshots and revert in case you break something. And Linux is free, community supported, runs fast, looks good, works fine on nearly all hardware, you really don’t have to use the terminal on most distros, it’s more secure, you have more control over your system,… I'm not interested in playing a dark “evil wins” game for my fantasy escapism. Bioware already did the relationship stuff. Iron Bull was my lover way before that game was over. For ME3 I was still dating the same girl I was dating in 1. It didn’t turn the games into Mr & Mrs Smith or anything, and I can’t speak for the rest of the romances, but Bioware clearly has come a long way since ME1. Saints Row 4 has the funniest romances since you just have a button you can press for every member of your crew on your Fake Normandy that asks them to bang you. Most of them will, with a funny, short scene. One of them punches you in the face before she pounces you. But I don’t think that’s what all game romances should be like. If it wasn’t a joke, having a “You hooked up” message and then a line or two is just laaame. I don’t get anything out of that. Like, that new Fire Emblem thing where you pair up two characters and get their grown up child from the future as a soldier isn’t really something I think is cool(You could pair people up for a romance before, the kids stuff is new). It’s less a romance and more a shipping simulator. It hadn’t occured to me that jpop bishonen boyband FF15 was aiming for men. Yeah, FF15 does seem to revel in the manmeat, doesn’t it? Not that I’ve played it or anything… I remember hearing at one point that the player base for FF in Japan is equally split between genders, which is easy for me to believe. No idea what it’s like in Europe or the US, but despite the characters reading to me as bishie J-drama/J-pop crap(especially this game and 8), I don’t get the idea that it’s a problem for most people. It certainly isn’t going to keep me away from a cool open world action RPG. But I’m curious what the balance is(Will the bishie looks and shipping possibilitiea appeal to women, and the themes of brotherhood and road trips to men?), and which games had more characters that appealed to either demographic. My favorite FF cast just designwise is probably 12, 6, 7 or 9. About the Mr and Mrs Smith thing, I remembered that Lair of the Shadow Broker actually totally turns it into a Mr and Mrs Smith thing as you and Liara quip more than ever while shooting bad guys together. CoyoteSans says: People were disappointed in PoE because they were expecting Baldur’s Gate 2, not 1. Which I always felt was a little unfair, since BG2 was a refinement of an established engine, setting, and story. PoE was BG1 Redux because they had to build the engine, asset pipelines, and figure out how to write a story and characters and manage all of it without a producer in the loop. I wanted the experience BG1 gave me of exploring a new and strange world through its characters and lore books (I was a child at the time, and had no knowledge of D&D or Forgotten Realms whatsoever) despite somewhat underwhelming enemies, combat, and stakes, and that’s exactly what I got. I really hope PoE2 gets made and they don’t just abandon it, because despite what was said in the show, I feel the setting still has a lot of stories and mysteries in it left to explore. Building off that, Tyranny is… well, not BG2, but maybe Icewind Dale (Torment feels like far too high of praise, what I’ve spoiled of Tyranny’s ending for myself really soured me on ever wanting to buy the game myself): the engine and pipelines are built and done, the dev team is In The Groove, now they can start really pumping out interesting game experiences with it, but they haven’t quite hit the “magic butter zone” yet. Watch_Dogs 2… I’m not convinced I can call it “good” yet. The whole point of the original game, botched though it was, was supposed to be a sobering look at what it means to have a Electronic Panopticon Society where all the information is held by corporate gatekeepers and the criminals who bust in, swipe the goods, and wreck havok with them. Having Watch_Dogs 2 switch gears to having “The Panopticon… but it’s a fun romp, yo!” feels like unintentional biting commentary about how we as society have been irrefutably shown the extent of the surveillance system… and that no, we’re actually pretty okay with it all, carry on. I find it rather depressing, in that light. Mumbles: if you want to bang a character in a game, and that character like meets up with your specifications or whatever, you should be able to bang that character. That part of the podcast was deeply horrifying to me, and I’ve spent the last few hours trying to form my vague internal screaming into some kind of coherent expression. In an entire lifetime spent deeply immersed in videogames and the internet, that is the most shallow and self-indulgent sentimentI have ever seen. I was horrified by Mumbles acknowledging that it’s important for Dorian to be gay, then dismissing the people saying it by repeating their argument in a whingey disdainful tone, and proceeding to say she wants to bang him anyway. The broad sentiment of entitlement, indulgence, and knowing there are reasons not to, has some strong parallels to the idea of rape culture, then the specific example is her wanting to bang someone who is clearly not interested, and the whole thing makes me reaaaaally uncomfortable. In the end, the best arguments against Mumbles’ “Bang every character” stance are the ones Mumbles herself acknowledged, and the way her dismissal of them was simply “Yeah, but I really wanna!” Gay characters should be allowed to be gay, someone shouldn’t necessarily like you, in general: there are things you want that you probably shouldn’t be given. I want a sniper rifle with infinite ammo that deals 5000 damage, but it’s probably for the best that developers don’t give us that either. I think you totally missed her point about Dorian. She saying it’s good that he’s actually gay and not player-oriented, but she wanted to hook up with him anyway because she liked the character. Or to put it another way: Just because there’s a good reason for you to not have something doesn’t mean you stop wanting it. The problem is that earlier she said that you should be able to bang any character you want. That context, combined with the unflattering tone she used for “eugh, it’s important” makes it sound like she’s dismissing the point, saying “Yeah yeah, that’s important or whatever but I want it so give it to me”. Unless I missed a part where she walks back her “Should be able to bang anyone” statement, it seems like a proposal which necessarily dismisses Dorian being gay. Syal says: that is the most shallow and self-indulgent sentiment I have ever seen. I highly doubt that. But also, it’s a videogame, that people pay money for, played in the privacy of a person’s home, solely for enjoyment; it is naturally an incredibly self-indulgent activity. I think Mumbles was actually talking about making dating straightforward; “you should be able to bang whoever you want” was about romance options being clear and not a maze where you can lose the opportunity because your answer to an obtuse question wasn’t the one that character wanted to hear . It wasn’t actually about every character being romanceable. I highly doubt that. I sincerely tried to think of something worse. The guy who had a creepily specific request for how Widowmaker should kiss the screen? Every “This is how to fix Game X” post which is really just a description of their ideal game only loosely related to the reality of Game X and its flaws? The countless tunnel-visioned players who said they didn’t like a mechanic therefore it shouldn’t exist? Not even The Magic Circle’s literal caricature of a player who demands the right to kill plot critical characters at will can hold a candle to Mumbles’ insistence on the right to have sex with every character in every game. Even if you’re right about Mumbles was saying (and I still think you’ve lost some nuance in the confusion) your response is incredibly confrontational, accusatory, and needlessly personal. If nothing else, make sure you’re clear on what she’s saying before you attack her character. (And even than, maybe just don’t.) Normally I’d nudge her and ask that she come in to clarify, but right now I’m hoping she doesn’t read this exchange because I know exactly how it will make her feel. It’s totally possible to say “I strongly disagree with this” and not follow it up with “You’re a lousy person for saying it”. I didn’t do that though? I called the sentiment shallow, not Mumbles. It’s certainly confrontational, but I feel like confrontation is not a wholly inappropriate response to what seems to be a dismissal of the very idea of gay characters in games. I apologize if it came off a personal attack, I tried to keep my post limited to the idea itself, and my thoughts on it. Apparently I did a worse job of it than I thought? Edit: Realized the implications of the phrasing in the last sentence on the above post. I see how it seems kind of personal, not my intention, my bad, sorry. Edit window closed on that post before I could properly change it. I guess there was that guy who wanted there to be different coloured underwear in one of the Fallout games so that when he piled up dead halfnaked bodies in his hut or wherever it was there’d be a bit of variety. But I have always and will in the face of any evidence which may or may not be provided continue to believe that was spectacularly ill-judged parody. I suppose it’s possible it’s the most self-indulgent thing aimed at a videogame world. I hold it below anything aimed at actual people, which the internet is full of. Frontlinecaster says: Sad that mumbles is leaving the show, but not that she won’t have to put up with her every thought be discussed and dissected like it’s okay to call her a sadist or to compare her to a rapist for liking to do things in video games. Notice no one ever says that about Josh or Rutskarn as a result of their jokes. Too much of this community is toxic in a way no one seems willing to do anything about. Oh for the love of….Yes,one person crosses the line,is immediately called out for it by everyone and their mother,apologizes for it,and that somehow means that MUCH of this community is toxic and NO ONE is doing anything about it…Your comment is so helpful,not trying to defend Mumbles,not trying to bridge over a misunderstanding,not trying to understand both sides,but rather attacking everyone else.Splendid job! You sure about that? Yes, one person crossed the line. This time. One person crosses a line every other time Mumbles is in something. Regardless, nobody came close to being “called out” here, and nor was anyone defending anything except maybe Ninety-Three’s feelings, so you really don’t need to pat the community on the back. Read the responses again – they are all disagreeing, whilst trying not to make anyone feel worse, which I personally think is an admirable goal. Also, there’s a big difference between standing up for a community large parts of which have just been unfairly described as ‘toxic’, and patting it on the back. (I’m patting it on the back, but DL wasn’t.) I don’t know what calling someone out looks like to you, but I’m assuming Shamus would lock the thread if people did it. While that might give a temporary sense that you’ve “won” by getting the last word, it just makes the next round uglier. Well, this is close enough to a near-and-dear topic of mine to allow me to go off on a tangent. Hyperbole comes from every side. The first thing people do when describing something they like is reach for the extremes. That’s why all the extreme words end up meaning the same thing; awesome and awful used to mean something vast. You’ve got to apply the context. Especially when someone’s trying to explain a complicated point of view. Part of the reason Mumbles gets criticized so often is because she’s more carefree about what she says. It’s exaggerated, spur of the moment kind of stuff. But so is Ninety-Three’s response; it’s an attempt to express an emotion that doesn’t allow for easy expression. You’ve got to give leniency in both directions. Because the first thing offense does is mess with your thinking, which means you’re more likely to say something unintentionally offensive, which means another person will take offense and say something offensive and the whole thing snowballs. I think part of the issue here is that a good number of the hosts write and/or ponder for a living, so they set a high standard. But you shouldn’t need to be perfectly articulate to express an opinion, and the refreshing opinions are going to come from the people who don’t have that kind of background. As someone who gets progressively less intelligible the longer I talk, it’s very important to me to be able to be inconsistent. My old motto; there’s plenty of things to argue about without arguing over miscommunication. Multiple people disagreed with Ninety-Three’s interpretation and argued with it in a manner which took into account that Ninety-Three was upset, thus attempting to make all feel better. That isn’t toxicity. You perceive an injustice and your suggestion is that similar injustices (as perceived) be extended to other members of the cast? That is. While I can understand how you could have come to this reading of what Mumbles is saying here–and agree that if it was indeed what she was saying, that’s a pretty horrible sentiment to have–I don’t believe that’s what she meant at all. I don’t want to put words in her mouth, but my interpretation of what she was saying by the “bang whoever you want” line was that it’d be great if games in general added more common romance options than they currently do. The culture of game writing and development tends to treat romance as this very “special” sort of situation that’s “rare” and “magical” and has some sort of unique and special significance. And while that is, I suppose, a valid way to view romance; it’s also true that romantic relationships are extremely common. Most adults have been in some sort of romantic relationship before. And there aren’t a lot of games that treat romance and dating and marriage as a common thing that happens to almost everyone. I very much doubt Mumbles was trying to suggest that there should be more games where every character is player-sexual or that you can bang every character regardless of whether or not they should be attracted to you–or indeed, regardless of consent. Rather, I imagine she meant that you should be able to pursue a romance with pretty much any character you want, even though some of them may eventually (or quickly) turn you down. This contrasted against the Obsidian model and policy we had just been talking about of “no romance ever.” Likewise I can’t imagine Mumbles was meaning to say that she should still be able to romance Dorian as a female character even though he’s explicitly gay; rather that she wanted to romance him, and that desire was still there, but also respected that the character was written as gay, and that such characters that are not omni-sexual or player-sexual, and have defined sexualities and sexual desires that are not wholly dependent on the player are important to have. I cannot imagine Mumbles making any sort of intentional argument that consent and sexual preference and agency should all be made moot, even when speaking in the context of clearly fictional characters. And I would implore you to extend at least a little benefit of the doubt to Mumbles here. I don't want to put words in her mouth, but my interpretation of what she was saying by the “bang whoever you want” line was that it'd be great if games in general added more common romance options than they currently do. This is exactly what I got from her statement as well. I think Ninety Three has a pet peeve (an understandable one) and that he’s reading that onto her statement. If its something you want to vent about, Ninety Three, fine. Don’t pin it on her. And I agree with her, I think. I got the feeling what she wanted was, if she had a fun interaction with some random blacksmith, she wants to say “you’re cute. Wanna bang?” and there’s a fade to black and a quick one liner or something, and the game continues. That would be great. Daimbert says: But being willing to do that says something about who that character is. Having some options like that are one thing — and have been done a number of times before — but having every character willing to do that requires a specific sort of world and specific personalities to work. As an example of some cases, TOR has a number of those options. In fact, one of my characters sided with a Sith over the Jedi because he figured the Sith would and the Jedi wouldn’t (Smuggler, left the Empire after being kicked out of his job for being drunk, didn’t care about the war or about any of their philosophies, perfectly selfish, got better later [grin]). if it was indeed what she was saying, that's a pretty horrible sentiment to have Strongly disagree. Wanting the gameplay to override the narrative is no more horrible than making a house rule for any other game. It’s not fun to have to restart a game to overcome an NPC character restriction, and if you couldn’t know about it beforehand it’s just DIAS . These are not real people; they’re pieces in a game. It really depends on whether the game treats this aspect as part of game mechanics, like The Sims, or as part of character narrative, like the Bioware games. In case of The Sims the characters are pretty much “pieces in a game” and the devs decided that there aren’t really any incompatible traits that cannot be overcome, at worst balancing the sims desires becomes more difficult and I know for a fact that many players actually created as differing couples as possible in hopes that the resulting tension creates more challenging or fun gameplay. In case of games like Dragon Age we have characters with a narrative, backstory and goals. Overcoming differing ideologies or character past experiences either through or for the purpose of romance can make for an interesting story but it is perfectly reasonable for situations to exist where those are impossible to overcome for one reason or another. It’s one of the things where mileage varies greatly but many players have seen Bioware in particular as often compromising NPC integrity in favour of pleasing the players. How well those are developed and/or presented varies greatly by game and character, and player opinions on the topic also differ wildly. That affects whether it’s sensible to put it in a game. It doesn’t affect whether a player wants it in the game. A given game can only appeal to so many people, but if you say what you want out of one game maybe the next game will appeal to you. As a note, the third option is to compromise the player character’s integrity; if Dorian only dates men, give the player a way to become a man. Now you’ve got your uncompromisingly gay character that the player can still always date. (I like the Obsidian approach; either no romance, or really creepy romances that basically mock the concept.) give the player a way to become a man. Simple: play the game with a male character. These are not real people; they're pieces in a game. LOL #videogamecharactersarepeopletoo Anyway, they might not be real people, but if the writers designed them in a particular way, then why should they compromise their vision based on player demand? If players want something else, they’re free to make their own game or play one that does what they want. No need to change existing games just because players are entitled brats. why should they compromise their vision based on player demand? We’re on different topics at this point. As long as the tone is clear there’s no reason for any specific game to change to accomodate people (except to make it profitable), but we’ve got people saying it’s horrible to want to see a game work differently. An infinite-ammo sniper rifle that does 5000 damage is completely wrong for Dark Souls, but it’s mid–tier in Disgaea. Maybe it doesn’t fit one guy’s vision, but he’s not the only one making games and there’s other people coming up behind him that will like to hear their vision would have an audience. I don’t know how early you meet Dorian. Say it’s five hours in. That’s five hours of game you have to redo for the sake of one quest. At minimum, because until you finish the game you don’t know if there’s any female-only stuff you’ll be locking yourself out of by restarting. That’s the height of DIAS. I want to see more games where you play a shapeshifting amorphous blob. Male, Female, Pack Horse, all just a shift away. I think there might be a clash between roleplaying and gameplaying here. Why is it that, five hours in, you’d have to restart to finish that one “quest”? You don’t need to romance Dorian or ANYONE to complete the game. You don’t get any kind of real bonus for it (usually). You might get some cool scenes, but really no more than, say, not bringing Deadpool to meet himself in X-Men Legends 2 or not bringing a character on a specific quest to meet someone they used to know … or not saving someone and losing their small character arcs. Unfortunate, perhaps, but not really game breaking. So the only reason to feel forced to restart is that you really, really wanted to date Dorian, and feel that it is something that your character wanted. Sure. But in terms of story and roleplaying not being able to get what you want is perfectly valid and even sometimes superior to being able to get what you everything you want. Think about how your character would feel about that situation. What would they do? Would it leave them bereft, pining for someone they couldn’t have? Could they possibly find love with someone else? Would that be bittersweet, or them discovering their true love and abandoning Dorian as an infatuation? For me, the idea roleplaying is to get in, play as your character would, and see what happens and react to that. I don’t like “gotchas” where romance options react badly to something you do or say that you couldn’t have predicted, but I don’t see “This character is one-sex specific” as a DIAS, since you don’t really HAVE to do it again. But it is potentially a problem for some people — I’m one of them, at times — to find out that certain characters can’t work romantically with the character you’ve created. However, there are still options: 1) Save that option for the replay. Inquisition is probably too long for that, but the original DA, DA2 and the Mass Effect games can indeed be reasonably replayed. 2) If you think this will really bother you, look up the romance options before you start playing. You can usually find the lists soon after games release with minimal spoilers, and so check it out, see who can and can’t be romanced for each character, and build your character accordingly. I did it in Mass Effect 3 and all of the Dragon Age games, as well as for “The Old Republic”, although mostly it was to find out which ones I should pursue. Sure, there’s a little bit of spoilers in who can be romanced, but if it’s something that would ruin your game for you, do some research first. At the end of the day, I’d like characters to BE characters, and let my character react accordingly. I see your solution as moving away from that. This is very much the sentiment I was aiming for. And just to clarify, I’m not saying that power fantasies and wish fulfillment are bad in games, just that if a game is story or characterization focused denying the player something because of story or characterization is not a fault. Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 11:12 pm We’re back to talking about two different things. I’m getting the feeling I’m not half as coherent as I’d like to be. (Someone else can jump in at any time.) The point I was trying to make is “don’t act like it’s a sin to think Dragon Age would be improved if it played more like Mystic Messenger, and it doesn’t matter if nobody said it out loud because someone can be thinking it and the establishment of ‘safe targets’ are the death of open dialogue.” That’s as coherent as I can make that. Everything that follows is pointless nitpicking because I like nitpicking stuff. You Can’t Please Everyone At Once Here I’ll Prove It. Why is it that, five hours in, you'd have to restart to finish that one “quest”? You don't need to romance Dorian or ANYONE to complete the game. The arguments that follow could apply equally well to completing the game at all. There’s a lot of roleplaying potential in a game that allows you to build different characters at the start but only allows one to complete the game. You can still enjoy the experience up to that point. How would your Giant character feel to come to the dwarven tunnels and realize his quest was doomed from the start because he’s too big to use the only path through the mountains? Would he turn back to his old life, or make a new one in a place he’s visited? Would he throw himself at the sheer cliffs despite knowing it’s certain death to try? If you think this will really bother you, look up the romance options before you start playing. This is DIAS in meta-form, because to avoid getting locked out of something you didn’t know about you would have to absorb enough of the story in every story-heavy game you play to know what build will get the result you want. It’s a faster, less interactive restart. At the end of the day, I'd like characters to BE characters, and let my character react accordingly. I see your solution as moving away from that. Yes and no. It’s obviously a deliberate break from the standard setup, and my designs are generally building off the opinion that if no one’s uncomfortable then no one’s learning anything, but there’s nothing stopping a shapeshifting pile of goo from having a solid personality. Odo from Deep Space Nine pulled it off fine. And while Disgaea couldn’t care less about its story, its no-set-gender reincarnation mechanic could be applied in a more serious work without too many tweaks. There are options to explore besides boy/girl meets girl/boy. EDIT: Well that was fully incoherent. I’m going to stop talking now. Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 9:20 am The point I was trying to make is “don't act like it's a sin to think Dragon Age would be improved if it played more like Mystic Messenger, and it doesn't matter if nobody said it out loud because someone can be thinking it and the establishment of “˜safe targets' are the death of open dialogue.” Let me put aside the initial discussion here, and get it down to this point: I don’t think that a game like Dragon Age — even Inquisition — would be improved by loosening the specific traits, because that makes the characters less like characters/people and more like simple objects in the world. And I’ll go a step further and say that games with dating sim elements — Personas, Conception II, and others — work better when the characters are characters and interact with something that’s a specific character. This is not to say that games that are more open can’t be good or that games can’t aim at them, but just that games that aren’t just dating sims — and, to be honest, even dating sims — work best with characters with traits and personalities that mean that they won’t be compatible with any type of specific character that a player might want to play with. I think it works better when certain characters can’t be romanced by all characters, and that in general if you want to romance all of them you at least would have to build a character that is so generic that they can be anything all the time. The arguments that follow could apply equally well to completing the game at all. … How would your Giant character feel to come to the dwarven tunnels and realize his quest was doomed from the start because he's too big to use the only path through the mountains? The thing is that there’s something that the game is primarily trying to get you to do. In dating sims, it’s getting your one true love (or the harem option) and replaying is the method for getting different outcomes. In Bioware style RPGs, the story is the primary lure and romances are secondary things that make the story — and your character interaction with said story — better. It’d be perfectly reasonable to create a game like you suggest here and turn it into a complete character game as long as you didn’t make the main selling point of the game that main quest (because then they’d feel cheated out of the thing that the game claimed they were supposed to care the most about). And maybe the Elder Scrolls games can work kinda like that. And some games are just about the ideal resource management, and so you romance — or, in the Persona games, choose who to spend Christmas with — just to get the better item/persona available. But in a Bioware style RPG, starting with a Giant that couldn’t complete the main story would essentially be locking you out from doing the thing that the game most aims at. Romances are not that sort of thing, and I feel it enhances the story to allow for those sort of locked in moments, and can make the characters feel shallow if all of the romances can be done by all characters all the time. In short, it makes Dorian feel more like a character if he is gay, especially if you contrast it with characters that are explicitly bisexual and characters that are explicitly straight. They feel like different characters. DA2 did this reasonably well with their characters, making them unique while still having them be available to the player … but that Isabella was different from Merril made her more appealing — in a strange way — to my Champion than Merrill was. A different character would have preferred Merrill to Isabella. And that’s what I want. But you need to make characters differentiated to do that, and that means that when I create a character — say, based on Helena Cain from the new BSG series or Jag Fell from the Star Wars EU — that there will be characters that, based on who they are will not be compatible romantically with my character (for the former, it was anyone male; for the latter, it was all of the TOR Bounty Hunter options although that one nasty Sith woman would’ve worked). And in fact, with Jag it created a great story, as Mako kinda had a crush on him and as he got over his bitterness he started thinking that something like that might be a good idea, but because at that point her and Torian were getting together and they made SUCH a cute couple he couldn’t bear trying to split them up, and so ended up alone. This doesn’t happen if they aren’t unique characters in their own right. Heck, in DA Leliana’s niceness turned my City Elf from someone bitter and selfish into someone more hopeful and not-so-selfish! But another character would have found that off-putting. A game designed from the start with certain quests but that aimed at ending them in different ways — like, for example, with the Giant who simply can’t complete the quest — can work, as long as that is established as being that character’s ending. Heck, make it randomly generated — although ideally with an option to turn that off — so that you can’t know if this character will make it through or not. Aimed explicitly that way, it’s an interesting idea. But it’s not a Bioware-style RPG, and putting those elements there would kill one of those … just like I feel making it open-world killed Inquisition (YMMV). This is DIAS in meta-form, because to avoid getting locked out of something you didn't know about you would have to absorb enough of the story in every story-heavy game you play to know what build will get the result you want. It's a faster, less interactive restart. Sure, but if you want to play a Bioware-style RPG and the romance options matter that much to you, doing the research — now that we can do that — isn’t really a problem, is it? It's obviously a deliberate break from the standard setup, and my designs are generally building off the opinion that if no one's uncomfortable then no one's learning anything … Well, I’m not sure why I’d need to be learning something while playing a game, especially if it makes me uncomfortable. Sure, games CAN do stuff like that, but I don’t think it’s a bad game if it doesn’t, and don’t think Bioware-style RPGs aim at that. … but there's nothing stopping a shapeshifting pile of goo from having a solid personality. Odo from Deep Space Nine pulled it off fine. And while Disgaea couldn't care less about its story, its no-set-gender reincarnation mechanic could be applied in a more serious work without too many tweaks. There are options to explore besides boy/girl meets girl/boy. Sure. And exploring them isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But you need specific characters and worlds to do that. Odo is indeed a character, and his character is very much driven by his shapeshifting. But having a character driven by that ought to imply certain things. Like, for example, how does it feel to him to be able to be everything to everyone in terms of romance? Does he exploit that? Does it make him wonder if his partners really love him or just the image he presents? Is he looking to imprint on someone and someone’s specific desires? All of these are potentially good things to explore, but this all means that you likely ought not do that as mostly a mechanism to let the player romance whomever they want. You need to build that into the character, world and story. Otherwise, it’s just a shallow, meaningless mechanic put in there to ensure that all players get whatever they want, and while that’s not necessarily a bad thing in some games, it’s not what I’d want in, say, a Bioware-style RPG. silver Harloe says: “Rather, I imagine she meant that you should be able to pursue a romance with pretty much any character you want, even though some of them may eventually (or quickly) turn you down.” So much this. Just like how, in reality I can flirt with whomever I want, but most people will be unresponsive (and a few will punch me in the face, and a few will playfully flirt back without wanting to pursue a romance, and a few will make rude comments to me for being too forward, a few will nod but then never talk to me again, etc). Falterfire says: I find it funny that you repeatedly mention consent in the context of fictional characters, because they’re completely controlled by the writer. You could implement a system where any character the player likes becomes interested in the PC while having it always be consensual (even if you have to bend characterization to do it) because of course the writer can just modify the character’s interactions to add some reason they reciprocate the feeling. I don’t see that as any more icky than the baseline level of creepiness inherent in having fictional constructs which conditionally display (romantic) affection for the player based on arbitrary gameplay decisions. The only reason the character is able to be romanced at all is because the writer already did exactly the same thing for players of the other gender. (I also think people tend to overestimate the degree to which a character’s personality is shaped by their sexuality. For most characters in most games, they are only romantic towards the player character, and changing them to be player-sexual effectively only changes whether the player can romance them and nothing else. How many lines of dialog in Mass Effect would change if Tali or Garrus were gay/bi instead of straight?) Unrelated: There’s an interesting discussion here about whether it matter if an ‘out-of-character’ action is possible if it happens by player choice and can be easily avoided. If a romance would be out-of-character, but you have to seek it out, is it really valid to complain about if you never see it in your playthrough? To me that’s similar to complaining easy mode exists because you would rather play on hard. A person dares to say that they want a video game that caters to their every whim and that the most horrifying thing youve ever heard?Isnt the whole point of escapist fantasy that it caters to your every whim? I disagree with her because,obviously,my whims are different from hers.But thats why we have all these different games,so that all of us can find one that caters to us specifically. Joe Informatico says: “Most self-indulgent sentiment have ever seen”–really? A bit of wishful thinking is more self-indulgent than the person who wrote a mod to actually do it? Or all the other romance mods on Nexus? Let’s not even get into all the mods to make NPCs more “beautiful” or nude out there. There’s a lot to unpack in here, and I’ll try not to repeat what some others have said about you appearing to personally attack Mumbles for what you think she said. I do think you misinterpreted her a bit, though. I think you’re conflating two separate statements as being contradictory by assuming she meant them to be equally universal. When she advocated for more casual sex in games, I don’t think she was saying that all games forever should adopt this mode exclusively – she was simply saying that sex shouldn’t be treated, almost exclusively, as the endpoint of a grand romance subplot – sometimes sex is just sex, and games should more often allow for this. By the same token, she was also not saying that her desire to romance Dorian with a female Inquisitor gave her the right to demand his written sexual preference be overridden – she was just saying she was sorry it wasn’t possible because she really liked that character. All that being said, I think you might also want to draw a stronger distinction between imaginary video game characters and actual people in your mind. Conflating a desire to engage two fictional characters in romance with rape culture is…a bit over the top. Video games are, before anything else, entertainment, and it’s not out of line to expect some self-indulgence in that context (and the amount of it any given person enjoys is going to vary). Nobody is being hurt if a fictional character is made “player-sexual” instead of having a pre-determined sexual preference that excludes some PCs. Yes, it is a good thing – a great thing! – that gay, trans, female, and non-white characters are finally starting to get more real representation as characters in video games. And a desire for those characters to be written with verisimilitude and personality is laudable – a desire I think Mumbles shares. But admitting to a desire to override aspects of that writing for a self-indulgent reason is not even in the same galaxy as advocating sexual assault or excusing its existence. Wednesday Feb 1, 2017 at 10:26 pm So I just learned this post of mine was apparently responsible for Mumbles quitting the Diecast. I misunderstood Mumble’s point and got needlessly aggressive about it. Twenty-nine days is a little late for an apology, but I’m sorry for my behaviour and for souring Mumbles on the community. Ilseroth says: Just a point regarding OW vs TF2 and character design and personality. Keep in mind that TF2 launched in 07, and the Meet the Heavy video came out in 09. that’s two years before they really did any serious work on personality, no sandvich, no sasha. He was pretty much just a kinda thick russian. And I’m pretty sure that’s the same year they started the comics. Meanwhile Overwatch has indeed started to incorporate community decisions on the personality of characters, from Ana being grandma (and handing out candy) to D’va’s addiction to junkfood. In addition they launched a comic series with the release of the game, and had fully animated shorts as well. Now, some of the interactions are straight bad (like the one Josh references between D’va and Lucio) but plenty of them make sense… Though I will say they should make more of them, since hearing say, Tracer proclaim it is an honor to meet Zenyatta for the 20th time is not particularly thrilling. I love TF2, but I don’t think that the argument Ruts puts forward carries weight. The actual characterization of the TF2 characters came from years of shorts, comics, dialogue and so on. It’s easy to just say their designs show more of their character when you have played the game and know their characters. You know the intricacies because you have experienced them and performing an unbiased analyses is practically impossible when you have significant experience with one environment and practically none of the other. I mean, to be fair, if you don’t want to experience the difference between the two, if the characterization is not great enough to make you want to try the game at all then clearly one did their job better. But I suppose I have to ask, was that before or after years of additions, iterations and community assistance in design before you came to actually love the characters? I love TF2, but I don't think that the argument Ruts puts forward carries weight. The actual characterization of the TF2 characters came from years of shorts, comics, dialogue and so on. It's easy to just say their designs show more of their character when you have played the game and know their characters. You know the intricacies because you have experienced them and performing an unbiased analyses is practically impossible when you have significant experience with one environment and practically none of the other. I have not played a single round of TF2, nor read any of the comics, my only exposure is to some of the shorts. In contrast, I have played Overwatch, I have consumed all of its shorts, and some of its comics. I still feel like I know more about the personalities of the TF2 characters, because Overwatch’s roster are such blank slates. Here is everything I know about the personalities of the Overwatch crew: Junkrat: Recklessly crazy Tracer: Spunky D.Va: Gamer Reaper: Dark. The author takes this tryhard character woefully seriously. Zenyatta: Zen Reinhardt: Crotchety Winston: Smart Everyone else: Nothing, they’re such blank slates that I don’t have even one word to describe their personalities There’s more personality on display in the three minutes of Meet the Spy than in the entirety of Overwatch. I don’t think you are being fair, I mean; you can do the same thing to TF2 characters: Medic: Mad Scientist Demoman: Scottish Heavy: Russian Soldier: Generic Drill Seargent Scout: From Boston ect ect ect (actually kinda odd that they really do rely more on the ethnic background for the personalities pretty heavily) And while some characters really can be reduced pretty easily (Junkrat really is just off his rocker and likes to blow things up) other characters have a lot of interactions and backstory to flesh them out… Though that doesn’t reflect in game all the time. Generally the characterization seems to be mostly about the different personalities interacting and their backstories. For instance, 76 and Reaper are rivals and Reaper pretty much blames him for everything and has gotten all grouchy and resentful… mostly because he’s pretty much kinda sorta dead but mercy turned him into… something? Also the Edgelord incarnate thing is intentionally cringey. You can tell when blizzard does things like having Sombra fuck around with him in cutscenes and when other characters (like tracer) mock his quotes. (“DEATH COMES” giggle – Tracer when she kills Reaper) … Also they don’t take it that seriously, I mean c’mon, one of his lines when teleporting is “Reaper-sitioning” I’m not trying to make a point by being reductionist, the point was that I don’t know anything beyond those one word descriptors. The soldier is much more than a generic drill sergeant, he’s a cartoonish bumbling doofus who both enjoys and admires violence, whereas Reinhardt is just a crotchety old man. I mained Zenyatta, I have memorized every zen one-liner he throws out, and the only thing I’ve learned about his personality is that he likes throwing out zen one-liners. Corsair says: Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 6:24 pm Reinhardt…is not crotchety. Like, at all. I’m honestly baffled how anyone could take Reinhardt to be crotchety, he’s one of the friendliest and kindest characters in the entire game. As a counterpoint about taking Reaper seriously, look at the Ana comic, where he’s played entirely straight. I think the bits where the game pokes fun at him are the result of an unsolved tonal problem the game has: Characters like Reaper and 76 are way darker and more violent than most of the bright and shiny superhero world they’ve made, and the designer in charge of worldbuilding admits that their solution to this problem is to treat it like Nathan Drake’s mass murder sprees and try not to think about it. Medic: Mad Nazi Scientist Demoman: Scottish Black Cyclops Heavy: Basically Russian Yeah But Turned Up To 11 Soldier: Legitimately Insane Drill Seargent Scout: Punk From Boston It’s way more interesting than that. It may lean on nationalities and stereotypes, but it works in a less-is-more kind of way. The key difference between TF2 and OW is that TF2 characters are supposed to be funny, while OW characters are supposed to be taken seriously to some extent. TF2 has always been a satirical deconstruction of why the stuff OW is trying to do is dumb. Meet the Heavy released in 2007, most of the Meet the Team shorts were out before the game actually. https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Movies I’m happy about the Watch_Dogs comparisons to Saints Row. Saints Row 3 and 4 basically did the thing I normally have to come to JRPGs for, hanging out with a team of friends for tens of hours of action. Having said that, I think they’re a step shy of achieving what I liked. I haven’t played it, so I guess I’m just speaking out of my ass, but I heard you and your team are portrayed as joyful, wholly nice kids who want to take it to The Man, man. But then you can 3D print a gun and murder pedestrians. And I either want them to go Saints Row 3 with that and make the main characters crazy and amoral in a bizarre world with supervillains, or Saints Row 4 and make you only fight alien monsters and computer programs. Either is fine. But I can’t have fun with a bunch of regular pals if they’ve just wiped the blood of the people off their hoodie. I think Persona 4 was right to let the kids in that game pretty much only fight monsters rather than cleaning up the streets. Lachlan the Mad says: A third alternative would be to remove guns from Watch_Dogs 2 entirely… Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 11:42 pm Sure, why not! You could metal gear that whole game, there’s lots of stealth or nonleathel weapons options out there. Turtlebear says: Getting strange David Mitchell vibes from Rutskarn in the Overwatch vs. TF2 character design section. JAB says: With regard to Pokemon Go, I’ll agree that it doesn’t have amazing plot, or strategic or tactical puzzles. But with one of the recent updates, finding a specific pokemon is much easier. And it’s been better as an exercise motivator than anything else I’ve tried in the last 20 years. I think it’s worth acknowledging when talking about the games of the year. It’s a shallow fad, just like all those Wiis. But even though I played very little of it, it was fun to have the world talk about a franchise I love for a couple of months. You say that hl3 is never coming out,BUT: Spellforce had its last expansion in 2007.It was the expansion to its second game in the franchise.And in 2017,there will be a spellforce 3.So half life 3 is definitely confirmed! The thing about team fortress 2 not having girls and that being just the time,I disagree.Unreal tournament 2 let you choose gender 10 years before that. The reason valve made only men is not that it was just a time like that,its that they decided to go with that aesthetic.Theres no hidden agenda behind it,theres no cultural pressure behind it,they simply thought that it would be better like that. Why would you want to bang barrick?!He literally tells you that theres blood,shit and piss oozing and congealing down there.No matter how much of a soul mate he would become for me,I would never ever not in a million years touch his junk even with a ten foot pole. Rutskarn says: I can’t smell that stuff in the videogame, though. All I can smell is his TORTURED SOUL. Josh,your excuse of “having no real friends” does not work when there is tabletop simulator.So stop whining and play some board games. He has a tabletop. He doesn’t have friends. He needs Friend Simulator. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Diecast. Well,in that case: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/82453268/ Halceon says: I played Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader! It was so utterly meh. SO. Utterly. Meh. It wasnt really that bad.I mean it wasnt good,but compared to other dreck that exists(especially these days),it was at least functional. It wasn’t bad, it was middle of the road, which isn’t good enough for some. Personally I like the setting and even to some extent the system, although the game becomes pretty bad about halfway through. I might try running a tabletop game in the setting some day. Rutskarn,you say that there werent any middle of the road crpgs back in the day.But icewind dale series was precisely that.It was mechanically competent,yet rather light on its story.Heck,can anyone even remember anything about the story or the npcs in those games?I only remember the mad elf and the giants stuck in time,even though Ive enjoyed those games a lot. Though I cant say whether either of those was in the first or second game. Also, what about the Ultimas? Where would they fit in on a scale from Baldur’s Gate to … no, I’ve forgotten it already. Something about King Richard? Ultima 8 & IX were bad. Depending on who you ask either Ultima 6 or 7 was the best in the series (personally I love Ultima 6), 4 & 5 were decent, if not very special. 1 – 3 were their own things, products of the time. I see, thanks! – so they essentially fill out the entire scale just by themselves. (And perhaps represent an even broader spectrum than that of Baldur’s-Gate-to-balderdash.) Pretty much,yeah.Heck,it even has spinoffs that also are all over the spectrum.Its wild. I’d consider U4+U5 special, personally. They haven’t aged as well though, that’s for sure. The Ultima series defined RPGs for me until Baldur’s Gate and Fallout. U4+U5 both did some pretty cool things for the time, and the Ultima series in general was always trying to push towards a bigger world with more interesting people and stories in it. Shame that things went so downhill at the end. Even Ultima 8 has a place in my heart, even though only the first area was properly fleshed out and the combat system was awful (not to mention the jumping puzzles… D:) Divine Divinity. Arcanum. You’re calling Arcanum “middle of the road”? Them there’s fighting words, mister. Arx Fatalis: Could’ve been interesting with the gesture-based magic, but it just doesn’t do much of anything interesting. Beyond Divinity: same deal as DD. Dawn of Magic: A Diablo clone that plays like a bad MMO. Revenant is middle of the road because it was rush-released after the Daikatana incident, could’ve been pretty decent if it had an actual ending, some bug fixes, a working party system, and well… if it was basically properly finished. Don’t get me wrong, Arcanum was a fascinating game in many ways. But it was also a terrible game in many ways. And unlike KOTOR 2, where the good greatly outweighs the bad, Arcanum’s awful gameplay brings the ambitious game down far too much. It’s not bland, but it’s certainly not top-tier. But perhaps you’re right, “middle of the road” may not be the best descriptor for a game with such high highs and low lows. So I’ll retract Arcanum and substitute Neverwinter Nights. Thanks, and agreed. Tektotherriggen says: If you like Mysterium, also try Codenames. Same idea (one player trying to give clues to their team so that they can pick the right cards), except that there are two teams competing. You have to give clues that match only your team’s (randomly chosen) words. Philadelphus says: I can second that, as I’ve played both of those several times this year with my gaming group. Mysterium is a lot of fun, and also works well as a social experience where people have plenty of time to sit back and talk about non-game related things, in a way that a lot of games don’t really support. Codenames is also a great game for figuring out how close you think to other people. I have two friends I play with (among others). One I can play with on the same team just fine; I actually managed to get him to correctly guess three rather tenuously-related words once (in a game where just getting two words correctly guessed is often an accomplishment). Harsh experience has taught us, however, that I and my other friend simply don’t work on the same team (in either role)””it’s like we’re communicating on two completely different wavelengths when it comes to word associations. I was actually wondering exactly this while listening to the podcast. At first I was thinking, “well, Chris has a tendency to mentally check out if the conversation gets onto a topic he doesn’t care about much – they all do, so maybe he just stopped paying attention.” But then he didn’t even say goodbye at the end! And I was troubled: “doesn’t Chris love me anymore? How can he not even say goodbye?!” So knowing that he just had to leave in the middle was a relief. You should’ve left some part of his departure in the recording, so those of us that tend to read the shownotes afterwards wouldn’t be alarmed. Bad Josh, no cookie. Fast_Fire says: Just started playing Salt & Sanctuary. So far, there’s the obvious inspiration from the Souls series, but I’m finding some parallels with Castlevania (chiefly SotN’s level design) and a skill tree progression that could take more cues from Path of Exile. Monster design is interesting and most bosses encountered have been engaging, but not too punishing (Although Tree of Men gave me a Bed of Chaos-like experience). Equipment variety is still being explored, but so far it looks like there’s plenty to experiment with if you can deal with getting the required skill levels for each desired equipment type. Fade2Gray says: This podcast needed more Stardew Valley. Mumbles gets a stardrop fruit for saying the name once in association with the words “best game of the year”, but the game was otherwise criminally overlooked in both conversations about GoTY and relationship simulations in games. I bought that in the sale! Not had a chance to play it yet though. SlothfulCobra says: TF2’s characterizations were sort of just a fun little bonus flair that nobody expected, but when Valve put forth some fun personalities to go on their remake of something that started out as a quake mod, everybody loved it and it picked up momentum organically, as opposed to Overwatch, which led out pretty strong to create that artificially. There’s a real difference in expectations there, so whereas Valve just had to do something cool and fun by itself, Blizzard had to fully manufacture an entire dynamic and style to immediately produce a fandom, and it really shows in points. One of the impressive things about TF2’s aesthetic is just how simplistic the stylization made everything immediately recognizable immediately, so it’s easier to keep track of things. A lot of the differences between characters is just their build, because they mostly all wear similar uniforms. Overwatch on the other hand, is filled with visually busy designs, filled with extra meaningless lines and bits and bobs and meaningless tech-y bits going every which way. Theoretically you might be able to identify each character by their silhouette, but the game doesn’t really intend for that. There are an order of magnitude more characters to keep track of, you can’t turn that into a cutesy 2D 8-Bit tribute game, that’s for sure. I couldn’t even imagine how you could keep track of teams until I saw in gameplay clips that the game cheats to help you keep track, it overlays outlines onto all the characters. The aesthetics aren’t working towards the game, and the mechanics are even working against some of the aesthetic. But the main problem with Overwatch’s aesthetic I feel is that none of it really serves the game it exists in. The whole deal with TF2’s lore and backstory is that they’re fighting a meaningless war between two different colors, that’s the whole bit, that’s the whole point, it’s a joke as to what the game is, and it gives everything context. Most of the characters are some kind of murderous jerk, because that’s what the game is about, murdering the other team for fun. There are a number of other online multiplayer games that do a similar thing, they make context for the game. One of my favorites is Awesomenauts, but nobody ever talks about it. Overwatch doesn’t do that. Their aesthetics and lore don’t create context for the gameplay, in fact they actively work against each other. The most they say about what the gameplay is supposed to be is something vague about mercenary work. That doesn’t really fit with how so many of the characters are supposed to be somehow heroic. Why would this robot who learned to love, a climatologist who’s trying to save the environment, a pop star who put things aside to be a hero, or this academic gorilla be killing people for no reason in particular? Tracer doesn’t much seem like the type to enjoy gunning people down over and over again. There’s this whole divide between supposedly heroic and villainous characters, why are they working together? Most of them are clearly defined individuals, which works against the fact that there are an indefinite amount of them bumping around. Nothing fits together, it’s like if the item descriptions in Dark Souls kept talking about the dangers of nuclear proliferation, or if Banjo and Kazooie were actually wealthy industrialists in their normal lives when not trying to thwart Gruntilda, or if Superman and Batman were doing a crowdfunding campaign to open up a food truck. There’s nothing wrong with the individual bits, but they work against each other in dischord rather than harmony. There's this whole divide between supposedly heroic and villainous characters, why are they working together? This is one of my problems with most MOBA-type games where there are hordes and hordes of characters, some of whom are thematically “good” and “evil”, but which mix indiscriminately in gameplay. Story-wise it’s black-vs.-white, but gameplay-wise it’s a mix of black and white fighting each other. TF2 on the other hand is all just a bunch of killers-for-hire killing each other; it’s strictly grey-vs.-grey (or maybe black-vs.-black). Ludonarrative consonance, if you will. Just spotted that AwesomeNauts is currently on sale on Steam until 6th January. 80% off – not sure what the price would be in dollarbucks, but it’s cheaper than a small British coffee would be these days. Jeff R says: It’s time to transition all of the optimism and pessimism about whether Half-Life 3 will ever happen into optimism and pessimism about whether Portal 3 will ever happen. Get with the program. Interesting idea! Personally, I dunno. While I’m much more invested in Portal than Half-Life, I’m a lot more at peace with the idea of there never being a Portal 3. I mean, I’d absolutely love it if there was, but I feel that Portal 2 ended with a sense of resolution (even as it raised more questions) and I’m happy to leave “what happened next” up to the imagination. Half-Life: Episode 2, on the other hand, ends on a cliff-hanger; it resolves one on-going set of concerns, but then immediately opens up a whole bunch more in the last minute of gameplay. I could live with never getting another installment of either, but I find myself interested in the next chapter of Gordon’s story and yet am content to leave Chell where she is. NC_Schrijver says: My previous comment got deleted? Whining boooooo Aye, there’s a ‘no politics’ rule, with politics being pretty broadly defined to include, say, social politics and the like. More here, including plenty on why that is: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=31891 Possibly, even though I wasn’t talking about politics at all. Apperently giving Mumbles critiscm is grounds for your comment to be deleted cause it might hurt her feelings. So everthing that might hurt her feelings is put in politics now? There’s obvious evidence right on this page that that’s not the case. I believe you know precisely what I mean, and so I shan’t attempt to explain further. You accused Mumbles of “pushing her feminist agenda”. That’s a firebomb of an opening, and you know it. I would have let it go if you had, but now you’re playing the martyr. You’re not here for a discussion about videogames. You’re looking for a fight. Go away. Joshua Klaus says: Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 11:10 am Hey Rutskarn! List me 10 boardgames that are great to play with 2 people. byter says: Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 10:09 am Here I am, in front of a wonderful buffet, many great flavours and textures to be had but over my shoulder I hear a constant muttering. “Oh wow look at how well presented the food is” “There’s a piece from every continent” “This selection truly represents how far we’ve come in [current year]” And I start to feel my appetite start to wane. This is kind of how I feel with Overwatch. I get that for those who aren’t into this particular game or culinary experience, there’s not much else to do other than talk about the more superficial details or to speak to their own (or the games’ own) affectations. But.. having heard so much of it, it does colour how I feel about the game. It would be a bit like how TF2 would feel different if all people would talk about how pyro should be trans and that the engineer should be a chick. It is the same gaming experience and people are welcome to have their own views but it does change the ambiance. Welp.. at least there’s still Paladins. The ambiance hasn’t been tainted this way… yet… Leave a Reply to Andy_Panthro Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10063
__label__wiki	0.875056	0.875056	You are here: Home » Outside Tibet » Internet virus attack targets G20 Tibet protesters Internet virus attack targets G20 Tibet protesters November 17, 2014 4:38 pm0 commentsViews: 84 (TibetanReview.net, Nov17, 2014) – Cyber criminals have unleashed a virus designed to take control of computers of Tibet campaigners and their email contacts during the G20 summit being held in the Australian city of Brisbane over Nov 15-16, reported smh.com.au Nov 16. The virus, embedded in a malicious email attachment, hacks into a recipient’s computer camera and uses it to spy on the owner. The report said the email, titled “Join us at a rally for Tibet during the G20 Summit”, purports to be from the Australian Tibet Council, one of the groups organizing the Tibet protests during the summit, and includes a word document titled A_Solution_For_Tibet. The report said Cyber security company ESET had disseminated a warning about the email and the Word document after finding that it contained a virus, labelled as Gh0st Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and detected as Win32/Farfli. The warning was cited as saying that it was a “pretty classic case of spear phishing email” in which the receiver is lured into opening the infected attachment. Cyber security expert Ty Miller has said this particular type of ghost Trojan was designed for spying by getting into user’s camera and audio functions. Once infected, the computer can be totally controlled by the hacker. “It could be coming from anyone,” he was quoted as saying. “It could be a malicious virus or foreign governments who want to see what protesters are doing. It could just be attackers trying to expand the number of computers that they have control of.” Mr Miller, founder of Threat Intelligence, has said events like the G20 were “great opportunities for attackers to use the specific events and audience to make a targeted attack more convincing”. However, he has added, the effectiveness of the Tibet attack would be limited because it uses a vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was eliminated in a software update in April. Nepal targets Tibetans ahead of their 55th uprising Day Monks targeted in revenge troop attack Security tightened as March protesters sentenced in Xiahe Shugden protesters criticized for advancing China’s agenda on Tibet Three Tibetan protesters held as China’s Defence minister visits India	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10071
__label__wiki	0.811639	0.811639	LAND OF PALESTINE / For Israel's Golden Intel Boys, it starts with terror and ends with greed Translations available: Français For Israel's Golden Intel Boys, it starts with terror and ends with greed Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי Veterans of Israel’s famed signal intelligence corps, already well versed in violence against the helpless, are now indulging in rotten meddling abroad A 8200 base in central Israel. Credit David Bachar A coincidence brought together two stories in Haaretz last Wednesday. One reported on the sadistic abuse of two Palestinians by soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, while the other told of astonishing meddling abroad by Israeli intelligence companies. Ostensibly the conduct of the battalion is more sickening. But actually the actions of veterans of the Mossad and the military’s signal intelligence unit, 8200, is much more disturbing. The abusive soldiers will be punished to some extent; usually they come from the margins of society. But the veterans of Israel’s top secret cyber-agencies are the new elite, the heroes of our time, beautiful and promising, the proud future of innovation and high-tech. Who doesn’t want their son or daughter to serve in 8200? Who isn’t proud of the Mossad’s work? But some of these good people do very bad things, no less infuriating than punching a blindfolded Palestinian in front of his son. At 8200 they don’t kill people or beat them up, but the damage the unit’s veterans do can be no less severe. The success stories are many. The name of the game is to start up a company, exit quickly and take the money. In T-shirts, sneakers and jeans they make money hand over fist. During their afternoon breaks they order sushi and play the video games “FIFA 17” and “Mortal Kombat.” Most of them come from 8200. Beneath their impressive successes, there is rot. The veterans of the biggest and maybe the most prestigious unit in the army, the new pilots, know everything. Sometimes too much. A long, disturbing article by Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker tells about these companies, particularly Psy-Group, made up of Mossad and 8200 veterans. There’s no place in the world they’re not interfering – from Gabon to Romania, from the Netherlands to the U.S. elections. There’s also nothing they won’t do; money covers everything. Project Butterfly, the war declared by Israeli cyber-mercenaries on U.S. campuses against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, was particularly disgusting. Psy-Group, with members of the old boys’ club – Ram Ben-Barak, a former deputy head of the Mossad and a Yesh Atid Knesset candidate, and Yaakov Amidror, a general and a former national security adviser – spied on anti-Israel activists on U.S. campuses and collected dirt on them. It’s like a war, the hero Ben-Barak told The New Yorker. The private Israeli firm works on U.S. campuses against political activists for $2.5 million a year. This money was contributed by Jews (who were promised they were “investing in Israel’s future”), some of whose children are students on those same campuses. Imagine if a foreign company spied on right-wing students in Israel and spread slander about them. But Israel is allowed to do anything. Uzi Arad, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a Mossad veteran, told The New Yorker that he was ashamed of these mercenaries. These actions are being carried out by the best of our young people. According to The New Yorker, the Israeli companies control the global disinformation and manipulation market. They have a huge advantage. As Gadi Aviran, founder of the intelligence firm Terrogence, told the magazine: “There was this huge pipeline of talent coming out of the military every year,” and “All a company like mine had to do was stand at the gate and say, ‘You look interesting.’” It always starts with terror, real or imagined, and ends with greed. First we have a “huge pipeline of talent” familiar with the alleyways of Jabalya and Jenin in the West Bank, well experienced in violence against the helpless. The training grounds of the Israeli arms industry, unmanned bombers and lethal joysticks have led to lots of prestige and money for the state. Now, in the spirit of the times, we have the meddlers from the high-ups of the Mossad and 8200. And when one day somebody asks where the temerity came from to meddle like that, we’ll quote Amidror, who said: “If people are ready to finance it, it is O.K. with me.” Before we keep encouraging young people to join 8200 and take pride in the unit, we should remember that this rot also emerged from it. Courtesy of Ha'aretz Source: https://bit.ly/2ts16K9 Tags: Unit 8200 \| Mossad \| Israeli cyberspies \| Psy-Group \| Terrogence \| Israel/USA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10072
__label__wiki	0.836928	0.836928	Worshipful Company of Carmen scite, cito, certe — skilfully, swiftly, surely News Today History Charity Education Awards Fellowship Contacts Members' Area Home Our new home - St Dunstan's - including donations Home Charity HISTORY OF BENEVOLENCE St Dunstan's Heritage Trust Charity and the Carmen HISTORY OF BENEVOLENCE A brief history of Carmen benevolence.... As with all livery companies, the origins of Carmen's benevolence was to relieve its own members who had fallen on hard times. But from the early twentieth century, the focus on the needs of others increased. An oak alms box was bought to collect cash, and in 1939 a Fund was launched, starting with ten Court members each giving £100. The Carmen Charity Box, circulated during every meeting of the Carmen's Court of Assistants The London Cartage Fund (which was founded in 1864) ran alongside the Carmen’s Fund until they were merged in 1995 to form the registered charity, The Worshipful Company of Carmen Benevolent Trust. In 2016 this charity merged with a new one by the same title, but with the addition of the letters CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organization). This is the modern form of charity which gives it a specific legal identity, which the former Trust did not have. The Worshipful Company of Carmen Benevolent Trust CIO remains a registered charity (No 1164687). The accumulated funds of the Trust are around £2 million, the financial returns on which are essential to supplement the income from Carmen themselves. The Trust is controlled by seven trustees – all of them Liverymen. The Benevolent Trust is joined in 2017 by the Carmen St Dunstan Heritage Trust, which owns and will restore, equip and operate the Carmen’s new philanthropic home in the Old School, off Fleet Street. The Trust is controlled by five trustees, all of whom are Liverymen of the Company. Charity Lunch 2020 Venue: Carpenters Hall	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10079
__label__wiki	0.562917	0.562917	THE THICK THE FAME Possible Conversations The Thick Questionnaire STEPHANIE HOUSLEY On The Wall / 016 “I never wanted a business. In 2007, I went to buy the board game MEMORY for my friends as a baby gift, but the graphics were so horrible that I decided to make my own hand embroidered version. When I realized I was never going to finish it by hand, I bought a very expensive embroidery machine. To pay it off, I started making onesies and pillows to sell at the BROOKLYN FLEA. That’s what started Coral & Tusk, which now makes embroidered products of all sorts: pillows, artwork, dolls, and other home accessories. We moved into this office in October 2012. This is my inspiration wall. It changes depending on the projects we’re working on, or the season. I really like the mixture of patterns and hues, and how the different images and items live together. Currently, there’s a lot of western-themed stuff, but colors are always my biggest source of inspiration.” “The alpaca is our mascot. I got him when I was visiting my mom in Ohio, at a store where they only sell alpaca goods. He doesn’t have a name because I like to keep things open.” “The mask was inspired by the Costa Concordia crash that happened off the coast of Italy [in 2012]. The design is meant to recall a shipwreck, and it’s embroidered with coral and different sea life. I’m not sure why, but I was super obsessed with the incident.” “The stuffed couple was a gift from the owner of Makié, a high-end children’s shop on Thompson Street [in New York City]. My husband, Chris, has blond hair, and when she gave them to me, she pointed her tiny finger at the man’s privates and said, ‘This is Chris.’ I nearly died.” “The woven baskets are full of feathers — a mixture of hawks, owls, and others — that were gifts from my mom. She collected most of them in the backwoods of Ohio, where I grew up. “One of our employees made this doll version of my dog, a Cane Corso Mastiff rescue named Paco. He’s in a fox costume and has others: a fur seal, a lumberjack, a ballerina, all kinds.” “The three pouches are from Istanbul, Turkey. They’re antique Anatolian coin purses.” “We’re working on a new product called a MEMORY MAP, which is a map of the United States we’ll sell with a set of felt charms that one can pin to remember special places, like your birthplace or favorite vacation spot.” “I took the photo of the old cabin [at top] while traveling out West this past spring. That trip inspired a series of three pocket pillows in our Fall 2015 collection. The designs feature animals that make things and the spaces they dwell in, like the Apothecary Bear [at bottom] who lives in a walled tent full of the healing concoctions he creates.” “This is the embroidery machine that started it all. Nowadays, I use it to prototype products here before sending them to our team in India for production.” Photography byBramble Trionfo As told toMichelle Rizzi Stephanie Housley is the New York City-based founder of Coral & Tusk. Did you see? Designer Waris Ahluwalia shares critters from his personal menagerie, milliner Gigi Burris remembers the first hat she ever bought. × PREV NEXT	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10087
__label__wiki	0.910005	0.910005	<< \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| >> Total: 1660 U.S. investigates Ukrainian, Italian, Korean firms for steel dumping KYIV, Oct 27 - The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of carbon and alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from Italy, Korea, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Ukraine’s wage arrears up 37.8% on year to UAH 2.47-bln as of Oct 1 KYIV, Oct 27 - The total amount of wage arrears in Ukraine in September 2017 increased by 5.6%, since the beginning of the year rose by 37.8% and as of October 1, 2017 stood at UAH 2.47 billion, the State Statistics Service has said. Kyivenergo sees UAH 1.2-mln/day losses from heat supply to Kyiv institutions KYIV, Oct 30 – Kyivenergo, a producer of power and heat the Ukrainian capital, sees losses of around UAH 1.2 million a day from supply of heat and hot water to budget-sustained institutions, the company said. Poroshenko signs bills on investment protection with Croatia, Latvia, Turkey KYIV, Oct 30 – President Petro Poroshenko signed into laws bills on ratification of Ukraine's intergovernmental agreements with Croatia, Latvia and Turkey on cooperation in investment protection, international transportation and right to work for family members of employees of diplomatic missions. Roshen's Vinnytsia dairy plant begins shipping products to EU KIEV, Oct. 27 - Vinnytsia dairy plant Roshen, part of Roshen Corporation, in September sent the first batches of its products to the European Union. Ukraine fines Russian airlines $28.25 million for flying to Crimea KIEV, Oct. 28 – Ukraine has issued UAH 721.236 million (about $28.25 million) in fines for Russian airlines flights to the annexed Crimea in violation of Ukrainian and international laws, Ukraine's State Aviation Service told Interfax-Ukraine. French Engie signs transmission and storage agreement with UkrTransGaz KIEV, Oct. 28 - UkrTransGaz, the state gas shipper, and France's Engie on Friday signed an agreement on gas transmission and storage, making it the first European energy player to enter Ukraine's wholesale gas market. Tokmak Solar Power launches first plant in Zaporizhia region KIEV, Oct. 29 - Tokmak Solar Energy LLC launched the first phase of a solar power plant in Tokmak district of Zaporizhia region with a capacity of 1.5 MW, the press service of Zaporizhia Regional Administration has reported. Ukraine begins heating season with enough natgas stored KIEV, Oct. 29 - Ukraine began the 2012/2013 heating season with natural gas reserves in underground gas storage facilities of about 21 billion cubic meters (bcm), Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Boyko said. Ukraine’s joining of European energy pact is an obstacle, Russia says KIEV, Oct. 29 – Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said Ukraine's joining the European Energy Community is an obstacle to the creation of an international gas consortium for the management of Ukraine's gas transport system with involvement of Gazprom. Archive of Business Naftogaz pays UAH 120-bln in taxes in 2019, Kobolev says	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10092
__label__wiki	0.750823	0.750823	Winter 2000 Back Issue by VERBATIM Editor \| Articles, Back Articles \| Where Did He Put The Pen of My Aunt? Navajo Revealed David C. Cates Maplewood, New Jersey Intricate miracles underlie even ordinary events like sunshine, eyesight, and air. Yet their ordinariness seems to stifle the kindling of wonder. This may be the point of a Zennish riddle that lit my screen from an anonymous comic djinn of cyberspace: ìLife has its costs and burdens, but it does include free rides around the sun.î Unlike tornados and eclipses, common marvels just arenít salient enough to penetrate the stress of dailiness. And high among these simple wonders is language: not the elitist niceties academies fuss over, but speech as it arises from the unruly urgencies of life, double negatives and all. The nature of language is most strikingly revealed when we open ourselves to one culturally remote from our own, the more so the better. As we learn its forms and idioms, we enter a living museum of vanished millennia, forgetting our first impression: impassive gutturals of wary people whose clothing is often fastened with safety pins. For such enlightenment to occur, we can ease the initial difficulty by selecting a language thatís accessible, culturally intact, thoroughly described and widely taught. There is no doubt that Navajo, at least for Americans, is that language. Its remoteness credentials, moreover, are impressive. Navajo is one of the Athabascan family of Amerindian languages, a newcomer whose diaspora stretches 7,000 years and 4,000 miles from its sub-Arctic beachhead to northern Mexico. And the dialects of Apache, close cousins to Navajo, let us watch linguistic drift across a mere 500 years of separation. Finally, the entirety of ìApacheanî grammar and nearly all its lexicon evolved before the 1500s.1 Accessibility. Among remote languages, Navajo is logistically convenient. First, itís a lot cheaper to fly to Phoenix and rent a car than to trek to Port Moresby and scare up a bush pilot with guide. Second, Navajo people are known for sprightly wit, practical jokes, and pantomime,2 as well as a frequent willingness to converse, explain, guide, and instruct. Third, there is an abundance of language courses, my favorite title being ìNavajo Made Easier.î Finally, locating Navajo within Athabascan historyóApache short-term, subarctic cousins long-termónot only deepens our understanding of word origins but recalls the tracing of Indo-European back to its own knowable roots.3 Intactness. Never quite controlled by the Spanish, Navajos were raiders (and raidees) of Utes, Apaches, Hopis, and Mexicans until their defeat in 1863 by troops under the command of Colonel Kit Carson, followed by a 300-mile winter march to southern New Mexico. This traumatic exile came to an end with the 1868 visit of General William T. Sherman. Sent to persuade the Navajos to settle in Oklahoma Territory with the Cherokee and other displaced tribes, he finally let them (now reduced to about 8,000) return to their Land of Emergence, where each family would receive tools, food, and schooling. Navajo population and tribal wealth have risen since, despite the toll of alcohol and drugs. Scholarship. It was only in the 1930s that a complete description of Navajo was undertaken, directed by the anthropological linguist Edward Sapir. That precedent-setting workówhich ranks with the periodic table of Mendeleevówas partially codified in a series of articles (1945ñ49) entitled ìThe Apachean Verb,î published in the International Journal of American Linguistics (ìAmericanî here means the first ones). No other preliterate culture has been the subject of such academic firepower! A typical Navajo household of the 1930s was said to consist of a grandmother, her four daughters, three husbands (less the one who couldnít abide mother-in-law tyranny), eight children, fifteen sheep, four goats, and 0.3 anthropologists. I like to think that Sapir is to Navajo as Chapman was to Homer. Then where was our Keats, our ìwatcher of the skiesî invoking ìnew plane,î ìwild surmise,î and Navajo as elegant human construct? But Romantic ardor is quickly cooled by sentences like this: ìWith stems whose perfective variant is reduced and ends in an originally glottalized obstruent, the momentaneous imperfective-optative stem should be low-toned in Navajo.î To be sure, instruction in Navajo thrives in the Southwest, but is altogether utilitarian, directed to health care workers (ìWhere does it hurt?î), administrators (ìThis permit has expired!î), storekeepers (ìYouíve exceeded your credit limit!î), local school teachers and even missionaries (whose zeal must surely be tempered once they grasp the profound incompatibility of Christian and Navajo belief). The phrase ìWhere did he put the pen of my aunt?î, based on that famous French classroom query, seems absurdly culture-bound. Yet the parsing of this simple question lets us dive through the looking-glass into seven distinct Navajo wonderlands: Looking-glass Wonderland ìwhereî A vast and precise lexicon for location/direction ì?î Forming a question ìdidî The treatment of tense and ìheî The curious simplicity of Navajo pronouns ìputî Verbs for the handling of different kinds of things ìpenî The naming of non-native ìauntî Kinship terminology 1. Location/direction. The eminent anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn learned Navajo as a teenager when sent by his Michigan family to Ramah, New Mexico, for the relief of asthma. As a teacher, he liked to say that the language was shaped across thousands of years by small groups living close to starvation in trackless land. It was important to be accurate about landmarks, direction, and the ways of coming and going. Compared to English, Navajo is an organized riot of detail on the characteristics of space and its traversing. 2. Questioning. Navajo is a tone language. Thus an end-of-sentence interrogatory high tone, as in ìDid you go?î wonít work, since each Navajo syllable already has an unalterable pitch. Nor will inversion work (ìdid you?î vs. ìyou didî), because in Navajo these elements are prefixes already tightly ordered into the verb construction. Instead, questions are formed with an interrogative suffix, orómore politelyówith an uncertainty suffix, as in ìPerhaps you forgot to hobble the horses?î 3. Tense and aspect. The verb has a chassis similar to the Latin verb, in that a final stem is modified by prefixes! But a Navajo verb under full sail (with prefix spinnakers and mizzen suffixes) also does the work of English pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions. Different modes of action, such as ìcompleted,î ìongoing,î ìrepetitive,î and ìhortatory,î are signalled by phonetic variations of the stem. As for tense (the signalling of ìpast,î ìpresentî or ìfutureî), this may be implied simply by oneís choice of completed or ongoing mode. Yet certain prefixes and suffixes can override these implications. Thus completed action may be placed in the future, and ongoing action in the past. ìA Vocabulary of Colloquial Navajo,î by Young and Morgan (1951), contains one for Dilbert-lovers: ìto serve/file/send a paperî is ìto toss [a round object] up.î The round-object stem here refers to the contents, not to the paper itself, which would require a ìhide-like objectî stem. The dictionary has no entry for our word ìlove,î because its semantic range is too messy. Navajos distinguish between ìLove your hat!î ìLove you, baby!î and a unique awareness in which beauty, peace, harmony, and blessing combine to make a single word. To illustrate, the best way to say ìI love youî is ìthrough youówith meóthere is beauty, peace, harmony, and blessing.î 4. Simplicity of pronouns. The historical remoteness of Navajo guarantees that we will encounter provocative strangeness of concept and linguistic form. Just as amazing, however, is the presence of very familiar elements. Coming to us from high atop the postñglacial stone age, in other words, are nouns, pronouns, direct and indirect objects, active and passive voice, and clearly articulated modes of action and tenses, along with other tried and true structure elements. Itís as though language evolves to frame a universal set of questions, including ìWho, what, where, when, how, and why?î, that discipline of journalism. Why shouldnít a parallel invention of the framing devices also occur? The Navajo pronoun system is more truncated than Englishís, in two ways. First, third person singular is a monosyllable standing for ìhe,î ìshe,î or ìit,î depending on context. But there is a third person honorific for, say, oneís grandfather, Coyote, Bear, and always in the verb standing for Sun (ërespected round object risingí). Second, the pronoun for ìweî and plural ìyouî is one and the same. Context can sort out the difference, but the clues can be hard for a novice to find. Did the politics of matriarchy lead to the genderless pronoun? I have another theory. With its multiple prefixes (many pronoun-possessed), the Navajo verb system is already stretched to capacity. If it is to be learned by children, low-wattage adults, and even missionaries, complexity has to be rationed. This seems to explain both simplifications. 5. Object-specific verbs. Some of our ìhandlingî verbs are specific to whatís handled (try saying, ìPour me the newspaperî), but verbs like ìputî can be applied to almost any object. Navajo speakers, by contrast, must use ancient stems, each appropriate to a general class of things, whether a round object, a flexible, rope-like thing, scattered objects, loose granular matter, liquid in a container, etc. If you use the wrong stem (say, ìround objectî for ìarrowî), Navajos will snicker helplessly. The stem for ìpenî? ìArrow-like thing.î 6. Naming artifacts. The proud and skeptical Navajo spirit has led speakers to invent their own words for things of American make. ìWagon,î for example, is rendered by a construction whose semantic elements are: ìwoodóhere-and-thereórolls.î ìTelephoneî is rendered as ìmetalótalks.î The construction for ìpenî is a verb, whose literal translation is: ìby-means-of-itóon-its-surfaceóthereís scratching.î The terminology for auto parts is based on old pan-Athabascan nouns. The carófirst chugging into Navajo country around 1910ówas seen as a horse, albeit mechanical. Thus its elements are named after body parts: eyes, heart, liver, knees, legs, feet, stomach, fat, and so forth. And the idiom for ìdriveî [a car] is identical to that for ìrideî [a horse], as in: ìto townówith meóit will gallop.î Is it surprising that Navajos are avid mechanics? The Big Four material contributions of Europeansófirearms, horses, metal, and liquorómake a fascinating chapter in Navajo etymology. For guns there was no cultural precedent, so the name is a verb for ìexplosion.î (Other tribes reportedly said ìthunder stickî or ìkills at a distance.î) The horse was given an ancient name for ìpet.î In the origin story, Sun had three water monsters as pets or familiars. And Changing Woman gave a pet to each ìearth-surfaceî family. The noun stems for these are the same as for horse. Metal is named after ìstone knife,î another pan-Athabascan noun stem. The old word was first attached to ìmetal knife,î then (by extension) to any metal object. ìStove,î for example, is rendered by a construction meaning ìmetalóin itófire.î The May 1997 cover of the magazine Wired carries a Navajo phrase which I translate as ìmetal flexibly extendingî (i.e., telecommunication). The ñhoñ prefix, of course, is present (see below). Before the advent of liquor, Navajos made a drink from fermented corn, called ìgrey water.î This was abandoned (after all, liquor is quicker), and the new drink was named ìdark water.î But in Navajo there are two concepts of ìdarkî: earth darkness and that of the four lower worlds. Probably owing to its social toxicity, liquor is named after the latter. Before we call this naming behavior quaint, think back to how 17th-century Europeans improvised an entire terminology for finance and manufacturing. Talk about strange! 7. Kinship terminology. Navajo children grow up in a matriarchy, cared for by their mother and her female relatives. As a result, the term for ìauntî is different for fatherís sister. See how the ìpen of my auntî shows us much about Navajo life and language! Iíll close by describing an entrancing Navajo language phenomenon: a prefix that profoundly changes the meaning of verb constructions in a way that Immanuel Kant might relish. Navajo prefixes occupy a fixed position relative to one another, like planetary orbits (Sapir identified thirteen, some mutually exclusive). Consider this simple stem-and-prefix construction: ìI toss a round object [say, a ball] through a narrow opening [say, a door].î The stem, recall, is one of a class that specifies the general nature of objects handled. The prefix has an equally generic meaning that might reference a doorway, corral gate, or rock cleft (from which water flows). Words specifying ìballî and ìdoorî are not strictly necessary, because these are implied by verb-embedded clues, and by other context. Now insert the ubiquitous prefix (-ho-) as a semantic catalyst, and the meaning is profoundly altered. The speaker is now saying, ìIím telling a story.î The semantic contribution of the prefix is to signal a ìmind-body eventî! With the prefix, the round-object stem denotes stories, songs, ceremonies and even contracts, perhaps because these have a beginning, middle, and end (hence their ìroundnessî). Another stem, that for a flexible, rope-like object, can take onówith the prefixóthe meaning of ìlonging.î The same prefix has two other very different meanings, depending on the context. A pan-Athabascan verb stem describes the slow linear movement of ceremonial dancers. Prefixed by ñhoñ , the construction now denotes the passage of time! A similar metaphor is based on a stem whose primary meaning is ìhorizontal extension,î say, of a rock ledge. With the prefix, we have ìtime extends.î Powerful imagery, so different from ours. Yet not entirely, as in ìTime, like an ever-rolling streamî and ìTimeís winged chariot.î The third meaning of the prefix speaks to the general character of space. A certain white-appearing valley near Chinle, Arizona is described by a verb stem denoting ìwhiteness,î plus the prefix. Thus the meaning is lifted from a particular whiteness to spatial whiteness. Is this stunning linguistic invention, or what? Then stir in this thought: acquaintance with the epistomology of Kant suggests, at least to me, a parallel between the three semantic realms opened by the ñhoñ switch and the three dimensions which humans, according to Kant, bring to the processing of perception, namely, mind, time, and space. What an absurd connection to propose! How could a few thousand sub-Arctic scrabblers, lacking an Academy or even an ad hoc committee of grammarians, plan a language whose key semantic elementsóthe stems and prefixes of verbsóare so generic that ìactionable meaningî results only from the semantic intersection of these elements, denotationally weak in themselves? Then, from this already lofty scaffolding of abstractions, what led the committee to devise a further prefix serving as a gateway to yet another level of abstraction? Creativity seems indicated. Far from being a clumsy creole of disparate grammatic devices, Navajo is elegant to the point of beauty precisely because of its radical design decisions. Thomas Mann, in Magic Mountain, speaks of the collective and anonymous creative style of medieval times. Certainly ìcollective and anonymousî must also govern the evolution of language, but the creative source of its formal elegance remains elusive. Itís worth studying the shape, idiom, and history of at least one remote language within a conceptual frame that nurtures our wonder at human inventiveness. And this ìnew philologyî should be written to provoke a wider audience than professional linguists choose to address. The cryptic messages embedded in these perishable time capsules make too exciting a chapter in our shared human history to leave to specialists. 1 Apache and Navajo language guides are available from Audio-Forum, 96 Broad St., Guilford, CT 06437. Sources I used to refresh my understanding of Navajo (acquired by immersion, 1953) include The Navajo Language (Young and Morgan, University of New Mexico Press, 1987), An Ethnologic Dictionary (1910), and A Stem Vocabulary (1951), both by the Franciscan Fathers, St. Michaelís, AZ. 2 A fine collection of ridiculous situations, practical jokes, bawdy humor, and punning is to be found in Navaho Humor, by W. W. Hill, George Banta Publishing Co., Menasha, WI, 1943 (out of print). But try the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (c. 1937). 3 Young and Morgan contains an appendix on comparative Athabascan, revealing an extensive shared vocabulary of noun and verb stems. [David Cates was a long-ago grad student in linguistics and anthropology at University of Chicago, but keeps in touch with Navajos, though less fluently now. Other interests are chamber music and video-making.] SIC! SIC! SIC! Notice on Moorgate Underground station, London: Notice to passengers: this exit is an entrance. [Submitted by Tony Hall, Aylesbury, UK] British Football Chants Pete May Only in Britain would Manchester Unitedís David Beckham have to suffer several thousand football fans chanting ìPosh Spice takes it up the arse!î sung to the tune of the Pet Shop Boysí Go West. Since he married Spice Girl Victoria Adams, poor Beckham has been the butt of much obscene chanting. It started off two years ago when West Ham fans chanted ìPosh Spice is a dirty slag [prostitute]!î at Beckham and he responded with aggressive gestures. This was a mistake. Even if the chants do come from fat blokes with a hang-up about anal sex, most of them can be mollified by a humorous response; the worst thing a footballer can do is show anger, because he will then be baited even more. Beckham has suffered so much from fans envious of his millionaire status, celebrity marriage and good looks, that the Professional Footballersí Association chairman Gordon Taylor recently called for fans to lay off Beckham. Posh Spice herself has shown more of a sense of humour, and has even said in an interview that ìI want to say them ëactually I donít!íî The first thing that will strike a newcomer at a British football match (itís called soccer in the U.S. but, although the word is recognised in Britain, it is rarely used) is the number of taboo words used in chants, such as wanker (an English term for a masturbator), arse, shit, fucking and cunt. The record for swearing is probably held by the Arsenal fansí dirty ditty (sung to the tune of the 1960s hit My Old Man) of ìMy old man said be a Tottenham fan, I said fuck off, bollocks youíre a cunt!î Although many clubs had songs from pre-war times, chants really developed in the mid-1960s. It was a time when British society was much more restrained by notions of class and ìthe stiff upper lipî, and for many fans chants were a glorious release from dull jobs and social convention. At first they were just impromptu terrace choirs singing pop songs such as Youíll Never Work Alone, as at Liverpool. But slowly they developed into adaptations of tunes that quickly spread across the whole country. Weekly football matches presented a splendid opportunity for mainly working class males to revel in obscenity, merged with a juvenile delight in using such words in the company of several thousand other fans. They emphasise tribalism, but there is more to chanting than that. For most fans there has always been something pleasingly childish and very funny about 30,000 fans simultaneously chanting ìThe refereeís a wanker!î particularly when itís picked up on TV recordings. Thereís also something of the adult nursery rhyme about footie chants. I first noticed while looking after my one-year-old daughter how much she enjoyed football chants adapted to childcare needs: for example nappy changing was accompanied by chants of ìOn with the nappy, weíre going on with the nappyî a variation on the ìSing when youíre winning, you only sing when youíre winning!î chant. In a similar fashion to how a toddler spots an animal, there was an incident at Liverpool in the 1960s when a cat ran on the pitch. The fans would normally chant ìAttack! Attack! Attack! Attack! Attack!î at their team, but when the feline appeared they instantly chanted ìA cat! a cat! a cat! a cat! a cat!î. Another chant that would be recognisable in a nursery school is that of ìEe-aw! Ee-aw!î directed at any player deemed to be a ìdonkeyîóa clumsy, untalented performer. And, as in nursery rhymes, thereís a strong sense of rhythm, as exemplified by Manchester Unitedís fans staccato homage to Eric Cantona. ìOooh aah Cantona! I said oooh aah Cantona!î Some of the repetition is also reminiscent of childrenís songsóa popular chant of the 1980s was sung to the tune of Dambusters Theme and directed at the successful but reviled Leeds United. It went: ìLeeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, we all fucking hate Leeds!î (Not too difficult to learn the words to that one.) And the chant of ìBig nose, heís got a fucking big nose!î aimed by rival fans at Southamptonís Matt Le Tissier is an example of pure playground humour. The British football chant is also closely aligned to pop cultureó although the odd chant is sung to the tune of something more traditional, such as the anti-referee tirade of ìWhoís the wanker in the black?î which is sung to the tune of the hymn Bread of Heaven. In fact, chants are a living memorial to some now-forgotten bands. Who would remember ìone-hit wondersî Chicory Tip were it not for the immortalisation of their 1970s hit, Son of My Father, as a football chant? It started off as a declaration in favour of a particular player, such as Leicester City fansí ìOh Frankie Frankie Frankie, Frankie Frankie Frankie Worthington!î This was immediately modified by opposition fans to ìOh wanky wanky wanky, wanky wanky wanky Worthington!î Nearly thirty years later the tune is still used. When Teddy Sheringham moved from Tottenham to Manchester United in pursuit of trophies but suffered a barren first season, Arsenal fans taunted him with chants of ìOh Teddy Teddy Teddy, went to Man United and you won fuck all!î When United won the Treble (English League Championship, FA Cup and European Cup) last season this chant no longer applied, but rival fans quickly adapted it to ìOh Teddy Teddy Teddy! Went to Man United and youíre still a cunt!î Another relatively unknown band, Middle of the Road, have also gained footballing longevity through their song Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. Its chorus of ìWhereís your mamma gone?î was often changed to ìWhereís your fatboy gone?î and directed at the clubs of Paul Gascoigne, a former England midfielder with a well-chronicled weight problem. While the initial chant can be simply prosaic, insulting or abusive, many develop to become fine examples of a genuinely adaptive wit. For example, players are often greeted by the cry of ìOne Denis Bergkamp, thereís only one Denis Bergkamp!(insert playerís name of choice)î sung to the tune of the Spanish song Guantanamera. When England played in the 1986 World Cup with two defenders named Gary Stevens in the squad, this was cleverly adapted by England fans to ìTwo Gary Stevens! Thereís only two Gary Stevens!î Even better was the version from Kilmarnock fans in Scotland. They sang ìTwo Andy Gorams, thereís only two Andy Gorams!î at the Rangers goalkeeper, who before the match was said to be ìmentally unattunedî. When a fat player is spotted he is taunted with ìOne Teletubby, thereís only one Teletubby!î a reference to the podgy characters in the pre-school childrenís programme. In turn, the song became ìSing when youíre winning, you only sing when youíre winning!î directed at the opposing fans who sing when they take the lead. When sides played Grimsby, a side from a port, their fans chanted ìSing when youíre fishing, you only sing when youíre fishing!î The Grimsby fans liked this so much that they began themselves to sing ìSing when weíre fishing, we only sing when weíre fishing!î and a group of supporters even entitled their fanzine Sing When Weíre Fishing. Another version was ìScore in a brothel, you couldnít score in a brothel!î used when a player misses with his shot. A variation on the numbers theme came at the beginning of the current season when West Ham had just signed the Costa Rican striker Paulo Wanchope, pronounced ìone-chopî. The opposition Spurs fans responded with the chant of ìYouíve only got Wanchope!î this time to the tune of Blue Moon. Sometimes a chant is tailored exactly to the play. One of the silliest is ìWoooooooh! Youíre shit! Aaargh!î This occurs when a goalkeeper takes a goal kick. A group of fans will give an extended ìWhoooooahî during his extended run-up, followed by a staccato ìYouíre shit! aaaargh!î as he kicks the ball. Chants reflect the social climate of England. In the 1970s and 1980s, when there was a big problem with football hooliganism, there were aggressive chants such as ìYouíre gonna get your fucking heads bashed in!î In the 1970s, skinhead fans indulged in ìaggroî, short for aggravation. ìAggroî was enshrined in a song sung to the opening section of Gary Glitterís Hello Hello Iím Back Again!. This chant went: ìHello, hello, West Ham aggro, West Ham aggro, hello hello . . . î and would accompany the first sign of trouble in any part of the ground. Another chant from that time is ìCome and have a go if you think youíre hard enough!î which has gained retro-chic and is now the title of the letters page in the British ladsí mag Loaded. But in the 1990s, all-seater stadia, higher prices and Sky TV coverage have meant the game has become largely free of trouble, and it is now an increasingly middle-class and trendy sport. In the 1980s only real fans would admit to following football, but today celebrities and intellectuals have all been desperate to declare their love of the game. In this climate chants have centred less on violence and more on humour, encouraging your side and denigrating the opposition. Where once there was outright hostility there now tends to be irony. These days a bad piece of play from the opposition causes taunts of ìYouíre not very good, youíre not very good!î to the tune of the old London song Knees Up Mother Brown. One of the most popular chants of the past decade has been the Arsenal fansí adaptation of the chorus of The Pet Shop Boysí Go West. This started off as simply ìOne-nil to the Arsenal!î a song that celebrated Arsenalís frequent victories by this very score. This was rapidly adapted by other fans to ìYouíre shit, and you know you are!î Numerous other versions followed, including ìOne-nil to the referee!î when a ref was thought to be biased and the already described Beckham/ Posh Spice insults. When Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore was exposed in the British tabloids as having beaten up his girlfriend (the TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson) in a Paris bar, fans ridiculed him in their usual merciless fashion. At first there were chants, again to the tune of Go West, of ìYouíre shit and you slap your bird [girlfriend]!î Even worse, when Collymore checked into a clinic and stated he was suffering from depression, he was mocked with chants of ìYouíre mad and you know you are!î When the comedians Baddiel and Skinner recorded the excellent pro-England song Three Lions for the 1996 European Championships, its chorus of ìItís coming home, itís coming home, itís coming, footballís coming homeî, became another fansí classic. Although it was soon made cruder and used in chants such as ìYouíre full of shit, youíre full of shit, youíre full of, Tottenhamís full of shit!î When star striker Alan Shearer left Blackburn for his native Newcastle, the clubís fans were taunted with ìHeís fucked off home, heís fucked off home, heís fucked off, Shearerís fucked off home!î With similar crudity, Chelseaís adaptation of The Red Flag to ìWeíll keep the blue flag flying hereî, was altered by the clubís rivals to ìStick your blue flag up your arse!î Black humour is a particular English strong point. After all, very few clubs actually stand a chance of winning anything, as there are only three major trophies, so the stoic acceptance of adversity has long been a source for songs. A goal drought can cause chants of ìWill we ever score again?î (to the tune of Bread of Heaven). Even Vera Lynnís Weíll Meet Again was adapted by long-suffering West Ham fans to ìWeíll score again, donít know where, donít know when, but I know weíll score again one sunny day!î Fans are becoming ever more surreal. When Manchester City were struggling in division one, the clubís fans started singing, to the tune of Knees Up Mother Brown, ìWeíre not really here! Weíre not really here! Weíre not really, weíre not really here!îósurely a classic of its type. In short, the British football chant is adaptable to just about any event that might happen on or off the pitch. Chants are subject to a kind of natural selection, which is why the best have survived for decades. They are frequently crude, childish and decidedly non-PCóbut theyíre also the reason many of us find live football such an enticing experience. And if youíre still mystified by this Brit disease, then there is a football chant that can be utilised. It expresses intellectual scepticism and goes: ìYou what, you what, you what, you what, you what?î [Pete May is a freelance journalist based in London. He is the author of Sunday Muddy Sunday (Virgin), a study of Sunday league football teams and co-author of The Lad Done Bad (Penguin), a humorous look at sex, sleaze and scandal in English football.] Instructions on pot of face cream: Rub in the cream until it visibly disappears. [Submitted by Tony Hall, Aylesbury, UK] INTER ALIA The First Annual Willard R. Espy Light Verse Competition To commemorate a modern master of Light Verse, LIGHT: The Quarterly of Light Verse is establishing, beginning in the year 2000, the first Willard R. Espy Light Verse Competition. This shall be in any of the traditional light verse forms (epigram, ballade, villanelle, limerick, clerihew, river rhyme, double dactyl, etc.) but may include any verse that contains rhyme and meter. The length limit shall be forty lines, and the deadline July 1st of each year, beginning in 2000. The winners shall be published in the Spring issue of the following year. There may be only one entry per contestant. First prize will be $150, Second Prize $100, and Third Prize $50. Two Honorable Mentions will receive Willard Espyís The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play (Merriam-Webster). All entries must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. There will be no reading fee. No further guidelines are available; do not phone, e-mail, or fax. Send entries to LIGHT QUARTERLY, PO Box 7500, Chicago, IL 60680. Excerpts from the Baylor College Linguistics M. Lynne Murphy 1. the word for ìcheeseî in Estonian 2. the longest word in English that uses no letter more than once 3. the name, nationality, and profession of the inventor of the Volap¸k language 4. a nine-letter English word that has only one syllable 5. the sound that a dog makes in Swedish 6. a language that has only three vowel sounds 7. the regional word for ìdrinking fountainî thatís used in Wisconsin 8. four different sounds that the letter ìsî can symbolize in English spelling (examples) 9. the language that Jesus spoke 10. the American equivalent of the British word ìex-directoryî 11. five words that are legal plays in Scrabble and that have only two letters, one of which is ìxî 12. a language that doesnít have the sound /t/ 13. a language whose standard word order is Verb-Subject-Object 14. the motto of the Klingon Language Institute 15. a language-related holiday and the country that celebrates it 16. a word thatís included in the Oxford English Dictionary that means ìa person whose hair has never been cutî 17. identity of the person who said ìEngland and America are two countries divided by a common languageî 18. five-letter English word thatís pronounced the same when you delete four of its letters 19. name of the straight line that is used over vowels to signal that they are so-called ìlong vowelsî (e.g., in dictionary pronunciation guides) 20. what ìapplesî means in Cockney rhyming slang [Answers to be found on page 14.] From Josephusís Jewish War to the American Civil War: Charles Francis Adams, Jr.ís ìDead Sea Appleî Michele Valerie Ronnick The only example of the phrase ìdead sea apple(s)î used during the past 150 years is dated to 1869 by the Oxford English Dictionary. The entry states: Hence forming part of the name of a large number of fruits; as apple Punic, obs. name of the pomegranate; apple of Sodom, or dead Sea Fruit, described by Josephus of fair appearance externally, but dissolving, when grasped into smoke and ashes; a travellerís taleí supposed by some to refer to the fruit of Solanum Sodomeum (allied to the tomato) by others to the Calotropis procera; fig. Any hollow disappointing specious thing.î The OED editors then quote from The English Mechanic and World of Science, published from 1865 to 1923 in London by E. J. Kibblewhite: ì1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 354/1 Mecca galls, Dead Sea Apples, Sodom Apples, or mad apples . . . are occasionally imported from Bussarah.î The connection with Josephus is based upon a passage about the city of Sodom found in his Jewish War. Describing the fruits grown in the now blasted and cursed land, he states that ìone can see cinders reproduced in the fruits, which from their outward appearance seem edible, but after being plucked by hand disintegrate into smoke and ashes.î1 A striking, but heretofore unnoticed, occurrence of the phrase is found in Charles Francis Adams, Jr.ís assessment of his service with the Union forces during the Civil War. Upon his enlistment in 1861 his mood was one of jubilation. Charles Jr. declared in a letter to his father Charles Sr. in 1862: ìI would not have missed it [his first experience under fire] for anything . . . the sensation was glorious, . . . Without affectation it was one of the most enjoyable days I ever passed.î2 By 1864, however, his views had changed. In a letter to Henry Adams dated July 22, he wrote: ìMy present ambition is to see the war over . . . I am tired of the Carnival of Death.î3 In 1916, the year his Autobiography was published, he closed the chapter entitled, ìWar and Army Life,î with this summation: ìAs it was in June, I think, I was quietly mustered out of the service, and became once more a civilian. A great experience was over, and its close was for me a Dead Sea apple. But I intended it well!î4 How the term came into Adamsí vocabulary is not clear. In his undergraduate years at Harvard he had in his own estimation ìrather a fancy for Greekî. . . and . . . ìcame within an ace of being a fair Greek scholar.î5 He might well have read Josephusí original text in Greek, however the noun Josephus used meant fruit in general, not apple specifically. But regardless of Adamsí source, his words and their reference to the Old Testament city of Sodom provide us with a vivid summation of his feelings about the Civil Waróone that would be instantly understood by his fellow Americans, north and south alike. For that was an era whose aesthetic was deeply influenced by the Bible. His is also the first example of the phrase in American letters. 1 For the Greek text, see Josephus, Jewish War, ed. and trans. by H. St. J. Thackeray (Cambridge, MA, 1979), 142ñ144. 2 Edward Chase Kirkland, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 1835ñ1915, The Patrician at Bay (Cambridge, MA, 1965), 30. 3 Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861ñ1865, vol. 2 (Boston, 1920), 167. 4 Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Autobiography, (Boston, 1916) 167. 5 Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (note 4 above) 26. [Michele Ronnick is an associate professor in the Department of Classics, Greek, and Latin.] Linguistics Scavenger Hunt Answers 1. juust 2. uncopyrightable 3. Johann Martin Schleyer, German priest 4. strengths or screeched 5. vov vov 6. There are a few of these: Gudanji, Aranda, Greenlandic, Amuesha, etc. 7. bubbler 8. Voiceless alveolar fricative (in sit), voiced alveolar fricative (in busy), voiceless palatal fricative (in sure), voiced palatal fricative (in pleasure) 9. Aramaic 10. unlisted (phone number) 11. ax, ex, xi, ox, xu 12. Hawaiian 13. There are a number of these: Welsh, Tongan, Squamish, Tagalog, Maori, etc. 14. ìLanguage opens worlds.î See www.kli.org for the Klingon version. 15. Hangul dayóKorea (celebrates the Hangul writing system) 16. acersecomic 17. George Bernard Shaw (other people who have said it were quoting Shaw!) 18. queue 19. macron 20. from ìapples & pearsîómeans ìstairsî In the Autumn 1999 issue there were (at least) two errors. First, we left contributor Howard Richlerís name off his review of the new Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary. Mr. Richler writes from Montreal, Canada. Also, we misidentified the makers of Crayola brand crayons. They are, and have always been, Binney and Smith, rather than ìBinnie and Smith.î Our apologies for these oversights and errors. To What End Gender Endings? Susan Elkin Sittingbourne, Kent Was John Knox merely respecting a 16th-century lexicographical nicety when he referred to Mary Queen of Scots as ëa Cruell persecutrix of goddis peopleí? Or was he having a dig at her for being not only a monarch he resented for her Catholicism and unsympathetic ways, but also for having the effrontery to be female? There used, in the middle ages, to be a whole raft of these neat feminine nouns with a -trix, or sometimes -trice, ending. They came from Latin agent nouns ending in -or. Thus, in the unlikely event of an adjudicator being a woman, she was carefully called an adjudicatrix. And commanders, or imperators were chaps, of course. But if, by any faint chance, one wasnít, she had to be an imperatrix. Chaucer wasnít having any nonsense about fortune being anything but female either. ëBut, O Fortune, executrices of weirdesí, he wrote in Troilus and Criseyde (1374). Then there was bellatrixóit was interchangeable with bellatriceófor a war-waging woman on the rampage, like Boudica. An inventrix was a female discoverer like . . . well, can you think of a medieval one? Perhaps thatís why the word was never in common use. And a venatrix was a female hunter, like Diana, Roman goddess of the moon. Sadly, no one seems to have used the rather splendid ultrix, an avenging woman (although I bet there have been plenty of them down the years) since Caxton in the fifteenth century. Later words such as administrix, consolatrix, mediatrix and testatrix evolved. And by analogy there were coinages such as inheratrix, narratrix and perpatrix. Some were quite common even in the nineteenth century. ëIn his victrix he,íóCharlotte Bronteís Dr John in Villette (1853)óërequired all that was here visible.í It was meant to be a marriage, not a war, but Charlotte Bronte manages to take a thumping sideswipe at this relationship in that one word, victrix. Anthony Trollope did something similar in Barchester Towers (1857) by naming a chapter Mrs Proudie Victrix. In the power struggle between the bishopís termagant wife and his slimy chaplain, Obadiah Slope, at this stage in the novel Mrs Proudie is winningóto the fury of everyone in male-dominated diocesan politics. When Amy Johnson et al took to the air they could possibly be described now as aviators as if they were men. The word aviatrix had only a short life. So did the word oratrixópresumably because by the time women were no longer expected to be seen and not heard, like their children, orators like Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meyer had to compete on equal terms with men. Itís the same with Hillary Clinton today. Even today I am carefully described in the legalese of my sisterís will as her executrix. Yes, the lawyer seems to be saying, let her execute the will but only because we couldnít persuade the client to appoint a man. And dominatrix has acquire a whole new meaning in the sex-obsessed present. In the 17th century it just meant a bossy woman. The sado-masochistic overtones are new. The commoner feminine ending for -or and some other words is, of course, -ess. Vicaress and rectoress, which just meant wife of a vicar or rector in the 18th century, have disappeared. And saviouress, a use of which was recorded in 1553, along with farmeress, which had a brief innings in 1672, seem never to have progressed beyond the fanciful stage. But there are plenty of very ordinary everyday -ess words. Lioness, duchess and hostess, for example. Yet even some of these are on the slippery slope of political correctness. The mainstream press will still refer to, say, Dame Judi Dench, Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren as ìa fine actress,î but you wonít catch a glimpse of the word in The Stage Newspaper, the weekly trade journal of the British show business industry. Here, in both advertisements and editorial copy, everyone is referred to as an actor. All actors are equalówithout the Orwellian corollary. And have you noticed the job snobbery which hangs murkily around the word manageress? If you wear a pinny and run a teashop or a twee hairdressers, it seems to be OK to be a manageress. But if you wear a dark suit and are in charge of an investment fund in a merchant bank, then youíll be a manager, irrespective of sex. The John Knoxes are still among us, waxing critical. There was something medievally spiteful about the way that a few detractors of British women priests in the early 1990s tried to dub them ìpriestessesîóas if they werenít Christians. It was a classic example of using a gender suffix for negative reasons. Iím glad it didnít catch on. [From her base in southern England, Susan Elkin writes for publications as various as The Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Stage, Music Teacher, In Britain, and Traditional Woodworking. Her books include a biography, two English literature study guides, and eight education reports. Susan has been in love with words and books for as long as she can remember.] DACTYLOLOGIA The televisions and atomic bombs above are from the Church of the Subgenius BOBCO8 font. They are copyright the Church and shareware ($20). More information is at www.subgenius.com/SUBFONTS /subfont.html. From Ragusa to Lombard Street Martin Bennett While the Common European currency has its detractors, the international sharing of words has long been a fact of life. Here, at least, is a type of coinage beyond any governmentís control. Even the Bank of England, that symbol of national sovereignty, can trace part of its name to the lowly bench, or banco, from which the first Italian money-lenders conducted business. It also provides a good starting point for this brief guide to Englishís etymological debt to Italian. To continue the financial theme, take the word cash. Its origin, however distant, is from cassa, the Italian chest where the cash was kept. Perhaps this was in florinsófrom Florentine fiorentini. Or as likely in ducats, a silver coin first minted by Roger II of Sicily, and later by Giovanni Dandolo, Doge of Venice, the latter coin bearing the motto ëSit tibi, Christi, datus quem tu regis iste ductatusí, the last word of which perhaps furthering the currency of its name. A lesser Venetian coin resurfacing in English is the gazeta, one of which could once purchase a gazetta della novia or ëa half-pence worth of newsí. As for quantity, we have the introduction into English of the word million from milione, reminding us how Tuscan or Lombard bankers once financed the wars of English kings. The fact that credit (credito) was not always paid back is shown by the adoption of bankrupt from banco rotto (literally ëbroken benchí, an early bankerís sign of insolvency). (More happily linked with banco is banquet, this deriving from banchettoóa diminutive of banco, originally a trellised table on which the banquet was spread.) Not that the traffic (yes, from the Italian traffico) between England and Italy was purely financial. Venice and Genoa both had mighty fleets whose frigates (fregate), caravels (caravele), barks (barche) and brigantines (briganti,. or pirate ships) all docked in English ports. Then from Ragusa, a port on the Dalmatian coast, comes the words argosy, although the English word has an older form, as in ëRagusyes, hulks and caravels and other rich-laden ships.í (Dr John Dee, ëThe Petty Royal Navyí, 1577.) And so to cargoes and contraband (a telescoping of contra bando, literally ëagainst edict.í) As often happens, the names of imported goods get wrapped up in the port of origin. Examples are Marsala, the wine from there; bergamot, the oil and essence from Bergamo; baloney, a type of sausage from Bologna; travertine, a limestone from Tivoli on the River Tevere, or Tiber. Less obviously bronze (bronzo) has been traced to Brindisi, where bronze mirrors were made. Millinery was first associated with Milan, albeit hats were one item among many: ëThe dealers in various articles were called milliners from their importing Milan goods for sale, such as brooches, spurs and glassesí (Shorter Oxford Dictionary). Another item milliners might once have dealt with was porcelain. Originally this was the name for the Venus shell, or cowry. Its shape and sheen, by a rather obscene twist of the imagination, reminded medieval traders in the East of the vulva of a porcellana, or small sow. So goes one possible etymology. Webster, more delicately, contents himself with, ëThe shell has the shape of a pigís back and a surface like porcelain.í Relating to the early arms trade, cannon is from canone, an augmentative form from canna, a cane or tube. Pistols derive from Pistoia, a town once also called Pistolia, once famous for its daggers, or pistolese, a word later transferred to the firearm. Then we have the musket. Rather tortuously the Elizabethan translator John Florio says this derives from moschetta, this name not of a small fly but a hawk, a footnote adding that the names of firearms were often derived ëfrom dragons, serpents or birds of prey in allusion to their velocity.í For dealers in fakes we have another Italian loan-word, charlatan, from ciarlare, ëto chatter,í an ingredient of his sales pitch. So much for words directly from Italian, albeit most of their endings have been eroded by time in contrast to more recent borrowings (papparazzi; tortellini). For other words, Italian is less a port of origin than an entrepot, or halfway house. So, however far-fetched, tulip winds back via tulipinno to the Turkish tulpend and then the Persian dulband until only the shape remains, not of a flower but a turban. Bergamotónot the essence mentioned above but the type of pear, derives via Italianís bergamotta from Turkish beg armud, literally ëprince of pears.í (Helping explain the etymology, history notes how by 1507 there were agents of 60 or more Florentine firms in Constantinople.) Scimitar (Italian scimitare) has its origin in the Persian Simsir. Meanwhile there is a whole cargo of English words which can, following the old trade routes, be traced back through Italian to Arabic. Artichokeóarticioccoóal-kharshuuf. Arsenal (Highbury)ólíArsenale (Venice)ódar as-Sanaa (Arabic, ëhouse of workí). But the items on the list run to dozens. Yet the traffic of words mentioned in the title has been far from one way. English, in turn, has provided Italian with pure anglismi such as fifty-fifty, egghead, sponsor, babysitter and bypass. Other anglismi have a more local character. So puzzle is rephoneticised into ootzlay; pocket radio is inverted to radio pocket; handicapped becomes handicappato; a top model is simply una top. Snob produces a name for not just a string of Italian boutiques, but another verb, snobbare with a corresponding gamut of Italian inflections. Likewise from click we get cliccare to set alongside the uninflected software and hardware. Outlandish coinages? Perhaps. Except the host language, whether in Rome or London, seems to have its own mechanism for incorporating them until the same coinages become standard lexical currency. [Martin Bennett read English at St Catharineís College, Cambridge, and then taught English and French in West Africa. He now teaches English and Italian in Saudi Arabia. An article on Arabic proverbsóìThe Lamps of Speechîóappeared in a previous edition of VERBATIM.] HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward Somerset, Britain I suspect that issues has been an irritating word for some time. Certainly, I remember it being overused in left-wing and trade union circles twenty-odd years ago, when it meant something like ìmatters upon which we are or should be campaigningî. There were also issues around, as in ìwe are working on issues around immigration,î where around meant ìto do withî. A narrower usage (of US origin, I presume) has recently become common in the UK, under which issues (invariably plural) are no longer merely and neutrally topics of interest, but problems, disagreements or dislikes. The phrase ìYou have raised an interesting issueî will soon, I imagine, be meaningless to anyone under the age of thirty. An American contributor to an e-mail list discussed the difficulties of looking after a disabled baby, ìwhich has meant all kinds of doctorsí appointments and special feeding issuesî. A recruitment advertisement in a British newspaper, for the post of ìHead of Equalitiesî at a county council, was accompanied by a picture of a dartboard. The caption read: ìImagine the board is equal opportunities issues. The darts are peopleís attempts to manage them and the holes are the ones in their thinkingî. In another UK newspaper, a writer argued that institutionalised racism was not unique to the USA: ìThere can be no doubt that Britain has its own issues regarding raceî. When work on an £18 million leisure complex development in Hampshire was halted because the site was found to be home to an endangered species of dragonfly, a spokesman for the developers told reporters ìWe are resigned to dropping the project [ . . . ] we respect green issues.î That application is especially baffling; how does one ìrespectî a problem, or indeed a topic? Perhaps issues is not properly a Horribile, no matter how ugly it sounds to many of us, but rather a word undergoing a transitional period of vagueness; having been stripped of its familiar meaning, it has not yet been assigned a new one, and is therefore available to fill in on a temporary basis as and when required. Other words on the move include advice, which seems to be taking on a more sinister role. When South Wales police charged an officer with neglect of duty and discreditable conduct, newspapers reported that ìanother officer is to be admonished and three others will receive ëadviceíî. The inverted commas, and the context, suggest that this advice forms part of a disciplinary, and not an educational, process. Ethnic (now commonly a euphemism for ìnon-whiteî) and literally (increasingly used to mean either ìveryî or ìmetaphoricallyî) will require a column to themselves. Meanwhile, have you noticed what is happening to officially? In 1999, the England cricket team fell, for the first time, to the lowest position in an unofficial league table. Every newspaper report I read of this major national tragedy declared in its headline or opening paragraph that England was ìofficially the worst team in the worldîóalthough many of them then went on to explain the unofficial nature of the unsought title! Officially was therefore being used to mean ìdefinitelyî or ìundeniablyî. I lack the learning to name this phenomenon, but it seems to me that words which are useful precisely because their purport is narrow or broad are rendered ìliteî when their precincts are stretched or straitened. And, to quote a politician I recently heard interviewed on the BBC, ìInevitably, one could have issues with thatî. (Readers are invited to suggest ìissuesî for this column, or to supply further examples of those already discussed. Please contact me via VERBATIMís UK or US offices. My thanks to those who have already been in touchó be assured that all your contributions are read, enjoyed, and carefully filed for future deployment). We all have had the experience of finding an intriguing word in the dictionary when we were supposed to be looking up something else, but Dr. Mardy Grothe has turned his experience into a charming little book of quotations, each and every one of which is an example of chiasmus. Whatís chiasmus, you ask? Well, besides being the word that distracted Dr. Grothe from his original target, itís the reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. The title of the book is itself chiastic: Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You. (ISBN 0-670-87827-8) If, after reading this book (actually, I recommend dipping into it at random; if you read the whole thing straight through youíd probably speak in chiasmus the rest of the day!) you want more, check out www.chiasmus.com, where there will soon be a chiasmus email mailing list. My favorite quote in the book? ìIt is well to read everything of something and something of everythingî (Henry Brougham). Make this book one of either somethings. Erin McKean I was most interested to read the article ìIdentity and Language in the SM Scene,î by M. A. Buchanan in the Summer issue (XXIV/3). But I think the comment that there is no Spanish equivalent for the English terms boyfriend and girlfriend is inaccurate. I believe the terms novio and novia convey the modern American meaning the author refers toóat least these days. My Spanish-speaking gay friends use the term to refer to their partners, as do straight couples who have no intention of marrying. The time that people seem to move away from the terms, and use such ìmodernî terminology as compaÒero sentimental or pareja (loosely, ëpartnerí) instead, is when they reach an age at which the term seems odd. (And after 20 years of cohabitation, would English-speaking couples still speak of themselves as ìboyfriendî and ìgirlfriendî?) In both languages, the terms suggest relative youth, and experimentation. Each culture then has its own tradition of formality, or lack of it, in pre-nuptial relationships. Incidentally, Gerald Brenan, in his book South from Granada, describing southern Spain in the 1920s (in many ways a deeply conservative Catholic society), says that it was considered quite normal for a girl to have many ìnoviosî. Limits on acceptable behaviour may be encoded into our language, yes: but people still continue to use words to mean what they want them to mean. My last ìgirlfriendî, who was Spanish, called me her ìnovioî; but she didnít believe in marriage. Matthew Perret While I do not know the meaning of the Thai word (from ìOn the Use of Niggardlyî,24/4) the anecdote reminded me of a story from a friend who served in the Army during the second world war. After weeks in the field, he was assigned for a few days of respite to live with a family in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium. Almost his first request was ìWash my clothes please.î This was greeted with stunned silence since the Flemish word for ìtesticlesî was pronounced ìclothes.î Quincy Abbot Have Your Salt and Eat It, Too Steve Kleinedler American Heritage Dictionaries Itís dinnertime, and youíre about to enjoy a tasty meal, but you find the food in need of seasoning. You ask the resident sarcastic adolescent at the opposite end of the table, ìCan you pass the salt?î and you get the terse reply, ìYes,î but you donít get any salt. Protestation only elicits the response: ìBut you didnít ask if I would pass the salt, you asked if I could pass the salt, and yes, Iím physically able to do so.î Depending on the way your household functions, you may end up with screaming parents, a punished child, passive-aggressive silence, or possibly some salted food. You know that you know what the kid meant, but in your head thereís a small voice thinking, well, I suppose technically thatís what can means. Actually, you should trust your initial instinct. What the surly teenager has done is perversely ignored a maxim of conversational implicature, and in doing so, disregarded an indirect speech act. Within the linguistic subfield of pragmatics, implicature, presupposition, entailment, and indirect speech acts have long been a focus of inquiry, with countless philosophers picking apart sentences such as ìThe king of France is bald.î Among the topics most fun to explore is conversational implicature. For an appropriate starting point, we turn to H. Paul Grice, a British-born philosopher who taught at Berkeley for much of his career. In 1967, he delivered his William James Lectures at Harvard University. One significant lecture first appeared in print as ìLogic and Conversationî in 1975 in the third volume of Syntax & Semantics. Many subsequent works concerning conversational implicature and discourse theory draw from it heavily. As an added bonus, itís fairly comprehensible to the layperson. Grice observes that conversations arenít usually made up of disjointed comments. Rather, speakers generally adhere to what he calls the Cooperative Principle (CP): ìMake your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engagedî (p. 45). It may sound like heís stating the obvious, but his analysis of the CP yields four conversational maxims, by which we can analyze how conversations and implications function the way that they do. These maxims are (p. 47): The Maxim of Quantity 1. Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange). 2. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. The Maxim of QualityóTry to make your contribution one that is true: 1. Do not say what you believe to be false. 2. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. The Maxim of RelationóBe relevant. The Maxim of ManneróBe perspicuous. 1. Avoid obscurity of expression. 2. Avoid ambiguity. 3. Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity). 4. Be orderly. Grice then lists four ways that one can fail to fulfill a maxim (p. 49): 1. He may quietly and unostentatiously violate a maxim; if so, in some cases he will be liable to mislead. 2. He may OPT OUT from the operation of both the maxim and of the CP; he may say, indicate, or allow it to become plain that he is unwilling to cooperate in the way the maxim requires. He may say, for example, ìI cannot say more; my lips are sealed.î 3. He may be faced with a CLASH: he may be unable, for example, to fulfill the first maxim of Quantity . . . without violating the second maxim of Quality. 4. He may FLOUT a maxim; that is, he may blatantly fail to fulfill it. On the assumption that the speaker is able to fulfill the maxim and to do so without violating another maxim (because of a clash), he is not opting out, and is not, in view of the blatancy of his performance, trying to mislead, the hearer is faced with a minor problem: How can his saying what he did say be reconciled with the supposition that he is observing the overall CP? This situations is one that characteristically gives rise to a conversational implicature; and when a conversational implicature is generated in this way, I shall say that a maxim is being exploited. The fun comes in analyzing discourse sequences to determine how implicatures are made by flouting or exploiting these maxims. Grice discusses three kinds of conversational implicatures. (The examples below are taken from his examples.) The first group consists of ìexamples in which no maxim is violatedî (p. 51). Scenario: A is standing by a disabled car. B approaches: A: Iím out of gas. B: Thereís a station around the corner. Here, B implicates that B thinks that the gas station is probably open, otherwise B would be flouting the maxim of Relation. If both participants are adhering to the CP, A has no reason to believe that B would be flouting the maxim, and so understands that B intends A to think that at that gas station A can get gas and no longer be out of gas. The second group consists of ìexample[s] in which a maxim is violated, but its violation is to be explained by the supposition of a clash with another maximî (p. 51). Scenario: A is going on a vacation in France. A and B both know that A wants to visit C if itís not out of Aís way. A: Where does C live? B: Somewhere in the south of France. Here, Bís answer is not as informative as A would need to make a decision as to whether C can be visited, and thus Bís response can be seen as a violation of the first maxim of Quantity. But, A would not expect B to opt out. So, A then infers that for B to say anything more informative than ìSomewhere in the south of Franceî would violate the maxim of Quality. Thus, A infers that B doesnít know the town that C lives in (pp. 51ñ52). The third group is large, consisting of ìexamples that involve exploitation, that is a procedure by which a maxim is flouted for the purpose of getting in a conversational implicature by means of something of the nature of a figure of speechî (p. 52). Many figures of speech can be explained and analyzed by this approach. Grice shows that violations of the first maxim of Quality are responsible for irony (ìX is a fine friend,î when itís obvious that X is not); metaphor (ìYou are the cream in my coffeeî); meiosis (ìHe was a little intoxicated,î used of one who has trashed a room); and hyperbole (ìEvery nice girl loves a sailorî) (p. 53). Violations of the first maxim of Quantity include tautology (ìWar is warî), but are also evident in less extreme situations such as Griceís classic ìletter of recommendationî scenario: ìA is writing a testimonial about a pupil who is a candidate for a philosophy job . . . : ëDear Sir, Mr. Xís command of English is excellent, and his attendance at tutorials has been regular. Yours, etc.í (Gloss: A cannot be opting out, since if he wished to be uncooperative, why write at all? He cannot be unable, through ignorance, to say more, since the man is his pupil; moreover he knows that more information than this is wanted. He must, therefore, be wishing to impart information that he is reluctant to write down. This supposition is tenable only on the assumption that he thinks Mr. X is no good at philosophy. This, then, is what he is implicatingî (p. 52). Notice that such implications can be culture-bound. I have heard that such succinct recommendations are the norm in Germany. (And if I have been informed incorrectly, itís certainly within the realm of possibility that there is some culture where this is the norm; the point being, implicatures that one draws may be particular to a culture or subculture.) Grice offers the following as an example of a Relation violation: ìAt a genteel tea party, A says Mrs. X is an old bag. There is a moment of appalled silence, and then B says, ëThe weather has been quite delightful this summer, hasnít it? ëB has blatantly refused to make what he says relevant to Aís preceding remark. He thereby implicates that Aís remark should not be discussed and, perhaps more specifically, that A has committed a social gaffeî (p. 54). Among violations of Manner are ambiguity, obscurity, and failure to be succinct. Grice invites us to compare ìMiss X sang ëHome Sweet Homeíî with ìMiss X produced a series of sounds that corresponded closely with the score of ëHome Sweet Homeíî (p. 55). A reviewer writing the second sentence would eschew the simple sentence to imply that her ìperformance suffered from some hideous defect.î Laurence Horn, a linguist at Yale, has carried on Griceís work. He has condensed the four maxims, focusing on one that is speaker-based and one that is hearer-based. (Others, such as Dan Wilson and Dierdre Sperber, have condensed them into one, Relation.) In a 1984 article, Horn demonstrates that these two opposing forces and their interactions are responsible for generating Gricean maxims and the inferences derived from them. Hornís two principles are (p. 13): The Q principle (hearer-based) 1. Make your contribution sufficient. (Cf. Griceís first maxim of Quantity.) 2. Say as much as you can (given the R principle) The R principle (speaker-based): 1. Make your contribution necessary. (Cf. Griceís maxims of Relation, Manner, and the second maxim of quantity.) 2. Say no more than you must (given the Q principle). Q-principle implicatures are very common. Examples are those that arise from scalar predictions: ìSome X are pî implies ìNot all X are p.î That is, ìSome dogs are brownî implies ìNot all dogs are brown.î If speaker knew that all dogs were brown, and if such information were relevant to the hearer, the speaker would be obliged to obey the Q principle and say so. The hearerís assumption that the speaker is obeying Q (and thus adhering to the CP) allows the hearer to infer that the speaker does not know the stronger predication, ìAll dogs are brown.î to be a fact (p. 13). Other Q examples are those that entail a lower bound (ëat leastí), and implicate an upper bound (ëat mostí). Conjoining these brings about conveys ëexactlyí (p. 13). Horn offers the example ìHe ate 3 carrots.î This sentence entails ìHe ate at least 3 carrotsî and implicates ìHe ate at most 3 carrots,î the conjunction of which gives ìHe ate exactly three carrots.î Intentionally violating the Q principle results in the act of the speaker intentionally misleading the hearer. That is, to say ìHe ate 3 carrots,î when he in fact ate 4 or 5 carrots, is not untruthful; itís misleading (p. 14). The R principle mirrors the Q principle. Whereas (p. 14), ìa speaker who says ëpí may license the Q inference that he meant ëat most p,í a speaker who says ëpí may license the R inference that he meant ëmore than p.íî The most obvious examples are indirect speech acts. (This brings us back to the salt.) Horn states: ìIf I ask you whether you can pass me the salt, in a context where your abilities to do so are not in doubt, I license you to infer that I am doing something more than asking you whether you can pass the saltóI am in fact asking you to do it.î If the speaker knows that the hearer is able to pass the salt, then the question of whether the hearer is physically capable of doing so is pointless. By the Relation maxim, the hearer infers that the speaker means something more than the speaker says. Intentional violations of the R principle (that is, violations of the maxim of Relation) are ìmerely unhelpful or perverseî (p. 14). So, when the salt scenario looms large in your dining room, you can respond by saying ìUntil you can adhere to the Cooperative Principle, you are excused to your room,î and hand the violator this essay. Grice, H. P. 1975. ìLogic and Conversation,î in Syntax & Semantics, vol. 3: Speech Acts. P. Cole & J. Morgan, eds. New York: Academic Press. Horn, L. 1984. ìToward a New Taxonomy for Pragmatic Inference: Q-Based and R-Based Implicature, in Meaning, Form and Use in Context: Linguistic Applicationsî (GURT), D. Schiffrin, ed. Washington: Georgetown University Press. Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. 1986. Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [A lexicographer, Steve Kleinedler is an editor on the staff of the American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Co.). A University of Chicago graduate student as well, Steve needs to write his PhD dissertation. He holds a BA in linguistics from Northwestern University.] Barry Baldwin Unless any scientific compound usurps it in the forthcoming new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, floccinaucinhilipilification, as John Simon guessed in his Paradigms Lost (1981), is the longest word there. Weighing in with 29 letters, it beats by one its sesquipedalian opponent antidisestablishmentarianism. This majestic monster found a place in Russell Rookeís Grandiloquent Dictionary (1972), being there defined as ìthe action or process of estimating a thing as worthless.î Our word is compounded from four Latin expressions for such low evaluation: ìnon flocci facioîóI donít give a flock for; ìnon nauci facioî I donít give three flocks for; ìnon nihili facioîóI donít care nothing for; or ìnon pili facioîóI donít give a hair for. It looks like a Samuel Johnson kind of word. Celebrated for his long Latinate terms, the Great Cham defended their use in an essay in the Idler: ìFew faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. But words are only hard to those who do not understand them, and the critick ought always to enquire, whether he is incommoded by the fault of the writer, or by his own.î Boswell duly defended his hero: ìMr Johnson has gigantick thoughts, and therefore he must be allowed gigantick words.î In fact, it was William Shenstone (1714ñ1763) who imported our word into English, in one of his published letters, in 1741: ìI loved him for nothing so much as his floccinaucinhilipilification of money.î Shenstone was best known as a poet, though no contemporary thought highly of him (ìthat water-gruel bard,î gibed Horace Walpole). He had no particular reputation for sesquipedalianism. His use may have been disingenuous: the poet Grayís reaction to his Letters was ìPoor man! He was always wishing for money.î After Shenstone, the word languished a good sixty years before the poet and critic Robert Southey took it up in an 1816 essay in the Quarterly Review. Then Sir Walter Scott tried it out in a journal entry on 18 March 1829, thus: ìThey must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccipaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.î This same spelling occurs elsewhere in Scott: mistake or deliberate alteration? And that is the complete history of the word, according to the OED. Has any reader seen it in modern literature? Iíve noticed the spin-off adjective floccinaucinihilipilificatory in occasional pieces of fugitive journalism. I used to recommend the noun to my students as a good one for debates and pub conversation. Overall, it evidently never caught on. Just TOO big, perhaps? Well, if thatís the problem, there are less jaw-breaking allotropes. In his English Dictionarie, or An Interpreter Of Hard Words (1623), Henry Coceram introduced and defined the verb floccifie (ëto set nought byí), but this one seems to have died quickly after Blountís 1656 rehash of Coceram in his Glossography. The chronicler Edward Hall (1499ñ1549) had already tried out floccipend (ìEvery honest creature would abhorre and floccipendî) in 1548, but this one had to wait for Walter Thomsonís 1882 essay on Bacon and Shakespeare (ìA profession prone to floccipend old locks of thought from wooly-headed thinkersîóa groanable triple pun) for its next outing, and it still awaits its third. Southey himself, in critical esays of 1826 and 1829, came up with ìa floccinaucical significationî and ìfloccinaucities to which so much importance is attachedî; neither found a taker. So, if the floccular processes of your cerebellum have been flocculated by this flocculent flourish, fear not to write floccoselyóEnglish and Latin are on your side, and it beats the hell out of the Nineties Newspeak of academics and computers. [Barry Baldwin grew up in England during and after World War II. Now in Canada, he has published 12 books and some 600 articles on Greek/Roman/Byzantine/18th-century history & literature. His chief passions are cricket, English soccer, and eating.] A Visit from Aunt Rose: Euphemisms (and Pejoratives) for Menstruation Jessy Randall Now it can be told. There are over one hundred codes for menstruation, from the gentle euphemism (that time of the month) to the vulgar (riding the cotton pony) to the downright peculiar (the woodchuck has arrived). Some of the terms are nearly international; others are extremely localized, used by a small group of women friends or within a family or other small community. Why do we cloak menstruation in subterfuge? Sometimes out of embarrassment or a sense of decorum, but also, I think, there is the appeal of having an inside joke, speaking a private language, talking about something that is not to be talked about. I am not sure that we are all that shy about menstruation here at the close of the 20th century, but with a modern-day ironic sensibility, it seems funny to pretend to be and to use outlandish codes to discuss something secret in plain view. The codes fall roughly into four categories: periodicity, personification, allusion to blood, and allusion to emotional state. Of course, many codes overlap two, three, or even all four categories, and some cannot be categorized. The simplest and most common coding for menstruation relates to its periodicity. Having oneís period is so straightforward that it can hardly be called coding; similarly, women can say itís that time of the month or the bad, wrong, or funny time of the month. A woman can have her monthlies, her cycle, or her moon-days or moon-time (these last two are fairly new terms, perhaps even new-age). In her 1870s teenage diary, Alice Stone Blackwell (daughter of suffragist Lucy Stone and social reformer Henry Blackwell, who was brother to Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor) abbreviated menstrual period to M.P., as in ìM.P. number 3.î In the euphemism-laden 1950s in Wellsville High School in Wellsville, New York (and probably in many other schools as well), girls could cite their monthly excuse to get out of gym class. Right before the menstrual period begins, some women say they are fixiní to start, abbreviated F.T.S. And I know someone in the 1990s who refers to her Visa bill, which arrives monthly, although she wishes it wouldnít. The personification of the period, odd as it may be, is a popular coding. Generally the period takes on the identity of a friend or relative, usually female, who comes for a visit: my friend, my little friend, my aunt, my grandmother, Mother Nature, Miss Rachel, Sophie, or Mary Lou. Description of the visitor can get quite elaborate: my aunt from Redbank or from Redwood City, Reading, or Redfield (with the place name incorporating the color of blood) or my red-haired aunt from the South (incorporating both redness and the idea of the vagina, colloquially down South or down there.) Sometimes the visitors even have namesóDot, Dottie (incorporating the idea of dots of blood), Aunt Rose (incorporating the idea of redness, i.e., blood) or Aunt Flo (i.e., flow, incorporating the idea of the flow of blood). On the Comedy Central cartoon series South Park, Stan Cartmanís Aunt Flo, who happens to be a redhead, comes to visit once a month. While Mrs. Cartmanís monthly visitor is in town, Mr. Cartman sleeps on the couch. Other visitors might include a midnight visitor (acknowledging the surprise factor), a communist (redness), the chicks, and male visitors such as the Cardinal (redness again) and Charlie, Herbie, Kit, and George, etymology unknown. (These men not only come to visit but become romantically entangled: going steady with George is another term for having oneís period.) One woman I know has developed an entire personality for her monthly visitor, Doris, who drives a brown Chevy Nova and is a large woman with cat-glasses, her appearance similar to women in the old Far Side comics. In bad months, Doris drives up on the lawn, knocks over trees, and generally makes a nuisance of herself. Codes that refer to blood include the red flag is up (sometimes shortened to just the flag is up or the flag is flying; also sometimes flying Baker, since Baker is the Navy code for B, and the B flag is red), the Red Sea is in, having the painters in, the reds, wearing red shoes, are you a cowboy or an indian? a red-letter day, and riding the red horse. Mrs. E.R. Shepherd, a late 19th-century advice writer, used the term course in For Girls: A Special Physiology (1884), reporting: ìI have met numbers of women and some of them young who knew nothing of their coming ëcourseí until they were upon them.î Other blood codes make reference to the gushing or flowing of blood, such as Old Faithful (which also suggests periodicity) or on a streak (the Rolling Stones song ìSatisfactionî includes the lyric ìBaby, better come back / later next week / ícause you see / Iím on a losiní streakî). And in Act I Scene I of Shakespeareís The Tempest, Gonzalo describes a ship as ìleaky as an unstanchíd wench.î Then there are the codes that stem from unpleasantness, like the curse or the curse of Eve. The origin of this, of course, is Genesis: God curses Eve for eating of the tree of knowledge, saying ìin sorrow shalt thou bring forth children,î implying, I suppose, that in sorrow shalt we also have cramps. (Later, Rachel successfully uses a menstruation euphemism to hide stolen goods underneath her on a camel, saying in Genesis 31:35, ìLet it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for the custom of women is upon me.î) There are the nuisance, G.D.N. (God-damned nuisance), the poorlies, and being unwell or that way. There are also female troubles (a term that can refer to any number of things, menstruation being one of the least troubling). Of course, the unpleasantness terms have their flip side. At least one woman I know has turned the curse around, calling her period the blessing since it is proof that she is not pregnant. And Anne Frank called menstruation her ìsweet secretî despite its ìpain and unpleasantness.î (Her father, Otto Frank, edited out these lines for the 1947 Dutch version of the diary.) In the 1950s, Seventeen magazine featured articles on how to cope with special days, a euphemism if I ever heard one. Other pleasant terms include the miracle of menstruation, becoming a woman (for the first period), and, in an early Kotex booklet entitled ìMarjorie Mayís Twelfth Birthday,î wonderful purification. (Sanitary supplies have a whole set of euphemisms to themselves, and indeed, the word menstruation does not appear in any Kotex publications until the year 1942, in an ad for a booklet: ìWhy get all involved trying to explain the facts of menstruation to your little girl . . . when thereís a simple, easy way to do this dreaded task? Let the new booklet ëAs One Girl to Anotherí do this job for you!î Other educational pamphlets had suggestive but non-explicit titles like ìYouíre a Young Lady Nowî and ìVery Personally Yours.î) A favorite graphic term for menstruation is on the rag, i.e., using pads of some sort (originally cotton rags, now usually store-bought combinations of paper, plastic, and cotton batting) to staunch the flow of blood. This can be abbreviated O.T.R. and used to describe not only women menstruating but anyone, regardless of gender, who is in a bad mood. One man I know uses the term raging, which derives, he says, from on the rag. And comedian George Carlin spoke of women riding the cotton pony, again a reference to pads or tampons, which have their own euphemisms: mouse mattresses, the white horse, manhole cover, coyote sandwich, saddle blankets, teddy bears, and the industry-sanctioned sanitary napkins or feminine supplies. (From this last, one man I know invented the term feminine days for the menstrual period, a sort of ur-euphemism.) The 1895 Montgomery Ward catalog advertised a ìFaultless Serviette, or Absorbent Health Napkin,î an object so layered in euphemism that Iím shocked anyone figured out what it was in order to buy it. Then there are the inscrutable terms, like flower days, which according to the Oxford English Dictionary referred to the menses from as early as the 1400s until the 1800s. Thereís the boatís in dry dock, which as far as Iím concerned simply makes no sense, and stands in direct opposition to the (especially male) expression too wet to plow. Falling off the roof is another code no one seems able to figure out: it may originate in the idea of a wound from falling, or possibly from the location of rag-launderingóone woman I know heard from her grandmother that women attended to this task in the attic in order to keep it secret from the men in the family. And then thereís my own teenage term, woodchuck, which I and two friends used for both menstruation and sanitary supplies (as in, ìMy woodchuck has arrived, do you have any woodchucks?î) None of us can remember the etymology of this term, even though we invented it. We think it may have arisen from another friend saying once on the telephone ìI have to go, thereís a woodchuck in my yard,î a nonsensical expression of surprise and urgency that stuck with us and demanded to be morphed into inside-joke-hood. Another known but highly localized menstruation code includes a reference to Mrs. Skeen, in honor of a woman one particular family knew who always managed to refer to her menstrual cycle in any conversation. And one group of neighbors use the term damned old Cox, because a tenant who was behind in rent went to see the landlord, Mr. Cox, and complained ìI was so upset I started my period earlyódamned old Cox!î One group of girls in the late 1970s used the expression back in the saddle again, sometimes humming the Gene Autry tune. I have no doubt that there are many more such codes, but they are by their very nature difficult to document. [Jessy Randall curates the Womenís History collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She co-authored ìAssing Aroundî in the Spring 1999 issue of VERBATIM.] CLASSICAL BLATHER Nick Humez argentarius@juno.com Because the present is fleeting, and the past is immutable, according to C. S. Lewisís administrative-level demon, Uncle Screwtape, it is the future that is least like eternity; and that is why the powers of Hell encourage human beings to focus on it.1 However one may be tempted to disagree with this philosophy, it cannot be denied that we do think about what has not yet come to pass, and how to make sure the odds break in our favor, whether we are underwriters hoping that more premiums are paid in than losses paid out, racetrack habituÈs betting on our favorite horse to win rather than place or show or not finish at all, or simply picnickers guessing how likely it is that we can finish our al fresco lunch before that ominous cloud on the horizon metamorphoses into a full-blown thundershower bursting overhead. Indeed, most of our waking hours may be spent weighing prospective risks and benefits in a constant calculus so second-nature to us that we are rarely aware of its extent. Experience teaches consequences from which we predict future events in turn; but often we are extrapolating not from physical certainties (ìIf you push something hard enough it will fall overî2) but from familiar probabilities (ìThe chances of a coin coming up heads on the toss are 50/50î3). Or from other peopleís estimates of familiar probabilities: We ask our office-mate, whom we know has heard the weather report we just missed that morning, owing to our toast having fallen from the table and landed butter side down4 at the critical moment, ìWill it rain tomorrow?î ìThereís a good chance of it,î is the reply. If we then carry an umbrella the next day, is the actual probability that we will need it significantly greater than 0.5? No, for two reasons: First, the actual probability of rain falling anywhere on the earth on a given day is quite low, even on a cloudy day; second, a team of psychologists elicited the vernacular meaning of ìgood chanceî from a group of experimental subjects a decade and a half ago and found it to range from an actual probability slightly less than 0.6 down to smaller than 0.4, depending on the informant.5 The graph shows the researchersí results for other common terms of likelihood as well; perhaps the most startling are ìtossupîówhich one might suppose would be a range centered precisely on 0.5 (the real-world probability of the coin toss from which the expression derives), but in fact is shifted towards improbability, lying roughly between 0.38 and 0.55óand the range of ìprobably,î whose high end is scarcely less than that of ìalmost certainî and whose low end is pegged to a probability markedly smaller than 0.5 (about 0.45, or 10% less than even odds.)6 Other folk beliefs about likelihood fly in the face of logical appearances as well. Murphyís Law, commonly stated as ìAnything that can go wrong, will,î7 has given rise to a distinct class of one-liner jokes in imitation: ìIf there are two ways to spell someoneís name, you will pick the wrong one;î ìThe part requiring the most consistent repair will be housed in the most inaccessible location;î ìWashing machines break down only during the wash cycle;î ìWhen leaving work late, you will go unnoticed, but when leaving early, you will meet the boss in the parking lot.î (A corollary: ìThe less important you are to the corporation, the more your absence or tardiness is noticed.î)8 Older readers will recall that this genre of jocular pessimism was also the theme of the one-panel sidebar ìTheyíll Do It Every Timeî with which cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo used to embellish the Sunday edition of his long-running comic strip There Oughta Be A Law. Positivist-empiricists, especially in the scientific community, may be all too quick to dismiss such folk formulae out of hand as ìnothing more than the product of our selective memory for those times when things donít go well,î according to Robert A. J. Matthews, a science correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph.9 But there is a sound basis for at least some pessimistic folk beliefs which seem at first blush irrational: The thirteenth of the month is, in fact, more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week,10 and the likelihood of your having picked a checkout line other than the fastest one in the supermarket increases as a linear function of how many lines there are: If there are but two, your chances of being in the fast lane are even; if four, the odds are three to one against you. Our inability to know the futureóand specifically, whether good or bad things may lie in store for usóhas given rise to a plethora of everyday expressions by which we resign ourselves and others to the vicissitudes of Providence or at least our own lack of control, such as seek oneís fortune, hazard a guess, leave it up to chance, dicey, at risk, the luck of the draw, their poor lot, the fickle finger of fate. Many of these terms were historically impartial but have taken on color (positive or negative) over the intervening years: As mentioned in a footnote in our last column,11 hazard comes to us from an Arabic word for a gamblerís die, but whereas par hasard in French is equivalent to the value-neutral ìby chanceî in English, our hazardous has become far more sinister than the unprejudicial dicey. It appears that lotóderived from the sort of lot one casts, and thus akin to lotteryómay be likewise edging from neutrality towards the sense of a short straw: One can still speak of a happy lot but already the expression sounds quaint, while more often it seems one hears of a sorry lot. (Watch this space.) Among the Romans, fortuneógood or badówas personified as the goddess Fortuna,12 much as the Greeks before them had made statues of Tyche;13 but gradually, as people came more and more to think about and invoke Fortune in her beneficent aspect, fortuna without a qualifying adjective came to mean simply and solely good fortune.14 Although English preserves the neutral sense in the expression to seek his fortune, when we speak of inheriting a fortune it is generally presumed that what has not been handed down is simply a heap of bad luck. Luck comes down to us through Middle English from Middle Dutch luc, a shortened version of the word gheluc, cognate with Middle High German gel¸cke, which became modern German Gl¸ck, ì(good) fortune, luck, happiness.î Luck, like Fortuna, can be personified: ìLuck, Be a Lady Tonight,î sings the gambler Nathan Detroit in the mid-century smash-hit musical Guys and Dolls, a sentiment no doubt echoed at many a gaming-table (and slot machine) before and since. Like Lady Luck, Fate can nowadays personified in order to lament her fickleness (the finger of the expression above being the Romansí digitus impudicus, or, as we would nowadays say, the Bird); this is reductionism at work on the original Three Fates of Greco-Roman mythology, who together had charge of the thread of each personís life: Clotho, the spinner, Lachesis, who twisted the cord, and Atropos, wielding the grim scissors to cut it off. (The Latin word fatum comes from the verb fari, to speak, and means ìpronouncement, prophecy, doom.î) Risk comes into English from French risque, itself from Italian rischio/risco, all meaning the same thing: the danger of hurt, damage, loss, etc.15 Chance, which derives from the Latin verb cadere, ìto (be)fall,î has been elegantly defined16 as an ìunknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable causeî or a ìforce assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled,î and thus a synonym for luck. In the plural, chance can mean ìlikelihood . . . possibility or probability.î Thus: ìChances are that ëlikely,í like ëdaily,í will be widely used as both adjective and adverb, even in print, by the turn of the century.î (An all-too-likely story, alas.) 1 C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (New York: Macmillan, 1971 [15th printing]), Letter XV (pp. 67-69). 2 This principle was given the name ìFuddís First Law of Oppositionî by the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe on their classic recording I Think Weíre All Bozos On This Bus (Columbia Records, 1971). 3 A common bit of nonsense derived from this common-sense fact is manifest in the assumption that if a coin has been flipped three times and come up tails all three times, the odds should be three to one it will come up heads. In fact, the odds remain 50/50, just as they were on all tosses before: prior events do not affect the probability of present or future ones; they merely form a body of statistical evidence, and the larger the data base, the greater the likelihood (or meta-probability, if you will) that the actual data will reflect the theoretical probabilityówhich is why, all other things being equal, statisticians tend overwhelmingly to prefer larger samples over smaller ones (which is itself a meta-probabilistic assertion about the behavior of social scientists engaged in studies grounded in probabilities). 4 The likelihood of the toast landing butter side down is not 50/50, as Robert A. J. Matthews explains in ìThe Science of Murphyís Lawî (Scientific American, April 1997, pp. 88ñ91). The significant constants for falling buttered toast (and paperback books) are (1) rate of spin as the result of torque induced by gravity and (2) the height of the table. If a table were sufficiently high, the toast would land butter side up; but tables are the height they are because people are only so tall as they areóand that, says Matthews, following the earlier reasoning of Harvard astrophysics professor William J. Press, is because human beings are essentially tall cylinders whose stability against toppling falls off dramatically as a function of height, not only increasing the risk of skull fractures but augmenting their severity as a linear function of initial cranial altitude. So it might be argued that the real reason the toast lands butter side up is the result of natural selection, any possible genes for nine-foot bipedal hominids having been weeded out a very long time ago. Cats, on the other hand, land on their feet by executing a corrective twist during the fall; this maneuver, coupled with a very accurate balance mechanism in the catís inner ear and a tendency to relax and spread out, minimizing terminal velocity and landing with flexed limbs, would appear to count for the curious discovery, from a 1987 study by veterinarians Wayne O. Whitney and Cheryl J. Mehlhass published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, that cats who accidentally plummet from apartment windows in New York had fewer injuries when the fall was from a height of seven or more stories than they did when falling from a lower floor. For the mathematics of the buttered-toast problem, see Ian Stewart, ìMathematical Recreations,î Scientific American 273:6 (December 1995), page 104; for more on how cats fall and survive, see Jared M. Diamondís article discussing Whitney and Mehlhassís work in Natural History, August 1989, pp. 20ñ26. The posting of May 28, 1998, by Thomas M. Greiner, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Physical Anthropology at New York Chiropractic College, to the website of Washington University Medical School (http://madsci. wustl.edu/posts/archives/may98/896646615.zo.r.html) examines the anatomy of the midair cat flip. See also Thomas A. McMahon and John Tyler Bonnerís On Size and Life (New York: Freeman, 1983), a lucid and fascinating book explaining how the laws of physics govern parameters of physiology in creatures ranging from ants to sequoias. 5 Wallsten et al. (1986), ìMeasuring the Vague Meanings of Probability Terms,î Journal of Experimental Psychology, 115:34ñ65. 6 Barbara Laud, a reference librarian at the Maplewood (NJ) Memorial Library, has astutely suggested that this may be due to peopleís innate unwillingness to be the bearers of bad tidings. 7 There was, in fact, an actual Murphy, although the law named after him differs slightly from what he actually said. In 1949 Captain Edward A. Murphy, USAF, had designed a body harness whose electrodes were intended to measure, by means of electrodes, the effects of rapid deceleration on pilots, using volunteers strapped into rocket-propelled chairs. When an initial run failed to produce data, and the harnesses were shown to have been wired improperly, an exasperated Murphy swore that ìIf there are two or more ways of doing something, and one of them can lead to catastrophe, then someone will do it.î When this formulation was repeated at an Air Force press conference as an example of a good working assumption in engineering equipment on which peopleís safety might depend, the press gleefully picked up the gist of the idea, simplified it, christened it ìMurphyís Law,î and launched it into the widespread popularity it has enjoyed ever since. Murphy himself is reported not to have been amused by this. (Matthews, op.cit., p. 89.) 8 I am indebted, for the list of whimsical ìlawsî from which these examples are taken, to a recent e-mail communication from retired social sciences professor (and accomplished Celtic harpist) Georgia Houle. 9 Op. cit., p. 88. 10 A fact cleverly proved by a correspondent in the British Mathematical Gazette in 1969: S. R. Baxter, at that time a 13-year-old schoolboy at Eton. 11 ìMoney Talk(s),î VERBATIM XXIV:4 (Fall 1999), pp.14ñ17. 12 An image carried forward into medieval iconography, e.g. in the manuscript of the Carmina Burana, the marvelous book of poetry and music at the abbey of Benediktbeuern, Germany, whose illustration above the song ìFas et nefas ambulantî depicts the goddess sitting at the hub of a great wheel which, as it turns, bears aloft one king to power and prosperity while another, on the descending side, tumbles to his ruin. 13 Tyche, ìchance,î is the Greek noun related to the verb tungchanein, ìto [just plain] happen.î Eutuchos (eu-, ìgoodî plus the adjectival form of tyche) meant ìfortunateî (and notópace Hellenized Israelites under the rule of the Herodsóìcallipygianî). 14 This sentence is a syntactically free translation, but semantically a direct steal, from Ernout and Meilletís excellent Dictionnaire Ètymologique de la langue latine (Paris: Šditions Klincksieck, 1979), p. 249, under Fortuna. 15 Risk should not be confused with its homophone, the cybernetic acronym RISC, which stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer, a device whose processors execute a very small number of very simple commands very quickly, ideally one item per tick of the systemís internal clock. 16 By the American Heritage Dictionary (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1992). Your Autumn 1999 issue prompts me to make several comments: Firstly, Jim Behlingís Foreignyms have a name at last. I have encountered them or many years, as most of your bilingual and multilingual readers must also have done; indeed, a foreignym appears in that very issue of VERBATIM, brought by your reader Sidney Brotman: Aqui es una mesaóSpanish/Yiddish. Foreignyms occur in jokes, anecdotes of misunderstanding and real-life situations. The most striking I have come across appears in Willard Espyís Another Almanac of Words at Play. It is a sixteen-line poem, a macaronic alternating Hebrew and Italian lines, every pair of lines sounding almost exactly the same and having the same subject matter; a lament of a beloved teacher on his death, written by Rabbi Leone of Modena in the year 1584 when still a child. Secondly, you ask for the meaning of a Thai word in Sol Saportaís ìOn the Use of Niggardly.î maybe I am wrong, but could that word be (the Thai word for ësquashí, the vegetable), pronounced ìfuck.î? And finally, what gives with the proof-reading? In the review of The Wordwatchers Guide to Good Grammar, you have gramma for grammar, and in the same article ordinance/ordinance should surely be ordinance/ordnance (and maybe also ordonance?) Best wishes from your faithful reader, Naftali Wertheim [We are striving to reduce silly errors, but occasionally articles are not ready in time to receive the ministrations of our volunteer professional proofreader & copyeditor, Lorraine Alexson. óEd.] ìI remember when I used to see bushels of them,î said Alden ìBudî Miller, gesturing toward a four-door 1923 black-trimmed maroon Buick with a white soft top, wooden hickory smoked wheels and thick white walls. [From the Center Daily Times, State College, Pennsylvania. Submitted by Bill Simon III] From A Dictionary of Interesting Collisions Slayer Slang (Part 1) Word Words Fun Things to Say in Spanish, French & English I May Already Be a Wiener	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10094
__label__cc	0.707051	0.292949	Whistler Traveller / Winter-Spring 2020 / Sommeliers’ Picks By Nikki Bayley Winter’s snowy mountains and sub-zero temperatures invite comforting restoratives to sip and savour around the fire. What better fits this category than fortified wine? From port and sherry to vermouth and Marsala, fortified wines are made by adding a distilled spirit to wine either before fermentation is complete — which yields sweet, high-proof fortified wine — or near the end, or after fermentation, for a dryer style. The next time you’re dining out in Whistler, take the advice of these three sommeliers and think about pairing port with cheese or a decadent dessert, or perhaps enjoying a vermouth-based cocktail. Cheers! Taylor Fladgate – Very Old Single Harvest, 1969 LEAGH BARKLEY Wine Director Il Caminetto, 604-932-4442 ilcaminetto.ca Our wine selection at Il Caminetto complements the unique menu inspired by the restaurant’s Italian heritage, focusing primarily on Italian wines with a selection of vintages from each of Italy’s regions. Our selection also shines the spotlight on the West Coast, with a wide range of local wines from outstanding vintners. My favourite fortified wines from our cellar are sourced near and far. Locally, I often recommend D’oro by Vista D’Oro, 2008, from my hometown of Langley, B.C. This walnut-infused fortified wine brilliantly resembles a Fine Tawny Port with 10 years of barrel aging. From Italy, we serve Vecchio Florio Marsala Superiore Dolce, which is a great pairing with desserts like Chef James Walt’s tiramisu. And for the true port aficionado, we offer Taylor Fladgate’s Very Old Single Harvest 1969 vintage by the glass. The deep copper and amber hues in this wine show its age, while the brightness in the reflections shows the freshness and vibrancy still present. As the wine enters the mouth, the sweetness awakens and envelops the palate. A wave of complex tertiary flavours, reminiscent of spices such as Jamaican pepper, Sri Lankan cinnamon, candied ginger and dark cocoa, as well as fruit flavours like ripe cherries and plums, wash over the tongue. Appreciate it on its own or pair with our chocolate crémeux and Marsala-poached pear dessert. Visit taylor.pt. M. Chapoutier – Bila-Haut Luc Trottier Bearfoot Bistro, 604-932-3433 bearfootbistro.com One of my favourite styles of fortified wine comes from Banyuls, an appellation within the Languedoc-Rousillon region in the south of France. M. Chapoutier Bila-Haut is a delicious example of a Vin Doux Naturels (VDNs), grown on rugged hills overlooking the Mediterranean. Made from 100 per cent Grenache Noir grapes that are harvested by hand when very ripe, it is then fortified with a grape spirit at just the right time to halt the fermentation process and preserve the natural sweetness. Although the fortification process is very similar to port from Portugal, wine from Banyuls has less alcohol, usually around 10 to 15 per cent, which makes it lighter and less sweet. Bila-Haut, with its intense flavours of cassis, ripe cherries and black fruit, and a subtle cocoa finish, has a mouthfeel that is light, fresh and highly drinkable, and an ideal pairing for chocolate, like Bearfoot Bistro’s signature Quanah dark chocolate desserts and chocolate bars. Visit chapoutier.com/fr. GEOFF WEDDELL General Manager and Sommelier Quattro at Whistler, 604-905-4844 quattrorestaurants.com The history of fortified wines dates to the 17th century or earlier. One of the most popular Italian fortified wines is Cinzano, originating in northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Port, Madeira, Marsala, vermouth and sherry are other popular fortified wines produced around the world. The production method is distinctive in that the fermentation process is halted by the addition of a neutral spirit, taking place at either the beginning of the fermentation (sweet style) or near the end (dry style). In some cases, the grapes used in the production dry partially before the fermentation process. Most countries produce some form of fortified wine and Italy is no exception. Cinzano Rosso is a classic example of an off-dry style and is the star of the show in a Negroni, a classic cocktail that originated in Florence. It’s also the perfect starter to enjoy with our delicious antipasti, which is one of our specialties at Quattro, featuring our classic arancini, radicchio bocconcini, and more. Cin Cin! Visit cinzano.com. Whistler Traveller Magazine AllArtCharity EventsConcertsEntertainmentFamilyFestivalFood & BeerFood & WineSporting EventsWinemakers DinnerWorkshops	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10096
__label__wiki	0.823354	0.823354	bl! bright light ! discog "les revenants" 25th february 2013 hungry face the huts kill jester this messiah needs watching whisky time special n relative hysteria fridge magic eagle tax what are they doing in heaven today? wizard motor uk: 25th february 2013 - rock action uk/europe cd: rock action [ROCKACT74CD] uk/europe lp: rock action [ROCKACT74LP] north america: 26th february 2013 sub pop [4089543] production/recording notes all music written for "les revenants", a tv drama series created by fabrice gobert. produced by mogwai and niall mcmenamin. recorded by niall mcmenamin. mixed by tony doogan at castle of doom, glasgow. mastered by frank arkwright at abbey road, london, on 16th november 2012. cello played by sonia cromarty. initial recording commenced on monday 16th april 2012, wrapping up on sunday 22nd april. "last day in the studio today until after the (south and north american) tour. massive amount of music recorded. i hope it's not all pish. a few wee belters in there." (stuart) further recording sessions took place commencing monday 30th july 2012. "i played a wee bit of guitar and did some singing yesterday. fuck all today" (stuart, 10th august 2012) recording was completed at the castle of doom in glasgow, with sessions lasting from early october 2012 to mid-november 2012. "album finished. there will now be a short party at seat 23/24 of coach u on the 18:30 to glasgow central. very short." [john cummings, 15th nov 2012] 'what are they doing in heaven today?' [trad arr. mogwai] inspired by the version performed by washington phillips. vocals by stuart braithwaite. twitter exchanges regarding song titles: dasgift barry burns @dasgiftberlin "the names of some of these brand new mogwai songs are fucking stupid. #toooldtobebothered" stuart braithwaite @plasmatron "@dasgiftberlin aye cos all the old ones had magic names. is eagle tax worse than moomin cum?" stuart braithwaite @plasmatron (2nd october 2012): "some great song title suggestions from @thejohncummings 'the badger is furious' 'hungry face' 'don�t anger the dragon' classics all" http://thequietus.com/articles/10792-mogwai-les-revenants-soundtrack http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/mogwai-strike-a-cauld-alliance-with-french-horror-show-soundtrack.21145542 http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-returned/articles/mogwai-qa http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/french-undead-give-new-life-to-scottish-band-mogwai-fuel-nightmares-and-sales-with-their-sinister-score-for-the-returned-8722975.html http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/71488 http://www.factmag.com/2013/07/16/screen-test-mogwai-on-les-revenants-zidane-and-why-you-wont-catch-our-music-at-a-tory-conference/ unmastered tracks commencing monday 15th october 2012, canal+ streamed unmastered versions of six tracks from the 'les revenants' ost here: http://lesrevenants.canalplus.fr/#!/bande-originale 'what are they doing in heaven today?' promo such was the interest in 'what are they doing in heaven today?' from various radio stations that rock action pressed up a small run of promo cdrs [rockact75p]. "les revenants" tv series all music written for "les revenants" - a series created by fabrice gobert. based on "they came back" a film by robin campillo. directed by fabrice gobert and fr�d�ric mermoud. a haut et court tv production, a canal+ original programming, with the participation of jimmy, cin�+, in association with backup films and b media export, with the support of rh�ne-alpes regional fund, cnc, media a european union's program, procirep-angoa, zodiak rights, studiocanal. eight episodes were shown from 26 november to 17 december 2012 by canal+ in france, betv in belgium and svt in sweden. the series, re-titled 'the returned', was broadcast in the uk by channel 4, commencing sunday 9th june 2013. http://lesrevenants.canalplus.fr/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_returned initial press release (8th october 2012) as you may know if you follow any of us on twitter, we've been in the studio recently. these sessions have been due to our involvement in preparing the soundtrack for a french tv show due to be broadcast on canal+ called "les revenants". the first episode of which will air in france on november 26th. rock action will be releasing a soundtrack album featuring music from the series in early 2013, while we're looking at doing a very limited france-only picture disc ep release in december to co-incide with the series. expect to hear a lot more about this in the coming months. the picture disc was eventually scrapped. there�s something to be said for a band that, seven studio albums, two soundtracks, a live album and two remix albums into their career, can still twist their artistic journey towards fresh directions that continually surprise and reveal new aspects of their sound. if mogwai�s decision to create the score to canal+ supernatural thriller series les revenants (meaning �ghosts�) came a little out of leftfield, then what they�ve come up with for the french television network probably wrong-footed even those that gave them the brief. a quick background to les revenants: adapted from the eponymous robin campillo-directed 2004 film, the series unfolds in an isolated french mountain town, where the locals are troubled after children who were tragically killed in a bus crash appear to come back to life, unaware that they�d died. a wonderfully captured perennial sense of unease and limbo sustains throughout each episode, with dully lit scenes and a sparsely-set location adding to the atmosphere. �we were actually big fans of the director fabrice gobert�s film simon werner a disparu, which had a soundtrack by sonic youth,� comments mogwai�s stuart braithwaite of their decision to take the project, �and we found the story for les revenants incredibly interesting.� the band was approached on the basis of their phenomenal work for the douglas gordon documentary zidane: a 21st century portrait. much like on that zidane soundtrack, the group have turned away again from their recognised path towards the fascinating new; their familiar layers on layers of textural guitar have been stripped away, allowing isolated piano and keys to wander with grip-like tension through the fourteen tracks. there�s something intangibly mogwai here still, but it�s been refracted through a fresh prism. �the whole process was completely new for us,� says braithwaite in explaining this departure. �the remit given to us was very vague � which was ideal � but we were still working to instruction for the first time, which offered a new kind of limitation. as it was a tv series soundtrack too, there was more than four times the amount of screen time for us to put music to, had to be created in a short period of time.� that condensed nature of writing and recording is what gives the les revenants soundtrack its sense of immediacy. much more has been made of repetition and looped motifs, used to enhance the both the anxiety of what�s unfolding on the screen, and also as a device for the group to experiment with refined dynamics in a new way. �the tension is in the story already so, with that in mind, all we felt necessary was to add to the atmosphere� comments braithwaite on the feeling of restraint that runs through the record. �this definitely made the music more subdued than a normal mogwai record, where the atmosphere is needed to be created completely by the music.� amidst this drawn out cord of nervous energy, though, was one complete curio: �initially we had to send the producers a load of demos and i found this cover version washington phillips� �what are they doing in heaven today?� i�d done solo that i�d intended to submit to a tribute album to late musician jack rose [from noise/drone band pelt who died of a heart attack in 2009]. it was a surprise that they used it but it fitted well in the end.� braithwaite�s paean to his former friend is an arrestingly beautiful rearrangement of the 1920�s texan gospel singer�s original, completely unlike anything released under the mogwai name and a perfect contrast to the rest of the soundtrack�s subtle agitation. but then that�s mogwai for you: always evolving, always surprising � this is another sublime addition to their canon.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10099
__label__cc	0.537885	0.462115	login register forgot password? HOME \| ABOUT \| MAPS \| ADVISORY INFO \| A TO Z \| RENEWABLES \| WATER ALERTS SIGN-UP \| LOGIN Advisory of the Day ST JOSEPH'S ISLAND, ON: BAD SAMPLE SUSPECTED IN NORTHERN ONTARIO E.COLI SCARE This story is brought to you in part by SunWind Solar A community on St. Joseph's Island in Ontario is under a boil water advisory as of November 1 due to tests that showed bacterial contamination. Algoma Public Health, released a notice shortly after saying that Richard's Landing, the largest community on St. Joseph's Island, had water samples which tested positive for the presence of total coliforms and E. coli. According to their Clerk Administrator, Carol Trainor, the municipal water system which uses groundwater as its source, services around 150 residences as well as a number of businesses. She said that the system had been flushed and was undergoing further testing. "We're expecting to be it over Monday, Trainor said, adding that it would most likely be over sooner but it might take a little longer because it's now the weekend. As for residents, they have all been hand delivered notices so that they are aware of the advisory but no bottled water is being provided at this point. "It's only an advisory," Trainor said, "So they can use their own water, they just have to boil it." John Bouma, Manager for Environmental Health and Communicable Disease Control with Algoma Public Health said that their team is still looking into the source of the bacteria. "We're thinking it was an outdoor tap, but it could be someone's hands, or it could be a (faulty sample)," he said. At this point, they are leaning towards the latter possibility. "We had a number of other samples that were clean and only one positive sample," Bouma said, "So we think it was a bad sample. We were retesting and resampling yesterday and today and we should know tomorrow whether it was an anomaly or not." If the lab results come back soon, Bouma believes the advisory could be listed by Saturday at the earliest. "If we get (poor) results again the boil water stays on," he said" but I'd be surprised frankly if it didn't come back clean." Advisory Maps For articles published before 2017, please email or call us Have a question? Give us a call 613-501-0175 All rights reserved 2020 - WATERTODAY - This material may not be reproduced in whole or in part and may not be distributed, publicly performed, proxy cached or otherwise used, except with express permission.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10105
__label__cc	0.66387	0.33613	‘Take Back Zimbabwe’ – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 20th October 2012 On the eve of the 2nd Stakeholders’ Meeting on the new constitution, Zimbabweans exiled in the UK gathered outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London to underline our fears that this ludicrous process would again be hijacked by Zanu PF. The gathering was part of the 10th round of monthly demonstrations by the Free Zimbabwe Global Diaspora 21st Movement. Previous protests were directed at SADC, regional players and the UN. The theme this month was ‘Operation Take Back Zimbabwe’ targeting Zimbabwe embassies (See: 21st Movement press release – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1empt9LlblvSr8H1tsxgXrlUdppW1LoTTR3jhgbAYjSQ/edit). The following petition was drawn up on the spot and signed by participants, including many MDC members as well as Vigil and ROHR supporters, before being slipped under the Embassy’s front door. ‘Petition to Zimbabwe Embassy, London. Zimbabweans exiled in the United Kingdom have gathered outside the Embassy today (Saturday 20th October 2012) to demand that the 2nd Stakeholders’ Meeting on the new constitution should be allowed to take place without sabotage by Zanu PF. We deplore the upsurge in political violence and the arbitrary arrests of opposition members and warn you that we will continue our campaign until there are free and fair elections. This demonstration is part of a global diaspora project ‘Operation Take Back Zimbabwe’ in which we are joined by brothers and sisters in the United States, South Africa and others round the world.’ Against a background of exuberant singing and dancing, we displayed the following posters: Independent Monitors for Copac Conference; No violence, No Arbitrary Arrests; Free Fair Peaceful Referendum; Free, Fair, Credible and Indisputable Elections; SADC JOMIC Monitors Where Are You?; UN, AU, Independent Monitors For Referendum; UN, AU, Independent Monitors For Elections; We Want A Clean Voters' Roll; No Repeat of 2008 Ever Again; Fair Justice, Independent Judges Now; People's Parliament Not Mugabe's, Open It Now; Diamond Money For The People; and Chinamasa & Gumbo stop your nonsense. · Following the Vigil’s 10th anniversary last week we were pleased to receive further messages of support: - Congratulations on your 10 years. Sorry I wasn’t able to be there as I am in South Africa. I did however post this on our facebook page: ZEN is congratulating the Zimbabwe Vigil on their 10th Anniversary. Hopefully it will not be necessary for another ten years of protest outside the Zimbabwean Embassy! – Tor-Hugne Olsen, Co-ordinator, Zimbabwe Europe Network. - Forgot to say happy 10th birthday/anniversary to the ZImbabwe Vigil Coalition. www.zimvigil.co.uk on the 13th of October. We should surely celebrate and thank God for stalwarts . . . Well done guys you are always in our prayers – Yvonne Gwashawanhu (Zimbabwean lawyer and human rights activist in the UK). - So proud that the Vigil is 10, it's amazing!! I keep up with your weekly diary and cheer you on. Hope it all goes well and please send love to everyone and keep on the keeping on – Wiz Bishop. Zimbabwe HR NGO Forum. - Makorakoto – well done, keep it up until the people have won – Eddie Cross MP. · We urge people to read Eddie Cross’s latest thoughts on the situation in Zimbabwe in which he discusses Zanu PF’s strategy to steal next year’s elections (see: http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/oct16_2012.html#Z21 - The Zanu PF Battle Plan). · The African philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, whose foundation promotes African leadership, has some stinging comments to make about Zimbabwe this week. Ibrahim said: "Zimbabwe should have been a success story. It is a wonderful country with wonderful resources but unfortunately is at a political impasse. That is really a problem. We really hope the Zimbabwean people will somehow come together to resolve this impasse and enable the country to move forward. It's unfortunate to have this kind of stagnation in the political scene which is affecting the performance of the country. The Zimbabwean people are among some of the best-educated Africans and very enterprising. So let's hope that they get their act together and somehow we see Zimbabwe rising again." (see: Mugabe holding Zimbabwe back: Ibrahim – http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/oct17_2012.html#Z8). Zimbabwe was ranked 47 out of 52 African countries in the 2012 Ibrahim Index. At the same time the influential Economist magazine rated Harare as the 4th worst capital city in the world to live in. · The Vigil has been asked to campaign for the diaspora vote by Derek Sparrow (see: http://www.zimvigil.co.uk/vigil-news/campaign-news/448-diaspora-vote-campaign for text of his request and our reply). · The Vigil has been asked to draw attention to the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum’s children’s competition as part of UN human rights day. They are inviting Zimbabwean children anywhere in the world to submit a story or a picture on the theme of 'The Portrait of a Great Zimbabwe'. For full details check: http://www.swradioafrica.com/Documents/CHILDREN%20STORY%20AND%20DRAWING%20COMPETITION-3.pdf. · Thanks once again to the ladies from ROHR Slough branch (Josephine Zhuga, Grace Nyaumwe and Iline Manhunzi) who brought sadza and nyama and mealies which they sold for ROHR funds. They were joined by Thandiwe Gwarumba and Anne Chikumba of the ROHR Birmingham branch who also contributed to ROHR funds by selling snacks. For latest Vigil pictures check: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/. Please note: Vigil photos can only be downloaded from our Flickr website – they cannot be downloaded from the slideshow on the front page of the Zimvigil website. · Launch of ROHR Central London Branch. Saturday 27th October from 6 – 9 pm. Venue: Strand Continental Hotel (first floor lounge), 143 Strand, London WC2R 1JA. The meeting will take place straight after the Vigil. Directions: The Strand is the same road as the Vigil. From the Vigil it’s about a 10 minute walk, in the direction away from Trafalgar Square. The Strand Continental is situated on the south side of the Strand between Somerset House and the turn off onto Waterloo Bridge. The entrance is marked by a big sign high above and a sign for its famous Indian restaurant at street level. It's next to a newsagent. Nearest underground: Temple (District and Circle lines) and Holborn. · ROHR Cambridge Branch Meeting. Saturday 27th October from 2 – 5 pm. Venue: St Andrews Hall, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1DH. Contact: Andrew Mlambo 07826626579; Deon Matola 07786674066, or Elijah Mandaza 07446251197 · ROHR Bournemouth Branch Meeting. Saturday 3rd November from 3 – 5 pm. Venue: 71 Stewart Road, Bournemouth BH8 8NZ. Contact: Memory Dzepasi 07585907566, Arthur Chagadama 07951 269667, Dennis Muringai 07787486839 or Collin Chitekwe 07957712691 · Special Zimbabwe Action Forum (ZAF). Saturday 10th November from 6.30 – 9.30 pm. Our special guest will be Ben Freeth. Venue: Strand Continental Hotel (first floor lounge), 143 Strand, London WC2R 1JA. Directions: The Strand is the same road as the Vigil. From the Vigil it’s about a 10 minute walk, in the direction away from Trafalgar Square. The Strand Continental is situated on the south side of the Strand between Somerset House and the turn off onto Waterloo Bridge. The entrance is marked by a big sign high above and a sign for its famous Indian restaurant at street level. It's next to a newsagent. Nearest underground: Temple (District and Circle lines) and Holborn. · Zimbabwe Vigil Highlights 2011 can be viewed on this link: http://www.zimvigil.co.uk/the-vigil-diary/363-vigil-highlights-2011. Links to previous years’ highlights are listed on 2011 Highlights page. · The Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe (ROHR) is the Vigil’s partner organisation based in Zimbabwe. ROHR grew out of the need for the Vigil to have an organisation on the ground in Zimbabwe which reflected the Vigil’s mission statement in a practical way. ROHR in the UK actively fundraises through membership subscriptions, events, sales etc to support the activities of ROHR in Zimbabwe. Please note that the official website of ROHR Zimbabwe is http://www.rohrzimbabwe.org/. Any other website claiming to be the official website of ROHR in no way represents the views and opinions of ROHR. · The Zim Vigil band (Farai Marema and Dumi Tutani) has launched its theme song ‘Vigil Yedu (our Vigil)’ to raise awareness through music. To download this single, visit: www.imusicafrica.com and to watch the video check: http://ourvigil.notlong.com. To watch other Zim Vigil band protest songs, check: http://Shungurudza.notlong.com and http://blooddiamonds.notlong.com. · To sponsor the Mike Campbell Foundation expedition ‘Sailing across the Makgadikgadi Pans’ which will raise money for the work of the Foundation, go to www.justgiving.com/Mike-Campbell-Foundation. · Useful websites: www.zanupfcrime.com which reports on Zanu PF abuses and www.ipaidabribe.org.zw where people can report corruption in Zimbabwe.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10115
__label__wiki	0.969245	0.969245	Cubs Kris Bryant, Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks up for major awards NEW YORK -- Fresh off leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series title in more than a century, slugger Kris Bryant and several teammates could soon be hoisting more hardware. Bryant is among the top three vote-getters for the National League MVP award, with Cubs manager Joe Maddon and pitchers Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks in contention for other honors. The Baseball Writers' Association of America announced the finalists Monday. Voting was completed before the postseason, and award winners will be announced next week on MLB Network. A season after he was the NL Rookie of the Year, Bryant hit 39 home runs with 102 RBIs while batting .292. The third baseman also scored a league-high 121 runs. Washington Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy, who batted .347 for the NL East champions, and Dodgers rookie shortstop Corey Seager also are up for NL MVP. AL batting champion Jose Altuve of Houston, 2014 winner Mike Trout of the Angels and Boston outfielder Mookie Betts are the finalists in the American League. The MVPs will be announced Nov. 17. The AL Cy Young Award is between Cleveland ace Corey Kluber, Boston's Rick Porcello and Detroit's Justin Verlander. In the NL, it's Lester, Hendricks or Washington's Max Scherzer on Nov. 16. Detroit's Michael Fulmer, the Yankees' Gary Sanchez and Cleveland's Tyler Naquin are finalists for AL Rookie of the Year. Seager, Dodgers teammate Kenta Maeda and Washington's Trea Turner are the NL contenders, with the top rookies being announced next Monday. Maddon, Washington's Dusty Baker, and Dave Roberts of the Dodgers are up for NL Manager of the Year. Cleveland's Terry Francona, who guided his team into the World Series, Texas' Jeff Banister and Baltimore's Buck Showalter are the AL candidates. Those honors will be awarded Nov. 15. The Cubs led the majors with 103 wins during the regular season. Last year, Chicago won three major awards after reaching the NL Championship Series. In addition to Bryant earning rookie honors, Maddon was the NL Manager of the Year and pitcher Jake Arrieta took home the NL Cy Young Award. Gary Sanchez's season for the ages... in 52 games Check out the incredible start to the career of Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez, including being the first rookie to win consecutive Player of the Week awards and tying an MLB record with 20 home runs in 51 career games. sportsespnmlbdaniel murphymax scherzermichael fulmertyler naquinbaseball writers association of americafinalistscorey seagerjustin verlandertrea turnerrick porcellokris bryantmookie bettsjon lesterjose altuvemike troutawardskenta maedajake arrietacorey klubergary sanchezchicago cubskyle hendricks Copyright © 2020 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10119
__label__cc	0.701081	0.298919	Research: Protect It and They Will Come Home » Research: Protect It and They Will Come Victoria University Business School Climate change and severe weather events can wreak economic and physical havoc. Pacific Island nations and other tourism-reliant locations are particularly vulnerable. Research Impact Summary Coastal storm surge regeneration activities in Vanuatu were undertaken Better community awareness about climate change risks and tourism in Samoa Bali embarked on a green-growth path Community-led approaches to adapting to bushfire risk were adopted in Victoria. Protecting Pacific Island Tourism-Based Economies As the effects of climate change mount, Pacific Island nations, many of which depend on tourism, need to protect their natural systems and hence their tourism-based economies. Severe weather events such as cyclones, earthquakes, storm surges and bushfires can wipe out infrastructure, ruin coastlines, deter visitors and destroy livelihoods. Victoria University’s Pacific Tourism Climate Adaptation Project is helping to address this issue at the global, national and local levels. The research showed that governments must include tourism in climate change adaptation plans, and that tourist destinations can adapt by employing sustainable development strategies. Working with Vulnerability and Resilience The project created a vulnerability-resilience (VR) framework and toolkit. The VR toolkit has been applied in tourism destinations worldwide to identify location-specific vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies. Creating Coral Beds On Vanuatu’s Nguna-Pele Islands 60 villagers established purpose-built coral beds and planted them with over 3000 coral fragments in 40 colonies. As a result, coral-associated fish, a source of local food security, are more abundant; over 500 youths were educated about coral sensitivity to climate change; seven island villages are receiving sustainable income flows; and increased engagement with overseas visitors has attracted other forms of climate cooperation. (In a stroke of good fortune the nascent coral colonies survived Cyclone Pam in 2015.) Bali’s Green Growth Roadmap In Bali VU researchers applied VR methodology as they developed the island’s long-term ‘green growth’ roadmap. The roadmap, commissioned by the Indonesian Government, included strategies for waste management, water conservation, carbon reduction and diversification of tourism infrastructure. Many of these strategies were embedded in the Bali Tourism Master Plan 2015–2029. The Bali Tourism Board said the roadmap, ‘provided a framework for integrating global/national policy evolution with local implementation’. Australian Alpine Tourism In early 2013 bush fires devastated forests near the small town of Harrietville in Victoria’s alpine region. As a consequence the Victorian government commissioned VU researchers to conduct a study designed to clarify threats to nature-based tourism in the area and ways to address them. After applying a modified version of their VR methodology, the researchers identified 14 priorities, most of which were included in local strategic plans. As a result the Alpine Shire Council undertook 28 tourism-related projects that improved local tourism infrastructure, branding, stakeholder relationships, communications and visitor numbers. One tourism official said, ‘The legacy of this [VU’s research] report is that it mainstreamed thinking around vulnerability and the value of the landscape to Harrietville, making this a focus of how people think and talk about the town. This had not previously been front-of-mind in government or community planning discussions.’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10124
__label__cc	0.715371	0.284629	Teacher Writes Own Obit Before Dying At 32: ‘Stop Letting Insignificant Situations Stress You Out’ ERIE, Pa. — A woman wrote her own obituary before passing away at the age of 32 after a brave battle with cancer. Ashley Ann Kuzma began by saying, “When you have recurrent laryngeal cancer that just won’t take no for an answer, you have a lot of time to think about death. The good thing is I no longer have to worry about saving for retirement, paying off student loans, or trying not to get skin cancer??? One positive outcome from having recurrent cancer was that it taught me to let go of the insignificant things and to just enjoy the people and places.” Kuzma said her body finally had enough after three recurrences of cancer. She died last month at the Cleveland Clinic. She was a gifted teacher at a high school in Erie, Pennsylvania. Kuzma loved reading, cuddling with her cats and traveling. She wrote that after she found out her cancer was back for the fourth time, she went to Mexico and saw Chichen Itza. “I am extremely grateful for the life that I lived. I was fortunate to have a loving family, supportive friends, a stable and meaningful job, and a house to call my own. My wish for you is to stop letting insignificant situations stress you out. Do what is important to you. Relax and enjoy the company of those around you. What do you value in your life? In the end, that’s what matters.” Kuzma’s family told Good Morning America they didn’t know she had written her obituary until they found it on her computer following her death. Kuzma’s mom, Vicky, said, “When we found it we were like, ‘What do we do?’ and I said, ‘She wrote this. We have to publish this. This is her last message to us, how could we not?’” In her obituary, Kuzma asked that a celebration of life be held for her “since I think viewings are too sad for everyone.” She also asked that donations be made to the Humane Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania (Erie Humane Society), Orphan Angels Cat Sanctuary & Adoption Center Erie, Pa., or , Cleveland, Ohio. Read her obituary here. Heat Camera At Tourist Attraction Spots Woman’s Breast Cancer Alex Trebek’s Wife Jean Opens Up About Her Husband’s Cancer Battle Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis Announces He Has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer Permanent Hair Dye And Straighteners May Be Linked To Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer, Study Says Serena Williams Wins First Title Since Daughter’s Birth, Will Donate Prize To Fight Australia Bushfires Springdale Athlete Training For Ironman Race After Battling Breast Cancer Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘Home And Doing Well’ After Hospitalization, Supreme Court Says	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10134
__label__cc	0.658223	0.341777	Where is your 604? #BCTECHSummit – Scaling Up for Global Growth 2020 Monday June 1st, 2020 - Tuesday June 2nd, 2020 Alicia Keys – The World Tour 2020 Monday August 31st, 2020 Broadway’s Hamilton: Vancouver 2020 Monday June 22nd, 2020 - Saturday July 25th, 2020 Lunar New Year Brunch and Lion Dance 2020 Sunday January 26th, 2020 7 Great Restaurants Now Offering $25 Menus As Part of The Dine Out Festival Meagan Gill \| January 20, 2020 If you’re dining on a budget, we’ve got just the thing for you: Dine Out Vancouver. While a lot of amazing eateries are offering set... Pho Kitchen In Vancouver Is Offering Cheap Bowls on Tuesdays Dana Bowen \| January 20, 2020 With Vancouver finally getting a downpour of snow, Pho Kitchen is offering a way to warm you up this season. The Vancouver-based company is offering... 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Netflix Canada January 2020: Everything Coming and Leaving This Month Howard Chai \| December 27, 2019 January 2020 is right around the corner, and with the new year comes a new batch of things to watch on Netflix Canada. Both Disney... Vancouver Contests Free in Vancouver Best of Metro Vancouver Advertise FacebookTwitterPinterestInstagramYouTube 12 Vancouver Concerts to Check Out in April Tom Ireland \| @tomvncvr \| April 3, 2017 Photo: Super 45 \| Música Independiente / Flickr PHOTO: FACEBOOK / BRANT BJORK There are some killer concerts taking place this month, right from the very beginning. Punk greats, hip hop legends, giants of yesteryear and breakthrough acts are all bringing the music to Vancouver in April. PHOTO: FACEBOOK / D.O.A. D.O.A. – Rickshaw Theatre, 254 East Hastings Street Starting the month out strong is a performance by local hardcore punk legends D.O.A. The show is benefit for the political aspirations of frontman Joe Keithley (AKA Joey Shithead), who is running for the green party in the upcoming provincial elections. RELATED: Punk Politics: D.O.A.’s Joe Keithley Running In Provincial Elections April 5/6 PHOTO: FACEBOOK / THE ZOLAS The Zolas – Railway Stage & Beer Cafe, 579 Dunsmuir Street / Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street Locals The Zolas are nominated for ‘Breakthrough Group of the Year’ at the Juno awards, so now is a great time to catch them. On April 5th, the band will play at the grand opening of the Railway Stage & Beer Cafe (formerly, The Railway Club) and follow that up with a show at the Vogue Theatre. RELATED: The Railway Club Will Reopen on April 5th PHOTO: Facebook / King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – The Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street This Australian psychedelic band offers a mind-bending experience that is well worth turning up for. Brant Bjork w/ Black Wizard – SBC Restaurant, 109 East Hastings Street Best-known for the Queens of the Stone Age, California’s desert rock scene is hugely influential. But before the Queens of the Stone Age, there was Kyuss. Brant Bjork was Kyuss’ drummer, also spent time in Fu Manchu and is now touring his solo project. Also on the bill is Black Wizard, a top-notch metal band making waves out of New West. Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Redman, and Cypress Hill – Rogers Arena What a lineup! Hip-hop fans have gotta love this one. Snoop Dogg, who is now also a weed entrepreneur, loves coming to Vancouver and even talked about moving to Canada in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. PHOTO: FACEBOOK / TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Two Door Cinema Club – Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe Street Enjoy some fun indie rock from this Irish band, formed at the height of the indie-rock revival that also created the Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party and many more. PHOTO: Facebook / I Love The 90’s Salt-N-Pepa and Vanilla Ice – Abbotsford Centre, 33800 King Rd, Abbotsford Okay, so it’s not in Vancouver, but I had to mention this orgy of 90s nostalgia. Anyone who grew up in that decade will have memories of listening to these acts; relive them at Abby Centre thanks to the ‘I Love the 90s Tour’. RELATED: I Love the 90’s Tour Brings TLC to Abbotsford PHOTO: FACEBOOK / THE WEEKND The Weeknd – Rogers Arena, 800 Griffiths Way The Weeknd is a proven hitmaker, releasing danceable tunes that are sure to get the Rogers Arena crowd moving. The xx – UBC Thunderbird Arena, 6066 Thunderbird Boulevard This British band’s dreamy style has proved popular ever since its debut album was released in 2009. With third album I See You released earlier this year, the band is on tour and will play at UBC. PHOTO: FACEBOOK / JIMMY EAT WORLD Jimmy Eat World – Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St Another throwback performance taking place this month, this Arizona band started out back in 1993 and brought us the likes of ‘The Middle’ and ‘Hear You Me.’ The band was the soundtrack to a generation, featured on classics such as One Tree Hill and A Cinderella Story. Laura Marling – Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street This Brit Award-winning folk musician is touring to support her latest album, Semper Femina. Marling made a name for herself with early releases Alas, I Cannot Swim and I Speak Because I Can. PHOTO: FACEBOOK / LIONEL RICHIE Lionel Richie and Mariah Carey – Rogers Arena, 800 Griffiths Way What needs to be said about these giants of the music industry? Both artists are a huge draw in their own right, so this double bill is huge for R&B fans. Log in or create an account to save content Get more 604, delivered to your inbox Plan your next night out, enter contests, and stay connected. 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__label__wiki	0.795034	0.795034	Juice WRLD's Friends Could Be Charged for His Death Chicago prosecutors are reportedly exploring whether to charge the late rapper's friends with felony murder as it has been reported that Juice's team was smuggling drugs, which he swallowed to hide from the feds. AceShowbiz - Juice WRLD's friends could be held accountable for the rapper's death. Words are chicago prosecutors are currently exploring whether to charge the "All Girls Are the Same" hitmaker's friends with felony murder. Under "felony" murder, a person is guilty if he's committing a crime and someone dies during the commission. According to MTO News, an anonymous tweeter with clear ties to the Chicago prosecutor wrote, "Juice Wrld's team were smuggling drugs, and he tried to hide the evidence and died. It's straight forward felony murder." As it has been reported before, police found 41 vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets when searching Juice's plane. Two security guards working for Juice were charged with misdemeanor offenses for illegally possessing the guns and ammunition. As the authorities were conducting the search, the Chicago-born star allegedly suffered convulsions and went into cardiac arrest. When his girlfriend was asked by police if he had any medical issues or had ingested any drugs, she replied that he took Percocet, a painkiller, and "has a drug problem," according to sources. The "Lucid Dreams" spitter briefly woke up after an agent administered two doses of Narcan, an emergency treatment when opioid overdose is suspected, but he was "incoherent." He was then rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, where he was pronounced dead at 3:14 A.M. local time. Meanwhile, Juice's ex-girlfriend has spoken up on his drug issue. Alexia Smith, who claims she was in a relationship with the rapper for nearly a year in 2018, tells Daily Mail that the late artist would take up to three potent Percocet pills a day and mix the drugs with a cough syrup concoction called lean. She also claims that she tried to help him get clean, but he turned violent during his withdrawals. Camila Cabello Shares Which Shawn Mendes' Traits She Adopts Lori Harvey and Future Are Inseparable After Moving In Together Juice WRLD's Girlfriend Shares Positive Message With His Fans at Rolling Loud Besides Juice WRLD, These Deceased Stars Eerily Predicted Their Own Deaths Juice WRLD Laid to Rest in Private Funeral Days After Sudden Death Juice WRLD's family Opens Up on His Battle With Drug Addiction Juice WRLD's Friends Say They're Racially Profiled at Airport Before the Rapper's Death	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10143
__label__cc	0.508749	0.491251	Adapting to Annhilation So we have to decarbonize the world’s economy by 5.1% a year from now until 2050 just to keep the average global temperature rise to 2°C. That’s according to the recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers report, Too Late for Two Degrees? South Ferry Station after Hurricane Sandy I’m trying to reconcile that factoid with the cries for adaptation planning that have flooded the blogosphere since Hurricane Sandy flooded New York’s subway system. Without serious and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas output, the push for adaptation is just a sophisticated form of denial. It denies the scale of the situation. It denies that we have to alter the way we live. It denies that we must stop the problem at its source, which is burning oil, coal, and gas. First, Let’s Take Our Foot Off the Accelerator Adaptation works only if we stop adding more fuel to an already overloaded dynamic. The more carbon in the atmosphere, the more energy is trapped, and the more trapped energy, the more unstable the weather. Business-as-usual keeps us on a path for as much as 6°C (11°F) of warming, according to PwC. That’s consistent with other estimates I’ve seen. See animation at NASA’s Earth Observatory website NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies says that the average global temperature has gone up 0.8°C since 1880. Zero point eight. That tiny increment amped Sandy enough to turn the South Ferry subway station into an aquarium. The CO2 blanket we’ve wrapped around the globe is already nearly thick enough to heat it by 2°C by 2050, even if we reduce annual emissions to 20% of 1990 levels by then. (We’re at about 391 parts per million now; 450 ppm is widely recognized as the upper limit of carbon dioxide levels we can tolerate without exceeding 2°C.) Think of the atmosphere in thermodynamic terms. We’ve saturated its capacity to hold energy; now it’s trying to shed it. But because we’ve blanketed the globe with extra CO2, the excess energy can’t escape into space anymore. So that energy stays directed inward, like heat in a, well, a greenhouse. Adapt to What, Exactly? We might adapt to a 2°C world if emissions were under control. Even so, the risk of malinvestment is extreme. We’d have to anticipate a host of unmeasurable targets. How high should New York build a sea wall or a floodgate? The estimated average height of the sea in 2050? The estimated peak height? Will the peak be driven by another Category 1 Sandy, or by a Category 5 Katrina, or by something worse? What about in 2100? What about every other coastal city? Will London’s floodgate on the Thames function when sea level is a foot higher? Will hurricanes show up there, too? And what about other effects of climate change? Adaptation planning assumes linear extrapolations of current conditions. The chief feature of an unstable system is unpredictability. Dynamic behavior under stress is nonlinear. The risk of discontinuities—abrupt, fundamental changes in function—is high. Think of an overheated engine or circuit. Each works predictably until the instant their functional mode abruptly changes to failure. Drastic shifts in weather patterns will drive food shortages and damage infrastructure. The world economy can’t function if food is unreliable, and that will compound the problem in a nasty feedback loop. Less money means less investment, leading to inefficiency and yet less money to invest, and on and on in a descending spiral. This doesn’t even factor in the psychology of such a scenario. It wouldn’t be conducive to peace, let alone cooperation on the most capital-intensive engineering projects in history. Climate Progress lays out the case for investing in prevention rather than adaptation in this recent post. Even without considering the risks, CP demonstrates the truth behind the old maxim, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Or in the case of climate change adaptation, a few tons. Planning to adapt to a 2°C world is like planning to adapt to a permanent state of war. Planning to adapt to a 6°C world is like planning to adapt to another Chicxulub asteroid. There’s very little New York or any city can do to anticipate the scale and severity of future climate change. Investing in adaptation without controlling the source of the problem—fossil fuel emissions—is just throwing good money after bad. All resources should be focused on reducing carbon emissions as much and as fast as possible. Prevention is the first, only, and best hope to keep NYC, the rest of America, and the world from sliding into a reality-based version of Mad Max meets Waterworld. Filed under Adaptation, Climate Change, Denialism Tagged as adaptation, Chicxulub asteroid, Hurrican Sandy, South Ferry Station, Too Late for Two Degrees Entirely Plausible and Very Near The reviews say A Change in the Weather is "a thought-provoking page-turner... it reads like history, as if global warming has already begun to do its worst... very moving... if Orwell took on climate change, this would be his book." It's available on Amazon in paper or in Kindle format, or in paper at CreateSpace. Essay in Terrain See my essay "Confessions of a Failed Energy Martyr" at Terrain.org. Disquieting Convergences, Hopeful Divergences Fear Trumps Let’s Not Bank on Cap and Trade Who Owns the Atmosphere? What the World Whispers How to Cook an Egg The Planetary Balloon Payment Is Due Who Is the Hero in This Movie? 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__label__cc	0.531826	0.468174	ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY Impact of Bacterial Biomass on Contaminant Sorption and Transport in a Subsurface Soil C. A. Bellin, P. S. C. Rao C. A. Bellin P. S. C. Rao The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of bacterial biomass on the sorption and transport of three solutes (quinoline, naphthalene, and 45Ca) in a subsurface soil. Miscible displacement techniques were employed to measure sorption and transport of the above compounds during steady, saturated water flow in sterile and/or bacterium-inoculated soil columns. The soil was inoculated with either a quinoline-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas sp. 3N3A isolate, or its mutant isolate, B53, which does not degrade quinoline. In soil columns inoculated with the B53 and 3N3A isolates, quinoline sorption was reduced by about 60 and 20%, respectively. In contrast, 45Ca sorption was minimally reduced, which indicated that biomass did not significantly alter the cation-exchange capacity of the soil. Biomass impacts on sorption were solute specific, even when the sorption mechanism for both quinoline and 45Ca was similar. Thus, the differential response is attributed to biomass-induced changes in quinoline speciation; an increase in pH at the sorbent-water interface would result in a larger proportion of the neutral species and a decrease in sorption. Sorption of naphthalene was reduced by about 30%, which was attributed to accessibility of hydrophobic regions. Minimal biosorption of all solutes indicated negligible biofacilitated transport. Alteration of the soil surfaces upon addition of bacterial biomass reduced sorption of quinoline and naphthalene, thereby enhancing transport. ↵* Corresponding author. Electronic mail address: CABE@GNV.IFAS.UFL.EDU. ↵† Approved for publication as Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series number R-02867. Applied and Environmental Microbiology Jun 1993, 59 (6) 1813-1820; DOI: You are going to email the following Impact of Bacterial Biomass on Contaminant Sorption and Transport in a Subsurface Soil	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10157
__label__wiki	0.908406	0.908406	The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital. Actor: Catherine Shipton , George Rainsford , Crystal Yu , Lloyd Everitt , Jamie Davis , Tony Marshall Director: Jeremy Brock , Paul Unwin Season 28 - Casualty 1 "Bedside Manner" "New trainee doctor Lily jumps straight in to investigate a disastrous robbery on the open road, while Dixie builds a bond with a game old bird to help her carry out a romantic mission." 2 "Once There Was a Way Home: Part One" "Nurse Rita is late for her first shift as she contends with an injured neighbour whose hoarding has got out of control, while Jamie bonds with a failed asylum seeker too scared to tell the authorities he's gay." 3 "Once There Was a Way Home: Part Two" "Jamie almost brings the whole ED to a standstill as he becomes embroiled in attempts to assist an Iranian immigrant, meanwhile Sam's maternal skills are revealed as she rescues the baby of a broken family." 4 "What You Believe" "Ash and Jeff are forced to dive into the sea to save a teenager who's been tombstoning, while Fletch and Rita treat a boy who is claiming to be the reincarnation of an elderly lady's brother." 5 "Waiting for a Star to Fall" "Lily is assigned to an emotional case involving a teenage cancer patient in order to learn some empathy, while Charlie investigates an act of heroism as a bus crash unravels a web of deceit." 6 "Scars" "Treating two brothers who come to blows with a drug dealer tests Iain and Jeff's ability to get on, while Jamie susses out that a patient is faking it to get his mother's attention." 7 "Gloves Off" "Rita and Ash look after a young girl who is keeping secrets from her charming boyfriend, and Fletch is worried about two sisters who are struggling to look after each other as they get older." 8 "The Longest Day" "Iain helps a teenager caught up in a fatal car crash to face up to the truth, while Fletch decides to shoulder the blame for Tess's mistake." 9 "Love Hurts" "Tess has to confront her own problems when a pregnant woman is involved in a road traffic collision, and Robyn and Jamie witness the effects of a batch of bad pills on the Holby nightlife." 10 "The Memory of Water" "Ash and Tess work to discover why a mother and daughter are so at odds about how far the team should go to save the father's life, while Jamie accidentally helps crack open a love triangle." 11 "Crush Syndrome" "Rita's day with the paramedics brings her close to a patient in a serious entrapment, and Big Mac is able to make a real difference with a destitute man." 12 "Three's A Crowd" "Jeff helps a father and his sons after they get into trouble over a hidden bag of cash. Sam treats a bride, not knowing that Tom intends to propose." 13 "Badge of Honour" "Iain is deeply affected by two police officers who stir up his memories of army life and Charlie tries to help a young family keep hold of their little girl." 14 "Rock and a Hard Place" "Lily suspects steroids are to blame for a violent dispute between rugby players while Sam and new porter Max help a policeman in pursuit of the truth." 15 "Between the Cracks" "The pressure is on Fletch who's trying to balance responsibility with helping a vulnerable boy and Jamie unwittingly gives Lily a lesson in patient care." 16 "There's No Place Like Home" 17 "What a Wonderful Life" "Fletch has to rescue a child from danger when two brothers are involved in an accident, and Sam realises the truth about her own relationship when she re-starts the heart of a patient." 18 "Away in a Manger" "A young couple are forced to take refuge at a farm for the birth of their baby, while a man is electrocuted by a Christmas tree, disrupting Sam and Tom's wedding plans and causing Fletch to be arrested." 19 "For Auld Lang Syne" "An explosion in a bar leads to a disastrous New Year's Eve for Fletch, and Robyn helps a silent singer find his voice." 20 "Bad Timing" "Lily and new doctor Ethan diagnose teacher Alice with a rare disease, while Zoe and Tess fight to save the life of Dixie's girlfriend." 21 "Brothers At Arms" "New doctor Cal goes to the rescue of a girl in a limo hanging precariously off a bridge, while his brother Ethan uncovers the truth about an art student whose sight is endangered by flying glass." 22 "Keeping Schtum" "Dixie's accused of assault after a man she and Rita think is a rapist trips and hits his head. Ethan and Cal strive to help a little boy get his voice back." 23 "Blood is Thicker than Water" "Rita helps a rape victim gain the courage to press charges, while Zoe treats an eccentric ex-Tiller girl who must tell the truth about the daughter she put up for adoption." 24 "Once in a Lifetime" "On his last day at the ED, Jamie helps Cal and Ethan uncover abuse between a stepfather and his family while Dixie and Jeff help extract a man sinking in mud." 25 "Valentines Day Mascara" "Iain defies orders and runs into a burning building to save a man searching for his new fiancee, while Lily steps into the breach as a magician's assistant when pensioner Yvonne gets injured." 26 "The Great Pretender" "Fletch's daughter runs away from home and lands herself in danger, while Robyn has to discover why a teenage girl is lying." 27 "The Last Chance Saloon" "Lily makes a special connection with a new mother with learning disabilities. Robyn is intrigued when she discovers mysterious intruder Lofty hiding in her house, but is he really as kind and friendly as he appears?" 28 "Survivor's Guilt" "Iain tries to help a distressed ex-army friend and his wife, while Lofty's keen eye helps save a young man who must learn to stand up to his brother." 29 "Gravity" "Big Mac and Iain are held hostage by an angry ex-soldier, while Charlie must learn the identity of a patient so the team can race to save her son." 30 "The Lies We Tell" "Ethan's conscience is tested when an activist asks him to hide his secrets, while Rita and Zoe help a desperate prisoner repair his relationship with his mother." 31 "Valves to Vagrants" "New consultant Connie Beauchamp saves a man from prison on her first day at the ED, while Ash takes his wayward daughter in hand." 32 "The Quiet Man" "Connie, Zoe and Lily pull together to treat a father and his daughter, who has ADHD, while Charlie helps an old biker come to terms with his wife's dementia." 33 "Only the Lonely" "Jeff, Rita and Lily help a morbidly obese man access the help he needs while Dixie bonds with an angry young motorcyclist." 34 "When Nothing Else Matters" "Fletch builds bridges between a father and son estranged by drugs. Cal tries to discover what is wrong with a man who thinks he has a brain tumour." 35 "Carrot Not Stick" "Dixie risks her job to take a patient to see his dying mother, while another patient's unusual birthday treat to herself goes awry when she sniffs cocaine." 36 "Who Cares" "Dixie is given three months suspension by the Ambulance Trust and Connie makes Zoe question whether there was another procedure she could have tried in order to save a patient's life." 37 "Games for the Boys" "Ash realises the truth about his daughter when a patient's experience with drugs turns sour, while Fletch fights to repair a broken family on a couple's wedding day." 38 "The Family Way" "Cal tries to help a family torn apart by sibling rivalry, while Tess tries to help a pregnant teenager stand up to her controlling father." 39 "To Yourself Be True" "Connie tries to help a father come to terms with his son's sexuality, while Cal helps treat a severely paranoid patient." 40 "The Dying Game" "Rita finds herself in a difficult situation when a fire breaks out in an elderly care home, while Lily helps a man with toothache realise the true extent of his problem." 41 "Unhinged" "The ED struggle with increasing numbers, Connie fights to save a man with dementia, and Ethan and Rita work to convince a bulimic teenager that she needs help." 42 "Falling: Part One" "Zoe sticks up for the ED when the press turn up, but a horrific helicopter accident is the last straw that pushes her to make a difficult decision." 43 "Falling: Part Two" "Tess is involved in a horrendous crash and Fletch sacrifices everything to save her." 44 "In the Name of Love" "A cross-country obstacle race accident brings together a father and son as well as Jeff and his new love interest." 45 "First Impressions" "Connie helps an ill man tell his wife the truth, and a leukaemia survivor comes to realise that she isn't ready for a family yet." 46 "The Love You Take" "Rita receives a visit from her past which jeopardises her future, and Lofty and Cal bring a family back together with a bit of creative thinking." 47 "The Sicilian Defence" "Cal and Ethan work together to solve a medical mystery, while Rita helps a patient come to terms with a secret." 1 "Learning to Fly" "Jeff finds himself in a dangerous situation when Samantha's secret turns up, whilst Max helps a young couple stand up to their families." 2 "Fallen Stars" "Rita loses her temper when a patient turns out to be dishonest, Cal helps a schoolgirl come to terms with her HIV after being bullied at school and Max helps a rock legend come clean." 3 "Home" 4 "Go Out and Get Busy" "Robyn and Ethan assist the paramedics when a floor collapses at a wedding. Max bonds with an unhappy teenager, while Lofty thinks creatively to help a deaf woman come forward about her abuse." 5 "Born Lucky" "Connie decides to take a select number of her staff out on a day following the hospital's recent success, but when Ethan takes his eyes off the road for a second too long the team are embroiled in a horrific road traffic collision - with devastating consequences for one character." 6 "The Last Call" "A few old faces gather as an emotional day arrives for the staff. Ethan leaves his bed to attend the funeral, while Dixie distracts herself. Iain returns, while a new Tea Lady, Honey, catches the eyes of Noel." 7 "The Index Case" "A man dies from a mysterious injury, leaving Connie wondering whether she missed something, and Cal and Ethan discover a rare virus that connects two patients." 8 "Return to Sender" "A familiar face returns to the ED, Lofty treats a boy sick of being stopped and searched and Dixie and Ash clash." 9 "Entrenched" "On local derby day, a pre-match fight ends with tragic consequences." 10 "Deadfall" "A suspicious death leads Lily on a murder mystery investigation that nearly costs her life." 11 "Asylum" "Lofty helps an asylum seeker, Ash loses it in resus and Ethan struggles with a diagnosis." 12 "Losing Grip" "Ash is angered by a patient's lifestyle choice, Big Mac treats an old lady who seems confused after foiling a robbery on a shop and Ethan has a breakthrough. Connie is forced to bring her daughter into work" 13 "Feeling Good" "Ash disagrees with Dylan about how to treat a suspected overdose. Cal treats a patient with a large abscess, and Zoe gets annoyed when Cal flirts with her patient." 14 "Solomon's Song" "Hospital drama. The team deal with an incident at the cathedral, Lofty helps a patient who thinks he is Jesus and Honey reveals her secret." 15 "Next Year's Words" "New Year approaches with New Years resolutions being made but Connie's personal life causes problems." 16 "Clinging On" "A demanding patient is forcing Connie to spend less time with Grace as Zoe starts to realise life can be short." 17 "Muddling Through" "Connie finds herself in a showdown with Hailey Blake as Robyn decides to set up a hospital food bank." 18 "The Last Goodbye" "Rita has a blast from her past when Mark turns up but concern grows when Grace goes missing." 19 "What a Difference a Day Makes" "Now that Grace has left, Connie throws herself into work as Big Mac tries to help a man after he gambled his brother's money." 20 "Front Line" "The ED is facing an inspection but Connie is unaware to problems that lay ahead as a soldier training day suffers an explosion." 21 "Sweetie" "Connie suggests that Dylan applies for the vacancy of Consultant as the team's professionalism is tested by a criminal." 22 "Sweet Little Lies" "Lofty and Dylan bond over a patient with a big secret. Connie helps a teenage girl." 23 "Something to Live For" "Dixie convinces a father to not give up on himself. Connie finds a friend in a patient." 24 "Excess Baggage" "Lily helps a wife to be honest with her husband, and Rita helps a man change his attitude." 25 "Toxic Relationships" "Lily is involved in an accident, and a couple risk losing their baby." 26 "The Road Not Taken" "Zoe reflects on her decisions and wonders what she would do with a second chance." 27 "Something Borrowed, Something Blue" "A man tries to protect himself from his past, while a young woman tells a dangerous lie." 28 "Under Pressure" "Connie helps a confused young mum, and Ethan gives advice to a vengeful bullied schoolboy." 29 "The King's Crossing" "Connie's heroic day comes to an unexpected end, while Cal gets a blast from the past." 30 "The Rita Supremacy" "Connie needs to prove her innocence in the Alfred case." 31 "The Department of Secrets" "Connie's trial begins. Rita helps a young girl get bittersweet justice." 32 "Exile" "Charlie and Connie embark on a mission to save Louis which takes them to Bucharest." 33 "Against the Odds" "Lily helps a mother and daughter escape a difficult situation." 34 "Fix You" "Cal and Ethan help a son come to terms with the seriousness of his mother's illness." 35 "The Way Home" "Dylan and Zoe get to the bottom of how a team-building exercise went so wrong." 36 "The Golden Hours" "Dixie helps a grieving mother to let go, and Cal and a leukaemia patient work together to raise money for charity." 37 "A Moment of Clarity" "Dylan has another bad day, Charlie tirelessly tries to help Louis through his withdrawal, and Cal convinces a mum to come clean to her daughter." 39 "Holby Sin City" "Ethan falls for a woman, but she brings nothing but trouble." 40 "If You Could Bottle It" "An unlikely hero leads the team to a crucial diagnosis, and Rita helps a desperate man." 41 "The Next Step" "Jacob proves his powers of persuasion when a lie nearly costs a girl her life." 42 "Dark Horses" "Charlie helps a cowardly dad do the right thing for his daughter." 43 "The Long Haul" "Dylan is shaken up by an unwanted patient, and Jacob shows his romantic side." 44 "Knock Knock Who's There?" "Jacob unveils the truth about a patient. Tess has to make a difficult decision." 45 "Forsaking All Others, Part One" "The team help a daughter and father. Ethan convinces a man to confess to his girlfriend." 46 "Forsaking All Others, Part Two" "It's Max and Zoe's wedding day, and someone's got cold feet." 1 "A Child's Heart, Part One" "Jacob institutes emergency protocol after gang violence takes a deadly turn." 3 "Objectum Sexual" "It's a big day for Louise as an unusual romance flourishes at Holby ED." 4 "Cradle to the Grave" "There's a new doctor in the ED as life and death hang in the balance." 5 "Belief" "Terror comes to Holby, and the innocent get caught in the crossfire." 6 "All the Single Ladies" "Iain and Dixie are pushed to the limit, but their rewards are many." 7 "Rules of Attraction" "Cal's back on an even keel. Can things only get better?" 8 "Flutterby" "Charlie helps a father and daughter deal with their grief." 9 "One Shot" "Jacob helps a harassed teacher to accept help, but can he take his own advice?" 10 "Best Served Cold" "Things get fishy when an unlikely patient comes into the ED." 11 "Avoidable Harm" "Alicia is pushed to her limits and proves she's a brilliant doctor, but will it be enough?" 12 "Strangers" "Dixie is forced to ignore her gut feeling, and Cal faces every parent's nightmare." 13 "Estranged" "A young couple have their wedding torn apart by an unsupportive father." 14 "Maybe This Year" "The harsh conditions of the season bring some people together, but others are torn apart." 15 "Silence Speaks" "Connie dismisses Jacob's correct instincts." 16 "Home for Christmas" "It's Christmas Eve and spirits are high, but not everyone is feeling merry." 17 "A Life Less Ordinary" "Cal struggles with his recent discovery but discovers he's much braver than he thinks." 18 "Lie to Me" "Dixie steps up as the hero but is left feeling bittersweet." 19 "Black Alert" "The ED is pushed to the limit, but the team pull together under difficult circumstances." 20 "Shame" "Jacob teaches a hopeless man how to approach his crush, while Ethan becomes disillusioned." 21 "The Good Life" "Dixie helps a man face the truth but will she make the right decision about her own life?" 22 "Step Right Up" "Ethan is back in full swing, but his world is about to be shaken." 23 "Hearts and Flowers" "It's Valentine's Day and not everyone is feeling the love." 24 "Just Do It" "Connie needs to step up and prove her love for Grace, but the clock is ticking." 25 "Fatal Error: Part One" "As Lofty gets the hang of his new role, could a fatal error make his victory short-lived?" 26 "Fatal Error: Part Two" "Lofty has to make a statement. With his friends' support, what will he decide to say?" 27 "High Tide" "Lofty faces the consequences of his actions and has a life-changing decision to make." 28 "Sweet Child of Mine" "Connie's ready to say yes to love, but there's just one person she needs to tell first." 29 "Buried Alive" "Connie is faced with the prospect of never seeing Grace again." 30 "Hopelessly Addicted" "Jacob takes it upon himself to track down a dangerous drug dealer in Holby." 31 "Survivors" "Rita gets the shock of her life when a ghost from her past arrives at the ED." 32 "A Clear Conscience" "Big Mac's secret is getting on top of him." 33 "Tangled Webs We Weave" "Fate forces Max and Zoe to work as a team, whilst a poisonous spider gets loose in Holby." 34 "Hello, I Must be Going" "A new doctor starts at the emergency department and she is about to get a baptism of fire." 35 "Chain Reaction" "Dylan gets a nasty surprise when a familiar face arrives asking for forgiveness." 36 "This Life" "Big Mac struggles to hide the toll his addiction is taking." 37 "The Best Day of My Life" "Elle is forced into a corner after a shocking discovery." 38 "You Make Me Sick" "Can Big Mac overcome his demons and help a young girl in need?" 39 "History Repeating" "Elle tries to save the life of a mother and her unborn child." 40 "What Lies Beneath" "Jacob shows some uncharacteristic nerves, while Rita gets caught up in her own lies." 1 "Too Old for This Shift" "As Charlie celebrates his 30th anniversary, the department is thrown into chaos." 2 "Fall on Me" "Elle attempts to rally the troops, and Alicia discovers an uncomfortable truth." 3 "Strike Three" "Jac comes down to the ED to perform an emergency operation." 4 "Pride Comes Before a Fall" "Ethan and Alicia are thrown together in a rescue operation." 5 "Schoolboy Crush" 6 "Party Pooper" 7 "Too Much Love Will Kill You" 8 "The Big Day" "Elle calls Connie's ability to focus on the job into question following her recent brush with death, and Robyn's plans for the future take a sudden, unexpected turn." 9 "Night of the Loving Dead" "Robyn faces a difficult decision, while Ethan passes up the chance of happiness for the sake of his brother." 10 "Shock to the System" 11 "Thirty Years" 12 "About My Mother" "An undercover inspection pits the doctors against the nurses, as Connie struggles to come to terms with Grace's condition" 13 "Not In Holby Anymore" "After a disappointing review, Jacob, Charlie and Duffy decide to challenge the team, questioning if Noel, Louise and David have the heart, brains and courage to do their jobs. Meanwhile, Alicia writes Ethan a touching biography for his online dating profile. But does any other woman understand him like she does?" 14 "All I Want For Christmas Is You" 15 "Bah Humbug" 16 "New Me, New Year, New You" "Rumours spread about Sebastian's accusation against Dylan, While Ethan decides it is time to stand up to Cal." 17 "What Lurks in the Heart" "Dylan becomes the source of gossip after Seb's allegations, while Alicia and Ethan are forced to face the consequences of their actions." 18 "Back to School" 19 "Little Sister" 20 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" 21 "The Stag, the Dog and the Sheep" 22 "You Are Your Only Limit" 23 "Binge Britain" 24 "Slipping Under" 25 "It Starts with the Shoes" "David prepares to hand Ollie over to his aunt, who will be taking him back to Rosa in Spain. With their separation imminent, father and son spend one last day together - in the ER. Iain suspects Gem is up to her old tricks when she short-changes a customer at the coffee shop, and Dylan presents himself to the board to pitch an idea to raise awareness of alcohol abuse. However, when his presentation fails to hit the mark, Louise takes matters into her own hands, and drags the board members into the corridors of the ER to witness firsthand the pressure binge drinkers are placing on the hospital's resources" 26 "The Good Samaritan" 27 "Episode 27" "No description" 29 "Sleeping With The Enemy" "Alicia wakes up in Sam's bed, while Iain and Gem's relationship is tested when they spend the day together on the rig and Iain is confronted with his biggest fear. Evie is confronted at home by a masked intruder who attacks her and ransacks the property, and when Evie manages to escape, she is hit outside by Susie's car" 34 "Break Point" 1 "Episode 1" "As some of the team head to France to help aid efforts at a refugee camp, their experiences leave lasting impressions. At the ED, Connie's world is rocked by sudden news." "Conditions at the refugee camp cause a member of the ED team to take drastic action. In Holby, recent events are taking their toll on Jez." "Ethan struggles to put the past behind him, while Iain meets Lily's family, and Dylan's moral compass gets him in a tight spot." "Dylan's plan to reunite Sanosi with his uncle doesn't turn out the way he would have hoped, and Alicia begins her driving lessons with Elle, giving her a crash course." "A familiar face returns under a different guise, while Elle questions how happy she is being a single mother." "An anxious Connie focuses on Ethan's consultancy revision while waiting for the results of her tests. Elle meets a potential love interest." "Connie struggles to deal with the results of her scans and what it means for her future. Dylan is forced to bring Sanosi into the ED." "Connie's denial about her condition reaches crisis point, and she forces Ethan to help her. Alicia's driving test approaches at speed." "Dylan's secret starts to unravel around him as more people get drawn in. Lily's jealousy of Sam threatens her budding relationship with Iain." "A near miss with the discovery of Sanosi leaves Dylan at breaking point. David desperately tried to stop his friend making a terrible mistake." "A new face joins the ED team, while Lily has to make a choice between career and love." "Ethan wrestles with his guilt, while Connie makes a drastic decision over her treatment." "Elle panics when she walks into Blake's bedroom in the morning to find he has stayed out all night. Blake arrives at the ED with Miles, his bully, who has sustained a serious head injury. Elle treats Miles while Jacob talks to Blake; he learns that Blake is high and was responsible for Miles's injuries. Elle and Jacob argue over Blake's welfare, while Blake is arrested when Miles tells the police that it was an unprovoked attack and Blake was in possession of illegal drugs. Ethan goes for his consultancy interview, and is surprised when Connie is on the panel of judges. He fears he has messed up when he uses Connie as an example of a patient where he has gone beyond his role of a doctor to treat someone, although he is later informed he has been promoted. Dylan quits his role of acting clinical lead and turns to alcohol once more to get through his shift." "Alicia finds herself on a collision course with Bea after deciding not to report her rape." 1 "Episode 01" Hacking Robot Flip or Flop Fort Worth The Paras: Men of War Cruising with Jane McDonald Trailer: Casualty	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10158
__label__cc	0.616558	0.383442	Charter & Bylaws LGBTQ Teens and Youth Transgender Resources Faces of Affirmation News from Affirmation Reversal of the November 2015 Policy on Gay Families Upcoming Conferences and Featured Events Submit an Affirmation Event Join Online Groups Find Affinity Groups Find a Local Chapter We Have a Vision – Making It Better for LGBTQ Mormons of Color By Fred Bowers We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. The words “Eight stars of gold on field of blue” have a special meaning to me. So do the words “Melchizedek Priesthood.” It was in 1986 at North Pole, Alaska that these two sets of words converged together as part of my life story as I was ordained an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The state song and flag of Alaska both refer to the eight Affirmation Resources stars of the Big Dipper and the North Star on a blue background. As an African American convert, I quickly learned about the 1978 Church Revelation on the Priesthood. It was one of the first things I learned about in Church and a topic I am always asked about in conversations with members. As part of a military ward at an Air Force base, diversity was the norm as we had church members from various racial and ethnic backgrounds serving in the military. After I was transferred to Washington D.C. in the 1990s, I had another diverse military ward experience and also attended a ward led by an African American bishop. For all of my life, I have looked to other African Americans as role models, and this reality confirmed for me that I too could be a bishop one day. At this point in my life, life was changing drastically as I began to question my sexuality for the second time. It was at this point I entered the three-way intersection of gay, African American, and Mormon identities. I also started attending Affirmation in Washington D.C. while stationed there. I was welcomed into Affirmation at that time and have always felt comfortable with my fellow members. However, many other people of color, both LGBTQ and straight, have had the opposite experience. They have experienced alienation and verbal abuse from intolerant and ill-informed church members on the issues of race/ethnicity and sexuality. I am not alone in being a LGBTQ Mormon of color. There is an LDS lesbian Filipina woman somewhere in the world needing to know she is welcome in Affirmation. There is an LDS transgender Latina woman that needs to know she is welcome also. There is an LDS bisexual Japanese man that is looking to be welcomed into Affirmation. There are people of color who are current Affirmation members. Their voices and stories about Mormonism, sexuality, and race/ethnicity need to be heard. To create a space and a forum for LGBTQ people of color within Affirmation to discuss their unique challenges, I asked the Affirmation Executive Committee to start a new group in Affirmation, Affirmation People of Color and Allies. The first meeting of the group was at the Cleveland/Kirtland Ohio conference. Kirtland Ohio was where in 1836, the rules established by the church for governing assemblies in the Kirtland Temple included attendees who were “bond or free, black or white.” (History of the Church, 2: 368-9). The openness and diversity created in Kirtland were later declared null and void by subsequent events in Church history, but diversity is alive and well today as Affirmation gathers at the upcoming Salt Lake City conference. The Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons People of Color and Allies Group is a group of self-identified people of color and allies gathered to explore multiple identities and the intersections of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and LDS faith. When individuals “speak their truth” and affirm their identities, it can inspire others. As a gay African American Mormon, I understand that if I do not stand up and speak out about the fullness of my identity, that some young LGBTQ African American Mormon might not begin to grow and understand that “IT GETS BETTER!” for LGBTQ African American Mormons too. Through this group we join several LGBTQ faith groups in bringing their people of color together for a forum that addresses the needs of LGBTQ persons of color within a faith context. They include: MCC: 2011 MCC People of African Descent, Our Friends and Allies and Dignity USA: Latino/Hispanic People. It is my hope you will join the People of Color and Allies group as we gather at future conferences as a caucus and community within Affirmation. During the time set aside for Affirmation “affinity groups” at the upcoming (2014) Affirmation conference in Salt Lake City, please consider joining the people of color affinity group. I look forward to hearing the stories of many more LGBTQ Mormon people of color throughout the world who are saying: Soy una lesbiana, un gay, un bisexual, o un transgenero mormón. (Spanish) Je suis un mormon/une mormone lesbienne, gai, bisexuel, ou transgenre. (French) Mimi ni Mormoni wasagaji, mashoga, bisexual, au transgender. (Swahili) Ako ng isang lesbian, gay, bisexual, o transgender taong may maraming asawa. (Filipino) I am a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender Mormon. (American English) For further reading and viewing about the experiences of people of color in the LDS Church, refer to the following books and videos: All God’s Children: Racial and Ethnic Voices in the LDS Church. Edited by Cardell K. Jacobson, Bonneville Books. Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. Independent Feature Productions. Last Laborer: Thoughts and Reflections of a Black Mormon. Keith N. Hamilton, Deseret Book. Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun. John P. Hoffmann. Celebrating the LDS Latina. LDS Living Magazine. Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons: Finding the Lord’s Lessons in Everyday Life. Tamu Smith and Zandra Vranes, Ensign Peak Will LGBTQ+ Mormons Ever Find a “Champion” in the LDS President? Challenges we Face are “Not a Curse, but a Calling.” The Silent Pain and a Policy Change: An Exposé on the Pain That Besets Us Breaking Down Walls, Becoming One Two Degrees off Center: When No One’s Looking Save the Date: 2020 Affirmation International Conference, Sept. 18-20 in Provo, UT Gayety at the Temple: Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington Performs at D.C. Temple Visitors’ Center When Personal Beliefs on LGBTQ Issues and Sustaining Leaders Clash: A Missionary’s Story Two Degrees off Center: The True Meaning of Christmas Affirmation Colombia Awarded Best Spiritual Group of the Year in Bogotá Recognizing Our Individual Worth & Strength Bringing Everyone Together BYU Honor Code Criticism Is About Discrimination, Not Sex Two Degrees off Center: The Price of Admission FTM (TransMormon) – My Positive Church Experience Continuing My Spiritual Life as a Gay Man through Personal Revelation Charitable Solicitations Disclosures Affirmation EEO Policy Harassment and Sexual Harassment Statement Statement of Right Relations Affirmation Conflict of Interest Policy © 2020 Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families & Friends. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10159
__label__cc	0.620766	0.379234	AAC's backup forum. 7751 Ahsoka’s Starfighter & Droids Always Anime Central :: Blogs Déjà vu: the feeling or sensation that you have done something before. Long had I thought such a feeling was a myth or simple rationalization to the human mind’s ability to recognize patterns. And then I picked up 7751 Ahsoka’s Starfighter and Vulture Droid, and throughout the process, had a feeling that could only be called déjà vu. Okay, let me preface this whole thing with one comment- I like this set, I bought it because I wanted the Twi’lek that isn’t a Twi’lek (I have a theory about that, it’s because George Lucas wanted more money, and can make more action figures). The droid is slick and unique (guilty confession, but I love the R2 droids- not talking in-the-bushes-with-binoculars level here, but seriously, who can’t love these guys). Parts selection for this set, like a lot of the Clone Wars sets, are fairly good. Lots of Dark Red is always a plus. A good mix of wedges, bricks, and plates, gives some extra value to the set. There are several stickers (see complete pics below), and just two printed blocks, the big slopes that make up the upper body. What’s somewhat sad is these would have been the best piece to have un-printed and stickered, since they can have a place on so many builds. Tiles are a dime a dozen anymore, but these are unique giant slopes, and plain colors are always better in my book. The starfighter does take a few diversions from the Anakin’s Starfighter it’s obviously inspired by, both in shape and look. On the surface, they look somewhat identical, but Ahsoka’s wings have more detail, the fusilage section is longer (owing to the printed bricks that are much longer than the simple slopes used in Anakin’s starfighter), and the rudder/flag is unprinted on this one ($40 set and we get a plain white flag? for shame…) The biggest change, however, is the addition of a “firing” mechanism to the underside of the ship. Like Anakin’s starfighter, Ahsoka’s is armed with the push-fire technic missiles. I guess they were too hard to fire on Anakin’s shuttle, so now, we’ve got to have a “T” to fire them both (no one-firing type shenangins here). When you’re putting this set together, you might think, what in the heck am I building here? A giant LEGO hammer? What does this have to do with a Jedi Starfighter. I’ve built enough of these things that I could probably hit the garage and start fabricating a real one. It isn’t clear at all, because you build this thing and then go back to building the ship, equally confused and wondering if LEGO was just toying with you, and they’ve reverted to Ep II sets, where you just put things together for the heck of it (See Yoda – Dooku duel set). Eventually, you put the belly of the ship on, and slide the T into place. It’s held in place by… well, nothing, at first. Once you put on the wings and missile holders (standard axle holder plates). It’s held in place by the slope and the missiles (and when the missiles are gone, the axle plates). Does the T do a better job than your fingers in firing the missiles? Not even a little. It’s a new kind of excessive overkill. Oddly, this whole “building your own parts” thing has been a theme in the newest Clone Wars set. The Republic Attack shuttle makes heavy use of this building style, though to much better effect. There’s one thing I have to give a special bit of attention to here. LEGO’s “recomendation” on how we store the lightsaber. Remember how the X-Wing had that little cargo storage section, and anakin’s Ep 3 starfighter had the spot next to the cockpit? This set wants you to do this. Seriously. That’s right… you’re supposed to put it blade end first into the blaster. Minifigs, the whole reason that I bought this set, after all. Ahsoka is the centerpiece figure, and she should be. A unique figure with a solid headpiece, not one of those rubbery numbers that graces most of our new figures these days. A new “not chrome” lightsaber rounds her out, though part of me wonders why she has brown hands (gloves?) and why her top is only on the front of her torso, not the back. I rmember another Twi’lek that had that sort of arrangement… it didn’t work out well, she flashed her goods and was eaten by a rancor. The R2 droid adds to a long tradition of nice looking printed droids. The colors are good, and compliment the fighter well. It’s always great to have more astromechs. The buzz droids… however… okay, these things are 75% nifty. They look the part, but they’re solid, rigid, and the whole saw on the front is just absurd. I mean, come on, look at it. It’s the size of the rest of the droid. Take a look at the picture below. I’m not expecting it to match, but that’s just sad. I also know it’s the same as the tri-fighter buzz droid, but come on, they could have done something to fix it. As for the vulture droid part… well, what is there to say that hasn’t been said in the past. It’s pretty much the exact same thing, just in blue instead of brown. This set comes in pretty close to Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter and the Vulture Droid from the Naboo Starfighter. While they’re both somewhat tired designs, they’re also solid and tested. I’m giving some bonus points because it has Ahsoka, but this is really just a continual rehash of earlier sets. It’s getting dinged though in my “tilt” section here… simply because this is a “been there, done that” sort of set. It could have been really fun, but it wasn’t, because the entire time I felt like I’d done it before. It’s swooshable, and a good toy for kids, and collectors will buy one for completeness, but there’s not much of a reason, outside of the figs, to get this set over, say, Anakin’s Starfighter. Value: 7/10 Build Quality: 6/10 Accuracy: 9/10 (I guess) Swoosh Factor: 9/10 Play Features: 8/10 Minifigs: 8/10 Reviewer’s Tilt: 2/10 Final Score (Average): 7.0 Resh1138 Location : reentering Kerbin's atmosphere without a rocket 7751 Ahsoka’s Starfighter & Droids :: Comments Re: 7751 Ahsoka’s Starfighter & Droids on Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:01 pm by NekoNeko I like the ship colour and the droid/+mini-fig but why would they make you store the light sabre out side the cockpit?? could they not have made a small storage area inside the ship for it ?... like beside the pilot or between the pilots' feet? on Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:29 pm by Resh1138 idk; there isnt much room inside to store anything more than that one minifig and possibly the hilt..... anakins and most of the other starfighters at least have you store it underneath on a clip hidden from main view I see ...hummm ... at least clipped underneath it doesn't show and is not an eye-sore... yep; too bad they didnt do it here on Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:03 pm by NekoNeko very true kinda looks like its escaped and running away to freedom ...or some-one left it out ...forgot about it and its flying away .... on Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:03 pm by Resh1138 yep..... 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__label__cc	0.73963	0.26037	Addition of Androgens Improves Survival in Elderly Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Arnaud Pigneux, Marie C. Béné, Philippe Guardiola, Christian Recher, Jean-Francois Hamel, Mathieu Sauvezie, Jean-Luc Harousseau, Olivier Tournilhac, Francis Witz, Christian Berthou, Martine Escoffre-Barbe, Denis Guyotat, Nathalie Fegueux, Chantal Himberlin, Mathilde Hunault, Martine Delain, Bruno Lioure, Eric Jourdan, Frederic Bauduer, Francois Dreyfus, Jean-Yves Cahn, Jean-Jacques Sotto, and Norbert Ifrah Elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have a poor prognosis, and innovative maintenance therapy could improve their outcomes. Androgens, used in the treatment of aplastic anemia, have been reported to block proliferation of and initiate differentiation in AML cells. We report the results of a multicenter, phase III, randomized open-label trial exploring the benefit of adding androgens to maintenance therapy in patients 60 years of age or older. A total of 330 patients with AML de novo or secondary to chemotherapy or radiotherapy were enrolled in the study. Induction therapy included idarubicin 8 mg/m2 on days 1 to 5, cytarabine 100 mg/m2 on days 1 to 7, and lomustine 200 mg/m2 on day 1. Patients in complete remission or partial remission received six reinduction courses, alternating idarubicin 8 mg/m2 on day 1, cytarabine 100 mg/m2 on days 1 to 5, and a regimen of methotrexate and mercaptopurine. Patients were randomly assigned to receive norethandrolone 10 or 20 mg/day, according to body weight, or no norethandrolone for a 2-year maintenance therapy regimen. The primary endpoint was disease-free survival by intention to treat. Secondary endpoints were event-free survival, overall survival, and safety. This trial was registered at www.ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00700544. Random assignment allotted 165 patients to each arm; arm A received norethandrolone, and arm B did not receive norethandrolone. Complete remission or partial remission was achieved in 247 patients (76%). The Schoenfeld time-dependent model showed that norethandrolone significantly improved survival for patients still in remission at 1 year after induction. In arms A and B, respectively, 5-year disease-free survival was 31.2% and 16.2%, event-free survival was 21.5% and 12.9%, and overall survival was 26.3% and 17.2%. Norethandrolone improved outcomes irrelevant to all prognosis factors. Only patients with baseline leukocytes > 30 × 109/L did not benefit from norethandrolone. This study demonstrates that maintenance therapy with norethandrolone significantly improves survival in elderly patients with AML without increasing toxicity. Source Reference: Pigneux A, et al "Addition of androgens improves survival in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia" J Clin Oncol 2017;35 (4):387-393.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10168
__label__wiki	0.826581	0.826581	LIGHT OF MY LIFE out now in theaters, on Digital & On Demand \| Blu-ray & DVD out October 8th Academy Award® winner* Casey Affleck writes, directs and delivers “a superb performance” (Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily) in the “truly breathtaking” (Paul Heath, THN) survivalist thriller LIGHT OF MY LIFE, which is now in theaters, on Digital, and On Demand. The movie will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD October 8, 2019 from Paramount Home Entertainment. A decade after a plague has wiped out nearly all of the world’s female population, a father (Affleck) and daughter live on the outskirts of what’s left of civilization as they once knew it. Disguising his daughter as a boy, the father struggles to protect her from newfound threats as they are forced from their home into dangerous territory. Prepared to defend his daughter at all costs, their bond and the character of humanity is tested. LIGHT OF MY LIFE also stars newcomer Anna Pniowsky. The LIGHT OF MY LIFE Blu-ray includes access to a Digital copy of the film. SABAN FILMS presents a BLACK BEAR PICTURES production a COMPANY A production CASEY AFFLECK “LIGHT OF MY LIFE” ANNA PNIOWSKY TOM BOWER and ELISABETH MOSS casting by AVY KAUFMAN, C.S.A. music by DANIEL HART costume designer MALGOSIA TURZANSKA production designer SARA K. WHITE editor DODY DORN, ACE CHRISTOPHER TELLEFSEN, ACE director of photography ADAM ARKAPAW co-producers GEOFFREY QUAN GEOFF LINVILLE executive producers MICHAEL HEIMLER BEN STILLMAN WHITAKER LADER produced by TEDDY SCHWARZMAN, p.g.a. CASEY AFFLECK, p.g.a. JOHN POWERS MIDDLETON written and directed by CASEY AFFLECK © 2019 BBP LOML, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Academy Award® winner* Casey Affleck writes, directs and delivers “a superb performance” (Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily) in the “truly breathtaking” (Pa Oscilloscope Acquires SAINT FRANCES BLU-RAY/DVD Press Releases BLU-RAY RELEASE ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ Out in Collector’s Edition Steelbook November 12 from Shout! Factory QUEEN & SLIM Available on Digital 2/18 & 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD 3/3 GRETEL & HANSEL arrives Super Bowl Weekend Satoshi Kon’s TOKYO GODFATHERS Returns To Theaters Nationwide On 3.9 and 3.11	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10170
__label__cc	0.683709	0.316291	On April 29, We March for the Future April 24, 2017 May 1, 2017 Animalista Untamed This is ‘From Truth to Justice’ Week. From the March for Science on Earth Day to the People’s Climate March this Saturday. ‘The Science March Was About Respecting Science, the People’s Climate March Is About Acting on It’ The president of the USA – who would be a joke if he weren’t so capriciously dangerous – may not care about what climate change is doing to the planet, but we do. It is hard to avoid hyperbole when you talk about global warming. It is, after all, the biggest thing humans have ever done, and by a very large margin. In the past year, we’ve decimated the Great Barrier Reef, which is the largest living structure on Earth. In the drought-stricken territories around the Sahara, we’ve helped kick off what The New York Times called “one of the biggest humanitarian disasters since World War II.” We’ve melted ice at the poles at a record pace, because our emissions trap extra heat from the sun that’s equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima-size explosions a day. As for wildlife, look no further than the tragedy of starving polar bears. Which is why, just maybe, you should come to Washington, DC, on April 29 for a series of big climate protests that will mark the 100th day of Trumptime. Maybe the biggest thing ever is worth a day. Bill McKibben for The Nation For some of us Washington DC is too hard to reach, but not to worry, we can still hit the streets and make our voices heard for the planet at any one of hundreds of the Peoples Climate Movement ‘sister marches’ all over the USA, and indeed, all over the world. Click here to find one near you. If you really can’t make any of the marches, join the Virtual Wildlife Climate March here Watch writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben, and his guests talk about climate change and climate action in this short video. Week of Action From Truth to Justice: – Earth Day to May Day 2017 One amongst an exciting calendar of events in the Week of Action really caught my eye: an invitation to stand with the 21 youth plaintiffs suing the federal government for ‘perpetrating climate chaos’, in the case Juliana vs U.S. It is predicted to be ‘the trial of the century’. The youth plaintiffs will speak out from the steps of the United States Supreme Court – where their case may eventually be heard. Joined by their lawyers, supporting U.S. Senators and others, these youth will share the latest updates on their case, as well as song, fiery speeches and invitations to show your support. Check out the full week’s program here Find out everything you need to know about the Peoples Climate March here Since farming livestock is responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gases globally, you could do much worse than join the Plant-Powered Planet Protectors at the March. Says it all, in four words, doesn’t it – whoever dreamed up that group name deserves a medal! If you are serious about your interest in wildlife and in doing your bit to mitigate the grim effects of climate change – think polar bear – take the Center for Biological Diversity’s pledge to Take Extinction off Your Plate Find out which species of wildlife are affected by climate change: USA here, UK here And when all the fun and flag-waving is over for the day, sign up for the free Food Revolution Summit, a week of illuminating talks from, amongst others, eminent doctors such as Michael Greger and Kim Williams. John Robbins kicks the whole thing off with “Lift-Off: Taking Action to Heal Yourself & the World” Other experts, include Nathan Runkle who while still a boy of 15, founded Mercy for Animals. Nathan is an internationally renowned leader in the field of animal advocacy. He is talking on “How Mercy for Animals Can Transform Your Life” Check out all 24 visionary speakers’ profiles and their topics here. For yourself, for the animals and for the planet Happy smiles in the rain – people and posters from the March for Science here Further reading post March for Science & Earth Day: Julian L Wong advocate of ‘A Whole Person Economy’ tells us that science alone will not solve Earth’s problems for us. We need a much more radical solution – overturning ‘a political and economic system based on the indefinite and continuous extraction, exploitation, and wealth-hoarding of resources by the powerful few on a planet of finite natural resources. Addressing this root cause requires much more than advances in science and technology, but also requires significant advances in our understanding of how to shift patterns of human behavior on a systems and planetary scale (essentially, world cultures) so that, for instance, we collectively stop measuring success and progress through erroneous notions of “economic growth.”’ Read more of his fascinating piece here This is of interest too Climate-induced species migrations could upend human society But don’t get depressed! Mike Bloomberg, 3 times mayor of NYC gives us Six Reasons to Be Hopeful about Climate Change For pics of the best posters and happy people smiling in the rain at Earth Day’s Science March, click here and here May 1st People’s Climate March Draws Massive Crowd in D.C. – Ecowatch Planet at the Crossroads What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Planet Today is Earth Day – Do Something Special for the Planet There’s Always Hope for the Animals & the Planet Posted in All Things Animal, All Things VeganTagged 6thMassExtinction, AmazingVegans, ClimateChange, Conservation, Diet&Lifestyle, EarthDay, Extinction, FactoryFarming, FarmedAnimals, Greenhousegases, Health&Medicine, InTheNews, PlanetEarth, Vegan, Wildlife Previous postWhat You Can Do Right Now to Help the Planet Next postThe Rights of Nature One thought on “On April 29, We March for the Future” Pingback: These Are the Heroes Putting Their Lives on the Line for the Animals of Paradise – Animalista Untamed	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10172
__label__wiki	0.786898	0.786898	Media Personalities Answers Africa Home Actors & Actresses 6 Classic Tanzania Movies You Definitely Need to See 6 Classic Tanzania Movies You Definitely Need to See For most of you, knowing about Hollywood films is nothing new. You may also know a lot of other foreign flicks like those in Bollywood and Nollywood. But elsewhere in the world is a film industry just as impressive as those mentioned, yet much more unbeknown to many of us: Swahiliwood or Bongo Cinema — The Tanzania Movie Industry. Swahiliwood or the Bongo Cinema has been around for a decade now, producing films at par with hugely acclaimed films from other countries. In fact, Tanzania movies are currently getting international recognition, gaining more popularity in countries in East and Central Africa. See Also: Top 10 African Movies You Definitely Need to See So, to introduce you to Tanzanian Movies, we bring you some of the top best you definitely need to see. Swahiliwood: Top Tanzania Movies You Definitely Need to See Darwin’s Nightmare Darwin’s Nightmare is a European-produced documentary filmed in 2004 and 2006 that was nominated for Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards. The film shows the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry in the country. Having known this, the Tanzanian government tried to ban the movie as it presents the government negatively. However, the movie aims to show the negative effect of this industry as a whole. This masterpiece is one of the many films that prove that films are mediums of information and change. Hatari – A Classic Tanzania Movie This film is perhaps the most popular Tanzania film out there. Though produced by an American, this film beautifully paints the wonders and sceneries of Tanzania. This cinematic beauty is directed by Howard Hawks and stars the Duke, John Wayne. Maangamizi: The Ancient One Maangamizi is a 2001 American and Tanzanian drama directed by Martin Mhando and Roh Mulvihill. Its excellence was rightly recognized when it premiered at the Pan African Film Festival and has been played in over 55 Film Festivals all over the world. The film centers on the character of Dr. Asira who is faced with the contradiction of Western medicine and traditional East African spiritual beliefs when a woman claims to have been entered by a spirit of a shaman. This film is perfect for anyone who wants to re-awaken their spiritual side. Bongoland 1&2 – One of the Best Tanzania Movies This realistic film easily made the Bongoland series included on this list of Tanzania’s best movies. The movie is predominantly in Swahili but has little English in it as well. In essence, it shows that national pride is important and Tanzania is a land worth living in. Bongo 2 Fungu la kukosa https://youtu.be/hY5-kqz7nws This film has got all the elements of drama nearly perfect. And it has grit, suspense and thrill all rolled into one. The story is about Rita who moves to the city to look for Kabwe, his son’s father. After Kabwe rejects them, Rita is having her thoughts about abandoning the baby at a dump, but the two are taken in by a drunkard named Dimoso whom Rita eventually fell in love with. When the baby is hospitalized, Dimoso becomes stressed about money and got hit by a vehicle. The driver, Mirate, agrees to pay the hospital bills for both Dimoso and the baby. However, it appears that Dimoso and Mirate begin to have an affair. Meanwhile, Rita is given a job by her childhood friend, Raita, with whom she also begins to have an affair. Kabwe, the baby’s father, tries to win Rita back, but when Rita rejected him, he has a sorcerer put a spell on her. At her wedding to Raita, the spell causes Rita mad. Augua Another great Tanzania movie is Augua. Amani, Uledi and George are fast friends who share all their personal matters with one another. However when it comes to spirituality and way of life, Uledi parts from his friends. While Amani agrees to be engaged to Ummi, and George to Amanda, and finally married according to her religion and culture, Uledi breaks from religious strictures. And in the end, this evil destroys Uledi. A drama about love, and spirituality, Augua is definitely a must-see. In a nutshell, Tanzanian movies have a lot to offer. The world used to recognize Tanzania as only a venue to shoot films because of its wildlife and scenic beauty, but they are now realizing that Tanzania has got what it takes to also make their mark in the International Film Industry. 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__label__wiki	0.733959	0.733959	Artist / Filmmaker / Curator Speculum – Simone Dompeyre Home » Speculum – Simone Dompeyre A review by Simone Dompeyre, Curator, Traverse Video (trans. Kay Ridley). The title, Speculum, is intriguing and ambitious. The Latin affirms the desire for knowledge and the need to return to the source in order to understand and find. The film uses chapters, with long titles in Latin on a solemn, black background, to expose its reflections on light, with its many symbolic meanings, and on life and being. These are then brought together in a final fast-paced acme. Richard Ashrowan was led to the extended metaphor of mixing water and fire through his passion for endeavours to turn thought into deed, unafraid of meanderings and of research that has been picked up time and again but is historically devalued. This ‘conjunction’ takes place in an alembic; the one used in the film is made of glass, the material that simultaneously reveals and separates, but the film never shows the alembic in full. This instrument was one of the fundamental markers in the quest for light, affirmed at the end of movement 6 with the words of John Dee: “… light is born and this is the final word”, before the fluid, moving prism, the luminous flux of the last movement. The film exalts in the faith in form establishing meaning. It could be taken as an audiovisual surge that sweeps the viewer along, with shock at the leitmotif of the bloody heart being handled, with the shifts marked by the musical tempi, the variations of the elements in colour, in positive/negative, in the scale of the shot or with the variations in the picture with themes chasing each other, with rectangular layers, vertical strips, and squares added one to the other to re-form the subject. Indeed, the seven movements distinguished by black title cards each convey a moment in time of the quest to transform the elements; they take numerous components and transform them according to the stage of transmutation quoted. It would be easy to just stay fascinated. The film, however, merits a more active response from us to this reflective, scholarly opus, which works the referent, its sign and the readings of its sign: night shot of the moon / glyph / mathematics and meaning in the world. Semiotic research; how do we make meaning? The film is based on hard work carried out on the history of esotericism and on the search for connections between things and the signs that express them. It denies dogmatic elucidation by inventing a visual vocabulary that borrows from all the elements, while, in a subtle reference, Richard Ashrowan names two great forebears in the credits – “with the particular assistance”, besides John Dee, of Agrippa von Nettesheim, with their dates: 1527 – 1609 and 1486 – 1535. Dee’s stamp, his texts, are spoken in a warm and meaningful male voice with a captivating tone, unlike the detached voice used by most speakers. The voice knows the Monas Hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad), in which Dee developed a cabalistic interpretation of a glyph meant to express the mystical unity of all creation, a glyph that he himself had created by bringing together four signs: an upward-turned crescent moon, the sun as a circle with a dot at the centre, the Elementa (the four elements) in the form of a cross, and fire as a rounded m. Dee’s intention was to explain all things by such script, the signs also being read as numbers: 1 by the dot, 2 by the line, 3 by the cross – the two perpendiculars splitting at one point, 4 the four segments of the cross … likewise the planets … Speculum makes this wisdom the basis of its own plastic translation into variations of light, while the number theory and that of widespread synonymy are posited. Thus, a calculation is articulated alongside the enunciation of letters. It is given as natural, self-evident, with L expressing 50, V 5 and X 10, which corresponds, in fact, to Latin numbering. However, when you bring these letters together you get more than the sum of their addition: you get the fusion of light; light being LUX in Latin, which is written LVX, since U is indistinguishable from V in capitalised Roman orthography. This assurance of the linked power of letter and number supports the precipitation of the things in the film, summoned by light as they are brought together by a series of mathematical operations. Uttering the numeral turns out to be performative, because that which it signifies iconically comes about. Uttering the word begets the physical form. In the same search for concomitance and an understanding of the universe, Agrippa von Nettesheim, of the lineage of esotericists, occultists or magi – about whom it would be a pity to forget that he defended women, recalling the role of Mary, but also that Eve was born in Paradise in the nobility and pre-excellence of the female sex – described “magic squares”, or “planetary seals”, supposed to capture the virtue of the corresponding planets. He calculated various correspondence tables based on the Neoplatonic principle according to which, “each lower world is governed by a higher world and receives the influence of its forces”, or, in Hermetic terms, “all that is below is like that which is above”; the three kinds of world that he distinguished – the elemental, the celestial, and the intellectual world of demons and angels – were simply designed to interpenetrate, and he even thought he communicated with the angels. The soundtrack mixes worldly sounds with sounds recorded by NASA and other sounds from real-life sources. It is something of a surprise not to see the name of Bacon in the film, since his spectre is there, since his century, the 13th, turned out to be a century of encyclopedias, before that known as the Age of Enlightenment, since specula represented a departure from explanations provided by the sacred scriptures to the benefit of experimentation and the natural sciences, and since he was among the first to recognise practice as the foundation of knowledge, to think of the cauldron of experiments as the indispensable locus of science – then so close to alchemy. Bacon wrote – in the topical Latin of the scholars – Sine experiential nihil sufficientia sciri potest (Without experiment, nothing can be sufficiently known) , at a time when the venture to transmute gold was nothing but the latest metaphor of the quest for knowledge, of the light of understanding … Mental speculation rather than financial. This is because the film is neither cultish nor historical, but a personal investigation that pursues the signs, which leads it to this thinking of the thirteenth or the sixteenth or the twenty-first century, of the person who invents in order to compound light / understanding. It goes back to the stages, in stages, because knowledge is earned, worked for. It goes back to light for the connection between beauty and knowledge. We should probably allow ourselves a little detour around the etymon: speculum is the mirror in which one looks at oneself, in which one sees one’s face, since specio is to look, which led to all the spectacle(s)-based words – in English, spectacles is another term for glasses – including the first speculation as observation of the sky and of the relative movements of the stars using a mirror. The root of specio is also linked to s’étonner (to be astonished), to be surprised by, to see with admiration, to admire and to be enamoured of, to be passionate about and to seek. Which means that far from being afraid of reconciling opposites, they are put together because variance is productive. The shots follow one another , then link the moon and the sun, the former as the mirror of the latter, the moon as the night needed for the day. The moon circles in the dark, while the sun sublimates the roundness of a dewdrop. The light of the sun and the passage of the moon gleam in this film, and fire represents the light of thought. The beauty of this transformation is made by colour, so at the beginning, saturating the picture, and following shots of their more monochrome shades on very fine shafts , some peacock feathers fan out in full colour. This conjunction, which portends esoteric transformations, presignifies the film. The first movement of the film uses an alternating montage of close-ups of leaves with sparkling dewdrops, and the movements made by fingers responding to the numbers quoted from Agrippa’s description of what magicians did to signify unknown words without sound. While this is followed by a short montage depicting the abundance of the world’s elements, the sixth movement draws on the same source: the letters of the Hebrew alphabet appear in the centre of the picture, while their correspondence with numbers is chanted by two voices, male and female. The film follows the stages of calcination, sublimation, albification (whitening), distillation, coagulation, and revivification of alchemy, picking up the earlier themes – the stems and leaves and the bleeding heart, the tumultuous falls of water in rivers, the birds gliding through the clouds – and transforming these through a vessel, of which the viewer only gets glimpses and which is never shown in its entirety. This vessel has a narrow neck and thin arm-like handles, very much like the vessels depicted in the Ripley Scroll held in Edinburgh. Abstract movements are inspired by the effects produced by the catoptric alchemical apparatus with its mirrors – again the Speculum – and the same glass alembic, alluded to in the artistic shift. Fire destroys but makes its point. In the specific, an image is taken from the scroll, an image whose text is used in the title of one of the movements, that of blacke: “I have at first suffered so much from the hot and humid that I am weak” . This image goes through stages: positive, negative, burned at its centre, and reversed so fire resembles water. Acknowledgement comes with two monks leaning over the alembic. They respond to the incursions of the imago of the human, since, besides the hands of the opening numeration, there now appears a spectacled gaze, and some hands wielding the heart, which [images] get caught up in all the other ingredients and in abstract traces of luminous flux in the rapid montage of the seventh movement … Beforehand, the film en poème enacts its message: “from the hieroglyph, the light”, from the sign comes the light, by working the ways in which the elements move across the screen; since the dashes, the obliques, the squares merge to reconstitute the great map of Dee’s Book of Sciences, whence the project was born. This tribute to those researchers who wanted light leads Speculum into the sphere of the Tombeau, a literary, and musical, genre, identifying itself as a source of that which it is an ardent tribute. Speculum has mastered the vocabulary, it knows the questions, it likes its esoteric creations. In 1917, the genre was revived in music when Ravel composed his Tombeau de Couperin in six movements for piano: Prelude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Menuet and Toccata. This revival was more about paying tribute to a musical form, the Suite, than to a single musician. Now, one hundred years on, in following the stages of the Hermetic transformation of the elements, Richard Ashrowan has composed an “in honour of … experimental research”, chosen as a way of being, in honour of his disciples of the Cipher and of hidden meaning. Like Ohana, who wrote Tombeau de Claude Debussy in 1962, Richard Ashrowan has a great admiration for those he acknowledges as the Ancestors; like the musician, renouncing any funereal lament, he inscribes fragments as material into his own writing. His work is more than a simple acknowledgement however, since he sings his own score, his inner music, himself. Music that bewitches. Original French language © Simone Dompeyre 2017. English translation © Kay Ridley 2019. Images © Richard Ashrowan 2015 Back to Speculum. The original article, in French, can be found in Traverse Video‘s 2017 Catalog. Translated from the French by Kay Ridley, 2019. © 2020 ashrowan.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10180
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__label__cc	0.688152	0.311848	Beauty and the Beast 2.17 – Beast is the new Black Posted on June 4, 2014 by Mieke Trudeau in Television // 6 Comments by Mieke Trudeau “This could be our chance to do the right thing” Welcome back Beasties, that was a long hiatus. I appreciate all of you returning readers following me here to At Stake, and welcome new readers! I hope I can add something to your enjoyment of the little show that could. All thanks to your positive encouragement, your favorite show has earned another season on the CW this Fall. I will be here along with you, happily writing more reviews. This brand new episode drops us in right where we left off; Vincent being taken to jail for the murder of Curt Windsor. As Cat alerts the gang, all quickly and angrily assume newly jilted Gabe is responsible for Vincent’s arrest. But then Gabe is all helpful. He gets Catherine access to Vincent, shows her evidence on file against him and even finds the man presumed responsible for planting such evidence. He seems determined to help, repeating over and over how he simply wants to level the playing field and is not looking to be “a vulture”, ready to strike when Catherine is down. Is Gabe to be trusted? For a while he almost had me fooled, along with Catherine and her trusty sidekicks. I was actually disappointed that the show seemed to have decided to make evil!Gabe a red herring; but then there was that smirk at the very end. Gabe seemingly congratulating himself with a stiff drink while watching the news about Vincent’s deepening troubles. And how deep Vincent’s troubles have become. There is video of him carrying a lifeless Curt Windsor into an alley, the man allegedly hired by Cat’s father to set Vincent up winds up dead and oh yes, Curt’s heart is found in Vincent’s fridge! Catherine, JT and even Tess are perfectly willing to go to great lengths to save Vincent from spending the rest of his life in prison, but he will have none of that. He ditches the gem that stops him from beasting out and escapes from a prison ambulance. Of course he cannot leave without saying goodbye to his beloved Catherine and he meets her on her (their) roof. I have to say that I think this is the best move the show has made in a long time; to bring the story back to its core; the unquestionable bond between Vincent and Catherine. I certainly like how both of them have developed as characters, apart from each other. Catherine deserves to be seen as the strong, independent woman she is, away from the control of all these overprotective men in her life and Vincent had to prove himself worthy of his humanity as well as his beast side. But, lets face it, these two belong together. Tess says it so well, they are not a fragile newbie couple, they are epic. And as Cat declares to Vincent: “I love you. No but.” For the sake of drama, of story, there must be obstacles and roadblocks to overcome, but let them not come from within. The beastie team and the show work best when they are united, even when physically apart. Once again, the ever loyal and adorable JT and Tess, nicely parallel the main story. Having spent another night together, both are tentative the next day. JT thinks Tess is embarrassed and wants to keep their relationship secret and Tess thinks JT wants to keep things casual. They come together in the end, over their mutual love for their friends. They decide that they are worth the struggle, that theirs is a real relationship, squabbles and all. The episode ends with a jolt when we see Catherine, alone in her apartment, suddenly and violently attacked and taken. Is this another plot to lure Vincent? Is Muirfield striking back? Or is it Gabe, further “leveling the playing field”? What a great start to the final leg of this season. This episode had it all: intrigue, suspense, a long overdue hug between JT and Cat and lots and lots of epic Vincat romance. Dancing in the shower anyone? Who wondered along with me, about that one time with the handcuffs? Catherine is Vincent’s true gem, the one who keeps him human and I will never get tired of the beating of her heart alerting him when she is near. Tell me your thoughts Beasties! Where do you think this story is going and what are your hopes for the new season ahead. Thanks again for reading and please comment below. Austin Basis BATB Vincat 6 Comments on Beauty and the Beast 2.17 – Beast is the new Black Michèle S. // June 6, 2014 at 11:49 pm // Reply Great review as always! And I completely agree, the show made the best move when they brought VinCat back, together against the world! (Along with their trusty sidekicks JTess of course!) (Gabe, not so much.) While I’m with you, the time apart was good for character development, it was high time to stop because it felt to me like they were nearing the point of no return. And I don’t think every show has to have that will-they-won’t-they we-can’t-bring-them-together-too-fast element. Ever since ratings fell off a cliff when Lois and Clark tied the knot, they all seem to thing they need to do that, as if that one example applies to all shows. But look, they brought VinCat back together and ratings went up, not down. Like you said so well, there need to be obstacles, but they need to come from without, not from within. The best thing about BATB is the “epic” romance, and they should stick to the heart and soul of the show. And yes, it’s totally “their” roof now. 🙂 See you next week! Mieke Trudeau // June 7, 2014 at 1:56 pm // Reply Thanks so much for reading and commenting MIchele! Elaine Reece (@ereece473) // June 7, 2014 at 3:10 am // Reply I still can’t get over ‘Beast is the New Black”! It was so awesome! I loved how Catherine right away tried to save Vincent and later went into the intake to intercept Vincent’s blood sample. The whole gang was helping him, even Gabe. He may have had alternative motives but he was still helping. J.T. really was a dominant character in this episode. The way he helped Vincent, the way he talked to Tess and the way he got on to Catherine about her telling Vincent that she was coming forward as a witness. Austin Basis did an excellent job! I also like J.T. and Tess finally coming together in a relationship. But Tess is still trying to protect her best friend Catherine by not wanting to rub it in Catherine’s face. I’m sure I’m not the first to say this, but that shower scene was so romantic! I loved it! I just hate that it got cut so short. The song that was picked was perfect as it reminded us of their very first dance at Catherine’s dad’s wedding. I love that Catherine knew Vincent wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye. I love how Vincent told Catherine that he came by to say goodbye but that he wanted one last night to love each other as much as they love each other now. Those two are beautiful together. I love their love! They are both trying to protect the other because they do love each other so much. Catherine’s dad really made me mad though. He doesn’t care about Catherine’s feelings, he just wants her safe. He could help keep her safe and allow her to be with Vincent if he really wanted to. I think he just can’t stand the thought of Catherine being in love with a Beast. She would have been safe if he hadn’t of interfered! He doesn’t truly love his daughter the way a father should. Now, Gabe…I would normally think the worst of Gabe but I actually think that he is going to protect Catherine not by getting Vincent, but by getting her dad. I don’t know why I am thinking that way but I am. I hope I’m right. Because if he were to get Vincent, Catherine would never go back to him. But if he helps Vincent by exposing her dad, then Gabe would think that he still had a chance with her. I don’t really know but I just hope that Vincent and Catherine could have some normal time with each other. It just seems like they are constantly being separated and they so deserve that! The ending made me sad when Vincent had to leave early because the helicopters came. They didn’t get their last night together. Also, Catherine now couldn’t go with him as she had planned because they were so close that she would slow Vincent down. I loved how Vincent handcuffed her so she wouldn’t look like she was harboring a fugitive. Their little conversation about how many times he had handcuffed her was also eyebrow lifting! But when he told Catherine that she was his gem and that she kept him from losing himself, that was the sweetest thing I have heard. Also when he told her he promised he would come back and find her. It was so beautiful and sad at the same time. I really started crying hard when Catherine went to tell J.T. that Vincent was gone. That moment that was shared by two people who not only loved Vincent but were going to horribly miss him was just too perfect. Catherine assuring J.T. that Vincent was going to be alright and that they were going to be alright even though they knew how much they were and already missed him. In the last scene when Catherine was crying in bed and she heard a noise, I was really hoping that it was Vincent coming back to get that last night of love that he wanted with Catherine. But it didn’t happen that way. I was shocked when Catherine was captured but at the same time I no longer was sad about Vincent leaving because I knew he couldn’t and wouldn’t leave now because he had to save his beauty. I absolutely loved that episode! it had so much to offer the audience! I am so glad that Beauty and the Beast was renewed for a third season! The show keeps getting better and better if it’s even possible! But the love, romance and endurance of Catherine and Vincent plus the beautiful friendships of J.T. and Vincent along with Tess and Catherine is what keeps me watching this show over and over again! It’s a beautiful story all the way around! I love VinCat! I love Beauty and the Beast! I can’t wait to see “Cat and Mouse”! Thanks for reading Elaine! I’m glad you enjoyed the episode so much. A lot happened! Yorn // June 7, 2014 at 6:38 am // Reply Beast is the New Black brings me back to S1 feelings, Vincent and Cat fighting to save each other. Catherine is a strong woman again not like she has been in the last couple of episodes. This is the real Catherine and I have missed her. There is no place for Gabe to go but the villain route. He is the fifth wheels that no need or wants. I can’t wait to see more of VinCat against the world, they are the heart of the show. Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! I agree that it was like an episode of old, but with more developed characters. Follow At Stake Magazine on WordPress.com Beauty and the Beast 4.13 – Au Revoir September 22, 2016 Beauty and the Beast 4.11/12 – Meet the New Beast/No Way Out September 13, 2016 Beauty and the Beast 4.10 – Means to an End August 16, 2016 Beauty and the Beast 4.09 – The Getaway August 3, 2016 Beauty and the Beast 4.08 – Love is a Battlefield July 26, 2016 Mieke Trudeau on Beauty and the Beast 4.13… Sandy on Beauty and the Beast 4.13… Mieke Trudeau	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10184
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(Jul 4, 2017, Daily Sabah) Experts: Lawyer's Representation of Jailed Pastor, Trump Poses No Ethics Issue A Washington lawyer's simultaneous representation of President Donald Trump and a jailed American pastor in Turkey doesn't pose an ethical issue as long as his work for one doesn't undermine the other, legal experts say. Jay Sekulow, founder and chief ... (Jul 4, 2017, Voice of America) Lost records of lawsuit claiming Trump Tower exploited undocumented workers have been found But last week Lewis Steel, a lawyer on the long-dormant case, wrote Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska that his colleague Wendy Sloan had found the papers. “She has the missing transcript and brief,” Steel wrote. “Ms. Sloan informs me that at all ... (Jul 5, 2017, New York Daily News) All the President's Lawyers But it's the lawyers who get the work done, and Trump has an eye for a particular kind of talent. Goldberg led me to his dining-room table and told me about his first encounter with Trump. 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(Jul 5, 2017, Topeka Capital Journal) Lawyer for Brazil's Temer Derides Corruption Case as 'Fiction' Antonio Claudio Mariz de Oliveira, Lawyer for Brazil President Michel Temer arrives at the commission of constitution and justice, for presents his defense in Lower House, in Brasilia, Brazil July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino Reuters. By Ricardo ... (Jul 5, 2017, U.S. News & World Report) Blac Chyna is 'considering all legal options' against Rob Kardashian, her lawyer says Hours after reality TV star Rob Kardashian leaked explicit photos of his former fiancée, Blac Chyna, on social media, her attorney told ABC News that they may be gearing up for a legal battle. Kardashian's Instagram account was deactivated on Wednesday ... (Jul 6, 2017, ABC News) Beautiful Brazilian Lawyer Acted as Messenger for Dangerous Drug Cartel A journalist lawyer in Brazil was alleging using her position as a lawyer to deliver messages from cartel members in jail to those outside. 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__label__wiki	0.677856	0.677856	Bills OL Dion Dawkins scores (controversial) big man TD, follows it up with big man TD dance Yahoo Sports 21 December 2019 Despite getting outplayed for nearly the entire first half against the New England Patriots, the Buffalo Bills walked into their locker room with the score tied at halftime on Saturday. The man responsible for their lone touchdown at that point: 320-pound offensive tackle Dion Dawkins. [Watch live local and primetime NFL games free with the Yahoo Sports app] With five seconds left in the first half, Dawkins scored one of the season’s most pivotal fat guy touchdowns on a pass from Josh Allen thanks to a bit of trickery. It was the second touchdown catch of Dawkins’ career. Dawkins followed the catch up with a dance befitting a game-tying score in a divisional matchup. Dion Dawkins was wide open. Was that because of the Bills' ingenuity, the Patriots' error or the officials' mscommunication. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Did an official’s miscommunication hurt the Patriots? Under normal circumstances, Dawkins is an ineligible receiver because he’s an offensive lineman, a position not allowed to catch passes. Meanwhile, NFL rules dictate that there must be seven players lined up at the line of scrimmage, with the players at each end being eligible to receive passes. Those are usually wide receivers and tight ends, with offensive lineman in the middle. The Bills’ formation left Dawkins as the left-most player at the line of scrimmage. In that circumstance, a lineman is still ineligible unless he reports to the officials as an eligible receiver. Dawkins could be heard doing that, according to NESN’s Doug Kyed and WGR 550’s Brayton Wilson, so he was within his rights to slip out and catch the pass, to the apparent surprise of the Patriots. Funnily enough, the Patriots infuriated the Baltimore Ravens a few years ago with a similar manipulation of eligible receiver rules. There might have been a miscommunication that cost the Patriots dearly after Dawkins reported, however, judging from a very angry Bill Belichick after the play. Instead of Dawkins, No. 71 Ryan Bates, on the other side of the offensive line, was somehow reported to be the eligible receiver by announcer Mike Tirico (as heard in the video above). Bill Belichick was seen yelling at the officials on the field about something, and that error could have been it. Robinson: Everybody wins if Brady becomes a Charger – except Pats Keyser: Sports media’s scoop mongering doesn’t help MLB fans Iole: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. cheated his fans 2020 NFL draft prospects to watch this bowl season	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10186
__label__cc	0.560605	0.439395	Diploma & Masters Art of Feedback Start Date 27 Apr 2018, Friday End Date 27 Apr 2018, Friday Venue 100 Orchard Road, Hotel Concorde Fee $580 Inclusive of 2 coffee breaks, light refreshments and buffet lunch Contact 6822 8596 Get Group Quote For many individuals, feedback is akin to criticism or personal attack. And, when we do get or get feedback, it often feels too personal and subjective. Too often, there is also no built-in accountability to support any real behavior or performance change. Hence, feedback is often seldom received or given with much enthusiasm. Feedback when crafted carefully and communicated skillfully helps to promotes trust and respect, motivates and energize individuals, and serves as a catalyst for change. It has the ability to turbocharge workplaces and careers. DELIVERING HELPFUL TRUTH Deliver the truth and have it taken as helpful helps to create an atmosphere of acceptance. It will also avoid mistakes that sabotage communication. Effective feedback is also linked to strong team engagement, as well as increased employee satisfaction and productivity. How then, can you harness the power of feedback, to increase one’s engagement and satisfaction? Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to: Gain a greater understanding of the importance of feedback Understand common challenges and fears about feedback Recognize the types of feedback Identify the factors that affect the effectiveness of feedback Recognize and overcome personal obstacles to giving and receiving feedback Demonstrate active listening and responding skills Receive feedback calmly and clearly Demonstrate effective ways to give constructive feedback If you manage people, you need to attend this course! Line Managers, Supervisors, Team and Assistant Team Leaders, HR Practitioners. CEOs, Business owners, directors, coaches, teachers, educators, HOD, Team leaders REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST: MS JOY HOU Ms Joy Hou is a Registered Psychologist and a Full Member of the Singapore Psychological Society. She takes a special interest in the mental and emotional well-being of individuals, in particular, children and youths. Her work experience includes providing counselling for individuals who seek emotional and psychological support. She has worked in both clinical as well as non-clinical settings, including schools, voluntary welfare organizations and the Institute of Mental Health. In addition, Joy also currently conducts mental health-related talks and workshops in schools, and corporate and community organizations. As a registered school instructor with the Ministry of Education, Joy has conducted several school assembly talks under the Health Promotion Board’s COPES programme, which aimed to help secondary school students to better manage their negative emotions. Joy’s strength as a counsellor and facilitator is in her ability to quickly build rapport with individuals with her warmth and enthusiasm. Her passion is sharing with others is shown in her initial work as an NIE-trained teacher. Today, she shares her knowledge through corporate workshops and workplace health programmes, as well as in her capacity as an adjunct lecturer in The School of Positive Psychology, Arium School of Arts and Sciences, and at the ACC Institute of Human Services. Joy holds a Master of Arts (Applied Psychology) from NTU and had been conferred a Bachelor of Science with Diploma in Education from NIE, NTU. She also has a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from the University of Southern Queensland, where she received the Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Achievement. A Certified Behavioural Consultant in the DISC profiling system, Joy has also attained a NLP Practitioner Certification from the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailWhatsApp XRedditStumbleupon Join Us As An Adjunct Trainer Free Career Planning Workbook Career Coaching for Organizations Career Coaching for Yourself Be a Career Coach Executive Placement Communication & Presentation Skills Data Visualization & Business Intelligence Digital Forensics & Counter Terrorism Digital Marketing & Transformation Finance, Legal and Compliance Human Capital Management & Psychology Leadership, Coaching & Strategy Personal Effectiveness & Problem Solving Copyright © aventislearning.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10189
__label__cc	0.749165	0.250835	Meet Carlos Barros, Awasi Iguazu Guide & Biodiversity Expert https://awasi.com/blog/awasi-iguazu-guide-biodiversity-expert/ A biologist and native to the Iguazú area, Carlos is one of the private guides who loves to share his passion with Awasi guests. What are your favourite experiences in and around Iguazu? I love watching symbiosis and completion, enjoying different perfumes and fantastic colours – Iguazu fascinates me. I also love hiking in the Atlantic Rainforest, it’s my favorite place for exploring. Are there any animals you can spot in the Atlantic Rainforest that you can’t spot anywhere else? The Atlantic Rainforest is one of the richest places on our planet, with approximately 19,000 species of plants, and more than a 100 species of mammals. The Misiones Province has more than 50% of all Argentinean birds. For me, the most special part are the Atlantic forest trails where you can see groups of plants, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperm and Angiosperms. In terms of nature, we see Ocelots tracks (and hidden camera images) and ants protecting other insects. I could list so many unique species in this amazing ecosystem – the Atlantic rainforest will always surprise you. Ocelot passing by a hidden camera in one of the areas monitored by Awasi Can you tell you us something amazing/surprising people don’t know about Misiones? Did you know that Misiones is an amazing place to learn about the Guarani & Jesuits history, and that here we have the biggest biodiversity in Argentina? And one of the three biggest falls all over the world! Also, when visiting you might be lucky enough to see a Toco-toucan trying to attack a Red-Rumped Cacique nest – it is fantastic to see how these birds build their nests from the Pindo palm tree. Some biologists believe the Toco Toucan and Cacique bird have been evolving during the time: the deeper the Cacique builds his nest, the longer the Toucan bill grows. Toco Toucan by @claumello When is the best time to visit the Iguazu Falls? And when is the best time for spotting Wildlife? The best time to see the falls is low season (less visitors), and it’s ideal for hiking as it’s not so hot. This would be April and October. It’s possible to spot wildlife all year round; insects have amazing camouflage here but if you’re patient you will spot a Tiger ant hunting or see the symbiosis between Azteca ant and Cecropia tree. We have more than 500 species of butterflies and most of them, like birds, are active year-round. Awasi’s private outings will make it possible to explore the entire Misiones area, rather than just the Falls Do you have a favourite bird or birdsong? The Atlantic rainforest is so rich with its species of birds, so many colours, so many songs. I am always astonished when I hear the White-Bearded Manakin, such a small bird which is able to perform such a loud mix of tones by moving its wings – these experiences make the forest even more mystic and alive. Click here to listen to the birdsong surrounding Awasi Iguazu, our Relais & Chateaux lodge in the Atlantic Rainforest Are you local to Iguazu? What made you want to be a guide in Iguazu? Yes. I grew up in the countryside until I was 11 years old and always felt connected to nature. As a biologist I love to share the beautiful biodiversity, and I also like geology and anthropology very much. With Awasi. I am able to delve deeper into all the issues I most love! Everybody visiting Iguazu will see the Falls. But with a knowledgeable guide, you will discover what lies beyond them. What are the benefits of visiting the falls with Awasi? With more than 10 years’ experience as a guide visiting the Atlantic rainforest, I never had access or experiences like I do now with Awasi. I can personalize all the tours according to the guest’s tastes and this is great! Although I have been doing this for quite some years, I underwent a lot of preparation to become an Awasi guide and now know the secrets to show the local culture and the Atlantic rainforest in a way you have never seen before. Awasi is the only luxury lodge in Iguazu that allows their guests to experience the Rainforest at their own pace. Pic: Susette Kok For more information about Awasi Iguazu – Relais & Chateaux and the possibility of having your private guide and vehicle for every excursion, visit www.awasiguazu.com or contact us at info@awasi.com Awasi Iguazu short film nominated in 3 categories at the Polish Film Festival	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10191
__label__wiki	0.930647	0.930647	Home / courts / Some of Stump’s texts are public records, AG says Some of Stump’s texts are public records, AG says By: Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services March 23, 2016 Some of what was found on Bob Stump’s cell phone is a public record, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday. But whether what was found in texts sent and received by the state utility regulator ever will see the light of day remains unclear. On Tuesday, attorneys for all side provided a list of what was recovered from Stump’s phone to Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner. There were several hundred texts listed, though many appear to be duplicate as the attorney general’s office used multiple computer programs to find messages that Stump conceded he had deleted from the phone he was issued as a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission. Out of all those, there appears to be nothing recoverable that falls within the dates in the public records request by the Checks and Balances Project. Tim LaSota, attorney for Stump, said that should be the end of it. And LaSota, along with commission attorney David Cantelme, now wants the lawsuit dropped. But Dan Barr, who represents the Checks and Balances Project, said not so fast. He thinks there’s more information to be had. And the report given to Warner raises a bigger issue. If the judge concludes the attorney general is correct — that there were text messages that could fall within the definition of the public records law — it raises the question of whether Stump violated that law by deleting them. But even that is not a black and white situation. Cantelme has argued that even texts that might have been public do not have to be preserved forever. He said once the usefulness of the information has passed, like someone asking for an appointment, it can be deleted. Yet if it turns out the deleted messages were recovered — and if Warner determines they are public — then anyone could ask to see them. The dispute that now goes to the judge centers on that question of what is a public record. It is undisputed that all of the texts were recovered from Stump’s state-issued phone. Courts have said, however, the fact that a document or message is on a government device does not determine whether it is public. Instead, they said the deciding factor is whether it deals with public business. So a text to a friend proposing a lunch date would not be public, even if sent from a state-issued phone. Stump has contended nothing he ever deleted was public. But Mia Garcia, spokeswoman for Attorney General Mark Brnovich, said the analysis by the agency’s attorneys found that some of the messages that were recovered did not meet the legal test to exempt them from disclosure. LaSota and Cantelme disagree, which is why the issue goes to Warner. Garcia acknowledged most of those recovered messages do not fall within the dates requested by the Checks and Balances Project. Those dates were ahead of the 2014 Republican primary where Stump was backing two candidates for the commission — Stump himself was not up for election — over two others running on a platform of more solar energy. And a log of texts showed repeated texts between Stump and not only the candidates but also the head of a group spending money from anonymous donors to help them get elected, and an executive of Arizona Public Service. But Garcia said Brnovich believes that the court should look at everything recovered, even those not specifically requested by Barr, to put an end to the question of what the public is entitled to see of the deleted messages. “We like this resolved as quickly as possible,” she said. The findings also open the door to Barr — or anyone — expanding their public records request to go beyond the specific dates to petition to have what was found released. Arizona Corporation Commission bob stump Checks and Balances Project public records text messages 4:30 am Wed, March 23, 2016 Arizona Capitol Times Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services Arizona impeachment trial judge Frank Gordon Jr. dies at 90 Attorney General files suit against vaping companies Goldwater Institute sues Arizona Department of Education over vouchers State strikes deal to end voter lawsuit Court ruling ends suit to challenge 2016 law on Israel By Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services Ducey’s budget proposes funds for new and expanded programs Attorneys for the state and Republican legislative leaders are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by Democrats challenging the way candidates are listed on the ballot.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10197
__label__wiki	0.886462	0.886462	Blake Shelton Gets a Big Scare on ‘Ellen': ‘I Just Crapped My Pants’ Tricia Despres Ellen DeGeneres has become a pro at scaring the crap out of her celebrity guests, with Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Kacey Musgraves on her list of victims. On Wednesday's show (May 1), it was Blake Shelton’s turn. "When do we talk about the fact that I just crapped my pants," Shelton explains just a few seconds after Modern Family star Julie Bowen jumps out of a hollow table sitting between the guest couch, where the country star is seated, and the show host. 6 Unforgettable Country Tour Pranks DeGeneres and Shelton had been making small talk, chatting about everything from The Voice to his falling off the stage during shows to their shared love of Cheetos. DeGeneres even went as far as ask Shelton point blank: "Gwen Stefani — are you going to marry her?" before Bowen popped out from the table. It took longer than anticipated for Bowen to pop out, and DeGeneres was concerned when she finally did. "You've been in there a long time," she remarks when the actress finally shows up. "It's so hot in there." Turns out, it was Shelton's fault that the prank took so long to come to fruition. "(Shelton) has been hitting on the top of the box with his big beefy hands over and over and over," Bowen yells. "I thought I was going to die, Ellen." "Julie, I had to get his arm up," DeGeneres says. "The whole time his arm was on it and I was like, 'How do I get his arm off?!' That’s why I had to lean over this way." Also during Wednesday's episode, Shelton received somewhat of a pre-engagement gift from DeGeneres — a clock showing Shelton and girlfriend of nearly four years Gwen Stefani kissing. She hopes it will get Shelton to propose sooner rather than later, but he did not indicate whether he has plans to marry the pop-rocker anytime soon. See Pics of Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and Her Boys at UglyDolls Premiere: Source: Blake Shelton Gets a Big Scare on ‘Ellen': ‘I Just Crapped My Pants’ Filed Under: Blake Shelton Categories: Country Music News, Newsletter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10199
__label__wiki	0.632184	0.632184	Trope, Television Is Trying to Kill Us, Artistic License Physics, Did Not Do the Research Superhero Tropes Rule of Perception Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity Video Game Physics Index to The Rescue Not the Fall That Kills You "Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of thirty-two feet per second per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately one hundred twenty miles an hour, hits them, and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces." —Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory It's not the fall that kills you... it's the sudden stop at the end. One must specifically hit the ground to get killed in a fall. Grabbed a ledge? Hooked an outcropping with your Grappling Hook Pistol? Got caught out of midair? (By a giant robot?) Hit water instead of ground? Landed on an enemy? Fall in a dumpster? Congratulations, you're completely uninjured, no matter how far you fell beforehand. Some characters can fall dozens of stories or even out of aircraft, and survive more or less unrumpled as long as they fall through trees before encountering the ground. Under Newtonian physics, this is nonsense: you still decelerate from terminal velocity to a dead stop in less than a second, and it is the speed of the stop that kills. Then again, if you have a Variable Terminal Velocity, then the laws of Newtonian physics might not apply in either case. Amusingly, even works that take the stress of deceleration into account often simply ignore the stress of acceleration. Getting thrown halfway across a city square is pretty much equivalent to getting hit by a train. Even if the hero catches you carefully at the other end, you still end up ripped apart like tissue paper by steel-hard fingers pushing at you like jackhammers. This can happen in video games via Gameplay and Story Segregation. All bets are off if you have Nigh Invulnerability. Subtropes of this include Soft Water and Giant Robot Hands Save Lives, among all the other tropes potholed in that second paragraph. See also I Fell for Hours for incredibly long falls. See also Inertial Dampening, which can justify it in worlds where it exists. Examples of Not the Fall That Kills You include: Kinda subverted in Kaleido Star: while in the trapeze, Leon drops May off, lets her fall a bit and then catches her by the hand, but the pull dislocates her shoulder. Later he does the same thing to Sora, but this time she's not injured because she was expecting it, and used her own strength to help Leon lift her. Mokuba tries to rappel his way down a tower using rope tied together from old bedsheets in Yu-Gi-Oh!. The rope isn't nearly long enough and comes loose, and he falls a long distance down... into some bushes, which saves him. The Abridged Series version comments "It's a good thing I'm a cartoon!" An early episode of Macross averts this. Our hero saves the female lead from a high altitude fall not by catching her in the opened cockpit of his fighter, but by matching her descent before sort of scooping her up. Still pretty crazy, but it had been established that he was a skilled stunt pilot before going military. This pops up all the time in Immortal Rain: when the only way out of trouble is a long way down, Rain scoops up Machika, tucks her under his arm, and jumps. In one scene they escape bounty hunters by jumping out of an upper storey of a skyscraper to the city street below; in another, a train bridge has been destroyed and they jump from the falling train to the canyon floor. The implication is that since Rain is perfectly capable of surviving that fall, anyone cradled in his arms would be safe as well. The characters of Mahou Sensei Negima use a Time Machine to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, not fully knowing how to set the spatial coordinates and thus appearing ten days earlier at several hundred feet in the air. Before hitting the ground, lead wizard Negi used his Wind Magic to both push the group off the ground and create a cushion of air as well, leaving every character without a scratch. This might have made sense if it were done in a slow descent if not for the fact that it was done at the last second only a dozen metres above ground. On a related note, the two heavy-hitters in the group, Kaede and Setsuna were able to survive the fall on their own abilities (they basically landed on their feet). Problematically in Setsuna's case, she decided to take actions to save Konoka herself, Bridal Carrying her on the way down. Note that Setsuna does this routinely to Konoka while jumping massive distances without incident anyway (she probably has some Ki-related method). Similarly, when School Newspaper Newshound Kazumi Asakura tried to expose the same wizard's magic, that atop his already-built stress at the other events surrounding him at the time caused his Wind abilities to explode through his voice. This sent Asakura into the air, to which Negi flew upward on his staff to catch her by the arm. Maybe justified in that he caught her before she actually started falling, but the strength of lift-off was enough to crack and break her cellphone. A Wizard Did It. Literally. Parodied in Cyborg Jiichan G, where the titular cyborg sees the old lady from the tobacco store in the path of a bus, and rushes over to push her out of the way. After he does so, he says, "Whew! That's great that my body can reach Mach two! If I was one second slower, she'd have been hit by that 30 km/h bus!" The old lady has, of course, been smashed to bits to the point where he has to rebuild her body as a cyborg like him... In the Pokémon episode Nerves of Steelix, Jasmine leaps off the edge of a cliff and lands on her Steelix's head approximately fifty feet below with absolutely no injuries. At the climax of Pokémon 4Ever, Ash, Pikachu and the Iron Masked Marauder start to fall to their supposed deaths from thousands of feet in the air. Ash and Pikachu are saved by Celebi, but as for the Marauder…he wasn't so lucky. The Marauder continues to fall to Earth, and just when you were hoping for a Disney Villain Death, he lands in a tree and continues his fall, breaking a branch along the way. He then falls to the ground and starts to roll down a hill and off a miniature cliff, and somehow survives this. "Looks like Team Rocket's Blasting Off Again!!!" Dawn's Buneary has been known to use her twelve-pound body to catch things several hundred times her weight like it doesn't matter how fast they're going. It even happens in the manga from time to time. A particularly egregious case is Sapphire's dismount from her Tropius to catch a falling tree limb - and she survives not just the velocity of the fall (she was dropping from a higher altitude), but also the weight of the limb and the person and pokmeon which she catches on landing! Badass Normal, no kidding! Played straight during Naruto's training for the Chuunin Exams. Thrown into a deep chasm, after falling for several minutes he managed to summon a toad large enough to stop his descent... and bouncing off of his hard back didn't hurt at all, apparently. In Axis Powers Hetalia, Russia jumps out of a freaking plane WITHOUT A PARACHUTE because there is snow. Snow will save him. Granted, he does break his arm (in the manga he breaks all of his bones). The speedster version is explicitly mentioned in Cyborg 009. The 00 cyborgs can survive being transported by 009's acceleration mode because they are cyborgs, who have been enhanced to be more durable than regular humans. Any normal human who comes into contact with 009 while he's in acceleration mode would be killed instantly. In Ranma One Half, it's not unheard of for characters to walk away from hundred-meter drops (in one such instance, they even left perfect character-shaped holes upon impact after falling off a mountain bridge and all the way to the ground.) On one occasion, though, Ranma fell off a Giant Flyer's back several hundred meters in the air, and was knocked out cold upon landing on a convenient log floating downstream. On another, Ranma, while carrying four girls on his back, blasted himself (and the girls) out of a Garden of Evil up to a height of at least thirty meters, and landed perfectly on his feet... then collapsed in a heap, both legs broken. In one episode of the anime, Akane gets knocked off the side of a cliff. Ranma runs down the side, gets to the bottom before she does, then catches her in his arms. She's perfectly fine afterwards. This is Ranma ½ after all. In episode 22 of Fairy Tail, Lucy jumps out of a jail cell that is at least a skyscraper in height off the ground and Natsu catches her. Amusingly, Lucy (who is a normal human besides her Summon Magic) is unharmed, while Natsu (who has Super Strength and is Made of Iron) is briefly knocked silly. Used scientifically in Gamble Fish, Tomu was able to survive the fall by making sure he hit the branches to slow down and the fact that there was a large amount of fresh snow at the bottom to land on. However he did ad the fact this only gave him a 1/10 chances of actually surviving the fall compared to the slim chance if he didn't. He is a gambler after all. In Fullmetal Alchemist, Ed slips off a snowy ledge and plummets fifty feet, landing through the roof of a wooden shed full of soggy dynamite. His only reaction is "Rrrgh… falling like that's gonna stunt my growth even more!!" Subsequently averted hard, when he gets blasted down a very deep mine shaft and gets impaled on a support beam, coming extremely close to dying. Kagura in Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo manages to catch Ureshiko when she falls from the sky. He hurts his leg a little when he lands (no one catches him), but that's taken care of by Ureshiko's magic. Superman regularly snatches Lois Lane out of the sky. He'll sometimes justify it by thinking something to the effect of "I've got to time this right: match my velocity to hers and then gradually slow us," but that doesn't work when they were only seconds from hitting the ground. Also, he fairly often knocks or grabs people at super speed, making that hilarious effect where whatever they were holding at the time would suddenly be suspended in the air as they disappear between panels. Lampshaded in Emperor Joker, where he accidentally kills Lois this way. She gets better. Briefly. After the Joker's control over the universe (long story) is defeated, he grabs her this way again, but this time he apparently remembers not to accelerate so fast. Not surprisingly, most superheroes with Flight will do the same at one time or another. Realistically, they would have the additional concern of taking injury themselves from colliding with a falling object, which at least the invulnerable Superman has no concerns about. In Superman's case, this was one of the main justifications for the Post-Crisis "unconscious telekinesis" theory. Later made explicit in the case of Superboy, who learned to control it consciously. One Action Comics issue has a very ill Superman convey to villains they better stand down as he, Superman, no longer has the ability to -pull- his punches and their heads might just go explodey. Same goes for The Flash, who would certainly be giving high G-load injuries to the people he picks up and rushes off with at super-speed, as his acceleration is depicted as nearly instantaneous. Indeed, the Speed Force was invented largely to "explain" these kinds of mechanics. In one issue of the Justice League of America, he saves the population of an entire North Korean town from a nuclear meltdown in about 12 seconds. The speeds he would have needed to achieve this should have turned everyone he touched, carried, or simply ran past into chunky red jello. Subverted in the Marvel Comics Eternals, where their Speeder, even when trying his hardest not to kill terrorists while disarming them, and moving at half the speed of light, still breaks their arms. Ultimate Universe Quicksilver did something similar, killing a lesser speedster by grabbing hold of her and accelerating so fast that her body was completely shredded. Originally subverted with Spider-Man. He attempted to catch Gwen Stacy with his webbing after the Green Goblin tossed her off a bridge, but the sudden stop snapped her neck. Marvel Comics later tried to reverse course on this, saying that it, indeed, was the fall that killed her; that the shock caused her to have a heart attack and die. They've even gone so far as to edit the prominent "SNAP!" sound effect out of the panel where Spidey catches Gwen in reprints. After the "shock of the fall" line (originated by Stan Lee) was discredited, the current line of Word of God thinking is that since Soft Water doesn't really exist, nothing Spidey could reasonably have done at the time could have saved her. Catch her, she snaps. Don't catch her, she splats. In universe, Spidey's learned from his mistakes. In a scenario years later where Mary Jane is sent plummeting, he knows to fire his webbing at multiple points, stopping Mary-Jane from getting lethal whiplash. And in New Avengers (vol. 2) #21, he catches falling teammates in a soft net of web instead of snaring them with a single line. There's also a What If issue where Spidey manages to save Gwen in this manner, and in a time travel storyline in Spider-Girl, the younger webslinger tells Peter to stop, jumps past him, embraces Gwen and then uses webbing to slow both of them at the same time, more gently and protecting her neck as they go. She specifically states that Peter spent most of her childhood explaining to her what he wished he could have done differently, so she knew exactly how to save Gwen this time. Averted in Batman: Hush, where Batman, after his Grappling Hook Gun line is mysteriously broken, attempts to grab onto a ledge, and immediately breaks several bones in his arms, falls further, and breaks the rest of his bones (there was even a bone chip in his skull). Ouch. Thank goodness a friendly brain surgeon was nearby. Averted in Batgirl: Year One, when Barbara Gordon's jumpline, made of normal rope, is cut by Batman before she can hurt herself with the sudden deceleration. She is later given some of the special 'batrope' to use with the explanation that it is elastic and extends/contracts in order to prevent the shock of an instant stop. Subverted in Alan Moore's Miracleman series. In one issue, the villain hurls an innocent bystander towards a building. Miracleman catches the lad, saving the child's life but breaking a few ribs in the process. In the same scene, the acceleration when the villain threw him should have had the exact same effect -- snapping most of his limbs and his neck, because the villain sure didn't bother about whiplash and such. In Runaways, Victor stops Gert from falling using a steel fire escape, and references this trope, specifically the "matching speeds" angle. In Astonishing X-Men, Hisako catches a plummeting classmate with her mutant armour up. He lives, but he's a mess. In a Captain America issue, Cap is flung off a building. He doesn't catch a flagpole, he slams shield first into the cold, hard cement. His Vibranium-steel alloy shield absorbs ninety-five percent of the impact but it's the five percent that bothers the hell out of him. The same shield Shield can disperse enough force that a punch from the Incredible Hulk (who bench-presses MOUNTAINS) stops instead of nailing you into the ground like a tent peg and is explicitly the hardest thing in the Marvel universe. There's a scene in the Elf Quest: Shards storyline (link pending) where Strongbow the archer is falling to his certain death - until the human Shuna reaches out an arm so that he can use her hand as a target for an arrow with a rope attached. The other elves then grab the rope to break his fall before his weight can rip her arm off. Now in order to pull this off both Strongbow and Shuna would need to have incredibly fast reflexes, and one suspects his momentum would drag everyone else over the edge anyway. In one issue of Doom Patrol, the writer carefully averts this trope. Elasti-Girl grows to giant size to catch a plane coming in for a crash landing, by running alongside it and taking hold of the fuselage. Robotman specifically notes that simply standing still and catching it by the wings would have ripped the plane apart. Subverted in Two Thousand AD's Chopper: A sky surfer catches a young child falling from a high-rise building, but despite the surfer's efforts to cushion the fall, the child dies from the sudden stop. Subverted in a Marshal Law comic where insane Expies of Marvel heroes are fleeing a burning asylum and falling to their deaths. The Daredevil clone tries breaking his fall by latching onto a flagpole... and promptly tears his arms off. Subverted in Nikolai Dante: When Dmitri/Arkady throws Galya out a high window, Viktor dives to save her in his eagle form. He succeeds, but the force of the impact still kills her. Supergirl saves a guy from a 29,000 feet fall here. It has a happy ending, so he should be fine. In a Cloak and Dagger story where Dagger is thrown out of a plane, Cloak saves her by enclosing her in the dark dimension of his cloak...but she still has all the momentum of the fall. So he repeatedly releases her over water for a second at a time, gradually slowing her down and leaving her extremely bruised but alive. Film - Animated In The Incredibles, when a man jumps from the top of a building to kill himself, Mr. Incredible, who is in the top of a much lower building, jumps across the street, grabs the man in mid-air and lands in a lower floor of the building from which the man had jumped. The man ends up with serious injuries. And ends up suing Mr. Incredible. Averted at the end, when Helen/Elastigirl is thrown into the air to catch the baby--she visibly extends her arms upwards, then contracts her body upwards towards the baby before turning into a parachute. Used in The Hunchback of Notre Dame when Quasimodo falls from a parapet of the cathedral only to be caught under the armpits by Phoebus who happened to be on a lower level. Not only does Quasi not die, not only do Phoebus's arms not get completely ripped out of their sockets, but everyone lives happily ever after. During the final battle in How to Train Your Dragon, Astrid gets thrown from her dragon and goes tumbling through the air. Hiccup and Toothless fly in and catch her right before she splats. Hiccup asks Toothless if he caught her, Toothless makes sure he did and Astrid smiles rather happily considering that that catch probably should have broken her legs or spine. And in the same battle, Hiccup and Toothless (without flight control) should be splats on the ground at the end, and the only injury ends up being a leg needing to be replaced, so that should probably be chalked up to barbarian hardiness and cartoon physics. Lampshaded in the CG film Doogle, when one of the characters remarks after falling a great distance: "I'm fine: I broke the fall with my face." Film - Live-Action Star Trek V the Final Frontier: Kirk falls off a cliff. Spock (wearing rocket boots) races after him and grabs him by one ankle right before impact, arresting his fall inches above the ground with no ill effects whatsoever. Obviously the boots have Intertial Dampeners The "arrested fall" version also occurs in Quantum of Solace. In the new Star Trek movie, this also happens when Chekov manages to beam Kirk and Sulu back onto the Enterprise while they were falling towards the planet's surface; he manages to catch them just before they hit the ground. This is completely in keeping with how a transporter would have to work, since by re-materializing the person the forces applied to the object/person before dematerialization no longer exist, while a new set of forces are applied (consistent with the space-ship's current movement through space-time) on rematerialization. The same problem exists when the Enterprise herself is attacked or grabbed by the explosion or monster of the week, causing it to decelerate quickly enough to overcome the artificial gravity and throw people around the room. These people look like they are reacting to a change in velocity of a few feet per second, when just unexpectedly dropping out of Warp 1 to sub-light speed involves deceleration on the order of hundreds of thousands of feet per second in a very few seconds. Even if the artificial gravity takes away 99% of the problem, you still end up with strawberry jam on the bulkheads, if the entire ship doesn't fall apart concurrently. They have inertial dampers for whenever a starship transits from warp to sub-light speeds. Otherwise the ship itself wouldn't survive. The Matrix Reloaded: Neo flies very low to the ground, at a velocity that's knocking cars aside in its wake, and catches Trinity out of the air. Between the sudden vertical stop and the sudden horizontal acceleration, Trinity should have been splattered all over his sunglasses. Earlier in the same movie, Neo rescues a couple of people from a roof of a crashed and exploding truck by flying onto the scene, grabbing them by their collars, and pulling them straight up while Out-Flying the fireball. While the world of the Matrix does have rules, one of Neo's powers is explicitly being able to bend and break them, so this is justified. While not a fall, the physics-defying properties of this trope are subverted in the Blade movies, where the titular super-human grabs a hold of the back of a speeding train and painfully dislocates his shoulder. If he hadn't already being superman, otherwise he would have simply lost his shoulder. Dracula throws a baby at him, and he catches it like it's a football or something. The baby is implied to be unharmed. Subverted in Enchanted, where Giselle, the cartoon princess now a real person in New York expects to be caught when she falls, but ends up hurting both herself, and the man trying to catch her when reality doesn't live up to cartoon physics. Jack Slater, a Refugee From TV Land, has this painfully subverted when he grabs a ledge while falling. In his home universe, he does this all the time without a problem. Handled relatively reasonably in the Iron Man film: Instead of trying to catch the pilot who's falling because his ejection seat's parachute isn't opening, Tony Stark goes for the mechanism to trigger the parachute instead. Incidentally, that helps to illuminate the fact that people can be decelerated from terminal velocity pretty dang fast and still survive, just not instantaneously; otherwise parachutes would be useless. And when he first escapes from the terrorists in his Mk.1 suit, Tony falls from several hundred feet in the air into a sand dune, and suffers nothing worse than momentary dizziness, making this an example of Sand Is Water. In the sequel, it's also averted as Tony visibly drops his speed significantly before grabbing Pepper and flying her away from the exploding Hammeroid. John McClane falls down a shaft in Die Hard and grabs the edge of an air-vent. Instead of just broken fingers, he gets an Acceptable Breaks From Reality because he's in an action movie. It turns out the air-vent grab was due to a mistake by the stuntman. Left in because it looks cool, nothing is said on whether the stunt-man got bashed up. In the 1989 Batman movie, Batman uses his grapple gun to save himself and Vicki Vale after they fall off a huge cathedral. He fires the gun and then attaches it to his belt. The grappling hook lands in the belfry, slides across the floor, and then bites into a bit of stonework, and suddenly Batman and Vicki are suspended in the air, swinging romantically back and forth while searchlights play across the cathedral for no very good reason. All this without a) breaking the stonework, b) breaking off whatever attaches the gun to the belt, c) breaking the belt, d) breaking Batman in half at the waist, or e) tearing Vicki from Batman's arms to go plummeting to her doom. In Underworld the Vampires like to make entrances by jumping off buildings without so much as bending their knees. Averted in Batman Forever, when Batman dives into the death trap to save Chase and Robin. When Batman attaches the cords to Chase and when he grabs Robin, they can be seen decelerating, rather than coming to a complete stop, implying the cords are elastic. This is more noticeable when Batman rescues Robin. Played straight in The Dark Knight Saga, where Batman uses a grapple gun to snag the plummeting Joker. By all rights, the Joker's leg should have been torn out of its socket by the force of his sudden deceleration, but instead, he simply stops and Batman hauls him back up. In the same movie - just because you've jumped out of a window and grabbed your girlfriend, doesn't mean that you both won't be severely injured when you land on a taxi's hood. And in the same movie; Harvey Dent/Two Face falls from twenty, maybe thirty feet, and, according to Word of God, this kills him. Being already severely injured by the same accident that made him Two Face, as well as the angle at which he fell, was probably what did it. Hancock shows the Flying Brick titular hero grabbing a Jerkass kid, flying him high up into the air, zooming back down, and catching him by sticking his arm out. Even leaving aside the deceleration, he hit someone who can shrug off bullets and is harder than pavement. He also tosses a whale by its tail (it rhymes!) without ripping its flukes off. In contrast to Gwen Stacy above, Spider-Man successfully catches Aunt May with his webbing in his second movie. This movies' webbing is shown to be very elastic, but that doesn't stop the Riff Trax from hanging a lampshade: "And her entire skeletal system was pulverized." If anyone was going to have a heart attack from the shock, it would be May. Painfully obvious in the original Spider-Man movie, where Mary Jane is over water and in danger of falling; she does fall, but after about 40 feet she grabs onto a metal pipe. Her arms are not ripped out of their sockets. Averted in the 1978 Superman movie when Lois falls off a high building after a helicopter accident: after catching her, Superman visibly decelerates over several dozen feet of downward motion before proceeding upward. (Sheldon was still pissed off by it enough to create a page quote out of it, though) Also averted in Superman Returns where Supes catches a falling plane and has to decelerate gradually while the plane falls to pieces due to the conflict of forces (even having a wing torn off because he grabs it) Subverted and played straight in the same scene in the 1999 movie Wing Commander, when the hangar bay was depressurizing due to damage from an attack. Blair plays it straight, when he grabs an item on the deck to stop his being sucked out into space, without any obvious discomfort or injuries. For the subversion, Maniac's rush towards the vacuum is stopped by a cable tied around his waist and held at the other end by other pilots. The sudden stop when the cable that was tied around his midsection catches makes him visibly wince in pain, and afterwards he's shown with bandages wrapped around his waist, where the cable bit into him. In Avatar, a skilled Na'vi falling in or over a forest can shed enough velocity on vines and leaves to survive a drop from a great height. It helps a lot that Pandora has lower gravity and denser atmosphere than Earth, and correspondingly falling bodies have lower terminal velocity, and Na'vi have much harder skeletal and organ structures than humans. In the French film La Haine, there is a recurring motif of the man who falls from the top of a four storey building. As he falls, he repeats, "Jusqu'ici, tout va bien" ("So far, so good", or literally "Up to here, all goes well"). Mais ce n'est pas la chute, c'est l'atterrissage. Subverted hard in The Other Guys, where the two Decoy Protagonists fall about ten stories planning to be saved by landing in bushes. Too bad they miss. Both averted and played straight at the start of Attack of the Clones. When Obi-Wan falls several stories, Anakin catches up in a speeder and descends with him, matching his speed and slowing down gradually once he's on board. Not long after, Anakin flings himself out of the speeder, falls several stories himself and catches the canopy of another speeder going very fast. And yet he doesn't lose his arm. Not yet anyway... Averted in The Rock. British spy John Mason offers to shake hands with FBI Director Womack, and slides a slipknot over the latter's wrist. He immediately pulls Womack over the railing of a hotel balcony, and the man is left dangling by the cord; both the sudden stop and the effort to pull him back up dislocate his shoulder and he has to carry his arm in a sling afterwards. The Return of Hanuman has a boy surviving after crushing through walls and even a guy falling off the road while driving his truck. Seems like Maruti the reincarnation of Hanuman isn't the only one who's Nigh Invulnerable. Pirates of the Caribbean plays with this; in the second film Jack Sparrow falls off a fairly high cliff and hits the ground - and not only survives, but he's in good enough shape to run in blind terror from the group of cannibals chasing him. However, he did smash through several rope bridges on the way down as well, thus decreasing his speed a little and rendering this...slightly less implausible, Slightly. Goldeneye Zig Zagged, Alec falls from a great height and lands flat on his back on a cold concrete pool floor, but still manages to survive the fall despite seemingly great injury. Although, he is killed by the Cradle antenna about a minute later, so its hard to say if he was fatally wounded. In the 2009 B-movie Infestation, a giant wasp grabs a guy and flies away. A policeman patiently waits until the pair are above a roof before shooting the wasp. Unfortunately, the victim lands on the roof headfirst and dies anyway. Averted in The Avengers when The Hulk rescues a falling Iron Man by sliding down a building to slow his fall, then sliding several hundred yards down the street before finally coming to a stop. Played straight in Sideways Stories From Wayside School. A girl fell asleep in class, rolled out the window, and fell. The playground supervisor catches her before hitting the ground. Note that the school is a 30 floor building, with her class on the top floor. Averted in Area 7, when Scarecrow does the 'Sydney Harbour Bridge' (two Maghooks connecting in midair) with Gant, thus stopping his fall. IIRC, it's described as 'one hell of a jolt' and it hurts him a lot. This trope (and the stock phase) is the syllabus of The Five Greatest Warriors. Jack's falling into a bottomless pit, and stops his fall with a Maghook. It still hurts, but not as much as it should after falling over 1000 meters. Subverted in Specials when Tally, running away, jumps off a cliff while escaping Fausto with seemingly nothing to save her (no bungee jacket or hoverboard) says before jumping, 'Hey, Fausto, how's this for crazy? Crash bracelets', and states that since crash bracelets weren't designed for anything like a jump off a cliff, she almost passed out from simply raising her arms to shoulder height. Averted nicely in Dragonquest. F'nor and Canth are dropping from a great height at what's explicitly stated as terminal velocity. The other dragonriders don't just stop them short- they form a ramp to slow them down gradually. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: In the Brontital/Shoe Event Horizon arc, Arthur Dent survives a fall of 15 miles by landing on the back of an enormous bird, failing to take into account the fact that the impact with the bird would be as violent as the impact with the ground would have been. The bird and Arthur have an argument about getting safely down to the ground below, which ends when Arthur apologizes for impinging on the birds' time and resumes his fall. The bird is sufficiently guilt-tripped to dive after Arthur and rescue him by grabbing him by the shoulders, resulting in both a second example of this trope and of Variable Terminal Velocity as the bird should not have been able to catch up, and even if he could he would have torn Arthur asunder in his attempt to arrest his fall. In the same arc Marvin falls from the same altitude and has his fall arrested by only the rocky ground below. He survives, but did decelerate for a whole mile through the rock. And he wasn't very happy about it. In a strange subversion, in any given ~Philip K. Dick~ novel/short story you know that something is wrong with the fabric of reality when the rules of physics start acting up. Kudos to the characters if they realise it at the time. ... And you know you're in a horrible sub-sect of reality when the rules of physics are played straight at every single turn (VALIS, anyone?) In Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, the narrative stops for a brief essay on the fact that catching someone who is falling at terminal velocity would definitely kill them, but in this case it's not a problem. Rincewind himself abides by a variation of the trope. He claims he is not afraid of heights but of grounds: rightly recognizing that the ground is the actual instrument of death in a fatal fall. Also, his own life experience (and the fact that he's a just-barely-Wizard) show him multiple times that he can survive falls...provided someone or something intervenes on his behalf. Rapunzel: The One With All The Hair Prince Benjamin falls from Rapunzel's tower and has his fall "broken" when he lands on his horse, unharmed. In Percy Jackson and The Olympians, Percy can survive a fall from any height if he lands in water. Justified in that his father is Poseidon, the god of the sea. Percy could be thrown to the deepest possible part of the ocean without being crushed, freezing to death, or drowning. In the last of the Lensman books, Kim Kinnison's daughter Constance is described as having formed a close friendship with Worsel, the flying dragon Lensman, to the point where she rides him like a horse (and has done so since she was big enough to climb on). One of her sisters describes how he "pretty nearly split her in two with an eleven-gee pull-up", for which she kicked him. Smith, who cranked so much up to eleven for so long, was known for getting little things like this right. At least some works of Robert Heinlein avert this. Star Lift centers around two pilots who have to speed nine days with the constant 3.5g acceleration/deceleration. One of them dies halfway, other is left with his body irrepairably worn-out, causing Rapid Aging. In Double Star, a pilot tells about his strong, but dumb and stubborn passenger, who managed to walk under 5g... and who never walked again afterwards. "Slow" Free Trader starships in Citizen of the Galaxy accelerate at somewhat one km/s per second. It is stated that if the artificial gravity onboard fails for a split-second, all the crew will be instantly splattered into strawberry jam by 100g acceleration. Both the Dragon Boat and Simon Heap easily survive their falls in Septimus Heap. Averted in Dragon Keeper: Garden Of The Purple Dragon. Ping jumps off a burning balcony, hits a tree on the way down, then lands in a pool. However, hitting the tree and water are both seperately described as being very painful, and Ping breaks a rib or two in the process. Averted in Heroes when Nathan saves Tracy as soon as she jumps off the bridge before she has time to build up velocity and what not. Completely and technologically averted in Crusade, when Lochley's Starfury is heading into the hangar bay at ~1/2 of the Excalibur's cruising speed. Gravity traps slow the fighter so it doesn't splat on the back of the bay. Averted in Sanctuary, where a guy with the ability to fly catches a guy jumping out of a high rise building. Having descended maybe 10 to 20 stories, coupled with the would-be rescuer hitting him sideways at what would appear to be about 5 mph, the man ends up with four cracked ribs. Such an impact probably should have caused even more damage, though. A Hercules/Xena crossover (can't remember which show) where Xena is in the clutches of a flying monster hundreds of feet in the air and decides to stab it. She plummets down to earth and Hercules catches her in his arms. She's fine, of course. In one episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, a baby is flying through the air and he catches it by diving to the ground and holding his hands out, which are sitting stationary on the ground when the baby lands on them unharmed. The Doctor plays it straight in "The End of Time", where he survives a fall from a spaceship in low orbit all the way down to the bottom floor of mansion with little more than a mussed-up suit and some scratches from bursting through the glass ceiling. Notably, the original script called for the fall to be much, much shorter, the ship much closer to the ground, but it was changed to look more dramatic. The Fourth Doctor wasn't quite as lucky, or durable - he dies from a much shorter fall. Discussed Trope in The Big Bang Theory. Penny: You know, I do like the one where Lois Lane falls from the helicopter and Superman swooshes down and catches her. Which one was that? Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz: One. {{[[[The Voiceless]] Raj}} holds up one finger] Sheldon: You do know that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy? Penny: Yes, I know men can't fly. Sheldon: No, no, let's assume that they can! Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of thirty-two feet per second per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately one hundred twenty miles an hour, hits them, and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces. Leonard: Unless Superman matches her speed and decelerates. Sheldon: In what space, sir, in what space? She's two feet above the ground. Frankly, if he really loved her, he'd let her hit the pavement. It'd be a more merciful death. In ~1000 Ways to Die~, a woman is sucked out of a plane mid-flight. Due to wind velocity violently scouring the body, the abnormally cold air, and lack of oxygen, she dies before hitting the water below. This is one of the show's rare cases of Truth in Television, since this is exactly what would happen if someone were sucked out of the plane at high altitude, and in fact actually happened to a stewardess aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in June 2001. Flight 243 was an old Boeing 737, built in the 60's, that had endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles and operated in the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. The fuselage skin started to crack just behind the cockpit bulkhead due to corrosion and metal fatigue. Finally, while cruising at 24,000 feet, nearly a third of the roof peeled off, sucking a stewardess out of the plane. What saved the plane and the passengers (who were buckled into their seats) is that, unlike the 1981 crash of a Boeing 737 owned by Far Eastern Air Transport, the floor stayed intact. (In the 1981 crash, both the ceiling AND the floor ripped off, dooming the plane and the passengers.) At least three editions of the Hero System rules have used some variant of the following line to open the rules on falling damage: Falling itself does no damage whatsoever to a character -- but the impact with the ground can be mighty painful. In Exalted, Perfect Defences allow you to take no damage from anything, falling damage included. This makes sense for the ones that turn your skin to iron or even allow you to block attacks but how in Creation do you dodge the ground? It's not by "throwing yourself at the ground and missing", because Arthur Dent already tried that. You can't dodge or parry the ground, even with a perfect defense -- they work only against any attack, and falling hard is not an attack. This is clarified in a sidebar in Infernals. The few exceptions are justified (like a perfect parry that turns your skin to magic invulnerable brass, and a perfect dodge that dodges the fate of whatever was going to happen to you.) Ninjas & Superspies had two martial arts powers that allowed a character to survive extremely long falls with minimal damage. The monk class in most editions of Dungeons and Dragons can survive long falls without damage as long as they're close to a wall. Pretty much any high level character can survive. You suffer 1d6 damage per 10 feet up to 20d6 damage, or generally between 60 and 80 points. You also have to roll versus death from massive damage but pretty much anyone capable of surviving the damage will make the save. Of course, by the time you're high level, you probably have other means of surviving a fall anyway. Seventh Sea, as part of its Rule of Cool swashbuckling theme, allows you to fall from any height with no damage as long as you land on something "soft", including hay bales, awnings, water and people. In cutscenes in Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning utilizes a device called a Grav-Con unit to survive incredible falls and jumps (it reverses gravity just before the character hits the ground). In the game, Odin Sphere, after a boss fight in the sky, Gwendolyn laments her impending death and converses with the spirit of her dead sister. This goes on for several minutes and another cutscene plays in the middle of it. After falling long enough for a bathroom break, her lover, Oswald, saves her by making a quick jump from somewhere below and catching her. Possibly subverted, since Gwendolyn is unconscious and Oswald is barely standing afterwards, but this may be because of their previous fights and Oswald's use of his dark power to reach Gwendolyn before she hit the ground. In Rune, the multiplayer death message may state death by deceleration trauma. Space Quest quotes the trope word for word for one of their The Many Deaths of You snarky comments. Sonic the Hedgehog might be the largest offender of this trope, since his ability has always been to run really really fast. Not necessarily stop super fast. (Likewise, he doesn't suffer fall damage.) In game, you actually do slow down to a stop. During cutscenes, he skids to a halt. Make of that what you will. Also, he does fall into Bottomless Pits. Averted Trope in the Tomb Raider series: Although Lara can grab onto ledges with one arm, but if she falls too far, she automatically dies no matter what she lands on and the grab action no longer works. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay survives a massive fall by grabbing a guard with him and holding him in front of him, which resulted in the guard hitting the ground first and taking the impact, leaving our favourite anti-hero unscathed. Badass as this may be, it landed him in a dark, underground subterranean level of the prison filled with nasty aliens with a dwindling flashlight and not much ammo. Bonus points for actually mentioning this trope, word for word. In Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and The Flame, attempting to grab a ledge after you've fallen beyond the ordinarily lethal limit, will leave you crushed on the floor... while your arms dangle from the ledge above. In the Sands of Time games almost any fall will kill you, even ones that would only cause discomfort. Justified in that given the environments he's in, even a broken ankle or sprain would effectively kill him. In the same game if you fall from a great height but manage the get near a ledge just before hitting the floor, the prince will grab onto the ledge - completely decelerating in a fraction of a second - before losing his grip and falling to the floor. Decelerating from terminal velocity using only his fingertips doesn't harm him, but the short drop to the floor below kills him outright. Averted in Dark Forces Saga 2: Jedi Knight, which incorporated collision damage. Any abrupt impact from any direction hurts the same way; Force Jump and you'll take damage appropriately should there be a low ceiling in your way. Force Speed and run into a wall and you'll also take damage. Averted in Crackdown: arresting a long fall by grabbing onto a ledge still hurts just as much as it would normally, but in spite of the sickening "crunch" sound implying that the agent has just broken his arms, he doesn't let go of the ledge. Using the agent's stomp ability doesn't prevent damage, but falling into water does. Subverted in EA's Skate. If your character falls above a certain height without landing on a decently sized slope, he won't land the trick. This can get rather ridiculous if he looks like he should have been able to land the jump. If this is the case, your skater will stand firm for a second, but then just slump over and rag doll. In the Halo novel First Strike, a collection of Spartans make a similar freefall from an approaching shuttle in low orbit and nearly all suffer severe injury or death. However, these Spartans are wearing "Mark V" armor(the armor MC has in Halo 1) rather than the "Mark VI" that the MC wears in Halo 2 and 3. This is all justified in The Fall of Reach where the SPARTAN-IIs were all modified to have steel coated bones, super strength, and other modifications. They also tested the armor on normal humans. The armor moved too fast for them, and liquefied what tried to move. Then they convulsed in pain and were turned to 100% liquid. Basically, Master Chief and the other SPARTANs can only use it due to extensive modification, which is amplified by the suit. In the Halo 3 beta if you turned up the movement speed as high as it could go, players could die by simply running into each other fast enough. Halo: Reach has your character thrown off a doomed Covenant Corvette, and you survive, despite the (relatively) old armor you have access to. How do they explain this? If you look closely enough at the thing on your back, you can see the words "REENTRY PACK" stamped on the side of it. It's (apparently) able to lock the Spartan's armor like what Master Chief did in Halo 2/3 and/or augment the energy shield to better withstand the re-entry. In most gameplay situations, you automatically die in midair after falling about 30 feet. Averted with the summoning stones introduced in Burning Crusade, where if someone is falling off a cliff and is summoned to the dungeon, they hit the ground with all the force they should Of course, this would require rather careful timing. When Wrath of the Lich King introduced a dungeon finder that allowed you to teleport to dungeons at will, they made the caveat that teleportation was not possible while falling. This is averted in Wallace and Gromit: Project Zoo. A fall over a certain height will injure or even kill Gromit no matter what is done. Portal lacks fall damage, but lampshades it by putting spring mechanisms on Chell's heels that absorb the force of impact. The game's own developer commentary discusses this -- Chell was given leg springs because playtesters complained about her surviving "falls that would kill Gordon Freeman." Portal is notable in that its unique conservation of momentum allows terminal velocity to be reached over short distances and vertical acceleration can quickly become horizontal. Yet you always land on your feet, completely upright. And if you construct your portals a certain way (both on the floor but "aligned" improperly) and bounce between them over and over, you can quickly get turned upside-down, though Chell is always capable of righting herself. The final promo for the sequel shows that Chell now has special boots instead of just the springs. The narrator Cave Johnson claims they prevent her from landing anywhere except on her feet (there is no evidence to support this, as all of Chell's flips are of her own accord). Note that this is not mentioned in the game proper although it is commented on by G La DOS) and early in the game, Wheatley still sounds concerned about Chell jumping into a large pit and landing on, say, her head. Half-Life itself does have falling damage, but if the player character can catch hold of a ladder (or rope, in some sequels) on the way down, all that momentum dissipates like magic. Additionally, Soft Water is in full effect, such that a few inches of water will cancel the momentum of the player character. Entirely averted in the Banjo-Kazooie series: after about two stories' worth of falling, Banjo loses control and can no longer grab anything or use any ability similar to a double jump, which he has several of. You can also perform his and Kazooie's version of the Ground Pound while falling like that, and if you're close enough to the ground when you do it, you won't take damage. Averted in Crysis. If you mod your speed mode (by altering the difficulty level text files - the hardest of which is suffixed with "_bauer", amusingly) to go far faster than normal, manage to run up to full speed and smack into a wall or other object of scenery (train car, solid gate, whatever) it is quite possible to do some serious harm to yourself, and possibly even kill yourself. In Team Fortress 2 the Scout doesn't take any fall damage from leaping off of high places if he does a double jump before hitting the ground. As other classes (or a Scout, if not double-jumping), you take falling damage if you drop more than twice your height, approximately. If your health is low, this kills you, complete with a notification on your clumsy, painful death. In Super Smash Bros Brawl's Subspace Emissary storyline, Lucas and the Pokémon Trainer are falling from a height of several hundred feet (well above the summit of an impressive mountain.) Meta Knight spots them and catches them nearly at ground level, flying them away from the mountain at a horizontal trajectory. Even more mind-boggling in that Meta Knight is smaller than either of those characters. (But then, many other characters fall from immense heights and don't need saving to come out unscathed...) Averted in the latter two of the Creatures trilogy, in which you can injure Norns by picking them up and throwing them against walls. However, provided a fall is enough to injure the Norn at all, it injures them just as badly no matter how far they fall. (Although this is partially Truth in Television.) Inverted in Spelunker, especially NES version. Falling by knee-height in NES version kills you mid-air. Also inverted in many Action 52 platformers where the main character is killed mid-air too, if the fall lasts too long. Averted in Fallout 3. Falling from a too large height will damage you, and once you've passed the damaging height limit, you don't need to go much higher to kill yourself. There's also a cheat that increases the size of your character model... but it doesn't scale physics interactions with it. So it is entirely possible to turn yourself into a giant, only to die from a knee-height fall. In Devil May Cry 3, Lady is thrown off the side of the Temen-ni-Gru by Arkham. She falls for at least 8 seconds before Dante catches her. By her ankle. Lady takes worse later on. While it hasn't been explicitly stated, it seems that Dante -and of course Vergil- are just immune to falling harm. Both of them just jump from the freaking top of the Temen-ni-Gru tower to get down. They do have an immense Healing Factor, though (we're talking "getting shot in the forehead in a cutscene is merely annoying" immense.) In Left 4 Dead players that get knocked off a ledge will go into a "perilously clinging" state where they must be rescued by another player. If no one pulls them up after a certain amount of time, they fall and the game registers them as dead. Annoyingly, there was a bug in early versions where players could get stuck in this animation and then "die" from a fall of a few feet. Naturally, falling off anything from a great height will kill survivors, but there is one minor exception. In the 2nd map of Dead Air where you activate the crane, if you look in the street below, there is a truck. If you jump off the roof and land on the truck, you'll be incapped instead of killed, but the game quickly eats away your health and kills you in just two seconds. Also, landing on a zombie's head will break your fall no matter how far you had fallen. If you do this in an area where you are not supposed to be like in the example above, you die anyway. And when a survivor is hanging from a ledge, any AI-controlled survivors (who does tend to accidentally walk off ledges) will rush to help him/her up. Problem is they choose the most direct route possible. So if the survivor in peril is hanging on the other side of a short gap... In Aion, even though you can fall from ridiculous heights, hitting the ground kills you instantly (from more than something like 10m or so). You can spread your wings just above the ground to save yourself though, but that's not necessarily that unrealistic (apart from the spreading your wings part :) ) - you only accelerate for a while, after that the air resistance counter acts the pull of gravity and after you spread the wings, you don't just stop immediately - you glide a bit, giving you much more time to dissipate the speed than simply splatting into the ground. Also, the world Aion is set in appears to have very strange gravitational properties (mainly to the Aether, which apparently acts as a kind of antigravitational Applied Phlebotinum and also thanks to the fact, that the planet is eaten from inside, thus having much smaller gravity... everyone moves like on Earth more or less though... Aether did it?) In newer versions, Aion will actually kill you simply from falling. It takes somewhere between 5 to 10 seconds of unrestricted free-falling to instantly kill you without waiting for you to hit any surface whatsoever. Particularly noticeable if you try to free-fall from the upper abyss to the lower, and catch yourself near the end of the fall. This was probably implemented to counter the common abuse which allowed you to save quite a few seconds of flight time by doing this trick. Between Abyss levels this almost the same behaviour as before. Prototype features no fall damage whatsoever; in fact there is an attack that is based on jumping as high as possible, then dropping down like a bullet and creating a MASSIVE shockwave that can even seriously damage tanks. This is justified as the protagonist has no bones to break or organs to rupture. Early subversion in Legacy of the Wizard. If you fall from higher than the character's maximum jump height, it's gonna hurt. Not a total aversion, because the damage is the same no matter how high you fall from. In the Ghost in the Shell game, the opening cut scene has our heroine leaping out of a helicopter flying high above and landing without trouble, possibly justified by her cyborg nature. And then in the rest of the game play, you die if you fall off an eight-foot high stack of crates, possibly justified by They Just Didn't Care. Base jumping without any apparent equipment is basically the Major's calling card, and it's never shown how she lands after these jumps. Mirror's Edge basically is Le Parkour on the rooftops of a futuristic city. It completely averts this trope and you have to take a roll to dampen the impact of jumps from considerable heights. If you miss a jump between buildings, there's really not much more you can do than bracing yourself for the sickening sound of a body hitting the sidewalk. No More Heroes 2 has a completely insane example in the ending. After finishing off the final boss, Travis plummets several hundred feet to the pavement, and Sylvia catches him...out of the air with one hand, while he's literally an inch from hitting the pavement, and slings him onto the back of her motorcycle. At the aforementioned event, getting shot out of a tower, you also hit several ledges on the way down. Your bones are practically all broken, but the narrator, Theresa, also says that "Sometimes the grief is so great, even Death keeps his distance." In Jet Grind Radio sequel Jet Set Radio Future, as long as you land within the level (i.e. you don't fall from a skyscraper, which deducts a few HP and sends you back to your nearest checkpoint) even ridiculously long falls cause no damage as long as you hit a grind rail or continually strike poses on your way down. Painfully inverted in Battlefield 1942. Fall damage is calculated by judging the distance in your starting height and your end height. The damage scales horribly, and is even applied to vehicles. Walking down a hill too fast and fall 3 inches? Half your HP is gone. Drive a little too fast over a bump in the road and get the front of your tank just barely off the ground? It's probably going to explode and kill you as it "lands". This also has an interesting effect when combined with the parachute. Some attacks (grenades, tank shells, aircraft splash damage, etc) blow you up into the air if they don't kill you outright. If you hit your parachute (or land on something even slightly higher than the ground you started from) you'll live. The parachute will nullify all fall damage regardless of how long it has been deployed, with the caveat that you can only deploy it once you've already fallen further than your starting height, making it tricky to deploy in time (due to reflexes and lag) if you're being abused by shoddy map geometry. Partially averted and partially played straight in Just Cause 2. The aversion: free-falling from great heights will injure or kill Rico, whether the fall is onto land or water. There are no ledges to grab onto, either. However, Rico's wrist-mounted grappling hook is essentially this trope's purest interactive representation. Need to pull yourself 50 meters up the side of a building in 2 seconds? Done! Need to make that same trip in reverse? No problem! And the piece de resistance: fly a plane 10,000 feet in the air, jump out, wait until you're about 30 feet from the ground, then fire the hook. It will attach to the ground and reel you in for no damage. So hitting the ground at terminal velocity will kill Rico. Using the grappling hook to pull him to the ground even faster allows him to survive. Also, even if falling from terminal velocity, wait to deploy your parachute at the last possible second and see what happens. That's right! All that will happen is that Rico falls down, says something along the lines of "sheesh" or "Whoa... To close for comfort." and have absolutely no damage. Worse than all of the above examples is you can bail out of a flaming out of control jet and come out about a foot off the ground and land because you were so close to the ground that the game never has you freefalling and the speed is negated when you jump out of the jet so you're perfectly fine. Flint in Alundra 2 can survive any fall... especially in cutscenes. In Dead Rising, Frank West takes roughly normal (in video game terms) falling damage, unless he does a knee drop. That's right, landing on your feet hurts, but directing all the force into your kneecap is a perfect solution. Kratos in God of War, being a demi-god, is rather good at surviving falls, unless it's into a Bottomless Pits of some kind. One particularly noteworthy example in the second game, when he performs a Literal Cliff Hanger with his chainblades after leaping off the back of a Griffin. Another occurs in the third, when he leaps from the Labyrinth inside Mount Olympus all the way into the Underworld. The Legend of Zelda - Link would always take damage falling into Bottomless Pits or deep water, but the 3D titles also added falling damage from a sufficient enough height. In later games, if you fall too far the roll move will no longer save you from damage. Ditto the Super Mario Bros. series, though a Ground Pound will negate any falling damage if it's initiated from a low enough height. Slightly subverted with Super Mario Sunshine - falling for too long will make Mario flail around unable to do anything until his splat on the floor, but if you do a Ground Pound before that, then as long as there's ground underneath, you won't take any damage. Not even if you fall until Mario begins to light on fire from falling so far. The Lord of the Rings Online: Averted. Falling from a small height will at least get you injured and limping for a few minutes. In the Game Boy versions of Turok and Turok 2, falling for a certain amount of time causes Turok to enter a different falling animation. He dies as soon as he touches any solid ground while in this animation. In the Assassin's Creed games (including Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood), averted with Desmond Miles due to the lack of areas high enough for a fatal fall -- though this is stretched in Brotherhood due to his much greater free-running. However, he becomes "desynchronized" with his ancestors Altaïr and Ezio's memories if they "die," including fatal falls. However, so long as they manage to grab onto any ledge on the way down they suffer no fall damage. Ezio also has the ability to roll (hold forward on the left stick) to reduce the fall distance for the purposes of calculating damage, which with a low enough fall can prevent fall damage. In Brotherhood, Ezio can acquire Parachutes (after completing all four of the War Machine missions; he's granted five to start and can buy more from tailors, carrying up to fifteen at once) which can be triggered during a fall to avert fall damage. The series also features Leaps of Faith, including some ridiculously cool jumps from the tallest towers in each game. The character will survive these leaps just fine, because the landing is softened by a haystack, a pile of leaves or in the latest installment, a bush of flowers. This is the ending of Haunted Castle 3, a Castlevania fangame. It is one of the most awesome, manly and over the top uses this trope has ever seen. [1] In the first Ratchet and Clank game Ratchet and Clank wind up falling from the platform where they fight and defeat Chairman Drek. Ratchet even looks down and you literally can't see the ground from how high up they are. And yet, Clank, changing to his Thruster Pack mode, and propelling himself against Ratchet literally seconds before hitting the ground is enough for the pair to just skid against the ground a bit. The only injury sustained by either of them is Clank's broken servos in his arm, which were from the force of holding up Ratchet's weight BEFORE they fell. In Minecraft falling into water more than two blocks deep will prevent any fall damage. The same applies when catching a ladder. This actually plats into several useful constructs most notably the Water Brake(tm). Dont want to climb all the way down your mineshaft? Just toss a water block on top of a sign, and you need not worry about long climbs ever again! In In Famous, Cole can leap off the tallest building in the game, and suffer no damage at all. Unless he falls into water. Also, anything he lands on (unless he's using the Thunder Drop) will also be perfectly fine. Turns out he uses his Kinetic Shockwave to dampen his fall (notice the dust spreading from his impact point). In the Spider-Man 2 game, it's possible to save yourself from a long fall by shooting off a web zip-line, which Spidey uses to sharply pull himself horizontally. It's quite possible to jump off the Empire State Building and then suddenly jerk to the side inches from the ground. Bug!! You only die if you fell off the terrain itself (each level is a huge floating 3D terrain). As long as Bug lands on a platform, he'll be safe. One of the patches to Unreal Tournament 2003 added falling damage when you perform a wall jump (i.e. you could no longer jump down a tower and wall-jump at the last second). As a concession, the shield gun now protects against falling damage. At the end of the manor house level in Medal of Honor: Frontline, you and Geritt escape by jumping off a several story high balcony into a hay wagon. He hits the ground and survives, but you die if you miss the wagon. In the Syphon Filter series, falling more than 10 or so feet in-game is fatal, although Logan survives falls much further than this in cutscenes, such as jumping through the glass ceiling of the Pharcom Expo Center's entry hall, off a high bridge onto a train, and down an airshaft in the Agency Biolab to grab a vent just above a giant fan. At the end of the first Golden Sun game, Sheba falls off the top of Venus Lighthouse, and Felix leaps off the tower after her, in an apparent suicide dive. It's later noted that the seas miraculously rose up to the tower as they fell, and The Stinger of that game and beginning of the next shows that they washed up on a beach later, unconscious but otherwise unharmed. Sheba is a wind adept, she manipulated the winds to slow their fall, which is what caused the water to appear to rise up. Theorized by Kraden after Sheba's wind adept status is confirmed. Played straight initially in Deus Ex Human Revolution then Hand Waved with the optional addition of an augmentation that allows Jensen to fall from any height and survive. The game always shows Jensen activating something that shoots lightning downwards that, apparently, creates a cushion for a soft landing. Interestingly, this neither consumes nor requires energy. That would be the appropriately-named Icarus Landing System. It is described with the following technobabble: "A discreet augmentation surgically implanted in the user's lower back, slightly above the coccyx at the base of the vertebral column. The device has an acceleration descent sensor built in; in free fall, the unit will automatically activate the patented High-Fall Safeguard System, an EMF decelerator generating a fixed-focus electromagnetic lensing field, projected downward along the plane of the drop. This field pushes against the Earth's magnetosphere and slows the user's descent to a manageable velocity, allowing him to fall from almost any height (within reason) to a relatively soft landing." In Shadow of the Colossus, Wander can successfully break any fall if he grabs onto something before hitting the ground. This is particularly amusing to witness during the battle with the last colossus, where Wander can plummet several stories and still emerged unharmed as long as he catches a ledge on his way down. Up to a certain height, hitting the ground will only do damage, and not an enormous amount. Once you pass that height, you die on impact, even if a slightly shorter fall would barely inconvenience Wander with a maxed life bar. Batman: Arkham Asylum attempted to justify this by means of Batman's glider cape: if he is falling towards the ground, the cape will automatically open a few feet before the ground, slowing his descent somewhat. However, it's played completely straight in the sequel, in which Batman gains a new move which allows him to dive vertically (without his cape opening) and still hit the ground unharmed. Additionally, Catwoman is able to jump huge vertical distances and not take any damage when hitting the ground (it's occasionally handwaved by having her perform a combat roll when landing). Finally, in both games it's played straight in another instance, as Batman and Catwoman are able to throw mooks off of very tall buildings, but when their bodies are scanned after the fact they are invariably described as "Unconscious", even if the falls are long enough to realistically kill even a very strong person. In World of Warcraft, fall damage is quite lethal (except for the Soft Water), but a warrior (or druid in bear form) can use their Charge ability on an enemy, which causes them to rush up to that foe. However, the scripted movement for the Charge overrides the fact that they're currently falling, so they end up on the ground having suffered no damage. Also, casting Slow Fall or Levitate will instantly reduce a falling character's speed, to no ill effect, and they will suffer no damage when they hit the ground - regardless of how far they fell prior to that point. Garry's Mod is even worse than the above Half-Life 2 in this regard - no matter how far you fall, unless you have some addon that makes falls more realistically painful, at most you will suffer ten damage (which, by the way, can be easily and immediately regained by spawning and using a pair of one of the default entities that comes with Garry's Mod). As stated, there are some addons that make this more realistic, like the "Perfected Climb SWEP". Ever Quest keeps similar physics to World of Warcraft: falling any significant depth will damage or kill you, with the damage being proportionate to the fall. A fall into any body of water (no matter now long the fall or how deep the water) will result in no damage. Final Fantasy Tactics has characters take fall damage if they fall a greater distance than their jump rating (4 for most classes), at a rate of 10% of Max HP per height level. A fall of 10 or more over the character's jump rating is always fatal. Given the scale of the game, this isn't actually all that high (roughly ten yards). Anybody else remember Roy Greenhilt's monologue before hitting the ground? "(I'm) an adventurer, (I) can weasel my way out of this!" No, he can't. Done pretty reasonably in Gunnerkrigg Court. When Antimony falls off the bridge, the TicTocs grab her and slow her fall until she's at a safe height... then they drop her into the river. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja -- apparently Doc can land safely from any height as long as he has the cord of his grappling hook in his hands. Even his Honda can stick a pretty deft landing. In Eight Bit Theater, Thief survives an extremely long fall via the aforementioned "double jump" method. In another strip this is averted when the main characters are falling at a fast speed from hundreds of feet in the air. Even though they are teleported to the ground, that doesn't stop the acceleration from the fall. Bloody mess. And in yet another strip, well... Fighter: The way I figured it, the fall doesn't kill you. The ground does. So I blocked it. Thief: You blocked the Earth. Fighter: Why not? I can block magic and fire and all kinds of stuff. Thief: I hate it when the things he says that don't make sense make sense. Parodied in this strip from Lightning Made of Owls. Zigzagged in Darths and Droids on Coruscant: They have force fields to slow you down, but there's lava on the ground. After dropping Buck Godot from a great height and allowing him some time to panic, the elusive Teleporter proceeds to gradually break his fall by repeatedly punching him in the stomach. Ouch. Bug explored this. Sort of. Simultaneously averted and somewhat played straight in Drowtales when Ariel falls from the top of one tower down to the bottom, though she does stop briefly at one point. It's hard to see, but she briefly uses air sorcery to slow her descent. That said, when she hits the ground she's in bad shape with internal bleeding (both from the fall and an earlier stab wound) and it's strongly suggested that if it wasn't for the resident Empathic Healer that she would have died. Various methods of doing this in World of Warcraft are explored in this Awkward Zombie strip. In Chapter 2 of the blog novel Fartago, the character Tago jumps off a cliff but survives it by landing in a pile of dung. Handwaved in that the author, Tony Caroselli, has said he stuck with the almost exclusively dialogue-only writing style specifically because a third-person narrator would be more likely to explain specific details, like where the lead characters are getting all those grapes and wheat to make their seemingly endless supply of booze (which ferments within hours), even when that would get in the way of the joke or of the novel's intentionally nonsensical story. Presumably, this also applies to how high the cliff Tago jumps from is. Also averted, in that Tago does not escape unscathed, but in an important plot point, breaks his leg from the fall. (The chapter is entitled, "How Tago Got His Limp.") In Teen Girl Squad it's mentioned that if you fall into a bottomless pit, you die of starvation. Of course, you actually die of dehydration. Every super-strong or super-fast hero in the Global Guardians PBEM Universe falls under this trope. Momentum and kinetic energy just never seem to enter into any rescue catches or super-speed evacuations. Played for Laughs/Rule of Funny recently in Survival of the Fittest, with Richard Han's death. He falls off a mountain, and screams as he falls... only for him to enter another thread as he falls, apparently screaming the entire time and only stopping when he hits the ground and dies. It's actually pretty funny as hell. Subverted or deconstructed every time in the Whateley Universe, where the powers aren't as big and the physics seems to matter more. In "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl", Elite League are running through a holographic simulation. When the Squishy Wizard Spellbinder gets blasted into the air by a magical trap and Flying Brick Bombshell flies forward to catch her, the impact knocks Spellbinder out and injures her. This is pretty prevalent in most cartoons (a fall that was meant to kill Darkwing Duck merely hurts a lot when he lands in a garbage truck; the same fall later is nonlethal to Negaduck when he bounces off electrical wires and up, even when the garbage truck is pulled away), although there is also a common subversion when a character is trying to catch something, does so... and the falling object takes their arms with it. This gives the would-be hero enough time to stare plaintively at the camera before being dragged down. On Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula falls very far off a from a flying object and manages to land perfectly on her feet on the side of a cliff. Also justified several times with Aang, who can bend the air around him to slow himself down before landing. Parodied in an episode of Futurama: Bender is about to leap off a space train (...) and his hobo friend advises him: "We're going at nearly the speed of light, so... roll when you land." Danny Phantom in human form falls dozens of feet from the air and managed to grab onto a flagpole harmlessly. The flagpole later snaps and he falls another dozen or so, bounces off a sheet attached to a building, and into bags of garbage without taking any injury, but hey. Danny: That flagpole thing worked? I thought for sure it would snap - * snap* Incidentally, Skulk Tech (long story) tries to do the same thing. It doesn't work. Technus: Wow! The flagpole held? I thought for sure it would snap BREAAAAAAAK! Sam and Tucker are dropped from the top of a building into a dumpster. They just get grossed out. Subverted in an episode of Aeon Flux where a falling Aeon shoots a grappling hook at a bridge, before getting entangled in the rope and dying instantly when the rope finally tightens. Happened in the Tale Spin pilot: near the end, Kit is thrown off the Iron Vulture high above Cape Suzette. He is saved by Baloo, who raced to the scene all the way from Louie's with the Sea Duck in constant overdrive, and caught him inches above sea level. Happened in the Batman/Superman movie "World's Finest." Similar to what happened in Hush, Bruce Wayne tries to catch himself with his arms while falling off a building. He visibly falls at least 10 stories if not more, and is able to catch himself without ripping his arms off or breaking any bones. Done in Once Upon a Forest when Abigail falls off the flapper-wingamathing while trying to retrieve lungwort from the side of a very tall cliff, but is saved by grabbing onto the wing after Russel swoops the flying machine down to catch her. The Super Mario World cartoon, in the Mama Luigi episode. "I fell for hours! ... Well, it seemed like hours. Anyway, I was falling, nothing below me but boiling lava! Good thing I found the magic balloon!" Averted quite brutally in the Happy Tree Friends episode "Better Off Bread", in which Giggles falls off a cliff and is rescued in mid-air by Splendid the flying squirrel....and the impact snaps her spine! It gets worse. Splendid's constant acceleration and deceleration repeatedly breaks her spine, each time with a sickly "Crush" sound. The Tick: "Aha! I'll bounce off that flagpole and flip to safety!" snap "Uh-heh! I'll bounce off that... broad, flat surface and be in a lot of pain!"]] CRASH!!! "AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!" "Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress..." In case you were wondering, The Tick averts this trope. The main character is Nigh Invulnerable, however, and escapes unharmed. The pavement got a small dent in it, though. Happens in the Bamse TV series, in the episode with the volcano. Bamse falls off the volcano, but Skalman manages to grab hold of his belt from the helicopter moments before Bamse would have hit the ground. Instead of going from terminal velocity to zero, he's going from terminal velocity downwards to a not insignificant speed upwards. Yeah. Parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, where Bart is thrown off a dam and saved by a Heel Face Turn'd Sideshow Bob swinging by on a rope. When the rope is cut, they fall for several seconds (long enough that they have to take a breath between screams)...and then Bob lands groin-first on a pipe that's sticking out. As he sits frozen in pain, Bart climbs onto a nearby ledge, then pulls Bob up too. In an episode of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Rarity falls for 50 seconds, which in Earth's gravity and air resistance would be at least a mile. Rainbow Dash accelerates to Mach 1, straight down, before catching her and making an instant 90-degree turn. This is approximately 1670 G's of force. This happens again in Secret of My Excess; Spike and Rarity fall for around 30 seconds before Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy save them using only a piece of cloth. In The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Filly Fluttershy is knocked off a cloud and falls thousands of feet to earth, screaming all the way. Just when you're expecting a fall to the death, she lands in some butterflies and is perfectly fine. In a 2-part King of the Hill episode, Hank and Peggy go skydiving, but Peggy's parachute (and emergency chute) fail to deploy. Everyone fears her dead, and it's Lampshaded just how miraculous a survival from that height is. She ends up in a full body cast, goes through a psychological roller coaster, and for a few episodes is still going through physical therapy just to walk again. In the Five Episode Pilot of Gargoyles, Goliath falls off a skyscraper and tries to grab a flagpole. It snaps immediately, in what the creators have referred to as a "This-ain't-Batman" moment. Speaking of which, this was lampshaded in an episode of Batman Beyond when Terry was forced to use Bruce's old-school gear. He comments that the Grappling Hook Pistol isn't so bad - right before he wrenches his shoulder using it. In Batman the Animated Series, Two-Face prepares to push a terrified Hugo Strange out of a flying plane; The Joker sadistically tells him: Remember, its not the fall, its the sudden stop!. Happens quite sometime in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, most egregiously in the Season2 episode Landing at Point Rain. After Anakin and Ahsoka jumped down from the top of a ten-stories high droid fortress, they used the Force to slow themselves down about a meter from the groud, then they catch Rex -whom Anakin threw several meters high into the air before he himself jumped- about fives inches above ground. The examples are the surprising Subversions of this trope; where extraordinarily lucky circumstances allowed something (or several somethings) to break the fall. The list of people who play it straight, so to speak, is much, much longer. Vesna Vulovic survived a fall of 10,000 meters in 1972. Nick Alkemade survived a 5.5 kilometer fall in World War II. Alan Magee survived 6.7 kilometer fall in World War II. Ivan Chisov survived a 6.7 kilometer fall in World War II. More recently, skydiver Michael Holmes survived a 12,000 foot (3657 meter) fall when his parachute failed. Inverted with black holes, in that you actually die from spaghettification before hitting the singularity at the center. The Peregrine Falcon doesn't hit the ground, but can turn out of a stoop at such speed that it pulls Gs that would easily kill a human. Aversion in some instances as well; the shock and fear of falling can be enough to send someone into cardiac arrest, killing them or at least making them pass out before they hit ground. Modern parachutes are designed so as to open slowly, ensuring integrity of both operator and parachute. A pair of skydivers from the US Army Golden Knights collided in mid air while performing a "diamond track". One had his legs sliced off by the other's arm but survived, while the other was dead on arrival. ↑ Trevor defeats Dracula, saves his bride, jumps out of the castle and falls for about 40 seconds while killing harpies. Then he crashes into the floor, apparently dead. ...Except he's a Belmont, you know, so he just stands up and goes back home. Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Not_the_Fall_That_Kills_You?oldid=329682" Television Is Trying to Kill Us Artistic License Physics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10207
__label__wiki	0.922168	0.922168	Trope, Pages with broken file links, Live Action TV Tropes, Comedy Tropes This Index Is Ready to Rumble Combat Tropes Crime and Punishment Tropes The Boxing Episode File:CSI-fight-night 1343.jpg KOWALSKI: Logic! Exactly! Boxing has nothing to do with logic. It is sport taken to its purest nut. It is muscles, sweat, guts, torque, load . . . I mean, you ever meet a logical person who would bite off another man's ear? FRASER: It's just another argument for protective helmets. With ear flaps. —Ray Kowalski and Constable Benton Fraser, Due South, "Mountie and Soul" Largely associated with Mystery of the Week television series, this is an episode that is wholly or in part structured around the sport of boxing. These episodes tend to crop up most often in action/adventure and crime solving series, but they can also be played for laughs in sitcoms. For the purposes of the episode, one of the show's regular characters will usually be revealed as a boxing aficionado. This can serve one of two purposes: providing a reason for the characters to attend or take part in a boxing event (when the course of the show normally wouldn't take them there), or allowing the character in question to offer some key piece of information that would only be known to someone who is familiar with the ins and outs of the world of boxing. The character's boxing savvy will rarely if ever be revisited outside the confines of The Boxing Episode. Mixed Martial Arts may be used as a substitute for boxing. May involve an element of Fight Clubbing or Gladiator Games. Often this will be the result of a former boxer falling on hard times and entering a world of underground fighting to make ends meet, provide for his ailing child/wife/etc, or as an attempt to hang on to the limelight. Compare with Pro Wrestling Episode and the Forced Prize Fight. Examples of The Boxing Episode include: One of the early episodes of Digimon Savers involved the Monster of the Week interfering with Touma's idol's boxing matches. However, he had been shown to be a proficient boxer before this episode, and his Digimon partner wears boxing gloves, so this didn't come entirely out of nowhere... An episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex involved Batou investigating a famous boxer suspected of criminal activity. Gokusen has a boxing episode, as part of a Save The School plotline. One Piece has the main character box against someone too, against exactly one person... Afro Luffy is the result. An early chapter of Shaman King had Yoh use the ghost of a boxing coach to help out his pupil. Superman vs Muhammad Ali. Incredibly enough, Muhammad Ali wins. Justified: Superman didn't have his Yellow-sun strength, had no experience boxing, and it wasn't really him that Ali boxed anyway. Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7: A famous story where The Thing and several other Marvel heroes fight the Champion of the Universe in a series of boxing matches. This comic was later made into a Wrestling Episode of Dial M for Monkey. In an issue of Justice League the Blue Beetle challenges Guy Gardner to a boxing match when he gets sick of Guy calling him out of shape and useless. Beetle wins, which would be surprising considering that Guy was one of the team's heavy hitters and Beetle was the comedy relief and tech-support guy ... except for the fact that Guy was a Green Lantern without his Power Ring in a fistfight with a Badass Normal. There was a boxing-themed Hellraiser comic called "The Sweet Science". It was kind of stupid. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo has an episode where boxers set up a training area in the part. It ends up in showing Skippy wear boxing gloves though she never actually boxes. The Police Squad! episode "Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)" plays this for laughs. Racked Squad: in 'The Knock-Out' a con game group stages boxing fights that are said to be rigged. During the fight the victim attends, one of the fighters fakes his death in the ring. Then the victim is convinced that going to the police or Boxing Commission will result in everybody being indicted for manslaughter. In the Hogan's Heroes episode The Softer They Fall, Kinchloe boxed against a German (Those Wacky Nazis') as (naturally) part of a scheme to divert attention from a heist. Happy Days: Ralph boxes another boy for the hand of a girl. Only one problem: he doesn't know how to box. In a much later episode we see Chachi in the ring too. Taxi: Tony is a semi-pro boxer who trains kids at a youth center, so boxing comes up a few times as a main plot. MAS*H: Trapper John (a surgeon!) is the 4077th's boxing champion; he takes on the champ of the 8063rd, a heavyweight enlisted man. Another episode has Frank Burns setting up a boxing match to settle a dispute between Klinger and Sgt. Zale. The Dick Van Dyke Show: in one of the many Flash Back episodes Rob is in the Army, where everyone has to learn boxing and have at least three fights. The Jeffersons: George boxed in the Navy, and puts the equipment on again after he gets in a disagreement with another man at the gym. Louise tried to plead with the man to go easy on George: Louise: He only has one kidney! Other Guy: Really? Which one? I'd hate to waste a good kidney punch. Then Louise bribes the other guy to throw the fight; meanwhile George decides to throw the fight himself, so they spend the entire fight not hitting each other, waiting for the other to hit them so they can fall down. Link. Family Matters: In the episode "Requiem for an Urkel," the series' main protagonist Steve Urkel (a nerdy, 98-pound weakling) has problems with a bully and the two get into a scuffle at school, a teacher has the two settle their differences in the ring. Naturally, the underdog (Urkel) eventually wins after holding his own ... and others who were threatened by the bully declare their intent to fight the bully after he finishes off Urkel. The Honeymooners: Ralph inadvertently challenges a much tougher person to a boxing match. I Dream of Jeannie: "The Strongest Man In the World". Are You Being Served: Captain Peacock is challenged to a boxing match, but backs out. Mr. Humphries is chosen to take his place in a wrestling match and loses. Then Mrs. Slocombe enters the ring. Just Shoot Me: Dennis goes out with a female boxer, but is challenged by her ex-girlfriend, also a boxer. ICarly: the one-hour special "iFight Shelby Marx", in which Carly watches MMA fighter Shelby Marx (played by Victoria Justice) on TV and, as a joke, challenges her to a match. Shelby accepts. Friends: "The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion", where Monica's millionaire boyfriend wants to be the Ultimate Fighting Champion. Wings: "Raging Bull%$%#". Joe signs up for an amateur boxing tournament, expecting to get some revenge on a childhood bully, while Brian signs up as an alternate in case Joe backs out. However, when the other fighter backs out instead, the brothers find themselves pitted against one another. The George Lopez Show: George signs Max up for a children's boxing class in order to boost Max's self-esteem. Laila Ali (daughter of Muhammad Ali) guest stars. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will gets beat up by Nicky's female boxing instructor. The Mighty Boosh episode 'Killeroo' has Howard Moon duking it out against a face eating kangaroo. Being an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist, Howard is thoroughly outclassed, and only prevails when Vince crushes the kangaroo's balls. Also significant in that The Boxing Episode is also The Mighty Boosh' first broadcast episode. The Monkees: "Monkees in the Ring" An episode of Martin has the titular character facing off in a charity boxing match with fearsome Lightning Bruiser and former welterweight/middleweight/light heavyweight champion Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns. As mentioned in the intro quote, the third season Due South episode "Mountie and Soul" focused on boxing. Detective Kowalski is identified as not only a boxing fan, but also a layman coach for a young boxer implicated in a fellow boxer's death. CSI, episode 3x07, "Fight Night." Grissom investigates the death of a boxer in the ring that appears to be murder. CSI: New York, episode 6x20, "Tales from the Undercard." In the course of the episode it's revealed that Mac (Gary Sinise) is a boxing fan, which helps him identify the victim as a boxer due to certain injuries. NCIS, episode 6x18, "Knockout." Director Vance uses the NCIS team to investigate the death of a boxer who is an old friend of the director's. We find out that, in his youth, Vance himself was a boxer, and his wife first met him at one of his matches. Unlike most examples, Vance's boxing has been mentioned in a few episodes since then. He also works a heavy bag on a daily basis for relaxation, which was used to implicate him in a crime. Numb3rs, episode 3x16, "Contenders." One of David's old friends is involved in the death of an MMA fighter (the boxing of the present). Law and Order: Criminal Intent, episode 7x18, "Ten Count." Logan and Wheeler investigate the death of an amateur boxer, who happens to be the brother of a young man (also a boxer) who Logan used to mentor. MacGyver, episode 7x10, "Split Decision." Earl Dent, an ex-con from previous episodes, enlists MacGyver's help as a boxing coach so he can get back in the ring and maintain custody of his daughter. (MacGyver, being the good little Technical Pacifist that he is, is deeply unenthusiastic about this, but it is for a good cause.) The A-Team, episode 3x16, "Champ!" Face wants to invest a substantial portion of the Team's money in a boxer named Billy Marquette, but in the process they discover that a local sleaze named Sonny Monroe is rigging boxing matches. B.A. goes undercover as an unbeatable boxer so the team can take Monroe down. Bones and Booth fly to Las Vegas to investigate a murder, and discover a women's underground MMA fighting ring. Ally McBeal, with kickboxing. Battlestar Galactica Reimagined uses this as a premise to let the main characters beat the tar out of one another over recent goings on midway through season 3. Justified in that real military culture has been known to adopt boxing in the past, but played straight in that Roslin turns out to be a fan and knows a thing or two about it. With the Admiral, the Colonel, the CAG and most of the crew and pilots present and engaged, one wonders what might have happened had the Cylons decided to attack right then...[1] NYPD Blue a couple of times: Martinez decides to enter the Smoker and gets trained by Lieutenant Fancy (who beats him up pretty good during a friendly sparring match); several seasons later Detective Clark enters it too. Star Trek: Voyager had a late-season episode centering around Chakotay's recreational boxing, which apparently was causing brain damage--but actually something else was going on that explained his weird visions and blackouts. Also another episode where Seven and Tuvok are kidnapped to become gladiators. Quantum Leap, "The Right Hand of God": Sam leaps into a boxer "owned" by a sisterhood of nuns. The episode reveals Al as something of a boxing aficionado, but it doesn't do Sam much good since holograms make poor boxing trainers. Mission Impossible has the "The Contenders" as a set of two episodes. The plot revolves around eliminating a mobsters, and Barney takes the role of a another boxer, having been revealed to have been a successful one before. Lois and Clark had "Requiem for a Superhero", which featured the Daily Planet investigating why several boxers appeared to have strength beyond mortal men. They're cyborgs. Leverage - "The Tap-Out Job", where Eliot poses as a MMA fighter as part of the heist, and the plot eventually leads to a (sort of) Forced Prize Fight. Somewhat justified in Highlander the Series, since Mac seems to obsessively study every form of combat he comes across (with good reason). Arguably Babylon 5's worst episode, "TKO", has an old friend of Garibaldi's (a boxer named Walker Smith) come back to Babylon 5 for an alien boxing match. This is also remarkable as one of the only episodes of the show in which almost nothing is important to the overall arc of the show. A boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on Fantasy Island to clobber an opponant who beat him in the past. The Incredible Hulk got this one out of the way. In the first single-hour episode, "The Final Round", David befriends a boxer who is unwittingly delivering drugs and then is supposed to suffer a fatal heart attack during a fight. This was the first instance of Banner being conveniently being knocked out so that he doesn't Hulk out until later. The Twilight Zone TOS episodes "The Big Tall Wish" and "Steel". Cold Case: "Yo Adrian", doubling as a Whole-Plot Reference to Rocky. In a Remington Steele episode a baby is found in a boxer's locker and he asks the Steele agency for help. Hijinx ensue as the boxer readies for a match and Remington is revealed to be a very competent boxer. Friday the 13th: The Series had "Shadow Boxer", which naturally revolved around a pair of cursed boxing gloves. Due South episode "Mountie and Soul". Knight Rider ep 4.16 "The Redemption of a Champion," in the original series. Human Target - "Corner Man", where Chance poses as a star prize-fighter, to con a billionaire who's threatening his client into betting everything against him in a championship tournament. The Rockford Files had an episode where Jim and Rocky had invested in some boxer, and there was a fair amount of corruption surrounding his manager. Little Mosque on the Prairie: "Gloves Will Keep Us Together" revolves around a boxing match between Amaar and Rev. Thorne. Part of the Moonlighting episode "Symphony In Knocked Flat". In which they attempt to knock out a punch drunk fighter in his locker room. After they hit him on the head with a weight he suddenly becomes (temporarily) lucid, saying things like "I intend to aggressively attack my opponent at the outset to achieve a sudden victory." Then they hit him again. Time Trax featured a temporal fugitive from 3 centuries in the future who uses his superior physical development to win bouts. Life On Mars investigated a boxing crime which led to Gene being implicated as the perpetrator. The 1960s Batman show had an episode where Batman had to fight The Riddler with a silly accent in a boxing match because... uh... I forget why. The Power Rangers Zeo episode "Challenges", in which Tommy had to out-box Prince Sprocket's monster Punchabunch at both normal and giant size to free Adam. Tommy had already been established to have boxing skills in the previous seasons, and his special Zord this season was the Red Battlezord, which has boxing-glove fists (and Gatling laser cannons for cuffs, but those aren't used in the boxing match). Super Sentai has "hero gets beaten up by boxing monster and must learn boxing" as one of its stock plots. A couple of Three Stooges shorts. One early example is "Punch Drunks", when Curly becomes a boxer because of his Unstoppable Rage when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". For a 1890s take, see the third episode of Murdoch Mysteries. The Wayans Bros.: Marlon is taunted by Hector Macho Camacho who challanges him to a boxing match. Diagnosis Murder: "Standing Eight Count". A boxer whom Dr. Jack Stewart idolized was framed for the murder of the boxer who beat him and turned down a rematch due to health issues. An episode of Punky Brewster had boxing champion Marvin Hagler showing Punky how to defend herself after a bully at school beats her up. Criminal Minds had "The Bittersweet Science". A borderline psychotic wannabee boxer starts beating to death anyone who mocks him ("So I'm a punching bag, huh?!") A Tom Swift book features Tom facing off against an evil kickboxing contender and developing an exoskeleton that allows him to face the kickboxer in the ring. The Ellery Queen stories Mind Over Matter and A Matter of Seconds involve boxing. The Set Up, a Vice case in LA Noire revolves around an over-the-hill boxer refusing to drop a fight. Cole and Earle then have to hunt him down. One of the jobs the Three Stooges can take in the PC/console game is boxing, which functions like the "Punch Drunks" example from above: Larry has to get a radio playing the "Pop Goes the Weasel" tune before the fight ends. Bully has a boss fight that starts in the boxing ring. Outside the storyline, it's still fun, earns cash, and unlocks a Save Point. Four Blokes Without Telly: Episode 2. The Simpsons season eight episode "The Homer They Fall," in which Moe coaches Homer into becoming a boxer after Homer is found to have an anomaly that allows him to take multiple hits without falling. On King of the Hill, Luanne takes up boxing to prove to men that she's not a sex object. Unfortunately, the boxing she takes up is foxy boxing and one of George Foreman's daughters challenges her to a real match to prove that she's untalented at the sport. In Family Guy episode "Baby, You Knock Me Out", Lois becomes a boxer. On The Flintstones, Fred takes a challenge to stay one round with the champ for prize money. Looney Tunes, "Rabbit Punch": Bugs Bunny has to take on the heavyweight champ after heckling him. Also there's "To Duck or Not to Duck": With Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. As well as Country Mouse (1935), When I Yoo Hoo (1936), Porky And Daffy (1938), and Count Me Out (1939). Paramount's Modern Madcap stars Jeepers and Creepers had a cartoon called "Busy Buddies," in which Creepers had to make some money to pay an outstanding IRS debt. He unwillingly becomes a boxer offering a $1000 cash prize. Thanks to Jeepers, he wins and pays off his immediate debt (but now he owes for the money he just won). In an episode of The Oblongs the mother quits smoking and become an adrenaline junkie. She tries boxing but is so vicious and dangerous she keeps moving to deeper and deeper sub-basements pummeling more and more people - including (by mistake) the "simple kid who fills the soda machines". This is one way Canadian politicians settle their differences between elections. ↑ Truth in Television or not, is it really good for morale to have the ranking staff officer beat up by an enlisted man in front of the troops? Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boxing_Episode?oldid=325477" Live Action TV Tropes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10208
__label__wiki	0.573978	0.573978	Records that document the history of the University at Albany, SUNY and its predecessor schools. The University Archives documents the history of the University at Albany, SUNY from its origin in 1844 as the New York State Normal School to train teachers for New York State to its present status as a comprehensive research university. The department collects, manages, and provides access to permanent university records for research use. This includes the administrative records of the university, student groups, faculty, alumni, and affiliated organizations. Collecting and preserving university records documents our history and promotes transparency and accountability. Start Over You searched for: Subject Lecture notes ✖Remove constraint Subject: Lecture notes Subject Environmental protection ✖Remove constraint Subject: Environmental protection Subject Clippings ✖Remove constraint Subject: Clippings University Archives1 Robert Rienow Papers, 1875-1984, bulk 1955-19791 Rienow, Robert, 1907-19891 Defenders of Wildlife1 Nature Conservancy (U.S.)1 Rienow, Leona Train1 State University of New York at Albany1 Zero Population Growth, Inc.1 Clippings✖[remove]1 Conservation and the Environment1 Conservation of natural resources--Citizen participation1 Drafts (documents)1 Environmental education1 Environmental health--Political aspects1 Environmental justice1 Environmental management1 Environmental policy--Social aspects1 Environmental protection✖[remove]1 Examinations1 Lecture notes✖[remove]1 Lectures1 Manuscripts1 Military and Armed Conflict1 Military records1 Scripts1 Syllabi1 UAlbany Faculty & Alumni Papers1 Sort by date (descending) University Archives: ua902.009 Robert Rienow Papers, 1875-1984, bulk 1955-1979 Rienow, Robert, 1907-1989 15.72 cubic ft. Correspondence with publishers and environmental groups including the Constitutional Council for Forest Preserves, 1970–71; Defenders of Wildlife, 1970–76; Albany Environmental Council, 1965–76; draft manuscripts and typescripts, 1956–79, of texts, scholarly and popular articles and books relating to local, state, national, and international government and to environmental issues such as the anti-nuclear movement, forest preservation, wildlife preservation, the Adirondack Mountains, lecture notes taken as a student and given to his classes, 1930–70, scripts for his television series "Man Against His Environment", 1970–71, drafts of speeches on environmental concerns, tape cassettes on environmental issues created as staff lecturer for the Center for Cassette Studies, clippings files on government and environmental issues, photographs of Rienow and his wife. Robert Rienow was educated at Carthage College (B.A., 1930), and Columbia University (M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1937), served as Instructor, 1936–41, Assistant Professor, 1941–47, and Professor, 1947–80, of Social Science at the State University of New York at Albany, now the University at Albany. Through out his career Rienow maintained an active interest in environmental issues and a belief in the need to popularize issues of public concern. (See also papers of his wife Leona Train Rienow).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10209
__label__wiki	0.511335	0.511335	GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti: Nvidia’s budget graphics cards arrive October 25 GTX 1050 should hit 60FPS @ 1080p with no external power required. Mark Walton - Oct 18, 2016 1:17 pm UTC Following in the footsteps of the GTX 1080, GTX 1070, and GTX 1060, Nvidia has unveiled the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti. Pitched as graphics cards for e-sports players, or those looking to upgrade an off-the-shelf PC from the likes of Dell or HP, the Pascal-based GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti are priced to move at just £115/€125/$109 and £139/€155/$139 respectively. Both cards are due to launch on October 25. At those prices, the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti are in direct competition with AMD's RX 460, which costs £99/$99 for a 2GB version, and $129/£135 for a 4GB version. In theory, Nvidia's cards should be a wee bit faster, with the 1050 Ti in particular sporting some great specs for the money. Those include 768 CUDA cores, 4GB of GDDR5 memory with 112GB/s of bandwidth, and a boost clock of 1392MHz. The non-Ti GTX 1050 drops down to 640 CUDA cores and 2GB of GDDR5 memory, but maintains the same bandwidth, and ups its boost clock to 1455MHz. Both cards have a TDP of just 75W, which means that they can be powered by the PCIe bus alone. This makes them ideal drop-in cards for cheapo, off-the-shelf systems with integrated graphics that might not have the spare PCIe power cables needed to run beefier graphics cards. That said, some versions of the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti will feature an additional power connector to allow for more overclocking headroom. There's no Founders Edition this time either, so all cards will come from Nvidia partners like Asus and MSI. As for performance, Nvidia is claiming that in a Core i5 Haswell-based system, games like The Division, Fallout 4, GTA V, Overwatch, and The Witcher 3 run at an average of 61.2FPS at 1080p with medium settings on a GTX 1050. GTX 1050 Ti performance should be even higher. Less demanding e-sports games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or League of Legends should push into hundreds-of-frames-per-second territory. That's a theoretical 3x boost over the older GTX 650. The GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti are late to the mega-budget graphics card party, with AMD's RX 460 and RX 470 having launched in August to positive reviews. Ars hasn't reviewed these cards yet, but given there's now some healthy competition, it might be time for a head-to-head battle royale for the ultimate budget upgrade. Christmas is coming up, after all. Mark Walton Mark is Consumer Editor at Ars Technica UK by day, and keen musician by night. He hails from the UK, the home of ARM, heavy metal, and superior chocolate. Email mark.walton@arstechnica.co.uk // Twitter @markalexwalton	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10213
__label__cc	0.744327	0.255673	Bad Movie Thursday Index of Movies The History of Bad Movie Thursday By badmoviethursday Leave a Comment Starring: Gary Busey, The Hoff, Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames Magic piranha swim through a complicated network of underground lakes to reach a water park somehow. They’re probably attracted to their natural habitat in highly chlorinated pool water. Bring in some annoying tools, lots of boobs, The Hoff, and 4 days of shooting and BAM – you’ve got yourself a movie. Bring on Piranha 3dd3! Guys who are tools. Stupid Music Gratuitous 3d “That’s the gassiest cow I’ve ever seen!” “The hole where the water comes out…she’s so wet.” “Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina!” “Kids whizzing? I can handle that.” “Welcome to rock bottom.” “Once these idiots get out of the water, it’s not as if these fish are going to follow them home.” “You went back into the water…you little ginger moron.” “How’d you buy that shotgun leg?” – “With the money I saved on socks.” Viewer Quotes “So these fish were born out of a cow’s asshole?” “So I guess that’s the end of Gary Busey.” “They’re finding elaborate ways to kill these kids. I like it.” “Luckily he’s still handcuffed.” “The water park drains into the lake?” “Her great idea is to go back into this lake where she was just attacked by killer piranhas?” “Gee, if only she remembered the last time this happened…earlier today.” “Who thinks it’s going to bite his dick off?” “How did their van get into the middle of the lake?” “Every single guy in this movie is a tool.” “Does he have a leg gun?” Piranha can live inside of a woman for a couple of days. Piranha can chew through bone but not through a penis. Piranha have no problem with chlorinated pool water. Piranha can break through a steel wall but not through a glass tank. Small towns have huge water parks and only one policeman. There’s a vast network of connected underground lakes under the continental US. Piranha 3dd is not as good a movie as the first one, let’s just get that out of the way right now. All of the big name actors (I use that term loosely) probably showed up for one day of shooting, mailed it in and left with their bag of peanuts. The good news is that it’s still worth watching. There’s lots of t&a, gruesome kills, and it definitely doesn’t play itself off as a serious movie. If you can, you should definitely watch it in 3d as well. Don’t get me wrong, this is no Avatar, but they’re definitely used liberally throughout the movie and lots of times to great comedic effect. To top it off, The Hoff actually has a decent amount of screen time and has a few of the best lines. I also heard that if you buy the movie and like their FB page, The Hoff will send you a hand-written thank you note with a signed head shot. *Note – thank you is not guaranteed. Categories: Bad Movies, Spin-off or sequel, Washed up actors and Zombies Starring: Everyone and their mothers. Date Watched: 3/7/2013 Plot: A bunch of old dudes find an excuse to hang out together and blow up a bunch of stuff. They are joined at various times by other old dudes who pop in to say a few lines from their old movies and then disappear. This is both the plot of the movie and the plot of the making of the movie. References to other movies. Way too ridiculousness (subjective: best judgement) Head Popping Explosions (of course – house rule but called out for excessive use) Pictures and references to skulls. Stallone changes hats. Advanced rule: death by knife More advanced: somebody dies “Whoa whoa whoa whoa. My big weapon’s hanging right where it is!” “For all this male pattern badness I’m going to put you in the deepest darkest hole in Gitmo.” “Why is it that the one that wants to live, that deserves to live the most, dies. And those of us that deserve to die, keep on living?” “What’s the plan?” – “Track ’em, find ’em, kill ’em.” “”Let’s beat some info out of these guys and get out of here. Start with the midget.” “Keep it light until it’s time to get dark. Then it gets pitch black.” “I heard a rumor, that you were bitten by a cobra.” “Yeah, but after 5 days of agonizing pain, the cobra died.” “By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you… man and knife.” “I’ll be back.” – “You’ve been back enough…I’ll be back.” – “Yippee-ki-yay.” “They’re out of guns. Down to knives!” “Now they’re in a plane all of a sudden. How did that happen?” “How did he get on there? People just appear on their vehicles!” “They flew all the way to New York in that plane from China. Alrighty then.” “Why can’t you talk, Mr. Stallone?” “How’s he getting a phone call out here in the Albanian woods?’ “Sweet, sweet vengeance is now a requirement.” “Oh, you’re an evil son-of-a-bitch, Jean Claude Van Damme.” “That is sleep apnea if I’ve ever seen it.” “That’s not carving up a turkey, that’s cutting off a man’s head!” “Does that mean he made her do it?” Sequels can be better than the original. Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. 5 tons of plutonium is worth 22 billion dollars. There’s 1940’s burned out towns in the middle of Albania. Chuck Norris will show up when you most need him, single-handedly killing 30 men and blowing up a tank in 20 seconds. This was actually a pretty entertaining movie. It took the ridulousness of the first movie to a whole new level, which is exactly what I was hoping to see. Lots of explosions and plenty of blatant callbacks to each stars’ signature roles. I don’t know if I’d want to see Sylvester Stallone in the next one, though, since he appears to be hitting the old age wall pretty hard. For that matter, Jean Claude Van Damme didn’t appear too much better. Despite their appearance, the final climactic battle between them wasn’t too shabby. As far as Bad Movie Thursday viewing material, this was a win. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to other like-minded people looking for an over the top action flick that’s not afraid to laugh at itself. Vs aka All superheroes must die (2011) By badmoviethursday 1 Comment Categories: Bad Movies and Rules Date Watched: 2/28/2013 Starring: Jason Trost and James Remar Where Found: Amazon Video On Demand Plot: Four Super Heroes find themselves abducted by their Arch Nemesis and are forced to compete in a series of challenges in order to save an abandoned town full of kidnapped innocent civilians. (From IMDB) Take off a bandaid and show a bruise on their wrist Superheroes take off a mask Use a superpower Say a superheroes name Superhero dies “F&CK, you have 80 seconds.” “Charlie’s screwed. He’s gonna die soon.” “F&ck it.” “Tell shadow I’m sorry about the stabbing.” “Pain’s just a suggestion.” “Backup plans are for people who expect to fail.” Viewer Quotes: “Oh yeah, fighting on a trampoline in a cage.” “These superheroes are not very good at saving people’s lives.” “Is that his boner alarm going off?” “Why is that guy wearing a bear suit?” Things We Learned: Superheroes aren’t always very super. Like in the movie “Speed” the best thing to do in a hostage situation is to shoot the hostage. Except here we learned you should actually just go ahead and kill the hostage too. Final Take: We were really excited about this movie after the wonderful JTro movie “The FP”. This was a big letdown. According to IMDB it was shot for $20,000, written in 4 days, and filmed over 15 days. Holy crap could you tell. I don’t really know what the point of this movie was. It wasn’t really a satire like “The FP”. It wasn’t over the top. It was just there. I can’t really recommend this movie to others. I commend JTro for putting this together w/o much time or funding, but the real question is why bother? Maybe JTro is using the funds for something bigger coming up? Until then, we have to take him down off of our must watch list. WordPress.com WordPress.org Elves (1989) Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas (2014) The North Star Solomon Kane (2009)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10218
__label__wiki	0.887358	0.887358	Browns' Whitehead released after 'unacceptable' Twitter rant Tom Withers The Associated Press Published Monday, November 4, 2019 9:54AM PST Cleveland Browns defensive back Jermaine Whitehead (35) runs a play against the Denver Broncos during the second half of NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, in Denver. (AP / David Zalubowski) CLEVELAND - Jermaine Whitehead's disturbing social media rant cost him his job. The Browns cut the safety Monday, hours after the team reprimanded Whitehead for "totally unacceptable and highly inappropriate" posts following a 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Whitehead made several threatening and expletive-laden posts on Twitter while still in uniform following Cleveland's fourth straight loss. One of Whitehead's tweets was directed at Dustin Fox, a former NFL player who works for the team's radio network. Fox had sent an earlier tweet criticizing Whitehead's tackling. Twitter suspended Whitehead's account and the team released a statement after it became aware of his postings. "Jermaine Whitehead's social media posts following today's game were totally unacceptable and highly inappropriate," the Browns said in a statement. "We immediately spoke with Jermaine upon learning of these comments. The Browns in no way condone that type of language or behaviour. This matter will be further addressed internally." Whitehead's tweets included several expletives and in one he used a derogatory racial term. The 26-year-old player started the game in place of safety Damarious Randall, who missed his second straight game because of a hamstring injury. Whitehead missed tackles on two big plays by the Broncos. He declined an interview request following the game and then went on Instagram to voice his frustration. "Crazy world. They line it up and say anything in the book too you," he wrote. "They tell you take the high road, when yo whole life you was taught to meet fire with fire. I do apologize for my performance, but having a broke hand and a strong fear of letting my team down is my downfall. "Whatever happens happens. Ain trippin. They probably gone still talk crazy but this me getting smoke off my chest. I don't need one like.. this from me to me! Keep ya head up homie." He then added crudely that "nobody" can intimidate him: "I dare em to try." Whitehead was in his second season with Cleveland. The Browns signed him last year after he was waived by the Green Bay Packers two days after he was ejected for throwing a punch against New England. The Browns (2-6) have lost four games and first-year coach Freddie Kitchens is facing heavy criticism.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10222
__label__wiki	0.598267	0.598267	Factors that will push growth for television adex in 2018 After a dud FY18, the TV industry hopes to get back on track in FY 19. A strong double digit growth is expected as FMCG, e-commerce and banking sectors show signs of picking up. Government and election advertising and other events will provide a fresh impetus Raushni Bhagia Mumbai, February 02, 2018 The TV industry, which has been going through a tough FY18, hopes for a rebound in growth in the upcoming financial year. The industry hopes the pick-up in economic growth will give a push to all sectors, leading to an increased advertising expenditure by companies. The economic survey released on Monday has predicted the GDP growth in the next fiscal to be between 7.1% and 7.5%. Experts say that the advertising expenditure of the FMCG, auto, e-commerce and realty sectors, along with banking, is going to pick up in the next fiscal and would be even better than expected if there's a good monsoon. The other factors that would aid adex growth are big ticket events such as several state elections, government advertising and cricketing events. MK Anand MK Anand, MD and CEO, Times Network, said, “2018 will be a good year for adex overall. The economy has more or less come to terms with the earlier disruptions. We don’t expect any major new policy changes since it’s an election-eve year. And not to forget, the 2017 base is a depressed one. So growth will be decent.” The predictions for the growth of adex in television range from 8% as per GroupM’s TYNY report to KPMG’s 14.4%. The Dentsu Aegis Network estimated this growth to sit around 12%. However, now that the industry has entered the calendar year, everyone is expecting the year to close at about 13%. Ashish Sehgal, COO, Zee Unimedia, said, “The effects of GST faded away after August and demonetisation also has passed now. Things are coming back on track.” Joy Chakraborty Joy Chakraborty, President, Revenue, TV18, felt that the current quarter will be the deciding factor for growth in the next fiscal. “There will be healthy growth but this quarter – January-March –will decide how the next financial year is going to be. Everyone has suffered in the first nine months of the current fiscal. This quarter is important also from the point of view of having completed six months of GST. This will also set a benchmark for the next financial year," he said. Debraj Tripathy Debraj Tripathy, Managing Director, MediaCom, said, “The growth will depend on the macro-economic growth of the country. The advertising budgets will go up because of the growth in economy. Networks will have to increasingly focus on getting the right content and create right environment for advertisers.” Sectors that will push growth Other than the environmental drivers that are expected to push growth, some specific sectors of advertisers will also ensure that the television adex increases and will contribute heavily to this growth. FMCG, which has been depressed due to the policy changes, is likely to bounce back in a big way. Sehgal pointed out, “With GST, the unorganised (FMCG) players will not be able to really do much on the expansion and pricing. The big giants will have to hence get to these markets and will need advertising for these corners, which is best reached through television.” Tripathi pointed out that considering the results of the companies in the last quarter, the FMCG and services sector is going good. “If their business improves, so will their marketing spends and television will be the biggest gainer.” Another important category that will see growth is BFSI and within this, the sub-categories like small banks and payments banks will give a huge push to television advertising. The category is shifting focus towards the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which will be a huge boost for the television segment. The other categories looking to push TV adex include e-commerce and elections. While the state elections will be a big push for the news genre, the 2019 General Elections will be especially a big driver for the channels across the genres. However, the government has still not finalised the pricing for DAVP. Sehgal explained, “2019 is the election year but government spending will still be restricted I feel. Considering that the DAVP rates are yet to be finalised, the dilemma as to whether the government chooses to advertise on TV in a big way or not will still be there. Political parties, though, will advertise in the run-up to the elections and that will be a boost of sorts.” On the other factors that will drive growth for TV, Anand mentioned, “Expansion of households and TV penetration will also push growth, specifically for the broadcast industry. Digital is also aiding in more media consumption. For the news genre, it’s a year with a number of state elections.” Pointing out at the major events slated for the year, Chakraborty said it was also an important deciding factor, “The growth in a certain year is also dependent on the big ticket events in that year – elections and the world cup would be big events in the next fiscal.” “IPL with Star is a new event for the industry. Need to watch out for that. I expect cricket with all players to be more active," Anand said. Challenges for the industry in FY19 To achieve the projected growth targets, the industry will have to make its way through some really tough challenges. A senior media observer, who did not want to be named, said, “The current fiscal has thrown all numbers out of the window. The entire TV space is getting redefined in terms of buying. If the rumoured changes in the Freedish offerings come out to be true, then measurement of channels will change and that will change a lot. It has been a very complex year that we have just completed because of policy matters, regulatory upheaval and the sudden eruption of FTA channels.” He pointed out that the people have gone back to the drawing board to understand the value for the money they are spending. The free-to-air channels surged new heights in 2017 and grew, albeit at the cost of their older siblings and the mainline channels of the broadcast networks. The FTA GECs and movie channels have now become a problem for the networks as they have started replacing the mainline counterparts in the media plans of the clients. Though the FTA segment has seen an increase in ad rates by about 70%, the loss that the mainline GECs will suffer because of this will be huge. “There is a huge realignment in the way media plans are built. It is not done on 150-200 channels anymore, but is rather restricted to 60-70 channels. Channels are being compromised because of FTAs and the reach that they offer,” said Chakraborty. There are a few other issues too that need to be resolved in 2018 and that is the returning of advertising dependency. “This country has moved from 20% subscription revenues to about 50%. If FTAs get heavy on the pay channels, it will be difficult for the broadcasters to balance their boat well between subscription and advertising revenues,” said a senior media observer. Broadcasters too have realised the need of immediate correction in the way FTAs were being handled. Sehgal said, “One of our main focus areas would be to revive the growth of our mainline GECs. With the sudden surge in viewership of FTAs, the mainline GECs were falling short in both viewership and advertising. I think all the players will have to focus on this.” Adding quickly to that, he said, “Another thing that needs to be done is correction in FTA pricing. The rates are so low that the mainline GECs are getting affected. We must bring the FTA rates in line with the mainline GECs because their reach is not any shorter.” While Hindi and regional language channels have been hammering the English language channels for quite a few years now, the current fiscal is seeing an aggressive shift here. Chakraborty, who heads revenues for a network that has a sizable share in English, Hindi and the regional space, pointed out, “The English market has shrunk and the money has moved to languages and Hindi. Digital has taken a lot of viewership while the regionals have claimed the monies. The way Hindi news has grown is much more than how English news has. Inventories on English news is at about 30-40%, against a full inventory that Hindi news is running on.” Adding, he mentioned how his key focus area in FY19 is to change the imagery of his network. “For always, we have been perceived as a CNBC network, as an English network. But News18 India is also doing good and is No. 1 in primetime for a long time. In fact, it will be one of the major drivers of our network in the next fiscal. Hindi news is where the money is. We have a huge regional bouquet too and we would want to be known for all of these, English, Hindi and regional.” Anand said 2017 was nothing less than a ‘landmark’ year. “I believe disruptions challenge everyone to look beyond. And when that happens, new opportunities and better processes come up. That mindset is a critical learning which I am sure everyone will carry into 2018.” Focus areas in next financial year Broadcasters have planned a few specific focus areas for their respective networks and digital sits calmly in all the plans. Whether it is ZEEL that has announced the launch of Zee5, or the Times Network that has been building its own army of digital experts in its Delhi office. Sehgal specified, “Digital will be a major focus area for us, as the two screens are merging. We will strengthen our digital offering with the launch of Zee5. Ditto TV and OZee will both come together to form Zee5.” The network also has plans to pump in significant investments towards boosting the mainline GECs and the regional channels, which have been on a growth trajectory. Anand, on behalf of Times Network, shared his plans for 2018, “We are ready with our digital platform and will be announcing it shortly. The growth in 2017 has been fantastic. The plan is for timesnownews.com to break into the top five set nationally this year.” Other than this, the network is intending to make some major corrections in its subscription sales. The expectation is to correct it in the next two quarters. The network also has few big projects rolling out on the events side in the first quarter and that will boost the events and branded content business. Anand also mentioned, “In ad sales, the priority is to get our new launches – Mirror Now and MNX and our HD bouquet to full scale. This is going to be the second year for these brands and we expect these channels to come of age in 2018.” The other things the industry is looking forward to are the most awaited tariff order that's expected soon and the implementation of the return path data (RPD) technology by BARC. Tags: growth for television adex in 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10238
__label__wiki	0.62978	0.62978	Samsung to begin rolling out Gingerbread to Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab this month Zach Epstein @zacharye Samsung on Monday announced that it will finally begin rolling out Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) to its popular Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab devices. Samsung had started to roll out Gingerbread last month, but was forced to halt the update due to a bug identified shortly after it was released. Samsung has apparently addressed the issue, and the update will release the update once again this month beginning in the UK and other European countries. The Android update, which will require users to connect their devices to Samsung’s desktop software, will then roll out to North America and other regions at an unspecified time. Hit the break for the press release. Samsung Offers Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ Upgrade for GALAXY S and GALAXY Tab SEOUL–(Korea Newswire) May 16, 2011 — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a global leader in Android™ mobile devices, today announced the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) upgrade to the Samsung GALAXY S, GALAXY Tab, and GALAXY Ace/Gio/Fit/mini, giving users enhanced performance and an improved user interface. The GALAXY S and GALAXY Tab are Samsung’s intelligently designed smart devices with 1 GHz application processors, giving users an intuitive, immersive and integrated mobile experience. The upgrade from Froyo 2.2 to Gingerbread 2.3 offers an even greater user experience, with features including: Faster Performance – Multimedia content now has a lower CPU consumption rate, while support for more powerful 3D Graphics enables an enhanced mobile gaming experience. Upgraded Usability – The user interface has been improved, enabling faster access and control and a more intuitive user experience. Users will also benefit from improved copy-and-paste functionality. The Android 2.3 upgrade will start with GALAXY S in the UK and Nordic countries from mid-May, and gradually rolled out to other European markets, North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East Asia, Africa and rest of the world according to the regional plan. The upgrade will be available via Kies, Samsung’s device management software. Kies can be downloaded from Samsung’s corporate website (http://www.samsung.com). Tags: Android 2.3, Android update, Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, Gingerbread, Samsung, Software Update, tablet, Tablets, update	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10244
__label__cc	0.517621	0.482379	BID At A Glance BID Learning Network BID Mentors Sustainability & Scale BID in the Media BID Newsletter Developing What Works Best LearningSharingDeveloping What Works Best BID Learning Network BID's Tanzania and Vietnam forge South-South learning exchange to advance electronic immunization systems By Sang Dao Dinh, Program Officer, Mekong Regional Program, PATH Posted in People, Practices, Products Photo: PATH/Sang Dao Dinh. A health worker in Tanga, Tanzania shows delegates from PATH’s Vietnam office and the Ministry of Health the different functions of the Tanzania Immunization Registry. Last month, PATH’s Vietnam office and delegates from the country’s Ministry of Health had the opportunity to learn from the BID Initiative in Tanzania. The learning exchange is part of a new South-South partnership forged between two countries implementing electronic immunization registries (EIR). To date, BID and the government of Tanzania have rolled out to four regions, with ten more planned for 2018. In Vietnam, PATH’s pilot EIR, called ImmReg, was first developed and tested in 2012, before expanding into the National Immunization Information System (NIIS), which was launched in 2017. Last month’s visit was a chance to deepen this partnership and trade lessons about the challenges and successes of securing government buy-in and building health system capacity for EIRs. Photo: PATH/Sang Dao Dinh. Last month, delegates from PATH in Vietnam and the Ministry of Health visited with the BID Tanzania team to learn more about the rollout of data quality and use interventions. The Vietnam team was composed of Mr. Tran Huu Quang, Chief of Cabinet at the General Department of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Vu Hai Ha, Expanded Program on Immunization Officer at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, and myself. Throughout our study visit, we experienced the full spectrum of digital potential. In Dar es Salaam and Tanga, we visited four facilities, each at varying phases in rollout. The first facility, Magomeni Health Center, serves hundreds of patients weekly but has not yet begun use of the Tanzania Immunization Registry (TImR). Health workers still use thick immunization registers to record vaccine data, a tedious process that can lead to inaccurate, incomplete, and untimely data. Mikanjuni, the second health facility we visited, had been using TImR since July 2017, alongside the legacy paper-based system. Though maintaining the two parallel systems could be time-consuming, health workers toggled between them and TImR made it easy to detect when information was missing or incorrect. In the third facility we visited, Nkumba Health Facility, health workers had fully transitioned to a paperless system, retiring paper records in favor of a dashboard that enabled them to efficiently monitor current stock balances, track defaulting patients, and register new children in the system. There were many lessons and takeaways from the recent study visit. We learned, for instance, about Tanzania’s phased transition to a paperless system in select health facilities in Tanga, and about the integration of TImR with the Vaccine Information Management System (VIMS), which allows for end-to-end visibility into the vaccine supply chain. Photo: PATH/Sang Dao Dinh. Delegates from PATH in Vietnam and the Ministry of Health visit with health workers in Tanga, Tanzania. They include myself, Dr. Mwajani Hamis, facility in-charge at Mikanjuni Health Center, Mr. Tran Huu Quang, Chief of Cabinet at the General Department of Preventive Medicine, Mr. Seif Shaib, Tanga Regional Immunization and Vaccine Officer (RIVO), Dr. Vu Hai Ha, Expanded Program on Immunization Officer at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, and Miss Aziza Mohamed, a nurse at Mikanjuni Health Center. We were particularly excited to see TImR’s offline functionality, which automatically syncs when internet is available. This ensures seamless functionality of the system, so it is not reliant on an internet connection and electricity to operate. We were also inspired by the use of barcodes on child health cards. They provide unique identification for children and help track patients when they visit other health facilities for vaccination, to avoid duplication. BID also had a chance to learn from Vietnam. We shared our nationwide scale-up experience with Dr. Dafrossa Lyimo, Program Manager for Immunization and Vaccine Development. During that meeting, we provided several recommendations, including: The government of Tanzania should consider issuing a policy requiring compulsory use of the EIR to register newborns, update, and record vaccine data. BID and the government of Tanzania should document lessons learned from its shift to paperless in select health facilities, and share with other facilities and countries undergoing a similar process. The government of Tanzania could save on equipment costs by designing child health cards with the barcode incorporated, so they do not require separate, specialized printing. It could also work with a developer to design tablets that use the device’s camera to scan barcodes, so they do not require external scanners. Tanzania should consider using SMS reminders to increase on-time vaccination. Partnering with mobile network operators might help to reduce the costs associated with a SMS system. Despite our different health contexts and challenges, Vietnam and Tanzania have much to learn from each other as they both work to scale up their respective EIRs. This month, Vietnam will begin to transition to a fully paperless system. We also hope to host the BID Tanzania team in Vietnam in the next few months. This is the beginning of an exciting partnership that we hope will have far-reaching benefits for the global immunization and digital health communities. Tags: ImmReg, south-south partnership, Tanzania, TImR, Vietnam, VIMS Back / Next BID Learning Network (BLN) Keep up to date with the latest BID Initiative content and blog posts. Latest Feed from BID Tweets by @BIDInitiative BLN	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10246
__label__wiki	0.585414	0.585414	Twists, Big Brother 20 (US) BB App Store Big Brother Twists One houseguest will be given a power and one houseguest will receive a punishment. Appearance(s) BB App Store is the main twist of Big Brother 20 (US). This summer, it's time to twist up the game of Big Brother—and the power is in your hands, America! You get to decide which Season 20 Houseguest is trending in the BB house by answering a series of questions. Each week, the Houseguest who gets the most responses will be considered "trending" and allowed to enter the BB App Store, resulting in power apps or punishments that could crash their game. Once a Houseguest wins a power app or punishment, they are ineligible to receive another one.[1] "BB App Store" Room Gallery Big Brother App Store The Power Apps Re-Draw Bonus Life The Crap Apps Yell! Read It! Hamazon List of Chosen Apps Description: This power gives you or the houseguest of your choosing the CHANCE to return to the game if evicted. This power is good through the first four evictions. But here's the catch, if the Bonus Life is not used at one of the first three evictions, the 4th person evicted automatically gets a chance to return to the game. Outcome: The App was won by Sam Bledsoe. After not using the app for the first 3 weeks, Sam won the Week 4 HoH in order to still have control over who the app was used on, and eventually got Kaitlyn Herman evicted, but when the Bonus Life competition was offered, she couldn't complete it in time, thus eliminating both her and the Bonus Life. Had Kaitlyn returned, it was announced that she would have been granted immunity for that week, and thus a free pass into the Jury stage. Description: Keep yourself from going on the block at any one Nomination Ceremony or Veto Meeting. If you are worried you could be nominated, sit in the cloud, and you cannot be put on the block. You have a two-month subscription to the Cloud. So for the next eight weeks, you may choose one time in which to use the Cloud to keep yourself safe! Outcome: The App was won by Tyler Crispen. It ended up becoming the last app left in the game, as the Bonus Life was used automatically, and the Identity Theft was eliminated alongside its holder. However, the app remained unused throughout most of the two month period, and after his alliance members Angela Rummans and Kaycee Clark won HoH and PoV respectively during Week 9, the last week that the app was in play, Tyler did not need to use the Cloud, and so it expired. Description: At any point in the first half of the game, you can secretly steal the identity of one Head of Household at the Nomination Ceremony! The reigning HOH cannot be nominated and will still control the replacement nominee at the Veto Meeting. When only 8 houseguests remain, the Identity Theft power is no longer in play. Outcome: The App was won by Bayleigh Dayton. After initially telling Faysal Shafaat about the app immediately after winning it, Bayleigh kept it a secret until she won the Week 5 HoH and told Rachel Swindler in order to convince her to be a Pawn. Rachel then told Angela Rummans, who then told the rest of their alliance, before Brett Robinson exposed it to the entire house at the live eviction. Angela won the next HoH and targeted Bayleigh because of the Power App, and successfully backdoored her, sending Bayleigh to The Jury House, and eliminating the Identity Theft. Although there was a chance for Bayleigh to get back into the game, the return would bring the number of houseguests to 8, so even if she returned, the app would still be out of play due to naturally expiring. Crap Apps Description: Congratulations, Hamazon will be delivering you packages all week long! Every time you hear there is a Hamazon delivery, retrieve your package and prepare to feast! With Hamazon, freshness is key! So you must eat all the ham in each delivery as soon as it arrives. Description: For the next 24 hours, an Angry Reviewer will be unleashed into the house at random times to loudly give feedback on you and your game. Description: Congratulations, you are the new narrator for an Audio Book version of Hamlet! Every time you hear "To Read or Not to Read... To Read", you must put on your Shakespeare costume, go to the reading area, stand on your soapbox and in your best Shakespearean accent, read from the Hamlet book out loud. When you hear "To Read or Not to Read... Not to Read", you will stop reading. This punishment will continue until you have read the entire book. Week App Selected Winner 1 Bonus Life Sam Bledsoe Hamazon Faysal Shafaat 2 The Cloud Tyler Crispen Yell! Rachel Swindler 3 Identity Theft Bayleigh Dayton Read It! Haleigh Broucher Since Faysal Shafaat is a Muslim, he was given vegetarian ham as a substitute for the Hamazon punishment. The two unused Power Apps were "Re-Draw" and "Upgrade". Both would re-appear in Big Brother 21 (US) as the Chaos and Panic Whacktivity Powers respectively. The two unused Crap Apps were "Fake News" and "Spammed". Coincidentally, the first App recipients, Sam Bledsoe and Faysal, won Head of Household and Power of Veto respectively during Week 4, the first week where the App Store was out of play. Additionally, during Week 5, the two houseguests still in possession of Power Apps (Bayleigh Dayton and Tyler Crispen) won the HoH and PoV competitions respectively. The Bonus Life Re-Entry Competition took place in the App Store. Bayleigh is the only Power App recipient to be evicted with their app still active. Many fans have claimed that she was "voted out with an idol", a reference to how many Survivor players are eliminated with a Hidden Immunity Idol in their possession. All three selected Power Apps expired without being used by their owner, and had no effect on the game. The Bonus Life went unused by Sam, and so it was naturally activated on its expiration date. The Bonus Life challenge ended up being failed, so no one returned despite the activation. The Cloud went unused by Tyler and expired. The Identity Theft was unused by the time of Bayleigh's eviction and was eliminated with her, and its expiration date would already have passed by the day that Bayleigh got a chance to re-enter the game, so it wouldn't have come back with her. ↑ How To Cast Your Big Brother Vote In The CBS Bot On Facebook Messenger, Kik, And Skype. CBS Big Brother (27 June 2018). Retrieved on 3 July 2018. Retrieved from "https://bigbrother.fandom.com/wiki/BB_App_Store?oldid=172955"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10247
__label__cc	0.533644	0.466356	Leading Health and Life Sciences in Nova Scotia About BioNova Members & Resources Sector Growth BioPort 2018 Announces Keynote Speakers And Explores the Future of Life Sciences in Atlantic Canada Jun 25, 2018 \| BIOPORT ATLANTIC, News, THE BIOINNOVATION CHALLENGE BioPort 2018 Announces Keynote Speakers And Explores the Future of Life Sciences in Atlantic Canada June 21, 2018 – Halifax, NOVA SCOTIA – Health and life sciences innovators, industry leaders, and investors from across North America will come together to attend BioPort 2018, on November 7-8, 2018 at the Halifax Convention Centre. This year’s event will feature keynote speakers Dr. Corrina Lathan, CEO of AnthroTronix, Inc. and William Charnetski, Ontario’s Chief Health Innovation Strategist, who will explore the transformative impact of technology on life sciences companies and health care. The annual event will also feature a business pitch competition and an exciting new program targeting Nova Scotia’s youth. “BioPort highlights the potential of the health and life sciences sector in Atlantic Canada to tackle the world’s toughest challenges,” said Scott Moffitt, Managing Director of BioNova. “This year our speakers will share how embracing disruptive technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology, present opportunities to grow our sector.” Corinna Lathan, Ph.D., will provide the keynote address on November 7, 2018 at 6:00 pm ADT. Dr. Lathan is a neuroscientist, engineer, and health technology entrepreneur. Her company has successfully developed an FDA-cleared mobile platform for healthcare providers to assess cognitive function. She has also developed robotics for kids with disabilities, and wearable sensors for training surgeons and soldiers. These human-technology innovations have been featured in Forbes and Time magazines, and led to Dr. Lathan being named as MIT Technology Review Magazine’s ‘Top 100 World Innovators’. On November 8, 2018 at 12:30 pm ADT, William Charnetski, LL.B, will provide a keynote address on how collaboration across the health care system facilitates the adoption of innovative health technologies. Mr. Charnetski is an accomplished national and global executive who has worked in the highest levels of business, law, and government. For over 10 years he was vice president and general counsel for AstraZeneca. He was also a partner at the law firm Torys LLP and served as chief of staff to The Hon. William Graham, P.C., Q.C. As per previous years, BioPort will feature the BioInnovation Challenge (BIC), an Atlantic Canadian health and life science business pitch competition that gives entrepreneurs a chance to win $25,000 in funding to develop their business idea. New to this year’s program, the conference will also feature BioInnovation Challenge Junior (BIC Junior), for Nova Scotian high school and first year post-secondary students to create health and life science business ideas. The winner will receive a prize of $2,000. For more information or to register for the event, visit BioPortAtlantic.ca. Complimentary media registration is available to reporters. Follow #BioPort2018 @BioNovaNS for updates. About BioPort Since 2002, BioPort has provided a forum to inform and inspire the health and life sciences community to develop their ideas, commercialize their technologies, and build links within the region, nationally and abroad. About BioNova BioNova leads, accelerates, and advocates for Nova Scotia’s growing health and life sciences sector. Since 1993, BioNova has been accelerating the growth of its member companies. By hosting networking and educational events, and providing connections to potential funders and business resources, BioNova helps companies succeed. While these companies commercialize life-changing research to improve healthcare, provide healthier food, and develop clean energy solutions, BioNova advocates on behalf of the sector. BioNova champions the sector’s cluster of world-class research facilities, incubator programs, and companies who, together, bring investment and jobs to Nova Scotia. -30- For more Information, contact: Shana Cristoferi Marketing Manager, BioNova [email protected] (902) 421-5705]]> Ilya Pharma Engages Partner International as ILP-technology and ILP100 advances in clinical trials OBIO 2020 Niagara Investment Summit Featuring Early Technology Showcase Genome Atlantic – The Future of Personalized Health & Human Performance NEWS RELEASE – Researchers Present New Positive Interim Data on Appili Therapeutics’ ATI-1701 Biodefense Program at 2019 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference Appili Therapeutics Acquires Clinical Stage Antifungal Program From FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical BIONOVA CONTACT #46 1344 Summer Street Canada B3H 0A8 Ilya Pharma Engages Partner International as ILP-technology and ILP100 advances in clinical trials December 12, 2019 OBIO 2020 Niagara Investment Summit Featuring Early Technology Showcase December 11, 2019 Genome Atlantic – The Future of Personalized Health & Human Performance November 22, 2019 NEWS RELEASE – Researchers Present New Positive Interim Data on Appili Therapeutics’ ATI-1701 Biodefense Program at 2019 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference November 21, 2019 Appili Therapeutics Acquires Clinical Stage Antifungal Program From FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical November 21, 2019 NEWS RELEASE – BioVectra Inc. excited for continued growth under experienced CDMO investor, H.I.G. Capital November 21, 2019 BioNova @BioNovaNS Congrats to member company @PhotodynamicInc on closing a $2.3M round. The company uses natural extracts from a wild Nova Scotia plant to erase heavy plaque buildup on teeth and has received support from @NaturalPro_CA https://t.co/TWeCSfj2lr Entrevestor @entrevestor Halifax-based PhotoDynamic has closed a $2.3 million round of financing, which will help to finance the launch of its teeth-cleaning product in the autumn of this year. https://t.co/YrClTtE2TK #VC #dentaltech #biotech https://t.co/eNjiwW6WMh © 2019 BioNova	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10251
__label__wiki	0.770671	0.770671	The Time The Mafia Protested THE GODFATHER An Italian American civil rights group took exception to the portrayal of Italians in THE GODFATHER. The group just happened to be run by the head of one of the Five Families. Movies On Fire: True Crime Sleaze By Grady Hendrix, Sep 19, 2011 The next installment of the Movies On Fire examination of gonzo Hong Kong films looks at hyperviolent true crime exploitation films! Barefoot Bandit Sells Story To Fox, Feels Bad About What He Did By Devin Faraci, Aug 11, 2011 Colton Harris-Moore, aka the Barefoot Bandit, has sold his life story to Fox for $1.4 million. But he’s proving that crime doesn’t pay.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10253
__label__wiki	0.589655	0.589655	NEXT \| The Queue: Roll for initiative OverwatchApr 8, 2019 1:00 pm CT Overwatch Archives: Storm Rising is coming and we have a few clues on what to expect By Tyler Colp @tylercolp Overwatch’s next Archives event will be called Storm Rising and will go live in the game next week. The event will feature a unique PVE mission that takes place in the game’s past, giving us new story tidbits. Like Uprising and Retribution before it, it will likely let a group of four players fight against computer-controlled enemies at various difficulties. And we already have some of those story tidbits. With the event announcement came a radio clip between Soldier: 76 and mysterious new character Sojourn which lines up with the news report we got earlier this week. The story, which is available in full on the Overwatch site, details a Havana, Cuba rum distillery that was suspiciously burned down. The area is now expecting a hurricane to sweep through, which seems to be when the playable mission will be set. Sojourn tells Soldier: 76 that to go after Doomfist, they need to go after his accountant Maximilien — whom we saw in the Doomfist: Masquerade comic. You can listen to the full conversation below. > Accessing archived file… Decryption status: IN PROGRESS Target: Located pic.twitter.com/AUmV8LlUJc — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 8, 2019 “I’m putting Tracer in charge, with Mercy, Winston, and Genji in support,” Sojourn commands. So, we can expect to play those four heroes in the main version of the mode, and maybe even get new skins for all of them. There’s also usually an alternative version where you can play a larger assortment of heroes. It’s largely unclear what Maximilien is doing, other than possibly using the rum company as a front for something else involved with Talon. We also don’t know how we’ll go about capturing him and why he is clearly free again in more current events, like the comic. As usual with these missions, we learn something pretty important about the past that ties into what’s currently happening in the game’s fiction. The best part is that we get a PVE mode and access to all of the previous PVE modes to play around in. They’re always a nice break from the other competitive modes and they’re a fantastic way to earn Arcade loot boxes to get some new skins. The social media accounts will no doubt spend the next week teasing upcoming skins. It feels like it’s been a bit since we’ve had a good, juicy event in Overwatch. I’m ready. The Storm Rising event will run from April 16 to May 6. Filed Under: Overwatch, Overwatch Pve, PvE, Storm Rising What do you think a StarCraft FPS would have been… The Queue: Let's have a wedding, have a wedding Blizzard rumored to have canceled StarCraft FPS game… Must-have keys and quest items for WoW Classic…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10257
__label__cc	0.534084	0.465916	« Spooky Sightings Ladies Night » Published November 1, 2017 Collections , Decorative Art and Design Closed Tags: Cocktail, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA, Prohibition, Shaken Stirred Styled: The Art of the Cocktail It’s last call for Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail at the DMA! Don’t miss this spirited exhibition full of various vessels and accessories for creating and knocking back cocktails in style. Grand Prize punch bowl on stand, Libbey Glass Company (manufacturer), c. 1905, cut glass, Dallas Museum of Art, 20th-Century Design Fund by exchange, 1997.140.a-b On display in the foyer, the glittering cut-glass Grand Prize punch bowl is designed for drinking at home with friends. Punch bowls made the perfect over-the-top accessory for late 19th- to early 20th-century parties, and would’ve held a concoction of spirits, citrus juices, spices, sugar, and water known as “punch.” Providing an impressive centerpiece to a gathering, punch bowls allowed hosts to serve and replenish drinks from one bowl rather than continuously creating individual cocktails. Silver Style cocktail shaker, Karl Emmanuel Martin (Kem) Weber (designer), Friedman Silver Company (manufacturer), designed 1928, silverplate and rosewood, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Decorative Arts Guild of North Texas’ 1994 Midwest Trip, 1994.52.a-c Cocktails grew in popularity well into the 20th century, but during Prohibition (1920-33), manufacturers of cocktail wares avoided the word “cocktail” in lieu of “beverage” in advertisements. Cocktail shakers like the Silver Style cocktail shaker were often disguised as coffee- or teapots, discreetly hiding their function. But shakers like this rooster-shaped cocktail shaker barely attempt to hide its intent. As American journalist H. L. Mencken said, “the business of evading Prohibition and making a mock of it has ceased to wear any aspects of crime, and has become a sort of national sport.” The rooster cocktail set seems to mockingly crow out an invitation for revelers to raise a glass! Bottoms Up cocktail tumblers, McKee Glass Company (maker), c. 1928, pressed glass, Dallas Museum of Art, the Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, bequest of Patsy Lacy Griffith, 2001.163.2 If you’re in the mood for something a bit bawdy, look for the Bottoms Up cocktail tumblers, which are anything but discreet. The original design featured nude ladies with legs spread apart, but that was eventually deemed too risqué, so the design was modified to this slightly less scandalous version. When using these cups, the only option is to drink it or hold a full cup, as the design does not allow the drinker to set down anything except an upside-down empty glass. Normandie pattern beverage mixer with rod, Morgantown Glassware Guild (manufacturer), designed c. 1955, blown glass, Dallas Museum of Art, 20th-Century Design Fund 1995.176.a-b For a retro throwback to the suburban cocktail party, check out the Normandie pattern beverage mixer, used by hosts eager to show their neighborly hospitality by mixing up drinks, Mad Men style. During the 1960s, pitchers or mixers eclipsed shakers due to the popularity of stirred cocktails, most notably gin or vodka martinis. Bar tools, San Lorenzo (manufacturer), Lella Vignelli (designer), Massimo Vignelli (designer), Milan, Italy, introduced 1972, silver, Dallas Museum of Art, The Jewel Stern American Silver Collection, Decorative Arts Fund, 2002.29.78.1–4 Don’t leave without checking out the more recent cocktail wares, particularly the sleek lines of these bar tools, whose chic design and smooth, ultramodern lines were described as “the most elegant Christmas gift of Christmas 1972,” and were available only at Cartier in New York. Come to the DMA for one last toast to cocktails before this exhibition closes on November 19! Heather Bowling is the Digital Collections Content Coordinator for Decorative Arts and Design and Classical Art at the DMA.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10262
__label__wiki	0.540214	0.540214	Feel Good January 14, 2019 5 Tips to Handle Common Winter Running Pains By Colleen Travers Whether you’ve got a case of cabin fever and are feeling the itch to tackle some miles outside or are just getting tired of lacing up and hitting the treadmill, the cold winter weather shouldn’t prevent you from running. You just have to run smarter, says Naresh Rao, DO, FAOASM, a partner of Sports Medicine at Chelsea in New York City. His rule of thumb? Make sure you’re wearing moisture-wicking gear and dress as if it’s 20 degrees warmer out. “When you first get outside, you’ll be a little uncomfortable, but this trick will prevent excess perspiration so that you don’t have a lot of wet clothes on you [causing chill],” Rao says. Here are the culprits behind five common winter running woes and what to do about them this season. Getting Numb Fingers and Toes Why it happens: “This is the body’s attempt to try to conserve warmth,” Rao says. “It sends blood to where it’s needed and in the case of runners, that’s closer to the torso to maintain core body temperature. This makes the appendages have less blood flow which can cause a cold feeling as it also results in less blood flow to the nerves, giving you that tingling and numb sensation.” What to do about it: If you’re running a shorter distance, such as a 3-5K, Rao says this shouldn’t be an issue. For longer distances, he recommends staying hydrated and making it a point to frequently train in this type of climate to help get your body used to it. Chris Heuisler, marathoner and Westin Hotels’ Global Run Concierge combats this issue by wearing mittens over running gloves to push the fingers together to generate extra warmth and pulling socks up over running tights to keep cold air from hitting leg skin or getting into feet and toes. Rao adds that numb fingers and toes can also indicate an autoimmune disease, so if this is happening more often than not during your cold-weather runs, it’s worth a mention to your doctor to rule out a separate condition. A Non-Stop Runny Nose Why it happens: The nose is our main humidifier for air that gets into our throat and our lungs,” Rao says. “Your nose runs when you exercise because the body is trying hard to humidify dry, cold air and warm it up a bit before it hits the lungs.” This in turn makes the body produce mucus as a nonstop reflex that then runs out of the nose as a flushing mechanism. What to do about it: It’s almost impossible to prevent this completely, but by humidifying the air in your nose as much as possible beforehand, you can help reduce your jogging sniffles. “If you already suffer from a dry nose, using saline nose spray before a run can help so your body doesn’t have to produce so much mucus to create that moist environment,” Rao adds. Achy Ears Why it happens: According to Rao, the outside of the ear drums have a lot of sensitive nerves, and when cold, dry air hits those nerves it can set off cascading pain resulting in achy ears and often a headache. “This is your body’s way of saying it’s cold and to be cautious of your ears,” Rao says. What to do about it: Keep cold air away from these sensitive nerves by creating a barrier with a hat pulled over your ears or a pair of ear muffs, Rao says. Red, Bumpy Skin Post-Run Why it happens: The clinical term for this is called chilblains, and Rao says it happens when small blood vessels get inflamed from exposure to the cold, happening most often in the hands. What to do about it: Minimize the exposure to cold where the blood supply comes from smaller vessels (as opposed to larger vessels near your core), Rao says. This means making sure you have a good pair of moisture-wicking running gloves and hand warmers if needed. Lung Burn Why it happens: Similar to the body’s response to cold air that produces a runny nose, lung burn happens because the body wants to try to create more heat to compact the cold air and create moisture, Rao says. That effort leaves behind the feeling of scratchy, burning lungs. “As you keep exercising you tend to breathe faster and deeper, so this feeling may get worse as you continue,” he adds. What to do about it: Both Rao and Heuisler recommend wearing a mask to keep warm air in and the cold air out of your face and mouth. Rao adds that breathing deeply will also help because you won’t have to take as many breaths, which could reduce that burning sensation. Colleen Travers Colleen Travers is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in health, nutrition, diet, fitness, and wellness trends. Her work has appeared in Shape, Fit Pregnancy, FITNESS, mindbodygreen, The Huffington Post, Reader's Digest, POPSUGAR, and more. She lives on Long Island, New York with her two kids, two rescue pets, and husband. When she's not writing she's forcing her kids to go for a run with her in the jogging stroller or sneaking upstairs for a morning ride on her Peloton before the house wakes up. 0 Comments Join the Conversation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10263
__label__cc	0.728203	0.271797	Vitzellen’s Story Vitzellen Vitzellen Vodka is named in honor of a Union nurse who served during the civil war at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington DC. She took special interest in an officer, John A.P. Conoely, from Jeb Stuart’s Cavalry whose condition was very serious. She made every effort to ensure he survived. While in her care, John made Nurse Vitzellen a promise that he would name his first daughter after her. In 1868, he kept his promise when our founder’s Great Grandmother was born Alice Vitzellen Conoley in Lumber Bridge, NC. Alice often told her grandchildren the story of where her name originated. The Vitzellen name continued in 1926 when our founder’s mother was born and named Cornelia Vitzellen Moffit. Back to Spirits	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10267
__label__cc	0.618653	0.381347	Home / Research Papers / English Language / Twentieth Century Fiction Summary Twentieth Century Fiction Summary English Language 4,632 Views TWENTIETH CENTURY FICTION Fred B. Millet, in his book “Contemporary British Literature”, states that “the physical environment in which the men of letter and artists live conditions their production in the most intimate and elusive of ways”. In this respect the twentieth century novelists are of no exception. Their writings are profoundly conditioned by the new climate of social and moral experience culminating from “the thoroughgoing transformation of the physical world” around them. Factors such as_ a world war reveling out-numbered atrocities of what man had done to man, the fact of the Bomb, and the realization that Hitler’s concentration camps were no different from Statin’s camps in the Soviet Union heightened the awareness of literary intellectuals who where then prepared to be ‘less deceived’. Perhaps, in an atmosphere of such disillusionment and dissatisfaction, the novel proved to be the only suitable literary genre. Its openness and flexibility, owing to its lack of any obligatory structure, style or subject-matter permitted the writer to fulfill the desire for self-expression. However, this is not to say that the characteristics of the fiction of 20th century are the same as those of the previous centuries. Influenced by the rapidly changing social, political and intellectual environment, the novel became predominantly realistic in tone. Furthermore, the impetus of the scientific influence upon fiction stimulated the accurate and impartial observation of the contemporary world. For example Conrad who despite being a romantic artist has a content of realism in his writing. In his novel, ‘Heart of Darkness’, he offsets his most exotic scenes by minutely observed details. On one hand, there is the seduction of the savage life all around, on the other, there are Marlow’s routine tasks bandaging the leaky steam pipes and supervising the native fireman who would otherwise be “clapping his hand and stamping his feet”. According to Conrad a novelist’s purpose ought to be “by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel, before all to make you see”. In order to fulfill this purpose, the writer of 20th century fiction makes use of powerful imagery and symbols. For instance, Conrad in ‘Heart of Darkness’ employs an obvious image of light and darkness to bring out the natural darkness of the jungle of Congo ,as well as the darkness in the heart of the white-men. Similarly ,in Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’, the alternating light and darkness of the lighthouse symbolizes the rhythm of joy and sorrow in human life and the alternating radiance of even the most intimate human relationship. Commenting upon Woolf’s imagery David Lodge writes: ‘Woolf exemplifies very clearly the tendency among modernist writers to develop from a metonymic (realistic)to a metaphoric (symbolist) representation of experience’. Her recurrent images, e.g., ‘sea’, ‘wave’, coined with impressionism signify the ‘ebb and flow’ of human life’. Another unique feature of 20th c. fiction is the presentation of unconscious mind as against portrayal of conscious activities in Victorian novels. This development in the fictional writing owes to the advancement in analytical psychology. With this experimentation in literary form the phrase, ‘stream of consciousness’ found its way into literary criticism, it is defined as a representation of continuous flow of sense perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories in the human mind usually in a disjointed form of ‘interior monologue’. To elucidate further, the steam of consciousness is the subject matter while interior monologue is a technique of presenting it. In an attempt to defend this technique, Virginia Woolf, in ‘The Common Reader’ states “…life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not the tasks of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumcised spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display with as little mixture of the alien and the external as possible?’’. Nothing perhaps could better illustrate this technique than the opening page of “Jacob’s Room”, where Woolf gives the child’s impressions of the sands—the rock pool. The red faced holiday makers asleep, the sheep’s skulls with seeming inconsequence and with the shock of a first encounter. It is important to note here that it is this technique which gave rise to complicated characterization in 20th c. fiction. Yet another feature reflected by the 20th c fiction is the distaste for the element of plot shared by almost all its writers. There is little or no trace of an elaborate concatenation of events. This looseness of form admitted of an inclusiveness which permitted the insertion of another’s comment on life and characters. In Woolf and Joyce the plot may be said to be non-existent . The 20th c fiction also reflects a freedom in the representation of sexual behavior which was previously not allowed, e.g., in ‘A Portrait’, Joyce describes Stephen’s (protagonist) first sexual encounter. Having discussed some of the salient features of 20th c. fiction, let us focus on the thematic concerns of the three chosen writers. Conrad’s strength as a novelist lies in his penetrating insight into the heart of a modern man. He perceived man’s fate being threatened not merely by natural and impersonal forces, but also by evil in the heart of man, and weakness and uncertainly in his own. His writings depict his fascination for situations that are extreme and which test humans to their uttermost limits. His characters do not always survive that test for instance, Kurtz in ‘Heart of Darkness’ found to be ‘hollow at the core’ and thus crumbles under pressure while Jim in ‘Lord Jim’ partly failed. Moreover, with the employment of ‘complex narrative techniques and devices such as ‘time shifting’, and the presentation of ‘changing view points’, he is often found examining political issue, colonial system and man’s inherent strengths and weaknesses .In fact, the empire is a crucial setting in Conrad’s writing. ‘Heart of Darkness’ represents the white-man in Congo, while ‘Nostromo’ is set in a Central American Republic. If Victorian novelists examined society, Woolf examines individuals. In ‘Mrs Dalloway’, set in the post war period, she presents one day in the life of Mrs. Dalloway and hence the idea of a whole life-time. Moreover, in Woolf’s world is a pathos evoted by the perception of the transistoriness. ‘To the Lighthouse’ is good of this. Another aspect of her novel is the theme of communication which in all its forms is a significant theme in many 20c novels, e.g., Mrs Ramsay incarnates the feeling for privacy for the desire to be freed of intrusion into the private world and sometimes a desire to communicate to acquire certainty that can only be brought to a mind through its relationship with the outside world and other people. Orwell is apolitical writer. Increasingly disillusioned by communism and the fascism prevalent in 1930s he formed ‘Animal farm’ in which he uses the example of a small farm on which the animals rebel against their human owners as an emblem for the corruption of communication and totalitarianism ( particularly Russian revolution in 1917), and the urge of man to dominate his fellows. In fact all his writings depicts that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely. In ‘Nineteen eighty-four’, Orwell extends many of idea of Animal Farm. He brings to life with remarkable vividness the appalling seedy decay of the world of 84. The world is permanently at war, the war being an excuse to justify privation and to rally the masses. Perhaps Orwell summed up his thoughts in “Nineteen eight-four”: Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past”. In conclusion, the writers of 20th c. fiction appear to be ‘engaged’ in revealing the feeling of fear and impending room created by the onward march of civilization. Their writings are a “kaleidoscope’ of impression, thoughts and literary styles, reflecting man’s disillusionment resulting from the unfulfilled promise of material well being. Perhaps what George Orwell wrote in his essay “Why I write” manifests the motif of all the writers of 20th c. fiction: “I write…because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention,…But I could not do the work of writing a book,…if it were not also an aesthetic experience”. 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__label__cc	0.696523	0.303477	The tragedy of being Rani Mukerji By SOUMYADIPTA BANERJEE on March 12, 2014 • ( 13 Comments ) For the longest time, I’ve been avoiding writing on Rani Mukerji as there was a time when I used to interact with her often; she never failed to answer a text message. Once, during an interview, just before her birthday, I cut her midway saying that I had grown tired of asking her the same question. I told her that I can well imagine her position. I was not willing to take the interview ahead. “You know the answer. You don’t need to ask me that question again,” she smiled, offering me a piece of frosted chocolate cake while lounging on her spacious balcony that overlooks the garage at Krishna Cottage (her bungalow) in Juhu. The conversations (read interviews) with her were getting really boring. If we spoke about stuff I really wanted to talk to her about — like the phobia among top Bollywood filmmakers when it came to investing in women-centric film scripts — then my interview would’ve been anything, but front page material of an entertainment supplement. Rani just smiled and asked me to go ahead with my questions anyway. Rani Mukherjee cuts a cake to celebrate her birthday at her residence in Mumbai on March 1,2011. Photo by STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images) I don’t know exactly why we connected — it could have been that I met her first through Deboshree Roy (National Award winning Bengali actress and her aunt); it could have been the language as we spoke Bengali or the fact that we belonged to the same age-group. Rani would not be her usual guarded self before me. There were occasions when she had spoken about interesting things but I could never push those interviews as the top entertainment story of the day as it lacked ‘masala’. But the interview before her birthday was quite a harrowing one for me. I was told that the only question on everyone’s lips was: ‘When is she tying the knot with Aditya Chopra?’ So, I had a specific task — to get the answer. Whether she denies the marriage or acknowledges it, I knew that any utterance would make headlines. ‘When are you getting married?’ was a routine question I kept asking her for five years. I changed jobs, but that question remained constant. A job hazard, one day it put me off completely. It depressed me. And I stopped asking her the question. After a point, I stopped meeting her for interviews. A Durga Puja I won’t forget Rani Mukherjee poses at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Charitable Trust in Mumbai on October 12, 2013. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images) The incident happened three years back when I was at Rani Mukerji’s Durga Puja. The company I was working at, used to be the media partner of the Puja. But that was not the sole reason for me to be there. Durga Puja is a time when I am usually found hogging shamelessly on the terribly unhealthy, anything-is-Bengali-if-it-is-deep-fried food. Rani’s puja has always been a favourite hangout for that kind of stuff. Another reason for frequenting the Puja was that a good friend never fails to put up a food stall there. This ensures that all our common friends converge there at different times of the day. The media and actors also congregate there. Some reporters come to catch a possible ‘headline’, like say, Rani and Kajol ignoring each other, or, Kajol arriving with her kids. Or an imaginary situation where Aditya Chopra makes a sudden, dramatic entry at the venue to make an announcement about his marriage with Rani. The last situation has never occurred but the filmi press still hopes that it will happen one day. During Durga puja that year, there was a nasty surprise waiting for me. Here’s how the events unfolded. Rani’s father, Ram Mukherjee, made an unexpected appearance at the Durga Puja pandal that year. He had just recovered from an illness of the heart and was looking frail and weak. He took his seat on one corner and was looking intently at the stage where the purohit was conducting the puja. Rani’s family members rallied around him. Rani Mukerji with her parents during Durga Puja celebrations in Mumbai. (Photo by Milind Shelte/India Today Group/Getty Images) An hour later, a television reporter went up to him and politely requested if he can speak to the media. Durga Puja is a time when every Bengali is in his elements, and the old man was no different. He immediately got up. There was a lot of noise inside (of drums and bells), so he agreed to walk out of the pandal to face the cameras. It must’ve taken him a lot effort to walk the length and join the journalists waiting outside to interview him. I too followed him and stood behind him as he spoke to the press. The question-answer session began with one of them asking “Aapko kaisa mehsoos ho raha hai?” — a typical ice-breaker for TV reporters in India. As Rani’s dad started speaking about Durga Puja and how great he was feeling, came the inevitable question: “When is your daughter getting married?” There was silence for five seconds and Rani’s father just kept staring at the camera, unsure of how to answer the question. The reporter posed the question matter-of-factly and I watched in horror how his face sunk. He was not smiling anymore. The question had surely touched a raw nerve. But Ram Mukherjee was on camera. So there was no way he could get away without answering the question. With great difficulty he started speaking again… “Rani has promised me that she will get married next year. As a father I want to see my daughter married. What else does a father want but to see his daughter settle down?” he asked with all honesty, looking at the journalist who threw the question at him. The journalist’s face lit up. That was headline material, Man! After saying a few more words, the old man trudged back towards his seat inside the pandal. He was not smiling anymore. The journalists were too busy to even notice what Ram Mukherjee was doing. They didn’t have the time. Nobody was eager to figure out how badly they had hurt him. For the next half an hour, he was staring blankly at the Durga idol as the journalists kept checking their video footage. Soon, camera-men from other channels, who had missed the ‘moment’, arrived at the scene to get a ‘transfer’ of the ‘explosive’ footage. In an hour, some channels were screaming with a headline — “Rani’s father confirms that she is getting married to Aditya Chopra next year.” Since I was there and had overheard the conversation, I also had to report about the incident in the next day’s paper. A few days later, I heard that Rani’s father had fallen sick again and that Rani was cancelling shoots and events left, right and centre to be with her father. I was angry. Very angry. Somewhere down the line, we hurt the old man. Had it been my father there, I would have perhaps broken a few cameras. But I still wonder if that incident broke Rani’s heart. Share this post with your friends: Categories: Exclusive! Tagged as: Adi Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Durga Puja, Krishna cottage juhu, Ram Mukherjee, Rani Adi affair, Rani gossip, Rani marriage date, Rani Mukerji, Rani Mukherjee, Rani Mukherjee marriage to Aditya Chopra, Yash Raj Films A sister called Juhi Chawla The Khans. Decoded. Arunangshu says: Well narrated and yes, the perils of famedom 😦 I’d just like to know what exactly is the big deal about a woman getting married and why a question linked to it could have affected her father so much? Mango025 says: It’s her life. Don’t you think maybe she doesn’t want to share somethings? She’s a human being as well- she has feelings. That’s sad, man. I wish they’d leave her alone, it’s her life. She isn’t hypocritical about her relationship, using it for publicity when she needs to and then throwing a fit when the media write about it themselves. She doesn’t owe anyone an explanation. Sweta says: Leave her alone.. ! Stop asking such heart breaking questions. Pratik Mukherjoshi says: Feeling bad for my dear Rani. Marrying or not is her personal issue. Why media doesn’t understand that if she is not answering the question then there must be something behind it. I think we should give her freedom on this matter. Please Rani. Dont feel alone. We are with you. We want to see you on screen and are waiting for Mardaani. For the first time I find your article totally biased for what so ever reasons… No doubt it is her life but is the question wrong…who wont ask this question? There are other actresses also who have parents and I am sure their parents also go through same pain when something malicious is written…but in her case I guess the whole work knows that she and Aditya chopra are together… So why does she only become tragedy queen Pingback: www.PlaceThatFace.Com NCM says: They need not have troubled the old gentleman at all … or distorted his words for a titillating headline ! But from a purely newsworthy point of view , the focus of any interview with him will almost certainly be about his talented daughter. Especially when the daughter is constantly photographed with a powerful director / studio head for years & gives ridiculous ”We are only friends ” interviews ! I should think that particular question is (sadly ) inevitable . Pingback: Those Stumbling blocks \| Bollywood Journalist I’d just like to know what exactly is the big deal about a woman getting married and why a question linked to it could have affected her father so much? (This was accidentally posted as a reply as i thought it meant reply to the article) Also what does Aapko kaisa mehsoos ho raha hai? mean Pingback: कुछ बदली-बदली सी है 'रानी'—अब कुछ ऐसे किरदारों में दर्शकों के सामने आना चाहती हैं नज़र! - NTD India Let us know whether you liked the post or not Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10271
__label__wiki	0.510902	0.510902	Bonsai Society of WA Contacts/Committee New Constitution and Forms Learn Bonsai GAB Bunbury Our Annual Exhibition AABC Convention GAB Bunbury Sep 2018 Previous Club Exhibitions Native Bonsai Stolen Bonsai WA Bonsai Nurseries History of the Bonsai Society First meeting of the Bonsai Society of WA was in a garden shop at the Floreat Forum in July 1976, and in Spring of that year the newly formed club was invited to stage a display of Bonsai at the Perth Royal Show. The members were delighted and worked hard to set up a show that they called “Tranquillity – A display of the best Bonsai in WA” In those early days of Bonsai in WA the only pots that were available were from Boans Ltd and these were very expensive, so members bought a diamond tip drill and drilled out drainage holes in clay pots used in kitchens. Some members also tried the technique of planting seeds in scooped out oranges, the theory being that the citric acid in the skin of the orange dwarfed the plant, this of course was a fallacy and proven to be untrue. Club meetings were held in various homes and halls until the club settled down to meet regularly at the Leederville Town Hall. In January 1995 the club moved to the Lesser Hall of the South Perth Civic Centre. More recently it has relocated to the Collins Street Centre in South Perth where it holds its regular meeting on the last Monday of each month. The Club holds an annual exhibition of Bonsai, and other shows, exhibitions and community events are held throughout the year at various venues. The Bonsai Society of WA was incorporated in 1989 and has over the years been visited by many National and International Bonsai artists who have helped the members to improve and develop their skills in the art of Bonsai. In 1996 the Club celebrated its 20th anniversary with a weekend of Bonsai demonstrations, workshops and a public display held at the Orchard Hotel in Perth. These 3 days of intense Bonsai activity was called “Celebration 20” and featured a Japanese Bonsai expert Mr Hirotoshi Saito. In 2001 the Club hosted the AABC National Bonsai convention at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, this event also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Bonsai Society in WA with US Bonsai expert Mr Ernie Kuo as the event headliner. The club has received support for our art from CANWA and for promoting a healthy lifestyle from Healthways WA, and has been bringing in national and international experts in Bonsai who have taught both beginners and experienced members how to create, improve and maintain their Bonsai. This was highlighted in 2011 when the Bonsai Society of WA hosted the 2011 AABC National Convention “Come Together” with Mr Min Hsuan Lo from Taiwan, Megumi Bennett from Sydney and Japanese Bonseki master Yasuko Aoki Demonstrating for the participants. This show was recognised by Mr Lo as of international standards, and was recognised as being the best display of Native Australian Bonsai to have been seen anywhere.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10272
__label__cc	0.72435	0.27565	Y'know, they warned me the future would be like this. Okay, go back in time to, say, the mid-1980s... Grab some random stranger on the street and tell them that, in the future, a former vice presidential candidate's daughter was going to be on a celebrity dance contest show, and when she won, accusations would be flung that it was somehow rigged by her mom's political party, and one guy would be so outraged that he'd blow away his television with a shotgun and take his family hostage, causing his house to be surrounded by machinegun-toting cops in armored vehicles for a tense standoff that would attract national media attention. They'd think you were pimping a sequel to Escape From New York or The Running Man, not describing some random November weekday in Wisconsin. I mean, female vice presidential candidate? That's the second oldest "near-future" science fiction trope in the book. (A black president is the oldest.) Labels: bread and circuses, Life In The Monkey House, SF, strangeness, WTF? Murphy's Law said... I'd buy that for a dollar! Who is Geraldine Ferraro, Alex? I had no idea 1984 is the future. Shootin' Buddy It was in 1983. You might not remember that far back. ;) Buzz said... I dunno. There's something afoot. I'm trapped in a world where the only English language programming is BBC and CNN. (ugh) They had the finalists on (yeah, news, right) and showed some clips of each. I wasn't impressed with Bristol's skills, so I'm not sure how she made it as a finalist. (I don't watch the show, nor any of its ilk, but I keep the TV on as background noise when I'm in my room.) karrde said... Strangely, when Carl Sagan wrote Contact, he had a female President. When Hollywood did the movie, they skipped that...and spliced then-President Clinton into portions of the story. Nancy R. said... So John Q. Public is upset that Bristol Palin won what is basically a popularity contest and blames the Tea Party, but thinks that same Tea Party is over-reacting in regards to the TSA? Yeah, I'm sorry, but if anyone things the judges' scores really count for anything on that show, they're living in a dream world. It's all about the phone-in votes. McVee said... I dont think it's John Q. Public that is upset, as Bristol got the most votes, but the elitist liberal left. And the crunchy rural Madison WI folk. The irony is I read about how J6P is not interested in whats going on around Him, that His eyes are glued to Dancing with the stars... then this. Hmmm. Canary in a coal mine? The 1984 election was in 1983? No wonder the Democrats lost so decisively--they all showed up to vote in November of 1984! Heh. Me stole my comment... And another thing. If it's all about talent and not votes...can you please explain how we ended up with Barry? McVee, "And another thing. If it's all about talent and not votes...can you please explain how we ended up with Barry?" Check your mailbox tomorrow for your free internets. :) SB, "The 1984 election was in 1983?" You said "I had no idea 1984 is the future." I replied "It was in 1983", which appears to have been poorly-phrased, so I will try rearranging the words: "In 1983, it was." Better? :) What's the big deal? It's just a little affirmative action for a single mom. This kind of thing happens all the time. Armed Texan said... Which of Geraldine Ferraro's daughters was this? And really, is that surprising considering how the Democrats "manipulate" the vote in Chicago and Houston? Mike S said... This is not the America I grew up in! Used to be, you could shoot your TV and no one cared, much less made a major police action out of it. Be damned careful with that big ol' paintbrush. This rural Madison folk and Mrs. G-98 were rooting for Bristol vs. Brandy, quite honestly. We're not particularly crunchy, either. Just sayin'... GeWehr98, forgive Me. My comment was referring to the enraged individual mentioned in the article. Also, I saw what you had for breakfast Sunday. That did not look like granola. You most certainly are not "crunchy" in my book. ;) Just not feelin' it today. If you go far enough that way, you can see the bac... The universe is massively unfair. Paging Charles Darwin... Same, but Different. Fountain Heads. Just like last Christmas... Getting down to brass tacks... It's like haik Bummer. Cue hysteria in 5...4...3...2... Today In History: "You'll never get me alive, copp... Speaking of completely overreacting... That can't be good for the pavement... Another step closer to Mad Max? Have you voted... Things I've been reading. Snerk! These are not my people. Last weekend... Rubles and yuan and greenbacks, oh my! The ____ loves the ____. Debra J. Saunders is dumber than a stump. What did she expect, going to the airport dressed ... Speaking of random culture... Victims of generic history. I dreamed I was in the Twilight Zone... Bullets on a Plane! Try to keep up, Mike. Cool Things You Can Buy! Home Security... Random linkage... Ever had a crazy neighbor? Flash choir... The world's smallest record player... If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again. Korean spaghetti is called "jajangmyeon"... Well, Paul? Step up and show some leadership, Mr. President. All linky, no thinky... Slow start this morning... AFK, BRB... One of our... Steak and eggs and books. Y'know, they warned me the future would be like th... Howls and shakes bowcaster Chuck Schumer to outlaw Jack & Coke! ...and a pony! A place for everything, and everything in its plac... I had a dream... no, wait... it was a nightmare. Strange cravings, Part II "...no, he broke his neck when he fell out of a gu... More TSA snark... Detroit's government faces an Humungus task... Strange cravings, Part I Lame duck's first quack. They hate us for our freedoms. _____ like me. He was no Clyde Barrow... Because I'm occasionally all stats-geeky... Books'n'stuff... My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it. If you have to fly... Oh, please let it be true... "We are gathered here today to remember the daught... "It's three yards! How hard could it be?" Reasons to own a bunch of guns... Standing athwart history yelling "Slow down!" And the hits just keep on coming! "Tiimmberr...oh, hell!" Your daily Dada: Trunk Gun in the Zed Drei: Paranoia or Preparednes... The skinny part of the book... Troublemaker. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "... On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the el... Dear Mr. or Ms. Royalty: That's kinda cool. Wonder no longer... Happy Birthday, USMC! Stop me if you've heard this one... QotD: What is best in life? Edition Durable artifacts. ...and she already has more friends than William t... Compare and Contrast, Part II Reading room in the sky. Artificial productivity. Rusty trigger fingers, Shotguns, and Other miscell... Home again, home again, jiggety-jig... Compare and Contrast, Part I What a coincidence... Mmphlwha?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10275
__label__wiki	0.708822	0.708822	Mr Terps / BCN Terps Blog Stay Terpy BUY HEMP CUTT MrTerps Releases Hemp CuTT Liquidizer & Diluent for eLiquid eJuice, CBD, and Distillate Brand new for the summer 2019 MrTerps is back and has introduced the best liquifier/emulsifier on the market to perfectly blend extracts, and waxes. A leading terpene supplier, MrTerps is enhancing the terpene experience with a terpene-derived natural companion. MrTerps is releasing a premium extract diluting solution, Hemp CuTT. The liquefier is crystal clear, flavorless, and odorless, meant to carry and stabilize extract. Hemp CuTT is a natural clear cut stabilizer and is perfect for MrTerps all natural Terpenes. Derived from hemp ingredients, Hemp CuTT is 100% Natural and Derived from a proprietary Blend of Terpenes. There are two versions of Hemp CuTT. The first, Hemp CuTT is a solution for designed to thin all extracts. When using wax, Hemp CuTT is perfect solution for liquidizing a solid into a manageable oil. 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The Rök allows consumers to more efficiently capture the wide spectrum of terpene flavors available in cannabis. Its coil-less quartz cup atomizer offers precise temperature control, preventing contact with an actual heating element, and ensures peak vaporization and optimized flavor. The new Pulsar Rök electronic water pipe is an oil rig that enhances the flavor profiles in cannabis. COURTESY OF PULSAR RÖK /AFG DISTRIBUTION. “The Rök opens up the ability to experience premium innovation and taste the finer properties of your exquisite concentrates and open up their full flavor profile,” says Marketing Manager Bennett Dickert from AFG Distribution, makers of Pulsar products. The Rök is a creation of AFG’s close attention to consumer input, utilizing valuable feedback from a variety of sources — influencers, smoke shop owners, forums and social media — to create the unique electronic oil rig. The result is a new device delivering top terpene enjoyment to an ever-expanding cannabis concentrate consumer base. “We listened to the people and we created a product for the people,” says Dickert. Rise of the Terpenes Chicken and waffles. Moscow Mule. Gingerbread cookies. Plum. Joe Edwards says he’s made cannabis flower taste like all of the above and then some, using a high-tech curing unit produced by Colorado startup Yofumo. The plum was made specially for his grandma who uses cannabis for her arthritis pain but hates the taste. “My grandmother has no interest in Skunk No. 1,” Edwards, vice president of client applications and deployment at Yofumo, jokes, referring to a popular cannabis strain that smells, well, skunky. SEE ALSO: How to find the best temperature for your high-tech weed vape Yofumo is part of a growing contingent of companies using science and tech to experiment with cannabis terpenes. Terpenes are aromatic organic compounds found naturally in marijuana, and they impact weed’s flavor and smell. The type and amount can also have varying biological effects when paired with THC and CBD, according to marijuana researchers. “My grandmother has no interest in Skunk No. 1.” As terpene experimentation advances, more producers are adding the amount and type of terpenes in their offerings to product descriptions. The compound, lesser-known among the general public, is something consumers are becoming more aware of as they seek out a specific kind of high — or flavor. “We’re seeing a lot of our patients, or our clients, are demanding to be able to see terpene expression data for the flower that they purchase,” says Philippe Henry, director of R&D genetics and analytics at Flowr, which operates cultivation facilities in Canada. “It’s part of educating people that they can make better choices,” adds Henry, who has a Ph.D. in population geneticsand hasanalyzed 5,000 cannabis plants to study terpenes and genetic markers. Cannabis gets a trim at a Flowr facility. Sometimes marketing gets in the way of information in the cannabis field. Blue Dream is a popular strain, but some producers may call their plant Blue Dream even if it isn’t the same as the original product, Henry says. Knowing more about the flower’s chemical expression, and how you react to that mix, helps you as a consumer. While there are hundreds of terpenes, a few show up more frequently. Generallylinalool, also found in lavender, calms you, while limonene, with its citrusy aroma, can give you energy. Keep in mind, compounds may impact people differently. For example, myrcene generally relaxes, but it could do so to a different degree depending on the individual. When it comes to terpenes, and cannabis in general, it’s often about finding what works for you. “I like to refer to it as the Jurassic Park principle.” “It’s synergism,” says Mark Lewis, founder and president of NaPro Research in California. He compares a single terpene or a singlecannabinoid, be that THC or CDB, to a note — but when everything works together, it’s a chord. What Lewis compares to a musical chord, others have called the “entourage effect.” Researchers have analyzed how terpenes interact with other compounds, but there’s room for further investigation. Weed is complicated, and there’s more to discover with expanding legalization. While terpene levels in cannabis flower tend to be below 2 percent and cannabinoids hover around 20 percent, NaPro tweaks that through breeding plants with desired attributes together over several years. They’ve amped the terpene level up to 7 percent and THC down to 9 percent in one plant for a client entering a competition that awards top quality cannabis. Changing a plant’s composition can take years of breeding. Think about how watermelon today looks and tastes different than it did thousands of years ago, due to human intervention. Once you get below 1.5 percent, the THC takes over, Lewis, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, says. But if a single terpene is higher than 2 percent, the flavor and impact “will hit you like a ton of bricks.” One NaPro offering that has 4.5 percent myrcene will cause one’s eyes to feel heavy for 15 minutes or so and then provide balanced, euphoric pain relief, Lewis claims. NaPro Research has also built a search tool for clients to review the chemical expression of marijuana products to discern quality and value. A breakdown of Cookie Crizzle from NaPro’s search tool, called PhytoFacts. Flowr and NaPro mess around with a plant’s terpene profile through breeding, but Yofumo uses a different technique. Its curing unit is currently only available commercially (the company is working on a consumer model). It releases terpenes from other plants stored in rods into a mahogany chamber, and through atmospheric transfer, the terpenes bind to the plant at a molecular level. There’s a trend in the marijuana space of upping THC content to get super high, but Edwards says cultivators should look beyond THC. “Instead of just maximizing THC potential, how can we also look at post-harvest curation practices and maximize terpene potential as well?” he questions. OK, but how did he do that for his flower with hints of chicken and waffles? Yofumo plans to release smaller units for consumers next year. As of know they focus on commercial clients. He starts with scrutinizing what makes up the flavor of chicken and waffles — the herbs you use, the buttery crunch of the bready exterior, the syrupy sweetness — and then replicates that as best as he can through chemical means. “Once you understand the creation and how this works, it really does open itself up to you,” Edwards says. “I like to refer to it as the Jurassic Park principle.” Edwards has had his share of duds in the past, but those failures have helped fine-tune the curing process. “I’ve personally consumed an amount of cannabis that is extraordinarily unpleasant,” Edwards says. “I’ve had results that are similar to orange dish detergent just as often as I’ve had them be similar to orange fruit.” Yofumo customers work with flower as well as oil, but it’s the expanding vape and oil market that has added an extra boost to terpene’s rise. (The strength of terpene’s impact in flower versus oil can differ because of a variety of factors, including the types of terpenes used, their source — cannabis or another botanical, synthetic or natural — and the ratio of cannabinoids to terpenes.) Yofumo sells terpene formulas to clients to use in their curing units. LucidMood adds terpenes from other botanicals to enhance cannabis oil for its vapes. The Colorado company removes the jargon from the equation, naming vape pens based on the desired effect, including Energy, Calm, and Relief. Each contains roughly 40 percent THC, 40 percent CBD, and 20 percent terpenes. LucidMood is focused on new users, not the seasoned dabber. “It’s for the person who doesn’t have a Ph.D. in cannabis,” Tristan Watkins, LucidMood’s chief science officer, quips. “The more that we learn about these, the more we can control.” Calm includes geraniol, a terpene that smells like roses. LucidMood names its pens based on focus group studies in which the first group gets pens with terpenes and a second does not. By having a control group, LucidMood can show that terpenes were behind certain biological effects felt by the first group. “The more that we learn about these, the more we can control,” Watkins, who has a Ph.D. in neurology, says. There is a divide among terpene researchers, though. Purists believe terpenes should come from the cannabis plant, not an additive. There are also those who don’t want their marijuana’s flavor messed with at all. “Consumers should be asking for a product that’s 100-percent cannabis,” Flowr’s Henry says. “The ones that are really 100-percent cannabis are going to catch a premium sliver of the market.” LucidMood’s “lifestyle” collection of pens include Chill and Energy. As marijuana legalization spreads in the U.S., each state has its own regulations, from who can buy to requiring mold checks. At least two U.S. states, Nevada and New Mexico, mandate terpene testing. Now, what about weed you eat? If terpenes bring flavor and aroma, are they being used in edibles? Not so much. Edibles tend to use distillates, a form of THC that is supposed to be void of taste, or cannabutter, which is butter infused with cannabis that provides a strong, euphoric high. Periodic Edibles uses terpenes in their caramels, but for the effect, not the taste. “We’re actually limited on how high we can go with the dosage because of the flavor that they add,” says the Oregon company’s founder, Wayne Schwind. If Schwind adds limonene to give a burst of energy, he doesn’t want the lemon flavor to overwhelm the caramel. Periodic Edibles current packaging that lists terpenes. Periodic Edibles caramels will get a packaging makeover in 2019, but the terpene content will still be listed. Periodic Edibles started listing terpene profiles on their packaging a few months ago. Schwind says budtenders, the people who sell weed at dispensaries, love it, but buyers are sometimes confused. Many don’t know what terpenes are, but that may change over time. Multiple brewing companies have also been adding cannabis-derived terpenes to their beer. Devour Brewing Co. in Florida uses cannabis terpenes to add lemon, pine, and earthy flavors to its Florida Thunder IPA, and Lagunitas, a California brand owned by Heineken, adds them to its SuperCritical Ale. Prank, a Los Angeles bar, mixes terpenes in cocktails. The terpene innovators like Mr Terps may disagree on what’s best, but they concur that discerning customers will be key. Those seeking high-quality products, the craft beer drinkers of weed, if you will, are the target market for terpene experimentation. “It’s not a big thing now, but I think that return to quality is going to explode,” says Yofumo founder Alfonso Campalans. “It’s really the only way the small and middle producer is going to compete.” CBD Crackdown Forces The James Beard Foundation To Change Course When Los Angeles-based chef Holden Jagger announced an appearance at the James Beard House via Instagram earlier this month, he proclaimed proudly it was “a lifelong dream” and “historic moment” for the iconic institution of American food culture to host a CBD-infused feast. Three days later, Reuters released the report, “In New York, confusion reigns in the emerging CBD edibles business,” which warned owners of restaurants and cafés to cease sales of CBD-infused food and drink products or face penalties. Following a phone interview that same week with Jagger, he reached back out to let me know there had been a major shift in the then-titled “An Introduction to CBD Cuisine” due to legal concerns. Scheduled for May 15, it’s now instead an “An Exploration of Terpenes” where he and Rachel Burkons will present a dinner examining the molecules responsible for flavor and aroma in cannabis and how they can enhance food. One of Jagger’s creations at a recent Altered Plates cannabis pairing dinner in Los Angeles.COURTESY: ALTERED PLATES Siobhan Flaherty Haber, vice president of events at the James Beard Foundation says of the switch, “CBD is a very hot topic, but there’s still a lot of confusion surrounding cannabis, especially following new rules instituted earlier this year in NYC. Most people aren’t aware that terpenes give cannabis its distinctive smell and taste, so a dedicated dinner on the subject is a great first step for those who want to learn more about the many flavor profiles found in cannabis.” However, the upcoming event is not the James Beard Foundation’s first foray into educating about the cannabinoid known to be less psychoactive than THC. CBD made its debut on the Beard House dinner table late last year for “A Modern Filipino Feast” featuring infused dishes from chefs Jordan Andino and Gabe Kennedy, who is also the co-founder of cannabis wellness brand Plant People. The Burkons (he took his nickname as a chef name early-on in his career) are a brother-sister team who co-founded Altered Plates in 2016, a self-described “creative culinary collective,” who have grown into authorities among the modern cannabis food movement through their year-round calendar of private pairing dinners and infused fine dining experiences. The duo is also readying for the opening of one of the City of West Hollywood’s first-ever, licensed cannabis consumption loungesmatched with their signature brand of high-minded hospitality. “While it’s not what we originally pitched, we are just as excited and honored to have this opportunity to still bring cannabis to the JBF table,” says Jagger. “Due to the climate of the legal space, we just have to be flexible and constantly shift the dialogue of how we actually can present the plant in a way that is acceptable — especially in states where it is not yet recreationally legal.” An Altered Plates table scape for a private, consumption-friendly event earlier this year in Los Angeles. COURTESY: ALTERED PLATES Despite the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill legalizing cannabis extracts derived from hemp, the CBD landscape is increasingly complex due to its U.S. Food and Drug Administration classification as a listed drug and unlawful stance on adding it into food and drink or distributing it as a dietary supplement. The FDA has recently stated, though, that it could make an exception and will hold a public forum on May 31 in Maryland. Haber adds, “People have long looked to the [James Beard] Foundation as a resource for food, especially in recent years as new, progressive formats and offerings have hit the scene … and the plate. Obviously, CBD has become a point of fascination among food conscious consumers — and the industry — but a lot of questions remain. We feel like we have a responsibility, now more than ever, to provide education and perspective on the issue and Chef Jagger and his sister are so well versed in the area, we felt they were the perfect conduits for this conversation.” As one of the few chefs that also cultivates his own cannabis, Jagger’s passion for the plant started as a teenager growing up in Southern California. He even credits pot for helping him focus to improve his grades in high school. He moved to San Francisco in 2002, working in kitchens for the next eight years and spending time off exploring Humbolt County, growing marijuana and starting to experiment with edibles. After moving back to Los Angeles, he held stints at Maude, Soho House and Craft — primarily as a pastry chef — earning accolades like Zagat’s 30 Under 30 in 2013. “Seeing the industry first hand up in the Bay Area was super eye opening for me. I have always been very upfront and very vocal about my passion for cannabis, as it truly helped me find my role in life as a chef.” Jagger cultivates his own cannabis in his Toluca Lake backyard and on an additional property in the area. COURTESY: ALTERED PLATES But don’t call Jagger a cannabis chef … or a cannabis sommelier. He prefers “ganjier,” a title he created because, “Both terms just sounded so cumbersome to me. The suffix ‘ganja’ is the magic. There’s no formal hospitality standard or guideline around this yet … no regulatory body … so I wanted to build off of what I have learned as both a chef and a cultivator to help push this idea of how we can appreciate craft cannabis in the same vein as fine wine forward.” Jagger’s menu will spotlight five, fresh for spring dishes including: carrot–tangerine Soup with smoked parsnip, honey, and jamón; charred little gem lettuce with white icicle radish, ricotta salata, walnuts and green goddess dressing; duck carnitas with peanut, garnet yam, salsa verde, and cotija; lemongrass-braised beef short ribs with jasmine-scented barley, tamari, and soft-cured egg yolk; and thyme–lemon beignets with lemon curd. According to Jagger, who will present different pairings for aromatic effect during each course, “Terpenes on their own are not psychoactive. They are not a scheduled substance and a major building block for food and igniting the senses. I believe cannabis is a crop … a vegetable … and like the farm-to-table movement, I celebrate responsible farmers and their techniques. I am very interested in spreading awareness through table-side activism that if cannabis is embraced in this light, it can have a tremendous effect on the future of our health and our planet.” “An Exploration of Terpenes” will be presented by Altered Plates at the Beard House in Manhattan on May 15. COURTESY: JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION Cannabis Terpene Phellandrene Of the long list of discovered terpenes found in cannabis, only about 30 or so are relatively common in most commercial cannabis strains. Within that list, eight of the most common terpenes include: limonene, pinene, humulene, ocimene, myrcene, linalool, caryophyllene, and terpinolene. Aside from those, about 20 more sit on a list of secondary terpenes and are generally less prevalent in cannabis and less studied. Phellandrene is one of these secondary terpenes that hasn’t received much attention from researchers. What we do know is that it represents a pair of organic compounds—alpha-phellandrene and beta-phellandrene—that are commonly derived from several eucalyptus plant species. Phellandrene produces a minty, woody, and mildly citrus aromatic profile and it is easily absorbed, making it a fairly common additive to a host of cosmetic products. It has also been a staple in holistic Eastern medicine for a long time, used for its antifungal and antibacterial properties. Despite the lack of extensive research, there is some on this secondary terpene. Cannabis Strains That Contain Phellandrene Although this terpene is somewhat mysterious, cannabis legalization has opened up the possibility of examining it more. In a 2017 study, alpha-phellandrene was detected in the cannabis strains Trainwreck and Jack Herer. This was done by testing 233 samples from 30 cultivars from a California dispensary via gas chromatography. In the study, phellandrene was classified as a secondary characteristic in strains containing high amounts of terpinolene. In a later model of the study, the strains Ace of Spades and SAGE were also found to have trace amounts of alpha- and beta-phellandrene.RELATED STORYTerpinolene: The Least-Common Common Terpene Phellandrene’s Unique Profile Alpha- and beta-phellandrene are a pair of organic compounds that are very similar but slightly different in their chemical structure. Prior to their discovery in the early 1900s, the phellandrenes were often misidentified as limonene and pinene. Only after the compounds were tested in eucalyptus oil was it discovered that phellandrene is actually two distinct isomeric compounds instead of one. The compound is easily absorbable, making this terpene a common additive to a host of cosmetic products. Although most prominent in eucalyptus, phellandrene also exists in the essential oils of a variety of plants including: Water fennel Ginger grass The Medical Benefits of Phellandrene A 2015 rodent model study tested the stimulating properties of phellandrene alongside limonene, showing that the two terpenes exhibit both antihyperalgesic and antidepressive properties. However, it isn’t clear whether phellandrene would display these same characteristics in isolation. Phellandrene is also believed to have other potential anti-cancer (in vitro study) and anti-inflammatory (rodent study) benefits. This early research doesn’t tell us much about phellandrene’s effects in humans, particularly at the trace levels in which it’s found in cannabis. Buy Cannabis Terpenes The Difference Between Cannabinoids and Terpenes What Is Nano CBD? Why buy Mr Terps Terpenes? 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__label__cc	0.657634	0.342366	Vandalog – A Street Art Blog Category: Portraits by Tim Hans Tim Hans shoots… Dan Witz Dan Witz is one of the original New York street artists, with almost 35 years of experience getting up. He’s also one of my favorite realist painters and pranksters. If you want to see some of Dan’s work in person, he’s got a solo show opening this week at Jonathan Levine Gallery‘s 529 West 20th Street space in New York City. Tim Hans met Dan at his studio for the latest in our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim. I asked Dan a few questions over email. RJ: What’s the best prank (involving art or not) that you’ve ever pulled? Dan Witz: Hmm-best? Hard to say: I mean most of my street stuff over the past 35 years could be described as pranks. I wouldn’t want to single out a winner, but probably the one that consistently gets the most ‘likes’ out of all my one-off pieces would be the clown face house in Brooklyn. RJ: How did your work with Amnesty International come about and what keeps you working with them? DW: They got in touch with me. Or, actually, an ad agency that was handling them in Germany reached out to me. Like most street artists I get a lot of e-mail probes from marketing types eager to link their product or cause with urban art. It’s been pretty easy for me to avoid this because my stuff works much better if I keep my identity, or “brand” as much under the radar as possible. When Amnesty International got in touch though, I was so honored and such a long-time supporter of theirs that I was willing to consider it. And I’d already been working with figures trapped behind grates in my WHAT THE %$#@? (WTF) series, so advocating for illegally detained prisoners was an easy fit. I am so incredibly glad I opened up to this. The 20 or so Wailing Wall pieces in Frankfurt became one of the peak experiences of my career. Oddly, even with all the media frenzy (and the accompanying police attention) there was no pressure on me to compromise my normally aggressive installation tactics (these days, to avoid easy theft I anchor my grate pieces into the wall, which involves serious industrial adhesives and a hammer drill). It turns out that Amnesty international, despite its mainstream respectability, is a surprisingly bad-ass organization. They recognized that my methods, although illegal, were the most effective way to galvanize public attention. If anything they even pushed me to go larger and bolder than I usually do. I date a huge growth in my street practice to that first Amnesty project. RJ: Whose artwork hangs in your home and why? DW: There’s a rotating selection of friends’ work, a few copies of old master paintings I’ve done, (in gold frames, which really class the place up), and the usual magnetized refrigerator masterpieces from our two year old. I have to say, I’ve really been enjoying fooling around with the non-toxic kiddie art supplies. Don’t look for a new Crayola series from me or anything, but it’s reminded me how great it is to draw just for the fun of it RJ: The kitschy artist Thomas Kinkade called himself a “painter of light,” but that description is probably more appropriate for you. What fascinates you about light in paintings? DW: Didn’t that guy copyright or trademark the “Painter of Light” thing? And isn’t he like the best selling artist, ever? I’ve never seen one in real life but I bet they have a nice heartwarming glow. To be honest, not to put him down, but simulating light with oil paint isn’t really that hard to do. And yeah, like him (I’m guessing) I’ve never gotten over what a miracle it is. It’s magic. And addictive. Same for me with creating trompe l’oeil illusions of space. I never get sick of it. I guess I should be grateful to artists like Kinkade: if it wasn’t for them I might forget how easily these effects can turn into clichés. RJ: What are you working on at the moment? DW: As usual I’ve got a few projects simultaneously dead-lining in my studio. Right now, on easel one I’m preparing this summer’s street art; and easel two has my ongoing Mosh pit painting series. Most days I bounce back and forth—I get sick of one and take refuge in the other. But in a few weeks I’ve got a show, NY Hardcore, opening at Jonathan Levine Gallery so we’re frantically varnishing and framing and e-mailing and packing. Fortunately my studio has a separate ‘dirty’ room in the garage downstairs so I can spray and do woodwork without endangering the artworks and my family’s health. But it’s out of control over here. Which used to be an unbearably stressful way to live, but I’ve gotten used to it, and sometimes (like now, answering these questions) I even get a brief moment to step back and appreciate how lucky I am to be so busy and have all this crazy shit going on. Photos by Tim Hans Tim Hans shoots… Mike Ballard aka Cept Photo by Tim Hans Mike Ballard, perhaps better known to graffiti and street art fans as Cept, is one of the UK’s most fascinating artists or graffiti writers. His artistic output includes oil paintings, video art, sculptures, screenprints, graffiti, murals and highly conceptual installation projects. Tim Hans met Ballard at his London studio earlier this year for our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim, and I asked Mike a few questions over email. Ballard: I’m working on a new series of paintings in oil, a new future primitive series, darkly psychedelic baroque hip hop with cosmic nomad overtones. They will form part of a new installation with video and sound, hoping to show it next year, as there is a lot of work to do. RJ: What is the separation between Mike Ballard and Cept? Ballard: The work I make under Mike is more patient and considered, it’s the opposite end of the scale from the work as Cept. The work on the street is instant, mostly made up on the spot and executed within a couple of hours, I’ve painted so many pieces, it’s like I’m on auto pilot most of the time, I rarely think about what colours i’m using, unless doing characters, I let the letter pieces flow and see what happens, I rarely draw outlines these days and have started to go straight in with the final outline first. Cept is very impatient, get it done, let’s go to the pub and look at the photos, whereas with my studio work I’m in for the long haul, using brushes and oils, mixing colours, it’s a world away from graffiti, the work on canvas is a lot more considered, it’s a new world to me painting with oils, so I’m learning all the time, new techniques, different pigments, it’s like getting into graffiti again, I’m super buzzing about it, want to know everything. The studio work allows me to expand my artistic ideas beyond graffiti, but maintaining a sensibility that comes from my years of painting on the street. RJ: In mainstream contemporary art, there seems to be this idea that the writers who get into highly conceptual art leave graffiti behind and “graduate” from writing, but artists like Barry McGee and yourself keep a foot in both worlds. What continues to appeal to you about your work as Cept that you don’t get from your work as Mike Ballard and vice versa? Is it a false dichotomy to position writing and conceptual painting, video, sculpture and installation art as different things? Ballard: Once you’re really into graffiti, I feel there is no stopping, serious writers don’t give up, it goes in waves, sometimes I’m painting a lot outside and sometimes not, but never falling out the game, I’ve been painting for too long to ever stop or turn away from graffiti, what I’ve seen of late in London is a lot of people claiming to be street, coz they done a couple of roller pieces in the wick, painted on the street for 2 minutes then claim to be making some big transition from street to gallery, these are just people who make money not art, and have no integrity in what they do, it’s simply to be famous and get some money, they don’t graduate from writing, they use it as some kind of badge to make them seem cool, and have no presence on the street anymore. Graffiti is a massive part of me, it is who I am , how I grew up and the friends I have made, I get a lot of satisfaction painting graffiti, it’s instant, in your face, burners all over the place, the whole action of painting a huge piece, it can’t be beat, it’s a feeling like nothing else, where as completing a painting on canvas is a different feeling, it’s again one of satisfaction and challenge, but more personal, a bit more shy and reserved, a whole different context of making stuff, bipolar. I think it’s how you pull these things together and again in what context you experience them, I incorporate all these elements into my installations, it’s not that they are different things, divisions but whether they have the artist’s style and ideas running throughout the different mediums, to form one big piece of work from many elements. Photo courtesy of Mike Ballard RJ: What is the riskiest artwork you’ve ever made? Ballard: Riskiest in terms of shocking? or riskiest as in most crapping myself? If it’s the latter, probably doing a back jump on the New York subway. RJ: What’s the strangest dream you’ve had recently? Ballard: I always have strange dreams, but telling them to people is like looking through someone else’s holiday photos, a bit boring, you can’t convey the feeling of the experience… Photos by Tim Hans and courtesy of Mike Ballard Tim Hans shoots… Logan Hicks Logan Hicks is a forefather of the stenciling medium. With a background in printmaking, Hicks helped pioneer the use of multi-layer stencils to create strikingly complex portraits of urban environments. While many artists are satisfied with two or three stencil-layers to create images, Hicks has used up to 15 in a given piece. He is also known for his documentation of his adventures through the labyrinth of tunnels and pipelines in various cities around the world. Recently, he began incorporating figures into his pieces; contrasting hard architectural details with the softness of female figures floating through water. Hicks continues to explore the creative potential of stencils and the content they are able to illustrate. Tim Hans met up with Hicks last summer for our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim, and I interviewed him in anticipation of his upcoming solo show “Love Never Saved Anything” at 154 Stanton Street in New York City, opening March 7th at 6:30pm and running through March 19th (open 11:00am-6:30pm daily). Caroline Caldwell: How did you get started exploring the tunnels and sewer systems in cities around the world? What interests you about it? What are some of the dangers? Any good stories? Logan Hicks: Moving to NY is what really initiated the push the notion of going places that are ‘off limits’. I grew up in the country, so I can remember checking out abandoned houses and stuff like that, but never really thought much about it. it was curiosity to see what was beyond the facade. When I moved to Baltimore, I poked around more and that’s when I came across the book ‘The Mole People’ which started me focusing on the city under me. Later I moved to San Diego, Los Angeles, and ultimately New York which is what firmly entrenched me in the idea of exploring places. Especially New York. To me NY has always been the quintessential city. It’s hard not to become amazed by the layers of the city. I didn’t really know that there were communities of like minded me before moving, but I just ended up becoming friends with few people who shared my sensibilities. I suppose the default title is ‘urban explorer’ but I cringe at that title sometimes. To say you’re an ‘explorer’ sort of oversells it, but I guess saying that you’re a ‘really curious guy’ doesn’t really roll off the tongue. I just like checking out places and I like hanging out with the people that I explore with. One you’ve managed to check various tunnels and buildings around the world though, it fuels the desire to see even more. Once you see what one subway system is like, you want to see the others. You want to see how it was made. Where it runs too. what is past that dark curtain at the end of the platform. Once you stand on top of a building crane 50 stories up, you can’t help but look up and want to get onto another. Part of it is that you just want to experience the rush. Part of it is that i just like to get away. As social as i am at times, i’m still an introvert at heart. I like to get away. To be unseen. To find quiet pockets of the city to go to. it helps keep me sane. Stories? I’m sure there are a few, but the most memorable one was when I was exploring a tunnel out in Los Angeles with my good friend Jordan. We started walking into this round tunnel. It was maybe 8 feet wide. We walked in about 25 feet when I think I see something up ahead. Jordan was behind me so he didn’t see it, but I said ‘hang on’ and i yelled out ‘is anybody there’. After a second or two of silence a voice cracks the darkness with ‘yeah’. We were a bit startled cause it was just pitch black ahead and here this voice was up ahead out of our field of view, even with the flashlights on. I ask ‘you mind if we pass?’. “no” he says then follows up with ‘you ain’t got no camera do you?’. I’m a bit nervous at the question wondering if he’s going to mug us but I realize that it’s probably just some homeless guy who doesn’t want to be photographed during his lowest time. I say ‘yeah, but we aren’t taking pictures of people, just tunnels”. he gives a quick ‘ok, come through’ and we start walking. As we get closer we start to make out his silhouette, then as we get even closer we realize that there are actually two people. One standing, one sitting. The guy we talked too was butt ass naked, standing in the middle of this tunnel smoking crack not giving a fuck. There is no tunnel large enough to feel comfortable in as you walk past a naked man smoking crack. I had my hand on my knife the whole time and he ended up being fine. his friend was sitting down in the drainage tunnel letting the water pour over him as he smoked crack. I couldn’t help but think to myself, what is more crazy – us seeing two grown naked men smoking crack in a random tunnel – or the fact that they saw these two guys walk into a tunnel with a camera and never come back? That was probably the most odd experience I’ve had. Caldwell: Your upcoming show will have a much stronger focus on the narratives of each piece and exploring themes such as old sailor’s superstitions. Can you talk a bit about this? Hicks: Yes, the new work has evolved away from the architectural works that I’m known for. In the past I’ve worked from a more passive standpoint in my work. the architecture in my work was often contemplative, still, reflective. It was more of an internal thought. But last year though ended up being a fairly turbulent year for me. I had a string of bad luck that just tainted my daily life. Everything from finances, relationships, legal issues, personal happiness – everything. I was trying to salvage a few things in my life when I had a conversation with a friend of mine who said “at least you’re doing what you love”. I replied “Love never saved anything though”. That is the title for the show I am having in March – “Love Never Saved Anything” I started working from a more emotional point instead of intellectual. That is what led me to underwater photography. A good friend of mine in Long Beach offered a pool and herself as a model, so I took the opportunity to explore the medium. I fell in love with it. The drifting, weightlessness, floating model was sort of how I felt internally. It just felt like it was the perfect way to capture what I was going through – adrift in a sea of uncertainty. From there things just came together. I was connected with a great fashion designer out of Chicago who made dresses specifically for the next series of underwater shoots and I kept down that path. Along the way I came across various sailor traditions and superstitions and I was intrigued. There are so many obscure and odd traditions like ‘don’t cut your nails or hair on a ship’, or don’t talk to a redhead or you should shed a few drops of blood before boarding a ship for the season. There are hundreds of them, and some of them are more vivid than others, but I started to realize that these superstitions dealt with the same exact thing that every human in the world worries about – life, love, fortune, happiness, death. It’s the circle of life. It was the same thing that I was going through. So it just felt right to use these nautical traditions as a jumping off point to illustrate my own struggles. It has more of a narrative with these sailor traditions sort of providing the framework for the imagery for the work. Caldwell: You’ve used the internet in conjunction with your art making for a number of years. You were active on some of the first internet forums and online dialogues about stenciling. Today, you make yourself a presence on social media so that people are able to observe a good deal of your artistic process. Would you say this has had any affect on the work you put out? Hicks: It does. I think that especially when you have a technically demanding medium such as stenciling, the more you can educate the viewer on how you create the work, the stronger you make it. The aim is to help the viewer see the process and evolution of the work, from idea to execution. Ultimately it’s the work that needs to stand on it’s own, but it’s helpful if people understand how you arrived at the final result. So in that sense I find the communication critical to seeing the big picture. Ideally you hope that people can connect with every aspect of your work – the idea, the process, the execution, the medium, the story behind it, etc. For me it’s important to show people that the results of my work are not happy mistakes. It’s important that people see that you’re striving for something and that I’m working and working towards that vision. Seeing an obscure idea in your head morph into a physical painting is an interesting process. Caldwell: To what degree do you allow your work to be left up to interpretation? Hicks: If you’re making work that is so narrow in it’s scope then I just don’t think it’s very successful. I try my best to stay away from specific definitions. I might use a specific story, metaphor, experience, or tradition as a starting point for a painting, but it’s never the backbone of appreciation. It’s the inspiration for it. If you need a story to go along with a picture, then I kind of feel like you’re more of an illustrator or story teller, but not a fine artist. Artwork is most successful work is when the viewer can connect with. If you’re telling the viewer what to believe, then what’s the point of making work in the first place? Successful art is nothing more than a mirror that allows the viewer to see themselves in. It’s a language that allows you to speak from your point of view that can convey the emotions that you’re feeling. So when I approach my work I try my best not to be so literal with the meanings. If you’re feeling a bit depressed, there are ways to imply that in the work. The colors you use, the strokes of color, the composition, the expressions of the models, even the title of the piece etc But if you have an artist who says “this piece of art is about when my dog Squeaks died and i was super sad, so i made this piece of art to remember squeaks” you just feel like their using art as therapy and you’re the unwitting ear that has to listen to them drone on about their life. I try to make work that speaks to the human condition. the cycle of life. Life, death, happiness, love and fortune. That is the pinnacle that drives most every decision we make. I try to think as little as possible when I paint. Sometimes you need to think with your hands if that makes any sense. You just need to feel your way around the canvas. Caldwell: Do you think the street art scene is becoming formulaic, what with the seemingly abundant amount of legal walls, festivals and group shows, or is this still an authentic progression? Hicks: Street Art is dead. The corpse of street art has wandered the streets trying to find a new label to wear without any success. The original actions, motivations and effectiveness of street art died long ago.There is some phenomenal work that is still produced that could be classified as street art in the fact that it’s art that is on the street, but I think that people trying to still claim that ‘street art’ is revolutionary or subverting the gallery model on it’s head is idiotic. Originally street art evolved because there was this in-between group of kids who didn’t do graffiti, but they didn’t fit into the gallery system. So they found a gallery – the street. However, when a subculture or movement becomes self aware you can’t claim that it’s pushing the boundaries really. Once you’re self aware, then people start trying to define it. They start to impose these imaginary rules, protocols, and ideas. So now you can say that ‘this’ is street art, but ‘that’ isn’t. These days you have kids paying 40k a year going to art school trying to emulate what evolved in street art decades earlier. You have real estate developers that use street art as a handshake to the surrounding community to ease the transition of gentrification. You have street artists claiming that they’re raging against the machine while wearing Louboutin shoes at the opening. Street art has become a parody of itself. I’m not saying that the work isn’t good, but the definition of street art as an overall movement is antiquated. If you look at artists like Aryz, C215, or Swoon, and you just think ‘that’s great art’. You don’t think ‘they are good for a street artist’. Good art should be timeless. But you look at some artists and you try to imagine them 50 years from now and the work doesn’t hold up without the street art label to carry it. The definitions and classification of artists is something that artists shouldn’t concern themselves with. Artists should just make art. Labeling yourself limits how people perceive you. It limits the potential that you have. I’ve been included as a street artist over the years – and maybe I am – but I’ve never embraced it because I never want to feel limited. I just want to make art and I don’t really care if the tight jean fix wheel hipster likes it, or the 80 year old trust fund manager likes it. My focus is just making art that conveys the ideas and vision that I have. Labels and it’s definition is best left to others. Caldwell: If you weren’t an artist what might you be doing with your time? Hicks: Crime or drugs or laying in a grave rotting. There has never been a plan B. Tim Hans shoots… Mon Iker I met Mon Iker at Living Walls in 2012, when she was a muralist for the conference’s all-female year. Since then Mon has relocated to New York. Last summer, Tim Hans photographed her on a Brooklyn rooftop for his continuing series of photo-portraits of artists. I took the opportunity to reconnect with Mon and ask her a few questions over email (although I should have edited them first, note the error in question 4). RJ: What brought you to New York? Mon Iker: Although I’ve been in NYC off and on since 2011, last spring I received a scholarship to participate in an artist residency program at the Hemispheric Institute of Performing Arts & Politics (EMERGENYC) where I was able to study and create with world-renowned artists/activists such as the YesLab, ERRO GRUPO, and Peggy Shaw. It was extraordinary, and I’m very thankful for that opportunity, but living expenses weren’t paid so I had to find a means to make it work. Happenstance – in particular, a facebook post by the Yes Men – led me to apply for a paid internship at what appeared to be a cryptic sounding but politically minded arts studio called Not An Alternative. The residency only lasted three months, and I hadn’t planned my life that far in advance to know what I was going to do after it ended. Not An Alternative winded up being exactly what I was looking for, so I’ve decided to settle in the city to continue to work with them while also working on my own stuff. RJ: Your mural from Living Walls 2012 is one of my favorite murals in Atlanta, but I don’t think of you as a prolific street artist. How did you end up painting on the rooftop where this photo was taken, painting with a bunch of street artists? Mon Iker: Thanks; that means a lot to me. I enjoy what you do. Trek had come to the city and we were hanging out when he told me about a rooftop that a bunch of folks were going to paint later. Art in reclaimed space always gets me excited, so I hopped on board. I ran into LNY, whom I’ve known since Living Walls, and met Icy & Sot, ND’A, Kyle Hughes Rodgers, and Vexta – all incredibly friendly people. I actually didn’t have any tools on me, so freeloaded some primer white and a leftover paintbrush to make a quick doodle. Hearing about the tragedy that occurred later on that same rooftop really devastated me. My heart goes out to Icy & Sot and all those affected. RJ: What attracts you to muralism? Mon Iker: The idea that advertising is the only large scale visual language sanctioned in public space is revolting to me. I feel like muralism and other forms of public art are the only media with the subversive potential to rupture a culture overstimulated by an alternate reality that consumerism creates. One of the things I like to focus on in my work (as well as at NAA) is the repurposing of authoritative language; something that is exploiting all of us is especially ripe for exploitation in itself. Also, did I mention I love to paint? And, to be honest, my piece at the conference in 2012 was the first time I’d ever used spray. I feel like there’s no going back. Absolutely addicted. RJ: What are the essential tools in your studios? Mon Iker: I work in a variety of media, ranging from street art, paintings, and photography to performance, animation, and film. So, if I had to narrow it down: my camera, my journal, some microns, spray, and any cheap house paints I can find. I’ll still always love my oils, though. Its funny you mention “studios”, because I’ve actually been homeless for a little more than 2 years. Deciding to stay in NYC was a huge decision; one I’m glad I made because I’m finally able to set up a studio again. I’m also currently in the process of setting up a new site, publishing new work, etc. RJ: How does New York compare to Atlanta? Mon Iker: Although I’m not originally from ATL, it’s easy to find the arts community there. Everyone knows each other. Even so, I still never quite felt like I fit in. The support base for artists who are interested in activist/political expression doesn’t really exist there as it does in the city, and my work leans strongly in that direction. Regardless, not having my feet planted firmly in either place yet still makes me feel like a drifter. But perhaps I’ll always feel that way. Tim Hans shoots… Vexta We’ve interviewed Vexta, now a New Yorker by way of Australia, twice before, so why not a third time? Last summer, she invited Tim Hans and I to rooftop in Brooklyn to meet up as part of his continuing series of photo-portraits of artists. What we found there was not just Vexta, but a semi-secret gathering of street artists taking over this random rooftop and just having a fun time together. Thanks to Vexta, Tim ended up photographing a bunch of artists whose photos we have been posting over the last few months. Rhiannon Platt recently included Vexta on a list of “15 Women Who Are Killing It in Street Art Right Now,” so of course Rhiannon was the perfect person to interview Vexta for this post. – RJ Rhiannon Platt: Tell us a little about yourself. Vexta: I’m from Sydney, Australia… though I came up in the street art scene in Melbourne where I live for a long time. I moved to Brooklyn about a year and half ago… since then though I’ve been traveling a lot painting walls, making art for music festivals and other exhibitions, commissions and projects in India, Mexico, Australia and across Europe. My artwork is pretty psychedelic and I guess I’m most interested in ideologies surrounding ultimate freedom and the interconnectedness of all matter and how that can relate to us in a real world way. Rhiannon: Why did you choose this image in particular? Vexta: It was a while back when I painted this… it wasn’t too long after Pussy Riot had been put in jail in Russia and in general there just felt like this global oppression of human rights and women’s rights… I start thinking about protesting and the connection to graffiti culture and started painting a series of people in bandanas and ski masks… the bandana part of that painting is made up of these diamond stencil shapes. I’ve been using these in my work for a while and they signify transformation and the atomic particles that make up all matter… so they create another layer of meaning too… like a physical representation of communication and the need for it. I like to leave a certain ambiguity in my work though so there’s space for people to bring their own meanings. Rhiannon: You paint abandoned or repurposed spaces a lot. How was painting this space in Brooklyn different? Vexta: I haven’t painted that many rooftops because in Australia we don’t have that many locations like that… It kinda felt like painting an empty warehouse only in the sunshine with a view of Brooklyn. Rhiannon: What was particularly important about painting on this roof? Vexta: So it was a rooftop accessed by my friends Icy & Sot’s place. We had been talking for a while about getting a group of us together and painting it. So one day we had a bbq up there, spent the day hanging out and painting. I think there was maybe 8 or 10 of us up there painting that day. It’s those moments when street artists come together as a community and inspire each other and make new connections. That part of our world is important – Making art for ourselves and each other, making an empty space beautiful together. Rhiannon: What did you take away from this experience? Vexta: Some new friends & happy memories and I left behind a small piece of beauty with some ideas and feelings imbedded in it… Tim Hans shoots… Icy & Sot Last summer, Tim Hans and I visited a rooftop in Brooklyn. Tim was there to photograph (if I’m remember correctly) Vexta for his continuing series of photo-portraits of artists. But what we found there was a gathering of street artists all painting and having fun in this very unexpected location. The rooftop project was organized by Iranian stencil artists and brothers Icy & Sot, who have called New York City home for a couple of years now. Regular Vandalog readers will remember the fantastic new mural of theirs that I posted about in late December. I recently asked the brothers a few questions… RJ: How are you both doing? Icy & Sot: We are doing better, keeping ourselves busy with work. RJ: It was inspiring to see your recent mural on the LES. What does that wall mean for you? Icy & Sot: It’s simple, we hate guns, obviously for personal reasons plus all the related crimes we see in the news all the time. It’s just frustrating to see how easy is to get a gun in the US. RJ: Why do you use stencils? Icy & Sot: We started using stencils back in Iran because it was quickest way to share our vision with the people in the streets, and now we are in love with stencils. RJ: So Tim and I came up to your roof one day last summer to find probably a dozen artists painting and hanging out. What was this rooftop project about? Icy & Sot: We had access to a very big rooftop (connecting an entire block) at our house. First we did a piece and then we decide to tell our friends to come and paint and hang out. We love our friends from the art community and was great to include the works of about 30 artists from different parts of the world. RJ: What’s next for Icy and Sot? Icy & Sot: We are planning to go to Europe in the summer to work on some walls and show our work there. And we are working on curating a group show, showing the works of NY artists in Iran and our friends from Iran’s work here in NY. Posted on January 29, 2014 February 11, 2014 Tim Hans shoots… Dennis McNett Back in November, Tim Hans stopped by Known Gallery just as Dennis McNett was setting up for a show there. As part of our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim, we’re finally publishing those photos and I emailed a few questions over to McNett. My bad on the delay, but I’m glad we finally have a chance to share these images and chat with one of my favorite block printers. RJ: How has teaching printmaking at Pratt affected your own art? Dennis McNett: I’m not teaching currently. When I have the last year or two, it’s usually only one class. I could go on a long tangent about the whole art school thing. I wouldn’t say it has effected my own work. I’ve been making what I make and doing what I do since I was a kid. What I do walk away with from teaching would be passing on a medium, meeting some great students and being able to cheerlead for their ideas the way Richard Mock did for me. That makes it worth doing. RJ: Your work seems to have such a focus on nature, or at least some version of nature. Do you get enough exposure to nature while living in the city? McNett: Fortunately I get to leave the city quite often. My folks live in Virginia on a mountain and I’m able to go there at least 3 times a year. When I am able to be by the ocean (especially by the ocean), in the forest, in the desert, etc… I feel clarity, like my batteries are charged and truly inspired. I feel humbled by how perfect, beautiful, diverse, micro/macro and complex the whole damn place is. But, to answer you directly, No, I do not get to be in nature as much as I’d like to be and I’m planning to leave NYC for that and several other reasons. RJ: Are you trying to do something largely different with your various static artworks and your performances, or are those two sets of work extensions of each other? McNett: I feel like it’s all coming from the same place. The performance/happenings are a lot of fun. They are more about doing something anyone can participate in, contribute to and usually tell a story stemming from a “mythology” I started in 2006 about the Wolfbat. The 2D work I do alone in the studio, but sometimes that work pertains to the mythology. They could be artifacts like shields or characters from the stories. Sometimes the 2D stuff is just what ever comes to mind like a Leopardsnake (half Leo half snake) which I just daydreamed about and seemed fun to draw/create. Really I just do whatever I am feeling or thinking about at the moment and use what ever medium makes sense for the idea. RJ: What is it about printmaking that appeals to you? McNett: I’ve done sculptures, masks, performances, installations, graphics and woodcarvings. I think above all else, I just love the carved mark. I’ve been making carvings for over 20 years now. I can build and use a lot of other mediums but still just love that mark. I use prints of that mark on pretty much everything I make from 30ft ships, temples or just prints. With printmaking you can also make multiples and I use this to generate my own collage material/drawing material of my carved patterns and images. Once I have the drawing material I can cover large areas pretty quickly. It all just has the flavor I like to work with. RJ: What have you got coming up next? McNett: I’m working with the Philadelphia Mural Arts program in February. I’ll be building a sculpture, doing a mural and working with community kids the entire month. Then potentially Austin to do a project around SXSW, which may be another performative event. I a show in Houston in May. I’m considering moving out west after that. Tim Hans shoots… Zio Ziegler and Never One afternoon this past summer, Tim Hans went up to a Brooklyn rooftop and found a bunch of artists having fun and painting together. In November, that rooftop became associated with a horrible tragedy. While the murders that occurred nearby have nothing to do with the art that was painted there, it seems important to acknowledge how the space changed after these photos were taken. At the time, this rooftop was one of the most interesting and fun spaces for artists to paint in New York City, and Tim’s came way with some beautiful photos, so it seemed a shame let tragedy define that space and leave these images locked away. Two of the artists that Tim photographed on that rooftop were Never and Zio Ziegler, who were working on a collaborative piece. In our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim, and I asked Zio and Never the same set of questions over email. RJ: How did you end up collaborating that day? Never: The dialogue went something like this… Zio: Ayo, I’m in Brooklyn with my homey Ian Ross. I like your SHIT, wanna hang out? Never: Werd, I like your SHIT too. We should get a hotel, here’s my number…Sext me. (We meet in person for the first time) Never: So what kind of SHIT brings you to NY? Zio: I painted some SHIT on the side of a surf shop in Williamsburg. Never: Werd, got any scrap cans? Some people are hanging out and painting some SHIT on a rooftop nearby right now. Wanna go? Zio: SHIT yeah, Lets do it! Zio: I’ve admired Nev’s work for a while, and we have a bunch of mutual friends, so I gave him a shout when I was in NY. I had painted the side of Pilgrim, and despite having food poisoning wanted to make the most of the NYC trip, and paint as many spots as possible. We met up in Bushwick, and started to look for walls, ended up on a rooftop and jammed out. RJ: Do you usually like collaborating on murals? Never: I do like collaborating on murals but I’m pretty selective of who I do that with. I don’t really consider what we did that day a collaboration as there wasn’t really any head-butting involved. I just did the same SHIT I always do and he put a skull under it. It was more of a quick little jam session than anything. At some point we intend to do a for real collabo. We’re both busy dudes, but we’ll make it happen at some point. And when we do, our highly acclaimed PR team will ensure that it’s picked up by every news outlet in existence. Just you fucking wait. Zio: I don’t collab a lot, but when I do its because I really admire the other artists process and work. The piece and the conversation go in parallel and when that happens, it’s all good. RJ: How does working with another artist change your own process? Never: It forces you to try out different techniques than your own and helps you work outside of your usual comfort zone. Zio: It allows me to expand my perspective, and see more possibilities in creating my pieces. RJ: How have the events that took place so nearby your mural affected you or how you think of that piece? Never: The work I did on that roof has nothing to do with the horrible event that happened up there several months after. I’m thankful I got to meet Icy and Sot and they were so kind to invite us to paint with them. More so, I’m thankful those two are still here with us today. It was a fun day with good company, that’s all there is to it. Zio: The work has nothing at all to do with that terrible event, It’s awful and my heart goes out to everyone effected by that tragedy. RJ: Which of you is cooler? Never: Zio has more followers on Instagram than I do so he’s definitely cooler. Zio: Never for sure, he’s got more friends on myspace. Tim Hans Shoots… Jordan Seiler Note from RJ: It’s been a little while since we posted any of Tim Hans‘ photos, but his series of artist portraits is still ongoing. Today we have our latest photo from Tim, one he took of Jordan Seiler at the site of one of Jordan’s ad takeovers. Rhiannon Platt asked Jordan a few questions. – RJ Under the moniker of PublicAdCampaign, artist and activist Jordan Seiler aims to help the public regain control of their visual atmosphere. His latest project, Public Access, aims to give artists the power to change their visual landscape. The artist has reproduced keys for bus shelters and phone booths for several countries, beginning first in New York and recently expanding to Brussels for an exhibition with Harlan B. Levy Projects. Today is also the launch of the app Re+Public, an augmented reality app for iPhone and Android created by Jordan and The Heavy Projects. Rhiannon Platt: When did you first start combating commercialism with takeovers? Jordan Seiler: I began ad takeovers in December of 2000 with an entire station takeover at the 18th street 1/9 stop. It took about 32 posters to cover both platforms. At that point, and somewhat still to this day, it isn’t about combating commercialism but rather deciding for ourselves what our collective visual landscape looks like. Rhiannon: What made you want to start Public Ad Campaign? Was there a specific instance that you can point to? Jordan: My first takeover was motivated purely by aesthetics. I thought the station would feel quite different with a new set of images. It was only once that feeling manifested, and I began to worry about being caught by the cops, that I began to see the differences between commercial and public media production. Rhiannon: How does your passion for ad-busting manifest itself in your other work? Jordan: I know this sounds trite but I prefer the word ad-takeover to ad-bust. An ad-bust suggests a play on meaning, a decrypting of the encoded media message to reveal its weaknesses or faults. My feeling is that we are already very good at reading between the lines and seeing most commercial messages for what they are. Despite this critical insight we sill cannot seem to resist their allure. Ad-takeovers on the other hand obliterate the initial media message and in doing so demand the space be used for other conversations. I think this is a very important distinction because if we are going to wrestle with the impact of media messages on our society, we need a critical distance from which to start. Ad takeovers demand an ad free public space and by extension ask the question of what we might fill that space with. I think with most of my other projects that aren’t directly ad-takeovers, I try to ask the question of how we might collectively take up the responsibility of public media production by encouraging other people’s participation, and exploring new tools for public media production. Rhiannon: Are you currently working on any projects? Jordan: I am currently working on a project called Public Access where I make tools that can be used to open advertising locations around the world so that people can engage their public media space directly. This is an ongoing project and I hope to continue to add more tools and more accessible cities in the coming years. I am also about to launch the Re+Public AR mobile app with my partner from The Heavy Projects. Our newest collaboration with MOMO was a wonderful experience and we are excited to finally make the app widely available through iOS and Android platforms. Posted on September 30, 2013 February 11, 2014 Tim Hans shoots… Carlos Mare Carlos Mare aka Mare139 is one of hip hop’s living legends, and one of the pioneers when it comes to adapting what he learned in graffiti to settings other than walls and subway cars. Indoors, he is probably best-known for his sculptures, but of Mare’s recent work involves painting Bboys in action. This past spring, Tim Hans met Mare at his studio for the latest in our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim. I asked Mare a few questions over email. RJ: Do you see yourself as bridging a divide between hip hop and other art movements with your artwork, or do you see art movements all as one thing? Carlos Mare: I believe, though unintentional my works and words act as a bridge between histories and culture. Art movements are isolated events that are time and location specific, ultimately the ideas and aesthetics of that culture disseminate. Hip Hop was a great catalyst for global impact, it used to be very provincial in NYC during its hey day but once it breached local geography it was adopted and readapted by the world. This forced the hand of us pioneers to rethink it, I just happened to think of it in Modernist terms after I saw the 1980 Picasso retrospective at MoMa. RJ: What have you done in your role as a cultural ambassador for the USA? Carlos Mare: My role is not unlike any other traveling artist of the culture, we have been doing ambassadorships since day one. My role in part is supported by the State Dept., which does so for many American artists. I just happen to be an ‘Urban’ voice of the generation. Being able to have these opportunities allows me to speak in rooms with high level officials, artists and art advocates about the benefits and challenges of today’s urban artists. One of the most important things about traveling and speaking is that you get to educate others about the past and present contributions of the culture. This discourse is crucial and often overlooked in the relationship between governments and artists which is at best a side eyed acknowledgement. Promoting American urban culture is much easier abroad then it is at home just so you know, in the US we have a tendency to marginalize the people of color who innovate culture until it is adapted by the mainstream. On the other hand the world youth took us on as their own and flipped the script by recognizing us as an artistic movement they too could embrace. Once it went pandemic it became hard to deny so it had to be in the best interests of Governments, Institutions and artists to bridge the gap in order to create more opportunities for personal and community change. RJ: What do arrows mean to you? Carlos Mare: Not much anymore actually. When I was more into Style Writing it had different meanings such as the direction in which the the construct of the letter would flow or to camouflage my name, perhaps use it as a weapon as my good friend Rammellzee used to imply. I learned that the greatest of Style Writers could do without it and can create sophisticated graffiti without it. At the end of the day it’s just another graphic element in the graphic design of graffiti. RJ: Your Bboy pieces seem to capture so much energy and movement even while they are based on stick figures. Even moreso than many photographs. How do you go about capturing that movement in a static 2-dimensional image? Carlos Mare: The Bboy works are not based on stick figures at all but rather geometry and movement. The line work implies the skeletal framework of the body and to a degree yes the stick figure is an easy analogy but it’s been so refined and so thought out that these shapes even in their simplest forms capture a reduced impression of the body, a familiarity that both Bboys and writers can identify with. It’s coded language, it’s rhythm, wild style and modernism all in one. One of the best interpretations came from my show in Berlin at Skalitzers Gallery when Robert Smith observed: “Carlos Mare’s Bboy drawings and paintings, so refined and visually direct, become coded representations of the dancer’s repertoire of movements and poses. In much the same way that staffed symbols are used to represent the written form of musical notation, so too the simple, gestural icons come to express a visual codification, a defined scale of available movements.” I had never considered an analogy like this even though it was already baked into the work, this observation was spot on and opened up a whole other dimension into my thought process. These works are in large part about physical intentions, what is implied by gesture and movement, so much of the genius of the dance is nuanced and can be found in the in between spaces of the action, a dancer begins at A and goes through his whole vocabulary to get to Z. What I am interested in is what happens in between and how to capture that. It’s a Futurist concept with a dope backbeat. RJ: What’s next for you? Carlos Mare: I am always stretching the boundaries in my works, I’m challenged by my own works and see my work changing radically in the coming year. I will continue painting the Bboy works which are more and more amazing and will turn these ideas into sculpture as well. That series will likely come to an end but not before I do a series with Ken Swift, this will be the pinnacle of this exploration I think, I could be wrong but I’ve been at it for many many years and feel I can bookend it with the legendary master as my subject. As for sculpture, I haven’t begun to scratch the surface. I have lots of new works coming and older works that need closure before I move into the next phase of sculpting. It’s unfortunate that sculpture is not in the urban contemporary art conversation right now, painting is getting way too much light since it is easier to do and live with. I hope to change this with new public works that are larger, smarter and more ambitious. Currently I am consulting with the Lemelson Center/Smithsonian Institute with an upcoming exhibition on Hip Hop culture which will highlight the Turntable as an American Innovation. Beyond that I can’t speak about what I have planned as it is probably the most ambitious and important work of my career. “Don’t be an outsider looking in, be the Outsider they look into.” – Carlos Mare	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10286
__label__wiki	0.676495	0.676495	BROOKINGBLOG what justice looks like from the inside – and the need for prison reform Ombudsman colludes with Corrections to cover up responsibility for ‘unnatural’ prison deaths rogerbrooking Jai Davis, Medical treatment, Prison culture January 4, 2015 January 7, 2015 6 Minutes The death of Jai Davis in 2011 has highlighted critical deficiencies in the management and nursing culture at the Otago prison. Now there’s an even wider concern. Documentation has come to light showing the Ombudsman colluded with Corrections, albeit unintentionally, to cover up the circumstances surrounding his death which implicate management and nurses at the prison. This is how it happened. When a prisoner dies suddenly from an unexpected death, this leads to at least three different investigations – one by the Corrections Inspectorate, which is monitored by the Ombudsman; one by the Police, which may be monitored by the IPCA (if there’s a complaint); and finally one by the Coroner. Each investigation has a different focus. The role of the Inspectorate is to determine whether any Corrections procedures or protocols were breached, and whether any prison officers should be disciplined. The Inspector also makes recommendations to the chief executive to prevent it happening again. Corrections Inspector David Morrison’s report Responsibility for investigating Jai Davis’ death on behalf of the Corrections Inspectorate was given to David Morrison (right). While interviewing prison staff about the circumstances, he was accompanied by a representative from the Ombudsman’s office. The Ombudsman’s role was twofold: to ensure Mr Morrison did his job properly, and to ascertain whether Mr Davis received appropriate medical care and had been treated humanely while in prison. In other words, the Ombudsman was supposed to ensure the Inspector got to the bottom of what Corrections did right – and what they did wrong. Mr Morrison never got to the bottom of anything. (Here’s the executive summary of his report.) He was well aware that Acting prison manager, Ann Matenga, had statutory responsibility to advise the Medical Officer that a prisoner had been admitted suspected of having drugs on board – but never held her to account for not doing so. Mr Morrison also failed to make any findings against the nurses, even though they clearly failed to provide Mr Davis with adequate medical treatment. The only staff he made findings against were two officers who made fictitious observations that Mr Davis was snoring in the early hours of Monday morning – by which time he was already dead. David Morrison’s recommendations Mr Morrison refused to point the finger at anyone further up the chain of command. His key recommendation was that: “The Department of Corrections considers establishing a protocol with the Ministry of Health to facilitate the x-ray of a prisoner where it is suspected a prisoner is internally concealing an unauthorised item that in the opinion of the Medical Officer may place the prisoner’s health at risk.” Corrections already had a protocol in place to manage that situation. It said that when a prisoner is suspected of internal concealment, the Medical Officer is to be advised. The problem is that since the nurses and prison managers ignored the existing protocol, they could just as easily ignore any new protocol. So that wouldn’t be much help. To address that difficulty, Mr Morrison’s second recommendation was: “All key prison staff and health service personnel are trained and adhere to the requirements under the Prison Service Operating Manual (PSOM)…” Great – except that Corrections staff are already trained in the PSOM – it’s like the prison officers’ Bible. All they have to do is look it up to see what to do in any given situation. The nursing culture at Otago prison The reality is that Mr Davis’ death had nothing to do with a lack of training. It had to do with a lack of compassion and personal responsibility. The nurses who ‘treated’ Mr Davis, but refused to call the prison doctor, were all trained health professionals. They have two Bibles of their own – the Nurses Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct. These describe the ethical and legal responsibilities that nurses have to their patients, irrespective of Corrections Department protocols. The problem was they ignored their ethics and the Code of Conduct because of a culture of incompetence and indifference that operated in the Otago prison health centre. The only way to change that culture is for the nurses who are guilty of professional misconduct to face a Departmental employment investigation and be brought before the appropriate disciplinary bodies – which would include the Nursing Council and the Heath & Disability Commission. If the police did their job properly, and prosecuted nurses who were guilty of gross neglect, some of them would also be brought before the Court. But Mr Morrison made no such recommendation. His 44 page report does not hold anyone to account for their failure to call the prison doctor – despite the fact that this was the most significant act of negligence in a succession of negligent acts culminating in Mr Davis’ death. In other words, Mr Morrison’s report was a whitewash. The Ombudsman’s response Here’s the crunch. Despite the report’s obvious deficiencies, in September 2011 only six months after Davis died, the Chief Ombudsman, Dame Beverly Wakem (left) wrote to the Chief Executive of Corrections praising the Inspector’s conclusions. She said: “My investigator monitored the investigation throughout. I have been provided with the Inspector’s final report and… I am of the opinion that the report is fully satisfactory and that the recommendations made by the Inspector are reasonable.” In hindsight, that endorsement looks increasingly bizarre. At the time it was written, the police had barely begun their investigation. Who knows what crimes they might uncover? Once the police finally finished (three years later), coroner David Crerar, was able to get on with his inquiry. After hearing from 58 witnesses, the shortcomings in Mr Morrison’s investigation were disturbingly obvious and led to heated cross-examination at the inquest. The inquest also highlighted the inadequacies of the police investigation (which led to three complaints to the IPCA), as well as the shoddy treatment provided to Mr Davis by the nurses and prison managers. The coroner was so concerned at the multitude of mistakes by those responsible, he said he intended to make adverse comments about everyone involved including: “Jai Davis, his associates, the police and certain police officers, Corrections management, certain Corrections staff and certain health centre staff.” Even the police began to realise they might have got it wrong. On the last day of the inquest, they announced they would review their decision not to lay charges against those involved. The Ombudsman’s role Given what we now know about this case, it is hard to understand why the Ombudsman would so quickly, and naively, jump to the conclusion that the report by Corrections Inspector David Morrison was ‘fully satisfactory’. The Ombudsman’s role is to look after citizens’ interests in their dealings with government agencies – which includes ensuring that prisoners are not subject to cruel or inhuman treatment. But if Dame Beverley’s monitoring of Corrections is so superficial that all she does is send a representative to keep the Inspector company and then endorse his report, she’s not doing her job. The Ombudsman is supposed to be the citizens’ watchdog. The message this case sends is that the watchdog is little more than a lapdog – one with no teeth. The reality is that David Morrison’s recommendations completely missed the mark. That could be due to incompetence. A more likely explanation is that Mr Morrison was trying to protect the reputation and careers of prison management and nurses by minimising the extent of their involvement in Davis’ death. Why? Because Corrections Inspectors are not independent of those they investigate. Mr Morrison is part of prison management; he’s hardly going to find fault with his own team. How independent is the Ombudsman? But the Ombudsman is independent, theoretically. She doesn’t work for Corrections – or does she? I’m not so sure anymore. Dame Beverley has endorsed Mr Morrison’s flawed report that makes no findings against prison management. Maybe she doesn’t work for them, but she’s clearly supporting their team. Here’s a bigger question. Is the lack of independent oversight by the Ombudsman in this case typical of oversight into the other 90 unnatural deaths which have occurred in prison in the last ten years? The answer is – nobody knows, because the prisoners are all dead. And they’re not really in a position to lay a complaint. Even if they were – that wouldn’t help much if the watchdog just sniffs around the Corrections Inspector’s feet, and then goes back to sleep. Published by rogerbrooking View all posts by rogerbrooking Previous Post Solicitor General and police use fabricated evidential test to avoid prosecuting prison officers Next Post Detective who wanted to prosecute prison staff taken off case 5 thoughts on “Ombudsman colludes with Corrections to cover up responsibility for ‘unnatural’ prison deaths” Despite some past criticisims of Corrections the Ombudsman seems to becoming increasingly reluctant to deal with anything contraversial when it comes to the most dysfunctional of Government agencies – Corrections. It also seems that the outcome of many complaints to the Ombudsmen about Corrections is dependent upon who within that office deals with the “investigation”. One who is overtly pro Corrections and will side step an investigation if he can get away with it is Deputy Ombudsman Leo Donnelly, who frequently comes across as being pro Corrections. No doubt he is not alone. No longer is it a reasonable expectation that a complaint taken to the Ombudsman that has all the supporting evidence will be dealt with openly and with an honest outcome. With the passing of time and particularly under Dame Beverley’s leadership, investigation dedcisions have been heavily biased toward Corrections and defiant of an often overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary. So no longer is the Ombudsman the independent body that it once was and has fallen under the Government’s control and agenda. Crone says: Thank you Mr Brooking for having the tenacity to bring these matters to light in the absence of msm coverage. I have been appalled by your revelations, as have the people with whom I have shared your posts. This issue should be a national scandal. I guess some nurses have to graduate bottom of the class. It seems they are the ones who end up looking after our prison populations. Within the current political climate I am not at all surprised with the whitewashing nature of things. They happen on a regular basis; a foregone conclusion; predictive in their regularity. That the office of the Ombudsman has been tainted is no surprise. kmccready says: As a former independent prison ombudsman (Official Visitor in Queensland) I also am totally appalled at those authorities who have acted to cover up this death and who have failed to produce accurate reports. Clearly they are protecting “the system”. Something is deeply wrong in New Zealand if public officials behave this way. Something is deeply wrong if those responsible for the death and those responsible for the botched reporting can get away with it. In Queensland the Official Visitor program was established after a Royal Commission. I’d be happy to see a Royal Commission into Prisons in New Zealand. Richard Barriball also died in OCF about three months before Jai Davis. The Inspector who ‘investigated’ his death was Trevor Longmuir. Assuming someone from the Ombudsman’s office held Trevor’s hand as he wrote his report into Richard’s suicide, they must be as naive as a new born lamb, or just plain thick as a brick to have taken anything said by OCF medical staff as honest. If Longmuir had taken more than a cursory view of the medical records he would have noticed they were inaccurate, and paperwork unfinished and not signed. Perhaps that should come as no surprise considering that three months before Richard died, the two doctors contracted to OCF decided not to renew their contract, citing bad nursing practices as the reason. Once the Coroner David Crerar, held the inquest, he also commented on the shambolic paperwork. It appears that since Richard and Jai Davis died some degree of accountability has been initiated, but in 2010/2011 it appears no one was responsible for ensuring prisoners received medication, no one was responsible for ensuring notes/records were up to date. No one was responsible for returning unused medication to the pharmacy for destruction. One outcome of this could well be happy medical staff – we have documents showing 75ml of methadone and up to 400(approx) gabapentin tablets went missing, as well as controlled drug records that don’t make sense and contradict evidence given by the health centre manager at Richard’s inquest. I complained to the Nurses Council but as a death had occurred it was referred to the HDC. After 4 years the HDC have decided not to take any of my complaints (complete with evidence) any further, so it’s pretty safe to say the HDC is also afraid to ruffle Corrections feathers. The reason it has taken four years to get to this stage is because Corrections consistently stalls in providing information to me, making the whole process a lot more difficult and prolonged. If I was a cynic, I would say it was a deliberate tactic, but as I have been assured by Ann Tolley that “Corrections is an open, honest and transparent organisation”, I would be naive in taking that stance, wouldn’t I?? Lawrence Roberts says: The Office of the Ombudsman does seem to be have a culture of deference to, and support for, official positions. Subsequent to the Canterbury earthquakes the Ombudsman’s Office was slow to act over OIA criticisms of EQC and other agencies and had greater sympathy for the difficulties of officialdom than those desperately and urgently in need of information. From some time in 2011 the Office of the Ombudsman experienced increasingly difficult work loads with complaints and they themselves were slow to respond to their own problems. My recollection is that Dame Beverley didn’t approach the government for more assistance for their workload until 18 months or more after the problems arose. Not exactly proactive. How can the Office of the Ombudsman do “justice” to enquiries into deaths in custody like that of Jai Davis and complaints against agencies with their current culture and leadership? 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__label__cc	0.660697	0.339303	Brooklyn Spoke Passionate About Relaxed Biking It’s the cars. With my own daughter not far from starting her own middle school career and even closer to being allowed to walk and take transit by herself, the shocking news of 10-year-old Enzo Farachio’s death this week in Midwood shook me hard. But I don’t need a child around the same age to be aghast at what happened and angry about the response, or lack thereof, from City Hall. However, something about this case made me feel that even if the mayor deigned to speak up about the tragedy and the reprehensible victim-blaming that followed, what good would it do? The bigger problem, in my view, is with the mayor’s approach to making the city safer for people on foot and on bikes. Yes, DOT has designed many miles of roadway and installed traffic-calming measures across the city to slow down drivers and give more space to pedestrians and cyclists, but there’s been a real cost to Bill de Blasio wasting his bully pulpit to talk about e-bikes, helmet laws and licensing cyclists, among other nonsense. Even when he puts the focus where it belongs on reckless driving or when he speaks up in support of speed cameras and enforcement blitzes against motorists, he misses the mark, at least when it comes to correctly applying the lessons and philosophy of Vision Zero. His is a very 20th-century philosophy that sees the key to traffic safety as just “Everyone obey the law.” This windshield perspective means that he sees nothing wrong with driving itself. Until he does, more people will die. Let’s assume for a moment that the medical episode excuse is correct and that an investigation will, in fact, confirm that Alexander Katchaloft suffered some sort of seizure before he killed Enzo. Forget all questions of whether he was on any form of medication or had been warned not to drive by a physician, two things any investigation will also determine. The fact that at any moment someone could suffer a seizure, heart attack or even a sneezing fit while operating a car or SUV and crash into a sidewalk, killing a 10-year-old boy or anyone else in his path, shows the limitations of the American interpretation of Vision Zero. No amount of speed cameras, enforcement blitzes, or educational campaigns could prevent such an incident. Even if every driver got the message and obeyed the law you’d still have people like Katchaloft, Dorothy Bruns, and Howard Unger, the motorist who killed three trick-or-treaters (including a 10-year-old girl) in 2015 after allegedly suffering a medical episode while behind the wheel. The only long-term and sustainable solution to preventing or at least minimizing further tragedies involves three things: 1. Reduce the amount of cars in the city and place heavy restrictions on large vehicles like SUVs and light trucks. 2. Ban cars from as many streets as possible so that people can wait for a bus or sit on a bench or walk to school or the office along a transitway, not de facto highways. 3. On streets where cars can’t be banned, use robust designs and tools like bollards to minimize the risk to innocent pedestrians should a driver crash. 4. Increase transit so that those with medical conditions and others who shouldn’t or don’t actually need to drive have other options. Does anyone really think Bill de Blasio or really any American mayor believes in pursuing any of the above goals? Or is the only solution, like our country’s approach to gun violence, to lecture bad drivers about their behavior and prosecute those who kill while the rest of us keep our heads on a swivel, trying to anticipate when death might arrive? Is that our only defense? Do we have to accept a certain amount of collateral damage, so long as those responsible are held to account every now and then? Do we have to walk around knowing that at any time we or someone we love could be killed on his or her way home from middle school? There’s another way. It will take breaking car culture in more ways than one. ← Bikes, Buses, and Thinking Bigger The Fierce Urgency of Later → Pitch-perfect: <> My comment a moment ago was supposed to read: Pitch-perfect: “..at any moment someone could suffer a seizure, heart attack or even a sneezing fit while operating a car or SUV and crash into a sidewalk…” Samuel permalink On point. I have a sister in middle school and I still escort her there, mostly due to the long commute (1+ hour with two transfers). No way I’d suggest biking there or even biking to the subway which would shave 15 minutes off the commute, more with CitiBike. More time to herself would do her a lot of good. By this point the mayor has shown his true colors. What could this mean for next steps in advocacy? brooklynspoke permalink* As far as advocacy goes, I think it means a lot more direct action. The die-in moved the needle and got results so perhaps advocates have to figure out ways to dominate news cycles and get in politicians’ faces. i.e. CitiBike if it were available* On the Media… coverage of free parking The Fierce Urgency of Later Bikes, Buses, and Thinking Bigger Bill de Blasio and the Folly of “All-Of-The-Above” Transportation Archives Select Month November 2019 September 2019 January 2019 November 2018 June 2018 March 2018 December 2017 October 2017 August 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 September 2015 August 2015 June 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 @BrooklynSpoke @FPRinBklyn @RepJeffries He's been outstanding. 9 hours ago @BrandonWC @CB3Man A very good example of "real New Yorkers" ruining the soul of the city. 10 hours ago RT @BrentToderian: “Paris Mayor @Anne_Hidalgo pleads for hyper-proximity: "the quarter-hour city makes it possible to have all services acc… 11 hours ago @katehinds This is just awesome. 11 hours ago Hey, Boston! 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__label__wiki	0.924777	0.924777	Expanded quay to boost Suwaiq Port’s appeal to regional trade Marafi, the wholly Omani operator of ports and maritime terminals celebrated on Sunday, November 3, the launch of its expanded commercial quay wall at Al Suwaiq Port in North Al Batinah Governorate an investment that will lift the port’s cargo throughput capacity to two million tons per annum. Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Futaisi, Minister of Transport, led a number of dignitaries at the formal opening of the extended commercial quay. Also present were high level officials of Asyad Group, the integrated logistics and transport investment flagship of the Omani government and the parent organisation of Marafi. As a result of the expansion works, which were undertaken by Marafi, the commercial berth now extends a total distance of 300 metres and a width of 40 metres. The draft alongside is 5 metres features that will for cargo ships of up to 10,000 metric tonnes to dock at Al Suwaiq Port. The expanded berth is also equipped to handle dry bulk cargo for the first time. In a statement, Dr Al Futaisi said the upgraded port will now position Al Suwaiq as a maritime hub for regional trade, while also energising the local economy. “These enhancements will support commercial and economic activities at the port, as well as cater to projected growth in cargo capacities and volumes. It will also attract private investors who see the potential to leverage Al Suwaiq Port for trade and economic exchange,” he said. According to Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Abri, CEO of Marafi, Al Suwaiq Port has witnessed a strong uptrend in vessel movement and cargo flows since commercial operations began in September 2018. The launch of the extended commercial quay, he said, will open up opportunities for further investment and development in and around the port, particularly in the areas of import and export, shipping and customs clearing services and small business start ups. Source Link: www.omanobserver.om Marafi Ports and Maritime Commercial Quay Al Suwaiq Port BankDhofar reports OMR 30.24 million net profit for 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10304
__label__cc	0.745966	0.254034	art design architecture media Architecture and interiors Fashion and textile design Fashion Communication Design and craft Fine Art MA Graduates 2019 Graphics and illustration Music and sound art Brighton Digital Festival event Data, Health and the Arts on Wednesday 23 October, 6.30-8pm, Phoenix Art Space Posted on 16 October 2019 by Lizzie Amati What opportunities and challenges do digital data tools and technologies present for health and wellbeing? Come along and hear a panel of exciting speakers discuss this topic as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Four exciting speakers will discuss and demonstrate the cutting-edge opportunities and challenges that digital data tools and technologies present for health and wellbeing. What is the role of art and creativity in public engagement with health data? How is the digitization of health records changing public attitudes and medical practices? And how can virtual/augmented reality help us experience our bodies in a different way? Full details: Wednesday 23rd October, 6.30-8pm, at Phoenix Art Space (Green Room, ground floor), 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, BN2 9NB. The venue is fully wheelchair-accessible, with accessible toilets. Who is it for: Everyone, especially people interested in digital health, health data, arts and health, immersive technologies, and data for the social good. Register for free at Eventbrite ‘Immersive art as therapy’ Sarah Ticho, specialist in arts, health and immersive technology. Sarah has extensive experience working across the interdisciplinary arts, academia, healthcare and virtual reality as a producer, curator, artist and researcher. She is the founder of Hatsumi (https://www.hatsumivr.com/), producer at Deep VR (http://www.exploredeep.com/) and Healthcare Lead at Immerse UK. ‘My healthcare data: What does it look like and what can it be used for?’ Dr. Liz Ford, Senior Lecturer in Primary Care Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Liz’s research focuses on mental health and dementia in primary care and community settings, with a particular focus on novel methods for using electronic health data such as patient records. ‘You can’t manage what you can’t measure’ Jo-Anne Welsh, CEO, Oasis Project. Jo-Anne qualified as a general nurse many years ago. Her career has included working in both acute and community settings and in the voluntary and statutory sector. Throughout her career she has been interested in health inequalities and has worked in both HIV services and for the last 12 years in Substance Misuse provision. Jo-Anne was awarded a Wellcome Fellowship for a project exploring attachment and how it relates to clients’ experiences in 2016. ‘Enhancing public engagement with health data through art practice’ Dr. Aristea Fotopoulou, Principal Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Media and Communications in the School of Media, University of Brighton. Aristea is a UKRI Innovation Fellow/AHRC Leadership Fellow whose research focuses on social transformations that relate to digital media and data-driven technologies (e.g. self-tracking, wearables, big data, AI). Moderator: Rifa Thorpe-Tracey (@rifa), an events organiser, coach, producer and advocate for inclusivity in tech. Rifa launched SheSays Brighton, curates Spring Forward Festival, runs Refigure Ltd, co-hosts a weekly arts podcast and is also a yoga and meditation teacher. This event is hosted by ART/DATA/HEALTH (artdatahealth.org), an academic research project that offers members of the community new skills in data science and art practice to improve health and wellbeing. The aim of the project is to develop a participatory interface that involves creativity and use of data for the social good, in order to tackle health inequalities and digital inclusion. ‘ART/ DATA/HEALTH: data as creative material for health and wellbeing’ (AH/S004564/1 2019-2021) is funded by the UKRI-AHRC Innovation Leadership Fellowship, led by Principal Investigator Dr Aristea Fotopoulou, and hosted by the University of Brighton. The event image (© CC/BY Wellcome Images) is from François-Joseph Lapointe’s ‘1000 Handshakes’ project, a performance piece during which the artist shakes hands with as many people as possible, gradually changing the invisible microbial community in the palm of his hand (https://wellcomecollection.org/works/q28cguue). 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__label__cc	0.656784	0.343216	Maximising the impact of academic research How to cite our blogs Our blog family The Impact of the Social Sciences The Accelerated Academy #AcWri2016 Data and Society series HEFCEmetrics Politics of Data The Handbook on Maximising Impact Open Access eCollection Engaged Social Science: Impacts and Use of Research in the UK (January 2014) Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences (October 2013) Social Science in the Public Sphere (July 2013) Future of Academic Impacts (December 2012) Academic Podcasts Audible Impact Simple Guide to Academic Podcasting Twitter Guide Essential ‘how-to’ Guides Book Review: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception by David Beer In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception, David Beer explores how we are being put under the extractive, analytic and predictive lens of a data gaze that seeks to define our world in increasingly granular detail. Critically probing into the data analytics industry and the imaginary that gives it legitimacy, Beer offers a thoroughly readable take on the structures that are constructing and ordering today’s world, recommends Ignas Kalpokas. This post originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. If you would like to contribute to the series, please contact the managing editor of LSE Review of Books, Dr Rosemary Deller, at lsereviewofbooks@lse.ac.uk. The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception. David Beer. SAGE. 2018. It can by now be taken as a given that ‘data’ or, more precisely, ‘big data’ (often even capitalised to reflect its importance), has come to define today’s society. In fact, as David Beer suggests in this book, we are permanently put under ‘the data gaze’ that extracts, analyses and predicts key variables that are taken to define our world in increasingly granular detail, down to the level of the individual. In this timely and important book, Beer aims to shed light not only on how datafied visibility takes place, but also on how it is seen to act because this imaginary is key to the self-legitimation of the data analytics industry. Beer essentially proceeds through three major steps. The first recounts the now largely familiar story about data as holder of unprecedented power, promise and agency. Indeed, the preachers of data promise that data on its own can make us ‘better people, healthier, more efficient, better at connecting, interacting and choosing’, along with the potential for ‘shaping who we vote for, our performance levels, our credit worthiness, our desirability as customers, and so on’ (4). It clearly seems that such visions are omnipresent, offering apparently miraculous ‘hacks’ to improve not only anything from individual lifestyles to the national economy or public administration but even the human body itself. Regardless of whether we partake in the optimistic chorus exalting the virtues of the power of data or are critical or fearful of such potential, the importance accorded to data in this narrative is mind-blowing. Beer even uses the word ‘faith’ to describe the emergent belief that all the answers, solutions and perhaps even the ultimate meaning of life lie in data. Moreover, this faith also seems to be self-reinforcing: the more data is amassed, the more pressure there is to find new things to do and new problems to solve with it. And yet, this glorified vision is as misleading as it is bold: instead of revealing the nature of today’s world, the big data narrative merely serves to ‘distract us from the machinations of power that are at play’ (15). Hence, the key must be seen not in the data itself, but in the data analytics industry. Image Credit: (Nick Hoffman CC BY 2.0) As the book’s emphasis is shifted to the interpreters of data who are seen as the real holders of power, it is by no means surprising that the second step taken by Beer is to dissect the predominant vision of data analytics as well as the functions that this vision and the industry serve. This is done through an analysis of the claims made by 34 data analytics companies that embody the ‘powerful new assembly of human and non-human actors’ that bring data to life and enable it to have consequences by helping to integrate data into ‘social, governmental and organisational structures’ (15-16). Beer ultimately uncovers several key characteristics that define the data analytics imaginary as presented by these actors. These include enabling speedy real-time decision-making; accessibility (knowledge being made available even to those without the know-how); revelatory potential, i.e. the ability to produce accurate and often unexpected insights; panoramic scope that stipulates data analytics as all-seeing and omnipotent; prophetic potential, or providing knowledge of events that have not yet happened; and simply being smart (technologically elaborate, often with references to artificial intelligence and machine learning). Moreover, even the time available for critical reflection on the merits of the preceding claims seems to have (been) shrunk as the data (and, more broadly, social) imaginary is imbued with the recurrent theme that ‘there is a need to act, a kind of urgency to move and a danger to passivity’ (36), and that the only alternative to immediate action is an unavoidable failure to harness the perpetually accelerating world. This imaginary is, according to Beer, not just deliberately constructed to lure customers into buying analytics services; instead, there is a lot of boundary-pushing going on as well. The latter refers to data frontiers, or the limits to what is acceptably collected and analysed. In this way, the function of the data imaginary is demonstrated to be one of reducing resistance to pushing such frontiers ever further, thereby opening up new fields for the analytics industry to occupy. The third and final step is, then, to conceptualise the nature of the data gaze to which we are all subjected. Here, Beer draws on Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic. The clinic is seen as ‘the domain of the careful gaze’ (Foucault 2003, xiv) based on evidence and professional observation, one from which amateurishness and randomness had been banished. This emphasis draws attention to several key aspects. One is the infrastructural dimension: as ‘the clinic is the space in which the gaze is able to see’, it becomes evident that significant attention must be paid to ‘the architectural means of observation to afford the visibility required’ (56). Such means involve, perhaps most notably, platforms for the collection and analysis of data, thereby connecting Beer’s argument to the broader debate on ‘platform capitalism’. The second relevant aspect is the aforementioned professional and dissecting nature of the gaze. Beer demonstrates how this gaze entails the cleaning and sanitation of raw data by tackling its messiness and apparent randomness head-on, piercing through the chaos and producing relevant insights. And, since this is the professional’s gaze, it does not need a pre-existing fixed objective but can be allowed free rein over piles of data in order to diagnose a condition. Precisely such alleged diagnostic qualities of the data gaze are seen as key to its legitimation as both an analytical and ordering tool, allowing actors in the data collection and analysis domain to push the frontiers of acceptability ever further. The book ends with a look at the imaginaries surrounding the human wielders of the data gaze – the data analysts and data engineers that are, on a representational level at least, collectively tasked with seeing through the clutter, solving problems some of which nobody previously even knew existed and diagnosing the overall societal condition, thereby ‘turning the data imaginary into something tangible’ (122). As such, it is these individuals who are truly endowed with agency, sorting and interpreting the cornucopia of data that is thrown at them, even though automation is creeping into their domain as well. Moreover, as the data gaze is not only surveillant but also self-surveillant, even these active agents cannot escape its scrutiny in the incessant ‘pursuit of the perfect insight and the ever more granular datafied society’, as the data gaze ‘seeks to make everything analysable and surveys its own ability to leave nothing outside its view’ (127). In other words, as Beer demonstrates, there is no outside to the clinically diagnostic data gaze. Throughout the book, Beer casts his own diagnostic and dissecting gaze over the structures that not only inform but also contribute to ordering today’s world. As there is so much ado about the collection, protection (or lack thereof) and analysis of data in both popular and academic discourse, a book that delves into the heart of the matter and does so without undue dramatisation is particularly welcome – and The Data Gaze ticks all the boxes. Moreover, whereas other discussions of data analytics as well as Foucauldian analyses are frequently inaccessible to those without prior knowledge, Beer has succeeded in composing a thoroughly readable book. In short – highly recommended. Ignas Kalpokas is currently assistant professor at LCC International University and lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania). He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham. Ignas’s research and teaching covers the areas of international relations and international political theory, primarily with respect to sovereignty and globalisation of norms, identity and formation of political communities, the political use of social media, the political impact of digital innovations and information warfare. He is the author of Creativity and Limitation in Political Communities: Spinoza, Schmitt and Ordering (Routledge, 2018). Read more by Ignas Kalpokas. 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__label__cc	0.688341	0.311659	The week in silly studies: Going on vacation is good for your health Jordan Chittley Geekquinox February 12, 2013 Anyone who spends most of their days going to work knows the benefits of a vacation and knows being on vacation is considerably better than being at work. But two groups wanted to confirm this was the case so they conducted a study — and it turns out that vacation is good. The study proves that vacations actually improve sleep, lower blood pressure and help weight loss. And these positive effects can last for months after the vacation ends. The survey, called the Holiday Health Experiment, was conducted by tour operator Kuoni and Nuffield Health, the U.K.'s largest health care charity. Not surprisingly, the report suggests people should take all of their available vacation days and go somewhere relaxing. [ Last week's silly study: Criminal record reduces job prospects ] I just wish I had known they were conducting a study like this so I could have signed up. But the group received more than 10,000 applicants for just 12 spots in the study, so the odds of me getting one of those spots were pretty slim. Those selected underwent a health assessment, including monitoring their heart, sleep patterns and resilience to stress. Half of the 12 were then sent on a two-week holiday either to Thailand, Peru or the Maldives while the other half stayed home and worked. Participants were monitored for a three-day period during the holiday and after the two-week period of either work or vacation. "It's apparent from our results that the majority of people feel happier, more rested and much less stressed because of their vacations," Psychotherapist Christine Webber, who carried out the tests, told the Daily Mail. "But, even more importantly, I have discovered that these benefits continue well past the vacation — in fact, for months afterwards." The vacationing participants went on three different types of vacations with Webber finding people don't need to lie on a beach to relax and receive the health benefits. "The couple who went on the busiest holiday has the most long-lasting reduction in stress," she said. [ More Geekquinox: Bit of a breather after week of weather extremes ] The average vacationer saw their blood pressure drop six per cent while the average person who stayed at home saw theirs rise by two per cent. For those on vacation, sleep improved by 17 per cent, while those at home saw sleep deteriorate by 14 per cent. This seems like common sense because not having to hear that alarm clock blast at 6 a.m. can do great things for sleep. The study notes as many as a third of workers don't take their full vacation and it urges people to do so. In 2010, a Dutch study also found vacations to be beneficial, finding that the anticipation is one of the biggest reasons for a boost in happiness. However, that study found that after the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people, according to The New York Times. Despite the contradiction in the two studies, I think it's safe to say vacations are definitely good for everyone. So while we may say this study is silly, it's far from silly if you are looking for a reason to get away. The week in silly studies is a feature that appears each Tuesday. It is not intended to mock real science. For all the latest in science and weather, follow @ygeekquinox on Twitter. South Dakota Doctors Could Face Criminal Charges over Prescribing Puberty Blockers for Trans Teens	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10317
__label__wiki	0.692983	0.692983	2k19 release date gold edition. NBA 2K19 Cover Athlete and Release Date Revealed 2k19 release date gold edition Rating: 7,8/10 1110 reviews NBA 2K19 For Xbox One The 20th Anniversary Special Edition version will be launched a few days earlier on September 7, 2018. There Are Some Phenomenal New A. Create alternate jersey for created team and put the city name on one jersey and team name on the other jersey. End-of-Year Awards: An award ceremony video would be cool. The gamers hence, suggest that they should be allowed to customize the voice of their individual players. Based on the Prelude, your character, A. NBA 2K19's Release Date And Special Edition Guide (PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC) For The US Gianni comes from the Milwaukee Bucks. What happened with the release date this year was unique. So what do you guys think of this year's cover athlete reveal? Make a name for yourself on the court, at the Under Armour Cages, and during live events on the block. The two grade cards such as Amethyst and Diamond will be available much earlier this year. Progress made in that can be carried over to the full game, making it a good place to start. NBA 2K19: Release Date, Special Edition, Player Ratings, And Details Tell us in the comments section! Rather, the cover just features a profile shot of his head surrounded by gold wording. This is easily the most personal cover 2K has ever produced. And before 2K would even begin to think about revealing the game, this happened. There is so much more that has been added to the franchise modes this year. Their temperament should vary and that should be visible in the game. NBA 2K19 Release Date, Cover Athlete, and more Smart Switches on pick-and-roll, Series data recording, and transition offense improvements are just a part of what this part of the gameplay team has produced. The voice acting from the Prelude was solid and the story seems layered. I hope people will back me up on this as I see this as a whole new way to introduce people to the lower levels of pro sports and international leagues Add more questions and add more press conferences. Believe it or not, there are some fans who want loot box experiences and have voiced their opinions on the subject. Add the nba draft back and add the tnt scorebord back please cause Im tired of that block scorebord add more gear for your myplayer add mouth guards and face masks so If we decide to put a masks on are myplayer Even If we not hurt thanks If you dont add all this at lease add the tnt score bord and some mouth gaurds. About the Cover Star bit, I have mentioned earlier how LeBron will be the cover star for the 20th Anniversary Edition. These two changes are probably the most important new gameplay changes. Personality Traits: All the players cannot have similar personalities. Give us a variety of voices based on where you are from, your race, and age. Below, we've rounded up all the information you need to know about what comes in each edition of the game, what kinds of pre-order bonuses were available, and where you can buy the game right now. Here's where it's available and how much it costs. The player ratings have been announced which has led to mass confusion amongst the fans. Not just post game; but pre-game, on-court halftime interviews, and playoff press conferences also add some interaction with teammates and staff. 'NBA 2K19' Release Date, Special Edition Info And 10 Things You Should Know Before You Buy It Will you be putting the Greek Freak on your shelf this year, or will you be opting for the 20th Anniversary Edition with LeBron James on the cover? Give us a list of personalities we can choose from when we create our player. Voice Customization: The game takes no care of giving each player an exclusive voice module. Build your perfect fantasy team featuring a guaranteed Sapphire LeBron card and more. Take a closer look at our overview below. Take a look at the trailer: 8. You can check out the reveal trailer above! You'll continue receiving your free packs max of 1 pack per week until you've redeemed all 20. 'NBA 2K19' Special Edition Release Date, Cover Athlete, Demo, Trailer And Pre Add a variety of suits and other styles of clothing like a jacket, some casual wear, or sporting wear like Nike undershirts. One has to win games here for the grade cards. There are a few more user-friendly additions and subtractions in the game. All trademarks, images and modified files referenced and featured here are property of their respective owners. The Prelude gives you an early access to play early with your own MyPlayer. NBA 2K19: Release Date, Special Edition, Player Ratings, Triple Threat Mode The uniqueness of the release date this year surprised and shocked everyone to be honest. It was only in the leaks that the release date got out. OtakuKart is not liable for inaccuracies, errors, or omissions found herein. Truthfully, there are too many new things coming to this part of the game to mention here, but take a look at , and take a look at the trailer below. . Beating a dribbler to the spot will result in slowed dribble, and if a ballhander overdribbles, his chances of a turnover are heightened. Xbox One X NBA 2K19 Bundle (1TB) You'll only receive one pack at a time, and these packs won't accrue over time. A new season of basketball approaches, and just like clockwork this year's basketball video games are starting to come out. The ladder system that is in place determines rewards one earns from MyTeam Unlimited mode. In 2K18, it was so easy to trigger a blow-by animation that it made it almost impossible to stop a player from driving to the basket. Speaking further about the grade cards, we know that Amethyst and Diamond will be available much earlier this year. These personalities could range from- Cocky, Laid Back, Optimistic, Neutral, Selfish, Family man, etc. The cover above makes such a strong statement that a traditional look could easily get washed away if it were revealed to close to Special Edition.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10325
__label__wiki	0.792618	0.792618	‘Dancing lights’ of Negros Occidental town to join Sinulog for the first time By: Doris C. Bongcac - CDN Digital \| January 15,2020 - 05:59 PM Bailes de Luces performers of La Castellana in Negros Occidental is joining the Sinulog grand parade on Sunday, January 19, 2020, for the first time. \| Photo grabbed from choosephilippines.com CEBU CITY, Philippines — Expect to see Sinulog performers dance with LED lights during the grand parade on Sunday, January 19. The town of La Castellana in Negros Occidental will bring to Cebu their famous Bailes de Luces (Dances of Lights or Festival of Lights) and will regale spectators with a performance that involves LED lights as main props. “We are going to merge the Sinulog and interpret it the Bailes de Luces way. I think this is going to become a highlight in the Sinulog. This is something to look forward to,” says La Castellana Mayor Rhumayla Nicor Mangilimutan. Since the Sinulog street dance is held at daytime, Mangilimutan said they made sure to prepare colorful costumes and hand props for their performers, who will be dancing to the beat of the drums while playing with LED lights which are attached to their costumes and props. “We interpret the beat of the drums with the lights. Sayaw siya ng ilaw (It’s dance of lights) depending on the tempo or the beat (of the drums),” she said. She said the use of the lights will become more prominent in the dark. In a phone interview with CDN Digital, Mangilimutan said this is the first time for La Castellana to join the Sinulog festival. But learning the dance was easy for them since the performers from La Castellana are no strangers to dance competitions even on the international stage. The Bailes de Luces festival was showcased at the Wonju Dynamic Dancing Carnival which was held in South Korea from September 3 to 8, 2019. Bailes de Luces won a gold award and the best in street dancing award in that competition. Mangilimutan said Ricky Ballesteros, former executive director of Sinulog Foundation Inc. (SFI), invited La Castellana to join the Sinulog grand parade this year. The La Castellana contingent consists of 77 dancers, 20 propsmen, 45 drum beaters and a singer. The group is composed of winners in the barangay and school categories of the Bailes de Luces showdown that was held in La Castellana on January 5, 2020. Mangilimutan said they started to practice their Sinulog routine on January 7 and signed up for the Free Interpretation (FI) category of the grand parade. Their performers arrived in Cebu City on Wednesday morning, January 15, via the Toledo City port. Mangilimutan, a two-term mayor, said she is no stranger to Cebu and the Sinulog grand parade. The former policewoman used to be assigned in Cebu in 2006 and 2007. She was assigned at the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office for three months and was assigned to help secure the 12th Asean Summit in December 2006 before she was reassigned to Cebu City’s traffic group. Mangilimutan said she resigned from the police force when she filed her certificate of candidacy for mayor in the first class municipality of La Castellana in 2016. / celr Eight emergency exits put up along Sinulog grand parade route	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10332
__label__cc	0.664111	0.335889	Today’s Greatest Mental Health Need: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Programs By Dr. Peter Breggin The pharmaceutical industry and organized psychiatry act as if the greatest challenge today is to identify new psychiatric disorders, to promote the supposedly high prevalence of existing disorders, and to find new blockbuster drugs, all the while heavily promoting current moneymakers. Even the United Nations is involved in “World Mental Health Day,” announcing that depression is a “global health crisis”: 10 October 2012 — Terming depression, which afflicts 350 million people worldwide, an “under-appreciated global health crisis,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an international effort to increase access to a wide variety of effective and affordable treatments and remove the social stigma attached to the illness. This current barrage of “educational” propaganda on behalf of pharmaceutic interests is even supported by the State Department, which heavily endorses the industry’s astroturf lobbying group, called the National Alliance on Mental Illness: In the United States, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) observes a week of awareness in the first full week of October by the direction of a congressional order passed in 1990. NAMI reports that one in four U.S. adults experiences a mental health problem in any given year. One in 17 lives with serious, chronic illness. A key player is the World Federation for Mental Health, whose multi-color brochure declares Oct. 10, 2012 as “World Mental Health Day,” again targeting depression in its booklet title: “Depression: A Global Crisis.” Perhaps because markets for psychiatric medications in the industrialized world are getting saturated and because drug companies and their products have been coming under heavy criticism, the “World Mental Health Day” is mostly aimed at poorer nations. The World Federation for Mental Health booklet advocates the use of antidepressant drugs. This colorful document was “made possible” by… guess whom? The only three sponsors are companies that make psychiatric drugs: Eli Lilly, Otsuka and Lundbeck. Is this what we really need? More diagnoses, more patients, more psychiatric drugs spreading like a chemical plague throughout the world? We are now learning that the longer-term use of some of these psychiatric drugs can cause chronic mental disability. Several of my books (for example and for example), recently bolstered by Robert Whitaker’s, leave no doubt that the evidence for longer-term efficacy (months or years) is insufficient, while the evidence for longer-term harm is escalating. Studies are showing that this chronicity actually reflects physical damage to the brain. Studies — included in my books and revealing changes to the brain from antidepressants, from the so-called antipsychotic drugs (the neuroleptics), from stimulants and from benzodiazepines and prescription sleep medications — are piling up, documenting patient risks. In my professional experience, psychiatric drug-induced chronic brain impairment is now a much greater threat to society than the emotional problems that the drugs are supposed to treat. With so much objective misery oppressing people in poor countries, everything from war to famine, it is bizarre and misleading to talk about 350 million worldwide with depression. Most of all, the poor countries need increased liberty, opportunity, and economic growth. As Ethan Watters documents in his book Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, the last thing these countries need is to import our biological psychiatric diagnoses and drugs into their societies. When people are not overwhelmed by oppressive life circumstances, which must be rectified, in my opinion the best forms of help for depressed people are supportive and encouraging human relationships. When professional help is needed or desired, depression is best approached through psychotherapy, counseling and other human services. Studies have documented that this works and doesn’t have the adverse effects of drugs. We agree with Dr. Norman B. Anderson, the CEO of the American Psychological Association, who has called for therapy to be made the first choice of treatment for depression. Tragically, despite the harm being done by psychiatric drugs, trying to withdraw from these chemicals can be very distressing and even life-threatening. Psychiatric drug withdrawal needs to be done responsibly and thoughtfully. But the alternative of continuing to take psychiatric drugs indefinitely increases the risk of damage, and even shortened lifespan in some patient populations. Instead of persisting in pushing psychiatric drugs, health professionals and organizations around the world would do far more good by developing and supporting programs for psychiatric drug withdrawal. My new book Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal provides the guidelines for withdrawing from psychiatric drugs as safely as possible. But who’s going to sponsor these reform efforts? Not the UN. Not the State Department. Not the drug companies. Not organized medicine and psychiatry. It will take a grassroots demand led by professionals with conscience, concerned patients, and responsible citizens. Originally published in The Huffington Post. October 18, 2012 Dr. Peter Breggin Dr. Breggin's Homepage and Miscellaneous Blogs, Huffington Post Blog	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10336
__label__wiki	0.964451	0.964451	Brian Kelly Wins Best Solo Piano Album Award in 2019 EPR Awards By Brian Kelly \| Awards Composer/pianist Brian Kelly has received the award for Best Solo Piano Album (for his album Tomorrow’s Daydream) in the 2019 Enlightened Piano Radio Awards. The awards concert and ceremony was held on September 19, 2019 at the Place des Arts (Cinquième Salle) in Montréal, Canada. It was a joy playing my music at the Place des Arts, connecting with the other pianists, and sightseeing in Montréal. Winning the 2019 Best Solo Piano Album award was icing on this delicious cake! Thanks to Enlightened Piano Radio for making this event possible. I am grateful for the recognition. Listen to Tomorrow’s Daydream on your favorite music streaming platform: https://smarturl.it/tomorrowsdaydreamcd Composer Brian Kelly Receives Best Jazz Song Nomination in the 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards Composer/pianist Brian Kelly has received a nomination for Best Jazz Song in the 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards for his contemporary jazz piece “From Nowhere (feat. Eric Crystal).” The awards event will be held on November 20, 2019 in Hollywood, CA. This is the third nomination composer Brian Kelly has received from the Hollywood Music in Media Awards since 2016. Alto sax player Eric Crystal has been an integral part of the Boz Scaggs touring band since 2002 and has performed or recorded with Michael McDonald, Huey Lewis, Toto, The Temptations, Four Tops, Kenny Loggins, Allen Toussaint, and many others. Listen to From Nowhere (feat. Eric Crystal) on your favorite music streaming platform. Composer Brian Kelly Awarded Silver Medal in the 2019 Global Music Awards Composer Brian Kelly has been awarded a silver medal in the 2019 Global Music Awards for composition/composer of his single “From Nowhere (feat. Eric Crystal)”. Crystal has been an integral part of the Boz Scaggs touring band since 2002 and has performed or recorded with Michael McDonald, Huey Lewis, Toto, The Temptations, Four Tops, Kenny Loggins, Allen Toussaint, and many others. This is the fourth silver medal awarded to composer Brian Kelly from the Global Music Awards since 2016. Listen to From Nowhere (feat. Eric Crystal) on your favorite music streaming service. Composer Brian Kelly Receives Three Awards in the 2019 Indie Music Channel Awards I am honored and grateful to have received three awards in the 2019 Indie Music Channel Awards for my contemporary jazz recording “From Nowhere”: Recording of the Year, Best Jazz Recording, and Best Instrumental Recording. I share these awards with my brilliant collaborators: Eric Crystal (alto sax), Chris Tabarez (audio engineer), and Gary Mankin (mixing/mastering engineer). The awards event was held at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on April 28, 2019 Composer Brian Kelly receives six nominations in the 2019 Indie Music Channel Awards Brian Kelly, composer/pianist/producer, has received six nominations in the 2019 Indie Music Channel Awards for his Contemporary Jazz piece “From Nowhere”. The track, which features Eric Crystal on alto sax and Brian on piano, was composed and produced by Brian Kelly, engineered by Chris Tabarez, and mixed by Gary Mankin. “From Nowhere” will soon be released as a digital single on Spotify, etc. The Indie Music Channel Awards will be held at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on April 28, 2019. Composer Brian Kelly is a Finalist in the 2019 Enlightened Piano Radio Awards By Brian Kelly \| Awards, Concerts Composer & pianist Brian Kelly has been named a Finalist in the 2019 Enlightened Piano Radio Awards in the Best Solo Piano Album category for his album Tomorrow’s Daydream. He will perform music from his album at the awards concert/ceremony to be held at the Place Des Arts in Montreal, Quebec on September 19, 2019. FINALISTS: Dan Kennedy Lisa Swerdlow Marc-André Pépin Best Solo Piano Marshall Barnhouse Milana Tchebotaryov-Zilnik Best Piano With Instrumentation Brenda Warren Cathy McIntyre Oakes Donovan Johnson KeithTim Anderson Tania Stavreva Vicente Avella Best Holiday Album Pam Asberry Philip Wesley Ryan Marvel Best Piano Jazz Album Alan Storeygard Eric V. Bikales Brian Kelly performs at the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall on Oct 3rd 2018 Composer & pianist Brian Kelly will perform music from his Butterfly Rapture solo piano album at 2018 Enlightened Piano Radio Concert and Awards Ceremony in Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall on Oct. 3, 2018 at 3pm. Enlightened Piano Radio is an online radio station that specializes in the best of today’s Contemporary piano music, and is an international co-op of artists who support, encourage and perform “piano driven” music with each other. Event: 2018 Enlightened Piano Radio Concert and Awards Ceremony Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Time: 3 PM – 5:30 PM UTC+02 Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin, Germany Get tickets here: http://eprberlin.eventbrite.com €45 (Section A) €30 (Sections E and D) €20 (Sections B, F, G) About the venue: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/chamber-music-hall This year’s nominees include (* = performing): Shoshana Michel Christoph Pagel * Oscar Pascasio * Best Solo Piano Album Joseph Akins Brian Kelly * Milana Tchebotaryov-Zilnik * Best Album With Instrumentation Ben Dowling * Gina Lenee’ Perkins * Deborah Offenhauser * Best Jazz Piano Album Louis Colaiannia * Alan Storeygard * Clifford Borg * Rhonda Mackert Tom-Pam Rule Pam Asberry * Annie Locke * Davide Stramaglia * Additional performances by: Anastasia * Ovidio De Ferrari * Reis Dixon * Mark Dunn * Karl Prybyloski * Greg Starr * Tania Stavreva * Lynn Yew Evers * More Info: www.enlightenedpiano.com SongKick: https://www.songkick.com/concerts/35009989-brian-kelly-at-berlin-philharmonic-chamber-music-hall BandsInTown: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/100239156-brian-kelly-at-berlin-philharmonic-chamber-music-hall Brian Kelly receives 2018 Hollywood Music in Media Awards nomination Composer/pianist Brian Kelly has received a 2018 Hollywood Music in Media Awards nomination in the New Age/Ambient category for “Dancing with the Moon” (track 3 on his new album, TOMORROW’S DAYDREAM)! The 9th annual awards event will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at The Avalon in Hollywood, CA. Brian Kelly wins 2018 Indie Music Channel Award Composer/pianist Brian Kelly has won the 2018 Indie Music Channel Awards Best Instrumental Song award or Daffodil Hill (track 5 on his new album, TOMORROW’S DAYDREAM)! The awards event was held at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood, CA on April 22, 2018. Tomorrow’s Daydream nominated for two 2018 Indie Music Channel Awards Two songs from Tomorrow’s Daydream, the new solo piano album by composer Brian Kelly, have received nominations in the 2018 Indie Music Channel Awards for Best Instrumental Song: “Daffodil Hill” and “Dancing with the Moon”. Tomorrow’s Daydream wins two 2018 Global Music Awards TOMORROW’S DAYDREAM, the new solo piano album by composer Brian Kelly, has just won two Silver Medals in the 2018 Global Music Awards: one for Album, the other for Instrumental Performance Solo! Many thanks to Gary Mankin (engineer of 5 Grammy-nominated albums) for mixing and mastering my 4th album. Tomorrow’s Daydream may now be pre-ordered on iTunes, Amazon, and BandCamp. The album will be available on all major streaming services (Spotify, Tidal, Google Play, etc.) when it officially releases on March 16, 2018. Butterfly Rapture Nominated Best Solo Piano Album in 2018 EPR Awards BUTTERFLY RAPTURE, the solo piano album by composer Brian Kelly, has been nominated for Best Solo Piano Album in the 2018 Enlightened Piano Radio Awards. Brian will perform selected compositions from the album at the Berlin Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Hall (Kammermusiksaal) on October 3, 2018. 16th Annual Independent Music Awards Judge I will be a judge on the nominating panel for the 16th annual Independent Music Awards. This month I will be listening to about 70 instrumental music tracks (in my area of expertise). The nominees will be determined and announced in early February. Brian Kelly Best Solo Piano Song Nominee in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards I am excited and honored to receive a nomination from the 2017 Just Plain Folks Music Awards for “Piano Escapade” in the Best Solo Piano Song category! http://www.jpfolks.com/2017awards.php Brian Kelly is a First Prize Winner in the USA Songwriting Competition Wow! The 2016 USA Songwriting Competition awarded me First Prize in the Instrumental category for “Piano Escapade,” the opening track on Butterfly Rapture!! Congrats to the other First Prize Winners! http://www.songwriting.net/winners https://web.archive.org/web/20161122215711/http://www.songwriting.net/winners Cam Nacson (Dance/Electronica) Jared Rabin (Folk) TrEv LuKaThEr (Rock/Alternative) Frank Raknes Schonberg (Lyrics Only) Marlowe Stone (Children) Jesse Blaze Snider & Freddy Scott (Novelty/Comedy) Pinnacle TheHustler (Hip-Hop/Rap) Paulina Aguirre (Latin) Tiffany Smith (R&B) Lisa Hilton (Jazz) Terry Fator (Gospel/Inspirational) Benjamin Furman Music (World) Tim Gates, Brad Hull & Will Nance (Country) Jerad Finck , David Hodges & Steven Solomon (Pop). Brian Kelly is a Finalist in USA Songwriting Competition Just found out that my solo piano piece, Piano Escapade, from Butterfly Rapture is a Finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition for Best Instrumental Song. Winners will be announced on 11/22/16. https://songwriting.net/winners Brian Kelly Butterfly Rapture is on Official 59th Grammy® Awards Ballot Thrilled to see my album, Butterfly Rapture, is on the Official 59th Grammy® Awards First-Round Ballot for consideration! Nominees will be announced on Dec. 6, 2016. It’s been a pleasure participating in the voting process this year and listening to the exceptional artistry of my friends and colleagues whose music is also on the ballot. Best of luck to all! Brian Kelly Butterfly Rapture receives Independent Music Awards Nomination I’m excited to learn that the title track from Butterfly Rapture has been nominated Best New Age Song in the 15th Annual Independent Music Awards! IMAs will be announced from the stage at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on November 12, 2016. (The album is also on the Grammy® ballot this year for Best New Age Album.) Butterfly Rapture submitted for Grammy® consideration My solo piano album, Butterfly Rapture, has been officially submitted for consideration in the 59th Grammy® Awards. My fingers are crossed – unless playing, of course ;) Butterfly Rapture wins Global Music Awards Silver Medals I’m surprised and grateful to learn that my solo piano album Butterfly Rapture received two Silver Medals from Global Music Awards: one for Album, and one for Composition/Composer of “Butterfly Rapture” (the title track). Piano Escapade Nominated for Hollywood Music In Media Award Great news! Piano Escapade, the opening track from my Butterfly Rapture album, has been nominated for a 2016 Hollywood Music in Media Award (HMMA)! Butterfly Rapture wins Global Music Awards Bronze Medal My latest album, Butterfly Rapture, has won a Bronze Medal from the Global Music Awards in the Instrumental Performance Solo category! Butterfly Rapture wins Best Instrumental Piano Album in Akademia Music Awards Exciting news!! My new album Butterfly Rapture won “Best Instrumental Piano Album” in the February 2016 Akademia Awards! THANKS to The Akademia Music Awards for this honor! http://bit.ly/2daVs55 Butterfly Rapture nominated 2015 Album of the Year by SoloPiano.com Exciting news! Butterfly Rapture, my new solo piano album, has been nominated 2015 “Contemporary and Modern” Album of the Year by SoloPiano.com. Congrats to my fellow nominees! Another Time, Another Place – Robin Spielberg, PA, USA Butterfly Rapture – Brian Kelly, CA, USA My Beloved – Michael Dulin, AL, USA Shine – Michael Logozar, TX, USA Between Shadow and Light – Neil Patton, OR, USA The Sunflower Waltz – Anne Trenning, NC, USA Love – Peter Kater, CA, USA The winner will be announced January 26, 2016. Pools of Light named among Top 40 Favorite CDs for the Decade Brian Kelly’s “Pools of Light” album has been named among “Kathy’s Top 40 Favorite CDs for the Decade.” These are listed in alphabetical order by the artists’ last names. © 2020 BRIAN KELLY. music. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10338
__label__cc	0.643771	0.356229	Clean Energy Finance Forum Clean Energy Bonds Commercial and Industrial Markets Community-Based Marketing Community-Shared Solar Crowdfunded Projects Data and Secondary Markets Energy Services Agreements Green Banks On-Bill Repayment Performance Contracts Rural Programs Solar Finance Solar Thermal Technology Yieldcos States of Clean Energy Series: Building Blocks of Community Microgrids Series: Electricity Evolution Series: Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Policy Memos Series: Searching for a New Deal on Climate? What Will It Take to Catalyze the Energy Transition? Kat Friedrich Vastly higher clean energy targets are essential to empower the international community to make the leap to a sustainable future, according to Richard Heinberg, coauthor of “Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy.” In this interview, he delves into the practical challenges involved in the global transition to renewable power sources. Unions Partner with Entrepreneurs for a Just Energy Transition Jordan Cozby “There are no jobs on a dead planet,” said Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. Burrow is vice-chair of The B Team, a coalition of business and civil society leaders that was founded by Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz. In an attempt to address the dual dangers of economic injustice and environmental disaster that Burrow’s remark references, The B Team launched the Pledge for a Just Transition to Decent Jobs in August 2018. Shining a Light on the Underground Energy-Water Nexus Why hasn’t saving water as a way of saving energy had its day in the sun yet in the United States? At Horizon18 in Boston on Oct. 11, speakers at the session “Smart Water Solutions and the Energy-Water Nexus” reflected on the sparkle of hope that they believed these solutions provide. The Role of Community Microgrid Champions Sara Harari, Nate Grady Community microgrids can be initiated by a wide range of individuals or organizations. They include mayors and utilities. They also may include “anchor” off-takers like hospital management, development companies, or community organizations. But to succeed, they require that at least one person really take the lead and energize the project. Data Visualization Tools that Can Guide Energy and EV Development Maggie Yuan Yao The versatile online State Energy Analysis Tool produces visuals and data analyses on energy and climate at the state level as well as the national level in the United States. This information allows states to explore their potential for renewable energy and carbon markets. It provides powerful data visualization for users to access information on clean energy, carbon emissions, and industry regulations. Energy Storage Catalysts and Barriers Alex McRae Because energy storage can help the power industry with many problems ranging from intermittency issues hamstringing renewables to energy crises threatening entire population centers, it is being acclaimed by many as the linchpin of tomorrow’s clean energy future. Can Electrification Short-Circuit the Utility Death Spiral? The road to electrifying heating and transportation in the United States is being mapped out by Electric Power Research Institute and The Brattle Group. Their forecasts show that different paths may yield a range of environmental, business and health benefits. Electrification could also stoke the fire of utility profits, which has dimmed in recent years. (-) climate resilience (-) Illinois (-) Iowa (-) Missouri Geting Started	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line10346

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